THE CONVERSE

A mixed use commercial and residential building

TYPE : College academic project | Individual project

YEAR : 2021 | 3rd Yr of B.Arch LOCATION : Kolkata, West Bengal, India

The design brief of this semester was to design an commercial cum residential space and the brief alms to acts as city centre for the place and also attract maximum number of people. The complex needs to act as an urban centre for the people living around the Shakespeare Sarani road and Loudon street area .The site is situated at an important junction which has some finest and costliest apartments as well as commercial spaces which creates a cutting edge to the site. The concept of the converse’ is to give a new look to the area which creates enough revenue to the building. the presence of large anchor stores and a series of retail stores attracts a large number of customers to the commercial and residential complex.

Form devlopment

Firstly in fig(1) the basic mass is done by placing at an angle of 45 degree and forming the basic nail shaped outer structure. Secondly in fig (2) the massing model is further divided in the separate blocks to show the spatial arrangement of each and every floor and by the process of subtraction , few blocks are removed from the main mass. In third fig (3) the individual blocks are rearranged front and back to form the staggered terrace garden allowing more air and sunlight into the building. In the fourth fig (4), a middle void space is been cut out at the centre of commercial and residential space allowing the design to be more lively.

Urban design project REDEVELOPMENT OF HARIDWAR

TYPE : College academic project | Group project

YEAR : 2022 | 5 th Yr of B.Arch

LOCATION : Haridwar , Uttrakhand , India