P O R T F O L I O SRISHTI PRABAKAR selected works 2015-2019
SRISHTI PRABAKAR Date of Birth :
04/10/1997
: srisht4@gmail.com
Phone
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+91 8310303920
About Me Passionate and motivated individual, a meticulous learner and a photography enthusiast. Interested in learning and exploring the narratives and structure of earlier settlements, behind older architecture and built environments
www.instagram.com/aphotontale www.behance.com/srishti410
SKILLS
Present
2015 2013
EDUCATION
Hand Skills
Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary School, Chennai Class X CBSE CGPA 9.8 Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary School, Chennai Class XII CBSE 92.4% RV College of Architecture, Bangalore - Batch of 2020 Currently in Semester VIII
Hand Sketches Hand Rendering Hand Drafting Isometric/Axonometric
Softwares AutoCAD Revit Google Sketch-Up with V-Ray Relux
2017 2016 2016
Form in Font, Workshop on Explorations on Typography in Architecture, by WEVID, Bangalore
2017 2018
Participation in MindRain Competition, for Design of Residential Campus for an Artist Community Editor of the RVCA Periodical ‘FOLD’; with Disha Dharesh Under the guidance of Ar. Madhuri Rao and Ar. Girish Ramanathan
2018
AWARDS, WORKSHOPS AND RECOGNITION
COHERE, compilation of Research done on the Western Ghats, in the Design Studio on meta-architecture
Published paper on ‘Music and Architecture’ in the MIDAS Journal Marg Institute of Design and Architecture, Swarnabhoomi https://issuu.com/xavierbenedict/docs/midas_final_26april2017
9-Day Workshop on Bamboo and Fractals by V-SPARC, VIT Vellore and University of Auckland, Under the guidance of Ar. Jaffer Khan
https://www.behance.net/gallery/76776909/COHERE
ELECTIVES
Recognised Artist by Lalit Kala Akademi
Heritage Documentation
Diploma in Painting, from the Tamil Nadu Govt. Fine Arts University
Culture and Built Environments
Workshops on Travel Writing and Analytical Writing
Architectural Research Methods
Trained in Carnatic Classical Music for 8 years
LANGUAGES FLUENT CONVERSATIONAL NATIVE
Photomontages Infographics Maps Editorial Design Presentation Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign MS Office
NatGeo Masters Course on Photography
Architectural Writing and Journalism
REFERENCES English Hindi, Kannada Tamil
Climatology Lighting Design Landscape Green Building - GRIHA Bamboo Construction
Visual/Graphic
INTERESTS AND VALUE ADD
Architectural Photography
Architectural Lighting Design
Technical Understanding
Ar. Ankur Choudhury Office of Emergent Practices ankur.oep@gmail.com
semester 1 Exploration of spaces objects, spaces of memory
in
everyday
Project : Student Hub
semester 2 Abstraction Minor Project : Pedestrian Bridge Major Project : House for Ravi Varma
semester 3 Cultural Documentation, Understanding spatial formulation in vernacular settlements, building in the past
semester 4
Project : Cultural Arts Performance Center
Housing at varied scales and various densities - low, medium, high rise
semester 5 Context Study at Urban Precinct level + Program Development + Structure, Skin and Services in Design
semester 6 Campus Design + Landscape Architecture Studio
semester 7 Research + Context Study + Climate Responsive Architecture + Materiality Interior Design Studio
semester 8 - Ongoing Urban Design Studio Minor Project : Understanding Urban Typologies
STUDIO EXPERIENCE
quarryscapes school of design Semester VI, Campus Design + Landscape Architecture and detailing
flow faculty housing Semester IV, Community Housing + Working Drawings
innovation public mixed use project Semester V, Context Study + Program Development + Public Architecture Design
manninakatte institutional research campus Semester VII, Regional Study + Reserach and Climate Responsive Architecture
quarryscapes School of Design
SEMESTER VI Residential Campus + Landscape Detailing Studio brief : To understand the creation of spaces of learning; formal, informal and interactive processes of learning and the role of the built environment in creating these spaces. Additionally, the studio also involved the detailing of landscape strategies at a masterplan as well as detail level The larger idea was to look at how the five natural elements or the panchabhootas come together to create and influence the nature and utility of .spaces Considering the monumentality of the quarry on the site and the agricultural land that surrounded the site, the intent was to design a ,campus simple and of clean lines in its aesthetic becoming a deck to the natural surroundings around it
Massing Model of the Campus showing Academic and Administration Blocks
DESIGN + LANDSCAPE Overall Landscaping strategy for the campus focusing of .the water, the influx of public and the green
DESIGN + LANDSCAPE Iterations made at larger zoning level as well as at the level of immediate built surroundings
DESIGN + LANDSCAPE
Main Entrance to Campus Service Entry to Campus Green Walls Parking Entrance Plaza Auditorium Retention Pond fed off Rain and Quarry Trenches Elevated Walkway over mound Triple Sharing Hostel for Boys and Girls combined Basketball Court Badminton Court Faculty Housing and Guestrooms facing Quarry Porous framed walkway adjacent to block Bridge Administration Block Academic Block Secondary Plaza Open Air Theatre Quarry Waterfront and Deck Single Hostel Block for PG Students Throwball/Volleyball Court Extension to Public Gallery and Informal Workshop Zone
Masterplan of Campus drawn at +5.5m
Plan at +2.5m
The entry to the campus ends in a primary court and a view framed by the academic block, the auditorium and the administration block connected by a skywalk. Parking for the campus is near the entry
Plan at +8.5m
At ground level, the cafeteria, the academic studios block all open out to the quarryfront, at the first upper level the faculty housing is seen. The informal and formal gallery and workshop spaces end at this first upper level
Plan at +11.5m
Only the housing and academic studio blocks continue beyond the first upper level, that is the wing along the quarry edge housing the library at the uppermost level of the academic block
Plan at +14.5m
Student housing on the two opposite corners of the campus contnue to rise beyond the rest of the campus akin to towers
Green walls placed along either side of the main entryway upto the beginning of the primary plaza, hides view of the hostel blocks behind
Use of mounds to create a demarcation in height between open landscaped land that could be used on occasions and the main hostel zone
Formal seating at the primary plaza with a view of the quarry as well as the built campus
LANDSCAPE DETAILING - FORMAL AND INFORMAL
Semi Shaded framed walkway along the inner edges of both the academic as well as the administration and gallery blocks
Elevational detail at the admin block, use of the water in the retention pond to create an aesthetic front to the campus
TOP
: DESIGN DETAILING OF RESIDENTIAL COMPONENT
RIGHT : DESIGN DETAILING OF DESIGN STUDIO COMPONENT
Watercolour Illustration on handmade paper showing the entrance loggia of Kimbell Art Museum by Ar. Louis Kahn, Case Study - Semester V
V-SPARC and University of Auckland Hands-on Bamboo Fractal Workshop Urban Folly Insert on the Vellore Fort Grounds - Semester III
flow
faculty housing
SEMESTER IV Housing Development + Working Drawings Studio Intent Faculty Housing in RV College of Enginneering, Bangalore catering to a set of single occupancy guest rooms, studio units and family units with common amenities and recreational area The larger idea was to create an inner faculty community housing that is mostly pedestrian in nature with common amenities aiding congregation of people, promoting a sense of interaction amongst the inhabitants by virtue of courts and courtyards
The built and the unbuilt form a single cohesive whole Community - Circles - Courts - Courtyards - Congregation
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Watchman’s Cabin Parking Visitors’ Parking Boulevard Main Entrance Lobby Office Badminton Court Laundry and Services Common Area Common Dining and Kitchen Water Feature Central Plaza Inner Courtyard Guest Room Annexe Studio Apartments 5BHK Units with Childrens’. Play Area
Use of the trees on site to create inward looking bubbles or communities
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A single larger bubble which gets broken into Two smaller zones/parts
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One central common zone , but with the units getting oriented in a different direction
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SECTION DD Cohesive orientation forming a singular housing community around and withing the site features
ITERATIONS
C O N C E P T I O N Considering the presence of the nala as a stormwater drain as opposed to an aesthetic freshwater elememt, the design is conceived to be formed around the existing site features - the trees in an introverted manner A series of courts and courtyards create a sense of hierarchy of open spacesand act as connectors through the clusters of housing unit types at the masterplan level
Guest Room Annexe Common Amenities block with internal court` Studio Apartment Blocks - Common Area along nbala periphery Badminton Courts, Leisure Zone 1.5BHK Housing Units Courtyard formed withing the 1.5BHK Cluster
Nala Landscaped Periphery
Typical Upper Floor Plan
WORKING DRAWINGS DONE OF THE STUDIO UNIT
Balcony and Staircase Balustrade Detailing
innovation public building
SEMESTER V Program Development + Context Study + Design Malleswaram is associated with tradition, old Bangalore and is today reinventing itself and integrating with the fast developing technology and digitised world. The brief seeks to integrate with the spirit of Malleswaram and also be a integral part of a unique and rapidly evolving geography Integration of young and old, tradition and modern, evolution of culture and intellectual pursuits, arts and science, rational thought and individual creativity are all seamlessly interwoven into the architecture Circulation of the old market on the site
-Study cultural
of the context of Malleswaram across socio factors, temporal variend functions and morphology
Immediate zoning at the three entrances of the site - The temple, the commercial front at sampige Road and the residenrial
Zoning of the programmatic components on the tite, the Market The Learning and the Community
Secondary Zoning of the programmatic components on the site showing intersection of functions
Central Lattice light core of the structure
Linnear Usage and Interaction
,In a context like that of Malleshwaram interaction is something which is given and inherently occurring everywhere, and therfeore, it is difficult to define and distinguish physical boundaries or enclosures on basis of what functions/ events happen in a given spatial zone Dividing the program into functions that complementor are contrasting in nature resulting in spaces that influence each other
Growth in multiple dimensions
Modulation of existing site contours to adapt to the grid used for organisation of the varied functions
Design development along the created grid on the site, allowing for multidirectional growth
Deconstruct
Resolving “the box� reinterpreted enclosures, beyond the existing 4 walls, a floor and a roof - Pushing/pulling, scooping out and distortion of volumes as a whole
Simple Enclosures
Schematic Axonometric view and section across the site showing the translation of the grid
Opening it Out
Disengage
Redefine Some Conceptual Diagrams have been made with another student
Temple
Community hall and festive space for celebration+14m
Meditation Hall +7m
Market with Breathable walls +14m Se
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Informal Gathering Zone
Light Core
Food and eateries
Intervention for Women +8m Public Workspace
Bookshop and Publications
Ra m Par p to kin g Base me Bic nt ycl eP ark ing
Admin Offices
NORTH PLAN AT GROUND FLOOR ENTRY LEVEL SHOWING SERVICE AND CIRCULATION CORES ORGANISED BY THE UNDERLYING GRID
Sampige Road
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ROOF PLAN The studio intent explored the idea of any design as the sum of three sets of components or the 3S Structure, Skin and Services The idea of the design was to break the idea of a conventional room of 6 faces and use a central structural component that would assist in changing perceived boundaries of the common public spaces
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SECTION CC
FIRST
FLOOR
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For the more permanent stock, retail of non perishable goods such as stationery Central market lattice roof between the pods, the light through which changes the perceptual experience of the market pods below as well as the usage based on which spaces are shaded and when
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FLOOR
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Caters to the fruit, flower and vegetable market that originally inhabited the site Designed as a composition of individual pod structures with ‘‘breathing’’ walls along the created grid These breathing walls of the pods establish a visual connect across the entire market
EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC VIEW OF THE MARKET PORTION
There’s something about this place. Nothing to do with how the city bounced back like the state has. Nothing to do with me growing older and being able to understand the city better. I remember the excitement with which I stepped onto the ferry in 2017 and even when I bade goodbye to the city this year something told me I’ll be coming back. I’m not from here and I definitely haven’t seen all of it yet. But yes. There’s something about Kochi //Snippets
Photograph taken as observed in the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2019
Personal artwork, A cross between the colours of Van Gogh and the architecture of Adalaj Ni Vav, Gujarat
manninakatte institutional campus
SEMESTER VII Research + Context Study + Design Everyday experience is essential to the formation of human meaning. Vernacular architecture values this everyday environment and spatially reveals its identity and values Cultural Landscapes are natural environments that have been shaped by a human society over time under various forces, with their own identity and character. There is the idea of a working landscape i.e. those that Landscapes shaped by the process of cultivation and by agriculture, and are characterized by achieving a balance between human and natural forces., as seen in the site and context The touch and feel, tactile approach to eco tourism is also given certain importance while parallelly allowing for the functioning working landscapes on the site. The idea of follies creating key points on a fairly large site allow for the user to place or identify himself on the site. and a sense of proximity to what exists naturally
In the given site, context and program are both dominated by the natural existing landform primarily. It is also important to note how the site being along the slope of a larger ridge allows for multiple valley lines to pass through the site overwhich built masses may NOT be placed
VIEWS OF THE MODEL SHOWING HOW THE BUILT TAKES SECONDARY PRECEDENCE AND THE LANDSCAPE DOMINATES THROUGHOUT THE SITE AND THE PROGRAM BOTH
Spatial organisation on the site\ is done keeping in mind the multiple user groups. Vehicular Circulation on the site stops near the entrance and Pedestrian Movement is encouraged The idea of follies creating key points on a fairly large site allow for the user .to place or identify himself on the site These vantage points that function as follies also allow for activities that are in absolute /proximity with the natural cultural landscape. Eg. Bird watching, photography, introspectIion
LARGER ORGANISATIONAL STRAGY OF SITE POSITION SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS
The orange dots map the density of people using the space at a given instant of time. The gradation from white to grey to black show the porosity of the space from open to semi open to built/closed
ZONING ON THE SITE People Based Research Coffee, Shola Research, Seed bank, Agro Research Hydrology and Flood Mitigation Water based research programs Public and Commercial edge Community based programms and Training Conserved Vegetational Slops Water on Site
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PLAN AT FLOOR LEVEL
Bridge across the water log prone area to the banana plantation where a watchtower may be set up
The last portion of the project dealt with the Detsiling of Materials used in the form of flooring, roofing, walls and foundations. The raw materials are locally available withing the site itself of in the vicinity of Kodagu District
Banana Plantation on the site used as a technique for keeping human elephant conflict at bay Accomodation of site for both tourists as well as volunteers overlooking the larger valley beyond the site edge
The Anganwadi, seedbank, Market, restaurant and commercial spaces are the first ring of spaces that can be accesed once you enter the site
Open Air Theatre Accessible from the central public block and research galleries along the existing contours, used majorly for congregation of all user groups
Research and Researchers’ accomodation is pushed further into the more private areas of the site
Deck across the water (in monsoon) and the open field (non-rainy seasons) catering to a multitude of activities
PLAN AT ENTRY LEVEL
NORTH
Study of anthropometry in Dance, Semester III
SRISHTI P srisht4@gmail.com Phone+ 91 8310303920 This portfolio is made for the sole purpose of application for internships in the period of July-December 2019