INTERTWINED

CONTEXTUALISING INTERIOR SPACE MAKING

Hospitality Design

The project focuses on a deeper understanding of ‘culture’. It has explored the interface between interior architecture and its ‘context’ in hospitality design. Hospitality design that references the local context has always existed but a new genre was created when architects like Geoffrey Bawa and Kerry Hill designed hotels in Sri Lanka and South East Asia. The endeavor of this project is to ask how architecture can help make a visit memorable.

Surrounded by tea gardens and the Himalayan range, this resort is located nearby a river flowing through it. The complex is designed as fragmented blocks, with blocks of landscape and waterbody weaved through it incorporating the context into the site. Multiple courtyards were the result of weaving the landscape and water body into it. Intention is to provide each and every space their own unique view and experience that one can remember. Flowing through individual spaces one experiences a journey of different elements such as roof, circulation etc being woven together.

Vaishali Odedra

A passionate multidisciplinary designer and researcher with 18 months experience of professional work with a diverse portfolio spanning high-end residential projects, offices spaces and furniture design, complemented by volunteer work. Currently completing a MA in Interior Design at Royal College of Art with a specialisation in speculative spatial design futures and research. My work is characterised by rigorous research, critical thinking, and a collaborative, community engagement approach, with a strong focus on micro spaces and regenerative design.

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The project explores the depth of culture by examining the connection between interior architecture and local context in hospitality design. Inspired by architects such as Geoffrey Bawa and Kerry Hill, it asks how memorable experiences can be integrated into every visit. The resort, nestled amid tea gardens, the Himalayan range, and a flowing river, is designed as fragmented blocks interwoven with nature. Landscapes and water features form multiple courtyards, each offering a unique view and experience. This thoughtful design creates a journey through distinct spaces, all merging seamlessly with the local environment to craft an immersive and unforgettable encounter with passion.

Interior Designer at PVDRS (Professional Practice)

Patel-Vadodaria design research studio is an award-winning architecture, interior design and landscape design practice based in Ahmedabad, India, founded by Dr Keyur Vadodaria and Megha Patel-Vadodaria. Their studio works at a variety of scale, ranging from the design of a door handle to buildings and its surroundings.

During 12 months, I have got the opportunity to work on very different scale projects as project Interior Designer dealing with residential design. Houses for Mehta Brothers is an ongoing project whose architecture, landscape and interior design are in the scope of work for the studio. The design of these two houses for two brothers is based on the idea of celebrating the spirit of a joint family.

Other projects dealt with different furnitures for the required private bungalow and apartment. Along with that multiple site visits gave a lot of exposure and learning.

Tides of Resilience

The ongoing research project explores the luxury cruise industry’s impact on marginalised communities, focusing on issues such as pollution, overtourism, and economic dependency. It culminates in a speculative spatial film that envisions a resilient future for the Andaman Islands in the wake of a climate catastrophe. The narrative follows a tsunami survivor who lost everything—including her home, land, and personal identity—and who embarks on a journey marked by memories of gender oppression and the wisdom of indigenous traditions. Her story intertwines with a community effort to rebuild sustainable lives through the Habitation Shipscape Program.

This rehabilitation initiative is launched with a new policy to repurpose decommissioned cruise ships as floating shelters for humans & more than humans, schools, clinics, and community hubs for climate refugees. The project set in year 2032 leverages renewable energy, integrates traditional craftsmanship with modern technology, and fosters local job creation. Complementary to these efforts is a cultural revitalisation strategy that promotes community-centric agriculture, heritage storytelling, environmental reconnection, and the digital empowerment of traditional handicrafts, ultimately paving the way for economic recovery and gender empowerment.

Creative Collective

Creative Collective is a residency project for artists, designers, and architects to live and work together. The project builds on research from the Investigate Micro Homes project and design precedents like the Nakagin Capsule Tower, focusing on the concept of growth. It showcases how small spaces can offer high-quality living through multi-functionality, materiality, and modularity.

The complex structure consists of 20 modules, each formed by two cuboid and one cube, creating spaces for living and working. This arrangement explores volumes and scales, generating new semi-open spaces for collaboration and exhibitions. The modular blocks create unique identities and views, blurring the boundaries between inside and outside. A common courtyard at the centre of the modules provides a communal gathering space.

Materials are chosen to reflect sustainability, using recycled pure flex panels with translucent qualities for exterior walls. Further research involves co-designing furniture modules with artists and designers, exploring different configurations and joineries.

Playscape

The project “Playscape” is a children’s play and learn intervention programmed in the Old Stock Exchange building in Mahurat pol in chowk in old city. This building is an old colonial structure with various styles is marked as a heritage building. The building walls have an ornate craving in Dhangadhra stone which has a front porch with craved timber doors, framed by semicircular arches and a s segmented arch in the center. The building currently is in not in use, is severely damaged, and is encroached at the rear end. Interior spaces have an array of issues from chipping to broken windows and unsightly elements lying around.
The project has 3 main design intervention.

- Clearing the extensions on east which have be added later to create a public corridor to Queens tomb and to open the east façade to its original form.
- Refurbishing the dilapidated elements in the building skin and roof.
- And the final design, is adding new structural elements in interior to create a playscape keeping intact the building skin.

Elaborating the design, the playscapes are created using steel grid structure which connects different floors of original structure. Each floor plates are made up of wood interspersed with coloured glass. Various activities of play are designed at different floors using interactive games.

The intervention is an insert which opens the building to all floors and connects to the urban street connecting it to local public without touching the building’s fascade to perceive its beauty, grandeur and visual enhancement of its architectural order. The new steel grid structure with wooden floor plates and colored glass allows children to wander, to hear one’s voice and see from across and above. It allows to hop around through different levels of floors with play elements such as nets, slides and swings

Urban Loft

Urban living spaces are growing with increasingly smaller in size especially in the city centres of bigger cities. People reuse terraces, narrow tube houses, and basements of existing buildings, to find living space that is more affordable. The project is going to look at one of those scenarios, where the Millennials are now reclaiming roof-tops, where, these single room spaces on the topmost floor of existing buildings helps them connect with nature, yet living close to the heart of the city, whilst living far from the crowded streets of below.

Urban Loft (studio apartment) is a proposal made as a part of an investigation into the effects of population growth and overcrowding on interior space. The project started with learning modular furniture, house in a box (space-saving furniture) and the importance of staircase in space. The final design began with the idea of metal extensions on rooftops as a part of studio apartment and workspace for millennials. The proposed site is a rooftop of an old Parsi apartment know as Sitaram Sadan located in Marin lines, Mumbai.

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CONTEXTUALISING INTERIOR SPACE MAKING

Vaishali Odedra

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