Undergraduate Portfolio Devendra Patel 2014-2019
“THINKING BY DOING” DR. RUPINDER SINGH
Graduate from the city of Ahmedabad poses the great aspiration of learning and exploring through doing experiments as the part of journey.
dp Devendra Patel
Gandhinagar, India +91 9725342365 patel1994dev@gmail.com
Education
Work
2014 I 2019 I B.ARCH 2017 SAL School of Architecture. Internship Boderline Studio, Ahmedabad. 2011 I 2012 I HSC
Achievements 2016 Think Tank exhibit at Incipent at SAL School of Architecture
School of Achievers.
2009 I 2010 I SSC Gandhinagar School.
2019 | Present Boderline Studio Ahmedabad.
2017 Design build at Taliesin Summer Immersion Program.
Skills/ Software
Teach
Competitions
2017 Pavilion workshop at SAL School Of Architecture as an instructor.
2017 Evolo competition Levitar | The Ant hill tower.
Rhinoceros AutoCad V-ray Sketchup Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Physical modeling socail media handling Language English Hindi Gujarati
2017 2019 YAC Design Build at Sharda University, Collodioscope | The Pinocchino as asistant desginer. tales 2019 Rhinoceros and model making workshop at Sharda University.
References Architect Rupinder Singh Dean at Sharda University, India.
Content_
1_Nostalgia of Machine THE MACHINE AGE
2_Amaravati THE LOUIS KAHN STUDIO
3_Levitar THE ANT HILL TOWER
4_Lost Art THE STREET BRIDGE
5_Think Tank INDIA IDEA INTERNATIONAL
6_Red and Blue Chair Wood Workshop
7_Kuhn-Sen-Trik MASS TIMBER
8_Bending Strip GLUE-LAM
Nostalgia of Machine I The machine age Location - Mumbai, India Project - Adaptive Re-use Year - 2019 Academic work - Semester 10th Guide - AR. Shital Shah Devendra Patel
The machine age change the vision of the architecture, with the second industrial revolution the major aspects of architecture turn into modern movement. This brought the grand prospects , eventually it effects the economics, morality and sociological aspects. Although the machine age gave the power to the people and obviously it was most influential, which drove the people to this age. Eventually the growth of architecture relates to the all major perception of machine culture, the material growth, aesthetics, architecture philosophy, movements, etc. Le Corbusier describes the “New Aesthetics” in his book “Aircraft”, where he compares the modern age and the aircrafts, therefore he also mentioned the play of human proportion in the flights, with this he portrayed the beauty of airplanes. Apparently the book by Reyner Banham, “Theory and Design in the First Machine Age”, there is vast description of the machine age with the relation of science and technology.
Can We Re-Define those organisation which are derivative of machine and system in Architecture? and which is form of experience or the function oriented architecture? So the machine age and the current interface would be more challenging.
Reminisce of compound Parel, Mumbai It is located in the central part of Mumbai, with religious history and strong industrial background. connects to the all three major rails routes and proposed mono rail.
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3 1, Finlay Mill 2. India United Mills No.1
3. Lal Baugh 4. Currey Road
5. Lower Parel 6. Parel
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Vertical Development
Now the Growing and soaring buildings.
Dilapidated Industries in the middle of city
These mills have the massive land cost, according to the government by laws, the FSI ( Floor Space Index ) is very high, so the vertical growth is essential because of the high population density.
The Spatial understanding The axis of lines creates the path of experience and it is generated from the site visit, some of the space are allowed to visit and some are not. Hence this lines creates the path of circulation.
Nodes
Connection
Transition
Circulation Pause Points
Circulation around
Point of Interaction
The connections The Derivation of spaces The blue lines depicts the cross circulation through bridges and ramps, the geometrical form can be the form of addition or subtraction. The arc represents the slicing of the building unit that give the exposure the for looking into and through.
Conceptual evolution
Super Imposed Layers
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Ramp/Bridge View points Cut outs Observatory Plaza
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Section
Amaravati I The Louis Kahn Studio Location - Amaravati, India Project - Government Complex Year - 2018 Academic work- Semester 8th Guide - AR. Rupinder Singh Devendra Patel Two spaces, one for assembly and another for public assembly.
The alternate sketch for similar spaces with alternate option of connection.
For the people of Andhra Pradesh, forming of new government complex which gives the identity to the state. As the State has many issues for getting apart and establishing new democracy, state has gone through fights, riots, and many dark sides. So to reflect the idea of freedom and unity. The design notion was to give a “Assembly Hall� which have openness and sight of democracy. So it belongs to the people of Andhra Pradesh and its future.
As the plan of assembly shows the empowerment of people towards the state development, so with concept sketch the idea is reformed and have the reflection of the democracy and getting the space which have the strength of holding the important part of the Andhra Pradesh.
The Crown of the assembly hall
The central structure consist of ribs which is followed in the inner periphery of the cylinder. The section looks like Hurva Synagogue.
Inner arch Outer arch holding the two steel columns
Steel framed structure
Terrace 28m
Visitors gallery 23 M
Staff lockers
Dining hall Library Cafeteria Assembly hall -3 M
Section
Assembly Hall Model
Levitar I The Ant Hill Tower Location - Ahmedabad, India Project - Evolo Competition Year- 2017 Professional work Guide - AR. Sneha Singh Devendra & Vaidehi
The idea of Ant Hill
The Abstraction
The Solid and Void
The Levitar is based on the concept of an ant hill, where the inner volumes are cooler than the rest. The design consists of spaces that are in the middle of the wind tunnels that stay colder than the rest. The 130 meters high structure allows natural light and ventilation in a very different manner. The building is designed to utilise wind tunnels that helps in the ventilation and purification of the air. It also almost reduce the cost of air conditioning and other HVAC elements, serving as a model of sustainability.
Black spots represents
Curve shows the idea of
Flow of wind, steam and
spaces.
floating spaces
light through gaps.
Levitar aims to address the new possibilities in skyscraper designs by stimulating the use of natural ventilation inside tall structures. The sustainable facade blends in with the structure and
Plan
Lost Art I The Street bridge
Location - Ahmedabad, India
Guide - AR. Wasim Saikeh
Project - Urban design Year- 2018
Academic work- Semester 9th
Intervention diagrams Alliance + Strategies
Supporting activities + Work system
Transformation New Art
Cultural growth Proposed Road Network
City level park
Connection to river edge
Neighbourhood level park
Proposed green spaces
Bridge Market
Proposed road network
Vehicular connection
Street Market
As in the context of Ahmedabad the challenge was to take the articulation of public nature and future urban procession in mind to create a vision which have the modern approach to the bride called the Street Bridge
Collaborative Space
Market
Bridge
Art and Transformation Cycling Highline park
Green Space Food
Walking
Connection
Vendors
Context
Art and Urban
Green Patches Shops
Section A
Section B
Concrete V- shaped Column
Steel plate connecting with foundation
The structure is the reflection of Pier Luigi Nervi massive concrete structure work. The site context also responds to bridge structure
Think Thank I India Idea International Location - Dresden, Germany Project - Bureau for Morality and Ethics Year- 2016 Academic work- Semester 5th Guide - Zeb Saiyed Devendra Patel
The idea of Think tank is based on the current affairs of the nation, so the constitution of USA and India helped to understand the rights of every individual. Here the question arises, does everyone gets what is actually writing in the constitution. So with the same debate studio reflects the understanding of issues which we facing in the current age with the old constitution. Therefore dealing with the own understanding putting up an India idea international for the better world at the international platform like Dresden, which has humungous cause at world war II.
Bombarding across the city An important aspect of the Allied air war against Germany involved what is known as “area” or “saturation” bombing.
Variation in city walls
Main Street
Site Axis
Primary streets
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Zwinger Palace Semper Opera Catholic Church Royal Palace Church of Our Lady Albertinum Gallery Albertinum
Monuments
Fraunkriche
City Walls
School divisions
Core
Core
School
Library
Cafe
Conference room
Auditorium
Exhibition space
Projecting supporting member
Site Plan
Section
Axonometric
Red and Blue I Wood Workshop Location - Ahmedabad, India Project - Chair remake. Year- 2016 Academic work - Semester 4th Guide - Ankit Mistry Devendra Patel The chair is known as the Red and Blue chair. It is designed in the De Stijl style. The architect manipulated rectilinear volumes and examined the interaction of vertical and hori- zontal planes.
Designer- Gerrit Rietveld Catalogue- Maestri Year of design-1918
Front elevation
Side elevation
Kuhn-Sen-Trik I Mass Timber Location - Taliesin, USA Project -Design Build Year- 2017 Professional work Instructor - Jason Griffiths Participants - Devendra, Mayur, Will, Moin, Rishab and Donna.
While dowel laminated timber is now produced at industrial scale (prefabricated wall and floor slabs) we were constrained a much smaller scale, localised scenario. By taking DLT as a starting point we were able to adapt its principles to constraints of locally supplied lumber, available technology and the efforts of six architecture students, one instructor and occasional contributions from local craftsmen. Our limitations on production and lifting equipment led a unitised system for stacked slotted timber wall elements that could be assembled by hand.
Skylight White Pine (1” thick with variable widths) 5/8” Birch dowels at random angles to reduce delimitation. Notch spacer.
Staggered roof
DLT
Cantilevered Beam Sliding Door
The considerable strength of this system then allowed us to speculate on how far we could cantilever the roof. Naturally this is where some of the closet parallels with Wright have come across associations in the form of an “all-encompassing” roof that both physically and symbolically protects.
Section 1
1. Cedar Shingles 2. 4x2 cantilever roof truss 3. Ring beam 4. Skylight 5. Truncated pyramidal timber roof core. Cobbled 4x2 studs offset and screw laminated 6. Cantilevered eaves support 7. Dowel laminated walls from White Pine (1” thick with variable widths) 8. Concentric floor from 6x2 dimensional lumber 9. Ground beam 10.Pocket windows 11.Pocket door 12.Foundation https://franklloydwright.org/architecture-school-immersion-students-build-timber-installation-taliesin/? fbclid=IwAR2h-Yyz0ujAV5SA7MgrCIlyOAVwWOJ6SbJpWl2GRqgNO7MV6DkFssr6Ras
Bending Strips I Glue-Laminated Location - Delhi, India Project -Design Build Year- 2019 Professional work Instructor - Rupinder Singh ,Jason Griffiths, Mayur Vala, Maulik Solanki and Devendra Patel
Participants - Students of Shrada University.
The bending strips exercise was the quick approach to get through the project in very short and intensive time period. The waste of long wooden logs was used for creating an arches, the set of 10-15 strips, gluing them together and bending it gave the dynamic arch. The design deals with shaded seating spaces for he surrounding food courts. Thus the series of arches has very formal approach to the design but exploring the material and time constraints gave the great learning.
The Strips were bended manually by adding one one layer of strips and glued them and clamp them for 3 hours. The strips were glued in staggered manner to gain strength and stability.The semicircular arch and the legs are attached with the staggered pattern to get perfectly locked.
The making of an arch L angled metal plate/ Bolted Concrete pad Drained water
Gravel pad Brick masonry
Wooden strips
5 MM Thick 2.5 CM Wide 10-12 FT Height One Arch-10-15 wooden strips
Pavilions with giant legs