PORTFOLIO Anirudhan Iyengar
CV
Anirudhan Iyengar I am an Architect & an experimental interaction designer exploring the intersection of space and technology. I see myself as a designer who uses software and physical hardware to create both simulated and actual 1:1 performative spaces in an architectural context. A recent graduate from the The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London in masters in Architectural Design. A good work experience on a national and international level along with rigorous hands on skills has broadened & nurtured my perspective on design.
+44 07871562118 anirudhan.iyengar@gmail.com Website: anirudhaniyengar.com
//EDUCATION
//SKILLS
2016-2017
.3D MODELLING & VISUALIZATION| Rhinoceros + VRay Grasshopper Revit Unity3D Houdini
THE BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE UCL, London, United Kingdom. Masters in Architectural Design 2009-2014
BALWANT SHETH SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE NMIMS University, Mumbai, India. Bachelors of Architecture(Professional Degree)
//EXPERIENCE October 2017- November 2017
THE BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, Teaching Assistant, University College London, UK Masters in Architecture - Design for Performance and Interaction June 2014- May 2016
STUDIO AFTER HOURS, Architect (Freelance), India .Igatvilla Weekend Home, Igatpuri .CMAI Exhibition Stall Design, Mumbai.
August 2014 - August 2016
PATCH DESIGN STUDIO, Architect, Mumbai, India .Zapatas Restaurant, Mumbai .Pocket Aces Office Space, Mumbai .Pot Pourri Restaurant , Mumbai .BookMyShow 1, Mumbai .Kolkatta Terrace, Kolkatta .Gurgaon House, Gurgaon .DXD Installation, Alliance Franchaise, Delhi .Sony Music Head Office, Mumbai .Raju Omlett Restaurant, Dubai .BookMyShow 2, Mumbai
February 2014 - July 2014
SDeG SUJIT NAIR DESIGN GROUP,Intern,BLR,India .Liaquat House(Design & Concept) .Anand Residence(Working Drawings) .Rustam Baugh Apartments(Design, Working Drawings)
.FABRICATION| Laser Cutting 3D Printing, CNC Milling Metal & Wood Working
.SCRIPTING| C++ Processing C# Arduino OpenFrameWorks .GRAPHICS| Adobe Suite
//ACHIEVEMENTS 1st Runner Up| 2015 |NDTV Interior Design Awards, India. Project : Pocket Acea , Patch Design Studio .Scholarship| 2014|”Acara Workshop”- A social Venture Design Incubation ,University of Minnesota, USA| IIHS, Bangalore, India .First Position| 2013|”Transform urban India” National Student Challenge, IIHS, Bangalore, India .Third Position|2012UUrban Chitrakatha created a Device that portrays Mumbai as a story, BSSA
//EXHIBITIONS .2015|”Desing X Design”, New Delhi, India .2014|”Space + Imagination”, Mumbai, India .2013|“Ageing Dreams” A canopy presented at Kalaghoda Art festival,Mumbai .2012| “My very own city “ at IAAC Barcelona, Researched and documented the city of Mumbai
//LANGUAGES English, Tamil, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Italian.
//SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Associated with the Art of Living Foundation
CONTENT
NEURAL KUBRICK
Academic - Design Project, The Bartlett
140HR
Academic - Studio Project, The Bartlett
BORDER LINE
Academic - Studio Project, The Bartlett
RUSTAM BAUGH
Professional (SDeG) - House
HOUSE AT IGATPURI
Professional (Studio After Hours) - Weekend Home
POT POURRI
Professional (Patch Design Studio) - Restaurant
POCKET ACES
Professional (Patch Design Studio) - Workspace
PERFORMATIVE TECTONIC SKINS (TEXTILES )
Academic - Design Project, Balwant Sheth School of Architecture
RURAL REVITALIZATION OF MENAVALI VILLAGE
Academic - Studio Project, Balwant Sheth School of Architecture
MEGA STRUCTURE RETAIL & INDUSTRY
Academic - Studio Project, Balwant Sheth School of Architecture
SPACE + IMAGE, PAVILION
Academic - Installation, Balwant Sheth School of Architecture
MY VERY OWN CITY
Academic - Exhibition, Balwant Sheth School of Architecture
Neural Kubrick Design Project
Academic - M.Arch Bartlett UCL, Type : Design Project Stanley Kubrick in 1968 speculated on the arrival of human-level Artificial Intelligence in “2001 A Space Odyssey”. Some 16 years past his prediction, our project “Neural Kubrick” examines the state of the art in Machine Learning, using the latest in “Deep Neural Network” techniques to reinterpret and redirect Kubrick’s own films. Three machine learning algorithms take respective roles in our AI film crew; Art Director, Film Editor and Director of Photography. The outlook of the project is an artist-machine collaboration. The limitations of the machine are achieved by the artist and the limitations of the artist are achieved by the algorithm. In the context of the project, what the machine interprets is limited to either numbers, classification of features or generation of abstract images. This output is curated by us into a coherent narrative, translated back into human perception. The project is based on Stanley Kubrick’s movies as input for three machine learning models, namely The Shining, A Clockwork Orange and 2001 A Space Odyssey. The generated videos display a machinic interpretation of the three movies, through a collaborative effort between the artist and the algorithm.
Photogrammetry of scenes from the movie The Shining
Photogrammetry of scenes from the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey & A Clockwork Orange
Machine as Film Editor - A convolutional neural network defines or classifies visual similarities between the given scene and a dataset of hundreds of different movies creating a parallel visual narrative.
Machine as Art Director - A Generative Adversarial Network that reimagines new compositions based on the features it interprets from the input dataset
Machine as Director of Photography - A recurrent neural network takes the role of the Director of Photography, defining camera paths that we have reshot in virtual space.
140 HR - Sound Augmented Reality Studio Project
Academic - M.Arch Bartlett UCL, Workshop Type : Sound Workshop Location : London The Bartlett school of Architecture moved back to its old building at 22 Gordon street leaving the 140 Hampstead road building. The building is giving way to the new Euston station extension. The project looked at using technology to facilitate a auditory experience of the history of the building The building in his tenure has changed programs from being a workshop, to an architecture school, now an abandoned building to a new railway station. The installation looks at reliving the memories of the building through an auditory experience. Google’s Project Tango Tablet was used to facilitate the experience. A walk in the empty space of the building brings back the memories of its past and this installation captures the past life of the building through the aspect of sound.
Border Line - Wearon Studio Project
Academic - M.Arch Bartlett UCL, Workshop Type : Body Haptics Location : London Border Line is a modular necklace designed to alert the wearer of alternative urban boundaries through vibrations and light. The data of the urban boundary is fed in by users and collected on a networked platform. The platform is called which can take in real time location data and store it in relation to the map of the place Inspired from the urban boundaries that exist in the city for example physical boundaries and visual boundaries and material boundaries. There are spaces in the city which have traces of the past but have diminished during the courseof time. The project looks at reexperiencing the boundaries in the city. For the project the site chosen was the Brunswick square park in London. This place was originally Fondling hospital but only some portions of the hospital is left and the remaining space is a public garden.
Device
Physical Mapping of Invisible Walls. The Foundling Hospital was demolished in 1920 and the site is now used as a playground The user navigates through several sections of the hospital and experiences the layers of history in the urban setup Uploading the data (Plan of the site) on thingful
The Fondling Hospital layout with the boundaries
Physical Device
With BlendMIni connects to Thingful with blue-tooth
Location updated on Thingful & taking readings from it
Alerts when close to boundaries through vibration & LED sensors
Tracks the user location
Virtual Space
Rustam Baugh House
Professional: Residence , Bangalore, India Status: Ongoing Scope of Work : Concept development & working drawings, A high end residential building with a duplex pent house on the top floor. The zigzag facade provides enough privacy to the residence for the usage of the Lap pool and also gets in adequate amount of natural light. There is a green wall running parallel to the lap pool which travels from the first floor to the third floor. The residential apartment is composed of a duplex on the fourth and the third floor and a single flat on the second & first floor. The building is a very site specific building as the position of opening and windows are the sides facing the road to get in maximum light and ventilation and the other sides have small windows to bring in enough light
First Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan
Fourth Floor Plan
Section AA
Section BB
Igatvilla House
Professional - House, Nasik, India Status: Ongoing Scope of Work : Concept development & working drawings, client interactions , execution and site supervision The site is located in a gated community at the foothills of the sahayadri mountain ranges. The site is a 24m X 18m rectangle. The house surrounds around the central double height space comprising of the living room and the family room. With an internal small barbecue law rite next to the staircase lobby. The house has large openings that connects the user back to nature and the scenic mountain views. The roof of the house is designed with two low points and two high points with the ridge cutting the rectangular house along its diagonal. The changing angle of the roof gives every space a very special character.
Ground Floor Plan
North Elevation
East Elevation
Pot Pourri Restaurant
Professional - Restaurant , Mumbai, India Status: Completed in 2014 Scope of Work : Concept development & working drawings, client interactions & execution The restaurant is an ensemble of industrial materials curated to create a quirky and interesting space. Using a raw industrial material palette, the renovation has been conceived for a cafe - restaurant in the day that could effortlessly change over to a bar-lounge in the night. The seating arrangement in the restaurant is spaced into four zones. The first is the bar zone visually separated from the main area by a low height exposed hollow concrete brick wall with a metal framed partition above. The larger restaurant area, taking up a bulk of the space. The more private dining areas are designed as two secluded booth seating.
Schematic Plan
Pocket Aces Media House
Professional - Media House , Mumbai, India Status: Completed in 2015 Scope of Work : Concept development & working drawings, client interactions , execution and site supervision A 2’ deep feature wall was designed which wraps around the quite zones segregating them from the large open format common workspace. Niches in this ‘Inhabited wall’ provides for spaces to work in,watch a movie from ,rest and ideate and also hold a large volume of storage. Its length is Animated by a fun pop of parrot green colour upholstered niche seating. The grey stained packaging board on its surface holds the TV and the idea wall. A platform above the editing room niche provided a space to rest and sleep for the long overnight hauls. The rest of the space was left as open format workspace,a raised stage area with two cabins and one conference room.
Plan at 5’
Elevation A
Elevation B
Performative Tectonic Skins (Textiles) Design Project
Academic - Final Year Thesis Project 2014 Type - Design Dissertation Location - Mumbai The focus of the research was to explore through design the expression-al potential of textiles in relationship with the technique of its construct. Working on designing a newer approach to textile exploration where there would be transformation of the surface moulded through interactive, intelligent sensor technology. The process would be to materialize diverse design ideas by textile construct where the aspects of structure and tectonic of the material would be looked upon. Develop a hybrid intelligent skin, which express the human body and its adaptation to the environment. In this relationship the observation would be to understand what the human body is feeling and how is the skin expressing it. Feeling could range from pressure, perspiration,to change in the temperature.
Prototype -1 Porous Square Darts A cubic form is created using four dart stitch as shown in diagram which can be contacted and expanded with the help of a help string attached at the back. Due to the material the prototype acts as a selective and porous skin which allows for control of temperature through the skin
Form Function_Pavilion
Wearability
Prototype -2 2 Way Zipper Two skins softer & rough are stitched together with a zipper. The soft skin is stitched inside the zipper and a inverted runner is placed on the same zipper for the soft skin to open up and the rough skin to close. Making it an alternate skin which serves the human body for two different conditions.
Mechanism
Wearability
Prototype -3 Deformable Cube A cube is created with metal wires which deforms in a hexgone. The sides of the cube is surfaced with a porous skin which allows movement of air with the opening and closing motion it regulates the flow of air. The porous skin is woven out thread with the crochet technique.
Form Function_Pavilion
Wearability
Prototype - 4 Air Flutes Flute shape is created along the lines of conical form which allows movement of air inside it. Tapering the flutes would lead to stagnation of the air in the channel which leads to exchange of heat with the body. This skin would facilitate a temperature balance between the human body and outside
Mechanism
Wearability
Rural Revitalization Of Menavali Village Studio Project
Academic - Third Year Design Project 2012 Type - Cultural Centre Location - Maharashtra, India The village is situated on the banks of the river Krishna, the heart of the village. The village houses the famous Nana Fadvanis Wada. Nana Fadnavis a minister at the Maratha court, he was a patronage of literature, art, music and theatre. This place is also called as the Banaras of the Western Indian because of it elaborate Ghats and the kind of culture and tradition that dawned here. With the death of Nana Fadnavis,the village lost its identity and went into hibernation. The brief was to build a catalyst that revitalises the village and brings back its lost charm. The intervention was a its lost charm. The intervention was a culture centre. A place that appreciates and nurtures the culture of Maharashtra. With a literature, dances and classical music school.
Section AA
Section BB
Section CC
Plan
Mega Structure - Retail & Industry Studio Project
Academic - Fourth Year Design Project 2012 Type - Factory/ Industrial Unit Location - Maharashtra, India The project looks at the industrial Darukhana area to be a transport hub for commodities and small scale Industry. The area currently comprises of run down warehouses and few industrial establishments, the proposal is to organise a wholesale setup of Commodities and industry which are very scattered in the city of Mumbai. The programs looks at providing a common roof for wholesale good and give basic infrastructure for small and medium scale industry which otherwise thrive in the by lanes of the city .A mega structure that caters to the needs of the wholesale and Individual buyers of the city. An insert in the master plan of the development of the eastern waterfront of Mumbai which has been long dominated by the port trust of Mumbai. A proposal to develop a huge market for small and medium goods
East Elevation
Plans
Section AA
Space + Image Materialization of Information, Pavilion Installation
Academic - Joint Workshop between BSSA & Columbia University Type : Workshop Scope of Work : Concept, development, fabrication & execution. A project in collaboration with the students of Columbia university GSAAP, Studio X Mumbai & NMIMS Balwant Sheth School of Architecture. ‘Space + Image’ Pavilion a small structure that explores the relation between the virtual, the visual, and the physical. The theme of the project was a ‘materialization of information’, following some theories posed by Henri Bergson in ‘matter and memory’. Perception, representation, cultural code of perception, and active perception filters, were initial drivers for a possible realization. The site of the project is on the board-walk promenade of Carter Road, sharing at the same time a position at the centre and at the perimeter of the city.
My Very own City, Barcelona Exhibition
Academic - Design & Execution Team Type : Research & Exhibition Scope of Work : Conceptualizing and drafting the city scape section & Diagrams Rethinking Cities featuring more than 50 projects, this exhibit aims to be a collaborative
dialogue around five key concepts about cities: “citizen”, “infrastructure”, “mobility”,“informed urbs” and “productivity” .Responsive cities, distributed infra structural networks, participatory informal settlements, adaptable habitat units, smart mobility systems, fab labs, new building metabolisms,productive territories and sustainable infrastructures, are some of the key concepts
PORTFOLIO Anirudhan Iyengar Selected works 2009 - 2017 +44 07871562118 anirudhan.iyengar@gmail.com