ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO NISHRA SHAH | CEPT UNIVERSITY
EDUCATION
DIGITAL SKILLS
2015
SH Kharawala Primary & Higher Secondary School Gujarat State Education Board
Archicad (BIM)
2017
A.G. Teachers High School Gujarat State Education Board
2022
CEPT University, Ahmedabad Bachelor of Architecture
Autocad
Sketchup Rhino
Photoshop Indesign Lumion Vray
WORK EXPERIENCE Internship: Studio Saransh, Ahmedabad (6 months: Jan-Jun 2021) Part time Internship: CREDO Architects Heritage Documentation and research writing
22 | Ahmedabad | Indian English | Hindi | Gujarati nishrashah369@gmail.com +91 9106881798 03-01-2000
As a novice professional of architecture, my learnings in this field till now has helped me develop a holistic approach towards designing and I intend to further enhance them. I enjoy intricate designing processes, researching on specifics and brainstorming. My further inclination are in keenly observing and understanding the making and detailing of different materials, crafts and heritage.
HANDS-ON SKILLS Technical drawing Hand Rendering Sketching
COMPETITONS
Model Making
The little big Loo - Volume Zero, 2020 Architecture competition
Graphics & Illustrations
WORKSHOPS & DOCUMENTATIONS
Nish ra S. Sh ah
Microsoft office
Wood work
RESEARCH
FEATHER PAVILION, Cept Campus (May, 2017) Construction & Material based 1:1 structure
Intersection of landscape and culture through the layers of temporality and permanence (Jan, 2022) Guided by Prof. Divya Shah
BEYOND BOUNDARIES, Cept Campus (Jul, 2018) Understanding the works of B.V.Doshi
INITIATIVES
SHELL STRUCTURE, Cept Campus (Sep, 2018) Software(Rhino) & Construction based 1:1 UPCYCLING FURNITURE, Cept Campus (Jan, 2018) Refurbishing the old furniture into a daily used object
NAVRATRI INSTALLATION, Cept Campus (Oct, 2017) Paper mache and mirror wall art FILM MAKING, Mandu (Sep, 2018) Mapping Nature trails
HUNNARSHALA, Kutch (Nov, 2019) Hands-on Earthwork- Adobe,Rammed earth,CSEB
TIE & DYE WORKSHOP, Cept Campus, Ahmedabad (Jan, 2018) Roots, Sessions teaching the techniques
RSP FOUNTAINHAS, Goa (Dec, 2017) Measure Drawing of Portuguese house
INTERESTS & HOBBIES
STORY OF KANGRA VALLEY, H.P. (May, 2019) Analytical documentation of two villages
Research & Documentation
DOCUMENTING POL HERITAGE, Ahmedabad (Dec, 2019) With CREDO architects team working in old city
Sports (Volleyball)
PERFORMING ARTS, Baroda (Jan, 2020) Staircase and wooden truss detail axonometric
Exploring Heritage & recording Tie & Dye Fabric products Textile Arts
“There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were close to the center of this way.” - Christopher Alexander
TAB LE O F CO NT ENT S 01
Pavilion at Sarkhej Roza
02
07
Office Training
08
Sun Wind Light
Workplace Neighbourhood
03
Making Living Places
04
House as a small city
05
Strange Details
06
09
Research project
10
Related Study Program
11
Story of Kangra Valley
12
Competition entry
13
Project proposal
14
Hands-on work
15
Installations
City and Performance Spaces
Site plan of Sarkhej roza complex and project on axis of jama masjid jharokha
Module based plan design with three different sizes of modules and courtyard as a gathering space in centre
1
PAVILION AT SARKHEJ ROZA
Studio Site:- Sarkhej Roza, Ahmedabad
Visualizing and Representation
The studio aims to focus on planning and organization of built elements that creates spatial experience. The site is at Sarkhej Roza, comprises of unique architectural complexes an its response to context, scale and geometry. The pavilion designed for prince and princesses as leisure space, with resting spaces near the jali wall and jharokha protuding outside with the view of water tank.
Sectional relationship of pavilion with the ghats and tank
RAINIEST DAY
Dark weather through woods in the tree house or in the stream fishing the boy enjoys in the rain. Slopes managed to avoid waterfall in house.
Imagining a storyline of different landscape and varied light conditions
2
COLDEST DAY
SUN WIND LIGHT
Site:- Barot Valley, Himachal Pradesh
Climate Responsive Design
The study focuses on climatic response and factors affecting it. The site is in Barot valley, H.P. runs through an imaginary story and mapping out the activities observed during the coldest, hottest and rainiest day of the year. The section through the valley towards the foothills have mapped changed accross all the seasons through slight human intervention to survive in the landscape.
The extreme climate affects the change in settlements. Size of the openings getting the winter sun through deep warm indoors.
Site plan of Manipur lake with different edge conditions
3
MAKING LIVING PLACES
Site:- Manipur lake & Bhadra Plaza, Ahmedabad
Small scale conscious design
The studio focus on transforming life-depriving places into life enhancing ones, by studying the living centers and factors involved in it. The studio covers the principles of Christopher Alexander ’s Nature of Order and Pattern language. The living centres evolve certain characteristics which is studied through phenomenology and the consious design to understand the textures of land and evolve life enhancing spaces.
The bird feeder (Chabutro) acts as centre and generate lot of public spaces with otla as a resting space and market between the busy streets of Bhadra
Identifying the living centre and understanding different nodes which evolve as centres near the lake edge with a plinth, temple and a huge banyan tree
The well is considered as a living centre and orchard is planted around it with different playscapes intepreted as khel kud vadi for village children, elderly
Analytical study of different structures of Mandu in respect to built unbuilt spaces, structure and water conditions
Sketch of the residential institute from the kund
4
Studying the relationship of pavilionand depth of spaces in different context and placement
HOUSE AS A SMALL CITY
Site:- Rewa Kund, Mandu, M.P.
Institutional - Housing
The studio is about understanding and applying lessons from the architecture of Mandu to create a design that responds to the current context and program. A small-scale residential architectural institute at banks of Rewa Kund, Mandu with a powerful context of the landscape and roopmati pavilion in the foreground. The idea is to occupy minimum footprint on the ground while giving multilevel experiences in relationship to the program.
Idea of baodi intepreted as home and place for rest, while the semi open pavilions are conceptualized as place to interact and for leisure
Site plan with rewa kund and bazbahadur, while concept of occupying a minimum footprint and diminishing the presence
Language of the material in respect to the built, character of a rammed earth wall
Block explorations of siting, contextual response and response to the landscape
Plan of rammed earth construction with studio and library on the plinth, the sectional stratergy of heavy bade to lighter top
Views of site from the entrance and kund side
Sectional model through the residence with a courtyard, office with a view of tank and the dormitories with wooden structure on top
Sectional exploration of church with north light and context
5
STRANGE DETAILS
Site:- Mirzapur, Ahmedabad
Religious Institution (Working Drawings) The studio is about practising construction and spectifying through unbuilt projects of the architect. Decoding the principles of the architect, applying and generating working drawing of it. Peter Zumthor ’s unbuilt project is reimagined in the context of ahmedabad and studying the site conditions as well as the ideologies the church is placed in a close proximity to the old structure. The material and construction technique changed due to climate influence.
Axonometric detailing of a wooden staircase
Model to explore site stratergy
To decode the structure of large span roof
Detailing of roof and facade
Working Drawing of the church with north light folded plate system and exposed brick facade
C H
DETAIL A
B
DETAIL E
A
DETAIL B
DETAIL F F
D
DETAIL C
DETAIL G
E
DETAIL D
DETAIL H
1
11:00am
2
02:00pm
3
10:30am
4
09:00am
5
04:00pm
Conceptual sketch of urban insert of a performance space
6
SECTION A SECTION A
CITY AND PERFORMANCE SPACES
Site:- Raikhad, Ahmedabad
Urban Insert - Performance spaces 5 5
The studio aims to understand the typology of performance spaces in an urban context. The site is at Jayshankar sundri hall in Raikhad surrounded by a varied mix-use typology, and imagined as new cultural centre in the context. The 3 A program aims to create a vertical axis to create vista in the site.3The functions associated is the main revival of drama A 1 theatre, blackbox theatre, school of drama and workshops. The ancillary functions are cafeteria, greenrooms and admin. 2 1
2
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8
SECTION B
SECTION B
Raikhad site plan with zone of influence of different institutions, transit, eatery and public attractions
Street activities at different time
BRTS station as main public transport to the site
Artist Entry Amphitheatre and plaza as a central gathering space
Visitor Entry
Gathering point near Ticket booth
Exit to the parking and truckload/ backstage entry
Entry to the parking Chowk as a main gathering space
Conceptual Sketches and form explorations
Circulation and access point of the auditorium tightly concerntrated in the urban fabric
Placement of the performance space and floorwise distribution of elements connecting to the main auditorium box
Public space design through plan for a performance space in a urban fabric, sectional stratergies of auditorium for sight lines and renders as medium to explore the overall form
Section throught the auditorium court overlooking the plinth of school
7
OFFICE TRAINING
Office: Studio Saransh, Ahmedabad
Institutional . Housing . Residential The twenty five years of practice into the discourse of architecture, urban master planning and interiors at Saransh was great learning experience and introduction to layers involved in a practice. The internship structured to understand the schemes of affordable housing and unit to master plan design, involvement in hostel development of a school project and understanding multiple consultancies and drawings involved in making a villa.
Site plan of international school with primary and secondary blocks, admin and sports arena
Floor plan layout of school building
Cricket Grounds 88.5m X 115.3 Warden Room 14'9" x 12'7"
Hostel Entry
7' w ide pa ssa ge
Warden Toilet 14'9" x 5'5"
Entrance Foyer 16'9" x 39'3" Generator + Pump Room 14'9" x 20'12"
Laundry Room 14'9" x 11'11"
WM
WM
WM
WM
Up
WM
Guest Room 21'0" x 14'9"
7' w ide pa ssa ge
WM
Laundry store 14'9" x 18'9"
Multipurpose Space 14'7" x 59'11"
1,750
Drying Area 14'9" x 14'0"
Infirmary 14'9" x 14'9"
Male Toilet 10'11" x 14'9"
900
Female Toilet 9'8" x 14'9"
Dining space 37'10" x 60' 5"
Wash Area 14'9" x 7'10"
e wid 7'
Multipurpose space 21'0" x 15'9"
7m 4.5
Hostel Entry
7' wide passage
Support Staff Quarter 17'3" x 14'9"
Warden Room 18'10" x 12'10"
1
Staff Toilet 9'7" x 14'9"
1
2
3
4
Stage Stage
825
ad ro
Foyer 39'3" x 16'10"
Up
1,750
e wid
Wash area 8'9" x 8'6"
900 75
Store 14'9" x 8'10"
900
ge ssa pa
Kitchen 14'9" x 18'10"
950 100
Serving space 14'9" x 12'10"
5
: 1:250 (A2)
DATE
: 6/22/2021
: Plinth
F-615, Shabri Apartments, Opp. Nirman School, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad - 380015. 079-26742374, +919227931416 design@saransharchitects.com
Conceptual layout for hostel which includes dormitories, recreational areas and dining hall
Floor plan conceptual loyout of hostel, module design in respect to facade and ventilation of dormitories RE IN MM/FT&INC
SCALE
TITLE
: M.D.
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: Nishra
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DEALT CHK
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DWG.NO. : 1. : Hostel Block TYPE
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REVISIONS
WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION.
SHOULD NOT BE COPIED OR USED
OF SARANSH (AHMEDABAD) AND
ALL DIMENSIONS ARE IN MM/FT&INC
At Dhanera
900
ALT. NO. :
SOURCE :
Royal Int'l School
1,300
GSPublisherVersion 77.37.95.1
REV. DATE :
PROJECT :
2,600
THIS DRAWING IS THE PROPERTY
4.57 m wide road
PROJECT : Royal Int'l School At Dhanera
SOURCE : 0000/ 210528 Hostel Block.pln
F-615, Shabri Apartments,
611 700
1379 1034
357
A
D 1950
115
800
2575
900
3300 3300
860
6.5 m wide Road
125
Section B
Section D
DN
2030
UP
Wash area 4'9" x 6'9"
C
C
1440
Garden 44'2" x 23'0"
942 1180
Section C
1775
Formal Living 17'1" x 15'0"
B
B 230 3225
Vestibule 21'6" x 13'6"
Informal Living 17'1" x 15'0"
Dining 17'2" x 13'6"
860
UP
3300
230
F
Kitchen 17'7" x 15'0"
1200
1442
2100
Bedroom 01 13'0" x 17'0"
950
D
A
1380
620
2575
UP
115 627
1020
Powder Toilet 6'2" x 5'3"
9 m wide Road
230 380
Pooja 4'5" x 6'1"
Verandah 26'8" x 7'0"
Toilet 6'9" x 8'0"
Store 6'7" x 8'0"
Butler's Kitchen 13'0" x 10'10"
DN UP
UP
Deck 12'2" x 9'6"
Wash 4'9" x 6'9"
Unit and site plan layout for affordable housing, facade and elevatin detail renders
PROJECT :
SOURCE :
MS House
2028/ 210427 MS House.pln
At Shilaj REVISIONS
800
WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION.
357
SHOULD NOT BE COPIED OR USED
1034
ALL DIMENSIONS ARE IN MM/FT&INC
1379
OF SARANSH (AHMEDABAD) AND
600 700
THIS DRAWING IS THE PROPERTY
590
2250
Servant kitchen 7'4" x 6'9"
1060 611
DWG.NO. : 1. : Conceptual TYPE REV. DATE : ALT. NO. :
TITLE
: Plinth
DEALT
: Nishra
CHK
: M.D.
SCALE
: 1:100
DATE
: 4/27/2021
F-615, Shabri Apartments, Opp. Nirman School, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad - 380015. 079-26742374, +919227931416 design@saransharchitects.com
Design of residential villa, detailing out stairwell and toilet, exploring material and bill of quanties A
D 115
1950
2575
900
3300 860
3300
125
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Conceptual sketch of program
SHOW /TELL CONVERSE
FOCUSED
Promenade through the built and overlooking pods of workspaces
PITCH
Trio model of academia, government and industry
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BRAINSTORM
Floor plan distribution of different workspaces
WORKPLACE NEIGHBOURHOOD
Site: JVPD Scheme, Juhu, Mumbai
Co-working . Commercial . Public Space The studio aims to generate a dialogue in a specific rigid site condition of linear plot and nala in front with a need to cater academic institutions around the region and promenade as a part of public space. The intersection of academia, industry and government lead to multifaceted functions under one site. The market and event space cater to the residential zone while the coworking areas are used by students of nearby institutes and companies.
Site plan with a wave in the promenade and different functions attached to it as a spine
G RO U N D L E V E L PLAN
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D
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FIRST LEVEL PLAN
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C’
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B
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public D’
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Market, Government office, Exhibition and Event at the ground level, while workspaces and cafeteria on upper level
Circulation diagram with different functions in relationship to heirarchy and views
SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE The section generating a relationship of different tubes with promenade, courtyard and water edge.
JAYPRAKASH ROAD
ENTRANCE FOYER
COURTYARD FOR EVENTS HOSTED BY TECH COMPANIES STARTUP REGISTRATION ADMIN
LIBRARY
WORKPLACE DEDICATED TO ACADEMIA (SVKM)
PROMENADE
GATHERING SPACE EXTENSION TO EVENTS
IRLA NALA
SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE The section through the workplace with different relationship through levels and to the promenade.
STREET
MANAGER’S CABIN
INCUBATION CENTRE
LUNCH AREAS
INDIVIDUAL WORKSPACES
COLLABORATIVE SPACE
DISCUSSION AND CO-WORKING
ENTRANCE ATRIUM
MEETING PODS
PROMENADE
RENTAL DESK FOR COMMUNITY
IRLA NALA
Aim
Methodology.
• To understand
how indigenous
communities inhabit landscape by studying the intersection of landscape
Stage 1: Documentation and representation using various methods - Field based site visit to document native communities
and dwelling patterns in the narrow transect of the greater system of mountains, the Northwestern ghats at Dahanu.
Stage 2: Identifying inhabitation patterns - Studying the settlement patterns, social spaces, and its physical character. - Factors to identify physical and perceptual landscapes
Research Question • What
are
the
temporary
and
permanent layers of landscape, and how is it reflecting the imprints?
Stage 3: Deriving method of documenting -Extract landscape mosaics of inhabitation - Ideas of permanence and temporal based on oral histories and anecdotes - Identify places which are under constant flux
Landscape of coast with dune and mangroves while foothills with river and uplands
Region for the study • The site is a stretch of 11km
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from coast, midlands to foothills with fisherman and
RESEARCH ON INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
community
residing in the landscape.
Zai, Coastal village
•
The landscape ecoystem is
different
near
the
coastland, with creeks, estuary and mangroves while
Site: Dahanu, Maharashtra
the
foothills
comprise of riverine edges
Tracing intersection of landscape and culture through layers of temporality and permanence The thesis is based on a study of indigenous communities residing in the landscape and understand layer of culture associated. To dwell there are certain place based narratives and spatial knowledge systems adopted by these communities. The key reading of the research is based on Tim Ingold’s Perception of environment. The research is to understand the layer of landscape and dwelling in the coastal and forest topography.
warli
and paddy cultivation. Aswali, Forest village
•
Both the communities have a adopted certain landscape narratives for living.
Zai village,
Acts in Landscape
Scale-1
Acts of Dwelling
Scale-1
Fisherman community
Aswali village,
Acts in Landscape
Scale-1
Acts of Dwelling
Scale-1
Warli community
Temporary Permanent
Temporary and permanent systems in landscape and dwelling in the forest core
Transient
Temporary and permanent systems in landscape and dwelling on coast
Landscape and dwelling conditions on the dune and coast with changing ecoystems
Landscape and dwelling conditions on the foothills and riverine edges with changing land fertility
Different kund edges and courtyards in bath spaces
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LITTLE BIG LOO
Site: Tiruvannamalai
Volume Zero- competition entry on toilet design As the influx around the temple is more commercialized there is a lack of sanitized public toilet and public bath facilities that lead to the refurbishment of edges of the kund designing a social gathering place for pilgrims. The form of the restroom is grounded using locally available granite blocks articulated in forming niches and courtyards bound with elevated pyramidal roof offers cross ventilation inside the toilet.
Axonometric of restroom near the kund with public spaces around
Residing on the foothills of Arunachaleshwar, the temple town of Tiruvannamalai flourishes with hills, shrines, and water bodies. The pilgrim center with a high density of people near the temple reflects the need for a place to rest, pause in the path of the spiritual journey. On the axis of Annamalaiyar temple, located a significant water tank i.e. Chakkra kulam which offers a topography for a functionally versatile design. Contradicting the conventional notions of placing the toilet in a corner with a culturally buoyant space the kund evolves as a datum of interaction. The overall experience of the project is enhancing by showcasing the temple activities through a picture gallery along with the walled garden, performances in the amphitheater framing the Gopuram as a backdrop.
Reflected ceiling plan of double storey house
11
RELATED STUDY PROGRAM
Site: Fountainhas, Goa
Measure drawing and documentation The related study program was conducted in Fountainhas, Goa. This region has homes set very close to each other and they continue to retain the colorful elegance that they were built in the 18th and 19th century. Of the houses selected for study, a number of them had retained their function of being homes, however many were re-purposed to function as commercial spaces such as cafes, schools, museums, and hotels.
Plan and section, wall section decoding the structure and construction study of portugese houses
Courtyard of an ornamented house in the streets of Garli
12
STORY OF KANGRA VALLEY
Site: Garli, Kangra valley, H.P.
Documentation (Summer school) The story is part of documenting a village name garli in the kagra valley. The structures were a directly influenced and interpreted as a collage of different styles of architecture coming together. The study involved looking at spatial conditions, user experience and material characteristics. The travel was throughout the region which includes palaces, forts, rock-cut temples and reservoir with a varied ecosystem.
Spatial sectional study of vernacular houses with different functional usage and material property
Detailing for the ribbed structure
13
Ribbed wireframe structure made using split bamboo and pin joint
RIBBED WIREFRAME AND FOOTBRIDGE
Site: CEPT, Campus
Rhino and Grasshopper explorations The combination of hands-on material model making derived as part of rhino and grasshopper software exploration. Different styles of mesh were explored both manually and in the modeling. While understanding the characteristics of split bamboo and process of weaving the mesh with a pin joint. The learnings were derived after its 3d translation and understanding load at end conditions. The second exploration is different type of mesh and material property from grasshopper script.
Form of the footbridge derived using grasshopper and made with mdf mesh
The outer dynamic curve as a sun shading device
Options of different facades and planning of gymanisum
MIRROR
TOILET 7'0" X 3'6"
5600
14
GYM 43'0" X 17'6"
ENTRY 6'0" X 17'6"
PROJECT PROPOSAL
Site: Gym conceptual, Residential
Conceptual and render proposal As a part of a freelance project, in the garden of a residential complex the proposal of recreational zone. The Gymanisum is imagined as space which caters to daily life needs and all age groups. The interactive wave facades, plinths and a terrace seating garden for children and elderly while the interior space with a huge glass facade overlooking the garden area. It is imagined as multipurpose space when the furniture is move aside so interpreted as an open plan.
PLAN OUT TO OUT AREA49'3" X 18'6"
Pavilion with different materials
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Perforated metal pavilion and different structures with bamboo, steel and mdf
HANDS-ON WORK
Site: CEPT, Campus
Perforated metal structure | Hunnarshala workshop The explorations as a part of hands-on, on-site and which involves the whole body and engages in certain production is a best learning. As a part of construction course in the first year there are explorations done to creat a pavilion where each vertical member is of different material and its behaviour and response to structure, climate and detailing. The earth construction which includes various systems and types was explored as part of three day workshop at hunnarshala.
Rammed earth constructure, CSEB, Adobe and different block building techniques
Tie-dye fabrics for the suspension installation
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Different modules of concentric rings following the lippan work
INSTALLATIONS
Site: CEPT, Campus
Paper mache - mirror work | Tie and Dye suspension The explorations of different styles of installations with a good team effort was generated as a part of my non academics. The idea is to try out different combinations of material and aesthetically convinicing frame. The mud mirror installation is ten day outcome of intense process of making paper mache and right amout of mixtures with lime and following concentric nature of circles resembling Navratri. The tie and dye installation is a suspension process of one day with fabrics, tyieng and dyeing.
Tie and Dye fabrics on madarpat cloth imagined as dynamic suspended sculpture
Through my learnings and unlearnings from five years of architecture, I believe in understanding the layers of the context, the history and the change gone through in certain period. How the characteristics of its landscapes evolve and the built-unbuilt spaces forming different relationships. The culture and associations of a common being and attachment to those centres with different spatial quality and planning always provokes me to look into its depth.
