Urban Design Portfolio | Nitya Patel

URBAN DESIGN

NANASHI

WORK SAMPLE Under-Grad

Nitya Patel

As a design student, I’m musing upon certain fundamental questions of design concerning our day to day lives. I am interested in understanding the gap between the way cities work and how we aspire to design them, I observe the life and the details of people and the way it shapes the city. Or do cities shape people? Hence, on an adventure to find answers to all my speculation from the billions of stories that are waiting to be discovered.

Ahmedabad,Gujarat, India Contact

26 September 1998

Language

DOB

+91 8469393950 nitya.patel.bud17@cept.ac.in English Hindi Gujarati

Education

Completed - 2017 2017 - Present (2022)

Workshops Rammed Earth, Adobe Bricks Hunnarshala, Bhuj, India Relative Study Program Majuli, Assam, India Aldo Van Eyck’s Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands Evolutionary Computation Workshop Ahmedabad, India Experience Research Assistant (Summer ‘18) CIC Child Friendly Cities, Ahmedabad Interest Parametric Design Sustainable Design Graphic Design Illustrations Speculative Design

Anand Niketan, Shilaj (ISC), Ahmedabad, India CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India

Digital Skills Autocad Rhinoceros Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign Adobe Illustrator Grasshopper (+other plug-ins) ArcGIS Manual Skills Drafting Model Making Wood and Metal tools Hobby Reading Traveling Music Movies and Shows

CURRICULUM VITAE

Nitya Patel

CONTENTS 01

from Utopia to Heterotopia

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Generative Technique for Urban Placemaking

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Hands-on 1:1 Contruction

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Relative Study Program

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Streets and the City

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Designing Water Infrastructure for Civic Expression

Incremental Migrant housing

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Porous Neighbourhood

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Construction and Structure

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Exploring Majuli Island

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Activating Riverfront

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Parasitic Co-existance and Symbiosis

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It is to breakfree from our longing to be perfect into finding meaning of our being. The portfolio is named ‘Nanashi’ that means something which does not have an identity.The fish personifies myself and the bowl represents the imperfect world that we live it.

Surat 2019

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from Utopia to Heterotopia

Incremental Migrant housing

The studio aims on understanding the concept of mass housing across space and time. It focuses on analyzing the modular units and the issues of it. By exploring housing structures and cluster formation. The idea is to create an adaptive habitat for the migrant communities associated.

on-site drawing

The migrant community have settled in from rural regions of Maharashtra. They have settled in this neighbourhood of Surat since last 30 years. The community is dominantly Marathi Muslim and have a patriarchal and conservative belief. This was observed in their daily life a well.

The aim of this research was to understand and document the selected community and their daily life. This was crutial in order to understand the socio-spatial and the live-work arrangement of the neighbourhood.

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team work

Community settlement

team work

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Design Development

The aim of this excerise was to take forward the understandings of community and to answer the question why certain things happen and what are the factors that affect them. This would help in design developement of the housing so as to reciprocate to the actual needs of the community.

The two concept of open-built relationship and what can be flexible for the community to decide and what should be fixed, which is difficult to manage on their own.

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Design

Proces

The Project aims at providing an incremental housing to the community living in Nehrunagar Surat. The process of mass housing sounds industrial which lacks a personal touch or the individualistic nature of the present site. It aims at providing half built houses which are affordable and give them an oppurtunity to expand in the prescribed limit as a rule. This wil help the community to expand when their family size increases or the financial stabilty strengthens.

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Final Model

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Visualization

The cross sections are an attempt to heterotopia. The aim of this exercise was to understand the urban element and the open spaces. How a particular activity would be supported by just the context.These are crucial in understanding the scale and proportion of the built with respect to open. They try to help visualize the spaces in the housing. The creation of the chowks and multiplicity of the existing sites are kept in mind while making this. The facade extension though not encouraged are bound to happen considering the nature of existing site.

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Ahmedbabad 2018

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Generative Techniques for Urban Placemaking

Porous Neighbourhood

The studio aims at challenging students to deal with the multiple layers of a city system. The relationship between these layers of network, land-use, open-space, built-density and morphology is multi-directional. Hence, With the advent of computational techniques to design, a possibility to link the analysis and design. The tools of use Rhinoceros + Grasshopper along with analogue and digital analytical tools for analysing environmental data.

Block A

Block B

Block C

FSI <1

Block D

1 - 1.5 1.5 - 2 2 - 2.5 > 2.5

Block E

The site is a green belt undergoing development near Jivraj Park, Ahmedabad. Basic analysis was conducted to understand the site by quantification of data.

Largely the FSI used is from 1 to 1.5. It is not very dense in terms of built and population both. The type in the northern side is mainly bangalows and as we move southwards it shifts to low rise apartments. The new development which is proposed is mainly high rise aparments in the surroundings. team work 9

Urban Block Study

400 m.sq

420m.sq 75 (300 pph)

1080 m.sq

1000 m.sq

190 (700 pph)

1500 m.sq

1000 m.sq

750 m.sq

190 (700 pph)

750 m.sq

420 m.sq

400 m.sq

125 (500 pph)

3 6 0 m.sq

900 m.sq

800 m.sq

1000 m.sq

700 m.sq

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Attractors and time scale Psuedocode

One open space

Select closest pointsto 32

For streets - Edges closest point of the op space

T1 - Parks, Vendors, Juice stalls/ Shops, Educational institution (12 hours)

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12hrs

T1

15hrs

17hrs

T2

17hrs

12hrs

T3

17hrs

T4

10hrs

Attractors (activities) were identified according to the time they functioned for. This resulted into 3 types of time scales. Combinations of these activities can be made such that time scale of the place becomes larger and hence, more people out on streets for longer duration.

This makes the spaces active for more time period so it is safe and attracts people in some outdoor activities. team work

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Removing if the unit s is less than 9 m.sq.

T2- Religious institutes (17 hours)

T3 - Utility stores, Bus stops/ depot (14 hours)

Non Uniform scaling to maximum in x and y dire

To create a netwo such that it resul

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Fitness Criteria

Two open space

Three to five open space

A. Maximizing the area of Public Space To provide open spaces which is also a network and are connected which can be used for daily travel and promote walking and use of Public Transport.

B. Maximizing Volume To accomodate more people and increasing density.

Select closest points- 12 to 16

Total area range- 600750 m.sq

C. Minimizing Sunlight on open spaces.

To increase Climatic Comfort in the summer months which lasts more than half of the year. Shaded Open spaces are used more than unshadeded.

D. Maximize distance between Open Spaces To have number of small open spaces in the block so that it is used more effienctly.

For streets - Short walk between two open spaces

For streets - Edges to 2 closest point of the open space

E. Maximize Sky view factor.

Direct Sunlight can heat up open and semi open spaces so, to provide comforatable public spaces and walking corridors which are thermally comfortable.

Strategies Removing if the unit size is less than 9 m.sq.

Removing if the unit size is less than 10 m.sq.

Different sizes of Open spaces Range of area given as a variable. To have different scales of Public spaces.

Staggering (non uniform scaling) To have semi private spaces, corridors and small staggered pockets.

Merging surfaces of each floors to remove overlaps.

Extruding 3m per floor, if area < 20m.sq then heights 6m max or else 15m.

Variable Heights To have terraces as shared spaces at multiple levels

Short walk (closest point) To connect the open spaces with each other and streets so minimise distance.

ork of active open spaces with supporting amenities and activities lts into pedestrian friendly neighbourhood.

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Phenotypes B A

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E D

Population : 196 Open space per person : 5 m.sq

B A

C

E D

Population : 179 Open space per person : 7 m.sq

B A

C

E D

Population : 207 Open space per person : 5 m.sq

low density

medium density

high density

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B A

C

E D

Population : 205 Open space per person : 5 m.sq

B A

C

E D

Population : 184 Open space per person : 6 m.sq

B A

C

E D

Population : 217 Open space per person : 5 m.sq

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Ahmedbabad 2018

03

Hands-On 1:1 Construction

Construction and Structure

The course aimed to build a composite structure consisting of five different materials, brick, concrete, bamboo, wood and metal. The batch of 40 students were divided to focus on one material to makex the finished product. The idea was to understand the contruction process not only from foundation to roof but also material procurement, managing finances, etc.

team work

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Assam, 2017

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Relative Study Program

Exploring Majuli Island

Majuli Island on the river Bhramaputra in Assam has been one of the undiscovered places by the masses. It is a beautiful rural island with bamboo contruction. The social and the cultural lifestyle is very different from the rest of India. Unfortunately, the island might disappear. Hence, to document and understand the rich layers of Assamese lifestyle and settlement, the project was taken up.

Samuguri Satra

Garmur Villa

Satras are religious communities in the larger umbrella of HIndu Assamese culture. It is a structure with open space around it and the community living by the side of it.

Garmur Village is a small settlement which consists of bamboo huts in the farms and brick houses along it. People eat what they grow. The small activities take place in the backyard of the houses. The people are very welcoming which shows their faith in humans.

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Garmur Village

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team work

Pune, 2018

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Street and the City

Activating Riverfront

The Studio aims at understanding how cities are formed by the Urban Fabric which is resultant of streets. This is to undertsand how streets formulate the city and what role does it play on citizenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. These are public infrastructure which is used by all. They are a space of expression which should cater to the needs of people.

Hence, the focus was on to understand the larger nework and street as public space.

The frontage and the open land in the city of Pune is neglected. Not only the river is polluted by sewage but the ecology of the surrounding area is so disturbed that it is inhabitable.

This makes it difficult to commute from end to end and across. Street Design is not for the Vehicles but for the people, who use it for thier daily activities. It is a democratic public space which is used by all.

Streets should cater to the people and pedestrians and also sustainble for the environment.

Hence, through tactical urbanism and space making, a cohesive nework which integrates commute and recreation.w

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Ahmedabad, 2020

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Designing Water Infrastructure for Civic Expression

Campus Mapping and Speculation

The studio investigates the many natures and scales of water and develop an approach to documentation, representation and design techniques to render visible a new collective imagination around water. The idea is has evolved throughout the years and so has the infrastrcuture on campus. Physically there to demonstrate a speculative design using infrastructure as a medium of civic expression and CEPT more importantly has been change in surface materials. Looking through the lens of flow of water, it is unimaginable that how much the cycle here i.e. natural seepage was disrupted. And the way these materials are public life. used donot benefit the natural factors and the ecology. Hence, the term parasatic co-existence How to read model?

Parasitic Co-existance (mapping)

Different materials are mapped here according to porosity and unit of water falling on it. The comparison between two models show the change in materiality and porosity over the years. brick pav

brick

Soil grass

soil

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brick pav

brick

Grass

brick

brick pav

grass grass

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Concrete conc

Building

Pavementconc

brick

brickconc pav brick brick pav

grass

grass soil

Non Porous

soil soil

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soil

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Porous

change in material difference

2 unit (B+A)

1 unit (A)

G1 G2

Key

G3

G4

G5

G6 G7

G8 G9 G10

G11

G12 G13

G14

G15

CEPT has evolved throughout the years and so has the infrastrcuture on campus. Physically there has been change in surface materials. Looking through the lens of flow of water, it is unimaginable that how much the cycle here i.e. natural seepage was disrupted. And the way these materials are used donot benefit the natural factors and the ecology. Hence, the term parasatic co-existence. Different materials are mapped here according to porosity and unit of water falling on it. The comparison between two models show the change in materiality and porosity over the years.

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This comparison helps us understand that how materials distrupt the flow of water and it may not look very evident but even in this scale the change is drastic. Not much thought is given when such infrastructure is added, but they are toxic as water contaminates while trying to reach back to the ground. At the scale of urbanization it is unfathomable.

Nitya Patel

Speculation

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Nitya Patel +91 8469393950 nitya.patel.bud17@cept.ac.in