Architectural Portfolio

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PORTFOLIO

Vritti Shah (B.Arch) | KRVIA’ 22 selected works : 2017-2022

Curriculum Vitae

Vritti Shah Mumbai, Maharashtra +91 9987233396 vrittishah27.vs@gmail.com I see architecture as a medium through which relationships, communities and identities are built and shaped. I believe the primary role of architeture is to make human lives more exciting and enjoyable. Architecture has helped me in viewing the city and everything around me in a new light. Over the years I have developed a research based, yet, an intuitive style of designing. I see my work as a manifestation of my thought process, perspectives and beliefs. I seek to expand, learn and grow as an architect and an individual.

The portfolio contains selected academic and professional works done between 2017-2022.

All works that have been displayed in the portfolio are works that I have worked upon.

Some of these works may be an outcome of a group of individuals for which due credits have been given.

Education

Electives and Workshops

2002-2015

Queen Mary School

2017

Machines of Sound by Mihir Desai

2015-2017

Kishinchand Chellaram College

2017

Odyssey Dance by Nibedita Mishra

2017-2022

Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for

2018

Sasane Village Study by Minal Yerramshetty

2018

Art and Theatre by Justin Pomnany

2019

Parametric Design I by Dimple Mehta

2019

Parametric Design II by Chentur Raghav

Revit 3D

2020

Alternate Cartographies by Ankush Chandran

Rhino 3D

2020

Fologram Wosrkshop by Sean Guy

Architecture and Encironmental Studies.

Skills AutoCAD 2D

Sketchup 3D Adobe Photoshop

2021

Cognitive Mapping by Aditya

2021

Designing Terroir by Mamta Patwardhan

Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign

Extra Curricular

Adobe Premier Pro Twin Motion MS Office

Work Experience May-June, 2018

KRVIA Summer Internship

Nov-Dec, 2019

Kohima Exhibition planning committee

May-July, 2020

Internship at Studio Desgn Inc.

Jan-June, 2021

Internship at Gaurav Roy Choudhary Architects

Achievements and Publications 2018

Wai Book

2018

Sasane Study Book

2019

Third position in Architectural Design Sem IV

2019

Third position in Architectural Design Sem V

2021

Second position in Architectural Design Sem IX

Competitions 2020

Project Lari by Chaal Chaal Agency

2021

Notions of India by Tata Steel

2017

Wai Exhibition

2017

KRVIA 25 Exhibition

2018

Siddhpur Exhibition

2018-19

Graphics Team

2020

KRVIA Annual Exhibition

2020

COA Heritage Awards Committee

2020

Kohima Exhibition

Academic Projects 01

Placemaking for the Everyday

02

Superblock Habitat

03

Linked Habitat

04

Nukkad Lari

05

The Node

06

Abode of Tranquility

07

Mixed-use building

A case of peripheralisation in Bhiwandi

Reimagining social housing

Mixed social housing, MbPT colony

Project Lari competition by Chaal Chaal Agency

Notions of India competition by Tata Steel

A center for STD positive patients

Integrated design studio

08

Tides of Change

09

The Labyrinth

10

Whose Space is it anyway?

11

Documentation-Kohima and Siddhpur

12

Graphics

13a

Professional Practice

13b

Professional Practice

Oraculum Terrible

Blending into the existing fabric

Alternate Cartographies

Measured Drawing

KRVIA graphics team

GRCA

SDI

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Village Road Peripheries

Urban village Urban city Peripheries

Mumbai

Urban village Census town

Village Census town

Village

01 Placemaking for the everyday

Semester IX, X

A case of peripheralisation in Bhiwandi Location : Bhiwandi, Mumbai Guide : Jude D’souza

The thesis starts with an enquiry into the peripheral zones of Mumbai - conditions of survival and the idea of marginality but it largely intends to focus on the socioeconomic conditions of the periphery. It is an inquiry into the spatial infrastructure that assists the majority who have been displaced and abandoned due to neoliberal economic reforms. How do these individuals deal with their changing identity, occupation and basic necessities. What are the kinds of networks, informal and formal institutions that assist them to go about their daily routines?

Which institutions do they resort to to abate the impact of the growing disparity between the displaced toiler and the upper class people?

Placemaking for the everyday | Academic Project

“Bhiwandi mein kaam kaun karta hai?”

“These areas are extremely filthy and unorganised.”

“It’s unsafe to visit these places alone.”

“Yaha pe garib log rehte hai. Isliye paiso ki bohot maara maari hai. Ye jagah unsafe hai”

“These places are of minor importance and are irrelevant ”

“These places are low-lying and flood every year ”

“Idhar pe kisine vaccine nahi lagayi hai. Sambhal ke jaana.”

“Ye Bombay ke bahar hai. Yahan pe kuch nahi hai!”

“Mumbai ke vikas ke liye ye jagah ko hatana hoga ”

“Yaha pe ‘goonde’, ‘bootleggers’, ‘dacoits’, ‘drug-offenders’, ‘land grabbers’, ‘gamblers’ rehte hai.”

“Yaha pe garib log rehte hai, inke liye kuch banane ka faayeda nahi hai”

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Migration to the City ‘Migration is an adjustment to economic and social change. It is a response of human organisms to economic and social situations in the environment.’

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3 1.2 Lakh p.a Paid Fortnightly

Demolition of slums

Money

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Lack of money

Work

Bihar

Farmland

Loss of livelihood

Telangana

Solapur

City Center

Displacement

Relationship ties

Urban Village

Village

Family Children Education

Poor Light & Ventilation

Survival

Life

Monotonous 12

9

Living environment

No privacy

Working class homes

Lack of leisure

Water/Electricity cuts

10 x 12 ft

Rent

Neglect

Size

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6 Working hours 12 hours

Lack social infrastructure

viewed as mere resources

1. Social spaces have entry fees 2. Workers face exclusion 3. Social infrastructure mostly present in high-class enclaves

The city exerts a radical impact on three aspects or facets of individual and collective life : Construction,

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Placemaking for the everyday | Academic Project

Powerloom Industry and its networks 1. Goods are also exported to several cities within Maharashtra.

2. Finished product is sent to Dombivali for dyeing.

1. Powerloom repair shops are located throughout Bhiwandi within these power loom hubs.

2. The local economy thrives due to the presence of the looms

1. MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises) provide loans depending on the size of the industry.

2. The MSME requires proper legal documents through which they give out loans, but the loom owners having several stakeholders and being informal industries lack proper legal documents and hence cannot avail these loans.

Loom repair shops

MSMEs

Intra-state network

Government Bank Inter-state network

1. Worker Housing has been developed over the years close to their spaces of work.

2. The workers stay in groups of 3 in rented rooms having a standard size of 10ftx 12ft.

Rich enclaves

Torrent Power Worker Housing

1. A network of trucks are responsible for the import and export of goods throughout the nation.

2. Raw material is imported from South India and exported to rest of the country.

3. Truck drivers take haults at cheap, local lodging places when travelling long distances.

1. The local banks in Bhiwandi provide loan upto a certain fixed amount depending on the documents of the industry.

2. The loan provided by the banks is quite often not sufficient to set up a new factory, buy new machineries, etc.

1.The rich enclaves which houses the owners are generally a liitle far away from the filthy loom hubs.

2. The disparity between the rich and the poor is quite evident in the way Bhiwandi’s housing is segregated according to class.

3. Some of the owners have moved to the city core in search for better infrastructure and housing conditions.

1. Majority of Bhiwandi’s power loom and worker housing recieves electricity through Torrent Power

The Migrant and his networks MSMEs has been setup in Bhiwandi to provide loans for micro, small and medium enterprise.

Workers do not have most of the documents required for registration The bank refuses to hand out loans to the workers.

Their only source are their networks who are unable to hand out more than 2,000.

Informal E-shops help them send money to their villages, book travel tickets, etc by charging a small premium

1. NGOs/Labour unions are not known by the workers.

2. Redundant group which is not aiding the workers with their welfare.

1. Government schools are not functional anymore due to covid 2. Kids are not being educated because private schools are unaffordable

Electricity : Torrent Power Water : BNCMC Sanitation : No provision

Govternment provided for ration shops which open once a month with insufficient resources.

Local Bissi shops provide for meals for bachelors.

The government bodies have set up women, youth, worker welfare associations in migrant neighbourhoods but these benefits aren’t recieved by the user groups.

These groups are vote banks.

Owner Meta Workers

Wage : 1,20,000 p.a.

Salary : Paid fortnightly Salary cut for a missed day

1. Workers are subjected to cotton particles and high levels of noise which cause long term problems.

2. Health care is expensive and hence often avoided by the workers 3. The government has provided for ESIC cards - free medicines.

4. The scheme has workers waiting entire days in queue for free healthcare, losing out on their daily wage.

5. They end up going to some local doctors who are not extremely proficient in the field.

The daaru shop is frequented rarely due to unaffordable prices

The talao is the only public space and becomes a pivot for festivals

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Short stories

#1

The home, usually shared by 6 migrant bachelors is a 10*12 feet room. Half of them have night duties while the other half work during the day so the room isn’t crowded at any particular point of time.

The housing complex has common toilets. The room is used for cooking meals, sleeping and washing clothes.

The room has poor ventilation, only through a window. Most of the rooms don’t even have a window and the only form of natural light source is the window.

Spaces of work

The Home

Spaces of escape include the corridor, talao chai shop, alcohol shops, watching videos on the phone, etc. Lack of recreationa spaces makes their time post-work redundant and they blame themselves for a mundane lifestyle. The face exclusion at several public spaces.

Spaces of Escape

Informal e-service shops are used to send aid in the form of money back to their villages, to book transport tickets, mobile recharge, etc.

Most of the day is spent at work places. The work env. is toxic.

Local Bissi

Informal e-services

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Placemaking for the everyday | Academic Project

Eknath, 27

Eknath, from Ratnagiri moved to Bhiwandi a few years ago along with his peer. He had no source of income back in his village whichis why he moved to Bhiwandi.

He worked at the power looms for about 7 years before the pandemic struck the world.

He lost his jib after which he faced a lot of hardships. He had no savings.

Through his peer network he sourced a job at the mask making factory. He has resumed work at the power loom but is extremely uncertain about his future.

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Meals are served at local bhissis at a rate of 2500 per month. Bhissis are divided according to ethnic groups.

Some of them are set upwithin their homes, but most of them are within galas which have their openings on the front.

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Short stories

#2

Daily Life

Like most of the migrants’ of her social spaces are thei quarters and the home where a living along with other wom neighbourhood. The wome meet at someone’s home to Other than that, she visits the a daily basis.

Govt. Institutions

Most of her morning routine is spent in getting her daughter dressed up to school and cooking meals for her husband to carry to the looms. Every Sunday she stands in a queue outside the govt. ration shop

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Placemaking for the everyday | Academic Project

The Biddi industry

The biddi industry mostly employs women who are mostly engaged with household chores and recieve free time in the afternoon. Their wage is 70 rupees a day for a fixed amount of biddis which is barely anything but essential for their survival.

Sushma, 38

Sushma , a migrant from UP moved to Bhiwandi 10 years ago after she got married. Her husband has been working in the power looms since. She complains about the wages of the men being constant since a decade even though the living expenses have sky rocketed.

Raw materials from biddi Bhayandar come fro Bhayandar and are distributed throughout Virar Maharashtra. Biddi being the cheapest form of intoxication Borivali mostly is an informal industry.

Hence, industries of Biddi aren’t seen in Bhiwandi but it prvides Ulhasnagar emplyoment behind closed doors, in the migrants’ home

Bhiwandi

To support her 7 year old daughter and her educational expense she started working for the informal biddi industry.

Bhiwandi recieves a huge quantity of raw material for biddi rolling which are distributed amongst daily wage workers.

She is worried about the future of her family because withthe current wages, she will not be able to support her daughter’s higher education.

Delhi

Odisha

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Growth of Bhiwandi

2000

Site Plan

2005

2010

2020

Placemaking for the everyday | Academic Project

Diagramming

Design Development Wood workshop

Multipurpose Space

Handlooms

Job registration

Workshop spaces

Clinic

E-Learning

Labour union

Library

Bank and MSME Vegetable market

Useable Terraces

Built VS Unbuilt

Service Cores

Programes

Circulation Cores

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Structural System Steel Concrete

Composite structural system axo 3500

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Vierendeel girder elevation

Section AA’

Placemaking for the everyday | Academic Project

Details Railing with metal grating welded to the stringer beam 10mm thk folded stainless steel diamond plate bolted to the box section via an L-angle 25x50 thk MS box section supporting the metal sheet bolted to the stringer beam 450x150 MS box section 230mm thk brick wall with 25mm external plaster

Tread and Stringer beam joinery detail

Fins detail

Stringer beam and Shear wall joinery detail

Rooftop amphitheatre detail

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Section BB’

Section BB’

Section DD’

Placemaking for the everyday | Academic Project

Section CC’

Section CC’

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Facade System

Placemaking for the everyday | Academic Project

Wall Section

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The Nakka

Multipurpose hall as sp

The bank

Placemaking for the everyday | Academic Project

& MSME

The Library

Waiting space outside the clinic

Job registration and spill out space

pace of festivities

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02 Superblock Habitat

Semester VII

Reimagining Social Housing Location : Mulund, Mumbai

Collaboraters : Raghav Malhotra, Nikita Taori Guide : Kalpit Asher, Mayuri Sisodia The housing projected is located in the Post and Telegraph colony in Mulund. The location is a perfect site to respond to the growing gentrifcation in the city by providing for a social housing. The complex would cater to the grwing economic needs of the context and also generate revenue for the P and T colony. Creation of the public plaza and the large landscape would act as centrally located green lungs for the ward.

Superblock Habitat | Academic Project

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Diagramming

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Site Plan

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Superblock Habitat | Academic Project

Low-Income Group - 1RK

Low-Income Group - 1BHK

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

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High-Income Group - 3BHK Duplex PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

Superblock Habitat | Academic Project

Co-living Units PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

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Superblock Habitat | Academic Project

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Views

Open space and the entrance to the market. The ramp takes you up to the residential units.

The Archway.

Connection between the LIG ang MIG quarters.

Superblock Habitat | Academic Project

Interactive balcony units of the co-living spaces overlooking the amphitheatre and LIG quarters.

Interaction between the co-living and LIG quarters.

Main entrance of the superblock habitat

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03 Linked Habitat

Semester IX

Mixed Social Housing

Location : MbPT colony, Wadala, Mumbai Collaborators : Raghav Malhotra Guide : Shantanu Poredi, Manisha Poredi Linked Habitat is a mixed social housing design proposal in the larger master plan for the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT).

The master plan is a response to the immediate context of the site, existing colony conditions, the departmental staff occupying it, and the requirement for more housing.

The design proposal integrates itself with the conceptual masterplan, mid-rise rectangular volumes of similar depths but varying lengths and heights create common courtyards and green buffer zones. The vertical volumes are grounded and linked to the other with horizontal volumes hovering on top. Stilted areas are provided in public zones to house several amenities for the residents. These varying volumetric scales create arrival, ascending and public spaces. These open spaces also enable the masterplan to be more accessible for pedestrians and cyclists with each courtyard, open space and green belt linked to another.

Within each volume, shifting corridors, projections, doubleheight voids, different end conditions and exposed circulation create a possibility to iterate the unit layout. The units are primarily laid out on a 5x5m grid. Taking advantage of the different conditions, units from different departmental hierarchies and different typologies are laid out together in an attempt to make a truly mixed social housing project. With an ample number of voids and circulation space, congregation areas, utilities and other amenities are imagined in the housing blocks across various floors.

Superblock Habitat | Academic Project

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Site Diagrams

Massing

Circulation

Program Placement

Program Placement

Site Plan

Superblock Habitat | Academic Project

Type of units

Shifting Corridors 15m

40m

2

50m

2

60m

Intersection of units

Axonometric

2

80m

2

Voids

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04 Nukkad Lari Project Lari Competition

Collaborator : Raghav Malhotra

Nukkad Lari | Academic Project

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05 The Node Tata Steel Competition

Collaborators : Gaurav Roy Choudhary, Rujuta Doshi, Suraj Thorat, Amrit Nagpal.

There are 2 Indias. One is prospering and progressing. This is the dominant India. There is also another India - a second India that experiences extreme inequality with numbered opportunities and limited resources, and with aspirations that are never acknowledged and addressed.

“The Node” is created in this process of acknowledgement, and while creating a shared space where both Indias can co-exist and eventually merge. The base of the structure is imagined to be an earthy mass emerging from the ground. This portion provides space for programs for the “second India” that helps form a community.

As the structure rises, it starts empowering the community. Technology based systems and programes become a facilitator by democratizing access to resources and opportunities. Theseare the programs where bith the “Indias” can virtually as well as physically interact, where information and resources can be shared and transferred. A light and dynamic steel space frame structure emerges from the solid ground mass incorporating much freer spaces and programs that would cater to the entire city.

“The Node” tries to become a rupture that would bridge the gap between both the “Indias”.

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The Node | Academic Project

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06 Abode of Tranquility

Semester VI

A center for STD positive patients Location : Kohima, Nagaland Guide : Mayuri Sisodia

Lhisemia Khel located in the Kohima village is the biggest amongst the four Khels. The site is located at the end of the Khel surrounded with residential houses and a public ground, occasionally used during festivities. The area around the site being inactive for most of the day provides a serene and a quiet environment.

According to statistics North East India has 45% of the HIV cases. The state of nagaland ranks third for the people affected by STDs. Kohima village has a provision of only 2 hospitals that are equipped with STD testing, which due to social tabboo is not practiced.

Abode of Tranquility | Academic Project

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Diagramming

Flow of Green spaces

Design Development

1

2 Axes

3

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Hierarchy of Spaces

Concept The project aims to educate the mass about STDs, and also to improve side efects, adherence and education, simplify drug regimens and reduce costs. To prevent a generalized epidemic by containing the spread of HIV and AIDS and elimination of stigma and discrimination against those infected and afected.

The design aims at creating a serene environment for the HIV positive patients. The hospice is held together by a system of courtyards, stone walls, stone staircases and paved ramps which eases mobility of the handicapped patients. The mild climate allows activities to take place out-doors in the green spaces that flows in between the distinct courtyards towards the larger garden. The roofs have been provided with concrete gutters jutting out of the stone walls, forming a tiny waterfall during the monsoon. The hospice has a central circulation through ramps. The ramp opens into subsequesnt green spaces which proves to be integral in the development of the mental and physical heath of the patients.

Circulation

Views

Site Plan

Abode of Tranquility | Academic Project

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Section AA’

Section BB’

Elevation

Abode of Tranquility | Academic Project

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07 Mixed-use Building

Semester VII

Location : Ghatkopar, Mumbai

Collaboraters : Raghav Malhotra, Sashant Tiwari, Arhant Golchha, Kripa Jain Guide : Devesh and Harshada The project located at the node of the metro and railway station at Ghatkopar is a mixed-use building. The multiple programs within the project cater to our site observations. The primary idea was to decongest the road surrounding the site from the street vendors by providing them space to sell goods within the stilt level of the building. The market would be accessible for all and would sell a variety of goods. The northern tip of the site on the ground floor also accommodates a last-mile delivery station owing to its importance to site location amidst this context of Ghatkopar. Thus generating substantial revenue for the project and its maintenance.

Site Study and strategies

Access

Zoning

Roads

Noise from sky

Green cover

Summer solistice

Ground noise

Vehicular Movement

Winter solistice

Structural System

Mixed-use Building | Academic Project

Structural System

Concrete base

Steel structure on concrete

Slab systems

Section A

Section B

Section C

Section D

Long Section

Building with cores

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08 Tides of Change Oraculum Terrible

Location : Mumbra, Maharashtra Guide : Rohan Shivkumar

Semester V

Tides of Change | Academic Project

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Site Plan

Site Evolution

2005

2010

2015

2019

Concept Oraculum terrible is a condition mistaken for insanity. They are madmen blabbering about torture, fagellation and visions of future. These people are placed under solitary custody. God, or that all humanity is, without exception, condemned to eternal damnation.

Section AA’

The design concept revolves around the high, curved walls being the sole element creating spaces and making the structure fuid which resonates with the low of the Desai Khadi. The skin of the structure allows one to view the Khadi along with its mangroves. The intent of program is to restore, reserve and protect Mumbra’s ecosystem, create a platform for the provision of outreach and knowledge exchange making research accessible to all. Studying anthroprogenic impacts on local water quality in marine and freshwater systems.

Elevation

Tides of Change | Academic Project

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Section AA’

Ground floor plan

Working Drawings | Academic Project

08 Working Drawings Location : Mumbra, Maharashtra Guide : Minal Yerramshetty

Wall Section

Semester VI

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Tread detail

Section BB’

Section CC’

Handrail detail

Edge detail

Working Drawings | Academic Project

Staircase Section

Fins 3D

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The Labyrinth | Academic Project

09 The Labyrinth

Semester IV

Blending into the exisiting fabric Location : Siddhpur, Gujarat Guide : Quaid Doongerwala

Lal Doshini Pol, situated near Dharamchakla in Sidhpur is an old pol which has been built around 350 years ago. With a cluster of nineteen residential houses, this space is detached from the hullabaloo of the outside street. The residents live together in harmony and are very welcoming indeed. The narrow street of Lal Doshini Pol shoots of from the main road and turns at several angles before it opens up into a wider space.

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Concept The Labyrinth feature of the pol has been incorporated into the site by creating a few angular roads on the ground level. Only a miniscule of the site is suggested visually, pushing one to further explore more. The houses have been pushed behind to create terraces at each levels. The houses form a neighbourhood in the waythey’re woven together. The staircases leading to these terraces are visually blocked to incorporate the labyrinth. This feature creates room for accidental meetings while moving in and out of the pol.

The aspect of connectivity is continued in the way relations are moulded in this kind of a neighbourhood. Built in the time of communal tension and social unrest in the region hundreds of years ago, the Pols are a conglomeration of houses that are inhabited by families linked by caste, culture or profession.

Activities

Section CC’

The Labyrinth | Academic Project

Section AA’

Site Plan

Section BB’

Physical Model

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Whose space is it anyway? | Academic Project

space 10 Whose is it anyway?

Semester VII

Alternate Cartographies Location : Mumbai Website : https://raghavmalhotrawork.wixsite.com/mysite Collaborators : Sriraksha Ramesh, Raghav Malhotra Guide : Ankush Chandran Alternate artographies have been posted, theorised and tested overthe years in the realm of urbanism. It seeks to inculcate a practice of identifying and representing intangible or non-visual characters of urban experience and the act of drawing appropriate relationships between these characters and the living environment.

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Introduction What is Public Space?

The role of the public realm is to illuminate human events by providing a space of appearances, a space of visibility, in which men and women can be seen, heard, and reveal, through word and action, who they are. For them, appearance constitutes reality, and its possibility depends on a public sphere in which things can come out of a dark and sheltered existence.

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what is space?

our city? no discrimination?

free?

who can enter it? txg ? space for all?

whose space freedom? is it anyway?

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Protest - an act of reclaiming space Public spaces are places of expression. Some more than others -due to a series of proper factors put together- but all public spaces inspire exchange. Often the sites of protest, they transform into places of resistance, where revolutions and social uprisings emerge.

Majdi Faleh states that “the public square should not be represented as the city’s gated property or as a walled garden. It should be a space that provides citizens with opportunities to engage in political and social debates”.

Protests - powerful political tools for change. People “take their issues to the streets” to be heard and seen, public spaces have resurfaced as a topic of discussion

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Public space x Democracy Public space is democracy excluding political control.

The public sphere, that realm of political talk and action between the state and society, burst out of the market and the coffee house long ago, but in recent years even the pages of newspapers and the broadcast media have been superseded. The public sphere is not just a bourgeois indulgence but a global phenomenon.Democracy depends to a surprising extent on the availability of physical, public space, even in our allegedly digital world.

dgk gS txg ? insurgency?

Physical attributes of a publ

Bandra Carter Road

User group and density in pu

Whose space is it anyway? | Academic Project

scale protests

Map of India indicating no.of CAA protests

KRVIA, Juhu

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KRVIA College

Gateway of India Participants

Observors

Security

Activists/Politicians

Protestors

Volunteers Media Senior citizens

ublic protest spaces

Public protest spaces under study

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11aDocumentation

Semester VI

Object. Institution. Identities Location : Kohima, Nagaland

Objects that we collect around us open out trajectories and connections with the world- material, functional and symbolic.

These trajectories make communities, structure identities and are directed and mediated by institutions. The Third Year Study Trip followed some of these trajectories from objects in homes in Kohima village to discover some of the institutions that help in shaping contemporary identities in the city.

Documentation | Academic Project

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11bDocumentation

Semester IV

Location : Siddhpur, Gujarat

Map of Siddhpur

Street Elevation

Exploded axonometric of a typical house

Documentation | Academic Project

Section through a typical house in Siddhpur

Section through a typical house in Siddhpur

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Graphics

Graphical posters, illustrations and GIFs made through the course of 4 years in Kamla Raheja using several mediums such as hand drawing, autoCAD, photoshop.

The theme largely used to create the pre-annuals posters was dadaism. It is an avant garde artistic and cultural movement prompted by the European societal climate after World War I. The art form was influenced by Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Expressionism.

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13aProfessional Practice

GRCA

Project Name : Rana Residence

I worked on the design development and basic working drawings including sanctioning, basic ayouts and shuttering drawings for this project.

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13aProfessional Practice

SDI

Project Name : Gupta Kamshet

I worked on the design development and basic drawings along with some visuals for the project.

The pavilion overlooking into the bckyard and yards of farm land.

View of the pavilion from the backyard.

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The L-shaped home holds a swimming pool within it.

Entrance into the house.

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