Satar Ahmed Architectural Portfolio

PORT FOLIO

SATAR AHMED

Selected Works 2018-22

School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi

HELLO

For me architecture is the material of life! Its a part of our every day life; even if you are not an architect you still do architecture. Its about problem solving and creating spaces which can cap ture the sense of life in it.

I constantly try to explore different art forms from cooking to music and push myself to make the best of available resources.

SKILLS

Rhino,Revit, Sketchup, Autocad, MS Office, Lumion, V-ray, En scape, Photoshop, Indesign, Premiere Pro, Formit, Insight 360, Grasshopper, Designbuilder.

SATAR AHMED

satar3213arch18@spa.ac.in satarahmedkhan@gmail.com +91-7889897768

4th year, SPA, New Delhi

STRENGTHS

Design Thinking Conceptualisation Visualisation

EDUCATION

Present 2014-2018 2006-2014

School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi Bachelors of Architecture

Army Public School, Kaluchak, J&K

Army Public School, Samba, J&K

WORKSHOPS

COMPETITIONS

2022 2021-22 2020

Centre of Excellence, Bangalore Council of Architecture

Housing, Kathmandu, Nepal

Solar Decathlon India

Terracotta Tile Design Nuvocotto

English- Fluent Hindi- Fluent Urdu- Intermediate Arabic- Beginner

2021

Net Zero Energy & Water Organised by Solar Decathlon India

Parametric Design Organised by “How to Rhino?” | 2021

Understanding Site and it’s Context Organised by Karwaan India | 2020

DOCUMENTATION

2021-22 2020 2018 2019 2022

Orcha, Madhya Pradesh Measure Drawing -Orcha Fort Complex

Tikkar Taal Village, Morni, Haryana Documentation- Forest Villages of Tikkar Taal

CSMIA, T2, Mumbai Documentation

LANGUAGES HOBBIES

Music Sketching Photography Travelling

Craft Centre Semester- II Page-38

CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE

COA | Bangalore

Academic work | Semester IV | Group of 2

Revit, Rhino, Lumion, Photoshop

Centre of excellence was competetion held by Council of Ar chitecture of India in which architects as well as students from all over India were invited to design a space which promotes the sharing of knowledge and encourage creative ideas, a place where people from different fields can exhange their experiences and learnings.

Located in Bangalore, a city that has pleasant weather con ditions throughout the year. The idea was to provide a large central space which binds all the different functions together and becomes a hub of exhange of knowledge and ideas. To maximise the views the form in broken into number of catile vered spaces which creates shaded spaces at plaza level.

CONCEPT

As this building was to be used by different user from students studying architecture to professionals working in archi tecture field. So, the idea was to create a form where interactions can take place between these groups of users that will help in sharing knowledge among these professionals and students.

01

Placing main building blocks on site with a central connecting plaza

02

Extruding central plaza which serves as a connections between all the function

03

Adding paths connecting ground to the plaza

04

Bridges to provide circulation between different blocks at multiple levels. Connecting trainees to the labs and library.

ZONING

KINDER-GARTEN

RAK School | Lady Irwin College, New Delhi Academic work | Semester IV | Individual Site area:1400 sqm

Revit, Rhino, Lumion, Photoshop

The project’s goal is to build an expansion to the ex isting RAK nursery school that will serve as a learn ing environment for children between the age of 2-3. The design ought to use earth as the sustainable building material, bringing its qualities and essence into the form.

The idea of kindergarten emphasizes on building an atmo sphere that is accessible to everyone and to bridge the gap between play, education, and nature. The expansion is devel oped in sync with the existing, thereby respecting the past.

CONCEPT

To create a barrier-free learning space where play, nature and learning become one. A space made of earthy materials which breaks the bounbdary between classrooms and the outside world. The space also act as medium to represent dying art forms of regions.

01

Extruding the site boundary into a single big mass.

02

Breaking mass into number of different open green spaces which connects with existing open greens and play areas of RAK school.

03

Respecting the RAK Nursery School’s existing axis, which help in separating the administrative (semi-pri vate) areas from the classroom area (private spaces).

04

Connecting different spaces into a single, coherent unit via a partially enclosed corridor.

Reception & Waiting

Classroom

ART VILLAGE

The project was developed to construct an art village within the Morni Hills. The goal was to create areas where various artists can work in the serene setting of the hills. The spaces which can help them in unlocking there creative abilities to another level. The site is divided into two parts first is for pub lic whereas the other half is restricted to artists and guests.

The artist pod serves as a workspace at ground level and a dwelling at upper level. The pod helped in creating areas that were tucked away amid the trees with great views of the Tikkar Taal lake and the Morni foothills and neighbouring communi ties. These workspaces were svet up in an orderly yet disor ganized manner to evoke a sense of freedom and tranquilly.

Revit, Rhino, Lumion, Photoshop

Tikkar Taal lake | Morni, Haryana Academic work | Semester III | Individual

CONCEPT

The aim was to make the whole project in harmony with nature. The idea of this project was to make a the whole project look like a lanscape painting with a village, mountains and lake. this was landscape is going to show what a village actually is in the middle of mounatins. This will give the user of space the feelings of being in a village with views of mountains and lake. the curving path represents the streets of villages which are full of surprises. The artist sudio are shaped in a manner that they look like mountains and blend with nature, creates a interesting skyline.

01

Building masses are arranged in a organic manner like a village.

02

Changing height of different block creates interesting skyline.

03

Breaking away from normal block form of the build ing mass.

04

Tilted roof helps in bringing light inside the studios as well as other spaces and merges the broken form with surroiunding peaks.

Museum Library Cafe Open Exhibition

Artist’s Pod Deck

SETTLEMENT STUDY

| Madhya Pradesh

Academic work | Semester II | Group of 4

The study was conducted to document the set tlement which was to be relocated from there ex isiting location inside a reserved forest. The study records the material & construction techniques of the native people of the settlement. And also focuses on the changes in materials and building pattern due to modern materials.

Earlier the houses were made out of mud and hand made brick walls covered with hand made clay tiles. The sizes of these materials were very different from the materials available today. They used timber frame for roof structure and then covered it with thatch and a final layer of clay tiles. The form were overlapped in order to maintain a

Orchha

Section through the entry

Bedroom Courtyard

Animal Shelter Area

Bedroom

Bedroom

THE FALLEN TREE

Orchha | Madhya Pradesh Academic work | Semester II | Individual

The project was focused on creating a space for people re located from the village to Orchha town for creating and sell ing their craft and artworks. The project provides them with a new job opportunity to make a living out of it and survive in a completely new environment. The site is located between Jahangir mahal, Raja mahal and is directly south of the Shish Mahal hotel.

The concept of the project revolves around the history of the villagers and in terms of materiality the built form uses mod ern materials like steels and acrylic sheets to depict the rise of a new life for the villagers and the unfamiliar environment they are living in which is incontrast to their houses made out of handmade brick and clay tiles.

Autocad & Photoshop

01The tree is broken into two halves and narrates the story of the fallen family trees of the villagers.

02

In plan the form is a simple square. Different combination of this form were tried and used.

Art & Craft shop Cafe Administration

CONCEPT

The concept of this building is to narrate the story of the villagers who are relocated from their existing location to the town in order to protect green trees inside the reserve forest. The form is in shape of a fallen tree which indicates the uprooted family trees of the native people who are living in forest for centuries and now the are asked to relocate in order to protect the trees inside the forest.

Workshops

Section through cafe

Shops and Cafe Administration

Worksho[ps