Raghav Gupta Architecture Portfolio

About Raghav Gupta School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai D.O.B: 18th June, 1998 Phone: 9832071498 Email: raghavgupta9818@gmail.com Address: PP-60, 2nd Floor, Maurya Enclave, Pitampura, New Delhi - 110034 Languages: English, Hindi, Bengali Education

Academic Workshops

2002 - 2005 | Till Grade II

2017 | Z is also for Zines | Himanshu S 2017 | Weaving Furniture | Anu Tandon 2018 | Material Sense | Samir Raut and Milind Mahale 2018 | Origami | Bobbie Vijayakkar 2018 | Arts after Image | Sabih Ahmed 2018 | Animation | Priyankar Gupta 2019 | Project Management | Perkins Eastman 2019 | Visual Storytelling | Sunil Thakkar 2020 | Pixar in a Box | Pixar Studios

St. Joseph Public School, Hyderabad (ICSE) 2005 - 2016 | Grade II - Grade XII

Delhi Public School, Siliguri (CBSE) 2017 - ongoing | B.Arch

School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai Skills Rhinoceros 3D Sketchup Pro Grasshopper Autodesk Revit AutoCAD Lumion Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign Hand Drafting Carpentry Masonry Laser Cutting Casting Interests Cinema | Photography | Graphics

Voluntary Works 2018 |

Parametric Installation at Bandra Art Festival

SEA Press Publications (Studio Collaboration) 2017 | Buhari: An Open Village 2017 | Spans: History of Integrated Technology 2018 | Pune: Intervening the Inner City 2018 | Mumbai Neighbourhood Study (Vol 4) 2018 | Operative Concepts 2018 | South Asian Architecture and Urbanism 2019 | Architecture of Ahom, Sivasagar 2019 | What is a clinic?

2019 | Long Spans 2020 | Blurred Edges

Other Publications Illustrarch: Co-Living Space in an Urban Context 2019 |

Content

Academic Projects Personalized Housing (Fourth Year)

01 - 04

The Pixel Tower (Fourth Year)

05 - 06

Architecture of Thresholds (Third Year)

07 - 08

Co-Living Space in an Urban Context (Third Year)

09 - 12

Parametric Exhibition Hall (Third Year)

13 - 14

Un-Alienating Corridors (Second Year)

15 - 16

Hands-on Works Visual Storytelling

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Material Exploration

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Life Through My Lens

19 - 20

Personalized Housing

The project started by experimenting on the how use of planes in a certain configuration allows different programs to exist or develop. Can the language be continued by establishing the similar rules in housing for small startups or organizations who often can’t afford both, an office and a house?

The user is given a range of sizes and configurations from unit sizes and forms; to staircases, windows, screens and railings. This makes every user to reflect their own ‘identity’ from a variety of 120 combinations.

Unit and Form Evolution

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Kit of Parts

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Site Plan and Section

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02. The Pixel Tower

The process was generative and began by taking two central cores and pixelating cubes around it. Different iterations were carried, by adding and subtracting cubes at the required places when certain conditions were satisfied.

Cubes were added that increased, exponentially, as one reaches the top and on the opposite side, were subtracted from the top to the bottom, in the similar fashion.

Isometric View

Assembly Detail

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Strip Section

Comprehensive Diagram

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Architecture of Thresholds

The idea of interpretive centre is looked through the lens of thresholds as seen in various forms spread across Hiranandani. The reason behind this was to study the relationship between these and architecture. After several observations, certain concepts were associated with thresholds, such as, safety, security, opposition, connector.

These terms were then iterated upon through different iterations. Simultaneously, the priority was also to revive the organic movement that once took place in Hiranandani.

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Co-Living in an Urban Context

The design set out with the idea of coliving space and how one could also address the concerns for resource and energy consumption within the built-form. The priority was maximizing the social interaction in this spatial logistics and at the same time, maintain one’s privacy. Each user category requires a definitive area to work or live comfortably. For instance, a student may require a larger area for their workspace, in comparison with the couples. Hence, space evolved with staggering planes and distributing into zones.

Axonometric View of Final Form

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Unit Axo

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Parametric Exhibition Hall

The idea of an exhibition hall was to address the reasoning behind the demolition of ‘Hall of Nations’ by Raj Rewal and how could one respond to it, by not replicating the architecture language but by establishing the rules, that the architect went through and then developing a newer one. Just like ‘Hall of Nations’ which was way ahead of its time, in terms of its structural aspect. Since parametric architecture is the least explored and are full of opportunities, it became the way to take ahead the design process.

Form Evolution

Wall Sectional Variations (Left: Part 1; Right: Part 2)

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Un-Alienating Corridors

7-storey buildings in Vashinaka are situated 3m from each other with hardly any natural light reaching to the ground floor, resulting in many diseases, like tuberculosis. People from different communities have been brought and settled in these ‘stacked slums’. There isn’t any fresh breathing space available for them. The concept of ‘alienation’ was very evident in these buildings as the people wouldn’t socialize, by gathering together. The project mainly focused on five such buildings and how one can free them up. Building lateral stairwells at different sections of the existing corridors was the primary motive. Several spaces designed according to a human body’s postures were taken into account. They were then, provided with programs.

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Visual Storytelling

Through a series of lectures and practicebased assignments, the workshop introduces the art of visual storytelling. Looking at both historic and contemporary works, the exploration was on the key processes of composition, selection (editing), sequencing and presentation, to help tell more compelling stories.

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Material Exploration

Over the academic years, different methods (laser cutting, casting, weaving, carpentry, masonry) and materials (concrete, POP, wood, textile, paper) were experimented upon to find the best possible way to represent each project.

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Life Through My Lens

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