2022
PRADITI SINGH Selected Works 2018-2022
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S.1-7
BOWEN HOMES II S.8-14
KONKAN EXPERIENCE NETWORK III S.15-19
SPONGE CITY IV S.20-26
PROFESSIONAL WORKS Urban Regeneration_Koliwada Street Activation_BMC Heritage Conservation_Bandstand
V S.27-31
DRAWING RESEARCH Speculative Urbanism_Varanasi Drawing Research Architectural Photography
Digital Mixed Media, Oil Pastel on Recycled Paper (11x17 in), c.2019
PROLOGUE ARCHITECTURE & CITY/ The selected works of architecture+city are and will be a work in progress. As a result they are all cross-pollinating across time scales each work influencing the other. The praxis scale ranges from the granular fabric of a furniture to the systemic developments of the urban. In doing so, the work itself is a diaspora of concepts, tools and logics.
PS. Digital Mixed Media, Oil Paint on Canvas (8x7 in), c.2019
E CH E
CH AT TA HO O
42,000 _displaced people
HOLLYWOOD COURTS [ 9.72 ] - 202
14,000_units demolished 4690_new affordable* units
PERRY HOMES [ 156 ] - 1100
BANKHEAD COURTS [ 36.4 A ] - 550 units
SINCE 2009
E CH E CH AT TA HO O
1.8
mi
42,000 _displaced people
HOLLYWOOD COURTS [ 9.72 ] - 202
14,000_units demolished PALMER HOUSE [ 7.5 ] 4690_new
+
- 250
PERRY HOMES [ 156 ] - 1100
BANKHEAD COURTS BOWEN HOMES [ 36.4 A ] - 550 units [ 74 A ] - 650 units
1.8
+
+Financial Overstudy of Public House Projects / Federal+State Investments
SINCE 2009
- 520
mi
+
MAGNOLIA PARK [ 24 A] + 400 / - 677
- 250
U-RESCUE VILLA [ 5 ]
SCHOLARS LANDING [ 16.5 ] HENDRON SQ [ 26.8 ]
+ 560 / - 500 - 520
5.5
mi ASHLEYdoCOLLEGE TOWN [ 32 ] w
nto wn
+376 / - 510
GRADY HOMES [ 26.1 ]
- 70
TECHWOOD / CLARKS HOMES [ 62.5 ] +542 / - 654
+ 450 / - 606
+ 304 / - 495
+ 1000 / - 694
COLUMBIA MECHANICSVILLE [ 18.4 ] GRADY HOMES [ 26.1 ]
+ 304 - 495 + 174 / -/768
ASHLEY COLLEGE TOWN [ 32 ]
CAPITOL HOMES [ 36.5 ]
+376 / - 510
JOHN HOPE HOMES [ 50 ]
+ 450 / - 606
EAST LAKE +542 / - 65
CAPITOL HOMES [ 36.5 ]
MAGNOLIA PARK [ 24 A]
+ 400 / - 677 JOHN HOPE HOMES [ 50 ]
SCHOLARS LANDING [ 16.5 ]
+ 560 / - 500
TECHWOOD / CLARKS HOMES [ 62.5 ] +542 / - 654
PALMER HOUSE [ 7.5 ] BOWEN HOMES [ 74 A ] - 650 units
U-RESCUE VILLA [ 5 ] - 70
HENDRON SQ [ 26.8 ] 5.5 mi do wn tow n
affordable* units
+ 1000 / - 694
EAST LAKE MEADOWS [ 62.5 ]
ENGLEWOOD MANOR +542[ /30.5 - 654] - 324
VILLAGES AT CARVER [ 97.8 ] ] COLUMBIA MECHANICSVILLE [ 18.4
+ 174 //-990 - 768 +220
ENGLEWOOD MANOR [ 30.5 ] - 324
VILLAGES AT CARVER [ 97.8 ]
+220 /-990
JONES NORTH [ 6 A] - 145 JONES NORTH [ 6 A] - 145
1938
1950
JONES SOUTH [ 13.5 A] - 160 1970
1960
1950 1960
1980
1970
FORMER PUBLIC HOUSING SITES
1938
MIXED INCOME MIXED INCOME HOUSING
01. COLLECTIVE REPARATIONS Urban Regeneration, Collective Housing Systems Collaborators: Praditi Singh, Lucas Netto, Galina Novikova, Cesar Delgado +Emanuel Admassu, Nina Cooke, Lexi Tsien, Chat Trevisio
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HOUSING MONEY FLOW
1990
MONEY FLOW SITES OF DEMOLITION
SITES OF
Within the zone of liberation, crime is no longer dictated by the state, but redirected towards harms committed by past governing regimes who have allowed acts against marginalized communities and ecologies. The community depends on collective actions rooted in repair translated to produce new forms of living and autonomous zones.
Role: Conceptual System + DesignDevelopment, Digital Visualisation Bowen Homes, Alanta,GA
1980
PRESENT
FORMER PUBLIC HOUSING SITES
VACANT OWNED VACANT CITYCITY OWNED
JONES SOUTH [ 13.5 A] - 160
Introduction
Forensic Urbanism/ Socio-economic and spatial tactics are built into the zone of former site of abandonment using the logics. An open fabric is maintained that connects with natural environment The aim is to reverse the extractive intentions of capitalist regimes, moving towards collective modes of production and mutual-aid networks.
LOGICS/
urban recycling
re-urbanizing
re-connecting
re-naturalizing
Crime01/DEFUNDING
Publicly Sourced Imgs +Photoshop, Illustrator References to Forensic Architecture
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SOCIO-SPATIAL-TEMPORAL STRATEGY / Spatial Interventions host activities of care and maintenance, production and consumption, privacy and gathering, where the temporary appropriation of both spaces, labor, and goods allow for self-sufficiency within the community. For example, if we follow a day in the life of an auto-shop worker, we see intimate interactions of living systems of dining, learning and care.
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EXISTING STRUCTURE
WOOD STRUCTURE
MASONRY WALLS
RECYCLED MATERIAL CLADDINGS
SELF 3D PRINTED CLADDING
5 YEARS
10 YEARS
15 YEARS
20 YEARS
CONSUMPTION
DISTRIBUTION
PRODUCTION
Dispossesion+Displacement > Collective Sustenance Model
PROPOSED DEVICE
ANTIDOTE TO STATE SANCTIONED CRIMES
MUTUAL AID NETWORK
EXISTING
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Rhino, V-RAY+ Illustrator Conceptual Diagrams: Setting the Stage
PROPOSED INTERIOR
Forced Domesticity+Mobilty > Deconstructing A
Design
PRODUCING
CARING
UTO REPAIR
LIVING COOKING
LEARNING
RECYCLING
DINING
LIVING
EXISTING STRUCTURE
Apartmentalised Living
WOOD STRUCTURE
MASONRY WALLS
RECYCLED MATERIAL CLADDINGS
SELF 3D PRINTED CLADDING
RECYCLING WASTE TO ENERGY
WASTE COLLECTING
RECYCLING WASTE TO MATERIALS
LEARNING + RECYCLING HUMAN MOBILITY
MONITORING WATER
ECOLOGICAL MOBILITY
Ecological Extraction > Ecology as Protagonist
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COMPOSTING AUTO REPAIR SHOP
GREENHOUSE
AUTO REPAIR SHOP AUTO REPAIR
ACCESS TO UPPER FLOORS MOBILE LIBRARY
PROPOSED EXISTING
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Rhino+ V-RAY+ Illustrator Experiments with Linework+Texture
Design
GREENHOUSE
STORAGE, SORTING
SHOP
LOCAL MARKET
RESTAURANT
FARMING
Collective Sustenance/ Automotive repair and fast food stops in conjunction with dense green areas become sites for collective caring. Pocket farm and local markets evolve additively. Using hydroponics they interesect with the existing fabric and expand vertically and horizontally.The socio-economic ethos evolves as residents begin to grow modules for self sustenace, create learning experiences with the process and begin to share food collectively through a mobile network of vendors.
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BEFORE
05y
MODULES/01
AFTER (in action)
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Rhino+ V-RAY, Photoshop+ Illustrator Reference: Tatiana Bilbao’s ‘Forecast’, AD-WO ‘Market’, Olalekan Jeyfious ‘On Futures’
10y
15y
20y
Collective Sustenance/ The linear stretch of the collage explores the multi-dimensionality of time, space continuum. In process it aims to capture the social-economic intricacies that make space. Documenting the action of particpation to the product of participation, the diagram oscillates been present-future projections with the use of materiality. Adaptive: Socio-TemporalStructural Sytems that evolve with the existing structures.
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FABRIC MODULATION: LOCAL Regional Strategy/ Modular Incremental Growth responds directly to the history of the sites. At a granular scale it begins with a grassroots collaboration with legacy residents, local small business owners and Community driven developers. Zooming out to the larger process of transformation, we begin tracing the actions taken to achieve collective sufficiency. The de-privatization of amenities enables alternative futures and a new imagined domesticity.
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Rhino+ V-RAY+ Illustrator STRATEGY: Additive Modules
Following this system growth, the mutual aid network grows through the additions or building reprogramming, starting from the three identified moments, towards other neighborhoods; sharing maintenance and responsibility for care and shared spaces. In a world after property; cars and oil, an obsolete gas station and convenience store becomes ground for rethinking domesticity and mobility, together with a daycare and courtyards where ecology weaves in between buildings.
Design
FABRIC MODULATION: REGIONAL
Rhino + V-RAY+ Photoshop+ Illustrator
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Rhino+ V-RAY Reference to ‘Realism’
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River Chatahoochee + Extractive Industrial Complex
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Rhino+ V-RAY Reference to ‘Realism’
Sample 02-Ecology as Protagonist/ Remediate polluted zones, by transforming nearby industrial facilities into sites of sustainable production. The river flows with the regional bike path that claims the right of way underneath transmission lines. Adjacent to the Waste Facility, that now hosts plastic recycling to provide new materials for cladding, while also using waste to energy systems, providing for the region.
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02. KONKAN EXPERIENCE NETWORK Sustainable Tourism, Environment -Social Inclusion, Participatory Design + Engagement Individual Project: Undergraduate Thesis Parul Kumtha, Mustansir Dalvi
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In pursuit of an architectural project that is more than an object in teh background,an affirmation to personal identity if landscape and phenomeno, this research cross-pollonizes human, social and environmental strategies. KEN aims to create a comprehensive online+offline craft of tourism rooted in sustainablity and minimum footprints.
QGIS, Photoshop + Illustrator. Reference: Govt.of Maharashtra, State Gazeteer + Personal travels Western Maharashtra, India
SUSTAINABLE OPERATIVE NETWORKS / By establishing functional nodes at a regional and local scale an urban rhytm is generated; further accentuated by devised mobility. KEN conserves and actiavtes local knowlegde by creating sustainable livelihood opportunities by creating a aparticipatory design process. LOGICS/
RE-Programming
Reflecting
RE-Connecting
Autocad+Photoshop, Pigma on Cellulose Fiber Paper,Photographs: Praditi Singh,Konkan Diaries c.2018-19
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KONKAN EXPERIENCE NETWORK:
HILLS/ Recreational+Site Sensitive alignment of units
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Google Imagery + Photoshop
FARMS/ Interstitial units for learn
Research
ning, storage & farming
COAST/ Fragmented units for collaboration & Resilient tourism
Autocad+Photoshop, illustrator; Sketches: Pigma on Cellulose Fiber Paper_c.2018
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Research
(L) MAPPING/ 6 Data overlaid to produce maps-1_Tourism Experience Points+ Trails, 2_Ethnocentric composition of the region, 3_These are used to create an inclusive+ accessible tourist guide.
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QGIS, Photoshop + Illustrator_c.2018 Datasets: Reference: Govt.of Maharashtra, State Gazeteer + Personal travels c.2018-2019
Design
(R) ZOOM IN SITE PLAN/ 6 Data overlaid to produce maps-1_Tourism Experience Points+ Trails, 2_Ethnocentric composition of the region, 3_These are used to create an inclusive+ accessible tourist guide.
Autocad+Photoshop, Pigma on Cellulose Fiber Paper,Photographs: Praditi Singh,Konkan Diaries c.2018-19
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Digital Media: Autocad Drawing + Illustrator + Photoshop_c.2019
Design
SITE STUDY + ZONING CONCEPT/ One specific site on the Coast is studied at the subset of all overlaid datasets.The site is studied primarily through its existing foliage. . The height at +1.0M determines open space availabke for interventions at ground level. Crown heights simplify volumetric analysis for height extent, Solar capture + Wind pattern
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SURFACES
LINES: MOBILITY
POINTS:FOLLY
ZONES
30x30m GRID (construct)+
VOIDS at 0-5M absl
SET
Mapping Trees
COMPONENTS Follies, Lines & Surfaces compile to redefine responsible tourism & experiences of the host & guest ii
Handsketches, Photoshop + Illustrator_c.2018 Pigma on Cold Press Paper c.2019, Digital Media
ON SITE: LAYERS COLLAPSED/ Follies, Lines & Surfaces compile to redefine responsible tourism & experiences of the host & guest
Design
SCRIPT
start:
SET & SCRIPT/ The set is the space, while script walks the viewr, host and visitor through a newly explored project.
Autocad+Photoshop, Pigma on Cellulose Fiber Paper,Photographs: Praditi Singh,Konkan Diaries c.2018-19
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F02: HABITATION/ Resting Spots+Multipurpose stays for guest ii
Autocad+ Photoshop, Illustrator Linework+Texture play
Design
SPECIES ORIENTED FOLLY/ Harbringer of collaborative+healthy ecosystems Sketchup +Photoshop, Illustrator
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03. SPONGE CITY: COLLEGE POINT RE-urbanizing, Social Cohesion, Reprogramming Collaborators: Praditi Singh, Tanuja Dhanashekaran, Rae Li, Zhifan Li Summer2021_NansVoron,SagiGolan,GalenPurdee, AustinSekong, JaeShin
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The observation of our close environment and the links between human beings and our current environment suggest an emergent result, one of disconnection. In the mapping of systems we realise that regions are not fixed political boundaries but rather assemblages of ecosystems, interspecies entanglements, infrastructural imperatives, etc.climatic forces.
Role: Conceptual System + DesignDevelopment, Digital Visualisation Flushing, Queens, NY
Introduction
Sponge Urbanism/ A sponge that absorbs large amount of industrial waste and city’s cso discharge; We use the phenomena of circular metabolism of a real sponge: absorb, filter, hold and release to design a continuous and endless circulation in a sustainable sponge, One that activates the land through a dynamic cultural and ecological response, and another that revitalises the an industry’s waste potential into another’s resource.
LOGICS/
RE-Connectivity
Humanizing
Re-orienting Occupation
Crime01/DEFUNDING
Google Street View Sourced Imgs +Photoshop, Illustrator References to Dilip Da Cunha’s Sequential Sections
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Research TRANSECT: CIRCULAR WASTE SYSTEMS
-COLLEGE POINT
Vacant Lands: 26960 sq.m.
Parking/Impermeable Asphalt: 63791 sq.m.
03 Asphalt Industrial Units 02 Cement Manufacturing District
Nature_Reclaimed land+ 500y floodplain
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QGIS+Photoshop, Illustrator Flushing, Queens, NY
Connectivity_Roads
Connectivity_Cycling
Connectivity_Subway
Design COLLEGE POINT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT
ILLUSTRATED ORTHO PHOTOMAP A
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B
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40.768452, -73.832764. C
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0.05mi
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B
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Illustrated Site Plan: College Point
Socially+Physically Permeable Industrial units
QGIS+Photoshop, Illustrator Flushing, Queens, NY
Floating wetlands repair the water’s health
Extended Green Walkways+Decks
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TRANSECT: COLLEGE POINT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT
TRANSECT: CIRCULAR WASTE SYSTEMS
THE DISTRICT reorganizes the correlative relation between periphery - industry - city for improved cohesion of the territory .The Constructed wetlands (both in land and water) substitute the lack of salt marshes, where these industries have been built today. It helps treat the pollutants from the ground through a microbial action and releases clean water into the system. iii
QGIS+Photoshop, Illustrator Strategy: Closed Loop Economies: integrate industry
Design
SKETCHUP+V-Ray, Photoshop+Illustrator
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Industrial corriodor on existing wetlands made porous(from North East corner)
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Sketchup+VRAY+Photoshop, Illustrator Flushing, Queens, NY
Design
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Sketchup+VRAY+Photoshop, Illustrator Flushing, Queens, NY
Design
Rhino + Lumion + Photoshop+ Illustrator
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04. INTEGRATING URBAN VILLAGE Urban Village, Cultural Distinction+Integration Team Project (led a team of 17) Prof. Vilas Ramteke, Sir JJ College of Architecture
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Creeping threat of urbanisation has caused physicalenvironmental and cultural degradation in the urban village of Worli Koliwada, in Mumbai. Furthermore Sea Level Change is a dominant threat to this coastal hamlet. Using morphological adaptations, street repurposing the proposal plans for a inclusive and sustainable retreat.
Research, Conceptual System + DesignDevelopment, Digital Visualisation Research Assistantship
Professional Works:Research & Design Proposal
RECOGNITION/ Using morphological adaptations and street
repurposing the proposal redefines the village’s complex urban-social fabric. It transforms the location through conservation of the piscine culture. Using tools of appropriation, pedestrianizing the cultural energy and humanity is restored with functionality.
LOGICS/
re-urbanizing
re-cognition
Handsketch:Pigma ink+Watercolor on 210 x 297 mm 200gsm paper
Humanizing
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Research
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Role: Conceptual System + DesignDevelopment, Digital Visualisation Worli koliwada, Traditional Fishing CO-OP Mumbai
Professional Works:Mapping
Urban Activation: Morphology
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QGIS, illustrator Worli Koliwada, Indigeneous Fishing Co-Op, Mumbai
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Identify Nodes
SWOT Analysis + Context
Placemaking
Proposal
2m wide footpath
Plaza with interspersed green space Hybrid of Cycle Stands and seating spaces
Challenges First node after entrance Congested Road with pedestrian+vehicular traffic Celebration hub during events Lack of infrastructure Narrow roads, unused spaces
Open-air Exhibtory spaces Children’s Play Area Urban Playground
Challenges Surrounded by residential & mixed use settlements Misuse of open spaces Congested due to heavy two-wheeler traffic Small Dumping area Seasonal celebratory hub
Amphitheatre Seating Gallery for restaurants and stalls
Context Adjacent to Fort Precinct
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Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator Worli Koliwada, Mumbai
Professional Works:Design
Urban Activation: Morphology
Handsketch:Pigma ink+Watercolor, Photoshop, Sketchup+Lumion, Illustrator
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+Financial Overstudy of Public House Projects / Federal+State Investments
05. STREET ACTIVATION: BMC RE-urbanizing, Social Inclusion, Community Activation Individual Project Selected as the Best Proposal for Construction Mumbai Municipal Corporation
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Role: Design Development to Execution Drawings Mumbai, India
Under Mumbai Commission for Art, Music and Culture (MCAMC), an initiative of MCGM, finding and creating of urban spaces is one of the key tasks. The Urban inserts are envisioned as a vibrant, dynamic, ‘Free for all people’s spaces’ for holding formal and informal activities for creating and updating local knowledge that is also more widely relevant in the country.
Professional Work: Design& Stakeholder Engagement
Activating Streetscape/ The design is undertaken: to ireinvigorate, encourage and catalyze art; To revitalize the public culture of the city, To Creating functional, livable, culturally dynamic and inclusive public spaces which demonstrate ‘local distinctiveness’. After a elaborate research and survey of over 110 local residents and 23 ward officers, the design was conceived within the span of 2 weeks and shortlisted winner for by the E- Ward and Heritage Committee, MCAMC, Mumbai.
LOGICS/
urban recycling
re-urbanizing
re-connecting
re-naturalizing
Streetscape view
Publicly Sourced Imgs +Photoshop, Illustrator
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Autocad, Rhino, Photoshop Mumbai, India
Professional Work: Design& Stakeholder Engagement
Google Maps Imagery, Autocad, Photoshop
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Professional Work HERITAGE RESTORATION: COOPERAGE BANDSTAND
Near Completion: Site Images
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Design Development, Construction Drawings,Digital Visualisation, Distress Mapping Mumbai, India
Professional Work IDENTIFICATION, MAPPING+RESTORATION
Academic Research continued at GSAPP: Story Map Link (Click here)
Design Development, Construction Drawings,Digital Visualisation, Urban Mapping Mumbai, India
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Drawing Research:Investigations Manikarnika Ghat, Varanasi, IN
AFTER
BEFORE
06. FABRICS & TYPOLOGIES Speculative Urbanism, Fabrics+Complexities Team Work: Chiasato, Praditi Singh Prof. Richard Plunz, Columbia GSAPP
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SPECULATIVE URBAN FABRICS/ Using the complex urban+social dynamics of Varanasi, the creatve tools trace the changing perspectives of urban design within an ever-changing global context with deep layers. Urbanism is viewed as the production of space-integrating aspects of design, ecology, and engineering, as well as other influences on urban cognition such as social, economical, and psychological interactions.
Conceptual System + DesignDevelopment, Digital Visualisation Varanasi, India
Speculative Urbaism: Design
Manikarnika Ghat, Varanasi, IN
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Circulation Routes
140sq.m.
120sq.m. +
Residential Units
Water, Electrical Supply
Service Areas
Community Gathering Spaces
Small scale commercial activity Commercial Front/ Grocery Stores Community Gathering Spaces
Commercial Activity Spiritual Activity Informal Square NEIGHBOURHOOD GATES
Formal entrances to each neighbourhood demarcated by a range of segregated socio-economic activities
Rhino+Illustrator
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Investigations Forced Domesticity, 08.2021 Individual Project
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Illustrator Sectional Collapse on Plan: Domesticity in Indian Household. Ref. Film media: Lunchbox
Counter Mapping: MS-Excel, Photoshop + Illustrator Data Visualization
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Drawing Research:Investigations
street vendor trajectory time and space
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Illustrator Spatio-temporal, Scalar Collapse on Plan: Mobility
teamwork_CesarDelgao & Praditi Singh
MOBILITY OF STREET VENDORS/ South Asian system of vendors shed light on the democratic trajectory of food through the city. The wheeled structural and soci0o-cultural system allows free mobility of vendors across traditional urban and architectural territories. The permeability of device and user offers an opportunity to shift the food distribution narrative from capitalised resources to common public. It creates temporal food hubs and spaces.
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Drawing Research:Investigations
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Illustrator Spatio-temporal, Scalar Collapse on Plan: Mobility
teamwork_CesarDelgao & Praditi Singh
COLLECTIVE LIVING:TOLOU/ The complex walled dynamic of 12th-20th CE Chinese Collective Housing was borne as a defense strategy against nomadic wars. The systematic collective strategy when extracted from the walls in 21st CE presents an opportunity to imagine new living practices. The collective produce and sharing of sustenance can form basis for dismantle capitalised practrices.
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Photography: Spatial Tool
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Photography as a medium to explore spatial devices
Diagramming Research
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The development of these Selected Works would not have been possible without the constructive criticism and support of: -Faculty & Friends at Columbia GSAPP MSAUD’22 + MSAAD’22 + M.Arch’23 -Faculty & Friends at Sir J.J. College of Architecture -Mukesh Mehta, MM Project Consultants -Rahul Chemburkar, Vaastu Vidhaan Architects A cross pollination of conversations with colleagues and confidantes, these selected works are as collective as they are individual. Therefore in all, while the authorship is defined in each project, each piece is collaborative in a manner of amalgamation of thoughts, experiences from mentors and friends from various walks of life.