(12th Boards)
(94.5% ; Award for 100% Marks in Mathematics)
(10th Boards)
(92.7%)
BASIC FRENCH
Aras Paras Sem:
Faculty:
3rd Prof. Neelkanth chaya Prof. V.R.Shah Prof. Mangesh Balsare Prof. Sujan Umraniya Prof. Imran Mansuri
Brief: The studio aims at designing a pure ‘brick structure’ and understanding the nature of forces and workability of the form. The very first step was to select a geometric shape with number of sides. Now 12 units of this shape of 16 sq mt. each (carpet area) were to be organized in such a way that they can support a cover of 256 sq.mt (carpet area) and each space can look into 4 other spaces and 1 outside space. The rule was to keep the size and shape of all the units same and regular. The only material allowed was brick and some amount of wood. The structure was to be used as an architectural studio with different kind of spaces inside for different functions. Wood could be used for the intermediate connections. No ceiling was allowed to be flat. So in order to study domes and arches we took the example of the historical city ‘Mandu’ and made observations there about the load transfer mechansim in different types of domes and arches. I selected ‘Hexagon’ as the shape to proceed with and applied the theories of a ‘Ribbed Dome’ to cover the 256 sq.mt space and arranged the units in such a way the load of each rib is tranferred through the thickness obtained at each junction of the two units.
Axonometric View In order to assure smooth load transfer a pedestal has been given at each end junction of the ribs and the intermediate arches of the dome. The cluster of two units are connected with conoidal arches. C
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Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Process Models Models were made at different stages in order to analyse the mechanism and load transfer. Clay models helped to carve out different types of spaces inside the units.
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The view shows what the structure looks like internally. The wooden platforms act as connections between the clusters of two units each. The conoidal arches make the structure one space and act as entrance to the bigger space inside.
Pedestal Level Plan
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Top View
Mass Housing Sem:
Faculty:
4th Prof. Parag Mistry Prof. Imran Mansuri Prof. Falguni Goghari Prof. Manashree Parekh
Brief: The studio started with designing of the individual units for 2,4 and 6 people and studying their linkage and stacking with different permutation and combinations of arrangements. Then the site was introduced, situated in Ahmedabad, and in groups of 5 the site and the surrounding area was studied and analysed. The aim of the studio was to design low costhousing societies for the mill workers living in the neighbourhood. Total site being 53,300 sq.mt, 40% of the land was to be given back to the city and the 60% was divided among the 5 students to design the housing societies keeping 30% of the whole site for the economically weaker section and 30% for the middle/higher income group.
The major goal was to provide the mill workers optimum and comfortable spaces to live in. Equal oppurtinities and spaces have been tried to be given to all the three kinds of income groups blending them together and breaking the barriers between them. At the site level streets have been created to bring people closer and make the intermediate spaces more interactive with giving green patches in the middle. The stacking is done in a way to achieve terraces and open spaces at multiple levels so that each unit gets an entrance porch of its own which can be used in several ways by the residents providing them flexibility and openess. All the services are tried to be kept together and stacked in such a way that all of them align to each other forming service cores. The units are arranged on the site in such a way that all of the common open spaces remain shaded making it lively and suitable for people to use for the whole day. A kind of homely essence have been tried to be given to the spaces for the resident’s comfort.
Process Models Different permutations and combinations tried to study the stacking and linkage of units with the intermediate circulation with aligned services.Exercise helped to explore various options for the final project.
Unit For 2 People
Ground Floor Plan
Unit For 4 People
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Unit For 6 People
Community Centre Sem:
Faculty:
5th Prof. Foram Bhavsar Prof. Vibha Gajjar Prof. Geeta Shah Prof. Jayant Gunjaria
Brief: Community Development= Treating People & Communities as Assets Social Work & Urban Community Development Social work itself is an urban phenomenon. The aim of the studio was to design a UCD (Urban Community Development) Centre promoting welfare of the society. The site which was introduced, in Ahmedabad, already had an existing UCD Centre owned by AMC with ongoing sewing and computer classes but the structure was in a dilapidated condition. So the agenda was to design a new and a better centre with more functions in the program which was generated by each individual after the analysis of the neighbourhood. The site is in a close proximity to the Asia’s largest civil hospital. So the provision for a ‘Ren Basera’ was also to be introduced to accomodate the great influx of patients and their relatives in the hospital and for the homeless too. Other spaces like Vachnalaya (public library), eatery and Bal Bhawan (baby creche) keeping in mind the people and their need coming there from the neighbourhood to learn and relax. We also went to ‘Pune’ to study different institutes in order to get an idea about spaces and transitions.
Ren Basera
Ren Basera
Eatery Library (first floor)
Ren Basera
Ren Basera
Residential Area
Public
The site is strategically divided into three zones demarcating the residential, informal and formal activities on the site. The residential and formal area with limited influx of people being on the extremes connected with public spaces and large open space in the middle.
Process Models Concept block models made at different stages in order to study the different arrangements of open, semi open and closed spaces on the site and figure out the transitions between them.
Exploded to show the different layers of the site and their arrangement showing the relatioon of one with with the other and the ratio of of the built and unbuilt on the site. Bal Bhawan
Computer Classes
Sewing Classes
Closed Spaces
Health Centre
Admin
Semi Open Spaces
Ground Floor Plan Green Open Spaces
Buffer Recreational Area
Administrative Formal Area Section
All the closed spaces are interlinked with a semi open space to provide a clear transition from outside to inside. The entrance porches for both Ren Basera and the classes and admin section are provided with ‘pergolas’ to give a sense of entry. Small coutryards in the middle of the blocks have been provided for light and ventilation. The collonade in the middle promotes a clear visual connectivity to the public park on the northern side of the site.
Linear Circulation
Site
Community Centre Sem:
Faculty:
6th Prof. Parag Mistry Prof. Viral Bhavsar Prof. Kavita Menghani Prof. Jayant Gunjaria
Brief: The project of 6th sem, the UCD Centre, was taken forward in this semester by detailing it out and making it’s construction drawings. Many changes came in the project due the technicalities of the material and the structure. So the material chosen is exposed brick structure with concrete and wooden fenestrations. For the roof the tradional wooden typology has been used with mangalore tiles. Local materials have been used to avoid the building to look alienated and people could connect to the community centre easily like their homes. The structure is a load bearing stucture with 460mm thick walls. Site area being 1880 sq.mt with a built of 532 sq.mt. EXPOSED BRICK
EXPOSED CONCRETE
POLISHED KOTA STONE
TERRACOTTA TILES
WOOD
MANGALORE TILES
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Terrace Plan
North Elevation
South Elevation
Elevation
Sections
Wall Section
Staircase Details
Toilet Details
Clerestory Window Details
Study Trips Field study trips are an essential part of any architect’s education. Seeing first-hand buildings of significant architectural importance, from historic treasures to modern structures, helps to inspire students’ future careers. The study trips gives us an oppurtunity to explore and see the world with new perspective. It helps us to learn many things and theories from both old and the new architecture. The very first trip was to the ancient heritage site ‘Ellora’ where we explored the very first and the most ancient type of architecture which the human race started following. Later in ‘Murud’, a small town near Mumbai, we explored the different typologies of the dwellings and communities of fishermen. In ‘Mandu’ we explored and analysed the load transfer mechanisms of domes and arches and their different typologies. In ‘Pune’ different scale of institutes and offices were explored in order to learn the relation between transition and spaces. In ‘Nepal’ we saw their traditional architecture and observed how the same architecture is restored after the devastating earthquake. In ‘Diu’ we documented the portugal architecture and compared it to the portuguese architecture existing in Portugal and compiled the study into a book - “Diu- a reflection of Portuguese Architecture”. Intermediate short one daytripswere inAhmedabad itself studying famous building by Master Architects like Le Corbusier, B.V.Doshi, Louis Kahn, Yatin Pandya , Charles Correa and many more like these.
Chawl Documentation (Ahmedabad) [group work]
In the Ahmedabad RSP, we documented the old city ‘Pol Houses’. Nirma University was given a contract of 1000 houses to be measured and drawn by the AMC (Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation), Ahmedabad being a ‘Heritage City’ recognized by the UNESCO. All the drawings produced were submitted to the AMC. It was great fun to spend time in the old city and experience the narrow streets, the courtyards in the houses, the local materials used, the welcoming people and the essence of an old and well preserved heritage. Ahead are some drawings of the documentation.
Ground Floor Plan
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*drawings produced by group of people
Elevations
Section
This section contains the works of other subjects and fields other than the studio. The category showcases the other extra curricular skills in activities like model making, hands on work, sketching and parametric designs. These skills help to learn architecure and design in more depth and going into practicality of any design by working in 1:1 scale and realising the human scale. These different exercises enhance the creativity and encourage to think out of the box creating some interesting and original ideas. They help us to grow and learn new techniques in various fields broadening the thinking perspective. The section contains selected works from the first year till third year of the academic curriculum.
Snowflake Pavilion This pavilion stood as a pavilion in the central courtyard of the institute during the annual college festival ‘KALP’ 2020. The form was first designed (in groups of 2) in sem 4 in the software Rhino with the design based on the six fold geometry of a snowflake and from this concept the form derived. Then in the festival with a great team of colleagues the design was tranformed to the human scale as a pavilion with a height of approximately 4 meters. The form was construct- Initial plotting on the courtyard ground to achieve the points of the pavilion ed purely in ‘Bamboo’. The joineries were first figured out, then the 12 modules were made individually and then assembled together. All of the work were done by our hands exploring these amazing material and learning the craft. The different bamboo joineries at the critical junctions of 2,3,5 bamboos
A view of the final pavilion with lighting
Model for final jury of Housing Studio sem 4
Model for final jury of Institutional Studio sem 5
3d Loft Model made with 3d slicer sem 3; Architectural Graphic Skills
Structural model of Waterloo Station , London (group work of 7 people) sem 4; Structures Structural model of Hajj Terminal, Jeddah Saudi Arabia (group work of 5 people) sem 2; Structures
Japenese wooden joineries in Horjuji Temple, Japan (group work of 7 people) sem 4; Structures
Quarantine Cell In sem 6, in the bamboo workshop conducted by Ar. Vicky Achani, a quarantine cell was to be designed, making a comfortable space for an individual to live in for 14 days within a dimension of 3m by 3m (group work of 2 people). A double heighted cell is designed with a mezzanine floor alloted for sleeping and an adjustable roof to control the amount of light coming. The aim was to make it open so that the individual does not feel trapped and can have multipurpose spaces.
Stages of the design
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Sun Shade Roof In sem , in the Grasshopper workshop conducted by Ar. Jinal Shah, a parametric form was to be designed using the software grasshopper for a place in the institute (group work of people). So we decided to make a roof changing according to the directions of the sun over the 25m by 25m central courtyard. Firstly one module was designed with different flaps which could be altered with the sun’s direction and then the module was repeated to make roof on the coutyard to make it usable throughout giving a beautiful shaded pattern to the ground.
Design of single module and their linking
Exploded View
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views at 12 noon
views from eye level
Baroque Architecture In sem 3, in the subject History, to study the different elements evident in the baroque architecture, a group of two people had to make a model of any building from the renaissance period. This is the model of the Church of Gesu in Rome prominently showing the detailing of the Baroque facade and other architectural elements.
Infinity Box In sem 3, in the subject Architectural Graphic Skills, when Autocad as a software was introduced, in order to get an idea of different line weights and to study depth, this exercise of making an infinity box was formulated. Firstly, a pattern was designed using different lineweights and shades of grey making it a 3d pattern. Then the pattern was engraved on the glass sheet and a box was made out of it with few openings to experience the amazing infinity effect.
Hands-On In sem 2, in the subject Building Construction Technology, arches were introduced to us. The class was divided in groups of 5 and each group had to make a type of arch. This is ‘Parabolic Arch’ we created during the hands on workshop learning the thrust and load transfer mechanism and the basic masonry skills. The construction started with drafting a 1:1 drawing of the arch, making the form work, building the arch and finally removing the false wall from the middle.
Hriday Kunj, Gandhi Ashram,Ahmedabad
Nepal
Swambhunath, Nepal
Dr.Oswal’s Clinic, Pune
Mandu
Kumbhalgarh Fort Selected Photographs for some study trips
Diu
Sanskar Kendra, Ahmedabad
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