Shubhanshi Anand | Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio | WCFA, Mysore

SHUBHANSHI ANAND

PROFILE

An undergraduate architecture student who holds the opinion that one’s time management is what defies one’s work ethics. A highly organized and efficient individual who also believes in interdependence and that conscious design is about looking at architecture and its allied fields together.

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

2016 2017 2019

Present

St. Lawrence School, Angul, Odisha

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Angul, Odisha

Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Bokaro, Jharkhand

Wadiyar Center for Architecture, Mysore, Karnataka

EXPERIENCE | WORK & EXTRA-CURRICULAR

2019 GRAPHIC DESIGNER Courtyard | Newsletter WCFA

2020 CONNECTED COLLABORATIVE STUDIO

Student Co-ordinator WCFA | With Avani Institute of Design, Calicut, CARE School of Architecute, Trichy, School of Environment & Architecture, Mumbai.

2021 BUILD AND DESIGN COMPETITION

To design more than functional furniture

2021 ANDC DANCE TROPHY

Participation

2021 HEAD OF CLUB Movie Club | WCFA

2022 THE DRAWING BOARD COMPETITION

International competition curated by MINDSPACE architects and ROHAN BUILDERS

2022 STUDIO CATHARSIS

Worked for an Diagrammatic Assignment

2022 FREELANCE ILLUSTRATOR

2023 ASIAN CONTEST OF ARCHITECTURAL ROOKIES AWARD (A.C.A.R.A.)

Competition curated by VIT’s PVPCOA, Pune. Theme : Naturally Circular : Circularity is key step to sustainability

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

HEAD OF MOVIE CLUB, WCFA

URBAN SKETCHING

HAND DRAFTING

PHYSICAL MODEL MAKING

MEASURE DRAWING AND DOCUMENTATION

READING AND WRITING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE AND BEYOND

HANDS ON WORK WITH WOOD AS MATERIAL

DRAFTING

AUTOCAD

MODELING

GOOGLE SKETCHUP REVIT

RENDERING

ENSCAPE V-RAY

2nd Runner up

POST PRODUCTION

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

ADOBE INDESIGN

ADOBE PREMIER PRO

ARCGIS

MICROSOFT OFFICE SUITE

Silver Medal

PROCREATE VECTORNETOR

WCFA | Semester 7 | Spring 2022

Site :Anegundi, Karnataka

10000 Sq m

Duration : 16 weeks

The intent of this semester is to understand the word ‘sustainability’ and its essence when it comes to architecture. One can rephrase the word sustainable architecture as climate responsive design,vernacular, per-formative architecture, low energy building, green building etc, but it all starts with understanding nature. This studio’s focus calls for an industrial spacing in the historic precincts of Anegundi. They will need to reincarnate it as an embodiment of contemporary expression instilled with traditional wisdom.

Guide: Asst.Prof. Surendran Aalone

Prof. Anand Krishnamurthy

Prof. Prashant Pole

Prof. Shrutie Shah

Asst. Prof. Asijit Khan

Anegundi is a hot and dry region with constant need to humidify the air with high radiation level from roof. These have been tackled in the design through strategies like ‘double membrane roof’, perforated walls, ‘double skin facades’, controllable openings, ‘hay frame screens’ etc. The climatic strategies, along with appropriate orientation, massing and detailing of individual facade with respect to the direction, attempts to provide passive thermal comfort and mutual shading throughout the project.

Silver Medal at

Industry through a sustainable perspective

The intent of the studio was to focus on design in a site with climatic adversities through various strategies and level of detailing. The brief was to design a small scale Banana Fiber Industry. The initial research involved understanding the local climate of Anegundi through various parameters and case studies in varying climatic zones allowing one to identify and compare between building performances.

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

Maps the site interactions and how the project responds to different stratergies.

Proposed site

Addition and Subtraction of the mass accordingly

Massing according to the site Deduction of central mass for a dynamic courtyard

Pivoting a block “Shear” addition to the mass and circulation

SUSTAINABLE APPROACH

To understand the various sustainable strategies used in the project.

Double roof system Perforated walls Double facade Diffused daylight strategies Waste water management Courtyard effect

Corrugated Metal Roof

Skylights

RCC Vaulted Roof

EXPLODED ISOMETRIC

RCC Beam

Workshop Area for Public

Gallery Bridge

Retail Area

Research and Development Unit

Weaving Production area

Cafe and Dining

Reinterpreting industrial building through traditional wisdom Establishing Vernacularity in the building though intimacy and informality in a rural context.

DETAILED BLOCKS

The details of the weaving and production block are done in ways to provide optimum human comfort inside the workspace.

Use of double screen to protect from the harsh west sun and distinct ways of letting indirect sunlight inside have been used in this wall section.

The material pallet of brick wall, metal screens, concrete flooring and wooden louvers make it quintessential.

The the walls and the roof have been tackled in certain indifferent ways according to their direction and their usage.

Axonometric

This intercepted and

Detailed Wall Section Facade Detail

Axonometric of Gallery Block

Axonometric of Weaving and Retail Block Facade Detail

This production block has been intercepted with layers of screens double roof to provide optimum comfort inside.

The material pallet of brick wall, hay screens, concrete flooring, metal roof and wooden louvers compliment each other.

Detailed Wall Section

Use of hay screen just above the water collection pond and porous brick wall helps keep the interiors cool, and also act as a buffer space.

Sustainable Perspective through Sectional characters Vertical and Horizontal Circulation

Detailing of individual facade with respect to the direction and attempts to provide passive thermal comfort have been made through sectional ideas.

Establishing social experience in the in-between Recognizing the potential of public realm in the courtyards and spill-over spaces.

/ THE CORREA PLAZA /

Competition- The Drawing Board 2022

Site :Extension to Kala Academy, Goa 17000 sq ft.

Team- Shubhanshi Anand | Kashish Singh

“Like a trail that a snail leaves in its wake as it inches forward, over the years an architect leaves behind a body of work”. Ar. Charles Correa through his work emphasizes on the tangible parameters such as climate, culture and resources. This competition aims at creating a memorial for Ar. Charles Correa. With a deeply rooted context consisting of one of Correa’s most celebrated work, the design can either be a dialogue with it or even be a structure of gratitude. The design must stand testimony to Correa’s philosophy.

Guide: Prof. Nelson Pais

Asst. Prof. R Kiran Kumar

Asst. Prof. Kavana Kumar

Duration : 8 weeks

The project is a seamless extension to the existing facility, abutting the restaurant. It would be a synonymous juxtaposition of the Academy, which is reminiscent of the master architect himself. The space is experienced not as a single object, but as a pathway that flows and meanders, sometimes covered and enclosed, and sometimes open to sky. The conflict of whether to build or not build in the space arose, but the answer lies in the concept of non-building.

Memorial for Ar.Charles Correa

The brief was a provocation to build adjacent to the canteen of the Kala Academy at Miramer, Goa, a site that had been left empty deliberately by Charles Correa. The project is a response to that trigger. The memorial is an amalgamation of our interpretation of Correa’s key principles that he developed over the years through his built and unbuilt works.

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

KEY PRINCIPLES

Site and the view

Sunken plane to not interrupt the view

Ritualistic Pathway– Allows the space to be experienced as a pathway and not an object

The Empty Centre– Interpreted as the built and the unbuilt and how one navigates through these spaces.

Non-Building – The building becomes a background or facilitator of a journey or an experience.

Extension of the sunken plane.

Connection and movement

Alternate access

A reflection of the conflict between building and not building which is Non-Building.

Built defined by unbuilt

POST DESIGN ANALYSIS

This compares the principles of our interpretation in Kala academy with the intervention.

Degree of Enclosure in Kala Academy

VIEWS FROM INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR.

A. Seating detail at two levels.

B. Seating detail.

MOOD OF THE SPACE

To show how the intervention is a seamless extention to the existing context.

C. Gutter and Chain detail.

WCFA | Semester 8 | Spring 2023

Site : Madikeri, Coorg, Karnataka

16000 Sq m

Duration : 16 weeks

The studio focused on the idea of designing a Master plan while working in groups.

The studio brief was to design an urban insert in the context of Madikeri. Each group of five students selected one site of eight provided options . Collaboratively a unified common vision was established that aligned with the unique context of Madikeri.

Individually , all the design programs were tailored to suit the chosen site while maintaining the shared vision and all of them were stitched together to form one master plan. This project demonstrates our ability to harmonize individual creativity with collective goals in the realm of Urban Design

Guide: Prof. Nelson Pais

Prof. Prashant Pole

Prof. Ryan Thomas

Asst. Prof. Shreyas Baindur

Prof. Anand Chalwadi

The design project, an Urban insert at Madikeri highlights the importance of work, living, leisure together as an urban design strategy. The idea was to also understand the previous urban grain and how can that be rebuilt. The entire project goes along the contoured site by creating a courtyard centric experience. The design tries to work with the context by creating more interactive edge conditions. The scale of enclosure increases gradually as one transverses through the project, keeping in mind the relationship between the built and the ground

An Urban Insert to Redevelop the city of Coorg

The intent of the studio was to focus on Urban design in a site with contour level adversities through various strategies for massing and programmatic development. The program revolves around existing conditions of the site, varies from a Post office to housing to commercial activities to enhance the overarching vision of “work, living, leisure” for the town of Madikeri.

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MASTER PLAN

Existing path and the path created through the site

Multiple access to the site

Addition of courts to access at multiple levels

WEST ROAD ELEVATION 1

Built with respect to the unbuilt

KEY PRINCIPLES

Plan at +15 12 18 0 1 3 5 PLANS AT VARIOUS LEVELS

1.

Unit 2. North Coorg Club

Unit

WCFA | Semester 6 | Spring 2022

Site :Nashik, Maharashtra

8000 Sq m

Duration : 16 weeks

The studio brief focuses on the idea of designing a primary school with some public interfaces as well as keeping in mind the relationship between the build and the ground. The question of how a school could go beyond the walls of four classrooms and how it could also give back to the community was to be answered at the end through the project. The studio also challenges the students to design in the historic precinct of Nashik and to draw instances from the same to their contemporary projects.

Guide: Prof. S G Srinivas

Asst. Prof. Kavana Kumar

Prof. Ryan Thomas

Asst.Prof. Akash Rai

Asst. Prof. Kiran Kumar

Asst. Prof. Surendran Aalone

The intent of the studio was to explore various global and local case studies followed by repeated conceptualization. The design project, Learning Continuum, highlights the space for learning and how the walls of a classroom could be broken in various ways to allow it to be more informal. The school also provides for built and unbuilt spaces which could be used by the community, post the school hours. This strategy allows the school to be open even post the sundown rather than it being dormant.

Institution design with public interface

The Learning Continuum is an amalgamation of an institution which also cater to public needs as and when required. It accommodates programs along the private to public spectrum, from classrooms to the canteen. The idea is to blur the boundaries between the formal and the informal spaces, be it in a classroom or a playground or a multipurpose hall.

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT EXPLODED ISOMETRIC

Library and Canteen

PROPOSED MASS

VISUAL CONNECT

SHIFT IN AXIS

Classroom Unit

Meeting Rooms

Admin and Multipurpose hall

Classroom unit & Connection

Column base setup

Staggering

Classroom Module

CLASSROOM MODULE CONFIGURATION

BREAKING THE MASS

STAGGERING

Classroom Unit Addition of another unit Deduction of wall in between

Classroom Modules and the shared plinth

Staggering of modules above for the shared plinth to continue.

PLAN AT +3000

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

1. Multipurpose hall

2. Admin

3. Staff room

4. Classroom module 1

5. Classroom module 2.

6. Courtyard

DESIGN STRATEGIES

Perforated facade screen

The in-between

Formal classroom setting

Informal classroom setting

Detailed section through the classrooms.

Section AA’

Section BB’

Section CC’

Engagement of people. Study the people as individuals, family and community of families. To use the knowledge to shape the architecture of the housing in a manner that, the family binds as an entity within the unit and the community binds as a collective. This made possible through articulation of space and form, such that the routine activities of life are sustained and encouraged.

Every room is connected to the other visually making the family together as a whole, while still retaining the idea of the “display

Every room is connected to the other visually making the family together as a whole, while still retaining the idea of the “display

Every room is connected to the other visually making the family together as a whole, while still retaining the idea of the “display getting seen from every corner of the house.

Every room is connected to the other visually making the family together as a whole, while still retaining the idea of the “display

Every room is connected to the other visually making the family together as a whole, while still retaining the idea of the “display getting seen from every corner of the house.

three scales, the personal, the family and finally the community scale. They have been dealt in the project by having a unit with varying heights, where one can have their personal space whereas also overlook into the family corner. Similar strategy has been used with when the units have been put together, the units interlocking with each other at varying heights.

Housing colony for artists

The gradation of spaces in a housing colony fosters a fluid transition of public to private. The intervention welcomes the community to celebrate gatherings on a porch or in the small courts. The project is about how the spaces are interlinked to each other, is it the place or perhaps the people.

Every room is connected to the other visually making the family come together as a whole, while still retaining the idea of the “display wall” getting seen from every corner of the house.

Interlinked

Hunched over the daily newspaper or getting vegetables from the same vendor, one definitely meets the neighbor, chats, interacts, all on the footsteps of a place called home. Hoping for visitors, craving for conversations, through balconies or porches or windows, beyond the walls and the ceilings people come together to create an exuberant community with all the spaces interlinked to one another, as are the people. The spaces look into each other reducing the distance between them and those who occupy the spaces.

UNIT AGGREGATION

Split Level units worked best as interlocking systems

System of three units

System of four

System of four but mirrored

System of six

Shubhanshi Anand USN : 4CM19AT067 WCFA

dividing the massing through the linearity of the site

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

SITE

VISUAL CONNECT

UNIT DISTRIBUTION

SCALING THE SPACES THROUGH LEVELS

Altering the plinth to define scaled open space.

SECTIONS

ADDING THE UNITS

Final massing around the linearity of the site

Altering the plinth to define scaled open

Dwelling for 2

Dwelling for 4

Dwelling for 6

WORKING DRAWINGS

SEMESTER 06 | 16 WEEKS | GROUP WORK

GENERAL NOTES

WORKING DRAWINGS

SEMESTER 06 | 16 WEEKS | GROUP WORK

Guide: Prof. S G Srinivas

Prof. Manoj Ladhad

Asst. Prof. Surendran Aalone

Asst. Prof. Thyagarajan C

Asst. Prof. Gregory M Anto

Duration : 16 weeks

The studio aimed towards the understanding of a project to communicate the level of details and the clarity of reading of the drawings on site.

RELATED STUDY PROGRAM 1

SEMESTER 04 | 4 WEEKS | GROUP WORK

Research and Documentation of Margosa Lodge, a 20th century residence in Mysuru.

Block printing is the process of printing patterns by means of engraved wooden blocks. It is the earliest and simplest technique of textile printing.

Raw Materials:

Cotton Fabric (sourced from stores in various colors)

Paints/Dyes (Sourced from

Wooden Block (Carved by Sewing Machine

Cut the fabric to desired shape and size and stitch them together. Two separate fabrics, are layered one over another, put together side by side and connect it with a string. Keep a layer of paper between the fabric and dip the wooden block into the dye and apply the desired block print to the fabric and press it down a few times before taking it off. Once done, leave the fabric out

With some other cotton fabric, they sew it into a small pouch to put the finished dried product in it.

RELATED STUDY PROGRAM 2

Section

Crochet

SEMESTER 07 | 4 WEEKS | GROUP WORK

Tools Used: Crotchet needle

Raw Materials:

• Banana fibre rope

Research and Documentation of traditional houses used as worskspaces for weaving in Anegundi.

Water

• Colorful Thread (for patterns)

Crotchet needles or crude sticks are used to weave the banana fibre rope into various products. The banana fiber ropes are softened by using water during the process.

holder,for

Intentto customize furniture that would identify itself with the context by deriving the structure from the existing canteen pavilion and using the material in its true form.

Intentto customize furniture that would identify itself with the context by deriving the structure from the existing canteen pavilion and using the material in its true form.

Designto create simple and flexible furniture that can be used in different permutations and combinations to seat people and catalyse conversation

Anand

THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE

SEMESTER 03 | 16 WEEKS

taking the corner of the plinths as basic form to the furniture

FLEXIBILITY

Designto create simple and flexible furniture that can be used in different permutations and combinations to seat people and catalyse conversation

Iterationsaddition and subtraction of units allows people to use the furniture dynamically by grouping into two's, three's four's or bigger groups of six to eight.

Iterationsaddition and subtraction of units allows people to use the furniture dynamically by grouping into two's, three's four's or bigger groups of six to eight.

The concept of strategically placing significant cubical structures in linear organization to create balance across the whole can be seen in most of Frank Lloyd Wright’s projects, over the years. Through its vantage positioning, size, shape and constant presence, the cubes provide ample balance to its full length.

taking the corner of the plinths as basic form to the furniture

Ardmore, Pennsylvania

three's four's or bigger groups of six to eight.

JOINERY

AXONOMETRY

JOINERY

RELEVANCE

IDENTITY

The furniture should be flexible to use in different ways it should relate to the college’s seamless ways charecteristics it should relate to the cozy space the plinths provide us in college

FRONT ELEVATION

IDENTITY

it should relate to the college’s seamless ways charecteristics

to customize furniture that would identify itself with the context by deriving the structure from the existing canteen pavilion and using the material in its true form. to create simple and flexible furniture that can be used in and combinations to seat people and catalyse conversation by grouping into two's, three's four's or bigger groups of six to eight.

With an additional table on the quadrant which could be lowered to become an undefined seating for informal canteen sessions

IDENTITY FLEXIBILITY

RELEVANCE

VARIATIONS OF ONE UNIT

multiples of the modular unit can be used in various iterations to join and sit on

ONE

VARIATIONS OF ONE UNIT

The furniture should be flexible to use in different ways it should relate to the college’s seamless ways charecteristics it should relate to the cozy multiples

which could be lowered to become an undefined seating

FALLINGWATER Mill Run, Pennsylvania 1935

The concept of strategically placing significant cubical structure in linear organization to create balance across the whole can be seen in most of Frank Lloyd Wright's projects, over the years. Through its vantage positioning, size, shape and constant presence, the cubes provide ample

FURNITURE DESIGN

COMPETITION | 2 WEEKS | GROUP WORK

VARIATIONS OF ONE UNIT multiples of the modular unit can be used in various iterations to join and sit on

BREAKFAST LUNCH

The competition aimed at designing a dynamic furniture for the canteen pavilion at WCFA, which could be more than functional, could become the catalysts for conversations and enhance the space and community of the college. The martial pallet was restricted to metal and wood.

SIDE ELEVATION

SIDE ELEVATION

SIDE ELEVATION

Lloyd Lewis House St Marys Rd, Libertyville Suntop Homes Ardmore, Pennsylvania 1939

Shubhanshi

Wingspread Mile road, Michigan 1939

Lloyd Lewis House st. Marys Rd, Libertyville 1939

Johnson Wax Headquarters Racine, Wisconsin 1976

Frederick C. Robie House Chicago, Illinois 1910

INTERIOR DESIGN

SEMESTER 7 | 16 WEEKS | GROUP WORK

The intent of the studio was to redesign the interiors of the exhibition space and the pantry area of WCFA and how it is relevant to the people around the space in their everyday lives.

Section through the exhibition space

Plan of Exhibition Space

View of Exhibition Space

View of the Pantry

Model for Semester 07 design.

Model for Semester 08 design.

Materials and Methods of Building Construction

The intent of the studio was to do hands on work with Bamboo. The idea was to understand the capacity of bamboo as a building material. Starting with designing a shed with limited materials, scrapping raw bamboo, fixing the joineries to mixing and pouring concrete to make it stand, everything was done to understand the possibilities of construction and design with Bamboo.