PORTFOLIO
Blur.
Free hand.
LIK trophy.
Kindergarten.
C.E.C.
Night crawler.
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RESIDENCE NIGHT
CRAWLER
Money can buy anything but taste.
SINGLE FAMILY HOME BRIEF The brief asked for a 4 kanal residence to be designed for a client who hosted a lot of social gatherings at his home.
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LUXURY.
ELEVATE.
FLOW.
To bridge the gap between generations and create a space that makes a bold statement of the achievements that the client has made. The space shall be sensitive to the family’s individual and social needs. The choice of material and large open spaces will bring out an image of a MAN WITH TASTE.
The ground floor hosted public, private and semi-private spaces for family and guests. In addition to the large living room, the contoured outside lawns are not only used for family gatherings but also, guest meetings during summers. The interior spaces reflected the glory and social status of the client. The double height-ed living room did not only provide a monumental scale to the house but also allowed adequate flow of light and wind within. The overlooking and interlocking spaces visually connected the floors making the building more visually accessible from inside. To satisfy the demands of outdoor activities, outdoor pool area and contours provide a natural and flexible space for any kind of gathering. It’s passive connectivity with the indoor area provides comfortable atmosphere for the guests to experience the space as a whole.
PLANNING The planning originated from the core of home – the interior fountain and helical staircase. The axis provides visual connectivity and the aura of grandeur right on the entrance to the guests invited at various gatherings offered frequently by the owner. The view of skybridge immediate to the entrance and the core of home brings about a lively feeling of play of spaces. Using hexagons throughout the details of home creates a sense of rhythm in the space.
Kid’s room
Squash court Gym
Recrational room
Kid’s room
Terrace
Guest room
FIRST FLOOR PLAN Fulfilling brief’s demand of a party house, yet keeping it segregated from the personal aura of individual members. The segregation allows to respect the privacy of the family members while allowing for formal and informal gatherings. The office space has separate entrance to avoid any interference with private space of the home.
Parking
Pooja room G. parents room Living area
Master bedroom
Office/ library
Drawing room
Dining Kitchen
Deck Pool
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
Site Entrance
The superior quality of the materials used and their unions has played an important role in the process of creation and realization of the project. The choice of material on the facade did not only help control the volume but also provided a subtle covering outside.
The day-lighting effects caused by large geometric windows minimized the use of energy resources, as well as allow for the creation of gradient fields of experiential lighting qualities to support new interior spatial flows of proposed organization. The micro dwelling has a luxurious spaciousness. The skylights and large semi circular windows give importance to the central core of the space
The intervention offers a house for a family sensitive to individual needs, and bringing together all of them by large open double heights defying the use of intercoms and keeping alive the essence of a home. Essence of the family resides in a space they use to argue, interact and dine.
Great architecture is not done by LARGE BUILDINGS, but SMALL DETAILS brought together.
C.E.C CONTINUING EDUCATION CENTRE
BRIEF The brief asked for a continuing education centre to be designed within the PEC campus which will have a hostel accommodating the people coming from distant places to gather knowledge from the centre. The facility would offer courses ranging from various fields for short period of time.
CONCEPT The whole purpose was not only to design a space with function, but to design an experience for the users which embeds itself in them - by the use of little details throughout the structure.
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Conferenc e hall
Kitchen
Recreation room
Reception
Mess
Lab Lab
P. office Adm. office Toilet Seminar room
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
Lab
Lab Toilet
Seminar room
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Badminton court roof garden
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Gym
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Terrace
open cafe
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Staff room
Seminar room
Library
Seminar room
The brutalist choice of material is far more than just a style, it’s a way of thinking and making… The obelisk attracts attention of the people coming from distant places. If not a landmark, it surely feels like a recognisable face amongst the crowd. The axis provided maintains the walkability without clustering the traffic, and at the same time articulates every step and vision towards the obelisk and its angles. The obelisk receives the attraction at various scales; from spotting the site at a city’s level, to the window panes and railing panels, it tells the same story.
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN
Parti pris of the design- Fluent subtle angles.
Whole of the structure has been carved as if it were a sculpture, every inch of the structure embraces it’s form and angles. Every element in every dimension, all of the plans, elevations and sections narrate the same story of rhythm and fluency–converging vertical wooden battens, stepped floor slabs, stepped balconies of hostel, staircases, the converging walls in perspective originating from the longitudinal extremes, the skylights, even the patterns on the doors and windows, the railing panels, and not to forget the sloping roofs.
Stepped view of the corridors brings an interesting element with perspective and breaks the boring walk alone towards your room. The placement of the staircases ensures equal distribution of circulation. The imageable approach towards the structure maintains the essence and aura of an educational environment, yet maintaining the home away from home feeling.
Order with the random, open with the closed, boundaries without any limits and freedom with restrictions.
KINDERGARTEN
BRIEF The brief asked for a kindergarten to be designed which provides a wholesome experience to the kids for proper learning while taking the initial steps.
CONCEPT Amalgamation of traditional with the modern. Giving the kids a modern atmosphere to keep up with the contemporary world and at the same time keeping the roots of learning intact.
Modern elements of Le Corbusier; the glazing at the main entrance, windows arranged in golden ratio, accessible roof garden (because what we took from earth needs to be given back) revolving around the soul tree seed the vibrations of a modern era.
GOLDEN RATIO
APPROACH In early days of India, formal learning used to take place under and around trees, the gurus(teachers) used to inculcate the necessary social and moral values while providing the formal education of reading, writing and speaking. This method of teaching built the initial base of a child’s morals and values.
Dining and Pantry
Multipurpose room
Classroom 4
P. office and administrative area Classroom 3 Waiting area Classroom 2
FLOOR PLAN
Classroom 1
Reception
A joyful play of space, light and order is clearly evident in the structure. The curvy roof form helps in merging the two basic building blocks – modern and traditional. Also, which welcomes the children at the entrance with its uplifted form and submerges back into the ground. The accessible roof provides a whole new dimension to initial learning with open to sky classroom. The form of circulation in the floor plan and roof actively reflects the inspiration behind this project. Whole idea is to provide a space which allows actual learning for the kids in every possible way without the restrictions of four walls of a classroom. This concept will allow order with the random, open with the closed, boundaries without any limits and freedom with restrictions. A self-learning experience with passive guidance, because a kid will always do what you stop him from doing.
Louis I. Kahn trophy
To revive rich and obscure Indian heritage with handwork and art.
The Louis I. Kahn trophy is a group competition represented in the annual NASA (National Association for Students of Architecture) convention for architecture students in India.
It aims to increase the awareness of India’s rich, diverse and unprotected historic environments and to engage the students to use hand drafting and hand rendering as their medium.
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Serpentine Bracket
Key Plan
The briefs required the participants to document a structure that exhibits a traditional knowledge system. The selected site, Sabali Kund-vav, Gujarat, is a fusion of a stepped pond (vav). Built by Raja Bhamal in 1526, in memory of his queen Jivini, the form is an ingenious adaptation of a kund-vav.
There are three walls of stairs like in a stepped pond and the fourth multi- storied wall of rooms at different level like in a stepped well. A legacy that is embedded in the very fabric of our traditions, awaits revival. It stood the tests of time endlessly because of its innate ability to adopt to the changing scenarios around it.
Discover yesterday, Centuries ago, came the concept of subterranean wells bringing together the two realms – Earth and Water. Unknowingly, this idea offered an overarching solution to the prevailing water scarcity, by tapping the surface run off to replenish the water table.
This ancient sustainable wisdom became a dying craft, at the hands of the capabilities of the new age technologies. The ingenuity systems are created when knowledge and experience join hands. So is the case when systems get together looking for energy.
Mihrab Retreat Rituals Stepwell Well
Imagine tomorrow, A day, when the sun rises in the west, the world is upside down. Now is the time when we need to realise that sometimes to go two steps ahead, we need to take four steps back, to cope with tomorrow’s challenges, we need to relearn the lessons of our past.
The future is uncertain, but by reviving our traditional knowledge systems, we can attempt to lower the pace of this uncertainty. Prepare us in advance for the doomsday. Because sometimes, the only way up is going down.
Miscellanous
Model making Installation
Origami
Bamboo workshop
Lighting workshop
Photography
Depth in my eyes.
Bow down.
Life in a frame.
Hidden majesty.
The third brick (Capturing Corbusier).
Lines and Curves.
Balance.
More to what you can see.
My flexible architecture.
THANK
Y O U. ..
Ar. Sujay Sen Gupta +91-9855447530 Associate Professor Chandigarh College of Architecture sujaysengupta@yahoo.co.in
REFERENCES
Ar, Disha Singh +91-9915804753 Assistant Professor Chandigarh College of Architecture dishanmsingh@yahoo.co.in