Rishi Shah Architectural Graduation portfolio 2020

A R C H I T E C T U R E

P O R T F O L I O

RISHI.N.SHAH

Telephone - +91-9909947374 Email Adress - rishishahn@gmail.com

“There’s a reason, architecture isn’t taught using textbooks”

Curriculum Vitae Education - GSHSEB - HSC : St.Kabir School, Naranpura, Ahmedabad (March 2010 - March 2012) - B.Arch : Institute of Design, Environment and Architecture, Indus University, Gujarat, India

Work Experience Student Editor (May 2016)

Publication - Building Dreams in Mud

Documentation of Workshop done with Center of Science for Villages, Wardha.

Rajesh Suthar Architects (Aug 2016 - Sep 2016)

Architectural projects - Kuldip Singh Vihol Residence, Gandhinagar - Prakash.Patel Party-Plot, Kudasan, Gandhinagar - Vraj-Gopi Greenz, Palodiya, Ahmedabad - Ratibhai Patel Residence, Pratham Bunglows

Internship - Thumbimpressions Collaborative (June 2017 - Nov 2017)

Architectural projects - Dhum Residence, Parle Point, Surat - Rupawal Farmhouse, Navsari - Vijay Vaidya Residence, Surat - Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna, Dang

The LOG STORY - Furniture designing - Drawings and execution

Conducted Worksop - Bamboo Workshop, S.A.L college, Ahmedabad

Related Study Projects 1. Ludia, Kutch, Gujarat

Documentation of local Houseform (Bhunga)

2. Himachal Pradesh

Documentation of settlements of Naddi and Bal village

3. Wardha, Nagpur

Learnt construction techniques used at Center of Science for Villages, Wardha Built 1:1 scale structure in college premises

4. Polo Forest, Gujarat

Study and documentation of temples and carving details

Skills

Workshops

Software

Hand skills

- Photography workshop

- Autocad

- Model making

- Teracota workshop

- Rhino

- Deployable strucutures workshop

- Sketchup

- Sketchup and 3D max

- Vray for Sketchup - Twin-motion - Adobe Photoshop

- Rammed-earth and CSEB workshop

- Adobe Indesign

Co-curricular activities

Languages

- Photography - Writing narratives - Poetry

- English - Hindi - Gujarati

Content

Urban Insert Studio - House form Typology Analysis - Mapping the City - Anganwadi Primary School, Jodhpur

Heritage Conservation Institute - Program Formulation - Site selection criteria - Form Evolution - Design Strategies

Research Thesis

Perception of scale in relation to Organization of spaces - Scope of study -Methodology - Analysis

Internship Work - Dhum residence, Surat - Rupawala farmhouse, Navsari - Furniture

Related Study Project - Building dreams in Mud - Documentation of settlements of Naddi and Bal

Material Exploration - Bamboo workshop - Rammed Earth and CSEB workshop - Stone

Urban Insert Studio

Houseform Typology Analysis Study here shows the understanding of different typologies of house forms in the old city of Jodhpur. This analysis was done as a part of a group project between three people. This study helped us understand what were the design strategies used in the earlier times, based on the material availability, context and other factors. This analysis also helped us understand how topology played a major factor affecting the design of these houses as some of them were situated on a steep slope.

Floor Plan

Envelop

Plinth

Stairs

Courtyard

Openings

Terrace

Mapping The City Jodhpur as a city is filled with cultural heritage. As a result, major economy of the city is based on tourism till the present date.

These extensive mapping exercises were carried out by our whole batch in order to understand the spread of urban fabric of the old city of Jodhpur. This included an understanding of building use, street connections, the interdependency of heritage buildings and residential fabric, the terrace connections in such a steal topology of the fabric, the relation between the public open spaces and the built fabric. etc

Street Street connections intersections

Open space usage map

Building Heights map

Open space analysis map

Building Use map

Nolli’s plan

Anganwadi Primary School, Jodhpur

Site Justification There are three major public open spaces around the site, but no open spaces where children in the area can play. The open space of the Anganwadi can cater to these children as a play area.

GOLNADDI LAKE

Due to the existence of maximum residential area in the context, children attending the Anganwadi can come from the nearby area of the school itself.

The interdependency between Gulabsagar lake and Golnadi lake diverts maximum vehicular movement on the primary street. Secondary and tertiary streets connecting adjacent to the site are used just for pedestrian movement, which makes the site safer for children.

There are several cul-de-sac conditions on both sides of the site. As Anganwadi can be accessed from both primary and tertiary street, these cul-desac conditions increase the flow of pedestrians from the school.

Legend Cal-de-sac conditions Public open spaces

Pedestrian movement Vehicular movement

Site

Process

Concept -1

Concept -2

Concept -3

GULABSAGAR LAKE

Design Sratagies The design here is formulated keeping in mind the playful nature of children attending the Anganwadi. Hence the stairs, ramps and the overall circulation of the Anganwadi has been designed in such a way that remains as vague and playful as possible. But it has also been kept in mind that a person does not have to climb more amount of stairs.

The most important aspect of the city, ie. the organic nature of its urban fabric which is the resultant of the topology of the city, has been incorporated in the design.

Hence the levels here are dealt with, in such a manner that no two classrooms or spaces have been kept at the same level except for the services of the building.

Apart from the organic nature, one more factor that is affected the most by its topology is the grain size of the individual buildings in the context of Anganwadi.

Here the Anganwadi has been designed in such a way that each of the classrooms is an individual space in itself and none of them is adjacent to each other.

Class- 3B Play Area LVL +5700

The immediate context of the site is the residential buildings.

Because of this, the narrow site does not offer the opportunity to create a sufficiently large area for the children to play. Hence the classrooms have been designed in such a way that each of the classrooms open up to its play area, for children to play.

Class-3B LVL +5700

Class- 3A Play Area LVL +5100

Class-3A LVL +6000

Class-4A LVL +5400

Class- 1B Play Area LVL +3000

Class-1B LVL +3000

Class-1A LVL +2400 Boys toilet LVL +3000 Girls toilet LVL +3000 Class- 1A Play Area LVL +3300

Class-2A LVL +3750

Class- 2B Play Area LVL +2400

Class-2B LVL +2700

Administration Office LVL +300

Principal Cabin LVL +300 Junior Kindergarnden LVL -300

Boys toilet LVL +600

Girls toilet LVL +600 Senior K.G Play Area LVL +00

Senior Kindergarnden LVL +00

Staff Room LVL -300

Assembly Area LVL -1200

Heritage Conservation Institute

Heritage Conservation Institute, Jodhpur

Heritage Walk Route

Section Model -Site -Heritage buildings

Jodhpur as a city is filled with rich cultural heritage and regional art. Also, a substantial part of its economy is run by its tourism. But even though Jodhpur runs much on its tourism, there are no efforts taken by either the ASI or INTACH. To conserve the identified heritage buildings and give them an active function, the Heritage Conservation Institute has been proposed. In the current scenario, these heritage buildings are given no importance and have become the residual part of the urban fabric, which is destroying the buildings and the social hygiene of the city.

This institute here would take the charge of cleaning maintaining and conserving these heritage buildings, which would in return improve the economy and hygiene of the city.

-Heritage walk route

Materials used - Rammed earth - Exposed brick and concrete

Program Formulation Library storage-30 m2 Lightwells incorporated to reduce direct sun-light in the building because of extremely hot climate

Services120 m2 Users-35

Workspace-50 m2 Users-22

Exhibition storage-40 m2

Workshop and lab-200m2 Users - 30

Storage120 m2

Workshop storage-50 m2

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Cafeteria-60 m Users - 30

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Administration-60 m2 Users-12

Pesentation area-35 m2 Users-21

Exhibition-100 m2 Users-30

Library-120 m2 Users-30 Level difference given to further differentiate them as two completely different buildings

Site Selection Criteria

A. Requirement of site1. Extrovert nature - Served by busy street on north side. 2. Introvert nature - Served by the dead walls of hospital, Mahila baug jhalrah and the adjacent commercial building.

B. The participants can work hands-on on the nearby built heritage to learn the conservation techniques.

C. The existence of major commercial edge on site creates a larger grain size for the site to respond.

Form Evolution

Design Sratagies 1. No level difference or threshold has been used to mark the boundary of the building. As a result of this, the street in the building which is leading to the jhalrah naturally becomes part of the surrounding street network.

Consider whole building as a singular mass.

Extending the street through the building, resulting in dividing it into two parts.

Giving a central expand the street.

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Keeping the street width same throughout, to maintain its character, making the street entrance wider.

Keeping the connections between the two buildings minimum.

Existing blank walls shared by the site.

Introducing light shafts to have diffused light inside building throughout the day.

Keeping the walls facing the primary street blank.

2. The street going from within the building leads directly to the jhalrah. And because of this narrow scale of the street, the scale of jhalrah is enhanced to a major extent which acts as an element of surprise for the visitor as well as for the local people.

3. As the inner street becoming the part of the street network, the building gets visually divided into two blocks.

Here two different materials have been used to make the building fit in the smaller grain size of the surrounding fabric.

Research Thesis

Perception of scale in relation to organization of spaces In the case of Gandhi Labour Institute

Scope of Study Abstract Every space has a certain kind of experience to offer, this experience might be planned by the architect or it could be just the resultant of the built environment. Though experience is a subjective thing, there is always an opportunity created by a space, to experience it in a certain manner.

Here the study aims at analysing, how the spatial organization of a built form can affect the visual perception of scale of individual spaces.

Although each space individually has certain scale of itself, but this scale might completely change when another space is brought adjacent to it. Hence arrangment of spaces plays a major role.

There are three spaces selected in the case study and two different paths leading to each space. Further the results obtained from analysis , have been compared to observe the changes in the perception.

1.8 m

2.3 m

As we can see here. Though size of human in both the figures is same, scale of the door in fig-2 is extremely dominant, which makes human in fig-2 appear to be smaller in size than the human in fig-1

Fig - 1

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3.2 m

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Fig - 2

Methodology Aim

To understand how sequence of spaces helps in perceiving scale in a builtform.

Decode the role of scale in the formation of spaces in a built form.

Objective

To understand the effects of built elements on the judgement of scale. ` Find out the relation between the sequence of spaces and judgement of scale.

What is scale in relation to architecture Ways to perceive Scale

Literature Study

Gestalt’s laws of visual perception Relation of movement pattern and scale Form

Analysis

Focus

Approach/entry to the building Treatment of fragments in overall form Cone of Vision Relation of foreground and background Depth

Parameters Axis

Sequence

Visual character and proximity

Approach/entry to space The orientation of the space Relation of part to part Relation of part to whole Size, position and distance of a spatial element from the viewer Relative value and absolute value of spatial elements

Identification of Visual frames and movement pattern Analysis of Visual frames Comparing the analysis of the selected paths Observations Conclusion

Analysis Elements affecting the scale of Entrance Cone of vision Eye Level

Scale is perceived smaller because of the sequence incorporated by following factors – 1. The difference in plaster of vault and wall, also the termination of the vault is not on the edge of the wall; rather it is recessed in, separating the identity of wall and vault.

2. Doors and windows to the auditorium and seminar hall are pushed inside.

3. Semi-open space before the entrance door.

4. Provision of skylight to the seminar hall.

Transition form open space to closed space

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- In the above frame, the scale of the vault above entrance foyer is perceived to be relatively small because of the dominance of other elements around it.

- But when the spectator enters the foyer, the same vault suddenly feels very huge, because of its blankness and approach to space.

Elements affecting the scale of Central court

The smaller scale of the court also adds to in the judgement of the scale of passage. This judgement of scale comes from the following factors – 1. Horizontal lines of groves in the wall.

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3. Recessed opening and pushed out balcony on the first floor in the foreground.

4. The floor is divided significantly using thick red lines, and the use of different flooring materials.

5. The scale of trees compared to the scale of space.

Difference in approach to Garden area Here in first section as spectator is approaching the space from same level, there is not much variation in perception of scale of the garden area. But in second section as a person goes from terrace to the garden, scale of horizontal surface of terrace acts as a factor of comparison to horizontal surface of garden area.

Internship work

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The residence has two blank walls of the immediate adjacent houses as its context, making intake of natural light a major challenge. Hence lightwells have been provided and front of the facade has been treated with heavy porosity to ensure that every space of house gets adequate natural light.

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Dhum Residence, Surat

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Rupawala Farmhouse, Navsari The Farmhouse here has a context of wideopen land. The materials used are rammed earth, steel and wattle and daub. As rammed earth is a modular material, the span in which its module is designed, is such that minimum amount of shuttering is used at the time of construction and the grooves in the elevation look symmetrical. In order to visually confine the closed spaces towards inside, light-courts have been incorporated in the design.

Floor Plan

Steel truss used as the roof support system Wattle and daub is used as a separator as to divide adjacent spaces under a single continuous roof.

Light wells introduced to have the indoor spaces use a minimum amount of artificial light throughout the day time

Bamboo canopy incorporated as a separator to create a buffer between the open and closed spaces A continuous shade roof system supported by a steel truss system is used to cover adjacent spaces

Colour shaded concrete used to match the colour scheme of the rammed earth walls.

Because of the lightwells provided to the primary spaces like the living room and bedroom, the spaces get isolated from the outside open spaces.

Here rammed earth is used through out the project, to re-use as much as soil extracted while digging the earth form foundation.

Furniture Journey of a chair.

Pannel here shows the process of evolution of a chair designed at the firm. The idea here is to represent all the minor and major changes that the design has gone through while keeping in mind factors such as member thickness, load-bearing capacity, aesthetics, proportions, comfort, etc.

Swing

The swing has been designed using the materials cane and thread. The visuals below show the weaving details of the thread

Center piece

Tables here have been designed keeping the reference given by the client. The structural details and the material were selected according to the size of the table and its weight in comparison to the overall set.

Dinning table The design of the dining table is such that minimum use of the material is done and to keep the members aesthetically as thin as possible. Here in the base, 18 mm thick solid steel bars have been used to achieve the curve with the help of a single rod on both sides of the table.

Section A-A’

Plan at LVL +50mm

Section B-B’

Detail - B

Plan at LVL +700mm

Detail - A Plan

Section

Here the curve has been designed in such a way that it can take sufficient load irrespective of the fact that there are no secondary supports to the steel rod.

The drawings show the details at the junctions and the corners. The plan has been cut at two levels to show how the steel rod gets curved.

Related Study Project

Building Dreams in Mud Hands-on workshop A winter programme that provided hands-on learning experience with the material and the technique of mud construction. After gaining a certain level of understanding on our visit to Wardha where the technique originated, we built a 1:1 scale structure on the college campus. Space is now used as an exhibition space for the campus.

China Mosaic

Mortar Layer

Guna Tiles

18mm Dia, 10ft long GI Pipe Centering Truss 9*13 inch Brick Pier 9*9*6 inch Concrete Block 9*9 inch Brick Pier 22*13*6 inch L-Shaped Brick Pier IPS Flooring

N.T.S

Process of Construction

1. Excavation

2. Brick Foundation

3. Plinth

4. Concrete blocks

5. Brick Piers

6. Lintel Band

7. Masonry chair

8. Temporary truss

9. Connecting the tursses

10. Laying of Guna tiles

11. Roof finishing

12. Mud Blocks

16. Mud Plaster

13. Mud Wall

14. Guna Jali

15. Window Detail

17. Pointing

Settlements of Naddi and Bal, Himachal Pradesh The settlements of Naddi and Bal near Mcloedganj in Himachal Pradesh were studied and documented as a part of the winter RSP. This study helped us understand how the topology, climate conditions and the availability of the materials can extremely affect the nature of the space in a region. The documentation was a group effort where each of us had to individually document a house and understand the lifestyle of the residents in order to understand the spatial characteristics of a space, and even though the houses were of similar sizes, the organization of spatial elements was completely different in each one.

House 1

House 2

Ground Floor Plan

First Floor plan

Ground Floor paln

First Floor plan

House 3

Ground floor plan

House 4

Ground floor plan

First floor plan

Material Exploration

Bamboo Workshop This workshop was conducted by Thumbimpressions Collaborative, in SAL college in Ahmedabad. I and a colleague from the firm had conducted and supervised the workshop onsite under the guidance of senior architects at the firm. The workshop was conducted in order to make the students understand the properties of bamboo such as spanning and how bamboo works compared to other materials. The structure here has just two supports and the further structure is cantilevered.

Foundation detail

The MS plates were already anchored to the concrete foundation beforehand to then support the bamboo columns.

MS supports were then welded to the MS plate in the base and then the bamboo columns were screwed to the MS supports.

Details and Joinary

Solid Bamboo joinery.

Reduction in the material to decrease the weight on the cantilever.

Solid bamboo connecting column to the bamboo jali.

Bamboo drilled and attached to a column to use as sitting.

Solid bamboo and hollow bamboo joinery.

Carved bamboo used for the bamboo jali behind the structure.

Detail of inclined members connected to the beam.

Solid bamboo connecting the column to the bamboo jali is then tied up to strengthen that junction.

Junctional detail of the bamboo column and the cantilevered horizontal bamboo.

Rammed Earth

This workshop was conducted in order to understand the construction of a rammed earth wall and to know its technical aspects. This wall was built in three segments in a sequential manner. The white band on the top was made by adding lime to the mixture. Then it was covered by a layer of cement concrete to finish it at the end.

After the ramming of the wall is done in the upper part, the lower shuttering is removed.

After ramming, the course is tested using a penetrometer.

The shuttering was fixed using wooden planks on both sides of the wall.

Edge of the wall is kept chamfered so that it does not crumble after construction.

Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks Process of making

Exploration

After understanding the process of making a CSEB block, we had done experiments with it. We mixed different colours of oxides and lime in the original mixture resulting in some unique and interesting patterns in these CSEB blocks 5. Pushing the block out of the mould.

1. Filling the mixture in the mould.

3. Pushing down the handle to compress the mixture.

2. Detaching latch of handle from compressor.

4. Opening the lead after compression

6. Testing its strength using a penetrometer.

Stone

This studio focused on material exploration and selecting a singular material to understand how it behaves under different scenarios when used as a construction material. Here Stone is selected as a material for exploration. After having an overall understanding of the material, I had then designed an exploration centre with the repetition of the modules.

Junction detail

Module repeatation

Junctional detail of the columns and beams.

The module here can be repeated to achieve multiple levels in a single space.

The modules are designed such that they can be repeated multiple times and used to create multi-functional spaces.

The repetition has been done in such a way that the whole space can be designed using just three modules of stone.