Nandita Portfolio

NANDITA JOSHI

Nandita Joshi

150 West 8th Ave Apt E, Columbus, Ohio, 43201.

05/04/1999

Mobile- 614-584-3848

Email- nanditaj99@gmail.com

Other Interests

Travelling | Reading Dance | Guitar Cooking | Photography

Workshops Skill Set

Ethnography and Anthropology Sarover Zaidi

Virtual Reality Kabir Punde

Lino Printmaking Tamal Mitra

Sinan Architecture Neesha Mewada

Cinematic Storytelling | Online course by Kadenze

Indoor Urbanism | Rachely Rotem

Education and Training

August 2023-Present

M.Arch at Knowlton School of Architecture at The

Ohio State University, Columbus

August 2022 - March 2023

Design Matters (Junior Architect), Mumbai, India

October 2020-June 2021

Internship at Navkar Architects (Girish Doshi), Pune and ICICI foundation, Mumbai, India

July 2017- May 2022

B.Arch at School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai, India

2008-2017 Grade 3-12

Universal High School & T.P. Bhatia College of Science, Mumbai

Autocad Sketchup Rhino Photoshop Illustrator Indesign

Microsoft Office Model Making Rendering Softwares

The Twisting Tower (High-Rise)

Undergrad Sem 7

The Co-Living Housing

Undergrad Sem 5

Working Drawing

Undergrad Sem 6

Making Home

Undergrad Sem 6

The Cronos-Tower

Grad Sem 1 Group Project

Miscelleneous Works

Work Experience

Languages

English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati

The Twisting Tower (High - Rise)

Undergrad Semester 7 Project

The ideation of this tower started with the idea of having these alternating moving floor plates throughout the builing. Keeping in min this, then iterations for the most efficient use of floor plate area, the core were then being articukated.

After this, there was also a learning process involved in how HVAC systems works, what kind of different structural systems are used for these type of buildings. All this was then articulated in the building.

The Co-Living Housing

Undergrad Semester 5 Project

The project started with the observations on the site of it being a very conjusted but at the same time a very quiet place. There needed to be a pause between the busy lives of the people, hence the project concentrates on having some community spaces for the people staying here to spend some time together.

The project has required to identify a major resource concern for which mine was wind. The building is oriented in a way to let in a mojor amount of wind that blows from West. The process started with identifying this direction and making all the rooms efficient in terms of light and ventilation. The project also includes a wind turbine which helps capture all this wind and convert it into electricity which can be used in the building itself. 25 sq. m rooms (4’s sharing)

Making Home

Undergrad Thesis Project

In the city, a public place plays an important role of escape from one’s life. Streets play an important role to absorb the stresses of life between the walls at home and work. Most of the people spend their time on this street where the street allows for multiple appropriations to happen at the same time. This thesis aims to identify the everyday negotiations on the street, the relationship between home and street where street sometimes becomes the home or an extension of the home. The street allows for multiple associations and allows for spatial negotiations which help in creating the idea of home or the home itself for the inhabitants that occupy the street in multiple ways. Three different typologies of the street where two are market streets while the other is an internal street of an informal settlement were identified. Activities of different actors were mapped to understand how the street is being used and thus, the spatial character of the street is making a home was understood. The research thus argues that the street has multiple layers that are more than what they are designed for, which allows people to occupy them in their unusual ways. The way they appropriate the space helps them feel comfortable and safe thus making it their ‘home’.

the typologies that allow for these certain spatialities to happen

Ground Floor Plan

Section AA”

Section BB’

The Chronos-Tower Grad Semester 1 Group Project

This project challenges the convention of separating mass housing by stay duration. Mass housing projects create habitable spaces on a large scale for many individuals. Some examples of mass housing models are hotels, dormitories, and apartments.

The problem with typical mass housing projects is they separate individuals based on stay duration. Hotels accommodate individuals staying for a short period – one to two weeks. Dormitories accommodate individuals staying for moderate periods –three to six months at a time. Apartments accommodate individuals staying for extended periods – two to five years.

By separating these occupants by stay duration we rob them of the rich experiences that would be created if we mixed these mass housing models. If we blend the models of hotels, dormitories, and apartments we get a diverse network of spaces that reflect the richness of the urban environment. Blending these typologies together allows for an interior urbanism adding richness to the stay of occupants.