Parth Jain
Selected works
Manchester, United Kingdom | +44 7444142780 | jainparth014@gmail.com
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Curriculum vitæ Contents
Energy farm 2084 (Second year studio)
StuCAN! Design Competition 2023 (Competition)
Warming Huts v2025 (Competition)
Grasshopper and Ladybug tools (Software)
Crate Haven (First year studio)
Ennis House research model (Model-making)
Illustrations and Sketches
EXPERIENCE SKILLS
3+ Years of Experience
Sketchup
Canva
Hand sketches
Orthographic drawings
Microsoft office suite
1+ Years of Experience
Rhino
AutoCAD
Adobe Indesign
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
0 -1 Years of Experience
Revit
Twinmotion
Grasshopper
Ladybug Tools
Architectural Intern | Grasp Design Ltd | Nairobi, Kenya
August 2024 - September 2024 (1 month)
• Contributed to the conceptual design phase of a luxury residential project, by conducting precedent analysis and developing floor plans on Revit and Rhino based on client requirements
• Worked on a design option for a parametric window grill for a residential renovation project using Rhino and Grasshoppper
Architectural Intern |Unique Architects and Interior Designers | Pune, India
June 2024 - July 2024 (1 month)
• Produced 3D floor plans, facade iterations and 3D models for interior renders using AutoCAD, SketchUp, Rhino and Twinmotion for small-scale residential projects alongside site visits during their execution
• Contributed to the conceptual design phase for an apartment complex, collaborating with the team and learning about unit layouts and duct optimization, producing concepts on AutoCAD and Rhino
Sustainability Intern | tp bennett | London, UK
March 2024 (1 week)
• Developed a comprehensive office renovation strategy through research, occupancy assessments, interviews and surveys, focusing on implementing circular economy and sustainability principles to minimize the embodied carbon impact of the proposed solutions, while collaborating with tp Bennett’s Sustainability team and presenting findings and design solutions
Architectural Intern | Triad Architects | Nairobi, Kenya
LANGUAGES CERTIFICATES
Carbon Literate | Carbon Literacy Project
English | Native
Hindi | Native
French | Intermediate
ACTIVITIES/ HOBBIES
Sketching
Model-making
Piano
Music
Books
Video Games
Gym
Football
Basketball
Hiking
Sports
Chess
• Developed a proposal for university accommodation and masterplan in northern Kenya on Sketchup alongside learning about the architecture and construction industry through numerous site visits, client meetings and conversations with other architects.
EDUCATION
BA (Hons) Architecture | Manchester School of Architecture
Manchester, UK
IB Diploma | Braeburn Garden Estate Secondary School
36 points | Nairobi, Kenya
June 2023 - July 2023 (2 months) 2023-2026 2021-2023
Cambridge IGCSE | Braeburn Garden Estate Secondary School
2019-2021
7A*s, A, B | Nairobi, Kenya
RECOGNITION & AWARDS
Best Cinematography Award| MSA Beyond: ‘Walking on the Edge’
June 2024
Winner | 2023 StuCAN Design competition
November 2023
High school subject awards | IB Visual Art, CAS, IB Business Management
June 2023
Outstanding Cambridge Learner Award | Highest mark in Kenya for Cambridge IGCSE Design & Technology
June 2021
Energy Farm 2084
Year: 2024
Type: Studio project | Second year
This project explores creating community through the extreme conditions of the balance between the production and consumption of electricity. At first, it was a simple gym and co-working informed by the site and users, but upon contemplation on how fragile this new model for the future is, I chose to further explore how the architecture would look like if all means necessary were taken to uphold the equilibrium of energy. I learnt that this is impossible without complete power of the users of the spaces and also learnt about the community that is created when being subject to one party’s governance, and designed my building through interconnectivity as well as power and surveillance.
POWER BEYOND THE SELF THROUGH BRUTALISM AND SURVEILLANCE
Researching user behaviours and their schedules informed the programmatic need for a battery and the number of machines required for the population, whereas sun studies of the site informed the orientation of the spaces within the building.
ANALYSIS AND PRECEDENT INFORMED FORM DEVELOPMENT
Panopticon inspired central tower with radially arranged volumes
Horizontal and vertical volumes Hierarchy in elevation Entrance and courtyard
ENERGY PRODUCTION (GYM)
ENERGY CONSUMPTION (CO-WORKING)
CHANGING ROOMS
CIRCULATION
ACCOMMODATION
The form and materiality of the building is informed by brutalist architecture and towers. The tower acts as a single point of control, which ensures that energy is being produced and excess energy is not being consumed. This pairs well with my choice of concrete for building that surrounds the central tower, as it is meant last the next 250 years.
The use of glass and exposed pipework is informed by Hi-tech architecture where the focus is on interconnectivity. It acts as a visual connector of building functions, in my case the machines and the battery at the top of the tower, where as the glass connects the exterior to the inside. I have explored this through a pop-out glass-box that puts people using the workout machines on displace, to connect them to the space as well as increasing surveillance.
ROOMS
F. CIRCULATION
G. ACCOMMODATION
B. GYM
E. CHANGING
D. KITCHENETTE + LOUNGE
CENTRAL TOWER
CENTRAL TOWER
H. ROOF GARDEN
I. RAINWATER HARVESTING
J. WATCHTOWER
K. PHOTOVOLTAICS
C. CO-WORKING
THE HUMAN SIZED HAMSTER WHEEL
To play into the fictionalisation of the project, I chose to celebrate and exaggerate the workout machines, so users feel directly involved in the energy production process. One such machine is a human sized hamster wheel, where all the running is converted into electricity.
FIRE ESCAPE
The shaded passage behind the central tower acts as a fire escape route in case of fires. Though all kitchens and high risk areas as isolated volumes themselves, the passage allows safe escape without entering the building.
THE ROTATING CLIMBING WALL
The rotating climbing wall stands at 9m tall, and harnesses human gravity to turn generators on the sides of the machine. Up to 2 people can simultaneously try to climb to the top, but will never reach.
HUMAN ASSISTED VENTILATION SYSTEM
The first floor features a rowing machine inspired workout machine that powers the ventilation system of the building. When in use, the cables pull to move large fans that circulate air as well as produce electricity.
NATURE WITHIN THE BUILDING
The pipes serve multiple functions throughout the building, as they connect the people to the architecture as well as creating a visual connection between machines and the battery. The pipes on top of the southern skylight act as a water carrier, as part of a greater rainwater harvesting and sun-shading system. The water pond is filled up on rainy days and is pumped up to the coils above the skylight on sunny days, reducing the solar gain from the large opening without compromising on light intake.
VIEWS AND SURVEILLANCE
The southern part of the building is comprised of voids and low height metal grate floors to provide a sense of transparency within the building. The entire space acts as a single volume where people have views both up and down, forcing surveillance through the community being created. This brings social responsibility to a greater high as the consumers of electricity sit directly above those that produce it.
TEMPORALITY THROUGH MATERIALITY
As a means to put an end to the system of control and surveillance, I chose to have parts of the building that last longer than others. The central tower, as the source of the power is made of 500mm thick rammed earth walls, braced externally through the more permanent surrounding volumes made of steel and concrete. The thicker walls creates a more imposing space, whereas the concrete construction creates a cold and distant atmosphere alike to brutalism.
POST APOCALYTIC HEALING
As the tower’s life is determined by nature and how it weathers, the rest of the building is meant to outlast all the tyranny. When the tower falls, a garden shall replace it, enriched by the earth the once used to be above it, shaded by the fins of the hamster wheels of a past regime. The machines that once fuelled this facility lie as derelict artefacts scattered around.
THE WARDEN’S LAIR
At the top of the watchtower lies the control room, where the Warden lies, watching everyone, and ensuring that all have put their time in on the machines. No-one is allowed up there, so no-one knows if someone’s even up there! All we know is that someone’s always watching, through the pipes and the screens, through the grates of the floor above!
A LANDMARK FOR THE CITY
The pitches of the concrete volumes transfers the focus from the surrounding context towards the focus of the site, the Central Tower. It mirrors the authority of the brewery tower opposite, and the pipes feed into the battery at the top of the tower, visually joining the functions, spaces and volumes.
PROJECT ILLUSTRATIONS
I used Rhino and Photoshop to explore more stylised ways of presenting my project. On the left, is a stylised exploded axonometric aimed to showcase the layered nature of concrete sandwich panels and the green roof systems of my building. The right is a composite perspective view, aiming to showcase the almost ritual-like atmosphere within the building. At first it appears to be an interior view, but opens up into mirrored sections of the building with the elevation at the rear of the drawing. The people seem to be revolving around the central tower, with some falling off the climbing wall. Pipes connect the perspective views and frame the composition.
StuCAN! Design Competiton 2023
Year: 2024
Type: Competition Entry | Winner
This was my team’s winning proposal for responding to a brief that asked us to re-imagine transitional shelters in post-disaster Brazil. It features a timber and bamboo construction on a raised platform with a flexible interior that allows the occupants to customize and make the shelter feel like home.
Warming Huts v2025
Year: 2024
Type: Competition Entry | Participant
As part of my entry for the 2025 edition of the Warming Huts competition, I explored de-constructing the urban grid on Manitoba, the location of the site, and reconstructing as a time capsule of the site’s past heritage of trade and transport. The design features a light timber construction paired with reclaimed corten steel to create an enclosure for a fire-pit along with storage for passersby who want to rest.
TRADER TIME CAPSULE/ WARMING HUT
The TRADER TIME CAPSULE serves as a resting point along the frozen Nestaweya River Trail, generating warmth and intimacy through its fire-pit, design and materiality for passing tourists and skaters. Based on deconstructing the urban landscape of present day Winnipeg, through adding and subtracting from a structural grid the space is defined into a separate seating and storage area with a circulation that acts as a buffer between the exterior and interior. The storage allows for users to protect their belongings from the elements and keep equipment for the fire-pit dry for the duration of its lifetime. The rigid structure is contrasted by curved reclaimed metal sheets, that pay homage to the forms of traditional fabric tents inhabited by traders on the site during the past. Using sustainability as a guiding philosophy, the structure is efficiently designed for future-life use, by using standardised vernacular timber sections and recycled metal sheets and rope ties.
/CONSTRUCTION
The hut is comprised of a set of 100mm x 100mm timber columns set 300mm deep into the ice on a structural grid with beams at different heights to define the different typologies of the spaces. This structure is reinforced by diagonal bracing with footings in the ground to prevent the structure from folding due to strong winds. Reclaimed metal sheets are the added to the top and sides of the hut to act as roof canopies and partial walls to block incoming wind and retain warmth within the enclosed space. The fire-pit acts as the visual and metaphorical centre of the structure, with a circular cutout on the roof sheet to prevent soot build-up and to allow smoke from the fire-pit to escape.
/MATERIALITY /JOINERY
The hut is constructed using sustainable Black Ash hardwood columns and beams native to Manitoba, to form the main structure that supports curved reclaimed metal sheets that block incoming wind and hostile UV rays from the sun, while ensuring sustainability.
The hardwood elements will be joined using traditional Japanese Sashimono joining techniques, which will be used in conjunction with wood glue and metal reinforcements where the metal sheets will be added.
A. TIMBER BEAMS ABOVE
B. FIRE-PIT
C. RECLAIMED METAL SHEETS
D. ROPE TIES
E. VERTICAL COLUMNS EXTENDING 300MM INTO ICE
STORAGE
Grasshopper and Ladybug Tools
Year: 2024
Type: Technologies projects | Second year
Throughout my technologies assignments that asked us to research the environmental tactics used in buildings, a part of understanding the environmental strategies was by testing the performance of the buildings through different parameters. I explored this through 3D digital models in rhino along with Ladybug tools and Grasshopper. It revealed the great potential in parametric softwares for greater efficiency and accurate design.
Cesar Chavez Library, USA
PSYCHOMETRIC CHARTS AND COMFORT
ANNUAL SUN HOURS AND RADIANCE
Finnish Nature Centre, Finland
DAYLIGHTING AND USEFUL ILLUMINANCE
WIND CFD SIMULATION
Pearl Academy of Fashion, India
Hawaii Preparatory Academy, USA
Year: 2024
Type: Studio project | First year
Following a group masterplan, I was asked with designing a family of four. The clients profile features an inter-generational foster home with a connecting bridge to a neighbouring foster home. Throughout the project, privacy, intimacy and intermediary spaces were prioritised leading to a sunken living room and feature staircase. The building is constructed with a CLT structure with charred timber cladding to resemble a wooden crate that was found on site.
Crate Haven
GROUND
SEQUENCE
proof membrane
Timber stud wall
Timber floor board
proof membrane
Timber floor screed
raft foundation Top Left: Exploded axonometric
Green roof
Charred timber facade
Wood fibre insulation
Drainage layer
Vertical timber battens
Wood fibre insulation
Damp
Roof build-up
Damp
Concrete
Ennis house research model
Year: 2024
Type: Technologies project | First year
As part of a technologies assignment, we were investigating concrete through a case study of the Ennis House by Frank Lloyd Wright. I tried to replicate the exact process of casting my own blocks, similar to how they were done in real life. This involved laser-cutting parts of a mould in a layered approach, then casting the block with sandstone based jesmonite, and lastly polishing and cleaning the block with a water jet.
Illustrations and sketches
Year: 2024
Type: Various
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Parth Jain
Manchester School of Architecture