Architecture Internship portfolio _ Nimit Bhansali _ School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada

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Viraasat

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Vilaya

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Social Matrix

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La Graceiux

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Samartha

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Internship Experience

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Heritage Interpretation Centre | Academic | Semester V

Mixed Use Building | Academic | Semester VI

Activating Duplitectures | DOCEXDOCE | Competition | Team of three

Pavilion Design | Archasm | Competition | Team of Three

Low Cost Rental Housing | HUDCO | Competition | Large Team

Residential Design | One mm Design Studio | Jodhpur

Viraasat िवरासत // NOUN //

Inheritance

Location: Jodhpur, Rajasthan Project Type: Heritage interpretation Centre

The design takes into consideration the behavioral psychology behind the user movement and wayfinding. Design lets the visitor dwelve into the customs and lifestyle of Jodhpur gradually, through its unique and captivating foWrm. The thoughtful use of colours, textures, shapes, forms and frames helps to direct the visitor into a forceful yet engaging journey of discovering multiple facets of evolution.

Cultural Heritage is an expression of the ways of living, developed by a community and passed on from generation to generation, including customs, practices, places, objects, artistic expressions and values.

I approached this project with an intent to manifest the subtle virtues of blue city through FormMaking. This project is more like a poetry to me. The brief gave an opportunity to revisit my childhood in the streets of Jodhpur and understand the tangible and intangible aspects of the culture and the architecture associated with it.

“The work of angels, fairies and giants... built by Titans and coloured by the morning sun... he who walks through it loses sense of being among buildings.

WIt is as though he walked through mountain gorges.”

- Description by Rudyard Kipling about the city of Jodhpur

Semester V | Form-making and Conceptualisation

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Heritage Interpretation Centre | Viraasat

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Legends:

Step 1 :Dividing the area into smaller proxemic zones

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Main Entry to 100 Ft. W ide Road

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1. Visitor’s Centre 2. Indoor Restaurant 3. Common Toilet 4. Multi-purpose Hall 5. Viewing Deck 6. Stepwell Plaza 7. Open Air Exhibition 8. Performance Area 9. Craft’s Market 10. Canteen/ Eating Space 11. Expriencing Deck 12. A space for expression 13. Workshop Area 14. Rooms for stay 15. Parking

Step 2 :Establishing the Visual axis and movement spine.

Site Area 4.6 Acre

Step 3 :Zoning as per the area program and journey.

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Site Plan

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Heritage Interpretation Centre | Viraasat

Way to Exhibition (For Differently Abled) Way to Exhibition

Way to Multipurpose Hall

Way to Workshop

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Way to Bazaar

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Viraasat is a reinterpretation of traditional

Viraasat aims to become a gathering point, a place that brings peop interact with each other and exchange cultural values. It will help visitors feel the importance of their inherent culture and re-establish

The portal to the journey.

Level differences acts as shaded sitting spaces.

Experiential performance spaces

Open Air Exhibition

Food Kiosk

Mehrangarh Fort

परकोटा -

A long narrow vertical structure made of stone or brick that surrounds or divides an area of land. The four curved walls are inspired from the perkota encircling the fort.

The Mehrangarh Fort, citadel of the sun took around 300 years to get built under several different kings. It was built in phases by 29 kings of the same family. The common visual axis represents the cummulative outcome of several layers of evolution.

The fort city’s wall has 12 gates that allows the city dwellers to come and go. The arches and the territorial space around it will let the visitors experience and understand the significance of each gate with the help of text written on walls.

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Inspired by the citadel, Stepwell and the hil

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Heritage Interpretation Centre | Viraasat

blue city.

ple together, a flexible and evolving platform that invites citizens to in realising the importance of Heritage Conservation by making hing a sense of belonging to the place.

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Indoor Exhibition Spaces

Open Air Theatre

Audio-Visual Room

Craft’s Market to promote local artisans

Toorji ka Jhalra (Stepwell)

बावड़ी -

Stepwells are wells or ponds in which the water is reached by descending a set of steps to the water level. This is a typical stepwell module.

Stepwells were the places promoting social interaction.

Protruding the module outside in order to create engaging social spaces.

Creating multiple path makes the journey more playful and the visitor conscious about the next step.

The final form was inspired by Stepwell but was developed to look as if its a hill on which the fort of Mehrangarh sits.

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ll on which the mighty Mehrangarh sits.

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Evolving Urban morphology

Cluster of Bhonga Houses

Organic houses of walled city.

Plotted Grid-City

The first zone of the interepretation centre represents the form inspired by the time when Jodhpur was not a city and a resultant of clusters of hamlets built from mud.

The second layer represents the chaotic blue city around the fort with multiple level difference becoming the spaces for expression and social change. The market of blue city borrows its form from the traditional market of Gahntaghar. The last zone of the centre represents the geometry of straight lines and shapes which is similar to the current urban development of the city.

The intent is to make the visitor feel, the evolution of city.

Evolving Materials

Mud Plaster

Blue Lime

Jhodpur Pink Sandstone

With a climate as extreme as of Thar Desert, Architecture fundamentally depends on the type of construction as well as the materials used in construction. With evolving technology and abundance of resources, materials are changing and upgrading rapidly. The advent of mud houses with thatch roof protected the people from desert storms and the extreme hot temperatures. The blue lime used in old city protected the people from mosquitoes, kept the house cool and gave an identity to then Brahmins. The Jodhpur Pink sandstone is famous for its intricate detailing and was used in Ummaid Bhawan Palace. All these three materials provide thermal massing and are vernacular in terms of its availability.

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Heritage Interpretation Centre | Viraasat

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Psychology behind Space-Making:

View-philia Better views from heighted places often attract crowd. It gives them a sense of achievement and a wider view to the surroundings

Market-place The craft’s market is just a raised plinth with a temporal roof. This gives the perfect ephemeral vibe of old cities.

Schooling People didn’t dissipate evenly throughout the spaces. Schooling was observed in most of the public space.

Stoopage People used accessible elements at the edges of plazas to take short breaks.

The Open air exhibition This includes roosting spaces, performance spaces and a catalogue of steps and ramps. This is symbolic to the levels and porosity found in old city due to the virtue of hilly terrain.

Niche Selection Fixed areas that offered a choice in seating type, height, material, or personal position had high dwell times.

Open Air Theatre Inspired by the dual character of old and new city, the steps are a mix of organic and grid shapes concluding to a circular steps.

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Heritage Interpretation Centre | Viraasat

Ephemera-philia Temporary plaza interventions drew people into the space.

Interventions that had a limited lifespan, from one day to an entire season, tended to increase usage of the plaza.

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Vilaya िवलय // NOUN //

Fusion, Mergence

Location: Kolkata, West Bengal Project Type: Mixed-Use Design

FUSION focuses upon blurring the boundaries between binaries (For Ex: Public-Private, Indoor-Outdoor, LiveWork). The project experiments with concepts of Modularity, Temporality, Placefulness, Urbanism and Metabolism on a canvas of Multi-used space.

The city of Kolkata has hot-humid climatic conditions and is known as ‘city of joy’ for its soulful embodiment of culture, love, mystery, respect, enthusiasm and definitely some amazing sweet delicacies.

Challenges: -To establish multiple functions on same place keeping their individual character and concept intact.

-To make sure about better views: ‘of the building’ and ‘from the building’.

-To ensure the privacy of different user group.

We, as humans, always think, act and live in Binaries i.e. contrasts.

But the ultimate satisfaction or the crux of life lies in fusing the binaries.

Some call it Moksha, some call it Nirvana.

I call it as Fusion.

“To fuse is to become ONE with yourself and your surroundings. It’s all seamless and undefinable, its just experiential.”

Total Site Area : 11,000 Sq.mts.

F.S.I.: 2.75 Ground Coverage: 40% of total site area Land-Use: Commercial, Corporate, Residential apartments and Co-living

Theories Considered: Theory of Place attachment.

Theory of Phenomenology.

Theory of Placemaking.

Community Building Yin-Yang Architecture of Contrasts

Semester VI | Mixed-Use Spaces and Building Services

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Approach

Engage

Two major roads allows corporate and commercial user group to enter while residents engage with the third minor road.

Large area is left in front of the crossroads to tempt the people into entering in the commercial plaza. “People attract more People.”

Enhance

Appeal

Double Height Cafeteria is added on the croosroad side to enhance the building facade and provide the visitors a view to the bustling streets from top.

Frontage is evenly maximised to have a clear and wider glance at brand stores.

Angular balconies are added for offices to provide panoramiuc views.

Shade

Fuse

Built Mass is kept in such a way that it shades the upper and lower plaza space throughout the day.

The voids are created to optimize lighting, ventilation and increase the social interaction amongst the residents. “Visual Empathy is the key.”

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Mixed Use Residential | Vilaya

Ground Floor Plan

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Legends: 1.) Commercial Plaza 2.)Commercial Pedestrian Entrance 3.) Capsule Lift 4.) Commercial Plaza for big stores 5.) Corporate entrance and drop-off 6.) Way to Corporate Ramp (Entry/Exit)

7.) Residential Entrance 8.) Way to Residential Ramp/ Drop-off 9.) Residential Lobby 10.) Commercial Service entry / Fire staircase 11.)Residential Co-Living lobby 12.) Commercial parking Ramp

Residential Circulation Commercial Entrance Corporate Entrance

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Mixed Use Residential | Vilaya

People attract more people The plaza along with the interesting staircase embedded in the facade makes the environment along the building vibrant and dynamic.

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Cluster Development Unit X

Circulation Shafts along with HVAC and MEP ducts.

Built-Up Area: 150 sq. mts.

Type: 3 BHK High income residential apartment

Unit Y Built-Up Area: 280 sq.mts.

Type: 4BHK High Income Group Duplex Apartment Co-living apartments for students

Unit YY Built-up Area: 300 sq.mts.

Type: 4BHK High Income Group Duplex Apartment

Unit XX Built-Up Area: 130 sq. mts.

Type: 3BHK apartment Podium floor that acts as a buffer between corporate and residential

The new age of Residential Lifestyle The people who have their basic needs fulfilled are struggling with other problems that comes with the status quo of society, individual expression of the person and the work pressure. But due to this kind of living, i think we tend to forget the real essence of relations, health and our ultimate aim from life.

Unit X

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Mixed Use Residential | Vilaya

Can a spatial play of geometries help them build healthy relations?

That’s where the idea of blurring the boundaries between private and public life comes in, where your individual expression makes a collective impact on society.

Unit YY

Unit Y

Upper Floor

Lower Floor

Upper Floor

These representations are of two units/apartments to show the social space in between neighbouring units.

Lower Floor

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Residential Lifestyle

Corporate Culture

Retail Corporate Residential Services

Section AA’

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Mixed Use Residential | Vilaya

Shopping Experience

Facades of utility Inspired by the facades of Kolkata - Repetetive, homogenous, utilitarian, porous and unusual.

The building has three different patterns of facade as per the function associated with it and are coming together to form a balanced and dynamic elevation.

The stairs allows the user to directly move to the cafeteria from the plaza.

The hanging balconies between two flats allows the neighbours to engage in social activities.

The common balconies that are made by scooping out angular mass from facade becomes the relaxing space for employees.

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Mixed Use Residential | Vilaya

“The idea is to get ONE wit

th the Surroundings.”

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Social Matrix DOCEXDOCE Competition | 54 Hour Design Challenge Concept Development | Urban Landscape Design

Background: Tianducheng - China’s strange city of Paris Tianducheng is an urban development that has failed spectacularly. Scattered along a barren landscape, towering skyscrapers collect cobwebs and apartment buildings are left abandoned.

Parisian facades rise high on both sides of the boulevard. But the street vendors are selling steamed dumplings, not baguettes. Locals sip green tea, not wine.

Developers started construction of a satellite city on Tianducheng in 2007, complete with a 1:3 scale replica of the Eiffel Tower and a recreation of the fountain from the Luxemburg Gardens.

Original plans had an expected capacity of 10,000 residents. Today the town’s population is around 10% of that.

Searching for nativeness

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Urban Landscape Design | Social Matrix

Figuring out the use.

Hoping for an unwanted end.

The Adaptive Squares

DOCEXDOCE | Competition

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Design Proposal: Activating Duplitectures

Making egalitarian Squares

Diversifying and adding order

Adding meaning

The new heritage and cultural landscape of Tianducheng aspire to inspire people through its adaptive habitat. It invokes a sense of community by activities which requires interaction, collaboration and creation. We believe Iconism is not always the answer to the quest of heritage.

Contrary to that, Cultural identity can be established by the intangible aspects of daily activities of the residents.

Qualitative Aspects:

Human-Centric

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Urban Landscape Design | Social Matrix

Cognitive wayfinding

Empathetic landscapes

DOCEXDOCE | Competition

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La Graceiux Archasm Competition | Cannes temporary cinema Concept Development | Pavilion Design

Location: Cannes, France Storytelling and Movie-making is something which has existed since time immemorial.

Audio-Visual experiemces are made possible with collective syncronized efforts of lots of creative people. Cannes Film Festival is abour celebrating their efforts. Its about making them feel Proud.

The mini-convention centre cum pavilion will make the viewer realize the importance of storytelling through its architectural design.

Architecture is about eliciting emotions. And, I believe experiencing a built structure is same as watching a movie. For a purpose like this, the design should have a highly captivating Character, which invokes a compelling desire and a sense of curiosity till the end of entire journey. Now, the last step is to add insurmountable obstacles in the form of pause points to make the destination and journey both interesting.

Film making

Architecture Character

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Conflict

Pavilion Design | La Graceiux

Desire

Archasm | Competition

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Construction Steps

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Pavilion Design | La Graceiux

Fabric of different colours

Jute Ropes

Wooden Louvers

Structural Grid Frame

Levels Difference Pause Points Zig-zag Path

Development Process

Archasm | Competition

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The Souvenir

The Convergence

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Pavilion Design | La Graceiux

The Showcase

The confluence

Architecture and Film-making, both should be able to create a narrative other than mainstream, in order to be incredibly successful.

Archasm | Competition

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SAMARTHA

HUDCO Trophy | NASA India Migrant Housing | Affordable Rental Housing Documentation, Analysis and Design

Location: Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India Moving in and out of a city has become a part of daily routine for so many Indian families. This creates a need for a housing typology that provides temporary shelter facilities in affordable prices keeping in mind the liveability and accessibility criterion.

A house is not just four walls and a physical structure but is also a means for social transformation as it provides aspirations for a better life.

Based on the idea of sharing of resources and services , the design cuts down the off grid dependency of the campus. It focuses on providing opportunities by accidental conversation leading to a change which could give way to financial, physical and social well-being. Age Group, Occupation, no. of occupants and time for the stay are kept as the fundamental criterions while designing and allocating unit typologies. Some spaces are consciously left empty to make the user engage in the process of designing and provide a hightened sense of belonging. The design aims to revolutionize the rental housing sector on the canvas of shared and sustainable economy.

HUDCO | Competition

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Low-Cost Rental Housing | Samartha

HUDCO | Competition

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Single Occupancy

Dual Occuancy (Family)

Double Sharing (Shared) Living

Private

Family (4-6 members) Storage

Units Typolgy

The relation between philosophy and architecture is interrogative and propositional.

It is about asking questions concerning the meaning of human habitation—what it.

Design Features

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Low-Cost Rental Housing | Samartha

Convertible Furniture

Convertible hands, legs and utensil washing space.

Wall embedded lockers

Large window cum balcony opening.

Large louvered opening to increase territorial space.

Convertible dining to increase space efficiency.

Step 1

Type B

Taking two sets of even no. of modules and arranging them in an enclosed geometry.

Step 2 Adding toilets and staircase block in the central proximities of both the blocks as per NBC

Step 3

Type A

Providing punctures and open spaces for social gatherings / community activities and parking space on ground floor.

Step 4 Staggering of floor plates to add dynamism in facade and to keep the service and circulation shafts intact in position.

Evolution of Cluster modules.

Singlel Occupancy

Dual Occupancy

Family Units

Circulation Space

Alternate Floor Plans

HUDCO | Competition

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HUDCO | Competition

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Parking

Spillover spaces are left alongside the street for parking of rikshaw, carts and other belongings.

Transit-point

The in-campus commute facility for daily-wage labourers.

Colour-coded buildings

The buildings are coded in different colours for easy identification and to create micro communities amongst dwellers.

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Low-Cost Rental Housing | Samartha

Circulation

Streetscap

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Terrace-farming

Terraces as a value adding asset for the dwellers to engage farming and cultural activities.

Creche North

Kids and elderly are the important pillars for a healthy community.

The space focus on providing all round development to children within the vigilance of parents.

The street Inter and Intra community

Wide streets are not just for circulation, they are responsible for all the interaction and bonding that hapens with visual empathy amongst residents.

HUDCO | Competition

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Low-Cost Rental Housing | Samartha

Dealing with a global problem in a specific context, this project aspires to become one of the possible answer to an alternative way of thinking to social housing into highly dense areas. The answer to the emerging demand for low cost housing lies in sharing of resources. Future of housing depends not only on location, costing, construction quality but should be measured on the basis that how a design embraces values like empathy , inclusivity and overall well being of its end user .

Design creates culture, culture creates value, value creates the future.

HUDCO | Competition

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Internship Experience Residence Design | Planning | Working Drawings

Location: Jodhpur, Rajasthan About the Project: This site is located in a gated plotted colony with houses sharing the boundary walls from three sides and one face opening onto a 40 ft. wide road. The house will accomodate a three generational marwari family of six members, with different needs.

My Contribution: I was involved in planning (as per Vastu principles), facade designing and site visits at multiple stages of construction.

Ground Floor

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Internship Experience | One mm Design Studio

First Floor

Terrace Floor

Jodhpur | Residence Design | Interior Design

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STONE ART

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CHARCOAL LOUVRES

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Location: Jodhpur, Rajasthan T.V. About the Project: This is a refurbishment project in a 10 year old house. The client wanted the room to be designed for his newly married son. the room was pretty small and that is the reason very warm colours, mostly natural materials were used.

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My Contribution: Designing, 3d modelling and Client meetings.

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False Ceiling

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T.V. 3'-8" UNIT

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Bedroom Plan (12’5” x 11’5”) BEDROOM PLAN (12'5" X 11'5" )

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Internship Experience | One mm Design Studio

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