Interior Design Academic Portfolio

PORTFOLIO

A Place for designers to collaborate

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

Octad the Himalayan abode an occasional retreat for different types of city based design professionals.

A Community centre for a small community revival

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

A Home and a studio for a family of Artists

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

Furniture Design and Analytical Drawing

Pre final And Final Studios

Craft Revival Centre with focus on Adaptive Reuse

Kutch region of Gujarat state is very famous for arts and crafts. Its embroidery and related crafts required a design support centre.

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

A local suburban cinema theatre in Ahmedabad

Challenge: A suburban single screen cinema theatre was losing out to quality entertainment venues against newly constructed entertainment places and multiplexes.

Intent: to revive a suburban cinema theatre

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. It was created at School of Interior Design, CEPT, Ahmedabad 5th year 2003/04.

Capstone Research Thesis Project

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 acknowledged as a part or component.

Research done as part of the graduation research thesis for tenth semester at Facutly of Design, CEPT Univeristy

Guided by Prof. Yatin Pandya