ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
“Architecture should make us feel different, if not , engineering is enough.” HARSH JOSHI +919820972721 wwharshjoshi@gmail.com
Name : Harsh Joshi Age: 21 Nationality : Indian Address: 211/12 Satyam building, R.N.N. Marg,Ghatkopar (E), Mumbai-400075
 Contact Number: +919820972721 Email: wwharshjoshi@gmail.com
Upon few years studying in Architecture college I understood how difficult it is to ace a perfect design and at the same time realised that providing a little room for imperfection in design is an added benefit in itself. The core reason for me to enter Architecture was that the structures around where I grew up weren't interesting to look at or were at all interactive, there was no sense of awe or helped a child tap into his never ending imaginative side. Not until I travelled and explored new places I realised it was possible for a structure to be more than what I had seen and it kept me thinking about it for days on end. To take care of the look and feel of the structure, its functionality and budget, as an architect of my designs I felt it was very important for me to take care of all of these and understand the user and their needs in the best possible way to provide them with the best possible product. I certainly put in a lot of efforts to understand or rather find the problems and then find the best possible solution to the problems. The designs that are shown ahead in this portfolio are the examples of such thought provoking solutions‌. I seek to explore state of the art problem solving methods and techniques, absorb professional etiquettes and skills of architecture and look forward to imbibe new things, improvise skills, adapt to circumstances, overcome benchmarks and develop a rational demeanour. I will continue to sharpen my skills to excel in innovation which will justify my potential to be an asset to where I work.  
Work Experience DATES POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES EMPLOYER / ADDRESS TYPE OF BUSINESS DATES POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
EMPLOYER / ADDRESS TYPE OF BUSINESS
Education and Training
Skills and Competences LANGUAGE SPOKEN COMPUTER SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
HANDS-ON
May 1, 2018 - June 3, 2018 Intern Designing and final editing of various projects KMA ARCHITECTS Architecture and Interior Designing October 26, 2018 - October 28, 2018 Volunteer Expertise for VIPs and Architects throughout the exhibit and tap into their creative sides using my own and gathered knowledge about it . CONDÉ NAST Mass Media company
INSTITUTE Fatima High School(KG-GRADE5) Ryan International School (GRADE6-10)
BOARD S.S.C. I.C.S.E.
K.J. Somaiya College of Science and Commerce
H.S.C.
Dr. D.Y. Patil College of Architecture
Mumbai University
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi Adobe Photoshop, Lumion, Autodesk Autocad, Google Sketchup, Archicad, MS Office
Manual Drafting, Sketching, Manual Rendering, Model Making, Photography, Pottery , Modelling
ACHIEVEMENTS
1st in Architectural Debate competition, 1st in Architecture quiz,Elocution competitions, Skating competition, Represented school in swimming and lawn tennis competition. Head of MEDINSPIRE event of university. Alumni Head of my college.
HOBBIES AND PURSUITS
Cycling, Swimming, Watching Movies and Documentaries, Cooking , Playing video games, being able to make spaces that can have good impact on living beings and doing good for the world.
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Coaching in Table tennis, Lawn Tennis, Skating, Swimming, Chess Took part in the recent ARCHITECTURE DIGEST Design Show held in Mumbai as one of the design experts for the VIP clients. Alumni Head of Dr.D.Y. Patil College of Architecture, I am responsible for setup of alumni’s college website and an entire network of connection among all the alumni of the past 25 years of our college and between alumni and students of the college. Head of the MEDINSPIRE event, in which I lead three colleges of my university. Have done modelling for few brands and in ads of a couple too. Deeply inspired by the concept of importance of space to influence mind,body and soul of living beings and in wait for the day to practise it.
SEMESTER 4 ARCHITECTURE DESIGN COMMNUNITY HOUSING : SITE IS AT BIRABALABHADRAPUR, PURI.
SEMESTER 4 ALLIED DESIGN INTERIOR DESIGN:COWORKING SPACES

SEMESTER 5 ARCHITECTURAL THEORY: PRESENT NEED OF EMOTIONS IN ARCHITECTURE AND ITS VERY ABLATION DUE TO INCREASE IN EMOTIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS. GUARANTEE IF READ WITH PATIENCE AND UNDERSTOOD WOULD KEEP YOU THINKING FOR DAYS!!
PRESENT NEED OF EMOTIONS IN ARCHITECTURE AND ITS VERY ABLATION DUE TO INCREASE IN EMOTIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS. AIM: To let the readers imagine, analyse and compare two worlds, our present world where there is a significant need of emotions in design and our world in future wherein the technological advancements have reached its optimum level. To understand the need of emotions in architecture in the present time and to experience the decline in its need in future because of people being able to get an extremely strong grasp of emotions, due to ever exploring nature of human beings even after reaching the epitome of technological advancements.
HYPOTHESIS: There is a basic requirement of emotions in space if not then space becomes lifeless where it's merely a volume. Presence of emotions in design gives a certain essence to the design which makes the user more aware of himself/herself and also about the surrounding. There is also a case wherein in future when we humans would have reached the optimum level in technology and still when not being able to get all the answers since we have always tried to find them within the physical dimensions and limitations unlike what we have learned or heard from monks of our nation. If after that, many people would try looking for answers due to an ever exploring evolutionary trait of humans, majority shall resort to the olden methods of exploring and acquiring knowledge via focusing by different means of meditation. OBJECTIVE: Shall be explaining the impact of architecture before and now on the basis of methods followed by the architects. Due to this how the kind of behaviour and thought process of people developed towards architecture. Explain the difference between modern science and ancient science of our country and the two basic different behaviours of the people following them; which in return shall impact the architecture of the future. SCOPE: This draft explains influence on architecture, of design in accordance to the emotions of the people, stating its importance. At the same time show how there will be a decline in needs of emotion for residential buildings in the future due to the evolutionary traits of human beings. LIMITATIONS: The research is purely based on articles,videos,seminars and psychological facts. No general public survey was performed while the research paper was written. It is on the basis of the human evolutionary process and considering our planet shall not face any drastic changes in future. ABSTRACT: Imagine a future where our world has reached the epitome of technological advancements, there will still be many cases in which the science of the time shall not be able to answer many questions. This is all because of the fact that the modern science has always made its mark and its core of existence on the basis of its relation with the physical world and within physical limitations because of which many branches of modern science are reaching a dead end.The modern science is slowly coming towards what our country’s ancient sciences said thousands of years ago. There will surely be a huge impact of this on people in future and humans shall resort to the kind of lifestyle many of our monks have been following.
KEYWORDS: Emotion,space,present,future,science,meditation,architecture.
There has always been a need of emotions in design in architecture, I personally think architecture should make us feel different, make us tap into our emotions, if not engineering is enough. Space is called space because of addition of emotions and some essence of it in a volume. Architecture built in the accordance with the thought process and keeping in mind different aspects of users lives makes it really strong , known and long lasting. This is because the user has been able to experience the space and feel or imbibe the emotions in themselves which the architect planned, this capability made the architecture strong.Space built without the consideration of emotions of the users ends up being a place where its users end up having little to no connection(good or bad, depending upon the need of the client) with the structure above the physical connection, this not only decrease its more than functional capabilities but would also translate to the presence of poor design in architecture. Over many years many different architects tried to follow many different methods on the basis of slogans for designing like less is more,less is bore,etc. and the era of designing like modernism,post modernism,etc. in all of these there is a very significant blind eyeing towards the very primary users because of which there have been many structures that have failed to a really great extent. Surely and unfortunately over the years a greater belief of people in architects have reduced to a large extent since architects themselves started giving the best of engineering and not of architecture. Over the years there were a few architects and many more now which have been working towards the emotions and thought process of their users , following the slogan yes is more , meaning the best possible way of designing keeping in mind the users, the surroundings and the era of construction making the method an evolutionary method and hence an everlasting way of architecture. Aspects such as these show us the very need of emotions in architecture. Imagine a future where our world has reached the epitome of technological advancements, there will still be many cases in which the science of the time shall not be able to answer many questions. This is all because of the fact that the modern science has always made its mark and its core of existence on the basis of its relation with the physical world and within physical limitations because of which many branches of modern science are reaching a dead end. There has already been a state where the physicists have failed to move ahead in the different theories they have proposed and as a result are not able to get the answers that we need, for example billions of dollars of funding have all went down in drain when they failed to prove the existence and behaviour of “Higgs particle”.The monks in our country and also of the ancient times are said to have had knowledge about these things way before the modern science started coming into picture, even now the kind of knowledge and deeper understanding which our monks have, who have engrossed themselves by giving up their social life in search of these answers continually say that one shouldn’t limit themselves within physical boundaries during the search of such answers. The modern science is slowly coming towards what our country’s ancient sciences said thousands of years ago,one such example is how people initially believed that our planet is the centre of a finite space whereas now the modern science agrees to the fact that space is continually expanding entity which was defined by one of our monks many years ago. Unfortunately in today’s world there is a direct relation of science to technology or else there would be no funding to the modern science practicioneers. People who tried talking about modern science without its advantage to the ease and technology had to meet a very dreadful end, many were even killed. The best example of this can be of Galileo who was killed because he stated that the earth was round and went against the church at the time, since he had not come up with any technology that added to the technological advancement because of earth's shape being round. The answer searching monks of our country have always been above this and many have given up their routine lives,being isolated from the world and access universe greater than what one can imagine by closing their eyes and focusing.Example of this can be that many star systems have a pair of stars in which one star orbits around the other but in today's time with the help of a high powered telescope found that there is a pair of stars which orbit each other and go hand in hand rather than one being stationery, the followers of ancient sciences in our country did know about it many years ago and due to this there is also a tradition which is followed for hundreds of years in many families of south India where on the first day of marriage the couple face themselves in the direction of this constellation called " Arundhati Vashista" and pray because of the stars’ behaviour or during the marriage ceremony itself during many of the Hindu weddings. There are many such examples which prove the might of the ancient science followers and what they were able to achieve by seating in small cave in some corner of the world and focussing. There will surely be a huge impact of this on people in future and humans shall resort to the kind of lifestyle many of our monks have been following where they can access a different space in themselves and have no need or dependence on the attributes of the physical world, thereby causing the explicit need of emotions in design for residential spaces lessening or none at all. Materialistic households living in residential spaces shall be able to retain houses with the presence of emotions in their design because that is the closest they shall be able to get because of their inclination towards materialistic lifestyle. Households above the materialistic lifestyle , who are closer to the emotional side of themselves and yet do not let it overpower them, those who are keen in the process of exploration and learning shall see a significant decrease in the presence of emotions in their design as they shall be escaping into spaces beyond the reach of physical dimensions. This will be the reason behind the lessening importance of quality of spaces where their physical forms shall be residing.
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HARSH JOSHI
SEMESTER 2 ARCHITECTURE DESIGN WEEKEND RETREAT CLIENT: ARTIST(DESIGNED CONSIDERING HIS REQUIREMENTS) 

CONCEPT SHEET STRUCTURES PLACED IN ORDER TO ALLOW N.W. WINDS TO PASS BETWEEN THEM AND ON THEM.
B WIND DIRECTION: N.W. - S.E. & S.W. - N.E. SCORCHING HEAT: S.W. VIEW: EAST & S.E.
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CHANGED SHAPE TO MAKE THE WHOLE BUNGLOW LESS COMPACT AND MORE BREATHABLE.
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A TRIED TO DESIGN VIEW FACING STRUCTURE MADE MORE SPACIOUS
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ADDED MORE SURFACE FACING THE VIEW BY ADDING CURVE MORE AREA UNDER SHADOW
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HAS SOUTH EAST WINDS ENTRY ALSO TRIED TO PUT A FACE UNDER SHADOW BY THE STRUCTURE ITSELF
STRUCTURE ANGLED AT 45 DEGREE TO TACKLE SUNLIGHT
CHANGED SHAPE OF THIS STRUCTURE TO REDUCE WASTAGE OF SPACE OPEN TO SKY AREA INCREASED
FIRST WIND DIAGRAM TO ACHIEVE MAXIMUM WIND EXPOSURE
VIEW
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HAS NARROW AND LONG PASSAGE TO NAVIGATE TO ROOMS THIS PATHWAY CAUSES USER TO EXPERIENCE THE FEELING/EMOTION OF RELIEF,COMFORT AND AMAZED (BECAUSE OF THE VIEW ) UPON ENTERING THE ROOM. RELIEF AND COMFORT UPON EXITING THE PASSAGE AND AMAZED ON ENJOYING THE VIEW WHICH IS TOWARDS EAST AND SOUTH WEST.
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REMOVED UNWANTED CURVES TO AVOID WASTAGE OF SPACE
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ATTEMPT 2: STRUCTURE CHANGE: MADE LESS COMPACT ADDED MORE SURFACE TOWARDS THE VIEW BY ADDING CURVE. MADE MORE SPACIOUS S
REMOVED SHARPED CORNERS WHICH ARE DIFFICULT TO NAVIGATE TO. ENTRY
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ADD MORE SURFACE UNDER SHADOW.
ATTEMPT 1: DESIGN ON BASIS OF VIEW SUNLIGHT WIND
MINOR CHANGE IN SHAPE
VIEW ENTRY CHANGE IN SHAPE TO MAKE THE STRUCTURE AS A WHOLE LESS COMPACT.
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MORE EXPOSURE TO WIND
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ADDED MORE AREA UNDER SHADOW. CHANGED THE ENTRY OF STRUCTURE.
ATTEMPT 3: STRUCTURE CHANGE: ENTIRE STRUCTURE CONNECTED BY SINGLE CORE STAIRCASE. NEW PATWAY TO CONNECT 2 STRUCTURES. STRUCTURE MADE COMPACT DUE TO UNIFICATION BY CENTRAL CORE STAIRCASE REMOVAL OF SOME DEAD OR WASTE SPACES DUE TO CURVES. REMO REMOVAL OF CIRCULAR STAIRCASE
ATTEMPT 4: STRUCTURE CHANGE: VIEW TRY TO PUT MORE AREAS UNDER SHADOW PATHWAYS MADE SHORTER AND EASIER TO NAVIGATE MORE EXPOSURE TO WIND TO STRUCTURE C AND MORE EXPOSURE TO VIEW TO STRUCTURE B.
FINAL ATTEMPT: MAXIMUM AREA UNDER SHADOW. WASTAGE OF SPACE OF STRUCTURE B REMOVED NEW PATHWAYS WHICH ARE MORE EASILY
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