Amit Joseph Kurien M.Arch ( specialization in Architecture Design) GRIHA credited Professional LEED India Acredited Professional
Karippayil House Kulakkadu Tiruvalla Kerala
+91-9560834308 +91-8086735613 kurienjoseph61@gmail.com amit.kurien.march17@cept.ac.in
Education Post Graduation
2019 C.E.P.T. Ahmedabad
Graduation
2014 S.P.A. Delhi
School
2008 M.E.S. Indian School
Work 2018 Teaching assistant (4 months) Visualization and representation (3rd year) 2017 Urban Box (2 months) Project Architect - Housing Apartments in Bihar 2014-2016 HKS Inc. (2 years) Project Architect - Cairo Mall Project Architect - Fortis Karol Bagh Project Architect - IVF Medicover Project Architect - HKS Office Project Architect - Apollo Proton therapy center 2013 Surendera Group of Architects (6 months) Surendera Medical College Surendera Hospital Surendera Engineering college
Achievements Special Mention Winner 1st 1st 1st
2010 Qatar Design Consortium (2 months) Responsible for specifications and mall design 2015 2015 2013 2011 2011
Intra HKS design Competition Cairo Design competition Indian Green Building Competition Indian Green Building Competition Annual National Design Competition
Softwares BIM
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RHINO + Grasshopper SKETCHUP AUTOCAD 3D
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PHOTOSHOP ILLUSTRATOR INDESIGN PREMIERE AUDITION
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
MICROSOFT PROJECT
For
Disruption
M.Arch Thesis
JANUS
A burglar’s perspective
Project JANUS is an explorative research project that looks at decoding the vulnerabilities of HOUSE OF JANUS. After decoding, these vulnerabilties are strung into complete disruptions in the form of heists.
The Trickster The trickster Project JANUS creates a change by disrupting the existing. By doing so , he brings new information to the accepted convention questioning the existing. Its the binary view of the Burglar who is seen as a trickster taken in this condition,
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JANUS The Loot JANUS stands for the roman GOD who represents the beginning and the end transition, the gate keeper. The loot inspired by this outlook has been shaped in the form of a knight which breaks the grid in the chess board.
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Architectural Justification
Access and Navigation
Users and systems
Vulnerabilities in spatial layout, New ways of entering and mov- Decoding people and system materials, site planning , archi- ing through the site , different vulnerabiltities in the building tectural decisions. from the conventional one dic- to further weaken the building. tated by the building.
The research project mainly begins with identifying the vulnerabilities that lead to disruptions in the regular functioning of the built environment.
After decoding the vulnerabilities a hesit plan is deduced that incorporates the vulnerabilties as oportunities. This takes a burglar’s perspective of the built environment.
Heist Map -1 The House of JANUS exhibits a certain vulnerability at night . Using the Arsene Lupin Tactics of navigating through spaces we can uncover weakness that uncover at an odd moment.
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relief
Khidki
Agariya community pod
Khidki looks at providing a point of inspiration for the agariya community in the desert. In a hopeless condition that persists, Khidki provides for an artistic inspiring relief,
The Outlook The framing of the inside and outside holds a powerful threshold of inspiration for harsh landscapes
The view The view shaped by the space can generate an interest to the space inside and the outside. The activities listed enforces different light qualities and Khidki offers for possibilities.
The space. The space filled with openings to interact with the landscape in a creative way,
The inside The inside provides for a modular space which provides for different combinations of spatial activities.
The outside The pod then becomes an interesting space to interact with the landscape. Different from the regular tents, this becomes the artistic point of transition from the inside to the outside.
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Music
Dhinkchak Gang’s Playlist
Designing using sound
Meet Dhinchak Gang’s Playlist The street scultptures are designed to extend the understanding of sound as a tool to design and enlighten urban spaces for children.
More than noise. Sound resonates more life than vision . It is one sense that has lost its value in urban environments and have been mistaken as noise.
Existing sound
Squirrels and birds like Maina and blabber bird add to soundscape Street playlist
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Meet UDAAN UDAAN is a modern chabootara that builds a relationship with the pigeons of the street. It trues to control the temporal bass resonance caused by flights and increases the resonance of the pigeons sound making it a temporal spectacle.
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Meet KHOJ Khoj is s sound library for the children of the chawls.It is designed to reduce the sound of the street allowing for a sound buffer for children to focus and destress listening to tunes from aroud the library.
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Left ear elevation
Right ear elevation
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Not noise
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STREET CHOIR Street choir looks at the sounds of the street not as noise but elements that give an identity. By designing the sequences of sounds , one can alter the character of one’s walk
Udaan 96 sq.ft.
Ahmedabad India
Khidki 25 sq. m.
Ahmedabad India
Project JANUS 45 acres Mumbai India