Dhruv Sachala

Selected works Dhruv Sachala

Dhruv Sachala dhruvsachala1@gmail.com (m) +91 8286351282 Plot no-376/7, Sector-3, Charkop, Kandivali West, Mumbai - 400067 -dhruvsachalaa

Education And Training 2018 - Ongoing 2016 - 2018 2004 - 2016

School of Enviornment and Architecture | Mumbai University Bachelor of Architecture T.P. Bhatia College of Science | Mumbai University Grade 11 and 12 Our Lady Of Remedy High School | Mumbai University Till Grade 10

Workshops 2021

Reading Rhythms | Shivani Shah, Eloise maltby Maland

2021

Curation, Exibition Design | Anuj Daga

2020

Bricolage as a method | Rupali Gupte

2020

Creative Writing | Snehal Vadher

2020

The Architectural Imgaination | Harvard university

2019

Urban Ecology | Anand Pendharkar

2018

Hands on Cob | Design Jatra

Skills AutoCad Photoshop | Indesign | Illustrator Rhino | Sketchup Hand-drafting | Model making Basic carpentry and Masonry | Architectural Photography Microsoft Word | Excel | Powerpoint

Languages English | Gujarati | Hindi | Marathi

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Rescue cum Community Centre

Passive House design

Folds in the flux

Forth Semester

Third Semester

Third Semester

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What is a Library?

Activating (in)between spaces

Design to Detail

Forth Semester

Third Semester

Sixth Semester

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What is a School?

Activities and Interests

Chesha

Sixth Semester

01.

Rescue cum Community Centre Managing wetness and adapting lightness.

Poisur, Mumbai

Sem 3

year. The intervention starts with engaging with a question What does it cost to survive? The interventio is a bamboo pavilion explored through the idea of lightness in terms of space, material and cost. Whil managing the wetness by incorporarting buoyant foundation and a community space which can be use throughout the year.

Hence the intervention wants to achieve once approach towards survivability , with its fundamental an philosophical core as cost.

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Passive House design Adapting to climate change Kozikode, Kerala

Sem 3

The module started with Adrressing a question What is a Typology. Further we selceted our sites based on the climatic conditions and the context partially informed the choice of material system, construction, joinery detail and the design elements. Interveing the design from the idea of how the house can sustain itself .

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Folds in the Flux A transforming village Korlai, Maharashtra

Sem 4

Korali a village in Raigad, Maharahtra. A vIllage located at the mouth of Kundalika River. The village was a portugese port which was used for trading. The module started with looking at the village through the lens of stories narrated by the villagers and interospecting the the transformation o the village and the life of people inhabiting the village.

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What is a library?

Library as disobedient grids JVPD, Mumbai

Sem 4

The site is located in the suburbs of Mumbai In andheri near the JVPD complex, a children’s park, where all the children from the neighbourhood and the near by self built settlement, spend their time. Peircing through the banal nature of JVPD, the Library is formed through the merging and juxtaposing of the grids in the layout, were it takes advantage of the location to create a rupture in its otherwise banal nature.

Bringing back the oral history odf libray of listening in the intervention, oit eplores the idea of and sharing people’s experiences through Videotapes, audiotapes and talks.

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Activating (In)between spaces Inner city Architectural Inserts Alibaugh

Sem 4

We started observing the patterns of everyday life in the inner city of alibaugh through the lens of architectural techtonics.

The study helped us identify transfoming scenarios where we can sensitively interven in the inner city condition. The device of architectural tectonics helped us device our conceptual appartus for our design intervention. Further crafting these primary readings into spatial diagrams

06.

Design to Detail What is a Institutaion?

Prabhadevi, Mumbai

Sem 6

each other. Design of detail further looks into crafting the built form in conversation with the intent of detail of the design. Closely looking at surface articulation and crafting junctiuons of materility. Which helped us understand the construction process, assembly and asthetic of material.

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ALL DIMENSIONS ARE IN MILLIMETERS UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED. ALL THE WRITTEN DIMENSIONS ARE TO BE FOLLOWED. DRAWINGS TO BE SEEN WITH RESPECT TO ALL OTHER DRAWINGS. P.C.C. IS IN THE RATIO OF 1:3:6 (CEMENT : SAND : COARSE AGGREGATE).

ALL LEVELS SPECIFIED IN METERS. ALL DECISIONS REINFORCEMENT CALCULATIONS NEED TO BE TAKEN BY STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. DO NOT SCALE THE DRAWING. ALL DISCREPANCIES SHALL BE BROUGHT TO NOTICE TO THE ARCHITECT BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT OF ANY WORK. RICHER CONCRETE MIX TO BE USED FOR THE FOUNDATION AND M:30 MIX TO BE USED FOR THE SUPER STRUCTURE, ALL MIXES SHALL BE SUGGESTED, EXAMINED AND APPROVED BY THE STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. VERIFY FIELD CONDITIONS AND COORDINATION WITH THE PROJECT DOCUMENTS PRIOR TO PROCEEDING WITH THE WORK. WORK WITHIN THE FIELD BOUNDARIES AS SPECIFIED IN THE PROJECT DOCUMENT AND COMPLY WITH ALL THE APPLICABLE BUILDING CODES, REGULATIONS AND ORDINANCE REQUIREMENTS. OCCUPANTS ON THE ADJACENCIES TO THE PROJECT AREA SHALL CONTINUE UNINTERRUPTED/UNDISTURBED OCCUPANCY DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROJECT.

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DESIGN SCHOOL AT PRABHADEVI, MUMBAI DHRUV SACHALA ROLL NO | A18 - 26 THIRD YEAR B.ARCH 2020 - 2021

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07.

What is a school?

Ashram school Veti, Murbad

Sem 6

Re - imagining the process of learning and idea of education in the context of vibrant tribal culture. Thinking of each and every space as a element. Bringing them togther with blurred boundaries of inside and outside. Minimising the operational energies and maintainence cost of the structure, re -thinking the use of local materials to suit the needs.

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Hands - on

Mixed works Working with new material helps me understand their nature.

It brings me closer to the material and also engage with the community working with the material.

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Chesha

Clothing label Samruddhi Pawar | Dhruv Sachala

Chesha is a practice where we expeiment with natural dyes and various techniques of textiles. Engaging with various communities from different parts of India and learning frrom them and their stories.