Parth Jain Portfolio

Parth Jain Selected works

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Curriculum vitæ SKILLS

EXPERIENCE

3+ Years of Experience

Architectural Intern | Grasp Design Ltd | Nairobi, Kenya August 2024 - September 2024 (1 month)

Warming Huts v2025 (Competition)

Sketchup Canva Hand sketches Orthographic drawings Microsoft office suite

Grasshopper and Ladybug tools (Software)

1+ Years of Experience

India

Energy farm 2084 (Second year studio) StuCAN! Design Competition 2023 (Competition)

Crate Haven (First year studio) Ennis House research model (Model-making) Illustrations and Sketches

Rhino AutoCAD Adobe Indesign Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop

0 -1 Years of Experience Revit Twinmotion Grasshopper Ladybug Tools

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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, 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

CERTIFICATES Carbon Literate | Carbon Literacy Project

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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.

LANGUAGES

EDUCATION

English | Native Hindi | Native French | Intermediate

2023-2026 Manchester, UK

BA (Hons) Architecture | Manchester School of Architecture

IB Diploma | Braeburn Garden Estate Secondary School 36 points | Nairobi, Kenya 2021-2023

ACTIVITIES/ HOBBIES Sketching Model-making Piano Music Books Video Games Gym Football Basketball Hiking Sports Chess

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

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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.

CAN A GYM BECOME A CITY’S LANDMARK?

POWER BEYOND THE SELF THROUGH BRUTALISM AND SURVEILLANCE

INTERCONNECTIVITY IN HI-TECH ARCHITECTURE

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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

Adjusted for site constraints

Articulation of tower and pitches

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ENERGY CONSUMPTION (CO-WORKING) CHANGING ROOMS CIRCULATION

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C 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.

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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.

A. CENTRAL TOWER B. GYM C. CO-WORKING D. KITCHENETTE + LOUNGE

H. ROOF GARDEN I. RAINWATER HARVESTING J. WATCHTOWER K. PHOTOVOLTAICS

E. CHANGING ROOMS F. CIRCULATION G. ACCOMMODATION

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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.

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FIRST FLOOR

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

ENCLOSURE

STORAGE

SEATING

CIRCULATION

1. COLUMNS

2. BEAMS

3. DIAGONAL BRACING

4. METAL SHEETS + SEATING

/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.

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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.

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ANNUAL SUN HOURS AND RADIANCE

PSYCHOMETRIC CHARTS AND COMFORT

Cesar Chavez Library, USA

Finnish Nature Centre, Finland

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.

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DAYLIGHTING AND USEFUL ILLUMINANCE

WIND CFD SIMULATION

Pearl Academy of Fashion, India

Hawaii Preparatory Academy, USA

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Crate Haven 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.

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FIRST FLOOR

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Green roof Drainage layer Roof build-up

Charred timber facade Vertical timber battens Damp proof membrane Wood fibre insulation Timber stud wall

Timber floor board Wood fibre insulation Damp proof membrane Timber floor screed Concrete raft foundation

Top Left: Exploded axonometric Bottom Left: Floor to floor detail Right: Detail section model (with timber frame construction)

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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.

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Illustrations and sketches Year: 2024 Type: Various

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Parth Jain Manchester School of Architecture

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