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2020 PORTFOLIO Projects
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Architecture Project Private Practice
Interiors Project Private Practice
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The Learnign Center
BGIF OFFICE
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Center for architecture, Design & EDUCATION
PARQUE SONAR Propositions Studio M.Arch
CADE Competition Internship [p.51]
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Systems Studio M.Arch
Transit Oriented Development B.Arch
the living collaborative
the green link
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BURLINGTON CITY HALL
COMMUNITY CENTER
Institutions Studio M.Arch [p.25]
Travel Studio B.Arch [p.65]
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Thesis Project B.Arch
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KNOWLEDGE HUB/ LIBRARY [p.31]
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OTHER WORKS
ISHAN PAL SINGH Licensed Architect (India): COA Number- CA/2017/83793
EMAIL Address Mobile
ishanpal@umich.edu 813 East Kingsley St. Apartment A2, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. +17348814062
EDUCATION GRADUATE 2018- 2020
Master of Architecture at the University Of Michigan, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
3 projects selected for the Taubman College Student Show
Graduate Student Instructor for Drawing 201 Co-President of the student body- ARC • Started a monthly networking event involving 200 students • Organized bi-monthly lunch meetings with faculty members and students • Organized monthly meetings between Graduate & undergraduate students for a mentorship program • Worked closely with the Dean & Chair of Taubman to rework and ideate about student concerns, curriculum changes & international student outreach
Research Assistant for Akoaki, firm run by faculty member Anya Sirota for 2 semesters
UNDERGRADUATE 2011-2016
Awarded Honorable Mention for the Taubman college student show 2020
Awarded the Alpha Rho Chi Medal For the class of 2020
Bachelor of Architecture at Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Gurgaon
WORK EXPERIENCE HKS Inc. Detroit
June 2019- August 2019
Summer Intern
Project Site: Randall Park Orlando, Florida
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Private Practice
Produced design documentation for DD’s and CD’s Created detailed facade drawings Produced parametric families for the project Participated in coordination meetings between the Detroit and Florida team
August 2016- July 2018
Head architect& Interior designer
The Learning Center project Type: School/community Center Client: Ashiana Housing August 2016- February 2018
• Prepared conceptual designs with reference to requirements given. • Modified the designs, incorporating required changes and preparing preliminary drawings and designs and study model for the client’s approval • Prepared working drawings including specification, construction details, finish selections etc.
BGIF Office
Type: Office Interiors Client: Bhajan Global Impact Foundation Partner: Samarth Trehan May 2018 - August 2018
• Prepared and submitted complete construction drawings and details sufficient to commence work at the site and for proper execution during construction • Managed construction administration on site • Developed interior details and bill of quantities
r+d studio Gurgaon, India
Intern
Projects : Ramada Hotel, Darjeeling Chicago Architecture Foundation Competition: Center for Architecture Design and Education
IIDA Best of Asia Pacific Design Awards- Corporate Space Small category award winner 2019 Published in: Architect & Interiors India Volume Zero
August 2015- May 2016 • Managed on site and off site responsibilities including preparing drawings, estimating costs, construction administration • Coordinated and collaborated with contractors & civil engineer team • Coordinated and managed work in progress, reported to Firm partners • • • •
Team Leader for the competition Design implementation of the concept Coordinating and looking over everyone’s work Reporting progress and presenting to the Firm partners
Farmhouse Design, New Delhi
Other Work
August 2019- August 2019
Architecture/Interior Design Consultant
• Project 1: Commercial Plaza- Ashiana Gulmohar, Bhiwadi August 2017 • Project 2: The Learning Center- Ashiana Anmol, Gurgaon June-July 2018
Freelance Graphic Designer
• Created graphic logos, packaging, menus, etc. • Collaborated with M&A Associates and Brainchild, on multiple projects
August 2017- July 2018
August 2016- July 2016
SOFTWARE • Autocad • Revit • Rhino • Sketchup • Illustrator • Photoshop • Indesign • Premiere Pro • After Effects • Website design in Cargo • Conceptboard • Miro • Mural • Jamboard • Mozillahubs
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The learning center
Jaipur ArchitecT/INTERIOR DESIGNER .
In India, high school studies are taken a bit too seriously. Parents pressure their children to perform well in academics while extracurricular actives have taken a back seat. Here’s where the Learning Center steps in-a space where children can go beyond their curriculum to pick up creative or technical skills that grabs their interest. It’s a performance space, a creative space, a fun space but most importantly a space between school and home.
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CLIENT- ASHIANA HOUSING
Organic Flexibility
Spill- out informal space
Spill- out interaction space
The space right outside the door is an interaction space for children. If its between 2 classrooms then children with different interests are able to interact. Giving each classroom its own courtyard so that classes can expand into informal spaces.
The climate in Jaipur can get very hot
Combination of the two
Induced Flexibility
Cooking room turns to a pop-up cafe
Allowing the building itself to change will ensure the children to use it according to their needs. The flexibility of these spaces gives the children control of their education.
Mutual shading allows spaces between the building to be cooler
Dance room turns into a performance space
Passive Design Techniques North facing windows
No direct sunlight through skylights
Applying passive techniques such as, skylights, pergolas in public areas or even the orientation of the windows can help reduce the use of energy drastically.
Earth burming further cools the building and pergolas further shade the spaces in between
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The Site
A set of predecided programs have been placed strategically on the site. The more active and louder zones are on the ground floor, while the other more studious quieter functions are on the lower floor. This allows the two functions to co-exist together without disturbing each other. The green enveloping the Center provides clean air and cools the area down. The grid of the Jaipur old city is laid into the site as it responds well to the environment
The building is extruded to different heights, imitating the old forts.
Outline of the building is formed through zoning and programmatic needs. The building is broken up to allow circulation and wind
A system of courtyards are created. A sunken courtyard allows the rest of the function to go in the basement taking advantage of the cooling needs of the earth around it
The courtyards are all connected to allow the children and parents to walk through the entire space
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Mixed program given by the client
All active zones on the Ground floor
All studious/quieter programs on the lower floor
Cooking room
Toilet
Reception
Art room
Clay room
Dance/ Theatre/ Music room Tuition room
Workshop room
Reading room
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1. Art & Clay Room 2. Reception 3. Toilet 4. Cooking Room 5. Dance/ Theatre/ Music Room 6. Store Room 7. Amphitheatre 8. Gardening courtyard 9. Sunken courtyard 10. Art Room Courtyard 11. Entry courtyard 12. Reading Room 13. Tuition Room 14. Workshop Room
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Emergent Cultural Infrastructure- MEXICO CITY SECOND SEMESTER, M.ARCH. STUDIO HEAD - ANYA SIROTA Mexico city has a long history of music being used to get people together. From it’s rock and roll movement to it’s punk disco parties, these genres are very much alive in the underground hipster and also very populous ways. We were inspired by these sounds and this history with music and sound and it framed our interests while looking for a site. On the site itself, we sought to to preserve the vernacular architecture found on the site that has diverse emergent program, but enhance and augment it by introducing flexible, heterogeneous, and juxtaposed programs and space. The existing programs on the site were disconnected– the canal, the church, the senior
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senior community center, and park and we saw a need to connect them by amplifying their experience. Our diverse set of interventions could help bond people to the canal where all the elements could be celebrated and help each other. The existing emergent program of jazz workshops on the site at the Jacalito Café generated the use of music and sound as a social connector between the community and canal. We believe that music and sound can blur the differences in class and the architecture offers a radical mixity of program, people, and places. The different genres of music are free to come together to give space for new genres to be borne by crazed experimentation.
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Jazz Restaurant
Church courtyard
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We have used arches, a form that represents invitation, strength and unity to symbolize our shared spaces. We were inspired by arches that exist at Eastern Market - they mark the entry and identity of the market and we want to build upon that identity by utilizing them in a contemporary way to signify the shared spaces in The Living Collaborative.
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In this proposal, we maintained the original axis of the market as the guiding element, where it expands into The Shed forming different spaces of economic, societal and ethnic interaction. While the Shed function as a market and focuses on trade, Workshop is a space for cultural production, a necessity to maintain the authenticity of the market. 03
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Commune @ Alfred Commune @ Alfred caters to single people who are constantly on the move and are looking for a community to share experiences with. The floor plan functions as a living room with public spaces interspersed with individual units.
Commune @ Division: Commune @ Division functions similar to a typical three bedroom apartment but each resident would have a private entry to their bedroom space. Your private space would include a bedroom, a bathroom, and balcony and in the center of the bedrooms is a lofted living area that is shared by 3 residents that includes a double height living room, a kitchen, and dining area.
Commune @ Alfred There are two types of individual units, the Single and the Dorm. Both units are designed to be as compact as possible so that the extra space can be added to the living spaces where we imagine the community to come together and bond. .
Collab@Riopelle There are two types of individual units, the Single and the Dorm. Both units are designed to be as compact as possible so that the extra space can be added to the living spaces where we imagine the community to come together and bond. .
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BURLINGTON, VERMONT
FIRST SEMESTER, M.ARCH. STUDIO HEAD-MALCOM MUCULLOUGH Every city has an identity. Shouldn’t the city halls then represent that identity? Some of the greatest city halls become unanimous with the image of the city and also culturally relevant to the city. It’s a city hall thats for, of and by the city. The new city hall for Burlington, wants to make a similar democratic stance. It almost wants the city the identify with it beyond it’s civic use. While it relates to the now, it also very obviously suggests the architecture of the city should be more forward-looking, unlike the faux-historic brick boxes that people greenery construct in the city.
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The proposal takes a bold stance to move away from the historic grid of the city to connect the pedestrian market on Church Street to the much loved farmers market in the plaza, allowing the people and the culture to flow through the hall, encouraging people to move through the city hall and form a long term connection the building. Further, the Ethan Allen Firehouse now has space for bigger and better artworks which can all the viewed from the street itself. To do so, the middle floor of the firehouse was removed.
Movements through the site dictate the massing of the new city hall. Most prominently, making a connection between the Church Street and the Plaza
Height of the forms are dictated by the required sq-ft of the program. These forms are expanded along the same axis to accommodate city hall functions along side the
The middle floor of the firehouse is removed to accommodate larger artworks. Instead the gallery is expanded on the ground plane along the church street
Two towers are made for two types of circulation. One for the city hall offices the taller one is for the public to go to a viewing deck and special event space on top
Pitched roofs are added inspired from the roof style of the historic buildings it sites next to, and to give an essence of nostalgia
A min entry is added on the church street and the gallery is pushed back a little to allow the firehouse and the new city hall to stand out
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Closed Offices Colaborative office spaces Circulation And services Restrooms Art Gallery Spaces
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Gurgaon Thesis project The site within Gurgaon is located in an area that is clearly demarcated as “Public Utilities” in the Haryana Master plan 2031. It is close to the Huda Metro Station, about seven hundred meters. The extension of the metro rail also passes through the road right in front of the site. The demographic around the site is diverse. middle and upper classes of Gurgaon. The Kanhai village is located close to the site.The aim of the project is to make a public library appeal to all the surrounding demographic. There are no libraries in Gurgaon - which is why I chose this as my thesis topic. The project aims to be more than just a library. It’s purpose is to be a space of knowledge while also serving as an escape.
Past
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book space
book space
Library
Reading space
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The Site
Taking the site systems into consideration the builing needs to react to the people and their movement through the site Active zone
Green belt
Access through the site needed
Activity mapping
The approach to the site was clearly understood. Also the activity around the site helps in understanding where people generally hang out which could help in understanding how to get them into the site Active zones Taxis parked (hence driver hang out here) Designated parking Main pedestrian routes
Auto-rickshaw waiting spots
Un-built Land
The site is located next to a vast piece of unused land which is going to be a school. Hence the library would be useful for them too. Not much green around this area, so it might make sense to provide a green oasis here. Green patches, parks
Empty unbuilt land
Most of the buildings around the site were mixed-use, as they were educational
Land Use
site are a lot of residential complexes. Right next to it is an art center. Residential
Retail
Hospital
Road Network
The site lies on one of the main roads of Gurgaon which connects the new up-coming area to the older part of the town. It also lies very close to the central metro station. In fact in the 2020 masterplan the expansion of this metro track will have a station right next to the site. Road Network
Metro-line
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The project has diverse programs centred around knowledge development. It contains a playschool, which allows children to be around a library from a young age. Giving access to a library encourages a love for reading from an early age, leading to an attachment to the building itself. There is also lack of free congregation spaces not only around the site, but in Gurgaon or discuss. There's even a lack of a cafes or restaurants here to do so. These programs and spaces would invite more people to enter the site and even encourage intellectual interaction. The form of the library has been derived from a pile of discarded books in boxes. These forgotten testaments now shape the very thing that might inspire people to read again. Next to it, the playschool’s facade mirrors a bookshelf. The children inside are just like books, having great potential with the most amazing stories.
The building is divided to allow pedestrians to move through the site
The axis’s are altered to create interest. zones of interaction are formed
Those zones are created into a series of courtyards which are connected by corridors
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1. The Library
2. Playschool
3. Language School
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Gurgaon has no libraries, providing one is almost essential
Entice office goers with a cafe
GURGAON
OFFICE GOERS
Library
Cafe
With no public library Gurgaon has no place to come together to gain knowledge and progress
Getting the professionals to this site would maybe encourage them to go and pick up a book. Or atleast hold intellectual discussions here
Integrate the habit of reading from a young age
Give the students a place to study
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STUDENTS
Childrens Library
Reading Room
With lesser kids reading now, integrating a library at a young age might make them want to continue reading in the future
One of the most needed spaces of our city, and the most used space in the library. A place where you can get your own books and study/read/research.
Empower the villagers with language classes
Give everyone a place to escape
Kanahi village
FOR ALL PEOPLE
Language School
Escape Zone
Foreign language classes schools have a space to teach the villagers pro-bono as a requirement to be part of this project
A space to run away from all the stress to get some peace and quiet in this city.
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Elevation Playschool (left) and Library (right)
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Book Store
Book Return Main Enterance
Public Seating Space Stationary Store
Reception Library
Cafe
Kitchen
Reception
Leads to the reading room
Leads to the study prep. classes
Full Center admin.
Newspaper/Magazine Informal Reading
Small library for other languages
Language Classes for Underprivelaged
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The ground plane of the site is based on a system of courtyards each with their own function. All the programs spill into these spaces to make them into high interaction zones making them very active areas. This will allow people to get interested and enter the site curious about the activity. Making this ground plane active is crucial to this project so as to invite as many people to join this journey towards shared learning as a community. Functions like the library go in and out of the public pavement to break the monotony and allow more people to enter and see what's going on in the building. The restaurant and cafe is placed accessible to anyone from the outside. Computer Zone
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Library Top floor of the library
Children's Library
Main Circulation Staircase The hydraulic lift
Book Sorting for the research floor
Book store Children's Computer Zone
Circulation
Admin for the Library Zone
Newspaper zone Children's playspace
Toilet Admin Reading Room
Computer Area of the Ground Floor Best seller/ common books area
Book sorting for the children's library
Entry to the children's library Main circulation Staircase with a hydraulic lift at the center Stationary Shop (access from outside)
Entry from the Playschool
Book Shop (access from outside) Exit onto the -1 garden area
Informal newspaper/magazine zone
Main Entrance
Main admin department
Main Staircase for reading room
Skylight Shaft -1 study zone
Main Elevator Generator room/ services
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Fire escape staircase
Ground Floor Library Interior View The ground floor of the library is a combination of casual reading and digital archives. The staircase leads you up to the higher floors which contain more research and educational books, as anyone coming to libraries to read is normally there for research. The ground floor leads to the children’s library, so parents can leave them there and come to this zone. Further down from this area is the space with the computers where people can come and work. The library is brightly lit, and all direct sunlight comes through the ‘jaali’ which prevents overheating of the space.
The Maze The Maze is the main sunken courtyard right next to the reading room. It is an area that can be used as an escape from the outside noisy distracting world as a safe space. With the lack of public spaces in Gurgaon, the maze allows for anyone to use it without any cost. Its concrete walls gives you a sense of enclosure, yet the cut outs in the walls allow these spaces to be safe and prevent you from getting lost.
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The maze contains seating spaces of different shapes and sizes to allow for different ways to interact with the area. It allows people to come here and just be by themselves or sit with a couple of friends. The scale and layout of the space encourage a silent peaceful demeanour in this area.
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Scale 1:200
BASEMENT 1 FIRST FLOOR PLAN LEVEL -2500 BASEMENT 1 LEVEL -2500
BASEMENT 2 LEVEL -6500 BASEMENT 2 FLOOR PLAN GROUND LEVEL -6500
Incline benches to lie down and read
Incline benches big enough to allow you to sit with friends
Benches with shade from trees
The center of the maze containing a solitude zone with a water feature to cool the area
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Gurgaon ARCHITECT/ INTERIOR DESIGNER OF THE PROJECT The BGIF (Bhajanlal Global Impact Foundation) was establishing itself with a physical location in the basement of a commercial building. Most of what they do is based on green initiatives and argicultural research to help the rural population of Haryana. The clients requirements was to deliver a space that makes people feel like they are working in a bright space even though it was in a basement. We brought the ‘happier touch by the use of colours and the layour of the space was developed for colaboration. Further we installed a 10ft green wall which can survive on the lights in the space itself and a automatic waterpump which is located in the seat infront of it. This was a turnkey project and everything was designed by us. Even the logo for the foundation.
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Competition during internship Team leader. With a team of 5
CADE (Center for Architecture, Design and Education) moves into its new home, a soaring 34 storey glass tower which is a composition of both transparent and translucent boxes. The expandable translucent boxes intercept the seamless transparent box advantageously to create a dynamic facade which is both animated and programmed. This building will offer to us the past, present and an opportunity to facilitate the youth to re-imagine the future of Chicago.
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The loop which goes around the city 2020
STOP 4: Gotham City.
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Learning Spaces
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The Loop
FLEXIBILITY MATRIX Flexible Learning Spaces Arrangements
The building's most original feature is the Loop and the manner in which it transcends through the tower. CADE's Loop will be a spectacle for the riders, pedestrians and passerby as a reminiscent of the Chicago's historic loop which touched major landmarks. The seamless transparent atriums are interconnected within the tower allowing a visitor to move from one destination to another through connectors.
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Translucent boxes
Flexible rooms according to need
Rooms can slide and overlap on a system of tracks
Movable walls for maximum use of display
Christened as the LOOP the tower is a continuous public performance as the program expands, collapses and overlaps within the transparent and translucent boxes. As and when needed, the studios and display spaces are made to morph into the space which the situation demands for. The design provides a model for a new educational system infringing from the routine of educational hierarchy and systematically creating opportunities for programmed and nonprogrammed spaces to mix. The flexible learning environment are a milieu of combinations to meet demand and supply. The entire building almost seems to collapse into one.
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The common social spaces between the learning environments form temporary exhibitions and a medium for public interaction with the students.
The atrium here is an urban garden that blurs the boundaries between the Public and the Private realm of the Center.
The urban path overlooks the aerial skyline of Chicago marking the entry to The Loop. Boxes at the ground plane are retail stores and ticket counters. It breaks the monotony of one big facade and allows people to flow in.
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Hauz Khas, A T.O.D PROJECT 3RD year. 2nd term project
Transit Oriented Development proposes mixed-use and higher density. This aims to provide a better, cleaner greener lifestyle. To propose such a drastic change in Delhi, the start point should also be drastic. It should be iconic. It should represent responsible and better development for the future. Hence I propose the Green Link. Inspired by New York high line, this green path goes through a mixed use project and through a sky scraper, representing the amalgamation of future development with sustainability.
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Sustainable place-making
The Site
Kanahi Village. Full of coaching students. A library would be the perfect place for them to come study. Eating places would help too
Sarvapriya Vihar. A residential colony. The site used to be a jogging path mostly used by them. A playschool would be perfect for their kids.
Hauz Khas Metro Station. The T.O.D is designed around this metro. A commercial area is perfect for the people coming from here. A hotel would work well being so close to the metro.
Green Link The site exists on the main road right next to the Hauz Khas Metro Station. It has residential areas behind it, and educational centres further behind those.
Programs
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Hotel Servie Entry
Restaurant
Hotel Lobby
LIG Appartment
Playschool
Playground (for school)
Playground
Basketball Court
Residential App.
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Boutique Stores
Botanical Garden
Hotel with Exhibition space on the top floor
Open Service Floor
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The Skyscraper rises from the greenery within and forms an iconic image in the skyline. There is a need for Delhi to build higher buildings to optimize space. However this does not mean that we must copy the fully glazed language of skyscrapers around the word. The skyscraper parts to allow green gardens every 10 floors which allows this building to breath and even for birds to find a place to rest.
The triangular shape allows the hotel to get the best views
The courtyard in the middle allows natural light to enter and brighten the interiors
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The additional parts to the triangle allow more Space within and diversity of functions.
Ground Floor Plan
Hotel Floor Plan (Bar floor)
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Community Center
Bhojpur, Bhopal during my fourth semester
The village Bhojpur is situated on the outskirts of the city of Bhopal. Despite its rural status, this village has a negligible crime rate, and is free of any garbage as they re-use all their materials. Due to rapid modernisation, they are not being able to sustain themselves for long in this community as people are leaving the village for better jobs in the city. A community center that could allow people to advance and develop as a society and within their own village would help this issue. To empower the women with knowledge and to empower everyone with the facilities and opportunities to grow within this environment would be the best option for them.
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The site is situated at the bottom of the village and would cater to the needs of the village such as an everyday store, a doctors sell the clothes they make. Besides that a library for the villagers to gain knowledge and advance on their own
This road is the one that leads to the famous Bhojpur temple, a very famous tourist attraction. People pass this village without noticing it at all. The village could take make use of this fact and provide facilities such and tourist shops, restaurants and a tourism center to help support this village
The site needs a setback from the road to put a patch of trees and greenery between cars and the community center.
Paths are cut through the site, mimicking the dams that Bhojpur is known for, also allowing people to walk through the site and get deep into it.
By pulling up the spaces between the paths, it creates the main blocking for the site.
These enormous blocks were then cut into to worm niches and courtyards where people could enter the site from or enter into the building.
The block is lifted off the site to form one main courtyard in the center of the project. Additionally the space behind the library is filled with earth to form a first floor courtyard to house other functions.
The first floor is extruded and entry to the first floor from both sides is given.
Stores which sell clothes made by the villagers themselves
The admin and a small room for the guard to stay
Tourist center, where you can borrow bikes and cycle repair
Library from the ground floor to the first floor
The roofs are sloped to mimic the architectural style of this area.
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VET DOCTOR
MART
FOOD STALL POST OFFICE
LIBRARY
BIO-GASS PLANT CYCLE REPAIR
FILLED IN EARTH STORAGE CLEANING AREA
TOUR CYCLE RENT
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TOURIST SHOP
The form of the building is inspired by the village that it is set in. The materials are also common with those buildings. This provides a sense of comfort for the locals. At the same time bringing these functions/programs to one spot makes this center highly modern and adaptable. The spaces provided are generally larger than that of the village and allows higher number of people to congregate. The building at the same time allows tourists to come in and purchase items from the shops (made by the locals) and eat at the restaurant which would support the rural economy.
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INDUCED KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION TO WOMEN While the men in the village read newspapers and discuss the happenings of the world the women mostly are doing household chores. The idea of this community center is to automatically include the women as part of that knowledge dissemination due to proximity.
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SEMIPUBLIC
PUBLIC
INFORMAL PORCH TYPOLOGY The porch typology is taken from the village itself as it gives them a sense of comfort in these spaces
THE WELL + THE LIBRARY The women normally go uphill to get water for the household chores and drinking from the well. By shifting the well’s location close to the open library, it allows women to be in close proximity to intellectual discussions. Also due to the post surrounding villages can be shared easily. This could incite interest amongst the women to learn about news from far away places and encourage awareness.
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CONNECT
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SEMIPUBLIC PRIVATE
RAINWATER HARVESTING CHANNELS The roads lean into the channels running in the center which collects all the water and guides it to the well through a slope
CYCLE REPAIR SHOP
The cycle shop allows travellers to stop here and fix their cycles and take a break next to the library, inviting them to develop along with the community
THE POST OFFICE The postman brings the news from the other villages. Placing it here will give him accessibility to a far larger audience
TEA STALL
BAMBOO JAALI WALL
PUBLIC SEATING
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Shiv Agarwal Farm House New Delhi r+d studio (internship) This project was a redesign of an old farmhouse. The brief given was to use the same structure as the previous house, but to give it a completely modern look. This was one of the projects during my internship that I was heavily involved with. I worked directly under the partners and made most of the construction drawings. Also with regular site visits I oversaw the construction of those drawings.
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Commercial Center-The Plaza Bhiwadi, Ashiana Gulmohar Independent Project The site is located right next to one of Ashiana Housing project in Bhiwadi. The brief of the project was to create a commercial center but make the first floor enticing enough for people to want to buy those shops too. I did this by making a massive flight of stairs which lead up to a courtyard on the first floor. The flight of stairs acts like a big public seating space, and by having a courtyard on the first floor rather than the ground, people might be encouraged to go there.
Physical Models During B.Arch 3rd Semester: Time Problem Aim: Make an architectural space based on a musical track (provided by the faculty) The track I chose was an electronic track. The nails struck hard into the base represents the hard repetitive baselines, stung together with a lighter beat represented by the string. The mesh represents the overlaying tune which flowed around and over the beat. The chain on top is the repetitive beat that ties the nails, the beat and the tune together. Finally the staples represent the repetitive minimalist tune that comes in the end and eventually fades out.
2nd Semester: Residential Design Aim: Design a house for a ceramic artist in the Biodiversity region of Gurgaon The site is located in a rocky zone with a small lake at the edge. The house design represents the rocks jutting out of the ground. Its jagged and irregular cuts mimic the sharp features of the landscape. The walls are thick and made of rammed earth which makes the form and the texture of the house almost disappear into the landscape. The ceramic artist’s house looks almost like it’s been sculpted out of the ground itself, making the user and the architecture intimately connected.
Artworks + Freelance Graphic Design The artworks on the left are independent projects. The graffiti work was done for clients, in offices and cafes. The sketches are works i did in highschool. The graphic design work on the right has been done post-college. Starting with a menu on top then logos and finally socks packaging at the bottom.
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Soc k s Pa ck a ging
COMPRESSION SOC KS IMPR OVES B LOOD FLOW IN YOUR FEE T BY gent l y squeezes bl ood u pw ards
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LOOSE TOP SOC KS (Trans paren t cu t out)
HAP PY FEE T TO KEE P YOU UPBE AT
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Anubhav Sealing Systems
k s, t ai l or made f or p eople with diabetic sensitive feet
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HAP PY FEE T TO KEE P YOU UPBE AT
LOWER COMPRESSION AT THE TOP OF THE SOCK
GRAD UATED COMPRESSION
GRE ATE S T COMPRESSION AT THE ANKLES
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ALOE VER A SOC KS
ICE COOLING SOC KS
MICRO-EN CAPSUL ATED TRE ATED FABRIC
MICRO-EN CAPSUL ATED TRE ATED FABRIC
HAP PY FEE T TO KEE P YOU UPBE AT
HAP PY FEE T TO KEE P YOU UPBE AT
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A coolin g, energising blend o f n atura l peppermin t and other min t oi l s .
The micro c apsules are int egr ated in the kni t (s ti t che s ) of the sock. The m echani c a l eff ec t o f the friction between
The micro c apsules are int egr ated in the kni t (s ti t che s ) o f the sock. The m echani c a l eff ec t o f the friction between
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