Vatsal B Shah Portfolio

vatsal bhavesh shah

vatsalshah09@utexas.edu

(512)758-9753 | Austin, TX

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vatsal-shah09/

language skills

• English

• Hindi

• Gujarati

• Marathi

software skills

• Autodesk AutoCAD (2D Drafting)

• Autodesk REVIT (BIM)

• Graphisoft Archicad (BIM)

• Adobe Photoshop (Post-Production)

• Adobe Illustrator (Post-Production)

• Adobe Indesign (Post-Production)

• Adobe Lightroom (Post-Production)

• SketchUp (3D Modelling)

• Rhinoceros 3D (3D Modelling)

• V-ray (Rendering)

• Lumion (Rendering)

• Twinmotion (Rendering)

• Enscape (Rendering)

• QGIS (GIS)

• ArcGIS (GIS)

• Climate Consultant (Energy Design)

• Microsoft Office (Management)

education

• The University of Texas at Austin

Master of Science in Urban Design 2022 - Present

Recruitment Scholarship: Sinclair Black Excellence Fund in Urban Design

• Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture & Environmental Studies

Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) 2014 - 2019 | University of Mumbai

Professional Affiliation: Member, Council of Architecture (COA), India

• Higher Secondary Certificate

Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics 2012 - 2014 | HSC Board Examination

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Urban Design Intern | Lake | Flato

Austin,Texas | June 2023 - Present

• Teaching Assistant | University of Texas

Austin,Texas | Jan 2024 - Present

• Graduate Research Assistant | University

Austin,Texas | Jan 2023 - Jan 2024

• Graduate Media Assistant | School of Austin,Texas | Aug. 2022 - Dec. 2022

• Project Architect | Freelancer

Vadodara, India | Dec. 2021 - June 2022

• Architectural Designer | S+PS Architects

Mumbai, India | Nov. 2020 - Dec. 2021

• Teaching Assistant | Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi

5th Year Design Dissertation Studio | Mumbai,

• Teaching Assistant | Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi

1st Year Introductory Workshop | Mumbai,

• Architecture Intern | Vo Trong Nghia Architects Ho chi minh city, Vietnam | Dec. 2017 -

awards and acheivements

• First Place

UT Austin ULI Award |UTSOA Yard Commons

• Merit Shortlisted Project

Kurula Varkey Design Forum, 19th Edition

Re-imagining the Sacred

• Honorable Mention

Thesis Of the Year Award 2021

Organized by Archmello

• Heritage Award for Merit in Documentation

INTACH 2016

The Lucknow Portfolio

• Exhibit Entry

ACA’s 6th International Design Competition

Undergraduate Thesis

STUDENT EXCHANGE

• ENSAS Student Exchange Program | Mumbai, India - Strasbourg, France | Nov.

-Held at Strasbourg School of Architecture, and Documentation of existing Urban Typologies across cities. Workshop and studio compared using parametric design tools.

exhibitions and publications

• Team Member

The State Of Architecture-Make/Shift Mumbai

• Curating Team Member

Exploring Practices Exhibition Committee

• The Lucknow Portfolio

KRVIA | Documentation,compilation &

• “Mumbai Morphologies”

KRVIA | Project featured in Studio Compilation

• Dehradun Publication - Centre of faith

KRVIA | Project featured in Studio Compilation

Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

Law, University of Texas at Austin

2022

Architects

Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture

Mumbai, India | Aug. 2020 - May 2021

Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture

Mumbai, India | July 2018 - Aug. 2018

Architects

April 2018

Edition 2020

Documentation

Competition

Complex Densities Studio

Nov. 2017

Architecture, France & KRVIA, India | Analysis

Typologies and densities of urban sprawls compared the urban densities of various sites

extra CURICULLAR

• General Secretary | Student Council 2016-2017

Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture

• Head Boy | Student Council 2012

St. John’s Universal High School

• Class Representative | 2015

Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture

• Team Member | Exhibition Committee 2015-2017

Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture

• Study Trip Organizing Committee | 2014,2015 & 2017

Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture

• Team Member | Exhibition Committee 2015

The Lucknow Portfolio

• Team Member | 2015 -2017

Dissertation Exhibition Committee KRVIA

• Student In-charge | 2016 & 2018

GIS Workshop & People of Kashmir Workshop

• Workshop Conductor | 2018

Food city workshop | KRVIA

WORKSHOPS

Print Making

Kaushik Mukhopadhyay | 2014

Urban Theory

Hussain Indorewala & Shweta Wagh | 2015

Cinematography Workshop

Devdutt Trivedi | 2015

City Walks

Hussain Indorewala | 2016

People Of Kashmir Workshop

Mirza Saaib Beg | 2016

Tensile Tensigrity

Shreya Sen | 2017

Parametric Modelling Workshop

S.Varano & O.Poulat | 2017

GIS Workshop

Javier Martinez | 2018

Mumbai III Exhibition Team | 2015

Committee | KRMLS 2015

Exhibition team| 2016

Compilation | 2017

faith

Compilation | 2017

I am an aspiring urban design professional. As an architect and designer, my key interests lie in dwelling into spatial design explorations and collaborative experiments that can enhance the built environment. “ “

noteThe contents of this portfolio, which include drawings, images, sketches, essays, etc. are the sole property of the author unless otherwise stated. Citations for collaborative and professional work have been provided in the required sections of the portfolio. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the prior permission of the author.

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01 yARD COMMONS

ULI Hines Student Competition 2023 Urban Design Competion North Charleston, South Carolina | 2023

- FIRST PLACE at ULI Awards, UT Austin

Done in collaboration with Shawn Lee, Nilay Shah, Jonathen Cohen and Max Meeks.

Recognizing the site’s location within a lower-income and more vulnerable area of North Charleston, we envision The Yard Commons as a neighborhood that not only enhances the broader community’s overall quality of life, but also sets them up for sustainable and equitable long term economic growth. The unique waterfront location also provides a rare opportunity to transform the site into a civic and recreational destination for the community. Grounding the design of The Yard Commons are therefore 3 key pillars: Livability, Accessibility, and Sustainability. Overall, through its strong emphasis on a climate-ready physical design and resiliencebuilding social program centered on current and future needs in this area, this transformational plan will generate positive benefits to the community.

Digital workflow : ArcGIS + Sketchup + AutoCAD + Photoshop + Illustrator + Indesign + Vray

mixed-use&mixed-incomedistrict rangeofhousingoptions communityeasyaccesstoeverydaybasicneeds landtrustforadayordablehousing carecentersurgentcarecenters&policeoutpost increasedmainretailspine densitybikefoodhalls&grocerystores andpedestriancorridors summerfarmers’market carnivalskatepark&ballcourts

IVABILITYL CCESSIBILITYA

SUSTAINABILITY

northcharlestonmuseum localartgallery artsandmusicfestivals skatepark&ballcourts publiclibraryafter-schoolprograms communitycenter upskillingcenters&traininginstitute jobmatchingcareercenters disadvantagedbusinessprograms exibleindustrial/o cespaces incubator&co-workingspaces live+workstudios businesssummits culturerecreationeconomicopportunities mobility climate resilience community stewardship shared bike system connectivity to future lcrt nature-based coastal parotection strategies gray defenses along waterfront green stormwater infrastructuree increased tree canopy pocket neighborhood parks adaptive reuse of old buildings leed-certi ed buildings sunken public spaces as retention ponds gardening and urban farming workshops sustainability festival earth day celebration noisette creek cleanup a walkabilityordabilitydiverseamenities

Current amenities

Low resident median age and variety of educational institutes

Current Mobility to site

Low income neighbourhood with low educational qualifications

Community is enclosed by infrastrcuture and industry with only one viable access to the riverfront

Proposed mobility network for accessible amenities

Programs catering to Upskilling and afterschool activities

Green flood mitigation stratergies will create an access for the neighbourhood to the riverfront

Design development

The green loop and fingers create a protective edge from the tidal waters of the Cooper River, spaces for recreation, and buffers from the adjacent railyard and industries.

The grid creates a network of shared and pedestrian streets in turn creating a wide variety of blocks and combinations of typologies.

Housing typologies

Multi-family housing

Multi-family housing

Retail + Housing Courtyard Housing Units

Several community amenities break the grid at regular intervals creating unique spaces based on their scales and individual adjacencies

Housing blocks fill up the space to form a cohesive community of Yard Common

Multi-family housing

Block type Housing

Units per

:

Single-family housing

Single-family housing

Work+Live Housing Townhouse

View looking at the Cove

View looking at the Marina near the Riverside Terrace

View looking at the Riverside Terrace

View looking at the Creekside Green

Gehl | Almy UD Studio

Academic Work | University of Texas at Austin San Fransisco, USA | Spring 2023

02 gateway to the bay

Done in collaboration with Sukriti Gandhi

Millbrae city is located in a unique place in the Silicon Valley. It has the distinct advantage of being right next to the airport creating opportunities for the city to become the gateway to the region. Millbrae station is one of the few places where the BART system intersects with the Caltrain, making it an important transit hub with the planned HSR (high speed rail) coming up in the future. The project imagines the Millbrae station development to be a holistic transitoriented development which envisions the city as the gateway to the bay area. The station imagines itself to be an important transit hub in the region, boosting not only the local economy but also having a significant impact on the regional economy. The project tries to envision the station to blur the strong lines of infrastructural divide by inculcating public concourse and programs as the binding elements that ensure seamless movement through neighbourhoods.

Digital work flow : ArcGIS + Sketchup + AutoCAD + Photoshop + Illustrator + Indesign + Lumion

site context

RIDERSHIP DATA

TARGET USER GROUP

URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK

BayshoreFwy101

HemlockAve

SerraAve

LindenAve

ChadborneAve

Broadway CaliforniaDr

NRollinsRd

MurchisonDr AviadorAve

ElCaminoReal

AdrianRd

MillbraeAve

Proposed changes and demoliton in existing fabric

BayshoreFwy101

Directing activities into the neighborhood by making key connections

HemlockAve

ChadborneAve

Broadway Broadway CaliforniaDr

NRollinsRd

MurchisonDr AviadorAve

ElCaminoReal

AdrianRd

MillbraeAve

ElCaminoReal

MillbraeAve

Re-routing and revintegrating transit connections around the station

Bridging communities through active network of public spaces

MillbraeAve

ElCaminoReal

MillbraeAve

ElCamino

PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION

Massing guideline adopted across the district

Active network of public scape and adjacent programatic edges on ground

GROUND FLOOR ACTIVATION

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Milbrae Commons and Cultural Plaza along the El Camino Real

Active connection of public concourse into the Unity plaza

Active connection to the public concourse along the milbrae station.

Entry plaza from the El Camino to the Station

View looking towards the Unit Plaza

Entry point of public concourse from the Milbrae Ave

Active connection of public concourse into the Unity plaza

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RE-IMagining THE SACRED

Urban Renewal Scheme

Academic Work | Undergraduate Thesis

City centre, Chandigarh | 2018 - 2019

The demolition of Hall of Nations in Delhi gave rise to various debates and questions surrounding the architectural practice. One of the dominant set of conflict that emerged out of these debates was the conflict between the terms ‘modern’ and ‘heritage’ . It is this precise conflict that the thesis attempts to address by exploring various architectural responses and possibilities. The massive urge for development often tends to supersede the relevance and cultural significance of some built forms, some have been lucky to escape this trap and have been preserved. In both the cases whether the built form achieves the status of ‘heritage’ or not, the common phenomenon one experiences is of urban decay and the inability to deal with urban evolution with passage of time. There needs to be a shift of focus from mere materialbased restorations towards larger understanding of the past and the present by adapting to tools that enable ideas of continuity.

The project tries to seek these answers in the modernist urban fabric of the city of Chandigarh. The city which has almost been frozen in the Corbusian memory and yearns for new vision that can accommodate for the urban evolution in the present time. The fundamental idea of the project is about transformation of the city centre by re-urbanization of the vast empty spaces that are available including the massive plaza and rejuvenating the dysfunctional spaces in the existing built forms. Resulting in an evolution from its past identity to a palimpsest future.

Digital workflow : QGIS + Sketchup +Enscape + AutoCAD + Photoshop + Illustrator + Indesign + Vray

Creating varied sets of hierarchy through urban plug-in that channel pedestrian movement in the vast space of the plaza.

Intermediate

Government sponsored canteens, co- working spaces and shaded leisure and recreational places.

Creation of new amphitheatres

Conceptual Master Plan for Urban

centre

new cultural plazas, amphitheatres

Urban Renewal of the City Center

Interactive urban plug-ins for users belonging to varied age groups and attracting new users groups.

Creating a harmonious balance between paved and unpaved areas & adequate amount of green cover.

A much needed extension for The Central Library & new knowledge centre.

Open exhibit spaces across the vast plaza generating more user engagement across city centre.

MASTER PLAN EVOLUTION

Extended grid acts as reference & guides further tactical urban intervention & landscape.

Existing Master plan of the city centre.

Extending pedestrian areas into parking zones in plaza.

Extending imaginary grid into the plaza and empty spaces as a system.

the grid forest of trees

Extending the existing grid as a reference that narrates and guides the further intervening in empty pockets and the plaza

The new extended grid also becomes the reference for landscaping and planting of new trees on the site.

Conceptual Building

The COVE

functional mass

New functional mass with idea of landscape and built form not being treated as different entities, but instead being woven into each other.

Building Diagram

directional corridors

Directional corridors helping generate connections across the entire city centre and act as circulatory directors on the site. Subconsciously helping break away from imaginary grid.

Existing Building

Existing Building

SECTION ee’

neelam cinema extension

THE COVE

The COVE is planned to infuse hybridity in terms of programming by introducing an innovation hub and upskilling centre in the city centre. The architectural form is derived from the idea of landscape and built form not being treated as different entities, but instead being woven into each other. The new built form embraces the idea of responding to its immediate context and utilizes the dysfunctional spaces available in the existing concrete-built forms surrounding it.

the cove

Reducing parking spaces in the plaza and replacing it with pedestrian movement and urban plug-ins. Provision for temporal infrastructure that promotes setting up of informal markets and weekly bazaars spread across parts of the plaza.

Creating varied sets of spatial hierarchy and pockets of public space in the vast space of the plaza. Integrating existing symbolic fountains and public infrastructure into the new design by additive transformation around it.

neelam cinema extension

Creating new pedestrian drop off points on the existing vehicular passages existing in the city centre.

Tactical urban interventions generating diverse sets of relations in the plaza catering to the plethora of user groups visiting the city centre.

DOWNTOWN TAPESTRY

04 downtown tapestry

ULI Hines Student Competition 2024 Urban Design Competion

Seattle, Washin | 2024

Done in collaboration with Anthony Zaghrini, Jamie Mandujano, Nilay Shah and Kunth Shah.

The grounding story of Downtown Tapestry stitches disconnected adjacent districts and splintered communities to form a robust urban linkage. The project transforms a former civic district into a thriving mixed-use development for complete living. The project unlocks the potential of re-zoningexisting civic programs to stitch mixed-use buildings via a series of green infrastructures. The Tapestry sits at the nexus of multiple districts with unique urban fabrics and diverse user groups. The mixed-use development is anchored by programmed open spaces, efficient mobility networks, and a pedestrian spine that stitches affordable housing and welfare with cultural expression and business, thus forming three key threads in the Tapestry – Connectivity, Community, and Economy.

Digital workflow : ArcGIS + Sketchup + AutoCAD + Photoshop + Illustrator + Indesign + Lumion

COMMUNITY

AMENITY

CONNECTIVITY

CONNECTED GREENS

ECONOMY

TOURISM

CONDOTEL

Downtown tapestry imagines to be not only a local magnet but take advantage of high tourist inflow form its surrounding neighbourhood. Generating a significant boost to local tourist economy.

CHIEF SI’AHL SQUARE

The square is imagined to be a public plaza which provides the community with quality open public space right in the heart of the downtown. At the same time it recognizes the cultural identity and historical roots of native americans in the region.

chief si’ahl square

SEATTLE HOTEL

The Old Kings County Courthouse is retrofitted and repurposed into a heritage hotel which will drive in tourism into the area.

REVAMPING CITY HALL PARK

Re-designing city hall park and making it the main entry point for the pedestrian spine.

THE LAUNCHPAD

Business incubation hub that helps innovators and local business network and collaborate with business professionals.

equal street

THE PITCH

The pitch serves as the recreation hub for the surrounding neighbourhoods. It aims to be the go to play area for kids at the same time a go to place for sports and fitness enthusiast.

reclaimCAMDEN.

Urban Design Studio III

Academic Work | University of Texas at Austin London,UK | 2023

05 reclaim camden

The project began with a vision to unlock Camden’s potential to be an ideal district, that is equitable, sustainable, energy efficient, community centric & food abundant, at the heart of London. This project is a testbed vision for how we should start imagining the inner cities of future. In a time where we are dealing with climate crisis, food shortage and resource depletion. Can we start envisioning cities as self-sustaining meta bodies. The project through its vision of Archipelagos, not only aims at reclaiming the lost and undesirable land in Camden Town, but also envision a new circular cycles of resource generation and distribution. Resulting in a sustainable model of city living for not only Camden town but become a role model for future city living worldwide.

Digital work-flow : ArcGIS + Sketchup + AutoCAD + Photoshop + Illustrator + Indesign

infrastructural barriers

reviving regent’s canal

RECLAIMING THE EDGES ALONG THE CANAL

HIGH STREET

CAPPINGTHE RAILWAYLINE

RECLAIMING LOST CANAL

GREENCONNECTORS GREENCONNECTORS

INFILL STRATEGIES

THESTITCHING CANAL

GREEN SPACE NETWORK

REVIVING UNDERUTILIZED INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE

GREEN SPACE NETWORK

INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT

LOCAL FOOD PRODUCTION & STORAGE

RAIN WATER HARVESTING & RE-IMAGINING THE CANAL

250 MWH

SOLAR ENERGY HARVESTED APPROX/YR.

INTEGRATED SYSTEMS APPROACH

Reference images of various components of Envac integrated waste management systems from Royal Seaport, Stockholm

Reference images of rain water, food production and energy harvesting systems from Royal Seaport, Stockholm

REIMAGINEOLDFABRIC

575

AFFORDABLE RESI UNITS

175

MARKET RATE RESI UNITS

65,000 FT2

HOTEL AREA

85,000 FT2

RETAIL + F&B AREA

57,500 FT2

OFFICE AREA

47,500 FT2

LIVE + WORK AREA

37,500 FT2

CO-WORKING AREA

22,000 FT2

AMENITY AREA

guiding lines

Academic Work | University of Austin, Texas Portland, USA | 2022

Done in collaboration with Erin Kim, Haley Brant and Alejandra Quintana.

Portland, Oregon’s northwest industrial district is a large urban industrial neighborhood situated along the northwest section of the Willamette river. The district’s 1.84 Square miles significantly contributes to Portland’s economy and provides a substantial number of jobs for the city. However, the once entirely riparian wetland is now a part of the Portland harbor superfund site. This area is experiencing pressure along its forest park edge where housing development is expanding. While it is an economically significant industrial area, there is a need for intervention to remediate the site’s pollution to provide a healthier environment for workers, a new population of residents, and the area’s ecology. Guiding lines provides a design strategy that preserves the industrial economy, remediates pollution, integrates housing, and embraces a cultural shift. This design approach utilizes editing through subtraction and a syntactic approach to develop a language for users to understand the network of public, semi-public and restricted areas found in the site. With an understanding that the site will change over time, this approach serves as an adaptive template for current and future use of the northwest industrial neighborhood. Overall, guiding lines embraces and preserves the site’s existing industrial economy while protecting the surrounding environment so a new population, culture, and ecology can thrive.

Digital workflow : QGIS + Sketchup + AutoCAD + Photoshop + Illustrator + Indesign

historical context

An Adaptive template for NW Industrial zone

PROPOSED CONCEPTUAL PLAN

PROPOSED MIXED USE

PUBLIC SPACES

EXTENSION TO EXISTING

RESTRICTED GREEN BUFFERS

TREATMENT LANDSCAPE

ACCESSIBLE LANDSCAPE

PROPOSED PUBLIC CORRIDORS

PROPOSED PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES TO EDGE AND THE FOREST

Green buffer strategies implemented to cure contamination

Reviving the Industrial area through remediating strategies

LANDSCAPE BUFFER STRATEGIES

URBAN TYPOLOGIES

MIXED USE TYPOLOGY + INDUSTRY

LIVE / WORK MIXED USE TYPOLOGY + INDUSTRY

MID RISE HOUSING + ROW HOUSE TYPOLOGY

ONLY ROW HOUSE TYPOLOGY

SCREEN

WIND / NOICE

TOPOGRAPHIC SCREEN INTERACTION OF LAYERS

RESTRICTED

SEMI PUBLIC PUBLIC

RESTRICTED

URBAN STREET STRATEGIES INDUSTRY

SEMI-PUBLIC

INDUSTRY+PEDESTRIAN

PUBLIC

INDUSTRY+PEDESTRIAN

RESIDENTIAL

RESIDENTIAL

Cascading transition of urban denisty

Pedestrian connection to the forest edge 1 2

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central corridor (INNOVATION

Cultural centre configured around the public scape and provision for co working places in the district. Creating distinct markers for the central corridor that enhance the public realm in the north west industrial corridor.

The infrastructure enables the vision of central corridor as a vibrant mixed use zone with spaces for recreation and amenities for not only residents but also the industrial workers in the area.

revitalize

Enivisioning the future of the northwest industrial district with an adaptive template for the neighborhood.Vacant industry building is adaptively re-used as maker’s space along with an extension that is a flexible space for the community of northwest industrial district, uplifting the existing artisit community in the area and promoting collaborations.

Flexibility opportunity

Adaptable spaces for local weekly markets to set up in the area. Enabling robust local transit system by setting up Trimet Bus Depot and providing infrastructure for amenities catering to the need of local workers

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Reasserting the identity

Urban Redevelopement proposal

Academic Work | Bridge Design Studio 9

Pragati Maidan, Delhi | 2018

Architecture in its physical state can be made to last for decades. Though the functional aspiration from a built form are always in a state of flux and one which is controlled by the ever changing urban evolution. The projects main aim was to negate with dual nature of architecture, to account for its existence and to negotiate with the evolution around it. It explored how architecture can embrace change as a necessary condition and provide an alternative imagination for the existing built-form.

The project looked at reasserting the identity of the hall of nations back into the precinct of pragati maidan and re purposing its programmatic output to the site and infilling it with new functions like temporal workshops, recreational zones, information kiosk etc. It proposes the new development as a palimpsest layer and how the existing halls can be infused with new life by re-purposing them as nodal interventions along with the new sets of programmes at site.

“The seeming permanence of architectural objects juxtaposed with the instability and ephemerality of contemporary society”

Digital workflow : Sketchup + AutoCAD + Photoshop + Illustrator + Indesign + Vray

Retaining existing halls on the site

New proposed transit systems at the site. (Metro line & underground vehicular passage)

New proposed exhibit halls

New nodal points & tactical fascilitating circulation

halls and trade interventions.

Laying of an imaginary grid which binds the site

tactical urban interventions circulation across the site.

Overlaying new landscape and circulatory paths across the site.

Circulatory Corridor for community

Adding functional mass on the

Expanding pedestrian area + Adding functional mass above

Puncturing

SITE + CEREMONIAL TANK + RELIGIOUS BODY

sunken plot

access + Direct access to the precinct

Sculpting additional mass into series of platforms and public viewing decks.

the mass and creating series of courtyards for light and ventillation.

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center of faith

Community Center + Public Gallery

Academic Work | Urban Design Studio + ADS 7

Jhanda Sahib Darbar, Dehradun | 2017

The project explored the changing nature of relationships between livelihoods, communities, and the terrain in the city of Dehradun. The precinct of the religious magnet, Jhanda Sahib Darbar, contributed to the major shift in functional dynamics during the festive season that usually overwhelmed the urban infrastructure of the city.

The project investigated the urban precinct of this religious magnet and proposed an intervention that not only aimed at absorbing such dynamic functional needs but also served as a connector between the community and the religious body. The aim of the project was not only to rejuvenate the religious precinct but also to provide a fresh urban narrative for the entire precinct and its community. The transformer then not only is an add-on but it provides a rejuvenated narrative to the existing site.

Digital workflow : Sketchup + AutoCAD + Photoshop + Illustrator + Indesign + Vray

Isometric view showing the entire precinct : The centre

+ Ceremonial Tank + Jhanda Saheb Darbar

JHANDA SAHEB DARBAR

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conversing with the past

Museum + Exhibit center

Academic Work | Architectural Design Studio 6

Mahanavami Dibba, Hampi | 2017

Architecture when used in its pure symbolist form can be a powerful medium to communicate and represent a symbolic event. Such has been the case of Mahanavami Dibba, each of its layer marked the victory of a different ruler and yet co existed and respected the architectural dialogue that the previous one attempted to express through its manifestation. How can the ‘new’ coexist along with a strong existing cultural symbol and monuments existing at the site? Can there be a dialogue between the present and the past ?

The project looks to explore the possibilities of answers to these questions and tries to strike a dialogue between what will be the ‘new’ and what already exists on site. Rather than questioning the existence of the monument the project aims at respecting it and mitigating itself as an offspring of the old. In turn, providing its users the spatial experience of the old and the new constantly clashing and conversing with each other and generating new relationship.

Digital workflow : Sketchup + Vray + AutoCAD + Photoshop + Illustrator + Indesign

LEVEL 3 plan

LEVEL 2 plan

LEVEL 1 plan

BASEMENT LEVEL plan

Section AA’ through museum and library

Section BB’ through central courtyard & exhibit spaces

Elevational conceptual massing diagrams

mass in elevation

s[p]lit

s[p]lit in upper mass

articulating s[p]lit

articulating s[p]lit

s[p]lit in upper mass

THE S[P]LIT HOUSE

Residential Project

Professional Work | Team : S+PS Architects Vadodara, Gujarat | 2020-2021

Located in the dense urban sprawl in the city of Vadodara. The brief for the project was to design a home for a family of 6 at a site that came along with its own contextual challenges and scale references. The design approach was to develop the formal language as layers of elements that are assembled together and have a minimalistic approach on the site. The greens are proposed to grow not only in the open garden but are allowed to penetrate and grow in pockets inside the house as well. The varied sets of splits are used as tools that manipulate the amount of light and ventilation across the house.

My Role :

Design Proposals | Client presentations & meetings BIM modelling & 3D renderings | Design development & Resolution | Structural drawings & co-ordination | Services drawings | Detail drawings & furniture design | Project management & site coordination | Correspondence & coordination with consultants & vendors

Digital workflow : ArchiCAD + Twinmotion +Sketchup + AutoCAD + Photoshop + Illustrator + Indesign

spiral wall

carved plinth + walled garden

grid

Internal View : View from sunken sitting pit in living area looking towards the garden

Internal View : View from the garden showing existing tree and temple around it

Internal View : View from the garden towards the hitchka

Internal View : View of the garden outside the living room

Internal View : View of dining area + passage

Internal View : View of dining area + passage

Sectional perspective view through the central passage

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Hospitality Project

Professional Work | Team- VTN Architects Tuy Hoa, Vietnam | 2017-2018

The SLR Hotel located in Tuy Hòa, Vietnam was a part of the Rosa Alba Resort project - a luxury beach resort planned to capture the essence of surrounding natural wonders of the Central Coast of Vietnam and host the guests with world class facilities.

My Role :

- BIM Modelling (REVIT) | 3D Base Modelling

- Working drawings and detailing

- Room Layout design proposals

- Client presentations & Layout Renders

Digital workflow : REVIT + Vray + Rhino + AutoCAD + Photoshop

+ Illustrator + Indesign

TEAM MEMBERS

The State of Architecture Exhibition | Make/Shift Mumbai III Rampart Gallery, Mumbai | 2016 My role : Panel design & Exhibition curation

The exhibition presents the state of contemporary architecture in India within a larger historical overview since Independence. It not only maps emerging practices but also discusses the aspirations they represesnt and stimulates a conversation on architecture among the architectural fraternity, patrons, and public at large. Embodying a spectrum of positions that characterise architectural production in India, the content is intended to be provocative and make explicit the multiple and often simultaneously valid, streams of architectural thought and engagement that truly represent the pluralism of India.

Make/Shift Mumbai III was one part of the exhibition which was organized by KRVIA showcasing the students and design cell work on the theme, ‘Reading, Imaginations and Propositions’.

Panel under the title ‘LIVE’, done in collaboration with Reshma Mathew

Photograph of the exhibition space at Rampart Gallery, Kalaghoda, Mumbai

collaborative projects

Tensile Integrity

Academic Work | Elective KRVIA | 2017

In collaboration with Ayushi Drolia, Abhishek Ajwani & Akanksha Bajaj

The course introduced the origins of Lightweight Architecture delving deep into the form finding process of Tensile Architecture and further attempts to explore the structural system of Tensigrity through scaled experimental models.

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 for achieving the same was hands on modelling to fully exploit anticlastic feature of the membrane forms.

Photographs of the scaled experimental physical models done in collaboration