Portfolio Tanvi Kanakia Exhibition Design

DIMENSION. Tanvi Kanakia

Exhibition ( Spatial ) Design

kanakia.tanvi@gmail.com

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01.UNDERSTANDING SPACE Using spatial elements to express intangible ideas

BRIEF To create a memorial for a well known personality at an existing site.

HUMBLE

Educated

Inspiring

Complete DIGNIFIED Respectable ACCESSIBLE Forward AWE

We tried to capture the spirit of Kalam and translate it into a spatial experience using elements of space while keeping in mind the impact this has on the visitor, their flow and circulation.

02. INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE Looking at residential spaces

THE BRIEF To develop a housing space for 12 students (of interior architecture) Location : Ahmedabad, India 23.0333째 N, 72.6167째 E

existing building

North Elevation Scale : 1:100

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plot for building

noisy street

garden

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varying heights for washing utensils serving space common storage and fridge

utensil wasing space

view and access to the exterior

COOKING AND EATING AREA

Representation of the space through handdrawn measure drawings and models

03. DESIGNED TO TRAVEL Designing for travelling exhibitions, understanding structures and detailing

The aim was to change peoples’ perception of bamboo products from being cheap, inferior and ‘craftsy’ to a contemporary, sleek and modern image.

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BRIEF : Create a flexible travelling exhibition system that displays the products of the three organisations and reflects their philosophy of sustainable design.

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THE CONCEPT

A rhizome when separated into pieces can give rise to a new plant from each piece. This process can go on endlessly.

Taking inspiration from this, I chose fractals, geometric forms that have the property of potentially infinite repetition.

allen head screw

pin prevents rotational movement of cross members rounded vertex (bamboo board)

insert details (metal)

Nesting pan head screw

Configuration Options

Component parts ( requires assembly on site)

Options for transporting

DETAILING Overall look, joinery detailing, collapsibility

04. SHARED HERITAGE communicating heritage through public spaces

‘Shared heritage’ is an attempt to bring the museum to the object rather than the other way round

Scenario 1

generally for outsiders

Scenario 2

for the people of the place

The ultimate aim is to • To generate awareness on our cultural heritage, which leads to its preservation • Connect people to their past • Preserve the characteristic of the city and make them feel proud of their culture

SAUDAGIRI (1840 - 1940) Textiles for export The project aimed at communicating the changing identities of Saudagiri textiles that were once dried on the river bed of the Sabarmati river. These textiles are no more manufactured Designs from Thailand.

Derived from architectural motif

GUJARAT

Blocks made and printing done in India and exported

SIAM (THAILAND)

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After

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NOW AND THEN the installation shows the changing identities of a space by giving the chance to be in the past and the present at the same time. It also shows how these two worlds effortlessly merge into one another and from one to another

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SANDS OF TIME Look of blown away sand unearthing the past can be at multiple spaces having different prints / samples of fabric

03. ‘DYING DRYING’ The form of the installation is inspired the bamboo scaffoldings on which cloth is dried even to this day but is slowly dying.

The installation shows the process of making of the fabric, where it starts from a plain white cloth and ends up as a printed textile.

On looking from the front, one can see numerous printed saudagiri textiles

Drying Dyeing and washing Printing Block making

It is like an exploded view of the textile where each separate layer represents a part of the process

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05. DISPLAY STRUCTURE Collapsible, lightweight display structure using bamboo

06. PROJECTION SCREEN Self-standing outdoor projection screen that is easy to store

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07. VENUE DESIGN Spatial installations for plays to be showcased for a festival

CLIENT : Rage Productions SITE: Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai BRIEF: To design the venue for a theatre festival, Writers Bloc.

Our job involved reading and analysing the plays and coming up with spatial installations for the same.

These installations were intended to generate interest and act like teasers to the plays.

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A play about a sperm donor and the inter connectedness of the people involved. We made a tape installation representing the sticky situation that people are caught in

Nakko - a play that is not a play ! The 02. Natak unrestricted expression of emotion seen in the play is represented by bold colored cloth coming out from different mouth expressions

about de - addiction for satellite junkies.

03. AWeplay made a 2 sided tv that makes one question the boundaries between real and reel life

08. INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION Designing for interaction

Interactive installation made from glass bottles.

The installation is a game of ‘tic tac toe’.

The person with 3 crosses or knots in a line wins!

09. SOME OTHERS

BORN FREE An interactive installation.

All of us have stories that we keep within ourselves, secrets we hide from the world, sometimes because we fear how the world will judge us.

The installation provides for these unheard stories to be ‘uncaged’.

EXPLORING PLASTICS An attempt at imitating the look of stained glass using plastics

Drafting 10. STUDIO SKILLS AND INTERESTS

Sketching

Graphic design

Illustrations

Illustrations