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Ravi Chandar M.S. Design Theory & Pedagogy [Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles] M.A. Architecture & Urban Design [Städelschule Architecture Class, Frankfurt] Apt. 1-536, 100 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles, CA - 90013. 1 + 323-397-9455 Ravichandar6@gmail.com www.ravi-chandar.com Š 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission of copyright owner.
Architecture
Portfolio
Ravi Chandar
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Statement ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Monuments to Museums Science City Morphological Studies Light-Shelf Detail
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FREELANCE PROJECTS
Evolo Skyscraper Residence Studio Apartment Luxury Apartment Clubhouse School Campus PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS
Row House Development High Rise Residential Tower Office Building Technology Park
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Statement
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Ravi Chandar is a recent graduate from the postgraduate EDGE program at The Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles. As a student in the Design Theory and Pedagogy specialization, he prepared to pursue architecture at the intersection of academia and practice. Prior to his interest in a hybrid career as an architect-theorist-educator, he received a Master of Arts in Architecture degree at The Staedelschule Architecture Class, Frankfurt, Germany with a specialization in Urban Design. He is also a registered architect in India and received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from The R.V. College of Architecture, Bangalore, India. He has professionally worked in the role of a Junior Architectural Designer at RSP Design Consultants Pvt. Ltd. in Bangalore, India. Here, his work focused on the conceptual design and development of multiple large scale residential, commercial and institutional projects. In parallel, he has also spearheaded a freelance practice and executed small scale residential projects in India. He has also worked as an Intern at Cadence Architects in India, assisting in the design and execution of various residential projects. He has a keen interest in teaching and discovering a form of architectural practice that dove-tails academia and the profession. His interests primarily revolve around architectural and art history, theory and philosophy. By engaging with the profession with his theoretical background, he hopes to find new forms of expression and design that can advance the landscape of the built environment.
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From Monuments to Museums Design Studio
SUMMER 2018 Project Type: Academic Project. Studio Title: Allusive Abstractions. Instructor: Marcelyn Gow, David Ruy.
This project engages with the formal discourse regarding Tectonics and Mereology. It also grapples with the issue of meaning in architecture and speculates on the typology of monuments and museums as storehouses for collective memory. The project uses profiles extracted from symbolic references and uses them as 3D seams to produce complex tectonic forms. By developing ‘chunks’ from the profiles, the overall form is first conceived as a cube with a series of interlocking parts. This cube is then subject to scalar and rotational transformations to advance the notion of a symbolic monolithic monument into a programmable architectural proposition for a museum. The meta-project at stake questions the appropriation of form though allusive techniques that exploit collective memory.
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Symbolic Profiles extracted to produce a series of 2D diagrams representing tectonic seams
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3D Translation of the Profiles into a Cube with interlocking parts
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Isometric Views of Cube with interlocking chunks
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1. Symbolic Chunks assembled into a cube 2. Symbolic Chunks disassembled
Part to Whole relationships have traditionally been associated with the reduction of a whole into its constituent parts thereby establishing a sense of ontological hierarchy. Reduction of a surface into panels based on material limits, the standardization of tectonic elements based on efficiency, the subdivision of an exterior perimeter into rooms are a few examples of how part to whole relations have been established through the history of the discipline. This project aims to challenge this notion of reduction and instead propagates the autonomy of elements referred to as ‘chunks’ that redefine the ontological status of the parts in relation to the whole. By challenging the traditional mereological conditions, the project speculates on formal combinations of chunks to produce complex interlocking assemblies. Each chunk is designed to accomodate a specific program when the monument is scaled and modified into a museum. The combination of a number of such chunks therefore produces a new methodology of producing architectural form.
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Physical Model of The Monument
1. Museum Sectional Perspective 18 2. Museum South Elevation 3. Museum East Elevation 3. Museum West Elevation
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The Musuem consists of a series of split levels connected by a central diagonal stairwell. The circulation strategy is reversed as visitors are encouraged to start from the skylit galleries at the top and make their way down towards the cafe and gift store. The facades of the museum are detailed with titanium panels which allow for the establishment of an iconic presence within the context.
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Science City Competition Graduate Thesis
SPRING 2016 Project Type: Academic Project. Instructors: Peter Trummer, David Ruy, Johan Bettum. Location: Cairo, Egypt.
This project speculates the possibility of condensing a large urban development into a singular built form. By using contextual references such as obelisks and heiroglyphicls, the project attempts to produce an iconic building in Egypt. In this regard, the urban diagram of souks and markets are used as the organizational diagram for the science city. The formal aspects of this project try to combine conventional notions of ornament, structure and space into a singular tectonic element. The integrated program includes exhibition spaces, research facilities, administration and service facilities, a conference center, a planetarium and an observation tower. The project seeks to produce both a monumental as well as an intimate effect through the use of deep surface patterns and monolithic materiality.
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1. Ground Floor: Figure-Ground Diagram 2. Ground Floor: Detailed Plan
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Abstract patterns generated from heiroglyphs are used as motifs on the facade to give the building a sense of character and belonging within its context. In addition, the homogeneous material interspersed with occasional glazing give the building the character of a monolithic contemporary ruin and helps stitch together the various fragments that accommodate the program. The sectional detail manifests itself as deep surface ornamentation on the shorter facades that are extruded as linear bands across the longer facades. The observation tower takes on an obelisk like form and gives the Science City presence as a contemporary icon beside the Great Pyramids.
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Morphological Studies Visual Studies
SPRING 2016 Project Type: Academic Project. Studio Title: Mass, Texture, Detail. Instructors: Johan Bettum, Damjan Jovanovic, Adil Bokhari.
The project involves a formal exploration of contemporary digital modes of production while speculating on the deformation and morphology of the sphere as a geometric primitive. It speculates the coherence between an object’s mass, detail and texture. The project also seeks to highlight morphological and topographical modulations using colour and patterns. 3D iterations are made using advanced clay sculpting tools and translated into physical sculptures using 3D printing technology. The objects employs reaction-diffusion patterns as surface modulations that are enhanced by chromatic highlights. These formal experiments render the sculptural objects with an animal like character, leading one to speculate its origin and relevance to architecture.
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1. Symmetrically Deformed Sphere with Gradients Highlighting the Surface Topology 2. Detail of Pattern and Colour Juxtapositions to produce Surface Effects
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Physical Object combining Mass, Detail and Texture into a Coherent Sculptural From
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Pattern, Colour and Surface Topology Study
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Light Shelf Detail & Prototype Applied Studies
FALL 2017 Project Type: Academic Project. Studio Title: Details, Details. Instructor: Dwayne Oyler. Team: Jakob + Ravi.
The detail is conventionally seen as the final stage in a design process. This project investigates the potential of the architectural detail as the starting point for design. Through the fabrication of the detail at half-scale, its ability to mobilize a new method of architectural conception is tried and tested in parallel to understanding the intricacies of construction. This detail speculates on the junction between a shell roof and a canted glass facade. The profile of the shell roof is resonated by the addition of a light-shelf that amplifies the amount of light received in the interior. By designing a clip system, the light shelf is braced to the mullions at regular intervals. The light-shelf itself is made of powder-coated bent aluminium sheets that are inset with a reflective mirror finished inlay.
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Evolo Skyscraper Competition Design Competition
FALL 2018 Project Type: Freelance Project. Location: Dubai, UAE. Team: Rebecca + Eyad + Ravi.
This skyscraper proposal builds on the History of para-fictional projects within the discourse of architecture that deploy urban scale interventions to produce narratives for alternate realities. The project envisions a mega-infrastructure development within the context of Dubai that seeks to bring about a radical climatological change through its formal attributes, location and orientation. The form of the building is sculpted to simulate that of a mountain rage but at an architectural scale. Located at the fringe of the city, the artificial range stretches for 20kms along the E-611 highway, and runs parallel to the coastline along the SW-NE direction – perpendicular to the prevalent wind direction.
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Despite being in such close proximity to waterfronts, Dubai is a desert only because the moisture laden winds sweeping across the city from these waterfronts have no barrier to force them to rise and precipitate. The mega-building, through its linear organization, produces a barrier like effect that forces the winds from the Persian Gulf to rise and hence shed rainfall on the windward side above the city of Dubai. This architectural mega-project, in conclusion, attempts to find a bearing in climatology not with the aim of employing it as a scientific method and a problem solving apparatus, but rather as a tool which allows architecture to become speculative and exercise its ability to produce fictional realities – utopian or dystopian.
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Residence FALL 2014 Project Type: Freelance Project. Size: 5000 sqft. Location: Bangalore, India.
This individual residence for a Doctor is designed as a Neo-Modernist White Box. It is an introverted house with lung spaces at the rear and stratification of program across various split-levels. The two halves of this house are splayed sectionaly to create these split levels that are interconectd by a central staircase which serves as a circulatory spine. The jali/screen walls at the front and rear act as filteration screens by maintaining privacy as well as allowing for the entry of ample sunlight and air. The split levels also help maintain visual connectivity in the public spaces while facilitating cross-ventilation.
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Studio Apartment Building FALL 2014 Project Type: Freelance Project. Size: 3500 sqft. Location: Bangalore, India.
The Project is located on a linear corner site of 20’x60’. It consists of a commercial space of 675 sqft. on the ground floor and a total of 7 studio apartments across various split levels above. Each studio apartment is approx. 250 sqft. where-in the public and private spaces are segregated using level differences while maintaining an open, free plan. The design aesthetic leans towards the modernist white box and uses simple rectilinear geometry to produce a minimalistic effect. The verticality is pronounced by virtue of the fins in the facade that serve as sun shading devices. The commercial area adresses the street through a glazed, double height entry vestibule.
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The access to each unit 67 is through the alternate landings of the central staircase. This is done to avoid the use of a corridor space and results in a distribution of the units among various split levels.
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Luxury Apartment Building FALL 2014 Project Type: Freelance Project. Size: 30,000 sqft. Location: Bangalore, India.
This luxury apartment complex is located on an arterial road in a prime residential locality within the city. Set within a site of 8,000 sqft. this apartment complex consists of 10 luxury units with an area of 2,500 sqft. each. Consisting of 10 floors, with only one exclusive unit per floor, the apartments have a private lift lobby, large north-oriented balconies and generous living spaces that open into these balconies via sliding-folding door systems. The building language portrays a minimalistic approach with the use of timber and slate cladding that compliments the all-white exterior paint finish. This complex also consists of a clubhouse at the upper-most level, that houses an infinity pool, a yoga-terrace and a roof-top lounge bar.
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Clubhouse SPRING 2014 Project Type: Freelance Project. Location: Mysore, India. Size: 40,000 sqft. Team: Rahul + Ravi.
This 40,000 sqft. Clubhouse is designed to cater to a residential development of 100+ acres. Set on a gently contoured site, the clubhouse is split into 3 levels that cascade along the contour with connecting streets and staircases. The entire clubhouse overlooks the swimming pool which is placed on the lowest lying terrain. The clubhouse contains various other amenities, namely - supermarket, restaurant, poolside bar, multi-purpose hall, spa, gym, yoga terrace, movie hall, squash and badminton courts, games rooms, library etc.
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School Campus SPRING 2015 Project Type: Freelance Project. Size: 45,000 sqft. Location: Bangalore, India.
This project involves the re-structuring of the ground floor of an existing building and the addition of two upper floors to house a business school. The challenge in this project was to design around the triangular site with an already existing column grid. The central feature in this project is the double height atrium located on the first floor. This functions as a gathering space and lounge for the students. The south facing ground floor is treated with a network of expanded metal mesh which behaves as a sun shading device while also providing privacy. The south facades of the upper two floors and treated with vertical bands of alternating solids and voids to produce a barcode like effect. This allows for the easy integration of the existing columns within the walls of the upper floors while simultaneously producing a formal rhythm on the main facade.
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Ground Floor Plan
1. Lobby and Reception 2. Director’s Cabin 3. Cabins/Discussion Rooms 4. Administration Department 5. Library 6. Computer Lab 7. Extra-Curricular Room 8. Foyer 9. Staff Room 10. Classrooms 11. Toilets
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Row House Development FALL 2013 Project Type: Professional Project at RSP. Client: Vaswani Developers. Size: 10,000 sqft. Location: Bangalore, India.
This Luxury Residential Development consists of 22 villas and 8 villaments spread across an expanse of 3.25 acres. The row villas include 3bhk & 4bhk variants ranging from 3050sqft to 5150sqft. The row villas are designed as linear units that are configured back to back with two villas sharing a common wall. The entire development is split down the middle by a green strip which is 100’ wide that accommodates the clubhouse, swimming pool and other recreational amenities. The material palette used includes Slate, Travertine, Wood, Glass and Planters. The common wall between the twin houses is treated as a cascading garden that terminates in a water feature.
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High Rise Residential Tower FALL 2014 Project Type: Professional Project at RSP. Client: K Raheja Corp. Location: Mumbai, India.
This iconic landmark is a 40 storey high super-luxury apartment located in the heart of Mumbai. The base consists of a 10 storey MLCP as the podium, above which 2 towers consisting of 2 units each are saddled with a central core. The Elevation is designed such that the building becomes an iconic landmark within the city. 3 translucent foils are added as extensions to the floor-plate. The horizontal foil at the base, unifies the mass and sets up a strong base for the towers. The vertical foils help emphasise the verticality of the building and with the help of lighting, turns the tower into a beacon at night. The MLCP is treated with pre-cast concrete panels that stagger to create vertical slits that provide light and ventilation. The cloubhouse if located on the podium top with dense foliage along the perimeter.
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Office Building SPRING 2014 Project Type: Professional Project at RSP. Client: ITC Group. Location: Guntur, India.
This 5 storey office building has a total built up area of 110,000 sqft. It consists of 2 parallel bays of desk space with a large central atrium between. The central atrium acts as the informal meeting space and houses a wide sculptural staricase around an internal landscaped court. The Southern facade of the office building is detailed with vertical wooden louvers that pivot about an axis. The Eastern facade, which is the street facing facade, consits of a vertical climbing graden with an inbuilt infrastructure of wire mesh supports and drip irrigation systems. The facades are treated to symbolise the aging process of tobacco leaves, the primary retail product of the client.
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Technology Park SPRING 2014 Project Type: Professional Project at RSP. Client: Hexaware Technologies. Location: Pune, India.
This Technology Park is located on a steep sloping site of 24 acres. Designed as a 2 phase project, the smaller building is located closer to the main access road and envisioned as the 1st phase. The larger 2nd phase is a linear building that occupies the flattest terrain on the site. This building is optimally oriented along the East-West direction such that its longer facades face either North or South. The office spaces are lifted above the parking spaces that form the plinth. By raising the office spaces on stilts, the podium level is activated as a public space and interspersed with sports and recreational facilities. Both phases of the design follow a 2 bay system with a central core. The 1st phase development will amount to a total built up area of 180,000 sqft. while the 2nd phase will consist of 1,370,000 sqft. of office space.
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Ravi Chandar 1 + 323-397-9455 Ravichandar6@gmail.com www.ravi-chandar.com Š 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission of copyright owner.
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