Stefina Stephen Palliyil - M. Arch (ARB/RIBA Part -2) Portfolio

M. Arch(ARB/RIBA Part 2)

Stefina Stephen Palliyil

Manchester School of Architecture

PORTFOLIO selected works

2024

01 Feminist approach to sustaining Kumbharwada’s identity amidst Vertical Development Project Type: M.Arch Thesis Project Duration: 23 weeks To protect the identity and culture of the Kumbharwada’s community amidst urban redevelopment pressure through optimizing land use and addresses the needs of the increasing population.

A vertically integrated complex that integrates residential and workspace for the potters, allowing them to continue their craft in the amidst the bustling contemporary, urbanized landscape.

Prioritizing the provision of suitable workspace and equipment for potters, adequate living accommodations for potter families, and affordable rental options for migrants seeking housing within the community.

Woman

The image depicts Woman’s Wadi, a semi-private bridge featuring a communal washing area that serves as a hub for social interaction and connection at elevated levels.

This space is thoughtfully designed to meet the community’s needs, ensuring it respects their culture and preserves their identity and lifestyle, while simultaneously empowering the community.

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Migrant Workers Unit

Extended Family Unit

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Potter’s workspace

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The kilns are arranged vertically and horizontally in alignment, with the residential zone positioned at a distance from the heat and direct smoke.

Vertical Pottery Workspace Kiln

Masterplan

Ground Floor plan Potters Unit Extended Family Unit Migrant Workers Unit

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Taking a step further, residents will have the opportunity to customise the specified walls giving them the liberty to customise as per their need.

Second Floor plan

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Potters Unit Extended Family Unit Migrant Workers Unit

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Building with community | Adaptability | Identity

Customizable wall

Pottery Workspace

Section

Typical Neighborhood

Wadi

Pottery Workspac

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Terraces at different levels used for drying pots

+17.55m

Pottery Workspace +14.2m

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+8.85m

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Sand

Raw Soil

Dry Mixing

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Sieved Soil

Cement

Producing CSEBs on-site in Kumbharwada with community involveme

Provide hands-on training for community members on making CSEBs. This includes soil selection, mixin

Additional temporary safety bars are given

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Building their own walls with the help of the expertise

Why CSEB (Compressed Stabilised Earth Block)?

Water

Compressed Stabilised Earth Blocks (CSEB) are a compelling choice for construction in communities like Kumbharwada, especially for a pottery community. The potters already have a deep understanding of working with earth, making the transition to using CSEB more intuitive. Earth is readily available locally, reducing the cost and environmental impact associated with transporting materials.

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Moulding

Intial Curing & First Stacking

Final curing & stacking

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ng stabilizers, compressing blocks, and curing.

residents of Kumbharwada are powered to choose their preed windows and doors.Howenxpertise are involved to ensure quality and overall impact on building

Plastering the overall structure with the plaster made up of Sand, Soil, Cement(4:2:4)

Details

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Detail C

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CSEB BLOCK (300X150X90mm)

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25mm mortar China Mosiac tile Sand 12mm Screed Layer

Concrete Steel Deck

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Waterproof membrane

HSS Secondary beam Anchor into steel deck HSS Primary Beam False ceiling

Detail C

RCC Lintel

Typical hardwood window sash section

Hardwood glazing bead set in sealant and pinned to hardwood sash

Typical hardwood window sill section

Window grill

36x3 galvanised weather strip 250 micron dpc tucked under weather strip built into timber frame

Polysulphide sealant Quarry tile sill

Detail B

Cement mortar bed for quarry till sill Plaster: (mixed on site - specifically made for CSEB Block) Sand, Soil, Cement (4:2:4)

Steel End PLate attached to RCC column/beam

Technology driven by Climate Crisis

200 500MM

Tray to pour water in Control Unit Smart Water Distribution System

Clay tiles arranged by the resident as their need Stainless Steel frame

Water Collection tray

In the early morning, you can pour water into an overhead tray designed to aid in natural cooling. This tray is connected to a control unit that would regulate both the distribution and flow of the water. The control unit ensures the water is evenly spread across the tray, optimizing the cooling effect.

As the water flows from the overhead tray, it is directed downwards and eventually collects in a lower water collection tray. This system allows for efficient use of water, maximizing the cooling potential as it moves through the setup.

Festive View is a space for social gatherings and festive celebrations such as Diwali and Navratri.

A space to be used for evening conversations and dinners, making it the perfect setting for get-togethers.

02 Exploring Ferrocement Project Type: Workshop Duration: 6 weeks

03 Factory of Escape Project Type: M.Arch Year 5 Project Duration: 10 weeks The factory provides a healthy alternative of escape from the physical and mental struggles in life, using art and music alongside support from community as a coping strategy to deal with everyday challenges. The programme incorporates activities which stimulates an individual mentally and physically to give a sense of release and feel recharged as they experience the spaces. The issue of drug abuse has been consuming Glasgow for decades. People with mental health issues and difficult upbringing turn to drugs as a form of escapism in order to escape from the real world, to the safety and comfort of a fantasy world.

The main focus group of the centre are the adolescence struggling with mental health issues who tend to resolve to drugs as a form of escapism. The factory ultimately aims to prevent these vulnerable groups from drug usage and raise awareness around the subject through the programmes and exhibition spaces. As some or other way most of the genre goes through some form of Behavioral addictions.

The factory being an escape, would also be a place of acknowledgment of effects, harm and to find one’s own answer.

Intervention | Factory of Escape

Factory of Escape The factory ultimately aims to prevent these vulnerable groups from drug usage and raise awareness around the subject through the programmes and exhibition spaces. As some or other way most of the genre goes through some form of Behavioral addictions.

Le Corbusier | Usine Claude et Duval Factory

Balornock, Glasgow Scotland

Massing Strategy

Orientation & Existing form

Cutting through the building

Ground level for public

Experiential Pathway

Skylight for the pathway

Facade Intervention

Public-Private space

Staircase core

Ground Floor plan

Environmental Strategy | Part L

Feminist Detail

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Aluminium framed corkboard window 20 mm thick corkboard back supported with a metal plate Mullion in accordance with static requirement Glass Support Block Inner Seal

Stainless steel -concealed screw fittings

Tinted glass

Aluminium framed corkboard window

Perimeter Insulation

Steel plate covering

Sealing(acrylic) Sealing the transom connection

04 PAULSON RESIDENCE Project Type: Professional Project Duration: 16 weeks

FOUNDATION PLAN

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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FIRST FLOOR PLAN

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05 Documentation of World Heritage city Pol Houses Ahmedabad Project Type: Documentation Duration: 6 weeks

After the declaration of Ahmedabad as a UNESCO Heritage city, documentation of Pol Houses under AMC(Ahmedabad Muncipal Cooperation) was conducted. From the onsite measurements to producing the drawings from the niches to drafted plans acknowledged the climatic planning to the aesthetic of the inticrately carved facades. It was a group effort guided by Ar. Poonam Trambadia, were each group of seven were assigned a Pol to document

06 Architecture as a narrative to valuing differences in Faith Project Type: B.Arch Thesis Project Duration: 17 weeks Religion has the power to foster peace, define right vs wrong, to bring people together, shaping a community, giving it a Purpose - an Identity. Contradicting, it also can divide, initiate conflicts, create differences among varying beliefs leading to lesser interactions - to lack in pluralistic dialogues.

In this pluralistic environment, it can be said religion has a large influence on the behaviour of the society and also on political views.Difference in belief system influences violence - forming rifts between different faiths, leading to conflicts.

This phenomenon can be resolved through instilling tolerance through encouraging continuous dialogue with others, building trust and creating a union.

The thesis proposes Religion as a force, in the undercurrent contemporary conflict which has the power to nullify its effect.

Architecturally, bridging the sacredness of the place of worship to the place of dialogue, a building as a symbol of Tolerance, even with the varying beliefs.

Information Centre Community Kitchen Food just being an excuse, the idea of the program is interaction of varying ideas Festive Square

Masterplan

Dialogues, discussions, events, exhibitions

FAITH LEADER

TOURISTS Ackowledgment - variant activties, festival celbration

Museums, House of prayer

LOCALS

House of Prayer A place of gathering, irrelevant of faith connecting to spiratuality. Common prayer space, yoga, meditation space

Library

Museum of Pluralism Co-existence Showcasing similarities in ideologies Religion Diversity Embracing the difference Scripture Gallery Embracing the difference Conflict Showcasing past conflicts

Dialogue Centre Summer programs, programs realted on educating teachers, students. Space for researchers to share their work, discussion on conflict resolution. Debates, discussions, events,exhibitions

Souvenir Shop

Absence Inspired by different religion buildings - the outward form - square - to a natural covering - a shell - a void - representing the cosmos. Journey from the live interactive zone to a more singular pathway. A hollow spacewarmth were an individual - find/interpret theri own language of Faith. The ground level act as meditation space for locals for everyday use..

Geometry

Organic Covering

Shell

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