Portfolio (2022)

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S Resume Professional Experience Freelance Design Works Participation and Awards Post Graduation Work Academic Work: Bachelors Work Miscellaneous

R E S U M E GARGI S THAKUR PROFILE Architecture Design Photography Architectural Sustainability Thermal performance of buildings Architectural Acoustics Architectural Journalism Content creation Social Media Handling BIO Indian 12.12.1991 H23/101, Pratikshanagar, Sion, Mumbai, MH-22 gargi.arc@gmail.com +91 9820191588 Marathi, Hindi, English

WORK EXPERIENCE Architect (September 2018 to December 2020) SYSTRA MVA Consulting India Pvt. Ltd Project (Detailed Design Consultant): Mumbai Metro Line 2B Project (Detailed Design Consultant): Mumbai Metro Line 4 Project (Detailed Design Consultant): Mumbai Metro Depots (L4, L2B) Project: Site analysis for Virgin Hyperloop Feasibility Reports Project: Mumbai Metro Branding Junior Architect (January 2016 to June 2016) Thacker and Associates, Matunga Detailing of Pharmaceutical Projects (Toilets, Staircases) Detailing of Furniture and Furniture layouts of Residential projects Internships Thacker and Associates, Matunga (July 2017 – September 2017) Residential projects: Architectural Design, Interior Design, Architectural Detail drawings, Working Drawings Pharmaceutical Projects: Architectural Design, Furniture layouts, Architectural Detail drawings, Working Drawings DESIGN CONCEPT, Panvel (August 2014 – November 2016) Residential Projects: Working Drawing, Façade Design, Interior Design details (False ceiling, Flooring), Electrical Layouts

TECHNICAL SKILLS AutoCAD | Adobe Photoshop | Microsoft Office | Trimble SketchUP Docear | Adobe Lightroom | Climate Consultant | Solar Tool Adobe InDesign | Design Builder | Autodesk Revit | Ecotect | CorelDraw | Autodesk Sketchbook Sony Vegas Pro | Procreate | Audacity | Adobe Premier Pro 3DS Max | Rhinoceros 3D | Blender

EDUCATION: Master of Architecture (2016-2018) - IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, Haridwar, Uttarakhand Bachelor of Architecture (2010-2015) - Padm. Dr. D. Y. Patil College of Architecture, Nerul, Navi Mumbai Class XII (2010) - K. V. Pendharkar College, Dombivli (East) Class X (2007) - Swami Vivekananda Vidyamandir, Vishnunagar, Dombivli (West) ADDITIONAL EDUCATION: Madhyama Pratham (Kathak) - Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Madhyama Purna (Kathak) - Allahabad University MISCELLANEOUS: CRY - IIT Roorkee chapter (active member for 1 year) Tutioned underprivileged (EWS background) students for their schools studies Managing community events for them Photography section Active member for one year and covered annual events Roorkee CARES Co-founder and active member of this group of students, professors and residents of IIT Roorkee that help campus resident animals in need Aamukta Quills Partner & Designer in the small business of the plastic free jewelry products Memes for Earth Creator and manager this blog page (Instagram) spread awareness about Climate crisis

OTHER INTERESTS: Product Design Furniture Design Passive Design Parametricism Jewellery Design Graphic Design

Painting Writing Illustration Canine Behaviour & Ethology

AWARDS: Rethinking Kalanagar Traffic Junction Competition Second Prize (Students, 2013) An International level Competition held by BMW Guggenheim LaB

P R O F E S S I O N A L MUMBAI METRO L2B - YELLOW LINE

MUMBAI METRO L4 - GREEN LINE

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VIRGIN HYPERLOOP ONE

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THACKER & ASSOCIATES, MATUNGA Junior Architect January 2016 – June 2016 STATIONS - Greenfield Development

STATION - Greenfield Development

VIRGIN HYPERLOOP ONE

Client name and address: MMRDA, Mumbai

Client name and address: MMRDA, Mumbai

Locations: Mumbai, NMIA, Pune

23.5 km line length

32.32 km line length,

Residential Projects: Architectural Design Interior Design Architectural Detail drawings Working Drawings

22 (Now 20) number of stops/stations

32 (Now 30) number of stops/stations

Detailed project description: 117.5 kms of Magnetic levitation, vacuum base hyperloop demonstration track

Phases: Design, Studies, field work

Phases: Design, Studies, field work, Tendering

Phases: Site Studies, Contextual Planning

Services provided: Design, Liasoning, Coordinating with various stakeholders, Site visits

Services: Design, Liasoning, Coordinating with clients, Site visits for the feasibility studies

Services: Design, Site visits for the feasibility studies

Client name and address: Anushruti (Formerly Roorkee School for Deaf & Mute)

Technical expertise: Architecture-urban planning for better intermodal connectivity, Photography

Services provided: Designing, Site visits for the feasibility

Technical expertise: Architecture-urban designing, transport planning

Technical expertise: Architecture-urban planning, transport planning

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ROORKEE MHRD Assistantship - From July 2017 to September 2017 Design Schemes for Expansion of Anushruti (Formerly Roorkee School for Deaf & Mute)

Phases: Studies, Field work, Priliminary Design

Technical expertise: Architecture & Planning

Duration in months on this project: 2 yrs

Duration in months on this project: 2 yrs

Duration in months on this project: 6 months

Duration in months on this project: 6 months

DEPOT - MANDALE - Greenfield

DEPOT - GHATKOPAR - Greenfield

MUMBAI METRO - Branding

Phases: Design, Studies, field work Services: Liasoning, Preliminary Conceptual Design, Finishing Tender Drawings - Details Technical expertise: Architecture-urban planning, transport planning Duration in months on this project: 10 Months

Phases: Design, Studies Services: Interface drawings, Preparation of Specifications and BOQ document Technical expertise: Architecture-urban planning Duration in months on this project: 1 month

Client name and address: MMRDA, Mumbai

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FOR JUANG TRIBE, ORISSA Architect, July 2017 – September 2017

Modes of transport: Metro Services: Created physical ‘to-scale’ model for signage design options

Client name and address: Part of Ongoing research funded by IIT Roorkee and HUDCO/HSMI Phases: Studies, Architectural Design Services provided: Architectural Design Technical expertise: Architectural design & Planning (Vernacular Architecture) Created Architectural design proposal for housing for the Juang Tribe in Orissa

Pharmaceutical Projects: Architectural Design Interior Design Architectural Detail drawings Working Drawings

F R E E L A N C E Phptography for Art Studio Unnicorn Creatives

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T-Shirt Designs

Roorkee CARES Merchandise

HOUSING APARTMENT BUILDING ENTRANCE DESIGNS

Roorkee CARES Merch

Chattu Badge

Aamukta Quills Photography, Branding & Website Design

MINIMALIST WALL MURAL DESIGN

Jewellery Designs for Aamukta Quills

Logo Designs

Aamukta Quills Plastic free jewellery Small business

Visiting Card Designs

Architectural Designer

'Sushi Express' Restaurent Logo design competetion entry

Rainbow films Youtube channel

Safety Door Design

P A R T I C I P A T I O N S RETHINKING KALANAGAR TRAFFIC JUNCTION COMPETITION - SECOND PRIZE (STUDENTS) (2013) An International level Competition held by BMW Guggenheim Lab

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Mentioned in ArchDaily Magazine

“A city is a place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.” - Louis Khan.

There used to be a certain chaos, but not disorder ...a creative chaos...the kind out of which life evolves. or some Mumbaikars, the city is only a transit space that links destinations and not an environment they live in or a community they engage with. There seems to be literally no space for dialogue except when claimed by violence and disruption that we do face periodically in Mumbai.

Our main aim is to not only make this junction a simple area to pass through for the vehicles, but a lively junction, refreshing and convenient for the commuters.

Considering the traffic pattern, certain zebra crossings were inconvenient for the pedestrians. Accordingly, they have been relocated. Similarly signals that created disorder were relocated. Vehicles travelling from Sion, Dharavi and Bandra-Kurla Complex unnecessarily have to pass through the Kalanagar Junction. A proposal for a road that by-passes the junction not only helps these vehicles travel faster, but reduces the traffic on the other roads. Certain roads weren’t used. Tra c could be redirected through these roads. Spaces below flyovers are being wasted and encroached. Certain activities may be introduced in this space, which shall be advantageous for the people in the area, but at the same time don’t invite more tra c. The skywalks are used by pedestrians. To increase its usage, activities can be hosted there. The Nandadeep garden’s entrance is not obvious. The compound wall height can be reduced to make the garden inviting. To make the hardscape user friendly, more seating to be provided. Trees to be planted along the footpath, such that they provide shade to the pedestrians and reduce the air pollution. A street is the narrative of a city and as such will change with time but here we are obliterating.

FROM ARCHDAILY MAGAZINE: Team DYPCA: Shreesha Arondekar, Gargi Thakur, Pooja Kudale, Anaya Patil, Snehal Sonawane, Asmita Rai, and Sayali Potnis (Student Category) proposed an organization that stacks a variety of uses along the traffic junction. The flyover serves as a covering for newspaper kiosks and commercial spaces, while an additional skywalk provides safe places for pedestrians to cross the intersection or use as community space. As with many of the other proposals, green space is developed in the pockets between the roads.

Roadways are divided by use, peripheral lanes are used for slower moving traffic, turning vehicles and public transportation. The intersection is also simplified by eliminating the perpendicular intersection and creating a direction link that moves north-west along the site.

P O S T PASSIVE DESIGN STRATEGIES Cluster designs shading each other

1. Sunny , Wind protected outdoor spaces to extend living areas in cool weather 2. Tree shading to reduce the effect of direct solar incidence on building 3. Open plan to increase cross ventilation 4. Most vulnerable solar incident surfaces insulated or cladded with reflective finishes 5. Flat roofs coloured in white to reduce heat absorption 6. Entrances are shaded 7. Good natural ventilation to reduce or eliminate air conditioning in warm weather 8. Windows shaded and oriented prevailing summer breezes 9. Usage of ceiling fans encourage to improve indoor air motion on hot days 10. Window overhangs designed according to latitude

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Additional manually operated slitlike glass openings designed at various corners of the rooms for flexible daylighting and ventilation arrangements which can me scaled according to the room size, occupancy and requirements

1.Long term approach planning Communities can provide for plan implementation that allows integration of selected projects within other community development plans 2.Managing stormwater close to where precipitation falls, such as retention or similar hydrologically focused approach 3.Innovative technologies: Green infrastructure tools to improved air and water quality to cost savings to more community amenities. Fundamental aspect for integrated solutions 4.Coluntary approach to long-term planning described to comply CWA (Clean Water Act) requirements. For example, regular municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) developed intiasl plan that may work with EPA ACTIVE STRATEGIES AS PER THE GREEN INGRSTRUCTURE MODELLING TOOL BY EPFA

G R A D U A T I O N THESIS - CINEAMUSE - Cinema Museum

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DRAMA THEATRE (THIRD YEAR B. ARCH.)

W O R K HUMANE HABITAT (4TH YEAR B. ARCH) 2BHK UNIT

3BHK UNIT

DUPLEX UNIT

SITE PLAN, BUILDING PLAN, CONCEPTUAL SKETCHES

SITE PLAN, BUILDING PLAN, CONCEPTUAL SKETCHES

ELECTIVE - DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE

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VANAPRASTHASHRAM (OLD AGE HOME) (THIRD YR B. ARCH.)

A home made for old and retired people. Case studies and psychology of an aged person is studied to provide them the comfort in design. Site located far from city, into the nature, having mountain views, a humble design. Common open spaces given wherever the legs needed rest.

Villagers and Ashrama have Exhibition & multipurpose hall as their common meeting space. A teaching and learning environment is provided.

Residential units are provided with socializing common spaces and courtyards.

G R A D U A T I O N COMMUNITY HOUSING AT VIRSOLI, ALIBAUG For fisher-people community (2nd year B. Arch.)

Virsoli village was documented and mapped (community's daily routine, lifestyle, occupation, climate, individual housing planning and patterns, amenities, etc.)

Units are placed as such they have a common courtyards.

Tulsi Vrundavans, all trees on site are preserved (Some added) and made functional by given paar/chabutara to create organic community interaction spaces.

Pedestrian circulation was given preference.

Units - according to documentation and analysis done, every unit is designed naturally ventilated and providing enough natural light Every unit has transitional space or verandah for fishdrying.

Plans are kept simple as the users are able to use it flexibly.

Virsoli having heavy rainfall in monsoon, so the sloping roofs and raised plinths given.

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COMMUNITY EXHIBITION CENTRE (OLD AGE HOME) (SECOND YEAR B. ARCH.)

COMMUNITY EXHIBITION CENTER Having inviting lobby with nice view/s.

All 2D exhibits have enough breathing spaces and 3D exhibits are given enough appreciation spaces Simple rectangle helps making space more flexible with help of channeled lights and partitions.

Cantilevered exhibition space acting as a shading roof to eating space below.

G R A D U A T I O N FOLLY, KILLE KOHOJ For trekkers (2nd year B. Arch.)

The main purpose of design is place for rest.

According to users (Trekkers) when the reach the destination on top this sculptural design gives them space to rest their bodies in different angles and provide a pause to absorb their experiences and feelings of accomplishments. It is situated at the entrance of Kille Kohoj.

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VANAPRASTHASHRAM (OLD AGE HOME) (THIRD YR B. ARCH.)

NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOR 26/11 CSMT, Mumbai (2nd year B. Arch.)

A memorial built to ingrain respect about the sacrifices made for the motherland into the minds of visitor.

Best way found to accomplish this aim is to make people feel the similar thing who ended up dead in massacre, but in subtler way Obstructions are created in the approaching path symbolising bullets fired And into the building single source of light is given symbolizing peace.

The sharp form symbolises the pain.

G R A D U A T I O N CITY STOP AT LP JUNCTION, NERUL Bus stop Triangular framework having pattern of transparent and translucent glass to give the experience of play of light

W O R K VANAPRASTHASHRAM (OLD AGE HOME) (THIRD YR B. ARCH.)

Kiosk Simple geometric volume having non obstructed storage spaces, with idea of openable container with some displays for advertisement Public Toilet Having less complex elevation without duct, so natural light penetrates inside the toilet building.

BACELOR'S (Animator) HOUSE AT LONAVLA Living room separated by covered pathway from house with a projector and screen as acting curtains to the window, which transform living room into presentation studio. Kitchen, Bedroom and working studio are placed in Arc shaped block according to sunlight and wind requirements in respective rooms. Having common circulation of semi covered pathway along the courtyard.

Swimming pool Approached by pathway starting from backside of the house to provide privacy

M I S C E L L A N E O U S - ART & PHOTOGRAPHY