HIMALI LIMBAD
Master of Architecture + Master of Urban Design Iowa State University
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EDUCATION
Iowa State University, Ames-IA, USA | Aug’19 Master of Architecture Master of Urban Design GPA: 3.93 A.P.I.E.D, S. Patel University V.Vidhyanagar-GJ, India | July’ 16 Bachelor of Architecture GPA: 3.67
SKILLS Drafting and modeling Representation Rendering Energy Modeling Others Manual skills
Revit, Rhino, AutoCAD, ArchGIS Photoshop, Ilustrator, In Design, Google Sketch Up V-ray, Lumion, Enscape Diva, Sefaira, Grasshopper Bluebeam Revu Sketching, Physical Model Making
ACHIEVEMENTS Iowa State University, Ames - IA, USA July’11- July’16 Tuition Scholarship of 75%
Economic Times Architecture and Design Summit Runner up | 2014
National Heritage Award category for a thesis on “Havelis of Mandwa, Rajasthan”
National Association of Student of Architecture (NASA)
NASA G-Sen Trophy | 2014 Designed a pan India model for the upliftment of urban poor of India, cited as the competition winner Annual NASA Design Trophy | 2013 Top 20 categories 0f 2000 entries Re-designed and developed Central Business District, Anand-GJ NASA Zonal Convention | 2012 Winner of the convention, won Rubens Trophy for presenting academic work done over the year
EXPERIENCE
DJR Architecture Inc. Minneapolis-MN, USA Architecture Intern | May’18 - Aug’18 | AXP 598.25 Hrs • Developed construction document for two residential and a retail project • Conducted schematic facade and shadow studies for a residential project • Created graphics, renders and presentation boards for client and neighborhood meeting. Architecture Department, Iowa State University Research Assistantship Urban Density Research | Summer’19 Prof. Sungduck Lee • Identifying parameters to measure physical form and density
Graduate Assistantship Building Science and Technology | Spring’19 Prof. Ulrike Passe | Prof. Bosuk Hur | Prof. Rob Whitehead • Explaining and assisting 20+ third year B.Arch students with structure, climate and assembly labs History&Theory of Contemporary Architecture | Fall’18 Prof. Ivonne | Prof. Douglas Spencer • Conducted and graded 5 quizzes relating to contemporary architecture for 90+ second-year students. Human Behavior and Environmental Theory | Spring’18 Prof. Bambi Yost | Prof. Lynn Paxson • Assisted 100+ students with activities on ADA standards, Proxemics, etc. Computer Reasoning | Fall’ 17 Prof. Nicholas Senske • Assisted 30+ sophomore students with architecture software’s such as Rhino, AutoCAD, Grasshopper, Illustrator, InDesign, etc. Sfera Blu Architects, Ahmedabad-GJ, India Junior Architect | Feb’17 - Jun’17 • Developed construction document for a hospitality project • Conducted inspections to assess existing conditions and check the correct implementation of drawing Kham Design, Bangalore-KA, India Architecture Intern | May’14 - Oct’14 • Designed two single-family residential project with minimal guidance • Prepared and delivered construction documents under tight - deadlines
INVOLVEMENT
Iowa State University Career fair Organisation Committee Student Ambassador | 2017 -18 • Co-ordinating pre and post-career fair set up A.P.I.E.D Student Council Academic Head | July’13-May’13
• Organized various formal- informal workshops and seminars by reputed Architects
A.P.I.E.D Newsletter Committee Manager and Editor | July’13-May’13
• Content designer and manager for the college newsletter
CERTIFICATION Council of Architecture, India Registered Architect | 2016- Present American Institute of Architects Emerging Professional | Spring’18 - Present
REFERENCES Thomas Leslie FAIA, Morrill Professor | Iowa State University tleslie@iastate.edu, 515.294.8460 Deborah Hauptmann Chair | Iowa State University deborah@iastate.edu, 515.294.7185 Lynn Paxson Professor, Architecture | Iowa State University lpaxson@iastate.edu, 515.451.6131
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THE SUDO UNIVERSITY
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MOBILITY FOR ALL
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NET ZERO URBAN INTERVENTION COTE DESIGN COMPETITION
CHICAGO, IL | FALL’18
OMAHA, NE | SPRING’19
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA | FALL’ 17
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DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGIOUS PRECINCT AND WATER FRONT GUJARAT, INDIA | 2016
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HOME AWAY FROM HOME
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NEONZ RESORT & SPA
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DRAWING ON THE PAST
DIU, INDIA | 2015
NADIAD, GUJARAT | 2016
MANDAWA, RAJASTHAN | 2013
The SUDO University Chicago - Illinois M.Arch II . Fall’18
CSI + Bussard Competition Nominated Team:
Himali Limbad (M.Arch+MUD) Erin Copeland (M.Arch) Miguel Bardaji-Izard ( B.Arch) This studio required us to design an educational tower for seven universities, student housing and street front retail. This new typology challenged us to re-think the inner workings of a traditional school system . The design proposal was centered around the spatial layout of the residential units. We considered the experience of attending a school of this overwhelming scale. This led us to break down the residential ‘blocks’ into small communities. In a sense, these ‘blocks’ feel like mini neighborhoods within the building, each developing their own culture and sense of belonging. These blocks also reinforced Sudo University’s ideological shift in the education system, that is how learning can be migrate out of classrooms and into hallways, common spaces, cafeterias and even stairwells. My role in this project was to develop spatial and structure layout, physical model, digital drawings.
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Community Space
Dormitory floors
Community space Doubles 1 Bedroom apartment Quads
30’ column grid
Elevator circulation
Shear wall
Lateral Bracing
Outdoor Access
The SUDO University | 9
Site Plan
Typical Academic Floor
Typical Dormitories Floor
The SUDO University | 11
Physical Model
Section
The SUDO University | 13
Entrance Lobby
Academic Floor
The SUDO University | 15
2018 Skyline
2050 Skyline
The SUDO University | 17
Mobility for All Omaha - Nebraska MUD. Spring’19
Omaha by Design, Public Exhibition Team: Individual The digital age with its smart infrastructure and transportation technology offers new challenges and opportunities for urban growth, prosperity, and quality of life. Urbanism 5.0, will examins a future of a hybrid and balanced public, shared, and private transport infrastructure that prioritizes access and physical and economic mobility for all in Omaha, NE. This design considers ways in which to reinvigorate midtown commerce and public life. Considering the impact of the streetcar, a new BRT line, and improved bike trails and lanes on the Leavenworth neighborhood. It proposes infill housing and mixed use development along Harney St. Harney will be anchored by two activity nodes, the Turner Park transit node and the expanded Methodist Church community and office complex, including a new shared Work-space and community Do-space facilities. A bike lane, also on Harney St. will parallel the streetcar and connect the downtown and heartland of America park through to the UNMD.
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Red Line
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Children’s Museum
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Orpheum Court Theater House
Kaneko Durham Museum
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Joslyn Castle
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DATA SOURCE: METRO AREA TRAILS SYSTEM: OMAHA, NEBRASKA
Leavenworth Neighborhood
Urbanism 5.0 | 21
NET- ZERO URBAN INTERVENTION Cedar Rapids - Iowa M.Arch II . Fall’17
COTE Design Competition Entry Team:
Himali Limbad (M.Arch+MUD) Erin Copeland (M.Arch) This project was a design competition entry for COTE 2018, as the increasing demand of the growing population is intensifying the pressure on our ecosystems and natural resources. It has forced us to alter our traditional framing technique. Iowa, who devotes 89% of its land to farming now suffers water quality standards and irrecoverable soil depletion, rates due to chemical run off. This project seeks to place intervention in the system for managing resource resiliency by incorporating an aquaponic, greenhouse, production center, market, and residential unit within the city of downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This program forms a closed loop system in an urban fabric that allows Iowa to maintain its rank as a top farming state while reducing its impact on environment, and providing a basic need for surrounding community members. My role in this project was in design development and graphical representation.
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Integrating alleyway and exsiting building
Reuse building materials
Building geometry to maximize rainwater collection
Passive Building Stratergies
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LEGEND 1. CafĂŠ 2. Market 3. Production 4. Education center 5. Fish tank
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Roof slopes toward inner courtyard to maximize rainwater collection to bioswale system
Grey water from apartments are reused in the aquaponic farming system
Scavenger heat from market refrigerators contribute to thermal heating system
Net - Zero Design Strategies
Fixed shading systems on south facing facades diffuses heat gain in the summer
Brick was repurposed from the demolished building to create aesthic planters beneath the window that double as additional thermal mass
Dye-sensitized solar panels on the horizontal and vertical facade diffuse harsh summer solar heat gain
Two buildings share water storage system
Aerobic heat from natural decomposition of deficient plants cycled into thermal heating system
Heat gain from greenhouse is fanned down and stored in the thermal mass below the greenhouse and release when temperatures drop at night
Unlike traditional farming aquaponics gets its water source from below, allowing for the system to reuse grey water without contaminating the ebdible part of the plant
Dye-sensitized solar panels produce a red glow from the diffused sunlight that expediates the photosythesis process in the plant grow beds
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Aqua- ponics Interior
Site Section View to Cedar Rapids Public Library
Greenhouse Educational Center
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DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGIOUS PRECINCT AND WATERFRONT Chandod-Gujarat-India B.Arch. 2016 Design Dissertation Team:
Individual
In the context of Hindu mythology, Indian rivers have been holding great religious importance. Therefore this project is centered around relationship of pligrims, and the river. The waterfront development projects extend up to half a mile. This new development is designed to provide visitors with shaded areas to carry out religious rituals and basic amenities like toilets and drinking water. These rituals include offerings like flowers and ashes into the water, therefore, the edge of the waterfront is development as bioswale in order to collect and purify the water. The pedestrian bridge act as a connector between the large span of waterfront and it also channelizes the river water into a small waterbody, to carry out the offering which can later be purified. Apart from this, there are commercial facilities including shops, market and a food vendors’ zone. The project will work on a self-financing mechanism, in the long run, using the revenue generated from the proposed development to fund upcoming development.
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Waterfront Plan
Sectional View of Water Edge
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Home AWAY FROM HOME Diu-India B.Arch. 2015 Housing Team:
Individual The emphasis of the project was to create a housing proposal for a site located at the edge of the water body. Diu is a tourist spot, therefore, this new development provided tourist and locals with a palate of different housing types such as serviced/ studio apartments, pensioner’s apartments, single-family duplex and villa. The concept of my design was strongly driven by the location of the site. The different housing typologies were placed in a way that most of the housing facing south captures the picturesque view of the sea and the remaining dwelling get a view of the common green spaces. This large neighbourhood includes pockets of common recreational open spaces which are designed to have children park, bike trails etc. Therefore, addressing requirements for various age groups
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CHANGING ROOM WITH SHOWER 2.5 M X3.0 M
FILTER PLANT CABIN 2.5 M X 2.7 M
BATHROOM 2.42 M X 2.55 M
SERVANTS ROOM 2.52 M X 2.55 M
UTILITY 4.56 M X 2.55 M
C.TOILET 2.36 M X 2.95 M STORE 2.83 M X 4.43 M
VERANDA 1.57 M X 4.45 M BEDROOM 4.38 M X 4.45 M
KITCHEN 4.5 M X 3.55 M DECK 2.5 MT WIDE UP
FOYER 2.5 M X 2.4 M
SWIMING POOL 3.5 MT X 9.6 MT
WOODEN DECK
DINING 4.3 M X 2.5 M
LIVING ROOM 5.2M X 4.0 M
LILY POND 2.25 M X 3.87 M
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SOIL GRAVEL LAYER
75MM SKIRTING 20MM FLOORING MORTAR BEDDING 150MM THICK SLAB 10MM THICK PLASTER
DPC
GYM AND PLAY ROOM
CANTILEVERED STONE SLAB FROM WALL
100 MM P.C.C 15OMM BRICK BATS PLINTH BEAM COMPACTED GARDEN YELLOW SOIL GROUND BEAM
Wall Section
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Neonz Resort & SPA Nadiad-Gujarat-India Professional Practice - 2016 Housing Team:
Principal Architect: Shaili Banker Senior Architect: Hetal Gajjar Junior Architect: Himali Limbad As a part of sfera blu, Ahmedabad. I worked simultaneously on 3 projects, which involved architecture as well as interior design project. Neonz Resort and Spa was divided in 3 phases, I was involved with schematic conceptual drawings, followed by working drawings along with electrical layout, door window details, client meetings and on-site visits for water chalets which was the residential zone of the resort.
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Residential Villa
Community Leisure Area
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DRAWING ON THE PAST
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The goal of the project was to document this rich indian heritage in order to understand the spatial organisation construction technology with limestone. Both- macro and micro scale were equally considered to understand the genesis of this unique heritage.
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Mandawa, Rajasthan, has a town which consist of more than 100 years old havelie’s with monumental façade of elephants and horses. The outer walls, jutting balconies, alcoves and overhanging upper storeys are replete with patterns and paintings, ranging from traditional Rajasthani women and religious motifs to Europeans wearing stylish hats and other Victorian finery.
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