Salonee Chadha
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Champa ka ped (Plumeria alba)
Graphic interpretation of parts of a tree - Bark, foliage, leaves, branching and flowering.
Contents Academic works Wazirabad housing community, Gurgaon Bachelor of Architecture, third year.(2011)
Brownfield remediation at Rakhi Mandi, Kanpur Bachelor of Architecture, fifth year.(2013)
Professional works The Crest, residential landscape, Gurgaon Oracles Landscape.(2016)
Amrita Shergill Marg residence, New Delhi Oracles Landscape.(2017)
Personal works Courtyard, design explorations (2015)
Copycat Paperworks, Handmade products (2014-2016)
Urban village extension - High rise residential view
Urban Village extension, Wazirabad Location
Gurgaon, India
Site Area
26.5 hectares
Team Members Contribution
About
urban housing
Three Site survey and analysis, concept evolution, green spine design, graphic representation.
Gurgaon is one of the leading metropolitan cities in India, and along with its intense degree of development, it’s villages find themselves increasingly isolated from the society around them. “The villages have been squeezed between private colonies. Life in villages is becoming difficult, “ said Naresh Yadav of Sarhol village. (excerpt from an article on www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
The urbanisation of Gurgaon has seen most of its urban villages deplored, with people fast moving out. Communities that once thrived with agrarian activities at their core are fast evolving into empty shells, with delipidated housing and open spaces used as makeshift parking lots and illegal alcohol shops fueling anti-social activities. This loss of a culturally rich urban structure urges to create an urban core that renews community involvement and encourages the renewal of a healthy social structure at Gurgaon’s urban villages and associated open spaces.
Gurgaon’s open spaces
survey
Open spaces have little association with the surrounding built. They are encroached upon, by dump yards and illicit businesses. Predominantly middle-aged men are observed sauntering at the large expanses of desolate land. Women and children’s safety is also of concern. Last mile transportation is missing because of buildings enclosed in high boundary walls.
Wazirabad Village Unique architectural charecter. Mixed use development. Village expanding outward.
Farmland Existing tilled land at site.
Public Plaza as an auxilary to Artemis, for services like Bus stand/Taxi stand
Artemis Hospital City wide medical facility catchment.
Community Kachha road Informal pedestrian connections through the site. Sub arterial road Well connect site ,proposed metro line & stations. Acts as an expansion edge for urban village.
Housing typologies
Access High rise mid density mixed use housing. Rejuvination resort for medical tourism catchment.
Informal junctions Informal pedestrian nodes through the site.
Artisan Village & LIG/MIG housing as an extension to the urban village. Farmlands retained.
Activite points
Connectors
Farmland preserved
‘green spine’
Farmland Green Spine
The project site at the intersection of an urban village, arterial road and active open space becomes a magnet for towards the urban village.
Wazirabad pattern
Urban Village extension
High rise mixed use development
Built mass Circulation Open space
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11
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10 9 8
12
13
Proposed Site Plan
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EXISTING BUILT
6
TEMPLE/MOSQUE/GURUDWARA
1
FARMLAND
4
REJUVINATION CENTRE
7
2
REED BED
5
FARMER’S MARKET
8
9
PUBLIC PLAZA
12
SPORTS ZONE
10
EXISTING MALL
13
TAXI STAND
11
ACCESIBILITY Entrances Roads
ARTISAN’S VILLAGE COMMUNITY CENTRE & SUB STATION
HIGH RISE RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX GROUND COVERAGE 27.58% 31.11% 30.30% DENSITY
BUILDING USE Medical Commercial/Services Recreation Health care Religious Government buildings
61.89 DU/HA 38.8 DU/HA 156 DU/HA FLOOR AREA RATIO 0.90 2.11 0.51
ARTISAN’S VILLAGE MASSING SYSTEM Module A (50 sqm)
Module C (150 sqm) breadth side open 2 breadth side open
breadth side open
Module B (75 sqm)
Module D (225 sqm)
breadth side open lengh side open opposite side open (breadth) opposite side open (legnth) 2 adjasent side open 3 adjasent side open
breadth side open
Location and orientation of each block chosen on basis of number of sides open, occupation of user and overall solar shading to best utilise mutual shading and save on energy costs.
Business residence at ground floor, worker’s residence above. Artisan residence at ground floor, worker’s residence above. Worker residence
SUMMER SOLISTICE
WINTER SOLISTICE
Artisan’s village typical elevation
Artisan’s village typical section
In 2014, Indian Government undertook an exercise to assess pollution levels in some of the highly polluted industrial areas of India. It then released a list of 43 most polluted areas, 3 of which are in Kanpur, terming them critically polluted, and identifying them as requiring urgent intervention and pollution abatement measures. The exercise proved futile as these areas remain highly polluted and have brought no change in the lives of people living near them.
Brownfield remediation, Rakhi mandi Location
Kanpur, India
Site Area
7 acres
Team Members Contribution
About
fifth year
Indivisual Site analysis, concept design, design development,
The Comprehensive Environment Pollution Index rates Kanpur as the 15th most polluted city in India, with at least 4 critically polluted sites. Every month more than 2000 million ton of sludge from cloth tanneries is dumped on the open ground, where chromium turns into toxic Cr+6 and percolates down the lower aquifers. These toxic constituents, dumped at the 4 most populated municipal zones in Kanpur, range up to 6 to 10 mg/l of water, which is almost 1000 times the maximum permissible level of .01 mg/l of water fixed by the World Health Organization for drinking purposes. The project presented here is a comprehensive development plan of a parcel of area, at Rakhi Mandi, Kanpur. Previously a dumping ground for hexavalent chromium, it is now occupied by Fly ash traders. The project involves construction of a community complex including an awareness centre, a vocational training institute, a research and development centre as well as a health care facility for the locals, post extensive remediation of the currently contaminated site.
Rakhi Mandi
conditions at site
Dense settlement on the site. 20 to 25 years back waste from Kanpur Chemicals (engaged in bulk manufacturing of Chemical dyes) was dumped at the site. Approximately, 10,000 tonnes of waste has been dumped in this area. Presently, the waste is buried at 3 to 5 feet below the surface. The site is uneven and is being utilized mainly for coal ash dealing and storage (from rubber foundries and paper industries) and is called Rakhi Mandi.
Fly ash storage mounds
Make shift housing
Lumber storage yards
Stagnant rainwater. Edges used as dump grounds.
300 mm
- Loamy Sand soil
750 mm
- Depth of average root length
900mm
- Hexavelant Chromium
1200mm
- Sandy Loam soil
1550mm
- Unsolidated materials
1800mm
- Water Table
Contaminated water sample
18000mm - Contaminated Ground water 36000mm - Bedrock
There is no piped water supply or any sewer lines in the area and the residents use hand pumps for daily needs. It was observed that a shallow hand pump drawing water from 60 to 70 feet is slightly yellow and greenish in color and upon testing, shows the existance of chromium in the strata. Area of contamination due to chromium was reported to be around 1 to 2 km. The main tress in the area is Acacia, Peepal. Gular and Neem. The residents are ignorant of the health problems associated with the contaminated water.
Planned Residential
Religious
Recreational
Commercial
Slum
Institutional
Green
Public buildings
Kaccha slum
Governement buildings
Timber storage and processing
Unprotected heritage
Residential
Govenrment buildings
Institutional
Light industrial/storage
Urban sprawl
Recreational
Commerical
Public building
Waterbodies
Rakhi Mandi
remediation
Ganga river Ground water flow direction
Site
Ground water flows to the nearest possible lowest point of water head, wiz Ganga river. Quality control point
Contaminated plume
Contaminated plume
Chemical chambers
Treated plume
Permeable reactive barrier placed along ground water flow direction, at the depth of contaminated water flow. Three walls as representatives contructed at site as an architectural feature commemerating the remediation.
Water hyacinth is a free floating aquatic plant considered a weed growing in contaminated water. Usually it is undesired , but is widely used for phytoremediation of contaminated waterbodies. The existing waterbodies on site shall be remediated using water hyacinth, which grows quickly and can be harvested to produce different woven products and construction material for the intervention zone.
Atrium with folded plate roof support on trusses.
Grand central staircase at the entry of the complex.
Awareness Exhibition
Light and shadow play guiding visitors on a predetermined path
Ground Floor Plan - Awareness Centre
West Elevation
Section A-A’
First Floor Plan
Training Centre
West side wall shaded with use of shades.
First Floor Plan
Louvers
The louvers on east facade are set at an angle which allows winter sun inside the building while blocking the summer sun.
Ground Floor Plan - Training Centre Second Floor Plan
Section E-E’
Section D-D’
The Crest , DLF 5
residential towers
Location
Gurgaon, India
Site Area
35717 sq m
Team Members Contribution
Three Design development, prepration of construction drawings, value engineering of materials, finishes and plantation, coordiantion with consultants and vendors, client feedback and coordination, construction management.
The open spaces at Crest have been designed to emulate a resort like landscape experience. Divied into two zones - podium level and sunken court landscape, the design provides residents with open recreational spaces at the podium level, and a sunken tropical retreat along the community club. The focal point of the design - a four meter tall waterfall feeding water into the lagoon pool, drowns out distracting sounds of the city, providing a soothing experience. Water circulates out of the swimming pool by pooring into a central island with seating area and a fire pit, creating an evening atmosphere of being near the ocean, surrounded by lush greens and flowering trees.
The Crest
construction documentation and management
Splash waterfall under construction
Section at ramp
Detail at trough
Stone lip detail
Splash waterfall plan
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Section across splash waterfall
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5m
Lagoon pool bar post construction
Signature jaali design
Signature jaali detail
Section across lagoon pool bar
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500
1000m
Overflow pool edge and skimmer pool edge post construction
Sections at overflow pool edge and skimmer pool edge
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500
1000m
The Crest
plantation scheme for specimen trees
An assortment of approximately 250 trees from various nurseries in and around the city were selected on the basis of their apparent health, transplantability, and their height and girth. Alstonia scholaris saptparni
Bauhinia variegata alba bakain
Callistemon lanceolatus bottle brush
Delonix regia gulmohar
Erythrina indica indian coral tree
Ficus infectoria pilkhan
Ficus retusa laurel fig
Manilkara zapota chikoo
Mimusops elengi maulsari
Peltophorum pterocarpum copper pod
Plumeria rubra red flowering frangipani
Plumeria alba white flowering frangipani
Swietenia mahogani west indian mahogany
Signature trees planting scheme for transplanted specimens in lagoon pool area.
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5m
Pheonix sylvestris indian date palm
Alternanthera green
Bougainvillea buttiana ‘lady mary baring’
Bougainvillea peruviana ‘subhra’ Bambusa ventricosa
Cyperus alternifolius
Cestrum nocturnum
Cycas revoluta
Clerodendrum splendens
Ficus panda
Hymenocallis littoralis
Jatropha panduraefolia
Livistona chinensis
Lantana camara ‘depressa yellow’
Phyllostachys aurea
Phyllostachys nigra
Pennisitum setaceum alba
Rhapis excelsa
Wedelia trilobata
Shrubs and ground cover planting scheme under transplanted 0 specimens in lagoon pool area.
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5m
Cyanodon dactylon
Custom notebooks - Hand printed, hand sewn with traditional indian embroidery threads.
Copycat paperworks, handmade products Location Team Members Contribution
business
New Delhi, India Indivisual Product design , development and construction, sales and marketing, client feedback and coordination.
Jungle book play - Costume design for 30 actors.
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