Architecture and Climate Responsive Design Portfolio

PORTFOLIO ARCHITECTURE + CLIMATE RESPONSIVE DESIGN

KANISHK JAIN

CONTENTS Professional Work

Academic Work

2017 - 2018 / Architect / Manuplan / Bad Tölz

2016 - 2018 / Master of Science ClimaDesign / TU Munich

• Frisian Style Heritage Residence, Sylt, Morsum

• Performance based Mixed Use Urban Development

• Villa Renovation, Potsdam

• Master Thesis: Dense Urbanism and Energy Efficiency

• Heritage Barn Retrofit, Rondeberg, South Africa

2006 - 2011 / Bachelor of Architecture / USAP Delhi 2011 - 2016 / Architect / Ashok B Lall Architects / Delhi

• Bachelor Thesis: reCONSIDER reNEW

• Affordable Housing, Chennai

• Urban Design: Magnetic Confluence

• Residences at Institutional Campus, Hyderabad • Apartment Block / Urban Densification, New Delhi • Conservatory in a Heritage Garden, New Delhi

PROFESSIONAL WORK 2017 - 2018 / Manuplan • Frisian Style Heritage Residence, Sylt, Morsum • Villa Renovation, Potsdam • Heritage Barn Retrofit, Rondeberg, South Africa

2011 - 2016 / Ashok B Lall Architects • Affordable Housing, Chennai • Residences at Institutional Campus, Hyderabad • Apartment Block / Urban Densification, New Delhi • Conservatory in a Heritage Garden, New Delhi

Modernisation of Frisian Style Heritage Residence Location: Sylt, Morsum, Germany Project Timeline: 2015 - Oct 2018 Project Status: Complete Role: Mar 2017 - July 2018 - Team Member Design Development, Construction Drawings, Detail Drawings The building sits on a large parcel of land in the beautiful north German island of Sylt. It is an example of a traditional ‘Friesisches’ style house and has a heritage protected status.

The external appearance of the house has been renovated and restored to its original state. Internally, the house has been remodelled to meet the client’s programmatic needs. The house has all modern amenities seamlessly built in while still retaining the old charm.

Ground Floor Plan

Cross-Section

First Floor Plan

Elevations

New Thatch Roof and Dormer Windows

External View of the Residence

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Renovation of Villa Richard Tauber Location: Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany Project Timeline: Oct 2017 - Jul 2018 Project Status: Complete Role: Oct 2017 - Jul 2018- Team Member Design Documentation, Design Development, Detail Design A heritage villa set in a green and affluent neighbourhood of Babelsberg district. The structure is under the heritage protection, therefore upgradation was done while upholding the existing external character.

Internally, the house was renovated to meet the new owner’s spatial needs and accommodating a range of their personal furniture collection in the house.

3D View of the Villa External Pictures of the Villa

Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

North East Elevation

Conservatory / Breakfast Room

South East Elevation

Dining Room and Entrance Lobby

Living Room

Cape Style Heritage Barn ‘Langhuis’ retrofitted to Guest Residence Location: Rondeberg, Western Cape, South Africa Project Timeline: 2016 - Ongoing Project Status: Under Approval from Authorities Role: Oct - Nov 2017 - Team Member Design Development, Preparation of Sanction Drawings The project is set on a large sub-urban farmland outside Cape Town in South Africa. The building, which previously housed a barn, is a heritage protected ‘Langhuis’ - typical to the region of the Cape Town.

The brief of the project is to convert this old structure into a modern habitable guest house with luxury interiors while preserving and even enhancing the qualities of the existing building in terms of the structure and external appearance.

Ground Floor Plan

Site Plan

First Floor Plan

Cross Section

Longitudinal Section

North East Elevation

North West Elevation

South West Elevation

Proposed Elevations

South East Elevation

North East View

North East View

North West View

South East View

South West View

Views of the Existing Langhuis

Affordable Housing

Terrace as a Recreational Space

Bamboo Frame for the Ceremonial Court

Client: Mahindra LifeSpaces Developers Ltd. Location : Avadi, Chennai, India Site Area: 5.66 Hectares Project Timeline: March 2012 - April 2016 Role: Mar 2015 - Apr 2016 - Project Incharge Mar 2012 - Feb 2015 ‑ Team Member Design Development, Project BoQ & Estimate, Construction and Detail Drawings including Services Integration, Hands On Development & Mock Up of Building Shading Systems • •

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The compact, low carbon, affordable city is achieved in a low rise, high density solution.

Linear buildings forming streets and courts – spaces of community identity. A humane scale of streets and gardens continues the grain of the city.

Flat roofs, unencumbered by services and tanks, are the newfound shared ground – a community resource for community services such as solar laundry, yoga class, games, supported by temporary arrangements.

An integral system of recycling organic waste enables self sustaining organic farming and gardening on balconies and roofs.

Aerial View of the Housing showing multifunctional spaces Community Space on Terrace Site Plan

Urban Farming using recycled water

The Central Access Spine with attached Dwelling Units creates Housing Blocks which can adapt to various Site Shapes or City Blocks.

The common passages form a network of ‘streets’ on every floor leading to catalyze and build neighborly bonds.

The ‘industrial’ principle is applied with a difference. A supporting chassis of standard wall elements carrying standard spans, cast with formwork for 100 repetitions, can be flexibly arranged for varied sizes and types of home and strung into different configurations. The kit of parts gives economies of scale as it moves from project to project.

The variable infill and sub components can respond to climate, availability of local materials and fabricators and the evolving aesthetic culture.

Various dwelling units types designed for family sizes, ranging from 2 to 5 members. With time, living standards will improve.

Upgrade of home sizes and internal modifications are made possible in the design.

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Bedroom Windows with Prefabricated Shading Devices

Prefabricated Balcony Railing System

A design iteration of External Window Shading Device with Planter Basket

Customised Window Shading Devices

Naturally Lit Doubly Loaded Passage and Unit Entrance Doors

Residences for Tata Institute of Social Sciences Hyderabad Campus

Family and Studio Residences are designed as three story high walk-up apartment buildings which occupy the northern part of the site. The pedestrian-cycling network at the front is conceived as the primary movement zone. Vehicular access to the buildings is from the main vehicular ring road of the site at the rear end of the buildings. Buildings are primarily oriented to favourable North-South orientation.

Ground Floor Plan showing two Family Residences sharing an Evaporative Cooling Duct (Cavity Wall).

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Client: Tata Institute of Social Sciences Location: Hyderabad, India Site Area: 40 Hectares Project Timeline: Sep 2012 - Ongoing Project Status: Under Municipal Approval Role: 2012 onwards - Project Co-Incharge Project Brief Development, Master Planning, Detailed Design Development of Residences and Guest House, Sanction + Tender Drawings & Documents, Low Energy Cooling Techniques Integration - Research and Development

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Each vertical stack of houses are placed between a set of Cavity Walls or ‘Cooling Ducts’ which catch the hot-dry prevailing winds and cool them by means of evaporative cooling. This cool air then moves through the hollow floor slabs and the whole thermal mass collects this coolth.

Habitable spaces are cooled by radiation and convection.

The complete system is designed to use very little energy and a very optimized quantity of water. The building mass is highly insulated and balconies and openings are screened to minimise any heat gain.

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Collecting ‘coolth’ in the mass of the slabs

Collecting ‘coolth’ in the cavity walls

Pre-cast Hollow Flooring System

Low RPM exhaust fans help pull the air through hollow slabs & cavity walls

Apartment Block / Urban Densification Location: New Delhi, India Project Timeline: Feb 2014 - March 2017 Role: Jan 2014 - Jul 2016 Project Incharge Apr 2015 - Jul 2016 Coordinator for Site Works Project Brief Development and Conceptualisation, Design Development, Preparation of Detailed Project BoQ & Estimate, Construction Drawings and Services Integration, Periodic Site Supervision

The existing city must regenerate to meet the pressures of land unavailability and rising land prices in the ever growing city of Delhi. Low rise high density development model has been chosen by the city planners to promote a sustainable and orderly growth of the city.

Maximum permissible area is occupied by the building to justify the prevailing financial pressures on private residence owners. Four contemporary dwelling units are created over the three side open plot.

The houses are arranged around an open-to-sky central courtyard which provides cross-ventilation and day lighting to all the spaces. A water body in the court at the basement level with the help of a cooling fountain stores cool water which is circulated to pipes embedded in the roof slabs of all houses.

Front View

Thermal mass insulation is ensured as the building external skin is made up of a concrete block with integrated polystyrene insulation and additional polystyrene is added for thermal break at all cantilevered members. All doors and windows are made from Teak wood sections with Sealed Double Glazed Unit Panels installed.

Sliding Shading Screen System in Aluminium are installed externally on the building faces to cut off the harsh sun.

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Typical Plan for 3BHK Apartment Development Type: Plotted Residential Housing Site Area: 305 sqm Built Area: 1000sqm Levels: Basement, Stilts, Four Residential Floors & Terrace Garden Legend 1 2 3 4 5 6

Living Dining Kitchen Master Bedroom Bedroom Toilet

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Typical Plan for 4BHK Apartment Concrete Core Activation: Pipes embedded in the roof of each apartment provides cooling to the building mass and spaces below by the process of radiation. The system uses water (cooled by evaporation) as a medium for heat exchange.

This system removes sensible heat from the living spaces, thereby reducing the cooling energy demand of conventional air-conditioning.

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29 Lift Headroom 28 MS Frame for placing Greenhouse Net for Shading 27 230mm thick Flyash Brick Parapet Wall 26 Cooling Fountain 25 Service Trench filled with pebbles 24 Rain Water Collection & Downtake 23 Roof Garden Earthfill 22 Perforated Aluminium Sliding Screens Shading System 21 Concrete Block with EPS Insulation Sandwich 20C Radiant Cooling Pipes buried in Roof Slab placed over lower steel reinforcement 20B Manifold Box 20A Cool Water Supply / Return Water after Heat Exchange 19 Brass Sheet Flashing 18 Cement Board Shade with EPS Insulation 17 Double Glazed Unit Windows 16 Court RCC Upturn 15 Marble Floor Finish 14 1m high MS Railing 13 Meranti Hardwood Pergola 12 Entry Canopy 11 MS Safety Grille / Fence 10 Cement Concrete Jaali 9 1350mm high Boundary Wall with Dholpur stone 8 180mm thick RCC Slab 7C Treated Recycled Grey Water Supply for Flushing / Gardening 7B Waste Water to Collection Tank 7A Fresh Water Supply

by Hydropneumatic Pump 6 Raw Water Tank / Grey Water Collection and Recycled Grey Water Tank 5 30K Litres Capacity Rainwater Storage Tank 4 Radiant Cooling Pool 3 RCC Walls for Radiant Cooling Pool 2 70mm thick Granite Floor Finish 1 RCC Raft and Footings

F Open-to-Sky Courtyard E Terrace D Bedroom C Living Space B Stilt Area A Basement Area

Longitudinal Section through central courtyard showing incorporated building systems

Typical Wall Section with Insulated Blockwork supported on MS Ledge and DGU Panel Windows

Front Elevation

Rear Elevation with Flexible Shading Screens

Flexible and perforated shading screens cut down solar heat gains and allow diffused light inside.

Interior space lit by diffused light through perforated facade shading screens

Rear and Side Elevations

Roof Garden provides thermal mass to the top floor apartment and gives opportunities for urban farming and leisure.

Courtyard with vertical garden and evaporative cooling pool. It also allows for light and ventilation to inner rooms.

Green House / Conservatory in a Heritage Garden Location: New Delhi, India Client: Aga Khan Trust for Culture Beginning of Detail Design Development: July 2013 Project Status: Building Plans Approval Pending from Authority Involvement: Sanction & Tender Drawing Role: June 2013 onwards - Project Incharge Detail Design Development, Sanction & Tender Drawings & Documents, Critical Architectural Detailing, Preparation of Detailed Project BoQ & Estimate A building in a garden ~ a garden in the building.

Sunder Nursery is a large piece of urban green land, home to distinct flora and fauna. Garden House is designed as a home to exotic plants which cannot otherwise survive in the harsh climate of the city. A place for the curious also serves as a quick escape for the city dweller.

The building is accessed from the green areas as well as the motorable road within the Nursery. The tartan patterning of the planting beds taken up by the rhythmic vaults and posts of the structure – designed to sit lightly on walls of rough hewn stone masonry.

This space embraces and is informed by possible plant and tree arrangements in a large open space punctuated by slender steel posts. A ramp snakes along these supports taking you around the plants and up into the foliage of the building in which the ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ envelope each other in a seamless sequence of varying light and textures, levels and incidents; succulents, a treed court, or a lookout tower from which to peer over the tree tops to view the city and glimpse the horizon!

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Garden House

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Tropical Enclosure with its Tensile Structure Roof (left) and Hyperbolic Paraboloid Shells over the other spaces on top floor (right)

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ACADEMIC WORK 2016 - 2018 / Master of Science ClimaDesign / TU Munich • Performance based Mixed Use Urban Development • Master Thesis: Dense Urbanism and Energy Efficiency

2006 - 2011 / Bachelor of Architecture / USAP Delhi • Bachelor Thesis: reCONSIDER reNEW • Urban Design: Magnetic Confluence

Performance based Mixed Use Urban Development / Munich Giesing The site is an urban void that breaks continuity of activity and movement. The new development must re-connect it to the city and continue the dynamic dialogue of neighbouring districts.

The proposed mixed use development supports the local movement patterns and offers variety of uses that will generate a near 24 hour activity on the site.

Proposed design is tested for 2 hours of solar access on 17th Jan atleast in one space per apartment (DIN 5034-1: 2010-7). This supports passive design and energy efficiency.

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Steps 0 to 7 demonstrate the design optimisation process where problematic areas are re-organised to achieve the winter solar access criteria as per DIN standard.

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The final developed design shows areas receiving meeting the solar requirement in yellow. Further, the areas that do not meet this requirement are either used for non-residential purposes or arranged such that each apartment still meets the requirement.

Daylight Availability was evaluated based on WWR and orientation to see which combinations meet the sDA criteria of 75%. Results were used to design the initial building mass and the final WWR facade-wise.

Solar Radiation Access for Outdoor Activity Mapping The diagrams show solar radiation access for outdoor spaces on a typical winter and summer day of Munich.

This can be used to plan outdoor activities and temporary structures while ensuring a desirable level of thermal comfort.

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Respecting the Architectural Style of the Context

The section shows the lower floors being used for non-residential purposes that do not require direct solar access. Further, a degree of customisation of facades can provide additional comfort indoors.

The proposed development responds to the architectural style of the existing buildings on and around the site by: maintaining the same floor heights; creating an aesthetic contrast between lower and upper (attic) levels; and having same window widths.

Master Thesis / Dense Urbanism and Energy Efficiency

National Energy Consumption by Sector with a detail of Residential Energy Distribution

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Affordable Housing segment in India aims to house the lowest income group of the society, which is unable to afford housing at market prices.

These developments are executed at stringent budgets with focus on high density to counter land costs.

Passive design and energy efficiency are not seen as priorities. Building specifications in affordable housing specifications offer low environmental performance; therefore, the performance of building envelope is limited.

Residential sector in India consumes about 22% of the national energy, with two major constituents – cooling and lighting, about 45%.

The energy consumption is on a constant rise and existing energy deficit will only worsen with low performing building stock. Daytime occupancy of the house and bad illumination levels confirm the use of artificial light through the day. As incomes and lifestyles in the low-income group improve, the ownership of air-conditioners will also increase. Further, high occupant density per unit area exaggerates the normalised (per m2) Energy Use Intensity (EUI) value.

Achieving the opposing goals of improving daylight availability and reducing cooling energy demand is complex given the cost constraints of this segment.

Rise in Residential Energy Consumption (REC) of India from 1970 to 2015, and is further expected to grow at a steady rate.

Urban Morphology can be used as a vital element of climate responsive design to improve energy performance of affordable housing.

Research Methodology to evaluate Base Cases and arrive at a morphology with optimised performance

3 Selected Base Cases of the predominant affordable housing morphologies in Delhi. Left: Low Rise Attached Row-houses; centre: Mid Rise Courtyard Blocks; right: High Rise Slab Superblock.

Representative buildings used for evaluation are marked in yellow and sections discussed are marked with purple lines.

Base Case Typical Block (left) for Urban Scenario 2 and an example Variant (right) with increased building height and depth. Original building mass seen in green, extension in yellow.

This thesis proposes to enhance the performance and density of affordable housing base case scenarios by optimising design parameters of the urban morphology. ‘Building design parameters’ – orientation and window-wall ratio are taken as dynamic parameters to test the Base Case for possible improvements on these accounts. Continuing the discourse on densification, the thesis proposes a method of transformation for the urban morphology, to evolve new variations with higher densities by varying two building parameters – height and depth. An example of a variation can be seen above. The effect of these variations on morphology is studied using two ‘morphology indicators’ – Floor Area Ratio and Compactness Ratio.

The graph shows cooling energy demand and daylight potential of a Scenario Base Case and all its morphology variants based on their density (FAR). The highlighted areas in both the graphs denote a feasible range with better performance and higher densities than the Base Case. These graphs can be used to find a suitable variant with balanced performance and higher density that could be used for further optimisation.

3 Selected Base and Optimised Cases of the predominant affordable housing morphologies in Delhi. Left top: Low Rise Attached Row-houses; right top: Mid Rise Courtyard Blocks; left bottom: High Rise Slab Superblock.

The graphs show a comparative overview of density and performance across the 3 studied typology scenarios. Each scenario has unique characteristics and limitations, but the common string that brings them together is their ‘affordable’ nature and ‘compact’ living quality. The results range illustrated is based on results of design variants of morphology with the given study conditions. The optimised performance case with higher density is based on the variant study.

The results of optimised morphology have improved performance indicators along with higher density than the Base Case confirming the hypothesis.

However, results are with limitations and cannot be relied solely to attain highest levels of energy efficiency but can be the starting point to that end. Further, the two performance indicators– cooling energy demand and daylight potential, being opposite to each other favour different morphologies and densities.

Energy performance study of the urban form can be used as an inexpensive method to keep operational energy needs in check for the future.

Bachelor Thesis / reCONSIDER reNEW: Contemporary Mixed Use Urban Catalyst Location: Darya Ganj, New Delhi, India Timeline: Jan - May 2011 Stages of Work: Thesis Statement, Project Brief Development, Conceptual Design, Detailed Design Development, Presentation for Thesis Jury, Thesis Report The thesis project seeks to investigate how an unprecedented mix of complex pressures and challenges faced by a city are sought through the process of urban regeneration or urban acupuncture rather than adopting the practice of building new. The site in question is an under utilised parcel of land, part of a crumbling urban fabric dominated by the presence of a booming yet identity-less book publishing industry threatening to change the living culture of the area. The intervention will hope to control, re-release and rejuvenate these pressures and demands competing for the same space to synthesise into a new urban life.

Ansari Road Plaza and Library Entrance

Functionally, site must now incorporate a school, an elementary teachers’ training institute, a students’ hostel facility, a book mall, retail and commercial facilities and other support facilities.

The proposal creates a formal arrangement that captivates the overlapping lines of these different facets using conscious and intuitive understanding of the problems. It aims to provide the book industry an identity in the living culture of Darya Ganj and justify its presence by bringing it out from back end warehouses to up front show-windows. It works to re-establish a multifunctional use of space to retain the richness of life. The proposal attempts to moderate dynamic pressures of the area by making a small and specific architectural intervention, which could act as an urban catalyst, rejuvenating the place with a new life.

Intervention (centre) in its contextual setting of Darya Ganj

View from West Side - School and Art Shops

Ideas for development in the city [Case Delhi] Cause

Idea Re NEW Response Urban Regeneration / Urban Acupuncture

Idea Build NEW Response Urban Extensions

Unprecedented and Complex Mix of Urban Pressures to be sought out by the city

Pressures may be sought by building elsewhere, resulting in slow and unsustainable development

Pressures may be sought by re-building or building less, very quickly at the same site to create windows for future growth

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Intense Pressures on site Seeking Spatial Solutions

Space has no real pressures except for minor settlements

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Time Bound Planning and Execution may bring great results

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Specific site facing set of pressures [Case Darya Ganj] Booming book publishing industry in search of an identity and justification of its location in the centre of the city.

The earmarked site, which suffers from a long due development, must help the crumbling urban fabric to release the social, economic and functional pressures

Land Use Plan suggesting change from multifunctional complex lifestyle to single functional decaying life

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Thesis Site Location Darya Ganj, New Delhi

The project is to create a formal arrangement which captivates the overlapping lines of the different facets discussed formerly.

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The project is to be built on a site on the junction of Ansari Road and Dayanand Road in Darya Ganj and is currently occupied by a senior secondary school and an elementary teachers' training institute.

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Context Morphology Darya Ganj

Functionally, now it must incorporate a school, an elementary teachers' training institute, a students' hostel facility, a book mall, retail and commercial facilities and other supporting facilities.

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The series of drawings show us the street grid pattern along with the open and built relationship of the area. The area has a functional grid system which is an asset to the circulation pattern of the area. The high built vs low open area exhibits the high built density and maximum ground coverage of all small plots contrasted by some large plots with small ground coverage and some greens.

The street grid is an asset to the site and for planning of future development. The high built is the characteristic of the area which may maintained as long as we intelligently manage to provide breath up areas in our fabric.

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VALUE FOR MAPPING CONTEXT: Primarily, mapping of context becomes important to understand how the site is a part of the urban fabric, in terms of physical open built relationship, infrastructure and connectivity, architectural setting and built heritage.

Here, we see how the site sits as a connector between three extreme types of urban fabrics, one organic, dense and complex and, the other is the city’s water and green belt with less built and the third being the modern extension of New Delhi. Darya Ganj seems to exhibit a transition in these changing fabrics.

The site has very good existing infrastructure and connectivity with the city. Although increased car usage has choked the streets and now it lacks parking services. The area boasts a rich architectural style with a continuous building cycle of 500 years.

PROGRAM ACTION PLAN: In hoping to meet the pressures by intervening and changing the fabric completely or building a lot, we waste a lot of resources instead we can look to introduce a catalyst which can tap the existing energy and trigger further change as a result. The project will hope to control, re-release and rejuvenate the pressures, competing in the same space, to synthesise into a new urban life.

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While dealing with complex fabrics like Darya Ganj, we need not intervene and change them completely but deal with certain aspects of them to trigger chain reactions by introducing an urban catalyst.

After the major pressures were outlined, an integrated scheme was proposed to meet these complex pressures suggesting mixed use of space based on conscious and intuitive understanding of the problems.

To achieve a sense of identity and justify the presence of the book publishing industry in Darya Ganj, it was felt to provide them utmost presence on site with appropriate cohesion with existing uses and demands of space.

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commercial escaping street level busy street

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The school and teachers' training institute must achieve a sense of gain in the new scheme and become the carriers of the existing energy on site.

A mix of various functions to be overlapped over time and space will reinstate the multifunctional complexity on site, give depth of character and bear a mark of further growth on site and on the fabric it hopes to relieve.

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less active street

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View from North Side - Book Mall (Proposed Structure over Existing Building)

Retail Court

School Court

View from East Side - Retail and Commercial

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Model Pictures

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Urban Design / Magnetic Confluence: Noida City Centre, Noida, Uttar Pradesh

KANISHK JAIN

ARCHITECT + sustainable design professional MUNICH • kanishkjn@gmail.com • +49 173 4269509