Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio

SHREYA NACHANE Selected Works 2017- 2020 Under- graduate design portfolio

SHREYA MANGESH NACHANE

Female, Indian

12.03.2000

“As a student of Architecture, my interest is to maximize the learning experience and seize the opportunity to gain knowledge of the new concepts in design. Futuristic solutions inspire me which adapts to the changes and increasing concerns.

EDUCATION 2017-2020

COMPETITION

Pursuing degree in Bachelor of Architecture from Pillai College of Architecture, New Panvel (Currently in the 4th Year)

2018 : Participated in RE SCHOOL Architecture Competition, Hosted by Volume Zero

I would like to see myself working as an intern and contribute my acquired skills and interest which provides an engaging and challenging work environment.

Cgpa sem 1 : 7.22 sem 2 : 8.06 sem 3 : 8.78 sem 4 : 9.36 sem 5 : 8.92 sem 6 : not declared

2020: Participated in Kaarwan National Design Competition - Quarantine Facility design for Temporary Healthcare

I believe in hard work, dedication, eagerness to learn and not give up towards my work as “Success is the courage to continue”, that counts!”

Selected for the ‘Workshop on Earthquake Resistant Practices’ at IIT Kanpur

Design can offer creative solutions to make our world a better place to live, thereby making a difference and I aspire to be a part of the CHANGE.

* Attended 6 sessions on Urbs Prima Indis: ‘The making of Bombay’ organised by the Mumbai Research Centre

INTEREST

LANGUAGES English, Hindi, Marathi shreyamnachanework@gmail.com +91 9004226541 Thane, Mumbai @_shreyarch_

SOFTWARES

HANDS ON

AutoCad Corel Draw Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Adobe Photoshop Sketchup Pro Lumion

Dot rendering Model Making Rendering Drafting Sketching

Ms Office

SKILLS

VOLUNTEERING 2019: KALYAN SMRUTIGANDHA- A journey through architectural history and heritage of Kalyan, Saint Gobain Scholarship Project.

2020: Member of the content team ‘VOX 2019-2020’ Annual College Magazine

ELECTIVE WORKSHOP

WORKSHOP 2018: Participated in ‘Industrial Design’From Expression to form’, held in collaboration with X-Pican.

2019: Completed workshop and training course of NATURAL DESIGN at ‘Architecture Autonomous’ under Ar. Gerard da Cunha.

Attended ‘A Masterclass by Ar. Rahul Mehrotra’ held by India culture lab Parametric Workshop, held by Elephant Creations. (BIM) 2020: Participated in the International workshop on ‘Application of Remote Sensing and GIS’

Sem 1 : Fine Arts Sem 2 : Contemporary Architects Sem 3 : Communication Skills Sem 4 : Earthquake Resistant Techniques Sem 5 : Space Making with human sense Sem 6 : Organizational Behaviour

EXHIBITION 2018: Kalpa Tour Documentation- as measured drawings, Himachal Pradesh 2019: Documenting ‘Kumartuli’- The Potter’s Community, Kolkata.

2020: Documenting the structures in Auroville, Pondicherry Btech and Architectural design and interior design portfolio selected for COA exhibition and college archival

Seeking the position of an intern from November 2020 to April 2021 This portfolio is a compilation of work done past 3 years of architecture course. No part of the portfolio can be copied or edited in any manner without prior permission of the author.

Ps : 1. All drawings, images, and texts in the portfolio have been produced by the author.

2. For the group and professional projects only drawings, images produced by the author has been displayed otherwise, credits have been mentioned.

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Knotting the c o n t e x t and a r c h i t e c t u r e

E x p l o r e and I n q u i s e

01 Abode: Reside and Rest - Hostel for working professionals

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02 Biblioteca - Library and convinence centre

05 Auroville - The ideal city of human unity

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सुख-शांती - Quarantine Facility design for temporary Healthcare

कुमारतुली

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- A clay idol maker-based community in Kolkata, India.

06 BDD chawl - low- cost social housing in बॉम्बे

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CHRONICLE

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N o t i o n of S p a c e

Architecture T h e o r y

Te c h n i c a l

Create

07 Space within a Space

09 Invisible cities- recollections of cities

11 Working drawings

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and their curiosities

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08 Delineate the ordinary threshold

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10 The master that he is... Geoffery Bawa

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Abode: Reside and Rest

1 Site facing the road toward khandeshwar station

Hostel for working professionals Home away from home?

Khandeshwar is one of the recently developed nodes of Navi Mumbai and a rapidly developing city and is well connected with roads and public transport systems, opening up job opportunities in this area.

2 The water body dried during summer

Khandeshwar is also connected by Navi Mumbai metro which connects the city. The design is a plug which connects the cities larger road network were migrant professionals can easily access the site for a place to stay and work.

The existing landscape near the site consist of barren land , natural existing water body on one side and residential blocks on the other. The water body flows in between the site and further connects the main canal.

The proposal aims to design a hostel for working professionals to connect and come together from various parts of the city and feel like they are living in their own home.

3 Barren site adjacent to the khandeshwar bridge.

4 Site facing the residential blocks

Project Type: Architectural Design (Semester 5) 2019 Project Location: Khandeshwar, Panvel, Navi Mumbai Project Guide: Ar Shubhangi Bhide Contextual Imagery 6

Knotting the context and architecture

Mapping the context of Khandeshwar, Panvel

Unit morphology showing spatial arrangement of sharing units

One sharing room

Two sharing room

The module accommodates a single person with an attached balcony for ventilation and proper workspace.

The unit has been designed to accommodate the everyday changing and increasing needs for two individuals sharing the same module.

Three sharing room

Circulation and courtyard

The unit is designed to have a separate toilet and bath facility. The furniture used is flexible which can be positioned according to the work requirements and personal activities. Balconies provide ventilation and a chill out space for the users.

The central courtyard is imagined to be a porous solution allowing not just physical but also visual connection. The circulation passage connects the central courtyard and the sitting area as an interactive corridor space viewing the foliage.

Plan showing the arrangement of the hostel blocks

Relationship between the built and the unbuilt

Topography affects architecture and can add great interest and value to a site and intent of the design.

We can infer relationships between the building and the context topography.

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Knotting the context and architecture

Analysis of buildings in terms of responsive built and unbuilt emphasizes connections. Buildings that are not marked by uniformity because they should always add value to their context and this requires much more than fitting in.

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Existing location mapping

Biblioteca

Library and convenience Centre

1 Located in a crunched context

The context, the surroundings, why is it important to represent the existing fabric?

The interpretation that new buildings ought to be adapted to their surroundings is a relatively new idea that emerged in architectural discourse for the first time in Milan in the 1950s.

2 Surrounded by mix used buildings Density maybe a city’s distinguishing feature. It’s a manifestation of our collective nature as human beings. But it’s not the whole truth about life in the city.

The public library is designed to respond to the context of a growing city and to welcome a large number of users. The main design idea is to be versatile and suitable for many different programs in urban areas.

Weekend is here..

What to do ???

I should visit the public library !!

R E A D ?

Project Type: Architectural Design (Semester 6) 2019-2020 Project Location: Dadar, Prabhadevi , Mumbai Project Guide: Ar. Swapna Ghatge 14

3 Site located near to the junctions

4 Site opposite G+ 17 buildings surrounded by chawls.

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SENSORY

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The main program is designed away from the junctions and road due to constant traffic noise.

ACCESSIBILITY

VIEW Clear viewing galleries towards Gopinath Chavan Chowk as no immediate high rise structures are adjacent to the site.

Major access from the main roads for better accessibility from both the connecting nodes.

Pedestrian circulation Greens Vehicular network

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Knotting the context and architecture

Understanding the neighborhood Dadar is the first planned area of Mumbai. It has a densely populated residential and shopping neighborhood. A prominent railway and bus service hub with local and national connectivity and also a hub for Marathi culture.

Organizing models

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View from the Gokhale Marg junction toward the site.

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The public built space visually connects the neighborhood context and creates interaction through spatial features.

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Separate entry and exits provided to avoid congestion as both the temples are adjacent to the site creating public gatherings. Access to the site connects the main road for easy accessibility.

The gradually increasing floor plates make the public building more inviting due to the dynamic form, connecting the G+2 as well as the highrise structures.

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The site sits in a dense urban context located in the prime area of Prabhadevi Dadar, which connects the two main nodes on either side.

The footpath adjacent to the site get occupied by the locals and becomes active due to the intensity of the temporary street vender’s, locals visiting the temple, eateries, and small retail shops.

Knotting the context and architecture

ORIENTATION

REPETITION

ROTATING VOLUMES

One triangle is oriented on the site that starts from the center of the Banyan tree.

The form evolves by overlapping the triangles of the same size and repeating them uniformly.

The triangles start rotating from the center of the tree. The circular shape mimics the banyan tree’s foliage showing the interrelation and connectivity with the existing tree and the building.

MASSING

WINDWARD ORIENTATION

TERRACES

Each program is represented by individual volume, which is then stacked around the central focus. i.e. the banyan tree as and organizing principle. The design follows vertical stepped massing.

Open balconies are designed towards the northeast direction to avoid harsh sunlight and utilized the diffused light.

The rotating and reducing floor plates form open terraces. The building’s vertically arranged open spaces are used as green spaces and open balconies

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ACTIVE EDGE

OPPOSITE EDGE

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Knotting the context and architecture

SITE

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The section tried to visualize how the neighborhood context and the building fit in together. The three-dimensional integration of program elements and spaces accommodates the multiple functions and relationships of space. We experience space in relation to where we have been or where we anticipate going. The drawing tries to create a mirage of space through assorted lines and a monochromatic colour scheme to highlight the details. Creating viewpoints through lines gives a third dimension that affects our perception of the space and a better understanding of volume.

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View 1 - Exterior view of the sit out space designed near the banyan tree

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View 1 - Exterior view of cafeteria and semi open dinning space

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Quarantine Facility design for temporary Healthcare

WHY NEAR THE OUTSKIRTS OF PANVEL? Studying the overall quarantine facilities available in Mumbai, Panvel Municipal Corporation is still facing a lack of quarantine cells and Isolation wards due to the rapid increase in COVID- 19. It is analyzed that the entire Navi Mumbai has only one COVID Hospital (MGM) at Kamothe.

SUSTAIN and SURVIVE Art of sustainable design “A Holistic Approach” The holistic architecture consists of the organic whole and mechanic whole. On the other hand sustainable refers to

Project Type: Karwaan design competition , 2020 Project Location: Morbe village, Panvel 28

Knotting the context and architecture

PLAN 1. Drive way 2. Patient’s entry

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3. Information desk

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4. Testing booth 5. Pharmacy

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12. Nursing station

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13. Cheif officers room 14. Staff rooms 15. Admin toilets

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16. Quarantine ward 17. Isolation wards 18. Medical waste disposal 19. Toilets 20. Loading unloading 21. Dining area 22. Cooking area 23. Storage

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Designing the structure as per the user analysis and understanding the function of each space, providing multiple courtyards and skylight for natural light and ventilation.

After zoning the area program the circulation passage for emergency entry and exits were designed.

Stage 3

Stage 4

The quarantine facility was designed in a linear grid for passage leading to the wards comfortable for wheelchairs and stretchers.

Detailing the facilities the circulation pattern of each user to avoid cross contamination and segregation of spaces through open courtyards.

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Knotting the context and architecture

The site selected is located at a distance of 20 minutes from Panvel city, away from the residential area. Surrounded by the Kalundri river on one side and the main road connecting Navi Mumbai and Morbe on another side.

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“ISOLATED YET INTERACTIVE�

View 1 - Exterior view of the temporary quarantine healthcare

High-quality structures offer a solution for the long term, not only for the current need but for future re modifications.

The size, configuration, and purpose of each space can be adapted for other needs and including changing negative pressure isolation rooms to positive pressure.

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Knotting the context and architecture

View 2 - Open to sky courtyard between the isolation ward and quarantine facillities

“A feeling of relaxation enabled by the arrangement of courtyards. The idea of this module is to allow sanitization and hygiene and also leads to social distancing. It intends to help, heal a patient in an environment rooted in nature and also give an architectural expression�

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Transom or putlog Double coupler Ledger

VIEW OF A TYPICAL ISOLATION WARD

Standard

Base plate

Coupler or joint

Standard Ledger Transom or putlog

Putlog coupier

Standard Ledger Transom or putlog

Coupler or joint Ledger

Standard Putlog Base plate Sole plate FIXING DETAILS OF TUBULAR SCAFFOLD 34

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TEMPORARY PVC FABRIC ROOF Easy to maintain Economical Can be installed in a day Double skin/ layered roof for better temperature control, creating comfortable inner space.

Perfect for outdoors REUSED SCAFFOLDING TUBES Sturdy and firm standing Can bear windload and pressure Longer durability due to steel Easily to assemble and dismantle

EXPLOTED VIEW OF A TYPICAL ISOLATION WARD (Explaining choice of surface materials)

TEMPORARY PVC WALL PANELS Lightweight : Requires two people to assemble Easy to assembled and dismantle Recyclable Low Maintenance and waterproof Easy to clean surface and smooth and finsih (hygenic) Strong, durable, long-lasting

TEMPORARY FLOORING WITH WOODEN BATTENS Reused and recyclable Easy to assembled and dismantle Cheap : Waste from construction site (Planks/ scaffoldings) Strong, durable, long-lasting

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कुमारतुली

A clay idol maker- based community in Kolkata Understand the various elements of both the material and Socio-religious life of communities and to try to reconstruct and study the cultural history of Kumartuli.

West of shambazzar proper occupying a small chunk of classic low-rise urbanity between Rabindra Sarani and the Hoogly is Kumartuli the neighborhood of potters and craftsmen.

Durga puja in Kolkata has been a new space for popular artistic production and consumption, of ideal making through ‘theme’ pujas.

Why document?

To Understand cultural current position occupational existence in the changing scenario and housing typology.

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MURTIKARA’S Work relentlessly, create the clay idols every year, only to see their creation begin eventually demolished in the rituals of immersion of the goddess.

The specialized occupational group whose livelihood is dependent on the making of clay images of deities.

Vats of clay, maquettes, armature, frameworks, and figures in various stages of evolution into glorious begins are to be seen everywhere in this working neighborhood.

Shilpi Netai Paul Ln, Sovabazar, Kumartuli, Shobhabazar, Kolkata

West Bengal

Kolkata

Kumartuli

Project Type: Documentation (Semester 4) 2018-2019 Project Location: Kumartuli, Kolkata, West Bengal Project Guide: Ar. Tejashree Lakras

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West of shambazzar proper occupying a small chunk of classic lowrise urbanity between Rabindra Sarani and the Hoogly is Kumartoli. the neighborhood of potters and craftsmen.

Although these lanes can be seen shops that cater to the threedimensional iconographic need of Hindu Calcutta. For it is here that most of the images for the great Durga puja festival are made. The likeness of the patron goddess is always in the work, as are other deities and temple items.

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Vats of clay, maquettes, armature, frameworks, and figures in various stages of evolution into glorious begins are to be seen everywhere in this working neighborhood.

MURTIKARA’S: Work relentlessly, creat the clay idols every year, only to see their creation begin eventually demolished in the rituals of immersion of the goddess.

The specialized occupational group whose livelihood is dependent on the making of clay images of deities.

Occupation result of the culture of idol worship among Hindus in India [ Bengalis] DURGA PUJA IN KOLKATA: Has been a new space for popular artistic production and consumption, of ideal making through ‘theme’ pujas.

AIM Understand the various elements of both the material and socio-religious life of communities and to try to reconstruct the cultural history of a particular area.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS : Form in relation to those ideal makers who are traditionally been associated with the craft for generations.

Understand cultural current position occupational existence in the changing scenario

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The workshops and residence of the Kumaruli are inter - linked in such a manner that one cannot be separated from another.

During the Festival time work goes on all day and all night therefore it would be inconvenient for the Kumars to live elsewhere.

The potters work is seasonal and they have workshops where they create the idols using clay from local rivers such as the Hooghly. Their patrons are wealthy families, individuals, clubs and businesses and they work to commission as well as selling images on the open market.

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Shilpi Netai Paul Lane, Kumartuli showcasing the busy ideal makers during the festive season.

The primary idea necessity of including a large area primarily for the storage of idols in the process of their making. Idols need to be dried from time to time in between processes and it is both beneficial for the residents as well as for their product if this area receives ample amount of sunlight in order to expedite the process and help maintain sanitary conditions in the neighbourhood.

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Visibility and display affects the trade since it is one of the primary way of selling the goods. A workshop which is easily visible from the roadside likely to have better business than the ones which are situated back lanes.

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“ The work of an idol maker doesn’t end in completing the clay image but also finding a Explore and Inquise

The well known artisans are situated in the better part of the locality. Large scale business owners have bigger warehouse and second workshop in diffierent place but they still have a small shop cum workshop in the main lane. I.e. Kumartuli or Banamali Sarkar street.

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Shop house Workshop space included with office and residence.

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Auroville

A ideal city of human unity “Auroville (City of Dawn) is an ‘Experimental’ township in Vilippuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India near Puducherry in South India. It was founded in 1968 by Mirra Richard (since her definitive setting in India called ‘The Mother’) and design by architect by Roger Anger. Auroville is meant to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to leave in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politic and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity.”

-Mirra Alfassa

A DREAM “ There should be somewhere on earth a place which no nation could claim, as its own where all human beings of goodwill who have a sincere aspiration, could leave freely as citizens of the world and obey one single authority, that of the supreme truth, a place of peace, concord and harmony... “ -The Mother

Project Type: Documentation (Third Year) 2019 Project Location: Auroville, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu Project Guide: Ar. Abhijit Sahasrabudhe

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Unity Pavilion: The Hall of Peace Designed by Piero & Gloria Built in 2002, The Unity Pavilion has since then provided a space for research and gathering, acting as a catalyst for the development of the International Zone of Auroville and research relating to human unity. The Unity Pavilion’s objective is to promote human unity and unity in diversity based on the ideals of Auroville.

“The world is a unity- it has always been and it is always so, even now it is so; it is not that it has not got the unity and the unity has to be brought in from outside and imposed upon it. Only the world is not conscious of its unity. It has to be made conscious.”

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Exploded view manifesting the spacial arrangement.

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DESIGN The first phase began in 2000, with a simple structure for offices and administration. The second phase, the main building, is a large multi-purpose hall built with good acoustic quality and light. The aim of the design was to create a harmonious atmosphere between space and materials; where people would feel comfortable, and at ease. The designing allows the hall to be used for a variety of functions ranging from conferences, meetings, exhibitions and simple musical performances. The building was inaugurated in 2012.

Exploded view showing the key elements and structural details.

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BDD chawl

Low cost social housing in बॉम्बे The housing type Chawls has been a very significant part of Mumbai’s history and this research looks exclusively at chawls in Mumbai. Many chawls were built during the nineteenth century and twentieth century. They were built by government or private landlords to accommodate the migrants coming from villages due to the rising employment opportunities in early Mumbai.

The BDD chawls represent a typological development where a wide central corridor gives access to single room tenements on either side.

Each tenement is serviced with an internal washroom, or mori.

Common toilets are located at one end of the corridor. In many of these buildings one room facing the staircase was kept as a common room.

These buildings often become part of a large planned layout with generous open spaces.

What is a Chawl?

Chawls are buildings with one room or two room units of not more than two hundred square feet attached by a common corridor with shared toilets on each floor.

‘CHAWLS’- were originally built for migrant male workers.

Predominantly located in the inner parts of the city.

BDD Chawl is located in Worli, Mumbai – predominantly occupied by textile mills (Early 1900’s). Neighborhood were built to accommodate mill workers, and migrants.

BDD Chawl covers an area of 24 hectares approximately, with a total population of 26,400.

Imagine a chawl and the larger schematics

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Unit morphology diagrams: Incrementality of housing units [ Alternative additions made by the tenants]

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MODIFIED LIVING UNIT First to fourth floor

EXTENDER VERANDAH CONNECTING THE OUTDOORS (Ground Floor)

The Room (Kholi) : A Kholi or a unit consider of living characters and kitchen, measuring around 12�

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COMMON TOILET

Common Toilets The residents do find using the common toilets awkward and inconvenient, especially the women, but they have become accustomed to this condition. Including the toilets in the units of the existing structure would be difficult because this would require significant structural and utility changes. If these changes were possible, many chawls in Mumbai would have already made them.

Corridors : The characterizing feature of a chawl could easily be its long, entwining corridors that served as key access points for the room inhabitants. Marked at the end of these corridors is an opening, where the main stairwell occurs. This opening is also where common sanitary facilities are located.

FLOOR PLAN

Due to the compact size of the housing units, corridors serve an unique function of becoming an extension to the living space.

It is often found that people begin to inhabit the corridors, store furniture, thereby making this transitional space as responsible as the courtyard in promoting a social landscape.

The courtyard (maidan) : Most chawls were known for their ample proportioned enclosed courtyards. These courtyards became extremely important social enablers, where festivals, religious functions as well as day-to-day activities like playing cricket, spontaneous discussions and ancillary kitchen activities occur. Courtyards are found in many scales and sizes and became a subject of interest in environmental performance due to their position.

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The open spaces between two blocks allows the residents to use it as a social space that binds the community and also forms

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predominant pedestrian path to move around the neighborhood.

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Space within a Space SPACE MAKING ... Organization A good house is a single thing, as well as a collection of many, and to make it requires a conceptual leap from the individual components to a vision of the whole.

The choices... represent ways of assembling the parts.

Here, the basic parts that is, the objects of a house can be put together to make more than just basic parts. The objects define the space, pattern and the outside domains.

They dramatize the most elementary act which architecture has to perform.

Spatial experience differ from one space to another based on the daily objects which make the space lively.

DIAGRAMS document my bedroom and how daily objects and furniture manifest a different experience all together.

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What is a Plan J u n y a I s h i g a m i, a Japanese architect through his table diagram demonstrated the process of plan making as process which needs the same amount of rigot and detailing as a building.

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Notion of Space

The objects are not showy in space, rather an important element of organization in space making.

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Plan in perspective?

Is it a plan?

Here the plan attempts to support the actors and objects by mapping and diagramming the territory and its multiple interpretations in action. It operates like a device to understand the space and its functional relationship that the objects share with space.

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Notion of Space

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Lets be productive..

Walking into the closet

Where I dream

Lets get ready!

Can the elevation be represented in a way of diagrams and mood boards showing the the spaces are utilized according to the user using the space?

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Threshold enhances our city to have a sense of transition within itself, the boundary between the public and the private. Thresholds provide an environment around the world based on the ways people use or could use the spaces where they live or work.

Delineate the ordinary threshold

The aim was to understand the role of a markets as an everyday convenience as well as a cultural entity, softening the hard edge between the public and private.

A place to display

Everyday street vender’s arranging the carts.

Vender’s occupying the street edges

Small wooden planks and plastic cartons used for display

Temporary foldable umbrella’s to survive the rains

Roads used as display

Boxes use for storage and display

“ No we don’t need anything “

Occupying the dead footpath

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Notion of Space

Upvan Lake Road, Thane west

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Invisible cities

Recollections of cities and their curiosities

DESCRIPTION The book explores imagination and the imaginable through the descriptions of cities by an explorer, Marco Polo. The book is framed as a conversation between the elderly and busy emperor Kublai Khan, who constantly has merchants coming to describe the state of his expanding and vast empire, and Polo.

The majority of the book consists of brief prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities that are narrated by Polo, many of which can be read as parables or meditations on culture, language, time, memory, death, or the general nature of human experience.

Short dialogue between Kublai and Polo are interspersed every five to ten cities discussing these topics. These interludes between the two characters are no less poetically constructed than the cities, and form a framing device that plays with the natural complexity of language and stories.

ITALO CALVINO

15 October 1923 - 19 September 1985 Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels.

His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy 1952-1959, the comics collection of short stories 1965, and the novels Invisible Cities 1972.

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In one key exchange in the middle of the book, Kublai prods Polo to tell him of the one city he has never mentioned directly—his hometown. Polo’s response: “Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.”

Over the nine chapters, Marco describes a total of fifty-five cities, all women’s names. The cities are divided into eleven thematic groups of five each.

Cities & Memory Cities & Desire Cities & Signs Thin Cities Trading Cities Cities & Eyes Cities & Names Cities & the Dead Cities & the Sky Continuous Cities Hidden Cities Architecture Theory

CITIES & EYES 3 After a seven days’ march through woodland, the traveller directed towards Baucis cannot see the city and yet he has arrived. The slender stilts that rise from the ground at a great distance from one another and are lost above the clouds support the city. You climb them with ladders. On the ground the inhabitants rarely show themselves: having already everything they need up there, they prefer not to come down.

Nothing of the city touches the earth except those long flamingo legs on which it rests and, when the days are sunny, a pierced, angular shadow that falls on the flamingo.

There are three hypotheses about the inhabitants of Baucis: that they hate the earth; that they respect it so much they avoid all contact; that they love it as it was before they existed and with spyglasses and telescope aimed downwards they never tire of examining it, leaf by leaf, stone by stone, ant by ant, contemplating with fascination their own absence.

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KEY WORDS Tropical Modernism, Regionalist Approch

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Geoffery Bawa 23 July 1919 -27 May 2003, Colombo, Sri Lanka

The master that he is...

Award: Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Deshamanya Award

ABSTRACT The paper wishes to study Bawa’s ideologies and methods that adopted a more ‘rationalist approach’ which became evident in his designs philosophy and architectural practice.

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building can only be understood by moving around and through it and by experiencing the modulation and feel the spaces one moves through it end by experiencing the modulation and feel of the spaces one moves through- from the outside into verandas, then rooms, passages, courtyards.” - Geoffery Bawa Architecture cannot be totally explained but must be experienced.

Figure 1: 33rd Lane, Colombo, Sri Lanka. 1960- Ground floor Plan Architecture Theory

INTRODUCTION “Forgive me but sometimes I need my solitude to create “ - Geoffery Bawa Bawa’s architectural career began at the end of 1957 when, at the age of thirty-eight, he returned to Ceylon after completing his studies at the Architectural Association in London and became a partner in the near moribund firm.

He returned to Sri Lanka and bought a derelict rubber estate near Bentota, where he planned to create an Italian garden, the likes of which he had seen on his travels. But his lack of technical knowledge hampered him.

The early buildings with which Bawa and Plesner were associated – such as the Ekala Industrial Estate - followed the precepts of Tropical Modernism that had been promoted at the Architectural Association. After 1961, however, he adopted a more regionalist approach which took its inspiration from traditional typologies and technologies. During his lifetime, Bawa produced a rich body of architectural works that often highlighted features familiarly associated with architectural features of the island of Sri Lanka.

His designs suggest a careful exploration of his journey to arrive at an appropriate architecture for the island. What are the sets of intentions that can be read from the works? How do we understand his works in relation to the issues of modernity, abstraction, and the context? Bawa has made it his mission to produce an appropriate architecture for his native country.

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Figure 3,4 : Second and first floor plan

FLOW OF SPACES Bawa’s efforts to fit his building into the site worked well through his choices in the spatial and formal arrangement.

If there is continuity in Bawa’s architecture, the appearance of courtyards in his design in Sri Lanka provides the clue.

Throughout his career, Bawa experimented with spatial arrangements based on the play between a series of courtyards in subsequent projects. Bawa treated this element as a basic idea that governed his approach to the spatial order of his architecture in plans and sections of his buildings.

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SETTING OUT PLAN

Working drawing The primary role or function of working drawings is to convert design data into construction information and to communicate the drawings through detailing. Dimensions, graphical information can be read and understood to further start constructing. The hostel design project in Semester 5 is further worked upon and detailed in the working drawing studio (Semester 6). Construction details of the staircase, space frames, toilets, and door windows have been worked out to understand the specifications.

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Understanding the geometry - The exercise is to understand the

characteristic outline of the surface configuration of a volumetric form.

Aim of this exercise is to recognize, identify, and categorize the elements of basic design by understanding a stone.

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Understanding the scale - While something is monumental in scale makes us feel small in comparison. Scale in architecture is based on the dimensions and proportion of the user and the space. Imagining the giving it a monumental gesture helped in understanding the proportion of the humans and the stone installation.

Highlighting the structure -The structural qualities and the pattern of the stone are traced starting from a single dot and ending up tracing a pattern. Dots and lines highlight the object, articulating the rigid surface of the stone.

Destroying structure - Deriving another pattern of the structure by alteration of the original shape and breaking the geometry of the stone’s texture.

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‘Big Ben’ Clock tower in London, England

‘Shore Temple ’ Building complex in Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu

‘Colosseum’ Cathedral in Paris, France

‘Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris’ Cathedral in Paris, France ‘Using the leftover’ Lamp design : Interior Design (Second Year)

‘Real and the Unreal’ Objects and Shadows : Basic Design (First Year)

‘Natural Design’ Workshop and Training course Architecture Autonomous, Goa Ar. Gerard da Cunha

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‘Hard is the new soft’ C4X Carving: Fine Art Studio (First Year)

Farma Design Fine Art Studio (First Year)

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