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Urban Transformation
Integrated Township
TOD based Local Area Plan
Green Field Development
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Reviving the Lal-Baug
Landscape Design Project
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Casa en Prad
Residence Ren
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trapur Public Plaza
Re-Imaging the Cinema Road
Public Space Design
Urban Renewal Project
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Kiosko Tres Cantos
Miscellaneous Work
novation
Refurbishing Kiosk
Urban Design Illustrative Drawings 3-D - Lumion Renders Artwork for J.W. Marriot, Surat Data Analysis Work (GIS based)
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Urban Transformation
TOD based Local Area Plan Gulbai Tekra & Ellis-bridge, Ahmedabad
This studio exercise trained us about numerous complexities of implementing a local area strategy as well as the detailed powers of the land policies and regulations. It prompted us to adopt the liberal and market demand solution while maintaining a strong understanding of the real life scenarios of the proposed outcomes. The detailed demonstrations have showed us the distinction between an urban planning transformation and a place making project.
URBAN TRANSFORMATION Gulbai Tekra - Ellis bridge, Ahmedabad
Post-Graduation Academic Project
TOD based LAP - Urban Transformation Studio
Project: This studio anchors on the design aspects of urban transformations within the existing urban areas & working on transformative design of trigger projects emerging out of the delineated areas. Site Area: 286 Acre
Site Context: Gulbai Tekra and Ellis bridge are geographically situated in the center of the Ahmedabad city having three major parks of the city. The Ellis Bridge area was the first region built on the west bank of the Sabarmati river outside of a walled city and Gulbai Tekra is renowned for its rustic charm and large natural parks.
Softwares Used - Auto CAD, Sketch Up, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop
Envisioned LAP Framework Plan
Site Contextualization I. Old Stock and redevelopment 30% of building stock is older than 40 years 20% of building stock has been built/redeveloped in last 15 years. years
Building Age
II. Random spread of High Rise Spread of high rises is irrespective of the edges indicating transformation at owner’s will and capacity. 1-2 floors- 5% 3-10 floors- 73% 11-15 floors- 22%
Building Height
III. Rich Mix of Uses 65% of residential typology is apartments apartments, rest is low rise independent houses 54% of commercial is offices 31% retail 15% Hotels
Building Type
Transition of anchors from Institutional to Commercial
New commercial along CG Road Most retail buildings along CG road were developed in last 15 years & are mid-rise.
Old Institutional
Transition of Housing Typology
Most of the institutional is the oldest stock of the site & is 3-5 floors High.
Multiple high rise apartment redevelopment has taken place in last 15 years.
Analyzing the Site - Need for an LAP? Area of high significance City level Public realm with high footfall and social value to be preserved. Various institutional and community built of high communal and public significance.
High Public footfall and thoroughfare - multiple
stakeholders to cater
Value Appreciation Existing Net FSI = 1.1 (BUA vs. total developable plots) Average market rate - 7,800 sq.ft.
Low FSI Consumption - lack of land optimization leading to lack of affordability.
BRTS Catchment
Moderate monthly ridership density (24,342-40,212) - more reliance on private vehicles. Low population catchment (19-60 pph)- due to less proportion of residential built-form.
Despite being a city level anchor with high footfall, inefficient land use and lack of integration with public transport leads to an unaffordable neighborhood with poor livability and private transport dependence.
Vision for LAP Framework
Vision Statement for LAP Framework
To revitalize city’s vibrant core through synergised connections and a rich mix of uses with an active public realm.
Strengthening the connections
Enhancing diverse anchors
Encouraging Land efficient development
Improving Livability
Objectives & Strategies for LAP Framework I. Synergised Connections - Enhancing walkability & Integrating various sensible modes of transit.
Reduction of Block Sizes
Regulating Encroachments
NMT Route Integration
II. Active Public Realm - Integration of central public realm & increasing public area in private domain.
Enhancing active & safer public connections
Reforming guidelines to improve quality of open spaces in private domain.
III. Rich mix of uses - Activating & Densifying Transit Corridor, Optimizing Commercial potential & Managing residential density & diversity
Incentivising higher densities along prime nodes & edges
Context responsive built-form dedicated to have pedestrian friendly high density development
LAP Framework Plan Envisioned LAP Framework Plan
Urban Transformations Along BRTS Corridor
Under Ellis bridge Flyover
Delineated Area Urban green parks are generally seen as valuable assets to have a vibrant & safe character of a neighborhood
Residential Neighborhood Street
Park P recinct within the urban core of the western
Ahmedabad city
Park Precinct’s Vision & Strategies
The main idea is to Connect the precinct to the transit corridor, synergize existing public realm with a more continuous realm and ensuring the newer development responding the various assets. CONNECT neighborhood to transit system Proposed street network showing hierarchy of proposed NMT infrastructure with street widening & street restructuring.
Dedicated NMT lane
Internal Shared Street
The connection of precinct & transit system is enhanced through the dedicated NMT routes connecting major landmarks.
SYNERGIZE existing public realm with
more continuous realm
To activate the proposed connections from earlier strategy, synergizing the existing public realm by enhancing the major nodes qualitatively & carving out public domain from the private plots connecting the nodes.
ENSURING the new development responds to assets
A podium typology capitalizes the BRT corridor’s value, with the nodes being the TDR receiving zones for identity creation. Park responsive built form orienting their open space towards the parks. All these strategies of connecting, synergizing & ensuring lead the proposed development to enhance & preserve the precinct’s identity also taking optimal advantage of the parks in the vicinity.
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Envisioned Precinct Master-plan
igger projects identified:BRT PLAZA - It demonstrates a
nergised connection between the transit tion and the social anchors.
NMT STREET - It demonstrates
orporation of NMT Lane to have better ality pedestrian connection to the Paldi oposed MRT
Project 1 : BRT Plaza
Project 2 : NMT Street
Park Precinct Project 1: BRT Plaza Strategies
The transformed BRT plaza would have wider Timely regulated Happy Street could be Reducing the speed of the vehicles through & safer pedestrian crossings extended, to connect the plaza to active spill raised & tactile mechanisms for some streets. over spaces within the proposed builtfrom at evening time.
Character Image
BRT Station with spill over space
Plaza
NMT lane
Pedestrian Crossing
Public building (Social Anchor)
Synergized Connection between the transit station & the social anchor
BRT Plaza Isometric View Interactive Regulated public realm within the private domain Using the active frontage from the private realm Wider pedestrian crossings Reducing speed through tactile mechanisms Raised vehicular lanes to reduce speed BRTS Stop with spill over spaces & public conveniences
Park Precinct Project 2: NMT Street Strategies
ACTIVE ZONE
TRANSIENT ZONE
The edge of the Rasala Park in the active zone The park edge would have carved out niches would have partially porous compound walls for seating spaces as pause points. to have a visual connection with the existing nursery & active ground frontage in the institutional built.
Character Image
Vending Area
Park Entrance
Dedicated NMT route
PRIVATE ZONE
The opaque compound wall becomes a backdrop for vending activities outside the park & group seating with partially porous compound wall helps to have interactive edge on the cricket ground edge.
Group niched seatings
Partially porous compound wall
Rasala Park’s Entrance - Calm area on inside - Activeness on onside
NMT Street Isometric View
Group seating spaces Existing Rasala park's entrance Vending Spaces
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Integrated Township
Green Field Development Telav, Ahmedabad
The master plan details the proposed built form & the strategic layout of the different anchors that will help to fulfill the goal of connecting residents from the township to the city in the vibrant public spaces of the township. The master plan is demonstrated further in varied delayered forms to understand the scale, working and the quality of the township.
INTEGRATED TOWNSHIP Telav, Ahmedabad
Post-Graduation Academic Project
Green Field Development Project
Project: The studio focuses on preparing Master Plans for large green field Developments in peri urban areas responding to the demand of expansion in the rapidly growing urban centers Site Area: 315 Acre
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As a result of the Automobile development in Sanand Sarkhej Corridor is developed with many Residential townships & some renowned institutes in the vicinity. Thus, the Corridor provides a strong linkage for Ahmedabad City with Sanand.
VISION STATEMENT: Creating a development with a vibrant public place, which will act as an anchor to connect people from the city & the township
Softwares Used - Auto CAD, Sketch Up, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop
Master-plan
Hospital
Luxurious Canal View District Mixed Use District
Recreational District Commercial District
Detached & Row Houses Luxurious Canal View District S.E.W.S Housing
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Delayering the Master-plan Global Floor Space Index - 1.4
Total Area under Open Spaces (Public, Semi-Private & Private)
22% of Site Area
75 acre
Total Area under Roads (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary)
20% of Site Area
67.1 acre
Legends Primary Roads Secondary Roads Tertiary Roads
Proposed Built Form
Proposed Built Heights
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Residential Use S.E.W.S Housing Mixed Use Recreational Use Commercial Use Institutional Use
56.2 % (150.7 ac) 6.6 % (17.6 ac) 4.0 % (10.6 ac) 1.7 % (5.8 ac) 6.4% (17.2 ac) 3% (10.6 ac)
Up to G + 5 Floors Up to G + 10 Floors Up to G + 15 Floors
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Residential Urban Block - Detail VIBRANT & SAFE Residential Neighborhood with COMMUNITY & NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS. The Residential block has a low rise apartments with a community open spaces & school.
Block Size - 400 mt x 300 mt
Guidelines - Residential Block The Residential urban block guidelines majorly focuses on the quality of the built & the quality of pedestrian movement. It also emphasis on having better quality NMT movement through the block.
3. Sidewalks abutting the school & park should have level difference of 150 mm
1. Ancillary amenities on the Ground Floor
2. Pocket Parks between buildings facing longer side to each other
4. The bicycle track should have line of trees on both side.
5. Time regulated pedestrian local streets during peak hours for pedestrian safety
Envisioned Vibrant Life in the Residential neighborhoods
Character Image of the Safe & Vibrant Residential Neighborhood
Detailed Isometric View of the Residential Urban Block Kid's play-area
Community Park
School
Amenity Blocks
Neighborhood Parks
Recreational Urban Block - Detail VIBRANT & SAFE Recreational Neighborhood with RETAIL, LEISURE & RECREATIONAL ANCHORS The Recreational urban block majorly has the Commercial built, Food Courts, Exhibition Spaces.
Block Size - 600 mt x 350 mt
Guidelines - Recreational Block These guidelines were given for the built quality of the commercial built within the recreational block. The main features of these guidelines allow to have vibrancy in the inner court and on the outer facade of the Commercial built.
3. POROSITY - It should be porous after very 50 m of continuous edge from the inner side
1. SCALE - The Built should be low rise. It should not exceed 9 meters in height
2. ENCLOSURE - It should have a central
4. OPENINGS - The entrance of the store should be from the porous flange only
5. FRONTAGE - The inner & outer frontage of the built should have visual merchandising
open to sky court to accommodate exhibition
Character Image of the Central Exhibition Space in the Iconic Retail Built
Envisioned Vibrant Life in the Public Districts within the township
Detailed Isometric View of the Recreational Urban Block Amphitheater Amphi overlooking the canal
Food Court Plaza for Food Trucks & stalls
Entertain Indoor & O
nment Zone Outdoor adventure sports activity
Central Exhibition Space
Iconic Retail Shopping Low Rise Pedestrian Mall
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Vastrapur Public Plaza
Public Space Design Vastrapur, Ahmedabad
The project focus on the application of the skills developed in the first module of the same semester which involved perception and representation of the key elements of Urban Design. The design is majorly driven to incorporate and understand how various urban design elements would work for a better public plaza to the Vastrapur Lake.
VASTRAPUR PUBLIC PLAZA
Post-Graduation Academic Project
Vastrapur, Ahmedabad
Public Space Design
Project: The project was designed to recognize an urban issue in daily urban life & to deliver a solution.
Further, communicating graphically the elements that form the basis of public life in public spaces. Site Area: 3650 sq. mt.
Site Context: The site is an underutilized AMC plot right next to the Vastrapur Lake, the main idea is to utilize the site & activate it as an extended public plaza of the Vastrapur Lake
Aim:
Vastrapur Lake
To develop a Public Plaza which is well connected to the Vastrapur Lake Concerns:
Safety
Liveliness
Versatile Usage
Physical Constraints:
No segregation of various activities in the plaza
Inadequate Lighting Facility
Mismanagement of activities Excess vendors encroaching the street
Softwares Used - Auto CAD, Sketch Up, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop
Isometric View of the Vastrapur Public Plaza
Concerns Safety
Liveliness
Versatile Usage
Connectivity of the plaza & the lake
Connectivity of the plaza & the lake
Connectivity of the plaza & the lake
Design Strategies The Design Strategies follows the three main concerns simultaneously and it tries to add shared street between the plaza and the lake to have easy and safer connection, which could be timely regulated. The time regulation can control the vehicular access to the site, thus making the inner street safer
Predominantly pedestrian street connection
More activities inside the plaza
Segregation of activities
Character Image of the Public Plaza having vegetable market and seating spaces during the day time
Character Image of the Public Plaza acting as a Food Plaza with temporary & permanent seating spaces during the night time
Design Strategy - Safety
Informal seating/gathering space becomes the welcoming place to the food plaza
Ease & Safer connectivity for pedestrian because of the raised street level
Design Strategy - Liveliness
Food plaza separated by raising it from the street plaza Segregated functional & gathering activities benefits to utilize the open shaded area efficiently
Proposed Public Plaza
Lowering the high compound walls develops a connection to the existing lake & activates the whole street with
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Re-Imaging the Cinema Road
Urban Renewal Project Cinema Road, Surat
The project was to bring back the glory of the cinema road of Surat. The cinema road was one of the vibrant street of Surat's history .the present scenario of the cinema road has a swimming pool & is considered dull in compared to old times. So the development of this project was not confined to the progress of the cinema complex & sports complex but the whole street was given a thought to act as a gathering place for the people of Surat.
RE-IMAGING THE CINEMA ROAD
B. Arch Academic Project
Surat, Gujarat
Urban Renewal Project
Project: To Re-Flourish the lost charm of the old Cinema Road of Surat, which was a major essence of Surat City. Site Area: 12820 sq. mt.
Concept: To ZIP the life from CORE TO SHORE by creating FUSION OF MASS AND VOIDS
Vibrancy on
Floors
Walls
Blooming Pockets Softwares Used - Auto CAD, Sketch Up, Photoshop, Lumion
Top Aerial View
Final Design Outcome
Sports Complex A solid void progression alternating between building blocks & landscaped courtyards creates a rhythm that breaks the mass of the complex & provides better integration between indoor & outdoor spaces.
Detail Plan of Sports Complex
Cinema Complex A play of light and shadows through pergola was created in the entrance plaza of the cinema complex. The cinema complex had a submerged auditorium, which was a new addition to the Old Cinema Road of Surat.
Detail Plan of Cinema Complex
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Site Plan
The final outcome had all the gathering space on the streets & on the bridge connecting the sites & different activities were planned according to the time of the day.
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Design Visuals
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Reviving the Lal-Baug Garden
Landscape Project Rander, Surat
In between the dense fabric of rander, the lal baugh garden was the only open, breathable space that connected people from every age group & the location of this site helps to bind different communities in the vicinity also. This project not only focuses on beautification; but also to create a new public realm that has quality built environment.
REVIVING THE LAL-BAUG GARDEN Rander, Surat, Gujarat
B. Arch Academic Project
Landscape Design Project
Project: To Re-develop the abandoned garden site in the dense fabric of Rander. Site Area: 5423 sq. mt. Concept: As the garden needs to be welcoming for all age groups,it is necessary to have harmony & balance in the natural forms & the activities of every age group.
Softwares Used - Auto CAD, Sketch Up, Photoshop, Lumion
Envisioned Landscape Plan
Site Plan Interactive edges towards the road side & seamless connections inside to various activities for varied age groups overlooking the river Tapi.
Design Visuals
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Casa En Pradena
Residence Renovation Pradena, Madrid, Spain
This was a Family house of an Architect, outside the city of Madrid. In this project the Architect wanted to have more light inside the house than it has earlier & he wanted to have a usable space according to the number of persons in his family & according to the spaces they need in the present day.
CASA EN PRADENA Pradena, Madrid, Spain
Internship Project
Residential Renovation Project
Project: The project was designed to recognize an urban issue in daily urban life & to deliver a solution to it & to further communicate graphically the elements that form the basis of public life in public spaces.
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Renovated Design Proposal
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan Softwares Used - Revit
Proposed exploded Isometric
Site Conditions
First Floor Plan
Final Design Outcome - Revit Drawings
Proposed Section through the Living Room
Softwares Used - Revit
Proposed Section through the Patio
Proposed section through kitchen
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Kiosko Tres Cantos
Kiosk Refurbishment Project Madrid, Spain
The project was to design a bar which is more spacious and luminous than existing bar kiosk, covering same area as it did earlier in the mall. The new ambience of bar should also complement with the new interior of the mall.
KIOSKO TRES CANTOS Madrid, Spain
Internship Project
Refurbishing Kiosk Project
Project: The project was redesign the kiosk in a mall, which could merge with the newly refurbished interiors of the mall. Updating the kiosk with latest equipments was another challenge.
Design Proposal:
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Softwares Used - Revit, Photoshop
Proposed Kiosk in the existing image of the mall
Proposed Kiosk in the existing image of the mall
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Miscellaneous Work Urban Design Illustrative Drawings 3-D - Lumion Renders Artwork for J.W. Marriot, Surat Data Analysis Work (GIS based)