iXD PORTFOLIO by Yash Rawat

Design Portfolio

Yashwant Rawat

Yashwant Rawat // 24

Computational Designer Architect

// School of Planning & Architecture, Bhopal

Contact

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Hello,

Computational Design, Metaverse, Sustainability, Graphic Design, Web 3.0, Automotive Design, CG,

I am a 24W yr old architect/ Computational Designer with a zest for observing, learning, creating and problem solving. As an adult I have been always intrigued by how we (humans) function and interact with others (surroundings) , to me this presents an opportunity not only to understand this but also add to it for better or worse. This never-ending cycle feeds my need for creating.

This compilation showcases works from 2018 to 2023 , showing diverse skills and learning acquired in the last 5 years.

Included projects are worked upon by the author or in case of group project role has been mentioned.

There is no use of any AI to create an output of the design directly, although some coding help was taken from ChatGPT in one of the projects (Specified wherever used).

/ Ideation Work

BRIEF

The idea was to explore the field of walking and how it can be turned into a more acceptable and enjoyable activity rather than just a form of exercise.

The map is an recreation of a similar calorie map spoted at Mahalaxmi Train station. Incentivizing people to walk to a nearby station, as a result reducing the load on the station.

b. Reimagined with addition of a calorie counter. b. a.

Incorporation into Google Maps

Upon initial thought, I realized that same can be incorporated into the most widely used Navigation App, Google Maps with relative ease. Further incentivizing people to walk

Upon further thought I realized there could be further value added to the idea especially considering that Google Maps is a navigation app hence it would be fairly limited in promoting the cause of walking to the general public.

Google Maps a. Currently

Credited to -Jaikishan Patel & Snehal Patil

Why WALK

Research

Why Walking Helps Us Think

By Ferris Jabr, 2014, The New Yorker

The article references a couple of studies that show that walking makes our thinking more divergent and compares walking in different scenarios and the different benefits of walking in such scenarios.

Give Your Ideas Some Legs: The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking

Oppezzo & Schwartz - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition - 2014

The paper tests students on GAU & CRA. All 4 experiments were a mix of the test after walking and sitting. It was found that creativity in both cases is boosted by walking and more so by walking outdoors rather than inside. Participants performed hugely better in GAU tests showing that walking provides a huge degree of stimulants.

The Importance of Walking to Public Health

LEE, I-MIN., & BUCHNER, D. M.- Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise - 2008

The article talks about the importance of 30–60 min of moderate-intensity physical activity(MIPA) each day and pushes walking as a prime MIPA. It talks about tangible benefits like a reduction in medical aid needed later in life, and reduced chances of chronic illness. Ultimately advocating for policies that promote walking daily.

Primary Research through Google forms

Key Findings-

• Walking is seen as the most now input/ least resistant form of exercise.

• Reasons even willing people can not engage in any form of workout.

• Change of mood is reported to be the largest noticeable effect on one’s own self.

• Participants willing/wanting to try different routes for running/walking but not able to because of a few issues.

CITY ON FOOT

The Idea now was to make a system/app that incentivizes walking by making it into an enjoyable experience for health and community building.

User - A

25 year Old Runs Daily 10-7 Desk Job

Running as primary form of excercise Neurodivergent

Data recorded with any normal health/ walking app and later displayed along with a

Every Little Byte Counts

Unlike other Health/ walking apps, the idea wasn’t just to focus on the quantity health stats after the run. But the qualitative aspects of the Run.

Users get to curate maps after the run by adding a layer of personal experiences and information pertinent to the route.

While the quantity stats would still be included ut they don’t remain the focus of the activity.

Why WALK Why?!

This complitation showcases works from 2017 to 2022, showing diverse set of skills and learning acquired in last 4 years.

Included projects are worked upon by author or in case of group project role has been mentioned.

Shiven

Possible Use Cases

18 year Old NO job - Financially Dependent Started Dating somebody new. Inquisitive/curious

CITY ON FOOT

Once enough maps have been curated by the users then these maps can be used by other people/ novice users to explore the city better on foot. In turn, making walking and exploring easy and more enticing

28year Old Fitness Influencer

Secnario-1

User - A

Samridhi

18 year Old NO job - Financially Dependent

Started Dating somebody new.

Inquisitive/curious

Walking Date around Old Delhi

Following this map Samridhi can go on an inexpensive yet intriguing date , exploring Old Delhi

The map curated by a user takes other users to Old Delhi and all the tasty Food+ Experience it has to offer. It gives essential and tried and tested spots to go to make the most of the experience. It also marks out the transportation and other things like jam-packed traffic areas that might be important to consider when planning such an exploration/Date.

In the end, providing for a good opportunity to explore the city or to have an outing on FOOT!

“I asked my soul, what is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life.” Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869) ,a true Dilliwala. Visit The haveli where he spent his last years has been converted to a museum

8 7 6 5

The ubiquitous Gali Parathe Waali is another Old Delhi staple which is definitely worth the visit. Especially to experience the best of flavours that Delhi has to offer.

The jalebisbat the Old and Famous Jalebiwala are indeed famous. It’s worth waiting for fresh batches of both, most especially on a crisp winter morning.

Established 111 years ago in Lahore, LMH moved to its current abode in Daryaganj in 1947, after the partition. Over the years it has supplied music maestros with equipement An old Delhi must see.

7km -- min 14 spots

Highly Exploarable NO Dead Spots

Checked by 176 people

Jama Masjid

The Jama Masjid, or ‘Friday Mosque,’ was designed as the main mosque of Shahjahan’s city and remains the most celebrated in India.

Old and Famous Jalebiwala

Paranthe Wali Gaali

Ghalib’s Haveli

Lahore Music House

Housing for Floating Urban Workforce, Mumbai

Architectural Thesis

PROBLEM STATEMENT

The aim of the Thesis was to design an affordable housing solution for a younger population that migrates from city to city in search of a place to work and a lifestyle upgrade.

Who?

42% of the workforce in India constituted millennials across the top 7 cities.

13% of Indians migrate to other states for education, employment opportunities. About 50% of them are below 25 years.

Floating Urban workforce are the young Indians who are in a transitory stage of life, where they move around from one place to other for reasons related to work, education, etc. These people usually are 18-35 year olds which happpen to be 34% of nation’s total population and with their intrinsic need for mobility, connectivity, and techenabled living spaces, millennials are expected to not only drive but also redefine the manner in which real estate shapes up in the coming decade or so.

Where?

IN MUMBAI

The selected site lies on the fringes of BKC (Bandra Kurla Complex). BKC is S.D.Z. announced in 1977 to decongest the C.B.D.in south Mumbai.

It currently houses the headquarters of many international banks and sports authorities. It is set to become Mumbai’s busiest C.B.D. by 2030.

The site lies just outside B.K.C. G-block adjacent to Bharat Nagar slums

Design Brief

This thesis intends to develop a Housing for Gen-Z and Millenials built around and reflecting their lifestyle and needs. Housing so developed aims to present itself as an affordable rental housing made under the Affordable Rental Housing Complex scheme of PMAY(U).

Based on the needs of selected demographic the selected site for the project lies on the fringes of B.K.C. . The land comes under S.D.Z. and the parcel is indicated to be used for housing.

Site Information-

Site area - 15700m2

Ground Coverage - 60% -9420 m2

F.A.R - 2.5

Max Built Up - 39,250 m2

Programe includes -

Dwelling units

2BHK (Max area- 60m2)

2 bedroom, living room, kitchen, bathroom, toilet etc.

1BHK (Max area- 30m2)

A bedroom, living room, kitchen, bathroom, toilet etc.

Dormitory

Dormitory (Min area- 10m2 /Bed)

Separate bed, side table, shelves, lockers, common facilities of kitchen, toilet etc.

Retail

Guidelines from ARHC-

Site area - 4000 m2 (min.)

Minimum of 40 units to be constructed.

A combination of 1BHK, 2BHK and Dormitories to made. Only 33% of the total units can be Dwelling Units (1BHK+2BHK)

Includes shops selling items of daily need and providing services of day to day needs.

Amenities

Split between private and shared these will include public areas (ground or halls, restaurants etc) and private facilities like gyms, common rooms, work areas, storage etc.

Form Finding

Site as seen from SW end along with setbacks.

Front setback - 12 M

Back setback - 6M

Area - 15700 sqm

FSI - 2.5

Max Builtup -39250 sqm

Solar Rights evelope as seen from SW and NE ends of site

Calculating a solar envelope acc. to maximum volume possible, permissible ground coverage, optimized for least solar gains

Adjusting voxels by adding and subtracting them as required

Final form as seen from SW end

Voxelizing the volume in 3X3 modules

Final form as seen from NE end

L’AMOUR de SOI

The aim of the competition is to design a pop-up pavilion in the emblematic Parco Sempione in Milan that connects fashion, architecture and people. The pavilion should capture the essence of fashion design and celebrate its powerful impact on our society for such a long time.

Milan, synonymous with Haute couture, is a city that continues to generate lots of new talent, emerging designers and lots of high end brands.

Fashion industry has been a propelling force to bring inclusivity in limelight. Recognising and being one with the fact that physical appearances are temporal is the objective that is being put forward. Can ‘positivity’ exist in mainstream culture that determines a human’s worth primarily through appearance?

L’amour de soi placed at the centre of Sempione park, borrows inspiration from Alberto Burri’s Teatro continuo to create an interactive ephemeral space, that helps inch closer to a more inclusive approach and what amounts to ‘beauty’. Walking between the mirrors, placed in a formal triangular grid one realizes that the silhouette of their reflection seems altered, which confronts them to be acceptable of others and themselves. Everything appears to be under monotone, looking through the black tinted glass, which provides for an unusual perspective of the surrounding. What is seen is a distorted reality where perception is shaped by their personal experiences. The whole setup with the punctured seating in turn builds curiosity and harmony and various tangible parameters are diminished.

Monotony seen through the tinted glass. Altered reflection seen through the mirror.

Following is a result of explorations into the concept of L-Systems and fractals. How the recursive nature of fractals along with a set of simple rules can help in replicating tree growth on screens.

Attached are the results of L-system growth, built upon the work of Aristid Lindenmayer (and many more who helped me create these ).

Simple fractals are an excellent example of recursion - same as L-systems. Following a set of predetermined rules over and over again can lead you to a seemingly complex result and its this nature of fractals that has been leveraged by many before me in their highly impressive works

1. Iteration of Koch Island similar to works of Piet Blom

2. A skewed fractal ( Close to Raj Rewal ?)

3. Gosper Curve

4. Sierpinski Triangle

5. Half a Snowflake Curve (?)

With the climate crisis and carbon being the buzzwords post-COVID, it becomes quite hard to understand the true magnitude of the problem we are dealing with. Following is a Visual representation of CO2 concentration in our atmosphere from 1958 to 2018 with a rise of approximately 31% in the period. The whole visualization was coded on P5js with help of ChatGPT and data was sourced from DataHub

The global average sea level has risen 21–24 centimeters since 1880, with the rate of the rise almost doubling since 2015. The attached visualization is a result of an exploration into this data on P5js to depict this in a comparative fashion from 1993 to 2015. Multiple studies have shown seas have absorbed more than 90% of the heat from GHGs, but the magnitude of this impact is better understood visually.

The narrative behind the visual - “Most of modern life, all our diseases, are diseases of abundance, not diseases of scarcity.” — Naval Ravikant

This piece takes a reflective look at the year of 2020 where our society collectively compared the events to George Orwell’s “1984”. But instead of a dystopian future of scarcity, this piece presents a world of overload and saturation, where survival can only be achieved by refocusing on what is truly necessary. It represents a transition from state absolute chaos to absolute attention.

Experimentation with light interaction with code work based on P5js. The code takes in live video feed from the front camera and averages the RBG value and then later replace pixels with white circles with unit size of 10. As a result only the most reflective parts of the feed are visible.