Aditya Mehta Selected Works Portfolio + CV

ADITYA MEHTA

amehta@syr.edu | +39 324 693 5878

ADITYA MEHTA

amehta@syr.edu | +39 324 693 5878

Syracuse University, School of Architecture

International Trustee Scholarship | Dean’s List | B.Arch. | Expected 2020

EDUCATION

Delhi Public School, New Delhi, India

Gold Medal (Academics) | Gold Medal (Extra Curriculars) | Architecture Club (President) | History Club (President) | Arts Club (Vice President) | 2009 - 2015

Digital Software

Rhinoceros | Grasshopper | V-Ray | AutoCAD | SketchUp | Adobe Illustrator | InDesign | Photoshop

Physical Modelling and Fabrication

3D Printing | Laser Cutting | Wood | Blue Foam | Foam Core + Board

Languages

English | Hindi | French | Italian Digital SLR Photography (Architectural, Landscape, Portraits)

SKILLS

CURRICULUM VITAE

WORK

Studio Ponsi

Student Internship | Florence, Italy | January - April 2018 Site analysis and modeling, conceptual residential design in Tuscany, Italy.

Syracuse University: Undergraduate Research Assistant

Professor Daniele Profeta | October 2017 Researching, mapping and cataloguing towers in Bologna, Italy.

Eisenman Architects

Summer Internship | New York, USA | May - August 2017 Design of Yale University Gymnasium Extension (Ongoing). Site analysis, program study, design iterations and presentation models.

Delhi Public School: Frameworks

President of Architectural Club | New Delhi, India | 2014 - 2015 Facilitated adoption of city monument by school, organised events, maintained club members.

Sharan Dynamics

Construction Supervision Assistant | New Delhi, India | Summers 2012 - 2015 Supervised several aspects of residential masonry construction.

Baolis of Delhi

Author and Photographer | New Delhi, India | 2012 - 2014 Published book for public awareness of deteriorating monument type in New Delhi. Researched in archives and photographed.

INTACH Delhi Circle

Student Intern | New Delhi, India | Summer 2014 Curating historical information and data, photographing monuments and designing online exhibits for Google Cultural Institute Project.

RECOGNITION

Baolis of Delhi | September 2014

Book recognised by an international newspaper, two Indian national newspapers and two Indian national TV interviews. Visible influence of book on government agencies and NGOs towards catalysing conservation of Baolis.

Photography of 350: First Position | November 2014

Photography competition hosted by Sankriti Green Brigade.

Hosted Photography Exhibition: Ishq-i-Dilli (Love of Delhi) | January 2014 Featuring photographs of the seven historical cities of Delhi. Attended by archaeologists from Archaeological Survey of India and Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage. Recognised by national newspaper.

Trinity College London - Rockschool Grade 6 Guitar | November 2013 Certified Grade 6 Guitarist. Examination passed with Merit.

CONTENT

1

Hotel Chelsea Slaughterhouse

2

Community Mixed-Use Complex

3

Willow Biomass Research Facility

4

Mixed-Use Arts Center

5

New York, NY

Professor Joseph Godlewski | Fall 2017 Urban Analysis -> Program Integration -> Iteration

Syracuse, NY

Professor Francisco Sanin | Spring 2017 Lanscape Analysis -> Form Innovation -> Iteration

Syracuse, NY

Professor Francisco Sanin | Spring 2017 Urban Analysis -> Spatial Character Development -> Formal Interpretation -> Lanscape Integration -> Iteration Rome, Italy

Professor Daniele Profeta | Fall 2016 Site Analysis -> Aggregation Iterations -> Program Integration -> Iteration

Public Art Gallery + Studios

Syracuse, NY

Professor Daniele Profeta | Fall 2016 Precedent Analysis -> Box of Architeture -> Site Integration -> Iteration

1

Hotel Chelsea Slaughterhouse

New York, NY

Professor Joseph Godlewski | Fall 2017 Urban Analysis -> Program Integration -> Iteration

“If we could suddenly see this arranged order as it will be seen in its full functioning, it is not to be doubted that many of the Civilized would be struck dead by the violence of their ecstasy.”

The world is divided into two orders: the one of the “lived”, and the other of the “constructed life”. Neither can exist without the other, however most of us only live.

A clear distinction has been made between the environment and the experience. All priority has been given to the experience of life, completely disregarding the environment and processes that construct it.

We force and demand upon ourselves a life of pure pleasure, consuming the real of all the positive and defecating the negative excreta. This inconsiderate regurgitation of negativity to create a utopia for a minority, creates a dystopia for the majority. The mass consumerist economy thus generated by the us forces a blank façade on the existing dystopia to which we ourselves cannot relate.

Though the “negativity” has been shunned by us, it results in a void in our hedonistic life. Life seems untrue and unstable due to extraction of reality and demands is back through means of “impure” curiosity. We all experience this provocative pull to the depravity of this potential negativity. Even those of us who do not “abuse” the world feel the absence of a darkness whose potential we have not yet tested. Our curiosity to explore all negations of the contrived utopia and negations of life is a result of our strife to exist as a species and the need to define life by also defining not-life. By questioning existence and out-manoeuvring natural selection we enter the anthropological era where humans have the ability to change the very nature of the environment in which they exist, and make their own existence hence unnatural, by creating a utopia by the means of a dystopia.

Thirteenth Floor

Fourteenth Floor

Lower levels introduces the slaughterhouse at its beginning and end to shatter the illusion of reality and incite curiosity. The view made accessible to all people in the vicinity is that of live pigs being bled out and returning as trimmed meat.

The upper residential levels isolate individuals in rooms arranged as a panopticon to free them from social judgement. These units split into two levels which inrease the sense of security by restricting access.

2

Community Mixed-Use Complex

Syracuse, NY

Professor Francisco Sanin | Spring 2017 Lanscape Analysis -> Form Innovation -> Iteration

3

Willow Biomass Research Facility

Syracuse, NY

Professor Francisco Sanin | Spring 2017 Spatial Character Development -> Formal Interpretation -> Lanscape Integration -> Iteration

4

Mixed-Use Arts Center

Rome, Italy

Professor Daniele Profeta | Fall 2016 Site Analysis -> Aggregation Iterations -> Program Integration -> Iteration

5

Precedent

Public Art Gallery + Studios

Syracuse, NY

Professor Daniele Profeta | Fall 2016 Precedent Analysis -> Box of Architeture -> Site Integration -> Iteration

Interpretation