COMMERCIAL PLAZA

Location: Navi Mumbai, India

Semester 5

Project Brief:

The design aims to create a Commercial plaza wherein social interaction and commercial activities can co‐exist. It is place for citizens to hang out with their family, friends, neighbors, community groups. More importantly it intends to create a proud landmark for its citizens thereby creating an identity of its own.

Commercial and leisure spaces forms the essential support apparatus to serve the people at this plaza.A city has a lot to offer to individuals prevent them from getting alienated and encourage building friendships and relationships as a social unit with diverse people from varied backgrounds, cultures, professions, age groups etc.

Commercial plaza includes an office building and a shopping centre. The placement of these structures are made so as to create no nuisance around the office building.

The shopping centre along with lesiure plaza in placed close to main highway for better connectivity.

Contemporary plazas also serving as a source of vertical circulation that can hold people together, enable exchange of ideas in a very lucid manner is designed

Working drawings for office building - Centreline (above)

Ground floor plan (below)

Basement plan

Working Drawing Details :

‘GURUKUL’ - TINY LIBRARY

LOCATION: Nagpur, Maharashtra

Year: 2020

Competition | Team of 3 people

Volum Zero 2020

Role: Research, Concept Development, Designing

Project Brief:

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” - Nelson Mandela

Despite its importance, education is still inaccessible to many communities in remote locations around the world. Self-learning, especially through reading, is crucial for the society’s development. The design aims at creating environment for learners in a way that propogates knowledge with modern methods but at the same time dwell upon roots they belong to. Also, keeping in mind the climate of the context and responding it by giving vision to the design, the aim was to develop a space which enhances overall development in an individual.

As nature is the best teacher, blending the structure with the space it belongs, an incubator which provides learning in natures crib, - A Gurukul in true sense is formed.

Views

The site is located in outskirts of Nagpur, admist of villages that are specifically affected by rising water levels due to nearby Dam. Due to these rising levels, it becomes very difficult to commute in and out these areas, adversely affecting eductaion for young minds.

The space is designed as a centralized think tank for the local communities with a focus on public interactions and community development.

‘SCHOOL PLAYGROUNDS’ - CREATIVE WAY

Location: Navi Mumbai, India

Year: 2021

CSR Initiative Project By L&T, Seawoods | Team of 4 people

Role: Research, Concept Development, Designing

Project Brief:

LTSL took a CSR initiative to develop 4 muncipal schools in Navi Mumbai.The aim of the project intended in developing a theme based design for each school. The objective were as follows;

To provide fun activities along with academic development.

To have an overall development in children within the school boundaries.

To use recycled materials which are children friendly contribuiting to sustainable development.

The factors that influence personality development in children are taken into consideration