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Akshit Chauhan 2019-2024

Akshit Chauhan

5th B.Arch

Punctual,Verssatile,Helpful,Ambitous, Open minded, Adaptable,Team Player.

The professional experiences i have had until now enable me to work both in groups and individualy.I find it constructive and stimulating to confront new working experiences and to share my passion for creativity with people. I am conscientious,motivated and always looking forward to developing the best team spirit. I aspire to design experiential spaces that serve the functionality ti the fullest with no compromise on asthetics as well

10-September-2000

+91-9643643769

CONTACTS

AkshitChauhan1009@gmail.com

Sector-45, Noida, Uttar Pradesh,201303

Somerville School Noida

2004-2016

D-89, Sector- 22, NOIDA, Distt. Gautam Buddh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh - 201 301, India

-Evergreen Public School

EDUCATION

2016-2018

Vasundhara Enclave,Near Dharamshila Cancer Hospital, New Delhi,10096

-Sushant School Of Arts & Architecture

2019-2024

Gurgaon,Haryana

Autodesk Autocad

Sketchup

Autodesk Revit

Rhino+Grasshopper

Blender

Twin-Motion

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe illustrator

Adobe inDesign

V-Ray

1 2 3 4 5 6

U-Turn Semester-7|2022

U-Turn(HOUSING)

Semester-8|2023

The Viscosity

Semester-6|2022

Alliance Française Semester-6|2022

Bodhi Jalaya(Sri Lanka)

Semester-3|2020

Miscellaneous Semester-6|2022

The ultimate goal of the architect ...is to create a paradise.every building,every product of architecture..should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

U-TURN

After very intensively studying the Lajpat nagar built fabric i came upon multiple problems and multiple advantages but the interesting part was that how both were fused together. The central market is the social image of the precinct but to the at the neighbourhood level it causes a lot of problems for the residents living there.

The density being so high the parking becomes a big issue, despite being so many parks in the precinct the green spaces are unsafe for the community children to play around because the function of the road next to a park is very public and creates a safety issue

U-TURN

The built fabric of Lajpat nagar goes back to the independence era ,where Indians migrating from Pakistan post-independence were getting settled. Migrators have settled in Lajpat nagar and though some parts are posh some clusters have been so saturated that living conditions are worsening.

Providing a 20 acre Garden which sits on the Lajpat nagar fabric acts as a transition space for the people. Connecting to a network of skywalks which allow people to walk/cycle across the garden and reach the metro station . retrofitting the built with green restores the balance in the ecology. And makes entire precinct more livable and a much easy transition through the city.

RENDERS

“The environment is where we all meet, where we all have mutual interest, its the one thing we all share”

Section-Bird Aviary

precinct. we used the garbage being produced by

U-TURN

The precinct of Lajpat Nagar has such a diverse built fabric and offers a lot to every kind of demographic. People majorly around the central market area people come to work from different parts of the NCR region. Even after having the Feroze Gandhi road which is 22m wide the right of way available is almost as low as 5-6 meters.

Providing with hydraulic parking across the road and using 5m of space of the closed inaccessible green belt. Making a pedestrian path on both sides and designated cycle and e-cycle lane

Skywalk connecting metro to garden

TOWARDS CENTRAL MARKET

2 lane carriage way Para Transit Node

6m wide- 2 way with divider speed limit-20km/h

TOWARDS 2 lane speed

Lajpat Nagar Metro Station

Pinch table top crossing with stroller friendly materials

Dedicated zone for informal activity,food kiosks

TOWARDS METRO STATION lane carriage way speed limit-40km/h

Underground Road crossing-200m from metro

Underground Road crossing-200m from metro

3m wide parking lane Speed - 20km/h

vendor zone(2m)

Turning/Bu er lane 3m wide

LVL + 150 LVL + 100 LVL + 00

Parking ENTRY

LVL + 150 LVL + 100

1250 1500 1500

VENDORS PEDISTRIAN PATH LVL + 100 PEDISTRIAN PATH LVL + 100 CYCLE TRACK 2400 4500 ENTRY PARKING 136000 X 8000 CYCLE TRACK LVL + 100

ENTRY

CARRAIGE WAY

LVL + 150 LVL + 150 LVL + 150

CARRAIGE WAY

CARRAIGE WAY CARRAIGE WAY

ENTRY CYCLE TRACK LVL + 00 LVL + 00

CYCLE TRACK ENTRY ENTRY

LVL 150 AUTO STAND

PEDISTRIAN PATH PEDISTRIAN PATH

LVL + 100

AUTO STAND

LVL + 150

VENDORS VENDORS VENDORS PEDISTRIAN PATH PEDISTRIAN PATH LVL + 00 LVL + 00 LVL + 00

U-TURN(HOUSING)

FSI-3

GROUND COVER-40%

Active frontage=90%

Population Density(req)=400/acre

Density Achieved=412/acre

As a continuation to the 8th semester, I carry forward my understanding of the Lajpat Nagar urban precinct and all the acupunctures I did which broadly were based on a vision of a self sustaining transit oriented precinct, with retail being the most prominent image of the precinct

In broader vision the self sustaining meant to produce energy and consume without being very heavily dependent on non renewable, like creating electricity from garbage that the precinct produces and also to take u turn back to a better quality of Air to breathe. By retrofitting with a 20acre green terrace garden. The selection of site plays a important role landmark wise and the context has everything Lajpat nagar offers but on a smaller scale. It has retail, variety of demo-

STAKEHOLDER

CULTURAL VISITORS

Art Fairs, Stalls & Events

Religious Events

VENDORS

Formal Vendors

Informal Vendors

STUDENTS

OUT EATERS

Food festival

Street Food

Business lunch

Fast foof

RESIDENTS

Walk

Shop

Visit neighbours

BUSINESS PEOPLE

Business exchange

Employees

Start uppers

Shop owners

Lecture & workshop

Visit Event?leisure

School/University

Evening school

GROUND FLOOR PLAN CIRCULATION SHADOW CONTEXT

SHOPS (Type-1=40sqm)

Retail, Clothes,Cafe,Restraunt

(Type-2=15sqm)

Cafe joint,Cloth kiosk

(Type-3=25sqm)

Medical shop, food joint

(Type-4=40sqm)

Daily essentials

(Type-5=50sqm)

Cafes

Pedestrian Circulation

Shop Entrance

Water Bodies

Informal Vendor Zone

GROUND FLOOR SCALE-1:250

Basement Ventilation

Colonnade

RENDERS ELEVATION

Delhi being a very hot climate area which experiences strong sunlight throughout the year the built was oriented in a way that the my most of the units have a access to natural ventilation but the solar gain doesn’t affect the temperature inside.

Reduced solar gain on the façade helped me achieving a low temperature inside the habitable spaces and overall reduced energy consumption in form of air conditioners

THE VISCOSITY

I created this project in my 6th semester design studio, the brief was to design a skyscraper in the Sikander region of Gurgaon Haryana. Where the built was to be designed parametrically but for the Gurgaon of 2050 and the functions were to be very heavily influenced by our vision.

I derived the parameters from the very detailed site analysis & studying the land use plans of the precinct and the future land use plans helped us visualize how the precinct would be like in the future Our site with a extremely heavy influx of floating population every hour because of the Sikander metro station and a very important junction for daily commuters who come from various parts of the Capital NCR region

Location:Sikanderpur,Gurgaon

Academic | January 2022- May 2022

Winter Semester Group work

VISION(2050)-Like COVID more viruses come up & the people adapt into living in a world of constant lockdowns. So houses and spaces changing with stimuli have to be created , plugging in a active facade to make carbon zero building for the future.

5th Floor Plan

The Height where a network of skywalks plug in and create a transition pedestrian realm. A bunch of drone pads for deliveries of stuff in pandemic era

SITE PLAN

How incase of lockdown the metro gets used as a freight transfer. and how drone pads help residents of our built have acess to goods incase of lockdown

Form Iterations

Final Iterations

Final building form

The final form double cutouts and residents facing outwards and the hybrid functions spreading vertically throughout the skyscraper.

A premier French language learning and cultural institute located in a prominent institutional neighborhood of New Delhi, India. The building that Alliance Francaise occupies was designed by the well-known practices of Stephane Paumier Architects and ABRD Architects, and it is considered one of the foremost examples of contemporary architecture in India’s capital city.

Location: New Delhi , India

Academic | January 2022- May 2022

Spring Semester Group work

THE BODHI JALAYA

A country with strong beliefs and rituals. Sri Lankan people have beliefs as strong as hindus and the major religion that people follow is budhism.

Nature fused vernaclular architecture spread across the country works very efficiently.

using the techniques in a city like colombo to make them more efficient & sustainable.

Location:Colombo,Sri Lanka

Academic | January 2020- May 2020

Winter Semester Group work

THE BODHI JALAYA

After our visit to COLOMBO, Sri Lanka I witnessed how despite the country being poor this part of the country I very well built with high rises and the built fabric changes very drastically. So our approach to tackle with our site being next to the Dutch Hospital which has a high influx of people for food, libraries and other functions . the need for people of colombo from a space like this is for a transition space which provides them with cultural showcasing’s of the country as well as modern functions which respond to the context and plug in to the lives of people of the precinct. Plugging in the vernacular materials and orienting the building to channelize maximum sea breeze for natural cooling.

Primary roads

World trade center

ADMINISTRATIVE

SHOPPING CENTRE

Site Zoning was done in such a way that blocks off contectual windows which open towards our site.

Pedestrian axes where created in a way which allows people to walk into our realm from adjacent builts with high influx of floating population

MISCELLANEOUS PROJECTS

Location:NOIDA

Academic | June2022- september 2020 Spring Internship

INTERNSHIP (JUNE2022)

TERRACE PLAN

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

ELEVATION

Akshit Chauhan 2019-2024