ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO
MD SAQLAIN KHAN Selected Design Works 2018 - 2021
Hello ! Before you go through my work, I would like to share a few words about what motivates me.
MD SAQLAIN KHAN B. Arch. 4th Year National Institute of Technology Patna D.O.B.
April 14, 2000
City
Delhi, India
Phone
+ 91 9939777832
mdk.ug18.ar@nitp.ac.in
Nationality
Indian
Language
English, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Sanskrit.
I am an Architectural student, a Computational designer and a Data Science Student who is interested in creating technologically advanced and environmentally responsible design. I am passionate about design, research, in my typical workday. I enjoy critical analysis of architectural challenges and bringing innovation as well as efficiency to the process of design. My experience of working on both geometrical as well as functional aspects of architectural design on various scales, combined with my skills of using computational tools for building analytics and simulation, enables my unique perspective on designing High Performance Architecture. I hope you enjoy your time while going through the projects I am presenting here.
“ Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today”. - Malcolm X
C O N T E N T
Curriculum Vitae Design Projects Architectural Detailing Research Work Live Projects Extra Works and Passion
PROJECTS SPAN I III
II IV
V
VII
VI
VIII
CURRICULUM VITAE
Self Declaration This portfolio contains a collection of both academic and non-academic projects. These projects have been completed during the last seven semesters and have been compiled together for this portfolio. All work displayed in this portfolio are authentic and genuine to the best of my knowledge.
Md Saqlain Khan
PROJECT TYPE :
ACADEMIC
SEMESTER:
VII
LOCATION:
PATNA, BIHAR, INDIA
AREA:
12,800 sqm
DURATION:
4 MONTHS
DETAILS
The project focuses on designing a 5-Star Hotel at Patna, Bihar based on HRACC guidelines with all facilities like Guest Rooms, Swimming Pool, Suits, Restaurants, Banquet Halls, Business Centers and amalgamation of other related facilities. The Hotel is designed keeping in mind various parameters like Climatic conditions, Universal design usage with primary focus on creating a landmark building for the city.
MUGEN
FORM DEVELOPMENT
PEDESTRIANIZATION
FIVE - STAR HOTEL THE BRIEF To design a five star hotel of twelve acre, consisting of facilities like restaurant, suits and many other key facilities. The form evolves from the symbol of Infinity and it gets reflected in the main road formation on site, the design further modifies itself in vertical expansion and solves the biggest challenge on site regarding the size of the site. Flow of wind, climatic condition and various other parameters were followed to have optimum design capability
VERTICAL EXTRUSION
MASSING
SITE
The shortage of a world class Hotel is felt prominent in Eastern India, to provide an experience to the users to reflect the hospitality of the place as a projecting hub of attracting tourists, considered as an epicenter to an unknown state, yet to be explored, it could host multiple people, from all walks of life and is meant to cherish the socio-cultural bonds. The Hotel acts as a strong spatial intervention to host diverse people. This will enhance not just the ethos of this place, but will be an epicenter for tourism.
SWIMMING POOL VIEW
PRIVATE PUBLIC
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
KITCHEN AREA
LOUNGE/ RESTAURANTS
STAFF AREA
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
SECTION B-B’
The space and the orientation of the building is such that area is utilized in a controlled way, proper crowd management techniques and distribution of spaces according to the function of the structure is taken at most care of. The building houses adaptable facade skin to provide optimum sunlight as per the time of the day and daylight needed according to the different Equinoxes and Solstices of the Earth. The building counters the harsh south sun by forming a structural barrier, thus letting northern light or less harsh light like that of golden hour to fall to areas that are outdoor.
These highlights are a glimpse of the various key facilities and epilogue of the area. The amalgamation of various facilities like Bar/ Restaurant, Multipurpose hall, Responsive Facade and other facilities provide a luxurious as well as a curtail approach towards hospitality of the visitor and also play a crucial role in minimizing the commutative energy required to sustain the building.
BAR/ RESTAURANT
Hence reducing the carbon footprint and contributing towards a building design in consideration with climatic effect and sustainability.
OPEN AIR MULTIPURPOSE AREA
OPEN-AIR RESTAURANT
MULTIPURPOSE AREA
FRONT FACADE
DRONE VIEW
PROJECT TYPE :
ACADEMIC
SEMESTER:
VI
LOCATION:
BODH-GAYA, BIHAR, INDIA
AREA:
89,200 sqm
DURATION:
4 MONTHS
DETAILS
The aim of the project was to create an Ayurvedic College and Hospital, with focus on traditional Indian methodology of self-healing through natural methods. Houses the central axial pattern, forming a hierarchy of the space and spreading across the distribution of the site, has facilities including auditorium, departmental area, residences, botanical garden, playgrounds and many other key facilities required as per the norms. The idea was to segregate noise level of the college away from the hospital and yet to provide a positive environment for recovery and rehabilitation of a patient, apart from optimizing the total heat gain, universal access systems and other key facilities implemented in design.
THE CENTRAL AXIS
MARKING THE AXIS ON THE SITE ALONG THE HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL AXIS
AYURVEDIC COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL THE BRIEF To design a Ayurvedic college and Hospital on an area of roughly nine hectares, colleges acts as a hub for learning and cultivating radical ideas to change the future. The site overcome various challenges and constrain like preserving the existing trees, distributing noise and providing equitable daylight was also a challenge we faced apart from universal accessibility and reducing the heat gain of the buildings. SEPERATING THE ZONES AND MARKING THE ROADS
POSITIONING OF BLOCKS AND MASSING
The separation of building according to noise level helped in optimizing the plan throughout the site.
SITE
+ 600 MM
+ 00 MM
DEPARTMENTAL AREA GROUND FLOOR PLAN
LIBRARY GROUND FLOOR PLAN
AUDITORIUM GROUND FLOOR PLAN
ADMINISTRATIVE AREA GROUND FLOOR PLAN
RESIDENCE GROUND FLOOR PLAN
Spread across almost nine hectare of land, the central axis is divided symmetrically across the main peripheral road, consisting of separate parking spaces for college and hospital area, the whole site is divided into small individual zone on basis of their noise, usability and approach requirements. Some of the component it has includes the Administrative block, Residential facilities for Faculty, Departmental Area for studying, Library, Auditorium facility for in-house functions and other requirements needed, The main idea was to make sure that the travel distance is minimized and the site is approachable as per requirement of the individual person.
Housing key facilities, the Administrative area is at the helm of all official work and its designed in such a way to maximize efficiency and crowd management, The facility has thre e access area for public entrance and has a buffer zone to spread the crowd. Apart from the corinthian columns and raised plinth to signify strength and glory. Housing Facility provided to resident professors is also a critical aspect of planning, each unit has a two decimal five bhk residential area. The key strategy here was to keep in place the maximum daylight achievable and also provide an area much more than just an apartment to live in. ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK
LIBRARY
HOUSING FACILITY
PROJECT TYPE :
ACADEMIC
SEMESTER:
V
LOCATION:
KOLKATA, INDIA
AREA:
12,100 sqm
DURATION:
4 MONTHS
DETAILS
The key aspect of this was to come up with a Mall design, that will host multi-national companies. The Mall is designed keeping in mind various parameters like Climatic condition, market condition of the site and also serve as a goto destination for people. The site is located in a fast paced developing area of Kolkata city and has future potential for growth, the design idea was to have a central area and then further have buffer areas be radiating outwards, thus providing luxurious views and a showcase area for hosting products and shopping.
THE CROWN
CREATING VOID
MALL THE BRIEF The vision is to provide an experience to the users and also shape the ethos of the place. This is envisioned through a series of spatial relationships and with sustainable design. The Mall is an integral part of society as it shows the progress of society and add up fuel to the economy, it not only acts as a hub for hosting multi-national and regional companies but also a community gathering area, were quality time can be spent PEDESTRIANIZATION
MASSING ON SITE
SITE
ENTRANCE
MALL FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
RESTAURANT
MULTIPLEX
HYPER STORE
ANCHOR STORE
ENTRANCE SHOWCASE AREA
Site follows a pattern by strategically placing anchor stores, hyper stores and then sparsely populating the area with other vanilla stores, the commercial area has a direct access to the above multiplex theaters and also the restaurant. The central crown structure has a housing for luxurious restaurants, sit-out spaces and viewing deck, having a dazzling view of the lake adjacent to it. The site is designed to have minimum heat gain and thus reduce the load for HVAC systems, and this plays a key role in the designing of the area, along with condition of not removing the trees.
SITE
PROJECT TYPE :
ACADEMIC
SEMESTER:
IV
LOCATION:
LEH, LADAKH INDIA
AREA:
39,400 sqm
DURATION:
6 MONTHS
DETAILS
The lack of quality schooling facility is felt widely in the mountainous region of Leh, In northern most part of India. The absence of these spaces create a loose socio-economic condition and contributes to weakening of the lower and middle class people apart from other health risk it possesses. The Secondary School acts as a strong reagent in catalyzing and mounding the future and mental wellness of a student, since majority of the time is spent in school, the schooling condition shapes the health of the particular community as well.
ARC
MARKING THE AXIS ON THE SITE ALONG THE SYMMETRY.
SECONDARY SCHOOL THE BRIEF -
EXISTING TREES ON SITE WHICH PROVIDE NATURAL COOLING AND SHADING.
To design a secondary school consisting of local community students. The challenge on site was to segregate different usage area and also to have consideration with climatic conditions. The balanced use of capturing the south light for winter and the courtyard area achieved with shading provides a best possible combination on site.
THE POSITIONING OF BLOCK FORMS A COURTYARD SPACE AND A SEEMLESS RELATION THROUGH.
ADMIN & LIBRARY GROUND FLOOR PLAN
CLASSROOM FLOOR PLAN
LIBRARY
ROOF
CLASSROOM COMMULATIVE INSOLATION
SUMMER FIRST FLOOR
CAFETERIA
COMMULATIVE INSOLATION
GROUND FLOOR PLAY AREA
WINTER
ENTRY
TEACHING AREA
The site is design such that it counters heat and winter winds in similar fashion, with regards to use of maximum daylight. The goal was to achieve a balance in heat gain and also have regards to the user’s comfort. Due to Strategic Planning of windows, vertical louvers and jaali, heat gain was minimized to an optimum level.
These highlights are a glimpse of the various key facilities and epilogue of the area. The amalgamation of various facilities like Library, Auditorium, Courtyard spaces are way towards a healthy study environment and raises the standard of study facilities.
STUDY AREA , LIBRARY
The Library and other key facilities are equipped with measures to improve natural daylight and solves the problem of students facing vitamin deficiencies in the region.
TOWARDS AUDITORIUM
AUDITORIUM
TEACHING AREA
AUDITORIUM INTERIOR(500+ SEATING CAPACITY)
PARKING
D E T A I L I N G
TOILET DETAILING
T
TOILETDETAILING DETAILING TOILET
VIEWS
SECTIONAL ELEVATION A
KITCHEN DETAILING
SECTIONAL ELEVATION B
KITCHEN DETAILING
STAIRCASE DETAILING
STAIRCASE DETAILING DETAILING STAIRCASE
LIFT DETAILING
TRAVELATORDETAILING DETAILING TRAVELATOR
PROJECT TYPE :
RESEARCH
DURATION:
6 MONTHS
DETAILS
The project focuses on how conventional design technique can be replaced with the use of machine learning algorithm. The particular Canopy is purely design by the machine with almost zero intervention of human, The sole purpose was to take a reference two dimensional image and then use machine learning algorithm to produce a three dimensional model, with varying capability of design.
RESEARCH PROJECT
The Design focuses on developing a canopy based on human Vein Pattern. We chose the human vein design, cause that is the simple yet most complex thing ,nature gave it to us and if we could analysing that and further using it to make a stable structure , this is what I was looking forward to and we achieved using the algorithm. Human veins are very complex and they are something so optimised in there own way that they dont need any further correction by a human. So the Design replicates the very foundation of the interconnection between the human vein and how it encounters the stability issue.
INFRARED SPECTRUM IMAGE OF HUMAN VEIN
The design evolves on eight different stages, STEP 1: The algorithm first takes the above image of six different types of nerves in human body and then runs a check on what images to combine it to, which will later be a basis of the three dimentional model it will generate. STEP 2:Then it starts locating different points in three dimention space. STEP 3:Further it starts interpreting the image and starts to form lines. STEP 4:Lines combines in two dimentional space to form a surface. STEP 5: Different surface points are then connected with each other to forms a solid mesh. STEP 6: Then the algorithm figures out how to make variability in design. STEP 7: Algorithm stores different types of permutation and combination occuring in design and just by a change of slider, gets projected on to the dashboard of the user. STEP 8:Finally it runs a check for all the unconnected spaces and bad meshes it has and tries to eliminate it.
The above view shows the design of canopy as seen by a human eye. It works by optimising the use of sunlight and sun-shading techniques and uses it in a balanced way, reducing cost of ceiling and also not compromising on the aspect of sunlight received. The Canopy of the design was made using Rhino, Grasshopper and python as a baseline software. The further codes uses the machine learning algorithm and libraries that gets inside the python. On the extreme left is the python code of algorithm with the grasshopper script used in the project.
RESEARCH PROJECT
CONCLUSION In conclusion we achieved a design completely made by a machine and that could change shape and give a various choices of design as needed by the user. Further we were able to control the overall aspect of three dimensional shape of the model just by changing the input image we provided and this reduced significant amount of time from thinking to designing. We were also able to control various parameters of climatology like sun-shading and ventilation and were able to optimise the cost of the installation at same time. Hence we were able to analyse all the parameter and make a canopy that was stable enough and is well versed in all aspect completely made by a machine thinking and building itself.
RESEARCH PROJECT
PROJECT
TYPE :
NON-ACADEMICAL
DETAILS
These are collection of some of the works done by me in real life involving projects from real construction work on ground, to interactive lobby design for a global event. The wholesome approach gave an edge on how construction is done on site and provided me with opportunity to realize the huge difference of working on sheet and site.
LIVE PROJECTS
Project is based out in outskirts of Chandigarh, India. The requirement was to provide a 3 bhk house with responsive climatic condition design in place to reduce the carbon footprint of the house, so conventional type of cooling method is used and Neo-Classical architecture method is used for facades.
LIVE PROJECTS
The Goal of this project was to achieve a interactive platform for user in lobby for a virtual conference held during the starting days of the pandemic. The lobby served as a buffer zone for linking various other zones like Exhibition and Auditorium area where people could easily navigate to as they do in real life. I learned that skills learned in my Architecture profession transcends disciplines.
LIVE PROJECTS
It’s a undergoing project consisting of helical dome structure . The main idea behind the project was to make a goto place for people away from hustle and buzz of the city life and live with nature, the whole project consist of interconnected 60 similar building arrangement to make a wholesome community in the outskirts of Pune, India.
LIVE PROJECTS
This section contains some of the extra works, projects and 3d model I did in a span of my design work from 2018 - 2021, some of the best model works, photography and projects are included in this section.
EXTRA WORKS AND PASSION
MD SAQLAIN KHAN mdk.ug18.ar@nitp.ac.in