Design Development

One grid along N-S direction to get maximum daylight and the other one along prevailing wind direction for adequate ventilation

Combining Grids

Promoting mutual shading by addition of taller blocks at south and south west and rest of the built being restrcited to ground floor.

Zoning and Massing

Having all the built spaces around ‘streets’ , providing an enhanced circulation for the visitors and staff.

Idea of conical roofs to accentaute the junctions and to bring in a different quality of light within the premise.

Structure Axonometric

Bamboo Primary Rafters

Bundle of 2 Bamboos of dia 75mm running parallelly to form a triangular space frame along with the beam

Rammmed Earth Wall 400mm thick rammed earth wall for better insulation

Bamboo Posts Bamboo posts inserted into a concrete layer holding two running rafters.

Bamboo Beam

Bundle of 3 Bamboos of dia 75mm extruding beyond the the wall.

Bamboo Diagonal Struts Diagonal members of dia 50mm is joined together with mero joints

Exploded Axonometric

Joinery Detail A

Joinery Detail B

Joinery Detail C

02. culinary school.

Institution design . Sem 6 .

Studio Guides:

Assoc. Prof. Surendran Aalone

Assoc. Prof. R Kiran Kumar

Prof. Ryan Thomas

Asst. Prof. Akash Rai

Prof. S G Srinivas

Asst. Prof. Kavana Kumar

The studio brief was to design a Culinary institute for a client who is from a third generation farming family. The fundamental idea was to design a cooking school from nature’s point of view. The institution is based on “ field to fork concept” and includes harvest, storage, processing, packaging , sale and consumption of the food grown on site. The stuidio also focused on relationship between Built (the institute) and Unbuilt (the farm)

Project Brief : Institutional Site Location : Gangapur Road, Nashik

Site Area : 8000 sq.m

Built Area : 4000 sq.m

Duration : 16 weeks

Case Study : Delft Montessori School - Herman Hertzberger

How can the evolution of grid become a device of disorder ?

Hertzberger describes “Classrooms as home” and hallway of the school as “extended learning street “ . That way classroom becomes a private space and hallway becomes public. The idea was to interlock these space and create more ‘ I and We’ spaces. Grids are the great way of organising space. Grids can be modulated in different ways like shearing , offsetting or breaking/dividing. These actions create interesting in between spaces . Further , repetition of breaking the grid, establishes a firm relationship between Public and Private spaces

Precedent Study - Delft Montessori School

Design Development

1. Positioning primary datum

2. Repetition of Datum

3. Shearing of Datum

4. Datum determining circulation

Skin Of The Building

DATUM here is two parallel walls, one being part of all the blocks itself and other becoming the skin of the building. The gap in between would accommoate services like corridor and staircases.

ZONING AND MASSING

1. Classifying all the program into Zones

2. Spreading all the blocks around the datum such that it creates in between spaces and pockets at different intervals. Also stretching the building

Block

Facade Structural Detail

I- Section

I-Section beams in between steel box sections to hold the brick facade

Beam

RCC Block accommodating various functional activities hold the RCC to the columns

RCC Column

RCC columns of 300mm *600mm at the interval of 5m ; for the structural system

Hidden Box sections (100mm * 100mm) to support the Brick facade

A clean Brick facade with adequate openings framing the view towards the farm and the immediete surrounding

First Floor Plan Culinary School Nashik, Maharashtra

Classroom Exploded View

03. student housing.

Housing Design . Sem 4 .

Studio Guides:

The studio brief was to design a housing complex for college students , facilitating them with both basic amenities and spatial requirements. The idea was to create an environment that would accomodate students of diverse fields and backgrounds, thus creating oppurtunities to learn, interact and share. The relationship between built, open and semi-open was also seen as a way to explore the concept of ‘Public and Private’ . These concepts along with a thorough study of the students’ lifestyle and the immediete context resulted in the culmination of this housing premise.

Project Brief : Housing

Site Location : Ramaswamy Circle, Mysore

Site Area : 3600sq.m

Built Area : 1600 sq.m

Duration : 16 weeks