Urban Design Portfolio by aryan Iyer

Studio

PORTFOLIO Aryan Iyer Monsoon 2016 - spring 2019 CEPT university

CURRICULUM VITAE NAME Aryan Mani Iyer

CONTACT

DIGITAL SKILL SET

+ 91 9924139310

Microsoft office (proficient) Autodesk AutoCAD (intermediate) Rhinoceros Sketchup GIS (novice) Adobe photoshop Adobe illustrator Adobe InDesign

DATE OF BIRTH

ADDRESS

31/12/1997 NATIONALITY

House number 30,green park bungalows, opp. City gold cinema/dmart, ambli, Bopal, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Indian

PIN-380058

LANGUAGES

EDUCATION

English

CEPT university

Hindi Guajarati

Bachelors of urban design Semester VI, 2016 - present

Tamil German (proficiency – B1) EMAIL ID Aryan.iyer.bud16@cept.ac.in aryanbao@gmail.com

Anand Niketan (Shilaj branch) Secondary (10th grade) 2013 Higher Secondary (12th grade) 2015

MANUAL SKILL SET Sketching Model making Drafting carpentry Workshop tools (chisel, hammer, saw, lathing machine, combination saws and other power tools)

DOCUMENTATION PROGRAMMES RSP – reading and narrating the city, Jaisalmer, (2016) Summer school – rethinking campus design, IIM Bangalore, (2018)

CONTENTS

Iterations Participatory design processes at socio-ecologically sensitive areas

WOKRSHOPS Rammed earth construction, Hunnarshala, Bhuj

Vertical Studio

Migrant Housing Organisation Development And Design

Reading sketching

Vertical Studio Designing Water Infrastructure For Civic Expression

INTERESTS Tabla (practicing 12 years scholarship holder at centre for cultural resources and training, ministry of culture 2011)

Vertical studio

Foundation Studio 1 & 2 Mapping, Analysis And Design

Vertical studio informal marketplaces

Coursework and seminars Mapping, Analysis And Design

01 Vertical studio

Wooden piers around the lake body/constructed wetlands to increase usability and accessibility

Lawns retained with free floral growth encouraged (I do not intend to remove it, but to encourage the growth of naturally existing native varieties)c

Check dam between CW and lake

DEWATS system-placed along the northern edge of the settlement

ITERATION 1

AXONOMETRIC VIEW ENTRANCE INITIAL DESIGN

Rebuilt riparian zone around lake body, with compacted earth paths at different heights around lake

Public toilet-2 Playground-3

C’

Iterations Participatory design processes at socio-ecologically sensitive areas

A’

Flexi pave edges (porous concrete made of recycled rubber, concrete and bitumen ) to increase catchment regeneration

This studio is premised on the belief that urban design proposals developed through careful and inclusive community participation, are likely to lead to more successful and contextually appropriate design solutions. To understand how urban design proposals developed with community participation differ from those developed without such participation, the studio will be centred on addressing two questions :

semi private Space (yet unallocated) Activities-sitting, gathering, cow herding

Ghats lining the constructed wetlands to create space that would -encourage the usage of the space around the lake Make users aware of the systems that have been instrumental in doing so

Plants in the riparian zone to fulfil following functions

Constructed wetlands-purification of water released from outlet-1

-prevent erosion/encourage subsequent growth -encourage infiltration of surface water -encourage viability of local wildlife -shade and provision of other comfort to human users

Plants used -water hyacinths (eichornia crassipes) -common reed (phragmites karka)

ITERATION 1 Design process

How might participatory processes influence urban design proposals ?

Depth below ground

The first analysis of the lake and its surrounding settlement led into the first iteration of the design.it had a larger scope, in terms of area and the issues concerned.in hindsight, the design was a product of a very juvenile understanding f the site and its conditions, and was informed by very superficial judgements. The issues we were dealing with were just the surface, and there was a complete disregard for the people living there. Much of what went into the design was focused on the treatment of wastewater and storm water, and the resultant creation of a public space. The first iteration is a testament to how streamlined and focused the design became as the studio progressed and successive participatory processes took place.

Constructed wetlands

SECTIONS

East-west Ghats 3m Water outflow direction

Water hyacinth + common reed 6m

Depth below ground

And how might a participatory urban design process be carried out ?

Constructed wetlands SECTION CC’

Depth below ground

SECTIONS

Edge defined by plantation

Retained space already used by people

Compacted earth pathlevel 1

Compacted earth pathlevel 2

Wooden pier

6m Riparian zone + Usable space

Lake extents-non flooding

DEWATS system-water purifies using a horizontal flow DEWATS system and drains into the lake

SECTION AA’

CONTEXT PLAN AND DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

What is the design responding to? Prevailing issues and needs

Provision of a semi private and common space

The design in the third iteration attempts to respond to very specific issues and needs expressed by the people during the participatory processes

ITERATION 3

Existing condition

The two communities the design is specifically looking are those who live in a lane/row of tenements at the southern edge of the lake and migrants living south east of the lake, near the entrance. Issues include access to the lake, water supply, and most importantly, the lack of usable space which is not restricted from them on grounds of caste or community. Memnagar is a place where caste hierarchies are rampant, and very strictly adhered to by the people on all sides. Children, in most cases have to bear the brunt of this condition, while the women often do not use the available spaces because they are unsafe or not easily accessible from where they live.

Back end of the houses, which are at the edge of the lake where garbage is disposed

Tenure insecurity-migrant communities who live often disconnected from the rest of the area (yadavngar and Memnagar) often are under conditions of very insecure tenure. Basic services therefore suffer greatly. The migrant community share a single toilet across 12 families with an average of 4 members per family. Moreover worsening rent conditions only add to a larger list of problems which include the seepage and flooding of water during the rains.

Proposed condition Increased usable space and the creation of a progressive spatial hierarchy using demarcations and level differences

The design tries to respond to these prevailing conditions by the addressing access, provision of space and materiality.

Design brief USE OF LEVELS AND ELEVATION DIFFERENCES

The design aims to evolve in in two primary ways-the restoration of the lakes function as an urban common, and a usable resource, and the provision of usable public spaces around it which form the final parts of a more minute spatial hierarchy that the design hopes to achieve with regard to the low tenure security of the migrant settlements around it.to this end, the design has proceeded first by looking at the entrance and its viability as a common public space, its connection to the redesigned incremental housing units south it, and how it leads to the second part of the design

Possibilities in incremental housing USE OF LEVELS AND ELEVATION DIFFERENCES

space provision

Space provided is 3.5 x 4 m north of the houses where changes can be made on ground or as vertical extensions

WATER REGENERATION AND RESTORATION SYSTEMS

The design of the housing, accesses and spaces is premised not only on improving tenure conditions, but with an aim to create an hierarchy of spaces that would be best suited to the needs of as many user groups as possible mostly women a and children of the marginalised communities. To this end I have tried using demarcations and space provisions in a way to achieve a progression of private to semi private spaces that lead into larger public spaces

Possible uses (proposed)

The multiple uses of bamboo plantationVisual/physical and aural barrier and building material

Space can be used for the addition of basic services, toilets etc, or as an extension to living space

a common concern in the second participatory process, was allocation and allowance of space to keep cows, which are a mainstay for some living there.

The design is premised around a few ideas, mainly the lakes function, its value as a public space, and the reduction of the tenure insecurity of residents. For the latter, incremental housing plans proposed after the acquisition of required space are based on the local availability of materials and lesser skill required. Activities on site produce cow dung and usable soil, which when coupled with bamboo, make wattle and daub a viable method for a sites and services approach.

SPATIAL HEIRARCHY

If basic services are not an immediate requirement for the families, and space could be appropriated ,private space extensions can be made

The design of the housing, accesses and spaces is premised not only on improving tenure conditions, but with an aim to create an hierarchy of spaces that would be best suited to the needs of as many user groups as possible mostly women a and children of the marginalised communities. To this end I have tried using demarcations and spatial provisions in a way to achieve a progression of private to semi private spaces that lead into larger public spaces

Seating spaces around existing flora Employed in the design are also seating spaces around existing flora such as trees, that form smaller niches if people want to site temporarily in smaller groups or alone. They provide a break from a space that is otherwise continuous ,and are situated around spaces where children play, if parents are to accompany them private

Semi private

collective

transition

Public 1

Public 2

The housing design in the rickshaw chowk area is slightly more limited as compared to the migrant settlement for two primary reasons-The negotiability of the semi private and private space is limited -buildings are comprised of different rooms with multiple families-design has to be inclusive of all

Many activities being situated in this space which either got altered or displaced significantly.

ROAD WIDENING EXTENTS

Important to consider in this case is the fact that many activities are dependent wholly on their location-in other words, while the road widening project was undertaken in a way that would inevitably cause the displacement of the se activities, incremental changes were made in the interim period (January-may 2018) to compensate for this, and physical changes came about which resulted in the activities being retained in their original locations.

Land use and land tenure LAND USE PLAN

The road which was being widened is the central spine of the low-mid income settlement south of the lake and also is the only significant access route in the east west (memnagar-yadavnagar nagarpalika direction)

MAPPING

EXISTING CONDITION

While most of the analysis focused on the large scale physical conditions of the settlement around Memnagar lake, some of the focus was directed towards a very deliberate change in the land use and spatial conditions of the site ,the road widening project. The importance of this lies in two factors-

adaptation One recurring trend of adaptation to the road widening project which was espoused by almost all living in the affected areas were increasing the number of floors. The cases were of two kindsResidential space being demolished leaving space only for the shops

FUTURE CONDITION

Commercial space being demolished resulting in the loss of income

BUILDING HEIGHTS PLAN

Key plan

Most buildings of the streets are of a mixed use typology and a few which are wholly commercial/residential. Depending on the case floors are added to accommodate respective uses

Existing condition Road width variable, but at an average of 6 meters across the length of the central spine

Road widened by 6-8 meters in total, with variable widths on either side. Shops/houses are demolished

response Demolition

Rebuilding-

Prior to the demolition inhabitants were let known of it by painting red arrows at the required distance till where AMC re-acquired land

Costs of rebuilding a single floor, approximately 10 meters in width can go up to 13 lakhs

accommodation

New floors are built to compensate, which may accommodate any of the required uses

TENURE SECURITY MAPPING

Area re-acquired

DOCUMENTATION

Road widening project

MAPPING

SITE ANALYSIS Road widening project

BUILDING CONDITION MAPPING

BUILDING MATERIAL MAPPING

SETTLEMENT AGE MAPPING

MAPPING

Land use and land tenure

LEGEND LEGEND

Provided space and usage

Existing housing

SURROUNDING FABRIC AND SPATIAL FLOW

BUILDING USE

BUILDING HEIGHTS

POSSIBILITIES IN INCREMENTAL HOUSING Existing houses are structured in two ways, either as single rooms with one separation or two rooms for larger families. Most of the front yard space is used for storage which causes a grave lack of space for the community,

Provision of 2.5 to 3 meters of space besides the houses to give the residents an opportunity to use it as required, be it for storage, construction, or introduction of basic services

Low income/insecure tenure residential Mid income-de facto tenure conditions

Additional space could be used for cleaning/drying purposes, as a backyard, or to construct accesses to vertical extensions. Moreover these vertical extensions can be rainwater harvesting units or additional floors

High income-free holders/lease 3 floors

Mixed use (R/C)

2 floors

commercial

1 floor

Warehouse/garage

Existing gazebo

Seating spaces

Addition of liveable space

SITE PLAN

Facultative lagoon consisting of common reeds and phragmites

Softscapes that break the compacted earth levels that shape the public space

Based roughly on the Belapur housing model, the incremental housing design is meant to be as customisable as possible, and is provided to cater to whatever needs the community might have in the future (in terms of space ,resources or amenities)

Constructed wetlands Wooden pier

The space can be also treated as an extension to the living space as a small porch/living room for the family or the children

Check dam and bridge

Redesigned migrant community housing

Redesigned space-low tenure security houses

Ghats and balcony

Reed beds/ rain gardens

Stage 2 design around the constructed wetlands in connection with space provided for the low tenure security houses on the edge

Redesigned entrance-a public space designed around levels and contours reminiscent of the lakes natural topography

Eastern entrance-Valinath chowk BRTS stopelevated to 1.5 meters

Existing stage + amphitheatre

Dry swales-water drains through subsurface channels into the constructed wetlands

Entrance transition that leads to main entrance and residential entrance

SECTION

BRTS stand-Valinath chowk

Steps and gats being used to create the public space, whilst creating an hierarchy using level differences

Constructed wetlands

Design phase 2

Design phase 1

AMUL

KEY PLAN

Design-east entrance

Design-rickshaw chowk

Designing a public s[ace open to all which is accessible to the marginalised communities living in the proximity

Provision of usable private and semi private spaces to the households on the lakes southern edge

The entrance design focuses primarily on creating a public space that is accessible and visible to prospective user, and acts as an exit into a larger space for those living in the houses around it. features included are dry swales for storm water drainage, soft scapes that break up the compacted earth/concrete landscaping, and level differences which open up the s[ace to the viewer.it connects with the existing park, which in turn connects further to the second stage of the design, around the constructed wetlands

The rickshaw chowk design is the second phase of the design, around the previously design constructed wetlands around the primary drainage of the lake. Surrounding this are single/multiple occupancy single room tenement style houses which have problems that include a lack of any usable space. Basic services and low tenure security. The design aims to again work with an hierarchy of spaces, and the negotiation of ample private, semi private and public space, while in consideration of the need for basic services and as an addition, all of this around the primary functioning of an urban resource/common

SECTION BB’

Design details Semi private – community space

Spatial hierarchy-privatesemi private-public

SECTION AA’ Migrant community-low tenure security houses

Access to public space

Spandex shading device Seating spaces

Constructed wetlands Swales for storm water drainage

Target community Wooden pier

Rickshaw chowk

materials

Rain gardens

Spandex low cost shading device Bamboo fencing

Design feature

Cobble stone pathpermeability of water and grip + transition into larger public space

Compacted earth+ concrete

materials

Bamboo fencing

Compacted earth + concrete

Compacted earth

Green area with Concrete lining and Through the Ghats and balcony subsurface drains to permeable soil bedding wetland with subsurface drains

Raingardens/reed beds with subsurface drainage

Softscape-earth and plants free to grow Entrance section

The shading device being used in the entrance is an easy to install low cost spandex , which requires anchor points like building parapets, walls or trees. The customisability of the device, such that it can be seamlessly fitted across residential to pubic spaces s why it is being employed in the design

SECTION

The second phase of the design is developed on similar lines to the first, but in consideration of the specific user group needs which mandate the provision of semi- private/ collective spaces for activities which need not be open/accessible to the general public, with the latter being the focus of the first design. For this, levels to evoke a sense of a larger space have been used in a fashion similar to the first design, whilst demarcating and creating larger more flat steppes by the houses to create space in only two levels, and for two specific user groups.

SECTION AA’

SECTION BB’

Through the ghats

Through the terraced spaces

02 Vertical Studio Designing Water Infrastructure For Civic Expression Designing Water Infrastructure for Civic Expressionâ&#x20AC;? will investigate the many natures and scales of water, and develop an approach to documentation, representation and design techniques to render visible a new collective imagination around water in the city of Ahmedabad and its hinterlands. Through the studio the students will render visible the true water boundaries of the city of Ahmedabad. Building progressively they will establish the relationship of the urban centre to its fringes and hinterlands. Consequently, flipping the order from out back to the centre, they will critique and question the banality of muted infrastructures. Finally strategically selecting a scale and typology to intervene with, the students will demonstrate the idea of using infrastructure as a medium of civic expression and more importantly public life

The mapping was a study of macro and micro architecture of the campus and an enquiry into how elements arranged in a variety of ways respond to water, and how we, as inhabitants of these spaces perceive the same. The architecture and planning buildings are the primary points of focus, owing to the cascading nature of their sections and a surrounding campus topography that allows outflow of water into the natural basin.

The design and speculation part of the exercise is the introduction of replicable architectural elements to the campus, specially in places which are least responsive to water. furthermore, there is a thematic basis for the design which goes beyond the 3 months of rainfall, in an attempt to increase the overall perceptibility of water

CLUSTER PLANS (MIGRANT COMMUNTY CHHATTISGARH)

HOUSE SECTIONS

03 Vertical Studio Migrant Housing Organisation Development And Design the studio is premised on the study of the history and development of migrant inhabitation and housing, and the development of a design to suit the needs of a specific user group (working migrant communities in the mill compound area Ahmedabad). the initial exercises were focused around the development of a cluster organization based on linked and stacked modules, the same modules which were then taken ahead as singular units in the development/organization of a larger housing scheme within a zoned area of approx. 60007000 sq.m in the monogram mills compound area, all done with specific responses to the selected communities

Cluster Organisation And Development

AXONOMETRICS

ADDITIONAL STUDIES - DALIT BAHUJAN COMMUNITY - RAJASTHANI MIGRANTS STREET SECTIONS

(MATERIAL STUDY)

SETTLEMENT SECTIONS

DESIGN PLANS (FINAL CLUSTER ORGANISATION)

The ground flor plan has been organised in a way to maximise available courtyard space to create a street pattern influenced by the former, and respond to the verticality of living spaces.

SECTION BB’ SECTION AA’

SECTION CC’ Cluster Organisation And Development

PLAN Ground floor organisation

PLAN First floor organisation

The first floor plan aims to eliminate the general paucity of open spaces as we proceed vertically., By replacing A slight inaccessibility to lower courtyards by providing corridors on levels above

SECTION AA’

SECTION BB’

SECTION CC’

DETAILED PLANS

GROUND

FIRSTD

SECOND

SEWAGE AND OUTFLOW

MAPPING

04 Foundation Studio 1 & 2 Mapping, Analysis And Design

The studio project was taken forward in two parts. The first part was a detailed mapping of the water and sanitation conditions at Parikshit nagar (new Wadaj - Ahmedabad).

The focus of this studio was primarily on mapping and analysis of sites across Ahmedabad, with the selected site for this project being Parikshit nagar in Wadaj, Ahmedabad. The focus of this project was water and sanitation services in a low income settlement. The analysis began with a mapping of the sanitation services, and seasonal flooding, and ended with a design intervention to alleviate the two problems alongside the creation of a public space lost when he runnel. Barrage was introduced adjacent to the site.

The map o the left are details the sewage, specifically the existing manholes, sewage and drainage lines and points of outflow into the surrounding water body, which s a runnel that exists into the Sabarmati river. The existing septic tanks are marked in red.

The map on the right details the extents to which the surrounding runnel floods during the monsoon, and the number of houses that are affected for approximately 2-3 months, thus displaced to the road.

Sewage connection supply manholes Sewage line Septic tanks

SEWAGE AND OUTFLOW

MAPPING AND DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

DESIGN CONCEPT Identifying spaces of living and livelihood in Parikshit nagar,

MAPPING

LANDSCAPING DESIGN CONCEPT

PRODUCTION AND ACCUMULATION OF SOLID WASTE

flooding

Affected houses

Solid waste

PLAN

DESIGN PLAN (FLYOVER STRETCH)

05 Vertical studio 1 informal marketplaces The objective of this studio has been to understand the role of informality in shaping urban spaces, specifically an informal marketplace in the city of Ahmedabad. For the purpose of this studio, informality has been defined as the use of urban space for purposes it was not officially designated for – such as a footpath space for vending rather than walking or the road space for walking rather than the movement of vehicular traffic. The studio uses the understanding of informal markets as structures and systems of people i.e. spatial organization, unspoken rules, territories and temporalities. Its primary focus has been to better integrate the informal vending activities into the existing urban fabric.

COMPARITIVE SECTIONS)

Temporal usage

Current condition

Proposed condition

Evening/night

daytime

DESIGN SECTION AA’

Site – APMC Market Jamalpur

7.2 m

1.5 m

2.5 m

1.5 m

2.5 m

3.5 m

1.5 m

3.5 m

EARLY CONCEPT (DESIGN EVOLUTION) PHYSICAL COMPONENTS AND PAUSE POINTS

2005

Design concept

accessibility

Seating spaces crafted from the pillar columns as extensions of the platforms. such places in the central access can be used as sitting spaces for customers of food vendors who occupy this space

Extended platform space can be used by both kinds, vendors selling on pushcarts or sitting on the ground. The extension can be used as a seating and storage space

Design

DESIGN COMPONENTS

curb 0.15 x 0.15

Platform 1

Platform 2

6 x 2.5 x 0.2

6 x 2.5 x 0.5

Platform 3 6 x 2.5 x 0.5

Platform 4 6 x 1.5 x 0.5

Vending bay 16.8 x 21

Coursework and seminars Mapping, Analysis And Design Courses attended besides the studio supplemented them in a variety of ways, but primarily in terms of developing techniques of representation, methods of analysis and methods of making, a course in model making primarily dealt with complex volumetric shapes and colour theories as ways of studying architecture and design in a 3 dimensional manner. Multiple materials were studied during this period ,including boards, fibreboard, plaster of Paris, wood and so on. Introduction to landscape and ecology primarily dealt with questions regarding the history and development of landscape and ecology, and concepts like patch corridor matrices. The final project was studying the extent of urbanisation in parts of elected cities (Aurangabad) using pixel maps, and develop a suitability map based on McHarg's theories.

EXPLORING VOLUMETRIC MODELS

STUDYING HABITAT A ND ECOLOGICAL FRAGMENTATION IN AURANGABAD THROUGH PIXEL MAPS

MAPPING â&#x20AC;&#x201C; INTRODUCTION ECOLOGY AND LANDSCAPE

AURANGABAD AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT AREA (2008 v/s 2018)

Over a period of 10 years between 2008 and 2018,when the Aurangabad airport project was initiate, there were large patches of agricultural and forested land razed to make way for the new infrastructure. Many water bodies on the south western end were destroyed, and a road network constructed to facilitate mobility AURANGABADHARSUL LAKE AREA (2008 v/s 2018)

Selected area5km x 5km Grid size 100m x 100m

BUILT AREA AGRICULTURAL AREA GREEN MATRIX

GREEN SPACES WITHIN CITY

WATER BODIES

Over the same 10 year period, increasing urbanisation in the northern end of Aurangabad near the harsul lake, one of the old water bodies caused it to be reduced to a flat patch of land to allow new housing societies to be constructed.

Aryan Iyer PH - +91 9924139310 aryanbao@gmail.com aryan.iyer.bud16@cept.ac.in