Architecture portfolio 1 - Ar Althaf A N

01 ACADEMIC

Campsite, Vaikom

An experiment with the campsite typology

Chennai Bus Terminal, Concept Design

3 concept proposals

Gandhi Market, trichy

FREELANCE

Christ Lutheran Church, California

Conceptual Renovation Of a Communaly Senitive Church

Rendering & Other Works

3d modelling, Rendering, Graphic Designing etc

INTERNSHIP 02

Mud Workshop

A group experiment with earth and forgotten construction

Sports Centre, kakkanad

sixth semester project

Eco Hotel, Nelliampathy

Seventh Semester Project

Technical Drawings

Material Palettes, electrical, fire, sprincler system layouts

Basic Drawings

Plan, Section, Elevation and Part Details

DRAFTING

Within, Around and Beyond

An experiment with campsite typology

The design of Camp Site for Mr Anil Musthafa includes two key areas demonstrating how architecture can both re-work and reinvigorate sensitive habitat sites. The construction as a whole is designed based on bioclimatic principles to regulate the inside temperature in a passive manner.

Indeed, whilst the south façade made of polycarbonate and the adjacent rammed earth wall act as a Trombe wall, heat ing the room in the winter and cooling it down in the sum mer; the north façade complex built out of a clay-hemp mix and the straw stacks on the roof allow to maintain that tem perature.

Finally, the translucent façades and the clear tarp roofing al low a didactic reading of the building’s ecosystem.

Using innovative construction methods and design processes, both projects “farm” the existing terrain of the site finding its latent potentials.

Location : Vaikom

Site Area : 9 Acre

Typology : Camp Site

: Ar Tony Vargheese

: Private

The project requires multiple cottages sorrounding a central space for in teraction.the usage of wood and water resistant materials give protection against the humid and rainy climate of the site the site is flood pronein rainy seasons and the soil is swampy even after the whooping rainy season and floods

The water level raises upto 1.5 meters maximum

Concept Developement

the gathering space needs direct and easy access from the ferry. for the purpose of segregating the possible couples or individuals the overall blocks are fragmented to triangular huts

spaces are more refined baed on requirements and area calculation. which resulted in 4 guest rooms radially arranged arround the camp fire. a space for dining is provided offcentre to the campfire

Final Solution

Raising the whole bult structure was the obivious choice.

But giving the entire structure mo tion in a vertical axis was a brave move taken by the architects the method was applicable by the researches and casestudies of exist ing disaster resistant constructions in the arcitecture community

THE WHOLE STRUCTURE IS RAISED ON MOVING STILS. THEY FLOAT ON WATER LIKE A BOAT

Drawings & Interior

The triangular form stems from structural and economic principles but also from a symbolic standpoint. Based on this single frame, the structure can span out depending on the future needs of its users and guarantees the modularity of the project in different sites.

The construction as a whole is designed based on bioclimatic prin ciples to regulate the inside temperature in a passive manner. In deed, whilst the south façade made of polycarbonate and the ad jacent rammed earth wall act as a Trombe wall, heating the room in the winter and cooling it down in the summer; the north façade complex built out of a clay-hemp mix and the straw stacks on the roof allow to maintain that temperature. Finally, the translucent façades and the clear tarp roofing allow a didactic reading of the building’s ecosystem. he construction as a whole is designed based on bioclimatic principles to regulate the inside temperature in a

Chennai Bus Terminal

Broadway to get a 21 storey renovation

The Broadway bus terminus is the largest city bus terminus of the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (Chennai), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is located in the downtown area of the city,. It lies opposite the Madras High Court along the Espla nade in George Town.

It is a connecting point to several areas in the city. The bus terminus is located at the southern end of Broadway and is near the Chennai Fort suburban railway station.

In 2019, the city corporation planned to construct a 21-sto rey multi-modal hub covering 1 million square feet, integrat ing the Chennai Metro.

It will have a parking space for 1904 cars and 1820 mo torcycles. The bus terminus will be developed with 97 bays across two floors: 53 on the lower level and 44 on the upper level. It will have a leasable area of 92,800 square meter, al lowing commercial and retail on all the floors. Infrastructure includes an interchange hub for intra-city buses, metro, MRTS and para-transit modes of transport. The corporation expects an occupancy rate of 95 percent.

Location : Chennai

Site Area : 15 Acre

Typology : Bus Terminal

Guide : Ar Tony Vargheese

Type : Private

Exo metalCurrent Condition

The site sees at least 5000 passengers arriving or leaving by the 700 to 800 services is under siege from hawkers. People selling vegetables and fruits have virtually taken over the terminus, crowding out commuters from the waiting areas and shrinking the space for for the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) to park its Buses.

The exo metalic plates are pro posed as a reflective panel. it functions as both an insulator and an agent of cooling.

its built by white steel alloy with perforated parts and triangular double paned glass panels. and these are supported by a a steel frame exo skelton.

which also hosts the vertical gar den around the structure

Multi Level Revenue Generation

Chennai serves as a link between three cities: Hyderabad, Secunderabad, and Begumpet.After Charminar, it becomes the city’s primary tourist attraction. The Buddh Purnima project has led to the development of recreational spaces around the lake, which has resulted in the development of the lake’s edge. The master plan, as an extension of the Buddha Purnima project, intends to activate the existing Magta colony through programmes such as markets, artist housing, community spaces, and workshops.

Option

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bus parking floor

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white color

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Walk Way

5 basement floors are allocated for parking - first 2 floors are for two wheeler - next three floors are for 4 wheeler

Walk way connecting the floors of the bus ter minal and the outside providing an overhead planar circulation. also reduce clutter in the vehicular paths by reducing pedestrian numbers

a gathering area for people. amedium of communication with the outside world.

Vertical Garden

Walk way connecting the floors of the bus ter minal and the outside providing an overhead planar circulation. also reduce clutter in the vehicular paths by reducing pedestrian numbers

Option

Walk way connecting the floors of the bus ter minal and the outside providing an overhead planar circulation.

Walk Way

- Walk way connecting the floors of the bus ter minal and the outside providing an overhead planar circulation.

- This path directly connects to the first floor parking

Gandhi Market

Gandhi Market officially called as Mahatma Gandhi Market, is a wholesale farmers’ market in the city of Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, India.

CURRENT CONDITION

-The current situation of the market is very disturbing to percieve - The water irrigation, waste dis posal, spacial distribution, cir culation and access/ exit all had to be redesigned in the most optimal way

Location : Trichy

Site Area : 25 cent

Typology : Market

Guide : Ar Tony Vargheese

Type : Public

1 - Delta Study School, Office

- redesign of delts study schools office

- the structure is made in a 1.5 cent ,thats is L shaped with a porch in common

- The exterior is made of used container with interior insulation

- Joann’s Boutique, Kakkanad

- The boutique is situated in kakkjoby georgeanad, and is famous for its ownership by famous film producer joby george

- The interiors are so cluttered and dis arranged

- there are spaces that had no definte use,negative spaces and unused sewing equipments

3d & Render Works

3 - Yacht Club, Thevara

- The Cochin Yacht Club has 20 guest rroms that need renovations

- All of them are facing the pool on one side and vembanaadu lake on the other side

- So the design had to be open and enhancing passive ventilation

Mud workshop, HCA

Broadway to get a 21-storey,

For millennia men proved that they could live in a sustainable way & lived in harmony with nature. they made use of it, yet respected it. People used earth as a raw material with sensi tivity.

The “modern” fashion of the 20th century created a break with the millennia old developments. Our Mother Earth has been spoilt and abused. The 21st century should find again the harmonious link between man, nature and spirit.

So in recomendation of Ar pratheek sudhakar who is a god father of our college brought fellow architects from aurovile to guide us in this project.The process was meant to be just a workshop as usual, but the activities the process forced us to work together.

The dire need for more human labour put us us in a position to dissolve the boundaries between seniors, juniors, students and teachers. for a few days we were all one family.

we learned the hardships of mannual labour, usefulness of raditional materials, construction techniques

Location : HCA campus vazhakulam

Site Area : 2 cents

Typology : Gathering space/ installation

Guides : Ar pratheek sudhakar, Ar naman gupta, Ar sai gautham, india alice cinclair

Type : Public

Exploded View

mortar

Bricks and Stones

+ mud

Pebbles + mud mortar

Concrete + mud mortar

Debree and soil as filler

Workshop Photos

Box section made with waste bricks,leterite blocks and concrete block to con tain the debree and also the main load bearing structure of the construc

Debree and soil base

Pit - 1 feet depth

Materials

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red bricks, laterite

blocks,

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shell lime and earth pots, beer bottles had to be bought

Design Developement

a gathering area for people. a representation of human activity The plot island is both a link with the outer world and a medium of communication with the outside world. a gathering area for people. a representation of human activity The plot island is both a link with the outer worldand a medium of communication with the outside world.

2 - End Tails

The end portions were modeled natural ly by us students with out any prior plan ning - the process was mindful - came naturally with flow - also it was designed on site regards to human anthropometry

2 - DECORATIVE PARTS

Plantain leaf was laid after a rain to cover which accendantly stuck to the footing. experimentally we used it as an adhessive layer for placing pots and planting holes

3 - SEATING

The seating space is constructed with the same footingbut for aesthetics and fun. we used beerbottles and mud pots as support and volume. The end of the bottles were ornamented with hand

- 1.5 foot pits were taken for footing.This Soil taken from the pit after excavation was used as mortar - the soil was orange and part laterite which we mixed with shell lime and water by our foot and left to ferment for days.after wards we mixed it with hay and more fermented soil by foot to create mortar

- The balls rolled from it was similar to clay and more easy to apply

Everyone explored theire mental flaws and depth of theire thought gears

Every ornamentation on the sur face is uniques creation of evry 200 students participated in the workshop.

Sports Centre, S6

A multy directional adaptation to sports spaces

The building is a close and powerful dialogue with the world of iron. It also asserts itself as a serene landmark in a uni verse marked by the railway and automobile movement. In this context-sensitive to vibrations, the work required studies of a great technicality.

The site is at the entrance toward the cochin smart city proj ect. and many factors like future expansions and population dencity, client user type , footprint etc had to be considered

during the conceptual development the idea to incorporate natural material construction and considering the sports cen tre as a meditative space for the body was developed

hence the design took turns to incorporate lessons from tad ao anto and b v doshi to make the spaces mindful

in the end more focus was given to the technical and servic side due to the semester requirement. but during the intern ship preparements i was able to give more focus on the per sonal design aspiration and deal it with more freedom

Location : smart city kochi

Site Area : 50 cent

Typology : Sports centre

Guide : HCA faclties

Type : Public

Ecotel, S5

a sensible approch to ecosensitive designing

The concept is to design facilities that offer the opportunity to live in an environmentally friendly and quiet environment instead of the traditional lifestyle found in traditional hotels.

The goal is not to build a hotel in the forest, but to return some of the land destroyed by humans to nature.

In addition, one of the key tasks is to find creative and comprehensive solutions to the problems that arise in the process of building eco-hotels in environmentally sensitive areas.

Location : Nelliampathy

Site Area : 9 Acre

Typology : Eco Resort

Guide :

Type : Private

Cafeteria

The cafeteria is a crucial part of design due to its waste production - its where people meet so the floors had to be mixed with cob, laterite bam boo to occupy the dead and live load - it also equips biogas plants under the raised platforms to convert biowaste into fuel to cook - storage for long term is also allocated since transporting goods are difficult

Lutheran church, california Conceptual Renovation Of a Communaly Senitive Church

The clients are a small congregation group at the end of Harbor View Drive in Martinez. the church is situated on a hilltop with a view and with wildlife frequently stopping by for a visit.

Theyre goal is to grow in His Word that they might be more Christ-like. they seek to live out theyre God-given calling in a way that helps to heal people living in a broken world.

With the main church in the middle design was supposed to be more focused on functionality, but the client emphasised the lack of exposure for the church among the low lense community. also similar churches with same name was a challenge

to solve that a major logo ,branding and exterior design change was required, hence the conceptual design process had to go through several redo stages

Location : Martinez, California, USA

Site Area : 2.5 Acre

Typology : Church

Type : Communal

Ministry HomeModular Home Cross

The west side of the church was vacant and allocated for a low budjet guest room like space. hence we arrived at a modular construction method , which is very cheap and popular in usa As explained earlier many things had to be eye catching, sym bolic and memorable to make the church iconic. hence a huge cross that strike the eyes and heart of believers

Lutheran Church Sanctuary

The existing church had no altar space due to the accomodation space for staff and caretakers in the north -a connection or access was needed from the church to ministry home road and the modular home . - alll of these was acheved by moving the accomodation to ministry home and modular building - with more space free, the church got resdesigned into a more open and accessable bulding -most importantly making the goal of making it memorable was in mind

At the top of the hill whre padre and caretakers live . parking is allocated to accomodate more visitors.

more spaces are added and exterior re design is done with minimal financial ex penditure

ministry home

churchchurch left side church right side

Church - Back side Church - porch and en-

Site map

google map data

ministry home - south side ministry home - front ministry home - front

The cross and modular home

Front view of the church sky view of the church fountain

Church - passage to the modular home

Church - west side

Dates, muvatupuzha

Render for a friend

Foody, restaurant concept

- The design uses an extenive array of materials in a wide range of contexts, even though the budget is low. so to make sure the textures, smoothness dimen sions, size and quantity of each unit had to be extimated .

- The task is to repreasent the materials in a perfectly accurate manner.

- 2 floors, the roof and even the ground tilings had to be repreasented

Technical Drawings01

1- Rose and Anu Residence

THE DETAIL IN ALL DRAWINGS ARE TO BE READ PROPERLY, UNDERSTOOD AND EXECUTED BY COMPETENT, QUALIFIED ENGINEERING PERSONNEL TRAINED IN CONSTRUCTION WORK OF SUCH NATURE, POSSESSING ADEQUATE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD ENGINEERING PRACTICE & RELEVANT CODES AND STANDARDS.

ARCHITECTURAL CONSULTANTS CANNOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ERRORS LAPSES DURING EXECUTION AS A CONSEQUENCE OF IMPROPER, INADEQUATE OR INCOMPETENT STUDY OF DRAWINGS.

ANY DOUBTS ERRORS IN DRAWINGS ARE TO BE BROUGHT TO THE NOTICE OF THE ARCHITECT.

-ALL AGENCIES EXECUTING WORK ON SITE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR RESPECTIVE PRODUCTS QUALITY & PERFORMANCE.

& COMPATIBILITY OF THEIR

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SHOP DRAWINGS ARE TO BE PREPARED BY THE RELEVANT AGENCIES ( MS FABRICATOR, ROOFING CONTRACTOR,

-THIS DRAWING IS NOT TO BE COPIED OR USED WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM CONCERNED PARTY OR LOANED TO A THIRD PARTY FOR ANY PURPOSE OTHER THAN FOR WHICH IT HAS BEEN ISSUED.

-ALL DIMENSIONS ARE IN MILLIMETRES UNLESS OTHERWISE MENTIONED.

- DO NOT SCALE DRAWINGS, ALL DIMENSIONS ARE TO BE CHECKED ON SITE.

- ALL STRUCTURAL / SERVICE DRAWINGS ARE TO BE READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS, TO BE CO-RELATED WITH SCHEDULE OF QUANTITIES.

- THE DETAIL IN ALL DRAWINGS ARE TO BE READ PROPERLY, UNDERSTOOD AND EXECUTED BY COMPETENT, QUALIFIED ENGINEERING PERSONNEL TRAINED IN CONSTRUCTION WORK OF SUCH NATURE, POSSESSING ADEQUATE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD ENGINEERING PRACTICE & RELEVANT CODES AND STANDARDS.

- ARCHITECTURAL CONSULTANTS CANNOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ERRORS LAPSES DURING EXECUTION AS A CONSEQUENCE OF IMPROPER, INADEQUATE OR INCOMPETENT STUDY OF DRAWINGS.

- ANY DOUBTS / ERRORS IN DRAWINGS ARE TO BE BROUGHT TO THE NOTICE OF THE ARCHITECT.

-ALL AGENCIES EXECUTING WORK ON SITE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR RESPECTIVE PRODUCTS QUALITY & PERFORMANCE. INTERFACING & COMPATIBILITY OF THEIR PRODUCTS WITH THE OTHER IMMEDIATE MATERIALS SHOULD BE ENSURED.

- SHOP DRAWINGS ARE TO BE PREPARED BY THE RELEVANT AGENCIES MS FABRICATOR, ROOFING CONTRACTOR, ETC.), AND APPROVED BEFORE EXECUTION.

Technical Drawings

Basic Drafting

1 - Yacht Club Guest Rooms

The former Yacht Club is close to the well-known vytila, Thevara, and other at tractions. It used to be a dairy factory and a boarding house. When it was converted into a private family club, it became a place of social gathering.

As a result of its social significance, the structure stands out within the village fabric due to its location, orientation, proportions, and design: set back from the road, which is now shaded by trees, with crafted ribbons of glazed openings, wooden panelling, and balconies facing the Vembanadu Lake.

2 - NGO Restaurant

3 - Aurum Monaco Gold Refinery, Punalur Basic Drafting