Architecture Portfolio 2023

Hello, I am Yeshas Nagaraj, a practicing architect from Bangalore, India. The following are my curated collections reflecting my passion in academic and professional arhitectural works.

ARCHITECT

Nationality: Indian

Date of Birth: 14th November 1996

Languages: English, Kannada, Hindi

No. 2, 7th main street, JP Nagar 1st Phase, Bangalore - 5600678

nrajyeshas@gmail.com

+919008576055

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

Mirambika School For New Age, JP Nagar

National College, Jayanagar

BMS College of Engineering, Basavanagudi

WORK EXPERIENCE

Internsip at Envisage Design Consultants, Bangalore, India

CGPA : 7.6

CGPA : 8.0

CGPA : 8.4

2001 - 2012

2012 - 2014

2014 - 2019

Aug 2018 - Aug 2019

Contributed on four residential projects under the guidance of my senior architect Mr. Vivek Kumar by having a great deal of independence in designing and establishing all types of construction drawings. Also worked in each phases of those projects from design to execution of architectural and interior details in par with the timelines commited to the client.

Junior Architect at SASW ARCHITECTURE, Bangalore, India

Widely contributed on the architectural design process, construction and coordination of hospitality, apartments and luxury residential interiors under the guidance of Ar. Pramod & Ar.Abdul. Frequent interactions with client and vendors gave me an understanding about each project stages. Engaging interactions with structural, PMC and MEP consultants for each project, gave me an understaning about our design coming to reality.

Founder at ARCHITECTURE P.A.W, Bangalore, India

After tremendous experience gathered from my previous organizations, I had enough courage to freelance on architecture and interior design projects for couple of months, eventually establishing independently by handling projects of various typologies and magnitudes in Bangalore. With design solutions focusing on providing better user experience through unique details we also work as a research lab in creating innovations through various building materials.

INTER COLLEGIETE EVENTS

• Collaborated with “SAMA” foundation in refabricating public buildings of bengaluru with inclusive design strategies.

• Event coordinator for Product Design at Phase shift 2016, BMSCE’s intercollege technicalfest.

• Coordinated with GIZ and DULT in stakeholder opinion survey of an urban street in bangalore.

• Department coordinator for Phase Shift 2017, BMSCE’s intercollege technical fest.

• Participated in the analysis program of an urban street market (Gandhi Bazaar) organized by GIZ.

• Presented active design solutions for an urban street market (Gandhi Bazaar), in an inter collegiete competition.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

• Shortlisted as one of top 3 in an inter collegiete theatre competition at HN Kalakshetra, Bangalore.

• Stood First in Cartooning and Caricature competition, hosted by MCC, Bangalore.

• Documentation of a Hoyasla Keshava Temple in Nuggehalli, Hassan district.

• Worked as a song-writer and a guitarist for a rock band based in Bangalore.

INTERESTS

Oct 2019 - Nov 2022

Aug 2021 - Present

June 2016

Sept 2016

Mar 2017

Sept 2017

Feb 2018

Oct 2018

Feb 2014

April 2014

June 2017

Dec 2018

PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

Here are some of my work experiences from two of Bangalore’s many companies. I’ve gone through the architectural process of several project typologies, gradually shaping my skillsets as a designer, with my experience ranging from design to construction in SASW Architecture.

BELAKU

Residence for Mr.Kumar Murthy, Bangalore

Residential| 2021 | SASW Architecture

Guided by: Ar. Pramod C & Ar. Abdul Ansari Status: In progress

Basic form

Creating niches

Identifying projection planes

Articulating volumes

Adding elements

Final form

Located within a developing residential district, this residential plot corners at south-east and experiences moderate contours. With client belonging to a traditional brahmin community wanted to have few physical, spiritual and intellectual spaces as part of his brief namely, courtyards, reading area, gym and a ritual terrace. Hence, the design idea evolved by aligning spaces around the central courtyard.

Beams continued to surround the balcony space opening to sky and enclosed with a wooden screen

Slit windows on the son’s bedroom to lighten up the study area on the southeastern side of the room

Wooden louvered screen continued downwards to the cieling

Basalt Stone cladding on the foreground to create a texture play on the facade.

Balcony scooped on the singular wall of masterbedroom

Supinated double height portal for the courtyard

Corner continuity of the stone compound wall

Breaking the angular slope to create two distinct masses at the ground level

Concrete finish added here brings out a distinguishing look

Basalt Stone cladding on the foreground to create a texture play on the facade.

Lower ground floor plan Upper

First floor plan

Terrace floor plan

Section through courtyard

Section along site slope

NAZZRATHPETH

Mixed use development, Poonamallee, Chennai

Masterplanning| 2021 | SASW Architecture

Guided by: Ar. Pramod C & Ar. Abdul Ansari

Status: In progress

“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.”

– Coretta Scott King

Defining a flexible public plaza

Play area

Concerts

Flea market

Art gallery

Business hotel

Interactive plaza

ACADEMIC WORKS

During my time at BMSCE, I applied all of my architectural knowledge to my urban design project, Gandhi Bazaar, a historical street in Bangalore, with excellent guidance from well-practicing architects in the industry. Despite the fact that urban planning was a flexible path offered in our academics, it won me a few sensibilities for people-centered-layout, enticing city fragments with factors to shape a cohesive urban environment. My architectural thesis NCPA, on the other hand, combined the applications of our knowledge in a single unbroken stack with a topic I was interested in, and it was a fun experiential adventure.

ANGADI-(ಅಂಗಡಿ)

An urban augmentation

B.Arch | 7th semester | BMSCE

Guided by: Prof. Bhagyalakshmi & Ar. Adithya Kiran Team: Aparna Verma, Suraj Devaraj & Sejal Ranka

“We go back to some streets more often than others… Maybe a street unlocks memories, or offers expectations of something pleasant to be seen, or the possibility of meeting someone old, or someone new... Because some streets are more pleasant than others, we go out of our way to be on them.”

- Allan B. Jacobs

Gandhi Bazaar having its own identity and unique features is a main road located in Basavanagudi, one of the oldest and historically significant areas of growing metropolitan city of Bangalore. It was named after Mahatma Gandhi, to commemorate a march he took from Lalbagh botanical gardens to National College during the Indian Independence Movement. The people, the language, the festivities and the cuisine are key aspects that render Gandhi Bazaar as a “MELTING POT OF CULTURE”.

Tagore park

Vendor market

Ice Thunder Junction

Dattatreya circle

Ramakrishna ashram circle

The primary objective is to study and analyse various challenges faced by Gandhi Bazaar Main Street and to explore how inclusive design (better use of existing space through optimum space management and time-sharing) can generate resourceful use of space for diverse stakeholders.

THE CHARACTER

Street vending imparts character to Gandhi Bazaar. Street vending provides many opportunities: goods and services at convenient locations, and affordable prices; self-employment for large numbers of people; link formal sector with consumers; keeps streets busy and safe, creates an interesting city environment.

ISSUES & CHALLENGES

RESIDENCES COMMERCE PARKING

With 46% of residential strata, its composed mainly with 1:1.5:0.75 ratio of native vysya, brahmin and other communities.

Of the nearly 44% of public and commercial hubs, 2: 0.8: 1.5 ratio denotes to the retails, eateries and office /service

46% 44% 68%

Hapazard parking do exist in this vicinity, increasing vehicular traffic with 2: 1 ratio of two wheeler to four wheelers

flowers

fruits vegetables miscallaneous

Along with 70% of flower vendors,10%,18%, and 2% of fruit, vegetable and other vendors occupy in the vicinity along the street edges/

Public Toilets and Drinking water facilities need to be provided near every bus-stop and each Rapid Transit Station (Metro/BRT). Frequency of location should vary from ~500 - 800 M

Successful pedestrian zones are not only a matter of closing the streets to traffic, but are the creation and management of a safe and conducive urban environment.

•Shuttle service pods

•Better accessibility and connectivity of footpaths/ cycle paths

•Pedestrian /cycle facilities like secure bike parking

• NMT hubs act as regional centres

The strategy of the suggested model is to categorize markets into three broad types and to then give design proposals for each. They are:

a. Markets along the Street

b. Organised Vendor zones,having a separate, designated space for vendors to operate,i.e taken off-street.

c. Flexible Vending Zones which are used for different purposes at different times of the day.

RAMKRISHNA ASHRAM

Propsed site for cultural centre

GOVINDAPPA CIRCLE

DESIGN STRATEGY- A STREET FOR THE PEOPLE

ASSIGNING PROMINENT VENDING ACTIVIITES

ROADS - HIGH ALBEDO COATINGS

TAGORE CIRCLE

High Albedo/ ‘Reflectivity’ Materials reflect more of the sun’s rays and absorb less heat than traditional black asphalt pavement or darker paving materials, thus mitigating the urban heat island.

Providing a landscape integrated community gathering for the locals, and creating an urban square on the TAGORE Junction

Predominant vendor’s hotspot

SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

Dustbins must be provided at each bus-stop and street intersection in order to discourage people from throwing trash on the road. Private Sector could be involved in manufacturing and maintenance of dustbins in return for the incentive of getting waste for recycling or tax subsidies for firms if conducted as a CSR initiative.

SURFACE WATER RUNOFFBIO SWALE SYSTEM

NCPA, Delhi

The National centre for performing arts

B.Arch | 8th semester | BMSCE

Guided by: Prof. Shilpa shirish & Ar. Sayee deodar

The formal nature of the New Delhi plan as often complemented by structures disposed symmetrically in space. so, generating vistas and visual lines are the key to stimulate a different user experience. With Lutyens Delhi adjoining to the Shahjahanabad, along the datum of Yamuna river, the design idea was to organize the Existing building (Old Delhi) adjoining to the rajpath pool (Yamuna) with the proposed design (New Delhi). Although the objective also comprises of creating a harmony of unbuilt spaces through the use of Mughal landscape principles (using avenues, water channels, pathways, etc.)

Proposed Site : IGNCA COMPLEX

India gate Rajpath road National Archives of India National museum Secretriat

Rashtrapathi Bhavan

Parliament house

Performing art hubs play dominant role to focus on better interaction with public and an artist’s perception. Located on the urban fabric of anhistorically emphasized site, Lutyen’s Delhi, the center can invite different groups of people, and provide an oppurtunity for them to experience different art forms.

Establishing an integrated multi performing art hub within a strong contextual background, is efficient in many ways.

Iconic Performing art hub should be:

IGNCA (existing building)

Rajpath road Proposed

BUILT/UNBUILT

reduced terrain

sloping down landform

retained IGNCA landscape

rajpath lawn

WATER CIRCULATION

water chanel

linear pools

PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION

pedestrian pathways

non-motorised vehicular way

parking

PROGRAM

theatre boulevard

vendor market

the gallery

IGNCA building

EXISTING ZONING

IGNCA art complex

mati garh (gallery)

media house

IGNCA administration

community theatre

cafe

gallery admin and academic building

Panchmuk Chowk

Raksha Bhavan

Man Singh Road

Parking

Rajpath Road

Bungalow zone

SECTION ALONG THE RAJPATH ROAD

SECTION ALONG THE GALLERY SPACE

Dr. Rajendra Prasad road Bungalow Zone

Dr. Rajendra prasad road

Rajpath Road

Rajpath Lawns

Rajpath Lawns

Shaded Walkway Rajpath Lawns Pool

Outdoor Theatre/ Plaza

Main Theatre Backstage

Vendor market Road

3D VISUALISATIONS

My professional experience aided me in demonstrating my abilities as a designer and 3D Visualizer on upcoming residential architecture and interior design projects in Bengaluru. Here are a few snippet collections for the same.