Role as an Intern

As an intern of Thirdspace Architecture Studios, I would like to put forward my roles and responsibilities in the firm, and a brief the current projects I am working on.

For Joining Letter, Internship Confirmation Document, Agreement, Monthly Log Sheet and Daily Log Sheet, link is given below: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YYhOdfaBMxd0v3A9YTOXprYOAp9l0dqD?usp=share_link

Role as Intern: Walking from PG :- Office Work :- Walking Back to PG:- Half day on Saturdays

Working as an Intern in TAS has given me a different experience, due to the Principal Architect and other architects, being more approachable and providing proper guidance throughout. It is understandable that a degree of nervousness and curiosity will be there in student before stepping into an office for the first time. That’s exactly what I felt. It took me a week's time to get adapted into the Office Environment, and then I felt at ease, and became the part of that firm. It has the nature of music, calmness, and a sense of timelessness and dynamic nature of the office that I wanted to and since many of the staffs members are most of the time busy with their works, or Site Visits, hence we don’t have any sort of fixed office timings. Work is given more importance rather than the Office Timings, that was the most important thing that I have learnt from this firm. However, there was a sense of loneliness at the beginning as sometimes there was no one in the firm to interact, but due to the works given to me by Senior Architect, I did not give much attention to it.Later the time passes and now we have great bonding with each other. We also have interactive sessions every Saturday unless employees are less in strength.The Office, is small,but great environment to work on and as an Intern, I did not know what to expect at a firm with whatever I have learnt before joining. I got to work on Student Housing (Physical Model only) to small scale Apartment units (Punya Shrushti Interiors). I worked on Conceptual designing, Construction and Demolition drawings, Plumbing Layout drawings,Electrical Layout drawings,3D models and Physical Model with the use of softwares that I was learning, detailed drawings, presentation drawings, and went on site as well. It was a great learning that will remain within me for longer period of time. I learnt numerous things in various ways and at all times. The office also taught me to be professional and precise at work. It taught me to be sincere while doing even the minimal work that might not be as important as it looks. The firm also taught me to work as a team (Student Housing Project), and how every contribution, regardless of its magnitude matters. Through the weeks, I got to know how to be patient and do my work with perfection while keeping my mind at peace.Hence,from these learnings I got to know how training plays an important role in teaching the real-life situations in these architectural field. It was and will be a great experience for me to work on training at Thirdspace Architecture Studios, Belgaum, Karnataka, throughout this internship time period.

About the Company

Thirdspace Architecture Studios (TAS) was established in 2003 by Ar. Praveen Bavadekar (BMS college of engineering, Bangalore and his schooling from St.Paul’s High School Belgaum and M.Arch from the Architectural AssociationLondon). He is also the co-founder of Thirdspace Bangalore. In the Belgaum studio, he heads a team of around 15 persons, and juggles between his studio, academics and teaching, and even farming in his ancestral farms

Based in Bangalore and Belgaum, Thirdspace is envisaged as a network of professionals working on architectural/ urban projects. The practice is a loosely defined organisation, which is always open to ‘cross pollination’ from various synergetic sources Their projects themselves blur traditionally accepted boundaries, looking at urban issues in interior projects and architectural issues within urban proposals. The diversity of the work, also lets them experiment with similar generative techniques across different scales of budgets, size and typologies. Sir with his team at Thirdspace, have worked on several prestigious projects, including the Gururaj Deshpande funded Deshpande Center for Social entrepreneurship at Hubli and has also won the competition project for the Gangubai hangal Gurukula at Hubli Thirdspace has also won two A+D Spectrum National awards for its outstanding architectural performances in the year 2004. It won the Recreational architecture award 2004 for its project ‘Cafe Ajanta’, the restaurant in Belgaum, as well as the commendation trophy for ‘Young enthused architect 2004’

The practise has published a lot of its projects, and Sir has given lectures on his projects at several architectural schools and conventions. His farmhouse at Hudali is also included in the book 91 residences, by incite publications.