6 Design of diplomacy
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Spanish Consulate at Chennai UNIQUENESS OF THE PROJECT 10 GENERAL PLANNING 10 THRUST AREA 10 CONCEPTUALISATION 11
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Film & Music Academy 16 plan and section 18 3d rendered views
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back water RESORT
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ART OF the pencil work
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CV SOFTWARE SKILLS MS office Revit architecture Auto cad architecture Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Sketchup Lumion INTERESTS Music Graphics Travel Foot ball Movies Reading Sketching Model making
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PERSONAL DETAILS name | Gowtham Nandakumar nationality | India e-mail | nand.gow@gmail.com phone | +91 9566060096 language | Tamil(mother tongue), English, Hindi, Malayalam. EDUCATION 2009-2014 McGAN’s Ooty school of Architecture, Ooty(India). Bachelor of architecture. EXPERIENCE Summer 2011 Kharche & Associates, Chennai. Architecture Design Firm 2012 Studio lotus, Delhi. Architecture and interior Design Firm 2013-2014 Focus/Mcdesign. Founder and editor of College Publication 2014 Freelancing TRIUMPH 2014 Zonal level Nation award for excellence in Architecture thesis conducted by NIASA (National institute of advanced studies in Architecture)
curriculum vitae
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curriculum vitae
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Thesis Project
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design doesn't have to be up-to-the-minute, different or imposing to be successful, as long as it's fulfilling a need, but should lead to innovative works of art and services. Creators discover that ideas that may seem eccentric are worth exploring and that the 'common-sense' solution is not always the right one. Design can facilitate services in a number of ways, from making sure products and services meet the needs of users to increasing innovation within organizations and bringing new perspectives to issues such as procurement. At every point design is an influential, be it in developing affirmative image for various facilities or for delivering a thriving consulate project, with a functional, appealing and welcoming perimeter. However, embassy/consulate facilities, in recent years, have become massive, fortress-like buildings surrounded by high walls and/or fences, with forbidding entrance pavilions. The perimeter of the embassy/consulate compound is its leading edge portraying the first glimpse of good design and attitude while establishing and maintaining a sense of security.
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UNIQUENESS OF THE PROJECT As there were options for selecting the thesis topic, I wanted to design an office structure, excluding the category of residential or any other commercial or recreational building as they are much presented as in the market.
staff. Parking along with the necessary services to building shelter should be provided at the main entrance for protection during inclement weather and as defence precautions. The hierarchy of spaces with respect to the users will demand the convenience and isolation of sensitive areas.
Generally in the current market, office buildings are given more importance in its interior ambience and less importance for its architecture in façade. So moulding a form is one of the core scopes of the project.
The amendments of physical security of the building by perimeter walls and/or fences, setbacks from proper lines, exterior lighting, easy control of entrances and visual control of stairways and elevators.
Filtering out in the category of office buildings, embassy/consulate is chosen as it has its own unique features and is a kind of a special building and has not many restrictions in the path of design.
THRUST AREA As the concept is ‘contemporary tropicalization’ which main¬ly deals with ‘tropical architecture’, a proper complete study on its understanding and innovatively applying experimen¬tal design techniques on the design. Thus creating an iconic building, exploring the design in depth with respect to form and façade.
GENERAL PLANNING Easy vehicular access and egress with provision for adequate visitors and
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CONCEPTUALISATION Sprawling over an area of 5 acres with a number of animated structures, cluttering the plains, the design is a through following of tropical architecture in a contemporary style. Clear cut lines, the play of volumes, and the oasis of the green design defines the design for the Spanish consulate. Blurring the definition between the exterior and the interiors, the greenery and the trees that dot the site have not been disturbed or uprooted. Contemporary tropicalization is achieved with the incorporation of tropical building design principles along with Contemporary
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style of design which are known for creating buildings free from older historical styles, along with experimentation of new materials. The building form is mostly imbibed from contemporary styles. END RESULT Though enclosed in the tall walls that defend the structures the diplomatic structure is a charm; especially when you are seeing the maze of building and greenery. A free flow of energy has been established through these solid masses, by way of elements like louvers, fenestrations, court yards, adding to the artistic charisma. Cultural ethos, vernacular
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materials, and social norms - all have played their role in creating a design that reveals the full glory of a foreign element that can yield up a corridor in the past. The vision of the trees and vegetation cover, the serene wind even in the peak of summer, the shaded pathways, the various hues of flora and fauna, structures rising from and embracing nature leading to the creation of third space through the achievement over the entire life cycle of the building. Through this we can preserve the identity of regional culture, unique nature of the place and symbiotic sanctity of the individual.
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back water RESORT s t u d i o
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Back water resort is my sixth semester studio project. In this project I used Revit architecture software as the main software to model and render the views of the building.
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T he design of the back water resort was explored with the concept of adapting
and enjoy the commonly owned facilities of the marumakkathayam homestead.
vernacular architecture with the incorporation of modern styles. As the site was located in Kerala, I used the vernacular materials like wood, laterite, etc., and other resources.
A detail study on the vernacular architecture of Kerala was done, which resulted in knowing about the planning techniques of the place. With respect to the old style of nalukattu and eattukattu planning of tharavadu the hotels and cottages where clustered to bring out the real nature of Kerala’s tharavadu.
The traditional architecture is typically a rectangular structure where four halls are joined together with a central court yard open to the sky. The four halls on the sides are named Vadakkini (northern block), Padinjattini (western block), Kizhakkini (eastern block) and Thekkini (southern block). The architecture was especially catered to large families of the traditional tharavadu, to live under one roof
Swimming pool was designed with resemblance to the ambalam and its kulam. Elements like charupadi, mutram, wooden pillars, etc., where brought to life in the design.
top left (three images in order) 3d view of hotel block type 2 | cottage type 1 | cottage type 2 middle (from left) plan and section of cottage type 1 | cottage type 2 | hotel block type 1 bottom 3d view of hotel block type 1 drawings are not to be scaled
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Film & Music
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F ilm and music academy is my 8th semester studio project, where I had an eye opening after my internship period to explore more on design. In this project I adopted the concept of modern architecture to explore more on the edifice than in that of planning, even though the building is well planned with all needs. The building has an institutional block and hostel with a mess block, along with other buildings like a separate auditorium even with the inclusion of a couple of the same in the intuitional block. The hostel block and the main intuition block has a linkage through a bridge which binds along with a mess unit. Lots of design explorations were done on the faรงade part to bring out something new on design basis. Design explorations were also done on the form to achieve a unique shape.
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Sound was considered as a main element in this design so sound insulation was provided by the use of heavy, thick components in which the airborne sound energy will initially dissipated through transfer of the airborne sound into the component. Specific attention to highly sensitive areas of music practicing areas, preview theatres, etc,. using Bison boards, glass wool and other sound insulation materials. Recording studios are given complete sound insulation even for the furnitures present inside, including the mike stand with proper rubber materials. Auditorium as a separate block was also completely acoustically designed. Lots of trees are planted on the site which serves as a sound barrier for interior site from the exterior site and vice versa.
top left view of audotirum facade bottom left view of instutional block top right view of instutional block middle view of mess block bottom right view of hostel block
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internship PARK HOTEL | OGAAN | PAUL RESIDANCE | LOUIS PHILLIPE | CONOOR HOUSE | RITU KUMAR, LUCKNOW | BENIHANNA
during the internship period i gained experience working in interior projects
prototype of this lamp was made for benihanna project, where the need was to develope it in origamy style
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Benihanna is a japanese restaurant that is to be made in Nehru place, Delhi. The space is split into two spaces named BENIHANNA and BENIHANNA EXPRESS. The former will be a high class restaurant whereas the other one is ment to be made as a busy, fast moving restaurant. Worked in the process of design development, modeling fully packed 3D visual model with true textures and furniture arrangement. Drawings of the furniture details were also made.
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1. All dimensions are in millimeter and are to be read and not measured. 2. Architectural drwg. to have precedence over structural drwgs. 3. Large scale drwgs. have precedence over small scale drwgs. 4. ALL DIMENSIONS MENTIONED IN THE DRAWING NEED VERIFICATION AS PER SITE.
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1. All dimensions are in millimeter and are to be read and not measured. 2. Architectural drwg. to have precedence over structural drwgs. 3. Large scale drwgs. have precedence over small scale drwgs.
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NOTE: This drawing is the property of m/s lotus design services & should not copied, reproduced or used for any purpose than specified without the prior permission of the architects in writing.
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Paul residence is a residential project developed for Mrs.Priya Paul in Delhi. This project is the costliest project among all the projects that I have worked so far. The style of ART DECO is followed in most of the elements developed in the building. I worked in the development of the interior spaces like powder room, kitchen, toilet, etc. along with photo realistic renderings and I have also in exploration of kitchen shelving units, flooring pattern, main door, etc.
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left view of powder room, which was rendered in photoshop bottom sectional view of toilet
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Ogaan is a redesigning project for a retail space. The site is located in Haus khas village, Delhi. Trousseau room is a bridal garment section of Ogaans garment retail space. There were two options developed for the conceptual presentaion, one is with linear arrangement and the other one is radially arranged.
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Development of the interior space as 3D visual model and locating the furnitures of the space was done by me.
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Being engaged in the field of design, I started adopting graphics as a sub field and evolved myself with a huge interest on Photoshop, Indesign and other graphic software’s and started designing books, magazines, posters, etc.
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GRAPHICS Focus/Mcdesign Founder and editor of College Publication which incorporated photography, design, articles, etc. The magazine was also published in internet, which had a good reach from the readers around the world with a good feedback. Prospectus Having shown interest in publication design along with posters designs, etc., during my academic period my college (McGAN’s Ooty School of Architecture) offered me to design and edit the college prospectus for the year 2014-2015 with a personal invite.
http://issuu.com/nandgowtham/ docs/focus
http://issuu.com/nandgowtham/ docs/focus_edition_2
Photo book India Weaved In Frames, is a photo book exhibiting the top three winners of the photography competition of each category which was owned and organized by Immagine, a registered non-profit Organization for Better Photography and Better World, in Kerala. The competition focused on the theme to capture the essence of each and every state of India, with the name of the state as the topic resulting in 29 different topics. The book was published as a hard copy in the exhibition hosted by the organization and stole the hearts of people all around India.
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Photography induces my design.
Awarded with a cash prize for a short film competition of design expo’11 organized by IIA Trissur center and architects club Trissur. Worked as a cinematographer in the award winning short films named: Money and Humanity My appa’s birthday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOnc87T-OMU
AD film project of our college was awarded for our team and I once again worked as cinematographer in the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpII0BP23aw
I have also worked as an associate director for an award winning short film named ‘My Home’.
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[good design is all that matters]
Studio projects cafeteria | blind school | old age home | resort | shopping mall | urban and rural survey | documentation of cathedrals | film and music academy | consulate nand.gow@gmail.com
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