Milan Bhullar_Portfolio 2009-2019

Kitchen Design

Shibanee & Kamal Architects

2018-2020

Kitchen - Handle-less theme

Design and development of a new and exclusive kitchen product line for a real estate and housing development client Total Environment, Bangalore wherein the kitchens would be offered to residents along with the apartment. The product line was developed during my employment at Shibanee & Kamal Architects, Bangalore, India. The cabinetry uses solid wood yellow cedar for shutters and birch ply for carcass construction. The design explores a seamless look using a concealed handle profile for shutter opening mechanism.

Kitchen Design

Shibanee & Kamal Architects

2018-2020

Kitchen - Wooden Handle

Design and development of a new and exclusive kitchen product line for a real estate and housing development client Total Environment, Bangalore wherein the kitchens would be offered to residents along with the apartment. The product line was developed during my employment at Shibanee & Kamal Architects, Bangalore, India. The cabinetry uses solid wood oak for shutters and birch ply for carcass construction. The design had a unique design of wooden frame with a solid wood handle moulded out of the frame.

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Windmills Craftworks

Shibanee & Kamal Architects

2018-2020

Bangalore International Airport

Windmills restaurant is part of the Quad, Bangalore International Airport, popularly known as the ‘Hug’, because of its enclosing arms of green-scape. The restaurant is designed as a light-weight structure, fluid form that rises from the ground like an earth berm, covers the seating space over the bar and gives the diners a ‘big hug’ as it sweeps back down on the other side. In keeping with the ideology of the client of making nature an integral part of everything that is designed, the use of plants was maximised on the structural envelope and relied on natural light and ventilation throughout the seated areas. The upper dining area has metal mesh find along the length to filter the light coming into the space. A series of arches in metal form the framework that carries a coir fabric with pockets sewed in to hold the plants and the outer envelope light-weight and sustainable. Large metal I-sections carry the load while multiple vertical metal members support the green roof.

Out of the Box

Restaurant Design and Execution

2015

Brief: A restaurant and bar design that also functions as a music venue with a beer garden theme in Bangalore, India.

Concept: Repurposing of shipping containers to reduce construction cost. As the site was leased, the client brief included a temporary, makeshift fit out that could be moved to another site in the future once the lease expired. Using shipping containers was hence, looked as a solution where the primary functions the kitchen and the bar could be relocated making it worth the monetary investment put into the structure. The bar functions out of a 20 ft shipping container modified to work like an open and shut box to help in ease of operations which can be completely shut down and locked at closing time. When open for service this box opens its panels to work as a bar counter. The kitchen functions out of two 40ft containers.

Role: Project Architect Conceptualisation, design development, coordination with consultants and vendors, execution.

Restaurant Design and Execution

Blanc Glace – Bake House

Restaurant Design and Execution

2016

Brief: Design of a bake house and restaurant with a Mediterranean theme in Hyderabad, India.

Concept: Borrowing Mediterranean influences and contextualising it in the Mughal roots of the city. Use of decorative grill as a signature design feature symbolising the amalgamation of both cultures. A triangular live kitchen counter is designed to break the monotony of the square site and allow for seating along its interior and exterior length. Three distinct spaces designed for seating; al fresco at the entrance, interior lounge seating and the extended back area with a promenade feel. Exposed brick work for the reception wall and exposed concrete for columns and white plaster for remaining walls. Decorative hand made tiles in combination with Indian patent stone for flooring designating spaces with its pattern.

Role: Project Architect Conceptualisation, design development, coordination with consultants and vendors, execution.

Outdoor seating

Blanc Glacé

Restaurant Design and Execution

Terracota tiles

Indoor seating Indian patent stone (IPS)

Kitchen areas

Furniture Layout plan

Random rubbke

Flooring plan

Longitudinal section overlooking the lounge area

Longitudinal section overlooking the kitchen

Photograph after completion of restaurant

Flooring detail

Promenade seating in the back area

View at entrance looking at the counter and seating by the open kitchen

Al fresco dining by the open kitchen outdoors

Grill detail

Olivers Bar & Kitchen

Restaurant Design and Execution

2017

Brief: A local restaurant and bar design by re-purposing old furniture

Concept: An L-shaped bar and community tables to house maximum seats. Metal grid frame repeating as a theme, dropped from the exposed concrete ceiling with hanging light bulbs. The frames run along the bar wall and above the bar counter to create a feature wall with shelves at random for placing curios and plants. The flooring of a chequered pattern contrasts with the pop coloured furniture.

Role: Project architect Conceptualisation, design development, coordination with consultants and vendors, execution.

Samanvay: A Neighbourhood Hub

Annual NASA Design Trophy

Hosted by National Association of Schools of Architecture, India

Shortlisted entry, 2011

Brief: To design a neighbourhood hub in order to bring Man closer to Nature by reviving traditional practices and realising our roots and dependence on nature.

Role: Design Head

Student’s Housing

Academic Studio IX - Housing

Site: Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India

Area: 16540 sqm

Concept: Design of an integrated housing for undergrad and graduates students of the institute that cultivates a feeling of community and home through space planning. Typical units designed to cater to bachelors studio units, single room sharing units, duplex studios, double room sharing units and married graduate student units. The arrangement of these units was made to create a feeling of integrated community at every floor level of the building with a common interaction space at the center of both wings.In essence the building holds a small community at every floor which becomes a part of the bigger community at every wing and all the wings together making the entire student housing. The planning of the built structure is focussed at creating private pockets of interaction between built structures away from the public eye allowing privacy and a sense of security for the students when necessary and appreciated, and at the same time a common interaction space more open to public eye. Private, semi-private and mixed use spaces are created by playing with various levels within the built structure and the open landscape.

Existing site plan

Student’s Housing

Studio VIII - Housing Study

Surrounding site sections

concepts of staggered units based on their

Master’s married accomodation

Area: 54 sqm

Master’s studio unit with mezzanine Area: 39 sqm

Plan showing ground level

Single sharing accomodation Area: 25 sqm

Double sharing accomodation Area: 54 sqm

Plan showing typical units

usage

Lateral section through master’s studio unit showing mezzanine level

Logitudinal section showing all units

Longitudinal elevation

View showing the interaction spaces within floor levels

Schematic model showing massing of floor plates

Studio III - Material Studio

(Academic) Studio III - Material Studio

Brief: To study building material as a design source: its physical, stuctural, aesthetic properties and to further explore possibilities of the building material as a potential form generator. To further use this study to design a playschool in a lake facing site in a rural village.

Concept & Process: The studio exercise required one to explore one material from the various material for construction which included mud, concrete, brick,glass, bamboo and recyclable materials. An attempt to understand the different methods of mud construction from which the idea of exploring mud in the form of earthen pots was derived.Earthen pots are used as a module in forming an arch which is repeated to form a vault. The arch stands purely out of compression between the pots devoid of mortar. A perforated ‘blanket’made of binding material comprising mud, straw (for reinforcement), jaggery (excellent binding material) and lime (for plastering) finishes the structure.

Children’s Playschool

Studio III - Material Study

Longitudinal section along class rooms facing the bamboo structure

Longitudinal section along class room and bamboo structure

Site plan