Daksh Goel Portfolio

PORTFOLIO Daksh Goel Architecture Undergraduate CEPT University, India

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DAKSH GOEL GENERAL

SKILLSET

EXPERIENCE

Male DOB- 09.06.1999

Softwares

Workshops

New Delhi, Delhi

ABOUT ME I believe that perseverance and patience can make any obstacles vanish.

Continous hardwork is necessary to achieve any goal in life.

Music and art inspire me to do more. They give me perspective and become a medium for me to express my emotions and opinions.

CONTACT (IND) +91 9891769176 dakshgoel9@gmail.com daksh.goel.barch17@cept.ac.in

EDUCATION Higher Education : K.R. Mangalam World School, GK ll , New Delhi

Grade 3- Electric Guitar: Rockschool, London (RSL Level 1 Award In Popular Music Performance: Grade 3)

2 Year Fine Art Course: Delhi Collage Of Art, New Delhi

Bachelor Of Architecture: CEPT University, Ahmedabad (6th Semester)

B2/78 Safdarjung Enclave , Delhi , India , 110029

Summer Internship:

CEPT University, Ahmedabad

Spaces Architects@ka, GK ll, New Delhi, Delhi

Autocad Sketchup Photoshop Twinmotion Lumion Indesign Illustrator Revit Rhinoceros

Rendering Charcoal Graphite Water color Dry Pastels Inking

Feather Pavilion, CEPT Univerisity | April 2018 Shell Structure, CEPT University | Nov 2018

Documentation Chota Oda , Rajasthan | Dec 2017 Hollywood Basti, Ahmedabad | Sept 2017

Fabrication Wood Metal Clay CNC and Lasers

Languages English Hindi Gujarati (basic)

Brief Garden , Sri lanka | Dec 2018 Moosi Maharani Complex, Alwar | Jan 2019 Rewa Kund, Madhya Pradesh | Sept 2019

Matters Of Architectural Language

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Joy Of Architecture

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Chota Oda: Measured And Drawn

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Building Full Scale : Pavilion

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Summer Internship At Spaces Architects@ka

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A Place For Water

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Winter School In Sri lanka

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Beyond Academia

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L U I S

MATTERS OF ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE YEAR II SEM 3 SUMMER 2018 Mentor : Sachin Soni L o c a t i o n : U d a i p u r, I n d i a Project : Bookstore and Cafeteria Size: 350 metre sq The first half of the studio is to study the architectural styles of the architect (here Luis Barragan ) through series of architectural and design exercises elaborating architects’ different approaches and atttudes.

The objective was to make a diary of attitudes of hand drawn diagrams depicting Luis Barragans approach towards mass, structure, light, detailing, oragnisation etc.

Different mediums like watercolors, color pencils, pens and graphite are used to depict various qualities of the space. The understanding from these analysis are used in the design project in the second half of the studio.

RIGHT: Diary Of Attitudes showing various studies on projects of Luis Barragan.

B A R R A G A N

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YEAR II SEM 3 M O D E L S A N D 3 D R E P R E S E N TAT I O N The next set of exercises are a 3D representation of the set of attitudes that are previously studied. The Cube reflects physical and ephimeral attitudes.

The Maze reflects Conceptual and organisational attitudes. The Trophy reflects making and detailing attitudes.

The Cube creates mystery with its blank walls, while the openings open up to different views which emphasise on the ephimeral substances.

The Maze creates a hierarchy of volumes and shows the idea of layering through the repetition of the blank, textured and colored walls.

The Trophy shows materiality through texture and feel. The walls are rough, while the wooden steps are smooth to touch.

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YEAR II SEM 3 PROCESS AND PLAN

The second half of the studio deals with using the previously discussed attitudes and incooperating them into the deisgn which is set in a completely different context in terms of weather , people , culture and society.

Books offers an engagement of a world within a world. They proliferated with the advent of the printing press, making book publishing an enterprise and engendering a place. Since then, bookshops have evolved to become an important place for an engagement with world of words and readers.

In the age of smartphones and Amazon, the role of a ‘place’ for books has been challenged. Yet, bookshops have the potential to revisit the activity of reading and gathering, complemented by a fresh brew of coffee.

The project is to design a bookstore cum cafeteria in the city of lakes, Udaipur. With pichola lake to its west and the City Place to its north, it faces the Machla Magra hills of Udaipur.

Thus the project has to respond to its strong context while keeping the attitudes of Luis Barragan as an underlying principle which will bind the whole project.

RIGHT: Diary of Attitudes LEFT: Concept diagrams and final ground floor plan.

Sun path and openings

Movement

Slits and windows

Juxtaposition of materials

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Cross section shows how the slits and openings open up differently to the pichola lake, creating an introverted space in the library and outward looking space in the cafeteria.

Outside view of the overall built. How it responds to its surrounding trees.

Entry, depicting the use of stucco plaster and how the slits let the light in.

Bookstore with a double volume and a mezanine. There is a contrast between textured and the colored walls.

Terraces that opens up to the Pichola Lake and the Macha Magra hills.

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Various level differences that create a hierarchy of volumes.

Openings above eye-level to give the views of the Pichola Lake only at specific points.

Various types of slits and windows of different sizes according to the light and vistas.

RIGHT: Wall section which shows how various materials come together. The color pallete is taken from a Mewar Miniature painting, represeting the culture and people of Udaipur.

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Long section showing a hierarchy of various volumes and various terraces.

Sectional model showing how the different terraces respond to the site trees around it.

Elevation of the model which shows the different types of openings that face the Pichola Lake.

Sectional model which shows how different spaces and levels come together, each with a different color pallete.

Birds eye view showing the footprint of the whole project and the various terraces.

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JOY OF ARCHITECTURE

While coming up the ramp the while pavilion acts as a reference or a landmark.

The scale of the domes increases and so does the volume.

YEAR IIl SEM 5 SUMMER 2019 M e n t o r : R a t h i n G o g h a r i , S a g a r Tr i v e d i Location : Madhya Pradesh, India As one moves downwards, the heights of the floor decreases. Hence resulting in a darker space.

Project : Residence and Institute Size: 1000 metre sq The initial week of the studio aims to study the monuments and ruins of Mandu, Madhya Pradesh. Mandu is an ancient fortress town located on top of a plateau and known for its Architecture.

At the southern end of Mandu, is Rewa Kund - a lake surrounded by hills to its west, south and east. It is a long lake extending in the north-south direction. On it’s north-eastern side, generous steps, flanked by a grand arched aqueduct, ascend to the palace of Baz Bahadur.

The top chatris create a plane as a datum.

On the north-western edge of the kund is the site- it’s most prominent features being the ghat, a 15th century ruin and a large Southern Magnolia tree. In the distance, to the south east, one can see Rani Roopmati’s palace perched on a hill.

The design project is sited infront of the Rewa kund and next to the Rewa ruin.

RIGHT: Diagrams for topography, organisational principles, structure, scale etc of various architectural monuments.

Repetition is created using the same units and domes.

How the edge conditions are treated in relative to the human scale.

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YEAR IIl SEM 5 PROCESS AND PLAN

The project was to design an institue for 20 students with a place to rest set in the context of mandu.

Design Concerns : ● Response to the local and universal site conditions ● Adaptive reuse of the existing ruin and ghat. ● The development of a building language from the learnings / findings of the Architecture of Mandu. ● Varied yet unified architectural scheme to serve all the scales, degrees of enclosure and patterns of use implied in the program.

TOP RIGHT: Ground floor plan of the institue which shows the use of thick stone parallel walls to create various spaces.

The walls which are punctured only at specific places to open up to the vistas i.z. The huge tree, the water and the series of smaller trees.

BOTTOM RIGHT: series of process sketches to visualize the whole instituition and various terraces.

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The site has a slope that needed to be retained, and thus those retaining walls were created at various intervals which gave rise to the parallel walls.

Series of sketches that show internal views and spatial quality. They also show how the exposed steel members and stone slabs come together to make the roof.

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Site section showing how the project responds to Baz Bahadur and Rewa Kund.

Studio space which lets the north light come in.

mezanine floor which has a long common dining table.

South side which opens up to the Banyan tree.

Various plinths that act as an interactive place for students.

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YEAR IIl SEM 5 PROCESS AND FINAL MODELS The process models were made at various defferent scales to see how the building sits on the site , how the built resonds to its context and its surrounding and how the water edge is treated. The project sits on the slope while also responding to the flat landform on the east side.

The models are monochrome, and are hand-made using corrugate sheets, jute board and OHP sheet.

They are then photographed at bird eye views and various human eye level to visualise the project at actual scale.

RIGHT: FInal model as seen from Baz Bahadur LEFT: Process models.

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C H O TA O D A : MEASURED AND DRAWN YEAR II SEM 3 WINTER 2017 Mentor : Smit Vyas, Puneet Malhotra Location : Rajasthan, India Project : Documentation Size: 1500 metre sq Nestled in lower Aravalli range between Dungarpur & Bichhiwara, the village of Chhota Oda blooms with traditional and vernacular housing. Though consisting not more 60 houses it thrives with its f a r e s h a r e o f g r e e n e r y, f a r m s , a n i m a l s a n d l i f e .

The study aimed to measure draw the settlements with the topography while showing the character of space using immaculate hand rendered ink drawings. The documentation ranges from a overall site plan, down to the detailed exploded isometrics of the door-window joineries.

Walls are generally stacked with stone masonry, finished with mud and cowdung plaster. Wooden beams, joists for the mezzanine and rafters for the roof are built through an assemblage of found pieces finished very roughly to fit the given co n d i t i o n . Ve r t i ca l p o st s ( Ku b i ) h o l d u p t h e m a i n beams (juttaddi) with joists (doda) and woven mats.Roof shingles, Country or Mangalore tiles are used for roofing.

LEFT: Door-window detail RIGHT: Plan and sections of houses

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BUILDING FULL SCALE : PA V I L I O N YEAR I SEM 2 SUMMER 2017

Mentor : Sankalpa L o c a t i o n : C E P T U n i v e r s i t y, A h m e d a b a d Project : Pavilion Size: 30 metre sq The pavilion was designed as part of a material study in “Fundamentals of Construction ll “.

It was erected in a span of 4 weeks with concentrated and consistent group effort.

It is constructed using bamboo and metal as the main material and the wires help keeping the structure in tension.

RIGHT: photos of the final module of the pavilion.

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SUMMER I N T E R N S H I P AT S PA C E S A R C H I T E C T S SUMMER 2019 Firm: Spaces Architects@ka Architect : Kapil Aggarwal Location : South Extension –II,New Delhi-110049 Contact : admin@spacesarchitects-ka.com Project: Musuem (unbuilt) The project was inspired from the idea of stepwells, and was supposed to act as a musuem and amphitheatre for people of Rajasthan. The project also included, a cafeteria and a viewing deck.

RIGHT: Final renders of the design along with the process development at each step.

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A PLACE FOR WAT E R YEAR II SEM 4 WINTER 2018 Mentor : Meghal Arya L o c a t i o n : A l w a r, I n d i a Project : Bath-house Size: 200 sq metre The first two weeks were to identify various water edge conditions in different types of buildings.

We were then given elements like six neem trees , o n e b a o b a b t r e e a n d a w a t e r b o d y. U s i n g t h e s e elements we had to create over a hundred models These models were later categorised into different type forms and then were represented by a single diagram. Analysis from these models were further used into the next set of design exercises.

The next two weeks were to design a bathhouse i n Ta m i l N a d u , I n d i a . T h e s i t e w a s n a t u r a l l y contoured with an already existing water kund.

The design was to cater to this water body while also being highy functional in nature.

RIGHT: A few selected models out of the 100

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YEAR II SEM 4 MODELS AND PLAN

The initial idea was to cover the space around the trees which would be in the proximity of the water kund and the road. Due to the nature of the project, different units could be brought together using a single roof which acts like a canopy. The roof hence formed is placed on circular columns and feels as if its floating on top of different types of units.

Under this canopy, walls of different heights and curves were made. The curved walls help in hiding the functions like the washrooms. The curved walls lead you the the water kund. The kunds have skylights on top of them. Thus the whole projects acts like a pavilion.

Movement throughout the project is through ramps for a slower movement and also allows universal access.

RIGHT: Ground floor plan.

BOTTOM: Pictures of final models showing how the building sits on the contours and how the roof acts like a canopy.

Elevation showing how the project sits on the contoured site and how the different types of volume come under one roof.

The project as seen from the Water Kund.

The water channel taking water from the roof to the Water Kund.

In the evening, the contoured garden act as a gathering place.

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WINTER SCHOOL IN SRI LANKA YEAR II SEM 4 WINTER 2019 Mentor : Divya Shah, Anjali Jain Location : Bentota, Sri Lanka Project : Documentation The winter school mainly consisted of documentation and study of two gardens, Lunuganga and Brief by Geoffery Bawa and Bevis B a w a r e s p e c t i v e l y.

While the larger context of the gardens is the same, they both present different approaches and attitudes towards design and articulation. Looking at both the gardens simultaneously allowed for a richer understanding and in-depth reading of context and the making of a place.

We read both the gardens through multiple means -text, images and experience. we were encouraged t o i d e n t i f y, u n i q u e q u a l i t i e s o f t h e s i t e t h a t w e r e fundamental to understanding the character of the place. It looked at ways to understand the relationship of ones experience of a place in relation to its context, both immediate and the larger setting and what is the idea of ‘placem a k i n g ’.

RIGHT: Mapping and sketches of Lunuganga and Brief garden.

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BEYOND ACADEMIA ARTWORK 2017-2019

These selected works are not necessarily academic in nature, but show my interest in the field of arts.

Art to me is an escape portal where I can put down my thoughts and my emotions onto a canvas. Both visual art and music have inspired me to do more and to do something different in life. I truly believe that art is all around us and enriches us everyday.

Art is the most basic form of language that I use to communicate my thoughts and my feelings and hence is an integral part of who I am.

RIGHT: selected works done in acrylic, water colors, color pencils and soft pastels.

Daksh Goel dakshgoel9@gmail.com +91 9891769176