URBAN DESIGN PORTFOLIO
Education
Related Subjects
2016 - ongoing
Bachelor of Urban Design Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT University), Ahmedabad
2014 - 2016
Higher Secondary Education Ahmedabad International School, Ahmedabad
-Data and Digital Thinking -Economics -Urban Governance -Urban History -Urban Geography -Housing -Ecology -Urbanization and its impacts on Environment: Ocean Conservartion -Environmental Impact Assessment
Siddhi Soni
Summer - Winter School December 2016
Reading and Narrating a City: Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
May 2017
Public Art Intervention: Leh, Ladakh ; With FAR side
Date of Birth: 06/09/1998 Phone:
+91 9879590350
Nationality:
Indian
E-mail:
siddhimsoni@gmail.com / soni.siddhi.bud16@cept.ac.in
Address:
27, Shardanagar Soc., Paldi, Ahmedabad, Gujarat-07.
I am Siddhi Soni, through my passion and hard work I tend to invigorate creativity in my work, I thoroughly enjoy gaining new experiences and challenges that push me out of my comfort zone. I have constantly worked in teams and have showcased leadership qualities in various occasions. I am currently in 3rd year of Bachelors of Urban Design in CEPT University and through my knowledge I wish to contribute in all the work that I come across, and I am always hoping to learn and grow.
Workshops March 2017
Rammed Earth Workshop Hunnarshala, Bhuj
April 2017
Brick Wall and Column Construction CEPT University
Spring 2018
The Heritage City App Developed an Android Application (unpublished)
December 2017
2019 - ongoing
Softwares -AutoCAD 2D -Indesign -Illustrator -Photoshop -Microsoft Office -MIT App Developer -Rhino -Grasshopper -Sketchup -V-Ray
Languages
Work Experience
-English -Hindi -Gujarati
Student Assistantship Alumni Association, CEPT University
Other Skills
Competition
-Research -Writing -Basic Sketching -Model making -Painting
Re-School Competition by Volume Zero with Ruju Joshi and Prabhanjan Prabhu
Content: Migrant Housing Generative Techniques for Urban Place-making Streets and the Cities Re-School Hands-on Workshops Public Art Intervention Mapping Literature
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FROM UTOPIAS TO HETEROTOPIAS : MIGRANT HOUSING Shelter as a part of the physical built environment has been one of the primary concerns of the human being. The idea here was to create a neighbourhood for migrant communities associated with live-work habitat, which is dynamic and full of social interaction located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. It aimed at exploring housing unit forms which are completely unconventional in nature, but how their unique form can accommodate to the needs of that particular community, and how collectively those housing units can make up a lively live-work neighbourhood. Eventually this space should keep on adapting and reshaping to the demand and pattern of the habitat overtime. The two communities of concern here are -- Patani community (Vegetable hawking) and Bhaiyaji community (trading of bakery goods) .
FROM UTOPIAS TO HETEROTOPIAS, MIGRANT HOUSING: PROCESS MODELS
Land Use plan -- Jamalpur, Ahmedabad
GENERATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR URBAN PLACEMAKING The aim here was to generate design responses which are embedded with intelligence of climate, social organisation and infrastructure. Computational means are used to define and ‘design’ inter-relationships between network-infrastructure-people and environment. I have investigated planning principles and urban samples, have quantified them and decoded them to algorithms for urban form generation, such that my design emerges as a resultant. The site here is Jalmalpur area in Ahmedabad, whilst the site of intervention is Calico Mills Land.
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GENERATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR URBAN PLACEMAKING : SITE ANALYSIS AND EVOLUTION COMPUTATION
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Building Setbacks 0m to 6m
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Corridor Width 5m to 7m
GENERATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR URBAN PLACEMAKING | THEMATIC ANALYSIS : SOLAR RADIATION
Minimise sunlight hours Street width 5m-7m-10m-12m-18m Block sizes 50m to 100m
Social relation with built Built Environment Climatic
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GENERATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR URBAN PLACEMAKING : URBAN BLOCK DESIGN AND ANALYSIS
Residential use
Sky view factor analysis
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STREETS AND THE CITIES : GREEN STREETS Our streets are designed and engineered by various stakeholders (including nature). The differences in design approach and respective biases results in poor integrated infrastructure and pedestrian oriented design. Project â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Green Streetsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is an attempt to integrate street design with the storm water drainage network. By understanding the run-off coefficient of the adjacent plots this project tries to develop an integrated network of streets which enhances the water percolation and also provides a visual comfort to the pedestrians and other street users in Prahladnagar area in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
RE SCHOOL COMPETITION
HANDS ON WORKSHOPS
PUBLIC ART INTERVENTION IN LEH, LADAKH: GREETING THE LOSS Greeting The Loss’ is an art installation project that captures the spirit of Leh in one word. Connection between citizens amongst Leh is established by greeting each other with sacred word ‘Julley’. Julley, a word that does not have a definite meaning, it is an emotion of positivity that is transferred from one soul to the other. While being mesmerized by urbanization and modernity, whats not being realized is the ‘Price of Progress’, thing that didn’t come to notice was what was being left behind. Julley here is not greeting positivity, word itself is sad for losing an integral part of Leh, its natural beauty.
MAPPING
WHAT IS THE ROLE OF PARTICIPATION IN THE PROFESSIONS THAT DEAL WITH BUILT ENVIRONMENT?
THE OLD CITY OF AHMEDABAD...
WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT?
Cities are confusing and complicated. Its population is divided in various groups ( from youth to senior citizens, from income to religion, etc.), a city cannot exist with a single group. Co-existence of all the groups with in specific geographical boundaries causes conflicts not only within the groups but also amongst them. As professionals (be it architects, planners, designers, etc.) we need to consider these groups and their conflicts to make or destroy anything in the city. Only after we have studied the group and understood it, it can be possible to respond to it. Participation is a tool which helps to decide how to respond to it and also where to do so. As mentioned in the negotiation of hope participation is a tool which hinders the ideals of a profession. Ideals are the general rules which are applied in the profession while practicing. But, the reality is quite different and very complex to apply these simple ideals to, which is why participation causes hinderance. In the case study of BSUP housing various methods of participation were used to know issues that people there were facing after they were shifted to Vatva. This information gathered now can be used to improve their current conditions as well as prevent the occurrence of happening of the same issues in the future. A case like this shows that an action had been taken with an assumption and that assumption has lead to increase in inequality in the society.
It is the one that is closest to earth with gravity its soul support and without it wouldn’t have existed. People step on it very leisurely and with a blinded trust that it won’t hurt them, unless it is their own fault. It comes in different textures smooth, rough, silky, rocky, soft and many more as you go about. One can find some natural in addition to the man made ones that are very undesirable to walk on, for they are gooey and stinky. And if one does… eww! Many of them are cracked and sunken in the ground due to unusual and undesirable movements of earth, which in turn makes the city look older and prettier. It takes different forms in different parts of the city diversifying each from one another. These are laid down in such a way or pattern that once it ends and some other pattern begins they know they are out of their territory and into someone else’s.
Enlightenment is like the evolution of homo-sapiens, first we were monkeys who ate fruits- vegetables or what ever that was readily available in the surroundings. As the time passes by they discover their surroundings, they see that there are other beings which can be hunted and eaten, then shelter came then decades later civilizations had started to form. That is enlightenment. Had not the monkeys wandered, had not they seen their surroundings, had not they experimented, had not they made themselves aware, we humans would have never reached this point of time.
LITERATURE
Some parts of the city have two of them, a subsidiary (for the people to walk on) and the main (for the vehicles to ride on). Some of them have patterns on them, like waves in the ocean, with dual colors. Kids walk on them like ‘one color one step!’ The most common are either gray and smooth or gray and rough (usually preferred for vehicles). These are there since their inception and haven’t been touched upon since, for they are so durable. But, as they are so old their colors have changed to yellow from gray. And when the rains arrive the water fills up the broken and sunken pieces, exhibiting complex colors making it difficult for me to describe. The city is so planned that all the streets are connected to each other and the main ones lead to the main market, which has a gray rough surface throughout. It has such beauty of its own as one walks across it but there are also parts where one does not prefer to look at. Half eaten banana, tobacco spits, kitchen garbage, old newspaper pages, and more can be seen as you walk by the streets. And with rains they just get dirtier. But, as we say beauty lies within and not on the surface.
In order to grow as a person as an individual in the society one has to know the society, but before that one has to know oneself. And in order to do that one has to be free, free of all restrictions in their minds. But, one has to also cater for others and keep in mind their restrictions and their extent of freedom. For there is a mechanism, a system that is being followed in the society, and in order to enforce ones freedom he/she has to enlighten themselves of that system. Enlightenment is progress, progress in terms of knowledge and progress in terms of improving oneself which will in turn improve the surroundings.
WHAT ARE NETWORKS? When a singular unit is being studied, one would find certain things which seem unusual and usually aren’t able to crack the reasons behind it. But, when several units are studied together as whole, these so called unusual things, might as well not remain unusual at all. These units together function in a complex but sophisticated pattern. These particular units and their working pattern is what is called a network. These units can be a single cell in a human body or even several human beings together. In order to function these networks need help/ support of other network(s), these other networks either enhance the functioning of both the networks or face consequences of the other network.
Siddhi Soni siddhimsoni@gmail.com +91-98795-90350