PORTFOLIO
Shahneeza Narsidani (2013- 2017)
PROFILE
EDUCATION
COLLABORATIVE STUDY
LITTLE FLOWER HIGH SCHOOL SSC in GSED 2011
EAST- COAST NARRAVITES RAMESWARAM MADURAI RAMANATHAN
NIRMAN HIGH SCHOOL HSC in GSED 2013
NAME SHAHNEEZA NARSIDANI DATE OF BIRTH 06 NOVEMBER 1995 NATIONALITY INDIAN LANGUAGES ENGLISH HINDI GUJARATI
SARDAR VALLABHBHAI PATEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SEMESTER 2, 2013-2014 INDUS UNIVERSITY SEMESTER 6, 2014-PRESENT DIGITAL SKILLS Autodesk AutoCAD Adobe InDesign Adobe PhotoShop Microsoft Office RELATED STUDY PROGRAM
MOBILE NO. +919825022455
KUTCH Traditional houses (BHUNGA)
E-MAIL ADDRESS shahneezanarsidani.14.barch@idea.indusuni.ac.in
SHILAJ, AHMEDABAD Village Mapping and Pol houses
RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 27/GREEN PARK SOCIETY, SARKHEJ, AHMEDABAD
DESIGN AND BUILD MANDANGADH WORKSHOPS CANE WORKSHOP EXPLORE AND EXPRESS WORKSHOP TRIBAL ARTS BAMBOO WORKSHOP RAMMED EARTH HAND SKILLS HAND DRAFTING MODEL MAKING RENDERING PHOTGRAPHY AGA KHAN PLANNING AND BUILDING SERVICES, INDIA Youngest Member
CONTENT 1. HOUSING STUDIO RE-SOURCE SHELTER HOUSING 2. MATERIAL STUDIO BAMBOO 3. BUILDING TECHNOLOGY FACADE DESIGN 4. WORKING DRAWING STUDIO PRE-PRIMARY AND PRIMARY SCHOOL 7. BUILDING CONTRUCTION DETAILS TOILET DETAIL AND STAIRCASE DETAIL 9. COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOP MANDANGADH 10. BASIC DESIGN 11. WORKSHOP CANE WORKSHOP CORRUGATED EXPLORATION PRODUCT DESIGN TRIBAL ARTS 12. RELATED STUDY PROGRAM RAMESWARAM
COMMUNITY HOUSING STUDIO SITE, SANAND MATERIAL: BRICK AND CONCRETE
The site is located on the tp raod. It is an agricultural land. The site area is 6000sq.m. TP road id 8m wide which connects directly to the national highway. View towards NH947
South-East direction
South direction
North-East direction
Panoramic view
Access to site from NH947
Access to site from NH947
The site was meant to develop a selfsustaining unit for farmers in the area. The most important factor was the balance between providing amenities according to climate and the nature of spaces.
Agricultural Process
Site Section
Site Section
Cast Distribution
Site
Water Tank (750m) Police Station (700m) Union Bank (550m) Oriental bank (500m) Jay Bhavani (300m) Anshu Hair Salon (350m) State bank of Bikaner (350m) Axis Bank (500m) State Bank Of India (400m)
Mutual shading among housing units.
Staggering of units to mutually shade the adjacent unit.
Unit organisation and development process. FInal site model.
Plan for Unit of six
Site Plan
Isometric drawing showing the system
Section for Unit of six
Site Section
MATERIAL STUIDO SITE: LUDIYA, KUTCH MATERIAL: BAMBOO
The site
Ahmedabad to Bhuj
The site for our material studio was located in a secluded area in Kutch in close vicinity of Ludia Gaam. The given material for exploration was Bamboo. The studio focused on making a material exploration institute located strategically in order to encourage the communities around it to visit and learn skills related to bamboo construction and technology. The built-form in itself had to be a manifestation of the material in every which way. The idea was to understand the properties of the material and to challenge them in the course of designing. Another agenda at hand was to design a module for bamboo and repeat it in various proportions and mannerisms to condense to different nature of spaces required by the program.
Shrubs existing on site
Bhuj to Ludiya
Soil condition Khawada to Ludiya
Hard and Rocky soil found in the surrounding of the site
Ludiya to Site Following the guidelines, after a thorough case study of the Kimbell Art Museum, a completely contradicting building type, to identify a challenge. I then derived the module shown alongside in the images. I faced challenges while coming up with joineries in order to imitate the smooth arch in the museum. However, after a lot of trial and error, I could resolve the joineries to achieve a fairly arched shape. I then repeated the module to create various spaces. I tried to develop proportionally large interrupted spaces using wide arches while using Bamboo as a material.
Documentation of the community during site visit.
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3 (This module came through a case study of Kimbell Art museum)
Model for a case study of Kimbell Art Museum, where i had to make the structure out of Bamboo
Supports were given outside for the structure to get clear volume inside
Step 5
Final Module
Spaces formed by repeating two or more modules
Site Model
BUILDING TECHNOLOGY The exercises emphasised on technical detailing of layers of building skin and material. The external facade of a building is an intelligent skin regulating temperature and light, they also determine its very appearance. By appropriate use of the building material, the facade has become an important part in building architecture. The size and location of the openings are placed in such a manner so that the optimum amount of light is perceived here.
WORKING DRAWING ON PRIMARY SCHOOL SITE: AHMEDABAD MATERIAL: BRICK AND CONCRETE
The site is situated opposite to CEE in a mixed- residential, commercial and institutional context. It has a gradual slope with roads on two sides and buildings on others. The process mainly involved explorations of the nature of light required in different spaces through abstract models representing the same for our institution. Local primary schools were visited to understand spatial arrangements and functionality. Apart from this, Zen gardens were studied to understand the importance of semi-open and open spaces and its relation to the building. The primary school had to be designed keeping in mind the children’s behavior and likely through their minds. The central idea was to provide a dedicated open play area to each class such that the lines of vision are considered to not disturb the other classes in progress. The other areas of the school such as admin, teachers’ room, etc., where placed separately to zone the building into private and public, in order to ensure smooth functioning of classes. Other spaces such as the multipurpose hall, etc., were placed considering ease of access and in some cases, to insulate.
Model of School
Building section
Wall section through Staircase
Wall section through Toilet
Gound floor plan
Gound floor structure plan
First floor structure plan
Excavation plan
Line-out plan
Toilet Drainage plan
Toilet Folded elevation
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION DETAILS In order to understand the pragmatic aspects of a toilet, we designed a toilet with basic amenities and designed it in and out, included the flooring, placement of fixtures, plumbing, etc. We produced a set of drawings and rectifed the design issues in them. To take this forward, we made a 1:10 part section model of the same bathroom with all the plumbing exposed.
Spiral staircase
Staircase railing detail
Dog-legged staircase
MANDANGADH The workshop was a collaborative effort by PYHT (Put Your Hands Together), TIC (Thumbimpressions collaborative) for IDEA(Institute of Design Environment and Architecture). It was organised for students to understand the implication of natural materials using traditional knowledge and modern techniques. The intent of the workshop “DESIGN AND BUILD� was to design and execute the construction by the participants to get the on-site experience. The task given was to design a pavilion with bamboo trusses and rammed earth wall, sketches and mock- up models were made and further developed through interactive discussions between the participants and faculties. As the truss was ready to install, rammed earth wall was erected with multiple layers of different composition that were explored by participants. The workshop guided participants to think sensibly towards the use of natural materials keeping in mind the parameters related to design, on-site problems, climate and material.
The below sketches explains the design of the truss.
Pictures of joinery details used in truss.
The sketches shows the shuttering of Rammedearth wall.
Secondry arch acting as a compression membertransfering load of primary member to the columns. Rafter
Supporting member of the primary arch to prevent it’s deformation
Primary arch made out of split bamboos pinned together behaving as a tnsile member.
BASIC DESIGN The subject was to exploring forms and how these can be transformed into spaces and functions. No restriction in terms of other technicalities were placed so that these explorations could be made to the fullest. Also, the picture on left is an abstraction of a city. I have tried to show the high rised buildings, racing track, etc by making the plan and continuing it with the elevations and sections. There are elements like playground, windows coming out of the facade, open spaces on the upper floor, street lights, etc that shows the activity hapening on the city. This particular medium was chosen to show how things in the city build up organically but with stark expressions at the same time.
Section of a city
Multi functional furniture
Toroid made of Wax
WORK SHOP
Corrugated exploration
Center table and magazine stand made out of MDF
Bookshelf made of Cane
Tribal art
RAMESWARAM The study program carried out at Rameswaram mainly focused on analysing the impact of the presence of Sri Ramanathaswamy Temple on its surrounding development, activities and the urban fabric. Over a period of 10 days, we mapped activities and made observations that interested us. Later, all the data and respective analysis was compiled together in a publication (still due).
Shaneeza Narsidani shahneezanarsidani.14.barch@idea.indusuni.ac.in +919825022455