Portfolio_Suyash S_2015-2021

SUYASH _Architectural Portfolio _ 2014-2020_

SUYASH SAWANT Graduated in 2015, I am a licensed architect from Mumbai, India. I think architecture builds this intrinsic connection between “TIME, SPACE AND PEOPLE”, and good architecture to me is the one that balances all these three parameters. I believe experimentation goes hand in hand with an expedition. Architecture is not merely designing a space, it is about delving into the notions of a prospective design, absorbing the predicaments, and returning from the depths of an esoteric thought process in order to achieve the architecture that is sound in all possible aspects.

AWARDS / PUBLICATIONS RESONANCE DESIGN COMPETITION // 2012 // Special Mention DURIAN SOCIETY INTERIORS AWARD // 2014 // 2nd Prize UNKNOWN CRAFTS TROPHY (NASA) // 2014 // 1st Prize LANDSCAPE DESIGN TROPHY (NASA) // 2014 // 1st Prize EESTAIRS COMPETITION, AMSTERDAM // 2014 // 1st Prize YOUNG ARCHITECTS COMPETITION // 2019 // Finalist REIMAGINED RELICS (illustrarch.com) // 2019 // Publication AVANT GARDE HOTEL (illustrarch.com) // 2019 // Publication SMOG CATHEDRAL (illustrarch.com) // 2019 // Publication

WORK EXPERIENCE STUDIO OSMOSIS // 3 months Interior architecture: Worked on various restaurant projects including brands like Pizza express (Noida and Powai outlet), Citrus group of hotels and multiple retail interiors.

ARRIS ARCHITECTS // 4 years Cinema architecture: Worked with India’s leading multiplex brand Inox on number of properties (new and retro-fits) including Banglore, Mumbai and Indore.

Institutional architecture: Over a course of 3 years, worked on 3 diffrent school projects including Delhi Public School Hazaribaugh and Suncity Schools.

Commercial architecture: Design, Concept and presentation for revitalizing Metro junction mall, Kalyan.

Residential architecture: Design(architecture+interior), Concept, site co-ordination and execution for Luxury residential house, Thane.

EDUCATION 2015 // Bachelor Of Architecture LS RAHEJA SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, MUMBAI. 2020 // Masters in Advanced Architecture INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE, CATALONIA.

CONTACT Phone: +91 9820744185 / +34 605508582 E-Mail: suyashardes@gmail.com Instagram: @suyash.ar.des Address: 4,2* 63 Carrer de Filip 2, La Sagrera, Barcelona. 08027.

TABLE OF CONTENTS [SELECTED WORKS]

1.COMPETITION Common Ruins // Young Architects Competition 2019.

Senegal Elementary School// Archstorming 2020.

2.ACADEMIC WORK Digital Woodcraft studio, Eddie Titfer // MAA01, IaaC 2020.

Design Studio, Avant-Garde Hotel // B.Arch, LSR SOA 2014.

Computational Design, Facade Decomposition // MAA01, IaaC 2019.

Introductory Studio, Smog Cathedral // MAA01, IaaC 2019.

X Urban Studio, Venice 2.0 // MAA01, IaaC 2020.

3.PROFESSIONAL WORK Delhi Public School, Hazaribaugh, India //Arris Architects, 2016-19 Cinema Architecture // Arris Architects, 2015-2019

The Common Ruins, YAC 2019.

The castle of Mothe Chandeniers, the illusive part of the landscape, the ancient monolith, the guest from another time. This place makes the perfect example of how the architecture lives, breathes, evolves and blends with the surroundings, being long untouched by the human hands. One can call those ruins a collection of memories, we call them a collection of time layers. Once we stop and perceive this self-evolved beauty, we see how the time has entered and flown in this space, leaving its unforgettable marks. We could call this castle a true piece of heritage art.

Project Details Competition, Young Architects Competition.

Team members: Anastasia Levchenko and Saurabh Bhayaje.

Year : 2019

Historically, people try to preserve the art pieces in something that one could call a “cage” - under a thick layer of glass, in the well-maintained air-conditioned museum halls. Lately, humanity has gained experience in conserving even architecture pieces in a similar ruthless, egoistic way, rather than letting them present us the priceless coverage of the time layers they lived throughThat is how the project starts, from percepting the castle as an “extraneous” ecosystem with its own rules, heritage and memories. It is a living object, but frozen in its own time, that we have no right to interfere, but to contemplate. Therefore, our approach is to consider a human being from a modern time as a foreign matter, which could possibly harm the fragile existing ecosystem of romanticism.

SITE PLAN

Panaromic Ring

Supports for the floating mesh volumes Bridge connecting the ring and the glass staircase Glass block staircase Elevator shaft Bridge connecting the ring and the Elevator shaft

Supports for panaromic ring

Castle villas + wellness

Souvinier shop

Restaurant

Open air theatre

EXPLODED ISOMETRIC VIEW

“Everyone has his own way of mourning the passage of time.” Louis-Ferdinand Céline, journey to the End of the Night.

1.Metal mesh network 2.Souvenier shop 3.Internal plexus 4.Castle villas 5.Restaurant 6.Performance theatre 7.Floating pods.

8.Glass staircase 9.Elevator Shaft 10.Panaromic ring 11.Boating podium

Our metal corridors create the very best way of exploring the castle, starting from the rear side of the castle with precious small architecture details on the walls, as well as water-overlooking gallery. The passage inside the gallery gives the first impression, and, being followed by visit of the dark, mysteriously-looking tower, suddenly leads to the defining part of our project- the floating circle bridge with a stunning panorama over the castle and its landscape context. In this way, after first brief exploration of the “heritage time” layer, the visitor gets to know the “landscape time” layer, exploring the continuous dialogue of the castle body and the surrounding nature.

Senegal Elementary School, 2020 Hands Of Thought.

A manifesto investing in the people and community to learn and grow, where the people act as the architects themselves. The design aims to enhance a construction technique already familiar to the locals, taking it a notch above by creating a hybrid between a known technique with a new. The idea is to create guidelines of building systems, that can be interpreted and applied to build their own houses, rather than mere replication of modularity. A grid-line of pinned columns with a combination of infill walls are used to enable flexible spaces. “Many in body, one in soul”, forms the crux of the école with an intention to create an end product that belongs to everyone.

Project Details Competition, Archstorming + Lets Build My School.

Team members: Ahanta G and Saurabh Bhayaje.

Year : 2020

Based on the Joule-Thomson effect of thermodynamics, customized clay bricks have been proposed, with half cut plastic bottles to form an Eco-cooler clay block.

Hot air entering each block is compressed around the neck of the bottle, the rapid expansion of which cools it down before entering the classrooms. The bottle is removed once the blocks have been sun-dried. These blocks, placed in the direction of the prevailing winds can significantly improve the thermal comfort within. 1:1 scaled mock-ups were made to understand the hands-on capacity of its execution.

The plot area is maximized by pushing the built-form to the periphery, creating an internal courtyard to draw in light and ventilation. This is bound by a singular roof personifying security, inclusion and identity.

Eddie Titfer, Digital Woodcraft In Technics and Civilization (1934), Lewis Mumford praises wood as helping to deliver humankind from the servitude to the cave and to the cold earth itself. Indeed, wood has been a fundamental resource since the dawn of civilization, not just as a building material, but as a natural resource deeply mired in culture, politics, and technology.

Eddie Titfer is an exploration into free form gluluam structures, understands the potential and limits of the material and its application.

The process beings with understanding basic methods of analysing free-form glulam elements for bending limits,production constraints, and fibre direction. The fabrication stratergies involves various aspects of digital fabrication.

Project Details

Digital Woodcraft Studio, MAA01(IaaC) Project supervisor: Tom Svilians Team members: Akshay M Year: 2020

Glulam Components & Joinery

CJ (51_4)

MP 51 DCGL L:2010 mm

CJ (54_4)

CJ (56_4) SJ (54_5)

MP 54 DCGL L:2010 mm

MP 56 DCGL L:2010 mm

SJ (56_57)

SJ (51_52)

MP 4 DCGL L:2010 mm

Glulam Stock & Lamella Count

MP 51 7x9 lamella count

MP 54 7x9 lamella count

MP 56 7x9 lamella count

Stock Size 120 x 60 mm

MP 4 4x5 lamella count

Stock Size 120 x 90 mm

Structural Graph MP DCGL SCGL L CJ SJ

: Meditation Pod (Project Abbrivation) : Double Curved Gluelam : Single Curved Gluelam : Length : Cross Joint : Splice Joint

Crown member

Secondary member

Primary member

Detail at crown

Detail cross members

Ring beam

Timber post Detail 1 at ring beam

Stone pedestal

Detail 2 at ring beam

Avant Garde Hotel, Bandra, Mumbai.

Located in the heart of the city, Hotel Sea rock had been defunct for almost 2 decades owing to the unfortunate 1993 bomb blasts in Mumbai.Owned by the company that runs the chain of Taj hotels, the revival of the hotel will be an elite annex to the adjacent lavish Taj Lands End, as opposed to being a rival. The site for the same has an exclusive context with a 270 degree view of the Arabin Sea, with a backdrop of the Bandra fort heritage precinct and an unobstructed view of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link as well as the Bandra Promenade.

The proposal includes a 140 metre high tower of extravagance, built to stand as a symbol to Mumbai, the city of dreams.

Project Details

Architecture Design Studio, 4th yr B.Arch (LSR SOA) Project supervisor: Anuj Gudekar Year: 2014.

Design development and massing

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The exterior facade responds to the interior spaces to create a luxurious, opulent hotel. It is an attempt to design a 5-star rating hotel, keeping in mind the building services including the fire-fighting, and air-conditioning systems of the building. The working drawings and building services also formed a part of the curriculum.

The hotel aims to act as a green break in the fast-paced urban life in a metropolitan city such as Mumbai.

Facade Decomposition Logics The aim of the project was to design a facade based on the logics of wind and sun radiations.After mapping the radiation values on the facade of the building a curve was derived in order to understand the decomposition further.Through the use of parametric scripting various panelized surface formations, panel configurations and patterns were studied for the façade. Ultimately, three profiled perforated metal panels were cut and broken into varying surface conditions and gradated onto the facade.The facade components: Facade tiles, The facade is divided into a grid where an individual panel is 600mm x 3600mm.These 3 panel types are then controlled using a curve that runs across the facade.

Project Details

Computational Design, MAA01(IaaC) Project supervisor: Rodrigo Aggiure Year: 2019.

Iterations

Perforation size and distribution of panels from att. curve.

Changing the distance of panels from the attaractor curve.

Slits in the panels closet to the curve & changing the att. curve.

Changling the angles of 45 deg panels to 30 deg.

Facade components derived after the final iterations.

Smog Cathedral, Metabolic Icons.

Smog cathedral is a project of speculation and experimental processes. It investigates topics of technologies in construction, environmental preservation and material science that leads to the conception of a metabolic architectural intervention on Gaudi’s casa Mila.Sited in the central region of Barcelona and on a structure of great historical and architectural significance, the Casa Mila is transformed into an air remediation and conditioning structure. By drawing on opportunities presented by the unique site, namely its natural passive remediation strategies and abundant footfall, the intervention becomes as much environmentally performative in giving back clean air to the city as it is a beacon for awareness of the state of our ecological landscape. The building works by compressing air through the proposed lift shift which is released into a chamber where its filtered with water and then HEPA filters in the second chamber. The cleansed air is then released through the atrium. Further, the contaminated air is segregated into NO2 and O3 which is stored in the collection chambers.

Project Details

Introductory Studio, MAA01(IaaC) Project supervisor: Javier Pena and Oriol Carrasco Team members: Robyn H and Roshin A. Year: 2019.

The proposal has 2 main aspects: Architectual Becon that visualizes air pollution Particles collected corresponds to footfall - making man accountable Visual quantifying visible at city scale.

Physical Vertical transporation as pressure chamber Air remediation chambers - Partical and Chemical filtration Collection Vessels + visitor pathway.

Focused metabolism

Clean Air Released through atrium, caliberated oncoming traffic.

Organic resources Natural metabolism of building.

Air circulation

Rainwater Outputs

By-products Recycled as rocket fuel, waterpurification and brick aggregate.

The project is a result of developing a holistic metabolism by understanding the possiblities of various energy flows and natural processes within the structure.Once the holistic metabolism is derived, we focused on certain aspects of the entire process by conducting various experiments, and via prototyping, to the cycle in the focued metabolism was achieved.The readings of the PM particles were taken using sensors and the scale of the prototype was modelled to the scale of 1:50.

Society of Venice 2.0, X Urban.

The hypothesis is that the shift of paradigms that this new conceptual space requires is emancipating us from the notion of “generic information” in order to move us towards a field characterised by paying big attention to the very “specific experience”. A specificity that is being developed in an hyperexpanded present, in which past and future have collapsed and blurred our capacity to think beyond the present. Facing this theoretical frame with a very specific phenomenon:Climate Emergency. Even more specifically: the rise of the water level and its clash with the urbs. We will use analyse Island Cities as relevant case studies, on the one side we will explore how to design Island Cities, and on the other side we will apply this formal research to a real case study: Venice.

Project Details

Introductory Studio, MAA01(IaaC) Project supervisor: Willy Muller (Urban Sciences Lab) Team members: Mario S and Pratik D. Year: 2020.

Giudecca

Master Plan The city gave us the opportunity to design not only new urban tactics but architectural projects, paying close attention to emergent design processes associated with Data Collection, System Optimisation with Genetic Algorithms,Permutation of solutions through Parametric Systems and Generative Systems Design Language.

The proposal was thought as a supporting infrastructure floating in the lagoon between the Venice mainland and Lido.The primary phase is a new port terminal which stops the damage caused by the entry of the bigger ships in the lagoon.Soon a network was established which was a node based network to suffice the deficit caused by the mass consumption of Venice as a public space.The bathymetry was studied in order to plan the built mass. The second aspect was the shortest paths where we studied various activities in the existing island and the mainland. In this way the new network responds to the existing infrastructure. This then helped us to define a hierarchy and positioning of various blocks in the network.

Venice

LEGEND Entertainment Farming Education Waste Recycle Existing Island

Lido

Residential Port Entertainment Service station Education & Healthcare Market place

Goods supply Public transport Mudflat Power supply Food supply Island extend Waterway Existing cruise path Shallow area

Urban Catalogue (isolated city blocks)

Re-creational block

Farming block

Waste recycling block

Energry generation block

Residential block

Proposed port terminal

Schematic Section of the Farming Unit.

An urban catalogue was developed in order to make floating self sufficient blocks which were imagined as isolated city blocks. This would make the proposed network capable to grow and disintegrate as with time and consumption.

Mud flats are proposed on the periphery of the existing island. These are dry lines that mimic the function of the existing mud flats that control the tidal fluctuations.

The aim of the project is to reduce the process of sinking of the existing island and to create another layer for human interaction.

This also is a co-existing layer that helps the users to spectate the venitian island.

Delhi Public School, Hazaribaugh.

A school should prepare a student for every phase of their life.

Environment to learn and grow in schools is essential to building life skills. To motivate and inspire students architecture plays an important role . Thus, the design of this school is the result of the amalgamation of target areas such as cognitive skills, open spaces, reflective spaces and open spaces. For schools to function as effective learning centre, a balance must be maintained in learning in a conducive environment. The projects expands to 1,50,000 sq.ft along with 8 acres of lush landscaped gardens and a comfortable green to concrete ratio of 4:1.

Project Details

Professional Work, Arris Design Studio.

Project supervisor: Shubhashish Modi Year: 2016 - 2019

1.The sharp built form pushed on one end overlooks the endless open space.

2.Having raised the plinth by 15 feet, the stature of the form holds firm ground.

3.At the centre, the admin block stands four stories serving as a core.

4.Primary and Secondary school blocks developed as phase 1 and 2 respectively.

5.The Phase 3 adds the finishing block of the auditorium and Club house.

6.Providing full height frames that rise to towering heights

The long cantilivered slab projecting out of the entrance frames give a floating slab to shade the entrance and guides one to the central lobby area.Its linearity is an integral aspect in achieving a good flow of space to accomodate a greater foot-fall.

The courtyards are interstitial spaces formed to provide a healthy interaction across the levels, while enhancing the light and ventilation throughout the volume of the structure.Each space was devised in order to respond to the overall development and growth of the users in the most optimum manner. A school is important not merely as a learning centre but where knowledge goes beyond the walls of the classroom.

The project is currently in its finishing stages with the exterior cladding, the site pictures are from June 2019.

Cinema Architecture / Interior Designs.

“Similar to the importance of social connectivity of a person in his life is the importance of THIRD places in the social structure of our society...”Sociology of city- William A. Schwab These Third places are true representatives of our society. Large Temple complexes were taken over by community buildings and marketplaces, and further by Theatres and Cinema. In today’s context, Malls and Multiplexes have become the true representative of the social fabric a city wears. Cinemas become a core of discussion in the community, an element of expression, lifestyle and prosperity. With an increase in the popularity of cinemas, multiplex brands demanded larger architectural expressions ranging from parametric design to post-modern to art-deco, based on the city and crowd catered to.

A large plethora of materials and design forms were thus explored in this niche, pushing the boundaries for its architectural expressionism.

Over the past 4 years of working with this multidisciplinary architectural office, I had the opportunity to personally work on 8 cinema projects that were completed during a span of 36-40 months. These were a mix of interiors and structural that involved a lot of various services ranging from HVAC to fire-fighting, to be incorporated into the designs.Cinema has been a niche category specially with an enormous demand for design and executions.Few of the important clients we worked with were big brand names including INOX, Cinepolis and PVR.

Project Details

Professional Work, Arris Design Studio.

Project supervisor: Shubhashish Modi Year: 2015 - 2019

REFERENCES Shubhashish Modi Principal Architect at Arris Architects, Mumbai.

Email : shubhashish.arris@gmail.com

Willy Muller Founder at IaaC and Director of Uban Sciences Lab. Email : muller@iaac.net

Mandar Parab Dean at LS Raheja School Of Architecture, Mumbai.

Email : mandar.p@lsrsa.edu.in

Alejandro Haiek Coll Principal at LAB PRO FAB, Faculty at Umeå School of Architecture.

Email : ahcode.pc@gmail.com

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