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Competition
YATRIKA - Highway Refreshment Stop
Topic : Travel Unravel - Designing Highway
Host : SqrFactor
Standing : Shortlisted in the Top 10
Year: 2018
Design Concept for YATRIKA :The golden proportion of modularity inspired from a traditional clay brick makes it easy to produce replicate and assemble. This concept of modularity has been applied to ease the process right from inception to execution of amenity efficiently increasing the speed of the project. The design and manufacture of units or modules can be undertaken at a remote location away from the work site, and the installation can be carried out in a shorter and limited time on the site. This method ensures the speedy availability of good wayside amenities in even the farthest location.
BRIDGEWAASI - Microhousing
Topic : Designing Micro Housing
Host : Volume Zero, International Design Competition
Standing : Shortlisted in the Top 50
Year: 2019
Design Concept : The concept of Co-living is developed around three key aspects- Co-housing + Co-working + Co-playing by using space over existing transit networks, with baseline parameters of M.A.S.S housing - Modular, Affordable, Sustainable and Social.
M S ALI ROAD, Mumbai Street Lab
Topic : Redesigning - M S Ali Road, Mumbai
Host : MCGM (Municipal Co-orporation of Greater Mumbai)
Standing : Shortlisted in the Top 20
Year: 2019
Design Concept : The Maulana Shaukat Ali Road is a 1.5 Km stretch with distinct street character that changes at every 200 m interval. From a fashion street to second-hand furniture market, the street is a bustling cosmos of myriad activities. To simplify, Kevin Lynch’s Theory was used as methodology for analysis. The design intent was to accommodate all the activities in- situ while creating pleasant, user-friendly infrastructure. The planning also takes into consideration the need for organised parking while not compromising on the safety of pedestrians.
WISDOM ON WHEELS, Tiny Library
Topic : Designing a learning space
Host : Volume Zero International Design Competition
Year: 2020
Design Concept : Rural India often faces challenges of availability and accessibility to basic amenities due to hurdles of challenging terrains, inadequate resources, and absence of infrastructure. Pahiye pe Pragya aims to bridge the gap through a mobile facility that can reach people door to door, one village at a time.
For purpose of demonstration, Majuli was selected as the pilot site as people from the surrounding villages are connected to Majuli, for healthcare, education, and agriculture purpose. Every year, the Brahmaputra floods wash away the bamboo bridge and people must rely on water transport as the primary means of transport and communication.
The Pahiye pe Pragya module can be scaled and replicated to cater to any rural settlements that cannot be accessed by roadways and are physically divided by water networks. The locally sourced construction materials with the incorporation of a solar roof, make this module self-sustainable. Multiple functions can be plugged in on a need basis along with the library, health facility and accommodation.
ENTEKOCHI - Envisioning Mullasserry Park Precinct, Kochi
Topic : Envisioning Mullasserry Park Precinct, Kochi, Kerala.
Host : Kochi Municipal Corporation, GIZ India, Urbanista and URBZ
Competition done in collaboration with : Educated Environments, Ratan J Batliboi-Consultants Pvt Ltd and Mandira Design Studio.
Year: 2020
The conceptual idea started with an enquiry into how do we transform the Kochi of today into a 'My Kochi' vision by churnings of the EnteKochi program. With the stakeholder participation being the key, the approch was to see how the response to the Mullasserry Canal precincts could have a larger resonance for the CBD (Central Business District) it touches and then larger city of Kochi. The answer lay in linking its layers of natural assets to its interactive urban placemaking which then became flood and climate mitigating features.
The intent was to propose a solution for the ecological, socio-cultural integration of people, place and participation, linked by a floating walkway which snakes playfully on and off the canal and also acts as an emergency response for tides and fluctuating water levels.
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