Mani Makhija| Architecture + Design Portfolio 2021| SPA Bhopal

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

02

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

02

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

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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.

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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