Designing is not just about creating pretty shapes, it’s about poetry and the passion that shapes the shape.
Aaj Patel linkedin.com/in/aaj-patel-41b77812a/ issuu.com/aajdeepakpatel aaj.vamendu4@gmail.com +44 (0) 7853506360
Education
2017-2019 MA Intelligent Mobility Royal College of Art 2014-2017 Foundation Level 3 Transportation Design Management Institut Supérieur de Design (ISD) Rubika
Workshop Intern. June 2015 - June 2015 Maruti Suzuki Experience
Workshop Intern. June 2015 - August 2015 Audi
Raffles De-Wiz’11 2011 Hunt for the design wizzard of the year 3rd Position Recognition
Skills
Institut Supérieur de Design Rubika 2016 Academic excellence 2nd position
Sketching Marker Rendering Digital painting Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign Adobe Illustrator Autodesk Maya Autodesk Alias Autocad Keyshot
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Thesis-Project Zero One.
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Sharing cars- sharing cultures.
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Grandeures
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Sustainable Aesthetics.
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Where does it lead us if we eliminate all the grandeurs from a yacht?
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This thesis project of mine was partially based on the learning outcomes of my dissertation that i worked on at the Royal College of Art. Writing a dissertation on something that i am truely and deeply passionate abou,t broadened my perspective on yachts and how these oldest man made vessels have evolved in their use, size and experience.
I would like to thank all the Designers that I met at the Monaco Yacht Show 2018. Discussing my thesis with with these leading designers of the industry was really helpful for me to broaden the thought behind the project even more.
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Think of a yacht. The first thing that comes to your mind is all the Bling, The glamour and everything one could crave for . But what could be the pourpose of yacht if you take away all those things? Can it not be used for social status, but perhaps could be used for what it was used for back in the ages, about 400 years ago when they were invented.
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Why are Monks the way they are?
Explorers as well, Yet away from all the grandeures.
Maya
Saraswati Beliefs and Rituals are something that guides us into a way of living. Since ancient Indian cultures, Maya Havana and sarasvati have been used as a reference, drawing us to a simplest form of life, bringing us closer to our inner self.
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Havana
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I used these ancient philosophies to curate and experience on board. A guided experience!
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Maya uses the fundamental principal of illusion. One of the key concepts in Hindu philosophy. “Denotes as a power through which a god can make human beings beings believe in what turns out to be an illusion. So the experience that you go through, reflects that everything you go through in your life, perhaps, computers, phones and everything is an illusion. Everything is an illusion, but it’s giving you an reflection of your true human nature.
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Taking out what people think is life and bringing something that makes you realise that, everything is so pure and it was all a lie.
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Havana , a private ritual around a symbolic fire, where an oblation or any religious offering is made into the fire, through chanting mantras. It is believed that Havana brings purificationa and transformation to the individual and the environment. Having surrounded with these philosophies and rituals since childhood, made me understand how this ritual ultimately allows people to engage with each other after the ritual is over. With the growing age of technology and hyper connectedness and busy lives, this ritual is practiced even lesser. What if this experience accessable not only to the owners but the crew as well? Creating a much more harmonised and social communal environment.
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The third experience was based on Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge, music, art and wisdom. Knowledge, could be achieved thorugh different forms, maybe through, reading, listening , observing, smelling, or through a touch. The 4 aspects of personality, in learning the mind, intellact, allerness and ego, are thoughtfully curated as a passive design experience on different decks on board.
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A totally opposite scene to the grandeures of a yacht, are few rural parts of India... from where these philosophies came from. Even though the students does not have the luxury to sit in the classroom or on a chair, they enjoy and learn even better, sitting under a tree, on the ground in the lap of mother nature.
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You’re on YOUR massive, 108 metre yacht. The choice is your’s, would you choose seating on the cushion or would you love to sit on the sand?
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looking at a live performance or playing an instrument rather than listening on a speaker or on some screen, relaxes our soul and let goes of all the impure thoughts flowing in our mind.
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Enjoy the tunes of authentic Indian instrument, Tabla. whilst you’re seated under a tree and looking at your kid making sand castle
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Project Zero One at the Royal College of Art , Intelligent Mobility degree show 2019.
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As the brief was aimed towards the local communities, for this project i wanted to implement sharing at a grassroots level.
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The younger generation of farmers who used to work in the agriculture sector in rural areas moves to the urban areas searching for better pay and jobs. Varied places of china, from varied cultures. According to the Chinese household registration system HUKOU, the people registered in the rural areas are not entitled for public services, children education, healthcare‌. etc Costs of living in the cities are quite high, in 2017 the rent accounted for more than half of a workers income in major cities like Beijing.
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LYNK & CO approaches the villagers and villagers help in building the vehicle (opening new job opportunities for them) then the village community leases the fleet of vehicles at cheaper rates (as they helped in building the vehicle) and whenever the villagers would want to go to the city to live and work, he uses the vehicle from that fleet. Migrant takes his belongings and keeps it in the vehicle, goes to the city where permanent migrant communities are already established. He lives in it and when he’s not using the vehicle he can rent it so he has extra income generated while he’s working somewhere else.
Sharing cars- sharing cultures.
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As the migrant would be staying in the vehicle it was necessary for me me to explore and maximise the layout of the interior. listing down the his necessities and the something that could make him feel homely.
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Sharing cars- sharing cultures.
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The seating of the concept closely relates to the Northeastern chinese cultural seating “Kang”, which functions both as a bed and intimate dining area. Bottom of the seat houses a place to store books.
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Development_ Sharing cars- sharing cultures.
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The permanent communities sponsored by LYNK & CO, would be the place where the users from different cultures from china could connect to each other to watch movies, have dinner together, or discuss comething. It open up new buisness opportunities not only for the users but LYNK & CO as well in the urban environment.
Sharing cars- sharing cultures.
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A personal project that ignited my passion and love for yacht design !
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Emotional Tech: Ritual,
Experience and Emotion.
Ritual to me is a major part of life, that creates a deeper connection to something. It is a process which has spirituality attached to it, mostly done in a sacred place where technology almost doesn’t exist.
Sitting under a tree in a jungle, away from the city landscape one is able feel every element. The heat generated by one, the smell in air, the touch with the tree or the rock you are sitting under or on, the sound of waterfall that makes you feel calm. These interactions makes us more perceptive and considerate of the moment that we were living in. it gives us an emotion of being connected to the nature and letting go of our anxieties. That is the experience that we remember.
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How do we Experience the four basic elements of nature?
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The major interactions in the cars today are the screens… every buttons and informations are replaced by the screens. The trend seems unstoppable at the moment. I think of screens as a medium of complicating our lives with overpowering data. Today, the big playground debate is also how too much screen time wrecks kids’ attention.
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Water Made Active:
making water active is a way of freesing 3d water characters suspended in the air. Using a “liquid printer” and precision-timed strobe photography to create a stop-motion athlete from drops of water.
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You know that feeling of clear-headed calm that washes over you when you listen to water babbling down from somewhere? Researchers stated that can affect heart rate and alter connections in the brain.
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A kid trying to catch water. Her interaction with water was so exciting and engaging to watch that it made me wonder
is it possible to make the interaction with the data as exciting?
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The floor of the vehicle is made up of uniquely arranged patterened cussions which would addapt to the individual users in the vehicle.
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All the informations like the navigation or videos that you see in the screen will be projected through water. The the buttons submerged inside the water allows the user to be a kid again. To reach some information or utility you have interact with the water‌ you have to dip your finger into the water to reach the buttons.
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The water running through the central panel by your side ‌ makes a subtle and soothing sound to calm you through your journey. Close your eyes and listen to the natural sound of water.
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The users are sited on the floor of the vehicle, feeling connected to the interior environment similar to the way sitting in a jungle and connected to the nature.More over the layout creates a more social and liveable place inside the vehicle.
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Why do we have to look for a sustainable future? Our ways of consuming products are aggressive and we’re not giving the elements back to the nature, instead generating enormous amount of waste. Each year about 12 to 15 million vehicles end up in a junkyard just in the United States.
Even Though 80% of the car is reused …. it still leaves 20% of waste!
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The concept of circular economy is going to be the the future of designing each element. Where we’re utilising each and every element at its highest effectiveness. Fully one third of the total environmental damage caused by the automotive sector, occurs before they are even sold and driven. Unlike the early choice of vehicles.
My concept is aimed towards the life cycle of
the vehicle, and it’s reusability in different industries in the future scenario.
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In a period where global carbon emission are exponential. Julian Melchiorri has created a sustainable material that is called leaf slik. It is made of a biological material mostly composed by silk protein and chloroplasts. Silk Leaf absorbs CO2 and produces oxygen and organic compounds thanks to the photosynthetic ability of the stabilized chloroplasts inside silk protein. This biologically reactive material could be a part of our indoor and urban environment to improve and stimulate our lives being socially and environmentally sustainable.
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leaf silk being the prominent element of the vehicle would provide the occupants the feeling of being cacooned in a natural environment in the urban environment.
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Metal used as the supporting element.
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The use of the material not only makes the user feel closer to the nature but also provides a feeling of satisfaction that they are returning something positive to the mother earth.
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Vehicle acts as a digital detox in to the 2050 city environment, with no or minimal technology on board.
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Vehicle’s Life
The Chloroplast in Silk leaf requires water particles to make the material last, Hence the shell needs to be replaced and reused. The replacement of the shell would be done in an automated building every 5 months.
Material’s Life
As the material is made with the combination of silk and chloroplast (making the material biodegradable.) it gives us an opportunity to use this material in the textile industry to make clother, bed sheet etc or in the packaging industry to use it as a replacement of plastic.
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Open to opportunities to sail my boat even further in the ocean.
Hope my work delivered a message to you.
