Rohan Joshi - Selected Works

Rohan Joshi

Selected Works (2017-2022)

Rohan Ajay Joshi

+1 424 326 2596

rojosh98@gmail.com

Atlanta GA

“Hello! I’m Rohan an ambitious architecture student with a strong passion for creating sophisticated and thoughtfully designed spaces.

I have gained a diverse range of experience through various student and professional projects, ranging from designing individual units to master planning for urban design competitions.

I possess a deep understanding of conceptual design, design detailing, structure and project management, honed through my coursework and studio projects.

I am an adept collaborator and thrive in a team environment, constantly seeking to improve my skills and stay current with the latest trends and advancements in the field.

I am excited to share my portfolio with you and discuss how my expertise and enthusiasm can enhance the aesthetic and functionality of your next project.”

Academic Credentials

Georgia Institute of Technology - 2021 - current Pillai College of Architecture, Mumbai University - 2016 - 2021 (Undergraduate degree)

Software Proficiency

Revit Archicad AutoCAD

Rhino / Grasshopper Sketchup

Enscape Twinmotion

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Indesign

Adobe Illustrator

ArcGIS & Urban Footprint

QGIS & Global Mapper

Work Experience

Internship at Vastu Shilp Consultants (Sangath) under Pritzker Prize Awardee, Architect B.V Doshi. (Nov 2019)

Contributed on Institutional projects, Residential projects and competitions through varied scales of work including - Working drawings, Presentation Drawings, Detailed physical models and conceptual design.

Junior Architect at Opus Designs under Architect Sangeetha Solanki. (2021)

Contributed on Public, Residential and Landscape projects. Scope of work includesWorking drawings, Architectural renderings

Junior Architect at Raman Construction. (2022)

Contributed on Urban planning, Public, Residential, interior design and Landscape projects. Scope of work includes - Working drawings, Architectural renderings, urban mapping, Architecture designing.

References

Kimberly Steiner, AIA ksteiner@steinerstudio.net steiner studio

School of Architecture - Lecturer Georgia Institute of Technology

Yeinn Oh yeinnoh@gatech.edu Instructor

School of Architecture Georgia Institute of Technology

Competitions

ULI HINES Competition 2023 - Urban planning and real estate competition.

Site Temple Competition 2020 – International competition for a meditation center.

COA Heritage Awards 2019 – Documentation of Architectural Heritage.

Kamu Iyer Design Award 2019 – Award for best design in academic year three.

Landscape foundation Competition 2018 –Nurturing childhood with nature.

Helping Hands Competition 2018 – Furniture Design.

Mind Rain Competition 2017 – Art Gallery Design.

Achievements

Indian Institute of Architects Thesis award 2022Best Architecture Thesis.

2nd position in Mumbai University, Bachelor of Architecture undergraduate degree(2016-2021).

1st position in Bachelor of Architecture academic year one, two and three (2016-2019).

Council of Architecture India, Heritage Awards 2019 – State level winner.

Kamu Iyer Design Award 2019 – Best architectural design in academic year three.

ULI HINES COMPETITION

Competition

The ULI Hines Student Competition offers graduate students to engage in a challenging exercise in responsible land use.

URBAN FARMS

Academic

An interactive learning Farm, Trail, Park and architecture experience.

WATER AND HUMANS

Academic

Undergraduate Architectural Thesis awarded best thesis project by Indian Institute of Architects.

ARCHITECTURE & HEALTHCARE

Academic

A speciality hospital for marginalised communities in India. (Undergraduate)

GF20 BUNGALOW

Professional

Private residence for a family of five people in the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India.

NALANDA UNIVERSITY

Professional

A campus of the future, positioned at the forefront of global education and hub of intellectual excellence.

SVARAM MUSIC SCHOOL

Professional

A campus of sound located on the outer ring road of the circumference of the galaxy plan of Auroville, India.

SATIPATTHANA

Competition

International student competition for a meditation temple in Portugal.

PREETIKA RESIDENCE

Professional

A compact residential design projects which looks inwards into a central courtyard.

SKETCH REPOSITORY

Competition

Reflections and conversations with Pritzker prize awardee Ar. B.V. Doshi.

ULI HINES COMPETITION - TETRIS

TETRIS unifies the physical and social diversity of North Charleston through a cohesive and modular development strategy. It aims to connect the past and the present to build an environmentally just economic fabric that promotes an equitable and sustainable growth for the future.

Project typology

Category

Time Location

Contribution

Urban Planning and Real estate

Urban planning & Real estate competition; Group work

Dec 2022 - Jan 2022

North Charleston, South Carolina

Design narative, Masterplan and Architectural design, graphic visualization and rendering.

Vertical Sequencing of spaces

BUSINESS DISTRICT

Technical Training Events for local residents.

Hackathons for startups

Global expo in the convention center.

Guided tours for school kids to the industrial facilities

Farmers market

COMMUNITY EDGE

Weekly Game nights in breweries.

Community Gardening

Neighborhood cleaning

Community meetings

All the programs designated in the ground plane are either retail, industrial or recreational making the ground plane active. Housing are provided at the higher floors to maximize the view to the waterfront.

Pedestrian Spine

The human centric street scape provides every user a unique walking experience. Every retail place in the block can exploit this high frequency people footfall.

Farmland - the farmers market

RECREATIONAL EDGE

Seafood festival

Low country Caijun festival

Sweetgrass Cultural Arts festival

Charleston Bluegrass festival

Movie Screenings

Concerts and Music Festivals

Food Festival

Living shoreline

Stepped walkways with porous landscapes act as flood plains protecting the city’s investment during adverse scenario.

Modular Mixed Use Block

Multi use Courtyard

Central courtyards create a private slow street scape for each block that can be adapted to suit the block’s need.

Buffer / Trail

The thick buffer to segregate the site from the heavy industrial usage from all side also hosts a trail complimenting the larger green network

All the programs designated in the ground plane are either retail, industrial or recreational making the ground plane active. Housing are provided at the higher floors to maximize the view to the waterfront.

The human centric street scape provides every user a unique walking experience. Every retail place in the block can exploit this high frequency people footfall. Stepped walkways with porous landscapes act as flood plains protecting the city’s investment during adverse scenario.

The Portal

Central courtyards create a private slow street scape for each block that can be adapted to suit the block’s need.

LIFE IN THE TETRIS

SECTION THROUGH COMMUNITY EDGE

Open spaces between the residential units utilized for community gardening and events

The portal acts as the threshold between the built and the natural environment, narrating the cities rich history through its interactive installations

The Museum will stand as a symbol of the city’s past - it’s history with port.

The waterfront will host several cultural events, concerts, movie screenings and sports events.

Farmland - the farmers market

Modular Mixed Use Block

The Portal

VIEW FROM THE PEDESTRIAN SPINE

PROGRAM MATRIX

The program strives to connect the community and agriculture with means of an interactive experience of trails, parks, cafes and educational spaces.

1 BLUEBERRY

2 ZUCCHINI

3 LEAFY GREENS

4 TOMATO

5 CUCUMBER

6 FARMSTAND

7 TRAILS

8 BELTLINE

Production Unit Trail cutting through Production Unit Points of intersection Eroding spheres Eroded block Functional spaces

LAYERED AXONOMETRY

Production + Exhibition + Market

hosts Exhibitions/lectures about crop cultivation/ modern cultivation products/techniques

Crop production and storage

Fresh produce and product selling in bulk. Salad café – make your own salad.

The Farmstands

act as attractors, these have various interactive activities attached to them, these have, fresh crop produce, salad making maps to further direct them to other trails and farmstands, and exhibition boards, informing people about the history of the crop, its recent trends and future opportunities.

The Trails

that lead the public into my farm slowly open to spill out spaces which act as community spaces.

The Farms

are determined on the basis of a crop matrix. Factors like companion crops, cultivation requirement and market demands, are taken into consideration.

The main idea is to educate the users through a gradual learning experience, by letting explore the crops on their own, creating their own unique recipes using the farmstands while they are informed about the importance of nutrition, organic cultivation, and selfsustenance through educational and workshop spaces.

WATER AND HUMANS

The design thesis project“Water & Humans” strives to mitigate the periodic migration in a relatively small settlement of village Hatkarwadi. The migration is primarily triggered by lack of water availability, no employment, educational and healthcare facilities.

The primary aim of this project, is to rejuvenate the village by curbing the ongoing migration and lack of water with architecture that can not only conserve water but also provide potential opportunities for healthcare and educational infrastructure, and at the same time trigger employment, which can be generated through farming & workshop spaces.

Project typology

Category

Time Location

Video link

Commune Centric design

Design Dissertation studio - year 5; Individual work

Jun 2020 - Apr 2021

Hatkarwadi, Maharashtra, India

https://bit.ly/Thesisdesign

DESIGN SCOPE

The scope lies in studying the settlement in Hatkarwadi, analyzing its demographics and present situation with regards to water, education, and healthcare. To try and arrive at multifaceted architecture that can tackle the issues that come up, while keeping in mind the aspects of community involvement and sustainability.

THE PROCESS

These sketches demonstrate the spatial quality, volumetric hierarchy, and the circulation paths to those spaces. The intention is to create spaces which speak about balance, levels and the element of water.

FORM DERIVATION

Unit Space

Space is submerged into the ground to attain better thermal comfort levels, which is then integrated with accessible steps. Units are multiplied to connect and amplify the various levels in play.

Slope on site

Site is excavated for provision of check dams, multiple units are placed in staggered form to gain access to water + use the space for other functions. The lowest levels act as a water storage container.

Units in plan

Functions are placed in plan (staggered) avoiding the formation of negative spaces. Central checkdam water body maximized for larger storage and functions are then placed around it.

KIT OF PARTS

The entrance pavilion allows the users to have a seamless transition as they are approach the structure, the Pavilions are scaled at a very humane scale.

The temple complex holds the mother well at its sanctum, here the water beneath has been given the identity of a deity, which makes the temple complex even more sacred to its users.

STRUCTURAL DRAWINGS

The functions on the lower level including the workshop areas and classrooms are partly submerged in the ground, exhibiting less internal temperatures.

Water Filling area

SECTION THROUGH WORKSHOP SPACES AND WATER BODY

BRIDGE STRUCTURAL DRAWING

COMMUNITY WORKSHOP SPACES

WATER AND HUMANS

ARCHITECTURE AND HEALTHCARE

The brief asks for the design of a general specialty hospital, intending to meet the medico socio needs of various communities with different economic status in MIDC patalganga region.

A hospital building differs from other building types with respect to the complex functional relationships that exists between the various parts of the building. Apart from providing the right environment for patients and care providers, it should also be sensitive to the needs of visitors. It is thus imperative to examine the emerging issues, analyze the challenges and acknowledge the emerging trends for designing healthcare spaces.

ZONING EXPERIMENTS WITH RESPECT TO FORM AND FUNCTIONS FLOOR PLAN

This zoning allows us to have three separate arms, between which the functions are divided. This gives us better opportunities for vistas, natural light & ventilation. Every arm consists of a secondary service core with the main core in the center.

Here the adjacencies are further placed close to each other, allowing for better efficiency in circulation, the placement of primary and secondary cores remain the same.

The adjacencies are kept in line to the option 2 but including a courtyard in the middle. This in its primary sense allows natural light and ventilation in the structure, and also saves existing trees.

A. Stationary building volume with offset. D. Cutting up unnecessary volume for wing division and providing essential connections.

B. Pulling the volume outside for courtyard light and ventilation.

E. Rotating the north block for more light and openness in courtyard along with integration of roof gardens.

C. Pulling more volume towards south for more shade through out the year.

SECTION THROUGH COURTYARD

The green open courtyard becomes an essential spill out space, which is placed centrally, accessible to everyone. The volume is stacked up on the south west side, this helps in casting shadow in the courtyard through out the day.

The elevations further accentuate the gradual increase in the architectural massing. Each side exhibits a different volumetric character while the facade remains monotonous.

VIEW FROM COURTYARD

GF20 BUNGALOW

Located in a quiet neighborhood on the outskirts of Ahmadabad GF20 is a private residence for a family of five people. The house can be identified by this white gray solid blocks from the outside with the private spaces identifying these blocks. The plan on the house is broken down into a three bays, with the central bay acting as a connecting link in between the different private spaces around it.

Project typology

Category

Time

Location

Contribution

Residential Building Architecture Internship

Nov 2019 - Jan 2020

Ahmadabad, India

Exprimental Model making, Architecture drawings, visualization and rendering.

The sectional model was iterated and experimented with to arrive at the section on the top right corner.

Iterative sections

The spaces into a verandah overlooking the garden. The spaces on the first floor are interlinked by this flying corridor space hovering above the central foyer on the ground floor.

The spaces which doesn’t want to open up on the outside are accompanied with patios and internal courtyards for ventilation.

NALANDA UNIVERSITY

Nalanda University is envisaged as the campus of the future, positioned at the forefront of global education and hub of intellectual excellence.

The main concept of the campus revolves around “permeability”, the campus spread around 455 acres, with high level of programmatic flexibility of the structures. 80% of the campus is walkable/cyclable and networked by bio fuel vehicles.

Project typology

Category

Time Location

Contribution

Institutional design

Architecture Internship

Jan 2020 - Mar 2020

Nalanda, Bihar, India

Construction detail drawings

SVARAM MUSIC SCHOOL

Svaram is a campus of sound located on the outer ring road of the circumference of the galaxy plan of Auroville.

It is envisioned to be a vibrant space of sound experience where one could dive into the magic of sound and music.

The experience is constituted by various sound therapies and healing activities through sound instruments,music education for all age groups, and the local community which contributes highly to music through their traditions and music culture.

The campus will also include instrument making workshops which works in coherence with the existing functions.

Project typology

Category

Time Location

Contribution

Institutional Building

Architecture Internship

Jun 2020 - Apr 2021

Auroville, Pondicherry, India

Architecture visualization, concept massing and detailed physical models

Various scaled block models made to understand the overall massing and scale of the campus, and its relationship to the site. The model also help in giving an insight about how the form would appear from various points on the site.

It demonstrated the open, semi-open and closed spaces relating to their functions and highlighted the aspects of journey & discovery, transitions in spaces, which adhere to \the unconventional circulation patterns.

The block model gave us the freedom to try and test various iterations of conceptual massing and zoning of the Svaram campus.

Placing various functions based on the concepts of transition & discovery on the Ground Floor.

Identifying open, semi-open and closed spaces(slabs and slac cutouts).

Placing functions above to compliment the overall form and character, and also to compliment the functional use.

Form achieved through the block massing model. View from the rear end of the site. View from the entry of the site.

A detailed sectional model was then made of a functional block to further understand the micro design aspects such as wall fillers, slab thicknesses, roofing details and wall perforations.

This model makes it easier to understand and compare the building scale to human scale and therefore the internal spaces can be articulated in relation to the model.

Rear view of the detailed functional block. The angular rammed earth walls direct the circulation around the block.

Front view of the detailed functional block, marking the entry and exit on the ground f loor. Both spaces on the ground and first f loor exhibit different characteristics with regards to the light entering the space.

The model is cut from the centre showing the sectional view of the block after which the internal spaces can be detailed.

Section cutting through the block showing the slab details and thicknesses, the slabs are conceptualized to be double layered to provide for insulation to the internal spaces.

Section showing two spaces exhibiting different functions, the roof is slightly lifted up to allow diffused natural light into the space. The walls are also double layered which can be punctured to be used as display and storage spaces.

Section showing different wall configurations on each f loor, the wall heights, thicknesses, and perforations.

SATIPATTHANA

“As long as you are aware of something and maintain that awareness that is meditation”

- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Satipaṭṭhāna is the establishment or arousing of mindfulness, and aims at channelizing varied spectrum of thoughts by making one aware of his existence by using light, water and matter(space). The journey in itself is a cumulative collection of various pause points that unfold as the path untangles.

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Time Location

Spiritual Architecture. International competition; Sep 2020

Vera Cruz da Figueira’ Fortress, Algarve, Portugal

The Architecture tries to encapsulate and translate the “untangling journey” of the mind and body. The shaft acts as a visual marker that makes one contemplate about what lies under and encourages him to find out ways to reach his destination.

One encounters the entrance, the only visible spatial entity above ground which directs the user into a subterranean trail that unwinds and culminates at an inner space where he encounters his ultimate destination, a gateway to nothingness.

The meditative space then directs the user to the boundless ocean. The cycle is completed, he is reborn. On the contrary, the built landscape focuses on celebrating the ruins, recapturing the essence of the site.

PREETIKA RESIDENCE

Preetika residence is a compact residential design projects which looks inwards into a central courtyard.

The constrained site on three directions posed challenges to bring in natural light and ventilation into the spine of the building.

Project typology

Category

Time Location

Contribution

Residential Professional work

Jan 2021 - Jun 2021

Pondicherry, India

Design development from concept to client presentation, Detail drawings.

SKETCH REPOSITORY

Ar. B.V. Doshi asked us to describe Sangath (his office), in a way we would describe to our grandparents. Doshi sir spoke about reference- we always narrate through reference, with relation to some other entity that would help us get a sense of the place. Without context or comparison, it is impossible to perceive. Our impressions of a place should always be connected like a story, which would unfold gradually and as they unfold, our impressions become more intimate.

I compared and referred Sangath to different entities of varied scales, it helped me to feel the scale of the structure, and generate an image. I measured the vaults by walking barefoot and invoking my senses, tried to climb, run, jump and play, just like old times. I considered the building as my friend. By doing this I became more aware about myself.

“Learning by observing” made me more conscious about architecture and its minor aspects along with larger ones. This learning experience has altered my beliefs and opinions about architecture in an exponential way. I try to reflect my learnings about architecture and spaces in my sketches.