Second year portfolio

Yashita Ugavekar Second year School of Environment & Architecture 2020-2021 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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Diagramming buildings

The Laxmi Vilas Palace, Gujarat, India Nestle Factory, Sau Paulo Brazil

What is a Factory ?

Theorising second cities of India

Lighting

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Passive Design

Studying History and Modernism

Modularity

Desiging a passive design house in Nagpur

Church of St. George, Ethiopia

Esquee (Travelling food collective)

Archohm Studio (case study)

Villa Tugendhat, Czech Republic

Multipurpose event space and community foodstall

Home Sweet Home (What is a home ?)

DIAGRAMMING BUILDINGS Laxmi Vilas Palace The Lakshmi Vilas Palace in Vadodara, Gujarat, India, was constructed by the Gaekwad family, a prominent Maratha family, who ruled the Baroda State.

A Pattern Language, by Christopher Alexander was referred in making patterns of Laxmi Vilas Palace. Some of these patterns are : • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Main gateway Zen view Small meeting room Sitting circle Eating atmosphere Staircase as a stage Garden seat Activity pockets Arcades Entrance transition Still water Ornamental passages Path shape

• Light on two sides of every room • Raised walk • Positive outdoor space • Accessible green (diagram to the right) Accesible green

Photo Laxmi Vilas Palace

Nestle Factory The Nestle Factory, Sao Paulo, Brazil was a project designed by Metro Arquitetos Associados. It began in the year 2010 & was completed by February 2011.

The main intention of the design for visiting areas was to create a landmark in the landscape of the highway that connects Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, revealing the existence of a public and accessible space. This visibility is achieved by the installation of two steel framed glass towers, which are connected to foot bridges that road and wrap the existing building, granting access to the elevated walkway inside the factory.

Reflections of landscape diagram

Photo of Nestle factory

WHAT IS A FACTORY ?

Kamat Paints, is a factory located in Dombivali East, Maharashtra. The factory had raw materials in more quantity as compared to machinery. There were only nine men working in the factory, but the space was still less as the raw materials occupied almost every part of the factory making it difficult to move.

Photo of the Existing factory

Working of factory

Factory as a LANDSCAPE OF COLOURS. The new design had well organized spaces and the roof provided sufficient amount of light in

the factory. The courtyards would act as relaxing and rejuvenating spaces for the workers and add colour to factory.

Ground floor plan

First floor plan

Roof plan

Isometric view

THEORISING SECOND CITIES OF INDIA Mysore experiences city, as it connects the heavy traffic in the central suburban bus stand to the part, thus making the roads city railway station. congested. So road widening projects are planned and one such major project is the Irwin road widening. Irwin road is considered to be one of the busiest roads in the

UPCOMING PROJECTS

Irwin road plan

Camber not shown as it is not relevant to the purpose of discussion.

Sections of the Irwin road illustrate the road post the road widening project. Some of the buildings are majorly demolished, while some are slightly affected.

The sections to the right are design provacations : • How can the architecture of redeveloped mixed use (housing + commerce / amenity) building typologies in inner city conditions shape the affordances required for living, work and tourism in such conditions?

• How can buildings that are partially demolished be retrofitted to address the new urban conditions emerging out of road widening projects?

Camber not shown as it is not relevant to the purpose of discussion.

LIGHTING Artificial and natural lighting in our house was studied in to order to understand the required amount of lighting needed in a space.

Sectional perspective plan of the house

Natural lighting - Study time

Natural lighting - Yoga

Natural lighting - Scripture reading

Natural lighting - Cooking

Artificial lighting - Night lamp while sleeping

Natural lighting - Evening carrom

Artificial lighting - Dinner time

Electrical lighting layout plan

PASSIVE DESIGN

Site plan

Roof plan

The site is in Nagpur, Maharastra which falls under the composite climate.

The user profile for this design is a family of four, in which the husband works as a writer from home and wife works as an engineering professer in a VNIT college.

They have two daughters, one pursuing engeering and other a school student.

The site has a very good frequency, but also has a lot of vehicular noise throughout the day. Hence our design will be place to the southwern side to reduce the noise by a little amount. In addition, trees will be planted on adjacent sides, as shown in the roof plan diagram to the left. The office for the writer is place on the ground floor for easy acess to the people visting him and also provides a self-shaded space due to cantilevering first floor. Also it

provides a shed area for the vehicles to be parked.

The house is designed on black cotton soil and hence piled foundations are done.

Ground floor plan (+ 0.6 lvl )

First floor plan (+ 4 lvl )

Section

3D model

ARCHOHM STUDIO (case study) The Archohm studio is a passive design architecture firm in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

The innovative design strategies make beautiful exteriors and provide a comfortable working space inside.

Sectional perspective showing spaces

Sectional perspective showing materials

Photo of the Archohm studio

PATTERNING HISTORY & MODERNISM St. George Church The church sits in a square shaped hollow. There is a sheer drop and no access bridge. The only way down is by a narrow manmade canyon that spiral downwards and transforms into a tunnel close to the church. It is connected with the rest of the settlement through a set of tunnels, excavating rooms and passageways. The complex rambles underground, a labyrinth of narrow passages, causeways, steps and tunnels. This translates into a constant play of up and down and light and shadow.

Photos of the church

Villa Tugendhat Villa Tugendhat was built in Czech Republic, Europe which was designed by Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe.

The villa is built on a sloped terrain, which faces to the south- west facade.

Standing on the south east side, we were able to see that the facade from the street is actually the third floor of the villa, which is very private and closed for outsiders. The hillside has quite a slope and consequently, the other two floors are completely hidden from street view.

Photos of the villa

MODULARITY Esquee (Travelling food collective)

Five modules attached but slits made in them

Layout

A modular food collective was designed to be placed in two types of climates, moderate and warm and humid.

View from the front

The final esquee design with three layouts.

Layout 1

Layout 2

Layout 3

Front view in perspective

Module

Layout 1 in perspective

Multipurpose event space & community food facility The site is located in Eksar Dongripada, Borivali.

The maximum area to design was 400 sq.m. including the food facility and multipurpose event space.

Marriage festivities, recreational center and health care center are three type of multipurpose event spaces that explore modularity.

The site plan to the right shows the iterations of the spaces chosen to build on, out of which the first one was considered as it had a better air flow and terrain than the others.

Site plan

Marriage festivities Layout 1

Health care center Layout 1

Recreational center Layout 1

Marriage festivities Layout 2

Health care center Layout 2

Recreational center Layout 2

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Section of Recreatinal center Layout 2

Sectional plan of Recreatinal center Layout 2

Water supply layout plan of Recreatinal center Layout 2

The marriage festivities and recreational center layouts show the water supply layouts and the movement in spaces.

Water supply layout plan of Marriage festivities Layout 2

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Section of Marriage festivities Layout 2

Central roof design

Module- front view

Module- backside view

Furniture model 1

Module- Physical model

Furniture model 2

HOME SWEET HOME HOME AS A SACRED SPACE

First floor plan

Second floor plan

Section AA’

Terrace plan

The site is located in Charkop, sector 3, Kandivali.

The existing home and plot to be designed are marked red in the right side plan drawing.

The narrative drawing on the next page shows the daily routine activies done by the family. A family of four members live in the house, an old couple and their two sons.

Site plan

Ground floor plan

First floor plan

Second floor plan

Roof plan

The design strategy mainly focused on different types of light and sound quality entering the space.

The vaults not only provide sound variation but also an interesting form.

Sectional perspective

The sectional perspective shows the materiality, depth and volume of the house.

The windows on the western side allow light to enter in first floor bedroom as well as the ground floor living space.

The kitchen vault creates a huge volume, which provides good ventilation and light in the kitchen. The small space between staircase and the toilet wall is the devara, which falls nearly in center and gives a semi-enclosed space for the prayers and hymns chantings.

The circular window forms an interesting shape and acts as a chit-chat corner for the ladies during evenings.

Projects

Done along with

Passive design

Tanuja

Modularity

Darshan, Rachit and Radhika