Architecture Portfolio_Hitarth Nandi

Look Here

National Building Museum, Washington D.C. | Reddymade Design | Project Manager | Public Art | 2023

Inspired by an ancient Japanese artifact called the “magic mirror,” which shows a hidden image when illuminated, LOOK HERE reveals unexpected reflections of the National Building Museum’s Center Court in Washington, DC. As visitors move through the atrium space, they discover viewports that create individual moments of contemplation among clusters of reflective fractals that expose new facets of the surrounding architecture. LOOK HERE invites visitors to see themselves in new environments that can expand their vision.

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Image Credits: Chris Coe | Reddymade Design © Look Here Installation at NBM, DC.

Image Credits: Chris Coe | Reddymade Design © Look Here Activism Viewport at NBM, DC.

Image Credits: Chris Coe | Reddymade Design © Look Here Installation at NBM, DC.

Image Credits: Chris Coe | Reddymade Design © Look Here Installation at NBM, DC.

Sketch: Hitarth Nandi | Reddymade Design © Conceptual Design Sketch, Look Here Installation at NBM, DC.

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Drawing: Hitarth Nandi | Reddymade Design © Look Here General Installation Plan | AutoCAD Drawing: Reddymade Design © Form Arrangement Installation Sequence |AutoCAD

Drawing: Hitarth Nandi | Reddymade Design © Conceptual Form Arrangement at NBM, DC | Rhino, VRay + PSD

Image: Reddymade Design © Testing Kaleidoscope

Prototype at Washington Square Park, NY

Image: Hitarth Nandi © Look Here Kaleidoscope Public Interactions at NBM, DC

Image: Hitarth Nandi © Look Here Kaleidoscope Public Interactions at NBM, DC

Beyond Earth & Sky

Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh | Reddymade Design | Project Manager | Public Art | 2023

We, as individuals and collectives, encounter space as both a constructed and imagined phenomenon. The “mirages” installed as part of this exhibition are an exploration of how belief and the reimagining of boundaries through architectural intervention may contain limitless possibilities. Mirages become metaphors for societal rupture and repair. What is a building or space but an extension of who we are and who we wish to become? Project involves critical research on optics and fabrication challenges to determine the viewing angles, distances and formation of mirages through pure optical setting, instead of digital projections and hologram.

GENERAL NOTES: WORK NOT SPECIFIED AS 'BY ARTIST' SHALL BE PROVIDED & INSTALLED BY DAS INSTALLATION TEAM.

https://www.architecturaldigest.

ALUMINUM ANGLE @ OPEN SIDES, FINISH PER FIELD AVAILABILITY.

(9) RIGGING POINTS @ CEILING TO HUNG FABRIC CANOPY, SEE RCP

FABRIC CANOPY, APPROX. 12LB PROVIDED BY ARTIST, INSTALLED BY DAS

(3) MIRAGE MAKERS, EMBEDDED IN TOP BOARD STACK, PROVIDED & INSTALLED BY ARTIST.

TOP FOAM CORE BOARD STACK , PROVIDED & INSTALLED BY ARTIST.

(3) OPENINGS @ TOP SURFACE OF WOOD PLATFORM FOR LIGHTING, ARTIST TO LOCATE IN FIELD.

SEE PLAN

SEE PLAN DIAGRAM

LIGHTING @ BOTTOM OF MIRAGE MAKERS, PROVIDED & INSTALLED BY ARTIST.

ALTERNATIVE DIMS ARE ACCEPTABLE AS LONG AS ACHIEVING THE SAME SLOPE, SEE PLAN DIAGRAM FOR TOP & BOTTOM BOARD DIMS

BOTTOM FOAM CORE BOARD STACK, BOARD THICKNESS PER FIELD AVAILABILITY.

TOP SAND FINISH, TO COVER FOAM CORE BOARD STACK

WOOD PLATFORM, TO SUPPORT TOP BOARD STACK & MIRAGE MAKERS, 60" L X 40" W X 22" H

RUN POWER INTO WOOD PLATFORM, READY FOR LIGHTING TO PLUG IN.

Image: Hitarth Nandi | Reddymade Design © | Installation Process, Beyond Earth and Sky at Dhaka, Bangladesh

Image: Hitarth Nandi | Reddymade Design © | Beyond Earth and Sky at Dhaka, Bangladesh

A New Carbon Economy

Governors Island, New York | Ariane Lourie Harrison | Team

Globally, atmospheric carbon catalyzes temperature rise, and the construction industry contributes to 40% of carbon emissions. Air is a natural common and has become critical media but also an active agency to push back climate emergency. The architecture envelope needs to be expanded significantly to confront the presence of carbon.

Governors Island, a public park in the New York Harbor with no residency, offers an ideal testing ground for carbon sequestration. Capturing carbon at an industrial scale opens the opportunity for revisioning carbon form. The application of carbon as a building material injects carbon with the possibility to be the next sustainable material. Further, these blocks build an evolving carbon landscape. Bringing carbon into its physical form also brings realizations and collectively provokes solution-led discussions that could imagine carbon as a life block.

Adapting the existing unused barracks on the Eastern Development Zone would avoid carbon emissions and offer us a platform to host sequestration infrastructure. In turn, the space beneath imagines a carbon plaza that emerges out of the pixelated landscape built out of sustainable carbon concrete blocks. The landscape continually evolves with increased sequestration.The project explores the potential of carbon as a material, opening up avenues for construction and design.

Features and Awards:

The Architecture of the Post Anthropocene Award 2022, Winner | Pratt SoA Student Awards, Pratt Institute, New York

Presentation at EE05, 2022 | Carbon Niwas

Critic At Large, Higgins Hall, Pratt Institute

Debora Mesa Molina, David Erdman, Ariane Lourie Harrison, Jeffrey Anderson

Week Long Exhibit, Carbon Niwas | Pratt Earth Action Week 2022, Pratt Sustainibility Center, Pratt Institute.

25 Feet Off Higgins, Carbon Niwas

Physical Model: Pixelated Landscape on Governors Island | Concrete, Ink, Resin & Moss (3D Print, Silicon Mold, Cast)

Physical Model: Overlaying Textures, Material Tests on Territory | Concrete, Plaster, Resin, Moss & Sand

Drawing: Building Detail, Industrial Carbon Capture Turbines | Rhino & Photoshop

a. Drawing: Atmospheric Deep Section

| Illustrator & Photoshop

b. Physical Model: Community Space | Concrete Cast, Ink & Resin

c. Physical Model: An Evolving Carbon Landscape | Concrete Cast, Ink & Resin

d. Drawing: By the coast, Buttermilk

Channel | Rhino & Photoshop

e. Drawing: Exisitng Barracks | Rhino & Photoshop

Drawing: Master Axonometric | Rhino & Photoshop

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Carbon Niwas

Governors Island,

New York

| Jeffrey Anderson & Carlos Balza Gerardino | Team

Carbon Niwas aims to domesticate the idea of carbon capture. It is a climate literacy-led installation that surrounds people around an installation that sequesters atmospheric carbon by sensing human movement. The prototype addresses interaction, revelation, a form that is a combination of organic and geometric architectonics. It is a project that continues to sequester carbon the longer a user engages with it. This engagement explores possibilities to include carbon as a building material and aesthetic.

https://youtu.be/ytf-

CORE

The Robotic printed module holds the mixture of Potassium Hydroxide and Water. It has two tubes:

Air Input (Causes the bubbling effect once movement is triggered)

Air Output (Absorbs the air from the core) (Robotic Arm Extrusion)

BREADBOARD (Half Size)

MAIN INTERACTIVE CAP (Built in MDF) AIR PUMP

ARDUINO (Uno REV 3)

POWERJACK (Female Connector)

ULTRASONIC DISTANCE SENSOR

RELAY MODULE (5V Channel)

BASE (Built in MDF)

Carbon Sequestering Prototype | CNC Milling, Robotic Extrusion 3D Printing, JAVA Coding

Carbon Sequestering Prototype | CNC Milling, Robotic Extrusion 3D Printing, JAVA Coding

Exhibit 02, Carbon Niwas | Visualizing Museum Exhibit Space featuring the Prototype | Rhino & VRay

A New Carbon Economy

Governors Island, New York | Jeffrey Anderson & Carlos Balza Gerardino | Team

Architecture is an agency to make people conscious about the presence of carbon and its

Image Render: Ramp to Exhibit Two, Viewing Deck | VRay & Rhino

Site Plan: Monolithic Landscape / Architecture Proposal | Rhino & Adobe Illustrator

Short Section Cut across Carbon Plaza, Exhibit and Existing Barracks | Rhino & Adobe Illustrator

Image Render: Carbon Plaza | Rhino & VRay

Image Render: Ramp leading to Viewing Deck | Rhino & VRay

Weave

Governors Island, New York | Jing Liu (SO-IL) | Team

The architectural fabric is woven with life sustaining components like air and water that we often tend to neglect. “Weave” reorients our life and stitches it’s very existence into omnipresent toxicity that sustains the existence of life. Architectural standpoint advocates air’s nature and its behaviour around us and how drawing lines could change the way it behaves and engages with us. Tweaking architectural components to be sensitive of the intake, in turn providing the built with mechanical systems that could direct the volume of conditioned air for effective circulation.

https://youtu.be/62ZJlCkEig0

Image: GreenCore by Nolan Park House 14 | Physical Model: Rhino & 3D Printing

Image: GreenCore by Nolan Park House 14 | Physical Model: Rhino & 3D Printing

Image Render: GreenCore by Nolan Park House 14 | Rhino & Lumion

Summer Section | Rhino & Adobe Photoshop

Winter Section | Rhino & Adobe Photoshop

Khosla Associates, Professional Experience

Ar. Sandeep Khosla (Pratt Alumnus) & Ar. Amaresh Anand, Bangalore

My experience of working on projects pan India, in a Pratt almnus office exposed me to the practical and technical aspects of architecture practice along with design. Association with Sandeep Khosla made me fond of natural light and climate studies. Aspects of design such as light and place making became critical for me. Client meetings, agency operations and communications pushed my professional ability of drawing making that speak for themselves.

Projects presented below:

1. Ravindra Kumar, Hyderabad

2. Harish Malvika, Chennai

3. Preethi House, Chennai

4. Bhat House, Kochi

Working Details: Ravindra Kumar Jubilee Hills, Chennai | AutoCAD & Lumion

BHAT HOUSE, KOCHI

The residence is designed for a family of four in tropical region of Kerala, As an intern, I was involved in the design process since the beginning. The plays of bold contrast of black stone and wood nurturing the overall character with tropical modernism by assisting elements like sloping cantelevered roof, huge louvered openings and boxed overhangs.

The house has been designed to have a geometry that has a central focal point that overlooks the common lawn area, the outhouse, pool and eventually the river.

Presentation Drawing: First Floor Plan, Bhat House, Kochi | AutoCAD & Photoshop

Presentation Drawing: Ground Floor Plan, Bhat House, Kochi | AutoCAD & Photoshop

Image Render: Bhat House, Kochi | SketchUp & Lumion

Image Render | SketchUp & Lumion

Co-Existing - An Evolving Morphology

Uplifting the bar of recreational experience with a well planned campus which is resource concsious. Considering ecological aspects as an immediate tangible context while developing a module within biodiversity of the place without disturbing the existing species as to not invade their habitats.

A social club is a place for recreation, sports, social gatherings, celebrations, business meetings, exhibitions, family outings, etc. This is a proposed project for Rajpath Club Ltd. established 45 years ago. The extension is due to the need of expansion and gift an experience of a less crowded place to members.

Site Area: 1,15,000 Sq. Ft.

Drawing: Conceptual Masterplan, Rajpath Club, Ahmedabad | AutoCAD & Photoshop

Rajpath Club Expansion Project, Ahmedabad, India | Instructor: Prof. Jyoti Gill

Spread of Club: Timeline

Drawing: Longitudinal Section | AutoCAD & Photoshop

Drawing: Masterplan, Rajpath Club, Ahmedabad | AutoCAD & Photoshop

Image Render: Rajpath Club Extension, Ahmedabad | SketchUp & Lumion

Image Render: Theatre & Play, Rajpath Club Extension, Ahmedabad | SketchUp & Lumion

Image Render: Premium Cottages, Rajpath Club Extension, Ahmedabad | SketchUp & Lumion

Image Render: Spa, Rajpath Club Extension, Ahmedabad | SketchUp & Lumion

Image Render: Theatre & Play Corridor, Rajpath Club Extension, Ahmedabad | SketchUp & Lumion