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KENDRIYA

KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA,

SOURIK

I am a 22 year old architect from kolkata, recently completed my b.Arch from school of architecture, techno india university.

I would describe myself as a jack of all trades with a sceptical mind and an appitite for knowledge.

portfolio is a compilation of selected projects done in the span of 5 years as a student of archi tecture.

Hope you like my work & looking forward to be a part of your team. Thank you for the time and consideration.

: kolkata, india

Nationality : indian

Date of birth : 28th of november, 1999

Email : sourikdas00@gmail.Com

Phone : +91-9163049457

Languages : bangla, english, hindi

WILLIAM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ARCHITECTURAL INTERN

SALIENT DESIGN STUDIO, KOLKATA.

PRASANT

PRASANT

FREELANCE PROJECT

DESIGNED

SKILLS

GANGTOK.

COMPETITIONS

WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS/CONVENTIONS

ZONAL NASA CONVENTION 2017

ROYAL SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, GAUHATI.

ZONAL NASA CONVENTION 2018

PILOO MODI COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, CUTTUCK.

ARCHITECT OF THE TIMES 2018

OM DAYAL COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, WEST BENGAL.

CONSERVE TO DEVELOP 2018

AMITY UNIVERSITY, KOLKATA

BRICK BUILDING WORKSHOP 2018 AUROYALI, AUROVILLE

HASMUKH C. PATEL’S ARCHITECTURAL STYLE

BY AR. BIMAL PATEL

FRAME CONCLAVE, GOA

CONSTRUCTING THE SACRED IN MODERN INDIA

BY DR. A. SRIVATHSAN

FRAME CONCLAVE, GOA

SAUNDARYA SHASTRA/ AESTHETICS INDIA MODERN(ITIES)

BY DR. ALKA PANDE

FRAME CONCLAVE, GOA

ANNUAL NASA CONVENTION 2020

INNOVATIVE FILM CITY, BENGALURU.

ARCHITECTS OF SIKKIM:GANGTOK 2021 GANGTOK, SIKKIM.

INTERESTS

CO-CURRICULAR

ELECTED AS UNIT DESIGNEE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, TECHNO INDIA UNIVERSITY.

ATTENDED NASA ZONAL COUNCIL MEET 2018 PILOO MODI COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, CUTTUCK.

ATTENDED NASA FIRST COUNCIL MEET 2018 AMITY UNIVERSITY, NOIDA.

ELECTED AS UNIT SECRETARY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, TECHNO INDIA UNIVERSITY.

HOSTED NASA ZONAL COUNCIL MEET 2019 AS UNIT SECRETARY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, TECHNO INDIA UNIVERSITY.

HOSTED ZONAL NASA CONVENTION 2019 AS UNIT SECRETARY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, TECHNO INDIA UNIVERSITY.

DESIGNED THE OFFICIAL POSTER FOR ZCM 2019 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENTS OF ARCHITECTURE.

DESIGNED THE OFFICIAL POSTER FOR ZNC 2019 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENTS OF ARCHITECTURE.

PRESIDENT, SAAT ( STUDENT ARCHITECT ASSOCIATION OF TECHNO ) SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, TECHNO INDIA UNIVERSITY.

DESIGNED ANNUAL MAGAZINE ‘T-SQUARE 2020’. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, TECHNO INDIA UNIVERSITY.

PRECINCT DEVELOPMENT OF KASHI VISHWANATH TEMPLE

2022 / ACADEMIC PROJECT B.ARCH THESIS PROJECT

REGIONAL SPORTS COMPLEX

2020 / ACADEMIC PROJECT

3RD YEAR DESIGN PROJECT

HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL

2018 / ACADEMIC PROJECT

2RD YEAR DESIGN PROJECT

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bus terminus in a post covid world

2020 / ANNUAL NASA DESIGN COMPETITION DESIGN COMPETITION

INTERNSHIP WORKS

2021 / INTERNSHIP PROJECTS

FIRM: PRASHANT PRADHAN ARCHITECTS

6

afx animation office

2022 / FREELANCE PROJECT

SITE: KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL

7

WORKING DRAWING

2019-20 / ACADEMIC WORK

3RD YEAR SESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS

8

miscellaneous

2017-22 / extra curricular

PRECINCT DEVELOPMENT OF KASHI VISHWANATH TEMPLE

2022 / ACADEMIC PROJECT

SITE: VARANASI, UP, INDIA B.ARCH THESIS PROJECT

Varanasi is the oldest living city on earth, older than time itself as claimed by many. The city is an ancient cosmic web that follows orien tation in space, alignment with the universe, and also is a holy city of sa crality, recording religious symbolism and spacial organizations like pil grimage routes and associated shrines. These routes interlink shrines and temples and their associated manifestitive qualities at various levels.

Among the documented 3300 hindu shrines in varanasi, the kashi vishwanath is the most primal and significant shrine. Vishwanath, literally meaning the lord of the universe is one of shiva’s forms which is considered the patron deity of varanasi. Vishwanath temple is the primal center for shaivism and is first among the 12 jyotirlingas (lingas appeared where shiva appeared as a tower of light).

Over the past centuries of development, the temple got surrounded by low-income neighborhoods. As a result, pilgrims had to go through narrow lanes through these neighborhoods which were often filthy and densely crowded. Pilgrims had to stand in long queues in tight spaces for hours. Lack of necessary facilities like seating spaces and refreshments for visitors inside the temple complex add to the issues.. Lots of ancient temples and shrines got burried under these new settlements that came up. There was no space for social and cultural activities, common to other significant temples. Temple authorities faced logistical nightmares during festi vals and large gatherings in the temple when lakhs of people flock into the city. Over the years, many ad hoc attempts have been made to make the situation better, but more often than not these attempts have given rise to further issues.

The idea of this project is to design a comprehensive precinct on the area sur rounding the vishwanath temple that facilitates heritization and rejuvenation of the area by connecting the temple precinct to the ghats of ganga, creating a heri tage corridor with all cultural amenities and civic facilities.

KASHI

USE OF SOFTSCAPES in places where users will have to walk bare footed.

NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL SHADING over most of the central movement pattern to ensure comfort of users.

macrocosmos mesocosmos microcosmos

Sacred spaces were built to bridge the macro-cosmos (celestial entities) and the micro-cosmos (self) to discover the dialectic nature of wholeness in spatially limited human habitats.

MULTIPLE ACCESS POINTS uniformly spread around the precinct for even distribution of crowd.

Based on the idea of every part being a unit of the whole, the entire temple precinct has been represented as a single temple. And the temple within the temple is the manifestation of the deity in the temple.

sight

EXTENSIVE USE OF GREEN SPACES within the precinct which will provide shade to users and cool down the overall temperature of the area.

SPACE

touchAIR taste

FIRE hearing smell

EARTH

Temples act as mediating spaces between the two polarities of man and the di vine and are representative of the whole universe where nature, humanity, and the rest of the universe are all parts of the cosmic unity/wholeness.

SABHA MANDAP (GATHERING AREA) NRITYA MANDAP (CULTURAL AREA)

garbagriha steps leading up

VISHWANATH TEMPLE INNER COURTYARD PERFORMANCE AREA STEPS LEADING UP

WATER

south

Orientation with respect to elements and cardinal directions

north west eastspace

air earth

water fire

MUSEUM , SPIRITUAL LIBRARY, EXHIBITION SPACES & SHOPPING COMPLEX GROUND FLOOR PLAN

MUSEUM , SPIRITUAL LIBRARY, EXHIBITION SPACES & SHOPPING COMPLEX FIRST FLOOR PLAN

REGIONAL SPORTS COMPLEX

2020 / ACADEMIC PROJECT

SITE: NEW TOWN, KOLKATA

3RD YEAR DESIGN PROJECT

A sports stadium is essentially a huge theatre for the presentation of heroic feats. From such a combination of dramatic function plus monumental scale ought to flow powerful civic architecture. The first great prototype, the colosseum of rome, did indeed achieve this ideal, but very few stadia since then have succeeded as well.

Stadiums are amazing buildings. They can help to shape ourtowns and cities more than almost any other building type in history, and at the same time put a community on the map. They have become an essential ingredient in the urban matrix that pulls our cities together and in so doing provide a focus for our aspi rations. They are also probably the most ‘viewed’ building type in history thanks to the olympics and other global sporting events. They change people’s lives and may come to represent a nation’s aspirations. A regional sports complex is pro posed near prakriti tirtho metro station, eco park, newtown by the competent authority to cater the growing need for a world class sports and cultural amenities In the region. The design of the building must manages to create an urban link between the diverse structure of the metro station, neighbouring quarters, new proposed residential quarter on the eastern side and especially the essence of ecopark. The 100 sqm. Site is defined in thnorth and west by the 50 m. Wide motorway.

TOWN

Public Parking Office Building Training Ground Hotel

Indoor SportsOutdoor CourtsFootball Stadium Training facilities

ELEVATION

The roof and facade of the stadium is a steel frame structure with polycarbonate panels fit upon them. This structure sits upon the con crete walls.

The stadium stands upon this series of concrete walls with hpl cladding which is the skeleton of the structure. These walls are of two types with one starting slightly behind the other toa add extra support.

This is the second tier of stands which has the long balcony at the end. This tier consists the most amount of seats in the stadium.

The first floor or level 1 has the entry to the stands throughstaircases from the ground lev el. This level also consists the public toilets.

This level leads to the tier 1 stands.

The ground floor has the entry to the office and commercial building which also has the dress ing rooms and press rooms. The food kiosks are also located at this level.

HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL

2018 / ACADEMIC PROJECT SITE: MUKUNDAPUR, KOLKATA 2RD YEAR DESIGN PROJECT

“The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but thespace within to be lived in.” -Lao-tzu (chinese philosopher & writer).

A well designed school environment has a huge impact on a child’s learning. I can affect a child’s academic progress over a year by as much as 25%. You need to submit a proposal for a senior secondary school building which will act as a safe, comfortable, learning environment for the students. Help create classrooms which engage & inspire children, improving their education.

The

kolkata, india mukundapur. kolkata

The

VISION

The design of a school should primarily be where kids feel the urge to go everyday. The school must be an engaging experience for students where they do not spend 8 hours a day out of obligation but out of interest. Education in the campus should not be limited to just the classrooms and the labs. The classrooms should rather be an extention to the campus.The design should be a perfect intigration of both the built enviroment and nature. The design should have cultural elements embedded into it along with a modern look which would keep it relevent in the decades to come.

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT

The idea was to intregate the various blocks with different purposes into one building while keeping in mind that the targeted users of these blocks aren’t made to go through other blocks unnecessarily.

Classrooms

Labs & studios

Food court

Administration

Sports & co-curricular

Pre-primary section

form DEVELOPMENT

The terrace of the first floor will be utilised as the primary circulation area for students of class 1-12, which happens to be the biggest user group of the campus. The terrace will also be used for various activities and events such as open air classes, exhibitions, performances and an interactive area for students to exchange ideas and knowledge

LANDSCAPE STATEGY ACCESS POINTS

CIRCULATION PATTERN

• Dense vegetation on three sides of the sitecancels a lot of noise coming from the streets.

• The trees also create a microclimate inside the site with lower temperature and less pollution enviro ment.

• The school building is stratigically placed at a point which places the classrooms farthest away from the streets. Thus, keeping a peacefull enviroment.

Gate for Small vehicles.

Ground Level Path Gate for Buses.

Upper Level path Gate for Pedestrians

floor plan first floor plan

The car parking is located near the administration block.

The open terrace which acts as the main circulation for the students also acts as the space for various activites like art exhibitions, dance competitions and other open air activities.

The courtyard 3 is located just adjacent to the pre-primary section and serves as a playground exclusively for the students of that section. The courtyard is covered with a layer of sand for the safety of the students.

The second courtyard adjacent Has a traditional kund with it. This courtyard shall serve for students during intervals

The basketball court is located in the courtyard 1 with walls of the school building. There are benches for students and teachers to sit and re lax upon.

The main pathway towards the upper level which leads to the classrooms is through a wide span of stairs clubbed with ramp which makes it interest ing for students to use this space.

The facades have foliage exterior walls. These foliage urally with time.

adjacent to the foodcourt with trees at the centre of serve as a interaction zone intervals or breaks.

The bus stand is located quite far away from the school building which keeps it isolated from the students, mainly the younger students which re duces the risks of any mishappening.

over the extention of the foliage shall be grown nat

The reading area is located at the periphery of the library. The reading area has natural lighting as well as natural ventilation which provides a peaceful and natural enviroment for students to read.

The sports room is a double height room with a shikhara on top for natural light to come in. The room also has indoor games facilities along with storage for sports equipements.

The school has world class sports facilites with a football field, tennis court and ample space for other sports within the campus.

There are two pergolas in the site one of them is located at the edge of courtyard 1 which also segregates the pathway from the basketball court.

bus terminus in a post covid world

/ ANNUAL NASA DESIGN COMPETITION

KARUNAMOYEE, KOLKATA

The pandemic has shown us how dangerous public mobility spaces can be when it comes to contamination of diseases. The lockdowns have put mo bility spaces to a halt for now but, these spaces are too essential to be shut forever.As the world reboots itself, these spaces need to relooked upon too in order to make them less risky in similar situations in the future. Learning from this pandemic we need to think of solutions to reform the mobility spaces for the post covid world and implement those solutions by redesigning a bus termi nus of our choice.

SITE : KARUNAMOYEE BUS TERMINUS

This terminus is a unique bus terminus which fits in multiple scenarios provided in the brief.it lies in the heart of salt lake and is surrounded by various government offices, educationalinstitutions and public spaces.

long distance bus terminus with intercity, interstate and even international buses operating plug-in bus terminus which is con nected to the karunamoyee metro station.

KOLKATA, INDIA

KARUNAMOYEE BUS STAND, KOLKATA

Provide

Maintain

Metro Station Auto Stand

Taxi Stand

People coming from nearby govern ment offices

People coming from nearby cricket academy

Local residents coming from residen tial areas.

Students coming from educational Institutions.

Offices are clumsy and poorly ventilated with narrow spaces for commuters to stand.

Spacious offices with enough exposure to sunlight, proper ventilation & room for people to stand and move.

No designated waiting areas for people wait ing for their bus which leads to long lines on narrow paved spaces aside bus bays.

Siting area connected to bus bays which prevents long queues for bus & space to move around & interact with the surroundings and no crowds.

Unorganised bus bays create confusion among people and results in unneccesary movement and gathering

Stalls scattered all over the perimeter of the site which create crowds at the edges and block pathways.

Organised bus bays will create no confusion among people and unneccesary crowd, bay number will be announced previously and people can move accordingly.

Separate space for relocating stalls with proper distanc ing and hygeine

Many people who sold varous kind of things in the bus terminus and inside buses have lost their livlihoods and many others who sold vegetables, fruits and other stuff too have lost their sourceof income after the lockdown.

utilise the bus terminus fully and efficiently hawkers and cart vendors will be allowed to sell their stuff inside the area where stalls will belocated, during timeswhen the terminus will not be in operation like in early mornings.

INTERNSHIP WORKS

2021 / INTERNSHIP PROJECTS

FIRM: PRASHANT PRADHAN ARCHITECTS

Role of an intern in ppa is very similar to that of any junior architect in the office. Interns comprise of more than 50% of the total people work ing in the firm.

During my internship i did various kinds of works in multiple projects, ranging from design, blueprints, working drawings, 3d visuallisation, site supervision, measure drawings, cost & quantitites estimation,prod uct selection, client interactions, model making, presentations and many more.

It was a rich learning experience as an intern in ppa and i came out as a better architect after the internship.

DRAFTED THE FLOOR PLANS OF SERNYA HOTEL IN GANGTOK.

DRAFTED THE PROPOSED ROOF OF THE OLD STNM HOSPITAL IN GANGTOK.

DRAFTED THE BLUEPRINT SECTIONS OF MANJUSHREE HOTEL IN DARJEELING.

DRAFTED THE FURNITURE DETAILS OF SERNYA HOTEL IN GANGTOK

WORKED

afx animation office

2022 / FREELANCE PROJECT

SITE: KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL

This was a freelance project done for a Kolkata based animation studio who wanted to set up a second office in an existing property they owned.

This was initially a 3BHK residential apartment which had to be transformed into working spaces for around 15 employees along, cabins for directors and a lobby with seating spaces.

2019-20 / ACADEMIC WORK 3RD YEAR SESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS