Pradyumn k rao portfolio

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Design Portfolio

PRADYUMNA K RAO


Table of Contents


Curriculum Vitae

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Redevelopment of Cooum River- Spurtank Road

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Smart City Proposal- Puducherry

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Ashwin Sundaram Residence

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Sidhpur Stories- Exhibition

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Sajong DaeRo

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Facade meets Interiors

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Freelance Works

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curriculum vitae

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Email: (mob)

pradyumna.231@gmail.com +91 91760 30589


Pradyumna k rao 12, 3rd Cross Street Ormes Road, Kilpauk Chennai 600 010

Education 2011 - 2016

Hindustan University, Chennai Bachelors of Architecture

2016

Thesis_Redevelopment of Cooum River- Spurtank Raod, Chennai

2015

Internship_Triple O Studio

2014

Summer School_Germany

2005-2011

Lady Andal Hr.Sec School, Chennai

Experience Dec 2014

Triple O Studio, Chennai

to Jan 2016

Design Intern Worked on a range of projects from residential, commercial, interiors and urban design. Involved in all aspects of the projects from design to execution and client management. Was also part of the team which took part in an International Competition for a Plaza design in Seoul, South Korea.

Nov 2016

Triple O Studio, Chennai

to Mar 2017

Project Architect Worked on the Design proposal for the Smart City Mission- Puducherry. Worked on the Study, analysis and Proposals for the city that was presented to the GOI.

2017

Freelance Transform an empty penthouse into a guest house to be rented on Airbnb. Complete interiors for a 3bhk 2800 sqft apartment in MRC Nagar, Chennai.

Knowledge Softwares Known Proficient in 2D and 3D software (AutoCAD, SketchUp) Well-versed in post-production work, graphics, rendering and text composition (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, V-ray, Lumion)

Languages Known English Tamil Tulu Kannada

achievements May 2014

Summer School_Germany One of two selected to attend Summer School (Facades Meets Interiors) in University of Applied Sciences, Detmold, Germany

Aug 2016

Niasa, Chennai One of the four entries representing our college and one of the top 10 shortlisted entries in South zone

Jun 2017

Smart Cities Mission Puducherry placed within top 10 in the Smart Cities Mission in Phase 3


Redevelopment of The riverfront

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Cooum river Spurtank road


The Design Process: I took a slightly different approach to my thesis by not finalizing my program before i had started, but rather let my study of the city and the site guide me to this decision. Since i had picked an urban project, it was vital that the program and design was one that was not forced upon, but one which came out of great thought and understanding of the neighborhood and the city.


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Site Access Cooum River, synonymous with the citizens of Chennai, is one of the three rivers that dissect the metro into many parts. Once brimming with life and business opportunities, these rivers now lies stagnant and its banks are used for the MRTS & housing for the poor. The section of Spurtank Road, which lies parallel to the river, gives rise to the perfect opportunity to create a public space that revitalizes the river and gifts the citizens of Chennai another reason to love the city. The design proposal will help the public to reconnect with the river, which has seen the city evolve to what it is today.

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4 The Cooum River along Spurtank Road has been housing cane weavers and artists for decades. Ironically COOPTEX, a Govt. Institution for promotion of hand looms and handicrafts, is present at the other end of the site, not too far away from where these weavers live. The design proposes to create a space for the weavers and other artisans to work and interact with the public. The design solution also tries to convert the river into a active water front by paying homage to the neglected river that deserves more from everyone.

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These zones are mainly the first point of access or space for experiencing the riverfront, hence should be designed to hold large crowds. It should be a space where one can experience the riverfront atmosphere in all aspects. Most parts of the architecture should will be placed within it. The built form at no means should be a hindrance to experience the riverfront but should be designed to enhance and capitalize on the experience of the user. Zone I and VIII hold the architectural proposal.

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These zones are the part of the riverfront Above 90 redevelopment meant for gathering and dispersion of people. They do not have any built form in them. On the northern bank, it connects two red zones and will have a space of relaxation and parking which will act as a pause point. On the south bank it will be used to connect to the north bank and is also connected to a red zone.

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This zone is a transitional zone only used for connectivity without any built form of any kind and is obsolete of any kind of activity. This is essentially due to the fact that the immediate surroundings is all private residences and placement of any activity here is not preferred. These spaces will be heavily landscaped to substitute the absence of activities. Seating will be on an individual level unlike the other two zones.

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River Edge design: The site study resulted in the site being differentiated into three color zones namely: red, yellow and green zones. These zones are assigned function and characteristics based upon which the river edge of these have been developed.

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The Retail Studios The architectural form proposed here is a space for a retail cum workspace for artisans related to the hand looms and handicrafts industries. The building has two modules: a 35 m2 and a 50 m2 module. These spaces contain within them a workspace for the artisans and a small retail space to showcase and sell their products. The idea with including the workspace within this complex was so that the users have a unique opportunity to interact with the artisans, who are otherwise unknown.

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The linearity of the site and the level difference between the road and the riverfront means that the building is the gateway to the riverfront. The idea that the user gradually moves between levels, allows them to experience the river from different vantage points and also enhances the possibility of increased interaction with the artisans. From the road the user enters into a plaza which acts as the buffer between the road and the shops. At the end of this plaza is a seating area, that connect the above floor, which allows the user to view the magnificent river meandering through the city.

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A line of workspace cum retail spaces are added to reduce the scale of the courtyard, which also causes a visual obstruction.

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Exploding the exoskeleton so one can enjoy the riverfront is all senses.

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The workspace cum retail spaces are aligned along the edges so as to maximize the visual link to the river and creating a huge out of scale courtyard

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The second storey has the same floor plan, but with an additional line of retail spaces parallel to the riverfront, maximizing the visual link to the river.

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The Retail Studios is located near a busy intersection with heavy footfall in a mixed residential zone. The building is conceptualized as a semi looping rectangular spiral, where visitors can walk along the workspaces for artisans while have uninterrupted views of the Cooum. The modules of 50 and 80 SqM are designed as a stepped rectangular spiral that loops the ground-floor (street-level) and the first floor, while the lower level (+1.65M above riverbed based on the 30Y flood line) leads to the river plaza. A row of studios placed diagonally to split the river plaza into two courtyards. The highest level is designed to frame the river and has a stepped seating area connecting the plaza, thus creating a loop.

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Co-optex Complex There are many different types of retail spaces within the Cooptex compound. The area chosen has one of them and the proposal is to redevelop the same to cater to a larger number of shops and to make the space feel as an extension of the riverfront. Unlike the Retail Studios, the products displayed here are sourced from different parts of the country by Govt. Institutions to promote Handilooms and Handicrafts from smaller and rural artisans. After studying the existing retail space, it was concluded that three sizes of retail spaces are required: a 50m2, 100m2 and a 200m2. The design intends to create a space where the users can enjoy both shopping and the riverfront at the same time. As the user goes higher up the structure the lesser is the built form and more open spaces. Large cuts in floor slab provide the necessary light and cross ventilation, while allowing for interaction between levels. A number of stairs and ramps placed at various locations allows the user to move freely throughout the whole building.

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The existing retail spaces are being redeveloped to cater to more retail shops and for the architecture to respond to its environment, unlike before which ignored it.

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The above storey is placed so that there is sufficient circulation and break out spaces, were these shops could spill out into if required.

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As abundant land is available, the design has a more free approach. The fact that the site was located at one end of the site, gave rise to the idea that the architecture should be an extension of the riverfront and the line separating the property edge and river should be blurred. 6

The continuous circulation corridor provided helps with circulation between different spaces and levels. The corridors are used to connect the larger spaces and emphasis is given to create larger opening so as to maximize the lighting as well as provide sufficient shade for the users

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The highest storey has the fewest number of shops. The experience of as the user goes higher is to have more open spaces for gathering and more over to respond to the river.

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With account for further development, the design takes two levels, the third has no built form so as to protect it at times of flood. The continuous spaces are broken up at regular interval so that the user can always have a visual link to the river, and eases circulation

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The circulation corridors are punctured by openings to play with light and shadow and create a more open felling rather than the experience of a closed box. The only wall used are for those to enclose the shops and the corridors to feel as a part of the riverfront itself.

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Smart City Proposal Puducherry

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nov 2016 to march 2017


Scope of work: Scope of work included consulting with the main consultants( JLL) and other consultants, the Puducherry Municipality and the people of Puducherry. Study of the city, creating the profile of the city, selection of various projects and coming up with the various proposal, content creation and presentation.


CITY PROFILE

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PROFILE OF ABD AREA

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SWADESHI MILL REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT Chief Secretariat Assembly Complex Marie Annexe Police Headquarters L.A.D L.A.D PWD P.I.P.I.D.I.C

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PWD Chief Engineer’s Office

The Swadeshi Mill Complex is designed to host the Government Buildings that have been moved from the French Quarter. Additional value is added to the mill area by adding retail areas. The Shifted Government buildings occupy the warehouses Additional value is added to the mill area having retail areas The Assembly hall allowing citizen government engagement

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ART AND CULTURE COMPLEX @ OLD DISTILLER

URBAN ART AND CULTURE COMPLEX The Distillery, is envisioned as an Urban Art and Culture Complex that can showcase the Heritage of Pondicherry at the start of the Promenade. The Distillery boasts of an unresticted view of the promenade and the beach, further emphasized by a viewing tower that can be publicly accessible.

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URBAN ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE @ OLD PORT

URBAN ENTERTAINMENT VILLAGE The Old Port is envisioned as an Urban Entertainment Village, that caters to the people of the city. It includes Play Areas, Display Boards etc. Parking is also proposed to decongest traffic in the surrounding area. Adaptive Reuse The Warehouses are reused as a temporary activity space, a resto-bar and a kid’s play area.

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Ashwin Sundaram Residence

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Scope of work: Was part of project from the start till end of my Internship. It was a renovation of an existing house in Pallavaram. During this time I was incharge of the whole project from site documentation, conceptual plans, working drawings, presentation and ensuring proper execution of the project @ site.


Documentation: The existing house was a 50 year old load bearing structure with madras terrace roof. The brief was to maintain as much of the old house as possible and make room for the growing family. The nearly wall to wall construction meant that the existing house did not receive much natural light. The aim was to make sure that all the spaces in the house got as much as natural light and ventilation as possible. The proposal was for the center portion of the house to remain and create extensions in the front and back. The final design drew a lot of inspiration from the existing house and turned it into a contemprary home.

ASR Residence

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First Floor Plan


ASR Residence Documentation

ASR Residence This project is about a design of a residence in Pallavaram. The residence is a 60 year old load bearing structure. The site is a very linear one and almost like wall to wall constuction. The brief for the design was to expand the residence to accomaidate moreofpeople. It alsothat required Portion the building was the upper floor to actdemolished as a seperate residece for the elder son. completely

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Proposed First Floor Plan

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ASR Residence

Interior Views

The design proposed the kitchen, dinning and living space in the old structure and a service kitchen and two rooms, one in the front and one at the back, in the new structure. To bring in light into the linear house, two OTS were added, each with its own characteristics. The different in characteristics is to cut the ASR Residence monotony and make each space unique based on the function it was intended for.

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Facade design: The house was situated in a small street replicating the olden Tamil style house with their Thinnai’s. The brief was to have place in the front yard to park their car and the rest of the space used for relaxing during the day and open enough to make conversation with the neighbors. On the first floor was the master bedroom, with a large 5’ cantilevered balcony. A wooden screen was designed such that it provides shade and some privacy to them and is movable so that it can completly open up when required.

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About the exhibition: Sidhpur Stories was a collaboration between Triple O Studio and Dakshina Chitra. This exhibition, held at Dakshina Chitra, was to educate people about the heritage havelis in a small town called Sidhpur in Gujarat.

Role: Illustratiion of Houses and Crests


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Sejong daero, Seoul Competition

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Internship Triple o studio


Scope of work: Study of site and history of the area, design development, 3d modeling, rendering, post production


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Sejong Daero, Seoul: Competition for an Urban Space Team Members:

Sejong_Daero, Seoul Tahaer Anupriya Subbian, Sabarish, Triple OZoyab, Studio, Chennai

Pradyumna & Gaurav competition that i got to participate while i wad doing my internship at Triple O This wasMembers: an international Team Scope of Work: Studio. brief wasAnupriya to create aSubbian, public space in one of the more Culturally important area of Seoul. The TahaerTheZoyab, Sabarish, Conceptual Design; Architectural graphic existing building was to be demolished and a new Public Plaza was to take its place. Pradyumna & Gaurav illustrations; 3D visualisations Scope of Work: Conceptual Design; Architectural illustrations; 3D visualisations

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District Level Scheme District Level Scheme

The district scheme seeks to establish a strong links of spatial revitalization at various interludes The scheme seeks seeks to The district district scheme to throughout the city. establish of spatial establish aa strong stronglinks links of spatial revitalization revitalization at at various variousinterludes interludes throughout the city. city. throughout the

The centre of culture aims to enhance the rendezvous of the cultural ethos of Seoul and its modern erudition. The proposed design unfolds to form a focal point of the various activities radiating around it. The site is envisioned as The centre centre of culture aims totoenhance the rendezvous of the cultural ethos of The of culture aims enhance the rendezvous of the cutural a space for the public, connecting the sites of historic significance around it. Seoul and its modern erudition. The proposed design unfolds to form a focal ethos of Seoul and its modern erudition. The proposed design unfolds to pointaoffocal the various activities radiating around it. Thearound site is envisioned form point of the various activities radiating it. The site as for the connecting the sites of historic significance around it. isa space envisioned aspublic, a space for the public, connecting the sites of historic significance around it. 59

Visual connectivity of the site with the public plaza adjacent to it is achieved through physical means, Visual connectivity connectivity of of the thesite site with Visual as a stretch cutting acrosswith the the public plaza adjacent to ititis is the public plaza adjacent to Sejong Daero. achieved through physical physical means, means, achieved as aastretch stretch cutting across as cutting across the the Sejong Daero. Daero. Sejong


Master Plan Scheme

The masterplan masterplanscheme scheme The aimsaims at at integrated apporach evolving an integrated apporachto re-design thetheexisting to re-design existing pedestrian pedestrian passage by by means meansof of seamless passage seamless between the theground ground connections between and the and the underground. underground.

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Sejong Daero, Seoul: Competition for an Urban Space Triple O Studio, Chennai Design Development Phase

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Sejong Daero, Seoul: Competition forfor anan Urban Space Sejong Daero, Seoul: Competition Urban Space Triple OO Studio, Chennai Triple Studio, Chennai

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Summer of 2014 Germany


Scope of work: Design development of ground and terrace floor. Plan rendering, acustic design, lighting design. Physical model


About the Project

Mood Board

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This project was done during the Summer School at the University of Applied Sciences, Detmold. I was partnered with students from the University of Florida, National Institute of Design and HS OWL. The design brief required us to redesign the interiors of the SMOV Building, a modern heritage building by Oscar Niemeyer. Located in Porto Alegre, Brazil, it is occupied by the Development authorities of the city. Brutalist in nature, the most interesting aspect was how the facade was reflected in the interiors through the use of a modernist’s favourite tool - the grid. As is the case with most Govt. buildings, the hesitency to enter it existed. The design aimed to change that.

Floor Plan - grou Summer School 2014 Facades meet interiors

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Gaming lounge Spaces

•Reception •Auditorium •Exhibition space •Café

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In an attempt to negate “the hesitancy floor was made completely Public in pr have been made into outdoor spaces creating spaces for one to take break •Securityonly for the people who work in the bu •Storageneighborhood. Pivoted doors leading allow the space to be flexible.

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Program of Ground floor

Public Toilets Reception cum (stairs Waiting Vertical circulation and elevators) Auditorium Exhibition Spaces Public Cafe Auditorium Exhibition spaces Circulation Public Cafe

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Open Space/ Sit Outs

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Summer School 2014 y to enter a Govt. Buildingâ€? the Ground rogram. Two parts of the building Facades meet interiors s in an effort to open out the interiors, ks during the day. This is not intended uilding but also for the residents of the Open courtyard Open courtyard to the sit outs, act as façade as well

Open spaces/ courtyards / sit outs Circulation Gaming lounge Security Office Vertical Circulation Reception and waiting Gaming Lounge Security Office Public Toilets

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Gaming lounge

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Program of Typical floor

Program of Typical Floor

Typical Floor

Public Toilets Public Circulation Vertical circulation (stairs and elevators) Collaboration spaces Meeting Rooms Open Offices Lounge Private Offices Archive Archives Employees Toilets Open Offices

Summer School 2014 Collaboration Spaces Facades meet interiors Private offices

Lounge MeetingEmployees Circulation Kitchen’sVertical employees Circulation Waiting and Reception Waiting and Reception Employees circulation Public circulation Employees Kitchen Employees Toilets Public Toilets

Open workstation

In an attempt to keep the work environ public is limmited to the waiting area, t will keep the employees who dont have •Open officeThe spaces more clam environment. open floor the employees •Cabinsa mix of different space each floor allows them to take timely b •Meeting rooms get back to work. Two Courtyards on e an openness within the building, also a •Drafting spaces be happening.

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•Interaction spaces •Pantry kitchen

Summer School 2014 Floor Plan – Terr Facades meet interiors Terrace Floor

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The terrace floor is made as a leisure space for the employees with a Library and mini golf course. For the Public, the terrace is accessable during lunch and dinner to the bar and Resaurant.

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•Mini indoor golf course • Library

This decreases the stigma of a Govt. Bu building. The balcony acts as a break


Floor Plan – Typical floor

nment better, the circulation for the the meeting rooms and the toilet. This e to meet the public less flusted and a • Reception areaspaces gives plan and collaboration es to work out of. A lounge area within • Lounge areas breaks to refocus their thoughts and • Storage roomsand create each floor will alternate allowing for vertical conversations to

Lounge and meeting room

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race floor

Plan of Typical floor; View of lounge and meeting room; View of Open work stations

Summer School 2014 Facades meet interiors

Open kitchen

uilding, while improving revenue for the space during the summer times.

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Freelance works Interiors

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Summer of 2017 Chennai



Apartment 8 The Penthouse was completely empty except for the kitchen. The design was for the space to be used as a service apartment. The spaces had to be flexible to accommodate all kinds of users old, young, teens, small groups, families etc. Study cum dressing tables in the rooms where made with carpenters and use of re-purposed pine wood. Luggage racks were also made using the same wood. The budget for the entire project was 5 lacs which had to include all the electronics, furniture, plants, lights, bathroom fixtures etc. The time line was also short with a 40 day period.

From right( clockwise): View of Living cum dining room; Dining and library space; Library cove; View of bedroom; view of study area in room; View of outdoor seater; Custom made light using pine wood; Night view of balcony.

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Apartment 1C The Apartment design was for a young couple with two young kids. The brief was for want of a very open floor plan. In this regard no screens and partitions were made in the common area. For the kids room, custom made bunk beds were designed leaving the lower space open for the kids to play and relax. The study area for the kids was moved to the balcony. The third bedroom doubles up as a guest room cum bar area. The partition wall in the room acts as a surface to mount the TV, while the back portion has a custom bar unit that can be closed when not in use.

From right( clockwise): View of Dining and kitchen with breakfast counter; View of Pooja room and study area; View of TV wall; View of Study Area; View of Master bedroom; View of proposed bar unit; View of TV wall detail; View of Kids room with custom bunk beds

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