2. Vivek Khuthiya
vivek_khuthiya@yahoo.com
[M] +91 9512614183
Khuthiya house, Zapabar, Nani Daman, Daman - 396210
Education
2020 - Ongoing School of Environment and Architecture , Mumbai
Bachelor of Architecture
2018 - 2020 S.K. Somaiya Vinay Mandir , Mumbai
11th
& 12th
Grade
2008 - 2018 Holy Trinity H.Sec School , Daman
1st
- 10th
Grade
Workshops
2021 Theorizing housing in second- | Shreyank Khemalapure
cities of india
2021 A.I. Processess | Sujay Kumarji
2022 Bricolage as a method | Rupali Gupte
2022 Performative Infrastructure | Mohit Shelare
2022 Tactical Interventions | Studio matter , Goa
2023 Fibre glass and resin forms | Dushyant Asher , Milind Mahale
2023 Landscape Design | Mugdha Sathe
Skills
Hand drafting | Basic carepentry & masonry
Autocad
Sketchup | Rhinoceros 3D
Photoshop | Illustrator | Indesign
Microsoft word | Excel | Powerpoint
Languages
English
Hindi
Gujarati
Kutchi
I am a fourth-year student at the School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai.
I try to engage with questions and concepts of housing, culture, urban form,
drawing and material phenomenologies beyond the utilitarian facet with a keen
interest in research and the process of making. Apart from this, I enjoy watching
films, documentaries and interviews with directors, artists and social thinkers. I like
to travel and understand different cultures, people and food of different contexts.
3. What is a museum?
Factory as a museum
01.
Building details - Localisations
Public school at Trombay
02.
Building making - Working drawings
Public school at Trombay
03.
Ghar-Vakhri
Resource centre as an extension of home
05.
Mass inhabitation - Repair & Retrofit
Staircase as a shared resource
04.
Landscape design - Ecological landscapes
Costal sponge park
06.
Emerging context of urbanisation
Theorizing housing practices in India’s second cities
08.
Bricolage as a method
The endless chair
09.
Photobook
A sleeve in the sky
10.
Explorations
Drawing , Form and Materiality
11.
Table of Contents
Environmnet & Builtfrom
Architectural compositions in tropical monsoonal grounds
07.
Field notes Kochi, Kerala
4. What is a museum?
Factory as a museum
Mentor - Shreyank Khemalapure
semester
4
winter
2021-22
Somnath
,
Daman
01.
The studio intended to trace the genealogy of museum spaces
globally and then question the contemporary idea of a museum
in the subcontinent and the interventions to frame an argument
around this. The site of intervention is an abandoned warehouse in
the Somnath industrial estate in Daman. Therefore compels us to
question, what if a museum is a factory? The space of the factory is
traditionally more or less invisible in public. It’s visibility is policed, and
surveillance produces a one-way gaze. This extreme control over
the visibility sits rather uncomfortably alongside the perception of
the museum as a public space. What does this invisibility say about
the contemporary museum as a public space?
The intervention is amidst an industrial estate, rethinking the idea
of industrial production with cultural production. The intention is to
break the mundane assembly line routine and have a space to con-
template, express, and meander. A conversation is built between
the existing warehouse and large trees surrounding it with different
levels that connect with ramps and staircases and produce bifold,
tangential and framed gaze to see and experience the museum.
6. Building details- Localizations
Public School at Trombay
Mentor - Anuj Daga
02.
semester
6
winter
2022-23
Trombay
,
Mumbai
This studio attempts to open the modernist logic of
the understanding of the public. Spaces within public
institutions are designed through standardised logics of
such“public”butareproducedandlivedthroughseveral
subjective contestations .Institutions that emerge
locally over time, such as local libraries, Anganwadi,
and community halls have been the hubs for material/
intellectualexchanges.Howcantheotherwisedesigned
environments draw from the productive logic of these
self-shaped spatialities of the public to become
spaces of active exchange and conviviality? What
are the architectural forms and frameworks towards
producing such a sense of these physical localisations.
The site is a Public School at Cheeta camp in
Trombay surrounded by informal settlements on
two sides. Spaces are produced via detail-varying
cross-sectional planes. These sectional planes are
composed of vertical and oblique elements like walls,
windows, roofs, steps, plinth and trees in such a way
that habitable spaces are a transition between shade
and shaded, which inturn creates transient spaces of
social interactions.
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M20 concrete
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25mm baluster ,
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and chemical waterproofing
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gardening red soil 450mm deep
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stringer steel staircase
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9.05M
9.40M
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FOUNDATION
RAFT
GROUND
LVL
PLINTH
LVL
SILL
LVL
FIRST
FLOOR
APEX 1
APEX 2
35 mm screeding
anti termite
preconstruction
treatment
Filling in with
approved murum
and compacted
200mm RCC M30
raft retaining wall
150mm RCC M30
raft slab
Plinth protection
M20 concrete
Extentded plinth
shallow
foundation in
brick
MS railing 75mm frame
25mm baluster ,
25x50mm timber handrail
Double layer 50mm x 2 aerocon
panel wall with aluminium channel
and chemical waterproofing
25 mm matte finish
IPS flooring for
semi open area
Filling in with approved
gardening red soil 450mm deep
Champa tree
200mm box section single
stringer steel staircase
D2
D2
Anti skid
ceramic tiles
300x300mm
500 litre loft sintex
water tank
120mm composite
deck slab
25mm Timber boarding
200mm steel
box section
truss
150x50mm
section steel
purlin with j
hook
Steel louvre
opening for
ridge truss
50x50mm
section steel
purlin with j
hook
GI sheet
roofing
200x250mm
GI sheet
gutter
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D1
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W5
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Building making- Working drawings
Public school at Trombay
Mentor - Abhijeet Ekbote
03.
semester
6
winter
2022-23
Trombay
,
Mumbai
The studio focussed on detailed development and refinement
of building design through technical resolution of structural
systems, material performance and experience, member
assembly, threshold-enclosure details and process of
construction. The studio was divided into three parts; first
detailing of putting together different materials and their
assemblies in a manner that is conceptually coherent with
the overall idea of the building. Second to make construction
documentation drawings that could be used for the
construction of buildings; and third, to write specifications, and
generate bills of quantities and cost estimation for the project.
The building structure is actualised in structural steel with
I sections of appropriate sizes. The walls are framed with a
sandwich of two aerocon panels flused in line with I-section
columns. A composite deck slab is used which requires less
concrete and reinforcements. The doors and windows are
designed in such a way that a single can be repeated to create
multiple types of openings. All materials and its assembly used
are easy to deploy and take less time to build with durability.
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VIVEK KHUTHIYA
SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT
THIRD YEAR B.ARCH
ROLL NO | A20 - 21
WD - SEA - S - 14
AND ARCHITECTURE
2022 - 2023
PUBLIC SCHOOL AT
AT TROMBAY, MUMBAI
- DRAWINGS TO BE SEEN WITH RESPECT TO ALL
OTHER DRAWINGS.
- P.C.C. IS IN THE RATIO OF 1:3:6 (CEMENT : SAND :
COARSE AGGREGATE).
- ALL LEVELS SPECIFIED IN METERS.
- ALL DECISIONS REINFORCEMENT CALCULATIONS
- NEED TO BE TAKEN BY STRUCTURAL ENGINEER.
- DO NOT SCALE THE DRAWING.
- ALL DISCREPANCIES SHALL BE BROUGHT TO
NOTICE TO THE ARCHITECT BEFORE THE
COMMENCEMENT OF ANY WORK.
- RICHER CONCRETE MIX TO BE USED FOR THE
FOUNDATION AND M:30 MIX TO BE USED FOR
THE SUPER STRUCTURE, ALL MIXES SHALL BE
SUGGESTED, EXAMINED AND APPROVED BY
THE STRUCTURAL ENGINEER.
- VERIFY FIELD CONDITIONS AND COORDINATION
WITH THE PROJECT DOCUMENTS PRIOR TO
PROCEEDING WITH THE WORK.
- WORK WITHIN THE FIELD BOUNDARIES AS
SPECIFIED IN THE PROJECT DOCUMENT AND
COMPLY WITH ALL THE APPLICABLE BUILDING
CODES, REGULATIONS AND ORDINANCE
REQUIREMENTS.
- OCCUPANTS ON THE ADJACENCIES TO THE
PROJECT AREA SHALL CONTINUE
UNINTERRUPTED/UNDISTURBED OCCUPANCY
DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROJECT.
DRAWING TITLE & NUMBER
NORTH SCALE
STAMP & SIGN
KEY PLAN
ISSUED BY CHECKED BY
SR.NO. DATE REVISION DESCRIPTION
VIVEK KHUTHIYA
SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT
THIRD YEAR B.ARCH
ROLL NO | A20 - 21
STAIRCASE DETAIL
AND ARCHITECTURE
2022 - 2023
PUBLIC SCHOOL AT
AT TROMBAY, MUMBAI
- DRAWINGS TO BE SEEN WITH RESPECT TO ALL
OTHER DRAWINGS.
- P.C.C. IS IN THE RATIO OF 1:3:6 (CEMENT : SAND :
COARSE AGGREGATE).
- ALL LEVELS SPECIFIED IN METERS.
- ALL DECISIONS REINFORCEMENT CALCULATIONS
- NEED TO BE TAKEN BY STRUCTURAL ENGINEER.
- DO NOT SCALE THE DRAWING.
- ALL DISCREPANCIES SHALL BE BROUGHT TO
NOTICE TO THE ARCHITECT BEFORE THE
COMMENCEMENT OF ANY WORK.
- RICHER CONCRETE MIX TO BE USED FOR THE
FOUNDATION AND M:30 MIX TO BE USED FOR
THE SUPER STRUCTURE, ALL MIXES SHALL BE
SUGGESTED, EXAMINED AND APPROVED BY
THE STRUCTURAL ENGINEER.
- VERIFY FIELD CONDITIONS AND COORDINATION
WITH THE PROJECT DOCUMENTS PRIOR TO
PROCEEDING WITH THE WORK.
- WORK WITHIN THE FIELD BOUNDARIES AS
SPECIFIED IN THE PROJECT DOCUMENT AND
COMPLY WITH ALL THE APPLICABLE BUILDING
CODES, REGULATIONS AND ORDINANCE
REQUIREMENTS.
- OCCUPANTS ON THE ADJACENCIES TO THE
PROJECT AREA SHALL CONTINUE
UNINTERRUPTED/UNDISTURBED OCCUPANCY
DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROJECT.
DRAWING TITLE & NUMBER
NORTH SCALE
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VIVEK KHUTHIYA
SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT
THIRD YEAR B.ARCH
ROLL NO | A20 - 21
AND ARCHITECTURE
2022 - 2023
PUBLIC SCHOOL AT
AT TROMBAY, MUMBAI
- ALL DIMENSIONS ARE IN MILLIMETERS UNLESS
OTHERWISE SPECIFIED.
- ALL THE WRITTEN DIMENSIONS ARE TO BE
FOLLOWED.
- DRAWINGS TO BE SEEN WITH RESPECT TO ALL
OTHER DRAWINGS.
- P.C.C. IS IN THE RATIO OF 1:3:6 (CEMENT : SAND :
COARSE AGGREGATE).
- ALL LEVELS SPECIFIED IN METERS.
- ALL DECISIONS REINFORCEMENT CALCULATIONS
- NEED TO BE TAKEN BY STRUCTURAL ENGINEER.
- DO NOT SCALE THE DRAWING.
- ALL DISCREPANCIES SHALL BE BROUGHT TO
NOTICE TO THE ARCHITECT BEFORE THE
COMMENCEMENT OF ANY WORK.
- RICHER CONCRETE MIX TO BE USED FOR THE
FOUNDATION AND M:30 MIX TO BE USED FOR
THE SUPER STRUCTURE, ALL MIXES SHALL BE
SUGGESTED, EXAMINED AND APPROVED BY
THE STRUCTURAL ENGINEER.
- VERIFY FIELD CONDITIONS AND COORDINATION
WITH THE PROJECT DOCUMENTS PRIOR TO
PROCEEDING WITH THE WORK.
- WORK WITHIN THE FIELD BOUNDARIES AS
SPECIFIED IN THE PROJECT DOCUMENT AND
COMPLY WITH ALL THE APPLICABLE BUILDING
CODES, REGULATIONS AND ORDINANCE
REQUIREMENTS.
- OCCUPANTS ON THE ADJACENCIES TO THE
PROJECT AREA SHALL CONTINUE
UNINTERRUPTED/UNDISTURBED OCCUPANCY
DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROJECT.
STAMP & SIGN
GENERAL NOTES
KEY PLAN
ISSUED BY CHECKED BY
SR.NO. DATE REVISION DESCRIPTION
semester
6
winter
2022-23
Trombay
,
Mumbai
Toilet plan
Staircase detail
External wall section
10. Mass inhabitation- Repair & Retrofit
Staircase as a shared resource
Mentor - Prasad Khanolkar
04.
Thakkar
Bappa
colony
,
Mumbai
semester
7
monsoon
2023-24
The design tries to make space for shared staircases between
neighbouring houses by taking 750mm width from each house and
deploying a light MS frame dog-legged staircase. This move opens up a
courtyard as a medium for side open spaces and toilet blocks. A shared
staircase between three houses is implemented by partly demolishing a
thick compound wall separating the shell colony and the municipal school
playground and re-imaging as a medium for the light infrastructure
of circulation and pause spaces almost as if the street goes vertical.
This is realized by partly demolishing the compound wall and deploying
a light MS Frame structure that allows a staircase, between spaces and
pause points to happen. The intervention without encroaching on the
school ground edge makes the inner street visually more porous. The
material economy is thought of in a way that it is easy to deploy, light ,
affordable and low in maintenance.
Proposed ground floor plan
Existing ground floor plan
Axonometry exploring vunerabilities and possibilities
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FLOOR
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Aluminium channel 5MM
Aerocon wall panel 75MM
Aluminum frame
sliding window
150MM MS Box section
120MM Composite deck slab
Gusset base
plate bracket
Insulated sandwich
panel roof
FRP chajja
50MM MS Box section
framework
6MM MS gusset plate
to anchor main MS frame
to compound wall
Powder coated steel mesh
15MM circular hollow section
cross bracing
25MM MS box section railing bluster
existing compound wall
50MM MS box section stringer beam
25MM MS box section tread support
welded to stringer beam
6MM MS plate tread support
12MM MR ply for tread
3MM steel checker plate
25MM MS box section ladder support
welded to main frame
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Thakkar
Bappa
colony
,
Mumbai
semester
7
monsoon
2023-24
Section through staircses and courtyards
Compound wall staircase detail
External wall section
12. Ghar-Vakhri
Resoure center as an extension of home
Mentor - Milind Mahale Team- Vivek , Suraj
05.
semester
4
winter
2021-22
Palset
,
Valasad
The site is located around a small agrarian community of bamboo cane artisans and mango farmers. The work of the
people compels them to be in and around their houses and hence become introverted. The type of house is arranged
such that there are semi-open spaces at the entrance and back and inward-looking private spaces in between. The
design Modulates the proportion of this type for the function of different programmes of library and workshops with
the introduction of Bamboo as a spanning element. The resourcefulness of a home and its work affordance is taken
outside for people of different backgrounds to engage in agrarian practices.
14. Landscape design - ecological landscapes
Coastal sponge park
Mentor - Mughdha Sathe Team - Vivek , Shreyash
06.
semester
7
monsoon
2023-24
Malabar
hill
,
Mumbai
The studio focused ecological landscapes aimed at revitalizing and
enhancing green spaces within the city to promote biodiversity, improve
air quality, enhance recreational opportunities, and create sustainable
urban ecosystems. The site of intervention is a patch of reclaimed land
for mumbai coast road project in malabar hill.The project seeks to
address environmental challenges and provide a healthier and more
sustainable living environment for the residents.
Theparkopensupwith3plazasinvitingpeoplein.Theseplazaspacesbe-
comeaplaceofgathering,eating,playingandenjoyingeventsofartculture.
At a few points, one can access an aerial view of the Arabian Sea mean-
deringthroughthepondsandgrasslandsviaanarrowunpavedpathway.
The imitation of the coastal water retention ecosystem is created by
making cavities of various types.
The network of these landforms gives a system to store and manage
stormwater and replenish the groundwater network. In case of a flood,
these landforms act as a sponge and protect the city’s edge from
erosion. the implemented coastal wetland ecosystem tells about how
can we reimagine nature and human interaction. On the right are the
areas where people can experience a walk or a delayed commute to
their daily lives through the unpaved pathways. A shaded pavilion for a
pause and contemplate amidst the pond and vegetation.
16. semester
6
winter
2022-23
Kochi
,
Kerala
Natural disasters
Wind speed
Precipitation
Temperature
To understand the weather conditions in Chellanam we analyze data for temperature, precipitation
and wind spanning over half a decade. The idea was to frame this data through cyclical time. Each
year is represented by concentric circles, and each circle is divided into 12 quadrants, one for each
month. The data gets annotated each year to produce an overall sense of weather conditions in
Chellanam. As one starts to mark the change, events of disaster and consequences, the entire cycle
spirals and produces nodes of disposition, erosion, loss, rehabilitation and changing patterns.
Enviroment & Builtform
Architectural compostions in tropical monsoonal grounds
Mentor - Rohit Mujumdar Team - Vivek , Nisha, Aakansha,
Jayesha, Mrunmai
07.
Architectural Compositions in Tropical Monsoonal Grounds (ACTMG) began with an
expanded notion of architecture. It understood architecture not simply as constructing
built form, but as the will and act of constructing relationships between different human
and other-than-human entities in the context of “climate change”in tropical, monsoonal
grounds?
17. semester
6
winter
2022-23
Kochi
,
Kerala
Natural disasters
Wind speed
Precipitation
Temperature
To understand the weather conditions in Chellanam we analyze data for
temperature, precipitation and wind spanning over half a decade. The idea was
to frame this data through cyclical time. Each year is represented by concentric
circles, and each circle is divided into 12 quadrants, one for each month. The
data gets annotated each year to produce an overall sense of weather
conditions in Chellanam. As one starts to mark the change, events of disaster
and consequences, the entire cycle spirals and produces nodes of disposition,
erosion, loss, rehabilitation and changing patterns.
18. Emerging context of
urbanisation
Theorizing housing practices in India’s second cities
Mentor - Shreyank Khemalapure
08.
semester
3
monsoon
2021-22
Kozhikode
,
Kerala
The course attempts to study the emerging contexts of
housing in second cities through secondary sources. 7
contexts were identified in the city of Kozhikode.
Slum conditions and rehabilitation was studied to
identify its impact on government housing projects.
Proposalssuchas KADCOandUdayamHomeinfluenced
the new housing typology of slum rehabilitation into
an apartment and opening for charitable shelters for
homeless and people in need.
A home of each emerging typology was studied and
documented to understand how these types impact
the city and the life of its inhabitants.
Shfits in slum rehabilitation
19. Bricolage as a method
The endless chair
Mentor - Rupali Gupte
09.
semester
5
monsoon
2022-23
SEA
,
Mumbai
The studio focuses on identifying one’s daily practices as
a method of bricolage to engage with the city, people
and the everyday.
My habit of seeking endless and fear of end in cinema as
a practice. I have always been intrigued by films that don’t
have a definite end. Flims uses various tropes such as
interconnected timelines, delusion of utopia and skewing
of space-time memory. This translated into the making
of a simple pine wood chair laminated with mirror vinyl.
The studio came together to craft a garden of various
transactional objects of various bricoleurs and their
practices. Once the mirror chair is kept in the garden it
reflects a distorted image of the garden that blends it in.
The chair becomes endless with the garden. Hence the
endless chair.
20. Photobook
A sleeve in the sky
Mentor - Hemant Basankar
10.
semester
6
winter
2022-23
SEA
,
Mumbai
A dynamic landscape refers to the constantly
changing and evolving natural environment around
us, involving physical features like mountains,
valleys, rivers, oceans, and even the interactions
between different species and their surroundings.
Several geological processes, weather patterns,
and the actions of living organisms mold the
dynamic landscape.
The cyclic nature of the landscape creates
circadian rhythm for its inhabitants. The images
and sleeves juxtapose these ticking rhythms with
mundane everyday.
21. Explorations
Drawing , Form & Materiality
2020
-
23
SEA
,
Mumbai
Drawing of Khuthiya house through ideas of multiplicity,
transience, memory and the everday.
Gravity aparatus is a framework for making of resin and
fibre-glass froms that allows change in angles, change
in location and shape the surface within it multiple times
without unmounting the material.
Gravity catenery arch made from cotton fabric and mixture of
strach-cement.
Exploration of form through my preception of deconstruction ,
seeing things in parts and details
11.