Paridhi Chawla Portfolio - 2022-23

PARIDHI CHAWLA

BFA INTERIOR DESIGN 2022-23

Paridhi Chawla

paridhi.chawla4@gmail.com

I am a recent graduate in BFA Interior Design with Honors along with minors in Sustainability and History of Art and Design at Pratt Institute in New York. I have been an active member of the student Interior Design community, having served as the head of the IIDA NY Knowledge Forum (a student-led committee) and as the student representative for the curriculum committee for the Interior Design Department at Pratt.

In 2021, I was awarded the Hazel Seigel Scholarship, which allowed me to participate in the IIDA SHIFT conference in Dallas. I was also part of the winning team during the design charrette at IIDA SHIFT in 2022.

During my freshman year at Pratt, I received the Foundation Expanded Award and Foundation Portfolio Distinction. I have consistently been on the President’s List at Pratt and worked as a Resident Advisor, creating virtual and in-person community development experiences for art and design students for which i recieved Residential Community Award in 2023.

CONTENTS

DWELLING UN WORKYARD WORKPLACE

PORTALS DIGITAL INSTALLATION

SELECTED ARTWORKS FINE ARTS

MoMAverse Exhibition | Thesis Project

Location : MoMA Cafe

Area : 45000 sq.ft. (approx)

Status : Concept

Year : 2023

Thesis Statement : This project aims to investigate the impact of the Metaverse on the permanence and inhabitance of physical spaces. The Metaverse is a virtual world that allows people to engage in various activities and interact with others in a simulated environment. This project explores the idea of creating a tangible space for an intangible experience by designing a museum experience that provides people with the opportunity to explore the Metaverse through various immersive experiences.

The program for the Museum includes a space where visitors can explore galleries, archives, and food while experiencing the Metaverse. The space will also provide a platform for visitors to explore Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) at a larger scale, which are unique digital assets that can be bought, sold, and traded like traditional art. This will allow visitors to learn about NFTs and their role in the art world while also exploring the Metaverse.

UNDERSTANDING METAVERSE EXPERIENCE

The seven layers of Metaverse are physical space, augmented reality, virtual reality, mirror world, internet of things, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technology. These layers build upon each other, creating an interconnected and immersive experience that enables users to interact with digital content and each other in a seamless and intuitive way

Museum Experience

The museum experience involves physical exhibitions, limited viewing options, and restricted access. The NFT museum experience expands access through digital representation, allowing for ownership and transfer of unique digital assets, and a potentially more immersive experience with the integration of the Metaverse.

Metaverse experience at MoMA

MOMA is a renowned museum that focuses on introducing modern art to the public. By choosing MOMA as the site, the project aims to explore how the integration of the Metaverse can enhance the museum experience and expand its reach.

Blockchain is a decentralized digital ledger that records transactions and enables secure ownership of NFTs. Decentralization in the context of an NFT museum allows for open access to the digital artwork, reducing reliance on intermediaries, and enabling transparency and trust through community consensus

About MoMAverse

Designing the MoMAverse as the imitation of Metaverse as similar to Metaverse as an imitation from our world, creating a paradox. Taking insiprations from iconic designs and phases from across the world and merging them with an imitation. Focusing on the Art and experience of Art.

FRAMES

The object focuses on the way useres experience Metaverse through portals or FRAMES, through which the enter the world of art. Object is a Frame that acts as a portas to a different program and a another adjacent or opposite experience.

The Room is designed to create a unique and immersive experience by incorporating the concept of portals within the space. Visitors to The Room are presented with multiple frames, each of which functions as a portal to a different virtual environment within the Metaverse

Momaverse App is the App that enhances the NFT Museum experience as the Public can upload their artwork anc create their NFT Portfolio through the site and perform a social aspect of interaction with NFTs where the most appreciated NFTs can be part of the Physical Gallery experience.

All the decentralised NFT Public gallery connect to the concept room of frames reserved for MoMAs own NFT Collections with all the Bathrooms situated in the center of those collections with an imitation of lack of them from the Metaverse.

MoMAverse APP

The Program integrates Mixed reality that blends virtual and physical environments to create an immersive experience that combines the best of both worlds

NFT Display as selected by the users

Imitating the Hanging gardens and creating inverse experiences. The virtual Gardens consists of preserved local Flora.

The sculpture garden consisits of Frame Gallery with larger than life sculpture with holograms through the frames.

Holograms which can be replaced and exchanged programed through the Frames.

By designing a cyber café that integrates the Metaverse with physical space, this project seeks to explore the possibilities of how technology can transform our perception of space and time. The project also aims to investigate how the integration of the Metaverse can provide a new platform for artists to exhibit their work and create new experiences for the public

Momaverse pod resevation and enterance located at the back of the space.

These Pods are inspired from the cyber cafe and imitates the housing and property for purchase in the metaverse. Attempting to distort the reality with enterance of the pods on the side.

MoMAverse Cafe

POINT OF VIEW INSTITUTION

Program : Library

Location : Forsyth Satellite Academy, Manhattan

Area : 5000 sq.ft. (approx)

Status : Concept

Year : Fall 2022

Design: Forsyth library design draws it’s inspiration from the students of forsyth. over the past weeks in workshops understanding the needs of the students for library to be more reflective of themselves as they are. the idea of this space id to be flexible and comfortable where students will be able to find refuge from their hectic environment.

Interactive posters that help students voice their opinions on the library design as well as getting familiar with pratt interior design student body.

Interacting with students to learn about their needs from the space.

SECTION A

Designing flex furniture inspired from the origami workshop done with the students

Day bed / lounge area at the back of the library for students to relan in.

Typography used in the library and adjacent hallways inspired from the student typographic artwork created in collaboration with Pratt students

SUPRA HOSTEL HOSPITALITY

Program : Hostel

Location : Tiblisi, Georgia

Area : 15,000 sq.ft. (approx)

Status : Concept

Year : Group Project, 2022, SP

Role : Project Manager, Designer for Hostel Rooms, Graphics and Branding

Client : The owners of 67 Paliashvili, Tiblisi, Georgia, wanted to convert their building into a youth hostel. The concept is to provide a holistic living experience to travelers visiting Tiblisi. The Supra brand was created to represent the culture of FEAST AND FEST. The program has work spaces, lounge spaces and living spaces.

A supra is a traditional Georgian feast and a part of Georgian social culture.

ConceptsfordesigningHostelRooms

Overall Program for the Hostel

Dorm Rooms - Floors 3-5

Local materials selected to represent Georgian culture in the living space embracing the traditional folk lores through wallcoverings and traditional carpets

Apartment style Rooms - For families and group travelers

URBAN DWELLING CONCEPT RESIDENCE FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED

Program : ADA Residence

Location : Flushing , Brooklyn

Area : 3500 sq.ft. (approx)

Status : Concept

Year : Junior 2021

Client : Hakim and Celeste are both Civil Rights Lawyers and they live with Hakim’s mum who is legally blind. Celeste loves gardening to relieve the stress of her job. They have an eight year old son and a wayfinding dog.

Design Challenge : To Design a space for a family with a Grandmother who is legally blind. The Idea is to make the space livialble for all the members while incorporating design stratergies for accessibility

Living Room - Floor 01

Play space - Floor 01

Working on colour pallates friendly for the visually impared and aesthetic for other members of the family

Navigation through surface texture and using braille symbols in the space

Kitchen - Floor 01

UN WORKYARD WORKPLACE

Program : Workplace

Location : Manhattan, NYC

Area : appx. 15,000 sqft

Status : Concept

Year : Spring, 2021

Client : UN DESA (Department of Economic and Social Affairs) responsible for organising conferences and launching social and economic reforms policies across the globe. Their team has begun to expand and coming back to work in person after the pandemic. They intend to have an office for their employees as well as hold conferences and workshops in their space. The space inspired by UN Sustainability Goals as well as the hubrid nature of offices focusing on well being of employees.

UN Sustainability Goals guiding the design of the space including the material pallate with materials carefully selected keeping in mind the locality, reusability and safety for human contact

Office Pantry

Wellness and quiet room

Sculptural office curtains design inspired by UN Goals

PORTALS

DIGITAL INSTALLATION

Installed : Fall 2021 Location : Pratt Film and Video Building

Myrtle Avenue Plaza

Role : Project Leader

The windows of the Film and Video building will act as portals to the universes that students have created. They are designed to be rear-projected and are continuous, asynchronous loops. This collective depicts the idea of creativity and unity that span across the diversities of students at Pratt.

Display on Film and Video building on Myrtle Avenue - Brooklyn

SELECTED ARTWORKS

FINE ARTS

Pen and ink on 150gsm sheet 24”X 36”

“First there’s colour, Then the humans, That’s usually how I see things, Or at least I try”

- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief.

I have tried to reflect on the idea that art is omnipresent. Generally, we tend to overlook the intricacy of aesthetic details that surround us. We are so accustomed to the natural beauty that they seem normalized and almost a part of our lives. This made me do the artwork wherein not merely the landscape, but also the reflection is highlighted as an independent image deserving attention.

We never give much thought to how the food served on our plate or even those at the supermarket have reached us. We are fortunate to be a land of fertile soils that give high crop yields as a result of which agriculture is still the biggest industry of the nation, yet often the farmers working on the field are handed a sorry deal in the name of profits. The women I have depicted in this oil painting are plantation workers who have to work through harsh conditions for a petty pay.

The familiar belief for existential survival is the necessity of the elements of water, food and shelter. However, we often tend to overlook the notion that being human we comprise flesh, bones and feelings, and one of our core and strongest assets in survival is our sense of hope. It is hope that motivates us to continue selflessly because we hope the littlest of our positive actions will sustain us and make a difference in this big world. In this piece, by emulating the flight of birds, I have tried to personify hope, in any form.

Knife and oil colours on canvas

Black Charcoal on paper 24” X 33”

Soft pastels on pastel sheet

Martin Luther King Jr. had famously said that only light can drive out darkness. With this painting, however, I have tried to contrast the idea of light being restricted only as a source of happiness. I want to emphasize that often good is accompanied by the bad. The same light that is metaphorical for new beginning is also constructive in the manner in which the innocent witness the destructions and tragedies turning their lives to dust. It is my pictorial attempt to convey the message of coexistence of binaries.

on paper Sketchbook

The city of Delhi is steeped in history, and most of the archaeological sites are located in what is referred to as Old Delhi. My penchant for history led me to explore these heritage pockets in the capital city. Regarded as architectural marvels, what really drew my attention to these medieval wonders are the hidden stories within their walls. I developed a hobby for sketching these monuments in their intricate detail and write down their connected stories. This is an exercise I plan to carry on with for the rest of my life.

Pen

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