URBAN DESIGN PORTFOLIO by Mandeera Baghar

CONVOCATION

anandnagar ni chali

Convocation takes place in the rst month of the spring semester i.e, anuary. The function of the water consumption in this event is usually to clean the concrete and brick ooring. t gets celebrated in the shrenikbhai pla a,sagara, the sid pla a and the sbst corner

Y M O T DOW

A WIN

PORTFOLIO URBAN DESIGN

Mandeera baghar Bachelor’s of Urban Design I Cept University,Ahmedabad mandeera.baghar.bud16@cept.ac.in , 7202803928

INFORMATION STUDIOS

skills WORKSHOPS

nationlity Indian date of birth I place 03 I 01 I 1999 address A/2 milan park vasant vihar ,navranpura, Ahmedabad, Gujarat ,India context for urban design The studio’s site was based on a peri urban patch in the city of Ahmedabad and focused on contextualising our designs. ; Iterations The studio revolved around iterative processes along with participatory approach towards designing . Streets and the city The studio was aimed at understanding the streets and their relationships with the city at various levels. Designing water infrastructure for civic expressions The studio is about engaging with water and it s infrastructure at three different scales starting form the campus level to the city and then nally tot he regional level and Autocad,Photoshop,Illustrator,In Design,Gis,Rhino,Microsoft word,Excel,Powerpoint Canalpy Winter School (2019) : Canalpy (CanAlappuzha) is an initiative taken by the citizens of Alappuzha or Alleppey, Kerala to reclaim the canals of the town. With the tagline of “Canals are not drains”, it strives to clean, sustain and inspire the people to take care of their surroundings and make a difference to society Border or Bridge redefing Jaroslavice,The Czech Republic (2018): Jaroslavice, a small town located 80 km north of Vienna on the Czech border has been neglected The region, which has been in deep sleep for nearly 100 years due to the historical circumstances, seems to be waiting for its revival. we proposed possible solutions to the question s it possible to rede ne the notions of division in order to open up new perspectives for a region Narrating and Reading the city of Jaisalmer (2016): The workshop dealt with investigating and documenting the relationship between the city’s history and built environment the public realm and private spaces patterns in the city fabric its systems and creative ways the residents adjust the spaces to their changing lifestyle. Rammed Earth construction ,Hunnarshala ,bhuj ( 2017): The workshop was focued on understanding different construction methods and mainly mud architecture and rammed earth

work experience intiatives language

Documenting the musi river( 2017): Internship at Shilpaya Architects Concept : now and then understanding the campus through memories and time

Let’s talk about sex communication for social change : group discussions

English I Hindi I Odia I Gujurati I Bengali

Mapping the journey of ragpcikers in the city of Ahmedabad

Social Unacceptance and peer rejection

TABLE OF CONTENTS 01

Decoding the streets the Budhuwar Peth : A hidden culture of red light areas

05 Speculating water in Ceptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campus

09 Understanding the ecology of the city of Gwalior through time

Group work

02 Context for chowks : Understanding chowks and their roles

Water Calendar : navigating through different events in the campus

Streets and the city Mapping the old city of Pune through the lens of heritage and streets

Iterations : Memnagar area and the existing conditions

10 A Monochrome Map : mapping social inequities in squatter settlements in the city of Ahmedabad.

11 The question of questioning:understanding memorials in public space

04 Mapping events and their spatial relation with water

08 Bridging the gaps between the squatter settlements and the park

12 Attention please :Posters

DECODING THE STREETS OF BUDHUWAR PETH : a hidden cultutre of the red light areas

Budhuwar peth is one the oldest commercial localities situated in the old city of Pune.It houses electronic,jewllery,shops,important ganesh mandals (Dagduseth Halwai Ganapati Temples ) and Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third largest red light area. This red light area is a source of income to more than 5000 prostitutes and 700 brothels. women BALCONY

men Corners

PAN SHOPS Cigarettes Drugs Condoms

Almost every alternate brothel is accompined by pan shops selling durgs,cigrarettes and condoms and places of decision between the prostitutes and the men .

Night

. The men in this area are usually active in the evenignand the night hours and tend to pause at corner plots to have a glance of the whole area.

WINDOWS DOORS

The women in this area are usually seen outside ,near the doors,in the balconies,peeping through old wooden windows and try to seek attention of the men (customers).

lottery shops Meeting There are a lot of lottery shops in this red light area and the shopfronts are usually occupied by group of men and these lottery shops become pause point for women and men to meet and choose

steps Steps

.The steps infront of commercial shops which are opposite to these brothels as places of pause to observe different women standing outside

cone of vision BALCONY WINDOWS DOORS

The women in this area are usually seen outside ,near the doors,in the balconies,peeping through old wooden windows and try to seek attention of the men (customers).

cone of vision Attention Breats

The cone of viison which enables the women in the area to show off their body and sttract men towards them ..

context for chowks : understandign chowks and their roles The intent of the project was to understand different chowks and the contexts that they are situated in.The site of the project was Thaltej area which is a peri urban area in the western side of the city of Ahmedabad.The site is a mixure of gamthals ,squatter settlements along with three huge lakessurrounded by squatter settlements .The site has contrasting patches of urban fabric from gamthals to squatter settlements to the high rise apartments addtional to the construction of metro.These chowks fucntion differently at different contexts and the idea of the project was toe xplore the reationship of context and chowks.

CHOWK AS A PLACE OF DISPERSION

CHOWK AS AN ACTIVE EDGE FRONTAGE

CHOWK AS A PLACE OF NEGLECTED BACKYARDS

CHOWK AS A PLACE OF DISPERSION

CHOWK AS A DEAD END

CHOWK AS A PLACE OF GATHERING

CHOWK AS A PLACE OF THOUROFARE

CHOWK AS A PLACE OF IMPORTANT LANDMARK CHOWK AS A PLACE OF IMPORTANT LANDMARK

average precipitation in Ahmedabad

minus events (events consumign water )

no. of days a particular is celebrated

non porous material

upwards graph : showing the no. of peopel involved

porous material

downwards graph : the total area of the celebrated patch

march

august

april

9B 5A

JUNE

march

may

september

March 3C 3D

3C 3A

JULY

plus events (events not consume water )

february

JUNE

JULY

august 8B

august

12A

august

NOVEMBER

10A

october

10C

10D

10B

10E october

10A 10B

september

DECEMBER

10B

10C

10D

10E

10B

10C

10D

10E

october

NOVEMBER

10A

october

12A

DECEMBER

10A

10C

10D

10E

january

The idea of the project is to understand the spatial water consumption in the campus both in terms of a daily routine and an occasional event during both the semesters and unfold the relationship of different events,spaces utili ed and then the water consumption aspect of it.There are different parameters which are mapped in the water calendar i.e, area,no. of days ,the function of consuming water at various events.The idea is to show a relative use of consumption and then speculate the situation in terms of water preservation.Water calendar ateempts to map the consumption of water in terms of plus(events which are not consuming water in the process ) and minus events(events consuming water) and factors like the no. of days ,the total area ,no of people getting involved in the event are mapped in order to grasp an understanding of the relationship of different events with water consumption

may

WATER CALENDAr

MAPPING DIFFERENT EVENTS DURING THE ACADEMIS SEMESTERS AND LOCATIGN THEM SPATIALY IN THE CAMPUS 01C CONVOCATION

12A 5A 12A 10B 10C 10E 9A 8C 8D 5A 12A 3A 3E 5A 2C 12A 3E 1C 5A 12A 3E 5A

03E HOLI

oli takes place in third month of the spring semester and the attached fucntions involve matki phod,sprinklers for human interaction,jet spraying in the washrooms and playing with water. t is celebrated on plinths and in the shrenikbhai pla a.

10D GARBA

arba occurs in the month of ctober which lasts for ten days i.e, in the two and the third week of the month . The fucntion of water consumption is to soak the ground for garba sessions which lasts from pm till am in the morning.

04A UGADI

gadi takes places int he fourth month of the spring semester an events liek rangoli competions are held because fo which the area infront of the north lawns is washed with water .

09A JANMASHTAMI

This particular event gets celebrated in the last rst week of september and usually involves the process of matki phod and mud play . t used to take place in the shrenikbhai pla a but after concrenti ing the pla a ,the venue got shifted to the south lawns.

10C CFL

There are three to four sports events which occur in the campus and these events consume waterin order to soak the shrenikbhai pla a s ground.These events last for two to three weeks depending on the numebr of teams participating .

H2O The idea of speculation here is about the process of exchange which can be

manifested in any physical form.The idea of inserting water an as asset and shifting the responsibility from an individual to the council members (a group of students responsible for different matters from different faculties). The idea is to collect,harvest and celebrate water at different places and take advantage of the already existing healthy competition amonst different faculties and entitling the harvested water to their buildings and faculties .Every event demands a certain amount of capital for it to fucntion which is directly proportional to the no. of students in their respective faculties and thus the whole idea of contributing to a particular event becomes a matter of concern for some faculties (managing the funds from other events and contributing it to a particular one ). hat if council memebers can contribute a certain amount of water instead of the funds.

02 LEGEND

MAPPING THE ROUTES OF DIFFERENT FACULTIIES AND THEIR IMPORTANT AREAS OF GATHERING

FA FT FP FD IMPORTANT PLACES FOR THE FOUR FACULTIES

FA BUILDING

canteen

FP BUILDING FA

HOLI

SCENE 01

kanoria centre for arts

SCENE 02

GARBA

hathisingh building SCENE 03

EXHIBITION

sso building

FD BUILDING

FT BUILDING

STREETS AND THE CITY : MAPPING THE OLD CITY OF PUNE THROUGH THE LENS OF HERITAGE AND STREETS

BUILDINGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s condition

BUILDING LOCATION

BUILDING USE

tThe building s codnitons are different at different places in the old city with some which are in extremeley bad conditons and a few which are on the verge of dying and falling apart,a few loaded with commerce on ground oor and the upper oors are left unconversed.

Building locations of heritage spaces in the old city is seen through a perspective of nine different locations i.e, primary streets,primary primary junctions,primary secondary juntions,primary tertiary junctions,secondary streets,secondary tertiary jucntions,tertiary streets and tertiary tertiary streets

uilding use of heritage spaces are categori ed as residential,commercial,mixed use,storage,o ces,tourist places,temples and any other permutation and combinaiton of the ones mentioned above.

LEGEND Good Condtion Landmarks Bad Condtion Temples

LEGEND Secondary streets Secondary streets Primary primary junctions Primary -Secondary junctions Primary -Secondary junctions

LEGEND Commercial Tourist places Residential Mixed use

quite character

more interactions

interaction with adjacent neighbours not perpedicular neighbours

traffic congestion during peak hours like afternoon times

mixed use and residential majorly

eyes on the street

sense of belongingness wider carriage ways

crowded junctions more vehicles than the tertiary ones

mixed use and commercial majorly

axometric view of the existing site : memnagar lake area The site very recently settling around lakes ,on no man s land,under huge yovers have become pockets of places for the squatter settlements.The existing site has a squatter settlement next to a garden and lake which is nearly more than fty years old, an old market ,a lot of small shrines and pockets of informal markets.The people lviing here are form different parts of the country and have migrated to the city for jobs and livelihood .The site is a patch of interest for the corporation because of the recent water linking project and aims to rehabilitate the settlements tot he outskirts and turn this place into a public space.

BRIDING THE GAPS BETWEEN tHE SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS AND PARK The design aimed at creating semi public and semi private natured spaces around the squatter settlements and the garden next to it. The idea was to help the people of the settlements to build a sense of ownership and the garden to attract more public. The project took wall as a form of expression to build spaces around the settlements and the park which further contextuali ed itself at every sapce it intervened . have exploited the dimensions of a wall to create spaces for seating,storing,shade,public toilets and spaces for entrances and windows..

ELEMENTS OF DESIGN

The idea behind the design was to decrease land tenure insecurity in the site which is next to lake managed by the AMUL.The lake and the squatter settlers talk to each other but for the sixty percentage of it is in a negative manner. The slope between the lake edge and the settlement has become the most vulnerable piece of land because piles of waste dumbed ,sewage owing through the piles of waste and going into the wetlands and the lake .The idea to combine the patch of land using of tThe idea behind the design was to decrease land tenure insecurity in the site which is next to lake managed by the AMUL.The lake and the squatter settlers talk to each other but for the sixty percentage of it is in a negative manner. The slope between the lake edge and the settlement has become the most vulnerable PUBLIC piece TOILET of land AS A PUBLIC SPACE because piles of waste dumbed ,sewage owing through the piles of waste and going into the wetlands and the lake .The idea to combine the patch of land using of t The idea behind the design was to decrease land tenure insecurity in the site which is next to lake managed by the AMUL.The lake and the squatter settlers talk to each other but for the sixty percentage of it is in a negative manner. The slope between the lake edge and the settlement has become the most vulnerable piece of land because piles of waste dumbed ,sewage owing through the piles of waste and going into the wetlands and the lake .The idea to combine the patch of land using of tThe idea behind the design was to decrease land tenure insecurity in the site which is next to lake managed by the AMUL.The lake and the squatter settlers talk to each other but for the sixty percentage of it is in a negative manner. The slope between the lake edge and the settlement has become the most vulnerable piece of land as a platform because piles of waste dumbed ,sewage owingwall through the pilesforofvendors waste and going into the wetlands and the lake .The idea to combine the patch of land using of t

ELEMENTS OF DESIGN PUBLIC TOILET AS A PUBLIC SPACE

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WALL AS A STORAGE SPACE

ELEMENTS OF DESIGN

decrease land tenure insecurity in ed by the AMUL.The lake and the but for the sixty percentage of it is in een the lake edge and the settleble piece of land because piles of ough the piles of waste and going idea to combine the patch of land n was to decrease land tenure lake managed by the AMUL.The o each other but for the sixty anner. The slope between the lake me the most vulnerable piece of land wage owing through the piles PUBLIC TOILET AS Aof PUBLIC SPACE A SEATING andWALLAS the lake .The SPACE idea to combine

WALLOF ASWINDOW A STORAGE SPACE WALL AS A POINT

ELEMENTS OF DESIGN

ELEMENTS OF DESIGN WALL AS A STORAGE SPACE

ELEMENTS OF DESIGN

PUBLIC TOILET AS A PUBLIC SPACE

WALL AS A POINT OF NOISE BARRIER PUBLIC TOILET AS A PUBLIC SPACE wall as a platform for vendors

WALL AS A STORAGE SPACE

WALL AS A STORAGE SPACE WALL AS A POINT OF NOISE BARRIER

ELEMENTS OF DESIGN

PUBLIC TOILET AS A PUBLIC SPACE wall as a platform for vendors

wall as a platform for vendors WALL AS A STORAGE SPACE

PUBLIC TOILET AS A PUBLIC SPACE WALLAS A SEATING SPACE

WALLAS a shading device WALL AS A STORAGE SPACE WALL AS A POINT OF NOISE BARRIER wall as a platform for vendors

WALLSPACE AS A POINT OF WINDOW WALL AS A STORAGE

WALLAS A SEATING SPACE

WALL AS A POINT OF ENTRANCE WALLAS a shading device WALL AS A POINT OF NOISE BARRIER WALLAS A SEATING SPACE

WALL AS A POINT OF NOISE BARRIER WALL AS A POINT OF WINDOW

WALL AS A POINT WALLOFASENTRANCE A POINT OF WINDOW

Detail sutability mapping of the fort area in Gwalior major reasons for urban explansion from 1972 to 2013

1972 Small scale factories and industries the site of factories producing cotton, yarn,paint, ceramics, chemicals, and leather products,textiles, carpets, glass, matches, rayon, cigarettes, porcelain ware.

1990 The city of gwalior became a major place of exchange between and s due to the in ux of migrants from the nearby cities in search of work and job oppurnities

2006 The rise of institutions in the core of the city then to the periphery of the city became a magnet for different age groups to migrate from smaller towns to the city of Gwalior.

2013 The presense of villages smaller towns near to the city of walior has catalysied the process of urbani ation,specially around the hills which is udner threat now as Gwalior is surrounded by hills from three sides.

SUITABILITY MAPPING 2008

2018

LEGEND

inferences

Water bodies Urban development

Major museums near the fort area is compained by green patches of either gardens or parks whcih are highly maintained and manages to exist .

Green patches in the city Special use in the city Green matric in the city

Gwalior fort area is a special use patch for the city and a major tourist attraction point and thus the areas surroudning the fort has been conversed and protected from urban development.

A MONOCHROME MAP

There are more than three hundred squatter settlements in the city of AhmedabadThe idea of the project is to udnerstand different settlements through the lens of four paramters of basic infrastructure which are availibiility of individual access to water taps,provision of individual washrooms,sewer connections and garbage collections and comparethem in terms of the percentage of the inequity in terms of basic services provided by AMC( Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation ).The mapping is on x and y axis in this particular case the white portion shows the quantity i.e, percentage of people having a particular kind of infrastructure and the y axis is the four different basic infrastructure parameters.

Category 01 00

Category 02 50

90 10000

100

Individual drinking taps Individual washrooms Sewer Connections Garbage collections

Category 03 50

90 100 00

RABARI NA CHAPRA 50

Category 04

90 100

MARWADI NI CHALI

RABARI NA CHAPRA

ABHUJI NA KUVA NA CHAPRA

DHOR VADO

GANESHNAGAR

gopal nagar

BHARWAD VAS

FUGULLA SOC NA CHAPRA

nr. mahalaxmi crossing chapra

MAHALAXMI NAGAR

BHILL VAS NA CHAPRA

04A aroyodaya mills ni navi chali

BABUBHAI RABARI NI CHALI

LAKHUDI TALAVDI

bhudar pura na chapra

04B mla quaters na chapra

AMBICA NAGAR

GARIB NAGAR

bhudar pura na chapra

04C TALAVADI NA CHAPRA

GAUKHEPARA

RABARI NI CHAPRA

BABAR NI CHALI

PINKO TEXTILE MILL NI CHALI

bhavani nagar

ganesh nagar

BHOLENATH TEKRA

RAMJI MANDIR NA CHAPRA

baldev nagar

anandnagar ni chali

AMBEDKARNAGAR

SUBURBAN PUMPING NA CHAPRA

THE QUESTION OF QUESTIONING We perceive memorials in various forms sometimes as structures fenced with a green patch or a wired boundary or may be as a piece of art asserting a sense of value which is presumed to be perceived in an established way. As rightly said ‘’ A lie told a thousand times will soon become the truth’. ’All history is fabricated and what we want to memorise and how we want to memorise lies in a web of different perspectives which are trying to talk and negotiate with each other. n a context of a public space a memorial which is supposed to a choice becomes an obligation and talks to whomever wants to talk to it. We locate the word memorial at events, with important characters, quotes, stories, buildings and thus dislocates the idea of the existence of the action of addressing it in any way. The function of a memorial keeps shifting from context to context. Memorial struggles in between impermanence and permanence. The idea of memorial is a lawlessness topic which sometimes skips the questions of why and jumps into the questions of what where when and how. Memorial is often surrounded by an idea of a product and rarely viewed as a process, a process of inclusiveness, a process of answering the existence of it t is crucial for us to understand memorials while paralleling it with the ladder of participation because a public space caters to different user groups with different background, interests and thought processes which demands an entire process of mapping through their minds and narrowing it down to a piece of art. The important question is not to question but question what and the process of questioning a certain question.

A poster made to trigger people in the campus to act upon a situation where a newly paved area almost chowked a tree

let it breathe

APARTHEID MOVEMENT

A poster on the social inequity because of the apartheid regime

LET IT BREATHE

JANUARY 2019

LETS TALK ABOUT SEX

Bookmarks and calendars

An initiative to conduct group discussions named etâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talk series on various topics

Mapping the journey of ragpcikers in the city of Ahmedabad Social Unacceptance and peer rejection

MANDEERA BAGHAR

mandeera.baghar.bud16@cept.ac.in

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