2017-2024 Design portfolio by MadhuraPatil

design portfolio

selected works | 2017-2024

MADHURA PATIL

EDUCATION

• June 2017 - May 2022

Bachelor’s in Architecture

School of Environment and Architecture University of Mumbai

• June 2015 - May 2017

HSC - Science

Ramnivas Ruia Junior College, Mumbai

PUBLICATIONS

(SEA-press publishes newsletters, booklets, research papers, documentation works, archival material)

• Buhari - An open village, 2017 - co-editor

An ethnographic mapping of the village of Buhari, Gujarat.

• Mumbai Neighbourhood Studies, 2018contributor

A group documentation of six neighbourhoods in Mumbai through the lens of care and infrastructures.

• What is a clinic?, 2019 - contributor Design explorations as a response to the neighbourhood study analysis compiled.

• South Asian Architecture and Urbanism, 2020contributor

An extensinve timeline of various architectural schemes and building techniques spanning across South Asia.

• Architecture of the Ahoms, 2020 - contributor

• Deewar (wall systems), 2018 - co-editor

• Pune-Intervening the city, 2018 - contributor

Madhura Patil

Architect | Researcher | Artist | Illustrator

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Oct 2021 - Apr 2022

Architectural intern at SJK Architects, Mumbai

JSW hospital, Alibaug - Assisted in preparing GFC packages, 3D modelling, drawings, design resolution, site visits and site checking. Preparing client presentations and testing out multiple design iterations.

SR Boys Hostel, Warangal - Preparing detailed drawings for door and window fixing, research on sanitary fixtures and lift specifications and creating comparitive lists, creating design options in 2D and 3D for various areas.

• June 2022 - May 2024

Junior Architect at Serie Architects, Mumbai

Satsang Hall, Gujarat - Design development, client coordination, construction documentation, site supervision, client presentations, BOQs, graphic design and visualisation of a 5000 seater auditorium, library, meditation hall and ancillary spaces.

Bangalore House - Design development of a 8000sqft luxury residential bungalow. 3D visualisation, extensive research on furniture design and automation systems, site visits, evaluation of BOQs, client coordination.

Karjat House - Concept stage, design development for a small scale residential bungalow, visualisation and client presentations.

JSW Taj Villa, Birla Estates (residential), Birla Satyam (Commercial) - Concept stage, project pitches and client presentations

• May 2024 - Present

Freelance interior works, website illustrations

Concept design, light illustrations for a website

Madhura is a versatile architect and illustrator with two years of professional experience in an international architectural studio. Her interests span ecological design, visual arts, and strategic innovation in sustainable futures. As a multidisciplinary designer, she aims to harness the power of design to make meaningful contributions in the space of climate and social impact.

Through her undergraduate thesis, she explores the creative ways in which people occupy space and the potential of designers to push the boundaries of designing beyond universally set standards.

WORKSHOPS / PROJECTS

• Stories in Stone (Manali), 2018 with Put Your Hands Together, Himachal Pradesh

Participated in a week-long immersive workshop on sustainable building techniques, including the application of eco-friendly Moroccan lime plaster Tadelakt and the utilization of locally sourced stone to construct an energy-efficient oven.

• Wattle and Daub (Murbad), 2018 with Design Jatra

Engaged in a makers workshop focusing on the sustainable handling of various wattle materials, exploring diverse daub mixtures, and mastering traditional weaving techniques under the guidance of tribal masons.

• Saur documentation (Garhwal), 2019 with Windows to Vernacular

Conducted an in-depth research of Saur, a ghost village in the Himalayas focusing on the lifecycle, behavior, and durability of natural materials such as stone, wood, and mud during habitation and their deterioration post-abandonment.

• Ethnography, 2017 with Sarover Zaidi

Conducted an ethnographic mapping of Bhendi Bazaar, Mumbai emphasizing urban planning by assessing the social, economic, and environmental impacts of this transformation on the local community and infrastructure.

• Project Management, with Perkins Eastman

• Surface Design 2019 with Aarti Badamikar

• Ceramics, 2019 with IES

madhurapatil24@gmail.com +91 9820775981 Mumbai, India

• Urban Farming, 2019 with Julius Rego

A hand-on sustainable urban farming project within the campus while discussing urban, environmental, community and health issues in a city with limitated open spaces.

• Looking In / Looking Out, 2022 with Prajakta Potnis

• Miniature as a method, 2021 with Dipti Bhaindarkar

Conceptualised and made multiple miniature models using different techniques. Compiled into a video to explain the making

• Bricoleurs - Bricolage as method 2020 with Rupali Gupte

Curated and compiled a book around stories and illustrations that traced different inhabitations and forces in the city.

• India Lost and Found, 2020 recived an Honourable Mention

Documented an old chawl in Bombay and developed a research paper, field study compilation, drawings and video

• CCF Z Axis - You and your neighbourhood with Charles Correa Foundation

Competition entry

• Narratives of Everyday Life, 2022 Undergraduate thesis

• mad.scapes, 2024 Founder

Ecological illustrations, paintings, frames, tote bags, home decor

• Adobe Illustrator

• Adobe Photoshop

• Adobe Indesign

• Adobe After Effects

• Adobe Premier Pro

• Autocad 2D

• Vectorworks 2D

• Rhinoceros 3D

• SketchUp 3D

• Twinmotion render

• D5 Render

SKILLS

• Research

• Conceptual thinking

• Diagramming

• Creative writing

• Graphic illustrations

• Hand and digital sketching

• Modelling

• Drafting

• MS Word

• MS Excel

• MS Powerpoint

• 2017 - 2018

VOLUNTEERING / AWARDS

Content Committee member

School of Environment and Architecture

• 2018 - 2019

Student Council member

School of Environment and Architecture

• Sensitive design engangements and enthusiastic performance, 2020

School of Environment and Architecture

• Acumen to clearly workout complex systems, 2021

School of Environment and Architecture

Date: 29. 04.2021

Whomsoever it may concern

Madhura Patil has worked with us at SJK as a trainee from 26th Oct 20 to 26th April’21. During this period, she has worked on:

Project 01: JSW Multispeciality Hospital, Dolvi, Alibaug

Assisted in preparation of GFC drawings for Ita Gold dado details, Fixed furniture - OPD table (with resolution on sketchup)

Revising SB layout, plans, RCPs, paint extents, mirror panelling, central staircase and Doctor’s toilet in Block 4

Assisted in preparation of intent drawing for Ashtavinayak wall copper bell arrangement and fixing

Assisted in preparation of artwork presentations for client meetings and site team.

Articulating potential locations for fixing Gond artworks in elevations and 3D with sizing and quantifications

Renders for all artwork areas, cafe and plants

Assisted in 3D views and updates as and when needed

Accompanied the team for a site visit and assisted in cross checking false ceiling levels according to RCPs

Project 02: SR University Boys Hostel, Warangal, AP

Assisted in preparation of GFC drawings for staircase masonry, railing detail, finishing (with 3D views); Toilet masonry and sanitary lineout, Toilet finishing, RCP and details; Masonry drawings for all floors, seat details, door and window details for masonry; Flooring layout s and plaster extents

Revising architectural plans, sections and elevations as per changes in design

Preparation of facade package with detailed drawings of window typologies (half)

Creating a detailed list of all sanitary fixtures for toilets.

Design resolution of reading hall facade, toilet facade, fire lobby facade and validating the same on 3D

Layout resolution of toilet drying area and design resolution of jali wall .

Resolution of entrance area with options in 3D

Detailed light study for core skylight in 3D

Collating and studying references of buildings with colours and trying out options in elevations and 3D

Research, coordination and sourcing samples from vendors for floor and toilet finishes

Coordination with lift vendors and collation of information.

Assisted in developing 3D views and updating them as and when required.

We wish her the very best in all her future endeavours.

Shimul Javeri Kadri

Digitally signed by Shimul Javeri Kadri

Date: 2021.04.29 14:29:40 +05'30'

Shimul Javeri Kadri

Principal Architect – SJK Architects.

Architect & Urban Planner (M.U.P –University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

COA # CA/86/9702

302/303, VEENA KILLEDAR INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, 10-14 PAIS STREET, BYCULLA(W), MUMBAI - 400 011 TEL:(91-22) 23008761/66, 23020467/0864 FAX: (91-22) 23090983

E-MAIL: design@sjkarchitect.com WEBSITE: www.sjkarchitect.com

May 31 2024

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

Ms. Madhura Patil worked with Serie Architects Mumbai as a Junior Architect from June 20th 2022 till May 31st 2024. During her tenure, she has worked within project teams on the following:

1. SRA - Spiritual Complex:

Design development, Construction documents stage drawings, 3D model, visualization, presentations, Site visit, coordination, boq, meeting

2. Bangalore House: Concept design, Design development, Construction documents stages drawings, 3D model, visualisation, presentations, site visit, coordination, meeting

3.Karjat House:

Concept design stage drawings, 3D model, presentation

4.Birla Worli - Commercial tower Concept design stage drawings, 3D, presentation

5.Birla Estate - Residential tower Concept design stage presentation drawings

6.JSW Taj Villa

Concept design stage presentation drawings

Madhura has contributed to various stages for the projects she has worked on. Madhura has been a valuable team member. She has the abilities to take on responsibilities & has dealt with them with maturity.

I wish her success on all his future assignments.

With Compliments,

Kapil Gupta, Principal, Serie Architects Mumbai

Website illustrations

Freelance work

Product illustrations and architectural visualisations done for a wesbite of a young interdisciplinary practice (Mumbai workshop) exploring various scales of architecture and design. Currently setting up the website curating the multitude of works they do.

1. Satsang Hall

Serie Architects

Site location: Dharampur, Gujarat

The 5000 seater Satsang Hall is inspired by the traditional concept of a samavasaran, where the aggregation of knowledge as building blocks, brings one ever closer to enlightenment. Similarly, the repetitional and additive stacking gives the form of the hall a gravitas as well as purity in expression. The complex structure of the satsang hall needed an experienced hand which has been fulfilled by the world renowned structural engineers LERA. The Dining Hall is inspired from the shamiana where a ethereally light structure is the space where 2000 devotees can dine at one time. There is also an amphitheatre that slopes cascades down the valley to provide a large outdoor space for events.

2. Bangalore House

Serie Architects

The Bangalore House is an 8,000 sq.ft. bungalow situated within the prestigious Adarsh Palm Retreat housing complex. Architecturally, the design embodies a juxtaposition of solids and voids. The four corners of the structure are characterized by expansive openings, creating light-filled voids, while the interior spaces are dedicated to enclosed and traditional bedrooms.

3. field of affordances

Undergraduate thesis

Site location: Jambli Naka, Thane

The research was based on the question - “How do everyday practices like walking, sitting, sleeping shape urban form?” To investigate the same, I looked at a public space (a lake edge) that was recently renovated under the smart city mission. Thinking of the intervention to be like a catalyst that offers the tools to practice but doesn’t offer use for it, that is both for communal and solitary engagement and to make the site like a theater. The contours and the landscape are shaped to form nooks, corners, slopes, and seatings. The last layer is the addition of built form which starts following the lines of the landscape. The city is full of tension and not a complete entity, rather composed of multiple individual narratives which connect and claim ownership of space. The everyday is a performance where all of us are the performers as well as the audience, producing space as we move.

4. spatiality of the future

Site location: C-ward, Mumbai

The Development Plan is configured through the logis of land use. The larger goal is to retain the social fabric of C ward in two ways -

1) By including the people and their relationships to the city, and modifying the DCPR and URDPFI.

2) By creating new policies or guidelines, through the ideas of friendships, mutual relations and solidarities that set up a different urban form.

Strategies:

1.to look at

a) relation of street, it’s width to the height of the building and it’s adjacent surrounding b)relationship of tenement density applicable to the FSI proposed

2. To look at the minimum requirements in terms of areas and dimensions of open spaces for various types of buildings

- Defining open space beyond open green field that acknowledge various structures built by different actors for their Leisure

3. Form based response to R&R that considers relation of built development to open space considerations and light and ventilation, without compromising on street level interactions

Urban design studio

5. high rise study

Team: Abhishek Nerkar, Stuti Shah

Site location: Goregaon, Mumbai

Brief: To design a high rise structural system and layout that caters to commercial and residential componenents.

The form emerged from the idea of segregating program distribution i.e., commercial and residence into two towers that were to be connected at intermediate levels by commonly shared programs such as cafes, libraries and sky parks. The form of the curving towers is such that the two towers lean towards each other for support aided by the arched trusses and secondary members that creates voids in between dispersing the encompassing heat around the structure efficiently and weakening the wind velocity thereby making the form more aerodynamic and reducing the impact of high winds on it.

6. bird haven

Ecological insert

Site location: Powai lake edge inside IIT-B campus, Mumbai

Brief: To design an interpretation centre in an ecologically sensitive site

The idea of the interpretive center focuses on the concept of Promethean Environmentalism proposed by Martin Lewis which says that “to protect nature, humans should stay away from it”.It’s a different lookout towards the relationship between humans and the environment. The idea is to trap humans and let nature flourish, to put humans in a space where they are forced to think about the depleting condition of the lake and wetlands and it’s impact on the ecological cycle. The intervention is a built form that has minimal visual impact. The initial thought process was to build underground so the natural habitat above can be preserved.

Views of interior spaces Conceptual sketches and explorations

7. material exploration

Material Exploration

Team: Madhura Patil, Aashumi Shah

Brief: To explore the plastic nature of concrete to its fullest potential

The purpose of this exercise was to apply the understanding of the way forces work when cast in a specific geometry and to study the spaces that emerge out of these geometries. There was experimentation with the ratios of water and cement, viscousity of the material, various moulds and setting times. Various moulds with different geometries were created within a frame of given proportions to understand how the negative spaces function. Further, a design of a structure that has a single support was explored. A reinforcement framework was created and the form was explored with the help of different materials. Eventually it was casted in cement.