Photo Essay - Stairs
Academic Work
Wellness Hospitality
Master of Architecture , Final Study, 2016 - 2017
Parkwest Reconsidered
Master of Architecture , Studio 605, 2015
Talking Textiles
Design Dessertation, Year 5, 2014
Swarm Intelligence_Game of Life Architecture Design Studio 1, Year 2, 2010
Light
Architecture Design Studio 2, Year 1 , 2009
Mega Scheme
Architecture Design Studio 1, Year 4 , 2013
Residential Redevelopment Architecture Design Studio 2, Year 4 , 2013
Professional Work
The Recycle
Extracurricular Project, 2013
Research Enquiry Into Design Architects Interior Design of a Commercial Office Space, 2014
Research Enquiry Into Design Architects Single Family House, 2014
Arjun Rathi Architects
Driss El Jay Market, Competition Entry, 2012
Research Enquiry Into Design Architects Project Postcards, 2014
Rural Revitalisation
Architecture Design Studio 2, Year 3 , 2012
Wellness Hospitality
Master of Architecture, Final Study, 2016-2017 Individual and Academic Project Chair // D. Kirk Hamilton , Contact - khamilton@tamu.edu Committee//Michael O'brien , Contact - mjobrien@tamu.edu // Eric Bardenhagen , Contact - bardenhagen@tamu.edu Proposed Site // Menavali, Maharashtra, India. Concept // This Final study will attempt to define 'wellness Hospitality' through architectural intervention.The proposition inspects the relationship between site, building, and urban context at numerous scales, providing a vision for the physical and sociocultural revival of a historically significant urban backdrop whose identity is threatened by visionless development.The proposition will be a platform to weave architecture, hospitality, leisure and healthcare design as a standard to create a space for a holistic experience. The design will highlight the holistic qualities in nature and further its ability to calm a person's state of mind. Also, demonstrating the characteristics for an effective healing environment; one which allows the programmatic functions of a primary care, an education center, and fitness center along with traditional healing systems like Ayurveda and yoga to function as an integrated wellness platform.
Site Plan
Detailed plan of the wellness Retreat
Render from the final project showing the integration of green spaces along with the programs and other activities.
Rendered Section
Render showing how corridor can be integrated with the green spaces .
Detailed Wall Section
Render from the final project showing the use of different materials with variant texture type which help infuse wellness.
“When the fusion of architecture and water is treated carefully and creatively, the potential for meaningful expression is practically limitless� (Moore, 1997).
Render from the final project showing the use of water and open sky to infuse wellness amongst the users of the wellness retreat.
Interior view of the the spa and the therapy area
Natural Light and wellness It is ordinarily realized that daylight is profoundly helpful to individual’s wellbeing. The maximum of individuals these days encounter little contact to daylight, as maximum jobs oblige employers to be indoors. (Day, 2003). Sun light and indoor lighting majorly affect individual’s sentiments, and the mechanism of light is viewed as basic so as to advance a solid environment. (Day, 2003). Hence the elemnts to incorporate
natural sun light into spaces have been drawn from Indian traditional elements like Jaali (screen), arcade, etc. It merits specifying that sunshine when incoming the building is presented to different elements that may change its discernment, for example, hues and surfaces of materials. The way we see sunlight is reliant on these components which contribute in upgrading states of mind and senses.
Exterior meditation and yoga deck view .
Vegetation and Wellness Cultivate spaces urge individuals to interface with the magnificence of nature, another method for enhancing wellbeing and giving treatment however getting natural air and light, therefor, patio nurseries ought to be constantly used in structures for their mending and helpful power. (Venolia, 1988).Nature, aside from giving visual feel, has different
Render from the final project showing the use of Indian traditional elements and courtyards to maximize sunlight in the user experience.
advantages, for example, being an incredible wellspring of oxygen, and a wide-ranging and tidy safeguard. Foliage and parks all in all, are exceptionally helpful for people whether utilized as a part of keeping up the general prosperity, or, in the recuperation period of sick people. (Gesler, 2003).Hence natural landscape has been introduced around the spaces with arcades and courtyards.
LIVE WELL, TRULY WELL ; COME LIVE WELLNESS THE ‘ANANDA’ WAY
Key shot of the ANANDA Wellness Retreat.
Parkwest Reconsidered Master of Architecture, Studio 605, 2015
Individual and Academic Project Design Guide / Mentor // Michael O'brien , Contact - mjobrien@tamu.edu Proposed Site // College Station, Texas. Concept // The project was to design student housing for 3,400 student families. The project had two phases. In the first phase master plan was designed with emphasis on urban and public spaces. Secondly a part of it was detailed which could be the precedent for the rest of the community. The concept behind this master planning was to create public spaces within small courtyards. As courtyard is an architectural design element commonly applied in tropical buildings for its social, environmental and therapeutic potentials. Besides the courtyard functions, design variants were recorded in terms of its form and aspect ratio, courtyard orientation and physical features within the courtyard.
Basement Level Plan
Ground Level Plan
Typical Floor Plan
Site Plan
Sectional Prespective through the public core.
Views
Talking Textiles
Design Dissertation, Year 5, 2014 Individual and Academic Project Design Guide / Mentor // Rajiv Parekh , Contact - rajivp@redarchitects.in Proposed Site // Ballard Estate, Mumbai Concept // India is a cultural superpower with nearly 14 million traditional artisans engaged in various forms of crafts. Here are over 200 traditional art forms in India that face the threat of extinction.Today these art forms are being challenged as never before.Indeed our lives, are leaving very little space for these cultural forms, crafts and traditions to coexist.Its revival and preservation is the need of the hour. Intervention // A platform for interaction of artisans and other design disciplines and also with consumers.Hence collaboration of design and skills would take place which would lead to production of new products and new markets for the same.Forum for artisans , self-expression of the traditional textiles in the city and also spreading awareness about the traditional handmade textiles and the process involved in its production.
Section through courtyard AWARENESS At evening the structure out and tensile canopies are up to accommodate more users and accelerate activities.
01 PUBLIC SQUARE
READING SPACE
PUBLIC SQUARE SPILL OVER
Artisans as Artist V/S Laborers
The intervention accomodating the celebration of Indian textiles,should allow the users to perceive the process as a narrative and a memorable experience. The encounter with the intervention should be a lasting experience.The experience will consist of actual textiles exhibited and the spaces created through the textile - like elements . Collage to convey the spatial quality of the intervention with application and utilisation of textiles. Spaces allowing the textile making process to be narrated , experienced and remembered.
The sensory aspects of textile like the colour, pattern and the texture will significantly contribute to the spaces.
Textile Screen - Fins Element that resembles the appearence and characteristics of textiles
Textile Screen - Louvers using hand woven textile ,would act as display screens.
Spaces allowing for narration and experience
Textiles suspended through steel wires to perceive it from different levels
Soft seats that resemble giant mattress inspired from a textile installation by Bouroullec
Nearly all buildings in Ballard Esatate are commercial in nature.Its neat articulate layout helps th intervention to weave in the urban fabric.The location away from main business and residential area renders the area dead in the evenings and night after office hours encouraging antisocial elements.There is lack of proper public space, presence of negative and dead spaces and also significant underitilisation of space. The density and traffic pattern allows the intervention to weave and amplify.
Scale // The intervention is time based and during the day it could be pocketed and confined to a particular site but after offices shut at evening the intervention could expand and spill over the streets. Temporary v/s Permanent // Part of the intervention would be permanent with fixed site which would be used through out the day by the users.During evening and night when the users increase structure would roll out on a pivot and open up from the permanent structure .Open spaces would have tensile roof with traditional textile over it.
DISPLAY GALLERY / TEXTILE PROCESS STUDIO / TEXTILE CONSERVATION LAB / DIY STUDIO / INCUBATION CELL / MARKET MARKET space would roll out to allow market activities to expand out especially during the weekends.
Part of the IDESIGN STUDIO would slide out to allow the artists to spill out their studio.
EXHIBITION GALLERY / RESOURCE CENTRE / SHOP / DESIGN STUDIO / HOSTEL / WORKSHOP
Primaralily cross-pollination of work between textile artisans and other design disciplines .
WORK
ENGAGE
RECREATION
TRAVELLING EXHIBITION / FILM SCREENING ROOM / AMPHI THEATRE / RESTAURANT / OPEN AIR LOUNGE
TRAVELLING EXHIBITION space slides to open up the sunken AMPHI THEATRE. RESTAURANT would move out so that the DINNING Space would spill out in the evening.
AWARENESS RECEPTION / INFORMATION CENTRE / TEXTILE DISPLAY / LIBRARY / STORE RECEPTION would slide out to create a PUBLIC SQUARE in the evening for the users. LIBRARY would roll out to furnish users with a READING AREA.
Section through courtyard WORK
Section through courtyard ENGAGE
Swarm Intelligence_Game of Life
Given below are basic eight rules of Wolfram rule 30
Architecture Design Studio 1, Year 2, 2010 Individual and Academic Project
Design Guide // Dipal kothari chhaya and Atrey Chhaya, Contact // dipal.kothari@nmims.edu , atrey.kothari@nmims.edu
First six iterations formed by Wolframs Rule 30 with one cell in the first generation.
Proposed Site // Corridor, Balwant Sheth School of Architecture, Mumbai. Brief // The project was initiated by a reader about artificial intelligence and inherit ability in nature to survive in a swarm or a group. An understanding of any term or a phenomena was to be chosen as a trigger for the concept and translate it into an abstract model. Scope of Work // Design , Execution , Site Execution. Team Work // For fabrication only. Team // Paras Gada, Ashwini Lohiya, Karan Sancheti, vidhi Malhotra. Intervention // 'Cellular Automata' are examples of simple programs,that work by having the color of each cell in successive rows be determined by the same simple rule. This mechanism is at the heart of all sorts of fundamental phenomena in nature and elsewhere.The abstract model made to express the characteristics of Cellular Automata was selected to be a full scale installation used as a canopy.
This Simple can produce patterns and behaviors of immense complexity. The comples patterns of the molluscus shell may just come from a simple program of 'Cellular Automata'.
The component was suspended using suspension cables from startegic points to acheive as well as counter the desired sag. Materiality and Structure // Six sheets of flexi ply were used to acheive the projected curve. The pixel pattern maeked on the ply and were cut manually using an electric saw. These sheets of ply were later assembled to make one component. Program / Use // The installation displayed in the corrido enhanced its experience as a walk-through with its pixelated play of light and shadow. The installation was also used as a canopy under which design juries were conducted.
Section CC'
Section BB'
Light
Architecture Design Studio 2, Year 1 , 2009 Individual and Academic Project Design Guide // Atrey Chhaya Contact // atrey.chhaya@nmims.edu Proposed Site // Atrium , NMIMS , Mumbai. Roof Plan
Brief // The purpose of the project was to study and experiment with light conditions and create an experiential corridor. Intervention // The concept started from how foliage of trees cast shadows on the roads.The change in the intensity of the shadow was mapped throughout the day. Different layers in the foliage were considered like sparse and dense. Different combinations of these layers were used to make process models. The site was a open space in a college campus. Hence designed a multifuntional pavillion. There were a lot of functions assigned such as cafeteria,exhibition space ,library ,etc.
Section AA'
Mega Scheme
Architecture Design Studio 1, Year 4 , 2013 Individual and Academic Project Design Guide // Priyank Mehta Contact // priyank.mehta@nmims.edu Proposed Site // Mahul , Trombay , Mumbai. Brief // The design breif was to study the given site that was a small strech near the BPCL petroleum industry at Trombay ,Mumbai.Study the issues that were prevailing at the site and to design an intervention for the same. Intervention // The issue that I documented was, a 100 years old fishing village ,Mahul village is at threat due to increase urbanisation.It is a need of an hour to protect the mangroves and also protect the fishing village from extinction as it is an important part of our traditional industry and culture.Hence the intervention ' Fishermen colony' to help fishermen survive with aptly designed houses , commercial spaces to help them increae their income and also recreational spaces.
As a result of rapid urbanisation a 100 yearold fishermen colony is at thread .Their houses known as koliwada are slowly being brought down to make way for new high rise right next to the jetty and the mangrove vegatation.This has altered the fishermens way of life and also reduced their livilehood activity ,fishing drastically due to lack of infractructure and open spaces available. Section through prototype house 4
With the inspiration of fractal growth of mangrows. Firstly the circulation of the site was planned majorly considering the access from the city to the jetty.Later programs and functions were assigned in the voids left thereafter.The triangulated voids left for housing were further fractalised and designed as per fishermens needs.
View of fishwemen housing colony
Section through exhibition and information centre and viewing deck
Prototype 4
Prototype 3
Prototype 1 and 2
Housing// The triangulated plot left for housing was further fractalised to acheive four prototypes of houses as per the fishermens needs
Ground Level Layout
Residential Redevelopment Architecture Design Studio 2, Year 4 , 2013 Individual and Academic Project Design Guide // Praveer Sethi Contact // praveer.sethi@nmims.edu Proposed Site // JVPD, Vile Parle , Mumbai. Brief // The design brief was to redevelope a exsisting housing soceity taking into consideration all the design requirements of the exsisting tenants and also provide with luxurious sellable flats which included high end duplex flats and pent houses on the upper floors. For the purpose of variation, 12 tenants with the character brief were created for whom the redeveloped flats were to be designed. But the challenge was to design according to the DCR ( Development Control Regulation ) of Mumbai ,calculating all the areas according to the available FSI and also fit the design in it.
Sale Flats
7,9,11,13 - Typical Floor Layout for Sale Flats
15 Floor Layout for Sale Flats
Redeveloped Flats
8,10,12,14 - Typical Floor Layout for Sale Flats
Section and view emphasising elements like louvers, jali and lap pool
The Recycle Extracurricular Project, 2013 Team Project Design Guide // Dipal Chhaya Contact // dipalchhaya@nmims.edu. Installation Site // Kalaghoda, Mumbai. Scope of Work // Conceptualisation of design, Execution and Fabrication. Brief // The street furniture responds to the festival manifesto of Mumbai Dreams - Art to Change. The design of the furniture reflects our dream of making Mumbai a sustainable city. Basic design proposal was a seating catering to pedestrians. The loop in the design is symbolic of achieving sustainability. Material used is a eco-friendly material i.e cane.
The basic design proposal was a seating catering to the pedestrians which derived its form from The Recycle loop.The looping in the design proposal is symbolic of achieving sustainability. The extrusion of the loop thus provides the third dimension with program.
The Recycle exhibited at the Kala Ghoda Art Festival Mumbai.
Form Development // In the installation the lateral members follow the continuous path, originating from the necessity to loop the recycling process as an approach to a sustainable future. The process of splitting and looping of these members being intuitive brings about an organic nature to the form. The form scripts to different heights generating a hierarchy of seating within the same loop making it 'interactive'.
Rural Revitalisation
Architecture Design Studio 2, Year 3 , 2012 Individual and Academic Project Design Guide // Sahil Latheef Contact // sahil.latheef@gmail.com Proposed Site // Menavli, Maharashtra. Brief // In Menavli river krishna plays the most pivot role.It acts as the most common denominatorfor the entire site and all its activities. This provides branches and hirerachy to the project. This is programmatically also designed to high llight the farms on the site .The main program revolves around on organic market which is served by te farms and the people on the site.The youth hostel is designed to improve and provide the skills of farminf in the people of Menavli.
Research Enquiry Into Design Architects Interior Design of a Commercial Office Space, 2014 Client // General Atlantic, Mumbai Position // Junior Architect Principal Architect // Rajiv Parekh. Contact // rajivp@redarchitects.com Team Project Team Head // Apoorva Shroff Scope of Work // Design Conceptualisation, 3d and physical modelling ,Electrical Drawings, Detail drawings,Presentation panel, Coordintion, Execution. Supercision. Site // Worli, Mumbai. Brief // This 11,000 sq.ft. space was to be designed and executed with the last finishing touch within the time span of 100 days.The design had to be on the lines of minimalism to meet the clients international standard. It was a challenging assignment as had to work and produce drawings under extreme pressure of tight deadlines.
Elevation renders for presentation
MD Cabin
MD Cabin
Detail drawing of one of the VP Cabins which includs furniture details, finishes, electrical layout and schedule. Detail drawings for each of the 47 rooms were p roduced.
Cafeteria
yoga Room
Basement Level Plan
Ground Level Plan
Research Enquiry Into Design Architects Single Family House, 2014 Client // Siddhart Vaid, Mumbai Position // Junior Architect Principal Architect // Rajiv Parekh. Contact // rajivp@redarchitects.com Scope of Work // Design Conceptualisation, 3d and physical modelling , Detail drawings,Presentation panel, Muncipal Drawings. Site // Goregaon, Mumbai. Brief // This was a family house for Vaids. The process for designing included meeting the clients to understand their needs and requirements then meeting their vastu consultants to understand the placement of elements and programs in the house .However after the calculation of the areas according to the permissible F.S.I each floor plate was around 2000 sq.ft. The vaids prefered a traditional touch to their house so the element of indian jali was given a modern touch and used for its elevation and also small courtyards were incorporated within the scope of design. Later muncipal drawings with area calculations were produced to get the approval for construction from local administrative body.
First Level Plan
Second Level Plan
Cafeteria
Driss El Jay Market Competition Entry, 2012
Firm // Arjun Rathi Architects Position // Summer Intern Principal Architect // Arjun Rathi. Contact // arjunrathi@gmail.com
Spice Market Fish Market Meat Market
Team Project Team Head // Arjun Rathi Team // Shantaram Labde, Pinal Desai and Sakshi Gandhi. Scope of Work // Design Conceptualisation, 3d and physical modelling and presentation panels. Proposed Site // Casablanca, Morocco.
Fruit and Vegetble Market Flower Market Subway Platform
Brief // The aim of this International Competition was to design a New Sustainable Market Square in Casablanca.The design had to create a new comtemporary social space where locals can meet and shop and generate the discussion and ideas about the functionality of community and street commerce. Intervention // The project proposes a vertical garden for the public square which hosts a market and a congregation space. The plan was inspired from Moroccan tile designs which created a planning grid for the site. The design also accounts for a future sub-way system in Casablanca, and speads the market to an underground level as well.
Inverted Trees - The tree structures are the focal point of the market. They act as verticals for vegetation to travel upwards and form the structural system for the upper and lower level of the market. The inverted domes act as rain water collection pits and purified drinking water can be accessed by the public at the base of the stem.
Research Enquiry Into Design Architects Project Postcards, 2014 Position // Junior Architect Principal Architect // Rajiv Parekh. Contact // rajivp@redarchitects.com Graphic Design Head // Nasha Mehta. Contact // nasha@designbynasha.com Scope of Work // Design Conceptualisation, Graphic Designing, Detailing, Execution, Coordination. Brief // This assignments was about designing a walkthrough of a luxurious villa, 'The Kothari House' designed by the firm through series of postcards. and also the box for these postcards was to be designed and fabricated. The storyboard is designed such that the concepts and the details are highlighted.The postcard as a space was graphically designed considering aspects like layout. Content placement, typography, etc. The printing process was equally intresting where we did experiment with different printing technologies like foil stamping, duplexing of paper, etc
Design and detail for fabrication of the box. Materials used for the box wood be hard wood and copper plate filligree on it
Architecture Photography
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