REGIONALISM
THIRD YEAR [Link] (2020-21)
Presented by: SHUBHAM GOTAWALE
Guided by: Prof. Kuldeep Kaur Bhatia
AR. Sameep Padora
01 BIOGRAPHY 03 AWARDS & STYLE
OF WORKING
02 INTRODUCTION 03 WORKS
UNDERTAKEN
BIOGRAPHY
• Sameep padora born in chamba, northern india .
• Sameep padora completed his undergraduate
studies in mumbai in 1996 followed by post-
graduate studies at the graduate school of design,
harvard university in 2005.
• He is the principal architect and founder of mumbai
based studio, sp+a (sameep padora & associates) as
well as director of spare, a research initiative looking
at issues of urbanization & architecture in india.
• He is also one of the founding members of the
bandra collective, an organization of architects
involved with the design of public spaces in mumbai.
BIOGRAPHY
• Sameep Padora is a practicing architect and principal of the
design studio sP+a in Mumbai.
• He received his diploma in architecture from Academy of
Architecture went on to study at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, and
received his Masters from the Graduate School of Design,
Harvard University in 2005
REGIONALISM
• Regionalism in architecture is about the context and customs of making buildings in a particular
region. These buildings, mainly houses, rely on specific knowledge of the climate, geology,
geography, and topography of the region.
• Regionalism in architecture often has a cultural aspect built in, and you can see political
structures, family dynamics and societal organization reflected in some buildings.
• The spatial characteristics of regionalism have importance in architectural approach as it is a
reaction to the already existing context. The goal is to further enrich the area and that
enrichment is not only attached to the structure but also the space inside and around the
structure and how it connects to the other structures in its vicinity.
• Regionalism looks to counter this and instead of taking inspiration from the local fabric, these
buildings instead look to their surroundings and take inspiration from that.
Project: Concrete Void Vijay
Transtech Factory
• Location: Bhiwandi, Maharashtra.
• Area: 2000 [Link].
• Status: Completed
• Design Team: Sameep Padora, Harshat Verma,
Aparna Dhareshwar, Sagar Kudtarkar, Parth Patel,
Sandeep Patwa
• The factory is located on a plot in a logistical warehousing facility on the outskirts of Mumbai.
• As is typical of most industrial warehouses in the area, the default construction material for most
buildings is corrugated metal sheathing and the general prevalent built form is opaque without visual
or physical connection to the immediate environment, thus turning the precinct into a continuous
hard edge.
• Our first instinct was to position the project as relief from the experience of this existing impervious precinct mass. On the
North-West corner of our site, a portion prone to seasonal flooding we consolidated a low lying, as a water body that
fluctuates through the year allowing for water to enter and drain the site based on surrounding water levels. While the
expression of the building’s heaviness was of interest, the heart of the project is the void of the central open to sky courtyard
around which the factory’s building’s production floors are organized. These relatively thin floorplates ensured well-lit work
spaces. The central open to sky courtyard is visually connected to the common spaces of the precinctoutsid the building
through the void under a 50 foot cantilevered floor over the seasonal water body doubling as a shaded breakout space for
the employees..
TEMPLE NANDYALA , INDIA.
•Architects: Sameep Padora & Associates
•Area: 10000 ft²
•Year: 2019
• The ecological strategy for the temple, thus began with recharging of groundwater.
• Water overflow from the limestone quarries was led to a low-lying recharge pit or
‘kund’: the banks of which was imagined as a social space, in the manner of a
traditional ghat ; a flight of steps leading down to a water-body.
• This negotiation of land and water with steps is a significant part of India’s architectural
heritage as is seen in the ghats of the ancient city of Benaras.
• The planning of the temple itself was based on a 10th century temple for the same deity at Tirupathi in
Southern India and similarly includes the Balaji & Varahaswamy shrines and a Pushkarini (water tank).
• The construction process uses locally available black limestone slabs corbelled to form the main body
of the temple.
• The same corbelled profile also incorporates soil and planting in the lower half of the temple body to
buffer against the heat and finally this stone corbelling turns into a ghat i.e the steps that access the
water.
HOUSES JAMMU, INDIA
•Architects: Sameep Padora & Associates
•Area: 5000 ft²Area: 5000 ft²
•Year: 2015Year: 2015
• Building in a context like this lacking a distinct contextual urban fabric (besides the
infrastructure pylons) the project attempts to be a sharp urban marker visible from a
distance, its material singularity in sharp contrast to the placelessnes of the
surrounding developments
• The house is broken into a series of horizontal bands mimicking the incremental nature of
growth of the neighbouring buildings, the architectural form of which is a mere derivative of
changing space requirements of a family over a period of time.
• These bands hence became a kind of building block on our site, moving in or out in response
to the light requirements of the spaces they encompass.
• The façade of the house is also a response to the climatic severity of the region
which experiences extremely hot and dry weather for 8 months of the year and
hence the horizontal bands of vertical wood lattice screens act as light filters.
• Each of the two levels in the building is to be used by separate families. Programmatically the
house is structured by the clients lifestyle which involves a lot of entertaining and hence the
kitchen becomes the centre of the plan flanked by the living/dining on one side and the lawn on
the other.
• The private functions of bedrooms are placed to the rear making the collective programs of living,
dining and cooking, happen as a seamless space towards the front opening out into the lawn.
• All programs whether private or public open into side or front garden spaces.
HOUSESAMBAVARAM, INDIA
•Architects: Sameep Padora & Associates
•Area: 1300 m²Area: 1300 m²
•Year: 2014Year: 2014
•Structural Consultant: Facet
•MEP Consultant: R.N. Joshi
• Referencing forts as a primer the formal development of the project attempts to
balance a need for privacy/protection from the outside while developing layered
and tiered open spaces for social engagement.
• first effort was to distance the notion of privacy from that of scale. Formally the boundary
wall becomes part of the three parallel limestone clad wall set that configure program
between them and ascend in height as they gain distance from the street scaling the house
down to human proportions.
SECTIONS
• This need for privacy and climatic sheltering on the south side street (to mitigate the harsh southern sun)
creates a largely impervious facade.
• The solidity of this construct is completely obliterated once inside the house by sectional overlapping and
linked multilevel a hybrid courtyard that is both internalised and external and hence becomes a container
for the massive entertainment space required by the client.
• This void/court cuts the through the sectional width of the house becoming a programmatic connect for
the independently accessible strands of private (family) and public (work &entertainment) spaces that
intersect in the physical centre of the house.