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ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2018-2021
2021 INTERMEDIO
Alternative Learning Space
Rhino Grasshopper Lumion PS AI
2019 MADE IN BASINGSTOKE
Rome.IT
Basingstoke.UK
Mixed-use Artists' Residence and Studio (Work-from-home before it became the norm)
Rhino Grasshopper Vray PS AI
2020 reGROWTH Caen.FR
Integrated Migrant CoHousing and Urban Farming, Residential
Rhino Lumion PS AI
2018 OBSCURA
Seaside Art Gallery
Revit Sketchup Lumion PS AI
2020 COMPETITION
Flamingo Visitor Center
Rhino Lumion PS
PERSONAL INTERESTS
Photography
DSLR PS
Building Studies
Hand drawings
Portsmouth.UK
Abu Dhabi.UAE
Alternative Learning Space INTERMEDIO
Architecture as a symbol of power for Third Italian diaspora
An ongoing wave of Italian migration has been called "third Italian diaspora".
With a strong fincancial incentive to emigrate, 700,000 of 5 million Italians living abroad are resident in the UK.
In this hypothesis diaspora rejects the notion that the migrants have characteristics that only relate to geographical territory.
Diaspora here is concerned with routes, the connections and movements rather than roots, the origins.
• 30% OF ITALIAN EMIGRANTS TO THE UK HOLD A UNIVERSITY DEGREE
• MANY EMIGRANTS ESCAPE THE POLITICAL UNCERTAINTIES IN THE GOVERNMENT OF ITALY
• HIGH NET-WORTH INDIVIDUALS RELOCATE BACK WITH EXPERIENCE AND WEALTH TO INVEST AND SETTLE DOWN PERMANENTLY IN THEIR HOME COUNTRY
Education
Connections
The multi-polar rather than uni-linear connections leads to a diaspora engaging in unique activities
Intermedio is a 21st Century political showcase of the Italian diaspora representing their connections, return and movement, adding to the historical context of EUR as a World's Fair.
The decentralised learning space advocates sharing of mixed ideas to further catalyse social and cultural development by utilising accrued experience and capital of the diaspora.
The complex structure represents the new political power, history and connections.
Site
Not every migration is an exodus
Dominance of spatial arrangement relative to their explicit or implicit aspects
Neutrality in overlap of two types of spaces demands a flexible structure
Connection by the vertical and horizontal links formed between the explicit and implicit spaces in different linear, rotated and mirrored arrangements.
PROGRAM - LATERALIZATION OF BRAIN FUNCTION
The functions are divided according to two types of learning spaces, the Explicit and the Implicit Several spatial layouts are tested for all learning functions by taking typical respective floor areas to derive an overlapping collage of connecting spaces in plan.
Explicit Implicit
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 FLOOR PLANS EXPLICIT IMPLICIT
Continuous and connecting basic geometry
ArrayedGyroid
Hybrid
FORMDEVELOPMENT
BatwingSurface
DeformedGyroid
ContinuousBatwing
Complex Continuous Minimal Surfaces
Schwarz-D
Neovius
CREATIVE FACULTY FLOOR PLAN Level 3
Curved plates are extracted by laser-cutting. Boundary plates flange across the edge following the curve and the rest of the frames are connected through the combined plates. Metal mesh is then installed on either side and shotcrete is applied on it to create the final freeform structure. The primary structure is a stable minimal surface constructed with sprayed concrete on steel lattice. The floors are reinforced concrete with some as waffle slabs to span larger spaces.
CONSTRUCTION
TYPICAL DESIGN STUDIO WITH NATURAL NORTHERN LIGHT FABRIC
DIFFUSE LIGHT
GLASS ROOF IN
STUDIO VARIOUS OPENINGS IN TIMBER FRAME TRIANGULATED FACADE ALLOW NATURAL LIGHT INTO TYPICALLY IMPLICIT SPACES
FINS
THROUGH
PHOTOGRAPHY
MADE IN BASINGSTOKE
Mixed-use Artists' Residences + Studios
The Individual
is an artist, a hedonist and a family member. The single individuals need flexibility in a permanent house to accommodate the growing family and the subsequent use of space.
Work-from-home before it became the norm (2019).
This project was designed in my final year of BA Architecture (2019) as a sustainable solution to reducing carbon emissions from commute to work by building a 'work or home' community of creatives.
The Collective needs flexible space for social interaction achieved through exhibition.
The proposal aims to produce simple forms that reproduce complex relationships between the interior and exterior, the maker and the user. The public is attracted to the unique sights and sounds of the ‘work or home’ community.
Relationship between the individual and collective will inform the dialectic between permanence and flexibility.
Residential | Cultural
The Individual
DESIGN CONCEPT
Introducing creative workspace near homes as a sustainable way of working.
• The collective reduces carbon footprint by living in spaces designed as per ecological/ building biology methods.
• A rational linear residential space develops a relationship with the public path passing through the site and merges in to a public bridge.
• The individual socially engages with the collective and visitors who are drawn to the unique sounds and crafts created by the ‘work or home’ community.
INNER SECTION IS DESIGNED FOR EXHIBITION WHILE THE OUTER IS A PATH FOR PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS TO CROSS THE DUAL CARRIAGEWAY (MAIN ROAD) UNDERNEATH
COMMUTE REST REST
EAT EAT
ENTERTAIN ENTERTAIN
By replicating the individual’s general work and home space a rational and linear arrangement of the collective’s achieved, which is then connected to a public path on the right and moprhs into a transitional space on top.
Chute House a b
Public path on site The individual’s day at work, in commute then at home : spaces to rest, eat, relax and entertain WORK WORK
DEVELOPMENT
IN THE PARK
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
GALLERY BRIDGE DESIGN
ART
BUILDING
A ZIG-ZAG
A CURVILINEAR
IT CONNECTS TO THE BRIDGE
THE BUILDING FORM CONTRASTS THE RATIONAL LINEAR HOUSING UNIT AND MORPHS FROM
TO
FORM AS
THE SPACIAL CONCEPT CAN BE DIRECTLY TRANSLATED TO A HOUSE PLAN WHERE THE INDIVIDUAL ENTERS THE WORKSPACE FIRST AND THEN TO A BEDROOM TO KITCHEN AND BATHROOM TO FINALLY A RELAXATION SPACE LIKE A LOUNGE. THE ADVANTAGE THAT THE SITE OFFERS IS A CONTINUATION OF THE JOURNEY TO A BIG PARK a b
The Collective
PERMEABLE TIMBER LATTICE MAINTAINS A VISUAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE INSIDE AND THE OUTSIDE
THE PUBLIC REALM- PEDESTRIANS GET TEMPORARY SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER AND SEATING
GALLERY BRIDGE IS VISUALLY PERMEABLE FROM VARIOUS PROSPECTS ALONG THE ROAD AND SPACES UNDERNEATH
1. Gallery Bridge
2. Listed existing building
3. Workshops as front of housing
4a. Housing- singles and small families
5. Art in the park- Sculpture gallery
4b. Two storey housing
4c. Temporary living for visiting creatives
1 2 3 4a 4b 4c 4d 5
4d. Villas in the park- bigger familes
PERSPECTIVE IN CONTEXT
TOP GROUND FLOOR PLAN
FAR LEFT HOUSING PLAN CLOSE-UP
3-BED HOUSE
3-BED HOUSE WITH A BIGGER LOUNGE
LEFT BIGGER TEMPORARY HOUSING FOR VISITING ARTISTS - 8 ROOMS
VILLAS IN THE PARK
N
ELEVATIONS
TEMPORARY-LIVING VILLA
TYPICAL LOUNGE TYPICAL SINGLE BED EN-SUITE PERSPECTIVE SECTION SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE GENERIC GENERIC
LOUNGE
PERMEABILITY : EXPLODED VIEW OF GALLERY-BRIDGESECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
A. MANUAL WORKSHOP
B. 3D PRINTING WORKSHOP
C. BREAK BETWEEN THE LINEAR WORKSHOP TO MAINTAIN VISUAL PERMEABILITY
D. CERAMIC WORKSHOP
E. RELAXING SPACE
ART SPACE
A C D E F B
F.
HOUSE SECTION (1:50)
Urban farming |Migrant Cohousing | Residential development reGROWTH
An attempt is made "to break up the compactness of the selfcontained, often monotonous looking building volumes and give them more plasticity" (Corrodi & Spechtenhauser, 2008)
The migrant influx into France has increased the number of asylum seekers to over 100,000 with significant numbers of unaccommodated migrants settling in empty city pockets such as that in Caen and resorting to illicit work to survive on a daily basis. A more sustainable method of supporting migrants and a solution for continuous relocation is proposed through cohousing. Furthermore supply and demand of labourers is matched through professional integration of migrants in construction of the cohousing and residential building and employment in vertical farming.
• MOST MALE TEENAGERS WORK IN CONSTRUCTION AND ODD JOBS
• EDUCATING THEM IS CHALLENGING DUE TO RELOCATION DURING ASYLUM PROCESS
• SEVERAL WOMEN SQUATTERS ON THE SITE IN CAEN BECOME SEX WORKERS TO SURVIVE
Residential | Urban farming
MASSING AND SUDS PLANNING
(SUSTANABLE URBAN DRAINAGE SYSTEM)
VERTICAL FARMING DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
COHOUSING ACCOMMODATION
COMFORTABLE SHELTER WITH A FRAMEWORK OF CONFIGURABLE SPACES IS AVAILABLE FOR LONG RESIDENCE MIGRANTS TO MOVE IN FROM THE TEMPORARY OUTDOOR CAMPS. PERMANENT TOILETS, KITCHENS AND COMMUNAL SPACES PROVIDED.
RECONFIGURABLE WOOD-RAIL SYSTEM
A GRID OF PERMANENT HORIZONTAL BEAMS ALLOWS MIGRANTS TO SLOT WOODEN PANELS TO CONFIGURE THEIR SPACES AND CREATE APPROPRIATE PRIVATE DIVISIONS OF SINGLE, TWIN OR TRIPLE ROOMS OF VARIOUS SIZES
CONFIGURABLE ROOMS FOR MIGRANT RESIDENTS
1 THE CONCRETE BASE, LEVEL 1 CEILING AND WET ROOMS WILL BE BUILT TO ACCOMMODATE THE MIGRANTS.
2 A VERTICAL FARMING GREENHOUSE STRUCTURE IS CONSTRUCTED ABOVE
3 THE RESIDENTIAL APARTMENTS WILL BE BUILT WITH THE HELP OF MIGRANT CONSTRUCTION WORKERS.
PHASE 3 IS A MID-RISE HYBRID MASS TIMBER RESIDENCE
CONCRETE PODIUM TO SUPPORT THE BUILDING ABOVE AND TIMBER RAIL SYSTEM BELOW
CONCRETE CORES PROVIDE LATERAL SUPPORT
GLULAM TIMBER COLUMNS SUPPORT THE CLT PANELS OF FLOORS 2 AND 3
VERTICAL FARMING AND TYPICAL RESIDENTIAL
PLAN
CONSTRUCTION PHASES 1-3
1
GROUND FLOOR PLAN - MIGRANT HOUSING
2
2
1
1
2
2
3
FLOOR
x
Bedroom apartment with
South facing bedroom and an ensuite each
x
Bedroom Apartment with 1 South facing bedroom
x
Bedroom Apartments with large open-plan living and kitchen and 1 Ensuite
1. Entrances
2. Packaging and shipping area
3. Cooling room
4. Work table
5. Changing and air shower
1 2 3 4 1 1 5 6 4
6. Cultivation space
1. Vertical farming admin
2. configurations of 5-bed
3. Configurations of 2 bed
4. 1 bed
5. Social collective living unit
1 2 2 2 4 4 5 6 6 2 3 3 2
6. staircase Cores
SLIDING FROSTED GLASS PANELS SEPARATE THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WHILE EXTENDING INDIVIDUAL PRIVACY TO THE BALCONY SPACES WITH CUSTOMIZABLE VIEWS AS WELL AS SHADING.
LOCAL SOURCE OF FRESH PRODUCE FOR RESIDENTS CUTS DOWN TRANSPORT COSTS AND RELATIVE CARBON EMISSIONS
FLAMINGO VISITOR CENTER
BREEDERS COMPETITION 2020
Competition
BEE
O B S C U R A SEASIDE ART GALLERY Cultural
RESEARCH ON VISUAL FIELD TO DERIVE AN APPROPRIATE DISTANCE OF A PAINTING FROM A VIEWER, OVERLAYED ON SKETCHED IDEAS FOR CONNECTING SPACES
TOP PERSPECTIVE: GALLERY AND PUBLIC REALM
FAR LEFT ENTRANCE OF THE GALLERY
LEFT INNOVATIVE GALLERY SPACE: ARTWORK EMBEDDED INSIDE A 1.5M WIDE WALLED PATH VISIBLE THROUGH HOLES CUT IN THE WALL AT VARYING HEIGHTS TO CATER TO ADULTS AND CHILDREN
3. NATURALY LIT BUFFER ROOM
4. CONVENTIONAL GALLERY
1 1a 2 3 4 5 7 9 8 6 GROUND FLOOR PLAN
5. RAMP TO AND FROM LEARNING SPACE
ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY
HAVING LEARNT AND PRACTICED THE CRAFT FOR 10 YEARS I HAVE EXPERIMENTED AND UNDERSTOOD VARIOUS WAYS TO USE LIGHTING TO ARRIVE AT A PERSONAL STYLE AND PROFESSIONAL LEVEL OF PHOTOGRAPHY
https://www.instagram.com/_gkapoor_/
BRIDGE OF ASPIRATION, LONDON
QATAR NATIONAL MUSEUM, ATELIERS JEAN NOUVEL
BLAVATNIK SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT, OXFORD
BUILDING IN SHEPHERDS BUSH, LONDON SCENE IN PORTSMOUTH, UK
CHURCH IN PORTSMOUTH, UK
HAND DRAWINGS
DRAWING SKETCHES OF INTERESTING VIEWS OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN 30 MINUTES SIZE: A5/A6
IDEAS AND CONCEPTS BLOG
PERSONAL CONCEPTUAL PROJECTS EXPLORING IDEAS THROUGH SOFTWARE AND SKETCHES, SHARED ON INSTAGRAM PROFILE
https://www.instagram.com/archi.host/
AN ALTERNATIVE VISION OF THE TURTLE SANCTUARY IN THE DESERT, ORIGINALLY DESIGNED BY HOPKINS ARCHITECTS
FUTURISTIC REMOTE RESEARCH CENTER RECEIVING DRONE DELIVERY SUPPLIES
GAGAN KAPOOR ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO OF SELECTED WORKS 2019-2021
