GRADUATE ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO - RIYA CHAUDHARY

GRADUATE ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO

RIYA CHAUDHARY

RIYA CHAUDHARY

15/09/1999 INDIAN +91 8238043146 archiriya15@gmail.com archiriya15@gmail.com

I’ve always researched the architects who are reshaping our civilizations and the future of the planet, but what most inspires me is their dedication to their vocation. We may all be skilled builders of magnificent Rhino constructions on the ground, but are we really architects? I have a tremendous desire to learn new things, but I also have a strong want to use my job to help other people. I’ll make an effort to never lose my grounding in any subject I study or action I take. I’ve learned by being a student and being exposed to more people, ideas, and technology that we have the power to create and destroy, and that it is up to us to choose what we want to do with the power.

Acknowlegments:

- RECOGNIZED BY MINOR DEGREE IN URBAN DESIGN I 2020 I

- CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION BY NATIONAL SERVICES OF INDIA FOR SOCIAL WORK IN DANDI CITY I 20218 I

- CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION BY RAJYASH FOUNDATION FOR BUILDING LABOUR KIDS SCHOOL I 2021 I

- RESEARCH AND DESIGN THESIS PRESENTED AT COA MEET I 2022 I

MY TRAVEL

BARCELONA MADRID BILBAO SALAMANCA TOLEDO SINGAPORE MALAYSIA THAILAND

EDUCATION :

- NIRMA UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING (2017-20122)

- SHANTI ASIATIC SCHOOL, AHMMEDABAD (2013- 2017)

- SHREE NARAYAN GURU VIDHYYALAYA, AHMEDABAD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE :

- RATHIN GHOGHARI ARCHITECTS I INTERNSHIP - 6 MONTHS - 2021 I

Involved in Designing, drafting, 3D making and Client handling with equal site visits to foreign states. Involved in one of the major projects Ahmedabad International school

- DESIGN CONSULTANT AT KESARAJAN I 2022 I

Involved in Planning, Designing the holistic layoutting of the Kesarjan Factory situated at the outskirts of Ahmedabad. Works include the designing of workshop, manufacturing and entrance area with sustainable touch.

- LABOUR KID’S SCHOOL FOR RAJYASH FOUNDATION I 2022 I

Designed, planned and executed the labour kid’s school for the Rajyash foundation involving the use of site waste as the main material source with economically viable budget.

WORKSHOPS :

- LAURIE BAKER WORKSHOP, KERELA I 2019 I

- DESIGN BUILD BY JASON GRIFFITS, NIRMA UNIVERSITY I 2020 I

- MATRYOSHKA BY DR. LAURENT LESCOPE , NIRMA UNIVERSITY I VR I 2022 I

COMPETETIONS :

- HOUSE OF SANTA BY VOLUME ZERO I 2018 I

- POST PANDEMIC ARCHITECTURE BY INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE I 2020 I

- DESIGNING FOR LABOUR COLONY BY NASA I 2021 I

THAILAND MACAU SCHENZEN SCHENZEN BALI NEPAL PONDICHERRY MADURAI

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2. LABOUR KIDS SCHOOL

Fractal geometry is a design that iterates to infinity and it is widely observed in Indian temples. Here, the geomerty is explored to create tiniest of according to modifications in volumes and scales. It can take up any function, be it a Cafe or a Bar or a Resturant.

Further furnitures with complex geometry are explored to create a 3d printing object.

NATURE I Architectural graphic studio I Sem 4 I

SITE I Hypothetical I

TYPE I Group of 2 I

FACULTY I Neerav Mistry and Arpi Maheshwari I

SOFTWARES USED I Rhino I

KEY-WORDS I Form iterations I Sensorial experiences I Distroted reality I

Form interations Sensorial

1

FORM PROGRESSION

DIVISON ADDITION

Complex concret geometry for chairs paired up with a smooth round tabble for people to sit and have drinks in the bar.

2. ROLL ON CHAIR

The idea of the roll on chair is basically the twisted concrete layers lofted together to form a pile of solid bunch.

3. THE SIT - DRINK - GO

The go-to-comfy idea of Sit- Drink- Go dervives from comfortable sitting in the bars to introduced light lounge areas.

Looking at the wider view, things plunges to tiniest bit of spaces to again stand by enlarging and exploding to original form. This keeps going on untill the required form generates. This can be any function.

South Bopal and North Bopal are on the verge of expansion with major housing and mixed-use projects.

The competetion entry for NASA body of Architects India consisted of brief to design Labour colony from on site construction waste and low cost at the same time.

The labourers on the site come from different states which include Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan. They come from families which usually have 1 to 6 people in them. It was then implemented on site for Rajyash Foundation in the Ahmedabad.

NATURE I Architectural competetion I Nasa I

SITE I TRP mall, Bopal, Ahmedabad I

AREA I 60sqmt I

TYPE 1 I Group of 7 I Competetion enty I

TYPE 2 I Group of 3 I Labour kids School I

FACULTY I JITENDRA MEGHANI AND ANKIT KUMAR I

KEY- WORDS I Re- Use I Best from Waste I Incremental I

2 LABOUR KIDS SCHOOL

Re-

FROM COMPETETION TO REALITY

South Bopal and North Bopal are on the verge of expansion with major housing and mixed-use projects. The growth of the area has been ever expanding. After recently being included under the Ahmedabad municipal Corporation (AMC) Bopal has seen a sudden surge of population for affordable and high-end housing. The site is situated in the heart of Bopal in TRP (The retail park) developed as a large commercial complex with 1,100,000 sq.ft built.

INCREMENTAL STIMULATIONS

The labour colony has been designed and planned keeping in mind the existing scenario of frameworrks of nonventilated dingy corridors to non open spaces.

Assembly of wall becomes important here as it is not designed but assembled from site waste.

Stimulations explore the structure and possibility of open spaces with future incrementation.

THE VIEW

Stage 1 : Main structural framework

II III

Stage 2 : Keeping units as infill

Stage 3 : 1 structure: 2 units + corridor

The construction process includes step by step making of elements from framework, to structural windows. Windows were designed as central vertical pivots which acted as a playful 1 III

Stage 1 : Laying of Structural grid framework

Stage 3 : Laying of partitions

structural studs. Parallel work went under constructing partitions wihich has similar prototype for rotating playful element in the school with kids rolling it or sitting on the sill as a plinth

partitions and windows

Stage 5 : Laying pf outer structure and doors

Stage 6 : Sloping roof execution

THE TEAM

Collaborating with Rajyash and Saath foundation.

Team memebers: Riya Chaudhary , Nishargh Gajjar and Mansi jani

AIM : To assess the built form designed for deaf people through Deafspace design guidlines by drawing upon the sense of place as experienced by the disability.

WHAT IS DEAFSPACE?

Deaf Space is a space where Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals modify an environment to meet their specific needs (Johnson, 2010).It forms a Deaf Culture where one can use its f ull potential to communicate and to experience embodiment of the Space.

NATURE I Architectural Research thesis I

TYPE I Academic project I

GUIDE I Prof. Sneha Ramani I

KEY WORDS I DeafSpace Architecture I Sensory Reach I

DEAF, EMBODIMENT AND ARCHITECTURE

Sensory Reach Mobility and

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III

Sensory Reach Sensory Reach Mobility and

Corridor Legitibilty to landscape Corridor Legitibilty to outside

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4020

Play Area

I. Lunch and Play corridors

Corridor Legitibilty to outside

Open Transition Semi-Open Semi-Open Classes

Transverse section from corridor

Arrangment and distances Arrangment and distances

One major goal of DeafSpace is to facilitate freedom of movement for signers. A well-designed environment can minimize hazards and create surfaces and spaces that enable an easy flow of movement (Bauman, 2010). The risk of drifting or colliding accidentally with others is a major factor in designing spaces for deaf.

Conversational spot

II, Mobility in Corridors I FF I

Learning eddies

The visual connection between doors Open learning in pause points

and

Sensory Reach is defined by the interrelated systems of perception (i.e., hearing, seeing, smelling, feeling) that are used to understand and orient in space are collectively referred to as an individual’s Sensory Reach (Bauman, 2010). Deaf people develop other mechanisms to sense the world and to be placed in the surrounding context through various senses, which becomes an important part in designing for multi-sensory approach.

Architecture for Deaf and Mutes is a worldwide theory of studies being taken up by many Architects in the world. It involves the very basic sense of exploring the idea of what disabilities can bring to the pallet and how can we, as designers, work socially to address the problems of universality and embodiment in the space. But one important diversification that needs to be studied more is the different Cultural and Geographical contexts, which one needs to analyze to do justice to the DeafSpace of its own.

In the Indian context, a building resides multiple cultural and social encounters of Deaf kids with the space. Their unique way of being in the space is vastly different from the other kids around the world. To deep dive in for all what’s and why’s, one needs to understand the theory of Space Bubble by Edward Hall. The space bubble of the kid here is different from that of different geographical and cultural backgrounds. We tend to be more permeable in switching our bubbles from ours to others, hence the degree of interaction and intimacy affects the articulation of the built environment. Relationship with visual connectivities, signers, nature, light, and volume twigs to form a DeafSpace of our own. Guidelines are an excellent tool to analyze any cases around the world, but it still adds up to the diversification of places, which gives the local pallet to work with.

Embodied experiences of the deaf are deeply rooted in social encounters with others, whether it’s just a long queue standing waiting for food under a tree to sitting on the ground to eat with your fellow mates. Thus, the understanding of the diversification of places and culture and its direct impact on the built form must be the future portal of studies with designers and architects analyzing different embodied experiences of the deaf and using them to bring more vernacular touch to the worldwide DeafSpace Design Guidelines.

1. Change of Variables of Architectural elements of the corridor

Looking at both the case studies intimately, Flexibility in corridors has been drastically modifying itself from forming multiple Node encounters to small eddies to large pause points, which has been seen in as socially and functionally active spots.

2. Variables like Direct and Indirect light, Volume and arrangement of transitional elements of the room as a matter of sense of security and to be looked together.

The sense of security is often perceived by the way things are arrange and the volume of the space. Corridors transparent to natural light, doors placed at wider corridors enhances activities like playing and having lunch outside.

3. Changing variants w.r.t changing space bubbles of human activities of different locations.

The guidliness should add on to the understanding of vernacular context with basic set of variants which can differ from place to place.

Home for Elderly is not just a programmtic brief i was interested to work upon but to touch upon the sensitive aspects of what age brings in social drama of one’s life. Keeping in mind the universality of the design, ideas of social engagement was given the pivoted importance. Hence, the site selection lead to the regious and culturally rich context in nature, Somnath.

INSPIRATION: Social Architecture of old city Ahmedabad. Designed on a relegious land of Somnath pigrimage, this elerly homes targets 3 typologies of cluster including all couple and sharing units.

NATURE I Architectural Design thesis I

TYPE I Academic project I Individual I

SITE I Somnath I Gujarat I

AREA I 409000 sqft I

GUIDE I Prof. Vijay Patel and Dhaval Limbachiya I

KEY- WORDS I Traditions follows age I Pause -sit- go I Social connectivity I

4 AGEISM TO SOCIALISM

Traditions follows age Sensorial

HOME FOR ELDERLY

THE SITE : BILLI- VAN - 400 existing trees Originally the land was barren, but then they added black soil which made earth water absorbing.

The form of the cluster is to be explored for co-living with pedestrain street in the site. Cluster provides multiple opportunities of social engagement and recreation within the site premises getting a genre of old city Ahemdabad.

WHAT CAN WE DO?

Vision: The campus is the place for elders to dwell and, at the same time, interact with the outside world. The goal is to provide opportunities for social engagement with people from other parts of the world, interaction with nature, and being rooted in their roots.

HIERARCHY TO APPROACH

1. Programme development

2. Vision and Case studies

3. Survey forms for elderly and knowing their needs 4. Site visit to Somnath

5. Sketchs and peom

6. Master plan development

Stacking

0 10m 20m 30m

1.Entry 2.Open Exhibition 3.Parking 4.Service road 5 Natural vegetation spot 6.Social hall 7.Cluster type A 8.Cluster type B 9.Cluster type C 10.Staff quater 11.Open dining 12.Semi-open dining 13.Kitchen 14.Yoga hall 15.Open sports 16.Nursing quater 17.Admin quater 18. Pilgrim accomodation

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3D Plains - Accessibility

Pause points - Enalrging

Clusters are formed on the very idea of vernacularity and connectivity. Different modules were explored ranging from scale to volume to materail.

Cluster 1 : The couple units are the emalgamation of both personal and studio spaces where sharing houses with other people and at the same feel like home with rustic design and architecture.

traditional architectural designs of old Ahmedabad and not only makes the structure rich but creates a sense of connectedness to the roots of the city.

RUBBLE MASONARY PARAPET (350MM)

RCC BEAM (300MM)

RCC LINTEL BAND (100MM)

RCC SILL BAND (100MM)

RANDOM RUBBLE MASONARY (350MM)

Cluster 2 : The common sharing units is inspired from a typical old age units with services being shared mong a certain group of elerly. It helps one to be in the social group and share living with others.

I hear people not by their, voice but their silence.

Some painting their dreams, some reading shakespare or some bargaing to sell the world.

OASIS

The urban studio project marked the emphasis on inderstanding the Central Buiseness district area of Ahmedabad, that is the Ashram road and to propose the visionary urban design model intersection the Metro and Brts at the same time.

INSPIRATION: A butterfly who wanders in the desert and find an oasis. A city of oasis.

VISION: Reviving the ecosystem makes the space for all, co-existence becomes a lifestyle with Green Urbanization of the form.

NATURE I Architectural Urban studio I

TYPE I Academic project I Group of 4 I

SITE I Ashram road I Ahmedabad I

AREA I 64 hec sqft I

GUIDE I Prof. Shefali shrupali and Prof. Ankit KumarI

KEY- WORDS I Connecting nodes I Co-existing I City Oasis I

4 THE HYLINE PROJECT

Connecting nodes Co-

AN URBAN OASIS OF THE CITY

existing City Oasis

Ashram road is been identified as the CBD zone (Central Buiseness District) of Ahmedabad and it interesects the upcoming metro project with BRTS lane. Hence making it best for the public transport and connectivity. The nature of the site is old-fashioned architecture with neo building style from Claude Batley era in Ahmedabad.

FOOD LANDMARKS

STREET INFORMAL

OLD CITY

LANDMARKS

Urban form : Raanjhana (2013) Varanasi

Urban form : Raanjhana (2013) Varanasi

Urban form : Raanjhana (2013) Varanasi

INFORMAL VENDORS

INSPIRATION WALL

Films and media has been the center of inspiration to study urban fabric of certain cities through visual transparency and selecting specific movies that has sense of mark, character and urban element to inculcate further in the upcoming exercises in the urban studio.

Introducing an Aggregarian corridor

Aggregarian corridor is a strech of agriculture cultivated on an unused land mostly below metros or highways. The idea is to cultivate such corridor with protected fencing and other resources upto a strech of 10-15 km on a city scale to promote organic agriculture with independent communities.

Stage 1

INFORMAL VENDORS

PRELIMINARY IDEA

UNDERBRIDGE ACTIVITIES

SLUM RESIDENCIES

PRELIMINARY IDEA

The large part of transport network of the site was designed inspired from the rich surrounding context of metro and brt junction. The design was to connect metro station to BRT station through a walking hyline to promote more pedestrain and cycling network.

THE MASTER PLAN PROGRESSION

The floor plans were typically designed responding to the current site context as the building acts a gateway hub to the other part of the sit. The thrid floor is called the Hyline floor common to the group site acts as a pedestrain podium to connect everything.

SECOND FLOOR

FIRST FLOOR

GROUND FLOOR

RESPONSE TO AGREGARIAN CORRIDOR STREET RESPONSE

RESPONSE TO HYLINE

SIXTH FLOOR

RESPONSE TO BRIDGE BY A GATEWAY

FOURTH FLOOR HYLINE FLOOR

The building is divided into corporate offices, mixed used spaces and hotels at top floor. As the floor gets higher the carpet area reduces and the open spaces increases giving more public spaces of engagements at mid floors.

PATANG HOTEL ASHRAM ROAD BRTS STAND

To the cities that shines bright at night and blooms in the morning.

To the city that accomodates you without asking your caste, gender or finance.

1 I Architectural Journalism I Study of Etymologies of Ahmedabad I Journal Article I

NATURE I Studio Elective I

TYPE I Academic project I Individual I GUIDE I Prof. Supriya Pal I

2 I Methods of Documentation I Documenting ship construction of the Mandvi city I Book I

NATURE I Studio Elective I

TYPE I Academic project I Group of 8 I

GUIDE I Prof. Sujan Javeri and Prof. Jitesh Mewada I

3 I Construction and workshops I Actual projects I

NATURE I Studio and Workshops I

TYPE I Academic and voleentary works I Groups I

THE DOCUMENTATION WORKS

RSPs AND STUDIOS

HOUSE OF SANTA FOR VOLUME ZERO

LOFT THE OBJECT MODEL

1. STUDY OF ETYMOLOGY

#SOMETHINGS BEFORE SOME THINGS#

Yatin Pandya is an Architect, author, activist, academician, researcher as well as currently practicing architect of FOOTPRINTS E.A.R.T.H firm (Environmental Architecture Research Technology Housing) He has written number of articles in National and International Journals. Several books authored by him on architecture, especially “Concepts of space in traditional Indian architecture”, and “Elements of space making” has been published internationally.

- YATIN PANDYA

AHMEDABAD AS THE REFLECTION OF ITS ETYMOLOGIES - A CHAT WITH YATIN PANDYA

SHANTIDAS ZAVERI

2. What it ruling - Ahmedabad Islamic relationship. and purely - Ahmedabad because - People their 3. ETYMOLOGY THAT. AREA - The east - The period as - Establishment identity - ‘Gaekwad - The clock sees - The tionship

“Ahmedabad has been least characterized by its dynasties.”

KHUSHAL CHAND SHETH

COLONIAL PERIOD

Ahmedabad would

says Poles relationship. has been of time

# SOME THINGS BEFORE SOMETHINGS

AUTHOR : RIYA CHAUDHARY 4th YEAR ARCHITECTURE STUDENT

Some things happens before some - which is the loop of the study of the subject Etymologies . This paper talks about certain stories and facts related to the names of the areas and

Etymology is the study of the area names of a city or place. That leads to the understanding of a place in terms of its various backgrounds like Culture, Geography , Politics and Flora Faunna. But ever curious to know where and why such names comes from? Why was named in any particular suffixes or preffixes? Because this jouney of understanding will conect you to the dots you have never learn. The culture, the Geography, The plolitical set-up,

- ‘Kasbas’, an important form settlement dates back to time in the east of Sabarmati, where places like Asarva in the forms of small kasbas.

Architectural Journalism: The subject of enquiry and utilizing one’s democratic rights on the existing framework. This subject explored the idea of etymologies of Ahmedabad. This aims at studying and questioning the history of area names and how it evolved during the years.

The earliest trace of name Ahmedabad, is Asaval, which was the the land for the first communities named ‘Ashabhil’.

Traces of Astodia , which hilly area named ‘tekro’ existed.

The Asaval

rulers?

PICTURE By AHMEDABAD MIRRROR

LETS SEE NAMES AND DYNASTIES

The labour colony has been designed and planned keeping in mind the dors to non open

Assembly of wall becomes

OF MANDVI

the existing scenario of frameworrks of non - ventilated dingy corriopen spaces.

becomes important here as it

THE SHIP

STAGES OF SHIP CONSTRUCTION

The city of Mandvi is rich in its construction of dockyards and ships as it shares a large part of costline with the area. The group aimed at studying the methods of step by step construction along with their component names and documenting it for the future generation to protect the dying craft of ship construction.

Construction and workshops marks graduate studios. Some were compulsory self-voleentary. Construction happened 1. DESIGN BUILD

the core of the learning in undercompulsory electives and some were happened in a group between 3 to 6.

BUILD WORKSHOP

2. RAMMED EARTH BENCH

A rammed earth bench constructed in the courtyard of Architectural block of Nirma university and stands still date.

3. LAURY BAKER WORKSHOP

A brick arched construction to understand structural load transfer in Laury baker workshop, Tirruvandapuram.

4.ARCH FENESTRATION

SET DESIGN ....