Joseph Mathew Aerathu Architecture Portfolio 2021
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Curriculum Vitae
Joseph Mathew Aerathu mobile : (+91) 97736 65699 email : joseph.aer99@gmail.com
I’m a 22 year old architecture student from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, currently in my 4th year 7th Semester, interested in singing, reading, designing, visualizing, and acquiring new skills (and space exploration!). I was born and brought up in Kuwait, and moved to India for college, where I’ve had the opportunity to learn under highly qualified and knowledgable architects. I explore flexibility, experimentation, and parametricism when I approach a project. Exploring these fields may be the next step in pushing the limits of architecture. I strive to make my mark in the world and seek to gain the knowledge and skills required to design and construct sustainable and optimized spaces, and look forward to applying my computational architecture skills to engage in projects that push conventions. @vizexp https://www.instagram.com/vizexp/
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About Me
Education 2018-Present
Bachelors of Architecture School of Planning and Architecture New Delhi, India
2007-2018
Schooling (Grade I-XII) Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Kuwait
2004-2007
Kindergarten United Indian School Kuwait
Work Experience Architectural Internship Atelier Ten-78 Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
SAHEE Foundation 2 months
Volunteering Short Stories & Illustrations for Children Jharkhand, India
Achievements Runner-Up (Educational Division) Solar Decathlon India 2020
Skillset AutoCAD
Vray
Revit
Lumion
Rhinoceros
3ds Max
Grasshopper
KeyShot
SketchUp
Photoshop
Maya
InDesign
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Curriculum Vitae
Projects & Competitions 7th Semester 4th Year 2021
International Convention Centre New Delhi, India Studio Project
6th Semester 3rd Year 2021
Leisure Harbor Marina di Loano, Liguria, Italy Young Architects Competitions IB School Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India Solar Decathlon India
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5th Semester 3rd Year 2020
Institute of Learning and Design Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka Reclaiming Modernity, UNI Winter Pavilion London Hyde Park, London Switch Competitions
4th Semester 2nd Year 2020
Urban Plaza Design Chandigarh, India Studio Project The Sacred Space New Delhi, India Archdais
3rd Semester 2nd Year 2020
HOME: Design Your Dream Tianzi Mountain, China Archasm Mid-Rise Residence for Brass Craft Moradabad, India Studio Project
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Projects & Competitions
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Tangle
Tangle Studio Project [Individual; 4th Semester]
Lying in an 84,000 sqm site, the brief was to re-imagine the architecture of Chandigarh for present times. The aim was to develop newer ways of construction and representation. The result was this special urban space which achieves a modern look whilst having its roots in the work of Corbusier, providing new spaces for knowledge, exchange, consumption, and appreciation, placed around distinct courtyards, which become spaces of rejuvenation. The design explores a new way of urban life with an iconic and distinct design language, standing apart from among the Corbusearean masses.
Typology: Urban Plaza Location: Sector-17, Chandigarh, India
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The city of Chandigarh is famous for splendid architectural forms, most of them designed by Le Corbusier. Sector-17 is regarded as the heart of Chandigarh, the commercial and retail hub of the City. The plaza in the centre of the sector is a major urban exchange which presented an opportunity to provide a spatial experience that breaks free from the rigid skyline and monotonous character of the context, to offer a breathe of fresh air.
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Macro Analysis Functional Typologies & Land Use Pattern
Heart - City Center - Sector 17 is an important commercial hub of Chandigarh
Lungs - Leisure Valley - 8 km long green space that runs across the City as differently themed gardens
Intellect - Educational Area - Punjab University Campus is a whole area dedicated to educational institutes of higher learning
Circulation - V7 is the extensive and wel planned road network of Chandigarh
Viscera Industrial Areas that are planned in accordance with wind movement so that the exhausted smoke moves away from the City
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Brain - Admin Area Capitol Complex shared by Punjab and Haryana as their administrative headquarters
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Micro Analysis
Town Hall Library Cinema Site Office Blocks Retail Blocks Sector-17 Plaza
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Primary Access Network Secondary Access Network Tertiary Access Network
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Parks/Green Spaces
Existing Urban Fabric Portfolio 2021
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Design Development Exhibition/Gallery
Retail
Library
Food Court
The 4 masses are placed on the 4 axes to the plaza to become the central focus, drawing circulation through the site.
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Exhibition/Gallery
Courtyards which are traditional Indian architectural elements are sunken into each mass to become urban oases.
The different programs are entangled to provide a free and continuous circulation flow, while interconnecting each other. Joseph
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Dining
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Food Court
Lower Retail Retail Courtyard Upper Retail Circulation Courtyard Cafe Lounge Food Courtyard Food Court Joseph
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Upper Retail Portfolio 2021
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Leisure Harbor
Leisure Harbor Young Architects Competitions [Team of 2; 5th Semester]
The design was derived from the existing silhouette of the harbour to resemble a ship. This was extended along the bridge, and terminated with a deck to provide pristine views to the sea, thus activating the entire spine with programs, and distributing activities evenly. Simultaneously, the beach has been reimagined with a diverse array of functions, alongside a promenade, to arouse the liveliness of the harbour. The marina is thus transformed into a vibrant epicenter for cultural and social exchange. Typology: Harbor Location: Marina di Loano, Liguria, Italy
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The Marina di Loano is a modern tourist harbor situated in Liguria, Italy, providing numerous opportunities to experience the magical atmosphere of the sea. It is easy to reach and welcomes visitors with its mild climate throughout the year. This brief was to define the future of harbors by redesigning one of the 10 most important marinas of Europe.
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Existing profile on site; resembling a ship
Disconnected courtyard building
Intervention on site; extending and bringing the buildings together
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1. Cafe 2. Gallery Space 3. Washroom Block 4. ShowerArea 5. Sunbathing Space 6. Kids Pool 7. Public Bath 8. Lap Pool 9. Promenade 10. Life Guard
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Institute of Design
Institute of Design Reclaiming Modernity, UNI Competitions [Team of 2; 4th Semester]
The design tries to balance traditional and contemporary architecture, and provide that much needed equilibrium in today’s context, work-life balance, stress relief, or just a healthier, more centred society. Traditional modernist architecture is reintroduced for a much more engaging user group, allowing for flexibilty of spaces, thereby have a direct impact on the process of learning and design.
Typology: Educational Location: Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka
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Tropical Modernism is an architectural style that has gained traction with the increase in environmental consciousness. It mediates between contextual, traditional, passive sustainability, modern construction technology, as well as the international and vernacular. These principles and frameworks have been scaled to accommodate the modern typology of an Institute of Learning and Design, to host about 250 students at immediate expanse.
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Programmatic Zoning
ROOF The roof is made of prefab concrete roofing panels, with terracotta shingles
Classrooms
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Gallery
Classrooms, Workshops
Workshops
Visual connect with ground floor; openclosed space relations
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Open Learning Spaces
GROUND FLOOR
Admin, Classrooms, Gallery, Cafe, Workshops, Washrooms spatial hierarchies
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Plans
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First Floor
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Sections
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Section AA
Section BB
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Winter Pavilion
Winter Pavilion SWITCH Competitions [Team of 2; 4th Semester]
The brief of Winter Pavilion was to create a multi-usage pavilion in the emblematic Hyde Park that can connect people, nature and architecture. The pavilion celebrates and captures the essence of the winter landscape by hosting different activities that invigorate the zone. With its privileged location, the objective of the pavilion is to become a cultural and leisure point of the city, a space that is integrated in the natural environment of the park and that is flexible enough to adapt to and promote a wide variety of fun winter activities. The pavilion lets people be one with nature and absorb the natural winter landscape through the artificial volume.
Typology: Urban Pavilion Location: Hyde Park, London, UK
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London has had one of the biggest global influence on the sociocultural landscape of the world. It’s a city that never stops or sleeps. London winters are a magical sight with the frozen Thames, snow capped monuments, decorated streetscapes filled with people and a fuzzy feeling around the city. Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in London, and one of the nine Royal Parks in the city.
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Site Plan 1. Restaurant 2. Gallery 3. Skate Rental 4. Walkway 5. Serpentine Lake
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The Winter Pavilion is located along the Serpentine Lake, meandering and essentially stitching together both sides of the lake, weaving a new social fabric into Hyde Park. Circulation and transition have been emphasized. Culture, leisure, and nature are designed as concentric elements of the community, facilitating activities that engage people, introducing three distinct nodes in the new social hub. Joseph
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Chakra Home
Chakra Home
HOME: Design Your Dream, Archasm Competitions [Team of 2; 4th Semester]
The Chakra Home is a dream for families living in this ever so fast, chaotic world. Humans need to slow down and escape from this world from time to time. We offer a space for mental, physical, and emotional rejuvenation, all within the comfort of a home, designed considering the chakra flow of the human body. Like us, our home also has its chakras, brought out through materiality, form, and design considerations. The function of every space is in accordance with the meaning and characteristics of the 7 chakras, via the theory of Brain Wave Stimulation.
Typology: Residential Location: Tianzi Mountains, China
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The brief was to manifest into reality the idea of our dreams, and create a house based on it. The design is a pure and highly imaginative expression of a home with a degree of surrealism to it. There were no restrictions on the type, size, & setting of the house. We have proposed a multifamily house with a spiritual narrative. The location chosen is the magical Tianzi Mountains in China.
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Chakra System Brainwave Stimulation
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International School
International School Solar Decathlon India; First Runner Up (Educational Division) [Team of 10; 6th Semester]
The design was developed in detail in the aspects of Design, Energy, Water, Comfort & Environmental Quality, Engineering Design & Operation, Resilience, Affordability, Scalability & Market Potential, and Innovation, resulting in a 5-Star GRIHA rating compliant, net-positive energy school that conforms to the International Baccalaureate curriculum standards.
Typology: Educational Location: Sector-134, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
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The Solar Decathlon India is an annual net-zero-energy-water building design contest, for which we proposed an IB school that would be relevant in the current times, and provide a centre of learning and creativity for the society, that would inspire and inculcate a sense of creativity between it’s students. The site, occupying an area of 15,256 sqm rests within an upcoming industrial and commercial neighbourhood of Noida. Its close proximity to Greater Noida expressway, ensures good connectivity with users.
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Design Development Zoning & Massing
Extruding maximum possible ground coverage
Ensuring each face is at favorable orientation
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Forming courtyards and connecting 2 bl spine
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Keeping community spaces along the spine to facilitate interaction
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Final detailing with cores at appropriate places
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POLYMORPH Final Design Report – April 2021
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Site Plan
1. Bus drop off 2. Guard room 3. Drop off zone 4. Main entrance 5. Meeting room 6. Principal & Vice Principal’s room 7. Waiting area 8. Admin block 9. Pre-Primary Classroom 10. Courtyard 11. Indoor playing space 12. Side entrance
14. Kitchen 15. Multipurpose Hall ( Basement) 16. Collaborative work spaces 17. Physics Lab 18. Computer Lab 19. Chemistry Lab 20. Biology Lab 21. Music Room 22. Futsal Field 23. Basketball Court 24. Visitor’s Parking 25. Basement
FIG 4 : Ground Floor Plan with Context Movement across the building was optimised by circulation cores at appropriate distances. Boarding and deboarding of buses a key factor in a well functioning school, hence have Spatially, there are twoismain blocks which comprise thewebuilding, such that each :block has a well EPI (Consumption) 18.33 kWh/m2/yr identified 3 major vehicular traffic coming into the site and planned their movement accordingly placed courtyard within North front block) houses the Pre-Primary and the Primary so as to maintain efficient traffic flowit. in The the interior and block exterior (the of the site.
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there are rooms allocated for dance,drama, music etc which thus makes it interactive and lively. The final proposal is a net-positive energy school design, which strives to provide a sustainable Moving away from the ground floor to the floors above (in each of the blocks), there are well lit and and energy conscious environment to raise the new leaders of tomorrow, and give back to the Final EPI : -1.16 kWh/m2/yr community. ventilated classrooms that look into the respective courtyards. The site circulation is such that there is a clear demarcation between the bus,visitor’s entrance and basement, which generates a proper Joseph drop off zone for the children.
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POLYMORPH Final Design Report – April 2021
1. RCC SLAB (M25, 150 THICK) (AS PER STRUCTURAL REQM.)
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2. RCC BEAM (M25, 300x700) (AS PER STRUCTURAL REQM.) 3. RCC LINTEL (M25, 350x150) (AS PER STRUCTURAL REQM.) 4. RCC COLUMN (M25, 700x700) (AS PER STRUCTURAL REQM.) 5. RCC RETAINING WALL (M25, 230 THICK) (AS PER STRUCTURAL REQM.) 6. RCC RAFT (M25, OUT OF 1500x700) (AS PER STRUCTURAL REQM.) 7. CEMENT CONCRETE NIB (M25, OUT OF 150x100) 8. CEMENT CONCRETE BLOCK (1:2:4, OUT OF 100x150)
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10. CEMENT CONCRETE BLOCK (1:2:4, OUT OF 150x100) 11. CEMENT CONCRETE BLOCK (1:2:4, OUT OF 230x100, LAID TO SLOPE) 12. CEMENT CONCRETE BLOCK (1:2:4, OUT OF 300x100, LAID TO SLOPE)
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14. CEMENT CONCRETE FILLET (1:2:4, OUT OF 75x75) 15. CEMENT SCREED (1:3:6, 50 THICK) 16. AAC BLOCK (100 THICK) 17. AAC BLOCK (150 THICK) 18.BRICK TILE (230x40)
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19.BRICK WALL (75 THICK, BRICK ON EDGE) 20.BRICK WALL (115 THICK) 21.CELLULOSE INSULATION (100 THICK)
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25.EXTERNAL PLASTER (VERMICULATE BASED, 15 THICK)
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23.WEATHERPROOF SHEATHING 24.INTERNAL PLASTER (VERMICULITE BASED, 12 THICK)
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29.WALL TIE (250 LONG) 30.CERAMIC TILE SKIRTING (8x100) 31.FINISHED FLOORING (POLISHED CONCRETE) 32.SUBFLOOR (40 THICK, AS PER REQM.) 33.APP MEMBRANE WATERPROOFING 34.BRICK BATS FILLING (OUT OF 150x115)
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