Udaipur’s cultural identity is deeply rooted in the legacy of the Mewar Kingdom, renowned for its valor, art, and architecture. The region’s rich traditions, including its classical dance, music, and craftsmanship, reflect the kingdom’s glorious history. Udaipur’s palaces, temples, and lakes stand as enduring symbols of Mewar’s splendor. If there is one icon that symbolizes Mewar and all the values it represents, it has has to be the “Surya Chopar”. The symbol with all its glory and splendor is what Mewar is, and thus what Mewar worships. And so our building unfurled much like the proud flag.
The project is designed to cater to a diverse mix of functions, integrating residential, retail, office, and public spaces within a cohesive urban framework. The design seemlessly integrates TOD aspects by providing dirext access into the building from the metro station, which provides increased public space as well. The facade improves building performance and aesthetic while also acting as a semi-public interactive zone for the various users.
Facade
The facade is designed such that is provides all the users of the building with ample green space while also self shading the facade using the undulations created.
This also provides a play of light and shadow throughout the building while providing double heighted spaces for its users.
The facade acts differently for the different users:
• Residences get their double heighted private balconies as the undulations segregate the different residence, office and retail modules.
• Office workers are able to have a common outside space with green covering helping them maintain a good working environment and healthier lifestyle.
• Providing a important landmark TOD (Transit-Oriented Developement) urban space by integrating the lower levels of the building with the street and the Elevated Public Floor with direct access with the Metro.
01. Cuboidal mass with consideration to setback
02. Differentiating mass for exhibition and convetion
03. Providing pedestrian access accross the massing
04. Connecting roadside with the public park through the building
// Conceptual Sketch of the facade
// Script using Rhino.Inside.Revit for an iterative design approach
Situated in the beautiful valley of Tieedi, the project aims to create a kinesthetic school in the foothill of Himalaya in Darjeeling. This project was really influencial for me as it taught me user centric designs and playing with contours in a way that serves the design intent and purporse for the users.
// Plan showing classrooms, multi-use spaces and dining
The project aims to redesign the existing National Science Centre , a science museum in Delhi with a more efficient approach. The design mainly focuses on efficient funtioning and has a smooth circulation within which entices and provides the users with a more thorogh experience of the science centre. As it is place visited often by people coming from various schools, the design is approached from the eye of a common citizen.
// Massing with the largest rectanglular volumetric block which can fit on site
// Massing with the largest rectanglular volumetric block dividing the site in two halves #1
// Massing with the largest rectanglular volumetric block dividing the site in two halves #2
The overlap of the forms discovered above provided an optimized building footprint which allows the mazimum possible usable area for the museum which was a problem in the existing structure. This footprint also allows the building to have good daylighting inside while reducing the cooling load.
// Isometric View
// South Elevation
// Maquette
Internship
QX Designs & KJDS
Semester - V
PSI Energy
Semester - VII
// During the proposal meeting, we gave the client complete freedom on how they wanted the form to be with the help of Grasshopper Sliders, thus creating a design that is designed both by us and the client.
// Project proposal in Sundarban’s Mukti Guest House - Meditation Centre. The design sits gently on water being made with chiseled bricks, giving it a flowy appearance and creating nooks inside.
// Stage designs for Ziro Music Festival. Learning about the properties of bamboo and how to make large span structures out of bamboo.
// Irradiation Study for a school project in Rajasthan, where the study was able to suggest multiple changes to the design of the building.
// CFD Analysis of a residential complex, where we found out the funneling effect on the ground floor creating strong gusts of wind along with vortices being created which create a suction effect resulting in stronger winds.
// Calculation of UDI for a residential complex in a larger sports complex, where this study was able to reduce the over-exposure to sunlight in the building while maintaining a comfortable Usable Daylight Index.
F.E.A.T. - Coordinator (2023 - 24)
Forum for Exchange of Architectural Thoughts
// The Char Bagh Walk was conducted as an architectural walk through the Humayun’s Tomb and Sunder Nursey Complex highlighting the architectural features and character.
// Bad Designathon stemmed from the idea of why always design things that are good - questioning the very basis of design. We conducted this competition to involve people in designing the worse possible designs under the segment of Office Utilities.
// The Macrame Workshop was conducted alongside Ar. Renuka Gupta, where we all explored the possibilities of macrame artwork. We all had something that we made ourselves, with our wn hands with just simple threads.
AI Segmentation
// A.I. + M.L. - Generative Adversarial Network - Prof. Joy Mondol
// Image Segmentation which partitions a digital image into discrete groupes of pixel - image segments. The segmentation script makes 28 different segments. // Google Colab was used in the making of this.
Generative Adversarial Network
// Tata Structura Competition
// A dataset of 1500 faces were taken for initial runs. The faces choosen were taken from a diverse group of ethnicities and backgrounds providing a very even landscape.
// A Generative Adversarial Network was trained on a dataset of over 2000 Sculptures, again from a variety of selections. In a GAN, two neural networks contest with each other in the form of a zero-sum game, where one agent’s gain is another agent’s loss.
// Thus, humans slowly lose their characters and features as a human, finally morphing into sculptures.
