Architecture + Design Undergraduate Portfolio [LR]

KARUN CHUGHASRANI ARCHITECTURE

u n d e r g r a d u a t e

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DESIGN

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CURRICULUM VITAE

K ARUN CHUGHASRANI

17th JULY 1993 11, AMBIK A BHAVAN, SARASWATI ROAD, SANTACRUZ WEST, MUMBAI-54, INDIA K ARUN.APPLE@GMAIL .COM +91 9820672250 FEEL IMBIBE DESIGN TRAVEL RIDE BUILD [intuitive + resilient] motorcycling enthusiast [touring+track riding] intermittent bodybuilder self-taught photographer

EDUCATION

PUBLICATIONS + EXHIBITIONS

2011-2016 // Pursuing Bachelor's of Architecture (final year) at Balwant Sheth School of Architecture (BSSA), NMIMS University,Mumbai, India.

2009-2011 // Higher Secondary Certificate from Mithibai College, Mumbai University, Mumbai, India with 83.3%.

1996-2009 // Indian Certificate of Secondary Education from Jasudben M.L . School, Mumbai, India with 93.3% [7th rank]

2011 // Aurangabad Sketchbook + Guidebook - detailed analysis of Aurangabad through sketches, photographs and text.

// Jaisalmer: The City Within - an exhibtion documenting the nukkads

and spatial pockets inside Jaisalmer Fort.

2012 // Ahmedabad Travelogue - analysing all architecturally significant structures through drawings, sketches, photographs and text. // Hive Minds Exhibition @ BSSA Corridor - part of team to fabricate and assemble a 1:1 scale installation.

2013 // Bhutan-Frozen in Time I + II - complete analysis of the cities 2015 // Participated in ‘Global Schindler Award’ an urban design of Paro and Thimphu through sketches, drawings, photographs, text and competition by Schindler Group, based in Shenzhen, China. scaled site models.

2014 // Participated in ‘Transparence’ a competition by Ethos, to 2014 // Urban Analysis - studying historical layers of development of the redesign a Metro Rail Station in the city of Delhi. city of Thane + understanding morphology. // Market Study - a report for analysing the exsisting market typology in the 21st century and its varied business models. [architecture intern] // St. Xavier’s College - A comprehensive report on the spatial, social SML [Studio Mahek Lalan] 2013 and cultural characterisics of the St. Xavier's College campus at Dhobi Talao. // Physical study models for Al-Aziz Office, Saki Naka, Mumbai. // Changed Perspectives: Ramayana + Mahabharata - self // Preliminary planning for Adhikari Beach House, Gholvad, Maharshtra. interpretation of stories from Indian mythology.

SEAD [Studio for Environment and Planning] 2015 2015 // Urban Farming - a report on the future of market design, // Designed and co-fabricated Parametric Modular Flow (Ceiling Installation). proposal for Andheri Station, Mumbai. // Graphic Design for Solidarity Office (Investment Advisors), Kurla, Mumabi. // Thesis Bazaar - part of team to build a 3d installation using cardboard boxes to introduce final year student’s design dissertation topics. // Drafting sections for Fullife Healthcare PVT LTD, Andheri, Mumbai. // BSSA Display Screen @ BSSA Corridor - designed a installation to // Balcony railing detail for Trupti Apartments, Vile Parle East, Mumbai. display student’s work.

COMPETITIONS

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PROFESSIONAL

TECHNICAL SKILLS Autodesk AutoCAD Autodesk 3DS Max Autodesk Revit Autodesk Maya Rhinoceros Grasshopper Google SketchUp Vray for Rhino + Max Lumion Kerkythea

Adobe Photoshop Adobe Lightroom Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator Corel Draw Autodesk Sketchbook Autodesk Ecotect Microsoft Office Windows Movie Maker Microsoft Powerpoint

FABRICATION SKILLS

// Hand crafted model making // Metalworking // Woodworking // Laser cutting

ACHIEVEMENTS

// Cnc routing // 3d printing // Waterjet cutting

// Elected as finance secretary in the BSSA Student Council (2014) // Co-organised annual BSSA Festival - Freescape (2013) // Elected as class representative for 3 years (2011-2013) // Successfully completed KTM Track Day Course // Part of Mumbai City handball team // State level tennis player

INDEX OF WORKS time

ACADEMIC CO-CURRICULAR PROFESSIONAL

BSSA DISPLAY INSTALLATION [IN PROGRESS] BSSA Corridor

year 5

2015

THESIS BAZAAR INSTALLATION

DESIGN DISSTERTATION [IN PROGRESS]

BSSA Exhibition Room

PARAMETRIC MODULAR FLOW

CEILING INSTALLATION // SEAD CONSULTANTS Ratanjyot Industrial Estate, Irla, Mumbai

year 4

ARCHITECTURE X SOCIETAL COMPLEXITY

INSERT_DIAGRAMMED METHODOLOGIES

HYBRID TYPOLOGIES

VORONOI BENCH FURNITURE DESIGN

2014

URBAN DESIGN STUDIO

SCHOOL FOR BUSINESS + SCHOOL FOR PUBLIC POLICY St. Xavier’s College Campus, Fort, Mumbai

URBAN FARMING + URBAN TRANSIT Andheri Station, Mumbai

GLOBAL SCHINDLER COMPETITION

URBAN HOUSING + URBAN FARMING

DESIGNING THE CITY AS A RESOURCE Sungang-Quingshuihe, Shenzhen, China

WORKING DRAWING

CENTER FOR STREET CHILDREN Dhobi Talao, Marine Lines, Mumbai

COMMODITY STUDY

APART-HOTEL

MATERIALITY + STRUCTURE EXPLORATIONS Juhu Market, Mumbai

SPACES OF IMMERSION

BHUTAN TOUR DOCUMENTATION

Hill Road, Bandra, Mumbai

year 3

PANEL + MODEL + BOOK Phuentsholing + Paro + Thimpu

VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTER Paro, Bhutan

2013

SITE + X _ URBAN FRINGE year 2

CENTER FOR STREET CHILDREN Dhobi Talao, Marine Lines, Mumbai

HIVE MINDS

STARLINGS // EPHEMERAL INTER-LINKING GEESE // FLYING FORMATIONS BSSA Corridor 2012

READING MUMBAI

Khetwadi, Mumbai + Nmims University Building

JAISALMER FORT DOCUMENTATION

year 1

MEASURED DRAWING + SITE MODEL Hari Om Lane, Jaisalmer Fort, Jaisalmer

MEASURING THE VOID Sweri Mudflats, Mumbai

2011

environment

interior

architecture

urbanism

INSERT_DIAGRAMMED METHODOLOGY 4.2 site // st. xavier’s college, fort, mumbai study // genercities + specificities of spaces program // school for business + school for public policy mentor // milind merchant

The project aims at breaking of traditional naming of spacing which leads to limiting the possible events that can take place in a space.

The aim has been achieved by breaking down each programmed space into its genercities and specificites keeping in mind the scale, nature and structure of space and also the contained activities(events).

RECEPTION space for inquiry administrative checkpoint space connecting space space for waiting BOYS COMMON ROOM enclosed gendered space social congregation + interactions GIRLS COMMON ROOM enclosed gendered space social congregation + interactions CHAPEL sacred formal proceedings social congregation + interactions COMPUTER LABS individual centered design rigid framework of infrastructure space for instructions SCIENCE LABS hands on experiments are undertaken rigid framework of infrastructure under constant supervision space for instructions ASSEMBLY HALL availability of a performnce area and supporting spaces official formal ceremonies space for housing a large audience space for display space for rehersals CANTEEN space where food is served social congregation + interactions LIBRARY storing books quiet controlled reading environment xeroxing + scanning facilities social congregation + interactions peer learning cubicles

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES high concentration of non teaching staff close proximity to each other CLASSROOM designated space for learning sense of heirarchy no of people to be accomodated social congregation + interactions space for instructions STAFF ROOMS high concentration of teaching staff close proximity to each other COURTYARD basketball + football open to sky volleyball green open space social congregation + interactions space for rehersals MUSIC CLUB storing music cds + cassettes social congregations for music enthusiasts space for rehersals MUSEUM displaying artifacts and objects of historical importance free movement space social congregation + interactions GYMKHANA badminton gym carrom social congregation + interactions MULTI MEDIA ROOM movie screenings + presentations + guest lectures space for housing a small audience space for rehersals space for display CORRIDOR/COLONNADE designated space for movement social congregation + interactions space for display LENDING LIBRARY storing books dictated movement through space

single use spaces

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CHAPEL CANTEEN GYMKHANA MUSEUM CORRIDOR/COLONNADE COMMON ROOMS COURTYARD CLASSROOM

genericities

sacred formal proceedings space where food is served badminton gym carrom displaying artifacts and objects of historical importance free movement space space for display designated space for movement enclosed gendered space basketball + football open to sky volleyball green open space space for rehersals designated space for learning sense of heirarchy no of people to be accomodated space for instructions

space for rehersals

ASSEMBLY HALL

space for instructions

space for display

MULTI MEDIA ROOM

movie screenings + presentations + guest lectures space for housing a small audience space for rehersals availability of a performnce area and supporting spaces official formal ceremonies space for housing a large audience designated space for movement social congregation + interactions

ASSEMBLY HALL MULTI MEDIA ROOM MUSIC CLUB COURTYARD

CLASSROOMS COMPUTER LABS SCIENCE LABS

availability of a performnce area and supporting spaces official formal ceremonies space for housing a large audience space for display movie screenings + presentations + guest lectures space for housing a small audience space for housing a large audience storing music cds + cassettes social congregations for music enthusiasts basketball + football open to sky volleyball green open space social congregation + interactions

sense of heirarchy designated space for learning no of people to be accomodated individual centered design rigid framework of infrastructure under constant supervision hands on experiments are undertaken

LENDING LIBRARY + CORRIDOR storing books designated space for movement dictated movement through space social congregation + interactions space for display

MUSIC CLUB + MUSEUM storing music cds + cassettes displaying artifacts and objects of historical importance free movement space social congregation + interactions space for rehersals/performances

COURTYARD + ASSEMBLY HALL

SCIENCE LABS + LIBRARY + COMPTER LABS

open to sky space for housing a large audience social congregation + interactions

hands on experiments are undertaken under constant supervision quiet controlled reading environment

space for rehersals space for display availability of a performnce area and supporting spaces official formal ceremonies

CHAPEL + COURTYARD + MUSEUM displaying artifacts and objects of historical importance open to sky free movement space social congregation + interactions space for rehersals/performances green open space sacred formal proceedings

storing books rigid framework of infrastructure xeroxing + scanning facilities peer learning cubicles

MULTI MEDIA ROOM + CLASSROOM sense of heirarchy designated space for learning movie screenings + presentations + guest lectures space for display social congregation + interactions no of people to be accomodated space for housing a small audience

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HYBRID TYPOLOGIES 4.1

hostel private farms

market workshop

apartments

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50sqm x 12

living spaces

growing spaces

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market

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180sqm

private growing area

200sqm

common greenhouses

100sqm

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cafe + restaurant

960sqm

reception+lobby

grow

1040sqm

hostel living area

share

1000sqm

hostel bunk beds

Living spaces include - apartments + hostel sleeping areas Growing spaces include - private growing areas for apartments + common greenhouses Sharing spaces include - hostel living areas + restaurant + market + workshops

live

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This meant highlighting the public realm in an urban fabric, and lead to 3 basic categories of inhabitable spaces: living, growing and sharing spaces.

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The underlining concept for the project was to i ntegrate ecological processes in an urban environment and to reconnect the users to basic life sustaining systems and making them enthusiastic about being a part of an ecological system within the city.

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temporary residents

study // urban housing + urban farming program // live +share + grow mentor // piyush bajpai + priyank mehta

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GLOBAL SCHINDLER COMPETITION 2015 People relate to cities in terms of the icons that are located in those cities (Sydney opera house is the icon for Sydney, Eiffel tower is the icon for Paris etc). Thus the most public built spaces such as amenities, community centers, markets, institutes are purposely designed in a physical iconic sense. This creates a common “image of the region (city)� in the mind of the inhabitants as well as in the minds of transient users.These iconic structures act as boosters to the economy by way of increasing the real estate values around them as a result of increased public interventions in these icons All these factors lead to a holistic upbringing of the regions, hence improving the general quality of life of the inhabitants.

Diversity of program and qualtiy of space

Housing with mixed use (light commercial) Commercial Spaces Open Recreational Spaces Physical Connections Amenities Community Centers

Interlinks between different economic, public and natural zones at the nodes so as to provide a variety of activities for transit passengers.

Model of designing and connecting nodes physically, spacially and programmatically.

Creation of hyper Varied scale and quality of open spaces.

Large scale open space(formal and active zones. non monitorable) Medium scale open space(semi-formal) Small scale open space(informal and monitorable, safe for children)

Node connection for varied users regardless of mode of 10 minute travel distance between nodes, regarless of mode of mobility.

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Existing site conditions: After design intervention: Disjoint in-between place Cohesive live-work-recreation of living and place of work, school, parks etc. relationships.

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Identifying opportunities for new conections.

Housing Complex + Commercial + Local Social Amenities Commercial Complex + Commercial Amenities Large Community Social Amenities + Public Infrastructure

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Developing an interlinked Variety of mobility options and system of nodes in the heirarchy in road network urban fabric.

Conceptual zoning of mixed used blocks

Interlinking the different spaces used by the socially, economically and culturally diverse users via multiple mobility loops.

The current system of planning has designated zones for specific purposes for example housing, commercial or recreational, this leads to an increase in the travel time between the place in which one lives and the place in which one works, studies, recreates, socializes etc.

The design approach is to create these zones as nodes which have all the different programs within themselves so that the time previously used for travel could be used for the secondary chores of the lives of the child, adult and old aged. For example the time saved by an office worker could be used to take a jog in the nearby park. or the time saved by a child could be used to recreate and play in the ground.

The nodes created are internally connected by open spaces, pedestrian and cyclist streets, they are interconnected by arterial roads so as to increase the distance reachable by differen modes within a specific amount of time.

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This would also lead to a balance between the different modes of mobility within the zone as well as among many zones hence creating a model which can be connected and repeated as a method of urban planning keeping in mind the context of the site without creating extreme disconnects such as those which exist today.

Regular pedestrian path (linear to emphasize movement without disturbance)

Major pedestrian street near commercial core zones (creates intresting plazas and irrelugar spaces where intresting public activies may occur during the course of the day)

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Ensuring visual connectivity between large open spaces through means of mobility such as pedestrian pathways or vehicular roads, so that there is a sense of identity within neighbourhoods and so that the communities can get strongly interlinked.

(Getting directions and understanding of a place without its map)

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It is unrealistic to create a drastic large scale change in the built fabric at once, thus the development has been centered on phases, which have been planned as per their practicality and urgency, keeping in mind the traditional predictions of city growth and development.

1; the major nodes have been identified and the modification of the immediate areas around these has been undertaken, new main nodes are also created, the disjointed nodes and zones are better connected. Amenities have been provided so as to create an incentive for people to settle and work in this region 2; the region around the major nodes are developed into commercial zones, mixed use urban super blocks, residential complexes for the various income groups is created, the connection between the two development zones is made stronger by enhancing street connection, more amenities are provided.

3; the areas at the periphery are developed in a similar mixed use fashion maintaining a strong physical connectivity among them through all the modes of mobility, thus creating a homogenous yet varying model for development. Homogeneous in a way that the basic methodology is the same, varying in a way that what is developed on the new sites is with respect to what programs are most urgently required.

4; the areas which may have turned unstable over the development of the previously mentioned zones are identified and a plan for development is proposed based on the market trends then. Strategic mixed use

Visual connect between zones maintained for fluid movement

develeopment throughout the urban fabric for a much more safer environment to dwell in

Better connect between urban zones

Mixed use architectural typologies strategically developed to make the site more porous and socially rich.

New development pattern designed to support the current dynamism and further enchance it.

Various mobility options within each urban zone

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Urban regions are dense and complex overlays of very distinct programs, spaces, arrangements of economies, cultures etc, thus the kind of fabric that evolves is very multi layered in terms of the linkages that are formed, both planned and unplanned, physical and invisible.

This creates urgency with respect to the mobility of the individual in these regions, both along the vast horizontal expanse of the region as well as across the dense fabric with respect to vertical overlay of spaces. The core purpose underlying the design decisions made was to better link these connectivity disjoints in terms of physical, economic, cultural and social aspects of urban life.

Mobility, vertically, has been addressed by way of creating layered spaces over each other in section, thus opening up the structures to outside interventions and discoveries, certain programs have been chaotically, but thoughtfully designed so as to make the design permeable, enhancing controlled interior public spaces and life.

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URBAN DESIGN // URBAN FARMING site // andheri station study // integrating processes that support life with living systems program // urban farming + urban transit mentor // atrey chhaya + tapan mittal deshpande group // hana mehta + mithuna murugesh + karun chughasrani

Why not grow where we consume? In this, can architectural design support a sustainable farming in a densely populated urban context?

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commodity study on site determined which commodities would become obsolete over time as well as suggested commodities which would sustain over time as primary requirements, out of the one’s already present on site.

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Farming harnesses the efficiency of collectivity and community. Whether cultivating land, harvesting resources, extacting energy or delegating labor, farming reveals the interdependencies of our globalized world. Simultaneously, farming represents the local gesture, the productive landscape, and the alternative economy. Farming is the modification of infrastructure, urbanisms, architectures and landscapes toward a privileging of production.

Disregarding natural cycles, however, has caused our collective to excess the earth’s ability to provide abundant resources. Efficiency has been traded for ease and, in short time, our landscapes will no longer produce the necessary nutrients to sustain human life. We have no other choice but to conclude that farming on soil is not a long term sustainable solution to meeting our populations energy needs. If the natural environment is not capable of sustaining current farming practices, where will our future food come from answer lies within the symbiotic potential of our growing urban centers.

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“If Bhutan were a celebrity, it would be Johnny Depp!”

Johnny Depp makes the experience of watching the film very personal. One is no longer just watching the film like a third person but becomes one with the character he plays.This presence of togetherness or this personal attachment was the crux of my personal observation. You can’t feel at one with a place if it is bustling with people and activities, in Bhutan people keep to themselves and nothing really disturbs you as you walk around. You are allowed to scrutinize the place the way you like.

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These uninterrupted experiences set up a dialogue between you and your surroundings. All major settlements take place in the valleys along the rivers. These rivers have a soothing effect on the people and help tone down the noise, if any.

Once the noise or clutter is taken away, you begin to truly understand a place and its people.

The strong fundamental initial observations of being able to connect with the surrounding environment, pushed me to explore possibilites for a vocational training center for Bhutanese youth, where they could participate and immerse their mind and body in learning new skills.

The primary aim of the created spaces would be to inspire the people of Bhutan to become skilled, educated and informed indiviuals so that they can, inspite of being in a landlocked, frozen in time country, push boundries and sensitively move past backword restricting practices and imbibe lifestyles of the 21st century network age keeping their roots intact.

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Programmed spaces are welded together with interstitial spaces that enhance one’s awareness and strike one’s curosity. These ‘awkward’ spaces heighten one’s senses and help immerse the user in the space as well as the activity going on in the space.

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The vocational training center involves bringing in varied kinds of raw materials from various parts of the country, including crops, timber, bamboo, cloth, wax, gums, etc. The center provides for the people to interact with and learn to take advantage of the resources coming out of their own country, rather than being dependent of neighbouring superpowers, such as India or China. Since Bhutan is opening up to the world, such spaces propel the people to progress while being attached to their context and thus try and tone down the negative effects of globalisation and consumerism.

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APART-HOTEL 3.2 site // hill road, bandra, mumbai study // incorporating communal spaces to invigorate interactions program // serviced apartments + hotel mentor // saahil parikh The studio began with a visit to Ranwar Village, an old Gaothan settlement in Bandra. The most common difference between community housing of the past and contemporary gated communites of today, was the absence of vital communal spaces that had emerged in the former, but were mandated in the latter. The project was quest to integrate communal spaces in Apart-Hotel to siulate interactions and create new communities keeping in mind the cosmopolitan nature of the site and its users.

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HIVE MINDS // BSSA DESIGN WORKSHOP 2012 2.1 Swarm Behavior_STARLINGS // Adaptive Emergent Re-organization + Ephemeral Inter-linking I began by reading parts of the book ‘Out of

study // starlings Control’ by Kevin Kelly to understand concepts of emergent self organizing behaviors site // bssa corridor exhibited in the biological world. These readings also set the starting point for my scale // interactive individual research on the spatio-temporal installation organizational phenomeneon of starlings.

Starlings together called murmurations form spectacular formations in the air to avoid predators.The secret behind their formations is that they are extremely selforganized adaptive systems. Basic IBMs (individual based models) of collective behavior or swarming consider the so-called three-zone models. mathematical models of selforganization show that complicated collective behavior can be the consequence of a few simple behavioral rules. These simple behavioral principles are: Separation - steer to avoid crowding local flock mates. Alignment - steer towards the average heading of local flock mates. Cohesion - steer to move toward the average position of local flock mates.

Each bird keeps track of the position of its seven closest neighbors, which are usually located on the side. Each module is a the visual link between any two birds at a given time, the module deforms with respect to the ephemeral quality of such links present in the time. The entire module contains seven such links corresponding to inter-linking among the 8 birds which were chosen to be studied.

The process was aimed at investigating naturally occuring phenomena, breaking them down and understanding the basic set of actors that interact with each other in a non-linear networked manner resulting in creating of higher orders of complexity when observed at the scale of the whole.

Having understood the emergent behavior of starlings, their fundamental performative aspect was decoded in terms of diagrams which guided the form making exercise of the installation design.

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Velocity fluctuations of different birds are correlated to each other. The range of such spatial correlation does not have a constant value, but it scales with the linear size of the flock. Changes in velocity of any one bird, affects the velocity of all other birds in a flock, regardless of the distance between them. Rather than affecting every other flock member, orientation changes caused only a bird’s seven closest neighbors to alter their flight. That number stayed consistent regardless of flock density. One bird's flinch can set off a chain reaction in the air, resulting in the wildly fantastical shapes and bends to the flocks.

Swarm Behavior_GEESE // Adaptive Emergent Flying Formations study // geese site // bssa corridor scale // display installation The migratory birds form the V- pattern due to two main reasons: The shape of the formation reduces the drag force that each bird experiences compared to if it were flying alone, hence there are significant aerodynamic gains. The V-Formation also strongly reinforces communication capabilities amongst the birds in the flock.

The swarm of migratoy birds act together to form the V - formation which helps them sustain their journey for longer distances. When the formation gets too long, it breaks into smaller such V - formations.

This self organized behaviour of breaking up beyond a threshold is studied and converted to a set of interlocking surfaces with angular connections. The breaking motion of the surfaces is governed by the logic of push and pull mimcking the cohesive and repulsive forces between the birds flying in formation.

In the second phase of the workshop, we caried out investigations at a 1:1 scale to create interactive and usable installations which were displayed at the annual BSSA Exhibition.

A number of joineries were worked out for various performative functions in a single module; the final model consisted of a cluster of modules to show the idea of a ‘pattern breaking into similar patterns’.

Different materials were explored and a combination of High-density Polyethylene (HDPE) sheet for the surfaces and mild steel joineries were chosen, fabricated and assembled to create the display installation.

SITE + X_URBAN FRINGE 2.2 CENTER FOR STREET CHILDREN // LIGHT AS A MODIFIER FOR INTIMACY OF SPACE

site // dhobi talao, marine lines program // center for street children mentor // atrey chhaya

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*Public space *Well lit throughout the day *Maximum utility during mornings and evenings

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*Semi private space *Diffused lighting *Cozy space of retreat *Maximum utility during afternoons

*Depend on artificial lighting‟*Inhabited mostly in the morning and at night

In the mornings, people are in their houses, later mornings/early afternoons they‟move to the courtyard.

Afternoon when it gets too hot they move back into the corridors. Evenings people come out the courtyard.

Night people return to their houses. The courtyard becomes this totally public space where maximum interactions take place. The corridors become a place of retreat from the heat. There are certain pockets in the structure which remain dark throughout the day, these pockets therefore are undesirable and no habitation or use of any sort takes place.

Through a series of model making techniques involving different material explorations, I arrived at a section based organization principle for programmed spaces which mimicked the continuity in spaces of different intimacies and their relationship with light conditions as seen in the structure studied.

Through a series of model making techniques involving different material explorations, I arrived at a section based organization principle for programmed spaces such that the intimacy of spaces can be in sync with the prevalent light qualities.

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This decision was taken keeping in mind the sheer magnitude of street children who lived under harsh conditions and insecure environments on the streets.

*street children - homeless, wandering, hungry and in danger. *space to sleep, play, eat, learn and grow.

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Hence private spaces are moved underground where as public spaces surface above.

The learning center and clinic appear at the first floor, these spaces are most easily accessible from the outside of the building. Hence street children can very easily penetrate into these spaces from outside, as if they are extensions of their homes (streets) itself.

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MEASURING THE VOID_INFILTRATING STILLNESS 1.1 site // sewri mudflats study // exploring stillness through disturbances mentor // atrey chhaya + dipal kothari chhaya

The Mudflats of Sewri were given as a site to study. The aim was to individually look for a specific characteristic of the given site and then explore our observations through sketches, two dimensional drawings and three dimensional abstract interpretations.

At every site visit, the most intriguing observation was that of the inherint stillness that exhibited itself through not only the composition of the landscape but also through the palette of materials that made up the landscape as well as the remnants of human interventions.

This multidimensional tranquility could only be successfully emphasized by actively infiltrating and creating disturbances in an otherwise steady environment.

Concepts of disturbances were explored first through sketches which then lead to three dimensional experiments involving assemblages of wooden frames housing a system of elastic threads of varying gauges.

READING MUMBAI 1.2 study // metal distribution processes_khetwadi site // nmims campus program // urban play

This studio consisted of two parts. The first part had each student pick one region/territory in the city of Mumbai and study one particular aspect that gives identity to that region or territory. The aim was to develop a language for reciprocating that chosen aspect of the picked region, in my instance the chain of processes invovled in the storage, labelling, sorting, modifying and redistributing metal rods, pipes, wires and sections in the region of Khetwadi. The second part of the studio pushed towards trying to develop an architectural dialogue feeding off from the eariler site specific study. Also, the site given was the Nmims University building.

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By develpoing the abstract models the idea of replacing the metal products with humans as users engaged in a mechanical process as a break in their routine came forward, resulting in the program of an urban play park in the nmims university campus. g sortin

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The larger unit is a wall climbing interface which becomes the access to the individual pods.

Pods are spaces where the user can break free from mundane routine tasks and be by themselves and contemplate.

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Drawings were made to best elaborate on the character of activities taking place on site.

Separating out, optimizing and reconstituting the amalgamation of varying scales of processes taking place in Khetwadi.

Namely, segregation, sorting, cutting, loading and unloading.

The experience of being part of such varied superimposed processes was then abstracted into three dimensional physical abstract models.

With the help of physical models the experience of being part of such mechanical contextual processes was converted into an architectural language which could then be used to intervene in a regular institutional building.

JAISALMER FORT DOCUMENTATION Jaisalmer fort is the oldest surviving ling fort in the world. Compactly built, the city has many tall buildings, up to seven stories high, giving it a fairly dense and vertical effect. The city structuring manifests itself in two strong ways : the location of the Royal Quarters on top of the hill with the strong fortification and secondly the dispersal of communities is affected by caste groupings making distinct residential zones of different communities. However there is little evidence of class distinction which is evident from the manner in which some of the houses of the rich and the poor are dispersed in both the upper and the lower cities. The market square with its bazaar structures in the lower city and the Royal Square with the temples holds the upper city together. Streets act as linkages, activity and interaction spaces. The city when viewed from above gives the impression of cubical grains arranged in close proximity. Courts and terraces expose the sides of these grains. Though very solid looking, the city has porosity, somewhat comparable to a honeycomb due to a certain uniformity and fineness of the textural quality. This is also due to the constancy of building modules used all over the town.

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There is a significant difference in the street patterns of the upper and the lower city. The radial pattern in the upper city is contrasted by the somewhat irregular grid iron pattern in the lower city. It will be wrong to call the growth of the city as organic as may be the case with many other Indian cities The street shows continuous facades of exquisitely carved elements behind which are the open courtyards and terraces thus making the building plan a fairly porous one.

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Streets have at times strong pauses, but generally they are moulded with subtle curves enhancing the view of the richly ornamented buildings and also not exposing the entire view of the facade all at once, thus making a walk through the town an interesting one. Not only is the comparison more linear, it is also more limited in terms of activities. The desire of the people to 'participate' with the street is strongly expressed through certain elements between two dominant realms residential and public. Platforms (otla) with entry steps are the key transition elements evoking the extension of some house hold activities.

THESIS BAZAAR 2015

An annual exhibition to showcase the progress work done by the final year students for their design dissertation.

The idea was to create a unique way to highlight the work by making a three dimensional perforated wall that would serveas a display for the entire college.

BSSA DISPLAY INSTALLATION Installation design to display student’s work. Two sets of interlocking panels arranged in the form of a curve each. The curves compliment each other and channel movement of people through the space while comforting the process of absorbing information from the displayed work.

There are a total of 24 panels, allowing for sheets of sizes A4, A3 and A2 to be displayed in both portrait and landscape formats.

The panels are router cut from MDF sheets and held together with square sections also router cut from plywood sheets.

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The study was to understand the market housed within a brick and mortar structure which provides identical cubicles to all shopkeepers however they trades in varied commodities Cubicles had a range of products from fruits to vegetables to flowers to fishes. We studied how to accomodate each product’s unique shape size and nature, different stacking patterns were applied to achieve the maximum space available to them The commodities are simply broken down into simple geometry and the voids between the products are highlighted to understand the negatives

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site // juhu market, mumbai study // materiality + structure mentor // dipal kothari-chhaya

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JUHU MARKET

BY UCED

FURNITURE DESIGN

CEILING INSTALLATION FOR SE

edge curves

The initial phase of this project required one to analyse naturally occuring fractal patterns, decode the inherint structure and understand its formation.

I looked at Voronoi patterns that exhibit itself naturally across various scales. From the micro structure of dragonfly wings, to patterns on a camel, to cracks that develop on dry grounds.

bound surfaces

Imagine a set of points in a 3d space, each Voronoi cell around each point is bounded by the intersection of the perpendicular bisectors of the line segements created between all present points in that 3d space.

Essentially the Voronoi structure is an optimized combination of skin and structural systems. Such a system works both as a skin and structure rather than having two different systems for an object to perform as needed.

The geometries of the Voronoi system were explored with using you scripting tools such as Grasshopper to arrive at a furntiure piece, a lounge bench, that can be used in a variety of ways. From leaning against to sitting or sleeping on it, the design allows for maximum versitality.

modular surface mapping

extruded modules

Scan QR Code to view a timelapse of the installation assembly on site. https://goo.gl/8Emf7H

EAD CONSULTANTS

This is a ceiling installation designed for SEAD Consultants. The idea was to try and accentuate the office space, giving it a strong and intimidating yet assuring character, signifying that the clients can take up challenges and deliver more than what is expected.

Formally, the installation is a collection of 8 sided extruded polygons.The scale and orientation of an extruded polygon at any position in the grid is determined by the curvatures of the upper and lower surfaces at that position.

The design of the curvatures is informed by the spatial layout of the cabins and the meeting area, which in turn predicates the fabrication of each extruded polygon.

There are a total of 528 such extruded polygons. The extruded polygons were surface developed and then laser cut on sheets of mountboard and re-developed into their 3dimensional form.

Since the form of the polygons was informed by the surfaces that controlled the overall form, while assembling the extruded polygons self regulated the overall form such that the final outcome was exactly the same as what it was intended to be.

cabin 1

front elevation

perspective view

cabin 2

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open space is communally maintained, reflecting the shared industry and collective process these spaces transform from residential to storage, workshops, stores and manufacturing units

the entire family is involved in the making of pots although the younger generation educatethemselvesand get in to other professions the pottery industry in dharavi has not seen a boom as some other industries since it caters to a more local clientele

when more migrants of the similar pofession came in, this pattern was replicated creating aspontaneous order throughout the neighborhoodthey arranged themselves in a linear court clusterwith long courtyards between the built space

parts of houses along the 90feet road transformed into commercial shops to display and sell pots

a typical house is divided as needed for the production of pots dwellings are divided into a living area, a wrok area, storage and courtyards

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the need for storage of raw materials, distribution, sale and organisation of the goods as well as climatic elements translated into the existing urban fabric of the buildings

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there are no major tools involved other than a rolling pin and platform and baskets for drying availablity of open space for drying is an added advantage in the monsoons, open spaces cannot be used for drying, at such times papads are dried by heating on a stove

Modern society is defined by the redominance of functional differentiation. The overall societal life process, is no longer integrated vertically via the unitary hierarchy of a stratified social order, but is instead horizontally differentiated into mutually exclusive autonomous subsystems, each dedicated to one of the major functional exigencies of modern society.

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households where the degree of dependence on papad income was high and open space was difficult to access; have invested in tin roofs for drying the papads tin roofs are precious usually a papad flies and the women climb onto the tin roofs to fetch the same and something is inadvertently broken the papad companies pay an additional sum of Rs 10 per kg in the monsoons, keeping this in mind however, for many women this presents a very real loss

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Society today is heading towards an increasing level of complexity with intensification and diversification of communication on all levels resulting in a constantly networked and simultaneously updating global societal order. Identifications are not restricted, they are fairly vacuous.

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Traditional societies were organized on the basis of segmented differentiation into tribes, clans and families that located individuals once and for all, with respect to all aspects of their communications. Later, more complex societies emerged as an urban center differentiated itself from a rural hinterland, and further this kind of center-periphery differentiation was augmented or replaced by stratification. Stratified societies usually allocate families (rather than individuals) into a rigid system of strata and substrata thus establishing a comprehensive and pervasive social ranking order. All aspects of a person’s communications within a stratified society are determined by his or her rank.

settled along the 90 feet road they were involved with day long economic activities hence kept home and work areas close to each other

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papads were made by women in summer It has been organized into a year round industry and popularised as an export product, Lijjat and Ganesh are the two most common names in the industry which is organized around home based work for women

Understanding architecture’s relationship with inhabitants of multiple social systems and its ability to allow one to slip between these systems.

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The households whose women are involved in papad making are a mixed group of households, mostly belonging to the scheduled castes and other lower castes. making of papads is the women’s response to household crisis a job which is done from the home, takes advantage of her role as a home maker, enables her to do justice to other expectations of domestic chores and is an extension of her role as the cook of the family the papad makers prepare the dough inside the house but the making and drying of papads happens outside the house the small open spaces between lanes and houses, there is a mix of partly shaded (for working) and partly open (for drying) open spaces necessary for the women

DNA is the cross generational material substrate on which biological evolution operates via mechanisms of mutation, selection and reproduction.

In terms of cultural evolution, the material substrate is the kind of built environment which is gradually, unconsciously through mutation, selection and reproduction building up societal complexity and societal order and is cross generationally stable.

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An individual is no longer identified solely by a profession or ethnicity, we live in a global world. People of the same profession/ethnicity do not inhabit spaces of similar natures, there is a sort of inherint flux. An inhabitant plugs into these different systems and the time for which one is plugged into a particular system, defines one identity.

People move through these systems with far morefrequency and far greater ease now, than they could in the pre digital age urban scenario.

DHARAVI // FUSED ASSEMBLAGE

The idea of a fused assemblage is the evolutionary hypothesis that microorganisms evolve their complexity by incorporating simpler organisms into larger multiplicities which then become capable of reproduction as a singularity. Thus, organisms are seen previously free living colonies of organs that become a fused singularity.There is little difference between a single bodyand an ecology of organisms, as both exploit one another’s functions and behaviors through feedback and exchange.

There is no essential structure to such an assemblage that one can uncover or deduce, at either a macro scale or a micro scale. It is a logic of differentiation, exchange and assemblage within an environment of gradient influences. The form, or shape, most often cited in reference to such an environment is that of the landscape.

Tradition bound communities (pottery, broom making, dhobis) were autonomous units to begin with when they came from various parts of the country and settling in Dharavi. This lead to an environment of intermixing with people from different contextual backgrounds coming together.

Such social richness also manifested itself in the physical form of dharavi via processes of adaptation and exaptation giving rise to new economic/social opportunities which in turn led to the formation of new communities (papad making, recycling).

Tenents Office

Tenents

Restaurant

Embroidery Workshop

Owners Kitchen

Dharavi has emerged to its present form via a fused assemblage of tradition bound communities + communities which emerged as a result of the various opportunities that presented themselves.

coloring agents moulded new products

softened pellets

finished products

recycled pellets

retailers

product making

consumers

collection mcgm

private

waste collectors

scrap dealers

GALINDO // URBAN HYBRIDIZATION PROCESS (NOMAD, SPAIN)

pellet making rag pickers

manual sampling

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rag pickers

(at collection pointsand dumping grounds)

inside dharavi

outside dharavi

outside dharavi

inside dharavi

(rag pickers and scrap dealers)

gridning

hard plastic segregators

jeans company designers

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design 2

design 3

soft plastic

design 4

design 5

sample piece stencil

cloth

Contemporary individuals with their multiplicity in personalities and atypical habits, mobility and communication patterns have made their dwellings extremely variable and heterogeneous places. From this point of view, architecture needs to be released from predominantly organizational function, moving instead to a level of supporting a framework for potential lifestyles.

workshop 1 workshop 2 workshop 3

cutting

tracing

sorting

factory

stitching

A process of programmatic hybridization based on natural adaptive systems is set on an obsolete industrial area by spreading percentile quantities of use in uniform densities over the territory. The interaction between pre-existing vectorial realities such as roads, trains or the river and those distributed usages produces attraction and repulsion behaviours leading to mutation and a final equilibrium. The interpretation of the superposed codified information unveils stable programmatic chains, or constructible urban hybrids when applying environmental and dimensional conditions onto them. The household hybridization inside the buildingsaffects the dwellings variability with mutliple combinations of spatial modules allowing seasonal changes in use and non-coplanar circulations.

printing on back pocket

cloth thread zip

numbering acc to size

labels quality checks

finishing in workshop

buttons accessories

PARC DE LA VILLETTE // FRAMING OF EVENTS (BERNARD TSCHUMI, PARIS)

thread cutting

final

waste

finishing

paper recycling

LINES

dry cleaning price tags information tags

packaging

wrappings distributors

aw material wholesalers raw material retailers

POINTS

manufacturing unit in dharavi metti, patta, cloth, straps, sponge, net cutting SURFACES

straps

Deconstructivist plan + a grid of points - The result of a creation between a very tangible grid and an intangible plan is an architectural void -- in which social space can be re-imagined by those who enter it.

The park is designed as a series of three specific systems. Tschumi creates what he called lines, points and surfaces and uses these elements to create his deconstructive program. However, instead of attempting to integrate these three systems together as a cohesive and unified architecture, he instead superimposes each one of them so that they distort and clash with one another.

One of Tschumi’s main aims in his design for the Parc de la Villette was to displace the traditional opposition between program and architecture. Thus, the program can be in constant change according to need, one part substituted for another. In fact, one of the structures as even recently changed from a restaurant to a gardening center to an arts workshop, and each of these changes occurred easily while the Parc as a whole still retained its overall identity.

sorting

IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN SUCH INCREASING COMPLEXITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY AND ALSO FACILITATE MOVEMENT OF INHABITANTS ACROSS MUTLIPLE SOCIAL SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE NEEDS TO MOVE OUT OF AN IDEALIZED STATE OF STASIS AND BECOME MORE DYNAMIC.

chains stitching straps, handles, clips, trolley assembly

within dharavi

finishing

folders

retailers

cutting extra thread and cloth

school bags duffel bags laptop bags

distributors retailers

wholesalers

RATHER THAN BEING A FRAME THROUGH WHICH TIME AND SPACE PASS, ARCHITECTURE NEEDS TO BE MODELED AS A PARTICIPANT IMMERSED WITHIN ITS CONTEXTUAL DYNAMIC FLOWS. ARCHITECTURE NEEDS TO ENGAGE WITH THE REAL COMPLEXITY OF THE CITY TODAY, AS THE TECHNOLOGIES, POLITICS, SOCIAL LIFE, AND ECONOMIC ENGINES OF URBANISM CONTINUE TO CHANGE. IT NEEDS TO RECOGNIZE THE VERY REAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES OF OUR TIME AND TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO CHANGE AND ADAPTATION, RECOGNIZING ALL THE DYNAMIC COMPLEXITY OF THE NATURAL AND SOCIAL ECOLOGIES AT WORK IN THE CITY.

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