GRADUATE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO by Jayaditya Kotak

HOUSING STUDIO

HOUSING, RAJKOT

BRIEF

Location: Governement Quarters

City: Rajkot

Professor: Ar. Parth Sadaria

Site area: 20,756 sq. mt.

Studio brief: To foster an understanding of global issues and concerns related to housing, housing typology, socio-economic background, affordability, government policies, formal & informal housing sectors.

Design process: So basically, had to do a case study of any housing by famous architects in which I had done of LIC Housing by B.V. Doshi, started with context of site such as building by-laws, community and culture.

Understanding shelter amd ammenities, facilities. Approach of housing, social and community spaces (use of common open plot), case study of existing models, architectural planning, circulation.

Refrences: Design & space by Charles Correa, Architecture: Form, space & order by D.K. Ching.

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2-BHK CLUSTER

HOUSING STUDIO

CLUSTER BED ROOM -III 3200 x 3000 BED ROOM -II 2700 x 3300 BALCONY 3200 x 1200 BALCONY 4000 x 1400 BED ROOM -I 2700 x 3300 WASHROOM 1900 x 1500 WASH AREA 2000 X 1500 WASHROOM 2000 X 1500 DINNING AREA 1873 X 2000 KITCHEN 3100 X 2100 LIVING ROOM 4000 x 3800 ENTRANCE FOYER WASHROOM 1500 x 2400 04

HOUSING STUDIO 3-BHK

HOUSING STUDIO 4-BHK CLUSTER BALCONY 3300 x 1200 BALCONY 3700 x 1200 BALCONY 1700 x 1200 BALCONY 1700 x 1200 BED ROOM III 3300 x 4200 BED ROOM IV 5000 x 2700 WASHROOM 1500 x 2200 WASHROOM 1500 x 2600 STORE ROOM 1500 x 1000 WASH AREA 1500 x 1800 KITCHEN 4200 x 3700 BED ROOM - II 3300 x 3000 WASHROOM 1600 x 2500 BED ROOM 3200 x 4300 LIVING ROOM 3700 x 4500 WASHROOM 2000 x 1500 DINNING AREA 2200 x 3000 ENTRANCE FOYER 05 - HOUSING STUDIO

HOUSING STUDIO

SEMI-DETACHED ROW HOUSES

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URBAN STUDIO

URBAN HAAT, VADODARA

BRIEF

Location: Navlakhi Ground

City: Vadodara

Professor: Ar. Bijoy Bordoloi

Site area: 20,245 sq. mt.

Studio brief: To design a URBAN HAAT for Gujarat tourism, Vadodara Muncipal Corporation (VMC) and Vadodara Urban Development Authority (VUDA). It provides an ambience of a traditional village market for contemprary needs. It provides a mix of craft, food and cultural activities.

It is not just a market place, it has been visualized as a showpiece of traditional Indian culture - a forum where rural life and folk art are bought closer to an urban business. It provides encouragement to needy artists and serves as an outlet center for them. A small food court which brings a variety of cuisines of different states together.

Design process: Had worked on many case studies such as Dilli Haat INA, Delhi, Dilli Haat Janakpuri, Delhi, Fun Food Batallion, Ahmedabd. Worked on a detailed live case study at Ahmedabd’s Amdavad Haat Vastrapur. Main focus on studying different haat’s was to understand about hierarchy inplanning, circulation, services, features, spatial form analysis, built & un-built spaces and landscape.

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LEGENDS:

1. MAIN ENTRY

2. PLAZA

3. PARKING

4. SERVICE ENTRY

5. URBAN HAAT ENTRY

6. LIBRARY

7. ART GALLERY

8. CONVENTION CENTER

9. PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

10. URBAN HAAT

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URBAN STUDIO

FLOOR PLANS

FOOD STALL GROUND FLOOR PLAN

SHOP - I SHOP - IV SHOP - II SHOP - III ROOF PLAN

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URBAN STUDIO FLOOR PLANS

URBAN STUDIO

THESIS

RESOURCE EFFICIENT PRIMARY SCHOOL

BRIEF

Location: Gozaria village

City: Mehasana, Gujarat, India

Professor: Ar. Bijoy Bordoloi

Site area: 11,800 sq. mt.

Built-up: Site is mainly covered with residential buildings which are G or G+1 and on other two sides of the site schools are located.

Road Networks: Site is connected by a major junction having four roads in which bazar road is in east, station road in west and tower chowk follows towards south.

Aim: To design a school with the change from traditional teaching oriented classrooms to flexible and open-to-sky learning oriented spaces. A school which gives more than just a scheduled syllabus as such design of a building with layout, color, materials and forms which will help the students in growing them physically, mentally and psychologically.

Objectives: To design spaces for making students into independent individual. Providing specific space for below average or differently abled students. To enlighten the education culture and traditions around the wolrd. Creating recreational spaces which can be used in any festivals, functions and everyday interactions etc.

Scope: Making spaces more livable and informal which will change the learning environment and the students will become more interested in getting education. The school will promote literacy rate in the village and promote education as prior requirement. Promoting the importance of education for girls, whether privileged or unprivileged.

Limitations: To design a school for standards of primary only. This project will only cover understandings of architectural details and not the technical engineering details. Resource effective approach will be defined based on the theory not the exact calculations.

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ANALYSIS

SITE

GUJARAT, INDIA MEHASANA, GUJARAT GOZARIA, MEHASANA SITE PLAN VEGETATIONS

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DEVELOPMENT STAGE

CONCEPT 1 CONCEPT 2 CONCEPT 3 CONCEPT 4 CONCEPT 5 CONCEPT 6 (Final Stage)

THESIS FLOOR PLANS

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FLOOR PLAN

GROUND

FLOOR PLAN FIRST

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SECTIONS & ELEVATIONS LANDSCAPE PLAN

THESIS

SECTION EE’ SECTION AA’ SECTION DD’ SOUTH ELEVATION

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3D

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RENDERS

INTERNSHIP

SOM-KAMALAM (OFFICE)

BRIEF

Location: Somnath

City: Somnath, Gujarat, India

Architect: Ar. Ojas Hirani

Site area: 26,055 sq. mt.

Involvement: From planning layout till working drawings as we were two of them involved in designing the office as he majorly worked with 3D works and some part of elevations.

Design brief: The design basically refers to a famous political party of India named as Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) handeled by the Prime Minister of India.

As requirements of designing the office was simple yet complex in a way, the client required a design based on their party logo lotus a modern day design which resembles the office. As it also required an approval of vastu- shastra as client were commited believer on it.

Design Process: At firts stage it was decided the plan will consists of two lotuses smaller in the front and larger one at the back and seperate washroom spaces from the bulding.

As design consisted of basement, ground floor, first floor, mezzanine and terrace plan out of which basment consisted of exhibition gallery, dinning area and kitchen with car parking on the othe side.

Other features such as offices, reception, private chambers and conference room are located at ground floor whereas auditorium and stage is at first floor for any kind of function going on and a small auditorium if required at a time on mezzanine floor connected with terrace.

NOTE: As there are many such projects I had worked on in my training period such as Hotel deisgn at Mt. Abu, combined project of School, Landscape, Community hall and Interpretation centre at Patan and a Housing design at Ahmedabad. However this was one of my favourite projects with a kind of uniqeness within it.

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INTERNSHIP FLOOR PLANS HIGHWAY ADJ ROAD RAMP (Entry) RAMP (Exit) Up X Y Y' LVL -1650 DINNING AREA 170.56 sq.m KITCHEN 28.65 sq.m PRIVATE DINING 28.65 sq.m TOILET TOILET UP UP LIFT EXHIBITION / GALLERY 115 sq.m MALE DUCT 1.25 sq.m X' Z Z' RAMP (Entry) RAMP (Exit) Down Down X Y Y' X' PASSAGE CONFERENCE ROOM 76 sq.m PASSAGE Down Up Up RECEPTION 59.10 sq.m LVL +1500 OFFICE 1 13.46 sq.m OFFICE 7.89 sq.m OFFICE 9.80 sq.m OFFICE 12.36 sq.m OFFICE 7.89 sq.m OFFICE 9.80 sq.m OFFICE 12.36 sq.m OFFICE 13.46 sq.m PASSAGE PASSAGE PASSAGE ADMIN 45.60 sq.m TOILET 2.47 TOILET TOILET TOILET TOILET ADMIN 45.60 sq.m FEMALE MALE DUCT Z Z' Up PASSAGE PASSAGE STAGE 42.60 sq.m BACK STAGE 7.36 sq.m Up Up Up AUDITORIUM 349 sq.m TOILET LIFT LIFT TOILET FEMALE X Y Y' X' Z Z' 23 - INTERNSHIP BASEMENT PLAN

FLOOR FIRST FLOOR

GROUND

INTERNSHIP FLOOR PLANS Down MEZZANINE AUDITORIUM 140 sq.m TOILET 11.28 sq.m MALE TOILET FEMALE DUCT DUCT X Y Y' X' Up DOUBLE HEIGHTED SPACE TERRACE 220 sq.m FEMALE MALE Down X Y Y' X' X Y Y' X' 24 MEZZANINE FLOOR TERRACE PLAN ROOF PLAN

INTERNSHIP SECTIONS & ELEVATIONS 25 - INTERNSHIP SECTION XX’ SECTION YY’ SIDE ELEVATION 1500 3000 3627 3000 3021 3000 150 2100 1280 151 3382 140 3247 150 2400 2400 150 3112 150 3444 150 3444 150 3000 3000 3000 3000 150 3356 150 3356 150 3288 150 900 1500