ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
Joshi Sumeet
selected works (2014-2021)
CV
JOSHI SUMEET Email Phone Address LinkedIn
sumeetjoshi08@gmail.com +91 9970766722 Nanded City, Pune, India Sumeet Joshi
Languages English French Hindi
EDUCATION 2012 School 2014 High School 2019 Bachelors of Architecture (B.Arch for 5 yrs)
2021 Diploma in Social Architecture
Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
10 CGPA (95%) Sinhgad Spring Dale Public School, Pune. Basic Arts, Languages, Science, Social Studies, Mathematics 84% DAV Public School, Pune. Languages, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Software Computing First Class with Distinction VIT’s PVP College of Architecture, Savitribai Phule Pune University Architectural Design, Basic Design, History of Architecture, Urban Design, Advance Building Technology Studies, Working Drawings, Valuation and Estimation, Workshop Modelleing Theory of Structures International DisLocal Certificate Higher School of Architecture and Design, The National University of Moron, Argentina Tactical Urbanism, Social Design
TOOLS OF CREATION Adobe Suite Indesign Illustrator Photoshop
Rendering Lumion V-Ray Twinmotion
Mapping QGIS ArcGIS
Autodesk AutoCad Revit
3D Modelling SketchUp Rihno
Windows MacOS
WORK EXPERIENCE Jan 2020 - Dec 2021 Position: Ar. Thiresh Govender thiresh@urbanworks.co.za
UrbanWorks Architecture & Urbanism Architectural Technologist An interdisciplinary design-research studio operating in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. It works both in Architecture and Urbanism which was borne out of a frustration and curiosity around contemporary urban spaces, that were being navigated in post-apartheid South African cities.
May 2018 - Nov 2018 Position: Ar. Dhruv Chandra Sud dcsud@spidergrass.com
Spidergrass Collectives Architectural Intern It is an extremely hands on office based in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. It believes in the constant evolution of design with inputs from the clients, workers, artisans, etc. The office has its expertise in revdevelopment of heritage buildings, carpentry, landscaping and graphic design.
EXPOSURE 2015: ‘Delhi O Delhi’ architectural expedition with Ar. Prof. Prasanna Desai
2017: Asian Level Architecture Student Summer Workshop held in Osaka, Japan
2016: 3 Days Workshop on ‘Parametric Art’ by rat[LAB] Education, Mumbai.
2017: Gold Medal at 6th Asian Contest of Architectural Rookies Award (ACARA) (domestic contest)
Active member at FEED, Pune (Forum for Exchange and Excellence in Design)
2019: Presented work at the COA National Awards for Excellence in Architecture Thesis
2017: London Architectural expedition with Urban Research Froum (URF)
2020: Felicitation by Indian Institues of Architects for excelling in academics
2017: Art Exploration Workshop by Ar. Pratyush Shankar (CEPT, Ahmedabad)
2020: Registered with Council of Architecture (COA), India
Project: Braamfontein Public Environment Upgrade Render by: Sumeet Joshi; For: UrbanWork Architecture + Urbanism
Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
CONTENTS
01. Toilet as a Recreation? rethinking abolutions
02. Township Economic Development strategies for pilot sites
03. Humanizing Hinjewadi an urban blend of habitat
04. The Stoep an urban accupuncture
05. After School an international DisLocal workshop
Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
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TOILET AS A RECREATION? The project highlights the harsh realities of a public convenience and attempts to unfold its engagement to the underworkings of a core city. It addresses the salient issues of toilets and sanitation, which have been a topic of discussion for a long time in India. The concerns are intangible in rural and slums, where we still face open defecation and the rural women still endure taunts and even sexual assaults. In urban society, the public convenience development is abided by the legal conditions which reflects the truth that the issue isn’t just the lack of toilets, but it’s the lack of toilets that people want to use. The intricacy around this thesis is a fact that the outcomes were not premeditated and are an evolution of rigorous research, documentation and fieldwork.
YEAR: 2019 | LOCATION: Peths of Pune | WORK: ACADEMIC | TYPE: URBAN DESIGN
PETHS OF PUNE Introduction to the site and its concerns Peths are the most diverse community in terms of launguage, religion & festivals. The structures in Peths carry a heritage value and are rich with Maratha Architecture & Colonial buildings. It a close knit community where any street is a social space for meetings, markets, and is a live cultural exhibition of our time The close development within the core cities have left with no space to expand or to inhale a new development. These core city areas are developed around commercial base. There is a incoming traffic, stagnant traffic and outgoing traffic that needs to be catered with amenities. And just constructing a toilet module is still not helping solve the problem rather it’s becoming a waste of infrastructure. Can we regenerate a common toilet community that amalgamates with the activities and characteristics of peths?
Analysing the SULABH SAUCHALAY A government initiated Toitlet module development programme in Peths
MAINTAINANCE Low Priority in terms of cleanliness and sanitation. Only male care takers are employed
Abandoned Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
Unaddressed Street Edge
DESIGN & MATERIALS Low Priority in the design of the toilets. No universal accessiblity, privacy and durable materials
Uninviting
Table Socurce: National Geography, 2017
LOCATION Low Priority in terms of locating the toilets. At road corners and lanes making it a dark shady space
Security and Saftey issue
Privacy Issue
Poor Placement
Ram Mandir Templex Complex
Mahatma Phule Mandai Commercial Zone
ACTIVITY ZONES
From Ram Mandir to Raviwar Peth, the identified stretch has different zones of activities with varied user groups. A temple complex with recreational activities, commercial zone of market in Mandai, a mixed use locality in Raviwar Peth, a community of sex workers in Budhwar Peth, Art and craft community in Burud Ali and Bohri Ali. Importantly, the mandai (a local term for market) sits along this entire stretch as the existing market halls does not suffice the need.
GAYAKWAD PATH
LOCATION OF THE PROJECT Site and its Context
AMRALE ROAD
Study Area Map: Mahatma Phule Mandai, Pune
ACTIVE USER GROUP
Old Age + Children (6am - 10am) Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
Street Vendors (5am - 6pm)
Budhwar Peth Sex Workers
Bhori Ali & Burud Ali Artist Community
Raviwar Peth Mixed Use Locality
Local Residents (All Day)
Shop Workers (9am - 5pm)
LIB ROAD
MIRZA GA
Buyers / Consumers (6am - 6pm)
SOCIAL ISSUES 01. Traditional Decay Many of the old structures which posseses heritage value are abandoned with use. The old structures are facing a major decay, the load bearing traditional timber and brick houses are collapsing, details in iron moldings and railings are rusting. Can we preserve the built heritage while sufficing the need of the context?
02. Shift in Culture
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(i) The growth of Core city has been in a particular pattern and with limited infrastructure. The infrastructure and spaces are designed for certain number of people with limited amenities.
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(ii) Families grow and lives together adjusting in the same amount of space to be a part of the same community.
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(iii) But, the ratio of people using toilet starts getting disturb and eventually, the families move out looking for a bigger space, leaving the culture behind.
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MACRO LEVEL PROPOSAL
The macro level proposal is based on research, studies and after understanding the various social issues withing the communtiy. Various ablolutions are strategically located to cater a particular type of zone and the activites around it. Out of these five proposals, the Multi Activity Privy is developed with detial.
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01 Temple Toilet, Ram Mandir
02 Multi Activity Privy, Mandai 03 Men’s Toilet, Bohri Ali
04 Modular Toilet Pods, at every chowk 05 Women’s Toilet, Raviwar Peth
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Context Map
arise of a thought ignored, neglected, dark, unsafe, low priority
a space of the people, for the people and by the people
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Existing Toilets Identified Sites
MULTI ACTIVITY PRIVY Insert near Mahatma Phule Mandai The identified site for the insert is a dilapidated parking lot, near Mandai with a site area of 1800 sqm. The diverse and complex urban fabric of Peths, makes it more challenging to infuse an insert that resonates and amalgamates with the heritgae character of Mahatma Phule Mandai.
The Courtyard Toilet
A typical three water closet toilet module is (i) doubled in space to hold basins and storage space. The module is incremented with (ii) a semi enclosed module of a similar size, which acts as a transition space between the outdoors and indoors, also acts as a waiting area. This arrangement allows a space for (iii) a courtyard, which becomes the source for light and ventilation. Only the toilet module opens out in the courtyard making it a scared space. A similar pattern is repeated on the above floor which which (v) connects the two levels to accomodate heavy traffic. (vi) A water tank is placed on the top of the corner module,
Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
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PLAN AT +1.5M
04 Men’s toilet (upper block)
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16 Public space / park Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
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09 Ramps for universal accesiblity
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20 Body care and Sanitary shop 21 Men’s locker room
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PLAN AT -3.0M
A] GREYWATER TREATMENT TOWER
Grey water is a domectic wastewater collected from bathing units and wash basins within the campus, which is be recycled and reused for water closet’s and urinals. Oil/Grease will float at the top of the tank 03. Water will settle in the middle of the tank 04. Timed valve allowing periodic discharge of water to sprinkler pipe. Sludge/Solid waste will fall to the bottom of the tank. A valve provided to contriol the discharge of sludge to collection tank
INTERNAL GREYWATER STORAGE TANK 02. Timed valve allows periodic filling of sedimentation tank with greywater
SEDIMENTATION TANK 05. Sprinkler pipe with outlet above plant filters to deliver settled water from sedimentation tank
Oil discharge pipe 06. Down pipe to discharge water from one tier of plant fliter beds to another fliter bed.
CORE
Sludge discharge pipe Greywater pipe
07. Plant filter bed 08. Brick mould to collect filtered water 09. Overhead clean water tank 10. Clean water supplied to Cistern for WC & Basin use Public Toilets below Olis/Grease extracted to produce soaps, etc Black water collection tank from WC units and solid waste from overhead sedimentation tank Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
Greywater underground tank 01. Siphon Pump to deliver greywater water to overhead storage tank
‘A’ ‘B’
Longitudinal Section Co Working Hall
Open Circulation
Common Rooms
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Bathing Units
Co Working Market Place
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Public Relam
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The toilet blocks are (i) evidently visible from the street. You first step into a semi open space overlooking into a courtyard, which acts as a (ii) transition threshold between the outdoor activities and indoor toilet. A toilet with (iii) optimum light and ventilation, brings a sense of security. And at last, the cubicle is designed with a (iv) reversed wc pan to blend your experience with the green, than merely it being an activity.
B] C0 WORKING AREAS
Inspired from the Maratha style of architecture, these halls act as activity areas.
Mangalore Tiles Opening for Ventilation Solar Panels facing South
50 x 50 Batten 350 c/c 120 x 75 Rafter (500 c/c) 180 x 754 Purlin (700 c/c) Gutter 200 x 350
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AN ADOBE REVIVAL
The coming together of the community and its needs, creates a space which allows people to engage and inte around. The thesis make an attempt to transform a utilitarian structure into a sensitive public building, that re enviroment around toilets as much as the toilets themselves. Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
eract with the built mass esponds to the immediate
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TOWNSHIP ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TED project engages critically with the cultural and economic infrastructures of South African cities and townships. Through spatial, experimental and interdisciplinary explorations & provocations around space as a political instrument, this project aims for architectural interventions that will uplift the economic conditions of the five major townships across South Africa. The TED project of the Cities Support Programme (CSP) is a three-year intervention to strengthen the capacities of the beneficiary metros to strategize, plan, fund, implement and monitor TED projects within specific townships to achieve a meaningful economic development impact. Sustainable Livelohood Foundation (SLS), is a non-profit organisation which acts as the project implementing partner.
YEAR: 2020 | LOCATION: 5 TOWNS, SA | WORK: PROFESSIONAL | TYPE: URBAN DESIGN
LOCATION OF TED PROJECT Participating metros and Pilot Sites 01. Pinetown South, eThekwini Municipality 02. Hammanskraal, Tshwane Municipality 03. Thembisa, Ekuruhleni Municipality 04. New Brighton, Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality 05. Delft, City of Cape Town The situation analysis of Thembisa aims to identify aspects and components of the township economy that could benefit from project interventions within an overarching strategic
Overview Map Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
alignment. The purpose of the analysis is not to delineate projects, but to indicate opportunities where projects could meaningfully contribute towards a TED outcome.
Location Key
Public Infrastructure
Context Map
Economic Infrastucture
Residential
TED PROJECT APPROACH The TED strategies will support the eThekwini Municipality with a replicable (i) area based evidence development approach. The project plans to leverage institutional impacts through (ii) knowledge sharing, strengthening of (iii) project strategies and policies, & through facilitating (iv) transversal planning processes.
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The TED project, furthermore, aims to benefit the metro through the building of new (v) partnerships, (vi) participatory engagement workshops & arrangements for the implementation of economic development projects, the sourcing of funding, and gaining access to specialist knowledge & expertise
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Thembisa train station
Civic Node
SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS: Research method to establish an empirical baseline
Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
Enterprise Classification: Micro Enterprises
Structure and Position for Trading
Map: Micro-enterprise Businesses by classification
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Land Administration: Existing Landuse
Land Ownership Map Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
Transport Map
Stormwater Map
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Land Administration: Proposed Landuse
Link to the Situational Analysis Report
Zoning Map
The Themisa Train Station Node is well located within the township and a connector to major urban centres, including Thebisa Civic Hub. The node is diverse in offering comprising a micro enterprises, , green belt , PARSA land taxi rank, and small business premises.
INFRASTRUCTURE DYNAMICS Understanding micro architecture bracket
HOUSE TYPE 1: Single Structure
HOUSE TYPE 2: Single Structure with Extension
HOUSE TYPE 3: Single Structure with Rondewal
HOUSE TYPE 4: Two Structures
HOUSE TYPE 5: Multiple Extensions
HOUSE TYPE 6: Extension and Added Structure
01 MOBILE TRADER Mobile traders sell goods that they carry or adorn their bodies with. Mobile, agile and requiring no infrastructure, one moves to the consumer’s location
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02 SURVEILANCE The numerous street traders provide for passive active surveilance od the street and often look after neighbouring trader’s stores during short abscences.
HOUSE TYPE 1: Single Structure
HOUSE TYPE 2: Single Structure with Extension
HOUSE TYPE 3: Single Structure with Rondewal
HOUSE TYPE 4: Two Structures
HOUSE TYPE 5: Multiple Extensions
HOUSE TYPE 6: Extension and Added Structure
HOUSE TYPE 7: Two Structures and Rondawel
HOUSE TYPE 8: Single Structure with Outhouse
HOUSE TYPE 9: Three Structures
03 TAXI GOVERNANCE Authorities such as those of taxi ranks play a significant role in influencing the way this spae is used. In this instance, no informal trade is allowed directly outside the taxi rank boundaries.
04 DYNAMIC EXTENTS The immediate surrounds of the trading structure are appropriated as an extention of the space. these spaces are negotiated baed on neighbours, policy and need.
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ARCHITECTURE FOR PEOPLE
The targeted opportunity of this project focuses on optimising the land adjacent to the Tembisa Station, to bring about economic growth and intensification of mixed-uses to this vital part of the township. Optimising land would include effective management to reduce criminality, dumping and other effects of absent management. Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
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KEY Thembisa Train Station Study Area CoE Owned Land Upgraded/Rehabilitated area Park Connective tissue Thembisa train station Taxi lay-bye Trader Stalls Kiosk
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Perimeter control/fencing Temporary urban agriculture Trader stall structures Public environment upgrade (Including surfaces, lighting, landscapiing, water points, signage & advertising) Multipurpose Sports court Consider giving trading rights to this area Security tower (Safer walking route) Nursery Enclosed park Picnic / Braai facility Car wash and car repair facility
12 Rehabilitte existing park 13 Reinstate pathway
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HUMANIZING HINJEWADI Today, we grow up in a society where the neighbours are unknown, where people from different age groups would never interact, where the groceries are not borrowed, where everyone is becoming an introvert, where nobody wants to be disturbed. But is this the culture that we want to imbibe? Is this how we want to continue to live where we would hesitate to ask for a help in case of emergency? The project is borne out of a simultaneous frustration and curiosity around contemprorary habitat and how its been navigated in the so called modern era. It engages critically with the cultural and residential infrastructures of Hinjewadi.
YEAR: 2018 | LOCATION: HINJEWADI, PUNE | WORK: ACADEMIC | TYPE: HOUSING
HINJEWADI Introduction to the site and its context The IT Hub of Pune City, Hinjewadi, is a satellite town where people commute everyday for work. It is growing every year generating employments on large scale, but at the same time, it raises concerns which are affecting the life at Hinjewadi. Hinjewadi is emerged as a huge technological hub, but it has failed to imbie a quality of life for its residents. Many employes prefer to commute from the main city but would hesitate to live near thier work place. The existing housing colony’s are developed with low priority irrespective of Development Control Rule (DCR). These so called apartments has poor light and ventilation and also it raises safety and security concerns. An a part of an urban design studio, the area is studied at various aspects to incorporate residential zoning. This project sows the seed of community living, which creates an eco-system of live and work.
PROPOSED HOUSING
MINDTREE LTD BIRLASOFT SBD DASSAULT SYSTEMS
WIPRO LIMITED
BVG INDIA LTD
15 kms y Pune Cit
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF IT
TATA TECHNOLOGIES COGNIZANT HINJEWADI IT PARK GLOBANT INDIA PVT. LTD
BLUE RIDGE (HIGH END HOUSING)
Context Plan: Existing Landuse Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
Housing Units Commercial Units
SITE PLAN (1:1000)
A COOPERATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY The housing units are strategised in way that caters the following users groups: (i) Families who are looking to relocate permanently, could accomodate in the 2BHK units. they also have an option to buy a office space on the ground floor. This gives opportunities for the House Ladies to start with their own Micro Business. (ii) Families who are looking for rentals, has options to move to 2BHk or 1MBHK or 1BHK, depending on the size of the family. (iii) The top floor studio apartments are specifically designed for working individuals, who generally are negelected from the housing societies. (iv) The two types of commercial units could be rented out or sold to different stakeholders, would encourage different types of businesses in the society. These can be a daily grocery shop, a family clicnic, saloon, vegeteble shop, tution centres, etc.
BUILDING TYPE
COMMERICAL
COMMERCIAL
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C2 AREA CALCULATIONS:
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35,634 sqm
21%
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41, 345 sqm
61, 346 sqm
58%
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Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
2 BHK
90 sqm
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1 MBHK
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45 sqm
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COMMUNITY LIVING The building forms its own terraces as it increments at every floor, which overlooks into one another defining spaces of interaction. The terraces also opens out to the streets making pedestrian movement safe, especially at nights. These urban terraces bridges the communal gap between the working individuals the residents
Typical Unit A1
Typical Unit C2
TF: 45 sqm
TF: 60 sqm
SF: 60 sqm
SF: 75 sqm
FF: 75 sqm
FF:90 sqm
GF: 90 sqm
Commercial: 45 sqm
Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
Formal Commercial
Residential
Informal Commercial
Residential
Housing Units Commercial Units CLUSTER A: GROUND FLOOR PLAN (1:400)
RE-HABITUATE A unit forms a cluster and a cluster forms an articulated space. These clusters are designed in a way that it carves out a courtyard which encourages activities, interaction and acts as the binding point of a community living. These courtyards opens up to a bigger open space which then expands to a large community space. We need to reflect back to our cities and towns, when recreational spaces overpowered everything. The design is an attempt to recreate those activites which will bring people together, socialise them through an environment which amalgamates inside to the outside.
Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
Third Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
First Floor Plan CLUSTER A: FLOOR PLANS (1:1000)
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THE STOEP Sanlam is a South African financial services group headquartered in Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa. It is the largest insurance company in Africa, who is willing to invest in their various customer service centres to boost client relations. The proposal leans on the very South African and ubiquitous of a traditional Stoep - as a social space. Architecturally the Stoep mediates between the private home and public exterior. Its a front of house space to welcome, invite, observe, socialise. The project purposefully locates the agency of urban activation within Sanlam creating little reliance on state endorsement, which can be crippling at the best of times. The proposals allows for a set of expediently executed public outcomes from a private set of infrastructures.
YEAR: 2021 | LOCATION: GRAHAMSTOWN, SA | WORK: PROFESSIONAL | TYPE: URBAN DESIGN
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The project is envisioned to work at a national scale across South Africa - touching on all of Sanlam’s clients (and their communities).
1. Small - Makhanda (Grahamstown)
2. Medium - Rustenburg
3. Large - Bloemfontein
4. Small - Midrand Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
5. Medium - Johannesburg
6. Large - Pietermaritzburg
Connected but Independent Accessible In between Space Offering
Canvas to Communicate
Social Space to Gather
The View Outwards
Shelter Covered Defined Space
Rest Retreat Pause Reflect Linger
Resources An Offerings Welcome Mat
Platform
Portal to Main House
Sense of Arrival
Light Visibility The Invitation
Host
ANATOMY OF A STOEP “I had not been there longer than a minute, bearly long enough to begin taking in the street’s activity of errand goers, children playing, and loiterers on the [stoeps], when my attention was attracted by a woman who opened a window on the third floor of a tenement across the street and vigorously yoo-hooed at me. When I caught on that she wanted my attention and responded, she shouted down, “The bus doesn’t run here on Saturdays!”... This woman was one of thousands of people who casually take care of the streets. They notice strangers. They notice everything going on...Action usually requires, to be sure, a certain selfassurance about the actor’s proprietorship of the street.” - Jane Jacob
TACTICAL INCREMENTALISM
The Stoep can be reduced to its most primary function in the form of a (i) Supersurface that announces an activation and offering. This can be added to through the design of a (ii) Shopfront that makes the interior parts of the office more accessible for additional services. This is further supported by (iii) Street Infrastructure that occupies the sidewalk and parking bays and makes an active street edge. Where applicable, the interior spaces of the office could be appropriated to allow for more customised programs and uses creating a (iv) Nested Interior. The larger activation of the spaces can be done through the (v) SuperStructure which can be added onto facades. Where possible, the (vi) Rooftops could be activated for play or urban farming projects.
Phase 1: Supersurface Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
Phase 2: Shopfront
Phase 3: Street Infrastructure
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13 Tak 08. EASTERN STAR GALLERY Visit John Fairbairn’s Editorial Desk
07. 37 ON NEW Nightlife on 37 New St
01. SANLAM OFFICE Start point for various running and cyclying trails
06. THE FARMBOX Farmers Market
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05. RHODES UNIVERSITY 16 mins walk to the University 04. MAKANA BOTANICAL GARDEN Start point for the Park Run. The course is 5K long inside the Botanical garden.
Urban Fitness and Farming Routes in Makhanda Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
03. ALBANY MUSEUM Complex of 5 Museums
02. VICTORIA PRIMARY SCHOOL Safe Walking to the School
The Sanlam Customer Service Centre with its related Stoep Intervention is seen to play a central and catalytic role in activating its immediate context, but also integrating into the neighbourhood. Conceptually, the urban acupuncture is seen not only as a set of physical and programmatic interventions and consequences, but one that is also increasing the social, cultural and physical well-being of their communities.
3. CURRY DEN keout foods
11. MAKHANDA MALL Ned Bank ATM
12. TAXI RANK Boarding Point
10. KFC GRAHAMSTOWN Shoprite mall takeout
09. HUNGRY LION Takeout foods
WELL BEING CIRCUITS It is seen to be connected to and supporting various social/ entrepreneurial initiatives (eg. food gardens) through soft and hard linkages. The linkages to food gardening initiatives could allow for an aggregation of products to be sold and consumed at weekly/monthly markets at the site. It connects adjacent sites through a bicycle network (through the bicycle pick-up/drop-off point) that allows users to connect to various amenities (banking, shops, food venues, places of interest) in the neighbourhood. A walking/running route allows the site to be the main meeting point through which walks and runs can be conducted.
AN URBAN ACCUPUNCTURE The Stoep reconsiders and reconfigures a privates set of infrastructure as the focus of an extended mixed-use development as a “Town Center”. This builds on the current assets that already host alternative uses but are not integrated. The strategy imagines the community centres as an efficient walkable mixed-use district. Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
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AFTER SCHOOL As a part of the International DisLocal Workshop, organised by the National University of Moron, we were introduced to a Barrio (a local term for neighborhood) El Calvario in Caracas. It is a settlement situated on a sloped mountain which makes it a diverse and complex urban fabric. These settlements are a living, organic embodiments of a community life, but at the same time it faces concerns that are intangible. Through immersive, experimental, and interdisciplinary explorations and provocations around space as a political instrument, the project tactically intervens with the social infrastrcuture of the neighborhood
YEAR: 2021 | LOCATION: EL CALVARIO, CARACAS | WORK: ACADEMIC | TYPE: SOCIAL DESIGN
BARRIO EL CALVARIO, Caracas, Venezuela Introduction to the site and its context
Barrio El Calvario is a close knit community with majority of residential zone. Almost all the barrios of Caracas located on sloped hills, has a dense fabric which allows no space to inhale any new development. It has few schools and churches which are the only recreational spaces, which does not suffice the need of the growing communnity and especially childrens. These intangible restrictions reminds them that they live in a place that is excluded and differentiated from the rest of the city.
SCHOOL
SOCIAL El Calvario, also know as the available city, is full of potentials with the irregultarity of its existing. The habitants use the alleys (as everyday spaces) to pass by, to socialise and to communicate with each other. A lot of children use the alleys in an innovative way to play and learn through the realities. These available spaces are the biggest offerings of a multi activity zone.
POTENTIAL SITE
However, can these spaces be tweaked along the existing fabric that would generate recreational spaces in the neighborhood and give a new perspective to its surroundings? DEMOGRAPHS
- 2000 Children - 5 Schools (4 Public and 1 Private) - Late enrollment in school at the age of 7 - Public School; Less facilities, Afforddable - Private School: More Facilities, More Fees Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
Activity Mapping: Everyday Spaces of Childrens
LIBRARY
Escuela Municipal Maria May UEM Maria May
LACKS RECREATIONAL SPACES
Alleys as Social Embodiments
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INSERT 1: ALLEY AS A SOCIAL EMBODIMENT The alleys are the active veins of the neighbourhood that orders safety and security . These are the spaces of interaction for the community and it enriches a lot of activities. The design makes an attempt to tweak the alley in a way that it encourages interaction, regulate social activites and becomes the place scape for the childerns. The different levle makes the interaction dynamic. These levels also accomodate (i) a water storage tank that provides for the adjacent households during the time of water scarcity. The surfaces of these alleys act as a (ii) life school by innovative way to teach the kids while they climb. (iii) Adding a play element to the journey will make the experince interesting.
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Existing Alley Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
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Enticing Entrance Seatings to enhance Interaction Ramps to access shops Planter edge Communal Corner Slides as a play element Pause Points Wall Climbers
INSERT 2: ACTIVITY POD The childrens climb the stairs everyday to reach the school and vice versa. Often it becomes exhausting to carry climb along with school bags. This insert put forwards an idea to decentralise the school into small hotspots locatd on the roof tops of a cluster. This will eliminate the time taken to commute to the school and the kids can become more productive in learning. A modular structure which is flexible to retract and setup in any open space. A multipurpose module which can be used as a classroom, a library or a creche. A module which can be replicated to create multiple learning hotspots in the community.
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A modular structure of size 2.5m x 2.5m x 2.5m is designed with local materials. Hollow steel sections are used to develop the base frame, which it then attched with the cross braces which makes it flexible to fold. The space frame is then pinned with a wheel at the base to make the movement easy. The interiors of the space frame are develop with Medium Density Fibre board which are durable and can be replace at affordable cost. The space frame is then covered with reused polyester fabric that shades the internal spaces and allows prevents water seepage during rains. Two of these modules can be connected to form a large units, and arranging the tow or more large units, forms a cluster. Architecture Portfolio / Joshi Sumeet / 2021-22
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Polyester Fabric Resued Metal
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