Architecture Portfolio 2016-2024

Aditi Srivastav Prasad

PORTFOLIO

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Ecoscape ESTATE

Situated in South Holyoke, the project encompasses a 37,073 sq ft area. More than just offering residents a dwelling, it fosters a genuine living experience. The designed spaces within the buildings are intended to cultivate a strong sense of community and belonging among the residents. Despite falling into the affordable housing category, the project ensures an unparalleled experience for its residents and other users. With a focus on catering to lowincome elderly individuals and families with young children, the project establishes a harmonious symbiotic relationship, where care and assistance flow seamlessly between community members.

Conceptual Diagrams

Location

Construction Phases

Front Elevation

Site Plan

Ground Floor Plan

Fourth

Program Diagram

2

1

3 Bedroom Apartment Physical Model

The FARM

MIRA - BHAYANDAR, MUMBAI

Undergrad Thesis

Site Area- 10,000 Sq Ft

Built Up Area- 23,000 Sq Ft

Micro Housing Project

Micro apartments are an effective solution to meet housing demands in dense urban areas. Thus, The Farm has been proposed to meet the requirements of the growing demands of Mumbai. The apartment complex is a simple expression of geomtry which shapes itself according to the climatic conditions. The form is tapered as the building goes higher, which creates interactive spaces at every floor. It also makes space for gardening and horticulture activities. The project consists of 4 towers of different types of apartments and delivers a total of 263 units.

Exploded Axonometric

Plan 2

APARTMENT A - 18sqm

APARTMENT B - 35sqm

APARTMENT C - 45sqm

With ceiling height of 4m, 2.4m window is provided with sil height of 0.3m, making it a juliet balcony. This design creates larger volume thus maximising area with minimum footprint. The window lets sufficient natural light and ventilation enter the space thus making it energy efficient.

This design creates a lofted bedroom space above kitchen and dining. This provides a private space of 19 sq. mt. Ceiling height of 4.1m creates larger volume thus making the space feel bigger than it is. With window of 2.8m, enough natural light and ventilation enter the space, thus, making it energy efficient.

This design of a duplex unit is made for couples and 2+1. Additional floor provides a private space.

Point ZERO

Undergrad Project

Adaptive Reuse Project

Site area: 32,000 sq ft

Built Up area: 18,000 sq ft

It is said that the greenest buildings are those that are already built. The built spaces were part of a palace 400 years ago and was converted to a DC office in the 20th century. Conserving the rich history and heritage of the city of Mangalore, Point Zero, located in the heart of the city, aims to be a project that helps people pause and unwind in the fast paced lives of people today. The cumulation of built and open spaces are now being reused for multiple purposes including library, museum and restaurants.

Flexible Space

MANGALORE, KARNATAKA

The site has been planned such that a linear flow is created from the entrance with visual connection from starting point at the entrance to the furthest point of the buildings. There are 5 pockets. The entrance is a flexible space which allows gathering and leads to the park, spillout space for educational buildings and spillout for restaurants. It is connected to the clubouse pocket via bridge. The contours have ben used to our advantange, creating maximum transparency. Natural contours have been used to create the OAT. The path that leads to the clubhouse also runs along natural contours giving us a 5m difference from the starting point, which has been used to create two levels of parking.

PLAN

Old vs New Structure Roads and Pathways Open Spaces Green Edges New Building Edges

ADAPTIVE REUSE- MUSEUM, LIBRARY, AND TEA STALL

Originally the building was used as an office building but is now being used as a museum and a library. The movement inside the building has been changed by closing a few fenestrations and creating new ones wherever required. The frames of the closed doors and windows are conserved. A continuous transition space was created for easy movement. The walls on the west were removed to create a wall with multiple windows for interaction between indoors and outdoors. A mezanine floor was created to add more levels. A fully functional library was created with working space for individuals and groups catering to the entire city.

Site Section A-A’

Raised Plinth Transition of Spaces Fountain Area

Road to Basement Road to Basement Fire Emergency Path

Site Section B-B’

Parn PATH

Parn Path, which literally translates to ‘Green way of Life’, is an exculsive resort that has been proposed on the forest land of Yana to promote eco- tourism in the town by providing a luxury housing to the adventurous tourists that come to explore the land of rocks, caves and temples. This project focuses on a reduced built area to minimize activities in built spaces and encourage those in open spaces. The maximum capacity of the resort is 50 at present and has a scope for further phase developments.

YANA, KARNATAKA

Eco-resort

Site Area: 3.52 Acres

Undergrad Project

Site Plan

1- Executive cottages

2- Deluxe cottages

3- Studio cottages

4- Hotel Administration

5- Restaurant

6- Spa

7- Pond

8- Garden

9- Arecanut Plantation

10- Water Stream

11- Parking

DESIGN PROPOSAL

This site of 3.52 acres is placed amidst the forest lands of Yana, which is famous for its tourist sites such as the Yana caves and temples. This forest resort is proposed as a mean to increase tourim and enhance experience of the users where they can unwind after a long day of adventure. The current proposal caters to the anticipated number of 50 users. However, there is a scope for expansion of the resort, if and when required.

Bird’s Eye View

EXECUTIVE COTTAGE

RESTAURANT

First

Elevation

Elevation

Section

Section

AIYKYA

Design Competition

Studio Area- 400 sq. ft

Modular Studio Apartment

‘Aiykya’ literally means unity in Sanskrit which is the concept behind this project. The requirement of this competiton was to design a modular studio house for elderly couples, that can be used in cluster formations. Aiykya provides individual studios the privacy to explore gardening while simultaneously having a space to interact with neighbours which in turn forms closely-knit neighborhoods.

Form Development

Exploded View Linear vs Radial Arrangement

SALIENT, KOLKATA

CLUSTER FORMATION

The cluster formation will be shaped as such where the concave of the curve will be dedicated to socialization and the convex to the backyard dedicated for evening strolls amidst nature or to cultivate a kitchen garden.

7-Backyard Space

Salt Plant REDEVELOPMENT

PORT HARCOURT, NIGERIA

Site

The existing plant factory has been relocated to a waterfront site, to facilitate port proximity for incoming vessels. The site chosen is an erstwhile cement plant at Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The development and proposals are considered within the eixsting warehouse with an area of 9,800 sq. m., split into two halves. The site has also been planned and developed aiding the comfort of function for salt production.

Redevelopment Project

Royal Salt Ltd

Area: 6.057 Hectares

Professional Project

This case study was conducted in the current operational unit of Royal Salt ltd. Arrangement of the packaging silos is in an L- shape with 10 units altogether (40 packaging units). The plant catered to 7 (28 PU) units initially and then to an addition of 3 (12 PU). Due to space constraints and ceiling limit, machinery is closely placed, creating undesireable angles for feeding pipes. This has been addressed by using horizontal screw conveyors and blenders.

The bucket elevator assigned to the latter 3 units for feeding, doesn’t recieve required flow of product due to the distance from the crusher and is thus fed by one of the silos to meet the requirements. The overall assembly of machinery makes up for the space constraint and ensures a smooth flow of process.

Felicity INTERNATIONAL

An international school campus designed to appeal to the students through a functional layout along with the visually appealong simplicity of minimalistic buildings from academic blocks to accomodation blocks along with the ease of transtition and interaction, making the campus feel like a community

MYSORE, KARNATAKA

The school follows the curriculum of International Board, which encourages an all round development of children with cross cultural values. The three age groups being educated at Felicity are PYP (Primary Year Program), MYP (Middle Year Program), and Diploma. The school has a maximum capacity of 600 students, with accomodation provided for 40% of the students (240).

Being the first building noticed, the academic block has an interesting pattern seen on the glass facade of the library. The library is placed in the centre of the building and immediately draws the view towards it. The glass facade helps the students with natural light and helps them connect with the surroundings. Diploma. The school has a maximum capacity of 600 students, with accomodation provided for 40% of the students (240).

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