Role as an Intern:

As an intern of Mark On Earth Architects, I would like to put forward my roles and responsibilities in the firm, and a brief the current projects I am working on:

Role as Intern: TRAVELLING:- OFFICE WORK:-TRAVELLING EVERYDAY:- REST ON SUNDAYS

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Working as an Intern in an Office like MOE is Certitude for any Architectural student, due to the Principal Architect and other architects, being more approachable and providing proper guidance throughout. It is understandable that a degree of nervousness and curiosity engulfs a student before stepping into an office for the first time. That’s exactly what I felt, but since I already had interacted with Ar. Dhanaprakash sir, as he was my Mentor/Faculty at MSAP, I felt at ease while interacting with him. It took me a week's time to get acclimatized to the Office Environment, and I felt at home, and part of the family. The Firm has many fragments to it. It has the Nature, music, calmness, and a sense of Timelessness and the Dynamic nature of the office, as many of the staff members are most of the Time busy with Client Meetings, or Site Visits, hence don’t have any sort of Fixed Office timings. WORK is given more importance rather than the OFFICE TIMIMGS, that was the Takeaway from this firm. However, there was a sense of Loneliness as sometimes there was no one in the firm to interact, stroll around and do various activities, but due to the works, and deadlines given to me by sir, I did not give much attention to it. The Office, is small, yet Compartmentalized, and as an Intern, I did not Know what to expect at a firm with such mammoth practice. But to my Surprise, I got to work on a wide variety of projects from Large Scale Convention Halls; Mid-scale Pre-school Projects to small scale Residential homes. I worked on Conceptual designing, construction and working drawings, Estimations, Electrical Layout drawings, 3d models and renderings with the use of new software’s, detailed drawings, presentation drawings, client meetings, and went on site visits as well. It was refreshing experience with a learning curve that will remain for long in memory. The Exposure that I got while working here is incomprehensible. I learnt numerous things in various ways and at all times. The office taught me to be professional and precise at what I undertook. It taught me to be sincere while doing even the menial work that might not seem important. The firm taught me to work as a team (in some of the projects), and how every contribution, regardless of its magnitude matters. Through the weeks, I got to know how to be patient and do my work with perfection while keeping my mind at peace. Also ,I got to know, how to schedule my work and finish it before time. Hence, from these learnings I got to know how training has an Important role in exposing the real-life situation in the architectural industry. It was and will be a great experience for me to work on training at Mark On Earth Architects, Derebail, Mangalore, throughout the internship time period, though travelling from Udupi to Mangalore, and back to Udupi at the end of the day, was a bit-tiring throughout the semester.

About the Company:

MOE Architects was established in 2012 by Ar. Dhanaprakash B.Arch. (RV School of architecture) M.Arch. (advanced design MSAP, Manipal) As authentication to efforts, working and experimenting various typologies of projects ranging from housing, residential, hospitality, and planning projects from past 15 years. Sir, also serves as a visiting faculty at Manipal School of Architecture and Planning, (MSAP),Manipal and conducts workshops and lectures at various schools in India. The firm has completed projects in Mangalore, Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai, Kerala, Goa, and other places across the country. MOE is a multidisciplinary team of architects and designers with combined expertise in providing a range of services from large-small scale projects. The firm is committed to meaningful design, that evolves from understanding the physical and cultural context of the projects. Every project allows to extend the boundaries and develop the skills picked up along the previous architectural practice. Even though major practice involves Architecture, there is also an active participation in Interior as well as Landscape with concern to environmental issues.