DIVYA S. MALPANI DESIGN PORTFOLIO
OBJECTIVE
Seeking a full time opportunity in an architecture firm to enhance my designing skills and understand sustainable design strategies in a conducive learning environment.
AWARDS Henry Adams Medal : Overall Excellence for M.Arch Graduates American Institute of Architects, 2020 Brothers Finfer Scholarhip : Winner Open House 2019 - Illinois Institute of technology
PUBLICATIONS DESIGN I.Y. HOUSING PROJECT Matter: https://thinkmatter.in/2016/10/12/diyhousing-spsarchitects/ COLLAGE HOUSE Netflix: The Worls'd Most Extraordinary Homes: Season 2 - Part B Arch Daily: http://www.archdaily.com/786059/collage-house-s-plus-ps-architects
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
EDUCATION
MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE Aug 2018 - May 2020 Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago BACHELORS OF ARCHITECTURE Aug 2004 - May 2009 Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture University of Mumbai, India
EXPERIENCE INTERN ASSOCIATE May 2019 - August 2019
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KTGY PLANNING + ARCHITECTURE CHICAGO, USA
Design developer for student housing in Montana. Conceptual design developer for single & multiple family housing in Chesterfield. ARCHITECT Jan 2015 - May 2018
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FREE LANCED MUMBAI, INDIA
Designed two condominium apartments of 2500 sq ft each with careful consideration of clients requirements and ensuring the successful execution of sustainable strategies PROJECT ARCHITECT Jan 2009 - Dec 2013
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S+PS ARCHITECTS MUMBAI, INDIA
Core designer for projects such as a 79 garden apartments housing complex, single family beach house and a courtyard house. Responsible for comprehensive planning, creating innovative and conceptual design ideas as well as visualization and development of 2D & 3D graphics illustrations.
HOBBIES
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P R O J E C T S miamiOpolis
THE LIVING BRIDGE, MIAMI ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CHICAGO
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MANUFACTURING CYCLING COMMUNITY WINNER: BROTHERS FINFER SCHOLARSHIP AWARD MAY 2-19 ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CHICAGO
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By 2050, it is estimated that Miami will lose a significant portion of its current landmass due to climate change driving rising sea levels. This will result in the displacement of people inhabiting the coastline today. To respond to this crisis, we propose the creation of a new community in the sky - a living bridge to house 100,000 inhabitants along a 4-mile-long bridge.
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The bridge deck stitches the Florida mainland with the barrier islands, merging the suburbs to downtown Miami. Indigenous vegetation combines with recreational activities to produce a rich and varied mosaic on which this new community - Miamiopolis - interacts and thrives.
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STUDY MODELS Structure & Stability: Employing the concept of "lightness" as a strategy, this ambitious structure will be biodegradable, renewable and build upon the inherent properties of wood to discover how "the invention of form coincides with the invention of the building process". Today, as a society, we seek visual, physical and aesthetic qualities of lightness in our daily objects. In a world of ever-expanding population and diminishing resources, this proposal for an infrastructural form to accommodate multiple functions and desires attempts to embody lightness in the crafting of space.
Process: Several study models were developed using Hemp Twine (which has similar structure to bamboo) to understand the structural stability of the proposed bridge design. All-purpose flour, Elmer's glue and water were used to strength the structure.
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Connect: The transport system is one of the threads that weaves the cultural and recreational activities to the social fabric of Miamiopolis. The commute within the bridge is swift and experiential, allowing more time to enjoy what living on a bridge offers. The Opolis is built around an efficient system of transportation that eliminates conventional vehicles and unnecessary traffic. The tripartite system is optimized to reduce wait time, transit time while reducing energy consumption. The innovative junctions are the resultants of optimized geometry and a lower carbon footprint.
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Live In 100 years, we envision the living spaces of Miamiopolis to be flexible and ever changing. Using a simple module, the inhabitants can create spaces that can be expanded and contracted easily. As one's lifestyle changes, so too can one's environment. Capturing the rich and colorful memories of the city while providing a new way of living in and on a selfsustaining infrastructure, Miamiopolis is realized.
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MANUFACTURING CYCLING COMMUNITY ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CHICAGO WINNER:BROTHER'S FINFER SCHOLARSHIP
DESIGN INTENT Program: This project develops an innerurban industrial site along the north branch of the Chicago River as a bicycle manufacturing center. The proposed manufacturing unit that will provide an open access to the general public at large to understand the process of bike production, immerse themselves in formal and informal exhibition spaces and enjoy a relaxing atmosphere by visiting the clean and well maintained landscaped industrial park.
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This public - private intervention will not only help re-vitalize the neighborhood but will also provide a new platform for the bicycle and pedestrian community in Chicago by opening the site and including recreational spaces. Concept: "Stitch" - to sew and connect the neighborhood which has been fractured by the dead and un-used property of land with the riverfront.
Injecting Cohesion
The concept also seeks to promote bicycle culture in the neighborhood by creating a network of green areas along the riverfront and stitching the program proposal to the existing urban fabric and hopefully have a resonating impact in the city. Strategy: "Concatenation"- to have series of unexpected experiences through the site due to the proposal of stitching the available connections between the existing fabric to the 606 bike trail. The orchestrated programmatic interventions create multiple pauses for the pedestrians and bikers, therefore, create focal points for interactive gathering spaces across the site. The strategy is also to create public spaces between the private manufacturing unit and a semipublic exhibition spaces for bicycle / pedestrian community. These multi-level programs sew the link between both, the vertical and horizontal elements in the building.
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The site and the building are stitched together with large "scoops" in all four directions based on the hierarchy of contextual importance. These large bites create porosity in the building and blend the programs between park and a factory, integrating the public and providing fluidity within nature and outdoor plazas with thoughtful design strategies.
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The resulting system gives rise to a kinesthetic circulation where the various programmatic elements are integrated into a spatial continuity. The large bites in the building also act as an environmental strategy for the provision of daylight and the circulation of fresh air.
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The design communicates the idea of continuous connection by "stitching" the urban fabric in a structured and choreographed environment. The building is half submerged into the site in order to give easy access to pedestrian and bicyclist over the public spaces across the North Avenue Bridge.
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Our objective is to provide an asset for the community by proposing a Factory in a Park that will not only create access for the community, but will also"re-vitalize" the abandoned area by creating dedicated spaces for bicyclists to promote leisure, outdoor sport, education, manufacturing, commerce culture and social gathering.
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1- GREEN ROOF 2- PLANTING SOIL 3- 1/2" SEPARATION LAYER 4- 1" DRAINAGE MAT 5- 2" WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE 6- 3" INSULATION 7- 6" COMPOSITE DECK 8- 2.5" STEEL TUBE 9- W SECTION STEEL GIRDER 9" STEEL TUBE 10- 9" U SECTION 11- FLASHING? 12- VENT? 13- PARAPET 14- W SECTION STEEL BEAMS 15- PLASTER CEILING 16- 1" CLEAR GLASS 17- 12" X 3" CHANNEL GLASS 18- RETURN AIR CAVITY 19- 6" X 3" ALUMINUM TUBE 20- ALUMINUM RECEIVER PROFILE
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9- 12"X3" INSULATED CHANNEL 10- W SECTION COLUMN 11- EPOXY COATED FLOOR 12- CONSTRUCTION JOINT 13- RADIANT HEATING 14- PROTECTION BOARD 15V- COMPACTED SOIL
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wood and stone piling at the river edge - reclaimed by the nature
The design approach of the studio is "bottom up" in its methodology - where the project identifies a material and a construction system to address the issues of memory, identity and change over time. SITE STUDY
Our project takes inspiration from the existing riveredge conditions on the site which show a very unique and interesting relationship between timber retaining wall, stone and water. The river edge has decomposed and deformed over time, developing a new character that is beyond human control. Hence, the project explores the concept of reclamation and decomposition. DESIGN CONCEPT
"Cycle of Reclamation" - a cyclic process that develops the site into a new green pocket with hierarchy of courts gradually decomposing towards the river. The project aims to embrace decay and deformation of site which eventually will be reclaimed by nature, similar to the existing river edge condition. This new forested space along the riverfront is a catalyst to highlight the cycle of reclamation - reintegrating for those who have been forgotten in the community.
Study model to understand a wood & stone crib wall consturction system
Wood chips help create the right ratio of carbon and nitrogen. Help break down organic material into soil.
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Human dead body is wrapped in a cotton shroud and laid into a GRFC container filled with wood chips
Forests are restored and the life cycle continues.
Decomposition process creates rich, dark soil per person Perforations on the back and bottom oaf the container aerate the process of decomposition
recycled wood members burnt with ---- technique
GFRC caskets to receive the unclaimed bodies recycled rubble stones to fill the gaps part of wall structure
recycled granite stone dressed at the entry court - decomposed at the river edge Concrete pad with inbuilt chanel as a base to the wall & to drain water off
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The proposed design develops an aboveground green burial system using the seldomlyemployed crib wall construction system. The wood members reclaimed from demolished buildings in the city.
Our project proposes an annual ritual of "planting trees" as a symbol of memory for the unclaimed. This will "re-create memories" that have been forgotten over time towards the existing site conditions.
The bodies wrapped in the cotton shroud are placed in GFRC containers filled with wood chips and soil to accelerate the natural decomposition process.
Planting Tree as a Ritual for Burial
Reclamation of the Unclaimed
DESIGN CONCEPT
The design seeks to promote awareness for the unclaimed through integration into a green burial system which naturally decomposes the interred into organic soil over time.
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body wrapped in cotton shroud and wood chpis
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The project aims to preserve the exisiting trees and edge conditions and develop the site from the river edge towards the city. The burial walls create multiple courts for the pedestrians starting from the entry court at street level finished in precisely cut granite stone slabs, moving to the center court with wider grove joints inviting the green to grown within, further opening to the grass court with occasionally missing stone pieces - slowly surrendering to nature. These courts provide spaces for interactive gathering areas where the community can enjoy a relaxing atmosphere learning more about the green burial systems and the botanical garden.
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The site gradually decomposes with the unfinished broken granite stone surface at the north end semisubmerged in the wetlands - where the wood, stone and water meet similar to the existing river edge conditions. We anticipate that, the unclaimed will be reclaimed by the society via the proposed cemetery, nature will reclaim the built over the years - similar to the existing river edge conditions, and the site will be reclaimed by the neighborhood.
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process site model - scale 1/16" = 1 '- 0 "
P R O F E S S I O N A L
P R O J E C T S
the LOFT at Lonavala
2009-2013 PROJECT ARCHITECT S+PS ARCHITECTS
collaGe house
2007-2016 JOB CAPTAIN S+PS ARCHITECTS
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2010-2012 PROJECT ARCHITECT S+PS ARCHITECTS
Chakra - the spinning wheel 2006 INTERN ARCHITECT NU.DE ARCHITECTS
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AWARDS NDTV Design & Architecture Award 2016 | Category: Group Housing - Winner Rethinking the Future Sustainability Award 2016 | Category: Housing (Built) - Winner Indian Institute of Architects Award for Excellence in Architecture 2015 | Category: Housing - Winner IIID Design Excellence Zone Award 2016 | Category: House in the Clouds, Residential Multi- Dwelling - Runner Up PUBLICATIONS Indian Express: www.indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/lonavala-housing-complex-design-your-own-house-2952284/ Matter: www.thinkmatter.in/2016/10/12/diyhousing-spsarchitects/
Disclaimer: As a project architect for this project, my responsibilities included conceptual design development, presentation & constructions drawings and site visits till its successful execution. Project Details: The fist & shaped scheme has 3 essential parts. The site -a 3.9 acre land with old trees and structures - is organized between a linear commercial building and a heritage club-house. The houses occupy the edges of a "street" that connects the two functions. The site profile determines a street configuration in the front, entered through the gateway of the commercial building and culminated in a large open common garden court around which the remaining buildings were arranged. A green buffer zone and club house allows the residential development to be set back from the train tracks. Vehicular movement is contained to be a very small part of the site allowing for a variety of pedestrian networks to crisscross the site several times terminating in small pocket play areas or wooded park. This central street acts a spine and creates lively community space, just like in the villages. The public and private areas uniquely blend, providing a safe haven for interactions between all age groups. The project includes 79 residential units, and amenities such as a shopping complex, offices, a club house with swimming pool & children's play area.
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The design scheme started with the idea, that what one really needs is an open adaptable space with the open sky above. The smallest module was of 40 sq mt - a good room width of 11'-6" and extruded that into a tube of 30 feet long with a garden attached at one end. COMMERCIAL BUILDING
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The height was raised to 14'-6", which allowed for a small loft to be added in the center of the space, which could become a "free" half bedroom that could accommodate children, an extra grandparent. This then became a Basic Module, which was used to design all the units in the whole scheme, eventually encompassing 8 different types of homes along with shops and offices in the amenities block.
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This projects creates a "kit of parts", where the homeowners get to choose from a range of sizes and configurations from a 1.5BHK to a 5BHK, a variety of types within a size, locations, floors, a choice of walk ups, internal stairs, railings, screens, windows, toilet layouts, tiles, etc. The particular combination that each one chooses allows one to individualize their home to reflect their own identity. To make it all manageable and executable, it is regulated within a limited palate of choices as shown in the above diagram such that certain efficiencies of mass housing are possible through repetition. By generating a set of patterns & enabling choice, it was ensured that a rich texture is created and the monotony of repetitive unit is broken.
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Three of the many existing structures on this old Parsi sanitarium land were adapted for the recreational amenities and their presence was considered importance in the planning. The "Verandah Clubhouse" which adapts theses existing structures and changes them with contemporary interventions, additionally informs the development around the common recreation area. New volumes were added to connect these three structures and a new multipurpose hall. These were further connected by an existing corridor and its extension, opening up to the pool deck bringing together old and mature trees and the buildings.
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1. Entry to Club House 2. Verandah 3. Amphitheater 4. Bench 5. Multipurpose Hall 6. Rain Water Collector
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Addition of inverted volume as Multipurpose Hall Built up sections used to create larger spaces within existing structures
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13. Rear Entry 14. Gymnasium 15. Corridor 16. Wet Area 17. Steam Room 18. Lounge
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19. Changing Room 20. Indoor Games Room 21. Lobby 22. Toilets 23. Library 24. Common Garden
Articulated ground plane and plinth that ties together old and new elements on site
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SITE IMAGES : CLUB HOUSE
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AWARDS DFA Design for Asia Awards 2017 - Gold The India Story Design Awards 2016 | Category: Exterior Architecture - Winner Kolher Bold Design Awards 2016, the Golden Pencil | Category: Residential - Winner Rethinking the Future Sustainability Awards 2016 | Design.I.Y Housing | Category: Housing (Built) - 3rd Winner NDTV Design & Architecture Awards 2015 | Category: Environmental Design - Climate Zone: Warm & Humid - Winner
PUBLICATIONS Netflix: The Worls'd Most Extraordinary Homes: Season 2 - Part B Home Review:http://www.home-review.com/2016/06/time-please/ Arch Daily: www.archdaily.com/786059/collage-house-s-plus-ps-architects Domus: www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/2016/04/28/collage_house.html CBS News: www.cbsnews.com/media/8-homes-made-from-recycled-materials/6/ Dezeen: www.dezeen.com/2016/05/01/s-ps-collage-house-reclaimed-window-door-facade-mumbai-india/
To build a private single family house on top of a hill is always exciting, until the it was discovered here that site is surrounded by neighbours on all sides. This led early on in the design process to look inwards and build around the quintessential Indian courtyard, albeit slightly modified. The court is actually raised a floor above the ground level and hidden below is a large rainwater harvesting tank wrapped with rock that was removed from the hillside during excavation. It is the core around which this large four-generation family is organized and comes together. GROUND FLR PLAN
1. External Stair to 1st floor 2. Services 3. Duct 4. Parking 5. Puja / Prayer Room 6. Elevator 7. Entry Lounge 8. Utility 9. Bedroom 10. Staff Lobby 11. Staff Room 12. Vegetable Garden 13. 50,000L Rain water Harvesting Tank 14. Earth Fill 15. Verandah 16. Courtyard
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17. Spillover Pool 18. Living - Dining 19. Kitchen 20. Powder Room 21. Dressing 22. Study 23. Lap Pool 24. Pantry 25. Balcony 26. Deck 27. Roof Garden 28. Counter 29. Rooftop Pavilion 30. Dry Landscape Terrace 31. Overhead Tank 32. Stairwell SECTION A-A
1. Corrugated Metal Shutters 2. Walls of Stone Excavated from Site 3. External Stair from Entry to Courtyard 4. Vertically Stacked Glass Drum 5. M.S. Plate Box Window in Drum 6. Exposed Brick Walls 7. Organic Farming Planters 8. 50,000L Rain Water Harvesting Tank 9. Blue Glass Balcony 10. Recycled Wooden Windows Curtain Wall 11. Multi-wall Frosted Polycarbonate Infill 12. Aluminum Plate Louvers as Screen 13. Concrete Envelope 14. Metal Mesh Elevator Enclosure 15. Rough Finish Granite Platform of Pavilion 16. 100 Year Old Wooden Columns of Pavilion 17. Stainless Steel Roof Over Pavilion
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18. Solar Panels on Roof 19. Treated bamboo Screen 20. Wired Glass Louvers 21. Projecting Glass Fin 22. Yellow Glass Balcony 23. Recycled Metal Plate Cladding 24. Recycled Pipe Wall 25. Stub Wall Clad in Tile Samples 26. Cladding out of Waste Stone Strips
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1. R.C.C. Slab 2. 10mm thk top base plate in position 3. 10mm anchor faster holding base plate 4. Aluminum cap for polycarbonate sheet 5. 9" diameter M.S. column 6. 12mm thk multi wall polycarbonate sheet 7. Vertical P.C. clip to hold P.C. sheet 8. 1.5"x1.5" M.S. box section as hanger 10. 1.5"x3" M.S. frame member 11. 2"x1"-1" T.W. cover molding strip 12. Recycled window shutter & panel glass 13. Recycled T.W. window frame 14. Recycled timber flooring with skirting 15. 10mm thk wall plate in position 16. Stepped stone sill in rebate 18. Earth filling
Living in Mumbai, India it is impossible to ignore the informal settlements i frugality, adaptability, multi-tasking, resourcefulness and ingenuity. A visual and collaged. The project looks at the idea of recycling and collage in seve intangible - like history, space and memories.
The front facade sets the tone for what lies within, with a "corner of window city. This becomes a major backdrop for the living room with a exposed concr intricate brass inlay on the floor. Metal pipe leftovers pieced together like bam take pipes and a sculpture of spouts that in the monsoon are a delight for all t back memories, and nostalgia is nourished with a lightweight, steel and glas fabulous views down the hillside. It plays up this contrast between the old a finished. Flooring out of old Burma teak rafters and purloins, colonial furnitu materials like carved wooden moldings, beveled mirrors, heritage cement til smooth form finish inside - wraps and connects all the spaces from back to fro
Disclaimer: As job captain for this project, my responsibilities included prese
WATER SYSTEM NETWORK 1. Corrugated Metal Shutters 2. Walls of Stone Excavated from Site 3. External Stair from Entry to Courtyard 4. Vertically Stacked Glass Drum 5. M.S. Plate Box Window in Drum 6. Exposed Brick Walls 7. Organic Farming Planters
in the city, and if looked at closely there are many lessons to learn in language emerges that is of the found object, ad-hoc, eclectic, patched eral ways, from the very physical - like materials, energy, etc. to the
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8. 50,000L Rain Water Harvesting Tank 9. Blue Glass Balcony 10. Recycled Wooden Window Curtain Wall 11. Multi-wall Frosted Polycarbonate Infill 12. Aluminum Plate Louvers as Screen 13. Concrete Envelope 14. Metal Mesh Elevator Enclosure 15. Rough Finish Granite Platform of Pavilion 16. 100 Year Old Wooden Columns of Pavilion
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SINGLE FAMILY HOME PROJECT ARCHITECT, S+PS ARCHITECTS
Disclaimer: As project architect for this project, my responsibilities included conceptual design developments, presentation & constructions drawings along with regular site visits. Project details: Plenty of natural light, good airflow & ocean view set a relaxing ambiance for this beach residence, a contemporary home located in Mumbai, India. The new design was a striking transformation from an inward-looking mid-20th century bungalow into a modern layout that allows nature indoors. Wood & Glass were the defining element of the design, along with a rough textured concrete portal, which envelops the glass house with half-up wooden master bedroom volume, gradually revealing its aesthetic and functional qualities. The double heighten living-room is the pivotal space in the home, with glass window panels allowing the internal living space to extend to a double-volume outdoor living space where the wooden decking leads to the garden and swimming pool.
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
The spatial planning of the home locates the private bedroom spaces on the upper floor and social spaces on the lower floor. The Master bedroom with the best sea-facing view is wrapped in wooden panels inside and out. The stairwell is wrapped by mild steel shell which peels at different levels to reveal landings, windows, benches and as well as light punctures. The metal shell anchors the spaces and brings the natural warmth of the timber into the heart of the home.
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
1. Planter 2. Entrance Porch 3. Lily Pool 4. Staff Entrance 5. Staff Room 6. Entry Lobby 7. Lift 8. Utility 9. Kitchen 10. Powder Room 11. Dining Room
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
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Study Open to Sky Court Covered Deck Family Room Living Room Lap Pool Outdoor Deck Garden Pavilion Beach Passage
23. Toilet 24. Bedroom 25. Glass Bridge 26. Balcony 27. Prayer Room 28. Gymnasium 29. Sliding Cover Over Court 30. Terrace 31. Glass Cover Over Deck 32. Water Tank Total Design Area= 4500 SqFt
KEY ELEMENTS
CHAKRA - THE SPINNING WHEEL PUBLIC ART INSTILLATION, MUMBAI INTERN ARCHITECT, NU.DE ARCHITECTS
AWARDS TATA Steel: Public monument design competition 2008 : Notions of a Nation - Winner PUBLICATIONS Design Boom: www.designboom.com/architecture/live-architecture-charkha/ Nu.de Office: www.nudeoffices.com/spiral/ryfqmnlhkwoum78oh48mzf1eb8scjg
Disclaimer: As a summer intern architect during my 3rd year undergrad, my responsibilities included physical model making using bending wire to understand the geometry of the during the conceptual design development level, along with geometry and structural calculation drawings using rhino, sketchup and autocad as main softwares. Project: As Indians sitting in the midst of an emerging India, the story of this spinning wheel holds immense significance - from a form that transpires from the Ashok Chakra to the Charkha and that, which had imploded earlier has now exploded with vigor and vivacity to capture the dynamism of the momentum of India with the material of the future. This 11-meter tall outdoor steel installation is permanently sited at the Cross Maidan, South Mumbai. It is the winning entry in a monument design competition by TATA Steel, the project draws from the "spinning wheel" symbol promoted by mahatma Gandhi to illustrate contemporary India's spectrum of social and cultural dimensions. The instillation is composed of a series of triangular frames, the sculptural piece is a spatially dynamic structure that seemingly shifts in form depending on the viewer's vantage point. Three curving columns serve as the framework's backbone, allowing the installation to cantilever in one direction before returning to the 9m x 9m base. Each of the triangular units are individually unique, representing the notion of "unity in diversity" as well as the nation's richness of multi cultures.
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