bits & pieces

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PORTFOLIO

A process of learning

2023

khushboo tejwani

hello!

I am Khushboo Tejwani, currently in my fourth year of undergraduate studies for a Bachelor of Architecture. I consider myself an observant and a thinker, in a constant state of wonder. I am an avid reader and a curious person. I occasionally write poetry, stories and cheesy songs and collect whimsical objects and memories in my journal.

I think the act of inhabiting a space is akin to living in one’s own skin. We inscribe a memory as soon as we inhabit a space. I think, write and experience space through the narratives they embody and the stories it creates.

Education

2020- Present

2018-2020

2009-2018

2005-2009

Skills

Drafting

Autocad

3D software

School of Environment and Architecture

Moolji Jaitha College, Jalgaon

St. Teresa’s Convent School

Vidya English Medium School

Extra Curricular / Experience

Graphic Design Intern | PAC Designs, Delhi

Part Time Graphic Designer & Social Media Manager | PAC Designs, Delhi

Virual Assistant | Wing Assistant

SEA Annual Volumes Exhibition

SEA Content Committee

Workshops

Bricoleurs/Bricoleuses: Bricolage as Method | Rupali Gupte

Multilinear Narratives and Digital Spaces | Moomal Shekhawat

Identity and Storytelling | Sadhna Prasad

Participatory Design | Bhawna Jamini, Rohini Singh

Ceramic Structures | Aastha Malu

Curation and Exhibition Design | Anuj Daga

Poetry through Printmaking | Snehal Vadher

Bodies, Cities & Ecologies | Rohit Mujumdar

Urban Studies at Nairobi, Kenya | SEA, Mumbai; Centre for Spatial Studies, Mumbai University; The Technical University of Kenya, Barnard University, Columbia University and the GoDown Arts Centre

Publications & Collaborations

Google sketchup | Rhinoceros3D

Adobe

Photoshop| Illustrator | Indesign | Premiere pro | After effects

Website Wix | Wordpress | Cargo

Soft skills

Critical thinking | Collaboration | Problem solving | Leadership | Organisation | Time management | Emotional Intelligence

Inhaitations

Settlement Studies Pangna, website

Architectural Compositions in Tropical Monsoon Grounds

Raine Maria Rilke in his book Notebook of Malte Laurier Bridge talks about how he’s learning to see and that’s something I hold on to.

‘I’m learning to see’.

This portfolio is a compilation of my selected works done in the four years of my undergraduate studies.

CONTENT

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2. Of Slivered Courtyards

Drawing- Mapping of Constellation, pencil on paper, 23’ x 33’,Form & Space, 2021

3. Design Details

4. Museum as a ghost house

5. Re-envisioning Crematorium

6. Landscape Design 8. Govandi Art’s Festival

7. Settlement study

/ The City Loop

SEM 3 | SEA

Guide : Anuj Daga

“The City Loop” is a visionary project that reimagines the concept of a market within the context of a pandemic. This endeavor seeks to transform traditional market dynamics and adapt them to the unique challenges posed by the pandemic.

During the pandemic, I observed three significant patterns: the desire for escape, the spatial rearrangement of vegetable markets, and the rapid emergence of container shops. Recognizing the potential for synergy among these patterns, my design focus was to explore how they can be integrated to create solutions that adapt to the challenges imposed by the pandemic.

This design approach aims to blend the concept of escape with the spatial reconfiguration of public spaces like vegetable markets, leveraging the flexibility and adaptability of container shops. By merging these patterns, the intent was to develop new concepts that address the immediate challenges posed by the pandemic.

The loop from the jogging track

The market

Container Shops

/Of Slivered Courtyards/2022

SEM 6 | SEA

Guide : Anuj Daga

Location : Trombay, Mumbai

Observing the thin thresholds on the site, and how these slivered courtyards become an extension to the exisiting and how it is able to afford multiplicities of program. These courtyards then become their, ‘Aangan’. The idea was to rethink the whole space by taking ahead the idea of the Aangan by making semi porous transitinal spaces with the use of slivered courtyards.

To further develop the concept of slivered courtyards, the entire plan is divided into six fragments, each extending the slivered courtyards formed by the adjacent alleyways.

This approach is consistently applied by incorporating niches and corners to create intimate, corner pocket spaces.

The concept of courtyards is not limited to the exterior but also extends to the interior. The design tries to transforms the conventional notion of a toilet by situating it around a central courtyard, offering a different spatial experience.

Moving to the floor above, it serves as a communal space for meetings and gatherings, achieved by seamlessly connecting the terraces.

/Design with Details / 2023

SEM 6 | SEA

Guide : Gauri Joshi

The project started with designing through details keeping in mind the material to be used and its possibilities. These details were taken further by imagining them in space and building a certain kind of language. The project emphasized on the materials and how it can be constructed.

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Handrail mounted to tread 1:10

/Museum as a Ghost house /2022 04

SEM 5 | SEA

Guide : Rupali Gupte

Location : Jalgaon

Themuseumtriestolocatethehistoryofpartition migrantssituatedinthecityofJalgaondoingso withthehelpofnarrativesandtryingtomakea museumofthesepersonalnarrativesbybuildingin thesenseofbeingapartofthestory,andthepast Visualstorytellingoccursintheformofarchitecture bytryingtodevelopamultilayeredlanguage.A spatiallanguagetotellastoryoftheplace.TWotell storiesofthepeoplewhoinhabitorhaveinhabited theplace,tryingtotelltheculturalhistory.

The museum becomes a dense garden composed of peciular fragments. All these fragments are designed from the narratives collected from the immigrants. The design process involved the visual translation of these narratives into tangible spatial experience.

An imagined homeland without territoriality, an inherited memory without direct knowldge.

‘Refugee or panhagir, the one in search of panha.’

The strategy was to make a museum as a ghost house which will be a part of the dense fabric where these immigrants started settling up when they moved here. The museum will be a part of the dense fabric and submerge in the same, but remain a strange memory. The building as space evokes the idea of the intimacy of home and narratives of its loss. turning the experience of belonging to different homelands into something other than to territorial ownership, a claiming and belonging without possession.

Collage as a method used to design

Displacement

Movements that had to be arrested

SEM 6 | SEA

Guide : Faizan Khatri

Location : Daman

Worked with : Jai Shah

The project, located in the southmost part of Daman’ edge, has a profound purpose: to redefine the conventional crematorium into a multifunctional space that not only serves as a place for the final rites but also provides a tranquil environment for contemplation, mourning, and revitalizing the surrounding landscape.

The project’s purpose stretched beyond reimagining the crematorium; it sought to breathe new life into the river’s edge. The concept aimed for a more dynamic interaction between the built form and the surrounding landscape.

The crematorium is designed as a dedicated space for contemplation and mourning. The lower level is organized in a grid layout, optimizing the efficiency of the activities associated with final rites.

Leveraging the natural contour of the site, the space above provides an area for individuals to pause, reflect, and gather their thoughts while overlooking the river, seamlessly continuing the architectural language of traditional ghats

Concept of levels and ghats

Playing with grid

SEM 7 | SEA

Guide : Mugdha Sathe

Location : Coastal Road, Mumabi

Worked with : Vijay Chavan

To achieve the objectives of revitalizing the creek ecology and preventing rainwater from entering the informal settlement during high tides, the project idea evolved into creating riparian zones along the creek. The expanded concept involves taking water from the nallah to form a stream that flows through the site, creating riparian corridors with:

i. Implementing a soft approach to protect the water’s edge from floodwaters, using natural elements to enhance resilience and reduce erosion.

ii. Designing sponge spaces on either side of the stream to act as natural reservoirs, allowing them to soak in excess water and prevent flooding in the settlement area.

iii. Employing natural root zone filtration techniques to positively impact the ecology of the drainage area, ensuring a sustainable and environmentally friendly solution for water purification.

Passive green spaces with dense vegetation

Meditation pods

Playscapes

Riparian zone Water

Riparian zone

Playscapes

The stream and the riparian corridor

Walkways through the corridor

/Settlement Study, Pangna, Himachal Pradesh / 2022

Mentor : Rupali Gupte, Shreyank

Khemalpure, Anuj Daga, Milind Mahale

Group study

The study of Pangana settlement in Himachal Pradesh is about the relationship between tangible phisicality of space / form, the context that produces them and life that they can afford. Through the process of measured drawing on this site, the spatial logics, materiality and construction techniques are identifiend and documented. Along with the mentioned drawing, documentation of older and existing practices through interviews and routine studies are identified. Overlaying the practices with the spatial / formal logics, the mechanics of phenemological dimensions are established, therby unearthing the relationship between space/ form amd context practice.

‘Ye Humara घर hai’

Mentor : Bhawna Jamini, Rohini Singh

Produced work for the Govandi Arts Festival brought together by Community Design Agency (India), Streets Reimagined (UK) and Lamplighter Arts CIC (UK).

The brief of the project was to create a neighbourhood museum based in a Resettlement and Rehabilation Colony in Govandi, Mumbai through community-based oral histories.

“Ye Kiska Ghar Hai” was a collaborative project that delved into the narratives and origins of the people of the colony. This endeavor involved engaging with the community members, gathering their narratives, and subsequently devising methods to effectively convey these stories.

I feel like I am mosaic of all the places I have been and all the people I have met, it’s like I am a quilt of so many cloth pieces stiched together. (Excerpt and drawing from 589 Nautical miles away, Inhabitaions, 2021)

If you have come this far, Thank you for your time :)

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