Volume 01
Portfolio 2002 - 2012
Buvana Murali Architect AIA
buvana.m@gmail.com 917-215-9106
professional samples
Terraced Gardens Residential Development SIZE:
7 Acres, FAR: 4
LOCATION: ROLE: STATUS:
Mumbai Project Architect End of Concept
A high rise redevelopment project in one of the most prime locations in Mumbai city. A twin-tall tower project with a complex series of housing typologies located on a equally challenging site.
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CIRCULATION The Central Public Realm is kept free of cars at all times. Care has been taken to ensure that no car crosses the path of a child running towards his/her playground in the grange. In order to do so, all car movement has been distinctly separated from
pedestrian movement. Movement of vehicles has been restricted along the boundary of the development. A driveway brings all residents from Anstey Road, around Tower 2 to a common drop off point for both towers.
From there onwards a covered arcade leads into entrance lobbies an elevator lobby from where residents can take the elevator to with concierge desks and elevator cores. In the case of a selftheir apartment. There is a Secondary access road from Forjett driven vehicle Entrance 1 and 2 (marked in the diagram 1) leads Road that can be used by residents as per their convenience. residents directly to their parking spaces. Each parking level has
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The Trees: Godrej Residential Development SIZE:
2.15 Acres, FAR: 3
LOCATION: ROLE: STATUS:
Vikhroli, Mumbai Project Architect Schematic Design Phase
Godrej’s flagship residential project is the first Residential Phase of a larger Mixed-use development for the developer owned parcel of land in Mumbai. The site is part of the Godrej Industrial land bank currently undergoing transformation into commercial, retail and residential use. The site contains swathes of mature rain trees that were preserved in the master plan by Sasaki Associates. The design proposes a cloistered, courtyard environment which both provides a residential precinct yet blends with the mixeduse resources of the overall development. The ground plane is designed in a manner in which inside space and outside space boundaries are blurred.
Retail areas are adjacent to the future market place of the development and the residential amenities are distributed in a manner similar to that of an inclusive resort development. The overall massing and the articulation of the architecture, while contemporary, borrows forms and materiality from the industrial legacy of the site. The residential units themselves blur the lines of indoor and outdoor living, always connecting the resident to “trees� as the sense of place for this forward thinking development.
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BIRD’S EYE VIEW LOOKING AT PENTHOUSES
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VIEW OF STUDENT COMMONS BUILDING
Brij Mohan Lall Munjal University SIZE: LOCATION: ROLE: STATUS:
36 Acres, FAR: 1, Student Strength: 11,400 Gurgaon, India Project Architect Phase 1 : Built
The central theme for BML Munjal University (BMU) revolves around innovation. Innovation, not just in the way classes are taught, but also in the way we think, in the way the campus is planned, designed, built and calibrated for change.The university plans to forge alliances with the corporations and institutions through a research and development incubation center which will provide
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real opportunities for students to interact with industry and other institutions of higher learning. In keeping with the clients’ intent the design for the project will be frugal in its approach yet sensible in its implementation. Students will not be lectured, but inspired to learn through problem based approach.
IMPROVING UTILIZATION An obvious observation during programming analysis was the low utilizations of specialized spaces during the early years of the university. Between 2016 and 2025 the university plans to increase its enrollment 5 fold while the disciplines and streams remain relatively constant. As more students are added, the utilization of spaces improves significantly as evidenced in the larger blocks of green in the table below.
POPULATION (SEE CHART 1) Students Faculty Non Academic Staff TOTAL (STAFF+STUDENTS)
UTILIZATION OF ACADEMIC SPACES Analog Lab Basic Electrical & Electronics Lab CAD ‐ CAM Lab Chemistry Lab Civil Engineering Communication Systems Computer Lab Control System Lab Drawing Electrical Drives Electrical Engineering Engineering Mechanics Environmental Engg Fluid Mechanics Lab Hydrology & Hydraulics Internal Combustion Engines Lab Machine Tool Engineering Lab Material Sciences Networks Lab Physics Lab Power Electronics Lab Survey Lab Thermodynamics Workshop Typical Classroom Tutorial Room Architectural Studio Generic Laboratory Mock Court Mtech Lab ‐ Generic
2016 2,440 144 80 2,664
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2018 4,200 238 103 4,541
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SNAPSHOT PROGRAMMING DATA FactsOF / Analysis
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The HOK team has programmed the needs of the university and how it will evolve and grow over the years. The phasing of instructional spaces along with the growth of the campus has been planned in a way that gives the university enough latitude to change course as tomorrow’s world demands of them. HOK lead the initial programming exercise for the project based on which the Master plan has developed. The programming exercise was based on a combination of interviews and work session involing Hero Mindmine
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team members made up of leadership, educators, academicians, planners , administrators and consultants appointed by the client. This was supplemented by gathering facts and figures, analysing current trends in education including syllabi and class schedules, benchmarking and creating room data documents for various types of academic and non academic spaces.
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The master plan created a large central green that formed the heart of the campus. The academic zone was placed closer MASTER to the highway on the east and the residential PLAN ITERATIONS area occupied the more private zone along the west. The academic zone was divided into a north and south blocks. East- West spines containing common functions weaved together department buildings that branched of the spine at regular intervals. The ‘jewel’ of the campus, a multiuse building was located in the centre of the main green area and becomes the focus of the campus.
The master plan explored the idea of slicing the site into 3 phases going from East to West. Each phase contain ed a mix ofThe residential and explored academicthe uses whilst utilizing academic master plan idea of compacting least amount land area. An into East-West forest buffer and of residential uses a single block. This block would separated function the residential and that academic The according as a module could zones. be repeated academic to buildings were arranged in such a way as the needs of the growing campus. Thetoblocks would open into open space onaround every side as well as enclose an that would be arranged a central podium building internal courtyard. house all the common functions. The strategy here was to occupy the least possible area of land as well as to bring the academic and residential together so as to increase the efficiency and utilization of the buildings by allowing a sharing of space.
Planning Concepts and Studies
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master a large green that formed The The master planplan wascreated a variation of central the earlier courtyard theHowever heart of rather the campus. The academic zonesilos was placed block. than creating individual of closer to the highway on the east and the residential department buildings, it created linear East-West blocks more private zone along the west. The that area couldoccupied be sharedthe between different departments. Each 200 0 divided60 academic zone was into aand north and south blocks. phase contained a mix of residential academic uses. EastWest spines containing common functions weaved This strategy would reserve land in each phase by using 100 30 buildings that branched of the spine the together minimumdepartment area required. Residential and Academic at were regular intervals.by The the campus, a multiuse zones separated a ‘jewel’ forest of buffer with common building was located in the centre of the main green area buildings bridging across. and becomes the focus of the campus.
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AERIAL VIEW OF PUBLIC SPACES SURROUNDING THE LAKE
The masterplan is based on simple principles of efficiency, orientation The main challenge was to maintain the principles of flexibility and and compact form.It is crafted to create unique spaces that foster modularity while paying careful attention to the existing conditions interdisciplinary learning by design. Through the master planning of the site. exercise, the design team tested a variety of iterations exploring various ways in which student life can be organized on the campus. From the intensive master planning exercise emerged guiding principles that would broadly influence the growth of the campus over the next 25 years.
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Open space surrounding every block
Open space surrounding every block
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Maintain East-west orientation of buildings VIEW OF EXISTING SCHOOL PLAYGROUND for maximum exposure to north
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Create land bank for future expansion
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AERIAL VIEW LOOKING TOWARDS HOSTELS
The site is well suited for an educational campus and has a network of mature trees. The site also includes a functioning school building and a decommissioned hospital which had to be incorporated in the master plan.The Master plan ideas ranged from tabula rasa approaches that explored the maximum potential of the site to ones Open space surrounding every block
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
that were pragmatic and built around the memory of the place. Each of the options however had the common thread of creating a lively student environment with a hierarchy of open spaces for student interaction.
Iconic building at the entrance
Consistent phasing of academic and residential program so each phase looks complete
Provide for a large, open recreational field
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Create land bank for future expansion
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Planning Concepts and Studies Design Principles
View of fieldsVIEW along south-west corner of site OF EXISTING FARMLANDS
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Faculty housing: Is located in a cluster away from the hostels and academic areas, but at a 5 minute walking distance from the academic core with views to the lake.
Urban Forest: This dense thicket of trees creates a backdrop for performance in the amphitheater. It provides a shaded zone in the active pedestrian area of the campus. Located along the western edge of the campus it serves in mitigating the dust-laden north-western winds coming into the academic zone.
Hostels: These are located along the northwestern edge of the plot at a 5 minute walking distance from the academic core. Buildings are arranged in the form of a courtyard block ideally suited to provide shade and enclosure in the arid climate of Gurgaon. The bar and tower typology has been used for the hostels since the differential scales help in maintaining a intimate scale of the court while at the same time accommodating the density required for a campus of this size.
Dining hall: Dining hall is located in proximity to the hostel zone.
Library/Student Commons/Cafeteria: This is a multiuse 24 hour public building that forms the hinge between the academic core and the hostel areas. On one side it bookends the pedestrian spine and on the other it frames the water body with an amphitheater.
The water body: This is a retention pond that could form the main public space of the campus. It forms the termination to the pedestrian spine and the heart of student social life. Located between the academic and residential areas it is framed on one side with the Student Centre and on the other by hostels affording great views to the pond. In addition to being a public amenity it also serves to lower the ambient temperature by way of evaporative cooling as the north-western winds blow into the academic zone.
Main Campus Drag: is an active shaded quadrangle space framed by classroom buildings on either side. It is bordered on either side with a colonnaded walkway which provides a shaded promenade in the heart of the academic core. Typical Academic Blocks: Two courtyard blocks frame the north and south side of the main quadrangle area and house the bulk of the academic areas including classrooms, laboratories and tutorial rooms.
Vehicular Loop: A 12 m Right of way vehicular loop allows for the flow of traffic without impeding pedestrian movement on campus.
Gateway Building: This complex of buildings forms the front door of the campus. Seen from the highway it establishes the campus identity and the character. The building program includes administrative and office uses as well as the common classroom functions that are shared between all departments of the campus. It forms a hinge between the academic and research zones.
Avenue of Innovation: This is one of three avenues on campus created by preserving the existing row of mature trees. It runs parallel to the main campus spine and is bordered on one side by the workshop buildings. It is envisioned to form a staging area for various exhibition and innovation fests that are a part of campus life.
Main Entrance Boulevard: This is a grand 40M tree lined boulevard that forms the entrance to the campus from the highway.
Incubation Centre: This is located on the front face of the campus with exposure along the national highway. It is the centre for universityindustry collaboration as well as provides spaces for innovation and research.
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PHASING Phasing STRATEGY
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Non-Academic buildings Workshops
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MASTERPLAN DIAGRAMS
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COLONNADE FRAMING CAMPUS QUADRANGLE
CONCEPT DESIGN: ACADEMIC BUILDING
COURTYARD ACTIVATED BY PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES
Test Concepts
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SUSTAINABLE GOALS
VIEW OF COURTYARD
In response to the hot climate of Gurgaon, buildings framing the central quadrangle are lined with colonnades to provide shaded walkways.
In addition to providing shaded walkways, the elevated area also allows for continuous air circulation in the courtyard.
Identical academic buildings frame the north and south of the campus quadrangle. They provide a double height colonnade that Test Concepts B-33 connects a variety of spaces from private classroom zones to Sustainability / Shading and Breeze public programs located on the ground floor. In addition to providing shaded walkways, the elevated area also allows for continous air circulation in the courtyard.
CONCEPT DESIGN: ACADEMIC BUILDING
Bridges form an important feature of an academic campus. They can hold a variety of common uses as well as connect buildings to one another allowing a seamless transition within academic clusters.
The faรงade strategy varies as per solar exposure. Deep set windows on South facades shades the interiors from the afternoon sun. Sun breakers on the east and west facades shield the classroom areas from the glare. North facade can afford a higher amount of transparency.
The facade strategy varies as per solar exposure. Deep set windows on the south facade shade the interiors from the bmu BML EDUCORP afternoon sun. Sun breakers on the east and west shield theSERVICES classrooms from glare. North facade afford a high amount of transparency.
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In response to the hot climate of Gurgaon, buildings framing the central quadrangle are lined with colonnades to provide shaded walkways.
Visual and physical connectivity has been maintained between various zones by lifting buildings off the ground, making the dense campus permeable and pedestrian friendly.
Bridges form an important feature of an academic campus. They can hold a variety of common uses as well as connect buildings to one another allowing a seamless transition within academic clusters.
Bridges form an important feature of the campus. They multiply public spaces by maintaining continuity at upper levels as well as form spaces for informal interaction.
CONCEPT DESIGN: ACADEMIC BUILDING The faรงade strategy varies as per solar exposure. Deep set windows on South facades shades the interiors from the afternoon sun. Sun breakers on the east and west facades
Amantra Residential by Tata Housing SIZE: LOCATION: ROLE: STATUS:
VIEW OF SKYLINE FROM HIGHWAY
24 Acres Kalyan, India Urban Designer Completed
This is a landmark project that exemplifies affordable housing in the modern Indian context. It is envisioned as an affordable development with quality infrastructure and diversity of housing products suitable to varied income groups. The approach was to create a compact, shaded and close-knit community with a pedestrian-scale development with “places for people� while
VIEW OF ROOF TOP PUBLIC SPACE
accommodating the density. Since this was an affordable housing scheme, the project responded to climate through passive ventilation strategies such as orientation of buildings to minimize solar heat gain, capturing and channelizing wind through the building mass, creating self-shading conditions and creating voids for air flow.
RESPONSES TO WIND: BUILDINGS CAN STAGGER TO FUNNEL AND SHARE WIND
CLIMATIC RESPONSE
ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER
BUILDING ELEVATION DETAIL
VIEW OF SUSPENDED GARDEN
Parc 1 SIZE: LOCATION: ROLE: STATUS: ARCHITECT:
1,60,000 Sqft. Seoul, South Korea Urban Designer On Hold Richard Rogers Partnership
Parc 1 is a mixed-use commercial development housing major companies, international brand-name shops and a quality restaurants.The development is at the edge of Seoul’s Yeouido Park and is designed by Architect Richard Rogers.The development comprises two modern towers anchoring the architectural design, surrounded by retail businesses and outdoor meeting spaces. It will include a premium galleria mall, an international hotel, public access spaces and plazas.
PLAN
MSP was asked to provide the overall landscape design concept for the site and specifically design a number of different areas that all intertwine with the overall concept and link with the architecture. Parc 1’s design concept evolves around the idea of creating a vibrant heart, and a unique meeting place for Yeouido and the city of Seoul. The Parc 1 design emphasizes public open spaces and linkages, connections to the community, and sustainability.
Water Feature at L6
Sunken Gar-
West Void Stone Shards
Hanging Planters
Bamboo
Stream
Undulating Wood Decking
SECTION A-A
VIEW
VIEWS
L6 Waterfea-
LEVEL 6 PLAN
AmphitheB
Cafe seating
Event space
Undulating Wooden Decking
Retail bridges
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Cascading shards
Bamboo Planters
LEVEL 5 PLAN
SECTION THROUGH WATER FEATURE
Water Stream
Stone bridges
Shard water cascade
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CONCEPT DESIGN
SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS
SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS
PLANTER BENCH DETAILS
STUDY MODELS
L6 SHARD WATERFEATURE
WATERFALL DETAIL
WATERFEATURE DETAIL
STONE BRIDGE DETAIL
CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE DIAGRAMS
MOCK UP STUDIES
DETAILS
LEVEL 5: PLAN
SECTIONS
SCHEMATIC DESIGN
LEVEL 5: PLAN
SECTIONS
SCHEMATIC DESIGN
SCHEMATIC DESIGN : SECTIONS
SCHEMATIC DESIGN : SECTIONS
Delhi Public School SIZE: LOCATION: ROLE: STATUS:
12,000 Sqft. Surat, India Architect Schematic Design
Junior Architect for the conceptual design and documentation of the K-10 school building of 12,000 sq.ft including classroom, auditorium, laboratories and playground.
SITE PLAN
L1
L2
L3
L1
L2
L3
PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION
FLOOR PLANS
MODEL
Span Engine Office Design SIZE: LOCATION: ROLE: STATUS:
6,000 Sqft. Mumbai, India Architect Built
Junior Architect for the Conceptual, Schematic and Detailed Design for a 6000 sq.ft office space.
competitions
AIM International Competition for the Redevelopment of Cable 8 Beijing, China
YEAR : 2010 TEAM MEMBERS: Amit Arya, Buvana Murali “Designing the last factory block in China” Among the glittering towers that rise to the sky in the Guo-Mao District, Cable 8 – a smaller scaled group of low rises – is an antithesis to the Guo-Mao paradigm. Originally built during the industrialization era of the People’s Republic, Cable 8 was a factory complex producing electrical cables, and has recently evolved into a re-vitalized incubator for art and design. Eight of its existing buildings have been converted from manufacturing floors to loft space, hosting designers and artists of various disciplines.
The low rise Cable 8 buildings, with their ivy-covered brick walls, form a sharp contrast to the high rise structures that have sprung up around it. The visitors to Cable 8 can enjoy a visit to a photography exhibition, the opening of a new studio, or a discussion session on contemporary art at one of the galleries. Cable 8 not only supplies a contrasting architecture to the CBD area, but also ushers in a cultural impetus to the otherwise homogeneous socio-cultural scene of Guo-Mao. The district has become fragmented from the holistic planning that
AIM COMPETITION FOR REDEVELOPMENT OF CABLE 8, BEIJING
has standardized the majority of the CBD, but the fragmentation shows a beauty in itself; Cable 8 has become a cultural carrier that has its roots in the historic past, but has regained its value with an investment in the future. Cable 8 has brought cultural infusion to Guo-Mao. Participants were asked to come up with strategies and mechanisms that will improve Cable 8, making it more susceptible to the rapidly changing urban landscape, and perform better as a cultural carrier that helps to diversify the otherwise homogeneous nature of the
CBD area. Participants could either improve the existing buildings in Cable 8 or introduce new architecture. The competition highly encouraged the design to go beyond the confinement of the existing site into the urban scale of the CBD area, and try to form a new relationship between site, program, form and technology.
CBD AND CULTURAL INFUSION
CBD AND PUBLIC SPACE
The proposal to dehomogenize the CBD addresses both global and local scales. Cultural institutions like museums, Libraries and Theatres anchor the site internationally and are located in the larger volumes of the hyperbuilding. These are complemented by small scale counterparts such as independant art galleries, film institutes, satellite campuses, studios and workshops that occupy the warehouse buildings and the smaller volumes of the hyperbuilding.
Beijing’s hyperdensity calls for a public space appropriate to its scale and time. The design proposes a new space for the Collective. It acts as a physical extension of cyberspace , ‘an Augmented Space’ where the lag between real event and its broadcast is reduced to a minimum. The building acts as an urban screen and allows for the dissemination of information. The new space for a new Public is envisioned as both, a breather for the business district as well as a battle ground for the dialectics between the tower and the warehouse, the gentrifying agent and the delicate urban fabric that is being gentrified, and between goverment and the governed.
AIM COMPETITION FOR REDEVELOPMENT OF CABLE 8, BEIJING
AIM COMPETITION FOR REDEVELOPMENT OF CABLE 8, BEIJING
AIM COMPETITION FOR REDEVELOPMENT OF CABLE 8, BEIJING
AIM COMPETITION FOR REDEVELOPMENT OF CABLE 8, BEIJING
Freedom Park Competition URBAN DESIGN COMPETITION LOCATION: Bangalore, India This was a competition for the conversion of a defunct colonial prison into an urban public park. Following a move of Bangalore’s Central Jail to the outskirts of the city, the Bangalore’s Municipal Corporation was handed the task of redeveping its defunct infrastructure. The BMC saw the premise as an urban space for the arts, recreation and commercial activity. The proposal sought to reuse the barracks and institutional infrastructure by rejigging it for recreational use. The program developed as a 24 hour public space that acts as a canvas for both everyday activities and events.
FREEDOM PARK COMPETITION, BANGALORE
Rethinking Peri-Urban Public Space INVITED COMPETITION by the Indian Institute of Architects LOCATION: Mumbai, India This project sought to look critically at the design and programming of urban public spaces. Working in a team of 2 we focussed on those on a satellite city of New Bombay and started by studying the history of these spaces and the way in which they were envisioned. This was followed by a process of empirical observations, field studies, time lapse documentations and a finally a proposal that was presented at a public forum.
DESIGN COMPETITION
DESIGN COMPETITION
DESIGN COMPETITION
DESIGN COMPETITION
academic samples
Undoing the Highway
Urban Design Capstone Studio (MUP) UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LOCATION: Detroit, U.S.A ROLE: Urban Designer
Detroit is the archetypal post-industrial American city with the hollowed out centre and suburban sprawl. In recent years the city has become a space for spectacles, a magnet that draws suburban crowds to it liminally and empties out when the spectacle ends. Sports arenas, Casinos and Convention centres bookend the peripheral subgrade freeway that cuts the downtown from the rest of the city. The impact of the Automobile on the city has left its social economical and physical scars. The flight of manufacturing and with it jobs and people has effected the atrophy of the fine grain fabric transforming it to a city of superblocks. Parking lots fill the city and there exists no pedestrian realm in a city full of decaying ghosttowers.
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SITE: Downtown Detroit is an area of 1 mile radius cut off from the rest of the city with sub grade highways on 3 sides and bordered by the river on the 4th side. The perceptive turf as well as siting of the mega projects is influenced by this highway ring. Academic and cultural institutions pepper the city forming islands of activity in the ghostown. These become the only zones where pedestrians can be seen on the streets. However these pockets remain disconnected from each other and the larger regional context and are too impotent to cause urban transformation acting in isolation.
INTENT: This project seeks to use education as a way to redensify the inner city and to intensify the existing education networks Intensifying urban education netby creating synergies between them. The attempt is to further works through partnerships reconnect downtown Detroit both physically as well as regionally across various institutions as a centre for higher learning. Regional education centres once established, acquire a growing presence, give to the community as well as draw a critical mass of regional and international students.
Wayne State University
Detroit Institute of Arts
The educational institutions emerge in the interstices between existing buildings which can be retrofit for new uses thereby optimizing on funding. The proposed fabric tries to remian fine grain pedestrian by integrating with the future public transportation networks.
Detroit Medical Centre Detroit School of Arts,
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Public high school
Max Fisher Music Centre
T f a s i d p
Cass Tech High School Recently added new school building with the old building currently vacant
I-75 Fox Theatre + State Theatre
DOWNTOWN
The highway is bridged with an intensely programmed public space that is seen as the canvas for everyday activities and events. Numerous “follies” litter this canvas and become nodes in the activity network. The geography of the city morphs from a disconnected nucleus to a series of north south tentacular network of students and their allied activities.
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WSU, School of Medicine
A range of institutions have been considered from those of private higher education like schools for Perfoming arts and Sport management that build on Detroit’s existing assets, to community colleges and trade schools that cater to a range of aspirations, providing affordable options as well as places for continuing education.This network allows for a sharing of space and resource, while simultaneously allowing each institution to develop its main expertise. INTERVENTION: The existing periphery that divides downtown Detroit from mid town-i.e.Interstate 75 is considered as the site for weaving the scattered institutions as well as the auto-scaled city together.
T in d re e g a ti
Detroit Public Library
MIDTOWN
The benefits of an urban multi-university campus are many. The adjacency of various diverse and specialized institutions is useful to establish partnerships with one another. This allows community colleges and other public institutions to benefit from such a network of close proximity. Universities are able to tap public/ private funding for improving the physical realm of the city.They bring with them a diverse pool of students, faculty and research bodies invested in the place. Detroit provides an ideal laboratory for experiments on the City.
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Detroit Opera House Gem Theatre Wayne County Community College University of Detroit Mercy, School of Law
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GR AN RI VE
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MUSEUM
CAFÉS
SKATEBOARD PARKS
Urban Multi-University Campus:Intensifying the network of existing local learning institutions
Educational Institutions Total: 3,000,000 sq.ft Approx 12,000 - 15,000 students
CRECHE/PLAYSCHOOL
CHESS PARK
Public Pedagogy: Floor space leased out on temporary basis to business incubators, research centres, non profits, start ups forming bridges between the academy and the city
reconfigurab reconfigur
MEDIA PAVILION
Vehicular Circulation + Strengthening the N-S corridors with increased density
Community College, Satellite campuses, Trade Schools-Reusing the vacant Cass Tech Building New Private Higher Education University
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urban sofas
private universities
WATERSCAPE
Entertain-
Civic
Parking
Total:
ment
Buildings
Total:
Total:
Total:
No.of spots : 6000
400,000
300,000
sq.ft
sq.ft
540,000
Park programs Total: 144,105 sq.ft sq.ft
Theatres, Recording Studios, Startup Artists Space
LIBRARY LIBRA
Bridging the highw everyday activitie
Commercial
Cass Avenue
7
community college
student housing
COMMUNITY GARDENS
1,700,000 sq.ft
BRUSH STREET
I-75
6
park as a canvas for everyday activities and events
FARMERS MARKET
way: Using the park as a canvas for es and events
RESTAURANT
public pedagogy
public movie screening
URBAN EXHIBITION SPACE
Pedestrian Flows Mid Blocks Pedestrian pathways
GYM
Landuse + Programming
Total proposed build out:
17acres
climbing wall
JOGGING TRACKS
10,317,500 sq.ft or 240 Acres
Residential
Parks Total:
sports pavilion
OPEN AIR THEATRES
725,500 sq.ft
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Total:3,600,000 sq.ft or 82 Acres Units: 4000 Persons: 12,000 45 units/acre Dormitories, Hostels, Student housing, Market Rate Housing
SECTION 1
Woodward Avenue
TRANSIT STOP
Park Avenue
WOODWARD AVENUE
rable architecture
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Woodward Avenue
SECTION 1 CONTINUED
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STUDENT EXHIBITION SPACE
CAFE BAR
COMMUNITY GARDENING
FARMERS MARKET
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Brush Street
John R Street
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JOGGING TRACKS
BIKING TRAILS
9
Woodward Avenue
SECTION 1 CONTINUED
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SPORTS COURTS
Brush Street
John R Street
10
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LIBRARY CAFE + PUBLIC READING SPACE
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CRECHE
WATERSCAPE
16
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Lafayette Park
ChryslerFreeway
I-75 Fisher Freewa
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Renaissance Centre
Detroit river
John C Lodge Freeway
ay
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Heterotopias and Convent Schools Design Dissertation (B.Arch)
UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI LOCATION: Mumbai Using my subjectivity as primary text, I analyzed space,hegemony and gaze in a disciplining system and revisited my Convent school. This involved a 3 month study comprising of interviews with students and faculty, spatial and temporal analyses. Through this study I decoded the ways in which the disciplining system was reflected and experienced spatially as well as looked for “spaces of resistance”- interstices and moments that escaped the policing gaze of the convent. Michel Foucault’s“Panopticon” provided a useful analytical instrument.The resulting intervention worked with both architectural form and a program that challenged, somewhat playfully, the panoptic gaze of the convent seeking a less hegemonic learning space.
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art room library
basketball courts
hockey courts
convent
cafeteria
locker rooms
stationary store
B
assembly
7
lawns
entrance
kindergarden classroom
PLAN amphitheatre
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classroom
B
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1 First Floor
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