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Anindita Shrivastava

Diagrams and studies

The thinking behind the projects: reading the site, testing form, tracing movement and drawing the systems that sustain each place.

The Health Sanctuary

2 drawings

Six small isometric diagrams: winter gardens, planted landscape buffer, post and beam structure, community greenhouse, flexible room grid and shared greenhouse threshold. — Design studies: winter gardens, a planted buffer and a post-and-beam structure, followed by community greenhouses, a flexible room grid and shared thresholds.

Six small site plans showing the design growing from edge, to routes, to plots, to buildings, to gardens, to the finished sanctuary. — Site design sequence: movement along the residential edge, routes across it, a grid of plots, positions for buildings, gardens and routes, the sanctuary.

Sattva: The Healing Village

6 drawings

Six circular maps: Rishikesh, the site, the site area, roads, sun path and wind direction. — Maps of Rishikesh and the site, primary and secondary roads, sun path, wind direction and dimensions.

Grid of twelve isometric diagrams showing a sloping site gradually filling with circular clusters. — Site evolution from the original site to nodes, clusters and the final outcome.

Isometric diagrams of a circular building being opened, divided into zones, looped with ramps and given rooftop gardens. — Form evolution and ramp usage.

Line diagram of seven house volumes and their combinations into units and clusters. — Seven volumes combined into units and clusters.

Isometric diagrams of recreational, private and seasonal gardens, aquaponics, water body and bird-watching area. — Types of outdoor space in the living colonies.

Circular flow diagram linking rainwater, villa, waste, biogas, compost, seasonal garden and aquaponics. — The food and waste management mechanism.

The Food Park

3 drawings

Concept sketch linking growing, cooking and sharing food. — Concept sketch: how growing, cooking and sharing food connect.

Diagram of new routes through the estate. — Movement study: new routes through the estate.

Figure-ground drawing of the neighbourhood around The Food Park. — Figure-ground study of the neighbourhood.

The Garden Hotel

1 drawing

Three diagrams of a city skyline changing as a tall building and then planted voids are introduced. — Cityscape with no imageability; a landmark and nodal point; greenery added to the cityscape.

Group Housing

1 drawing

Row of eight small diagrams showing a T-shaped site becoming a block of towers. — Site evolution: original site, zoning by type of people, block placement, massing and terracing.

Modern Dome

2 drawings

Section of the dome market above a grid of circular diagrams of the bazaar, shelter, landscape and exhibition modules. — The multi-functional module.

Board with concept diagrams, an aerial site plan, six views of the bazaar and a long function section. — Concept diagram, site, views and function section.

Mixed Use Development

1 drawing

Twelve circular diagrams on navy showing a block growing into a tower and its cores. — Form evolution and the three cores: commercial, office and residential.