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ksheeraja padmanabhan | mail.ksheeraja@gmail.com

CON TE N TS Graphics for Websites Malsain Hills

Responsive website for a permaculturist, coding with all graphics by author independent project

Srot

A playful responsive website designed for a child centric learning centre independent project

Graphics for Architecture and Landscape Projects Public Space in Amserdam

as a freelancer with NatureNomads, Netherlands

3D exploded view of a Solar Cooker as a volunteer with Dharmalaya Institute, India

Landscape Presentation

as an architect with Hunnarshala Foundation, India

Graphic Narratives The story of Dr Dabholkar

Personal Project inspired by the journalism of American artist Joe Sacco coded into a website by author

WEBSITE FOR A P E R M A C U LT U R I S T This responsive website was coded from scratch on a text editor with all images drawn by the author.

The website was designed to be playful and to encourage families with members of all ages to come and volunteer at the permaculture farm in a reciprocal relationship.

Link to website here.

WEBSITE FOR A CHILDCENTRIC LEARNING S PA C E This was developed as a dynamic Wordpress website.

The logo was provided to the author and the website was designed to play off the logo’s language and reflect the child centeredness of the client’s organization. The stars in the logo were reused with a parallax effect to give the look of stars falling. The static website was coded by the author, and conversion of the static website to a dynamic Wordpress theme was done using Pinegrow.

Link to website here.

P U B L I C S PA C E D E S I G N P R E S E N TAT I O N These visualizations were prepared for the Netherlands based group Nature Nomads as part of a proposal to use the city’s transistor boxes and the mandated access spaces around them to become useful and well designed points of gathering for the city public. These spaces could have honey boxes for bees, nesting spaces for birds, tourist information, work out spots and charging stations.

This is a 3D exploded view of earthen solar cookers designed by late eco architect Didi Contractor, as part of documentation of the construction process. This was done as part of an engagement with Dharmalaya Institute, Himachal Pradesh, which receives volunteers of all ages.

The construction process had to be presented in a way thay would be easy to understand for a lay person of any age interested in construction.

the second layer of glass sits on a wooden seperator with wool around it, with mud plaster coming up to secure the first piece of glass so that it cannot move.

the first layer of glass is placed on top of wool to prevent contact between the plaster and glass and therefore prevent cracking.

metal sheet is creased, folded and painted black to create the parts of the actual cooking chamber.

These are nailed to the insides of the cooker. To the left is Didi’s origami pattern

rice husk is then poured into the cooker, this is an insulator between the metal parts and the walls of the cooker the plastered cooker is lined inside with aluminum foil, shiny side out when the basic structure is done, the cooker is plastered with a mixture of sieved mud, cow dung and paper pulp wooden drawers lined with wool on the sides that are used for putting in food and taking it out regular adobe bricks used for first couse of brickwork, stone free bricks used for second and third courses to prevent cracking above this are three poles of bamboo extending outward by 2” on either side the basic structure is made with a 4 - 6” foundation, where random rubble is packed with mud.

STEPS IN THE COOKER BUILDING PROCESS

EARTHEN SOLAR COOKERS

L A N D S C A P E D E S I G N P R E S E N TAT I O N This was a landscape proposal done for a residential school in the Sahyadri hills of western India, for their Guest House Complex.

The goal of this presentation was to present dense and complex planting information in an easy to understand and concise manner. This presentation was used to communicate both with the client as well as the planting expert, and was used to aid the process of decision making with respect to the final plant palette.

Overall Guest House Landscape Plan

Overall Guest House – Plant Features and Services Ground Cover 3 – Building Edging Planter beds to make entry from the Parikrama side inaccessible

Ground Cover 1- Path Edging

Default Ground cover

Space for gathering

Clearing or lawn

Block 1

Ground Cover 1 (Path Edging) Ground Cover 2 (Moisture sucker)

Ground Cover 2

Ground Cover 3 (Building Edging)

Moisture Sucker

Parking

Ground Cover 4 (Optional – Forest Floor)

Existing Guest House 1

Ground Cover 3 – Building Edging Sense of Entry, Privacy for rooms in front by blocking circulation

Proposed Trees

Forested area Biodiversity services, Visual Continuity between old and new buildings, Character

Block 3 Block 1

Clearing between trees Block 3

Visual Interest during summer and winter months

Mud Path

(Optional) Fence

Sense of Order (Border between monsoon weeds and pathway, blending the garden into the forest)

Ground Cover 4 (optional) Forest Floor

Broken Shahbad / Pebbles / Gravel bed

Existing Trees

Existing Guest House 1

Parking

G R A P H I C N A R R AT I V E This graphical narrative was written as a personal project.

It was done to share the story of the social worker, Dr. Dabholkar, inspired by the writing and drawings of celebrated graphical journalist Joe Sacco. It was uploaded on the author’s personal blog as a responsive webpage.

Link to website here.

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