PORTFOLIO
VIBHAVARI SARANGAN select works, 2015 - 2023
Through this portfolio, I wish to investigate the following questions:
Due to their unique context, how are spaces appropriated in different societies? How does every stakeholder’s identity shape their experience of a space? How do societal barriers like gender, race, faith, caste, age and class get transcended by spatial configurations? How can spaces be curated to include every individual stakeholder? How can indigenous wisdom on sustainable techniques be employed to improve habitability & sustain an urban society? How do we designers tread the fine line between the aspirations of an evolving society while also mitigating climate change? How can these design ideas be simplified for stakeholders who may not have the technology & skills to read an ‘Architectural’ drawing? Lastly, how does a proposed design evolve with people, time, context & climate?
01. FINAL YEAR THESIS Academic Work | Sem 10; 2020
02. MUDIALI: KOLKATA’S KIDNEYS Academic Work | Sem 06; 2018
03. RIVER & RELIGION Academic Work | Sem 05; 2017
04. WHAT IS A HOME? Academic Work | Sem 04; 2017
05. STEPPING BACK IN TIME Academic Work | Sem 03; 2016
06. KABADDI ACADEMY
Professional Practice | Ongoing Project
07. STUDENT HOUSING
Professional Practice | Ongoing Project
01. FINAL YEAR THESIS
‘RE-LINKING PADMA NAGAR’, Sem 10 | Mumbai, Dec. 2019- June 2020 WHAT?
Dignifying life on the frontiers of Mumbai, in the foothills of Asia’s oldest & largest dumpyard
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Padma Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai • The Eastern edge of Mumbai, abutting Vashi Creek • A densely populated urban slum that thrives off the dump yard and its adjacencies- with an evergrowing population of floating migrants & multi-generational families. • Legally in a constant state of perilwith laws that keep changing and creating new loopholes- there’s still a sense of resilience: seen in the process of homemaking • Adhering to a familiar material palette, the settlement continues to expand, rapidly, continuously & haphazardly - Currently occupying ~1,25,000 sq.m of land
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Padma Nagar, set up as a plotted resettlement in the 1970shas rapidly grown into a now densely populated, ‘unregulated’, underprivileged settlement, still depending on the adjacent dumpfor economic sustenance. Frequent dumpster fires have shortened the lifespan of people. Citizens live in a toxic, perilous environment & a legal mess
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STEP 01: THE WALK
Initial observations of Padma Nagar This circle denotes the area chosen by me, as it was a dense informal settlement of homes, shops & community spaces
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STEP 02: THE INTERVIEWS Conversations with residents
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STEP 03: THE STAKEHOLDERS
Conversations with the toddlers, students, teachers, doctors, nurses & entrepreneurial women working here This points towards a series of social disturbances that can be the low hanging fruits we choose to try & change - via thoughtful, sensitive & collaborative design
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STEP 04: THE DESIGN AMBITION TO ENHANCE HABITABILITY
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STEP 05: THE PALIMPSEST
Layering of Nodes & disturbances that make this settlement
Marrying the existing nodes with the existing conflicts - to carve out the new set of interventions
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STEP 06: PROCESS
Rethinking the form & use of the existing socio-cultural nodes Injecting new socio-environmental infrastructure
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STEP 07: PROPOSAL
Injecting 10 socio-cultural nodes that also environmetally recharge the settlement
Building as per the existing grid and with sustainable, simple techniques. Space for each plug-in is carved out by nudging homes on top of their adjacent homes, so as to not erase existing ties.
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STEP 08: SITE PLANS
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STEP 09: SITE SECTIONS
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STEP 10: ECOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS
Possible green solutions, to help improve the quality of Air, Water & Land- thus improving the quality of life GUIDANCE - Farhad Contractor | Amod Shevde| Samdarsh Nayyar
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STEP 11: METHODS
An attempt to create & consume clean energy
IMPLEMENTING THE PROJECT
Ongoing Project | Mumbai, April 2022 onwards
IMPLEMENTING THE PROJECT
Ongoing Project | Mumbai, April 2022 onwards
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02. MUDIALI: KOLKATA’S KIDNEYS Academic Work | Sem 06 | Feb 2018 - June 2018 WHAT?
Rebuilding the fisherfolks’co-operative commune that protects natural water filters of Kolkata WHERE? • • • • • •
Mudiali Lake, Salt Lake area, Kolkata. Adjacent to a popular nature park Low-lying area as it’s a natural water filter Seismic Zone 3 (avg risk of earthquakes) Tropical wet & dry with high cyclone risk Average temperature here- 27°c
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The Fishing Community of Mudiali’s wetlands - One of India’s 1st co-operative movements, protecting the once verdant ‘Kidneys of Kolkata’, since 100 years
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Mudiali’s next generation is staring at a bleak future- loss of jobs & homes, due to old & defunct infrastructure
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The porosity of the proposed construction method (described in the next page), allows the programmes to BREATHE, ushering in winds that permeate through the tree-scape
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Most programmes look towards the North & East, harnessing ambient sunlight. The south & west are shaded by dead walls & overhangs. All the blocks are shrouded by the site’s verdant tree scape
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03. RIVER & RELIGION
Academic Work | Sem 05| Aug 2017 - Nov 2017 WHAT?
Studying the source of Poisar, a seasonal river in Mumbai & its’ role in shaping the cityscape WHERE?
A dry bed of garbage throughout the dry months of the year, poisar is a fast flowing river during the monsoon. It originates from the Sahyadri hills inside the city’s Sanjay Gandhi National park & is protected. The source therfore is not polluted by industrial effluents but instead is polluted by domestic waste from the unregulated informal settlements that dot the riverside. Sadly, it absorbs heavy, toxic effluents from factories & industries further downstream.
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The poisar river is the spine to all the Slum Redevelopment Projects and sees regular legal tussles amongst private land, forest land & SRA. A highly polluted perennial ‘gutter’ today, even the people living by the river’s edge don’t know of its existence!
WHO? (here, the river is personified)
The protection of the riparian edge of Poisar The citizens of Mumbai
NOMENCLATURE : Mosque - ‘Masjid’ | Islamic Cemetery- ‘Kabristan’ | Hindu Crematorium - ‘Smashan Bhumi’ / ‘Smashan’
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04. WHAT IS A HOME?
Academic Work | Sem 04 | Feb 2017 - June 2017 WHAT?
Studying the past, present & designing for the future of the Sindhi Refugee camp, Chembur WHY?
Survivors of India’s partition- history’s largest & most violent human migration- moved from the partitioned Sindh & Punjab provinces, fleeing their their motherland, losing many loved ones in this fast & bloody journey, only to be re-settled in tightly packed ‘camps’ along the fringes of Indian cities. Traversing one such refugee camp in Chemburthrough the lens of survivors & their families. What is a ‘Home’?
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Sindhi Camp & ‘Collector’s Colony’- Land given to the survivors of India’s partition in 1947, by the then collector of Bombay; in present day Chembur, a suburb in Mumbai’s Eastern edge.
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Multi generational Sindhi & Punjabi families living in the Camps of 1947, now a bustling suburb, fast becoming ‘upscale’ due to redevelopment efforts New tenants in the old refugee camp houses
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Home for the partition survivors was about memories that were savoured as-
1. 1 FOOD : Street side eateries 2. 2 WORSHIP : Corners, Sacred Groves 3. 3 RETAIL : Street edge businesses 4. 4 HOME: as barrack galleries spilling out to the street 5. 5 MEMORIES & voices mingling with the neighbours.. 6 CAMP: ‘Mat’ Settlement homes from the 1950s 6. Home was & is an ephemeral edge entity made of memories...
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02. ‘ECHOES OF SINDH’ | group-exercise: foram.d, astrid.d, dannah.d, vibhavari s. RESEARCH The survivors of Partition, who were resettled in camps here have no souvenirs and Studying why history was purposely forgotten by objects that they can call ‘home’... their history not passed onto the next generation- a an entire displaced population- as they tried to reforced amnesia of the very violent & unresolved past...the survivors here have no better build their lives in a new home...Families that once documentation of their history than their own VOICES.
lived in traditional havelis (large family homes) had So, We interviewed them. to flee amidst tremendous violence, with no choice Our installation, an oral rendition of a forgotten history -’Echoes of Sindh’ was but to live 10 people to 1 room - in ruined WW2 showcased at the ‘Partition Museum’Godrej & at the Kochi Students’ Biennale ‘17. British barracks. Understanding this process of https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai-guide/mumbai-food/article/sindhi-colony-chembur-audio-archive-india-
home-making amidst the tragic effects of the partition in the tightly packed refugee campsa painful journey of forgetting & rebuilding, a story of resilience, hope and immense longing.
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03. POSTCARDS -
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CURRENT SCENARIO-
Today, in the same Sindhi Camp in Chembur, many of the affluent Sindhi & Punjabi families have moved to newer more upscale developments (coop housing societies in the same locality), after achieving their dreams in the new homeland. The settlement is now slowly seeing an influx of NEWER migrants, inter-state migrants, looking for jobs, education & even medical aid.
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This juxtaposition, a layering of different eras of migration- consequences of very different reasons; is changing the cultural fabric of this suburb. Thus, the stakeholders here range from old multi-generational refugee families to medical, educational & occupational migrants. The old refugee houses are now being leased out to these new migrants, often single people- for whom this design is intended to create living spaces. This leads to my design question-
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05. STEPPING BACK IN TIME Academic Work | Sem 03 | Aug 2016 - Nov 2016 WHAT?
Studying the past, present & designing for the future of the Konkani community of Old Kochi WHO?
Konkani speaking Hindus from present day Goa, fled the Portuguese invasions 500 years ago & made Kochi Port in Kerala their home. Speaking ‘Konkani’ language without a script- their descendants thrive in the ancient settlements to this day, a testament to the multicultural hub that Kochi once was.
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Today the Konkani community here is highly educatedboasting of doctors, lawyers, engineers & professors. However, the community is slowly forgetting its rich art, culture. How can the heritage & history of this resilient community be documented?
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The heart of the Spice Trade for centuries, Kochi is an ancient port town, jutting out from the South Indian state of Kerala, tying islands & peninsulas together by a maze of bridges and ferries, many functioning to this day.
A melting pot of cultures, Kochi absorbed & was moulded by the many nations that traded on its shores. Dotted by giant Chinese fishing nets, Dutch & Portuguese quarters, Ancient Jewish synagogues and Arabic dhows, Kochi is a vivid cocktail of traditions, histories and architecture Site Info• Mattancherry, Fort Kochi, Kerala • Tropical Monsoon climate+ hot summer • June- Sept: Heavy rains |Oct-Dec: Light rains • Average temp.- 27°c
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Centuries since the migration, the Konkani community has seamlessly blended with the cultural fabric of Kochi. To these people who still speak a language from their ancient home, who still talk about the tyranny of the Portuguese colonists- amidst modernization, changing aspirations & the imminent threat of their history getting lost due to the absence of textual evidence, How can fast-disappearing history, art & culture be documented?
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06. KABADDI TRAINING ACADEMY
Professional Practice | Role : Concept Designer | Team - Vibhavari S. & Gayathri U.
Designated Tasks - research | site study | analysis | zoning | concept | materiality | co-ordination WHAT?
A state of the art training academy & residency for ‘Kabaddi’ players. It is for a major team in India’s ‘Pro Kabaddi League’. It will train & house the existing team and also hone future talents from the surrounding villages of heartland Maharashtra. WHY? A team sport that traces its origins to the epic battles of ancient India, Kabaddi has now gained immense traction as a premier league sport.
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The goal is to provide a platform to the people of Maharashtra- the state that birthed modern day Kabaddi- to sharpen their talents.
order- drawing from the symmetry of the courts
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• ANJAP, 80k.m away from Mumbai • In Maharashtra - the state that formalized modern Kabaddi(1921) • 2 acres, total area • Hot & Humid zone(severe rains: june-oct)
touch- interactions with the team & opponents
free form- in team huddles & tussles
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Players | Communities around the site
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December 2022 - 2024 (estimated completion)
EARTH’S MATERIALITY Kabaddi originated ‘from the earth’, with many manoeuvres of the game still intrinsically linked to the use of mud as a crucial component. Even today in the heart of Maharashtra, mud walls are a common feature; denoting solidity- a metaphor that can be parallelly drawn from the robust & solid energy exuded by the sport. Thus, Earth/ Mud as a material can be explored.
earth - the origin of the sport & an integral component of it
RAMMED EARTH• Ramming layers of mud • Using the site’s earth itself (no embodied energy) • This process creates new jobs & enhances the ancient sustainable knowledge once practised here C.S.E.B• ‘Compressed stabilized earth blocks’, using the site’s own earth (without any kilns/ fuel) • A very sustainable method • This can create interesting new jobs for the local communities
the site - the birth place of modern day Kabaddi...
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nearby villages- creating opportunities & jobs space- the kabaddi courts need large flat parcels of land
volume- the indoor court has to be expansive, to house an audience of 250 people
orientation- the outdoor court is oriented towards the north, blocking the sunset glare
• 24 rooms- for team members • 3 villas for the coaching staff • 16 bed dormitory for local talent • Gymnasium • Physio & Recovery room • Swimming Pool • Dining Area & Kitchen (Staff Only) • Laundromat • Outdoor Court - 1 Court • Indoor Courts - 2 courts • Meeting/ Games room • Changing Rooms • For Public - seating & washrooms BROAD ZONINGThe brief can be categorized into 3 zones
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Diagrams & Text - Vibhavari Sarangan Site images in collaboration with co-designer Gayathri U.
SITE VISITS Labelling the trees on site | Understanding the exsiting terrain, gradient & adjacencies The site has many groves within it- the largest is the green central ‘spine’ that almost cuts the site into east & west halves.
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STRENGTHS- Lush greenery, great terrain & pure air. Adjacencies will enhance social impacts via involvement WEAKNESSES- Small plot with very little open space & no source of water. Trees to be transplanted. OPPORTUNITIES- To become a sporting landmark in the region; a one-of-its’-kind project, a 1st for Edifice. THREATS- Uncontrollable edges (future developments)
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ANALYSIS: 01. TERRAIN ANALYSIS Rhino Modelling Grasshopper (Bison plug-in)
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BUILDABLE AREAS AS PER THE LAWS Buildable upto 10° Slope 0° Slope - Flat land
10° Slope - Max. Slope >10° - Non-Buildable Highest Contour - 115.0 Lowest Contour - 100.5 15m drop along 135m Around 1:9 slope 02. IDENTIFYING THE MAJOR LANDSCAPE ELEMENTS Drone Survey | Site Visit | Foliage Analysis mapped Tree Information - Agriculturist Motiram
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03. IDENTIFYING THE OPEN SPACES Adhering to the buffers | Initial zoning ideas
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MASTERPLANNING: ZONING, CONCEPT & MATERIALITY Current Stage: Oct. 2023
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Professional Practice | Role : Concept Designer | Team - Vibhavari S. & Gayathri U.
Designated Tasks - research | site study | analysis | zoning | concept | co-ordination WHAT?
Designing a hostel for the students of India’s oldest arts & architecture college WHERE? • • • • •
BKC S.E.Z
ARTERIAL FLYOVER
Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC), a special economic zone in Mumbai It’s a flood-prone area, due to its’ proximity to the beach Hot & Humid (severe rains- June to Oct) Avg temperature here is 27°c SITE AREA – 6885.20sqm
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In a quiet leafy by-lane of ‘Kala Nagar’-an erstwhile artists’ housing set up decades ago.
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The existing hostel blocks are in ruins, students cannot live in the old blocks This hostel site will see habitation again, after 10 years of neglect This is a learning experience & a unique opportunity for us, as the city severly lacks student housing
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Architecture & Art students
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April 2023 - mid 2025 (estimated completion)
PROXIMITY
• The daily travel corridor between the hostel and college is mainly through the public trains or bus systems. • The Bandra railway station & Kalanagar Bus Stop area both at walking distance from the site • There are student passes available for both systems
Diagrams & Text - Vibhavari Sarangan Site Images courtesy- Suraj Pillai
SUNLIGHT
Ample sunlight streams in from the east & the north The East has the wide arterial BKC highway & the North has many old 3 storied artists’ residential blocks
CHANGING CONTEXT
The site’s greenery makes it an OASIS in the heart of Mumbai’s premier S.E.Z. Thus, the students will enjoy a plethora of Mumbai’s best urban experiences, enriching their academic journey & the process of home-making.
EXISTING LIMITS
Applying the municipal buffers, as per the 2034 Development Plan The Existing Blocks are in ruins, rendering them unusable
Project Brief : FRONT & BACK EDGES: • The east of the site faces the BKC highway, the spine of the SEZ. It is the site’s CITY EDGE • The east will always enjoy sunlight, due to the presence of this highway • The western edge faces the leafy inner lane, this is the ACCESS edge (the BKC highway edge is not open for access) The entry & exit both are from this edge • The west is a quiet edge, falling in the shadow of the large adjacent high rise, while sharing the access road with the artists’ housing project
• Total strength – 1000 Students • Rooms for 1x, 2x & 3x occupancies - with attached toilets • Occupancy depends on the academic programme • Dining Hall + Kitchen • Studio & Multipurpose hall • Leisure spaces & commons
ACTIVITIES x DIRECTIONS
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Introducing each external facade with double height volumes as Commons, that also function as wind corridors. Infusing them with programmes that are beneficial for the students’ health, well-being & scholastic endeavours
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A series of volumetric experiments, to arrive at a form that ensures light, ventilation, greenery & privacy to all its’ residents
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