A Selection of Works Vinit Nikumbh M.Arch - (Cornell University - School of Architecture,Art and Planning), B.Arch - (Mumbai University - Rizvi College of Architecture), Registered Architect - (Council of Architecture India ) UDRI Research Fellow
Academic Work Cornell & RCA - Mumbai
Competition Work
List of Design Competitions
Awarded Individually
06 Third Prize in Zero Carbon City Competition 08 Second Prize in Bus Stop Design -Build Competition. 08 National Winner of Transperence Design Competition. 08 Winner of National Competition for Design Dissertation. 10 Third Prize winner of Housing Design Competition organised by MCHI.
Awarded - Group Effort
08 HUDCO 2008 - Housing Design Competition.
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Participated - Group Effort HUDCO - Housing Design Competition. Architectural Documentation Award (LIK) HUDCO - Housing Design Competition. Architectural Documentation Award (LIK)
12/2010- 5/2011
Investigating Building Facades in New York City Third Way - Moscow - Design and Build Pavillion New York - Utopia Installation. Fold on Clip on House Cinematic City - Short Film Formalized Music - Short Film Digital Ceramics Installation. Tactical Design Approaches for Berlin
11/2010 - 5/2011
6/2009 - 2/2010
B.Arch Rizvi College of Architecture - Mumbai University
08 Shortlisted for the Norman Foster Scholarship. Journalism Contest. 09 Nominated for the Charles Correa Gold Medal for Design Dissertation. 11 Participated in HP Skyline Design Competition.
Noguchi Plaza - Redesign Project
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Bus Stop The Picasso Project Cube Project Container Housing Case Study of Bhuleshwar Interpretation Centre House In Khar Danda School in Pune Comprehensive Design Studio Cultural Centre Bandra Housing in Surat Design Dessertation
Research and Fellowship Work
Work For Design Firms
Graduate Studies - Cornell University New York
Participated - Individually
08 Participated in the India Today Architectural
Professional Work Mumbai Architect - Bricolage Collective Mumbai - A Collaborative studio which works in architecture, art. + Designed an Art Residency on a cliff in Honnavar on the western coast of India. The building has been designed in stone,locally availabe wood and adobe. I worked on the design and execution. It is still in construction. Collaborative Architect with 8:23 Design Studio Mumbai + Conceptual Design for a 2000 sq ft residential interior project in Vashi. + Design and drawings for retro fitting an existing house in Pune. I was involved in the design of adding more floors to the existing structure and redesigning a roof structure. Junior Architect for elm Designs + Designs of Bungalows in Mumbai using Revit, CAD, 3D Max. I designed around 9 prototypes that fit in 2 masterplanning schemes. I also worked on the masterplans of a suburban housing development in Raipur India. + Assisted in preparing Construction Documents and supervision of a 12,000 sq ft residential building. I was involved in making constuction drawings for the structral engineers and co- ordinating the layouts and column positions.
6/2008 - 4/2009
Junior Architect for Pinkish Shah Architects Mumbai + Drawings of school in Airoli using Revit BIM. This project was a 7 storied school with each floor measuring about 45,000 sq ft in Airoli - Mumbai. I was involved in issuing drawings and co-ordinating with HVAC,Electrical Consultants.
6/2007 - 2/2008
Intern at SE-ARCH Mumbai + Drawings of school in Airoli using Revit BIM. This project was a 7 storied school with each floor measuring about 45,000 sq ft in Airoli - Mumbai. I was involved in issuing drawings and co-ordinating with HVAC,Electrical Consultants.
9/2009 - 10/2010
Urban Design Research Fellow
+ Research and Design for issues of “Walkability in Mumbai �. The study focuses on the idea that increased pedestrianization is a critical method to achieve economic, social and environmental sustainability and aims at exploring the problems of pedestrians in Mumbai through urban design interventions. Focusing on some typical nodal points in the city where pedestrians face difficulty (such as railway station precincts/ hawking and informal market settings/ religious or tourist spots), the study analyzes the problems and propose alternatives to make the experience of negotiating streets pleasant for pedestrians.
Competition Work - Professional
MCHI Housing Design Competition Mix Use High Density Walkable Development . Project Date Client Awards
Housing Competition March 2010 Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry Third Prize at the National Level
A Indian Government Sponsored Housing Competion - I entered as a Professional Architect and won the Third prize . The project has an internal street that runs through out the whole building . It leads the visitor from the ground floor to the top floor leading him throughout the voids (public spaces in the building ).
Creating street life in high density developments
A View of the Building with the ramp that passing through all the voids.
A View showing how the building opens up to the riverfront.
Achieving Vertical Walkability Possibility to walk
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Facilities along Walkable Spaces
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The building is a collection of the interior mental images formed in the users mind when he navigates the facilitywhile walking. The street in this context is a place where conversations would happen.
Continuity of the Walkable Spaces along vertical core
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Vertical Walkability
The street is lined with homes and shops which have windows overlooking them .The combination of overlooking and the creation of a variety of visual patterns creates supervision. The walkable corridor creates a pedestrian conitinuity in the whole complex. View of the floorplate
Details of the Courtyard
Section of the Building through the Courtyard
Front Elevation of the building.
Academic Work - Cornell
Staging the Street Working with the Urban Edge to create Programmatic Possibilities Project Design for the Advanced Design Research Studio at Cornell. Date Feb - May 2012 Advisors Sabine Muller Lily Chi
A Publication of a Tactical Manual was produced at the culmination of the studio, compiling all the Design Approches and Tactical Case Studies in Urban Areas.
Berlin (Neukolln) “The arabs and turks SHOULDNT just BE priced out . The economic improvements SHOULD actually FEED down to the immigrant communities jobs, careers etc.�
Owned
Rented
choice, there is no moving van to help, there are no concrete shoes, it sneaks up, it is facelesss
Sold
The Roof as Urban Activator
Restaurant
Ground Level
Rentable Space (Banquet Hall)
Theme Restaurant
Second Level
Third Level
The staircase as the extension of the street and a corridoor of appropriation
The skin of the Building as an activator. The view shows the use of the external skin being appropriated for various uses.
A View of the building from across the street
Academic Work - Mumbai University
Design Dissertation Project - Design Dissertataion Date -May 2008 Advisors - Prof.Akhtar Chauhan Awards - First Prize at the Regional Level , Jury Award at the National Level. Publication in Newspapers. My design dissertation was based on working with a derelict building and transforming it into the neighbourhood centre. I was involved with the residents and framed Urban Guidelines .Some ideas from the project are being implemented by the City council. Buildings in Vile Parle Station area have residual leftover areas and inbetween spaces that offer potential sites for small plazas, gardens, passageways and community spaces. The design proposal tries to re examine the . standards for public spaces and adaptive reuse. Amend the standards to provide more open spaces in small pockets.
A Section of the design showing a the theatre and the public areas for shopping.
Conceptual drawing of reusing the the urban open spaces.
Axonometric view of the design
Aim the program Its a mixed use typology that can be placed in station precincts in Mumbai. This typology shall have programmed with content from art , the market, the public sphere. The city dosent just rent space it rents time.
The Urban intervention is to be a focal point for expressiveness and identity , bustling with life from early morning to late night.
The building requires framework and infrastructure which can accomodate the modular and interchangeable components of the program
The Building responds to the edges of the street and the infrastructure to aid the pedestrians.
The opening up of the courtyard to the street.
Section through the shopping area.
Vinit Nikumbh > Selection of Works > Academic Works > Cornell University M.Arch2 > Moscow Midway up - Design Pavillion
Moscow Midway Up - Design Pavillion Project --Academic Project at Cornell Date - Aug 2011 Instructor- Alex Mergold Published -Execution of the Pavillion and Exhibition , Project and Design work Published in “ Moscow We Designed and Built a Pavillion to express our meomries of Moscow as a city. The Pavillion was designed with a shipping container at its core. The studio investigated into visual representation. The cultural production of the studio included 1. Films 2. Design Pavillions 3. Collages 4. Graphic Design 5. Books
Poster for a film on infinite space pavillion.
A handrafted section showing the conceptual ideas for a design pavillion.
This project was a design and build exercise in the process of which we produced collages, reinterpretations , films , postcards and pavillions to take on the challenge of expression of Russian History. Pavillion 3 , our peep show is the means by which our memories , learnings , misunderstandings , projections and fantasies coalesce into the ultimate object of architecture : the production of space.
Constuction of the Pavillion using the shipping container.
Material produced for the Diorama exhibition in the Container Pavillion.
Professional Work - Freelance Project WOODEN SCREEN
Art Residency Project Date Client
-Art Residency -Dec 2010. -Mugli Beach
series of horozontally divided shutters on the external wall will camouflage the partition for wc
I collaborated with Ar.Prakriti Shukla on this project. The Client wanted a traditional structure which will keep the wind and the rain out. The triangular design maximises the view of the sea - keeping out the obstructive rain and the wind. The materials used were Adobe, Bricks and Wood for the Roofing and Column
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curved door with glass
curved door with glass
curtain glass bricks
glass bricks
All dimensions are in inches
Conceptual section .
First Floor PLAN
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A cut section through the spaces.
Exploded View showing the construction mechanism of the roof
Professional Work- Design Office
Residential Building Project Client
-Residential Building Thane -Highway Rose
I was a part of the team that was working on this project .All of the work is part of the team effort and is reproduced here only for representational purposes.
An elevational view of the lobby design of the building done by me.
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A part of the construction drawing showing the floorplan.
Fellowship Work - UDRI Mumbai
Walkability in Mumbai Project Date Advisors Project Exhibitions Publications
- Walkability in Mumbai - March 2009-September 2010. - Pankaj Joshi, Amita Bhide,Deepali Mody
“Place Making “ in Urban City Cores Neighbourhood Centre Building entries that front directly onto the street without parking between entries and the Public right of way.
-AIA New York , Chattrapati Shivaji Museum Mumbai - In the 2009 Mumbai Reader , parts of this study were published in
several newspapers
Low Rise High Density Pedestrian Friendly
Relatively compact developments. A highly - connecting , mutimodal circulation
UDRI(Urban Design Research Institute Mumbai- Is a NGO that supports interaction among architects, urban designers and professionals) I was selected as one of the first UDRI Research fellows through a competitive selection . I worked on the issue of Walkability in the City.
Transform the centre into a welcoming place through the slow conversion of Streets to Pedestrian friendly areas.network for pedestrians.
Neighbourhood
A sketch of the street level in Mumbai showing urban activity
Building and thoroughfare design that is pedestrian scale
Etc....
This is a study in the Visualization of Music into spatial patterns.
Inscribing Musical Patterns in Space Project Advisor
-Visualizing Musical Patterns in Space -Prof.Andrew Lucia
Musical works have been used as creators of data based on frequecies. This study uses the Patterns generated by Ragas.A raga is a Melodic Framework in Indian Classical Music. Ragas are meant to invoke special moods if they are performed at the specific time of the day or season. The idea was to create a comparative of spatial behaviour of ragas. Spatial behaviour overlaid in this manner can be used to understand inherent patterns . This manual also tries to describe a vocabulary to understand the spatial behaviour of the raga.
Spatial Behaviour Observation No 1
The curve always loops about itself if the value of the resultant rotation is an acute angle.
Observation No 3 The curve inscribes itself over and over again on the same line creating a thick lines between certain points .
Starting point
Observation No 2
Ending Point
The points in the curve always come and join together. The starting point and the ending point should be isolated single spatial points - but complete itself
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Reading the Raga
A Raga (Sanskrit ) is a series of five or more musical notes upon which a melody is made.