Chetasvi Patel Portfolio by Chetasvi Patel

PORTFOLIO Chetasvi Patel Selected Works|2020 - 2023 School of Environment and Architecture

Chetasvi Patel

+91 9004769271

a20chetasvi@sea.edu.in

chetasvipatel21@gmail.com

I am an undergraduate student, currently studying in the 4th year of Architecture. I like meeting new people and exploring new places and food. I have always been curious about understanding and crafting spaces and learning about its history . I have a keen interest in looking into the details of the design and how these small details affect the experience of the space.

Skills

3D Modelling | Sketchup | Rhino

Rendering | Enscape | Adobe Photoshop | Adobe

Illustrator | Adobe Indesign

Website Design | Google Sites | Wix

Drafting | Autocad

Others | MS Office

Soft Skills | Team Work | Leadership | Organisation

Skills | Travel Management

Education

2006 - 12 Thakur Public School

2012 - 18 St. Francis (ICSE) School

2018 - 20 Mithibai College

From 2020 School of Environment and Architecture

Workshops

2021

Space Syntax BY FREYAAN ANKLESARIA

Useful and Unuseful Objects BY MILIND MAHALE

2022

Drawing Ecology BY DINESH BARAP

The Self and the Structure BY DIPTI BHAINDARKAR

Living in a Metaphor BY ANUJ DAGA

What the Folly! BY LORENZO FERNANDEZ

2023

Walking Mumbai BY ALISHA SADIKOT

Bodies, Cities, Ecologies BY ROHIT MUJUMDAR

Participatory Design and Material Exploration BY HUNNARSHALA

Collabarations

Pangna, Himachal Pradesh | Website

Kochi, Kerela | Website

The Self and the Structure | Website

Living in a metaphor | Website

Bodies, Cities, Ecologies | Postcards

Repairs and Retrofit | Manual Language

English | Hindi | Gujarati

Basic Marathi | Basic Sanskrit

| Dancing

Travelling | Painting

Interests Baking

Food Museum Ontologies and Genealogies Microclimatic Fortwall Environmental Flows Localisation Community Project Working Drawing Building making Repair and Retrofit Mass Inhabitation Typewalk Curation and Exhibition Design Street Vending Zones Participatory Design

Jeevan aur Jagah Documentation Claims of Water Understanding environmental rhythms and flows WORKSHOPS & INTERESTS The Self and The Structure What the Folly! Drawing Ecology Space Syntax Material Exploration Bodies, Cities and Ecologies Model Making Baking 01 03 05 07 11 13 15 17 19 21 23

PROJECTS

SETTLEMENT STUDIES

CONTENTS

FOOD MUSEUM

Sahakar Nagar, Wadala, Mumbai

SEMESTER 4

ONTOLOGIES AND GENEALOGIES

A museum is a space that is experienced by viewing. What would it mean to have a museum that explores all the senses and activates all the senses- visual, tactile, auditory, olfactory & gustatory? Why not include the sense of taste in the museum?

What will it be to make a museum of food?

What is it to create a space where different cultures can be united through food? How can culture come together through Food?

Design Intent: To create a space for people to share their stories and recipes, to provide information on the history and evolution of cultures through different food preferences and habits.

The museum acts as a gateway Sketchup; Photoshop Sketchup; Photoshop Photoshop Collage 1 Collage 2

Collage

gateway for the society and the staircase connect all the levels to reach to the garden terrace.

Photoshop ROOF PLAN; the terrace garden and seating spaces

MICROCLIMATIC FORTWALL

Moti Daman, Gujarat

SEMESTER 5

ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS

w/ Shreeraj Narawade

The promenade is a hard structure, very alien to the present landscape outside the Moti Daman Fort. Its harshness is more intensified by the scorching sun above causing extreme high temperatures, along with high speed, warm wind currents. Also, this space has no shade, whatsoever, from the glaring sun above. Therefore, the site has not been habitable for anyone, including humans and animals. Although, there are a few microenvironments, providing pockets of shade, softening the rigidness of the promenade, which in turn, merges with the landscape. The question is, how can more microenvironments be created using the same spatiality that the trees provide? How can it then cater to everyone, making it more interactive, and also, merge with the landscape?

Programme:

- Resting space for workers

- Leisure space for tourists

- Washrooms

- Vending spaces promoting work environment

- Viewing deck

Sketchup; Photoshop; Illustrator

The intervention tries to connect the harsh and rigid promenade to the more cooler and softer landscape inside the fort.

The different sizes of modules afford different activities like viewing decks, corridors, picnic spaces, rest sapces, etc.

The plants try to soften the hard promenade edge by acting like a pause.

modules

Courtyard Spaces between the

Viewing Deck Resting Spaces Corridors 04

SWELLING AND SHRINKING Cheetah Camp, Trombay, Mumbai SEMESTER 6 LOCALISATION

In order to open up the idea of the institution, the studio will observed local programmes that emerged for public activities in neighbourhoods within peri urban areas and their specific socio-spatial encrustations. Observations of the specific socio-spatial practices on the site was undertaken to get a nuanced description of its lived spatial detail. These observations and propositions formulated the context for architecture of the institution, programmatically as well as typologically. Questions of material systems and services, contextual relevance, environmental and ground processes, societal issues were used to craft and imagine spaces and built form. The course explored and expanded the notion of “detail” in architecture. Detail here was understood as a structural thought that was conceptualised at different scales.

The swelling and shrinking of use of space part of the day due to change in activities. are mapped between 8 AM and 5 PM.

Sketchup; Photoshop; Illustrator

The idea of a core building which is stationary with a dynamic periphery that can swell and shrink to accommodate activities. The services provided by the path lab, toilet, storage spaces in balwadi and staircases form the core while the seating spaces, the parking spaces and playing area becomes the part of the periphery which is expandable and contractable.

space during different activities. The activities PM.

GROUND FLOOR PLAN SECTION AA’ Section through the balwadi and the pathlab. Section through the nurse station and the toilet. SECTION BB’ Sketchup; Photoshop; Illustrator

04 WORKING DRAWINGS

Cheetah Camp, Trombay, Mumbai SEMESTER

6 BUILDING MAKING

This course continued the previous design to further articulate detailed development stages for the built form through technical resolution of structural systems, material performance and experience, threshold-enclosure details and process of construction. Further, it allowed to bridge the gap between the design from concept to actualization and generate a construction documentation set along with specifications, quantities, estimation and putting together different materials and their assemblies in a manner that is conceptually coherent with the overall idea of the building.

800 1900 1335 1120 1940 1280 3540 2180 1230 2300 1280 1995 BUILDING OFFSET DIMENSION CENTRE LINE DIMENSION OVERALL CENTRE LINE DIMENSION OVERALL UNFINISHED DIMENSION OVERALL FINISHED DIMENSION 2144 6990 3540 7475 1200 20900 21350 21368 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 12 745 2980 A B C BUILDING OFFSET DIMENSION CENTRE LINE DIMENSION OVERALL CENTRE LINE DIMENSION OVERALL UNFINISHED DIMENSION OVERALL FINISHED DIMENSION 2531 1507 BUILDING OFFSET DIMENSION CENTRE LINE DIMENSION OVERALL CENTRE LINE DIMENSION OVERALL UNFINISHED DIMENSION OVERALL FINISHED DIMENSION 745 2980 745 1868 1580 A B C B' DIALYSIS ROOM 3.6 X 3.1 M MEDICAL STORE 11.8 SQ. M. + 0.15 M + 0.30 M 0.60 0.45 0.30 W5 W5 W6 W7 2-shutter sliding glass window with aluminium frame 3-shutter sliding glass window with aluminium frame Kadappa Stone 600 x 600 mm, 600 x mm, 300x600 mm small ramp given access to wheelchair White Vitrified Tiles 600 x 600 mm wooden counter at 1000mm from floor attached with rolling shutter D1 D2 D1 D7 D7 D6 D1 W4 W4 Shahbad Tiles 300 x 600 mm Kotah Tiles 300x600 mm Anti- Skid Ceramic Tiles 300 x 300 mm Anti- Skid Ceramic Tiles 265 610 325 525 1105 525 3425 800 1270 1525 1500 3029 408 1000 1620 320 1218 340 185 1000 950 1000 175

07 AutoCAD

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 12 BUILDING OFFSET DIMENSION CENTRE LINE DIMENSION OVERALL CENTRE LINE DIMENSION OVERALL UNFINISHED DIMENSION OVERALL FINISHED DIMENSION 800 1900 1335 1120 1940 1280 3540 2180 1230 2300 1280 1995 7105 1375 6011 2218 1500 2527 482 20900 150 21350 21398 3430 4320 3030 2030 2155 3015 1990 D E F G H I J 23995 2980 3348 2572 23695 6618 3430 4320 3030 2030 2155 3015 1990 2830 4770 4742 2173 5325 23695 24013 23995 24031 4470 D E F G H I J B 5M WIDE ROAD A' + 0.75 M + 450.00 MM + 0.59 M + 0.15 M + 450.00 MM + 0.75 M + 0.60 M BALWADI 9.15 x 3.19 M NURSE STATION & STORE ROOM 3.27 X 4.65 M RECEPTION 30.1 SQ. M. X-RAY ROOM 12.33 SQ. M. SONOGRPHY ROOM 2.9 x 3.7 M CONSULTATION ROOM 2 13.7 SQ. M. CONSULTATION ROOM 1 4.0X 3.4 M MEN'S TOILET 6.97 X 5.51 M PARKING 2830 x 1300 MM 3.7 SQ. M. UP UP + 0.30 M Granite Pieces laid in mosaic 300 x 300 mm + 0.60 + 300.00 MM Kadappa Stone Tiles 600 x 600 mm, 600 x 300 mm, 300x600 mm 750.00 MM GARBAGE DUMP 6.6 x 2.2 M + 0.60 M White Vitrified Tiles 600 x 600 mm UP W1 W2 W2 W2 W2 W2 W4 W4 W4 W4 W4 W4 W4 W4 W4 W4 W4 W4 W4 W4 W5 W5 W6 W7 W7 + 0.30 M Anti- Skid Ceramic Tiles 300 x 300 mm WOMEN'S TOILET 7 M X 4.65 M 1-shutter window, timber frame with glass and fixed wooden louvers aluminium frame and glass louvers 1-shutter casement glass window with aluminium frame 2-shutter window, timber frame with glass and fixed wooden louvers 2-shutter window, timber frame with glass and fixed wooden louvers 5-shutter foldable door, timber frame with metal grill with cane curtains and fixed wooden louvers brick jali can be used as a shoe rack brick jali used as a partition Tiles 300 given for easy wheelchair White Vitrified Tiles 600 x 600 mm White Vitrified Tiles 600 x 600 mm White Vitrified Tiles 600 x 600 mm Anti- Skid Ceramic Tiles 300 x 300 mm White Ceramic Tile for walls 300 x 300 mm kadappa stone seating 2-shutter glass door with stainless steel fittings storage spaces created below RCC staircase raw concrete finish staircase RCC columns 300 x 300mm 50mm plywood partitions with waterproof laminates supported by stainless steel clamps to the floor wash basin counter with granite mounted on kadappa stone support steel staircase which allows parking spaces below it UP internal wall plaster 12mm external wall plaster 18mm dry waste wet waste recycling White Ceramic Tile 600 x 600 mm 5mm Thickness D1 D5 D4 D5 D6 D6 D6 D6 Shahbad Tiles 300 600 mm Shahabad Tiles 300 x 600 mm White Vitrified Tiles 600 x 600 mm UP 0.75 0.90 1.05 1.20 1.35 1.50 0.60 0.45 0.30 1.65 + 1.80 + 2.10 1.95 M 0.60 M + 0.75 + 0.90 + 1.05 + 1.20 + 1.35 + 1.50 + 0.60 + 1.65 + 1.80 + 2.10 + 1.95 0.60 M 0.45 M 0.30 M 0.15 M + 0.00 M + 0.30 M + 0.45 M + 0.45 M + 2.25 + 2.40 + 0.00 M 117 800 765 1200 790 800 142 237 610 185 2000 930 525 1105 1480 2500 3300 2375 1810 1105 270 3670 515 785 785 515 1270 300 430 725 300 700 300 700 300 700 300 700 300 700 300 555 325 300 3975 1200 1430 1380 1185 40 800 200 800 200 800 200 800 200 800 200 800 200 800 95 1765 1520 1000 560 290 105 1000 1800 2835 1000 670 730 2030 430 3880 3680 2495 505 1105 435 1000 335 655 1000 2020 800 1500 964 2100 350 1362 763 1575 625 1575 350 2200 3380 1000 2140 1665 860 2870 3625 3065 A 2.10 0.90 1.35 0.45 1.80 2.40 2.85 UP 08 GROUND FLOOR PLAN

1. Site Demarkation and Barricading to clear the site and mark columns according to the line out using planks and dori.

2. Starting Phase 1 excavation and shoring edges.

3. Using plumbob to exactly mark the columns to start foundation work.

4. Starting Phase 1 Foundation.

5. While finishing plinth in Phase 1, Phase 2 excavation is started.

6. Phase 2 foundation in progress.

7. After completion of Phase 2 foundation work, different plinth levels are comstructed with the ground floor columns.

Sketchup; Illustrator

8. The walls are simultaneously added to the First floor slab.

9. The steel frame is added to the RCC columns and polycarbonate sheets are then bolted to it.

W1 W2 W6 W5 D6 +3.30 M MEZZANINE LEVEL/ LEVEL 1 +6.00 M NURSE STATION ROOF LEVEL +6.24 M PATHLAB ROOF LEVEL +6.99 M ROOF LEVEL +0.45 M PLINTH LEVEL +0.00 M GROUND LEVEL +6.40 M CARETAKER TERRACE LEVEL -3.00 M FOUNDATION 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 12 Screeding 30mm Waterproofing (BBC) 100mm W7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 12 Polycarbonate Sheet 35 mm Steel Purlin 100 X 100 mm RCC Column 300 X 300 mm PCC Coping Brick Wall 230mm Skirting Random Rubble plaster 18mm length of the parapet wall drip mould in the plaster purlin is box section of 5mm thickness two polycarbonate RCC Tie Beam 300 X 300 mm 3-shutter sliding glass window 2-shutter sliding glass window with aluminium frame Compacted Earth W7 brick jali can be used as shoe rack 646 09

CONSTRUCTION PROCESS

SECTION AA’

AutoCAD

EXTERNAL WALL SECTION

600 1100 1000 150 900 1155 160 3190 323 1464 932 1164 750 100 Polycarbonate Sheet 35 mm Steel Purlin 100 X 100 mm I-Section Steel Beam ISMB 600 Cement Bracket RCC Column 300 X 300 mm PCC Coping Screeding 30mm Waterproofing 100mm Brick Wall 230mm Aluminium Frame 60 x 30mm Lintel 150mm White Vitrified Tiles 600 X 600 mm Skirting 100mm RCC Slab 150mm Shahbad Ladi 40mm PCC 150mm Random Rubble 230mm external wall plaster 18mm 3 shutter sliding glass window coping runs throughout the length of the parapet wall brick bat coba is laid as waterproofing rough plaster finish drip mould in the plaster wooden counter for medical store rolling shutter as an enclosure for the medical store counter shahbad ladi used for waterproofing the groove made between the plaster and the skirting restricts cracks on walls Sill 150mm W9 purlin is a box section of 5mm thickness connection between two polycarbonate sheets Chajja 618 WALL SECTION Compacted Earth 300 100 35 128 90 48 830 50 655 25 20 230 i-section bolted to the gusset plate using angle brackets Polycarbonate Sheet 35 mm Steel Purlin 100 x 100 mm RCC Column 300 x 300 mm purlin- 5mm box section Gusset Plate Angle Brackets multiwalled sheet purlin (for 260 625 Brick Wall 230mm Aluminium Frame 60 x 30mm Lintel 150mm Sill 150mm Chajja W9 drip mould in the plaster waterproofing20mm external wall plaster 18mm ROOF DETAIL 1:10 CHAJJA DETAIL 1:10 3 shutter sliding glass window 600 1100 1000 150 900 1155 160 3190 323 1464 932 1164 750 100 Polycarbonate Sheet 35 mm Steel Purlin 100 X 100 mm I-Section Steel Beam ISMB 600 Cement Bracket RCC Column 300 X 300 mm PCC Coping Screeding 30mm Waterproofing 100mm Brick Wall 230mm Aluminium Frame 60 x 30mm Lintel 150mm White Vitrified Tiles 600 X 600 mm Skirting 100mm RCC Slab 150mm Shahbad Ladi 40mm PCC 150mm Random Rubble 230mm external wall plaster 18mm 3 shutter sliding glass window coping runs throughout the length of the parapet wall brick bat coba is laid as waterproofing rough plaster finish drip mould in the plaster wooden counter for medical store rolling shutter as an enclosure for the medical store counter shahbad ladi used for waterproofing the groove made between the plaster and the skirting restricts cracks on walls Sill 150mm W9 purlin is a box section of 5mm thickness connection between two polycarbonate sheets Chajja 618

Compacted Earth 300 800 600 140 100 35 128 90 48 964 150 830 50 655 25 20 230 i-section bolted to the gusset plate using angle brackets Polycarbonate Sheet 35 mm Steel Purlin 100 x 100 mm I-Section Steel Beam ISMB 600 Cement Bracket RCC Column 300 x 300 mm provide extra support to the steel beams purlin- 5mm box section Gusset Plate Angle Brackets multiwalled sheet Polycarbonate Sheet Connector polycarbonate sheet purlin bolt casing (for waterproofing) steel plate 260 625 Brick Wall 230mm Aluminium Frame 60 x 30mm Lintel 150mm wooden counter for medical store rolling shutter as an enclosure for the medical store counter Sill 150mm Chajja W9 drip mould in the plaster waterproofing20mm external wall plaster 18mm plastered and painted wall ROOF DETAIL 1:10 CHAJJA DETAIL 1:10 3 shutter sliding glass window 600 1100 1000 150 900 1155 160 3190 323 1464 932 1164 750 100 Polycarbonate Sheet 35 mm Steel Purlin 100 X 100 mm I-Section Steel Beam ISMB 600 Cement Bracket RCC Column 300 X 300 mm PCC Coping Screeding 30mm Waterproofing 100mm Brick Wall 230mm Aluminium Frame 60 x 30mm Lintel 150mm White Vitrified Tiles 600 X 600 mm Skirting 100mm RCC Slab 150mm Shahbad Ladi 40mm PCC 150mm Random Rubble 230mm external wall plaster 18mm 3 shutter sliding glass window coping runs throughout the length of the parapet wall brick bat coba is laid as waterproofing rough plaster finish drip mould in the plaster wooden counter for medical store rolling shutter as an enclosure for the medical store counter shahbad ladi used for waterproofing the groove made between the plaster and the skirting restricts cracks on walls Sill 150mm W9 purlin is a box section of 5mm thickness connection between two polycarbonate sheets Chajja 618 EXTERNAL WALL SECTION Compacted Earth 300 800 600 140 100 35 128 90 48 964 150 830 50 655 25 20 230 i-section bolted to the gusset plate using angle brackets Polycarbonate Sheet 35 mm Steel Purlin 100 x 100 mm I-Section Steel Beam ISMB 600 Cement Bracket RCC Column 300 x 300 mm provide extra support to the steel beams purlin- 5mm box section Gusset Plate Angle Brackets multiwalled sheet Polycarbonate Sheet Connector polycarbonate sheet purlin bolt casing (for waterproofing) steel plate 260 625 Brick Wall 230mm Aluminium Frame 60 x 30mm Lintel 150mm wooden counter for medical store rolling shutter as an enclosure for the medical store counter Sill 150mm Chajja W9 drip mould in the plaster waterproofing20mm external wall plaster 18mm plastered and painted wall ROOF DETAIL 1:10 CHAJJA DETAIL 1:10 3 shutter sliding glass window 10 EXTERNAL WALL SECTION DETAIL 01 DETAIL 02 AutoCAD

REPAIR AND RETROFIT

Thakkar Bappa Colony, Chembur

SEMESTER 7 Mass Inhabitation

The design intervention focuses on addressing the problems of poor light and ventilation in the existing cluster by opening up space between the clusters. The new design reconfigures the existing units of masses and stacks them on houses along the road edge while forming open courtyards. The courtyard that is created provides a social space to increase the interactiveness in the neighbourhood. The balconies have been extended to improve the light and ventilation and also increase the transactional capacity of the neighbourhood. It also provides a good workspace for shoemakers. The adjacent public toilet becomes a service core comprising the public toilets along with the circulation core. This service block connects all the floors by staircases which them connects to corridors on individual floors. This core also acts as an interactive public space for children and women.

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This Houses up shared staircases, space, interactions.

The

afford from swells unit The with columns. corridor that FIRST FLOOR PLAN EXISTING CONFIGURATION OF CLUSTER UNITS TO BE STACKED AutoCAD

This project involves stacking of Houses along the road edge to open up courtyard spaces and providing shared services like public toilets, staircases, corridors as working space, and shared terrace for more interactions. The project has 2 types units that repeat themselves. The two units are designed to afford working spaces separated from the living spaces. The corridor swells and shrinks according to the unit type. It swells in front of unit and shrinks in front of unit 02. The structure is an RCC brick structure with 150x200mm M25 concrete columns. The shared staircase and corridor stands on a steel structure that uses ISMB 150 I-Sections.

1627.5 1020 1027.5 1625 2150 1947.5 800 4300 LIVING SAPCE KITCHEN SPACE WORKSPACE TOILET DRY AREA

COST TOTAL 2,35,400 4,70,800 2,51,450 5,02,900 3,29,000 6,42,000 AREA 107 SQ. FT. 107 SQ. FT. 107 SQ. FT. 214 SQ. FT. 214 SQ. FT. 214 SQ. FT. UNITS 01 01 01 02 02 02 BASIC QUALITY 2200/- PER SQ. FT. GOOD QUALITY 2350/- PER SQ. FT. BEST QUALITY 3000/- PER SQ. FT. 2850 2850 2850 3300 ISMB 150 STAINLESS STEEL RAILING I-SECTION RAFTER 4300 1622.5 1027.5 2150 1947.5 800 LIVING SAPCE KITCHEN SPACE MORI DRY AREA 12

COST PER SQ. FT. FOR RCC CONSTRUCTION

UNIT 02 SECTION UNIT 01 STACKED SPACES OPEN UP INSIDE CLUSTER AutoCAD 150 2780 1100 70 ISMB 150 STAINLESS STEEL RAILING I-SECTION RAFTER DETAIL AutoCAD AutoCAD AutoCAD

SEA, Mumbai

SEMESTER 5

Curation and Exhibition Design : Living in a Metaphor BY

‘Typewalk’ takes one on a walk through the typographies that shape our urban consciousness. Precisely, looking at typography through the lens of everyday objects. These objects have gained cultural importance over time through our associations with texts and contexts that have subconsciously sunk within us. These everyday objects are defamiliarised from their context to put emphasis on the typeface and make them visible through the walk.

Typography refers to the arrangement and design of alphabets and letters in a manner that makes the text readable or aids in conveying a particular emotion through the text. Text is omnipresent in our surroundings, but we often overlook its details and effect on our daily lives. Walking is a metaphor used for a slower, more contemplative way of doing a thing one takes for granted. Typography walk here suggests not just seeing but observing the world through its details in a manner in which it is visibilizing the invisible.

Contemporary typographers have designed the ‘need for the hour’ texts in terms of the changing socio-political contexts. Meta frameworks have devised new technologies to generate font systems designed in accordance with the transient nature of time, for eg. Seven-segment display and Dot matrix types. The broader idea emerging out of this curation is also about the ‘state identity’ of discipline, the central idea of the power of governance, and the ‘private identity of the contemporary.

This exhibition is a walk across time and space of typography which traverses one to spaces in the city. The space of the exhibition, the staircase, like a ribbon unfolds itself into a continuum escort for the walk. ‘Typewalk’ is an attempt to make people more conscious about catching sight of the typographies in their everyday lives and unveiling their meaning by placing them in their context.

WEBSITE: https://livinginametaphor.wordpress.com/

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TYPEWALK

ANUJ DAGA w/ Astha Desai, Avi mendapara, Charmi Mehta, Devvrat Singh Rajput, Rishabh Chhajer, Sakshi Maeen TICKET AS A SOUVENIR

14 CATALOUGE EXHIBITION

STREET VENDING ZONES

Hospital Road, Bhuj

SEMESTER 7

Participatory Design and Material Exploration WITH HUNNARSHALA

w/ Janvi Gupta, Mayuri Naik

Hospital Road, a mix of commercial, residential, and institutional properties, faces challenges such as lack of designated parking, spills, water logging, and fly infestations. Most of the vendors are food and drinks vendors, which turns the road into a throbbing food lane. Most of the vendors are food and drinks vendors, which turns the road into a throbbing food lane. These are some reasons why the vendors on hospital road are being shifted. The sites which have been narrowed down are stretch outside PGVCL, a ground behind Rajkot Nagrik Bank, and City Mall Road.

Design Intent:

The design intends to create a food zone as public space.

Providing designated parking and seating spaces to avoid congestion

Providing washrooms and proper drainage to create a clean and hygienic public space. Installing street lights throughout the vending zone for safe movement of pedestrians. The nala can be thought of as a bioswale to recharge the water table

MEETING WITH STREET VENDORS 15

PATICIPATORY DESIGN WITH STREET VENDORS OF HOSPITAL

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Seating Spaces in front of food stalls

Drinking water and washing spaces at regular intervals

Toilet Spaces at one end of the site

PATICIPATORY DESIGN MODEL Overview of the site

HOSPITAL ROAD

VENDORS 16

JEEVAN AUR JAGAH

Pangna, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh

SEMESTER 4

SETTLEMENT STUDIES

Class Work

Pangna was the capital of the Suket dynasty. The Suket kingdom belonged to the Sen kings who were originally from Bengal. They had initially fled to Ropar in Punjab on account of being driven northwards by the turk general Bhaktiyar Khilji in 1210 AD. But here the king, Rup Sen was killed, and one of his sons, Bir Sen, fled to the hills and reached Suket. The State of Suket is said to have been founded by Bir Sen.

One of the popular myths associated with the village is that of the Suket king’s daughter who had taken her own life and the tall Kathkuni temple, more popularly known as Pangna fort, as being dedicated to her memory.

As the local folk story goes, a neighbouring Brahman who saw her playing with her friends dressed up as boys, reported to the Raja that his daughter had affairs with some boys. She was reprimanded to such an extent that she eventually took her own life. She then left a letter saying that for the proof of her virginity and piety, her corpse will be buried under a particular rock and that after six months, if the grave was dug up, her corpse would come out un-decayed. The Raja did accordingly and after six months, it is said that he found the corpse of the princess just as it was buried, un-decomposed. The Brahman who was responsible for the tragedy was declared ‘Chandal’, an untouchable. The Mahamaya temple was dedicated to the memory of the king’s deceased daughter. Till date members of the priest’s family are not allowed to visit the temple. The lower castes are also not allowed inside the temple. They can only go upto the temple court. However many of the rituals performed in the temple seem to have a tantric origin.

Post independence, the Indian state declared the power of the princely states null and void. All land belonging to the princely states was nationalised. Pangna witnessed a small civil revolt where the people of Pangna drove the king away. The land seized by the India State was now used to make schools, health centres, a revenue office and PWD guest houses.

WEBSITE: https://a20archives.wixsite.com/ pangna

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18 CHOWKINUMA HOUSE SECTION

CLAIMS OF WATER Kumbalangi, Kerela

SEMESTER 4

SETTLEMENT STUDIES

Class Work

Architectural Compositions in Tropical Monsoonal Grounds (ACTMG) began with an expanded notion of architecture. It understood architecture not simply as constructing built form, but as the will and act of constructing relationships between different human and other-than-human entities. The study was guided by the following questions, with a specific reference to the villages of Chellanam and Kumbalangi, Kerala: How do we map the changing spatial relationships between human and otherthan-human life in the context of “climate change”in tropical, monsoonal grounds?

Periodic Waters rhythms on the site vary distinctly depending on the scale of the water body, the seasons throughout the year, the activity taking place in the waters, and the type of sh getting cultivated.

Their rhythms are identi ed further based on the daily, and the yearly which again vary depending on the scale of water bodies which provide the conducive environments for the varied types of sh, requiring their own individual routines.

Our observations of rhythms vary from the sh's sizes to the water's salinity varying with the seasons. Each species of sh has varied conditions in which they grow, resulting in shing ponds having varying daily rhythms and harvesting seasons. In the daily, entities such as feeding and cleaning come into play, whereas in the monthly, entities such as the sizes of sh are the main factors.

How can we map a settlement and its built-forms as manifestations of changing relationships between different life-forms?

What kinds of temporal rhythms are these different life-forms located in? How do we study spatial forms with the expanded notion of architecture? And lastly, what are the architectural compositions in tropical monsoonal grounds, and how can they help us revise the dominant understandings of “builtform”, “settlement,” and “climate change?”

WEBSITE: https://contact51039.wixsite.com/ ss0623

prawn

karimeen

crab

pokali rice

prawn feed

karimeen feed

Smaller water bodies have drastic changes in their yearly rhythms with a complete transformation in

crab feed

inlet/ outlet bridge

Smaller water bodies have drastic changes in their yearly rhythms with a complete transformation in their usage from sheries to elds. This has stark implications on how the daily routines vary for the people who work on them.

The large water bodies have mostly the same daily routine, with little to no change between seasons. The daily consists of an 8-hour routine of catching sh during the night, and some small-scale boat shing activities during the day.

The calendar shows the close relationship between the water bodies, their entities as well as the landscape and its in uence on the people who rely on them with their multiple interdependencies, showing that the rhythms are never constant, but are governed by multiple factors.

bamboo nets

assamese shermen shing

The Chinese fishing nets are used mainly during the night. The fishermen start preparing the nets by 6pm. It works on a half-an- hour cycle where the fishing nets are lifted after being dipped in the water for half-an-hour from 8pm to 4am.

shing using boat and nets

barrel cage net

paddle wheel

oxygen supply

shing on subleased

water

Before markets open, the shopkeeper visit these fishermen and a bidding takes place.

MARKET

chinese shing nets market

DAILY Hours PRAWNS & CRABS KARIMEEN

Karimeen is caught is very small quantities while using the Chinese fishing nets.

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TIDES

The other way export. The prices the quality and

Karimeen in the barrel nets are fed soya bean granules 2 times a day.

their usage from sheries to elds. This has stark implications on how the daily routines vary for the people who work on them. The large water bodies have mostly the same daily routine, with little to no change between seasons. The daily consists of an 8-hour routine of catching sh during the night, and some small-scale boat shing activities during the day. The calendar shows the close relationship between the water bodies, their entities as well as the landscape and its in uence on the people who rely on them with their multiple interdependencies, showing that the rhythms are never constant, but are governed by multiple factors. prawn karimeen crab prawn feed karimeen feed crab feed inlet/ outlet bridge chinese shing nets market shing on subleased water oxygen supply paddle wheel barrel cage net shing using boat and nets assamese shermen shing bamboo nets pokali rice

Rhythms on the site vary distinctly depending on the scale of the water body, the seasons throughout the year, the activity taking place in the waters, and the type of fish getting cultivated.

Their rhythms are identified further based on the daily, and the yearly which again vary depending on the scale of water bodies which provide the conducive environments for the varied types of fish, requiring their own individual routines.

Our observations of rhythms vary from the fish’s sizes to the water’s salinity varying with the seasons. Each species of fish has varied conditions in which they grow, resulting in fishing ponds having varying daily rhythms and harvesting seasons. In the daily, entities such as feeding and cleaning come into play, whereas in the monthly, entities such as the sizes of fish are the main factors.

Smaller water bodies have drastic changes in their yearly rhythms with a complete transformation in their usage from fisheries to fields. This has stark implications on how the daily routines vary for the people who work on them. The large water bodies have mostly the same daily routine, with little to no change between seasons. The daily consists of an 8-hour routine of catching fish during the night, and some small-scale boat fishing activities during the day.

The calendar shows the close relationship between the water bodies, their entities as well as the landscape and its influence on the people who rely on them with their multiple interdependencies, showing that the rhythms are never constant, but are governed by multiple factors.

DERIVE RHYTHMS

20 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 During high

Small

tide The crabs are fed small fishes caught while fishing prawns.They are fed once every 2 days. The Assamese fishermen and fishermen working on the Chinese fishing nets do their individual fishing during the day. A light at the surface is used to lure prawns. way is to clean the fishes and prices drop & hike according to and health of the fish.

the water slowly overflows into the backwaters. The net is attached to the bridge over the inlet/outlet to catch fish using the flow of water.

quantity of fishes is caught during high tide. During low tide, the water rapidly flows back to the river. The net is attached to the bridge over the inlet/outlet to catch fish using the flow of water. Large quantity of fishes is caught during low tide. CLOSED BACKWATER

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THE SELF AND THE STRUCTURE

BY DIPTI BHAINDARKAR SEMESTER

The Self and The Structure is a four week course on organizational practices. The course aims to interrogate the prevalent logics of organization, reflect on individual roles and engagements, and develop new conceptualizations for organizational settings. This course is premised on an argument that conscious thinking may not only aid one to structure thoughts but allow one to construct valuable reflections to accommodate change, develop empathetic relations, and develop agile frameworks. Conscious thinking here expands to hold the coordinates of the empathetic self. The participants further evaluate and develop new conceptualizations to design the form of life in an organizational setting.

WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/sea.edu.in/the-self-andthe-structure/home

FOLLY!

BY LORENZO FERNANDEZ SEMESTER 5 BY DINESH BARAP SEMESTER 4 Group Work

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5 ALLIED COURSE w/ Khushi Surana 02

WHAT THE

ELECTIVE 03 DRAWING ECOLOGY

ELECTIVE

In the week-long elective module we learned theories and methods by which we analysed architectural and urban spaces for their social potentials. The spatial network analysis was carried out using the softwares: DepthmapX and isovists_ app.

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SPACE SYNTAX BY FREYAAN ANKLESARIA SEMESTER 3 ELECTIVE w/ Raunak Rangrekar

DepthMapX DepthMapX CONVEX MAP VISIBILITY MAP

EXPLORATION

Soil Testing

Rammed Earth

CSEB- Compressed Stabalised Earth Block

Stabalised Adobe

06 BODIES, CITIES AND ECOLOGIES

Ganpat Patil Nagar, Mumbai

SEMESTER 7

ALLIED COURSE

w/ Ansh Shetty, Atisha Bhuta, Avantika Padalkar, Divya Khivansara, Lohita Rao, Meet Gala, Meet Lodha, Nishadh More, Prutha Talekar, Sanskriti Agrawal, Tanvi Pawde

Postcard is a medium of knowledge transfer through image and writing to different places. They have served many kinds of functions such as sovenirs, collectibles, ritual communications or gifts. They are also entangled in many kinds of relationships across distances that inform, ask questions, interrogate, self-reflect, inter-reference, hint, while often not drawing conversations to a closure.

The Colonial idea of postcard was to serve as a visual record of early colonial urbanization, culture of the emerging social elites, etc. With this course we tried to upturn the idea of a postcard by using it as a medium to question the differences that prevail in city spaces and how these differences shape everyday life. These differences belong to categories such as indegeneity, caste, religion and gender.

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MATERIAL

WITH HUNNARSHALA SEMESTER 7 SPECIALIZATION COURSE

SOIL TESTING SHUTTERING FOR RAMMED