Collection

of work
devesh uniyal

2019-2024
practice competitions
2023- Auroville Design Consultants (builtform)
Worked on a mix of residences, commercial retreats
2024 Monsoon Pavillion
a competition to build a pavillion, to host series
2024 and event spaces. Understood the principles of of interdisciplinary conversations on cliamte
sustainability in their broadest sense, while also change
developing clear methodology of tackling different
project effectively and with clarity
2024 Kodidoddi Communnity center (Special
mention)
an open competition to build an affordable
2023 La Biennale Architettura 2023
A scholarship to participate in the venice biennale’s
community center for a village in Andhra
pradesh
international cohort of young practitioners to
discuss effective way of tackling decolonisation and
decarbonisation in the architectural discipline 2022 Volumezero-tiny library competition -
winner

skills
a library in a tiny village on the verge of
desolation
2020- SAV Architecture and design (builtforms)
led few projects in different context of india, working
2022 with different scale asking various questions, in the
realm of homes, offices, and hotel spaces rhino
2022 Archdais-render competition- winner autocad
grasshopper
2020 FOAID Mumbai (furniture)
A functional multipurpose furniture piece for photoshop
the constantly moving migrant labourers of lumion
2018 malak singh gill architects (house)
engaged on-site in the making of a house in karjat,
mumbai, to eat, sleep, work and play
indesign
made with locally found materials, in a socially and
illustrator
environmentally sustainable manner "for seeing more work in detail, have a look at the website"
krita(animation)
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blender

education
2017 people place project (book)
helped editor nisha nair put together abook on the
inter-relational experience of mumbai’s people, its
places and its nature
drawing
writing
2015 - schoool of environment &
woodworking
architecture 2016 kochi-muziris biennale 2016 (installation)
2020 completed bachelors in architecture, co-authored an art installation for the students-
and inculcated a love for the biennale, that provoked
the question of what is a home? in the gritty state- english
academics as a life long-engagement
rehabilitation colonies of mumbai hindi
marathi
gadwahli
“we are only as big as the

q u estions we address.

Not the size of ou r projects

we are wor king on, bu t the natu re

of the q u estion they r aise

-Charles Correa
01. how does a village gather?
02. learnings from site

03. when space is the limit?

04. what’s a library to a village?

05. can a place dissipate hurry?

the idea of a community center is to cater
to this need of coming together

how does a village gather?

2023 . A STAGE FOR PLAY .
ANDHRA PRADESH
01 . m ac ro pr in c iples 0 2 . plan and section
project for: Vicente Ferrer Foundation
collaborators: Ravisha Rathore

Four key elements guided our design

of the community centre: Flexibility,
Community, Education and cost.

Flexibility.
We rejected standardisation in favor
for adaptive architecture - it allowed
for growth on the site and if needed
to be applied in a different context it
provided clear principles to guide.

Community.
Architecture’s role was to 1. create
spaces that balanced seclusion
and openness forformal activities
as well as informal village events
2. It needed to engage with the
village (from making to usage ) to
foster care & a sense of belonging.

Education.
For toddlers, we designed
environments fostering sense
of agency and comfort. For
schoolchildren, we balanced mind-
body interaction with easy access
between indoor-outdoor spaces.
Adults needed flexible spaces for small
and large group activities of capacity-
building and awareness programs.

Cost. Design was a constant The proposal was a reflection of these core principles,
negotiation to find optimal kept open to further development with input from villagers,
solutions based on our priorities funders, and the environment to meet the practical needs as
and the brief’s guidelines. well as the aspirations of its users.
0 3. mi cro 04. pro g ram m e s 05. det ails
p r incip l e s

01. east entrance to the community center 02. view of the multipurpose hall from the street 03. anganwaadi classroom interior
learnings on sites
2016 . KUDAL HOUSE (MALAK SINGH GILL) 2023-2024 . DELFI HOUSE (AVDC) 2024 . R&R HOUSE (AVDC)
Opportunity to live on-site, and assist in the making of a Through the site supervision of the Delfi Supervising on the R&R house gave a good
house in karjat. Made with locally sourced materials, in a
socially and environmentally sustainable manner. house, learned about finishes (lime plaster, insight on how to effectively use lanD grading,
terracota tiles, exposed concrete work) as well water features, earth berms and endemic
as natural construction materials like poured plants to effectively and sensitively deal with
J oin e d th e te am of c ar p enter s an d mason s fo r 3 earth concrete and CSEB water, especially in a site with high ground
wee k s , to l e ar n som e of t he ski l l s an d te ch n iqu e s - water table
woo d wor k for b rac kets and roof, late r i te mason r y wi th
m ud m o r t ar and l i m e p oi nt i ng

le ar n t wood wor k for brackets and wooden roof

s tru c tu re

getting lost in the space of

material and making, beyond
the design studio
2023 - 2024 SC RETREAT (AVDC) 2023 - 2024 ANAGAYA (AVDC)

Being able to see the Retreat project from Learnings:

detail design development to execution, gave
tremendous clarity on several aspects of - Techniques for repairing and touching up
building construction and planning. Things poured earth walls.
tackled included but not limited to - site
planning of different programmes along with - Understanding ferrocement thicknesses and
appropriate landscaping, to avoid soil erosion the execution process for creating window
due to the barren steep slope, developing fins, reveals, and inbuilt shelving.
detailed drawings for exposed brick work
pattern as well as services, checking structural - Steps involved in the execution and finishing
drawings, producing detailed BOQs. of IPS (Indian Patent Stone) for bathroom
walls.
although ,
more often then not,
it’s fictitious

when space is the limit?

01. dense cities need
“efficient“ spaces

02. “efficient“ needs to

afford more
2022 . RESIDENCE . DONA PAULA 0 3. so, for a plot in an 0 4. what all can the plot 0 5. can it all be at once?
project with:
renders by:
sav
ayush agarwal
urban grid afford?

Cities are getting denser. Whether reasonably

so or not, they do. The density, the hurriedness,
the energy of the city are demanding of its
every inhabitant, and equally of their structures
of inhabitation. Places can no longer afford to
hold one function, but rather many things either
temporally or “permanently”.

So how should homes be developed in a

densifying town, to keep up with the increasing
efficiency of the soon-to-be city.

The project began with a rectangular plot in a

densifying gridded town and an aspiration to
have a villa that can sustain itself socially and
economically. The ground level is kept as a
place for social interactions, private ( garden,
play-area, seatings ) and public ( cafe & ‍
exhibition space ) The first two floors become
rental units of varying sizes in order to maintain
a good dynamic of long & short-term residents,
and finally the last two floors become the villa.
Villa that works with different levels within the
two-floor height and external fins to create an
intimate sense of nestling within the greenery.
0 6. ground and it’s 07. a ground, part public
many possibilities part private

ba s e d i a gra m option 0 1 o ptio n 02

opti o n 03 option 0 4 o ptio n 05

0 8. rental level 0 9. studios on one floor 1 0. 1-bhk units on
possibilities another

one unit 02 units 03 units

04 unit 05 units 05 units

11. finally on top, the 12. the second floor of 1 3. the building and its
access floor of the the “villa” spaces
“villa”
and..... who would use it ? what would it
dissemiante ? library or computer lab ?

what’s a library to a village?

2022 . TINY LIBRARY . THAPLI As the women traverse the entirety
of village, interacting with different
project for: Archdais competition places in varying intensity, it
collaborators: Ravisha Rathore informs the dispersion of this library
in location and in scale all over
the village.

Library doesn’t remain an institution

“In the Himalayan Mountain range that holds knowledge, and sublets
lies Thapli, a remote village on to ones who seek it. But becomes #3. Library as connections: A place of respite and repose (shade,
the verge of being abandoned by libraries as excuses that percolates water, seatings, toilets)
its people. In this slow process gently into the everyday routines of
of desolation, the first to leave the women of different class, caste
are the men, while the women and age.
work trifold holding the agrarian
village together. Our interest lies
in the Women of Thapli, the last
functioning members of the village
- systemically kept out of the
“economic scheme” are now the
only one capable of challenging it.

By appropriating the concept of a

pustakaalay/gyaan aashray for the
women of Thapli, this intervention
aims to create a space that #2. • Library fo language and stories: An archive of its local
challenges the notion of progress voices (audio books, songs, folklores). A museum of its practices
(different objects, that represent collective memory)
defined solely by urbanization.

“In the midst of technological

advancements and instant access
to information, the idea of a library
is challenged. Thapli’s library
becomes a two-way bridge for
dialogue, exchange, and learning,
between the village and the outside
world harnessing technological
resources, including AI, to overcome
barriers of illiteracy and language
differences.
#1. • Libraries of celebration: This space fosters the exchange of
ideas, with film screenings, book collections, community functions
and local events.
if yes then,
thats the ideal public
space f0r the city

can a place dissipate hurry?

moving away
from the
“city as a machine”

moving
towards the “city as
a home”
2020 . THESIS DESIGN . MALAD STATTION
PRECINCT
01. people in cities 02. hurriednesshas 0 3. but
can form
project at: SEA
experience its own resulting alter hurriedness
guided by: prasad shetty & sabaa giradkar hurriedness form

In the experience of cities, one cannot fail but

notice varying degrees of hurriedness- ‘the
constant need to move & work at an eager
speed, under various work & live conditions.”
.
The project locates itself inbetween the
conflict of the hurried bodies’ tendency to find
spaces for respite and the inability of the city
infrastructure to lend itself to this tendency-
attempting to reconcile the notion of “city as a
machine” with that of “city as a home”

The interventions are seen as retarding devices

extending from existing infrastructure to create
opportunities for pause. Trying to rethink
urban-design process through the analogy of
chess- challenging monumental intervention
through informed moves, with a lot of wait
and watch involved in the execution, and
uncertainty factored in the design conception.
0 4. choosing a 0 5. laying:
a net
precinct of of garden-like
movements devices
0 6. suggesting nine 07. all thought of as
retarding devices simple-first-moves
0 8. each a unique
provocation for
pause
that’s all

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