Architectural Portfolio

Mohammad Hassan Khan

01. Thesis - Rural Community Hub District - Agro Based Economic Approach

The project is a holistic approach to creating a Sustainable Agricultural Community by architectural interpretation fulfilling four parameters –Production sustainability, Social sustainability, Economical sustainability, and environmental sustainability where vermicompost production is a major catalyst and integrates three main goals economic profitability, social equity, and environmental health. Therefore, to revitalize the rural neighbourhood and accomplish the sustainable neighbourhood goals inter-scalar and inter-disciplinary approach is needed.

Techniques Implemented

The concept is derived from the locally spoken common word which every villager can relate to Galiyara word resembles the street which in most of the Indian villages are very organic in nature.

These streets further divide the spaces creating junctions chaurahas and a focal point.

Morphological Concept

Site Breaking the Geometry

Substracting Voids Rotating and Opening

Playing with the height Entries and Landscaping

Placing the mass on the site accordind to the sun direction and zoning. Breaking the rigid geometry to convert it into a form which resembles the streets of the village.

Subtracting the unwanted form so as to achieve the final building footprint.

Defining the entries and landscaping the district according to the shape of the building.

Making the larger building bigger in mass and the rectangle smaller. Then connecting these with help of a bridge.

Rotating the leftover rectangle in order to open up the building and create a courtyard

THE VILLAGE

Site Plan

Site Section AA’

Site Section BB’

Agriculture Research and Training Center

Women and Child Care Center

View from Farmers Market

02. In Sync Group Housing

Mental and physical health of the residents is the core of the design program guide line. The design of this housing development as an enviornment that encourages social engagement as well as engagement with sorroundings. Design interventions like walkways, staircases, communal areas are spread within the inner courtyard to create sparking moments of joy. In-Sync encourages the residents to take a path taht will lead to more physical activity and social interactions. Every block has a break area and communal space, hence creating a good balance between personal and social interactions.

UNITS

SUPER BUILT UP AREA : 47 sqm

BUILT UP AREA 38 sqm

CARPET AREA : 30.5 sqm

CLUSTER

NO. OF UNITS : 17

SUPER BUILT UP AREA : 1047 sqm

CIRCULATION AREA 248 sqm

CIRCULATION PERCENTAGE 23.6%

BUILDING

TOTAL NO. OF FLOORS 5

TOTAL DWELLING UNITS : 85 nos.

TOTAL HEIGHT : 18.45 m

LIG CLUSTER PLAN

UNITS

SUPER BUILT UP AREA : 84 sqm

BUILT UP AREA 68 sqm

CARPET AREA : 60 sqm

CLUSTER

NO. OF UNITS : 18

SUPER BUILT UP AREA : 1862 sqm

CIRCULATION AREA 350 sqm

CIRCULATION PERCENTAGE : 18.8%

BUILDING

TOTAL NO. OF FLOORS 8

TOTAL DWELLING UNITS 144

TOTAL HEIGHT : 27.45 m

HIG & MIG Cluster Plan

03. The Blind Side ‘ Touching the Untouchables ’

RE SCHOOL VOLUME ZERO COMPETITION

TOP 30

The door of knowledge is increasingly open, but there are still many walls and boundaries to be broken down. Reschool provides us with an opportunity to reconsider the design as an open environment, an ecosystem where children are not divided in section according to their age, caste or colour. The school complex is fragmented and strategically scattered, grouped and placed throughout the site, incorporating, elements of gurukul; an area of experience, open areas of fabric, vegetation and a substantial number of free-flowing spaces, a more flexible space where children learn according to their interest, talents and design. This Extroverted design could cater a pandemic situation like COVID and be used for various useful purposes.

“During my childhood, I begged on the streets. When children of my age were going to school, for children like us schools were a distant dream. We don’t know how to read or write. At least our children should be educated.”

Imagine being born in a poor family, a poor community, and being labelled as untouchable since birth, by the age of 5 you are supposed to beg for your own survival, “ SCHOOL” is just some fancy term you heard those other kids say, and all of this pain and agony so that you can ask your children to do the same.’

Dreadful isn’t it !! but this is real.

An unknown tribe, infamously known as The Narikuravar tribe is an ethnic group which holds an extremely underprivileged status within current Indian society. Even after 75 years of independence they are still fighting to be recognized by the government as a Scheduled Tribe They neither have access to necessary resource for survival, such as drinking water or sanitation facilities, nor to formal education.

Zoning Site Plan

Population Not more than 30,000 Narikurava in Tamil Nadu

Literacy Having a population of less then 8% who can sign, and less than 5% people who can write their name.

The main occupation of the people who originally belong to this indigenous tribes, is hunting But prohibited entry into the forests by Britishers, forced to take up other alternatives such as selling beaded ornaments to survive.

While walking by their temporary tents that they call houses one sees small children carrying bags, not for school but they are off too work picking rags and begging. The lingering smell of sweat and poverty makes one feel suffocated, even as the odour of garbage and open drains makes one feel qualmish. But such is their life.

- Athiyan, Narikuravar Tribe, Poonjeri

Creating the path and defining the axis. Dividing the site into fragments and creation of open spaces. Strategic placement and grouping of the built blocks.

Multi-Functional Spaces

Section

Outdoor Classroom

Spaces

Beading & Pottery Workshop

Workshop for both students as well as community to learn their traditional craft. They act as business incubator and can be aided by various NGOs and market.

Multi-purpose Classroom

A Classroom with various flexible applications naming Kindergarden, Anganwaadi, reading and quiet spaces. Used for both fun and teaching pusposes as well.

Classroom 01

A classroom designed to make sure children would have so much fun that they forget in the process that they are learing while interacting.

Toilet & Drinking Water

A toilet & fresh drinking water for students as well as community; the tribe would no longer be deprived of basic sanitation and hygiene even after school timmings.

04. Eutopian Cyberrealm ‘ Creating Future ’

EQUIM EDU COMPETITION

The brief was to build an IT park which responds to the Future.Our proposal aims to create an IT park which responds the the problems in future like the rising see level and depletion of Natural resources.

CONCEPT

The concept arrived from deeply analyzing and studying the current and the futuristic technolog ical advancements and to provide a buildings which co hesively reacts with each other.

THE TOWER

The concept of tower arrived from the shape of the Cobra and the outer ring provide The orientation of the buildings were kept in mind in order to maximize sustainable design and the tower was provided on the riverfront to maximize the view.

THE PAVILLION

The pavilion was given on the riverfront side in order to maximize the views and give max recreational space.

EUTOPIAN CYBER REALM

The brief was to build an IT park which responds to the Future.Our proposal aims to create an IT park which responds the the problems in future like the rising see level and depletion of Natural resources.

THE CONCEPT

The concept arrived from deeply analyzing and studying the current and the futuristic technological advancements and to provide a buildings which co hesively reacts with each other.

THE TOWER

Programs

The concept of tower arrived from the shape of the Cobra and the outer ring provide The orientation of the buildings were kept in mind in order to maximize sustainable design and the tower was provided on the riverfront to maximize the view.

THE PAVILLION

The pavillion was given on the riverfront side in order to maximize the views and give max recreational space.

Housing Module

PAVILLION

TOWER RESTRO RESTRO

HOUSING MODULE

05. Cafe Book Store Interior Design Studio

Memories with which we attach ourselves to places are more important than our work experiences. The comfort and ambience that welcomes us leave us a lasting impact. Our mental belongingness to places is a result of a sen- sitive design, movement patterns and spatial transitions that we encounter. Bookstores are spaces that enhance our learning and interaction and have always been at the core of idea development and budding friendships. Reading broadens mind and interac- tion over a coffee emboldens these ideas. With this pursuit, a bookstorre has been conceived at a prime academic location at Cadell Road in Mumbai to suit the interests of college and school students that offers them a unique experience with well-thought interior sense - a bal- anced creation of textures, materials and colours in a wholesome planned bookstore café.

2ND PLACE

CROSS the WORD - the Mosaic in Design

Memories with which we attach ourselves to places are more important than our work experiences. The comfort and ambience that welcomes us leave us a lasting impact. Our mental belongingness to places is a result of a sensitive design, movement patterns and spatial transitions that we encounter. Bookstores are spaces that enhance our learning and interaction and have always been at the core of idea development and budding friendships. Reading broadens mind and interaction over a coffee emboldens these ideas. With this pursuit, a bookstorre has been conceived at a prime academic location at Cadell Road in Mumbai to suit the interests of college and school students that offers them a unique experience with well-thought interior sense – a balanced creation of textures, materials and colours in a wholesome planned bookstore café.

Zonal Axonometric

Mumbai,India Near Juhu Beach

Segregation Transition Intersperse

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