Mumbai, 2010
Pooja Dalal Master of Architecture 2013 | University of Michigan Bachelor of Architecture 2013 | Mumbai University
Selected Works
Education
Master of Architecture, University of Michigan, May 2013 • Thesis Honors Project, M.Arch., 2013 • Schafer Scholar 2012-2013 • Taubman Scholar 2011-2012
Bachelor of Architecture, Mumbai University, May 2009
• B.G Bhatt Gold Medal for Excellence in Overall Academics and Design Thesis • Charles Correa Gold Medal for Design Thesis
Summer Exchange Program IN:CH, 2008 Bern Institute for Applied Sciences- Burgdorf, Switzerland
Selected Work Experience
Taubman College, University of Michigan, Aug 2011-Aug 2013 • Research Assistant, spring/summer 2013 Research Assistant for the Masters of Urban Design Program Research Assistant for Professor McLain Clutter for the Research on the City Grant Editorial Assistant at CriticalProductive.Inc • Graduate Student Instructor, winter 2013 Arch History 323 with Professor Andrew Herscher • Deputy Book Designer, summer 2012-Re: Tool-Kit Detroit Research and development of a ToolKit for Detroit’s hidden fabrication landscape. • Graduate Student Research Assistant, Sept 2011-Dec 2012, with Associate Dean Milton Curry -research for course-related materials for Urban Design program • Editorial Assistant, April 2012-January 2013 at CriticalProductive.Inc
BRIC Design, Mumbai, Nov 2010-Jul 2011 Junior Architect • Garden Estate Housing Development, Mumbai – Conceptual development and schematic design • Shrewsbury Housing Development, Pune – Conceptual development and schematic design • The Forest, Mumbai – Schematic design and client presentations
SPASM Design Architects, Mumbai, Jun 2009-Sept 2010 Project Architect • Jaffer House, Dar-es-Salam, Tanzania – Schematic design, design development and construction • Sunil Shah House, Lonavala, India – Schematic design and client presentations • Salama Waterfront, Dar-es-Salam, Tanzania – Urban design
Kamla Raheja Vidhyanidhi Institute for Architecture (KRVIA), Aug 2010-Sept 2011 Visiting Faculty
Pooja Dalal Master of Architecture 2013 | University of Michigan Bachelor of Architecture 2013 | Mumbai University 304B, 2200 Fuller Ct, Ann Arbor, MI-48105 Tel: 734.489.5459, E: dalalp@umich.edu
First Year – Architectural Design Studio, Bachelor’s of Architecture Responsibilities included holding studio for 12 student’s tri-weekly, grading and lecturing
Rast Architekten, Bern, Switzerland, Jul 2008-Jan 2009 Intern Architect • Aarburg City Revitalization-Urban design, schematics and mapping • Chavannes mixed-use competition design
Selected Research on Cities
Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
• City-Campus, Master’s Thesis Research 2012-2013, University of Michigan
Detroit, United States
• Re: Tool-Kit Detroit, Summer Research 2012, University of Michigan • Restructuring the Edge, Networks Studio, University of Michigan
Seoul, S. Korea
• Gates, Systems Studio, Winter 2012, University of Michigan • Yongsan WAY, Summer 2012, Vertical Cities Asia Competition, National University of Singapore
Aarburg, Switzerland
• Housing and Public Infrastructure, 2008 - 09, Rast Architekten, Bern, Switzerland
Bangalore, India
• Neighbourhood Study, 2007, KRVIA • Housing and Landuse Study, 2008, Bern institute for Applied Sciences + KRVIA
Mumbai, India • • • •
Selected Awards
Housing and Landuse Study, 2008, Bern institute for Applied Sciences + KRVIA Slum Rehabilitation and Housing, 2006, KRVIA Study of Peripheral Urbanism, 2005, KRVIA Study of Juhu Gaothan, 2003, KRVIA
Thesis Honors Project, M.Arch. Thesis, 2013
Titled, “Constructing the Other Space, Federal University of Manaus”, Taubman College, University of Michigan
South America Project, 2013
Graduate Thesis selected and will be exhibited at the Buenos Aires Biennale, Argentina
Schafer Scholar, 2012-2013
Taubman College, University of Michigan
Vertical Cities Asia Competition, Winner Phase 1, 2012 summer
‘Gates’ is a multifunctional housing project in Seoul, S.Korea, University of Michigan, National University of Singapore
Taubman Scholar, 2011-2012
Taubman College, University of Michigan
Charles Correa Gold Medal, 2009
Undergraduate Design Dissertation - The Porous Edge: A New Imagination for Institutional Communities, UDRI
B.G Bhatt Gold Medal, 2009
Overall Academics and Design Thesis, KRVIA
Honor of Merit IIA, 2007
Outstanding performance in Overall Academics, Fourth Year, B.Arch, Indian Institute of Architects
Honor of Merit 09,07,06
• 2009 First Place - Outstanding performance in Overall Academics and Architectural Design, Final Year B.Arch • 2007 Third Place - Outstanding performance in Overall Academics and Architectural Design, Fourth Year B.Arch • 2006 Second Place - Outstanding performance in Overall Academics and Architectural Design, Third Year B.Arch
Skills
AutoCAD, Vray, Adobe Creative Suite, Vector Works, Sketch-up, Office and Corel Draw Graphics Suite, Revit
Bagomoyo House
Bagomoyo House
“Bagomoyo House�, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania Project Architect with Spasm Design Architects, Mumbai This house is located on the eastern beach of Dar-es-Salaam in a high end residential area of Bagomoyo. The design emphasizes a service bar to which all living functions are attached. The house is radically different from its two sides, and responds appropriately to its immediate surroundings - the Beach and the Garden. The beach side is differently glazed, always enhancing views to the ocean. The garden side being more reserved incorporating courtyards and internal gardens to include the greenery existing on site. The house has five bedrooms, a service quarter, two courtyards, a cantilever steel staircase, a swimming deck and an out house. The color, material and design caters to the tropical weather of Dar-es-Salaam. The roof, one of the key features of the house is a ten meter cantilever, spanned with a composite steel and RCC structure. The house is a ground plus one storey structure. This house required a lot of control and co-ordination between the contractor, construction manager and the structural engineers. The house uses a lot of local materials making it more cost efficient. The house also uses the local flora and fauna to make tropical spaces like courtyards and bamboo gardens within its design. Every window detail is customized, leading to the making of numerous construction drawings for windows, doors and other small details.
Bagomoyo House
Bagomoyo House
Facade The house set in a gorgeous beachside location faces the ocean creating the want for a glass facade on the beach side. The windows are all sliding, opening up to a large balcony. The wood used in the frames is all local Tanzanian. Each shutter is made on site, with unique detailing. The frames are attached to the cantilevered roof and the stone floor. Lighting is incoprated within the design of the shutters.
Bagomoyo House
Bagomoyo House
Roof The 9 meter cantilevered roof is angled giving maximum opening towards the beach side of the house. There were a few manipulations necessary on site to account for trees. The cantilever was reduced from 13 meters to 9 meters as directed by the structural engineers. The roof structure was in steel fixed on to the RCC structure of the house making the whole house a composite. The roof also carried all the services and HVAC required making the ceiling a clean surface.
Bagomoyo House
Bagomoyo House
Door The main entrance door is a custom designed double sided wood door with an inbuilt handle. It frames the entrance of the house and compliments the site and scene that the house lies within. The entrance also contains a pergola resting on two walls, angled to create the entering effect.
Bagomoyo House
Bagomoyo House
Stair The stair is partly cantilevered and partly RCC framed. The cantilever is supported on one side by an angled beam. The 6mm bent steel plate is clad with wood to create the tread. The railing is a bent metal tube, constructed on site.
Bagomoyo House
Bagomoyo House
Windows Every window in the house - kitchen, bathrooms, bedrooms and living are custom designed making the window schedule one of the most difficult and comprehensive aspects for the construction of the house. The pictured window is a wood frame box, with sliding long shutters.
Bagomoyo House
Bagomoyo House
Pool The large swimming pool overlooking the beach calls for an infinity edge to maintain the continuum of the water. The pool is lined by a timber deck. The pool also consists of an inbuilt in-situ jacuzzi.
41, Dhairyavir
Prayer Room The jaalis and windows give a surreal quality to the prayer room. The swing, also from the previous house makes this simple space, a space of gathering for my grandmothers and parents. Everyday chai ritual happens here in this space.
41, Dhairyavir
“41, Dhairyavir�, Mumbai, India Project Architect Reuse, refurnish and save money, is what my Dad asked me when he gave me my very first project, while I was still in architecture school. Every new peice of furniture was custom designed, every painting decision was stressful with the clients being your parents. I thoroughly enjoyed doing this house, and remains to be one of my most favorite and personal spaces. The house is a duplex, with living and dining functions on the ground level and bedrooms on the second floor. The house is dotted with terraces and swings, and a lot of wall space for my mom to hang up her paintings. Everything from the old house has been reused, which include strange shaped windows and door frames. The house was constructed on a very strict budget, and with no monetary gain for the architect. The house exemplifies the people who live it. The blues and yellows, complement the tropical weather we have in Mumbai, and there is a lot of input from my parents - the clients, making them the true owners of this design.
41, Dhairyavir
Shutters and Color The reuse of multi-colored doors from our old house, makes the new house even more special. Attached in this house are old memories retrofitted to the new design. Blues and yellows, make the house lively and calming at the same time.
41, Dhairyavir
Living Room The living room is a 14 foot high open floor. The heigh was achieved due to the refurbishment of the old and new building and to match levels within. The heigh allows for hanging light fixtures and taller colored spaces. The blue-box featured in the image is the kitchen, above which lies the media room. The yellow stone flooring is a sand stone, polished but making the place look more tropical and fitting for my family who resides within. Every table and chair is custom designed and fabricated on site.
Garden Estate
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Layout The layout is a simple 3 apartment building floor plan. Each Apartment is a three bedroom apartment with each room having their own balcony and full height windows.
Garden Estate
“Garden Estate�, Mumbai, India Project Architect, Bric Design Architects A developer driven project in Mumbai, called for only one thing, how to save square footage while still making the project and apartments clean and large. I was given the project with that brief from the firm principal. While reworking the plan, and making it as easy to construct, with shear walls taking the load and each apartment having a double height balcony, the project was finally accepted by the clients. Using wood louvres and tropical vertical gardens reflected the environment in which the building was sited. The lobby of the building has a large community garden on every alternate floor.
Garden Estate
Facade The staircase is faced with a steel mesh and glass detail, the wooden louvres act as a facade for the kitchen and bathroom ducts and the alternating balconies are common garden spaces for the residents to use.
Garden Estate
Facade The facade consists of double heighten balconies, wooden screens covering the kitchen and bathroom ducts, and double heighten balcony-gardens which act as common gathering space for the residents of each floor.
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“City West Zurich�, Zurich, Switzerland Intern Architect, Rast Architekten, Bern
The Fifty-One office building is part of the urban development area in Zurich City West. Click here to go to the site of the former Maag site, a new district of high quality and density. Following the urban master plan, the building is divided into three basement floors and four floors wreath, which cantilever over the round base. The building is designed with highly flexible floor plan to meet the fluctuations of the market. Identity as an element that forms a three-story lobby the address for 1 to 25 tenants. Fifty-one building in an intelligent energy-saving concept is implemented. A ground water heat pump is used as an energy source and so uses the free energy of the ground water.
City West Zurich
Facade Facade edsign involved making various combinations of color and material, and design to suit the office area around Zurich as well as the interior space of the building.
City West Zurich
Facade Facade edsign involved making various combinations of color and material, and design to suit the office area around Zurich as well as the interior space of the building.
Leh Ladakh, 2011
Prague, 2009
Research on Cities “But the cities visited by Marco Polo were always different from those thought of by the emperor. ‘And yet I have constructed in my mind a model city from which all possible cities can be deduced,’ Kublai said. ‘It contains everything corresponding to the norm. Since the cities that exist diverge in varying degree from the norm, I need only foresee the exceptions to the norm and calculate the most probable combinations.’ ‘I have also thought of a model city from which I deduce all the others’ Marco answered, ‘It is a city made only of exceptions, exclusions, incongruities, contradictions. If such a city is the most improbable, by reducing the number of elements, we increase the probability that the city really exists. So I have only to subtract exceptions from my model, and in whatever direction I proceed, I will arrive at one of the cities which, always as an exception, exist. But I cannot force my operation beyond a certain limit: I would achieve cities too probable to be real.’ “ - Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
RV / HOUSE ADDITION
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DAILY DRIVER sidewalk road CAMPERVAN
1st CAR : DAILY DRIVER Recommended car: 1999 GMC Suburban GMT400 179,945 miles $4,120
Recommended car: 1996 29’ Four Winds 5000 181,469 miles $7,995
home made steel tube structure level two storage level one storage TRUCK / PERMANENT STORAGE 2 1
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STORAGE
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Recommended car: 1986 Oldsmobile 88 Delta Royal Blue V8 Coupe 212,289 miles $1,200
Recommended car: 2001 Mitshubishi Galant ES 136,249 miles $4,695
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Recommended car: 1992 Ford F-150 2WD Regular Cab 149,987 miles $2,499
Recommended car: 1982 Porsche 924 S 190,000 miles $3,300
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Total: 1,365,611 miles $30,689
Recommended car: 1989 Honda Civic DX Hatchback 184,502 miles $1,995
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There is a certain way in which people park their cars and use their car in Detroit. This forms an alternate car-landscape in Detroit. While each house owner may have 3-4 cars, they each are utilized and parked in certain ways such that they can make optimum use of the cars in different ways.
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Recommended car: 2000 Dodge Caravan SE 131,170 miles $4,885
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ELECTRICAL
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AUTOMOTIVE ASSEMBLAGE
RIVER ROUGE TRUCK PLANT
MANUFACTURING INFRASTRUCTURE FORD MOTOR COMPANY
ROMEO ENGINE PLANT
ROMEO, MICHIGAN 44 MILES
VAN DYKE TRANSMISSION STERLING HEIGHTS, MICHIGAN 27.7 MILES
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Automobile Assembly Detroit Networks Studio, University of Michigan Team: Dorin Baul, Pooja Dalal Watching the assembly process of a single truck at the Ford Rouge factory is confusing, exciting and awe-inspiring. The process, systems, parts, man and machine co-ordination, the inspections and the assembly all happen so fast that it is almost impossile to fathom the iformation. The graph below is a an ‘easy to understand’ process representation of the assemblage of the single truck at Ford Rouge.
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1,900,000 SQUARE FEET 1,134 EMPLOYEES ENGINES PRODUCED: 3.9L V6 4.2L V6 5.4L V8
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1,320,000 SQUARE FEET STEEL MILL
26,613,000 SQUARE FEET 6,000 EMPLOYEES STAMPING PAINTING ASSEMBLY: FORD TRUCKS
ST. THOMAS ASSEMBLY PLANT
TALBOTVILLE, ONTARIO 137 MILES
OAKVILLE ASSEMBLY PLANT OAKVILLE, ONTARIO 225 MILES
RAWSONVILLE PARTS
1,700,000 SQUARE FEET 805 EMPLOYEES PARTS MANUFACTURED: ALTERNATORS FUEL PUMPS STARTERS
WOODHAVEN FORGE
2,700,720 SQUARE FEET 1,058 EMPLOYEES PANEL STAMPING: TAILGATES DOOR PANELS HOODS
CHICAGO ASSEMBLY
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 278 MILES
CHICAGO STAMPING
CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS 267 MILES
AUTO ALLIANCE INT.
OWNED BY: FORD - 50% MAZDA - 50% 2,974,011 SQUARE FEET 1,763 EMPLOYEES CAR ASSEMBLY: MUSTANG
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The processes mentioned at the top of the graph include pre-assembly stages of stamping, welding and painting various metal parts after which the assembled body and the chassis of the car arrive seperately at the Assembly building. The first phase of Assembly is the disassembly, after which different parts of the truck travel on motorized conveyor belts, where man and robots add various parts to the body of the truck.
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LIMA ENGINE PLANT
CLEVELAND CASTING
CLEVELAND ENGINE #1
WALTON HILLS STAMPING
LIMA, OHIO 133 MILES
BROOK PARK, OHIO 156 MILES
CLEVELAND ENGINE #2
BROOK PARK, OHIO 156 MILES
BROOK PARK, OHIO 160 MILES
WALTON HILLS, OHIO 171 MILES
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glassblowing shop
sewing shop
blacksmith shop
concrete countertops shop
awning + signage shop
Re-Toolkit Detroit
Detroit, Research on Cities Grant Deputy Book Designer with Julia McMorrough, Heidi Beebe, John Marshall and Seth Ellis â&#x20AC;&#x153;You often hear that you can get anything made in Detroit. We wanted to find out what and where. The objective of the research is to gather insights about the skills and services available in the city today by conducting interviews with people who make things.We are also mapping the locations of workshops and studios and putting together a handbook for best communication practices between designers and fabricators.Our ultimate goal is to better understand how fabrication in Detroit is evolving and to facilitate collaboration between the design and fabrication communities. The study is funded by a research grant from the University of Michigan.
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Re-imagining the City through various nodes: City square: Relooking at the square to enliven it and restore the older buildings. Opening up the public -private connections and getting the structures to be directly in contact with the outside. This helps in livening up the space. The images are different nodes of the city, which are strategically changed or some architectural elements are introduced to make these nodes socially active.
Aarburg Renewal Aarburg, Switzerland
Intern Architect with Rast Architekten The small city lies in the southwest Aargau at an Engnis Aare in the lower Wiggertal. It lies in the intersection of the most important traffic routes of Switzerland. The dominant landmark is the Aarburg Fortress, one of Switzerlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest castles and a heritage site of national significance. The populations of Aarburg is 7000 of over 40 percent being foreign nationals in an area of 1.7 square miles. The project sanctioned by the city board was to research and develop proposals to revive the city and how to architecturally bring influx of population and make the city more socially active. After analyzing the public spaces in the city, we selected a few nodes and important points - such as the market square, the promenades near the river, some circles, the station and some cross roads. These nodes were studied throughly and documented with maps and images and plans. The proposal essentially was to re-imagine these nodes of the city and to plan them so that they could enliven the space around, by placing architectural interventions strategically, example, in the city square a public area was created by increasing seating space for restaurants which spill over in to the larger public.
The occupied area is concentrated between the railway line and highway. Agricultural land is located primarily on western side, close to the old gaothans; and on the edges of forest land on the east.Salt pans have developed between the natural drainage channels cutting across the area in the north-south direction. The eastern part has large tracts of forest land which come under the Borivli national park. the western part has some quarries within its mountainous no-development zone .
Peripheral Urbanism Mumbai, India
Fourth Year Urban Design Studio Kamla Raheja Vidhyanidhi Institute for Architecture Team: Ridhima Anand, Siddharth Nadkarny, Thomas Kariath, Pooja Dalal The Mira-Bhayander region lies north-west of Mumbai and is a part of the Mumbai metropolitan region, but is considered to be the north post fringe quickly to get urbanized in the past ten years. The Mira-Bhayander region is governed by the MiraBhayander Municipal Council (MBMC) and consists of 19 villages: Khari, Ghoddeo, Penpada, Mira, Kashi, Navghar, Bhayander, Mahajanwadi, Chene, Varsave, Rai Murdhe, Murdhe, Morva, Uttan, dongri, Tarodi, Pali and Chowk. The area is divided into 50 electoral wards for administrative purposes. There are 10 sectors created on the basis of topographical features and population densities. The main development has occurred along the two main transport corridors that cut across this region: the Western Railway line and the Western Express highway. BASIC INFORMATION Area: 79.80 sq.km., Population: (2001 census): 6.51 lakh (2006 estimate) : 8.5 lakh Population Density: 8157 people/sq.km.
The impact of a wall as a barrier can be devastating in the ecology in which it exists. Hampering natural flows of nature have had serious impacts on the region. Cities continue to trade across the wall adapt ing to the changing environments, forming a morecomplex connection with the other side.The wall, also a man-made political construct, a straight line, receives a strange reaction from the surrounding environment. While the distinction between the two countries is apparent whether in the laying out of agricultural fields or planning of cities, the wall as a divider makes this distinction formal.
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The Border Field State Park is a part of the US governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2500 acre Tijuana River National Estuarine Reserve - the only coastal lagoon in the south-west part of California. The geography is complex made up of sand dunes and beaches, desert and forest mixed with the urban landscape of todays cities. The park is home to About 30 endangered species of flora and fauna. The park is also of geologic and archaeological importance-with sites varying in age from 7300 years ago. On this park was created the US-Mexico Border in 1849, a physical obstruct, to not only people in the area but to the environment as a whole, breaking apart complex systems of nature. Today the park lies mostly in Tijuana, Mexico and partly in the US and two cities reacted differently to the physical presence of the border-wall.
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San Diego-Tijuana Propositions Studio University of Michigan The 700 mile physical and political boundary between the two countries is a barrier not only for the People but also geology, water, flora, fauna, greens and hardscapes. The boundary, as an object- flows over land and sea, mountains and rivers disregarding its impact on anything in its path. Cities and landscapes have reacted differently to this physical object. While cities like Tijuana, Mexicali or Tecate lean up against this boundary,, either negotiating or disregarding the other side, landscapes get interrupted. Rivers change their nature, bears and birds get imprisoned on either sides, and parks get broken apart.
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Invisible Networks Amritsar, India
Fourth Year Urban Design Studio Kamla Raheja Vidhyanidhi Institute for Architecture Amritsar is a city on contradictions. Nothing which seems is actually true. The city is constantly recovering from its violent past, memories of which are evident everywhere, subtly in the city. The old walled city is dense and highly populated. One of the most peaceful and serene pilgrimage place lies in the center of the city. Our aim as a class of 40, was to find out hidden networks, connections and tensions in this historic city of Amritsar. The things we discovered were unimaginable, the tensions between religious institutions, the power and control of the city, the underground fights, the corrupt government etc. Nothing about this city is what meets the eye. Straight from the Italo Calvino book.