Architecture portfolio_ Yash Mehta

Architecture Portfolio

Yash Mehta 2013 - 20

Work experience

Architetural Intern UNEVEN Architects, Vadodara May - June 2015 Architetural Intern Biome Environmental Solution, Bangalore June - December 2016 Workshop Assistant Archiprix International 2017 CEPT University

Curriculum vitae Yash Mehta

Teaching Assistant Design studio, Building construction CEPT University January - May 2018

yashmht15@gmail.com +91 9724384494

Teaching Associate Design studio, Building construction, Documentation study program CEPT University January 2019 -- Present

802, Empyrean Skyline, Vasna Bhayli road, Vadodara, Gujarat, India - 391410

Consultant Architect JMA Design Co, Ahmedabad March - August 2020

Date of birth

11.06.1995

Nationality

Indian

Languages

English

Education

SSC (GSEB), 2011 Bright school, Vadodara

Hindi

Principal & Architect Studio Indigenous Architecture Interior design Ahmedabad January 2019 -- Present

Gujarati

Achievements

Landscape

Best studio project award CEPT University, Spring 2017

HSC (GSEB), 2013 P.S.S.C. Vadodara

Academic excellence award CEPT University, Spring 2017

B.Arch, 2019 CEPT University, Ahmedabad

Overall design excellence award Designing resilience in Asia International design competition (Team work) NUS, Singapore, 2018

Digital skills

Advanced

Documentation

Autodesk AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign Google Sketchup V-ray Microsoft office

Discovering a Colonial Habitat Pachmarhi, India 2014 A house in Mysore, Karnataka 2016

Intermediate

7 Goverment schools, Rajkot, Gujarat 2018

Adobe Illustrator Autodesk Revit Rhinoceros

Hand skills

Interests

Design & build

Drafting Model making Rendering Photography Sketching

Exhibitions

Hands on making Photography Plants Travelling and Exploring Adventure Cycling Swimming

Volunteering

Reciprocal frame (Installation) Material: Timber & Steel Team work, CEPT University 2015

Workshops

Feather pavilion (Teaching Association) Material: Timber, Bamboo & Steel, Team work, CEPT University 2018 Tensile pavilion (Research thesis) Material: Bamboo (Full & split sections) CEPT University 2018

Living Champapada Dadra & Nagar haveli, India 2013

Panel designing

CEPT @ Vibrant Gujarat Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 2016 CEPT-Serampore initiative Serampore, West Bengal, 2017

Treasurer Kurula Varkey design forum Event at CEPT University, 2017 Student co-ordinator and convener Kurula Varkey design forum Event at CEPT University, 2018

Rammed earth, CSEB & Adobe construction Hunnarshala foundation, Bhuj Clay & Ceramics Poetics of Bamboo Origami Old city urban life CEPT University, 2015-2016

This portfolio summarises my reflection in the realm of Architecture over past 7 years.

It shows selected works from my B.arch study, Practice and Teaching Association.

Learning

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Expressing

CEPT University_2013-2018

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Form, Space & Order

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Form, Space & Organization

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Aanganwadi & Village Community Centre ............ 02

Art Commune .................................................. 04

Form, Material & System One Life One Shot ........................................... 06

Extending the Dwell Extension of an Ancestral House ......................... 08

Reinterpreting the Courtyard Typology Community Housing ......................................... 10

Architecture & Materiality Low Impact Building Material Research Centre ...... 12

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Studio Indigenous _2019 - Present

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Breathe In - Breathe Out

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S M L XL

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Veinscape

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Archaeological Museum

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Courtyard House

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Pavilion homes

Meditation hall for Vipassana Centre .......................... 62

Residential Society ................................................. 68

Interior Design ....................................................... 76

Consultant for JMA Design Co .................................. 80

Private Residence ................................................... 84

Residential Apartment .............................................. 88

Strange Details Construction drawings and Detailing ................... 16

Learnings as an intern Office training_Biome Environmenal Solutions ........ 20

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Situating Hospitality

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Humanizing Healing Architecture

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Design and Build

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Human

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Related study program

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As a Passion

Hospitality Management Institute ......................... 26

Mental Health Care Institute ............................... 32

Teaching CEPT University_2018 - Present

1:1 structure, From Design to Execution ................ 40

Ecology

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Designing Resilience in Asia .............................. 48

Documentation of Traditional Built form ................. 54

Photography ................................................... 58

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Strange Details

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Material, System & Joinery

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Annotated Documentation

Studio unit focusing on Constructing & Specifying ......... 92

Mandatory course for 2nd year FA UG students ......... 100

A Documentation Workshop ................................... 106

Learning CEPT University_2013-2018

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01 Form, Space and Organization Aanganwadi & Village Community Centre Semester_2, Spring 2014 Project site Champapada, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, India Project Program Learning space, Community space, Kitchen, Services Brief Studio focuses on the organisation (layering of spaces), order of the function and usage of local materials. The program is to design a pre-school in the village, Champapada, which also had to serve the community and conduct awareness programmes for the village. The facility is made primarily using brick and timber, which reflects the expression of local materials.

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Settlement plan

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Learning space

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Kitchen

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02 Form, Space and Organization Art Commune Semester_2, Spring 2014 Project site Udaipur, India Project Program Studios (Painting,Sculpture,Digital), Artists’ residences, Exhibition space, Library, Kitchen, Dining, Services Brief Studio focuses on the inter-relationships between proramme, structure,site and spatial modulation through light and movement.

Studio brief is to design an art-commune, which would invite artists, academicians, curators and all kind of creative individuals and offer a space for research, reflection and intense production of art. The commune is made primarily using sand stone (Local material) and with secondary use of timber and glass.

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Legends

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Sculpture studio

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Exhibition space

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Open court

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Painitng studio

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Digital studio

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Residence

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Kitchen

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03 Form, Material and System One Life One Shot Semester_3, Monsoon 2014 Project site Hypothetical Project Program Sleeping and Living space, Study room, Storage, Services, Equipment room, Shooting space Brief Learning from Nature: The exercise starts with selecting a natural object and analyzing the natural forces that trigger a certain form, pattern and structure. The findings of the study are then converted into abstract models with different materials that would later be used to design systems.

Application: Using the abstract models and the derived principles, the exercise is to design a residence for an archer, with ‘Rest zone’ and ‘Shooting zone’.

‘Shooting zone’ includes a closed equipments room, a semiopen shooting space and a open court for practice called ‘Court of Unity’. Whereas ‘Rest zone’ includes a sleeping and living space, study space, storage, toilet and a courtyard called ‘Court of Contemplation’

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Abstract models explaining the principle of nodal strength of bamboo

Roof section

Shooting zone

Court of contemplation

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04 Extending the Dwell Extension of an Ancestral House Semester_4, Spring 2015 Project site Kolkata, India Project Program Living spaces, Work space Brief Studio brief is to design an extension of the existing house for the daughter and her husband.

Culture, climate, lifestyle, traditions are studied in a group. Focus of the design is response to climate, function, culture and site.

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Work space

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Open court

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Dining

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Kitchen

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Backyard

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Frontyard

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Bedroom

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Toilet

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Terrace

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05 Reinterpreting the Courtyard Typology Community Housing Semester_4, Spring 2015 Project site Madhapar, Bhuj, India Project Program Jota, Ekaliyu, cluster of 36 houses Brief Studio focuses on interperation of the duality of traditional typology of Madhapar, which are courtyard houses with shared walls on either sides.

All the houses are built on a plot of 9*20 meter, a jota plot, which could then get devided along the longer axis into two halves called ekaliyu.

The challege is to understand how this tranformation can guide the design process and decisions about the spaces, structure and services.The cluster proposal is done as a collective effort in a group of 3 students.

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Cluster plan

Figure ground plan

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Legends

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Open court

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Workspace

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Materiality and Architecture Low Impact Building Material Research Centre Semester_5, Monsoon 2015 Project site Ahmedabad, India Project Program Research centre, Material testing workshop, Office area, Library, Meeting rooms, Lecture room, Exhibition space, Canteen, Inhouse residences, Services Brief The design intends to understand material qualities- Spatial (space making, inside-outside relationship), tectonics (structure, assembly, articulation, language), sensorial (light, texture), energy (passive cooling or heating), envronmental (reduce, reuse, recycle) and pragmatic (build-ability and durability).

The building is a research center for low-impact building materials and is to be built with materials which are relatively sustainable like rammed earth, thatch, stone and timber. Main structural elements are rammed earth walls as bearing and timber trusses as spanning. This building campus accommodates the existing trees, topography and creates a sparse organization and humble scale where the spaces open to the courtyards with exisiting trees.

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West Elevation

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Canteen

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Workshop

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Reception

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Admin

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Director’s office

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Services

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Research centre

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Meeting room

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Inhouse residences

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Library 13

South elevation

Section BB’

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Reflected roof plan

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First floor plan

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Wall section

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07 Strange Details Construction drawings and Detailing Semester_6, Spring 2016 Project site Ahmedabad, India Project Program Research centre, Material testing workshop, Office area, Library, Meeting rooms, Lecture room, Exhibition space, Canteen, Inhouse residences, Services Brief Architecture is largely perceived as an expression of an idea/ concept/intention. But its manifestation is rooted in the realities of construction and nature of materials. The negotiations between these aspects result into some unique and some strange details of architecture that are then communicated through drawings.

This studio focuses on the processes of these negotiations and communications by taking one through a journey of evolving and communicating the idea/intention/concept through constructional details.

As a design project, previous semester’s project has been taken for specifying and detailing, Materializing it with relatively sustainable materials like rammed earth, stone, timber and thatch.

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Ground floor plan

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First floor plan

Wall section 3

Wall section 1

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08 Learnings as an Architectural Intern Biome Environmental Solutions, Bangalore, India Semester_7, Monsoon 2016 As an intern I got the oppartunity to work on projects which are of diverse scale and program. All the projects were at different stage starting from conceptual design to construction drawings.

This semester has a very strong influence on my later work.

Biome’s philosophy of designing an Ecological Solution along with space design is worth adopting as early as this in career.

Few selected works includes, 1) Atithi (A wedding venue near Bangalore) 2) House in Munnar, kerala 3) House in Kottayam, Kerala

Atithi (A wedding venue), Silvepura, Bangalore, India The project sits in outskirts of Bangalore in a town called Silvepura. The brief is to design a wedding venue on a land filled with Areca, coconut and pepper plantation.

REVISION DATE

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As an Intern, I was involved in making 3D model and construction drawings of the residential facilty along with execution of the same on site.

REMARK

There are 2 main parts of the project, one is the residential facility and other is the venue. The project is enclosed between clusters of palm trees. Few trees are relocated to make the building well anchored on site. Every inch of the project is opening into the nature in one way or the other. Most of the part is semi open, which merges it well with the context.

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House in Munnar, Kerala The project is situated in a town called Munnar, which is on a higher altitude and is a tourist place because of the infinite view of hills covered with tea gardens and coffee plantation.

The brief is to design a house for a family of 3, who is involved in business of hospitality. Site is connected with a naroow hilly road and situated on higher level, from where one can have a serene view.

The form of the house has emerged in order to connect most of the spaces with the view towards the valley.

As an Intern, I was involved from conceptual design stage till making basic draft of drawings and model.

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House in Kotayam, Kerala The project is situated in Kotayam, a town with tropical climate.

The brief is to design a family house for an old lady who belongs to Kotayam. Site is connected with a narrow and calm road. The section of the house responses to the tropical climate and typical house form of Kerala in an abstract manner.

As an Intern, I was involved in making some construction drawings of the house and a few site visits.

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09 Situating Hospitality Hospitality Management Institute Semester_8, Spring 2017 Project site Udaipur, India The program is to design a residential campus for hospitality management, while serving the needs of students, teachers and staff. A project that sutures the fragmentation of natural environment while enhancing the commercial needs of a city.

The site is 15,000 sq.m of land besides the Govardhan Sagar lake in the city of Udaipur that is major tourist destination and has genrated a host of hospitality services.

The site program allots 50% of the area for an ecosystem consisting of wetlands, grasslands, orchards and forested areas.

The program seeks to use parts of these areas for farming to serve the own food need. 35% area is alloted for outdoor spaces which include sports facilities and recreational facilities. 15% of the area is alloted for educational and residential facilities.

The campus provides spaces, whicht are highly specific in usage as well as spaces which are used adaptively as per circumstance, within an environment that is dynamic with various activities concurrently in progress and where it is possible for the students, teachers and the staff to perform and learn the dignifed ways that define the hospitality industry.

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1st basement plan

2nd basement plan

Legends

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Public plaza

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Public shop

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View terrace

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23. Watch tower

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Public restaurant

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Reception

15. Badminton court

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Waiting area

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Admin

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10 Humanizing Healing Architecture Mental Health Care Institute Semester_9, Monsoon 2017 Project site Vadodara, India Concern The main concern is to explore the architecture, which plays a significant role in the healing of mentally challenged people and its positive contribution to the healing process in the creation of a more humanized space with the idea of biophilic design.

Intention The aim is to investigate how architecture can provide a more holistic and social design model for those affected by stress, depression and anxiety. In response to the lack of facilities and the impersonality of mental hospitals, this project explores the possibilities of establishing such a place within the fabric of a modern city and not in the out skirts of the city, to re-establish mental health as a part of our lives that need to be addressed publically and with the support of people and nature.

Architectural challenge The ambition is to create a tranquil space for a vulnerable group of patients combined with an optimal framework for the staff.

An institute where mentally sick people perceive their suitable environment by various SENSORIAL EXPERIENCES. An institute which promotes dignity, encourages normalcy, provides social interaction, provides free, open, warm and homely atmosphere, provides good outside views and natural light inside, provides connections with nature in one or more ways.

Program The program is to develop the rehabilitation place for mentally ill people with the BIOPHILIC approach, and to create an example of “Humanized Healing Architecture”. The proposed intervention is an integration of spaces of sensorial experiences that provide for overwhelming exposure between body, mind and nature.

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11 Design and Build A

1:1 Structure, From Design to Execution Semester_5,

Monsoon 2015

Project site Ahmedabad, India Reciprocal frame Reciprocal system is a self supporting system where Tension and Compression reciprocate with each other to attain equilibrium. It is widely used in earthquake prone region.

As a part of our mandatory course, we studied the principle of reciprocal frame and made 2 frames of 4 meter diameter each out of timber, later to place it as an art instalation for Navratri (Traditional festival of Gujarat), we hung it upside down from a double height ceiling and put indirect light, which glows to represent the dynamic form.

The process involves intense prototyping and 3d modelling using sketchup and rhino. Groves in timber were made with CNC machine. The instalation was suspended from inner part, making rest of the structure cantilivered.

Team mates Netra Bafna, Parshva Palkhiwala

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1:1 Structure, From Design to Execution Semester_10,

Monsoon 2018

Project site Ahmedabad, India Exploration of detailing with split bamboo Both bamboo and earth require the continuous understanding of each culm or sample respectively. As we cannot consider soil composition as perfectly uniform unless the constituents of the soil are separated and recomposed to suit the construction, similarly no two bamboos are geometrically same or will have precisely the same property. Further, non-uniform shape and size of the bamboo across its length adds to increasing complexity. This makes bamboo extremely challenging to work with. One of the ways in which the traditional artisans have worked with bamboo is to use it in split form. Using of split form has an advantage. It can be shaped to uniform size. This opened up the architectural use of split bamboo. Historically, many attempts have been made in both synclastic and anticlastic forms. However, resolving the end conditions always remains a challenge owing to the isotropic nature of its fibers. This research detailes out structural forms using split bamboo. The split bamboo is put to detailing in various structural condition to achieve optimum form and develop efficient engineered details.

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Ecology

Designing Resilience in Asia, International Design Competition Urban Design Strategies for Bangkok’s Flood Resilience Representing CEPT at NUS Singapore, 2018 Team mates: Mauli Patel, Netra Bafna

Different reasons for flooding

From an agrarian settlement to a mega polis with snarling traffic, Bangkok, like many other cities, has harmed the relation between human and ecology.

Our proposal aims at rejuvenating this relation by sensitizing Bangkokians towards water. Our vision for redeveloping Bangkok is based on the idea that spaces for collective and public integrated with water sensitive systems will make Bangkok resilient, Bangkokians aware about water systems and enhance its urban experience.

As Bangkok floods for various reasons the overarching idea has been integrated in these four strategies : Rejuvenate, Soak, Protect, Adapt to respond to each flood level. We envision that the prototypes designed would be adopted all over Bangkok to achieve a city sensitized towards water.

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Meaning for reference: Spaces for Collective: Any space meant for public gathering or leisure with or without social and cultural importance.

Water sensitive systems: Water systems that are ecologically sensitive and help in creating a balance in water ecology The proposal won “Overall Design excellence award”. The proposal was praised for its comprehensive regional, city and local analysis of the issues and its “clearly structured toolbox of interventions” “A variety of typologies and scales enabled sensitive solutions in the diverse urban fabric of the city, and it was one of the only schemes to address sewerage as well as transportation and water.”

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Rejuvenate Our proposal aims at rejuvenating the water canals by making decetralised sewage treatment plants that clean the canals, treat the household waste water and create a green public space.

This will create awareness and remove stigma related to sewage. The decentralised sewage system consists of septic tanks, root zone treatment bed and polishing ponds. The sludge removed is further treated to produce biogas. The cleansed water will be used for maintaining the green urban space of the sewage treatment centre.

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Soak A softer approach to soak in maximum water to the ground is adopted by making sunken social and sport-related spaces. This would help as Bangkok has many areas with depleted groundwater. These spaces would hold public activities throughout the year and hold water during heavy rains and then percolate it in the ground over time through infiltration wells.

The two identified main roads will have bioswales running all through its length with infiltration wells in it at a regular distance. Other secondary roads will be made of permeable tarmac that will soak in water and connect to bioswales along the main road. To handle the rainwater, our strategy is to make the ground as permeable as possible.

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Protect To protect the river from excessive flow, a green belt is proposed along the tributaries and the river Chao Phraya to hold the soil together and increase the absorption rate of the soil along the river. Afforestation in the temple complexes in Bangkok is proposed to set an example for the city in a place that is the most revered.

We imagine Bangkok with a vibrant river edge that is open for all public, holds different functions like cultural theatres, sports activities, spaces for street artists, elevated cycling track, walking path and gigantic green spaces. To protect the city from swollen Chao Phraya river with excess water from north and ocean backflow, the ground near the river will be modulated in a way that prevents water from coming inside the city when the river water rises.

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Adopt In the long run, the decentralized sewage system will have a neighborhood center that will incorporate spaces for the surrounding communities to work, green spaces, spaces of stories where dying communities will be celebrated and a cycle station where cycles can be rented out.

During the Flood situation, it will act as a place for shelter and the elevated cycling path will act as an evacuation path.

To make the center more livable, we propose multi-story housing that frees up the ground, makes it permeable and elevates commercial and housing to protect it from damage. The housing will consist of column beam structure, slabs, and cores consisting of services and rainwater collection tanks. The dwellers will make their own houses by salvaging material from their existing houses to make it economically viable. The proposal has identified the most vulnerable houses based on the elevation of the ground, estimated flood level, and economic background. Housing development must begin from the most vulnerable.

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Documentation of Traditional Built form Living Champapada, Winter school 2013 Immersion in an environment is recognized as a valuable method for learning in relation to the built form: direct experiences of a wide variety enrich the learning process. Considering this significance, this course inculcates the appreciation of vernacular settlements, with a direct, hands-on approach to studying of the built environment by observing, recording and measure drawing. Emphasis is on understanding existing, vernacular built form by documenting its organization and occupation, activities and uses, materials and techniques of construction. Working upon the documentation skills through a range of measuring and mapping exercises. The site for this study is Champapada village located in Dadra & Nagar Haveli, a union territory of India near Daman in south of Gujarat.

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Site plan and section

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13 Related Study Program B

Documentation of Traditional Built form Pachmarhi: Discovering a Colonial Habitat, Winter school 2014 The objective of this winter school is to explore various ways of interpreting the past and the present of built habitats and interweave them to create coherent narratives.

Using the existing colonial built heritage of Pachmarhi as a key reference, aim is to re-imagine and recreate life in a colonial hilltown.

The main part of the course is a direct and hands-on approach of understanding the built habitat through rigorous mapping and documentation of the existing colonial buildings in Pachmarhi with study of various aspects of the built environment by observing, recording, and measure drawing these buildings in prescribed ways.

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Expressing Studio Indigenous _ 2019 - Present As a practice, we consciously attempt to engage with man and material. And for its reasonable manifestation, we appropriately anchor our approaches in the physical, social and cultural contexts. We respect resources like water, material and energy, which makes our expression ecologically sensible.

We are interested in designing spaces and objects of all scales that impact the built environment, which makes us curious in designing the landscape, interior and furniture too.

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01 Breathe In - Breathe Out Meditation hall for Vipassana centre In Collaboration with Terra Firma and Ar.Mauli Patel January 2019 Status: Unbuilt Project site Bhopal, India Brief The intervention of a meditation hall is proposed to cater to increased visitors to the Vipassana meditation center. The proposal respects the philosophy of the center. There are solutions to the climatic conditions and the unique environment required for meditation. Passive and active ways of cooling and ventilation in the living spaces, as well as the hall, are adopted while creating calm and optimum lighting.

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A meditation hall requires less light and comfortable temperatures along with a reduced connection to the exterior disturbances.

Considering the climate and wind directions in Bhopal, this meditation hall uses a passive technique of wind towers on the Northside that funnel the wind into the interior space and the double-wall created due to this would create thermal lag preventing heat gain and bring mild ambient light through the openings.

Active ventilation is made possible by deep openings that are tapered to make a small opening on the inside.

The south side of the building uses a cavity wall and is recessed in to keep shaded.

A solar chimney effect is created on the south wall that would heat due to glass and the exhaust fans would exhaust this air out. This would lead to continuous air change in space.

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02 S M L XL Residential Society In Collaboration with Ar.Mauli Patel May 2019 Status: Unbuilt Project site Mehsana, India Project Program Residential Units, Shared Recreational Space Brief The project is based on the premise of communal living for the upper-income group of dwellers in Mehsana and nearby districts.

The project demanded optimum use of land and an adequate scale of residential spaces based on a mix of contemporary and traditional lifestyles and culture of the people of Mehsana.

All houses respond to the sun and wind direction and use passive techniques of cross ventilation through courtyards, hot air exhausts, optimum size and directed use of openings. All houses encourage a connected living with privacy where required and hence different levels overlook each other and different scales of gathering spaces allow the users to connect over different activities.

The site is secured at the entrance, hence, no use compound walls allow the living rooms and otlas to connect better to the street, respecting that lifestyle.

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The recreational area is designed to be open and interactive on the ground le small pockets in the free open space allowing people to accommodate freely and incorporates seating furniture and swings fit for kids as well as adults. add drama and greens to the site. The lawn mounts would give freedom in po The underground space opens to the court which can be used for private ga

evel as an extension to the street. The order of the roof structure defines y. One structure module creates sun and rain protection in some parts The other module is more porous and accommodates creepers that ostures and would draw people to perform play as well as socialize. atherings or as spillover to the gym and theatre.

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03 Veinscape Interior Design September 2019 Status: Under construction Project site Kolkata, India Brief A living room and dining space are refurbished of an apartment to create a bright space with the use of natural textures of wood, stone, and some color. The spaces are divided with minimal partitions to make the space feel large and connected.

The project has a play of veins/texture from wood, stone and fabric and hence called Veinscape.

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04 Archaeological Museum Consultant for JMA Design Co. March - August 2020 Status: Under construction Project site Vadnagar, India Worked on Details and Finishing drawings as a Consultant for JMA Design Co, Ahmedabad, for a duration of 6 months.

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05 Courtyard house Private Residence In Collaboration with Episteme Architects December 2019 Status: Unbuilt Project site Ahmedabad, India Brief The brief is to design a house with Courtyard for a nature enthusiastic family of a civil engineer, along with some in-house sports facility like badminton, tennis court, gym and indoor game zone. The site is located in suburbs of Ahmedabad with a proposed lake adjoining.

Our proposal tries to address the brief given by the client in most of the ways, Courtyards of diverse scales anchoring the spaces, alongwith spaces overlooking the greens on the East while soaking the morning sun and getting fresh breeze from the South-West.

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06 Pavilion homes Residential Apartment February 2020 Status: Unbuilt Project site Morbi, India Brief The brief is to design an apartment with units as open as a Pavilion, to gain the benifits of light and ventilation from all the direction alongwith making one feel an large open space from the inside.

The site is open from all 4 sides, accommodating roads on North, South and West and a public garden on East, making the units much more airy and lit from all 4 sides.

The unit is designed keeping in mind the social, cultural and climatic aspects of the region. Large living space and dining area is well connected with the East and West verandahs and hence isolated from harsh sunlight of West, Master bedrooms are placed towards West, keeping in mind the wind direction 25’ wide Road

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Teaching CEPT University_2018 - Present

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01 Strange Details

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Deconstructing the Making

Studio unit focusing on Constructing and Specifying

The purpose of this exercise is to understand a building in terms of arch itect’s idea, structure, material and process of construction.

Spring 2018, 2019, 2020

Students are assigned a residence by a well known architect.

They are encouraged to use secondary sources of information to analyse the building and deconstruct its various elements, representing their findings, through drawings and models.

Monsoon 2019, 2020

Studio Brief Architecture is largely perceived as an expression of an idea/ concept/intention. But its manifestation is rooted in the realities of construction and nature of materials. The negotiations between these aspects result into some unique and often strange details of architecture that are then communicated through drawings.

This studio focuses on developing an understanding of the processes of these negotiations and communications by taking students through a journey of evolving and communicating their own ‘strange’ details.

Pedagogy The studio strongly believes in enabling the students’ knowledge and understanding of technology to evolve a poetic quality of architectural expression.

The initial research investigates the nature of the materials as well as s patio formal expressions of selected buildings. This process is simultaneously carried out as hands on documentation of selected building elements and material surveys as well as through secondary sources.

The studio projects are designed such that the architectural grammar is derived from an informed , evaluated and considered use of structural elements and materials, environmental responses and the issues of resources.

Through these exercises students will understand how structural necessities are transformed into sculptural forms and the fundamental elements of the contextual environment inform the architectural tools to come together to evolve ‘architectonic poetics’ The studio is structured as a series of exercises to assist the students in understanding and achieving the above mentioned objectives.

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Exercise 01

Exercise 02

Reading the Architectonics

The purpose of this exercise is to enable students to read architectural resolutions and expressions, and understand its direct correlation with construction materials, techniques, the structural (load transfer) system and the details of putting elements together.

Students are taken on a field trip to document a building. They are split into groups of two and required to document and analyse key elements of the building as wall sections (@1:20). and later they were asked to make sectional axonometric drawing of the documented condition to meet the objectives.

Exercise 03

Matter of Materials

In order to enable the students to make informed choices of materials, this exercise exposes them to various properties and nuances of the architectural materials. Exercise includes the study of asigned materials through primary/secondary sources along with understanding the application of it by making joinery prototypes with actual material.

Design Project Building upon the preliminary exercises, students are introduced to the studio design project which requires them to develop and detail an unbuilt conceptual design project of a well-known architect.

Each project is then deemed to be ‘trans-located’ to a familiar site within Ahmedabad / Gandhinagar, creating the opportunity for students to re-imagine the building within its new context, while at the same time remaining true to the essence of the architect’s philosophy and design intent.

Thus, the architect and the given project form the Philosophical and Ideological anchor while the given site provides the Contextual anchor.

De-constructing the making Riddhi Doshi, Monsoon 2020

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Reading the architectonics Kesha Shirvi Prachi Patodia Rajshri Jain Viraj Brahmbhatt, Spring 2019

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Reading the architectonics Namrata Ukani Sharvi Shah, Spring 2020

Matter of materials Aishwarya Gupta Devanshi Shah Jay Odharia, Spring 2020

Matter of materials Priyanka Kolhe Sharvi Shah, Spring 2020

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Design development of Louis Kahn’s Hurva Snagogue Lisa Therese, Spring 2018

Design development of Van Eyck’s Wheels of Heaven Takshil Jagani, Monsoon 2019

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Design development of Steven Holl’s Triaxial field Viraj Bhatt, Monsoon 2019

Design development of Peter Zumthor’s Herz Jesu church Nishra Shah, Spring 2020

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02 Material, System & Joinery Mandatory course for 2nd year FA UG students Spring 2018

Monsoon 2019, 2020

The Material, System & Joinery is the foundation course that introduces students to understanding of overview of systems of building, properties of materials and joinery in different and same material.

The course equips students to apply various ways in which different materials come together, the manner in which it come together, the process of construction that enable it as well as systematic and sequential preparation required for construction.

These abilities shall be reinforced by use of drawing as a means of communication, case studies, prototyping to learn the existing ways of detailing as well as experimenting and verifying new ways.

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Building 1:1 Batch 2017 FA UG, Spring 2018

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Line & Layout Batch 2017 FA UG, Spring 2018

Material, System & Element Krishna Patel Reya Kundu, Spring 2018

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Morphology & Typology of Details Krishna Patel Reya Kundu, Spring 2018

Layouting the service Batch 2017 FA UG, Spring 2018

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De-coding the building Ritika Doijode, Monsoon 2019

De-coding the building Aditi Shah, Monsoon 2019

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Morphology & Typology of Staircase Manav Rathore, Monsoon 2019

Hands-on workshop Batch of 2018 FA UG, Monsoon 2019

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03 Annotated Documentation A Documentation Workshop Winter school 2019, Velangi, Andhra Pradesh, India Documentation workshop in collaboration with Department of Architecture, Andhra University Immersion in an environment is recognised as a valuable method for learning and in relation to the built form, direct experiences of a wide variety contributes to the richness of learning process.

Considering this significance, this course continues the legacy of the Faculty of Architecture documentation program inculcating in students the appreciation of a traditional settlement. The intension of this course is to introduce a direct and hands-on approach to studying of the built-environment by being physically present on the site and observing, recording and measure-drawing the place. Emphasis will be on understanding an existing built-form by documenting its organization and occupation, activities and uses, and materials and techniques of construction.

A student’s academic training of construction has three important stages namely; ability to on site study an existing building and translate it into basic technical drawings of architecture, ability to identify and draw existing details from a secondary case study which are usually is in the form of published drawings and ability to make a 1:1 structure. The SWS on ‘Annotated Documentation’ has been attempted to work with the first stage.

The students after being on site for a week engaged in documenting around Fourteen small and large houses. These houses were selected as a sample that showed various types of building and its variations existing in the village. Conscious efforts were made to select traditional building made out of brick and timber as the principle construction material. Most of them are more than 50 to 70 years old. The houses have timber frame roof and bearing brick walls as enclosure system. The roofs are usually laid by pan or Mangalore tiles.

Documentation was done in collaboration between students of CEPT University and Andhra University. Later drawings were produced by students of CEPT University.

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Winter school 2019 Faculty of Architecture CEPT University

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Dhrumin Patel

Priyang Patel

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