Architectural Portfolio

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Parthiv Parikh

parthivparikh2500@gmail.com +44 7551089393

PARTHIV PARIKH ARCHITECT

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DESIGNER

From India, I am a graduate in Bachelor of Architecture from School of Environmental Design and Architecture, Navrachana University.

I’m currently perusing my Masters in Architecture RIBA Part II from The University of Greenwich.

The portfolio comprises of selected works from the year 2014 - 2019 reflecting on my approach and passion towards the field.

I have always been driven with the idea of a process behind any outcome and that is where the heart of the project lies in.

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ARTIST

Also I have always been inclined towards art and ways of collaborating it with architecture.

Hence my recently published thesis on the topic ‘Art and Architecture’, talks about a way of approach and how can architecture come about by taking it as a design process.

I have completed done a six month internship at MICD Associates under Ar. Channa Daswatte in Sri Lanka.

Currently working at Motion Architecture, London as a Part II Architecture Intern.

Personal Profile email :

parthivparikh2500@gmail.com parthivparikh45@yahoo.com

tel : +44 07551083939 address : B14 d, 10 lovibond Lane, Greenwich, London.

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Date of Birth : 25|06|96

Education Academic Related

Competition Languages

2002-2014 10+2 Degree

2015 - Shade Design for

Experience Study Dec 2019 Programme

Teaching Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s V.M Public Assistant as part of 3 Artitecture School. workshops, Makarpura road, Vadodara.

2014-2019 Bachelor of Architecture School of Environment Design and Architecture, Navrachana University, Vadodara.

2020-2022 Masters of Archtecture, RIBA Part II,

Prof. Percy Pithawala, Vadodara and Mumbai.

Internship Jan - June 2019 Architecture Internship at MICD Associates, Madiwale Sri Lanka under

CHANNA DASWATTE.

September 2020 ArchitectureIntern School of Design, University of Greenwich, Part II at Motion London, United Architecture, Kingdom.

London, UK.

2014

Umbarmata Village, Dudhani,

Dadra Nagar Haveli.

2015

Navrachana University amphitheater.

2017 -Black Taj Competition held by Archasm.

2018 - Kids Factory

Competition held by YAC.

Kibber Village,

2018 - Museum of Design

2016

Softwares

Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh.

Lunavada Raj Mahal,

Lunavada Gujarat.

2019

Ramkrishna Mission Vivekanand Memorial, Vadodara,

Competition held by SWITCH.

AutoCad Rhinoceros Grasshopper Sketchup Lumion Keyshot V-Ray Revit

Gujarat.

Windows OS Mac IOS Microsoft Office

Photoshop Illustrator InDesign After Effects Metashape ArcGIS Digimaps

English (fluent) Hindi (fluent) Gujarati (fluent &mother tongue)

Publication

2019 Thesis

Tracing influence of Art on thought processes of contemporary architects and demonstrating their design parameters through a project.

Interests

Sketching, Model Making, Sculpting, Music, Playing Percussion instruments, Traveling, Swimming and Sports, Vector and graphic design.

Exhibition

2014 - 2019 Projects selected throughout all academic studios as a part of annual Architecture exhibition at SEDA.

Contents.

Research | Publication Independent Studio | Academic Curiosity constructs | Competition Working Drawing | Academic Urban Mutation | Academic Matrix | Academic Abstraction | Academic Miscellaneous

Its all about the Process.

The following portfolio reflects works focusing on the process that a project undergoes from its initial start till its termination and how each step reverts back to its previous one.

RESEARCH | ART AND ARCHITECTURE Tracing influence of Art on thought processes of contemporary architects and demonstrating their design parameters through a project.

A study focusing on taking OBJECTIVEart as an inspiration, a point The main objective of the thesis is first to analyze of departure and how specific work style of different architects and their way approach from either a literal form of art or taking architecture can come of certain inspirations from any art movement and to about by taking it as a design use this generated research data in form of models, process. sketches and graphic representations to experiment Project Level | Academic Project Project Type | Research Duration |Jan - Sept 2019 Project Guide| Prof. Percy Pithawala, HOD,S.E.D.A. Navrachana University The research study discussed here was the final year dissertation project that was submitted for the fulfillment of the degree program. The aim was to study interrelationship between art and architecture and later demonstrate through a design derivative.

Art and architecture have always been essentially tied together in form of a collaborative attempt to demonstrate each one’s own point of perspective through a concept.

The concept might arrive with a study by borrowing an essence or getting influenced by some other parallel field.

upon its core idea. This would be executed by implicating the parameters that are derived from the study on a site with a program. Here, the permutations of a process would matter and not one final design outcome.

METHODOLOGYOne must look at the structure of this Thesis in a format where the first half involves research based on built projects and art works of architects and artists, while the second half is an extension and further development of one of the case study towards a project conducted to prove the efficiency of research, much like stating a theorem and then proving it.

Self made models, comparative diagrams and sketches play an important role in comparing the two vast attributes in an simpler manner.

The case studies should be seen not only as a pure form of research that involves, architect’s and artist’s perspective about their work but it also compares both in form of an analysis produced by the author for taking inspirations that in the second half of the book are reflected in form of parameters for design development.

Case study

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Analytical sketches for the process that follows Zaha Hadid translation of the painting to Weil Am Rhein, Germany its final form of architectural representation. The sketches come out in continuations of a process that decodes the painting to its very initial stage and reverts back to the final representation of its architectural form.

Vitra Fire Station

Fragmented imagery push the visualization of the project to its utmost refinement and dynamic expression.

Original painting for Vitra Fire Station

by Hadid.

The analysis embarks in form tracings leading to the very initial lines where the depiction of curves from an urban fabric of a city going towards infinity are shown.

These trajectories take a step froward with an addition of horizontal segments with a further input of angular strokes as well. The combinations of these lines convert into planes peeling up from the surface in an orderly manner. Three dimensionality of the planes add to the linear, layered series of walls.

A progressive display of sketches defining the process for Physical models for translating the art work of Zaha to her building Vitra fire Station. the process of analysis

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Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow

House VI

Piet Mondrian De Stijl, Modern art

Peter Eisenman Cornwall, Connecticut

House VI is not an object in the traditional sense – that is, the result of a process – but more accurately a record of a process.

House VI was selected as one of the case studies for being a perfect example of a process driven design.

Eisenman’s architecture has always been ‘process’ driven.

These procedures are under the control of the architect, carried out by graphical means, and have their own internal logic. That logic in turn is seen to be embedded in the architectural object as meaning and formal organisation. This set of working procedures achieves a kind of conceptual clarity.

A hypothesis is later generated when compared with Piet Mondrian’s De Stijl art painting.

Sketches of the related case study of House VI.

A transformation in terms of similar congruences relating with the process of House Vi.

In from of a comparative analysis between Peter Eisenman’s work style and that to Mondrian’s minimalist paintings, a hypothesis is derived stating the co-relation.

Both being from different time periods of constructivism and De Stijl respectively narrate similar congruences in therms of:

Physical models for the process of analysis

Compositional Sense Aesthetics Division Of Spaces Idea of Reduction Abstract ideology.

Art works from different time period became a source of inspiration to start with. Therefore here we connect Mondrian’s painting to Eisenman’s house VI and how a representation of architectural space and form can be derived in a sequential process.

Case study

III. Development of a Bottle in Space

Umberto Boccioni France , Europe

Louis Vuitton Foundation

Frank.O.Ghery Paris, France Development of bottle in space, with Frank Ghery’s Louis Vuitton Foundation, they express similar characteristics in terms of the futurist movement and the process both undergo. The Building reflects notions of futurism dealing with force, speed, momentum and technological advancements in terms of construction.

Both the sculpture and the building are understood in a comparative way of leading futuristic concepts of art and architecture and how they produce similar ideas in terms of the process of development they undergo.

The attempt here is to capture the motion and the flux that the sculpture reveals to us in form of these series of sketches which will be later converted in the form of modeled sculptures portraying the same energy. The stages shown bellow go through a reverse process of extracting these infinite lines of force from this contained statue of the sculpture.

A progressive display of Physical models for the process of analysis sketches defining the process.

DESIGN DERIVATIVE Taking the ideologies of Eisenman that associate well with him and the parameters devised from the earlier chapter, the thesis conducts a design outcome in order to sum up the research.

With accomplishment of the previously done research the thesis implicates it through a process of layering principles for design. A pavilion project has been selected which fits well with the constrains of what the research focused on, i.e. ‘record of a process’.

The whole idea of the design generates from building up a series of diagrams that express the work style of Eisenman with the author’s interpretation. Picking out terminologies that are associated with his work serve a foundation point in progressing through the design. Its about borrowing the essence of the architect’s work, understanding his way of approach and then demonstrating it on the site not in a literal way but through the sequence of processes that the design generates.

The idea of pavilion here is to create a very landscape oriented design where people engage with the contextual heritage of the garden with some momentary pauses generated by the design. These pauses are the depiction of structures on the site that behave as monumental follies, following the principle terminologies of Eisenman such as juxtaposition, rotation, array, mirror, montage, grid, etc, they start to develop.

FUNCTION MOVEMENT CIRCULATION

CONTEXT IDENTIFICATION OF RED

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ARTIFICIAL GRID -Proportions of Canaregio.

CONTEXTUAL GRID -Generated from the urban context.

IDENTIFICATION OF THE RED, -Generating locations for monumental follies.

Perspective view of follies on site, traces of red falling on the site shown in terms of graphical representation.

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Establishing primary circulation amongst the functions and individually in the amphitheater.

With this, the focus is to create some sunken landscape gardens that emerge through the traces of lines being generated from the process. Some elements lay softly on the landscape such as a deconstructed Castle Wall Element that serves as a representation of historic means, and is translated into a modern way that the common crowd can associate to.

FIGURATIVE ELEMENT TRACE AND IMPRINT JUXTAPOSITION

In addition to this, we focus on the functional part of the design that is a Visitor Center and an Open Air Amphitheater. The Center is again formed by taking a square imprint on the site and moving with the process of, intersection of planes creating light source, shifting of the smaller spaces generated after the cuts and joining it with an ambulatory as a part of circulation. It gets almost sunken into the ground showing a few notions of it coming out of the soil as the attempt was not to visually disturb the landscape of site and keeping these monumental sculptures visible at all time. The amphitheater on the other hand sits on the terrain in a step formation and gently laying down with it. It originates the seating areas from pockets created by the city grid as an extension on site.

The circulation inside happens through the same lines of this grid in a horizontal as well as vertical directions.

Design development continues by using the parameters as a foundation for the pavilion, the design continues to find narratives and build on them.

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Axonometric about the wall element and its progressive transformation on the landscape of the site.

Castle plan and the fort wall shown in red. Using this element in two different kinds of proportions and scales.

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With all the components overlaid the imprint of the element is trimmed from certain areas and whats left is just a trace from the previous process.

In Axonometric view, - Grid overlay - Function and circulation - Figurative element and landscape layer - Extensions outside the site.

With an overlap of different layers from the parameters derived earlier the project generates a landscape oriented pavilion with a play of elements.

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The process starts with using this square as a frame and offsetting it in a diagonal direction with which certain elements such as columns, walls and beams in terms of frames are highlighted.

Some volumes in terms of mass get generated which under go change in terms of cut and shift and dis-stabilizing it by breaking at some points.

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As an addition to the functional part of the design, the follie emerges as an element as well as serving the pavilion with a small cafeteria.

The process starts with the same cross-hair imprint with which two kinds of spaces are generated namely, served and service spaces.

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With addition of layers and terminologies giving justice to the process one follows here, the follie is generated with repetition and fragmentation of these frames achieving a juxtaposed image of these layers.

The process starts with dividing the frame into q u a d r a n t s and repeating that frame in a diagonal axis and later rotation and montaging.

The follies here are considered as monumental landscape sculptures that engage with the terrain and are generated using the principles of design by Eisenman.

SUMMARY

Since the beginning of the research, it hasn’t been easy figuring out the correlation between the two attributes art and architecture. However after analyzing works, questioning basic principles and decoding works of different architects with authors own perspective, it was possible to generate a research that supported the earlier quest.

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As a part of research, three distinct case studies were taken wherein one was the architects work as a piece of art (painting) and her own architectural built project derived from that. The second was a hypothesis generated, between works of an artist and an architect, that drew relevance based on certain common grounds. In the third case study the two attributes have been compared by the virtue of falling in the same time period and how a sculpture and a building generate similarities based on the characteristics of that time period.

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MINING INSTITUTE

Postgraduate Institute for Mining in Pavagadh Quarries, India.

Project Level | Academic Project Project Type | Individual Project Duration | August-December 2018 Project Supervisors | Gurdev Singh, Dean, S.E.D.A. Navrachana University, Percy Pithawala, HOD, S.E.D.A. Navrachana University,

Brief and Location The enchanting hills of Pavagadh near the city of Vadodara have been under a constant process of mining. This has left the area filled with traces of mining in form of quarries. Over the time the nature has adapted to these quarries and has developed its own ecosystem around it, the biodiversity evolves around it and so does the flora and fauna. The program requires to convert such diverse and naturally inactive site into a post graduate mining institute without disturbing the nature.

Approach ‘In the process of mining the mountain behaves as a strong rigid component where in the substance being the rock is contained and after the quarrying process whats left is an anomaly that is the quarry’.

The idea starts with this thought process and is later being abstracted in form of a cube that undergoes the same process of mining which involves explosion, fragmentation, removal and residue. This dramatic concept is superimposed on site and the places where the cube interacts with the quarry is where the process of fragmentation starts. The entire institute can be seen following this principle of interconnectedness of elements forming the original piece and being fragmented at the same time. Thus these broken elements gently sit on the terrain showing a connect of framework throughout the institute.

The stone Quarries of Pavagadh are spread out on a vast area of land which have now a self sustaining biodiversity evolving around it. The nature at its best has taken control over these abandoned stone excavation sites and have turned into these beautifully evolved natural forests with water bodies spread evenly. With eight quarries lying abandoned in the vicinity, the program brief goes on with the liberty to decide the extent of their site and selection of quarries. The aspects of planning, orientation, programmatic functions, and landscape along with sustainability are to be considered with the designs.

Structural systems and their implementation to the built form should respect the natural ecosystem and be responsive to the vistas of the stone quarries.

The program requires a design for postgraduate institute of mining consisting of six different type of courses 1 - Mining Engineering 2 - Mining and Minerals Engineering 3 - Mining Life-science 4 - Mining Geology 5 - Tunnel Engineering 6 - Applied Engineering Each course is for a duration of two years with 30 students per course.

The total built up area cannot exceed 13,660 sq m which includes institutional area, administrative area and service areas. Public spaces included auditoriums, seminar halls, interpretation center, gymnasium etc. Private spaces included workshops, libraries, computer centers, course blocks etc. An interconnectedness between these two attributes was necessary in resolving organisation and circulation throughout the institute.

Site sketches merely impressions generated looking at the quarries.

The layering process starts with placing a cube with grid dimensions on a potential site. The selection of site is such that it gives three kinds of strategic points where already existing quarries have their locations. The next step is about explosion that happens near the areas where the cube touches the quarry surface. This is where the fragmentation process starts and the mass slowly disintegrates. As the process continues the fragments are slowly seen settling down at further locations and the main volume is still under the process. Just like mining is a sequential process of explosion, breaking and fragmenting, a similar approach has been carried out.

Continuing the abstract form of mining, now is the layer for certain practical decisions to be taken such as introducing organization, circulation, functions, etc. Also the grid subdivides and gives an idea for representation of structure within which the functions are embedded in form of plug-ins.

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CURIOSITY CONSTRUCTS

Kids Factory | Majestic architectural complex to childhood.

Competition Project (YAC) December 2018 Group Project (7 members)

Brief and Introduction (YAC) The former pottery of Laveno Mombello is a mastodon that fell asleep on the banks of Lake Maggiore. The entrance gravestone magniloquently evokes the industrial past of the building. If it were not for this, one could think this place was built for fun or assembled according to the dreamy logics of some eccentric builder. This factory aims to transform one of the most impressive industrial architectures of Europe into the largest kindergarten in the world consisting of school, library, camping area, sport and leisure facilities, playgrounds that not only creates a real city for children but also an ideal context for adults.

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“All grown-ups were once children, although few of them remember it.�

Innocence is what we are born with, as a child we were never bounded with what the repercussions of our actions could be. We were only enthralled in taking actions that could take us somewhere, anywhere that could be interesting, any place that could be engaging. With absolutely no inhibitions we would keep walking in the physical realm while being totally engulfed in the nonphysical. Our innocence in the cycle of life, has in this day and age become ephemeral, reality often strips us off our care-free nature of being inquisitive and curious.

Something that the next generation of children must not face. This scheme tries to re-capture that very innocence with which a child would walk, the very innocence with which an adult could walk and take them through a journey of experiences that would stimulate the minds of all. The structure of the factory is also preserved in most places as it shares associational value amongst the people of the city, whereas the pods of stimulation are suspended below the shroud of canopy in a manner which allows them to at times playfully intersect with both the existing structure and the spaces above.

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The Playground The un-engaged space of the factory has been converted into a playground juxtaposed with - S I T E playful interventions of the “Stimulation Pods�.v This distinct space is concerned with the free movement of a child.

Here, the child is not bound by classrooms and monotonous corridors.

- Part Removal Part Preservation Instead, the entire space has been planned in such a way that every corner leads to unexplored parts of the built where the child is surprised with the discovery of certain perky - Playground spaces in and around the stimulation pods. These pods are multidimensionally suspended in such a way that they hover above the remnants of the old factory to emphasize the contrast - Shroud of of the old and the new.

Canopy This is the dynamic part of the built that is full of kids playing around with fun and frolic where parents can keep an eye on the children through the various decks and pods, in - Light Voids turn, enhancing the visual connect of the pods with the playground.

Sports Facilities

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The Cuboidal Volume A cuboidal volume is hovering up and around the existing industrial mass supported by an independent new structural grid of circular columns. A clear free space is created on the ground by suspending the “Stimulation Pods” which also at times intersect spatially with the cuboidal volume. This allows free movement of visitors and facilitates visual sequencing in the minds of the children as well as the adults.

The cuboidal volume accommodates vital programmatic requirements such as meeting rooms, classrooms, laboratories, cafeteria, libraries, seminar rooms that include audiovisual and digital labs. Visual as well as physical connections are made possible through various perforations that allow penetration of light.

Camping Area

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Interior View

DEFINING HABITAT COMMUNITY HOUSING FOR NAVRACHANA UNIVERSITY BLOCK C

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WORKING DRAWING

A set of working drawings prepared for a previously done academic project of Student Housing for Navarachana University.

Academic Project May 2017

ONLY LATEST DRAWINGS TO BE REFERRED, SUPERCEDED DRAWINGS NOT TO BE KEPT ON SITE REFER STRUCTURAL DRAWINGS FOR ALL STRUCTURAL MEMBER SIZES, THEIR PLACEMENTS SHALL BE AS PER ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS. DRAWINGS ARE CROSS REFERENCED AND ARE TO BE READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER DRAWINGS AS INDICATED. THIS DRAWING IS THE SOLE PROPERTY OF XXX LTD. AND MAY NOT BE COPIED IN PART OR IN WHOLE WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF THE ARCHITECTS. DRAWINGS ARE CROSS REFERENCED AND ARE TO BE READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER DRAWINGS ALONG WITH RELEVANT CONSULTANT DRAWINGS AS INDICATED.

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URBAN FABRIC

Developing an Old Mill Land in Rakhial, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

Project Level | Academic Project Project Type | Group Project - Large Scale (4 students) Individual Project - Smaller Scale (Urban Insertion) Duration | August-December 2017 Project Supervisors | Mohammed Ayaz Pathan, Professor, S.E.D.A. Navrachana University,

Brief and Location The fourth year urban design project deals with the development of an Old Mill land located in Rakhial, Gujarat, India into a self sufficient neighborhood that merges with the context and comprises of commercial activities (shops, godowns, manufacturing units, offices) along with residential units. The site lies vacant in the heart of the old city of Ahmedabad amidst the urban hustle of commercial businesses as well as residential population. It is now covered with ruins of mills and outgrowth of wild vegetation.

Issues Commercial Stakeholders, The site lies at a prime location in the heart of the old city where it surrounds with commercial zones of Ahmedabad. Therefore , the program includes various commercial units such as sops, offices, workshops, manufacturing units and godowns.

Residential Stakeholders, Majorly the commercial activities happening in this area have residences along with it. Some units are work + residential where as some are just residential or strictly commercial.

The challenge here lies in how to adjust both commercial activities and residential units in such collaborations that the permutations of both are possible along with a part of site giving out to the city where it becomes a urban pause in the daily hustle.

Site and Program OverviewAhmedabad as a city has always shown growth based on economical and commercial activities. Rakhial is once such part of the city that behaves as a commercial nucleus with all sorts of mills around it. Over the years these mills started to shut down and the area became a dump yard amidst the neighboring commercial zones. The surroundings of the mill land are occupied by residents who have their work units set up with production units and shops along with their homes.

The selected site behaves like a void in-between a highly active zone of trade commerce and living. Developing the site as a modern day urban center was the challenge put forward.

The proposal intends to see the site as a self sufficient urban scale neighborhood with the need to accommodate different programs that are pure residential, residential + 25% work, residential + 50% work, pure commercial, residential + manufacturing, manufacturing units, godowns, shops and offices. The organisation of these needs to develop alongside the road network(vehicular and pedestrian) with a stretch of promenade as a main shopping street on site.

The first step taken before the zoning starts is to preserve all possible green spaces and keep them as gardens and parks; one being a huge garden on a city level where as others shared by residents and commercial units. The promenade street is added to connect the two main roads on opposite sides of the site also behaving as a central spine for street shopping. The garden connects with the promenade forming major entrance to the site. Residential units are placed close to contextual residences and commercial units stay close to the main streets for better transport and trade. Shops run along the promenade and the main institutional units are located at the center of the site for an easy access by residents and outsiders. After the site planning the proposal concentrates each of the zones specifically. Thus 1/12 th part of the site is given to each student to resolve individually keeping in mind the parking schemes, number of units, circulation, service voids and activity nodes for outside public.

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Site Organisation Rakhial Road Main road with bus network and vehicular access. Main entrance to the site.

Commercial Zone I The area adjoining the green acts as a complete commercial zone comprising of godowns, manufacturing units and offices on the top levels overlooking the promenade and the green.

Green Zone A garden at the city level is planned facing the main road for easy access by the public as well as the residents and workers of the neighborhood.

Promenade A promenade shopping streets cuts through the entire site connecting the two main roads. Its kept strictly pedestrian and away from vehicular roads.

Institutional Zone Here various institutions such as a sports center, hospital and a town hall have been given utmost priority as they play an important role at an urban city level and in the neighborhood.

Residential + Work This typology fits well in the organisation between the two commercial zones for easy in terms of transport of raw materials from houses to shops.

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MATRIX STUDIO

FOREST MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT KADA DAM, JAMBUGHODA Academic Project December 2015 The project deals with designing a forest management department following the process of matrix that comprises various aspects such as soil, green cover, humidity, wind, hydrology and views. This generates a series of diagrams that help create a built form being able to function under any condition.

ABSTRACTION STUDIO FERRARI SHOWROOM Academic Project September 2015

The project starts with an image and abstract the hidden essence to translate it into a built space that one figures out during the process.

The general expression lies way beyond the obvious and what we can perceive of it.

Abstraction is an argument, between the stagnancy and dynamism of form, effect of expression and contradiction with itself as a whole.

An object reduced till a point where it doesn’t remain original but reminds of the original is abstraction.

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Former (HOD), S.E.D.A. Navrachana University and mentor for five years.

Founder of The Red Studio (Architecture, art and design) in Vadodara, Gujarat, India

Prof. Gurdev Singh email: gurdevarch@gmail.com tel: +919879114223

Former Dean, S.E.D.A. Navrachan University and Mentor for five years. Presently Professor at Mudra Takshashila Institute of Design and Architecture, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.

Ar. Channa Daswatte email: channadas@gmail.com tel: +94777343449

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Mr. Nimesh Patel tel:+447712489247

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