SHARAN SURESH BABU 347-210-5488 sharansuresh19@gmail.com 196 Clinton Ave, Apt D41, Brooklyn ,NY,11205.
INTENT This portfolio is a glimpse of my short yet compelling journey through architecture while pursuing MS in Pratt Institute, New York and undergraduate course at Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture and Environmental Studies, Mumbai (K.R.V.I.A.) and professional working experience in and around Mumbai. Over the past six years of formal architectural training and subsequently working in offices , my perception of architecture and life has undergone a dramatic shift. Architecture for me, is not about physical spatial demarcation but a method of questioning and reinterpreting reality through a continuous process of learning and un-learning .It is a tool to tackle socio-politicaleconomical condition at the same time. At K.R.V.I.A. I was constantly involved in projects that dealt with incremental scales of design in both urban and rural contexts. The studios involved synthesis between the built and unbuilt , landscapes and structural systems. The design ideas were supplemented by strong background research at all stages. At Pratt Institute, I took this understanding forward with experimentation with digital media, amalgamating new avenues of interdisciplinary learning with core design.The projects are a conscious effort to address an urban idea with architectural intervention. This book is a brief attempt at exhibiting this entire process of architectural learning through selected projects which have greatly impacted in realigning my role and approach as a designer of built environment with a fresh and seemingly better attitude every time. -sharan suresh babu
CONTENT 2014
CURRICULUM VITAE
POST-GRADUATE WORK @ PRATT
pg 08
Ecological Hydro-Plasty | Incubating Coney Island
pg 12
Alluminatus | Hexadeca, Parametric Systems
pg 18
Water and Culture | The New Brooklyn Museum pg 22
WAT : ER
2013
pg 28
PROFESSIONAL WORKS Jaipur Bus Terminal
pg 34
Wall House
pg 38
2012
Advaita: Bunglow, Kerala.
pg 40
New Horizon Educational Socities, High School
pg 44
Mayoor International School
pg 46
Mixed Office Spaces | Ashar IT Park
2011
pg 48
STUDENT EXCHANGE WORKS Cluster | Lo Cost High Density Housing pg 52
Leafing | Ecological housing concept pg 56
UNDER GRADUATE WORK@ KRVIA Experimental Housing Prototype | Hybrid Living in mumbai
pg 58
Landscrapper | International Airport pg 66
Sloped Terraces : Neighborhood Resource Centre,
pg 68
Free Spirit | Progressive Artist Museum
2006.
pg 70
Hybrid : Architectural Revival Museum pg 72
Measure Drawings
pg 74
Inversion: Bhudhist Learning Centre
pg 78
Construction Technology pg 82
Office and Service Apartment | Working Drawing
pg 84
SHARAN SURESH BABU 347-210-5488 sharansuresh19@gmail.com 196 Clinton Ave, Apt D41, Brooklyn ,NY,11205. PROFILE
I am a Focused professional and licensed architect in India ,completed B.Arch with 2 year professional practice experience and graduted with MS Architecture degree. Working towards obtaining license in New York and LEED Green associate certificate. Experienced in working in multifaceted office ,worked on projects in collaboration with International offices and interdisciplinary teams and capable of handling intense pressure stituation.
EDUCATION
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn , New York . _Master of science, Architecture (post-professional) 2014 Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies,Mumbai . _Bachelor of Architecture 2011 Bern University of Applied Sciences (BUAS), Bern, Switzerland . _Student Exchange Program Mar 2011-Aug 2011
EXPERIENCE
SBP Architects & Planners, Mumbai. (Junior Architect) Nov 2011- Apr 2013 Projects: residential- 4 , educational-2 , commercial-1, public Infrastructure -1 _Bungalow in Kannur , Kerala. _Farmhouse in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. RESEDENTIAL _Housing redevelopment project for Ackruti builders, Mazgaon, Mumbai. _Housing redevelopment of Sea face housing, Worli, Mumbai. New horizon Educational Societies School and college, Thane. Mayoor School , Raipur.
INSTITUTIONAL
Ashar IT Park, Thane.
COMMERCIAL
Won National Competition for Jaipur bus terminal and Commercial complex, Jaipur, Rajasthan.
COMPETITION
Spectrum Associates Architects.(Intern) Nov 2010-Feb 2011 Projects: residential- 2 ,interior design -1, competitions-1 Competition for Housing redevelopment project in Panjim, Goa. Group villa project, Curca, Goa. Enkay Homes Corporate office Interiors.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Produced drawings for all design phases, conceptual design through construction documents Produced materials for client presentations Researched manufacturers’ materials, systems and specifications Coordinated and Collabrated to design ,with all consultants, including renderers, model builders and engineers Developed hand drawings, rendering, and model building. Gained an understanding of building systems, codes, and construction methods.
SKILLS
CAD Drawing Skills-
AutoCAD: Designing and Drawing Construction Documents.
3D Modelling and Rendering - Presentation Drawings -
Rhino ,Grasshopper & V-Ray: model and render Revit Architecture: model and render Google Sketch Up: model and render Autodesk Maya: model , render and animation. Adobe Suite(Photoshop,Indesign , Illustrator, After effects), MS Office, Corel Draw.
Digital Fabrication-
Laser Cutting, 3D Printing , and CNC milling.
Scripting -
MEL,C++
Languages -
2014 2012 2011 2011 2008
English, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi.
ACHIEVEMENTS
‘Bending the rule’, Parametric Systems exhibition in Pratt institute , Higgins Hall, NYC. Won National level Competition for Jaipur bus terminal and Commercial complex, India. Award for Sustainable Architecture and Planning, Bern University of Applied Sciences ,Bern . Selected for student exchange ,Bern University of Applied Sciences , Bern, Switzerland . Academic Excellence , 1st place in Overall Academic studies and AD ,KRVIA.
NON PROFIT WORKS
Designed for Pratt SIde group , for youth dormitory in Cusco,Peru. Organized a health camp in a village in the outskirts of Mumbai Co-founder of an NGO named “Society for Rural Prosperity”
REFERENCES
Henry Smith-Miller, Architect, Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects LLP , 9173530885 , hsm@smharch.com Philip Parker, Assistant Chair of Graduate Architecture, Adjunct Associate Professor,Pratt Institute. 2126931956 , ppar1047@pratt.edu
Prasad Saali, Architect, SBP Architects & Planners, +91-22-22666010 , prasad@sbandpartners.com
POST -GRADUATE DESIGN WORK 2013-2014
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cological Hydro-Plasty | Incubating ConeyIsland
Studio Critic : Jason Vigneri Beane and Jonas Coersmeier Project type: UrbanDesign | Thesis | Bio-synthetic | 2014 The Idea is to implement water related infrastructures and features in Coney island at multiple scales ,Such as embedding a canal system on the existing selected roads ,as water level is going to rise , elevating the existing underground water supply system to protect is from the rising underground water table , elevating the new public transport system connecting multiple economic potential zones in Coney island . Grafting these potential underdeveloped and defunct land pockets along the new canal system with a bio diverse ecological conditions of marshy wetland and a triple layered programmatic prototype which adapts ,maneuvers on this site and bring about a new cohesive biodiversity and economic stimulus in Coney island.
Coney island land mass
Projected Sea Water level
Proposed Canal System
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Master Plan
Morphological Transformation of the cells in Section
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Evolution and transformation of Protocell01
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Proto Cell 02 - Section
15 Proto Cell 02 - plan @ 3.0m
Proto Cell 02 - Sectional View
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lluminatus | Hexadeca, Parametric Systems
Studio Critic : Robert Cervellione Project type: Parametric | Exhibition Design | Group | 2014
1.00 m
0.19m
0.06m
0.06m
Unit Panel 1m x 1m
Location Plan
0.25m
0.30m 0.97m 0.22m 0.20m 0.14m
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0.19m
0.22m
0.25m
1.12 m
The proposed design is a multipurpose surface,which deals with the ideas of human form,enclosure, as well as the filtration of light and air .The segmented aluminium panels are strategically creased and cut to allow the manipulation of each individual panel. This designed flexibility provides the opportunity for variation across all panels. The singular panel design, with its variation of openings, allows for desirable lighting conditions within the installation while simultaneously serves as an interactive vertical wall. The faceted wall reaches upward and outward to extend overhead and become both vertical and over head enclosure of the space. The panel system is designed to enable for various static human postures , areas are created which encourage human relaxation, whether in a leaning or seated position. Certain areas of the surface create a moment of pause for the patrons, allowing for variation in mobility while experience the space. Users are more likely to leisurely travel through and contemplate the material and spatial composition developed through the folds. Thus, the material becomes less of a surface and more of a usable experiential space. The location of the installation, directly adjacent to the translucent glass panels of the gallery, lends itself to the utilization of the natural light, which pours in from above. The light is wielded in such a way that a sense of directionality is achieved,guiding the patron through the installation in a methodic fashion. The light filtration also enhances the experience of the “pause-points� of patron relaxation.
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Final installation
3D Render
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Section A
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Section X
Section Y
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ater and Culture | The New Brooklyn Waterfront Museum . Studio Critic : Henry Smith Miller and Michael Licht Project type: Parametic skn | Cultural | Public | 2013 New York City is in a continuous cultural flux since its genesis, and art forms have always been a medium of showcasing the cultural phenomenon of that time period. A contemporary art museum is an suitable intervention in a deteriorated neighborhood to be a stimuli of growth and reflecting the ambitions and aspirations of a society. The effort is to erode the boundaries of a thought that makes a museum a sacred box. Taking in to consideration its location and proximity with a highly volatile elements of water, wind and sun which has very strong characteristics of erosion and testing the elements in its path. Concept form finding 3D experiments
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Diagram of Design Development
Location Plan
Site plan
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Plan @ +25.0M Lvl
Plan @ +15.0M Lvl
Altitude and gradiant
Plan @ +5.0M Lvl
Plan @ ground Lvl
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Roof Plan
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Perspective Views of the Museum.
Section
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View fron the East River
Solar radiation levels on part of the skin
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ATER : Wetland Aquatic Theatre : Education And Recreation Studio Critic : Philip Parker, Chirs Kroner & Hart Marlow Project type: Academic | Experimental Design | Public | 2013 The edge between land and water is crumbled , allowing for the mutual permeability and exchange of qualities and new set of intractable symbiotic relationship ,which never existed in the previous scenarios. The Surface reacts to underlaying intense scenarios on the site . The different phases of the changing surfaces enabled me to identify similar and dissimilar qualities of spaces seen In , Along and Through the surface. These are few of the identified qualities: zones of accumulation , convergence and intermittent. Zones of exposure ,display and Lines of river water in motion agility, zones of recreation and traverse, zones of interlock etc.
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Site Plan of the water edge intervention
Location Plan
Diagram of multiple types of motions
3D Print model
View in the summer
View in the winter
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Interior View of Gallery space
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Morphogenesis of Surface
SECTION XX Site Section
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3D Printed Model
PROFESSIONAL DESIGN WORK 2011-2013
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ROSION | Bus terminal and comercial complex, jaipur. ( First Place in National Design Competition) Design Team: SBP Architects and Planners. Project type: CIvic Infrastructure | Commercial | 2012 Design form has emerged about after conducting various site study and case studies of various international bus terminal .We have tried to adopt a fluid design concept, inspired by the dessert landscape of Rajasthan,India. The form is transpired from the idea of aerial erosion present in such hot and dry climatic condition. We have tried to introduce dynamic interaction into the traditional architecture of the city. The form is transpired from the idea of aerial erosion present in such hot and dry climatic condition. We have tried to introduce dynamic interaction into the traditional architecture of the city.
Concept sketch of circulation
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MORPHOLOGICAL PLAN
Location Plan
Site Plan
Interior View-Waiting Area
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NVELOP | Wall house,Raipur.
Studio Critic : SBP Architects and Planners. Project type: Residential | Villa | Contemporary|2012 The Design idea was concieved after the client’s requirement for a unique weekend home, which is fluid in planning and merges with the earthscape. The spaces were designed using the idea of a singular wall entity that unfolds on the landscape to create spaces and also merge with the earth and blurring the outside- inside boundary.
Concept sketch
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Ground floor plan
Location Plan
Roof Plan
Living room View
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Section
Night view
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dvaita: Bunglow, Kerala.
Design Team: SBP Architects and Planners. Project type: Residential | Vernacular | Traditional| 2013 Traditional villa in kerala is in the outskirts of the city .The spaces have been inspired by certain traditional keralite houses called ‘naalu kettu’, meaning the four parts house with a courtyard in the centre circumscribed by a passage connecting all the major spaces of the house. Thus the design provides for adequate natural lighting and efficient ventilation system.
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Site Plan
Location Plan
Perspective views
Central courtyard
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Ground Floor Plan
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New Horizon Educational Societies School,Thane.
Design Team: SBP Architects and Planners. Project type: Institutional | Education | Private High school| 2012 The main challenge was to incorporate the requirements of a educational facility on constrained site in a city, and provide for an open and secure spatial enviorment for learning and extra-curicular activities.
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Mixed Use Offices | Ashar IT Park, Thane.
Design Team: SBP Architects and Planners. Project type: Commercial | Offices | Industrial | 2011 The main challenge here was to rethink the post industrial landscape in thane and develop a desgin for an efficient and mordern Office spaces .
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UNDER-GRADUATE DESIGN WORK 2006-2011
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LUSTER | Low cost high density housing , in:ch , Ahmedabad Studio Critic : Yatin pandya Project type: Academic | Student Exchange | Group | 2011 The intent was to design and plan a cluster of affordable housing in conjunction of natural resources. The programme brief was to evolve an affordable housing prototype to rehabilitate the squatter settlement in Hurnanpura slum. The proposed plan had possibilities to grow to accommodate future expansion, the residential units for 350 economically weaker families vary from 20 sq.mt to 40 sq. Mt area and include toilets and other services. The materials used for construction are low cost, recyclable and reused materials available locally.
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Community Centre
Location Plan
EXhibition centre and Public Plaza
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Slum Study in pune
Cluster Housing development
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Perspective views of the Community Centre
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eafing : Bangalore’s Healthy and Ecological housing concept Studio Critic : Ar.Chitra Vishwanath, and Ar. Juerg Gunder Project type: Eco-Residential | Student EXchange | Group|2011 The design methodlogy was to analyse a site and develop a housing typology which responds to the cultural,economical and social context of the site and at the same time,addressing issues of safety,sustainability and necessities like power,water and sanitation,while using appropriate building material.
Design Devlopment
Spiral Circulation
CIrcumscribed space
Splized to allow ligth and ventilation
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Typical Floor Plan
Location Plan
Conceptual Render
Stacking Process
Perforation
Stacking the units
Mixed Use Social Areas
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Concept Model
Solar Energy System
Structural Core
Rainwater Harvesting System
Bio Gas Generation System
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XPERIMENTAL HOUSING PROTOTYPE : HYBRID LIVING IN MUMBAI Studio Critic : Nemish Shah Project type: Academic | Thesis | Individual | 2011 The study was aimed at understanding the evolution and change in configuration of housing typologies in Mumbai. The various international and national case studies of mass group housing revealed the various possibilities of liveable spaces under their own unique context. The design for a mixed density housing catering to the working class population was proposed based on the inferences of these analytical case studies and study of living and site conditions of people residing in Mumbai. The proposal intended to create a comfortable living module of public housing through the collection of people’s aspirations and the understanding of evolution of housing in the city.
Concept sketch-Masteplan
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Site Selected
Program requirement massed
Vertical Circulation Core
Horizontal Circulation mapped
Structural System
Final Design Intervention
Design Development
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Third floor Axo
Ground floor Axo
MUMBAI HOUSING TYPOLOGY STUDY LOCATION
SITE PLAN
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
SECTIONS
SPATIAL STUDY
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TYPOLOGIAL STRUCTURE DENSITY
ACCESSIBILITY CIRCULATION PATTERN
OWNERSHIP FACTS SAPTIAL DIMENSIONS
ANALYSIS CHART
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Physical Model in Balsa Wood
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Section A
Section B
Fourth Floor Plan
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Fifth Floor Plan
Sixth Floor Plan
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North Elevation
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andscrapper : International Airport , Aurangabad Studio Critic : Ar. Anju Chaya Project type: Airport | Public Landscape | Individual |2010 The intent of the project was to design an international airport, along with domestic facilities for the city of Aurangabad bearing in mind the historical, social and cultural context of the city. The proposed design aimed at making the airport more accessible and a public space with necessary security measures. The proposal tries to satisfy the programatic functioning of an airport but also tries to understand how a bird prepares to launch it self into flight and how an airport can signify this act of launching . Simultaneously giving the people of the city a platform to view this action and relate to this new civic facility.
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Departure Lvl Plan
Section of Public Park
Process Sketches
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Arrival Lvl Plan
Site Model of landscape
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loped Terraces : Neighborhood Resource Centre, Dehradun, Uttarakhand. Studio Critic : Quaid Doongerwala Project type: Public | Cultural | Individual | 2010 The project was developed after a study of the inner city of Dehradhun. It was located at the junction of the main highway of the city with one of the busiest market streets. The project provided for public amenities like a bank, local goods shop, post office, ward office, trade union office along with the primary programme of a library. The dense uban frabric dectates the formal actions on the built enviorment , and the use of locally availbale textures and material forms the important aspect of the project. The need for porus accesibility and climatic study carves the site like a monolithic block as if the building emerged from the ground .
Concept Sketch
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Ground FLoor Plan Dehradoon
Location Plan
Roof Plan
Concept Model
Section
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Section
Section
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ree Spirit : Progressive Artist Museum, Nariman point,Mumbai. Studio Critic : Pinkish Shah Project type: Mixed use | Cultural | Museum| Individual | 2009 The project was to design a Museum to house the work of artists after studying the Progressive Artists Group of Bombay. The site chosen was the National Centre For Performing Arts, on the sea front and hence becomes a part of the pedestrian plaza between the proposed and NCPA. The idea was to break the traditional notion of museum and make it. accessible to general public in a direct and an indirect medium. The design exemplifies the free spirit of the progressive artist movement. The idea is of the three threads of circulation space found on site ,which glides, floata, intertwine and knot within it self in the beezy enviorment forming an intricate network of intense performance. Pocess sketches
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Site Model overlayed with Site Concept
Location Plan
Site Plan
Site Model
Elevation
Plan @2.0 m
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Plan @6.0 m
section bb
section cc
section xx
Hybrid : Revival Museum, Worli fort , Mumbai
Studio Critic : Rohan Shivkumar Project type: Revival | Restoration | Museum | |2008 The intervention was based on the concept of a hybrid and situated in Worli Fort.The design was conceived on study of sculpture and a multifunctional organism which evolves with passage of time.A spectacular direct entry which seems to strike the fort by force and an indirect entry.One moves along the walls of fort,and then cutting through it. and then moving over it,thereby enhancing its function of an exhibition space and a viewing deck.The project which is designed as a plug in or a parasite is designed to attract people to the fort which is presently ignored.
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Plans Overlayed
Location Plan
Site Perspective
Concept Sketches of Hybrid
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Site Model
Section X
Section A
Section B
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EN & INK | MEASURE DRAWING OF ENCHEY MONASTERY Studio Critic : Rohit mujumdhar & Benita Menezes Project type: Academic| Dcomentation | Group |2008 The monastery of Enchey was measured and surveyed in detail , sketched and inked by a group of students. The man focus of the study was to understand and draw the social , cultural ,political ,religious and geographical impact on the architecture and planning of a indigenous settlement.
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Site plan
Section AA
Section BB
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Site section
South Elevation
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Ground Floor Plan
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Exploded Axonometric
Axonometric
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nversion | Bhudhist Learning Centre
Studio Critic : Rohan Shivkumar Project type: Religious | Museum | Individual |2008 The project was developed after studying the monastery architecture in Gangtok,Sikkim. The intervention was an extension to the monastery with exhibition centre,reading room,library,classrooms and meditating space for monks. The proposal unfolds in front of the Enchey monastery,cutting down through the contours such that it could entomb the entire history and culture of the place and revitalise the site itself without overpowering the monastery building. Concept of Inversion Media centre and lounge area Viewing Deck of the valley Terrace Gallery
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Public toilets Library and Reading room
Public Steps to the facility
Class rooms/ Lecture Halls
roof plan
proposed site
Location Plan
Site Plan
Site Model
Media centre
Media centre
Library and Reading room
Library and Reading room
Class rooms Exhibition Space
Section CC
Section AA
Media centre
Library and Reading room Class rooms
Exhibition Space
Exhibition Space
Section DD
Section BB
East Elevation
South Elevation
plan at -12.0 m
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First Lower Level
Second Lower Level
Third Lower Level
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Roof Plan
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onstruction Technology
Studio Critic : Vikram Pawar Project type: Academic | Building ConstructionTechnology | Individual |2011 The intent was to design and understand vaious construction technologies, involving steel , Reinforced Concrete structures and Space frame structures.
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Roof Plan STEEL PORTAL STRUCTURE
SPACE FRAME STRUCTURE
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LIGHT WEIGHT CONCRETE STRUCTURE
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ffice and Service Apartment
Studio Critic : Sandhya Shuklabaidya Project type: Academic | Working Drawing | Individual | 2011 Multipurpose commercial and residential building in the upcoming technological neighborhood of Malad, Mumbai . The project addresses the need of a hybrid environment of work and stay in the commercial capital of the country .the drawings here explain certain working drawings and construction details of the project .
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Ground Floor Plan
Location Plan
Section
Section
Section Detail of lift well.
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Wall Section
Deail Wall Section
CNC Fabrication of Multiple Laminated Baltic Birch Playwood and Acrylic Sheets.
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