RESUME & PORTFOLIO
CLUBHOUSE
@ VAISHNAVI TERRACES
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PROJECT LOCATION
Location
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Bangalore
THE CLUBHOUSE - WITH THE CANTILEVERED VIEWDECK
Type - Professional practice ( at InFORM Architects) Role - Project in-charge Translation from immediate post-competition stage, after acquiring the project, co-ordination of services, design development through various stages of change in client requirments, to estimates and interior scheme and details. Description - The clubhouse was proposed on a triangular site in an apartment complex. This apartment had a concept of open terraces for every apartment at all levels. The clubhouse, similarly, was proposed with open green areas at different levels THE OPEN AIR AMPHITHEATRE OVERLOOKING THE LANDSCAPED AREA with a view to the apartments.
VIEW OF THE TERRACES FACING THE APARTMENTS
CLUBHOUSE
@ VAISHNAVI TERRACES
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The building is designed as a composition of different kinds of spaces - with a play on volumes & light
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R.C.C. Inclined wall with a water cascade in the reception
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Multi-purpose hall
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Gym & change rooms
2F -
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Air hockey, Table tennis, Board games & Squash court
3F - Board games, Table tennis, Amphi theater T
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Landscaped area for parties
G SECTION THROUGH THE LIFT SHAFT
THE R.C.C. INCLINED WALL
FLOOR PLANS
CLUBHOUSE
@ VAISHNAVI TERRACES
01 Photographs of ongoing construction & glazing works completed & facade
THE STEEL CANOPY
THE CANTILEVERS AT EVERY LEVEL
Structure, masonry, steel related works ongoing.
THE VIEW FROM THE APARTMENTS
THE TERRACES AT EVERY LEVEL
HOLIDAY VILLA
@ CHENNAI
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Sembakkam, Chennai
Type - 4th Semester academic project A holiday villa designed as per a builder’s requirements of a 4 bedroom house in the given site with servant’s quarters and luxurious spatial programming.
ENTRY BY THE POOL
YOGA HALL
Role - Design & presentation Description - The site is located in Senbakkam amidst plots for residential allotment. It is approached by a 12m wide road. The shape of the site is such that there is a linear front with a squarish portion adjoined. The linear front is used for the approach and landscaping and the portion beyond is utilised for the house. It is a luxurious 4 bedroom villa with a private pool programmed in compliance to Vastu.
EVOLUTION OF THE MASSING
FRONT PERSPECTIVE
HOLIDAY VILLA
@ CHENNAI
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MEZZANINE LEVEL
The concept is for the architectural features to form & define the interiors. The walls & the floors form the furniture, in other words,they are built in. This will require very minimal loose furniture and with just upholstering one, the house is eady for inhabitation. FIRST FLOOR PLAN
VIEWS
SITE PLAN
TERRACE FLOOR PLAN
DIGITAL FABRICATION EXERCISES IN DIGITAL FABRICATION Lamps using the 3D printer, CNC milling machine & the laser cutter ( from left to right) from the Fab Lab, IAAC, Barcelona
@ THE FAB LAB, BCN
ACTIVATING PUBLIC SPACES STUDIO
@ IAAC
03 Description - Project done with Valerie Frey & Sortiris Yfantis in Eduard Cabay’s drawing machines studio in the Masters in Advanced architecture at IAAC. The drawing machine was concieved as a central pen made to move with vibrations made by motors fixed to three supports of the mount as seen. The length of the wires that connect the motors to the arduino offer a limitaiton as well as create a parameter for the movement of the pen. Using similar parameters in grasshopper, a similar drawing machine was created digitally to produce an identical result.
COMPAPRISON OF THE ANALOG & DIGITAL DRAWINGS PRODUCED
PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DRAWING MACHINE AT WORK
DETAILED DRAWING OF THE SETUP
ACTIVATING PUBLIC SPACES STUDIO
03 ACTIVATING PUBLIC SPACES The drawing machine is transformed to a machine that can bring about a transformation, activating urban spaces in the given site, in the Eixample district of Barcelona.
ACTIVATING THE CHOSEN SQUARE
PROPOSED URBAN FOODSCAPE
FOODSCAPE
Observations made at site lead to the creation of a map marking the movement of food across the square. The machine is viewed as a way to plant seeds thus making the site, not just a place where food is sold , but is grown as well.
@ IAAC
ACTIVATING PUBLIC SPACES STUDIO
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@ IAAC
BIFURCATION SEMINAR
WITH MARK BURRY
04 Description This is the study on the bifurcation of columns done as part of the seminar directed by Mark Burry, as part of the Masters course in IAAC.
EVOLUTION OF THE PROFILES THEOUGH SUBTRACTION & ADDITION INCREASING IN COMPLEXITY
The concept of the fractal system is chosen for the bifurcation & three profiles are chosen to fabricate the columns. The idea is to fabricate either the base or a branch of the bifurcated column physically & digitally analyse the branching. PROFILE 01
PROFILE 02
PROFILE 03
FRACTAL SYSTEM FOR BRANCHING
VARIOUS CONFIGURATIONS OF BRANCHING
BIFURCATION SEMINAR
WITH MARK BURRY
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COLUMN 01
COLUMN 02
COLUMN 03
LIGHTWEIGHT BIOCOMPOSITE
05 Description - The project was developed as part of the light weight bio-composite seminar under Alex Dubor & Pablo Ross during the masters program in IAAC. The brief was to propose a pavilion for the Nowhere festival 2017 made of bio-composites. The materials chosen by our group were jute fibres & gelatin resin. Triangular units made of CNC milled plywood pieces were hammered together & joint taking advantage of the jute fabric in the folds. Within each trianglular unit - jute with resins made of colofono & sunflower / olive oils were cast in place.
JUTE PAVILION
LIGHTWEIGHT BIOCOMPOSITE
JUTE PAVILION FLOOR MOUNTED DRUMS FACING WNW ADDING WEIGHT TO THE FOUNDATION
05 MOST HEAT - MIX THE TWO OILS
MIDDLE SECTION- INTERMEDIATE HEAT HEAVIER RESIN NEEDED FOR STRUCTURAL STABILITY
INITIAL SYMMETRIC DESIGN
NORMAL CAST
CORE AND BASE - LOW HEAT HEAVIER RESIN NEEDED FOR STRUCTURAL STABILITY THICKER CAST
DETERMINING OPENINGS RADIATION ANALYSIS
ENTRANCE HERE REDUCES THE SAIL EFFECT
DETERMINING RESIN COMPOSITION GLOBAL DESIGN & DESIGN STRATEGY
LIGHTWEIGHT BIOCOMPOSITE
JUTE PAVILION
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PROXIMITY SENSORED PLATES
NYLON STRINGS PLASTIC MEMBRANE
STRING INSTRUMENTS DRUMS XYLOPHONES
A key part of the design was to propose interactive functions for the skin of the pavilion. This was achieved by adding musical elements in different parts. Drums and speakers were incorporated in some of the corner pyramids. In between some of the panels- the jute was replaced by strings / fabric to make drums and string instruments. Wind chimes and pipes in addition were proposed to be hung near the central column helping keeping the pavilion anchored.
NYLON FIBRES- STRING INSTRUMENTS
PLASTIC MEMBRANE - DRUMS
METAL PIPES & RODS - XYLOPHONE
MUSICALITY - INTERACTIVE SKIN
INSTITUTE OF SOUND
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Location
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Bangalore
Type - Project @ the Self-sufficient
led by Enric Ruiz Geli buildings studio in IAAC .
Description - The Institute of Sound is proposed as an institute for the study of music and languages. Identifying the common & most fundamental element of both of these skills as sound, the name was aptly rephrased. The initial debate centered on the different ways to approach the project and also to define self-sufficiency in terms of sound. The key questions at the outset were as below. HOW CAN SOUND BE MADE TANGIBLE THROUGH ARCHITECTURE? CAN ARCHITECTURE BE USED TO REDEFINE THE CONVENTIONAL DEFINITION OF A PERFORMANCE? CAN SOUND ENERGY BE HARNESSED FOR POWER?
SELF-SUFFICIENT BUILDINGS STUDIO
INSTITUTE OF SOUND
06 INSTITUTE OF SOUND MAKING SOUND TANGIBLE BAGHYA VENKATARAMANI
INSTITUTE OF SOUND MAKING SOUND TANGIBLE
SELF-SUFFICIENT BUILDINGS STUDIO
INSTITUTE OF SOUND MAKING SOUND TANGIBLE BAGHYA VENKATARAMANI
INSTITUTE OF SOUND MAKING SOUND TANGIBLE DEFORMATIONS OF THE ACOUSTIC SHELL DEFORMABLE ACOUSTIC SHELL BAGHYATHEVENKATARAMANI
DEFORMATIONS OF THE ACOUSTIC SHELL THE DEFORMABLE ACOUSTIC SHELL BANGALORE
BANGALORE
BAGHYA VENKATARAMANI
DEFORMATIONS OF THE ACOUSTIC SHELL
VERTICES OF THE HEXAGONAL PANELS
SILICONE INFLATED
This project incorporates a shell which can constantly shift it’s form and thereby the quality of the acoustics inside of the space. For any defined number of configurations possible, say “n”, the user will experience “n” different ways of hearing the same piece of music.
DEFORMATIONS OF THE ACOUSTIC SHELL HOOKS FOR FIXING THE INTERIOR ACOUSTIC PROFILES
THE DEFORMABLE ACOUSTIC SHELL BANGALORE
HOOKS FOR DEFORMATION OF THE FORM METAL PERFORATED FLOORING WITH A TRANSDUCER THAT CONVERTS SOUND TO VOLTAGE
SILICONE
HOOKS FOR FIXING THE INTERIOR ACOUSTIC PROFILES
THE DEFORMABLE ACOUSTIC SHELL BANGALORE
VERTICES OF THE HEXAGONAL PANELS
SILICONE INFLATED
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This pneumatic structure with two layers of silicone with embossed hexagonal panels. At the vertices of the hexagons, threads connect the two layers. When inflated, the threads become taut and the air gap thus enclosed automatically acts as an acoustic insulator by default. This provides for a light weight shell which can be manipulated with cables.
STRING CONNECTING THE TWO LAYERS WHICH BECOMES TAUT WHEN INFLATED
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FOCAL POINT
METAL PERFORATED FLOORING WITH A TRANSDUCER THAT CONVERTS SOUND TO VOLTAGE
APERTURE
SILICONE
PITCH ANGLE
SILICONE
This flexibility is with regards to the spatial configuration. To this end, a Silicone-based pneumatic structure is proposed. Silicone is specifically chosen for its elasticity.
SILICONE
HOOKS FOR DEFORMATION OF THE FORM
STRING CONNECTING THE TWO LAYERS WHICH BECOMES TAUT WHEN INFLATED
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-50 TO +10 DEGREES TILT
PARABOLIC TROUGH
SILICONE INFLATED
SILICONE INFLATED
VERTICES OF THE HEXAGONAL PANELS
HOOKS FOR FIXING THE INTERIOR ACOUSTIC PROFILES
SILICONE
HOOKS FOR DEFORMATION OF THE FORM
STRING CONNECTING THE TWO LAYERS WHICH BECOMES TAUT WHEN INFLATED
METAL PERFORATED FLOORING WITH A TRANSDUCER THAT CONVERTS SOUND TO VOLTAGE
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HOOKS FOR FIXING THE INTERIOR ACOUSTIC PROFILES HOOKS FOR DEFORMATION OF THE FORM FOCAL POINT
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METAL PERFORATED FLOORING WITH A TRANSDUCER THAT CONVERTS SOUND TO VOLTAGE APERTURE
PITCH ANGLE
SILICONE
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-50 TO +10 DEGREES TILT
PARABOLIC TROUGH
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INSTITUTE OF SOUND
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SELF-SUFFICIENT BUILDINGS STUDIO
CLUBHOUSE
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Location - Area of site -
Hyderabad
Type
Professional practice (@ InFORM Architects)
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FOR SALARPURIA SATTVA Water associations
(Pool)
Calmness and serenity
(Yoga)
Fun, stimulating. creative
(Games)
Energetic & stimulating
(MPH)
RATIONALE BEHIND THE INTERIOR TREATMENT
150sqm
Role - Project Incharge. Responsible for the Entire esign, presentation, estimation, co-ordination with consultants and working drawings with details
BADMINTON COURT
Description - The clubhouse is located as part of an apartment complex. It is a G+3+T building with indoor sports , party halls, Gym, Spa etc. The scheme for the interiors was drawn from the logo of the builders Sattva Salarpuria and allocated according to the type of functions in each floor. SECOND FLOOR LOBBY
SECTION SHOWING THE LOBBY TREATMENT AT EVERY LEVEL
CLUBHOUSE
FOR SALARPURIA SATTVA
07 Alternating colors of yellow/red/orange/blue units with crylic used for the ones with lights.
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3X3 units fitted into one suspended module
2 DETAILS OF THE BOOKSHELF FOR THE LIBRARY
Single 300x300mm MDF unit
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Each lobby has a similar treatment with the color respective to that floor and stickering on the glazing. The circulation is demarcated by means of the ceiling suspended units. Modules of 3x3 modules of MDF units are nailed to a plywood backing. These are fixed with a Salwood frame & suspended with Salwood suspenders and fixed to the ceiling with L angles. The heights,color and lights of the units vary as per the design. FIXING DETAIL OF INDIVIDUAL UNITS
G FLOOR PLANS
CLUBHOUSE
FOR SALARPURIA SATTVA
07 Photographs of ongoing construction - Structure, masonry, steel & glazing works comple SECOND FLOOR LOBBY
The second floor lobby like the other lobbies is divided into seating and circulation & seating zones by the use of the white marble & black granite flooring & the ceiling units.
The partition between the board games & lobby is made of MS frames holding MDF, duco pained units. FIRST FLOOR BOARD GAMES
The ground floor Reception has a baffle ceiling with a backdrop of a composition of colored MDF square units. The colors sum all the colors used in the building in different shades. The reception desk mimics the rythym created by the baffle ceiling. GROUND FLOOR RECEPTION
TABLE TENNIS ROOM BADMINTON COURT
YOGA HALL
BUTCHER’S SHOP & GRILL PLACE INTERIORS
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Location
- Bangalore
Type
- Freelance project
Role
- Design & implementation
WORK IN PROGRESS - CASHIER’S & DISPLAY AREA - SHOWING THE LIGHTING IN THE GROOVE
LIGHT TABLE UNITS
SUSPENDED CEILING UNIT WITH STRIP LIGHT IN THE GROOVE
Description - The client wanted to set up a shop to sell meat and a small grill place next door to sell the same. Taking the conventional colors one finds in a butcher’s traditionally, it is reused in a minimal contemporary manner with a combination of bamboo & red laminates, wooden baffle & white ceramic tiles with filament lights. The restaurant uses the same tiles to brighten up the small kitchen & the seating has 4 wooden tables built along the wall against a grey & yellow backdrop. In order to increase the volume of space, GRILL RESTAURANT INTERIOR- USING THE GRILL DEMARCATION BETWEEN THE KITCHEN & DINING AREA
CONGLOMERATION OF DIFFERENT TEXTURES AND DENSITIES OF FIBRES
CLUBHOUSE INTERIOR
@ VAISHNAVI TERRACES
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Dollars Colony, Bangalore
Type - Clubhouse interiors inside the Vaishnavi Terraces apartment complex Role nary detail drawings
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Concept, estimate & prelimi-
Description - Two apartment spaces are joined around a lift lobby to create the clubhouse area. A black & white backdrdop with highlights of bright colors makes for a stimulating interior. The columns within the library are used conveniently - a table is built around it for reading. The details of the reception table, wall treatment along the passage and the games area and the glass partitions mirror dynamic patterns mirroring the concept used in the clubhouse building located in the same complex.
INTERIOR LAYOUT OF THE CLUBHOUSE AREA SHOWING THE VARIOUS SPACES & FURNITURE SELECTED FOR THE SAME
CLUBHOUSE INTERIOR
@ VAISHNAVI TERRACES
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LIBRARY WITH THE BROWSING & READING AREAS
BOOKSHELVES
RECEPTION
LIFT LOBBY + RECEPTION
CLUBHOUSE INTERIOR
@ VAISHNAVI TERRACES
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The passage connecting the reception to the games area has a glazed wall over a water body which extends below the glazing to the exterior. Into the water body is wedged a marble seating. The opposite wall is treated with acrylic clasdding in patterns as seen which will glow through the glass at night. PASSAGE WITH GLAZING OVER A WATER BODY
The glazed partition seen in this image separates the lobby from the board games area. The pattern of the glazing is extended onto the walls by creating recesses or niches and fixing it with LED strip lighting.
BOARD GAMES AREA
WALL TREATMENT IN THE GAMES AREA
APARTMENTS
SBC NEST
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- LOBBY - CLUBHOUSE - CAR PARKING & DRIVEWAY
SITE PLAN
Location
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Kannamangala, Bangalore
Type - Residential building Role Estimates, mock-ups, Co-ordination of structure & services & working drawings upto typical floor. Description This apartment is designed as 3 blocks with 2bhks, 2.5bhks & 3 bhks with an extra unit on the typical floors. It has a stilt level car park & clubhouse in the ground level, first floor & 10 typical floors with a landscaped terrace. The facade treatment is minimal with a combination of RCC pergolas, masonry, slab projections & a perforated cladding in the front facade. EAST FACADE
SEMI ENCLOSED AREA IN THE GROUND FLOOR
APARTMENTS SBC NEST
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN
TYPICAL FOOR PLAN -2ND -10TH FLOORS
JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER
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JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER - THESIS Location
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EVOLUTION OF PLAN & FORM
Chennai
Type - Architectural Thesis (at Measi Academy of Architecture) - 10th Semester Description - There are many countries such as France, Germany etc. which have established their own cultural centers in different cities across India. One nation which has made it’s prescence increasingly felt is Japan. Though there are many language schools and consolates offering services of tranlsation and teaching of Japanaese, there isn’t a holistic and dedicated infrastructure such as a ‘Cultural center’ for Japan. This,in addition to my own passion for all things Japanese is the reason for this proposal.
PHYSICAL MODEL - THE JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTRE
ACADEMIC THESIS
JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER
ACADEMIC THESIS
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THE JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER IN CHENNAI - A CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACTION OF THE AESTHETIC SPIRIT OF JAPAN