Architecture Portfolio Anirudh Shankar | CEPT University
Education
Experience
12th Grade
B.Arch (Ongoing)
6 months of Internship at Meeta Jain Architects ( Concept and Design Dev Drawings, 2D and 3D Re Management
Skill Set
Sketching Faculty at DQ Sketching classes and set students appearing for co (since June 2021)
Sri Kumaran Childern’s Home-CBSE Bangalore CEPT University Ahmedabad
Anirudh Shankar 06 Nov 1998 Indian Bachelors in Architecture CEPT University
I am an Undergraduate Architecture student at CEPT University. The way architecture is influenced and influences culture, individuals and society is something that truly interests me. I believe in knowing our roots in order to move successfully into the future. I am also a passionate musician and a tabla player. I enjoy painting and sketching too.
Languages Known English, Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Kannada, Gujarati
Contact anirudh.shankar.barch17@cept.ac.in anirudh.shank@gmail.com Ph: 9591963406 B901, Mantri Tranquil, Gubbalala Village Off Kanakpura Road Bangalore, India - 560061
Softwares AutoCad SketchUp Revit Photoshop InDesign Rhinoceros Lumion Premire Pro Illustrator Ableton Microsoft Office Hand-Render Mediums Pencils Charcoals Watercolours Rotrings Fabrication Metal Wood Clay Boards CNC and Lasercuts 3D Printing
Workshops and Oth
Shell Construction an Ahmedabad(2018)
CSEB and Adobe Con Foundation, Kutch (20
Winter School 2018 Lunuganga and Brief (Bentota, Srilanka)
Summer School 2019 Urban Transport (Lond University)
Travel and Docume 2014
Germany: School Cultu
2017
Goa Ahmedabad - Documen
2018
Achievements and Leadership
Srilanka - Winter School Udaipur - Studio Site Visit Alwar - Studio Site Visit a
Nominated for CEPT Excellence Award for Spring 2019 Semester
2019
Heading team for Lighting Installation for Navratri Celebrations - 2018 and 2019
London and Oxford - Sum Fatehpur Sikhri - Studio S
2020
Consistent Performance Award - 2022
Pune - Office Site Visit an
Organised and performed fundraiser concert for improving the facilities at a local Government School in Bangalore
2021
Varanasi - For DRP (Rese Lucknow - For DRP
t (Ar. Meeta Jain) velopment, Working enders, Site Inspections and
Q Labs, Bangalore tting question papers for ompetitive exams.
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Contents
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Alwar Water Collaborative Books, Etc House for A Musician Planetarium Center for Music The Conscious Collective Internship Understanding Brief Garden and Lunuganaga Linking Design and Urban Transport Ribbed Frame Stucture
01 A Place for Water Community Centre Alwar, Rajasthan | 4th Semester Alwar Water Collaborative is a community center located at the threshold of the Aravailli Hills and the city of Alwar, near the Moosi Maharani Ki Chattri. It aims at creating awareness about the exisiting water systems through constant engagement with the built form. The built form has been conceptualised as channel for people and water. The movement pattern for both water and people has been derived from the flow - hold - flow pattern followed by the existing canal on site which brought the water in from the top of the Aravalli hills to the tank near the Moosi Maharani Ki Chattri.
Level 1 Shops and Health Care
A Street and Labryinth of Stone TThe dimensions and spans of spaces comes from the constraints (opportunities, actually) of the Stone available in the region, the yellow sand stone. The construction is a combination of load bearning semi dressed rubble stone walls and trabeated system of stone columns and beams. The maximum span was of 2.6m (c-c).
Level 2 Restrooms and Kitchen
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Level 3 unity Hall and Cafe
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Level 4 Guest rooms and Work Spaces
Origins The pools of water within the spaces collect the water from the waterfalls during rains and the courtyards work as a climatic response.
Flow The water channels along the path carry the water from the origins to the canal and along with the water brought down by the wall-spouts.
Pauses The pauses for water and people make spaces for interaction amoung people and with water alike.
Destination The destination of water is the existing canal where it joins the water coming from the mountaints.
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Journey of Water TThe journey of the water begins from the top of the project as the waterfalls and flows through the project with pauses along its way. The water from the roof is brought down along the walls modified as water carriers, into the channel. Along the path there are various edge conditions created for people to interact with water.
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02 Books, Etc. Book Store with a Cafe Udaipur, Rajasthan | 3rd Semester The first half of the studio focused on studying the architectural attiutde, style and language of the architect Carlo Scarpa. The attitudes were catagorised as Physical and Ephemeral Substances, Conceptual and Organisational Devices and Making and Detailing. Each of these categories were demonstarated and tested out through a cube installation, a maze and trophy respectively. The second half of the studio dealt with creating a Book Store and Cafe in Udaipur, based on the architect’s attitude. The site is located on banks of Fatehsagar Lake with the City Palace as a back drop.
Levels The floor has small level differences to divide the space into more relatable and intimate scale.
Trees The roof of the pavilion cafe has been shaped accomodating the trees around and create a feel of being nestled into betwen the trees.
Metaphor The two smaller pools created represent the lakes of Udaipur. The Fateh Sagar and the Pichola lakes.
Geometries Each function has a different geometry yet they do not depend on the fuction.
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An Interface TThe project becomes a journey between the land and water. Located at the edge of the lake in a way that it facilitates interaction with the water and allows for spaces to enjoy a performance with the view of the Aravallis as a backdrop. It is on the same edge as a boating pier and the wall of the palace. The pavilion like cafe becomes a space for book lovers and trourists to pick up book and sip a tip without loosing out on the views.
Scale The volume of the books store is split by the low mezzanine which makes the heights closer to human scale.
Roof The seemingly heavy roof is supported on thin columns emphasising the attitude towards mass.
Datum The roof acts as the datum that brings the various plinth levels which demarcates various funtions
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It’s all in the details The wall sections gives the sense of space in the book store and also focuses on the material palette of various kinds of locally available marbles used, the local jikky plaster and mahogany wood. The axonometric drawing shows the washroom shaped in the form of Scarpa’s famous motif of intersecting circles. The washroom is made with exposed concerete and has marble counter and brass fixtures.
03 House for a Musician Incremental Building Fatehpur Sikhri, Uttar Pradesh | 3rd Semester The first half of the semester involved the visit and the study of the Monument Complex of Fatehpur Sikhri. The complex was observed through various lenses in order to understand the strategies that contributed to the experience of the place. The second part, was the house for a musician. The site was in the fields behind the town of Fatehpur Sikhri. The house was developed in stages such that it grows from the scale of a house to an instiution, from the setting of the 1970s to 2020. The site had a pavilion and a tree as its immediate context, with and rigde as the backdrop and the view of the ancient fort wall built by Babur.
The Humble Beginnings | 1970 | Stone
Family Grows | 1990 | Stone and Timber
A Legacy 2020| Stone, Timber and Steel
The house is surrounded by open spaces creating spaces for interactions which open up to the elements of the landscape. Creating inner world and connecting with outer world on larger scale. The house of the musician still remains the centre of the institution.
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Stage 1 The house of the musician is placed close to the pavilion creating a visual connection between the two
Stage 2 The sister’s and students residents were kept by themselves maintaining the privacy and open spaces.
Stage 3 The same principle was carried forward for keeping the musician’s house as the centre from where it all began.
Structure Combination of trabeated and load bearing systems to create view points.
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The Entrance
The stone walls and the steel columns form a language of so porus environment inside where each block interacts with the views of the hills, fort walls a
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The foyer and Dining
olidity and porosity. The relatively solid walls enclose a more e other by opening up to common courtyards which provide and the fields on each side.
Section showing the basement recording rooms - Section BB’
04 Planetarium Working Drawings Ahmedabad, Gujarat | 5th Semester The site was the old AES Girl’s Hostel near Commerce Six Roads in Ahmedabad. The load bearing structrue of the building lends itself to many modifications. The program was to change parts of the hostel blocks into a Science Museum, part of which is the Planetarium. The form of the Planetarium is predetermined by the function and stands out from the existing. One enters a large open foyer which is in contrast to the closed auditoruim. The volume of the foyer is split by the circular concrete slab which houses the auditorium which is enclosed by two concentric domes that rest on the slab. The foyer extends out as a deck that opens up to the view of the ever buslting Commerce Six Roads.
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The Foyer and The Stars The lower floor is the large foyer which gives the space for people to gather. The floor also opens up towards the north and the south to the views of the street and the courtyard, respectively. The staircase leads upto the auditorium and the upper deck. The auditorium has a capacity of 28 people. The outer dome is made of steel and the inner dome is made of timber. The space between the domes is used for keeping the projectors and HVAC systems. The external columns, which support the roof, and the dome symbiotically support each other also creating the opportunity to have the upper wooden deck.
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The equitorial ring is made first and becomes the reference for building the dome.
Top half is built firs hemisphere is predefi complete.
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The hemispehere is raised to start constructing the rest of the dome from below.
The dome is completed till the level where all the members are present and complete.
The points at which the memebers of the last line meet the beams are anchored.
Washroom
Stair case and Door Detailing
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05 Center for Music Performace spaces Bangalore, Karnataka | 7th Semester Indian Music Experiece (IME) is an organisation that aims at spreading awareness amoung the youth to revive Indian classical and folk music with a face lift, through teaching, performances and exhibitons. This intervention as performance space can create a new foot hold for the organisation in the revered location of Lal bagh. It could create movement in the the lesser frequented side of Lal bagh, revive connections with the lake and open up a rather, closed edge of the botanical garden giving it a new layer of identity that gives an opportunity for the people to engage with music in the their daily routine activites.
Elimination of the wall and placing the auditorium and insitution separately and it is connected by the plaza which opens up from the street.
Position of the Auditorium provides the backdrop vista and the slope for seating. The insitution is nestled among the trees in a more humble character of learning.
Different Performance spaces of sizes and intimacy
The form is derived from the mulitpicity of use and as response to the natural elements on site.
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Entrances at various levels accessible through ramps, stairs and lift provides universal access and ease of movement through exits at every level
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Through Views of the complex and vistas in every part of the auditorium
The vault shape of the opened roof helps counter the wind thrust as opposed to the cubiodal form.
The Auditorium height does not over shoot the elements in the surroundings as it starts from the lower end of the slope.
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Rectangular Section 50mm x 25mm
Rectangular Section 80mm x 40mm
Rectanular Section 120mm x 60mm
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Air Pockets for acoutic and thermal insulation
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The spaces formed by a language of rammed earth walls and concrete columns open into common courtyards shaded by trees between which the building nestles itself. The vault help in spanning, bringing in light and follows the form of the auditorium.
Legend 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Workshop Office Music Library Reception Cafe kitchen Washroom Utility
06 The Conscious Collective Mixed Use for Imagined Society Ahmedabad, Gujarat | 9th Semester The concept of the studio is based on creating a society in the year 2025 as an aftermath of the pandemic. Wherein a group of people with similar ideology come to the architect to create a place for them to accomodate their specific requirements. The studio followed an Iterative process of design, where two different iterations were worked on. many took to understanding the self as a larger collective, The Consciousness. By taking out time to understand and practice a more aware life they realized what their true identity is, the identity which opens up the universe to them, the one is the world and the world is one. But this didn’t mean they have all left their everyday jobs, relationships and their own being behind, just a more inclusive perspective. They come together to redefine what living together is. A society where no one is a complete “stranger”. There is empathy at the highest level. The Spiritual Journey becomes the way of life. Relationships though not severed have new meaning. A new definition of family. You become one with the world and the world is within you!
About The Concsious Collective Demographics
Total Number of People in the Neighbourhood 800 Chosen based on Dunbar Numbers to learn to live with more people beyond the perview of aquaintances.
Age Groups 0-14 years 65 years + 14-65 years
200 100 500
The preference, seniority and decision making power is given to those who are higher up in the spiritual and techincal path irrespective of the age.
Derived Based on Current Population trend.
Trade Imports
Equipment for workshop and office spaces
Crops of Large Quantities which cannot be grown in vertical Farming
Exports
Hybrid Herbal and Healthcare Products
Services of HR Training
Community Kitchen for all
Artistic Goods produced in the workshop and individuals
Vertical Farming Surplus
Key Differences from Society today
Family
Education
Activities as a Community
The world becomes the family. Biological lineage is absent. Children are brought up separately and everntually become part of society through adoption by elders with similar interests. They can eventually join the rest of the society by themselves as well. The concept of marraige as an institution or ritual is absent.
Childern are brought up in the Gurukul where every child is closely observed for the strengths and weaknesses and ultimately the education is tailored accordingly. There is no age segment for each level of learning, it is according to the pace of the child.
Activities such as cooking, bathing and nursing become community activities. There are different levels of privacy for the activities as well where one can be themselves even when they are part of the community.
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First Iteration
Mass separation for thorough fare
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Level 0 1 : 100
Accessible Vertical Farms for Elders
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Level 0 1 : 100
Opening into Common Space
Spaces along the ramps - the only vertical connection
Since there are individual living rooms, the common meeting space becomes an active centre and the street like quality at every level enhances the chances of meeting and exchange.
Distribution of functions across leveles
Second Iteration Taking the learnings from the focus on individuality increased. The form had to reflect the concept of uncompromised individuality in the collective. The idea was to provide variations in the experiences of individuals according to their principles and prefernces. The idea that spirituality could mean differently to every one and how one practices and paves their path to connect with Consciousness.
Concept The grid expresses the constance of consciousness while the organic forms express the inviduality
Circulation
Common Circulation 5595 sqm Functions on the path 600 sqm Atrium 450 sqm
Gurukul
Residences for Children (2yrs +) Spiritual Learning Center Technical Learning Center Play Area
Buffer Zone
Space where the older children interact with other residents. Helps in creating connections with people with similar interests and there by in adoption. Mostly consists of open spaces and work spaces.
Mixed Use
Herbal Pharma and Shared facilities with other societies Community Kitchen Herbal Pharma Related Spaces Amphitheatre 3 Floors HR Training Spaces 2120 sqm Trading Dock
Residences Bathing Community Kitchen Workspaces Nursing
Total Area: 28000 sqm Total Number of People: 800
06 Do On the Way The community functions such as the gyms and self cooking spaces open project into the atrium in between the continous corridors.
Circulation The circulation space is around the central atrium from where different forms can be seen between the grid of the structural steel frame.
The Atrium The large central atrium creates a visual connection with all floors.
Mixed Use and Residential TThe aim was to create as many possible variations in the kinds of residences and how people can live together and the arrangements would reflect the nature of relationship between the elders and the adopted young. The choice for the level of privacy is manifested in the kind of residence one chooses and the materiality they prefer.
Stone Dormitory The concept of the common spaces has been retained and becomes the center for interaction. Workshop
The units have different levels of privacy based on how they open into the common space.
Meditate where you like and its your choice if you even want to. The unit types vary depending on this preference as well.
Stone and Timber Residence Concrete and Glass Residence
06 Community Kitchen
Material as Time Material, here, is used a way of expressing time. Preference of the finish would tell much about the time period one associates themselves more with.
Vertical Farms
Stone Residences The Concrete and Glass on the floors above the Community Kitchen UP
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Workshop and Workplaces Bathing Places Community Kitchen
The Concrete and Glass on the floors above the workshop
The Gurukul TThe children were brought up separatley in the gurukul above the rest of the building making it the pinnacle of the society. Each age group had a separate residence based on their requirements. The technical and spiritual education had thier own spaces have contrasting environments.
Residence for Toddlers
The lowered central space provides for structured activites for childern while the caretakers could keep a watch on them.
Flexible sleeping spaces for children and the care takers depending on useage of space, visiblity and level of privacy for both of them.
Spiritual Center Special alcoves for childern to nestle themselves into, a solitary space for when they need to be with themseleves.
Technical Study Spaces
06 Spiritual Center
Lecture halls and discussion rooms have large and open spaces which allows everyone to be part of the happenings
Meditation Pavilions made by breaking the idea of centrality and giving the possiblity of multiple types of spaces.
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Level 0 2-12 yrs Residences Play Areas
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12 yrs + Residences
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The doors for made flixible to make the pavilion into a room or into smaller private pods to face the gardens and meditate.
06 Stone Residences TCommon spaces (larger Image) and the inner shared living spaces.
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07 Internship Meeta Jain Architects| Bangalore | 8th Semester Meeta Jain Architects was a small scale firm, comprising of the Architect and the interns. This ensured participation and learning at every level, from Masterplanning for large scale houses, conceptual stage and making drawings and details for projects at construction stage.
Renders for proposals through different softwares.
Staricase at a residence designed and detailed as shown in the drawing.
Interior detailing for residential project and on site inspection of construction and processes during construction.
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Understanding Brief and Lunuganga Winter School Workshop - 2018 | Sri Lanka
The course included the study of the two famous gardens in Bentota, Lunuganga by Geofrey Bawa and The Brief by Bewis Bawa. The features of each of the gardens were caputred through photographs, sketches and illustrative maps.
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Linking Urban Design and Transport Accessibility A a tc ct ehses i b i l i t y ap tl atthf o erms: platforms:
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Summer School Workshop - 2019 | London, Oxford Brookes The Stratford Interchange and the Stratford International station was extensively studied as a tranist node. This was done through maping, tally counting, clocking the time taken in transit between different modes of transport at the interchange, maping and identifing location and visiblity of signages and analyising the level of universal accessiblity available. A questionare was used to analyse people’s views and observations about the accessiblity and ease of use of the interchange as an effective transit mechanism.
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3rd Semester | Technology and Construction Course The structure was first created on Grasshopper by setting the parameters of the grid size and member sizes. The same was exported to Rhino and the model was developed. The 1:1 model was made with CNC cut plywood panels and Aluminium frame.
Anirudh Shankar anirudh.shankar.barch17@cept.ac.in anirudh.shank@gmail.com Ph: 9591963406 B901, Mantri Tranquil, Gubbalala Village Off Kanakpura Road Bangalore, India - 560061