PORTFOLIO TANISHA JAIN
TANISHA JAIN 162 Adolf Baeyensstraat , Gent, 9040. Contact: +32 465721898, Email: ar.tanishajain@gmail.com Architect Registration number-Council of Architecture (India): CA/2016/74549 ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION Bachelor of Architecture: Rajasthan Technical University, India, 2010-15. Master of Architecture-Resilient and sustainable strategies: K.U. Leuven University, Belgium, 2017-19. International exchange on scholarship: Polytechnic University of Valencia, September’18-January’19 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Project Officer, GRIHA Council (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment), Green Buildings in Sustainable Habitat division of TERI (The Energy and Recourses Institute), New Delhi May 2016-August 2017 www.grihainidia.org , www.teriin.org Freelancearchitectural projects: own practice July 2015- May 2016 INTERNSHIPS Architect Intern, Rajinder Kumar and Associates (RKA), New Delhi January – June 2014 www.rkaindia.com Local identity and change, architectural and urban challenges, Bolivia. Global Minds scholarship July – August 2018 Intern, Arcline Associates, Agra June – July 2012 TECHNICAL SKILLS Software: AutoCAD, Autodesk Ecotect Analysis, Sketch-up, V-Ray, ArchiCAD, Rhino, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe in-design. LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY Hindi- Native English- Fluent (Bilingual) Spanish- Limited working proficiency Dutch- Limited working proficiency (currently enrolled in level-2 courses)
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Welcome willing workers -Ouled Merzoug, Morroco A sustainable system of water recovery -San josĂŠ de chiquitos, bolivia Towards a new waste management system -Barrio normandia, santa cruz,bolivia Housing as a service (haas) : -Future of renting millenials in ghent.
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FUTURE RURAL VILLAGES // OULED MERZOUG, MOROCCO: WELCOME WILLING WORKERS OVERVIEW:
CONTEXT:
The ‘Future rural villages’ design studio highlighted the need of research related to local values and materials and intended to develop a coherent vision on the sustainable development and innovation of local architecture. Explorations braught me closer to design with the ‘specificity of the place’ and to work with ‘the existing materials and their constructive characteristics’. The studio assignment is based on a real demand articulated by the ‘Association Ouled Merzoug’ who wishes to receive the ‘Green village’ eco-label by the Moroccan government. The project site is situated at the foot of the Petit Atlas, six hours away from Marrakech. This small village is situated in the province of Ouarzazate, in a deserted mountain area along the Dades river.
The village has about 2000 inhabitants and consists of small streets and earthen dwellings. This region is well known for numerous ‘kasbahs’, many of which are now part of the UNESCO world heritage. The project is intended as a space for the women’s association, where they can continue their existing activities in a dedicated space, in addition to playing the role of facilitator for the model proposed in masterplan. This means building will be used by rich farmers/ land owners who will lease their land, poor farmers who will rent the land and willing workers/students who will live with farmers to learn permaculture and other hand skills like carpet making, pottery etc. These students can be possibly from National School of agriculture in Meknes.
The design strategy is to use and augment an existing key on site: the wall. Villagers have built a wall from the same site to protect the agricultural fields from flood water during the rain. This wall has been built with angles very practical to the existing contours and direction of flow of water. The idea is to develop further its existing function. The wall, the trees, and the contours remain unchanged.
Sense of Space -End of passage towards the elds
The sustainable design strategy is to build like building a sand-castle; making a building which comes from the surrounding and after it’s lifetime can completely go back to the surrounding without any waste. This project must blend perfectly with the environment looking very much a part of the surrounding.
COLLECTIVE SPACES UNDER PRESSURE // THE CASE OF SAN JOSÉ DE CHIQUITOS, BOLIVIA : A SUSTAINABLE SYSTEM OF WATER RECOVERY: OVERVIEW:
CONTEXT:
The project is supported by the research group ‘Urban Projects, Collective Spaces and Local Identities’(www.collectivespaceskuleuven.be/). This interdisciplinary research group at the Department of Architecture of the University Leuven (KU Leuven) gathers researchers from several disciplines. Its aim is to initiate and develop research on the making and use of collective spaces in urban projects in relation to the theoretical approaches and discourses. The projects focus especially on multicultural places and the diversity of appropriation. In the project the varied expertises of three universities was joined with the knowledge of the local government and ‘Plan Missiones’, a local NGO, to co-create insights on the recent growing urbanisation of San José de Chiquitos.
This exercise aimed at specific complex development issues of the indigenous people, migrant Latinos and issue of sustainable tourism in area of San José de Chiquitos, Bolivia, where accelerated economic transformation and displacement of indigenous groups require deeper reflection and discussion on the part of society as a whole with a view to the construction of a common future. There was a focus on different neighbourhoods in San José de Chiquitos and surroundings. For each case, it will cover field observations, data collection and semistructured interviews with the key local actors and stakeholders on the collective spaces. D5 lies at the south-east of San José de Chiquitos and includes the neigbourhoods Casco Viejo, Avaroa, Villa Fatima, 24 De Septiembre and San Miguel.
San Jose de Chiquitos, Bolivia.
(Above) Typical streetscape scenario- strip of green on either side of road, with trenches and shaded walkways in some places. (Left) Typologies of trenches in summer. During monsoon, they flood and pollute street.
Load in flooding trenches is reduced by diffusing some stormwater as it tranverses towards the lagoon. The concrete base of existing trench network prevents permeabilty. By changing the bottom surface of each existing trench, the capacity of these are increased. A first layer of gravel as a coarse filter, and then a layer of sand is proposed.
In case of narrower streets, the system can be modified by changing trench depth and width as per water runoff area which will also be less on a narrow street. The grass-paved sidewalk is done away with in prototype-2.
LOCAL IDENTITIES AND CHANGE // THE CASE OF BARRIO NORMANDIA, SANTA CRUZ,BOLIVIA: TOWARDS A NEW WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OVERVIEW:
CONTEXT:
This internship project was hosted at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra. It aimed to contribute towards a better understanding of urban processes in contemporary Bolivia, enabling the proposal of concrete intervention strategies directed towards a more sustainable and equal territorial development for the future. For this internship and travel grant ,four students were selected out of all participants who applied. Here I worked with the municipality of the city under guidance of the two partner universities, towards an urgent need for plans and/or design strategies for the future of the closed landfill to prevent more endof-the-pipe-solutions and illegal ground occupation.
Santa Cruz de la Sierra has experienced unprecedented urban growth.The surface of the city doubled between 2001 to 2018. This growth put a vast pressure on the local urban and rural fabric. This project focuses on neighbourhood Normandia Here lies the biggest landfill of Bolivia.Since the explosive expansion of the city, the urban settlement has reached the surroundings of the dump. The concrete plans to close the dump in the near future will affect the neighbourhood in both positive and negative way. Since the start of the landfill, The landfill did not only attract residents, but also a number of informal economic activities. illegal residential settlements appeared, having people live in a short radius of the waste processing, including toxic gasses and liquids.
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Fig. 6.1 Urban growth between 1906 and 2001 [Urban Plan 2006]
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Fig. 6
daily addition of waste
test start-up for a recycling station
evaporating toxics
leachate collection pipe system entrance
leachates to clean toxics, spreading a strong smell
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current situation
CLOSING the landfill
PROTECTING the dumping area
ACTIVATING the borders
EXPANDING to the centre
IMPLEMENTING city-scale functions
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Trucks arrive daily from the city to deliver new amounts of waste. It’s dumped in the dumping area and partly recycled in the industrial halls.
The landfill closes and another one opens further away. The main road is used to get to this alternative dump. The recycling centre gains more capacity and starts processing all car tires.
A physical border is established to avoid illegal ground occupation. Only on the east side it is possible to integrate a new buffer zone.
Specific local functions are established along the border. They activate the area as a public space, instead of a residential settlements.
When necessary, the local functions have the possibility to expand towards the centre of the landfill over time. Car tires will disappear because of the advanced recycling process and lagunas can be closed one by one.
After the dumping area is clear for human use, city scale functions can be implented. The whole area is opened for public use.
towards a new waste management system
border strategies
north // local cemetery east // recycling centre and non-food agriculture south // communal axis west // forest and plant and flower market
Center City park and amphitheatre
center // city park and amfitheatre
The original plan for the landfill suggested a large agricultural zone. Since the land closest to the landfill has been illegally occupied as residential neighbourhood, this is no longer possible. We propose a dense forest combined with plant nurseries.
Border strategy North Cemetry as a buffer:
Local function that would make people respect the land and not try to squat on it. Local church is located within 100 meters from the landfills fence.The columbarium niches could function as a temporary wall, opening up later when the leachates and car tires disappear, making space for a serene landscape.
Border strategy East Recycle + agro commercial
Non-food agriculture activities. The existing natural laguna would become part of an artificial canal and serve as a physical border. The recycling activities in the existing halls on the landfill will expand in the future, since they will have a strategic location on the way to the new landfill.
Border strategy South Communal axis
Border strategy West Forest and plant nurseries
A boulevard as an urban prototype. Multiple functions requested by the inhabitants could be established, realised through profits of the recycling business. Some proposed functions are handicrafts, workshops, a community centre, a teachers school, a technical high school, a (mental) health centre etc.
The original plan for the landfill suggested a large agricultural zone. Since the land closest to the landfill has been illegally occupied as residential neighbourhood, this is no longer possible. We propose a dense forest combined with plant nurseries.
HEALING THE CITY// HOUSING AS A SERVICE (HaaS) : FUTURE OF RENTING MILLENIALS IN GHENT. : OVERVIEW:
CONTEXT:
Waste, water, materials, and energy: these are the essential ingredients of any urban environment. And yet, with rapid urbanization, we have lost sight of these important vectors of our urban ecosystems. How can we create a truly sustainable city that takes into account not only how people live, but also what they produce, consume, reuse, and waste? Circular thinking provides opportunities to make cities not only more sustainable, but also more independent and resilient. It provides a direction in the search for a new economy for the city. Its a new strategy that focuses on the needs of residents, that seizes the opportunities of the modern society / economy and the agglomerative advantages of the city, and that makes an effective and efficient use of human, natural and economic resources.
Within the model of a circular city in studio-healing the city; proposed project deals with- “Space”. A new typology of residential building where majority of daily and domestic life of the inhabitant is organized in the collective space of the residential building. Inhabitants share work as well as domestic facilities and services towards maximised effeciency. The private domain of the inhabitant is minimized. The ‘house’ or ‘home’ of a person, thus not any more is delimited to the private dwelling, but extends in the collective space of the residential building. The reasons for this organizational model is to have a social, economical and practical foundation. Collective life brings many advantageous for every individual; a group transcends the possibilities and opportunities that an individual has. “Space as not
a commodity, but as a service, as a right.”
SINGLE
time alone
dressing
sleeping
time with family
personal care
privateworkspace
toilet
MULTIPLE
relaxing
personal storage
COMMUNITY Vertical arrangement of space:spheres of privacy.
Space<Consumption<carbon emmision eating
cooking
shared tools
storage
cleaning
laundry
sharedworkspace
entertaining guests
shared car
childcare
outdoor collective
cinema/ conference
PUBLIC
recreational- workshop
Less space OR more space ?
Relationship with space: study of typical houses.
Study in patterns of shared living
Generic house in Belgium, Duplex, Wetteren, 2019 Area- 1200 sq.m Person- 4: Family of 4 + guest
single
multiple community public
One loft in loods 23 (design), Loft, Gent, 2020 Area- 180 sq.m Person- 5: 4 living cells for individuals or couples: 4-7.
single
Clustered private dwellings with few shared facilities.
Individual residential units with common facilities in a seperate unit shared by all residents.
Covered shared circulation, individual residential units under a single roof.
multiple community public
One loft in loods 23 (proposed), Loft, Gent, 2020 Area- 180 sq.m Person- 2: couple + guest/ young starter family
single
Collective facilities with private sleeping cells.
multiple community public
Natural Ventilation
Adaptable haas layout as per business plan
The structure of the roof serves also as the shading system. It caters to passive cooling requirements in summer. The skylights in every ‘living cell’ facilitate air-flow in the indoors. They help natural light reach every ‘room’ . During winter, the modules are heated due to glass surfaces, extra heat is released by simply opening them to facilitate outlet from the roof.
Summer
Insolation
Module-1 co-habiting 5-7 people. individuals/couples for 4 rooms/ big family
Winter
Module-2 1-2 people. Individual or couple.
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South Facade
East-West Section
North-South Section
East-West Section
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GROUP F1 / Tanisha Jain MAIG 12 - Project integration exercise 31.01.2018
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TANISHA JAIN Contact: +32 465721898 Email: ar.tanishajain@gmail.com Architect Registration number- Council of Architecture (India): CA/2016/74549
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