Ishan Desai | KRVIA Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio | 2018-2021

ishan desai architecture portfolio Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies 4th year selected works 2018-2021 Seeking position of intern from November 2021 to April 2022

Hi I’m Ishan Desai, currently in 4th year, 7th semester studying in Kamla

Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies.

Born and brought up in Mumbai, I speak fluent English, Hindi and Marathi.

My interests lie in video games and anime culture. I want to create

experiences which are yet unthought and unfelt, by method of video game-esque movement and architecture spatiality.

Academics + Competiti

CV

1. Overall performance merit,

Work experience + Publications: 1. Apprenticeship at Hosmac India from June 2021 - August 2021

2. Fellowship at Godrej Culture Lab from May 2019 - June 2019

1. Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies 2018-Present 2. Patkar Varde College 2016-2018 (HSC Science - 93%)

3. Yadhodham High School 2006-2016 (SSC - 94%)

1. Archicad + Autocad +Rhino + Sketchup + Lumion 2. Photoshop + Clip studio Pro + Procreate 3. Indesign + Illustrator + After effects 4. Sketching + Hand models

Approach to Architecture of I Traditionalizing modernity or organzied by IDHA Labs, essay

4. Migration Museum Event at Godrej Culture Lab

5. KVDF Writing Competition

5. Allied design Semester 3 Joineries Compilation

6. 15 Minute City, Urban Desig

event held at Godrej One, Vikhroli on 8th June, 2019 college publication

Documentations: 1. Almora Measured Drawing Exhibition Core team member

2. Maheshwar Measured Drawing Exhibition Core team member

Core team member

4. Scales of Seeing Charkop Documentation

organized by Architizer, drawin

organized by Kurula Varkey Des organized by The Charette

7. COA-TRC: Essay Writing Co Role of Architecture in Nati

held by Council Of Architecture

Workshops:

1. Z-Axis Conference: You & your neigbourho

Charles Correa Foundatio

2. Tracing history, tracing

conducted by Sarah Geor & Ginella George, 2018

3. Ecological design

conducted by Anurag Tam

Extracurricular Projects: 1. The Art Care Project with Khaana Chahiye Fundraising during Covid-19 instagram: @theartcareproject

2. igc_project at Godrej Culture Lab Text based game made on reddit

Godrej culture lab application project

Seeking position of intern from November 2021 to April 2022

3. IDHA Labs: Architecture Ess

4. One Drawing Challenge 20

3. Allied design Semester 3 Joineries Compilation

Skillset:

selected out of 100s of applica

3. Covid-19 Hospital Manual (to be published)

Education:

2. Godrej culture lab 20xx fell

3. Krvia Rotract Club member 2018-2019

4. Designing for a differe

conducted by Dr Parizad B

5. Story to Screenplay

conducted by Roopa Desa

6. BIM with Archicad

conducted by Vistasp Meh

7. Print is not dead

conducted by Swati Sesha

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, 1st year B.Arch, 2019

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email id: ishan.777desai@gmail.com contact no.: +91 9820223477 address: Goregaon East, Mumbai, India

01

BUILT & UNBUILT KOCHI WARD OFFICE | SEM 6

Project guide: Vishal Jayan Project partner: Sarthak Malunde The site is set at the water’s edge of the historical Mattancherry port of Kochi. The project is a part of a 2 people-master plan which consists of 2 government ward offices, each designed by the individual group partner with a shared common program of public space and a ferry terminal.

The project carefully arbitrates the woven interplay of the temporary tensile cloth and the permanent ferrocement roofs.

The site planning is done by method of drawing organic pathways which cut through both of the sites. They made such that there will be constant presence of people throughout the structures. The common programs exist complementary to the permanant structures in form of temporaray tensile roofs and makeshift coconut walls, both of which can be constructed by the commons as per their requirements. People can book their spaces at the ward office and occupy their own public spaces for various activities like informal workshops, hangout spots, art and music, readings and discussions, etc.

Masterplan for both projects My site on the east by the water’s edge

People making their own space with the government blocks’ walls as a backdrop

The lines of movement are first extracted upon the site, taking care such that no existing trees are affected. After the initial massing, the 10 individual blocks are shifted left or right in order to accommodate public space.

The blocks are then interconnected to each other by the tensile roof which also extends to shelter the public spaces.

Section through G+1 block

The tensile roof is anchored in such a way that the flow of water is directed towards the openings for the trees. These holes are used as green patches with plantations and seatings below. The coconut

and palmyra fruits which falls from the trees will also collect in the same pits, allowing people to use them for creating their temporary walls.

The structure for each individual block consists of a concrete gutter bean spanning the diagonals and steel trusses connecting with the beam, to create a pseudo space frame. The view of the interior looks like the hull of a boat which alludes back to the history of the site as a famous port.

Like the hull of a boat

Section through block and spill-out

Building resolution:

Project Guide: Swati Seshadri The Kochi ward office is resolved in this working drawing project. As the project consists of 10 blocks, each block is resolved with its own set of centerlines.

Pile foundation is used as the site is flood prone. The exploded axonometric reveals the structural system used for the blocks.

Concrete & steel composite members are used for the making of the concrete frames such that the steel trusses can be welded to the steel core. The tensile joineries are then welded onto the truss ends to create the tensile roof.

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CASCADING ACADEMY NEIGHBOURHOOD COMMUNITY SCHOOL | SEM 5

Project Guide: Jude D’Souza The project is a high school building located in a small urban upper middle class settlement in Goregaon, Mumbai. The building fills in the void of a well functioning school and community encompassing space.

The site chosen is that of an existing playgroup which was started 5 years ago by the community mothers.

The east-west corridor of the building is opened out in the direction of the wind while taking care that rain does not enter through the same openings. The aforementioned playgroup is also expanded and incorporated into the structure by lending an open arm towards the neighbouring building and locating its library in it, thereby enabling a community library, which is open for anyone in the neigbourhood.

Front Elevation

The core concept of the school is to create school spaces which enable and encourage experiential and allied learning, over individualistic and curriculum focused education. The class rooms all open out towards the central auditorium, allowing it to be a sandbox for the students for various activities.

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COVID HOSPITAL MANUAL APPRENTICESHIP AT HOSMAC INDIA

The Covid Hospital Manual (to be published) was made during the 2 month long apprentice ship at Hosmac, India. The manual consists of several drawings of plans, sections, axonometrics, details, 3D models & handmade models of the german hanger covid hospitals that were erected in less than 15 days in various parts of India which were designed by Hosmac during the peak of the 2nd wave of Covid-19. The manual aims to document the process of construction and make them available for reference. The manual was worked upon by 8 apprentices and all drawings were made in collaboration.

axonometric view of 75 bed facility

COVID hospitals are typically located away from residential neighbourhoods. A 6-9 m wide ring road runs around the hanger to enable smooth movement of vehicles, both service and personal. While designing temporary hospitals, attention has to be paid not only to the structure itself but also to the space surrounding it. All the infrastructure that supports the basic services that the hospital needs to function efficiently are placed strategically around the hanger. Pump rooms and firefighting tanks for water supply, UPS and electrical rooms along with diesel generators for electricity, toilets and donning/ doffing areas for sanitation are some of the basic service components that need to be located in proximity to the hanger.

The aim of the facility is to provide a safe environment with adequate engineering and administrative controls to promote safe patient care and protect the health and wellbeing of the staff.

Patients and staff have dedicated entrances clearly labelled and divided to have a controlled flow. This controlled regulation allows safe case management by continuing to deliver essential services.

By maintaining this clear and well defined flow it allows administering maximum care with least possible contact to maintain patient & staff safety.

scale model of 100 bed facility: 750mm x 400mm

1. Patients movement 2. Staff movement 3. Service movement

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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

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The health-care facilities take into account the requirement to allow safe COVID-19 case management and enable proper infection prevention and control (IPC) standards.

By taking into consideration area distribution, use of available surface, flow, ventilation, etc as design principles, the spaces are segregated and built to follow the patient’s clinical pathway, to facilitate and ease its implementation.

scale model of 100 bed facility: 750mm x 400mm

joinery details for german hanger

sectional perspective view of oxygenated wards of 75 bed facility

view of 100 bed facility

Pocket diagrams of the various facilities of a covid hospital

Dx-in & Dx-out Ventilation

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LIFE ALONG THE RIDGE CITY ALMORA & MAICHOR VILLAGE DOCUMENTATION | SEM 4

Nestled atop a ridge in the Kumaon Mountains of Uttarakhand, sits the bustling town of Almora. Considered the cultural heart of this region, the presence of the naulas (natural springs having potable water), and the sun path, bringing much needed warmth, have favoured the creation of the town above, on the ridge, as opposed to the norm of building settlements in the valleys below.

The structures of the town embody an intuitive nature of an architecture that prevails without architects that has developed organically by the residents themselves. The town can be imagined as an occupational patchwork, woven together by the central spine. This collection of drawings of the region is an attempt to study and depict Almora through its spaces, its people, and its stories.

ridge plan and street elevations collaborative drawings by batch of 2nd year

city house documentation drawings by Prasad Parab

MAICHOR VILLAGE Project Partners: Madhura Hardas & Nishanti Srinivasan Along with the ridge city, one of the several villages around the ridge was also documented as part of the measured drawing exhibition. Maichor village is one such village, located 15 km away from the city, with houses still standing since 100+ years ago.

These villages depend directly upon the town for all essential needs. Comprised of the houses and the fields of the people who live there, the residents of Maichor village are only able to grow small plants

like ginger and pepper in their fields. The villagers also rear cattle and sell their products, but mostly within the village itself. As a result, the younger folk of the village migrate either to the town or outside of almora for jobs. A drastic contrast is seen between the villages and the town as the already small villages’ younger folk keep migrating and more and more modern structures enter the town.

Ground Floor Plan

1st Floor Plan

Roof Plan

Front Elevation

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The houses are built in such a way that the prominent front facade always face the sun. And in a lot of cases, they are also backed by a retaing wall or ridge. During the day the villagers never stay in the houses, but rather they come out into the front yard to bask in the sun. Although a lot of houses are disconnected and house only one family, there

are also some houses which share common walls and form row houses with a common front yard, which forms bustling spaces with people and cattle.

Because of the migration taking place however, quite a few houses in the village are abandoned as families are forced to leave under economic pressure.

Bee Keeping and Honey Harvesting

Due to the extreme cold weather in the region, the villagers take on the practice of bee-keeping, since eating pure honey helps one keep warm and also provides additional income. The house wall has two chambers carved into it. These chambers connect to the exterior via a narrow tunnel which houses the frames on which the bees make their hives. It is accessed from inside the house through a wooden door at the time of harvesting.

This practice has been going on successfully for the past 40 years.

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REVISITING THE ALMORAN VERNACULAR The Process

Now, this model again had the same problem of cramped and tight spaces where sunlight is difficult to reach.

To solve this problem, Each of the individual houses were seperated from each other by a little bit to create light wells and vendilation ducts

RESIDENTIAL HOUSING IN ALMORA | SEM 4

Project Guide: Advait Potnis This project, being a housing project in the Almora city, I derived my concepts from the houses studied in the village and the city. The process consisted of analysing the different houses & proposing a design which would be heavily be based on the existing houses. My stance as an outsider professional, was to develop the existing ideas of the vernacular which have been molded from generations and the new modern extensions found in the town which are being done for quality of life purposes, all the while making sure not to hijack the narrative of the people of Almora with my own experiences.

Without disturbing the iconic ridge facing facade, the interior plans are arranged playfully in the larger rectangular grid while keeping the outer bounderies of the houses intact. This kind of a plan allows for generation of corridors and rooms that is difficult to achieve in the exisisting plans.

4-House & PG

4-House & PG Ground Floor Plan

3-House & Creche Ground Floor Plan

4-House & PG First Floor Plan

3-House & Creche First Floor Plan

4-House & PG Terrace Plan

3-House & Creche Terrace Plan

3-House & Creche

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MULTIPURPOSE HALL AND OFFICE SPACE IN ALMORA | SEM 5 This is a working drawing project of a large span, acoustically treated multipurpose hall cum office & cafe space. The building is set in Almora CONCRETE and designed for the colder climate of the region. Trombe wall-windows LINTEL-CHAJJA are made useDRIPMOULD of on the front elevation to collect and dissipate heat inside the structure. Three different roofs are used - timber girder, binder & joists ISA 5050 for the office block on the left, glazing roof for the central lobby, and steel ACOUSTIC MATERIAL WALLfor the large span multiporpose hall on the right. trusses & tinSTUD sheets WALL TIE

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15-MINUTE CITY

competition organized by The Charlette, 2021

Project Partner: Shreya Rangaraj What if, in contrast to the existing rigid city, there’s the establishment of an ever free flowing anti-city, where people are free to design, make & move their spaces, where movement of people and spaces via public transport takes precedence over vehicles on roads. The anit-city is organized such that the roofscapes end up becoming the entire footfall of the people, allowing a person freedom as to how they want to move, connecting functions horizontally and vertically within a hands reach distance. The 15 minute walking sphere let’s the residents move in multiple directions & dimensions at the same time. In this sphere, mobility plays a very important role, which adjusts to the idea of fun by traversing through different walkable routes & modular modes of transport, urging people out of their isolation pods & towards their social circles.

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RETRACING THE FABRIC MAHESHWAR CITY DOCUMENTATION | SEM 2

Maheshwar, a town in Madhya Pradesh known for its weaving industry, is recreated through the lens of people and their homes, creating a town-wide network, sometimes intersecting, to form a larger community, made up of individuals. This was done by studying the lives of these residents, the different

aspects such as their residences, their places of work, their places of rest and recreation, the activities they participate in, along with more personal aspects, such as their family history, the role they feel they in the society, their religious beliefs, etc. From this, a network emerges that encompasses the entire town.

network collaborative drawing by batch of 1st year

Project Guide: Rutika Parulkar The studio began in the form of two prompts - an adjective to explore form and a verb to discover a site, which is a method followed by Heidegger. Distributed at random, I was assigned ‘to hang’ and ‘of ionization’. The initial part was translated into the tensile roof which could be anchored at various points to create unique forms & the latter translated into a site in Aarey forest, Mumbai, which is under threat of being deforested for land. The project is a house for an adivasi activist who would also use the space for conducting workshops and various programs.

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THE ACTIVIST’S ABODE HOUSE FOR AN ACTIVIST IN AAREY FOREST | SEM 3

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SCALES OF SEEING CHARKOP DOCUMENTATION | SEM 3-4

The project was an exploration over 22 weeks of the relationship between environment and objects through scale and representation.

This site is at Charkop, which has a small waterbody surrounded by housing, open spaces with vegetation and a sewage treatment plant.

The exploration in scale was carried out by students by representing environments and objects from an area of 25sqms to 2.5sqcms.

25m x 25m

collaborative drawing by 8 people

25cm x 25cm

collaborative drawing by pair

2.5m x 2.5m

collaborative drawing by 4 people

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drawing by author

Framed Terraces

Project Guide: Amisha Thanawala Located in Maheshwar, the project consisted of extrapolating frames from a video of one of the documented Maheshwar houses and extrapolating the negative silhouttes from them. The frames were then arranged in 3D space in various ways to create fenestrations and openings for people to traverse through.

ALLIED PROJECTS & BUILT OBJECTS COLLECTION OF VARIOUS ALLIED PROJECTS & SCALE MODELS

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Morphing Capsicum

The project consisted of first cutting sections of a vegetable and making a scale model of it with filecard. The second step was to meaningfully morph the sections in order to achieve a new form of the vegetable. The capiscum was morphed by lengthening the sections and arranging them vertically in angles offset by 15 degrees.

Engulfing comsumption

The project was to make a costume based on our our interpretation of a given piece of literature via collage making & sketching. The final product was a wearable costume made with packagings of various brands stuck on the body via wires.

Hira Bazzar Soft Toy

Collaborative project The objective was to make a soft toy of a diamond market in Malad, Mumbai.

The soft toy took the form of a multitentacled and eyed being with flaps of foam, personifying the perpetually alert & conservative nature of the bazzar.

5cm x 5cm sections on acrylic

Joineries

Dovetail

Fit in

Hyperboloid Paraboloid

Convex

Fit & Lock

This allied design project consists of 12 joneries between a 40mm radius concrete sphere and a 120mm long wooden cylinder.

The concrete spheres were made by casting table tennis balls and inserting candle wax as filler, which were cut and burned off respectively once the concrete was set. Meanwhile the wooden cyclinders were sourced from a local wood shop and then worked into the required form at the college workshop by me.

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Caternary Arch

Collaborative project A scale model to test catenary arch formation

Sandcastle Machine

Collaborative project The project was to make a kinetic toy that would take advange of the elements of a beach. We made a sandcastle maker that would collect sand in the high tide, and when the tide would receede, a mound of sand would be formed. By making use of glass and acrylic, not only is the sandcastle visible from all sides, but it also produces aesthetic shadows and highlights on the sand.

Compact Mud Construction

Elective held by Anurag Tamhankar The objective of this elective was to learn how to make and use compact mud. We made several compact mud bricks by mixing and compacting on our own. We also made a bench by method of cobbing - which consisted of making compact mud balls and hurling them on a compact mud brick base. After giving it shape and allowing it to dry, the bench was usable and we would have snacks while sitting on it.

compact mud bricks

Bamboo Roof

Collaborative project The project tasked us with constructing a 1:1 scale roof frame made out of bamboo over a period of many months. The roof was designed by first constructing 2 linear frames, then tying them at 45 degress & then introducing crossbracing to make space underneath The resulting roof spanned 3m by 3m.

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Landscape Project Guide: Bandita de Digital artwork

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Elective by Swati Seshadri Acrylic print on canvas - 9cm x 11cm

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collapse Collage

engulfing consumption Collage

confidant

Digital artwork

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orative covid_19 fundrasing initiative

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