Agatha Mary_Pre-Internship Portfolio

2021 - 2023 Selected Works

Agatha Mary

Portfolio

Architectural

Education:

Workshops:

Avani Institute of Design, Kerala/ 2023- Present Bachelor's Degree in Architectural Design

Brick Construction Techniques -NIT Calicut Rammed Earth Garden Seats by Ar. Sheeha Hameed Sketching Workshop- Ar. Roger Connah Cost effective techniques- D. K. Nirmithi Kendra Understanding Art- Dr. Sharada Natrajan Clay Modelling- Artist Usman Pakkath

St. Anthony's High School, Mumbai

Softwares:

Talks:

AutoCad Photoshop InDesign Illustrator SketchUp Rhino 3D Enscape

Ar. B. V. Doshi Ar. Neelkanth Chhaya Ar. Peter Rich Ar. Tony Joseph Ar. Vinu Daniel Ar. Anupama Kundoo Ar. Roger Connah Ar. Ajit Rao Ar. Christoper Charles Benninger Artist Bose Krishnamachari Ar. Latha Raman Ar. Gerrad De Cunah Ar. Shintu G George

Languages:

Interests:

English Hindi Tamil Malayalam

Sketching Research and architectural writing Travel Documentation Model Making

I’m Agatha Mary, a fourth-year student seeking experience in the profession. The technical skills and visual communication languages I have learned throughout this course enable me to convert my ideas and knowledge into meaningful design. I revel in watching cinema, sketching, engaging in pedagogy, and traveling.

Dharavi, Mumbai 400017, Maharashtra agathamary.20@avani.edu.in @_agatha_mary +91 9136583894

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Adapting Domesticities

The Crossroads Initiative

Romp on the Roam

Aṟivālayam

An eye for detail

Selected extras

Adapting Domesticities INFO

Place: Alappuzha Year: 2021 Type: Residential Semester: S3 Professors: Ar. Kevin Mathew

ABSTRACT: How big is too big?

At the height of the pandemic, when work-life balance was wreaking havoc among people with work-from-home arrangements, the project of designing a home for users of our imagination in a hypothetical site in Alappuzha, surrounded by other users from diverse professions, was increasingly pertinent. The design centered on the dilemma of how to strike a balance between working from home and living at work. It concentrated on space-making qualities by embracing components such as light, ventilation, circulation, functional organization, and so on, all of which emerge from the association of building elements that help contain the architecture.

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Site analysis

Explorations: Testing degrees of enclosure, circulation study, block models, and furniture layouts.

The plan serves to display the interplay of courtyards, thresholds and open spaces.

The western elevation projected from the roof plan depicts the scale of the project and the immediate context that influenced the design of the residence.

The green envelope around the building responds to the local climate resulting in improved lighting, thermal conditions, and ergonomic features for occupants residing and working within.

The Crossroads Initiavtive

RECREATIONAL ZONES

TERRACES

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The studio commenced with speculations of education, tectonics, heritage, and ecology of the future and their impact on the built environment.

These thoughts came to fruition in the development of a vision that impacts our program and integrates housing.

Our program revolves around a gap period learner's community pit stop at the heart of the city, Kozhikode. The hybrid depicts our identification of various possibilities of learning beyond the site that would raise the need for certain spaces within the site for the expansion of those learnings to occur.

COMMUNITY KITCHEN

What will education be akin to in 2035?

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FAB LAB

Place: Calicut Year: 2023 Type: Housing Semester: S6 Professors: Ar. Athira Balakrishnan

DRIVE IN THEATRE

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New construction

Workshop

Food court

Fab lab

Agriculture Lab Art Gallery

Cullinary library Living Museum

Housing

Co working space/ Administration/ Toilet

The pathway between the Comtrust structure and the park adjoined with the water body is repurposed as a pedestrian-friendly pathway with bicycle tracks calling attention to the need for reduced vehicular congestion.

The Comtrust building's imperfections and patina will be celebrated and integrated into the design, creating a sense of history and character that honors its past while also embracing its future as a center for learning and innovation. Overall, our program aims to cause a ripple effect that spreads through the district

Adaptive reuse

Conservation

Cullinary lab

Built Mass Identification

Mass extrusion

Urban response

Public loop

Play of volumes

Fenestrations and skin

Our site is merged with its surroundings as it acts as an extension of SM Street and Mananchira Park through the addition of a plug- in creating persistent stream of people throughout the site.

To accommodate the users in relation to the unit types, the units are designed to offer amenities including a pantry, workplace, living area, bathroom, bed space, and balcony, each of which has a distinct dimension.

The Plug-In enables tenants to move around the property without being inconvenienced by the flurry caused by activities on the ground floor while offering visitors the opportunity to experience the park and recreational zones at a new level.

The units are frequently connected by a recreational area intended to produce a stunning view, serving as the structure's datum. They are provided with fenestration to offer a strategic view and ventilation throughout the day and night.

Romp on the Roam INFO

Place: Thamaraserry Year: 2023 Type: Public playscape Semester: S7 Contrubution: Painting & Report

ABSTRACT: Play to make Play.

We heard that a play school near our campus needed help to paint their building, what sprang to our mind was a little place filled with kids playing all around but what we encountered was different. Witnessing the neighboring anganwadis struggling to meet even their basic infrastructural needs, much less concentrate on play areas, urged us to help in whatever ways we could. Our solution: a portable playscape.

Materials have been locally sourced to cut down transportation costs. On identifying major waste producers in our vicinity we intended to use the materials either as an endpoint in their cycle or as a pausepoint before being shipped off for recycling after their intended purpose has been served.

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The roof is made from flex used in student exhibitions.

Tyres of different diamters are tied together using ropes onto metal frame.

PVC pipes of 6cm diameter are fitted together using elbow pipe and tee reducer.

Aluminium chanels fixed using rivets, later joined together with malmal cloth.

Rope of size 1cm diameter is used from exhibition installation.

Flip flap soles, scrap wooden planks and metal frames were sourced in and around Tyres from scrapyard, welded to base isa critical member making the structure mobile.

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Reprieve from stress and opportunity for recreational activities.

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Corporation Building: Reprieve from the scathing sun and allow the growth of thriving livelihood.

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The public library is a unique typology undergoing great transformation and has always been a testing ground of public interest and shared civic spaces. In the state central library of Trivandrum, one can observe the intensely harmonious utilization of a space whose ownership belongs to all and none at the same time. The spatial quality and the library’s experience are estimated to function as a magnet to attract the public, making the area a hotspot for the cultural and educational activity resulting in a revived civic heart for the people of Trivandrum.

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Are we all just spectators in the theater of life?

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Place: Trivandrum Year: 2022 Type: Civic Semester: S5 Professors: Ar. Ambili

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The vibrancy of the space created by the prime factor- ‘people watching’ has been activated through the utilization of the public realm. An initiation of reviving something new and creating an interaction between the existing. A space that promotes wisdom by asserting that it is not merely restrained to scriptures but is also offered by the conversations that they elicit.

The open plan layout can be adapted for a range of cultural, recreational, and community activities and be used at different times of day by different local groups and library users.

Volume

Punctures

Function

Extensions

Envelope

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Niches in religious structures.

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Offseted structures along Undulating wall as a niche. streets.

Intimate zones

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1. Foyer 2. Tea Stall 3. Braille 4. Worshop 5. Admin 6. Mep 7. Storage 8. Janitor storage

People along the offset of edges.

Commoners atop pedestal.

Charupadi+Gathering+ Ventillation

Reading+ Stacking

Recreation+ Stacking

Table + Window panel.

Concave gathering.

Concave Seating.

It is designed with new access points to draw visitors in through the garden at the front and parking at the rear of the site, bypassing the library’s hub.

The alley between the new and old structure symbolically represents the street character of Trivandrum while the pathway between the bookshelves creates the hub with a stage for the expression of art- concave seating within the structure to compliment the stage along with seatings that put common people on a pedestal.

An eye for detail INFO

Year: 2023 Type: Sketching Semester: S7 Professors: Ar. Athira Balakrishnan Ar. Sagar Trivedi

ABSTRACT: Designing Tomorrow, Today!

Speculative architecture fuels innovation by envisioning and testing daring concepts that challenge the status quo, inspiring new possibilities for the built environment.

The studio attempted to unleash a realm of speculation that deals with scenarios as a testing ground for what may be. We endeavored to reimagine the existing contour of our university all the while adding a little more playfulness to the form of the built. We understood the requirements for space and thought about how future residents might use it and design a spatial construct as an output of our thoughts

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This iteration was created with the primary objective of using volume and light wells to create a sense of divinity in the programme library and exhibition area.

Selected Extras Year: 2020- 2023 Semester: S1- S7 Sketching my world, capturing it frame by frame.

PRESENCE

CONTEXTUAL

EXTERNAL

LIFESTYLE

INTERACTION

KEY PLAN

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Settlements Suttu Anganavadi W/C

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PROXIMITY

CIRCULATION

ACCESS

EXTERNAL W/C

MATERIALITY -Mud Blocks, Wooden post

ADAPTATION -Tarpaulin + Asbestos

SERVICES

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1 House 2 Chicken coop 3 Cowshed

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LOCATION: Ambayathod Housing Colony

ELEVATION 1

SECTION A

MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY: Four

TECHNIQUES

LEGENDS

OCCUPATION: Father (Suni)- Mercenary Mother (Remani)- Housemaid Two Sons (Shyamjith & Abhijith)Completed schooling.

Difficulty to tend to cows during heavy rainfall

INCOME: Unstable

FLOOR AREA: 17.76 sqm ADJACENCY: Neighbouring plots at a vicinity of 4 to 6 metres.

ELEVATION 2

SECTION B

NATURE

OWNERSHIP: Acquired from the government and constructed by them.

ECOLOGY: Plants- Jackfruit trees, Kindal trees, Coconut trees, Mango trees and shrubs and bushes.

Animals- Hen, Cow and Cat.

LIVESTOCK

VEGETATION

CLIMATE

SYMMETRY

EXTENSION

PROPORTION

SLOPE

LEVELS: 3 to 4 metre above from the road level FUTURE DEVELOPMENT: Construction of a new house sanctioned by the government under the project ‘LIFE’.

INFERENCES: a) Healthy interaction among the neighbourhood and the house b) Temporary tarpaulin roofing due to inadequate finance. c) Lack of windows as a safety measure and scarce revenue. d) Structural changes provoked by the

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ELEMENTS

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STRUCTURE

AGATHA MARY BHADRA R PANICKER CLUSTER -1

NEW KERALA

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Through the lens of photographs, my brother taught me to capture the moments that define our lives, preserving memories that last a lifetime.

Thank you for your time. agathamary.20@avani.edu.in @_agatha_mary +91 9136583894