Portfolio Vol.1

PROFILE

Name - Yugal Solanki

Location - Ann Arbor, Michgan

Mail - ysolanki@umich.edu

Phone - (+1) 7345967728

Network - Linkedin Issuu

SKILLS

ArchGIS

Autodesk Revit

AutoCAD

Sketchup

Rhino

Adobe Suite

Enscape

Lumion

V-ray

Microsoft Office

LANGUAGES

English

Hindi

Gujarati

Marwadi

Marathi

COMPETITIONS

MAHABAMBOO 2019

Crushing the taboos revolving around bamboo and to explore the material in

KIWLAE - REURBANISATION 2020

Redefining the river - front settlement in Pune

STREET FOR PEOPLE 2 2020

Government backed street development for better uesability in Pune

TOYCATHON 2020

Conceptualize novel Toy and Games based on Indian History

A driven individual seeking a career in the fields of Architecture and Urban

Design. Possesses strong interpersonal and analytical abilities as well as the capacity to establish and develop commercial relationships with corporate giants and people seeking a distinctive urban form of architecture.

EDUCATION

University of Michigan - A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture, Ann Arbor, MI

Masters of Urban Design, Projected Graduation December 2023

Symbiosis Skills & Professional University, Pune, India

Bachelors of Architecture, Graduation May 2022

EXPERIENCE

ARA Designs

Chennai Terminal 2 Lounge

- Designed layouts for Chennai Terminal 2 Airport Card holders Lounge

- Generated 3D renderings for terminal interior

- Produced bill of quantities for furniture

- Created working drawings for lounge space

Leora - Calisto Villas

- Worked on good for construction drawings for a villa complex

- Generated 3d views for estate built on a counter site of Goa

Azziz Nalwalla & Architect

Bungalow Villas

- Designed a layout and facade for a bungalow project in Lonavla

- Coordinated with consultants and vendors for construction

- Ensured proper materials were procured

Sacred Groves

Earthbag Dome

- Hands on experience with sustainable produce

- Plastered the bags and finished it with lime wash

Citadel Interiors Pvt Ltd

Apollo Hospital

- Created interior drawings of a multispecialty 30 bed hospital

- Collaborated with developers and consultants for construction

Indra IVF & Fertility

- Corresponded with a design team for initial project stages for floor plans

- Generated a bill of quantities for residential construction

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERING

Aashayein - Adopt a village

Volunteer

July 2021 - January 2022

May 2020- July 2020

May 2019 - July 2019

May 2018 - July 2018

Aug 2015 - Aug 2017

Adopted 3 villages, built 11 wells, 15 street solar lights, and raised start up capital for 40 ventures

Raksha Thread - Funds for Underprivileged Co-Founder

Raised funds by selling handmade products and donating funds to the underprivileged

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Publishes Paper

01. MUCK FABRIC

Master Studio I (2021) Team (Academics)

Queens, New York, USA

02. MULTI-DIMENTIONAL SPORTS COMPLEX

Undergraduate Thesis (2020)

Individual (Academics)

Naranpura, Ahmedabad, India

03. STREET FOR PEOPLE 2

Re-Development (2020) Team (Competition)

Nigdi, Pune, India

04. LEORA - CALISTO VILLAS

Residential Villa Complex (2021) Team (Professional, ARA Designs)

Siolim, Goa, India

05. KIWALE RE-URBANISATION

River Front Development (2020) Team (Competition)

Kiwale, Pune, India

01. MUCK FABRIC

Queens, New York, USA

2022

ABSTRACT: The Muck Fabrics initiative seeks to redefine both livability and resilience “through” the neighborhood’s historical identity. The concept aspires to reformulate livability and resiliency using unusual means, namely, an automotive junkyard that lives and breathes effortlessly, self-sustaining itself indefinitely, at Willets Point, which has been marked not only commercially but culturally by the automotive sector. The proposal also focuses on amalgamating residential, commercial, industrial, experiential, and open spaces that work together to make the fabric of the community’muck’-like yet ‘livable’ and’resilient’.

PROJECT TYPOLOGY: Urban Design - ‘Resilient Town’

SEMESTER: 1st (Masters)

WORK: Team (Academic)

ROLE: Research, Concept, Design and Presentation

GUIDE: McLain CLutter & Alina Nazmeeva

SOFTWARE:

MAPPING & DATA ANALYSIS

The processes in the project counter the development of a culturally adaptive landscape that responds to the historical ramification of redlining, dilapitated social infrastructure and climate change. The built form is seasonal to accommodate the freeform absorption of the old, new and emerging indentities and world changes.

pollution utilities ‘racial’ lines

Infrastructure has an extensive history ofim-posing its will upon people and the environment by targeting specific ous waste, sew-age) run across neighborhoods dividing the landscape. These infrastructural lines are permanent evidence sil-lence is the ability to sustain an identity of oneself or a collective self during the excessive bombardment of outside sources.

EXSISTING INFRASTUCTURE

groups of beings. Areas of sensible phenomena and infrastructural lines (power lines, sub-way, railroads, hazardevidence of human control over the natural world. Resilient fabrics emerged through the intersection of these factors. Resources. Fabrics are an interwoven web of social, economic, and ecological zones spread throughout a prescribed area

SPATIAL VISULISATION

Vernacular is the language that evolves in the built environment through cultural adaptations. Resilient Fabrics proposes a vernacular resilient framework to create a catalyst for community-driven development, with community-shared, closed system resources from the site. Commencing in 2012, our project acts as a counter-proposal to the NYCEDC proposition. Their proposition plans to displace and evict the citizens of Willet’s Point. Instead, this investigates a vernacular remediation process to revitalize the area’s industrial ecology, local biodiversity, and waste management. developments etc, as well as storage, a multipurpose hall to host weddings, open-air theatres for cultural performances, and market space.

02. MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SPORTS COMPLEX

Naranpura, Ahemdabad, India

2021 - 2022

ABSTRACT: This project aims to conceive an ecosystem that employs architecture to amalgamate the tecnical aspect of sports facilities to develop sports whilst integrating society and public involvement to sustain interest and generate a culture to successfully develop, sustain and promote sports in India; a Sport Ecosystem

PROJECT TYPOLOGY: Sports Complex - ‘An Ecosystem’

SEMESTER: 10th (Unergraduate)

WORK: Individual (Academic)

ROLE: Research, Concept, Design and Presentation

GUIDE: Ar. Ankit Gaidhani & Ar. Dinesh Hiparkar

SOFTWARE:

RESEARCH & VOID IDENTIFICATION

Sports involve the use of physical exertion and skill in competitive settings, where individuals or teams compete for entertainment purposes. In recent times, sports have grown to encompass more than just physical activity and have become intertwined with national pride and global demonstrations of power and wealth.

The planned facility will create a comfortable and peaceful setting for cultural events. It will encourage both amateur and professional athletes to train hard and improve their skills.

Ahmedabad, the largest city in the Indian state of Gujarat, has a long history of diverse housing typologies, ranging from traditional Gujarati houses to modern apartment blocks. The site surrounding is characterized by a mix of residential areas, both old and new.

There are four access points to the site: one primary that leads directly from the main road, two secondary that lead from a busy residential street, and one tertiary that leads from a service road.

The primary and secondary sides of the site receive a great deal of sunlight and noise. Depending on the season, the site also experiences hot winds from the west and cold winds from the east.

The location is rich in existing landscape. Mango trees, Jamun trees, and Kaju trees are among the species on display. A few trees have a large spread and can be used as a passive cooling system.

The site’s land area is mostly flat, with only a few terrain lines with a drop of 50 mm visible. These terrains on the site are a result of the historical framing practices that were taking place there.

SUN, WIND & NOISE PATH

Shell is the major defense mechanism in some species that acts as a protection belt and barrier between the inside and the outside, the protection is in various ways i.e Environment, Prey and other factors. The X-Ray image shows the complete binds of the protection layer of the Neptunea Shell

Source

Binders

Outershell

ADVANCED OBJECTIVE

The design justifies the concept of built and unbuilt spaces. blending it seamlessly into a single unit and thereforte increasing the overa;ll efficiency of the space

A centric model of development has been followed while designing, with unbild spaces acting as social interaction place, transitional buffers in close vicinityand peripherial open space to accomodate services

SCALES & PROPORTIONS

The heights and permeability define the project’s scale; with the help of a section, I attempted to demonstrate that this is not a commercial building, but rather serves the purpose of the proportions.

03. STREET FOR PEOLE 2

Nigdi, Pune, India

2020

ABSTRACT: The project’s goal is to build the street for people while maintaining the community at the centre of all interventions. This plan attempts to improve the street by incorporating a variety of activities that promote the citizen-led approach, such as open street campaigns, open public gyms, and community/public spaces that work to positively build society. To increase youth knowledge of sacrifices from our golden past, as well as to rekindle recollections of that era for older age groups.

PROJECT TYPOLOGY: Urban Design

SEMESTER: 8th (Unergraduate)

WORK: Team (Academic)

ROLE: Research, Concept, Design and Presentation

GUIDE: Dr. Rutuja Jagtap

SOFTWARE: AutoCAD, SketchUp, Enscape, Lumion, Photoshop

CONCEPT

Striking Segregated Spaces “

Streets are for people, and by people, we mean various groups of people based on age, interests, and so on. The streets of Pune’s Pimpri Chinchwad are quite similar to one another. We proposed designs that include some useful elements, improved planning, visual contrast, and a balance on its own.

VISION

Activate Underutilized Space “

To create it as a destination rather than place is designed as a dynamic destination transformed to house opportunities for an

Sustainable Enviornment

Social Well-Being

Space

than just a conduit. The destination where its edges are array of activities.

Connectivity

A bend in the Street is not the end of the Street “

04. LEORA - CALISTO VILLAS

Siolim, Goa, India

2020

ABSTRACT: Holiay homes helps an individual, a family to detach from city’s hustle. A longitude heavily contoured site with dense vegetation which is surrounded by tropical forest providing external views on all sides of the plot. Considering the various factors like topography, vegetation and vistas the design alternatives were taken forward on sustainable platforms of retaining or relocating exsisting trees, harvesting rain water and efficiently using material to save on cost. Each house renders a different identity in itself but reflects the contextual style of Goan architecture

PROJECT TYPOLOGY: Residential Villa Complex - Goan Style

WORK: Team (Professional) (ARA Designs)

ROLE: Research, Concept, Design and Presentation

MEMBERS: Ar. Amey Dahanukar, Ar. Alpita Pangle, Ar. Rajdeep Modak, Ar. Meet Dhanesha

SOFTWARE: AutoCAD, Rihno 3D, SketchUp, Enscape, Lumion, Photoshop

05. KIWALE RE-URBANISATION

Kiwale, Pune, India

2020

ABSTRACT: Urbanization is taking a toll on the liveability and sustainability parameters of the area which has lead to the potential development of riverside tourism and the social environment. Urbanization rates will intensify significantly, putting severe pressure on the existing infrastructure and will also affect the existing ecosystem to balance which choice of materials and the design is made balanced.

PROJECT TYPOLOGY: River-front Development

SEMESTER: 7th (Unergraduate)

WORK: Team (Academic)

ROLE: Research, Concept, Design and Presentation

GUIDE: Dr. Ankit Gaidhani

SOFTWARE: AutoCAD, SketchUp, Enscape, Lumion, Photoshop

Urbanization is taking a toll on the liveability and sustainability parameters of the area which has lead to the Potential development of riverside tourism and the social environment. Urbanization rates will intensify significantly, putting severe pressure on the existing infrastructure and will also affect the existing ecosystem to balance which choice of materials and the design is made balanced.

BUILT FORM AROUND THE SITE ROAD LEADING TOWARDS THE GHAT SITE FOR REVITALIZATION

DETAILED PLAN of the INSTALLATION

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