School of environment and DateMumbaiarchitecture-SEAIndiaofbirth 01-10-2000 Address Mathar pakhadi road Mumbai-mazgaon10 Contact 8080075517 Email a19sarah@sea.edu.insarahlukhadia0110@gmail.com Education Convent of Jesus and Mary, Fort (SSC) K.C. College, Churchgate (HSC) School of environment and architecture (B.Arch) Studio collaboration What2020-is a factory? Passive Modularitystrategies.forcommunity space. What is a home? Artist2021- residency, environmental flows Technological sensorium, public space intervention. Textile Museum, Paithan Wetlands Conservatory, Sewri Mass2022-housing Volunteering 2021-2022 Content Committee (Blogs posts, social media, websites publishng) 2022- NGO project Mumbai @project_mumbai Interests Music (playing instruments) Digital MartialCrochetMarketingarts Elective workshops 2019- bamboo workshop, hundred hands 2019 - urban ecology. 2020 - Drawing out the everyday, the scribe and the labyrinth (stop motion video) 2020- Pixar in a box , animation studio. 2021- Urdu literature by Seema Fatima 2021 - Space Syntax Competitions 1. International Healthcare Design Competition Portable isolation unit, July 2021 2. The sustainable cabin, August 2021 competitions 3.archiKVDF forum writing competition , June 2022 Skills HandLumion.InDesign.Photoshop.(Beginner)RevitRhinoGoogleAutoCADsketchupdraftingand measure drawings.
The built structure took form of appendages which help to balance the outdoor and indoor Stillsspaces.on the ground offer more publiciness and private spaces fall on the upper floors. The roof is a continuous and staggered having a wooden assembly of trusses.. The flows are addressed in following way: sunlight orientation of the building is kept parallel to the north south direction having majority openings on the north The footprint of the building is assured not to block water flows but to direct them for the collection, implementing the rain water harvesting Thetechniques.roofis sloped towards the South Western winds to protect the building and due to being in the direction of the wind ,there is always good ventilation ,which is a key requirement for humid climate.
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The course objectives for the project was to build skills on the environmental flows i.e orientation of sunlight, rain water flows on the Terrain, wind flows. The artist Residency is a place for peaceful practice which would hold the functions for public interventions like exhibition, semi open Cafe, outdoor sittings and gardens.
Artist Residency
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Charkhop village is located in Kandivali West. The typology of the village is interesting as it has clusters which form the large of fabric of the context having a central courtyard. Each family is allotted a piece of land approximately 3x10 meters and this has given the portionary to develop homes of specificities. The houses are narrow and deep almost devoid of light and ventilation. How can a home be a fluid space? What can be intervened with the positioning of the linear and horizontal planes.The partition in a home are not made to fragment it or to create enclosures but to make a space within a space with series of racks and shelves. So despite of the installation of the partitions the entire volume can be experienced as a continuous wholesome space. What is a home?Charkhop village is located in Kandivali West. The typology of the village is interesting as it has clusters which form the large of fabric of the context having a central courtyard. Each family is allotted a piece of land approximately 3x10 meters and this has given the portionary to develop homes of specificities. The houses are narrow and deep almost devoid of light and ventilation. So despite of the installation of the partitions the entire volume can be experienced as a continuous wholesome space.
A key observation on site is a missing patch of mangroves. A reason to this might be a the presence of a sewage outlet adjacent to the site. This condition is apt to study a Constructed Wetlands for Sewage Treatment. The water requires to pass Through a setup in four steps: Settling, horizontal flow, vertical flow, floating wetlands. The terrain of the site supports the system by gravity and reduces cost for artificial pumping. To make this an interactive part of the project programs are planned systematically around it. Having public and semi open spaces as functional circulation within the structure. Is slope towards the South to protect it from the monsoon winds and face the present sunlight. To be effectively used for collecting the water in the rainwater harvesting tank. One can see double height spaces forming alternate Court yards creating transitions between the indoor and outdoor environment enabling the visitor to constantly be connected to nature.
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A museum is a space where ideas are communicated and expressed by the interaction of people. So how could the spaces then be developed by the movement of the in between spaces, that could bring about the various connections and transitions? By orchestrating spaces to evoke an interesting experience for the visitors.Can the form and volumetric understanding inform the activities and accordingly become specific as well comfortable? Paithan has a hot and dry climate hence, the material choice of brick and concrete interiors was made to provide thermal comfort. Brick jalies and arches are a few features that are used. The exploded view shows the assembling of the building process. One can observe a centralised Courtyard and corridors for movement in the plan. Sections and elevations give an imagination of the building with varied voids and overall facades. include details of the core staircase washroom waterproofing and an external wall section.
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A phenomena was identified to conceptualize our design i.e. piercing through surfaces and synchronisation of movement. These can experiencedbe only if there is an applied forces. We diagrammed the movement by the pressure applied and try to develop a mechanism for the parrot is that would interactively engage by the action of motion of the people walking we explore the various possibilities of the principle that would shift surfaces or change the volumes by the compression and expansion because of the direct response of weight. With high public activity which is an open ground surrounded by a college and regular exhibitions. The side by the movement of the people and density ofMappingaccommodation.themovements, we could derive a network through the nodes of the intersection of the people. Through this we informed the design with the density of people. For the program, we designed the exhibition of the existing site with a large space having more occupancy. Overview of the design: We designed a structure with a tensile fabric for flexibility to handle the stretch. Steel columns and wooden pathways. Design principle is to use a simple balance logic, using mechanisms such as hydraulics and pivoting to experience the shifting surfaces by the force applied.
The competition on working with the current global crisis got us interested and made us think on how we can brainstorm about the situation as studentsarchitectureand bring solutions for the same. Our approach for the project was to create a series of enclosed, semiopen and open spaces for patients as well as doctors. We started by creating a framework using bamboo (sustainable material) and designed a fully functional unit by repeating the same framework. The bamboo wall panels and bamboo floor panels give a traditional healing space. The unit is also provided with a collapsible facade to form a window seating space for the patient. We followed a similar construction system used in traditional Indian festival pandals. It will help to reduce the cost of the structure in terms of materiality and the local skilled laborers can easily construct it in every part of the country. The trapezium single unit then gets repeated in the circular form with the courtyard forming inside. The open to sky courtyard will help patients to relax mentally. Our intent was to create spaces that isolate physically but always have a visual connection inside-out.To reduce the spreading of the disease, the form can be circular or semicircular and both afford flexible visual accessibility throughout the spaces. Also our module framework itself affords and gives rise to the central circulation space which makes it easy for doctors to operate. The idea of expandability is also taken into consideration which can help accommodate more number of patients as per need.
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The theory of space syntax deals with the configuration of space and it applies across the spectrum of scales of the built environment ; from the interiors of buildings to urban spaces to neighbourhoods, to entire urban systems and regions. Based on how people see and move through space, the theory helps explain patterns of navigation, way-finding, social interaction, organisation culture etc. at the architectural scale. It has been seen to explain patterns of movement flow, socio-economic activity, organic/ natural land use distribution, spatial equity, crime etc. at the urban scale. In this elective we started with a small exercise of mapping our homes, and later analysed case studies of 9 famous school designs, some by important architects, by using the space syntax methodology.
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