-Mapping everyday narratives-
architecture + design
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Vritti Shah (B.Arch) | KRVIA’ 22 selected works : 2017-2022
Curriculum Vitae
Vritti Shah Mumbai, Maharashtra +91 9987233396 vrittishah27.vs@gmail.com I see architecture as a medium through which relationships, communities and identities are built and shaped. I believe the primary role of architeture is to make human lives more exciting and enjoyable. Architecture has helped me in viewing the city and everything around me in a new light. Over the years I have developed a research based, yet, an intuitive style of designing. I see my work as a manifestation of my thought process, perspectives and beliefs. I seek to expand, learn and grow as an architect and an individual.
The portfolio contains selected academic and professional works done between 2017-2022. All works that have been displayed in the portfolio are works that I have worked upon. Some of these works may be an outcome of a group of individuals for which due credits have been given.
Education
Electives and Workshops
2002-2015
Queen Mary School
2017
Machines of Sound by Mihir Desai
2015-2017
Kishinchand Chellaram College
2017
Odyssey Dance by Nibedita Mishra
2017-2022
Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for
2018
Sasane Village Study by Minal Yerramshetty
2018
Art and Theatre by Justin Pomnany
2019
Parametric Design I by Dimple Mehta
2019
Parametric Design II by Chentur Raghav
Revit 3D
2020
Alternate Cartographies by Ankush Chandran
Rhino 3D
2020
Fologram Wosrkshop by Sean Guy
Architecture and Encironmental Studies.
Skills AutoCAD 2D
Sketchup 3D Adobe Photoshop
2021
Cognitive Mapping by Aditya
2021
Designing Terroir by Mamta Patwardhan
Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign
Extra Curricular
Adobe Premier Pro Twin Motion MS Office
Work Experience May-June, 2018
KRVIA Summer Internship
Nov-Dec, 2019
Kohima Exhibition planning committee
May-July, 2020
Internship at Studio Desgn Inc.
Jan-June, 2021
Internship at Gaurav Roy Choudhary Architects
Achievements and Publications 2018
Wai Book
2018
Sasane Study Book
2019
Third position in Architectural Design Sem IV
2019
Third position in Architectural Design Sem V
2021
Second position in Architectural Design Sem IX
Competitions 2020
Project Lari by Chaal Chaal Agency
2021
Notions of India by Tata Steel
2017
Wai Exhibition
2017
KRVIA 25 Exhibition
2018
Siddhpur Exhibition
2018-19
Graphics Team
2020
KRVIA Annual Exhibition
2020
COA Heritage Awards Committee
2020
Kohima Exhibition
Academic Projects 01
Placemaking for the Everyday
02
Superblock Habitat
03
Linked Habitat
04
Nukkad Lari
05
The Node
06
Abode of Tranquility
07
Mixed-use building
A case of peripheralisation in Bhiwandi
Reimagining social housing
Mixed social housing, MbPT colony
Project Lari competition by Chaal Chaal Agency
Notions of India competition by Tata Steel
A center for STD positive patients
Integrated design studio
08
Tides of Change
09
The Labyrinth
10
Whose Space is it anyway?
11
Documentation-Kohima and Siddhpur
12
Graphics
13a
Professional Practice
13b
Professional Practice
Oraculum Terrible
Blending into the existing fabric
Alternate Cartographies
Measured Drawing
KRVIA graphics team
GRCA
SDI
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Village Road Peripheries
Urban village Urban city Peripheries
Mumbai
Urban village Census town
Village Census town
Village
01 Placemaking for the everyday
Semester IX, X
A case of peripheralisation in Bhiwandi Location : Bhiwandi, Mumbai Guide : Jude D’souza
The thesis starts with an enquiry into the peripheral zones of Mumbai - conditions of survival and the idea of marginality but it largely intends to focus on the socioeconomic conditions of the periphery. It is an inquiry into the spatial infrastructure that assists the majority who have been displaced and abandoned due to neoliberal economic reforms. How do these individuals deal with their changing identity, occupation and basic necessities. What are the kinds of networks, informal and formal institutions that assist them to go about their daily routines? Which institutions do they resort to to abate the impact of the growing disparity between the displaced toiler and the upper class people?
Placemaking for the everyday | Academic Project
“Bhiwandi mein kaam kaun karta hai?” “These areas are extremely filthy and unorganised.”
“It’s unsafe to visit these places alone.”
“Yaha pe garib log rehte hai. Isliye paiso ki bohot maara maari hai. Ye jagah unsafe hai”
“These places are of minor importance and are irrelevant ”
“These places are low-lying and flood every year ”
“Idhar pe kisine vaccine nahi lagayi hai. Sambhal ke jaana.”
“Ye Bombay ke bahar hai. Yahan pe kuch nahi hai!”
“Mumbai ke vikas ke liye ye jagah ko hatana hoga ”
“Yaha pe ‘goonde’, ‘bootleggers’, ‘dacoits’, ‘drug-offenders’, ‘land grabbers’, ‘gamblers’ rehte hai.”
“Yaha pe garib log rehte hai, inke liye kuch banane ka faayeda nahi hai”
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Migration to the City ‘Migration is an adjustment to economic and social change. It is a response of human organisms to economic and social situations in the environment.’ 12 9
3 1.2 Lakh p.a Paid Fortnightly
Demolition of slums
Money
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Lack of money
Work
Bihar
Farmland
Loss of livelihood
Telangana
Solapur
City Center
Displacement
Relationship ties
Urban Village
Village
Family Children Education
Poor Light & Ventilation
Survival
Life
Monotonous 12
9
Living environment
No privacy
Working class homes
Lack of leisure
Water/Electricity cuts
10 x 12 ft
Rent
Neglect
Size
3
6 Working hours 12 hours
Lack social infrastructure
viewed as mere resources
1. Social spaces have entry fees 2. Workers face exclusion 3. Social infrastructure mostly present in high-class enclaves
The city exerts a radical impact on three aspects or facets of individual and collective life : Construction,
Importance, relevance
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Restructuring of rhythms and existence
Placemaking for the everyday | Academic Project
Powerloom Industry and its networks 1. Goods are also exported to several cities within Maharashtra. 2. Finished product is sent to Dombivali for dyeing.
1. Powerloom repair shops are located throughout Bhiwandi within these power loom hubs. 2. The local economy thrives due to the presence of the looms
1. MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises) provide loans depending on the size of the industry. 2. The MSME requires proper legal documents through which they give out loans, but the loom owners having several stakeholders and being informal industries lack proper legal documents and hence cannot avail these loans.
Loom repair shops
MSMEs
Intra-state network
Government Bank Inter-state network
1. Worker Housing has been developed over the years close to their spaces of work. 2. The workers stay in groups of 3 in rented rooms having a standard size of 10ftx 12ft.
Rich enclaves
Torrent Power Worker Housing
1. A network of trucks are responsible for the import and export of goods throughout the nation. 2. Raw material is imported from South India and exported to rest of the country. 3. Truck drivers take haults at cheap, local lodging places when travelling long distances.
1. The local banks in Bhiwandi provide loan upto a certain fixed amount depending on the documents of the industry. 2. The loan provided by the banks is quite often not sufficient to set up a new factory, buy new machineries, etc. 1.The rich enclaves which houses the owners are generally a liitle far away from the filthy loom hubs. 2. The disparity between the rich and the poor is quite evident in the way Bhiwandi’s housing is segregated according to class. 3. Some of the owners have moved to the city core in search for better infrastructure and housing conditions.
1. Majority of Bhiwandi’s power loom and worker housing recieves electricity through Torrent Power
The Migrant and his networks MSMEs has been setup in Bhiwandi to provide loans for micro, small and medium enterprise. Workers do not have most of the documents required for registration The bank refuses to hand out loans to the workers. Their only source are their networks who are unable to hand out more than 2,000.
Informal E-shops help them send money to their villages, book travel tickets, etc by charging a small premium
1. NGOs/Labour unions are not known by the workers. 2. Redundant group which is not aiding the workers with their welfare.
1. Government schools are not functional anymore due to covid 2. Kids are not being educated because private schools are unaffordable
Electricity : Torrent Power Water : BNCMC Sanitation : No provision
Govternment provided for ration shops which open once a month with insufficient resources.
Local Bissi shops provide for meals for bachelors.
The government bodies have set up women, youth, worker welfare associations in migrant neighbourhoods but these benefits aren’t recieved by the user groups. These groups are vote banks.
Owner Meta Workers
Wage : 1,20,000 p.a. Salary : Paid fortnightly Salary cut for a missed day
1. Workers are subjected to cotton particles and high levels of noise which cause long term problems. 2. Health care is expensive and hence often avoided by the workers 3. The government has provided for ESIC cards - free medicines. 4. The scheme has workers waiting entire days in queue for free healthcare, losing out on their daily wage. 5. They end up going to some local doctors who are not extremely proficient in the field.
The daaru shop is frequented rarely due to unaffordable prices
The talao is the only public space and becomes a pivot for festivals
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Short stories
#1
The home, usually shared by 6 migrant bachelors is a 10*12 feet room. Half of them have night duties while the other half work during the day so the room isn’t crowded at any particular point of time. The housing complex has common toilets. The room is used for cooking meals, sleeping and washing clothes. The room has poor ventilation, only through a window. Most of the rooms don’t even have a window and the only form of natural light source is the window.
Spaces of work
The Home
Spaces of escape include the corridor, talao chai shop, alcohol shops, watching videos on the phone, etc. Lack of recreationa spaces makes their time post-work redundant and they blame themselves for a mundane lifestyle. The face exclusion at several public spaces.
Spaces of Escape
Informal e-service shops are used to send aid in the form of money back to their villages, to book transport tickets, mobile recharge, etc.
Most of the day is spent at work places. The work env. is toxic.
Local Bissi
Informal e-services
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Placemaking for the everyday | Academic Project
Eknath, 27
Eknath, from Ratnagiri moved to Bhiwandi a few years ago along with his peer. He had no source of income back in his village whichis why he moved to Bhiwandi. He worked at the power looms for about 7 years before the pandemic struck the world. He lost his jib after which he faced a lot of hardships. He had no savings. Through his peer network he sourced a job at the mask making factory. He has resumed work at the power loom but is extremely uncertain about his future.
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Meals are served at local bhissis at a rate of 2500 per month. Bhissis are divided according to ethnic groups. Some of them are set upwithin their homes, but most of them are within galas which have their openings on the front.
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Short stories
#2
Daily Life
Like most of the migrants’ of her social spaces are thei quarters and the home where a living along with other wom neighbourhood. The wome meet at someone’s home to Other than that, she visits the a daily basis.
Govt. Institutions
Most of her morning routine is spent in getting her daughter dressed up to school and cooking meals for her husband to carry to the looms. Every Sunday she stands in a queue outside the govt. ration shop
f Bhiwandi, ir housing she makes men in the en usually roll biddis. temple on
Placemaking for the everyday | Academic Project
The Biddi industry
The biddi industry mostly employs women who are mostly engaged with household chores and recieve free time in the afternoon. Their wage is 70 rupees a day for a fixed amount of biddis which is barely anything but essential for their survival.
Sushma, 38
Sushma , a migrant from UP moved to Bhiwandi 10 years ago after she got married. Her husband has been working in the power looms since. She complains about the wages of the men being constant since a decade even though the living expenses have sky rocketed.
Raw materials from biddi Bhayandar come fro Bhayandar and are distributed throughout Virar Maharashtra. Biddi being the cheapest form of intoxication Borivali mostly is an informal industry. Hence, industries of Biddi aren’t seen in Bhiwandi but it prvides Ulhasnagar emplyoment behind closed doors, in the migrants’ home
Bhiwandi
To support her 7 year old daughter and her educational expense she started working for the informal biddi industry. Bhiwandi recieves a huge quantity of raw material for biddi rolling which are distributed amongst daily wage workers. She is worried about the future of her family because withthe current wages, she will not be able to support her daughter’s higher education.
Delhi
Odisha
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Growth of Bhiwandi
2000
Site Plan
2005
2010
2020
Placemaking for the everyday | Academic Project
Diagramming
Design Development Wood workshop
Multipurpose Space
Handlooms
Job registration
Workshop spaces
Clinic
E-Learning
Labour union
Library
Bank and MSME Vegetable market
Useable Terraces
Built VS Unbuilt
Service Cores
Programes
Circulation Cores
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Structural System Steel Concrete
Composite structural system axo 3500
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Vierendeel girder elevation
Section AA’
Placemaking for the everyday | Academic Project
Details Railing with metal grating welded to the stringer beam 10mm thk folded stainless steel diamond plate bolted to the box section via an L-angle 25x50 thk MS box section supporting the metal sheet bolted to the stringer beam 450x150 MS box section 230mm thk brick wall with 25mm external plaster
Tread and Stringer beam joinery detail
Fins detail
Stringer beam and Shear wall joinery detail
Rooftop amphitheatre detail
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Section BB’
Section BB’
Section DD’
Placemaking for the everyday | Academic Project
Section CC’
Section CC’
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Facade System
Placemaking for the everyday | Academic Project
Wall Section
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The Nakka
Multipurpose hall as sp
The bank
Placemaking for the everyday | Academic Project
& MSME
The Library
Waiting space outside the clinic
Job registration and spill out space
pace of festivities
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02 Superblock Habitat
Semester VII
Reimagining Social Housing Location : Mulund, Mumbai
Collaboraters : Raghav Malhotra, Nikita Taori Guide : Kalpit Asher, Mayuri Sisodia The housing projected is located in the Post and Telegraph colony in Mulund. The location is a perfect site to respond to the growing gentrifcation in the city by providing for a social housing. The complex would cater to the grwing economic needs of the context and also generate revenue for the P and T colony. Creation of the public plaza and the large landscape would act as centrally located green lungs for the ward.
Superblock Habitat | Academic Project
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Diagramming
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Site Plan
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Superblock Habitat | Academic Project
Low-Income Group - 1RK
Low-Income Group - 1BHK
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
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High-Income Group - 3BHK Duplex PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
Superblock Habitat | Academic Project
Co-living Units PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
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Superblock Habitat | Academic Project
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Views
Open space and the entrance to the market. The ramp takes you up to the residential units.
The Archway.
Connection between the LIG ang MIG quarters.
Superblock Habitat | Academic Project
Interactive balcony units of the co-living spaces overlooking the amphitheatre and LIG quarters.
Interaction between the co-living and LIG quarters.
Main entrance of the superblock habitat
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03 Linked Habitat
Semester IX
Mixed Social Housing
Location : MbPT colony, Wadala, Mumbai Collaborators : Raghav Malhotra Guide : Shantanu Poredi, Manisha Poredi Linked Habitat is a mixed social housing design proposal in the larger master plan for the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT). The master plan is a response to the immediate context of the site, existing colony conditions, the departmental staff occupying it, and the requirement for more housing. The design proposal integrates itself with the conceptual masterplan, mid-rise rectangular volumes of similar depths but varying lengths and heights create common courtyards and green buffer zones. The vertical volumes are grounded and linked to the other with horizontal volumes hovering on top. Stilted areas are provided in public zones to house several amenities for the residents. These varying volumetric scales create arrival, ascending and public spaces. These open spaces also enable the masterplan to be more accessible for pedestrians and cyclists with each courtyard, open space and green belt linked to another. Within each volume, shifting corridors, projections, doubleheight voids, different end conditions and exposed circulation create a possibility to iterate the unit layout. The units are primarily laid out on a 5x5m grid. Taking advantage of the different conditions, units from different departmental hierarchies and different typologies are laid out together in an attempt to make a truly mixed social housing project. With an ample number of voids and circulation space, congregation areas, utilities and other amenities are imagined in the housing blocks across various floors.
Superblock Habitat | Academic Project
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Site Diagrams
Massing
Circulation
Program Placement
Program Placement
Site Plan
Superblock Habitat | Academic Project
Type of units
Shifting Corridors 15m
40m
2
50m
2
60m
Intersection of units
Axonometric
2
80m
2
Voids
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04 Nukkad Lari Project Lari Competition
Collaborator : Raghav Malhotra
Nukkad Lari | Academic Project
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05 The Node Tata Steel Competition
Collaborators : Gaurav Roy Choudhary, Rujuta Doshi, Suraj Thorat, Amrit Nagpal. There are 2 Indias. One is prospering and progressing. This is the dominant India. There is also another India - a second India that experiences extreme inequality with numbered opportunities and limited resources, and with aspirations that are never acknowledged and addressed. “The Node” is created in this process of acknowledgement, and while creating a shared space where both Indias can co-exist and eventually merge. The base of the structure is imagined to be an earthy mass emerging from the ground. This portion provides space for programs for the “second India” that helps form a community. As the structure rises, it starts empowering the community. Technology based systems and programes become a facilitator by democratizing access to resources and opportunities. Theseare the programs where bith the “Indias” can virtually as well as physically interact, where information and resources can be shared and transferred. A light and dynamic steel space frame structure emerges from the solid ground mass incorporating much freer spaces and programs that would cater to the entire city. “The Node” tries to become a rupture that would bridge the gap between both the “Indias”.
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The Node | Academic Project
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06 Abode of Tranquility
Semester VI
A center for STD positive patients Location : Kohima, Nagaland Guide : Mayuri Sisodia
Lhisemia Khel located in the Kohima village is the biggest amongst the four Khels. The site is located at the end of the Khel surrounded with residential houses and a public ground, occasionally used during festivities. The area around the site being inactive for most of the day provides a serene and a quiet environment. According to statistics North East India has 45% of the HIV cases. The state of nagaland ranks third for the people affected by STDs. Kohima village has a provision of only 2 hospitals that are equipped with STD testing, which due to social tabboo is not practiced.
Abode of Tranquility | Academic Project
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Diagramming
Flow of Green spaces
Design Development
1
2 Axes
3
4
Hierarchy of Spaces
Concept The project aims to educate the mass about STDs, and also to improve side efects, adherence and education, simplify drug regimens and reduce costs. To prevent a generalized epidemic by containing the spread of HIV and AIDS and elimination of stigma and discrimination against those infected and afected.
The design aims at creating a serene environment for the HIV positive patients. The hospice is held together by a system of courtyards, stone walls, stone staircases and paved ramps which eases mobility of the handicapped patients. The mild climate allows activities to take place out-doors in the green spaces that flows in between the distinct courtyards towards the larger garden. The roofs have been provided with concrete gutters jutting out of the stone walls, forming a tiny waterfall during the monsoon. The hospice has a central circulation through ramps. The ramp opens into subsequesnt green spaces which proves to be integral in the development of the mental and physical heath of the patients.
Circulation
Views
Site Plan
Abode of Tranquility | Academic Project
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Section AA’
Section BB’
Elevation
Abode of Tranquility | Academic Project
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07 Mixed-use Building
Semester VII
Location : Ghatkopar, Mumbai
Collaboraters : Raghav Malhotra, Sashant Tiwari, Arhant Golchha, Kripa Jain Guide : Devesh and Harshada The project located at the node of the metro and railway station at Ghatkopar is a mixed-use building. The multiple programs within the project cater to our site observations. The primary idea was to decongest the road surrounding the site from the street vendors by providing them space to sell goods within the stilt level of the building. The market would be accessible for all and would sell a variety of goods. The northern tip of the site on the ground floor also accommodates a last-mile delivery station owing to its importance to site location amidst this context of Ghatkopar. Thus generating substantial revenue for the project and its maintenance.
Site Study and strategies
Access
Zoning
Roads
Noise from sky
Green cover
Summer solistice
Ground noise
Vehicular Movement
Winter solistice
Structural System
Mixed-use Building | Academic Project
Structural System
Concrete base
Steel structure on concrete
Slab systems
Section A
Section B
Section C
Section D
Long Section
Building with cores
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08 Tides of Change Oraculum Terrible
Location : Mumbra, Maharashtra Guide : Rohan Shivkumar
Semester V
Tides of Change | Academic Project
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Site Plan
Site Evolution
2005
2010
2015
2019
Concept Oraculum terrible is a condition mistaken for insanity. They are madmen blabbering about torture, fagellation and visions of future. These people are placed under solitary custody. God, or that all humanity is, without exception, condemned to eternal damnation.
Section AA’
The design concept revolves around the high, curved walls being the sole element creating spaces and making the structure fuid which resonates with the low of the Desai Khadi. The skin of the structure allows one to view the Khadi along with its mangroves. The intent of program is to restore, reserve and protect Mumbra’s ecosystem, create a platform for the provision of outreach and knowledge exchange making research accessible to all. Studying anthroprogenic impacts on local water quality in marine and freshwater systems.
Elevation
Tides of Change | Academic Project
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Section AA’
Ground floor plan
Working Drawings | Academic Project
08 Working Drawings Location : Mumbra, Maharashtra Guide : Minal Yerramshetty
Wall Section
Semester VI
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Tread detail
Section BB’
Section CC’
Handrail detail
Edge detail
Working Drawings | Academic Project
Staircase Section
Fins 3D
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The Labyrinth | Academic Project
09 The Labyrinth
Semester IV
Blending into the exisiting fabric Location : Siddhpur, Gujarat Guide : Quaid Doongerwala
Lal Doshini Pol, situated near Dharamchakla in Sidhpur is an old pol which has been built around 350 years ago. With a cluster of nineteen residential houses, this space is detached from the hullabaloo of the outside street. The residents live together in harmony and are very welcoming indeed. The narrow street of Lal Doshini Pol shoots of from the main road and turns at several angles before it opens up into a wider space.
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Concept The Labyrinth feature of the pol has been incorporated into the site by creating a few angular roads on the ground level. Only a miniscule of the site is suggested visually, pushing one to further explore more. The houses have been pushed behind to create terraces at each levels. The houses form a neighbourhood in the waythey’re woven together. The staircases leading to these terraces are visually blocked to incorporate the labyrinth. This feature creates room for accidental meetings while moving in and out of the pol. The aspect of connectivity is continued in the way relations are moulded in this kind of a neighbourhood. Built in the time of communal tension and social unrest in the region hundreds of years ago, the Pols are a conglomeration of houses that are inhabited by families linked by caste, culture or profession.
Activities
Section CC’
The Labyrinth | Academic Project
Section AA’
Site Plan
Section BB’
Physical Model
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Whose space is it anyway? | Academic Project
space 10 Whose is it anyway?
Semester VII
Alternate Cartographies Location : Mumbai Website : https://raghavmalhotrawork.wixsite.com/mysite Collaborators : Sriraksha Ramesh, Raghav Malhotra Guide : Ankush Chandran Alternate artographies have been posted, theorised and tested overthe years in the realm of urbanism. It seeks to inculcate a practice of identifying and representing intangible or non-visual characters of urban experience and the act of drawing appropriate relationships between these characters and the living environment.
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Introduction What is Public Space? The role of the public realm is to illuminate human events by providing a space of appearances, a space of visibility, in which men and women can be seen, heard, and reveal, through word and action, who they are. For them, appearance constitutes reality, and its possibility depends on a public sphere in which things can come out of a dark and sheltered existence.
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what is space?
our city? no discrimination?
free?
who can enter it? txg ? space for all?
whose space freedom? is it anyway?
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Protest - an act of reclaiming space Public spaces are places of expression. Some more than others -due to a series of proper factors put together- but all public spaces inspire exchange. Often the sites of protest, they transform into places of resistance, where revolutions and social uprisings emerge. Majdi Faleh states that “the public square should not be represented as the city’s gated property or as a walled garden. It should be a space that provides citizens with opportunities to engage in political and social debates”. Protests - powerful political tools for change. People “take their issues to the streets” to be heard and seen, public spaces have resurfaced as a topic of discussion
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Public space x Democracy Public space is democracy excluding political control. The public sphere, that realm of political talk and action between the state and society, burst out of the market and the coffee house long ago, but in recent years even the pages of newspapers and the broadcast media have been superseded. The public sphere is not just a bourgeois indulgence but a global phenomenon.Democracy depends to a surprising extent on the availability of physical, public space, even in our allegedly digital world.
dgk gS txg ? insurgency?
Physical attributes of a publ
Bandra Carter Road
User group and density in pu
Whose space is it anyway? | Academic Project
scale protests
Map of India indicating no.of CAA protests
KRVIA, Juhu
Resid 80% ent ial 80% 70%
40% 22
20%
Bandra carter road
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August Kranti Maidan
KRVIA College
Gateway of India Participants
Observors
Security
Activists/Politicians
Protestors
Volunteers Media Senior citizens
ublic protest spaces
Public protest spaces under study
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11aDocumentation
Semester VI
Object. Institution. Identities Location : Kohima, Nagaland
Objects that we collect around us open out trajectories and connections with the world- material, functional and symbolic. These trajectories make communities, structure identities and are directed and mediated by institutions. The Third Year Study Trip followed some of these trajectories from objects in homes in Kohima village to discover some of the institutions that help in shaping contemporary identities in the city.
Documentation | Academic Project
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11bDocumentation
Semester IV
Location : Siddhpur, Gujarat
Map of Siddhpur
Street Elevation
Exploded axonometric of a typical house
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Section through a typical house in Siddhpur
Section through a typical house in Siddhpur
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Graphics
Graphical posters, illustrations and GIFs made through the course of 4 years in Kamla Raheja using several mediums such as hand drawing, autoCAD, photoshop. The theme largely used to create the pre-annuals posters was dadaism. It is an avant garde artistic and cultural movement prompted by the European societal climate after World War I. The art form was influenced by Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Expressionism.
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13aProfessional Practice
GRCA
Project Name : Rana Residence
I worked on the design development and basic working drawings including sanctioning, basic ayouts and shuttering drawings for this project.
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13aProfessional Practice
SDI
Project Name : Gupta Kamshet
I worked on the design development and basic drawings along with some visuals for the project.
The pavilion overlooking into the bckyard and yards of farm land.
View of the pavilion from the backyard.
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The L-shaped home holds a swimming pool within it.
Entrance into the house.
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