My Work Portfolio

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Yashima Jain 2011-2016 Selected Works

- Resume -

Contents 00. Resume 01. Residence at Manali 02. Institute of Hospitality and Management 03. International Convntion Centre, Dwarka 04. Internship Work 04.01 Jain Temple at Vaishali 04.02 Nuclear Aerosol Facility Training, IIT Kanpur 04.03 Multi-story housing, IIT Kanpur 04.04 Indian Chancery Complex, Kathmandu, Nepal 04.05 The Torana Gate, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

- Residence -

Washroom

Balcony

Lobby Living room Powder room Dining room

Bar Car parking

Residence,

Bedroom 2 Balcony

at Manali.

Project Brief: The site, lies abutting the cross roads, sloping inwards, creating a level difference of 2.1 metres from the prime road to the rear end of the site. Narnia redeines the beauty by the presence of adorning mountains, lotus ponds and paddy ields all around its periphery. The owner wanted to have more informal spaces open to the other, rather than an introverted one. This residence has more semi-private spaces than the private ones.

The entire planning had this thought as a key thing.

Dining room Kitchen Living room below

Pool below

Living room

Home theatre

Way to terrace

Utility Lobby

Project Concept: The design concept has been evolved from “telescope�, creating interesting viewports in the building by borrowing views from its milieu. Pulling in some exteriors to the interior, the residence does have some interaction with it. The massing of this building is just about stacking a couple of boxes on the two counterparts below, in a really exquisite manner, with deliberately subtracted punctures in it.

The residence is fully lit by natural light with suficient openings. The central courtyard is alluringly lit by irregular openings. These irregular openings follow a pattern inspired from the abstract form of mountains. This pattern is followed in the walls of the building too. The interiors kept minimalistic, with interesting usage of the boxes adopted from the exteriors. In the interesting manner colors go with each other enhances the minimalism followed through out.

Visual connectivity is meticulously established with vital usage of glass. For instance, kitchen, dining, and living areas are visually connected with the informal living and bar counter in the basement loor. This fuses different spaces of this residence and makes it more and more extroverted in nature.

The landscaped outdoor seating area, resembling the mountains in its background, has earth mounds with an informal seating in a tree shade. Along its side it has a covered space with a traditional swing in it.

Above the swing there is a car park in the ground loor level, creating a tunnel effect in the wind from south west to the six and a half feet clear swing area.

Cut-out

Balcony

Library Bedroom

Garden below

Ground Floor Plan

Bedroom

First Floor Plan

- Institute of Hospitality Management -

Project Concept:

Project Brief: The objective of the Institute of Hotel Management is the creation of a space focusing on the future growth direction of the Indian Hotel Industry.

This would involve creating an environment that focuses on the ields of hotels, gastronomy and tourism.

The college had an intake of 480 students per year with 4 varied diploma courses and a degree programme scheduled for 3 years. The main motive was to establish an academic complex as opposed to fragmented building blocks. This incorporated clustering of various functional spaces such as academic, administrative, residential and interactive spaces for campus community spaces.

View of the hostel block with a covered pathway leading to the dining block from the rear end.

The academic building which is segregated with a landscaped courtyard.

To design an academic complex that provides distinct social, physical and intellectual environment that spawns learning and helps the students and staff to realize his or her full potential.

The central design concept of the new institutional campus should be themed on the organizational Mission and values. The organic dynamics of education and its evolution in the age of open source learning, calls for a revolution in negotiating conducive learning and spatial typology.

The academic block for the institute have been planned in a way to segregate the theoretical and practical mode of teaching.

The Academic Block:

Sectional elevation through the courtyard

Ground Floor Plan

The academic block for the institute have been planned in a way to segregate the theoretical and practical mode of teaching.

All the kitchens are heat emitting zones and have been placed on leeward side of the site. They are stacked vertically one over the other for eficient services. Sky bridges connect the two building blocks creating an internal courtyard in the center which shall create an interactive environment in the institute.

Conceptual view depicting the courtyard segreagting the theoretical and practical mode of teaching.

View from the road approaching towars the academic building

The Hostel Block:

Ground Floor Plan

View of the hostel building from the main entrance

The hostel is planned to accommodate both girls and boys in one building yet maintaining the privacy. Balconies are located on the southern side of the girls hostel while common terraces are provided for the boys which also lie on the southern end.

Large cutouts adjoining the doubly loaded corridor in the boys hostel are provided which improve the natural lighting conditions in the corridor.

Conceptual view depicting the walkway of the landscaped garden for girl’s hostel on the ground loor

View of sunlight casting shadow of the GRC jaali in the corridor of the girl’s hotsel

Sectional Elevation depicting cut-outs from the corridor

- International Convention Centre -

About the project: The proposed convention center project is to be located in Dwarka, one of the fast growing urban sub-cities located in southwest Delhi.This integrated state-of-the art convention center and exhibition center has been proposed by the DDA (Delhi Development Authority).

The Site:

The site for the proposed International Convention and Exhibition Center is located in sector 24, Dwarka phase II, Delhi. It lies along a 100m wide right of way road co necting Dwarka to the NH8 via the airport.

The site plans accomodates a convention hall for 1500 people, an auditorium for 1000 people, an exhibition space for 7500 people, a banquet hall and conference rooms. The planning also accommodates ramps to the double basement parking,with capacity of 500 cars on each loor.

The site plan demarkating the site circulation , parking, paved / green areas

The Ground Floor:

The groud loor consists of the exhibition halls, conference halls and the administrative area which are all segrragted by a large foyer. The exhibition hall is connected for ervice on the rar end where loading and unloading might happen.

The First Floor:

The irst loor consists of an auditorium, a convention hallland a banquet hall, all connected through a foyer and pre function areas. The auditorium and the convention hall can hold upto 1000 and 1500 guests respectively.

First loor plan depicting the auditorium, convention hall, conference rooms and the banquet hall.

A white model rnder of the complex geenerated from ArchiCAD 18

Section through the foyer and convention hall

Section throught he Audiorium

- 01 Year Internship Programme-

Jain Temple at Vaishali, Bihar About the Temple: The temple complex at Vaishali, Bihar is devoted to Lord Mahavir, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism.

The complex was required to include a large temple hall for worship, guest house, dining hall, parking for cars and buses.

The pedestrain entrance to the site is made through a torana gate which leads to the Maan Stamha further leading to the temple hall. All the ammeitiies like the guest house, the Karnataka Bhawan and the Maharashtra Bhawan), dining hall, ofices, etc. were located around the temple hall surounding it from all the four sides.

The maan stambh which is around 65’ high signiies the presence of a Jain mandir. This is also called the Column of Dignity, with four pratimas installed each looking out in all four directions.

False Ceiling Plan of the Temple Hall

The Master Plan of the Temple Complex.

Section through the Temple Hall

The complex was designed in a manner where the temple which located in the centre was focus of the whole complex, while all other ammenities provided in the complex complimented the architecture of the temple as well as their individual functionality. Suficient garden space was provided for creating a balance in the built up and green spaces.

National Aerosol Facility Training

Multi-storey Housing

IIT Kanpur

IIT Kanpur

The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is a premier scientiic research institute of India with a total site area of around 1000 acre. The NAFT Programme Building is a component of the various projects coming up at the IIT, Kanpur.

The project has been designed keeping in mind its functional requirements as well as siting and orientation. The concept was to design a sustainable building in regard to architectural design as well as electrical, plmbing and mechanical design. The research building has been based on a modular system allowing for lexibility, optimum spatial eficiency and ample natural light.

On our part, we designed the building in a way to optimize energy in several manners including orientation of the building, window to wall ratio, building envelop, shading devices and dalight.

Site Plan of the Residential Building The residential building is a component of the various projects coming up at the IIT, Kanpur. On our part, we designed the building in a way to optimize energy in several manners including orientation of the building, window to wall ratio, building envelop, shading devices and dalight.

The multi-story housing has been constructed in two phases, where in the same building module was repeated twice. The residential buildings are arranged around courtyards thereby providing opportunity for community interaction.

The central courtyard has been designed in way which allows to create better lighting,ventilation and thermal comfort. Emphasis has been laid to create better living solutions with adapting and learning lesson from past, to create sustainable solutions whihc improve the standard of living.

View of the Research Building

Landscaping in the public zone Indian Chancery Complex, Kathmandu, Nepal

View of the public zone from the main entrance to the site The Indian Embassy site is spread over an area of 46 acres in Kathmandu and has a unique green cover. The site is generally lat with a gradual slope and peripheral band of steep slopes. All the buildings in the campus have been restricted within three storeys. Steep slopes have not been built upon to avoid disturbance to natural soil & topography and to minimize costs towards cutting & illing. The project, comprises the chancery ofices, 500 capacity auditorium, library, sports building, clinic, staff residences, along with other ancillary services and facilities buildings.

The landscaping around the public zone of the chancery complex has been designed to create a focal point towads the main building i.e. the auditorium and the ashok stambha that has been installed right in front of the building. Various steps as well as ramps leads to the piazza which is an access to the multipurpose hall, the auditorium and the library. All the buildings of public zone are located along the access road from the main entry. A network of pathways runs along the vehicular roads and round the buildings that opens out at places like landscaped courtyards, stepped seating squares and areas around water bodies.

An interesting feature is the stepped garden where seating has been created along the landscaped green which may be used for open air gatherings and performances. The looring of the piazza has been desgined to convey rhythm and symmetry, while remaining a timeless reminder of Indian craftsmanship.

Sectional detail of the waterfall installed in the public zone

The Landscaping Design of the auditorium zone

A perspective view of the landscapng generated using Lumion 5.0

The Torana Gate Kuala Lumpur Inaugrated by Hon’ble PM Narendra Modi, the Torana is a gift to mark the close relationship between the two countries.

The design here in Kuala Lumpur merges two Torana Gates with a ceiling comprising 24 carved stone panels, thereby creating a pavilion. The total height, is 10.4 meters and width at its maximum point is 7.3 meters. Each facet of the Gate has been adorned with motifs and carvings, in buff-colored sandstone panels from India.

The artwork has been sensitively designed to convey rhythm, symmetry & decorative beauty, while remaining a timeless reminder of Indian craftsmanship.

Details of the carving installed on the Torana

Site Plan

Front Elevation

Yashima Jain B.Arch. +91-8557-865390 yashima120@gmail.com