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AMAL SHAH
Amal Shah
Assistant Professor at CEPT University Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India Contact: +91 98 25 23 30 91 amalgshah@gmail.com or amal.shah@cept.ac.in https://www.linkedin.com/in/amalshah/
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Interior Design Design Academics Design Research Interior Architecture Interior Construction • Applied Technology
Skills
2D
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MS Word MS Excel MS PowerPoint Adobe Premiere Adobe Audition
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Abilities • Design Research • Admissions Management • Course Planning and Developement • Academic Administration • Design Visualisation, Planning, Detailing, and Conceptualisation
Education And Work Experience Education
Center For Environmental Planning And Technology Bachelor Of Interior Design, (1998 - 2004)
Work Experience
Architect Suryakant Bhavsar Designer/Junior Architect May 2005 - June 2006 Rastogi Associates Interior Designer August 2006 - August 2007
Sketchup Rhino 3D studio Max Lumion Vray/iRay Revit SolidWorks Grasshopper
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Freelance Interior Designer/Architect August 2007 To April 2008 January 2009 To July 2012 Faculty Of Design, Cept University Visiting Faculty and Assistant Professor July 2005 to July 2012 August 2012 And Continuing...
Graffiti India Private Limited Interior Designer/Consultant Interior Designer April 2008 - December 2008 And March 2010 To July 2010 2
CONTENT 1. ACADEMIC 04 2. JUNIOR ARCHITECT 10 3. INTERIOR DESIGNER 14 4. CONSULTANT DESIGNER 19 5. TUTOR 20
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Academic Work - Basic Design
Octad the Himalayan abode an occasional retreat for different types of city based design professionals. The octoid form provides a multiplicity of connections and space combinations. These are exploited for their four cardinal and four corners orientations. Each designer is given a specific location, qualitative space, a distinct interior form and color ambiance. The octoid form dissolves of wall to roof transition seamlessly. It also allows modulated construction and installation on a remote site. The location of the retreat was at the foot of the Himalayas. Created at School of Interior Design, CEPT, Ahmedabad 1st year 1998/99 4
Academic Work - Space Planning Madhu Mandal a community center in Mithakhali village in Ahmedabad city area is a self generated project of the residents. The form had to be distinct but not exotic to fit into the community. The site was sought to be transparent and approachable from all sides. The occupation of the building was likely to change as per the day to day needs of the use 24/7. The project was intended to create an interior space for community use through color, texture, materials and building. The Building had to be as much inside as outside and ready for the community. Created at School of Interior Design, CEPT, Ahmedabad 2nd year 1999/00 5
Academic Work - Interior Design Studio Ahmedabad pols provide a wonderful community living environment. Mr Sagra a sculptor by profession and his wife a ceramist and an artist were to be accommodated in such an environment. This house recreates an ideal interior for the artist couple without losing out on the environmental qualities of pol living. The space inside is one mass of interconnected elements organized between 2 parallel walls. The furniture and the furnishings have been conceived for the spatial quality. Created at School of Interior Design, CEPT, Ahmedabad 3rd year 2000/01
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Academic Work - Furniture Design and Detailing
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Academic Work - Interior Design Studio
Kutch region of Gujarat state is very famous for arts and crafts. Its embroidery and related crafts required a design support center. The center was intended to provide not only the design input but solve the material related problems. Some of the problems related to adopting newer technologies and newer usage based demands. The center was to be located in a Historical building currently is a vegetable market. The building interior recreated the market place outside to provide a very familiar setting for the users. The materials, finishes and the scales were of appropriate technology. Created at School of Interior Design, CEPT, Ahmedabad 4th year 2002/03
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Academic Work - Interior Design Studio
A local suburban cinema theatre in Ahmedabad was losing out to quality entertainment against newly constructed single theaters and multiplexes. The owners desired to rejuvenate the theatre by modernizing its public areas like lobbies, foyers etc. The lobbies required additional revenue generating facilities like food plazas, kiosks, restaurants etc. To make all these facilities visible, accessible and rent-able. The idea was to see and be seen, creating an encounter Worthy of repetition. Each space utility was conceived to be seen, inviting people to participate. This exercise of public space design provides an opportunity to explore the large space occupation within budget constraints. Created at School of Interior Design, CEPT, Ahmedabad 5th year 2003/04 9
Junior Architect - Architectural Design Sky-Lounge IT Park: Location: Kalyaninagar, Pune Proposed by: Lunkad Realty Floor Area: 1,10,000 sqft commercial space comprising of IT work spaces, Showrooms, Fitness centre and cafeteria. The building has been designed by Architect Suryakant Bhavsar, Ahmedabad.
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Junior Architect - Architectural Design
I was entrusted with this project from the beginning and within 6 months all working, layout and detail drawing sets were created on AutoCAD.
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Junior Architect - Architectural Design and Planning One North Residential Project at Hadapsar, Pune Client: Panchshil Realty Architect: Suryakant Bhavsar, Ahmedabad Three towers of 30 stories each, 2 apartment units per floor. Each 4250 sqft Five towers of 15-25 storied, 2 apartment units per floor. Each 3300 sqft. Central Area: Swimming pool, including kids pool, Gymnasium, Steam, Sauna, Jacuzzi, Yoga & Massage rooms, Aerobics, Function lawn, open deck, Club house etc. Color rendered Landscaped layout plan 3d-views of the entire scheme. I participated in this project and have prepared rendered layout drawings 3d views of the scheme.
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Junior Architect - Construction and Detailing
Architectural Detailing and Technical Construction Drawings
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Interior Designer - Retail Design
Electronics Shop for Mr Lucky Bherwani at UAE Area: 600 Sqft Theme: Contemporary
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Interior Designer - Hospitality Design Planning and Interiors for the Reception and waiting area at Niky Hotels at Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Area: 3000 Sqft Theme: Modern Vernacular The building has been designed by Architect Parth Rastogi, Ahmedabad.
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Interior Designer - Restaurant Design
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Interior Designer - Restaurant Design
Interiors for a Family Restaurant at Sharjah UAE Area 4000 Sqft including the kitchen and services Theme: Modern Vernacular Scope: Complete set of Interior drawings for a third party construction and execution on site 17
Interior Designer - Furniture Design and Planning
Hotel at Bikaner, Rajasthan Scope: Hotel Room Furniture Design and layout Theme: Modern Materials: Wood, Apholstery, Plywood, Hardware Type: Single seater, Double seater, coffee table, TV stand, Luggange stand, Double bed, Single bed, Wardrobe
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Interior Designer - Interior and Furniture Design
Interiors for Various residences at Ahmedabad Scope: Freelance Interior Designer Area 1500 to 2000 Sqft Materials: Wood, Plywood, Textiles, Plywood, Plaster of Paris, etc. 19
Interior Designer - Academic Research KITCHEN - This work is a study of CONTEMPORARY INDIAN KITCHENS, AS A NETWORKED SYSTEM, and is based on following premise. The kitchen is primarily a food preparation area. Kitchen nominally includes cooking, storage modalities and food consumption (dining). A kitchen concedes many of its activities to different spaces within and around the dwelling. It allows many non food preparation activities within its space. It includes any kitchen built or formed at any time, but one that is functional now. A contemporary kitchen may be made of materials and technologies, of recent or ancient origin, or both. It is a place where culinary arts prevalent in this region are practiced more intensively. The Indian cuisine exploits local materials and techniques of food preparations. So an Indian Kitchen can be defined as a place, where Indian cooking can be facilitated. Such a kitchen to be productive relies on certain facilities, amenities and gadgets due to their time-tested reliability, and perhaps the habit. Traditions, taboos, and social conditioning, also play their role. is an arrangement of routing, starting and ending somewhere, called a node or nodal
point, consisting of a physical material or space channels, through which materials or energy flow in one or the opposite directions, sometimes mixing within the route channel, or at intersecting junctions, and gaining or losing strength through the transmission.
Case Studies
A network occurs both within a domain, and also spreads to remain outside the domain, to subsist on it or support it. A shared network offers fastest service, so uncertainties of supplies or disposal do not occur, and one can eliminate the built-in spare capacities or inventories. The system, attains peculiar functionality by its subsystems coming together. A system defines a holistic culture or circumstantial identity, and also the working relationship between the incorporated subsystems, each of which having own peculiarity. A system or subsystem when, projects a wider domain or efficacy, it remains relevant. This may be unique for a typical context, but may also have parallels. A system with simple, singular and common utility tends to be very predictable and Research done as part of the graduation research thesis for tenth acknowledged as a part or component. semester at Facutly of Design, CEPT Univeristy Guided by Prof. Yatin Pandya 20
Interior Designer - Research Project Abstract:
Introduction:
Kitchen efficiency has been much discussed an issue for the past 200 or more years. The arrival of new stoves was also accompanied by packed (tinned) foods and new methods of marketing. Kitchen as a cooking system began to change across Europe and then in America. This systems of food preparations were more attuned for industrial nations’ lifestyles. However, the efficiency and clean environment inspired everyone in other countries to adopt it as well.
THE KITCHEN, more than any other spaces of the home; has been radically altered by the technological, social and aesthetics revolutions during the twentieth century. From being used by only cooks and servants the beginning of the 20th Century; kitchen has become a multifunctional space the center of the house.
The new kitchen gadget and the food supply systems began to change the architecture of kitchen. These changes were also accompanied by altered family structure, home servants systems, design of cooking vessels and dining serviettes. The study looks at relevance and validity of the “kitchen triangle� theory from the Indian context. This study also analyses the efficiency parameters and its impact on the kitchen planning and layout.
Methodolgy
A lot of resources are spent in the making of a kitchen and develop multiple solutions unique to the users to increase efficiency and to reduce the time spent in cooking and cleaning. The kitchen has always been under constant studies in terms of efficiency and physical human comfort in kitchen design. Indian kitchen has evolved drastically post independence with influences of colonization, industrialization and mass media bringing about a tremendous change in Indian kitchens.
Supervised Research Project Student: Ms Devenshi Doshi Under Graduate Final Semester Work 21
Tutor - Guided Research A
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A Chandni Chhabra: Study Of Element-Space Relationship In A Designed Environment B Anshumi Dhingra: Joint As A Key Phenomena In The Expression Of A Space C Aashna Poddar: Cybernetics Workplace & Technology All part of the Final (Tenth) semester Research thesis guided at Facutly of Design, CEPT Univeristy 22
Tutor - Theory Course Applied Technology in Interior Design “If technology is the answer what is the question?” Purpose: To find out the the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes in design. Concepts: Core concepts of technology, Attributes and Prinicples of technology, definition and origin, and types of technology, nature of technology Learning Outcomes: • Identify tehcnological applications • Classify technological processes • Critically Analyse and evaluate the relevance of applied technologies through appropriateness. Assignment: Identification of concepts of technology and decoding their application in the project. The core three concepts, which are Process, System, and Resources, should be studied as an overall idea and then try to look at their application in a project carefully.
Among all, Identify the primary and secondary design drivers. Select a concept as a lens to study and decode the application of technology and what changes it might have brought in the design process of the project. The study is to be supported by diagrammatic analysis to explain all three concepts and their application. For a chosen idea, one needs to do an in-depth study of all the possible subconcepts for this assignment and represent them. References: • •
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Prefab Architecture By Ryan E. Smith Product Design For Manufacture And Assembly Third Edition By Geoffrey Boothroyd, Peter Dewhurst, Winston A. Knight Rethinking Technology: A Reader In Architectural Theory Edited By William W.braham And Jonathan A.hale With John Stanislav Sadar Smart Materials And New Technologies For The Architecture And Design Professions D. Michelle Addington And Daniel L. Schodek Rapid Manufacturing An Industrial Revolution for the Digital Age
Sample work - Mr Shail Sheth during the ninth Semester at Facutly of Design, CEPT Univeristy 23
Tutor - Theory Course Interior Design Components & systems Introduction: This is an introductory course for Interior building materials and systems. Each Interior Design element fulfills a set of requirements either conceptual and programmatic. These requirements are either role based or are there to solve specific problems such as space division, volume articulation, scaling of space, accommodating services, need for privacy, controlling noise, etc. The elements of Interior Space can be put in three categories based on the roles they perform. These are technology, Environmental, and Spatial. These elements are Openings, Partitions, False ceilings, Staircases, and Floors. This course will look at both construction and application of these Interior elements in the space. This course aims at defining/analyzing the role of elements by their problemsolving ability rather than their given name, engineering definition or spatial typology. Both Functional and environmental considerations about building technology, and the role of
Interior Designers in improving the quality (Spatial, environmental, and physical) are the topics that will be covered. Learning Outcomes: • Identify and explain the physical, spatial, and environmental characteristics of various interior elements. • Interpret design intent through case study exercises of various types of projects. • Analyse/classify elements by the problems they solve in the interior environment. • Explain the material, finish and structural properties of these interior elements. References/Reading: • •
Building Construction Illustrated - FDK Ching Interior Detailing – Concept to Construction - D. Ballast
Sample Work by Ms Chinmayee Parikh done during the 3rd Semester at Faculty of Design, CEPT University
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Tutor - Studio Detailing In Interior Design Focus Area: Construction and Specifications Interior spaces can be visualized and created by using three layers. Each layer can be an outcome from: - Program + Site context - Image of the place - Qualitative aspect for execution of details (Function + Construction + Aesthetics) - Can be achieved through Models and/or Drawings
Learning Outcome: • Identify the appropriate Interior Products • Identify and classify a range of factors governing experience of the product in the context of a display space • Synthesize concepts based on contextual, material, construction and technological knowledge • Generate design schemes that demonstrate Form, space, material, and technology suited for the interior product while optimizing area use and utilizing spatial organizational principles • Generate construction worthy drawings
Concerns and issues: - Importance of Detailing in Interior Design - Interior Detailing is one of the stages of the design process and not the Exercises: • Case Study outcome. •
The studio is about designing a user experience center for Interior Products. An experience center can be both immersive and impressive to create a long-lasting imprint in the mind of the user. What is the role of an experience center? An experience center is not only for demonstration, but it is also a collaborative space.
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Work by Ms Drashti Patel, 4th Semester Undergraduate student
Generating a Product information brochure Conceptual theme of the space Generate volumetric Diagrams and inhabitation of the site Design Matrix Modular Detail the part Spatial layout development Materiality Detailing the whole
Conducted at Faculty of Design, CEPT University Undergraduate Program
Work by Ms Dhairya, 6th Semester Undergraduate student 25
Tutor - Studio Simple Building Products This studio aims at solving need for building product & system for the built environment. The emphasis of the studio is on the design process, visualization, ideation and making the prototype. The studio is about applying The design process to solve the design problem, develop a simple product for a situation and use appropriate technology. The simple product shall be designed based on given constraints of materials, structure, and technology. The methodology shall involve tools like observation, exploration, analysis, And investigation. The students shall develop an approach towards form Manipulation as the starting point. They will learn to explore and
combine materials and structure creatively for a specified objective. Students will be able to plan, visualize, and design micro to mezzo, mezzo to macro relationships In the context of - detail to product, product to system and system to space. Elements of connectivity The theme of the studio was ‘elements of connectivity’. An imaginary structure was provided as a site for the studio, and to give dimensional constraints while designing the product. Focus • Logic and rational of form • Proportion and geometry • Size and dimensions • Relationship between modules / different elements
• Principles of visual perception • Approach to form & concept of form
design and fabrication processes.
Form generation and Manipulation
Composition and ordering principle in three dimensional spaces for specific function and integrating the different elements of connectivity with design, composition, form, material and structural consideration.
Students are to explore the two dimensional and three dimensional form with given material to understand the property of the material and the manipulation of form with basic elements like corner, edge, surface radius. Generating connectivity Students are to synthesize two dimensional composition and applying the learning of two dimensional composition and generate three dimensional Composition with design consideration of form and design, material and its Properties, structure
Generating a solution
Solution to a product Enhancing the design solution to transform it into a product by optimization of factors like ease of assembly & disassembly, standardization of parts to generate mass production and various other factors. Sample work done by 2019 batch of Masters of Building Products and Systems Students at Faculty of Design, CEPT University 26
Tutor - Studio
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