BALAJI MAHENDRAN - Architecture Undergraduate Portfolio -CAAD

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Portfolio Architecture | Design

2022

Balaji Mahendran Architect | Graphic A great design is a collaboration of passion, innovation and Sensitivity to develop a unique and a responsive idea. I have The abilities to work as a designer as well as a resolver.

January 27, 2001 Indian Tamil Nadu , India

balaji.mahendran@caad.ac.in +91-98401-52701

linkedin.com/in/balaji-mk-b48a18183

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Architecture Resume

Education CAAD-Chennai Academy of architecture and Design B.Arch -2022 SRM-Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar Higher Secondary School 2011 - 2018

Architectural Skills

Revit, AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Rhinoceros,

2020-22 2020-22 2019-22 2020-22 2021-22

Twinmotion Adobe Indesign, Sketchup, Ms Office.

2020-22 2021-22 2019-22 2020-22

Skills A creative individual, Meticulous Detailer, Motivational Manager, Altruistic team player, Effective .communicator.

Competitions and Awards Finalist – ANDC Zonal Shortlist – Transparence Southern interface Asian paints 2020 - AYDA

Certification AUTODESK REVIT ARCHITECTURE CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL

Languages Tamil English Telugu

-Listening Speaking Writing -Listening Speaking Writing -Listening Speaking

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CONTENTS 2018-2022

Design briefs and programmes are the foundation of every project, and without them, it is extremely difficult for the project to exist.

They serve as an important communication tool, allowing the client or clients to define the intended outcomes of the end result (the building) to the architect or designer, assisting them in understanding exactly what is expected of them to satisfy their objectives.

There is no clear direction and, more significantly, no documentation of the project’s components without a design brief.

01 “To create, one must first question everything.”.

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Introduction

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Context/Concept

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Zoning/Access

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P.Section

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Isometric

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Architecture Portfolio

02 03 04 Introduction

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Introduction

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Introduction

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Context

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Context

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Context/Concept

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Concept

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Iso model

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plan

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P.Section

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Massing/P.Section

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Section

37

Plan

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Gov.Amentities

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Isometric

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REVIT,TWINMOTION

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Type Urban Center

Location George Town-Chennai

Area 3.72 Acre

U.ECTR The Urban Excellence Center helps people affected by incarceration and community violence envision a future with tools and support to help them better themselves in areas including as education, economic opportunity, and social entrepreneurship in Chennai and beyond. UEC improves the lives of youth and young adults who are at risk of illiteracy, substance addiction, poverty, homelessness, and incarceration by offering access to educational, employment, and creative possibilities that will help them construct economically stable and healthy lives.

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01-URBAN EXCELLANCE CENTER-CHENNAI

Location: George Town-Chennai-3.72 Acre

Site Context

Today, the avenue has evolved into one of George Town’s major business thoroughfares. This street is home to several business establishments, including opticians. The Broadway bus terminal, the Chennai Metropolitan Transport Corporation’s main bus terminus, is located at the southern end of the road.

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CONCEPT DIAGRAMMING

AUTOCAD,SKETCHUP,ILLUSTRATOR

volume

Conditioned Enclosed Spaces

Buffer

environment form

Sky Path

Centrality

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01-URBAN EXCELLANCE CENTER-CHENNAI

Pathway 01

Floating Crowd Pedestrians

Pedestrian entrance 3 2 4

view 1

1

Mid way platform

Intermediate semi open space

view 2

Pathway 02 Mixed crowd Pedestrians

3 2

view 3

4

Second entrance

1

Engaged with levels

Visual barrier at 5 meter from the ground

05 view 4

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CONCEPT DIAGRAMMING

SKETCHUP,ILLUSTRATOR

EXPLODED

ACCESSIBLITY vertical connection

FF

stacked public space

TF

sky path

permeablity SF

civic passageway

leisure passageway FF

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01-URBAN EXCELLANCE CENTER-CHENNAI 1

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2

3

0 5

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4

5

6

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DETAIL SECTION

REVIT,ILLUSTRATOR 8

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+30m Roof Parapet Walls Thickness: 250mm It makes the building look taller and more elegant

+24m

+30m Roof

+24m Fivth Floor

+21m Fourth Floor

Fivth Floor

+21m Fourth Floor Glass Railing Glass Type: Flat glass Design: Panel Frame Material: Steel +18m

Third Floor +18m Third Floor +15m +15m Second Floor

+10m First Floor

Second Floor

Double Height the arrangement, proportioning, and design of windows and doors in a building

First Floor +10m

+5m Mezzanine Floor +5m Mezzanine Floor

PERSPECTIVE SECTION 08

REVIT,TWINMOTION

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01-URBAN EXCELLANCE CENTER-CHENNAI

ISOMETRY

SECOND FLOOR X 5m 01 Entrance 02 Main Landing 03 Lift Lobby 04 Open Lobby 05 Hub Innovation 06 Library 07 Exhibition Space 08 Gallery Space

THIRD FLOOR

X 6m

01 Lift Lobby 02 Seating Corridor 03 Semi open Space 04 Lab research 05 Research Area 06 Dining Space 07 Restaurant

FOURTH FLOOR X 4m 01 Amenities Zone 02 Co Living 03 Co Working 04 Conference room 05 Office Space 06 Canteen

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REVIT,ILLUSTRATOR

AXONOMETRY

01 03

02

04

05 06 07 08

UEC urban excellance center 01 Entrance 02 Main Landing 03 Pedestrian Ent 04 Semi Shading Area 05 Landscape Area 06 Ramp landing Zone 07 Plaza Ped Ent 08 Amenity Space

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REVIT,TWINMOTION

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Type Boutique hotel

Location Nemilicherry

Area 3.72 Acre

B.HOTEL The study discusses the boutique hotel phenomenon, including definitions and overall trends, as well as circumstances in Singapore, where commercial activity has increased in recent years. Although unique, the circumstances in Singapore provide insights into the attributes of boutique hotels in general and their development in the South East Asian region. Heritage is considered as making a significant contribution to the city state’s boutique hotels, many of which are the product of adaptive reuse of historic structures, although it is increasingly being merged with modern architecture in efforts to foster a fashionable heritage ambiance.

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02- BOUTIQUE HOTEL-NEMILICHERRY

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Location: Nemilicherry-chennai-2.1Acre

Site Context

The “spatial” movement can be seen throughout the hotel business, but because boutique hotels have more freedom and flexibility to implement on-site modifications than large chains, we’re seeing some great advancements on the boutique side.

Minimalism is something that should be personal and unique to the person living it. There is no single set of rules or standards that you must follow and meet to be a minimalist.

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SKETCHUP,ILLUSTRATOR,TWINMOTION

CONTEXT VISUALIZATION

Buffer Corridor

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02- BOUTIQUE HOTEL-NEMILICHERRY

Path to Path

Path to Masses

Circulation divider

Geometric sequence

Interlock the phase

Constraint Grid

Facade Fused Process

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Path to growth

proportion for level

Levelling with grid

FACADE GENERATING

SKETCHUP,ILLUSTRATOR

FACADE CONCEPT

ISOMETRIC

01

02

03

04

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02- BOUTIQUE HOTEL-NEMILICHERRY

+30m +30m Roof Roof +26m +26m Fivth Floor Fivth Floor

+21m +21m Fourth Floor Fourth Floor +18m +18m Third Floor Third Floor +8m +15m +15m First Floor Second Floor Second Floor

+8m +10m First Floor First Floor

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0 3

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DETAIL SECTION

REVIT,ILLUSTRATOR

+30m Roof

+26m Fivth Floor Restaurant

A restaurant is a business that prepares and serves food and drinks to customers. Meals are generally served and eaten on the premises,

+18m Third Floor Co-living

Co-living is a residential community living model that accommodates three or more biologically unrelated people living in the same dwelling unit.

+10m First Floor

Restaurant

PERSPECTIVE SECTION 20

02- BOUTIQUE HOTEL-NEMILICHERRY

SECTION

FIRST FLOOR PLAN 01-Landing 02-Core 03-Stairs 04-Lift Lobby 05-Courtyard 06-Twin Room 07-Duo twin room 08-Executive Suite Room

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09-Hollywood Twin-room 10-Adjusting Room 11-Suite Room 12-Duplex Room

ISOMETRIC VIEW

REVIT,ILLUSTRATOR

EXPLODED

ISOMETRIC

04

05

03

01 02

B.Hotel boutique hotel 01 Entrance 02 Drop off 03 Amenities Zone 04 Hotel Rooms 05 Parking Zone

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RHINO,SKETCHUP,TWINMOTION

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Type Mixed Used Development

Location Athipet-Chennai

Area 3.72 Acre

MUD SQUARE We see self-sufficient housing/ gated communities as an issue which widens the Gap between the society (housing) and the bigger community (city). Idea to Introduce the model of the city is there. But the idea to introduce the model of the City in a way that connects the housing to the public realm is missing. Mixed used Housing development is proposed to be the future of bringing in a healthy as-well as a united community of chennai

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03- MIXED USED DEVELOPMENT-ATHIPET

Location: Athipet-Chennai-1Acre

Site Context

A zone designated by zoning officials as best suited for industry or manufacturing is referred to as an industrial zone. An industrial zone is not one that just allows certain industrial activity as a byproduct of the principal land use classification.

Overlay such as the temporary features added to more permanent buildings to allow large athletic events or festivals to occur are added to more permanent buildings to allow large athletic events or festivals to take place.

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CONTEXT VISUALIZATION

SKETCHUP,ILLUSTRATOR, TWINMOTION

MUD

SQUARE

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03- MIXED USED DEVELOPMENT-ATHIPET

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SKETCHUP,ILLUSTRATOR

CONTEXT VISUALIZATION

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03- MIXED USED DEVELOPMENT-ATHIPET

PERSPECTIVE SECTION

Generating

Cmd

Element Datum

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Cmd

Cmd

Leveling

Grid

Swift

Trim Jn

Element Holder

Element Spliter

Element Clutch

CONTEXT VISUALIZATION

RHINO,ILLUSTRATOR,PHOTOSHOP

EXPLODED

ISOMETRIC

SPLIT ISO SECTION

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03- MIXED USED DEVELOPMENT-ATHIPET

01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

+15m +12m

+9m

+5m

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SECTION

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CONTEXT VISUALIZATION

RHINO,ILLUSTRATOR,PHOTOSHOP

ISOMETRIC MUD

AMENITIES

5

20

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REVIT,TWINMOTION

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Type School

Location Sriperumbudur

Area 3.72 Acre

SCHOOL HOUSE Schools are frequently complicated structures to construct. They must provide a variety of educational venues as well as consider sports and recreational activities. However, the greatest problem greatest problem is to build a place that generates a pleasant pedagogical atmosphere for children, regardless of its size or surface.

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04- SCHOOL HOUSE-SRIPERUMBUDUR

Location: sriperumbudur-Kanchipuram -0.344Acre

Site Context

To accept the children whose parents are the residents in resettlement residential area. Because of its near the main road with heavy traffic and be surrounded by extensive resettlement residential area, the environment around the school is relatively messy.

Besides, narrow construction land results in very limited space for the main building, especially after arranging the required outdoor space. So how to design a school with function and space conforming to children’s characteristics in this narrow space may be a core issues that an architect should consider.

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CONCEPT DIAGRAMMING

SKETCHUP,ILLUSTRATOR,PHOTOSHOP

EXPRESSION

AXONO

Frequency wall

Disorted datum

Non flexible roof

Accessibility

DESIGN PROCESS

DERIVED PLANE

OVERLAYING GRID

DIVIDED PLANE

EXTRUDED PLANE

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04- SCHOOL HOUSE-SRIPERUMBUDUR

SCHOOL .H primary school

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6

4

3

2

UP

7 5 8 1

road

PLAN

01 Entry 02 Drop Off

03 Main Entrance 04 Distributed Area

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05 Office Space 06 LKG UKG’s Zone

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07 Primary Zone 08 Toilet

+12m

+5m

m

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0 3

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EXPLODED DIAGRAM

SKETCHUP,ILLUSTRATOR

EXPLODED

ISOMETRIC

Classes

Distributed Area

Centrality

Civic Passageway

Passageway

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Miscellaneous Works n-product

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04-Other Project

Swift Floors gen.

ISRO Space Center

Kit Bash HouseIV

Archie Loader

Object Experimentatio The goal of experimen design focuses mainly and each option (or ite features that fulfil the d

Speculative design is a to create goods and se complicated than it ap

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Kit Bash villa savoye

Connect Dimension

UHH. UHH. Pavillion Concept process

EXTRA

WORKS

Speculative design process

on or Search-Centered Design ntal object design is to test certain things to establish their appropriateness. This y on experiments and outcomes. The list of possibilities is created ahead of time, em) is examined, tested, or prototyped to decide which has the best collection of design requirements..

a design strategy that addresses large social problems while also looking ahead ervices for such scenarios. BUT, like with all things design, the notion is more ppears.

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Balaji Mahendran Chennai Academy Of Architecture and Design balaji.mahendran@caad.ac.in +91-98401-52701

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