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Vidya Venugopal

Portfolio2015

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Redisigning Gujari bazaar, Ahmedabad

CURRENT MARKET TRADE AND EXHIBITION CENTRE SABARMATI RIVERPROPOSED MARKET

Objectives and scope and limitations1. Clubbing the permanent and the temporal members of the market.2. Enhancing the sociability in the market.3. Improving its functionality.4. Understanding their current set up to/ volumes for each seller and goods for their spatial requirements.5.Understanding their lifestyles and needs in the day for their cluster formation.

The Gujri Bazaar is located on the banks of Sabarmati River which is being transformed by the upcoming project of the riverfront develop-ment.

The state has defined a new plot for their devel-opment.Considering its current configuration, a new market is designed on the assigned plot.

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Drinking water monitor at each junction for the different group of vendors.

Shrine at the entrance.The drinking water drums kept secured in the periphery

Trading shared with family members or fellow vendors share recources.

Tensile roof frames used for display of more goods.

Khan darwaza along with a backdrop of a mosque at an entrance opening up the site a social juncture.

Social components

Vending patterns

Historical components

SunMon

Tue

Wed

ThuFri

Sat

Gujri bazaar

Collect goods

Sell at alternate markets

Prepare goods to sell at the market

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Design ModulesGoods sold Typology

of shopDescription No. of

unitsStorage spacerequired on site(in m)

Utensils/ scrap/ book sellers/cloth/household

Type A Unshaded ground covering the stall

364 2 x 2

Utensils/hardware/books

Type B1 Shaded umbrella with ground covering

225 1.5 x 1.5

Harware/ Utensils

Type B2 Ground covering with combined canopy

165 2 x 2

Hardware/ Antiques

Type C Shaped umbrella with hand cart or a temporary raised platform

94 2 x 2

Food/ Cloth/ Hardware

Type D Fabric canopy with hand cart or a tem-porary raised plat-form

191 1.5 x 1.5

Food/Hard-ware

Type E Combined canopy for hand cart or a temporary raised platform

54 2 x 2

Collected second hand goods/ food

Type F Combined canopy for hand cart or a temporary raised platform

32 4 x 4

Storage units/ ani-mals/furni-ture/books

Type G Unshaded and un-bound

9 Nil

food Type H Food stalls 13 Nil

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S w o t A n a l y s i s

Strengths Weaknesses

Oppertunities Threats

•Connected to the site that continued for 40 years.•A linear stretch available(easier for market segragation and circulation.•The fort wall being strong back drop for the market.•3 access available to the site.

•The abandoned tem-ples on site could further enhance the existing social spheres in the market.•Being in dialogue with the proposed commercial building the scope of the market could be widened.

•Major part of the market fails to get the river for its frontage.•Bound by the walls, growth of the market is being restrictive.

•Could bring damages to the fort wall.•The disconnect from the warer body would bring discomfort to the market during summers.•Incase of market being gentrified in totality the vendors will lose a greter set of the buyers of today’s market.

Sabarmati riverfront development precincts

Conveyance for the market

1. Paldi residential neighbour-hood2. Culture mile3. Health-care hub4. B.J park institution precinct5. Ashram road buisiness district6. Ashram road mixed use precinct.7.gandhi ashram heritage precinct.8. Sabarmati residential neigh-bourhood9.Sabarmati redevelopment precinct.10.Shahibaug residential neigh-bourhood.11. Shahibaug institutional precinct.12. Dudeshwar mixed use pre-cinct.13. Khanpur mile.14. Lal darwaza heritage precinct.15. Fair and market precinct.16. Calico development precinct17. Pirana precinct18.Lower promenade.

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Preparation of a comprehensive Manual which will provide policy guidelines and product designs for street furniture to help build an infrastructure for the pedestrian town of Matheran.

Matheran Street Furniture manual, Maharashtra

Objectives:• To formulate comprehensive policy guidelines for

building a character of the social space in Matheran.• To locate points of design intervention for street

furniture.• To locate and provide for ideal disposal of tourist

friendly navigational/historical information.• To provide design details for streetfurniture and to pre-

pare specifications and estimates for the same.• To prepare a Manual compiling the above information

for future reference.

The physical character and its location hasmade the plateau one of the most favouredtourist destination in the vicinity of Mumbai. Itattracts tourists of varied interests in all seasonsexploring the plateau for its natural beauty. Asthe tourist activity is spread throughout theplateau it faces threats like encroachment andclutter. Stronger policy measures are neededto protect the natural beauty of the plateau. Italso needs a sustainable infrastructure for thepedestrian traveller.

This manual, aspires to provide a pedestrian infra-structure through a street furniture kit .It also pro-vides policy and design guidelines which will help to develop a coherent character preserving the natural beauty of the plateau.

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Unstrategised location of Seatings Horses are tied to tress as no horse stands exists.

The scope of this Manualwas to understand the issues and provideregulatory measures to pre-serve the character.

For mapping the physical character,three components were identified based on theimportance of activity. These components areRoads, Headlands and Special Zones.

Too high railing blocking the view

Encroachment of food and game stalls

Physical components of the hill station RCC seating broken and not in use. Trees being used to tie horses.

Typical Headland configuration

Section through a typical headland

Lamp post hidden in tree canopy.Unused and fallen

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Major Roads (Primary) Type - 1 Nodes

Width The width of the road should not be more than6 Meters. In cases where it exceeds 6 Meters, its hould be defined with an edge and the excess space should be left for reju-venation of the forest.

Edges Edge of the road should be demarcated with a storm water drain. In case where storm water drain cannot be provided a curb stone,preferably laterite should be laid. The storm water drains should be built as per the standard section provided. The existing lat-erite culverts should be preserved, repaired and maintained.

Surface Finish

Road surface should be paved with Laterite stone, or compatible material which isecologically appropriate for the environment

Activity Activity related to movement of handrickshaws, horse riding and pedestrian shouldbe allowed. Any commercial activities or installation of advertisements and hoard-ingsshould not be allowed.

Seating To be provided at 100 Meters from each other and installed within the boundary of the road.

Mounting stands

Not to be provided on the roads.

Horse stands To be provided on all turns and should beinstalled beyond the road edge.

Lamp Post Not to be provided on the roads.Garbage bins Not to be provided on the roads.Navigational signage

To be provided near the en-trance of all listed heritage assets and should be installed facing the roads and beyond the road edge.

Informative signage

To be provided near all the pub-lic properties and public parks and should be installed facingthe roads and beyond the road edge.

Boundary The boundary is defined by the road edges and a notional line where the road begins from the node

Activity: nodes leadingto the Headland

The activity should be restricted to horse parking and seating. General guidelines provided on page no. 46 should be followed for regulating the commercial activity.

Activity: nodes onrest of the plateau

The activity should be restricted to seating only. Commercial activity in the form of temporary or permanent structure should not be allowed.

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Seating Horse mounting stand

GatewayHorse parking stand

Garbage Railing

Planters

Direction boards

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Jaisalmer ‘chowk’ documentation

Jaisalmer fort elevation

Jaisalmer city Plan of the fort Location of the chowk

Plan of the chowk

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West side elevation

East side elevation

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Art museum at Navi Mumbai

The site was divided into two parts-1. Public 2. Secured

The public area landscaped to incorporate art & entertainment related activites, similar to Kalaghoda, the art district in south Bombay.

The secured area houses the core museum building stepped along-side the contours. The linear enclosed spaces of the museum against the semi open tensile roofs for the semi open appreciation space.

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The city museum, being situated in the residential + commercial hub of Navi Mumbai, aimed at targetting a wider range of people. The brief giving the flexibility of a location for the site, at the centre of the district and the junction of connecting the highway and intra city railway station.

Plan of the Museum

Museum elevation

Admin block

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Residential township

Situated admist the surrounding agri-cultural land and the developing in-dustrial and rurban projects. It gave way for a flexibilty to develop withtin the complex.

The public areas include the school, clinique, club and market.

The central road with the pathway experiences a shaded collective space for the residence.

Staggered arrangement forming packets for a social space.

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The row house and the bunglow clussters are laid out on the NE part of the site. Recieving shade from the shadows cast by the taller buildings.

Section across 1 BHK 1 BHK Row house 2BHK Bunglow

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Restaurant

The enclosed lounging area, a defined space for higher officials to separate from the college crowd.

The elongated ‘C’ shaped seating to accomodate more to the table as an informal space.

The large performance stage being the focus of the restaurant.

The built form as a fan panning out to stand iconic in the college campus and a better view to the college in the background.

Designing a restaurant in the college compound as-suming its usage to extend out to the outsiders. The restaurant aims at creating an informal seating elevated from its surrouning to enjoy the streaming activities in its surrounding.

A ramp with informal seating viewing the perfor-mance area.

Lounge

Waiting area

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Goa school documentation

Documentation of a set of pre-school and primary school designed by Ar. Gerad De Cunha to under-stand and explore intricate detaiils on the structure that dealt with natural light and the need to induce natural ventilation and the playful use of locally available materials and waste materials.

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Housing complex , chennai

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Car showroom

A Maruti car showroom, placed on the outskirts of Mumbai viewing the higway, expressing its utilitarian and simplistic nature.

Section across the Car showroom and workshop

South elevation of the showroom

Section across the showroom

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Art resort

Art resort located set equal distance from Pune and Mumbai, for creating a hub for all the aspiring artists to collect and conduct activities in their area of interest. Entrance porch enhanced and the surrounding areas subdued for giving a direction and to tame built environment.

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Enclosures built on site for the artists were given ground floor structures with elongated windows stretched across the walls to completely open upp to the surrounding

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Thank you.

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