B BHAVYA
HEMANT
GANDHI
Architecture Portfolio | 2020
CONTENT
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The Forest City
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Ramdullari
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F - Residence
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Spiritual Centre
Mbpt, Mumbai | Msc. Integrated Sustainable Design
Ballygunj, Kolkata | Talati and Panthaky Assocaited Designers LLP
Ghatkopar, Mumbai | Talati and Panthaky Assocaited Designers LLP
Karjat, Mumbai | L.S. Raheja School of Architecture
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The Slice Cafe
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The Taj Hotel
JID Launchpad, Jurong Industrial District - Singapore
Bandra, Mumbai |
Architecture Competition |
2014
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The Forest City Site : - Mumbai, Maharashtra - India. Project Type - Residential
By living in cities we often have to choose vetween livability, sustianability & affordability. However, that is not the case in ‘The Forest City’ that brings all three under one roof to make sustainable living affordable. The project tackles a simple question : how can human communities thrive in the 21st centuray while respecting nature and using the enifits of modern technology. The project sets out to explore this idea, providing visionary discription for imagining those posibilites. Aerial neighboburhoods shall engage with nature...gardens, watercourse, birdlife, views and fresh air. Street life is reinstated at multiple ground levels that are integrated with urban farming practices, backyar workshops, health and wellness providing social and visual connection to the city and its people. Screens of green, sky gardens and sky parks are weived into these tropical community spaces.
Concept Urban lifestyle
Lack of green space
Present issue Lack of energy efficiency
Sustianability
Domesticated megstructure
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Livability
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Affordabilitiy
Communal Living
Sky gardens
Stratergy Passive design stratergies
Massing process
Breathing cities
Tropical Morphology
Views
Porosity + Permeabiltiy
Breezeways
Layering cities
Shading
SITE ANALYSIS Sewri was selected to demonstrate this new developement on the basis of its ecological and historic significance as well as accessibility from all parts of the city. The ecology of the eastern bay comprises of wetlands, mudflats, trees and mangroves. Futher re-infored by the northern creek that cover an areas of 12,000 hectre with rich biodiversity, where about 53 species of vascular plants and 150 bird species have been recorded by the Bombay Natural History Society. The harbour line, a aprt of the sub urban railway network connects the island city ot its mainland having Sewri as it major intermodal transit node.
Vehicular access
Network
MASTER PLAN Creating strong links between humans and nature is the core stratergy for this developement. The program is spread vertical to minimize ground coverage hence allowing the ground level to be highly porous and nature centric. The idea of embedding the building is such that the barrier between the building and nature seamlessly dissappears. The vision include a high rise residential building that runs fully on sustainable energy, much of which comes from solar panels that lines on the rooftop of the development and offshore. Parks, natural and built wetlands, mangrooves sorrounds the development that regenrates the site and its ecosystem.
Ecosystem
Residential Manged Park
Mixed Use Buisness Centre
Land Use
Site boundary
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Legend 1. Entrance 2. Loby 3. Railway corridor 4. Ecological park 5. Bird watch 6. Wet land 7. Mangroove 8. Bioswales 9. Eastern green corridor 10. Arabian Sea 11.Bird Walk
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CLIMATE ANALYSIS The climate of mumbai is a tropical, wet and dry climate. It can be best described as moderately hot with high level of humidity. Its coastal nature and tropical location ensures temperatures do not fluctuate much throughout the year. Hottest Month
May ( 30 O C avg)
Coldest Month
January (24O C avg)
Wettest Month
July (485 mm avg
Windiest Month
July (6.5 m / s)
Annual Precip.
1288 mm (per year)
East - west orientation and narrow building footprint
Orientation shades all green roof
Winter Solstice 46O
Summer Solstice 79O
Sunrise at 07:07 am Sunset at 06:06 pm
Sunrise at 6:02am Sunset at 07:19pm
Orientation that induces ventilation
PASSIVE STRATERGIES There are five principles for the developement of passive houses : airtightness, thermal bridges free - design, thermal insulation, passive house windows and ventilation. In a warm climate, high temperature is the main prolem that should be solved. However, in a hot and humid climate or tropical climate, not only high temperature, but also a high level of humidy should be taken into consideration. In these climates, an installation of heat and humidity recovery is something needed, which has proven to recover about 70% - 80% of the heat and humidty level. The buildings compactness affects the cooling needs, but is not so significant. Internal insulation of walls is suggested for this climate along with insulation of floor slabs or basement ceiling to block heat rising from the surface of the floor. 15 stratergies after carefully studying the bioclimate have been proposed to reduce the cooling demand and achieve stable thermal comfrot levels with minimum use of mechanical ventilation like fans.
Winter Winds North east winds 2.75 m/s
Summer Winds South west winds 4.4 m/s
Southern shading
Permeability
Operable Windows
Stack efffect Natural ventilation Daylight harvest Vertical breezeways Green roofs Reduce urban heat island
Tree Shading
Verandah and vegetative cooling
Natural daylight harvest
Stable thermal environments
PROGRAM LIVE
ENERGY
OPEN
COMMUNITY
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GREEN CULTURE
NATURE CREATIIVE
Open
Live Open
C r e a t i v e
E n e r g y Community G r e e n Live Live Open
Live
Underground program
Open
Live Live N a t u r e
C u l t u r e Open
Podium program
Swimming Pool
Resource Recovery
Sky Park
Sky Garden
Amenity
Services
Amenity
Work Units
Lobby
Parking
Lobby
Parking
PUBLIC AMENITIES W
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Roof
Live
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Meet Live Live
Live Play
Live Live
Live Live
Meet
Live M Ground M - Meet E - Eat
Live
North tower program
Live W P - Play W - Work
South tower program
Sky Park
Sky Garden
Sky Park
Live & Work Units
Condo Type 1
Services
Condo Type 3
Services
Condo Type 2
Sky Village
Amenity
Sky Village
Yoga
Hydroponic farming
Bar
Multi sport field
Agassi
Childcare
Pet park
Community farming
Farmers market
Study area
Movie theatre
Backyard workshops
Table Tennis
Festive Ground
Gymnasium
Multi Sport lawn
Swimming Pool
Board games room
Spa and wellness
Squach court
Barbaque
Library
Coffee shop
Grocery store
Floor Plans The design of this high rise developement examines the relationship between internal architecture planning and the formal expression of the building as an object. The developements sun shaded east west facade and protuding balconies are populated with trees and other vegetation. The plants also helps protect homes from the sun with the greenery serving as an active and living interface between the interior and exterior environments. Sky gardens on alternate levels further disolve the boundries between inside and outside, in fact all residents are able to enjoy visual greenery outside their apartment windows. A series of open yet sheltered sky gardens, terraces, balconies and planters create a breathable facade and visual interest, enhacing the real estate value of these apartments in a densely built up area while providing spatial relief to apartment PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION owners.
Sky gardens floor plan PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
Typical floor plan
Sky village floor plan
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
SYSTEM INTEGRATION Green - Biodiversity Sky park
Key stratergies
Sky village Sky garden
- Screens of green Mangroove ecosystem
- Sky gardens
Sky park
Bird Park
Park
- Sky Parks - Wet land ecosystem
Ecological corridor
The unrelieved concrete and asphalt surfaces of the buildings and roads have created an extreamly hot micro climate - specifically referred to as an urban heat island which in turn has markedly contributed to global warming. The impact of the heat island effect in tropical cities has now become frightening. Even in the warmest climes, in the height of summer, the unexpected blast o extreame heat instinctively feels alien and starlingly abnormal... as if it has suddenly become too hot to survive.
Wet land ecosystem
The most practical method of reducing, or at least tempering the urban heat island effect is to plant more trees, create new parks, and allow grasses to grow wherever possible. Trees shade the stress and the low rise buildings, whilst all vegetation facilitates the process of evapotranspiration ( which is essential to the city’s water cycle ), removes carbon dioxide from the air, and lowers the immediate localised temperature. Any method to reverse the concrete jungle processes of urbanisation and re - green cities will improve the lifestyle and pshychological equilibirum of the resident. Human eings have always had an intimate relationship with nature - whether it be fresh air, running water, chirping birds or flowering plants.
Sky gardens, sky parks & village
Ecological expansion
Birds nest
Micro - climate creation
SECTIO
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GREEN PLOT RATIO - 450 %
SKY GARDENS Elevated gardens are cantilevered from the mass of a building will thrive in the denseley settled tropical ity of Mumbai, by taking advantage of the climate and the degree of sunlight. The year round vertical sun path - is utlisied to build a tropical rainforest type ecosystem, with high density of trees,plants,shrubs and vines at every level. These elevated gardens function as air purifying winter gardens as they can perform as environmental filters to absorb carbon dioxide and reduce heat gain. These sky gardens are located between the two lift lobbies of the tower to provide an informal meeting place with views over the city, sky, mountains and the sea. They provide the office workers and residential apartment dwellers with the oppertunity to relax and seek relief from the crowded city streets below. These sky gardens are fully sefl sustainable, that are irrigated by collected rainwater and functioning as the buildings overall recycling and energy saving program. A total of 140 sky gardens, 4 sky parks sum up to a green plot ration of 450% in a city with very little accessible green space.
EDGE CONDITIONS
1. Site edge conditions
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2. Promenade
3. Ecological corridor
4. Mangrove Walk
Northern facade elevation
Southern facade elevation
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Ramdullari Site : - Kolkata, West Bengal - India. Project Type - Mutli Famliy Residential Development
Ramdullari is a medium density, multi-family residential project in Kolkata, that incorporates a portion of high-income housing, sustainable practices and consideration for the kind of future that developments like this can create. Passive environmental design strategies for the tropics are integrated with an aim of becoming net-zero in energy use. Sky gardens, and sky parks are formed creating layers of green spaces at multiple datums with an intent to integrate social, economic and ecological components to create a “holistic community�.
Concept
Building Form & Footprint
East - West Orientation
Sky Gardens
Stone Facade
Summer Solstice 84O Sunrise at 4.55 am Sunset at 6.23 pm
Winter Winds North east winds 2. m/s
Winter Solstice 43O Sunrise at 6.12 am Sunset at 4.56 pm
Summer Winds South west winds 3 m/s
Site and Climate Analysis
Sustianable Elements
Solar Pv
Grey water recycling
Waste Management
Rain water harvest
Bioswales 75 % Permeability
Water Storage
Grey water recycling
200 % Green plot ratio
Evaporative cooling
Passive Design Stratergies 45o
Orient towards winds
Cross Ventilation
Natural Daylight
Vegetative Cooling
Vegetative Cooling
Ventilated Facade
Tree shaading Daylight
Service Core Placement
Thermal comfort
Air quality
Noise absorbtion
Typical Floor Plan
Biophilia
Lobby
Ground floor plan
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F- Residence Site : - Mumbai, Maharashtra - India. Project Type - Residential - Multi family
F- Residence encapsulates the essence of a green square - sustianaility, diversity and affordability. Due to the geometry of the plot, the scheme consist of 3 elongated towers arranged perpendicular to each other, between them, forming an L and making to locate the units with optimal views and oreintation. Between the towers a central garden is generated as part of the projects open space. The developement consist of 128 units in its first phase with 4 typologies of residential units for middle income housing group. Each unit is planned to achieve maximim cross ventilation, suffiecient day light and effective solar shading to minimise the energy demand of the developement.
Concept
Site and building footprint
Defining Wings & Zones
Programatic Division
Urban block
Access
Diversification Note : Reference to MVRD A101 Urban Block
Courtyard block
Service Core
Identification
Legend 1. Entry gurdhouse 2. Entry drive way 3. Driveway roundabout 4. Scultpture 5. Lounge Area 6. Driveway drop - off 7. Tower A & B 8. Accent scultpure 9. Childrens pool 10. Temple 11. Driveway ramp 12. Childrens play area 13. Staircase 14. Tower C 15. Tower D,E & F 16. Club house 17. Eco Corridor 18. Lap pool 19. Open lawn 20. Mound garden 21. Amphitheatre 22. Fitness corner 23. Viewing pavilion 24. Multi purpose field 25. Jogging track 26. Accupressure walkway 27. Senior citizens park 28. Barbecue Area 29. Sky Garden 30.Sky Park 31. Skating Rink
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Tower A & B ( Phase 1 )
Waiting lounge
Lobby 2
Ground Floor Plan
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
Lobby 1
Typical Floor Plan Tower A & B
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The Club House
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Porosity
Maximiszing Views
Shading the Pool
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Section AA’
Legend : Club house 1. Men’s changing room 2. Women’s changing room 3. Lobby 4. Pool deck 5. Jacuzzi 6. Lap pool 7. Children’s pool 8. Multi Purpose Room
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Ground Floor Plan
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Spiritual Centre Site : - Karjat, Maharashtra - India. Project Type - Institutional
Architects often aim to infuse their creations with meaning, but one type of structure demands something particularly moving--a spiritual building. The most successful churches, chapels, temples, synagogues, and mosques have at least one thing in common: architecture that transforms raw, earthly materials into compositions so powerful they evoke something beyond our world. Spiritual Architecture are not just places of spiritual pilgrimage, but architectural pilgrimage where religion is getting a redesign. These are buildings that demonstrate how new ideas and developments in urban, domestic, and public architecture inform of designs for spaces intended for inspiration, worship and meditation.
Concept Water
Air
Integrating Fire
Earth
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Concept
Massng
Open - Meditaton Space Amphitheatre Semi-Open Meditation Space Art Therapy Promenade
Zoning
Structure
Summer Solstice 79O
Winter Winds
Sunrise at 6:02am Sunset at 07:19pm
North east winds 2.75 m/s
Winter Solstice 46O Sunrise at 07:07 am Sunset at 06:06 pm
Space
Summer Winds South west winds 4.4 m/s
Climate Analysis
SECT
TION AA’
Ground Floor Plan
Section BB’
First Floor Plan
Section CC’
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Slice Cafe Site : - JID Launchpad, Jurog Industrial District - Singapore Project Type - Mixed Used
Re - imagining the future of food. Increasing global population and rising incomes are straining our current food systems. Globbal food demand is expected to double by 2050, and the challenge of increasing food production is made tougher by phenomena such as climate change and urbansation. The following problem, if unsolved, will only exacerbate the vulnerabilities of our current food systems, even as it strives to meet the demands of consumers globally. The time has come for us to reimagine how we grow, process and consume food optimally and sustainably.
Concept Imgaine a food system that is ‘zero miles’ and decentralised such that every community grows locally where consume and is self sustainable in their food supply.
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The Taj Hotel Site : - Mumbai, Maharashtra - India. Project Type - Hospitality
The competition called for new ways of seeing buildings and their relation to its city as the health of a system as a whole is affected with the insertion of every new developement. The new development not only stands as an iconic building but also proves to be generous, restorative and net positive. It aims to strike a balance in form, functions and sustainability through its curvaceous shape that mimic an inverted umbrella harvesting water and energy from it large overhanging roofs. Where as the duo towers forms an atrium through its organic shape that creates a venturi effect hence elevating the air speed to rotate the wind turbines located at multiple levels. The organic shape of the towers unearths the idea of providing more spatial flexibility which integrate high tech vertical farming to its most luxurious hotel room hence providing a unique spatial experience at every level.
Concept
Inverted Sky line
SECTION AA’
SECTION BB’
Work Experience
Talati and Panthaky Associated Jan 2016 June 2018
F- Residence, Ghatkopar - Mumbai
June 2017 June 2018
Estado, Bandra - Mumbai
March 2018 June 2018
Viphor Aparments, Mulund - Mumbai
March 2018 June 2018
The Villa - Amravati
3 years, 8 months
| Arhitectural Assistant
Multi family residential developement - 360 units - for mid income group Total built up area - (1,80,000 sq. ft) Design developement to execution and handover of phase 1 Client - A & O Realty
Multi family residential developement - 48 units - for mid income group Total built up area - (75,000 sq. ft) Construction documents Client - A & O Realty
Multi family residential developement - 120 units - for mid income group Total built up area - (1,25,000 sq. ft) Concept to preliminary design stage. Client - Viphor Pharma Group
Single family residential developement Total built up area - (45,000 sq. ft) Design developement and construction documentation
July - 2015 Jan 2016
Ramdullari, Ballygunj - Kolkata
July - 2015 Jan 2016
Jewel Crest, Bandra - Mumbai
July - 2015 Jan 2016
Parekh Aparments, Juhu - Mumbai
July - 2015 Jan 2016
Private Apartment, Juhu - Mumbai
Multi family residential developement - 24 units - for high income group Total built up area - (95,000 sq. ft) Concept and schematic design. Client - Mr. Amit Jatia
Multi family residential developement - 43 units - for high income group Total built up area - (1,35,000 sq. ft) Preliminary design Client - Jewel Group
Multi family residential developement - 12 units - for high income group Total built up area - (1,25,000 sq. ft) Detail design and construction documentation. Client - Janaki Parekh
Single family residential developement - 9 units - for high income group Total built up area - (25,000 sq. ft) Construction documentaiton and site sxecution Client - Narendra Mehta
Work Experience
Mistletoe Foundation Aug Sept 2019
- Design Architect
Slice Cafe, JID Launch pad - Singapore Mixed used typologies for an educational platform for circular economy Total built up area - (5,000 sq. ft) Concept, Design developement & execution of phase 1 Client - Jurong town council - Singapore
National University of Singapore April May 2019
- Research Assistant
Stable thermal environments Residential, Institutional, Hospitatility and Health Care projects. No of builidngs - 4 Temperature reading’s and survey. Client - WOHA
Talati and Panthaky Associated Designers LLP Nov -2014 Feb 2015
Residential Projects Assisted in the production of construction drawings, 3d views and preliminary designs for varoius residential projects accorss Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata.
- Intern
Thank You.