A young architect with an unrelenting passion for meticulous design and intuitive creative process. I believe that architecture is about creating a narrative backdrop for the people, their life, culture and surrounding. I am constantly trying to update and improve to become a better human being and thus a better architect
address Residenzia Marie Curie, Piazzale Ferrara, 20139 Milano MI date of birth 07-06-1996
citizenship India
education leadership work experience
2014-2019 Bachelor of Architecure at College of Engineering Trivandrum, Kerala
2022- 2025(graduation- April ‘25)
Msc in Architecure -Built Environmentinteriors
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
languages
English (IELTS 8.0)
Italian (A1 Level)
Malayalam (mothertongue)
Tamil
skills
sketching
Illustration communication team player presentation
Mar 2024- Jan 2025 (11 months) at Cino Zucchi Architetti - CZA, Milan,Italy
Intern Mar ‘24- May ‘24
Working Student - Jun ‘24- Jan ‘25 (part-time)
Residential towers, interiors and masterplan competition
Nov 2019- June 2022 (2.5 years)
Junior Architect at Finderstudio, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Residential, commercial and interior projects from design to execution.
Jan 2019- June 2019 (6 months)
Internship at RGB Architecture Studio, Kochi, Kerala, India
Residential, kindergarten, low cost housing. worked in construction drawings, execution, and presentations.
June 2017- Nov 2017 (6 months)
Internship at Mancini Enterprises, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Luxury hospitality architecture and interiors
Designing and drawing details, presentations.
2019 Coordinator IDAM 2019Narratives -Multi Disciplinary Workshop at university
2018 Design Head - college Dhwani’18
2016-2017 Unit Secretary Association of Students of (team won citation in Annual NASA Competition and Lauire Baker
2017 Reubens Trophy coordinato Competition
2015-2016 Unit Designee Association of Students of (team won Le Corb overall national trophy in Annual NASA Convention)
2016- Louis I Kahn Trophy NASA competition
CURRICULAM VITAE
2019- Parallel Disciplinary Design
college cultural fest
Secretary- National Architecture NASA Design Centre Trophy)
coordinator - NASA
- National Architecture national championship Convention)
Trophy Coordinator-
achievements
2024 MinDs with TEN studio Workshop by Politecnico di Milano
2021 House of Eden International Competition, top 10 shortlisted
2019 Participated in COA National Awards for excellence in Architectural Thesis
2018 Participated in ‘IDAM Reframing Context’ collective design workshop by Ar. Kevin Mark Low
2019 Won ‘Sthapathi Samman’ from college for best UG Thesis
2018 Aquatecture - volume zero competition, top 50 shortlisted
2017 Unknown Craft Persons trophyNASA competition, top 10 shortlisted
2017 Annual NASA Design Competition top 60 shortlisted
softwares
AutoDesk Auto-CAD Autodesk Revit Rhinoceros 3D
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Indesign
Adoe Illustrator
Adobe Premier Pro
Trimble Sketchup Lumion 3D
V-ray
Enscape
MS Office
interests
Painting : believing in the power of Hand Theatre/ Cinema : love for its storytelling Agriculture : being rooted to my upbringing
sketch : Napier Museum, India November 2019
Live
Academic
01 02 03
LIVE AT PAESTUM Semester 3/2024
AS LIGHT AS WIND Semester 2/2023
THE OLD MODERN TO BE RENEWED Semester 2/2023
SENSING THE SENSE OF PLACE Semester 1/2022
Competition
EASTSIDE GIBRALTAR CZA/2024
Others
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Project info:
Bar 2024, Semester 3
Architecture of Interiors ,Design studio
Msc in Architecture Built-Environment Interiors
Politecnico Di Milano
Location: Paestum, Italy
Mentors:
Andrea Tartaglia, Paolo Carpi, Natalia Voroshilova, Giulio Galasso
Collaborators
Bimo I. Rahmatullah, Jin li
1LIVE AT PAESTUM
The studio focussed on dealing with Roman ruins. The aim of the studio was not just to give a new life to ruins but to bring the ruins into our lives. In architecture terms, bringing ruins into the contemporary city. The task was to design a new relationship between the ancient and the contemporary Paestum, a more rich, deep and complex one. The students were free to choose one of the different topics/programmes and to choose the specific area as site.
The program chosen was a Bar and the site was in the ruins of a villa near the ancient Forum .The villa with a typical roman layout also had a peculiarity of the presence of a marble Imbluvium, still intact, in the central atrium.
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The major challenge was to establish a connection between the two perpendicular axises ; the axis from imbluvium to Forum and the internal axis of movement inside the villa.
Establishing
relation between column ruins of Forum
Redefining the roof
Opening the roof above Impluvium
The Bar
Section along short side
Section along long side
The structure was conceived as a light construction touching the ruins softly. The thin frames hold the stretched fabric, creating the enclosure but also allowing people to feel the ruins the way they are.
The bar stands as a testament to the present, rising tall among the ruins, almost levitating. The ‘Flying object’ in the landscape is adorned with ornaments that resemble the common flowers found all over the area.
Project info:
Autonomous Houses
2023,Semester 2
Construction and Design studio
Msc in Architecture Built-Environement Interiors
Politecnico Di Milano
Location: Kinderdijk,Netherlands
Mentors:
Prof. Alessandra Zanelli, Prof. Giorgio Novati
Collaborators:
Zhang Qiyang, Prithika Chaudhary
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AS LIGHT AS WIND
The studio project aims at introducing the students to the complexity of the design process of a building-temporary ultralightweight structure, from the concept and briefing stage to the development of the documents needed to communicate design information to the construction stage. The project was to design a cluster of Autonomous Houses in relation with climatic characteristics of the location.
Lifting on stilts
Isometric view-Structural Frame
Isometric exterior view Isometric
The project was conceived as a cluster of tourist houses amidst the heritage structures and the serene landscape, in Kinderdijk, Netherlands. The chosen site being an island, the commute through water is also considered. The direction of the paths and units were arranged in accordance to the view to the windmills.
The ETFE facade makes it “invisible” in the landscape and at the same time was a medium to see the place. The series of pathways connecting the standalone units were a reinterpretation of the windmills and the long paths connecting them
Isometric sectional view
Step 1
Step 3
Facade layering
Step 2
Step 4
Mast to beam connections
Mast isometric diagram
Electrical Conduits
Corners strengthened with strings
Sewage pipe
Toilet pipe
Water inlet
Bolt to connect the next part of the mast
Ladder for service
Service Door
Base Plate
The facade was made of double layered ETFE cushions with equal gaps in-between the two layers. This was designed to avoid the thermal breach from the corners, in the traditional ETFE cushions.
The mast is the major structural element from which the facade is hanged. The floor is further placed in-between the mast and the facade.
Micro wind turbine
WS-0,30B-29N
Skylight system
Bifold door 16
Roof membrane over 18mm plywood
Tapered rigid polyiso insulation
18mm plywood
I Section holding frame
Central mast
MS rectangular tube section 1m x 1m
Aluminium section holding the ETFE profile
Aerogel
Lumira translucent aerogel LA1000
Metal section (for facade)
CHS 76.1 X 5
Wooden board wall
Particle board PB P5E-LE
Folding door
Bifold door 16
Flooring panels (interior)
Kebony character pier decking
(34 X 145 mm)
18 mm plywood
Glulam beam
GL12 (135 x 88 mm)
18mm plaster board
Solar PV cells
Full square monocrystalline
Solar cell Q6LMXP3-G3
ETFE 300 micron
Stairs
Dolle straight flight wooden loft ladder(DSF)
Deck flooring panels
Triton WPC DF decking
Metal section (for deck)
RHS 75 X 50 X 4.0
Water Purifier tank
Water Tank
Septic tank
Concrete foundation
Pile footing
A study model showing the facade and the floor connection
Project info:
Walstorm House, John Lautner
2023,Semester 2
Architecture of Interiors ,Design studio
Msc in Architecture Built-Environment Interiors
Politecnico Di Milano
Location: Los Angeles
Mentors:
Manolo De Giorgi, Simona Franzino, Joseph Rigo
Collaborators
Polina Morozova
THE OLD MODERN TO BE RENEWED
The aim of the studio was to revisit an old modern house designed by an architect and suggest changes in the interior, understanding the language and interpretations. The choice of building was Walstorm House designed by John Lautner. The wooden house constructed in 1969 is built into the side of a hill in the Santa Monica mountains just outside of Los Angeles
The house made of wood and glass opens visually towards the context taking the outside to the inside. The asymmetrical structure makes the house unique, and it creates the feeling that we are wandering through the trees.
The building consists of a basement for the night area, a completely open ground floor for the day area and a small mezzanine in the corner, all looking towards the beautiful view.
Top: Photo of the existing building/ living area Bottom: Proposed design
After close analysis it was found that few elements like the toilet and mezzanine were hindering the view and was taking too much of focus. So we carefully reorganized the position thus also tried to give an order to the day area. The new, ‘lighter’, mezzanine not only made the facade free, but also created a distinction between the functions.
Proposed Design Section BB
The basement in the original building had one master bedroom and another multipurpose room. We made slight alterations to accommodate two bedrooms and the corridor was made more uniform.
Project info:
Spa Hotel 2022,Semester1
Architecture Design studio
Msc in Architecture Built-Environement Interiors
Politecnico Di Milano
Location:
Cagliari, Sardinia
Mentors:
Prof.Fabrizio Leoni, Prof.Dhe Mattias
Collaborators:
Bimo Imbalo Rahmatullah
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SENSING THE SENSE OF PLACE
The studio project aims at reviving an old ruins bombed during WII2 in the heart of old Cagliari, through hospitality design. The spa hotel as a permeable space has to be able to accommodate both tourist and the local community.
A place to rest and recharge after long walks all day. The program consisted of a hotel unit, spa, and a multi-function space that can be used to host any kind of leisure activity such as a public cinema.
The impression of Cagliari landscape outside the busy city area. Understanding the colours and atmosphere of the place.
The site consisted of two lots located in different blocks with streets crossings on both sides. This condition was adding a unique character as well as a new problem to solve. Ruin of an old portico is also found in one of the plots which used to connect the streets through the building.
Photo-montages guided the entire process in a very constructive way. This helped in understanding the relationship with each elements and also to conceptualize the ideas.
Bottom : Initial conceptualization of the new portico Right: Final development of the portico and the relationships with the context
Defining solids and voids The skin
Digging the Site, keeping the street Massing: podium and masses
The 3 major pathways acts as the backbone of the project. The intervention is applied with atmost care to the context, its time period and history. The pathways are also elements connecting the past (portico), Present (street), and the future (bridge). Therefore, the hotel acts as a catalyst for this movement and connection. While the portico evokes the memory of the past, the existing street maintains its vistas. On the other hand, the bridge gives a new perspective and function
The room units were articulated to adapt the dynamics of the old city. This arrangement has opened up an opportunity to create various in-between open spaces and green areas.
Lobby & restaurant
Apartment units
Swimming pol open spaces
Portico
SPA
Project info:
Eastside Gibraltar, Master plan Proposal, Competition 2024
Project by: Cino Zucchi Architetti
Contribution:
Concept diagrams, drawings
EASTSIDE GIBRALTAR
The design of the Eastside Gibraltar quarter requires a strong awareness of the interaction between natural elements and man-made ones. But its unique location should make us consider also the relationship between the intimacy of a good urban environment and the openness of the views towards and from the surrounding landscape
The layout of the masterplan has the clarity of the regular grids of the Greek and Roman ‘foundation towns’, later used for centuries in the expansion of cities like Cagliari or Lisbon. This layout gives order to the whole as a bold rhythmic base on which an ‘urban melody’ can introduce variations and accents.
Sketch : Cino Zucchi
Render : Cino Zucchi Architects
Urban Villa
The enhancement of the quality of specific places to turn them in clear ‘destinations’ is accompanied by a series of reflections on the specific environmental qualities of each part of the new quarter.
This reflection will guide the creation of a clear match between each place, the nature of the functions located on the ground floor, the different size and typology of the apartments – each of them overlooking a generous private terrace or loggia – welcoming different lifestyles and the commercial potentials in time of each sector.
: Cino Zucchi
Project info:
Residential Project, 2024
Location:
Vimercate, Italy
Project by:
Cino Zucchi Architetti
Contribution:
Drawings, Presentation, Physical model
Project info:
House of Eden - Prague 10, 2021
Type: Competition, shortlisted top 6
Collaborators:
Naveen S, Levin P Joy, Jayakrishnan RJ
Contribution:
Conceptual idea, Design development,
Location: Milan
Project by: Cino Zucchi Architetti
Contribution:
Drawings, modelling, development
Project info:
MinDs workshop, 2024
A new future for Palazzo del Lavoro
Location: Turin
workshop led by: TEN Studio, Zuich
Collaborator: Filip Ćiković
image generated with Mid journey from physical model references
Water colour on Paper size 420 x 297 mm 2020, Kerala
