P O R T F O L I O architecture design
2021
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LAKSHMI B.
Architecture student at SPA, Delhi
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EDUCATION
20 School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi 16- Bachelor of Architecture
PERSONAL INFO.
20 Saraswathi Vidyaniketan P S, Kochi 16 AISSCE
Lakshmi B. lakshmiayay@gmail.com +91 8075 866 157
20 Rajagiri H S S, Kochi 14 SSLC
Thottupurathu, Periyar Gardens, Aluva, Kerala-683106
EXPERIENCE
Hello! Currently, I’m in my 5th year of Architecture from School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi. I believe, to truly understand architecture, we should stretch it across separate areas of knowledge to understand it as physical products which function in a number of independent but interactive ways – s structural entities, environmental modifiers, integral social, cultural and economical parts.
20 Graphics & Visual designer 21- Freelance | Visual branding, Illustrations
20 Environmental design solutions, Delhi 20 Intern | Green building analysis CERTIFICATIONS
20 Gender Analytics for Innovation 21 University of Toronto | Credential C8VEC9KEP82H
20 Foundations of User Experience(UX) Design 21 Google | Credential B4LMDG74EK5D WORKSHOPS
20 Advanced UI UX Design 21 Kaarwan India
20 Building with Ferrocement 18 Auroville Earth Institute 20 Brick and Bamboo construction 17 Laurie Baker Centre for Habitat Studies
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......... inclusive, sustainable spaces in physical and digital environments. RESEARCH
20 Gender inclusion in urban consumption 20 spaces | Architectural Dissertation
SOFTWARE SKILLS Autodesk AutoCAD
20 Capitalizing off of Climate change 19 Architectural research-Seminar
Autodesk Revit
20 Settlement study of Serampore 18 Serampore, West Bengal
Google SketchUP
20 Settlement study of Chanderi 17 Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh
Lumion
AWARDS
Autodesk Ecotect
20 COA Students’ awards for Excellence in 21 Architectural Heritage 2020 Citation at National jury
SOFT SKILLS
Climate Consultant Adobe Illustrator
Temwork, Problem-solving, Adaptability, Creativity
Communication,
Adobe Indesign Adobe Photoshop
English
OTHER INTERESTS
UX Design
Malayalam
Graphics Design
Canva
Hindi
Creative Writing
Tamil
Baking
LANGUAGES
Figma MS Office
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Green building analysis
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La Defence, Urban design
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Internship at Environmental design solutions | 2020 Green building analysts for LEED, GRIHA certifications for projects within and outside India.
Delhi, IN | 2020 Mixed use design with commercial and office spacces, encorporating traditional Indian urban values in a mid-rise complex.
Entwine, Urban housing
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Mixed use Mid-rise tower
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Residence + Bhojanalay
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Delhi, IN | 2019 Mixed use design with commercial and office spacces, encorporating traditional Indian urban values in a mid-rise complex.
Delhi, IN | 2019 Mixed use design with commercial and office spacces, encorporating traditional Indian urban values in a mid-rise complex.
Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh | 2018 Residence and attached restaurant (Bhijanalay) in the town of Chanderi, known for its stone buildings and sarees.
Architectural dissertation
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Settlement study
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UI-UX design
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Others
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Gender inclusion in urban consumption spaces | 2020 A study of gender-space relations in urban consumption spaces.
Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh | May 2018 Mixed use design with commercial and office spacces, encorporating traditional Indian urban values in a midrise complex.
Redesign of MySafetipin app | May 2021 Mixed use design with commercial and office spacces, encorporating traditional Indian urban values in a midrise complex.
Illustrations, Photography, Indtallation | 2017-2021
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Green Building Analysis
Environmental design solutions | Internship Environmental design solution Pvt. Ltd., Delhi is a sustainability advisory firm focusing on the built environment. I worked with the Documentation team of 10 Green building facilitators/energy analysts & 3 interns. AIPL Business Club, Gurgaon DLF Downtown, Gurgaon WTC Gift city, Gandhinagar AIMS Faridabad, Faridabad Central vista redevelopment - LEED v3 certification & Supporting documents/drawings - Daylight simulations (Ecotect) - Visual analysis report - Digital rendering - Graphics design
Digital rendering: Landscape plan for Central vista redevelopment project.
Eds During the six-month period of internship at Environmental design solution Pvt. Ltd., Delhi, I had the opportunity to explore sustainability in architecture through a new stream of work. Unlike the primary conceptual design process of architecture I had adapted to, the firm offered a glimpse of execution of sustainability in the field.
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Daylight simulations using Ecotect : Daylight simulations for WTC Gift city and AIPL Business club respectively.
LEED v3 credit reports: Excrepts from credit report for AIPL Business club, Gurgaon
Supporting drawings for LEED v3 certification: Visual analysis and site development for maximizing open spaces 04
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La defence, Urban design Delhi, IN
Urban design project to redevelop the Defence colony precinct in New Delhi. Integrating EWS, MIG, HIG housing, service apartments, office, retail, business hotel and other social infrastructure for a holistic development. Site area FAR Ground coverage Built-up area
90,123 m2 313% 36,050 m2 2,82,958 m2
Housing Office Business Hotel Retail Social infra. Service apartment
47.3% 15.5% 12.8% 12.0% 7.4% 5.0%
Parking
2922 ECS
Parking
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La defence
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The vision is to create safe inclusive spaces to fight crime and loneliness, through spaces of social cohesion and inherent familiarity, an attempt to design spaces through social aspects which are often overlooked.
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An urban core with continuity in landscape which exercises different levels of publicness. This was achieved by energizing the edge and sanitizing the core.
Pedestrian movement
URBAN CORES FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
ENERGIZING THE EDGE AND SANITIZING THE CORE
Learnings from site indicated that the existing diagonal axis, Arjun Marg, which runs across the site from the busy west edge to the calm, green circle can be retained to establish a pedestrian urban core.
Integration of urban form into the fabric shapes influx of people of all walks of life to participate in an equitable urbanism.
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Retail street inspired from the Indian bazaar streets
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12.8% 47.3% 12% 7.4% Housing Office Business hotel Retail Social infrastructure Service apartments
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Entwine, GPRA housing Delhi, IN
Redevelopment of GPRA housing in Sarojini Nagar, Delhi with prime importance to retain the green cover on site. Site area FAR Ground coverage Built-up area
43,607 m2 97% 11,295 m2 42,340 m2
Totsl no. of units 754 nos. No. of Type 3 units 464 nos. No. of Type 4 units 290 nos. Parking
1048 ECS
Entwine. Redevelopment of GPRA housing in Sarojini Nagar of Delhi has been in the news for felling of thousands of trees. But, Entwine evolves organically around the 364 trees in site, with prime importance to its green cover. The design was achieved with only 2 trees cut. Linearity of the blocks arises out of the orientation of the site, so as to have maximum North and South facing surfaces for controllable natural ventilation and lighting.
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Shri Vinayak Mandir marg
Brigadier Hoshiyar Singh road
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African Avenue
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Major vehicular axis
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Community park
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Type 3 Major vehicular axis
No. of trees cut: 2 No. of trees preserved: 362
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Mixed use Mid-rise tower, Delhi, IN
Mixed use design with commercial and office spaces, encorporating traditional Indian urban values in a mid-rise complex. Site area FAR Ground coverage Built-up area
14,818 m2 158% 3,867 m2 24,011 m2
Atrium Office Retail Food court Common facilities
403 m2 13,785 m2 5,645 m2 2,845 m2 700 m2
Basement area
3*7,924 =23,772 m2 /400 cars
Street. Chowk. Plaza. The design develops around a set of climatically wellplaced streets and a central node, the chowk, like an indian bazaar. The chowk is surrounded by mass and overlooked by different spaces, office as well as commercial with adequate privacy wherever required.
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The ground floor remained the commercial space due to better accessibility.
Office spaces in the upper levels are connected through sky bridges at all levels.
Streets linking to the next landscaped open space which opens up from the office atrium to the oat.
Streets with retail on either sides which opens up to a large plaza is reminiscent of indian baazars. 20
Orientation
Context responsive
Passive strategies
Natural lighting
View from North edge
View from South edge 21
Rainwater harvesting
Universal accessibility
Streets with retail on sides Reminiscent of indian markets
Courtyard surrounded by retail Reminiscent of indian markets
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Residence + Bhojanalay, Chanderi, MP
Residence and attached restaurant (Bhijanalay) in the town of Chanderi, known for its stone buildings and sarees. Site area FAR Ground coverage Built-up area
14,818 m2 158% 3,867 m2 24,011 m2
Context responsive
Orientation
Stack effect
Natural light & ventilation
Vernacular architecture
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Low-cost, low-energy materials
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Ten Courtyards. A multiple courtyard system which responds to the vernacular architecture, culture and climate of the context. The characteristics and functions of each courtyard is unique.
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Gender inclusion in urban consumption spaces
Dissertation | SPA Delhi Co-ordinator: Ar. Mekhla Parihar Guide: Ar. Nishant Gautam
Photo credit: Sanjukta Bhasu
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Given the economic and social marginalization of women and gender variants, architects and planners need to develop a holistic understanding of gender to design inclusive spaces as space has a dialectical relationship with social settings. In the contemporary postmodern society, consumption is equated with leisure, and leisure by consumption is associated with women as shopping is seen as a part of domestic labour and the hard work associated with it, and hence, ‘feminine’ and gendered. Hence the central concern of this study is the interrelationship between space and gender, focusing on the everyday lives of women in urban consumption spaces. Presented as a comprehensive research on how women access and use consumption spaces in urban everyday life, it studies how they perceive and relate to the public as the outside world in its most inclusive sense. The research progresses through an extensive literature review followed by analysis of case studies from tier 1 cities of India where qualitative aspects of gender-space relation are analysed. A primary online survey explores the level of inclusivity and spatial accessibility by a gender to understand the spatial attributes which provide for that. The results reiterate women’s restricted spatial accessibility, even in consumption spaces which are equated with women. Although new consumption spaces like shopping malls have provided women with ‘safe’ and ‘civil’ environs, the reproduction of existential gendered realities and social inequalities can be observed there too. Even so, the built-environment can substantially contribute to the degree of gender inclusion in urban consumption spaces.
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1. How are gender relations manifested in urban consumption spaces? 2. How are spatial relations manifested in the idea of gender?
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How are spatial relations manifested in the idea of gender? Factors of inclusion
Factors of exclusion
Women have less access to private or own transport and hence tend to depend largely upon public transport. Accessibility to public transport systems can be advantageous in gender inclusion.
Where other consumers of space are occupied by homogeneous communities of men, physical mobility for women is adversely affected, even when there is visibility and transparency.
Physical infrastructure and walkability of spaces.
Poor state of amenities such as public toilets.
The presence of security guards and police enhances women’s feeling of safety.
Poor walkability
Open, visible spaces which are visually connected to the surrounding environment enhance the perception of safety.
Enclosed spaces restricts the spatial accessibility and usage.
The presence of informal vendors, CCTV cameras increases the visibility of spaces.
It was observed that women felt safer in crowded places than in isolated places.
Well-lit enhance the perception of safety.
Poorly lit spaces restricts the spatial accessibility and usage.
How are gender relations manifested in urban consumption spaces? Literature review revealed that in the contemporary postmodern society, consumption is equated with leisure, and leisure by consumption is associated with women, as shopping is seen as a part of domestic labour, and hence, ‘feminine’ and gendered (Paul, 2017). So socially, it is more ‘appropriate’ for women to be seen shopping than engaging in other forms of leisure in public spaces. Even so, the case studies and survey revealed that even within consumption spaces, women’s accessibility operates within the strict moral encodings of the society. The ambiguous denial of public space to women at tea and paan shops and usage hours dependent on nightfall even in modern cities reflect the patriarchal values in built spaces constructed in society. Women’s accessibility continues to be related to variables that perpetuate gender inequalities in society.
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Settlement study Chanderi, MP
Citation at National jury for COA Students’ awards for Excellence in Architectural Heritage 2020
History
The historic town of Chanderi located in the fertile valley of the ancient Betwa river has a rich history that shared between Pratihara kings, Delhi sultans, Mandu sultans, Bundela kings and Scindhis of Gwalior.
Location
The town of Chanderi is located in the Ashok Nagar district of MadhyaPradesh in a valley system called Nestled in the picturesque Vindhyachal valley. Weavinf is the source of livelihood for more than 60% of its population, while the rest are engaged in agriculture, biri miaking, stonequarring and tertiary occupations.
Relevance
The craft of making Chanderi sarees is now one of the most protected crafts in the country. The Government of India has also petitioned to the World Trade Organization for the recognition of this textile on an international level.
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Mirza Haveli Mirza haveli is a two-storied stone building, wth upper floor as residence for the Mirza family and ground flooracts as a more oublic space used by bunkards and trades people for handloom activities. There are two main courtyards in the houses: Lower courtyards bridginf the entrance and weaving space acts as a recreational space for children in the evenings. Upper courtyard is surrounded by private rooms of the dwelling.
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UI-UX: Redesign Safetipin mobile application Kaarwan Advanced UI-UX workshop | September 2021
UX study
Understand
UI study
Research
Define
Questionnaire Survey
User personna Empathy map Journey map
Ideate
Design
Prototype
Site map Wireframes
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Illustrations Flat characters
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Photography
Street life, Portrait
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Installation
Bamboo arch | SPA,Delhi
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