Adi Sukumaran Portfolio 2024

P O R T F O L I O ADI SUKUMARAN WINTER 2024

adisukumaran@msn.com 07795566101

CONTENTS

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SKIPTON HOUSE 07/2023 - 07/2024, Part 1 Experience

SHOREDITCH HOUSEPLANTS 01/2023 - 05/2023, Year 3 Design Studio

MARBLE ARCH GARDENS 01/2022 - 05/2022, Year 2 Design Studio

RE-PURPOSING LONDON

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06/2023 - present, Personal Project 2022

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SKIPTON HOUSE Southwark, London

Skipton House is a mixed-use development to replace the currently vacant office building, aiming to provide ≈250 affordable homes, ≈1,500 student rooms and ≈3090sqm of new public realm. I am permanently on this project, currently working on iterative design studies for the building massing, facade, colonnade, distribution of uses, unit layouts and surrounding public realm, and helping in the sketching, drawing and modelling of new options and production and issuing of technical drawings.

I am also regularly attending whole design team meetings, individual consultant workshops, and pre-application meetings with Southwark council. I am helping in the preparation of digital presentations for these meetings, creating various images, diagrams, and technical drawings.

Excitingly, submission for planning approval is scheduled for August 2024 (just before the end of my placement), meaning that I will have been able to participate in the project all the way through work stages 0-3.

Part 1 Experience at HTA Design, 2023/24

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1:1000 3D printed model

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Sketches demonstrating explorations for the colonnade rhythm

I am carrying out colonnade studies exploring

how

the

proposed

colonnade can relate to the existing station arches and their distinctive ox-blood red terracotta tiles, while unifying

the

north

and

south

masses. These accompanied further explorations

into

the

facade

treatment and relationship through sketches, diagrams and models.

Elephant & Castle Underground station entrance

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Elevation study of the existing station arches

South-west aerial perspective view illustration

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1B2P apartment for a young couple

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2B4P apartment for a family with two toddlers

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SH O R ED I TC H HO U SE P L A N TS Shoreditch, London

Shoreditch Houseplants interrogates the 'influencer approach' often taken by buyers in the houseplant market today, in which social media influencers drive highly shortterm trends which incentivizes unsustainable practices.

The proposal is a houseplant retailer and education centre, which seeks to re-orient this approach towards a more sustainable relationship with the natural world. The main strategy for this is broadly through educating users on the plants which they are purchasing, building confidence thus encouraging

independent exploration

and

decision

making, free of external trends and influences.

Nominated for Leslie Jones Construction & Memorial Prizes

Nominated for the Make Architects Prize

Shortlisted for Architecture Today Student Prize entry

First-Class Honours, Year 3 Design Studio, 2023

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Hand-sketched concept explorations

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The building uses a one-way, linear system, with alternating education and retail spaces, gamifying the education process. This is guided by views to the following retail space - the following models and collages explore how walls can be made visually permeable to this end.

User movement sketch studies

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1:50 models with hand-sketched annotations exploring the education space journeys

Concept collage for the gamification of the education spaces

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Ground Floor Plan

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West Section A-A

West Section B-B

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West section B-B junction details

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MARBLE ARCH GARDENS City of Westminster, London

Marble Arch Gardens is a response to the inaccessibility of allotments to Londoners today. It also challenges the 'allotment culture' that typically exists in these spaces; a contradictory and difficult to navigate mix of public/private.

Local residents are provided with a community with whom they can manage a shared garden, one in which flowers are planted for the public space rather than for oneself. The proposal focuses on reconnecting people and re-building physical communities post-pandemic. The growing process and it processes are celebrated by the architecture on display, as bright green watering pipes twist through the garden, creating new moments and further opportunity for playfulness and appropriation.

Awarded the Doric Club Oxford Prize for Year 2

First-Class Honours, Year 2 Design Studio, 2022

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1:50 fragment models with hand-sketched annotations

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1:200 West section A-A

1:200 First floor plan

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1:200 North section B-B

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1:50 Technical section C-C

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1:200 Structural model (balsa sticks and plaster cast)

1:10 Detail drawing of plant fixing

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RE-PURPOSING LONDON Urban scale exploration

Having particularly enjoyed the challenge of adaptively reusing an existing building in my final project at undergraduate and beginning to engage with these ideas in practice (and doing so in HTA Design’s beautiful recently retrofitted London studio), I am becoming increasingly interested in reuse and passionate about its potential as a broader scale model for sustainable urban development.

Hand-sketch of HTA Design’s retrofitted warehouse London studio

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I have recently been trying to develop my sketching skills, which has been a key avenue through which I’ve pursued my interest in reuse.

I’ve been particularly inspired exploring some of the junctions between new and old around me.

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I have also researched and produced a written proposal for an investigation of the future role of reuse for sustainable urban development and the unique opportunities it provides to interrogate the socio-cultural standing of existing buildings.

Full written research proposal can be viewed at the following link

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C O N TA C T adisukumaran@msn.com 07795566101

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