JAYMIN TANNA
selected works | 2010 - 2016
portfolio CONTENT Jaymin Tanna selected works | 2010 - 2016
01. Spiritual Lab 09. Experiments with light 15. Basic design with cubes 27. House in Eudoxia 35. Stop motion animation ‘milk’ 39. Cage Light 43. House in Rajkot
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Bachelor Thesis | 2014-2015
SPIRITUAL LAB The purpose of this thesis is to explore, investigate, conclude, put forth the questions that lay deep within all of us but find no symptomatic presence in the everydayness of our lives; lost in the urbane environment, rendered excessively meaningless. It is a search in finding our own relationship, that with one’s own self; those which primarily define our existence or our existential preferences. It explores possibilities that lay within the architectural domain to enhance, activate and progressively nurture one’s aspiration as an individual and towards the society at large. The protagonist in this search is the self. The experimental labs for this protagonist are places that bring humane interactions, not entirely sublime but those which carry inherent conflicts and violence of the mind.
‘Spiritual Lab’ received a special mention at the annual Minal Panchal Architecture Award 201516 and is the official entry for Archiprix international 2017 from Academy of Architecture.
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PROGRAM Project is broadly divided into 5 sub-programs:
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CULTURE
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SITE SELECTION Since the aim of this thesis is to address the community and self reflective emptiness of the people by bringing them to the basics of human survival, it is important for the site to be located within an urban setting, easily accessible to the urban population, the ones deprived of these basics. Having said this, it is also important for the selected site to be equally cut off from the urban disturbances - traffic, poor sanitation, hectic occupations, etc. Also, nature needs to have its presence in its raw form on the site because of its inherent quality to induce contemplation. The site thus selected is located in the middle of Mumbai (literally) on the banks of Powai lake.
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North-South access through Saki-Vihar road
Existing garden - Dr. Babasahed Ambedkar Udyan
Land leased to M. S. A. A. for 15 years
East-West access through Jogeshwari Vikhroli link road
The land is mostly rocky and slopes at most places. This gives rise to a particular type of natural growth on the land. Most of the trees are deciduous that bear beautiful flowers for some months annually; some examples being Sterculia urens, Bombax ceiba, Erythrina indica.
BRANDING SITE Organised religions have given the corporate world something no other management schools could have ever thought of providing. It is the tool of branding. For example, a cruciďŹ x placed outside a church promises its users a particular set of people, rituals, and an overall feel of Christianity inside the building, just as the golden arches logo would do for McDonald's.
One cannot deny the site's capacity of offering a quiet and contemplative atmosphere in the middle of the city. Even today, one can easily ďŹ nd people sitting on a boulder, alone, doing nothing but thinking or a group of children trying to compete with the anglers of MSAA or a couple in love trying to ďŹ nd solitude from people.
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The act of building in nature, for a designer, should be with a clear conscience. When asked to do the task, a series of questions is what one needs to answer.
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1. ENTRY/EXIT 2. PARKING 3. EXISTING GARDEN 4. LAND LEASED TO M.S.A.A. 5. STEP GARDEN 6. SCHOOL 7. VOLUNTARY CAFE 8. CONTEMPLATING RESIDENCE 9. CONTEMPLATING CHAMBER 10. SCIENCE CENTER
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Cosmos Science Center Religions have worked greatly on providing consolation to humans in need by driving our attention towards the cosmos and nature in general. If there is anything that is unquestionably common between believers and non-believers is awe at the expanse of universe and respect for the uncertainty of nature.
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It is with great conviction when scientists claim science to be their religion. It is what provides them with everything a religion would provide to a theist. Perspective is the ďŹ rst of them. Optimism and knowledge are the outcomes of this perspective.
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31ST DECEMBER - HUMAN EVOLUTION human evolution 2400 2300 2200 2100 2000 1900 1800 1700 1600 1500 1400 1300 1200 1100 1000 0900 0800 0700 0600 0500 0400 0300 0200 0100 0000
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Sometimes, instead of gathering people into a building to follow the choreography, religions often gather people in the name of food. Meal being one of the major topics of concern in religions, they often prescribe food to lead a good and healthy life. Besides it also becomes a subject of charity.
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Seva CafĂŠ is a gift economy restaurant on C. G. Road, Ahmedabad based on a unique concept of charity. The roles of 'workers'/'owners' and 'customers' of a regular restaurant of a secular world are replaced by 'volunteers' and 'guests' respectively at Seva CafĂŠ and any guest eating at the cafe can choose to pay, not for his own meal, but for the meal of the next person eating at the cafe.
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REFLECTION CONTEMPLATING RESIDENCE Importance of self reection and contemplation is rightly identiďŹ ed by most organised religions and which is also reected in most religious spaces.
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One of James Turrell’s projects, 'Skyspace', are chambers with an opening in the ceiling to view the sky. The walls of the room are usually painted with neutral colours and is provided with benches along the perimeter. LED lights are also ďŹ xed along the perimeter which change colour during the course of the day and also our perception of the sky. They present the sky, which we know exists but never really see, in a way that is contemplative in nature.
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In his book 'Culture and Anarchy', Matthew Arnold deďŹ ned culture and therefore value of humanities in education. In simple words, culture, according to Arnold, is knowing everything that matters to us by means of ‘best that has been thought and said in the world’ and applying the thus gained knowledge to our actions.
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John Stuart Mill believed that the objective of universities is to make capable and cultivated human beings. Philosophers like Rudolf Steiner and Jiddu Krishnamurti also have a similar approach to the ďŹ eld of pedagogy
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II Year B. Arch | 2011-2012
EXperiments with Light The design brief was to study and explore architecture with respect to light. The only restriction was the 3 dimensional space, the dimensions of which were freezed for ease of academic design project. Experiments were conducted on models of smaller space, eventually leading to a final design of a bigger space. The design for this project was initiated with inspiration from the title of an essay - ‘Light as an architectural form’.
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The space is imagined to be constructed of cuboids (comfortable enough for one human body to stand or sleep in) made from one dimensional rays of light. The arrangement of theses cuboids is such that they start as a grid at on end and stagger eventually at the other end giving rise to a specific form that decides its function as a building.
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The building functions as a temple of light. Light is is used as a source of inspiration and the space serves a simple function of contemplation. Complex composition of cuboids is converted into a building that is divided into four kinds of spaces. It is not just the scale of these spaces but also the quality of light each one has that gives it a specific function. 1. Entrance chamber : This chamber acts as a vestibule and disconnects the visitor completely from the quality of sunlight present outside at any point of the day. 2. Central passage : Provided with only slits on the ceiling, this passage leads to meditation chambers as well as the light tower. 3. Meditation chambers : Made of single cuboid oriented in different directions, these chambers have minimal interference of light. 4. Light tower : Maximum amout of sunlight is taken indoors through a large opening on top of the tower. The tower is also provided with a seating in front of it for worshipping light.
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I Year B. Arch | 2010-2011
Basic design with cubes First design exercise in the Academy was to convert sketches of simple objects like an umbrella and bicycle into a harmonious composition of cubes. The process involved selecting a square part from the sketches, repeating it to form a figure-ground drawing and an abstract drawing, making cubes out of these drawings and then creating a 3-dimensional compostion from these cubes such that the lines flow in harmony in all dimensions.
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The selected abstract composition is supposed to be percieved metaphorically as a composition of land and water. The black colour of the land slowly tranforms into the white colour of the water. This metaphor continues in the third dimension too, that is while laying out the cubes in height too. So, the whole composition can be looked as an installation on a beach or on banks of a lake.
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II Year B. Arch | 2011-2012
House in eudoxia The project was based on Italo Calvino’s ‘Invisible Cities’. The brief of the project was an exerpt from the book, the thematic group - ‘Cities & the sky’. The exerpt was the description of Eudoxia. The task was to imagine the city through drawings and models and eventually design a house for self in the city.
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The foundation of the city has been laid down on the basis of mention of presence of repetition in straight and circular lines in Italo Calvino’s Invisible cities. At first sight nothing seems to resemble Eudoxia less than the design of that carpet, laid out in symmetrical motives whose patterns are repeated along straight and circular lines, interwoven with brilliantly coloured spires, in a repetition that can be followed throughout the whole woof. - (The cities and the sky 1, Invisible Cities) Its physical presence has been achieved by the means of intersecting a circle (a circular line) and a rectangle (a combination of straight lines). A landscape is created by arranging the shapes derived from the intersection according to their true relationship, i.e., at least one side of all the shapes is parallel to one side of any of the other neighbouring shapes. The geometrical scheme thus achieved is given a third dimension by raising the shapes to different angles at different heights.
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A social layer is then added by authoring ‘The city diary’, a story of personal experiences in the city. This leads to inclusion of four communities, namely, the oracles, the black hands, the non-fundamentalist atheist and the explorers, with different beliefs in the city. Oracles - These are strong believers of God and human inability to compete with the Almighty. They reside in the biggest mounts surrounding deep valleys that contain the truth of life according to them. They are outcasts with the Black Hand and non-fundamentalist atheists’ point of view. The Black Hands - These are fundamentalist atheists that only believe in human ability to achieve anything. They guard the entrances of the city and believe the city to be their ancestral creation. They practise rituals to test human endurance. Non-fundamentalist Atheists - These have beliefs that are similar to that of the Black Hands but are less strict towards their beliefs. They don’t test human endurance. All of them have been converted to Explores at present. The Explorers - They are not the original residents of the city but have migrated to the place. They preach the importance of knowledge and exploration to the world. They want people to explore all possibilities that exist in the universe without being biased towards a point of view. Their houses are built on the basis of the path they explored before they built that house in the city.
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The City Diary 1. I let Italo know about my wish to know the truth of universe, of life. “I think there exists a point somewhere that might tell us the truth of life. I think we must search for it”, Italo says. So we are walking around in a landscape far away, a place we don’t know. Italo does not like the questions, the answers of which he does not know. He does not even like to know the answers from others. He wants to find them himself. He says, “Promise me you won’t ask me or anyone else what place this is or where are we” “I promise” 2. While both of us are walking through the landscape, a path is created behind us. Of course there is an existing path on which we are walking. But I am talking about the covered path, the explored path, the known path. Italo asks, “Do you believe in God?” “I believe in light, in knowledge” “What?” “I don’t believe in God having a form or a name. That does not mean I am an atheist. I believe in a power. A power that brings light in darkness, good in every bad, something that brings knowledge to the unknown” “So you are saying that there needs to be something unknown for God to exist?” “Yes” That means that God exists in the unknown?” “Yes”
3. So Italo and I are searching for the point. I am not too sure whether he knows what the point is. He pretends that he doesn’t know. But I think he knows. He wants me to find it. Both of us are walking through the street. He says he is interested in astronomy. I say, “How good it would be if we had a map of everything, of the whole universe” “Is it possible?” “Why not?” “Only divinely possible” The conversation is disturbed by a braying mule.
4. Both of us are still walking in search of the point. Italo claims to have visited the place for the first time, but there is a confidence in his walk. He knows which turns to take and which alleys to choose. It’s getting dark. He says he wants to spend the night at a friend’s place who stays here. I ask, “So what does your friend do?” “He does something related to geography. Has written many books on the subject. He does astrology too and claims to be a psychic. People don’t believe it, but I think he’s an oracle” We have reached the friend’s house and have started having random conversations with him. Oracle says, “Do you know there are many places on earth where people haven’t been to and don’t know anything about?” “I don’t believe you,” Italo says, “there can’t be places on earth on which men can’t go” I say, “I think your friend is right. There is always a scope to gain more knowledge. This gives a scope for life, a reason to live” Italo smiles in acceptance.
“People here don’t believe in astrology or prophecy anymore. They think that these people fool the crowd to earn money. They are, to some extent, outcasts. The big houses are inherited to them. It is all they have” 6. Next morning starts with searching Italo who has been missing since I woke up. I have a strange itch in my heart. What am I doing in a place I don’t know and with people I’ve never met before? No one knows where Italo is and it seems no one cares too. I can’t resist myself anymore. I ask the oracle, “What is happening? What place is this? Where are we?” “Come with me” So we start walking towards a small opening and eventually into it. The opening opens into a huge valley that has no end. It has steps to go down, but they seem to fade into the darkness that lies in the valley.
7. The steps never seem to end. We have been walking on them for so long. My inability to see what lies in front is not an inability anymore because the legs have created a cycle of their own and are moving without my wish. None of us has spoken for a long time. I can claim the oracle’s company only through the sound of his footsteps. “Stop”, the oracle says, “turn around” I have no option but to do it. I see a ray of light in front of me.
Oracle says, “Italo told me about your wish to know the truth, to know everything in the universe. So here it is. This is the temple of Eudoxia” “What? I didn’t understand” A silence surrounds me. The oracle has gone. 8. It’s been a long time and I still don’t want to leave the place. Suddenly things are getting clear. Universe is made of things known and unknown to humans. As humans we can try to know as many things as possible but the infinity of the universe does not allow us to do so. The closest we can get to knowing what God knows is to know the existence of the truth, the truth which makes us aware of the human inability to know everything. This temple is God’s residence. My being a human only allows me to see the ray of light and not the darkness that surrounds it. This is the truth. This truth can only be known by exploring, by doing things you are not told to do or are not supposed to do. Italo told me to never ask what place we are going to or where it is; but I did. So I know the truth now. 9. The city doesn’t seem the same anymore. Walking on the streets now is like walking in a different place altogether. The people are visible now. And so is visible their lack of curiosity. Before, it was just Italo and me. I was bound by a promise that disconnected me from hundreds of Eudoxians present all around.The promise made me ignore the smallest details that lay around me. These are the details that mean the world to the Eudoxians. 10. The fundamentalist atheists can be easily spotted in the crowd because of their bruised muscular bodies, a snarl on face and their burnt black hands. I ask a Black Hand about the reason for such extreme fundamentalism, such atheism, the reason for reaching the extremes of human endurance. He replies, “We only believe in human power. There exists no power greater than that. The human brain
5. The oracle does not look very rich from appearance. This totally contradicts the fact that he has the biggest house around the place. So I ask Italo about the reason.
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is capable enough to achieve anything in the universe. It only has to suffer for it. Man can train his body to endure any pain, destroy the indestructible and create the unimaginable” “Then why do you think people believe in God?” “It is just an excuse for not exploring human capabilities” The reply is a paradox. The Black Hand talks about exploring all human capabilities but is ignoring the human capability to imagine the existence of an unknown power, the power called God. 11. I ask The Black Hand about people’s belief in the city being a divine creation. “It is us who have been guarding the city for years. The city would have been ruins if it was with these peaceful believers. Do you even know the streets you are walking on are created by our Black Hand ancestors? It once used to be a plane. We are the creators of this place. It is us they should call Gods” 12. It is funny to know about the rigidity of thoughts that a brain can create. The mind can travel any extent to prove one thought accepted by it to be right and justify it by any means. This is not what exploring is. Exploring is accepting all thoughts that come in the way and justifying all of them to be correct. The oracles or The Black Hands are not explorers. The closest to the exploring qualities are the Eudoxians living in the central part of the city, in small modest houses. They don’t have a thought of their own that complicates their living in the city. All they are concerned of is their day’s food. They don’t believe in God but are not non-believers. They don’t think about it. They are aware of what happens in the city and believe in everything. They have an innocence of their own. The presence of such innocence amidst complications makes me want to settle down here. Hopefully, this innocence will be absorbed by me too some day. ~
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Summer 2011
STOP MOTION ANIMATION MILK ‘milk’ is a 1 minute 48 second stop motion animation film made entirely by drawing out each frame with a chalk on corrugated plastic portolio case. Each second contains 12 frames approximately and the entire film contains around 1200 sketches. ‘milk’ comes out of a thought that no human is born evil. Situation makes him what he is. A good man walks out of his house with a simple intention of buying milk for his breakfast to find a war going on outside. Even though he does not want to get involved in the riot, he is forced to.
‘milk’ was selected to be screened at the Majority Report Competition by The London School of Liberal Arts.
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CAGE LIGHT A DIY product the process of which started with the need for replacing the broken outdoor fan in the terrace. It had been noticed in the past that pigeons would sometimes crash with the fan blades. Hence if the fan was to be placed, it needed a safety cage allowing the pigeons to fly around without getting hurt.
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Various designs for the cage were considered and a rectangular trellis structure was selected considering its aesthetic value, cost and simplicity of construction. Also, since the size of cage was quite large, it was decided that a lighting system could be placed within the cage to solve the low lighting problem of the terrace.
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HOUSE IN RAJKOT A proposal for a house at Nana Mava, Rajkot, Gujarat, the size of whose plot is 16.00m x 5.71m and access is from a road towards the west which is one of the shorter sides of the plot. The stand one takes because of the narrow plot and adjoining buildings is to make all habitable rooms facing either the front or the rear. The sides become blank walls that stagger in section to allow light from the roof.
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Ground floor plan (service area) and first floor plan (living area). Legend 1 garage 2 servent’s quarters 3 study room 4 entrance foyer 5 living+dining area 6 kitchen 7 common toilet.
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Second floor plan (private area) and terrace plan. Legend 1 master bedrrom 2 bedroom 3 light well 4 open-to-sky terrace.
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Front elevation (towards road on west) and rear elevation (towards east). Axonometric view showing the proportions of the proposed cuboidal insert and exploded axonometric view reveals the organization of spaces along with the front and rear facades.
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