Interior Architecture Portfolio 2022

Interior Architecture

PORTFOLIO Selected Works 2019 - 2022

Kasturi Mitta

Curriculum Vitae Name Kasturi Mitta Date of Birth 11 May 2001 Languages English Hindi Telugu (Mother Tongue)

Skills

Basic

Intermediate

Advanced

AutoCAD Rhinoceros 3D Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Procreate

Contact

Enscape

Mobile No. : +91 9701815007

Keyshot

Personal Id : Kasthurimitta2001@gmail.com

SketchUp

College Id

: Kasturi.ug190687@cept.ac.in

Hand Drafting

Address

: C-125 AWHO Ved Vihar, Trimulgherry, Secunderabad, Telangana 500015

Model Making

Education

Co-Curricular

Since 2019 : Perusing 5 years of Bachelors in Interior Design at CEPT University, Ahmedabad

CEPT University Roots 2022 Installation Team - Ideation and Execution

2019

: 12th ISC Board Rishi Valley School

2017

: 10th NIOS Board Centre For Learning

Hunnarshala Hands on Workshop Earthen Construction Techniques: Rammed Earth Wattle and Daub Adobe Bricks Flooring and Finishes: Lime plaster Mud plaster IPS Flooring Terrazzo Flooring

Interests Photography Badminton Ultimate Frisbee Webtoons

Contents 01

Remodeling Residences

02

Detailing Hospitality Spaces

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Hybrid Work(Space)

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Fictional Space

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Model Making

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Photography

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Sambandh Remodeling Residences| Semester 04

Sambandh lies amidst the pol houses in the old city of Ahmedabad. It is designed for a family of five centered around the idea of forming connections between spaces and people. While responding to the site context, salvaged elements and traditional construction methods, the spaces are woven in seamlessly, bringing the whole family together not just on the same floor but across volumes.

Software: AutoCAD and Photoshop

Element Study Deewanji-ni Haveli | The Jaali Window Wooden Shutter Wooden Block

Front Elevation

Rear Elevation

Wooden Plank

Plan

Metal sheet Metal nails Exploded Isometric

Front shutter elevation

Section

Tenon and Mortise joinery in wooden frame

Wooden Frame

Chamfered edge of the shutter

Jali joining the wooden frame

Upper edge wooden pivot of the shutter

Lower edge metal pivot of the shutter

The Family

Shantiben Gada • • • • •

65 years old Very sociable Enjoys gardening Does yoga everyday along with Jia and Dimple Loves spending time with the grand children and narrating them stories

Brijesh Gada • • • •

43 years old Textile business Into stock market Likes playing cards with friends and watching movies with the family

Dimple Gada • • • •

40 years old Punjabi Does yoga every morning Enjoys tailoring

Jia Gada • • • •

16 years old Creative thinker and likes literature Does yoga in the morning Makes Youtube videos

Kabir Gada • • • • •

9 years old Notorious kid Plays the tabla Loves football Enjoys spending time with grandma and listening to stories

Design Intent The core idea behind the design is to form connections - not just between spaces on the same level but also across volumes.

This is not merely for visual reasons but with family members being on different floors, its easy to form a disconnect and hence it becomes important to break that. So the spaces are woven into one another in a way that they bring the family together. Courtyards and double heights further reinforce this whole idea of creating a seamless connect across the house.

Space for dadi and the children to spend time together Garden

Dadi’s room Pooja

Kitchen

Guest room

B/T

Study/ video

Court yard Dining

Kids room

B/T

B/T

Balcony/Terrace Direct connection

Powder room

Otla

Visual connection

Master bedroom

Living room

Chowk view B/T

a Otl

Street view Toilet

Pol Street

Open/Semi open spaces

Ground Floor Plan

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First Floor Plan

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Casa De Carveja Detailing Hospitality Spaces | Semester 06 An adaptive reuse project where the program within the site was a Microbrewery with a Fish&Chips place and a Bakery. The main concept guiding the whole design of the space was that of ‘exposed’ or ‘to reveal’ taking forward the exposed nature of the brew equipment and the see-through nature of the rafters and braces in the existing building.

Software: AutoCAD, Rhino, Enscape, Photoshop and InDesign

Context Analysis

In the 600m radius around the site 767 Buildings

Rodrigues Heritage Stay The site is a 200 year old Portuguese house located in a very happening part of Candolim, Goa. Once you come inside, it naturally disconnects you from the bustling of the outside and provides a level of peace.

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Lodging 468

Home Stays Resorts 2 Star Hotels 3 Star Hotels 4 Star Hotels 5 Star Hotels

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Lodging spaces are predominantly Ho stays which usually don’t offer food. Hence, a hig number of people depend on F&B pl for their meals - o target audience

Transportation Legend To railway station To airport Bus stop Taxi stand

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Car/bike rentals Site

Seashell Hotel (4 star)

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Food and Average 145

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Beach Shacks

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Restaurants Common Cuisines

(Temporary Restaurants)

Seafood Italian Chinese Continental

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Residences 76

On the north side, there are barely any F&B places and thats where the majority of the home stays also fall

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Canara Bank

Heights of the buildings around the site

Site Drawings

Plan

Section AA’

Mezzanine Plan

Staff restrooms Guest restrooms Outdoor seating Fish & chips and Microbrewery Storage

Main Entrance Bakery Kitchen Main Entrance Bakery Staff Path

Zoning

Roof Plan

Built Up

Old

New

SPACE 1 - BAR The Bar plays an important role as its the focus of the place and also a space where people would congregate. Here, the concept is explored though volumes

Space 1 Space 2 Space 3

Right over the bar, a mezzanine is introduced which would act as a display for the brew equipment as well as create a more intimate bar space. To continue this play in volume, where the mezzanine takes place, the false pitched roof is removed in turn exposing the true volume of the site. On either side of the bar, the false ceiling is still kept intact which creates a third volume (View 1)

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View 1 - The play of volumes in the space

View 3 - The pergola element continues down to become a part of the space

SPACE 2 - ROOM 1 The space floods with natural light. Having multiple openings, most facing North, the rooms fills up with soft light. The Mezzanine extends into the space creating a volume difference. The room has a lot of traditional goan features like the window surrounds and the traditional eaves board. Here, the painting on the wall is chipped to reveal the lime plaster.

Section BB’

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Moodboard

View 2

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SPACE 3 - BAR Continuing the same see-through language of the roofing truss system, a pergola is introduced in the exterior spaces, thus establishing a continuity between the indoor and the outdoor spaces. In the main bar, Portuguese tiles are used and the absence of them in places reveals the surface behind.

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EXTERIOR VIEWS Continuing the same see-through language of the roofing truss system, a pergola is introduced in the exterior spaces, thus establishing a continuity between the indoor and the outdoor spaces. The exterior spaces are seen as an extension of the indoor seating spaces taking advantage of the pleasant climate of Goa to introduce a different user experience.

View 1

View 2

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In Continuation Hybrid Work(Space) | Visualization | Semester 05

When we think of a boundary, its always something that holds things in.

But what if that was not the case? What if things seeped out?

Over the semester, ideas of blurring the boundaries and continuity were explored and experimented with, while trying to design a workspace for people who travel for work.

Software: Rhino, Keyshot, Photoshop and InDesign

Set Design

What does our workspace mean to us?

From things becoming Online to being stuck at home, the space where I work became more than just a place of work. It became a space where I ended up falling asleep sometimes, where I ate my meals from, took quick breaks to catch up with people or on TV shows or simply sat and scrolled through Instagram. A place where I sat and reminisced about the days when we could go out, meet people, play; it became a space where a lot more than just work took place.

Hybrid Objects Fig 1 : Materiality and how it gives functionality. In this exploration, The material used to make the mug forces the users to use it a certain way.

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Fig 2 and 3 : The idea of choice. The mugs make the user rethink their relation with them while also giving a choice on how to use them.

Fig 4, 5 and 6 : Exploring the idea of a boundary. What if it wasn’t something that held things in but actually let them seep out.

Space 1 - Breaking the frame

Taking forward the explorations with boundary, the first space was created. Here the frame doesn’t hold the jali in, instead, it seeps out of it. At places the frame also takes the shape of the jali. The new silhouette then created is extruded to form the space itself. The idea was to make a bay window, a breather space which people could pop in and pop out of.

Space 2 - Multiple Functionality Building onto the explorations on functionality, the second space was created. Here, one element runs across the space, forming the ceiling, furniture, supporting members, railing to also becoming services at places. These elements also act as framing members at places while breaking it at others.

Office layout Burolandschaft

The furniture layout was inspired from the Burolandschaft offices, where there is no boundary that is dividing the space but its the activity itself that creates the clusters. Here, the pipes enhance this invisible organization.

The Site Harsh chemical dye factory, Vatva, Ahmedabad. The site initially consisted of two warehouses with open area in the front The audience for this project are travelers. People who basically travel for work. Be it IT consultants, event planners, designers with out of state projects, visiting faculty or even localites themselves who are looking for a space where they could just sit and work.

The site is mainly divided into three parts: The residential area (green) The co-working space (blue) Meetings and conference rooms (red)

Right from the entrance, the pipes start off, running all across the site. They are colour coded to act as guiding elements

The pipes extend out of the façade and make their way inside, across floors, to play a part of the interiors

The pipes also become a part of the façades

At places, they also become a part of the services

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Persona Fictional Space | Visualization | Semester 03

On a larger level, it was a journey of understanding various persona. Delving into the realm of movies and picking the persona of Shakti Kapoor as Crime Master Gogo, a fictional world was created, recontextualizing him into an animated movie inspired from the style of The Nightmare Before Christmas Software: Procreate, Photoshop and InDesign

Visual Autobiography

Postcards

A city that never sleeps...

From the very first time that she visited Mumbai, its become a city she fell in love with. The ocean, the people coming in to peruse their dreams, the whole energy. Its a city she dreams of living in one day.

A cloudless night, a light less city.

A star filled sky, with meteors passing by.

Oh what a sight that would to see hints of the galaxy.

be,

Everyone has role models, someone they look up to, someone they aspire to be like. For Srushti, that would be her Nani one of the strongest women she has ever know, one who had the magic of bringing people together.

When it was the time to choose, although she decided on pursuing interior design, her love for videography keeps surfacing.

Sometimes she finds herself wondering, imagining how it would be like to be shooting films or designing the sets.

Fantasy novels and dogs are a few things really close to her heart. But growing up in apartments, and later having to leave for college, she never had the chance of having a pet which one day, she would love to.

Movie Poster

Space Interpretations

Crime master gogo is re-contextualized into an animated film - Gogo The Gansta

Space 1

“Aankhen nikaal kar gotiyaan kheltaan hoon

Character Board

Understanding Crime Master Gogo

n mein gotiyaan” The text style was built on from this famous dialogue of Crime Master Gogo

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Hathi Gaon Model Making| Semester 02

Hands on model made by a group of 5 of Hathi Gaon in Rajastan designed by Rahul Mehrotra

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Photography

Email Kasturi.ug190687@cept.ac.in Kasthurimitta2001@gmail.com

Phone no.

9701815007