Architectural Portfolio 2022

Lakshmi Sunitha Raveendran

undergraduate College of Archiecture Trivandrum (2017-22)

dob 06. 10. 1999

address

Jayasree Nivas, Rajas High School Chirakkal PO Kannur, Kerala email lakshmi.raveendran610@gmail.com mob +91 9656397497

languages English, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Arabic

skills

presentation, sketching, model making, social media management

schooling OOEHS, Sharjah, UAE (2003-2017)

software skills

AutoCAD

Sketchup

Adobe Illustator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign Rhino Revit

work experience

Architectural Intern at BCA Architects, Calicut SGN Interior Design, Dubai

intrests

heritage and conservation, architectural journalism- writing and research, travelling

Handloom Exhibition & Development Center at Azhikode

undergraduate thesis

G+6 mixed use building for commercial and residential purposes. Exploring high rise building services like electrical, HVAC, fire and plumbing

COMMERCIAL CONTEXT

Edapazhanji Junction

SK hospital (G+9)

RESIDENTIAL CONTEXT

-Two storey residence area

-Financially stable families

-Work places outside Edapazhanji

-Children goes to schools in neighbouring area

Kochar

-Clustered small modular residence area

-Financially stuggling families

-Blue collor jobs places in and outside Edapazhanji

-Children goes to an anganwadi amongst these houses, plays on the conjested lanes

Kids playing outdoors between the lanes of the kutcha houses.

Pangode Fish Market

s e r v i c e p l a n s

Settlement study: Vattavada semester vi

Campus design: Data Book semester vii

publications

documentation and study conducted in each semester studios that has been compiled and presented in publication format, gaining experience in working as editing and literature team for each project

Urban design: Aruvikkara semester ix

The settlement study conducted in Vattavada, Idukki was documented and presented in the form of a magazine publication. The study is based on migrations in the Western Ghats and the publication follows the narrative of a sacred eucalyptus tree who looks over the valley.

Study Methodology:

The class of 40 students were divided into five teams: History collection, Social context, Built context, Ecology and Economics. Worked as part of the History team as well as the editing team for the publication.

Oral history was collected mostly from the elderly and cross checked with officials. Dating of events without much clarity were to be spectated with reference to other Western Ghats migrations.

Excerpts from the magazine with content produced by the History team. QR code leads to the full magazine.

Settlement study: Vattavada semester vi

Campus design: Data Book semester vii

REGIONAL INSTITTUTE FOR SPEACH AND HEARING

The RISH is an institute devoted to the education and rehabilitation of individuals with speech-lan guage and hearing impairments.

The aim of the studio project is to explore sensitive and inclusive design within campus planning and architectural design of a centre for excellence catering to the speech and hearing impaired to multiple age-groups and different categories of disability.

aim and recognition of the disabled, how the legislation helps in their empowerment through education.

The history of deaf people or deaf history has been written as a history of hearing perceptions of deaf people, as a history of the education of deaf people, and as the history of the lives and communities of deaf people.

M E T H O D O L O G Y DEAF HISTORY

INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT

CONTEXT

LEGAL FRAMEWORK

COUNCIL OF INDIA TIMELINE OF ACTS SCHEMES, INSTITUTES AND

INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK

FOR HEARING IMPAIRED FOR GENERAL PEDAGOGY SPATIAL NEEDS & GUIDELINES BUILDING TYPOLOGY -PWD Act 1995 -RPWD Act 2016 -National schemes -Kerala schemes conclusion

Initiatives taken by independent organisations led to government policies and legal support.

The legal framework provide with higher educational options for deaf.

Institutional framework derived into spacial requirements.

Deaf education dates back to Ancient Egypt where the deaf were respected and revered. In contrast, those who were deaf in Ancient Greece were considered a burden to society and put to death. It took a lot of time and struggle for communities to come a common agreement that the disabled and deaf too have the equal rights to access basic amenities like education.

There used to be a time when the European noble families sent their disabled children to monasteries because it was believed that the children's disabilities were directly related to the sins of the parents. Monks and religious workers like Pedro Ponce de educate them and even to teach the deaf to speak.

In 18th century Europe, the Enlightenment brought about a new faith in reason and a new curiosity on the part of scholars about the ability of deaf people to achieve rational and abstract thought. In that period the education of deaf people attracted prominent attention.

Fig 1.1: Pedro Ponce de Leon (1520–1584) was Spanish Benedictine monk who is often credited as being Hither & Thither, Sept 2011

The gradual unfolding of deaf empowerment 10th century BC. Formation of new sign languages and institutions happened gradually through these years. Many empowerment movements for deaf had happened mainly in Europe and US.

Hebrew law provides that deaf have limited rights to property and marriage.

Pedro Ponce De Lion of spain that deaf can be taught and they are capable of learning.

George Dalgarno proposed a totally new linguistic system for use by deaf mutes, which is still used today in the united states.

French Sign Language was founded, which led to the education of deaf in France

The American School for Deaf was renamed as Gallaudet University.

Aristotle says “Those who are born deaf all becomes senseless and incapable of reason.

Juan Pablo Bonet was an early advocate for sign language and book depicting the alphabets through hands.

Samuel Henicke was a german oral teacher of the deaf who the deaf in the world at Germany

The American School for the Deaf was founded in Hartford, Connecticut.

Alexander Graham Bell promotes deaf education and opens a school in Boston for Deaf people.

Electrical hearing aid developed by Miller Reese Hutchison.

defense of ASL as a language was written by William Stokoe.

Americans With Disabilities Act passed in U.S.

The National Association of Deaf was established in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Disability Rights Movement emerging in US. American Sign Language dictionary.

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Spatial Requirements

This section gives an insight into the spatial requirements for each courses provided to the students in the campus. The spatial needs is moulded for the users of hearing impaired as well as for the general students.

This section goes in detail with spatial needs as well as the standards for each spaces. It also deals how spaces can be translated to user

based as well as in a generic manner.

to the needs of the various courses provided. It found in the campus.

2.3.5. Speech Lab

equipped for studio-quality audio/video/ physiological recording, high-tech computing, and hardware fabrication. The lab is also used for pedagogical purposes by faculty lab members teaching and advising students in speech and hearing sciences. (WSU 1)

2.3.6. Audiology Lab

The lab is equipped with equipment used for students training including: pure tone autoscope. Also a room for patients’ introduce the students to the necessary audiology clinical skills to deal with clients with hearing loss, sensory neural hearing loss, and

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2.3.7. Vestibular Testing Lab

Nominally 15 m2 is suggested for the caloric test area and the same for the motorized chair area. Minimum 180 degree (but preferably 360 degree) projection screen for visual stimuli is required, but with either system it should be possible to create a lightproof area for each test modality as and when required. Infrared cameras should be provided one chair mounted for view of the patient and one to visualize the rotating chair and patient in the test room. A close-up face camera is very

area for clinical tests of balance; Area2: Specialist test; Area3: Supra-specialist tests (161)

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An operator for patient bi-directional communication is also required. (Veness, et al. 157)

Lab

air bnb bedrooms wing stairwell

living space wing consultation room

Residence for a modern nuclear family at PTP Nagar, Trviandrum. Form derived f rom component studies of the traditional Agraharam, the family’s ancestrol home.

Users are a four-membered doctor ’s family who requires a consultation room as well as an airbnb.

air bnb entry cour tyard kitchen dining balcony house entry consultants’ entry storage

separate blocks for different types of

and public

verandah or ‘thinna’ connecting as well as separating the three

tical core connecting the two

like the agraharam, the facade does not give away the spacial depth of the house..

In an agraharam, the thinna (verandah) acts as the threshold that limits outsiders to the private family spaces. But it also allows visitors to rest and interact with the family.

Similarly, the dining space of the proposed residence allows the airbnb users to dine with the family without having to enter inside the house. The indoor and outdoor area is separated/ connected by

Tourist experience center on the slopes of Nettayam’s Ozhukkupaara giving homage to its rich natural context and site contours. Marking the visitors’ journey from the water pool below, up till the edge of the rocks..

Zoning and massing based on the different characters displayed within the site.

Dividing the site into two basic zones- just like the nature of the site itself

Starting f rom a linear plan, spaces connected by corridors and verandahs. Approaches from outside to the reception. Glimpses of ‘earth’ inside the built zone.