Undergrad Portfolio 2023

MANAV PRAVEEN BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE VNIT NAGPUR

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MANAV PRAVEEN

Student 10th SEM

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE

Architecture and Design according to me is a responsibilty. As an aspiring architect and learner, my aim and vision is to be able to shoulder this responsibility collectively with the fraternity for the society and to understand the way life functions and be able to contribute to a better collective future.

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VISVESVARAYA NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NAGPUR

EDUCATION SKILLS & SOFTWARES

AUTOCAD

B.ARCH VNIT | NAGPUR

CGPA - 8.43

2018 -

CLASS XII

Kulapati Munshi Bhavans Vidya Mandir, Thrissur KL (CBSE)

OVERALL - 95.8%

2016 -

2018‘23 2021‘22

CLASS X

Kulapati Munshi Bhavans Vidya Mandir, Thrissur KL (CBSE)

CGPA - 10

REVIT

SKETCHUP PRO ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CC ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR ADOBE INDESIGN LUMION

VRAY MS OFFICE

EXPERIENCES

WORKSHOPS | SEMINARS

Internship at BCA Architecture, Calicut

-6 months internship at BCA under the guidance of Ar. Babu Cherian.

-Seminar by Ar. RD Padmakumar on Low cost and sustainable architecture.

-Finalists, Designing a Net-Zero Energy and Water educational institute.

2022 20212020‘21 2019‘20

GRIHA Workshop Designo Product Design Competition

-2 Day workshop on Green Building practices, ratings, sustainable housing.

-Guiding and mentoring freshmen students throughout their college life.

-Winner. Product Design to improve lives of mentally challenged humans.

LANGUAGES

201920212019‘20

English | Hindi

OTHER INTERESTS

Malayalam Photography

-Institute representative for IGBC Chapter at VNIT -Logo designs for various firms

NASA Competitions

PRAVAHA

Year : 2021 Location : Nagpur

Site Area : 16,535 SqM

Pravaha, is an International Convention Centre mooted for the Industrial and Economic community located in and around central India. The site for the centre, is along a sceinic lake side at Mihan, Nagpur and the convention centre consists of an Auditorium, Exhibition Hall, Seminar rooms and a Hotel and Restaurant. The Site being located within an Airport oriented development, had restrictions on height.

Semester: VI

Type : Academic

Knotting the land and water, sky and land, and form and function. Connecting the people and the location, building and the context, site and the design program - all reaffirms a bond that needs to exist always between substances that collaborates. And what better place than a Convention centre which thrives on collaborations?

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EVENT ZONE LOADING AND SERVICE OAT ZONE

ACCOMODATION ZONE LANDSCAPE AND ROADS

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Concept - Knot as an object

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The site is a knot of a beautiful lake and the land. The convention centre becomes a converging point and strengthens the threads connected to it.

The knot of the structure is the auditorium, the main functional space and other activities flow towards this knot.

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The movement of the users along the functional spaces and complete the knot.

The roof sturcture represents the knot.

The main roof is the result of arranging a series of curves with varying radii converging at the centre from both the sides.

THE PROCESS

The roof represents ‘flow’ which is inter related with ‘Knot’

FRONT ELEVATION

REAR ELEVATION

A view towards the entrance of the convention centre from the cafeteria.

Roof at a height of 4.5m over a truss system depicting the flow towards the centre.

Typical masonry wall inclined at an angle along the verandah that allows diffused lighting and a seating space as well as refirming the flow towards the centre

The convention centre is a 2 Storied sturcture with a central space housing the Auditorium, which can accomodate 200 people at once and its related spaces. This is a double heighted volume which directs the visitors towards both the flanks that house an Exhibition Space as well as Seminar halls and Banquet Halls. The segregation of activity types and user types is achieved by following this concept as well as the idea of connecting each other to complete the “Knot”.

Glazing allowing natural light to enter into the hall.

Exhibition Hall

Glass panel

SAMUDAYA

Location : Nagpur

Year : 2020

Total B/U Area: 13,790 Sq.M

Samudaya, is a vision for an integrated housing community for the senior employees of Google, who would be relocating their home and work life to Nagpur. The housing community is located in the outskirts of Nagpur, in MIHAN complete with independant Villas, Multi storey units and various amenities. The brief required independent houses for the CEO and the Chairman and housing for the senior level employees. The design is conceptualised considering the Climate, Context, Socio-Cultural dynamics of the city and also the positive and negative spaces in a community housing typology.

Type : Academic Semester: V

The Site Busier roads flank the Western edge of the site with less busier roads on all other 3 sides.

“Samudaya” has evolved out of a modest brief, requiring to design a community housing for the employees of Google in Nagpur. The site for the proposal is located in an industrial locality of MIHAN. The site currently sits in a juncture between a residential zone and a flurry of new developments bordering the highway. The development of housing units for Google would lead to a wave of allied developments nearby and imporve the locality to a large extend.

‘Google’ is a name that is so connected with our lives and redefined how people live. This gave an immense sense of opportunity and responsibility to ease the lives of their employees. The housing project is conceptualied to be a new landmark in Nagpur for itself and bring the traditional and contemporary together.

AREA PROGRAM

Villa for Vice President Villa for CEO Senior Executive Units Executive Units Guest Houses

700 SqM 500 SqM 400 SqM x 5 250 SqM x 30 45 SqM x 10

The site is overlaid by a vehicular loop road entering from the less busier northern edge and pedestrian loop in the centre. Thereby segregating movements

ZONING

Zoning based on types of units to be designed.

Parks and Playgrounds Swimming Pool and Clubhouse Department Store Caretakers House

2000 SqM 100 SqM 65 SqM x 8

Pedesetrian pathways are well shielded and front the living units whereas vehicular roads loop around the site, thereby creating a safe and calm environment for the residents.

EXECUTIVE APARTMENTS

SENIOR EXEC HIGH VILLAS

CLUB HOUSE SWIMMING POOL

CEO VILLA

PARKING SPACES ALONG THE VEHICULAR ROAD

EXECUTIVE APARTMENTS

CARETAKERS HOUSE

VICE PRESIDENT’S VILLA

SENIOR EXEC HIGH VILLAS

PEDESTRIAN TRACK

PLAN - GUEST HOUSE

PLAN - CLUBHOUSE

‘SAMUDAYA’ A DIFFERENCE

A Co-Living project generally is designed as a cluster of living units or modules that offer very little differentiation from the outside. The targeted audience here are employees of a tech firm and hence it was necessary that there was a balance between open and lush spaces to unwind with inter woven living units.

The units inside Samudaya follow a hierarchy in terms of built elements and has different forms but very little intangible differentiation.

A large amount of space has been left open for activities and pedestrian movements. Vehicular activity is restricted and each units have direct access to the single central green space that inter-ties the entire community together.

“Samudaya” makes the users truly ‘live’ within a community and not just another fenced off co-living.

PLAN - EXECUTIVE APARTMENTS

Location : Bangalore

Year : 2022

Total Site Area: 32,201 SqM

Raya School is one of the 6 finalist projects for Solar Decathlon 2021 under the Educational Building category. The competition entry was an attempt to create a net-zero enrgy and water school for a client in the outskirts of Bangalore, Karnataka. Our team deCipher consists of a multidisciplinary team of 15 students (12 Architectural students and 3 Engineering students) from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur

RAYA SCHOOL Type : Competition Entry Solar Decathlon 2021

The Site & Access

The site is situated on the busy New Airport road in Bangalore.

Analysis

Since the educational spaces were to be free from noises and disturbances, noisy zones were analysed.

PROCESS DIAGRAMS

Zoning

The Academic Block was oriented along the E-w direction to allow for lesser Solar Heat gain.

The on-site placement also ensures the learning areas are not disturbed due to the noise from adjoining areas.

The school evolved as a direct result out of various permutations of context based arrangements and micro decisions as well as the ultimate goal of a Climate Responsive, comfortable, NZEB.

A target of 12 Goals were set aside to be attained within the completion of the design of the educational Building. The brief provided by the project partner required a school that would provide : Learning beyond classrooms, Technology-enabled school ecosystem, Students centric model, Activities that would add up to a holistic development for students , Usage of school infrastructure beyond the normal school hours, enabling usage of the maximum potential of the space.

Site Area: 32,201 sq.m (7.95 acres)

Permissible F.S.I: 1.75

Permissible Built Up Area: 56,351 sq.m

Permissible Ground Coverage %: 55%

Permissible Ground Coverage area: 17,710 sq.m

AREA STATEMENTS

Proposed Kindergarten Block: 827 sq.m

Proposed Academic Block: 6509 sq.m

Proposed Admin Block: 581 sq.m

Proposed Indoor Sports Facilities: 3392 sq.m

Consumed FSI: 0.38

Football Turf

GoKarting

SECTION YY

ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES

Architectural design plays a pivotal role in the functionality of the building and the potential to achieve net-zero status.

The classes are clubbed into primary, secondary and higher secondary wings and oriented in an L-shaped pattern. Common areas such as clubs, library and labs are designed in a position such that they are accessible as well as connected to all three wings.

The classrooms and labs are massed around a series of courtyards that double up as open-air learning spaces. This ensures a balance between open and closed spaces which provides a positive environment in the institute.

To facilitate proper sunlight in each room Northlight roofs have been integrated on the terraces.

An Interior view of the Classrooms on the first floor of the Primary and Secondary Academic wing.

• Mechanically ventilated spaces are grouped together in order to optimise HVAC requirements.

• A scattered hardscape will help in reducing the heat island effect.

• Most of the classrooms are oriented N-S to minimise heat gain and maximise sunlight into the spaces.

• Wall to window ratio optimization allows increased efficiency of 40% in N, 25% in S, 20% in E, 30% in the W direction.

• A 70% reduction in energy consumption will be carried out with the help of LED.

• Building planning is carried out in such a way as to introduce mutual shading.

ENERGY CONSUMPTION

Total Energy Consumption = 174,684 kWh = 174 MWh

ENERGY GENERATION

No. of Solar Panels = 3,707 (each of 300W) Installed Capacity = 1112.1 kWp System Efficiency = 30% Yearly Generation = 611.384 MWh

NET-ZERO WATER PERFORMANCE

A net-zero water cycle has been created on our site by implementing to the following strategiesRAIN WATER HARVESTING | ONSITE WATER TREATMENT | SEGREGATION,RECLAIMATION & REUSE OF WASTE WATER | EFFICIENT PLUMBING GROUND WATER RECHARGE | TREATED BLACK WATER TO BE SENT TO MUNICIPAL LINES

Total water consumed= 12,783,425 L

Total Rainwater harvested= 14,411,079 L

Total Greywater treated and used back in the cycle= 2,112,897 L

Total Blackwater treated and supplied back to municipal lines= 2,975,559 L

Total water used for Groundwater Recharge = 3,086,857 L

HARITHAM

Year : 2021 Location : Thrissur

Total Area: 19,000 Sq M

Landscape rejuvenation of Vilangan Hills, a hilltop nature park located in the outskirts of Thrissur, a town in Kerala. The site is under Government ownership, and is currently open for visitors by charge of a user fee. The amount of people coming to the park on a daily basis even though the maintenance is not up to the mark, pointed towards the immense possibility of redeveloping and rejuvenating the ‘Oxyjen Jar’ of the town.

Semester : VII

Type : Academic

Amphitheatre Entrance Gate Pathways Food Stalls Park View Points Gathering

USER DENSITY AND PATTERN

The Site

Mapping the density of users at various parts of the site

Creation of Zones based on user pattern

Contour mapping. Since the site is on a small hillock, it has varying and large contours

Final Activity zoning and planning around contours and a series of circular steps.

DESIGN PROPOSALS

The foremost addition to the master plan of Vilangan Hills was the proposal for a new entrance zone. The gradual contours, where the highest level was obtainable was used for this purpose to make it into a Stepped view-base cum entry podium. The Sunrise views and the overall views of the site is observable from here and is evolved as a continuous roof structure commencing from the earth.

Conceptual continuation is maintained where a new Watch tower spirals up from the ground towards the sky, on which the users climb up gradually and are free to soak up the morning and evening mists and air.

PLANTING AND HARDCAPE DETAILS

Golden Shower trees planted along pathways(3-5m spread). It is the local flower of the state and would hence create a unique local feeling.

Ground cover using Bermuda Grass lawn.

Spider plant, evergreen and perennial grown along the pathways.

Vertical gardens using vines around the view tower and Entrance roof .

Combination of Thechi and Plumeria trees planted near Water decks.

3M wide pedestrian pathways paved using cobble stone tiling. Pathways in Children’s play area paved using smooth concrete.

45W LED Solar pathway lights, 5m height and spacing of 10-15m along all pathways

Section Through Medicinal Garden

Caper Tree

Neem Tree Acasia Catechu

Calendula

Casia fistula (Golden Shower) Pathimugham

THE UPSTACK

Location : Nagpur

Year : 2020

Site Area: 180 Sq M

Complete and detailed working drawings for a G+2 detached residence in Nagpur, Maharashtra. The building has a built up area of 168 msq across the 2 floors. The house was built with the intention of providing maximum utility and space for the owner and her family who belong to the middle income group. The two residential floors are identical to each other and provide an oppurtunity to rent it out for the owners.

Semester : VI

Type : Academic

450X500 INDIAN WC PAN FIXED WITH 100MM DIA PVC P TRAP INSTALLED ON FLOOR

15MM DIA PVC WATER SUPPLY PIPE THROUGH WALL AND SLAB DROP

20MM DIA STAINLESS STEEL TAP FIXED ON WALL

100MM DIA PVC/STEEL NAHANI TRAP COVER

15MM DIA PVC WATER SUPPLY PIPE THROUGH WALL

WALL

10L STAINLESS STEEL WATER HEATER

200MM HINDWARE STAINLESS STEEL HOT-COLD MIXER

120MM DIA PVC MAIN

SEWAGE PIPE UNDERGROUND WITH FLOW TOWARDS SOUTH

MISCELLANEOUS

BLURRED BACKGROUNDS

“How long until the natives fade into the background?” Our nature is and was always a juxtaposition of various layers, layers of air, water, fire, space, and life. Humans have brought in an additional layer of build mass onto it, and how long until this addition moves from the background to the forefront, and crushes and decays the layers below it?

Location : Navi Mumbai

SCALE & PROPORTION

Humans - The best scale.

Location : Kevadiya, Gujarat

मुंबई

Bombay or Mumbai - The city of Dreams. She teaches everyone to dream, to hope and to wish for a better tomorrow. A better self. And a better today, if possible. Dream is a wonderful thing, untouched by the bias and differences that we humans have imposed upon others. Let us Dream, Let us live. Washing away, flowing down, dripping down. Location : Hubli, Karnataka

Thank You, for taking your valuable time to review my Portfolio. The final year of an undergrad is a pivotal moment for his future endeavours. I hope with a curious mind, open to learning from whatever sources I may be able to grab onto, I would be able to start off towards becoming a better professional. Being a passionate aspirant, I find myself dedicated, enthusiastic and dynamic. As great endeavours are achieved by a realm of people, I look forward to joining an establishment where I would be able to make a difference and also excel and nurture my strengths and skills.

This Portfolio is a compilation of selected works done by me during the Undergraduate Years at Dept. of Architecture, VNIT Nagpur. All the Works published in this Portfolio are original to the truest sense.