Undergraduate Architectural Portfolio I Soumya Pathak

ARCHITECTURE

PORTFOLIO SOUMYA PATHAK

Soumya Pathak

We as humans depend on our surroundings to embody the ideas we respect. Creativity and design has a much greater impact on our well being than we might think. Even the simplest of detail has the potential of speaking to us. It is not enough for a work of architecture to look simple but we must feel that it’s simplicity has been hard won. Be it a seamless wall of concrete or a wash of morning light over a plaster wall. The buildings we admire are those which praises the values we think worthwhile. It can be through material, texture, shapes or light to bring out specific aspects of our personalities.

As a student of architecture, i have tried to understand not only not tangible but also the intangible aspect of design.

SOUMYA PATHAK

Age: 23 D.O.B.: 16-11-1999 E-Mail: soumyapathak.116@gmail.com Contact: 8795618852 Nationality: Indian Languages: English, Hindi

EDUCATION

2018-Present

2004-17

Faculty of Architecture and ekistics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 110025

St. Fidelis College, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

COMPETITIONS EXTRA CURRICULAR

Solar Decathlon India Challenge, 2021-22 Division Winner (On-site construction worker housing)

Annual Nasa Design Competition- ANDC 2021 Shortlisted top 100

Annual Nasa Design Competition- ANDC 2020 Shortlisted top 25

Zonal Nasa Design Competition- ZNDC 2019

SOFTWARE

Autocad Photoshop Sketchup

Vray Revit

Illustrator Indesign Premiere pro M.S. Office

2022

AICTE Internship- Mission Amrit SarovarJal Dharohar Sanrakshan

2021-22

2019-20

Team Lead, Nexa- Solar Decathlon India

G.B. Member- AIESEC in Delhi University

Technical Team- Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2018-19

INTERESTS

DISTRICT CENTRE GROUP HOUSING PAVILION

HERITAGE INTERPRETATION CENTRE

SOLACE

Urban Design B.Arch Thesis Post pandemic bus terminal

Long span structures

OTHER WORKS

Solar Decathlon- On-site Construction worker housing Feroz Shah Kotla Baoli documentation

Miscellaneous

Softwares used: Autocad Sketchup Photoshop

District Centre

Academic project- 7th semester

Type- Urban Design

Site- Noida, Uttar Pradesh Site area- 88 Acres

Description- A district centre is instrumental in defining the image of a city. the project required to design a district centre to provide ammenities and promote social inclusion. The district centre brief neededshall comprise of state of the art galleries, five star hotels, clubs, museums, convention centre, entertainment zones for children, premium shopping malls and office blocks.

The proposed design scheme demonstrates the urban design principles and elements to promote distinctive sense of place.

The zoning for this proposal has been done according to major pedestrian movement. The central spine acts as a major attraction for public and therefore the spaces with high public attraction have been kept along the spine.

A combination of meanderin street concept, which explains how curved streets offer new view every moment, and straight streets, which represent monumentality have been used. A circus is a good way to experience to experience ever changing curve of a street. The central square corners have been concaved out to make space activities and social connections. The enclosure is achieved through european courtyard systems.

Axes Paths Nodes and Landmark Districts

Section through central plaza

The first square has a hexagonal green space in between. For the users wayfinding, the shopping mall area has a high rise which is identified as a landmark.

The second square i.e. central circus is enclosed by collonaded buildings promoting permeability. This circus is an intersection of commercial, recreatinal and institutional districts.

The third square marks the termination of boulevard with a landmark hotel.

Section through amphitheatre

Heritage Interpretation Centre

Redevelopment of Begum Hazrat Mahal Park

Academic project- 9th semester

Thesis project

Site- Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Site area- 12 Acres

Description- The development of Begum Hazrat Mahal Park will help the city in harnessing on its strength of heritage, culture, handicraft, cuisine and connectivity to encourage tourism. The proposed site is centrally located which lies in the close proximity of many buildings of historic importance. The complex of this site also includes a marble memorial which wa built by the Indian government to honour the contribution of Begum Hazrat Mahal in the mutiny of 1857. The site presently consists of huge unutilized green space with a very low footfall.

The transitioning of artcity to smart city proposal involves harnessing the strength of heritage and culture for economic development. The site is proposed to be developed as a central Awadh point which involves beautification of green space and encourage traditional and cultural activities. To make the project self-sustainable, a heritage interpretation centre will also help generate revenue for the maintenance of the entire site.

Structure plan Zoning Site Synthesis

DOCUMENTATION

VICTORIA MEMORIAL

LANDFORMS Forms: mounds, steps

Activities: climbing, sliding, crawling, rolling

OASIS Forms: streams, water ponds, wetlands, sprays

Activities: Splashing, floating objects

GARDENS Forms: flowers, steps, mounds, slant surfaces

Activities: digging, picking, planting, touch

MEADOWS Forms: Flat land, shading trees

Activities: Hide and seek, play with fauna

SCRUBLAND Forms: Pathways, Mazes, tunnels

Activities: Rest, running, crawling

WOODLAND Forms: pathways, tunnels, open space

Activities: running, crawling, rest

Solace In Solitude

POST PANDEMIC BUS TERMINAL

Zonal Nasa Design Competetion 2020

Shortisted entry in top 25

Type- Bus Terminal Site- Mohali

Description- Mobility can augment the special powers of architecture to encompass greater experiences while contributing more to the urban whole. Imagination of a post pandemic world, where no one faces hindrances in mobility is the utmost precedence of the project. The plight of the underprivileged migrant workers who were plunged under the dingy lockdown norms, needs to be profoundly acknowledged. The stakeholders can seek admittance inside the bus terminus, being efficiently shielded from the deadly trap of this pandemic or others that might strike.

Principles of covid responsive planning

Unidirectional circulation

The circulation, both of bus and passengers are kept unidirectional in order to avoid clashing.

Adaptability

The structure is aptly adaptable as it can serve purposes it was not initially intended to serve. During lockdown when many structures don’t function, the spaces in terminus will function to fulfill various purposes which a bus termius is not supposed to.

Office as homeless shelter

Ventilation

Flexibility

The concourse not only has open entries but the walls are made perforated via brickwork

Secondary measures

Reclaim Roofs Cafeteria

The roofs and balconies have been utilized for shifting tables from inside to outdoors.

Reclaim Unused Space Office

In case of no pandemic, the office departments are divided via movable walls (since plan has been made free flowing)

Parking as market Entry zone as general clinic

Landscape

Shifting indoor functions such as kiosks, information centres, and many more to outdoors, decreases density inside the terminus

Mezzanine Floor. Entry Zone Increasing floor area in a vertical axis and utilizing the height.

Entry zoneSanitization tunnel

ConcourseSignage and alternate seating OfficePartitions between desks

Waiting areaAlternate seating and LED screens

Ticketing areaposition markers and multiple ticket counters

Group Housing

Academic project- 8th semester

Type- Group Housing

Site- Jasola Vihar, New Delhi Site area- 5.6 Acres

DescriptionHousing is one of the most basic requirements of human survival. Quality housing also indicates sound socio-economic health of a country.

Site is located strategically adjacent to a metro line surrounded by residential developments and accessed by two roads.

Design- The commerical has been kept in one of the corners closer to the exterior roads for ease of goods supply. The HIG has been placed in centre giving closest proximity to the central green open space. The green space has been placed centrally in order to maximize access and views. The EWS has been placed at the back of the site keeping the salebility value of the housing apartments. As for the massing, the smaller towers are placed in front of the site while the taller ones are placed at the back. The mid rise MIG units are placed at the perihpery whic correspond to human scale. The streets designed inside the site also try to decrease enclosure with the help of staggering effect.

RESIDENTIAL BLOCKS

The residential blocks are symmetrically distributed about the central axis. Shorter towers in front, taller ones at the back. 6 floors MIGs in between those towers and the shortest 4 storey HIG closest to the centre point of the site.

WATER CHANNELS

Water channels run throughout the greens along the primary axis with pathways alongside connecting al the blocks

OPEN SPACES

Open spaces comprising of continuous greens are placed in the centre of the site so as to provide large open space that is easily accessible to all the residents.

SURFACE PARKING

Surface parking space is provided near the periphery along the vehicular road. The remaining parking space is provided in the basements to make site pedestrian friendly

PEDESTRIAN

MOVEMENT

The major pedestrian pathways are laid on regular intervals where they also function as division between various typologies of units.

VEHICULAR MOVEMENT

Vehicular movement is restricted in the periphery of the site which allows unhindered pedestrian movement within the site.

PavilionAcademic project- 5th semester

Type- Long span structures Site- Hypothetical

Description- The design explores lightness as visual, physical and sustainable approach, using a minimum number of materials to reduce its environmental impact. The intent was to design a long span structure to encompass various social, cultural, and formal activities taking place in an architectural college.

To separate formal spaces from informal ones, the entire structure has been divided in two. The timber structure is made to enclose formal spaces like exhibition galleries, offices and seminar hall. The tensile fabric structure serves as an informal semi open space for public gatherings. The form of both structures is made so that they complaiment each other in form of a smooth curve transition.

Softwares used: Autocad Sketchup Photoshop Vray

Site plan

Front elevation

Left elevation

Construction worker housing

Solar Decathlon Challenge 2021-22

Type- Modular Construction Worker Housing DIVISION WINNERS

Site- Rajkot, Gujarat

Description- Team work (12 members)Role- Team Lead (Team Nexa)

Worked on- Architectural design, Innovation, Communication, Graphics, Report compilation, Animations and video

Feroz Shah Kotla Baoli Documentation

Type- Waterbody documentation Site- Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

Description- Team work (15 members)Worked on- Research, Photography, Development proposals, Landscaping, Structural defects

Mission Amrit Sarovar- Jal Dharohar Sanrakshan

Site Situation through Photomontage- construction worker housing

S oumya P athak

Ph.- 8795618852

Mail- soumyapathak.116@gmail.com - soumya_._p