Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio (2023)

Architecture Portfolio

Gomati Goswami

Gomati Goswami

Driven by my discipline and determination to achieve my goals. I’m a keen observer, quick learner and persist a constant zeal to learn, explore and discover. I believe in deriving motivation through nature, constant hard work and relentless striving to be a better version of myself.

Education About me

gomati.goswami.apd19@iitbhu.ac.in

+91 9920978031

G-13 Yamuna Western Sector

Anushaktinagar Mumbai - 400094

2019 | 2024

2019 | 2024

Bachelors in Architecture (B.Arch.)

Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University)

Varanasi, India

Atomic Energy Central School No. - 4 Mumbai, India

2005 | 2017

8.63 X Secondary School

Contacts

gomati.goswami.apd19@iitbhu.ac.in

+91 9920978031

G-13 Yamuna Western Sector

Anushaktinagar Mumbai - 400094

Bachelors in Architecture (B.Arch.)

WORK EXPERIENCE

2022 winters

5 th Indo-Swiss

BEEP (B uilding E nergy E ciency P roject ) Camp @ CEPT University, Ahmedabad

Competences

- gained proficiency in designing Net-Zero Energy Buildings ( NZEBs ) & analytical energy simulations

Software skills

Prof. Rajan Rawal , Ar. Ashok B Lall & Mr. Pierre Jaboyedo

WORK EXPERIENCE

Work experiences

summers Freelancing

Branding design of a Boutique

Smt. Sanju Singh

Perfect Stitch Boutique & Garments

Kidwai Nagar, Kanpur

Architectural Consultancy Intern

Varanasi Smart City Limited (VSCL)

- under the guidance of Dr. Aaditya Pratap Sanyal

2022 winters

5 th Indo-Swiss

BEEP (B uilding E nergy E ciency P roject ) Camp @ CEPT University, Ahmedabad

- gained proficiency in designing Net-Zero Energy Buildings ( NZEBs ) & analytical energy simulations

Prof. Rajan Rawal Ar. Ashok B Lall & Mr. Pierre Jaboyedo

summers Freelancing

Branding design of a Boutique

Smt. Sanju Singh

2021 winters

Kutch Vernacularism Documentation

Indi Architecture

- under Bharmabehn & Nilesh bhai

by Kimberley Moyle

- practiced hands-on ; lippan kaam ; wooden handcarving ; kutch embroidery ; leather artworks ; ajrakh hand block printing

- study & documentation of LLDC (The Living and Learning Design Centre) Bhuj

Shrujan Trust ; bhungas ; Ludiya - Gandhi - nu - Gam village

2021 winters

Perfect Stitch Boutique & Garments

Kidwai Nagar, Kanpur

Architectural Consultancy Intern

Varanasi Smart City Limited (VSCL)

- under the guidance of Dr. Aaditya Pratap Sanyal

Kutch Vernacularism Documentation

Indi Architecture

summers

SPARK Research Intern

IIT Roorkee

- under the guidance of Dr. Gaurav Raheja

Universal Design

Accessibility Design Manual for Built Environment in Higher Education

C ampus A ccessibility and I nclusion of D iversity ( CAID )

- under Bharmabehn & Nilesh bhai by Kimberley Moyle

- practiced hands-on ; lippan kaam wooden handcarving ; kutch embroidery ; leather artworks ajrakh hand block printing

- study & documentation of LLDC (The Living and Learning Design Centre) Bhuj

Shrujan Trust ; bhungas ; Ludiya - Gandhi - nu - Gam village

References

Ar. Saswati Chetia Director

Greentech Knowledge Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (GKSPL), New Delhi +91 9873780298

saswati@gkspl.in

Dr. Gaurav Raheja

Professor & Head

Department of Architecture & Planning

IIT Roorkee +91 9412025455

gaurav.raheja@ar.iitr.ac.in

summers

SPARK Research Intern

IIT Roorkee

- under the guidance of Dr. Gaurav Raheja

Universal Design

Accessibility Design Manual for Built Environment in Higher Education

C ampus A ccessibility and I nclusion of D iversity ( CAID )

Dr. Aaditya Pratap Sanyal Assistant Professor

Department of Architecture, Planning and Design

IIT (BHU) Varanasi +91 9432489823

apsanyal.apd@iitbhu.ac.in

Ar. Saswati Chetia

Dr. Gaurav Raheja

LANKA REDEVELOPMENT URBAN DESIGN PROJECT

VARANASI, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA

Introduction of 3 laned roads, enhanced pedestrian walkability, dedicated bicycle tracks

for promoting Non-Motorised Transportation (NMT) for reduced carbon emissions by

Auto stand (D.L.W. ⇆ Lanka)

Internal Street section

Table-top Pedestrian Crossing

Normal Internal Street

Road divider/median Redesign

Non-Motorised Transport (NMT)

Bicycle Track

Onstreet

Two-Wheeler Bike Parking

Bus stop (Lanka ⇆ Raj Ghat)

Onstreet

Four-Wheeler Car Parking

Non-Motorised Transport (NMT)

Bicycle Track

Onstreet

Two-Wheeler Bike Parking

Bus stop (Lanka ⇆ Mandudiah)

Table-top Pedestrian Crossing

Auto stand (Lanka ⇆ Assi Ghat)

Major Street section

Onstreet

Auto stand (Cantt. ⇆ Lanka)

Auto stand (Godolia ⇆ Lanka)

Subway Entry - Exit Stairs

Elevators

Two-Wheeler Bike Parking

Emergency Pedestrian Zebra crossing

B.H.U. Institutional Boundary wall

Traffic Signal operated Junction/chuaraha

B.H.U. Gate

Auto stand (Ramnagar ⇆ Lanka)

towards Ramnagar & Mughalsarai (DDU)

combustible fuel consumption. Popularize public transportation. Demarcated on-street parking solutions (cars & bikes) with expedite electric charging points to sow seeds for future EV shift. All the vendors on road have been shifted to an underground subway with copious kiosks.

The proposal embellishes on the conducive advent of conservative surgery for the institutional heritage BHU & Urban renewal with comprehensive redevelopment for the major streetscapes, scooping out standardized dimensioned spaces from the residential -commercial blocks.

End-user target centric approach & introspection of each urban design elements in the sea of Kevin Lynch principles validates the Heri-Tech project.

major street section AA’ + site model

Mrs. KAUR BEDROOM INTERIOR DESIGN

INDIA

The moral of the interior design venture aspires to entrench a realm of brutalism, minimalism & international regionalism. Use of natural fibers, communicate muddy warmth via naked material exposure. The moves publish an aesthetic look with sustainable & cost-effective interventions.

Cost saving measure by being brutal & tactile.

From the lens of elements of design, a striking balance between the positive & negative space makes it feel inviting. A great composition of vertical (doors, window, tall framings around the TV set) & horizontal lines (bed, brick masonry, chairs, bedroom

bench) is in the purview of the perspective. Squarish & rectangular geometric forms of plan, furniture, working desks juxtaposes with the natural organic shapes of plants in room, sofa, ceramic vase ware on bed-side tables.

Warm color scheme imparts a cocooning & cozy aura. The intentional plasterless paintless naked brick wall garrisons a repetitive visual & tactile texture pattern visually, something which silently emphasizes its presence. Brick wall, concrete flooring, rugged knitted fabrics, upholstery of chairs, wooden texture –Japanese sliding doors.

PUNJAB,

GREEN SHOPPING MALL DESIGN

Catering to the vision reorient the conventional notion of a mall being glassy, airconditioned and disconnected from the outdoor environment, the green shopping mall complex establishes itself with a sustainable green announcement via passive design strategies, wrt the critical times in a hot & humid climatic zone. The building footprint & planned oriented massing ensures, maximum viable mutual shading. The courtyard cocoons the breeziness, woodiness, liveliness, human activities, kids’ enjoyment, proliferation of living beings across all species and genera. Harboring landscaping, trees &

maximizing natural daylight utilization by balcony views of the massive courtyard. To ensure the spaces are pleasant from morning to night, sufficient punctures in wall for welcoming adequate natural daylight & ventilation. Bazaar feeling is thought to be delivered via the design interventions. Class A shops ~125m2, class B shops ~500m2 and anchor shops ~1200m2. Inquisitive design features of connecting sky bridges, connecting the different building blocks, plus harbors food kiosks, views to the liveliness on the site. Material palette of naked concrete structural frame (column-beam

VARANASI, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA

& slab) with perforated Cross-laminated timber (CLT) wall panels with Window to Wall ratio (WWR~30%) corresponding to the calculated energy simulations. Open parking with facilitated solar

roof, planted pergolas to renovate the lost ground and mechanical parking arrangements.

PARKING

CINEMA HALL

GYM

SKY BRIDGES

KIDS PLAY

ANCHOR SHOPS

CLASS B SHOPS

CLASS A SHOPS

FOOD

SERVICES

Levelled Interative space

Building block 1 Building block 2

Connecting sky bridges FIRST FLOOR

LEGEND SECOND FLOOR TERRACE FLOOR

Design 3 03 spatial organisation & block model visualization

IIT (BHU) HOSPITAL

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY)

VARANASI, INDIA

IIT (BHU) Hospital, defines its importance & need in the IIT (BHU) students & staff fraternity, for direct & privileged access to dedicated healthcare services, specifally for the IIT (BHU) family. Direct availment of institutional healthcare services to the persons affiliated to IIT (BHU). The institute lacks its own, self-dedicated healthcare domain, which is currently derived from Student’s health centre BHU, IMS-BHU & Trauma centre BHU. This makes the fraternity to wait in long queues, & hustle-bustle in the mainstream chaotic health care stressed zone of Varanasi & Purvanchal on a larger context.

100-bedded hospital with 4 basic services of OPD (Out-Patent department), Diagnosis, an Emergency section & ICUs, General, maternity & pediatric wards with 2 Major Operation Theatres (OTs). Facilitated with each assorted sustainable practice employed on site operation to operation of the hospital. On an actual realization of the need, the hospital will create nuanced occupational & job opportunities for professional practice & training destination for resident future doctors in one of the nation’s premier heritage national importance institutes.

MRS. & MR. ROY RESIDENCE

KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL, INDIA

kitchen, door-window details

Architectural Competitions

WINNING ENTRIES

maternity hospital façade redesign 2021

PARTICIPATION

archumen quiz 2023

Work Experiences

solar decathlon 2021 BEEP camp 2022

IIT-B AICTE mapathon 2021

swachh bharat mission-urban toilet ideas competiton 2023

120hours 2020

120hours 2021 docexdoce india 2021

kutch documentation accessiblity audit checklist

Academic Projects

DESIGN STUDIOS

ASSIGNMENTS

product

elements

the elevation miniature

minimialistic movie poster

design craft documentation

hand-drafted construction sheets

egyptian architecture mesopotamian architecture

of design visual arts

gestalt principles rethinking

painting

dialux simulations

kiosk design residence design senior housing design department of architecture

communities. With time, this burden on their shoulders has increased. Our mind has an excellent capability to swiftly perform time travels. Analysing today’s scenario, Oxford Dictionary defines architecture as ‘the art and study of designing buildings’. The definition is similar to some of the labelling definitions of architecture taught in first-year architecture school.

“The culmination of art and science/engineering”

“Satyam Shivam Sundaram - the trinity of strength, utility and beauty”. This few word long sentence is not proportionate enough to elucidate the depth of the subject. Art and Engineering are in themselves highly deep and holistic. It is just like a small hole on earth, which on jumping into it, accords a forever infinite travel journey experience.

Architecture is now, not only a term used in the construction industry but has branched out itself in distinctive areas over time. Ranging from digital architecture to naval and aeroplanes spatial architecture. This is not only with architecture but has also happened with phrases such as Engineering and Design. Engineering: originally coined, concerning construction and operation of real-time steam “engines”. Boomed software engineering has no more such engines in it. Design: from meaning to draft a plan to posters and products, the notion has now evolved as a problem-solving assessment.

EXPERIMENTATION, EXPLORATION & EVOLUTION ON EARTH (“ THREE E’S ON ‘E’ “)

KURULA VARKEY DESIGN FORUM (KVDF) ARTICLE WRITING COMPETITION 2021 CEPT UNIVERSITY

“ Three E’s on ‘E’ ”

It is our frequent unthoughtful behaviour of throwing several empathetic and diverse words vaguely and mindlessly, open to the forum. We all have travelled along so far that it’s time we go back to our roots and get the grasp of the etymologies - history and evolution. This starling investigation will neither cater any chance to make less of such great things nor underestimate its meaning and form.

Architecture: The root of the word architecture is the Latin word architectus which comes from the Greek arkhi-tekton, meaning “master/chief builder”. It’s not that architecture played its existence, soon before or after its naming, rather we had started to interact with it since the stone ageseeking shelter in caves to mummifying the aristocracies in the Great Pyramids - trying to protect oneself from calamities and prey to bubble up themselves in securities. Securities of survival, beliefs or practices. During Roman’s peak time, the practice of architecture was as divine as the work and position of God. They believed as God created the universe, likewise, the architect carried the potential to skillfully curate the highest levelled point - arches - where the creation is at its highest position.

This reputed perception of the architect’s image is millennia old. Architects still play a key role in nation-building and the betterment of the

What did this happen? How the concept of building construction has got so diversified over imitations? When did such thinfine streamline fragmented specializations get their breaths?

This suggests that there has been significant evolution in the adoption of notions, essence and aspects of certain feelings of the phrases. Evolution is not a nightmare, which happens overnight. Evolution initiates on an attempt of experimentation. Informally, passion for trying out something new or a quest for advancement, innovation and necessity - relative to time and place. Evolution took place in its first place because of the hyperactive neural activity of the human mind. In the duration of an experiment, one explores and acquaints with new unexplored results. Coming down to conclusions of distinct findings, post-analysis of multiple explorations and neural performance. Summarising the entire roll, to a process or cycle of “Three E’s” Experimentation, Exploration and Evolution. Man is undergoing this cycle since he got on wheels, sharpened his stone spear and practised agriculture. Each second is a point in the ‘three E’ coordinate system on ‘E’arth. It is a never-ending phenomenon and will be going on till infinity. The database is expected to be huge, established in a six-dimensional system, where time, place and people are the fourth, fifth and sixth dimensions respectively, after the three E’s. Overall, as the universe is continuously expanding, this system stretches itself to put forward something new to the society and world.

Examining similar scape to architecture, the modernist movement arose with the zeitgeist in favouring ideas of simplicity, brutalism and functionalism over ornamentation and nobility. Then as well, the conviction of universal design and inclusiveness has got its hype, when the designs seemed futile unless it addresses the entire society - all people.

This ongoing procedure of addition and subtraction has now multiplied and divided architecture into various characters of building or constructing something to anything. Deep within, architecture has woven a web of complexities ranging from design ideation, planning, construction/execution and pre-post management activities.

As a practitioner of architecture, one has to take into consideration some primal elemental influencers - land, climate, society, technology and style. Spinning a fabric of interdependencies within these factors will not only make the profession more serviceable, plus more feasible, durable and cherishable, standing the test of time.

Sun Tzu in his writings “The Art of War” explains the importance

of terrain and climatic factors. “Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general.” Thus, for the army architects, worshipping the abiotic entities is inevitable and essential. Furthermore, studying and understanding the biotic community - flora and fauna, people and their mingling culture, heritage and traditions- is duly valued. Technology is the genesis of the human mind for its ease and comfort. Active and passive technological aspects facilities the life of the stakeholders. As time paces, various stakeholders and disciplines keep on growing and added on as blockchain, impacting the industry - directly or indirectly.

There is nothing to grumble about about these numerous potentialities and constraints. Architects have to consider - reconsider, for simple to complex objectives in architecture. Architects are no more unlike a potter - who beats the clay to mould it into the shape of a pot. Similarly, these considerations/factors/constraints are the beats which play an essential commanding/performing role in the shape of the pot “building” executed by the potter “architect”.

Just the way potters have to beat the clay to attain the desired shape and form of the pot, the architects have to now play around with multiple agencies to nurture the construction - involving maximum stakeholders and maintaining the sanity of their safety.

Architecture has now become more collaborative, multidisciplinary and holding a diverse perspective. The great architects define - better word - interprets architecture differently and uniquely. Henceforth, there is no particular, absolutely no chance of a concreted explanation of the phrase. It varies by the virtue of person and time. Architecture is not about today, tomorrow or a work of few years to tend, rather it is for the upcoming decades, centuries and millennia - an eternal art, standing the test of time to inspire the future. Architects impart “soul to the skeleton”, after scrunting all tangible and intangible players to contrive serenity.

“Present draws inspiration from history, futures establishes from the present. Thus, focus on the present, as it is a beautiful gift.”

The locus of a professional is a sphere. Just like the way, mother’s womb takes in the child and equally how mother earth takes us all in her womb - architects are expected to fish in all the complexities in their matrix. Via umbilical cord of skills and emotions, source them to prosperity. Sooner or later, humanity lands to an upper step of knowledge and speculations.

But whenever there are times when her children “human” - lose the balance between nature and technology, take the wrong paths in the name of development, mother earth scolds us with scenarios like the current COVID19 outbreak. She has been continuously warning all of us about climate change, global warming and rising water levels - whose results are quite vivid around the globe. Yet there has been a lot of advancement in the breathing of essence of culture and its implementation via architecture. More things to come, as the profession teaches. There is always a scope for improvement, which the concerned will figure out whilst in the presence in the “Three Es” philosophy. Let’s see what else new we have got to see.

GOMATI GOSWAMI