Malhar Kate Portfolio

CONTENTS

4th Year Studio | Spring 2022

THE ART CUBE

Project Team: Autumn Meunier, Malhar Kate

Located in East Garfield Park, the Art Cube is an art archives campus that intersects the exisitng cultural and residential relationship of the ‘artist’s corridor’ in this unique Chicago neighborhood. Using the existing warehouse on site, the Art cube rises and creates a community based “FORUM” that builds a relationship between the stored artwork and the artwork on display. This relationship allows the typically ‘unseen’ artwork to be seen and admired in unison with community works in the gallery.

4th Year Studio | Fall 2021

SUMMIT 606

Project Team: Davis Housman, Autumn Meunier, Malhar Kate

Summit 606 is a residential tower that transcends conventional living by incorporating systems and resources within the building to support a self-sustaining community. The location of each program is designed to maximize resource management and interaction between adjacent systems to form a closed, symbiotic relationship. The vertical organization of the program creates a cycle of production, consumption, disposal, treatment, and repurposing. The form of the tower provides residents with a unique exterior community of balconies created by the excavating of the modular system making up the structure and façade while the transparency and materiality of Summit 606 directly correlate to the function of the interior space on each floor.

3rd Year Studio | Spring 2021

CHI-ARTS

Chi-Arts analyzes the unique program of a fine arts highschool by creating a divide between the flexible and rigid programs through the use of a prominent existing wall within the building. The division is then reinforced by a centralized atrium. In order to “heal” this divide, stairs and bridges act as the essential mechanism to “stitch” the rigid and flexible spaces together in an existing building. Furthermore, the façade mimics the exisiting building through a brick panel screen, which filters light into the meticulous programs of the arts school.

Summer Study Abroad | Summer 2022

Drawings from Travel

A collection of architectural free hand renderings taken through traveling on a summer study abroad program in May 2022. Meant to mimic the Grand Tour, sketches employing a variety of mediums were taken through the following Italian cities over 5 weeks: Palermo, Monreale, Agrigento, Naples, Pompeii, Rome, Tivoli, Siena, Florence, Bologna, Ravenna, Venice, Vicenza, Pisa, Padua, Verona, Como, Milan.

Malhar Kate

Work Experience

Jul 2022 - Jan 2023

Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

Research & Technologies Intern

As a research and technologies intern at CTBUH, I was involved in the following four projects: Tall Timber Construction (unpublished book), The World’s 118 Tallest Buildings (published book), CTBUH Data Handbook (unpublished book), and an audit for the Softwood Lumber Board regarding mass timber education in NAAB accredited schools (unpublished audit). Although each publication required a different approach, the responsibilities of creating building drawings and compiling material in a cohesive manner was entrusted upon me throughout my internship.

May 2019 - Aug 2019

Virtusa Corporation

Graphic Design Internship

I was part of the project team that was designing an Amazon Alexa app that would streamline podcasts, audiobooks and other audio services into one singular app that pairs with Amazon audio devices such as Amazon Alexa and EchoDot. As an intern, I was tasked with researching and presenting best practices in the content and VUI design of other similar apps on Apple Music, Ted Talks, and Audible. Based on the research, I also created and recommended design mock-ups as part of design input for consideration of the project team.

Education

Aug 2022- May 2023

Illinois Institute of Technology

Master’s in Tall Buildings and Vertical Urbanism (M.TBVU)

GPA: 3.83

Including a Studio Field Trip Feb 2023: Singapore and Kuala Lumpur

Reference: Antony Wood, awood@ctbuh.org; Yohan Kim, ykim@ctbuh.org

Aug 2018- Aug 2023

Illinois Institute of Technology

Bachelor’s in Architecture (B.Arch) with Art and Architectural History

GPA: 3.58

Including Summer Study Abroad May 2022: Italy

Reference: Martin Majkrak, mmajkrak@iit.edu

Skills

Software

Fabrication

Honors + Awards

Academic + Professional

Rhinoceros 3d

V-Ray

AutoCAD Adobe Suite

Grasshopper Revit Microsoft Office Enscape

Woodworking 3d Printing

Laser Cutting Hand Rendering

Cloud Scholar / Peer Mentor

As a Cloud Scholar/Peer Mentor I was able to get my first taste of teaching and mentoring incoming first-year students

Samuel Horwitz Scholarship Nomination

Nominated for both the Summit 606 and Chi-Arts project