Architecture Undergraduate Portfolio

JUNIOR ARCHITECT

I am Ram Naresh, an Architect Undergraduate from CMR school of Architecture, Bangalore, India For a long time, I have been extremely intrigued by buildings, spaces and the general sense of aesthetics that these spaces embody which sparked my interest to pursue the subject. My college has contributed to nurturing me as a budding architect. My hard work and passion have propelled me forward in this direction. The following Portfolio is a collection of selected works from my five years as a student practitioner and Intern. It showcases several of my interests and skills through my projects

Ram Naresh RK

ABOUT ME TECHNICAL SKILLS

Birth

11/12/1999

email : naresharch148@gmail.com

ph no : 9972817316

Auto Desk

Auto cad, Revit, Sketch Book

Adobe Creative Cloud

Indesign, Photoshop, Lightroom C/C

Illustrator

3D Modelling and Rendering

Sketchup, Lumion, Twinmotion , Enscape , v-ray

Visualization Media

EDUCATION

Bachelors in Architecture

Cmr University School of Architecture

Graduated( 2017-2022)

Bengaluru,karnataka

River Side Public School

kotagiri,nilgris

10 th & 12th

EXHIBITION / DOCUMENTATION

Dakshin Chitra, Chennai

Crafts of Kutch, Gujarat

Balinese Temple, Bali

Institute of urban designers india

IUDI - Declared the urban design project “paths de pete” as one of the top 20 urban projects in Bangalore and was exhibited in Bangalore international centre.

Model Making, Hand and Digital Sketching, Photography

EXPERIENCE / WORKSHOPS

Internship 2021

C-Earth , Calicut

Cmr University Full Scale

Cob Workshop 103

Tensile structure 104

Bamboo pavillion 105

Wood cut prints 106

Pod and Capsule 107

Critical thinking 108

Ferro cement 109

Full Scale

Carlo Scrapa Railing

LANGUAGES

English , Tamil , H indi

INTEREST

Photography, sketching, travelling, cricket, illustration,Rendering

Thalassery Heritage - Cultural Museum

Year : 2022

Project Type : Public

Site Location : Thalassery , Kerala

Built up : 14000 sqm

The proposed project is a Thalasserry interpretation centre. This centre would serve as a guide to educate all visitors, both from outside and within the city, about thalaserry's history and current situation in one location.

Interaction - Promotion - Engagement

It would act as a guide to educate all the people visiting from different places as well as within the city about the history to the present-day situation of thalaserry in one space.There is a need to conserve or protect or reinterpret it in any form that caters to the revival of the past and culture of the place. Every period had its unique style which left an impression on the city..

FORM DEVELOPMENT

Spliting up into 3 blocks Museum,interpretation centre and buffer spaces

Placing the blocks in diffrent angles such a that it creates certain opeining of diffrent sizes

Creating a clean axis to the water body and the marke t

Playing with different angles of slope and creating a intresting volume and to bring natural light in the space created

View from the temporary exhibition space

GOODSHEDROAD

GOVERNMENTSCHOOL

This diagram showcases views of different parts of the design . We could the massing and volume of the project with respect to the open and built spaces. The clear view of the all the entry is also shown here .

aster Plan - Ground Floor

The Ground floor master plan , We could see how the dsign sits with site. The drop off is towards the south and south east.The people entering the building will see the admin block where they get to know about the building adn how they experience it . The museum block is plqaced on the river front side towards the northern side . The people move through the building in order as they pass through all the blocks and experience it.

GROUND FLOOR

ADMINISTRATION

LOBBY CURATOR TICKETING & BAGGAGE COUNTER CONFERENCE ROOM

MUSEUMS

INTRODUCTION GALLERY / PRESHOW GALLERY

GALLERYBUILT HERITAGE (ARCHITECTURE)

TIMELINE GALLERYEVOLUTION OF MALABAR REGION

GALLERY

HISOTRY OF TRADE (PORTUGUESE (PEPPER & CARDAMON) WORKSHOPS

EDUCATION FACILITIES

LIBRARY COLLECTION STORE ROOM SEMINAR HALLS

RETAIL STORE CAFE/RESTAURANT

MARKET - OUTDOOT AND INDOOR (SPICE AND LOCAL SALES)

GOODSHEDROADGOVERNMENTSCHOOL

Diagram Representating Roof styles and combinations of slope and flat roof to create a sense of curiosity and play of light

Continuous shaded Pathways connecting all the Museum to the open Public zones and use of the Wooden louver panels in the Pathways to give a sense of a enclosure for the people walking

View from the lake looking at the museum block

The market block is designed to be more open , the heirarchy of the space from a open to sky market - semi open space - enclosed shops . The plinth is mostly used in the moring and the eveing time depicting the old spice market in kerala

This is the central plaza space , the plaza is used a temporary exhibition space to showcase any festival or drama or any temporary exhibits. We could see the movemnet of people in the diagram where the people move along the boards placed . The seatings are also provided for the users .

SECTION CUTTING ACROSS THE LIBRARY , CAFE AND GALLERY

INDICATES THE PLACEMENT BASED ON THE HIERARCHY AND ZONING

View from the central plaza

THALASSERY HERITAGE - CULTURAL MUSEUM

View of the Project showing central plaza and the library block

Year : 2022

Project Type : Institutional

Site Location : Chamrajpet , Bangalore

Built up : 6000 sqm

The project was to design a children's learning centre with other supporting programs for kids if different age and also for the local adults. The programs that catered to the kids are day care, labs, tuition, music class, dance class, astrology class etc. Retail, rentals, office space and auditorium catered to the public. The site also has a huge park towards the south, so people coming to the park could also enjoy the park and the public library available in the building.

The open spaces for the kids are secluded and are visible from every corner of the building so they are under staff provision. The playground and the classrooms are in the periphery of the site .

CONCEPTUAL SKETCHES

The initial concept was to react to the site and make the spaces interesting since its used by mostly the kids.Firstly wanted to open the building towards the playground adjacent to the site and connect to the public park but not a direct connection but an indirect connection to create sense of enclosure for the kids.

So the buildings are oriented in such a way that the movement from small spaces to a bigger space creates a sense of funnelling. which would create a sense of surprise for the kids when they move through different sizes of spaces.

CONCEPT -

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FORM DEVELOPMENT

Spliting up into 3 blocks public,semi public and private

Placing the blocks in diffrent angles such a that it creates certain opeining of diffrent sizes and courtyard

Creating a funneling effect of moving from a smaller space to larger spaces

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Opening up the building towards the park , ground and the road

Curving the edges and creating diffrent levels and openings

The final building is placed in a way they open up towards the ground and the park

The entry is placed in such a way creating two seperate plaza in the front on for the public and the other for the childrens coming to the centre

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT DIAGRAMS

The built volume shows the different plaza , all the plaza has different functions and all are facing diffrent parts of the site.

The building is divided into three major functions which are public , semi public and private .

Public ( Auditorium , retail shops )

Teachers and training spaces

Children's learning centre classroom

This shows the movement of people in the building

Movement of the people isin a such a way they move from smaller spaces to larger open spaces which creates a sense of curiosity

All the diagrams combined shows how the building works in the form of functions and the movement and the zoning of the spaces

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

The ground floor master plan, Starting with the entry is from the western road. The pubic block is towards the northwest of the site and the learning centre is towards the south side.

As we move towards the northern side we have the retail blocks which are facing the western road inviting the people into the building. The retail block opens up onto the plaza on the west side and the inner courtyard which acts as a transitional court.

The central block is a Lab and experimental space. The south side is the learning centre block which is designed to have a seamless movement through the spaces and all the classrooms have curved edges which is made of precast concrete walls and slabs .

The courtyard towards the east is used by kids and the slide which spills in to the courtyard from the first floor

View showing the entry courtyard

BIRDS VIEW OF THE PROJECT

This a birds view of the project showcasing different parts of the design As we could see the entry to the projec is towards the western side . The curved wall of the learning centre is a vissible in the diagram shown

This skin section is cut along the public building facing on the western side , hence use of louvers to cut down the harsh sunlight on the first floor.The louvers are precast and are made of concrete. Following the skin there is a layer of galss window thats entry of diffuse sunlight in the space.

Jalli wall is used to increase the porosity , visibilty of the space in the corridor.So this jalli wall is used in the childrens learning space to provide a safer visible connection to the outside .

View from the drop-off

View of the Inner public courtyard

CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTRE

View of the Project showing the entry

Urban study - Paths de Pete

Year : 2020

Project Type : Urban development

Site Location : New Tharagupete , Bangalore

Built up : 14000 sqm

The proposed project is an Urban development, we were a group of three people who worked on this project. Initially, we found certain areas in the given and picked 7 different areas which needed to be developed in their respective way.

The seven sites which are chosen were developed to the required needs. we as a group of three divided 2 sites each to design accordingly but we had created a certain language to be followed in the design which would connect each of our sites as one complete urban development. The two sites which were designed by myself were the Public complex and flea market.

Institute of urban designers india IUDI - Declared the urban design project “paths de pete” as one of the top 20 urban projects in Bangalore and was exhibited in Bangalore international centre

URBAN STUDY

T H A R A G U P E T T E

New Tharagupet is Located in the heart of Bangalore City, the state capital of Karnataka, India.

There is a lot of history associated with the neighborhood. Important landmarks like the Bangalore fort, Tippu’s palace, Vani villas and victoria hospital are present. The place is well connected with roads and the metro.It is one of the biggest commercial centers in Bangalore. The Pete is presently, inhabited mainly by people from the Muslim, Devanga, Tigala, Marwari, and Jain communities. Kannada is the Local Language here.

This locality was 1st city in Asia to have streetlights in the year 1905

Communities of different professions occupied different areas of the petha as is evident by the names of the streets still used in the old city area

INFERENCE LEGEND

Residential - 4.54%

Commercial

Public

and Open spaces - 2.76%

T H E T T E

URBAN DESIGN T H A R A G U P E T T E PEDESTRAIN MOVEMENT INFERENCE LEGEND Mysore road, Avenue road and KR road have high pedestrian movement because of the commercial presence. Encroachment of hawkers on sidewalk leads to people walking on the road. high pedestrian movement low pedestrian movement 1950 2000 1850 1650 2020 1900 1800 1750 1700 1600 URBAN DESIGN SITE STUDY T H A R A G U P E T T E LANDUSE - MASTERPLAN LEGEND RESIDENTIAL 4.54% COMMERCIAL 64.2% PUBLIC AND SEMI PUBLIC SPACEPARKS AND OPEN SPACES 2.76% RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS N 1950 2000 1850 1650 2031 1900 1800 1750 1700 1600

Mysore road, Avenue road and KR road have high pedestrian movement because of the commercial presence. Encroachment of hawkers on sidewalk leads to people walking on the road.

The fabric of Tharagupete has remained almost the same over the last

The fabric of Tharagupete has remained almost the same over the last 20 years

S W O T

Presense of the kalasipalaya bus stand.

Close to Proximity to KR junction

Heavy traffic caused due to the bus travel agencies

Absence of any green space \pause point

Site being in L - shaped building can be confronted to the main road leading to the bus stand and catering to the minot road

Larger number of pedestrian movement relatively to the mainroad

Lack of pause points and parking

For the urban design we have taken 7 potential site which each one of them lack in different aspects accordingly . So my design site is located in the kalasipalya road near to the KR market.

The built volume consisted of three functions - Co working space, Restaurent and Public librabry

Opening up two sides of the building to create open to sky courtyard spilling onto the streets

Pushing up the corner edge block upwards creating a open space on the ground floor and to improve the flow of the people in the building without any disturbance

Opening the ground floor to the public and creating diffrent volumes of courtyards

Breaking up the huge mass of the building by creating a courtyrad

The restaurent voulme is lowered Library block is lifted from the ground floor.There is a bridge connceting the two buildings

Opening up alll the entrance towards the road

The ground floor consists of

• Co working , cafe and restaurant

• There is a central axis which connects both the ends together

• Restaurant consists of indoor and outdoor dining

• The two courtyards provide a outdoor space to hangout

• The green belt of tree provide shade and enclosure from the road and the streets

C0 -Working space Courtyard Restaurant

Flea Market

Plaza

Plaza

BusStop

KALASIPALAYAMROAD

BUILT UP VOL

The two volumes are divided into Built and semi built spaces

• The permanent shops are located in the back side and the Temporary shops are towards the street

BUILT UP VOL

The semi built space has a visual connection between the complex and the market.

• The same language of arches is followed in both the buildings to • create conncetion between both the buildings

KALASIPALAYAMROAD

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Breaking the voluma into two blocks and Opening the front side of the building towards the road

KALASIPALAYAMROAD

Creating a semi semi open space which spills out to the streets ,Inviting the public onto the market

The two volumes are divided into Built and semi built spaces

The permanent shops are located in the back side and the Temporary shops are towards the streets.

The semi built space has a visual connection between the complex and the market

The Market concists of

• This building is only on the ground floor.

• The front portion of the market is open towards the road which consists of daily vendors ie,vegetabls and cart sellers

• The inner portion of the market is for the Rentals shops and the groceries sellers

Flea Market

Access

The complex is entered from the public plaza In front of it

Both the sites are connceted by zebra crossing

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Plaza + Vendor zone

The palza infront of the complex acts as an pause point or a hangout space

The vendor zone present infornt of the market

Vegetation

The public plaza infront of the complex is populated with trees to provide shades for the seatings

The green courtyard inside the complex acts as an gathering space and a pause point for the public

The green courtyard spills on to the plaza inviting the public into the buildingt

Arches

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Arches being the main design element are being used to open up to the road

Two type of arches are used according to the spaces in the building

Facade + Louvers

The Louver element is brought into the facade the create a contrast between the arches

People + Activities

The public plaza and the green courtyard could be a pause point or a hangout space for the public

The green courtyard inside the building can be widely used as a food court

Entrance

The arches serves as an entrance to the building

The size of the entrance variess according to the buildings.

All the entrance are through the public plaza infront of the complex.

All overlay + facing angle

Both the building talks to itself in the form of the facade and the angle its placed

Virtually both the building are connected in the form of built language and the treatment of the elements

Other works

Sketching/Renders

As a kid, I spent hours drawing and sketching ideas that popped into my head. I used drawing as a primary language for capturing thoughts, exploring ideas and then sharing those ideas. Sketching has been my favourite hobby.

Rendering was something which I developed during my architectural course, which has always helped me to visualise my ideas and design close to reality, I have always tried to experiment with different types of ideas and to create something interesting

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Photography

Photography is one of the best ways to capture the beauty around us. Few people take pictures solely to please themselves. Most of us take them because we want them seen by others. Pictures are a photographer’s means of expression also being a travel enthusiast helps me in exploring places, culture, and typologies through photography. Here is my collection of photography from my architecture student life.

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RENDERS

HERE ARE SOME OF MY RENDERS WHICH ARE DONE USING DIFFERENT SOFTWARES

ARE SOME OF MY SKETECHES DONE DIGITALLY

Sketched in autodesk sketchbook

HERE

HERE ARE SOME OF MY PHOTOS SHOWCASING DIFFERENT PLACES AND SCENE

I HEREBY DECLARE THAT THIS DOCUMENTS CONTAINS ONLY ORIGINAL ACADEMIC WORK, ALL DRAWINGS, SKETCHES, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND TEXTS ARE MY OWN

RAM NARESH R K 9972817316