C. Aparnaa | Urban Design Portfolio by C Aparnaa

C. APARNAA URBAN DESIGN PORTFOLIO

C. Aparnaa

About

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Hello. I am a third year Bachelor of Urban Design student at CEPT University. This is a collection of the various projects that I have worked on in the past six semesters, ranging in the scales, types of projects in terms of approaches and the degree of publicness. I have a keen interest in understanding the inter-relations that are formed which results into either physical or functional manifestation of the ‘space’ in order to turn it into a ‘place’. How historic, economic and cultural aspects are linked with social aspects is another dimension that I have encountered a lot and how literature, case studies or theoritical frameworks act as guides to design is another interest of mine at which I have been constantly honing myself.

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Education

Other Interests

Currently studying: B. Urban Design (Batch ‘16), CEPT University, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380009

Learning different mediums of sketching Learning new languages (currently learning Spanish) Reading books and novels (Both fiction and non-fiction) Capturing perspectives specifically in photography Dance

CBSE SSC and HSC from: K.V. O.N.G.C. Chandkheda, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 382424

Contact Phone: +91-7600044118 +91-8849843415 E-mail: c.aparnaa.bud16@cept.ac.in Address: B-304, Shukan Orchid, New C.G. Road, Chandkheda, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 382424

Languages Proficient in: English Hindi Understanding and basic Communication: Tamil, Gujarati

Soft Skills Reading-Writing Skills

MS Excel MS Powerpoint Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop Rhino + Grasshopper Sketchup Hand-Drawn Work

Experience Cultural Exchange Program, JENESYS (Japan East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youths) Programme:

17th March 2012- 27th March 2012, from K.V. O.N.G.C. Chandkheda, Ahmedabad

Earth Construction Techniques Workshop:

25th March 2017-26th March 2017, from Hunnarshala Foundation, Bhuj, Gujarat, as part of Course ‘Construction Technology II’

Understanding the Musi River Canalconnecting to the Fort Area and nearby locations by Mapping:

Communication Skills

10th December 2017- 21st December 2017, at Shilpalaya Associates, Hyderabad, Telangana, 50081

Team Work

Rethinking Campus Design, IIM- Bangalore:

I believe in working together as a team and when time demands for it, I can take lead in order to produce the work expected, without compromising on quality, quantity or rationales.

One of the Curators of Social Media Team of our course B. Urban Design (along with Vidisha Dhar and Hetvee Panchal)

7th May 2018-15th May 2018, taken by Dr. Kiran Keswani as part of Summer School 2018, CEPT University

CONTENTS

Page 1-2 Streets and the City

Page 3-6 Migrant Housing

Page 7-10 Parametric Design

Page 14 Critical Writing

Page 11 Water Bodies

Land Use

Movement Morning

STREETS & THE CITY The on-going studio focuses on the study of streets and how it caters to differents users and modes at both macro and micro level. At macro level, the existing and future developments are to be looked at and what role that street plays in the city. At micro level, the land use, edges and facades, ROW and ergonomics of elements are looked at in order to facilitate the needs of different users. Site for design- Sunrise Park Road, Ahmedabad

Group Work- C.Aparnaa, Harsh Gupta, Himalay Zaveri, Karan Tanna

Afternoon

Evening

A A’

B’

C’

>500 Legend

450-500 400-450

Residential

D D’

Commercial Mixed Use

350-400 300-350 250-300 200-250 150-200

Open Space Institution

Transect

100-150 <100

Edge Conditions

2.5 m

8.5m

1.4m

4.5m

A’ C

1.5m

4.5m

B’

7.5 m

C’

D’

20m

Community 1- UP Bhaiyyaji

02 MIGRANT HOUSING The studio project deals with studying two dominant migrant communities in Eastern Ahmedabad & use the study in order to develop a housing project for the migrant communities as well as for the other economically weaker sections. It addresses the idea of stacking and linking of one housing unit while also looking at the future incrementality.

Cluster Plan

Typologies

Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Streetscape 1

Street Section

1 2

Site

A Site for design- Monogram Mill Land, Rakhial, Ahmedabad

Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

The houses in the first three lanes follow a similar division of the spaces. Those who have more number of people in their family & are comparatively well-to-do make vertical extensions in their houses. 0

10m

Community 2- Women into Sewing Cloth Cluster Plan

Sewing Types Chaniya: 5-10 minutes each, Rs. 40-45/dozen A

Shirt: 15-20 minutes, Rs. 50 each

Family Structure A family with only adults - 10 hours

Blouse: 20-30 minutes, Rs. 100 each Pant: 20-30 minutes, Rs. 150 each

Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Houses of women into sewing

A family with young chidren - 7 hours

Natural Light and Sewing Spaces Ground Floor

First Floor

Use of Interior Spaces

First Floor Plans:

Ground Floor Plans:

Section

Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 0

10m

Design Proposal- Selected Patch Site- Monogram Mill Land, Rakhial, Ahmedabad Land Ownership Division

Owner

City-1

EWS Housing

City-2

Ground Floor

First Floor

Second Floor

Basic Module Type 1

A’

Type 2 Major Streets

B’

C’

Minor Streets A

C’

A’

B’ C

Type 3

Floor Plan Scale

32.5

65m

Section Scale

Public Spaces 8

40m

Design Proposal- Zoomed In Ground Floor

First Floor

Second Floor

Process Model

Final Model

Key Plan of Selected Patch D

Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

7.5

15m

Evolutionary Computation- Eixample, Barcelona

PARAMETRIC DESIGN

The studio focused on producing varying outputs (design proposal) based on a set of fitness criteria. These fitness criteria are obtained from site analysis and inferences which are then evaluated for all the outputs and compared across, in order to come up with a design proposal which succeeds in all the fitness criteria well enough (called Pareto Fronts).

Fitness Criteria

Maximize volume

Maximize visibility from courtyard

Maximize sunlight exposure

Maximize inner courtyard area

E Total area of site- 2.1 sq. km Built Footprint- 0.5 sq. km Calico Mill Land Area- 0.31 sq. km River- 0.4 sq. km Major areas around- East: Geetamandir, Maninagar, Kankariya Lake | West: Paldi | North: Astodiya | South: Danlimda Char Rasta

A=153000.00 cubic m B = 6026.74 sq. m C = 7725 hours D = 9.94E+02 sq. m E = 5 units

Community Public Space

A = 166000.00 cubic m B = 6309.55 sq. m C = 7684 hours D = 908.72 sq. m E = 6 units

Residential

A = 141479.46 cubic m B = 5739.59 sq. m C = 10268.00 hours D = 1081.52 sq. m E = 6 units

Mixed Use

A = 141479.46 cubic m B = 5739.59 sq. m C = 10268.00 hours D = 1081.52 sq. m E = 6 units

Public Space- Tourism

Software used- Rhino with Grasshopper Site for design- Calico Mill Land,Jamalpur, Ahmedabad

Superblocks

Variation in Blocks

Minimize number of open spaces Group Work- C. Aparnaa and Dharan Koruduvar

Site Analysis and Market Study Dominant Land Uses

Zones 2

3 4 1

Zonal Study 1

- Residential: 44% - Production Units: 15% -Commercial: 18% - Calico Mill Land as Open Space: 9.5%

Legend Food Industry- Cloth

Market StudyMacro Scale

Market Study- Micro Scale

Ravivari Gujri Bazar

Law Garden

Organization of Vendors In front of their houses

Compound wall

Commercial Building

Labourer Grocery Store

Footpath

Street Edge

Auto Rickshaw Driver

Spaces that support the Informal Market

Clothes Seller

Extended spaces

Wooden items Vegetable Vendors Novelty Items Kite Maker Mechanic Bakery Formal Sector Utensil Makers

Proximate Land Use

Public Spaces

Landmarks

Rules

- Same kind of vendors together as part of a healthy competition as well as more visibility attracting more crowd. â&#x20AC;?A person coming to a wholesale or wholesale-retail market is looking for that particular item. So it provides choices for The customers and vendors hear the talks & improvise their negotiationsâ&#x20AC;? 0

7.5

15m

Design Strategies Street Layout

Land Use Distribution Commercial

Compilation of Land Use Distribution

Public Space

1. Connecting two existing points

Edge Attractor

2. Connecting existing point and multiple points on the other side

Edge Attractor

Point Attractor

Why This Edge?

Why This Edge and Point?

Primary Network Existing Commercial Area, APMC Market

Primary Network

Residential

Institution

On juxtaposing all the layers over one another, the above result was received on the basis of prioritising commercial near streets and public space near Riverfront and Calico Chimney.

(Calico Chimney)

Negotiated Land Use Distribution

3. Shortest path selection

Edge Attractor

Why This Edge? 4. Offset of 12m in both roads and final road layout

Primary Network

However, considering the existing pattern of having mixed use land uses, the places of overlap can very well be these mixed-use areas that act as transition in the hierarchies.

Why This Edge? Existing Residential

Existing Production Units

Primary Network

Existing Commercial+ Office Complex

Existing Production Units 0

240

600

1200m

Design Proposal Design

Site Plan

Typologies A

C A

Basic Unit

B A

B B

A- Maximize volume B- Minimize volume/ground surface area

A’

B’

C- Minimize sunlight hours

C’

Mixed Use: UpDown

Mixed Use: FrontBack

Residential

Commercial/ Institution

View A

A’

The in-between street with a depression in the corner gives the shops to have two openings (one that will always be shaded from the sun) or becomes a space for parking or for vending.

View B

B’

C’ 0

120

300

600m

Depressions in all the 4 corners makes the space function as a smaller scale junction which can act as a landmark & the corners get occupied for vending, parking or \seating.

04 WATER BODIES The studio focussed on understanding the context of Thaltej. Considering it is a peri-urban area, it is under development and lots of conflicts happen. This project deals with the smaller Thaltej Lake and addresses how it can function well ecologically while also catering to the dwellers around and at a macro level, city’s aspirations from the space from a socio-economic point of view.

Design Proposal Before

After

B’

1 2 2 3

6 7 A

A’ 9

Site for design- Thaltej, Ahmedabad

8 7

8 A

A’

A’ 9

The small lake has been chosen as the site for a design looking at water body as part of a neighbourhood.

B’

B’ 0

7.5

15m

Constructed Wetland at Langar Houz Lake

HERITAGE AND WATER

Intended Use

The study has three tiersthe point of merging of the streams from the two lakes (Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar) and inlets into the Musi River (canals), the Langar Houz Lake which receives water from Golconda Fort and the flow of water from this lake to the Musi river, and the study of specific points on the trajectory of water from Golconda Fort to Langar Houz Lake and from Lagar Houz Lake to River Musi. Site for study- Golkonda, Hyderabad

Intensity of Impacts Barricades and Garbage Dumping

Sewage

Current Use

While the wetland near the Langar Houz Lake is a very good initiative and can prove to be very effective in channelizing as well as make the water that enters the lake immaculate, it is currently not functioning well due to the garbage and sewage collection coming from the fort area and passing through neighbourhood.

This canal connects the sewage from the neighbourhood that it flows through and then at the end merges with the River Musi. There are a lot more canals in the city similar to this where the sewage of the city is dumped into the River Musi which once gave water to drink and irrigate is now dying.For a long term, this process of mixing the sewage with the river without any treatment would deplete the ecosystem completely.

Study of Stream in Neighbourhood

Zone 1

Zone 2

Zone 3

Legend

Zone 4

Internship: Submitted toMr. Jaya Kiran Pidikondala, Founder and Principal Architect, Shilpalaya Associates, Hyderabad, Telangana Work by- C.Aparnaa, Mandeera Baghar, Vaishnavi Akilla

42m

Jaisalmer, Rajasthan

Past

Although the physicality of the fort city has remained the same, there has been a drastic change in the manner of usage of the space today. Three scales have been taken to study this change: chowks, streets and houses (most public to most private spaces) within the fort wall area.

Present

IIM- Bangalore, Karnataka

Movement Mapping

Desire Lines to be Created

Street- Present

Spots

Pergola Space

Evening: 5pm- 6pm

Street- Past

RETHINKING CAMPUS DESIGN Morning: 9am-10am

LIFESTYLE & PHYSICALITY

N- Block

Second Floor

First Floor

Ground Floor

Past

First Floor

Ground Floor

Present First Floor

Ground Floor

By- Mehrnaz Amiraslani, Mudra Shah, Maneesh Jangidh, Maulik Chauhan

Group: Atal Chadha, C. Aparnaa, Dharan Koruduvar, Siddhi Soni

On completing our studies we learnt that in older times, social status dictated form and size of the buildings and use of streets, whereas as in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scenario, same spaces are modified to respond to new function while retaining the aesthetic identity of Jaisalmer. The chowks have retained their role as spaces of gathering, along with growth in tourism. Winter School 2016, CEPT University

Lunch: 1pm- 2pm

Present

Anchors

Eateries

Tea: 3.30pm- 4pm

Past

House

Haveli

Courtyard

By- Dr. Kiran Keswani

Book Cafe

Shaded Areas

Group: C. Aparnaa and Shubhangi Saxena

Summer School 2018, CEPT University

CRITICAL WRITING

Analysis of Graying, greening and fragmentation in the rapidly expanding Indian city of Bangalore by Harini Nagendra, Suparsh Nagendrana, Somajita Paula, Sajid Pareetha Written for Mandatory Course: Introduction to Landscape Ecology and Environment, taken by Chandrani Chakrabarti, Monsoon Semester 2018, B. Urban Design, CEPT University

The reading essentially talks about how urbanisation affects the landscape of a place, the matrix mainly, using the city of Bangalore as an example and identifying the landscape in the core, periphery and surrounding areas in order to understand what the driving forces behind the increase or decrease in vegetation are. The approach of comparing the maps over the years and the method of analysis for understanding how public institutions, the historic occurring has catered to the preservation of the ecological core of the city, even though fragmented, has been elaborated, which is different from the usual case of the suburbs or periphery having larger patches. The method of analysis of comparing the landscape over years based on specific parameters is something that I found to be interesting. It gives an overall view of the patches of vegetated and built areas, the growth of both these terms and the further detailing of these areas in terms of the physical, biological, economic and social aspects gives an idea about which areas need to be preserved and which ones need to be built and how (vegetated or built), the ‘layer cake’ method established by Ian McHarg being the basis/layout of the process. However, it raises the question of whether or not it is the topdown approach that is worked on first or the bottom-up, how the social aspects are taken into account and how it varies across different places. Considering the practices of people planting exotic trees, draining the water table to construct places for people who themselves are going to need water as a service and amenity, how does one simultaneously apply the topdown and bottom-up approach? How does it differ from Western countries where the periphery is usually for the rich whose number is significantly less but their choice of personal open space contributes to large but fragmented spaces and less in area, whereas in South Asian countries, the periphery is for the poor who are more in number and more compact, leading to larger patches still intact but again less in area?

Define Gender. Explain three different ways in which gender and space in cities is mutually constituted using three examples. Reference Readings1. What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work by Dolores Hayden 2. Intersectionality and planning at the margins: LGBTQ youth of colour in New York by Clara Irazabal and Claudia Huerta 3. ‘You Can Be Lonely in a Crowd’: The Production of Safety in Mumbai by Shilpa Phadke Written for Mandatory Course: History of Urbanization, taken by Dr. Renu Desai, Spring Semester 2018, B. Urban Design, CEPT University

Gender refers to the classification of humans on the basis of their functions and choice of way of expressing themselves, as opposed to the incorrect posit of gender being a categorization on the basis of sexuality of a person (primarily reproductive organs) and the stereotypical notions of how the binaries, male and female, express themselves, regardless of the other genders. It is because of this binary categorization and negligence of the so-called ‘others’ that city spaces have become gendered spaces i.e. favouring the men and women only and not the LGBTQs, although most of the spaces aren’t even women oriented due to the carry-forward of the patriarchal ideology. This point has been raised by many through writings and protests voicing their opinions and the fact that city spaces are gendered and have different backgrounds. Like in case of Mumbai, the fact that women have to take ‘risks’ such that their safety (individual concerns) and security (concerns of the community and state) has to be maximized as per the class and religion that they belong to. These have been the deciding factors of questioning who accesses a space (as consumers or as the consumed in case of commerce), why they access the space (pleasure or work in case of bars and discotheques), the time they access the space (whether they are in the ‘accepted category’ of women) and how they access the space (as an anonymous by using veils as part of their culture or like any other individual accessing a space while being unknown to the rest). “The visibility of gendered, or rather sexed, identity often makes it more difficult for women to stake claims to occupying city spaces in radical ways” [Page 57-‘You Can Be Lonely in a Crowd’: The Production of Safety in Mumbai] which further defines their comfort level, body movement and clothing, thus, the degree of claim over the public space. While in the above case it has been a problem of women accessing the public realm and its consequences in their community and private space in general, in case of American cities, it was the idea that women are meant to be inside the houses when the growing city and urbanization demanded them to work outside for their own survival as well as for the growth of the city. The fact that houses then were built for families served by males working outside and females working inside was questioned and the ideology of creating neighbourhoods with better houses for the working women being facilitated with day care services, food, spaces of interactions for the working women and maintenance in order to be more inclusive of the fact that women work too had been put forth in order to avoid the “traditional sex stereotyping” [S182- What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like?]. These examples considered the problems with the binary classification of genders and thus, spaces being biased to a particular gender i.e. males. However, another major concern is the negligence of the LGBTQs of different colours and race, who were mostly not even considered while designing city spaces. They had been homeless and this “homelessness creates greater vulnerability to poverty and worsens LGBTQ YOC’s ability to access or retain services or employment, which contributes to their remaining poor” [Page 5, secondlast paragraph- Intersectionality and planning at the margins]. Thus, an organization called FIERCE was formed that voiced their opinions and experiences through walks around the city, pointing out the places where the LGBTQ YOC felt free to open up and places where they didn’t, starting from their neighbourhood Christopher Street which was the birthplace of the movement and how coordinating with architects and planners they raise the issue of ‘spaces for all’. Thus, all these instances proved the point that the city space has been gendered, both in case of public and private realms, which is aggravated by the fact that gender is a binary classification, when a city space is for all, irrespective of classifications of gender and supports each and every individual’s right to express in the public realm, that is and can be manifested through the city spaces.

Description of the city Seville, Spain Written for Elective Course: The City in Literature, taken by Neha Krishna Kumar, Spring Semester 2018, CEPT University

Whenever there is a mention of Spain, what usually strikes any person’s mind is the grid pattern of the manzanas of Barcelona with Sagrada Familia (and other Antonio Gaudi architectural styles) at one of the intersections or Madrid as the capital with its huge fan base of football or the Cordoba beach. However, Seville never comes directly to anybody’s mind despite the fact that it had been one of the major Kingdoms during the rule of the Moors, the finance administrative centre during the rule of the Catholics, a flourishing port and has hosted two of the major expositions in the year 1929 and 1992, the same years in which even Barcelona had hosted the International Exposition and Olympics respectively. So it is quite surprising that why has Barcelona become so popular and Seville, although popular, is still somewhat overshadowed. But once someone has experienced Seville, the perceptions change, like mine did. I’d like to take you to the whole experience in order to justify this thought that developed in my mind after having visited Seville to live the Hispanic experience with a tint of many other cultures. “The inception would have to be from the Plaza de Espana...... ........After spending hours and days walking through the stone paved streets with different kinds of buildings and bumping into different people, I end up in a place which is generic around the world, with the apartments housing the people and well planned by orientation. A similarity in this kind is something that I did not long for after having been lost in the beautiful labyrinths of something so organic. Still trying to move further so that I won’t have the impression of being rigid to just exploring history and not the present, I come to a point where the Amarillo Bridge starts. It is one of the five bridges that were built over the Guadalquivir River on the banks of which Seville had been built in order to reach La Isla de la Cartuja (The Island of the Carthusians) which was developed and built for the 1992 Exposition. I could see tall structures on the other side, which celebrated the development, but this is where I gave in to my rigidity. As I looked forward to the streets that lead to a new developed place It is somewhere I don’t want to go So I turn around to face the streets that lead back to the historic labyrinths And I could hear them say “Bienvenido” And thus, I went back to being lost in the historic city for the rest of the days that I was to be there, never having seen the iconic La Cartuja. And I don’t regret it. Having lived the experience of Seville, I do promote a bias of wishing everyone would to go to Seville along with going to Barcelona, Madrid or Cordoba, because it manifests yet another side of the Hispanic cities.” “Aparnaa..!! Will you get off that laptop already!?” Wow I just got so lost into the whole assignment. Funny how the technology has advanced so much that one can visit all the places and have the experience of it through Google Earth 3D places, reading about it from different websites and different perspectives. But isn’t it bad that even though one gets to experience all of it while sitting somewhere far away, it is the experience of and from an influenced experience?

OTHER WORKS

Environment and Ecology Mapping a Farm

Construction Technology Elective- Food and the City, by Mansi Shah Group work- C. Aparnaa & Shubhangi Saxena

Videos ‘Show Some Love’: For Elective ‘Communication for a Social Change’ by Rebecca Sudan By: Aparnaa, Dhwani Doshi, Reddhi Bhatt, Vidita Mundada

Group Work

‘Mughal Gardens- Pari Mahal’: For Mandatory ‘Urban History’ by Debasish Borah By: Aparnaa, Dhwani Doshi, Khevana M.

Suitability Map Mandatory Course-Introduction to Landscape Ecology and Environment, by Chandrani Chakrabarti | Group work- C. Aparnaa & Khevana M. The map is such that the existing green cover, aquifer area and area around should be conserved and the area around can be recreation since it caters to conservation. The rest of the areas are for development

Individual Work

Group Work

Individual Work

Utopian City based on Water System

Foundation Studio II

Individual Work

Representation of the movie ‘Ex Machina’: For Foundation Studio II, Spring 2017

Poster Making

Public Participation Work

Model Making

Sketching

DiverCities: For History of Urbanism by Renu Desai

FGD: For Foundation Studio II, Spring 2017

Methods of Model Making: Mandatory Course by Dilip Panchal (Group Work)

Picture by- Dhwani Doshi

Studio Project Model- Individual Talk on Let’s Talk About Sex: For Elective ‘Communication for a Social Change’ by Rebecca Sudan

By: Aparnaa, Khushali Haji, Mandeera Baghar, Vanshika Shah

Studio Project Model- Group Reading Representation: For Vertical Studio II, Spring 2018

The Cities in Literature: For Elective by Neha K. Kumar

Picture by- Imran Mansuri Sir

From CEPT University Facebook Page

Thank You

For detailed or more work: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1O8OD91t4xuDr1A858ToLe9WWyiKRYSvU