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Contents Introduction X

Faculty of Architecture AR2004 Strange Details Mehul Bhatt, Rajan Bhatt

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AR2005 Of Immediate and Afar X Pranav Raiji

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AR2009 Humane Habitat: The Alchemy of Place, People and Palimpsest Yatin Pandya

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AR2013 Making Living Places : Craftsmanship, Song and Imagination Puneet Mehrotra, Juzar Lanewala

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AR2016 Tectonic Operations Aditya Patel, Krunal Patel

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AR2018 Designing with People Sahiba Gulati, Jigna Desai

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AR2019 Where Material Meets Design Vishnu Kolleri, Vicky Achnani

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AR2021 Space Kinematics Muntaha Rushnaiwala, Anuj Anjaria

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AR2023 The Joy of Architecture Ratin Ghoghari, Sagar Trivedi

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AR2024 Climate Responsive Architecture Hiten Chavda, Ravi Kashyap

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AR2025 Building Anti-Building Milind Patel

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AR2026 Dissolving Boundaries: Children Library at Loving Community Anand Sonecha

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AR3015 At the Cusp of Land and Water Piyas Choudhari, Vijay Patel

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AR3017 Realizing Nollis Dream: Embedding Architecture in The City Sachin Soni

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AR3018 The City and Performance Spaces – Performance Spaces as Urban Catalysts Jayant Gunjaria, Viral Bhavsar

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AR3019 Algorithmic Thinking – A Parametric Approach to Problem 104 Solving 104 Kuber Patel, Ahmed Abbas Momin AR3021 Vertical Living Jagrut Patel, Dhaval Gajjar

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AD4001 Urban Insert Pratyush Shankar, Pratik Soni

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AD4005 Narratives In Architecture Meghal Arya

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AD4006 The Practice Vishwanath Kashikar

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AD4007 Rupture Suture | Lieux De Memoire Partition Museum at Kolakata Sonal Mithal Modi

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HT4003 Theorizing Architectural Production Gauri Bharat, Catherine Desai

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CR4000 Architectural Conservation Ashna Patel, Mrudula Mane

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LA4004 Designed Ecologies Deepa Maheshwari

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LA4005 Reimagining Water Sandip Patil

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LA4006 Site/ Sight/ Insight Anjali Jain, Priyal Shah

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LA4007 Tracing Lines Divya Shah

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Faculty of Design BD2002 Expeditions in Non-Metal Sadasivan Iyer

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IR2002 Designing a Structure Ajay Patel

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IR2008 Beyond Detail Naandi Parikh

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IR2015 Encounters with the Past: Exploring Approaches Towards Interventions in a Historic Context Mudra Shah, Janki Contractor

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IR2018 Art of Detailing Vasav Bhatt

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IR2022 Reimagining the Vernacular Jay Thakkar

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IR2024 Exploration of Design: Material in Focus Ramesh Patel, Vishal Joshi

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IR2025 In-Detail; Making is Realizing Vishal Wadhwani, Niyati Patel

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IR2029 Travellers Home Shikha Parmar, Shweta Jain

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IR2030 Deployable System – Form, Space and Function Jinal Shah

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IR2031 Elements of Form and Space Gaurang Shah, Amal Shah

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IR2032 Decoding Poetics of Space Hinal Mazumdar Vyas, Jagrut Raval

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IR3002 Brand Building Through Spatial Design Ruchi Mehta

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IR3006 Forgotten / Transformed Errol Reubens Jr., Ratna A Shah

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IR3009 XYZ of ABC Kireet Patel

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IR3010 Reuse & Revive: Hospitality Spaces Dexter Pereira

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IR3011 Interior | Skin | Context Mohammed Ayazkhan Pathan

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BP4003 Simple Products for Interiors of the Built Spaces Samir Bhatt, Sagar Modh, Vrushank Vyas

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BP4004 System Development Methodology/ Migration Sadasivan Iyer, Rudrapalsinh Solanki

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FD4001 Small Great Things Rebecca Reubens

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FD4005 Government­– Governance – System Anand Belhe, Kaulav Bhagat

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FD4006 Furniture for Interior Spaces Anand Belhe, Kaulav Bhagat

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ID4000 Craft + Future =? Positioning Interior Practices Rishav Jain

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ID4005 3600 - From Concept to Creation Chirag Doshi

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ID4006Creating Theme Pavilions for Expositions (EXPO) Shailesh Manke, Moksh Thapar

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ID4007 Synthetic Gestures: Addressing Urban Synergies, Core Retrofitting of ManekChowk Fruit Market Dilip D Patel, Devanshi R Doshi ID4008 Dropbox – ­within the Social Context Mili Amin, Claire Reuter

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Faculty of Planning UR2001 Generative Techniques for Urban Place Making Radhika Amin, Arpi Maheshwari

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UR2005 From Utopia to Heterotopia Migrant Housing: Values of Time, Density and Culture 348 Imran Mansuri, Suraj Kathe UR2008 Designing Water Infrastructure for Civic Expression Dhara Mittal, Nishant Mittal

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UR2013 Urban Insert: Making of a Shared Space Mihir Bedekar

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UR2014 Light Infrastructures Kruti Shah

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UR2015People, Place, Identity and Change Mehrnaz, Jinto V George Amiraslani

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UR3001 Urban Assemblies: Radical Interventions in Loose Public Space Melissa Smith, Chandrani Chakrabarti

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UR3002 Humanizing Urban Space: Social Production and Speculative Design of Neighborhood Place Rajiv Kadam

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UR3003 Urban Planning and Regulations: Intent, Manifestation and Design Prashanth Narayanan, Tulika Nabar Bhasin

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UD4002-A Urban Transformation Studio (Smart Cities) Purvi Bhatt

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UD4002-B Urban Transformation Studio (HRIDAY Cities) 402 Narendra Mangwani UD4002-C Urban Transformation Studio (Urbanising Urban Villages) Umesh Shurpali

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UD4003 Elements of Urban Design Studio Brijesh Bhatha, Mariana Paisana, Vipuja Parmar, Tapan Shah

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UH4000 Housing Strategy Sejal Patel, Amruta Patel

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UI4002 City Wide WASH Plan for Fast Growing Towns of Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA) Saswat Bandyopadhyay, Neeru Bansal

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UI4003 City Wide Infrastructure Planning for Ahmedabad and Surat Saswat Bandyopadhyay, Neeru Bansal

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UP4000 - A Development Plan Studio (Bharuch and Ankleshwar) Rutool Sharma, Jignesh Mehta

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UP4000 - B Development Plan Studio (Surat) Amit Gotecha, Jignesh Mehta

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UP4000 - C Development Plan Studio (Rajkot) Bhargav Adhvaryu, Jignesh Mehta

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UT4000 Strategic Transportation Plan 2040 Shalini Sinha, Nikita Bhakuni

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Faculty of Technology CT2012 Deployable Structures: Concepts and Explorations Anand Vishwanathan, Japan Shah

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CT2015 CONCRETE: Exploring its Versatility Nikunj Dave, Bhargav Tewar

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CT2016 Network Design for Water Systems Tushar Bose, Tapan Betai

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CT2018 Designing Spaces in Reinforced Concrete Rachit Sheth, Kruti Shah

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CT2019 Planning and Design of Road Infrastructure in Hilly Region Anal Sheth, Komal Parikh

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CT2020 Structural Expressions in Masonry Abuzar Puthawala , Muntaha Rushnaiwala

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Faculty of Management UM4000-A Urban Governance and Management Studio Paresh Vyas

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UM4000-B Urban Governance and Management Studio Gayatri Doctor

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Tutor Profiles

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Editor Profiles

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Introduction We are happy to place before you, the 2020 edition of Studio Units Catalog, Spring Semester. For the first time, this semester, we have combined Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4 studio units into this online catalog.

The objective is to compile, showcase and share the range of students’ projects from the studios of Faculty of Architecture, Faculty of Design, Faculty of Planning, Faculty of Technology and Faculty of Management.

CEPT University’s revised pedagogy lays emphasis on the Studio Unit system. Learning and teaching is centered on the studio units which comprises of about 12 to 15 students and one or two faculty members. Each five-year undergraduate program is organized in three levels. The first level (L1) is a common one-year foundation, which is followed by Level 2 (L2) and Level 3 (L3) integrated studios. L2 studio comprises students from 2nd and 3rd year and L3 studio comprises 4th and 5th year students. The studio units have a greater curricular weightage in terms of credits and time, and a semester calendar which allows 4 weeks of uninterrupted studio work towards the end of the semester. The studios have a focused approach with specified learning outcomes.

L1 studios (not part of this catalog) are focused on building foundational skills and abilities required for an architect, urban designer, designer or an engineer.

L2 studios clearly focus on developing one of the skills: Visualizing and Communicating, Analyzing and Designing, Constructing and Specifying, Planning and Organizing. In addition, all Level 2 units develops the skill for building arguments and rationales.

In L3 studios, the students use multiple design abilities to solve complex design problems. Students develop the ability to exercise architectural/ design judgments. Design problems are defined based on a specific theme, approach (along with its rationale) or a theoretical position. The site, program and the area requirements may be defined by either the tutor or by the student.

The L4, or postgraduate studios are aimed at helping students develop specific and specialized abilities in urban design, furniture design, architectural conservation, ward management and the like. These are specialized domains of study, usually taught by instructors with many years of practice.

The outbreak of COVID-19 in the Spring semester disrupted the academic activities. The studios migrated online as the university went into lockdown.

There were many challenges and studio tutors were required to modify the overall studio outcomes to adapt to the condition of online teaching and students working from home. Students did not have access to workshops and making prototypes was not possible. But in spite of the constrained X

conditions everyone rose to the challenge and we have been able to put together the final work of the studios in this catalog.

This online catalog enables us to present consolidated outputs of our new efforts. We hope to share them with the larger community that includes people interested in the built environment, and education, prospective students, alumni and professionals from the Industry. The present constraints prevented us from putting up a semester end exhibition. Hence, we have expanded the pages for each studio, to give a little more space to each unit. This publication represents the work produced by around 980 of our students from 77 L2, L3 and L4 studio units taught by 130 faculty members and supported by 81 teaching associates and teaching assistants.

We wish to express our profound thanks to all the unit tutors, teaching associates and assistants, students and staff involved in this effort. We also extend our sincere thanks to all our reviewers, jurors and guest speakers who have positively influenced the education of our young promising practitioners.

Tridip Suhrud Chirayu Bhatt Anjali Kadam

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Chintan Mewada AR3017 Realizing Nollis Dream: Embedding Architecture in The City Sachin Soni

Faculty of Architecture Level 2, Level 3 Bachelor of Architecture Level 4 M Arch in Architectural Design M Arch in Architectural History and Theory M Arch in Conservation and Regeneration Master of Landscape Architecture

AR2004

Strange Details

Focus Constructing and Specifying Unit Assistant Yash Mehta

Faculty of Architecture AR2004 Spring 2020

3rd Year Aishwarya Gupta Anushka Reddi Arya Dhanda Darshan Patel Devanshi Shah Harsh Prajapati Jaya Khurana Krishna Patel Namrata Ukani Nishra Shah Odharia Jay Priyanka Kolhe Pulak Goyal Sharvi Shah Siddhi Agrawal

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Mehul Bhatt

Rajan Bhatt

Architecture is largely perceived as an expression of an idea/concept/intention.

But its manifestation is rooted in the realities of construction and nature of materials. The negotiations between these aspects result in some unique and often strange details of architecture that are then communicated through drawings.

This studio focused on the processes of these negotiations and communications by taking students through a journey of evolving and communicating their own ‘strange’ details. The studio strongly believed in enabling the students’ knowledge and understanding of technology to evolve a poetic quality of architectural expression. The initial research investigated the nature of the materials as well as spatio-formal expressions of selected buildings. This process is was simultaneously carried out with hands on documentation of selected building elements and material surveys as well as through secondary sources. The studio projects were designed such that the architectural grammar was derived from an informed, evaluated and considered use of structural elements and materials, environmental responses, and the issues of resources. Through these exercises, students understood how structural necessities are transformed into sculptural forms and the fundamental elements of the contextual environment inform the architectural tools to come together to evolve architectonic poetics.

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Fig 1 Entire class Matter of materials, joinery models in 1:1/1:5 scale Fig 2 Arya Dhanda Deconstructing the making, study of Kalim beach house Fig 3 Namrata Ukani, Sharvi Shah Reading the architectonics, Documentation of Faculty of Performing Arts, M.S.University, Baroda Fig 4 Pulak Goyal Evolving the architectonics

Faculty of Architecture AR2004 Spring 2020

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Fig 5 Anushka Reddy Resolution of section Fig 6 Jay Odharia Resolution of section Fig 7 Jaya Khurana Resolution of plan Fig 8 Pulak Goyal Process model Fig 9 Arya Dhanda Process model Fig 10 Krishna Patel Process model Fig 11 Nishra Shah Process model Fig 12 Sharvi Shah Rendered image Fig 13 Devanshi Shah Resolution of wall section and details

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AR2005

Of Immediate and Afar X

Focus Planning and Organizing Unit Assistant Milap Salot

Faculty of Architecture AR2005 Spring 2020

2nd Year Ahmed Padukode Ananya Varambally Apurv Shimpi Naomi Mehta N Swarnavalli Parita Upadhyaya Raj Kansara Varshil Changani Ved Patel Yajurva Jagad

Pranav Raiji

3rd Year

The starters were defined as, ‘immediate’ and ‘afar’. The immediate were the natural and human-made elements of the place, and the themes and functions indicated in the program.

The afar were the psychological aspects such as aspirations and associations of the people related to the project or the site.

Atul Krishnan Harsh Gajjar

The investigation of the clues in the context of the project as the ‘starter’ for the design process to help address the question of appropriateness of spatial configuration and relevance of form expression posed by the pluralistic values of the current times was the intent of the unit.

A quick relationship was formed with the starters to inquire through design as reciprocation using abstract models depicting multiple built form ideas, which were later synthesized and transformed into a holistic design.

A venture based on the ‘Farm to Table’ movement, where the produce is grown, shared and celebrated through functions such as farm, shop, café, event yard and lodging was proposed as the project on a parcel of land next to the fort wall of the old city of Ahmedabad along the Ellis Bridge on the river Sabarmati at the cul-de-sac in a quiet residential cluster abuzz with the Tuesday market.

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Fig 1 Raj Kansara Visualization of atmosphere and activities Fig 2 Naomi Mehta Visualization of atmosphere and activities through a series of sectional perspectives Fig 3 Varshil Changani Section Fig 4 Apurv Shimpi Plan Fig 5 from top to bottom, left to right Yajurva, Raj, Ananya, Ahmed, Naomi, Ved, Apurv, Parita, Swarnavalli, Varshil Intention Models

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Fig 6 Apurv Shimpi Iterations of design proposals from intention model Fig 7 Ved Patel Atmospheric Illustrations of the exterior spaces Fig 8 Ved Patel Atmospheric Illustrations of the interior spaces Fig 9 Ahmed Pudukode Atmospheric Illustrations Fig 10 Ved Patel Atmospheric illustration

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AR2009

Humane Habitat: The Alchemy of Place, People and Palimpsest Focus Planning and Organizing Unit Assistant Aditi Dora

Faculty of Architecture AR2009 Spring 2020

2nd Year Baidehi Rej Manali Kapadia Khyati Goswami Ramsha Midhat Yash Shah

3rd Year Abhishek Sondarva Felix Kruthaup Hamsika Gummadavelly Sandra Palathingal Abhinav Jayanti Khushi Shah Yashi Tripathi

Yatin Pandya Home is one of the most intimate spaces that we engage with mind, body and soul. Home is not merely a shelter but defined as the place where the heart rests. It is where reveries are conjured, and realities are responded to. Sustained existence is about harmonious bonds between human-to-human and human-to-nature. Home combines both these dimensions succinctly.

House with a heart makes a home, homes make neighborhoods, neighborhoods make communities, communities make societies, and societies shape our living environments.

We shape our world and the world around shapes us.

Vernacular architecture and self-made settlements such as Pols, slums and urban villages, having been evolved locally of the place, by the place, for the place, and refined over time, while being true to the culture, context and climate, have stood the test of time for their socio cultural appropriateness, timeless aesthetics, and environmental sustainability.

The studio brief was thus focused on understanding, experiencing, analyzing, and interpreting the wisdom of the Vernacular in contemporary times, and translating its ethos and principles in creating high density contemporary urban neighborhoods which are humane in scale, interactive, plural for diverse value’s coexistence and sustainable for the given context of climate and construction.

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Fig 1 Yash Shah Vision of an ideal neighborhood seen as sustainable, plural and humane.

Fig 2, Fig 3 Sketches exemplifying spatial and cultural richness of place and people Baidehi Rej ‘Shonar tori: A collective live and work neighborhood’ Hamsika Gummadevelly ‘Humanizing the vertical: Creating bungalows in the sky’ Fig 4 Khushi Shah Explorations in 3D physical model project ‘Nature for everyone’

Faculty of Architecture AR2009 Spring 2020

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Fig 5, Fig 6 Felix Kruthaup ‘Adaptive neighborhood on the principles of Support and infill’ Fig 7 Hamsika Gummadevelly Solids and voids in the sky become communal havens for high rise high density neighborhoods.

Fig 8, Fig 9 Hamsika Gummadevelly Exploring interactivity and community as a differential of vertical stacking .

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AR2013

Making Living Places : Craftsmanship, Song and Imagination Focus Planning and Organizing Unit Assistant Girisha Gajjar

Faculty of Architecture AR2013 Spring 2020

2nd Year R A Yukta V Vishnu Vagmi Shah Varad Bang

3rd Year Akshat Chaturvedi Bhaskar Misra Chanda Patel Faldu Rutwik Himalay Zaveri Nisarg Shah Pancholi Ipsa Preet Patel Tarjanee Soni Vipasha Chauhan Viraj Bhatt

Puneet Mehrotra

Juzar Lanewala

Why do we feel at home in certain places and not in others? Why do certain places and things make us feel more alive? Places that evokeaffect-inspire. Places that nurse and nourish life. Places emotionally charged and sensually enriching, that carry with them a sense of joy, wonder and simplicity. Places that enhance life and feel closer to our heart. Places attended with care and affection; where the everyday life takes a lyrical form with a deep personal feeling. The studio unit focused on making life enhancing places. As an approach, it followed a choicebased pedagogy as far as possible. Exercises were designed in a way that required personal and collective choices to be made at different levels. The tutors only set the premise for an exercise where some constants were given and the students followed a path or paths based on a deep personal feeling. For every exercise a clear working method was outlined. Subsequent outcomes were compared and collectively judged based on the relative degree of life an outcome evoked.

From this studio, the students learned to 1. Describe places 2. Differentiate between a more living place and a less living place 3. Develop visions of a living place.

4. Create and transform places

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Fig 1 V Vishnu, Vagmi Shah Poetic Vision of new living centers at Nikol talaavPublic courtyard ,Public garden, Public hall and Public canteen Fig 2 Varad, Vipasha, Preet, Rutvik Line drawings of hand Fig 3 Preet Patel Line drawings of a coconut Fig 4 Vipasha Chauhan, Tarjanee SoniImages of bowl Fig 5 Vipasha Chauhan, Sense of Belonging and Fifteen Fundamental properties in blanket flower

Faculty of Architecture AR2013 Spring 2020

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Fig 6 Tarjanee Soni Sense of Belonging and Fifteen Fundamental properties in most life enhancing place at Nikol Talaav Fig 7 Rutvik Faldu, Tarjanee Soni - Poetic Vision of organization of new living centers at Nikol talaav- Public courtyard ,Public garden, Public hall and Public canteen Fig 8 Rutvik Faldu, Tarjanee Soni - Plan and sections of new living center Public hall at Nikol talaav

Each petal • The whole form makes concentric circles which results in the middle alternating attention, forming a strong center • The middle is made up of smaller buds which form concentric circles increasing the intensity of the center • All centers help the bud to increase its intensity as the center • The petals, leaves, bud, stem, all seem to merge into the main center intensifying it.

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• The main center is created as all other centers emerge from it •The multiple top curves of the petal enhance the completeness and openness of the form •The thin red starting point enhances the openess in the end •All these centers create a beautiful range of sizes such that they form a continuum and are tied to the main center.

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• The copperpod tree beside the water stream which bears yellow flowers marks a strong center. The pot near the ground enhances the center. The small tent like space behind with cots feels merging into the surrounding plants and brushes.

• The copperpod tree acting as strong center. The tent is binded on the trunk of the tree and various activities takes place like siting on khatla and the children playing under the shade of the tree. Thus the surrounding space becomes a living space.

• The things are arranged so tightly that they cannot be separated. The end of the plastic tied to the bark of the tree, the khatla arranged under the tent, a base created at the trunk of the copperpod tree, the platform at the bark of the tree where it splits and a pot kept there enhances the strong center and binds the things together.

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Architecture UG Level-2 Faculty of Architecture AR2013 Spring 2020

•The vehicular noises of the road and the city is suddenly cut when one enters the garden as it has a thick layers of tall trees and bushes towards the road edge. Entering the garden one sees the curved brick wall of the hall around which one can sit peacefully. This is the path which takes you on a journey from road to the lake surrounded by the trees, flowers, water streams and many surprises.

•Adjacent to this is a tall neem tree marking an entrance for the clubhouse of the court. From here the path be-comes narrower and denser.

The stones on the ground arranged randomly give the natural touch to it.

•From within the trees you see a small water stream run-ning towWards the lake. Thus you walk along the water stream seeing the water flow, the shrubs swaying in wa-ter and savoring the smell of damp soil.

•A wooden shed near an edge of the stream is where one pauses to contemplate or just watch the water running.

•The other side of the path is the lawn connected to the clubhouse of the pavilion. The children running across the lawn some adults resting under the flowering tree, ladies sitting in the courtyard of the hall drying papad.

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AR2016

Tectonic Operations

Focus Constructing and Specifying Unit Assistant Srushti Shah

Faculty of Architecture AR2016 Spring 2020

2nd Year Khushbu Parekh

Aditya Patel

3rd Year

The studio focused on equipping students with the skill set of starting with an idea and being able to convert it into a well-detailed architectural system by making conscious decisions at various stages of design development based upon their analysis of the problem and their necessary solutions.

Aditi Kanodia Aditya Setalvad Almitra R Arsh Kania Charmi Patel Daksh Goel Devyani Chandak Isha Jain Kriti Kothari Prachi Bedia Rajpara Khyati S L N Deekshit Sawani Jain Sen Harshil

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This was done through a small design project.

Each student individually designed and detailed their respective projects. The overall scheme consisted of 15 projects. This allowed the students to also look at the immediate adjacent conditions and their response to it through necessary negotiations and adjustments. It also allowed for some amount of collective learning and the ability to deal with a situation beyond one’s control. The scale of the project allowed the students to quickly design and then detail it out reasonably within the given time frame of the semester. Each project had enough complexity to develop a well-rounded understanding of various layers of constructional process and services.

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Fig 1 Almitra R Artist’s residence exploded axonometric showing construction details Fig 2 Almitra R Conceptual sketches Fig 3 Almitra R Staircase drawing Fig 4 Almitra R Detailed exploded axonometric with section Fig 5 Almitra R Long section Fig 6 Charmi Patel Set of construction drawings for an Artist’s studio with vaults and thick brick walls Fig 7 Aditi Kanodia Set of construction drawings for an Artist’s studio with stone walls and light steel roof

Faculty of Architecture AR2016 Spring 2020

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Fig 8 Khushbu Parekh Set of construction drawings for an Artist’s residence with pitched roof section Fig 9 S L N Deekshit Conceptual Sketches and construction drawings for an Artist’s studio Fig 10 Sawani Jain Conceptual Sketches and construction drawings for a documentation lab Fig 11 Aditya Setalvad Exploded axonometric and construction drawings for a shared kitchen and dining space Fig 12 Prachi Bedia Exploded axonometric and construction drawings for an Artist’s studio

First floor plan with flooring layout Roof formwork Grid plans and sections for constructions

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AR2018

Designing with People

Focus Visualization and Communication Unit Assistant Harshil Parekh

Faculty of Architecture AR2018 Spring 2020

2nd Year B Satwika Reddy Dhriti V Jagasheth Gandhi Karan Khushi Babariya Krunal Sadhu Lea S Malayil Priyanka Salunkhe Srushti Rahigude

3rd Year Abhishek P Anupam Aserkar Dhruv Patel Riya Pai Samyak Jain Tushar Kanoi Twisha Vaghasia

Sahiba Gulati

Jigna Desai

Cities are built through intense negotiation, contestation, and collaboration. The culture of architectural production in many parts of the country continues to be collaborative and involves individuals as well as collective groups with specific spatial skills as co-producers of space and key players in city-making.

The role of design is difficult to articulate, let alone remunerate or value in such dynamic contexts. As a result, designers often find their place in serving the elite sector of society as this position allows a more comfortable valuing and understanding of service and position. For this reason, the studio was framed around the key question: how and where design engages in this complexity. International discourse of architectural design in the last decade has acknowledged participation as an element of the design process and the role of the designer as the creator of potentialities of co-production of spaces.

This studio exposed students to the methods of understanding processes of co-production in an existing built environment, introduced tools to visualize, analyze and communicate these processes for their applicability.

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Fig 1 Tushar Kanoi Mapping dirt Fig 2 Dhruv Patel Mapping dirt Fig 3 All students Engaging with the communtiy

Faculty of Architecture AR2018 Spring 2020

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Fig 4 Tushar Kanoi Smriti- A Children’s Village Fig 5 Dhruv Patel Family Hangout Space Fig 6 Priyanka Salunkhe The Market

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AR2019

Where Material Meets Design

Focus Constructing and Specifying Unit Assistant Dhruvil Mistry

Faculty of Architecture AR2019 Spring 2020

2nd Year Aashvi Trivedi Abhilasha Chauhan Chhatrola Vivek Hetarth Mistry Jay Patel Kholia Tithi Moksha Mehta Srushti Delhivala Tamanna Vakil Tank Dixit

Vishnu Kolleri

3rd Year

The studio began with analysis of precedents that push the boundaries of material understanding to generate new forms in architecture. These cases were structurally analyzed and a detail was prototyped to reveal insight into its making. The main focus was to understand the relationship between ‘part’ and ‘whole’.

Ishita Sojitra Ritvi Broker Ruchitkumar Patel Toutireddy Meghana Vatsal Sanghavi

Vicky Achnani

In an age of rapid developmental change and material depletion it becomes necessary to discover new effective ways of material usage.

This studio aims at investigating material, and assembly techniques and their contribution to architecture.

Having gained insights into the making, students made observations and inferences from their case studies and were encouraged to adopt a technique and a design stance for their own design process. Having chosen the material and techniques, their ideas were grown from detail to module and then expanded into structural systems that were capable of spanning to shelter human activity.

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Depending on their individual explorations, an appropriate program was formulated and its possible application in architecture was presented along with behavioral models, prototypes and technical drawings that described the assembly. Their solutions often included utilitarian or ancillary structures such as pavilions, walkways, bridges, chhatris and other sheltering structures.

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Fig 1,Fig 2, Fig 3 Vatsal Sanghvi Manipulate and apply the act of assembly as a predominant function of the design process Fig 4 Studio process models Tangible behavioral models of initial case study Fig 5 Ishita Sojitra Understanding the behaviour of the material through the tangible models: set of detail drawings/ models that demonstrate the process

Faculty of Architecture AR2019 Spring 2020

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Fig 6 Jay Patel Understanding the whole structure thought digital model .detail drawings and tangible models of proposed design Fig 7 Meghana Tuotireddy Investigate behaviour of the particular joint through the tangible models: set of detail drawings/ models that demonstrate the process

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AR2021

Space Kinematics

Focus Constructing and Specifying Unit Assistant Monish Jhaveri

Faculty of Architecture AR2021 Spring 2020

2nd Year Aditi Shah Jillkumar Patel Malavika Chedambath Bhavin Mehta Patel Nisarg Patel Priyang Rathod Manav Repalle Sajanish Riddhi Doshi Riya Kohli Maria Shannon Suyashi Paliwal

3rd Year Heena Diwan Palak Choksi Sunny Tuvar

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Anuj Anjaria

In architecture, there are two kinds of spaces – one is the static space whose spatial quality shifts and transforms with the changes in the activities that take place in it, the changing nature of the light that enters, the change in its furniture layout, or movement pattern, and so on.

The second is dynamic space that transforms its spatial quality by moving/shifting/transforming itself through its envelope and/or the elements that make that very space.

The course focused on architectural qualities/ spatial qualities which are primarily derived from the process of its making. The students were introduced to the logic of assembly of building elements as well as manufacturing processes of certain materials. Largely speaking, the students went through a series of design exercises that exposed them to thinking about ‘design’ through materials and processes of ‘making/ constructing’.

Combining their learnings from a broad range of exercises, the students eventually designed architectural elements with new behavioral properties which will be instrumental in an overall creation of transformative/dynamic space. For example, a pavilion that expands to become a larger shelter as and when required, a wall that gives shade to itself, or a retractable roofing system for a mosque.

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Fig 6 Malavika Chedambath Rendered views of the Pavilion Fig 7 Manav Rathod Detail of the Kinetic Mechanism Fig 8 Priyang Patel Details of the mechanisms Fig 9 Suyashi Paliwal Kit of parts, section, and plan of the pavilion

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The Joy of Architecture

Focus Planning and Organizing Unit Assistant Anuj Desai

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2nd Year Ishaan Mahajan Namrita Mathew Ritika Doijode Samyuktha N P

3rd Year Agrima Manglik Anirudh Shankar Anoushka Mittal Aryan Karena Chauhan Varisha Hari Patel Mistry Shiv Nechal Maggon Parikshit Kalvadia Rupal Singh Sandra George

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The studio was about understanding and applying lessons from Classical Architecture of India. The intention was to take inspiring architectural context which expressed the basics of architecture in a simple and profound manner. This studio focused on aspects of an Architectural experience out of the vast number of possible ways to learn from Classical Indian architecture. An attempt was made to formally analyze and find the principles and elements that define the architectural experience.

Emphasis was on issues of organization, ordering, structure and material relationship, relationship of buildings with topography and nature of site.

The students developed observational skills to study historic buildings and analytical skills to be able to extract features of architecture.

The design inquiry, which was seen as an exercise to synthesize the learning, was of responding to a sensitive immediate context and building a small-scale house which grows up to become an institution.

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Climate Responsive Architecture

Focus Planning and Organizing Unit Assistant Faraaz Ahmad

Faculty of Architecture AR2024 Spring 2020

2nd Year Adarsh Challa Arushi Goyal Deepak Nadimpalli Dhruval Gadhvi Divya Shah Jayanti Singh Omya Sharma Pavneet Kalra Protyoy Sen

3rd Year Aditya Agarwal Harshil Shah L Gyan Praharsh Reya Kundu Ritwik Behuria

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Climate Responsive Architecture studio aimed at sensitizing students towards climate by understanding comfort zones within a building in its given climatic context and investigating ways to create architecture that emerges out of Passive Solar principals.

Beginning with teaching, understanding and discussing basics of climate through, sun and its movement, prevailing winds and humidity, and, the principles of heat transfer, lighting and ventilation- both natural and heat driven air movement, it went onto understanding and establishing a comfort zone for different climates.

So as to explore a wider gamut of climate responsive architectural strategies, sites were taken in three different climate zones; Cold and Dry, Hot and Humid and Composite Extreme.

Students evolved passive architectural features, details and appropriate use of efficient materials to formulate strategies for the relevant climate.

The design program ensured buildings with both, day and night usage so as to explore corresponding strategies.

Finally, to validate these heating, lighting and ventilation achievements in efficiently designed spaces and building envelopes, the design was run through lighting and thermal simulation software Sefaira.While the studio promoted taking hints from vernacular knowledge, it focused more on exploring architecture based on scientific attitude and available technology.

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Fig 1 Reya Kundu Key response to site, topography and prevailing winds.

Fig 2 Ritwik Behuria Light and ventilation explored through breaking single volume into levels.

Fig 3 Reya Kundu Concept evolution through plan & sections.Initial sketches Fig 4 Ritwik Behuria Countering concept with function and details.

Fig 5 Adarsh Challa Exploring relationship between space, form, function and climate Fig 6 L Praharsh Visualizing function and connectivity with topography.

Fig 7 L Praharsh An Expression of relation between built-up and topography.

Fig 8 Ritwik Behuria Climate responsive strategies.

Fig 9 Dhruval Gadhvi Levelled up built form to catch wind and natural light.

Fig 10 L Gyan Praharsh Sefaira design analysis to validate the design Fig 11 Adarsh Challa A glimpse of site reveals disposition of built & open spaces

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Fig 13 L Praharsh Sheltered street to avoid wind chill and retain warmth.

Fig 14 Pavneet Kalra Earth coupled structure with terrace garden provide walkable roof to connect floors.

Fig 15 Aditya Agarwal Achieve day light through solar collector & level difference.

Fig 16 Omya Sharma Earth cover, stacking and roof treatment for controlled heat gain and ventilation.

Fig 17 Arushi Goyal Sunken courts for cross ventilation and daylighting.

Fig 18 Ritwik Behuria Saw-tooth roof for day light, incorporates rain water collector and solar PVs. Fig 19 L Praharsh Exploring volumes for natural lighting & elements to store heat.

Fig 20 Harshil Shah Blending spaces, function, climate control & visual connects Fig 21 Harshil Shah Insight glympses.

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Building Anti-Building

Focus Visualizing and Communicating.

Planning and Organizing Unit Assistant Janki Vaishnav Faculty of Architecture AR2025 Spring 2020

2nd Year Akshat Pagaria Devanshi Engineer Drashti Agrawal Mannat Singh N Jatin Radhika Bhakkar

3rd Year Divolka Sawlani Gajjar Marut Natalie Stundova Pooja Mistry Takshil Jagani Vrushti Shah

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Milind Patel The term ‘Anti-Building’ was coined by British architect Cedric Price. He challenged the conventional idea behind the building being nestled in permanence and specificity.

The built forms are usually driven only to attain the defined programmatic outline and exclusivity attained via the architect’s vision. He believed that buildings should primarily serve people.

They should be able to radically transform and be flexible to meet diverse demands of both the present and the future. His vision of 1960s, which was far too advanced for its time is responsible for many famous built forms (Pompidou center, Greenwich Dome, The shedNew York) that we all cherish and look up to. This unit offered a ground-breaking journey to look at the built form through a completely different perspective, challenging conventions, engaging in creating meaningful transformations of a built form adopting itself to address many diverse demands of its users. The shaping of the built form for the present and imagined future would ask for individual of their narrative of near or distant future through constructing of pragmatic utopias. The studio unit was a departure from Cedric Prices’ views of Anti- Building and reinterpreted the ideas behind the term.

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Fig 2 Pooja Mistry Sketch showing dynamic nature of core.

Fig 3 Natalia Stundova Exploration of connections established after interpreting the site.

Fig 4 Marut Gajjar A place in process of constant change yet retaining its character as a whole.

Fig 5 Drashti Agarwal Entity comprised of a core and periphery.

Fig 6 Vrushti Shah Incompletecompleteness to express Anti-Building.

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Fig 7 Radhika Bhakkar Nodes and connectors serving as an hangout place.

Fig 8 Divolka Sawlani Elements beyond the building facilitating as urban elements in the city.

Fig 9 Takshil Jagani Program inhabited below the ground.

Fig 10 Takshil Jagani Future scenario.

Fig 11 Mannat Singh Elements that provide growth, flexibility and opportunity.

Fig 12 Mannat Singh Aerial view of undulating ground, terraces and connectors.

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Dissolving Boundaries: Children Library at Loving Community Focus Visualizing and Communicating Unit Assistant Aakash Dave

Faculty of Architecture AR2026 Spring 2020

2nd Year Dhrumin Patel Nikhila Gudipati Palak Hurkat Prachi Patel Prasit Gandhi Rishabh Jain Snehil Tripathi

3rd Year Aashumi Shah Aesha Shah Kairav Trivedi Kanabar Drashti Paul Droste

Anand Sonecha The studio focused on the Loving community in Vastral, formed in 1968 by people affected with leprosy, who have migrated from different parts of India. The neighborhood has 450 residents, from which a few still have reminiscences of the disease, even if cured. Today, around a hundred children are living in the community, their homes have a single room with families comprising of up to six members. The houses don’t have enough space for the residents and no proper space for children to study.

The studio centers on the design of a small children’s library. A place where they can meet, study or be by themselves while also acting as a meeting point for children from different neighborhoods. The social stigma revolving around such communities, push them towards isolation and they end up as islands in the social fabric of the city. The studio triggered discussions on how these boundaries between the Loving community and the neighborhood be dissolved. Questioning the role of an architect in today’s times, the studio explored how equitable and inclusive spaces can be created and discussed ways in which architecture can be a means to improve lives.

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At the Cusp of Land and Water

Unit Assistant Ayushkumar Pal

Faculty of Architecture AR3015 Spring 2020

4th Year Maitri Thorat Kanxa Shah Tanay Agrawal Viraj Brahmbhatt

5th Year Payal Dodia Harsh Bhimani Himani Joshi Miloni Modi Durva Patel

Piyas Choudhari

Vijay Patel

We EXPERIENCE places through the STORIES we hear and read about. They create EXPECTATIONS and FANTASIES in one’s mind.

But the story of the Sabarmati and the walled city is long forgotten. The aspirations of the city and its people have also changed.

The city is facing a dilemma - GLOBAL AMBITIONS and FAST TRACK DEVELOPMENTS have left behind the stories and made architecture into a mere PROBLEM-SOLVING EXERCISE, creating isolated projects scattered in the city landscape. The walled city is considered a glorified artifact – seen from afar with an occasional visit from an admirer.

With the river as the binding element, it is at the Cusp of land and water that one finds an opportunity to create new stories and memories for Ahmedabad, the walled city and the river.

The studio introduced the idea of storytelling as a starting point of the design process. Stories portray the aspirations of the city and its people – create places to celebrate, to be happy, to grow, to contemplate, to be lost and to wander.

These stories can act as a catalyst, creating new environments and help revive the image of the place.

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Fig 7 Maitri Thorat Design Diagrams Fig 8 Tanay Agrawal Plan Fig 9 Tanay Agrawal Rendered View Fig 10 Harsh Bhimani Conceptual Diagrams Fig 11 Harsh Bhimani Section Fig 12 Viraj Brahmbhatt Plan.

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Realizing Nollis Dream: Embedding Architecture in The City

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Faculty of Architecture AR3017 Spring 2020

4th Year Aditi Bajpai Chintan Mewada David Menzi Hrushikesh Shah Nishanth Krishna Pascal G Rushika Shah

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Sachin Soni Nolli’s map of Rome holds a unique significance for architects and urbanists these days.

It presents dialectical relationships between buildings and their milieu, countering a tendency to see buildings as isolated objects outside the very context that gives them life and meaning.

Inspired from Nolli’s map, this studio focused on developing a conceptual and critical approach to architectural design where buildings are not seen as isolated events, but are deeply and intrinsically embedded in the fabric of the city.

The studio aimed to re-interpret typologies of civic/infrastructural projects which constitute a major part of urban development in Indian cities. Most of these projects do not respond to their immediate context due to conventional architectural approaches and end up becoming inaccessible parts of the city.

This semester, the studio looked at typologies of transit focusing on the upcoming metro-stations at Shahpur and Thaltej gaam in Ahmedabad.

Based on strong contextual awareness, this studio investigated and explored various programmatic strategies and architectural alternatives which make projects more accessible and public in character..

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Fig 1 Chintan Mewada ‘Follies of Learning’ in park and their connection to surroundings Fig 2 Chintan Mewada Section showing the connection between metro, the follies in park and the street Fig 3 Chintan Mewada Experiential Learning through network of follies and their unique spatial compositions Fig 4 Chintan Mewada Identity and contrast through repetition of spatial modules Fig 5 Chintan Mewada Spatial Organisation of metro station with underground plaza

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Fig 6 Nishanth Krishna Perspective Section showing spatial relationships between various activities Fig 7 Nishanth Krishna View from Lakeedge with public plaza and metro station in the background Fig 8 Nishanth Krishna View from Decathalon Store overlooking the Food Court and the lake Fig 9 Nishanth Krishna View of Retail street as continuation to the existing Bazaar on the other side Fig 10 Nishanth Krishna Metro Station as ‘playground’ to bind various communities and expand public realm

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The City and Performance Spaces – Performance Spaces as Urban Catalysts

Unit Assistant Mohik Acharya

Faculty of Architecture AR3018 Spring 2020

4th Year Anindya Raina Drashti Nakrani Dudhiya Jui Heerav Maniar Kiada Archan Patel Dhaval Prachi Patodia Rahul Yashmita Rao

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All arts are expression of the drama that human life creates. Art has the ability to transform and present complex intellectual-rational issues in a very accessible manner to general masses, which in turn has profound impact on collective functioning of that society. Performing arts are the mediums that celebrate human drama in the most direct, accessible and vibrant manner. Performing arts are about expressions that are experienced by the collective and are primary manifestations of the socio-cultural processes of the given society. It can be noticed from pre-historical times through beginning of the civilizations and middle Ages to modern times, performing arts and rituals are enriching the human existence and thought beyond primary concerns of survival and propagation.It is then vital to understand the role of performing arts in socio-cultural development that is responsible for generating the image and vision of the city. This generates the inquiry about the nature of spaces, which generates, allows and enables the environments where performances can take place. It also looks at how those specific contexts allow certain kinds of performances and in turn how performances and the spaces that host them influence their contexts.

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Algorithmic Thinking – A Parametric Approach to Problem Solving

Unit Assistant Mihir Vasani

Faculty of Architecture AR3019 Spring 2020

4th Year Bhatia Dhruv Karn Dev Singh Marion Fiona Gentil Pargi Ripalbala Sampreet Dasgupta

5th Year Astha Shah Suthar Avni Khushboo Makwana Gelani Khushali

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Designing over the years has become increasingly complex. Using conventional tools and work-flows are no longer sufficient to keep up. Designer should now rise to the challenge of re-configuring themselves to align with the system, flow and exchanges that shape a new area of design and production. Computational design is an approach to problem-solving that uses algorithms to synthesize information, imagination, and intent.

In this course we streamlined creativity into an iterative framework addressing different design solutions in a time-boxed data driven environment. The course is focused on the dynamics of complex systems of the natural world, with an identification of the operative spatial and temporal scales of their phenomena and their critical thresholds.

All design approach started by breaking down the large complex architectural aspects into procedure and was later optimized through an iterative process. Students acquired experience to develop designs by experimenting, analyzing and evaluating results that could make well informed design decisions, making the final proposal more intuitive and optimal as per the given set of aspects they wished to explore.

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Fig 1 Sampreet Dasgupta Evaluation and comparison of iterations through Environmental and demographic Criteria.

Fig 2 Khushali Gelani Comparison of Morphologies for maximum exposure on courtyard and open terraces.

Fig 3 Dhruv Bhatia (a)Identification of architectural aspects of existing block. (b) Comparative study between existing Block and Selected iterations

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Vertical Living

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4th Year Bhakti Shaparia Bhavik Chauhan Khoosh Prajapati Komal Nayak Milin Vadgama Ruhani Adlakha Siddharth Cyriac

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The studio explored the typology of high-rise buildings as a premise of mainstream housing development for the future. The design approach had to intervene to generate livability in vertical urban blocks. With growing development coupled with shortage of land, developer driven housing purely delivers isolated apartment towers having stacked floors in every part of the city, excessively consuming our urban experience and spaces.

By analyzing the existing, students observed manners in which conventional high-rise blocks have very little to do with how different profiles of people living together, apart from their existence in their isolated apartments. The focus was to work towards design solutions that can be part of mainstream high-rise developments to create living spaces that boost physical and mental wellbeing and allow integration without sacrificing privacy. It was also to address the need of vertical community living environment that caters to changing social, economic, technological and environmental dynamics and shifts.

Throughout the studio unit, the dimensions of professional practice were implied as a methodology to conduct the individual work while applying the aspects real world design practice in terms of decision making, collaboration, deliverable and communications.

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Fig 6 Milin Floor plan Incorporating variations of recreational spaces on each floor Fig 7 Siddhartha Site and form development diagrams Fig 8 Hetanshi Conceptual Massing respondint to the river Fig 9 Komal Site plan showing the fluid central courtyard Fig 10 Milin Massing and site development diagrams

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Students Harshil Amin Manali Patel Manu Sharma Naveen L Nishi Rai P K Sudarshan Patel Shaili Priyam Agrawal Satyapriya Mahanta Shubhaang Goela Tejan Nalavade Zalak Patel

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Indian cities present an interesting problem for designers. At one level, they are steeped in history and seem to be in a time warp of some sorts and at the same time, they are sites of aspiration and are speculating on the future that nobody has seen. Some city contexts are loaded with such meanings and have also been playgrounds for testing different architectural ideologies. In this studio, the students learned to design a public building as an urban insert in one such site in Sardar Baug area of Ahmedabad, which was also the site of modernist experimentation in the 1960s.

The project was to design a National Stock Exchange Building. The stock exchange building program threw up interesting possibilities; from a new interpretation of the Stock exchange in the digital era to its public function in context of the city and much more. The designs addressed the issues of the program and the context in a very clear fashion. The emphasis here was on taking a strong design position and developing a coherent architectural language.

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Fig 5 Priyam Agrawal A stage for Democratic Performance- An urban space in the heart of the city which becomes available to exercise the Right to Express Fig 6 Priyam Agrawal An Empty CanvasA place of power that remains empty and contested and celbrates all tenets of democracy Fig 7 Naveen L Empowering a Lost Identity

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Narratives In Architecture

Program Architectural Design Unit Assistant Priyanshi Jain

Faculty of Architecture AD4005 Spring 2020

Students Abhishek Thakai Ayushi Sharma Jayati Sharma Masaya Suzuki Meghana M R Nimisha Varghese Nishali Ranganathan Nitinkumar Kademani Rawoot Saadiya Tejaswini Walunj

Meghal Arya The act of storytelling has, historically, been a powerful tool to communicate and disseminate meanings. Art forms like theatre, cinema, and now installations have used storytelling as a strategic organizing device. Architecture has always claimed to communicate meaning and yet, the idea of narratives remains limited to some theoretical expressions. Can the architect assume the role of a storyteller and offer spatial experiences that can create an experience of a narrative for the users? The aim of this studio was to engage with the idea of narrative and seek interpretations building on this theme within the expressions of the built form. As architects engage with the possibilities of advocacy, the narrative offers strategies and mechanisms to connect to the people as a distinctive process of arriving at a design that foregrounds the experiences of people as a sequence of movement or expression of significant concerns.

These qualities were investigated in the studio where the students underwent a rigorous exploration of the components of the narrative that included the plot, the setting, and the structure.

This studio investigated abandoned and neglected spaces to reconstitute as a positive experience within an urban fabric.

The intention was to create hybrid, dynamic programs that fit the complex, changing global conditions. It was seen as an opportunity to explore dynamic social, political, and ecological constructs expressed in a public institution.

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Abstraction to arrive at the essential qualities diagrammed as models formed the first step in articulating the narrative as ‘sequence of events’ as a key compositional element. Photographs of abandoned spaces were interpreted, driving the narrative towards the intended typology of spaces for intervention. Interpreting abandoned or neglected site with respect to its material, texture, age, function, scale, context, etc. was the resultant. The challenge was to bring the visualization closest to the aspect it was interpreting without literal translation.Â

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Fig 6 Nimisha Varghese Masterplan, The Smudge Fig 7 Abhishek Thakai Auxiliary Yard- A transient hybrid space Fig 8 Saadiya Rawoot MasterplanInterpreting lost spaces in the city Fig 9 Nitinkumar Kademani House of Thresholds

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The Practice

Program Architectural Design Unit Assistant Nilosha Dave

Faculty of Architecture AD4006 Spring 2020

Students Amar Agrawal Ameesh Bhatnagar Asijit Khan Athira Balakrishnan Juan Tusso Karthik Nakkana Mishal Dodia Nehal Jain P. Hari Krishna Subham Pani

Vishwanath Kashikar Design studios are centered on ‘a’ design project. In practice, however, the project is substantially influenced by multiple dimensions of architectural practice. This studio explored the impact of practices’ vision, structuring of people, and standardized design processes on architecture.

Studio discussions based on readings on the theory of practice, and interpretations based on visits and interviews of 17 design practices in Ahmedabad helped students articulate their ideology in the first half of the studio.

Subsequently, the students participated in a design competition [Unschool Copenhagen].

This was done in groups of two to encourage sharpening of individual ideologies through a process of discussion and negotiation. This was followed by two simultaneous projects- one decided by the students as an ideal project for the practice, and a common project [night shelter in Ahmedabad].

These projects served as means to arrive at design processes that aid in translating a vision [ideology] into reality [building].

Based on the learnings from the design projects, students spent the last two weeks reflecting upon and designing various aspects of an architectural practice. This studio provided a platform to critically examine the role of architectural practice on architectural design decisions.

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Fig 6 Mishal Dodia Proposal for Emergency Operations Centre in Africa Self-initiated project Fig 7 P. Hari Krishna Rendered images of Night shelter Fig 8 Athira Balakrishnan Sections of residence proposed in Ahmedabad Self-initiated project Fig 9 Student group work Excerpts from studio publication on Practices in Ahmedabad

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Rupture Suture | Lieux De Memoire Partition Museum at Kolakata Program Architectural Design Unit Assistant Fahad Zuberi

Faculty of Architecture AD4007 Spring 2020

Students Amod Shah Ashwatha Chandran Aswin Senthil Himanshu Godara Pavithra Kalyani Roshita Sudhir Sanjana Das Tanvi Dubbewar Yamini Manjunath

Sonal Mithal Modi This studio—in its attempt to bridge the gap between theory and architectural design—drew upon Pierre Nora’s lieux de mémoire to propose a method of historiographical inquiry to locate an architectural built form. It further proposed memorialization as a means to develop an architectural language, all the while engaging in the politics of architectural production especially when it is state driven. The studio proposed an architectural design for Kolkata Partition Museum [5000-7000 sq m built up]. The project was based on the vision of the Kolkata Partition Museum Trust—a citizen initiative—which aims to build a museum “to memorialize, in the most comprehensive way possible, the specificity of Bengal’s Partition history.

A lieux de mémoire is a physical site which is created to invoke a collective memory of a history. It uses the potential of individuals to live, remember, and nurture their own memories in a fragmented form so as to create a collective memory of a past event which is driven by state institutionalized modern history. Thus, places such as archives, museums, and memorials are lieux de mémoire if they offer a lived experience invoking Empathy, Spectacle, and/or Performance, and not remain simply a collection of artefacts.

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Fig 5 Tanvi Dubbewar Spatial Illustration and Part Elevation Fig 6 Palithra Kalyani Spatial Visual Illustration Fig 7 Roshitha Sudhir Spatial Illustration Fig 8 Ashwatha Chandra Aerial Axonometric View Fig 9 Aswin Senthil Plan and Elevation

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Theorizing Architectural Production

Program Architectural History and Theory Unit Assistant Priya Gupta Faculty of Architecture HT4003 Spring 2020

Students Ankita Anupurva Athulya Ann Aby B Geethu Gangadhar Ashwini Deshpande Fiona Evangeline I V Sai Sasank Isha Chouksey Aftab Lokhandwala Meen Purohit Reshma Thomas Ruchika Sharma Vishwa Undaviya

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The studio examined the relationship between construction practices and the materiality of twentieth century architectural works in Gujarat.

Buildings were viewed as a primary historical resource and were analyzed in conjunction with readings related to architectural production in order to reflect on larger theoretical and historical frameworks.

Students investigated 16 buildings constructed in Ahmedabad between 1930 and 1980 by drawing detailed sectional perspectives at a scale of 1:5.

Working at this scale allowed the simultaneous investigation of relationships between the construction processes and material qualities of each building. This methodology could be seen as analogous to that of understanding the qualities of a literary work through the consideration of the specific structures of its language. Reading seminars introduced key historical and theoretical frameworks under three themes - Conceptualizing and Making, Agency and Innovation, and Indian Architectural Modernity.

Students used detailed knowledge acquired during the drawing process to generate research questions located within the context of these frameworks. Through a detailed and focused assessment of the making of an architectural work, what propositions can we offer about the nature of Indian architectural modernity or about the practices of the contemporary built environment?

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Fig 5 B Geethu, Sasank Identifying Details within drawings that are representative of key themes Fig 6 Athulya Ann Aby (PC) Photo of midsemester jury process Fig 7 Meen Purohit Detail of Kumar Chhatralay showing the building section Fig 8 B Geethu Gangadhar Final essay abstract

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TRACING DESIGN INNOVATION THROUGH THE MAKING OF WINDOWS THE CASE OF AHMEDABAD (1930-1970) B Geethu Gangadhar | PG190337 Masters in Architectural History and Theory Spring Semester, 2020 CEPT University

ABSTRACT An essential function of fenestration is to help control the internal environment around us. This involves allowing a static experience of the interiors with controlled diffusions from the exteriors. Though the functions of the window were alike over the period of time, window designs have never been the same. The changes within these designs developed over time as an attribute to address the changing climatic, ecological, economical and technological developments. This resulted in the consideration of the time as an important factor to study the evolution of the fenestration. Hence, the paper is an attempt to collate a timeline (which is the essay type 2) for the changes and transformations witnessed in the window design, specifically in Ahmedabad during the period of 1930s and 1970s.

The research led to the identification of a few defining parameters which aided in the deconstruction of the windows of the buildings used as case-studies. This allowed closer and a sharper focus in locating various shifts in the variables of the windows. The idea was to explore and trace various changes of critical importance to the progression of window designs. The main sections of the paper briefly look into the importance of the parameters with respect to changing conditions of human comfort and the interior environment. It also focuses on the collaboration of the construction industry and the material industries which affected the designs of the windows. The method of the timeline allowed a way to analyse these innovative changes over time. Each of these shifts is discussed in the subsections of the paper where they lead a discussion with the help of observation and inferences pertaining to the decade in question.

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Architectural Conservation

Program Architectural Conservation and Regeneration Unit Assistant Sarvesh Alshi Faculty of Architecture CR4000 Spring 2020

Students Anushka Mital Dhrishya V Gayatri Deshmukh Kanchi Choudhary Laxmi R. Mitali Gondaliya Neha Chandel Prakul Sardana Saatvika Pancholi Sarjan Dalal Satyajeet Chavan Sneha Gireesh Tejaswini Mirajkar Uravi Dholaria

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Historic buildings, structures, and architectural remains are important and irreplaceable material evidence of the past, deserving all suitable efforts for their preservation. The Architectural Conservation studio aimed to impart an understanding of various technical, design and management aspects of built heritage conservation. The studio engaged with real sites and focused on documentation and design methods allowing students to comprehend the complex issues in historic building conservation and take well-considered approach.

The studio exercises were based on a thorough engagement with chosen historic building/structure through historical research, architectural documentation, condition mapping, assessment of structural issues and comprehensive analysis followed by an exploration of possible conservation approaches, critical evaluation and decisionmaking for proposed repair solutions and design interventions. The process enabled the students to demonstrate an understanding of the historic context and its significance through sensitive and creative interventions in terms of architectural design and technical detailing and formulate a holistic conservation proposal for the given building/site integrating design requirements, structural repairs and interventions with an overall execution plan and conservation management strategy to ensure the long-term protection and continuity of the site.

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Fig 7 Gayatri Deshmukh Structural Model of the building Fig 8 Lakshmi R Exploded view showing materials and elements of the GPO Ahmedabad building Fig 9 Satyajeet Chavan Condition mapping of the Eastern Elevation of GPO Ahmedabad Fig 10 Prakul Sardana Condition mapping of the Ancillary building Fig 11 Prakul Sardana Front Elevation of the Ancillary building in GPO Ahmedabad campus

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Designed Ecologies

Program Landscape Architecture Unit Assistant Kauseen Motiwala

Faculty of Architecture LA4004 Spring 2020

Students Ann Rachel Saji G G Nivedha Gurnani Diksha Gurram Koushik Verma Kritika Verma Navyatha Thabjula Siddhart Ambaliya Susmita Bhattacharya Tejwans Kaur Trupti Sawant Tvara Sharma

Deepa Maheshwari The course looked at designing new ecologies for constantly developing cities that addressed highly stressed and conflicted areas which could be manipulated to bring new meanings to the current scenario. For a long period of time, we have existed with a sense of dualism between nature and the city. This phenomenon has led to crossroads upon which there are conflicts.

Conflicted areas are often highly stressed pockets that require an in depth and empathetic approach.

Any form of design that minimizes environmentally destructive impacts by integrating itself with living processes shall lead to designed ecologies. The art of reconnecting humans and nature such that they bring new meanings to existing ecologies which may be disrupted, disturbed or altered was our studio objective.

Resilience, the ability of complex systems to adapt to changing conditions is a key frontier in ecological research which is especially relevant in creating meaningful urban interventions.

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Fig 1 Susmita Rental Farmlands- Spaces of 5m by 10m rented for community farming Fig 2 Group work Mapped Regional layers studied- Superimposition of natural layers, growth of Ahmedabad city in last 75 years, land use and infrastructure development Fig 3 Group Work Quadrat study Fig 4 Siddharth Plan proposal for Thol Region

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Fig 5 Siddharth Sections Proposal for Thol Region Fig 6 Siddharth Seasonal Variation in Waters of Thol Lake water edge Fig 7 Siddharth Views of seasonal variations in the waters of wetland Fig 8 Kritika Proposed Photomontages for site development Fig 9 Navyatha Transforming community spaces

Quadrat study is sampling method for ecological field study. Quadrats are representative of the study area. Three sets of quadrats were laid: 1. 10mx10m gives tree density of study area, canopy cover % , topography and typologically different areas within the study area.

2. A series of 1mx1m quadrats within the larger one gives an assessment of frequency, density and abundance of individual plant species and their Importance Value Index (IVI).

3. A series of 20cmx20cm quadrats within the larger quadrat helps to quantify the ground condition as bare area, litter area, rocky outcrop or ground cover presence.

This study made students more observant during their individual site visits. Using the readings, one can make calculated deductions for their site: • Get clues of faunal presence. It also helps to make the necessary assumptions about the habitat and to generate future predictions about the stipulated growth of the area with respect to its flora.

• Understand how one species influence the growth of other species or the other factors of flora which stimulate growth patterns in respective areas.

• Distribution of wild plants in the study area through the ground cover study. Compare the sub-areas within the larger area of study to understand patterns and associations.

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Reimagining Water

Program Landscape Architecture Unit Assistant Naveena Jacob

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Students Aishwarya Goel Anugrah Kumar Divya Mishra Nimisha Londhe Paridhi Singhvi Pooja Patil Pratiksha Chopda Riya Soni Swarali Kulkarni Twinkle John Vidisha Barwal

Sandip Patil Contemporary water infrastructure is not designed to connect with the common people, resulting in loss of value and engagement with the dynamics of water. Reviving this relationship is important to create awareness and imbibe sensitivity to align modern life with the natural dynamics of water in a semiarid climate. This studio identified and analyzed multidimensional water systems that have evolved from protohistory to modern day, in order to design a socially operative design insert for the modern city.

The studio mapped natural water systems as well as physical and sociocultural (management) attitudes to water, historical as well as modern.

Inferences from each system and attitude were used to build a systemic thinking web and tested against contemporary attitudes.

Students explored brief making through transformations in linkages between elements.

These transformations were abstracted to arrive at a design framework that integrated physical as well as social operations. The design framework was applied to selected sites in order to create a hypermodern water infrastructure that mimicked a natural continuous loop while also engaging with the society.

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Fig 1 Aishwarya Goel Processes involved in the making of a land Fig 2 Vidisha Barwal Mapping of streams and watersheds Fig 3 Twinkle John Program calendar showing seasonality and phasing Fig 4 Divya Mishra Ideation for the design program Fig 5 Vidisha Barwal Developing a physical framework

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Fig 6 Pooja Patil Formulating a design program Fig 7 Twinkle John Prototypes for waste collection and water remediation Fig 8 Twinkle John Developing an operative framework Fig 9 Aishwarya Goel Ideation for phytoremediation- Phytometabolism Fig 10 Pooja Patil Prototype for free water surface constructed wetland

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Program Landscape Architecture Unit Assistant Ashaka Parikh

Faculty of Architecture LA4006 Spring 2020

Students Anjana Ninan Chandni Patel Gautham Chandar Ikshita Bhargava Parita Jani Pratiksha Patil Premkumar S Priyanjana Bose Raakesh Gandhi Rituparna Sengupta Sanjana Bodas Shanthi K Vivin Shankar Yashshree Karandikar

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“The landscape is never complete: neither built nor unbuilt, it is perpetually under construction.

This is why the conventional dichotomy between the natural and the artificial or man-made components of the landscape is so problematic” Roberto da Matta quoted by Peter Jacobs, Echoes of Paradise, Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations.

Landscapes and cities are viewed as seemingly being dichotomous. Yet both are critical to the existence of the other - cities and people on landscape / nature not just for survival, but for shared identity, meaning and dwelling, and in current times, as Peter Jacobs puts it “sustainability of landscapes needs more than conservation or even restoration – it requires human creativity and the magic of art to provide meaningful and publicly valued landscapes.”

The studio looked at Ahmedabad city and its larger landscape setting. As a first step, students visited sites from Gandhinagar (north) to Pariej wetland (south); and from Khari river (east) to Nalsarovar (west). This first-hand data was correlated with secondary sources of information to generate a large landscape map. Each student subsequently looked at one landscape network and investigated it in detail leading to a project.

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Fig 1 Site / Sight / Insight The Natural and Man-made Landscape layers of Ahmedabad Fig 2 Premkumar S Unfolding the Continuum Fig 3 Pratiksha Patil Unfolding the Continuum Fig 4 Chandni Patel Shift in Landscape Fig 5 Sanjana Bodas Birds in Sight Fig 6 Raakesh Gandhi Reimagining the Underutilized Fig 7 Parita Jani Landscape of Place Fig 8 Vivin Shankar Weaving the Unseen – Integrated Urban Wildlife Habitats

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Fig 9 Yashshree Karandikar Connecting the Lost Fig 10 Priyanjana Bose Connecting the Lost Fig 11 Rituparna Sengupta Lake and the Life within Fig 12 Shanthi K The Inhabitable Edge: Interaction at the Interfaces Fig 13 Ikshita Bhargava Weaving the missing Network Fig 14 Gautham Chandar Rethink – The Urban Wild Fig 15 Anajana Ninan Revival of the City

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Program Landscape Architecture Unit Assistant Namrata Shah

Faculty of Architecture LA4007 Spring 2020

Students Abinaya R Amruta Vungarala Ayushi Shah Dhwani Pokar Madhura Dasnurkar Mehaa Pershad Prasanna Mattikop Sanjana Monappa Sankalpa Patel Shreshtha Waghray Tanya Jairath

Divya Shah The studio considers Indian rural contexts and its present-day complexities through readings of the place, people, and their existence as its premise. This time, it confronted the rapidly disappearing wetlands and grasslands of the lacustrine territories of the Nal Sarovar region.

The effects of this have disrupted the ecology, traditional economies, and cultures of associated rural communities. The studio process consisted of four stages based on Tim Ingold’s definition of traces, threads, knots, and weaves that led to tangible spatial procedures for imaging and imagining this ephemeral land-water binary and its associated cultural ecologies.

Stage 01, Traces, looked at reading and representing traces of the landscapes of a place diagrammatically. Stage 02, Threads, developed methods that looks beyond the seen and scene to engage the ecologies and people. Stage 03, Knots, consisted of the resultant readings leading to a conjectural stand that looked primarily at augmented landscape mosaics.

Stage 04, Weaves, narrated the conceptual landscape position in terms of physical inserts and spatial progressions.

Fundamentally optimistic and emic in its approach, the studio attempted to propose a series of potential landscape inserts that were, creative and comprehensive models of resilience and adaptation, and could help local communities and their lands, thrive and endure the extreme temperaments they face, due to climate change crisis and tactless urbanization.

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Fig 1 Prasanna Mattikop Persisting Dynamics - A tale of displacement, Mobility with water, migrations from beyond and within the lacustrine systems of Nalsarovar Fig 2,3, Shreshtha Waghray Plough to Plate, Envisioning school farmyards supported by communities for sustaining mid-day meals and dignifying customary livelihoods of an agrarian community Fig 4 Madhura Dasnurkar Constructed Natures, altered stories, Restoring balance between ecological and social

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resilience through re-defined edge systems of a land-water binary Fig 5 Sankalpa Patel Re-interpreting a barrier, by demonstrate new ways of symbiotic coexistence of communities with the units of a wetland system through earthen bunds , Fig 6 Abinaya R Shared habitats , diverse micro-cultural habitats for birds to be reclaimed through integrated reed bedfarm pond system which incorporates TEK, livelihood cycles and local practices of tribal community

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Faculty of Design Level 2, Level 3 Bachelor of Design Bachelor of Interior Design Level 4 Master of Design in Building Products and System Master of Design in Furniture Design Master of Design in Interior Design

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Expeditions in Non-Metal

Focus Constructing and Specifying Unit Assistant Khushali Kadiwala

Faculty of Design BD2002 Spring 2020

2nd Year Ananya Bhardwaj Harshika Choudhary Kinshuk Adeshra Mahima Singh Maitreya Pathak Mayank Jindal Pooja Patel Mohammadali Gulamhaidar Tharadara

3rd Year Ishika Mehta Jasoda Bhansali Panchal Ayushi Sakshi Sharma

Sadasivan Iyer The Built spaces (domestic or work) of today pose challenges to meet the need of specific products to be designed and manufactured. The products will be needed to meet the demands of lifestyle and technology changes.

This studio introduced a design thinking process to find solutions for the products made of nonmetals in the built environment. The modules/tasks planned in the studio enhanced the learning of materials; manufacturing, human factors, etc.

The learning process enabled the students to apply learned fundamental principles to multiple three-dimensional forms, structures, and products. Students used various model making methods. Students addressed the historical context of the design of products as they practiced critical thinking, research, problem solving, and aesthetic refinement. Projects required sketches, models, written reports and verbal presentations of the explorations on the identified products and systems.

Students developed their individual creative process through the exploration and manipulation of materials and methods to express a visual response to themes or contents.

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Fig 1 Kinshuk, Harshika, Mayank, Mahima, Ananya, Mohammadali, Pooja, Sakshi, Ishika, Maitreya Prototypes of wooden building products Fig 2 Ayushi Panchal Engineering drawings and PDS of ceramic soap dish.

Fig 3 Maitreya, Kinshuk, Ananya Terracotta/ Stoneware products made in workshop Fig 4 Maitreya Pathak PDS(Product Design Specification) of bathroom sink.

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Fig 8 Mayank Jindal Drawing and PRIMA of rubber base piston stool.

Fig 9 Maitreya Pathak Engineering drawing of cable gland Fig 10 Mohammadali, Kinshuk, Maitreya Product rendering Fig 11 Ananya, Mayank, Jasoda, Ayushi, Mohammadali Space render showing building product of different materials

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2nd Year Ishita Patel Jinal Patel Parikh Bhavya Sonu Vekaria Zala Vibhakshi

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Ajay Patel The idea of a living is continually changing but the fundamental of structures remain unchanged. It is believed that good structural systems are organizations of responsible components sharing respective duties within the whole and harboring strong connections with each other. Through this studio, the students developed a critical understanding about structural elements and systems. They studied different case studies to analyze efficient forms, structural systems and construction details knowing the material properties (compressivetensile mix). The students expressed their own rational and pragmatic opinions about the interdependent relationship between forms, structural elements and design spaces. The ability of critical observation and analysis was achieved through a series of exercises, model making, and discussions with other faculties.

Finally, their creative output was to design a small functional space about 250 sq.mt. area.

The design engagement provided enough complexity to understand spatial organization, structural systems, and construction challenges.

They had their individual choices of material and functional setup. The output of sketches, drawings, and 3D/ physical models communicated their critical analysis and design ideas.

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Fig 1 Patel Bansari Precast concrete panel organized in dome system representing workshop environment Fig 2 Jinal Patel Reflected ceiling plan showing catenary arches arranged in star pattern (stone) Fig 3 Parikh Bhavya Form active structural element arranged for space making (brick) Fig 4 Patel Bansari Form active structural element arranged for space making (concrete) Fig 5 Kshipara Linjara Concrete folded plate as a portal frame system Fig 6 Mahima Zala Steel Portal fame arranged to get north light

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Fig 7 Sonu Vekaria Precast concrete origami dome Fig 8 Jinal Patel Portal frames arranged in radial manner around the courtyard.

Fig 9 Parikh Bhavya Steel structure in form active column and roof Fig 10 Vibhakshi Zala Hyperbolic paraboloid steel structure Fig 11 Patel Jill Independent doubly curved precast shell structure Fig 12 Kshipara Linjara Reflected ceiling plan showing ribbed surface Fig 13 Kshipara Linjara Exploded axonometric view of structural elements Fig 14 Kshipara Linjara Perspective section showing form active columns arrangement

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Beyond Detail

Focus Constructing and Specifying Unit Assistant NImmi Mehta

Faculty of Design IR2008 Spring 2020

2nd Year Adarsh Roshni Choksi Riya Khushi Loonia Saylee Jain Shah Meher Shreeya Suhag Zeel Thaker

3rd Year Isha Garg Khevana Shah Myatra Kaushik Vanshika Tyagi

Naandi Parikh Hospitality is changing radically in response to impacts of ambient internet access technologies. If customers’ take the trouble to visit restaurants rather than clicking on-line, they expect stimulating experiences beyond wall-to-wall product displays. They demand new engagements between food and customers.

Cutting edge restaurant design is about providing these new experiences. Particular focus was given to crafting the immaculate details essential to delivering the quality of hospitality experience now required.

The studio work was done in three stages: • Research: Following the selection and study of and existing restaurants, students developed their own unique brand, in terms of: Cuisine, Name, Logo, Menu and Inventory • Design: The values and characteristics of this new brand were then translated into a concept design of a 275m2 commercial area to turn it into a restaurant. Where parts or corners are detailed as per their understanding.

• Detailing: Plans, sections and elevations of all parts of the design were prepared. Students worked individually on a retail project. The furniture elements of the restaurant such as chair, table, cash counter and banquette seating were detailed. The spatial elements, partitions, ceiling, etc. were also looked at.

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Encounters with the Past: Exploring Approaches Towards Interventions in a Historic Context Focus Planning and Organisation Unit Assistant Nishi Sujal Shah

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2nd Year Aayush Doshi Pari Mistry Pavni Porwal

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The studio aimed at understanding the relationship between the new and the historically built through a Heritage Interpretation Centre.

It had a vision of educating the designer in developing an appropriate method of intervention, based on a theme, in a particular context. The studio was broadly divided into following stages: 1) Conceptualizing the Theme of Interpretation Center and Clarifying the Internal Spatial Experience through Narrative, Storyboards and Models.

2) Exploring Clarity of Concept through Space Planning and Organizational Drawings.

3) Making informed decisions regarding Design Language, Materials and Details such that the experience of space is enhanced.

The design proposals were an outcome of integral studies based on form, scale, and spatial relationships which complement the existing historic structures. To be able to explore solutions of spatial organization, inside-outside connections, fenestrations, ventilation, etc at the same time consciously steering the design towards achieving an intended design language forms an integral part of the studio.

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Fig 4 Shivani Dhokane Storyboard exploring internal experience of space.

Fig 5 Aayush Doshi View exploring furniture & materials in Exhibition Space.

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Fig 7- 8 Hardi Shah Section and Ground floor plan of Interpretation Centre exploring light and hierarchy Fig 9 Hardi Shah Day/Night detailed sectional view showing internal spatial experience Fig 10 Hardi Shah Axonometric view showing structure of Interpretation Centre Fig 11 Pari Mistry External view showing language of Addition and Existing building

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Art of Detailing

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Vasav Bhatt Detailing is the articulation of the structure and construction. Principles are explained in brief and backed by extensive study of the detailing done by maestros to understand how to design details.

The discussion includes reviews of recent built works that extract underlying principles that can be the basis for new patterns or the alteration and addition to existing patterns.

In guiding a design from idea to reality, architects design a set of details that show how structure will be put together. The aesthetics are only a small fraction of good design and that stability and functionality require a deep understanding of how elements come together. Art of Detailing helped in bringing these elements together with a well fleshed-out design that communicated accurately at all levels of the construction process.

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Reimagining the Vernacular

Focus Visualizing and Communicating Unit Assistant Kamna Vyas

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Fig 6 Pratika Kshetrimayum Board game design (Enroute Clay’s Journey) Fig 7 Chinmayee Parikh Board game design (Vehpar) Fig 8 Vedanshi Sarda: Board game design (Timeless the experience Game) Fig 9 Chinmayee Parikh Family map of Gundiyali craftsperson Fig 10 Pratika Kshetrimayum, Dhvani Arora Narrative paintings (Crafting your journey)

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Exploration of Design: Material in Focus

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The studio required the students to evolve a fresh design based on the programmatic requirements introduced at the onset of the semester and produce detailed construction drawings for the same, implementing their learning from sequentially crafted and regularly discussed exercise during the tenure of complete semester. These exercises were introduced and conducted with an intention for the student to experience methodology adopted for execution of actual project on site, in realtime. Although project budgetary constraints were ignored to allow exploration of design and material. As part of the process adopted for the semester - students were required to study various construction materials and their properties from predefined material palette. The governing criteria for selection of material was based on their understanding of their client’s requirements and nature of services / work that client offers. Subsequently the student analyzed the parameters that they wished to explore further, in depth. This was in direct reference to above mentioned governing criteria. The resultant outcome was a combination of a well thought out and analyzed material palette, which was be client / profession specific. This method of material exploration and subsequent design transformation lead to detailed design outputs.

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In-Detail; Making is Realizing

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Today as creators, we find ourselves amid a new paradigm shift of the 4th industrial revolution - where our physical and digital worlds are completely blended together. The background concern of this studio unit was to bridge the gap between abstract drawing board ideas and making techniques - both in the way; how ideas can be embodied in materials and making processes and how thinking through materials and making processes can tease out ideas. This revolutionary digitized transformation has changed how we design things, how we make things, who makes these things, and the very nature of what we make.

Design no more exists passively on the drawing board as an amalgamation of abstract ideas and functionalities, but it actively addresses issues related to material optimization, making techniques, etc. at an ideational level.

Academically to find some precision in such process, instead of working on abstract concepts, an analogical method was introduced to students wherein, each one of them studied the given natural object – to extract underlying logics of function, form, structure, growth, etc.

These logics were further employed to create modular or transformable elements for definite functions

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Fig 8 Somya Modi Understanding the spiral geometry of horn Fig 9 Ananda Krishnan Documenting the ‘Acacia Seed Pods’ Fig 10 Devika Sharma Using the learnings from human spine Fig 11 Aayushi Bhatt The synclastic and anticlastic forms of a lily petal Fig 12 Manav Budhani Making the angular joinery in honeycomb Fig 13 Raj Panchal The two postures of ‘Qatan’ chair Fig 14 Manav Budhani Hydroponic plugin planter system

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Travellers Home

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A traveler to a Jaisalmer becomes an explorer of time, space, and culture. The legacy of generations is there to be discovered in its landscape, streets, fortress and havelis. The delights of a living culture of distinct customs, festivals, markets and the flavors of local cuisine are there to savor.

The focus of this studio was the design of a traveler’s home embedded into this urban treasure house of memory and sensation. The design provided both pragmatic shelter and more importantly, an emotional experience as memorable as the city of which it is a part.

Firstly, we extracted and analyzed the spatial elements of the city through observations and record same through photographs, drawings, posters and diagrams. With insights and attributes, these analytical studies acted as a catalyst to the design process of a traveler’s home within a selected site located deep within the fort. Identifying the differences between a permanent and a temporary shelter, rethinking activities and arranging them in reference to the backdrop of the city, was the major challenge.

The spatial designing through conceptual models; the articulation of windows, plinths and staircases; the selection and crafting of materials was considered during the design synthesis.

The studio equipped students to design and vividly communicate proposals that added profound inspiration to travelers’ explorations of the city.

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Fig 6 Shristy Baid Section showing the exploration of plinth in design Fig 7 Dhvani Khamar Section expressing subtractive perception of spaces, inculcated from niches Fig 8 Srishty Baid Interior and exterior views emphasizing the activities in a Travellers Home Fig 9 Abhishek Mistry Illustration showing spaces used during day and night

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Jinal Shah The studio explored the potential of deployable systems of Origami and scissor mechanism to design, user defined multi- functional space/ product, which facilitated and enhanced the existing activity or user experience, within the given context.

The students engaged in understanding, analyzing, mapping, exploring the interdependent relation between form, space and function.

The studio was divided in three parts. The first part explored the concept of multi- functional spaces by understanding and analyzing the needs, aspiration, movement patterns of existing and potential user within a specific site.

The second part explored the deployable systems of Origami and Scissor Mechanism.

The third part engaged the students in the process of design development. The students explored the application of the deployable system to design a structure/ product, which responded to the spatial needs of the user. It also aimed at understanding the working details for deployable structure.

The final outcome of the semester was an in-depth presentation of the working of the deployable system designed for a user centric multi-functional space/product

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Elements of Form and Space

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2nd Year Aashman Amin Aryan Kapoor Het Desai Jasoliya Brinda Jayashre B G Kathan Chauhan Magdum Apoorv Neha Gandhi

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A form is an image presented by the outer surfaces of an object or a structure. A form is a way in which an object is perceived or the manner in which it is intended to be perceived.

A form must be viewed from the user’s perspective and in relation to its environment.

Form sets up a relationship or a dialogue with the user or perceiver. A form conveys meaning.

The form is based on certain factors such as knowledge of what people like or dislike, what their aspirations might be and how they react to degrees of complexity or simplicity.

Forms have a relationship with the culture and traditions of a given society. “Form” is a totality of sensorial experience. Every object, impression, phenomenon existing is a form in one way or the another. In terms of visual perception, every form has a surface or surfaces, i.e., the outermost part of the form directly in contact with the space surrounding it. Every form is perceived by its surface (excluding transparent and translucent forms where the inner content of the form is also seen). In other words, this is the stage when one begins to understand the form. Other aspects then follow in due course of one’s experience with the form.

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Fig 7 Multiple students Final thermocol models Fig 8 Kathan Chauhan Form transition (sketched) Fig 9 Aashman, Aryan, Kathan Rhino models of ’end’ forms Fig 10 Apoorv, Het Photoshop rendering for Rhino models Fig 11 Jayashree, Aryan Outdoor artefact design Fig 12 Aashman Amin Outdoor artefact design

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Decoding Poetics of Space

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2nd Year Joshi Helee Pulkit Jain Riddhi Tiwari Sarvagya Kori Swastika Singh Uttara Gupta Vishakha Bhatt Yati Aggarwal

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As designers, artists, creative individuals we are poets at heart. How can we design without romanticizing about space? The fact is, that poetry doesn’t exist in the books in the library.

Poetry is in the journey of reading the book. You change as a person in that journey. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book. For the winter semester of 2020 we made the book ‘Poetics of Space’

by Gaston Bachelard our dharma Granth, Bible, or Quran or more like the constitution of India.

Ten exercises in the semester responded to the ten chapters of the book. Each chapter of the book was read-reread-analyzed-torn apartcritiqued during each week. Text provided visual genesis for the design exercises throughout the semester. Students and faculty did periodic readings together to interpret and understand various meanings of the text. Students were given specific exercises to broaden their repertoire of elements of space which helped them to build and construct spaces. All exercises were done keeping the text of the book in mind.

‘The Poetics of Space’ by Gaston Bachelard places special emphasis on the interior domestic space and its component: the various rooms and the different types of furniture in it.

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Brand Building Through Spatial Design

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4th Year Anshita Agrawal Mehal Jain Aashna Khetan Maahi Devta Niyati Shah Jahanvi Panchal Viraj Panchal Raksha Patel Aditi Shah Tanmayi Deshmukh Parina Vaghani

5th Year Pavan Suthar Urvashi Gurubaxani Drasti Patel

Ruchi Mehta Various retail formats in which brands operate play an important role in communicating the brand values. Hence this studio focused on the design of various retail formats through the lens of brand building and helped students develop an approach for using spatial design as a tool for brand building. This included carrying out research to understand the brand, development of strategy, and development of design details.

The students selected their own design problems/brand for this studio.

They selected a brand that was either expanding its product/service portfolio or was a new and growing brand; it could’ve been a brand that either needed a flagship store or an experience center to deal with this omnichannel presence, or a brand that required revamping of its image.

The students developed an interpretation of the brand’s overall strategy, selected the site, and developed a program based on their preliminary understanding of the brand. They then produced spatial design solutions and presented the design with a complete set of drawings, models, views, and graphics to communicate the strategies.

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Fig 5 Jahanvi Design of Revlon flagship store housing it’s entire product range elevating the brand image Fig 6 Drasti Design of Lectro flagship store to promote the new E-bikes Fig 7 Pavan Design of Mahindra Automobile Showroom, highlighting customization feature of the brand Fig 8 Urvashi Design of flagship store, potraying Jeffree Star’s personality in his cosmetic’s store Fig 9 Aashna Design of an experience lounge to promote Amrut Whisky as an Indian origin brand

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Forgotten / Transformed

Unit Assistant Milan Desai

Faculty of Design IR3006 Spring 2020

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Cities change constantly in the open-ended spectacle of daily life, with the construction of new buildings and the repair or demolition of old and redundant structures. However, within this urban flux, some elements endure.

Firstly, the exemplary works of architecture and the memorials to significant historic events.

Over centuries, these urban artefacts become symbols of civic identity, embedded in the memory of citizens. Secondly, there are those structures that endure through adaptation, embracing change by appropriate new uses to old spaces. This studio explored the “creative� potential of building adaptation. Students discovered the potential of interior design to transform entire buildings. The studio focused on suitable retired buildings in a city, blurring the conventional boundaries between, architecture and interiors. We researched every aspect of the existing architectural space and fabric, including its history and setting, the essence of its emotional power, and its place in the collective urban memory. We then designed inspiring interior-architectural transformations that generated new spatial purposes, experiences, expressions, meaning, emotions and memories.

Working from the inside out, we created interior architecture that stimulates new civic memories.

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5th Year Juhi Modi Bansal Kush Pragati Murathia Ravi Rangholiya Silvi Panchal Devanshi Patel Adroja Suhani Nidhi Ratani Neel Patel

Kireet Patel The studio enabled the skill of designing a process of assembly to solve design problems.

It focused on the role of field related technology and construction methods and explored the relationship between making and expression.

Established design knowledge of the field needs systematic and structured explorations through assembly-based practices. This studio also recognized assembly-based construction to influence today’s interior design related problems such as generating a response to the nature and complexity of context. *A.B.C.- Assembly Based Construction* Module 01 focused on development of a design process for ABC through exploration of structural principles and ordering of mass.

Module 02 was immediate application and evaluation of developed ABC to modulate-scale relationships between selected program and typology of built spatial systems.

Module 03 derived a spatial system that transformed the selected site into ‘A PLACE FOR ABC’. Evaluated the necessary approaches of making and construction, that are to be known and studied to be as Assembly based construction practices. Expressed ABC to enhance the interior space created in a site.

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Fig 7 Devanshi Patel View showing the functional experience from bridge connecting two wells Fig 8 Pragati Murathia Sectional perspective for overall assembly of KOP Fig 9 Pragati Murathia Interior perspective of the retail developed from the designed kit of parts Fig 10 Suhani Adroja Space inside the museum with different volumes formed

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Reuse & Revive: Hospitality Spaces

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Faculty of Design IR3010 Spring 2020

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The studio explored notions of socio-cultural context while developing an appreciation for built fabric with heritage values. The core of the studio dwells into creating meaning of place, sensitive to its earlier roots while superimposing a new function with respect to user experience.

Initial weeks of studio were focused on introducing and sensitizing students about the meaning of adaptive reuse by undertaking case studies and specific research exercises (which included socio-cultural, contextual and regulatory aspects of adaptive reuse). Students then explored in-depth reasons and attitudes revolving around user experience, material use, tectonics using models explaining interventions and inferences. This combined knowledge was put to test via series of time problems exploring spatial possibilities. Post spatial explorations, students were required to reflect upon their learning and cohesively design with respect to a given hospitality program on a heritage site. They also worked on resolving interior environment quality with reference to interior services integral to such projects.

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Fig 6 Shailee Patel Rear extension treatment Fig 7 Jahnavi Suthar Junction of the old and new Fig 8 Shailee Patel Junction of the old and the new Fig 9 Shailee Patel View of the junction of the old and new Fig 10 Payal Vaswani Detailed section of the Restaurant Fig 11 Jahnavi Suthar Detailed 3D view of the restaurant

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Interior | Skin | Context

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Faculty of Design IR3011 Spring 2020

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The factors affecting the ‘Shell/Architecture’ are, by and large, ‘external’ in nature such as: climate, privacy. The idea of ‘Shelter’ dominates the process of design and plays crucial role in generating form of the building.

The interior elements are generated as next step in the process in a manner that justifies the requirements ‘imposed’ by the ‘shell’. In this process, the ‘architecture/shell’ becomes a dominating force in determining interior layout and interior elements. The intent of this unit was to find a synthesis in the design process such that the ‘boundary’ between ‘architecture’ and ‘Interior Architecture’ gets dissolved, to pave the way for a built form that is primarily a resultant of ‘Interior Architecture’. In order to achieve this, studio focused on a process that seeks to ‘reverse’ the above-mentioned traditional design process. In this studio-unit, students were encouraged to evolve interior elements and systems as the first step in the design process; the ‘skin’/architecture of the project was generated as the next step by synthesizing the conflicting requirements generated by the ‘interior’ and ‘exterior’ forces.

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Fig 1 Deval Panchal Sectional perspective-Inter-connection between studio spaces and natural factors such as light and air flow throughout the building.

Fig 2 Natasha Taunk Site section cutting through riverfront and Tagore Hall, Ahmedabad.

Fig 3 Natasha Taunk Site Plan indicating important landmarks and surroundings.

Fig 4 Nirjari Upadhyay Bird’s eye view of ‘Sangam’ - an artist residency.

Fig 5 Process The record of journey from a single studio unit to the program of housing 12 artists’ studio with provision of supporting functions.

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Simple Products for Interiors of the Built Spaces Program Building Products and Systems Unit Assistant Anshumi Dhingra Nishant Jonathan Faculty of Design BP4003 Spring 2020

Samir Bhatt

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Students Anerao Aditi Ankitha Anna Arjun T B Chaudhary Rishabh Chhavi Bhatnagar Chitresh Rustagi Devvrat Sompura Elvina Paul Gatkhane Aniket Jayati Chopra Madgundi Nameeta Mordhvaj Sisodiya Nilvarna Rutuja Palak Agrawal Poorva Kamat Prashasti Gupta Shirley Mathew Shobha Alias Pallavi Sneha Kashyap Surabhi Gupta William Kennedy

The objective of this studio was • To visualize, design and develop Simple Products for Interiors of the Built Spaces and to arrive at the need-based products, which facilitate the user.

• To design the product form with advance technology, advance material explorations and its applications in design.

• Identifying the user, user’s needs, expectations and features of the product to develop the design.

This studio aimed at designing and developing building product for the interior of built spaces.

The emphasis of the studio was on the use of advance technology and on the design process, visualization, ideation and making of realistic digital renders, and technical drawings with required details. The Interior spaces and functional requirements of the Built spaces and activities in it became references and starting points for the studio. The product offered the choice to the users about different configurations, color schemes, finishes etc. with cost consideration. Students used product design considerations i.e. form making, functional criteria, usability, ergonomics, system thinking, visual language, technical and functional innovations, etc. to fulfil particular needs.

This studio project used the advance facilities of digital model making and prototype building using various 3D software. These products were then tested using various simulation software.

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Fig 5 Shirley Mathew A product that is integrated with environments like offices and co-working spaces, where it can adapt to interaction of various scale ensuring on sound quality without compromising on light/ventilation Fig 6 Jayati Chopra A product that caters to toilet plume using a laminar water screen above the flushing zone to stop the aerosolized feces from escaping the W.C Fig 7 Pallavi Malkarnekar A modular, light-weight, durable partitioning wall system which supports the required services as per the changing needs of the user and the dynamics of a given space

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Students Abhishek Alind Kumar Arati Buha Arkid Bhandari Devanshu Marwah Janvi Patel Jaspreet Joshi Tejaswini Mahamaya Subhadayini Pulkit Sudan Shagun Malavia Shirke Sharvari

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The prototype making process begins by defining the engineering/ manufacturing challenge, performance requirements, brainstorming potential solutions, and evaluating several alternatives. An engineering/ manufacturing team synthesizes this information to begin the product manufacturing process to help engineering/manufacturing teams to assess the “build ability” of the design concept, to create prototypes.

Building a prototype, determines if the chosen design solution is feasible and which aspects of the design needs special materials or further refinement.

The identification of the set of manufacturing processes are a critical part of prototyping the product design.

Identifying and specifying the appropriate manufacturing processes as per the manufacturing standards (PRIMA)- ¬Production Information Mapping and developing the (PDS)Product Design Specification for the designed components and assembly are the keys steps to manufacture the building product.

The use of representational software and other digital tools extensively to create the products is important to determine the product design strategy.

The fabrication of prototype determined the reflection of the intended success of the design solution.

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Fig 6 Jaspreet, Alind Talking Pod, floor PRIMA and Storm Water Drainage Fig 7 Shagun Cyan Bicycle stand for residential spaces Fig 8 Arati, Janvi Reversible window and Modular ventilation System for Bathrooms Fig 9 Tejaswini Joshi Retractable roof for semi open spaces Fig 10 Arkid Bhandari Modular outdoor toilet for rural household Fig 11 Devanshu Marwah Security cabin

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Students Aashna Shah Ahana Sen Ahmed Khan Aishwarya Murari Bansal Srishti Manasa Mahalakshmi Panchal Nilanshi Shachi More Srishti Gupta

Rebecca Reubens The homes of the present and future are becoming increasingly smaller and compact and lifestyles are changing as well. This calls for a new breed of furniture which has new functions, including supporting new technology and behaviors related to it, new connotations of ‘family’, and a new understanding of ‘workplace’ which seamlessly overlaps with a ‘living space’.

This studio looked at ways to study and design the furniture for contemporary interior spaces after studying precedents, user-behavior, and the spaces themselves.

Each student focused on an opportunity area for an innovative design solution through a rigorous design process. The process included benchmarking an iconic furniture piece which best addressed the issue, and rearticulating it keeping the contemporary context in mind.

The studio was hands-on in the first half, with students creating 1:5 models of their iconic furniture pieces in the workshop. In the second half, the focus was on the design process and on 3D modelling to create their final designs.

Material exploration, structural adequacy of the proposed design, aesthetics, joinery, detailing, and context were the scaffolding which underpinned final iterations by nine students.

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Fig 4 Aashna, Srishti, Srishti, Shachi Exercise to identify an iconic piece and to construct a 1:5 scaled model in actual material Fig 5&6 Aishwarya, Nilanshi Exercise to deconstruct the iconic piece and create and reverse engineer joinery, materials and manufacturing process Fig 7 Ahmed Faraz Khan Design process for a floor seating which can be used in residential compact spaces.

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Program Furniture Design Unit Assistant Prachi Patel

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Students Aditi Dhingra Anees Muhammed Anisha Samal Arvindh Sethuraman Badhujar Madhuja Bhavya Gupta Birlangi Pramod Chinmayee Suar Gardharia Khyati Guthula Jahnavi Kale Harshang Kirti Jalan Naitik Panchal Raj Gaurav Raul Raj Ressy Kuruvlla Satya Panda Shelat Nirmit Siddharth Raikar Tanushri Kadam Twisha Handihalmutt

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Government is aggressively pursuing reform through new policies and initiatives, from macro to micro. All government bodies such as national government to gram panchayat play an important role for better and maximum governance. One of it being an attempt to provide comfortable environments for its employees in various sectors. Buildings, interior spaces, and furniture immediately affect and inspire to work efficiently. This studio had two main focuses; one of internal government operations and second being government initiatives that affect common people who use government facilities i.e. public amenities. This also provides opportunity for designers to create better design solutions to meet the requirements of people and promote the vision of government for a better future. This studio focused on improvisation of work-spaces of government bodies by providing better furniture systems. All different types of government boards, offices and secretariat need different systems based on its working methods and requirements. All these can be solved by system thinking approach and design processes. There are core and peripheral issues of furniture which were dealt with during this studio to come up with appropriate solutions.

The studio outcome focused more on the individual component drawings and production drawings for the system of furniture with an in depth understanding of material specifications and manufacturing.

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Ongoing population growth and escalating market prices are forcing occupants to move into smaller spaces in big cities. Compact housing development is becoming the only affordable solution for masses, though the basic human needs of users like comfort and convenience, clutter free spaces, privacy, easy to maintain spaces, feeling of spaciousness are still the same. Furniture occupies more than half of the floor space and thus plays a pivotal role in organizing the space, it can bring harmony into compact spaces through smart and space saving solutions. Designers often forget the opportunities for innovation presented by unusual products such as storage and shelving.

This studio aimed at solving the need for storage elements for small spaces by the design process and understanding of mass production of furniture design. The emphasis of the studio was to understand furniture elements with relation to interior spaces and the activities in it became the reference and the starting point. It challenged designers to consider completely different aspect of ergonomics and user comfort. Students used furniture design tools i.e. elements, systems, visual language, technical and functional innovations etc. to solve particular needs.

The studio outcome focused on individual component drawings and production drawings with an in-depth understanding of material properties and manufacturing.

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Fig 7 Neha Shirkande Details developed for a compact ’wardrobe’ Fig 8 Hetul Parmar Exploded Isometry developed to understand the various compartments of ’kitchen storage’ Fig 9 Geetashree Banerjee Detailed Orthographic drawings Fig 10 Ankita Jain Isometry developed to understand the entire unit as well as details Fig 11 Tripti Saravgi Orthographic drawings explaining the internal details and functioning of ’Spillover Organizer’

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Students Anna Aichele Dalvi Priyanka Madhumitha A Nirali Shah Prakhar Saraswat Raphael Maier Rishika Kak Sarah Klumpp Thiyageshwar

Rishav Jain The studio discussed and identified the position of craft in contemporary interior architecture practices. With a combination of research and design methods, the studio focused on envisaging future directions of craft productions through design concepts and craft design prototypes. The studio responded to the diverse pluralistic landscape of interior architecture practices in India and positioned craft as one of the forerunners in the design decision making.

It delved into various future directions that craft productions can lend to interior practice.

The studio was largely divided into four modules, each emphasizing the learning outcomes of the course; know the contemporary position of craft, ideate a vision for interior practices, develop an individual design position and make relevant design explorations representing the design position.

For spring 2020, each student developed a design proposal for CEPT House 2030 (housing CEPT shop and an added function) reflecting on their individual position of craft+future=?

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scales of hardware space-making elements and junction details Fig 4 Prakhar, Priyanka Craft Prototyping Plates -showcasing making processes and details of craft elements Fig 5 Priyanka D. Craft+Future= Minimalism- Visualisation drawing showing an interior language derived from metal and clay craft elements for the project-‘InterCept’ – CEPT Shop and Cafeteria

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Program Interior Design Unit Assistant Ananya Parikh

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Students Chitvan Mathur Harshita Singal Insha Sharma K Mounisha Karishma Sehgal Keerthana N J Natu Shivani Ridhima Khanna Sanjana Sarkar Yamini Kathuria

Chirag Doshi As the name of the Studio suggests, 360°- From Concept to Creation, this studio offered the students an opportunity to deal with the entire process between conception of a schematic program right till the stage before site execution. Since the students are at the cusp of stepping into the real world, this studio provided a chance for them to take their unique concepts and designs right up to the state of execution. Students went through a 360° process of conceptual designs, design development, estimation, construction drawings, material selection, BOQ, project timeline and pre-execution documentation. To demonstrate this brief, students were given a site of around 1800 sq ft. where they were encouraged to work out a program brief of designing an eatery. All Students worked on coming up with new and unique concepts of an eatery, whereby giving them space for creativity as well as a practical understanding.

The main learning outcomes from this studio was to enable students to prepare a design scheme such that they can actually take it up as an actual real-world project. The entire process revolved around a practical understanding of unique concepts and design manifestations.

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Fig 1 Mounisha K A time based transformable eatery module that explores Eat, Work and Shop Fig 2 Shivani Natu Indoor seating area with a community table in the center Fig 3 Shivani Natu Seating area with signage design to highlight the eatery brand Fig 4 Shivani Natu Section explaining the 3 elements of the designs - Eatery, Retail, and Activity Zone Fig 5 Yamini Kathuria The sectional elevation depicts the retail space of ‘Art & Co.’, where the works of various local craftsmen are promoted and exhibited

Fig 6 Yamini Kathuria Details of a display rack system which helps in incorporating different local crafts in the space Fig 7 Karishma Sehgal Sectional view and exploded axonometric showing layers of wooden lattice ceiling element Fig 8 Karishma Sehgal Conceptual view of users within their private ‘bubbles’ while inside the cafe Fig 9 Sanjana Sarkar Concept highlights process of pastry making and presentation of food as art Fig 10 Chitvan Mathur Sectional elevation with details and material board Fig 11 Chitvan Mathur View of Dessert Chef’s Table and seating

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Creating Theme Pavilions for Expositions (EXPO) Program Interior Design Unit Assistant Jakob Julian N.

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Students Ankita Satpathy Avantika Desai Daksh Bhardwaj Deepanker Jenisha Jadav Khyati Vaidya Mythili Jaideep Shreya Suman Sri Vallaba Trusha Shah Vedant Saxena Vibhuti Shah

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The studio created thematic environments through various design processes and principles, in form of graphical and sculptural installations which became the space making elements for the desired thematic environment. The thematic elements defined the space – made the space – transformed the space.

The students developed strong individual concepts deriving from the general theme “Sync with Nature”. They further translated their individual theme into three dimensional objects, keeping program and functionality in mind. The whole project revolved around an actual convention, set at Mahatma Mandir, about “Migratory Species”. This convention guided us not only regarding the overall concept but also regarding the program requirements and functional aspects. The program, given by the government, gives rigid descriptions about interior space planning but neglects the central open space of the site. During the semester, students developed individual themes, the overall layout and concentrated on experiential installations in the central spine of Mahatma Mandir, creating a theme-based landscape of functional and experiential installations.

Completion of this studio brought out a complete shift in the “approach to design” in students.

The learning outcomes were understanding the importance, creation, and manifestation of a theme in built environments.

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Synthetic Gestures: Addressing Urban Synergies, Core Retrofitting of ManekChowk Fruit Market Program Interior Design Unit Assistant Surabhi Motwani

Faculty of Design ID4007 Spring 2020

Students Anjali Baby Anusha Shetty Geeta Dixit H R Sunya Khyati Mehta Nupoor Davey Pooja Shah Roshma R S Sarvanti Sanskriti Garg Sivapriya U Somya Gupta

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The studio focused on formulating an adaptive re-use strategy for a century old heritage structure, located in the center of a very busy, close knit urban context. Manek Chowk Fruit Market (by Claude Batley, 1941), situated in the heart of the old city of Ahmedabad, showcases versatile and interactive built space. The 30m long by 38m wide, open plan structure provided ample opportunities for design exploration.

Grid of tall concrete columns, a waffle slab roof, enhanced volume and stuck on brick faรงade were the key physical attributes of the building.

These features and immediate context enabled students to mold individual studio programs that mainly focused on three categories of occupancy: Artisan Exposition Hub, a Market Space and Knowledge Centre.

Understanding the nature of heritage structure, relationship of the insert with existing built-form, transition between interiors and immediate exteriors, were some of the issues that formed the core elements of design evolution.

The learning outcome was the derivation of a meaningful program and evolution of a meticulous design solution appropriate to the given site and highly dense urban context. Also, the complexity of the program allowed synthesis of key design elements like structure, aesthetics, details, and material application which were showcased in the final design documentation.

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Fig 3 Anusha Shetty Double heighted retail area, celebrating the waffle slab Fig 4 Anusha Shetty Ramp as a journey to discover the internal spaces Fig 5 Anusha Shetty Textile signage to every workshop Fig 6 Somya Gupta Geometrical evolution showing process of the intervention.

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Fig 9 Somya Gupta lounge area overlooking Jama Masjid Fig 10 Somya Gupta Seasonal food market with street character Fig 11 Anjali Baby Intervention at ground floor level.

Fig 12 Anjali Baby Section through retail store and fabric museum Fig 13 Anjali Baby Lighting techniques incorporated in the interiors Fig 14 Anjali Baby Stepped plaza at the southern end of the building Fig 15 Anjali Baby View of the retail store showing the jack-arched structure for mezzanine

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Program Interior Design Unit Assistant Niharika Joshi

Faculty of Design ID4008 Spring 2020

Students Patel Reshma Paul V Angeleena S Daliya Sherin Sahana E Soumya Haritay Spoorthi Kottai Srishti Vats Suhani Gupta Tanya Gulati Tanya Kaushik Tavishi Sharma Vallari Rajasuba Sayed Salahuddin

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The studio illustrated the inventive functionality using industrial shipping containers to create spaces in the public realm. It initiated discussions on enhancing the future of public spaces with material innovations that foster sustainability and re-imagining of urban interiors. DROPBOX is a container placed within community settlements to address their needs and stimulate the cultural and physiological identity of its inhabitants. It programed spaces of a prescribed function that could be used within the urban fabric of that community, which would have an impact by re-adapting interior spaces of the dense neighborhood.

The studio developed an ability to sensitively understand contextual scale in terms of urban interiors in various parts. In the first part, contextual study comprehended a given site, surrounding and user group. Students learned systems for mapping community neighborhoods and represented them graphically. Proportion study focusds on understanding scale and proportions of an insert in context to the neighborhood. Program development uncovered methods to develop a client brief based on questioning ways of living and needs within the context.

The ability to analyze, visualize, and interpret information as relevant to space designing was covered in concept development and the final design insert.

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Generative Techniques for Urban Place Making Focus Planning and Organizing Unit Assistant Anuradha Ramchandani Faculty of Planning UR2001 Spring 2020

2nd Year Ishita Singh Kanisha Patel Shloka Sanghavi Shrayana Ray

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Urban population explosion, both due to ruralurban migration and growth, will demand 3000 new cities in the next 20-30 years. A major concern for these will be their ability to incorporate high density without compromising the spatial quality and cope with global climatic and ecological changes.

The studio investigated designing in high density neighborhoods. What are the challenges of accommodating large number of people within cities? How do we combat increasing FAR and also address the demands of climate, access to open space, building use mix? Can such neighborhoods address walkability to basic amenities?

Such a design process involves establishing relationships between built -open as well as working with per capita ratios and capacities. It demands embedding analysis within the design process as well as testing multiple design iterations. In order to address this complexity, the studio used computational power (Rhinoceros + Grasshopper and spatial analysis) to establish simple rules of relationships and gradually build in the complexities within the computational model. Students coded to develop evolutionary algorithms in order to use its generative capacity to define simple inter-relationships and design strategies, and checked multiple permutations in order to search for a fit design solution.

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Fig 6 Shrayana Ray Analysis of fittest individual for Live Work Typology 1 midrise Fig 7 Shrayana Ray Analysis of fittest individual for Live Work Typology 2 low rise Fig 8 Raghav Kohli Typology Matrix Fig 9 Raghav Kohli Psuedo code/ single courtyard type 1 Fig 10 Raghav Kohli Phenotypes and evaluation Fig 11 Raghav Kohli Cluster view

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The course introduced the concepts of `migrant housing’ across space and time. The evolution of housing settlements through linking and stacking; their processes, determinants/ generations, and resulting patterns were explored in their respective contexts identifying the balance between order and complexity.

The idea, here, was to create an adaptive habitat for migrant communities associated with the very dynamic and socially interactive live-work environment. Here, “adaptability” was visualized and represented as a real space which is accommodating people from diverse cultures and traditions over a period of time.

The spaces, thus created, characteristically provided the occupants with opportunities to alter such neighborhoods in certain extended patterns. Eventually, this fluctuating habitat, over time, would be able to maintain a balance between generated orders and identified contextual complexities. The students learned to analyze and identify issues with linking and stacking of modular housing units. This helped them in exploring, planning and organizing various housing cluster ensembles in response to open spaces and adjacent urban context, thus, creating an ‘interface’ by balancing the underlying orders and complexities.

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Designing Water Infrastructure for Civic Expression Focus Visualization and Communication Unit Assistant Vaishal Patel

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Designing Water Infrastructure for Civic Expression� investigated the many natures and scales of water, and developed an approach to documentation, representation and design techniques to render visible a new collective imagination around water in the city of Ahmedabad and its hinterlands (the built and natural watershed). Through the studio the students investigated multiple typologies of built and natural infrastructures that enable/ disable our engagement with water.

Building progressively, they established the relationship of the urban center to its fringes and hinterlands. Consequently, flipping the order from out back to the center, they critiqued and questioned the banality of muted infrastructures.

Finally, strategically selecting a scale and typology to intervene with, the students demonstrated the idea of using infrastructure as a medium of civic expression and more importantly public life. Through a series of seminars and workshops, class participants worked incrementally to establish multi-scalar relationships, from the scale of the building, to the city fringes and the territory.

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Fig 7 Aman Shridharani Bridge over troubled water, repurposed Dharoi dam for civic benefits which promotes social forestry and agriculture Fig 8 Abhishek,Siddhraj Foodcover, water infrastructures to put food produce at the core of the city functioning Fig 9 Dhanvi Shah Crooked Cycles, an agent to arrest blockages in sewer system by fun efforts of citizens’ Fig 10 Vishesh Mahnot Submerged culture, an alternative that empowers people who are likely to be displaced by submergence to continue living where they belong Fig 11 Ketki Nandanwar The right to water, a speculation for locally water harnessing from the canal

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Urban Insert: Making of a Shared Space

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3rd Year Anushka Priyedarshi Divya Rampal Harshita Hemnani Jasveer Singh Kalsee

Mihir Bedekar Indian cities are expanding at a rapid pace with large scale migration and unmitigated real estate growth. Distances between the residence and the workplace is ever increasing, causing the commute to become an integral part of the day to day routine. This has led to an apparent need for Public Transport system which is cost effective and user friendly. Amongst the available options of modes of Transport, the bus is the most prevalent as it is economically feasible and uses the existing Primary road network in the city. But even for the Bus system to work efficiently there is a need for some physical infrastructure such as waiting areas, signages and other amenities. This physical infrastructure in most cases needs to get built in an existing urban fabric. Hence, these are urban objects that fulfil a certain function but can also facilitate and manipulate the daily activities of people living in the immediate neighborhood.

The aim of the studio was to make a physical insert that would encourage people to use the public bus system with a clear focus on its design and construction. The students were equipped to develop documentation skills, organize the program in plans, different construction techniques and materials, and to use models as a design tool.

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Light Infrastructures

Focus Construction and Specifying Unit Assistant Aakash Jain

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Kruti Shah Departing from the increasing contemporary necessity to address issues of urban marginality, structural violence and community disfranchisement, we invited the students to explore the possibilities that urban designers -and researchers- possess to generate positive changes in contexts of scarcity. We situated the studio as a glimpse into recent practices that have dealt with such topics, while investigating the different sets of complexities that informal contexts contract in a close interaction with the people that comprise them. From that, the studio was set as a space of experimentation not only with processes of collaborative design, but mainly with the contingencies of construction and implementation of urban inserts. More specifically, small-scaled urban devices that worked in an informal settlement at the outskirts of Ahmedabad. Therefore, given that the object of design was a transportable architectural object that could accommodate diverse productive activities -while addressing infrastructural lacking in the neighborhood- we termed these ‘Light Infrastructure’. A device that was flexible, multi-functional and of a low energy impact, that simultaneously dealt directly with socially relevant (and hence politicized) resources.

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People, Place, Identity and Change

Focus Visualizing and Communicating Unit Assistant Priyankita Pant

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2nd Year Aangi Shah Archita Varyani Dhruv Piprottar Muskaan Mansuri Shiva Parepally Urja Chaudhary

3rd Year Aashi Ganjoo Aditi Mishra Moryada Swargari

Mehrnaz Amiraslani

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This studio was aimed at reviving the association between an urban space and its residents through spatial intervention. To address the complexities of designing in shared urban spaces, it introduced students to processes involved in co-designing in an existing settlement.

Students engaged the residents in process of design through methodical interaction. In a step-by-step process they designed visual tools and learnt verbal communication skills to involve none-designer end-users in design process.

Using these interactive communication tools, they received, recorded, and communicated back spatial qualities and design ideas in visual language that is easy to grasp by community members. Consequently, students produced design strategies and alternatives with community, then analyzed information from community in maps, drawings, and diagrams meant for design audience. Design response was expressed through strategy plan, intervention design, and stakeholders’ tactical diagram.

Using these tools students designed a process to respond effectively to community’s needs and co-produce a vision for future with them.

The knowledge from everyday experience of residents complements students’ holistic outlook as designers to arrive at a participatory design response. The studio was an investigation in the role of design as the agency to strengthen associations between people and urban spaces.

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Fig 4 Muskaan Mansuri Visualisations of street vending activities imagined Fig 5 Moryada Swargari Axonometric view illustrating intervention: Women’s Development Centre Fig 6 Dhruv Piprottar Axonometric view showing proposed intervention: Tailoring workshop and training centre

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Urban Assemblies: Radical Interventions in Loose Public Space

Unit Assistant Vaidehi Shah

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4th Year C.Aparnaa Hetvee Panchal Koralkar Eklavya Madhav Joshi Mandeera Baghar Mehta Parth Parth Patel Prabhu Shubhendu Revati Desai Sparsh Patlan

Melissa Smith

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Ahmedabad is full of vacant lands, both public and private, whose surreptitious adoption by tactical citizens supplements the city’s dearth of accessible open space. Contested bans on planned land uses, legal disputes, and uncoordinated developments produce an abundance of loosely organized vague space within the city. Sitting alongside high densities, much is temporarily occupied while waiting for its ‘official’ function, with activities vital for the social life of the city. (Cricket! Driving Practice!

Festivals!) But the condition is temporary; eventually buildings replace the activated space, and actors must move.

What if, instead of erasure, new programs were imagined alongside current occupations?

Though they are publicly owned, these open lands rarely have public access. By mapping space activation on such sites-as-found, the lessons of possibility are applied to an underused “public” site, reimagining it as a space that supports, and is accessible to, the public.

An onsite pilot project tested initial ideas, and gauged citizens’ response. This and site-as-found mappings framed student design positions and intent, which were then tested through design interventions. The design proposals imagine an alternative future for the public space, which balances the existing citizens’ claims and the needs of the area and city.

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Fig 1 Parth, Sparsh, Hetvee, Revati, Madhav Column 1: event maps of studio sites in Ahmedabad Column 2: urban fabric analysis Column 3: design strategies Fig 2 “Avakash� Pilot Project installation at a vacant land in Vasna, Ahmedabad Fig 3 Mandeera Baghar Play spaces as magnets for revitalizing underused vacant plots; Vasna, Ahmedabad

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Fig 4 Parth Mehta Deployable structures, intelligently sited across vacant plots as infrastructure for unpredictable, variable scenarios; Rakhiyal, Ahmedabad Fig 5 Hetvee Panchal Common plots as green space in a city - collecting rainwater for the lakes; Maninagar, Ahmedabad

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Humanizing Urban Space: Social Production and Speculative Design of Neighborhood Place Unit Assistant Bhagyashree Ramakrishna

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4th Year Chavda Heenal Dharan Korduvar Gupta Harsh Harsh Shah Joshi Ruju Meet Kakadiya Shivani Agrawal Shubhangi Saxena Soni Siddhi Praswed Patel

Rajiv Kadam There is a loss of quality and character in the current open spaces in Indian cities. They fail to respond to the life of the community as they are purely reduced to quantitative definitions and enclosed by dead urban edge. To humanize urban spaces, the production of qualitative aspects needs to be derived from the social and cultural patterns of community life and its integration with a more interactive urban edge.

The studio used the place making theories of Christian Norberg-Schulz and Jan Gehl to construct the character of the place.

The students decoded the everyday life and events, as manifested in the central open space within the selected neighborhoods in Ahmedabad. They then defined strategies to construct a speculative design intervention plan for the central open space and a contemporary, interactive urban edge, integrated within a proposed neighborhood development masterplan. The current urban policy on residential redevelopment of old existing neighborhoods provides opportunities for the studio exploration of the critical issue of humanizing urban space. The interventions attempted to create a utopian place for new interactions and to enhance human experience in a neighborhood public place, while retaining the existing community and exploring potential densification.

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Urban Planning and Regulations: Intent, Manifestation and Design

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4th Year Anubhav Tholia Arnav Prakash Aryan Iyer Atal Chadha Shaurya Anand Shourya Dubey Vaishnavi Akilla Vanshika Shah Vedika Pilllai Vidisha Dhar

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Indian cities are plagued with, to mention a few, lack of good quality public realm, insufficient green cover, lack of inclusive pedestrian infrastructure, unaffordable land market and an over regulatory development framework. Many of these are resultant of an archaic idea of city planning and design but can also be attributed to the effect of multiple city stakeholders and their interactions. These stakeholders (politicians, citizen groups, slum dwellers, architects, engineers, administrators, urban planners/ designers etc.) and their competing views towards city design and planning materialize in the form of national/state level policies, citylevel development plans, city-level building regulations or outcomes of a judicial proceeding.

All of which culminate in tangible change.

The course “Urban Policy and Regulations: Intent>Manifestation>Design� aimed to understand this narrative of city-making with a specific focus on land markets, public realm and built form.

Two methods were explored - 1. Evidence-based desk research to build the narrative of planning and design of the city and 2. Design as a method of research to comment on planning and design practices at the site level followed by design recommendations as a way forward.

The studio was based on Mumbai, owing to a long history of planning and design interventions post-independence until late 2000’s.

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Fig 7 Shaurya Anand Connecting regulations Fig 8 Vidisha Dhar Masterplan for free design & visualisations of urban spaces Fig 9 Atal Chada Slums could inspire the future cities with 3 factors Fig 10 Shourya Dubey Toolkit for nodes & streets navigating stakeholders through design process for a user-generated city Fig 11 Arnav Prakash Free design plans & sections, comparison diagrams & demonstration of the design recommendations

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Urban Transformation Studio (Smart Cities)

Program Urban Design Unit Assistant Maansi Shah

Faculty of Planning UD4002-A Spring 2020

Students Asmita Ganar Dhvani Trivedi Kavan Pathak Nikita Doshi Nikita Pal Rohan Khambete Ruturaj Panchal Shashank Verma Smrithi Prasad Sushma G Aradhya

Purvi Bhatt This studio focused on the design aspects of urban transformations within the existing urban areas. As Indian cities are growing rapidly, the growing urban incomes will fuel demand for more and more built-floor space in cities accompanied by a demand for infrastructure.

Urban areas within these cities are dealing with unsustainable levels of stress on infrastructure, resources, and public services.

To address these concerns, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoUHA) has initiated various schemes and the Smart Cities Mission (SCM) is one of the initiatives. The framework for SCM provides a unique opportunity for students to design realistic interventions in response to contemporary issues facing Indian cities. Due to the dedicated funding, expert team, and areas identified, students were able to align their proposals with city goals and present their designs to implementation authorities for consideration. Jaipur and Panjim were chosen as the foci for this studio, in order to allow students to gain an understanding of how to preserve heritage while envisioning transformative change.

The projects had a strong design focus on the physical setting, however issues of private ownership and social equity, land economics, planning models, and implementation strategies were also addressed.

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Fig 1 Smrithi Prasad Nighttime isometric view of Choti Chaupar with proposed changes and pedestrianization of the Tripolia Bazaar to upgrade the livability, safety, quality of urban spaces and accessibility to various public transport facilities.

Fig 2 Asmita Ganar Existing isometric of a typical residential urban block in the Walled City of Jaipur.

Fig 3 Asmita Ganar Proposed changes to residential blocks, consolidating smaller buildings and aligning building edges to create additional open space.

Fig 4 Smrithi Prasad Proposed metro section in between pedestrianized Choti chaupar and Badi chaupar in Jaipur.

Fig 5 Nikita Doshi Proposed creekfront development with programmatic additions, providing a recreational buffer and reviving the public life of the neighborhood.

Fig 6 Nikita Doshi Master plan for Panjim creekfront, with programmatic interventions, restored landmarks and improved accessibility.

Fig 7 Nikita Pal Proposed pedestrianised old Jaipur marketplace with shaded tree cover, public seating, proper lighting, paved surface areas, and public utilities.

Fig 8 Sushma Arandya Envisioned revitalization of Panjim Old Quarter’s underutilized Ourem creekfront by transforming them into vibrant public spaces with a beautiful edge and places.

Fig 9 Rohan Khambete Re-envisioned Panjim historic church square as a prime venue in Panaji to host a wide variety of civic and social events, while also serving as a welcoming everyday destination.

Fig 10 Rohan Khambete Principles for organizing the urban form transformation with defined edges, shaded walkways, graded built form and consolidation of internal open spaces around Panjim Church Square Fig 11 Rohan Khambete Urban design plan with a newly imagined urban form, dedicating more space for public access, especially around heritage institutional building.

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Urban Transformation Studio (HRIDAY Cities) Program Urban Design Unit Assistant Jay Bhanushali

Faculty of Planning UD4002-B Spring 2020

Students Anwesha Bhattacharya Akanksha Balpande Alekhya Veera Valli Forum Shah Gokul Kalaimathi Nikita Jani Parag Mishra Satyam Shukla Sudipto Barua Koushik Krishna

Narendra Mangwani This studio focused on the design aspects of urban transformations within the existing urban areas. Indian cities are growing rapidly in terms of population and therefore expanding physically.

The increasing urban population and the growing urban incomes will fuel demand for more and more built floor space in cities accompanied by a demand for infrastructure. Urban areas within these cities are dealing with unsustainable levels of stress on infrastructure, resources, and public services and are becoming unlivable.

To address these concerns, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoUHA) has initiated various schemes such as AMRUT, SMART CITIES MISSION and HRIDAY. This studio focused on HRIDAY, understanding their role in the urban transformation of the selected cities under the scheme. Out of 12 selected cities under HRIDAY, four cities were selected based on the variations in geographical, climatic and religious settings, viz. Ajmer-Pushkar, Mathura, Gaya-Bodhgaya and Velankanni. Students worked on various issues faced by these cities and what has been envisioned or achieved as a part of HRIDAY City Heritage Plan (CHP) reports prepared by respective authorities/organizations.

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Fig 6 Satyam Shukla Vishram Ghat Revitalization, Mathura Fig 7 Gokul Kalaimathi New Beach Promenade, Velankanni Fig 8 Nikita Jani Reimagining Ghats at Pushkar Sarovar, Pushkar Fig 9 Anwesha Bhattacharya Catalyst 3, Heritage Pavillion, Ajmer Fig 10 Forum Shah Krishna Janmabhoomi Precinct, Mathura

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Urban Transformation Studio (Urbanising Urban Villages) Program Urban Design Unit Assistant Pooja Rawal

Faculty of Planning UD4002-C Spring 2020

Students Amrapali Sharma Anurag Rathi Ayushi Singh Gaddipati Avinash Pendharkar Kshitija Sakshi Reddy Sophiya Islam Sri Mallika Vyshnavi

Umesh Shurpali Urban villages have long been neglected in most city development plans, which identify them only as arbitrarily marked islands without any intent to improve livability. The studio looked at transformations in three urban villages with highly urbanized surroundings and hence increased probability of witnessing change in the near future. Thaltej and Makarba in Ahmedabad about the ever-expanding SG highway and Hauz Rani is next to Malviya nagar in Delhi.

Commercialized peripheries and quiet interiors transforming in to haphazard low-income housing appear as common characteristics in these villages.

Against this background, the studio explored utilizing market forces as well as the strong sense of community within urban villages to evolve approaches for their meaningful integration with the surrounding city. In absence of clear revenue records, workable framework for amalgamations/ subdivisions were assumed to enable students to imagine varied transformation possibilities and hence probable future role of urban villages

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Elements of Urban Design Studio

Program Urban Design Unit Assistant Aarzoo Samani

Faculty of Planning UD4003 Spring 2020

Students Agathe Hugue Akshan Bhide Akshat Chadha Alexandre Zeller Anukruti Sharma Arghya Mandal Arjun P B Charu Kumari Devika Patil Dhande Vishakha Divyanshu Prakash Longjam Singh Mahima Varshney Malani Nidhi Manoj S Mansi Sureka Naveen Pahal Niveda Ramesh Patil Snehal Rajiv Babu Rashi Soni Sanil Dishika Sarabjeet Sodhi Sathwik Srinath Savaliya Rutvijj Shradha Gupta Shrimathi P Soumya Swain Vidushi Singh Vishnu Kundan Yash Siroliya Zahra Lokhandwala

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The studio is structured as an introduction to urban design representation and how it is used as a means of design thinking. The premise is that urban design is best understood and expressed through study and representation of the built urban environment. Hence the studio focused on the study and representation of the key urban elements in cities and was structured in multiple modules running through the semester, each culminating with an exhibition of the outcome. These modules significantly focused on effectively capturing and communicating the spatial qualities of the urban built environment.

Module 1 involved representation of the key elements of urban design. Building types, urban blocks, streets. and public open spaces form the key elements that come together to make any functional urban space. The exercises in this module enabled students with methods to study each element and how they contribute to the scale, form, character, and their relationship with the larger urban context.

Module 2 was the final exercise which involved design of public places.

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Fig 8 Anukrati Sharma Open Space, Covent Garden Piazza, London Fig 9 Sathwik Srinath Open Space, Leidsestraat, Amsterdam Fig 10 Arjun P B Urban Street Design, Sunrise Park Road, Ahmedabad Fig 11 Yash Siroliya Streets, Highline, NewYork Fig 12 Manoj S Urban Blocks, Civic Center, San Francisco Fig 13 Akshat Chadha Urban Design Intervention near Vastrapur Lake, Ahmedabad

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Fig 1 Yash Siroliya Urban Blocks, Flatiron District, New York Fig 2 Mansi Sureka Urban Blocks, District 1, Zurich, Switzerland Fig 3 Charu Kumari Building Types, Karamyog Apartment, Delhi Fig 4 Charu Kumari Building Types, 4370 Kissena Boulevard, NewYork Fig 5 Naveen Pahal Building Types, SPA, Vijaywada Fig 6 Naveen Pahal Building Types, Institute of Eng. & Tech., Ahmedabad University Fig 7 Dishika Sanil Open Space, Israels Plads Square, Copenhagen

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Housing Strategy

Program Urban Housing Unit Assistant Debrathi Battacharya

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The aim of the studio was to develop a housing strategy for the city to expand choices of affordable housing to all income groups. Through a multipronged approach to demonstrate to the city how it will be able to efficiently address the issue of housing unaffordability in its specific land and labor market. The studio focused on framing of policies and regulations that would enable local markets to generate adequate, affordable and decent housing stock. Simultaneously the focus was on framing of policies, programs and regulations that would provide assistance to households, living in substandard informal and formal housing but not catered by markets, to access decent affordable housing.

On successful completion of the studio the students gained the following competencies: • To prepare baseline housing profile • To build scenarios of future growth in terms of future need and demand with respect to socio-economic and spatial growth patterns • To formulate a set of enabling policies, that would enable markets to generate adequate, affordable and decent housing stock for future • To formulate a set of provisionary policies, to provide assistance to households, living in substandard informal and forma.

• To formulate capital investment plan and institutional framework at the city level to implement housing strategy • To formulate Monitoring and Evaluation framework for housing strategy

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Fig 7 Mihir Patilhande E3: Propose spectrum of building regulation and related costs.

Fig 8 Ajay Shetye P1: In-situ redevelopment of slums in high potential land to leverage the land value.

Fig 9 Lisette P7: Provisionary support for access to formal rental units.

Fig 10 Akshaya E5: Enable the market to provide adequate rental unit Fig 11 Jayna, Nandana, Shiven Institutional Framework Fig 12 Anirudh, Kaushik, Lisette, Miten Capital Investment Plan Fig 13 Vishal, Shivani Learning outcomes and conclusion

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City Wide WASH Plan for Fast Growing Towns of Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA) Program Urban Infrastructure Unit Assistant Sidhh Doshi

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Students Akshat Thakore Rishabh Garg Onkar Ghusale

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Citywide WASH plan involves several subsectors and institutions engaged in the planning, designing, delivery, and management of WASH services. The studio intended to develop a detailed understanding of how city level infrastructure and WASH plans are prepared and integrated with city vision, development plans and other city proposals.

During the course of the studio, the students worked closely with the students of citywide infrastructure planning studio and collectively worked on preparing a WASH plan for 3 fastgrowing and emerging towns of AUDA. In the initial period, students were inducted to the fundamentals of an Infrastructure and WASH plan through national and international case studies and input lectures by tutors and experts.

Later on, during the studio journey, they worked in smaller teams and then individually to deal with the macro, micro, and sectoral issues with an objective to develop an integrated and comprehensive perspective for citywide infrastructure and WASH Planning, including norms and regulations, assessment of demand supply issues, identification and prioritization of projects and broad investment programming.

The students also prepared, collectively as a team, a� Comprehensive WASH and Infrastructure Plan� and within this, individual demonstration of projects to showcase their plans.

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City Wide Infrastructure Planning for Ahmedabad and Surat Program Urban Infrastructure Unit Assistant Riya Thomas

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Students Aditi Ashok Modi Amita Thakwani Anushika Chintaluri Anushri S Alatagi Basundhara Karki Bhuvaneshwari Peddi Devas Darshan Pathak Dhwani Chawla Gina Mahendra Acharya Hemansh Sharma Kishan Mehulbhai Shah Sahil Jayeshbhai Patel Sakshi Sharma Shivani Singh Sravanthi Vantipalli Srushti NarendraThakur Vivek Kanubhai Panchal

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This studio provided students with an understanding of city-wide infrastructure plans and its preparation process. To give them a background of the whole process, they were asked to review development plans and infrastructure plans of selected cities at the national level as well as the international level. For the case study city, the students undertook data collection (primary as well as secondary) with respect to land use, the city level infrastructure at both physical and social levels, as well as understanding the socioeconomic characteristics of the city.

Based on the existing situation analysis (identifying the key issues and challenges), they narrowed down and delineated a focus area which lacked infrastructure facilities in accordance with current situation and the future development. Further they prepared detailed infrastructure plans to address these issues and challenges in the study area along with the financial implications of these plans.

Finally, they concluded with integration of all the plans of their delineated area so as to develop a long-term vision for the area. They proposed alternative development strategies to arrive at the most optimal set of infrastructure proposals for the area as a “Comprehensive Infrastructure Plan�.

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Development Plan Studio (Bharuch and Ankleshwar) Program Urban Planning Unit Assistant Hersh Vardhan Bhasin

Faculty of Planning UP4000 - A Spring 2020

Students Adnan Saqib Amrutha Balani Anjali Chaudhary Gunjan Jangid Hingane Shweta Paulami De Sadaf Siddiqui Sagami P N Sehgal Mallika Shah Abhishek Shrilekha Halder Shriya Khelurkar Sohab Shaquib Sreedevi Kurur Toliya Padmanabh Varsha Nair

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Jignesh Mehta

Statutory Development Plan (DP) is the most important and powerful tool for planning urban areas and facilitating growth. However, conventionally, such plans fail to effectively integrate different sectors, and merely become an exercise in mapping, zoning, and defining control regulations.

The studio engaged students in developing core competencies to prepare a Development Plan for the city of Bharuch & Ankaleshwar using iterative method, which went beyond the conventional ‘predict and provide’ approach. The students studied and explored different approaches of planning, zoning, regulations, and alternative case building to prepare a plan that was robust yet adaptable to withstand the uncertainties of future.

Final outcome of the studio focused on preparing a Development Plan with proposals integrating various sectors such as land use, transport, infrastructure, housing, economy, environment etc. and identifying various proposal and projects supported by visualization, cost estimate identification of various revenue sources, phasing to ensure maximum implementation of the plan.

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To provide a variety of employment opportunities by promoting a diverse economy in the urban area along with living conditions that are socially inclusive for all and an equal on protecting the emphasis environment.

“To develop a well-connected region focusing on economic stability, affordability of resources and environmental conservation thereby enabling inclusive urbanization”

“To enhance existing city strengths and it's opportunities and plan the growth through economic improvement in the quality of urban life“

‘To develop a city with opportunities for all, promoting urban growth and good quality of life by enhancing connectivity, improving the economic base and providing housing for all.’

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Development Plan Studio (Surat)

Program Urban Planning Unit Assistant Shyamantika Sarkar

Faculty of Planning UP4000 - B Spring 2020

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Statutory Development Plan (DP) is the most important and powerful tool for planning urban areas and facilitating growth. However, conventionally, such plans fail to effectively integrate different sectors, and merely become an exercise in mapping, zoning, and defining control regulations.

The studio engaged students in developing core competencies to prepare a Development Plan for the city of surat using iterative method, which went beyond the conventional ‘predict and provide’ approach. The students studied and explored different approaches of planning, zoning, regulations, and alternative case building to prepare a plan that was robust yet adaptable to withstand the uncertainties of future.

Final outcome of the studio focused on preparing a Development Plan with proposals integrating various sectors such as land use, transport, infrastructure, housing, economy, environment etc. and identifying various proposal and projects supported by visualization, cost estimate identification of various revenue sources, phasing to ensure maximum implementation of the plan.

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Fig 5 Pratibha Patil Development Control Regulations for Mixed Use Zone 1 Fig 6 Pratibha Patil Development Control Regulations for RAH Zone Fig 7 Pratibha Patil Area Specific Development Regulations for Hazira Fig 8 Arjun, Divya, Shreya, Varsha Envisioned built-form of Surat, promoting vertical development Fig 9 Harshit Parashar De densifying the core through Transit Oriented Development

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Flood Prone Area 60% Of Surat Is Under Flood Prone Area.

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Program Urban Planning Unit Assistant Anu James

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Students Akshay Kashikar Arunkumar KR Deepa Managooli Divya Mehra Jadeja Kuldeepsinh Kavita Raut Lopa Raval Mehta Saurabh Palaash Roy Pratit Das Rithika Rajalakshmi Ruchi Kapoor Saurav Kumar Srinidhi Kandkur Swashya Suresh Tamanna Parvin

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Jignesh Mehta

Statutory Development Plan (DP) is the most important and powerful tool for planning urban areas and facilitating growth. However, conventionally, such plans fail to effectively integrate different sectors, and merely become an exercise in mapping, zoning, and defining control regulations.

The studio engaged students in developing core competencies to prepare a Development Plan for the city of Rajkot using iterative method, which went beyond the conventional ‘predict and provide’ approach. The students studied and explored different approaches of planning, zoning, regulations, and alternative case building to prepare a plan that was robust yet adaptable to withstand the uncertainties of future.

Final outcome of the studio focused on preparing a Development Plan with proposals integrating various sectors such as land use, transport, infrastructure, housing, economy, environment etc. and identifying various proposal and projects supported by visualization, cost estimate identification of various revenue sources, phasing to ensure maximum implementation of the plan.

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Fig 1 Palaash Roy Envisioning Rajkot as an economical, ecological and sociocultural hub Fig 2 Stakeholder meeting with town planners at Rajkot Urban Development Authority Fig 3 Stakeholder meeting with Company Sheth Builders, Rajkot Fig 4 Tamanna, Rithika, Pratit, Divya A comprehensive approach towards zoning to enhance the city into heterogeneous, high density and water self-sufficient.

Fig 5 Tamanna Parvin Riverfront development along high density development

Fig 6 Tamanna Parvin Developing major arterial road network over eco-sensitive area Fig 7 Deepa Managooli 3D Visualisation of proposed urban form for Rakot Fig 8 Arunkumar Kr Street character along with Aji Riverfront Fig 9 Arunkumar Kr Polycentric node – Porosity in streets along the commercial nodes Fig 10 Swashya Suresh Projected Urban Fabric assuming maximum FSI & Built-up Fig 11 Ruchi, Kavita Transect model depicting various densities and heights

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Program Urban Transport System Unit Assistant Aditya Purohit

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Students Abhas Dudeja Aditya Rane Avani Gajjar Dhvani Sanghvi Janani V Jagdish Temkar Jitendra Jakkula Kiran Singh Manish Patil Meghal Rajani Nausheen Chhipa Nandini Derasari Neethilavanya K Pragati Tandon Reshma Mathew Riddhi Patel Rituraj Sarma Sandeep Das Sujit Vishal G Sukanya Talukdar Surya Sugathan Swastik Nakhwa Yamini Khurana

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An effective and efficient transport system is key to the economic growth of urban areas and regions. With this perspective, Master of Urban Transport Systems aimed to provide holistic knowledge on planning, technology, design, operations, and management of urban transport, besides developing skill sets related to transport system analysis and application of various policy instruments. The program combined theoretical analysis with practical applications to help students understand how to deal with transport problems in the real world. The focus was to enable students to comprehend the complexities of urban transport and develop their capacities to shape the future of transport in cities.

This studio aimed to provide students with an understanding of the strategic transportation plan and its preparation process. Taking Rajkot as the case city, students prepared a comprehensive mobility plan for the city for the year 2040. The students undertook site visits, collected primary and secondary data, and held discussions with various stakeholders with respect to socio-economic characteristics, land use and transportation aspects to identify key transportation challenges in the city. Based on the baseline analysis, alternative development scenarios and strategies for the city were developed and appraised to arrive at a suitable set of transport proposals in the short, medium, and long term.

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Deployable Structures: Concepts and Explorations Focus Constructing and Specifying Unit Assistant Bhaumik Patel

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2nd Year Aatrey Patel Abhishek Chowatia Vishesh Joshi Yash Khorasiya Jay Maniar Niharkumar Desai Brijesh Pandya Shiv Parmar Shree Patel

3rd Year Akash Patel Devarsh Kangad Dhruv Patel Yash Patel Sejpal Harshil Urvash Ribadia Harshit Vachhani

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Deployable structures can expand and contract due to their geometrical arrangement and mechanical properties. They can fold, reduce in size and fit into a limited space when not in use; when required, these structures, can be deployed to serve its intended purpose.

Deployable structures offer great potential for creating truly transforming, dynamic experiences and environments. Their lightness and transportability allow them to adapt to a society that is constantly evolving and changing.

Furthermore, these are reusable structures that make efficient use of energy, resources, materials and space, thus embracing the concept of optimization.

This studio emphasized on learning the concept of deployable structures through Origami techniques and kinematics of linkages.

Students developed a structural concept out of preliminary explorations based on a specific problem given to each student. Once the concept was formulated, students performed manual as well as software based calculations and did structural analysis to determine member forces, joint forces and sectional sizes. In the final phase of the studio, students made scaled working models of the structure and the joinery along with basic drawings.

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Fig 1 Urvash Ribadia Drawings and working details of ’The Umbrella Project’ Fig 2 Devarsh Kangad Working Model of the transformable ’Heatherwick Rolling Bridge’ at London Fig 3 Urvash Ribadia Detailed exploded assembly drawing of a Camera Tripod Stand Fig 4 Abhishek Chowatia Working model of the deployable roof of the Mercedes Benz Stadium Fig 5 Jay Maniar Working model of a foldable pocket scissor.

Fig 6 Yash Patel Working joinery details of a deployable shelter Fig 7 Yash Khorasiya The deployable dining pavilion and it’s concept

Fig 8 Abhishek Chowatia 3D X-Ray view of the rotating Iris Mechanism Fig 9 Shree Patel Deployment stages of the multipurpose cantilever shed Fig 10 Yash Patel Deployment sequence of the roofing system Fig 11 Shiv Parmar Deployment sequence of the ’Estoile Care’ pavilion Fig 12 Dhruv Patel Deployable arch structure and its concept Fig 13 Harshil Sejpal Stages of the deployable emergency shelter Fig 14 Vishesh Joshi 2 stages of the deployable window Fig 15 Akash Patel Deployable stairs Fig 16 Harshit Vachhani Deployable cantliver canopy

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Focus Constructing and Specifying Unit Assistant Nipun Patel

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This studio aimed at developing understanding of concrete as a versatile material. The main objective was to enable students to identify the right grade and type of concrete for different applications and products. It provided a comprehensive coverage of the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject and included the latest developments in the field of concrete construction. It was designed to provide students with a detailed understanding of concrete as a material for construction and various ingredients of it.

Various exercises were conducted individually and in groups to test and understand the properties of raw materials, identify new materials and different types of concrete as well as producing concrete, carrying out tests on its properties and understanding its behavior at various stages. Students also went through a special exercise of designing and delivering a concrete product by creating a contractor and client scenario. Each individual student also proposed an application for a special concrete identifying costs, material requirements, environmental impacts and benefits .

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Fig 7 Sardhara Bhagvat Anti- Bacterial Concrete: High durability against suphur oxidizing bacteria Fig 8 Modh Rushil Ecocrete: Cementless CO2 absorbing concrete Fig 9 Khyati R Chandpa Limecrete : an ecofriendly solution for smaller precast elements Fig 10 Devarsh Patel Dyscrete : An innovative approach to generationof energy Fig 11 Rutvik Vekariya Pervious Concrete : Solution to waterlogging on walkways and parking

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3rd Year Aayushi Patel Aditya Doshi Ahir Ankur Dave Shashvat Mann Gandhi Nishit Patel Rachita Awasthi Rohit Harwani Siddharth Parmar Vrushti Bhavsar

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The studio focused on building the ability among the students to design fluid-based systems. The studio was divided into two phases. In phase one, the students were introduced to the principles of fluid mechanics. There were ten exercises in this phase. In each of these exercises, students experimentally tested the introduced principles either through lab-based projects or developed a working model based on the application of these principles. As a result, the students appreciated them in real-life applications. In the second phase of the studio, each student was required to design a fluid-based system of their choice.

The guideline for choosing the project was based on their ability to evaluate pressure, velocity, and other system parameters both theoretically and through simulation models (or experimentally in some cases). This exercise aimed to develop the student’s ability to conceptualize a system with the given constraints. As a learning outcome of the studio the students conceptualized, designed, analyzed, and built fluid-based systems with the constraints of pressure, velocity, flow, etc.

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Fig 1 Yogi Soni The green wall 3D visualization Fig 2 Nikshat Gevariya Water Channel exploded view with notches Fig 3 Mann Gandhi The AAA farm, Vertical Irrigation system Fig 4 Aayush Palany Drip irrigation farm 3D visualisation Fig 5 Class exercise Demonstration of Notches and wiers Fig 6 Aayushi Patel 3d view for flow through different devices Fig 7 Shashvat Dave SCADA system loops with specifications Fig 8 Irrigation farm site visit Instructor explaining the system Fig 9 Siddharth Parmar Hypothetical looping network looking like CEPT alphabets

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Fig 10 Vikas Patel Automation of water curtain project using microcontroller and sensor Fig 11 Rohit Harwani Hydraulic Scissor lift for elevation of 4.5 meter height Fig 12 Ankur Ahir Gravity sewer network design for 1 sq.km area Fig 13 Aditya Doshi Project area for water distribution and analysis Fig 14 Anuj Vagadiya Equivalent free flow network 3D pipe network Fig 15 Vrushti Bhavsar WaterfallAmalgamation of pipes and channels Fig 16 Vinit Changlani Hydroponic system with A-frame structure Fig 17 Nishit Patel Foot operated wash basins for children

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2nd Year Aradhya Parekh Anushka Chaudhary Das Debidatta Patel Mahir Tiwari Khush

3rd Year Akshat Sharma Dipen Prajapati Jash Kansara Krupansh Patel Mehta Srujan Pareskh Anjan Prakhar Shah Jugal Soni Shivam Vatsal Shingala Vishesh Mistry

Rachit Sheth

Kruti Shah

Building construction is not only about erecting a concrete mass in a space but is also about developing a space by effective utilization of its structural system and innovating within it.

In today’s times, where every RCC building is different in terms of its shape, form and structural system, an engineer is required to not only analyze and design the building with respect to its structure but also understand the processes that leads to its architectural form due to structural implications. One needs to cultivate the conceptual understanding of its architectural design and coherently develop the structural system.

The studio invited students to develop a holistic understanding of various building systems, right from its spatial conceptualization, design development to its detailed structural design.

To aid this process students made prototype models of the chosen structural system, conducted case studies followed by creating a set of architectural drawings and 3D models of their proposed design. Further, the students utilized STAAD for the analysis of the design, after which they created structural drawings.

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Fig 6 Jash, Krupansh Internal views of proposed dance academy in concrete truss system.

Fig 7 Debidatta, Mahir Beam layout Fig 8 Jash, Krupansh Foundation detail Fig 9 Akshat, Aradhya STAAD model of proposed library in vault system Fig 10 Jash, Krupansh Beam detail Fig 11 Dipen, Jugal STAAD model of proposed meditation center in ribbed slab system

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Planning and Design of Road Infrastructure in Hilly Region Focus Analyzing and Designing Unit Assistant Ishita Bhatt

Faculty of Technology CT2019 Spring 2020

2nd Year Aanchal Arora Abhishek Bhatt Chauhan Harshil Gaurav Goyal Gundrania Nidhi Patel Samved Soni Manan Stuti Patel

3rd Year Aayush Agrawal Kavit Patel Param Janani Parth Shah Pratik Karamchandani Shah Taksh Upadhyay Bhaumik Vishv Bhavsar

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With the growing demands in the context of road infrastructure development in India and certain other countries, it is identified that a civil engineer equipped with the skills and strategies of road engineering principles and having a certain exposure to actual reallife road-related problems can be a useful professional. This course was designed to equip the student with skills, rationales, and abilities in the context of road infrastructure planning and designs. The salient teaching methodology included interactive discussions with students on existing principles and concerns of road planning and design sensitivity and professional communication techniques (such as a reading of maps, interpretation of soil and material data) to these concerns through discussions; exposure and skill-building through advanced mapping and testing techniques; exposure to create and validate the 3D Model; exposure and skillbuilding through advanced design tools such as Open-Road, E-Survey, and Arc-GIS; exposure and experience through real-life project site of ongoing (greenfield and brownfield) road development.

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Fig 1 3D Model and General Alignment Drawing(GAD) of existing Taranga Route Fig 2 Surveys conducted during field visit Fig 3 Comparison of output of Total Station, DGPS and Drone Survey Fig 4 Soil and Bitumen Tests Performed Fig 5 Geometric Design of route as per SP 48 Fig 6 Alternate Route Proposed

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Structural Expressions in Masonry

Focus Analyzing and Designing Unit Assistant Asjad Shaikh

Faculty of Technology CT2020 Spring 2020

2nd Year Bhuva Nilay Daulatani Varun Hitarth Kathan Patel Mistry Yash Patel Mitava Patel Rushikumar Raval Tavishi Solanki Jignesh Soni Darshan Vadgama Mahek Yashasvi Agrawal

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Structural design and space making have always been like two lines of a railway track; parallel yet never intersecting. One cannot exist without the other. The growing gap between the two in today’s structural as well as architectural practices is what we addressed in this course with the help of masonry systems. Drawing inspiration from master buildings which have successfully woven together the matrix between space and structures in masonry, we will understand what one means by the ‘LANGUAGE of a structure’ and its significance in not only structural design but also in space making.

Masonry construction is synonymous with the low to medium-rise buildings because of its lowcost material, provision of good environmental insulation and rigid vertical and lateral load resistance in India. Changing the perception of load bearing structures from being bulky to being lighter and flexible in nature was one of the key inferences of the studio. The idea of infill being just the non-structural material to playing an important role in providing overall structural stability to the system was another learning outcome from the studio.

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Students Apeksha Agarwal Apoorvi Gupta Bane Shantanu Dhairya Chopra Karanbir Singh Rishabh Shandily Snigdha Kanta

Paresh Vyas Urban management deals with the management of micro scale problems of day to day urban life.

Most of our solutions are planning or large urban scale solutions. Hence, urban areas and the sustainable development of our cities pose key challenges for the micro level management of the urban areas.

The studio was focused on giving an understanding of the management of urban services and their delivery. The scale of exploration was focused on studying the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation – Zone 1.

Seven sectors, namely Water Supply, Public Health, Parks and Gardens, Urban Livelihood, Smart city, Taxation, and Sanitation, in Zone 1 were examined in a comprehensive and integrated manner. Each sector was reviewed systematically to give an overview; understand the underpinning legislation and policies, systems and processes, human resources, and finances. The studio outcomes were a bunch of proposals ranging from improved processes, institutional restructuring and strengthening interventions, and use of various technologies to bring in process efficiencies; look into social and financial aspects of cities; and other processes that are involved in managing urban areas. These made the students better equipped to approach and meet the challenges of managing services at a zone and city level.

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Fig 5 Snigdha Kanta Components of DAY-NULM with issue analysis and awareness proposal Fig 6 Shantanu Bane Supervision system for park maintenance by contracted agency Fig 7 Shantanu Bane Citizen engagement and revenue generation for O&M of parks

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Students Bhate Apoorva Gupte Aankansha Irene Shaji Mayuri Varkey Vadali Swapnika Vaghela Aniruddhsinh Vibhav Singha

Gayatri Doctor Urban management deals with the management of micro scale problems of day to day urban life.

Most of our solutions are planning or large urban scale solutions. Hence, urban areas and the sustainable development of our cities pose key challenges for the micro level management of the urban areas.

The studio was focused on giving an understanding of the management of urban services and their delivery. The scale of exploration was focused on studying the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation – Zone 2. Seven sectors namely Solid Waste Management, Public Health, Parks and Gardens, Drainage System, Urban Livelihood, Smart city, Building use Permission, and Fire in Zone 2 were examined in a comprehensive and integrated manner. Each sector was reviewed systematically to give an overview; understand the underpinning legislation and policies, systems and processes, human resources, and finances. The studio outcomes were a bunch of proposals ranging from improved processes, institutional restructuring and strengthening interventions, and use of various technologies to bring in process efficiencies; look into social and financial aspects of cities; and other processes that are involved in managing urban areas. These made the students better equipped to approach and meet the challenges of managing services at a zone and city level.

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Tutor Profiles Abuzar Puthawala He completed his bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from L.D. College of Engineering. He completed his master’s in Structural Engineering and’ Design from CEPT. Post his master’s, he worked as a senior design engineer in VSCEPL for 4 years. Parallelly, he has been a visiting faculty in Nirma and Indus University in Faculty of Architecture. He also offered a course in masonry design in CEPT. Aditya Patel He is an architect with interests in interior design, landscape architecture, and product design.

He founded ‘Grey Works’, a product design and manufacturing company, in 2015. He has been a visiting faculty at Faculty of Architecture, CEPT since 2012. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT. Ahmed Momin He believes in performance-oriented design, backed by a design approach that takes aspects like climate, structure and other intangible criteria of design into consideration. Apart from his professional practice, Ahmed Abbas also works as a visiting faculty at CEPT, teaching Generative Design Studio to masters students at the Faculty of Design.

Ajay Patel He is a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT. He has been a practicing architect since 1986. He has been visiting faculty in CEPT in architecture, construction school, and faculty of design. His area of interest is architectural photography, documentation, material studio, working drawings, precast housing and structural systems in architectural projects.

Amal Shah He has worked extensively on residential, healthcare, and retail projects as a freelance interior designer. He has taught at the Faculty of Design, CEPT primarily teaching studio, technology, and software-based course for 15 years. His interests relate to technologies of the built environment.

He graduated from the School of Design, CEPT in 2005.

Amit Gotecha He is an architect and planner with over 10 years of experience in architectural and planning projects. The projects range from preparation of development plans/master plans, preparation of town planning schemes, housing projects, urban design and street design projects, and various architectural projects. He heads his consultancy firm ‘Habitat Interventions’ and is also involved with academics in the field of planning. He has an Architecture degree from IPSA, Rajkot and master’s in Planning from CEPT. Amruta Patel She is an engineer planner. She has specific interests and knowledge in the field of Housing. She had been working for Affordable Housing Mission with Government of Gujarat. She is currently working as a visiting faculty at Faculty of Planning, CEPT. She is currently pursuing her PhD from CEPT. Anal Sheth She is a structural and transportation engineer. She has taught Highway related courses for more than 10 years at CEPT. Her professional work in this area also includes a major project and research on subjects such as the Mandal Becharaji Special Investment Region. She was in charge of the materials lab at CEPT University and was instrumental in setting up of the transportation lab.

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Anand Belhe He is the Dean of Faculty of Design, CEPT and has been teaching design for the last 13 years.

He has designed and manufactured furniture and building products for 28 years and has immense knowledge of Industrial Design, Building Products Design, and Product detailing and manufacturing. He has several Indian and European patents and an American one. He has graduated from NID and studied Architecture in Vienna.

Anand Sonecha He is an architect and founder of SEALAB. He has designed and built projects such as Jai Jagat Theatre at Sabarmati Ashram, Housing for Loving community and School for Visually impaired students. Prior to establishing his own practice, he worked in India with Prof. Balkrishna Doshi and Rajeev Kathpalia and in Portugal with Alvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira. He studied architecture at IPSA, Rajkot.

Anand Vishwanathan He is an architect from New Delhi and a visiting faculty at CEPT and NID, Ahmedabad. His interests lie in Signage Design and Visual Communication and Graphic Design. Origami has been his passion since childhood and for the last few years he has been sharing the art by conducting workshops. He has worked for many projects pan-India through his firm Beyond Space.

Anjali Jain She is a practicing architect and landscape architect and the principal of “SharedGround”, based in Ahmedabad. As part of the practice, she has worked on landscape projects across scales and geographies. Apart from practice, her academic interests include methods of representation, history, and theory critical to landscape architecture. Apart from studio, she has taught courses on both in previous years.

Anuj Anjaria He completed his bachelor’s in Interior Design from CEPT. He runs his own firm 7662 Design Workshop which specializes in installations and sculptures involving kinetic movements. He has been a visiting faculty at FD CEPT, teaching courses like Furniture Design, Material Workshop, Construction and Technology, etc. He is also a professional Indian Classical Musician and plays the Santoor.

Arpi Maheshwari She is a practicing architect in Ahmedabad, and the founder of AlignDL. She graduated from MSU, Baroda and has a master’s degree in Emergent technologies and Design from Architectural Association, London. She has been teaching for the last 3.5 years at different institutes and universities in the field of parametric and generative design techniques.

Ashna Patel She is an architect practicing as a senior architect and partner at Fifth Column, a Vadodarabased design studio. She completed her graduation from CEPT and holds a master’s degree in International Architectural Regeneration and Development from Oxford Brookes University. She has taught design studios and Architectural History and Theory courses at Navrachana University and MSU, Vadodara.

Bhargav Adhvaryu He is an urban and transport planner and a modeler trained at Imperial College London, UCL, and Cambridge University. His research domains are sustainable cities and transport, which entails building mathematical models of cities and public transport accessibility measurement and mapping tools, focused on enhancing the plan-making process and planning policy. He has been a Fulbright Visiting Professor at UCLA (2012) and a British Chevening Scholar (2002-03).

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Bhargav Tewar He graduated with B.E. (Civil) from M. S. University, Baroda in 2006 and accomplished his post graduate degree in Geotechnical Engineering discipline in 2009 from the same university.

He joined CEPT in 2009 as an assistant professor after gaining some field experience in the construction and execution of industrial buildings, residential buildings, and power projects.

Brijesh Bhatha He is an architect and urban designer practicing since 1998. He founded Groundwork Architecture in 2010. He has an undergraduate degree in Architecture from CEPT and a master’s degree in Urban Design from UC Berkeley. He has taught design studios at CEPT since 2012 and is currently the program chair for the Master of Urban Design.

Catherine Desai She is an architect from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Her work encompasses both research and practice in Australia, UK, and India. She has recently co-authored The Architecture of Hasmukh C. Patel and is completing a reading guide to Twentieth Century Indian buildings. Both publications develop a historical methodology which views the building as a primary resource through which broader narratives of architectural history can be critiqued and expanded.

Chandrani Chakrabarti Shei is landscape architect based in Ahmedabad, and a visiting faculty at CEPT and Nirma University, teaching theory and studio courses. She completed her master’s in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University in 2010, and Bachelor of Architecture from Jadavpur University, in 2006. As a senior associate, she worked with Jerde Partnership in Los Angeles (20102017) before starting on her own.

Chirag Doshi He is a designer based in Ahmedabad, with an interior design practice named Ego Designs, since 2007 which executes several interior projects of all types and scale. His projects have been featured in Ideal Home & Garden, Inside Outside, and Good Homes. He completed his bachelor’s from Sardar Patel University in 2004 and has a master’s degree in Design from Monash University, Melbourne in Visual Communication.

Claire Reuter She has been teaching at the interior design department at CEPT for 2 years and has completed her bachelor’s in Interior Architecture from Stuttgart and master’s in Interior Architecture and Crafts from CEPT. Before teaching at CEPT, Claire worked in London for over 2 years and at HCPIA Pvt. Ltd in Ahmedabad for 3 years. She earned on-site experience during the construction of charity homes in Bolivia, Senegal, and Slovenia.

Deepa Maheshwari She is an adjunct professor and program chair for master’s in Landscape Architecture. She did her PhD after master’s in Landscape Architecture from SPA Delhi (1990) and M.Sc. Botany from Delhi University (1988). She has been associated with the program since its inception in 1993. Her areas of expertise are Ecology, Environment, Botany, Planting Design, and Regional Landscape Planning.

Devanshi Doshi She graduated from APIED, Vallabh Vidyanagar, and has worked with multi¬disciplinary firms, like HCPDPM, INI Designs and M/s PBB, since then. She has worked on a variety of projects ranging from large urban scale riverfronts, master plans of universities like Shiv Nadar, JIO etc., to residential developments, commercial spaces, academic buildings and interiors of various categories.

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Dexter Pereira He is a self-employed architect and interior designer with over 28 years of experience in residential, commercial, retail projects, technical spaces and data center projects. He has over 25 years of teaching experience as a visiting faculty in various institutes like NID Ahmedabad and Anant National University. He is a graduate of APIED, Vallabh Vidyanagar.

Dhara Mittal She is a landscape architect, architect and research collaborator. She is interested in the study of water systems in urban areas. Dhara works at STUDIO 23N72E, Ahmedabad. She is a part of an interdisciplinary collaboration of stakeholders working for water systems in the city of Vadodara.

Dhara continues to collaborate with MAde studio Ann Arbor and LEAF on some of their research undertakings.

Dhaval Gajjar He is a graduate from the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT. He has been working in the field of architecture and landscape design for more than 13 years. As part of his practice, he has worked and collaborated with many design practices and consultants from India and overseas. He has been involved in projects of various scales and typologies.

Dilip Patel He is one of the founding members at Aakruti, and an alumnus of the School of Architecture, Ahmedabad. He has been involved in design for projects of varying scales starting from low cost housing to private residences, institutions, industries, exhibitions, and interior design for retail, corporate, and residential sector. He has also been a regular visiting faculty at CEPT and has been offering his services as a campus architect to CEPT since 2012.

Divya Shah She is an academician and landscape architect and is associated with the landscape program at CEPT since 2010. Her interest consists of evolving methods to read and interpret landscape processes, which implies a collective understanding of landscapes as indigenous - physical and cultural systems. She holds a B.Arch. from Kerala University and master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from CEPT. Errol Reubens Jr. He did his M.Arch (University of Lincoln UK) in 2006 and B.Arch (CEPT) in 2004. He founded ERA a firm that loves collaborating with different disciplines primarily in experimental, and sustainable architecture, graphic arts etc. He believes in an approach that combines theory and art with practice without sacrificing functionality. Hus other interests include history, theory, psychology, sustainability, form/distortion, and identity.

Gaurang Shah He graduated from the NID in 1983, in product design. Has over a decade of work experience in the research and development department of some leading industries and has worked with NID as head of the Product Design Department. He has done an advanced level course in Product Planning and Design from Germany and worked for Proform Design in Winnenden, Germany. He has set up courses in Automobile and Transportation Design at NID, Ahmedabad and at MIT ID, Pune.

Gauri Bharat She has developed construction history as a personal research area in the past 3 years. Her earlier research on adivasi history initiated this interest where she explored the making and physical transformation of domestic architecture as an archive of the community’s history. She is currently working on a research project funded by the Graham Foundation on the rise and spread of reinforced concrete construction between 1920 and 1950.

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Gayatri Doctor She is an associate professor at the Faculty of Management. She has experience in the IT Industry and has been in academics for the past 2 decades. She is currently engaged in the field of Urban Management from a technology perspective. Her interests include exploring various emerging technologies, their applications in the urban context, user acceptance, challenges; Smart Cities; E-Governance; Enterprise Resource Planning etc.

Hinal Mazumdar She is a multifaceted designer working between research and practice. She studied Interior Design from the faculty of design at CEPT. She has worked with Busride design studios in Mumbai and Goa. Her design inquiries evolve out of poetry and beautiful renditions of interior spaces through elaborate watercolor drawings.

Imran Mansuri He has over 14 years of multidisciplinary academic and professional work experience in India and the USA in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and historic preservation. He has graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT and holds a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture with specialization in historic preservation from the University of New Mexico, USA. Jagrut Patel He, believes in designing spaces that engage experiences. A strategic thinker with a passion for innovation, always ready with a solution, be it any resource crunch, or an on-site glitch, or ‘e-Architecting’ design processes. He heads Jagrut & Partners, a team thriving on collaboration, cross-pollination of ideas, solutions and expertise, creating 200+ products that go beyond style.

Jagrut Raval He is an artist, designer and educator. His interdisciplinary art practice spans diverse mediums in various scales presented in form of installations, drawings, videos, photographic printing techniques and appropriation of mass-produced items and text. He graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, USA, and a Bachelor of Interior Design from CEPT. Janki Contractor She is a practicing architect at CraftsPOD Design Studio where she heads the studio in a range of residential and commercial interior design projects. She holds a master’s degree in Architecture from Glasgow School of Art and a bachelor’s degree from CEPT. Her experience has helped her develop design from part details to whole; thus, developing Interior design, architecture and housing, as her forte.

Japan Shah He is a structural designer from Ahmedabad. His interests lie in designing high rise structures, industries. Apart from being a visiting faculty at CEPT, Indus and SAL, he has worked for many projects pan-India through his firm Japan Shah Consulting Engineers.

Jay Thakkar He is an associate professor at Faculty of Design, and Director and Founder of Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC) at CEPT. He has worked on various design, craft, and research projects in India, Europe, and Australia. Notable publications co-authored by him are Sahaj, Matra, Prathaa and he has authored Naqsh.

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Jayant Gunjaria He is an architect and academician. A graduate of M. S. University, he has worked and led design and technical teams at HCPDPM for over 5 decades. He has also been contributing to academia as a visiting professor and juror at various institutes. His eye for detail and meticulous crafting of building plans has helped shape the culture of design and exceptional drawings at HCPDPM. Jigna Desai She is an associate professor and is Program Chair for masters in Conservation and Regeneration at the Faculty of Architecture and Executive Director of Center for Heritage Conservation, CEPT Research and Development Foundation. She is also a director of a small, award-winning practiceJMA Design Co that she co-founded with Mehul Bhatt in 1999.

Jignesh Mehta He is an adjunct associate professor and area chair for Master of Urban Planning at CEPT. With more than 20 years of international professional experience in the fields of Urban Planning and Urban Design in India and the USA, he has worked on award winning projects. He holds Master of Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA and a degree in Architecture from CEPT. Jinal Shah She has a master’s in Interior Architecture specializing in Computational Design. She completed her undergraduate studies from KRVIA and postgraduate from CEPT where she completed a semester in Germany. She has worked on various interior and architecture projects and currently is involved in understanding the application of generative design within the domain of interior architecture.

Jinto George He is an architect/urban designer with international experience. He pursued his Architecture from MEASI, Chennai and went on to do his master’s in Urban Design from Oxford Brookes University, Oxford. Over the years, working in Ahmedabad, Chennai and Oxford he has dealt with projects involving architecture, conservation and master planning, and has been teaching studios at CEPT. Juzar Lanewala He studied architecture at CEPT. He has been practicing in the field for over a decade now and has occasionally conducted Experimental studios and Theatre electives at CEPT and IPSA Rajkot.

He has also been studying philosophy, history and literature. As an architect, he believes in experimentation and innovation. Problems inspire him to find appropriate solutions.

Kaulav Bhagat He is an interior and furniture designer; an alumnus of CEPT and NID. He is currently a program chair of master’s in Furniture Design. He has 14 years of work experience in the field of retail Interiors and Furniture Design. He loves to experiment with materials and making techniques. He believes in design processes for developing creative ideas.

Kireet Patel He has been a fellow at the Institute for Light-Weight Structures, IL Frie Otto at Stuttgart, Germany and has initiated the knowledge of tensile architecture into number of academic activities at CEPT. He received a scholarship from Asian Cultural Council- New York to visit different architectural departments, universities and design-craft studios of different artists and museums across the United States. He has worked as Chief Designer for National Cultural Festival New Delhi, 1986 and has worked on several architecture and interior projects by establishing his own practice.

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Komal Parikh She is involved in soil testing and investigations for road-related and other types of projects.

She has taught surveying related courses for more than 10 years at CEPT. She is an expert in 3D mapping of structures for the Faculty of Architecture.

Krunal Patel He is a graduate from Faculty of Architecture, CEPT. He is a partner at Studio 04 Architects, a decade old practice with multi-scalar projects in architecture and interior design. He has a keen interest in the synergy between architectural expression, design detailing and structural systems.

Kruti Shah A graduate from Academy of Architecture, Mumbai, she has completed the Master of Architecture program at CEPT , within the architectural design specialization. Currently, she is a studio tutor at CEPT. She has co-founded a design-research collaborative ‘Chaal.Chaal.Agency’ as a way to expand pedagogy into practice in the Indian/Colombian contexts, while collaborating with other organizations in that deal with infrastructure, urbanism and architecture.

Kuber Patel He graduated from architectural association school of architecture in emergent technologies and design. Ar. Kuber Patel now focuses on performance-oriented design where humanity can benefit from scientifically designed built environment. He strongly believes that architecture should be for serving a sustainable relationship between mankind and the natural environment.

Mariana Paisana She has an undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Lisbon, and a master’s in Urban Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design. Mariana worked in India, USA and Portugal focusing on projects of urban rehabilitation and public space requalification.

Meghal Arya Teaching architectural design and history since 2000, including in Madrid, Wien, and Milan she has a deep interest in the architectural design traditions of India and the relevance to the profession today. She curates training programs for teachers. Her firm Arya Architects, a niche award-winning practice, with Vijay Arya, engages with the design of public institutions in India as inclusive dignified realms.

Mehrnaz Amiraslani She is an architect/urban designer. After completing architecture studies in Iran, she graduated in Urban Design at University of Toronto, Canada. With an interest in socially responsive design, her research and practice has focused on inclusion of citizens in process of designing and making cities. She has over 10 years of experience in practice and academics in India, Iran, and Canada.

Mehul Bhatt A practicing architect since 1996, has extensively worked on projects of varied scales, sizes, and complexities. He believes design is a function of place and its people and strives towards achieving a qualitative belonging of the users, a sense of place, in his architecture. A graduate of School of Architecture, CEPT, he is director and principal architect at JMA Design Co., Ahmedabad.

Melissa Smith She is an architect and urban planner based in Ahmedabad, and co-founder of BandukSmith Studio, an architecture, urban design, and research practice. She also chairs the BUD program at CEPT. Her research interests generally follow how inhabitants tend to restructure their built environments over time, with a focus on how this knowledge can better inform design processes for public space.

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Mihir Bedekar He has finished his graduation in Architecture from CEPT. He is a practicing architect, with 7 years of professional experience in conservation, residential, and interior projects. He has also been attached to different educational institutions and conducted many workshops over past 7 years.

Mili Amin She is an architect and interior designer with over 17 years of professional experience. She completed her bachelor’s in Architecture at Woodbury University, Los Angeles, USA. She also worked in Los Angeles, USA for 7 years to gain experience with renowned architectural firms.

She is an associate and the design director of the HCPIA studio. Her global work experience has allowed her to establish higher professional standards via various design processes.

Milind Patel He is an architect and landscape architect, heading a practice ‘IORA studio’ based in Ahmedabad since 2005. He has worked on a range of projects involving residences, institutions, housing schemes and urban landscapes. He is a graduate of the School of Architecture, CEPT and has a master’s degree in landscape architecture from University of Greenwich, London.

Mohammed Ayazkhan Pathan He is an architect graduated from School of Architecture, CEPT. After graduating in the year 2002, he has been actively involved in the field of architectural practice, as well as academics. Since January 2018, he has been teaching as an assistant professor at CEPT with interests in areas such as architectural detailing, tectonics, housing, and urban design.

Moksh Thapar He is an industrial designer trained at NID and CEPT. He has developed products and processes for fusion of traditional wisdom and technology; worked on interior projects of varied user profiles and scales from conception to execution and has also worked for a brief time with leading art directors of film industries on film sets to research the role of visual perception in set design.

Mrudula Mane She is an architect from Mumbai and has pursed MA in Conservation of Historic Buildings from University of York, UK. She has been actively involved in documentation, research, survey and conservation projects for Government and Non-Government agencies in Mumbai, Matheran, Pune and Ratnagiri region since 2013. Presently, she is also working as research associate with the Center for Heritage Conservation at CRDF. Mudra Shah She is a Graduate of CEPT. After graduation she worked with Ar. Yatin Pandya for over 5 years.

She has also been teaching Housing, Urban Insert and Working Drawings for past 3 years at Navrachna University and CEPT. She heads her own firm named The Design Umbrella wherein they undertake Architecture and Interior Design Projects.

Muntaha Rushnaiwala He completed his bachelor’s in Architecture from CEPT. He spent 6 months under the guidance of Renzo Piano at RPBW, Italy. He worked as a design associate at the National Institute of Design for 4 years majorly dealing with space planning, extensions and renovations. Currently, he is a visiting faculty at NID and also parallelly runs a design practice named Rushnaiwala Architects.

Naandi Parekh She has an experience of working in retail store design for over 14 years. She has been heading the store design team for various brands overseas. She is an adjunct faculty at Faculty of Design, CEPT. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Interior Design from APIED, followed by a graduate diploma from University of Technology, Sydney and Master of Interior Design from the University of Hertfordshire, UK. 521

Narendra Mangwani He is an academician, researcher and practicing architect and urban designer with his firm URBSCAPES, Ahmedabad along with his wife who is a landscape architect. He has been involved with master planning, urban design, housing, landscape, architecture, as well as community projects. He teaches urban design at Faculty of Planning and Faculty of Architecture at CEPT. Neeru Bansal She has over 24 years of experience spread across academics, working in regulatory body and in research. She is a civil engineer and urban planner with a doctorate on Industrial Development and Water Pollution in Gujarat. Her interest areas mainly include fields associated with Environmental Planning and Infrastructure Planning with a focus on Environmental Laws and Policy, Environmental Governance, EIA, Sustainable Development, Renewable Energy and Urban and Industrial Infrastructure.

Nikita Bhakuni She is working as an associate professor with a background in Environmental Planning with a PhD from CEPT. She has over 18 years of work experience in India and the United Kingdom. Her expertise lies in database development, land use transport integration, and equity issues for a wide range of transportation projects undertaken at CoE-UT, CEPT. Nikunj Dave He has a master’s degree from NC State University. He is the accomplished founder of Aarya Precast India and Swaneer Innovations Pvt. Ltd. His research on Fiber reinforced concrete has led him to widen the scope of product development and deliver the same to the market. He is associated with CEPT through summer schools on precast concrete products and other institutions like Nirma University and NID. Nishant Mittal He is an urban designer, architect and research collaborator. His research interests are focused on geospatial representation, narrative and critical cartography. Nishant works at STUDIO 23N72E. He is a part of the team working on a planting design-based research for the LEAF Fellowship. He continues to collaborates with MAde studio, Ann Arbor.

Niyati Patel She is an interior designer who owns Niyati Design Studio. Apart from residential, industrial and hospital interiors, she also specializes in designing and conceptualizing large scale exhibition projects like Vibrant Gujarat, Engimac, Chalo Gujarat. With an area of interest in aerodynamics and mechanics - she designs 3D Kites - Kinetic mobile endowing them with greater artistic values.

She has received the First Prize in Special Category at the International Kite Flying Festival in 2010.

She is a graduate of the Faculty of Design from CEPT. Paresh Vyas He was in the thick of urban management throughout his career spanning 22 years as a Dy. Municipal Commissioner with Rajkot Municipal Corporation. With the actual grass root level experience, he deals with the day to day kaleidoscopic managerial problems of all kinds of the city dwellers. An O&M specialist, his focus area is around the most basic activities like Health, Sanitation and the Solid Waste Management, and the related GoI flagship programs of SBM, NUHM, NULM. Piyas Choudhuri He is an architect and urban designer based in Ahmedabad. He holds a B.Arch from Jamia Millia Islamia University and an M.Arch in Urban Design from CEPT. He has been working as an Architect with Vastu Shilpa Consultants for the last decade. He is involved in some of the prestigious projects in the country like Nalanda University and Earthquake Memorial.

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Pranav Raiji He studied architecture at CEPT and runs an architecture, interior and landscape design practice as the principal architect of the firm, raiji.in. He also serves as a design tutor at CEPT, and design and research critic at multiple design institutes. His primary interest in academia is the interaction between natural environments and human institutions and their impacts on design interventions.

Prashanth Narayanan He is an urban planner and was previously employed with CRDF as a research associate. As part of the project he has coauthored the MOHUA (central ministry) handbook “Local Area Plan for Transit”. Apart from this, he was also research-design associate for the book “HRIDAY reflections” a collaboration between CEPT and ICOMOS. His interest lies in the intersection of urban planning and law.

Pratik Soni He is a practicing architect and an academic. He graduated from Faculty of Architecture, CEPT. He is a principal architect of U Design Studio. His area of Interest is landscape settlement, institutional, housing and facade design.

Pratyush Shankar He is a practicing architect and an academic. He is an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT and visiting professor at the Mundus Urbano Program at Architecture Faculty, TU Darmstadt, Germany. He was Senior Humboldt Fellow at University of Bonn 2015¬-17. He is presently writing a book on the History of Urban Form in India (Oxford University Press).

Priyal Shah She is a practicing landscape architect. Prior to setting up her own practice, she worked with M/s.

Prabhakar B. Bhagwat and SAA Synergies. She is now the principal at the landscape architecture unit of the firm Studio 603, Ahmedabad. She is associated academically as a visiting faculty with some universities in Ahmedabad. Priyal’s work experience ranges from large scale master plans to small gardens.

Puneet Mehrotra He studied at CEPT. He has been practicing since 2006 and is the founding partner of XPDS architects, with a focus on innovative designs rooted in the climate and context of a place. Along with the practice, he also has more than 10 years of teaching experience. He is deeply interested in the architectural and artistic traditions and the cultural history of the Indian sub-continent.

Purvi Bhatt She has over 20 years of professional experience as an architect, urban designer, and educator.

She has professional experience in designing institutes, housing, and various urban and master planning projects. She currently partners an architecture design firm ‘AVN Architecture’. Since 2007, she has been teaching UG and PG programs in architecture and urban design at CEPT. Rachit Sheth He is a practicing structural engineer with more than 8 years of professional experience in designing infrastructure, residential, commercial, industrial and technological structures. He is a graduate of Nirma University and an alumni of Birla Institute of Technology and Science (B.I.T.S.), Pilani for post-graduate program.

Radhika Amin She is an architect with undergraduate studies from CEPT and a Masters from Architectural Association, London (Emergent Technologies and Design); She has worked for 2 years in public institutions and transport infrastructure and is currently involved in using generative techniques as a tool for performance-based design, at the scale of both material systems as well as city systems.

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Rajan Bhatt He graduated from IPSA Rajkot in 2005 and runs his own architectural practice in partnership. He has worked extensively on projects of varied nature and has also been involved in academics since 2016. He has a keen interest in understanding and exploring the processes involved in the evolution of a definitive architectural language/expression.

Rajiv Kadam He is an associate professor at Faculty of Planning in CEPT. He completed his post-graduation in 1991 from FA, CEPT and is engaged in teaching studios, Humanizing Cities course, Urban Design Theory and guiding thesis in architecture and urban design. His major emphasis and interest is to develop an in depth understanding of nature, human aspects and urban ecology as the basis to design of built environment.

Ramesh Patel He is an architect and urban planner; keen at exploring material and detailing. He has worked with Matharoo Associates for 5 years and is running his own practice RPA, since 2009. He has worked on various residential, institutional, industrial, and interior projects and has 10 years of academic experience. He is a graduate of APIED, V V Nagar and holds an M.Tech in Urban and Regional Planning from CEPT. Ratin Ghoghari He has a B.Arch from CEPT (1989) and a B.Sc in physics (1981). His undergraduate thesis document was published as a book by CEPT in 1990. He has worked at Stien Doshi and Bhalla 1990-1993 and has been practicing under RATHIN GOGHARI ARCHITECTS, Ahmedabad since 1993. His practice deals with, Schools, Offices, Industry, Clinics, Residences, farm houses and Interior projects. He has also been teaching design at FA, FD, CEPT since 2000.

Ratna Shah She studied at the School of Architecture, CEPT (1990). She has worked on projects ranging from architecture, urban design, interior design, research as well as lately as an academician.

Combining and constructing for a nuanced spatial experience, thematically developing using various collaborative mediums as well as attention to behavior of the detail, themes and narratives, art and space, have been subjects of interest.

Rebecca Reubens She was trained as a furniture designer at NID Ahmedabad and completed her PhD at Delft University at the intersection of design, sustainability, and craft. She practices through her sustainability design studio Rhizome which works extensively with bamboo. Rebecca is a World Bamboo Ambassador for the World Bamboo Organization. She remains linked to academia through her teaching and writing.

Rishav Jain He is an assistant professor¬ and program chair (M.Des ID; IMIAD) at the Faculty of Design and a research expert with DICRC, CEPT University. He is passionate about crafts in interior architecture and design research. He has curated and designed exhibitions, publications and conducted various design workshops. His research explores the idea of craft beyond traditions and objects, dwelling into an exploration of the contemporary perspective on Crafts in India.

Ruchi Mehta She is the principal designer at ‘HuE Design Studio’, Ahmedabad with a cumulative work experience of 18 years in India and USA. She is keenly interested in topics related to brand building and retail store design as well as heritage conservation and adaptive re-use works.

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Rudrapalsinh Solanki He works as a computational designer and specializes in generative design, digital fabrication, and robotic fabrication and assembly. His area of interest is in research and development, on timber and metal structures fabricated using computational and digital tools. He is a graduate in Interior Design from CEPT and holds a master’s degree in Parametric Design in Architecture from the UPC, Barcelona, Spain.

Rutool Sharma She is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Planning, CEPT. She has over 16 years of experience in research, teaching, and consultancy. She is involved in teaching subjects like planning legislations, urban land management and housing project studio. Her primary areas of interest include inter-disciplinary aspects related to policies, governance, equity, and environment.

Sachin Soni He is an associate professor at CEPT and has been teaching Architecture and Urban Design studios, History and Theory of Architecture and Visual studies. He is interested in architectural/ design language and alternative paradigms for inclusive urban spaces. He is a graduate from Faculty of Architecture, CEPT and holds a master’s degree in City Design and Social Science, from LSE, United Kingdom.

Sadasivan Iyer He specializes in mentoring design education with a focus on product design and related domains such as technical education, vocational training and management, design education and management. He has over 40 years of Industrial experience in R&D, tool rooms, design and manufacturing of electronics products, packaging and teaching experiences in (NID,IGTR NIFT, NTTF) while also managing and counselling the training of trainers in technical and vocational education.

Sagar Modh He is teaching at the Faculty of Design, CEPT. He has worked in the industry and with the professional sector of the design field. He has collaborated with NID, Elephant Design, Pune and SWATCH NGO, designing interiors and products. He has a bachelor’s degree in Interior Design from APIED VV Nagar, Gujarat and a master’s degree in Industrial Design from MITID Pune.

Sagar Trivedi He has a B.Arch from CEPT (2014). He has been working at Neelkanth Chhaya Architects since 2014. He also has an individual architectural practice in partnership. He has been a teaching associate and co tutor at CEPT since 2017.

Sahiba Gulati She is an architect and academician. She holds a degree in Master of Architecture from CEPT. Her area of interest is the study of gender in public space. Her most recent research project analyzes women’s access to public transport systems in the city. Sahiba has also worked with architecture magazines as content writer and editor.

Samir Bhatt He has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design from NID and has been teaching at NID and CEPT as visiting faculty since 2008. He has taught at the Faculty of Design for furniture design studios (1992-2007). He owns a design and manufacturing furniture studio. He has worked with Sarabhai electronics research center for 2 years, with Calico textile mills for retail shop furniture, and with HCP for 1.5 years (1975-1982).

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Sandip Patil He is a landscape architect who balances his professional work along with academic explorations at the postgraduate landscape program of CEPT. He has presented his work extensively at various forums and institutes. As an academician, his interest lies in landscape planning, programmatic inquiries, water management and relationship of landscape to the human psyche.

Saswat Bandyopadhyay He is a professor at CEPT and has over 23 years of experience in the Urban Development sector with a focus on planning and prioritization of city infrastructure elements. He has a post graduate degree in Planning, professional master’s in urban infrastructure and his doctoral research focused on climate change and urban resilience.

Sejal Patel She is Dean, CSP, Head, CEPT International Office and Chair, Master of Urban Housing Program.

She has engaged in academics, professional practice and research in areas of housing policy and projects, urban planning and legislations, urban regeneration and gentrification policies, and participatory urban governance. As Head of International Office, she has steered academic and research collaborations with institutions of excellence in many countries in various disciplines of Human Habitat studies.

Shailesh Manke He is an interior designer trained from CEPT. He has his own design practice and has been working on various multidisciplinary projects from interior design to experiential design, exhibitions to space graphics. He was associated with NID, Ahmedabad as a faculty and coordinator Furniture and Interior Design for more than 7 years. He is also a visiting faculty at CEPT and NID. Shalini Sinha She is an associate professor at the Faculty of Planning and a transport planner. She has 20 years of work experience in India and the United Kingdom and has been involved in the areas of transport policy and public transport planning and operations. She has a master’s degree from the University of Leeds and a PhD from CEPT. Shikha Parmar Her firm Achyutam designs, encompasses various architectural and interior projects which are approached sensitively with user experience as the core. She is inclined towards research and has been associated as an academician for the last 6 years. Graduated from Faculty of Architecture, CEPT, she believes that the collaboration of conceptual and practical is essential to celebrate the process of designing healthy built environments.

Shweta Jain She is an interior designer and aesthete with an experience of 13 years. She graduated in the year 2006 from Rachana Sansad School of Design and specializes on both residential and commercial.

She also completed a few projects for AIR BNB in 2018 in Mumbai. Currently, she is also working on an experience center for travelers in Karjat. She has completed various other interior projects in Mumbai and Ahmedabad.

Sonal Mithal She holds a doctoral degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a master’s degree from SPA Delhi, and a bachelor’s degree from Lucknow University. In her conservation and artistic practice at People for Heritage Concern, she combines material and archival research. Her artwork has been presented at curated exhibitions in India, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Taiwan, and USA—most recently at the Venice Biennale 2019.

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Suraj Kathe He is the Principal architect at ‘AURORA BOREALIS – ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO’. He has worked with Ar. Dolf Schnebli, Ar. Christopher Benninger and Ar. Sen Kapadia. His work has contributed to the completion of a LEED Platinum rated Green Building in India. He is a graduate of Faculty of Architecture, CEPT. He has won a national award for his work in stone.

Tapan Betai Starting his journey from being an Engineer to Maker, Maker to Entrepreneur, today Tapan runs a start-up based in Ahmedabad; focusing on diverse products and projects which covers ‘making of (almost) anything’. Tapan’s primary research focuses on the role of the maker ecosystem to develop self-efficacy and mindsets of youth of India for the 4th Industrial revolution.

Tapan Shah He is an architect and urbanist and founder of Ahmedabad based “Studionine Architects.” He studied Architecture from Gujarat University, graduated in 2010 with Honors and holds an M.Arch in Urban Design from CEPT. He also holds a post-graduate diploma focused on City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning from the University of Cergy-Pontoise Paris, France.

Tulika Nabar Bhasin She is an architect and urban designer. She previously worked in Mumbai where she explored different scales of projects. She worked closely on The Light Box project which sparked her interest in urban design. Being an avid traveler, she believes that the cities today are becoming more generic and urban design is the tool to redefine a city’s character and placemaking defines the way people react and function.

Tushar Bose He did his master’s in environment planning from CEPT after graduating in Environment Engineering from L.D. College of Engineering. He has worked on sectors of urban sanitation, EIA, capacity building of Urban Local Bodies with national and international development agencies.

His areas of interest are urban environment, water and sanitation and impact assessment.

Umesh Shrupali He holds a master’s degree in Urban Design from CEPT and has experience of over 20 years with several consultancies including urban design and its employment in PPP projects. Prior to recently cofounding an award-winning practice, he has led the urban design division and has served as an advisor at India’s first international financial services center.

Vasav Bhatt He is an architect with 20 years of work experience in architecture as well as interior design. He believes in perfection with timely delivery of work. He has worked with architects A D Raje and B V Doshi. His interior projects include residences, offices, hospital, radio stations, and cricket stadium.

He has been teaching for 5 years at various architecture colleges.

Vicky Achnani He is an architect interested in developing acoustically sensitive architecture; he often conducts hands-on workshops. He is a co-founder of Clayclub Innovations Pvt.Ltd. Ahmedabad and has previously worked at Bhanwar Rathore Design Studio and S.E.D.A. Navrachana University, Vadodara. He is an architecture graduate of CEPT. Vijay Patel He is an architect and urban designer based in Ahmedabad. He holds a B.Arch from Gujarat University and an M.Arch in Urban design form CEPT. He has been practicing as an architect for the last 12 years and has considerable experience with the design of large scale educational institutes, civic buildings, area development, TOD Planning and individual residences.

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Vipuja Parmar She is an urban designer and has been a partner at Urban Architectural Collaborative, since 2016. She has over 10 years of experience working on urban design projects in Ahmedabad and Mumbai. She has been teaching as visiting faculty at CEPT and Indubhai Parekh School of Architecture, Rajkot since 2015. She has a master’s degree in Architecture and Urban Design from CEPT. Viral Bhavsar He is an architect, planner and academician who has been practicing and teaching for about 10 Years. A graduate of M. S. University, he has worked and led design teams at MEGPL for 4 years. Currently he is a principle architect at Forme’45 design studio and a visiting faculty at IAPNU, Ahmedabad. His keen interests are future of urban living, architectural history and design detailing.

Vishal Joshi He is an architect and project manager with over 19 years of cumulative professional and academic experience pan India and Gulf countries. He brings in knowledge of extensive on-site experience gained during his association with multiple design practices. He has over 7 years of academic experience and runs his own practice. He is a graduate of APIED, V V Nagar and holds a PGPIDM degree from NICMAR, Pune.

Vishal Wadhwani He has a master’s in Membrane Structures from Anhalt University, Germany. He has previously worked with Kakani Associates, Industrial Design Centre, IITB, Mumbai and owns Idea Factor.

He specializes in tensile structures, folding systems, tensegrity structures, platonic geometry, portable structures and lightweight structures. He is a CEPT graduate in Interior Design.

Vishnu Kolleri He is an architect and co- founder of CLAY CLUB Innovations Pvt. Ltd. He specializes in ceramics.

He is a CEPT graduate. He endeavors to combine craft with modern technology to come up with good designs. Combining his passion with profession increases his sensibilities towards materials and details, and this always inspires his designs. For him, art and architecture are proof of the existence of any civilization.

Vishwanath Kashikar He is a tenured associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture. Urban housing and architectural education are his main interests. The design studio forms the intersection of these two interests, resulting in experiments in studio structure and explorations in housing design. He holds a diploma in architecture from CEPT and a master’s by research degree from the NUS, Singapore.

Vrushank Vyas He is an industrial designer and a mechanical engineer with 8 years of experience helping companies in medical, consumer electronics, machine enclosures, and consumer goods sector.

He holds multiple patents in the Industrial IoT technology. After finishing M.Des in Product Design from MIT Institute of Design in 2013, he started a product design studio - Cosire. In 2017, he started a product company - Oizom, which focuses on solving climate change issues.

Yatin Pandya He is an architect, author and researcher who has been practicing and teaching for over 3 decades. A graduate of CEPT, he holds an M.Arch from McGill University, Canada. He has been involved with city planning, urban design, mass housing, conservation projects and interior design.

His books “Concepts of space”, and “Elements of space making” have won prestigious awards.

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Editor Profiles Tridip Suhrud He is the Provost of CEPT University. He has been the Director of CEPT Archives for the past 2 years. Prior to this, he served as the Director of Sabarmati Ashram for 5 years. As an academic he has worked with DAIICT (Gandhinagar), NID, CSDS (New Delhi), and, St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad. He is a scholar of Life and Thought of Mahatma Gandhi and has published many books. He is a member of the Gandhi Heritage Sites Mission of the Government of India. He is also a member of the governing board of MICA since 2015. He holds a doctorate in political science along with master’s degrees in economics and political science.

Chirayu Bhatt He is the Deputy Provost–Academics, CEPT University. He has been leading the academic initiatives across all programs of the university and played a pivotal role in steering academic activities during the COVID-19. As an architect-urban planner, he has been working at the confluence of urban planning, urban design, public policy and more recently, education, for over 15 years. He holds a master’s in urban planning from Georgia Tech and a bachelor’s in architecture from CEPT. Anjali Kadam Anjali Kadam is an architect and urban conservationist and Head, Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) at CEPT University. TLC was set up to inspire, support and strengthen new directions in pedagogy and learning at CEPT. Her work in historic cities, feeds into her research and academic experience of over 20 years. She holds bachelor’s in architecture from M.I.T.S Gwalior and master’s in architectural conservation from SPA, Delhi and is currently, pursuing her PhD in Architecture from CEPT University.

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Copyrights Page © L2, L3, L4 Studio Units Catalog – Spring 2020 Teaching and Learning Center, CEPT University Editors: Tridip Suhrud Chirayu Bhatt Anjali Kadam Copy Editor: Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Editorial Coordination & Layout: Bhuvaneshwari S. Devna Vyas Ishaq Faheem Hemanshu Dodiya Cover Design by: Hemanshu Dodiya Published by: CEPT University Press Kasturbhai Lalbhai Campus University Road, Navrangpura Ahmedabad-380009 Gujarat India ISBN: 978-93-83184-33-0 Copyright © 2019 CEPT University Press Individual contributions are copyright of respective authors.

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