An Architectural Portfolio by Jyotiraditya Shah

Architectural Portfolio. Jyotiraditya Shah, B.Arch, 2014.

This portfolio holds a collection of some of my academic and professional works in Architecture and Interior Design. Each project had its own means of presentation, but for the convenience, they have been presented in this portfolio in a similar layout, while keeping the original presentation in spirit. Coverpage: Graphical Representation of Unite Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Habitation, by Le Corbusier. The drawn is a diagrammatic breakup of the building drawn by myself for the 3rd Semester Grahpics Studio.

CV CONTACT DETAILS.

Name Jyotiraditya Shah. Address A-2101, Niharika Co-Op Hsg Scty, Gladys Alwares Road, Opp. Lok Puram, Thane (W). Nationality Indian. Tel. No +91-9867280491/ 022-21715173. Email-ID jyotiradityashah@gmail.com .

EDUCATION.

School Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania School,

Passed with 92% in ICSE Board in April-2007.

Jr. College Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania School,

Passed with 86% in ISC Board in April-2009.

Graduate School Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture and Environmental Studies, Passed first year with first class : Passed second year with first class : Passed third year with first class : Passed fourth year with first class : Passed fifth year with first class :

DOCUMENTATION.

April 2009- 10. April 2010- 11. (3rd Rank in Architectural Design.) April 2011- 12. (3rd Rank in Architectural Design.) April 2012- 13. April 2013- 14.

2009 - 2010 Measure drawings of the rural contoured settlesments of Asniye village, near Sawantwadi, Maharashtra. 2010 - 2011 Measure drawing of Dakhinpath Satra (Hindu Monastery), Assam.

2011 - 2012 Documentation and representation of Geoffrey Bawa’s work in Sri Lanka. 2012 - 2013 Documentation and analysis of the Galle Face road, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

EXCHANGE PROGRAMS.

2011 - 2012 Member of team sent to Bergen Architecture School for four week exchange program dealing with the study of architecture along the Norwegian fjords with the understanding of the concept of “Open Form” Architecture.

CV WORK EXPERIENCE. Firm aDRG,

Profile A newly established firm at the time that dealt mainly in small scaled projects that ranged from interior design to architectural retro-fitting on existing bungalows in Mumbai. Architect Apurva Parikh. Location Mumbai. Role Summer Internship, May - July, 2013. Work Dealt with design proposal, working drawings and detail drawings for a commercial interior project in Goregaon as well as a bungalow extension at Juhu.

Firm Samira Rathod Design Associates (SRDA),

Profile An extremely well known and acclaimed design firm, based in Mumbai, with a decade of varied work ranging from premium second homes, residential interiors as well as institutions. Architect Samira Rathod. Location Mumbai. Role Professional Practice, June - October, 2014. Work Dealt in the working drawings, IOD drawings and design proposals for a mid-range housing project in Chembur for the ANP group, along with the active drawings and fabrications involved for a second home in Alibaug.

Freelance Work,

Timeline October, 2014 - October, 2015. Location Mumbai. Role -Part-time Architect and interior design consultant for Kanakia Spaces Pvt Ltd. -Part-time Architect at aDRG. Work In the past year, I have had the oppurtunity to be involved with various projects at varied stages of execution. These range from design proposals for an Industrial building in Vapi, Gujarat, to the design and execution of a high-end interior design project in Royal Manor, Juhu.

SKILL SET.

Languages English/ Hindi/ Gujarati/ Marathi. Program AutoCad.

Proficiency Excellent.

Program Adobe Suite ( Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign ).

Proficiency Excellent.

Program Google Sketchup.

Proficiency Excellent.

Program 3D - Rhinoceros.

Proficiency Good.

IDX CONTENTS.

CV CURRICULUM VITAE. Contact Details. Education. Documentation. Exchange Programs. Work Experience. Skill Set.

AW ACADEMIC WORK. 1. The Vertical Hybrid.

IDX ACADEMIC WORK. 7. Kalewadi Retro-Fit.

Project 4th Year, Semester 7. Timeline October, 2012. Guide Nimit Kilawala.

PW PROFESSIONAL WORK. 8. 4th Floor, Royal Manor.

Timeline November, 2014 - November, 2015. Location Mumbai. Team In collaberation with Mr. Sahil Shah.

9. Murbad Guesthouse.

Project Design Dissertation. Timeline March, 2014. Guide Manoj Parmar.

Timeline September, 2015. Location Murbad, Maharashtra. Team In collaberation with Mr. Sahil Shah.

Project 4th Year, Semester 8. Timeline March, 2013. Guide Shantanu Poredi and Manisha Agarwal.

Timeline August, 2015 - September, 2015. Location Thane.

2. Variable Housing.

3. The Wai Crematorium.

Project 3rd Year, Semester 6. Timeline October, 2011. Guide Ainsley Lewis.

4. Indian High Commission, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Project 3rd Year, Semester 5. Timeline March, 2012. Guide Shraddha Sejpal.

5. Striated Release.

Project 2nd Year, Semester 3. Timeline October, 2011. Guide Advait Potnis.

6. The Kalyan Archives.

Project 2nd Year, Semester 3. Timeline October, 2011. Guide Advait Potnis.

10. Charcoal Deli.

11. ARK Lounge Furniture.

Timeline September, 2015. Location Murbad, Maharashtra. Team In collaberation with Mr. Sahil Shah.

12. House No. 57.

Timeline November, 2014. Location Safala, Maharashtra. Team In collaberation with Mr. Sahil Shah.

TD TECHNICAL DRAWING. 13. 5th Year Working Drawing.

Timeline October, 2013. Guide Amol Divekar.

13. 5th Year Construction.

Timeline October, 2013. Guide Sandhya Shuklabaidya.

Academic Work.

AW 5

TH YEAR, THE VERTICAL HYBRID.

A VERTICAL HYBRID. AND WHY?

THE CONCEPT.

Metropolitan cities like Mumbai, in today’s time especially, face the rising challenge of constant growth and densification demographically as well as architecturally. This densification leaves cities with the option of growth either horizontally or vertically. Conventional means of planning propose the city limits be extended farther and farther horizontally whereas vertical space is left as a question for individual architectural interventions to answer. They are treated as isolated plug-ins onto the already pre-established urban fabric of the city without any consideration as to its relevance or impact to the above. This may allow cities to form complex, congested and often ‘aesthetic’ skylines but does not do anything to allow the city to grow as well as adapt for the future.

The conditions that facilitate the necessity for a Hybrid high-rise typology in the city start primarily from the lack of space in highly urbanised contexts due to major densification both in terms of architectural built form as well as urban population. The consequant infrastructural overloading has further caused a lack of public, semi-public, open/ green transitional spaces necessary for urban living. Amenities and institutions are also neglected due to real estate and monetary considerations. Spatial necessities of adequate light, ventilation, waste disposal networks etc. too need to upgrade to adapt to its increased pressure. Basically an upgrade in the living conditions of the densely growing urban context. Urban architecture has itself become a condition that needs addressing. Monotonous and repititive, the conventionl approach to an urban high-rise leads to the typology simply becoming a programatic stacking of floor plates homogeneously, a heavily set central core and an add-on external skin. This, clubbed with the former condition, has lead to a great degeneration in the urban spaces that need to exist for the future. A high-rise if planned with the ability to lift the urban fabric of the city with it along the vertical axis can form an essential release to the city, by giving the densification and growth a new axis to house itself onto. Horizontal sprawls often waste space and resources, whereas the high-rise allows for most growth in relation to the least physical footprint. As seen in “Arcosanti”, by Paolo Soleri, a high-rise should be based on the organisation of the people it will house, their daily processes, their means of livelihood etc. Thus principles that are used in the planning of horizontal masterplans are to be adapted to create the same transitions of space in the vertical cross-section.

From a broad perspective, the high-rise on creating the same inter-relationships of space, movement, hierarchy and organisation that the urban context it sits in processes, practically becomes a continuation of the city along the vertical axis. At a closer look, the organisation of the high-rise is determined by the people it is expected to house, taking into account their lifestyle, means of livelihood, daily processes, means of commute and distance to workspaces, etc. These are the programs that the high-rise must consider in its design and planning.

The city in turn becomes a tool to further this cause. The urban context once extruded vertically can further help the architecture of the high-rise better serve the people it is being defined for. The urban streetscape, public, semi-public spaces and the circulatory network connecting these various hierarchies of spaces simply need not be confined to the ground/ street level. The high-rise itself could allow these to rise and fall along with it and in turn intertwine the architecture of it with the city itself. The high-rise recreates the lives that the people using it would have spent along the horizontal axis, realigning it vertically.

Thus the high-rise conceptually becomes an architectural answer to the urban question/ condition/ phenomena that the city will have to address for the future. The Hybrid high-rise becomes a typology that not only architecturally explores vertical space but also creates a new context for the city to grow and adapt for the future.

AW 5

TH YEAR, THE VERTICAL HYBRID.

The process started with the detailed study and analysis of the low-rise, high density urban communities. The chosen one is Jampli Naka, which is a residential community placed in the middle of and mixed with the most congested but populated commercial area of Thane. This community was especially interesting as it is based on the pol housing typology predominantly found in Gujarat. Thus it creates the notion of a residential zone not being purely residential but also considerably mixed use. The low-rise horizontal streetscape involves several hierarchies of public, semi-public interfaces that create a chain of social and visual interactions that help create a vibrancy to a locality and consequently to the urban fabric it sits in. Open to street living rooms, backalleys that created courtyards.

THE LOW-RISE HIERARCHIAL STREETSCAPES.

THE STUDY.

AW 5

TH YEAR, THE VERTICAL HYBRID.

THE STUDY.

THE HIGH-RISE DISJUNCT STREETSCAPES.

The next step dealt with the consequent study and analysis of the other primary urban typology that exists today. The conventional high-rise streetscape that we all are in some or the other way directly or indirectly actively a part of.

The conventional vertical space today has manifested itself into an assimilation of closed high walls, private club houses, disjunction from public space and a sense of isolation, renamed as exclusivity. Streetscapes become desolate footpaths with a small set of commercial outlets added to the compound wall facing the street. Homes becomes merely flats with a simple lift lobby in the name of semi-public space. Flats/ houses itself are simply bays with walls or sometimes without them.

AW 5

TH YEAR, THE VERTICAL HYBRID.

The various layers of exclusivity that simply detach everyday life from an active streetscape.

Apartments are isolated even from other adjoining apartments due to the lack of any specific zone for social interaction at multiple scales and levels.

THE ISOLATING WALL.

THE STUDY.

AW 5

THE STUDY.

TH YEAR, THE VERTICAL HYBRID.

1. The traditional verandahways and streetscapes provide for several semi-public to private transitional zones throughout the urban landscape.

2. Modern high-rise typologies ignore this neces- 3. Modulating the same high-rise typolosary spatial buffering. gy to involve the verandahways.

4. Streetscapes need not necessarily only restrict themselves to the ground level.

Today all vertical living has turned into a A street is one of the most basic elements of an urban fabric. Low-rise urban typologies over the years have allowed series of floorplates cookie cut on top of for the creation of various inter-dependencies between the built form and the streetscapes. one another, on a solid podium/ base as its only existing connection to the street, and consequently the city.

As the necessity to go higher increases the spaces created must also be given due High-rise typologies, on the other hand, create an isolation between the streetscape and the built form. Leading to a importance. break in the continuity, with the streetscapes at a level and the built spaces at a completely disjunct level.

It is odd that low mid-rise buildings are planned and designed as a typology with a wide range of spatial modulation and transitioning creating a diverse inter-connectivity. However, when buildings become tall, architects often manifest and execute them as a homogeneous stack of repititive concrete floor plates. Vertical space must be tapped in terms of its urRecognising the relevance of both these typologies, the hybrid fuses them by raising the streetscape itself to the ban possibilities as well as its value in the various levels at which public spaces are exist. The urban fabric itself tapers and circulates along the vertical axis. urban skyline. Vertical Urbanism deals with the usage of vertical space as a means of spacemaking, which is otherwise commonly used for horizontal urban masterplans.

AW 5

THE HYBRID.

TH YEAR, THE VERTICAL HYBRID.

The Hybrid can be conceptually explained as a literal rotation of a horizontal masterplan onto a vertical axis. The same hierarchies of spaces are created as well as the scale of transportation around these spaces is modulated as per the consequent program they cater to.

Zones are created that are scooped volumetrically to create voids and openings in the Hybrid as well as create the hierarchies that a city, in this case the vertical city, should possess.

The basic zones are of two basic types: - The large scale public zones which cater to larger public functions such as schools, colleges, medical institutions, auditoriums, theaters, large shopping and retail outlets etc. These basically form the city centres and public hubs. - The community zones which house the residents of the Hybrid, also they are not merely housing blocks but also contain a small scale public buffer that moves through the zone into an adjoining zone or a lower zone. Thus a streetscape is created that moves through the community connecting it to the other. The large scale public zones and consequently to the city. The design maintains a constant flow of buffers that not only help transitioning from programs but also from different scales of spaces.

AW 5TH YEAR, THE VERTICAL HYBRID.

THE HYBRID.

At ground/ city level, the Hybrid simply reacts via the primary and secondary service cores and their consequetive lobby spaces. The rest of the site is utilised as a large scale urban park. A transport hub is woven into the architecture of the park creating a crucial node for not only the city, allowing various means of transport to meet and facilitate cross flow between the same but also becomes a strong connect logistically for the Hybrid to the rest of the city. Thus through this a vast urban park is created which acts as a transitioning space between the city on the ground and the Hybrid in the sky. It becomes a release for the city which lacks the necessary release spaces due to overbuilding and poor maintenance as well as through the transport hub intertwines the Hybrid and the city together.

AW 5

TH YEAR, THE VERTICAL HYBRID.

The Community zones and the streetscape splicing through it.

The inter-connected large scale public zones.

The Vertical Hybrid is divided into two major zones. The first being the large scale public zones which house the commercial, large scale retail and recreational programs. The second is the community zones which house the streetscapes and the residents of the Hybrid.

The streetscape moves along the whole structure intersecting with the housing blocks creating various public and semi-public spaces naturally. The housing blocks themselves modulate to form terraces and recessions that form community public spaces whereas the constant street flowing across the structure forms the sense of a vertical locality. This ensures a constant flow/ movement through this locality that is created, preventing the creation of solitary isolated blocks but an active streetscape.

The large scale public zones are interconnected via not only the primary and secondary service cores but also by ramps. A complete walk is created along all the adjoining public zones. Small walkways these zones further connect to the streetscape of the community zones, this form a transition between the spaces with a large scale city level amenities and the streetscapes that diverge into the communities and localities of the Vertical Hybrid.

THE HYBRID.

AW 5TH YEAR, THE VERTICAL HYBRID.

THE HYBRID SECTION.

THE HYBRID.

AW 5TH YEAR, THE VERTICAL HYBRID.

THE HYBRID.

THE ZONAL PLANS.

AW 5

TH YEAR, THE VERTICAL HYBRID.

Fixed toughened glass and aluminium, high strength facade panels.

The zones that possess this facade skin, are then artificially ventilated through large scale plenum and exhaust rooms existent in the primary service cores that are adjoining to the unit. Thus a creation of an artificial biosphere is achieved so as to allow the spaces at that level to be habitable as well as have the same typology as that of the rest of the Hybrid.

The skin of the Hybrid is also designed so as to allow it to change its nature and treatment as and when you climb to higher altitudes. Though it is changing with altitude, yet the skin is still maintained as a mere addition to the external skeleton of the Hybrid. The Hybrid is modulated and designed regardless of the skin which is later added onto the skeleton. Reinforced glass panels with perforations. (Wind Breaking)

Heavy Panelled Timber Louvers. (Wind Deflector)

OPEN. The Hybrid allows cross flow of wind so as to maintain the conditions experienced by the surrounding context. Each zone is basically an individually built structure. Columns are existent as per the layout and necessity of the zone and can ideally be different for every single zone. The zonal columns transfer their load onto a floating raft The raft further transfers its load onto an array of that also holds the service and mechanical floors for the smaller tranfer girders that further take the loads zone above as well as below it. to the zonal girders and the structural exoskeleton of the Hyrbid. The zonal girders and the external exoskeleton then take the consequent loads down to the earth.

THE HYBRID STRUCTURE.

AW 4TH YEAR, VARIABLE HOUSING.

The affordable housing studio in the 4th year dealt with the creation of micro-communities within a large scale masterplan. Thus attempting at breaking the monotony of a low density/ high-rise scheme and high density/ low-rise scheme.

A mix of both schemes are designed to space out the high-rise buildings while at the same time aloowing the low-rise structures acts as a recreational and landscaped zone.

Voids are cutout into the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s section to create interesting and interactive spaces at regular intervals. Also the whole notion of the high rise simply being a doubly loaded corridor with units on both sides is challenged by the voids and by the creation of a singly loaded corridor at higher levels.

GROUND FLOOR.

AW 4TH YEAR, VARIABLE HOUSING.

FIRST FLOOR.

1 RK

SECOND FLOOR.

THIRD FLOOR.

SEVENTH FLOOR.

NINTH FLOOR.

1 RK

The housing units are a compact orientation of equal bays organised to form the best possible layout based on its location and demographic that it is meant for. Most units have attached terraces that allow for social spillouts.

AW 3

RD YEAR, THE WAI CREMATORIUM.

The crematorium at Wai was designed as a raw spatial pathway. The crematorium, that is a place for mourning and contemplation, is sited on a vast sloping landscape of a hill. The site also sits along a beautiful shoreline of the river Krishna. The space is imagined purely as a wide pathway that diagonally cuts through the gradient of the hill. A thick wall, made of locally quarried black stone, is used as a guide from the entrance to the pyre. The wall is solid except for certain spots which correspond to programmatic requirements. All throughout the ritual area and the procession path the black wall acts as involuntary guide and finally opens at the burning pyre, exposing the view of the river shore.

SECTION A-A’

SECTION B-B’

The walk back to the post funeral functions are along the natural shoreline of the river with no man-made interventions. It allows the mourners to experience a beautiful natural environment on their journey back to their lives.

SECTION C-C’

SHORELINE ELEVATION

AW 3

RD YEAR, INDIAN HIGH COMMISSION, COLOMBO, SRI LANKA.

The Indian High Commission studio at Galle Face, Colombo, combined the elements of a scenic and contoured site with the programs that require a strict adherance to security and circulation. Another layer of complexity was introduced with the inclusion of the cultural annexe into the same compound of the High Commission itself. Thus making the project a mix of secure and free. The design thus attempts at using the tapering landscape to tuck the spaces strategically within the landscape wherever required. Thus the High Commission becomes the gradually submerging and emerging structure in topography while the cultural annexe is an extrusion from the farthest side of the site. The two programs are divided by a large sprawl of green space which cut and scoops out a part of the High Commission while merging into the cultural annexe. The built form is also mixed with double heighted courtyards and atriums that create interactive spaces that break the monotony of the usual office space. The vertical circulation is then wrapped around these courtyards making them the centres of circulations along the entire built form.

SECTION A-Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

SECTION B-Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

SHORELINE ELEVATION

AW 2

TH YEAR, STRIATED RELEASE.

Striated release was a project that explored how and if three-dimensional space can help create a gradual transition from a dencongested urban area into a completely free and landscaped space.

As the project dealt with purely exploring three-dimensional space the only design tool used over the entire semester was only model making. The program was that of a public bath, a Hamam, that also contains the necessity for various hierarchies of privacy. Hence the transitional nature of the program as well as the concept behind its three-dimensional form lead to the creation of striations are meant to be a dynamic representation of the cluster on the outside urban streetscape which rotates and wraps around itself to completely open out into a large plush micro-forest.

AW 4TH YEAR, THE KALYAN ARCHIVES.

The project was the revitalisation of a de-funct Wadas in Kalyan. One of the newest of the wadas, it is one of the very few still owned by a family and which is being resided in. The ground floor of the wada structure has being converted into a miniature record room, as the head of the house is affiliated with the KDMC. Surrounded on all sides buildings itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only access to the streets on both sides are two small doorways. It has quite a large yard area adjacent to the wada structure with a debris filled well. The intent on the site is the creation of an archival hub for those wanting to reference past records of the kdmc. The tightly packed site has little connection to the street on both sides and hence an axis is cleared, converting the same into a pedestrian path. All the function then revolve around a central plaza/court. The court also further divides the site into the formal functions of the archival centre and the informal eatery meant for the people expected to use the above. The axis then becomes the bathway between the two streets, with multiple levels that create informal seating and waiting zones which allows for a further footfall into the area. This in turn turns the entire patch of land into a vital Municipal functionary as well as social intersection. The xerox shops, the library, the archival rooms etc. all turn the Wada into vibrant spatial zone for a variety of age groups.

AW 4TH YEAR, KALEWADI RETRO-FIT.

One of youngest wadas, kale wada, now stands in an abandoned state of ruin. Currently used for the commercial setups on itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s street facade for informal storage of their goods as well as by rickshaw drivers and other labourers as a temporary recreational space or a night stay. It is due for demolition as per the kdmc. The wada lies on the main bazaar peth road, where a major vegetable trading market is situated on the roadsides.

The conversion of the kale wada site i nto a hub for commercial vendors as well as vegetable trading along with the extension to the school at subhedar wada diagonally opposite. The design deals with the creation of plaza spaces offsetted from the street to release the heavy traffic on the streets due to rickshaws, pedestrians, school children, labourers etc.

Professional Work.