ARCHITECTURE+DESIGN Mani
CURRICULUM-VITAE
Hello I’m Mani she/her Architect+Designer From Delhi, India Contact https://www.behance.net/ManiMakhija14 manimakhija.14@gmail.com +91-8860123435
Languages I can speak/write English, Hindi, Punjabi, French (Intermediate) Professional Experience and Workshops partaken 2020 Worklounge-03, Hanoi Architectural Internship (6 months) 2021 CLT Induction in India 2020,2018 Z-Axis,Charles Correa Foundation 2019 Architectural Observation and Assesment across Vietnam, Ar. Mohor Bose 2019 Bamboo Pavilion Construction, Ar. Parblo Juan, CaveUrban, World Bamboo Festival 2018 Bamboo Architecture in North East India, KARWAAN Softwares I’m adept at AutoCAD, SketchUp, Rhino, Revit, ArchiCAD, Grasshopper; Ladybug+Plugins, Climate Studio, Formit, Autodesk Flow, EDGE Life Cycle Analysis; Lumion, Enscape, Vray; Photoshop,Illustrator,Indesign, After Effects, Procreate; Microsoft Office, Google suite Publications UIA2021Rio-World Congress of Architects Spatial Analysis and Mapping of the Transgender Community: A Case Study of Bhopal Inner Magazine,Issue 04 Post Pandemic Interiors- The Design Interns Vista NASA Newsletter Architectural Education
Hobbies and Interests Sketching, Reading, Writing, Animating, Travelling, Cycling. Interested in designing with a wholesome sense of sustainability in cultural, social, economic and environmental states. Academic Background 2016-Present School of Planning and Architecture Bachelors of Architecture (8+ CGPA) 2020 IIHS, Solar Decathlon India-Team Lead Net-Zero Building Design-Top Learner 2002-2016 Sachdeva Public School Schooling (9+ CGPA) Relevant Courses UNFCC Green Building Program- A grade HARVARD Architectural Imagination, EDX MIT Site Planning, EDX HARVARD Women Making History, EDX Carlo Stanga, Architectural Illustration, Domestika Achievements 2021 Top6, Solar Decathlon India -Team Lead 2020 Top 10, Form Follows Climate, UNI 2019 Top 10, Writing Architecture, NASA Top 40, Pop-Up Bazaar, Archasm 2018 II Prize, Writing Architecture, NASA Top 25, Berkeley Essay Prize I Prize, Bamboo Playpen Design, KARWAAN
PART A - ACADEMICS AND COMPETITIONS
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Jeevan Chavi Social Development Center, 2021
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NHM Headquarters Office Building, 2020
03
Shubh-ritu Kindergarten, 2019
PART B - EXPERIENCE AND HOBBIES
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Internship Works Worklounge-03, 2020
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Photopgraphy 2018-2021
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Hands-on work 2018-2019
PART-A
“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about its beauty, I just think about how to solve the problem, but when I finish it, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it’s wrong.” - Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Jeevan Chavi Social Development Center, 2021
Architectural Thesis
Delhi University Land, CBD Shahdara,Delhi The concept of transgender is extensive in its address, denoting the identity crisis and diversity of practices embodied between or beyond the categories of male and female. In Northern India, they live as members of the Hijra community, thriving in their own small ways and yet on a long way to empowerment. This project establishes a Social Development Center for the community, considerate of their needs and aspirations. It expores a variety of spatial functions and techniques to aid and develop the members.
Temperature Plot
Summer Winds
Humidity Plot
Winter Winds
Discomfort Plot
Sun path
Sex and Gender Identity
Intersex
Sex
Male
Female
Gender
Agender
Gender fluid
Transgender
Sex simply represents the reproductive organs you’re born with. Everyone can choose their own gender identity.
The Hijra Community
Trans Hijra
The Hijra community is a multifaceted category of the gender non-conforming effeminate group of individuals in the context of Northern India and the design is considerate of their living and mannerisms. Lack of :
Information Documentation Occupation Habitation
Unsheltered 63%
Unemployed 96%
Conceptual Approach What to build?
Illiterate 60%
Culture Harrasment 37% Where to build?
Context
Climate
Design
Understanding a Person and a Community
How to build?
Medical Req 57%
Population situation Statistics
Site Selection
Delhi The National Capital of the Largest Democracy High Density of Population.
CBD Shahdara Area earmarked for development of marginalised communities.
A University Centre (UC/C) Zone Positive Interaction with students and spreading awareness in the youth.
Site Layers Site Details Low-Mid rise surroundings
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Active Boundaries
Historical Surajmal Park
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Area : 60,000sqm. Contour slope : 0.05m Overall built up : 90,000sqm. Center Built up : 12,000sqm
Passive Design Considerations
Metro and bus- within 1km
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Permeable building
Breathing walls
Shading courtyards
Thin Plans
Thermal mass
Sidelight room depth
Translations of the Context-Climate
The Kinship of Hijras
1. Turkman Gate
Nani Guru Guru Ma Chela
Chela
Chela
Gurubai/Gurubon Chela
Chela
Chosen areas of study in the Capital
2. Laxmi Nagar
Turkman Gate
historical significance, inhabiting generations.
Laxmi Nagar
extended family, most affluent.
Nizamuddin
large and varied batch, unique emplyment.
Janakpuri
3. Nizamuddin
new community area, modern members.
Housing layout Courtyard
Circulation
4. Janakpuri
Guru’s room Kitchen Dorm
The havelis of Turkman Gate have a traditional layout but now have less and less people living in them, given the lack of maintenance and a need of freedom.
Circulation
Room
Kitchen
Living room
Most members live in 1/2 bhk flats, in vicinity of the guru’s house. They usually reside in EWS/LIG housing patterns.
Character of spaces
Haveli
Collecting badhai
1-2 BHK
Begging
Prostitution Begging Mughal Hierarchy and elements
Darker entryways
Interaction spaces at street widenings
Communal spaces on ground floor
Studying the community and living spaces
Collecting badhai
Spatial Logics Commercial spaces
Fair Ground
PUBLIC
Toilet
Auditorium
Parking
Entry 1
Connecting spaces Museum Gallery
Archive
Toilet
Library
Informative Spaces
Cafeteria
Kitchen
Courtyard
Vegetable Garden
SEMI-PUBLIC
Reception
Rental offices
Meeting Spaces
Admin
Administration spaces
Workshops
Classrooms
Toilet
Canteen
Playground
Laboratories
Kitchen
Parking
Toilet Counsel spaces
Rooms
Dorms Entry 2
Admin
OAT
Dance Room
Music Room Courtyard
Institutional Spaces
Toilet
Reception
Care Rooms
Medical services
Living Spaces
PRIVATE Genus Loci
Exposed materials
Integrated Planning
Linkages and honesty
Lightness in space
Ample daylight
Characteristic Architecture
Conceptual Development of spaces
CULTURE
Vocational classes Communal Spaces Interactive and debate spaces
CONTEXT
G+1
Walkabale roof Vegetable garden
CLIMATE
Thin Plans Courtyards Wind towers and light wells Shading
Translation to Design form and layout
G+3
Site plan and
50m
Elevational view
50m
10m
Site plan and E
Architectural tr
Elevational view
ranslations-Sections
5m
Fair-Market
Cafe
OAT
Courtyard
Vegetable Garden
Bedroom
Connecting bridge
Classroom
North Jaali
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NHM Headquarters Office Building, 2020
Top6
Solar Decathlon India
Link Road 3, Patrakar Colony, Bhopal The story begins in India, the largest democracy caught in a climate crisis. With a debilitating air quality, largely caused by the ever growing construction sector. Here, about 60% of the buildings are developed by the Govt. they thus have the power to become architectural trailblazers. The NHM Headquarters are designed to represent a true leap towards a more inclusive, more responsible future. The team worked with various experts and partners to develop a Net Zero Energy and Water, office building in the heart of the country, Bhopal for the Solar Decathlon Competition.
Temperature Plot
Summer Winds
Humidity Plot
Winter Winds
Discomfort Plot
Sun path
INTEGRATED DESIGN APPROACH
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
Passive design
Construction Materials
HVAC
Water
Resources and tech.
Splitting the research into 5 categories to bring together developments of each, and advance design in a cohesive direction.
DESIGN
Phase 1- Base Models Analysis
11 of us split into 3 teams to develop 3 different iterations on the basis of passive strategies and architectural themes discussed.
Site-Climate study
Architectural ideas
Passive design
Bubble diagrams
Design Analysis
Phase 2- Design Development
The base models were further developed to combine into one model which was consecutively simulated at all stages of design-zoning, interior detail, material conjecture and element detail etc.
Simulating the Prototypes
Analysing Results
Combining the Aspects
Zoning in levels
Allocating Adding specific details strategies
Phase 3- Finalised Design-Planned
The last step was to enhance elemental strategies, by mindfully incorporating innovative and cost efficient solutions resulting in an optimum building design.
Innovation
Enhancing strategies
Approach to design Net Zero Building
Design development
Design Analysis
Cost Effective
OPTION A
Entrance
OPTIM
OPTION B
Departments
Core
Meeting Rooms
Corridors
Shad
Refinery strategy explored: Dispersed, staggered blocks.
Refinery strategy explored: A central connecting atrium.
EUI COMPARISON
Equipments EUI Calculated = 91 KWh/m2/a 50% reduction from baseline
Fans
Light
Hotwater
EUI Calculated = 101 KWh/m2/a 45% reduction from baseline
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Design optio
MISED
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SOLAR RADIATION
Jaali wall
Toilet
Staggered blocks around connecting atriums, to create a hierarchy of courtyards.
DAYLIGHTING
Heat
Cool
EUI Calculated = 27 KWh/m2/a 85% reduction from baseline
ons and analysis
Daylight (sDA 300/50%): 65% Glare (ASE 1000.250): 12% 3 LEED daylight credits
Passive Design Strategies used
Buffer Zones
Thin Plans
Courtyards
Cross- Ventilation
Water Edges
Jaalis & Louvres
Phase Change Material and Night Ventilation
In the morning, the heat recovery system along with the Radiant cooling system works to cool the building. During the Night, the Latent thermal storage cools itself down for daytime use while the chiller runs to charge the PCM.
Incorporating active-passive strategies
Wind speed and Temperature variation with Jaali Wall
The jaali walls withs 70% perforation is used for maximum benefit by accerlating wind to 42 m/s and reducing temperature 2-3°C
Seasonal Comfort Analysis of focussed floors Typical Summer Week
The top-most floor is observed to be more than 97% comfortable in all areas. Typical Winter Week
Typical Spring Week
The first floor is observed to be more than 94% comfortable in all areas. Typical Autumn Week
The ground floor is observed to be more than 73% comfortable in all living areas.
The second floor is observed to be more than 74% comfortable in all living areas.
Daylight Analysis to optimise “good lighting” 3 LEED CREDIT POINTS Ground Floor
First Floor
Simulative analysis of strategies used
Second Floor
Third Floor
North Light shelves
East light shelves
Perforated facades
Space frame
Shaded courtyard
Louvered South corridors
Irresistable stairs
Single loaded corridors
Gree partitioned- Open Plan
EUI reduction to acheive Net-Zero
EUI optimizations were done parametrically, against a default value defined earlier. After achieving a desirably low EUI value, elements were added to increase visual and thermal comfort, especially in non-HVAC areas.
PV panels layout
Equipment (32% of the total power generated) HVAC (45% of the total power generated) Lighting (16% of the total power generated) Buffer (7% of the total power generated)
Cost comparison with Govt-designed project
Simulative analysis of strategies used
Energy Balance depicts Net-Zero
Equipment Energy Use
Lighting Energy Use
HVAC Energy Use
Monthly PV Generation
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Shubh-ritu Kindergarten, 2019
Top25
Form follows Climate
Xavier Road, Chandrasekhpur, Bhubaneswar Choosing a challenging as well culturally rich and need-based site was the beginning of the design process. The design is aformed at the intersection of the venn diagram of climate and children. Vernacular building strategies and materials are woven with modern building principles and technology. The driving concept of the design is a creative climate-based form which helps the children’s mind flow with ideas, providing them intriguing and active spaces. A staged development to provide layers of comfort from the harsh climate and create a hierarchy of public, semi-public and private zones. Various elements aid the best use of the boundless resources of sun, wind and light using the quantifiable local materials enhanced by contemporary design.
Temperature Plot
Summer Winds
Humidity Plot
Winter Winds
Discomfort Plot
Sun path
Site Orientation The site is elongated along N-S direction.
Building Orientation E-W elongation minimises thermal gains.
Deep Sun Staggering The form is staggered to allow more sunlight.
Ventilation Displacement The form is displaced to orient along the SW wind.
Microclimate Design Functions are distributed around atriums and courtyards.
Disaster Safety Vernacular form is adapted to protect against cyclones.
Buffer Zones Coridoors act as buffer zone to increase time lag.
Operable Shading Louvres introduces to aid light and ventilation
Sloped roof design Openings designed form maximum north light
Form Development
Design options an Exploded View
Central Courtyard North Occulus
PART-B
“I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience.” – Richard Neutra
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Internships works Worklounge-03,2020
Citputra Villa Design Project, Hanoi The villa design project aims to build a private residence with a guest house and swimming pool in the Luxury Villa Citputra Colony in Hanoi. I was involved in the project, right from the concept design stage and got a chance to explore form and function using physical models as well as architectural drawings during my internship. I was involved on-off with the project throughout my internship, lending support on crucial dates and submissions. The client eventually liked a bridged house with a swimming pool in the shade. It was great experience to understand the amout of patience and detailing that goes into bringing together a design.
Stage 1- Hexagonal form
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Stage 2- Cube House and Terrain roof
Hikari MasterPlan Project, Saigon The project entialed designing and detailing the master plan of Hikari Commercial Complex, which contained offices, restaurants and a mall in its zone. The company collaborated with Takashi Niwa Architects for the same and I worked directly under the Project Manager for my part. I worked on various aspects of the project from swale design, landscaping, flooring design and details, parking design and details, seating design and details etc across a span of 2 months during my internship. It was a great project to understand how to work in a collaboration. 20 of us used the same Revit file to develop this magnanmous project! It was an amazing learning experience.
Swale Design
Swale Design
Sample of Flooring Section Flooring Pattern Design
Swale Design Sample of Flooring Section Details
Yearns
The Bittersweet Journey The traveller hitches high and low in search of the perfect Sun and shore She finds a woman who weaves, lives in yarns And everyday yearns for more, than her life in the barns The woman across the street makes sticks Sells sweet smelling alluring tricks The tavaran doesn’t notice the incense Simply posing insensitive flicks Wandering, she runs far South, Finds a puddle manor, across a wooden bridge They have no microwave or fridge But the satellite shines on the roof Is an elite installation, to not stay aloof Not yet tired, she sets out again To visit Poseidon’s lair, in vain Comes across a flair instead In Dalat’s own Crazy House It was time to stop the cat and mouse The Sea God heard and played one last game Guess where ended the dame? In a desert beside the ocean A desert so golden with clouds so bolden They put the foam desserts to shame.
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Photoessay 2018-2021
Flair
Satelite
Incensitive
Desserted
Bamboo Pavilion Design The two Bamboo Pavilions were designed a year apart. The playpen was a part of the Kaarwan Bamboo workshop and competition. I was a part of a team of 3 which designed the play pen to look at the starry night in Nagaland, India and incorporate a chicken coop below it. Our design was selected for its openness, initimacy with surrounding terrain and joyful approach. The whole lot undertook construction of the playpen for 3 days, under rain and storm! It was a wonderful experience. The 3-dome pavilion was designed under Ar. Juan Pablo during World Bamboo Festival in Imphal, Manipur. It was great to learn how to grow and maintain bamboo during the conference and then come to site to understand the various knots and binding techniques. It was an intense and beautiful experience to weave all that bamboo!
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Hands-on Work 2018-2019
1st
World Bamboo Organisation, Kaarwan India
THANKYOU Mani +91-8860123435 manimakhija.14@gmail.com