GT_Urbanism Portfolio

Design | Masterplanning | Landscape

Urbanism Portfolio

Girish Shashikant Thakare

Langarth Garden Village

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Truro, Cornwall

Lavigne Lonsdale

Rejuvenation of High Street

Penryn, Cornwall

Lavigne Lonsdale

Smart Urban Heritage

Trafford, Manchester

Academic Project

Floating Over Thames

North Bank, London

Academic Project

The Immitating Bridge

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Archdaily Competition

Langarth Garden Village, Cornwall

The LGV its a initative of Cornwall Council. The Masterplan offers a diversified population high-quality, well-designed housing, enhanced infrastructure, and work and service areas. It facilitates greater access to green space and promotes the use of eco-friendly transport among locals and tourists. Providing the design code for LGV required a variety of tasks. As the entire project consists of 3500 dwellings, the site was broken down into multiple phases of development.

The Design code work includes of masterplan derivatives along with architectural intervention and landscape RMA stages.

The visuals to the left show how the grain varies in various areas of the large masterplan, where we strove to maintain the resemblance of Cornish architecture as it was proposed in the design code. The upper portions describe the site’s street hierarchy patterns, including secondary and tertiary streets, and the lower section describes the site’s gradient treatment.

Site Section

Rain Garden and Ponds

There are multiple parks in the area, and each of their designs was envisioned and designed. RMA has already been approved, and visuals have been utilised for design code work and public meetings in order to properly understand the park’s density. The aesthetic was considerably more natural-looking while still maintaining the allure of the landscape designs. The key to understanding the organic point of view and local demand was the integration of the existing and projected landscape, as people like to be in the same environment.

The analysis focuses particularly on the movement’s potential to enhance Commercial Road’s surroundings and links to the historic town core. We have, however, noted a number of locations where increasing the constructed character would aid in the “rejuvenation” of the route. These still represent potential areas for development and were mentioned in our more detailed framework plan. Commercial Road connects to Broad Street several times as it goes along Penryn’s eastern border.

Penryn High Street Rejuvenation, Cornwall

Southern End

Before arriving at the final interpretation of the project’s demand, we carefully consider the many layers of the aforementioned parameter plans. The site is gifted with a variety of layers, and the final product should make advantage of them.

The graphics below represent the results of the project submission. The project has already been started by the Penryn council, and the results are well-liked by the populace. To better explain development, the visuals were generated by overlaid existing site pictures.

examined as a site study that may be built using urban rejuvenation, livable, smart, and sustainable city concepts. It is known as “Manchester’s hidden island” due to its location between the Manchester Ship and Bridgewater canals, as well as between Manchester city centre, Salford, and Trafford.

Site Activities

Site Section

Proposed Masterplan

While understanding the development process within Pomona island. Thinking for the outside of the site was also needed. The form of building and spaces will be replicated on the outside as well keeping the site as a centre of attraction. This form will be overlapped with the development strategies keeping the land use, transportation and green spaces target in mind.

Pedestrian Details

Floating Over Thames, London 04

Floating over the Thames is a design research project focused on rewilding the river Thames banks with the Victorica embankment gardens, superimposing various layers on the site, and building a more natural transition system across the city. It also intends to investigate how Transport for London’s ambition of 20 million waterbus trips by 2035 may be met. The concept reflects Baroque style design in a modern interpretation using circles and edges of the site.

Partitions Accessibility Distribution

Collaboration Relocation Mobility

Sections and connections

“The influence of design will change with time, and a different solution for the same problem may be required after a few years.. The necessity for a solution was essential in order to trust in London’s ideal of sustainable water transportation. This design is only an experiment to discover what may be modified to create a better future. The theories of various urbanists served as a lens through which I attempted to look again, and I was able to see the vision that they envisioned.”

The Imitating Bridge, Amsterdam

The brief of the project was to connect Amstel Street on both sides by providing pedestrian facilities. Keeping the bridge’s language basic would also help it blend in with its surroundings. The goal is to reinterpret the value of existing surroundings in a sophisticated way by employing reflection and then defining the art itself as a blending element.

Bridge as Reflection

Structural system

One way mirror

Entrance

“ To create out spaces the pedestrian and bicycle track have been divided to generate a central space for art. The importance of the art spaces have been highlighted by strategic placement of them in the central pathway allowing different heights. The spaces for art are flexible enough to be utilized for multipurpose use. “

1 : Cycle parking

2: Deck

3: Entrance

4: Pathway for art

5: Hammock deck

6: Pedestrian pathway

7: Cyclist pathway

I-type beam Pathway for art Pathway for pedesrian

Cycle track T-type beam

One way mirror