Academic Work Samples - Nishad Patwardhan

nishad patwardhan academic work samples

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Techne Integrated Water Purification system Goodyear City Masterplan Elevated Transit Hub Envelope Redesign Academy of Indian Classical Music

Art

Photography

Techne | School for integrated design and construction The concept of creating our building is centered around the Knot.

According to Gotfiend Semper, knot is the most important, primary structural element. Knot is the connection point between materials and other transitions. This metaphor was carried out in every scale of our building but most importantly as the joining place between people of different disciplines and experience.

Many users of the building, students, recent graduates, researchers, small business owners, faculty, industry workers and community members form the Knot. The focus of the building is not in the individual parts but in the integration of those individual.

Techne | Integral Diagram

Integrated Water Purification system Re [Connect the riverbed] Phoenix Challenge Studio started to look at different water infrastructures including water reservoirs, lakes, riverbeds, and water treatment plants.

The initial collective research gave us a direction to design our own program and deal with water systems around the valley and integrate those with public infrastructure which can help educate people and create an awareness about importance of water in a desert.

Integrated Water Purification system | ASU Walk Only Zones ASU is Promoting walk only zones and increasing the area for those. The malls are becoming more and more congested because of increasing number of students as well as multiple modes of transportation like walking, biking, skateboarding and use of Golf carts by ASU employees.

This created the need for multilayered bridge which can elevate and divide the pedestrian and other traffic as well as act a piece of infrastructure which is a platform for water purification system.

Energy Production

Street Furniture

Typical section at ASU walk only zone Pedestrian/ Bicycle connection

1 Bridge 2 Amphitheater 3 Fabric canopy 4 Photovoltaic Panels 5 Water Pipelines 6 Shaded walkway

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Integrated Water Purification system | College Avenue/ Downtown Tempe ASU is developing the campus on the north side of University Drive and College Avenue is acting as one of the important street. There is a heavy pedestrian as well as bike traffic across main campus and college avenue which has University Drive as one of the barrier. The bridge will be an amenity for commuters.

The Photovoltaic panels will create the shaded area where people and especially students can sit, talk, eat, study with no obstruction to the traffic below the bridge.

Street Furniture

Pedestrian/ Bicycle Connection

Typical road section at College Avenue 1 Bridge 2 Outdoor eating area 3 bicycle lane

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Integrated Water Purification system | Tempe Wetlands will add the visual quality of Tempe Town Lake and will also provide the natural water filtration system which will reduce down the ground water pollution. People will be able to see and walk along the purification system which can educate people about water purification systems as well as water conservation.

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Typical section The Bridge on wetlands 1 Bridge 2 Filtration Terraces 3 Wetlands 4 Photovoltaic Panels 5 Water Pipelines 6 Tempe Town Lake

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Goodyear City Masterplan | Context The vision is to create a resilient community that fosters a sense of place and serves as an example of development for the greater Phoenix area.

Site Constraints: - Airport noise zone and height restrictions - Heavy Duty electrical cables - Proposed Freeway through Site - Hundred Years Floodplain - Existing Farmland

Goodyear City Masterplan | Iterations Nodes

Ecological

Open

Innovative

Transformative

Placemaking

Symbiotic

Resilient

Visionary

Adaptable

Contextual

Gradient

Connective

Sustainable

Healthy

Resilient

Recreation

Development

Strength

Connected

Anchored

Goodyear City Masterplan Sustainable/Resilience: The vision for (development name) is to develop a community that is socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable. This symbiotic development respects and compliments the existing environment. The community will be resilient and reinforce the vision of creating a built environment, that is adaptive to change. Environmental conditions both internal and external will be re-mediated through an understanding of the site’s ecology.

A Sense of Place (placemaking): Our vision for Goodyear will connect to its greater context. Regionally, the masterplan will address critical issues facing our climate, society and economy. A sense of place will attract innovative endeavors and provide a framework for the future. The plan will bridge the gap between neighborhood and habitat; a restorative bridge that connects riparian habitat and human infrastructure.

The Catalyst: This transformative new district in the heart of Goodyear will act as a catalyst to promote ecological urban developments throughout the greater Phoenix area. Innovative urban strategies will encourage municipalities in similar climates to adopt policies that will help shape the future of their city.

Parks Learning/Making Center South Center Main Urban Center Agriculture Industry

Goodyear City Masterplan Bridging The South Center

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Agriculture - Downtown Edge

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Elevated Transit Hub

The aim for this project is to provide transit service which can serve a city with the better connectivity between different areas of new development as well as to connect it with Phoenix metropolitan.

This light rail station accommodates multiple programs in one structure and also integrates the transit system into the city’s infrastructure.

Envelope Redesign | Context

Envelope Redesign Antithesis: The occupancy of the building got changed from a Bank to the University Center. This drastic change was supposed to transform a rigid, inward looking structure into more open, free- flowing building.

The agenda for programs accommodated in this building is ‘community services’, which contradicts the current rigid, monumental structure of the building.

Thesis: With a cross-campus, cross-discipline approach to education, Arizona State University is forging ahead to a future that softens the boundaries between university and community, and debunks the old learning theory of exclusivity as a way to excellence.

The presence of existing downtown campus become a key to revitalize the downtown Phoenix and for that, it is important for ASU’s buildings to become a part of downtown Phoenix as well campus architecturally.

Synthesis: University Center is one of the oldest buildings in downtown Phoenix and serves as a gateway for the campus. Merging the building envelope with the surroundings will help the building to become a part of downtown Phoenix, as well as Arizona State University.

By proposing public spaces like restaurants, cafe or University stores on the 1st floor, will make it a part of walkway and park in front of it. This will increase the public activity inside the building and make that area a public plaza for downtown Phoenix.

Academy of Indian Classical Music A Place with the platform to explore and enhance the quality of Indian Classical Music in a traditional way with the cutting edge facilities.

Introduction: The term “Indian Classical Music” refers to two related ,but distinct ,traditions rooted in antiquity. Both are very much alive in India for today.

Indian music has developed through very complex interactions between different peoples of different races and cultures over several thousand years. Music has got no language as such.

Though it is considered as the only universal language itself. It is may be a basic response to our everyday life which comes from & delights the very within our soul. It is harmonious expression of the “self” when it becomes selfless.

Necessity: One concern that I have seen come up regularly is the about the future of Indian classical music.

As maestros pass on, there is a growing lack of artists who can be compared to their Ustads. I won’t tackle the question of why Indian classical music is dying, but rather will look at what can be done to ensure that it is preserved.

The answer I believe is two-pronged.

Musicians have to be cultivated and just as important, audience have to be cultivated. For the music to continue, there is must be people who can produce it and those who shall appreciate it and listen to it.

Talent can survive with whatever the normal conditions are but grown up efficiently in better conditions mind & intelligence wise.

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