GARIMA AGGARWAL
SAMPLE WORK IN ARCHITECTURE/URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN
URBAN DESIGNER/PLANNER ARCHITECT LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/garima-aggarwal-24721376 Email: garima.aggarwal46@gmail.com Contact: 0091 9646992443
Hi, I am Garima, a trained architect and an aspiring urban designer/planner. I am a people’s person. Personally, I take deep interest in everything related to urban design and planning. I like analyzing social, economic and regulatory framework responsible for urban transformations. Coming from a generic design background, I see myself developing sustainable innovative solutions to tackle the challenges of unprecedented urbanization. I believe tha t no two urban issues are exactly the same. Hence, instead of replicating, we need to develop a distinctive solution for each one of them. That said, there is always a new and a better way to urbanise. And I look forward to developing that.
Experience
Education
Coplug D&T (Present) London, United Kingdom Job Title: Research Assistant (Part time) Design Forum of Architects (2015-16) Noida, India Job Title: Architect Dimensions and Designs (2014-15) New Delhi, India Job Title: Architect Intern MSC. Urban Strategies and Design (Merit) University of Edinburgh, UK 2016-Present Bachelor of Architecture, B.ARCH (First class) Mumbai University, India 2010-15
Skills
Interests
Computer Aided Skills- AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch up 3D, Vray, I render, Adobe Indesign, QGIS, Rhino, Revit Architecture, Adobe Illustrator, MS Office. Other Relevant Skills- Fine hand drafting, sketching, painting (still life, oil pastels).
Smart city, Sustainable Design and development, Resilient city, Smart Urbanism, Temporary urbanism, Transport oriented developments, Intensification of Suburbia.
My Specialties
Mater Planning
Design Development and Conceptualization
Research
Team Coordination
Client Presentation
CONTENT URBAN DESIGN, PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE
CASTLE TERRACE SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT SCHEME OF INTEGRATED TEXTILE PARKS HUMANE HABITAT MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT TEMPORARY USE OF URBAN SPACES REDEVLOPMENT FOR DHARAVI
SAMPLE PROFESSIONAL WORK
RESIDENCE HOTEL
Project: Castle Terrace Car Park Location: Edinburgh, UK. Focus: Urban design, Urban Planning, Sustainable design and development.
CASTLE TERRACE CAR PARK
Description: The site is strategically located between Edinburgh New town, old town and west end. Most importantly, the prestigious Edinburgh castle overlooks this site. Therefore, the site is of high commercial and historic importance. For the purpose of amalgamating economic, social, environmental sustainability, it was decided that a mixed used development will take place here which will be highly sensitive to the existing topography and terrain of the site. The main uses involved social housing (25% compulsory), art gallery (to celebrate the cultural importance of this world heritage site), green park (that retains existing terrain and topography), retail/restaurants and an amphitheater. Considering the views from all sides, it was established that no high rise will be built on the site.
Step 1: Identification of important historical structures and catchment areas around the site.
Step 2: Identification of important views in order to maximize the sight.
Step 3: Creation of an urban junction between important parts of the city.
Step 4: Exchange and attract stop.
Step 5: Identifying the building heights of the surroundings. Which is not more than 7 storeys. Step 6: Calculating the peak traffic hours and commuter patterns on major roads connecting the site.
OVERALL SWOT ANALYSIS
VISION
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Preserve and enhance the heritage and cultural importance of the site. Creating an urban junction by connecting the site to the rest of the city. Retaining the existing topography and trees by converting them into a walkable urban agriculture core. Developing the first car free zone in Edinburgh by introducing car clubs. Activating the site with flexible spaces for enhancing community development in different ways.
Uses Proposed
EXPLODED VIEW
SITE VIEW
SECTIONS
REFERENCES AND VISUALS
The images on this page are a mix of inspirational images taken from other projects around the world and visualization of streets after implementing the proposed scheme. This project involved an exhaustive research on sustainability models followed in different sectors around the globe. The purpose of showing these images is to put a reflection on the research and innovative ideas developed from that.
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Project: Scheme of Integrated Textile Park Location: Ludhiana, India. Focus: Sustainability, Urban design, architecture.
Description: Scheme of integrated textile parks was launched by government of India for upliftment of textile industry. The major intention was the provision of mixed used development along with textile manufacturing units. This is a 60 acre site, located in Ludhiana city in India, which is one of the main textile hubs of the country. The challenge was to balance environmental sustainability and create refreshing working conditions in an extreme weather zone where the vehicular traffic was enormously high. The zoning and individual detail designs were highly sensitive of sustainability factots. The site was essentially divided into four zones; manufacturing units, iconic exhibition center, residential area for workers and institutions. The site was pedestrian oriented with a green axis running along the major wind directions (chosen according to climatology) and all the vehicular access was on the periphery.
VISION
• Make a sustainable design solution for textile industry in Ludhiana. • Introduce walk to work culture. • Encourage sustainable modes of transport. • Reduce heavy vehicular use within the site for cleaner environment.
EXHIBIT MANUFACTURE
TRAIN
LIVE Major uses identified.
Identification of placement of central green axis according to climatology.
Placement of all uses on the site.
Connection through central and smaller communal green spaces.
• Central green axis in the direction of wind connecting the main uses • Pedestrianisation within the site. • Cycling lanes for workers to travel from residences to manufacturing unit within the site. • Vehicular access mostly around the periphery. • Workers’ residential units designed according to maximum efficient gain of wind. • Seating places along the green axis.
MASTER PLAN
ROOFPLAN
DETAILED LAYOUT (RESIDENTIAL)
VIEWS
Project: Humane Habitat Location: Kharghar, Navi Mumbai Focus: Sustainability, Urban design, community development, architecture.
Description: The project requirement was to design a gated community in Kharghar. As a design output, a social mix was encouraged for the site. To enhance community development in this small area of Navi Mumbai. This was done by segregating the buildings into 2,3,4 BHK apartments and some affordable units. A central green area was developed with community and leisure facilities. Sustainability factors also included provision of parking for electric vehicles.
MASTER PLAN
SECTION
ELEVATIONS
Project: Mixed Use development Location: Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai Focus: Sustainability, Urban design, community development, architecture.
Description: This site is located the most important commercial centre of Mumbai. The project involved integrating a shopping mall and hotel on one site. Leisure place for community development was taken as the best suited use for space between the two buildings.
MASTER PLAN
SHOPPING CENTRE
HOTEL
HOTEL SECTIONS
HOTEL ELEVATIONS
SHOPPING CENTRE ELEVATIONS
SHOPPING CENTRE SECTIONS
Project: Temporary use of Urban spaces Location: West Granton, Edinburgh, Uk Focus: Urban design, urban planning, Low cost sustainable solutions for community development.
SITE
The urban project was an opportunity to formulate a proposal for an urban area in Edinburgh called West Granton . The students were expected to do an in depth analysis of the current conditions of the site in terms of its historical evolution, built environment, housing condition, education, transport, movement, leisure, recreation, health, political scenario etc. Based on a critique on the current conditions of the area, we were then expected to develop a strong proposal which addressees multiple issues such as changes in the built environment and role of stakeholders. For the purpose of that we needed to draw clear reflection on the complex network of forces that are responsible for the change. During the coursework, we were expected to work in teams as well as individually to hone their individual skills. The study area lies to the north-west of Edinburgh City Centre, approximately 5 km away, making it only a 20 minute drive into the city centre region, and 25 minute drive to Leith. It is important to note that it is one of the most deprived areas of Scotland. The area lacks basic infrastructure such as children’s playgrounds, health facilities, communal activities etc. After doing an extensive analysis over a period of 12 weeks, major issues that came across were desperate need of citizen empowerment, community cohesion and maintenance of green spaces.
ANALYSIS Built typologies
Historical Analysis
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Urban density
These are few images from the exhaustive analysis carried out. The built typologies were studied with ref to Urban design compendium. The commuter patterns involved a research on what type of transport methods are used at different times of the day. This also involved on site work with transport engineers. Most importantly the stake holders map involved digging in deep into the grassroot and political organizations responsible for the development of this area. This also involved attending community council meetings.
ANALYSIS
Cultural activities
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Commuter patterns
Stakeholders Map
SITE AND APPROACH
This was a research and design based urban project addressing the West Granton area which includes some of the most deprived neighborhoods in Scotland. The project was mainly divided into two parts, analysis and proposals. An intensive analysis was carried out over a period of twelve weeks. This involved attending community meetings, engaging with the locals, carrying out on-site and internet surveys, collecting statistical data and doing academic research. Based on the conclusions from our analysis, a vision for West Granton was formulated with three strong principles of social coexistence, citizen empowerment and healthy livelihoods. This was followed by the development of thirteen essential strategies out of which my proposition was to study temporary use of urban spaces. By following a bottom up approach, I drew reflection upon how community spirit can be revived at a very low cost and effort. This proposal mainly tackled a neighborhood scale (as shown in the images). It was chose due to a large amount of infill sites, vacant and underutilized spaces present on the site. It was full of potential, ready for such quick and easy experiments
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TEMPORARY INSURGENT TACTiCAL DIY
VISUALS
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The neighborhood I was working on was essentially divided into four areas with activities serving the issues of prime importance. The work done involved comprehensive research on what particular type of temporary urbanism is suitable for the area according to it’s resources. For the purpose of that I carried out a research on available material and talent in the area. These visuals show a few of the uses proposed such as urban gardening, DIY libraries, community spaces made from scrap. The visuals on the next page shows the how the redundant green area (currently used as a dump yard) can be transformed with the help of this bottom up approach. The purpose of studying tactical urbanism/temporary use of urban spaces was to gain an insight about role of top down and bottom up processes at small scale.
FROM THIS
TO THIS
Project: Reflection on participation as an emerging way to collaborate top down and bottom-up, for upgrading Dharavi Location: Dharavi, Mumbai Focus: Urban planning, informal settlements, top-down, bottom-up planning, Smart Urbanism
SITE
REDEVELOPMENT FOR DHARAVI
Description: One of the cliches about urban planning processes, especially in the case of upgrading informal settlements is that, either it can be top-down or bottom-up. This is also apparent in various approaches adopted to upgrade the informal settlement of Dharavi, mostly known as Asia’s largest slum. An extensive analysis about Dharavi was done which reflected that these approaches, are often acting in isolation or opposition with each other. This is where this masters dissertation emerged from. Instead of placing top-down and bottomup against each other, it tries to find a way to collaborate them. On the other hand, throughout the vast literature developed on upgrading informal settlements over the years, one of the necessities that emerges on the forefront to achieve a long-term solution is that of ‘participation’. Therefore, this demand of participation is taken as the medium to form the collaboration. A number of projects done around the globe supporting participation as a key to upgrade informal settlemnts were looked at. And an intensive research was done on the already existing academic proposals for redevelopment of Dharavi. After studying all these inspirations, the most relevant ones were selected and combined to form one holistic process that can lay a foundation. Additionally, I also worked with a leading urbanist Kelvin Campbell from London, who supported my idea of the proposal. His theory of smart urbanism was the key to complete this proposal.
INSPIRATIONAL PROJECTS Participation as the core: Berlin co- house Project Yerwada Slum Upgrade Design Proposals done on Dharavi by: UCL Columbia University
PROPOSAL
The proposed outcome is difficult to explain here due to constraints of the portfolio. However, it suggested a way to get government, residents, NGOs, Architects and developers together to form a mutually beneficial outcome for upgrading Dharavi.
OTHER RESEARCH WORK/AREAS OF INTEREST
SMART URBANISM MASSIVE SMALL SMART CITY RESILTIENT TOP-DOWN AND BOTTOM UP INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS SOCIAL MIX IN HOUSING AIRPORT CENTRIC URBAN DEVELOPMENTS
SAMPLE PROFESSIONAL WORK
RESIDENCE
This is a residence designed for Mr.Rajesh Gupta in Jlanadhar city oh India. The main task done by me involved desiging, preparing working drawings and views for the project. 18
HOTEL PLANS
This is a hotel located in Delhi Murthal highway in India. The main task involved was preparing working drawings, interior design and drawings. This page shows the working drawings prepared for the floors plans and next page shows elevations and some interior drawings carried 19 out.
DETAIL DRAWINGS
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VIEWS
These are few views from the two projects presented above.
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Email: garima.aggarwal46@gmail.com Contact: 0091 9646992443