Sarveswaran Portfolio 2012-2019

SARVESWARAN GANAPATHY SP

COLLECTION OF DESIGN WORKS 2012 - 18

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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NOTE This Portfolio is a reflection of my advents in Design problems and these collections are intended to portray my approach and the way i see design.

INDICATIONS “SG” Sarveswaran Ganapathy, “Principal Ar” Principal Architect, “MR“ Mahesh Radhakrishan “Intern“ Student Architects, “Team“ other members of project, “JS“ Prof. Jalaja Selvaraj “MOAD“ the madras office for architects & designers

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PROFESSIONAL WORKS Student Hostel.

Wallace Retail - Sun Study Cultural Centre - Senegal Urur - Tactical Urbanism Public Square, Lanzarote

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ACADEMIC WORKS Framework for Urban Edges (UG Thesis) Urban Design - Velachery Assisted Living - Elderly Home Library Design

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OTHER WORKS Re imagining Buckingham Canal Dwell - Design for informality Chennai Reflected - Photo essay

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PROFES

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Principal Ar SG Interns

MOAD Project In-charge 2017-2018

Student Pods Asian college of journalism, for their new course, required a hostel building. The site for the hostel was in a tight urban neighborhood, design challenge was also to make the hostel to be converted into serviced apartments. when all these parameters are put in, though there is a hierarchy of common space is provided through balcony and cutouts the space for interactions is still insufficient. so we resolved it by making the stairwell exclusive for interaction and we named it Stair room. At each level the stair anchors and provides possibilities to interact and not just serving its fundamental.

My role as the project in charge took me through all phases involved in the AEC industry. From initial, tender, construction drawings, to site coordination, client, vendors, structural engineers, and contracts coordination. I had the opportunity to design and prototype objects like soap and towel hanger for bathroom and light fixture to make the common areas to get emphasized during nighttime.

Stair models

STAIR ROOM - SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

FLOOR PLANS

LIGHT FIXTURE

Ground floor with Y - Light Fixtures

Option 01 Elevation

SOAP TRAY

Towel Hanger

Clip On type - Prototype

1’ LED tube light

Teak wood block

2mm thk MS Sheet Tube ight Clip

Y - Light Exploded View

Fabricating Light Fixture

Granite Toilet Partition

Option 02 Elevation

SS Clip On Soap Tray

Option 02 Plan

Option 02 Section

Granite Slab cut to size

Option 01 Clip On type

Option 02 Wall Pin type

PHASES IN ARCHITECTURE

Manual Drawing of Pyramid stair

Combined footing - Shuttering Removal

Client Meeting - Scaled model and Excited clients

PROCESS IN ARCHITECTURE

Broken China Layout - Supervision

Helical Stair - Template Inspection

Paint texture Sample testing

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Principal Ar SG

MOAD Design Development Project Intern 2016

Sun | Glass | Retail An attempt to create balance Project Wallace Garden is a retail outlet building, The site is located in one of the major commercial roads in Chennai city. The design challenge is to keep it visible from the abutting roads with a harsh west sun. The ideal condition is to minimize the use of mechanical ventilation and make building use the least energy. Avoiding glass skin on the west becomes impossible in this context due to commercial reason.

We then conducted a study on how the other buildings on the road address this issue, the result showed this as a pressing but neglected issue everywhere.

Following that, we tried to create the balance by changing the parameters of building elements, such as introducing sun breakers, angular walls, and overhangs in varying scales.

Option with Large overhangs and varying volumes

Angular fins Receding on Skin - Medium Scale

Angular fins on Skin - Large Scale

Angular fins on Skin_01 - Medium Scale

Angular fins on Skin_02 - Medium Scale

Tapering Volume - Large Scale

Skin with Floating Opaque Surfaces

Tapering and angular Volumes - Large Scale

Tapering and angular Volumes - Medium Scale

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Principal Ar SG

Interns

MOAD Open Competition Project In-charge 2018

Intent The design of cultural centre for sedhiou aims at using limitations of a place as source to create culture, community and social conditions.

Our proposal is an outcome in addressing lack of water, lack of skilled craftsmen and lack of resources.

To employ the unskilled work force available to excavate a part of land to create an artificial reservoir to store water for the community • •

To use the excavated earth to build foundation, plinth and enclosures To use locally available mangrove sticks as structural member to support corrugated tin sheet roofing.

SHADE AS COMMONS

CONSTRUCTION MANUAL

01 To excavate a part of land to create an artificial reservoir to store water for the community and use mud to build base of the cultural centre

02 Foundation trench with laterite stone foundation holding on to bamboo post & beam.

03 Mud is plastered around split bamboo woven togrthe held iin place by bamboo post.

SITE DEVELOPMENT

2 1 Sun path and prevailing wind direction.

Building profile and excavated/cut area.

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04 The wattle and daub wall stops at 2.1m level above which bamboo post continues and holds the beam

05 Roof rafter sits on the beam supported by the column post bamboo.

06 Corrugated metal sheet roof sits on top of the rafter held in place.

4 Roof Structural framework Wood log and bamboo

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Wall and columns.

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Roof covering with tin corrugated sheet

View from ENTRY

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Professional Project In-charge 2018

Urur kuppam is a small urban village with fishing as their major occupation. We from MOAD worked along with NGO called Vetiver Collective and inSeason fishes.

Problem was though the fish they sell at this local village market is in quality better than the larger markets is still neglected because of the physical condition. In order to bring in hygiene in the way they sell fish, we recreated the tray used for displaying the fish.

The whole process of bringing fish from boat to cleaning it before selling is documented and analyzed. There are numerous meeting conducted to arrive at a prototype that is goes with ease into their daily life. Idea is to make change with small gestural change in the existing condition.

FISH SELLERS

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N.G.O

VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVES

ARCHITECTS/ DESIGNERS Public meeting with the villagers and fish selling women

Existing - Fish tray

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Market square at Existing and prop

Ergonomic checks

Existing Condition

Proposed Fish tray

Tray holder

Prototype Testing

Urur Kuppam. posed.

Photo montage - Urur Kuppam - Market Square

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Principal Ar SG

Interns

Open Competition Project In-charge 2018

Urban Living Room The idea is to break away the notion of public square and reinvent it. We saw this given site as another room on the Lanzarote fabric, but as an open room. We conceived this square to behave as an urban living room.

Upon understanding various landscape characters of Lanzarote, the dominant traits of the landscape and the landforms found to be helping us further in realizing the intimacy, compartmentalization, articulation and maneuvering of public in the square, yet keeping it open. The landscape of Lanzarote is so powerful, that it influences and helps in creating dynamism in the design.

The most significant of the landforms being the hills and contours associated with the volcanic soil. Vineyards covering the layer of contours gave a very strong character and changes the scale of perception. Craters hold the vines along with a half-moon shaped bund protecting the vines from wind. They were called Zocos.

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Lanzarote, Vineyards. Source: Internet

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Variations in Ground Plane

ctivity ISO

Activity simulations

Temporary Market

Projection and Performance

Exhibits and Display

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Guide SG

UG Thesis Individual 2016

The project aims to address the issues that area around urban centers faces. Idea is to make framework for group of villages shares commonalities such as physical, social and cultural traits.

The components of the framework are identified based on the appropriate study and proposed to reinforce the urban edges making values for itself.

Thus maintaining a well contained urban centers and rural landscape.

The proposal for the Pothur, Pammathukulam and Vellanur, includes a Farm school to promote and inform next generation on traditional occupations, people’s Centre providing space for people to gather for common cause which essentially needs a open space and Environmental center where the works for regaining the lost farming lands by real estate and providing small self-help groups from social forestry by products.

URBAN & RURAL

URBANIZATION

URBAN SPRAWL

CITY BOUNDARY

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1) Focused on group of villages 2) Built on public participation 3) Ever evolving structure 4) Bottom up approach

FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPMENT

DETAILED DEVELOPMENT PLAN

1) Focused on Urban centers 2) Lack of Public participation 3) Lack of flexibility

1) Long term projections 2) Lack of focus 3) Rigid structure

MASTER PLAN

VELLANUR

hect 1609 Population 11668 Households 2482

POTHUR

hect 464.1 Population 2739 Households 694

PAMMATHUKULAM

hect 792.1 Population 9271 Households 2444

DEMOCRATIZE DEMOCRATIZE

CATE EDUCATE INFORM

EMPOWER EMPOWER INFORM

Abiltiy to discuss Abiltiy and to discuss and ting all

By Educating all There is a needThere for isdecide a needforforcommunal decide for communal ps about age groups about

Montage - Peri Urban Villages

ENFORCE ENFORCE COEXIST GROWTH GROWTH CONSERVECONSERVE

Program Key Elements

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VILLAGES MAPPING Farm/ Livelihood School People’s Centre.

Environment Centre

FARM/ LIVELIHOOD SCHOOL

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Contextual livelihood Farming

FORM EVOLUTION Form Development

Program Area

Lift Up - Scenario

Site Elevated Area

Scenario 01

3.5M 3.1M 1.5M 1.0M

Conventional School Block

Bloc

Form Opens Out into Farms

Initial Studies

Initial Volumes

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Contextual Parameters

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Building with minimal + impact to nature

Extrovert planning

Unit Details

Scenario 02

3.5M

Class room Unit

Wall Partitions

3.5M

cks Height Illustration

Structural Frame

Lifted up Volumes

FARM SCHOOL

Hide out Kids Play

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View from Approach

10M 5M

1 Entry

Connecting paths - Corridors

2 Admin and Sta

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Built-up Details Site Area 6140 Sq.m Class Rooms 540 sq.m Staff/ Admin 90 Sq.m Toilet/ Restroom 90 Sq.m Circulation 200 Sq.m Total 875 Sq.m

3 Learning Room

4 Toilet

5 Kids Maze

6 Day care

7 Workshop

8 Farm land

FARM SCHOOL - SECTIONAL VIEW

Sectional Perspective

Aerial View - Farm School

PEOPLE’S CENTRE

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Medicare unit

Accommodation & Library Block Model / Organizations

Existing VA office

V.A office with Reflective Roof plane

The idea is to provide a platform which will act as a dynamic public space, which caters large people gather. The program is strategically located in the middle of the village clusters. The people’s centre holds multiple reasons for wide range of age groups to use this common space. The traditional way of gatherings were now not being accessed much by variety of people. Hence our current way of planning for a social cohesion will include different programs In one premises. V.A.Office in most of the villages I have seen is neither is in use nor in approachable condition. The People’s center will also house the govt. Facilities and make full use of it, On a whole the design of this program openness should allow the dynamics of the people to take place in it.

Legend

1 Village Administrative 6 Open Market Platform

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Mass Gathering

Multiple Functional Complex

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V.A.Office

Design with Less Built-up Structures

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Open Market

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Library and Lodging

More Political Transparency

Performance/ Auction Stage

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Built-up Details

Site Area 6370 Sq.m V.A.O Block 80 sq.m Medicare Unit 85 Sq.m Accommodation / 420 Sq.m Library Toilet/ Restroom 30 Sq.m Open Market 800 Sq.m

4 Accommodation

5 Toilet/ Restroom

FRAMEWORK SIMULATION

Study Area

When these elements of framework are in place they will ensures the wellbeing of the place it exists also to the bigger picture. Keeping the Urban Centre intact is very essential. These flexible framework will have its impact on a longer run and reduce the intensity of urban issues that were not controllable over the period, such as migration towards cities, loss of environmental Characters.

Day and night - Multifunctional public space

Chennai city and Surroundings

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Team

Academic project Group Work 2016

Velachery site for UD studio during 9th semester it was severely hit by devastating flood during December 2015. We used physicality as the lens for understanding the site. Morphology of velachery was our major focus, we found the conflicts and contrasts in the neighborhood’s physicality.

Process starts with general documentation of the site area and leading to the formation of structure plan and culminating with design proposal.

We further extended the studio work to the Velachery neighborhood. We conducted two day exhibition of documentation, analysis and proposal to the residents of velachery.

Montage - Velachery and it’s components

Public Display of Urban Design Studio Works

Velachery Ma

Grain Contrasts

This varying composition of grains in this fabric cre uniqueness. Kamarajapuram is where the huge foot placed in fine grain context. The finer grain formation the natural resource in lakshimi puram.

Group Documentation

Map 1960. Credits: Madras Archives

Residential

Commercial 15%

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80%

Unbuilt 79% Residential

06% Others

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Wall to wall Narrow Streets Heritage Area Transit induced Grid plan

Commercial Arterial road Neighborhood

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SARAVANA STORES

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Velachery Neighborhood Sections

Grain Evolution The earlier settlements were along the Velachery main road with finer grains, intensity of the settlement increased with formation of major roads from the city.

This hindered the drastic growth of fabric. The transformation of grains took place with change in ownership.

2017

Overlay

Road Layout

Built Forms

Road & Built

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Grain evolution matrix

2015 flood . Source: Internet

Gis Streamline over access road

Redesigning blocks The idea of amalgamating deteriorated or under planned plots in Velachery will facilitate planned and systematic upgrading of a large “inclusive� urban area, involving planning, designing, rebuilding, re- structuring, or restoring, thereby freeing land, for redeveloping areas, by creating more infrastructure, amenities, facilities, and open spaces, without compromising the standards and quality of living of its residents. It frequently refers to programs of major demolition and rebuilding of blighted areas. The Urban Renewal will encompass sectorial development on a large basis which may include numerous cluster developments.

PROPOSAL

Cluttered setbacks

Proposed Block configurations

Tapping the unused Open space reserves

Public buildings with unused OSR’s

Proposed Open Reserves

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S E D RV E S E O OP RES R P EN OP

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Instructor JS

Academic project Induvidual 2015

The design objective is to create a home for elderly persons. The given site was abutting a lake. Critical aspects and design parameters were the walking distance and proximity to the basic amenities inside the campus. The legibility and clear demarcation of functional spaces form the basis of design inception.

I attempted to give the sense of their outside world by introducing programmatic strategies and the resulting tangibles were its outcomes. The late edge and the lowest point is made into fish/ prawn Culture to provide employment to the surrounding and also becomes a leisure activity for the inmates. The courtyards within the room areas were either treated as kitchen farms in some instances and others were kept empty to allow children from nearby high-rise apartments to come and play.

Sketch Accommodation block opening out to the lake and city scape

DESIGN IDEATION

Design Criteria

Conceptual Zone Organization

FORM EVOLUTION

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The accommodation rooms a ranged on one side of the co There is greenery and openn on either side of longer axis o form.

This evolution brings up the i breaking the narrowness.

This resultant form shows the sibilities of interaction spaces ensure safety.

Further repeating the former we get this wide spread form in turns provides the wide op towards the lake.

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Conceptual Block Organization Form Development

NATURAL LIGHTING SINGLE LOADED CORRIDOR

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SITE DEVE PROGRAM ZONING Ad-min block is placed in such a way that they are easy to approach and comes very first from the entry.

This shows th natural slope

The kitchen and Dining are zoned in closer proximity to the accommodation wings. All the services including kitchen store are placed closer to the access road.

Spaces that requires high care like Palliative and extra care are zoned close to medical block and also to the EXIT.

The accommodation blocks are arranged in such a way that they get maximum lake view. However it maintaining the proximity to all other amenities.

The staff quarters are zoned in closer proximity to the site perimeter.

The general ve and E

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he direction of e on the site.

The natural slope of the site is taken into account and the FISH CULTURE POND is located, with profile going through with the built-up form.

This shows the further segregation of Pond with the radiating shape of the built-up form.

ehicular ENTRY EXIT

The 5m Wide road around the periphery of the site profile.

The Service road from the rearside with access to the kitchen and Medical Centre.Â

Kitchen Garden Farming

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Accommodation Layout

SITE PLAN

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Instructor JS SG

Academic project Individual 2013

Library design introduced as studio project during my 2nd year of undergraduate architecture. Site located in a University complex surrounded by thick green cover around.

During the site visit, I observed the sanity of the place with greenery and imagined a scene students reading books on the outdoor environment.

The design includes a large central courtyard and a wide plaza opening out to the landscape on ground level. The Volumes are organized in such a way that it forms terraces for extending the reading outdoor. To bring the same sense of reading in nature to the interiors, devised an element on the roof plane which brings in natural lighting and also acts as seater for the terrace above.

View - Conceptual Massing

Library

Ground level Plan

Elevat

Clerestory Lighting Cum Seater

Built in -Seater Exterior grade

Reflective surface

Reinforced Glass

Roof Slab

Sectional Model Clerestory lighting cum Seater

tion Book Stacking and Reading Area

Y - Light Exploded View

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RE-IMAGINING BUCKINGHAM CANAL

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Team

NON FUN

Open Competition Group Work 2018

An idea sparked after understanding the lost relationship between infrastructure and the settlements. In the current pace of transformation, the definition of a public space is constantly evolving.

Especially, in a city like Chennai the anticipation for future needs are inevitable and the experience of it is always uncharted.

NOTICE

LOCK REVIVAL

CAN DRE

NCTIONAL CANAL AS NEW FORM OF PUBLIC SPACE.

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NAL EDGING

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SOLID WASTE Mountain ART INSTALLATION

EXPERIENCING FROM INSIDE LIQUID WASTE Blots Marks

CITY WATER CARE

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Public Notice on Closing Canal

Public notice as poster in the neighborhood

lock Revival

Proposed Lock Section

Dredging Process

Dredging and cleaning of canal

Solid waste Sculpture

Temporary Sculpture made out of Compressed Solid waste

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UBLIC AWARENESS THROUGH ART INSTALLATIONS

marking out all the inlets and leakes of sewage into canal with radim paint which will glow and magnify e intensity of pollutants to the larger owd. This public art installation would eate the necessary awareness and mphasis the negative aspects from e grounds are evidently shown to the spective authorities. e Solid waste being another equal llutant to the canal is similarly exemfied with the art lens as a public inallation on a massive scale.

Liquid waste entires on canal walls are marked with glowing paint

Liquid waste entry points as public art work

WHY OUT, WHY NOT IN?

The “patches� are platform inside the canal inspired from natural land patches in water stream forms with varying height, lifted up with slender columns in random fashion. It provides space for multiple activities. The patches are designed in such a way it creates least obstruction to the water flow.

Patches with different heights

Patches Detail

There is a possibility for extending the physical experience level to its extreme, where the usual way of leisure is watching the water body from afar, this is realized by enhancing the canal activities during the dry months when there are no storm water feeds.

Summer/ less water flow condition

Optimal water flow condition

Flood/ Downpour flow condition

Seasonal Calender

The proposal also includes a seasonal schedule for the canal. A Dry, partial flow and high flow during the monsoon season. This included the revival of the Adyar lock with introduction of sediment water treatment facilities, bird and lock watching facility and office. Places where the canal width is drastically reduced happens to be exactly where the major streamlines intersect, hence these sections are widened for a better flow.

Kasturbai MRTS

Indra nagar MRTS

THE NEED!!!

A body that monitors the “health” of water bodies is required within urban limits. The body is composed by the government, Citizens and City deed professionals “CITY WATER CARE”.

The proposal through the sequence after cleaning and introducing “patches” in the canal will further grows outside the canal creating impacts on the immediate context, the CITY WATER CARE will provide opportunities through community farming, eateries and other recreational programs through “patches” and maintaining them. This will create employment opportunities for the youth and brings back the lost connections with the Buckingham canal.

Lock

Koturpuram MRTS

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DWELL DESIGN FOR INFORMALITY

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SG

Team

Charles Correa Foundation Workshop Team Member 2016

Poster Courtesy : NGO Vetiver Collective

The 2015 Edition of ‘DWELL’ (Design for Informality) departs from the 2014 edition which addressed the idea of ‘Desity’ and proposes to look at the city from the perspective of the ‘Un-Designed’ – the eclectic urban reality of India which includes a powerful parallel system that operates beyond the predictable.

Urur Olcott Kuppam is a old fishing village in Chennai.

It is secluded from other part of the city completely and perceived as inform settlement. We on this workshop used architecture as a empowering tool to that society.

Urur Kuppam - Trail of Outsider’s perspective

KUPPAM CONTEXT

PHYSICAL

Theosophical society

Urur - Olcott Kuppam

Upper and Middle class residential area

URUR OLC

Illegal tenements

Vehicular access route

Garbage dump

LITY MAPPING

COTT

Village temple

Illegal tenements

Kuppam alleys

ACTIVITY MAPPING

White crab catching

White Crab Catching Area

Fish drying

Fish Drying Area

Net preparing & drying

Net Preparing and Drying Area

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Identifying - Issue Areas

Identifying - Intervention Areas

& estuarine fishing

Estuarine Fishing Area 1

Fiber boat & net Store & repair

Fibre Boat, Net Storing and Repairing Area

E NEED Increase and Enhance the access to site Make permeable edge & integrate kuppam into the city Infrastructure - Water, Garbage and sanitation Connect the city to the Broken bridge Intervention to create community and public Spaces for legitimizing the settlement.

Bhajji Kadai/ vendor stalls

Area of Periya vaala

Bhajji Kadai/Vendor Stalls

Area for Periya Vaalai

ARCHITECTURAL GESTURES Arch - Marking entry

Platforms Poles

Backdrop Step

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CHENNAI REFLECTED

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Personal Interest 2016

A mirror cannot exaggerate, it can only reflect what exists. With this character of the mirror, the contrasts, histories and concurrences of different entities of the city - that is, the image of the city - is captured and put forth in a series.

Text Support: Ar.Katheeja Talha

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The coarse grain of the initial imperial interventions are made space for the finer layers of later years, forming this dense neighborhood in the core of the city.

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Beauty is different eras co-existing in same place; harmony abundant in this seemingly chaotic mix.

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Not all additions fit in. Luxury here is environmentally volatile, heightening the existing tension surrounding the life and livelihood of urban fishing village along the coast.

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And the same trend continues along the river...

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Ar. Correa’s Wall speaks of the universal sea, across the road, the wall speak the sounds of the streets.

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And in the periphery, the city grows with no end. A place without reflection...

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SARVESWARAN GANAPATHY SP

COLLECTION OF DESIGN WORKS 2012 - 18

SARVESWARAN GANAPATHY SP

COLLECTION OF DESIGN WORKS 2012 - 18