Palak Shah - Architecture Portfolio

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ARCHITECTURE P O R T F O L I O

PALAK P. SHAH



CONTENT PROFESSIONAL WORK

RE-INCARNATING VARANASI RE-INCARNATING INDIA

Project management, Research and design Varanasi

FARMHOUSE

Design development and presentation Ahmedabad

LANDSCAPE FOR RESIDENTIAL TOWERS Landscape design, detail Ahmedabad

GARDEN LANDSCAPE Planter design Ahmedabad

TERRACE BAR LOUNGE ( Current ) Design Varanasi

ACADEMIC WORK

CELEBRATING THE EDGE OF THE CITY DESIGN DISSERTATION Research, Master planning, Design Dahisar Chek-naka, Mumbai

NON-STANDARD HOUSING

Residential tower – non standard design Dadar, Mumbai

COMMUNITY CENTRE Design Old town, Leh, Ladakh



PROFESSIONAL WORKS M/s. Prabhakar B. Bhagwat Landscape India Design development and project management


Varanasi, a city bound by more than just lines; a city destroyed and created through the fabric of ever-changing times. The city needs to reclaim this glorious supreme title. Varanasi needs to be exposed gently; layer-by-layer, her immaculate beauty needs to be shown to the world.


re-INCARNATING VARANASI re-INCARNATING INDIA Project management + Research and Design


Intent Varanasi is not only about religion, or spirituality, or craft, or learning, or music, or cuisine. It is all that and more; and it has been that for centuries. A cosmopolitan city that does not belong to a state, or a country, but to the universe; that does not belong to a people but to mankind; and it must assume its position in this order.

Evening at the Ganga ghat

The city of Benaras is spread over an area of 24 sq kms and has a population of 1.2 million people. It is 320 km from Lucknow, and 120 kms from Allahabad. This work allows examination of all issues of the fabric, allowing the delving into layers that are physical, cultural, historical, anthropological, environmental, and those linked to policy, and finance.


Growth

The urban band that developed along the river from Asi in south to Raj Ghat in the north and is composed of river facing buildings (mainly palaces) and Ghats.

The distinctive urban fabric flanking the river-front urban band and developing westwards from it, known as the pakka mahal, it consists of a web of mohallas, weaved together.

The gardens and pleasure residences of the rich merchants on the lines of the Mughal gardens, situated on the outskirts of the 18th century city.

The recent plotted development extending from the outskirts of the 18th century city to the cantonment area.

The four parts of Varanasi Sarnath

Cantonment Area

Varuna river

Ganga river

Core city Ghats Sandbar

Varanasi Assi river BHU

Varanasi’s Old City, is situated near the banks of the River Ganga, it has crowded narrow lanes with road side shops and scores of Hindu temples on either side. With an intense atmosphere, Varanasi’s labyrinthine has a rich culture. The Ghats of Varanasi, are an integral component of the city. There are around 100 Ghats, steps all lead to the banks of the Ganga. This extensive line enhances the river front with a multitude of shrines, temples and palaces. Banaras Hindu University, a university located in Varanasi, was established in 1916. It is one of the largest residential universities in Asia, with over 20,000 students. The Cantonment Area, is where the British had their administrative headquarters, churches, railway station, during the time of the British Raj.


Conservation Restoring the ghats

Issues and opportunities Masterplan

Conservation Restoring the historic fabric

To re Green Fingers Commercial and residential

Green Fingers

Revival of Sub surface hydrological connections Revival of the sacred tanks Bathing Kunds along the ghats

Urban Ark

Industrial and low cost housing

Institutional services

Urban planning Lack of centralized planning Agricultural land converted into a sprawl The Urban Ark

Culture Infrastructure Identification Capital and patronage Ganga ki Jhanki - Cultural walk Craft and culture revival and upgradation


Electrical and water supply

G a n g a - Va r u n a Sangam

ourism and ecreation Ganga ki Jhanki

Sewerage and storm water management

Sacred bathing tanks Restoring the ghats

Revival of Assi River

Sacred forest and its shadow

Waste management

Eco zone

Managing waste, sewer, landfills to allow navigation Varuna Ganga Sangam Yatra - cultural centre and Assi river revival

Managing the sandbar and flow of water Protecting the horizon Sandbar, Sacred forest and shadow of forest


Introducing the sacred tanks along the holy ghats Crytal lagoon technology - For filtration of tanks The technology helps maintaining the purity and clarity of water in large volumes at low costs. 400 sensors per acre continually monitor bacteria and algae levels. When those levels get too high, the system automatically injects the chemicals such as chlorine (to disinfect the water) and lime (to keep the pH level balanced). The amount of material needed is 100 times lesser than what’s used in an equivalent filtering system. Technology can use any type of water: salt, fresh or brackish water.

Assi ghat

Kedar ghat

Dashaswamedh ghat

Panchganga ghat

Raj ghat

Present section

Proposed section


Present condition

Proposed bathing tank

Total number of ghats identified = 12 Total Area of the tanks = 24,000 sq. m Number of people accommodated at peak hours = 60,000 (per hour)


Ganga ki Jhanki - The Cultural Walk Andhra Ashram

Ranamahal palace

Kashi Vishwanath temple

Manikarnika ghat Assi ghat

Mahadev temple Content of the Walk

Adi Keshav ghat The complete route of the Ganga Gallery is 11.5kms long and includes

Mythological evolution Ecological narratives People’s narratives Spiritual narratives Education and music Culture and craft

Annapurna seva Ashram Ganga chowk Hanuman temple Andhra Ashram

Ganga Gallery Route - (Part detail)

Ghats Palaces Ashrams Chowks Temples Mosques

Dashashwamedha ghat Ranamahal palace Digpatiya Palace Indore state palace


Present condition

Proposed route


Varuna Ganga Navigation route

Transport hub/ Boarding jetty 63400 sq.m.

Transport hub

Woodland park 23200 sq.m.

Transit node


Transit node/ Alighting Jetty 23200 sq.m.

Cultural centre

Cultural Center 100000 sq.m.

Institutional Ghats

Institutional Ghats 23200 sq.m.


The Sandbar - The Sacred forest - Shadow of the sacred forest The sandbar - 531 acres (214920 sq. m) Built area Institutions and public buildings - 85 acres (3217.9 sq. m) The sacred forest - 348.8 acres (1332711 sq. m) Shadow of the sacred forest Institution and public buildings Green Buffer The sacred forest Main road The ganges is a force of nature. When the river changes direction at Benaras, erosion on the side of the ghats and deposition of silt on the opposite banks has created the sandbar. As the expanse of the sandbar increases, width of river reduces Risk of flooding increases Therefore there is a need to manage the sandbar and the flow of the river Unplanned construction Force of river adds High velocity at the on the ghats leads to to the pressure on western banks erodes structural failure the ghats

Transport hub

Water channel

Sandbar

Wetland park

Medium velocity Low velocity At the easter banks deposits silt

Silt deposition creates sandbar


Varuna Ganga confluence - Boarding point jetty

Tanks for sacred ablutions

Cultural centre - Varuna Ganga navigation route

Sandbar - Sacred forest - Shadow of the sacred forest


The site is a vast farm consisting agricultural areas, orchards of chickoo, lemon, jamun and sandalwood and waterbody. The Idea was to create a space for the built the helps experience the various frames of landscape that the site has to offer; to create a space that allows an interaction with the landscape and responds to the various elements.


FARMHOUSE Ahmedabad Design Development


Frames of landscapes

Lines and Axis

Enclosed walk

Experiencing the landscape lines

Experiencing the avenue


Sense of bounded court

Response to the lake

Objects in harmony


Fields Avenue of Jamun trees

Bedroom

Coconut trees

Verandah

Living Area

Parking

Porch

Court

Pool

Entrance

Trees

Array of Asopalav trees

Ground Floor Plan

Bedroom

Livivng Area

Section

Courtyard

Pool Area

Avenue of tree


Fields

Utility Kitchen Dining Area Deck

f Jamun es Lake

Dining Area

Kitchen

Lake


View of the avenue of Jamun trees through the livivng area

View of the house from the edge of the lake

View through the screened corridor looking into the courtyard


View of the bounded courtyard

View of the Dining area and the lake from the pool area

View of the Bedrooms and Machaan from the fields


The Giant Dinosaur I give an identity to the emerging urbanity, it has no soul, no charachter, no personality. I bring in the expression of the human spirit, and more simply, a smile to people’s faces, In the new supplanted urbanity, that they call homes.


RESIDENTIAL LANDSCAPE Ahmedabad Fabrication drawing


Ladder

5.15m 4.00m

Unfolded Elevation

Plan Seen away from the main court is the court of caves, and the giant dinosaur that lurks beyond it. The head of this animal intrudes into the court of caves and stitches two spaces. Over a time the court will have tall bamboo clumps and lotus and fish in the pond. The caves are quiet retreats , their roofs lined with grass. The dinosaur is 32 mts long. Details of the giant dinosaur, that is a bridge, a slide, ladders, and swings and a joyous play structure where many an imagination can run riot.

Swings


Bridge

Slide


Four Little Soldiers The stand up straight and tall, They are now the family members, one and all, They put on the green; not for money, fame and glory, But for the untold story. The story of the fight for lives, though not for their own, And to protect the unvieling treasure And the beautiful throne.


GARDEN FOR A HOUSE Ahmedabad Planter Design

3.5m

2.8m

1.8m

1.5m

0.0m



PROFESSIONAL WORKS Current TERRACE BAR LOUNGE Varanasi Design


Storage

Semi covered area

Office

Kitchen

Courtyard

Lounge

Staircase to the private lounge

Reception area

Entrance

Lift shaft Terrace

Plan

Bar lounge


Cross-section through the courtyard

Longitudinal section through the courtyard



ACADEMIC WORK Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies Mumbai University


Desires of the city The city of Mumbai, surrounded by the sea on three sides, is poised to interact with its edges. The many interesting and complex conditions, that one encounters at these edges, was of vital interest to my dissertation. The city as a kaliedoscope of the desires of its citizens, and the structures and artwork are the physical manifestation of these desires. ......the Edge The Growth of Mumbai which has taken place over two Centuries has placed its “markers of Progression� along its edges. As and when the city’s Edges got marked, they were dotted with Public Institutions which act as important catalysts for development of these edges as cultural encounter spaces.


CELEBRATING THE EDGE Dahisar Chek-Naka, Mumbai Thesis and Design Dissertation



Site Dahisar Chek naka Dahisar is a small as well as very crowded suburb of Mumbai.. Located on the city limits of Mumbai, Dahisar is the last suburb and railway station within the Mumbai Suburban District; past Dahisar lie the city’s extended suburbs. The dahisarchecknaka and the octroi situated on the western express highway no.8 is the barrier to get into the city. This barrier creates a discomforting environment for living in the area around due to the bars and lodges for the truck drivers waiting for octroi clearances, prostitution.

The people prefer going across by the train as they have to pay a toll every time they cross the checknaka. There are not many open public spaces around and no places for relaxing around which is the reason why many people restrain from moving across dahisar. Reducing the density of population from the main city is very important and hence it important that people shift to the extended suburbs.


Urban and green landscapes

Suburban townships in Dahisar and Mira rd

Upcoming residential area

Toll Naka

Vast green landscapes

Welcome gate to the Western Express Highway

Vast green landscapes

Vast green landscapes


Existing landscapes Urban and Natural


Scenario The Proposals to remove the Toll Naka, is followed by insertion of Programs- Suburban, Urban and Nature inspired depending upon their respective Proximities from the Highway. Urban It being at close proximity to the Highway, is about the chaos and the density present in the urban areasHawkers, Street Shopping, promenades. Suburban It involves the introduction of Institutions which attribute a character to the Suburb Library, Play Grounds, Art Institutions Nature It culminates ones transition from the Chaos of Urban to Suburban to the Serenity in Nature. Viewing Tower, Resort, Recreational areas, Pavilions.


The political boundary of Mumbai

The Western Express Highway

The Stitch - interactive edges into the nature


Resources in Architecture

Ruins Old, Redundant Architeure and structures of past become important spaces- of leisure, culture- speaking of the history of a region and thereby binding the present to its past. It is a dynamic resource that is constantly discovered, unearthed and reused. Nature Nature acts as the most coveted and important space- for the urban residents. Green spaces, Gardens, Reserves allow for a special connnection with ones roots- Plants, Cosmos, etc.. Water Edges Cities and civilizations have grown along Coastal and River edges. These Edges allow for trade as well as a Sublime and beautiful space to contemplate and enjoy. River fronts, Promenades, Sea Faces, Lake fronts and Beaches represent these spaces. Urban-scape/ Concrete-scape A birds’eye view of the sprawling cities is always demanded for its protection- from protruding enemies, and the tremors of nature. these Towers often provide a astounding view of the Urban scape- which it self becomes the subject of the viewer.


Pleasures in Architecture

The gestures and materials of a space are what give it a human touch. The acts- dancing, feeling the breeze, the texture of stone, walking through the green, gazing at the reflection of the sky in the water, dancing atop the stones in green, feeling the silence that nature has to offer- these gestures are the pleasures in architecture.

Design elements


Interactive edges

The Stitch


Masterplan

The urban The highway / chek naka acts as an edge to the city. The green beyond this physical edge is resource to the concrete jungle. It is this urban desire to experience the serene in the resource. The intervention is the instrument that stitches the urban to the nature; chaos to the sublime.


Programme



Design

City Library Play ground

Kiosks Public Seating Pavilions

Pavilion

Plan

Street elevation

Kiosks

Landscape and public seating

Police


Museum Police chowky

Botanical museum Plant Nursery Cafe and restaurant

Pavilion

Pavilion

station

Museum

Botanical museum and nursery

Cafeteria and restaurant




Library


Path outside the Library leading to the reading pavilion


Cafeteria within the museum


Botanical museum - plant nursery


The wind tunnel A wind tunnel is a research tool used in aerodynamic research to study the effects of air moving past solid objects. Air moves in smooth linear paths when it enters the first part of the tunnel which cathches the wind. The wind , when enters the second part of the tunnel (test section), is most accelerated. As the wind moves out of the second part, it becomes turbulant and is let out of the tunnel.


NON STANDARD HOUSING Five gardens, Dadar , Mumbai Architecture Design - 8th Semester


PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

THE WIND TUNNEL

LIVING ROOM

RELATION OF THE WIND TUNNEL RELATION OF THE ROOM WITH WITH THE CLIMATE THE CLIMATE It is a program that needs the most The North-West and South-West are cross centilation and air circulation. the two directions from where the site It needs to be windy. It needs to be recieves most of its wind. towards the end of the tunnel so that The tunnels therefore have been ori- it recieves accelerated wind from the ented in order to recieve maximum tunnel and and the other functions of wind. the appartment that it crosses.

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

RELATION OF THE ROOM WITH THE OUTSIDE/TUNNEL Living room staggered and divided into two so that it acquires natural wind from ouside and accelerated wind from the tunnel.

NON STANDARD HOUSING This was an experimental studio with a predetermined process of identifying systems for creating a sustainable environment. These systems are developed into a set of relationships or parameters, to design high rise structure. I choose the wind tunnel as my system, which was developed into a series of relationships visual, volumetric, climatic, etc Area - 10,000 sq.m. INTENT To get maximum velocity of air in the narrow part of the tunnel. To use this amount of wind to make the building sustainable. Deflectors direct the wind in the tunnel to the appartment room. Since the living room needs maximum amount of wind and air circulation, the living room is placed adjacent to the narrow end of the tunnel. And the livivng room opens into the tunnel. The tunnel serves an a semiprivate shared space between two appartments.


BEDROOM

STUDY AREA

KITCHEN AND DINING ROOM

RELATION OF THE ROOM WITH THE CLIMATE Its a private fuction. All the bedrooms have an access from the living room through a buffer space. The wind recieved should be undisturbed. Usable area should be shaded at all the time.

RELATION OF THE ROOM WITH THE CLIMATE Its a rather open function, wind direcly enters into this area. Wind first enters this area. Evening sun enters the area but the usable area needs to be shaded. Therefore a projection or a buffer area is needed that helps cool the wind.

RELATION OF THE ROOM WITH THE CLIMATE The kitchen and dining room are connected to the living room and are placed towards the end of the tunnel and on the upper level of the appartment as the hot air from the kitchen rises and becomes turbulent.

RELATION OF THE ROOM WITH THE OUTSIDE/TUNNEL Bedroom has visual connect with the tunnel.

RELATION OF THE ROOM WITH THE OUTSIDE/TUNNEL Direct access to the outside/ courtyard with a small semiprivate space/ buffer in between.

RELATION OF THE ROOM WITH THE OUTSIDE/TUNNEL Has no direct connection to the tunnel. The kitchen has a personal veranda. It forms a relation with the upper side of the tunnel.


Terrace Lift

Lobby Kitchen

Living room Dining Area Living Area

Bedroom

Courtyard Study

Bedroom

Plan cut at 26 m

Dining room

Kitchen Lobby

Study

Bedroom

Living room

Courtyard Lobby

Study

Bedroom

Living room

Kitchen

Dining room

Plan cut at 16.75 m

Lift


Home theatre Living room

Common Area

Lift core

Tunnel Courtyard

Common Area

Bedroom

Living Area

Kitchen

Home theatre/ Common room

Courtyard

Car park

Gym room Reading lounge

Section aa’

Reception


Site (20m x 14.5m) Wind velocity is most excessive on the corners of a building. Using post tension slabs for larger spans Therefore columns 1m x 1m in the corners

Tunnels The tunnel overlap forming a square in between Ring beam formed outside - periferal binding Square formed inside - internal binding

The core The service core is complete shear The core made first and the slabs connect to the core The core gives it stability

The tension member Flying columns are added at the tension points - the v columns Which tranfer the load on the periferal beam

Structure

Using the principle of the twisted buildingswhere the columns remain in the same place and the slabs keep shifting. The tunnel in this case shift but the columns are stationery. Using the construction technique - slip form; the core is first built leaving dowels for slabs.


Elevation



COMMUNITY CENTRE Old Town- Leh, Ladakh Architecture Design - 4th Semester


MEASURE DRAWINGS 11500 Ft above sea level Measure drawing and interpretation Old town, Leh, Ladakh Above: Orthographic representation of the building


Detailed axonometric view of a Bay window

Elevation


Site

Concept

Leh - Located at an altitude of 3500 meters above sea level. The site is an old village situated at the foot of the palace of the king of Leh. The program is developed so as to revive the old village as a tourist destination to generate revenue for the villagers. Area - 300 sq.m.

Viewing the landscape through the lense of the coloured flags with the religious inscriptions, creates a foreground for the vast and beautiful landscape and the old architecture. The flowy film of material takes the shape of the rockscape giving range of folds, adding a different texture to the site.

Tunnel

Site

Passage

Storage area

Cattle shed

Site


Exploring the form and flow of the material as it finds its way and lays itself on the landscape of the site.


Plan at 21m

Office Area

Toilets

Longitudinal Section

Courtyard


Reflected Ceiling Plan cut at 18m

Working studio

Exhibition area


RESUME DETAILS

EDUCATION

EMPLOYMENT

Palak P. Shah Age: 24 years Nationality: Indian Contact: palak9890@gmail.com Mob.: +91 99 67 199298

2008- 2013 B. Arch Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture Mumbai University GPA: 3.5 First Class

January 2015 Self Employed Design + Execution of a Terrace Bar Lounge, Varanasi, India

2006-2008 Higher Secondary School in Science K.J. Somaiya College Mumbai University Score: 87% Distinction 2006 Secondary School Fatima High School Mumbai University Score: 86% Distinction

2014 January- 2014 December Junior Architect Prabhakar B. Bhagwat - Landscape India Design development + Research May 2013 - August 2013 Undergraduate Internship at Prabhakar B. Bhagwat - Landscape India Design development + Research + Project management


INVOLVEMENTS

AWARDS

2011 2010- KRVIA Summer Exchange Program Mumbai University- Excellence in Research studio on Micro-urbanArchitecture Design ism theory with Students of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts(GAFA) at Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture Mumbai, India 2012 Winter Exchange Program at of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts(GAFA) Guangzhou, China Workshop on the art of Anamorphosis 2013 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at Annual Introductory Workshop

SKILLS Sketching Hand drafting

SOFTWARES Autocad 2D Rhinoceros Photoshop Indesign MS Office Sketchup Vray- Basic

LANGUAGES Gujarati(Mother tongue) English Hindi Marathi


PALAK SHAH 2015


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