Architectural Professional Portfolio

ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO Prishita Kulkarni Selected Works | 2019 - 2024

An explorer and an enthusiastic learner, I look at architecture through the process of crafting spaces, keeping in mind the framework of gender, the different factors on site and my own reflections. My process involves generating visuals and volumetric forms in order to communicate my ideas. I hope to form newer friendships and networks.

Education

Work Experience

2005- 2008

Gems Our Own English High School, Sharjah - Kindergarten to Grade 1

2022

2008- 2019

Gems Our Own English High School, Dubai - Grade 2 to Grade 12

2019 - 2024

School of Environment and Architecture (SEA), Mumbai - Bachelor of Architecture

Material Workshop- Working with Bamboo

-Areen Attari

Pixar in a box

Design for Play

-Khan Academy

The Scribe and the Labyrinth -Apurva Talpade

2021

-Prasad Shetty

Environmental Typography -Ananya Tantia

-Isha Gopal

2024

Living in a Metaphor - Workshop on Exhibiton Design

2024

The Cinematograph

-Anuj Daga

-Devdutt Trivedi

The Rookie Workshop- After Effects

-The Digital Journal

The Bricoleur: Bricolage as a method -Rupali Gupte

On Measuring

-Poonam Jain

Material Workshop-with Steel -Manjunath BL

Material Workshop-with Bamboo

2023

-SEA Press

Rhythms, Forces & Energies: A collection of Engagements with the City and the Self -SEA Press

2024

2021

2024

Kitchen Stories: Documenting experiences in the least planned spaces of homes.

-Question of Cities

Kitchen Stories

-Atlantis Magazine, BK Bouwkunde, TU Delft

Awards 2020

Award for Enthusiasm and Embodying Process

2021

Award for Persistent Questioning

Skills Autodesk AutoCAD

Basic sketching and watercolouring

Sketchup

Model making

Rhinoceros

Basic carpentary

Adobe Photoshop

Hand drafting

Adobe InDesign

Basic concrete casting

Interests Makeup art

Dancing

Painting

Cinema

Photography

Languages English | Hindi | Marathi

Fablutions Exhibition - A 10 year retrospective exhibition

SEA Content Committee

MS Office

Published books and papers The Gut Stories

Covid Glossary

Adobe Illustrator

-Sankalpa

2022

-Under faculty, Apurva Talpade, Tamal Mitra, Kaushik Mukhopadhyay and Prasad Shetty

SEA Annual Exhibition

-Sadhna Prasad

Storytelling and Urbanity

-Neesha Mewada

2020

Identity and Storytelling through Illustrations

Sinan: Genius of Domed Buildings

Teaching Assistant for the first year orientation workshop at SEA

Volunteering Work 2020

2022

2022

-Under principal architects Teja Amonkar and Yatin Fulari

Workshops 2019

Intern at Field Atelier in Goa

This booklet gathers a summed up version of my CV and selected academic works.

Research Dissertation

Internship

Kitchen Stories:

House in Nachinola (2)

Gendered practices and experiences of inhabiting the kitchen

House in Chorao

in diverse housing typologies in Mumbai

House in Vasco Da Gama

Drawing Experiments

House in Vadodra

The Hydra Moirang market

CONTENTS

House in Calapore House in Aldona

Design Thinking

Material Exploration

Factory as a Warped Space

Tensile Strength Model

Home as an Incremental Growth

Bamboo Pavillion

Artist residency for the Differently Abled Fragmenting of the body Textile museum in Paithan

Writings Fishermen of Powai Daily Chores Moving with the Mob

RESEARCH DISSERTATION

Kitchen Stories Gendered practices and experiences of inhabiting the kitchen in diverse housing typologies in Mumbai Research Dissertation | Semester 9

How does a specific gender occupy the space of the kitchen?

How does kitchen's configuration influence how people move within a household?

How does a person's routine influence the way a kitchen space is organized?

The kitchen is an essential part of a household and is frequently used. Very often women are expected to help out in the kitchen chores. The segregation of different user groups based on gender takes place through certain social order.

This influences how a particular gender behaves and inhabits a place, thereby creating a specific gendered experience.

This thesis tries to understand how the space of the kitchen influences the hierarchies in the household, what kind of social spaces get generated, and how the efficiency of a kitchen, in turn, influences an individual and the social spaces that get produced.

Drawing of a kitchen in a tribal settlement

The case studies ranged from a house in a tribal settlement, a three-storey bungalow, an apartment in a highrise building, a house in a slum, and a one-room kitchen apartment in a co-operative housing society, and were selected to understand a genealogical shift in the form of the kitchen.

Upon analyzing them, the kitchen's configuration played a large role in how different members in a household contributed to the kitchen's space. This study also looked at different ways in which the kitchen is occupied andcould be used in ways other than its utilitarian purpose.

It is looked at as a private space where the woman can have her privacy. It also becomes an extension of the house, allowing one to meander through both of them freely. It can also become a social space, where a large number of people can gather and interact. The city, in so many ways, opens up as a kitchen too, especially for people who frequent it.­

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Drawing of a kitchen in an apartment

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Drawing of a kitchen in a slum

DRAWING EXPERIMENTS

The Hydra of Lerna Design Module | Semester 2

Moirang Market Manipur Settlement Study | Semester 6| Collaborative Work

The Moirang Market acts as an anchor for vendors and merchants who drift between markets and homes to procure and sell goods of various kinds. Located in the north eastern part of the Moirang town, it is situated along the main road making it a junction for exchange of goods and services. Houses present on the edge of the market open up and become shops during work hours. The market is more than sixty years old. It has a small temple in the centre, where each shop owner worships before they start their day. The market is majorly run by women, all the men in the family are either working as government servants or in the army. It is divided into two parts each which are separated by a staircase. The northern part of the market is filled with fish sellers whereas the southern part is occupied by fruits, vegetable and clothes sellers. The northern part is more spacious in comparision to the southern part. The upper floors of the market have conventional shops with house banks, restaurants, cafes, salons and clothing stores.

DESIGN THINKING

Factory as a Warped Space Typology Studio | Semester 3

The intervention begins by inculcating all the three programs of the medical equipment factory, exhibition and tution space onto the site. The current factory is located in Sangli - Miraj MIDC, where it is closed off from the neighboring factories as well as the landscape around it. The intervention allows the three proposed programs to sit as well as interact with the landscape, and is done to reduce the mundane nature of the factory. Bringing in the exhibition and tuition space in the factory would encourage a large audience other than just doctors and medical professionals. The form of the warp creates intimate spaces where people from all the three programs could interact and build various relationships. The roof is designed as an accesible ramp which intersects at various levels. The warp is also a metaphor for the womb, which itself is an intimate space and brings in an idea of femininity, since the factory employs equal number of men and women. It creates small courtyards where the staff members could sit and rest. These enclosures also create open spaces for the exhibition which is accessible to the other two programs. Since the exhibition takes place for a week in a year, the space can be used as lunch room, conference room and pantry for the remaining year.

Site Plan: Sangli - Miraj MIDC

Narrative Drawing of the existing factory

Conceptual Collage

Model iteration 1

Model iteration 2

Final Design

Home as an Incremental Space Typology Studio | Semester 4

Narrative drawing for the existing house

The existing house is located within a cluster of row houses in Charkop, Mumbai. It sits on a 3m x 8m plot, and has a MHADA house on one side and a G+1 house on the other. It has been renovated over the years by the family that inhabits it, with the purpose of creating more private spaces as more members join the family.

Exploration of Form and Volume through the modules

First and Second designed modules

The design process started by looking at the house as a collection of modules, which could be turned, rotated, folded or split to give rise to different to volumes which can be inhabited.

The logic was to use different parts of a single module or the module as whole to make the house. They were designed in such a way that their repetition helped in the incrementality of the house. The final modules were derived from a 3mX3m cube considering the average size of a room. These prefabricated modules work at 4 different scales:one of the room, the midroom,a seating and a step.

The first module:

The absence of a physical boundary facilitates

Acted as a seating and a slab at the same time. When rotated by 90

movements of the family members between these

degrees, it can act as a wall and seating.

levels while providing a sense of privacy to each group. The terrace is designed in such a way that

The second module:

it is not only playful but also gives a possibility of

It combined both the wall and seating(or storage space). When

incrementing the house in the future and changing

rotated by 90 degrees it functions as a slab and a seating space.

the volumes of the existing programs.

Overall Form

Long Section

First Floor Plan

Short Section

Second Floor Plan

Artist residency for the Differently Abled Resources, Flows and Systems | Semester 5

Sectional Axonometric

Artist’s residency for differently abled people, located in Hiranandani,Powai,Mumbai, aimed at designing a space for performing artists and canvas painting artists. Other programs included an exhibition space, artists studios, kitchen and dining , admin and housekeeping. The main focus of the space was to make it accessible to differently abled people. It was set in a 5m x 5m grid which had a service grid of 1.2m across the entire program. Each of these service grids were equipped with tactile tiles to help in the navigation. The same grid on the first floor opened up into balconies (which gave a larger visual connectivity across the program). On the roof the same grid opened up into gutters which circulated water across the entire program. Smaller inclined planes, elevators and emergency staircases were provided for overall circulation. It is a framed structure and the materials used were timber structural members and bamboo facade.

Physical Model

Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

View into the artist residency

Overalll view

End Wall Section- Through the Studio Space

Fragmenting the Body Technological Sensoriums | Semester 5 | Project partner: Shruti Nikam

The process began by conducting experiments where one could fragment the image of a body using these mirrors, textures, and transparencies. The form of the pavilion is derived from planes that would get arranged together in a way that when a person stands on a higher plane, they can see someone standing on a lower plane, simply through the arrangement of the periscopic mirrors. It would also generate an experience of an exquisite corpse when one body fragments to merge with another while bringing in the surroundings. The whole design was then articulated as pockets of common gathering spaces. As a navigation path, a corridor was designed which would give direct access to some places whilst just a visual connection to others. The program of the artist studios, is placed along this corridor.

Hiranandani Lawns, located Hiranandani, Powai was selected as a site for the pavilion. The site provided a combination of different structures and green scapes as surrounding elements. The site has two sides where the passers-by on the parallel streets can visually engage with the artist’s work in their studios.

Apparatus

Design of the Pavillion

Site of Intervention- Hiranandani Lawns

Apparatus on Site

Textile museum in Paithan Systems, Details and Drawings | Semester 6

Long Section AA’

Ground Floor Plan

A museum becomes a space of archival, exhibition and a restoration of the history of a space. It also largely talks about the everyday practices and nuances of the people which shape the city. Looking at the culture and history of Paithan, a large part of the town’s economy and culture was shaped by the making of the Paithani saree. The houses in Paithan used to act as spaces where people would make these sarees, and the very intimacy of their houses would appreciate the saree. The intent of the museum was to make intimate spaces where the museum itself turns into a workspace where the local skilled workers could work on the sarees, while the public gets to engage and interact with them. The design consists of 2 large courtyards and smaller courtyards looking into them in order to encourage this interaction. The material used is mainly concrete, which would enhance the exhibits, while being presented against a concrete wall.

Northwest Elevation

Toilet Plan

End Wall Section Toilet Section AA’

Toilet Section BB’

WRITINGS

Fishermen of Powai

Daily Chores

The Bricoleur: Bricolage as method, Allied Design| Semester 5

The Scribe and the Labyrinth, Allied Design| Semester 3

The bricoleur enters through the inhabitation produced by the practice of fishing. Here it opens

The everyday is not easy or glamourous. It talks about our privilege, gendered spaces, rituals,

up the idea of what it means for a carpenter to be a fisherman and how their childhood practices

routines and relationships. These moments were captured through a series of Instagram stories,

and hobbies influence the decisions they make for themselves. This course was conducted by

that were put together in a zine. The archive developed gradually because of the tendency to

Rupali Gupte. Please scan the QR Code to find the full story.

produce an everyday for the audience watching these stories. This course was conducted by Daily Chores Prishita Kulkarni

Apurva Talpade. Please scan the QR Code to find the full zine.

Moving with th Mob Urban Architecture | Semester 9

The Sakinaka junction consists of a constant movement of vehicles and people on the road. The junction allows a large number of people to move from one point to another, and thus movement of the people happens parallel to the movement of the vehicles, whenever the signal starts. Within that movement, there are people walking quickly, people who are on a call and walking simultaneously or people who are just listening to music and walking. But this walking isn’t silent, or careful. This walking is worry free, there is a sense of direction. One may not be fully aware of their surroundings while walking, simply because they’re following a mob, while crossing the road. A confidence gets produced, while being with this mob. A collective confidence.

The engagement happens in a way in which one can play around with this confidence. A jester is introduced in the city, where they try to distract a person from the movement of the mob. The jester makes one aware of their surroundings, of their physical position within this junction.

Junction near Saki Naka metro station

The confidence of the mob

The jester is introduced

INTERNSHIP at FIELD ATELIER

House in Nachinola (2)

House in Chorao

Physical Model | Internship

Physical Model | Internship

House in Vasco Da Gama

House in Vadodra

Flooring Layout | Internship

Electrical Dimensioning | Internship

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House in Calapore

House in Aldona

Drawings for a bench | Internship

Conceptual Render | Internship

MATERIAL EXPLORATION

Tensile Strength Model

Bamboo Pavillion

Technology Module | Semester 1

Technology Module | Semester 2 | Collaborative Work

The bamboo pavillion was a hands-on exercise done to understand the properties of bamboo and the joineries that go into the construction of a bamboo structure.

Bamboo dowels and fish- mouth joineries were used and it stands on concrete foundations.

The module aimed at understanding concepts of tensigrity and compression.

The exercise involved making a structure that spans for a meter, by using a maximum of three materials, with no adhesive. Tension in the stretched and the interlocking between the individual pieces helped the structure to stand without any support.

Prishita Kulkarni Email: prishitakulkarni.work@gmail.com Mobile No: +919137751912