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Balu Suresh
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE [ THREE Years ]
2019, June - Current Architect 1.2 years
Scharc Arkitektur AB Telefonvägen 30, 126 37 Hägersten, Stockholm Sweden www.scharc.com
2015, May - 2017, May Architect 2 years
Sangath Vastu Shilpa Consultants Balakrishna Doshi’s Studio “Pritzker Prize 2018 laureate” Thaltej, Ahmedabad India www.sangath.org
EDUCATION 2017 - 2019
Masters in Architecture (Msc) KTH, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden www.kth.se
2018
Erasmus Exchnage, Msc Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne, England www.ncl.ac.uk
2010 - 2015
BArch Sathyabama University Chennai, India www.sathyabama.ac.in
The year was 2010 when I was fortunate enough to get enrolled in an architecture course in India but felt my dreams really kicked off in 2017, the year I moved to Sweden for my Master’s degree. In the meantime, I picked up invaluable experience of 3 years from both places; themes evidently contrasting though they fit like mortise and tenon. This booklet of my selected works was compiled mid-August 2020 keeping in mind that comprehension across viewpoints is tricky but I will try my luck. Judge me kindly. I’m hopeful.
BALU SURESH
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Masters Degree, 2019 Bachelor Degree, 2015 Work Experience
CITIFIED HERMITAGE Vienna, Austria
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SANGATH Ahmedabad, India
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EXTENSION TO KKH Stockholm, Sweden
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CITY OF WELL-BEING Newcastle, England
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[ Extension to KKH, Stockholm ]
The image shows the interior of the proposed Exhibition space for the School of Arts (KKH) situated at Skeppsholmen.
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Master Thesis 2019 C ITI FI E D H E R M ITAG E Location Presentation Tutors University Course
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Vienna, Austria ArchiCAD 21 | Photoshop CC 2015 | Keyshot 5 Ori Meron, Thordis Arrhenius & Frida Rosenberg KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Masters in Architecture
“Citified Hermitage” is a station which is far from the urban spaces and close to nature where a unified community culture is intended to be established. The intention is to understand the notion of well-being far from a diverse urban society. Analyzing the potential advantages of deciphering peoples attitude towards “getting old” and “distress” into a positive trigger by making the community understand the values of natural resources. Proposing the thesis in close lines with the Viennese sensitivity towards the Viennese forest region as a getaway destination. My research would be studying the spiritual and experiential character of space by examining movements and visual connections while commuting through the site.
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Austria Vienna ( marked in Red )
Vienna Ottakring ( marked in Red )
Thaliastraße
Ring Road
Site Selection Kreuzeichenwiese
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Neighbourhood Block Seed Block Memory Block
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A Neighbourhood Block (01) for community awareness and personal donations, A Meditation space (02) for well being of the human spirit and a Nature park for fading into nature literally by blood and flesh with the concept of “Capsule Mundi�( or organic burial pods) are elements of proposal.
SITE PLAN Area: 1,8 acres
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Fragmentation of the NEIGHBOURHOOD Building into Blocks
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Block B BLOCK B
Existing Pathway People use this route regularly (Recreating the sense of belonging)
Neighbourhood block, is split up by the existing pathway into block A and B. The existing route is something which I kept to get a sense of belonging for the existing users of the site. Further, the building is designed corresponding various fragments of curves and straight lines. This helped me to get a reference to all the lines I drew on my sketching board. Thus the plan is developed.
SOUTH ELEVATION
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Farming Space Storage & Public gathering Movement Corridor Exhibition Area Reading Area Toilets Lounge Area Blood Donation center Live Walls/Approach Pause/Entrance to seed Community Stairs
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NEIGHBOURHOOD BLOCK Ground Floor Plan
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ISOMETRIC VIEW Neighbourhood Block
LEVEL 04 Tensile roof element sandwiched between concrete terraces.
LEVEL 03 Steel columns supporting mirror finish glass panels
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LEVEL 02 The stone walls and concrete columns. (Structural support)
LEVEL 01 It houses the interactive functions like Community farming and gatherings and the approach is quite direct along the curved walls.
The Block is composed inside a semi transparent Rectangular box structure. The building is split into two blocks. One mainly for research and donation the other part for communal gathering. The street which splits the building is the actuall pathway which cuts through the site.
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Interior view of the Block
SECTION A NATURE PARK The section here cut along the nature park and the rectangular transition space. This is the far end of the site and like I mentioned before the footprint is reduced to its minimum at this north end of the site. The idea of construction, destruction and reconstruction is overall notion I’m using here. In other words, with the community center representing “construction idea” with a superstructure, through meditation center the spaces deconstructs and goes into the foundations and here at nature park im intending the practice of reconstructing nature. The idea of “Capsula Mundi” is implemented at this park. Ashes will be held in small egg-shaped bio urns while bodies will be laid down in a fetal position in larger pods. The Capsula will then be buried as a seed in the earth. A tree, chosen in life by the deceased, will be planted on top of it and serve as a memorial for the departed and as a legacy for posterity and the future of our planet.
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SECTION A
PUBLIC GATHERING
DONATION CENTER
SITE PLAN
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NATURE PARK
THE SEED / MEDITATION CENTER This block is dedicated as a meditation center that symbolizes elements of the earth. The ramp as Earth, the center/focus platform in which the ramp surrounds as fire other elements are portrayed simultaneously with waterbody and fenestrations under the water pond.
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The earth is scooped out to make a direct access using a circular ramp sandwiched between the 45cm thick retaining wall. The spaces are generated as a result of the layering of concentric circles and lines of accessibility.
ISOMETRIC VIEW Seed Block
CENTER AXIS Transition area where the larger volume sums up into a minute solitude center. Here the horizontal expansion through these ramps is transformed into a vertical meditation center.
WATER POND
OPENINGS FOR LIGHT
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A MEDITATION AND GATHERING (A) (B)
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The upper deck of the center is a device to contain water. The gradual unfolding of these spaces is intended to create a sense of curiosity within the perceivers and involves them in the process. The section here is to understand how light plays within the built interior spaces. Here the sun is the consistent variable as it changes position and intensity from morning to evening from summer to winter.
SECTION B
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MEDITATION SPACE
CORRIDOR
Balakrishna Doshi, 2017 13
Experience as Junior Architect Vastu Shilpa Consultants, Ahmedabad, India Location Year Position Principle Architects Major Projects
Ahmedabad, INDIA 2013 - 2014 & 2015 to 2017 Architect Balakrishna Doshi | Rajeev Kathpalia | Sonke Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur Amaravati Capital Complex, Amaravati Flame University, Pune
About the Practise Vastu Shilpa Consultants was founded in 1955 by Balakrishna Doshi who is regarded as one of the most influential figures in 21st Century Indian architecture and is located in the city of Ahmedabad. He also received Pritzker Architecture Prize 2018. The practice consists of around sixty people including architects, engineers, carpenters and model makers. The office is spilt into two parts. Vastu Shilpa consultants which is the practice and the Vastu Shilpa Foundation which carries out research mainly focussing on low-cost housing, city planning as well as Doshi’s previous projects. During my time spent at Vastu Shilpa, I worked on a number of different projects of varied scales as Project Architect, Site Architect etc under the guidance of Architects - Balakrishna Doshi, Rajeev Kathpalia, Sonke Hoof and Vijay Patel
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Sangath,2015
Project 01 Amravathi Assembly Building Interior View Location : Amravathi, INDIA
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Project 02 Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur, India Site supervision work and Team architect for academic block
Airport Udaipur city
Proposed site
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The IIM Udaipur campus is located along the Ahmedabad Udaipur Highway (NH-8) in the village Balicha. One of the main concerns while working on projects of such stature, scale and site is the relationship with the surroundings. If IIM Udaipur existed in isolation and as just another locked up knowledge village then neither would the city and its citizens nor the institute itself benefit from each other. The campus is 8 Kms south of Udaipur city and the nearest village of Lai is approximately 2 kms away. Though these villages today seem few and far between, IIM is going to be the new catalyst for the growth of Udaipur. In no time we will see a whole new line of development flanking the Highway, slowly away Position ofeating Academic Block into these small villages, one at a time. The first question which we thus posed to our self was, what should the institution be like? Will it be a part of
Rendered view of the Academic Block
On site construction, March 2016
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Much like the palaces and havelis of Udaipur or any surrounding village settlement, the campus and its buildings structure themselves around water bodies. A typical temple town would be the best example to describe the nature of development in IIM Udaipur. Academic Block
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South Elevation The grid shows the Red mandana stones
The Academic building forms the heart of the campus. Located along the longest valley on site and structured around the biggest and the only permanent water body not only gives the building long views into the horizon but also gives it a character of a pause point, a place of transition; Transition from building to nature and what is more apt to define the transition than a university plaza which acting as a check dam with all academic buildings looking into it.
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Project 03 Flame University sports complex, Pune, INDIA Design Architect
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A sports complex is been added for the extension of the Flame University in Pune India. The building is designed to be near the lake and it opens out to the Football field in the east. The roof of the block ramps down to the earth and its intended to an accessible for the students.
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Proposed Sports complex Football field Cricket field Auditorium block Academic block Center plaza Administration Block Entrance to the site
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On site construction, 2019 View from the basketball court towards to lake
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Extension to Royal Institute of Arts, Studio 05 Offbeat, Stockholm, Sweden Location Semester Mode of Presentation Tutors University Course
Skeppsholmen, KKH, Stockholm 01st, August 2017. ArchiCAD 21 | Photoshop CC 2015 | Keyshot 5 Ulrika Karlsson, Cecilia Lundbäck KTH Royal Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Ms Architecture
On the aspect of beat, onbeat and offbeat the studio is focussed on what is added and what is existing. Automation and fabrication is also focussed. The studio also pushes on idea on making a superdrawing based on fabric and color. The Royal Institute of Art at Skeppsholmen, suffered from fire in August 2016, Studio spaces, workshops and student projects were majorly affected by the incident. The studio explores the possibility of its restoration and its development.The approach towards the design encourages an explorative study to technology, where tools and techniques are explored, questioned, used, and misused. The experiments with the Kuka robot create patterns and these patterns are tested to create a usable Architectural space.
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Working with KUKA Robot Here the design notion used is "Stacking" The requirements are converted to wooden blocks and these blocks are subjected to "stacking"into Robot arms and tested. The concept of Jenga is taken for testing the idea of stacking. This research is to find the precision that a robot can produce over analogue experiments done manually. The slight error in the coding for the Robot resulted in the experiment to fail. But the precision in which the Robot stacks the wooden blocks at the initial stages where noted and helped us to carry forward with further tests.
Experimenting the various possibilities of stacking the Total area on the site
Clustering of Blocks
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Rotating of Blocks
Arranging of blocks with respect to pathways
In each of these experiments in order to trace the movement of the blocks, color is sprayed at every step. The traces movements are further used for space making.
On going construction. Damaged building Site 01
The Landscape for Exhibits Site 02
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Exhibition Block Site 02
Proposed model showing site 01 and 02
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Cross Section Exhibition Block
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Physical model showing floor space Exhibition Block
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Cross Section School of Arts
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Physical model showing volumns inside School of Arts
PROPOSED SITE
City of Well-Being Studio by FaulknerBrowns Architects, Newcastle UK Location Semester Mode of Presentation Participation Tutors University Course
Ottakring, Vienna, Austria 03rd, December 2018. ArchiCAD 21 | Photoshop CC 2015 | Keyshot 5 Individual Daniel Burn, Jamie Wakeford Newcastle University, UK Erasmus Exchange, Ms Architecture
The fundamental thought of the design is to research how do structures influence our wellbeing and prosperity. How would we decipher the topic of prosperity in the city to make an individual methodology. Passionate physical, ecological and Preparing a reaction to that subject through a urban texture.
COURSE STRUCTURE WEEK 02
SYMPOSIUM Collective Presentation of Ideas
WEEK 05
MID CRIT Development of a Strategy for Well-Being
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FINAL City of Well-Being
Symposium Grid formation process The Regular framework is overlayed over the Vienna city map and the informations gathered amid the site visit is introduced into the customary shape outlines with a connection to its situation on the city grid.
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The Grid during the exhibition. The idea of the grid is generated from the question of how to represent the places of interest ( Open spaces, Infrastructure, Landmarks, Urban Blocks ) on the city grid. Each square within this grid is used to assemble the findings gathered from Vienna.
Urban Block Ground Floor Plan SECTION A
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Main entrance Exsiting pool Extended market place Kids ramp Pensioners club Play area Parking Exsiting basketball court
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View of the Urban Block
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The main part of the building houses spaces for the older generation and the public. The space has movable modules of 9 sqm each which can be configured differently according to the need.
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The project focuses more on the user experience of the space from the view of an outsider. The transition between the Eastern and the Western regions is what i was interested in. It was becoming less lively and there were fewer people, the further I walked into the center of the district away from the nearest train station. The shift of the open park spaces from the south to the north, More trees, less traffic, detached urban blocks, less noise and air pollution, accessible parks, public gyms where few things that hit my senses
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