Architecture and Urban Design Portfolio | Selected Works 2012-2019

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Housing Units:

Scattered across the entirety of the structure, the housing units vary in size and are based on the users’ perspective of culture and social interaction. The spaces are based on the requirements of the residents and mutate within the set framework. The design commands from the core for any extensions or additions to these units are implanted keeping the changing paradigms and behaviors associated to the user in mind.

Social Networking Hubs:

Occupying the centre of the skyscraper, the social networking hubs are stratified, constantly shifting and retrofitting themselves to the changing demands of the space. As densities of the users increase, more and more of these hubs get cohesively linked to the existing ones, thus forming an amalgamation of urban venues.

SHOURYA JAIN Architectue + Urban Design P O R T F O L I O Selected Works | 2012-2019



INDEX OF WORKS 01 | SEEDS

Graduate Work, Proposition Studio

02 | INTERJECTIONS

Graduate Work, Urban Design Studio I

03 | ENVELOPES : REDFINIG THE CITY’S INTERFACE

Undergraduate Thesis, Semester X

04 | MEHRANGARH FORT

Professional Work, Serie Architects

05 | SENSILE INFOBAHN

Evolo Skyscaper Competition

06 | THE CONTESTED URBANISM OF ABANDONMENT

Professional Work | Michigan-Mellon Research Grant

07 | COMMUNIDADE GAIVOTAS

Professional Work | Prototyping Tomorrow Research Grant


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SEEDS Master of Urban Design| Proposition Studio | Winter 2019 Ahmedabad, India Advisor : Maria Arquero De Alarcon Team: Yixin Miao, Shourya Jain In Collaboration with Habitat Design Studio, India B V Doshi, Neelkanth Chhaya, Rajeev Kathpalia

The City of Ahmedabad faces complex realities ranging from ethnic and religious lack of integration, a water environmental crisis, and the political and social challenges inherent to urban growth and modernization. The project raises larger questions on the agency of designers to enable the incremental co-production of urban space, ensure inclusive participatory frameworks and address people’s right to the city. SEEDS highlights Ahmedabad’s contemporary urban morphology as a thick collage of layers accumulated through time and continuously negotiated by disparate interests and urban actors.


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Conflict Use | Program Nested Scales

SEEDING CIVIC LIFE Water has played an important role in the history and civic life of Ahmedabad. In recent decades, the implementation of large modern water infrastructure has changed the way people use, engage and perceive water. This project offers variety of multi-scaled and incremental design interventions. Just like seeds need water to grow, this project brings in and reveals the hidden urban waters to activate truly inclusive public space. The project redirects imaginative and technical efforts towards the insertion of water infrastructures to steward various types of seeds (interventions of architectural nature) strategically located to be highly responsive to the urban conditions on site. By rendering water visible and sparkling new urban programs, SEEDS performs as a material practice to invite disparate publics to celebrate water and urban life. As different seeds grow at different speeds, water infrastructures can also will grow incrementally in a long time span. By re-appropriating three types of existing urban elements: the gate, the wall and the plaza, the project adopts a spatial order deeply rooted in the fragmented site context and familiar to the locals. Suspicious about large scale master-plans seeking to effect total control over the public realm (like the Sabarmati Riverfront Project), SEEDS offers an alternate model of urban reimagination through the integration of a multiplicity of agents and temporal frameworks

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Ellis Bridge 1892 Nehru Bridge

Sardar Bridge 1939

Dr Ambedksar Bridge 1939 Bridging East to West | Urban Expansion Connecting two edges

Bridges

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Community Settlements | Villages

High Real Estate | Displacement of poor To create ‘world-class image’ | Globalisation

Barrier Wall Built for Riverfront Projet 2004 2004

Barrier Wall

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Territorialising water | Communalising water Community | Village settlements

Slum Settlements

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Water Treatment Plant | Industries

Urban water supply limited to developed areas City water supply system

Lack of proper infrastructure | Services - Naalas Informal Settlements | Slum

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Limited availability of water | Polluted water Agricultural Farming

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Disfunctional due to drying of ground water Historical Monumnets | Cultural | Religious

Narmada Canal

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Limited water in canals for agriculture due to creation of riverfront Agricultural | Infrastructural

Kankaria Lake

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Displacement of people | Disrupted naturalsurface depression Recreational | Infrastructural | Commercial

Narmada Canal 2008

Subhash Bridge 1973

2011

Rishi Dhadhichi Bridge 1738

Lost significance Water Conservation | Storage | Historical significance

Gandhi Bridge 1940

“Pols” | Underground Water Tank

in the design of new collective spaces. Inspired by the multi-functional nature of Indian urban spaces, SEEDS is also an experiment on how urban infrastructure condense, transform, and materialize concepts without imposing controlled or predetermined meaning, seeding a multiplicity of uses and attitudes in a long-time span. Water Typologies | Apart from more utilitarian values, water holds many meanings and values in India. It not only holds religious significance but has also played significant role in shaping settlement patterns, customs and human traditions. The traces of historic water infrastructures are hidden across the urban landscape: from stepwells to pools and reservoirs, or the presence of temples, shrines and ghats in the proximity of the river. Today, the scale and ambitions of development offer a very different set of traces in the landscape. The Sabarmati Riverfront project is an example of aping development model that further disturbs the river ecologies. This constellation of traces formulates the legacy of the Urban Water Commons in Ahmedabad and it raises important questions about the relationship between social and environmental justice in the context of rapid urbanization.


SITE LOCATION Jamalpur | Ahmedabad

The Jamalpur neighborhood is in close proximity on the east side of the Sabarmati Riverfront, adjacent to the Old Walled City. The area is a constellation of fragments, from very modest neighborhoods to markets and religious institutions, all of them interspersed by small voids, urban gaps in the urban fabric that create discontinuities and enable the legibility of every component.


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SITE ANALYSIS Jamalpur | Ahmedabad

This site is a microcosm representative of the complex realities faced by the City of Ahmedabad: from ethnic and religious segregation, the urban water and housing crises, to the threads of displacement of the poor and the socio-political unrest inherent to urban growth and modernization. At the same time, Jamalpur is a palimpsest of the complex layers of history legible in one of the oldest areas in Ahmedabad: the remains of the old city wall and its ancient gates and the presence of important markets ( the municipal flower and vegetable market and the relocated Sunday market) and the religious temple of Hindu and Khan Jahan. While the proximity to the Sabarmati river is felt on the site through a gentle slope, the Riverfront Project has broken the visual connection towards the river and disrupted the natural drainage of water.


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PROJECT COMPONENTS Gate | Wall | Plaza

Tiny old gates in Old City Wall connecting village settlement to the riverfront road.

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Riverfront Wall

Reclaimed land by riverfront project used for parking and to host sunday market.

Sunday Market Plaza | Parking Plaza Green Landscapes at CEPT university built by using excavated soil during construction of buildings.

Institutional Plaza

Three types of existing elements serve as markers in the public spaces on the site. The “Gates,” both the historical Khanjha Gate, heritage of the Old City, and new gates made of metal, like in The Bhadra Plaza, to spark curiosity and sense of discovery while crossing the threshold of the site. The “Plaza,” with a variety of sizes, configurations and uses, is the main space for gathering and celebration. Last the “Wall,” rather than a boundary serves as infrastructure and provides solid support to public activities. As familiar types for the urban dwellers, the project instigate their radical reappropriation to host disparate activities and create new collectivities giving form to the urban water commons.

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Hidden entrances located in the middle of the old city become symbols of important historical monuments that merge within city’s fabric.

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Jaami Mosque Wall

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Mosque Gate occupied by street vendors.

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Manek Chowk that keeps transforming throughout the day in terms of its activities an informalities it holds


THE CONCEPT Element + Water Existing Element

It is through these three existing elements- Gate, all and Plaza- that water gives a new life to the public spaces in the Jamalpur area. Water infrastructure activates the gathering space, through a variety of seeds of different scale, material and program. Gate as water purification station, Wall as aqueduct to transport water, and Plaza as water conservation. According to the context and need of the specific sites, seeds can be adaptive in different physical forms and uses. Planted with a carefully designed sequence, these interventions will trigger incremental growth of different activities and shape active public space with intimate relationship with water.

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SEEDS STRUCTURE Incremental growth Incremental Incremental growth growth

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Water Purification Water Treatment Purification Association Treatment of Gujarat Association Water Purification Treatment Association of of Gujarat Gujarat

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IWWA(Indian WaterIWWA(Indian Works Association) Water IWWA(Indian Water Works Works Association) Association)

City Heritage Center City City Heritage Heritage Center Center

Religious Religious Religious

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Shree Jagannath Mandir Shree Jagannath Committee Mandir Shree Trust Jagannath Mandir Trust Trust Committee Committee

Ramdevpir community Ramdevpir Ramdevpir community community

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DESIGN MATRIX Shade | Water | Structure 6:00

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morning market To offer flexibility of use and invite disparate users, this tool illustrates the different use of the elements and different temporal aspects- shade/ shadow, microatmospheres created by spraying of water and structures with wifi, electricity, and other utilities. The goal is to map different possibilities and anticipate the mechanisms to administer temporality and flexibility and enabling their adaptive nature.

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TAXONOMY Gate | Wall | Plaza Flexibility Scale Use

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The intervention registers different scales of space and time, addresses context and choreographs different regimes of human occupation. According to the change of different factors, people’s interaction with the intervention changes, thus enabling the inclusion of different ages, genders, religions and ethnic groups and the celebration of difference.

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Slum Settlements Aquaduct

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Waterfall Plaza

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SEEDING TIMELINE Gate | Wall | Plaza

The timeline of the project is incremental in nature: the seeds’ planting are scheduled in a long time span which allows observation and adaptation in the process. The general strategy is to “plant” the water infrastructure in the existing Jamalpur Gate first, to purify the water. The Plaza comes second, to activate the new interventions generated by the riverfront project and build space for water conservation. Last, the aqueduct opportunistically appropriates the existing walls and branches to bring water to the undeserved spaces of the neighborhoods to enable water circulation.


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AGENCY DIAGRAM

Public space in Ahmedabad is the result of the continuous negotiation among different groups, from the government to the business owners, vendors, citizens and domesticated animals. Devising novel models of open space governance and shaping the institutions that would take part in seeding the process is a critical component of the design. The aim is to establish Sustainable Emerging Embryonic Development Structure (SEED) that will unify and bring together different agencies, developers, funding and representation of communities to allow equitable growth and development.


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Construction ₹₹

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DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION

The drawing highlights larger connections between the three elements and define the spatial order. It speculates on the future use of the newly built form for diverse activities and uses. By planting SEEDS, the project raises larger questions on the agency of designers to enable the incremental co-production of urban space, ensure inclusive participatory frameworks and address people’s right to the city.


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SCENARIOS of CELEBRATIONS Ever-transforming Landscapes

Scenarios aim to highlight transforming use of space by different communities during everyday conditions and the extreme time of festivities. As a way to sparking imagination, the images showcase the Ramadan, the Kite Festival and the use of the sculpted unclaimed land by non-humans, urban dwellers.


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SHIFTING CITYSCAPES Ground Level Perspectives

The views reflect different occupation regimes and the presence of women, children, street vendors and other uncommon publics with the new water commons.

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SEEDING IN PROCESS




INTERJECTIONS Master of Urban Design Studio | Fall 2018 Queens, NY | Banglatown Detroit Advisor : McLain Clutter Team: Jing Yang, Shourya Jain Recognized: Taubman College Student Show Winter 2019 Published: Taubman College View Book 2019

Interjection; Inter (Intersections) - Jections (Junctions), is a project that forms observation around intersections in Queens. The highway intersections we analyzed act like interjections which enable heterogeneity of public infrastructures around them and spontaneity of growth, development and activity in Queens. The presence of intersections sponsors condition/ heterogeneity that has very much to do with building morphology and unusual buildings, i.e., suburban houses, mega formal/mega structure highrises, commercial and infrastructural and some formal community settlements all of which are aligned very strongly with highway and proposes the idea of heterogeneity. Although Queens and Banglatown share similarities in terms of diversity, Banglatown is facing various challenges of high land vacancy. Our main idea is that, just like in Queens, infrastructure cutting through the land creates heterogeneity of parcel, and heterogeneity of development types, which in turn invites heterogeneity of constituencies.



IDENTIFYING INTERJECTIONS Queens, NY Queens, NY

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The maps above are an attempt to understand permeability and impermeability and understanding these intersections as triggers by analyzing GIS data of various land-use typologies, infrastructural services, use of different modes of transit. All these studies helped us to identify The maps above are an attempt to understand permeability and impermeability and understanding these formal and informal heterogeneity around highway nodes. intersections as triggers by analyzing GIS data of various land-use typologies, infrastructural services, use of different modes of transit. All these studies helped us to identify formal and informal heterogeneity around highway nodes.


LEARNING FROM QUEENS LEARNING FROM QUEENS |

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Transit nodes is a complex of devices in the functioning and interaction of several types of backbones that serve transit, local, freight and passenger trafffic and a set of transport processes. Thus, the concept of transport node includes the process of transportation (the movement of passengers and cargos) as well as means of control and management. The transit node has a great influence on the development of the city. The complexity of transit node is determined by the number and terms of service of its elements, sizes of operated traffic flow, technological links between the elements and level of their interaction. The idea is to understand how these nodes acts as triggers for the development of public infrastructure and activities around them through analyzing GIS data.





MAPPING TYPOLOGIES Queens , NY From our observations around intersections in Queens, we came across several interesting scenarios that are drawn here as typologies and realized, the highway divides land into a heterogeneity of parcels; those parcels are suited to host a heterogeneity of building types; these types welcome a heterogeneity of publics i.e, high rise next to small suburban houses and different heterogeneous land use because of the way land parcel slice up. Among the heterogeneous publics that the above condition creates in Queens, we became most interested in the borough’s ability to host both automotive and pedestrian -based publics, or suburban and urban development models. The presence of intersections sponsors heterogeneity that have very much to do with building morphology and weird buildings, i.e., suburban houses, mega formal highrises, commercial and infrastructural,formal community settlements all of which are aligned very strongly with highway and proposes the idea of heterogeneity Intersections

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After understanding the heterogeneity in Queens through observing intersections the idea was to deploy and adapt what we learned to Banglatown. We started our design development by analyzing sites adjacent to the highway to understand how Banglatown’s highway intersections are different from those of Queens. Typologies have changed a bit as it is a type that we adopted from Queens and is more of a strategy to create own, Detroit triggers rather than just directly implementing them.

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Shared community space | Recreational space

Collaboratively operated water pools by existing communities Existing House

Recreational Spill outs

Green Interface with small retail outlets Sand pit Collaboratively operated Community Parks green spaces by existing communities

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Understanding from Queens, whether or not by design HIGHWAYS acts like buffer not necessarily just creating boundaries or land parcels allows heterogeneity of development to co-exist. When highway comes through it creates buffer condition which allows different types of condition to co-exist. An interface between two | Retail Strip 8 Commercial Highways different types allows coexistence of different constituencies. through Queens, as one would assume were dividing but what they actually did was provide an interface between two different ways of living or typologies or grain of urban fabric.

Legend

Commercial Strip | Shared Interface for community house buildings and exsisting houses

Existing House

Existing House Cemetery Recreational Interface

Landscape Mounds

Viewing Deck

Rooftop Restaurant Commercial Strip | Shared Interface for community house buildings and exsisting houses

Signages

Pedestrian Pathways cutting through neighbourhoods

Retail Strip Interface

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Mullet building

Community Parks

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Suburban House

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Community Housing

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Playgrounds

Rooftop Garden

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Pargolas | Collaboratively owned by existing communities

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Collaboratively operated green spaces by Collaboratively existing communities operated water pools by exsisting community

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Green Interface Existing House with small retail

Commercial Strip | Shared Interface for community house buildings and exsisting houses Existing house

Commercial Strip | Shared Interface for community 6 Green Islands house buildings and exsisting houses

Buffer zone

Rooftop garden acing as interface between two constituencies

Rooftop Restaurant Buffer Zone

Community house building

Community house building with recreational spaces Shared community space | at podium level Recreational space

Commercial | Office building

Farmers Market

Elevated Platform Urban Farm

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Collaboratively owned community kitchen gardens

Buffer Zone

Playgrounds

Elevated Park

Parking Lot Commercial

Shared green spaces

Green Interface with small retail outlets

Recreational Spill outs

Retail Strip Interface

Sand pit Community Parks

Existing House

Altering Topography

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Pargolas | Collaboratively owned by existing communities

Existing House

Parking Lot Existing House

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Elevated cycling track Playgrounds Buffer Zone

Altering Topography

Shared community space | Recreational space

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with recreational Commercial | podium level Officeatbuilding

Shared green spaces

Rooftop Parking Lot

Sand pit

Community house building

Community house building with recreational spaces at podium level

Commercial

Community Housing

Amphitheatre

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Rooftop garden acing as interface between School Playground two constituencies Elevated Platform Commercial | Buffer Zone Retail retail interface Shared exsisting between school and neighborhood

Buffer Zone

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Mullet Buildings

Existing House

Buffer Zone

Existing House

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Shared Interface creating continuities between two sides

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Interjection 2



View 2 | Suburban Estates

View 2 | Urban Farms



ENVELOPES Undergraduate Thesis Year 5 | 2016-2017 BDD Chawls, Worli, Mumbai Advisor : Hemant Purohit Recognized: Top 5 Thesis Project built up area 2,39,000 sq. meters ENVELOPES: Redefining the City’s Interface Built form articulates the city around it. The manifestation of any idea should not hinder the systems of the city and should be integrated within existing urban setting. Beyond the form is the membrane which engages with the city. Architectural typologies vary tremendously in terms of scale which makes envelopes important. How inhabitants of the city engage with the built envelopes defines the city. Envelopes can address in lesser or greater depths the synergy between the interior and the exterior, this radically alters the expression of the city. Using envelopes as a strategy which can engage architecture with the urban setting. The intent of the thesis is to build mechanisms and ideas by which envelope could undergo endless array of images and concept. The “envelope” is the most contemporary element through which city expressions currently emerge. To design envelopes to remove the boundaries of what we codify as public and private areas. **

The Politics of the Envelope by Alejandro Polo


PROJECT BRIEF

The intent of the thesis is to build mechanisms and ideas by which envelope could undergo endless array of images and concept. The “envelope” is the most contemporary element through which city expressions currently emerge. Research identifies four envelopes types classified by Alejandro Zaera-Polo in the essay “The Politics of The Envelope”. Initial reserach investigates evolution of four envelope types through history and politocal, social and economic factors that allows categorizarion of envelopes. This research helped identify how city comprises of different envelope types creating identity for the city. These envelope types are then tested on one particular site in Mumbai. Most Indian metros are more than a century old, and have witnessed tremendous population inflow – which, in turn, gave rise to unplanned developments in prime precincts of these cities. Mumbai has, for many years now, been a subject of redevelopment to catalyze urban renewal and improve the quality of real estate and infrastructure. It is currently undergoing it’s first cycle of redevelopment. A fast-growing population’s demand for space amidst limited availability of developable land has forced the redevelopment of old properties into brand new structures. One key activity on this front was the development of the city’s old mill lands into high-rise residential or commercial buildings.

FLAT-HORIZONTAL ENVELOPES FLAT HORIZONTAL ENVELOPES Timeline


FLAT-HORIZONTALENVELOPES ENVELOPES FLAT-HORIZONTAL

SPHERICALENVELOPES ENVELOPES FLAT-VERTICAL FLAT-VERTICAL ENVELOPES VERTICAL VERTICALENVELOPES ENVELOPES SPHERICAL ENVELOPES

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SITE STUDY BDD Chawls, Worli Lower Parel is one such old mill lands which has tremendously changed over years from being industrial estate where mill workers used to live and work to the commercial and residential prime real estate hub that it has become today. It houses industries, commercial offices, malls, luxury apartments , hotels and on the other hand slums, chawls, roadside vendors to tiny retail shops. The idea is to translate this whole system into BDD CHAWLS, MUMBAI modern working neighborhood where different communities/different class of people and programs co-exist. To come-up with suitable housing that caters for different classes. To build envelope typologies that can make us rethink conventional relationships between density, people, built structure and open space in context to it’s surroundings and to incorporate existing infrastructural networks (mobility networks, educational facilities, etc.) to create a self sufficient neighborhood.

CURRENT SCENARIO

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VIEW FROM THE OPEN SPACE IN BETWEEN BDD CHAWL

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RECREATIONAL SPACES | PLATFORMS

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STEPPED TERRACES TERRACES ACCESSIBLE ACCESSIBLE TO TO PUBLIC PUBLIC STEPPED PUBLIC PLAZAS PLAZAS PUBLIC STEPPED STEPPEDTERRACE TERRACEACCESSIBLE ACCESSIBLETOTOPUBLIC PUBLIC

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MEHRANGARH FORT Professional Work | 2018 Competition | Serie Architects Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur, India Team: Chris Lee, Kapil Gupta, Santosh, Renu, Ameya, Mubasheer, Aditya, Shwetank, Shourya Recognition: Runners Up Entry

This report presents designs for the Knowledge Centre and the Visitor Centre for the Mehrangarh Fort. Both buildings are sited in particularly significant historical locations next to the Fort. We have therefore placed particular emphasis on thinking through each building’s site strategy. Second, we have aimed to derive compelling solutions to the demanding spatial requirements of each brief: each building is designed to have the capacity to efficiently cater to large numbers of people. Third, we have derived a form of architectural expression for each building that reflects the historical context but that avoids pastiche.


KNOWLEDGE CENTER

The design concept of the Knowledge Centre is based on two critical manipulations of the building. First we rotate the basic building mass by 45 degrees. This creates a series of ‘pocket water pools’ that reflect light back into the building and serve as cooling elements. Second, we create a dramatic axial route through the centre of the building that links the high level terrace with the lower level Chokelao Bagh. This not only sets up a direct link with the garden but also creates a dynamic social space in the centre of the building. These two moves are also motivated by a desire to situate the architecture of the building within the tradition of Rajasthani architecture and design. These garden designs also feature water — a tradition we strive to continue.The building is conceived as a simple monolithic form and as such is constructed from one material: white marble. This material references other Rajasthani buildings but sets up a contrast with the sandstone of the main Fort building. The facade is based on a simple repeating rectangular window form that features a stepped reveal. The central staircase facade is features fully glazed windows; the external facade however includes blank windows filled with sheets of thinly sliced marble. These create diffused natural light. To optimize the value of site we rotate the building by 45 degrees Walled site filled with required program: no spatial value created

Program rotated 45 degrees: corner spaces opened up — space created

Space used for reflective pools — historical walls given prominence

If the site is filled with the required program in a conventional manner the spaces between the walls of the building and the enclosing walls of the site become narrow and unpleasant. We rotate the building by 45 degrees to open up the corners of the site to the maximum extent. This allows the architecture and the materiality of the historical walls to be exposed and enjoyed.

Challenge 1: optimising site potential — rotated building form

We then open up the path to the Chokelao Bagh Program as monolithic four storey form: no relation to surrounding context

Axial route cut through building: creates a sight line to the adjacent park

Dramatic staircase provides access to all levels and forms a social space

The Chokelao Bagh is one of the jewels of Mehrangarh Fort complex. By opening up a stair from the high level terrace to the lower level the building serves to provide a direct route to the garden. Challenge 2: Chokelao Bagh - Creation of Axial Route


Visitor Program is placed in the upper levels of building

Staff Program is placed to the south and in the lower levels of plan

Visitor Programs

Staff | Admin Programs

1 | Pre-function Room 2 | Conference Room 3 | Seminar Rooms 4 | Exhibition Space 5 | Music Room 6 | Discovery Room 7 | Creative Workshop and Cultural Activity Space

1 | Reception 2 | Offices 3 | Training Space 4 | Storage 5 | Conservation Spaces, Storage and Digitization, Record Room 6 | AV Room 7 | Textile Conservation 8 | Metal and Wood Conservation 9 | Utility and Technical Room 10 | Chemical Store + Object Store 11 | MSS Library 12 | General Library 13 | Books and Publications

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Knowledge Center showing axial route to Chokelao Bagh

Knowledge Center with Mehrangarh Fort in Background


SITE PLAN | Knowledge Center


Elevation AA | Knowledge Center

Elevation BB | Knowledge Center


VISITOR CENTER

The Visitor Centre design is intended to share certain architectural ideas with the Knowledge Centre in order that these two small buildings have a satisfying coherence. However, the site and brief of each is quite distinct and this is reflected in our design proposals. The design is based on the desire to make the process of gaining entry into the building more pleasant and less stressful. Rather than one monolithic form the design concept is based on the idea of separate volumes that are experienced sequentially. This sequential experience creates interest and respite from the monotony of the queueing processes. In support of this each separate volume is associated with an outside terrace. Access to outdoor space allows visitors to ‘pause’ as they negotiate the entry sequence. Lastly, individual volumes are stepped up progressively so that visitors can negotiate the slope without excessively long runs of stairs. The resulting composition of loose forms arrayed on a slope references ancient hill towns and lends the scheme a timeless quality. The building is constructed from load-bearing sand stone and is designed to blend in with its architectural surroundings. The most distinctive element of the facade treatment is the use of the Rajasthani ‘merlon’.

In summary visitors experience the building as a sequence of gently ascending rooms 1 | Entrance Lobby 2 | Security 3 | Baggage Collection 4 | Groups Exit to Visit 5 | Info Center 6 | Ticketing 7 | Waiting Area 8 | Toilets 9 | Tourist Office & Audio Guide Collecting 10 | Admin Office 11 | Jaipol Plaza

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The backbone of the building is a continuous 3 meter wide circulation channel that takes visitors through the required processes. At each stage the plan widens to accommodate program as required. Group tours can break away from the sequence before the ticketing and access the Fort directly.


The first step is to break down the building into smaller forms 1 | Base case: building as monolithic

2 | Break down: security, baggage, information center, ticketing and audio

3 | Sequence: separate volumes that are experiences as a series of rooms

The entrance sequence for the Fort involves many stages. In order to avoid tedium and tiredness this sequence has to be broken down in sequence of experiences. The building also involves a considerable climb: this can not be taken on in one go.

Next, terraces are introduced to set up a relationship with surrounding terrain Linked rooms to be experienced in sequence

Terraces adjacent to rooms create continuous relationship to outdoor space

Rather than one monolithic form the design concept is based on the idea of separate volumes that are experienced sequentially. This sequential experience creates interest and respite from the monotony of the queueing processes.

Third, individual volumes are stepped up to progressively ascend the sloping site Linked rooms to be experienced in sequence

Each room lifted to allow the building to gradually ascend the slope

It is important that the Visitor Centre can provide relief for visitors as they submit to the necessary entrance procedures. Access to outdoor space is a powerful way to provide a ‘pause’ in the entry sequence so that visitors can re-charge.

Visitor Center with Mehrangarh Fort in background

Visitor Center with Jaipol Plaza in foreground.


SITE PLAN | Visitor Center


Section AA | Visitor Center

Elevation BB | Visitor Center

Elevation CC | Visitor Center



SENSILE INFOBAHN Evolo Skyscraper Competition | 2016 Team: MIsri, Sharvari, Kushal, Saurabh, Monik, Shourya

In an ever changing techno-scape, the skyscraper encompasses a variety of dimensions, both physical and social in nature. It engages the bionic humans in socializing, obtaining information and exploring the factors that influence the constant morphing of the design. The tower posits that the user’s response to the space moderates his or her purpose for visiting a certain pod and his understanding of what he wants. The framework is both theoretically and managerially rich, assisting the users, who are also the planners, to identify and plan the spaces based on the primary purpose of area/ zone requirement. The tower provides for continuous growth based on constant availability of material, efficient transfer of information, direct addressing of information, interactivity and individuality. By building abstractions from the characteristics of the virtual world, representations of the material world potentially become the cognition of the spaces that the user moves through, touches, sees, and hears.


In an ever changing techno-scape, the skyscraper encompasses a variety of dimensions, both physical and social in nature. It engages the bionic humans in socializing, obtaining information and exploring the factors that influence the constant morphing of the design. The tower posits that the user’s response to the space moderates his or her purpose for visiting a certain pod and his understanding of what he wants. The framework is both theoretically and managerially rich, assisting the users, who are also the planners, to identify and plan the spaces based on the primary purpose of area/ zone requirement. The tower provides for continuous growth based on constant availability of material, efficient transfer of information, direct addressing of information, interactivity and individuality. By building abstractions from the characteristics of the virtual world, representations of the material world potentially become the cognition of the spaces that the user moves through, touches, sees, and hears.


Catoms are described as being similar in nature to a nanomachine, but with greater power and complexity. While microscopic individually, they bond and work together on a larger scale. bThe skyscraper consists of three main structures- the core, the framework and the units. The core provides a design to focus constructive rearrangement on individual nodes and a software matrix that motivates local cooperation among groups of catoms. This protocol ensures a seamless union between form and functionality. Constructed from the bottom up, these catoms get information input from the core, run along the framework and form the units. The material enables the units to be constantly dynamic, going through multiple mutations, creating a more responsive space that is adjusting to the bionic humans needs. The demand for such a lively material stemmed from the evolution of man from homo sapien to bionic human. Being comparatively more intellectually developed, this human has highly developed all his senses, along with the added sense of information processing and distributing. The skyscraper reciprocates these senses by being smart, receptive and in a constant state of innovation.




Detroit’s Contested Urbanisms of Abandonment


THE CONTESTED URBANISM OF ABANDONMENT Professional Work | 2019 The Michigan-Mellon Project on Egalitarianism Mapping the Egalitarian Metropolis: Detroit’s Spaces of Hope Team: Prof Maria Arquero De Alarcon, Prof Martin Murray, Olaia Chivite Amigo Exhibited at Seoul Bienalle of Architecture and Urbanism 2019 | Michigan Reserach Studio, Detroit

The successive cycles of urban transformation in industrial regions during the last century have created uneven, asymmetrical landscapes consisting of scattered abandonment interspersed amongst nodes of concentrated activity. Among many cities following this pattern, Detroit has been widely acknowledged as a primary example of failed urbanism in the post-industrial age. Disinvestment and socioeconomic restructuring have driven the city to abandonment and neglect, creating what appears under-utilized largely forgotten left-over spaces. This project examines the case of Detroit through a finely-grained account of the disparate narratives chronicling the existing realities and projected futures, their representation and mediation. We argue that traditional land use planning approaches do not recognize improvisational activities in highly vacant areas, failing to project alternative, more just city futures. Looking at what happens to leftover spaces after abandonment enables us to uncover how ordinary people experiment and improvise, developing coping strategies designed to substitute ingenuity for the lack of resources and institutional support.


THREE SITES OF INVESTIGATION Riverbend | Poletown East | Brightmoor

This project examines three neighborhoods targeted under the 2012 Detroit Future City Framework as High Vacancy Zones: Brightmoor, Poletown East and Riverbend. By demarcating these sites as testbeds for production and ecological innovation, this philanthropy-sponsored planning effort set a 50-year land-use scenario recasting these formerly urban neighborhoods into seas of greenery. While these narratives embody the quest for a more sustainable future, the overwhelming presence of blight and chronic lack of investment speak of very different priorities. Yet, despite this legacy of neglect and the lack of support, residents have instigated the emergence of alternative urban imaginaries. These three neighborhoods are at once actual locations and imagined places, inextricably tied to distinct histories and identified as platforms for possible futures. They are enclaves of entrenched disadvantage, but the structural and social forces that produced these similar outcomes are not identical. To render visible the disparate narratives of place in each neighborhood, we scrutinize a variety of source materials through provisional, critical cartographies that overlay official and unofficial planning documents, newspaper accounts, mediacommentaries, field visits and interviews with key informants.



POLETOWN EAST Makeshift Urbanism “We often think of decline as a slow process, but what’s actually happening is people and agents engaging in different practices like speculation that contribute to the decay we see.vWhat looks to us like a slow decay of vacant and abandoned property that’s static is actually moving quite quickly in financial markets around the world. Capital is changing hands all the time, titles are changing hands all the time. And those outcomes manifest in two forms: vacant properties left to sit fallow, and/or predatory rentto-own land contracts in which the prospective buyer has a high likelihood of eventual eviction.”

POLETOWN EAST

Akers, J. 2016

Post-city neighborhood

Recovery Park


POLETOWN INCINERATOR


BRIGHTMOOR Makeshift Urbanism

Artisan Collective Farm Hub, Brightmoor

Taylor Homes Legacy, Brightmoor


RIVERBEND Makeshift Urbanism

Wolverine Tower, Riverbend

FESD, Riverbend


SEOUL BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM




JARDIM GAIVOTAS OCCUPATION Professional Work | 2019 Young Land Occupations In Sao Paulo: Co-Designing Urban Strategies and Tactical Interventions Team: Prof Maria Arquero De Alarcon, Prof Ana Paula Olaia, Michael, Andrea, Shourya LabJUTA Universidade federal do ABC, Sao Paulo

The production of urban land through occupations of environmentally protected areas at the peripheries of megacities is a major wicked problem in the Global South. As impoverished families cannot afford housing in central locations, they occupy available land in the city periphery that is not suitable for habitation due to its geomorphological features or its ecological value. Despite these challenges, young

occupations continue to grow rapidly in the periphery of Sao Paulo.

The project focuses on the case of a young land occupation to examine the mechanisms, trajectories, and decision making processes that frame lower-income residents’ struggle for the right to the city in Sao Paulo. The participatory action research project aims to give visibility to the increasing phenomenon of young land occupations in the periphery of the city of Sao Paulo, co-produce strategies for the improvement of the quality of life of the residents, and better connect the most vulnerable human settlements in the city’s south periphery. Link to view video and complete compilation of project: https://vimeo.com/368001223/d07ecf0a5e https://issuu.com/marquero/docs/20191022_pamphlet_gaivotas


YOUNG LAND OCCUPATIONS IN SAO PAULO Co-Designing Urban Strategies and Tactical Interventions Younger land occupations lack the resources required to cope with the incessant threat of displacement. Legal cases often use the narrative of environmental degradation and unsustainable practices to force eviction or deny basic urban services.Despite these challenges, young occupations continue to grow rapidly in the periphery of Sao Paulo, on public and private property, without consideration of environmental risks, and often near environmentally protected areas. By the time that the municipality becomes aware of their existence or assess that it is legally sound to upgrade them, it is often too late to guide their settlement patterns towards healthy and ecologically sensitive development.The first years of land occupation remain critical to obtaining legal rights to the land, land occupiers can become publicly recognized protagonists in creating better, alternative futures for themselves. The project focuses on the case of a young land occupation to examine the mechanisms, trajectories, and decision making processes that frame lower-income residents’ struggle for the right to the city in Sao Paulo. Working together with the Jardim Gaivotas occupation association, residents, and our partners at LabJUTA in the Federal University of ABC, we examine the socio-environmental site conditions and underscore the impact of legal decisions and urban regulations on the current housing and environmental crisis in the metropolis The participatory action research project aims to give visibility to the increasing phenomenon of young land occupations in the periphery of the city of Sao Paulo, co-produce strategies for the improvement of the quality of life of the residents, and better connect the most vulnerable human settlements in the city’s south periphery. The central focus in the co-production of strategies of occupation and empowerment aims to support the internal organizational capacities of the community and their connection with other social and housing rights groups in the city. Learning from this analysis and jointly developed a diagnosis, dwellers engaged in a process of “future envisioning” identifying and prioritizing key actions, its’ implementation tactics, and the roles each participant will take to achieve them.



LEARNING FROM THE COMMUNITY



PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE

Plano de Ação

O“ ”, avança o trabalho das oficinas anteriores e estabelece prioridades de curto, médio e longo prazo e a definição de responsabilidades “de modo a vencer os desafios e alcançar os sonhos” (BRASIL, 2004). Trata-se de uma etapa de planejamento de ações, considerando as discussões prévias de onde se quer chegar (Árvore dos Sonhos) e de diagnósticos dos problemas a serem enfrentados (Pedras no Caminho).



THEMATIC PAMPHLETS



shourya@umich.edu


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