Architectural Portfolio 2018-2023

I am an young architect, actively educating myself in Building Information Modeling along with sustainable architecture and who is driven by keen interest in finding meanings and stories that each space or building is trying to pass on to this world and so bringing out stories in every space and to be able to show people what I envision is what I love to do the most. More than passion or enthusiasm what I have the most is perseverance. Having that kind of discipline is what matters to me in myself.

ragulvjkumar

ragulvjkumar@outlook.com

Education

BIM Professional Course (Autodesk & NSDC Certified) by Novator (previously oneistox) (Present)

B.Arch

MARG Institute of Design and Architecture Swarnabhoomi. Velur Village, Cheyyur Post, Tamil Nadu. (2018-2023)

Metro Matriculation.Hr.Sec.School, Mettupalayam, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.(2014-2018)

SSVM CBSE School, Alangombu Post, Mettupalayam, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. (2005-2014)

Architectural Experiences

Internship (August 2022-December 2022)

Studio Storyboard, Goa.

Ar. Kushagra Keshav & Ar. Shivali Gupta

Workshops

CSEB & Rammed Earth Workshop, Auroville

Parametric Architecture by DERT Lab

Oritecture Workshop by Hexagramm

Heritage Mapping By India Lost and Found

The Architect’s Clinic by Chennai Architecture Foundation

Competitions

Market 2.0 by NonArchitecture Competitions (2023)

Architecture Render Awards 2022 By Archzig ANDC - NASA (2020-2021)

House 2.0 by Archdais (2021)

Render Of The Year by Arch Out Loud (2020-2021)

Languages

Tamil (Native)

English

Kannada

curriculam vitae

Personal Interest

Basketball, Swimming, Cycling, Traveling & Photography

Skills

Architectural Illustrations

Conceptual Art & Design

Perspective Drawing

Softwares

Autodesk Autocad 2D

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

MS Office SketchUp

Revit Rhino

Enscape

Lumion

Digital & Hand Sketching Model Making

Pen Rendering

Vray Twinmotion

D5 Render

Adobe After Effects

Adobe Premiere Pro

Morpholio Trace Procreate Vectornator

Affinity Photo 2

Affinity Designer 2

ragulvjkumar@outlook.com +91 88 83 95 54 43

5/552C, Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, Karamadai Road, Mettupalyam, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Pin - 641301

ANGODD: A Goa Bazaar Project

The design of the Goa Bazaar started by considering points of interests and interconnecting zones derived and based on the topography of the site.

The design developed into organic zones and pathways but the proper focul point and interconnection was missing along with resting zones and pockets.

Further the design evolved around a central focul point but lacked in proper zoning, motorized zones, non-motorized zones and internal circulation.

The form developed with proper internal circulation and zoning but the public, semi-public and private space segregation was unpolished.

Final form development evolved with proper internal circulation, resting zones, and market squares, green pockets, central focul food plaza with harmonious flow.

Goa Bazaar: The total area of the bazaar is 3868 Sq.m. Located at the western drop off zone. The semi-open-air layout, allowing for natural light and ventilation and creates a lively atmosphere encouraging interaction between buyers and sellers.The covered sections and arcades to protect visitors from the elements, such as sun or rain. These covered areas provide a comfortable shopping experience. Vibrant and colorful awnings with shades in visually appealing ways to attract customer’s attention.

The entry shopping lane is designed with narrow street or alleyway like ambience. This helps to create an intimate ambiance and encourages exploration. Market square is where people can gather, socialize, and enjoy performances and serves as community hubs. It has designated areas for food vendors, offering a variety of local cuisines and street food. These cafes provide a space for visitors to relax and refuel. The positioning of circular stalls and tensile open market helps in creating a little feeling of unorganised and organic element transitioning between the bazaar and the food plaza.

Goa Bazaar: The total area of the bazaar is 3868 Sq.m. Located at the western drop off zone. The semi-open-air layout, allowing for natural light and ventilation and creates a lively atmosphere encouraging interaction between buyers and sellers. Vibrant and colorful awnings with shades in visually appealing ways to attract customer’s attention.

The entry shopping lane is designed with narrow street or alleyway like ambience. Market square is where people can gather, socialize, and enjoy performances and serves as community hubs. Cafes provide a space for visitors to relax and refuel. The positioning of circular stalls and tensile open market helps in creating a little feeling of unorganised and organic element transitioning between the bazaar and the food plaza.

Art & Craft Gallery: The total area of the art gallery is 2470 Sq.m. It is placed at the entrance of the cental drop off zone. The concept revolved around creating emphasis on the gallery with contemporaray vernacular architecture.

The placement and the contradicting architecture of the souvenir shop is to create a compelling intrigue. The courtyard and green pockets around the souvenir shop creates more daylighting and shadow and as a eye clenser after and before the entry/exit from the gallery.

Art & Beer Park: It is a inclusion of a row of 7 beer stalls, performance gazebo, restobar and a restroom. Double storied vaulted structures in the design adds more authenticity and unique experience to the users in the restobar. Open-air layout with certain covered spaces at the first floor creates more liveliness to the space and encourages more stress-free, well ventilated place to relax and recreate.

Maker’s Asylum: The area of the workshops is 2661 Sq.m. Located at the eastern drop off zone. The breakout space with the monumental structure and the courtyard encourages socialising, relaxing and discussing. The arcades creates more shades in the corridor and adds more characterestics to the space. Inclusion of semi open spaces encourages more informal workshop spaces and freedom in working spaces. Workshops offer a hands-on learning environment where individuals can develop and refine their skills, experiment with new techniques, and expand their knowledge.The break out monument allows to showcase completed artworks or works in progress. This allows for reflection, critique, and inspiration.

ANGODD-GOA BAZAAR PROJECT

Craft Shops: commercial spaces to ex hibit and sell works, craft, art from the workshops. The architecture choice was to blend the zone with art gallery, auditorium and the food plaza.

The total area of this com mercial spaces is 602 Sq.m. Creating semi enclosed spaces adds more cohesion with the overall zoning and designing of project espe cially with the food plaza and the workshops.

Maker’s Asylum: zone. The breakout space with the monumental structure and the courtyard encourages social ising, relaxing and discussing. The arcades creates more shades in the corridor and adds more characterestics to the space. Inclusion of semi open spaces encourages more informal workshop spaces and freedom in working spaces. Workshops offer a hands-on learning environment where individuals can develop and refine their skills, experiment with new techniques, and expand their knowledge.The break out monument allows to showcase completed artworks or works in prog ress. This allows for reflection, critique, and inspiration.

Accomodation: This houses the stay for the people enrolled in the workshops. Two types of stays are available which majorly differs in the presence of private and common restrooms.

The courtyard in the middle of the volume acts as a space for any perfomaces and musical sessions. Two storeyed canteen with a semi open dining at the first floor it provides stunning views to the natural courtyard.

Physical Model: The physical model was made with plywood base. Most of the model was made with white puff and mill board. The total model was made in 1:500 scale.

KALAM: A Tansit Oriented Development

(Noun) .

Location (meeting place, place where an action takes place).

Kalam aims to be an integral part of people’s everyday life. Kalam creates conjoint involvement of all the people and the spaces they are associated with. The project promotes a symbiotic relationship between dense, compact urban form and public transport use.

It helps to live a lower stress life without complete dependence on private vehicles for mobility and not only this brings in various mix of spaces but the dense, walkable, mixed-use develpment with the transit attracts people and adds vibrant, connected communities.

Project Location: Velachery, Tamil Nadu.

Site Area: 36 Acres

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Creating volume of masses along the connective access roads and railway tracks. Junction and plaza was created to connect ow of people between each spaces.

Integrating the spaces together by creating a new volume that connects and intertwines all the spaces together eliminating the need for crossovers and tra c congestions.

Integrating the spaces together by creating a new volume that connects and intertwines all the spaces together eliminating the need for crossovers and tra c congestions.

Integrating the spaces together by creating a new volume that connects and intertwines all the spaces together eliminating the need for crossovers and tra c congestions.

Moulding the volume to acquire more desirable vehicular and transport circulation inside the site without a ecting the integration of the volumes and ow of people.

Moulding the volume to acquire more vehicular and transport circulation inside site without a ecting the integration umes and ow of people.

Moulding the vehicular and site without a umes and ow

MASTER PLAN:

UPPARIGAI: A Mixed Use Development

(Noun).

A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet.

The idea behind Upparigai was to create a forest at the centre surrounded by a jungle of concrete. Upparigai creates a optimal situation for integration of various spaces with minimum interference from cross-circulation. This Mixeduse development aims to incorporate elements of nature into every spaces, both public and private.

SITE PLAN:

Project

Location: Karapakkam, Tamil Nadu.

Site Area: 7.8 Acres

VANAM: A Forest Abode

(Noun).

Forest, wilderness or grove.

Disconnecting from society.

Staying away from all the unrealistic and disproportionate expectations from the society. Vanam tries to create a mind soothing ambience cut off from all the clutter and derange by going primal.

Rammed earth and concrete are use to create the raw essence and to feel one with the nature but with bounds. Courtyards are created to bring in light and ventilation within the building

MISCELLANEOUS

Exploring multiple algorithmic facade panels influenced by the site conditions for a skyscraper. Day lighting and ventilation factors influence the openings and the positioning of the facade panels .

This computational design explores the possiblities of all the permutations that can be created for achieving the atmost thermal comfort in a building from a given data and a generative algorithm.

Dream House :

Complete design of the project was completed in Minecraft with interior planning and furnishing.

This project was designed as a dream house for a 8 year old. This was a experiment to show that visualisation can be done through any medium.

The Hobbit’s Hole:

The Hobbit’s hole was inspired and designed based on a character’s house from a fictional movie called “The Hobbit”. It was recreated in Minecraft.

The Paradise Garden:

Inspired by A book called “The Sakuteiki” which was written in the Heian period and it was the first book ever written about garden making technique. The project was a revamp of the paradise garden with a modern appraoch.