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Tanya Chandra
Tanya Chandra Email tanya.chandra@gmail.com Mobile 0031-626247894 Address Balthasar van der Polweg 248 Delft, Netherlands Date of birth 04-02-1986 Nationality Indian Work Permit Netherlands (Orientation year, June 2015 - 2016) India (Registered Architect) Web http://issuu.com/tanyachandra http://tanyachandra.wix.com/city-on-demand
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urban design
strategy
architecture
research
urban planning
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Curriculum vitae FACE 2 FACE: Urban mobility, Delhi, India Graduation project, TU Delft | 9/10 | 08-2014 to 06-2015
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AAMCHI MUMBAI: FUNDAMENTALS, Mumbai, India MSc 2 Semester, TUDelft | International Competition - 2nd Winner | 02 to 06, 2014
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EAT THE STREET, Rotterdam, Netherlands MSc 1 Semester, TUDelft | Socio-Spatial Studio - Exhibited | 11-2013 to 02-2014
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MAHINDRA LIFESPACES, Boisar-Mumbai, India Sangath, Ahmedabad | Professional Project - Affordable housing | 05-2012 to 06-2013 Head Project Architect
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Close the Gap, New York, United States of America D3-International Competition | Exhibited | 10-2011
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Professional Overview
Work
Education 2013 Technische Universiteit Delft, - 2015 Netherlands Masters of Science in Urbanism 2015 Graduation: Delhi-on-Demand, Urban Mobility – 9/10 Studio: Design as Politics Mobility Utopia for Delhi - LINK VerticalCities Asia, Mumbai – Second Winner Studio: Complex Projects & Urbanism Urban development strategy for 100,000 people/km2 LINK
2016/01 - Veldacademie : Research Intern Present Ruth Höppner, Rotterdam - LINK 2016 Social Resilience: Under the ‘100 Resilient cities’ program by Rockefeller Foundation, studying Rotterdam and New York as case studies in collaboration with AIR foundation, TU Delft, Stevens Institute of Technology and Leiden University, comissioned by Municipality of Rotterdam. Social Harbour: Designing a model to measure social impact, collaboration with Jeanne van Heesvijk (wijkcoporatie), IABR Rotterdam and Bath University.
Socio-spatial Intervention Hofbogen – Exhibited Studio: Urbanism -MSc 1
2005 Manipal University, Manipal, India - 2010 Bachelors in Architecture Rank -2, CGPA: 8.66/10 2010 Graduation: How to make cost-effective habitable? Awarded & Published - LINK
Additional tools Expert Autocad Archicad Revit Adobe Suite 3DS Max SketchUp MColor Autodesk Impressions Depthmap GIS Carpentry
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Good
BAsic
2015/03 - Play the City : Present Free Lancer & Design Intern(past) Ekim Tan, Amsterdam - LINK 2016 Game planning for Waternet: City Innovation game in Buiksloterham, Amsterdam Noord 2015 Game design for Shenzhen Biennale in collaboration with INTI for the area Da Lang in Shenzhen, China. Game training sessions hosted at Pakhuis de Zwijger for Overhoek, Amsterdam and Oosterwold, Almere.
2010/11 - Sangath, Vastu Shilpa Consultants : 2013/06 Senior Architect B.V. Doshi, Rajeev Kathpalia and Sönke Hoof, Ahmedabad, India - LINK Project Head 2012 - 2013 Mahindra Affordable Housing, Boisar, Mumbai 2010 - 2013 Premashraya, Kolkata (housing for cancer patients) Competition Team International 2013 Nalanda University, India (winning entry) - LINK National 2012 Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (winning entry for housing) 2011 National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Chandigarh
Tanya Chandra Curriculum vitae
Publication / Exhibition 2015 Atlantis, Urbanism Magazine, Published TU Delft October Article titles ‘Products of Line’ - Ways of presenting your Master thesis
2014 Confronting Informality, Symposium TU Delft Poster exhibition for selected master theses.
Awards 2014 Vertical Cities Asia : Mumbai Edition
Second Prize (International, Student, Team)
TU Delft, Singapore Jury: Rahul Mehrotra, Nathalie de Vries, Teddy Cruz, Wowo Ding and Fun Siew Leng - LINK
2012 International Prize for Sustainable Architecture : Thesis Honourable Mention
Ferrara, Italy 2014 Atlantis, Urbanism Magazine, Published TU Delft November Article on Vertical Cities Asia – International student competition
Jury: Thomas Herzog, Peter Rich, Li Xiaodong, Nicola Marzot and Gianluca Minguzzi. - LINK
2010 Pidilite Architectural Awards
April Published the poem ‘Utopic – Dystopia’ as a prologue
‘Optimum Space Utilization’
April Drawing titled ‘Discussion as a factor of Urbanism’
Annual architectural awards hosted by Pidilite Industries Limited. I was nominated by my Institute. The award selection is done as per design performance in college design for the 5 years of Bachelors.
2013 Drawing of the Year, Exhibited Arkitektskolen Aarhus International competition resulting into an exhibition in Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark till December 2014.
India
2010 NIASA Thesis Awards Nominated
India 2012 ‘Cost Effective Made Habitable’, Published a monograph Lambert Academic Publishing, Stuttgart LINK
2011 Close The Gap, Exhibited D3, New York An international competition hosted by the USA based D3 and Transportation Alternatives called ‘Close The Gap’, inviting proposals for pedestrian and cyclist connections on the east riverside of Manhattan. It was exhibited in CUNY Baruch College, New York and at University of Houston.
Bachelor Thesis on ‘Labour Housing Development’ nominated by department head, Ar. Nishant Manpure, for the National Thesis Competition held by Council of Architecture.
2006 49th Annual NASA
Momentum for Manipal Institute of Technology
Manipal, India Co-designed and executed the proposal of a momentum for the event hosted by our college, in the form of a wall with Shalmali Wagle. The selection was done by a team of professors and students.
2006 49th NASA’s Annual Magazine, Published National Association of Student of Architecture, Manipal Edition Article dealt with hosting and working for an Annual NASA
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Participation Wokshop
‘Stadmakerscongress’, Rotterdam, 2014 ‘Get Well City’ Cesis, Latvia by Riga Technical University, 2014 - LINK
Design
Extracurricular Activities Set Lustrum Theatre (Stylos, TU Delft) - Production Designer worked on: Delftse Lente(Feb. 2014) Dramanon (Manipal University Drama Club) Productions worked on: Black Adder (Oct. 2007), Love, Sex and IRS (Oct. 2007), Fools (May 2008), The Darn Plot (Oct. 2009)
International competition on modular housing for Australia by Urban Collective, 2012 Housing for the Urban poor in Bangalore, India, a CO Design Competition organized by Architecture for Humanity, 2011
Documen- 500 years old mud house in Halsnadu, taTion Karnataka, India, 2009 Sringeri Temple, Karnataka, India, 2009
Modular Classroom design Competition by Architecture For Humanity, 2009
Writing
Essay submission for Saint Gobain Scholarship competition, on ‘Urban Spaces: Vital Role In The City’, 2012 Poems juxtaposed with photographs for ‘Socio‘ in the 40th issue of the Threshold Magazine of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011
Mookambika Temple, Kollur, Karnataka, India, 2006 Car Street Of The Temple Square, Udupi, Karnataka, 2005
Event 49th Annual National Association of Students Head of Architecture Convention, Manipal, 2006 Designing Committee (Event Layout Plan, Signage, Certificates and Dept. T-Shirts)
Travel For learning and leisure: Extensively within India and Europe; Research Excursion to New York City
Language Fluently: English and Hindi Beginner: Dutch (A1/A2 - Volksuniversiteit Den Haag)
Interest Poetry writing, Travelling, Swimming, Dancing
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Planning and scripting design competitions held during the event Campus planning for zoning of events
Lead Paper Presentation for Zonal National Association of student of Architecture, 2006 Teams for wall murals for events within the Faculty of architecture, Manipal 2006-10 Intra-department cultural fest for Faculty of Architecture, 2006
Illustra- Board of school magazine at Convent of Jesus tor & Mary 2003-05
Activity map
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FACE 2 FACE: Urban mobility, Delhi-India Design as Politics Studio : New Utopias on the ruins of a welfare state Graduation project, TU Delft | MSc Urbanism - 9/10 | August 2014 to June 2015
Mentors Marta Relats : Design as Politics Dominic Stead : Urban and Regional Planning Akkieles van Nes : Spatial Planning and Strategy
+ sCALE
200m
60km
Task A utopia of mobility
Personal Contribution Besides the spatial intervention required by the studio, I developed City-on-Demand technology to govern the strategy, design and policy.
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Delhi - on - Demand Urban equity initiated through mobility City-on-Demand is a technology, it gathers the demand of commuter (public transport or walking) and urban residents (public spaces) and interprets the spatial requirement and changes the city’s infrastructure accordingly. Thus creating a real-time dynamic system of demand and supply. Making a city smarter by having a demand based supply chain management of its resources. It stems from my research on Delhi, where resource (supply) and demand are mismatched and there is an explosion of image based planning resulting in a gentrified and inaccessible city; plagued by pollution, congestion, high car ownership growth, safety and lack of urban commons for its growing density.
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Banksy does Delhi Problem Definition - introduction
As an emerging market, Indian cities are faced with rapid urban changes for ‘progress’. We are exchanging human scale with technology that reduce one in a bubbled life of gated communities and private motorized transport. Delhi as the capital faces this image planning since 1980s. The repercussions of image planning in Delhi has led to the growing car culture and with the focus of governmental developmental on high technological public transport (Metro rail), both of which are unaffordable by the 55% of lower income group helpless. This problem is accentuated further when the urban poor is driven to periphery of the city, where affordable transport is lacking and non-motorized transport is limited by its range. Leading to poor quality of life for the urban poor due to limited job accessibility, strenuous commuting hours, poor provision for pedestrian and cyclist, unavailable public transport, lack of accessibility to social amenities and poor job security due to lack of job choices. Due to socio-spatial segregation, there is creation of socioeconomic burden on the urban poor which is reflected clearly through their options of transit mode. Though the make the majority in number but or the most public space, the roads, they make a minority in priority.
until 1977
1977 - 1986
1986 - 2000
2000 - 2010
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Cost | Mode Share per income group | development emphasis
Transit mode share
Infrastructure share and development emphasis
70% of the urban poor (~10 million inhabitants of Delhi) find going to work as the most dangerous thing they do daily - Hazard centre, Delhi, 1999 12
80% of transport budget (~3 billion Euros) of 2002-07 was used for road widening and from the rest 20%, 60% was used for metro which though being 10-15 times more subsidized than a bus tickets has transit mode share of less than 5% and is running daily in a loss. - Tiwari, Urban age conference, 2007
Scale
Mode Priority
Project: Mode priority
The mode choice and priority is done as per function accessibility range and physical distance that can be covered by per mode and its economical viability in running the resource. 13
1. Functions TYPE AND ITS CATCHMENT AREA
2. mode accessibility range
3. connectivity OF THE CURRENT NETWORK
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Delhi - on - demand Strategy - Route Divide Space syntax is an amazing tool to understand the connectivity of a given network and also indicated thus where most activities is popped up. Similarly density also has a similar function. And given the scenario and working with India’s densest district, sometime gave obscured function to route connectivity. Thus I approached my strategy through the order of the following rules: a) Route selection hierarchy for different scales (speed, walking and still) according to the connectivity they give b) the functions in the neighbourhood made the second layer of twisting around with the routes.
Still Route
walking Route
District Speed Route
c) typology of the route 1. For speed in is necessary that they use wider roads, are best connected and approachable by all also higher the width it should always border a neighbourhood but never cut across 2. For walking routes, these were selected every 500m on their connectivity to speed scale and would always cut across the neighbourhood to engage with a large audience. 3. For still routes, they usually disconnected with speed routes and always bordered the walking route instead. They were selected with their lack of functions which have a larger catchment area and disrupt the a softer social life of the neighbourhood.
City Speed Route
District Speed Route
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Delhi - on - demand: matrix A) Speed Routes: for increasing the accessibility to public transport 1. Railway line covering intra city distance of 60km 2. City Speed route | Bus | 30km 3. District Speed Route - Primary | Bus | 5km 4. District Speed Route - Secondary | Bus | 2km B) Walking Routes: for increasing the walk-ability within neighbourhoods 1. Footpath | Walking | 1 - 5km 2. Dynamic Walkway | Walking | 500m
City Speed Route
Function ring
Share in road section
Priority of mode when system is Active District Speed Route
C) Still routes: for increasing public space with neighbourhoods 1. Urban space (streets) closed for motorised traffic | social, cultural, economical | 200m
priority bus lanes within neighbourhood and district levels
30KM
District Speed Route
priority bus lanes within neighbourhood
Speed Scale
500M
Still Route
walking Route
District Speed Route
2KM
walking Route
District Speed Route
200M
better approach to shopping streets, schools, religious & community centres and residential streets
5KM
Walking Scale
City Speed Route
Still Route
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urban seating, public playgrounds, services, informal economy plaza Function ring Still Scale
Share in road section
Priority of mode when system is Active
Delhi - on - demand: Design elements
technical
Symbolic
Social
cultural & informal economy
Service
City Gate Meter for the technology
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NORTH NORTH WEST
DENSITY OF THE DISTRICT
CENTRAL
WEST
EAST
SOUTH WEST
SOUTH
LOCATION OF SURGE POINT ON THE NETWORK
District Gate: Community
DENSITY OF THE DISTRICT
BORDER FOR A DISTRICT OR NCT OF DELHI
NORTH EAST
Night Bus
NEW DELHI
Surge Point WHEN THE VECTOR OF DEMAND IS ACROSS THE CITY AND CONSEQUETLY INCREASES FROM START TO END Buses have increased their allowable capacity going towards surge points, only to reduce it at surge point
Footpath Increases
START POINT
Higher frequency to reduce pressure per bus
SURGE POINT
Increases
Increases in demand
increases in bus requency and reduces pressure or demand reduces
SURGE POINT
Traffic Bollards
WHEN THE VECTOR OF DEMAND IS ONLY TILL SURGE POINT AND CONSEQUETLY REDUCES AS IT MOVES ACROSS THE CITY Buses return back as the demand further in the vectorial line reduces or Stop and wait for the peak to go up if the demand is not increasing in the earlier routes
stop & wait
Decreases
START POINT
Per bus’s capacity increases due to reduce in demand and hence the frequency also reduces of each bus route
SURGE POINT
Decreases
base
return as per peak
District Gate: Bus only
SURGE POINT
Demand Lighting Plaza with dynamic activities
Demand Stops and stations Neighbourhood Gate: Guard
Dynamic Walkway
Seating on the streets converted to still routes Platform on streets converted to still route Neighbourhood Gate: Tree Public playground on street converted to still route
Toilet Box on routes converted to still route
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UTOPIA : walk delhi | chalo dilli - 22 millions people
As per the system one can achieve in Delhi :
1. Bus stop or train station maximum at 1km from any house 2. Takes 1% (densest district) to 13% (least dense district) of the density to make it a walk-able neighbourhood. 3. From 2sqm/ person it increases to 16sqm / person of open public space.
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AAMCHI MUMBAI: FUNDAMENTALS, Mumbai-India MSc 2 Semester, TUDelft | International Competition - 2nd Winner | 02 to 06, 2014 Tutors:
Group Members:
Mitesh Dixit Ulf Hackauf
Povilas Daugis Di Fang Betül Gürcan Karolis Macernis Zivile Simkute Akshey Krishna Venkatesh
Mentors: Kees Kaan Henco Bekkering Stefan de Koning
In 1970s, the first regional plan was introduced to create Navi-Mumbai, a twin city to the greater Mumbai. In the course of time Mumbai’s population grew and quick fixes in infrastructure by the municipality continued to fail. This visionary movement can be revived to complete the tale of two cities and re-evaluate and revive the density, program and vibrant street life of Mumbai. The competition site is strategically located with the connection to Navi-Mumbai in the vision for metropolitan area of Mumbai. Taking this move as a counter-intuitive to mega-infrastructure project only we use it to become a focal point in reviving the existing conditions of liveability factor and infrastructural network. Thus, this facilitated in questioning per person living area which is 4.5 m2 in Mumbai and what street & its network meant in daily life in Mumbai.
sCALE
20m
1km
Task An Urban solution for a density of 100,000 people per sqkm for Mumbai, India Personal Contribution
The combination of thoughts from Jane Jacob’s diversity of ingredients or mixture of uses and Charles Correa’s infrastructure is a city’s DNA, were the drivers of our proposal. Keeping the key element of network, the proposal was devised in a manner that allows mixed used landuse catering to all economical sections of society. By the network we achieved a compact live, play and work environment thereby reducing the carbon footprint per person. Hence through fundamentals of urbanism one tries to make the city for the people.
City scale research, urban rules, space syntax, design poster & booklets.
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Street
Program
2.9 km
2.8 km
Anchoring Waterfront
Inter-city Ring
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context - mumbai
Municipality of Mumbai constantly tries to solve congestion problem which act like a quick fix.
Mega- infrastructure projects
Flyovers aiming to move traffic through the city faster, attract more drivers making them land into the same jams of unclear and patchy road network.
More than 55% people of Mumbai walk instead of using motorized transport. Skywalks were introduced to save people from accident prone streets which in reality often resulted in dark and unsafe environment and attracted squatters.
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collage by akshey
only typology offered - towers
Developers make nice renderings for selling premium apartments, claiming it can improve life qualities and free you from mess in the city while in reality projects are completely detached from the context.
Strict building code set unreasonable setback for towers which leads to large area of fenced private gardens. In this hyper dense city, towers are as holy grail for the bright future of the city.
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street in india Local production
Small industry
Residential Commercial Production
Residential Commercial Production
Market
Vendors
Tertiary street
Main street
Hawkers
Tertiary street
collage by zivile
People are constantly in a rush, therefore everything you need has to be on your way. The ground is full of entrepreneurs, some run a shop others are hawkers and vendors run their business directly along the street. Ground above in the building is for living, where windows of the rooms become “eyes of the street”. Business men put their signboard out, inhabitants upstairs hang clothes outside or cover the window with bright curtains. This favour of colours and textures adds to the unique façade. People from shady houses & huts and people from luxury towers all walk and do shopping in the same street. All these elements together shape the vibrant street.
bringing son to school
Grocery shopping off to work
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Proposed Urban rules on street types
Program Distribution Rule 5: Thus program is given as per route type and its layout, thus aiding the network and functions on terms of accessibility.
FAR Distribution Rule 4: FAR calculation is done as per route capacity and connectivity on which the project lies.
Public Transport Network Rule 3: Public transport is rerouted to support the proposed area.
Street Network Rule 2: The street type and thus the program type depends on the connectivity of existing streets
Areas of Intervention Rule 1: The areas where the urban rules of fundamentals will be applied would be locations having slums, run-down or abandoned industrial area, large offsets of towers and toxic or abandoned waterfront leading to urban regenerations of inner city.
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FUNDAMENTALS - I Street Network and program
proposed existing
+ 10% Residential
Primary street
1X1 km2
calculation by zivile; drawing by povilas, karolis, di 26
+ 5% Green / Open Space + 10% Commerce - 15% Industry / Production + 02% Social Public facilities - 01% Healthcare facilities
Secondary street
1X1 km2
Tertiary street
1X1 km2
Fundamentals - II guidelines for future developments
building typology
program distribution
high-rise middle-rise low-rise
Primary street
Secondary street
Tertiary street
parcelation
permeability drawing by akshey 27
FUNDAMENTALS - Iii & iv anchoring WATERFRONT & INTER-CITY RING
Loop on shopping area
pr
Loop on waterfront
Loop on production
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TRAIN STATION HUB
cULTURAL hUB
roduction village
fERRY tERMINAL
29 illustrations by povilas, karolis, di, zivile
EAT THE STREET, Rotterdam-Netherlands MSc 1 Semester, TUDelft | Socio-Spatial Studio - Exhibited | 11-2013 to 02-2014 Tutors:
To start with the very end, my project’s crux is “Multiplicity”. Culture and its context has shifted its meaning since the last century. In today’s world almost everyone is a dual citizen if not by birth then by experience. As I am, an Indian Architect and a Dutch Urbanist.
Luisa Calabrese
sCALE
3m
2km
Task Socio-spatial solution for Hofbogen area in Agniesebuurt and Bergpolder Personal Contribution Neighbourhood research on economic flows, using the demographic to propose for the areas urban regeneration of the area without the gentrification effect of it
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The project strives to bridge the many facets of culture in Agniesebuurt and Bergpolder neighbourhoods of Rotterdam. It addresses the social and economic divide within the site with Hofbogen defining its borders. “Eat The Street” is an initiative made towards bridging this gap and giving the neighbourhoods a strong economic and cultural holding in Rotterdam. Rather than competing as a second centre it creates a unique identity derived from the neighbourhood’s context, thus acting like a focal point for the city. “Culture-related activities are powerful tools for urban redevelopment and revitalization.” - Dialogue on urban cultures: globalization and culture in an urbanizing world – World Urban Forum by UN-Habitat “Food should be, and has been in the past, an important medium for binding communities and generations together and for connecting them with strangers.” – Intercultural cities, Rotterdam’s Profile – Council of Europe
Rotterdam
Neighbourhood
Project
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Existing
Proposed
PARK
EAT THE STREET Food Street Service below Entrance through hofbogen Extended Public Space Toilet below Inner courtyards Extended green network
Field work analysis Visual analysis
Social and demographic
Environment and safety
Economics and flows
Spatial analysis and history
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LATIN CART
Office Shop Restaurant Storage Open arches EAT THE STREET LARGE UMBRELLA
CANOPY
Entrance Toilet Service Restaurant/Cart
MASTER PLAN
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MAHINDRA LIFESPACES, Boisar:Mumbai-India Sangath, Ahmedabad | Professional Project - Affordable housing | 05-2012 to 06-2013 Head Project Architect Principal Architect Sรถnke Hoof MENTORS Dr. B.V. Doshi Rajeev Kathapalia
500m
Task Affordability with spatial quality Personal Contribution Team Lead
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Mahindra Affordable housing is first of its kind project undertaken by Mahindra Lifespaces to be developed in the upcoming satellite port & industrial town near Mumbai called Boisar. The group initiated the project to not only address the growing demand for housing by the lower income group but also to provide good living space with a sense of community as opposed to the current housing solutions. The project started in May, 2012 with the vision of designing a community with incremental and sustainable units. The sizes of the units were set to the minimal with a prospect of growith. It was integral that quality of space making is not lost within costeffective methods.
sCALE
1m
TEAM Ar. Mariana Paisana Intern: Mimosa Cerratti Intern: Kriti Verappan
Clustering of units had to be designed in a way that helps to visually and physically make the house connect to the community area, influencing us to make courtyard architecture which has traditionally was also a response to the climatic conditions in the area. As a tead lead, I initiated different experiments to combine cost-effective methods with space making concepts such that integrating the two creates a community that is affordable.
architect
client
policy Rubik’s cube of affordable housing’s design, policy and developer
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to Mumbai
in Boisar
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Mahindra Costing Structure
1 euro = ~ 70 rupees 1 sqft = 0.09 sqm
Saleable at Rs. 2000/sqft Construction cost at Rs. 850/sqft
in India official documents are metric whereas market based documents follow the feet system
Infrastructure reduction vs accessibility
Rs. 100/sqft MEP
Rs. 600/sqft civil
Rs. 450-475/sqft structural
UNIT
Unit stacking and growth
Rs. 150/sqft infrastructure
Rs. 700/sqft building
Rs. 150-125/sqft finishes
Rs. 50/sqft electrical
Rs. 50/sqft plumbing
Configuration
Composition
Carpet area(sqft)
1RK
30%
200-290
1BHK
50%
300-435
2BHK
20%
390-550
15 acre of plot for ~1200 families with estimated average of 12.7sqm per person
Unit types : Service dependent core design
Unit types : Structural rhythm precast
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June, 2012
circulation 8%
JUNE, 2012
August, 2012
JULY, 2012
Section through the court
built-up area court area 38
1 circle= 4 people
The court of 64.1sqm would contain 86 persons
The court of 706.2sqm would contain 409 persons
circulation 19%
October, 2012
SEPTEMBER, 2012
circulation 11%
OCTOBER, 2012
The court of 269.5sqm would contain 324 persons
The court of 1326.2sqm would contain 608 persons
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Close the Gap, New York-United States of America D3-International Competition | Exhibited | 10-2011 An individual endeavour in form of a competition for Urban regeneration of the east side of New York. The proposal aimed to make the motorized corridor of 33 blocks in Midtown with abandon fringes at the waterfront into a pedestrian and cyclist friendly connection with a quotient of leisure getaway. sCALE
1m
5Km
Task
The intervention seeks to provide relief and closeness to nature when compared to the hustle-bustle and hectic life of everyday New Yorker. The stretch is subdivided into three categories cyclist, pedestrian and leisure zones, with each zone the suggested activity has a higher priority than the other two. The three activities go along side by side with one more prevalent; this is decided by the site features in each zone with natural lighting acting as a catalyst in the decision making.
Pedestrian and cyclist link on the east side of Manhattan
Personal Contribution Using the urban environment to create a strategy and design for opening the east side of Manhattan for active modes in the city.
New York a city of movement, of bustling directions, on a trampoline balance, its catatonic reactions, to concrete bombardment! Now, a new pulse, a wave of air, a distinct version, a private affair, an uncanny breath, its titillating effects, brought ashore, to calmer boards, for whom aboard. - by author
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pedestrian & cyclist connection on the east river side, Manhattan 41
Existing
Darkness and speed
lighting issue unused waterfront traffic insertion
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Proposed
Cycli st
Zo ne
pedestrian
Zone
Leisu re
Zone
Light and perception of one’s own environment
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Professional Overview Modular Housing, Australia Urban Collective
Spatial Vision, Alkmaar Socio-spatial, Rotterdam TU Delft
= You
research
Social Impact measuring model: Veldacademie
strategy
urban planning
urban design
2017 architecture
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2015 Overhoe, NL Oosterwold, NL Shenzhen Biennale Waternet, NL Play the City
Vertical Cities Asia National University of Singapore
2013 TATA, IN Premashraya, IN Sangath
technology City-on-Demand Master thesis TU Delft
Get Well City Riga University
Nalanda University International Competition Sangath
Deltse Lente : Lustrum Theatre Stylos, TU Delft
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Exhibition Hall Mixed-use development Manipal University Sport City Complex ARCOP, NOIDA
Modular Classroom Architecture for Humanity Ashram Design School Design Manipal University
Close the Gap, NYC D3
2010
Sustainable Hotel, IN Mixed used Development, IN Manipal University
Documentation : Temple & 500 years old mud house Manipal University
2005
Wall Momentum Paper Presentation Event - Campus Planning Manipal University
Housing Project Training Good Earth, Bangalore Labour Housing Bachelors thesis Manipal University
Documentation : Kollur Temple Manipal University
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Kanpur
1994
Lucknow
1986
Greater NOIDA
2003
New Delhi
2001
Bangalore
2008
Manipal
2005
Ahmedabad
2010
Delft
Tanya Chandra 2015 Balthasar van der polweg 248, Delft Mobile: +31-626247894 Email: tanya.chandra@gmail.com
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