ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2021 Neel Shah School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai, India
N E E L S H A H About Me I am a young architect, currently in my fourth year. I am a curious and imaginative being. I am interested in learning new ways to approach design and execute it on the site
Education Grade 1 to 10 | 2006 - 2016
Swami Vivekanand International School, Mumbai, India Junior College | 2016 - 2018 Mithibai College of Science, Mumbai, India B.Arch | 2018 onwards School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai, India Email Adress shahneel327@gmail.com Contact no. +91 7045613880
Workshops 2018 - Photography and Cyanotype - Vrinda Seksaria 2019 - The Illustrations - Harshad Marathe
Extra Curricular/ Experience 2012 - District Level Representative in Football Representing School at District Level Tournaments for 5 years and professional football for 1 year
2017 - Collaboration with artist Karan Mehta Assisting the artist on wall art projects and learning how to conceptualize and execute client briefs
2019 - Urban Farming - Julius Rego 2020 - Introduction to Music Theory - Berklle School of Music 2020 - The Scribe and The Labyrinth - Apurva Talpade 2021 - Memory and Space - Sehjo Singh 2021 - Blender Workshop - Preet Waghmare 2021 - In a City, Parts dont make the Whole - Prasad Shetty 2021 - Gender Neutral Design - Foley Design Studio
2017 - Logistics Team - Kshitij
Languages
Handling logistics of the event and coordinating with other colleges
Proficient - English, Hindi, Marathi | Basic - French, Gujrati
2018 onwards - Participating in Assemblies every Friday School of Environment and Architecture hosts these assemblies where we discuss various philosophies and current news from across the world
2018 - Student Council Interacting with different colleges and hosting various events and activities in my college
2019 - Co-founder of Wall Works Co-founding an art studio and exploring different mediums of Wall Art
2020 - Student Council Managing student body during the pandemic and exploring ways to handle logistics digitally
2020 - Sports Secretary Hosting and organizing gaming events within college during the pandemic.
Skills Rhinoceros Autocad Sketch Up Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Lumion Vray Procreate Grasshopper Blender Revit Touch Designer Premier Pro Sketching Model Making Houdini
CO NTENT
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Architecture x Nature
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Design for Disassembly
2021 | Sem 6
2020 | Sem 5
Designing a School and looking at contextual landscapes in detail
Designing an Old Age Home and rethinking the programme
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2020 | Sem 5
2021 | Sem 6
Looking at Muzharul Islam’s master plan of Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
Mapping Veti village through the lens of communication, language and vocabulary
Research Paper
Act of Mapping
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City as Library 2020 | Sem 4 Designing and reimagining the idea of a Library
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The Scared Space
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Design with Detail 2021 | Sem 6 Designing a School and learning working drawings
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Personal Activities
2020 | Competition Reimagining the idea of a sacred space
Learning new softwares, wall painting, digital painting, posters, etc
SoftwareRhino, Lumion, Autocad, Photoshop, Illustator, Indesign
Building Organic ponds with small pathways meandering through the forest patch
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01. ARCHITECTURE x NATURE Murbad, Maharashtra SEM 6 - Designing a School
We usually work on concepts in the beginning and go to the designing process leaving behind the ideas as we go further. Thus, the project raises an argument that from the start till the project is complete we should keep working on concepts and not stop at any point retaining the original ideas. The project was made keeping in mind the existing idea of architecture where it has less built and more open spaces which maximizes the contact with nature. It also argues that Architecture is not only the built form but also ground, trees, animals etc.; the whole nature. There is also an attempt to understand and speculate the changes on the site for e.g., looking at the whole site at intervals of 10 years and designing with respect to that. The materials used in these buildings are wood and bricks which are locally available and the form of the structure is an experiment where the existing built forms (gable roof, square plans, backyards etc.) are taken further and create new kinds of spaces and experience. There are also experiments of looking at the ground in a different way throughout the site by modulating the ground, creating stepped ground and using the method of cut and fill; this leads to constant negotiating with the existing terrain creating dialogue with it.
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Vision on the site, thinking of how the structure might actually merge into the existing context
Concept drawings of designing a garden
Axis lines based on travel routes and water channels
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Building around these axis
Addition of waterbody, earth berms and rocks
Architecture x Nature
The placement of the evergreen trees near the built form becomes very important as it gives shade throughout the year. The trees are also placed while keeping in mind the crown and its role in shading a certain space. There are many other trees which attracts various birds, insects and animals. The moist deciduous forest which are found in abundance in region are planted mainly in patches on the site. Working on the idea of back garden with terraces and seating spaces as pause points
Backroad plan
View of dormitories, showing the climate during monsoon 5
Conceptual idea of the backyard
Various experiments on working with the idea of having a dialogue with the nature
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Architecture x Nature
Secondary school with variety of plants, grasses and trees growing around the pathway and structure creating a dialogue with the nature
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Section through Primary School
Section through Library
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Architecture x Nature
Primary School in the morning with a huge ground to learn and play around
Site Section cutting through Primary and Secondary school
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The concept of sitting on chairs and benches is challenged by providing low heighted tables with carpet to sit on the floor. This idea creates a deeper connection of students to the ground where they can sleep, crawl, play etc. rather than just being a tiled floor to walk on.
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Architecture x Nature
Main entrance on the site with a lot of shading and beautiful stone texture on the floor
Section through dormitories
Section through Secondary school and Junior college
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SoftwareRhino, Lumion, Autocad, Photoshop, Illustator, Indesign
Experimenting the idea of unit/ module with physical models representating scaffolding and cloth
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02. DESIGN FOR DISASSEMBLY Borivali, Mumbai, Maharashtra SEM 5 - Designing Old age home
Whenever our family goes out for a trip, our grandparents never join us. We never leave them home alone because they always need someone to look after so we always leave them at our relative’s house, leading to the idea of developing a programme where these senior citizens can live/rent for the time. It can also act like a refuge island for them to escape from their daily routine, life. In architecture we always think about new forms and to produce more, but we never think about the waste/ debris produced after the building is demolished, after the end of its life-cycle. We always want to build structures which are timeless and live forever, but the truth is it is not. What do we do of all this waste? Can it be reused/ recycled or avoided? The design is also made by keeping in mind the method of assembly and disassembly by using things like nuts and bolts, easily constructed and deconstructed joineries. Use of materials like steel scaffoldings and cloth helped in achieving the idea of disassembly. The lifespan of the building is 25 years after which it can be expanded or disassembled depending on the requitements. They became like rooms at night with only little open spaces and also turn into huge hall during daytime.
‘Treating buildings as service and not as products’
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Construction details and various experiments on design for disassembly with the help of scaffolding and cloth
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Design for Disassembly
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Design for Disassembly
Courtyard with scaffolding and cloth expressing various emotions with the help of colours
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Construction process starting from plinth to the finished form
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Design for Disassembly
Entrance to the OId Age Home
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SoftwareRhino, Sketch Up, Autocad, Photoshop, Illustator
Image of the book shop in Flora Fountain, Churchgate showing the narrow valleys, nooks and corners created by books itself
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03. CITY AS LIBRARY Flora Fountain, Churchgate Mumbai, Maharashtra SEM 4 - Designing a Library
City of Daryaganj is a text about books taking over the city. It talks about how it used to occupy streets only on Sunday mornings initially and how it got its way of permanently being on the streets. The booksellers on the pavements of Flora Fountain located in Churchgate have a similar history. The whole pavement would disappear from 10 in the morning until till 9 in the night as it would be filled with all kinds of colorful books seeking the attention of people going to or returning from the offices or colleges in the vicinity. The building is part underground, to facilitate expanding its tentacles across the road, but also to absorb the large crowds of people in the area and provide a subterranean relief to book lovers. The reading spaces are carved into the retaining walls providing several intimate, silent nooks The whole place acts as a ‘Book Lover’s Plaza’. The intention of the project is to expose the book sellers more to the world of literature. Why does their job remain about remembering the book name, its genre and the price? Why can’t it expand beyond just selling? The project similarly talks about how important an edge can be and how it can be used most efficiently by adding a suitable programme to it. The building also becomes a reference point, a memory and a reminder of the days when books took over the payments of the city in Churchgate
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DARYAGANJ by Monica James
The city of Daryaganj was under threat of demolition when the first signs of the library made their appearance on the pavements. In their slow but monstrous assault on the city the lurid yellow bulldozers had already swallowed three streets, one spice bazaar, five small houses and the best tea stall in the world. That’s when it started: books began appearing on the footpaths of Daryaganj every Sunday morning only to disappear by midnight. Before long they were stacking their way up along all roadside walls, propping up broken windows and tiling the damaged concrete pavements and roads. Then one night, in the manner of all inexplicable fantastical curses, their Cinderella deadline vanished and they stayed in the spaces they had occupied permanently. The library broke its banks flowing towards the rest of the city. Today the library Of Daryaganj contains the city. Books are perched on wooden ladders crisscrossing the narrow alleyways; they are stacked up around lampposts and traffic lights. The tallest buildings in the city look like titanic bookshelves and sidewalks are paved with hardbacks. A walk through the library of Daryaganj is also a walk through the city and in your wanderings, books become your guides.
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City as Library
Conceptual drawing of perceived imagery of the Essay - Daryaganj by Monica James
Creating a library/ catalogue of different experiments with light and shadow
Master plan of the project 23
Conceptual Skecthes attempting to build a language throughout the structure keeping in mind of the quality of light entering inside
View inside the Structure
View of the Subway
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City as Library
Exploded Axonometry of the builtform
Sectional Perspective of the structure
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PCC COPING BRICK PARAPIT
DETAIL A
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SoftwareAutocad, Illustator, Procreate
COPING KOTA STONE DRIP MOULD WALL PLASTER 20mm
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End wall sections showing materiality, joinaries and various brick details
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DETAIL D
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BASEMENT
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04. DESIGN WITH DETAIL Prabhadevi, Mumbai, Maharashtra SEM 6 - Designing a Design School
The project started with designing through details keeping in mind the material to be used and its possibilities. These details were taken further by imagining them in space and building a certain kind of language. The project emphasized on the materials and how it can be constructed. The studios were designed by keeping in mind of the interaction and the use of space by students. The backyard of the school also becomes a very important transaction and interaction space. The open space in the project also balances the relation between built and the unbuilt. The project also looks at building spaces while keeping in mind of the disabled people. The learning from this project is also how you communicate to people around the world by just using few sets of drawing. These drawings made were specific to materials and dimensions. Imagining the structure to be built on actual site and what kind of method we use to build it. The project also helped in learning how to draw out explorations in materials as well as spatial experiences. The challenge was also to visualize the structure and then convert it to working drawings.
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Master plan of Jahangirnagar University - 1970 by Muzharul Islam
Views of the Existing Building
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05. RESEARCH PAPER Jhangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh SEM 5 - Research Paper
Introduction Muzharul Islam started the work on master plan of Jahangirnagar University and completed it in 1970. The building is located in Savar Upazila, Dhaka in Bangladesh. The topography of the land with its gentle rise and plains is pleasing to the eyes. There are two distinct water bodies on the site with trees covering the whole area. He introduced this idea of campus, a campus with a bounded, planned space consisting of many buildings with different functions related to a single programme. Jahangirnagar University had various fields of studies ranging from humanities, science, mathematics, art etc. Islam started working on Chittoagong University in 1968, the scale of the project is quite small in comparison with Jahangirnagar university. He took a different approach while working on Jahangirnagar University with a vision of moving towards a planned campus or an alternative city and moving away from the conventional morphology of the region. Muzharul Islam was the person who single handedly brought ideas of modernism in Bangladesh. He used the ideas of modernism and overlapped it with the existing typology and landscape which produced various kinds of spaces and forms. His steadfast commitment to the modernist ideology leads to an optimistic, even utopian vision for transforming society. At the same time, his deep sentiment for Bengali culture did not discourage him from pursuing the goals of a ‘world man. ‘One needs to be a world man. You have to be a world man and a Bengali. It’s impossible otherwise.’ -Mazharul Islam This was the first time when Muzharul Islam started working on this idea of grid and with strong composition of angular lines and tilted squares producing certain type of geometry. Muzharul Islam concentrated a lot on learning the traditionally used techniques and built forms keeping in mind the typology and landscape of the site. In all his projects there is major importance on landscape and existing typology on the site. The master plan was made when a rational grid was placed over an organic unordered site of Bangladesh. Muzharul Islam’s master plan incorporates certain sense of collectivity and “urban” and also responds to the hot humid-delta and landscape of the site. There is a relationship or a dialogue created between these buildings following a certain typology and geometry. Unfortunately, only 5 percent of Mazhrul’s plan is followed and buildings are built separately without any relationship with the context. There is no dialogue created with these buildings, they are built only by keeping the idea of function in mind. Buildings are made incrementally with only concern of capacity or introduction of a new field in studies. These incremental buildings are made anywhere on site with no relevance with the existing campus. 31
This leads to the rise of many questions on how planned spaces are different from incremental and randomly grown spaces? How can grid and geometry help in reconfiguring and maintaining the growth of these buildings? How can these incremental spaces be planned which negotiates with these existing ideas of topography and landforms? How does it optimise upon a landscape? Hypothesis This paper looks at the possibilities of how these questions and challenges can be dealt with following certain ideology and intentions for making those spaces. When we look at Muzharul Islam’s master plan we get to know the intentions of bringing in modernity and idea of alternative city with keeping in mind the typological aspects of the site. This paper also looks at some examples of how incremental growth of a certain built form can be planned and used in the most optimal way. This can be done with the help tools like grid, geometry which further negotiates with the existing typology and landforms.
Overall view of Jahangirnagar University, 2020
Present Master plan of Jahangirnagar University
Case studies 1.Belapur Incremental Housing by Charles Correa (1983 - 1986) 2.Aranya Housing Project by B. V. Doshi (1983) Methodology The method for the research was to look at certain interviews and lectures. The two main methods used were reading articles, blogs, thesis, books related to this research and the other one is analysing the space by reading the drawing and photos and then putting up the argument. Another method used was diagramming and analysing the space and also looking at what people have to say about that structure. Case Studies 1. Belapur Incremental Housing- Charles Correa (1983 - 1986) Charles Correa started working on Belapur Housing in 1983 with following certain ideologies. He built the master plan with the certain ideas of incrementality and modern society taking certain features from the past. Another dimension added to it is ‘Urban Equity’. Charles Correa believed that the amount of urban space one controls is directly proportional at one’s status or income. The houses were upgraded when a family grows or when the sources are available and can be afforded. These incremental houses started transforming from single lean roofs to urban townhouses gradually over many years. This housing programme is an excellent example of highdensities areas with open spaces and circulation can be achieved with the context of low-rise typology.
Master Plan of Belapur Housing
The master plan of this programme is built keeping in mind the aspects of incrementality and also how it negotiates with the existing typology (low rise typology) and how the incrementality can be planned and maintain a certain language over the site. It also works on specific relations made and created with these buildings and how it creates a dialogue with each other. The architect closely looks at the relations established with these buildings by creating many levels of community spaces leading from buildings to overall complex. By creating these spaces, it automatically creates a certain hierarchy of spaces. This programme negotiates with the existing landform by creating a certain geometry in the overall plan, which takes the shape of the river flowing with the complex. This is achieved by making a grid and placing it over the existing landform. The overall planning of the site is made easy by following a grid which keeps the incremental growth in control. If there was no use of a grid, it would be very difficult for the architect to plan the incremental growth and make a certain typology, it would eventually lead to the growth of organic unordered site.
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View of the actual building
2. Aranya Housing ProjectB. V. Doshi (1983)
Research Paper
Aranya Housing Project was completed in 1989, it is located in Indore and the aim of the project is to make it low cost and work with the idea of incrementality. This project was made at the same time period of Charles Correa’s Belapur Housing society. The scale of this project is much larger than the Belapur housing society. The main aim of B. V. Doshi is to work on the idea of social spaces and also the growth of the complex. This programme is very similar to city planning. Doshi works on this project while keeping in mind the people occupying the space and the idea of affordance. Important aspect of the project is the spaces created within the complex and the way in which they connect themselves. There is a smooth transition of spaces which turns, shifts, expands or grows gradually. There is a certain typology created which has the freedom to evolve and transform over years. The project takes in certain aspects of modernism and fuses it with the existing traditions, history, typology and culture and they start negotiating with the existing typology. The drawings made by B. V. Doshi are purely based on grid and geometry, they start looking at how those spaces can be created while keeping in mind the larger picture of the site. This project is an excellent example of how geometry and the grid play an important role in maintaining certain control over incrementality but also allows it to evolve and grow up to certain extent and maintain relationships with the existing building typology. It also looks at the spaces created by using the tools and grid and how they negotiate with the existing topology.
View of the existing houses of Aranya Housing Project
Conclusion This paper provides a framework to look at Jahangirnagar University which is through the idea of geometry and grid and then later on the questions and challenges occurred while analysing the buildings. The case studies given in this paper helps in understanding values and certain negotiations done with the existing typology and landform. It also looks at how important an incrementally built society can be and how it can be controlled. This question is important because if this incrementality is not controlled it may lead to an unordered and random site which has no relationship with each other. This paper also shows how these negotiations and modern ideologies are worked out in a plan with the use of grid, geometry and the existing typology. The paper hints towards the importance of typology, landform and also ideas which constantly challenges the existing morphology.
B. V. Doshi’s painting,1983 Aranya Low Cost Housing
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SoftwarePhotoshop
Map of Veti village which tries to show the way people communicate, using their vocabulary and language
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06. ACT OF MAPPING Through Communication, Language and Vocabulary Veti Village, Murbad, Maharashtra SEM 6 - Mapping Veti Village
The studio intended to explore the sensitive environment, terrain and geography of the Veti village in Murbad, Maharashtra and focus on individual ecological processes and other systems that encompass cycles. The attempt was to understand, map and negotiate the boundary between these natural forces and how they are influenced by human interventions and activities and vice versa. A larger question of scale and boundaries in transient and dynamic environments was raised in order to invent a new language of communication that is expansive, inclusive, networked, connected and coherent. The narratives or the perception maps were crafted with the help, field research and first-hand experiences of a local design practice in the region of Murbad. Every place has a unique style of conversation and language. The vocabulary and dialect of the place also characterizes the people and the meaning of their associations with the landscape. This map speculates the image of the region through informal conversations with the locals of this village.
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Library with an existing rocky landscape that is full of vegetation. The library is partly underground with walls carved out from the rocks. The open courtyard formed has many spaces and spots where people can read books.
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SoftwareRhino, Blender, Autocad, Photoshop, Illustator
Overall view of the hall that can cater many activities and events and also act as a public space.
Intimate spaces are created at the edge of the site, which cater to animals and act as a resting point for them.
07. THE SACRED SPACE Snajay Gandhi National Park, Borivali, Mumbai Competition - Archdais, 2020
The project is located at the foot of Kahneri caves in Sanjay Gandhi National Park. All the people going on walk or cycling experience a change from busy, hectic city which is densely populated to a very calm and relaxed space. The site is located at the end point for the walking/ cycling point. People take rest and relax for a while before heading back to the city. It is also a very important point as it acts like a pause point before, we climb to the Kanheri caves, hence lot of tourists are attracted to the site. The idea of sacred space for this project is more about connecting with our true inner self which lies in the deepest part of our mind. The idea of sacred is also very much connected to nature. Which leads to the idea of building a space which is not only for humans but for plants animals and every living being. The project also negotiates with existing landscape and focusing more on the concept of built and unbuilt. It also tried to dissolve with the existing landscape and terrain. There are many small intimate spaces which is surround by plants, birds, rocks, water which calms your whole body, in the hope to reconnect with yourself Programmatically there are common public spaces like garden, library, hall, play area etc. The whole project is a negotiation of rough, ruggy rocks with smooth texture of concrete to wild thorny plants to soft grass.
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Posters made for college events using photoshop and illustrator. Many experiments while learning typography and graphic design
Original Artwork 48 “x 25” printed on cloth (Digital Painting) on top Experiments while learning many softwares like blender, houdini, touch Designer etc.
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08. PERSONAL INTRESTS SoftwareRhino, Sketch Up, Autocad, Photoshop, Illustator, Indesign, Blender, Houdini, Touch Designer
I spend my extra time in learning softwares, looking at different artists and their method of using these softwares. Painting walls and exploring different kinds of drawing is also a hobby. I am very fond of poster design, typography, book design and many other forms of graphic designs.
Original artwork ‘The Neighbours’ paints on wall 1200 x 1200 mm 39
Contact info Email - shahneel327@gmail.com Contact no. +91 7045613880 40