A R C H I T E C T U R A L
PORTFOLIO V A T S A L
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V A T S A L D.O.B.
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20 . 03 . 1998
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: vatsalkatelia@hotmail.com
Phone
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Address : C/101, Utopian Corner New Alkapuri, Vadodara Gujarat, India 390021
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An aspiring student of Architecture, driven by hands-on creative work and inspired by all dimensions of Art, Architecture and Illustration.
Travelling
Photography
English
intermediate
Music
Table Tennis
Hindi
intermediate
Doodling
Badminton
Gujarati
intermediate
The following portfolio is a collection of my work that reflect my love, respect and passion for architecture and design.
Model Making
Tennis
I hope to contribute the same to your firm.
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K A T E L I A
EDUCATION 2013 - 14
Anand Vidya Vihar
2015 - 16 2016 - 19
Vadodara
10th Grade
Tejas Vidyalaya
Vadodara
12th Grade
Arvindbhai Patel Institute
Vallabh Vidyanagar
1st, 2nd, 3rd Year
of Environmental Design
WORK EXPERIENCE Feb 2018
Tensegrity Bamboo Workshop
GrowingTower.de
APIED Campus, Anand
July 2018
Lighting Narrative in Public Realm
Atelier Dada
APIED Campus, Anand
Nov 2018
Hands-On Construction Workshop
Laurie Baker Centre
Thiruvananthapuram
Feb 2019
Deployable Structure
Rahul Patel
APIED Campus, Anand
Mar 2017
Gwalior, Orchha : Related Study Programme
Documentation
Gwalior, Orchha
Dec 2017
M. S. University, Faculty of Performing Arts
Measure Drawing
Vadodara
Feb 2018
Hyperbolic Parabolic Structure
Public Installation
APIED Campus, Anand
Oct 2018
Kinetic Interactive Structure
Public Installation
APIED Campus, Anand
June 2018
Student Apprentice for 1 month
Reeca Infrastructure
Vadodara
2017-19
Club Co ordinator: Paint Box
Tech. & Graphics Club
APIED Campus, Anand
PROFICIENCY Software Proficiency /Hand-Skills
AutoCAD ArchiCAD Rhino
SketchUp
Adobe Photoshop
Model Making
Hand Drafting
Lumion
Adobe InDesign
Sketching
Hand Lettering
KeyShot
Adobe Illustrator
Painting
Hand Rendering
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CONTENTS
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Weekend Home for Yourself
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MEDITATION CENTRE
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Public Installation
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SKILL DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
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Documentation, MSU : Faculty of Performing Arts
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BASic Design : Sculpting the past
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Various works
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Year I | Semester II | Advance Anthropometry Studio | Champaner, Gujarat
Year II | Semester III | Material Studio | Vadodara, Gujarat
Year II | Semester IV | College Festival: Tamir ‘18 | APIED Campus, Gujarat
Year III | Semester V | Institutional Studio | Wilson Hill, Gujarat
Year II | Semester IV | Contextual Studio | Vadodara, Gujarat
Year II | Semester IV | Contextual Studio | Vadodara, Gujarat
Staircase Case Study | Post Tension Slab | Workshops | Graphic Atempts
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01 Weekend home for Yourself Mentor
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Prof. Rahul Patel
Studio
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Advance Anthropometry
Project Typology :
Weekend Home
Site Area
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2800 sq. mt.
Location
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Champaner, Gujarat
BRIEF Human dimensions and capabilities are paramount in determining a building’s dimensions and overall design. The underlying principle of anthropometrics is that building designs should adapt to suit the human body. The following Studio dealt with various aspects of understanding human anthropometrics and implementation to a medium sized residential projects of a Weekend Home.
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CONCEPT This particular project was to address a family of three and their basic requirements, catering to the difference between their day-to-day routine and vacation lifestyle. The site is in Champaner, on a flat farm land overlooking the Pavagadh Hill. The form was an answer to the both aesthetical and spatial needs of a weekend home. Private and Public spaces were segregated with different floors, ensuring complete isolation.
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View from the Entrance Area 2.
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1. Entrance 2. Parking 3. Residence 4. Swimming Pool 5. Mango Farm 6. Gazebo
Site Plan 3
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Ground Floor Plan
1. Entrance 2. Living Area 3. Dinning Are 4. Kitchen 5. Utility 6. Back-Yard
East Elevations
View from the Dinning Area
South Elevations 1.
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First Floor Plan
1. Reading Area 2. Living Area 3. Balcony : 01 4. Kid’s Bedroom 5. Master Bedroom 6. Balcony : 02
West Elevations 4
02 MEDITATION CENTRE Mentor
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Prof. Rahul Patel
Studio
:
Material Studio
Project Typology :
Rehab Centre
Site Area
:
9400 sq. mt.
Location
:
Vadodara, Gujarat
BRIEF The aim here was to design a place for the spiritual healing and elevating for society with the help of Meditation and Art Therapy Centre. The space should be an experience that facilitates connection to self and makes sure an emotionally and physically healthy society. Also it should be capable of an isolation from the chaos present in the outside world. A plot near a jaggery factory in the outskirts of Vadodara was assigned for the same.
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CONCEPT The concept behind the design of Meditation Centre is quite simple. The idea was to achieve a seamless design which identifies itself as a singular mass and directs the main focus towards the central stage on the inside. The user group meditating inside won’t have any point of focus besides the stage to distract them from concentrating as the whole structure seems to be continuous. The form was designed using Reinforced Cement Concrete Prefabricated Modules which comes together on site in a seamless manner.
MATERIALS USED
Concrete
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Steel
Glass
Guiding Entrance
Reinforced Cement Concrete Shell Roof Structure with Circular Skylight
Prefabricated RCC Curved Walls with Facade Glass on East, South and West Side Meditation Hall Internal Play
Base Element with Planters and Partition Wall which guides the Entrance
Isometric Exploded Form-work of Meditation Hall 8
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Section YY’
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Refer Detail “A” Z
Plan - Meditation Hall In plan, the structure opens up towards Eastern, Southern and Western Direction to capture the maximum amount of Daylight during the day time. Seven Tangents extends out forward to achieve the design. At the end of each tangents, a DGU Glass is provided which also helps in achieving the desired NRC levels. 9
Section ZZ’
Facade Glass DGU to let daylight enter the spaces RCC Module 1 Base Module’s Floor Wooden Frame for Facade Glass - Jamb Joinery which connects two different modules RCC Module 2 Exterior Landscape
Typical Facade Glass Joinery at “A” RCC Plinth Base on which Prefabricated Shells would connect RCC Floor Slab
Metal Plate on which RCC Slab would rest.
Typical Plinth to Slab Joinery Deatail 10
03 Public Installation Project Typology :
Temporary Structure
Site Area
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100 sq. mt..
Location
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Entrance, APIED Campus
BRIEF Festivals are the key source of energy. Theme based Traditional Installations, Lampshades and a positive environment are the soil in which roots are laid in. It caters the occasion and also enhances the ambience at the campus. To design a space which acts as a buffer for audience and guide them through the transition, making them a little conscious and aware about the festive surround they are about to experience. The Entrance was chosen to do so, as it connects the main gate and the entrance foyer of the institute.
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CONCEPT The idea was to create an ambience to cater the socio-cultural aspect of the annual college festival as a transitional space between outside and inside of the institute. The shelter was to be designed as a light structure which wouldn’t disturb the surrounding context. The idea was driven by keeping in mind the reinforcement laid in a hyperbolic parabolic structure and using it to create a light and porous canopy. The entire structure has been formulated by repeating a single module arrangement with congruent principles.
MATERIALS USED Institution Built-Up
Plan Depicting the location of the Installation Bamboo
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Jute Rope
Entrance
Split - Column Detail
Junction Between two Modules
Beam - Column Joinery Detail
This is what it looked like
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04 Skill development centre Mentor
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Prof. Jyoti Gill
Studio
:
Institutional Studio
Project Typology :
Institute
Site Area
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13000 sq. mt..
Location
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Wilson Hill, Gujarat
BRIEF There was need felt for scaling up concerted efforts to enhance skill development in India, in response to identified gap in the area of skill development. The Studio engaged in understanding scale and complexity of institutional type projects. The design program was to design a Skill Development Institute in Wilson Hill, Gujarat. It revolved around designing skill based Training-Workshops, Audio-Visual lecture Rooms and Administration Offices. The program explored the possibilities of designing in a tight piece of hilly terrain and relationship between one built mass to another, helping to bind together a cohesive campus environment.
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CONCEPT As long as education is concerned, the best way to learn something is by learning through “ Discovery “. Responding to the site’s natural topography, masses were placed and oriented in such a way that overall excavation cost and labour could be reduced to a minimal proportion, which might result in cost reduction of the overall project. Pathways and Roadways were established keeping in mind the slope and contour map of the site. Keeping in mind all the different aspects, a plan was freezed with a central spine which indicated the primary passage and around it different verticals on the either side of the spine.
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Common Amenities
Academic Ties
Water Body / Utility
Built Up Masses
Spill Over Spaces
Parking etc.
Gradual stepped masses encourages wind and light intake. Strategically placed in line of wind and light direction, these masses are configured to allow cross ventilation.
Number of four way junctions are avoided as long as possible to decrease the unnecessary footprint traffic at these junctions.
Visual Connection is established between passages/ spill-overs at different levels. Cantilevered masses helps in creating informal pockets which later acts as spill-overs for workshops.
A lot of play in levels was to be incorporated as guided by the site. Opening were strategically placed to achieve required amount of user comfort.
The provided area is on a hilly terrain with an elevation of 500 meters above sea level. The site levels varies from 490 meters to 512 meters. The elevation gradually increases as we walk towards north direction. The weather of Wilson Hills is calm and pleasant with very less humidity as compared to the plains. The summers are warm but enjoyable and cool blowing winds lowers down the temperature. Remarkable Views from the Wilson Hill Site
Steep Slope as seen in the picture above 18
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A Ground Floor Plan | Skill Enhancement, Humanities and Auditorium
View ‘A’ : Welcoming Entrance 19
First Floor Plan | Skill Enhancement, Humanities and Auditorium
View ‘B’ : Landscape Elements used as Guides
View ‘C’ : Courtya
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Ground Floor Plan | Soft Skills, Library and Canteen
ards as a Spill Over
First Floor Plan | Soft Skills, Library and Canteen
View ‘D’ : Accessibility for Specially-Abled
View ‘E’ : Visual Connectivity at Different Levels 20
RCC Wind Catcher C MS Section Channel MS Steel Louvres MS Steel Rods
Wooden Base RCC Coping RCC Slab and Beam Rat Trap Bond
Wind Catcher Isometric View
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Wind Catcher Detail
DESIGN EMPHASIS RCC Slab RCC Beam
MS Steel Jali RCC Column RCC Coping
An idea was to achieve clusters forming “ Spaces of Pauses � in between. The overall built form would be a singular mass and not different masses spread over the site. Each of these pauses would have a different identity, essence or a scenic beauty, hence giving the user group contrary emotions respectively. It will also help in increasing interaction between students, even of different verticals, which is very essential for a student. Most of the workshops or lecture rooms are provided with wind catcher and vents for continuous wind exchange, allowing massive amount of cross ventilation all the time.
Brick Partition Wall
MS Jali Working as Vents
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05 Documentation Faculty of Performing Arts Mentor
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Prof. Manoj Rami
Studio
:
Contextual Studio
Project Typology :
Performing Arts Institute
Site Area
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6400 sq. mt.
Location
:
Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara
BRIEF Heritage value refers to the aesthetic, historic, cultural, social importance or significance for past, present or future generations. To understand how Sayajirao’s vision of public education manifested in the form of elaborate Indo Saracenic Architecture and how the function guides space, hierarchy and order along with maintaining its climate responsiveness, scale and proportions that responds to the public scale.
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CONSTRUE Vadodara is unique blend of diversity, straddling a mixture of cultures with a long rich historical background. The river Vishwamitri cuts across the city and divides it into two distinct Eastern and Western region. Standing still since 1884, “Sangeet Shala� now known as Faculty of Performing Arts has seized to amaze everyone with its Indo-Saracenic style of architectural beauty. It was founded by Shri Sayaji Rao Gaekwad, the ruler of Vadodara City.
1721 : Chandan Talav
1886 : Exploration on South Edge
1900 : Removal of Gola Community Built-Up Spaces Open Spaces
1750 : Enlarged Sur Sagar Lake
1892 : Nyay Mandir
Commercial Buildings
1910 : Jubeli Baug
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Public Amenity Institutional Buildings Residential Buildings Residential + Commercial Religious Institution
1860 : Densely Surrounded by Buildings
1898 : Expropriation on West Bank
1921 : BCIT Expropriation
Primary Street 1860 : Civic Institute Buildings
1917 : Expropriation on North Bank
Evolution of the Context over few decades 25
Secondary Street
1960 : Padmavati Shopping Centre
Tertiary Street
Context Mapping
Panoramic View of
Classes / Lectures
the Present Context
Administrator
Primary Commute
Studios
Secondary Commute
Various Space Differentiation
Internal Masses and relationship between them 26
Ground Floor Layout
First Floor Layout 27
On Site Sketches
Classroom Window Detail
Classroom Door Detail
Section YY’
Section ZZ’ 28
06 Basic Design Sculpting the past Mentor
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Prof. Monal Mistry
Studio
:
Basic Design III
Project Typology : Location
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Historic Monument Florence, Italy
BRIEF Different buildings having their each own architectural characteristic were given to pre-assigned groups and through the process of putting lines and planes in it, we understand its structure and the design principles associated with it. Through various exercises aimed at decoding the existing structure into its points, lines and planes, and by making models, both in groups as well as individually. And illuminate its intimate relationship of design principles and its understanding to gain its designing principle.
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Various works Staircase Case Study | Post Tension Slab | Workshops | Graphic Atempts
Academics enriches your life, but Extra-curricular activities enriches your soul. It lets you to get involved to the extent you desire. It also demonstrates your commitment to that particular area.
Constructing Beam using Bamboo
Constructing Semicircular Arch using Bricks
Learning to tie Reinforcem
L Junction using Random Rubble Stone Masonry
Constructing Rat Trap Bond using Bricks
RCC Filler Slab with Manga
Laurie Baker Centre
Laurie Baker Centre
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Laurie Baker Centre
Laurie Baker Centre
Laurie Baker Centre
Laurie Baker Centre
ment Bars
Deployable Geodesic Dome : Opened
Deployable Space Frame : Closed
alore Tiles as filler material
Deployable Geodesic Dome : in Closing
Deployable Space Frame : Opened
Deployable Structures
Deployable Structures
Deployable Structures
Deployable Structures
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Section
Plan
RCC WAIST SLAB STAIRCASE : CASE STUDY The staircase was measure drawn on-site in Vallabh Vidyanagar, as a part of our building construction case study. Later, a model was constructed understanding the basic idea of the given staircase typology.
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RCC PT SLAB : STUDY MODEL The aim was to study and learn the functioning of post tension slab. The model was accomplished using thermocol sheets, straws, and plastic wire.
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photographs, GRAPHIC DESIGNS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology
Orchha Temple
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Laurie Baker Centre Trivandrum, Kerela
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Orchha, Madhya Pradesh
Potrait
Orchha, Madhya Pradesh
Orchha Fort
Orchha, Madhya Pradesh
STUDENT’S CLUB
Arvindbhai Patel Institute of Environmental Design
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