EARTHIST LANDSCAPES
Project: The Ring
Location: Malkapur, Buldhana
Site Area: 0.5 Acre
Consultant Architects: Cellar Door Design Studio, Nagpur
Status: Completed, 2020
Landscape Concept:
The ring, a continous pathway, that allows the stroller to walk with ease and comfort was the primary intent, the rest of the required amenities were composed to compliment the primary idea. The existing hexagonal non-functional water body is redesigned into a fish pond and hosts a mango tree. Thus, becoming the heart of the design.
Executed Photographs:The Ring, Malkapur
Project: Courtyard House
Location: Malkapur, Buldhana
Site Area: 1200sq.ft. Landscape area
Consultant Architects: Cellar Door Design Studio
Status: Completed, 2020
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Project: Stepping Tones
Location: Nashik
Site Area: 5005 sq. ft.
Consultant Architect: Clear Story
Status: Phase I Completed 2022
Terrace level Plan
Ground level Plan
Stepping Tones, Nashik Rendered imageExecuted Images: Stepping Tones, Nashik
Project: Hitesh Apartment Terrace Landscape
Location: Ghatkopar, Mumbai
Site Area: 3000sq.ft.
Consultant Architects:
Status: Ongoing
Hitesh Apartment Terrace Landscape, Mumbai
Project: Smita Apartment Terrace Landscape
Location: Ghatkopar, Mumbai
Site Area: 2600sq.ft.
Consultant Architects:
Status: Ongoing
Executed Images: Smita Apartment Terrace Landscape, Mumbai
Project: Home for the Aged - Phase I
Location: Mumbai
Site Area: 0.4 Acres
Consultant Architect: Samir D’Monte Architects
Status: Phase I Courtyard Ongoing
Phase
I Courtyard in progress: Home for the Aged, Mumbai
Project: Home for the Aged - Phase II
Location: Mumbai
Site Area: 0.22 Acres
Consultant Architect: Samir D’Monte Architects
Status: Phase II Frontyard Ongoing
Phase II Frontyard in progress: Home for the Aged, Mumbai
Project: St. Patrick’s Society: The Park
Location: Hadapsar, Pune
Site Area: 1.8 Acres
Consultant Architect: Samir D’Monte Architects
Status: Ongoing
Masterplan: St. Patrick’s The Park, Pune
Project: Hearthstone Villa
Location: Alibaug
Site Area: 16000 sq.ft.
Consultant Architect: Kreeze Design
Status: Phase I completed in 2022
Phase II ongoing
Masterplan: Hearthstone Villa, Alibaug
Executed Images: Hearthstone Villa, Alibaug
Project: The Green Factory
Location: MIDC, Nagpur
Site Area: 4004sq.ft.
Consultant Architect: Cellar Door Design Studio
Status: Ongoing
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Site in progress
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Project: Canteen at SPSIL
Location: Kandla, Gujrat
Site Area: 1.4 Acres
Consultant Architect: Samir D’Monte Architects
Status: Ongoing
Project: Presentation for Powai Lake
EXISTING PROMENADE
Promenade
Location: Powai, Mumbai
Trail and Open Spaces
Status: Presented, 2021
All the important Open spaces along the walk trail are marked alongside in the plan.
Powai Garden/ Deer Park
The promenade presently is primarily used only for walks.
Powai Dam
Powai Lake
Visarjan Deck
The Visarjan Deck is used for congregation.
Children’s Park
The Children’s park is active in the evenings during school days. And highly active over the weekends.
Powai Garden
Powai
Vatika
The fountain show that used to take place at the Powai gardens has not been functional for a long time now.
The lake view garden opens up a deck that gives a panoramic view.
Lake view Garden
IIT-B Lake edge
Powai Vatika provides direct vehicular access up-till the Lake edge.
ASPIRATIONS
Imageability to achieve
Vision Statement:
The intent is to design creative public realm framework to create varied identities for the presently homogeneous open spaces. Adding layers of comfort through softscape, interaction through elements of design and strategies for better functioning of the public spaces.
SURVEY
What users say!
The users are the most important factors to ideate any design. A quick survey based on interviews was taken to understand what issues the users face, their needs and aspirations for the promenade. The user group selected is the one that use the promenade on a regular basis, age group between 20-30 years of age.
Light up the whole stretch evenly as evenings are a the only good time to visit the promenade.
The puja waste may contribute to a composting pit altogether but the look should not be like a waste bin.
Signboards for stupids not to loiter stuff in such places especially!!
The cobbled pathway, the dense trees making an archway overlooking the lake, this serenity needs to be preserved.
CONNECTIVITY MAINTENANCE
It is not very well connected.. You can’t just enter from anywhere.. You need to walk a lot.
If removing water hyacinth is part of this scope then a mechanism to remove it would be great as it deteriorates the experiential quality!
SECURITY AESTHETICS
I very recently heard of cases in and around the promenade of sexual abuse... Design should cater to the security of the society.
Will prefer some hanging flowering plants with pink or lavender colour flower like the one in Japanese gardens.
EARTHIST LANDSCAPES
PROPOSALS
EARTHIST LANDSCAPES
Macro- Scale
Visual Connectivity:
Increasing legibility of each garden pockets with planting ideas, sculptures that are larger than life and other elements of design.
Connectivity:
External footpath:
Relation with the existing Skywalks, connections with the internal walkway in each of the gardens needs to be studied in detail, understanding the footfall from specific routes to efficiently work on the desired lines.
Internal walkway:
Adding the varied experiences while walking along the internal walkway.
Language of design:
Creating identity of the entire promenade with rich singular element of design or design style.
Interactions in design: Having activities for social awareness, creative learning and screenings of live theatre can add another social layers of interactive design.
Children’s Park
PROPOSALS
Elements in design
Seating:
Seating with robust materials, quality and with certain type of a sparking element, with and without backrests depending on the type of primary user group that the green pocket caters to.
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