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Architecture Portfolio

Divolka Sawlani CEPT University

EDUCATION

CONTENTS

B.Architecture (2017-present) C.E.P.T. University, Ahmedabad

INNOV8 TUBE Workplace/ Mixed-use

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PLAY+GROUND Public Space

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WHEELS OF HEAVEN Church

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SPACE FRAMED

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HSC in CBSE, 2017 Delhi Public School, Surat (96%)

DIGITAL SKILLS Autocad Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Adobe Photoshop Lumion Microsoft Office Rhinoceros Sketchup (Vray)

“Surrounded by a world full of ideas and possibilities, I believe there is always room for learning.

In my exposure to architecture so far, I have acquired a deep concern in the ideas of public realm and city life and its possible revitalization through architecture. I have also been intrigued by how spaces are inhabited and learning from the existing (diagramming and analysis) I’m also interested in learning about sustainable approaches to design and detailing as part of an architectural expression”

INITIATIVES Club Head ‘Discussion of the week’ Club Architecture in process Publishing page on Instagram

WORKSHOPS Feather Pavilion, CEPT University Shell Structure, CEPT University Doshi We know, CEPT University Relative Study Program, Goa, India

Divolka Sawlani 15.07.1999 Surat, Gujarat, India divolka157@gmail.com +919925444520

Urban Transformations - Learning from the Dutch Experience, Amsterdam

Currently pursuing undergraduate dissertation on Gated Communities Does the architecture of GCs encourage a sense of community within?

Follies framing Open Spaces VS Upcoming Construction

Design Intervention

BLOX Tiny Library Competition

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WORKSHOPS

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Workplace Neighborhoods Thesis and Strategy

Guided by: Nimit Killawala, Prateek Bannerjee The flexible workspace phenomenon has spiked the demand for co- working space in India. Unlike generic office buildings located in CBD’s, these typologies work best in civic environment, supported by community institutions. The studio focuses on creating a mixed-use collaborative workspace wherein individuals can tap into networks of collaborations offered within their immediate neighborhood.

Innov8 Tube

Expansion plan for Space 118

Mazgaon comprises of different parcels of land severed by a railway yard, that have no sense of an anchor. The client, Space 118 unable to make physical connections to their immediate neighborhood, which could bring in patrons and clientele.

The project is a workplace for the creative cluster (artists, designers). The entire site is perceived as a large open space in the form of a public park and the built form that primarily comprises private functions floats on top of it.

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The collaborative workspace takes the form of a long corridor with overlooking balconies

OPEN TO SKY COURT

LOUNGE

SKYLIGHT

BALCONY

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Leisure City Thesis and Strategy

Guided by: Blanca Reyes, Udayan Mazumdar The studio focused on the neighborhood of Bopal in Ahmedabad, which is a generic contemporary Indian city, with fast-paced developer driven development and very little idea of ‘city life’ or ‘community’.

The studio uses the architecture of leisure as a tool to address these issues .

PLAY+GROUND The neighborhood of Bopal has become the victim of intense fragmentation and polarization due to the increasing concentration inside self-sufficient residential societies, putting the city life of Bopal at stake. In such a scenario play is used as a medium to bring the city together.

The proposal has been divided into two scalesUrban PLAY+GROUNDS and Neighborhood PLAY+GROUNDS. Both the Neighborhood and Urban PLAY+GROUNDS work with the ground to sculpt a playscape and create an inclusive space where the community could come together to rediscover the city life

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In response to the intense polarization in Bopal, PLAY is used as a medium to bring the city together Why is it necessary?

Neighborhood PLAY+GROUND

Rethinking Compound Walls as shared playspace

The city life of Bopal is at stake.With the growing trend of self-sufficiency, people have started living in bubbles leaving no room for social interaction, conflict-acceptance or urbanism. The community in Bopal co-exists rather than co-living.

What can PLAY achieve?

It enables the stakeholders to have a common ground which could relinquish the other divides, even if it is momentary. The idea of play cuts across class, its something everyone can enjoy. The scheme is divided in two scales- Neighbourhood and Urban playgrounds

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The neighbourhood playgrounds are shared playgrounds constructed between two or more residendential societies and are created by rethinking their edge conditions/ boundary walls

CURVE & TAPER

LEVELS & CIRCULATION

The urban playgrounds are large scale inclusive playgrounds that form a network

SHARED PLAYSPACE

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SCULPTURES OF MOTION THEATRE OF PLAY

WATER COURT

THE GARDEN

Urban PLAY+GROUND The urban playgrounds are large scale inclusive playgrounds that embrace the diversity they hold by providing users with a choice.

It is in the spirit of embracing the provision of choice, that the Urban PLAY+GROUND offers four distinct experiences- Theatre of play, Sculptures of Motion (A skate park), Water Court and the Garden 09

Detailing a fragment of every zone

Theatre of Play : Climbing wall as an alternative entrance

Water Court : Kiosk acts like a shaded sidewalk

Sculptures of Motion: Parking Structure

The Garden : AMUL parlour acts an extension of the ground and houses a large slide

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Theatre of Play Employing the strategy of ‘To see and be seen’, the space allows people to be constantly aware about the presence of ‘the other’ to display the diversity of the place and allow for better integration

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Strange Details Constructing and Specifying

Guided by: Mehul Bhatt Architecture is largely perceived as an expression of an idea/ concept/intention.

But its manifestation is rooted in the realities of construction and nature of materials. The studio explores the idea of detailing as a part of architectural expression by assigning the student an unbuilt project by a famous architect and the designing lies in how the key idea of the building is communicated in its finest details.

The Wheels of Heaven The project is a church designed

by Aldo van Eyck that tries to question and break away from the conventional idea of a church. As the site of the design is shifted to Ahmedabad, there are changes- the concrete frame turns into steel and the enclosure is formed by brick jaali and cavity walls. .

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PLAN AT +12M

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WALL SECTIONS 16

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Designing with people Planning and organizing

Guided by: Urvi Desai The Studio explored coproduction of a space together by the user and the architect as a process of architectural design. It made an attempt to intertwine critical design practice with everyday spatial practice, focusing on user participation through consultations, workshops and design charrettes.

Space Framed

Follies framing open spaces v/s upcoming construction

Over the last few years, the construction in the university area has been increasing at an alarming rate, to such an extent that the very few open spaces in the city are stake. The project is a set of double frames which frame two contrasting spaces-a newly constructed object/ building and an open space which can soon be turned into a construction site (a space at stake). This will help create consciousness among the students. Also each frame is a place accomadating services like toilets, etc., and informal spaces which would enable the students to inhabit open spaces more efficiently.

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Understanding the concerns of the site and people

Increasing Students

Presence of barriers

Absence of open spaces

Absence of a no man’s land

Existing stakeholders losing ownership over their land

Functioning buildings on site shutting down

Students utilizing parking as a chilling space- No space for informal activities

New University eating up land (open spaces) which are used for a variety of other activities to make way for its new buildings.

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Identifying Key Concern and Response The disappearence of open spaces on campus is a problem as they are breathing spaces and students use them for a variety of informal activities.

The projects is a set of folliies that sought to cater to this problem by creating a double frame- framing two contrasting views- a newly constructed builtform and an open space which is at stake.

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Select a frame. In this case it frames the gate that reinforces new boundaries on campus and a playground used for sports activities

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Add services supporting the function of the site. Services such as toilets, showers, drinking water and equipment storage have been added.

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Besides creating consciousness, the project tries to improve the ownership of these spaces by improving inhabitation .

This is done by identifying activities which are already present and improving them by providing facilities and informal spaces

Add informal seatings around the folly

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Tiny Library Competition Project

BLOX A Mobile Library Taking into consideration, the absence of education in many remote area the library is mobile, made up of a container of 7.5* 2.3 * 2.5 metres which can open up to form a space.

But now, how does one design for the people they have no knowledge about?

In order to facilitate a changing space and enabling people to make their own setting, the BLOX comprises of a set of modules of cubes of 450*450*450 mm which can be assembled together to create a variety of settings.

Essentially made for supporting the function of a library one could use them for other activitiesplaying, discussing etc.

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Relative Study Program

Documentation and Measure Drawing

Guided by: Sankalpa The vernacular systems of building offer a great insight into principles of building by the people. The documentation focused on learning from the vernacular architecture of Goa, understanding the structural systems.

The fountainhas area in Panjim, Goa is a reminiscence of the portugese architecture of colonial times - with its laterite walls, timber spanning systems and pitched roofs.

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Installations Feather Pavilion The feather pavilion is a structure constituted by six componentseach of a different material(s).

As the material changes so does the load transfer and mechanism of acquiring stability.

The metal component gains its strength by folding which is achieved via riveting of MS sheets which are perforated to reduce dead weight.

MATERIAL: PERFORATED METAL SHEET

Shell Structure The shell structure is a composite structure achieving stability by transferring load via the surface of the ply and the aluminium frame.

It is constructed on an independent mateal frame braced with ply on the sides.

MATERIAL: ALUMINIUM+PLY

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Collage

IIM Bangalore Doshi We Know- Workshop The workshop required a group of students to carefully study and understand one work of the architect B.V. Doshi, importantly in terms of their inhabitation.

The collage is a depiction of a hypothetical situation- the year is 2030, and the ciy of Bangalore is struck with a meteor causing mass destruction and making the all the residents to shift to IIM Bangalore as their permanent residence. The drawing tries to capture the ‘taking over’ of the building by the shattered society.

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Divolka Sawlani +919925444520 divolka157@gmail.com https://issuu.com/divolka.sawlani.barch17