Portfolio : Architecture and Urban Design

Ashwini Dhamankar

Portfolio Architecture + Urban Design

Selected Works 2007 - 2016

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STUDENT WORKS A multi disciplinary collection of works put across including from the fields of Architecture and Urban Design. It reflects the agenda of showcasing ideas, representation of those and incorporation into design works.

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URBAN 01 INTERWEAVE : Reconnecting to the Past

Location :

Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Type :

Urban Design Studio II MUD Program - SCAD Winter 2015 Prof. Alice Guess

Instructors :

In the wake of catastrophic flood events in New Orleans and New York City in the past decade, much attention has been turned to developing strategies for dealing with potential flooding at the urban scale. Such strategies have been developed with both the isolated storm surge event and the threat of rising sea levels due to global climate change. Some cities have chosen the advance defense strategy - building gates or barriers to control the influx of water from tides and storms.

Other muncipalities are considering a managed retreat - removing settlement from vulnerable shorelines and allowing the water to advance.

The studio was setup with similar situation for Charleston, a city continously targeted for sea level rise since 1922 with 0.25cm rise per year.

Image Source: Kristin Walker

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The project seeks to reinvigorate Charleston’s historic sector inorder to bring enjoyment to residents and visitors. The project aims to knit the site and human oriented surroundings into one fabric. The new program provides a range of activities for all groups bringing back the informal culture of people gathering. The design plays with carving the constructed topography to create an interesting variety of spaces, interlocking programs and attracting people into the site with a prime goal of protecting Charleston from the sea level rise apathy.

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The outdoor sitting area is encompased with variety of textures, activities and feel. The need for a formal leisure space in a traditional gazebo style architecture is accomplished

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Aligned to the one of the important street of Charleston are social spaces such as coffee corners .

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The floating retaurants, “ Sea Pavilion�, are a modern extension to the famous historical image of the Charleston city. The waterfront side is celebrated along the levee by incorporating people as its own element through this proposal

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The project needed to connect to a personal level to its inhabitants regardless of associations. It needed to juxtapose Existing the opposites.

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RESPONSIVE 02 SUBURBIA : A future towards Sunnyside yards

Location :

Queens, Sunnyside , New York , United States

Type :

Urban Design Studio III MUD Program - SCAD Spring 2015 Prof. Ryan Madson

Instructor :

The Urban Design studio focussed on a project for the infill in the air rights above Sunnyside Yards in Queens, New York affordable housing units, a major conference center and hotels, and urban public spaces. At 160acres, Sunnyside Yards is the largest such property in the city. The project seeks to speculate and asks important questions of massive urban infill and its potential for integration with existing infrastructures and surrounding districts. The idea of critical megastructure is meant to innform rigorous thinking about urban form, use and function at a very large scale. The studio acknowleged the role of urban centers and especially the role of Long Island City as an emerging fourth center in the city surrounded by other centers like Manhattan’s traditional downtown and financial district, Midtown Manhattan and downtown Brooklyn.

Image Source: Buck Ennis

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: A Future towards Sunnyside Yards Almost two miles long, the perimeter of the yard is surrounded by elaborate fences and intersected by numerous bridges indicating a good possibility of conection. Without obstructing its day to day operations, the project is visioned on the concept of air rights with vantage points supporting the diverse array of neighbourhoods edging the yards.

Ranging from the post industrial side streets of Long Island City to the still industrial warehouses of Sunnyside, the programs such as affordable housing with an iconic convention center will be a classic fit. The multi-layered system and the continuous changing fabric, the masterplan aims to create a centralities like other parts of New York making it more accessible, usable and social contrasting it to the current usage.

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SPATIAL ITERATION POSSIBILITIES Considering the need for compact spatial use, there have been proposals for multi-spatial usage possibilities in terms of levels, programs and functions.

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A conceptual idea of attracting people by creating a smooth edge like a public space such as parks

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URBAN NEGATIVE

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: Manual for Interstitial Spaces

Location :

The Gulch, Atlanta, GA, United States

Type :

Urban Design Thesis I, II and III MUD Program - SCAD Fall 2015 - Spring 2016

Instructors :

Prof. Ryan Madson Prof. Alice Guess Miss. Lauren Fraley

“ A city is a multi-purpose, shifting organization, a tent for many functions, raised by manu hands with relative speed. If the environment is visibly organized and sharply identified, then the citizens can inform it with his own meanings and connections, Then it will become a true place, remarkable and unmistakable. “ - Kevin Lynch

With various issues to deal with, wasting land has become a common phenomena since quite sometime now. Urbanization and the complex interaction of social, technological and economic processes derive contemporary American urban growth environment. This project questions the important arguement about the leftover spaces caused due to city transformations. In the process of American city transformations, they also produced certain urban conditions that needed to be changed for contemporary society. Defined by its undulating topographic mounds, expansive city boundary, Atlanta’s downtown has been in a question for a long time.

Image Source: Bing Maps

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CURRENT STATISTICS

URBAN NEGATIVE : A manual for Interstitial Spaces

NORTH DOWNTOWN GEORGIA AQUARIUM CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK GEORGIA DOME CNN

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100 % Gulch area is at ground level while the streets that surround it are elevated. They were originally elevated in the early 20th century so that traffic could move more easily above the railroad lines passing through the Downtown area. Currently, the site is being used as a parking facility below the street level to the west of the downtown.

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The problems of the urban environment and the factors contributing to the leftover soaces goes back to zoning policies, land use, transportation dependence, unused industrial sites and so on. One such site - The Gulch - was studied for research and development of this project.

Reimagining shows the intention to add a broad spectrum of values, such as activities focussed on public realm, mix used development and other necessary things to densify the dead site.

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The terrain or topography of the study area - the Gulch- was important to understand mainly for reasons of the development potential. The redesigned development establishes better connections ato the neighborhood and takes advantage of existing topography through new paths and entry points. Learning from the negatives observed through these sectional studies, the project aims to negate these in the proposed development.

The terrain or topography of the study area - the Gulch- was important to understand mainly for reasons of the development potential. The redesigned development establishes better connections ato the neighborhood and takes advantage of existing topography through new paths and entry points. Learning from the negatives observed through these sectional studies, project aims to negate these in the proposed SITE development.

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URBAN SQUARES The design proposal for urban squares seem to be a necessity for densifying the urban fabric in the dead site. These urban squares are an open public space proposals used for community gatherings. As proposed, these squares respond to their surrounding buildings making them public, private semi-public squares accordingly.

Sports grounds not only for sports but also for competitions, concert

Community Gardens to provide local engagements Event spaces to re-vitalize and organize numerous activities amongst the communities.

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Functional and attractive ribbon of infrastructure winding its way along the wall corridor, this infrastructure takes advantage of this opportunity to become an important component of a new landscape feature that integrates different neighborhoods and community.

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Restructed buildings to inject new possibilities, to multiply density and reduce dullness.

Proposed Connections Continuation of the traditional method of transportation in the newly proposed development

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Proposed Connections Residential corridors attempting for densification mixed with public and civic spaces.

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Proposed Connections Different building types making the building more accessible instead of strong raw edges

EXISTING BUILDINGS A way to sync strategies at different levels , this multiview projection helps understand the levels Gulch deals with, the proposal, new levels at which it operates on and minute strategic proposals to several design problems.

Proposed Connections Patching the existing and proposal through public transportation

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The axonometric of the settlement spine explains the way the the distinct areas are co-existing with each other. The co-habitation of urban context with existing and proposed programs reflects the diversity of the masterplan. The spine functions as an upcoming urban centre with accomodations for commercial and residential spaces with civic amenities keeping in mind the public attractor the site will be in the near future.

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Proposed Connections Residential corridors attempting for densification mixed with public and civic spaces.

Proposed Connections Retaining walls acting as sound barriers promoting excess activities and play

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Patching the existing and proposal through public transportation

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Focussed towards a playful view. this multi level view offers a wide range of activities at different levels : Basketball, open court connecting the other side of the retail building, while interacting with the existing ground level at the other side.

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ENMESHED URBANISM

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Location :

Kumbharwada, Dharavi Mumbai, India

Type :

Undergraduate Thesis Architecture - BSSA- Fall 2011-Spring 2012 Prof. Tapan Mittal Deshpande

Instructors :

Mumbai is a locus of economic activity that attracts an influx of global capital as well as migrants drawn from across the country in search of opportunity.

At a spatial level challenged by the physical reality of the city, located on a peninsula, Mumbai faces acute pressure on land, resulting in the over half the population of the city residing in informal settlement or slums!

Slums have grown in Mumbai as a response to a growth of population far beyond the capacity of existing housing. Mumbai knows a whole another reason for the formation of slums. As the city grew, it took over land that was traditionally used for other purposes. “ Places are generally known as geographical dots on map. Dharavi is known for the people. Their lives are the story of Dharavi; their lives are Dharavi.� - Rediscovering Dharavi , Kalpana Sharma

Image Source: Ashwini Dhamankar

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ENMESHED URBANISM

RAW MATERIALS

: Case of Contested Settlements

Kumbharwada is Mumbai’s biggest pottery colony. The polygonal area defining Kumbharwada has emerged as a predominantly commercial district due to its strategic location to a good rail and road network. Identified as a low rise high density pattern, it gives way to voids being left without use permanently. However, its rich in spatial aspect due to the multiplicity of those spaces. Residential and commercial tenements are often very small and have a multiplicity of co-exisiting uses where a shop can be used for work as well as storage.

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AIM: To revitalize the livelihood of self sustained communities of Kumbharwada through an insert which would facilitate spatial needs hence increasing the productivity and economical factor.

RESIDENTIAL

PACKAGING

MANUFACTURE

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60 FEE

Wadi

COMMERCIAL

First level pla

HOW ECONOMICS WORK

live + work

Work Gathering a Institute

90 FEET ROAD WAREHOUSES

MANUFACTURING UNIT

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OIDmaking process while circulation and connection based on pottery also focusing on its market value.

work

SS

Work Gathering areas Institute Residences

POTTERY INSTITUTE

Distinguishable residences for better quality of life with work quality

RESIDENCES

OPEN CAFETERIA WORKSHOPS

HOW ECONOMICS WORK Wadi

Wadi means courtyard a place for immense activities. Each having a character on it own with different uses related for work and live

Activities

An analysis to identify different work systems, surrounding nature and their dependencies.

Wadi

Land use

While identifying the scope of work Kumbharwada survived on, the edge can be seen as an economical hold out for this region .

RETAIL SHOPS

EXISTING TEMPLE

MA

Second level plan

workshop space store

CONGREGATION

60 FEET ROAD

live

ADMINISTRATION

live + work 90 FEET ROAD

WAREHOUSE live work

workshop space store

circulation and c also focusing on

Second level p

RESIDENTIAL

Work Gathering a Institute Residences

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COMMERCIAL

EXHIBITION HALLS

Wadi

60 FEET ROAD

POTTERY INSTITUTE

90 FEET ROAD WAREHOUSES

MANUFACTURING UNIT

ADMINISTRATION

RESIDENTIAL

EXISTING TEMPLE

CONGREGATION HALL RETAIL SHOPS

MASTERPLAN

The first level plan focusses more on the work relationship that it has since decades now. The plan flows in accordance of the pottery making process making it easy functionally to use and adapt.

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COMMERCIAL

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RESIDENTIAL

The second level plan focusses mostly on the living part with enough habitable space for an individual with much necessary sanitation and improvement in quality of life. Open spaces for kids, senior citizen with programs such as open cafeterias and self taught pottery institute for the bright future of the upcoming generations.

DECK

RESIDENTIAL SPACES

connecting the users to the roadside activities

continuation of live-work relationships with better living opportunities and working spaces

WORK

connecting the users to the roadside activities

CO-WORKING SPACES

adjacent to residential quarter for any extra work-space on the same level

ENTRY LEVEL

TYPICAL SECTION

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002

ACTIVITIES Documentation of participation beyond academic curriculum . Includes participation of competitions, exhibitions, art installations.

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STREET FURNITURE

KALAGHODA ARTS FESTIVAL 2014 : “CONNECTICITY” Location :

Kalaghoda, Mumbai India

Type :

Group installation Street art/ furniture

Group:

Ashwini Dhamankar Batul Tinwala Dhwani Shah Pankti Sanganee Pinal Desai

The city of Mumbai cant be defined in black or white or be a reflection of one exacting image or an icon but its colorful mixtures of dreams, aspirations, hopes based on the daily experiences and characters painted by the city dwellers and visitors. When seen through the dynamic frames of altering perception in situations, place and people, it is an agglomeration of imaginative - tangible spaces, which seek a brighter future or report a glorious past.

CONCEPTUAL IMAGERY

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GROWTH AND FORM

Location :

Mumbai India

Type :

Group installation Undergraduate Group exhibits Ashwini Dhamankar Dhwani Sanghvi Ronak Hingarh Saurabh Mhatre

Group:

Each frame was designed as per the requirement of the exhibits at that particular location.

The structure modulates itself based on availability of the voids in the corridor.

Wall panels modulating for different types of exhibits with form following function accepting the usability for available voids.

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EXHIBITION

Designing, building and exhibition of a usable piece for the annual exhibition for Balwant Sheth School of Architecture, 2008, exhibited in the given corridor of fixed dimensions.

YEAR walkway to be turned A regular into a as per site * anthropometrics * experiential * functional * * modulation 2010 Each individual band of frames has several rectangular frames which were prefabricated. The frames were dynamic social pathway of much more then assembled on site using a combination of suspension cables and fixed joinery (to the adjacent wall). usability than before.

URBAN DESIGN

COMPETITION Location :

Savannah, Georgia United States

Type :

Urban Design Competition Fall 2014 Ashwini Dhamankar Margaret A.O’Neill Nawaf Al Mushayt Rakan Bahshwan Rafael Nogueira

Group:

Savannah, GA, and its renowned city plan consisting of 22 park-like squares, is one of the most walkable city in America. Unfortunately, it is not nearly as bikable. The flat, low country terrain should allow for a perfect commute by bike, but Savannah’s streets are crowded and unsafe for bikers. The concept of Parallel Path is conceived with a vision of considering the 1.6mile CSX corridor with bike-pedestrian safe path running across the north-south direction. The corridor will coexist with a minimally used CSX train line; both paths, running parallel to each other will move goods and people efficiently through the city. Increased landscaped, provision of storm water management are some of the strategies incoorporated.This corridor will connect schools, low income housing, residential neighborhoods, and commercial districts in a safe environment for travel.

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1 ft.

8 ft.

11.5 ft.

0.5 ft.

6 ft.

19 ft.

CONCEPT SECTION Sustainability The very concept of our corridor – to provide a commuting and recreation option that does not involve a car – is sustainable and environmentally friendly. By providing a safe route to get to work on a bike, we hope that this encourages the citizens of Savannah to become more active in general.

MASTERPLAN PLAN

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Thank you

ashwini.dhamankar@gmail.com https://www.behance.net/AshwiniDhamankar