Ishita Parmar-Portfolio by Ishita Parmar

Interdisciplinary narratives Urbanism - Architecture+Design - Research

e: inparmar@syr.edu m: +1(315) 450-7851

The selected works reflect my current interests in Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism. The portfolio is divided into two parts academic works and professional works. The academic works section is further categorized under Urbanism, Architect+Design, and Research work. Throughout the portfolio, the projects are organized according to scale, varying from physical space to conceptual drawings. I have a strong focus on investigating the pragmatic implications of research and theory into design through different mediums, forms, and narratives. Enjoy!

CONTENT ACADEMIC WORKS URBANISM Shifting Patterns: a catalog of speculative patterns derived from the Mangrove in Mumbai Syracuse Architecture, MS Thesis capstone project spring 2021

A civic landscape: waste management facility and ecopark Syracuse Architecture, MS design studio fall 2019

The shape of water Syracuse Architecture, professional elective course spring 2020

The urban threshold ARCHITECTURE+DESIGN

International student workshop at Univerisity of Ferrara, Italy, summer 2016

A public library: an approach to regeneration B.Arch, Design Dissertation, 5th year, 2016-17

Community housing for Kumbharwada (potter’s village) B.Arch, Design Studio, 2nd year, 2013-14

The line extrusion series Syracuse Architecture, elective course, spring 2020

Street library prototype SMARTLABS 1.0, computational design studio, 2017-18

Pavilion 456 Installation for Celebrate Bandra Arts Festival, Nov 2014

Virtual gods RESEARCH

Virtual digital art collaboration, Aug 2020

Tri-terra: the metamorphosis of terra-cotta tiles Syracuse Architecture, research seminar, spring 2020

PROFESSIONAL WORKS

Inside|Out ARCHITECTURE+INTERIORS

Syracuse Architecture, research seminar, fall 2019

Shalai, by the beach | Luxury Resort at Mandrem, Goa (IN) HSAAV Architects LLP, Mumbai (IN), 2018-19

Boutique hotel | Anjuna, Goa (IN) HSAAV Architects LLP, Mumbai (IN), 2018-19

Science and Arts Museum | New Mumbai (IN) HSAAV Architects LLP, Mumbai (IN), 2018-19

ANUSAYA residential townhouse | Mumbai (IN) AV Architects, Mumbai (IN), 2017-18

Co-working office interiors | Pune(IN) AV Architects, Mumbai (IN), 2017-18

ACADEMIC W ORKS: URBANISM

SHIFTING PATTERNS

A catalog of speculative patterns derived from the Mangrove in Mumbai Course: Syracuse Architecture, MS Thesis capstone project, spring 2021 Advisors: Associate Dean and Prof. Julia Czenriak and Prof. Fei Wang Skills: Rhino+v-ray, ArcGIS, Illustrator and Photoshop

Abstract: Imagining the world from a bird’s eye perspective, looking down upon the patterns on the earth’s surface which include the streams and rivers joining larger water bodies, the different gradients of the land responding to the settlement patterns and land-use, the textures, gridlines, road and highway networks, all so divergent yet collectively contributing to the larger frameworks and processes that are not only linking them to each other but are also used to inform one and another. Patterns seem to be always in motion, they work towards connecting, distributing, disrupting, formulating, and so on explaining their generative and dynamic evolution. Patterns can influence and shape our affiliations with nature at a given point in time. They are linked to the environment and ecology as much as they are to physical representation and human innovation. (M’Closkey Karen and Vandersys Keith. Dynamic Patterns: Visualizing Landscapes in a Digital Age. London & New York, Routledge, 2017) My interest in pattern design and its recognition is to develop a framework that is performative and aesthetically driven to understand the centrality of patterns within the broader, complex, and systemic urban conditions. I am focused on Mumbai as an urban region to understand pattern finding and pattern forming under the theme of the green networks of the Mangroves systems in the city. With the urban context of Mumbai where infrastructural projects are exponentially rising the need to create awareness, stimulate and maintain ecological systems in congruence with infrastructural development is the need of the hour. The project has evolved into a catalog of pattern finding and pattern forming under the 3 categories of Topological, Behavioral and Ornamental patterns(as suggested by the book mentioned earlier) to derive the design possibilities and projections to understand and critique the working of patterns derived from mangroves systems within the larger urban systems of Mumbai.

Pattern variation

RESEARCH AND SITE STUDY

Topological Patterns: The visible and invisible characteristics are cataloged and translated into points, pixels, and lines. The study and creation of patterns involve the transfer of organized information from one medium to another. Behavioral Patterns: Behavioral patterns are relevant for thinking about relationships among entities separated by space and time. These patterns bridge the scales by linking the behavior of physical systems such as energy, or animals to abstract systems such as information. expressed as digital signs. Ornamental Patterns: Ornamental Patterns have been associated with pleasure, allure, and the ability to ignite the imagination. How may one reinterpret the idea of ornament in today’s environmental context?

Literature summary diagram of the book Dynamic Patterns: Visulaizing Landscape Architecture in the digital age, written by Karen M’closkey & Keith Van derSys

GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO MUMBAI & CURRENT MANGROVE CONDITION

Location of Mumbai city

Dry coastal conditions

Mumbai Suburbs

Island City

1700

1890

1925

1969

2000

Being near free water, the inland regions near the mangrove have informal settlements Railways+Roads+Urban settlements

Patterns of growth in Mumbai city

Topography

Coastal road development project

METHODOLOGY

Plan Horizontal expansion In this condition, we see the highly dense connection that generates from one unit module of the roots. The roots are in the process of spreading over horizontally creating the marshy swamps of the greens when viewed by a satellite in a plan view.

Sectional elevation

Plan

Vertical growth In this condition, we see the shoots growing vertically – Pneumatophores, a special structure that help the underground roots access air even when submerged by the tide. The roots are in the process of spreading over horizontally creating the marshy swamps of the greens when viewed by a satellite in a plan view.

Sectional elevation

Plan

Initial branching In this condition, we see the branching in 3 directions as represented in the plan. Their matured growth is further influenced by the coast and tidal waves.

Digital modelling of the mangrove roots at different conditions

Sectional elevation

ADAPTATIONS

Pattern adaptation logic diagram 7

TOPOLOGICAL PATTERNS- IMAGINED SCENARIOS

PRODUCTIVE & MULTIFUNCTIONAL Landscapes are programmed with the ability to adapt and change to different conditions, so they can require different types and lower intensities of maintenance regimes to sustain them to tend them in different ways so that community gardeners, and urban foresters alike are rendered as stewards and caretakers of space

Pattern variations

Typical Pattern projection

Existing site condition

Projective scenario

ECOLOGICAL Creating floral and faunal habitat and pattern geometry allow for sediment accretion and slow surface run-off. The uneven surfaces promotes the trapping and binding of decayed matter enriching the soil of the mangrove.

ECOLOGICAL+ARTS+EVENTS Creating floral and faunal habitat and pattern geometry allow for sediment accretion and slow surface run-off. The transformation and alignment of the pattern allow for hosting a variety of arts and interactive events within the mangrove ecosystem.

CULTIVATED Creating a lush green and rich image and develop an identity of the city. Secondly, they may behave as green infrastructure reducing the number of resources spent on active systems such as filtration/purification plants instead allow the landscape to flourish at large scales.

BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS- IMAGINED SCENARIOS

Growth and reproduction- mangroves as an ecosystem

Creating a living habitat- mangroves as an ecosystem

ORNAMENTAL PATTERNS- IMAGINED SCENARIOS

Generic products

Generic products at a furniture scale

CONCLUSION

TOPOLOGICAL

As surface expressions for ground organization

BEHAVIORA

Cross-over between

natural and artificial systems

ORNAMENTAL

Embed the patterns in everyday popular culture at product and furniture design 13

ACADEMIC W ORKS: URBANISM

A CIVIC LANDSCAPE: WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY AND ECOPARK Research and Design Strategies addressing the waste issues of Xiong’an New Area, Course: Syracuse Architecture, MS design studio fall 2019 Instructor: Prof. Fei Wang Team: Analee Patel and Ishita Parmar Skills: Rhino+v-ray, Illustrator and Photoshop

* Please note all the drawing and renders are produced by me unless otherwise stated.

Studio Brief: The studio focused on “Waste” in relation to social, political, economic, cultural, and technological aspects in Xiong’an. The studio was structured in 3 phases. Phase 1 was involved the study of “waste” globally followed by in-depth group research on case studies of strategies on Waste that concluded in a collective research booklet. Lastly, phase 3 involved the final project on proposing research and design strategies to tackle issues of Wast in Xiong’an New Area in China. Proposal Description: The Xiong’an New Area being a new city with a fast pace developing urban context, there has been an intense study on urbanism from various perspectives. By studying the connectivity (road networks), organizational systems (districts), social points(community centers), the green system (landscape), the hydrological system (wetlands) in isolation and combination, the project develops an ideological bond between the facility and the various systems in the masterplan generating an ecopark. The larger aim is to treat the proposal as a civic landscape and projecting an understanding of its growth over a period, in the Xiong’an New area.

Design moment of the management building in relation to the surrounding landscape

RESEARCH AND SITE STUDY The drawings below are an outcome of phases 1 and 2 of the studio that involved intensive research and data interpretation into infographics and site drawings.

Estimated Population to serve = 5 million Population density = 10,000perons/sq.km. Serving popultion of 1.1 million as per 2014 Census data GDP = 2.9 million in 2016

Statistics released by Ministry of Ecology & Environment(MEE) showed that the amount of general industrial solid waste, industrial hazardous waste, medical waste & domestic waste generated in large and medium sized cities, nation-wide reached 1.31 billion tons, 40.1 million tons and 781,000 tons and 219.44 million tons domestic waste respectively in 2017. Thus the management facility would primarily focus on management of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)

Infographic : Waste + Types of Waste + Xiong’an New Area

Site Study & Identification : Xiong’an New Area

“The union of landscape with urbanism promises new relational and systematic workings across territories of vast scale and scope, situating the parts in relation to the whole, but at the same time the separateness of landscape and urbanism acknowledges a level of material physicality, of intimacy and difference, that is always nested deep within the larger matrix or field.”(33) - James Corner Terra Flux essay from The Landscape Urbanism Reader

DESIGN PROCESS: SYSTEM DIAGRAM The system diagram serves as a communicative tool to depict the intensity of connections among the issues associated with waste and the design strategies responding to them in the context of the new city Xiong’an

DESIGN PROCESS: MASTERPLAN

Design as a layered system of flows

DESIGN PROCESS: MASTERPLAN

Master Plan+ Response Lines + Program

Waste transported to Management facility

Unloading bays for Waste Disposal

Conveyer Belt for Transporation of Waste

Manual Sorting

Angular Star Screening

Magnetic separation of Steel materials from the waste

Eddy current

Optical Sorting

Manual Sorting

Mechanical Operations carried out in the Waste Management Facility Drawing prepared by Analee Patel

DESIGN PROCESS: SCENARIO PLANNING

Building Boundary

Building mass overlooking Landscape

Building on a seperate plane and landscape bridging the gap

Sloped Landscape

Cascading volumes + Bridge connections

Building divided by Landscape

Water Channel + bridges

Landscape around Building mass

Central Mass with Landscape on the edges 21

DESIGN PROCESS: WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILTY

Volumtric Study+ Zones of Interaction 1

Viewing Gallery

View to the underground section of the Tipping Building Recreational Ground

3 2

1 2

Longitudnal section of facility building

Skylight

Underground section of the Tipping Building

DESIGN MOMENTS

Lotus Pond

Looking over the management facility

Pedestrian connection of WM building to the main road

Fishing+Ecopond

Slopes

Outlook hills 23

ACADEMIC W ORKS: URBANISM

THE SHAPE OF WATER Contructing in the Anthropocene: Research and Design Strategies addressing the drought issues in Lake Oroville in California Course: Syracuse Architecture, elective course spring2020 Instructor: Prof. Julie Larsen Team: Carol Pacheco and Ishita Parmar Skills: Rhino+v-ray, Illustrator and Photoshop

* Please note all the drawing and renders are produced by me unless otherwise stated.

Course Brief: Constructing in the Anthropocene is a research and experimental professional elective focusing on representational tools, digital fabrication, and material investigation in response to environmental challenges. The Anthropocene is a new geological age, characterized by long-term climatic change and the commencement of significant human impact, as a result of industrialization, on the Earth’s geology and ecosystems. And if the Anthropocene is a human-created machine, is it possible for this planetary machine to be rendered visible with purpose? Proposal Description: The project aims to be a solution to water scarcity. Currently, the irrigation water for the crops of the Butte and Plumas County depends on the Oroville dam. However, due to droughts, the water level has decreased over the years. The proposed system consists of two broad aspects the GRID of the farmlands and a module to HARVEST water from air. On the module, an absorption-regenerationcondensation cycle will occur. A desiccant, like MOF (Metal-Organic Framework), will capture the moisture from the air and then desorb the water out under the sun. For that reason, the interaction of the module with direct and diffuse sunlight is essential. Therefore, the module will face south and rotate according to the sun position. Moreover, the cross-section of the module will change along the grid path. It will go from a larger section to a small one, helping conduction and extraction of the liquefied vapor at every intersection of the grid. Also, for heat transfer purposes the shape has a larger exposed surface than depth.

Oroville Lake and neighbouring farmlands

MEASURING THE ANTHROPOCENE

Axonometric hybrid section interpreting tangible and intangible data such as the decrease in water levels, impact on marine life, etc. Drawing produced in collaboration with Carol Pacheco

Material research on a desiccant called MOF: Metal-Organic Fiber that will capture the moisture from the air and then desorb the water out under the sun.

PER[FORM]MANCE OF THE MODULE

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Based on the rotation of the module, the section below shows the possible outcomes of the positions of the module, based on the sun’s rotation.

A perspective view of the module within the context of the farmlands near the lake.

Drawing produced in collaboration with Carol Pacheco

ACADEMIC W OKRS: URBANISM

THE URBAN THRESHOLD Contemporary design in the historic city center: Ferrara, a city full of voids. Course: International Workshop by IES College of Architecture+Univeristy of Ferrara, Summer 2016 Instructor: Prof. Chaitra Sharad and Prof. Pietro Massi Team: Miyuu Nakanishi, Madumal Gunaratna, Lasha Trapaidze, Ishita Parmar Skills: Rhino+v-ray, Illustrator and Photoshop

* Please note all the drawing and renders are produced by me unless otherwise stated.

Course Brief: Historic urban areas of a city are valuable assets of a city. They not only generate great cultural interest but also provide high-density housing. Conservation and revitalization of such areas add to the richness and livability for the future of a city. The workshop was focused on the revitalization of Travaglio square, a void within Ferrara’s historic center bearing cultural and infrastructural importance. A project to revitalize the unique heritage assets of Gate located at the south entrance of the city. Proposal Description: The primary idea is to regard the site as a threshold in response to its historical significance and through a proposed design intervention preserve the unique architectural character and improve the public realm. As a team, we prioritized the harmonious layout of the urban and cultural landscape Ferrara has to offer. The revitalization design strategies included making the square more accessible to the public by enhancing the floor scape with informal step seating that may be used and platforms during the market days and introduce commercial land-use within the neighboring buildings. My contribution involved making schematic drawings and the final proposal presentation.

Identifying site as a threshold with project vision

SITE MAPPING AND DESIGN PROPOSAL

Masterplan

DESIGN PROPOSAL

Steps in the central portion of the square as social and meeting space. Render prepared in collaboration with Madumal Gunaratna

The edge treated with steps similar to the steps on the square Render prepared in collaboration with Madumal Gunaratna

ACADEMIC W ORKS: ARCHITECTURE+DESIGN

A PUBLIC LIBRARY An approach to regeneration at Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, India Course: Design Dissertation, 5th year B.Arch, 2016-17 Advisor: Ar. Kirtida Unwalla Skills: Autocad, Revit, Rhino+v-ray, and Photoshop

Proposal Description: The library is a living depository of past culture and sustainer of the intellectual activities that anticipate future developments. With the technology and internet, the purpose of a public library must be re-evaluated and updated. Today’s public library building sits in a peculiar position as media changes from the tactile to the digital. The thesis aims to illustrate the continued importance of the library as a physical place within the community. No longer a place simply to store books, the library has become a place for human interaction, a place for public discourse, and a place for continued education. As concepts of the collection and its accessibility shift through time with cycles of seminal decimal discoveries, the changes brought about by such inventions, redefine the library’s role in society.

Proposed public library building

DESIGN INTENT

DESIGN PROPOSAL

Design concept

North-Facade section showcasing the interplay between the facades.

DESIGN PROPOSAL

Site Plan

North-facade showcasing the steps connecting the facades

West-facade having twisted louvers for filtering natural light

Play-ground and lawn area at ground level

Outdoor cafe seating and green lawn serves as the social space 37

ACADEMIC W OKRS: ARCHITECTURE+DESIGN

COMMUNITY HOUSING FORKUMBHARWADA (POTTER’ VILLAGE) A live-work scenario for the potters community living in the dense city of Mumbai Course: Design studio, 2nd year B.Arch, 2013 Advisor: Ar.Sunita Samant Skills: Autocad and Photoshop

Studio Brief: 12 and a half acres of land situated in Dharavi along the 90 ft road and is named after the migrant potters of Gujarat: Kumbharwada. An intensive background study was conducted to understand socio-cultural aspects, the process of pottery making, marketing, and sales of finished goods within an existing compact layout. Description: The study led to an understanding of a “work-live” environment which redefined the concept of order in chaos. The region consists of highly dense built form, narrow lanes just enough for one person to walk with one of the most interesting space dynamics where one house would function not only as their work area but also an entire family of 3-4 would reside there. The design problem dealt with a reorganization of a certain area within the region keeping in mind the live-work scenario prevailing there and enhancing social spaces, hygiene, and sanitation facilities.

01:Ideology

04:Internal courtyard

02:Quadrant division

05: Service core

03:Circulation passage

06:Complete unit

Concept diagram of the proposed housing unit

DESIGN PROPOSAL

Study Models

Plinth Level: +0.45M

First Level: +3.35M

Terrace Level: +6.70M

Roof Level: +10.00 M

LEGEND: PLINTH LEVEL

LEGEND:FIRST FLOOR PLAN

1-b : BEDROOM OF FAMILY A 1-a : TOILET FOR FAMILY A 2 : WORKSHOP SPACE GIVEN ON RENT TO OTHER POTTERS FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES 5-b: BEDROOM OF FAMILY B 5-a : TOILET FOR FAMILY B 6-b: BEDROOM OF FAMILY C 6-a : TOILET FOR FAMILY CA 3: STORAGE SPACE FOR RAW MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR TRADITIONAL POTTERY 10-b: BEDROOM OF FAMILY D 10-a : TOILET FOR FAMILY D

1-b : BEDROOM OF FAMILY A 1-a : TOILET FOR FAMILY A 2 : WORKSHOP SPACE GIVEN ON RENT TO OTHER POTTERS FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES 5-b: BEDROOM OF FAMILY B 5-a : TOILET FOR FAMILY B 6-b: BEDROOM OF FAMILY C 6-a : TOILET FOR FAMILY C 3: STORAGE SPACE FOR RAW MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR TRADITIONAL POTTERY 10-b: BEDROOM OF FAMILY D 10-a : TOILET FOR FAMILY D

Unit Block Plans

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90 FEET WIDE ROAD Site Plan

Site Section

ACADEMIC W OKRS: ARCHITECTURE+DESIGN

THE LINE EXTRUSION SERIES Furniture design Course: Syracuse Architecture, elective course, spring 2020 Instructor: Prof. Timothy Stenson Skills: Rhino+v-ray, and Photoshop

Course Brief: At the beginning of the twentieth century, as waves of political and social change swept the globe, the arts sought new, foundational significance and novel expression. A generation of artists and designers cast aside nineteenth-century eclectic stylings in pursuit of socially liberated and intellectually grounded relevance. Within this context, early modern architects turned to furniture design to experiment - at least it seems so for many. We see this in Corb, and Aalto, and Mies, and etcetera. Perhaps these designers saw the potential for more direct explorations of relationships between purpose, material, and form in furniture – a relevance for art in the every day, an antidote to styling. Project Description: Form and language: By using a single material for the manufacture of the furniture pieces the idea behind the design is as the name suggests a basic extrusion of a given line. The lines are conceived in elevation and then extruded to provide a 3-dimensional form to the 2D line. All the designs are consistent in height and use the 20 point biscuits for joining two sides. Performance & Utility: The series are essentially small-scale tables placed either at the bedside or used as a coffee table/side table in a living room or any other social space such as balconies and porches within a residential setting. Furthermore, with flexibility in terms of its location, the fact that they are line extrusions allows the user to use the furniture piece in 2 or 3 different positions as well. Thus, the series provides variety in form and utility. Aesthetics: The series is developed keeping in a mind a minimalistic aesthetic with simple geometry, the turning points having subtle curvatures, and the fact that they are all made of one material, Birch plywood.

2-D linework of the designs

DESIGN PROCESS & CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS

Render showing all the designs in the series

Construction Drawing for Design 1 All dimensions are provided in inches Material: 3/4”Birch Plywood

Diagram to work out the possible iterations in the position of the designs

ACADEMIC W OKRS: ARCHITECTURE+DESIGN

STREET LIBRARY Prototypical iterations of a street library module with public space of a promenade Course: SMARTLABS 1.0, computational design studio, 2017-18 Instructor: Ar.Sushant Verma Skills: Rhino, grasshopper, and v-ray

Project Description: The project intends to explore various geometric forms of a public library keeping in mind the book storage system. The idea is to explore the form that would behave as a prototype, which can be placed in public spaces in a city such as promenades, gardens, squares, etc. to store and share books. The approach of computational design is adopted as a form-finding exercise and optimizing the derived geometry. The approach of computational also accounts for the possibility of the derived geometry to behave as a prototype with parameters that can vary from public space to public space. The site is a public space, a promenade located in a suburban region in Mumbai city. A region of the linear stretch of the promenade is considered as the site under study. The site is used by a large number of people for their routine walking, jogging exercises, the linear stretch consists of a dog park and a amphitheater at the end of the stretch.

3D printed module of 1 iteration

DESIGN PROPOSAL

Form Evolution

Schematic Site Setion & Plan

Physical exploration

ITERATIONS

Digital exploration

ACADEMIC W OKRS: ARCHITECTURE+DESIGN

PAVILION 456 Prototypical iterations of a street library module with public space of a promenade Course: Installation for Celebrate Bandra Arts Festival Team: Akshay Kumbhar, Ameya Kaulaskar, Ishita Parmar+ supporting staff of 5 labourers Skills: Autocad and Photoshop

* Please note all the drawing and renders are produced by me unless otherwise stated.

Project Description: Pavilion 456 / Pseudo geometry is seated at a strategic point along the entire stretch of Carter Road. The form allows the structure to behave as a starting point from one end and a termination point of the exhibits from the other end. The existing vegetation on site added more to the experience of the pavilion and thus bamboo felt like the ideal material to be used to express the organic framework. As the form evolved, negative and positive spaces were generated. These were later enhanced by threadwork making the space all the more personalized and specific leading them to become “SELFIE SPOTS” for the people visiting. This project was accomplished by team effort. There was a team of 3 people including myself. We also had a team of supporting staff of 5 laborers to help us build it on-site 48 hours before the festival.

1:1 scale design-build bamboo installation

DESIGN PROPOSAL

Position of the frames along the linear path of the promenade

Square : 4

Drawings prepared in collabortation with Ameya Kaulaskar

Change in the navigation due to the positions of frames

Pentagon : 5

Positive & negative spaces developed which are used as “selfie spots”

Hexagon : 6

Thread-work signifies the “selfie spots”

DESIGN DOCUMENTATION

ACADEMIC W OKRS: ARCHITECTURE+DESIGN

VIRTUAL GODS Virtual Digital Art Collaboration Team: Varun Mehta, Sharan Suresh, Kuldeep Jangdip, Ishita Parmar

Project Description: In a time as challenging as that of a global pandemic, there is an insistence to negate the magnitude of it. As designers, we feel a grounding sense of calm in community and inspiration. VIRTUAL GODS was created to investigate new methods of effective collaborations and exhibitions. This experimental exercise was initiated to facilitate an essence of togetherness during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown.

Skills: Sketchup, Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop

During an exchange that spanned over 3 weeks, various multi-disciplinary participants connected to trade new tools and design languages while discovering new processes & theories. The goal was to traverse a beautiful dialogue while manifesting unique 3D Virtual Worlds. These 3D creations and their formation have been documented in an Online Group Art Exhibit. IG: https://www.instagram.com/arc.hv/ website: https://archv.in/

Kit of parts for the 3d creation

KIT OF PARTS

DESIGN PROGRESSION

ACADEMIC W OKRS: RESEARCH

TRI-TERRA The metamorphosis of terra-cotta tiles Course: Syracuse Architecture, Research seminar, spring 2020 Instructor: Prof.Roger Hubeli Skills: Rhino, Grasshopper, v-ray, Illustrator, Photoshop

Course Brief: The seminar research course aimed to provide an insight into how different design research methodologies can foster an architectural design process that is based on a more fundamental understanding of material processes at different stages of change from matter to architectural material. Project Description: Terracotta or fired clay tile has been used as a roofing material for thousands of years. Terra-cotta was used both architecturally and for figures during the 19th century, but its modern revival dates from the 20th century when both potters and architects again became interested in the aesthetic properties of the material. The idea of the pavilion is derived by making an alteration in the firing process and using the clay in a semi-fired condition to test its strength and durability. Since the tiles are non-biodegradable in nature, the semi-fired nature of the clay will provide a malleable physical property allowing it to be re-used in different extrusion molds.

Interior view of the pavilion

DESIGN PROPOSAL

Application of trigulated form on the triangulated surfaces

Exploded view showcsing the different parts of the pavilion

Detail 01: Exploded view of placement of triangular tile on the grid

Detail 01: Junction of the Grid & X-Bracing

Exterior render view of the pavilion in a private residential setting

Interior render of the small-scale amphitheater social space within the pavilion as circular steps 61

ACADEMIC W ORKS: RESEARCH

INSIDE | OUT Infographic diagram for studying interior spaces in urban context Course: Syracuse Architecture, Research seminar, fall 2019 Instructor: Prof.Abingo Wu Skills: Rhino, Grasshopper, Illustrator,

Course Brief: This course is the first session of the two-session Architectural Research Courses to cultivate your research-design abilities and prepare you for your independent thesis. While the second session helps you to explore deeper and further in a specific research-design area with particular methodological guidance, this session offers you a critical overview of architectural research. Project Description: Rem Koolhaas mentions that shopping mall public interiors belong to a private owned in “Junk Space”. In this, public interior spaces are between public and private. This kind of space is everywhere in our life. Because of the lifestyle change, people think beyond the fixed dualities of public-private and interior-exterior. People break out of the confines of domestic and private interior space to semi-private space. Urban interiority transposes the interior space into an urban context. Because of a new and growing interest in the interior from within urbanism, we are focused on how interior space is becoming more and more popular, why people want to break down the boundary, what role architects play during this situation. Tracking with people’s movement, material used and the space created in the public area formulate the urbanism, a place for public used at the same time have private feelings. The diagram shows the relationship between Space & Urban. Reinterpretation of the two main topics through a set of keywords, scope & methods leads to the formation of a dense linkage. This dense linkage is significant for the emergence of focus which is categorized into new & conventional. The diagram further branches out to its smallest component called keywords that are directly linked with the references listed.

A partial view of the infographic

P R O F E S S I O N A L W O R K S : H O S P I TA L I T Y

SHALAI, BY THE BEACH Luxury resort in Mandrem, Goa (IN) Firm: HSAAV Architects LLP, Mumbai (IN) Team: Ar. Vaishali Jain Solanki, Ar. Russel Alvares, Nupoor Shetty, Ishita Parmar Skills: Revit and Photoshop

* Please note all the drawing and renders are produced by me unless otherwise stated.

Project Description: The project involved the design of a master plan of a luxury resort having 40 prefabricated wooden villas of 3 categories being the Pool Villa, the Garden Villa, and the Duplex Villa. These are strategically planned to keep in mind the high-tide lines and to receive maximum panoramic views of the beach. My role as a junior architect expanded as I provided expertise with a BIM approach to the precise planning and modeling of the villa modules. This helped in efficient coordination with the consultants and fabricators for the prefabricated construction of the villas. This prefabrication idea of the villas was a key requirement from the client in response to the yearly flooding faced in the region and to that stilt foundation was another design strategy implemented. I prepared presentation and DD-level drawings while also presenting those drawings to the clients and consultants.

Rendering of the pool villa

SITE STUDY AND DESIGN PROPOSAL

Site identification

Site topography & wind directions

Site dimensions & plot area

Master Plan Drawing prepared in collaboration with Ar. Faiz Ansari

DESIGN PROPOSAL

Schematic Site Sections Type I : Pool Villa Schematic Section (i)

Key Plan: Location of Pool Villa as per Master Plan

Type 1: Pool Villa

Type I : Pool Villa Schematic Section (ii) 69

DESIGN PROPOSAL

Key Plan: Location of GardenVilla as per Master Plan

Type II : Garden Villa schematic section (i)

Type II: Garden Villa schematic section (ii)

Type II: Garden Villa

Key Plan: Location of Duplex Villa as per Master Plan

Type III: Duplex Villa: First Level Type III: Duplex Villa : First Level

Type III : Duplex Villa schematic section (i)

Type III: Duplex Villa: Ground Level

Type III : Duplex Villa Schematic Section (i)

P R O F E S S I O N A L W O R K S : H O S P I TA L I T Y

BOUTIQUE HOTEL Boutique hotel in Anjuna, Goa (IN) Firm: HSAAV Architects LLP, Mumbai (IN) Team: Ar. Vaishali Jain Solanki and Ishita Parmar Skills: Revit

Project Description: This boutique hotel in Goa is conceived in competition with the growing Airbnb business in Goa. Located at one of the prime locations in Goa, This boutique hotel strives to provide all the services at rates equivalent or even less than an Airbnb stay. Goa is very famous for its traditional regional vernacular architecture. With the growing Urbanization, very few buildings have been designed keeping in mind the regional context. Thus this project aims to revive and remind people of the rich cultural & architectural heritage that presides in Goa and should be given prime importance. This boutique hotel has all the important Goan Architectural Elements especially with the facade design and the interiors are kept typical & minimal for the incorporation of building services & systems. The project was already in the construction phase when I joined the team and my responsibility was to produce CDlevel drawings in Revit in collaboration with the Principal Architect as the project has a strict timeline to follow.

Rendering of the boutique hotel

CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS

Lower ground floor plan

Ground floor plan

Typical floor plan

Building elevations

P R O F E S S I O N A L W O R K S : C U LT U R A L

SCIENCE AND ARTS MUSEUM Cultural complex, Navi Mumbai (IN) Firm: HSAAV Architects LLP, Mumbai (IN) Team: Ar. Vaishali Jain Solanki and Ishita Parmar Skills: Rhino and grasshopper

Project Description: The Science & Arts Museum is a project proposal which was to be built in the twin city of Mumbai called New Mumbai. Being a cultural project the form-finding was an essential process as it would be a landmark project for New Mumbai. Emphasis was given on the integration of public service circulation and the proposed built form. In this project, I served as the design lead using my computational design skills and parametric as learned at Smartlabs1.0.

Entrance of the cultural complex

DESIGN PROPOSAL

Rendering: Model Overview

Form Evolution

Rendering: Entrance View

Ground level plan 79

P R O F E S S I O N A L W O R K S : C U LT U R A L

ANUSAYA Residential Townhouse, Mumbai (IN) Firm: AV Architects, Mumbai (IN) Team: Ar. Vaishali Jain Solanki and Ishita Parmar Skills: Autocad and Photoshop

Project Description: This townhouse project is envisioned as a residential redevelopment project for a family of 40 members. My role was to assist the Principal Architect with the planning and design of the building elevation and typical floor layout to provide the clients a basic idea of area calculation and projective timeline of the project from the design stage to the complete built project.

View of the building

DESIGN PROPOSAL

Typical floor plan

Exterior views of the townhouse

P R O F E S S I O N A L W O R K S : C U LT U R A L

CO-WORKING SPACE Commercial Interiors in Pune (IN) Firm: AV Architects, Mumbai (IN) Team: Ar. Vaishali Jain Solanki, Ar Russel Alvares, Ishita Parmar Skills: Autocad, Rhino and Photoshop

Project Description: The interiors of this co-work office is designed as contemporary workspaces generating positive productivity, promoting ideas such as collaborative cultures, unimposed space, intuitive work environments, flexibility, adaptability, and innovation. With an existing floor plate & service core given to us by the clients, we had a restricted boundary within which the design was carried out. Through our study, the design generated was organic in plan with elements such as indoor landscape, indoor public seating, small niches created for groups of 3-4 people, and individual workspaces with meeting rooms & conference rooms as per the client’s brief.

Interior view of the courtyard

DESIGN PROPOSAL

Interior floor plan

Flooring plan 87

CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS

Partition Drawing

Artificial Landscape Mound detail

As built image of the interior courtyard

Niches detail

As built image of coffee table niches near the cafe 89

Ishita parmar e: inparmar@syr.edu m: +1(315) 450-7851

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