portfolio - selected works megha Jhawar
Rethinking housing typology and appropriation: Government Housing Quarters
housing, Kharagpur, West Bengal
Delibrating
housing, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
urban planning & design, Borivali, Mumbai
House in the Mango Orchard residential, Deesa, Gujarat
hospitality, master planning, Jawai, Rajasthan
urban redevelopment, Bhachau, Kutch, Gujarat
academic
professional works
contents
works
Of Land or Water?
Repair and Retrofit
A case of Eksar Village,
Borivali
old housing
stock
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Wilderness Retreat at Jawai Bhachau Futures
Rethinking housing typology
and appropriation: Government Housing Quarters
Mentors: Prasad Shetty, Sabaa Giradkar
The thesis is an inquiry in housing as a result of standardisation and mass production. Looking at large public sector employee housing, there seems to be an effort to more or less make them standard houses. Mass production renders a house as an absolute object to be used where one constantly negotiates with extensibility and the fixity of home.
It opens up the question ‘what would be the form of a house which allows itself to be appropriated in multiple ways?’
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Undergraduate thesis project
kharagpur, west bengal
Kharagpur Railway Settlement
area - 16.2 hectares
master plan strategy
existing neighbourhood points of densification
primary & secondary networks
posibilities of built to unbuilt ratio built area & movement corridor densification at the primary network
Such typology is expected to provide space for markets, shops, cafes, tuition classes, gathering spaces, etc. and, which can be further reconfigured as a residential dwelling unit when the need arises.
The old housing stock of the city sits isolated from the changing and growing city around it. With rapid urbanisation around the city, the idea was to design a typology that responds to
a. underutilization of land,
b. absence of public spaces and changing city conditions.
The purpose behind this sort of a typology was that it not just accommodates the housing aspect of the project, but also has the potential to accommodate the spills of the house and provisions for the neighbourhood.
Deliberating Old Housing Stock
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
In major port towns around India, an ever-changing cityscape has been inevitable. In the context of Vizag as a naval town hosting the largest railway station under the East Coast Railway, certain pockets of the city haven’t developed as organically as the rest of the city around them, in the last 70 years. The settlement of Railway Quarters, Visakhapatnam has given its land to overgrown weeds and dilapidated houses. The already less dense area has a lesser human presence in the colony. The aim behind the project is to propose a pattern of urban inserts and redensification on a land with builtforms dating back to the 1950’s.
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apartment typology
apartment typology
Proposed design on the existing site
strip units
apartment typology
Of Land or Water?
R-ward, Borivali, Mumbai
Collaborators: a15 batch,SEA (role in the project: phase planning and built form strategies)
Mentors: Ravindra Punde, Komal Gopwani, Vastavikta Bhagat, Abhijit Ekbote
This study is an inquiry into flooding and the rising sea level’s impact on Mumbai’s habitability. It is set in the context of the prevalent discussion on climate crisis and its repercussions on everyday life. In the country itself there are various irregularities in weather patterns. Set in the northern suburbs of Mumbai, the took place by investigating the practices and impacts of floods on the everyday life of the local residents. By understanding watershed boundaries in relation to the administrative boundaries, the study was carried out in two phases. Starting by mapping the site using tools like GIS data, fieldwork verification, detailed analysis and stakeholder narratives, policy implementations it went ahead to generate a vulnerability map for 2050 for multiple measures of heavy rainfall coupled with high tide to identify which are the areas that would be vulnerable or even completely submerged.
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Aim : To make a city resilient to flooding
Short Term - 2021
Long Term - 2051
Builtform strategies based on vulnerability zoning
areas to be shifted areas for transit camps
Zone 2 builtform
Incubator Building Typology: densification sponges for the settlements in the low-lying areas
Zone
Co-operative housing societies and high rises - redefining plots and their configurations
Form of a safe city
3-4 builtform
Rainwater Harvesting
New Grounds
Form of an Incubator scheme
Repair and Retrofit: A case of Eksar Village
Borivali, Mumbai
Collaborators: Ankita Dhal, Foram Desai, Vinisha Kuckian
The study took place as a part of the three year long investigation by SEA in the practices of repair and retrofit of the old housing stock of the city. The urban villages of the city consists of various existing community formations that developed over time resulting in informal and organic growth. These organic changes overtime result in poorly light and ventilation, narrow spaced roads and poor maintainance. Eksar village houses more than 500 families. Through the stages of site work and the various analysis conducted, two main questions regarding urban villages arose:
-How do we better living conditions without destroying and remaking the village?
- How do we regulate growth and expansion in the future?
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Plan and identification of the four typologies of structures.
Mapping heights of the structure through the settlement.
Different street conditions throughout the village.
Mapping the drainage pattern through the village.
The cluster deals with a part of the settlement that still has ground floor masonry structures made with wooden beams and rafters with Mangalore tiles over it. The design consisted of proposing guidelines to build for the inevitable future expansion.
Existing ground floor section
expansion together
Individual expansion in a community
Community
- professional work (banduksmithstudio)
House at the Mango Orchard
deesa, gujarat
The weekend house of 3000sqft area is situated in between the mango orchard with a view of Aravalli Hills in the north. The main attempt is to not harm and trees and let the house act as a pavilion sitting in between.
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first floor plan
Wilderness Retreat at Jawai
hospitality, master plan, Jawai, Rajasthan
Situated in between of forest area, rocky landscape, a dry river bed and farming land beside, the master plan is conceived as an attempt is to root oneself to the memory landscape of the Rajasthan.
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Bhachau Futures:
bhachau, kutch, gujarat
public amphitheatre with provision for public toilet and changing rooms
C 6.L.401 E 6.L.401 B 6.L.400 +2800 mm open ground up riser: 150mm tread: 600mm +2850 mm paved stage area +3450 mm +1350 mm mid landing site plan scale 1:200 ramp 1:10 slope public toilet A.100 changing room A.101 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 A 6.L.400 00 mm Road Level existing stones on site X 6.L.400 D 6.L.401 +2000 mm 1 2 3 4 up up up up up up 2871 [9'-5"] 2900 [9'-6 1/4"] [34'-310456 3/4"] 11167[36'-73/4"] 17953 [58'-103/4"] [40'-212261 3/4"] 6919 [22'-8 1/2"] [13'-541031/2"] eq eq eq eq [4'-4"]1318 6118 [20'-1"] 5446[17'-101/2"] 6154 [20'-2 1/4"] [4'-11"]1500 4156 [13'-7 1/2"] [16'-850851/4"] [46'-3141153/4"] 2020 [6'-7 1/2"] [43'-6"]13262 3676 [12'-0 3/4"] 2966[9'-83/4"] 1500 [4'-11"] 4485[14'-81/2"] 4050 [13'-3 1/2"] [7'-12181 3/4"] 2000 [6'-63/4"] [43'-2131611/4"] 18638 [61'-13/4"] 6791 [22'-31/4"] 6252[20'-61/4"] 5557 [18'-2 3/4"] 1937 [6'-4 1/4"] 6494 [21'-3 3/4"] riser: 150mm tread: 600mm 13819[45'-4"] 19376 [63'-63/4"] [13'-94198 1/4"] [4'-11"]1500 [13'-94198 1/4"] [47'-914563 1/4"] planter planter 00 mm Road Level 2000 [6'-6 3/4"] 2582 [8'-5 3/4"] [13'-114249 1/4"] 21233[69'-8"] 719 [2'-41/4"] 10284 [33'-8 3/4"] [14'-114554 1/4"] 6296 [20'-7 3/4"] existing transformer on site existing structures existing trees 4800 [15'-9"] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 up up 15836[51'-111/2"] ramp 1:10 slope ramp 1:10 slope 17683 [58'-0 1/4"] 3029[9'-111/4"] eq eq eq 508 [1'-8"] 450 [1'-5 3/4"] 450 [1'-5 3/4"] 2996[9'-10"] MS railing 230 thk brick wall MS railing 450 mm thk stone wall 230 mm thk toilet bund wall [1'-116001/2"] eq eq 600 [1'-111/2"] MS steel 50x50mm railing [5'-5"]1650[8'-626073/4"] 900 [2'-11 1/2"] [2'-11900 1/2"] yellow chipra stone paving steps above the changing room 5544 [18'-21/4"] eq eq [7'-1024001/2"] up up eq [7'-102400 1/2"] 2400[7'-101/2"] 2400 [7'-101/2"] [2'-11900 1/2"] 692[2'-31/4"] changing room section A scale 1:50 +1350mm mid landing level +2850mm stage level 2400 [7'-10 1/2"] 1500 [4'-11"] +3600mm seating level +4050mm seating level +4500mm seating level +4950mm seating level +5400mm seating level 1 2 25mm thk polished kota stone tread top RCC slab (as specified) RCC beam (as specified) well compacted earth 75mm thk PCC (1:4:8) 100mm thk yellow chipra stone paving 75mm fine sand 150mm thk BBC 230mm thk brick wall footing (as specified) beam (as specified) stone retaining wall W1 aluminium window 1 2 600 [1'-11 1/2"] 450 [1'-5 3/4"] 450 [1'-5 3/4"] 450 [1'-5 3/4"] 450 [1'-5 3/4"] 600 [1'-11 1/2"] 2280 [7'-5 3/4"] 50mm thk flooring bed 25mm thk kota stone 00mm 18mm thk plaster drip mould 15x30mm 1531 [5'-0 1/4"] 550 [1'-9 3/4"] 150 [6"] 700 [2'-3 1/2"] 10mm thk kota stone DRAWN CHECKED SITE 6.L.300 +91 79 - all dimensions millimeters/feet - any should architect. - dimensions are to measured. - all dimensions unfinished - all centerlines walls unless - all RCC the drawing only. - all levels to the established the drawings property the drawings copied without architect. notes date revisions banduk design@banduksmithstudio.in for sanction bhachau community amphitheatre streetside elevation A scale 1:150 key plan scale 1:500 elevation B scale 1:150 A 6.L.300 B 6.L.300 06 february
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