B.Arch DESIGN PORTFOLIO MEHA KUMAR
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MEHA KUMAR
Date of Birth - 07th September,1991 - mehakumar7@gmail.com Email Contact No. - 9820256498 Languages - Hindi, English, Marathi Nationality -Indian
Educational Background 2010-2015
Bachelors in Architecture - Kamla Rhaheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture and Enviornmental studies, University of Mumbai
2009-2010
Interior Design (Diploma -1 yr.)
- Rachana Sansad School of Interior Design
2007-2009
Junior College
- R.N. Podar School , Mumbai
1993-2007
Primary and Secondary school
- Arya Vidya Mandir, Mumbai
Skillset
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Personal :
-Sketching,Hand drafting, Watercolour painting Model making (Hand made and Lasercutting)
Software skills:
-Autocad (2d, 3d), Photoshop, InDesign, Google sketchup, Vray, Microsoft office
Social skills:
-Communication and organisation skills, ability to work with a team, mobilise people -Trained in the art of classical Odissi dance by the renowned dancer Jhelum Paranjpe
Workshops ,Competitions and Exchange Programs Summer workshops in KRVIA
- Workshop with Suhasini Iyer - Archeology Workshop with Andre Baptista
Conference by IES College - Engaging in Architecture : Transistional Ruralities Competition:
-Proposal for CBSE Secondary School Extension , Amalsad, Gujrat
Exchange Programme
-Bergen School of Architecture, Norway (November,2012)
Teaching and Work Experience Work experience:
-Internship at LAB werk ,MUMBAI -Internship at Khatter and Associates,Mumbai -Teaching assistant for First year Introductory workshop -Research Intern for ‘The State of Architecture’ Exhibition -Research Intern with Bhau Dhaji Lad Museum -Terrace landscaping for Chothani House -Experiment with Rammed Earth wall, Malgund -Kumar Residence (Interior)
College participation and -Design team for college annual newsletter Publication -Design team for Urban Design Publication -Measure Drawings for Bishnupur village -Coordinator for annual exhibition
(May 2011) (May-September ,2015 ) (August,2015) (ongoing) (ongoing) (January,2016) (February,2016) (March,2016) (2013-2014) (2014) 3
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Proffesional
Landscape
- Proposal design for Terrace Landscaping ............................................ pg . 6 Material Exploration -Rammed Earth wall, Malgund.............................................................................. pg . 7
Collaboration
Competition
Year 5
Year 4
Workshops
- Proposal for School Extension , Amalsad, Gujrat................................. pg . 8 - Study of the lonad caves , Lonad ............................................................... pg . 10
Urban Design
- A study Public Health Services in K-west ward, Mumbai ............. pg . 12
Design Dissertation - Building Narratives : Addressing the issue of re-development in architecture.............. pg . 14
Architectural Design -Tharavada of the city, Calicut............................................................................ pg . 20 -Low cost housing for Migrants, Airoli ............................................................. pg . 23
Year 3
Architectural Design - Natural History Museum , Bhutan ..................................................................... pg . 26 - School for the Visually impaired, Utan ........................................................ pg . 30
Year 2
Architectural Design - Hotel in Terra cotta city, Bishnupur ................................................................ pg . 32 - House for a Tailor , Bishnupur ............................................................................ pg . 34 5
PROFESSIONAL GROUP COLLABORATION: CHOTHANI HOUSE, MUMBAI
PROGRAM:
Terrace Landscaping , Interiors of the Living room The idea of the landscaping was to create a shaded green cover over a glass canopy that existed on the terrace, along with other landscaping elements.
-The terrace previously was covered with an extensive patch of grass and dense variety of trees.The replanning of the terrace allowed for seating and serving areas along with the staircase trellis.
6'-1
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2320 [7'-7 1/4"]
Strategies :
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1/4"
2165 [7'-1 1/4"]
2055 [6'-9"]
1990 [6'-6 1/4"]
1870 [6'-1 3/4"]
1710 [5'-7 1/4"]
1620 [5'-3 3/4"]
1540 [5'-0 1/2"]
1455 [4'-9 1/4"]
1370 [4'-6"]
3025 [9'-11"]
1285 [4'-2 1/2"]
755 [2'-5 3/4"]
1550 [5'-1"]
-The staircase trellis was designed to accomodate creepers with flowering plants on one side and creeper vegetables on the other.
HORIZONTAL M.S. ROD 21" DIA. THK TOUGHENED GLASS CANOPY METAL MESH 1 2"
6" DIA M.S. BOX SECTION FRAME 4" DIA M.S. BOX SECTION
1 2"
THK M.S. PLATE
Staircase Trellis-Side Elevation 6
PROFESSIONAL GROUP COLLABORATION: EXPERIMENTS WITH MUDMALGUND, RATNAGIRI
PROGRAM:
Rammed Earth wall in a house in Malgund Exploring an alternate method of making a wall for a second-home in malgund. A stabilized, free standing rammed earth wall was tested .
Soil on site was tested and prepared, with help from the masons, in order to make wall smaples to test the soil mixes that were made. The site consisted of a number of variations of soil compositions.
Strategies :
-The site allowed for earth to derived from the site that strecthed from the top of a hill to the beach shore front, thus offering varying soil types.
Formwork was costructed and samples were made with varying soil mixes. 7
COMPETITION DESIGN COLLABORATION: PRATIK PERANE PRANITA SHETTY PROGRAM:
CBSE School Extension, Amalsad, Gujrat The organization of a school is defined by it’s relationship between formal and informal spaces. The project relooked at the function of a school by breaking the rigidity between work and play.
Strategies :
-Using a clear circulation diagram with structural shear walls to hold the frame together, creating a plan that breaks the monotony of the clocked schedule of the school. -The use of colour within the building and on the facades to create a playful environment. -Creating a play of volumes to suit scales for the primary and secondary classrooms and recreational spaces.
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W O R K S H O P GROUP COLLABORATION: ARCHAEOLOGY WORKSHOP WITH ANDRE BAPTISTA PROGRAM:
Documentation of Buddhist caves at Lonad,Thane The aim of the workshop was to make us familiar with tools and methods of Archeological field excavations and explorations. We went through a thorogh investigation process from the start of the site visit to the hypothesis.
Strategies :
-Tools for laying out of a grid to measure the site were introduced which helped us in orienting and making drawings of the caves.
LONAD CAVES:
-Understanding layers of history through clues on site. The process allowed us to place the caves in the larger timeline of buddhist architecture.
LOCATION
LATITUDE: 19.313660 -Understanding the role of the LONGITUTE: Archeological Survey73.136512 of India 34M and the ALTITUDE techniques: used byabove them.sea level
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LONAD CAVES: LOCATION
LATITUDE: 19.313660 LONGITUTE: 73.136512 ALTITUDE : 34M above sea level
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URBAN DESIGN PROGRAM:
Study of Public Health Services in K-west ward, Mumbai The City municipal corporation is responsible for providing citizens with certain free amenities, one of them include access to free Public Health services. A study was done of the healthrelated amenities within K-west ward of Mumbai to provide design solutions to meet the existing health care needs of the city population.
Strategies :
-The 3 tier- Public health system of hospitals,dispensaries and health post statistics was looked atand compared with ideal scenarios. -A 3 point agenda of Availabilty, Accessibility and Affordability were introduced -Design solutions to make information more easily available about health infrastructure was made in the form of fliers andsgnages
Super-speciality hospital Maternity hospital Dispensary Health post Health post
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Spatial narravtives that was selected a way of mapping spatial typologies and
DESIGN DESSERTATION PROGRAM: Addressing the issue of re-developemnt in the inner city of Nashik The inner city has been historical and economically important for Nasik with various traders working and living there. There is a need for sensitive upgradation of the residential landscape which is changing due to growing population demands as well as a need for better amenities.These upgradation have to be done while keeping in mind the scale and proportion, social patterns, existing typologies and material palettes. A thorough study was done in order to understand the fabric of the settlement.The design was an imagination of a new cluster and typology development.
Strategies :
-Courtyards were strategically placed within clusters, with shops lining the building facade. -An owner and rental relationship was studied and developed to provide maximum benefit for the owner of the plot. -Public accessways and pedestrian pathways through the site were maintained which were integrated within the new residential fabric.
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Brass and copper workshops on site
Home-based industry women of the
involving community
of the street was drawn as social patterns, activities on site.
Auragabadkar wada Bhadrakali temple and trust complex that has spaces for tutuion classesclinincs etc.
owned by owners of the halwai with the kitchen in the stitl area. 3 brothers who each occupy a floor of the building.
Budha halwai
Plot 4 Net area617sq mt Gross area875 sq mt
Plot 12 Net area168.2sq mt Gross area199.9sq mt
Plot 2 Net area-320 sq mt Gross area-535 sq mt Built up area-
The street edges existing typologies Plot 7 and Net areaPlot 9 386sq mt Net areaprovide certain proportions that 137sq mt Gross area441 sq mt Gross Built up area- space define thearea-220 open around it. sq mt Proportions varied depending on primary, secondary, tertiary streets. The nature of street edges, transitional spaces and internal courtyards are derived by the study of the existing conditions. Plot 13 Net area104.7sq mt Gross area213.3sq mt Plot 11 Net area141.7sq mt Gross area-189sq mt
Plot 10 Net area125sq mt Gross area159sq mt
Plot 6 Net area293sq mt Plot 8 Gross areaNet area- 370 sq mt 59.4sq mt Gross area125.7 sq mt
no. of floors
Understanding scale and proportion of the existing spaces :
Width
Plot 3 Net area-285sq mt Gross area-411 sq mt
Plot 5 Net area-87sq mt Gross area113 sq mt
Plot 1 Net area-320 sq mt Gross area535 sq mt Built up area241sq mt
BHADRAKALI ROAD rickshaw stand
ACCESSWAY Tiwandha Chowk -Busy junction -Highest area of commercial activity -Link between river edge and internal settlement
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Design strategy - unit study 6mx4m
Design strategy - unit arrangement T
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Workshop /Shop 1 unit area = 24 sq.m
RENTAL 1 Unit= 24 SQ.M The building gets tucked into the contour to reduce the scale in the inner courtyard allowing for a more private space
Living room\Dining\Bedroom 3/4th unit area = 18 sq.m
OWNER
2 Unit=48 SQ.M
RENTAL
RENTAL
shop
shop
OWNER
Kitchen 1/2th unit area = 12 sq.m
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Orientation for maximising commercial frontage
3 Unit=72 SQ.M Study\Storage 1/2th unit area = 12 sq.m
Private spaces along outer facade
OWNER 4 Unit = 96 SQ.M Services\Circulation 1/4th unit area = 6 sq.m
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Kitchen and house entry from internal chowk
Creating a parallel street with multiple inner courtyards within the amalgamated plots
Using the contour to create an extension to the vyayamshala
Retaining the existing building with intricate bracket and panel work.
Creating a common courtyards between the new and old housing typologies also serving as a thoroughfare for the over all scheme.
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Planning diagram showing type of unit
Section through housing cluster and community center
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Section through internal courtyard adjoining the wada
Plan of housing new settlement along the street
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Using the levels of the existing wada to create extensions
Opening up an edge of the wada to create an extension of the courtyard and further engage the wada in the design.
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Year
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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROGRAM: Tharavada of the city, Calicut The Tharavada is a typical joint family house of the Kuttichira Mapilas of Calicut where common spaces like the kitchen and family rooms are on the ground floor while each daughter of the house has her own room on the upper floor. The idea of the project is to use the Tharavada and functionally activate it to a city level. through the lens of food and the idea of a production unit that directly involves the community,
Strategies :
-Buildings was divided into 3 distinct categories: public, semipublic and private zones. The public functions located on the ground plane for easy access to the residents for their leisure activities. Spaces like the library, market were imagined as an extension to the street . -Private and semi-pubic spaces were integrated on the upper levels such as the rooms of the guest house and dormitory, community kitchen. -The frames of the existing structures were retained and remodelled to adapt to the new design.
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Fields:
The urban fabric and its characteristic nuances that hold the working of Thekkepuram together and form the skeleton of the patterns created. The area is interlinked with the individual scale of the tharavadu as well as the city scale being located on the main highway.
Actor: The drawing talks about the network of the travelling husband and the path he traverses -the Tharavada being the central of this journey.
Network:The food synergy is created
at a communal and city scale, with local specialities prepared in the Tharavad, local caterers and eateries.
Tectonics:Architectural elements of the area are deconstructed, tweaked and restricted to create an inventory of a new functioning unit like the Tharavadu.
Operations: The drawing overlays
a sectional scenario of the insert and imagination of the working of the space as a Tharavadu for/by the city.
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The interface between the street and the structure were reactivated by making the ground plane of the buildings functionally permeable.
Rest Eat Market Cook
The functions of resting , eating, cooking and the market were interlinked with suitable structures on the transect.
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Parts of the structure were retained to fit certain programmes. along the street.
Role of Women in the community:
Use of Shared spaces:
The role of women in daily activities was looked at as they provided additional income. Small scale institutional spaces were provided for in the master planning.
Shared such as networks existing were
Location of public functions
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Main circulation spines extended from existing clusters
resources water and within the community mapped.
Ideation grids on site for Master planning of clusters. This allowed for equal distribution of communal facilities within proportionate residential clusters.
Detailed plan of cluster along the main raod
Master Plan
Sections through the cluster
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Year
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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROGRAM: Natural History Museum, Bhutan The context of Bhutan provides a rich backdrop of its living arts, crafts and extensive bio-diversity. Its timeless culture has created a language and identity through its arts and architecture which had to be incorporated in the elements of the building. The program was to build natural history museum which not only educated people about Bhutan’s flora and fauna but also aided in research and documentation. A museum is often considered a static program of conserving and displaying artefacts to preserve history.
Strategies :
-To break this stereotype I chose to create a series of transparent boxes that would hold the display, and run parallel to the street elevation. It allowed for the display and the landscape of the valley to merge together. -The public museum space is kept aligned to the street and separated from the restricted spaces by a central courtyard.
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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROGRAM: School for the Visually Impaired, Utan The idea was to re-define spaces for learning through exploration of Spatial, Organisational, Tactile, Structural and Performative attributes of the building. A school for visually impaired children needs to be tackled differently due to the nature of the users,
Strategies :
-Deep structure diagram was developed in order to keep the circulation and organisation simple for visually impaired students of the school. -The site is located on the street leading up to the main church and school. The building was organised to place volumes in ascending order as visually impaired people rely on their sense of touch and perception of volumes and light. Spaces in the building volumetrically expand with smaller learning spaces towards the road and larger volumes towards the ground at the back. -Skylights and open- to- sky spaces are strategically placed acting as indicators for passages and entrances.
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Section A-A
Section B-B
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Year
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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROGRAM: Hotel, Terra cotta city, Bhishnupur The landscape of the town of Bishnupur was imaged to cretae a self-sustaining utopian settlement with unique houses and institutional spaces.
Strategies :
-The site is located at the edge of a temple complex, overlooking a lake. The building responds with a viewing platform extending towards the temples of Bishnupur. -The building is stacked responding to the monumental scale of the temples. The building has a large atrium with encloses all the public functions of a hotel in order for tourists to experience the eautopian city of bishnupur.
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Ground floor plan of the hotel in bishnupur
Section through the hotel
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Year
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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROGRAM: Hotel, Terra cotta city, Bhishnupur The project comprises of living and working space for a tailor in the Utopian Terra cotta city based on the Bishnupur landscape. The project was to explore living spaces based on professional identities.This allowed for exploration of the nuances of a personalised hose.
Strategies :
-Paper folding techniques were used to develop the geometry of the roof, much like the way a tailor experimentswith fabric. -The walls are made of heavy rammed earth holding the roof, which extends out to create an identity for the tailor.
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