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Pranav Naik | Portfolio Contents First year
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Second year
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Third Year
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Fourth Year
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Internship
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Fifth Year : Design Dissertation
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Publications
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Photography
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First Year
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Abstraction: The first Basic Design exercise, we were asked to select three pictures from magazines and make them into masses and forms
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I then selected a grid pattern from the abstraction exercise and made a model of foam with highlights as the highest level and dark patches as low levels Basic Design
First Year
Principles of Design
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1 Selected Gridwork
Foam Model with Card inserts using colour for highlights
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Selection of a 4x4 grid within the m o d e l fo r the next assignment
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Basic Design
First Year
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1+3 The 4x4 Grid was then expanded and the composition was impressed upon the enlargement to create a 3-dimensional sculpture using a series of theoretical steps. This was one of the many models made by me over the first year for Basic Design.
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Basic Design
First Year
Proposed Weekly Market at Vajreshwari My First project, a Weekly market at Vajreshwari, a village near Mumbai. I was required to provide for an arrangement to set up shops on the day of the market. In India, weekly markets generally also involve religious ceremonies and create a gathering of all nearby villages, hence I provided for a Temple with an office and underground storage room attached. The covers for the temporary shops are made of reed mats which fit into the underground room when not in use and create a leeward funnel while in use so they allow for escape of hot air, the market is also paved with used firebricks for longevity and considerable saving of cost.
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Architectural Design
First Year
Proposed Weekend House at Alibaug
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Architectural Design
Second Year
Proposed Grampanchayat (Village administrative office)as a Scheme.
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Architectural Design
Second Year
Esquisse: An Open stage for a housing scheme This project was given as a studio project and there was no introduction to the site and no time was given for preparation
Interior Design of a room for a Child 7
Architectural Design
Second Year
Proposed Amenity Center, Bandra, Mumbai. The final project of second year, is a support structure for the Bandra reclamation fairgrounds. It is a building with all functions on the ground floor, mostly exhibition spaces, administrative and utility areas. The tower is a three floored restaurant seating 60, overlooking the fairgrounds.
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Architectural Design
Third Year
Proposed Mall and Multiplex, Mahim, Mumbai. The mall in Third year was the first project in an urban setting, it was on a very small site with limited access, hence I reduced the size of the lower floors curving outwards as you go up to accommodate a driveway and porch. The proposal was commended by the external jury for the built in provision for shade to the porch, using sun-tables to calculate the curve.
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Architectural Design
Third Year
Proposed Rural Health Center, Panvel.
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Architectural Design
Third Year
The second project of third year, was again a rural scheme of a health center in the midst of a village, with provisions for staff quarters, the proposal was designed using elements of traditional architecture, using courtyards for all structures, which help regulate temperatures, the Design was commended by the jury for taking into consideration wind patterns and for provision of gray water and sewage water reuse.
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Architectural Design
Third Year
Proposed Neighbourhood Park, Pune.
My Final Landscape design proposal for third year, was situated in a building complex, my solution was the use of sewage water treatment to provide fertilizer and water for the garden, Solar panels for lighting, an ayurvedic garden with high-yield medicinal plants for sale and public areas, the garden provided for reuse of all human waste from the vicinity, lowering the load on public landfills and providing a source of income for the community.
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This project was rendered by hand and presented before a jury in third year, the final sheets were retained by college.
Landscape Design
Third Year
Group Project: Nari Gandhi trophy. This is the panel design for the ‘Nari Gandhi’ Trophy. It involves research, documentation and detailed analysis of structures. I headed this trophy in the year 2006 for the NASA (National Association of Students of Architecture - India) Competition. It is a national level competition
and this panel won the best panel award among 75 other entries. Also this research material was provided to the journal on Nari Gandhi by ‘Friends of Kebyar’ - (Vol23.1, Issue no.72)
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Fourth Year
Proposed Residential Complex, Mumbai.
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Architectural Design
Fourth Year
The residential project for fourth year was situated at Prabhadevi, I provided Luxury apartments in each of the 43 and 44 floor buildings with capsule lifts for a view while going home, the ground floor is parking for the complex and the podium level provides for play parks, swimming pool, and tennis courts.
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Architectural Design
Fourth Year
Proposed Convention Center, Powai, Mumbai. The final project of Fourth year is convention center with restaurants, an auditorium, meeting rooms and serviced apartments, the structure wa s d e s i g n e d u s i n g m o d e r n materials with courtyards for temperature regulation.
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Architectural Design
Fifth Year
Viewing gallery at 165m DMD
i-Duba
XI ThyssenKrupp Elevator Architecture Award
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Internship
Fifth Year
Uhuru Heights, Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania. Residential
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5,10,000 sq.ft. 30 storey Commercial and Residential Building Project for Cosmos developers at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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Internship
Fifth Year
Design Dissertation : Proposed International Cruise terminal, Mumbai. I am an ardent traveller, and I wish all my friends see
traveller. From the first few days of the five-year
all that I have.
degree course, I always thought about what to do
Tourism is travel for recreational or leisure purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited". It's the world's favourite leisure activity, It's where the world yearns to spend the money it's earned. There are various kinds of travellers, leisure, business, adventure, curious, illegal, and those who go just to tell their neighbours about their journeys, and the
for the design dissertation, Culminating five years of travails. It had to be a subject close to my heart, and it had to let me go far enough into the realms of the unknown. Another self-restraint was giving something to my City of Birth, solving at least one problem related to pollution. That's where I started looking for the various modes of travel from the city, and the lacunae in modes. Despite being an Island city and having such a rich heritage of shipping, trade and Architecture, Mumbai lacks a Cruise terminal befitting the aspirations of both, the cruise vessels as well as the travellers.
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last type are those who do not need a reason to travel, they travel for travel's sake, I am that kind of
- Pranav Naik
Design Dissertation
Fifth Year
Site Location > Greater Mumbai > Sewree-Mazgaon reclamation > Darukhana Site Selection The site selected for International cruise terminal is the old piers of Lakri bandar, Coal bandar and Tank Bandar at Darukhana, this site is especially suited to a new Cruise terminal because: 1. Close Proximity to Mumbai port. 2. Reserved for water transport facilities. 3. No port based activities on site currently.
4. Good Channel depth and clear access to craft of all sizes. 5. Within City limits. 6. Close proximity to the Historical city center and other tourist destinations in Mumbai. 7. Well connected to North and South Mumbai by Rail, Road and BEST Bus service. 8. Is riddled with slums and illegal activities, removal of which will lead the way to the renewal of the area as an important trade and transport zone.
Hurdles There are Several problems at the site. 1. A large Population of migrant and unskilled workers living in slums . 2. Illegal as well as legitimate gowdowns , bringing down the overall efficiency of a port. 3. The building of a cruise terminal at this site will lead to the clearing of a berth and other facilities within the Indira docks.
“To Spawn a revival of the port and increase public presence by adding Vistas�
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Steel Shanties
Wrecks lying unattended
People staying on Lakri Bandar, Idling time
Slums abound the site Design Dissertation
Fifth Year
Design Cues, Heady Objectives, Aspiring City.
Fishing boats on the Sea-shore at Ankola
Waves in water, Cumberland, Puducherry
Roots of the Form
Reeds underwater, Reedform columns at Santa Caterina Market, Barcelona
Wilson Dam Overflowing, Bhandardara
The Form of both the Cruise Terminal as well as the Museum, stems from Nautical forms, The terminal aspiring to push boats off into the vast Ocean, the Museum bringing boats back from the Ocean, both are ate the two ends of the Nautical journey we have embarked upon. Fishing boats have been Designed over the last thousands of years to withstand the constant forces of the sea, they are the pioneers of shipping all over the world, Fishermen keep their boats upturned but ready to go at any moment, in that state they cannot be dragged into the sea by small waves nor do they get damaged, hence the roofs have the form of upturned boats, they are bound together by the strongest known ocean phenomenon, whirlpools, signifying the risks taken by adventurers and sailors while going out to sea. These boats are Whirlpools supported by columns in the form of reeds, holding them all in place.
Upturned boats
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Fifth Year
Maritime Museum
Cruise Terminal
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Section AA’ Design Dissertation
Fifth Year
Explanatory view of one terminal showing all movement patterns and materials
ETFE Skylights Sunlight Sunlight
Corrugated steel roof ETFE Skylights
Mesh False Cieling
Suspended mesh false ceiling
Sun-Waves The Cruise Terminals are Portal frame structures with supporting columns to reduce the size of the frame, over which are trusses of Various sizes to make up the upturned -Boat forms of the roof, there are ETFE
Steel Portal Frame
Skylights on a frame to let light in which is further diffused by the Mesh False Ceiling below. The shape of the false Ceiling is made so that it is a mirror in the X and Y Axes, making the light coming down through the skylights fall in the form of waves onto the mesh below, creating a feeling of movement as the sun moves. Example: If a passenger enters into the terminal, by the time he enters the duty-free zone he would have spent half- an hour on average inside the terminal building, the light would have moved four feet in so much time due to the arrangement and the feeling would be “NAUTICAL�.
Chromed Steel Columns Conoid Glass Curtainwall
Service Service For ship Skybridge
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Arrival Departure
Design Dissertation
Fifth Year
Models I made three models, one each for the Museum and Cruise Terminal, one showing the entire site, all models were made using Acrylic as a base, with MDF, acrylic and timber superstructures along with paper as the roofing material.
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Fifth Year
Explanatory view of the Maritime Museum showing all movement patterns and materials
Museum viewers Historic Ship Experience Service to Restaurant Viewing from the Fresnel lens Gallery Viewing from the Lighthouse Gallery Service Ship tour
A Maritime museum is also proposed on the site at Lakri Bandar, as large ships can only enter on the northern side, leaving the south free for cruise tenders and public spaces, There is a severe lack of understanding of the sea and hence no love for the ocean from which Bombay rose, The Maritime Museum tries to bridge this gap and hence aspires to become a cultural hub for maritime Mumbai. The Beacon at the cruise terminal will not only be a guiding light for vessels in the port, but also a navigation landmark there is a Lighthouse museum, on the upper decks explaining the workings of lighthouses and a Fresnel lens museum, making use of the numerous Fresnel lenses lying in lighthouses across the country.
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Maritime Museum Maritime Museum | East Elevation Design Dissertation
Fifth Year
Maritime Museum | Section
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Model | Site Design Dissertation
Publications
I designed the book “Divinity of numbers, the ‘SAI’ence of numerology”, for Prof. Norman Shine, (University of Copenhagen) in 2003.
While being the Magazine Secretary for the Academic year 2006-2007 at I.E.S College, I designed and edited the college magazine “L’Esprit 2007”.
I was a special correspondent for Journal 72, Volume 23.1 “Celebrating the life and work of Nari Gandhi”, for ‘Friends of Kebyar, an international network of architects, artists and others willing to explore creative and adventurous horizons. It includes many projects, drawings, photographs, and personal remembrances contributed by me, never before published.
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