Nikita Rane - Selected Works

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Nikita Rane I University of Michigan I M.Arch 2 Candidate

ARCHITECTURE URBAN DESIGN CARTOGRAPHY INTERIOR DESIGN DIGITAL EXPLORATIONS MATERIAL EXPLORATIONS

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STEWARDING WATER IN THE PARADISE CITY LA FABRIQUE COMUNIDAD FABRICATION : PARAMETRIC DESIGNING FABRICATION : LUMINAR DESIGNING MIDDLE SCHOOL DESIGN EMERSON CENTER OF ADVANCED STUDIES NURSING COLLEGE COMPETITION DESIGN JINDAL ENCLAVE GUEST HOUSE DESIGN I WALKING : AN URBAN EXPERIENCE I MAJULI MEASURE DRAWINGS I TIMBER WORKSHOP

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Street View

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Urban Design Studio : Stewarding Water in the paradise City.

Stewarding Water in the Paradise City is designed to spur investment along the Antonico Creek corridor by framing a positive relationship between the residents of Paraisรณpolis and water. Social services and housing is selected as the programming to act as stewards of the Antonico and surrounding public land to stop crime and illegal dumping. The creek forms the central spine through the project and is expressed at particular moments to foster a new perception of the role of water in the valley bottom. A water cleaning facility is located under an educational building providing vocational training and the creek becomes accessible below an affordable housing building placed to attract middle income families to the valley bottom. Architecturally, a structural scaffolding is added to the existing homes that line the inner block void to invite houses to face inward for passive surveillance while providing opportunities for upgrading and commercial space. Social housing buildings test how interventions can respond to the dense urban scale and irregularity of current urban voids. It uses the grain of a single housing unit to compose a larger form that is porous to allow light and air.

Taubman college, University of Michigan - Urban design Studio,Sao Paulo Brazil (Winter semsester 2017) Professor : Maria Arquero and Ana Paula Pimentel Walker .Group Members : Nikita Rane and Laura Devine

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Urban Design Studio : Stewarding Water in the paradise City.

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Urban Design Studio : Stewarding Water in the paradise City.

At risk houses + Houses to be relocated

TUNNEL

Site boundary + Circulation

HOUSING HOUSING + + COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL

TUNNEL

CELEBRATION CELEBRATION TUNNEL

RELOCATEDRELOCATED HOUSES HOUSES

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EDUCATIONEDUCATION

SOCIAL SERVICES SOCIAL SERVICES

INTERACTION INTERACTION LEARNING CENTER LEARNING CENTER + + WATER TREATMENT WATER TREATMENT

CLEANING CLEANING

Water Flow Diagram

Program Strategy

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Urban Design Studio : Stewarding Water in the paradise City.

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COMMUNITY MEMBERS NGOs

SOCIAL HOUSING

COMPONENTS

FUNDED BY: MANAGED BY:

HOSPITAL PRIVATE INVESTOR MUNICIPALITY STATE GOVERNMENT

Urban Design Studio : Stewarding Water in the paradise City.

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MIXED INCOME HOUSING

DOMESTIC ADDITION

LEARNING CENTER

Urban Design Studio : Stewarding Water in the paradise City.

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Urban Design Studio : Stewarding Water in the paradise City.

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Architectural Studio : La Fabrique Comunidad.

LA FABRIQUE COMUNIDAD

Where are the boundaries of living? Are these realized when one enters his/her housing complex? Or, are they defined by sheer walls and openings? Can they exist in shared spaces? And what are the boundaries of working and living? Are the realised over streets, neighborhood or over cities? Or can they can exist just across a door or an window? Can they be blurred by architectural decisions?

This design thesis intends to address these questions, and understand them in conjunction to how we live.

The city of Detroit has been associated with industrial production and manufacturing for over a century. Following the death of industrial production post-Industrial Revolution, there has been a resurgence in the spirit of making and production, associated with the art of reviving craft/skills. From these observations of site and context, the project combines these finer grains of making, producing, and housing into one compact design. Co-living housing is introduced in addition to the making and production spaces to build a sense of making and living in the same area, thereby creating a work – live environment.

Taubman college, University of Michigan - Sytems studio (Fall semsester 2017) Team Members : Nikita Rane, Deepa Bharadwaj, Elizabeth Joe; Professor : Jonathan Rule, Mick Kennedy, Kevin Adkins .

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Architectural Studio : La Fabrique Comunidad.

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The workspace here is of communal nature and is shared by 10 residents.

Bedroom

BEDROOM Living Room

Living room and the Kitchen are the common spaces shared between 4 units

Two residents share a courtyard and workspace.The workspace here, also has commercial frontage and operates as a maker space

Two residents share a courtyard and workspace.The workspace here, also has commercial frontage and operates as a maker space

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Living + Communal kitchen

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Typical Floor plan with all structural sizes and grids dimensioned

Alluminium flashing

Double glazed glass for better insulation

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6” wide I - Section

3’X16’ Metal roof sheeting

WOODEN SIDING

Center pivoted Window for ventilation

Double glazed skylight for better insulation

Glavanized steel Mullions

3” x 3” z- mullion for the pivoted window

Alluminium Crossbar Cap

Double glazed curtian wall for better insulation

6” wide pre-stained fiber siding

5/16”X 4’X8’ Oriented Strand Board

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concrete masony unit wall

Concrete slab with mesh reinforcement

Vapor Retarder that resists diffusion of moisture through floor to prevent interstitial condensation 1” x 4’x 8’ Rigid Insulation to limit thermal bridging

4” Gravel

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PIVOTED WINDOW DETAIL

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Center pivoted Window

8” x 8” I- steel section

Nikita Rane+Deepa

8” x 8” I- steel section

Nexus Studio Sectio 12” pre stained fiber siding 3” x 3” z- mullion for the pivoted window

Alluminium flashing

Wall Section

12” pre stained fiber siding Alluminium flashing for water drainage

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Double glazed glass for better insulation

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Center pivoted Window for ventilation

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PLAN DETAIL- WOODEN SIDING AND GLAZING JUNCTION UP

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Double glazed glass for better insulation

Alluminium flashing for water drainage

La Fabrique Comunidad

Center pivoted Window Double glazed glass for better for ventilation insulation

4” x 6” steel mullion for skylight UP

8” x 8” I- steel section

Nikita Rane+Deepa Bharadwaj+ Elizabeth Joe

8” x 8” I- steel section

x 16’ Metal roof sheeting 3’ x 16’3’Metal roof sheeting

Nexus Studio Section

3” x 3” steel mullion for skylight

3” x 3” z- mullion for the pivoted window

Wall Section 12” pre stained fiber siding

Alluminium flashing for water drainage

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Center pivoted Window for ventilation

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Wall Section / Window Design Narrative: The material selection in this project directly relates to the programmatic scheme of the overall layout. Wooden sidings [outside] and gysum board with paint [inside] are used for the housing units and concrete blocks are used for workshop areas.

6” pre-stained wooden decking

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SKYLIGHT TO METAL ROOF JUNCTION DETAIL

The wall section detail here is an interesting junction exploring both housing unit as well as workspaces. It also entail inside and outside condition giving an understanding of the material strategies applied here.

COMBINED AXON DETAIL SCALE 1/4” =1’0”

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PARAMETRIC DESIGN : PAVILION

This project was digital exploration of design, working with grasshopper software and understanding design through expressing parameters. This exercise investigated the relationship between design intent and design response and opportunities. Further the design was scrutinized using softwares like Rhinocerous, Kangaroo, Lunchbox, Ladybug and Honeybee.

Taubman college, University of Michigan - Geometric Modelling , Fall 2016 Professor : Mark Meier

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Parametric Design : Pavilion

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LUMINAR DESIGN

The project involved designing and fabricating an innovative luminar. The design was fabricated on Water Jet cutting machine using a thin metal sheet as the material. Material exploration and learning to work along their strengths and contraints were main take aways from the project. The concept here was to explore how fluidity can be achieved in design, using such rigid material. The luminar is amorphous and is designed to be installed in various configurations and settings.

Taubman college, University of Michigan - Fabrication, Fall semester 2016 Professor : Dustin Brugmann , Group Members : Nikita Rane ,Adam Mahardy, and Gerardo Perez

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Fabrication : Luminar Design

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MIDDLE SCHOOL DESIGN

The studio posed a challenge to explore, how through design one can can create context in the the decontextulized neighborhood in Ann Arbor. This also involved designing a innovative educational model for the middle school and designing the building abiding to the model. The educational model proposed here tries to intertwin nature and the outside in daily course of education. The design proposal, by its unique shape and structure, sets a landmark in the settings and radiates its ideology of inside-out through the radial bands of urban farms that caters to its neighborhood.

The design also facilitates fussing different grades in one block alloted for one subject to allow vertical communication thus combating heirarchy and making learning an experience.

Taubman college, University of Michigan - Institutional studio (Fall semsester 2016) Professor : Steven Mankouche .

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Architectural studio : Middle schoool design

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Architectural Studio : Middle School Design.

STUDY

SPORTS

MISCELLANEOUS

FORMAL EXPLORATION

AREA ANALYSIS

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Professional Work : Emerson Center of Advanced Studies.

The project involved interior face-lifting of the prestigious VJTI institute of Engeneering, Mumbai, India. The project involved desiging a research center, conference room and a display gallery for the institute that was funded by the Emerson process managemnt Pvt ltd.

My role involved designing , presenting it to the Board of Directors of the company, making construction drawings, floating tenders, site visits and inspections.

Vipin Shah and associates , Client : Emerson Process Management India Pvt Ltd., Project Architects : Nikita Rane and Dhawal Jain.

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Professional Work : Emerson Center of Advanced Studies.

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Professional Work : Nursing College, Digboi, India.

NURSING

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This winning competition entry, for designing and building a nursing college in Digboi, entailed dealing with complex contour site and creating a roofscape that gently sits in the natural setting. The design responded to the climate of tropical region and allowing maximum light and ventillation. Special care was taken, while designing, to minimise excavation and back filling of land, making it cost effective and not disturbing the topography. Understanding and exploring the relationship between the topography of the site and built form was a major takeaway from this process.

Iraa Dezines, Client : India Oil Corporation ( Government Of India ), Project Architects : Nikita Rane and Parimala Venkatesh.

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Professional Work : Nursing College, Digboi, India.

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Professional Work : Nursing College, Digboi, India.

TOPOGRAPHY

RELATIONSHIP TO EXISTING INSTITUTION

STRATEGY FOR GREEN AREA PRESERVATION

Sectional Elevation The roofing system design of the project is equiped for better ventilation and good natural light.The standard sloping roof with 22 degree angle was split at the ridge and a glass window was introduced between the slopes.

The wind flow in the area was studied and thus the strategic alignment of the wings of the building and their roof openings were designed.

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Sectional Elevation The design was planned to have two separate entries at two different levels of the contoured site. The lower level entry was planned for the faculty and administration staff and thus all the functions relating to them- staffroms, HOD’s office, principal’s cabin, were designed on the lower levels of the built mass.On the other hand,upper level entry was designed for students to enter, allowing all the class rooms and common rooms to be on upper levels. The contoured nature of the site allowed for this dual access at different levels.

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Professional Work : Nursing College, Digboi, India.

Tree cover and water flow on the site topography was carefully mapped before designing.

A complete drainage of the site was worked out - the rainwater accumulated at certain points, due to the dramatic topography was stored and used for drainage system of the Nursing collge. The design also accomodated most of the trees on site by framing a courtyards around them, allowing the structure to breathe and connect to its natural setting.The roof of the structure was also designed to capture north light thus making the building environmentallly viable.

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Professional Work : Jindal Enclave Guesthouse .

JINDAL ENCLAVE GUEST HOUSE

The project involved redesigning an office set up of one and halffloors, into a guesthouse. The floor plates were made into clean slates with only structural members, by pulling down all kinds of partition walls. The entire floor plates were then redesigned to accomodate nine rooms, a reception area, small bussiness centre where the guest can access computers and printers and a dining area with kitchen, catering to about fifty people at a time.My role here was right from designing, presenting to the company, tender work to site inspection and co-ordinating with mutiple agencies involved in the project

Iraa Dezines, Client : Jindal Steel Works Pvt Ltd., Project Architect : Nikita Rane.

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Professional Work : Jindal Enclave Guesthouse .

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Professional Work : Jindal Enclave Guesthouse .

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Architectural thesis : Walking - An Urban Experience

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City is not only a physical but also a spatial phenomenon. This spatial quality can be explored by various means, walking being one of them. Walking is more than locomotion; it is an experience of observing and creating the mental image of the space.The thesis intends to explore how walking can be imagined as an act of pleasure instead of considering it as a task of just commuting from one point to other. It deals with factos like human experience, visual sequence and opportunities to meet people.This thesis intends to capture these pleasures of moving through streets of the city and encapsulate them, to derive a methodology to design pedestrian movements.

Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies, University of Mumbai - Architectural Thesis (2013-2014)Professor : Sonal Sundarajan

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Architectural thesis : Walking - An Urban Experience

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Multipurpose hall Municipal Local Authorities Office

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Circulation

Library + Medical center for the community Circulation

Shops Gymnasium, Play Area, Dispaly area for activities held in the neighbourhor

Footpath level - The building is skewed to create a pause and sense of entry

The structure is designed to be a public space apart fromm being a public building. The floor plates, especially the ground level is porous along the main axis of circulation, and acts as an urban shortcut for the city pedestrians. It allows a day to day interaction with the pedestrians, without they having to do much with the functions that the building engulfs. It also holds other public functions like cafeteria, public gym,government subsidized medical center and public library.

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Roof Skylight for Cafeteria Foot Over Bridge

Waiting area for Tickect box Museum for Railway-yard

Medical centre Police Station

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This building is planned just outside Lower Parel station. This building is strategically planed in way , such that it form a open public plaza catering to passengers entering the site. It involves various functions considering its proximity to railway station.his building is facilitaed by ramps carrying people from the railway platform to the other side of the defunctional raiway tracks. This also makes the built form, elder friendly and conveninent for the cyclisits.

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Ramp connecting to foot over bridge

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Architectural Studio : Majuli Measure Drawings

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MAJULI MEASURE DRAWINGS

This project is part of group work carried out in Majuli, India, during the my undergraduate training. This Island is a largest river island in India and is located in the middle of the river Brahmaputra. Majuli was divided into smaller settlements called ‘Satra’. Among these, three satras were strategically chosen for study. Groups of students were expected to analyse ‘Satras’, from the various lenses like their structure, materials used and relationship of the houses with their natural settings. The drawings were carefully inked by hand and drawn to scale. These drawings were also a part of the annual exhibit held by my undergrad college in the year 2011.

Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies, University of Mumbai - Architectural design studio (2010-2011) Professor : Rohan Shivkumar , Group Members : Nikita Rane, Dhawal Jain, Harshada Khatu, Priyank Vaghasia, Akshai Wilkinson.

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Architectural Studio : Majuli Measure Drawings.

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Architectural Studio : Majuli Measure Drawings.

Above drawings are measured and detail drawings of the typologies of houses in the Satras.The structure of these houses was carefully studies to understand this hertiage architecture and methods. This exercise also helped us to undestand methods of drawings and communicating the research through drawing.

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TIMBER WORKSHOP

This project was an hands on exploration of timber construction and it’s joineries, enabling us to understand the fundamentals of the process of building. The project involved sourcing wood, understanding materiality and its properties, studying different kinds of details and thier application - according to their strengths and aesthetic appeal. Being a group project, the challenge here was to break the construction process into small simultaneous line of tasks and implementing them while coordinating with other team members.

Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies, University of Mumbai - Architectural design studio (2010-2011) Professor : Rohan Shivkumar , Group Members : Nikita Rane, Dhawal Jain, Harshada Khatu, Priyank Vaghasia, Akshai Wilkinson.

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PROFILE Nikita Rane rnikita@umich.edu 734-846-3810

SKILLS Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Autodesk Autocad Autodesk Revit Rhinoceros Google Sketchup

INTERESTS Table Tennis Water Color Sketching Architectural film making

ACADEMIC REFRENCES Ms. Maria Arquero De Alarcon Associate Professor, Architecture and Urban Planning Director, Master of Urban Design Taubman College, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Partner at MAde-Studio Email Id : marquero@umich.edu Contact no : 6178211719

PROFESSIONAL REFRENCES Mr. Ajay Mirajgaoker Principal Architect, Iraa Dezines ajay@iraadezines.co.in Contact No: +91 9820126180

EDUCATION MASTERS DEGREE / AUG 2016 - APR 2018 (EXPECTED) Taubman College, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor : 2 year Master in architecture candididate.

BACHELORS DEGREE / AUG 2009 - APR 2014 Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture : Five years Bachelors course in Mumbai, India

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EXPERIENCE

D E S I G N C O N S U LTA N T / F E B 2 0 1 6 - M AY 2 0 1 6 Vipin Shah and Associates : Institutional Interior Facelift of VJTI school of Engineering, for Emerson Process Management - Design drawings, construction drawing and site visits PROJECT ARCHITECT / DEC 2014 - FEB 2016 Iraa Dezines : Worked on variety of projects including institutional design, interior designing of office spaces and guest houses.

JUNIOR ARCHITECT / JUN 2014 - DEC 2014 Iraa Dezines : Worked on making tender documentand bill of quantity for various projects and making site drawing.

ARCHITECTURAL INTERN / NOV 2013 - FEB 2014 Iraa Dezines : Worked on winning competition entry of a nursing college in Digboi, India for Indial Oil Corporation.

T E A C H I N G A S S I S TA N T / J U N 2 0 1 3 - A U G 2 0 1 3 Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture : Mentoring freshman students in the Bachelors University.

ACHIEVEMENTS Awarded the SOCIETY OF AMERICAN REGISTERED ARCHITECTS AWARD OF HONOR for the winter term 2017 project , Stewarding Water in the Paradise City, Brazil / 2017 Won FORD COLLEGE COMMUNITY CHALLENGE GRANT for the Ocupacao Anchieta Project, in collaboration with a urban planning team in University of Michigan/ 2017 Systems studio housing project (Fall 2017) is selected for ARCHITECTURE STUDENT SHOW in Taubman college of Architecture for AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE / 2018 Project Architect for the WINNING COMPETITION ENTRY OF A NURSING COLLEGE FOR INDIAN OIL CORPORATION / 2014 Technical Drawings selected for EXHIBITION PUT UP FOR MUNICIPAL OFFICER of Mumbai, India / 2012

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is appreciation of space