Professional training portfolio- 2019

jinal shah

internship portfolio

Selected Works from DICRC and BAMO

January-April 2019

August-December 2018

May-July 2018

B A M O , S a n F r a n c i s c o , C A l i fo r n i a

U n i v e r s i t y o f c i n c i n n at i , o h i o

DICRC, Ahmedabad

S a n F r a n c i s c o , C A l i fo r n i a January-April 2019

The office space

bamo sT R E N GT H

Bamo is an interior design office based in San francisco for more than 2 decades, with specialization in hospitality projects. The firm extensively focuses on style, attention to detail and great management. Their portfolio spans in 20 countries across 5 continents. Bamo residential and hospitality portfolios includes luxury houses, condominiums, hotels, resorts, restaurants, spas, and the occasional superyacht.

It was a life time experience working with team and bamo family from countries of Latin American, China, Singapore, Japan, Pakistan and others.

Bamo gave me lot more than just a training experience !

Duration : 15 weeks Principal designers Project Managers Associate Designers Senior Designers Junior Designers Marketing, management and technical Intern

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Hotel rooms and condo units for Waldorf Astoria Miami Florida USA Senior living residential units- renovation and redesign for Suncity, Machida- Japan Bamo library management

TA K E AWAYS

~45 people

While working on the Miami Condo units, I learnt a lot about high end hotel rooms designing, improved presentation skills. Learnt about the American interior spaces, construction and materials.

The Japan project was more of renonvation so I learnt developing site models , by referring existing images. the Japanese context of materials in different scales of furniture and interior architecture. Learnt around 10 plugins for sketchup including rendering with Enscape. Tried hands on Revit for bamo material library.

Alongwith this, I learnt a lot about functioning a medium size office and the resources utlized. Understanding different cultures, working and communicating with a team of 10 people was an important part of my learning.

...rendered the drawings for client presentation using adobe photoshop

... generated sketchup model and rendered with enscape for client presentation

... generated sketchup furniture model using existing images

... generated elevations for existing site conditions

... generated sketchup model for existing site condition of dining areas, using images

BAMO culture was very hostile and friendly. Weekly parties and events made work more fun. Food and partying connected us all, although being from different parts of the world.

“ Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC), CEPT University, India functions as a research centre for the development and understanding of Indian Crafts ” Duration : Strength : Location : Project : Role :

The office space

8 weeks 6 people in office 3 on field reseach 2 Remote DICRC, CRDF builiding, University Area, Ahmedabad Vernacular Furniture of Rajasthan VFR • Generating 3D furniture models in Rhinocerous and 2D drawings in autocad from site sketches and pictures.

• Attending weekly calls with remote team to update and plan actions for the week

Takeaways: • Learnt Rhinocerous software to develop complicated furniture elements • Learnt how to estimate dimensions and read sketches to convert into 2D drawing • Reading images and understanding styles of different vernacular styles • Communicating with a remote team and team work • Managing large amount of data on systems

thank you.