Pranit Rawat
Bachelor in Architecture
PERSONAL INFORMATION Name
: Pranit Rawat
Birthday
: 6th Oct 1992
Nationality : Indian Language
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE Hello! I’m Pranit Rawat, I’ve attained my Bachelors degree in Architecture. I desire to propose new design solutions in our current architectural context by understanding and inferring to our cultural and historic heritage.
: English, Hindi, Marathi
WORK EXPERIENCE 2017
CONTACT Ph no.
: +91 9225109851
: pranit.rawat7@gmail.com
Documentary Movie Shot a Documentary movie on Isolation and Impermenance in the Valley of Zanskar, Himalayas. Trailer- https://vimeo.com/210064584
Address : D-301, Zodiac, Serene Meadows, Nasik
SOFTWARE SKILLS AutoCAD
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Revit
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Sketchup
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Indesign
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Photoshop
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Illustrator
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Keyshot
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FinalCut Pro
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CorelDraw
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MS Office
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PHYSICAL SKILLS
Locus Design Interned and worked as a Junior Architect
2016
Freelance Work Worked on an interior project of an Apartment Collobrated with Anuj Daga for Godrej Materials Library, Mumbai Collaborated with MNO Architects, Mumbai for metal Container Housing
EDUCATION 2015
Architecture Degree Academy Of Architecture, Mumbai University
2010
Secondary Education B.Y.K College of Commerce, Nasik
2008
School Kilbil St. Joseh’s High School, Nasik.
HOBBIES
Diagramming Sketching Physical Model Making
Photography
Sketching
Tennis
Travel Videography
Contents
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Borivali, Mumbai, Maharashtra
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Interior Project
Master Architect’s Intervention
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Materials Library, Godrej
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Documentary Movie
Museum
Learning Center
Kiddie, Himachal Pradesh
Marrying Machines
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Housing
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Design Dissertation
Badlapur, Mumbai, Maharashtra
Identity of Nashik
Nasik
Vikroli, Mumbai
Anicca- An Exploration of Zanskar
Museum
Site : Borivalli, Mumbai, Maharashtra The program brief for this project aims to bring the long forgotten games and our modern cultural games together in the form of a spatial archive – a museum not only for studying, researching, exhibiting and performing the games but also to evolve new conceptual ideas informing forms and spaces within which these games are played. The site is situated within the Sports Authority of India complex in Mumbai city. This complex runs north to south with facilities and equipment for various sports along the single, spinal road. Mumbai lacks open spaces. The idea to lift as much of the structure off the ground to allow the ground to be utilized, generate open and semiopen spaces, which is a major requirement of the city. The
museum intends to take the essence of Indian traditional games that are, Celebration, joy, festival, happiness. Indian traditional games spread a lot of collective joy, which is affects the social surrounding. The design intends the translate the essence into architectural language, the idea was creating one large volume that comprises of small planes and volumes within it. These planes and volumes play within each other, changing the essence, light, Volumetric composition of a space. The archive begins from the top most level and ends up in the courtyard which is way below the ground level to increase the intimacy level as the viewer proceeds.
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Gro mo und difi ed Intersection of Volumes
Planes connecting volumes which fit in a bigger volume
Modification of ground and addition of interactive outer layer forming the bigger volume
Glass wall Creepers and wooden louvers
Section of cafeteria
Administration block
Archive Museum Store
Cafeteria
Ticket Counter
Exhibition Area
Library
Axonometric view
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Temporary Exhibition
Video Presentation
Games or Sports showcase
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1 - Exhibition Area 2 - Museum Store 3 - Ticket Counter 4 - Cafeteria 5 - Storage 6 - Parking 7 - Staff Parking 8 - Pantry
Master Architect’s intervention Le Corbusier, Ronchamp
Ronchamp is one of the most poetic and nueanched sturcture designed by Le Corbusier. He believed profoundly in the power of musical harmony to bring us closer to the divine. Through its ear like form, the tower acts as a receiver of sound. The word of God enters Mary’s body in the form of light. Since the brief demanded an intervention in the project the way Corburier would have, the springing point revolves around taking corbusier’s surrealist idea of roof floating above the church in the form of cloud ahead and making a staircase with translucent latex covering that would take to the visitior to the heaven closer to the God above the cloud.
By reversing the wall openings of a wall of fortress at Ronchamp, Corbusier is trying to suggest the idea that the freedom is inside ronchamp, which is the other way in a Fortress
I believe in the skin of things, as in that of women’ Wrote Le Corbusier in When the Cathedrals were White
The Valpinçon Bather by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Skin of Ronchamp
The curvy roof of Ronchamp depicts the surrealist expression of a cloud floating over the church. The thin horizontal window designed below the roof creates the feeling of the light from the heaven.
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Ronchamp Plan
Learning Center
Site - Kiddie, Himachal Pradesh, India Each place is different and this means that architecture also is different across the region. The major difference is primaraly to local material and construction practices. Historical, cultural, traditional aspects of place, people, geography adds to these differences and that architecture responds to all of these makes it that much more rooted, more meaningful. The project involved studying vernacular architecture and understand response of built form to climate, spatial contexts, use of material and technology ,to integrate traditional and local experience, materials and techniques with modern day ideologies. The site study was a village called Kiddie in Chamba district in Himachal Pradesh, India. - Keedi is a settlement approximately 22km from chamba and 10km from Sahu. - Surrounded by streams flowing to the west & south. - Connected to chamba by a single road with daily buses. - Keedi falls in cold and humid zone. - A climatic region typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. Keedi village has a rugged topography where the area is almost wholly mountainous. The mountain slopes here are divided into flat planes at intervals for step farming and maximum use of the available land form. The landslides are yet another feature of this land forms.
Design Site
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School Post Office Shops Grampanchayat Taps Medical Facility Shops
Mud
Mud is used as a material, on account of its easy availability, good insulation and the good binding properties Window Detail
Column Detail
Slate
Slate has a low water absorption index which also makes it very resistant to frost damage and breakage due to freezing
Wood
Deodar wood which is easily available here has the properties of durability, rot-resistance character and fine close grain
Thick walls and the foundation are constructed in slate stone, plastered with mud which acts as an excellent insulator. There is a timber frame which runs throughout the wall, which is placed under every floor. It acts like a binder between the stones and thus helps the structure to remain steady during seismic activities. -The plinth is the most important element of the structure as it levels the sloping terrain for construction. Sometimes it is in the form timber framework with stone filled in between to make a solid mass. The plinth plays an important role in earthquake resistance. -The use of two materials withstands the seismic activities and prevents the system from failing. Construction Detail
Temples act as a very important element in Indian society as far as social gathering is concerned. There is an existing temple on the site. So idea was to incorporate the temple in the design scheme and develop and intend to other such worship areas through the site. The intend was to create these worship area as identity for the space surrounding it. Every worship area has specific program layout around it. These programs are places strategically so as to enhance learning, social gather of the place. These central worship area become the focal points for all activities. There is visual connectivity between all these worship areas.
Design Diagram
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Residence for Researchers around the temple
Community spaces placed in the center for easy access and to enhance the connectivity through the site
Husk Workshop for villagers at community level to increase productivity
Pavilion for various religious activities and education purposes
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Ornamentation Detail
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Pathway to Kiddie village for Easy Connectivity
Marrying Machines The task was to get a simple mechanical machine to class and to study the mechanism of the machine. The machine was to be paired with an appropriate another machine to build a new integrated mechanism of the paired machines. The function performed by the new machine was to differ or add complexity to the original function of the machine. We had to work in groups of two. The machines we got paired were Grandfather’s clock
Light Bulb
Using the motion of a count wheel, a copper wire is given oscillatory motion which completes the circuit assembly to light the bulb in intervals.
Chimes
A horizontal metal strip added rotates at 360 degree which in turn creates sound after hitting the chimes.
and a door lock. After Studying the mechanism of both the machines we used the different circular movement of the grandfather clock to generate the light blinks and various sound effects at regular intervals. After the marriage of these two machines these two machines were independent of their original function. The initial elements of the machines i.e. time and locking were now transformed into the elements of sound, paint and light
Switch
The linear movement of the lock is used and a pulley assembly is created which used as a switch
Painting
A rubber band is connected from the clock to the lock resulting in a circular motion at the lock to which the paint brush is attached
Grandfather’s clock
Door Lock
Housing
Site - Badlapur, Maharashtra, India
The Badlapur Municipal Council consists of twelve villages - Sonivali, Eranjad, Valivali, Manjarli, Badlapurgaon, Shirgaon, Katrap, Jeweli, Kharvai, Mankiwali, Kulgaon and Belavali
The project began with the study of housing for middle and lower middle income group in Mumbai. Due to the development of exclusive high income bracket within the island city the middle and the lower income group have been forced to move further north in eastern and western suburbs for housing requirements. The given site was Badlapur which lies in eastern suburb 60 km away from the island city. Badlapur is in Thane district in Maharashtra state. It is well connected from Pune and Mumbai from both rail and road ways. Over a period of time, due to its proximity to Mumbai, Badlapur transformed into a major residential area, comprising of various communities.
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Evolution of Badlapur
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The Shivaji Maharaj Bridge is the only vehicular bridge that connects connects the two sides of the railway, which has led to isolation of both the side i.e. the east and the west
The railway line divides Badlapur into the so called west zone and east zone. The east zone is being more developed because of the birth of MIDC in 1962.
After the railway line was introduces through Badlapur, the areas around it became social and commercial hubs. Railways is the primary medium of travel to Mumbai. Working Class House Wife Students
Play Ground Education Police Station Commercial Parks Industrial
Accessibility
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DESIGN SITE The trend is changing as people living in the east are shifting to the west to avoid the congestion and pollution and people shifting from Mumbai due to availability of housing in low cost. The west being a lot more underdeveloped has comparatively lesser amenities. Infrastructure in west is poor
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Transportation Network
People living on the site (Badlapur west) travel everyday to Mumbai island city for work, due to which most of the people end up spending very little time in Badlapur due to increase in daily travel time. House wives, infants and old people spent most of the time in Badlapur. The current housing typology creates dead corridors which doesn’t induce interaction between people living on the same floor as well as adjoining floor
Pathways and corridors have been inspired by ‘Chawls’ Housing in mumbai which not only serve as walkways but also cater to various activities of house spilling out. Kitchen are placed so that their activities fall out on the corridor.
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The intend was to break from the idea rigid private and public spaces. Layers of semi-private spaces are added between the public and private. The pathways incorporate these multiple layers which leaves the user multiple choices for movement and activities. The spaces for a specific activity can change according to the nature of the activity and the no. of people involved in it. There have be conscious attempts to break down from the idea of social gathering concentrated at particular area on the site. The horizontality of the building is used so as to enhance the effect of linear pathways created on each floor and so two buildings are arranged next to each keeping the continuity alive.
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Restaurantt
Muilti Purpose Hall
Retail shops
Library
Public Park
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Design Disseration Identity of Nashik
Looking at the city of Nasik the river has played a major role in governing the development around it. It has led to the initiation of a very distinct architectural typology, which was very ideal to the time when built. The modern day Nasik faces an identity crisis because it doesn’t create a balance between the context and the progressing time. It struggles to find its place between the past and the future thus it lacks in spirit and more than anything else an identity of its own. The identity of Nasik can be understood based on Erikson’s Identity theory. The identity formation is a simultaneous process where the individual is studied based on his observation of himself and also the perception that others have of him. The second part leads to the formation of a social identity where a set of
persons marked by a set of people who go by the rules or characteristic features set by the society. Social identity leads to the feeling of belonging to, as part of a locality, generation, country, etcetera such that the cultural identity is both characteristic of the individual and also of the culturally identical group. As per British philosopher J. G. Benneth’s theory of systematics, the identity of a place can be identified into three major categories: A. Geographical Ensemble B. People C. Spirit of the Place Identity Crisis is a period of uncertainty and confusion in which a person’s sense of identity becomes insecure, typically due to a change in their expected aims or role in society.
2015 AD Over a period of time the older building typologies got superseded by the newer ones which brought in new materials, construction methods and architectural spaces which were thought to be superior to the old ones.Recreational areas got walled up and taken up by parking lots ,government offices,etc.The river tributaries were driven into becoming open drains because it couldn’t keep up with the rising population of the city
My thesis exists in this space of identity crisis – of a city and a citizen. As per Heidegger and Merlau- Ponty a relationship that is human and environment which is considered dualistic, is lived existentially as one. Both play a very important role in shaping the identity of each other – and this project tries to explore this hypothesis – Resituating the identity of Nasik through an architectural extension.
1800 AD In 19th April 1818 British took over Nashik. Christian settlements increased in the western side of the river. Nashik Railway station was built in 1862 by britishers. College Road Wine Industry Old Market Panchavati
1. Wine Industry
1700 AD In 1713 Peshwas started ruling this area and it was renamed as Nashik. The Peshwa and Maratha empire was at its peak and prosperity and they were very religious by being. Various Kunds and temples were made by rulers as a gift to the city. These Kunds were dug in the rocky base of the river at this location. This river front, though built with religious intention also supported and shaped the life cycle of people from all age groups living aound the river.
2. College Road (New City) The urge to develop an image and brand value by the capitalist oriented mentality of the people has resulted in lose of its bare essence. Media and advertisement are shaping facades for architectural typologies here.
3. Panchavati
4. Old Market Though these market are adjoining to river (ghats) but still form their own entity and experience a very subtle relation with the functionality around the river. There are numerous markets for various products that operate in this area. One would get lost in these narrow streets but still can easily orient himself or herself out because of the very prominent sloping land that meets the river.
Before 1700 AD In 13th century Nashik was a very important trade and business center. It was huge producer and manufacturer of copper and bronze utensils. Muslim population settled on the Western bank of Godavari, when Nasik came under Muslim rule in 13-16th century and was known as Gulshanabad. 1684 - 1713 saw the fluctuating rule of Mughals and Marathas with numerous battles.
Panchavati
Burning Ghats (Crematorium)
Life Cycle of Habitats around
Building Typologies 1. Dharamshala
4. Kholi (single living unit)
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2. Large Wada (Housing unit)
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Panchavati and Old Market area have a strong Cultural and Architectural identity, because of its relationship and functionality with the river.The space has an inherent spiritual quality which connects with the visitor at a more personal level. Architectural typology of housing such as Wadas, Dharamshalas provides shelter for pilgrims during their visit by offering a very close proximity to the river around.The development of these typologies have been governed by the course of the river. The urban scape was very porous in nature. The architecture build form would compliment the urban scape.
3. Small Wada
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Urban Environment in1960
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Current day Panchavati and old market area are infused by newer building typologies. Aesthetic practices and judgments are fragmented into that kind of ‘maniacal scrapbook’ filled with colorful entries that have no relation to each other, no determining, rational or economic scheme, which is a very important aspect of urban life. These deprived of relation with each other makes it very dificult to trace down anything’s existence or evolution in modern world. The sense of space and me is lost. There is no coherence between the old and the new. The modern day nasik faces an identity crisis this is because it doesn’t relate to the context it sits in nor does it relate to the past and the culture.
The recreational activities of the people spill on the outside near the ghats which provide a natural environment to the people to congregate.
Development of an urban environment ,increase in visitiors highlighted in red
No of pilgrims visiting Nasik increases tremendously
Due to heavy congestion on the river front , ghats are no longer beneficial to the inhabitants of the place
Evolution of activities around the Ghats
Urban Environment in 2015
5) KHOLI ( A Small Room) : 5) KHOLI ( A Small Room) : DOCUMENTATION OF DHARAMSHALA CUT PLAN AT 20M
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Gadge Maharaj Dharmashala was built in year 1930 to accommodate the people visiting in Nashik for religious purposes. The open spaces in Dharmashala became important social gathering space. The structure would became a cultural centre for people travelling and living around.
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The entire curve of Godavari River at Panchavati (as shown in the map above) supports the entire life cycle of a human being where from one side exists the ghats which cater to all age groups and their different activities right from birth to the other side where exists the crematorium. Gadge Maharaj Dharmashala , which is at the equidistant from both these points becomes like the point of convergence.
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Educational institute Religious Institute Vyamashala and Akhada Public Toilet Park
Temporary Market Permenant Market Weekly Market
Amenities
Primary Road Secondary Road Pedestrian Pathways
Markets
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Accessibility
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Interior Project Nasik
The idea behind this project was to keep it simple, from this perspective the parts of the house are treated as detached elements and their connections to the whole are discussed. The colour palette that has been used is earthy in nature which brings out the colors of rural India with a modern day take on it. The open living space has been divided subtly through the earthy shades of the wood. A conscious effort has been made to keep to the space well lite by north lights. The obstruction free planning of the living space allows freedom in movement and maintains a balance of light and ventilation throughout the space.
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A conscious effort has been made to reinvent the essence of Indian lifestyle in an apartment setting. The elongated bed draws one back to the tradition of sitting on the floor while performing their day to day activities. The furniture of the house is detached, such that, it allows flexibility to be reorganized according to one’s needs. The study table has been designed with openings on different planes to keep the work space uncluttered.
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Materials Library, Godrej
2.4 M
1.2 M
Vikroli, Mumbai
The Materials Library is an initiation into cataloguing the world of materials through a representative cursory collection of waste collected from across 14 Godrej industries spread around the country. Projected to catalogue much more, the program of the library is multifold. Firstly, it has to host the numerous materials that designers, engineers, makers of any kind can experience first hand to manifest their designs. Secondly, the library must allow structured navigation through the world of materials. Thirdly, it is an interface between the thinking and making, ideating and doing, also, public and private aspects of the overall project. It is a place to contemplate, imagine and create ideas that can be brought to physical reality. The materials library shall extend support to a host of activities around thinking and making. Thus, it plays a crucial role in orienting visitors and experimenters to the world of fabrication.
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Collaborated with Anuj Daga
The display is designed in as module of 1.2M x 1.2M of metal frame work. The metal frame work can be further divided in various conbination depending upon the property, shape, size of the material which can be configured as per use.
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Design Site
Ground floor Plan The boiler used as an entrance from the other side spills the nature inside the shed which acts like a buffer between other funtions and the library
Mezzanine Level Plan Mezzanine is made of various meshes of metal sheets put together to look like a big piece of junk held by the display shelves.
Documentary
Annica - An Exploration of Zanskar
Movie Trailer - https://vimeo.com/210064584 Zanskar is a valley deep in the Great Himalayas through which the Zanskar River flows; a barren, desolate land some five thousand metres high. Agrarian settlements, Buddhist monasteries and nunneries as old as two thousand years having close to no interaction with the outside world exist along the river. Today, beyond a point in the Valley, a motor-able road ceases to exist. These settlements can only be reached on foot or horseback. Therefore, other than a few mountaineers and the local inhabitants, nobody goes in or out of this place. The winters are long with temperatures dipping below sub- zero. The land is covered with snow. The locals stay indoors in the warm shelter of their homes. Here, the lifestyle completely drastically changes due to the season. Such is the isolation in Zanskar. The importance of making a documentary of this nature is to profile the thoughts of probably the last generation of people living in such remote locations. Few places other than Zanskar are so remote. As urbanisation follows the construction of roads, it is inevitable that these places would experience massive urban flux in the coming years. This film would portray the thoughts of people living simple lives. They would hopefully emphasise the importance of simple living. In the end, these people are very similar to us. They are human. Mankind has lived in these conditions and typology of settlements for thousands of years- happy, content and self- sufficient. We have fabricated a new technological world around us in the last few decades that has changed the face of living. Today, due to advancements in technology, we are living unhealthier and unhappier lives. The question this film really addresses is: Are we moving forward or backward?