Draft portfolio for part 1 Architectural assistant

PORTFOLIO PRITY CHATTERJEE

prity.chatterj@gmail.com +447443925877 @Pritchatterjee https://www.linkedin.com/in/prity-chatterjee-733b371b8/

COVER LETTER PART 1 ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT

Apartment 19 100 Fairthorn road Charlton SE7 7FW Mobile: 07443925877 Prity.Chatterj@gmail.com 24/04/2022

Dear Cecelia Huang, In response to the job posting for an Architectural Assistant, I would like to provide my resume to be considered for this position.

My name is Prity Chatterjee and I am a recent graduate from the Welsh School of Architecture. I am looking for an Architectural Part 1 placement for my year in industry at your Architectural practice. This particular line of work interests me because I would love to be able to improve the quality of lifes of communities through quality architectural design and I have the skills needed to accomplish that goal.

I have strong skills in renderring, ditigal modelling and verbal skills which allows me to communicate clearly as well as avoid misunderstandings during design projects and assist paperwork.

I would love to explore how architecture can place itself neatly between helping well-being and pushing innovative design and I believe I can achieve this only at your practice, through only your unique design ethos that values the people.

As a fresh graduate with much experience on her hands, I have the enthusiasm and skills to push myself to become one of the best and hardest worker of this architecture firm whilst continuing my education within this field.

You can reach me by calling +447443925877 and I hope to hear from you soon, Cecelia Huang.

Yours sincerely, Prity Chatterjee

Educational Information 2019 - 2022 Cardiff University BSC Architecture (anticipated first class) 2011 - 2019

Bexley Grammar School International Baccalaureate: Physics, Art, English, Maths, History, Japanese GCSE: 12 total GCSEs acquired A*-B 5A* + 7As in Art, Design Technology, English, Physics, Mathematics

Skills

Creative Suite: Photoshop InDesign Premier Pro Illustrator Lightroom Reading

Hobbies

Photography/Illustration Badminton Hiking Chess Reading

References

Dr Shibu Raman, Design Tutor, Lecturer, researcher in Liveable Urbanism at Cardiff University with education from UCL and oxford Brookes

Achievement & recognititon

Honourable mention for the Architectural competition submission named ‘Re-imagining the Artefact’ 2021

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Availability: Other Portfolios:

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English, Bengali, Hindi, German, French, Japanese

Softwares: Vectorworks Enscape Vray Revit Rhino AutoCad SketchUp

Unique: Qgis Depthmap Photogrammetry Cloud Compare

Traditional: Model Making Hand Drawing Creative Writing Painting

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00 CURRICULUM VITAE

Relevant Architectural Experiences and Activities Developing Excellence - Marina Tabassum: Climate and Community 2022 London, Sir John Soane’s This half-day workshop focused on climate and community as urgent architectural concerns, which moreover challenge Museum the very role of the architect. Within the context of coastal floodplains of Bangladesh, we proposed sites for future interventions, where architecture may address issues of community and climate with Marina Tabassum.

2021/2022 Cardiff Dec - Apr, 5 mons

RSAW mentoring: Stride Treglown Architectural practice I gained valuable insight into architectural projects across all the RIBA stages and specially with Stride Treglown Architects who are Civic, Commercial, Education, Healthcare, Infrastructure and Residential orientated

2021 Cardiff Sep - Dec, 4 mons

Mentoring Programme - Good Nugget Alongside a freelance architect, Rosanna Leonardi, and the programme founder and creative director, Leo, I took part in a 12 week programme of architectural work insight, presenting, mixer sessions, and one on one conversations with Rosanna.

2021 Summer

Architectural competition: Re-imagining the Artefact Part of One of Five Honourable mention for design proposal 2021 ‘Forget-Me-Not’ is an intervention to celebrate the positive moments that remain alongside the challenges of Dementia.

We pursued our architectural interests.

2020 Cumbria Jan, 2 weeks

2021 London Sep - Dec, 4 mons

Volunteer - Architectural research project Our small group of 5 and a tutor worked with Zoe Berman, an innovative feminist Architect, in a farm house, interviewing, exhibiting and interrogating the meaning of place through various traditional architectural mediums.

In Cardiff where we exhibited our work in the city centre. This was an open, public exhibition displaying our work collected and our experience of the vertical studio brief.

Magazine Art Editor for MoreLifeGroup Working collaboratively within the startup group of British Africans to empower and educate the younger generation. I worked solely on the publication of the magazine with bi-weekly group meetings. It was a fast paced, high intensity envrionment.

2021 Cardiff Sep - Dec, 4 mons

Illustrator for Quench Magazine An incredible experience adding to the minds of creative students within this well established magazine publication which has won several awards. I worked on illustration in collaboration with writers and the marketting team.

2020-22 London

Freelance Artist Carrying out commissions for several clients within various mediums where skills within networking, communication, business skills and commercial awareness were enhanced: @PrityDrawings

2021 London Summer, 2 days

Cartographies of the Imagination: Workshop At first, we created artist studies, synthesising the motifs of the artist’s works to then create a collaborative drawing. The process work was then displayed as an public exhibition within the space. I gained skills of communication and collaboration. @CartographiesOfTheImagination

2021 Cardiff Sept - June

2017-19 London

2016 London Oct - Nov, 2 mons

Student Association of the WSA: Extra curricular With a collaborative effort, we worked organised guest architectural lectures from the likes of Dow Jones to MVDRV as a means to bring a welcoming, educational hand to our architecture students.

Activities and societies: Head of Art club Badminton club Student Ambassador and school prefect Japanese School exchange helper

Colman Architects: Architectural experience Whilst working alongside qualified Architects, I Created a proposal for a rural retreat utilising Architectural mixed media drawing, AutoCAD and SketchUp. I gained valuable insight into the facilities of the workplace and the process of which a design needs to go through particularly of retial based commissions.

British Heart Foundation Sales Assistant This was good experience to learn people skills and branch outside of architecture.

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01 THE CULTURE HUB, DESIGN PROPOSAL KOCHI, KERALA 2021-2022 To provide Kochi with the resources to support their everyday life practises and therefore becoming the facilitator to re-enact their identity practices onto the city itself, through physical and tangible means.

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01 THE CULTURE HUB , URBAN STRATEGY KOCHI, KERALA 2021-2022 To provide Kochi with the resources to support their everyday life practises and therefore becoming the facilitator to re-enact their identity practices onto the city itself, through physical and tangible means.

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02 THE URBAN PILGRIMAGE CARDIFF, BETHEL CHRUCH 2021 The selected pieces of hand crafted work allude to the delicate nature of the project. Our brief consisted of revitalising the existing forgotten Bethel Church in Cardiff. With Churches providing both outreach activities such as counselling and food banks, this public and private threshold gave birth to the hierarchies of circulation. The outer circulation invites the city go-ers in. The interior semi private circulation, a mediator between the facilities. The narrow steps to the mezzanine seating circulation, the marker of private worship. The seed-like form curates the choreography of the pilgrimage from the city to the outreach and worship centre.

1. External public circulation 2. Cafe third space 3. Kitchen and foodbank storage 4. Inner semi public circulation route 5. Children’s Creche 6. Office space 7. Counselling rooms 8. Service room 9. Toilets 10. Disabled toilet 11. Inner sanctuary 11.1 Seating 11.2 Alter

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(fig 2) Hand drawing of the chapel of reconcilliation in Berlin, circulation route (fig 5) Hand drawn ground floor plan with landscaping

(fig 4) Hand drawing of King Edward’s Cathedrall showing the duality of a worship/ performance space

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(fig 6) Resolved drawing of the proposed sanctuary space showing the duality of lighting (both daylight and artificial) to accommodate for worship by day and performance by night.

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Open floor plan creates ease of access as clients come The realised gardening space, low level space, urging the away from the sleeping quarters to now undefined space, clients to get closer to the ground with in built shelves where they can use it as they wish or it becomes transient for organisation. space, a threshold between private and communal.

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04 ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION THE FUTURE 2021 SUMMER

Forget-Me-Not

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Fading Recognition, Perspective, Memory, Connection (Gebser, 1986)

What Once was Hollow, Re-enacting the days past, The choreography is disjointed, hollow.

The rhythm of mundane tasks- hollow.

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Brain as a region Control, Awareness, Dreams, Hope (Feddersen and Lüdtke, 2014)

Who are they now and Who are we to them?

Where do we stand As family or as carers?

Memories become anchors, And our lives- this empty thing which Slowly fills with an abundant body of precious water,

The growth of the seed Time Life Water Evolve (Mór, 1869)

We rewrite We decipher We dance We take sail Sometimes to encounter Unplanned, spontaneous days of hardship We look up Sometimes to encounter Familiar faces within newer ones.

We are changed people but we always soar.

Translation through time Planter, anchor, sail, soar

05 PASSION PURSUITS LONDON, HIGHGATE, OMVED GARDENS 2021 SUMMER The projection of power is prevalent here. A final piece taken from my art project: the festival of voyages.

Initially a photograph taken from the Lewisham Mandir, I used it as a symbolic image of the power of faith which is a caressing, comforting thing and had it contrast with the stark and potent colour palette. Across the background, runs this haunting mist further highlighting the statue facade.

All in all, the piece speaks of the nature of power. It is a changing thing, a personal thing.

Indicative of the role of cultural festivals and the way in which people praise this power of faith.

(fig 15) Acrylic painting of a Hindu temple’s facade in lewisham

“A nest in the heart of another, the question of permanence isn't the first or even the last thing that's considered...” pg 140 from intimate experience of place, “Space and Place The Perspective of Experience” by Yi-Fu Tuan

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06 MODEL MAKING KOCHI, KERALA 2022 SUMMER

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