Architectural Portfolio by Vanshita Purwar

ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO Selected Works 2019 - Present

HouseCONTENTofWhispers Wetland Conservatory Artist Residency Dusty Landscapes Community Center Textile Museum Miscellaneous 01 02 04 03 05 06 07 2 4 8 12 18 26 32 38

House of Whispers Semester 4 Design Mentors : Rupali Gupte and Samir Raut 01 What is a Home 3

The process started by studying the 125 year old bada (a big shaded front yard) situated in the city of Amravati, where 6 families live there. Due to increasing family size this building has houses on almost all the four sides with each family having their own kitchen and a bathroom. Inside the house it is very easy for the people to converse among each other in the house without even stepping out or just while working. The communication just goes on through the windows or the balcony. The idea of home where gossip or regular talk travels in the whole house due to the closeness of the homes which makes it dense and easy to communicate with all the people around you makes it a Home of Whispers. For the design the site is in cluster two in Charkop. The plot is facing the courtyard and has a street at the back. The idea was to look at the pattern of how whispers travel. This was like a reflection of sound which travels back and forth and even bounces back. Which was like a projecting screen and led to rotation of the walls in the house which directs the path. The rotation of the wall to 45 degrees gives a sense of openness as well as closeness, where the front opens the space while the back gives a kind of privacy and closeness.

Views of the Home 5

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Mentor : Malak Singh Gill 02 Exploring Material 7

Artist Residency 5 Technology

The intent was to design an artist residency for two types of user groups. The site is situated in Powai near the Hiranandani Complex, facing the Powai lake. The questions that I was focusing on were how can the building become more interactive with the people inside the building and outside as well. The structure is placed on the site in such a way that you get a full view of the building on entering and the activities taking place in the space. The space affords two user groups which interact with each other and also with the surrounding and people around. The kitchen is placed in front of the entrance where the culinary artists are seen practicing while the music artists perform on the other end which becomes a pleasant space for the vendors towards that end. The pavilion in front of the performing area also becomes a seating for the passersby to sit and enjoy the performances.

The structure faces the north west direction, which helps in proper ventilation inside the building. The structure is framed with bamboo walls on the first floor and a load bearing structure of mud infills on the lower floor. The roof is a shed roof sloping towards the west and opens on the east to bring in the light. The roof is provided with gutters all around to collect the rainwater which can be used for different purposes.

Views of the Residency 10

Dusty Landscapes Semester 5 Design Mentor : Anuj Daga and Dushyant Asher With Nishith Parulekar 03 Technological Sensorium 11

The project was to design a space which emerges from the phenomena of two different actions or fellings. The phenomenon was chosen from the scenes of the movies ‘Mirror’ and ‘Blade Runner’. The phenomena from the movie mirror is where there is a flashback of the bursting of an atom bomb during the war. The burst creates a cloud of gasses and at the same time a cloud of particles is created around it. The phenomenon of standing at an edge of a building where you have an anxiety whether you are going to fall and having the sense of instability within yourself seeing the depth. Experiments were conducted to see and observe the phenomenon more carefully. We started working with the idea of creating feelings like anxiety through bursting while creating an edge. Principle of blowing dust using blowers, where an apparatus was created like a valley where the blowers are placed at the bottom of the valleys which blows out the dust creating a dust cloud which when settles on the sloping surface can seep down and can be again collected at the valley and can then be busted again from the valley thus repeating the process.

The site is a big ground with empty spaces around such that the dust which is produced through strong winds or children playing in grounds could also be welcomed by the structure which can be allowed to settle on the surfaces

As an experiment a small pavilion was designed by combining valleys with different angles of sloping surfaces at different levels and creating a walking edge at top of the surfaces thus creating an edge. The structure is made using polycarbonate sheets with a thickness of 3cm there will be two layers othis sheets. The structure is supported using metal rods which are anchored in the ground.

To achieve the valley condition different spaces were markef off on the site which are necessary for the program, then a grid was along it and from the grid we identified some intersecting spaces where a valley can be achieved.

To create the system of the two phenomena a valley condition is created where the blowers are placed at the bottom of the valleys which blows out the dust creating a dust cloud which when settles on the sloping surface can seep down and can be again collected at the valley and can then be busted again from the valley thus repeating the process.

Views of the Landscape 15

Community Center Semester 4 Technology Mentor : Saba Giradkar With Aakanksha Shah and Neha Dalvi 04 Exploring Modularity 17

The community center is a modular structure placed on an open ground in an informal settlement of Eksar called Dongripada. The pavilion becomes a center for community gathering with a kitchen and storage spaces. The structure also becomes a rescue center for the people living around. The center also can be used as a seating space for the people coming to eat at the kitchen. The structure is tensile made with cloth which is broken into triangular modules which sit on wooden poles anchored on the ground. The fabric used is a PVC tensile fabric which is anchored to the ground with a cable.

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The material also overlaps forming different densities. The events taking place in the structure are allotted based on the overlaps created by the fabric. The event and the toilet spaces are placed where the density of the fabric is high, whereas the kitchen has less density giving space for the hot air to escape.

The plinth of the structure is worked out in a similar way by breaking it in smaller triangles and trapeziums of same sizes. This allows the flexibility and modulation of the plinth according to one’s need and changes in the structure above.

The plinth is supported with wooden legs of different heights to allow flexibility in height.

Joineries Cloth and Cable Ground Anchor Pin Joint Joinery Membrane Attachment Joinery Scarf Joinery Anchor BoltJoinery 21

Furniture 22

Section AA’ Section BB’ Sections 23

View of the community center

Mentor : Gauri Joshi 06 System Details and Drawing 31

Textile Museum Semester 6 Working Drawing

Museum is a place of learning and experiencing history and evolution of the object. The intent was to design a textile museum where one can exchange information about the history of the place and experience different form of textiles and different equipment used to make them. The idea was to make a module of specific size and repeat it to bring the building together. The modules are of different heights to make different levels to have different connections with the space. The site is located in a cultural setting in Paithan . The site is surrounded by trees, a temple and river in front, and traditional Paithani saree makers all around.

ISSUED BY CHECKED BY SR.NO. DATE REVISION DESCRIPTION ALL DIMENSIONS ARE IN MILLIMETERS UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED. ALL THE WRITTEN DIMENSIONS ARE TO BE DRAWINGSFOLLOWED.TO BE SEEN WITH RESPECT TO ALL OTHER DRAWINGS ALL LEVELS SPECIFIED IN METERS. DO NOT SCALE THE DRAWING ALL DISCREPANCIES SHALL BE BROUGHT TO NOTICE TO THE ARCHITECT BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT OF ANY WORK. VERIFY FIELD CONDITIONS AND COORDINATION WITH THE PROJECT DOCUMENTS PRIOR TO PROCEEDING WITH THE WORK. WORK WITHIN THE FIELD BOUNDARIES AS SPECIFIED IN THE PROJECT DOCUMENT AND COMPLY WITH ALL THE APPLICABLE BUILDING CODES, REGULATIONS AND ORDINANCE REQUIREMENTS.OCCUPANTSONTHE ADJACENCIES TO THE PROJECT AREA SHALL DURINGUNINTERRUPTED/UNDISTURBEDCONTINUEOCCUPANCYTHECONSTRUCTIONOFTHEPROJECT.

Admin Exibit 3 Entrance Foyer KitchenWomen'sToilet Mid-landing 450mm Cafe UP SUBSTATION ROOM Lift Lift Lobby Courtyard Parapet Wall 10mm glass wall DOWN 0mm Parking Paver Blocks Verandah H H K K A B C D E F G A B C D E F G 327654213 VANSHITA PURWAR SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT THIRD YEAR B.ARCH ROLL NO A19- 29 Site Development Plan WD - SEA A - 03 AND ARCHITECTURE 2021 TEXTILE2022 MUSEUM , PAITHANDRAWING TITLE & NUMBER NORTH SCALE1:150 STAMP & GENERALSIGNNOTESKEYPLAN

Toilet Details 33

Staicase Details 34

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Wetland Conservatory Semester 6 Design Mentor : Shrikar Bhave 05 Enviornmental Thresholds 25

The coexistence creates a relationship between the site and its surroundings. The questions that emerged were how the site can be made more interactive with the people living around the site.? What are the kind programs or the spaces which can afford this interaction between the human and the nature?

The intent of the design was to create a wetland conservatory with an additional program. The thought is to create a park which consists of a small nursery, play area and leisure spaces. The impression of the site is a big basalt rock when sighted first. It is surrounded by the industries on the three sides on the eastern coastal edge of Mumbai. The site oversees the creek which is surrounded by coexistence of different ecosystems and biodiversity such as flora and fauna, wetlands, mangroves etc.

The intent of the design was to create a wetland conservatory with an additional program. The thought is to create a park which consists of a small nursery, play area and leisure spaces.

15M 15M Toilet Plan at 2.5 m LabChemistry Entrancelobby LabBio Educationandtraining Hydrologylab A A' B B' 27

Since the site experiences extreme heat and humid conditions brick as a material helps in maintaining the temperature inside the building, Brick jali walls on the facades gives an opportunity for cross ventilation which gives access to the wind to pass through the building.

The material used for construction of the space is exposed brick with jali walls and also windows and rotating fins a required by the space. The rock is cut and filled for the foundation of the building

The form of the building is such that it is created around the existing foliage without disturbing it. This gives an opportunity to create shaded spaces, which shapes the intent of the wetland conservatory to create semi-open spaces.

The roof is a one sided sloping roof facing the north to bring the reflected light inside, and helps hot air to escape. The spaces are designed in such a way that it creates a visual connection between the built and the natural form.

Sections SectionSection 29

Section AA’ Section BB’ 30

Photo Montage of saltpans in Sewri and how it changed in 25 years Sem 6, Settlement Sudies

Miscellaneous Work 07 37

39 Narrative Drawing of Bada in Amravati | Sem 4, Design

40 Ceramic Structures | Sem 7, Electives 1. 2. Analysis of Foot |Sem 1, Design 1. Group work on Ferrocement Structure |Sem 2, Technology 2. Concrete Block by Shriya Parab and Vanshita Purwar |Sem 2, Material Exploration

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