Undergraduate Portfolio by Rutu Kelekar

SELECTED WORKS 2014 - 2020

Rutu Kelekar

I am an architect with a strong inclination to be a part of the current architectural discourse around urbanism, ecology and social equity. Through the five years of my undergraduate studies, I gained multiple opportunities to travel across varied cities in India. In Vijayawada, I came across the state government’s proposal to create walkways and landscaped parks along the canal bank. I questioned this singular imagination of the authorities and pointed out that the existing multifarious activities were being overlooked because of their informal nature. Through the project, I proposed various interventions of diverse scales ranging from an open outdoor gym, a labour junction pavilion and public bath waterfront that reinvigorated the ‘informal’ activities that came about on site. It taught me to rethink the imagination of the waterfront architecture from being limited to recreational purposes and to personalise it for the given context.

I chose to work at Sameep Padora and Associates (sP + a), a firm that actively engages with research, collaborations and collective models of practice not as isolated individual formats but as symbiotic streams feeding into each other. I got to work on an orphanage and elderly home that proposes to combine the two distinct user groups into a single unit to initiate a care giver-receiver bond between them.

During my internship, I encountered veiled traces of their civil war (1975 - 2009). On the basis of conversations with the locals about the life that once breathed through the public spaces, I drew out stories in comic format that highlighted the changes in public spaces as a result of the war. This thesis project, located along a canal edge, proposed utilitarian designs interspersed with spaces to loiter and unwind as a part of a new everyday public space.

Through my second graduate degree, I am interested in broadening the ideas of participation within communities that are usually tagged as black sheep - perceived as pockets that need to be intervened, saved or corrected by authorities and professionals. I wish to explore ways that go beyond romanticism for their practices and environment-generating architecture. I believe that it is fundamental to designing harmonious spaces.

email :

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address : E - 1412, Royal Samrat, Next

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object(s) of reconciliation Undergraduate Thesis 18 -19’ | SEA

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of multiple publics and canalfront regeneration Spring 18’ | SEA

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toying with amorphia Fall 17’ | SEA

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modules of hope and care : an excercise in scalar architecture Professional Practice | Sameep Padora + Associates

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bridging landscapes Competition 20’ | Archistorming

All work in this portfolio is done on individual basis, unless stated differently.

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Public Toilet

Exhibition Room Outdoor Terrace

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Undergraduate Thesis 2018 -2019 | SEA Location : Colombo, Sri Lanka Guide : Rohit Mujumdar, Prasad Shetty

Playscape Library

Performance Space

Music Room

Coaching Class

The project tries to find a design provocation to reverse the inversion of public spaces in Borella (a residential neighbourhood in north - eastern Colombo), in the post civil war (1983 - 2009) context. In a country where much of the post war rebuilding is focused on the economy and physical infrastructure, softer processes of reconciliation that deal with lingering psychological effects and continuing ethnic tensions, are being shadowed. We all live in a mongrel society, as against a pure breed one is an apt metaphor to think about the neighbourhood that houses various communities such as the Hindu Tamils, Burghers and Sri Lankan Moors along with the Sinhala Buddhists. My dissertation raises the provocation that public spaces could be these places where ‘rebuilding of hearts and minds’ could occur. This resulted in mindful articulation of programs and built form that invites people to engage, pause and facilitate chance encounters and conversation starters between strangers and acquaintances in the public space. 7

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Hi, Mrs. Hemantha, lovely sunny day, isn’t it ?

They both take the first blessing from the 15 ft high Buddha statute adjoining the main entrance of the temple.

Umesha, let’s visit the temple today, shall we ?

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Do you remember, you used to come to the temple every other day with your parents, the chants you would recite and then running around aimlessly witWWh your friends during break time. I even remember your hungry faces awaiting for the temple feast at the end of the day.

Story of the Temple Illustrated

“Narrative imagining — story — is the fundamental instrument of thought. Rational capacities depend upon it. It is our chief means of looking into the future, or predicting, of planning, and of explaining.” - Mark Turner, cognitive scientist, linguist, and author

I miss the vendors that sold bright pink lilies wrapped in banana leaves always complaining of the bees that buzzed over them and the toy vendors who would run inside the temple hall and chit chat over a sottys on a rainy afternoon. I believe that world and buzz is lost forever.

Hey ! What are you doing here in times of the curfew at two in the night ! ARREST THEM !!

Monk : I remember the day it all changed. A ruckus on the adjoining bridge at two in the night, the sirens of police vans that caught hold of two young LTTE men hiding behind them a bomb that was to be planted under the bridge. This job is taking longer than I thought !

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We’ve got orders from the head monk to makE one

Why are we making such a high boundary wall ?

So many people from all over the country would come to see the cubist paintings made by George Keyt, sadly now they are shut in a room hidden under a layer of dust.

It’s almost as if the temple hides itself as an oasis within the fortified boundaries only to be found by true disciples of the lord. 9

Platform to expand horizons

The warped corridor

The labyrinthine staircase

A story teller’s home

Webbed playscape

The gossiper’s nook

The trinket box

The dancing classroom

Taking cues from Lebbeus Wood’s principles for dealing in the post war context, the idea was to transform the familiar old into the unfamiliar new that can in turn cater to new ideas and ways of living. Designed as ‘objects’ held together in a landscaped park the project dwells between fiction and reality, linking to the desires, fears, ambitions and anxieties of the locals.

Children on site drawing their dreams and aspirations of their neighbourhood

Tall Trees Short Trees Plants Flowering Fruits Filtering Plants Softscape Dense Folliage

Landscape Stratergy

Pedestrian Movement Vehicular Movement

Proposed Circulation

Kid’s Movement Resident’s Movement Non- resident’s Movement

Existing Circulation

Site Area : 5800 sq.m Built Up Area : 4,500 sq.m

Figure Gound Plan

13. GIZ Archive Second Floor Plan 14. Workshops 12. Roof Garden 10. Open Amphitheater First Floor Plan

11. Canteen 09. Workshop 08. Open Theater 07. GIZ Office Reception 06. Public Restroom

Ground Floor Plan

05. Conference Room 04. Private Cabin 03. GIZ Workshop

02. Pantry 01. Storage Basement Plan

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An Urban Living Room

03. Art Galleries

02. Exhibition Space

01. Story telling cou Ground Floor Plan

The programmatic, formal and spatial exploration advanced into two strategies one of them in a mass housing scheme and the second a potential public space along the canal edge. 1.Objects of Collaboration A jaggered playscape invites you into a landscape of floating objects. Keeping the ground plane clear for movement, the attractor programs like coaching class, music class and performance space hover over cobbled pathways and manicured greens. Dealing with the duality to cater as event and everyday space, these objects double up as deck for fruit picking, seating for gossiping, reading nooks for daily news and playscapes. With the site being in a housing scheme, I scaled my ‘objects’ in relation to the existing building being mindful of the program they were catering to.The intervention manages to create an intimate scale within the corridor creating various kinds of gathering spaces and seating arrangements. 2. An Urban Living Room The linear intervention proposes to create a parallel corridor squeezed between the street and the canal edge. Sunken underground is the back office for GIZ ( german organisation working towards conflict transformation and peace building), the proprietor of the program. Spaces like the ‘Archive’ that hold the collection of historical documents floats over the outdoor story telling space. The workshop and theatre spaces are designed to fit along an extruded wall with varying levels of fenestrations that provoke a curiosity among the passer by. The project borrows elements like the courtyard, ventilators and huge overhangs from Sri Lankan vernacular architecture while simultaneously adding new advances in technology like adding thermal mass in the roof to hold the heat, double roofing system and green roofs to bring down the ambient temperature within the infrastructure.

10.Bridge 09. Staircase 02 08. Staircase 01 07. Deck 06. Coaching Class

04. Performance Are 03. Amphitheater 02. Library 01. Playscape Ground Floor Plan

11. Connector 10. Bridge 06. Coaching Class 05. Music Class 03. Reading Space 01. Playscape First Floor Plan

04. Viewing Deck Second Floor Plan

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15 Field for Collaboration

What a wonderful performance !

fibreglass panels 12mm thk glasswool insulation 20mm thk 35mm ribs at intervals of 500mm c/c

tk wood purlin 200 x 150mm tk wood rafters 130 x 70mm tk wood batten 75 x 50mm glass wool insulation shingles applied over tar paper

Look at those beautiful mangoes! STAIRCASE 02

We’ll again meet here to revise one last time before our exams!

The Let’s play this taal to match his tunes.

MUSIC ROOM CONNECTOR

Bridge I sections 130deep wooden decking 20mm thk

See they are just like you! double layer dry wall coated with I hope you had fun! plaster 20mm thk studs at intervals of 500mm c/c Maneka only play that when they start the play!

Your prank today was so cool !

Did you see how angry teacher got ?

COACHING CLASS

Objects of Collaboration - Sectional Axonometric

flitch beams, engineered design 150x 300mm plywood sheet 10mm thk tk wood joist 50x 50mm solid wood decking 150 x 10mm

I can’t believe my parents will be watching me perform today.

PERFORMANCE STAGE

screed around edges terrazzo flooring with glass chips cast in epoxy 6mm thk

Look I spot jackfruit on that tree

See that brother playing the columns! Finally a place where kids and adults can hang out together.

I sections powder coated railing 150 x70mm wooden stairs with three 2*2mm groves B20 bronze metal sheet shaped like gong cables classed with I sections

ey’ve put together a lovely show!

STAIRCASE 01

CONNECTOR

I want to jump too. Lets go there !!

ROTATING AMPHITHEATER

Ms rails in ground same level as the pavement SS bearing balls, dia = 50mm Application of Graphite paste as a lubricant Hollow circular columns,dia = 120mm Concrete Base = 25mm Metal stringer beam Custom iron beams Solid Metal Joists

Hey, look at this. It plays sound as I jump!

PLAYSCAPE

I love the clear view of the canal on this side!

wooden beams 45 x 30mm 15mm floor boards spring fixed by hook attachment polypropylene filled with beads plywood double section clasped at top and bottom sheet metal capping bent to suit

LIBRARY

Key Section

FLOORING exposed waffle slab 300mm deep polystrene board insulation waterproofing/ vapour check t=45mm cellular glass insulation embedded in bitumen pcc layer t=70mm epoxy flooring t=20mm powder coated steel c channel

I am going to use the work of this artist as my precedent for my next project! Its so inspiring.

Such a pleasant evening for the lecture. Did you hear Yes, she is opening about Ms. Silva ? a new stall! Good for her!

So many people out on the streets looks lovely! Can’t believe this existed once upon a time!

I wanted to visit the Archive!

PUBLIC LECTURE STORAGE

CONFERENCE

I can’t believe so many artists are producing work on such contemporary issues. It’s great to have a collective like this!

WINDOW tk wood sash fixed badidel louvers

An Urban Living Room - Sectional Axonometric EXTERIOR WALL 230 mm brick wall grey brewster stucco texture cement plaster t=25mm double coat

An Urban Living Room - Elevation

THE ARCHIVE

GIZ OFFICE

ROOF 150 mm high brick wall compressible sealing strip sheet aluminium rcc slab t=150mm insulator embedded in biyumen lightweight insulating concrete terrazo flooring t=6mm

RAILING 30 mm dia SS pipe top rail 120 mm C/C SS pipe picket 6 mm thk SS rod post SS floor flage STAIRCASE rcc waist slab smooth finish screed t=30mm

Come let’s catch up looking at the train. I can wave back at a friend I’ve made!

PUBLIC TOILET

PANTRY

STORAGE

INTERIOR WALL brick t=150mm smooth cast finish cement plaster t=11mm

FLOORING epoxy flooring t= 20mm concrete slab t=120mm rigid insulation foam t=30mm

Key Section

Welcome to the special course of your interlanguage exchange program.

I wonder what we will learn about each other today! Spare me! Can’t you see I am a human being just like you!

Let’s go! I want to dip my feet in the water !! Me first!

WORKSHOP

Please let go of my son. He is harmless!

OPEN THEATER

CANTEEN

COLUMNS solid tk column coated with water based preservatives 12mm metal plate connection rcc pedesatl rough finish

Hey new come p

STAIRCASE rammed and com solid tk wood sec metal divider stri over concrete tk=

An Urban Living Room - Sectional Axonometric ROOF tk wood purlin 200*150mm tk wood rafters 130*70mm tk wood batten 75*50mm glass wool insulation shingles applied over tar paper

RA 30 120 6m SS

STAIRCASE rcc waist slab smooth finish screed t=30mm

FLOORING rcc slab t=150mm polystrene board insulation waterproofing/vapour check t=45mm cellular glass insulation embedded in bitumen t=6mm pcc layer t=70mm uneven cut outdoor stone flooring tiles t=8-10mm

An Urban Living Room - Elevation

Let’s raise awareness about it !

I have seen them myself but we were busy hiding our friends!

MEZZANINE LEVEL hitch beams, engineered design 150x300 plywood sheet t=10mm joists 50x50mm solid wood decking 150x10mm What was the experience like ?

I want to go there and paint. I want to paint the canal and us fishing in it!

Can I stay a little longer today ?

w kid, play with us!

mpacted earth ction 150mmx150mm ip poured =10mm agg exposed

SEATING 450 rcc high wall cladded with 20mm thk slate locally available stone capped thk 50mm

I can’t wait for my art class. Today I will paint me and my friends!

AILING mm dia SS pipe top rail 0 mm C/C SS pipe picket mm thk SS rod post floor flage

WORKSHOP

Amma do you know I can paint whatever i want! So much fun. No homework unlike my school.

EXTERIOR WALL 230 mm brick wall grey brewster stucco texture cement plaster t=25mm double coat

Key Section

26. Shingles applied over tar paper 27. Glass wool insulation

28. Tk wood batten 75*50mm

29. Tk wood rafters 200*150mm

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30. Tk wood purlin 130*70mm

31. Tk wood columns fastned by wood stiffners 32. Metal channel screwed onto the column

33. 70mm thick plywood panel

34. 30mm dowel

35. Floor board

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36. Tk wood joist

37. Tk wood beam

38. Metal railing of varrying dia 39. Concrete stub

40. Bolts

41. Uneven outdoor stone flooring tiles 42. Paving unit set vertically 43. Bituminous setting bed 44. Compacted aggregate

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EXTERNAL WALL SECTION THROUGH COACHING CLASS 1:20

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45. Fiber glass panel 46. 8mm thick glass

47. Glass wool insulation 48. C section channel 49. Steel plate

50. Stiffeners placed at regular intervals 51. Silicon Sealant

52. PCC layer 1:100 slope

53. 7mm thk Plywood sheet

54. 30mm Accoustic Panels 55. Wooden Studs

56. Wooden floor boards 57. Battens 58

58. 250mm deep I section

59. Bolts

60. Powder coated steel I section 59

EXTERNAL WALL SECTION THROUGH MUSIC ROOM 1:20

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4. Lightweight insulating concrete terrazzo flooring with glass chips.

5. Tk Wood Rebate

6. Fixed teak wood louvers

7. Exposed Waffle Slab

8. Insulating Waterproof Concrete

9. 100mm cellular glass insulation embedded in bitumen

11. 120mm C/C SS pipe pocket

10. 30mm diagram SS pipe top rail 12. 6mm thk SS rod post

13. SS floor Flage

14. 300 mm the concrete slab

15. Tk wood Sash

16. 8mm thk fixed glass 17. 8mm Argon Glass 18. Vitrified Tiles

19. Damp proofing with a bituminous acrylic modified cement coating. 20. 300 thk concrete wall 21. Slope with mortar

22. Premolded filler and sealant at expansion joint

23. Concrete ground slab

24. Protection Board for waterproofing; extruded polystrene

25. Drainage mat with a filter fabric 19mm thk EXTERNAL WALL SECTION THROUGH GIZ OFFICE 1:20

Aerial View

of multiple publics and canalfront regeneration Spring 2018 | SEA Location : Vijaywada, India Guide : Rohit Mujumdar, Neera Adarkar

The project proposes rethinking of the singular imagination of the state’s current vision of public space along the canal edge that advances recreation and leisure tourism as its chief activities. The central feature of Vijaywada city today are the three canals: Rvyes, Elluru and Ke Main Canal built as a part of colonial irrigation schemes on Krishna River. One finds multiple-use cases and activities along their edges that can be classified into four broad categories: residential, religious, industrial and amenity waterfront. With the growing tourism the Council sees the canals as an opportunity to provide for water sports and urban parks using the canal merely as a leisure park. The parks already created at regular intervals are these fenced green corridors that cater to a specific kind of ‘public’ in turn erasing out various other forms of activities that go beyond recreation. At a larger scale, the project proposes multiple interventions to accommodate varying user needs along the canal bank and focuses around a node to develop secondary amenities required by the settlement. 25

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Existing canalfront elevation 01

rail route

Existing canalfront elevation 02

Existing canalfront elevation 03

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1. Public Bath 2. Temple in a city 3. Eateries 4. Labour Junction 5. Public Park 6. Temple Plaza 7. Outdoor Gym 8. Walkway+ Cycle Track 9 . Amphitheater 10. Community Toilet 11. Ware house 12. Celebration Hall

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01. Pedestrian Bridge 02. Labour Junction 03. Temple 04. Public Bath 05. Pavillion 06. Tower of Study 07. PublicToilet 08. Community Toilet 09.Seating Space 10. Tower of Joy 11. Dhobi Ghat 12. Community Toilet

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Proposed Site Plan

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Located at the intersection of Annadana Samajam street and Kothavanthena settlement, the project requires one to relook at the amenities provided for a ‘hutting’ settlement. Programs like ‘Tower of Joy’ and ‘Tower of Study’ were developed as reinterpretation of ‘watch towers’ that now housed kids as protectors of the settlement. A pavilion looking like a temporal framework with urban furniture clips to the existing vehicular bridge for the daily wage labourers as a shelter to catch up on their afternoon lunch and nap. Amenity based functions like the dhobi ghat ( a utility area for washing clothes and utensils) were modified to fit in plinths that doubled up as meeting nook for the elders to catch up as they gather for their daily chores. A pavilion using wood interlocking technique houses the dhobi ghat and doubles up as a clothes drying rack when required. The community toilet is proposed along the boundary of a vacant plot with shaded corridor aligning parallel to the canal edge.

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Musical Corridor

Monkey Bars

Rock Climbing Wall

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Terrazo Chips Deck

Bamboo Slate for flooring

Slide Pocket of rest

Plan at +5.50 m Lvl

Exploded Axonometric - Tower of Joy

Play House

Metal Framework Panel infill with straw

House of Balls

Sand Pit

Storage

Ingotic Arm

TOWER OF JOY As the Kothavanthena settlement arose out of necessity, children’s playscape were ignored and deemed unnecessary. The tower of joy, experiments with the idea of playscape that is both safe and exhilarating for the children. Envisioned as a series of decks floating within the follie, the tower affords a different activity on each deck that goes beyond singular readings and imagination of play. Tall vertical poles hold these floating desks but extend seamlessly into the landscape—from function to whimsy. Pre-conceived architectural elements like rooms and bridges and stairs do exist, but lead to nowhere. Another principle of the design strategy provides multiple means of access to any location. These decisions produce escalating challenges for the kids; mitigating risk and ensuring the correct age-range have access to the more treacherous areas instead of withholding them entirely. Older kids climb over while younger crawl under. Taking the hot climate of Vijaywada into consideration, the tower reinterprets the idea of a Tree House and submerges itself in a grove of trees on the southern side. 33

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Plan at -1.00 Lvl

Plan at +5.00m Lvl Outdoor Deck

SECTION AT _____ LVL Scale - 1:50

Plan at +2.8m Lvl

Plan at +8.00 m Lvl

Exploded Axonometric - Tower of Study

Tiled Roof

Framework to support the roof

Reading Nook

Low seating for pre schooler

Mid Landing Balcony

Study Table Bookshelf Bamboo Screen

TOWER OF STUDY

Seating

Storage

The tower of study extends out as an environmental classroom for the kids of the adjacent high school as well as residents from the settlement. Designed as a cuboidal framework, the wooden louvered panels open up to the balconies overlooking the canal. The tower is designed almost as a raw installation playing shadow with light, a place where anyone can come to rest, chat or escape the scorching afternoon sun. It contains multiple configurations of seating for a child to engage with. With a built-in public library, the tower allows the reader to either sit on a study desk overlooking the common gathering table located at the base of the tower or relax with a novel on a large hammock under the louvered roof. 35

View from the Street

toying with amorphia Fall 2017 | SEA Location : Mumbai, India Guide : Ravindra Punde, Dipti Bhaindarkar

I grew into it. It grew into me. It and I blurred at the edges, became one amorphous, seeping, crawling thing. - Marya Harnbacher, Madness : A bipolar Life

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The museum for contemporary art has been conceived as an abstract amorphous form taking over the rectilinear concrete cube. Restricting the circulatory core within the amorphous form allows people to catch PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION glimpses of the sea face as they walk under the concrete and glass panels that allow natural light to filter through. In contrast, the attached gallery spaces, cladded with concrete panels are stacked on top of one another, shut themselves to the outside world, drawing undivided attention to the displayed artwork. D1

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These exhibition spaces are floor deep girders held together by concrete cores on either side. The circulatory core is then cantilevered from the girders, with the girder beams acting as a tie back. The voluminous box containing the museum’s administrative and exhibition spaces thus floats above the ground allowing the public a straight access to the water front from the rear side. Representative Axonometric of Structural system

View of intermediate courtyards

modules of hope and care: an exercise in scalar architecture Junior Architect | Sameep Padora + Associates Location : Hampi, India Team : Rutu Kelekar, Anuj Lukked Year : 2019

The project sits against a backdrop of mountains loaded with boulders on the outskirts of Hampi, an ancient village in the South Indian State of Karnataka. Conceptualised as an elderly home and an orphanage for children of all ages it includes resting units, a library and games center, a dining, a kitchen, house-keeping units, guest units and administrative blocks. The project proposes to combine the two distinct user groups into a single unit to initiate a care giver-receiver bond between the elderly and the children.

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1. Elder’s Room

20 sq.m

2. Elder’s Toilet

10 sq.m

3. Caretaker’s Room

20 sq.m

4. Caretaker’s Toilet

10 sq.m

5. Children’s Room

20 sq.m

6. Children’s Toilet

20 sq.m

Unit Plan - A

Furniture = Structure = Architecture

Unit Plan - B

As the project was going to be developed in phases, a modular structure was proposed for the ease of construction. Each individual octagonal unit contained four c-shaped stone walls that held the furniture leaving the other four edges for sourcing light and ventilation as well as used for movement within the unit. Each unit catered to two adults, six children and two caretakers. The octagonal rooms housed the essential amenities and wrapped around a central paved courtyard that could be used as a spill out during the day. Two type of units were developed that were placed depending on their location within the masterplan. 47

Axonometric - Massing Diagram

Administration Guest Rooms Games + Library Dining + Kitchen Housekeeping Phase 1 - Ground Floor Residential Units Phase 2 - First Floor Residential Units Legend

The masterplan was designed to maintain an equal ratio for the built and unbuilt ground plane. The units unfolded around a series of parallel streets that were cut across diagonally by landscaped courtyards. The offset unit i.e B type helped to create a fluid thoroughfare across the site. Being conscious of the user group, the amenity core units were placed centrally for easy access from all corners on site.

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Longitudnal section

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Floor Plan

bridging landscapes Competition Entry

Location : Karatu, Tanzania

Team : Pranav Thole, Rutu Kelekar Year : 2020

13 01. Verandah 02. Sleeping Area 03. Living Area 04. Cooking Area ( Closed) 05. Cooking Area ( Open) 06. Dining Area 07. Water Catchment 08. Water Filteration 09. Barn 10. Crop and Fodder Storage 11. Cow Shed 12. Toilet 13. Washing Area

The site sits between two landscapes: farmland and natural habitat. The project situates itself as a bridge between these two landscapes. It creates a seamless transition between the inside and the outside, allowing opportunities for gathering of a large family in a semi-open space at all times. The flexible planning allows for multiple degrees of privacy and openness throughout. The project reimagines the prevalent ideas of Tanzanian domesticity and is designed around a central courtyard which acts as a vortex. While creating thresholds with the landscape, the modulations in recreated ground plane create indoor spaces of comfort, the light weight roof floats above the mass of enclosed space, channelling water into the heart of the home. The home for the Jorejick family is an evolution of the traditional house typology. The beehive to cylindrical homes, each mounted on a plinth and surrounded by space for livestock, highlight the deep reflection of the Tanzanian home with everyday life and nature.

Staggred volume to allow north light and cross ventilation

House as a playscapes : Undulating Earth Plinths

View of entrance to the house

House to collect water : Inverted Roof

House as large living room : Flexibility in use

All habitable spaces are organised around this courtyard on a large continuous plinth. The plinth acts as a binding element, creating playscape within. All sleeping/ living spaces look into the courtyard with movable partitions allowing the house to function like a large verandah. The whirlpool like roof makes the courtyard a point for water collection and storage, enabling basic access to safe water. It also serves as a celebratory space for the large family to gather. The architecture adapts and responds to the ecology - sunlight, wind, water and enables low external energy consumption. All habitable areas are staggered to allow optimal north light and natural ventilation which undoubtedly allow for salubrious environments and reduce the risk of any infectious diseases. The project explores the use of mud as a construction material. Since this traditional building material is available abundantly on site, it is modernised to create a more robust and climate resistant technique. It is also the only material that can go back to the ground it came from.

Ecological Stratergies and Rainwater Collection

Jali using rammed blocks to allow diffused light and cross ventilation

Rammed earth wall and seating -mixed with gravel to increase thermal mass at the base

Longitudnal Section

Internal View of the courtyard

Locally grown and harvested thatch over mud roll and wooden substructure Locally available wood for roof structure

Sisal poles using local reed to allow cross ventillation and hot air escape

Lime PCC reinforced with local bamboo Random Rubble Foundation

Rear View of the house

View of internal living space

View of water filteration pond

Exploded Axonometric

Woven thatch over wooden rafters

Mud rolls

Mosquito net and reed sisal poles

Rammed earth walls

These rammed earth walls absorb solar rays during the day and radiate heat during cooler nights. Through clay as a building material, this house aims to catalyse broader engagement and contribute in the provision of affordable houses in Tanzania.

Lime stabilised mud floor

In a context with scarcity of resources, the project is an opportunity for an evolution in native building practices. The project involves cataloguing available resources and developing on those to maximise its potential. It can serve as a skill upgradation for the local craftsmen and a vocational training for the local population.