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CONTENTS THESIS-SEXUALITY AND ARCHITECTURE
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Title : Sexuality and Architecture_Towards an egalitarian neighbourhood. Context : Mulund,Mumbai Type : Aacademic Project Role : Student
Contribution : Individual Year : 5th year architecture Date : October,2016 Mentor : Anuradha Kapadia
Mythical Frameworks Within the mandala is my site plan a cosmic diagram relating to the infinite sense of rationality within our bodies, minds and beyond.Awarness of the mandala has the potential to show us how we see ourselves and our life purposes . It is an actual movement in time.
Email (mentor) : anuradha.kapadia@rediffmail.com
Project Abstract : It tries to look at the ways in which women navigate their lives and the ways in which they would like to live it,also exploring the extreme measures that society expects women to take in order to protect themselves in an unsafe city.But women are also dreaming all the time, and what is it that they dream about? The project hopes to build an egalitarian housing complex , along with a privately owned public square.
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Location : Mulund,Mumbai The state government has sought the land for more “socially relevant activities”. A master plan for the development of salt pan lands in Mumbai. This move will see the city’s last remaining open spaces being thrown open for development. Mumbai’s salt pan lands, spread over 5,500 acres, comprise 30% of its land area. The narrative uses a folk tale-like structure to talk about a certain kind of society in the city of Mumbai and the people that belonged to it, in a fantasy tale of the everyday mundane, exists (speculative) an egalitarian middle class society where gender equality is at a forefront of all aspects of neighbourhood. This speculative reality tries to be a time less affair cutting throught the various nuanced macro programmed cultures of India.Methods of potraying were never practiced in ancient world imagery of India as they were meant to represent maximum value narrations and interactions which were more understandable if people looked at them from the front view.
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The narrative tries to convey the story of a small town girl who shifts to a metropolitan city at her aunt’s place. Her aunt stays with her family of two children and a husband in an egalitarian housing society where gender equality is at the forefront of everything.
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Retail Shops Communal Kitchen Kitchenette(each house) Toilets Community classrooms & public Library Workshop Spaces Auditorium Garden Centre for Vocational training Commercial
School Child care Gender box Shared space Gym Reflective sphere Parking Workshop area Amphitheatre
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Things are really weird here, its a setting where you can never be sphere in the middle of the housing society which helps to visualise everyone’s activities. Its called the panopticon , serves as an object of security and control. Its kinda creepy.
I know what it is, You see, the sphere denotes society’s scheme that we are constantly entering into this notion of control than that of discipline to propagate this truth of each member of the society supervises the ensemble of the other member while being supervised themselves. wow!
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School of Liminal Simulations Our 1st experience of space.Our 1st experience of loving someone or abusing someone is gendered in some or the other way. As children it is ingrained in our minds that a girl is supposed to play with dolls and a boy is supposed to play with guns,it becomes an issue when choice becomes a responsibility in each case. Hence the School environment which simulated everyday objects,what does the kid choose to play with since the beginning.
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Dear Architecture Objects manifest more than just functions and needs ,a lot of times objects associate memories and moods such object also once fed into the system of simulations with the help of the media and become a tool to instruct people on how to live their lives , who should live them and why. One such ideology is of the over use of gender inequality of product placements. A women in an ad always washes the dishes and clothes , sure there is a choice that we should be smart . but not everyone is us.Thus let us liberate the object that is the simple dish/clothes wash right up to our architecture .
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Project Abstract :This Project was an international competition to clense as well as develop the Mithi river held by The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) . The competition set off to renovate as well as develop the already existing maharashtra nature park, allowing it to be a central hub for education on flora and fauna while taking in consideration the continimated waters of the mithi rivers with the context of its near by settlement Dharavi ( asia’s largest slum). The brief also required the connection of a bridge from the park to the finicial and business center Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC).
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PARK INFRASTRUCTURE INTEGRATED SYSTEMS
Pedestrian and bicycle friendly boardwalks and pathways will weave through diverse bio-habitats such as forests, marshes, and wetlands, rising and falling with the natural topography. The constructed wetlands will capture and purify water from the Mithi and mitigate flooding impacts during storms. It will also circulate water to the existing reservoir, keeping it clean and fresh. Through informative signage and programming, all of these interventions will offer opportunities for everyone to develop a deep understanding and appreciation of the delicate and intricate socio-ecological systems at work in the park.
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Indian Laburnum Tree, Cassia fistula This native of India, commonly known as Amaltaas or golden shower tree, is one of the most beautiful of all tropical trees when it sheds its leaves and bursts into a mass of long, grape-like bunches of yellow-gold flowers. It is the state flower of Kerala in India and of immense importance amongst Malayali population. It is a popular ornamental plant and is used in herbal medicine. Source: Adesh Shivkar
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vii. Butterfly Park The butterfly park is located around the passage between the main entrance gate and the front of the education centre. October to November is the best period to observe butterflies and moths in the park. Plants that attract butterflies and moths are planted in this section. Different species of butterflies and moths are found throughout the park (more details in the Biodiversity Section). To create an ecosystem to sustain butterfly and moth species,
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Black Rajah Charaxes solon Source: Nelson Rodrigues Crown flower, Calotropis gigantea Commonly known as milkweed or swallow-wort and Ran kaapus in Marathi, Calotropis gigantea is a common wasteland weed. It plays host to a variety of insects and butterflies. In India it is common in the compounds of temples and is known as Madar. Source: Prithvi Hirani
MNP provides ideal conditions for all stages of the insect’s life cycle (egg -> larva -> pupa -> adult -> egg). Trees such as Peepal, Kadamba, which attract butterflies, are found throughout the park. Edible plants such as Lemon, Curry Leaves and Kaala Kuda that attract caterpillars are planted all over the park to facilitate breeding of butterflies18. The nature park is home to over 76 species
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The proposed pedestrian and cyclist bridge is designed to connect a series of experiential moments. Instead of connecting one point of the park to Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC), the bridge is designed to be pulled away from the BKC connector and create not only a path to pass but also a place to pause and reflect, offering remarkable views of the river, park and city beyond.
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The proposed bridge is planned at a lower level so as not to interfere with the design vocabulary of the BKC connector. The bridge is elegantly designed with a sinuous curve to offer views on either sides of the Mithi River and the estuary, giving it a unique and strong identity that takes advantage of its natural setting. The design expression is not to compete with the BKC vehicular connector, which will be a heavy infrastructure bridge within close proximity. The iconic nature of the bridge lies in its experience and an elegant form that is derived from high level Euclidean geometry, so that the structure may be fabricated in a rational and modular format. The bridge is divided into three equal spans of 100m length. The supporting piers are shaped as organic thumb-and-finger concrete forms which cradle the bridge with exterior bearings. The naturally wider mid-span of each arc allows for an opportunity to create space for pedestrians to collect and admire the view.
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Title : Rajasthan Villages_Garbhor & sawentri village Context : Rajasthan ,India Type : Professional Project Role : Intern Architect
Contribution : Designing, Research and 3D views Date : 2015-2016 Employer: Studio POD Email : mahesh@studiopod.in Project Abstract : Garbhor currently has a population of approximately 4000 persons and is anticipated to grow over 8000 by 2040.Garbhor is an important religious town and hosts the Jal Jhulni festival annually which attracts over one lakh visitors over the festival period. For the village, a comprehensive prepared Development Plan has been created considering a 25 year horizon period.The Development Plan includes a environmentally sensitive land use plan that identifies developable and Eco-sensitive parcels of land in and around the village that require to be preserved. Plans for efficient and environmentally sustainable management of civic infrastructure considering the existing and 25 year horizon period has been planned. A transportation plan has also been developed that considers improves connectivity within the village and the surrounding areas and also makes special provisions for the movement of visitors/tourists during the festival.
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Cosmic Earth I-IV
Title : We are all islands Context : The Great Eastern Home,Byculla Type : Professional Project
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Contribution : Technical production of all works, accounting, archiving, project management. Year : 2016-present Date : 2015-2016 Employer: Sharmistha Ray Studio Project Abstract : As we hurtle towards digital realities in the age of technology, the internet and social media, do we risk the extinction of our sentient consciousness, mediated by touch, human presence and an appreciation of beauty?Have we all become willful islands, fragments of humanity adrift in the ocean of virtual connections in a globalised world? Comprising painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and installations, we are all islands marks a new conceptual direction, unveiling a bold merger of concepts and practices.
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Agni (all gold is fool’s gold)
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Sanctum II Installation with visual projections, graphite drawing “The Gaze”
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A Polymorphous Love: Queering the Straight and Narrow -Nancy Adajania “I need to reach beyond interior decoration, biography. Art is a way of melting out through one’s own skin.“What, who is this about?” is not the essential question.A poem is not about; it is out of and to. Passionate language in movement.The deep structure is always musical, and physical – as breath, as pulse.” — Adrienne Rich, ‘Permeable Membrane’ In Sharmistha Ray’s current exhibition, we are all islands, presented at Nine Fish Art Gallery, Bombay, Ray has expanded her painterly practice to include an ensemble of tactile sculptures,iPhone photographs,projected drawings and an immersive light installation – all of which come to life in a space within the former . A variety of temporalities – geological, oceanic, cosmic, and the ‘Now-time’ or epiphanically revealed Jetztzeit at the heart of the everyday – conspire together in Ray’s current body of work. We stumble over a cluster of strange geological forms as we approach a well that is not a well and are startled by a varicoloured colonnade of light.We pause at a photographic diptych (the brea(d)th of life is a measure of time, 2016), where the artist, a mere speck, comes up for breath in a pool of luminescent reflections. The pool might suggest a surreal Hockneyesque fantasy and the artist might well be a nayika in a delicate miniature painting, swimming across glassy waters in a state of pure abandon or jouissance. Armed with Ahmed’s talismanic insights, we approach Ray’s geological sculptures (Cosmic Earth I-IV, 2016), faceted forms painted in exuberant organic colours. While they could be seen to belong to a genealogy of Platonic solids, their idealized beauty – crafted from perfectly symmetrical proportions – is deftly queered by the artist. By interfering with their pure structural geometry, allowing some facets to shift out of alignment with the rest of the sculpture, Ray introduces into them a sensuality, an affective disorientation that also folds into itself questions of sexual orientation. The sexualisation of these Platonic solids spells a non-binaristic, polymorphous love. Ray worked on-site with a team of carpenters and an architect at The New Great Eastern Mills compound to produce these sculptures, while on a studio residency facilitated by Nine Fish. Once the faceted surfaces were carved out, she treated them with lavish coats of glossy polymer paint. Clearly, the artist has not exhausted the possibilities of painting. Sanctum II (forget you I shan’t) Installation with visual projections, graphite drawing ‘The Gaze’ from 108 drawings 2016 (installation view) comprises 108 graphite on paper nudes, intimate drawings of what she calls “a distant and unrequited love.” These nudes attest to the artist’s need to revisit the erogenous zones of her lover’s body through the spontaneous act of sketching. We wonder whether these drawings, with their mingled adoration and suspicion of the beloved other, might signify what Roland Barthes termed an ‘amorous perversion’ where “it is my desire I desire, and the loved being is no more than its tool?” The drawings float like auratic beings in a projected beam of light in a well.We stand at the circumference of the well as if it were the edge of the unconscious, ours and the artist’s, and look in with trepidation. Marked by an erotic recitativeness, these works flash before our eyes 108 times; they are in no hurry to reach a desired climax. Instead, the artist makes us complicit in her japa, 108 ways of re-living as well as healing the lacerations of love. Or as Barthes would write in his wistful lexicographic entry on love, of ‘annulling’ it and then, upon suffering the guilt of making the loved one disappear from the sentiment provoked by him or her, of ‘disannulling’
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Title : Parametric Kahn : The development of an Engineering Campus Context : Tala,Maharashtra Type : Academic project Role :
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Contribution : Individual Project Year : 4th year architecture Date : October 2014 Mentor: Niladwuti Basu Chattopadhyay Email : niladwuti@gmail.com
Project Abstract :This Project seeks to explore the aesthetic sense of Louis Kahn and his study of Light and silence in parallel to parametric approach to design and not “Form or Shape”. The approach of “Parametric Kahn” involves taking decisions on adding archaic and functional elements like stairs and its purpose with the classroom to combine a stepped room, similar exercises involving arches as structural elements purely without openings and setting up grids to create servant spaces as experimentation spaces and leisure rooms.
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The project involves a development of an engineering campus with 4 core streams (Mechanical – Civil – Electronics – Computer Science)
Alongside ancillary spaces of an auditorium, Housing quarters for staff and students.
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Title : Furthering encounters of orange geographies_house for a brat. Context : Urna , Mumabi Type : Academic project Role : Student
Narrative : The cube disrupted my sleep,assigned a job To build one of him. That day the urban overwhelmed each heart, Looking for an encounter to envelope its instinct. For days together it blamed the formless sea Then one day, Mother(nature) gave an orange post lunch It revealed the matter(pulp) in the most architectural way, And hence the beloved instinct acted its stay. Project Abstract :What is a Dream house , Or is it your dream to have a house itself a dream. Regardless of the querry this project seeks to address issuses of form recogination along side having a dream. The Orange house is house for a brat who if desired could ride his motor cycle up to his room using a ramp , Play air ballon races with is friends through the cut out slab provided . Cosy up in a circula bed or cosy up in a circular reading room. The project questions why space makes form and does spatial standards of specific rooms require to be present in an house.
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Contribution : IndividualProject Year : 1st year architecture Date : August 2011 Mentor: Niladwuti Basu Chattopadhyay Email : niladwuti@gmail.com
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Title : The art gallery that stopped vallery Context : Cosmos Type : Academic project Role :
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Vallery one day while tunneling through objects through huge cosmic retrospects encountered a strange wall. The wall called herself Gallery, Gallery,bitten by time,now a thousand years ago compelled Vallery to stay.. Vallery tried to learn the order that gallery had midway.. Of doors and windows embelleshed or not, Of socio-political-economic-cultural orders followed or not. She was amazed to see objects walking through time, Of memories embodied in art and science. Vallery seemed to extend her compliance, Mesmerized by the identities and sense of space she could offer the people. Then one day, She looked at herself nothing than a container trapped in time, She decided to liberate by kissing the paradigm. Gallery saw the physics,vallery saw it too, Gallery tress passed,wont you pass too?
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Contribution : Kevin Dsouza , Swati Jain. Year : 2nd year architecture Date : October 2013 Mentor: Sabu Francis Email : sf@sabufrancis.com
Project Abstract : An Art gallery that merges quantum physics and architecture , Meta meterials - interdimensional drifts ,The art gallery that stopped vallery is a take on the concept of time and space. liberating art objects by kissing the paradigm Note : tunneling refers to quantum tunneling ;Vallery refers to a future speculated architectural spirit ; Gallery refers to the present architectural spirit.
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Title : Navi Mumbai Transcripts_Mapping Context : Navi- Mumbai Type : Academic project Role :
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Project Abstract : For me,this urban documentation of Navi Mumbai could not be interpreted in a singular way.The newly conceived counter-part of Mumbai built from learning from Mumbai’s mistakes mesmerised me because it had already started building memories of space and time.The reading of the city transcribed learnings from Bernard tschumi’s “architecture and disjunction” and “red is not a colour’ two of the architects noble books.I tried to project the superimposition of real maps with fragments of building also measuring space against unlikely confrontations in day to day life.The movie is organized into “takes” each take showing scene from various particular “programmes”.These videos below will give you an deep insight about the readings of Navi Mumbai.
Email : principal.ltiads@gmail.com
1)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz4WmtegOpI&ab_channel=SwatiJain (Mapping navi mumbai) 2)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfscHjgzksg&ab_channel=SwatiJain (between the protégé and the mentor and initial idea)
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Title : Study in Pink Context : Sewri, Mumbai Type : Academic project Role : Student
Contribution : Individual Project Year : 3rd year architecture Date : January 2014 As biologist Richard Lewontin observes, Organisms determine what is relevant. While stones are part of a thrush’s environment, tree bark is a part of a woodpecker’s, and the undersides of leaves part of a warbler’s. It is the life activities of these birds that determine which parts of the world, physically accessible to all of them, are actually parts of their environments
Mentor: Niladwuti Basu Chattopadhyay Email : niladwuti@gmail.com
Project Abstract : A park built for the pleasure of seeing the spectacular pink ceatures.A park for viewing flamingos closely with the help of fantastical periscopes at various heights. At the centre of the park are also communal periscope station for interactive viewing experience. Upon looking closely at the graphics it tries to represent a caution to keep distance from the mangroves at the periphery of the park as that is what makes it habitable for the flamingos to visit us. Since mumbai is built on reclaimed land further reclamation or building of sea ways etc will result in the death of mangrooves thereafter the migration of the flamingos from the Sewri region permanently.
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Title : BFF restaurant Context : Airoli, Navi Mumbai Type : Personal project Role : Architect
Contribution : On site interior designing,material selection,guiding carpenters and construction team. Year : October, 2016 Client : Ronit Bhogle
Project Abstract : A Restaurant designed and executed on site for a hotel management graduate,also a friend. His requirement was to make a restaurant where minimum human effort is involved in taking orders and more effort is put into making fabulous foods. We decided to put an inverted conveyer belt around the ceiling of the restaurant with magnetic pads fixed with chains onto which people could stick the iron pad written with order numbers.These numbers were encoded with various food names on the menu of the restaurant. There were no drawings made for this project.The production teams was quick in understanding instructions, I worked as a consultant in each stage of the project.
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COSMIC CONCIQUENCE (BAI = DOMESTIC MAID) Many a day back before there were days , before we counted time in minutes there was an unfolding of space ,The unfolding of time and space itself. This was the first act of architecture, the things we count as urban issues were the ethos of it all. And amongst these beginnings were the gifts she was given, the five senses of this world Where how objects would be woven. A mark on her toe was an animal she would ride.What we cannot imagine must definitely be divine why see it as a monster when the truth it holds is right .The Navagunjara would transport her to worlds where our objects come from,to liberate them she must ride. She had already seen the urban present ,as she held in her hands the serpentine highway wrapped around the mandala the plan, the overlaying of the modern on the history that we built.The set of faces she wore were the cause of culture she dealt, the second one was much more unforgiving , The survival of the fittest has bruised her face. Being angry is an act ofthe nature being calm. Her third face was quite different the act of culture into the urban fabric woven ,she’s now portrayed herself as a miracle maker , a god man and a religious fanatic to be , That had now seemed to become her reality. But why such anger did urbanism get her to act up here.Yes indeed as it was the slum rehabilitation building that was the cause of the fears, that sought to shift her to a better plan. knowing that the building was not right where were the innovations that allowed me to earn my money on site, this building acts funny only spaces to live in ,I can sleep where I work why do I need a separate room . Back in the slum I was doing this with innovation until this building just shows me a simulation, a fake façade smiling to the city. when I am miserable why do you want to city to look pretty. Alas for this nonsense I must get back in my conscience I must become the god man everyone wants me to be, I need to perform fake miracles for that is what the urban has made me. The state of our lives would have been much easier to see , but we choose to understand the good and bad only to forget life is just the truth and the story. The life cycle of birth is infinite , the river will always flow , this is one of my many lives I would like to show. I leave you now as the story is infinite , with the map of a universe I always specially like.
Project Abstract : The Project sought to understand cause and effect in our urban . Does architecture build us or do our rituals build architecture , Can a house maid be an interdimensional bieng . can architecture be from other reaches of space and time.Is a slum rehabitation building responsible for a god man or a mad man . Is the urban aware of architecture or are we aware of both of them.
Title : Cosmic consequence_ Urban Architectural Fairytale Context : Dimensions of here and beyond Type : Competition Entry Role : Student
Contribution : Irena Zablotska, Swati Jain, Kevin D’souza, Sushant Narvekar Year : 2015 Date : December 2015 Competition holder: Blankspace project Competition holder: Fairy Tales Competition
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CURRICULUM VITAE SWATI JAIN
ACHIEVEMENTS November, 2016 : Built a Public Art Sculpture titled “ The mythical politics of the Nimbu Mirchi” under the series of “One Of Many Lives” for The Times Celebrate Bandra Fest in association with Times Of India, Bandra, Mumbai
DOB :03rd MAY 1993 B.ARCH
February,2016 : Final year thesis titled “sexuality and architecture” selected at Kurula Varkey Design Forum at CEPT University (Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology University) ,Ahmedabad
An observer, in some measures an architect, an urban intruder a story teller and a poet.
August,2016 : Participated at Council of Architecture (COA) National Institute of Advanced Studies in Architecture(NIASA) - Awards Programme For Excellence In Architectural Thesis, Pune
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EDUCATION
October,2016 : Participated in The ISARCH Awards May 2016,2016 : Participated in Drawing Futures, the international peer-reviewed conference on speculative drawing for art and architecture, The Bartlett School of Architecture December 2015 : Participated for the third-Annual Fairy Tales Competition 2015
1997 - 2009 - Dr.S.Radhakrishnan Vidyalaya Maharashtra state board
December,2015 : Won 1st in The Scrap metal competition at The National Association of Students of Architecture (NASA India) -Annual convention, Chennai
2009 - 2011 - Thakur College Of Science Maharashtra state board
December,2015 participated in HUDCO trophy at The National Association of Students of Architecture (NASA India) -Annual convention, Chennai
2011 - 2016 - Lokmanya Tilak Institue of Architecture & Design Studies Mumbai University
May 2015 : Editorial Team for LATE NIGHT BREAKFAST, annual college magazine. February 2014 : Awarded for the 361° Student Fellowship Programme 2014, Mumbai
2016 - 2017 - Jnanapravaha diploam course persuing art , criticism and theory (Ends in feb,2017)
EXPERIENCE
June 2014 : Group Exhibition called “Bartart” ( Barter + ART) Pop up titiled “menu of an architect” December,2013 : Curated and Managed Cultural fest titled “Dystopian day dreams” and “Stylic nightmares” of Lokmanya Tilak Institute of Architecture and Design Studies, Navi Mumbai
April 2016 - December 2016 - Studio Sharmishta Ray
May,2013 gesamtkunstwerk entitled “The classroom” at Lokmanya Tilak Institute of Architecture and Design Studies,Navi Mumbai
_Production Lead _Studio Architect
SKILLS
November 2015 - April 2016 - Studio POD _Internship November 2013 - April 2014 - Manushia Architects & Consaltants _Internship
INTERESTS Drawing,philosophising,painting,sketching, blogging ,travelling,photography,product designing, graphic designing
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LANGUAGES ENGLISH HINDI MAHARATI
SANSKRIT
FRENCH
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THANK YOU
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