TABLE OF CONTENTS ACADEMIC
(MASTERS)
PROFESSIONAL
CIVIC ASSEMBLIES_ARTIST TRAILS
A PROPOSAL FOR THE CITY HALL OF JERSEY CITY
SKY VILLAS
VERTICAL STACK COURTYARD HOUSES
MAHARASHTRA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY CAMPUS DESIGN NATURE + ARCHITECTURE + EDUCATION
DISSERTATION
MEMORY.SPACE.ARCHITECTURE
NAVIGATING THROUGH AN INNER CITY PRECINCT (INDIVIDUAL)
ACADEMIC (UNDERGRAD)
SENSORY ARCHITECTURE
DESIGNING FOR THE DIFFERENTLY ABLED (INDIVIDUAL)
MISCELLANEOUS
PHYSICAL MODELS, CONCEPTUAL DRAWINGS, PHOTOGRAPHY (INDIVIDUAL)
Civic Assemblies_Artist Assemblies Trails Trails FIRST YEAR GRADUATE PROGRAM : INSTITUTIONS STUDIO : A DESIGN PROPOSAL FOR THE CITY HALL OF JERSEY CITY Looking at the city hall to be a symbol of the city it represents, the approach to the project began with an attempt to understand certain aspects that might form key factors in shaping the image of Jersey city. Research into the same revealed two features of the city that were striking to me. The image of the city as the most ethnically diverse city in the United states. The city termed as ‘America’s Golden door’ was once a place driven hugely by its immigration population coming in for reasons of employment,working in shipping and manufacturing industries. Today this same community has transformed into a modern urban community and has an identity of functioning as a melting pot of cultures. In order to function as a diverse community it is important that there needs to be an acceptance and understanding of cultures that surround us and therefore the other striking feature about Jersey City is the emphasis and encouragement of sharing and exchange of difference arts, cultures and traditions amongst communities within the city. Jersey city can also be defined by the number of art interventions and artists’ hub that engulf the city. There is a strong concentration within the city council currently on the focus of maintaining and developing Jersey city as a art destination within New Jersey. Several interventions are carried out by the city council in partnership with various organizations focussing on the development of arts and crafts of varying cultures and traditions, coming from different schools of thoughts and different forms of arts to reinstate the identity of the diversity in the city through art. The proposed city hall will be an attempt to create a space that captures this essence of Jersey city and through its programmes and design becomes a space of accessibility and transparency for the people of Jersey city.
Existing Sites Of Major Art Interventions + Art Institutions identified across Jersey City
Administration/Offices
Pathside Building Journal Square
City Council Chambers / Flexible Performance Space
City Clerk City Administrator City Attorney Mayor & Staff
Non profit organization connecting families from diverse communities within Jersey city
Hamilton Park
Customer Service Reception Infrastructure Records Planning Parks and Recreation Traffic Permits & Licenses
Public Services
Manaa Contemporary
Formulating Programmatic Distribution_ Schematic sectional massing
Conference Rooms + Public Meeting Rooms Lobby Lobby
Open cafe + Art Plaza
Administration/Offices
Proposed Site
Fosters collaboration and outreach connects artists with venues, services and agencies. Provide updates and networking opportunities.
Rotunda Art Gallery
FUNDING Adequate and sustainable funding for artists and arts institutions from a variety of sources for general support.
PROMOTION
POLICY
Push for dedicated public revenue for the arts, for affordable artist housing, for venues in new developments,for increases in arts education, and more.
Jersey City Mural Arts Program links established and emerging mural artists with property owners city-wide as part of an innovative beautification program transforming Jersey City into an outdoor art gallery.
CULTURAL MURAL MAP
CULTURAL ASSET MAP
Using multiple platforms through new and traditional media to publicize the arts to the people of Jersey City and the wider community beyond the city.
The Jersey City Arts Council, a recently formed umbrella organization is an inclusive and diverse, community-focused organization, established to protect, strengthen, and promote the Arts in Jersey City.
Customer Service Reception Infrastructure Records Planning Parks and Recreation Traffic Permits & Licenses
Artisans Housing / Hostel Space
Conference Rooms + Public Meeting Rooms Lobby Open cafe + Art Plaza
Live Art Gallery Trail
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Founded in 2015 it has been established to accommodate the increased consumer demand for locally sourced goods and a high volume venue for artists to sell them. It is an initiative to encourage micro-entrepreneurs in the areas of art, crafts and design.
Existing greens on site
maximum visual connectivity
It is a unique opportunity to shop directly from emerging new makers and established artists to find one-of-a-kind items and meet the people who made them.
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It aims to support handmade goods as an alternative to mass-produced items and work to cultivate small business and entrepreneurship by providing a thriving
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An annual pop-up market produced by The Jersey City Project and the City of Jersey City, that takes place in the existing City Hall Plaza.
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It is an event that connects artists and artisans with the Jersey City & metro NYC community.
The Jersey City Art and Studio Tour (JCAST) was developed from an event rooted in artists’ studios, retailers and other downtown spaces, into the City’s premier cultural event attracting tourist from New York, New Jersey and beyond to visit and experience a variety of art and performance spaces.
Artisans Co-working
Lobby
existing greens on site
Committed to supporting and advocating for arts organizations and individual artists, across all artistic disciplines, as well as encouraging new and innovative additions to the artistic landscape and the cultural growth of our city.
This market that functions as an ‘open air bazaar includes local merchants offering food, home goods, arts and crafts, clothes, jewellery, food trucks, open air bars, etc.
Map showing density of art exhibits occurring within Jersey city during JCAST
Artisans Co-working
Artisans Co-working Spaces
The Office of Cultural Affairs of Jersey City and New Jersey City University (NJCU) are organizations partnered together to create the Cultural Asset Map of Jersey City. The Cultural Asset Map of Jersey City will provide : A website with an interactive map that will identify existing cultural organizations and their locations, performance/exhibition facilities, and arts service organizations that will include information about populations, demographics, and neighbourhoods, and function as a much-needed informational hub about ongoing arts and cultural activities.
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City Council Chambers / Flexible Performance Space
City Clerk City Administrator City Attorney Mayor & Staff
Public Services
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First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
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Views capturing the interior space created within the city hall as a result of multiple courtyards and light wells created throughout the space in a way to provide exterior lighting to every oďŹƒce space as well as circulation corridors . Intent of the light wells is to create a certain play of interior and exterior spaces thus constantly exposing users and oďŹƒce workers to constant glimpses of the exterior while being in an interior environment.
Interior glass partitions enclosing exterior courtyards are designed in a way to serve a dual purpose Acting as transparency membranes allowing users to view art exhibits places within the recurring courtyards The walls of these internal partitions to be commissioned to artists in order to convery them into installations using methods such as using coloured glass strips inorder to create an interesting play of light and shadows.
SKY VILLAS IN MUMBAI A SEA-FACING PRIVATE RESIDENCE LOCATED AT KHAR IN MUMBAI. WORKING ON THE ONGOING PROJECT AS AN ARCHITECT AT MALIK ARCHITECTURE : WORKED ON MULTIPLE ASPECTS INCLUDING CONCEPTUALIZATION, DESIGN DEVELOPMENT, WORKING DRAWINGS, DETAILING, SITE WORK.
The ongoing sky villa has been designed to serve as a residence to a family of three brothers and their respec�ve families in the form of individual homes stacked one on top of the other. The sky villa func�ons as a 12-storey building housing two ‘Triplexes’, one ‘Duplex’ and certain common floors. The facili�es included as part of the house include an indoor gym, home theatre, party space,a ‘ pooja’ room and an addi�onal mul�-purpose space that doubles up into a space for occasional religious and spiritual ac�vi�es of the family. The design of the sky villa a�empts to break away from the common prac�ce of being a slab over slab construc�on seen so frequently in the city. The residents being a ‘Marwadi’ family , each triplex and duplex is designed in a way to be a contemporary take on a tradi�onal courtyard house typical to the lifestyle of the ethnic group. The eleva�ons showcase a constant change in the propor�ons of the fenestra�ons, having larger openings at the levels housing the public func�ons of the house (the living areas,dining areas,courtyards and kitchens) and the openings becoming smaller as the space moves towards the more private func�ons (the master bedrooms and private dens). Thus the external facade acts as a reflec�on of the indoor space within it. The design philosophy of the office incorporates the use of local and tradi�onal materials in their raw appearance reflected in all their projects including this sky villa which is an exposed form finish concrete structure. The addi�onal materials used in the exteriors as well as the interiors of the building are natural stone such as kota stone, granite and Indian marble, metals such as corten steel, aluminum and zinc as well as natural teak wood.
CONCEPTUAL MASSING DIAGRAMS
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ROAD FACING FACADE
EXISTING STRUCTURE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE STRUCTURE (AS SEEN WHILE APPROACHING FROM THE ROAD)
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As per the site context the building is designed in a way that the habitable spaces, starting with two floors of common levels begin at a height of 7.5meters, thus taking advantage of the brilliant sea-view offered by the site.
LIVING ROOM
COURTYARD
DINING ROOM
LIFT LOBBY
KITCHEN
GROUND FLOOR PLAN MASTER BEDROOM
The images indicate architectural elements from traditional courtyard houses that have been reinterpreted and used as modern elements within the design ‘JHAROKHAS’
INTERNAL CORTEN DECK
‘PERGOLAS’
‘A’ TYPICAL SECTION THROUGH TRIPLE HEIGHT AND DOUBLE HEIGHT SPACE WITHIN THE SKY VILLA
DAUGHTER’S BEDROOM
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN MASTER BEDROOM
LIFT LOBBY
CENTRAL COURTYARDS
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
KID’S BEDROOM
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HORIZONTAL POROSITY
GUEST BEDROOM
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FUNNEL WINDOW
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LIFT LOBBY
INTERNAL PERGOLS
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TYPICAL ARCHITECTURAL FLOOR PLANS FOR EACH TRIPLEX AND DUPLEX
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TYPICAL WALL SECTION WITH SEATING LEDGE
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‘JAALI’
INTERNAL SCREEN
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VIEW SHOWING SLIDING FOLDING SCREEN PANELS THROUGHOUT STRUCTURE
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DESIGN ITERATIONS OF PARAMETRIC EXTERNAL SLIDING-FOLDING SCREEN PATTERNS : The concept for the design of the external screen was to create
a pa�ern that resulted in it ac�ng as mesh, thus crea�ng maximum visibility with 60% being open and 40% being opaque
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CIRCUIT DIAGRAM OF SCRIPTING DONE FOR BASIC PERFORATION PATTERN : Consis�ng of gradually changing circular perfora�ons in response to
SLIDING FOLDING SCREEN DETAILS
DETAIL SHOWING FIXING OF SCREEN ONTO SLAB EDGE
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DETAIL SHOWING FIXING BETWEEN FIXED PANEL AND SLIDING FOLDING PANEL ‘A’
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One of the major elements of the structure was the design of the facade with included mul�ple elements, namely - stone cladding, aluminum flashing (weather protec�on), external glazing and metal perforated sliding folding screens. The external metal perforated screen had a dual purpose 1) Wrapping around the building in a way to avoid the exposure of the slabs thus emphasizing the dis�nct massing of the structure 2)Ac�ng as a contemporary element similar to the ‘jaali’ typical to Indian architecture. Crea�ng an added layer of light and schiography within the structure.
MEMORIES.SPACE.ARCHITECTURE FINAL YEAR DESIGN DISSERTATION : A PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH A NEW MIXED-USED BUILDING TYPOLOGY IN AN INNER CITY MARKET PRECINCT Having been a resident of the megalopolis of Mumbai throughout my life, there has always been an inherent sense of curiosity in me towards exploring the various fragments,quirky spaces,nooks and crannies that coalesce to form a unique image of this city. The five years of architectural undergraduate school included repeated site visits to various intriguing parts of the city cementing the identity of Mumbai in my mind as that of a ‘collage city’. Therefore when given the opportunity to carry out my design dissertation in the final year of architecture it was a natural progression to take forward the love for my city and begin an intuitive exploratory journey through one of its older neighborhoods The Bhuleshwar-Kalbadevi-Zaveri Bazaar precinct - an area that formed the heart of the city’s residential, commercial, social and religious activities integrated together organically over time to form a mixed-used community. This area set up by migrating communities in the early 19th century, belonging to multiple ethnic groups became an amalgamation of spaces influenced by the unique lifestyles and traditions particular to the culture of the occupant. Along with developing an identity as an area having mixed-use living-working-community spaces tied together in the form of structures known as ‘Wadas’, the precinct contributed to forming the initial image of commodity specific markets in Mumbai. It also housed an extremely large number of religious structures along with their adjoining complexes made up of spaces used for different temple activities, thus adding another layer to the multiple identities of this precinct. Even today the Bhuleshwar-Kalbadevi-Zaveri Bazaar precinct along with the adjacent areas contain multiple pockets that on encounter have the quality of giving the explorer a feeling of being transported into a completely different world. They resonate with spaces that might have existed in a different time period, or are a part of a different part of India sliced out as a chunk and relocated in Mumbai. They are a window into the living-working relations in the city as well as the community life that once existed as an extension to various temple complexes. My thesis thus began with an attempt to identify these kind of spaces within the Bhuleshwar-Kalbadevi-Zaveri Bazaar precinct that are sites of living memories. To map out certain structures, facades,by lanes, etc. that might have decayed over time, but even today have a strong sense of resonance to what they were and how they contributed towards creating an identity of Mumbai as a whole.
The adjacent image in a memory map of the dierent sites I encountered during my journey through the neighborhood and points out the physical features, architectural elements, activities, intangible aspects etc. that are unique to each site and are an insight into the changes that each site has encountered over the years. They indicate the changes in utility of spaces, adaptive reuse of spaces,loss of activities,loss of objects,added layers that the space has undergone over the years in spite of which these spaces seem to be frozen in time. The memory map is organized in a way to reect the chaotic, labyrinth like nature of the by lanes of Bhuleshwar - Kalbadevi-Zaveri Baug, along with the contrasting vastness of spaces present beyond the intricately decorative facades that form a hidden identity of an area.
All the sites were documented in the form of a video as a mapping technique consisting of multiple mixed-media collages that I created. Every consecutive slide having an added layer of information. The images and sketches as seen ahead are certain selected images that were part of the video to explain the observations unique to each site,the interpretation of the memory of the same site as it might have existed in the past through these observations and the resulting conclusions
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The illustrations 4,5,6 & 7 represent the change in the weighing scale starting from the present day scenario and ending with the memory of the ‘kanta’. The ‘swastika’ - religious symbol, drawn by the shopkeepers on modernized electronic weighing scale even today is indicative of the prevailing traditions inspire of the loss of a certain object i.e. the ‘kanta’ proving the importance of the instrument irrespective of its physical form. Illustration 8 is an interpretation of the market in the older days while the ‘kantas’ and the ‘kallaiwallahs’ wee still prevalent.
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SITE 2 : HIRA BAUG The beauty of Bhuleshwar-Kalbadevi-Zaveri Bazaar is that amongst the dingy, chaotic, crowded by lanes at various junctures one is left awestruck by the intricately carved decorative facades of various structures constructed in classical styles of architecture. These facades are mainly of the ‘Baugs’ and ‘Wadas’ in the area that once functioned as residential quarters and ‘dharamshalas’(hostels).Their heavily emphasized archways lure the explorer to step into a space where one has a feeling of being transported into a completely different world. Hira baug is one such ‘dharamshala’ comprising of residential quarters, community halls as well as certain commercial spaces. The facade as well as interior spaces of which have been maintained and are being reused by the community to which it belongs. The areas around Hira Baug and other similar spaces is infact changing with the development of high rise towers around it. A space which once formed the primary identity of a gated community within the city, now withstands the danger of appearing to be an alien element amongst its contrasting foreground
SITE 2 : HIRA BAUG
Site 3,4 & 5 are similar to Hira Baug. Even today they are building typologies consisting of residential quarters,community buildings,religious structures,’gaushalas’,as well as commercial spaces thus forming a self-sustained individual mixed-use unit. However there is a certain fading away of the activities that were once carried out in these structures.
SITE 3 : HALAI BHATIA MAHAJANWADI
SITE 4 : BHANGWADI
Site 4 -Bhangwadi was infact known to house a specific artisans community. It consisted of a theatre and its courtyard was used as a performance space by the theatre artists. However today there is a complete loss of this activity with the demolition of the theatre and central courtyard mainly being used as a parking space.
SITE 5 : ZAVER BAUG
OBSERVATIONS AND INFERENCES
Through the exploration of these multiple sites my inferences were of two types that inspired my selection for program as well as certain design elements that were the key factors to all my observations and were to the be incorporated within the design proposal that I would come up. The lifestyle in the Bhuleshwar-Kalbadevi-Zaveri Bazaar precinct was inherently that of a mixed-use community with its varying typology of spaces from - residential,community,religious to commercial spaces. 1 : PRESENCE OF A DISORGANIZED MIXED USE However, today due to these spaces being hidden behind various COMMUNITY archways on site that at times get camouflaged with the rest of the chaotic facades, the prominent identity of the area has become that of a commercial hub full of commodity specific markets - dominated by EXISTING PROGRAMMERS ON SITE activities of buying,selling,loading and unloading. Every by lane in bhuleshwar is an amalgamation activities extended out of their physical space onto the roads thus blurring out the edge between indoor and outdoors. A similar relation observed within the ‘baugs’ and ‘wadas’ as well, where the courtyards and STREET STREET FIRST LEVEL external circulation corridors created a merging of public and private activities as well. A type of lifestyle thus typical to the inhabitants of the GROUND LEVEL area in their working living conditions Taking up one of the significant artisans’ community on site-the OVERLAPPING ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE COMMERCIAL STRIP BLURRING ‘karigars’ of Zaveri bazaar as the primary users for my design proposal COMMERCIAL STRIP EDGE BETWEEN BUILT FORM AND I attempted to reinstate and bring ahead a dual identity of the precinct WORKSHOP SPACES ( DOUBLING UP AS as a production hub of the commodities that were sold within its LIVING AND WORKING QUARTERS) markets BUYING LOADING PARKING RESIDENTIAL QUARTERS
AND AND (2-WHEELERS, SELLING UNLOADING HAND CARTS)
ORGANIZATION DIAGRAM SHOWING DISTRIBUTION OF PROGRAMS IN PROPOSED ARTISANS’ COMPLEX
RELIGIOUS STRUCTURES
2 : TYPICAL PHYSICAL FEATURES ON SITE BLOCK
RESIDENTIAL QUARTERS
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COMMUNITY SPACES MARKET BLOCK
HORIZONTAL POROSITY
WORKSHOP SPACES (PRODUCTION+STORAGE) EXISTING STRUCTURE ON SITE
CENTRAL COURTYARD WITH EXTERNAL
EXISTING STRUCTURE ON SITE WORKSHOP STORAGE SPACE
MARKET
WORKSHOP PRODUCTION SPACE ENTRY
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN EXISTING STRUCTURE ON SITE
CUSTOMIZED JEWELLERY MARKET COMMUNITY HALL
MARKET COURTYARD
SECTION AA’
SITE 1 : TAMBA KANTA SITE 1 : TAMBA KANTA
SENSORY ARCHITECTURE_YEAR 4 DESIGN STUDIO A design proposal relooking at the existing Jai Vakeel educational campus catering to special need students at Sewri,Mumbai. The brief of the design studio was to come up with a design sensitive to the needs and teaching techniques involved in the education of special needs students. The studio involved multiple visits to an existing special needs school in Mumbai to understand the uniqueness in the nature of a special needs children and the practices involved in imparting knowledge to them.The community is where students are expected to be able to function and become as independent as possible and therefore the idea is to design a special needs school that focuses largely on education through CBI i.e community based instruction. This is an educational process involving teaching through activities that occur naturally in community setting. Inorder to facilitate learning through this process setting up if a public interface within the campus in the form of a community center that would have the following purposes 1) act a trigger to bring in people from the surrounding areas and increase interaction between the students and their community thus training them of how to behave in real-life community settings. 2) create an awareness amongst the community about the existence of this typology of school in their vicinity 3) acting as a space for recreation and social gatherings within the community.
The other focus of the project was to create innovative spaces that would incorporate co-operative classes with mainstream schools from neighbouring areas for programs such as drama, music and art that would further enhance interactions between the special students and mainstream students and prevent the development of feelings of isolation and segregation from society in their minds. The concept of the master plan design would be to create an atmosphere of a ‘city’ within the campus. This would be done by1) Creating a play of interior and exterior circulation along with movement though multiple courtyards at different levels. 2) Creation of public and private zones within the site. 3) Creation of corridors as ‘streets’ on site with their own characteristic features according to the programs they would be connecting
VEHICULAR ROAD
PUBLIC CORRIDOR
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PAVED PROMENADE
SEMI PRIVATE SPACES (COURTYARDS)
UNBUILT
LANDSCAPED PATHWAY
PRIVATE CORRIDOR
LANDSCAPED COURTYARDS
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
MASTER PLANNING DIAGRAMS
VIEW ‘A’
(LOOKING AT CENTRAL PUBLIC PROMENADE) 14M LVL 10.5M LVL
9.5M LVL
7M LVL 3.5M LVL
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TREE BARRIER CREATED ON SITE TO CREATE A SAFE LANDSCAPED HAVEN WITHIN CAMPUS 2
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SOFT PLAY SPACE
MASTER PLAN 1 - ASSESSMENT CENTRE + B.ED TRAINING 2 - DISPLAY PROMENADE 3 - AUDITORIUM 4 - GYMNASIUM 5 - GIRLS’ DORMITORY 6 - BOYS’ DORMITORY 7 - ACADEMIC BLOCK 8 - LANDSCAPED PEDESTRIAN PATHWAY 9 - SENSORY WALL 10 - PET CARE 11 - PLAYING FEILD 6M LVL 12 - PARKING SPACE 13 - VEHICULAR ROAD 14 - PAVED PEDESTRIAN PROMENADE
SENSORY GARDEN
HYDROTHERAPY POOL
SPACES SPECIFIC TO ENHANCING THE TEACHING PROCESS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS INCORPORATED WITHIN DESIGN
VIEW ‘B’ 11.2M LVL 7.2M LVL 4M LVL GL -2M LVL
SECTION AT AA’
11.2M LVL 7.2M LVL 4M LVL GL
SECTION AT CC’
MISCELLANEOUS_PHYSICAL MODELS,HAND-DRAWN SKETCHES,IMAGERY DYNAMIC ORIGAMI MODELS TO REPRESENT SWARM BEHAVIOR
EXPERIMENTAL MODELS AND DIAGRAMS TO REPRESENT LIGHT, SHADOW +SCALE
EXPERIMENTAL MODELS BASED ON M.C ESCHER
PHYSICAL HANDMADE MODELS