HETVEE PANCHAL
Urban Design Portfolio CEPT Unversity
HETVEE PANCHAL BACHELORS OF URBAN DESIGN CEPT UNIVERSITY AHMEDABABD, GUJARAT
Ph no : +91 9909956015 Email : hetvee.panchal.bud16@cept.ac.in hetveepanchal@gmail.com
DATE OF BIRTH
LANGUAGES
DIGITAL SKILLS
MANUAL SKILLS
STUDIOS
29.05.1998
English Hindi Gujarati
Autocad 2D, 3D Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign Adobe Illustrator Sketchup Rhino Microsoft Office
Sketching Writing (critical and reflective responses) Conducting public participaion activities like FGD and discussions Conceptual and Analytical Diagrams Model Making
Foundation Studio 1 Foundation Studio 2 Sem 3 - Informality on streets Sem 4 - Play Methodologies Sem 5 - Street and the City Sem 6 - From Utopias to Heterotopias (Migrant Housing)
NATIONALITY
ADDRESS
EDUCATION
WORKSHOPS
Indian
C-3/102, Goyal Intercity Opp T.V. Tower Thaltej, Ahmedabad Gujarat 380054
Bachelors of Urban Design
Rammed earth, adobe brick construction Hunnarshala, Bhuj 2016
CEPT University 2016 - Ongoing
Sahyadri School, KFI - Pune Higher Secondary Education
Reading and Narrating a city : Jaisalmer CEPT Winter School 2016
2012 - 2016
Bridge or Border in Jaroslavice CEPT Summer School, Austria, 2018 INITIATIVES Urban Inserts, BUD blog content editor B.UD BUD Instagram handler
CONTENT
INFORMAL MARKETS
MASS HOUSING
SUITABILITY MAPS
INFORMALITY ON STREETS
FROM UTOPIAS TO HETEROTOPIAS
STREET TRANSECT STREETS AND THE CITY
LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY
SANGATHAN
PLAY METHODOLOGIES
TRANSITION ELEMENTS JAISALMER RSP
TRANSITION SPACES STREETS AND THE CITY
MASS HOUSING Utopias to Heterotopias Project site : Maan Darwaja, Surat Documentation Over the past fifty years, India has seen an immense industrial boom. However, this boom touched only a few states. Farmers from states like maharashtra and tamil nadu migrated to gujarat as labourers and factory workers. The question now arises of where to settle? What land is unclaimed and unwanted? What part of the city in not valuable? It is most often the fringes of a city that are neglected and unclaimed. And this where they set up their homes. This site is located in surat, near the railway station on what must have once been the edge of the city and now claims to be one of the most prominent lands in the centre of the city. This is an attempt to document their living conditions and through that understanding their ways of living. Based on this understanding, what are the ways in which we can improve or atleast alter their living conditions for the better without really forcing them to change the manner in which they live?
Inferences from site Dark and narrow streets, small ill ventilated houses
Desired site conditions Well ventilated units, differences in street levels creating buffer spaces
Cluster concept Narrow streets creating social bulbs
STREET TRANSECT Street and the City Project site : Pune old city, shivaji rd Mapping Shivaji road is the main spine of the old city of pune. Almost all the peths like Budhwar peth, Shaniwar Peth, Shukrawar peth, Ravivar peth open up or connect to shivaji road or bajirao road that runs parallely. The famous dagdusheth ganpati, the mandai, Shaniwar Wada and Lal Mahal are all situated on shivaji road. So, not only is it a vehicular spine, it is also the cultural epicentre of the city of Pune.
PUNE OLD CITY The junctions between primary and secondary streets are very active. A lot of vendors stand around on these curbs and footpaths generating a lot of pedestrian activity.
These are amalgamations of different streets along the primary axis of the old city of Pune. These are snapshots of different conditions and character found in the city core along Bajirao road and Shivaji road, from Shanivar Wada till the Mandai.
Footpath along a priamry road.
Here we attempt to under stand the street by dividing it into multiple parts characterised by the feel, image or identity of the street in that particular part. The focus is on under standing the interaction at edge conditions and the role of these individual parts put together.
Footpath and parking.
Different uses promote different street conditions. Vice versa, varying conditions of the street give rise to innovative uses and interpretations of the street. Here we try and understand how different building uses promote or facilitate different street conditions and in effect, different street uses. These varying conditions allow the street to be a public space for all.
Wider footpaths give comfortable space to vendors and pedestrians.
Trees provide shade and privacy.
Sometimes certain activities on the footpath means that it is not accesssible to everyone.
This exercise was done as a prelude to deciding our aim, objectives and strategies.
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Bollards find their creative use through people loitering around.
Sometimes the shops occupy the footpaths.
Streetlights help vendors set up their shops.
The sections show multiple situations along the streets that either ease walking or make it more difficult. Trees and the presence of a footpath certainly help, however there are obstructions like electric poles, utility boxes and the like that make walking or universal accesibility a lot more difficult.
TRANSITION SPACES Street and the City Project site : Pune old city Design Intervention Pune is a city made of small and big ‘cultural nodes’. These are junction spaces around a temple, a sitting kiosk, a reading library, a tree and it’s plinth. I call them cultural nodes because the city’s many social activities take place at these nodes. This phenomenon is repeated all throughout the tertiary and secondary junctions of the old city. However, as you move through the primary roads - Shivaji road and Bajirao road, you can notice a difference. Vehicles have absorbed the tradtional transitional spaces. An attempt is made to reclaim street edges from vehicles by providing wider, paved and raised pedestrain routes and creating community spaces tp enhance the usage and relevance of public spaces in highly dense urban fabrics. The community spaces are potential spaces that can be converted into larger parks and nodes. They could house temples, reading libraries and benches that are found everywhere in smaller streets and junctions
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These are junction spaces around a temple, a sitting kiosk, a reading library, a tree and it’s plinth.
INFORMAL MARKETS Studying streets
informality
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Project site : Jamalpur, Ahmedabad Design Intervention Streets in most cities are overflowing. They are filled with people doing all sorts of things. Someone has set up a stall to sell socks or vegetables. Someone has set up a tea stall at the nukkad and has gained regular customers who idle away their mornings at his stall. Jamalpur is an active vegetable market that has emerged outside the walls of the APMC. The vendors outside sell vegetables procured from the market itself. About two hundred or so vendors occupy spaces outside the APMC building and under the flyover opposite. This market has its own logic and heirarchy of functioning. The real question for us was - how does one start to design for informal organic markets? what are the ground rules? can you uproot them? re - locate them? should they be allowed to continue vending whereever they have set up? should our design cater to them or discourage them? our response to was to cater them within the limits of their territories. our attempt was to provide platforms ‘otlas’ to try and organise them.
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SANGATHAN Play Methodologies Project site : Bombay Hotel, Ahmedabad Design Intervention Bombay Hotel in Ahmedabad is a migrant settlement of workers from Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. It is largely muslim community. Located on the fringes of the city, the settlement has grown organically and informally. As a result it faces issues of sanitation, water and electrical supply and waste removal management. However, it has also developed small industries that run within their homes. Women make kites, lace and trim threads from clothes to generate a second source of income.
The game board revolves around a narrative - a background of the site.
The game board combined systems of market, water, electricity and employmnet for women. The game was then taken to site to be played with the stakeholders.
In the first half of studio, we created game boards that became our ways of understanding the processes of daily life on the site. The game board combined two or three systems like the market, electricity, water and employment for women. Women became the central idea or user of the design. The idea was to create portable spaces in which women of a street could gather to work, chit-chat and could possibly unite them. The work that happens in isolation could be done together to create a stronger sense of community and enable them to expand and support each other.
In the narrative we detailed out the networks we were dealing with, along with the basic rules of the game and the roles of the players.
Multiple sessions were hosted with the stakeholder community where different people from within the community, like the local leaders, women, shop owners, water suppliers and electricity providers gathered to critique and point out the flaws in our understanding of these systems.
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SUITABILITY MAP Ecology and Landscape Site : Vijaywada How does a city grow? What determines the direction of growth? How does a city respond to its natural elements and topography? McHarg’s suitability map became a method to do just that. We attmepted creating a suitability map for a city with population under ten million. The city we chose for this was Vijaywada. It is situated on the bank of the river Krishna and spreads into agricultural lands.
Natural elements of the city
Growth of the city in the last twenty years
An area at the fringe of the city was chosen for coparison over ten years, to understand its growth direction and trends.The particular area was placed in a matrix of two different scales. As the city is primarily situated on agricultural land, it can grow on three sides. 2008
2018 A closer peek at the fringes of the city
Suitability map of Vijaywada
TRANSITION ELEMENTS RSP Winter School Site : Jaisalmer Getting lost in the maze of its living, reathing fort is the beauty of the city of Jaisalmer. The sandstone structures of the city camouflage it in the sandy dunes of the desert. What makes the city unique is the way the people have adapted themselves and moulded their physical surroundings according to the extreme climates in the desert of Rajasthan. The result of which are the various transition elements that become a part of their homes. Large windows, muiltiple openings, jharokas, otlas, steps all create the street. These are the transitoin elements that facilitate climatical realities and cultural practices of segregating private and public spaces. These transition elements bridge the outside and the inside.
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