Undergraduate Academic Portfolio

PORTFOLIO.

BINDU MARINGANTI WADIYAR CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE

Phone: +919986576123

Email: bindumaringanti@gmail.com

D.O.B.: 10th May, 2000

Address: 3rd Main, Paramahamsa Road, Yadavagiri, Mysuru, Karnataka, India, 570002

Languages:

English

Telugu

Kannada

Hindi

My name is Bindu Maringanti.

A recently graduated student from Wadiyar Centre for Architecture, Mysuru, I’ve always viewed the design process to be paradoxical.

Liberating, yet at the same time, binding. Seemingly simple. yet at the same time, complex.

Through the five years I’ve spent in architecture school, I’ve tried to navigate through the paradox that the design process is, and found my passion and curiosity towards the profession to have grown.

This portfolio consists of selected projects I’ve worked on and explored through the course of five years.

CURRICULUM VITAE.

Education:

2004- 2016

Primary and Secondary Education

National Public School, Koramangala, Bangalore

Grade: 10 CGPA

2016- 2018

Pre- University City P.U. College, Jayanagar, Bangalore

Grade: 92%

2018- 2023

Bachelor in Architecture (B.Arch)

Wadiyar Centre for Architecture, Mysuru

Experience:

August 2022- January 2023

Internship at Studio Matter, Goa

- Entrusted with entire set of working drawings for mock up space of a commercial retail store. Involvement in design process from the beginning, making of presentation drawings of iterations of furniture and layouts to present to clients.

- Created CAD working drawings and Sketchup models for ongoing residential projects in Bihar and in Goa.

- Assigned work on background and support tasks on content and editorial projects that are undertaken by the firm, worked on administrative and office tasks that required me to assist the team or the directors.

Skills:

Software skills:

Drafting: AutoCAD Revit

Modelling: Sketchup Revit Rhino (basics)

Rendering: Enscape

V-ray

Lumion

Involvements: Assistant Editor Courtyard (A student- run college newsletter)

2019-2021

I was in charge of editing the articles we receive and had also written several articles for the newsletter.

I had also undertaken leadership positions during my involvement in the newsletter.

Head of poetry club

WCFA

2020-2021

I was involved in organising virtual open mics and club meets.

Post Production:

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Indesign

Adobe Illustrator

Website Making: Wix

Google Workspace

Others:

Architectural writing and journalism

Photography

Hand drafting and sketching+ model making

Participation:

Zonasa Design Trophy (2020)

Involved in designing a bus terminal for an annual design competition.

Zonasa Journalism Trophy (2019)

sarkari hiriya prathamika shaale. conceptual work.

anganwadi as a kit of parts.

a thesis project.

AIM AND INTENT

What is an Anganwadi?

These Centres are child care centres that are to provide for early childhood services that encompass health, nutrition and education in an integrated manner. On further research regarding what constitutes this scheme and on visits to existing AWCs and observations being made with regard to these, have found that on the ground level, the implementation does not completely fulfill what the scheme entails in terms of ‘holistic development of children’; this will be elaborated upon in more detail in the document.

My attempt to carrying out this exploration is to understand the existing scenario of AWCs in the city of Mysore in particular and propose small changes to the implementation of the already existing schemes and infrastructure regarding AWCs to make the path to the construction, usage and expansion of these Centres easier.

The aim is to explore how pre- primary education can become more easily accessible and easier to avail.

More specifically, the aim of the project is to look into various schemes concerning the construction of AWCs, observe the existing scenario and to pave a path to making the usage of these spaces easier and more comfortable.

GUIDE:

Shreyas Baindur

SITE LOCATION

Kumbarakoppal, Mysuru

DURATION

18 weeks

Total budget: 12 Lakhs

Narrative deduced:

1. The bench provided to the scientist helps the scientist access the coats; Similarly, ECCE was also intended to make pre-primary education more accessible to a larger user group.

2. XXICDS was was discovered to be made of six elements; two of the elements were found to be expanding. Similarly, ICDS comprises of six services, and there is an overlap in services provided on one day of a month.

3. Upon observing that El.IM and El.HC are expanding, it was realised that these elements must be separated from the rest; similarly, on the day of the month when the services overlap, in an attempt to maximise the quality of the services

4. It was found that on separation of the two compounds, the initial compound is prone to gradually becoming redundant because of the lack of the mitochondria. Hence, combining the two on that particular day of the month becomes necessary thought of to be a good solution to enable the implementation of the services at the Anganwadi Centre to the best potential as opposed to having a more permanent infrastructure as this infrastructure is one which is shared by multiple institutions; where it functions as a temporary reading space. In this way, the funds required for the implementation of this infrastructure gets divided between multiple institutions.

The Comic Series ‘Adventures of Scientist X’ was made in an attempt to draw parallels to the thesis project undertaken to the storyline of the comic.

Govt Schemes in question ECCE

Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) is a framework that refers to all care and education services provided for children below 6 years of age.

ICDS

Integrated Child Development Services is a scheme that falls under ECCE.

ICDS: Research regarding the 6 policies

The ICDS Scheme offers a package of six services as listed below:

1. Supplementary Nutrition

2. Pre-school non-formal education

3. Nutrition & health education

4. Immunization

5. Health check-up and

Objectives

The objectives of the project are to:

1. Design two modules for the construction of an Anganwadi:

a. Module A:

Module A will be a base structural module of an anganwadi.

b. Module B

Module B will be a mobile temporary infrastructure that works in tandem with a framed fixed structure.

2. To demonstrate how an ideal interaction between the two modules can happen on site, pave way for future construction of anganwadis.

provided, the aim was to dividethe infrastructure of the services provided

6. Referral services necessary for all the elements to function to the fullest of the potential. Similarly, a temporary infrastructure in which health check-ups and immunization takes place was institutions; on days when health check-ups and immunization occurs, it halts at the Anganwadi Centre, and on other days, it is taken to nearby GovernmentSchools

3. To demonstrate how module B can attach itself to existing Anganwadis and function as a temporary infrastructure+community space.

AWC at Vijayanagar: The Garadi Mane AWC

The aim of selecting a site with an existing anganwadi was to demonstrate how the mobile component can plug- in to the existing AWC and become a temporary infrastructure for Immunization and Health Check- Up to take place.

Site

The city of Mysuru. Three sites were selected, out of which two of them (site at Temple Road and site at Vijayanagar) had existing Anganwadis and were selected for demonstration of design of how the mobile component designed can plug into the existing Anganwadi and serve as a temporary infrastructure

The site at Kumbarakoppal has been selected in an attempt to demonstrate the functioning of the structural module and the mobile component together. The site so selected already has an existing AWC present; it, however, has been facing certain structural issues due to poor maintenance. The design demonstration aims to redesign the existing AWC on the site, and use the method of construction proposed through the design proposal.

AWC on Temple Road

The aim of selecting a site with an existing anganwadi was to demonstrate how the mobile component can plug- in to the existing AWC and become a temporary infrastructure for Immunization and Health Check- Up to take place.

Site at Kumbarakoppal:

A site for design demonstration of functioning of the structural module and the mobile component

Stakeholders

When do they use the space?

Anganwadi Worker Children between 0-6 years

Pregnant+ lactating women Adolescent girls

Primary Health Care Worker

Other members of community

Timelines:

Overlap of stakeholders at Anganwadi Centres

MondaySaturday (9AM-4PM)

MondaySaturday (9AM-4PM)

2-3 days of a month

A. On a Regular Day

1 day of a month

Very brief visits

B. Ration Day

Observations: Timelines were drawn up on different days based on observations at a particular Anganwadi Centre and it was found that due to the overlap in services on one particular day in a month, the space at the Anganwadi Centre was not sufficient for all the services to be provided to the best of the quality.

C. Health Check Up

D. ECCE Day

The Structural Module: Joinery details to attach multiple modules to each other and between footing and members

The Structural Module: Joinery details between the two members

The structural module has been designed in a way such that the joineries were worked out in a way which allowed the individual pieces could be disassembled and assembled easily. This gave the AWC so formed a more temporary nature; this is beneficial as it allows for expansion of the AWC Centre. Expansion of AWC Centres come into picture as the population in neighbourhoods are constantly increasing; people migrating into the neighbourhood is one possibility.

2" X 2" BOX SECTION-

OUTER SKIN

PIVOT HINGE

10MM THICK PLYWOOD

2" X 2" BOX SECTION

10MM THICK PLYWOOD SHELVES

Materials used for Mobile Component

The major materials used for the mobile component include:

1. MS 4” X 4” box sections

2. Plywood skin and shelves

MOBILE BASE FOR MODULE

MILD STEEL WASHER

3. MS washers

View of Mobile Component attached to bike

Section through Mobile Component

Demonstration at existing Anganwadi Centres and Govt. Schools

The adjoining graphics were made to demonstrate how the mobile component functions, opens up and is used at existing Anganwadi Centres and Government Schools.

Ground Floor Plan (At +1M)

Design of demonstration of functioning of structural module and mobile component

The next step in the design process was to demonstrate how the structural module and the mobile component fuction together. The first step to designing on the selected site was the assumption that the existing AWC was to be reconstructed. Through plans and sections, it was worked out how the two components could function together.

Section BB

Section AA

internship.

a glimpse of projects worked on during internship. Studio Matter, Goa

During the internship period, was entrusted with entire set of working drawings for mock up space of a commercial retail store. Involvement in design process from the beginning, making of presentation drawings of iterations of furniture and layouts to present to clients.

have Created CAD drawings and Sketchup models for ongoing residential projects in Goa and in Bihar.

WORKED PREDOMINANTLY UNDER:

Ruturaj Parikh

Aliptha Reddy Govindu

Rishiraj Sarkar

DURATION

24 weeks

ROAD MID

ROAD WIDENING LINE

PLINTH OF EXISTING HOUSE

Drawn: Bindu Maringanti

Checked: Aliptha Govindu

For: Issue

LEGEND:

Moira Courtyard House

Location: Moira, Goa

Typology: Residential

Moira Courtyard House is a residential project located in Moira, Goa.

The program involved the design of a yoga pavilion and a residential space within a three bedroom module.

The site is located in the midst of a lush green vegetated area, which provides the opportunity to capture multiple beautiful views from within the house; the opportunity to heighten the connect between the outside to the inside becomes evident

C1- C21 are columns provided engineer

Revision Number: 0

Scale: 1:150 | A3 Colour

All dimensions in MM. To be read, not measured.

Drawing:

GROUND FLOOR LINEOUT PLAN

Drawing No.: A001(a.1)

Staircase Detail

MATTER. STAIRCASE

Staircase Plan: Ground Floor

Staircase Plan: First Floor

THIS WALL HAS MOVED BY 100MM

Ground Floor Masonry Plan

NOTES:

1. All dimensions are finish to finish.

2. All dimensions are in mm

3. All walls are 230mm thick unless specified otherwise

Drawing: Drawn: Bindu Maringanti Checked: Aliptha Govindu For: Issue

GROUND FLOOR MASONRY PLAN

MATTER.

Ground Floor Electrical Layout

First Floor Electrical Layout

A clothing retail store for Tata

Location of mock-up space : Mumbai

Typology: Retail

One of the projects that was worked on during the course of the internship period is an interior design project for a series of stores for a brand to be newly launched.

The initial stages of the project included working out mulitple iterations in order to achieve the perfect pieces of furniture and orientation.

I had the opportunity to participate in discussions with the clients and make designbased decisions.

Section AA’

Furniture D

Brass Plate (25MM X 8MM)

Brass Pipe (25MM Dia.)

Plate (25MM X 8MM) Brass Plate

Concrete Finish on Plywood Pedestal

Brass Plate (25MM X 8MM)

Brass Plate (25MM X 8MM)

6" Brass Pipe Attached to Wall (19MM Dia.)

Brass Plate on Plywood Pedestal

Brass Pipe (25MM Dia.)

Furniture G

Brass Plate (25MM X 8MM)

Brass Pipe Attached to Wall (19MM Dia.)

Brass Plate (25MM X 8MM)

VIEW E

Brass Plate Concrete Finish on Plywood Pedestal

Furniture H

FURNITURE DETAIL

MATTER.

Dalan House Extension

Location: Siwan, BIhar

Typology: Residential Dalan house extension is a residential project located in Siwan, Bihar. This Project mainly comprises of two parts:

1. Design and construction of an outhouse

2. Renovation of the existing Dalan house

The initial stages of construction of the Dalan outhouse consist of the following stages:

1. Excavation for footings of 100 X 100 steel columns

2. Excavation of plinth beam

3. Casting of footings and plinth beams

4. Backfilling of trenches

5. Positioning of steel plates for columns

6. Casting of columns

7. Bringing up the outer masonry walls up to half height

8. Casting of steel members (100 X 100 beams and 50 X 50 purlins)

9. Construction of masonry walls

DALAN FOUNDATION DETAILS

DALAN FOUNDATION DETAILS

Lineout Plan Foundation Details

MATTER.

MATTER.

A009(a.9) Scale: 1:100 | A3 Monochrome All

Masonry Plan

Plumbing Layout

co- working space.

STUDIO BRIEF AND INTENT

The studio focused on understanding sustainability and how it influences the way we build for the given context. After thorough studies, our aim was to be led by the principles of performative architecture and passive design strategies to help with sustainability. The studio also focused on understanding certain parameters to aid the design process. The main parameters that were addressed include form, orientation, shading and thermal comfort.

MENTORS

Kukke Subramanya

Nelson Pais

Anjali cheriyath

Vidyashankar

Suren Aalone

Dyan Belliappa

SITE LOCATION

MUDA Layout, Mysuru

SITE AREA 3000 sqm.

DURATION

10 weeks

The site is located in MUDA Layout in Mysuru, which is a residential layout in Mysuru. The scale of the buildings surrounding the site and, are the most, double storeyed houses.

The design was initially approached diagrammatically in order to explore certain strategies (form, orientation, passive cooling, shading, thermal comfort). These explorations formed the basis for the design process.

MUDA Layout

12.2877° N, 76.6109° E

Sectional

View from road

On ground floor- beside event space

On lower ground floor- event space

Plan at +4M

Exploded Isometric View

Meeting rooms

Toilet

1 pax work space

2 pax work space

4 pax work space

Discussion rooms

Meeting rooms

Toilet

1 pax work space

2 pax work space

4 pax work space

Discussion rooms

Informal work spaces

1 pax work space

4 pax work space

Library Conference room

Informal work space

Toilet Admin space

Informal discussion space

Open to sky event

Along with the importance given to the passive design strategies, the main intent was to create a building that satisfies the requirements of what a co- working space should be along with creating a conducive work experience.

The co- working space so created allows for people to be connected to one other through the porous volume of the space so created and at the same time also creates personal pockets of spaces to work with no interruption.

The connect that the building has to the surroundings and to nature is strong, owing to the porosity that the volume and the skin offer.

There is also a combination of formal and informal spaces that have so been formed in order to cater to the needs of a larger user group.

music institute.

STUDIO BRIEF AND INTENT

The semester intended to introduce students to the various aspects of designing a music institution by understanding an institution’s intent, philosophy and programmatic requirements, and to translate these into a functional building. The design was meant to constitute relationships between courses, batches, between faculties and students and between public and the campus. The semester also aimed at delving into the process of understanding and design of a high rise building.

MENTORS

Anand Krishnamurthy

Asijit Khan

SITE LOCATION

VV Mohalla, Mysuru

SITE AREA

3864 sqm.

DURATION

14 weeks

The site is located in VV Mohalla in Mysuru, which is one of the busiest commercial areas in Mysuru. The buildings surrounding the site have a large built up area, owing to the presence of commercial buiildings and shops.

The design was initially approached diagrammatically in order to understand and explore the form, orientation and experiential quality of the space.

Single volume

Splitting of volume in order to separate accomodation space and institutional space

Further deductions keeping in mind area requirements of spaces+ connect between two volumes and formation of courts

Skin development+ Bringing element of publicness into space through public plaza Music connects people- it binds them. Thus, a space to learn music should be no different. Through diagrammatic explorations, it was attempted to create a space that connected the students learning music through courts and volumentric deductions.

Plan at +1.5M

The publicness involved in music itself as an element could not be ignored. It was, thus, also attempted to create a differentiated public gathering space in the form of a plaza in order to bring the public into the space, in the event of a music performance or a gathering, and to create a space that could also be used during the times the institution does not function.

The fact that VV Mohalla is a bustling commercial space with a high footfall makes it essential for the design proposal to respond to it. The boundary wall of the institution has been made porous at certain parts to make it easier to differntiate between spaces that can be accessed by the public and spaces that are specifically owned by the institution.

The spaces on the upper levels follow the same character as the ground floor; it was attempted to bring in porosity. Courts were formed on the upper levels as well in an attempt to create small niches for people to gather.

A connect between the two volumes was also made such that the spaces could be used in a convenient manner.

Since the building is a high rise building, the sectional connect between the different floors becomes crucial. The building has been sectionally crafted to create a connect in between the spaces in the form of courts and volumetric deductions in order to enhance the binding character that music posesses.

Section AA’

An attempt was made to make the space more welcoming for the public from outside through courts and volumetric deductions.

sarkari hiriya prathamika shaale.

STUDIO BRIEF AND INTENT

The main intent of the studio was to design a public building. The Kannada movie ‘Sarkari Hiriya Prathamika Shale’ formed the basis for the studiothe town in which the movie was based in led to the public building being designed to be placed in that environment. The movie gave a wonderful narrative of a community in Kasargod- apart from the depictions of the nature of life in the town, a large part of the movie followed the lives of the children living in the town and their time in school. The public building itself was an extension of the existing school building. As a starting point, the footprint upon which the building were to be designed was given to be 12m*50m.

MENTORS

Kiran Kumar

Shreyas Baindur

SITE LOCATION

Kasargod

SITE AREA

7000 sqm

DURATION

16 weeks

Giving away space in front of the building

Kasargod

12.4996° N, 74.9869° E

Connect between public space and road

STUDENTS OF SCHOOL

Because the public building designed is an extension of the existing school building, the students of the school become important stakeholders.

PUBLIC

The design aims to create a space for the residents of the town. In the movie, it was shown that the space in front of publicly used buildings became as important as the building itself. The space in front of the building became a threshold before entering into the building- a space where one can be a part of the space without completely entering into the building.

Usage of frontage of building

A number of programs were introduced, all of which were to be integrated into the public building. The first step at approaching these programs was to categorise them on the basis of how ‘public’ they were perceived to be. This categorisation further aided in the positioning of these programs in the building.

The movie ‘Sarkari Hiriya Prathamika Shaale’ became the basis for the semester. The nature of life and the context as shown in the movie became the basis to understand and approach the design.

The key questions that were grappled with this semester were-

1. What is the nature of a Public Building?

2. How does publicness find architectural expression?

3. Given the mixed use program, how does one organise this appropriately ? What frame do we use to bring them together in meaningful ways?

4. How do we critically respond to the particular conditions of a place (the town, its fabric, culture, character)? The main aspect that was looked into was the relationship in between a public space and a public building.

Sectional ideas on relation between building and space

Elevation becoming porous

Position of footprint on site

Positioning of footprint-

Reasons for positioning and orientation of public building-

• All of the public building could be seen from the street

• To create scope for design of a public space. Public building becomes backdrop of the public space in front of it

The main idea carried forth from the movie was tbe presence of the public space and public building, and the relation between them. In the movie, it was shown that the space in front of publicly used buildings, such as shops, became as important as the building itself. The space in front of the building became a threshold before entering into the building- a space where one can be a part of the space without completely entering into the building.

Section AA’

The moviement of a user from the road into the public space and then into the public building leads them to encounter a series of possibilities, options and pause points, similar to the character of life and spaces seen in the movie.

The entire proposal aimed to respect and respond to this character.

The key questions that were grappled with this semester were-

1. What is the nature of a Public Building?

2. How does publicness find architectural expression?

3. Given the mixed use program, how does one organise this appropriately ? What frame do we use to bring them together in meaningful ways?

4. How do we critically respond to the particular conditions of a place (the town, its fabric, culture, character)?

The main aspect that was looked into was the relationship in between a public space and a public building.

In the movie, it was shown that the space in front of publicly used buildings became as important as the building itself. The space in front of the building became a threshold before entering into the building- a space where one can be a part of the space without completely entering into the building.

The public space was created by plinth variations, and positioning of the open air theatre along the axis from the road to the building, while the public building was made porous through volumetric deductions and by making the skin porous.

Wall Sections

Wall sections were worked on in order to detail the project to a larger extent. Three main materials were used in the proposal- adobe mud bricks (for walls), bamboo (for porous stilts) and concrete (for slabs and foundation).

conceptual work.

models of ideas.

A House for an Artist and Author

The intent was to incorporate vernacular building methods into the design while choosing to use either low-tech or high- tech solutions.

A Cafe by Chamundi Hills

Since the site slopes down toward the lake, it was attempted to create a sense of movement towards it- sectionally as well as through the orientation of the form itself.

The cafe is designed to respond to the site in a manner such that the height difference of the various contour levels are taken into consideration .

The slab that cuts through the volume of one component extends out to form the roof of the next component.