Manav Siddhapura; Architecture and Design Portfolio

ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN PORTFOLIO MANAV SIDDHAPURA SELECTED WORKS FROM ACADEMICS AND WORK EXPERIENCE 2014 - 2019

Curriculum Vitae EDUCATION

MANAV SIDDHAPURA Seeking Position Jr. Architect Date of Birthday 9th October, 1996 Address 701, Olive Apartment, Devki Nagar, Borivali (West), Mumbai- 400 103.

Contact +91- 76666 75691 +91- 9930577474 Email siddhapuramanav@gmail.com LANGUAGE English Hindi Gujarati (Mother Tongue) Marathi French (read only) Sanskrit (read only)

2014-2019 2012-2014 2008-2012

Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environment Shree Narsee Monjee College of Commerce St. Lawrence High School

POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITIES 2018 Exhibition Team, KRVIA Annuals 2016 Admin and Alumni Secretary, Student Council 2016 Study Trip Committee 2016 Exhibition Team, KRVIA Annuals 2015 Sports Secretary, Student Council 2015 Exhibition Team, KRVIA Annuals 2014 Study Trip Committee

AWARDS

INTACH Award of Merit for Excellence in Documentation, 2016

WORKSHOPS

Sensitising Sustainability by Sangeeta Kapoor Workshop by Zameer Basrai Photo Journalism by Ritesh Uttamchandani Production of Home by Parmesh Shahani Print Making by Aseem Deuskar

SKILLSETS

Hand drafting Hand Rendering Model making Inking Carpentry Photography Claymodelling Welding Printmaking

AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator SketchUp V-Ray for SketchUp Microsoft Office

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Common Ground:

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Re-imagining Parade Ground

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Contemporary Mosque

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The Blur

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Tehsin ki Masjid (Measure Drawings)

Integration of refugee and local communities in Delhi Kalindi Kunj, New Delhi Final Year Design Dissertation

Parade Ground, Dehradun Forth Year Architectural Design Studio Malvani, Mumbai Second Year Architectural Design Studio Hampi, Karnataka Third Year Architectural Design Studio Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Second Year Architectural Design Studio

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Factory of Broken Dance

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R3

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Camouflagued

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Traveller’s Abode

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Second Year Architectural Design Studio Dharavi, Mumbai Third Year Architectural Design Studio Mahim Nature Park, Mumbai First Year Architectural Design Studio Bundi, Rajasthan Second Year Architectural Design Studio

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Forest of Heavy Mass

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Matharoo Associates

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Tensile Tensigrity

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Other Works

Sawantwadi, Maharashtra First Year Architectural Design Studio Professional Practise Shilaj, Ahmedabad Internship

Mumbai Mumbai

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Common Ground:

Integration of Refugee and Local Communities in Delhi Kalindi Kunj, New Delhi Guide: Jude D’Souza, JDAP | Final Year Design Dissertation

Right after the Partition of India in 1947, India has been host to many refugee communities, all of which come from different backgrounds and with different stories. Hundreds of refugee settlements have been formed over the duration of 72 years. Some settlements started as refugee camps and then became refugee colonies where as some were a result of illegal occupation of land.

This evolution of refugee settlements has led to unorganized and haphazard way of living. One can notice an invisible boundary line between a refugee settlement and an existing settlement.

Refugees come from a traumatic background looking for a transient safe place which eventually might end up being a long term shelter for them. Although arrival in a safe place provides initial relief but when they start facing new problems like unemployment, language barrier, legal status, homelessness and family separation, lack of education and healthcare, then the frustration starts building up. This creates a sense of insecurity and skepticism in their mind, leading them to end up being limited to their introverted nutshell. Accepting a new community into their society is difficult for the host community as well. It is important how the host community and the refugee community have reacted and affected the social, cultural and economic structure of that region.

This thesis looks at how architecture can serve as a tool in integration of a refugee community with the host community in an unknown context. It also tries to understand the evolution of existing refugee camps. It aims at formulating strategies through the learning that could be beneficial for the refugee community as well as the host community and improve their unorganized and haphazard living conditions.

Delhi being the State Capital has attracted many refugee communities to settle there. Few communities have been selected for further research depending on various aspects like demographics, land ownership, legal status, etc. The thesis will evaluate these settlements through various lenses like understanding the institutional set-up and planning and evolution of these settlements over time. Furthermore, studying the social and physical infrastructure, cultural integration, access to basic amenities, etc. These evaluations will be used to evolve learnings and strategies that could address such conditions in the near to distant future.

WHO IS A REFUGEE IN THE INDIAN STATE?

WHAT IS INTEGRATION OF REFUGEE AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES?

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THERE IS NO LEGISLATION FOR REFUGEES IN THE INDIAN STATE SPECIFICALLY. Marginalization

Integration HOW CAN ARCHITECTURE SERVE AS A TOOL IN INTEGRATING THE TWO COMMUNITIES?

IF NOT THE INDIAN STATE THEN WHO HELPS THESE REFUGEES TO START A NEW LIFE IN INDIA?

UNHCR, IT BEING THE HELPING HAND, WAS FOUND TO BE BARRICATED.

PLAN SHOWING REFUGEE SETTLEMENTS IN DELHI AND THE TIMELINE BELOW SHOW THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THESE SETTLEMENTS. THREE OF THESE SETTLEMENTS WERE SELECTED FOR FUTHER EVALUATIONS.

Tibetan Refugees Tibetan Refugees have illegally occupied this plot of land in New Aruna Nagar.

They started inhabiting this plot after 1960s. It is now famously known as Majnu-ka-Tila. The houses here are constructed haphazardly and the living conditions are very miserable. Yet, they have all the basic amenities like water, electricity, education, healthcare assistance and market space available to them. They have founded their own administration for maintaining the settlement and have self-run school for Tibetan kids. The houses were jugghi’s which are now developed into three or four storeys by the jugghi owners. The lanes in some parts of the settlement are just 1 meter with no sunlight available as the houses have been protruded out on the upper levels for more areas.

Speaking about their social lives, Tibetans are very well settled and have established a mini-government of their own.

By far Tibetan are the most well settled refugee community in India. One can also call Tibetans, the privileged ones.

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Pakistani Hindu Refugees Many Pakistan’s Hindus who’ve fled to India for fear of losing their religion find themselves in another set of predicaments here. They’re not granted refugee status. They come on tourist visa but extensions are difficult to secure. Those who have been here a long time and have been granted long term visas would apply for citizenship except the fees are too high for families of daily wage workers.

Barely half a kilometre away from the Tibetan refugee camp reside Pakistani Hindu refugees in their shanties. They started settling in Majnu Ka Tilla in 2011 when the first group of families from Pakistan crossed the border. Since then, they have been coming to India in huge numbers till date.

Next to the gurudwara, one can find many small makeshift huts where these Hindu refugees from Pakistan have set up a small community that tries to make a living by pushing ‘thelas’ on the posh streets of the Capital. Facing abysmal living conditions in Pakistan they moved here filled with an optimism.

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Rohingya Refugees Rohingya Refugees entered India as they were being persecuted by the Burmese Soldier for their religion. As their case sits in the definition of 1951 UN Convention, their claim for refugee status is being accepted by the UNHCR. There are about 17,000 Rohingyas in India today out of which 385 are settled in this site of Shaheen Bagh.

On site they have rented pieces of plots for Rs. 500-1000/month, electricity is being provided by the land owner. Water is not available to them and they do not even have the basic access to toilet. Water is brought on site with the help of water tankers that also once a week.

They have built their own house with the garbage they’ve collected. The living conditions are the worst among all the refugee settlements studied. Many of the men work as construction labourer or drive rickshaws while the rest usually go around picking garbage.

This site has been chosen for the design intervention depending on the criterias of the program of the proposed institute.

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BUILDING PROGRAM DIAGRAM

SITE ANALYSIS

COMMUNITY MAPPING

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NATURAL FEATURES

Proposed Site for Long Term Housing of Refugees Total Area=27000 sq.m approx Area to be assigned for Public Infrastructure= 15% of Total Area =4050 sq.m. approx

MASTER PLAN WITH ROOF PLAN OF PROPOSED INSTITUTE Total Area=28000 sq.m approx

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ASSEMBLY AND DETAILS OF PORTABLE MODULES The Portable modules are 3 x 3 x 3 (l x b x h) meters in size and can easily accommodate a family of 4. The modules are designed in such a way that they can be stacked on top of each other when not required. Assembling a single module can be done by 2 people and will require only 10-15 minutes.

The framework of the module is made using minimal steel and the roofing has been designed as a thermal insulator.

The modules can be added onto the walls of the institute or they can be connected to each other as shown in the drawings alongside. The modules can also be used to put up markets for the refugees to sell their self produced goods.

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Re-imagining Parade Ground

Dehradun, Uttarakhand Guide: Manisha Agarwal, Mobile Offices | Forth Year Architectural Design

The Project started with understating the recreational tourism system of Dehradun as an Urban Design studio. There were 3 stages in this studio, namely; analysis of the network, proposing an altenative network and defining the network. A site was selected based on the evaluations and strategies from the studio.

The selected site was then taken up as the site for a design intervention and programs were developed for the same.

The routes highlights the main traffic junctions which helps us understand that tourist spots that need to be accessed via Rajpur road are the high traffic roads whereas those spots that need not be accessed via Rajpur Road are not affected by car/bus traffic.

The graphs depict the average number of tourists per day in every month of the year who visit the various tourist places in different months of the year. The graph indicates that the peak season is from March to June.

This map aims at showing the existing tourism circuit of Dehradun by mapping out important tourist locations in the city,the access routes,the time taken to reach and the demographic change of the place due to the peak season and the off season in the city.It shows an interchange in the mode of transport taken to commute in the city and highlights the excessive use of private transport to reach the tourist destinations .It portrays the inefficiency in the current public transport that has led to congestion in the city during influx of population in peak season .The major congestion areas become the Rajpur road that leads to Mussoorie,the railway station area and the ISBT,where the transport interchange begins.

The graphs depict the average no. of tourists per day in every month of the year who use private and public transport. It shows rise in private transport during the peak season as these tourist places are more accessible with the private transport due to an inefficient public transport system.

The existing state of tourism is exhaustive on nth the city network and the tourist spots. The increasing rise of the private vehicles is creating chaos and commotion and increasing the time taken to travel to Mussourie and within Dehradun. We propose to reorganize the existing tourist network from a private oriented network to a public oriented network.

As most tourists halt in Dehradun for a day, we have proposed a single day itinerary for Dehradun, eventually culminating in Mussourie. By creating an interchange at the Parade Ground (private tourist vehicles are allowed until Parade Ground, from where City Tour Buses will operate), we reduce the amount of private vehicles in Dehradun, thereby lessening the traffic and time taken and providing for a comparatively comfortable journey.

The graphs depict the average number of tourists per day in every month of the year who visit the various tourist places by private and proposed public transport. It shows an increase in the public transport which makes the tourist places more accessible.

KEY PLAN In the future we imagine a different kinds of transport systems which connect the main tourist locations in Dehradun to Mussoorie, and it also aims to decentralise the current route to Mussoorie, as currently the city has escessive tourist population which creates congestion on Mall Road. The two kinds of new transport system introduced in order to reduce congestion are ropeways and funiculars that make transportation pleasurable in such a densely populated area.

Roadways: This public transport system takes the tourists to the various tourist spots across Dehradun and Mussoorie. The concorde and terminals are attached to an integrated tourist centre consisting of cafeterias, lodging and retail shops.

Ropeways: The Ropeway commences from Forest Research Institute (FRI) connecting major tourist spots of Dehradun and terminates at the Gun Hill POint in Mussoorie. The Stations are integrated with bus and cycling platforms, cafeteria, water tanks and viewing decks.

Funiculars: This system of transportation works as an alternative to a regular rail, in such a way that it can take a steeper gradient as compared to an ordinary rail line’s winding route. It commences from Sahastradhara and directly takes the tourist to Tehri road, offering scenic views of the valleys of Mussoorie.

Parade Ground which is supposed to be a ground for public is now no longer being used by them. Instead, it is being used for commercial purposes like hosting trade fairs, exhibitions, circus, etc. The project looks at re-imagining the entire parade ground precinct.

The organization of programs in parade is very random, as programs developed on the site over a longer period of time. The idea is to break through this organization of programs and to provide ground surface which will be open to public and can be accessed by them. Thus, the programs are either sunk in ground or are made to float.

Mussoorie is the main reason why people come the Dehradun and hence, Dehradun becomes a one day stop for the tourist. The Structure of the building is designed as such that it frames the mountains of Mussorie. They reveal themselves as one moves through the elevator.

FRAMING HILLS OF MUSSOORIE PARADE GROUND-MUSSOORIE AXIS

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Contemporary Mosque

Malvani, Mumbai Guide: Zameer Basrai, The Busride | Second Year Architectural Design

“From his hectic daily life, he left from work heading towards the mosque to read his afternoon prayers.”

The project looks at two contradictory aspects which are the profane and the religious and how these two can be used together to create a peaceful getaway. The profane that is the community hall and the library, religious being the mosque itself, blended with the intervention to create a sense of buffer space.

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This view shows how the reflection of water from the hauz changes the ambience inside the mosque and creates a peaceful aura for the people to read namaz.

The Corridor between the Profane and Religious, The Library and the Mosque.

External view of the model Sun Board, Grey Board, Copper wire.

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The Blur

Hampi, Karnataka Guide: Advait Potnis, DIG Architects| Third Year Architectural Design

Myth is a story that one explores in bits and pieces and gradually interprets those clues into a complete story. The building tries to give a person the same experience. It emerges out of the landscape of the scenic site of Sugreeva’s cave and the landscape flows into the building in the form of pathways and open spaces. Hence, the building becomes the blur between the Natural and the Man-made.

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Tehsin-ki-Masjid (Measure Drawings) Lucknow, Uttar Pardesh

Tehsin ki masjid is built by the Nazir Tehsin Ali Khan around the same year as Bara Imambara Complex. This Beautiful mosque built by the rubble that was discarded in the construction of Bara Imambara sits on a high raised platform accomodating other functions of the street underneath, in the phool wali gali in Lucknow. The rear side of the mosque has kothis constructed on and below that level and the front side has the famous Tunday kebabs, resulting in conveying more movement to the Masjid. The documentation of the raised platform was done using triangulation to achieve the edges with correct measurements. The drawings of the structure were made by dividing the structural elements into more basic geometrical shapes, whether it were plans, sections or elevations.

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Factory of Broken Dance

Rumi Darwaza, Lucknow Guide: Rohan Shivkumar | Second Year Architectural Design

Factory of Broken Dance is interpreted as an assembly line which produces a set of broken movements. Rumi Darwaza, often known as Gateway to Paradise, marks the entrance of the city. It is surrounded by monuments of the city like Bara and Chota Imambara, Teelewali Masjid, Picture Gallery, Satkhanda and the Clock Tower. The building becomes an assembly that produces and frames broken views of the monuments and the artifacts exhibited within. The space of the exhibition hall has a concrete shell which is punctured by the steel and glass cones, which frame the monuments and project into the internal spaces and break the monotony of it. These cones give the space a play of reflection and a ramp runs through these spaces.

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R3

Dharavi, Mumbai Guide: Nemish Shah, KSA Architects | Third Year Architectural Design

Being the cleanest place in Dharavi, why is it that Kumbharwada remains polluted throughout the year? The people of Kumbharwada might be good at traditional pottery and filling their stomachs but they never get the chance of exploring the art of ceramics. Looking at traditional pottery, it’s a long process as well as a long journey until the pot gets the final touch.

The project, R3, tries to revive kumbharwada, restore it and regenerate it. It revives Kumbharwada by providing them a meditation space. It restores the Kumbharwada by recollecting the traditional method of pottery and also regenerates it by enhancing the skills of the people of Kumbharwada by letting them explore the art of ceramics.

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Camouflaged

Mahim Nature Park, Mumbai Guide: Mansi bhatt, Dipie Mahidharia | First Year Architectural Desgin

A black and white potrait of a lady, calm and peaceful, sitting on a chair and staring at something while the lady blended with the background, which comforted and made her feel relaxed.

The interpretation was further used to design an intervention. The intervention looked at how a person can be comouflaged in a surrounding which provides that person a calm and peaceful place of their own. The site for a nature park and Pods were designed like an entension to a tree trunk for it.

CUT PLAN OF A POD

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Traveller’s Abode

Bundi, Rajasthan Guide: Rishi Raaj Borpujari | Second Year Architectural Design

Netherlandish Proverbs is an oil painting that depicts a scene in which humans and, to a lesser extent, animals and objects, offer literal illustrations of Dutch language proverbs.

The proverb, “to see the bears dancing”, which meant to be starving, was used as a tool to look at the characteristics of the site, that would accelerate the notion of being hungry. The project further developed into a house project. The tower is an adobe for a traveller who is always hungry for more travelling. The tower sits in the valley of Bundi and has floors that move up and down and rotates as well.

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Forest of Heavy Masses

Sawantwadi, Maharashtra Guide: Mansi Bhatt, Namrata Kapoor | First Year Architectural Design

Fairy tales are simple moral tales but what makes them great reading are the seductive possibilities of the gratification of all desire, the eternal myths- of perfect beauty, of the cornucopia, of sudden transformations like dust turning into gold, the magic object that will grant every wish. The city its objects and spaces too promise such miracles. The story becomes a lens to look at Sawantwadi’s own fairy tales woven around its markets, objects and spaces. The first stage is a drawing of the city seen through the fairy tale. The second, the making of a three dimensional one is to one space/object/device exploring the idea. The third, an architectural intervention in Sawantwadi, in an existing space.

Litte Red Riding Hood pluck a few lilies, followed the butterflies and entered a forest of tall pine trees which came all over the little girl.

Similarly, the toy shops in Sawantwadi had butterfly like toys that attracted the customers to enter the shop, only when they realise that they have entered a forest of toys where the toys came all over them. The intervention’s idea was to give people a feeling of huge volumes coming all over them.

WORLD OF TOYS; TOYS COMING OVER LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD GRAPHITE ON PAPER

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Resort at Udaipur

Professional Practise Kalarohi, Udaipur | Matharoo Associates | Internship

The concept of the project is that the building sits on the hill slope like a fort wall as one sees in Udaipur. The project is situated on a hill slope in Udaipur. There were many challenges to be tackled for this project. The Municipal Authority forbidded from cutting the hill slope.

Hence, the project is designed to sit on stilts. The client asked for 50 rooms, all of which had to have the view of lake pichola. Various organization were tried using 3D modelling. After resolving the organization, next challenge was to resolve the structure and services of the building.

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Asarwa Dharamshala

Professional Practise Asarwa, Ahmedabad | Matharoo Associates | Internship

A Jain Foundation approached the firm to design a Dharamshala in Ahmedabad. The site was situated amidst the old city to the eastern side of River Sabarmati. Like seen in the Old City of Ahmedabad, there are a lot of ‘Chowks’ and ‘Chabutras’ that create interactive spaces for people living there. The same features were tried to be incorporated in the design.

The clients wanted a fancy elevation and hence, entire focus of the project shifted to it. These are some of the elevations proposed to the client. Various materials and elements of facade were explored in this proposal.

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House for the Thakkars (Staircase Details)

Professional Practise Ahmedabad | Matharoo Associates | Internship

This sheet shows staircase detail of a project situated on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. Folded plate staircase is the go-to detail of the firm. A 70 mm sleek folded plate staircase of concrete, to ascend 2.5 meters of height, was resolved for the same.

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House for the Muthas (Skylight Details)

Professional Practise Chennai | Matharoo Associates | Internship

The Project is the same as the installation that was put in Venice Biennale’ 18 by the firm. The idea behind the design is that all the elements of the building are moulded from the same plane of concrete. Voids, formed on the roof by doing so, were treated as skylights. Four skylight details were to be resolved. The details are much simpler to deal with. Poly carobante sheets and Laminated safety glass was used for the same.

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Bhargav’s Residence

Professional Practise Ahmedabad | Matharoo Associates | Internship

This a proposal given to the clients for redeveloping their existing building while maintaining the present structure as it is. It was a challenging project given the restrictions by the structure of the building. The clients wanted to add an extra bedroom and a multipurpose hall. To the left are presentation drawings of the proposal and to the right are civil modifications which will have to be done to the existing structure.

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Pareek House

Professional Practise Ahmedabad | Matharoo Associates | Internship

A 20 meters x 20 meters plot was to be developed as a residential bungalow for a family.

Carving out a cube and creating spaces inside it was the main idea. The floor plans and zoning of programs were developed by a senior architect. 3D modelling was used to develop the form of the building. A study model was made of the same proposal using corrugated sheets.

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Tensile Tensigrity

Guide: Shreya Sen

The project deals with utilizing the tensile property of membranes to explore innovative forms. The objective being utilizing minimum supporting members thereby optimizing material usage but at the same time creating aesthetically pleasing spaces.

The methodology utilized was Hands on modelling to fully exploit the anticlastic feature of membrane forms.

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Other Works

Collaborative Projects

The designs are mainly inspired by the projects worked upon till date. Its a desgining process that accelerates the thinking over joineries and various systems. The amalgamation of various materials like steel, wood and concrete is attempted that gives a knowledge about its flexibility.

This process aids in designing the intervention to a great extent. All these projects are mainly collaborative projects

CONCRETE PLANTER BLOCKS As a part of Allied Design Studio, every student was asked to make these modules. The motive was to let students work hands on with concrete.

LIMERICK WORKSHOP Edward Lears Illustrations with a limerick were interpretted and an installation was created based on the interpretation.

MINIATURE MODELS OF POP As a part of Lucknow Documentation, POP models were made to understand the structure and its construction.

#GHAR KI KAHANI An installation was put up in the most active corridor of college and people were asked to donate objects with memories and stories to make it a home. At the end of the day, the installation was destroyed with all the objects in it to demonstrate that a memory is never attached to materialistic objects but they exist.

LEVITATION- Furniture Design This furniture design exercise mandated the amalgamation of steel, concrete and wood, the basic building materials, within a larger theme of levitation.

MTHOLOGIES OF HAMPI This is a map that traces the myths of Hampi. This map was designed like a sliding puzzle which in a way depicts how a person perceives a myth.

MANAV SIDDHAPURA

Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies Contact No.: +91-7666675691 Email id: SIDDHAPURAMANAV@GMAIL.COM