BRINDA TAXALI_Graduate Portfolio

Hello!

I am Brinda Taxali, a fresh graduate from Aayojan School of Architecture and Design, Pune, passsionate about interdisciplinary designs. Throughout my academic career, I have developed a keen interest in user-experience design, exploring form and material, context based designs, documentation, illustrations and technical detailing.

I am curious to know how the practical constraints of the field can use my skillset whilst expanding my practical knowledge in the field of architecture.

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BRINDA TAXALI

C A T I O N

2018 - 2023

Bachelor of Architecture

AAYOJAN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

AND DESIGN Pune

2004 - 2018

Primary and Secondary Education

BAL BHARATI PUBLIC SCHOOL

New Delhi

E

X P E R I E N C E

June 2022 - November 2022 STUDIO SEARCH,

Intern Architect

- Utilised CAD, Sketchup and MS- Office to complete over 8 - 10 designs, technical drawings, model renderings, details and calculating quantities.

- Used Illustrator and Photoshop to visualise conceptual design and produce illustrations.

SOFTWARE

• Interior Design (Semester 6)

• Design Theory (Semester 7)

• Municipal Drawing (Semester 8)

• Karwaan - Quarantine Facility

• NASA - Griha Trophy

• COA - Role of Architecture in Nation Building

2D DRAFTING

3D MODELLING

RENDERING

Lumion Enscape

BIM MODELLING Revit

PRESENTATION

Illustrator

Indesign MS OFFICE - Word

AI MODELS

Chatgpt

Midjourney

LANGUAGES

Arko-AI Maket Veras Playground

2020 : Aspirations and Inspirations - Online Design Program (conducted by Landconcern Initiative)

Z- Axis: You and Your Neighbourhood Webinars (conducted by Charles Correa Foundation)

Neuro Architecture

2021 : Sustainable Architecture Week (UGreen _US)

2018 - 2021 : FEED Pune Member

Crtical Thinking Problem - Solving Teamwork

Responsibilty and Management

Housing Project in a commercial influence zone

millennial housing

site area - 21,000 sq.mt

built-up area - 35,000 sq.mt

Keywords:

VII Semester Live - Work - Play, Community Ammenities, Verticality, Multi- functional Spaces

Housing has always been a part of an ever evolving urban structure. Housing needs or requirements have typically grown out of the prevailing social, economic and technological advances or environments. Currently, cities are evolving at an unprecedented pace. This rapid urban growth, combined with a tech - driven, fast and service - intensive lifestyle, has led us to look and explore various fronts; and address the issue of relevance of housing patterns within cities for the future generations. An architectural model for housing which in sync with the current environment, is socially equitable, and is for the new generation, which is for all and which can adapt for the future generations and continue to remain relevant.

opp. trump tower kalyani nagar, pune

From the single block mass is subtracted and voids are formed for visual connection between different buildings and break the monumentality of the mass.

for forming internal courtayrds and a large common gathering space

UNIT PLAN OF HOSTEL BLOCK

UNIT PLAN OF SERVICE APARTMENT

• Void created for capturing views.

• Heights of the block reduced to create Visual connection within buildings and between buildings and outside.

SERVICE APARTMENTS

2 BHK UNIT

3 BHK UNIT

1 BHK UNIT

Typical Floor PLate that keeps decreasing as we move up

BLOCK MODEL OF HOUSING EXPLAINING THE PLACEMENT OF DIFFERENT UNITS

Public Zone

Private Zone

A large open area provided in unit has been kept as a common place for easy accessibilty through each space - multifunctional (gathering + transition).

Circulation

UNIT PLAN OF 3 BHK

COMBINATION OF 1 BHK AND 2 BHK

2 units have been removed in vertical direction to create voids in between, thus,breaking the monumentality pattern and simultaneously using these spaces as recreational zones at every alternate floors to keep the building thorughout interactive + capturing views from building.

CUT SECTION FROM HOUSING BLOCK

HOSTEL BLOCK

View from Metro

View from Trump Tower

View from Bishop School

partition museum-the line of 19|47

site area - 25,000 sq.mt

built-up area - 7,000 sq.mt

Keywords:

X Semester Memories, Oral Histories, Community Upliftment, Exhibit, Curator

When independence was declared at the stroke of midnight, two nations were born on 14th/15th August 1947, where, on one hand people were celebrating the joy of freedom on the other hand the celebrations were overshadowed by one of the most dramatic and massive human displacement along with loss of life. It is considered one of the largest and most violent mass migrations in human history– the India-Pakistan Partition

What happens when you are rendered penniless and homeless overnight?

People who witnessed it or were subjected to it were left traumatized, helpless, and uprooted from their homelands to an unfamiliar land where they had to rebuild their lives from scratch and fight their way to establish themselves. The mass displacement of people across the subcontinent resulted in millions of refugees settling in provinces and cities to which they had no prior connections — neither of family, culture nor language.

Partition Museum in a sociocultural influence zone

opp. pragati maidan central delhi

SEEDS OF PARTITION

1700

British (trading + acquiring land)

1857

1st revolt of Independence

1880

India drained of wealth

culture, traditions new laws

INDEPENDENCE PARTITION

dividing provinces and creating identity issues

existing princely states-autonomous

People living in HARMONY Decisions taken at nation level hampering common people's lives by creating CHAOS and FEAR

CLUELESS about further events and DISPLACED from their roots, refugees settled with limited provisions, with the hope that TOGETHER they will overcome the situation and all picked up from scratch and built a living.

The well, train, bullock cart, car, jeep, tentproved to be significant .

People FORCED to leave their ancestrol homes.

MAZE confused

less grain density

over-flowing grain density

people adjusting wherever possible

moving towards unknwown place

Water in this space, resonates with its characteristics - continuity of fluid inspite of obstacles and no stagnation.

The wires running in between the blocks represent the chaos due to overpopulation in the city.

Narrower paths have been created so people can move one after the another forming a trail.

Circles represent movement on wheels and the bullock carts, train, cycle, car - these helped people to keep moving ahead.

The curved panels have been placed in such a manner that they create a path for people to explore through defined or undefined path

The ramp has been narrowed down, with limited light before being exposed to an open space.

The curved shape has been given to the structure, providing a directional path for movement to adjacent space.

Elements- windows similar to train, ramps getting narrower as moving upwards and dummies of people laying on the floor in haphazard manner and the number increases as we move forward

The walls of the space painted deep red, depicting the massive bloodshed and starting from one point to another through multiple routes. A game of maze

From this point, it can be seen how long the line has been stretched and running like parallel lines, which are getting away from each other.

The well's depth has been depicted through spiral ramps which narrow down as we move in downward direction (walking cautiously while moving forward and cut-out in between dark room acting as an escape route)

Two curves placed opposite to each other, spaces flowing into each other and creating a gathering space in between.

A narrow skylight allowing only limited light to enter. Use of different materials for flooring from polished surfaces to broken bricks From free flowing curves to defined circles the form of the the space changes.

The punctures in wall throughout allows natural light to penetrate creating a silent peaceful zone.

(PAVILLION) EXPRESSIVE ENCLAVE

TEMPORARY EXHIBTION

ROOF PLAN

COLLABORATIVE CORNER

ROAMING REFUGEE

CLUTTERED DOMAIN

CANTEEN STORAGE ROOM

ADMIN BLOCK

GROUND FLOOR PLAN WAITING ROOM

RECEPTION + TICKET COUNTER

CONFLICT CORRIDOR

CULTURAL CROSSROAD

SERVICE STAFF

The ramp has been narrowed down, intentionally to tlimit the no. of users entering at a particular time, to the open gathering space

The initial gathering space provides a glimpse of what the overall experience the spaces are going to provide.

LEGENDS

1. Conference room

2. Meeting room

3. Toilet Block

4. Director’s office

5. Curator’s office

6. Officials office

TOILET BLOCK

TOILET BLOCK

Section cut through Waiting Room and Admin Block

Section cut through Waiting Room

+20.0M +0.30M

+0.75M

+4.40M 1 2 3 3

+4.95M 4 5 6 8 9

10 7

Pause point in waiting area, from where two focus points can be seen - ramp to move forward and a glimpse of a line being created View from Entrance

central space acting as a buffer between public and private zone

View from Reception Area and Admin Block

Spaces merging

Spaces flowing into each other

Impression of being stuck in an unavoidable situation

The formation of shapes changes from fluid to rigid - resembling invisible or merging boundaries to visible and strong boundaries.

Internal Circulation through the space

View of Experential Space 1

The depiction of everything around waiting

LEGENDS

Section cut through Space 1

First experiential space depicting how people used to sit together and discuss under an open sky, no religion differences. An easy walk from one block to another. From walking on an even surface freely to walking on rough patch cautiously.

Out of the main elementsthe well held a significance during that period.

Ramps leading to next space acts as a buffer from where either people to just observe and move forward or take a break.

Scope of what is happening outside very less known or nothing.

A space representing how abandoned their belongings and went in hope of returning back. (The space also waiting for them to come back).

Variation in Flooring

But, as the situation worsened, it started impacting at lowest level, enstranging and creating gap in between people and separating them permanently.

1. The Cultural Crossroad

2. The Conflict Corridor

3. The Turbulent Junction

4. The Unsettling Gallery

5. The Partition Line

6. Central Gathering Space

Section cut through Space 3

The spaces created in this area represent the timeline during partition era when everything around was messed up and nothing was clear and refugees who survived soldified the belief that safety lay among co-religionists.

Mirror

Images formed by two mirror at different angles120, 90 and 0 degrees.

Abstraction of the incidents and emotions of the people thorugh different elements

Situation of the old city due to overpopulation

The gallery showcases the memories and incidents shared by the people of that time. In terms of oral histories, artefacts or movies.

The lines get longer as they keep moving forward

As the people kept moving forward dificulties increased. Everbody, was walking just in search of hope.

LEGENDS

"Blood Trains" was the most horrifying experience for

arrived at stations laden with dead bodies .

1. The Imactful Maze

2. Cluttered Domain

3. Roaming Refuge

4. Collaborative Corner

5. Transition Space

6. Toilet Block

Refugees chalking out path for themselves through all the crisis to just reach a secure place-the broder

the people, as the trains

LEGENDS

1. Pavillion - Expressive Enclave

2. Temporary Exhibitions

3. Canteen

Temporary Exhibition showcases the artworks of people, or holds seminars which talks about the whole scenario.

The space expresses gratitude to the people who experienced these things and still helped in nation building or providing new perspective to their lives.

The symmetrical shape and curved panels allow the user to move in any direction and creating different pause points.

Standing at the upper level of pavillion one can get the whole view of the site, analysing of what all they have came through

VIew of Temporary Exhibition Space

VIew of Canteen

A line separating public and private zone

SITE SECTION - 1

SITE SECTION - 2

interpretation center

site area - 1.500 sq.mt

built-up area - 1,100 sq.mt

Keywords:

VI Semester Story - telling, Kinesthetics, Informative Displays, Heritage Preservation

The KHIRKI mosque is one of the earlier examples of mosques wherein instead of a single open-to-sky courtyard it is divided into four small courtyards. It has lost its importance or individuality with course of time, due to development of urban village along its periphery known as KHIRKI village. In addition to it, the dense maze of narrow streets will eventually lead to such an architectural marvel is unpredictable. Being the focal point of this village, it holds importance for the community living there, but as an individual structure has lost its identity. Overall, the village and the mosque stand secluded from its vicinity.

opp. khirki masjid saket, new delhi

KHIRKI MASJID

Interpretation Centre in a public influence zone

A built space complementing the historical structure + highlighting its

Surrounding houses dominating the historical structure

MOVEMENT OF USER

ILLUSION

SIMPLICITY

How spaces are perceived due to different room sizes, natural light access, opening sizes, width of transition spaces.

PRINCIPLES

FOCUS RIGID REPITITION

CONTRAST

EXHIBITION ROOM

EXHIBITION ROOM

EXHIBITION ROOM SHOPS

7.

4.

5.

1.

1.

1.

1.

8.

2.

6.

3.

1. EXHIBITION ROOM

2. KITCHEN

3. ADMIN BLOCK

4. SHOPS

5. OPEN SPACE

6. TOILET BLOCK GROUND FLOOR PLAN

7. AMPHITHEATRE FACING KHIRKI MASJID

8. GALLERY

SECTION A-A'

SECTION B-B' CLERESTOREY PLAN

time

1. Located opposite to the Select City Walk, it is easily accessible. Complementing the historical structure stands the center.

2. From the entrance, the arcade lead towards the exhibtion space, which briefs about the story line of Masjid, through corridors of changing widths and openings.

3. The changing size of exhibition spaces highlights how the predominant structure has been superimposed by surrounding unauthroised buildings.

4. The changing widths of corridor set up a visual connection between viewer and Masjid, exploring as the spaces unfold.

SECTION C-C'

Spaces being unfolded and explored one at a

Study of Kinesthetics

opp. trump tower ghaziabad, delhi ncr

gst building

site area - 8959 sq.mt built-up area - 10,500 sq.mt

competition entry - GRIHA, NASA Green Building, Lower Maintenance, Climate Responsive

Keywords:

With the increasing demand for green buildings, it is vital to understand the right approach towards constructing such structures that would minimize the detrimental impacts of construction on the planet, while creating a healthy and comfortable living/working environment with zero or minimal incremental cost.A green building has lower resource consumption as compared to conventional buildings, while enhancing the overall health and well-being of the users. There are a number of tangible and intangible benefits offered by green buildings. Green buildings consume 40% to 60% (depending on the range of measures adopted) lesser electricity as compared to conventional buildings.

Public Project in a public influence zone

internship - STUDIO SEARCH

Semester IX, Ahmedabad Landscape, Interior Design, Architecture

Keywords:

During my 6-month internship at Studio Search, Ahmedabad. I thrived as an intern under the guidance of Senior Architect overseeing a few diverse projects. This period gathered me experience of executing the drawings on the site and learning how to deal with labourers, the many factors which one has to keep in mind while proposing the design, to drafting, visualising in 3D, to execution. Alongside, exploring the city on weekends - the rich heritage of Ahmedabad, stepwells and structures designed by Ar. B.V Doshi. The BRTS, being an easy way to commute and giving city tour.

Landscape Proposal to create a buffer zone from daily routine

Shutter - 18 mm plywood with laminate finish and 3 mm grooves

Shutter - 18 mm plywood with laminate finish

Shutter - 18 mm plywood with laminate finish

18 mm plywood with laminate finish and 3 mm grooves at 150 mm distance center to center

Drawer - 18 mm plywood with laminate finish

SECTIONAL

A A'

SECTIONAL

B B'

SECTIONAL

A A'

SECTIONAL ELEVATION B B'

SECTIONAL ELEVATION B B'

A A'

SECTIONAL

SECTIONAL

SECTIONAL

C C'

B B'

D D'

D D'

SECTIONAL ELEVATION D D'

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row house vijay nagar, delhi approval drawing

VIII Semester - Elective

Keywords: Municipal Drawing, Construction

PARKING STATEMENT.

Required Provided

Car Scooter Cycle

0 0 0

Area of block : 19.8 X 5 = 99

Total area b+c+d = 10.996 sq.mt (e)

Area of ground floor : Proposed

Total area a - e = 88.004 sq.mt

AREA STATEMENT FOR FIRST FLOOR : PROPOSED

Area of block : 17.5 X 5 = 87.5 sq.mt (a)

Car Scooter Cycle

Note : Single Tenement for plot area below 300 sq.mt hence parking not required.

ROAD SIDE ELEVATION SCALE 1:100

Deductions : Total area a - h = 82.369 sq.mt

1.18 X 0.7 = 0.826 sq.mt (b)

Area of first floor : Proposed

Water required for daily chores per person per day (plus 1 day reserve)as per nbc norms = 150 LTS.

No. of persons considered = 6

Total water required =150 x 6 = 900 litres (capacity of OHT)

Water stored in UGT is twice of OHT= 900 x 2 = 1800 = 1.8 cu.m

Dimensions for the underground water tank:

Length = 1

Breadth = 0.90

Depth = 1.80 (1.5 + 0.3 for free flow)

Total Volume = 1.2×0.90×1.80 = 1.62 cu. metres

model making