Architectural Portfolio by pranjal sancheti

PORTFOLIOSELECTEDWORKS(2019-2022)PRANJALSANCHETISchoolofEnvironmentandArchitecture,Mumbai

PRANJAL SANCHETI Email Nashik,Addresshomehttps://sites.google.com/sea.edu.in/a19pranjal/Website:9730316306Contacta19pranjal@sea.edu.inpranjal2051@gmail.com:No.::Maharashtra,India EDUCATION : 2006-2008 | Grade : 1 to 3 (SSC) Shree Nityanand English Medium School 2008-2017 | Grade : 4 to 10 (CBSE) Panchvati English Medium School 2017-2019 | Junior College (HSC) G.D. Sawant Arts, Science and CommerceCollege 2019-Ongoing | Bachelors in Architecture School of Environment and Architecture SKILLS Autodesk: Autocad Adobe Indesign Adobe Photoshop Adobe BasicModel-makingHandraftingSketchupRhinocerosIllustratorcarpentary and Masonry PUBLICATIONSWriting : SEA Newsletter 2019 SEA Blogs First ConsistencyAWARDSQuestions:inWork for the year 2020-21

VOLUNTEERING WORK: Member of Content Committee 2019-Ongoing Contributed to SEA Annual Exibition 2021 Contributed to SEA Newsletter 2019 Contributed to SEA Symposium Songs of Turbulence

CollectingListenigPhoneSketchingPaintingINTERESTS:PhotographyMusicandPressing Flowers

WORKSHOPS: 2019: Materiality Workshop (Working with ferrocement) | Sem 2 Technology Module 2020: Gandhaar | Anita Kulkarni 2020: Digital Anatomies and Material Autonomies | Dushyant Asher 2021: Environmental Typography | Ananya Tantiya 2021: Housing in Indian’s Second Cities | Shreyank Khemlapure 2021: Markectcture | Devashish Guruji 2021: Material Workshop- Bamboo | Sankalpa Sankalpa 2021: Material Workshop- Steel | Manjunath BL 2022: Prototyping | Sunil Jambhulkar 2022: The Self and the Structure | Dipti Bhaidarkar 2022: Design for play | Isha Gopal

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The idea of the sounds of water was explored by understanding the various ways in which water produces sound and how this sound can be transmitted. While the entire process, the focus was on transmitting the sound of dripping water. The form of the water dictates the quality and intensity of sound it produces. The site is a water supplying unit of a town called Ghoti near Nashik. It holds 3 storage tanks on ground and one overhead tank with a filtration unit towards north-west. The terrain is such that the site is at a higher plane as compared to the rest of the town, this allows water to flow with the help of gravity. The intervention lies at rethinking the existing community water tank as a space where people would gather and experience the sounds of water.

TECHNOLOGICAL SENSORIUM Soundscape of Water |

Dushyant Asher and Anuj Daga

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The way the walls carve in and out create interesting pockets and niches which can afford for people to have conversations and chance encounters. The juxtaposition of solids and voids allow the built form to become a soundscape of water and hence curates the experience of inhabitation. Multiple steps and ramps connect the whole space together. These levels allow one to have dynamic experiences while meandering through the building. A single space can be experienced from various levels. Moreover, all tanks are not filled fully so that when water falls into the tank, no two tanks would produce the same sound. Varied principles of falling of water orchestrate the sensorium of the space. All these are articulated such that they facilitate the process of filtration of water such as aeration, flocculation, sedimentation, sand filtration and storage. Moreover, it also has a play of flow of water from one tank to another.

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>7.Overall 3D view Human habitation at different experiencinglevelssounds of water. >6.Site soundsvariedStipplingSensoriumshowingintensitiesofofwater. <<4.Conceptual View Emphasizes on the existence of the tanks and pipes which become the voids within the monolithic structure. 3.Plan at 7.5 m Positions of tanks << > 67

> 1. Narrative Drawing Linear Domains of everyday colliding with each other. > 2.Street Facing Shops Shops in front of the wada opens it up to the public in an interesting way.

Rupali Gupte and Anuj Daga

Kumat wada is located in Ghoti in district Nashik of Maharashtra. It is a 75 years old wada. The wada sits on a busy road of the town and the part of the wada which is facing the street is occupied by various shops. The interior of the wada is currently divided into 4 parts out of which 3 parts are occupied by 3 families and the 4th part is rented for shops.Each of the 3 parts is occupied by one family. It becomes a strip home for all three of them, leaving the back side open for interactons between the families. Each of the resident claim their own space and molde and modulate it according to their requirements. The requirements are a result of their daily routines that each one of them follow. The domains here overlap with each other and are contained within a boundary at the same time.

MAPPING ROUTINES

Kumat Wada |

*This study is taken further to design a house for the same family, in the next project in the context of Charkop, Mumbai

FORM AND SPACE STUDIES

Home as a series of domains | Rupali Gupte

The design starts with creating a spatial flow of interlocking spaces and looking at the way people would inhabit those spaces. The progression was aimed towards creating independent spaces but would flow within each other at the same time. The emphasis towards connectivity was also because of the girl living here who was deaf and dumb and needs visual connectivity from each and every corner of the home and can still get her intimate space in the home. Each of the space inside the house is not separated by walls but by different levels of spaces. At the entrance of the house half of its part is an interface between the courtyard and the house which allows people to take a pause and sit there and the other half is given to a tailoring shop run by the girl.

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4.Overall 3d Building in the Context and the Inhabitation and Interaction inside and outside the built form < 4

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facility and event space | Sabaa Giradkar

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The was site is located in Eksar Dongripada in Borivali.A community food facility and evet center was to be designed. The concept of modularity allows to think of a structure having various possibilities of configuration. The location of the built form was the eastern edge. Due to the higher terrain and less modulation in ground eastern side of the plot was chosen to avoid water logging. The structure is made up of 5 modules. The possibility of a modular structure helps to achieve different configurations according to the programme. Four layout possibilities were explored introducing both open and closed spaces in different configurations. Materials used for the construction mainly include bamboo and coated canvas. For all the activities to function smoothly there needs to be a proper water management system and here the modularity also plays a role in making the water management system dynamic. 4.Water management Modular way of assembling water tanks and pipes througout various configurations. 5,6 and 7.Physicak Model

CommunityMODULARITYfood

1. Configuration- Event space Event space in the center and surrounnded by kitchen, toilet and dinning space < 12 3 >2.Configuration- Exibition space Series of spaces layed one after the other to cerate the sense of linear exibition 3.Explodes Axo Showing different layers of materials used >

Artist Residency | Faizan Khatri

RESOURCES, FLOWS AND SYSTEMS

The project works around the idea of environment as ecology and tries to develop the capacity to engage with and develop alternative imaginations and spatial configurations of the build and the unbuilt that address questions of harvesting, consuming and managing of environmental flows.The vegetative approach and ecological centrality brought in the floral and the landscape artists as a user group of the artist residency. The residency comprises multiple non-orthogonal buildings which are recessed from each other to create a flow of vegetation around them which eventually results in an experience of being in ecologically sound space, creating a capacity to imagine and locate architecture in the larger urban fabric. All the units are ground floored with varying heights to allow proper flow of wind. The exposed brick structure makes itself grounded to the earth. The crafted built environments tries to craft experiences of flows to create comfort conditions and that will create newer spatial logics of inhabitation.

Looking2.View from Inside to outside through a circular window. < 1.Plan at 2 m Showing the builtform along with the placement of each building << 2 3 545.Overall View Showing roofs at different levels from each other > >3&4. ExperienceViewsof scape

Increase in the developmental activities of the area near Sewri induced certain changes in the neighbouring ecologies of mangroves, birds, insects, etc. The site hosts a myriad of bird species including a large congregation of migratory birds from as far as the Arctic Circle and resident wetland birds which use the area both as a wintering ground and stopover. It is the habitat for mangroves, intertidal and underwater species of fishes, invertebrates like molluscs and worms, amphibians and insects.

Over the years, these edges transformed into embankments and industrial land causing loss of salt pans and hence the variety of flora and fauna which earlier thrived in the region. Moreover in 2020, reclamation activities caused the sea to narrow and form what we refer to as Mahul creek in the present day. The intent was to be able to emphasize the ground-water relationship in conjunction with the biodiversity which flourishes in peculiar habitat conditions.

Flora and Funa Identifying various flora and fauna near the creek and their interdependency.

Ravindra Punde, Sabaa Giradkar, Rhea Shah, Dipti Bhaindarkar

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS, GROUND & BUILT Sewri-MahulFORMCreek

In 1879, the island of Trombay was surrounded by thick growth of coconut and palm trees with fewer salt pans and paddy fields whereas the opposite edge was marked by numerous salt pans, paddy fields, Sewri fort and a chain of docks.

The tidal activities which help sustain the adjacent mudflats and the species which survive in the muddy ground. Mangroves form an integral part of this ecosystem which help prevent soil erosion by holding the particles with their roots. Mangrove roots are a very integral part of the ecosystem. They prove to be useful to the hundreds of species of other plants and animals that make their homes on or near them. Once the Asiatic Mangroves, found along the edge of the shoreline, have started to grow. The creatures take advantage of the mangrove root surfaces to settle in places where there is nothing else to hold onto. Once there, they can feast on the detritus carried in by the tides, the decomposing leaves of the mangrove trees, and the other animals that seek shelter among the roots.

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Flora and Funa Identifying various flora and fauna near the creek and their interdependency.

ENVIRONMENTAL THRESHOLDS

Environment is a set of interconnected networks which balance each other to maintain the rhythmic flows. Negotiating with the terrain and the flora and fauna around, the site is then imagined as a set of interconnections which flow into each other and hence creating an interdependent and coexisting space to generate new spatial priorities which would acknowledge the consequences on the environment by creating spaces where interactions are almost natural and come as a default with the experience of the space. The intent is to design a wet land observatory with an additional function to it. the building is kept lower and sparse to make it merge with the landscape around separated and connect back with a series of staircase and corridors. The building is placed in such a way that it starts from the highest level and slowly moves down towards the water encouraging people to know more about the environment they are living in The entrances being so dynamic allows the user to choose his own way of navigating through the space.

Wetland Conservatory Dipti Bhaindarkar

>2.Short Section Various levels of human interaction >1.Long interactivedifferentasGroundBuiltformSectionfollowsthemodulationwellasterracesatlevelsactsasspaces <<3.Plan at 9m Some interior and some of the terraces are seen due to the modulation in terrain. 21

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The site is located in Paithan near Aurangabad, it is surrounded by 2 roads, one on the west and other on the South East, this gives me 2 possibilities for entering to the site. I choose to place the structure towards the north so that the parking can be accommodated near the entrance. The main entrance is towards south west. BB’

SYSTEMS, DETAILS AND DRAWINGS

A predetermined programme of a museum was given to be built in 2500 sq m to articulate their spatial intent outlining the desired experience, movements, volumetric assembly and relationship between the inside spaces and the outside spaces and forces.

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Dnyanesh Madgavkara

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Textile Museum at Paithan |

Museums being a source of archival practice also plays a major role in preserving the experience of the person visiting it. In a museum each visitor sets up their own individual “agenda” when entering a museum space and experiencing it. The experience I want to create in a museum is to provide a space which allows one to have a visual connection with the other space in the museum and which would generate a sense of curiosity.

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The whole building coordinates in such a way that the central courtyard and the corridor becomes the main transition spaces. And the other spaces surrounds it. The entrance to the building is through an entrance foyer which further take you to a corridor space and a courtyard. There is also a ramp provided for differently abled people. The building is not identical on each of the floors somewhere it projects out where as some where it forms a terrace on that level. As you go higher the built mass decrease and the terrace increase creating a play of spaces. The open to sky courtyards become a viewing balcony on the other floors creating a visual connectivity. Each of the floor have toilet one above the other, so that it is easy to run services. The toilet is designed such that the toilet for specially abled people is placed outside the other toilets making it easily accessible.

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4. Toilet plan and sections Showing detailed toilet layout in plan and detailed

The relationship of force – geometry - material is the basis for explorations. The studies on objects that are conducted and analysed by the set of forces it operates on. The study and analysis of the objects have generated an understanding of geometry and force relationships.Considering all actions as a result of a very specific relationship of these three factors (Force - Geometry - Materials) to perform together as a system. The challenge was to make a model which was 1 m tall without the ues of any adhesive. The tension in the string is hence used to hold the paper and make it stand 1m high. Using various ways of interlocking were explored during the process of generating a model. interlocking is used to make the paper join without adhesive, >>1.Overall Physical model 1m Tall paper and string structure

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FORCE, GEOMETRY AND MATERIAL Technology Module |

Dushyant Asher

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1.Ferrocement Structctre (1:1 Scale)

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3.Form Exploration

Chicken mesh layed on a wooden framework to form a dome shaped structure and the mix of cement, sand and water was prepared which was coated on the mesh making it a firm structure after drying. The wooden framework was then removes carefully to get a stand alone structure.

a material which is easy to cut and can take up various forms.

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2. Material UnderstandingExplorationStryrofoamas

While working with free flowing forms, openings and the curves make a huge difference in creating the experience of the space. The roof form was explored with the help of steel mesh and layered up with humans to work with the scale

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weave used in generating various forms .The 3 dimensionality of the form it takes after weaving through techniques like crochet , hand weaving, and scoobie. Observation of how the type of weave changes the language of the fibre.

<5. Foot Model (1:1 Scale)

<4.Body support Our body aquires certain position when it is in comfort, taking the position of comfort ahed and designing a body support which exacty affords this postures.

To understand form and decode it by principles of mathematics, geometry and proportion. Methods to analyse and decode the form of a foot by techniques of tesselation, contouring, meshing, aggregation, interlocking.

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<7. UsePostcardofvarious swatches on a postcard <8. A PatternsBoxcombined in a box and exaggerate the box with the use of background. >9. DissectTypographytypography into its building blocks, and create fun patterns with type that can translate into a myriad of products and draw inspiration from your surroundings and create systems & structures with it. >10.Flowers and the Overlaps An ideal life in gardens full of flowers and overlping leaves and other ecologies evoke a sense of soft hearted, joyful, kind and we enjoy it when it comes togrther. 7 8 9 10

For a person living in a rented appartment with their friends changes their lifes. People affect each others’s everyday and become a part of the everyday routine. and moments like this captures those times.

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Moments of Everyday

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