This portfolio represents selection of professional and academic words realized over past 5 years. I have a undergraduate degree in architecture at School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India and working as an Architect with over one year experience. This compilation of works reflects my capabilities, scope of research and design that I am into.
Table of contents Curriculum Vitae
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Info City, Parametric and Modular Approach
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LIVE-SHOP-SELL Urban Design
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Smarter Cities Seminar
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Eroticism in Architecture
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“Creation� for conserving the glorious past
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Timeless by Design
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Housing Typology Study
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India Build Bangalore, Bangalore
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ITC Chirala
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Bastards Everywhere
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Palani Hills Enviroment Educational Center TVS Emerald
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Infosys Campus
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INKPICK
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Other Works
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Kesava Karthik Kota kesava.k3@gmail.com Phone: (+91) 9990341482 Portfolio: http://issuu.com/karthikkk/docs/Portfolio
CURRICULUM VITAE “I am keen on designing spaces that enhance human senses and serving a wider sector of individuals. Always zealous on researching the strategies to design collaborative, sustainable and functional spaces.�
Linkedin: https://in.linkedin.com/in/kesava-karthik-kota-51770052
Affiliations
Council of Architecture, India Indian Green Building Council Accredited Professional (IGBC AP)
Education 2009-2014
Bachelor of Architecture, with First Class
2007-2009
Intermediate Education , IPE examination with 92.2%
School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
Sri Chaitanya Junior College, Vijayawada
Experience Dec 2014- Present
Architect at Morphogenesis, Bangalore
March 2013 - June 2013
Intern at Gensler, Bangalore
May 2012 - June 2012
Freelance Architect
Projects: Windchimes by Mahindra Lifespaces, Gran Carmen by address makers, Marketing office for DB city Raipur, India build phase 2 (Residential)ITC Rajgarh Kolkata, Infosys Nagpur, Akshaya Chennai (Commercial), ITC Chilakaluripeta, ITC Chirala (Industrial/ Master Planning) and Vidyashilp School, Bangalore. Responsibilities: Concept design, detailed construction drawings, 3D visualizations, sustainable desing, design, development, coordination with the consultants, site coordination and developing presentations to the clients. The intern experience at Gensler exposed my skills at an international platform. Projects include multiple Uniqlo Outlets in Thailand and Microsoft Hyderabad. Responsibilities include development of Schematic layouts for Uniqlo outlets at Airport Terminal, Damarina, Rama 2, Atlantic terminal and Canton in Thailand . In collaboration with Center for Urban and Regional Excellence (CURE) an NGO and Prashant Pradhan Architects worked on Slum Development. The pilot project was initiated by Urban development housing Department (UDHD) under the guidelines of Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY). The work involved documenting existing conditions of slums, typologies of housing prevalent in the surroundings and propose efficient solutions to improve their condition. The project opened my focus towards an affordable architecture where even the unable could afford the minimum basic amenities like shelter and toilets.
Workshops Dec 2013
Chasms of Shajahanabad
July 2013
Delhi the Invisible city
Jan 2013
Knitectonics
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Architectural Diagramming workshop conducted by Architect Henry.A.Fanthom Mapping the invisible city conducted by Ar. Moulshri Joshi, Durba.C and Kush Chaudhury Approach to Self-computing materials and generative design conducted by Esteban Colmenares, Sanhita Chaturvedi, Thiago Mundim
CURRICULUM VITAE
Research projects Jan 2014 - May 2014
Info City IT SEZ, Parametric and Modular Approach (Unpublished)
July 2013 - Dec 2013
Eroticism in Architecture (Unpublished)
July 2012 - Dec 2012
Smarter Slums (Published) Research and Seminar at School of Planning and Architecture Seminar Presented and the research paper published on smart slums as part of the Smart Cities Seminar focuses on the viewpoint to what will define the cities of our future. From the warp of governance and waste management to the economy and the built environment, it attempts to weave together a new and smarter Urban fabric.
Sep 2011 - Oct 2011
Documentation of Varanasi (Published) Research a School of Planning and Architecture Includes the history, Architecture, economic, culture and other developments in Varanasi, including measure drawings of important monuments and ghats in and around Varanasi.
Jan 2010- Dec 2010
Revival of Baolis(Stepped well) in Delhi
Thesis Research and design proposal at School .The paper questions if the parametric design can be manually approached. And how the design can be inspired from nature.
Dissertation at School. The paper focuses on finding the intentions and hidden reasons of depicting nude sculptures on the walls of Indian temples. And if they have any inner meaning or any reason related to its architectural intent.
Research and Measure Drawing at School of Planning and Architecture The research includes research on the history, Architectural features, construction methods and present condition of 5 various Baolis in Delhi, India.
Competitions Jan 2015
NDTV DAA Student Awards - Special Recognition
Nov 2014
Florence Virtual Expo International Awards- 2nd Position
Dec 2012
G-Sen NASA Redesign competition 2013- Top ten entry
Dec 2011
G-Sen NASA Redesign competition 2012- Top ten entry
Sep 2011
Transperance 2012
Special recognition for Undergrad thesis project, Info City IT SEZ, Parametric and modular approach. Selected thesis project, Info City IT SEZ, Parametric and modular approach in second place to present in ICLAB in Florence, Italy. Redevelopment of Godowila Chowk in Varanasi, India. Redevelopment of Golcha Cinemas in Jaipur, India.
The wave- Recreational Club design in Ludhiana, India.
Skills Auto-CAD Autodesk Revit Ecotect Analysis Adobe Photoshop Design
InDesign Adobe Illustrator Trimble Sketch up MS Office Research
V-ray Lumion ArchiCad Graphic Design Model Making
Interests
Other interests include Architecture theory, research, traveling, photography, and sports.
Responsibilities
Head Quarter Volunteer at NASA (National Association for students of Architecture) India, Photography coordinator at the College fest. Trophy coordinator for G-SEN 2013 from school. Worked for installations at college fest. 5
Info City IT SEZ, Parametric and Modular Approach, Vijayawada
Parametric and Modular Approach Infocity IT SEZ,Vijayawada, India Vijayawada is the commercial city of Andhra Pradesh and the third largest city in the state. The city has good educational infrastructure. With many schools and colleges. As commercial capital it is politically active, sociologically dominant, agriculturally rich and is an industrial transportation hub. Its been recognized as a Global city of the future by McKinley Quarterly. The site falls under industrial development area according to Zonal Development Plan of Gannavaram, by VGTM UDA. An IT Park is proposed in the site and construction of the IT park is undergoing. Land to the north and south is currently empty but there is some residential encroaching toward south of the site.
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Irregular, self-similar geometries that occur virtually everywhere in nature have a significant role to play in creating built environments that contribute to human performance and well-being. The INFO CITY in Gannavaram would be an office complex responding to the context, mimicking the natural form through these fractals shapes—particularly those that echo the natural patterns. The fractal forms that would be used are followed not only in the building form but also in the ideology of workspaces inside the office creating flow of work, open spaces throughout the site connecting each other. This thesis aims to be an exploration to new methods of construction techniques which are cost efficient and recyclable.
Project: Undergraduate Thesis Year: 2014 Semester: X Site Location: Vijayawada, India Area: 67744 Sq mts Type: Office Complex Team: Individual Project Achievements: • 2nd Most Voted Project in Florence Virtual Expo 2014 • Presented at ICLAB Florence, Italy as part of Florence Youth & Heritage Festival 2014 • Special Mention at NDTV DAA Student Awards 2014 • One of the selected thesis projects from the University for NIASA thesis Awards.
Architecture Portfolio- Kesava Karthik Kota
+ Fractal Parameters: The building is a also form in this environment, we can bring life into a building if we can bring motion into it. As the built form is a dead form, the main aim is t0 create architecture that can mold around the environment. For this fractal forms like mountains, trees, water etc are observed and parameterized for the design are derived.
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Office Parameters: The office as built form can be lively if we provide better work areas, layouts, common spaces, furniture, privacy and last but not least light and ventilation. The user should feer oneness of environment with no change in exterior environment to interior work place environment.
Design Parameters Parameters are derived after the research from fractal forms, office buildings, workplaces and Building sustainability. The parameters include light, common spaces, access, hierarchy and connectivity.
Built form is developed applying the design parameters at site level. After numerous iteration of build form, The final functional, sustainable and living built form plan is as shown below.
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Info City IT SEZ, Parametric and Modular Approach, Vijayawada
After several iteration at smaller scale, the same is applied on the site plan. All the built form is developed at the higher level of the site leaving the low level area for landscape, rain water catchment and swales. While developing the design at size level the major issue is site corner, it is dealt by developing huge mass at the corners and turning the built form. The common area of a block that are canteen and gardens area provided on a bridge between two blocks to provide common collaborative spaces. Now to make built form a living built form facade is developed with louvers which will enhance the air movement from he outer area to the courtyard. These courtyard spaces are also used as collaborative space for the staff to work.
Ground Floor Plan
Site Plan with context
The fractal patterns are portrayed not only at the site level, the ideology of fractal is applied at the working space level too.
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan Work and common space fractal
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7 Exploded view of a module As one of the thesis aim is to design with cost efficient and recyclable materials, after researching different types of construction, its feasible to use modular constriction system in the design. As the design is more of repetitive units, modular construction is more cost efficient construction process int his design context. These Modules after demolition can later be used at a different site. It can also used do flood relocated areas to provide temporary shelters to the affected people.
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These Modules use a tool-and-die based interlocking system that greatly increases accuracy and reduces setting time. A circular pin welded to the base of each corner column fits into the columns of the module below it. The tapered pin locates the module below, the diamond pin registers alignment in one direction, and the two floating pins allow for error.(Source: GA Modular Architecture manual)
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Live - Shop - Sell Urban Design, Lajpat Nagar, Delhi
controlled environment fabric integration transparency connectivity accessibility site entry streets
LIVE SHOP SELL Urban Design Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi, India The precinct is located in the south east of the city Delhi, the capital city of India. Delhi is enriched with diversified cultures and its architectural Influence. The Central Market is located in Block C Lajpat Nagar II. The market has over 400 shops and innumerable hawkers and vendors where a large variety of goods and services are available. It attracts people from all over the city, esp. South Delhi. The site that had been allocated to the refugees of Pakistan in Delhi. Later it has grown phenomenally since it is beginnings as ‘a local shopping center’. This popularity has encouraged encroachment of residential space by commercial establishments, in the immediate neighborhood. Morphology of the site has a rectilinear pattern composed of rectangular blocks that encloses passages and greens with 50mx70m plot areas and 12m height built masses. Perceptual Character of the market • Strong shopkeeper-customer loyalty noticed in specialized shops and large showrooms • No caste and cultural segregation in the employees • A shared code of conduct • Slow moving pedestrian traffic 10
Shopping at some level a fundamental means of human communication. Its is both leisure activity as well as economic too. Shopping is how we re-assure ourselves about our authenticity and very existence. It is well established fact that shopping areas reflect the economy and the image of the city. So this shows the predominance of retail and allied service activities in the economic structure of the city. In near future there is much need of shopping malls, cash and carry, outlet malls etc. In delhi Metropolitan city center, District center, Community center, Local shopping center and convenience shopping was envisaged to accommodate required shopping areas in the city. As an Urban design exercise we undertook Central Market Precinct of Delhi and propose an appropriate and meaningful design accommodating the future needs. The primary objective of this urban intervention is to make the site into a pedestrian friendly zone providing pedestrian spine and cycle track along the commercial market. The edges of the pedestrian spine is connected to the internal zones by green areas.
Project: Urban Design Year: 2013 Semester: IX Site Location: Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi, India Area: 1,42,597 Sq mts Typology: Mixed Use Team: Kesava Karthik Kota Harshavardhan Vinjam Mentors: Prof IM Chisti Prof Meena Mani Prof ML Bahri Prof Leon Morenas Calculations: Site Area: 1,42,597 Sq mts Ground Coverage: 39% FAR: 1.2 Built-up Area: 130845 Green: 29% Hard Paved: 32%
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Site Plan
Detailed Block Plans
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Built form is developed around pedestrian path. The urban grain present on top and bottom of the site, that is Lajpat Nagar 1 and Lajpat Nagar 2 are connected through the site by green areas and roads. Along the with green spaces on the ground and greens over the commercial bazaar, residential blocks, commercial blocks.
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Smarter Slums SMARTER CITIES SEMINAR 2013
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Delhi has been a major centre for trade and commerce for the past ten centuries. Today, it holds a large settlement within; population of over sixteen million, and large flux of immigrants yearly. The runt of this rural to urban migration is largely absorbed by slums, as they are the most affordable housing options present in Delhi. These slums which have high human concentration and in case of Delhi, house one eighth of the population, do not feature even remotely in the global discussion of “smart cities”. How can the slum be brought within the folds of smart cities? While Delhi thrives to become smart, the seminar provides an insight into the ingenious and innovative means for a slum to cope up with the challenges posed to it, both, from within and by the city, and eventually become a part of this global phenomenon. For this purpose, a few baselines for the vision of smartness have been set and entities such as the ‘slum’ (Indra Gandhi camp, Taimoor Nagar), an ‘Indian city’ (Delhi) and a ‘notion of smart city’ (Amsterdam) have been quantitatively compared.
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From the knowledge that we acquire from Project: Seminar Economy these quantitative studies, Inter-city an unbiasedPeopleYear: Planned 2013shelters Waste management comparison of the slum, the city, and the Semester: IX smart city, can be made standing at the Topic: Smarter Slums same pedestal. Also, it provides a Type: Research and Seminar perceptive of how Delhi and its slums can Team: Energy Intra-city Built Urban villages S.P.A NEW DELHI together move towards smartness, Kesava Karthik Kota creating a vivid future for the city as a J Sandesh Tony whole. Due to the challenges that the Shanshank Shankarnarayan slums face, they are the hotbeds for new Vinjam Harshavardhan concepts and innovative ideas, which can Vishal Jayan potentially impact millions living within it. Shruti Shubham There are certain tools readily available to Mentor: the slum dwellers with which they can Mrs Mukta Naik carry out this task. Dr Ranjana Mittal The seminar attempts to detach the slums Mrs Jaya Kumar from their present repute and place them Presented on 6 Nov, 2013 in a new light, which is distinct from the traditional psyche of retrofit/redevelop and rather focusing on the idea of capitalizing on strengths and working on weaknesses. Through these innovative solutions slums will advance into ideological trade-offs and reach an equitable situation with the present infrastructure, environment, economic conditions, governance provided to them to for an acceptable standard of living.
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Architecture Portfolio- Kesava Karthik Kota
Eroticism In Architecture Architectural Dissertation With the progress of religion there had been great change in worship. For worshiping the unknown power temples were built. The Architecture of the temple had been developed gradually. In the earliest temple there was a raised platform called “than chaura�, in the second stage railing were provided around the platform. The shrine was places in the centre of the raised platform. Later it is developed gradually with mandapa, garbhagriha and the vimana. From 4th to 14th century AD the Hindu temple attained it full splendor. These were being attracted by human beings as they are symbolic visual perception of satyam, sivam, sundaram which denote truth beauty and goodness. Later the development of Plinth with Garbhagriha which opens into mandapa evolved in Temple Architecture. The walls of the temple were first plain and later they had been embellished. In this process the walls are well decorated with charming and attractive figures as well as different devatas. So why are nude sculptures depicted on Indian temples????
Art had been used in temple architecture as an expression. Temple sculptures were mainly of two categories the cult which include the sculptures of Indian and the decorative motifs include human figures, erotic sculptures. With the influence of tantric Hindu religion there has been change the expression of sculptures. In Tantric perspective along with Artha and Dharma, Kama is the factor of human nature. According to it the male and female union represents the eternal play of the divine.
Project: Dissertation Year: 2012 Semester: VII Topic: Eroticism In Architecture Type: Research Team: Individual Mentor: Dr Aruna Ramani Grover Dr Ranjana Mittal Mrs Jaya Kumar
This Kama factor is expressed by erotic sculptures which were sculpted on temple walls. These sculptures represent the Kama factor and have its own coded language which have a inner meaning. They may or may not convey the message and it depends upon the receiver. These sculptures are placed in a few places of the temple only. This shows that there are some principles hidden in sculpting the erotic art. The dissertation discusses about the different theories and meanings involved in the erotic art of Indian Hindu temples. 13
INFO CITY IT SEZ PARAMETRIC AND MODTULAR APPROACH
“Creation” for Conserving our Glorious Past Varanasi, UP, India In a rapidly transforming situation in today’s society, our urban areas are constantly experiencing a severe development pressure. Sometimes these transformations carve an example in architectural domain and sometimes the solutions are a disaster. As the city-society is meant to serve the human beings, the development pattern should also respect the culture.
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Project: G-Sen NASA Competition Chitranjan Park Year: 2012 Site Location: Varanasi, UP, India Typology: Cultural, Recreational Urban Team: Kesava Karthik Kota (Coordinator) Rojan Thomas Joeseph (Coordinator) Anam Khan, Aditya Kumar, Minakshi Mohanta, Jithin Shamsu, Himanshu Yogi. Achievements: One of top ten entries in the competition with above colleges participating.
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Existing patterns for landscape Chaos in minute scale
Shops for hawkers Ramps for universal access
Organic form sense of streen space
The ghat as viewport
Interplay of levels
Chitranjan park
Cultural Center
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Timeless by Design: Celebrating the Past while Protecting the Future Jaipur, Rajasthan , India Rapid urbanization is leading to inevitable loss of our legacy forever. We may never get back our walkable, comfortable, and human medieval cities in this era of land parceling and development of island blocks in a sea of cars. If one tries to conserve or preserve built heritage, one runs the risk of creating poor functional fit for the present and also a strong possibility of buildings that can no Longer stand their own in the future, since their performance may be outdated. Are there creative ways which can marry these irreconcilables? Ways that: • Celebrate the past and treat it like a living, ongoing heritage, • Upgrade to allow modern functions of efficiency and utilization to emerge so that the building is not slotted as a poor compromise that needs replacements soon as allowed, and· • Create sustainable performance so that the building remains relevant as concerns for efficiency, renewable energy use, water and energy conservation, and social equity become increasingly relevant in our future cities? My responsibility in the projects vary from developing layouts, presentation boards and 3d visualization
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Project: G-Sen NASA Competition Golcha Cinemas Year: 2011 Site Location: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India Typology: Cultural, Recreational Urban Team: Kesava Karthik Kota, Kaushik Naraayan, Amit Joseph Kurian, Atul Sekhar, Joyjeet Kanungo, Rojan Thomas Joeseph Achievements: One of top ten enties in the competition with above colleges participating.
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Housing Typology study, Gangtok, Sikkim
Housing Typology Study Gangtok,Sikkim, India
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Project: Housing Typology Study Firm: CURE, Delhi and PPA, Gangtok Year: 2014 Site Location: Gangtok, Sikkim, India Area: Slums in and around Gangtok Typology: Research and Analysis Organization Involved: Center For Urban and Regional Excellence (CURE), Delhi Prashant Pradhan Architects (PPA), Gangtok, Urban development and housing department (UDHD), Gangtok Gangtok Municipal Corporation (GMC)
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This shall also help the City to have a set of contemporary guidelines, issued by the National Technical Committee, to identify untenable sites and for categorizing slums and prevent the formation of slums in the future. The housing typology study will also be able to better inform the Building Bye Laws that are currently inappropriate.
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It is also used to understand the topography on which Gangtok is located raising other environmentally relevant issues such as earthquakes and landslides which can be addressed by the housing typology study. This study of housing typologies used to asses all the required information to plan slum free Gangtok.
The housing typology study shall enable the city to notify new slums and dwellings and to categorize these on a zonal basis using GIS-enabled Slum MIS, formulate separate redevelopment models/mechanisms for different categories of slums and houses. It shall give due consideration to the tenability /un-tenability of each slum pocket, the existing density of each pocket within a zone, additional density that can be accommodated as per Sikkim Building Bye Laws etc.
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It is proposed by Urban development housing department of Gangtok to study housing typologies of Gangtok slums, This study of the housing/ building typologies will be used by Gangtok Municipal Corporation in identifying and establishing building types, planning housing designs and development strategies and preparing the cost estimates. Furthermore, these typologies will help urbanites and urban designers in identifying street morphologies and determining the urban character of streetscapes.
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Gran Carmen India Build Bangalore Bangalore, Karnataka , India
The site is located at sarjapur main road where there is lot of housing and commercial development along. The site condition include a contoured surface of up to 8M difference without soil water till 8M depth. From the site analysis it can be inferred that • Site planning and site drainage system can be done by the cutting and filling system of contours. • As Water table in the site low due to which Rain Water Harvesting system is required. • No high rise development around the Site as well as no constraint of preserving any existing trees and structure as per site picture.
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The site planning strategy include creation if courtyards in between, limiting vehicular movement by giving more freedom to pedestrian movement. The villas are designed with a transparency to the green outside by giving openings both side of the Villa and also enhance the cross ventilation inside. For the project my responsibilities include design co-ordination of club block in the site with service and structural consultants. Apart from the club my tasks also include site co-ordination of Villas during construction.
Project: The Gran Carman Firm: Morphogenesis Year: 2014-Present Site Location: Bangalore, India Area: 55,340 Sqmts Typology: Residential
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INFO CITY IT SEZ PARAMETRIC AND MODTULAR APPROACH
ITC Chirala Tobacco Factory Chirala, Andhra Pradesh , India Site is Located in Chirala, a small town along the east coast of India. Its 40km away from Guntur towards east. It is about 100km towards south by rail from Vijayawada and 345km from Chennai towards north. Site is located approximately 2km from the Chirala Railway Station. The site is located approximately 8.5km from the sea shore and the nearest beach is Ramapuram Beach. Condition of site include Flat topography with minor level changes. It top soil capacity of absorbing rain water which can be strategized to recharge the wall level in the ground. As its a factory plot, As per the prevailing wind directions the odor from the source (Processing line) travel towards east direction. So measures need to strategized to abate the odor flowing in to the surroundings.
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ITC Chirala is a master planning projects that include 6 land parcels that include tobacco industry, residences for the managers, Union offices for workers and welfare center. The main include designing of the factory layout with out of decrease in built up area and providing 33% green along the edges of the site. The layout development include the understanding of the factory process to zone the amenities at appropriate location on the site. The major task is to make phasing strategy where the construction need to be phased that doesn’t stop any of the factory process to stop. My responsibilities include manage the project, making concept design layouts of the projects, developing them and making presentation to the client for approval.
Project: ITC Chirala Master Plan Firm: Morphogenesis Client: Indian Tobacco Company (ITC) Year: 2015-Present Site Location: Chirala, Andhra Pradesh, India Area: 3,14,788Sqmts Typology: Industrial, Residential, Recreational(Master Plan) Team Involved: Kesava Karthik Kota, Balaji Otra
Architecture Portfolio- Kesava Karthik Kota
ITC Chirala Tobacco Factory
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The site layout is developed by strategizing the zoning according to the factory function. The layouts are developed by providing vehicular circulation towards the boundary and other by giving a central spine.
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In east west orientation of Building blocks the area of demolition is approximately similar to the area of construction during Sub Phase construction where as In North-South orientation of Building blocks the area of demolition is more than the area of construction during Sub Phase construction. So east west orientation is feasible building orientation to develop without interrupting factory function at larger
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Strategizing been developed by tracing the tree patterns on the site. Accordingly the vehicular and pedestrian patterns are overlaid on the site with minimal destruction of existing trees. The area planned with all residential areas to one side and the club area secluded form the residential area.
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In India brands are famous for their name rather than their quality they provide, many brands with informal tag lines/names couldn’t be able to achieve successful sales targets in India. This might either be its designs targeting minor group of individuals or else their brand name which make individuals judge it before they buy. So for Bastard with such informal name it would be difficult for it to get into Indian hearts. So to entry into to apparel segment in India Bastard has to brand themselves merging with the India culture and to avoid judgmental behavior of the customers about the brand its would be a good idea of elevating the logo rather than highlighting the informal brand name. There will also be individual who would prefer bastard as bastard, which will definitely a minor group of people. So to target the majority of shoppers in India, bastard should merge in with the local culture.
Bastards Everywhere Visual branding design Competition Bastard is a Milan-based brand that designs, produces and sells technical clothing Equipment for snowboard, skateboard and street wear. Born in 1994, after 20 years it’s still run by the same crew and it’s now recognized as a milestone in the Italian snowboard/skate/street field. One of the reasons why Bastard succeeded in lasting long, while a lot of brands have had short-term lives can probably be found in the vivid and strong brand vision these four friends have kept over the years.
Bastard wants to create new collections of products based on the visual tradition of different countries. Imagine your country is one of these, and design the image of the new brand: a new bastard logo for the collection, clothes tags, a paper or fabric bag to bring the purchase home from the shop, advertising for magazines, a postcard to be distributed in the shop and in selected clubs, special elements or details that would enrich the collection (stickers, pins, gadgets, products containers, shop decorations to celebrate the new collections.
India is colorful and everyone can be targeted through the informality in religion. Though people want to buy religious stuff, they cannot as these religious stuff are outdated. So for a start bastard needs to target the customers with the core Indian themes like god, nationality, Cultural beliefs and even the Indians every day encounters. So to target all the segment of individuals Bastards can be branded with a same logo but the name written in Indian typography. Designs needs to reflect the everyday activities of individuals here. Once Bastard gets attention from people it can be marketed any way possible way.
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Palani Hills Environment Educational Center
Palani Hills Environment Educational Center Bangalore
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Project: Palani Hills Environment 30 250 Educational Center Range of thermal Firm: Morphogenesis, Bangalore 25 comfort 200 Year: 2016 Site20Location: Kodaikanal, India 150 Area: 13.7 Acres (55442Sqm) 15 Typology: Institutional 100 Team Involved: 10 Param Vir Bedi, Kesava Karthik Kota, 50 Balaji.O, Sharavanan.L, Amritha Krish5 nan, Praveen Dhurvas Raghavan
the need to preserve this heritage in c ollaboration with the local communities around the school. The school consists of 30 students and staff fromChennai over 250 25 countries, Range of thermal giving students the unique opportunity of 25 comfort Kodaikanal 200 belonging to a community where ideas, 20 cultures, and faiths from all150around the Kochi world meet. 15
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Kodaikanal International School (KIS) is an internationalBangalore residential school situated in the beautiful Palani Hills of South India – 7000 feet above sea level. These hills are part of the Western Ghats, a mountain Chennai chain older than the Himalayas. The Western Ghats have a high level of biological Kodaikanal diversity and are recognised as one of the world’s eight ‘hottest hotspots’ of biologiKochi cal diversity. KIS is part of the ‘Green School Alliance’ and our environmentally focussed community of staff and students play an active role in building consciousness about
Rainfall (mm)
Kodaikanal, Karnataka, India
PALANI HILLS FOREST CONSERVATION AREA Palani Hills Forest Conservation Area
5.Program KIS Property
Palani Hills Forest
Heated air recirculated to living space Trombe wall assembly as detail
Heated air recirculated to living space Trombe wall Incident solar assembly as detail radiation heats up air behind the glazing Cool air from living space moves into air Incident solar cavity between radiation heats up glazing and wall air behind the glazing Cool air from living space moves into air cavity between glazing and wall
Heated air recirculated to living space Trombe wall assembly as detail Incident solar radiation heats up air behind the glazing Cool air from living space moves into air Incident solar cavity between radiation glazing andheats wallup air behind the glazing 1b.airNight heat dissipation Night time heat Cool from time1b. living space moves into air cavity between glazing and wall
Insulated Roof ensures heat retention Trombe walls radiate heat collected during the day into the Insulated Roof living space ensures Insulatedheat floor retention ensures heat Trombe retentionwalls radiate heat collected during the day into the living space Insulated floor ensures heat retention
Insulated Roof ensures heat retention Trombe walls radiate heat collected during the day into the Insulated living spaceRoof ensures heat Insulated floor retention ensures heat Trombe walls retention radiate heat collected during the day into the living space Insulated floor ensures heat A- Hydro Power retention
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We look to nature for inspiration and as a ‘model, measure and mentor’; a living labaratory that has sustained life for 4 billion years.
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DRAWINGS Hot water 2. Waterpipes cycle LEGEND Hot water storage A Hydro Power Note: This drawing to be readThis in colour andtoprinted B 04-11-2016 Solar Power Note: drawing be readininA3. colour and printed in A3. Solar Water Heater CONCEPT Potable Water Recycled Greywater DRAWINGS
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PALANI HILLS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER morphogenesis.
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Palani Hills Environment Educational Center
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Existing Eucalyptus Forest
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Lower Level Plan
Upper Level Plan
Meeting Space View from the central court Internal View
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Palani Hills Environment Educational Center
Learning Space View
Learning Space Plan
Dining Space View
Dining Space Plan
Learning Space Section
The spaces in the school are orieted such a way that each block can capture south sunlight as Kodaicana is cold climatic area. And the section are designed that the roof not only capture sun light but also can accomodate solar panels to produce solar energy. The spaces in the school area zoned that every student will move along all the areas everyday, so that there will more social interation than the physical presence.,
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TVS Emerald
Bangalore, Karnataka, India The project is located in Bangalore, Karnataka on kanakpura road. The side is surrounded by other residential developments. Toards the east of the site is the ragihalli state forest, with huge dense tree coverings. The locality is filled around with dense trees with normal temperature less than the other areas in Bangalore. The site is the highest vantage withina a 1km radius. the site is a higher elevation with sepctacular views of ragihalli hills and its verdant forests. The natural site slope ensures that each and every unit will benifit from the views of this exqisite landscape.
A lush green canopy around the site making ita unique retreat for home owners. The main aim of the project is to develop mid range housing with self sustainable design strategies. The approch to the design started simultanously resolving unit plans and masterplan taking natural barriers like air, water, green and sunlight into consideration. My responsibilites include developing concept design and prepare presentation along with the team.
Project: TVS Emerald, Garden Hills Firm: Morphogenesis Year: 2016-Present Site Location: Bangalore, India Area: 55,031sqmts (13.59 acres) Typology: Residential Team Involved: Kesava Karthik Kota, Manit Rastogi, Balaji.O, Sharvanan Lingesan, Praveen Dhruvas Raghavan.
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ITC Chilakaluripet Tobacco Facility
Site Plan
Approach Secondary entry
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4BHk Villas Villaments unusable land into green
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Infosys campus
Nagpur, Maharashtra, India The project is located in Nagpur, and sits in a Special Economic Zone(SEZ), SEZ are designated areas that possess special fiscal regulations different from rest of the land with the aim of easing international trade and being conducive to foreign direct investment. The client brief was simply ‘to create the world’s most sustainable office building. This is an opportunity ti test if a development of this scale could be net zero on energy, water and waste to landfill. The future of this endeavour being to develop a model for sustainable master-planning for larger sites.
The geology of the land played a key role in the morphological evolution. Nagpur lies in siesmic zone II and the soil has a high bearing capacity. The building modules, or tubes, are large column free spaces that are stacked into a four floor format and are vetically connected through an atrium and a staircase. Eash tube is swung at an angle of 22.5degrees; this rotation in the stacking structure generates new ground at elevated levels. My responsibilities includes developing concept master plan, schematic and design development.
Project: Infosys campus Firm: Morphogenesis Year: 2016-Present Site Location: Nagpur, India Area: 57.4hectares (142 acres) Typology: Workplace Team Involved: Kesava Karthik Kota, Manit Rastogi, Vijayasanas.T, Akriti Kapur, Balaji.O, Sharvanan Lingesan
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Strategies
Natural lake supplemented by an onsite man made reservoir
Directions of cool southwest winds
Site Plan The dynamic morphoglogy was a direct outcome of low siesmic activity adn the hydro geological nature of the area.The inroduction of the earth sheltered, shaded and passive cooled landscape at a subterranean level integrates the dirrerent bulding blicks with the subterranean pedestrian circulation system. This is flanked with food courts and other public activities. The low lying cogregation spaces are shaded by
the buildings on the top and are thermally buffered by the surrounding land. This results in the public spaces being independent of passive cooling technologies. The plan evolved from the notion of understanding the capacity of the site; capacity determined by functions like Radial master plan harvesting these enery, water, geology along with essential winds rules of urban design pertaining to light, ventilation and shading
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Orienting the blocks at ± 22.5 degrees to the North (in response to the solar orientation) allows for 100% shading of all windows and wall which also enables 90% of all floor plate areas to be uniformly day-lit and glare-free. The graphic explains how a block is developed with ± 22.5° tilt in the block.
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Combination of the same Module X using technique A (Sliding along edge) by placing 3 modules at the base generates 6 unique generations ( P-U). These unique generations under 6 similar functions gives 20 further new generations which can be used for SDB office block morphology according to specific plot size. When 4 modules are placed at the base it generates 9 unique generations (A- J)
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Radial planning is used in response to the natural topography condition and the western, northwestern and southeastern wind directions specific to this region. This radial grid strategy aids in bring down the perceivable temperatures and creating a microclimate on site. The +22.5 degrees north orientation stems from Nagpur’s location on the Tropic of Cancer, This allows 90% of the building daylit. Sixteen meter wide floorplates, solar protection strategies like facade shielding with fins, and mutual shading, prove to be effective solutions to ensure uniform daylight with glare free office spaces.
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The use of passive strategies throught out the project aids in reducing energy requirements to one fifth of the consumption of a typical office. A 12.1 hectare land onsite solar plant services reduced the requirement, resulting in zero energy from the grid. Zero water dependance is achieved by creatig a reservoir on-site. Designed as a lake adjoining the existing water-tank in the west, the reservoir is fed by effective rain water surface runoff. Efficient system design ensures water management and the recycling methods reduce the water consumption by half. Biodegradable waster The shading device is a system of fixed horizontal and verical shading disposal is addressed by a bio-gas plant fins varying with solar exposure of the and vermicomposting windows
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Ink Pick
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NK ICK
INK INK PICK
To Develop graphic, I was working on unique project of designing the cover pages of the famous publication for INKPICK, a new start up in India that provide free reading of books, journals and articles. The project also includes developing new logo for the startup.
Book Posters
THE RETURN RETURN OF OF THE THE HOUND OF
BASKERVILLE Arthur Conan Doyle
SHERLOCK HOLMES Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle
Richard F. Burton
THE ADVENTURES OF
SHERLOCK HOLMES
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Workshops & Elective
Workshops Delhi, The invisible city
O For millions of Delhi-ites the non planned “invisible city” areas are sources of affordable rental housing, as well as locations for thousands of small businesses and workshops. They are connected to the visible city his interdisciplinary workshop brought together scholars of urban planning, architecture and the social sciences to conduct preliminary investigations, through interviews, surveys and mapping to explore how these spaces work. This research opened up questions and generated new concepts about urban spaces in contemporary Indian City.
Chasms of Shajahanabad
This workshop was organised by me and my team from ‘hands on factory’ which aims to expose individuals to the dichotomies of Old Delhi, where the old and the new give way to each other in a hao-hazard yet invigorating encounter of space, shape, form, color and culture. The workshop focussed on diagramming the experience and understanding it as abstract threads that link, unlink, form and unform the experience of an architectural scape and explored the ideas that makes such spaces, and the hold that they have on an architects imagination.
Knitectonics The workshop aims to find methods of how materials can self compute to find stability against forces, by simultaneously studying physical and computational models. To learn how this nature of material can be used to design performative architecture/ structure. The workshop combined of short lectures (about textiles in architecture, genetic algorithms etc.) and software tutorials (Processing, Rhino), with physical model making. Later understanding and exploring nature of materials and geometry of surfaces.
Elective Contemporary design approaches Thus the point of the elective is to know about design approaches, but to begin to become aware of the ways of thinking and feeling and working you take for granted when we design. The elective involves the analysis and citique of various reseach journals and works by famous architects and designers which exposed us to different nexus of design. Papers worked upon during the course include: • Alvin Boyarsky interviews Zaha Hadid Project: Elective • Collage City by Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter Year: 2014 • Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy by Arjun Appadurai Semester: X • Figments of the public: Architecture and Debt by Richard Bolton Mentor: Dr Leon A Morenas • Kaleidoscope of the mind by Aldo van Eyck • Politics and space/ time by Doreen Massey • The Smooth and the Striated by Deleuze and Gouttaru • The Eyes of the Skin- Architecture and the Senses by Juhani Pallasma • The Futility of Objects-Decomposition and the Process of Difference by Peter Eisenman 39
Other Works
Other works Installations, Models, Graphics
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