Undergraduate Portfolio

P O R T F O L I O Devangi Kansagra

2014 - 2019

Devangi Kansagra

Having studied in a British School, I have always been around buildings that have inspired me to be an Architect. My definition of architecture is imagination. It is the freedom you get to create your own utopia. I have a keen interest in research and working with different technologies to try to build to save nature and sustain human need, simultaneously. All my designs focus on nature as its primary factor and humans as its secondary. Curiosity drives my design, it is in studying the surroundings and how people react to the environment.

To build something that can be used by all and exploring new techniques to achieve that.

I am a final year architecture student at BSSA. Actively seeking internship opportunities from mid- February.

31st March, 1995

Email id:

dkansagra01@gmail.com

‘Deepak’ , 4th floor, Ramkrishna Nagar, Swamivivekanand Main road, Rajkot, Gujarat,India,360001

Number:

+91 9769293594

Instagram:

devangikansagra

Date of Birth: Address:

Education

Work Experience

Balwant Sheth School of Architecture | NMIMS | Mumbai | India Bachelor of Architecture

2014-2019

Jawahar Mori Architects Designed sample villas for a resort project

The Rajkumar College | Rajkot | India

2004-2014

Hope Foundation Planting trees around the city Collecting and donating clothes and toys for orphans Fieldmarshal Trust Providing education to kids

Exhibitions Self Organizing Pattern in a fern Built a dynamic model on the mechanism of the fern (Selected for the final exhibition)

2015 - Sem III - Year 2

FOAID Expressions Exhibition in Mumbai Created on the concept of Curiosity (Special Mention)

2016

Kalaghoda Arts Festival Created a carbon ‘footprint’

2018

Summerschool Introduction to Digital Design: Portraits of shapes & Form (Taught by Ryan Tyler Martinez, Sci-Arc) (with credits) Modeling and rendering with lights in Maya | introduction to ZBrush

Advanced:

18th edition 24H competition

TinyHouse - VolumeZero (participation)

2017

Rhinoceros Photoshop Autocad | Drafting Indesign Revit Microsoft Office Sketching Model making skills:

Intermediate

Basic

Trip Documentation - Jaisalmer (https://issuu.com/bssa.mum/docs/to_upload_1) Lookbook (https://issuu.com/bssa.mum/docs/look_book_issuu) 24H Competition - Matrix Edition book (https://www.if-ideasforward.com/matrix)

Wood cutting Steel Fabrication Z-Brush Vray Sketchup

Trip Documentation - Barcelona (https://issuu.com/bssa.mum/docs/final_and_the_upload_one) Model making skills:

Trip Documentation - Sri Lanka (https://issuu.com/bssa.mum/docs/to_upload)

Laser cutting Hand cut models Maya Illustrator 3Ds Max

Model making skills:

Publications

2018

Skills

Competitions Matrix - Ifideasforward (Honourable Mention)

May - June 2018

Routing 3D printing

Interests

Extra Curricular

Languages

Sketching Painting Reading Solving Puzzles Swimming Photography Music Travelling

College Football team College cultural team School Swimming team School Basketball team School Arts team

English - Adv. Hindi - Int. Gujarati - Int. French - Basic

MAROL PASEO Year IV | Sem VIII | Metro Infrastructure | Mumbai | India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 - 10

Follow the Arcade Year IV | Sem VIII | Urban design | Heritage walk through | Mumbai | India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 16

THE Esplanade Mansion Year IV | Sem VII | Re-appropriation of Old structures | Mumbai | India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 - 24

Tetrical Housing Year III | Sem VI | Mass Housing | Mumbai | India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 - 34

The Giant Feast Sci-Arc Summer School | Maya Software Study | Mumbai | India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 - 38

Competitions and publications Delirious | Matrix | 24H Competition | Ifideasforward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 - 40 Honorable mention

Trapeze | Tiny house Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 - 42 Taach | Kalaghoda exhibition | #kalaghoda2018 | Fort | Mumbai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 - 44 Curiosity | FOAID Exhibition | Mumbai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 - 46 Honorable mention

Barcelona | Publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Sri Lanka | Publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Marol Paseo

Infrastructure around metro | Marol naka | Mumbai | India Infrastructure is the foundation of a city, we live amongst the ever-changing flux of technology, when technology alters so does the infrastructure in a city. Mumbai is a fast city, identified by its local train transportation. Being a linear city, transportation is generally in North-South direction. Different ends of the city are linked by the construction of Metro lines.

The first line connects the city in East-West direction, constructed perpendicular to the existing infrastructure of trains. Line 3,the largest line, will be built perpendicular to the first line intersecting at the Marol Junction and connecting major commercial districts of the city.

Marol Paseo is built on the Marol junction to provide a safe passage from one platform to another with minimum or no damages. With the construction of the new line, the ridership from this station will be doubled, from 7,00,000 riders to almost 13,00,000 riders per day, passing, stopping or switching from line 1 to line 3 or vise versa, making it one of the busiest junctions of Mumbai.

To avoid mishaps like the September, 2017, stampede, at Elphinstone station, my primary aim is to provide a plaza or sufficient space for the commutes, that includes transporting from line 1, which is 7m above ground to line 3 that is 12m underground.

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1. Existing shape of the site

Hotel properties Commercial Masjid Under construction Medicine and Fire Industrial Open ground Residential Government Building Hotels and Restaurant Slums Metro Line 3 Institutional Nala (drain) Metro Line 1

Site plan 1km radius

2. Assumed flow of people to designated entrances.

Metro Line 1

Metro Line 1

Infrastructure

Concept Drawing

Infrastructure

Metro Line 3 Metro Line 3 03 | Marol Paseo

Primary Sketch

FUNCTIONS: Ticketed

Towards Bus stop to SEEPZ

Towards other entrances

To residential and commercial areas

Movement to Bus stops and secondary entrances

Dry cleaners News stands Book stand Eatery ATM Smoking zones Post Office

Non-ticketed Market Retail Smoking Zones

Retail and restaurants

Towards Parking

Towards Metro

retail and restaurants

Direct path to Metro Line 3

3. Assumed flow of people’s circulation and how they might move in an empty site, deriving the final footprint.

Function with relation to circulation Providing Local markets, with easy Access to residents as well as commutes and retail and restaurants in other direction

4. Removing walls and providing larger open space.

5. Providing a larger and direct entrance to the underground metro

6. Breaking the site and creating an

imagined footprint surrounding the well

9. Direct entrance to the underground Metro at the center of the site.

8. Schematic diagrams of the imagined form, growing higher and more private at the far end of the site

7. Providing a well in the center as an entrance, Creating the left most more public as it comes within the path for the commutes and residents

The concept of the design on the road continues in designing the structure as well.

The full structure is accessed by three elevators and multiple staircases.

To observe porosity and transparency, the facade is made out of polycarbonate. The facade turns opaque as it goes higher and simultaneously so do the functions. The undulating roof is supported by varied height of tree-like columns.

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The plaza outside is the open area that makes the transit from Metro Line 1 to Metro Line 3 less Congested. The left side of the site is a landscaped area above the underground parking for the area. There are multiple entrances for Metro Line 3, each for different access points and in different direction. The Market is located at the outside of the site accessible by the locals as well as the people who commute.

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Drawings | 06

Section AA’

Section AA’ The plaza will provide large open space and free movement in comparison to what exists today.

The structural facade is made out polycarbonate. Polycarbonate, unlike glass, doesn’t heat up the structure or its surroundings. At human level the material is transparent to make it seem like an open structure. It starts turning opaque as it goes up, which compliments the function within. Studying the sun path and wind direction, the varying height of the structure will provide maximum shade, throughout the day, and maximum natural light within the structure.

The well in the center will be covered by a glass roof standing on the columns and it will function as direct access to the underground metro.

Parking for the structure is provided pursuant to the adjacent site which will have a function of an open garden and seating space.

07 | Marol Paseo

Section BB’

Section BB’

Well with direct access to the ticketing area to Line 3

Shoe Repair

Post Office

Drug Store

Dry Cleaners

ticketing

Prayer room Toilet Toilet

Office

Non-Ticketed Area

Office

Ticketed Area

Smoking Area

Plan at -6.00M The ticketing area for Line 3 will hold all the important things that a person who commutes might require. Dry cleaners, post office, ATM, food, medicine and shoe shiners are a few things that it will hold. Considering the population it will hold, the plan is more open than the stations that exist today.

Drawings | 08

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The floor is shaped so as to make the circulation easier and connect and make the building as one. Most of the function of the floor is retail with the main cafeteria on the southern most end.

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Metro Line 3

09 | Marol Paseo

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slabs reduce, creating larger space and floor to ceiling ht at the cafeteria. three armed columns are of different heights to supthe undulating roof which approximately starts at this ht.

As we go higher, the functions get more private. This floor has a giant library with a crèche or a baby center. This slab is smaller than the previous one.

The roof is of varied height to provide continual sunlight throughout the structure, making it seem lighter.

Retail

Section CC’

Drawings | 10

Follow the arcade Streets of Archways | Fort Area | Mumbai | India Follow the Arcade provides a walkway through heritage, to experience and locate the hidden gems of the area. Colonial structures in this area still stand strong and are identified by colonial arcades. To add to the identity, I have provided a passage of archways that lead you to different areas of the site.

The arcades were constructed to protect us from harsh, humid sunlight and pouring monsoons of Bombay.

Today they stand as the identity. Walking through the congested streets today, I came across many weathered and forgotten buildings that are termed heritage but has no value in our, citizen’s eyes. Therefore, this project aims to open up these places in the given area and provide a faster and safer route to maneuver the site.

Mumbai has a vast history, it has been ruled by Peshwa and Mauryan Empires, and colonized under the British Rule. Britishers have impacted the architecture of the city in many form and few of those are in Fort Area of the city. The area was one of the planned areas of the city, with tantamount of open and built space. With time the area started becoming congested and illegal settlements took over. The space that was left open by the planners was encroached. It hid the gems deep within the web of structures.

Always the financial heart of the city, The area has few of the most prominent museums, courts, libraries, universities, banks, restaurants, religious structures and most importantly commercial offices.

CONCERN

iv/viii The main concern in the area is Space. While walking through these streets, one feels claustrophobic and lost.

It’s impossible to see what is going on through the congestion, hiding the identity of the area.

Commercial 75.4%

Governmental 2.8%

The pedestrian area around Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) is the most efficient for people to travel. And thats what I plan to do, to create comfortable passageway for people to commute from one place to another.

Industrial 3.5%

Religious 1.8%

Restaurants 7.5%

Banks 12.2%

1933, Fort, Mumbai

Britishers started demarcating the area with plots for specific government buildings.

Bombay HIgh Court

Church

Industrial Asiatic Library

Commercial Governmental Religious Restaurants Banks Green Spaces Unbuilt Spaces Vehicular Circulation Best Circulation Pedestrian Access Metro Line 3 Line

Bombay Stock Exchange

1942, Fort, Mumbai

Government buildings coming up with Art- Deco and Colonial architecture.

Activity in the area Area: 3,23,189 sq.m Built-up area: 2,06,741 sq.m Unbuilt area: 1,16,448 sq.m Parking area: 32,567 sq.m

Density Diagram 2017, Fort, Mumbai

Smallest of open spaces now encroached and taken over.

13 | Follow the Arcade

The red spots highlights the areas where there will be maximum population and density

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Map 1

Creating nodes by creating, connecting, straightening and opening up the dead ends to form continuous paths

Map 2 Heritage structures Heritage path Industrial path Commercial path

Creating specific plazas to create certain pauses for interactive corridors for three major functions of the area: Heritage, Commercial and Industrial Lamassu

Map 3

The red areas are the areas that are the most congested. The location of the plazas will try and free these areas up, to have a smooth circulation.

Plan

The plaza is made by diagramatizing it from the Lamassu, involving water and fire, as having water outside the fire temple is termed auspicious. Agiary or a fire temple is a place of worship for the Zoroastrians. .The Lamassu or the guarding angel of the Zoroastrians that guards the temple through ill-will and mishaps.

STRATEGY

Initial Study | 14

The path you take from any street of the area you will make you walk through an arcade and those arcades will lead you to the main circle, The Horniman circle. Structures have been broken down, changed and tweaked at different places, to support the functions and to support the plan. All decisions are based on the concept of opening up the hidden heritage buildings and create a edestrianfriendly path throughout the locality.

Banaji Agiary

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St. Thomas Cathedral Church

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Bombay High Court

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Bombay Life Building

Building 5

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Horniman Circle

Building 6

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Asiatic Library

Road

Parisian Bakery

Shahid

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Walkthrough

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Flat arched facades will be a signature for retail stores or banks.

Open plaza

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Building 3

Building 1

Building 2

Function: Heritage Museum

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The huge bank will be broken down into 3 different blocks to make it more public

Building 4

Building 5 Four different ATMs of the area combined in one structure.

A semi dome signifies working area or workshop spaces for the local business and wood workshops to function

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Giant bank broken down to create a path and open up a dead end

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Building 7

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Initial Study | 16

The esplanade mansion Reappropriation | Fort Area | Mumbai | India In form and in content cities are the epitome of diversity. Diversity is a result of history, culture and infrastructure. Mumbai is a diverse metropolitan city and it took decades for it to be converted from the seven isles of Bombay, to Mumbai. As important the old culture and the existing fabric is, its evolution to accommodate the ever-changing diversity and needs of its inhabitants is paramount. There are numerous structures in Mumbai with rich cultural and heritage value, but they are neglected to the point of dilapidation. Regeneration of these structures is of great importance. Regeneration or re-appropriation is a process of growing and solving the problem economically, physically and socially.

Once upon a time the Watson’s Hotel or Esplanade Mansion was one of the most elite hotels of Bombay. It is India’s oldest surviving cast-iron building, situated in Kalaghoda district of Fort region, Mumbai. It is named after the owner, John Watson. The iron was prefabricated in England and assembled on site. It housed 130 rooms, a restaurant and a bar. The hotel also has an atrium of 30M x 9M, originally used as a ballroom, or a theatre with a glass roof.

In 1960, when Watson died, the hotel lost its popularity to Taj and was later converted to offices and later into a residential place. Over years, apathy towards the building has led to its decay, and is currently in a dilapidated state.

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overlapping new on old

Watson’s Hotel or Watson’s Esplanade Hotel was the starting point for cast-iron construction in India. During the time of construction, pre-cast iron construction was at its prime.

John Watson commissioned the construction of this structure where the iron was cast in England and then assembled on site.

Construction is a modular column beam construction, where expansion was possible.

The hotel was the prime location for the British with occasional movie screenings and ball dances held under the atrium. The Hotel had a direct view of the ocean and was located in close proximity to the offices, high court, universities, museums and galleries of that time. To follow the identity of arcades in the fort area, the structure has a 6m walkway underneath with exposed steel columns and beams. Everything from railings to lifts was built-in iron.

Addition of new to old

Injecting new in old

Land use Commercial Institutional Retail Restaurants and cafes Residential Connectivity and continuation from new on old

Juxtaposition of new on old

Vehicular and pedestrian movement

19 | The Esplanade Mansion

Types of Regeneration of old structures

Sun path diagram

Proposed Plan The area is highly populated with vehicles as well as pedestrians. I propose to make an underground roadway from one end of the road to another, making the full area pedestrian.

The existing dilapidated structure is shut off.

The structure would be open architecture with glass as the facade and the walkway size doubled to make it more open to public.

Drawings | 20

Plan at +1.50M

Plan at +7.50M

21 | The Esplanade Mansion

Plan at +12.50M

Plan at +16.50M

Section 1 Drawings | 22

Plan at +19.50M

Plan at +22.50M

West Elevation 23 | The Esplanade Mansion

Plan at +25.50M

Section 2

Section 1

Terrace plan

Section 2

South Elevation Drawings | 24

Tetrical housing Mass Housing | Nmims, Juhu | Mumbai | India Tetrical Housing is a faculty housing scheme for our university.

It aims to provide the inhabitants an ambiance of peace and tranquility from our everyday urban experience. The thicket of vegetation and the open architecture of individual houses will provide a sanguine environment. Through the compactness, the structures are designed to provide the social impact of the society that the modern structures have eliminated.

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S V Road Site

C r e e k NMIMS/ Mithibai University

NM College

DJS University

Gulmohar Road

N Site Plan

An ideal site for faculties who live far, the site is located adjacent to the web of universities on the main road. This project is aimed at cleaning the polluted creek and provide a housing scheme with sufficient houses for families, living in 1BHK, 2BHK and 3BHK. The creek acts as a boundary between the site and the university which will also act as a promenade for pedestrians. The site is divided into 10 sites, with individual amenities, like library, dispensary, markets, etc. My site having the amenity of library. The site lies between the main road and the creek promenade.

4. Primary separation of pods, Ground floor layout

5. Floor separation, for balconies and ease of movement

1. Site divided into cells for placement of mass and void

5. Movement diagram

Each individual pod is then broken into Tetrical shapes, with appropriate mass and void for ease of movement and for sufficient open spaces, sunlight and wind.

2. Plan made more simple, by considering the trees and other landscape requirements.

6. Final movement diagrams, for appropriate sunlight and shapes and forms

The blocks go as high as 9-10M. The higher you go, more private the houses get, with larger and individual terraces.

The placement of forms are arranged to provide tunnels and create entrances to the forms.

8. Scale and form

7. Tunnel sketch

27 | Tetrical housing

3. Made more simple, by considering circulation and movement.

The privacy of each block is derived by tunnels or pathways that lead to courtyards. They mark as the entryway to each block. The arrangement of each block is designed considering sun as the primary factor. The form designed provides sufficient sun and wind.

9. Arrangement of forms

10. Tetrical form 1.1

12. Tetrical form 2

11. Tetrical form 1.2

21. Sun path diagram 1.0

13. Tetrical form 3

15. Axonometric of Cluster 1

14. Tetrical form 4

16. Axonometric of Cluster 2

Each fenestration designed is based on the sun path diagram.

Morning rays

17. Axonometric of Cluster 3

22. Sun path diagram 1.1

Afternoon rays. The forms are arranged such that all the houses get sufficient sunlight

23. Sun path diagram 1.2 18. Exploded Axonometric of Cluster 1

Evening rays.

24. Cluster 1

19. Exploded Axonometric of Cluster 2

25. CLuster 2

20. Exploded Axonometric of Cluster 3

26. CLuster 3

28 | Concept

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Plan at 0.00M

Basement is at 0.00M as the main road is at 0.00M and to maintain the privacy if the site is at 3.00M

My site has a library and space for tutorial classes. The library would be the largest of the university, with all the books required. The class spaces would be for professors who want to take extra classes post any lectures.

LIbrary 0.00M

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Plan at +4.50M

The ground is raised at +3.00M to maintain the privacy and to be away from traffic on the main SV Road. The path leading to each house is a zig-zag pattern that webs throughout the site.

30 | Drawings

Plan at +11.50M

Plan at +7.50M

Cluster 2 Plan at +4.50M

31 | Tetrical housing

Plan at +11.50M

Plan at +11.50M

Plan at +7.50M

Plan at +7.50M

Cluster 1 Plan at +4.50M

Cluster 3 Plan at +4.50M

32 | Drawings

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Plan at +7.50M The entrances to the top levels will be through the terraces of the bottom levels, which will act as balcony for the for the first level.

33 | Tetrical housing

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Plan at +11.00M Higher you go, more private the houses will get

34 | Drawings

The giant feast

Sci Arc Summer School | Software: MAYA | Mumbai | India

The giant feast was a part of summer school termed, Portraits of Shape and Form, held in the summer of 2018. We learned all the basic tools of MAYA software. The assignment was broken down into multiple smaller projects like, Digital modeling, line drawing, Rendering, Lightings, Texture mapping and composition. The final assignment was to bring all this teachings together and make an imaginative still life composition.

In the past, ‘Still Life’ has been the classical exercise to represent what exists in real life. I learned how to represent ‘still life’ as my own original set up. This project made me learn to think in terms of shape, proportion and composition.

We looked at the works of Christian Rex Van Minnen as the foundation of our workshop, who uses unusual objects in his still life paintings.

SUMMER SCHOOL 2018

1. Scrabble:

Jumbled up a number of letters and created a 3D object by cutting, trimming and blending.

2. Bubble Dance: Merged and trimmed multiple similar 3D forms, to create a 3D object.

3. Alpha Ape:

Merged and trimmed multiple similar 3D forms, to create a 3D object.

4. The Dementor: Used basic animation and material rendering, like drape. Lighting to highlight objects.

5. The sponge:

Different ways of highlighting the structure by placing lights in different ways and directions.

6. Blast off:

Explosion and animation. Adding light within gave it a starry effect of explosion. Started with a basic polygon and animating it to blast it off.

7. Uncanny Skyscrapers:

Jumbled up 3 cartoon characters. Extruded, merged and created a series of uncanny skyscrapers .

5. The sponge

4. The dementor

37 | The Giant Feast

1. Scrabble

2. Bubble Dance

3. Alpha ape

6. Blast off

7. Uncanny Skyscrapers

38 | The Giant Feast

Competitions

Publications

MATRIX

24H Competition | ifideasforward

41 | 24H Competition

42 | Matrix

43 | Competition

44 | Tiny House

Taach

Kalaghoda exhibition competition | 2018 | Mumbai #kalaghoda | #kalaghodafestival | #kalaghoda2018

Kalaghoda is a small alley in fo metaphor to the brief given to exhibition also provides photo

45 | Taach

ort which is highlighted by a black horse statue. Kalaghoda Festival is an annual festival participated and visited by people all around the world. Taach, meaning a horse’s foot, is a o us. The brief was to provide a carbon footprint to the ongoing carbon pollution, the color threads highlight the opposite to the black and white nature of pollution. The model in the ographic pixels to the public.

46 | Kalaghoda Exhibition

EXPRESSIONS

FOAID design installation competition | 2016 | Mumbai

Curiosity, it is a hunger to expl ity as an eye-opener, we wante and moving, will show differen teeth.

47 | Curiosity

Axonometric of the modules A. Acrylic top B. Upper Paper wheels C. Bottom paper wheels D. Acrylic bottoms

lore and a delight in discovery. When we are curious we have a child-like habit of prodding and asking questions. We are attracted to new experiences. Based on our concept of curiosed to design something that would reflect the human-eye or particularly the iris. The final design brings out the complete idea, where a walk-through through many apertures , static nt directions and areas through these apertures. One such module acts as its own sustaining unit. One made up of many calculated leafs which open and shut through a wheel of

48 | FOAID Exhibition

BARCELONA This book is a documentation of our trip to Barcelona, We studied the cultural history and the development of the city blocks. For the study, the class was divided into two groups, and we have extensively drawn and documented two blocks across a main street. The drawings include axonometrics, mixed use study, plans, elevations and model study.

49 | Trip Documentation

SRI LANKA This book is a documentation of our trip to Sri Lanka. The book contains a comprehensive and an intensive study of sketches and measured drawings of places such as Kandalama, Bentota, Sigiriya, Lunuganga and Galle.

Trip tSo Sri Lanka was to study the renowned architect Geoffrey Bawa. All the places we visited and documented had his influence.

50 | Publication

Devangi Kansagra +91 9769293594 dkansagra01@gmail.com