Aadhwanik - Architectural Portfolio_deep varma

On a Journey

Architecture Portfolio

About Me Exploring new materials has always been my interest. Working closely with material such as Bamboo and Concrete have given me aspects of two completely different form of material. Along with it I have worked with Timber, Mud and Rammed Earth. This continuous exploration of materials and coming up with joineries to combine them together is important to me in design. I believe that surrounding context is as essential as the built form itself. I am keen to learn about construction sequence, process and details and integration of surroundings to the building form and spaces.

Skill Set Hands On Sketching Model Making Carpentry Casting Photography

Deep Ravi Varma Institute of Design,Environment & Architecture Indus University, Ahmedabad deepvarma.13.barch@idea.indusuni.ac.in deep.varma.140895@gmail.com +91 87 58 50 3609 +91 98 79 11 4560

Softwares

Workshops

Microsoft Office Autocad Google Sketch up Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Rhinoceros

Vernacular Architecture of Kutch Narrative of Naddi and Bal Poetics of Bamboo: Bali, Indonesia Watering through YesterYears, Jaipur Material Exploration Bamboo Workshop Photography

CONTENT Material Studio..................................................................................... ....1 Re-Source Housing Studio..................................................................3 Studio House Design...........................................................................5 Artist House Studio..............................................................................6 Working Drawing................................................................................. 7 Kita Gรถttingen......................................................................................9 Blue-Building Design..........................................................................10 Technical Drawings............................................................................11 Basic Design......................................................................................13 Workshop...........................................................................................16 Poetics of Bamboo.............................................................................17 Narratives of Naddi and Bal...............................................................19 Sketching...........................................................................................21 Photography...................................................................................... 22

Material Studio Precast Concrete:

The Concept of Precast Structures, also known as prefabricated/modular structures, is that the structural components are standardized and are only assembled on the site.

A Slice of Fresh Cake: Cube Construction

Material: Modular Blocks .

Constructing a cube of 15cm x 15 cm.

Using a single self-evolving module .

Evolving at corners, sides and in between spaces.

Creating an interlocking System .

Play of Mass and Void.

Shadow effects due to Mass and Void .

Process Models

Redesign Existing Built Form: Taking a traditional Kutch house of Gujarat, a bhunga and designing it using only modular/precast blocks.

The openings are made by subtracting the modules from the rhythmic pattern.

Following a lego joinery to keep the building a form of dry construction technique.

The module evolves itself to give a clean flushed opening for the door.

1 : 1 Scale Lego Joinery

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Odd Courses

Even Courses

New Elevation

Material Studio

A Journey towards the site: The Site is situated in the old city .The site is rich in flora, something that its neighbors are sparse of. The bungalows on the periphery acting as compound walls and the high storey apartments that surround the site guarding it with its cool shade.

Analysis

Joinery Details

Orientation

Casting process

Detailed Module repetition

Generating a Programme

Site

Material Studio

In an urge to design an institute that would home the development of a particular material, in this case, it being Precast Concrete. The institute itself is a dominating structure made of precast concrete modules that are assembled using its unique joineries and methodology. With a single module evolving in scale and at times in volume to get in different kind of light and to house different sets of activities throughout the day. The program is about how the institute works in the development and understanding of the material. Not so formal in its character yet a discipline that governs the relationship between the architects and the artisans and sometimes even students.

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Re-Source Housing Studio

In an attempt to create a housing community that works together as one single unit in managing a particular resouce, in this case water, a programme of low cost housing community was set up. The community collects rain water, harvests it and further optimises its use.

The Site: Anhilwad Patan With an annual average rainfall of 500mm. The daily needs of water are met by digging bore-wells that is decreasing the water table of the whole area. This Community focuses on Rainwater Harvesting methods and even optimal use of water by treating and recycling and reusing both Grey and Black water.

The site has a strong historic context of Rani-Ki-Vav and The Sahastralinga Talav.

They are nationally renowned water structures built in the ages of the kings for the purpose of storing and treating water and further using it for daily use by the people.

Site Model

Rani Ki Vav

The Site 3

Sahastralinga Talav

Rani Ki Vav

Sahastralinga Talav

Re-Source Housing Studio

Site Section

Model

Concept

Re-Source Housing Studio

Model

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Studio House Design Piet Mondrian : Painter

Mondrian was a contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed neoplasticism.

This consisted of white ground, upon which he painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors.

View 1

Final Model

Exhibition Models View 2

Drawing

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View 3

View 4

Studio House Design

Artist House Studio

The Task at hand was to design a residence for an artist.

Being a self-employed person an artist’s daily routine patterns of using spaces in his house are very different to that of any mundane person.

Manglore Tiles

RCC Beam

Wall Plate

RCC Lintel

Internal Plaster

Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

External Plaster 100mm PCC 65mm Thick Flooring Brick Bat Concrete 15mm Water Proofing

Chajja Ventilation Window Aluminum Frame

65mm Floor RCC Slab 65mm Thick Flooring

Wall Section Section Wall

Artist House Studio

Model

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Working Drawing Taking forward the Material Studio Project for working drawings.

Major challenge was to come up with different Precast Concrete Joineries. Resolving all the details using sketches before touching any drafting software was a good way to go about it.

Here are a few details

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Working Drawing

Studio - Institution

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Precast Concrete Steps

CONTACT NUMBER KEY PLAN

Handrail

820

1000

25MM Thick Polished Kota Stone Flooring - 1000MM x 820MM

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M

01 A232 START POINT

200MM Thick Precast Concrete Enclosure walls

900

900

900

CLIENT NAME

ADDRESS EMAIL ID CONTACT NUMBER GENERAL NOTES

Sliding Door

900

25MM Thick Polished Kota Stone - 900MM x 900MM 35MM Thick Polished Kota Stone Skirting 10MM Thick Cement Slurry

O

DOOR AND WINDOW SCHEDU

O 300MM x 300MM Precast Concrete Column

2MM Cement Slurry Groove between 2 Kota Stones

CONSULTANTS

Q

21658

600

600

START POINT

PLUMBI

CONTACT NO.-

CONTACT

ADDRESS-

ADDRESS

MECHANICAL-

ELECTR

CONTACT NO.-

CONTACT

ADDRESS-

ADDRESS

SR.NO

10MM Thick Matt Finished Vitrified Tiles - 300MM x 300MM

02 300 A232

Ventilation Window 04 A233

START POINT START POINT

18MM Thick Granite Stone Threshold

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S

01 UNIT FLOORING PLAN A231 SCALE 1:50

Working Drawing

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ADDRESS EMAIL ID CONTACT NUMBER

DRAWING NAME-UNIT FLOOR DRAWING NO.- A231

N

18

20

DRAWING NO.

ARCHITECT'S NAME

16920

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REVISION NO.

R

300

300

300

R

STRUCTURAL-

REVISION TABLE

600

03 A233

600

Q

SCALE - 1:50

DRAWN BYCHECKED BYSTAMP

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Kita Gรถttingen - Despang Architekten Case Study for Precast concrete Material.

Kita Gรถttingen is a kindergarten school designed by Despang Architekten. The whole structure is only assembled on site using interlocking joineries and sealant joints for concrete to concrete joinery.

Final Model

300

Precast Concrete Beam

300

Top of Slab Lvl +4124mm

View 1 Precast Concrete Slab 1504

Top of Slab Lvl +3100mm Recess for Beam Lvl +2878mm

Lintel Lvl +2320mm 4024 3504

Lap Joint Between 2 Wall Panels

1500

20mm Thick Toughened Glass 15mm Nut Bolt with 0.7mm Threads

Sill Lvl +2320mm

40mm Spruce Wood Bolted to Wall

500

Sill Lvl +840mm

Plinth Lvl +340mm P.C.C. Lvl +100mm Ground Lvl +0.00mm

220

100mm Notch/Grouting 240mm Precast Concrete Plinth 100mm Plane Cement Concrete

220

240mm Thick Precast Concrete Wall Panel

Compact Earth 450

View 2 Drawing

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800

790

800 4680

790

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250 200 250

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500 3000

810

280 160

7680

Kita Gรถttingen

Blue - Building Design Cherrapunji

North Elevation

Conceptual Section

South Elevation

Calculations Being the wettest place in the world with having an annual average rainfall of 11,500mm. Still struggling with the requirement of portable water.

This Designed community self sustains in terms of portable water and electricity.

Plans

Blue - Building Design

Requirement for water per person a day =135l 135 x 365days x 20people = 9,85,500l is the annual requirement.

Area of site = 500sqm.

Average rainfall = 11,000mm rainwater harvested = 500 x 11,000 x (0.52 x 0.8)coefficient = 22,88,000l Total consumption = 25kwh per house x 365 days = 9125units energy produced = 22,88,000l x 14.4l water generating 1kwh = 15,888units

Top View

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Technical Drawings This model shows all the layers in the sequence of construction.

This is a 1:1 Scale model of a Bathroom Ventilation Window. All the details and process of construction are covered as it is made of actual material.

This model consists all the layers of sequences of construction from structure to finishes.

This sheet contains the details for the 1:1 Scale model of a Bathroom Ventilation Window.

This sheet consists of a plan and its subsequent section.

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Technical

Technical

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Basic Design To develop the basic skill set of design, expression, the thinking process and model making. These are the following exercises done to up bring those skill sets.

Playing with the volume on a strict interconnected geometry.

Interactive Cube Design Abstraction using cubes and prisms. Further, using gelatin paper to give it a meaning.

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Basic Design

Understanding the scale and proportion of different elements and how they respond to our human body in terms of dominance.

Further making a 1:10 scale model of our own body to understand the human proportion system.

Designing a kiosk. to accomodate 10 people. The context chosen is that of a beach hence the kiosk is open, semi-open and closed at the same time

Basic Design

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Basic Design

Taking inspiration form M.C.Escher and developing our own interlocking tranformation painting.

Taking a Human Face and slicing it down vertically. to form layers such as contours.

Taking a cube and developing it as a single surface instead of its 6 conventional surfaces. This is done by drawing as well as puncturing on the cube 15

Basic Design

Workshop

Bamboo Workshop

This is a collective workshop where we learn basics of Bamboo as a material. Further, the bamboo shed was constructed by us. understanding the sequence and process of construction in nonconventional mmaterial like bamboo.

Various Joineries were explored and created to understand the material and develop the hand skills before the actual construction of the shed.

Workshop

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Poetics of Bamboo Tensegrity : Bali, Indonesia Tensegrity is a design principle that applies when a discontinuous set of compression elements is opposed and balanced by a continuous tensile force, thereby creating an internal Pre-stress that stabilizes the entire structure.

Details

Timber Sections used

Tensegrity Model 2

Tensegrity Bamboo Model

Tensegrity Model

Tools used

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Poetics of Bamboo

Mock up Model

Detail

1:1 Scale Model

Process Photos

Poetics of Bamboo

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Narratives of Naddi and Bal

Naddi Village

This is a related study project that took place in Himachal Pradesh. Over 65 houses were documented that made three clusters of Naddi Village. Further, the village of Bal was also documented.

The key feature of documentation is that all the drawings are free hand.

House No. 7 Ground Floor Plan

Ground Floor Site Plan

House No. 7 First Floor Plan

Roof Site Plan

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House No. 7 Section

Narratives of Naddi and Bal

Bal Village

Ground Floor Plan

Site Plan

First Floor Plan

Section 2

Section 1

Narratives of Naddi and Bal

Section 3

Roof Plan

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Sketching

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Sketching

Photography I believe in making a photograpgh instead of taking one. It is not about capturing it but composing it. To do so one must act fast and have the skill to anticipate not only a moving object but also a stationary one.

Architectural Photography We know that a built structure communicates a lot of things such as power and technology. These are topped all over by aesthetics and the way of articulation of the building.

Architectural photography tries to capture not only the above mentioned but even the small details and joineries that have been worked out by fellow Architects.

Sometimes architectural photography also captures the essence and pure abstraction of a particular object.

It is the skill of the photographer that conveys not only the buildings form and design but also the emotions, patterns and its surrounding context.

Photography

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Journey Continues...