D E S IG N PO RT FO L IO SELECTED WORKS
2010-2015
ACADEMIC 1. BOHRA HOUSE 5. ADAPTIVE REUSE-THESIS 2.CRAWFORD MARKET 3. MU-YORK SKYSCRAPER
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EXTRA-CURRICULAR 1.CAPTURING MOMENTS 2. NIRANTARA 3.IAAC PRODUCTIVE CITY 4.SKIN MORPHOLOGY
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PROFESSIONAL 1. PHOENIX MARKETCITY 2.DRIVELINES STUDIO
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HAMPI ,INDIA
MANDU,INDIA
AGRA,INDIA
JODHPUR,INDIA
MANDU,INDIA
MUMBAI,INDIA
MAHESHWAR,INDIA
MUMBAI,INDIA
VAGISHA SINGH_PORTFOLIO COLOMBO, SRILANKA
BARCELONA, SPAIN
CAPTURING MOMENTS
According to the theme of moving pictures, the installation creates a definite pause in one’s experience, and by the use of reflective surfaces it captures glimpses of actions and movements from a varying range of locations due to the tessellated form. The curved shape of the installation allows a wider angle of the area in order to provide the viewer a way to experience the event from a wider range of angles.
EXTRA-CCURRICULAR LOCATION: Kalaghoda Arts Festival,2014 in the historic precinct of Mumbai.
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SCALE Urban Intervention STAGE Executed
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Material : Deodar wood frame and plywood to support the mirrors.
GROUPWORK INVOLVEMENT Conception to Execution THEME OF FESTIVAL Moving Pictures
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Following the theme of the Kalaghoda Arts Festival, 2014- MOVING PICTURES, we tried to capture the transitions that take place in a persons life and which can be relived through a series of continuous experiences. Keeping this thought in mind we designed a piece of urban furniture which takes it’s form from the continuous loop of a mobius loop. The street furniture was selected for VR SURAT DUMAS ART FESTIVAL and for PHOENIX MARKETCITY ART WEEK.
EXTRA-CURRICULAR LOCATION: Kalaghoda Arts Festival,2014 in the historic precinct of Mumbai. SCALE Urban Intervention STAGE Executed
Material : Fibreglass frame with wooden beams inside.
GROUPWORK INVOLVEMENT Led the team from conception to execution being the team leader THEME OF ART FESTIVAL Moving Pictures
True to the word loop- the seating starts from the crest where it extrnds to the ground as a hand support and then continues to the spline. The seating is animated though coloured lithographs that brings light on the mobius loop.
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BOHRA HOUSE
JODHPUR A
ACADEMIC LOCATION: Jodhpur, India 2011
NAUCHAKIA
STUDY/ANALYSIS OF A TRADITIONAL HOUSE GROUPWORK
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INVOLVEMENT Measure Drawing and presentation Blue painted and intricately carved houses of jodhpur(a desert region) have well maintained thermal ambience and organised spaces. One such house, opens in the central courtyard which is the main vertical space connecting every room and floor of the house. This house is a clear example of a traditional jodhpur house situated amongst the cluster in nauchakia, Jodhpur
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BOHRA HOUSE First floor courtyard
Traditional Motif Decoration
HOUSE STREET
FRONT ELEVATION
GROUND FLOOR
Entrance to Bohra House
FIRST FLOOR
SECTIONAL AXONOMETRIC
TERRACE
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ADAPTIVE REUSE
CASE STUDY_1 BORROWING, REROUTING ,DISTORTION... The Naked city was the second psychogeographic map, following the paths of situationist international organisation and was designed in 1957. It expresses the incompatibility of Cartesian logic with the real experience of the city, characterized by the intimacy between environment and human emotion.
ACADEMIC THESIS LOCATION: Eastern waterfront, Mumbai 2015
Current City Environment : Machine for living in with no liberty for thoughts.
SCALE Urban Intervention STAGE Concept Relooking at the urban context with an idea of learning fom the unplanned and spontaeneous.
CASE STUDY_2 PARC DE LA VILLETTE
OVERLAP OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL Parc de la Villette as a place of culture where natural and artificial are forced together into a state of constant reconfiguration and discovery
The project was initiated with the study of transformation of areas of two peculiar sites in Mumbai, the Eastern Waterfront at the edge and the Bhuleshwar in the centre of the city
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Reconstructed view with piecing together an experience of space that was actually terrestrial, fragmented, subjective, temporal and cultural.
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NATURAL ARTIFICIAL
The objective was to study the changing areas of Mumbai and to look at defunctional spaces for adaptive and innovative reuse to revive and restore the history of Mumbai.
NAKED CITY
Spaces in Bhuleshwar have been reused and are regenrated over time. Most of the old buildings have been occupied and adaptively reused. Case study 1, Bhuleshwar: This temple, initially occupying all three floors of the building has let out its ground floor. The ground floor has been reused from a temple to a tailors shop and now to a doctor’s clinic.
However, there are certain pockets in the fabric of Bhuleshwar which are losing its historical significance due to the regeneration. Case study 2, Bhuleshwar: The wadis of Bhuleshwar are being reused for commercial activities, which in the process are losing its significance.
Bhuleshwar, present right in the centre of the historical precinct is a very important part of the history of Mumbai and puts forward a very dense fabric of its own. Bhuleshwar is also known to house hundreds of temples dating back to when the area started growing, a hundred years back. Major Temples of Bhuleshwar, situated on the main road and the inner streets The nodes developed after the temples, and activities started flooding in. VAGISHA SINGH_PORTFOLIO
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EXPERIMENT_1_ Rearranging Outside to Outside By using the strategy of creating new experiences, by borrowing and rearranging, the Eastern watefront is rearranged and superimposed with points from the western waterfront. This gives us possibilities of scenarios that help us in relooking at the area for revival, since the western waterfront works and thrives as a public space in the same city.
EXPERIMENT_2 Another montage depicting the area from Kalaghoda to the waterfront, and is superimposed with the Girgaum beach to create a scenario of a spine getting connected to the waterfront from the historical precinct.
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SITE
SITE STUDY
Rearrangement-Inside to Outside For the adaptive reuse of the warehouse on site, the rearrangement process of Inside out was used, as done to revive the wadis of Bhuleshwar as opposed to the rearrangement of outside to inside which is done to revive the site. This was done by superimposing the scale of Bhuleshwar streets with the scale of the port to merge an an environment with another and make people realize about the scale. The montage here depicts the superimposition of the two scales. VAGISHA SINGH_PORTFOLIO
The proposed programs included a maritime museum considering the built up curiosity of the public, as the area was walled and secluded. The warehouse would be converted to the museum and the area around will include an open plaza, viewing decks towards the sea, the port and the city, a pathway going into the water and a jetty for boat rides. The area overlooks the docks on one side, the heritage precinct on the other side and the sea on the third side.
Process Models Material used: Deodar wood, Plywood, Metal sheet and MDF
Site Model Material: Sculpted deodar wood VAGISHA SINGH_PORTFOLIO
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CRAWFORD MARKET
Node 1: Main node infront of heritage building
Node 2:JJ flyover and Crawford Market Junction
JJ Flyover
LOCATION: Crawford market,heritage Precinct Mumbai,2013 SCALE Urban Reuse
SITE STUDY
ACADEMIC Towards JJ school
Part of the JJ school
STAGE Concept
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Crawford Market
bigger and smaller focal points
which connect with eachother
User study : Street Markets consist of shop houses some of which have been converted to business hubs.
Re-create the street experience
by making the external steet markets flow into the site
Green/Open area
CONCEPT DIAGRAMS
Having
Heritage Buildings Green Cover around site Site Market +Residential
Light traffic throught the day and lower noise pollution
Various kinds of street markets are seen in this area
Node 3: JJ Flyover
The main nodes in the area of Crawford Market are busy and heavily crowded throughtout the day.
MASSING /STUDY DIAGRAMS AND MODELS
Crawford market is a heritage building of great significance situated in the north of Mumbai.The brief was to make a new market place for Mumbai, while revitalizing the area. On the basis of the site study on a macro and a micro scale, the idea of having vantage points from the market as well making the crawford market as a vantage point came about. This was taken forward by making the roof accesible with usable arenas.
Heavy traffic condition under the flyover
Mumbai Police Headquarters
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The shops of the nearby markets spill onto the streets to create
temporary spaces .
Towards Victoria Terminus
The site is surrounded by various conditions that change throughout the day.
Changing the focal points by
using scale and direction
Shifing mass inside to create
plaza/ open areas
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SECTION AA’ BOULEVARD
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Material: MDF and Bond paper
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PHOENIX MARKETCITY
CURRENT SCENARIO
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The main spaces of the mall lack identity and atrium spaces have a lot of spacial potential, but currently without interest or focal points
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LOCATION: Phoenix Marketcity, Kurla,2015 SCALE Architectural Design STAGE Executed GROUPWORK INVOLVEMENT Worked on the storyboard and the design of the furniture in a team of two. The Phoenix Marketcity mall, a high end shopping complex to be re furbished to become a shopping destination of the highest quality.
Undifferentiated levelled zones with bland and uninviting atmosphere Mall Plan
ASHES, FIRE AND LIGHT
REBIRTH
MATERIALITY
Change, Morphosis and Rebirth Rebirth of a new centre, evolution and mutation as a way of enhancing the shopping experience
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Proposed furniture location
Brand Logo
Phoenix Bird
Objects used to make seating a “place�
Depiction of fire element
Main points while designing the furniture. -To create pace and interest by extending the brand to the interior and making places for people to stop and enjoy. -Surprise customers with change but deliver consistency
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Material Proposed: Customized wooden struts with steel
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IAAC PRODUCTIVE CITY
SITE STUDY
EXTRA-CCURRICULAR LOCATION: Versova, Mumbai 2014 SCALE Urban Design STAGE Concept GROUPWORK INVOLVEMENT Conception to Execution The site is adjacent to a new Metro station and a residence, with a busy throughfare. the proposal aims at redesigning the interface between the two, by redesigning and providing surfaces for energy generation through algal farms and urban farming and public areas.
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CLIMATE STUDY AT A MACRO SCALE
Sun path tracking using the arduino board.
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Rhino+ 3ds Max
The proposal behaves like a parasite, feeding on existing factors like water, light, pedestrian and vehicular movement to foster a symbolic relationship between the two interface.
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MU-YORK SKYSCRAPER ACADEMIC
CREATING MU-YORK
TRANSIT_JJ FLYOVER(MUMBAI)-CENTRAL PARK(NEWYORK)
The images and idea of MU-YORK brought about a dystopian vision of what such a hybrid city would be like. The collective imagery aimed at evoking a memory of the hypothetical city which serves as a primary context for the skyscraper to be located in, respond to, and draw inspiration from.
DATA REPRESENTING THE LIFESTYLE AND EATING HABITS OF NEW YORKERS AND MUMBAIKARS
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LOCATION: Conceptual ContextMu-york 2014 SCALE Architectural Design STAGE Concept Mu-york;MUmbai-newYORK, a city of fiction has no physical form or location,It is a city, imagined only in hypothetical terms. Creating an imagery of an amalgam of two cities and using that as a context to a skyscraper.
Mumbai and Newyork being two densely populated cities lack in open spaces for regular use.This being one of the main reasons for lack of fitness amongst children and adults
The research showed us vast differences in the residents of Mumbai and New-York.
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Considering the food habits of the people of these two cities, is the same, and on the unhealthy side.
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Introducing farms to the highrise. People are more aware of what they’re buying. Lower selling price as no transportation required.
Transit areas being used as green spaces, that helps as a buffer for diving the different regions also.
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Pixel geometery for orientation as well as creating extra surface area for open areas in the built environgment.
PRODUCE SELLING PRICE
Following the ‘people see- people do’ strategy to encourage people into getting a healthier lifestyle.
Creating local environments that encourage physical activities for all users
COMMERCIAL PUBLIC AREA GREEN SPACE LIFTS AND STAIRCASE CIRCULATION RETAIL
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Green buffer spaces between different typologies
Secondary Circulation
Levels dedicated for green terraces
Middle income group housing does not incude lifts on each floor and hence concourse levels act as the levels for stopage These levels act as park for the floors above and below.
The circulation in the commercial region curls around the periphery making it possible for people to view the green as well as the areas with physical activity to motivate them. 17
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SKIN MORPHOLOGY EXTRA-CURRICULAR LOCATION: BSSA LIBRARY for exhibition, 2012
Material used: Deodar white wood, cut and sanded
A flat head 3inch screw
SCALE HUMAN USE STAGE Executed GROUPWORK
A butt hinge used for making the mesh flexible and adapt to any shape.
Deodar wood cut to size and sanded to emphasize the grains, Plywood for seating
SEATING 0.45m
READING STANDS 1.2m
THEME OF EXHIBITION Skin Morphology of living beings
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INVOLVEMENT Conception to Execution
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Following the specific geometery of the skin of a sea cucumber, the two layers of mesh represent the geometery of the cells of the skin which accomodate according to the space available, and the vertical stands represent the fibres which hold the skin together. VAGISHA SINGH_PORTFOLIO
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PROFESSIONAL
Textile and patterns have a cultural significance in the African region. Similar patterns have been imitated on the facade of the residential building.The openings are strategically placed to bring in light as well as maintain the patterns on the facade.
ODD floor plan
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LOCATION: Johannesberg, South Africa,2015 SCALE Urban Design STAGE To be Executed
Alcove Apartment Studio Apartment
GROUP WORK
FRONT FACADE View of the studio apartment looking towards the yard
Passage
INVOLVEMENT Physical and Digital Presentation Development. LOT-EK-New York was commissioned by Propertuity developers to design a live-work building with ground floor retail in the Maboneng Precinct in Johannesburg. The massing is organized in a V shape over an existing single-floor garage building transformed into retail and parking. All studios include a private open space that looks into the yard at all floors. 19
View of the studio looking towards the external facade.
Material : Reused Lasercut Corrugated Packaging Sheets, spraypainted VAGISHA SINGH_PORTFOLIO
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