Saili Katakdhond_Portfolio

ARCHITECTURE

SAILI

Building and places may not last forever, memories with those do ....Architects craft remembarance not the physical form...

01 CARAPACE | TRANSFIGURING NYCHA

Summer 2022 Pratt Institute Instructor : Erich Schoenenberger

Carapace makes a sensitive approach for upliftment of NYCHA in Red Hook . The project transfig ures NYCHAto become a more engaging and diverse place. The buffer spaces leverages flexibility in function and operation. It also allows for between the new and the old skin allows for expansion of internal spaces, provides circulation spaces, subtracts spaces for additional light. The lower floors act as sacrificfial zones during the flooding.

02 AQUA-VOIDS | LIVING WITH WATER

Fall 2021 Pratt Institute

Instructor : Jonas Corsemier

Project Partner : Vishal Amler

Softwares : Rhino, Grasshopper(Octree)

Red Hook,a reclaimed peninsula is likely to submerge under water by 2100 as a result of climate change and global sea level rise. The neighborhood already suffers from socially segregation, isolation and deprivation of direct transport connection by subway.

Aqua-voids offers a speculation into an urban future in which rising waters become a part of the neighbourhood have reconfigured the existing and propsed development to co-exist with water. Aqua voids envisions Red Hook with a mutualistic approach aiming at climate resilience and adaptaion. The project envisions gradual densification with an aim to integrate community resiliency into urban strategies from climate resiliency attempting to revive Red Hook’s identity as a waterfront industrial zone with an inclusive neighborhood of varying ethnicities and economical classes in the context of rising sea levels.

SITE HIGH TIDE PROJECTION 2100 BUILDING PROTECTION AT EDGES

MACROCOSOME

Undergraduate Thesis 2017 Guide : Sushma Joglekar

In advent of road demolition drive by the local municipal body, the central market of Kalyan laid in state of debacle and chaos. Apart from malfunction ing the, market fails connect to the commuters of the city at large. Con versely the informal vendors commercial dominate the roads along side the legally owned shops. The project intends to strike an equilibrium between informal and formal vendors on the alloted market zone acting as a vibrant public space. The design also tries to untangle the disorganization of the selected urban macrospot.

04 COMMUNITY COHESION

2015

Mustansir Dalvi

With an aim to provide housing to the newly ‘extended housing scheme at different parts of the city. One such altercated by the local residents within a reasonably short to understand user mindset and prevalent housing statistics.

Multiple aspects of individual family like flickering need of expansion, social differences, events affect the spatial interviews taken with residents, documentation and surveys.

‘extended city - Navi Mumbai ‘ , CIDCO deployed a mass projects at Sanpada built in 1988 has been retrofit and short span of 15 years. The initial phase of assignment was statistics.

flickering economical capacity, numerical growth, temporary spatial planning of a house. The output was inferred from surveys.

ECONOMY

3 nos. 41 sq.m 28.6 sq.m

3 nos. 45.4 sq.m 33 sq.m 3 nos 39.8 sq.m 3 nos 51sq.m 43.6 sq.m

4 nos. 45.4 sq.m

3 nos. 51.5 sqm 41 sq.m

SECTION P F Living Room | D Kitchen

SECTION B Block A Living Room | Block B living room

TERRA OASIS

Archdais Competition 2019

With an aim to imagine a office building reflect the native culture, the structure adapts the local climate by its form and the cladding. Breaking from a square grid to a free flowing space that offices theses days demand, the structure is derived by stacking concave shaped geometry. The core pulls the cool air from under ground to cool the building. The outer terracotta pipe shade and thermo regu late the building.

Passive Cooling

Terracota Pipe facade detail

06 OJAS | RAY OF INDEPENDENCE

TATA Steel Design Competition

Softwares : SketchUp,Vray, Photoshop

The name ‘Ojas’ in Sanskrit means ‘strong one’ portrays our country’s powerful position in the world and that we own the potential to grow. It also describes the forte of the built structure using the TATA steel sections illustrating the strength of the composed elements.

ROOF MODEL

09 MTDC ADVENTURE SPORTS PARK_LODGE

Professional Worksphere Architects

Core Team : Shiva Rathod, Vaidehi Virkar, Shradha Tambe

Softwares : Revit - Structural Details, Inreriors - 3D max, AutoCad, Photoshop

Set in a baugolic location of Nashik, the projects constiutes playful sports like go-carking, bunjee jumping, open paint ball, rafting. The scpoe of projects includes landscaping and Hospitality. My role was to zone out these acivities and work on the detailed drawings of already in construction building of the Resort.

Professional Work at Istudio Architecture

Principal Architect : Amit Patil

Role: 3D Visualization, Basic Drawings, Area Calculation, Co-ordi nation of estimation for phase 2 and 3

Softwares : SketchUp, Vray, AutoCDA

Set in the outskrits of Thane, the school projects is phased in 3 part. The school design follows the standards required for CBSC board in India as well as try to create its own identity.

Ground

Floor