Architectural portfolio 2020

m a n u m o h n i s h

p o r t f o l i o

excerpts from my three years of bachelors in architecture contents i

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introduction impressions

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dwelling at Banganga,

Soumya Kanan & Faizan Khatri

art and sculpture iii

drawing deeper

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detailing insight

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interiors

day care at Versova community housing in Shanag inside out; co-working spaces

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Minaz Ansari Aamir Chauhan Asif Syed & Faizan Khatri Samir Baghdadi Conrad Gonsalves

documentation institution illustrations skills & experiences

center for cultures in domesticity & artefacts, Kochi

Sailee Gosavi

myself

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Banganga, Mumbai a brilliant coexistence between concepts and communities. The brief meant simply chasing the idea of a dwelling for a writer and a poet within the setting.

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The landscape at the entrance only seems to direct visitors into the site and later to buffer between gradients. moving away from the ground, spaces get more individualistic. The higher the more sacred to the dwellers for meditation and worship spaces near to the shikhara of the temple beside. Ground is open to visitors and kids. The dwelling not as a mark of complexity, but a space holding onto the richness of its context.

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Breaking these experiences into permeable volumes helps in respecting the a neighbouring elevation and a temple shikhara on the sides.

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To translate into the needs of its two dwellers, a cobbler and a writer. The dwelling seemed to be determined by the spaces they liked to share and the ones they did not; directly manifesting the character into the space.

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    Husain’s paintings are very symbolic and signify a great deal of the character of its subject. Painting an interpretation through a sculpture with Gandhi and Buddha’s palms and what binds them together.

on the above left : ‘Gandhi and Buddha’ by M.F. Husain bottom : an interpretation sculpture, allied design studio

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Seven Bungalows park, Versova not very far from the beach, a spot where the parents and their children from various backgrounds intersect as a part of recreation. The brief suggestive of a day-care center which would cater to the children around whose parents often need to trust them to someone, while they are working by the day.

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The park acted as a means for these children to explore themselves within a dedicatied public realm. Great potential for a collective space for the children from the organic street settlements from behind and the economically well to do parts from the residential colonies on the other side of the park. To break the stigma that economics induces within their lives since their birth.

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The ground layout mostly includes the formal spaces of library and a classroom, with the eating spaces for children. While the upper levels invclude sleeping spaces and indoor skills area to confine their creative energies within an interaction.

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d e t a i l The brief was to design four individual dwellings, an extension for an existing dwelling and an elementary school. Site is located in Shanag village, Manali. Its known for its Kat-Kuni style of architecture, the opportunity to deal with the materials which have a history of being traditionally best suited in the area , but grown scarce.

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routines

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community household

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Turning the stream side into defining a Astvarga herb zone and facilitating the school front to be a engaging transit for the community and kids.

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in sight

second year

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Within this nook of the valley, design meant to use the local understanding of the daylight translated into the quality of thresholds and openings. The threshold was also of essence into retaining the neighbour relations into a pattern similar to the context.

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Stone is easily available and the skills lie with the locals. For ground level extensions, adobe brick was used.

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Deodar is available and is used as the structural timber. Whereas Spruce is used for the truss and joists. Suggestive of a path for the village locals where they realise that how another material might affect their rate of expansion as counting upon non-native material sources could produce further chains of unsustainability beyond just environmental adversities.

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Interior layout for a family of four, three adults and a toddler.

The main living space is linear defined in wooden floor with a direct relation to the outside. A residential mezzanine as a bedroom and gives the most introverted portion into skylight for the courtyard.

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Space redefined as a relation between the furniture modules, to provide for flexibility as a c o - w o r k i n g space during the day and an exhibition-event space by the lights in the evenings.

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The shelves and creepers as a merged verticality

Flooriing that distribute the dedicated work and the informal spaces

o b se rva tion 

guides : Chaitali Mahajan, Fatema Master, Roopal Chopra, Shaurya Chauhan, Shahveer Irani, Mukund Iyer,

A village documentation by my batch during second year. An excerpt of drawings including the domestic architecture in the vernacular style of kat-kuni. It was a fun process to get to know the life of people at Shanag, Manali. An eye-opening first hand experience into the knowhows of community building, a process slowly fading and becoming lost into the past. Personally enjoyed the part of compiling the lifestyle of the community within a palette capturing the likeliness of that rich context.

Understanding details : The door a transition into the bottom part of the dwelling for domesticated animals. The elaborate latch which is only closed from the inside, letting the user close the door and head upstairs. part of fourth semester architecture design studio credits : site documentation by the team

second year

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Introduction to the act of sketching as a means of documenting the details. Exploring the evolution of construction materials in a village of Ghuriya, Rajasthan.

Credits : Strokes and stippling by the team The dormitory, Sambhavna institute for political studies, Himachal Pradesh

Sketching by me

Travelling makes us observe.

Bastion Street, Kochi : An elevation of adaptive reuse for existing heritage in Kochi

 As much as it can be remembered, putting it on paper has been the foremost step to exploring it. The most fundamental learning architecture ever introduced us to. The more we savor our observations, the more sacred they become.

Kotha made with sandstone and cement mortar : Ghat work in the facade Credits : Strokes and stippling by the team

 Insight into the relation of kids and the street for the daycare center at Seven Bungalows park, Versova, Mumbai.

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Spaces provided for the collaboration of learners, who learn craft, design and experience (documentaion).

Masters who also aid in creating material and arrange the library with critics. The commonwealth (exhibitions) interact with the students to have a feedback of their design with respect to the culture and daily lifestyle, as well as people who keep the place together and manage it.

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traditional transactional archive.

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research areas

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workshop for setting up markets and other shops

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outdoor workshop

ceramic workshop

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The different scales of workshops. The most primitive space for things to occur and define a chahracter for itself. Sheltered arches and open plans with crevices for storage.

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The library and the cafeteria have completely defined spaces for their fixed programs. The accomodation for the gurus or people who come to share their skill or knowledge.

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musical artefacts workshop

Involving potential public programs to inform the society around. Allowing the recreational spaces and programs to penetrate through the fringes of the major spaces.

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ill us tra tion

Always a pleasure to put an impulse on paper. It teaches me to keep moving ahead. Getting it out on paper and reflecting on my own. It never started as a habit or skill but a desire to let it out. So it just happens !

expression

 (ongoing) Bachelors in Architecture from Mumbai University

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2018 ANDC trophy, NASA

Sketchup

2018 Earthbag workshop by PYHT architects

Autocad

2018 Louis I. Kahn Trophy, NASA

Photoshop

2019 Bamboo workshop by PYHT architects

Indesign

2019 ANDC trophy, NASA

Sketchbook

2020 Organising heritage walks across Mumbai

Premiere Pro

with the Walking Lab 2020 ANDC trophy, NASA 2020 Tactical Urban Design Trohpy 2020 Space Design Trophy participated in all the trophies as a team

Revit

 To the drawings presented as part of my individual work, I owe numerous friends, faculty and acquaintances who have tolerated me and offered their immeasurable efforts, review and motivated to keep dicovering anew in my process of design.

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