2022_Bachelor's Portfolio_Vidula Dinesh

“ I have always looked upon architecture as a wellbalanced collaboration of various disciplines dealing with macro and micro scales. And, I have been curious to search, explore, and learn every level of it. For instance landscape study, and urban responsiveness felt as equally relevant as curating the built structure.

At the same time, I have always been bothered about the responsibility aspect of every conscious or unconscious decision I make since I am a social and environmental being. I chose to avoid every chance of wastage or any discomfort to the sensitive environment within my capacity. It seemed necessary for me to consider architecture as a canvas to express my courtesy to every essential constituent of the universe. It could range from a piece of rock to another individual and even the whole flora and fauna.

I subscribe to the notion that it is requisite to make a conscious effort to curate built and unbuilt environments that could make lives better physically and psychologically by transcending beyond their spatial configurations.”

VIDULA DINESH Architect

CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL DATA

DOB - 23 . 10 . 97

Phone - 9744360637 | 8848288978

E-Mail - viduladineshtcv@gmail.com

EDUCATION

2022- Present

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Mailing address

Language proficiency - English, Malayalam, Hindi Thiruvonam

Annur, (VIA) Payyanur, Kannur Kerala, Pin - 670307

SOFTWARE COMPETENCES

Modelling, drafting & Rendering

Autocad

Sketchup

Autodesk Revit

Lumion

V-ray

Rhinoceros

Animation

Adobe Premiere pro

Adobe After-effects

Adobe Animate

INTERESTS

Graphic designing

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign Procreate Autodesk Sketchbook

Others Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Powerpoint

Graphic designing | Photography | Animation | Research

Product designing | Sketching | Writing | Dance

Digital painting | Journal making | Movies | Music

Architectural thesis

Imagining an Alternate Waste-scape, The Case of Brahmapuram, Waste Interpretation Centre & Public Plaza

Dissertation

Identification of Cultural Nodes:

A Study on Transition Spaces Based on Folk Festivals in North Kerala

Masters in Sustainable architecture and Landscape Design

Government Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kottayam, Kerala

College-wise 1st Rank, 5th Rank in Mahatma Gandhi University for B.Arch CGPA – 7.61

2013-15

GovernmentGirlsHigherSecondarySchool, Payyanur, Kerala

Grade 11 & 12

99% in higher secondary examinations

Till 2013

S.A.B.T.M.H.S.S Kannur, Kerala Grade 10

Full A+ in Kerala State Secondary School examinations

WORK EXPERIENCE

July 2021 – Present

Practicing Architect

Commonground Architecture

Under Ar. Simi Sreedharan

Nov 2020 – Present

Practicing Architect

Under Ar. Alok Dinesh

(Architect | Urban Designer)

March 2020 – Present

Co-founder of The Yellow Company

As Illustrator, Animator and Product Designer

June2017-june 2018

Commonground Architecture

B.Arch Semester 7 and 8 internships

Under Ar. Simi Sreedharan

2021 | 1st Rank in Post Graduate Program Selection School of Planning & Architecture, Delhi, Landscape Architecture

2020 | College-wise topper (Rank 1), Batch of 2015-20, Department of Architecture, Govt. Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology

2020 | 5th Rank in Mahatma Gandhi University for B.Arch

2020 | Ethos India Transparence Thesis Awards -Special Recognition National level Thesis Competition

2020 | Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) Architecture, All India rank 545 (94.35 percentile)

2019 | Coordinator of Urban design study conducted as a part of semester 9 Curriculum at Thalassery, Kerala

2017 | Annual NASA (National Association of Student Architects) Design Competition - Design entry shortlisted

2017 | NASA Fashion Show & Dance Competitions Citation Award and Runner up trophies

2016 | Annual NASA Design Convention Reubens Trophy shortlisted

2016 | Annual NASA Design Competition shortlisted

2015 | School topper in Higher Secondary Examinations 2013-2015

PARTICIPATION ACHIEVEMENTS

Redevelopment of children’s park near Jawahar Balabhavan Kid’s library, Kottayam

The project aimed at returning the oasis lost within the cityscapes back to its prestigious old days. This park, which got abandoned for almost a decade, was rejuvenated using recycled and upcycled construction materials as a part of the project by the Annual Nasa Design Convention.

Hands-on brick workshop

Conducted by Centre of Science and Technology For Rural Development (COSTFORD) as a part of Laurie Baker’scentenary celebrations. The workshop involved hands-on construction of structures using burnt bricks which is sustainable building material.

Tall building design workshop

Conducted by National Association of Schools of Architecture ( NASA India )

Architectural model making workshop by Ar. Praful Purabiya Exploration of different materials used in model making

Imagining an Alternate Waste-scape

The Case of Brahmapuram

Waste Interpretation Centre & Public Plaza

Project category : Public building & Landcape

Location : Cochin, India

Plot Area : 70 Acres

Around the world, skyrocketing rates of waste generation is a distressing fact which can’t be overlooked. Practical solutions are of no account, although this problem has a massive environmental and social impact. In most cases, people rely on the governments to tackle the issues created by unmanaged waste. Across the globe governing bodies in some nations could implement facilities for waste management, but as sheer technical solutions. The social stigma towards trash management remains unresolved, although the environmental harm got controlled to a limited extent. So, a public-integrated change is what society demands. In detail, a system of management where people themselves involve in recycling by getting educated is the essentiality of this time.

Places like Copenhagen could achieve this goal with an adequate architectural intervention. In detail, the amenity designed by Ar. Bjarke Ingels not only generates energy from garbage but also influence the populace to rethink. It is a design clubbing the mechanised waste management zone and a public interaction park on an ecologically sensitive riverside site with a waste dump. The case studies explain the possible creative methods of urban trash disposal, reduction of global waste impact through successful models which broke the social taboo. Furthermore, in the succeeding stages, a site-specific design strategy has arrived to address the concern, and it could cater as a new model in the field of waste management.

2. DISSERTATION

Identification of Cultural nodes: A study on transition of spaces based on folk festivals in North Kerala

5. URBAN DESIGN

DOCUMENTATION

ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATION