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CHARU GARG Sushant School of Art and Architecture
ABOUT ME
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Name : Charu Garg DOB : 23-01-1999 Nationality : Indian Languages : Hindi, English +91-9871155003 charugarg2301@gmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/charu-garg23
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Gurgaon, Haryana - 122018
Architecture has been a journey of self-discovery; it has made me realise the power and importance of design in all fields of life. The profession's impact on the quality of life and the community is what draws me to it. My fascination with architecture goes beyond the basics to the finer details that help create an experience for the users and a connection with them. I am a curious, hardworking and ambitious student currently working on my thesis project, seeking an internship opportunity in a firm that challenges me and helps me hone my skills as an architect.
EDUCATION SOFTWARE SKILLS AutoCad Photoshop Illustrator Revit Sketch Up Lumion Vray MS Office InDesign Rhino Grasshopper
ARCHITECTURAL COMPETENCE Drafting Sketching Model Making
Graphic Design Presentation 3D Modelling Walkthroughs
INTERESTS Architectural Illustrations Sketching Painting Gardening
REFERENCES Ashwani Kher
Professor (Design Chair) aahkher@gmail.com +91 98101 95721
Abhimanyu Bhatia
Principal Architect, Cascades Architecture Studio abhimanyubhatia25@gmail.com +91 9811017353
Rahat Varma
Assistant Professor, SSAA rahatvarma@gmail.com +91 9811683214
Bachelor Of Architecture Sushant School of Art and Architecture,Gurgaon |Batch 2017-22 8th Semester : 8.6 CGPA 7th Semester : 7.9 CGPA 6th Semester : 7.8 CGPA
Senior Secondary School - CBSE Board (PCM: 86.5%) Delhi Public School, Sushant Lok, Gurgaon Secondary School - CBSE Board (10 CGPA)
COMPETITIONS AND CONFERENCES The House 2.0 | 2021 #mOOO3 ISO[NATION] Home Office | 2020 ArchDais - The House : Interiors | 2020 VolumeZero -The Little Big Loo: Rethinking Public Toilets | 2020 Zonal NASA Convention | 2018-2019 Fashion Trophy - Designer/Model | 1st Rank
Annual NASA Design Competition | 2018-2019 Trophy Head | Top 100
Annual NASA Design Competition | 2017-2018 Top 18 | Core Team Participant
Zonal NASA Convention | 2017-2018 Fashion Trophy - Designer/Model | Participated
COURSES / WORKSHOPS College Fest : IPAC
Writing Architecture with Peter Scriver | 2019 Wall Painting | 2018
OCIS (Off Campus Independent Study)
Vijaywada and Machlipatnam | 2019 Mapping and Documentation of Pedana, known for its Kalamkari, Mapping Machlipatnam Chennai & Pondicherry | 2018 Working Drawings and Mapping of Clives House, Documenting Auroville and the French Colonies
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Urban Design P 1-10| चलो-Pa
Semester 8
Group Housing Intertwine |P 15-22 Semester 7, year 4
P 29-30| Thesis
Currently working on
Mixed Use Hybrid P 11-14| Imaginalia
Semester 6, year 3
adhe
8, year 4
Working
P 23-28| Drawings
Competitions and P 37-50| Miscellaneous Community Centre Kalanjali |P 31-34 Semester 4, year 2
01चलो - Padhe
• PLAY • WALK • LEARN • THINK • LIVE • in collaboration with Rishima Bansal and Tarana Khandelwal Semester 8, 4th Year
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चलो-Padhe reimagines the informal education sector of Gurgaon in a sustainable manner while also creating a safe and intercative public space
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Project Type: Urban Design Location: Gurgaon Sector 53,52,56 Total Area of Intervention: 85,378 Sqm
चलो-Padhe is an Urban Design project imagined in Gurgaon. It incorporates tools and strategies to reimagine the informal education scenario in Gurgaon, in a sustainable manner while also creating a safe and interactive public space after identifying and analysing various urban and community issues. Two main strategies were adopted to achieve the vision. First, learning pavilions and digital pavilions, these are places of play and learning. The learning pavilion caters to children who study in informal setups. The digital pavilion acts as an extension
to the learning pavilion as it focuses not only on children but on anyone who wishes to learn. The idea is to eventually replicate this pavilion model in the entire city to cater to this underprivileged group of children. Second, street rejuvenation comprises street beautification through visual catalysts and provide safe, attractive and universally accessible walkable spaces and crossings for pedestrians. The intent was to create a more significant community impact through smaller interventions.
DECODING SITE AND VISION Wazirabad Urban Village Sector 52A
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Banjara Market
Tau Devi Lal Biodiversity Park
Osman Chowk
Rapid Metro
r Road
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Ambedka
Sector 52
Sector 53
AIT Chowk
Banjara Market Road
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Sector 56
Sector 57
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DESIGN VISION AIT chowk
AIT chowk
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being given to informal of pedestrian friendly 1 Preference 2 Lack schools by underpriviledged infrastructure and crossings families and children
AIT chowk
/ Inactive buffer 3 Underutilized space
Re-imagining the informal educational scenario of Gurgaon in a sustainable manner to give a symbolic and functional identity to it while also creating interactive and safe public street
01STRATEGY 1 | Pavilion Schools of Gurugram A place for learning and playing The pavilion caters to the children who study in the informal educational sector of Gurugram. The idea is to design a large volume wihout creating a visual barrier to enhance safety even the space is not being used. The jungle gym helps create the required character and makes for an interactive space for the children. The structure is adorned with attractive lighting to facilitate night urbanism.
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Informal school set up for underpriviledged children opposite Banjara Market
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AIT chowk
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The idea is to create a symbolism for the informal education sector and to design a school which the children are proud of.
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LEGEND
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Learning pavilion
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Digital pavilion Formal schools PPP 0
1
100m
Makeshift toilet for children studying in the school - placed on top of open drain
500m
RIGHT TO EDUCATION (RTE) + HARYANA EDUCATION DEPARTMENT NON FORMAL SCHOOL SCHEME
Learning pavilion- providing a symbol, identity and space for the informal educational scenario.
1.8% children are Out of School in Gurugram (2014) Child labour
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Safety of girls
Gender disparity
Seasonal migration
Re-imagining the informal educational scenario of Gurugram by giving a symbolic and functional identity to it.
NIGHT URBANISM
VISUAL PERMEABILITY SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS
Child marriage
Seats given to non BPL
Built mass Colour
PAVILION SCHOOLS OF GURUGRAM
INTERACTIVE SPACE
Distance from school
Document issues
Provide a safe playing space for underpriviledged children near their place of study.
Timing of admission
SYMBOLISM SHELTER
DUAL FUNCTIONALITY
PLAYSCAPE
IDENTITY
Tree for shading
Light
Playspace Visual permeability
PRIDE
Playscape for children made out of sustainable materials like recycled tyres
Blackboard
Structure made out of 450mm cubes to be used as jungle gym for the children
Two semi-open shaded space for studying with a partition in the middle
Water ATM close to the folly for children
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+15 ±00
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Toilet exclusively for children Uses biodigestor mechanism to reduce waste generation and water consumption
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Section AA’
Area of Learning Pavilion: 73.0 sqm Area of sand pit: 66.1 sqm Area of Vinyl flooring: 24.4 sqm Area of Blackboard: 24.4 sqm
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Semi open learning space inside the pavilion
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01STRATEGY 1 | Digital Pavilions A place for learning and playing The pavilion creates an interactive space for any passerby to come experience. The digital panels along with the live cams of endangered animals will draw interest and educate the viewers. The structure is adorned with attractive lighting to facilitate night urbanism. Live cams are often therapeutic and can provide a much needed escape.
Screens for live cam
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B’ Seating
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The pavilion is in tandem with the educational follies for the kids, with a broader purview.
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Area of Digital Pavilion: 70.7 sqm SECTION BB’
DIGITAL PAVILION
INTERACTIVE SPACE AWARENESS IDENTITY SYMBOLISM LIVE CAMS NIGHT URBANISM VISUAL PERMEABILITY ENDAGERED ANIMALS
SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS
Interior space in Digital Pavilion
An interactive space to spread awareness about endangered animals to the next generation and remotely connecting them to people worldwide in today’s digital age
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Provide better and more attractive walkable spaces and make safe crossings for pedestrians
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Street beautification and rejuvenation by creating visual catalysts.
Road Sections
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D’
Residential Societies
Service Lane (6m)
Cycling Track (2m)
Plaza (9m)
Main Road (7m)
Divider (1m)
Main Road (7m)
FootpathCycling (1.5m) Track (2m)
Buffer Space (4m)
Banjara Market Service Lane (13m)
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Brigadier Osman Chowk | Junction Rejuvenation
Divider (1m)
Main Road (7m)
Parking (3m)
Plaza (9m)
Cycling Track (2m)
Service Lane (6m)
Residential Societies
Section DD’
Section CC’
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Universal Access
Provision of Median refuges
Continuous Pedestrian crossings
Medians Pedestrian 4 Accessible Traffic 1andExtended 2 Universal Access Continuous 3 Crossing Reduced junction Islands size
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Provision of Median refuges
Redesigned universally accessible crossings
Median refuge has been designed at the Osman Chowk
Street Rejuvenation : Tau Devi Lal Stretch
Gender Neutral Toilets Tau Devi Lal Park
Cycling Track (2m) Vendor (3m) Ambedkar Road (10m) Divider (2m) Ambedkar Road (10m) Parking (3m)
Plaza (16m) E
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Cycling Track (2m) Divider (1m)
Service Lane (5m) Residential Societies
Cycle Stand
Performance Area
Visual Catalyst
Seating
Water ATM
Learning Pavilion and Playscape
Transmission Tower
Visual Catalyst
Section EE’
To be inclusive of the transgender people often found at the traffic signal, gender-neutral toilets have been provided along the stretch. 3 cubicles, without urinals, have been provided. The washing area has been left open to make it safer for all genders, especially females and transgender people. Sustainable materials like Bamboo and Strawcture (made of agricultural waste product) have been used for the walls and roof of the cubicles.
BEFORE
IMPACT ASSESSMENT
64%
100%
trees
The existing trees on site are 357; the intervention provided 230 additional trees
7x
street furniture The street furniture has a proposed capacity of 923 people, currently there is no street furniture
AFTER
11x
children can be educated
accessibility to drinking water
Currently, 30 children can study in the non-formal school; after intervention 210 can be educated.
11 water ATMs have been proposed in the intervention, there are no water ATMs on site currently.
BEFORE 4x
access to public toilets
100%
more universal accessibility
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4 sets of public toilets with 3 cubicles each have been proposed; currently there are no public toilets on site
5x
active area
Increase in
street engagement / city exploration
The existing active area is 4326 sqm; after the intervention the active area increased to 24,990 sqm
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LEARNING PAVILION
WALKABILITY AND EXPERIENCE
BEFORE
AFTER
AFTER BEFORE
DIGITAL PAVILION
JUNCTION
02IMAGINALIA
in collaboration with Saarthak Gulhani Semester 6, 3rd Year
Project Type: Mixed Use Hybrid Location: Sector 42-43 Metro Station, Golf course road, Gurgaon Site Area: 3.7 Acres Built Up Area: 45000 Sqm
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Sector 42-43 Rapid Metro Station Sector 43
Sector 42
Golf Course Road
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Located in the centre of the Golf Course Road, above the Sector 42-43 Rapid metro station, Imaginalia plays a major role in forming the city’s identity with its pixelated form. Owing to its hybrid typology, this project inculcates retail, offices, hotel and service apartments. The building is designed in such a way, that the various functions are connected to each other and the Metro station, making the entire site a highly interactive T.O.D Zone and encouraging pedestrian movement in and across the site. The 2 ‘sides’ of the site are connected via a public plaza, which sits on top of the metro station. Plaza is a semi-open space that has various functions sitting on top of it, along with providing an open-to-sky connection. That defines the main concept of the project, connecting multiple functions via another function, rather than a mere physical connect. The project also has various site elements, which act as place-making elements across various levels. These placemaking elements include an exhibition space, sunken Amphitheatre, shaded seating space in landscaped areas, ecozones, and the plaza.
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Imaginalia is a Hybrid project that helps form an image of the city with its pixelated form, voids and connections.
SITE PLAN/ FLOOR PLANS
FIRST FLOOR
THIRD FLOOR
SIXTH FLOOR
SEVENTH FLOOR
EIGHTH FLOOR
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ECOZONES
FORM DEVELOPMENT/CONCEPT Pixels of the size of a hotel room have been used to derive the form of the building. The pixels create a lot of pockets and ins and outs for terraces and balconies where green walls are incorporated. Even the very top of the tower is accessible to the
public, so there is not only a public square on the ground, but human activity rises along with the pixelated void to the top floors of the building. Numerous cutaway balconies are designed to encourage a connection between the interiors and the city
03INTERTWINE
in collaboration with Sidharth Jain Semester 7, 4th Year
Project Type: Group Housing + Retail Location: Khatodra Wadi, Surat, Gujarat Site Area: 28795 Sqm Built Up Area: 57266 Sqm Ground Coverage: 6280 Sqm (21%) Density: 220/Acre
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COUPLES
SURAT
FAMILIES
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WORKING PROFESSIONALS STUDENTS
Located on the main Ring Road in Central Surat, Intertwine was designed to cater to the context wherein there is a shortage of housing with smaller spatial configurations, habitat was designed for people ranging from 1-4. The target user group was working professionals, families of 2-4 and students. The idea behind the project was to create a larger urban connect with the city of Surat while using public spaces as a catalyst. To achieve this we introduced retail (formal and informal owing to the Surati culture) and public plazas on our site along the two outer edges to reactivate the street edges. Due to lack of open green spaces in the nearby context, interconnected green public spaces on the site were introduced. The main idea here was the creation of an interconnected recreational plane above the ground level by introducing vertical recreational spheres connected via sky bridges. These spheres have different functions based on different user groups on the site like the ladies chit chat sphere, kids play sphere, meditation sphere and cultural sphere. This helps create interaction vertically not only with next-door neighbours but also with people in different blocks.
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The main idea here was the creation of an interconnected recreational plane above the ground level by introducing vertical recreational spheres connected via sky bridges.
A unit is repeated along the curve, this introduces a public plaza towards the street
RING ROAD CIVIL SQUARE FLYOVER
Commercial Informal Commercial
Public Plaza
NEW CIVIL HOSPITAL
RING ROAD ENTRY/EXIT 1
REACTIVATING STREET EDGES
RESIDENTIAL FLOOR PLATES Residential floor plates rotated by 45 degrees to avoid them looking into adjacent residential blocks Pedestrian circulation towards communal spaces and residential blocks
Drop Offs Retail (low) near Flyover
BUILDING HEIGHTS
SMALLER GREEN PUBLIC SPACES Interconnected green public spaces leading to larger communal spaces
MEDICAL INSTITUTE
ENTRY
Vehicular circulation only for residents
Residential Units Cores
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RESIDENTIAL CORES AND UNITS Ladies Chit Chat Sphere Cultural Sphere
Kid’s Play Sphere Meditation/Yoga Sphere
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FORM DEVELOPMENT AND ZONING DIAGRAM The zoning was done keeping in mind the site adjacencies. The two edges towards the Ring road were used to activate these sides, making this the most public part of the site. The commercial vehicular movement is restricted to these two edges as well. The residential vehicular circulation takes place along the inner two edges. The towers have been rotated at an angle of 45 deg. to avoid them looking into each other.
At the ground level, a series of smaller interconnected green communal spaces are connected to larger communal spaces amidst the residential blocks. Amenities have been located in different blocks on the ground floor which can be accessed through the interconnected green spaces. These functions along with the recreational spheres and lateral connections give each block a unique identity
COMMERCIAL
Formal And Informal Street Commercial
Interconnected Green Public Spaces
Reactivating Street Edges Urban Connect (Public Commercial)
LI ROAD
BAMRO
Y/EXIT 2
RESIDENTIAL Valley (MVRDV)
Circulation towards commercial
Vertical Communal Connect
Markthal (MVRDV)
LARGER GREEN PUBLIC SPACES Interconnected green public spaces leading to larger communal spaces
Vertical Recreational Spheres
Meditation/Yoga Kids Play Sphere Sphere
Spatial Configuration Based On Occupancy
Ladies Chit Chat Sphere
SURAT 1 Person 4 People
A WADI
2 People
CONCEPT IDEAS
Private
Bigger Concepts Concepts Responding to Context of Surat Case Studies Semi Private Public
Cultural (Amphitheater) Sphere
GROUND + SITE PLAN
RECREATIONAL SPHERES CONNECTIVITIES
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1. Amphitheatre 2. Congregational Area 3. Kids Play Area 4. Basketball Court 5. Water bodies 6. Badminton Court 7. Retail Plaza 8. Drop Offs
9. Gym 10. Congregational Halls 11. Indoor Gaming Room 12. Daycare 13. Library 14. Two wheeler Parking 15. Surface Parking
Ladies Chit Chat Sphere Cultural Sphere
SECTION AA’
Kid’s Play Sphere Meditation/Yoga Sphere
CLUSTER FLOOR PLANS
CLUSTER PLAN 1
CLUSTER PLAN 2
UNIT FLOOR PLANS
2 BHK (90 Sqm.)
1 BHK (52 Sqm.)
STUDIO (28 Sqm.)
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A’
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
STAIRCASE PLANS
TERRACE STAIRCASE
FIRST FLOOR STAIRCASE
GROUND FLOOR STAIRCASE
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RISER AND TREAD DETAIL
BEAM DETAIL
TOILET SECTION
TOILET PLAN
12MM DROP DETAIL
SINK FIXTURE DETAIL
SUNKEN SLAB DETAIL
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BASEMENT DRAINAGE DETAIL
KHURRAH DETAIL
MUMTY DETAIL
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TRUSS SECTIONAL ELEVATION
FIXING OF SECONDARY BEAM TO PRIMARY BEAM
FIXING OF TERTIARY BEAM TO PRIMARY BEAM
GUTTER DETAIL
MEZZANINE FLOORING DETAIL
RIDGE DETAIL FIXING OF TERTIARY BEAM TO SECONDARY BEAM
05 THESIS
IDENTIFIED CHALLENGES
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THIRD MOST COMMON DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER IN THE WORLD
Semester 9, 5th Year
REIMAGINING DISABILITY AND COMMUNITY INCLUSION THROUGH SCHOOLS Guide: Tanaya Verma
AUTISM
is a neurological condition that affects the way a person experiences and interacts with the world
1 in 68
Sustainable Development of commun Goal 11 Lack and community
KIDS HAVE
BOYS ARE
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This thesis intends to emphasise the power of schools to instil empathy and remove bias, stereotypes, or misperceptions towards one another. The architecture of schools here plays an essential role in creating learning spaces that include all diverse minds regardless of their abilities and disabilities and help them thrive and experience their dignity as human beings and as members of society. Architecture should enable teachers and the curriculum to accommodate and help each child excel. Schools have not only the potential to bring children together but also communities and can help them connect across generations. It presents the society with a school-community linking opportunity that helps in social cohesion and sustainability within changing community dynamics. After school intergenerational and community engagement will help take the idea of inclusion a step further. Neighbourhood schools could change how we perceive ability and inclusion.
Development
ASD IN THE WORLD
VISION
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45%
Impairment in Communication
AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER Impairment in Sensory
Repetitive Behaviour
This thesis intends to propose and design a school that accommodates and includes diverse learners regardless of their abilities and disabilities and provides them with an all-rounded learning. The proposed school will also aim at social cohesion and sustainability within communities across generations by acting as a community hub in the neighbourhood after hours.
18 MILLION PEOPLE IN INDIA HAVE
Impairment in Social Interaction
AIM
CHALLENGES IN NEURO AND OTHER DISABILIT
02
4X
MORE LIKELY TO HAVE
ASD
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CHALLENG AND INTER
The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016
CHALLENGES IN EDUCATION FOR ALL
It demanded that all government-run schools and recognised institutions provide inclusive education
SOCIAL SENSITIVITY SOCIAL SKILLS COLLABORATION Children with disabilities are among the world’s most marginalised and excluded children (WHO, 2011)
38%
55%
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CHALLENGES I INCLUSION IN
ODIVERSITY TIES
SELECTED SITE
New Delhi
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IGI Airport
OUT DATED, INADEQUATE AND EXCLUSIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
Sustainable Development Goal 4 Gurgaon Site: Sector 47 Sohna Road NH 48
Golf Course Extension Road
nity spaces to encorage intergenerational y engagement in neighbourhoods
GES WITHIN COMMUNITIES RGENERATIONAL GAP
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PROBLEM ANALYSIS
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Keeping in sight the changing contexts, community engagement within neighbourhoods is required to achieve sustainability
IN SCHOOLS
Towards Faridabad
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REDUNDANT TEACHING METHODS AND CURRICULUM
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? ..... LACK OF QUALITY COMMUNITY SPACES IN NEIGHBOURHOODS
You only are disabled in an environment that makes you that way. - Gordan Hartman
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EXISTING SPACES: UNADAPTABLE AFTER HOURS WEEKENDS SUMMER/ WINTER BREAKS
06 KALANJALI Semester 4, 2nd Year
Project Type: Community Craft Centre Location: Townhall, Machlipatnam Site Area: 12380 Sqm
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Located in the city centre of Machlipatnam, Kalanjali is placed in a dense setting with a very well connected street system. People here live simple lives where most of the community living is observed in religious settings or commercial settings, at work or on the streets. The town, however, lacks to provide the people with a place where the people can come together and interact at a city level. The main aim of the project is to give community living a new dimension and encourage public interaction. This community centre will give people access to various new amenities which are not available to them as of now. Kalanjali means the offering of art which is exactly what this project aims at, offering people the lost art of Pedana, Kalamkari. The idea is also to give these artisans the platform and well-designed spaces to work in the city and gain recognition by selling and exhibiting their work in the community craft centre.
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Kalanjali means the offering of art which is exactly what this project aims at, offering people the lost art of Pedana, K a l a m k a r i .
Conf. Rooms Library 500 Sqm
Gallery Spac e
Civic Servic es Civic Servic es
Retail Shop 15000x1800 0
Cafe Sports Cen
tre
Store
Screen Printing 11000x1100 0
Weaving Workstatio n 16000x1600 0
Prep Kalamkari Workstatio n Store 16000x1000
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Multipurpo se Hal 26000x1800 l 1 0
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An abstraction of elements and character from Machlipatnam and Pedana was done via a model making exercise. The design has been inspired by the streets of Machilipatnam, where most of the community living and public interaction takes place. Throughout the complex, these street relationships have been maintained as people relate to them. Setbacks and edge conditons with porches help maintain activity at all times. Ample seating and landscaping create pause points encouraging people to stay a little longer and interact. Elements abstracted from the context : 1. Street Relationships 2. Privacy Levels 3. Linear Arrangement of Spaces 4. Covered/Uncovered Edge Conditions 5. Plinths
Privacy Levels
Street Relationships
Privacy Levels
Edge Conditions
Street Relationships
Edge Conditions
Edge Conditions
Edge Conditions
Edge Conditions
Edge Conditions
Street Relationships
Edge Conditions
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BUILT ENVIRONMENT OF THE STREETS OF GURGAON: CHANGE IN PERCEPTION OF SAFETY OF WOMEN DURING COVID-19 Guide: Ar. Rahat Varma
RESEARCH QUESTION:
What parameters under the built environment affect the perception of the safety of women using the streets? How has this perception of safety changed since the onset of COVID 19, if at all?
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Excellent Very Good Poor Good Bad (Safetipin, 2016)
An important aspect of city life is people’s experience. Perceived safety is one important aspect of that experience. In a large perspective, perceived safety concerns discussions on just public space. In a small perspective, it has direct implications for people’s mobility and ultimately their quality of life. Current literature emphasises the importance of the street as an urban public space. Given that perceived safety matters to urban life in large, and people’s everyday experience in particular, and that the street has great potential as a public space, it is important to understand perceived safety on the street. This study is based on women’s perception of safety in particular. Women in India do not feel safe while using the streets for various reasons, most importantly the built environment along the street. Various parameters that affect this perception of safety and how their manipulation can make women feel safer have been studied and qualitatively analysed. In the end, a set of recommendations have been put forward to make the same possible. This study also analyses how the perception of safety has changed since the onset of COVID 19 among women using the streets of Gurgaon.
PARAMETERS 1.Walk Path 2.Lighting 3.Visibility 4.Openness 5.Security 6.Crowd 7.Gender Usage 8.Public Transport
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ACTIVITY MAPPING Cross Point Mall
Galleria Market
DLF City Club
Active Commercial Frontage
Residential Frontage all along the street on both the sides Passive Frontage Supermart
Active Commercial Frontage
Vyapar Kendra
Commercial activity zones Educational
Healthcare
Industrial
Commercial
Residential
Green space
STREET SECTION Insufficent street lighting Walkpath obstruction High boundary walls next to the residential area Vehicular obstructtion Disontinuous Walkpath
Insufficient width and height of walkpath
Activity Nodes
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1. THE HOUSE 2.0
A Temple of the Body and Mind, June 2021 In collaboration with Rishima Bansal and Tarana Khandelwal
Competition Brief: The competition looks at interpretations of the ideal house design-one that is a constant space of solace and shelter for the body and the mind. The competition was looking for a house that not only houses the tangible practices of everyday but that also looks at the intangible idea of 'living' itself, a take on functionality and comfort. The expectation was a stand-alone form of a single housing unit in the context of any site site of not more than 7500 sq. ft. of area.
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2. THE LITTLE BIG LOO Rethinking Public Toilets, July 2020 In collaboration with Rishima Bansal and Tarana Khandelwal
Competition Brief: Rethinking Public Toilets invites ideas that can be used to disrupt the perception of public toilets with the most innovative and efficient solution for this serious issue plaguing our future. This necessary public utility is to be designed in a way that changes the overall outlook towards public washrooms.
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The designed area can be recreational, educational, social; a space that creates value for the community surrounding it. The space should be visualized as a prime component in the making of a community that develops holistically; a community that is competent in social, economic and educational terms.
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3. THE HOUSE: INTERIORS
Crafting 'Home' through 'Spaces', July 2020 In collaboration with Rishima Bansal
Competition Brief: This competition seeks to understand your idea of a house design, in the context of the location you select. It encourages participants to rethink the basic functionality of the house, and explore their own notions of what a 'home' is. Minimum spaces to be covered in the design: •Living Space •Master Bed •Bedrooms •Study •Kitchen •W.C & Bath
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4. #mOOO3 ISO[NATION]: HOME OFFICE, May 2020 In collaboration with Rishima Bansal and Tarana Khandelwal
Competition Brief: Transform your living spaces into a better home office during this period of Covid-19. • Design a work and living space for a household of one to four dwellers. • Consider the work-life habit changes after the worldwide isolation / quarantine.
CORDIS (cord-is) noun. The heart (in Latin) The COVID-19 lockdown has compelled the world to work from home. The home office today, has become the most used space of the house, thus the need for a living room is eliminated. The office lies at the heart of the dwelling with every other space connected to it. The Cordis opens into the shared workspace. Though the space is a single unit, it is designed as separate spaces for two professionals where they can work in seclusion yet be together at the same time. The arrangement of the workspaces allows the users to conduct phone and video calls without disturbing each other. The home office is an all-inclusive space which houses a lounge, a pantry, an elevated bed, and a medical cabinet along with the two workspaces. The lounge area functions as both a space to entertain clients, as well as a space for the two occupants/users to unwind.
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During this lockdown, being within the four walls of our homes, detached from outdoor spaces has led to a decline in morale. A small connection to the outside through a green space in any form would make a significant improvement in the physical and mental health without infringing the public space.
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08 COMPETITIONS
5. ANNUAL NASA DESIGN COMPETITION, 2019 Trophy head with Saarthak Gulhani, Hridey Jaggi
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Sankhani is a rural village located in Jhangirabad block, in the Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh. It is located 11 kms from Jhangirabad, 32 kms from Bulandshahr and approximately 130 kms from country’s capital, New Delhi. Originally inhabited by the Baniya community of Hindu Religion, The Village now is Muslim dominated, with only 5% Hindus living in the village. The occupation of people varies from agriculture, practised by most of the men, to kadhai (embroidery) work, done by most women, as a source of income. Among the various social production processes observed in the village, Kadhai is the most creative yet the most undervalued skill because of the lack of exposure and involvement of middlemen. The intent of this design proposal is to provide a multi-faceted platform for the community of Sankhani and the neighboring villages where they can showcase their skills that they have been developing through generations. To access the sheets please scan this QR Code
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FINAL DESIGN
Gully Section
Gully Section
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But the sight of the stars always makes me dream
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ACRYLIC PAINTING
The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh Painted by Charu Garg
WALL MURAL AND FURNITURE DESIGN
DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF AN ARCH
CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT
MATERIAL EXPLORATION
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ACRYLIC AND OIL PAINTINGS
COMPUTATION DESIGN WAFFLE SLAB FABRICATION
TWISTED BOX MODULE
CHARU GARG
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