Portfolio 2016-2020

PORTFOLIO 2016-2020

This is a collection of my academic and professional work over the years 2016 to 2020.

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Vaibhav Koul I am a 2020 architecture graduate from NMIMS’ Balwant Sheth School of Architecture, Mumbai. Currently working at FIKA Design and Digital Studio, as a Graphic Designer. I am highly interested in visual arts , photography, graphics and films. I want to integrate my interests and indulge in planning and designing spaces.

education

work experience

NMIMS Balwant Sheth School of Architecture Vile Parle(W), Mumbai

2015-2020

Social Media Intern Project XXI

Feb 2019-May 2019

Ahlcon International School Mayur Vihar Ph.1, New Delhi

2001-2015

Architectural intern Vivek Verma Architects

Jan 2020-Jun 2020

Research Assistant Charles Correa Foundation

Aug 2020-Jan2021

SKills 3D Modeling

2D Drafting Post Production

Other skills

languages English Hindi Kashmiri

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Rhinoceros 3D Grasshopper SketchUp 3DS Max Revit AutoCAD Rhinoceros Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Premiere Pro After Effects Sketching Laser Cutting 3D Printing Photography Video editing

Feb 2021 Graphic Designer FIKA Design and Digital Studio

Competitions Kala Ghoda Arts Festival

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BSSA Esquisse: Rethinking Urban Spaces

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BSSA Esquisse: Rethinking Market Spaces

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Volzero: Tiny House

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Self Organising pattern in Nature

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selected works professional Charles correa foundation

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Vivek verma architect

academic Urban poor and education

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eastern waterfront sports complex

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Labyrinth

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GRAPHICS

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competitions ulta sawaal

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MISCELLANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHY

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design lab

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PROF ESSI ONAL

Charles Correa Foundation Aug 2020 - Jan 2021 Z-Axis 2020: You and Your Neighbourhood Virtual Conference and Design Challenge Nagari Short Film Competition Nurturing Neighbourhood Challenge

Vivek Verma architects Jan 2020 - Jun 2020 Vivero Playschool Viva de Goa LOMA Residential The Walk Chacha Chow Kiosk

ccf bioscope on cities

The Nagari Film Competition is an annual competition designed to guide and develop films that focus on urban issues, specific to Indian cities. Nagari intends to be a bioscope for the city, and through this lens, we explore diverse urban conditions and engage with issues. Nagari is unique as it has been conceptualised as a guided exercise, with a panel of Mentors on board to help participants on their journey to creating a film.

how does one tell the story of housing adequcy of urban india?

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in their report on The Right to Adequate Housing have identified 7 elements that encompass the right to adequate housing.

Legal security of tenure Affordability Habitability

Accessibility

Location Cultural adequacy Availability of services, materials, facilities and infrastructure

what is the right to adequate housing?

bioscope on urban housing

CCF Blog

CCF Blog

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Charles Correa Foundation

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films

films films

films films

films films

films

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You and Your Neighbourhood Virtual Conference + Design Competition The Z-axis Conference, is a biennial event which seeks to create meaningful discourse around architecture and the city.

Z-axis 2020 looks at the nature of today’s urbanism at four distinct scales and thresholds that define public spaces in our cities: city, commons, neighbourhoods and the doorstep — and how they relate to each other.

A still from the film ‘You and Your Neighbourhood’ film, by Chalres Correa

Z-axis 2020 you and your neighbourhood podcast series

Heirarchy of spaces, by Charles Correa

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nurturing neighbourhood challenge The Nurturing Neighbourhoods Challenge is a 3-year initiative hosted by the Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, in collaboration with the Bernard van Leer Foundation and WRI India. The Challenge enables Indian cities to adopt an early childhood lens in designing neighbourhood-level improvements that promote the health and well-being of young children and their caregivers.

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The Infant, Toddler, Caregiver-Friendly Neighbourhood (ITCN) Framework is a set of comprehensive guidelines by the Smart Cities Mission, developed in collaboration with the Bernard van Leer Foundation.

The guidelines provide cities with a roadmap for neighbourhoods where young children and their caregivers feel safe, explore, play and engage with their built and natural environment.

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• Safe to walk while daydreaming/ mentally distracted • Structured, demarcated, space is assigned.

• Eyes on the street, trust of neighbours • Slow • Respectful of privacy

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lok chetna primary school OLD QUARTER JUNCTION | LOK CHETNA PLGROUND Healthway hospital lane BYLANE OF RUA ARMADA PORTUGUESA | OPEN GROUND public parking at the ramchandra naik road anganwadi no 4 peacock stairs

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Charles Correa Foundation

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Vivero Playschool Designing spaces for a playschool chain in Gurugram, Haryana

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Flooring Plan

Dimension Plan

Reflected Ceiling Plan

Elevation 1-1’

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Elevation 3-3’

Elevation 4-4’

Elevation 6-6’

Toilet Plan

Section AA’

Toilet Flooring Plan

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Section DD’ Vivek Verma Architects

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viva de goa Proposal to rejuvinate an existing property in Arpora, Goa

Site Plan

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Villa A Ground Floor Plan

Villa B&C Ground Floor Plan

Villa D-I Ground Floor Plan

Villa J Ground Floor Plan

Villa A

Villa B and C

Villa J

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Vivek Verma Architects

Loma REsidential Toilet plans for the residential building in Ghansoli, Navi Mumbai

Key Plan

Gents Toilet Plan

Toilet Flooring Plan

Toilet RCP

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Section FF’

Key Plan

Ladies Toilet Plan

Toilet Flooring Plan

Toilet RCP

Section AA’

Section BB’

Vivek Verma Architects

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The walk Design proposals for revitalisation of The Walk, Thane Design problems faced by the Walk, Thane: 1. Lack of arrival experience 2. Lack of promenade experience 3. Connection between two shopping blocks missing 4. Less shade over the promenade 5. Absense of interactive and engaging spaces 6. Large negative spaces

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Option 1

Option 2 Vivek Verma Architects

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chacha chow kiosk Kiosk design for a food chain in a theatre

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Plan

Elevation

Section 1-1’

Section 2-2’

GRid design Designing a grid in the lobby of a commercial building in Ghansoli, Navi Mumbai

Key Plan

Section throught the grid

Details Vivek Verma Architects

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ACA DEM IC

urban poor and education Design Dissertation, Fifth year

eastern waterfront sports complex Design Studio, Fourth year

design CENTRE Design Studio, Fourth year

urban poor and education Design dissertation, Fifth year The general perception of the Municipal school being good for poor reinforced with the spaces created for opportunity and learning.

Mentor: Kaiwan Mehta

The Times of India The Tribune

Mint

The Tribune

Diagrams developed by using data from Census 2011

why is the drop out ratio of primary education in india so high?

Enrollment in the 1st standard is VERY HIGH. But children dont make it to the end of the 4th or 5th standard.

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Home?

They dont attend school

They work School?

arguments of the people

arguments of the institution

1. Household poverty: Involvment of the child/ren in generating income to run the household increases as the child becomes older.

1. High teacher-student ratio: More students per teacher leads to mismanagement in classroom.

2. Fear of loss of home: Alot of urban poor students come from unauthorised settlements.Hence, the fear of losing home.

3. Distance: The school which they can afford, lies at a far distance.

4. No parental supervision: Both workings leaves an absense of parental supervision.

5. Withdrawal of female students: no preference for girl child getting educated.

6. Oversaturation of students: The lack of infrastructure to hold students as the number grows.

2. Periodic teacher shortage: Allocating teacher to schools is a time intensive process and is governed by the Board.

3. Lack of incentive: Low paygrade and lack of perks and incentive leads to lack of interest from the teachers.

4. Mismanagement between school and the board: lack in infrastruction, provision of services is a result of this.

5. Distance: Teachers also have to travel to long distances to teach.

Looking for variations in the formal education system, which make the students and the institutions come together to improve the pedagogy of the system.

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mahul, chembur Mahul is a fishing village in Chembur, Mumbai, located on the eastern seafront of the Mumbai Suburban district. The village is known since 2017, Mahul has been in news for its high levels of pollution and the dismal conditions of its 72 building slum resettlement colony because of which it has come to be referred to as Mumbai’s “toxic hellhole”, “gas chamber” and “human dumping ground”, where the poor “are sent to die”.

Community space 1: Temporary school Multipurpose rooms: Classroom, Staff room, Common rooms Circulation: Stairs and Elevator Facade of the structure facing services of the adjacent building

Community space1 Temporary school

Corridor

Washroom

Typical floor of the Community space1

Major Roads in this Region serve the purpose of self created market space created by the vendors and hawkers staying in the colony itself.

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Upcoming School

Community space 2: Majorly used to read namaz.

Upcoming Market + Hospital

Mahul Gaon

Mahul MHADA, Chembur, Mumbai

Urban poor and education

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Ground floor plan

Plan at 3 M

Section AA’

Section BB’

Section CC’

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form development Trying to make the structure more interactive by providing a different identity. Affecting the areas around and creating more open space to breathe and a reucing the redundancy of the negative spaces by opening them up to more public movement

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The school acts as a centre for the multiple events and makes into the fabric

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Creating an open play space, offsetting the school from the settlement.

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Opening space between the back buildings and the school.

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Changing the Orientation of the school, breaking monotony of the fabric

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Opening space between the back buildings and the school.

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Extending the buffer to the buildings ahead to create a entrance for the people.

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Opening space between the back buildings and the school.

Exploded Isometric render

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eastern waterfront sports complex Design studio, Fourth year The city of Mumbai has its Eastern Waterfront being opened up from the hands of Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT), and given for recreation purpose to the general public. Given Design Studio focused on sports as a tool to revitalise the area and make a more inviting space. Using other sports facility to not only help the stadium available but also how to engage variety of users.

Mentors: Milind Merchant and Namrata Shah

Case studies

The stadium tends to overlap with the site. making it more interactive with the surroundings.

The incorporation can happen by either controlling the road network or by using landscape as a feature.

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The stadium tries to cover all aspects, with services like hopspitality, cultural, social and commercial.

Main access to the site Placement of the stadium Current Situation: Dilapidated Structures Stadium Capacity: 20,000 people Area: 21,250 sq.m Site: for sports complex Current Situation : A barren land

Tata oil mills, Sewri, Mumbai

Promenade: connects the site with Marine Science College Current Situation: owned

by MbPT Dock Dilapidated Structure Residential (Police housing) Industrial Workshops Open ground

Land use map

Form development

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Ports under MbPt, Mumbai

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design centre Design studio, Fourth year The study of the idea of emergence and how in nature phenomenons evolve, mutate or change to what their presesnt way of existence is. The design studio concentrated on taking a pattern of emergence which we see in the urban fabric and taking those forward has a design methodology.

Mentor: Atrey Chhaya DARUKHANA, SEWRI ORIGIN

MAZE

Source : The city Source: Old broken down ships

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Dendretic drainage of water

Trellis drainage of water

WORKSHOPS / WAREHOUSE The flowchart here explains the journey of the material flow and the change of the flow overtime, and ‘emergent’ pattern

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Taking a look back at nature and seeing the formation of certain phenomenon over time, The waterbodies which run through our planet have evolved to go through a certain drainage system. Looking at the study from the Daarukhana pier, Sewri. The flow of the metal, people, scrap and machinery(like water) makes multiple stops within several stops, like workshops, shops, settlements and warehouses. This process has emerged from the source, which at once came from external elements and then go to city, now come from the city and then go back to it.

The material flow in the basic sense in the area of Daarukhana pier. Flow of steel is the reason for the existene of the whole area, the illustration shows the ambiguos flow of the material between various warehouses, workshops and retail shop at the first glance one can observe The material flow (red) cuts through the sytem (the box).

WAREHOUSE / WORKSHOP The usage of the warehouse and the workshops has been described in the following illustrations and as to they have

Worker’s space Admin Area Permanent Storage

Worker’s space Machinery Temporary Storage

Warehouse usage pattern

Workshop usage pattern upper floor typologies

upper floor typologies

warehouse

workshop

spillout area

spillout area

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Kala ghoda, Fort The plot is right next to the then Rhythym House. With the change in the structures identity from Rhythym House to now a Fashion studio. With the dynamics of the space being changed, how can the space act as a buffer for everyone to come and get a chance to work.

David Sassoon Library SITE

Rhythym House

Jehangir Art Gallery

Design Centre

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Current scenario

Proposal

Final form

Structure responding to the flow

Existing site

Existing site

Conceptual diagram

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Ground floor plan

Site: Conceptual sections The flow of one multiple cores flowing the public into spaces and transforming the spaces.

Plan at 3M

Plan at 6M

Roof plan

Isometric render

Design Centre

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COM PETI TION

Ulta sawaal Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2019

Labyrinth BSSA Esquisse: Rethinking Urban Spaces. 2019

octopus chromatophores Self Organising Pattern in Nature

ulta sawaal Kala Ghoda Arts Festival Looking back at the journey of the Kala Ghoda arts festival and giving our view on it. looking at buildings around the area and shaping our installation in such a manner that the part of the selected buildings looks like a inverted question mark.

Team Members Vaibhav Koul, Gayatri Agrawal, Sakshi Moondra, Vaishakhi Rupapara, Jill Deliwala and Yash Harlalka

Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2019

Jehangir Art Gallery

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya

Theme: 20 years of Kala Ghoda Arts Festival Using inspiration from the surrounding architectural heritage of the Kala ghoda statue. We created a plane which wraps the user around and shows the door way to the real essence of Kala Ghoda Arts Festival is the the artist who showcase their art, the people who make this street a gala for a week and the city which gives the freedom of expressions and diversity. Interactive inserts in the installation involves people to feel one with the buildings which they see around.

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National University of Mumbai Gallery of Modern Arts

Linear

Growth

David Sassoon Library

Watson Hotel

Channelising

Ulta Sawaal

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Labyrinth BSSA Esquisse: Rethinking Urban Spaces Creation of integrated spaces that would encourage interaction, bring change in the work culture and reflect a change in people’s lifestyle.

Team Members Vaibhav Koul, Sakshi Moondra, Vaishakhi Rupapara and Pari Sanghvi

Vile Parle (East)

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Break and Shift

Division

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GK Gokhle bridge

Access

Open spaces

Commercial Residential

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Co-working space

Flea Market

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Cafe

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Towards Andheri station

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Jungle gym

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Open library

Labirynth

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octopus chromatophores Self Organising Pattern in Nature The Design Studio focuses on self organising pattern which occur in nature. Shya Team Members Vaibhav Koul, Viraj Chauhan and Geet Sampat Octopus is the master of camouflage, it uses specialised skin cells called chromatophores to change the colour of its skin and match its background, it can make vibrant patterns with it and blend in seamlessly with its surroundings.

It uses this unique ability for multiple purposes but mostly for defensive camouflage, camouflage while hunting and communicating with and signalling potential mates. The octopus seeks its prey by changing its colour as to render it like the colour of the stones adjacent to it. By controlling the size of the cells they can vary their color and even create changing patterns.

Octopus chromatophers reacting to the stimulus under microscope.

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The chromatophores can be controlled in a cluster or as individuals to make diffrent patterns and merge colours to make intermediate colours. These differnces are created by the percentage of the expansion of pigment sacs and overlapping of chromatophores. The chromatophores have evolved in ways to maintain the colour changes even when there is shifting in the skin of the octopus during locomotion or texture camouage.

Octopus Chromatophores

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Photography

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Photography

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GRAPHICS

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Octopus Chromatophores

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vaibhav koul

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