InDesign Portfolio- Preyanshu

InDesign Portfolio Preyanshu Pardhi A/3216/2018 II Year IV Semester 2-B

Overview The idea of this residential design exercise was to apprehend the basic principles and ethics of designing habitable spaces for a family; for them to live here and make it there home. This also involved a detailed understanding of the needs of each resident of the house based on their likings, interests, hobbies and loathings, their daily routine and also their chores or the contribution to the family as one of its members. Here, the humble dwelling designed for Dr. ShriKrishna Yesikar, the client and his family is designed in the city of Bhopal on the sloping property of the Doctors’ Quarters of the Gandhi Medical College and Hamidiya Hospital in the city’s Kohefiza neighbourhood. This piece of land falls within the campus of the college and is immediately surrounded by homes of other Doctor families, a staff and workers’ hostel and a Nurses’ hostel. The property being considered for the dwelling lies at one end of the medical camps and spans over 1000sq. m. while the other extent of the medical campus ends at the Sultania Hamidiya main road. The renowned Taj-Ul-Masjid with its Chowk bazaar is located not close to the site, opposite to the Sultania road. The medical college campus stays within the demolished walls of the fort of Bhopal; the walls also behaving as a boundary wall to the property on its southern side. 2

NAME Dr. ShriKrishna Suman Yesikar Veena Yesikar Uma Yesikar Aparna Yesikar AGE (YEARS) Yesikar 40 19 15 12 F F F F GENDER 45 M OCCUPATION Doctor, MBBS, Housewife/ Student, 1st Year Student, 10th Student, 7th Grade, MD; Professor of Homemaker MBBS, Gandhi Grade, St. Joseph’s St. Joseph’s Medicine, HOD of Medical College Convent School, Convent School, Medicine, Idgah Hills, Bhopal Idgah Hills, Bhopal Gandhi Medical College and associated Hamidia Hospital, Bhopal; and Physician, Diabetologist INCOME 1,10,000/- per N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. month Painting HOBBIES/ Reading, especially Cooking, Reading, Bicycling Music, INTERESTS medical as well as Gardening Gardening religious content CHORES Hospital and Clinic Household work Making bed, Getting groceries Arranging daily along with helper, helping in kitchen laundry in cupboards for eg. washing work utensils, laundry, cleaning, gardening (daily), etc. DAILY ROUTINE Day starts at Similar as above Off to college by Off to school by Off to school by 6:00 am. Off to 8:45 am and back 6:45 am. Returns 6:45 am. Returns hospital by 8:30 by 1:00 pm. Lunch by 1:00 pm. Lunch am. Lunch at 1:30 by 5 pm. Tea at by 1:00 pm to 2 by 1:00 pm to 2 pm to 2:30 pm. 5:30 pm. Studies :00 pm. Studies till :00 pm. Studies till Back home by 3 from 6 pm to 8:30 5:00 pm. Outdoor 5:00 pm. Outdoor pm. T.V./ dinner games from 5:30 games from 5:30 pm to 4 pm. Clinic from 5 pm to by 8:30 pm to pm to 7:30 pm. pm to 7:30 pm. 6 pm. Dinner by 9 9:30 pm. Studies T.V./ dinner by 8:00 T.V./ dinner by 8:00 From 10 pm to 12 pm to 10:30 pm midnight or 1 pm. pm to 9:30pm. pm to 9:30pm. Studies from 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm. 3

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(clockwise-top to bottom) Land Fog covers the lake during the winters 1. Plan at the Living room level which adds to the picturesque view from 2. Section through the Pooja Hall, looking This site provides a sloping lanscape the site. Many migratory birds flock in overlooking the lake, the Bada Taalaab lake during winters, eg. Comb duck, spot towards the main entrance of Bhopal. Land comprises of black, bill, bar headed goose. The site and its 3. Section through the Staircase, looking to- granular soil, a product of the basalt stone surroundings are frequentlu visited by prevalent in the region; an big,uneven snakes and scorpions due the existing wards the Dining are and Study rocks and boulders,typically basalt stone rocks and bushes. 4. Plan at the Pooja Hall level along the slope. Wild bushes and shrubs of lantana dominate the rough vegetation Culture and Sociology of the landscape, which generally grow between the rocks. Other kinds of flora The locality being considered for this inluding trees like Eucalyptus, Neem, residential project comprises of various Mango, Tamarind, Bougainvillea and doctors’ families living an upper middle Gulmohar are popular ones around the class to middle class lifestyle. Mostly site. every family owns a four-wheeler vehicle and is used whenever there is a need Climate to travel a distance of more than 2 km; otherwise most of them walk. However The region suffers from extreme climatic people mostly use two wheelers or go conditions with very hot summers and walking as most of the daily amenities extremely cold winters. This piece of are quite close to the residential area. land recieves average/ decent amount The vicinity is friendly, humble and all of yearly rainfall. There are no issues of the residents share an informal, homely water logging on the site due to its sloping feeling. Ths can be clearly seen from nature as it drains all the surface run off. instances like the yearly get together called the ‘Pool Dinner’ where one food 5

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(clockwise-top to bottom) 1. Plan at the Family room level 2. Western elevation of the residence 3. Southern elevation of the residence preparation is made by each family and Building Responsiveness brought to ones home where everybody would meet for the evening, generally The dwelling is layed out on simple cut planned at houses with frontyards or and fill principles for the development backyards; or even the casual meetings of its spaces, without damaging the over tea done very frequently by immediate environment. The ground is housewives at around 11:00 am to 11:30 partially dug out and the planned volumes am after finishing their daily routine then fill the voids which also benefits the chores. The street always remains lively temperature inside as the walls which in the evenings when children would remain unexposed to the heat partially plauy outdoors and the home makers while the enhanced ventilation (due the would take a stroll. form of the building) does its job to do Festivals like Ganpati Visarjan happens the same even if the southern facade is small ghat with a Shiva temple along majorly exposed to the sun. Hence the the lake. Families visit to Laxmi Narayan southern facade proves to be very helpful temple, locally known as the Birla Mandir as it lights the open house throughout the especially during auspicious ocassions day. Also, what ever is dug is also used like Janmashtami. Short days picnics and into building the house; for eg. the soil is visits to Bhojpur would happen regularly, used to fill the sloped land and create a peculiarly on days like Shivratri. The flat surface wherever necessary, or the students of St. Joseph’s Convent School, rocks excavated form below are put to would visit the Church during Christmas. work to create giant rubble masonry walls A big mela is organised every year at the that envelope the southwestern parts Taj-ul-Masjid for a week called ‘Istima’ of the house or the study area. Simple during the month of December which implementations as these not only add revered tremendously by the localites. to the aesthectic value of the building but Other major festivals like Diwali, Holi also permit it to blend in with the natural are celebrated together, by visiting each context of a plethora of trees, rocks and others’ homes. also the dilapidated fort wall. 7

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The sloping landscape that leads to the V.I.P. road, main road towards the south of the site is composed of large and heavy rocks and boulders that create an sense of seating on the inclination and provide a resting surface. This idea of a multiple surfaces coming together at various levels to form a seating experience on a slope was translated into a number of planes arranged at different heights which ultimately create interesting volumes and in turn provide habitable spaces. The form of the dwelling is partially evolved from the Venturi tube which is supports the Bernoulli’s Principle. According to the principle which explained through the Venturi tube, the velocity of air increases as the volume of the tube decreases.The pre- existing slope on the site is used to incorporate the idea of a modified Venturi tube fit onto the sie in the form of an open house, only to allow proper,better and continuous ventilation throughout the house. Speaking of a medical practictioner’s home, a medicla consideration has also been made while going about the space planning. The spine plays an importnt role in supporting the framework and the systems of the human body while connecting the body’s part to one another physically, or by means of the nervous system. Similar comprehension can be seen in the dweeling where the staircase acts as the main spine of the house, creating a ppath of transition from one space to the other and connecting spaces to one another. 12

Preyanshu Pardhi All three ideas involved in the thought process gave rise to this Email address: exiting form; having an interesting preyanshu3216arch18@ play of planes, a stark change of heights and volumes without actually spa.ac.in causing any hinderence to the ceiling and a central spine generating a relationship, a bond between the spaces themselves which also leads to harmony. Such an extremely simple element thus repeats itself and also creates and visual balance within leading to subtly spliting the spaces as public, semi public and private inside a house. 13