Architecture & Design Portfolio

ARCHITECTURE

&

DESIGN

PORTFOLIO OF SELECTED WORKS 2009-2018 - VATSAL UPADHYAY 1

SECOND YEAR ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROJECT SECTION WOMENS ACTIVITY CENTER, MAJULI, ASSAM, INDIA.

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PREFACE Architecture is not just about creating a structure or a building, but is also about critically designing each space with respect to scale, light, materials. Experiences are to be designed keeping in mind the end user of the space and the emotions he/she goes through while being a part of the architecture. Different elements of space making create differences in architectural spaces, for instance, merely by changing a window to a door opens an interaction between the inside and the outside.

Context of architecture should be respected, in terms of history, ways of construction, like simple gestures of inclining the axis of entry to respect nearby historical structure’s. Architecture is constant, with time and people using it for different functions being a variable. Hence, spaces should not only be designed keeping in mind the present, but how those architectural spaces would serve years after even your existence. Architecture should consider nature as well as incorporate it within, Creation of open landscaped courtyards with flora or water lily ponds can create informal shaded meeting spaces. Architecture is a ever growing and never ending process.

“Every building must have........ it’s own soul.”

- Louis Kahn

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BRASS & ACRYLIC MATERIAL EXPLORATIONS FOR CONCEPTUAL MODEL, D.I.G. ARCHITECTS, MUMBAI.

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CURRICULUM VITAE

V AT SAL U P A D H Y A Y

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION :-

Male

Pratt Institute, School of Architecture, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.

(M.S. Arch)

Kamla Raheja Vidhyanidhi Institute of Architecture & Environmental Studies, Mumbai, India.

(B. Arch) (2009 - 2014)

(2017 - 2018)

17/04/1991

Licensed Architect in India.

CA/ 2017/ 8 405 6

110 Steuben Street, Apt 2G, Brooklyn, NY-11205, New York, U.S.A. +1-(917)-912-7405

WORK EXPERIENCE :Project Architect | Mobile Offices, Mumbai, India.

(2016 - 2017)

vatsal.upadhyay1791@gmail.com

Junior Architect | D.I.G. Architects, Mumbai, India.

(2015 - 2016)

Skype : vatsal.170491

Final Year Intern | D.I.G. Architects, Mumbai, India.

(2013 - 2014)

College Intern | Arjun Rathi Design, Mumbai, India.

(2012 - 2013)

LinkedIn : in.linkedin.com/pub/ vatsal-upadhyay/92/613/127/ English Hindi

COMPETITIONS :Multipurpose Building Competition VJTI College, Mobile Offices, Mumbai, India.

Film City Tower -Bollywood Re-Imagined Archasm, DIG Architects, Mumbai, India.

Corporate Lounge - Competition K.Raheja Corp, DIG Architects, Mumbai, India.

Gujarati Marathi

German

2nd Position (2016) 2nd Internationally (2016) Honorable Mentions (2014)

MAYA

AUTO CAD

3DS MAX

PHOTOSHOP

IN DESIGN

ILLUSTRATOR AFTER EFFECTS

PREMIERE

MS OFFICE

RHINOCEROS SKETCH-UP

V- RAY

LUMION

REVIT

EXCHANGE / STUDY TRIPS :IN:CH STUDIO | 6 months Exchange Program with Bern School of Applied Sciences, Switzerland.

(2014)

ABCD | 4th Year Academic Study trip to Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Delhi.

(2012)

Sri-Lanka | 3rd Year Academic Study trip to visit works of Geoffrey Bawa across Sri-Lanka.

(2011)

SAME - SAME | 2 weeks Exchange Program with Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

(2011)

Majuli Island, Assam | 2nd Year Academic Study trip to document Neo-Vaishnavite Monasteries.

(2010)

Sawantwadi, Maharashtra | 1st Year Academic Study trip to document village settlements.

(2010)

KEYSHOT

GRASSHOPPER

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS :Teachers Assistant, for M.S.Arch Course Coordinator, Pratt Institute, New York, U.S.A.

(2018)

IN:CH STUDIO 2014, Book publication of selected projects done during the Exchange program.

(2014)

Teachers Assistant, 1st Year Introductory Workshop, Kamla Raheja Vidhyanidhi Institute of Architecture, Mumbai, India.

Waterworks, Urban Design Manifesto on issues & suggested urban interventions pertaining to water .

(2013)

(2013)

CNC Milling

3D Printing

Laser Cutting

Vacuum Form

Model Making

Hand Drafting

Photography

Sketching

Urban Design

Space Planning

Interior Design

Landscaping

Product Design

Graphic Design

Installations

Rendering

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BRASS & ACRYLIC MATERIAL EXPLORATIONS FOR CONCEPTUAL MODEL, D.I.G. ARCHITECTS, MUMBAI.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS :-

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‘So when I say form follows fiction, I really mean let’s look for what is before function.

Because before functions there are stories, there is culture, there is fiction’

- BERNAND TSCHUMI 8

FILM CITY TOWER - INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION LOCATION : Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

POSITION : Design Architect.

WINNER : Second Position TIME : December 2015 - February 2016.

FIRM : D.I.G. Architects.

TEAM : Vatsal Upadhyay, Jinish Mistry.

CONTRIBUTION : Conceptual Designing, Detailed 3D Modeling, Graphical Illustrations & Drawings.

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CONCEPT OF 'BOLLYWOOD ODYSSEY' TOWER :The idea of exemplary form is subverted by bottom up design method which starts with a trefoil organization diagram. This module (48MX48M) works as an open loop allowing the private & public programs to co-exist. The module grows incrementally around a central core showing panoramic views of the maximum city. Large column free volumes (60MX60M) function as production studios and are placed between two modules, creating a ground like condition in the sky. This resultant organization, creates a public domain at all levels.

The organization transforms into ‘A– Formal’ architecture as it fuses with varied programmatic components like film institute, film archives, media centers, corporate production offices, IMAX Dome theatre, preview theaters etc.

The ferry terminal at ground level, easily accessible urban-scapes, the city premier screen, popular artefact’s like Ferris wheel & glass sky-walk subverts the idea of Bollywood from something exclusive to an art form rooted in ‘synthetic Indian culture’.

SITE PLAN OF THE FILM CITY ISLAND URBANSCAPE

The tower thus offers a pluralistic cultural experience & space by blending elements of reality & fantasy.

The base of the tower functions as a large public gathering space ,also imagined as a ferry terminal connecting to water transport hubs of the city and pixelated into multiple levels to create varied responses as per high and low tide.

The superstructure is oriented along NW-SE axis to optimize its solar exposure, minimize wind resistance & facilitate smooth air flow through the building.

ROAD ACCESS TO THE FILM CITY TOWER ISLAND URBANSCAPE

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EVOLUTION DIAGRAMS & VOLUMETRIC STUDY :270° Lift & Rotate180° 180° Trefoil Module

12M X 12M Central Core

90°

0°

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Central spine acts as circulation core & the main structural system.

2.

Trefoil module acts as loop between Public & Private.

3.

Private functions occupy the interior v.s. Public occupy outdoor spaces.

4.

The base module is rotated 360° to get a panoramic view .

Sky Theme Hotel

Scaffold Central Core Dining Club

Dining Club

Scenic Elevators

Grider Studio Blocks

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Production Studio blocks added between each Trefoil Module.

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Scaffolds & Girder added to support Trefoil Modules & Production Studio.

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Private circulation takes place in the core & Public through Scenic Elevators.

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Plugging in of varied components across the height of the building.

ROAD ACCESS TO THE TOWER ISLAND

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+325.0M

FERRIS WHEEL Popular artifact of the city is added at top of the tower for recreational activity. It increases the public interaction at the top level with shopping markets and cafeterias.

+295.0M

SKY THEME HOTEL Private Area : 6000 Sq. M. Public Area : 1200 Sq. M. The bollywood themed hotel at the top of the superstructure captures an undisturbed beautiful panoramic view of the maximum city. The hotel ‘s top floor is a casino.

TREFOIL MODULE 04 Private Area : 8000 Sq. M. Public Area : 2800 Sq. M. The fourth module has a mixed programs of public and private user groups. Major incubation offices and meeting areas for film fraternity with public shopping and gathering areas are located at this level.

WINE TASTING ROOM Private Area : 2000 Sq. M. Premier class wine and dine restaurant and a party pad with a capacity of 1000 pax for film stars and public equally. The deck captures the panoramic view of the city.

+255.0M CENTRAL CORE The core consists of 8 elevators which halt at production studios and urbanscape levels as well as secondary elevators for intermediate levels.

+245.0M

TREFOIL MODULE 03 +225.0M

IMAX DOME THEATER Private Area : 2800 Sq. M. The theater offers IMAX 3D experience for public viewing & private premier shows with a capacity of 500 pax.

Private Area : 8000 Sq. M. Public Area : 2800 Sq. M. The third module consists of major post production functions such as audio recording, VFX studios etc for film editing.

LIBRARY & MEDIA CENTER Archive consists of collection famous of Bollywood icons & personalities through their lives. Creating a platform for understanding Bollywood as an industry.

+200.0M STEPPED URBANSCAPE The multiple levels of urbanscape at this level creates an informal seating & play area for the public & an open air bollywood art gallery, cafeteria spaces etc.

+170.0M

TRANSFER GIRDER The intersection of girders at these levels transfers the load of the super structure evenly unto the next level.

+150.0M

DIGITAL FRESCO CEILING

PRODUCTION STUDIO Private Area : 4000 Sq. M. These studios consist of long time lease shooting sets such as for series etc. There are many of these sets on the large floor plate in subdivided area.

TREFOIL MODULE 02:

The underside of the production studio levels showcase the myths of Bollywood as a modern way of representing fresco art in a digital form of LEDs on the ceiling for the Urban-scapes.

Private Area : 8000 Sq. M. Public Area : 2800 Sq. M. The second module has more of the production houses and corporate offices of different film division & Censor Board.

INDUSTRIAL GANTRIES The props and sets are transported to production studios & urban-scape levels for outdoor shoots are pulled up by industrial heavy weight gantries.

GLASS SKYWALK Length of Skywalk : 35 M Located at 245M, the sky walk facilitates the space for ‘Bungee Jumping’.

CITY PREVIEW SCREEN +95.0M PRODUCTION STUDIO +75.0M

SCENIC ELEVATORS The public circulation is on the external facade which gives the users a scenic view of the maximum city.

Private Area : 4000 Sq. M. The indoor production studios are column free large span spaces serving as shoot areas for production houses.

TREFOIL MODULE 01 Private Area : 8000 Sq. M. Public Area : 2800 Sq. M. The first module has the public associated functions such as Film School, Workshops, Set Designing Schools etc.

GROUND LEVEL URBANSCAPE Undulating public urban-scape with Ferry terminal connecting water transport hubs.

+20.0M

12WORKING SECTION OF BOLLYWOOD ODYSSEY TOWER

Public Area : 1000 Sq. M. The large screen acts as a premier screen for live broadcast of events to the city with two small previews screens for 100 pax each.

FERRIS WHEEL

Hotel Rooms

GLASS SKY-WALK Breathtaking glass sky-walk showcasing the city in motion.

LIBRARY & MEDIA CENTER

Addition of cities artifact at the top level urban-scape.

WINE TASTING ROOM

Themed hotel with panoramic 360° view of the city.

Outdoor Seating

Restaurant with indoor outdoor social spaces.

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Panoramic Screen

Urban-Scape

270° Seating Media Center

Library & media center tucked underneath the urban-scape.

DOME THEATER

BOLLYWOOD THEME HOTEL

COMPONENTS OF 'BOLLYWOOD ODYSSEY' TOWER :-

IMAX dome theater for special public & private screenings.

Private Facilities

Continuous loop where private & public co-exist.

PRODUCTION STUDIO

LIBRARY & MEDIA CENTER

Urban-Scape Public Terraces

Production Studios

Large scale indoor studio for shooting films & T.V. Series.

Backstage

AUDITORIUM

Seating Area

Multipurpose space for media fraternity.

VISUALIZATION OF BOLLYWOOD ODYSSEY TOWER

CITY PREVIEW SCREEN

Premiere Theater

City Preview Screen

Live broadcasting of an event to the city along the road.

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SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE CAMPUS LOCATION : Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India.

POSITION : Project Architect WINNER : First Position (Under Construction).

TIME : March 2016 - May 2017.

FIRM : Mobile Offices (MO-OF).

TEAM : Vatsal Upadhyay, Chintan Shah.

CONTRIBUTION : Working Drawings, Design Development, site coordination & execution.

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MASTER PLAN STRATEGY FOR THE CAMPUS :The design philosophy is to create “The Collective Learning Culture”. The tradition of disseminating knowledge and innovation relies in the diverse community experience. The SPA-V campus addresses the interdependence of a community and the individual, vital for the growth of an educational institution, thereby creating opportunities of variation and learning. The interdependent programs offer a multitude of interactive spaces in the master planning approach that would be beneficial for a community experience.

These relationships have been structured into a three dimensional constellation informed by movement and varying levels of privacy of diverse programs. The central void in the ‘Concourse’ is reminiscent of the traditional courtyard that anchors common public and community programs. The Concourse is the redefined courtyard that holds the institute and the larger academic community together. The universal nature of the Concourse allows the space to operate both at a community scale as well as smaller group and individual scales. Smaller courtyards also work as three dimensional light wells which offer visual connectivity through the layers.

The Master plan attempts to make the campus an institutional center/ hub in the city of Vijayawada. The institutional building is a platform for debate, exchange and dissemination. The institutional building also acts as a deep gateway and an interface to the entire campus. The notional Interface/ Gateway allows for mediating, filtering and channelizing people from public activity level to the semipublic programs.

AERIAL VIEW OF THE SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE CAMPUS, VIJAYAWADA, INDIA

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INSTITUTE BUILDING :The Institution Building acts as a platform for debate, exchange and dissemination. The Building also acts as a gateway or an interface to the entire Campus.

The notional interface. Gateway allows for mediating, filtering and channelizing people from public activity levels to semi- public activities to private faculty and studio spaces. The building captures the different kinds of movements to form a strong expression of a dynamic learning environment. The building stack has been divided section into 3 major parts.

FORM EVOLUTION DIAGRAM :-

ENTRANCE LANDSCAPE RAMP LEADING TO THE CONCOURSE LEVEL

DIAGRAM 1 :

DIAGRAM 2 :

DIAGRAM 2 :

Extruding built mass volumetrically.

Built mass split & lifted to create public concourse

Puncturing courtyards to get natural daylight.

DIAGRAM 1 :

DIAGRAM 2 :

DIAGRAM 2 :

Additon of faculty departments in the void.

Addition of structure & vertical service cores.

Addition of an ramp leading to concourse level.

AERIAL VIEW OF INSTITUTE BUILDING, SCHOOL OF PLANNING & ARCHITECTURE.

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PUBLIC CONCOURSE LEVEL OF THE INSTITUTE BUILDING Each part is active at different times of the day with the morning learning hours spent in the Top section as it would be cool. The afternoon interactive learning is set into the ground as it would stay much cooler by virtue of the shadow cast by the top block and the solid stone masonry wall of the periphery. The leisure time is spent in the central void in the form of a ‘Concourse’ with ample cross ventilation which is appropriate for comfort in a hot – humid climate.

CROSS SECTION OF INSTITUTE BUILDING

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ACADEMIC ZONING DIAGRAM The lower functions are public related & studio spaces at the top, while the faculty department is sandwiched in between

TIME AND USE DIAGRAM The programs are distributed along the section of the building depending on the time of the day their used / occupied.

ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM The first floor acts as an open pavilion or public concourse level which incorporates double and triple height spaces created between the plinth (workshops) and the roof (studios) above it.

FORMAL CONFIGURATION DIAGRAM Auditorium is embedded within the ground. The ground & concourse form an urban-scape of double and triple height spaces sheltered by the floating faculty block & studios.

LONGITUDINAL SECTION THROUGH INSTITUTE BUILDING

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CAFETERIA ON CONCOURSE LEVEL

CORRIDOR JURY SPACE WITH SKYLIGHTS

DETAILED WALL SECTION OF INSTITUTE BUILDING

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STUDENTS HOSTEL HOUSING :-

AERIAL VIEW OF STUDENTS HOSTEL HOUSING The Student Housing allows for multiple smaller building types, dispersed in balanced clusters around varying scales of Living Courtyards. It is an active pedestrian ground which is stimulated as the street-scape gets transformed into verandas and chowks.

The student housing is envisioned as a low rise environment with the idea of creating Living Courtyard spaces at the ground level which merge with active streets, whereas, at higher level these merge seamlessly with each other with the help of corridors (active elevated streets). The housing merges residential programs (student rooms) with contiguous non-program which allows for spillover

LONGITUDINAL SECTION THROUGH BOYS HOSTEL HOUSING BLOCK

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SCHEMATIC SECTIONS OF VISUAL CONNECTS USED IN HOSTELS

STUDENTS HOUSING BLOCK PLAN

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spaces, thus creating a lively neighborhood that fosters informal interactions amongst the students from across the country.

The housing is fragmented thereby breaking away from the stereotypical dormitory or hostel organizations which foster a regimented form of social control. The attempt was to break away from this very notion with addition of streets, courtyards, verandas and terraces. These perceived spaces create a variety of unique environment around the housing.

The Student Housing reinterprets traditional principles of architecture, efficiently enabling passive cooling and protection against the harsh solar radiation using appropriately distanced narrow streets which provide shade and shadow to the ground below.

DOUBLE OCCUPANY ROOM

SINGLE OCCUPANY ROOM

DETAILED WALL SECTION OF STUDENT HOUSING BUILDING

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COMMON TOILET BLOCK

CORRIDORS & TERRACES OVERLOOKING COURTYARDS

SEAMLESS MERGING OF COURTYARD WITH STILT SPACES

CROSS SECTION OF GIRLS HOSTEL HOUSING BLOCK

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MULTIPURPOSE ANNEXE COMPETITION, VJTI ENGINEERING COLLEGE LOCATION : Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

POSITION : Design Architect.

WINNER : Second Position.

TIME : July 2016 - September 2016.

FIRM : Mobile Offices (MO-OF).

TEAM : Vatsal Upadhyay, Nidhi Kacholia, Jahanavi Kakar.

CONTRIBUTION : Conceptual Design, 3D model, Presentation Drawings.

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PRINCPAL VILLA

AUDITORIUM

MATHEMATICS DEPT. COMPUTER

STRUCTURAL DEPT.

COMPUTER ENGG.

VICTORIA JUBILEE TECHNICAL INSTITUTE

ELECTRICAL AND CIVIL DEPT.

CANTEEN AND CIVIL DEPT.

L RIA UST IND EARCH RES LAB

AUTOMOBILE DEPT.

WORKSHOP BUILDING

HYDRAULIC SURVEY DEPT.

MASTER PLAN STRATEGY :-

V.J.T.I. ENGINEERING COLLEGE MASTER PLAN The proposed site and program for the extension to the workshop wing would witness the shifting of the student centric activities towards the north of the campus. The building would assume the role of a student resource centre given the nature of student related activities that need to be provided. The building is located on a prime pedestrian route connecting the main building to the north with the College’s engineering facilities.

The new annexe to the workshop wing of the VJTI is viewed as an opportunity to redefine connections and integrate the existing facility with new facility, thereby achieve a seamless fusion of program. This has to be approached with the understanding and mapping of the adjacent existing facility in its available and deficient infrastructure and program.

AERIAL VIEW OF MULTIPURPOSE ANNEXE & INTERNAL COURTYARD

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EVOLUTION DIAGRAMS OF MULTIPURPOSE ANNEXE :-

VOLUMETRIC MASSING EXTRUDED TO GIVEN SITE BOUNDARIES.

SCOOPING COURTYARD MASS FOR NATURAL LIGHT & VENTILATION.

DIVISION OF ANNEXE THROUGH HIERARCHY OF PROGRAMS.

BOOLEAN OF MASSES TO CREATE URBAN-SCAPE ON HIGHER LEVELS.

CANTILEVERING MASSES TO CREATE INFORMAL OPEN SPACES.

The Elevated concourse : The sequencing of wide stairs for movement from the inviting entrance to the second level of the building ensures the easy access, to potentially the most populated space of the building. The seminar dining program has been rendered into a double height open plan, which allows for space to function as a pre-function and post function area for the seminar and training program. When the dinning is not in use, it forms a large open elevated public concourse as a gathering space for the students which overlooks onto the internal courtyard.

Program Distribution : The program distribution is based on the segregation of higher traffic zones of movement to the lower traffic areas across the building stacks. The design also places quiet study zones of programs away from the noisy and active zones. The Lower level houses the cafeteria which spills out onto the courtyard. The bank has been restricted to the internal street so as segregate the active student program from the workings of the bank and its need to connect with the local neighbourhood. The first level houses the administration section of the building program whereas the second and third levels have the training and seminar room programs.

PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION DIAGRAM

CIRCULATION- AVENUE DIAGRAM

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ELEVATED CONCOURSE & COURTYARD DIAGRAM

CIRCULATION- INTERNAL COURTYARD DIAGRAM

These have been accommodated as a sectional split at the second level.

The dining areas for the seminars have been rendered as an open plan with a double height, so as to provide a relief for the gathering space of the building. This space overlooks the street as well as the courtyard and forms a vantage for viewing. The fourth floor houses the incubation and innovation hubs of the campus which requires certain quietness from the busy floors below. The quiet zone continues over the fifth and sixth level as it houses the Laboratories. Finally the Library is elevated to a ‘silent zone’ at the highest floor of the build assuring extra-ordinary vistas of the green neighbourhood.

Forging connections : All the floors of the adjacent buildings have been strategically connected so as to dissolve the boundaries between the old and the new these connections are viewed as circulation loops across the old and the new buildings.

It is anticipated that many students and faculty will choose to move on this path through the building. An inviting entrance with a large volume announces the arrival of the student activity zones.

GRAND STAIRWAY ENTRANCE TO PUBLIC CONCOURSE

INTERNAL COURTYARD ACTS AS THE CENTRAL SPACE

ELEVATED PUBLIC CONCOURSE LEVEL

DOUBLE HEIGHT & MEZZANINE LIBRARY

The distribution of cores : The elevators of the building have been strategically located at the entrance so as to provide uniform access across all floors. There are two fire stairs in the building that have been placed strategically so as to provide efficient fire evacuation in the new facility as well as to cater to the stair deficiency of the existing building on the north side. The stair on the north side also is saddled with the toilet stack and AHU rooms which would be accessed from the mid-landing of the stair, so as to keep away serviced spaces away from the main program floors.

VIEW OF ELEVATED PUBLIC CONCOURSE FROM CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EXISTING STRUCTURE & PROPOSED MULTIPURPOSE ANNEXE

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BANK LANGUAGE LAB

TELLER

ATM

STORAGE COURTYARD

COURTYARD

COURTYARD OPEN DINING AREA ALUMNI OFFICE

KITCHEN

SERVING COUNTER

KITCHEN

REPOGRAPHIC ROOM

WASH AREA

D.A.T

LIFT 1

LIFT 2

LIFT 1

LIFT 2

LIFT 1

LIFT 2

CAFETERIA STAIRCASE

DEVELOPMENT CELL

COUNSELOR ROOM STORAGE STAIRCASE

STAIRCASE

STAIRCASE

RECORDS ROOM

STAIRCASE

TRAINING & PLACEMENT OFFICE

TOILET

TOILET

A.H.U. ROOM

STAIRCASE

SEMINAR HALL 01

SEMINAR HALL 02

DEGREE OFFICE

STAIRCASE

STAIRCASE

UP

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT LAB

SEMINAR HALL 03

SEMINAR HALL 03

SEMINAR HALL 04

SEMINAR HALL 04

PROJECT LAB

PROJECT LAB

LIFT 1

LIFT 2

LIFT 1

LIFT 2

STAIRCASE

LIFT 1

STAIRCASE

STAIRCASE

MACHINE/INSTRUMENT ROOM STAIRCASE

TRAINING & PLACEMENT OFFICE

TOILET

SEMINAR HALL 01

SEMINAR HALL 02

STAIRCASE

STAIRCASE

TOILET

TOILET INNOVATION & RESEARCH CENTER

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER

TECHNOLOGY HUB

FOURTH FLOOR PLAN

FIFTH FLOOR PLAN

COMPUTER LAB - 04

LIBRARY

COMPUTER LAB - 03

LIFT 1

LIFT 2

LIFT 1

LIFT 2

COMPUTER LAB - 02 STAIRCASE

STAIRCASE

TOILET

TOILET

COMPUTER LAB - 01

SIXTH FLOOR PLAN

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STAIRCASE

STAIRCASE

SEVENTH FLOOR PLAN

LIBRARY

LIFT 2

SOPHISTICATED INSTRUMENT LAB

DOUBLE HEIGHT SPACE UNDERNEATH GRAND STAIRWAY

ELEVATED PUBLIC CONCOURSE UNDERNEATH AUDITORIUM

INTERIOR OF THE AUDTIORIUM SPACE WITH CONTROLLED GLASS FACADE

DOUBLE HEIGHT SPACES & MEZZANINE LEVEL WITHIN LIBRARY +30.00 M TERRACE FLOOR

+24.45 M SEVENTH FLOOR

+20.85 M SIXTH FLOOR

+17.25 M FIFTH FLOOR

+13.65 M FOURTH FLOOR

+10.65 M THIRD FLOOR

+7.65 M SECOND FLOOR

+4.05 M FIRST FLOOR

+0.45 M PLINTH FLOOR

LONGITUDINAL SECTION THROUGH MULTIPURPOSE ANNEXE

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SOUTH ELEVATION OF MULTIPUPROSE ANNEXE

+30.00 M TERRACE FLOOR

+24.45 M SEVENTH FLOOR

+20.85 M SIXTH FLOOR

+17.25 M FIFTH FLOOR

+13.65 M FOURTH FLOOR

+10.65 M THIRD FLOOR

+7.65 M SECOND FLOOR

+4.05 M FIRST FLOOR

+0.45 M PLINTH FLOOR

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EXPLORING FLUIDITY OF FORM - ARCHITECTURAL MACHINE

LOCATION : Site-less TIME : June 2017 - August 2017 LEVEL : M.S. Arch, Summer Semester MENTOR : Ar. Erich Schoenenberger & Ar. Hannibal Newsom.

INSTITUTION : Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.

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INTRODUCTION :The fluidity of form is explored through procedural process of design experiments on the basis on developing design techniques and discursive terms for contemporary and near-future approaches to new architectural mediums. Each of these experiments are site-less as well as have no programs but there will be a host of semi-autonomous protonarchitectural objects that seek to establish portable varying architectural principles that are not to any architectural service oriented entity.

This fluidity is explored through skins, shells, bladders, bodies, internal, external, structures, exoskeletons, embeds-exbeds, landscapes, bifurcations, evolution, generative designing and a variety of other formal-informal spatial phenomena.

Each of these explorations later on are speculated in terms of being spatial and habitable architectural forms keeping in mind near-future scenarios of anthropocentric and possibilities of life on other planetary bodies in universe.

VISUALIZATION OF INTERIOR OF ARCHITECTURAL MACHINE

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PARAMETRIC EMBED - EXBED NARRATIVE :This experiment looks at creating controlled surface objects from mundane 2D architectural moldings and then tectonically articulating them. In addition, it explores the capacity to create new contexts from these tectonically articulated objects as opposed to the conventional of objects being created from contexts.

For instance, if an embed is an Architectural Machine implanted into a contextual substrate landscape that, in turn, affects that substrate then perhaps it can be concluded that an exbed is an Architectural Machine from which a contextual substrate landscape is derived in order for the substrate to compliment and support the Machine The Exbed is both semi-autonomous and catalytic; creating reactions and reacting to these reactions simultaneously.

AMBIGUITY BETWEEN ARCHITECTURAL MACHINE - LANDSCAPE

ARCHITECTURAL MACHINE STANDING OUT & BLURRING WITH LANDSCAPE

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RIPPLED LANDSCAPES CREATED BY AN ARCHITECTUAL MACHINE

ARCHITECTURAL MACHINE CREATING HABITABLE ENCLOSURE SPACE

LANDSCAPE REACTING & REACTING TO THE ARCHITECTURAL MACHINE

THE ARCHITECTURAL MACINE CAMOUFLAGING ITSELF INTO THE LANDSCAPE

EMBED-EXBED RELATIONSHIP NARRATIVE This experiment looks at re-articulating the Architectural Machine embed to react and blend with the substrate landscape exbed; simultaneously re-creating the latter to blur the lines between the embed-exbed. The Architectural Machine tries to camouflage it’s form into the substrate landscape, yet standing out by its distinct luminosity compared to it’s luminosity.

The exploration works in precisely articulating and creating the threshold where the Architectural Machine embed meets and sits onto the substrate landscape exbed. One of the most critical aspects of the threshold is to create a homogenous intersection between the embed and the exbed; also the threshold is that portion of the exbed that reacts and responds maximum to the embed placed on or around it.

CRAFTED THRESHOLD BETWEEN ARCHITECTURAL MACHINE & LANDSCAPE

THRESHOLD MIMICKING THE UNDERSIDE OF THE ARCHITECTURAL MACHINE

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THE ARCHITECTURAL MACHINE NARRATIVE :The Architectural machine seamlessly emerges from the landscape and disappears back into the landscape. The emergence of Form creates a disturbance in the landscape leaving back permanent traces behind in the form of undulating ripples more concentrated around the Form and reduces as the ripples move further away.

Even though each of these components are the same in each interval, but yet have every stark spatial and materialistic characteristics. Each interval in the Architectural Machine have different architectural experiences created by its components; one wherein the metallic plinth component creates space between itself for the user to interact with the landscape and receives diffused light through a glass shell/roof. While the second has no interaction space created as the shell completely covers the landscape underneath it and receives direct light through the open skylight in the first metallic component.

This phenomena of morphogensis of an army of the Form can be sighted during long winter nights creates an infinity rippled undulating landscape, traces of which are left behind after these Forms slowly migrate to colder landscapes.

LONGITUDINAL SECTION THROUGH THE ARCHITECTURAL MACHINE

CROSS SECTION THROUGH THE ARCHITECTURAL MACHINE

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SYNTHESIS DRAWING OF THE ARCHITECTURAL MACHINE

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VISUALIZATION OF ARMY OF ARCHITECTURAL MACHINES

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EXQUISITE CORPSES ARCHITECTURAL BODIES OF DIS-FIGURATION LOCATION : Brooklyn, New York.

TIME : September 2017 - December 2017 LEVEL : M.S. Arch, Fall Semester MENTOR : Ar. Jonas Coersmeier, Ar. Danil Nagy, Brian Ringley.

TEAM : Vatsal Upadhyay, Camilo Padilla INSTITUTION : Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.

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INTRODUCTION :Exquisite corpse is a method of collaborative art production invented by surrealists in the early 20 century. In a sequential routine each participant adds to an assembly of either words or images and contributes to an unpredictable composite. This chancebased operation was of particular interest for surrealists as it disrupts the conscious mind’s attachment to order.

Exquisite Corpses - Architectural Bodies of Dis-figuration aims at disrupting these categories by deploying varied algorithmic optimization processes for bold architectural compositions as well as by manually probing generative design principals.

COMPOSITE TECTONIC DRAWING OF EXQUISITE CORPSES

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EXQUISITE CORPSES NARRATIVE :Artifacts/sculptures created by two well known artists; The Stag - Patricia Piccinini and The Doll Ball Joint - Hans Bellmer were selected and juxtaposed to create a composite artifact known as the Exquisite Corpses. The new artifact was further transformed using digital algorithmic and generative processes to create a complex composite of structural and cladding/packing systems, each with its own distinct material and desired tectonic effects.

THE STAGS - PATRICIA PICCININI

DOLL BALL JOINT - HANS BELLMER

JUXTAPOSITION OF ARTIFACTS

EXQUISITE CORPSES

SELECTION OF ARTIFACT

POPULATE WITH RANDOMIZED NUMBER OF POINTS

PICK POINTS TO CREATE CONTINUOUS INTERPOLATE CURVE

CREATE CONTINUOUS INTERPOLATE CURVE

FORMATION OF VORONOI ALONG INTERPOLATE CURVE

BOOLEAN EXCESS VORONOI OUTSIDE ARTIFACT

FORMATION OF CONTINUOUS STRUCTURAL SYSTEM OF RESIN

THREAD DIPPED IN ROCKITE USED FOR PACKING AROUND RESIN

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FABRICATION OF EXQUISITE CORPSES :Varied conventional and unconventional construction materials are transfused to create and achieve unique effects that accentuates the concept of Exquisite Corpses.

The fabrication is divided into smaller components; compromising of continuous structural system casted in resin using 3D printed molds and is packed with thread dipped in rockite with the use of chipboard lined with thin layer of plastic form-work.

DETAILED FABRICATION DRAWING

ROCKITE DIPPED THREAD CAST

PLASTER LUMPS & RESIN CAST

ROCKITE DIPPED THREAD & RESIN

ROCKITE & BUBBLEWRAP CAST

PLASTER & ROCKITE CAST

PLASTER & BUBBLEWRAP CAST

RESIN CAST VORONOI CAST

COMPOSITE FABRICATED CAST

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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FIRST FLOOR PLAN

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SECTION THROUGH EXQUISITE CORPSES

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THE WEEPING CATHETER PAVILION

LOCATION : Art OMI, Upstate New York, U.S.A. TIME : January 2018 - May 2018 LEVEL : M.S. Arch, Spring Semester MENTOR : Ar. Kutan Ayata, Ar. Jason Vigneri Beane, Brian Ringley.

TEAM : Vatsal Upadhyay, Noor Al Haidari.

INSTITUTION : Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.

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INTRODUCTION :Art OMI is a nonprofit international arts organization located in upstate New York collaborated with Pratt Institute to organize design and build competition of a pavilion for their architecture field park. The pavilion was to have a homogeneous amalgamation of low-high tech architecture that could withstand extreme weather conditions.

The pavilion design emphasizes on contemporary and near future scenarios for/of architecture, supported by augmented and virtual reality add ons to resolving, material explorations and experimenting fabrication techniques to build the pavilion in a stipulated amount of money and time. Designs needed to express complex set of narrative for probable array of speculations related to architecture of the present and the future portrayed through simplistic spatially innovative architecture and architectural solutions for tomorrow.

VISUALIZATION OF THE WEEPING CATHETER PAVILION

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THE WEEPING CATHETER PAVILION NARRATIVE :The Weeping Catheter is a fun-filled foundation-less pavilion. Filled with twists and turns as you entangle yourself through each enclosure of tubes offering the viewer a chance to interact with the tubes by the way of; push, pull, flex, wrap as well as be able to individually or collectively re-iterate the form created by the long overhanging droops.

A bulbous creature embedding itself within the earth using the weight of the infill and gravity to sustain itself without a foundation. The pavilion is an amalgamation of materials of flexibility creating a soft surface with the contrast of a hard-concrete infill.

When perceived from a distance the minimally invasive pavilion creates an ambiguity between a wheat field in the horizon to a treacherous creature swaying according to the environment as it moves and withers with the wind.

WEEPING CATHETER PAVILION PLAN

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CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF THE WEEPING CATHETER PAVILION

The pavilion can be uprooted even after years with no residual traces, harm or interference towards its ground and embedded again into a newer mundane context by reincarnating it with playfulness.

HUMAN - PAVILION INTERACTIONS :-

PHOTOGRAPHS OF HUMAN- PAVILION INTERACTIONS

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VISUALIZATION OF WALKING THROUGH WEEPING CATHETER

DIAGONAL SECTION THROUGH THE PAVILION

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VISUALIZATION OF WALKING THROUGH WEEPING CATHETER

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WEEPING CATHETER PAVILION PLAN @ FEET LEVEL

VISUALIZATION OF WEEPING CATHETER IN SPRING

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WEEPING CATHETER PAVILION PLAN @ WAIST LEVEL

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VISUALIZATION OF WEEPING CATHETER IN AUTUMN

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AXONOMETRIC DRAWING OF THE PAVILION

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VISUALIZATION OF WEEPING CATHETER IN SNOW

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RE-IMAGINING RESIDUAL SPACES UNDERNEATH INFRASTRUCTURAL SYSTEMS LOCATION : Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

TIME : June 2014 - November 2014.

LEVEL : Year 5, Semester 10 (Final Research & Design Thesis) MENTOR : Aparna Surve ( Director of Aditya College of Architecture, Mumbai, India ).

INSTITUTION : Kamla Raheja Vidhyanidhi Institute for Architecture & Environmental Studies, Mumbai.

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INTRODUCTION :What is a ‘Residual Space’ ?

A ‘Residual Space’ is a small or large space which is created by different architecturally engineered structures such as buildings, infrastructure etc. at times even oddly shaped barren land is considered as a ‘Residual Space‘.

These spaces are created by lack of designing sense by the municipal corporation authorities (urban designers ) of the city, or the state or the country as well as controlled development growth being allowed.

Each of these ‘Residual Spaces ‘ are used in three ways : a. Formally they are used as traffic control offices, police stations and towing stations, at times these spaces are also made into parking areas controlled by the muncipal corporation. There’s an attempt made by the state government to convert these ‘urban eyesores‘ as aesthetically pleasing landscaped areas for the people living in the neighbourhood around. b. Informally they are used by hawkers, illegal settlements by the people who are below the proverty line and cannot afford Shelter space. At times they are also used to celebrate different festivals belonging to different religions such as ganesh chaturthi, navaratri, eid etc.

TYPES OF RESIDUAL SPACES EXISTING IN CITIES

c. At last some are cordened off by the municipal corporation of the city so as to prevent any kind of illegal or informal activities from settling in such places.

VIEW OF INTERVENTION DESIGNED IN RESIDUAL SPACES UNDERNEATH ELEVATED ROADS

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STUDY ALONG THE METRO :1. The elevated metro stations are constructed leaving the bare minimum gap 50 cm to 1 meter between the existing buildings and shops lined against the road allowing minimum or negligible ( no) natural daylight to penetrate on the vehicular road running below it.

2. The column structure supporting the elevated metro station above has columns in center of the vehicular road as well as on the pedestrian pathways on either side of the roads, these columns not only reduce the width of the pedestrian pathway but also block accesses into the existing shops and other buildings that are along the main road, resulting in them abandoning their current shops and moving to another location.`

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MAPPING OF EXISTING PROGRAMS :- (FORMAL & INFORMAL)

WESTERN EXPRESS HIGHWAY

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AIRPORT ROAD

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3. The construction of the 2 m diameter columns required to support the elevated metro line has led to permanent reduction in the vehicular road width below it and this reduction in road width is compensated by reducing the pedestrian footpath on either side of the roads.

4. the vehicular road that runs parallel underneath the elevated metro line varies in it’s road width from 10 - 25 meters. incase, of the 25 meters road width the elevated metro is supported on columns located in the center / divider of the road, whereas, incase of the 10 meters road width the elevated metro line is supported by columns on either side of the road along the pedestrian pathways.

EXISTING USAGE UNDERNEATH THE ELEVATED METRO :The spaces underneath the stretch of the elevated metro are used by people in various ways; few of these existing activities have been mapped above.

SAKI NAKA

ASLAPHA

JAGRUTI NAGAR

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SITE ANALYSIS :The chart below is used to map different atmospheres found around the site such as sound, traffic, vehicular movement, pedestrian movement and points of interest at different times of day. Mapping each of these helps in deriving the formal exploration of the intervention to be designed.

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Shows the different scales of the buildings around the site, helping in deriving the height of the intervention.

towards andheri station

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SITE LICATION PLAN

WESTERN EXPRESS HIGHWAY METRO STATION

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ELEVATED METRO STATION VEHICULAR FLYOVER

SITE BUILDINGS ROADS LAND

BUILT- UNBUILT PLAN

Shows the ratio of built to unbuilt excluding the flyover and elevated metro track line.

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LAND USE PLAN

WESTERN EXPRESS HIGHWAY METRO STATION

residential restaurants mixed purpose

The current land use pattern prevailing on site helps in deriving the site as well as the programs to be designed.

offices commercial encroached shops

DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Development plan helps in making a comparison between the existing land use pattern prevailing on site.

PUBLIC AMENITIES EDUCATIONAL AMENITIES TRANSPORT FACILITES VACANT LAND

INDUSTRIES commercial OFFICES RESIDENTIAL

WESTERN EXPRESS HIGHWAY METRO STATION

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entrance/exit to the metro station

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POINTS OF INTEREST PLAN

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towards andheri station

LAND ELEVATED METRO STATION VEHICULAR FLYOVER

Points of interest are locations pedestrian are maximum around the site.

IMPORTANT LANDMARKS SITE EXTENT FOR INTERVENTION SITE BUILDINGS ROADS

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Addition of secondary pedestrian pathways.

pathways connecting points of interest across the site.

DIAGRAM 4 Primary internal pedestrian pathways.

DIAGRAM 8

Pedestrian path & underground pathway.

DIAGRAM 7

Addition of vehicular access into the design.

DIAGRAM 6

DIAGRAM 5

Complete built mass on intervention site.

DIAGRAM 3

DIAGRAM 2

DIAGRAM 1

DESIGN EVOLUTION & PROGRAMMATIC DIAGRAMS :-

Allotment of programmatic spaces on ground level.

Allotment of programmatic spaces on first level.

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN FOR THE PROPOSED INTERVENTION :The design concept and the strategy of the proposed intervention was to formalize few of activities and programs such as a ‘Free School for the Underprivileged children’, play-scape and other recreational activities for people living in the vicinity. Addition of gallery/exhibition spaces for artists who cannot afford to display their works. The design also responds to the need of space for commerce by common man as well as gives opportunities to the women living nearby, by facilitating them with a Learning & Welfare Center.

A pedestrian network connecting across the thoroughfare of juxtaposing of two infrastructural systems, i.e. the metro

ROADSIDE VIEW OF THE INTERVENTION IN RESIDUAL SPACES

LONGITUDINAL SECTION SHOWING VARIED PROGRAMS UNDERNEATH THE FLYOVER

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and vehicular flyover; elevated as well as underground. The Intervention designed underneath the flyover, sensitively incorporate vehicular traffic movements without hindering the pedestrian egress.

The landscaped spaces added within the Intervention underneath the flyover; not only reinterpret these ‘urban eyesores’ but also help in filtering the polluted air entering from either side. The Jalli screen is added to keep the design porous and let natural wind pass through yet securing it during night time.

GROUND FLOOR PLAN SHOWING NETWORK OF OPEN SPACES

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FIRST FLOOR PLAN SHOWING PEDESTERIAN CONNECTIVITY

LONGITUDINAL SECTION SHOWING UNDERGROUND PATHYWAY CONNECTION

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PROGRAM AREA STATEMENT :Recreational Programs :1. Badminton court room- 400 sq. meter 2. Squash court room - 200 sq. meter 3. Table tennis room - 100 sq. meter 4. Yoga / aerobics center - 100 sq. meter 5. Administration office - 50 sq. meter 6. Waiting area - 100 sq. meter 7. Swimming pool - 500 sq. meter Free School for Underprivileged Children : 1. Four informal classrooms - 200 sq. meter 2. Multi purpose hall - 250 sq. meter 3. Administration office - 50 sq. meter 4. Waiting area - 100 sq. meter Women's Learning & Welfare Center : 1. Exhibition spaces - 400 sq. meter 2. Workspaces - 500 sq. meter 3. Administration offices - 100 sq.meter

MEANDERING PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIVITY

Commercial Programs : 1. Retail shops - 500 sq. meter 2. Restaurants - 500 sq. meter 3. Timber mart - 250 sq. meter 4. Cafeteria - 100 sq.meter Community Activities : 1. Banquet hall - 500 sq. meter 2. Community hall - 1000 sq. meter 3. Exhibition spaces - 300 sq. meter 4. Public reading room - 150 sq. meter Office Spaces : 1. Office spaces - 300 sq.meter 2. Conference rooms - 400 sq.meter TOTAL BUILT UP AREA - 7050

INDOOR LANDSCAPE AREAS

CROSS SECTION THROUGH INTERVENTION UNDERNEATH AND BESIDE THE HIGHWAY

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YOUTH CENTRIC COLLECTIVE HOUSING

LOCATION : Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

TIME : December 2012 - March 2013.

LEVEL : Year 4, Semester 8 (Housing Studio) MENTOR : Sahil Lateef, Ekta Idnany INSTITUTION : Kamla Raheja Vidhyanidhi Institute for Architecture & Environmental Studies, Mumbai.

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INTRODUCTION :The project looked at providing a shelter for the youth, in the city of Mumbai. The architecture becomes a place that caters to various stages in growth of an adolescent right from being a student, to graduating, to having a family of his own. Different typologies of live and work were to be designed in combination with commercial and recreational spaces within the design.

DESIGN STRATERGY :Designing a vertical ramped suburban living, where each inhabitant could choose his/her housing typology and cycle right up to his door step. The design incorporates miscellaneous with the housing components mentioned at every level of the building, creating a perfect scenario of suburban living community.

THE VERTICAL SUBURBAN - SECTIONAL SNIPPETS

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INTRODUCTION :GROUND FLOOR MASTER-PLAN

GROUND FLOOR MASTER-PLAN

GROUND FLOOR MASTER-PLAN

The proximity of the site chosen for intervention is located in a radius of 2-3km from Andheri as well as Vile Parle railway station. There are various types of educational institutions that are located around the site, but the place lacks formal accommodation spaces for students coming from other parts of the country.

The design strategy was to recreate the suburban lifestyle that existed in the past; which has transformed into vertically stacked high-rises. Due to lack of space in the city the main concept idea for the Student Housing was to create vertical suburban living conditions wherein the user to cycle his way up to his accommodation.

INSTITUTION MAPPING

site institutions open spaces

RESIDENTIAL MAPPING

VOLUMETRIC STACKING DIAGRAMS :-

TYPICAL STACKING OF HOUSING TYPOLOGIES

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STACKING OF HOUSING TYPOLOGIES AFTER ADDITION OF RAMP

site residential hostel

CONCEPTUAL EXPLORATIONS :-

DESIGN EXPLORATIONS :

THE STREET/RAMP

Main circulation spine for pedestrian and cycle movement.

The street / ramp rises from main road starting from hostels to 2 bhk apts with miscellaneous in between.

RESIDENTIAL

Continous band of housing units along the ramp rising vertically.

All the programs are arranged along central courtyard and service cores located along two opposite vertices.

MISCELLANEOUS Rising along with the housing between two bands.

Interlocking of varied programmatic spaces with each other, like tetris / puzzle pieces.

THE VERTICAL SUBURB Double helical design breaking hierarchy of spaces.

O f f - s e t t i n g programs to create open recreational spaces in-front of programs or between programs.

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GROUND FLOOR MASTER-PLAN

CROSS SECTION THROUGH VARIED HOUSING TYPOLOGIES

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HOUSING MODULE TYPOLOGIES :HOSTEL TYPOLOGY

2 BHK TYPOLOGY

- Area : 20 sq.m - Shared Toilets/Services.

- Shared cycle parking.

- Area : 100 sq.m - Shared open spaces.

Toilet

Hostel Unit 1

2BHK Unit 1 Service core

Toilets

Toilet 2BHK Unit 2

Hostel Unit 2

VOLUMETRIC DIAGRAM

HOSTEL FLOOR PLAN

STUDIO DUPLEX TYPOLOGY

VOLUMETRIC DIAGRAM

2-BHK FLOOR PLAN

1 BHK DUPLEX TYPOLOGY

- Area : 40 sq.m - Common service core - shared cycle parking.

- Area : 70 sq.m - Common Service Core.

- shared cycle parking.

Studio Unit 1

1BHK Unit 1

Toilet

Toilet

Studio Unit 2

VOLUMETRIC DIAGRAM

1BHK Unit 2

LOWER FLOOR PLAN OF STUDIO

UPPER FLOOR PLAN OF STUDIO

LOWER FLOOR PLAN OF 1 BHK

UPPER FLOOR PLAN OF 1 BHK

VOLUMETRIC DIAGRAM

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CROSS SECTION THROUGH VERTICAL SUBURBAN HOUSING

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IN : CH 2014 INTERNATIONAL STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM LOCATION : Ahmedabad, Gujarat & Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

TIME : March 2014 - June 2014 LEVEL : Year 5, Exchange Program MENTOR : Ar. Yatin Pandya (pandyayatin@gmail.com), Ar. Juerg Grunder (info@in-ch-architects.com) TEAM : Vatsal Upadhyay, Marta Badiola, Valerio Schreier, Catherine Tran, Christian Hauswirth.

INSTITUTION : Kamla Raheja Vidhyanidhi Institute for Architecture & Environmental Studies, Mumbai.

Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland.

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INTRODUCTION :The Exchange was divided into 2 Phases: Phase I was conducted in India spread across three cities :- Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Bangalore. It involved students from Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland, Kamla Raheja Vidhyanidhi Institute of Architecture, Mumbai, India and Madrid University, Madrid, Spain. Phase II of the studio was a summer school organized in Switzerland.

The theme for the studio was ‘Urban Subcultures’. It included analyzing urban villages located amidst of a dense city fabric and then designing urban scale micro and macro interventions, to research and analyze how waste is generated in a city and track the movement of it, finally design-build for different scenarios within a city, ranging from institutions, slums to residential complexes.

PHOTOGRAPH OF PET BOTTLE SCREEN FOR TOILET STRUCTURE

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INTRODUCTION :The project brief given was to study Mithakhali, an existing urban village in the heart of the city of Ahmedabad.

The village was studied from macro scale, to micro scale, to village scale, to settlement scale and lastly, few of the different housing typologies were documented to understand the evolution, working and development of the village.

These studies further on helped in making urban scale interventions through the village to help it sustain, exist and develop in itself for a decade longer against the city’s development suppressing the village.

Railway tracks Vehicular road Hospital Train Station Green spaces

MACRO LOCATION PLAN

Railway tracks Vehicular road

MICRO LOCATION PLAN

SITE ANALYSIS :Markets on Houses streets

Courtyard

Houses

Courtyard

Houses

Markets on streets

Outside

TRANSVERSE SITE SECTION Outside

Markets on Houses streets

Courtyard

Houses Courtyard Houses

LONGITUDINAL SITE SECTION

BUILDING HEIGHTS & SCIOGRAPHY

MOVEMENT NETWORK

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SECTIONS SHOWING EDGE CONDITIONS

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OPEN SPACE NETWORK

GSEducationalVersion

VEGETATION COVER north

GSEducationalVersion

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Outside

HOUSING ANALYSIS :Along with informal studies through sketches and photographs, a formal documentation of the village was done in terms on plans and sections at village scale as well as at a single housing typology.

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

CROSS SECTION OF HOUSING MODULE

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

WIND STUDY DIAGRAM

SITE ANALYSIS :-

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AXONOMETRIC VIEW OF HOUSING MODULE 50m

Being connected to the network is the first condition required for the integration of the part into the whole the unit into the system.

In this analysis, some isolated spaces are identified and listed.

1. Urban park enclosed in itself with two entries far away from the residential area.

2. Pocket cluster surrounded by the back of the houses and not connected to the open space network.

3. Oversized road with a wall end that disconnects it from the movement network and avoids cross interaction between the facing houses.

4. School backyard with no access from it.

5. Temple delimited by a wall in its north edge.

6. Low density area not used for social interactions.

These spaces have a potential to be used more than the used is given today just impoving its connectivity though their edge conditions.

INTERVENTION MASTERPLAN

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URBAN INTERVENTIONS :The analysis of the existing village and varied elements used in housing typology helped in proposing small scale urban interventions throughout. Each of the intervention were designed on concept of connections to the city. The focus and aim was to analyze the village and propose connections from existing disconnections in the village to the city helping it sustain, develop and withstand the pressure of getting lost in the new city fabric around it. Each of the interventions proposed range from macro to micro urban scales.

TREE

BEFORE

AFTER

GATEWAYS

BEFORE AXONOMETRIC VIEW OF INTERVENTION PROPOSAL FOR MITHAKALI VILLAGE

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AFTER

OPENING UP BOUNDARY WALLS

CHANGING WINDOW OPENINGS TO DOORS

CREATING CONNECTIONS AT HIGHER LEVELS

INTERVENTION SKETCHES :-

BEFORE

PARK INTERVENTION :GSEducationalVersion

GSEducationalVersion

AFTER

ENCLOSED ISOLATED ATMOSPHERE WITH FEW ENTRY POINTS GSEducationalVersion GSEducationalVersion

REMOVAL OF FENCES & CREATING UNDISTURBED CONNECTIONS

GSEducationalVersion

SCHOOL INTERVENTION :-

NO DOOR OPENINGS TO BACKYARD THAT COULD ACT AS RELEASE SPACE

CREATING OPENINGS TO BACKYARD THAT ACTS AS PLAY-SCAPE

ALLEYWAY INTERVENTION :-

ALLEYWAY ACT AS DARK NEGLECTED SPACES

CREATING OPENINGS IN HOUSES ADDS TO COMMUNAL SPACE

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INTRODUCTION :The project brief given to our design team was to build a temporary structure for sanitation purpose, for the ladies maintaining the cleanliness and collecting waste generated by every household, in Sena Vihar, one of many housing societies located within the city of Bangalore. Also analyze existing waste management systems in the society, and through research suggest ways to reuse/recycle most of the waste generated by residents in the society itself for varied purposes depending on type of waste.

apartments adminstration retail shops bungalows intervention site

ANALYSIS :The waste management of the society starts at the source level. The residents are asked to separate their wet and dry waste which are picked up by the lady workers in the society every day, in the case of wet waste and twice a week for dry waste. There are totally 16 women workers working at Sena Vihar. The waste collected from door to door is mixed while picking it SENA VIHAR MASTERPLAN up and brought to the collection point of the society. The amount of dry leaves collected within the society is also dumped into the collection point. All the waste accumulated at the collection point is then collected by the BBMP.

ANALYSIS :-

ANALYSIS :-

Phase 1: (Execution Week): Building toilets out of dry waste materials.

Phase 2: Paving and Plantation around collection point.

Phase 3: Dry waste segregation and storage at collection point (waste park).

Phase 4: Renovation of shed for women workers.

Phase 5: Dry leaves composting at collection point.

Phase 6: De-centralizing waste collection points in society.

WET WASTE COLLECTED

STORED VERTICALLY

COMPOST

PHASE PROPOSAL TIME-LINE

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This kind of composting is done vertically using very little space. Wet waste is mixed with a special powder that helps in increasing the pace of composting.

INTERVENTION DESIGN :The toilet structure conceptualized was executed using a combination of conventional building materials and everyday waste generated by the Housing Society.

The type of recyclable waste materials used in the structure were: 1. The foundation of the intervention was made of a combination of rocks & inorganic waste generated.

2. The plinth was executed using concrete as a bonding agent between Beer/Wine bottles.

3. PET Bottles was used to create a translucent screen which allowed light to filter into the intervention.

4. The wooden framework along with steel rods was used to create PET Bottle screen.

5. The roofing system was made using structural members found on site in combination with P.V.C corrugated sheets of different colors.

6. The structure was designed in load bearing, mainly compromising of bricks, mortar and wood.

SIDE ELEVATION OF THE PROPOSED INTERVENTION

PROPOSED PLAN OF INTERVENTION

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WASTE BEER BOTTLES USED IN PLINTH WORK

PHOTOGRAPH OF PET BOTTLES USED AS A PRIVACY SCREEN

PHOTOGRAPH OF THE COMPLETE INTERVENTION STRUCTURE

FRONT ELEVATION OF THE PROPOSED INTERVENTION

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PHOTOGRAPH OF FINAL EXECUTED INTERVENTION

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