DESIGN PORTFOLIO KAIRAV SHROFF
PROJECTS 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) SMArchS in Architecture and Urbanism • Spaces for Engagement in the City....................................................................................... 01 • Networked Urbanism............................................................................................................ 11 • Hyperfunctional Urbanism.................................................................................................... 15 2. Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture (KRVIA) Bachelor of Architecture • • • • • •
Interventions for an Inclusive City........................................................................................ 19 Modular Slum Housing......................................................................................................... 21 PAG Museum........................................................................................................................ 23 Community Center................................................................................................................ 25 Monk Hostel......................................................................................................................... 27 Live+Work Community........................................................................................................ 29
3. ShroffLeon Architects Junior Architect • Para Todos: Sky Condos....................................................................................................... 31 • Pocoloco Restaurant............................................................................................................ 33
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Spaces For Engagement in the City Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Thesis
Spaces for Engagement MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA MIT - THESIS (2015) SMArchS - ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM (MASTERS)
PROGRAM: Improve the public life in cities that have developed without adequate public space
INTENT:
Mumbai has the lowest per capita open space ratio in the world and has developed without any large centrally accessible public space. To improve the public life of the city, the thesis focuses on strategies to enhance the social value of unplanned public spaces. Networking these spaces together creates a system of smaller social spaces that add up to form a larger public realm. The thesis also explores the concept of time based optimization of space, where the limited space of the city is used for multiple activities throughout the day. This helps improve the efficiency of the city as spaces can be optimized to the changing city timeline.
Absence of any Large Parks in the City
CENTRAL PARK 3.41 km² = 101,106 People
HYDE PARK 1.41 km² = 42,000 People
SPACES FOR ENGAGEMENT | MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | MIT - THESIS (2015)
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Planned Public Space Number of People: 150
Area: 5790 sq mts
Unplanned Public Space Time Spent: 90-120 Minutes
SPACES FOR ENGAGEMENT | MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | MIT - THESIS (2015)
Number of People: 500
Area: 3000 sq mts
Time Spent: 90-120 Minutes
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Important to Anticipate Percentage of the population employed in the informal sector: 85%
Number of new people entering India's workforce by 2035: +230 Million
+125 Million 2025 15 Years
64 Years +105 Million 2035
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United States of America's workforce in 2015: 130 Million
x2 Minimum wage in India: 7500/month Daily wage in the informal sector: 100/day Minimum wage while working in the informal sector: 30000/month
SPACES FOR ENGAGEMENT | MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | MIT - THESIS (2015)
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Time Base Optimization of Space
To deal with the limited space in the city, the same site is used for multiple functions throughout the day
SPACES FOR ENGAGEMENT | MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | MIT - THESIS (2015)
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Shift in Activities Across the Day
Below Commercial Areas 11:00AM - 3:00PM
Formal Public Space 3:00PM - 7:00PM
SPACES FOR ENGAGEMENT | MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | MIT - THESIS (2015)
Large Isolated Spots 7:00PM - 12:00AM
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Scales of Interventions
Synergy
Clustered Interventions
SPACES FOR ENGAGEMENT | MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | MIT - THESIS (2015)
Large Isolated Interventions
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Informal Interventions in Mumbai
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SPACES FOR ENGAGEMENT | MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | MIT - THESIS (2015)
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Design Strategy
To optimize the limited space in the city, two dynamic systems are designed that are capable of adapting to the changing city conditions
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Street Organizational System: A platform capable of adapting to the changing city conditions and structuring the growth of temporary interventions along the street
Network of Nodes: Nodes were optimized to provide relief throughout the day. Small transformations to the existing conditions were done to exponentially enhanced the relief experience. Further by networking these spaces together a system of smaller social spaces was created that added up to form a larger public realm.
SPACES FOR ENGAGEMENT | MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | MIT - THESIS (2015)
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Street Organizational System
Residential The platforms are divided in the ratio: Open space - 60% Green Space - 30% Work Space - 10%
SPACES FOR ENGAGEMENT | MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | MIT - THESIS (2015)
Commercial The platforms are divided in the ratio: Open space - 40% Green Space - 20% Work Space - 40%
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Network of Nodes: Node 1 - Nariman Point
Formal Anchor
Green Space
Transformative Space
Amphitheatre
Park
Parking Lot
Fair
Community Activities
Permanent
Permanent
7:00am - 7:00pm
Daily: 7:00pm - 12:00am
Weekends: 7:00am - 7:00pm
SPACES FOR ENGAGEMENT | MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | MIT - THESIS (2015)
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Networked Urbanism Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Studio 2
NETWORKED Urbanism MEADOWLADNS, NEW JERSEY, USA MIT - SECOND SEMESTER (2014) SMArchS - ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM (MASTERS)
PROGRAM: Civic, Commercial, Residential and Industrial Space
INTENT:
In order to integrate warehouses with the city, the project humanizes the existing warehouse fabric by inserting civic functions and reorganizing the truck traffic in order to create a pedestrian street between the warehouses. Existing warehouses are combined to create larger and more efficient warehouses. A slender strip containing commercial, residential spaces and wholesale markets are added along the pedestrian street to generate flows and improve public life. The neighbourhood is designed to contain their own ecosystem of production facilities, warehouses, showrooms, suppliers, distributions, work space and entrepreneurs.
Light Industry Heavy Industry
Existing Warehouses Office+Retail
Residential
Industrial Office+Retail
Public Amenities
Wholesale Markets
Commercial
Civic
Organization System
Retrofitted Urban Warehouses Networked Urbanism | MEADOWLADNS, NEW JERSEY, USA | MIT - SECOND SEMESTER (2014)
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George Washington Bridge
Berm Location
Site: Moonachie & Carlstadt Lincoln Tunnel
Urban Strip: Phasing Strategy Urban Strip: Pilot Project
Networked Urbanism | MEADOWLADNS, NEW JERSEY, USA | MIT - SECOND SEMESTER (2014)
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Site 03: Urban Warehouses Networked Urbanism | MEADOWLADNS, NEW JERSEY, USA | MIT - SECOND SEMESTER (2014)
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Site 03: Organization Strategy
Program organization to generate pedestrian flows
Networked Urbanism | MEADOWLADNS, NEW JERSEY, USA | MIT - SECOND SEMESTER (2014)
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Hyperfunctional Urbanism Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Studio 1
Hyperfunctional Urbanism
PROGRAM:
South Boston, BOSTON, USA MIT - FIRST SEMESTER (2013) SMArchS - ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM (MASTERS)
INTENT:
24x7 Neighbourhood, Cultural Neighbourhood, Office Neighbourhood, Active Neighbourhood, Pedestrian Neighbourhood and Retail Neighbourhood This project explores a utopic idea of how cities are a collection of varying experiences and encounters. The Master plan of South Boston was redesigned into 6 separated neighbourhoods, each with their own distinct characteristics and rules to guide development. The site was laid out on a grid and prototypes with varying porosities were designed and placed based on the surrounding city conditions. The prototype blocks were designed to create an interconnected cohesive urban fabric while maintaining diversity of space.
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HYPERFUNCTIONAL URBANISM | SOUTH BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, USA | MIT - SECOND SEMESTER (2014)
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Prototype Blocks
Prototype Structure
Prototype Varying Densities and Porosities
Cohisive Urban Fabric
Neighborhood Characteristics 01 24x7 Neighbourhood
02 Cultural Neighbourhood
03 Work Neighbourhood
Mixed use neighbourhood with a conglomeration of smaller and larger plots. The plots have an option of constructing shared resource spaces in order to gain additional FAR
Created for tourists and locals with the block having more porosity for cultural structures and events.
Composed of office buildings with the flexibility of constructing retail spaces below. The blocks have larger plots, less porosity and larger pavements for hawkers
04 Pedestrian Neighbourhood
05 Retail Neighbourhood
06 Active Neighbourhood
More porosity towards the waterfront and the buildings opening directly on the street. All buildings also have voids to create a relationship with the street
Made up of a series of houses with commercial spaces below to create a commercial spine. Larger pavements are created to allow activities to spill out
Made up of a series of individual two story houses each with their own private gardens. The blocks have smaller plots and more porosity for private homes
HYPERFUNCTIONAL URBANISM | SOUTH BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, USA | MIT - SECOND SEMESTER (2014)
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South Boston Masterplan - Neighborhood Mesh
HYPERFUNCTIONAL URBANISM | SOUTH BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, USA | MIT - SECOND SEMESTER (2014)
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Pedestrian Neighborhood - Organization Strategy
HYPERFUNCTIONAL URBANISM | SOUTH BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, USA | MIT - SECOND SEMESTER (2014)
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Interventions for an Inclusive City Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture | 5th Year
INTERVENTIONS FOR AN INCLUSIVE CITY
PROGRAM:
MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA KRVIA - FIFTH YEAR (2011) BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE
The Intervention at the Mahalaxmi temple revitalizes a plinth currently used to collect offerings given by devotees such as coconuts, flowers and cloth. The plinth is redesigned as a place to pause and rest with a series of steps gradually stepping down towards the sea, allowing people a chance to sit by the water instead of just looking at it. A caravanserai is designed along the peripheries for families that come from far away to attend the temple prayers. Devotees can place their offerings around the symbolic central tree.
Caravanserai, Public Plaza, Offering Recycling, Reading Rooms, Office
INTENT:
Intervention at the Mahalaxmi Temple Interventions for an inclusive city | MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | KRVIA - FIFTH YEAR (2011)
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Section: Caravanserai Intervention and the Temple
Plan: Public Plaza and the Temple Interventions for an inclusive city | MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | KRVIA - FIFTH YEAR (2011)
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Modular Slum Housing Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture | 4th Year
Modular Slum Housing PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA KRVIA - Yourth YEAR (2010) BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE
PROGRAM:
Low cost housing module for the kaccha houses in the Wadarwasti slum.
INTENT:
During the day the slum was primarily occupied by women who did their household chores in the streets since their houses were tiny and cramped. Due to the close proximity of each house, the women would get together to give each other company while doing the chores. The module was designed to allow women to come together and work, by creating a series of common terrace space between the houses. The modules were organised and placed on site depending on the surrounding pukka houses, so that the common terraces could be easily accessible from the terraces of the pukka houses, thus creating small networks of interlinked terraces where people could gather.
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Terrace House 2 Terrace House 1
Site Model MODULAR SLUM HOUSING | PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | KRVIA - FOURTH YEAR (2010)
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Housing Module - Combinations
Housing Module - Integration with the Surrounding MODULAR SLUM HOUSING | PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | KRVIA - FOURTH YEAR (2010)
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Progressive Artist Group Museum Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture | 3rd Year
Progressive artists group Museum MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA KRVIA - THIRD YEAR (2009) BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE
PROGRAM:
Museum for the Progressive Artist’s Group, Art gallery, Library, Auditorium, Workshop space, Cafe, Convenience store
INTENT:
Since people came to the site to only sit and enjoy the view to the city, the museum is designed to avoid looking like an obstructing solid mass and instead designed to help enhance the view. A series of alternating L shaped terraces allow the people a 360o view of the city and also act as a relief space to reduce museum fatigue. Public functions on the ground floor act as an anchor to attract people from the waterfront. The central courtyard of the museum is also used as a venue for various social and cultural events of the city.
Museum
Museum
Workshop
Cafe
Diagram: PAG Museum Designed to Create Engaging Architecture
PROGRESSIVE ARTISTS GROUP MUSEUM | MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | KRVIA - THIRD YEAR (2009)
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Model Images PROGRESSIVE ARTISTS GROUP MUSEUM | MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | KRVIA - THIRD YEAR (2009)
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Community Center Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture | 3rd Year
COMMUNITY CENTER
PROGRAM: Library, Ward office, Trade union office, Art gallery, CafĂŠ, Local goods shop, Post office, Multipurpose hall
DEHRADUN, UTTARAKHAND, INDIA KRVIA - THIRD YEAR (2009) BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE
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Since the project is a community center, half the plot is given back to the public in the form of a huge plaza created adjacent to the market street. The plaza acts like a relief space from the dense market conditions and also serves as a space for social and cultural interactions for the locals. A series of steps that takes the people up to the library that is designed with varying treads to allow the people to sit and gather on them and view the events taking place in the plaza in front. The library is also designed with a central courtyard which allows a reader the freedom to sit in the open below a tree and read a book instead of reading indoors.
Open to Air Library
By Lane
Public Plaza
Market Road Main Road
Diagram: Public Plaza as a Performative Space + Steps Leading to the Open Air Library COMMUNITY CENTER | DEHRADUN, UTTARAKHAND, INDIA | KRVIA - THIRD YEAR (2009)
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Open Air Library
Library Trade Union Ward Office Public Functions Car Parking
Main Road
Plaza
Program Organization
Model Image COMMUNITY CENTER | DEHRADUN, UTTARAKHAND, INDIA | KRVIA - THIRD YEAR (2009)
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Monk Hostel
Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture | 2nd Year
MONK HOSTEL GANGTOK, SIKKIM, INDIA KRVIA - SECOND YEAR (2008) BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE
PROGRAM: A hostel for teenage monks staying in the monastery complex
INTENT:
The monks (6-16 years old) at the monastery were forced to behave in a formal disciplined manner in front of the numerous visitors that visited the monastery. In public they barely interacted with each other but when they got out of sight they became more informal and interactive. The hostel was designed to be hidden from the view of the visitors. The rooms were stacked around a central lawn that became the space were the monks could meet and interact without worrying about anyone watching them.
Diagram: Monk Youth Hostel Designed to be Hidden from Visitors MONK HOSTEL | GANGTOK, SIKKIM, INDIA | KRVIA - SECOND YEAR (2008)
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Model Images MONK HOSTEL | GANGTOK, SIKKIM, INDIA | KRVIA - SECOND YEAR (2008)
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Live + Work Community Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture | 1st Year
LIVE + WORK COMMUNITY
PROGRAM:
MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA KRVIA - FIRST YEAR (2007) BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE
INTENT:
Re-housing a vegetable vendor who lived and worked from the same structure The project explores the idea of formal relationships between adjacent structures. The house has been designed with a void through the center that splits the house into a shop on one side and public toilets on the other. The void helps connect the people from the street, directly to the restaurants on the plots behind. The funnel form helps with the storage of vegetables since they can be easily dispensed with the help of gravity. The provision for public toilets on the other side of the void was done to serve as an additional income for the vendor since most of the other student had not incorporated toilets in their houses.
Living Space
Terrace
Vegetable Storage And Despenser
Grocery Shop Public Toilets
Thoroughfare to the adjacent cafe and food stall
Diagram: Redesigned Live + Work Space LIVE + WORK COMMUNITY | MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | KRVIA - FIRST YEAR (2007)
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Axonometric of the Existing Live + Work Conditions LIVE + WORK COMMUNITY | MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | KRVIA - FIRST YEAR (2007)
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Para Todos: Sky Condos ShroffLeon Architects | Junior Architect
PARA TODOS: SKY CONDOS LIMA, PERU SHROFFLEON ARCHITECTS (2012) JUNIOR ARCHITECT PROJECT TEAM: KAYZAD SHROFF, MARIA LEON, SNIGDHA AGARWAL, KAVAN SHAH, KAIRAV SHROFF
PROGRAM: Luxury Duplex Residential Housing
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The structure obsesses over optimization of land, views, context and real estate values to create architecture that is non-standard. Extreme contextual customization led to a program distribution that is unique at each level thus creating housing units that are completely different and designed to cater to unique user groups and lifestyles. Additionally ventilation channels designed throughout the structure helps the project reach its sustainable agenda.
ParaTodos
PARA TODOS: SKY CONDOS | LIMA, PERU | SHROFFLEON ARCHITECTS - JUNIOR ARCHITECT (2012)
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Ventilation Channels Through the Lobby Cores
PARA TODOS: SKY CONDOS | LIMA, PERU | SHROFFLEON ARCHITECTS - JUNIOR ARCHITECT (2012)
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Pocoloco Restaurant ShroffLeon Architects | Junior Architect
POCOLOCO RESTAURANT
PROGRAM:
BANDRA, MUMBAI, INDIA SHROFFLEON ARCHITECTS (2012) JUNIOR ARCHITECT
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PROJECT TEAM: KAYZAD SHROFF, MARIA LEON, PATHIK JOSHI, KAIRAV SHROFF
A small 800 sq ft Spanish restaurant The space was designed to create a warm ambience for young people to come and dine. Wood is used as a binding element throughout the project, starting from a dumbwaiter on the mezzanine level and unfolding throughout the restaurant.
Constructed Restaurant
POCOLOCO RESTAURANT | MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | SHROFFLEON ARCHITECTS - JUNIOR ARCHITECT (2012)
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WOODEN HANDRAIL DUMB WAITER
MEZZANINE
SERVING COUNTER PRODUCT DISPLAY
OPEN KITCHEN PLATFORM
WINE DISPLAY DUMB WAITER
WINDOW BAR COUNTER
CHANGE IN LEVEL EPOXY FLOORING
Concept Diagram CARPET
WOODEN HANDRAIL EMBEDDED WITHIN WALL
WOODEN RAILING
PLY + VENEER STORAGE
3" ACCESSIBLE PARTITION WALL FOR DUCTING
HARD BENCH (WOOD FINISH)
FEATURE WOODEN RAILING HDF WINE RACK
FIXED WINDOW
PLYWOOD + VENEER
ROLLING SHUTTER
WOODEN FRAMEWORK + VENEER MARINE PLY COVER
STEEL FRAME + WOOD STAIR
VENEER + PLY STORAGE ROLLING SHUTTER EPOXY FLOORING GLASS DOOR EPOXY FLOORING
PICK UP AREA
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GLASS RACK
GLASS WITH FILM
STORAGE WITH SHELVES TILE
CLEAN DISH TABLE ISH WASH MACHINE WALL MOUNTED POT RACK
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PICK UP AREA
WOOD DISPLAY UNIT
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STEEL STRUCTURE + PLY + VENEER + WOOD STONE COUNTER
STORAGE WITH SHELVES
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POCOLOCO RESTAURANT | MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA | SHROFFLEON ARCHITECTS - JUNIOR ARCHITECT (2012)
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