M I S R I P A T E L Academic, Professional and Personal Works 2012-2019
TABLE OF CONTENTS
HOUSING NORTH-WEST ARKANSAS 01
33 LAFAYETTE AVENUE
Professional | Housing Competition 2017-2018 LOT-EK, New York
Professional | Mixed-Use 2017-2018 LOT-EK, New York
DIGITAL FABRICATION
03
URBAN MICRO-FACTORY
Academic | Robotic rod-bending & Hololens 2018-2019 University of Michigan
Academic | Undergraduate Thesis 2016-2017 Balwant Sheth School of Architecture
DYNAMIC HOTSPOTS
COMMUNITY MAKERSPACE
Academic | Segmental Experiences 2014-2015 Balwant Sheth School of Architecture
05
Academic | Education and Skill-Share 2015-2016 Balwant Sheth School of Architecture
02
C-HOME
03
Professional | Pre-fabricated Residential 2017-2018 LOT-EK, New York
01
CLUSTER REDEVELOPMENT
02
Academic | Mixed-Use 2014-2015 Balwant Sheth School of Architecture
06
(RE)CODING TYPE Professional | Architectural Research 2017 sP+A, Mumbai
G.I OPERATION COURT
04
Professional | Commercial-Logistics 2017-2018 LOT-EK, New York
PROCESS AS AGENCY
SENSILE INFOBAHN Personal | Competition-Group 2016 Evolo Sky-scraper
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Academic | CNC Knitting Machine 2018-2019 University of Michigan
03
Academic | Park-Parking-Housing 2015-2016 Balwant Sheth School of Architecture
07
TEXTILE HYBRID
REVITALISING SUBURB
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Academic | Urban Design-Group 2015-2016 Balwant Sheth School of Architecture
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COMPLEXITY IN NATURAL SYSTEMS 09 Academic | Design Workshop-Group 2013-2014 Balwant Sheth School of Architecture
HOUSING NORTHWEST ARKANSAS Type
Professional | LOT-EK, NY
Year
2018
Project
Housing Competition
Location
Bentonville, Arkansas
Contribution
Design & Drawings
Recognition
Venice Biennale 2018
The internationally acclaimed competition invited design professionals to submit designs for a mixeduse and income attainable housing plan that includes live-work units on sites in Bentonville, Arkansas. which embraces the local challenges, culture, values, and vision of Northwest Arkansas. The ambition of the Professional Design Competition was to advance selected entries into design development and construction. Design work from the competition was on display at the Palazzo Mora for the 2018 Biennale Architettura in Venice, Italy.
The approach to the project begins with learning from the historic fabric of Bentonville. The proposal Arkansas Crossroads features forty courtyards. The stepped geometry of the building’s fifty blocks naturally shades its forty courtyards, each one the natural space of interaction for the small number of surrounding residences. Terraced balconies overlook the courtyards and extend private living space, while green roofs above offer views, community gardens, and event space. Its structure and enclosure upycles 735
40-foot steel shipping containers. It features green-roof rainwater harvesting and greywater cycling, and deploys passive orientation and configuration strategies, in which every residence benefits from north-south cross-ventilation. The courtyards are overlooked by open-air staircases, sheltered by cantilevered levels above, and by private terraces on their northern sides. Sightlines and circulation within this variety of spaces help foster neighborly encounters, and a sense of place within the larger- scaled development.
Each townhouse block has a planted roof that is common to the residences of the block, which creates shared outdoor spaces for community vegetable gardens and events. Along the Commons, a pool, a gym and a cafĂŠ are part of the shared amenities. Setback terraces provide sightline privacy and outdoor space for each residence living area.
Latitudinal Section
Axonometric Scheme
DESIGN TEAM LOT-EK / Architecture + Design Lead SILMAN / Structural Engineering FISKAA / MEP + Sustainability Engineering SURFACE / Landscape Architecture LANGAN / Civil Engineering + Environmental
33 LAFAYETTE AVENUE Type
Professional | LOT-EK, NY
Year
2017-2018
Location
Brooklyn, New York
Size
7800 sf
Project
Mixed Use, projected 2019
Contribution
Design development and detail drawings
33 Lafayette Avenue expands an existing 4-storey building to a 7-storey multi-dwelling building with commercial ground floor. The expansion is conceived and built with upcycled orange shipping containers. The shipping containers will be completely retrofitted off-site and stacked on site in a large T shape, grafted into the existing building. Semi-circular opening in each container forms large circles that float on top of each other along the front and back facade. On the front facade the circular graphic is extended over the existing building by painting the “negative� graphic with dark gray enamel.
C-HOME Type
Professional | LOT-EK, NY
Year
2017-2018
Location
Poughkeepsie, New York
Size
1280 sf
Project
Prefabricated Residential
Contribution
Construction & Detail Drawings
Given the huge number of containers that lay unused all over our planet, the “upcycling” of shipping containers for construction is a highly sustainable practice. This style of design exploits the structural and industrial beauty of shipping containers to create mod ern, wellappointed home with open spaces full of light. Their assembly creates a stronger and more durable structure than typical construction methods. Site preparation and off-site module fabrication is timed to occur simultane ously which allows C-Home to be installed in any geographical region.
GOVERNORS ISLAND OPERATION COURT Type
Professional | LOT-EK, NY
Year
2018
Location
Governors Island, New York
Size
14500 sf
Project
Logistics and Commercial
Contribution
Concept and Design Development
The “upcycling” of shipping containers for The Trust for Governors Island embraces the geometry and exploits the structural and industrial character of shipping containers to create mod ern site for operations with open spaces full of light. Their assembly creates a stronger and more durable structure which hinges separate volumes around inner courtyard for site activities. The building is modular and made up of 140 upcycled shipping containers. The ground level is occupied with parking, offices and material storage facilities. The upper level has additional space for site workers.
TEXTILE HYBRID Type
Academic | System Engagement
Year
2018
School
University of Michigan
Advisor
Sean Ahlquist
Technology
CNC Knitting Machine
Exploration
Textile based material system
The course investigated modes of computational design which place materiality as an a-priori agent in the generation of complex structural morphologies. Architectural form subsequently emerged as a repercussion of material behavior. In order to explore the relationships of material and form, we engaged methods of form-finding through physical prototyping and computational simulation. A critical aspect was to understand relationships between methods and experiments, rather than from a single linear process or design medium through the development of a “textile hybrid� prototype.
This course involved three primary team with pursuits: (1) building methods to automate the fabrication of CNC knitted textiles, (b) the study of hybridized textile material systems, ones which activate form through the inclusion of a secondary structural system, and (c) study of the relationship between the textile structures and the myriad factors of environment. The work will be developed in a highly rigorous fashion, focusing on small incremental steps developing computational tools and testing material properties, evolving to the development of large-scale prototypes.
1.1. Computational Form Finding: Exploring textile and bending active behaviours through computational stimulations using SpringFORM. 1.2 Bending active rods: Curves translated into bracketed rod system serve as an important link between virtual and physical model. Glass fiber reinforced rods are used to achieve high strength with low bending stiffness. 1.3 Textile Prototyping: Compensated pre-stressed pattern used to generate color coded bitmap. Textile manufactured by CNC Knitting machine using M1 Plus.
1.1
1.2
1.3
TEXTILE HYBRID Type
Academic | System Engagement
Year
2018
School
University of Michigan
Advisor
Sean Ahlquist
Technology
CNC Knit Machine
Exploration
Textile based material system
The course investigated modes of computational design which place materiality as an a-priori agent in the generation of complex structural morphologies. Architectural form subsequently emerged as a repercussion of material behavior. In order to explore the relationships of material and form, we engaged methods of form-finding through physical prototyping and computational simulation. A critical aspect was to understand relationships between methods and experiments, rather than from a single linear process or design medium through the development of a “textile hybrid� prototype.
This course involved three primary team with pursuits: (1) building methods to automate the fabrication of CNC knitted textiles, (b) the study of hybridized textile material systems, ones which activate form through the inclusion of a secondary structural system, and (c) study of the relationship between the textile structures and the myriad factors of environment. The work will be developed in a highly rigorous fashion, focusing on small incremental steps developing computational tools and testing material properties, evolving to the development of large-scale prototypes.
1.1. Computational Form Finding: Exploring textile and bending active behaviours through computational stimulations using SpringFORM. 1.2 Bending active rods: Curves translated into bracketed rod system serve as an important link between virtual and physical model. Glass fiber reinforced rods are used to achieve high strength with low bending stiffness. 1.3 Textile Prototyping: Compensated pre-stressed pattern used to generate color coded bitmap. Textile manufactured by CNC Knitting machine using M1 Plus.
DIGITAL FABRICATION Type
Academic | Virtual Engagement
Year
2018
School
University of Michigan
Advisor
Matias del Campo
Technology
Robotic Rod Bending KUKA KR 120 Waterjet Cutting Hololens
This course introduced the team to mixed reality environments and their integration with typical sculpting tools. This method allows organic assembly decisions and design changes to be made on the fly. Working with Hololens headsets throughout all phases, we adopted: On-Demand Fabrication - an interactive holographic model to choose which parts within an assembly should be sent to machines for fabrication. Proximity feedback for measurement and interaction - allow for direct and immediate feedback from a digital model in physical space to improve construction and process tolerances. Model Development
Robotic Rod-bending and parameters
Waterjet Metal Cutting
Prototype
Assembly & welding using Hololens
URBAN MICRO-FACTORY Type
Academic | Thesis
Year
2016-2017
School
NMIMS-BSSA
Advisor
Hemant Purohit
Location
Sewri, Mumbai
Recognition
Top 5 Thesis
The thesis is an enquiry into architecture as a by-product of commodities and socioeconomic cultural factors. Post Industrial Revolution with the advent of mass production, manufacturing units outside the city seemed extremely isolated with internalized programs. The economic activity in the future may depend on a system that reverses the principles of mass production to make semi-customized products. We might find that this new industry of prototype production becomes the ‘new mass production’.
Sewri, a locality along the eastern waterfront, now open to development, is a potential heart of the neighborhood with an existing underutilized jetty. The fabric mainly comprises of industrial units and petrochemical factories. Sewri west is largely residential , consisting of housing societies and chawls. In addition to Sewri Fort, the mudflats at Sewri attract migratory birds every year, which inturn attracts the locals and citizens. The proposed Harbour Link and a ropeway system will connect Mumbai to Navi Mumbai.
The insert tries to bridge the image-content gap by proposing an icubator typology. It aims to integrate the processes involved to create a new ecosystem of production and consumption within the city along with the jetty to form an informative public space. The sharing economy model provides a platform which would benefit society by making this kind of information more accessible at neighborhood level. Improved systems and standards would be shared openly across industries which allow others to build upon what one started.
Shared Housing Worksop Space
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Ceramic & Glass Blowing Workshop
Cane Workshop
Formal Exhibition Space Goods & Maker’s Space Entry Heat & Eat Dining Book Store & Cafe
Drop-off Point
Maker’s Space
Coffee Customization
Visitor’s Area
Collaborative Kitchen
Public Plaza & Deck
Jetty Drop-off/ Pick-up
Cargo Drop-off
Form Finding
Axonometric View
Floor Level Plans
Key Section
Latitudinal Section
Basement 1: Maker’s Space Plan
Model
Model Views
CLUSTER REDEVELOPMENT INTROVERT-EXTROVERT SPACES
Type
Academic | Third Year
Year
2014-2015
School
NMIMS-BSSA
Advisor
Anjana Chhaya
Location
Vile Parle-(West), Mumbai
Exploration
Mixed-Used
The region of Vile Parle (W) has a variety of activities and typologies. The studied site is in a semi-dense stretch between S. V. Road, a major arterial road in the Western Suburbs of the city and the station road which run parallel to it. Vile Parle has a significantly strong base of Catholic orgin living in smaller gaothans and fairly recently settled Gujarati population. The presence of a small Dolphin Aquarium, a K-12 school and a hospital in close vicinity results in extensive usage of smaller lanes. There are small scale industries and
shops for fast moving consumer products and a small college for practical experiments. The intent of the project is to explore and identify parts of the gaothan (village) with it’s busy neighborhood through parameters. The project’s site is located along a small gaothan lane, adjacent to the college opposite to the Dolphin Aquarium. The paradoxical characteristics of the site help in generating an insert as a reaction. It uses the idea of existing street configuration and stacking it to form an elevated plaza. It is a continuous flow of
streets to form patterns which unfold from an introverted to an extroverted space. The introverted nature is worked with to help visitors interact with the natives. A mix of programs of both, introvert (i.e. local handicraft, tiffin service, etc) and extrovert character (i.e performance workshop, yoga centre, botinical garden, etc) aims to enhance the livelihood of the natives and introduce newer activities which exist in cohesion. It aims to build on existing programs and introduce activities to make way for new ones.
Top: Site analysis, Bottom: Intermingling of programs
Ground Level Plan. (Medium: Photocolor on paper).
First Level Plan (Medium: Ink on paper).
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
Axonometric view of Art and Exhibition Center
Progressive sections through Art and Exhibition Center.
Residential Building Public Space Meditation and Yoga Center
Flea Market
Tailored Residences and Artist’s Studio
Women’s Hostel
Exhibition Space Reading Room Stepped Arcade
Axonometric View
Model Views
PROCESS AS AGENCY Type
Academic | Fourth Year
Year
2015-2016
School
NMIMS-BSSA
Advisor
Priyank Mehta
Location
Juhu, Mumbai
Exploration
Park-Parking-Housing
The project makes an inquiry into the nature of the design process. Discarding all stylistic notions, this method is determined by a strong set of parameters for each program. The hybrid design manifests purely from: 1. Depth Of Research, 2. Analysis, 3. Programmatic Understanding.
Analysis: What larger logic is at play? Diagram of an underlying logic within each program based on the focus/understanding of it.
Programmatic Understanding: How are the different components related? Or can they be? Depth Of Research: What are the most important features? Relationships / connections / inter-dependencies/ Identification of critical parameters with each variations between the various components program’s various components and their effects. of each program based on their analysis.
Latitudinal Section
Logitutinal Section. Medium:Watercolor and pigment pen on paper
One Point Perspective Section
Ground Level Plan
Model View
Typical Floor Plan
REVITALISING SUBURB Type
Academic | Urban Design
Year
2015-2016
School
NMIMS-BSSA
Advisor
Atrey Chhaya, Prachi Dhonde
Location
Malad, Mumbai
Team
Shamika, Harsh, Shriya, Kushal, Misri
Development in P/Ward
Site
The studio has identified the suburb of Malad as a study, situated in the north western region of Mumbai. In the past, it was inhabited by hamlets that were sustained by fishing and small scale agriculture. A vast expanse of the land was a mangrove forest abutting a creek that brings in the Arabian Sea. Over the past 40 years, a series of waves of urbanisation brought in small scale industries, government and public housing colonies. Malad today, like many suburbs in the city, is a multi layered sprawl tending towards a
Site Timeline
car-dependant, gentrified communities. The aim of the studio was to search for new identities for Malad. In the process it would reflect upon changing ideas of living space and domesticity, urban ecology, new commerce and public space. The effects of Somwari Bazaar in the neighborhood of Kumbharwada are studied. The area around the Somwari (Monday) Bazaar which is an important node between the S. V. Road and the Link Road, is the monday market which has been around for over 30 years.
Site Typologies
The intention of the insert is to make the connection between S.V Road and the Link Road stronger. It aims to serve as an important primodial stretch which caters to both: the bazaar, adjoining workshops and residential areas. The periodic Somwari Bazaar and public spaces housed within the design supports the idea of diversifying social networks, neighborhood services and businesses reinforced in the community. Promoting a community transition to a mixed income, mixed wealth and diverse community.
Plan
Progressive Sections
Part-Model Views
Axonometric View
DYNAMIC HOTSPOTS
SEGMENTAL EXPERIENCES IN A SEQUENCE
Type Year School Advisor Location
Academic | Third Year
The journey from the Main Square to the Dalai Lama temple is not just driven by the temple 2014-2015 which is the main centre of attraction. On the way, one encounters many other elements of equal importance which helps stitch a story and hence NMIMS-BSSA an experience. The experience is in the form Jagdish Jani, Shreyank of a sequence which is made up of numerous Khemalapure segmental experiences. It is in a lot of ways like following the traces of an imaginery dynamic hotspot leading you to the next series of events. McLeod Ganj, Kangra
The sequential experience is a composition of countless complete and partial experiences with a central subject (or absence of subject) with a sense of continuity or pause. The terrain in Dharamshala and specifically that of a site behind the Namgyal Monastry allows for a type of movement within a structure which is unique to that terrain. The position in plan, experience and activity associated with the space is documented by means of graphite sketches. A similar study of the proposal tries to
mimic the experience from the Main Square (start) to the Dalai Lama temple (destination). The intervention uses it’s distinctive character to create a series of segmental experiences which would form a different sequential experience. A sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor and form a narrative is made using Samurai Jack, a fictional character. The comic strip highlights the experience and activities of Samurai Jack in the structures and forms a narrative.
Segmental Experiences on site
1
Segmental Experiences in the proposal
2.1
2.2
Comic Strip
COMMUNITY MAKERSPACE Type
Academic | Fourth Year
Year
2015-2016
School
NMIMS-BSSA
Advisor
Hemant Purohit
Location
Bandra-West, Mumbai
Exploration
Education and Skill Share
Studies suggest that brain development continues until late 20s - possibly until the 30s. Peer learning and collaborative learning indicate that learning is not a solitary activity but one that happens with a social space. Keeping this in mind, the project explores the relationship between multiple activities which enhance LiveWork, Learn-Work, Make-Exhibit and PracticePerform. Taking key parameters from each, a larger arrangement of programs allows intermingling of activities which form a variety of spaces.
A single form is derived with soft geometry which combines with one or more similar forms of fixed proportions. The derived geometry creates four zones - isolate, on-the-move, collide and collaborate. Together, these zones form the core programs. The tested forms consisting of two or more notch together to create a series of voids which make the home or meet/create zones. The form allows formation of zones with different degrees of involvement which results in complete, partial or no participation of an individual.
These zones negotiate amongst themselves to enhance and alter the nature of programs primarily developing linkages between traditional learning spaces, fabrication labs, workspaces and exhibition studios. This exercise creates a new set of spaces which generates new activites in combination with basic programs. The resultant programs readily involve mixed users. The geometric form with different edge conditions produces an entended public space which acts as a throughfare which binds two neighboring streets together.
Study Models (Medium: Pottery Clay)
Live-Work
Learn-Work
Make-Exhibit
Practice-Perform
Section AA’
Section BB’
Ground Level Plan
First Level Plan
Second Level Plan
Third Level Plan
Working Studio
Lecture Hall
Open Library Open Talks
Co-working Space
Dormitory
Living Studio
Heat and Eat Formal Exhibition Space
Collaboration Space
Towards Living Studio
Skating Rink
Debate Area
Exploded Model
Model views
(RE)CODING TYPE Type
Professional | Internship
Year
2017
Firm
Sameep Padora & Associates (sP + a)
Team
Sameep, Shreyank, Rajji, Misri
Contribution
Research & Editorial
Recognition
Presented at TU Delft
One of the intentions of this project is to investigate the formal implications of the Development Control Regulations. What is a building for the DCR? What are the learnings from the city about the ways in which people have appropriated the given space? Can the DCR be recoded to be more accommodative of the diverse forms of life? The previous study, In the Name of Housing, like many other works on housing in Mumbai, showed that there is a common tendency to expand beyond the confines of the given area of the house. .
It is the building elements that are being enclosed divided to accommodate the changes in the private life. These, small, sometimes not so small, extensions make life possible within these types. Hence, if we consider the DCR through this lens of expansion or appropriation, then it is not difficult to realize that one of the important potentials in (re)coding the building elements as specified in the DCR is to offer that necessary openness needed to accommodate the changes in the private realm of the households.
There are the three scales of ambitions to the project: 1) (re)Coding Development Control Regulations for Mumbai- with focus on housing, 2) (re) Coding Street Types, 3) Non-Types of Mumbai The driving idea is to investigate interplay between the DCR and the forms of life in the city of Mumbai. The intention is to search ways to learn from the non-types, different street types and find ways to derive ideas to create, (re)code, new types for the city of Mumbai. A few excerpts from the book are added for reference.
SENSILE INFOBAHN Type
Competition Entry
Name
Evolo Sky-scraper
Year
2016
Team
Monik, Shourya, Sharvari, Kushal, Saurabh, Misri
Contribution
Concept & Presentation drawings
In an ever changing techno-scape, the skyscraper encompasses a variety of dimensions, both physical and social in nature. It engages the bionic humans in socializing, obtaining information and exploring the factors that influence the constant morphing of the design. The tower posits that the user’s response to the space moderates his or her purpose for visiting a certain pod and his understanding of what he wants. The framework is both theoretically and managerially rich, assisting the users, who are also the planners, to identify
and plan the spaces based on the primary purpose of area/ zone requirement. The tower provides for continuous growth based on constant availability of material and individuality. By building abstractions from the characteristics of the virtual world, representations of the material world potentially become the cognition of the spaces that the user moves through, sees and hears. Catoms around a centre core are the smallest building blocks that are used in the proposal. It’s ability to constantly evolve is the property that enables multuple functions.
Catoms are described as being similar to a nanomachine, but with greater power and complexity. The core provides a design to focus constructive rearrangement on individual nodes that motivates local cooperation among groups of catoms. This ensures a seamless union between form and functionality. The material enables the units to be constantly dynamic, creating a more responsive space. The demand for such a material stemmed from the evolution of man from homo sapien to bionic human.
The spaces are based on the requirements of the residents and mutate within the set framework. ccupying the centre of the skyscraper, the social networking hubs are stratified, constantly shifting and retrofitting themselves to the changing demands of the space.
Designed to be the brain of the skyscraper, the information core is connected to every entity that builds itself up on the nodes of its framework. It hosts, processes and delivers all the information fed into it by the user. This ensures that the spaces never get old or worn out and are in a constant state of morphing. The superstructures interface designs a visual scheme in the mind of the user, putting him in control of the way he wants to use the space, yet guiding him through it with a certain framework.
COMPLEXITY IN NON-LIVING NATURAL SYSTEMS HONEYCOMB WEATHERING
Type
Academic | Design Workshop
Year
2013-2014
School
NMIMS-BSSA
Advisor
Atrey Chhaya, Mahek Lalan
Location
School corridor
Team
Priyata, Shamika, Nihar, Misri
The workshop focussed on structural and functional complexities found in non-living systems in nature. These include geological formations, ice, rocks, minerals, quartz, etc. Complex systems are signified by twoor more components that are distinct and integraed. Systems in nature exhibit an inherent complex structure based on their process of formation. These systems react with dynamic environmental factors (such as heat, pressure and agents such as wind, water, etc) that cause functional and formal complexities.
The studio investigated various systems through a process of models. Honeycomb weathering is a form of salt weathering common on coastal and semi-arid granites, sandstones and limestones. It is influenced by the salinity, moisture and sunlight. It forms polygons of different sizes on the rock surface under the influence of salt. Salt is deposited on the surface of the rock by saltwater spray or by wind. Moisture allows the salt to settle on the rocks so that as the salt solution evaporates the salt begins to crystallize within the pore- spaces of the rock.
Mechanism
Process
Installation
The natural rock surface develops into several different forms, hexagons being the most common and stable. The pits never intersect with each other or combine to form bigger ones. This is due to the presence of the zone of influence. This study formed the basic concept for the design. With a simple pulling mechanism with co-related elements, the installation moderates the size and character of the opening (pore) being formed. The materials used are deodar wood, mild steel rods, plates and nylon thread.
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