Architecture Portfolio by Radha Vangipurapu

Radha Vangipurapu Architectural portfolio 2016 - 2021

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" There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed! " - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

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Contents : | Playhouse Clinic Mall

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|| Comparative Analysis Sholai school Documentation

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Education Bachelor of Architecture Sri Venkateshwara college of Architecture Hyderabad 2016-2020 High school International Indian school , Riyadh Saudi Arabia 2012-2015 Primary school Sunflower school , Hyderabad Diksha Waldorf school , Hyderabad Workshops Light and Design Workshop - Ar. Girish Exposition Workshop - Ar.Ayaz and Ar.Vishveshwar Lauri Baker Hands on workshop LBC,Trivandrum Work experience Intern Arkade design studio, Hyderabad 2020

Studio Inscape, Hyderabad 2020

Team member of #Tag, a student initiative. Exhibitions Art installation by #Tag Hyderabad Urban labs - DoDin2019

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Volunteer Experience Jxtapose flea market , Hyderabad Sofar sounds , Hyderabad Isha yoga Center , Coimbatore Sholai school , Kodaikanal Varanashi organic farms, Dakshina Kannada Software skills Autocad Sketchup InDesign Illustrator Photoshop Microsoft ( Word , Excel Powerpoint )

General : 23 . 10 . 1998 Indian Hyderabad

Contact : +91 9704923914 radha.vangipurapu@gmail.com notmayabazar.wordpress.com Social Media (Instagram) : radha_________ (9 underscores)

Languages English Telugu Hindi Competitions 120 hours (mini) ANDC 2018 - hands on - built an Open air amphitheater Interests Writing Reading Photography Yoga Permaculture Singing Dancing in the rain

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This playhouse is designed as a combination of two geometric shapes that vary in size , creating a different user experience within and without. As a model that can be placed anywhere and can be used for different user groups just playing with the scale , this playhouse is an experience of light and tight spaces with surprises.

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02 Clinic Placed among a quiet neighbourhood surrounded by old houses and friendly dogs, this clinic sits on a small patch of land adorned by tall trees and gushes of wind. With an open plan, this clinic full fills all the basic needs of a small neighbourhood medical facility, at the same time being very user friendly and accommodating all kinds of age groups.

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Consultancy rooms Reception Storage Pharmacy Waiting area

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Emergency ward Dressing room Nurse Lounge Minor OT Lab

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Ramp ENT Ophthalmologist Washrooms Kitchen/Pantry

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03 Mall This structure is designed in such a way that it accommodates the trees that exist on the site. By doing so, it creates two courtyards that open into the mall, from which abundant amount of light and air flow in. These courtyards also act as a possibility for vertical circulation.

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Comparative Analysis : This comparative analysis will be looking at the qualitative comparison between the two case studies and two desktop studies that have been done, in terms of experience and observations. DS1 - Desktop study 1 DS2 - Desktop study 2 CS1 - Case study 1 CS2 - Case study 2 The user group of all these 4 places Teachers

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Sholai School Documentation :

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This Documentation involves the series of reflections and observations gathered from my visit to a farm school in Kodaikanal which was the case study for my thesis. It is a collection of drawings, pictures, and words.

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Site context The site being located on a hilly terrain, the structure will be designed in a such a way that it adopts the contours as a part of it spreads along the slope.

Built Landscape waterbodies

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Roads Topography of the land The kind of topography picked will be such that it is in accordance to the idea of a farm school and will have the necessary natural landscaping to support this concept.

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Farm lands

Valley in between hills

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Site zoning From the context of a site as a whole, it will be divided broadly into school, play and residence.

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Residence Parking + No of entries 2 van parking with 1

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No parking with 2 entries

1 van parking with 2 entries

2 vans and 10 cars along with at least 2 entries

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Area :1334 msq for 1

Area : 1672 msq for 1 Acre

Area : 2000 msq for 35 Acres

Area : 1207 msq

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Teaching areas Play areas Miscellaneous

A proper balance of classroom and workshop spaces will be woven together without making it very monotonous. The play area, like in the third example, can be wide and separate from the rest of the structure.

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After being surrounded by farmlands in all directions, the movement in and around the building is structured in such a way that at every turn there is something new to see. The arches allow the free movement of people across corridors from any point to any other making the space very dynamic.

Being located in a valley, in the vast expanse of land spreading in all directions, the space is rather very dynamic and allows a very free and open movement for anyone. This amount of freedom is also restricting in a way as there is no sense of security. Within the campus, the movement happens very curiously.

The location of this structure being in a densely populated city, the movement outside is crowded and uneven. Inside the building, the movement of children and faculty has been given clear distinction and gives clarity of space. Despite this, there is not much space to accommodate larger crowds.

On the selected site, the movement will largely be across the length of site going up and down the hill. The spaces and movement for visitors would not be merged with the regular movement of children and faculty.

Movement Because of the structure's design, it is quite evident that the movement in this space happens rather freely. Because of the even distribution of spaces, there is a clear distinction between active and inactive spaces and also has is enough space for all kinds of activity

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Built Form / Mass

There will not be on block of mass places on the site but rather multiple structures placed in such a way that they may either be put under one roof or have a free flow of circulation around them.

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Water is stored in an overhead tank and electricity comes from the local distribution boards and the waste water is recycled with the help of rain water plants.

Water comes from the river with the help of canals and is reused with the help of multiple recycle plants. Electricity is entirely produced with the help of solar and hydro energy.

Water is stored in an overhead tank and electricity comes from the local distribution boards and there is 1 rain water plant.

Water and electricity comes partially from solar energy and partially from the local distribution boards and the waste water is recycled with the help of rainwater harvesting.

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Water, Electricity and Drainage Water is stored in an overhead tank and electricity comes from the local distribution boards and the waste water is not recycled

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Moderately enough

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Barely there

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Breezy and cool

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Not much air

Enough for cool atmo-

The use of huge arches in windows lets a lot more light flow into the building and adds an interesting character. The structure being semi open also invites a lot of wind inside.

The irregular arches in the corridor invite a lot of light and breeze flowing in and out of the building constantly leaving the structure with very less use of electricity.

Because of the location, the campus is always flooded with immense light and breeze from all directions and the structures do not constrict them.

Being located in the middle of a city, the flow of good air and light is fairly less, but nevertheless, the sunroof on the topmost floor allows a lot of natural light to flow into the structure, not so much into the classrooms.

As the structure is located along the contours of the hill, the classrooms and other spaces are places in such a way that every morning, light flushes into them.

Natural light and air

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Air

Considering the wind flow direction, there is no structure that obstructs the flow of wind, and there will be intermediate spaces that make the whole place breathable.

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Elements in each structure to let light and air in

Elements like semi open walls, arches, stilts and jali walls could be accommodated for better air flow.

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Interesting elements

Must have be able to accommodate enough number of students and must do justice to the area of land taken.

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SHOLAI SCHOOL

Sholai school campus is spread over 35 acres amongst a coffee estate having fruit trees and pepper vines and is bisected by a brook. It is set within the 100 acre grounds of the centre for learning, organic agriculture and appropriate technology (cloaat) which is entirely self-sufficient in energy and practices, as much as possible, living sustain-ably and in harmony with its natural environment. The climate at 3,800 feet altitude is pleasant and cool all year round. Just 3 kms away from the campus is virgin rain forest, where there are common sightings of Elephant, Gaur and other wild animals. Sholai school is the brainchild of Brian Jenkins, a British social anthropologist. He located the scenic 100 acre area near Kodaikanal, where he began his school from a small building and a kitchen. Today it is a far bigger complex, housing classroom blocks, separate hostels for boys and girls, a dining area, a library, vast open spaces for farming, and the school's very own dairy. Water from the hilly streams, wells and from rain water harvesting meets the requirements of the school, without having to depend on the municipal supply. And if this wasn't enough, the school uses renewable energy too. Power is generated through photo-voltaic panels and a micro-hydroelectric turbine, independent of the town grid electricity. There are solar panels in the entire school and four bio-gas plants to fuel the kitchen.

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Since the school is located in a valley surrounded by a bottom most level, gradually going further down hill. This rain-forest, it is sprawled across very steep contours, river is the source of water for the school. The contours weaving it's way up and down these contours with the given in the below drawing are 5 meters in height from help of a cement pathway. These contour filled site not each other. only makes it a very exploitative option for school children but also gives a whole new depth and dimension to the location. These contours have a river flowing the AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION PRODUCED BYatAN

The river flowing at the bottom - most level

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The campus on this terrain

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River and it's canals

School / built up area

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Water body

Electric fencing

Football ground

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River

Dining/Kitchen area Teaching areas Residential areas Areas that workers access

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The weather here is mostly cold, with the summer months being April and may. The most convenient way to reach the school is by taking a bus from Kodaikanl. All the buildings on site were designed and made by the principal that started that school, with the help of could other teachers and workers. The lowest point on the site, that has the river flowing in between

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the valley, is approximately 1km above sea level, gradually moving uphill on both the sides adjoining the river. The campus sprawls over a 35 acre land in a valley surrounded by forest cover, where approximately 2000 sqm is built up area. Out of 35 acres of land, 0.5 Acres makes up of the built up area. Sholai School has a vast variety of structures starting from

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starting from dining rooms, to hostels, to labs, to Vermi sheds and to a multipurpose space. These spaces are spread wide across campus weaving the rain forest through them creating a very extraordinary learning experience.

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V is the closest Village R is the closest railway station B is the closest bus stop A is the closest airport

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Rosewood Boys hostel

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The school follows the oxford university and has a kind of curriculum structured where more importance in given to the individual growth of the child and their experience than how much they score. The spaces in this school are designed and placed to follow this necessity that a child is always exploring and is never bored or becomes mundane to their

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surroundings. Being placed in the middle of a rain-forest poses it's own challenges, but at the same time is a very creative option. The students enjoy living and running in the valley and barely ever want to go home.

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Usage of spaces by different groups

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Highly active spaces Moderately active spaces Not so active spaces

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Dining Area Library Auditorium WM workshop F&N lab Comp Lab Girls hostel GIS Cow shed Boys hostel Garage Recycling room Micro Hydro room Diary room Footbal ground Swimming pool Dispensary Farms

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Material pallette

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Writing work #DoDin2019 Exhibition by Hyderabad Urban Labs - #Tag ( Hashtag ) Writeup describing a school Open Diary entry 1 Open Diary entry 2 A collage of pictures 120mini Competition Vedas Pickles Brochure making Stitch works Working with clay Drawings

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The incomplete city Shuffling through the tiny lanes of a city, what is it that your mind holds on to ? Just like you, a few thousand years ago one human being realized that he wants to multiply and repeat himself in every form possible. Today we live in a complicated amalgamation of emotions and concrete. Year after year we called this our home and kept trying to accommodate everyone that turned up with all kinds of baggage. Always aiming to bring a better future but always letting the present stay incomplete. If you were to ask yourself what was missing from the city you lived in, you'll always have an answer. This ever expanding need for more is what we call a city. In the desperation to put a roof over everyone's head, we fail to leave space for the sky. In an attempt to make everything one, we make a million. Everyone who walks through the walls of the city, adds a brick or removes one. Everyone that tangles themselves into the web of human society, ties or cuts a string.

But teacher, what is god ? / But teacher, why is the sky blue ? For a school, children must run. Run through the walls, The stairs, the trees and chairs. Watch out ! He's right behind you ! For a school, it must be open. For open space grows into an open mind. To be able to grow and to witness life grow around you and see leaves dance among trees just before a monsoon breeze. I will never be able to catch him, he'll keep running in between the never ending corridors like a mouse. The grass is calling me and I must go. Race you to the lunch room ! Watch me grab a plate and run back to the centre. The sunlight descends through the hole in the sky and lights up my face. We eat while watching the vast expanse of land spreading across like an ocean. At noon, we sit under a tree trying to color an elephant while flowers of red and pink rain upon us. I look up to see the tree swaying, almost dancing to tunes I cannot hear. I wonder what flying must feel like. God is the guy who fills up paint in your empty paint box / the sky is blue because it's a river hanging upside down.

If you were someone who was born and raised in a forest, and one day decided to visit a jungle that was Grey in color, what is it that would hold your gaze ? The overhead metro lines ? The sweet corn on the roadside ? The old man walking with a stick ? Or the cow in the middle of the road ?

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My bones are beginning to glide over one another with a lot more ease now. Most of the nights before I fall asleep I used to raise my hand from the elbow and watch my joints and muscles move as and how I wanted them to. In different lighting it would look different. When I slowly began to meet people, I came to realize that others do it too. Now when my body rests against the pretentious cold floor every night, I can feel a lot more bones than I could before. My fingers also, involuntarily, keep moving around the places where I can feel my heart beat the most. There's a pulsating energy in every other fold and bend and my fingers can't seem to ignore it. Although my weather app still says the air quality is unhealthy to breathe, I could spot a constellation in the sky the other night. I knew just one, and now I know two. 40 Something nights have rolled in and out, amma has revealed a lot more family drama, and I made a whole wheat cake which at first, wasn't all that bad but it can definitely be better. I used to want to pick out every weed that grew in all the plants I take care of. Amma told me things about my childhood that I didn't know I managed to completely erase from my memory. If I stress on it maybe I haven't really forgotten, but there's a nice comfortable distance. One fond memory is that I used to go about changing the time in all the clocks around the house because for one, for an embarrassingly long time I didn't know how to read time, and for two, it was an irrelevant measure then. The sun sets right at my doorstep now. It also bids goodbye to the tiny lemon plants that have grown in a small pot in my balcony. There's a song that I'm going to sing tomorrow and it's called, woh jab yaad aaye, bohot yaad aaye. 5 Kids were playing on the terrace when I went to collect the dry clothes. Another small boy and his father later joined the group, but this boy had no idea what to do. So while they were all playing a game where there were rules and ' no pushing ', this boy just ran in circles, screaming. This one girl tried to explain things to him but he wouldn't stop. He just kept running and running not caring if anyone's still playing. The girl got annoyed and made a face. The father then screamed ' he doesn't understand rules, just let him run '.

Can you hear it ? If you imagine it as if your looking from a far end of this universe, to see rain fall onto earth would be so weird. A bigger ball, is shooting needles onto a smaller ball. I think it's the only contact between this smaller ball and that bigger ball that we can physically experience. That's probably what an overthinking brain looks like too. A continuous shower of innumerable needles. When I wrote ' motherhood is not a post, it's the responsibility of this human race ' in my synopsis, I didn't mean it in a way most people would understand. I think it takes a different level of mind to understand that motherhood is a tendency in us all, and only comes out a few times. It's weird maybe, but it's true. When Ayaz told me that he, along with keeping his body clean has been beginning to feel the need to keep his surroundings clean because he extended himself from just body to a little bit more, I asked , when will it become the whole world ? When will you extend yourself so much so that you erase the line that defines you and the universe as separate entities ? Can you hear it ? I was referring to my TV saying it's not working because of kharaab mausam. I was watching a show of lightning on my terrace with a voice ringing in my ear. It was a like the wires that carry electricity from one pole of this Earth to another broke in between and there were sparks flying all over. The lines that the sky drew reminded me of my hand gripping the violently moving railings on the window of a bus. The sky smelt of dust and camphor. It was pink and white. But really though , Can you really hear it ? Because I can hear you.

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#120mini After 2 in the night when you're just retiring to the hole you call home, after having a dinner party with your fellow tentacles, you see that what you thought all along was just a hole is actually much larger and can expand to all the lengths of your imagination. At first you hesitate because this doesn't look like an environment you'd live in, but you notice attempts of life in multiple corners. Hidden behind cupboards, buried under the bed are the notes from previous inmates that now only live in memory. There are long lines running up and down connecting and forming an imitation of earth and sky, holes in the middle from which other jellyfish walk by. What is this foreign abode and why does it smell of the color blue ? PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

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Introduction

Pickles

S Agri Foods was started in 2019 by 3 women together with a sole intention to pass on a strong belief of ancient traditional foods. With the brand name “Vedas”, we make all our products with utmost care, hygiene and use farm-fresh vegetables, home- made, cold-pressed ganuga-oil, turmeric and chilli powder. We do not use any preservatives, and make sure all our premium quality products are finger licking good. The methodology used in the preparation of pickles and spices has been passed on from generation to generation with a little blending of modern technology and equipment, without compromising the hygiene.

Nimmakaya pachadi / Lemon pickle

Gongura pachadi / Roselle leaf pickle

Pandu Mirapa / Red chilli pickle

Telangana avakaya / Telangana style raw mango pickle

This pickle helps boost immunity, and tastes best with curd rice and upma.

Gongura, bought from nearby farms, takes one whole day to be made. It can be used to make a variety of chutneys and daals.

The types of packaging that we do

This pickle is made from big red chillis and tastes best with hot rice and dosa.

Pouch From S Agri Foods

Powders

Palli podi/ Peanut powder

Made from premium quality peanuts, this powder is tasty and provides energy.

Podi chutney/ Chutney powder This podi is best served as an accompaniment with idli and dosa, mixed with ghee or oil.

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Glass jar

This pickle is made following the age old tradition in Telangana culture, and has both ginger and garlic that are immunity boosters.

Vedas specials - Vadiyalu/ Fryums

Pappula podi/ Fried gram powder (Plain/with garlic)

Gummadi vadiyalu /Pumpkin fryums

Sambar powder

Beeyampindi vadiyau /Rice flour fryums

This podi is high in protein and has an irresistible taste when mixed with ghee.

Made from premium quality lentils, this podi can add life to any sambar, and spread an aroma like no other.

This snack is crunchy and tastes very well as an accompaniment with dal rice.

This famous snack can be had with any meal. It adds a crunchy taste to all meals.

Chitti/Minapappu vadiyalu/ Black gram fryums

This snack is made from black gram and can be relished with food or as a side with tea.

Factory : S Agri Foods, Plot no 68, IP Kucharam, Medak Dist, Telangana.

Saggubeeyam vadiyalu / Sabudana fryums

This snack is a bestseller, and is famously had as a side dish to many rice items.

Contact : Phone - +91 9154340118 Website - www.vedasfoods.com Email : info@vedasfoods.com

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Stitch works

In the beginning of 2021 when the second lock-down due to the rise in Covid-19 cases was announced, I acquired a few new skills which were stitching cloth using the sewing machine, hand done embroidery and cross stitch techniques. I used old clothing to make new items like bags and pouches, stitched a pattern with red flowers on a pillow cover and made a series of tiny stories with a main character (the orange square Suppu) repeating in all of them.

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