armaan bansal _ portfolio 2024

armaan _ bansal

portfolio

2023

armaan_bansal@outlook.com +44 7490345453

This portfolio is a sample collection of professional and academic projects, arranged in ascending order of scale approach.

Scale Index

1:2

Object | Detail Piece by Piece - Apple | Beats - Hublot - Kohler - Absolut Vodka - Acqua Di Parma

1 : 10

Furniture | Installation Koshirakura - Collection - White Cube - Interface - Miami Design District

1 : 50

Space | Retail | Exhibition A-COLD-WALL* - India Retail Spaces - Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition

1 : 200

Architecture | Construction House 59 | Chandigarh - Hari Hari | Derby

1 : 1000

Academic | Urbanism Negotiating a Home - Farringdon Urban Strategy

Piece by Piece

1:2 A focus on precise measuring and making turned into an experimental month of metal work. The final object was a result of numerous metal working processes _ welding, spot welding, grinding, sanding, threading, lathe, hammering, bending, tubing, polishing, pasting, tube widening, screwing.

Role _ Design, Metal Work, Tooling and Fabricator

Apple - Beats

1:2

As consultant designer for Apple - Beats, I have worked on various models as an Industrial Designer, including packaging and marketing.

A sound, a note, a wave, made physical. Organic forms swirl across organic matter, organic forms engulf inorganic technology, a fusion of pragmatism and aesthetics. The tactility of sound, embraced, through colour theory, through open, de-constructed manufacturing process, through individuality and perfect imperfection. A pair of headphones but also books, a record of creation, fabrication and conceptualisation. A play of weight, of the relationship between light and heft, sleekness and heft.

Role _ Industrial Designer and Design Consultant

Hublot

1:2

This piece is flanked by a micro-rotor on the dial side and three sapphire bridges, forming a maelstrom of large and tiny discs whirring and operating right on the wearer’s wrist. Protecting the automatic tourbillon by encasing it in micro-blasted titanium. Hublot’s recent timepiece was then polished, brushed, hammered, and perforated to create a lean and imposing silhouette that induces a sense of motion. The result is a lightweight watch designed with an emphasis on minimalism.

There were subsequent spaces and installations designed to display the watch, resonating its materiality.

Kohler Faucet

1:2

Developing a new language for water solutions. Expression, and optimism can be communicated through radical engineering, and re challenging expectations society may have towards familiarised objects.

The intention was to democratise access to design in its purest format, using water as a vessel to transport this idea, whilst openly exploring and questioning, in a search for what’s next.

Role _ Industrial Designer and Design Consultant

Absolut Vodka

1:2

For the limited edition, an approach of a fusion of an avant-garde vision and Chinese culture on Absolut’s iconic apothecary-shaped bottle was undertaken. The bottle is spaced within custom designed bottle coolers and a ice bucket with a bold silhouette.

Embossed with a heat map design of China’s largest cities, the dots and silhouettes in Chinese red – the colour that symbolises life, vitality and light in China – represent the coming together of people and ideas that lead to bursts of energy, creativity and diversity.

Role _ Industrial Designer, Retail Designer and Project Manager

Acqua Di Parma

1:2

The collaboration with Acqua Di Parma, resulted in two seasons of designing and producing the Bottle, Case and Installations to display the product. The process included sketches, to its conception with three-dimensional models, and following up with production.

The collaboration took over major spaces in Milan Retail Stores.

Role _ Industrial Designer, Retail Designer and Project Manager

Koshirakura, Japan

1 : 10

In the Niigata District of Japan, Koshirakura is a small hillside village with an ageing population. This project was a design + build aiming to make a community space for the village to collect water, cool fruits and host the annual festivals. The work duration was a month for a group of 15 of us. Cooking, domestic functions and cleaning alongside the building and material sourcing was undertaken by a system of dividing the 15 into further groups. We were happy to be paid in Sake.

Role _ Architect, Project Manager, Researcher and Construction

Furniture Collection - 2024

1 : 10

The following images of various objects of domesticity are inspired by the observations of the city. Different materials reaching to a negotiation. Most of these are either in production | smaller objects already been tried in the workshop. This furniture collection is a solo work that is to be displayed in 2024. The collection uses two materials as its main components, a dark patina metal and a light rough canvas, to bring out the sense of tension and drama between the two contrasting materials.

This is an ongoing, trademarked project.

Role _ Designer, Engineering and Project Manager

Below _ A bar cabinet that consists of three levels and differently designed opening hardware. Space for spirits, glasses and instruments. A metallic box which gives no hint to its interior till it is touched, to reveal a soft canvas and light inside. The legs are designed to make the entire structure feel lighter, floating.

Interface

1 : 10

The interface takes place between two discarded objects, an abandoned mattress and an abandoned radio. Each were disassembled, forgotten, in a sense of their original compositions and then reassembled into an object. The result was a Radio Chair that played music every-time someone sat on it. An interaction created by two unwanted objects.

Role _ Artist, Designer and Fabricator

White Cube

1 : 10

A series of abstract works, which use imagery of collapsed landscapes and supine bodies to explore the subject of Black experience. Examining the relationship between industrial materials.

These works were designed, manufactured and curated for Samuel Ross’ Exhibition LAND at The White Cube, Bermondsey.

Role _ Project Manager, Fabricator and Curator

Miami Design District

1 : 10

The designs were initially made from charcoal sketches, before translating it to its final 3D format. This public bench was part of an exhibition for Miami Design District at Paris In November, the Miami Design District will feature a permanent installations of this bench and others in public spaces in Miami.

Role _ Project Manager and Curator

A-COLD-WALL* Retail

1 : 50

As Lead Retail Designer for A-COLD-WALL*, I worked on numerous spaces for the brand across the globe. [China, India, Australia, Paris]. Each follows the Volt Blue Theme in accordance to the current collection. The idea is to juxtapose raw materials with the blue and add elements of movement and experience.

Role _ Lead Architect, Project Manager and Interior Designer

A key door for the region, the Shanghai store marks a continuation of a developing programme of store launches and events that service the global A-COLD-WALL* community. Informed by a system-based design, the store’s architecture and configured circulation is guided by key principles of modularity.

The store plan explores a balance between horizontal and vertical frameworks, anchored by a central sculpture that contributes a unique interval of observation within the space. This monolithic verticality, sculpted from charred wood, introduces an organic element to the store’s industrial build, a contrast against both the tone and form used throughout.

Left Above _ A site-specific, audiovisual exhibition to provide immersive access to the brand universe.

Amplified by an original sound scape performed by Kelvin Krash, the two-day presentation connected attributes of static presentation, live performance and installation, debuting a hybrid format that re-evaluated traditional modes of display.

Right Above _ A temporary install in Beijing, China.

The collection is displayed in a contrasting setting of gravel and suspended through industrial details.

Right Below _ A event designed for Converse and A-COLD-WALL*. The entire warehouse was covered in a green mesh controlled by LED strip lights.

Current Page _ A concept retail store in Chengdu. A concrete box is elevated from a gravel floor pit via Richard Roger truss details Left Page _ An installation for Nike and A-COLD-WALL* at Dover Street Market, London. The install takes its geometric dynamic form to mirror the shoe. The install contains little windows to focus on the little details of the shoe.

Retail Spaces _ India

1 : 50

A series of five retail spaces designed throughout India. Each retail store takes form from different details and hanging systems. The brief was to make spaces that can highlight the authentic Indian-wear against subtle backgrounds.

Role _ Lead Architect, Project Manager and Interior Designer

Top Row _ Metal detail from ceiling to suspend a shelf and profile lighting detail Bottom Row _ Brass shelf and drawer suspension detail from a constructed concrete tiled wall

Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition

1 : 50

Exhibited in the Ronald and Rita McAulay Gallery at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. The exhibition, titled London UnMasqued, will present twelve objects, one collage and an atlas that frame London as a strange yet familiar place in which alternative cities exist within the city – an idea influenced by China Miéville’s fantasy novel Un Lun Dun (2007).

The exhibition investigates the urban transformation of London through a collage in which unbuilt, existing and demolished fragments of London together form an alternate city. The objects and the collage are in dialogue within the exhibition, continuously (in)forming one another and fusing narratives with tangible phenomena to present alternative readings of the city we inhabit.

Role _ Artist, Project Manager, Fabricator and Curator

House 59 _ Chandigarh

1 : 200

In the suburbs of Chandigarh, House 59 is a residential project made out of cast concrete. As Lead Architect on the project, my responsibility extends to both design and the construction process. The house plays with light and nature to blur the boundaries of the interior with the outdoor courtyards and gardens.

This is an ongoing project.

Role _ Lead Architect, Project Manager and Interior Designer

Circular skylight in the atrium, referencing Corbusier

Main Elevation of the house, stone + concrete

Above _ Current stages of construction and casting process

Hari Hari _ Derby

1 : 200

The conversion of an Old Grade II Listed Building in Derby to an Indonesian Restaurant. The brief is to keep the character and layers of the building while introducing a new skin for the restaurant, while staying in accordance to the regulations. The ageing building has its own patinas which is the central aesthetic of the design.

Warm and friendly tones define the feeling of family within this space.

This is an ongoing project.

Role _ Lead Architect and Interior Designer

Bar Area, with a overhead hanging bar unit

Private Dining, textures of Batik and Bamboo

Corridor Space, soft tones of nature and warmth

Farringdon Urban Strategy

1 : 1000

The Project [Back Room Boys] is an exploration of Un-London, the hidden back-room systems of the city. The maintenance side of transport in the city of London is revealed by a study of patterns in the site of Farringdon and the Ginza Train Depot in Tokyo. Urban Interiors act as nodes of clashes of systems. The worker is looked at as an essential part of the system and the project aims to understand routines and propose a better working condition. It does so by looking at spaces left over by the development of Farringdon. Negotiations between London and Un-London squeeze both spaces and workers within. The worker will take over such spaces. It investigates the idea using drawings and models. The urban fabric of London is compared to that of Tokyo and urban interiors are located.

The models are currently on display at the Royal Academy of Arts. The drawing is a study undertaken with the Tokyo University of Arts.

Study models about the urban shaping of a city

Right and Left _ Drawings indicating the proposal of a train yard over the found histories of Farringdon.

A series of spaces form a network for the hidden layers of the city

The unique condition of The Ginza Depot, with the trains arrival

A drawing as a study of the Urban Interior found within Tokyo

Negotiating a Home

1 : 1000 99 Homes looks at a housing scheme of negotiating at different scales, from the city to the neighbour, to unlock the potential of negative spaces in the urban fabric of London. These unique conditions arise due to rapid development of cities. Similar conditions can be found in Tokyo and cities of India. Pet Architecture and the concept of Ma, was essential in appreciating the delicate gap in the city of London. It looks at each negative space available in a sculptural form and carves it out further. The project was exhibited along with similar housing schemes in an exhibition at the Architectural Association, which was curated and installed by myself.

A model of a thin house crammed between two high walls of an alley

A house imagined in Ship and Mermaid Row

Play of openings and cutouts in the existing fabric of the city to create new spaces

Wooden forms of negative space conditions

Series of interiors within multiple gap sites

One of the space condition, filled up

An unrecognisable interior within the gap

A fair negotiation with the neighbour

A model of a negative space house