K ALYANI
VISHRAM
KULKARNI
Portfolio in Architecture and Design Selected work from 2010-2017
Contact Kalyani Vishram Kulkarni B.Arch, MA Architecture Pune. India October 3rd 1992, Pune,India kallu392@gmail.com +44 (0)7493213378 (London) +91(0) 8275015912 (India)
Education Bachelors in Architecture _ VIT’s Padmabhushan Vasantdada Patil College of Architecture, Pune, India_2010-2015 Thesis-First Class Masters in Arts- Architecture _University of Westminster, London_ 2015-2016 Thesis-Distinction
Languages Marathi
Hindi
English
Competitions Mera Gaon Mera Base, India Asian contest for Architure Rookies, Osaka, Japan
Digital Skills Microsoft Office Autocad Rhinoceroses Photoshop Corel Draw Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator Sketch up VRay
2014 2014
German
S e m i n ar a n d W o r k s h o p s FEED- Forum of Exchange and Education in Design
2005-2009
IID Seminars
2011
Tekdi Alekhan_Urban Design and Landscape Workshop
2013
Streets for People _Urban Design Workshop
2014
University of Westminster- Architecture Lecture Series
2015-2016
Fabrication Laboratory-Wood And Metal Workshop,London
2015
Professional Experience 2014 Vivek Varma Architects Mumbai,India Post- Architecture Intern Project Typology- Cinema Theatres, Residential, interior Key Responsibilities Auto cad Drawings Construction details Working drawings
Things I Enjoy
Travel 2017-
Ireland | United Kingdom
2016-
Barcelona | Spain
2016-
Scotland | Whales | United Kingdom
2016-
Paris | France
2015-
Phuket |Bangkok | Thailand
2014-
Osaka| Kyoto| Tokyo | Japan
2013|12- Chandigarh | Hampi | India 2008-
Himalayan Ranges (part 2) | India
2006-
North East India | India
2006-
Himalayan Ranges (part 1) | India
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‘M U S E U M’ Museum At Hampi; Karnataka Site: Virupaksha Temple Scope:Objective: To study the historical concept of the given site. Concept: derived from the structure of the rock-cut caves. 1. Exhibit galleries are situated in the basements, the wall s are treated with the locally available yellow sand stone and only necessary light in taken in to the space to give natural spatial experience
The mystique and magic of India lie in the tales from ancient times. Carved in stone are stories that take legends beyond the mythical. Religion, archaeology, mythology, even geology have defined culture, the architecture and art, akin to one’s heart. They speak to wanderlust souls about a poignant past. The caves in Hampi are the most magnificent piece of architecture, they take you on a journey of devine pleasure. The rough edges of the rocks absorbs light and gives the space a dingy look. the walls are carved with figurines of god and only neccessary light is taken into cave to highlight the art. The museum offers you a similar experience.
Administration Exhibition Galleries
T h i r d Y e a r_B. A r c h ‘P E R F O R M I N G A R T D E P T._ P u n j a b U n i v e r s i t y’ Scope of Study: Campus design of Punjab University. Group of 4 students designing in Punjab University should set some policies and guideline before designing individual buildings. The Project intended to design an Academic insert in a Pre-planned University (Punjab University) A department of Performing Arts was to be designed with a broad program given including rooms for undergraduate and postgraduate courses for Music, Theatre and Dance.
Site 4- Performing Arts Site 2- Dance Site 1- Liberal Arts
Performing Arts Dept.
Roads
Open Green
Gandhi Bhavan
The project was a collaborative effort where 4 architecture students were asked to develop a set of guidelines which will create a sense of harmony and create a link between each others design insets as well as the existing Punjab University. The site selected for all the four departments are strategically marked by deriving guidance lines from major existing structures like Gandhi Bhavan and Students Centre.
Site 3- Commerce
Students Centre
The site is dived in to 3 zones Theatre, Dance, Music with a common core with houses the administrative areas of the department. The design is invert looking structure with external corridors which act as connectors between the performing art department and other adjacent department buildings. Theatre Building: 1. Huge foreground with positive and negative spaces depected by mounds and depressions as landscape features which act as a spill out public space Music Building: 1.Wide Corridors 2.Cantilever studios 3.Building Edge treated with vertical fins Central core: Adminstration Shared Spaces by all three faculties to perform as a complete blend of all performing arts. Dance Building: The Dance building has dynamic interactive entrance and huge studios which can transformed into auditoriums for small performances.
Music Administrative Core Theatre Dance
T h i r d Y e a r_B. A r c h _ A C A R ; J a p a n ‘Y O G A M U D R A’_ M E D I T A T I O N
C E NT R E
ACAR (KENCHIKU SHHINJEN) is an annual competition in Osaka, Japan where third year students of architecture from various countries present their academic work. There were two students selected for ACAR 2013 ,who represented India on an international platform.
Scope: The project is design development through personality study. In the following project the philosophies of yogacharya B. K. S. Iyengar were studied to design an urban intervention. The location of the site is very strategically selected taking into consideration the primary objective of the project. i.e connecting major neighborhoods of the city. Canals; one of the major unused chunk of land overflowing with design potential. These typology of land is often suppressed or ignored under the dense fabric of urban growth. The idea is rejuvenating the land and the neighborhood around by
The attempt to balance the ratio between the built area and the open green spaces
The peaceful journey of yogic philosophy which takes one from healthy body to happy soul has been considered while planning the spaces. The material selection and use of landscape enhances this journey giving one a sense of transition.
The circulation spaces are designed to give one the sense of scale according to the zoning
“A MEDITATIVE JOURNEY TO THE INNER SELF WEANING OFF THE WORLDLY THINGS BEYOND THE NARRATIVE OF THE FACE LEADING TO ONE’S INNER SOUL A SERENE VOYAGE, AN INTERFACE.”
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‘H O U S I N G’ This is a revolutionary concept of incorporating all the economic stratus into one structure to create an utopian vertical city. The contoured site is part of the hill slopes ob the west of Pune city. The design of the following structure is an strategically sculpted structure where the negative
spaces are treated with green areas which helps the structure merge with its scenic background.
Lower Economic Group Unit nos- 30 Ratio- 2 : 8
TYPE- D Unit nos- 104 Ratio- 6 : 24
TYPE- C Unit nos- 140 Ratio- 8 : 32
TYPE- B Unit nos- 52 Ratio- 3 : 12
TYPE- A Unit nos- 18 Ratio- 1 : 4
T h e s i s_ F i n a l Y e a r_B. A r c h R E-C O N C E P T U A L I S I N G
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R A I LW A Y S T A T I O N History of Karvenagar Karvenagar was a village in Pune Taluka, in Pune district of Maharashatra, India. It belongs to desh or Pashim Maharashtr region. Ganeshnagar, Vitthalwadi, Dhanukar colony, Navsayadhari and Mahalwadi are the nearby villages toKarvenagar. Its is surrounded by Pune taluka towards east, Pimpri-Chinchwad taluka towards north, Purandar taluka towards east. It has a prominently been a residential area with small bunglow settlements. These bunglows have further been divided into smaller cooperative housing society. Due to the stringent rules the area has retained its character helping to curb the rapid development around the area.
Karve nagar Massing Model Showing the skyline and mass distribution of Karvenagar. Mula Mutha River and nalas (canals) passing through the area are shown in the Model. The neighborhood is mostly dominated by G+2 Bungalows and divided into various housing societies with small green spaces dedicated to each society.
HCMTR Stations 300m Walkablity Circles from HCMTR stations 500m Walkablity Circles from HCMTR stations Area of probable densification Green spaces -existing and proposed
About the Studio The whole studio was about to demonstrate and understand the different layers of city fabric and propose a module to generate good habitable spaces around the city of Pune. We have chosen Karve nagar as a Fourth year studio Urban Design project with the considering a noteworthy experience of understanding the area. We were guided by college faculty as well as Urban design experts and practitioners. We were distributed into groups of to get the basic existing data and current conditions to understand the complexity of the area. Starting with actual use and current conditions we have drawn our methodology to generate and understand the data. Focus was given to these five heads 1) Current Land use 2) Building typology 3) Open and Green spaces 4) Transport 5) Public participation With these working methods we have derived conclusion and some policies. Following is our process and the study.
WORKING METHODOLOGY 1) The studio aimed at understanding neighborhood as components of cities the role that the former plays as a ‘planning unit’ in the making of the later. 2) Aspect of creating “ LIVING NEIGHBORHOODS” through understanding the fundamental issues faced by existing neighborhoods. 3) The studio methodology focuses creating a ‘vision’ for the local area selected to make it ‘More Livable’ and derive an urban design framework or guidelines for the further development of the area through formulation of projects, evolving as a need within the framework of the ‘vision plan. 4) The objectives of this studio involved a detailed process covering aspects like understanding UD guidelines and concepts, issues, awareness of LAP system ‘Livability Index’, the process of documentation, public participation scales of the urban fabric and generating sensitivity towards the Natural Environment.
Residential Commercial Mixed use Open Space Religious Institutional Slum Government
Analysis: Public Participation is a very important part for documentation of Area. Janasabha was held in Virangula hall of Karvenagar, near Dr. Shyamprasad Mukherji Udyan. Where residents from Karvenagar area gathered together, shared their experiences, thoughts about their area and also gave opinions about developing their own neighborhood. In Janasabha majorly Senior Citizens were present. Opinion of people from other group ages were taken through Interviews
The project further led to an urban insert in the Karvenagar neighbourhood. The development of the river front with a school for the economically weaker section in the society as the neighbourhood houses 20 % EWS sector with no proper schooling available .
T h e s i s_ F i n a l Y e a r_B. A r c h R E-C O N C E P T U A L I S I N G
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Context Sensitive Design” (CSD).-Among various objectives of the CSD are aesthetics of transport facilities and environmentally sensitive design, realized through the efforts to increase understanding of environmental and aesthetic issues within the engineering community, and to enforce practical involvement of local residents. In such way, the CSD seems to be a universal tool for all kinds of public transport, including railways Transportation infrastructure is one of the most dominating elements in the cities and in the open landscape, which has the power to redefine an urbanscape and a natural surrounding. In the city railways are part of so called “planned landscape”, which is based on the set of cultural patterns and developed through planning ,Railway Landscape (RL) is a landscape filled with rail infrastructure that is perceived in the context of visual amenity and functional efficiency. RL consists of three-dimensional network of railways, subways, and LRT, which contains three basic elements of rail infrastructure – railroads, stations and train cars. Railway stations are important public buildings, which besides giving an access to trains, perform a variety of functions – of meeting places, shopping centers and very often – of urban landmarks. How the station affects the landscape depends on its functional type. In theory there are several types, such as suburban station, city center terminal, interchange, small station, airport station, and LRT station but as some writers note (Edwards 1997), currently the station has become more complex and fulfills more than one functional role. Complexity of contemporary stations is reflected in their spatial conception, which is a combination of a building with a train shed or canopies, concourses, and an outdoor environment. Obviously for a station the transportation function is the most essential one.
Over the years Railway Station has developed with many new building coming up, namely Parcel office Reservation office MSRT Bus Depot etc Private Vehicle parking space-Pay and Park for 200 Two Wheelers and 50 Four Wheelers. Many People travel by suburban rail for their jobs hence there is a high number of people commuting by private vehicles.
METRO PHASE 1 DMRC’s Recommendation Standard Guage: Elevated Corridor 2- Vanazto Ramwadi Length -14.92 km Major Concerns: Railway crossing at Pune Railway Station major and very busy rail route. Land Acquisition for further Metro development routes along Station road may also pose problems
In the last few years many (re) development projects and build -ing works were and are “on track” at railway stations and their surrounding urban areas in India dealing with great challenges but also with many opportunities. On one hand, there is the need to address accumulated problems through time and to update these spaces to the new requirements created by the evolution of social, economic, environmental paradigms and technologies. Because the built environment hardly changes at the same pace as societies do, for technical, economical and even political reasons, stations have become often inadequate for mobility, marginal to urban fabric, unattractive, and economical and environmental burdens at several scales. On the other hand, the (re)development of these spaces can address: ‘sprawl’ and ‘car-dependent’ urbanization patterns; the freed space in inner city locations the market oriented view of transport related companies (many privatized and divided into several companies managing the different branches of activity, namely real-estate); and the quest of cites for a competitive position as places to live, work and consume [, And to do so, the station buildings as well as their urban surroundings must be rethought, balancing their roles as infrastructural nodes and places in the city.
T h e s i s_ F i n a l Y e a r_ M. A r c h
India is a developing country with a strong cultural history. Today modernity and globalization is everywhere. Media-scape and Finance-scape are playing a major role in developing a global face for India. Global flow brings along new avenues, new opportunities and opens new vistas for imagination. The area affected the most by the global market is the core city centres which usually point the origin of the city. These city centres witness the growth of the city over time. The area marks the compilations of the history to every bit. Every layer added to the city over time reflects on what we are leaving behind to make ourselves fit in the global flow. These areas are the live examples of the rapid growth and transformation of the city. Arjun Appadurai is one of the leading theorist and anthropologist, his best known work ‘Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy’ (published in 1990) where Appadurai lays out his Meta theory of disjuncture. For him the ‘new global cultural economy has to be seen as a complex, overlapping, disjunctive order’. This order is composed of different interrelated, yet disjunctive global cultural flows. Pune’ in the state of Maharashtra, the cultural capital. In a city like Pune (city close to Mumbai in India) is all about the inborn Maharashtiness and the attitude which is hard to follow, yet today the city stands in labyrinth where western cultures are flowing in making their way through the citizen’s heart putting the local cultures in the danger of disappearance? The local markets seem to dry out due to the upcoming malls, classical music concerts are not considered “cool” , festivals are more of a formality than tradition. The traditional markets are replaced by events like ‘Farmers choice- all organic food, traditional Holi is replaced with ‘HD Festival of colors with loud music. Today everyone is behind branding everything possible under the fancy of globalization. The question in front of us today is how to up rise from this cultural crises?
Guidelines for Development WFaçades: The façades of the structures facing the heritage corridr and the derived route will be retained/conserved as per the archival data available with the help and guidance of the residents. Interior of the Residential units: The interior of the residential units will be developed and after careful analysis of the heritage cell. The residential units can be developed in three major typologies !st typology: The residential structures (wadas) with blue plates (residents of freedom fighters/ poets/politicians/journalists etc. who played a major role in shaping the city) should to conserved according to the archival data available. 2 typology: These residential units can redevelop the interior of wadas maintaining the exterior beauty of the space. 3 typology : The third type of residential units can be developed as hotels which will allow the visitors experience the lifestyle. This units can be the answer to the rising global ecomy and the can give justice to the land prices. Street Markets and Shops Markets are the soul of the old city which binds the entire neighbourhood together hence these markets should be given proper space along the footpath. The vendors selling fruits, clothes and other local products can encourage the pedestrian flow. The shops/restaurants which function at the ground floor of heritage structures should maintain the architectural style of the neighbourhood. Pedestrian Movement: The pedestrian movement along the heritage corridor should be encouraged by providing 5m footpath where ever possible. The width of the footpath will provide the vWWisitors a better viewing angle. Vehicular Movement: The vehicular movement of the heritage corridor is restricted by providing 2 car parks along the street. 9:00- 20:00- the heritage corridor will only allow PMT (intercity buses) and auto rickshaws. The residents can access the road anytime of the day. 20:00-9:00- the corridor will be open for heavy vehicles which provide good to the local shops and Phule Mandai.
PROFESSION AL
PRACTICE
Vivek Varma Architects; Mumbai T h e a t r e, C i n e m a H a l l s
The fascination of designing cinema halls led me to work with Ar. Vivek Varma ; a Mumbai based architect and interior designer who has specialized in designing theatres, shopping malls, hospitality and bungalows. Working with Vivek Varma gave me an opportunity to experience the working of large scale projects to interior design projects which helped me broaden my horizon. 1. Cinepolis Pune- I worked on the Pune cinepolis project as an intern where I designed the interior layout of auditoriums, the flooring in the lobby area and detailing the flooring. 2. Hotel Building in Nashik, Maharastra Taking an contemporary approach the exterior of the hotel it was designed to give a monolith sculpted form with cuboidal glass room protruding out of the concrete box.
Hospitality
I n t e r i o r_ R e s i d e n t i a l
Dodeja Residential Interior 5000 sq ft apartment located in one of the prime areas of Hiranandani, Mumbai facing the Powai lake gave me an insight into the world of interior. 1. The interior layout of the living room was designed to utilise maximum natural north light and view of the lake. The sitting area was separated from the dinning hall using hefty sitting arrangement which helped maintain the visual connectivity yet demarcated the spaces. 2. The main objective of designing the guest washroom was to give a sense of glamour and grandeur. The theme for the washroom was ‘Indian Motifs’ that will showcase our culture.
Ret ail_Residential The concept for the new Akbarally’s store is A-Bold,Cold and Very MANLY with colors like: gray, white metallic and some electric colors. B-Warm, Loving and Very Much FAMILY with colors like beige,wood and bronze.
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