Khushita Wagle Selected Works 2016 - 2022
2 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai Station Painting (2016) MAD Foundation, Mumbai Dahisar railway station painting (Oct 2016 ) Boolean Design Studio, Mumbai Research associate (Jan 2019) Indian Architect and Builder Magazine, Mumbai Editorials (jan 2019) Borivali Ward office, Mumbai Column painting (May 2018) Local x Society|LXS, Ahemdabad Design Collaborater (Sept 2019) Dd Archietcs, Thrissur, Kerala Architectural Intern, Website Design (Dec 2019 - Sept 2020) Re-thinking the Future, Website Editorial (Dec2022-April2022)ResearchArchitecture,SchoolBrandingAscenders,(april-JuneGraphicOur(Jan-april2020)InternshipDemocracy,WebsiteDesigner2021)MumbaiProject(July2021)ofEnvironmentandMumbaiItern RECOGNITIONS Finalist | Kabaad ka Jugaad 2016 First Runner’s up | Thane Rotary Club Design Competiton 2018 Top 100 | ANDC NASA 2017 WRITING MEDIA AD Sem 3 | Book published F.Y.I. Magazine |Publication Window series | Panel Manipulating Media | News Print Conflicting spaces | Report Life of a foil | Biography Emotions in Architecture | Paper Sustaining Humanities | Write Dyingup | Write Deconstructiveup mind control | KletkaPaper | write up Short videos | direction COMPETITIONS Kabaad ka Jugaad 2016 Mind Rain 2016 Unbox 2017 ANDC 2017 Rotary club of Thane 2017 ANDC Reubens,2018NASA 2018 Re-school 2018 Rookies 2018 K H U S H I T A W A G L +91-7738553822khushitawagle@gmail.comE Selected Works` (clickable)
3 EDUCATION Vibgyor High, Mumbai (ICSE) Jamnabai Narsee School, Mumbai (ICSE) Mithibai College, Mumbai University (HSC) Aditya College of Architecture, Mumbai University (B.ARCH) WORKSHOPS INTERNATIONALANDEXCHANGES Purvai’17 | Kaarwan, Bhutan GNH and culture exchange February 2017 Earthen Building Construction and Materials | Hunnarshala, SeptemberGujarat 2017 Purvai’18 | Kaarwan, Nepal EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS Kshitij Festival 2015 International Design Competition 2016 (core team) Arghya, Borivali Design Fair 2016 (core Internationalteam) Design Competition 2017 (core team) *Refrences upon request
CSS Research - Alternate Materials and UndergraduateTechnologies thesis: Movement in Internationalarchitecture student exchange; Design Internshipstudio work Urban mapping of the Eastern waterfront Kaarwan workshops and field work Poster design for semester 3 design UNESCO Heritage Documentation Table of Contents ••••••••
CSS Research - Alternate Materials and Technologies
In our process, we mobilized the idea of an apparatus as an extension to our understanding of intuition as a method. The framework of an apparatus allows many possible exchanges within a system. It can open up possibilities to afford computational and iterative logic by which we shape materials. the space of the apparatus allows within its systemic framework to produce partial and structural possibilities. It enables us varied opportunities in the duration of a specific sense of time generated by intuitive methods and non industrial logic of making. In this experiment, we changed the apparatus itself. Instead of a cube, we then started to look at the possibilities where the cube could also animate itself. The gravitational pull becomes the real-time; where we can change angles, we can change the location and shape the surface within it multiple times without unmounting the material. We made this possible with movements or degrees of freedom within the system of the particular cube that we made and into an apparatus for it to allow possibilities of material passing through it.
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The arrangement of angle locks can be viewed as an iterative design process to find a suitable position to facilitate the movement of materials associated with the operations intended. We started with the assembly after working out the details and fabricating each unit to desired proportions and angles. Each unit had to fit into the other precisely so that maintaining set parameters for creating the desired object could be measured and recreated. Once assembled, the apparatus was then polished with wood varnish. Marked and numbered to set parameters at every angle and distance in space in the cube. Also, to end and prevent damage or hindrance to the cube while casting, we wrapped the cube in cling wrap to easily remove the overflow of casting materials.
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nnovative concepts in design are highly valued not for their own sake but for their contributions to reducing costs and improving aesthetics, comfort or convenience as embodied in a well-designed facility. However, the constructor and the design professionals must appreciate and understand the technological complexities often associated with innovative designs. Since these concepts are preliminary or tentative, the team could improve the apparatus and its functioning hereafter. Because of the ambiguity of the objectives and the uncertainty of external events, experimentation studies call for uninhibited innovation in creating new ideas and informed judgment in selecting the appropriate ones for further consideration.
The physical movement of built form and space is also considered more coherently and comprehensively, along with all stimulus factors and elements. Subsequently, this research correlates various types of movements along with their generator factors and architectural elements.
- 02U n d e r g r a d u a t e t h e s i s : M o v e m e n t i n a r c h i t e c t u r e
“Movement in architecture” is an organized system of various types of movements stimulated by specific architectural elements. So far, most of the related studies have focused on a few aspects of movement. In this article, the author tries not only to address circulation in architecture and visual movements but also the physiological psychology of motion, pictorial representation, and natural factors.
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Since this is a site for a proposed project at a location with such a rich and winding history, the linearity of the site was deconstructed to create an experience with a space in design with respect to narrating a chronological narrative with a linear journey that the author was trying to communicate.
The result shows that in some buildings, the movement of natural elements can play a prominent role in the whole system of the construction. This can be related to the existence of more types of movements other than circulatory and optical; such as the flow of natural elements, sense of time passage, association, and the impact of water and Thewind.overall goal to create a new ordination was achieved in the form of a table of observations depicting the interconnections among different types, factors, and architectural elements of movement.
The spaces catered to in this project are exhibition space, Rest space, Museum as a symposium, Absorption and Reflection spaces, Ethnology Studio, Circulation space, and Archival Space.
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International student exchange; Design studio
The scope of action proposed was in the Plaza del Carmen in the dense built form of Madrid’s historic city centre. This public space belonged to a series of chained urban voids, which harboured the life of the city. The morphology of the square had suffered many transformations over the centuries. The workshop included architectural and urban exploration of the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Taking the map and routes as an initial reference, we made students experience the city landscape and complete the challenge of walking through the full promenade.
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The Igualada Cemetery was completed in 1994 as a place of reflection and memories. It’s understood by the architects to be a “city of the dead” where the dead and the living are brought closer together in spirit. As much as the Igualada Cemetery is a place for those to be laid to rest, it is a place for those to come and reflect in the solitude and serenity of the Catalonian landscape.
IGUALADA CEMETERY
TANATORI SANCHO DE AVILA This concept of conducting the funeral outside the sacellum/ resident space was first introduced in 1968. Being a primogenial funeral home challenged its makers to fabricate a space which adapted to the impending requirements of the solemnities that would be carried through and evolve as a criterion for the city to cope with bereavement.
CEMENTERI DE POBLENOU Barcelona’s Original Resting Place. In 1775, the poor sanitary conditions of the churchyards within the walled city compelled the bishop of the city to cognominate a space for the dead along the coastline of the city. This space behaves to this date as an eminent vestige of the city; so much so that Napoleon ended up destroying it in 1813 only to have it reconstructed in 1819.
CEMENTIRI DE MONTJUIC A stroll through Montjuïc Cemetery is like walking through a miniature city: the city of the dead and silence. Winding up the hillside, overlooking the sea, this major necropolis of Barcelona contains valuable examples of funerary art and the only collection of hearses in Europe. Like a beacon to the city. Montjuïc cemetery as it stands today was in fact only constructed in the 19th century in response to the growing need for new burial grounds.
Known for an explorative and conceptual approach to architecture, The studio presents projects and ideas as unimaginable possibilities through very pragmatic constructs. As it was my first step into professional practice, this internship was a prodigious experience to observe a studio that introduces a new sense of invisible realisations into a somewhat predictable Theindustry.process and energy that we put into the work in the four months I spent there helped me widen my thought process and understanding of architecture.
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The studio’s progressive and often highly imaginative ideas shape a philosophical yet sensible and realistic approach to space and structure, of dwellings, installations and furniture.
Since the studio consists of a small workforce (with mainly two junior architects and the director) most of the work done is by the student interns, which makes the learning experience much more fruitful and enriching. We were given opportunities for design development, working drawings, site visits, client meetings and conducting talks and heritage walks as well. In the four months that I worked at the firm, we conducted several heritage walks and discussions while also attending guest lectures and literature festivals throughout the state of Kerala.
Restoration (Landscape Drawing & Estimate) Location: Thrissur Client: Kerala Tourism Year: Ramanilayam2016-2020isone of the main heritage building lying in the old administrative zone of Thrissur. Earlier functioning as a guesthouse, the government planned adaptive reuse of the structure to turn it into a heritage guest house for VIPs. Dd architects documented the structure of the same and prepared a report which focuses on bringing it back to its original glory and refurbishing it with modern facilities.
Residence (Landscape Drawing) Location: Pattikkad Client: Dr.Gibby Year: Thodathil2019-2020houseat
Pattikkad is designed, keeping in mind the abundant nature around, and the residence tries to weave into the landscape naturally. The materials used are mostly eco-friendly and close to the earth. We have also tried to integrate diverse craft-forms and techniques into the design.
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Historically Mumbai Port Influenced the growth and development of the port city from the seven tiny fishing islands in to a mega polis, which now is a primary centre of trade and commerce for the country. The history of port establishes a clear relationship between the industrial activities (factories, Warehouse, etc) and development of the port functions (trade, market, etc). The decline in the Manufacturing sector and other changes in the economic landscape have raised a question for large piece of important decaying land within the city centre.
Bombay or Mumbai, is the ever going debate, in the journey of Bombay to Mumbai, Mumbai has lost its orientation towards its historic city centre. It slowly crawling into the frame work of a metropolitan region. In the process of this Zonal and fragmented growth of the metropolitan area, whose relative importance depends upon their potential connectivity. Mumbai as a city is at a point in time of its history where the city is at a cross road of its relationship with the metropolitan region, historic legacy as well the many potential spaces or voids that are emerging, or could potentially emerge, within its centre.
Kaarwan workshops and field work
In pursuit to develop a pool of informed community, who are abreast with core issues facing the nation, and bringing hundreds of like-minded people together, half a decade ago, Kaarwan (founded by IIT Roorkee graduates) set its voyage across the country along with young professionals and students to appreciate the communities and cultures that surround them, understand unuttered problems that the nation faces and expand their ethnic, artistic, and spiritual knowledge. Today, after traveling lakhs of kilometers over multiple hand-crafted itineraries, they have entrenched the gravity of those issues in the minds of the fellow travelers, and have directed their energies towards helping the communities around them.
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- 07Poster design for semester 3 design
Discontentedly making attempts to merge two territories (Mumbai and Goa), the house tries to do justice to the character’s goan past while providing visual connect through various screenings, fenestrations and level differences that fuel thve character’s unhealthy obsession with his son. The claustrophobia of Mumbai city is vanquished by the geometry of the form which opens up into internal courtyards. The poster tries to exhibit this situation.
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The urban policies have focused on the Development of New City and the peripheral areas of the city, forgetting the need to provide the historic centre with the necessary infrastructures. The diagrams show the process of transformation in Gunwant Chowk. Dhal Ni Pol, Ahmedabad Old DocumentationCity.
The walled city of Ahmedabad has been named a Historic Heritage City by Unesco in 2018. Our area of action in this course focuses on Dhal Ni Pol, located near Astodia Darwaja, one of the oldest and the second-largest settlement in the historical city. Despite recognition by UNESCO, the current situation of the Pols is neglected due to several factors. The key is to accept new social movements and trends, not as something to avoid, but as something that needs dialogue with the environment.
submitted for UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards 2020, by @local.x.society
K H U S H I T A W A G L E khushitawagle@gmail.com+91-7738553822SelectedWorks`(clickable)