Architecture Portfolio Selected professional projects 2011 - 2020
Shivaram Punathambekar
Architecture for me is a process of constantly analyzing and synthesizing the relationship between the built environment and its climate and context. This portfolio is a presentation of my explorations in the past nine years in architecture - from using physical models in the BIC project to understand the nuances of scale to the iterative process of design development during site visits in the fast-moving City of Dreams project.
Lawate Residence
City of Dreams
3000 sft. Residential I Architecture Residence for an antiques collector
290 villas / 200 apartment units Mixed use I Landscape I Architecture I Urban Community housing project
Miraya Rose
BIC Competition
500,000 sft. Mixed use I Architecture Commercial, Hospitality and Residential project
40,000 sft. Institutional I Architecture Winning entry for Bangalore International Center
TAB India
Sai Temple
100,000 sft. Industrial I Landscape I Architecture Factory project for a stone processing center
6000 sft. Religious I Landscape I Architecture Temple designed to revitalize local economy
Fabindia Experience Center 9000 sft. Retail I Interiors Flagship showroom for apparel brand
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Lawate Residence 2019-Ongoing Bengaluru Designs Inc. Conceptual Design & Development, Construction Drawings A 3000 sq.ft. residence on a standard 40’x60’ plot in Bangalore for an antiques collector and his young family, the brief was to follow traditional Indian design principles and express the family’s love for antiques. Old windows and jharokhas were refurbished and reused, wooden pillars were used in the central courtyard and the balcony (as they would have been in their original avatar), and rafters will be used to support the central skylight - thereby treating the family’s precious collection of antiques not just as decorative elements, but as actual built elements integrated into the home.
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Ground and first floor plans (above)- note the 3x3 grid, and cross-section (below) across the central court and lily pond
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20mm thk. Sira stone, antique finish
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20mm thk. Sira stone, antique finish
20mm mortar to hold Sira stone Waterproofing membrane PCC planter wall
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Under construction photos of the front facade and the central court
City of Dreams 2013-2015 Raipur Mindspace Design development, Presentation and Construction Documents The brief for this large housing project (290 villas, 200 apartment units, and community buildings) was to integrate a contemporary aesthetic with design solutions that responded to Raipur’s hot climate. There were a total of 12 different villa types (based on plot size and orientation) that were distributed throughout the layout to break the monotony that usually occurs at a street level due to a repetition of units. In addition to this, elements like pergolas, entryways, and car parking structures were designed to span across plots, thereby presenting a unified street facade.
1. Standard setbacks in row housing create monotony and inefficiency
2. Combined setbacks facilitate the integration of landscape into the house
3. Entry portals span across plots and create a coherent street facade
4. Microclimate modifiers like lilyponds are created
5. Pergolas link adjacent homes and maximize living spaces
6. Consolidated service cores create a porous plan & facilitate cross-ventilation
Street facade showing the variety in housing typologies and entrance portals to create interest and diversity
West facing villas have facades that are more opaque, with deeply recessed openings and movable shading screens to reduce direct solar heat gain
East facing villas have facades that are more ‘open’ to welcome the early morning sun into living spaces
The gatehouse structure, at the entrance of the City of Dreams housing complex, combines the pure aesthetic of a entry space with highly utilitarian structures like the security room, society office etc. that are a part of any large housing project. Five ‘cubes’ of 4mx4m set at various points in the structure house the different functions in the gatehouse structure. Trees and water bodies act as micro-climate modifiers and counter the generally hot climatic conditions of the region. The exterior skin of the cubes, a perforated GI sheet, allows for the natural ventilation of the rooms from the primary winds from the south-east that pass over the water body and humidify the rooms.
Early conceptual render of the gatehouse
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Water-bodies, walkways and planters create edge conditions
Structural frame with overhanging portal creates vehicular entry
Site images of the gatehouse at various stages of the construction process
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Surveillance room Society office Bridge Structural I-sections
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Monochromatic materials heighten minimal character of the space
UKN Miraya Rose 2011-2012 Bengaluru Hundredhands Design development, Construction Documents A 17-storey mixed-use development with a complex program, Miraya Rose comprises of commercial ventures, a hotel, and high-end residences. A collaboration with Allies and Morrison (UK) and Hundredhands for UKN, I was involved from the design development stage to the construction documentation stage. An iterative process of co-ordinating with various service consultants also helped me understand the nuances of the construction process of a complex building.
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Study drawings - section A and elevation B - of the ‘bays’ help understand spatial relationships across floors
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Typical apartment floor plan showing the internal organization and the subtractive form that contributes to the facade layering
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Allies and Morrison 557_01 Prakrithi Rose South elevation Scale 1:100
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BIC
Bangalore International Centre
2012 Bengaluru Hundredhands Design development, Presentation work The winning entry for the competition to design the 27500 sq.ft. Bangalore International Centre focused on four aspects: 1) assigning scale as a fundamental ordering principle, 2) elevating the public space as a strategy to create a vibrant public domain both programmatically and visually, 3) mitigating the poor air quality from the storm water drain on the west through natural landscape buffers, and 4) creating a distinct identity of the individual programs through both formal expression and zoning. This was one of the early professional projects I worked on in which I understood the value of using physical models iteratively during the design development process Sketches: Bijoy Ramachandran
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Landscape Buffers on the western edge from the storm water drain
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TAB India
2012 Bengaluru Hundredhands Construction Drawings, Site supervision The program for TAB India called for the design of a warehouse, an exhibit area, a store and a canteen for the natural stone processing center. One of the primary design drivers was to locate the exhibit area on the north-east corner of the warehouse in order to present an unique facade from the highway. I was involved in producing study drawings, construction documents and co-ordinated work on site - as the pace of construction was rapid, it was exciting to observe my drawings come to reality quickly. Sketches: Bijoy Ramachandran
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Sai Temple
2013-2014 Poyyamani Mindspace Design development, Presentation drawings The design of the Sai temple in Poyyamani was a response to the client’s request for a unique religious structure that could contribute to the revitalization of the surrounding area. The design strategy was to retain, but reinvent the essential qualities of a traditional Indian temple in a contemporary manner - both the spatial aspects such as the sharp contrast of light and shade, and the formal aspects such as the predominantly linear form punctuated by a vertical sanctum sanctorum.
The formal aspects of traditional Indian temples (above) have been reinterpreted in the Sai Temple (below)
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Site entry Temple garden Water body ‘Tulsi’ area Staircase 1 Spillover area Office space 1 Prayer hall Sanctum Internal garden
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Interior view from the Sanctum looking towards the Prayer hall and the entry space beyond
Above: South-east view of the temple showing the gradual vertical build-up of form reminiscent of traditional Indian temples Right: Site photographs showing sequence of work progress from site investigation to building completion
Fabindia Experience Center 2018 / Chennai Designs Inc. Design Development, Construction Drawings The 9000 sq.ft. flagship Fabindia Experience Center in Chennai integrates the familiar Fabindia fare of ethnic apparel with a furniture and home accessories center, wellness studio, a children’s hobby area called ‘Tugbug’,and an organic food outlet called Fabcafe. In keeping with the theme of the brand, the decor evokes feelings of nostalgia for the age gone by, re-invokes a love for traditional arts and crafts, and creates a sense of place-making through regionalism. This was created at both a planning level - by organizing the layout like in a traditional Tamilian home and at a detail level - by using wooden rafters, handmade tiles, motifs of local trees, and traditional artwork by local artists.
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Ground floor layout - giftware/checkout at the front, furnishings/furniture on the mezzanine
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Ladies ethnic wear section plan; brick platform
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Antique wooden columns from Karaikudi were salvaged & refurbished for the ethnic wear section
The Fabindia colours of indigo, mustard and
The women’s wear section on the second floor has a canvas printed ceiling with panels of Fabindia fabric
The leaf patterns on the railings in printed colo
red form a colourful composition on the ceiling
oured glass reflect those used in Fabindia apparel
The Fabcafe with custom-made wooden furniture on the top floor enjoys glimpses of the Arabian sea
Shivaram Punathambekar EMAIL
spunathambekar@gmail.com
PHONE
+91 9944139102
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Master of Architecture (M.Arch) / Pennsylvania State University / 2014 - 2016 3.97 CGPA Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) / National Institute of Technology - Trichy / 2006 - 2011 8.3/10 CGPA
SKILLS
Drafting / Modelling Autodesk AutoCAD, REVIT, Trimble SketchUp Visualization Autodesk 3ds Max + VRay, Unity 3D (for Virtual Reality visualization) Presentation Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Muse, XD (web design), strong sketching skills Energy Analysis BEopt
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Architect (December 2017 - Present) Designs Inc. / Chennai Conceptual design, design development, and coordination of single- & multi-family residential and retail interior projects Architect / Researcher (September 2016 - October 2017) Sustainable Housing initiative / State College, Pennsylvania Design development (including VR visualization) and energy analysis for a student housing project and for an institutional building Architect (October 2012 - June 2014) Mindspace Architects / Bangalore Design development and construction drawings for a 290 villa, 200 apartment unit housing project and for a 6000 sq.ft. place of worship Architect (September 2011 - September 2012) Hundredhands / Bangalore Design studies and construction drawings for a diverse set of project typologies - residential, cultural, and industrial
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
Founder (September 2019 - Present) Green Design Guru A website that helps prospective homeowners in the U.S. to design their own green homes, make cost and energy use estimates, and connect with local building professionals
SELECT AWARDS/HONORS
Design Excellence Award - Race to Zero Competition 2015 / U.S. Department of Energy Design Team Leader - Competition to design a Net-Zero residence Graham Fellowship 2014 / Pennsylvania State University Two year fellowship awarded to outstanding incoming students Architect Kharchae Endowment Award 2011 / National Institute of Technology - Tiruchirappalli Best Architecture Thesis Award Jury Commendation - ‘Transparence’ 2010 / Ethos India and Saint Gobain Glass Competition to design an International convention center Citation - Louis-I-Kahn Trophy 2009 / UNESCO and National Association of Students of Architecture (NASA) Trophy Leader - Analysis and Documentation of a historic urban settlement Winner - Yazhini Travel Scholarship 2009 / Nicholas Iyadurai Photo-documentation of historic architecture in Delhi
LANGUAGES
English, Tamil, Hindi (Fluent), Marathi (Native language), Kannada (basic)
Experienced architect with a Master’s degree and 8 years of work experience possessing a broad knowledge of the building design & construction process, and specialized knowledge of green building design and VR visualization of projects References available upon request
Thank you spunathambekar@gmail.com
Cover page: “Ten years in architecture”