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Vishweshwar singh | Undergrad Portfolio Selected works | March 2019

Amdavad ni guda, Ahmedabad, India

Hi, my name is Vishweshwar Singh. I am a 5th year student at ‘Sri Venkateshwara College of Architecture’, Hyderabad, India. My passion for Architecture initiated from my love for art and functionality. I believe the design process should be as playful as it is thoughtful and i am interested in the stories that emerge from spacial exploration.

Looking forward to making your acquaintaince.

CONTENTS

COVER LETTER ACADEMIC WORKS 2017 2018 2016

Bathous Craftsmen Workshop The Pavilion

COMPETITION WORKS 2018 2017 2017 OTHER WORKS

Museum of Language School without classrooms The Bench Model Making 3D Visualisation / Rendering Theatre Production

Vishweshwar Singh Malkapuri +91 8309231250 vishweshwarsingh3@gmail.com

OBJECTIVES

I seek opportunities, interesting people and experience. i offer reliable and responsible approach, creativity and initivative.

WORKING EXPERIENCE Intern architect

2016 little river architects, Bangalore, India.

Intern architect

2017-2019 deccan amalgam architects, Hyderabad, India.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Architecture 2014-2019.

Sri Venkateshwara College of Architecture, Hyderabad, India.

HONOURS www.archasm.com www.archoutloud.com

2018 Museum of Language 1st prize International Level HOME Director’s choice award International Level 2017

www.adityacampus.org/idc/ www.archasm.com www.unfuse.uni.xyz

Reinventing Boundaries Presented at the state art gallery International Level School without classrooms Top 50 International Level The Black Taj competition Top 30 International Level 2016

www.sqrfactor.com

Gwalior school of music Top 10 National Level 2015

www.iiid.net.in www.nasaindia.co.in SOFTWARE SKILLS

OTHER SKILLS

Jashn-e-design 1st prize National Level Annual NASA design competition Juror’s choice award National Level Autodesk Autocad Grahphisoft Archicad Autodesk Revit Google Sketchup Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign Lumion Vray Final cut pro x MS Office Model making Carpentry Photography Theatre production Video editing

Academic works 2016 SACRED SPACE, VENECHAD BATHOUS The idea was to create a ‘silent’ space.

A space which moulds with the person’s thinking.

Vennached is a Village in Gandeed Mandal in Rangareddi District of Telangana State, India. It belongs to Telangana region . It is located 58 KM towards west from District head quarters Hyderabad. 7 KM from Gandeed.

Location Map Scale: 1:250 Site area:

349 sq.mtrs

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1. Bathouse 2. Showers 3. Shoe rack Ground Floor Plan Scale: 1:100 Site area:

349 sq.mtrs

Section at BB’

Section at AA’

Sections Scale: 1:100 Site area:

349 sq.mtrs

A view from the entrance of the bathouse.

A view of the entrance facade of bathouse

A view from the south east side of bathouse

Academic works 2018 CRAFTSMEN WORKSHOP, HYDERABAD, INDIA SPACE AND PLACE REVIVAL OF ‘PANTANG’ AND ‘MANJHA’ MAKERS

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1. River Musi 2. The Workshop 3. Worker’s Residence

1: 200 Total Site Area : Worker’s Residences: Distance from residence to site:

7240 sq.mtrs 2352 sq.mtrs 260 mtrs

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1. Public Block 2. The Workshop 3. The Kiln

1: 200 Area of Block 1 : Area of Block 2 : Area of Block 3 :

480 sq.mtrs 1600 sq.mtrs 25 mtrs

Total Site Area : 7240 sq.mtrs Total Ground coverage : 2105 sq.mtrs Built to Open ratio : 3.4 : 1

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Lobby 47 sq.mtrs 2.

Stocker’s Room 22 sq.mtrs 3.

Dining Room(2) 47 sq.mtrs 4. Workspace ‘Patang’ workshop 188 sq.mtrs

‘Manjha’’workshop 153 sq.mtrs

‘Charak’ workshop 96 sq.mtrs 5.

Total Storage 188 sq.mtrs

Lobby ‘Patang’ Makers ‘Manjha’ Makers ‘Charak’ Makers Workspace Storage

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A view of the entrance of the workshop site

A view from the entrance portal to the outside

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Workshop Basement Floor Plan Legend 1. Lobby 2.

Stocker’s Room 3.

Dining Room 4. Workspace ‘Patang’ workshop 96 sq.mtrs

‘Manjha’’workshop 141 sq.mtrs

‘Charak’ workshop 141 sq.mtrs 5.

Total Storage 117 sq.mtrs

Lobby ‘Patang’ Makers ‘Manjha’ Makers ‘Charak’ Makers Workspace Storage

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Zoning

Storage : Work

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A view from the ‘ghat’ seeing the workshop block

A view of the public block gallery

Section at AA’

Section at BB’

Section at CC’

Section at DD’

North-Side Elevation

West-Side Elevation

South-Side Elevation

East-Side Elevation

Academic works 2016 PARALLEL PROJECTION THE PAVILION Team: Ayaz pasha Mounica polsani Vishweshwar singh Nandita nair Prabha Amrutha

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Part of City of Chennai, India.

Part of City of London, England

Part of City of NewYork,USA

The generic city, by contrast, breaks with the vicious circle of center and periphery. It is homogeneous: every neighborhood looks the same: every part is an incarnation of the whole, a configuration of roads, housing blocks, and greenery’

-Rem koolhaas

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Closed Semi Public Spaces

Open Public Spaces

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Generic City Contemporary cities, when viewed together provide us an unusual perspective; a point of view where their origins however apart, their present construct is still very similar, the context however different still contains people in a similar chaos. These cities acting as huge containers of spaces reflect this organized chaos in terms of their built and architectural form. There are spaces in these cities, rooted in such closely related intentions, that when these spaces are represented, they connect to all.

Urban Decay

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One such space across all these cities is that which is going through urban decay .the nature and pace of a city is such that ,only spaces with a function directly accommodating an urban need are acknowledged as viable. Once built forms reach a stage where their function is no longer relatable to the contemporary urban man , the space in itself is deemed invalid .these discarded spaces – going through despair and decrepit –are treated as spaces which call for their removal –either in character or the built form in itself. These spaces having catered to an urban need once still have the potential of being revived back to validity.

Cities today provide us with a unique opportunity of reinterpretation of spaces not bound by context, because of their relatable chaos and intentions. This brings the cities themselves to a singular platform, allowing us to project this idea of reinterpretation, taking shape in terms of architectural form. These circumstances give us a possibility of projecting a space,intervened architecturally to represent our idea across multiple cities.

SECTION AT AA’

The pavilion is defined by a frame work formed of skeletal grid lattice pattern with a fluid green patch going through it. To represent our reinterpretation of incomplete spaces , being able to contain functions ,spatial demarcations formed by slabs and walls are introduced .the spaces – referred to as shafts represent both the incomplete nature of the space going through urban decay and also the idea that space can function by completing them in whatever form required .

This shaft varying in its heights, forms and thicknesses define the relation between the pure skeletal and the imposed order. It translates the idea structurally where the possibilities of imposing or demarcating a space through shafts have been explored by understanding the logics of how a shaft could be supported into multiple mannerisms through just the architectural elements of the existing decayed lattice mass and then examining its reaction to the space, so as to understand potential to cater functions.

The Pavilion voices the characteristic nature of the city that is the ‘Urban Decay’ and by intervening a function to these neglected spaces rejuvenate and revive them, bringing it back to life and use.

The contradicting characters - Abandonment and rejuvenation serves a larger platform for reinterpretation of the city so, a pavilion that represents the reinterpretation of the city and impacts its users and its context spatially.

SECTION AT BB’

A view of the pavilion from the ‘city grid’

A view of the pavilion from the ‘open public space’

Competition works 2018 ARCHASM MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE Team: Ayaz pasha Jabili sirineni Vishweshwar singh

The Platform Experiencing Language through Space Language is a global phenomenon that happens irrespective of any intervention. The conservation of something so transcendental should be a complex expedition. Consequently, architecture can simply provide a space.

The Gallery

The proposal is a series of transitional spaces which are made unique by their placement and proportion. In these modifications, the human interaction and experience is manipulated through architecture. On a platform these spaces and in between them dwells language.

Language is indeed a river converging, diverging and intersecting Flowing its course Dying only of disuse It cannot be boxed in glass Or fixed with screws Its infinity can only be sensed.

In this museum of Language, we travel through space and not time from linearity to ambiguity From clarity to question To enter an expanse Towards communication And comprehention And looking out again We walk into a frame Of solitude in thinking And thus is language curated In the movement of people and thoughts in their minds

The Passage

The Core

The Shaft

The Vista

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Competition works 2017 ARCHASM SCHOOL WITHOUT CLASSROOMS Team: Ayaz pasha Mounica polsani Vishweshwar singh

The Curtain Hall As the world plummets in to a refugee crisis, the site - Templehof field plays out to be a unique context for a school.

Schools are amalgamations of disciplined and fluid zones which generate nurturing environments. In order to build a school, in dynamic relationship with the constructed ‘environment’, the bare minimums required for a school have been provided in the form of plinth, roof. membrane and landscape. The school has been visualised as a single entity, with the ability to transform into pockets of learning. These ‘group teaching clusters’ exist only when the membranes are drawn; and are otherwise merged on to the plinth. The plinth acts as a uniting formce for the students, allowing them to see beyond notions like age and grade, whereas the transflucent membrane extends a sense of enclosure that these pockets need to command.

The roof, with its many lighting cones allows light into the built form, illuminating the disciplined teaching pockets and the fluid self and group learning areas scattered on the corridor. The school is not limited to the built and extends on the greens, providing children the opportunity to experience space as the un-built. The greens flush off with the rest of the surroundings, containing a refugee camp with a bench at the skin of the site. This bench makes the school an approachable and inviting space for regugees who otherwise find themselves in constrainsts. The school doubles up as a community centre at night for refuges to get together beyond the camp

Abandoned airport. Templehof, Berlin.

Residential area around the site and the Templehof airport.

Proposed site in the airport area

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Legend 1. Staff room / Library 2. Washrooms 3. Cafeteria 4. Group teaching space 5. Self / group learning clusters 6. Individual learning pockets 7. Presentation space 8. Play area 9. Bench Ground Floor Plan Scale: 1:100 Site area:

2298 sq.mtrs

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Competition works 2017 INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COLLEGE, ADITYA COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE THE BENCH Team: Ayaz pasha Mounica polsani Vishweshwar singh

The Bench The history of Hyderabad’s landscape goes beyond that of the city itself; with its rocky formatino and hills having lasted over a billion years. This rocky terrain creates pockets of pools and hills forming the foundation on which two cities thrive.

These niches of nature throughout the city were like sanctum to it, but the present urban scape is closing in on them. Banjara hills, the part of the city which acts as a container for such environments, holds the KBR park at its heart. The park acts as a unique example of Hyderabad’s landscape history, where an earlier rich palace ground has been named a national park.

This is a rare situation where a national park rich in its flora and fauna exists right in middle of a growing city. This parcel of land acts as the green lungs for this city which is under a tenacious hold of unsustainable development.

Our city, which has always grown hand in hand with its landscape, seems to have now reached a cross road where nature is being left behind.

People’s quest for development has resulted in a situation where dense concrete is looming over the national park. It’s important for people to understand that , it is Hyderabad’s unique landscape that holds the key to its transformation from a city into a metropolis. And so, the growth of the city requires a sensitive approach towards its life and its landscape.

The project aims to provide a response to this situation in a manner in which it will push for sustainable development for the city. The intention was to present the boundary between the park and the city as an incubator for such ideals to grow.

The national park and the city are separated one from t]another via two imposing vertical boundaries. Which contain within it a jogging track.

Though the jogging track promotes interaction between the people and the park, contemporary Hyderabad needs a more progressive boundary.

With the intention of bringing new scope to the character of boundaries, it is metamorphosed from a wall to a bench. The bench is a landscaping element which acts as a spot for pausing and relaxing. The single continuous bench flows between the footpath connected to the road and onto the jogging track. This bench is a physical manifestation of a silent inclusive boundary, which transforms how we understand and see boundaries from limiting to interactive. The bench moves in and out of the space between the jogging track, the movement of the pedestruans from the adjacent main road. This character of landscape element is moving away from simple beautification to addressing more complex needs of urban life, by transforming the bench into canopies which shelter hawkers. It is also provided with a roof acting as a shading device by creating a spatial boundary rather than an elemental one. It acts like a visual scale reference for urban residents to associate with, in reference to the landscape.

Other works

Model Making Concept Model Massing Detailed Model

Materials 1. Balsa Wood (Soft Wood) 2. Thermoplast

Hall of nations, by raj rewal Materials 1. Mill Board 2. Plywood

Other works

3D Visualisation / Rendering AutoCad Sketchup Lumion

Other works

Theatre Production Lights Set / Prop Design Poster Design