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This is the Story of

Bhavana Gulaty

I Dream ; Therefore I am

An Architect | Urban Designer | Sustainablilty Expert | Computational Designer; passionate about designing and implementing buildings and cities in a way that is People Centric, Contextual, Sustainable and Innovative

A thorough professional with a journey spanning 2 decades in the Architecture + Urbanism Industry in India, comprising experience in a diverse range of building typologies.

A Designer with recognition in International & National Design Competitions

A Dynamic Persona with varied interests

Technology Yoga

A Passionate Design Explorer

Writing...almost anything!

Address Phone

B-2/45

Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi - 110029

WORK EXPERIENCE

+91 9599114877 +44 7436936557

Nov 2022 - Present

ABOUT ME

Dedicated senior professional with extensive experience in leading multi-disciplinary teams on mega architecture, master planning, and urban development projects for Government and private sector clients. Enterprising, results-oriented leader with clear and articulate vision to accomplish business goals. Strong communicator focused on delivering outstanding quality of work and building excellent rapport with clients.

EDUCATION

Mar 2017Sep 2021

TEAL Design Labs

Founder and Principal Architect

Experimenting with parametric design possibilities through design competitions and research frontier in sabbatical mode.

AECOM India Pvt. Ltd

Associate

Managed multi-disciplinary teams of urban planners/designers, landscape architects, economists, and infrastructure consultants to deliver billion-dollar mega architecture, master planning and urban development projects, notably:

• India International Convention & Exhibition Centre ( IICC), Dwarka, New Delhi

• Sustainable tourism development of Andaman Islands

• DPRs for Panaji Smart City, Goa

Actively led business development pitches which converted to multi - million dollar worth of projects, notably:

• AIIMS, New Delhi

• Andaman & Great Nicobar Islands

• Hussain Sagar Lakefront, Hyderabad

2022

M.Sc (Sustainable Environmental Design)

AA London

2002

M.Arch (Urban Design)

SPA New Delhi

Jan 2016Nov 2016

2000

B.Arch SPA | New Delhi

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

• Chevening Scholar (2021-22)

• Circle of Excellence Award, AECOM (2018)

• Finalist Award, Kaohsiung International Urban Design Competition, Taiwan (2009)

• SPA Gold Medal for Best Student in Master of Architecture (2002)

• Multiple Awards for Best Student in Bachelor of Architecture (2001)

Aug 2014 -

Dec 2015

Design Atelier Urbis

Senior Architect

Led concept visioning and presentation for Corporate HQ building of Blackberrys Apparel - India’s leading fashion brand.

Developed GFC drawings for Girls School in Patna and high end residential interiors in Jodhpur.

Freelance Architect Self Employed

Participated in multiple International Design Competitions and created content for the Anuual Economic Times Architecture & Design Summit.

Dec 2013-

July 2014

May 2010-

Sep 2013

Dec 2005-

Apr 2010

Sep 2004-

Sep 2005

CP Kukreja Architects

Senior Architect

Led concept visioning and presentation for 1st prize winning design build competition project for India’s apex educational institute, IIT Jodhpur.

Steered business development through competition and proposal projects :

• 500-acre University campuses

• 500-acre Healthcare campus in New Delhi

• 300-acre housing township in Varanasi

IBI Consultancy India Pvt. Ltd

Senior Architect-Urban Designer

Led multi-disciplinary teams of architects and urban planners on multi-million dollar mega urban planning projects, notably:

• Study on Naya Raipur TOD (World Bank funded project)

• Downtown revitalization projects in Florida, USA

Drove business development for the company.

ARCOP Associates Pvt. Ltd

Architect

Developed drawings for complete lifecycle of large scale commercial, mixed use and residential projects. Coordinated with consultants and vendors. Notable projects include:

• Global Foyer, Gurugram

• Alpha One Mall, Amritsar

• Grand Venice Mall, Greater Noida

• M3M Golf Estate, Gurugram

Was part of team for 1st prize winning design build competition for Master Planning of IIT Hyderabad.

Bharadwaj Bharadwaj & Associates

Architect

Developed drawings for complete lifecycle of one phase of 100 acre township in Greater Noida. Coordinated with consultants and vendors.

PUBLICATIONS

• Powering Cities by COEXistence: The COEX Biosphere as the Agent of Change Co-authored Paper published in Conference Proceedings of 4th International Urban Planning and Property Development (UPPD) Conference held in Singapore in October 2018

• Authored multiple articles for architectural magazine, Archi Design Perspective, New Delhi, 2004

TRAINING | CERTIFICATIONS

• Diploma in Master course in Parametric Design & Digital Fabrication (3D Printing, Laser Cutting, CNC Milling) from ControlMad (Authorized Rhino Training Centre & Fab Lab), Spain

• Life Member ISOCARP (International Society of City & Regional Planners)

• Associate Member IUDI (Institute of Urban Designers, India)

• Registered Architect Council of Architecture, India

• Core Leadership Skills Training | AECOM Managers

ALL DOCUMENTS ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

SKILLS

Rhino Grasshopper

Ladybug Tools, OS & Energy Plus VRay AutoCAD Revit

Adobe CS MS Office

WORK EXPERIENCE INTERESTS

Aug 2003-

May 2004

School of Planning & Architecture

Visiting Faculty

Visiting Instructor for 2nd Year B.Arch Design

Studio and Research Paper, M.Arch (Industrial Design) Departments

Apr 2002-

May 2003

School of Planning & Architecture

Research Associate | Dept. of Urban Design

Administrative and teaching assistance

My Journey

Hand Craft

Freehand Sketching

Urbanism Industry Experience

India International Convention & Expo Centre ( IICC) | New Delhi

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) | Hyderabad

M3M Golf Estate | Gurugram

Architecture Industry Experience

Convention Centre ( IICC) | New Delhi

Mall of Amritsar | Amristar

Design Competitions

Idea for Action Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Runway for your Imagination, Singapore

Design Explorations

Songdo International Students Competition | Korea

Crafts Village | Bhopal

Mixed Use Office | Naya Raipur

Academics 2.0

Refurbishing the City - AA School of Architecture, London

Design Research Project - Battersea Church Road Housing, London

Dissertation Project - Former Factory to Fusion Fitout, London

Computational Design

Parametric Facades | Korea

Digital Fabrication

M.Arch (Urban Design) | 2000-02 School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi

Bharadwaj Bharadwaj & Associates | 2004-2005 BBA

ARCOP Associates Pvt. Ltd | 2005-2010

IBI Consultancy India Pvt. Ltd | 2010-2013

CP Kukreja Architects | 2013-2014

Design Atelier Urbis | 2016

AECOM India Pvt. Ltd | 2017-2021

M.Sc Sustainable Environmental Design | 2021-22 | Architectural Association, London (Fully funded by the Chevening Scholarship 2021-22 of the FCDO, UK Government)

Diploma in Master course in Parametric Design & Digital Fabrication

Hand Craft.

Life. Observe. Draw.

Project Management Consultancy

Review. Coordinate. Execute

India International Convention & Expo Centre

New Delhi | 2017 - 2021

A 4 Bn USD mega MICE project for India, spread over 222 acres, with a Built Up area of 11 million sq.ft. As Principal – Technical Support in Construction Management, my role was Design Review | Multidisciplinary coordination | Client liasion | Coordination with Architects, Contractor & inhouse PMC team | Site visits 222 Ac 11 Mn Sq.ft

Master Planning

Design. Coordinate. Detail

75 Ac 10 Mn Sq.ft

A premium Golf Centric multi-family residential community spread over 75 acres. As Team Lead, my role was coordination with international design teams on master planning, architecture, landscape and interior design. I was also responsible for the design development of units, preparation of presentation and Good for Construction drawings and coordination with consultants and vendors

M3M Golf Estate Gurugram | 2009 - 2010

Master Planning

Design. Coordinate. Detail

Indian Institute of Technology

Hyderabad | 2009

500 Ac 10 Mn Sq.ft

The Project is a 1st Prize winning Design Build Competition entry for the Master Planning and Architectural Design of the new campus of India’s premier Engineering Institute, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Hyderabad in South India. The site area was 500 acres. As Architect-Urban Designer, I was part of the Master Planning team led by Paul Friedberg and also did the concept architectural design of individual buildings.

Mega Architecture PMC

Review. Coordinate. Execute

New Delhi | 2017 - 2021

As Principal – Technical Support in Construction Management, I was responsible for the review of the Concept Design through to the Good for Construction package and tender drawings of this landmark project, prepared by IDOM & CPKA, as part of the India International Convention and Expo Centre (IICC) mega project.

10 Ac 1 Mn Sq.ft

IICC Convention Centre

Mega Architecture Design

Design. Coordinate. Execute

Mall of Amritsar

Amritsar | 2006 - 2007

12 Ac 2 Mn Sq.ft

The project is a 2 million sq.ft Mixed Use development on a 12 acre site, comprising a destination retail mall and a Star Hotel in Amritsar, a medium tier city of North India. As Architect, I developed the Municipal sanction drawings and Good for Construction drawings for both the Mall and Hotel.

Idea for Action Kaohsiung

International Urban Design Competition

Sliver City

Taiwan | 2009 | Finalist

800 Ac 0.5 Mn Sq.ft

I was the sole designer for this Project that required regeneration of an 800 acre former airport site in the centre of Kaohsiung city in Taiwan. My design concept for the Mixed Use development ‘Sliver City’ centered around creation of clusters structured around alternating slivers of green and water. I designed the project in freelance capacity.

Runway for My Imagination

PLAB: Paya Lebar Airbase Redevelopment

Singapore | 2020

I was the sole designer for this Project that required regeneration of a 2000 acre former airport site of Paya Lebar Airbase in Eastern Singapore. My design concept for the Mixed Use development ‘G.LAB’ focused on high density high rise parametric towers around the metro station nodes and medium density courtyard typology housing on the periphery. I designed the project in freelance capacity.

2000 Ac 20 Mn Sq.ft

International Urban Design Competition

C-Prime

International Urban Design Competition

Incheon Students Urban Design Competition

Songdo | 2008

200 Ac 2 Mn

Sq.ft

I was the mentor for the Songdo International Students Design Competition 2009. The Mixed Use Project christened ‘C-Prime’ established a metaphoric and literal relationship with the sea that was adjacent to the site.

1 Ac 60,000

Sq.ft

I was the sole designer for this proposal to design a Crafts Village alongside the edge of Upper Lake in Bhopal in Central India in 2012. The proposal was part of the Upper Lake revitalization bid while I was with IBI Consultancy India Pvt.Ltd.

Crafts Village

Bhopal | 2012

1 Ac 80,000 Sq.ft

I was the sole designer for this bid proposal to design a Mixed Use retail-cum-commercial tower in Naya Raipur in Central India. I developed this proposal as part of IBI Consultancy India Pvt. Ltd in 2012.

Mixed Use Retail-cum-Office Block

Naya Raipr | 2013

Academics 2.0

Battersea Church Road Housing, London

This project involved designing a multi-family residential development in Battersea, a prominent district in North London, in an environmentally sustainable manner. The 3 acre site was situated adjacent to a mid rise housing estate in close proximity to the Thames River. The project was a team endeavor comprising colleagues from Thailand and China.

3 Ac 0.1 Mn Sq.ft

Academics 2.0

Battersea Church Road Housing, London

The central design feature of the concept christened ‘Neo Homes’ were curvilinear wrap around balconies to maximise the views of the river. The ground floor was designed as a retail floor and civic amenities. The design was based on and tested using environmental simulations developed in Ladybug Tools, Honeybee and Open Studio. My role was design conceptualization, master planning, landscape design, simulations, and preparing presentations and the Final Report.

Academics 2.0

Former Factory to Fusion Fitout, London

Former Factory to Fusion Fitout, London

My dissertation examined refurbishment of derelict industrial buildings in London into Mixed Use conversions. The scope of the investigation was limited to non-listed factory buildings with built-up area ranging between 10,000 sq.m. to 25,000 sq.m. The merits of refurbishment of such buildings are known to be manifold. First is preservation of the rich industrial heritage which is an identity marker for The dissertation derived the the-

Design Inteventions & Environmental Performance

The range of the atrium size was proposed based on the tent of the passive zone.

To substantiate the daylight performance, the atrium proposed to be skylit and 4 skylight geometries were inves tigated. The triangular skylight yielded the best performance.

Two balcony possibilties were explored - the open typology created by outward projection of the existing floor slab the semi - enclosed balcony created by recession of the exte rior wall. Though more demolition is invloved in the semi-en closed typology, the residential unit with the semi-enclosed balcony demonstrated a better thermal performance.

A series of strategies inlcuding introduction of wall and wall on atrium adjacency, interior insulation on exterior walls, upgradation of single glazed windows to low- e argon double glazed windows, changing WWR from 30% to were simulated to achieve energy demand within the prescribed limits.

Academics 2.0

Floor Plans

to Fusion Fitout, London

oretical base from desktop research and examples of performative environment from three precedent studies to develop a framework for benchmarking the design possibilities of the prototype. This was followed by fieldwork and analytical work to calibrate the base case and derive a range of performance standards for the prototype which formed the recommendations for the Toolkit for sustainable retrofit of such building typologies.

Project Description

My dissertation research enquiry centered Toolkit for Sustainable Retrofit of derelict in London into a mixed use building residential uses. The scope of the dissertation a non - listed prototype factory building to 25,000 sq.m in area and studying performance and the resulting energy and residential components only of the

Methodology

The methodology consisted of identifying constraints of the prototype located in review yielded the baseline metrics for ergy demand of such buildings. 3 case use retrofitted factory buildings were a benchmarking for the metrics for the basecase performance of the and strategies were proposed to optimize against the metrics yielded by the literature case examples.

Design Inteventions & Environmental

The design intervention explored three and the corresponding daylight and the buidling were measured. The deep plan of the building necessitated atrium.

Exploded Axo of refurbihsed building

Former Factory to Fusion Fitout, London

Computational Design

This Term 1 project was a Parametric facade with vertical and horizontal louvres that I designed using Grasshopper scripting. This project was part of a hybrid course titled ‘Master Parametric Design’ (MPD), Spring 2023 Edition, organized by ControlMad , an Authorized Rhino Training Centre and Authorized Rhino Fab Lab - based out of Madrid, Spain.

Digital Fabrication

Furniture Collection

In Term 2 of the MPD course,

various

Sofa in Clay

Study Table

Lounge Deck

Living Room Wall

Sofa in Plastic

these

projects were fabricated at the ControlMad Studio-cum-Workshop in Madrid, using 3D Printing in Clay and Plastic, and Laser Cutting and CNC Milling using plywood, MDF and cardboard. I participated in Term 2 in online mode.