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from Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio | Riddhi Agarwal | WCFA

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Institute

06 sem I spring 2022 I 12 weeks individual work

The semester traversed on the design of an institution located in Nashik, Maharashtra. The brief was to design for a client who is a third-generation farmer, and wants to build a culinary institution from nature’s point of view, the concept being “field-to-fork”. The program would include harvest, storage, processing, packaging, sale and consumption of food, with a strong focus on the production of local food for local consumers. The studio focused equally on the built (the institute) and the unbuilt (the farm) both in terms of area and significance.

Nashik has a tropical climate and is hot year round. The 2 acre site is placed in a comparatively residential neighborhood with almost 1 acre of it being solely dedicated to farming. Easy and sustainable construction methods were used to create a responsive architecture and generate engagement with the local community.

Location: Nashik, Maharashtra

Site Area: 8000sqm

Built up Area: 4000sqm

Studio Guides:

Prof. Ryan Thomas

Asst. Prof. Akash Rai

Assoc. Prof. R Kiran Kumar

Asst. Prof. Surendran Aalone

Prof. SG Srinivas

Asst. Prof. Kavana Kumar

Case study: Viettel Academy, Vietnam ground floor plan

How does the constant horizontal changing vertical affect the visual?

The design is like a village, broken down into units and does not only help in providing also dictates and brings design as a single project.

How do the voids celebrate first floor plan understanding of the super roof second floor plan third floor plan understanding of the grid

Riddhi Agarwal

The voids in the Viettel Academy looked at as negative spaces, a result of the built, rather connect.

How does the constant horizontal changing vertical affect the spatial visual?

The voids here enhance the the green trees and the brick reflected on the water surface, architecture a thoughful

The design is like a village, fragmented broken down into units and the super does not only help in providing shade also dictates and brings together design as a single project.

How is the regularity of the down in the project?

How do the voids celebrate the built?

The voids in the Viettel Academy aren’t looked at as negative spaces, achieved a result of the built, rather they become connect.

The voids here enhance the built around the green trees and the brick facade reflected on the water surface, making architecture a thoughful space.

The grid here dictates the but does not overpower it shifts in the grid helps achieve corridors/open spaces and subtraction makes it appropriate accomodate different functions. principle reflects in the elevation unorganized windows break the otherwise monotonous

How is the regularity of the grid broken down in the project?

The grid here dictates the spatial quality but does not overpower it entirely. shifts in the grid helps achieve corridors/open spaces and slight addition subtraction makes it appropriate to accomodate different functions. The principle reflects in the elevation where diagramming a single built mass carving the built according to functionality fragmenting the built super roof unifying the fragmented diagramming iterations development of massing

The project aims at a communion of the farm and the institution. A mindful decision about the crop cycle was made to ensure year round productivity and regulation of the mineral contents in the soil.

Programs were grouped and organized in clusters based on functionality for all stakeholders including students and the community, under an accessible super roof in the intermediate level. The communal access allowed for people to walk through the entire farm and gain an understanding of the institute’s ideology and priciples while availing facilities of the library, workshops and the student run restaurant.

To maximize the use of locally available materials and employ building techniques which would help maintain thermal comfort, 400mm thick rammed earth construction was done using the reddish brown laterite excavated on site along with a reinforced concrete structural system.