Architectural Undergraduate Portfolio

UNDERGRADUATE ARCHITECTURAL Punarva Praveen

PUNARVA PRAVEEN

+91 - 8618294342

2019_punarva.p@wcfa.ac.in

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#188, ‘Arunodaya’, 3rd main, 3rd cross, Vinayaka layout, Myderahalli, Bengaluru

5600 90

English

Kannada

Hindi Education

Sri Vani Education Centre, Bangalore

2005 - 2013

The Regency Public School, Bangalore

2013 - 2017

St Claret PU College, Bangalore

2017 - 2019

Wadiyar Centre For Architecture, Mysuru

2019 - present

EXPERIENCE

Treasurer, Student Council 2021 - 2022

Advisory Board, Student Council 2022 - 2023

Tour Organizer | College Study Tours 2021 - 2023

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Drafting/Modelling

Autodesk AutoCad

Autodesk Revit

Sketchup

Analysis

Google Earth Pro

Insight for Revit

Post Production

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign

Microsoft Office Suite

Rendering

Enscape

V ray

ARCHITECTURAL COMPETENCE

Diagramming

Layouts

Graphic design

Documentation

Sketching

Hand drafting

Model making

CONTENTS

01. People’s Plaza

Urban Insert | Madikeri Semester 08

Studio Guide : Prof. Nelson Pais

02. Weaver’s Nest

Sustainable Architecture | Kanchipuram Semester 07

Studio Guide : Prof. Prashanth Pole

03. The Modular School

Institution Design | Nasik

Semester 06

Studio Guide : Prof. Ryan Thomas Asst. Prof. Akash Rai

04. The Walled Library

Public Architecture | Srirangapatna Semester 05

Studio Guide : Prof. Kiran Kumar

05. Working Drawings

Semester 05 - 06

Studio Guide : Prof. SG Srinivas

07. Measure Drawing and Documentation

Srirangapatna Margosa House | Mysore

PEOPLE’S PLAZA

Urban Insert | Madikeri Semester 08

STUDIO GUIDES

Prof. Nelson Pais

Prof. Prashant Pole

Prof. Anand Chalawadi

Prof. Ryan Thomas

Asst. Prof. Shreyas Baindur

The studio brief was to design an urban insert in the context of Madikeri. Each group of five students selected one of the eight sites and collaboratively came up with a common vision that aligned with the unique context of Madikeri.

Individually , all the design programs were tailored to suit the chosen site, while maintaining the shared vision, and all of them were stitched together to form one master plan.

On a masterplan level, common aspects such as road, drainage were fixed upon by the group.

Project Brief : Veteran’s Association and Public Library

Site Area : 4000 sqm

Location : Madikeri

Kodagu derives an important aspect of its identity from its participation in the Armed Forces. But how much of this “identity” is experienced by the locals, let alone the tourists?

That is one of the many examples as a precursor to: How much of this identity have we “HEARD” or “SEEN”?

Parameters like history, community, landscape, food, culture, sports, occupations, building typologies and tourism are used to seek out the perceived identity of Madikeri.

Regarding both the floating population and the locals, how many occasions can we create for people to experience the Kodova Identity?

Further, finding the balance between work, living and leisure would connect the eight sites.

For example, if one site has ‘work’ and ‘leisure,’ it borrows the ‘living’ from the site beside. While it provides a way to interlink the sites, it also provides flexibility in associating programs.

The spaces created- or rejuvenated- intend to let the city breathe and exist with its own life. And those who get a chance to witness this should be considered lucky.

The town becomes the stage, and the peopleits audience.

DESIGN

Parking

Pedestrian Walkway Driveway Tram line

Pedestrian footway Tram stop

Diagrams showing vision of the masterplan

The site had an important marker which marks the entry to the town of Madikeri. Although now non-functional, this building still acts like a point of reference to the people of the town. Considering this, the idea of repurposing the building with another function to make the space more familiar to the locals, came about.

The Town Hall now hosts a public library, keeping the structure of the built intact, connected by the Veteran’s Association and Army Museum on its sides.

The front public plaza holds seating and allows people to gather and interact as the town’s main plaza. Being the first junction of the town entering from Mysore-Bangalore and hosting important meetings, the idea was to not overpower the other buildings with the Town Hall. The buildings on either sides have been pushed down so that the identity of the town hall is not lost and is still dominant enough.

LEGEND

01. Veteran’s Museum 02. Connecting courts

03. Existing Town Hall converted to public library

04. Outdoor reading spaace 05. Tram station seating 06. Outdoor seating 07. Plaza

08. Viewpoint 09. Existing Field Marshal Kariappa’s statue 10. Edge seating 11. Water kiosk

12. Connecting bridge

Section CC’

Section BB’

Section AA’

WEAVER’S NEST

Sustainable Architecture | Kanchipuram Semester 07

STUDIO GUIDES

Prof. Anand Krishnamurthy

Prof. Prashanth Pole

Asst. Prof. Surendran Aalone

Prof. Shruthie Shah

Asst. Prof. Asijit Khan

The intent of the semester is to understand the word ‘sustainability’ and its essence when it comes to architecture. This studio’s focus calls for an industrial building and will explore three variables ;

human comfort, climate responsiveness and resource efficiency.

The larger idea is to use the idea of sustainability with respect to the fabric of the city and the craft/ skill.

The client is a group of like-minded people who have come together to set up a cooperative for weaving. The cooperative wants to set up a production and experience centre to promote themselves and improve their work culture.

Project Brief : Silk Weaving Industry and Experience Centre

Site Area : 11,000 sqm

(5000 sqm Buildable area)

Location : Kanchipuram

The studio idea was to use simple design techniques to make a building with a scale of an industry sustainable. Other parameters included handling sustainability at a community and craft level, to promote the art of weaving. Design decisions were made to bring a balance between performance based architecture and design itself.

The intent was to make the process of weaving as transparent as possible, allowing it to interact with the community and city that it grows in, breaking the notion of industry working in the absence of a community.

Parameters looked at :

01. Rainwater Collection : The existing contour allows to create a microclimate which in return can be used to collect rainwater

02. Landscape : Native trees and plants are planted on the setbacks, using them as a layer of shading as well as using the raw materials from trees for the process of weaving

03. Waste water treatment

04. Solar Energy : Using solar panels to cut down the electricity used within the industry.

LANDSCAPING

4-5m trees on the east facade

10-12m trees on the west facade

Species being planted:

1. Myro Balan

2. Palmyrah

3. Moringa

4. Pink Cedar

Summer Solistice

Timber Truss

Lime Plaster

Weaving

Filler Slab with Clay pot as filler

CSEB Blocks Vents to allow hot air to pass

Red Oxide Flooring

Construction Waste as Backfill

Rammed earth foundation

Design space

Extension of the roof as overhang Screen Potted Plants

Bottom Vents to allow easier air flow

WEST FACADE Retail

Dyeing space

View from inside of weaving space

View from inside of retail store

View from drying space

THE MODULAR SCHOOL

Institution Design | Nasik Semester 06

STUDIO GUIDES

Prof. S G Srinivas

Asst. Prof. Kavana Kumar

Prof. Ryan Thomas

Asst. Prof. Akash Rai

Asst. Prof. Surendran Aalone

Prof. Kiran Kumar

The brief is to understand the functionality of an alternative education system and design a school catering to the same. The school consists of primary and secondary education, along with programs that can be added based on the individual interpretation.

The main aspect is to look at how different an alternative education school works, and how spaces have a role in this.

Project Brief : School for Alternative Education

Site Area : 5000 sqm

Location : Nasik

The intent of the classroom design was to make it less of an enclosure and more of an experimental space, where it could spill over beyond the boundaries created. Hence the walls starts to dimish and more porous vertical members such as screens are included.

A module of a classroom was created and was duplicated across all floors. The academic culture of an alternative education school is mainly defined by the curriculum that is followed. The idea was to explore possibilities of how this culture could be merged with space making. Every classroom opening up to outdoor spaces, freeing up the enclosure, common spaces allowing students to interact with each other, and classrooms allowed the possibility of being used in one/multiple ways.

Module of a Primary Classroom

MODULE VARIATION

Creating a base

Activating circulation spaces

An outdoor extension to every classroom

Plinth Modulation

Creating a volume

Breaking up the walls to open up the space

Adding screens to allow movement

Extending the classroom boundary

Blurring the boundary

THE WALLED LIBRARY

Public Library | Srirangapatna Semester 05

STUDIO GUIDES

Prof. Anand Krishnamurthy

Asst. Prof. Akash Rai

Prof. Kiran Kumar

Asst. Prof. Shreyas Baindur

Asst. Prof. Asijit Khan

Re-interpreting the Canon

“Rather than starting from scratch, students develop their ideas in dialogue with another author by first closely modeling with a building. They continue to make copies and deviations at another scale, on a new site and a different program, to gradually arrive at an independent position.”

The starting point of the design to analyse an existing building thoroughly, understanding spaces and then picking up elements, implementing them in a different context and program.

Project Brief : Public Library

Site Area : 4000 sqm

Location : Srirangapatna

The start of the design was to analyse the Town House by Grafton architects, to understand spaces and their functions in detail. A similar dialogue was applied on a different context with a completely different program. The idea of representation was a series of diagrams to show the transformation of ideas from the start till the end.

The program included a public library for the town of Srirangapatna, located in the moslty dense part of the town. The user group included people across all ages. Programs other than the library was left as a choice to be decided upon based on individual design approach.

The concept was to have vertical elements, which breaks into fragments of programs which is later stitched into by the circulation. Walls behave as a physical barrier and a divider of programs, and behaves as a datum across the length of the building.

City Context Vicinity Map Site Context

Connecting each module

The walls were initially sequenced at equal intervals creating a rhythm, which can further be broken down by the circulation and/or the function.

The same set of walls were further fragmented to create street-like spaces within the boundary of the site, which in turn makes it permeable.

Basic Configuration Replicating the basic module Fragmentation

A’ B’

Precedent Study

TOWN HOUSE

by Grafton Architects

Analysis of TOWN HOUSE

Colonnaded Space

Town House is placed in the Kingston University of London. This matrix of interlocking spaces was created in order to encouraging and innovative informal learning centre for the university. The architects have tried to break the rigid closed environment in a university into a more fluid like space.

Intersecting Volumes

Order and Chaos

Analysis of Town House

Idea exploration through models

Iteration 01

The private function was raised, to create the difference of a change in function.

Iteration 03

The fragments of the library are connected by the circulation, which breaks through the walls, making the circulation, a stitching factor.

The space is made permeable, in a way where one does not necessarily have to enter the library to be a part of the public space.

Iteration 02

The private function (library) was lifted off the ground plane, making it a mezzanine.

Schematic section

The eastern facade, because of the advantage of good amount of sunlight, is mostly provided with openable windows. Carrels face the eastern side and hence each study table has been given adjustable windows to ensure better sunlight and more privacy.

SECTION CC’

SECTION DD’

WORKING DRAWINGS

GENERAL NOTES

GENERAL NOTES

Plan of Block B

Section AA’

GENERAL NOTES

Toilet drawings

INTERIOR DESIGN Semester 7

Project Brief

To redesign college exhibition space, lobby area and pantry.

Location : WCFA

ACCENTUATION

The existing spaces divided the lobby and exhibition making it two different spaces altogether. By breaking the rigidity of these two spaces, the circulation became more fluid.

Existing wall

Adding elements to the wall

Adding accents Like furniture and light to give signi cance to the wall

Adding accents like furniture and light to give significance to the wall

Adding elements to the wall

Existing wall

lobby

exhibition space

pantry

lobby

exhibition space

pantry

Metal Etching showing timeline of college

Metal space for future addition

Textured wall

The showcase wall - Exhibition space

MOODBOARD

The idea is to highlight the exhibition space the way it is using colours and materials that coincides with the colourpalette of the context. An attempt to use simple aesthetics with minimally designed furnitures, all of which is accentuated mostly with light and materials.

White Diamond Cement Grey Warm Light Light Wood

Exhibition space

: Nishitha B S , Shivani

Elevation of the door

Elevation of the exhibit panels

View of the exhibition space

Lobby Space

Pantry

View of the lobby

Wall holding

View of the pantry

In collaboration with : Nishitha B S , Shivani R

MEASURE DRAWING AND DOCUMENTATION

Semester 05 - Srirangapatna

Documentation credits : Batch 2019, WCFA

The intent was to understand the fabric of the town of Srirangapatna, to know how ‘publicness’ worked at a town scale. Streets, houses and important monuments were documented as a part of the semester’s curriculum.

The goal was to draw a relation between people, culture and the history of the place.

Street elevation

MEASURE DRAWING AND

Semester 04 - Margosa house

Margosa house is an old traditional house in the city of Mysore, which has used traditional materials and techniques, which exists till date. The idea was to understand the working of traditional techniques along with documenting an existing house. The name of the house comes from the huge iconic margosa tree that is present in the front yard of the house, which gives the place its identity.

Semester 03

Assignment Brief

The assignment was to pick a building and analyse it with the idea of the core element/attribute. Diagrams were chosen as a way to present the concept that was prominant in the project.

A short note explaining how the chosen attribute defines itself in the project.

The museum consists of 65 units including both solids and voids.Each unit (6m×6m) is a repetition of itself and there is a subtle transition in terms of enclosure.The simplicity of every unit is derived from the life of Mahatma Gandhi.Correa has established a grid and each unit is in relation with the outermost grid. The units are clustered into something approaching a village.The interior spaces of the window-less museum spills out into open-to-sky courtyards.The layout plan is an ordered organisation of the experiential movement through the open and semi open spaces.

Analysis

Sabarmati Ashram by Charles Correa is one of projects whose basic structure is formed by a grid. Correa plays with the order of the grids to create different forms of enclosures.

2D Diagram

3D Diagram

Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya Ahmedabad, Gujarat Charles Correa Order

Take your pick at an edifice or public space of pivotal importance and suggest how a design intervention can help encourage public interaction and conversations.

The Jaganmohan Palace was built as accommodation for the Wodeyars of Mysuru in the traditional hindu style in 1861. The monumental facade of the palace is hidden from the street behind the canopies of trees .To enhance the experience of discovery and also to formalize the visitor entry, we designed an installation that slows people down and promotes interaction.

In collaboration with : Anish Bhargav , Rushil Jain

The installation was designed in steel to contrast with the visually heavy facade of the palace. A solid wall of concrete was added in between the facade and the installation to act as a backdrop for the installation while also providing a vantage point to view the intricate details of the main facade.

The symmetrical order of the facade was analyzed and broken down into grids which were reappropriated as the structural grid for the installation. The use of grids allowed for the development of three dimensional modules that could be used either as a pause point, a stop point or a play/circulatory space.

Breaking down the facade of the Jaganmohan Palace into grids

Multiplying and reflecting a part of the grid

Breaking down the facade of the Jaganmohan Palace into grids

Multiplying and reflecting a part of the grid

Integrating the grid into the site