Kajal Borude Portfolio 2016-21 by Kajal Borude

KAJAL SANJAY BORUDE architectural design portfolio selected works 2016 - 2021

“A good city is like a good party — people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves” — Jan Gehl

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UNDERSTANDING PUBLIC SPACES

What are Public spaces ? Public

Public spaces are created and maintained by the citizens, they are owned by public to serve the public domain and facilitate social involvement. These spaces are accessible to every citizen regardless of age, gender, income and social class. Public spaces are important connecting nodes which connects citizens to the city acting as a platform for social interaction, to exchange knowledge and to follow and explore their passion. A city is lively and functions well only when focus is made on developing and maintaining public spaces for people centric city. Project type : Thesis Topic : Rethinking Recreational spaces exploring public spaces in suburbs of city

Institute Year Location Type

: Pillai’s College of Architecture : 2020-2021 : New panvel, Maharashtra : Individual

Public spaces sould be valued asset where cities are developed more vibrant and lively, this also contributes in creating positive environment.

Space : more than

Public spaces varies in scale and forms, such as there are open public spaces which maybe or may not be green , streets, parks, playgrounds, squares, markets, water bodiees, plazza, etc and closed public spaces such as public libraries, museums, exhibition spaces, religious, spiritual and heritage sites. A space is transformed into a place when added functions to it. There are many factors which contribute in a good public space such as comfort, safety, accessibility and socialability. Gatherings at public space creates an intricate connection between space and people and develop “sense of togetherness”

“ just a place ”

character / function openness or closeness is a character ofpublic space recreation is the function of public space

Nature and scale of public spaces 5

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public spaces varies in scale, edges mutate and shape morphs with changing time public

Changing Morphology

Social interaction

transition of spaces then v/s now evolution in urban fabric -

solid and voids

In earlier times, people lived in villages, where group of huts formed a central open space, where people assembled to socialize, discuss their problems and celebrated traditions. This would usually be a space around a tree or temple. Similarly, the markets and the open grounds were used for social & political debates, religious places performed the function of communal involvement. The “ARCADE” in the mosques served the largest gathering space for performing religious activities, the “BAZAAR” streets were the major commercial spaces in the urban fabric likewise the “GHATS” of Banaras and “CHOWKS” of Jaipur formed crucial public spaces for years. The Muslim communities had the large “MAIDANS” which were then used for parades or open gathering spaces on feast days. Later, these traditions of community gatherings passed on to the larger urban cities moulding into different forms and complex functioning. Shopping then was separated according to product categories but now it is observed to be more organized and precise. Stalls changed to markets, markets changed to streets/ square, squares transformed to arcades, arcades to galleries, galleries to shopping malls, malls to online shopping.

needs leisure Commercial space dependent

tradition

C O N F L I C T

Public spaces have been the primary body for social arguements and to control right over occupation.

object of conflict

“imagination of citizenship” where higher public class is believed to occupy public space for private purpose than others.

SOCIAL c u r r e n t

s c e n a r i o

p u b l i c

s p a c e

CONFLICT

dispute over - p h y s i c a l form

Mumbai’s open spaces acts as a platform for socio – political disputes. There are various places like maidans of South Mumbai, Horniman circle, Flora Fountain, etc have some historically remarkable connection to unavoidable conflicts. These disputes are inevitable in future as differences in social status, finance, equality and civic-public interest are rising due to rapid urbanization. There always arises the question “Who have the right to use this public space? ”, and the argument occurs within its own body among the groups. For an instance, there are people from middle and upper class of society who declare the public space as their own, insisting on the removal of lower class who use it for their personal traditions and function or business which is not permitted by the law.

Thus, indicating the removal of those lower class who lack the access to public spaces for their private housing, function or business. The street hawkers/ vendors invade these public spaces for private business to meet their ends and again the argument continues to criticize them for obstructing the access to these spaces. Also, when “p r i v a t i z a t i o n” of gardens occurs, their comes the question who can have access to these space or who can use them. So when these hawkers have the only space to use them for their living even though providing genuine service to the city, their actions are criticized. Clearly , their seems that selective citizens can use these spaces for their private business, resulting the conflict over citizenship and questioning the right to use these space. When it comes to determining authority to a place the public itself has no chance in deciding it, resulting in socio-political disputes and authority to private-public goods.

“dominance” of space

public spaces acting as a platform in validating social disputes

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the reason why people still ‘take to the streets’ - because it is so visible !

“enactment”

of disputes

space as riot sites changing nature of space over the time

Space as percipitate

to social issues

main governing bodies limiting people to certain public spaces

The roads/ streets are also used as riot sites, where democracy promises the citizens the right to protest against the state with an appropriate space for protest. Many a times, public space from south Bombay like Flora Fountain use to be the protest site where people once marched till the gates of the buildings housing the government and today, they are restricted to only one of the grounds of south Bombay. Recently, the “Maratha Kranti morcha” which show the citizens to march on streets of Mumbai for their rights, which state that the maidans, open grounds or streets precipitates as platform for socio-political conflict. On other hand, over the years the role of these spaces changed and today they are used for leisure or play.

Reason for demise : Privatization of space

It is very essential to plan urban spaces in the city as they provide innumerable ecological facilities to humans and the main reason for loss of these spaces are economic motives and market-oriented policies in many cities. Public space would mean as any open ground ,community space, streets with trees or religious place with urban surrounding which are “owned by the government accessible to people without discrimination.”People have always looked upon real estate agendas for luxurious flats and sacrificed literally every square inch of remaining urban areas for their advertisements of providing us with good playgrounds and leisure facilities. Recreation is only left as luxury rather than necessity of the citizens. Often, private developers own these urbans vacant lots to develop private gyms, parks and recreational spaces. This

Conversation between developer and citizens source : author

The developers or the owners provide these private public spaces not because they want public spaces or want to serve the public domain but because the owners get the financial profit form these spaces. The owner don’t really want the public on these spaces hence they privatize it to restrict those who cannot afford it.Sometimes, these spaces include cafes, plazas, or restaurants were people have to pay for it to enjoy the spaces which again break the notion of publicness of public spaces. These spaces may be kept closed when supposed to be open depending upon the owner of the space. This eventually results that all citizens are not together in all. The public spaces are ment for all regardless of differences in income or social status but the privatization of spaces however, create the sense of inequality in terms that more wealthier people exists as compared to others, leaving behind the feeling that public spaces are no longer public.

“privatization”

(declining publicness of public space) of spaces in form of ticketed parks allows only some class of citizens based on who can afford it ignoring the other social class.

? UNUSED SPACES Open spaces serves for various areas of cultural, political as well as socio-economical aspect from earlier times to the present day. Theses spaces are regardless of public accessibility, may or may not be roofed by an architectural structure. There have been researches done on quality of life in urban spaces, habitat and development of the urban area in respect to urbanization. These spaces helps in amalgamation of city as a whole, acting as a platform for community engagement for various city-dwellers and street users. A research states that Mumbai contains 1.28 sqm public space available per person whereas other global cities exhibit healthy public space availability from 17 to 36 sqm which mainly include known public spaces such as central park in New York , Royal parks in London, etc.

“ Cities have that capability of providing something for everybody, only because and only when, they are created by everybody. - Jane Jacobs

...can be used for private business

Direlict ? Various voids are seen undeveloped or ignored in many urban cities which are mostly occupied by homeless people, children for playing, informal

What are these spaces ?

ignored vacant occupied by

increased informal group parking used for private stalls home for homeless polluted areas misused

under develop need to develop these areas

The main reason behind today’s city scenario is growth of informal sector, migration, worsen living conditions, declining open spaces, insufficient and costly facilities, rising real estate and also high cost urban transportation. Increasing real estate on cost of public spaces and general infrastructure is the major threat to the city. Mainly the city is managed by real estate agenda development control regulation which work against public good. These open spaces are later leftover spaces with construction residues, used for parking or as setbacks, polluted or unused properties, distant lands or reserved areas. Hence, as city expands public spaces shrink. The need that we rethink these urban open spaces beyond city’s natural asset and providing it’s people with an opportunity to explore at community level. Planning strategies should focus community life placing at centre and not real estate and construction aspect. There are many such unused voids in the city which are either barren lands, used by hawkers/ vendors or for parking purpose, leftover or neglected spaces, etc. There is a need to develop this spaces which act as a connecting link within cities. Such spaces in neighbourhood are essential as they act as lungs of cities behind several communities, providing places for social gatherings, religious tasks, hubs for employment opportunities and spaces for recreations.

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Understanding the city and its patterns

Location : Mulund East, Mumbai

Pockets of relief

Mapping

Public spaces in the city are reducing and failing to provide good quality public spaces to citizens. People find their pockets of relief usually at food streets, leisure park, etc. The selected site is an under developed space which is not in use from many years and hence local residence tends to use this space for dumping garbage.

Temporality of streets source : author

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Analysing data source : author

Table representing various spaces based on their taxonomy , nature of space, and related activities on site. The functions are further classified as daily, weekly and yearly ephemera which helps in concluding the semi permanent and temporary activities. Based on this classification of spaces and user it is easier to allocate areas , user and activities on site while designing.

The figure represents changing nature of spaces with change in time. Some function are observerd to be a daily routine whereas some are observed to be yearly or weekly changes on site. The nature of space changes depending on activities occuring there from morning to evening.

Changing nature of space source : author

The project consisting of two sites are connected by bridges and developed into open and closed recreactional spaces. The entrances to both the sites are designed as hawker’s corner where the space seves as a platform for neary hawkers and vendor to carry out their activities provided by seationgs. The same space can be used as an exhibition space during political rallies or events. Here, every space is designed in such a way making it multi- functional and flexible to use.

Site 1: Recreational Hub The concept revolves around providing open as well as closed recreational facilities for the neighbourhood people. The site exhibit various open and semi open recreational spaces around the recreational building, where the building consist of different types of indoor sports area and cafetaria. The central open space is developed into an amphitheatre and the entrace into covered workstations. The two sites are connected via bridges, developed into walking and running tracks. The periphery of the sites provide seperate jogging & cycling tracks provided with seatings.

Site 1 : Market spaces The site is provided with various open as well as closed vending spaces which can also be used as exhibition spaces and for events depending on need of an hour. The plan consist of a central open space which can be occupied by kids to play or by nearby food vendors to put their stalls. The structure is surrounded by various outdoor recreational facilitiesdesigned for all age group which can be served as their leisure time activities. The plan shows a variety of spaces including urban forest which allows user to experience a walk in greens provided by seatings. The open gym area where people can perform exercise and the same space can be utilizedas kid’s play area. Every space here is connected through open transitional spaces where people can relax , meet, work, interact , etc.

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2.1 Project type : Academic Institute

: Pillai’s College of Architecture

Year

: 2020-2021

Location

: New panvel, Maharashtra

Type

: Group

RETHINKING CO-WORKING SPACES

The concept aims at a user centered design which focus on various human personality and developing a space according to their needs. The design of an office will take into account the needs and details of each type of work separately. For every function, there are better and worse ways to organize spaces, and some configurations work better for certain activities but not for others. Hence, the most important consideration will be the workplace which allows interactions while providing spaces for concentration and focus. An attempt will be done to make spaces comfortable, agile and multi-purpose.

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I need a break ! Come let’s discus here

relax

I’ll be waiting in the meet room

Section exhibit various different spaces and activities happening, where the main focus is given to types of user personality and their comfort. Here, the existing landscape is preserved and developed into a central public plaza which not only serves as an exciting and inviting entrance to the office building but also a public congregation node where people can meet, discuss, celebrate events and relax. 29 29

Interior lobby spaces developed into greens

which serves as an informal meeting pockets as well as leisure areas. The building envelop is designed in a way which blends with neighbourhood commercial context provided with pop-up balconies and terrace gardens as a highlight to the structure.

Here, an attempt is made to design various formal as well as informal workspaces based on different user personalities such as meeting pockets, conference halls, discuss areas, standing workstations, relax areas, sleeping pods, etc. The design allows each user to work according to their needs and comfort providing them home like spaces which not only provides user with agility and freedom to work but also helps maintain their well being and peace

I feel homely here ! I’ll work here

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What a beautiful plaza it is !

Hey, how’s you ? Come let’s grab evening coffee

“ A space that breathes , space is a breath of art ”

2.2 BREATHING SPACES Project type : Academic Institute

: Pillai’s College of Architecture

Year

: 2018-2019

Location

: New panvel,Maharashtra

Type

: Individual

The concept of Breathing Spaces aims to enable the spaces to breathe. The project has been designed as a new focal point of the area, with communal public amenity combining nature, culture and education. The scheme comprises of : sports, library, performance facility, entertainment, arts, workshops and studios. The master plan involves arrangement of spaces according to the noise generating workshops, shared by central green squares acting as recreational gardens. Here, an attempt is made to balance the structure according to the existing landscape by designing green and solid voids.

The master plan aims to create a new destination that brings nature, culture and education into one comprehensive landscape. The design proposal forms an intriguing silhouetted cracks in the existing landscape that produces urban life. Multiple acess points converge towards the main central courtyard, providing a different perception of site.Two different types of open spaces are generated by the buildings: the public ones dedicated to the city and the courtyards reserved for the students of the college.

Centralized courtyards surrounded by the structures

Various silhouetted cracks emerging in the exsisting natural landscape

Greenscape not only dividing public and private spaces but also enhancing interaction

In-Betweens The pathways are extremely rational and allow direct access to any area. They coexist with a system of more “free” paths which cross the outer courtyards and allow totally different perception of the building spaces between,inside and outside. The design of open spaces then follows the logic of those outer paths, it accompanies in a gentle manner the possible movements throughout the structure and opens in the areas for meet and relax. The courtyards are characterized by greenscape, that give to these areas the shape of a “square-garden”, working as a recreational courtyards.

Pedagogy of relationship Training and knowledge transfer takes place largely through daily meetings in informal places. With this concept in mind the whole building is designed in series of environments, ranging from spaces dedicated to learning in traditional sense, passing through more open spaces where to meet and discuss, to different types of open spaces where users can learn and interact.

The studio aimed at the redevelopment of ITI college, not only to the physiological aspects but also to intangiable aspects like that of protecting exsisting landscape, ones experience while moving through the space,smell and transitional spaces.

The ground floor is designed in such a way on which major spaces open(courtyards, lobby,outdoor spaces, squares) and where one can find access to the collective functions. The building is designed to fully meet the functional program and reach optimal performance interms of lighting,comfort and ventilation for classrooms

The prject involves realization of numerous green spaces inorder to respect exsisting natural green landscape to provide high quality public spaces making it a place for relaxation and excitement for people who work and learn here.

Interior View Of Classroom

Interior View Of Library

Exterior View of Cluster

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Project type Institute Year Location Type

: Academic : Pillai’s College of Architecture : 2018-2019 : Ahmedabad, India : Individual

3.1 Reviving The Past : Post-Independence Architecture Of India By the time of the independence of India, the world had inaugurated the age of universal architecture, far beyond the range of any particular style but in consonance with science and modern building materials which became universally accepted and employed. The age not only witnessed emergence of new construction techniques but also inspiration for people to create architecture that stands bold giving the place its identity.

Le Corbusier’s plan for the capitol consisted of four buildings and six monuments arranged on a single site, loosely conceptualized as three interlocking squares. To maximize natural lighting and increase cross-ventilation, a long and narrow plan was implemented by Corbusier , this approach also helped delineate both the actual and the implied borders of the capitol complex as a whole. The whole structure is constructed in ‘beton brut’ (rough-cast concrete) with Corbusier’s signature ‘brise-soleils’ facade.

The school has been designed to optimize use of natural resources such as solar radiation, shading, and natural ventilation. The facility its own energy and reduces local emissions by using solar panels that take maximum advantage of Ladakh’s high and consistent exposure to direct sunlight. Timber frames are used to resist seismic loads and ensure life safety in the event of an earthquake. The timber frames are independent of the walls, and steel connections and cross-bracing provide earthquake stability.

The design of the institute is more than just efficient spatial planning of the classrooms. Kahn’s inquisitive and even critical view at the methods of the educational system influenced his design to no longer singularly focus on the classroom as the center of academic thought. The classroom was just the formal setting for the beginning of learning, the hallways and Kahn’s Plaza became new centers for learning.

Established in 1952,Jehangir Art Gallery is more than a prime exhibition space. Located in South Mumbai, it has been closely associated with the development of contemporary Indian art. The gallery has been turned inwards due to a combined function of an auditorium and an art gallery. The play with concrete can be easily seen with a large wavy cantilevered entrance which embraces the street.

The entire building is conceived as a continuous spiral ramp, with a central circular service core and with dining spaces provided on the outer side. The building is well proportioned, a cylindrical brickred spiral continuing for a couple of floors and then terminating in a smaller cylindrical volume on top, giving a very unsymmetrical balance to the whole structure.

The construction of the fourteen-story New Secretariat Building at Calcutta marked the beginning of high-raise construction in India. This was the first steel frame skycraper built in India post-independence period. To cut down the glare and direct sun coming into the room, vertical and horizontal louvers are used on east, west and south side of the 3 blocks. Also the blocks are comparatively narrow to obtain uniform illumination and ventilation.

On the face of it, the new temple of Sai Mandir in Vennached looks like a distilled version of a traditional Hindu temple – a simple religious building with recognisable elements such as a gateway, sanctum and circum ambulatory path. Four sets of brick tiers in increasing heights, turned at different angles, produce a lattice-like structure through which the inside and out permeate. The brick wall also evokes the traditional jaali. Here, light does not create an aura but repeatedly reshapes the perception of space, making it appear more layered than it is

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Project type Institute Year Location Type

3.2

: Academic : Pillai’s College of Architecture : 2018-2019 : Ahmedabad, India : Individual

Sangath... moving through participation The study contains an overview on the project stating its potential, objectives, motives and providing a general idea on it. Sangath, features a series of sunken vaults sheathed in china mosaic as well as a small grassy terraced amphitheater and flowing water details. Sangath is a complete combination of Doshi’s architectural themes from his previous work including complex interiors and structures, ambiguous edges, vaults and terraces

“My works are an extension of my life, philosophy and dreams trying to create a treasury of the architectural spirit” - B V DOSHI

So my life actually is a journey where anything or everything has happened. And every time I wonder how come.

Over the years, Balkrishna Doshi has always created an architecture that is serious, never flashy or a follower of trends. He has a deep sense of responsibility and a desire to contribute to his country and its people through high quality, authentic architecture ... Doshi is acutely aware of the context in which his buildings are located. His solutions take into account the social, environmental and economic dimensions, and therefore his architecture is totally engaged with sustainability. “But this is my office and it is called Sangath. Sangath is moving together. You never walk alone. And if you prefer to walk with people around, friends around or scholars around, life is richer.”

Photo collage representing different elements of the structure

Sangath expresses desire for a connection between nature and the individual. The overall form exaggerates the details of nature with its rolling mounds, cavelike spaces, terraced land, playful water channels, and reflective surfaces

The design studios are in a double height volume topped by two domes. Including a space with flat roof allows natural light until the end of the vaulted areas

A set of domes and flat roofs at different heights at different angles juxtaposed. Some of the buildings have sunk below ground level to certain ceilings domes rise only to eye level

The sunken interior spaces are insulated by clay within the structure. Heat from the sun is reduced by grassy mounds and the white reflective china mosaic that covers each vault. Natural light is also filtered into the interior spaces during the day, while the moon is reflected in the ponds and across the china mosaics at night.

The hollow interior spaces are isolated by clay within the structure. The sun’s heat is reduced grassy mounds and reflective white mosaics that cover each vault. Natural light filters into the interior spaces during the day, while the moon is reflected in ponds and around the porcelain tile overnight

• Textured concrete • China mosaic tiles • Stone chip waste Along with natural connections, Sangath holds connections to India’s culture. The layout resembles the way that a temple develops a series of stages into a final platform while the form loosely imitates the boldness of a stupa

Air cooling is not achieved by mechanical technology, which in turn is expensive, but by strengthening traditional cooling devices, improved screens cold water through which air is sucked and returned to the interior spaces.

Now visible in perspective, the vaults begin to recede into the background above the grassy amphitheater, water channels and gardens in the foreground. As one passes by the reflecting ponds that capture the vaults in still water the entrance is made apparent. It lies at the end of an angled approach to the vaults At the end of the hall lies the opening seen from the site entrance and one regains their sense of place along the main axis.

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4.1 Old Ruins of Khursheed Jah Devdi Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

Documentation of buildings and settlements play a vital role in architecture education. Not only it teach the students physiology of the building but also prompts them to ask critical questions on contemporary nature of architecture and built environment. Buildings and spaces of Hyderabad are ornate. Not merely with decoration and embelishment but also with their expressions of material and history. The project aims at documenting Khursheed Jah Devdi in Hussaini Alam, a beautiful two-story structure in the old city, where Paigah royals once lived. Considered one of the best examples of Palladian architecture by heritage experts, the mansion has big pillars and European design floors, which were decorated with carpets. Its interiors were once adorned with expensive carpets and exclusive chandeliers. The gardens blossomed with flowers and fountains made the ambience livelier. A marvellous piece of European style architecture, once home to the Paigah nobles, now lies in ruins. Paigah nobel Khursheed Jah Bahadur inherited the palace from his ancestors and stayed here. The palace was full of imported furniture, chandeliers and paintings. Woodwork and glass facades were the other features of the palace. The palace also bears resemblance to the British Residency at Koti. Hence, the project exhibit it’s documentation actively engaging with measured drawings of the structure.

Project type : Academic

Institute

: Pillai’s College of Architecture

Year

: 2016-2017

Location

: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

Type

: Group Project

Khursheed Jah Devdi is a European styled architectural palace in Hyderabad. It was built by the Ancestors of Paigah noble Khursheed Jah Bahadur,[1] Its interiors were once adorned with expensive carpets and exclusive chandeliers. The gardens blossomed with flowers and fountains made the ambience livelier. It is located at Hussaini Alam, just a kilometer from the historic Charminar. Despite numerous demands for restoration by heritage activists, the Khursheed Jah Devdi, once home to the Paigah nobles, now lies in ruins.

4.2 Narrating IIM Bangalore Project type : Academic

Photo collage representing different elements of structure

Institute

: Pillai’s College of Architecture

Year

: 2018-2019

Location

: Bangalore

Type

: Individual

The project aims at documentation of IIM Bangalore done in semester 6 which is an ideal example for institutional building.Taking inspiration from B V Doshi’s miniature paintings the documentation exhibit a longitudinal section in form of miniatures narrating its spaces, interplay of light and shadow and merging the exterior with interior.

The project is about documentation of extention to the existing structure of IIM bangalore by Ar. B.V Doshi. The extention done by Ar. Sanjay Mohe’s design intent was to strike a chord with existing campus. The existing columns were strengthened and some new columns were added along the periphery of the proposed building without obstructing the existing building. A wide flight of steps perpendicular to the central spine leading to upper floors became the focal point for informal interactions. These stairs followed by walkway adorn by nature covered pergolas creates a dailogue between interior and exterior of the structure. The corridors are sometimes open, sometimes partly covered with skywells and sometimes with only pergolas to heighten the spatial experience. The width of the corridors is modulated to allow casual interaction and seating. The design reflects perfect sense of scale, proportion and light. The interplay of walls and openings, light and shadows, and solids and voids change the character of the main building during different times of the day and during different seasons making the whole structure enchanting and pleasing. The structure exhibit that the interior must be relevant to the exterior, and that life, art and architecture can co-exist.

Project type Institute Year Location Type

Street

analogue

representing density at various time period for the activities taking place along the bustling streets of dharavi. Here, density ranges high in evening time, moderate in morning and low at afternoon period. Likewise the fish market is observed crowded at morning and evening time than afternoon

Dharavi streets at different times of day

4.3 Koliwada : The Original residents of Bombay Over the years in the past four decades, the marshy land surrounding Koliwada saw the arrival of thousands of immigrants from all over India, who made the village of Dharavi their home. The city of Mumbai was never quite able to absorb its poor citizens, and it was left to villages such as Dharavi to accommodate the different communities. Dharavi is full of stories of people making themselves up from scratch in a tough natural environment with little infrastructural facilities. As we go along the bustling Dharavi main road, it is difficult to believe that behind the busy shopfronts lies a Koli settlement, Dharavi’s very own fishing village. One of the main concern of these people is to preserve their koli tradition as following the western tradition and culture is resulting in loss of their values, traditional occupation and culture.

: Academic : Pillai’s College of Architecture : 2018-2019 : Mumbai : Group

Connecting spine

Activity mapping related to streets indicating Dharavi people’s daily routine

The main street of Dharavi is lined with shops and small businesses; vegetable traders, hardware stores, convenience kiosks, a bank, supermarket and sari sellers. The streets are a throng of people; young, old, women, children, people shopping, people running errands and people going about their daily business. In this real, not manufactured, street and community people interact; they talk, they laugh, they shake hands, they share, they drink Chai with friends, they buy, they sell, they trade. Children walk to school hand in hand, bicycles carrying cargo weave around the groups of chatting people, motorbikes slowly swerve around vegetable stalls and of course, the background noise is car drivers honking their horns. Dharavi, a mixeduse self-contained residential and commercial ‘development’ with a guesstimated population in excess of 1 million, has a real, and very genuine, sense of community. It has a sense of purpose, its full of people with spirit and determination but most of all it has that ‘sense of place.’

Earlier, the kolis were the only settlers on the entire stretch of dharavi. Hence, there were no houses with more than ground floors. Eventually people started to migrate to dharavi from different parts of country and settled down in dharavi. Due to increasing population there witnessed a shortage of land as the condition of poverty prevails, the settlers began adding floors over the existing structure. As a result, current scenario exhibit maximum of G+2 floors. The ground floor tenements spill onto outlying plinths called otlas, that are used as wet areas, storage or seating, all depending on the time of the day. These otlas are key nodes for communal interaction and one is very likely to find Koliwada’s high-spirited residents on these plinths, both- humans and animals. Each house is a typical, and thoughtfully decorated, the openings are painted in different colours than the house. The doorways are adorned with handwoven torans and are often left open. As a result of the closely packed nature of the settlement, it is rare to find houses with more that one window, leaving them to rely on an exhaust vent, which is usually disguised smoothly. Elements like the railings of staircases and grills of windows are not merely used as utilitarian entities but also, as an expression of aesthetic, each varying from corner to corner yet coming together as part of one neighbourhood harmoniously.

Due to scarcity of land and increasing population dharavi is adversely affected which show poor ventilation due to less space between two houses, garbage occupied gullies, poor drainage system, etc

Dharavi is the most polluted place in mumbai which has wide range of pollutants leading various health problems to the residents. Some of the concern which include heaps garbage on streets, entangled wires between houses, etc.

narrative of process The image represent the process of the proposed design where the basic ideas and needs by understanding site context led to zoning of the spaces at initial stage. This zoning at conceptual level was further carried out by massing the required areas for the spaces. I believe that a design is made better by following the process required for it which enhances its value considering every parameter which leads to needed solutions. Through design process not only the final out put is achieved but also my thoughts through work. Conceptual Conceptual zoning zoning done done in in design design studiostudio

Conceptual zoning done in design studio

5.1 WORKING DRAWING

The Museum project designed in semester 5 in Nerul, New panvel was taken up for the working drawing in semester 6 and further resolved. Plans were detailed out and sections with construction details. The setting out of the whole structure was layed out and specific elements of the structure like staircase, skylight, canopy, doors, windows and the public toilets were detailed out. Finishes of the walls, ceilings, floors as well as railings, tiling, parapet wall, nahani trap were specified.

Project type : Academic Institute

: Pillai’s College of Architecture

Year

: 2018-2019

Location

: Nerul, New panvel Maharashtra

Type

: Individual

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6.1

Classical Architecture through Hand sketches

Hand sketches representing antiquity and different elements of structure

Project type : Academic

Institute

: Pillai’s College of Architecture

Year

: 2017-2018

Type

: Individual

This is architecture that looks back to a Classical past. The roots of Classicism are in ancient Greek and Roman architecture - in the temple architecture of ancient Greece and in the religious, military and civic architecture of the Roman Empire. The style comprises a range of conventional forms, notably columns (known as orders) each with fixed proportions and ornaments (especially Doric, Ionic and Corinthian). Proportion, symmetry and the relationship of individual parts to the whole. The style of classical architecture has been reproduced throughout architectural history whenever architects looked to the ancient past for illumination and inspiration, and in search of what they may have regarded as lost ideals. Classical buildings in ancient Greek and Roman times were typically built from marble or some other attractive, durable stone, but since then, they have also been built in brick, concrete and stone. The architecture was primarily post & beam and evolved from timber origins.

Palazzo Chiericati Vicenza Begun c.1547 Architect : Palladio To support the loggia’s open facing, Palladio used a colonnade, an entablature carried by columns, instead of following the standard practice of using an arcade carried by piers.Palladio originally designed a loggia across the entire width of the upper-story, but the patron wanted the salone to occupy the center of this area so that it could overlook the piazza.The separateness of the central section is emphasized by its projection forward from the plane of the side sections. The plan is totally symmetrical. The larger spaces lie along the central axis and the smaller ones are replicated on each side. The rooms are related to one another by a repetition of dimensions. For instance, the short side of the large rectangular room equals the long side of the small rectangular room as well as any side of the square. The length-to-width ratios of both the large and small rectangular rooms are golden sections. The large and small rectangular rooms share a common dimension, and the length of the long wall of the larger rectangular rooms is equal to the sum of the length and width of the smaller rectangular rooms.

Project type : Academic

...and perhaps what made her beautiful was not her appearance or what she achieved, but in her love and in her courage, and her audacity to believe no matter the darkness around her. Light ran wild within her, and that was the way she came alive, and it showed up in everything.

Institute

: Pillai’s College of Architecture

Year

: 2018-2019

Type

: Individual

Keywords : expressionism, intensity, woman, eyes, face

Author Subject Style Medium

: Kajal Borude : The soul : Expressionism : Acrylic on canvas

EVERYBODY HAS A STORY 6.2

“She”... she is the origin of universe owing all struggle, disheartened and rising through the trouble. Likewise, here an attempt is made to depict the soul of a woman shining by overcoming difficulties of her life. The painting acts as a medium to enlighten the pain of a soul who is considered worthless, weak and underestimated by the society. The painting exhibits dark shades of blue representing difficulties, sorrows and pain which surrounds her. The immediate sight on the bright shades of yellow represents her beautiful face rising above sorrows, not accepting defeat and courage to rebuilt herself.

Mother and child with an orange was painted during Picasso’s cubism period. Picasso was an artist that was very bold with his artwork. Even with backgrounds that are normally placed to be a backdrop and mainly they’re to assist the main subject. He includes it within the painting to make it just as intense as the main focal point of the image. Picasso was part of a movement that would become known as Modernism, a name which included a number of different artistic styles and aesthetic responses. The painting interpret many different symbols within different parts. The woman’s face is painted with a side profile and a full frontal image. One side shows the day time where she seems more like a woman, dolled up with her make up done. The other side with the rough charcoal texture portrays her at night. When she takes off the mask of makeup, and is more vulnerable as a young lady. One way of interpreting the painting is when the woman looks at herself in the mirror, she is seeing herself as an old woman.

Art is Lie

That makes us realize truth The background consists simply of two bands of colour to suggest sky and foreground, a factor echoed in the strictly geometrical forms of the mother and child.

Picasso repeatedly combines the themes of religion and poverty as his development of the female figure moves away from the sexual allusions encompassed in prostitute images, to the more hallowed portrayal of the mother figure. In contrast to the chromatic explosion of his pre-war Cubist works, Picasso has here returned to a relatively muted palette of pale blues and whites, which accentuate the warm flesh tones of the figures. Overall all is reduced to random strokes to represent cubism style.

Subject : Mother and child with an orange Author : Kajal Borude Style : cubism Medium : oil on canvas

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