Architecture Portfolio 2019 : Vatsal Katelia

A R C H I T E C T U R A L

PORTFOLIO V A T S A L

K A T E L I A

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V A T S A L D.O.B.

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20 . 03 . 1998

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Email

: vatsalkatelia@hotmail.com

Phone

: +91 962 411 5040

Address : C/101, Utopian Corner New Alkapuri, Vadodara Gujarat, India 390021

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An aspiring student of Architecture, driven by hands-on creative work and inspired by all dimensions of Art, Architecture and Illustration.

Travelling

Photography

English

intermediate

Music

Table Tennis

Hindi

intermediate

Doodling

Badminton

Gujarati

intermediate

The following portfolio is a collection of my work that reflect my love, respect and passion for architecture and design.

Model Making

Tennis

I hope to contribute the same to your firm.

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K A T E L I A

EDUCATION 2013 - 14

Anand Vidya Vihar

2015 - 16 2016 - 19

Vadodara

10th Grade

Tejas Vidyalaya

Vadodara

12th Grade

Arvindbhai Patel Institute

Vallabh Vidyanagar

1st, 2nd, 3rd Year

of Environmental Design

WORK EXPERIENCE Feb 2018

Tensegrity Bamboo Workshop

GrowingTower.de

APIED Campus, Anand

July 2018

Lighting Narrative in Public Realm

Atelier Dada

APIED Campus, Anand

Nov 2018

Hands-On Construction Workshop

Laurie Baker Centre

Thiruvananthapuram

Feb 2019

Deployable Structure

Rahul Patel

APIED Campus, Anand

Mar 2017

Gwalior, Orchha : Related Study Programme

Documentation

Gwalior, Orchha

Dec 2017

M. S. University, Faculty of Performing Arts

Measure Drawing

Vadodara

Feb 2018

Hyperbolic Parabolic Structure

Public Installation

APIED Campus, Anand

Oct 2018

Kinetic Interactive Structure

Public Installation

APIED Campus, Anand

June 2018

Student Apprentice for 1 month

Reeca Infrastructure

Vadodara

2017-19

Club Co ordinator: Paint Box

Tech. & Graphics Club

APIED Campus, Anand

PROFICIENCY Software Proficiency /Hand-Skills

AutoCAD ArchiCAD Rhino

SketchUp

Adobe Photoshop

Model Making

Hand Drafting

Lumion

Adobe InDesign

Sketching

Hand Lettering

KeyShot

Adobe Illustrator

Painting

Hand Rendering

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CONTENTS

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Weekend Home for Yourself

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MEDITATION CENTRE

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Public Installation

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SKILL DEVELOPMENT CENTRE

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Documentation, MSU : Faculty of Performing Arts

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BASic Design : Sculpting the past

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Various works

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Year I | Semester II | Advance Anthropometry Studio | Champaner, Gujarat

Year II | Semester III | Material Studio | Vadodara, Gujarat

Year II | Semester IV | College Festival: Tamir ‘18 | APIED Campus, Gujarat

Year III | Semester V | Institutional Studio | Wilson Hill, Gujarat

Year II | Semester IV | Contextual Studio | Vadodara, Gujarat

Year II | Semester IV | Contextual Studio | Vadodara, Gujarat

Staircase Case Study | Post Tension Slab | Workshops | Graphic Atempts

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01 Weekend home for Yourself Mentor

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Prof. Rahul Patel

Studio

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Advance Anthropometry

Project Typology :

Weekend Home

Site Area

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2800 sq. mt.

Location

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Champaner, Gujarat

BRIEF Human dimensions and capabilities are paramount in determining a building’s dimensions and overall design.

The underlying principle of anthropometrics is that building designs should adapt to suit the human body. The following Studio dealt with various aspects of understanding human anthropometrics and implementation to a medium sized residential projects of a Weekend Home.

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CONCEPT This particular project was to address a family of three and their basic requirements, catering to the difference between their day-to-day routine and vacation lifestyle. The site is in Champaner, on a flat farm land overlooking the Pavagadh Hill. The form was an answer to the both aesthetical and spatial needs of a weekend home. Private and Public spaces were segregated with different floors, ensuring complete isolation.

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View from the Entrance Area 2.

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1. Entrance 2. Parking 3. Residence 4. Swimming Pool 5. Mango Farm 6. Gazebo

Site Plan 3

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Ground Floor Plan

1. Entrance 2. Living Area 3. Dinning Are 4. Kitchen 5. Utility 6. Back-Yard

East Elevations

View from the Dinning Area

South Elevations 1.

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First Floor Plan

1. Reading Area 2. Living Area 3. Balcony : 01 4. Kid’s Bedroom 5. Master Bedroom 6. Balcony : 02

West Elevations 4

02 MEDITATION CENTRE Mentor

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Prof. Rahul Patel

Studio

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Material Studio

Project Typology :

Rehab Centre

Site Area

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9400 sq. mt.

Location

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Vadodara, Gujarat

BRIEF The aim here was to design a place for the spiritual healing and elevating for society with the help of Meditation and Art Therapy Centre. The space should be an experience that facilitates connection to self and makes sure an emotionally and physically healthy society. Also it should be capable of an isolation from the chaos present in the outside world. A plot near a jaggery factory in the outskirts of Vadodara was assigned for the same.

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CONCEPT The concept behind the design of Meditation Centre is quite simple. The idea was to achieve a seamless design which identifies itself as a singular mass and directs the main focus towards the central stage on the inside. The user group meditating inside won’t have any point of focus besides the stage to distract them from concentrating as the whole structure seems to be continuous. The form was designed using Reinforced Cement Concrete Prefabricated Modules which comes together on site in a seamless manner.

MATERIALS USED

Concrete

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Steel

Glass

Guiding Entrance

Reinforced Cement Concrete Shell Roof Structure with Circular Skylight

Prefabricated RCC Curved Walls with Facade Glass on East, South and West Side Meditation Hall Internal Play

Base Element with Planters and Partition Wall which guides the Entrance

Isometric Exploded Form-work of Meditation Hall 8

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Section YY’

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Refer Detail “A” Z

Plan - Meditation Hall In plan, the structure opens up towards Eastern, Southern and Western Direction to capture the maximum amount of Daylight during the day time. Seven Tangents extends out forward to achieve the design. At the end of each tangents, a DGU Glass is provided which also helps in achieving the desired NRC levels.

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Section ZZ’

Facade Glass DGU to let daylight enter the spaces RCC Module 1 Base Module’s Floor Wooden Frame for Facade Glass - Jamb Joinery which connects two different modules RCC Module 2 Exterior Landscape

Typical Facade Glass Joinery at “A” RCC Plinth Base on which Prefabricated Shells would connect RCC Floor Slab

Metal Plate on which RCC Slab would rest.

Typical Plinth to Slab Joinery Deatail 10

03 Public Installation Project Typology :

Temporary Structure

Site Area

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100 sq. mt..

Location

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Entrance, APIED Campus

BRIEF Festivals are the key source of energy. Theme based Traditional Installations, Lampshades and a positive environment are the soil in which roots are laid in. It caters the occasion and also enhances the ambience at the campus. To design a space which acts as a buffer for audience and guide them through the transition, making them a little conscious and aware about the festive surround they are about to experience. The Entrance was chosen to do so, as it connects the main gate and the entrance foyer of the institute.

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CONCEPT The idea was to create an ambience to cater the socio-cultural aspect of the annual college festival as a transitional space between outside and inside of the institute. The shelter was to be designed as a light structure which wouldn’t disturb the surrounding context. The idea was driven by keeping in mind the reinforcement laid in a hyperbolic parabolic structure and using it to create a light and porous canopy. The entire structure has been formulated by repeating a single module arrangement with congruent principles.

MATERIALS USED Institution Built-Up

Plan Depicting the location of the Installation Bamboo

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Jute Rope

Entrance

Split - Column Detail

Junction Between two Modules

Beam - Column Joinery Detail

This is what it looked like

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04 Skill development centre Mentor

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Prof. Jyoti Gill

Studio

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Institutional Studio

Project Typology :

Institute

Site Area

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13000 sq. mt..

Location

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Wilson Hill, Gujarat

BRIEF There was need felt for scaling up concerted efforts to enhance skill development in India, in response to identified gap in the area of skill development. The Studio engaged in understanding scale and complexity of institutional type projects. The design program was to design a Skill Development Institute in Wilson Hill, Gujarat. It revolved around designing skill based Training-Workshops, Audio-Visual lecture Rooms and Administration Offices. The program explored the possibilities of designing in a tight piece of hilly terrain and relationship between one built mass to another, helping to bind together a cohesive campus environment.

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CONCEPT As long as education is concerned, the best way to learn something is by learning through “ Discovery “. Responding to the site’s natural topography, masses were placed and oriented in such a way that overall excavation cost and labour could be reduced to a minimal proportion, which might result in cost reduction of the overall project. Pathways and Roadways were established keeping in mind the slope and contour map of the site. Keeping in mind all the different aspects, a plan was freezed with a central spine which indicated the primary passage and around it different verticals on the either side of the spine.

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Common Amenities

Academic Ties

Water Body / Utility

Built Up Masses

Spill Over Spaces

Parking etc.

Gradual stepped masses encourages wind and light intake. Strategically placed in line of wind and light direction, these masses are configured to allow cross ventilation.

Number of four way junctions are avoided as long as possible to decrease the unnecessary footprint traffic at these junctions.

Visual Connection is established between passages/ spill-overs at different levels. Cantilevered masses helps in creating informal pockets which later acts as spill-overs for workshops.

A lot of play in levels was to be incorporated as guided by the site. Opening were strategically placed to achieve required amount of user comfort.

The provided area is on a hilly terrain with an elevation of 500 meters above sea level. The site levels varies from 490 meters to 512 meters. The elevation gradually increases as we walk towards north direction. The weather of Wilson Hills is calm and pleasant with very less humidity as compared to the plains. The summers are warm but enjoyable and cool blowing winds lowers down the temperature.

Remarkable Views from the Wilson Hill Site

Steep Slope as seen in the picture above 18

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A Ground Floor Plan | Skill Enhancement, Humanities and Auditorium

View ‘A’ : Welcoming Entrance 19

First Floor Plan | Skill Enhancement, Humanities and Auditorium

View ‘B’ : Landscape Elements used as Guides

View ‘C’ : Courtya

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Ground Floor Plan | Soft Skills, Library and Canteen

ards as a Spill Over

First Floor Plan | Soft Skills, Library and Canteen

View ‘D’ : Accessibility for Specially-Abled

View ‘E’ : Visual Connectivity at Different Levels 20

RCC Wind Catcher C MS Section Channel MS Steel Louvres MS Steel Rods

Wooden Base RCC Coping RCC Slab and Beam Rat Trap Bond

Wind Catcher Isometric View

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Wind Catcher Detail

DESIGN EMPHASIS RCC Slab RCC Beam

MS Steel Jali RCC Column RCC Coping

An idea was to achieve clusters forming “ Spaces of Pauses � in between. The overall built form would be a singular mass and not different masses spread over the site. Each of these pauses would have a different identity, essence or a scenic beauty, hence giving the user group contrary emotions respectively. It will also help in increasing interaction between students, even of different verticals, which is very essential for a student. Most of the workshops or lecture rooms are provided with wind catcher and vents for continuous wind exchange, allowing massive amount of cross ventilation all the time.

Brick Partition Wall

MS Jali Working as Vents

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05 Documentation Faculty of Performing Arts Mentor

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Prof. Manoj Rami

Studio

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Contextual Studio

Project Typology :

Performing Arts Institute

Site Area

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6400 sq. mt.

Location

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Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara

BRIEF Heritage value refers to the aesthetic, historic, cultural, social importance or significance for past, present or future generations. To understand how Sayajirao’s vision of public education manifested in the form of elaborate Indo Saracenic Architecture and how the function guides space, hierarchy and order along with maintaining its climate responsiveness, scale and proportions that responds to the public scale.

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CONSTRUE Vadodara is unique blend of diversity, straddling a mixture of cultures with a long rich historical background. The river Vishwamitri cuts across the city and divides it into two distinct Eastern and Western region. Standing still since 1884, “Sangeet Shala� now known as Faculty of Performing Arts has seized to amaze everyone with its Indo-Saracenic style of architectural beauty. It was founded by Shri Sayaji Rao Gaekwad, the ruler of Vadodara City.

1721 : Chandan Talav

1886 : Exploration on South Edge

1900 : Removal of Gola Community Built-Up Spaces Open Spaces

1750 : Enlarged Sur Sagar Lake

1892 : Nyay Mandir

Commercial Buildings

1910 : Jubeli Baug

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Public Amenity Institutional Buildings Residential Buildings Residential + Commercial Religious Institution

1860 : Densely Surrounded by Buildings

1898 : Expropriation on West Bank

1921 : BCIT Expropriation

Primary Street 1860 : Civic Institute Buildings

1917 : Expropriation on North Bank

Evolution of the Context over few decades 25

Secondary Street

1960 : Padmavati Shopping Centre

Tertiary Street

Context Mapping

Panoramic View of

Classes / Lectures

the Present Context

Administrator

Primary Commute

Studios

Secondary Commute

Various Space Differentiation

Internal Masses and relationship between them 26

Ground Floor Layout

First Floor Layout 27

On Site Sketches

Classroom Window Detail

Classroom Door Detail

Section YY’

Section ZZ’ 28

06 Basic Design Sculpting the past Mentor

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Prof. Monal Mistry

Studio

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Basic Design III

Project Typology : Location

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Historic Monument Florence, Italy

BRIEF Different buildings having their each own architectural characteristic were given to pre-assigned groups and through the process of putting lines and planes in it, we understand its structure and the design principles associated with it. Through various exercises aimed at decoding the existing structure into its points, lines and planes, and by making models, both in groups as well as individually. And illuminate its intimate relationship of design principles and its understanding to gain its designing principle.

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Various works Staircase Case Study | Post Tension Slab | Workshops | Graphic Atempts

Academics enriches your life, but Extra-curricular activities enriches your soul. It lets you to get involved to the extent you desire. It also demonstrates your commitment to that particular area.

Constructing Beam using Bamboo

Constructing Semicircular Arch using Bricks

Learning to tie Reinforcem

L Junction using Random Rubble Stone Masonry

Constructing Rat Trap Bond using Bricks

RCC Filler Slab with Manga

Laurie Baker Centre

Laurie Baker Centre

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Laurie Baker Centre

Laurie Baker Centre

Laurie Baker Centre

Laurie Baker Centre

ment Bars

Deployable Geodesic Dome : Opened

Deployable Space Frame : Closed

alore Tiles as filler material

Deployable Geodesic Dome : in Closing

Deployable Space Frame : Opened

Deployable Structures

Deployable Structures

Deployable Structures

Deployable Structures

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Section

Plan

RCC WAIST SLAB STAIRCASE : CASE STUDY The staircase was measure drawn on-site in Vallabh Vidyanagar, as a part of our building construction case study. Later, a model was constructed understanding the basic idea of the given staircase typology.

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RCC PT SLAB : STUDY MODEL The aim was to study and learn the functioning of post tension slab. The model was accomplished using thermocol sheets, straws, and plastic wire.

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photographs, GRAPHIC DESIGNS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology

Orchha Temple

Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Laurie Baker Centre Trivandrum, Kerela

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Orchha, Madhya Pradesh

Potrait

Orchha, Madhya Pradesh

Orchha Fort

Orchha, Madhya Pradesh

STUDENT’S CLUB

Arvindbhai Patel Institute of Environmental Design

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Thank You vatsalkatelia@hotmail.com +91 962 411 5040 ‌