rchite cture Portf olio Sharmila Prahlad Joshi 2017-2022
Hello! I am an Architecture student pursuing my Bachelors from R.V. College of Architecture. The application of both the Arts and the Sciences lured me in. The course allows one to explore and form links across disciplines. I am highly interested in the Conservation, Heritage and Adaptive Reuse of buildings and hold it relevant to today’s urban state of affairs.
SKILLS
Sharmila Prahlad Joshi EDUCATION 2005-2017 . . . . .
2017-Present
COMPETITIONS
The Indian High School
Solar Decathlon India 2020
Dubai
Participation
R.V. College of Architecture
Students’ Awards for Excellence in Documentation of Architectural Heritage 2019
Bangalore
Participation
Kaarigari - Furniture Design Competition 2021 LANGUAGES
Participation
WORKSHOPS
WORK EXPERIENCE
English Kannada Hindi
Cultural Head, RVCA
Tensile Structures
Volunteer, NIASA Panels Committee
Storytelling and Graphic Novel Design
Arun Swaminathan, 2018
2019
Arabic
INTERESTS Carnatic Music Animation
2019
The Leewardists, 2018
Audio Editor, Architectural Podcast 2020
A collaboration of students of 11 Design Colleges across India called ‘Tales Beyond the Tack Board’
Journaling
Masonry Vaults and Funicular Structures Mud Hands, 2019
Bamboo Workshop Studio Vinami, 2020
Documentation Traveling Anime
DOCUMENTATION
K.R. Market 2018
Turuvanur 2019
Dupuy Street 2019
Phone Number +91 9632390063
Kodiyala 2018
Chickpete 2019
Fort High School 2019
Email sharmila.joshi.1rw17at@rvca.in
Mini Forest 2019
KCN Bhavan 2019
CONTACT
Bangalore
Mandya
Bangalore
Mandya
Bangalore
Bangalore
Pondicherry
Bangalore
STREET L IBR A RY Krishna Rajendra Market Semester III (2018) Page 7
G ROUP HOUSI NG PROJ E C T Turuvanur
Semester VII (2020) Page 13
C OM M U N I T Y WAS M A NAG E M E N T RR Nagar, Bangalore Semester VII (2020) Page 21
C ontents
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D O CUM EN TAT ION Turuvanur
Semester IV (2019) Page 33
WOR K I NG DR AW I NG S Bangalore
Semester VI (2020) Page 35
WOR K SHOPS Bangalore
(2018-2020) Page 41
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To Me I don’t know how I got here But it feels true for sure. I’m twenty and two When I say THIS IS ME now It feels like I finally saw her That voice that called out from an astral plane The one I would be at odds with, eternally The one I would hurt or dismiss with blunt inconsideration The one I was embarrassed of knowing Or rather, afraid of being … Thank You For bearing with me, For allowing me to not be myself, For embodying the place of home for me to come back to Soon I shall do that for you, And call you by my name
ST R EET LI BR ARY Krishna Rajendra Market 100 sqm. Semester III (2018) 4 Months
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Educational Institute
Historically Significant landmarks
Site
Tolerable Intolerable
User Groups Smell Mapping Accessibility The largest wholesale market of Bangalore, is lined with 3 historical landmarks :
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Noise Mapping
1. The Bangalore Fort 2. The Tipu Sultan Palace 3. The Kote Venkatarama Temple
The design will revolve around the change of circulation path, about the existing digital billboard in the center. Facing Direction : South-East Area : 100 sqm
Existing Conditions
Proposed Circulation and Zoning
Abstracting the essence of four notable literature pieces and Akira Kurosawa’s movie “Dreams”, the charcoal sketches and models depict respectively the process followed to arrive at form and concept.
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Concept Seamlessly flowing like a snake that moves through the ground leaving behind it’s shed skin, the Street Library is built of a flexible rhombus module, that folds into itself. The same module varies in opacity of material allowing for different experiential spaces. At the heart, lies a sunken space that acts as the buffer between the kiosk (noisy) and the reading space while allowing for both these activities in the buffer space. Thus a parametric body is formed, through an experimental process of models.
Coffee Kiosk Green Buffer Space
Book Shelving Space
G ROU P HOU SI NG PROJ ECT Turuvanur 5000 sqm. Semester IV (2019) 4 Months
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Total area Documented Site Area Documented Road Network Temples
A land on the outskirts of Chitradurga ‘Twas once just grazing land. Then came the temple for 1Turuvappa Devaru
and so it began.
Turuva = Cattle Uru = Village
The settlement grew around the temple and compunded as more temples were built in the complex. 2 Lingayats, Devangas, Nayakas, Kunchitagas, Kurubas, Reddys, Madigas and more, breathed life into Turuvanuru. A tangible area was studied and documented. A project of 40 houses was designed based on the study.
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The local deity of worship
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The castes existing within the village, based on their line of work
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1. The street opposite to Beeralingeshwara temple. 2. Traditional mud and stone constructed houses, with common walls. 3. Typical traditional house that allows very little light and ventilation inside due to harsh sunlight. 4. Beeralingeshwara temple, the node that conducted this area of the settlement.
Documentation Study One street of the documentation is presented. This street lied opposite to one of the prominent temples of Turuvanur - The Beeralingeshwara Devastana. This study leads to the analysis of the patterns and nuances occurring here.
5. Where the road narrows, shade increases directly proportional to activity
7. The diagram shows an activity density based on all these factors. The street, unlike many others in the organic settlement, was straighter and wider. Apart from the temple itself, water tanks, kattes , trees, shade and small open spaces are prominent activity nodes.
6. Kids playing ‘goli’ on the street under the tree
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Iteration 1
Iteration 2
Arranging 40 units of similar areas on the site, keeping the existing pathways intact.
Arranging 40 units by connecting the tree clusters and adding and extra level for maximum shade on the ground.
Houses arranged around a nucleus activity space with a common water tank and communal spaces. This maintains the essence of life on the streets - as seen in Turuvanur.
Ground Floor Plan at +2000 LVL 0 2.5
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Concept The celebration of shade as a catalyst to community engagement. A play of water tanks, connected roofs, kattes and trees.
The patterns show that the catalyst of activity is shade. Hence the roofs are connected and the trees are celebrated as public nodes.
First Floor Plan at +6000 LVL 19 0 2.5
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The Water Tanks are designed to be activity nodes for the houses neighbouring the open space.
A central activity space for daily use and communal events, with trees and kattes for natural thermal comfort.
Pivoting louvred windows to adjust light inside. Each louvre is mechanized separately, to cut out the harsh sunlight and glare.
These skylights let in only reflected light, thus cutting out solar heat gain to a large extent.
C OM M U N I T Y WAST E M A NAG EME N T RR Nagar, Bangalore 3100 sqm. Semester VII (2020) 4 Months
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RR Nagar is well known for its environmental activism and vigilance against pollution. This project aims to respond to this specific context and arrive at the best possible program that fits the vision pertaining to Sustainability, Vernacularism and Climate Change.
Common creepers
Noise levels over 70dB at peak hours of traffic.
Coconut tree
Congress plant
Shameplant creeper
Neem tree
Mango tree
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Existing creeper barrier Red soil - high clay content 2m level drop from south to north of site.
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Storm water drains adjacent to both road edges of site.
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Access from interior road only, due to presence of a 2.5m bund on western edge of site. (main road)
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Waste Collection centers around site
Design Strategies : 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Wind direction Using the edges as open spaces Design of window openings Vegetation used to absorb radiation Buffer spaces used to reduce solar heat gain inside Long double height spaces used for stack effect.
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West Facade
South Facade
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Circulation
Sustainable Store
Waste Management
Open Library
Green Activity Spaces
Washrooms
Vertical Circulation
Cafe
Eco Gym
Workshops
Concept As human activity increases, so does its byproduct - Waste. After handing it over to the dustbin, where does this waste go? There is no insurance against it being dumped into landfills and rivers. The pollution of Vrishabhavati is not a surprise. Managing it at a city level is more complex than we can imagine. If we can design a creative solution to handle this waste at a neighbourhood level, the load is reduced on the bigger organizations and true change is possible.
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1. Lobby 2. Entrance from pavilion 3. Circulation/Santhe area 4. Cafe 5. Workshop gallery 6. Waste segregation room
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7. Storage 8. Workshop 9. Pavilion 10. Sustainability store 11. Playground
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1. Workshop display area 2. Workshop 3. Open library 4. Conference room 5. Yoga room 6. Eco gym equipment 7. Computer room
Hourdi Blocks placed on Ferroement Channels and filled with broken brick lime. Finished with Red oxide or yellow oxide
Mangalore tiles
Wooden truss
Skylight fixing detail with PVC mould that holds glass block, fitted into the line of hourdi blocks,
Flyash bricks
Broken brick lime Hourdi blocks and ferrocement channels
Flyash bricks or Laterite stone
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Entrance from pavilion of silence
Section CC’
Sustainability store and playground
Section DD’
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Clockwise from the left 1. 2. 3.
First floor workshop Ground Floor Workshop Cafe Outdoor Seating
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The streets organically get narrower and widen, creating a variety of spaces that interconnect very interestingly. Common spaces are for community uses.
D O C UM EN TAT ION Turuvanur
Semester IV (2019)
This settlement grew organically, with single storeyed houses made of stone, timber and mud. Recently, houses of concrete have started getting built. But majority of the houses still remain the same.
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The kitchen is considered a sacred space and is given a different stone flooring of kadappa stone as compared to the main room covered in chappadi stone.
A 300 year old house of a farmer and his wife. Traditionally built with local kadappa stone and roofed with crossed logs of adake mara (betelnut tree), layered with chappadi stone and then consolidated mud.
The two columns are made of the wood of a local tree.
Shelves made of twigs bound with rope are used as storage space for only essentials.
The bathroom is a small 1sqm space in the hall placed right by the main door, with a large kadappa stone used as a separation. It is used only as a bath.
WOR K I NG DR AW ING S Commercial + Office Building Semester IV (2019)
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Ground Floor Retail Plan
Second Floor Office Plan
Coordinated Ground Floor Plan
Coordinated Second Floor Plan
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Coordinated Basement Floor plan
Coordinated Drawing Cross Section
Washroom details
Staircase details
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Storytelling and Graphic Novel Design The Leewardists, 2018
Masonry Vaults and Funicular Structures
Mud Hands, 2019
WORKSHOPS (2018-2020)
Bamboo Workshop
Studio Vinami, 2020
Tensile Structures
Ar. Arun Swaminathan, 2018
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All work belongs to Sharmila Joshi unless mentioned otherwise. This undergraduate portfolio is created solely for the purpose of gaining an internship with Architectural firms.