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Portfolio Nitin Bathla Architect, Urban designer, Researcher, Writer MAS Urban Design (ETH, Zurich), B.Arch. (IED, Vallabh Vidyanagar)

Nitin Bathla c/o Prof. Barbara Fluckiger, 226, Forrlibuckstrasse, Zurich 8005 e-mail : nitinbathla@live.com Mob : +41 76 6407474

Nitin Bathla, born 12th of October 1986, is a Urban Researcher and designer. Whose Architecture, written and exhibited projects span the globe. With a mission on learning and exchanging Ideas and technologies from regions and places around the globe. He has accumulated ideas through both passive and hands-on research and work in these areas.

Computer Skills Autodesk Autocad, Adobe graphic suit, Rhinoceros, Google Sketchup, V-Ray Render, Blender

Languages English Native Speaker German (A1), Beginner French (A1), Beginner Hindi Mother Tongue Gujarati Native Speaker Punjabi Native Speaker

Hobbies

Photography, Sketching, Animation, Cartoning, Drama & Music

Education 2012- 2013

Master of Advanced Studies, Urban Design ETH, Zurich

2004-2009

Bachelors of Architecture, A.P.I.E.D., Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India

2002-2004

All India Senior Secondary School Cert., Maharaja Agrasen Vidyalya, Ahemdabad

2002

All India Senior School Cert., Maharaja Agrasen Vidyalya, Ahemdabad

Professional Experience 2009- 2012

JNA Architects, Nexteracom, Ebene, Mauritius, Senior Architect, Team leader and Head designer, Sicom Tower & Hennessy Tower

2008-2009

R&D Cell, IED, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India, Editor and Graphic designer, Madhyam-Magazine for arts, Monograph on Suriyakant Patel

2006-2007

Arun Rewal Associates, Nizzamudin West, New Delhi, Architect Intern, Working Drawings and Visulisations for Computer campus for IIT Powai & Convention Centre, Noida

Awards & Achievements •Part of wining competition entry for office for Airports of Mauritius ltd and VIP receptorium •Pidilite Award for Best Design on Optimum Space Utilization for the Year 2008 •Gaurav Chinha Award for Outstanding Achievements and Contribution, SP University, 2009 •Honorary Panellist for Kurla Varkey Design Forum, CEPT University Ahemdabad, 2009 •Research Assistant position at R&D cell, IED, 2008 •Treasurer, Students council IED, 2006 •Participant AEC World Expo Forum, Mumbai, 2006 •Part of Winning entry for Reubens Trophy, National Students Association, 2006

Academic Projects ETH, Zurich: 1.

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‘Minha Casa Nossa Cidade’ Exhibition at Studio X, Rio de Janeiro Charged Voids, Urban Intervention, Colonia, Rio de Janeiro Congruent Superlatives, Urban Upgradation, Cabuco de Baxio, Brazil

School of Architecture, Vallabh Vidyanagar: Design Thesis : Cultural Centre at Sector- 62 Mohali, Chandigarh Design Studio IX : Urban Renovation; Civic Centre, Ahemdabad 6. Design Studio VIII: Sustainable Housing, Ahemdabad 7. Design Studio VI: Design and detailing of Lawyers Residence 8. Design Studio V: Extension of city Library at R.C. Dutt Road, Baroda 9. Design Studio IV: Integrated Family Housing and Comm. Dev., Jaisalmer, Rajasthan 10. Design Studio III: Art Gallery at Gotri, Baroda 11. Design Studio II: Conservation & refurbishment, Achalgarh, Rajasthan 12. Design Studio I: Artists Residence at Shayadri Hills, Pune 4.

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Professional projects: J&A Architects, Mauritius: 13.

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Office building for Airports Mauritius Ltd, Mahebourgh, Mauritius Multipurpose Facility and Office building, Antananarivo, Madagascar Hennessy Tower for Hyvec Partners, Port Louis, Mauritius Crystal Apartments, Floreal, Mauritius Office Extension for State Insurance Company, Port Louis, Mauritius.

Auditorium and multi- activity centre for Pennial Christian society

Arun Rewal Associates, New Delhi: 19.

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Convention Centre for Caparo Pvt. Ltd., Noida, India Factory for Leaconet & Hemant, Gurgaon, India

CHARGED VOIDS, URBAN HOUSING PROGRAM, COLONIA, RIO DE JANEIRO

The secretary of housing invited the ETH, Zurich to suggest interventions in a popular housing program by the name of ‘My Home My Life’. After a close study of the program and its empirical a proposal was made to selectively intervene in the open spaces of the program and leave the embryo house that the program entails to grow organically over time. The open programmed spaces proposed with the program were integrated with the context with systematic connections and program selection. The resultant work along with others proposed by the students at the ETH was exhibited at StudioX in Rio de Janeiro and would eventually lead into a publication entitled ‘My Home My City’ towards the end of the year. This work would be presented to the Ministry of Housing to be incorporated in the commercial operation of the program.

Thesis, MAS Urban Design, ETH, Zurich, 2013

Guide : Prof. Marc Angelil & Rainer Hehl

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Thesis, MAS Urban Design, ETH, Zurich, 2013

Guide : Prof. Marc Angelil & Rainer Hehl

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Thesis, MAS Urban Design, ETH, Zurich, 2013

Guide : Prof. Marc Angelil & Rainer Hehl

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1. Figure-ground plan of the area depicting the area of intervention 2. Break-up of the proposed program.

3. Model view showing the setting of the intervention 4. Community deck 5. A diagram depicting the flexibility of the housing typologies.

5. A cross section through the intervention and the context

CONGRUENT SUPERLATIVES, URBAN INTERVENTION, CABUCO DE BAXIO, SAO PAULO The program developed out of a call of the RENOVA urban commission in Sao Paulo to submit proposals or Urban intervention in the favelas of Sao Paulo. The identified site in the favela of Cabuco de Baxio in Sao Paulo lay alongside a river, making these houses precarious to live in owing to easy flooding in the area. The proposed housing for the displaced residents provided them with a source of livelihood to integrate them better in the new context alongside a community centre for activities that the local residents could undertake. The housing due to densification produced a surplus which could be used to house new incoming slum migrants. The topologies of housing proposed learning from the typologies and flexibility of favelas can offer multiple accommodation variables opening up to the masses. Urban agriculture was also proposed in the derelict area under the high tension lines lying close to the site which could plug into the commerce being developed on the site.

Semester 1, MAS Urban Design, ETH, Zurich, 2012

Guide : Prof. Marc Angelil & Rainer Hehl

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15 Diploma Thesis, B. Arch, APIED, Vallabh Vidyanagar, 2009

Guide : Prof. Percy Pithawala, Prof. Sanjeev Joshi

URBAN RENOVATION, CIVIC CENTRE, ASHRAM ROAD, AHEMDABAD The area of study Ashram road lies on the eastern edge of the iconic Sabarmati River of the city of Ahemdabad (1.).

The road which has developed into the liner Central business district of Ahemdabad is facing new development pressures from the River-front development. The identified area is a series of derelict cinema theatres from the 1960’s and is the perfect location for a new civic centre for the city with such activities presently missing from this important civic street of the city. The proposed complex is a set of Civic and commercial institution which respond to the pressures from the road on one side and mitigation of this new development on the other side (2.). The structure and Architectural language of the complex develops from the contextual juxtapositions emerging on the site. The Project responds to the Mill-owner’s building lying adjacent to the site (3,4.). The series of public spaces proportioned around the size and shape of the building lead up to it proposing for a publicizing of this derelict monument of Architecture.

1. A figure ground plan of Sabarmati Riverfront & Ashram Road CBD. 2. Area of Urban restoration and site for new Civic centre.

3. Sections through the successive courtyards of the civic centre leading upto the conserved structure 4. Modern heritage building of Mill Owner’s with its associated square

Semester 9, B. Arch, APIED, Vallabh Vidyanagar, 2009

Guide : Prof. Percy Pithawala, Prof. Preety Shah

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Semester 4, B. Arch, APIED, Vallabh Vidyanagar, 2006

Guide : Prof. Shreya, Prof. Preety Shah

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Semester 2, B. Arch, APIED, Vallabh Vidyanagar, 2005

Guide : Prof. Sharad Sheth

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Semester 4, B. Arch, APIED, Vallabh Vidyanagar, 2005

Guide : Prof. Shreya Dalwadi

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Semester 5, B. Arch, APIED, Vallabh Vidyanagar, 2005

Guide : Prof. Sharad Panchal

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Practical Internship, Arun Rewal Associates, New Delhi, 2008

Guide : Ar. Arun Rewal

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Exhibition, Studio X, Rio de Janeiro, 2013

Guide : Prof. Rainer Hehl

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Urban Design Electives, APIED, Vallabh Vidyanagar, 2008

Guide : Prof. Percy Pithawala

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