madhavi jandhyala ARCHITECT
e city | bangalore | commercial
madhavi jandhyala E City, Site Plan
E City, Site Elevation
E City, Tower 1
Section Through Tower 1
Section Through Tower 2
Conceptual Sections E City | Bangalore| 10 acres | 1,000,000 sft Comprising of 2 commercial towers and one Management Studies campus, this project is an exercise in exploring iterations of "court" both contained within built spaces and carved out of external programmatic requirements. The two commercial towers are far removed from the conventional commercial buildings one sees in the city. Strucutral glazing throughout the building has been used sparingly the buildings allow for green courts, cut outs, bridges and open spaces within. This approach deters form the typology of the ubiquitous "software office" that seems to have taken root in Bangalore over the last decade.
Tower 1 court
Symbiosis Campus
Tower 2
Tower 2 court
aikya | bangalore | multi-unit residential
madhavi jandhyala
Aikya, Site Section through Club
Detail, South Facade
Aikya, Site Plan
North Facade
Aikya, 3D view
Detail of Typical Block
View from entrance
Aikya | Bangalore| 1.5 acres| 200,000 sft | 110 units This project explored the redefinition of the paradigm of customization for an apartment from altering the builder's kit-of-parts approach to a parametric reconfiguration of every unit made possible by optimizing structural and service components of the built structure and maximizing the use of natural light and ventilation. Day and night spaces are separated by a central service core, exposing the spaces used most to maximum daylight and ventilation. Optimizing the service core and structural layout had a major cost saving consequence on the overall budget and speed of build. The design evolved through a series of iterations that explored duplexes, core arrangements, site arrangements etc., but always retained the sense of organization and efficiency that was the cherished goal right from the beginning.
Night view
Sample options - Interior Layouts
purva primea | bangalore | mixed use master plan
madhavi jandhyala Landuse Pattern
Primea, Site Plan - Social Focii Primea | Bangalore| 60acres | 5,700,000 sft
Residential
G+13 Floors
Institutional
G+11 Floors
Commercial
G+10 Floors
Sports Facility
G+3 Floors
In this approach, the entire site is conceptualized to be covered by a "mesh" of built fabric that follows predetermined geometry and size. The fabric "tears" in strategic places to create space for a network of decentralized social focii. multiple focii help to evenly distribute activity and the density of people. The expansion of the commercial corridor along the road reinforces the "tear" and is a starting point for the manipulation of the geometry of the entire fabric. The social focii are meant to be used to create a distinct look and feel to each micro neighborhood - a sense of identity in a vast built environment.
In a rapidly developing area of the city, the project challenge was to create a mini township on 60 acres of land with mixed uses like a commercial corridor, transport hub, school and community facilities. The residences were targeted to be sold as affordable homes, yet with all the facilities and luxuries of a typical condo/semi luxury gated community in the city. Three approaches were attempted to address all issues in very different ways, the main focus being on the master plan and the design of the units themselves.
Conceptual plans
Massing
5 unit Block - Connectors
Circulation Patterns
Primary access - urban Secondary access - urban Primary access - internal Secondary access - internal Vehicular Pedestrian Landscape Barrier
6 unit Block - Ends
purva primea | bangalore | mixed use master plan
madhavi jandhyala
Builder's kit-of parts are limited due to budget considerations to: - enclosable balcony - tiles - kitchen layout - windows / french doors
Efficiency is achieved in building services with the concentration of the same around common ducts. this minimizes pipe lengths and contributes greatly to the economy of the whole project.
Alternate Plan 1: Radial Geometry
Alternate Plan 2: Grid Geometry
The structural system is designed with short spans and a simple, efficient grid. while this seems rigid, certain areas are open to manipulation in later stages of design.
Design Considerations
Blocks
Unit Plans
v b residence | bangalore | residential | interiors
madhavi jandhyala
Exterior view
Plan - lvl 2
Living room
Exterior view
Plan - lvl 3
Section
Section
Plan - lvl 4
Plan - basement
Plan - lvl 5
Living room
Master bedroom
VB Residence | Bangalore| 4000 sft | Bands and Boxes The idea of the dwelling is a minimal composition of boxes derived by articulation of light bands and voids. The boxes are event spaces, whose volumes are modulated by the hierarchy of programs they contain. The bands divide the boxes and hold skylights, green pockets and connectors. The public entrance is organised as a series of landscaped courts stitched together by an orchestrated group of steps. The exterior of the boxes inherit the property of complimenting colours and textures. Interior volumes on the other hand are animated throughout the seasons by sunlight filtering through sky lit bands creating a vivid play of light and shadows. This contrast is further accentuated by juxtaposing wood accents, white marble floors, and foliage.
Dining & Kitchen
ashray | bangalore | residential | interiors
madhavi jandhyala Kitchen & dining room
Prayer room detaillaser cut wooden inlay
Sectional model
Master bedroom detailhand embroidered wall paper
Ashray | Bangalore| 3500 sft | House by the tree A huge tree on the edge of a corner site and three generations of residents define this house that is forced to deal with these two challenging conditions.The house is divided along a vertical axis, each half presenting a possible solution to each design challenge. The front of the house (facing the road and the tree) derives its shape by stepping back to accommodate the volume of the tree. The vertical trunk of the tree is balanced by the horizontal wooden cladding on the facade. The foliage is mirrored by the terrace garden - a resultant of the act of stepping back. A double height glazed surface at the loft level provides for a constant presence of the tree, creating almost a symbiotic relationship between built and nature. The house provides for the tree to live as it always did, and tree provides shelter, shade and a natural sound and sight barrier; enriching the house visually, materially and spatially. The two entities lock in at the green, where the foliage meets the terrace garden. The back of the house deals with the issue of the three generations by using this opportunity to provide three iterations for a room.
Plan - basement
Plan - lvl 1
Plan - lvl 2
Plan - lvl 3
Plan - lvl 4
922 @ BTM | bangalore | residential | interiors
madhavi jandhyala
Plan - basement
Plan - level 1
North east corner
Court from dining room
922@BTM | Bangalore| 2500 sft | House of Void Living room & exterior court
Plan - level 2 On a typical residential street in Bangalore, what drives the design of this house is it's acknowledgement of its surroundings - that there is nothing remarkable about its environment. This is registered by a house that looks into itself at every point. Even at spaces that would normally be the "outside" of the house like a garden or balcony, one sees what is actually the "inside" of the house. The rhetoric of the Indian courtyard becomes a central void scooped out of an otherwise solid mass to set the stage for numerous visual frames and spatial encounters. The relatively simple structural arrangement is given a sense of complexity by use of colour, materials, a changing wall and sight lines that travel the whole length of the house. The frames are simple geometric compositions brought into focus by the central skylight and accentuated by the almost complete absence of external openings. The relevance of an "elevation" is questioned by a featureless facade which makes its last irreverent stand by presenting discarded junk as its only ornamentation.
Section through court Court
Exterior court from stairs
casa kanuga | bangalore | interior architecture
madhavi jandhyala
Casa Kanuga | Bangalore| 3000 sft A gut renovation of a 3000 sft combination of adjoining apartments was visualised as an expression of earthy tones, textures, colors and metallics. Apart from the greater challenge of arriving at a configuration that met all the clients’ needs in such an odd space, the challenge of working with such a muted color pallete was resolved by constant iteration of the four basic variables of tone, color, texture and metal. This project also put our production skills to test in a design-and-build scenario where every piece of funiture was designed and produced in house. Every frame was composed to reflect the simplicity of the clients and yet exude "indian luxury" in a subtle manner by using traditional materials like marble, copper, silks and velvets.
Existing floor plan - 2 apartments
Final design - combined floor plan
Living room
Water body - living room
Living room floor detail
Dining room
Corridor
Foyer
godrej marketing office | bangalore
madhavi jandhyala
Office under the stairs
Reception
Visitors' lounge
Detail - Reception table
Meeting room
Final design - plan
Godrej Marketing Office | Bangalore| 1500 sft In the unlikeliest of places, under a fire ramp in an apartment development, the chalenge of this project was to create a marketing office with a strong brand identity for one of the nation's leading builders. The whole space steps down beyond the conference room out of necessity, and alo creating simultaneously a separation between the space for visitors and the actual office. Fluid shapes counter the irregular site shape and create programmatic direction and flow. The brand colors have been used in a very specific way - green on focus walls, majenta for graphics and blue in lighting and accessories. This project was an end-to-end design and build.
Manager's cabin
miscellaneous commercial projects
madhavi jandhyala Interface@BTM, Bangalore| 75,000 sft A commercial building at a corner plot on one of the city's busiest intersections prompted the use of "heavier" materials in the facade, yet allowing for moments of respite from the concrete.
745@BTM | Bangalore| 70,000 sft A tower at a corner plot presented us with the opportunity to consider various expressions of the skin using basic paramteric modelling keeping in mind the constraints of technology and economics
MICO, Bangalore| 60,000 sft An irregularly shaped site with a large program gave rise to a building with breaks in its mass and an updated interpretation of the Indian screen wall.
Interfaces - Vantage / Verve | Bangalore| 75,000 sft a tower at a corner plot presented us with the opportunity to consider various expressions of the skin using basic paramteric modelling keeping in mind the constraints of technology and economics
miscellaneous residential projects
madhavi jandhyala Weekend Retreat
Euphoria
The Harmony Nirvana
Euphoria - Rooftop Club
competition | township @ devanahalli - phase I
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competition sheets| township@ devenahalli - phase II
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competition sheets | township@ devenahalli - phase II
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competition sheets | d-link r&d center
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competition sheets | d-link r&d center
madhavi jandhyala
competition sheets | d-link r&d center
madhavi jandhyala
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10+yrs experience in Architecture & Interior Design in residential, institutional, commercial, mixed use, and large-scale developments ranging from 1000 sft to 1,000,000 sft. 7+years managing and leading own Architectural practice in Bangalore, India including an In-house Interior Design practice. Proven team leadership, proactive approach to projects, high level of client satisfaction; versatile design, presentation and communication skills. 3+ years Research Collaborator and Digital Researcher, developing an innovative set of digital outputs to provide more accessible, animated, and informative visual readings of buildings; providing new forms of critical and historical analysis. MS (AAD) Columbia University, NY (2007), winner of William Kinne Fellows Prize.