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Selected Works of Vignesh Harikrishnan

VIGNESH

HARIKRISHNAN

Chennai, India https://www.linkedin.com/in/vigneshharikrishnan/ vignesh.harikrishnan@ymail.com | +91 9176222787 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Student Intern |Dec 2016 - May 2017

Charles Correa Foundation

Goa, India

Student Intern | June 2016 - November 2016

CnT architects

Bangalore, India

Student Intern | November 2015 - January 2015

Studio 360 Architects Chennai , India

SOFTWARE SKILLS

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND Bachelors of Architecture | 2012-2017

Anna University, School of Architecture, MCE Chennai, India

Higher secondary Education | 2011-2012

Velammal Matriculation Higher Secondary School Chennai, India

Higher School | 2002-2011

Velammal Matriculation Higher Secondary School Chennai, India

HONORS AND AWARDS Fifth Place, Honorable Mention Winner - Graduate thesis.

Autocad Revit Sketchup Rhino Vray for Sketchup Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Adobe After Effects Staroffice and Microsoft

Sep 2017 | Tamayouz International Awards.

Honorable Mention Winner

Jun 2017 | Sunbrella® and Architizer™ Participant | Bypass-Lab | IGCS

Jun 2016 | The Indo-German Centre for Sustainability (IGCS) ; IIT Madras 2017 Participant | Dwell 15

Nov 2015 | Charles Correa Foundation EXTRA-CURRICULAR

Logo/Poster Designer - SOA, MCE High School Scout, Velammal Matriculation Volunteer , Green Nest Education for Children -

PUBLICATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS Social Gathering, Bypass Lab report

IGCS

http://www.bypasslab.net/

Unbuilt Works of Charles Correa

Charles Correa Foundation Print publication

Innovative Design in Shade

Jun 2014 | Sunbrella® and Architizer™ Student Scholarship @ 361° Conference

Feb 2014 | Indian Architect & Builder

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY English Tamil Hindi

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+ Material Exploration

+ Transformative Architecture

+Tent To Farm | 8

+ Troika | 62

+ Neeragam| 70

+ Recreational Design A Word, Thank you. This compendium redraws or perhaps redrafts my last Five years as a Student of Architecture and Urban design.

During this period as a student, as an intern I realized Architecture wasn’t only about maneuvering the squares and volumes of a space. It was more about maneuvering the perception of that space by the end user.

I have tried to express the same with my Portfolio.

The structure of the portfolio balances the

+ IIM, CnT| 123

+ Institutional Learning

design explorations, the thought process and the proposition together. In simple words, the “Context”. The cognitive link of the thought process continues to bind these projects together.

“Parts of Whole, Whole Unknown” + CMR University, CnT| 111

+ Institutional Learning

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+ Urban Design Studio

+ Open Space Network | 38

+ Scrap Metal|100

+ Tent To Farm | 19

+ Buildings as ideas|150

+ Urban Design + Design - Build

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+ Urban Research

+ The Process

+ Dwell |88

Health & Care Design

+ Renascence |50

+ Experiment farming

+ Anganwadi, CCF |140

+ Material ExplorationÂ

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Academic Design

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+ T.A.C.T Co-operative Peri-Urban | Thesis

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+ Open Space Network Urban Design Studio

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+ Renascene Assisted Living

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+ Troika Product Design | Competition

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+ Neeragam Stadium Design | Competition

Product Design | Competition

+ Summer Section

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+ The Rain Section

Peri-Urban Chennai | Ar. Kalpana Ahmed | 2017

Academic Design

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Honarable Mention - Future of Shade

TENT TO FARM Conceptual Shade Design To start with the most recent work, Tent to Farm is a design entry to SunbrellaŽ: The Future of Shade 2017. The competition invited to submit designs to envision a temporary shelter that can be easily transported and deployed for relief in a natural disaster or refugee crisis using Sunbrella’s fabric.

11 With natural disaster as a collective term, I took the crux of my Thesis on Agriculture crisis in India as my context to address. It led me to design a temporary shelter to balance excessive rain and heat. With multitude of other potential uses, Tent to farm responds to the immediate need to look at Global warming and Climate change.

Tent To Farm

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+ Tents on the Farmlands 13

+ The Process

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The Reality Famers protesting in Delhi in 2017

Tent To Farm

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A barren/disowned/infertile land is chosen and the service corridors are deployed to demarcate the fields. The fabric Corridor allows light and water to filter through the material and also it doubles up for the farmers to rest, eat, sell and women to keep their children during farming which is not the case in open farms Once the farmlands begin to thrive, the service tents can be dismantled and put to use to similar farmlands and the restored farms can dual the purpose of the corridor forming a self sustaining ecosystem.

Tent To Farm

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+ The Real Beginning

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Work + Learn + Dwell

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Grow + Store + Sell

Peri-Urban Chennai | Ar. Kalpana Ahmed | 2017

TentArt The To of Farm Coming Together

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Fifth Place - Tamayouz International

THE ART OF COMING TOGETHER Co-operative Urbanism - Graduate Thesis As mentioned earlier, My thesis focuses on the exploitation and gentrification of Peri-Urban areas around cities. To Brief, Chennai warms up for a 7-Fold expansion, perhaps the want to be better than other major cities in India. Point made, but it triggers much questions about the past remains, the present disorder and the future host.

Due to rapid urbanization, there appears an area located in-between a city and a rural village which accommodates a significant share of population, and it appears as a “place of great dynamism” and a “highly differentiated area”. These area resources out its natural and human assets in exchange of its brand of a Sub-Urb. There it starts.

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+ The Urban Explosion

The Art Of Coming Together

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+ The Host Syndrome The host syndrome of development takes place when the intrusive infrastructure morphs the entire context either making them adopt or surrender to the new developement.

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+ Seal of apprroval

+ Concurrence

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+ Rejection

+ Surrender

+ Dominance

+ Farm - Sriperumbudur

+ The Hypothesis

The idea is to bring back people together. Through architecture, by stimulating an organized network of shared resources of commons and infrastructural facilities for better procurement and marketing without a middleman.

To Redefine Educational system, to understand and improve the significance of farming, shared workspaces, shared health cares and commons create a sense of responsibility and ownership with the people.

The Present Grain

The Art Of Coming Together

The Future?

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+ The Reverse urbanism - Peace Hubs

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The Art of Coming Together

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+ Market area

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+ Banking and archives

+ Economy of Commons

+ Dwell / research

+ Freedom of Dependance

+ Drought/Balance

+ Resilience of Commons + Experiment farming + Health care

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+ THE A FRAMES

‘A’ Frames - These Modular Framesets reduce the cost which occurs in a typical building i.e, Floor-Wall-Roof Joints will be converted to Floor-Frame Joints. The windows, the doors and the skylights are morphed from the A frames. The Materials of these frames can be derived from the context of the site such as Wood, Cement, Steel etc...

Typology 01 : Market

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Typology 02 : Store

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Typology 03 : Work / Learn / Dwell

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THE MILL Threshing | Millling | Storing

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The Art of Coming Together

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+ Exploded Mill Structure

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33 The Mill is human powered. The Hand-pounding is done at 3.45 meters above the ground to increase efficiency and a series of overlapping sieves take advantages of gravity and helps in sorting the grains. The Sorted rice is stored in the auction hall and then auctioned for.

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THE SCHOOL Farming | Cooking | Learning

+ The Proposition

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+ The School Building Aerial View

The Art of Coming Together

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+ Exploded School Buiilding

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+ The Exploded Classroom

Rather than a Monotonous Age Based Class types, the intuitive system of learning invokes subject based learning spaces sharing a common courtyard for Multi-age interaction. Each subject space has mixed-age learning programs integrated with Farming and orients children towards an holistic learning habitat.

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THE BANKÂ Lend | Join | Share The Bank maintains the registered offices of the farmers and also lends loans in terms of the produce.

The A-framed building has in-built floor seating facilitating the bankers to sit. The Built-in furniture has closed storage for documents thus avoiding wallbuilt furniture.

+ The Anganwadi Section

+ The Anganwadi Elevation

+ The Anganwadi

The Art of Coming Together

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+ The Co-operative Village

The Economy of shared resources plays a pivotal role in determining the resilience of the village. The Idea is to empower people with their commons through Education and Economy. The Setup spreads across villages making them the core of growth, while the cities start to shrink.

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The idea is simple and fair. Coming together for a cause, to live sometimes fight.

+ The Landscape

+ The Alienated Urban Ecosystem

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+ The Integrated Urban Ecosystem

Velachery | Ar. Jalaja Selvaraj | 2016

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+ Public Display of Urban Design Documentation of Velachery

OPEN SPACE NETWORK Urban Design Studio.

In this Studio we studied Velachery, the then flood affected area of Chennai in 2015. In order to begin the study, it is essential to establish a boundary to determine where the focus of research should take place. Looking into the history and the development pattern of Velachery helped us to understand how the master plan of Velachery came to be.

This ultimately enabled us to forecast the future of the development master plan and as well as allowed us to suggest legitimate proposals.

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+ Grain Evolution

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This has resulted in the environmental degradation and ecological imbalance coupled with consequent failure of monsoon and acute water scarcity.

+ Domestic waste dumped in lake

Open Space Network

+ Exploitation of Biodiversity

+ The development

+ Eutrofication of lake

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+ Existing Streamline DEM, QGIS.

+ Urban Grain and the Unused Setbacks Open Space Network

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+ Existing Urban Grain

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+ Unused Setbacks

+ The Unexplored

+ Site Plan - Velacheri Open Space Network

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+ Isometric view of the open space network

The design incorporated three major symbiotic integration of canal into to the cycle of Public realm.

Amalgamation of smaller grains around the main road to form coarse grain for tapping unusable open spaces like Setbacks, OSR etc and converting them to conscious social spaces which will also create sponges of reservoirs to absorb immediate flood pattern and add to potential open spaces.

+ View of the open canal and the promenade

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+ Varied interpretations of the canal thoughout the stretch

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+ View of the Canal ghats

Open Space Network

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+ View of the open plaza

+ The MAD School

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+ Holistic Ecosystem

Chennai | Ar. Jalaja Selvaraj | 2014

+ Concrete block model

Renascence

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RENASCENCE Senior Living cum School of Music Art Dance Senior people need care. To live alone and away from their context of comfort is a painfull process.

The main purpose of this project is to create a space that elderly want to live, in a dynamic, highly functioning community for them to age in and the one that provides activity, interest, excitement and connection to each other and the community.

To put it in simple words. The Elderly love to share their stories while children love to listen to stories.

The Desing tries to create balance through providing spaces for elders to react and interact with students of Music, Art and Dance.

+ The Foci The Temple was regarded as the focal point of any village or cities in ancient India. This Project idealises to understand and re-interpret Indian villages or ‘Agraharam’. This design is focused on three potential areas of innovation – program integration and interaction, community connection, and contextual and contemporary building design.

The idea is to create connection between the residents and non-residents within the defined enclosure, thus allowing for an environment that promotes health and wellness in smooth transitions between levels of care as residents become frail.

+ MAD School

+ View of the studio homes

Renascence

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+ Agraharam - A General sertup of a Village in South India.

+ The Nuclei In India the family is the most important institution that has survived through the ages. India, like most other less industrialized, traditional, eastern societies is a collectivist society that emphasizes family integrity, family loyalty, and family unity.

In the Indian Society, the cultural values and the traditional practices emphasize that the elderly members of the family be treated with honor and respect. The families of the elderly persons are expected to ensure the needed care and support for the aged.

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01- LIBRARY AND OFFICES 02 - DANCE STUDIO 03 - MEDITATION CENTRE 04 - ART STUDIO 05 - MUSIC STUDIO. 06 - STUDIO CLUSTER A 07 - STUDIO CLUSTER B 08 - PALLIATIVE CARE 09 - STUDIO CLUSTER C 10 - STUDIO CLUSTER D 11 - STUDIO CLUSTER E 12- SERVICE AREA AND HOSTEL 13- CAFE 14 - RETENTION POND 15 - PARKING

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+ MAD School The facility also houses a learning centre for music, art and dance . The use of music to evoke memories and experiences is especially important when working with the elderly. When confined to a wheelchair on a single floor of a building, there are limited chances to experience anything new in dayto-day life.

By using music as a means of mental escape, we can allow people to mentally and emotionally explore their world without being dependent on television or movies. Medical research proves that music therapy can benefit the elderly with mental health needs, cognitive disabilities, Alzheimer’s and other aging related conditions.

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Renascence

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+ Section A’A showing the Palliative cluster

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+ View of the Threshold space

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+Section CC’ of a Studio home in Cluster A

+View of the dance studio

Renascence

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+Section DD’ of a Studio home in Cluster A

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+ The Street

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+ The Building

Chennai | Ar. Srinivas | 2014

Renascence

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Innovative Entry - Future of Shade

TROIKA Punch it up for Light!

Shade is Magical. It is more than just stopping light, it is shaping light. It is transformative and flexible.

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+ Hawkers and vendors Troika, like its idea, punches out to multitude uses by taking various functions and form. It can open up as an external faรงade to protect a building or to shade down streets, pavements, bus terminals and any public spaces or turn out into a stand-alone pavilion.

+ The December protest, Chennai 2017 Troika

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+ Probablity and Typologies

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+ Detail to punch

The Idea is to create an interactive, aesthetical yet functional fabric shade that can morph into any shape for any type of place that needs shade. With varied fabrics for various contexts from Sunbrella, Troika can fit-in anywhere.

It can serve as an external shading device to any building and also as an overhead shade. Both these functions of troika can also be fused to form a hybrid for shading buildings and people on streets with facile mechanism to punch out light.

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+ Football Stadium

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+ Water Arena

Chennai | Steffi Grace , Vignesh H | 2013

+ Football Stadium

Troika

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+ Water Arena

NEERAGAM Stadium of the Land and the Water Stadium

venues like the Bolshoy Ice Dome and

Fisht Stadium have dazzled athletes and fans alike during the Olympics, but what will become of them when the Olympic flame is extinguished and time marches on? Ten years later, many of them have been abandoned or are rarely used. Olympic venues in particular run the risk of becoming white elephants, thanks to their high price tags.

When we were given the task to design a futuristic stadium for FIFA 2099, we took it a whole new level.

The stadium morphs to host different activities by rafting out the pitch.

+ The Context “Neer”- Water in Tamil Language, from the deepest and the finest traditions of India has been described and refered to as nectar, honey ,source of life, and so on. While thats on one side, the modern world has started exploiting this indispensible resourse. The protection water bodies and thier environment was the main abstract of ancient tradition of india,which is now just a phrase.

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+ Arena morphed into Football Stadium

Neeragam

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+ Football Stadium / Concert Stage

+ Stage being rafted out

+ Arena turned out for water sports

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+ Football Stadium

+ Football

+ Water quality treatment Neeragam

+Concert

+ Aquatic Habitat creation

+ Water Arena

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+ The Hypothesis

The Stadium foots herself in the gigantic islands of Ennore, where it floats on water. The stadium will be a hub for Sports, Social events and also for Recreation for which the pitch can float outside.

The residential colony built for the participating teams is also designed in such a way that it can be converted to a refugee zone during a calamity if needed as this is a cyclone prone area in the eastern coast of India.

+ The Foresight Increase in residents and other developments can bring in educational institutions and hospitals.The water body in the site being cleaned can induce the city to cleanse rest of the waterbodies . The stadium WILL change the deserted look of Ennore .

+ Stadium morphed into Water Arena

Neeragam

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+ Exploded Stadium view

+ Roof

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+ Level 03 + Level 02 + Level 01 + Floats

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Neeragam

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+ Urban Design Studio Fabrication

Urban Workshop | IGCS Urban Workshop | CCF

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+ Mandapam

Chennai | IGCS | 2017

Workshop & Fabrication

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BYPASS_LAB Indo German Centre for Sustainablity BYPASSLAB would not have been a lab – a collective space for discussion and experimentation – without the crucial input and engagement of a large number of people helping it come together. It was held in Sriperumbudur, a rapidly transforming area and town some forty kilometers out of Chennai (Madras).

My main purpose with the lab was to experiment with the potentials in urban research on-the ground, empirical observations, using both conventional tools of observation as well as others that have recently come within reach of a general public.

For this end, Sriperumbudur’s location – on the Chennai–Bangalore highway, in the languid heat of the flat plains stretching out from Chennai – seemed to offer the right canvas.

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+ The gathering pattern

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+ The public pattern timeline

+ The public pattern for gathering

Rural life in Sriperumbudur is influenced by the aspiration for a metropolitan lifestyle. Later we would find that the kind of social gatherings here is a fusion of rural culture and urban lifestyle.

How are these spaces animated, who uses them, at what time, what for, how do they fluctuate and what sort of practices do they actually gather on the ground?

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DWELL Urban Design Workshop, CCF. An initiative of the Charles Correa Foundation, ‘DWELL’ is a workshop for Architects, Designers and Students of Architecture and Design to instigate thought on mitigating increasing urban densities especially in the context of housing and urban living.

We looked at ‘Typology’ and ‘Context’ at the two frameworks for organizing ideas on housing and urban living.

Dwell

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Courtesy: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

+ The Reel Imagery of Dharavi

Images are a strong visual element. They convey the meaning in a nut shell. We too have harnessed the power of creating such images. The question lies there. Governments rely on such images to propogate thier philosophy, but will they reflect context of reality? + The Reality of Dharavi

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+ Built and Unbuilt Ratio

+ Pedestrian network & Heritage Structure

+ Building Height

+ The layers of Chimbai, Mumbai

Dwell

+ Road Network

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+ The Context of development

+ Image of equitable cities

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Year

2017

Team

Kandhan, Vignesh

Site

Chennai

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SCRAP METAL Workspace | Metal | ChipBoard This small design build was a result from the scrap metal and chipboard that we bought to design my new workspace. Admist my thesis, I took this challenge to design and build this workspace with our in-house fabricators.

+ The Process

Scrap Metal

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The design built furniture has three tiers of storage shelves, a compartment to host my desktop and also a void in the left to place my drafting table.

The shelf on the upper left is cantilevered. Thus providing the oppurtunity for the space below to hold my drafting table.

+ The Result

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Scrap Metal

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO Interior spatial planning of UDS The intent of the project was to propose and propose and build a new Urban Design Studio. With Flexiblity and open Planning in consideration, we designed the studio and its furniture, where we also turned unused compartments to a Sit-Open-Take discussion space. Also we had a chance to explore stop motion videography too.

The Urban studio will require us to develop an understanding of the range of scales between people, buildings, city and metropolitan landscape, combining creative

fieldwork

with

interpretive

historical

paradigmatic research and design.

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Year

2016

Team

Vignesh H, Sarveshwaran SP, Karthik R, Ranjith Kumar BS

Site

Chennai

+ Exisitng Urban Studio

+ Overlaying Spatial Grids

+ Potential Workspace and Discussion areas

+ Fixing Partitions Urban Design Studio

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+ Studio Hours

The Fixed partitions provide the threshold between the private workspace and the open discussion hall.

The

Lectures

and

the

public

display

can

happen simultaneously without affecting the private workspaces too. The idea of Configuring workspaces can also be used when the excercises of Urban study requires such typology.

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+ The Table

Urban Design Studio

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+ The Discussion Space

The Space should also facilitate with different scales of discussion within the studio and also with the public. The space continues to be a medium, in which a collective developement of techniques in creative fieldworks of study happens and also to assess the context of the design project and the relevant spatial interventions along with urban design principles.

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+ Isometric View of the Studio

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APPRENTICE Internshp in India With more than 1 year of interning at distinguished offices in India, I had the chance to revisit my process of design and understand it. Working with Charles Correa Foundation created a sense of understanding the context of the underprivileged in Health and Education while working with CnT provided me an with an opportunity to understand, designing for learning spaces.

With both combined, it tamed me to react to the context of my society and made me to think more on how architecture can be a medium to help people.

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+ CMR University

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+ Indian Institute of Management

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+ Redevelopment of Mala Urban Intervention | Charles Correa Foundation

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+ Anganwadi Child Care | Charles Correa Foundation

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+ Buildings as ideas - Unbuilt works of Charles Correa Exhibition | Charles Correa Foundation

University Competition | CnT University Design | CnT

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+ Pol house Ahmedabad_Active terraces

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+ Pol house Ahmedabad viewed as a street scene

Year

2015

Mentor Ar. Mehul Patel Site

Apprentice

Hyderabad

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CMR UNIVERSITY CnT Architects, Bangalore.

In CnT Bangalore, the first Architecture office in South India, I was engaged with Institutional projects. I had the chance to work on a University design competition and also an ongoing institution design-IIM along with many apartment projects around the city of Bangalore.

The CMR University campus site abuts a lake and is surrounded by quarries, while containing one such quarry within the site. As a part of designing the master plan, I worked in the designing of Town squares within the campus and the lake front abutting the campus and also I was part of creating the presentation for the competition. The design emerged a winner.

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The master plan is held by a spine, that links the lake and the quarry while also allowing for all the disciplines to open out into it.

Various

town

squares

and

community

courts

comprise this spine, which becomes a place of memory with the interacting of all the disciplines.

Three main town centets create social sustainability within the site and merge with the social fabic around

+ Site Study

Cmr University

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+ Forming the open spaces

+ Forming the building zones

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+ Forming the Courts

+ Forming the buildings

+ Pol house Ahmedabad viewed as a street scene

The New university thinking requires a change in Pedagogy, i.e, learning over instruction and making knowledge over transfering knowledge. It also requires a change in design where the campus becomes the landscape and also becomes a city.

Existing stone quarry and lake front water pool is developed as two main natural rain water harvesting points along with recharge pit and well planned strategically to contain complete site water

+ Pol house Ahmedabad viewed as a Terrace scene

Cmr University

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+ The Site Section

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+ The Evolution

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+ The Site Plan

+ The Town Square

Cmr University

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+ The Library and Cafe

Just as walls shape a room so that walls retreat into background and energy is in the space contained the buildings retreat into background to shape a landscape. The Town square contains the central library and the food court intervened by the academic promenade.

Open terraces are selectively developed as green terraces to form interesting public spaces and help thermally insulate the building thus reducing energy consumptions. Building blocks form mutual shading which results in cooler courts and public zones

+ The Aerial view

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+ Doors of IIM

Cmr University

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+ Doors of IIM!

Year

2015

Project Architect

Ar. Prashant Kulkarni

Site

Trichy, Tamilnadu

+ View of the Administrative block

Cmr University

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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CnT Architects, Bangalore.

Indian Institute Of Management (IIM) is a winning entry of an international competition held by Indian Institute Of Management Society Thiruchirappalli for their permanent campus. The master-plan is evolved around a concept of ‘Campus As A Community Of Learners’.

I joined the team in the construction phase as a part of designing and detailing the fixtures and landscape around the university. Also I was a part of designing the campus canteen and the library.

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+ Master Plan of the University

Indian Institute Of Management

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+ Admin block Stacked up view

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An academic campus acquires a soul once it transcends the mere accommodation of functions.

It unifies its buildings and landscape in such a way that it forms a sense of community oriented towards a common purpose of knowledge.

+ Academic block + Jamb details of Door openings

Building clusters are evolved through focusing hence

on

serendipity

gathering

spaces,

interactions, landscaped

courts of varying scales are developed all across the campus.Building aesthetics is not a static phenomenon, it expresses a sense of dynamism where the space demands grandeur and at places where landscape needs to be expressed built forms becomes the background.

+ Joinery details of Skylights

Indian Institute Of Management

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+ Joinery Explorations

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+ Academic terraces

Year

2016

Project Architect

Ar. Ruturaj Parekh

Site

Mala, Goa.

+ Before Indian Institute Of Management

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+ REDEVELOPMENT OF MALA Charles Correa Foundation The heritage neighborhoods in Panaji though they have significant heritage structures of Grade 2 and Grade 3 categories the infrastructure is still poorly maintained and the streets are in shabby condition.

To serve as a guideline for the overall development of these heritage areas three streets from Fontainhas and Mala were selected and designed as a model that addresses all issues faced in this context

+ After

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+ Existing Situation

+ Redevelopment Of Mala

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+ Existing Ground Condition

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+ Existing Wall Condition

Some of the key issues addressed in the design intervention for these prototypes were service reorganisation, preserving the appearance of the place by using the traditional colour pallet, window and door details, roof details in all renovations and getting community involvement in the design process.

I was put in the grounds of Mala Sector 02 , to negotiate and intervene existing and new services.

+ Existing Roof Condition

+ Providing new sewage connections to the houses

+ Providing new storm water drainage to the streets

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+ Proposed electricity and telecom lines

+ Proposed Storm Water Collection System + Redevelopment Of Mala

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The proposal takes into account well landscaped pedestrian spaces, better lighting systems, paving details and faรงade renovations that respect the aesthetics. Also proposed, are better services like common channels for telecom and electrical cabling, energy efficient wall mounted street lighting systems, well channeled rain water drainage for water harvesting, re-organised inspection chambers, public toilets, organized parking, etc.

+ Typical section through services trench on the wider lane

+ Interventions

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+ Lateral section through services trench on the wider lane

Under the tree

+ Redevelopment Of Mala

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Anganwadi

+ Redevelopment Of Mala

Year

2016

Project Architect

Ar. Ruturaj Parekh

Site

Bambolim, Goa

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ANGANWADI Charles Correa Foundation Childhood environment is an integral part of the early learning process. An Anganwadi is a government sponsored child-care and mother-care centre in India started as a part of the Integrated Child Development Services program (ICDS) to combat child hunger and malnutrition.

I joined the team in the construction stage and I was responsible for producing good for construction drawings and site suprevision.

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The intent of the project is to propose and implement – with patronage of Governmental Agencies – a vision and strategy to generate an ideal Anganwadi which provides for a quality environment conforming with the needs of children and requirements for a constructive early childhood development.

Despite a large population of children ( 0-6 yrs ) being dependent on the Anganwadi centres in Goa, the centres are left neglected lacking the basic infrastructure and maintenance which leaves children exposed to unhygienic and hazardous conditions within these centres.

Relief Work detail

Testing Color depth in the Facades

Anganwadi

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Floor plans with Levels

Anganwadi

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Model of the Anganwadi

In order to fulfil its functions successfully, an Anganwadi centre should have space for seating of children / women, separate kitchen, provision of storage for food items, enough child friendly toilets, space for playing and drinking water facilities.

The central open space doubles up as a space for children for learning and when closed turns out to

Entrance view of the Anganwadi

be space for village people to interact.

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Section 1

Activity area leading to the Creche

Anganwadi

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Section 2

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Activity area leading to the Kitchen

Restroom Plan

Elevation A Anganwadi

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Beyond a center for early-childhood development, an Anganwadi is a state asset that helps consolidate many Child and Women development programs like Vaccination, Adolescent Health and Maternity.

The mandate of Anganwadi centers is to cater to: 1. Health, nutritional and educational needs of children up till the age of 6 years.

2. Health and nutritional education for women in the age group of 15-45 years.

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Spot Section 01 _ The detail of the winodw grill and the loft

Exterior facade’s Slit window

Anganwadi

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BUILDINGS AS IDEAS The unbuilt works of Charles Correa The intent of this exhibition is to present the body of Charles Correa’s un-built projects in a way that illuminates important continuities in his thought, bringing into focus key lineages, while keeping his prolific career in the background of the narrative.

Within a broader timeline of his work and career, we position the un-built projects that are crucial milestones in the development and articulation of his concerns and issues right from housing to planning, and culture to politics. As an Intern architect, I designed the exhibition layout and the layout of the plates and was mainly involved in deciphering the timeline of his works.

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This

un-built

work,

though

less

well-known,

contributed significantly to the clarity of his thought and design. Here we see the seminal idea intact, unhindered by the pragmatic force of the building process. This exhibition highlights these un-built projects, through the drawings and sketches of Correa’s archive.

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April 18, 2016

Vignesh Harikrishnan Experience Letter.

To whomsoever it may concern, Vignesh Harikrishnan worked with the Charles Correa Foundation as an Architecture Intern from December 14, 2015 till April 15, 2016. Vignesh will continue his term with the Foundation till June 13, 2016. I have known him to be consistent, sincere, committed and enthusiastic individual to work with over this period of time.

In this duration, Vignesh worked on several projects that required his skill and knowledge as a B.Arch student.

Vignesh was involved in the Project for redevelopment of lanes in Mala - an urban poor neighborhood in Panaji where he worked on survey, documentation and infrastructure planning. This involved on-site work for collating data, map-making for the project and design.

In the Anganwadis Project, Vignesh was involved in drafting a design reference and prototype document for the Anganwadis in the state of Goa: a work-in-progress project where he was involved in discourse on child-friendly architecture. Beyond this, Vignesh has also helped with the design reference document for commercial and traffic signages in Panaji - a document that will become the official design policy of the city.

As a part of the agenda, the Foundation organizes numerous public events as a part of the work within Public Forum. Vignesh worked closely with me on the exhibition of Charles Correa’s un-built projects titled ‘Buildings as Ideas: the Un-Built Work of Charles Correa’ which was opened on March 15. He also helped organize a series of events at the NGMA titled ‘Celebrating Charles Correa’ - a tribute symposium.

I have known Vignesh to be prompt, polite and he brings a lot of commitment to his work. I will be happy to tender any clarification in the context of Vignesh's internship at the Foundation should there be a requirement. I wish him all the best in his future endeavours.

Sincerely,

Ruturaj Parikh, Charles Correa Foundation 169, São Sebastian Chapel Street, Fontainhas, Panaji - 403001, GOA. t. +91 - 832 - 222.00.58 | m. +91 - 99250.25458 www.ccfgoa.com

169 San Sebastian Chapel Road. Fontainhas. Panaji. Goa. 403.001 | t: +91-832-222.0058 | e: connect@ccfgoa.in | www.ccfgoa.com

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