PORTFOLIO HIMANI
BINDAL
2017-2020
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Education Present
Bachelor of Architecture School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi Rank 2 in Batch of 120 students, 2017-2020
2017
Grade XII CBSE- 94.4% Delhi Public School, RK Puram, New Delhi Gold Medal for 6 consecutive years of Academic Excellence
2015
Grade X CBSE - 10 CGPA Delhi Public School, RK Puram, New Delhi
Work Experience Himani Bindal
Present
Undertaking research on subject of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and building security.
DOB: 9 November 1998
2020
Contact
April-June
himanibindal1998@gmail.com
Phone +919873744754
Adress
Executive Team, Association for Building Security India
2019
May-June
Volunteer, SEEDS India, COVID-19 Response Team • Design Development, Research, Visualization and Graphical representation for Covid-19 Foot Operated Hand-wash Station for urban and rural villages. • Research, Graphical representation and Editing for proposal for Psychosocial Care program for children in Orphanages.
Architectural Intern, Prof. Prabhjot Sugga School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi Design Development of Restaurant and Rooms for Indian Railway Office and Rest-house, ITO, New Delhi
64, East Avenue Road, 3rd floor, Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi, India 110026
2019
June-July
2018
June-July
Architectural Intern, Gyan P. Mathur (GPM) Architects • Design development, layouts and working drawings for a Police Training Academy in Mauritius. • Working drawings for a commercial building in Gurugram. • Client Presentations and Graphical Representation
Architectural Intern, Ar. Amardeep Labana, Another Design Office Interior Decor - Residence in New Friends Colony Responsible for interior drawings, along with furniture and material selection.
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Positions Held 2017
President, Frameworks Architecture Club, DPS, RKP Role: Heading a team of 10, Increasing Appreciation of the Architecture Profession through quizzes, design workshops and competitions.
2016
Editor, MathYard Annual Publication, DPS, RKP Role: Lead Editor of MathYard, and part of organizing team for the school’s International Annual Math Symposium.
2015
Achievements 2020
Archstorming Architecture Competition A house for the Jorejeck family
2020
Selected for Erfurt Student Exchange Programme University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
2019
Special Mention, Writing Architecture Trophy’19, 62nd Nasa Conventions Winning essay on reinforcement of Gender Binaries by Architecture Profession and Pedagogy
2019
Winners-SPA Delhi, Reubens Trophy, 62nd NASA Convention 3 Academic Projects (2018-2019) submitted as part of college entry
President, Art Club DPS, RK Puram Role: Organize art and design intra school competitions.
Finalists (Top 20) African House Design Competition
2018
Runner’s Up-E-Art, Digital Poster Making Competition IEEE Tech Week 2018, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, University of Delhi, Dwarka
Workshops
Skills Languages English (Proficient) Hindi (Proficient) German (Goethe-Zertificat A2 : Fit In Deutsch) Presentation Software
2020
International Design Studio instructed by Neelkanth Chhaya, Sudipto Ghosh and Riyaz Tayyibji
2019
Lauri Baker Centre, Hands-on workshop, Trivandrum Building with Brick, Mud and Bamboo
2019
AutoCAD Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Premiere Pro Microsoft office suite
2020
Modelling and Analysis Software
2020
Rhinoceros 3D Trimble Sketchup Grasshoper (basic) Ecotect (basic)
Alter Ego, Poche Studio
CSEB Hands-on workshop, Auroville earth Institute Building with CSEB and rammed earth wall
Architecture Beyond the Monumental Elective Instructor: Parul Kiri Roy, Assisstant Professor, SPA Delhi
Interaction Design Elective Instructor: Hemant Chhabra, M.Des, Industrial Design, NIT, Gandhinagar, B.Arch, SPA, Delhi
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Academic
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Mis(Aligned) Mixed Use High Rise, Gurugram, India
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Come in, Come Out Innovation Centre, IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
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Home for the Jorejick Family Tanzania, Africa
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All ‘Play’ A Classroom design
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Learning Continuum Primary School, Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh
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Second Beginnings Habitat for the Elderly, Pune, Maharashtra
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(Mis) Aligned A Mixed Use High Rise Gurgaon The project is a response to new forms of urbanity emerging with new typologies of offices and retail: Coworking and E-Commerce. (Mis) Aligned embraces these dichotomies, working in conjunction with, instead of against these reforms, creating a new physical environment, advocating for richness in meaning rather than clarity in meaning. The design is based on a symmetrical grid, adapted and broken down according to the program it serves, creating a hybrid typology of Retail, Office and Co-Working. The opposing forms clash and intersect, and at the same time, come together fluidly, forming a layered but cohesive experience.
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SPAZE Business Park G: Retail G+5 & G+7: Offices FAR: 3
Emaar Colonnade G+3: Retail G+18: Offices and Apartments FAR: 3.5
Urban Division The Site is surrounded by buildings of similar mixed use typology, and is accessible by a major highway M3M G:+2 Retail G+10 & G+40: Offices FAR: 4 Green Belt
Gold Estate Road Southern Peripheral Road
Urban Diffusion At the pedestrian level, the program diffuses out to other retail around it, creating an active urban pedestrian frontage.
Urban Consolidation The building volume consolidates the urban conditions around it, via the spaces carved in between them.
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Entry
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1. Cab Drop Off 2. Retail Drop Off 3. Retail Stores 4. Office and Co-working Drop off
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A set of sparse volumes distorted by intertwined pathways, and intertwined streets distorted by the volumes.
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Retail
Built Circulation Circulation Symmetrically(horizontal) Circulation distributed stores Built (horizontal) along perpendicular Built
Void Distortion of Spine
Rational units ofof Spine Distortion stores cut across by 2 converging datum.
spines
Distortion of Solids Distortion of Solids
Distortion and the clashing of both the form we started with, and spine that ordered it.
Clash of Forms creating a range of relationships Voids Functionally specific Range of nodal Clash of Forms creating Distortion through Voids a range ofrelationships relationships and flexible spaces Voids Distortion through Voids
added as slices or subtracted as voids.
created; navigating between solid, void, and transparency.
Office and Coworking Tower
Circulation Built Circulation (vertical) Circulation (vertical)
Circulation traversed by workspaces with nodes between them.
Void Voids
Embracing the axis, 3 quarters of the grid are retained.
Floor plate is split up into linear plates.
Further split up Voids to create voids in between them.
Nodal Connector Voids
Nodal Bridges connectors Voids are introduced Bridges to traverse voids, creating spaces of pause and linger.
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Whenever these voids appear, it reveals a system of floating floors, directioned by the pathways
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Retail : Misaligned
The seemingly discontinuous ‘aligned’ floor plate defines the program below it
Social Spaces fragmented throughout the site: in the voids between the solid masses, in between voids and solids, giving rise to new relationships.
Each void interacts differently with the datum; some are cut by it, others contained, while some are able break free.
The dialogue between the basic form and distortions creates a range of relationships in and across the site.
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Strong horizontal datum clashing with, and defining both the volumes and the voids.
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Pathways direction themselves and the relationships below them.
The Co-working and Office tower connects to retail on multiple levels
The struggle between the solids and pathways, opens up gaps, either as little spaces of pause, or full blown voids.
A small OAT embedded in the voids.
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The Office and Co-Working Tower: Aligned
Parallel Vierendeel Girders of Glulam supported on concrete shear walls, alternating orientation every floor.
Floor plates essentially split up to be traversed through primary means of access (cores) and secondary nodes. Shear Walls Vierendeel Girders Nodal Connectors
The project creates a range of nodal relationships, first through the floor plate, and then through the solid and the void. The voids between the floor plates are traversed through connectors, designed to act as a place of lingering and pause.
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A Mass Timber Hybrid Construction By using wood as a load bearing structure, in the interior and the facade, the building’s carbon footprint can be cut by 75%. The tower employs glulam Vierendeel Girders supported by concrete shear walls. The facade has been designed climatically to further cut down energy consumption of the building.
Glulam Vierendeel Girders
Vertical Timber Louvres
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Extruded Wood Planks
5Thk mounted Fir Wood Transom
Why Mass Timber?
Double Density Rock Wool 100thk
CO2
CLT Panel 140 thk
Synthetic Breathable Membrane
as Rain Cover
OSB Element
12 Thk for Panel Frame Reinforcement CO2 ABSORBED
Timber
65thk Framing Member
Timber Transom
for Triple Glazed Glass Unit
CLT Panels
CO2 Sequestered
100 thk routed to produce Enlarged Wood Grain patterns which are then completely routed through to become fenestration on facade panels using CNC technology
Triple Glazed Glass Unit Timber Transom
Mass timber: CLT, LVL, Glulam
for Triple Glazed Glass Unit
Extruded Wood Planks
5Thk mounted on 75x35 Fir Wood
Timber
65thk Framing Member
Prefabricated and Transported
Vertical Flashing
in-situ for air and water tight joint
Concrete Topping 38thk
Rigid Insulation
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Laminated Veneer Lumber
178 thk panel
Light and Easy Construction
Compressible Acoustic Mat OSB Element
12 Thk for Panel Frame Reinforcement
Timber Transom
35 thk for Pin Cladding Substructure Daily Well Being Improved
External Wall Section
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Come in, Come out Innovation Centre, IIT, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India Individual The project aims to balance the programmatic considerations with an appropriate contextual response. The design of the built form aims to capture, and further enhance the the unique characteristic of the the site given. Spaces that promote and interactivity and congregation become a key aspect. Further these spaces merge with, and flow from intended programs creating a hierarchy which provides a student both: a sense of community as well as belonging at an individual level.
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Cafeteria
2. Food Storage 3. Canteen Kitchen 4. Loading/Unloading area 5. Cafeteria 6. Spillout for Canteen and Incubation
Incubation Centre
7. Reception for Incubation 8. Breakout Space for Incubation Centre 9. Open Work Areas in Incubation Centre 11. Semi Open Exhibit Space 12. Closed Exhibit Space 13. Auditorium
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Traditional Spine/Grid Layout
Scattering blocks to create Nodes
just passing through
Traditional Pathway just a thoroughfare
meandering and congregation; belonging
Converging to a smaller community individuality; identity
Seminar Rooms
Multi Purpose Halls
Auditorium
Diverging to a larger community
collaboration; bigger picture
Incubation Centre
Pulling and Pushing for Transient Nodes pause; linger
Resource and Exhibition
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Threshold to the Incubation Centre
Diverging lines creating a sense of spilling into the space, and the community; it is a node for gathering and for collaboration
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Zoning the programmatic functions separating work and cultural functions, creating a street-scape.
Tilting, pushing and pulling to create divergent or convergent thresholds specific to the program.
The same few patterns interact to create a new revelation at every node; a complete landscape.
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Key
1. Seminar Room 2. Multi-purpose Hall 3. Incubation Centre 4. Semi-open Exhibition Space 5. Closed Exhibition Space 6. Auditorium 7. Open Air Theatre
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same patterns: new revelations; a complete landscape
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Passive Cooling
Wind Tower
a response to Jodhpur’s hot and semi-arid climate The design employs numerous passive cooling strategies to create a comfortable environment in the building throughout the year. For Ventilation, a combination of a Wind Tower and a Solar Chimney is used.
Solar Chimney
Hot Air
Hot Air Cool Air
Sunrays
The Wind Tower takes in the wind from the wind’s prevailing south west direction, cools it down using Evaporative Cooling. The Solar Chimney in turn, takes the sun’s harsh rays in the south, creating a low pressure zone inside the chimney. The Cool Air from the wind tower is forced to move into the zone, forcing ventilation in the space.
Solar Chimney
Wind Tower
Solar Chimney
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Home for the Jorejick Family Finalists, Top 20 Archstorming: African House Design Competition Team of 4 The project aims to provide incremental strategies to sustain the family’s growing needs. It is a low cost, sustainable home for the Jorejick Family in Tanzania, Africa, adaptable to a hundred other. The design is based on a module that is dynamic and capable of expansion so that it could keep up with the occupants’ need while being economical and low-energy consuming. We set forth the idea that architecture can allow all residents to partake in not just the design of their own units, but also the programs within the building.
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Incremental Growth
ancillary spaces with potential for expansion
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8. Surface Run Off Collection Pit 9. Washing Area behind Nico’s (existing) house 10. Crop Storage 11. Outdoor Kitchen 12. Indoor Kitchen 13. Dining Area 14. Cattle and Poultry Shed
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Programmatic Specific Flexibility Section through the bedroom
Bedroom Module Configuration Flexibilty in use
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Extension of framework for the future.
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Arranging two modules for a shared plinth space.
The Molecule Expanding vertically; staircase as a connector.
Plan
1. Bedroom module (3m x 4.5m) 2. Shared Plinth 3. Ancillary Space//Framework for expansion 4. Attic//Future Expansion
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Adaptation and Expansion Unit configurations
The Atom 3x4.5m unit with attached framework for horizontal future expansion.
The Connector A staircase to connect 2 atoms and allow for vertical future expansion.
The Molecule A module with ancillary spaces that can be adapted as a complete living unit within in itself.
The Jorejick Family Arrangement The Molecules can be standalone for restricted sites, and in or around courtyards for larger sites.
The modules are adapted to make kitchen, dining, and working separate from its bedroom, both forming 2 courtyards with an interplay of public and private. The molecules provide spaces for expansion as the family grows, which can be used as outdoor work and gathering spaces in the present.
Adaption The molecule can be arranged and adapted to different family structures and site conditions.
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Low-Cost Solutions using Locally Available Material To adapt to the needs of the family 1 1
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Pivot Window
Window frame fitted with textiles of the region
1. Softwood chord (50x50) 2. Fabric (600x900) 3. Softwood frame ( 25X25) 4. Softwood Jamb (50x50) 5. Softwood Baluster (15x15)
Roof Truss
Wooden joinery connections
1. 100 dia corrugated sheet 2. Softwood rafter (100X150) 3. Softwood strut (100X150) 4. Softwood beam (100X 150) 5. Softwood post (100X50)
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Plank bed A Low-cost solution using bricks as support
1. Brick masonry support 2. Wall recess 3. Wooden planks (150x100) joined together with tongue and groove 4. Shelves
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Window shelf
Display and storage
1. Brick on Edge with Rammed Earth as Lintel 2. Wire-mesh 3. Wooden plank shelves with tongue and groove (50x150) 3. Roll down jute blinds
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The Molecule
A complete living unit within itself
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Process of Construction Total Cost Construction: 17300 euros
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Excavation and Foundation
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Walls and Framework
Backfilling and Plinth
Rammed earth foundation to eliminate the use of concrete
Rammed earth plinth
Kiln fired local bricks used for construction. Masonry with mud mortar
Windows and Doors Spanning techniques are used for the brick lintel
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Framework to support incremental construction
Attic and Furniture Design solutions for low cost furniture
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Beams and Framework
Roof Structure Truss roof with corrugated metal sheet
Landscaping Micro-level interventions like sit-outs
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Living room
Dining room
Community living
Section through living and dining room
A Nook for Everybody Program distribution
An open kitchen along a tree and sunken courtyard
Work spaces for crop harvesting
Study spaces and play areas
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Waste management cycle Cradle to cradle
Solid Waste Treatment
Grey-water Treatment
Eco-sans toilet
Composting Pit
Crop Fertilizer
Dry toilets
Solid waste from toilet
Manure after composting
Hand-washing
Rhizofiltration
Washing activities
Foot-operated
Bamboo
Grey water recycled
Attic level
Plinth level
Dining
A Gradient of Spaces
Section through the site
Indoor Kitchen
Outdoor Kitchen
Crop Storage
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1. Screening 2. Vertical bamboo filter (1st stage) 3. .Vertical bamboo filter (1st stage) 4. 20mm Gravel 5. 40-60mm Gravel 6. Bamboo plant
Bamboo Rhizofiltration Grey water treatment
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a. Filtration 1. Metal screening 2. 20mm Gravel 3. 40-60mm Gravel b. Rainwater Harvesting Tank c. First run-off pipe
Rain water harvesting Treatment of collected water
Washing Area
Toilets and Bathing Area
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All ‘Play’ A Classroom for Primary Schools Team of 2 The ever changing pedagogical theory and practices establishes that there isn’t an ideal setting for learning. There has been a shift from teacher centered teaching to various other methods. Consequently, a space that can adapt to any kind is ideal. The classroom is divided into 3 zones ranging from formal, informal and breakout. The programmable furniture layouts encourage collaboration with peers, as well as greater interaction with the built, for the student’s sense of place and identity.
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Formal Learning
The Desk
Informal Learning
A continuum of collaborative learning provided by 2 kinds of custom desks allowing students to work in groups of 2, 3, 6, 10 and 20.
Breakout; Introspection Outdoor Learning
Delivering
Individual
Applying
Pod
Creating
Small Groups
Communicating
Large Groups
Decision Making
Presentation
Traditional Classrooms
Linear, single-function space
Row/columns allow minimal collaboration
Straight aisles only allow controlled observation
Learning through collaboration through Flexibility
Informal interaction and guidance from teacher
The All ‘Play’ Classrooms
Spaces of ‘play’ in-between 3 tiers of learning
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Small groups
Medium groups
Entire Class
Large Groups
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Learning Continuum Primary School, Kangra District, Himachal Pradesh Team of 2 Pedagogical theories in the past decade have increasingly been focused on the importance of the physical environment in shaping a child through their formative years. The school, designed for student from pre-primary to primary, focuses on the tactile and the peripheral for the understanding of their world. It aims to bridge the gap between the dominant sense of vision, and the suppressed sense of peripheral vision and touch. In the endeavor of creating enveloping spatiality and tactuality, we have deliberately suppressed focused, one point perspective. Instead, the focus has been on both, the act of movement, by creating a series of revelations as one moves through the space, and then on the act of pause, with design elements at the scale of the child, encouraging lingering and making the space their own. The design creates a gradient of spaces, from formal learning to breakout. With a strong historical context, the site is an important node for the village. The school is meant to be active throughout the day, first for learning, and then as a resource and cultural center for the community without hindering on the hostelers privacy. An accessible public roof membrane acts as an inviter for the community, and the students after school hours, and a divider of the public and private programs of the design.
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Historical Context
Pedagogical Theory
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4 The Site is right opposite to the Rock Cut Masroor Temple, which is an important node for the community. In line with theories of Architectural Conservation, the built mass progressively sinks towards the temple, protecting and respecting its skyline. It also acts a dynamic cultural front after-school hours, allowing the villagers to access the school’s resources that the community lacks, without encroaching on the student’s privacy.
Masroor Temple
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A gradient of spaces from public to private/ regulated to autonomous is embraced.
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The perspective from the starting point unveils gradually as the child explores the length
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The centrally placed thoroughfare evolves from a corridor and a foyer, to a school yard, and breakout spaces.
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Each courtyard is programmed on informal grids joining access and nodal points.
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Arrangements typically involves a strict division between formal learning and corridors for as breakout. A continuum from formal to informal, learning to breakout
The class creates a gradient between formal and informal learning, allowing the kids to interact within and without the class.
Encapsulating e a courtyard, allowing easy ‘spilling into’ different modes of learning: formal, performative, interaction.
a gradient of spaces; an exercise in place-making
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Classrooms arranged along linear corridor
Thoroughfares in-betweens
Formal to Informal
A gradient of space as place-making for linger and pause
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The project is a celebration of the community, using a public accessible roof membrane to both invite and divide..
The site follows a hierarchy in its programmatic functions, with each private courtyard spilling into another through a central thoroughfare.
The learning spaces are centrally located, each having a courtyard and learning streetscapes to support all kinds of pedagogical theories.
Scattered across are playful moments that bridge and infill gaps between the maker spaces. Withing these spaces, the school comes alive.
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a series of revelations; the tactile and the peripheral
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Second Beginnings Housing for the Elderly Competition Entry, HUDCO Trophy ‘19 62nd NASA Convention Site : Pune, India Collaborative Hunched over the daily newspaper, still the favorite way of keeping up with the times, Old, forgotten, a generation to be found either alone or in warehouses of the old painfully aware of their age every passing day in a place called home, but with no feeling of one. Calling upon their long unused talents, picking it up again. Embroidery, caroms, gardening: Aren’t these the things one must do after retirement? Hoping for visitors, craving a life. The feeling of their best being behind them, no more. Ignored, overlooked, under-appreciated, no more. On the verdant hills of Pune, a second chance, to live, to be young again. Beyond the trees and gentle hills, as people come together to create an exuberant community, with all the space and time to pursue their own interest, To sway with the wind and to rock on the porch, content. Even hobbies become more somehow, perhaps it is the people themselves, perhaps it is the space that they turned into a place. No more, the thought of a gloomy death looms over one’s mind, just life. A place to be at peace for all.
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1. Entrance to the Complex 2. Workshops 3. Fitness Centre 4. Farmer’s Market 5. Housing 6. Wellness Spine 5 5 4 1 3
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The context
Nestled in the foothills of the western ghat, the site offers a retreat from the city
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Soil Character
Contour Bunding
Seasonal Ecosystem
Red soil as top layer Rocky terrain
To impound water on slope
Wetland ecosystem during monsoon
East North-east South-west South-east South
Aspect Map
Site Features 75-85 Degrees 65-75 Degrees 45-65 Degrees < 45 Degrees
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Slope Analysis
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b Bhandras and practice of counter- bunding
c Afforestation drive by the
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Reserved Forest
Cattle Grazing
Seasonal Wetlands
Contour Bunding
Elevation Map
Primary road access
Site section
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Meditation Space Towards calmness and tranquility The Wellness spine For the mind, body and soul
Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market To connect and to engage with the local
The court of learning To learn and to unlearn, a place for all
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Activity Mapping We redefine the concept of senior living to encompass not just places of care, but also those that enable seniors to feel a sense of kinship with the community, as they exercise, learn, work or play
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Activity program
Micro-scale interventions blur the existing boundaries between outdoors and indoor activities
Meditation Center
Faith Hall 100 sqm
200 sqm Spa
Wellness Spine
50 sqm
Library
Holistic Wellness
200 sqm
Wellness spine
Mental Well-being
Hobby Factory
Physical Well-being
Fitness Spine Learning court
Emotional Well-being Social Well-being
Exhibition Space 400 sqm
Mid-rise Residential Hobby Factory
Workshop 450 sqm
Dining Hall 128 sqm
High-rise Residential
Community Engagement
Community Kitchen
Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market
Gymnasium
450 sqm
100 sqm
Fitness spine
Assisted living
Section through the site An elderly housing model that promotes holistic well-being
150 sqm
125 sqm Indoor Games + Cafe
Active Living
Physiotherapy
Healthcare Center 150 sqm
345 sqm
Outdoor Games
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Remodeling for the aging Micro-level interventions
Tactile cues for the visually impaired
Eliminating the need for a level difference
Mobile furniture
Undulated paved surfaces
Dual-heighted fixtures
Dwarf walls for clear sight
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Mid-rise Residential cluster
Unit Agrregation
One BHK units
Both type A and type B are interlocked to provide for double height living rooms
Type A unit Area: 40 sqm
Type B unit Area: 35 sqm
Section through the cluster Negotiating private and shared spaces
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Spatial Organization Layering of program
Core Type A Type B
Assisted living Level 2
Interlocking Geometry L-shape allows for privacy without a defined threshold element
Active living Level 1
Program Distribution Assisted and Active living
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High-rise Residential cluster
Unit Aggregation
Two BHK units
Both type C and type D are interlocked to provide for double height living rooms
Type C unit Area: 60 sqm
Type D unit Area: 65 sqm
Core Assisted Living Active Living Community Kitchen
Distribution of Program The interlocking of modules
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Spatial Organization Typical Floor plan
Terrace Shared community asset
Level 2
Floor plan
Level 1
Floor plan
Ramp Shared community asset
Active Living level 2 Community Kitchen level 1
Assisted Living ground floor
Core
Section through the cluster
High-rise cluster
Type A
The core as a shared community asset
The agglomeration of the apartment units
Type B
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Professional and Research
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SEEDS India Volunteer Work
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Gyan P. Mathur (GPM) Architects Internship
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Reinforcement of Gender Binaries in Architecture Research Paper
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After: The future of Retail Research Paper
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SEEDS India Design Volunteer, April-June 2020 COVID-19 Response Team
Role Foot Operated Hand-washing Station for urban and rural villages Research and design development from preliminary to final proposal, and graphical representation Psychosocial Care for Children in Orphanages Research and development of proposal for a package of learning and play aids, along with drafting and editing the proposal. Lorem ipsum
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Foot operated Hand-washing Station The flexible design solution is like a kit of parts which can be assembled in ways to adapt to different contexts depending on rainfall levels, nature of ground surface available and local
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Gyan P. Mathur (GPM) Architects Architecture Intern, June-July 2019 Delhi, India
Role Commercial Building, Sector 51, Gurgaon Working Drawings for a Lift Lobby of the building Police Training Academy, Mauritius Form Development of building blocks, Layouts for Police Headquarters, Training Block, Mess and Barracks Other: Making client presentations and graphical representation of various projects.
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Reinforcement of Gender Binaries by Architecture Profession and Pedagogy Special Mention Writing Architecture Trophy, ‘19 62nd Annual NASA Convention Collaborative
Abstract Even as we built, first, primeval places of shelter and eventually, the more elaborate spatial configuration of the present, design has been increasingly veered towards society’s ideas of women, that is, an image of the submissive and sheltered woman. Look at what we like to refer to as the modern era of civilization: cities and towns that were primarily designed by men, and according to men. Concepts in city planning such as the zoning of activities into residential, institutional and recreational, created the requirement of vehicles to transport you from the home to the office making it more difficult for women to commute to and fro while managing their responsibilities at home, thus excluding them, and without access to private vehicles, confining them to the home, acting as a tacit reinforcement of traditional gender roles (Matrix, 1984). Later when the workplaces shifted closer to home, allowing women to participate in the office, employers used women’s need for proximity of the home to the workplace as an excuse to under-pay them. (Boys, 1984) An increased awareness of the special requirements that half of the population requires is an integral part of addressing the continual denial of women’s needs. It is ironic almost, the need for fairer design practices require an increased number of female architects to introduce a woman’s viewpoint into the design brief but the existing social and familial structures make it difficult to break through the vicious cycle. This change in the way we design will hopefully bring more women to the forefront of architecture, and thus create a better environment for women to practice in, increasing participation from women and finally breaking the glass ceiling.
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Reinforcement of Gender Binaries
Gender-blind planning of the cities
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After: The Future of Retail Essay on the discourse of an ‘After’ Dichotomy of preservation and innovation Collaborative
Abstract Architecture views itself at the threshold of the present and the future. The ‘after’ is considered to be synonymous with ‘progress’. This ‘progress’ is a departure from the past, a perceived isolated linear trajectory to an undefined goal. As such, humans have created a network of apparent islands that work together to construct our reality. Such a construct takes away from our inherently social nature. For instance, the Bazaar, a traditional market street has effortlessly satisfied this fundamental need for social interaction in human life as well as supported diversified yet symbiotic economies. The Bazaar typology could be argued as having a timeless quality and thrives in an ephemeral continuum between past, present and future. This has been replaced for an apparently more profitable consumer-capitalist supermarket typology where wants have superseded needs. This conception of ‘super modernity’ is a culture defined by excess and not the idea of self sustenance and community. The idea of progress should be a projection backwards as much as it is forwards. Instead of perpetually pursuing a unique typology, perhaps what comes ‘after’ for the marketplace can be a reinterpretation of a Bazaar, echoing what it already has been. The paper proposes that to envision an ‘after’, we need to assiduously study the ‘now’ and the ‘before’. Any discourse about an ‘after’, must question what progress means, and subsequently bridge the dichotomy between preservation and innovation.
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