Nikhil Parkhiya parkhiyanikhil@gmail.com +91 8140958787
Proficiency Representation Adobe: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator Sketches, Digital Illustration
Drawings and Modeling Rhinoceros, AutoCAD, Revit, Sketchup, V-Ray, 123D Make
Machines Laser Cutter, 3D Printing Sculpting, Model Making
Languages English Spanish Hindi Gujarati
Education Indubhai Parekh School of Architecture Bachelor of Architecture
Rajkot, India
Universidad PolitĂŠcnica de Cartagena Exchange Program
Car tagena, Spain
Experiences Office for Political Innovation / AndrĂŠs Jaque Architecture Intern
Madrid, Spain
Architecture Recycling: Diverse and Flexible Housing Modern Movement: Blocks, Slabs, Campus
Car tagena, Spain
Condition Assessment and Repair Guideline G.V.J. High School - Jamkhambhaliya
Morphogentic Design Strategies Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication
Indore, India
Annual NASA Design Competition Public Place for All
Surat, India
Contents School of Visual Ar ts Academic Design Studio
Alterations in Housing Design Thesis
Run Run Run Urban Techno cafĂŠ
Ocean Space | TBA21 - Academy Platform for Collaborative Research and Innovation
The Transvector Lafayette Anticipations
Antonym Pavilion Transformable Structure
School of Visual Ar ts Academic Design Studio
The Design Studio brief was to propose a master plan for an University of Ar ts. Which included six institutes of design, administration, auditorium and exhibition space on a 66,000 sq.m site in urban space of Rajkot.
Rataiya, Rajkot
Contex t Model
Alterations in Housing with Contemporary time in case of Rajkot
The study aims to demonstrate Alteration in ver tical housing by redesigning dwelling units of Galaxy Apar tments with parameters of flexible volume and architecture renovation.
Dwelling Craftsmanship
Architect
Altered Dwelling
User How the need of Alteration may be or may not be generated
The f lexible house adapts human need.
Ver tical houses from modern influences
Typical floor plan while every user with different needs
Apar tment change multiple times according to user needs
Literature inferences Supports: An Alternative to Mass Housing by N. John Habraken Diagram by N. John Habraken
Architect
Individual
Levels
Cooking and Washing
Services
Community
Supports
Sleeping & Miscellaneous activities
Family
Dwellings
Craft
Infill
Construction
Technology
Entrance Passage Bedroom Kitchen Living Room Toilet Bedroom
Bedroom
Material
Brick
Structure System
Masonry
Size : 230 mm x 110 mm x 70 mm
Wood Size (Max.) : 400 mm x 200 mm x 3000 mm
Metal (Steel, Aluminum)
Structural Frame
Structural Frame
3 to 25 mm Cross Section Size (Max.) : 250 mm x 120 mm x 4200 mm
Sliding Folding Panel (Glass, Aluminum, wood) Size (Max.) : 250 mm x 9000 mm x 3000 mm
Glass Fiber Reinforced Gypsum (GFRG) Panel Size (Max.) : 400 mm x 200 mm x 3000 mm
Movable Wall Systems
Dry Construction Systems
Programmatic Requirements User
Profession
Need
Life
Grandparents
Retirement
Multipurpose Living Space
Pray
3 Person Family
Work from Home
Working Space
Togetherness
6 Person Family
Students
Multipurpose Space
Celebration
Existing Dwelling
Need of Alterations
Alterations with Proposed System
Section AA’
A
10th Floor Plan
A’
Section BB’
B
8th Floor Plan
B’
Section CC’
C
7th Floor Plan
C’
Installation of GFRG Panel
Exterior sliding Folding system which Provides Flexibility in Vision Ventilation and Light
Run Run Run Urban Techno café Its Architecture is an urban techno café: a big house stuck inside a modern building; an assemblage of greenhouse and grotto, both protecting a hanging vegetable garden. The ingredients cooked in Run Run Run’s kitchen come from this garden. Andrés Jaque / Off ice for Political Innovation turned organized around an open kitchen, the design intends to offer an alternative to the modern separation between zones to work and zones to eat. It hybridizes showers with lockers, the kitchen, the vegetable garden, and the dining room in an ecosystem.
Table Prototype
Chair Prototype
Ocean Space | TBA21 - Academy Platform for Collaborative Research and Innovation
Thyssen-Bornemisza Ar t Contemporary and TBA21 Academy developing the architecture of this incredible piece of the planet where ar tists, scientists, and citizens at large are convened to sense the ocean. Taking advantage of the soaring ver tical space within the Church of San Lorenzo. AndrĂŠs Jaque / Off ice for Political Innovation turned the project will create a modular and highly f lexible structure of platforms that allow for a range of potential exhibitions, installations, workshops, and research to be enacted within the space.
Venice, Italy
San Lorenzo, Venice
The Transvector Lafayette Anticipations The Transvector: a space for discussion and exchange. For “Le centre ne peut tenir,” Andrés Jaque / Off ice for Political Innovation turned the foundation’s ground f loor into an active site for the exhibition’s public program. In line with the building’s ethos of modularity, the project designs a f lexible structure that will morph throughout the exhibition’s three months to accommodate talks, panel discussions, lectures, performances, book launches, and symposia. Conceived as a lively meeting point.
Antonym Pavilion Transformable Structure
The Pavilion explores the paradox of a waste material structure. It is designed to provide shade from harsh sunlight in outdoors and meant to adapt the transformation according to needs.
Calle Puertas de Murcia, Cartagena Ink on Paper, 20 H x 16 W x 0.1 in
Certitude life iPad Drawing 31 H x 13 W x 0.1 in
Nikhil Parkhiya parkhiyanikhil@gmail.com + 9 1 8 1 4 0 958787