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R U P A L I ’ S P O R T F O L I O P U B L I C A T I O N

Hi... I am Rupali

I believe...

“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”

Einstein

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

EDUCATION

School of the Art Institute of Chicago/ Intern Architect 2018-2020/Chicago Student work experience with the Executive Directors of IRFM Instructional Resources and Facilities Management department at SAIC. Updating architectural drawings for any change in SAIC owned buildings around Michigan avenue. Making site visits/ presentations with active participation in meetings for ongoing future design schemes.

Master of Architecture with Emphasis in Interior Architecture / Chicago Architecture, Interior Architecture, Structures, History SAIC - School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2020-2017 / 3-years

P&D Associates/Senior Interior designer 2017 - 6 months/ Bharuch Worked as senior architect on mainly residential projects taking care of design and on-site execution with a prime focus on aesthetics and finer details of interior elements in terms of pattern, colour and material selection ASM designs/ Senior Interior Designer 2016-2007-10 years/Mumbai Worked as a senior designer with an architect couple at ASM designs on several projects in the span of 8 years conceptualizing, making detail drawings, 3d-views, presentations for clients, arranging meetings and site supervision.

Retail:

Design and execution in and around Mumbai for a

chain of high-end ‘Hastkala’ Sarees’ boutiques,

watches and Jewelry Showroom design for well

known names such as Tribhivandas Bhimji Jewellers

Residential:

Design and execution in and around Mumbai.

Worked mainly on single family homes with area

3000-5000Sqft S.N.D.T. Women’s College/ Teaching Assistant 2005-2004 - 1 year/Mumbai Engaged in a assistant teacher for a material’s class with a semester long focus on bamboo and metal sculptures Ghaswala and associates/ Interior Designer 2004-2003 - 1year/Mumbai Engaged in mainly learning office skills and making architectural technical drawings for office and residential interior design projects for Ar. Jimmy Ghaswala

Bachelors degree in Interior Design/ India Interior Design, Structures, Materials and building science CEPT - Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology 2000-1994 / 5-years

AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS SAIC - Best Thesis Award - Interior Architecture AIADO Advisory Design Council Awards CEPT- Best Student Award 1996-1997 For outstanding performance in Design Studio in third year Friends of kebyar - Journal “Celebrating the life and works of Nari Gandhi” vol-23.1, issue-72, 2007 Under-grad thesis work got published in this journal

SKILLS TECHNICAL:

DESIGN:

Rhinoceros Revit SketchUp AutoCAD

Photoshop Illustrator Indesign After Effects (Beginner) Sketching Model making/3d printing Painting(Water-colour and Acrylic)

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Contents “Preserving Craft through Architecture A Case of Sujani Quilt”

Cube 40X40X40

Retail stores Design

SAIC Thesis Spring 2020

SAIC - Summer 2017

asmdesigns - 2014

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Meditation Centre

SAIC - Fall 2019

SAIC - Fall 2017

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Do It Yourself

Postcard Portfolio

SAIC - Winter 2019

SAIC - Spring 2019

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Residence Design

Crystal Deck on Hire

Acrylic Painting on Canvas

P&D associates - Spring 2017

SAIC - Summer 2017

SAIC - Summer 2019

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Academic works The following works are a few selected projects completed as a part of academic learning at School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology in Ahmedabad, India

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Preserving Craft through Architecture A Case of Sujani Quilt

As a quest to find familiarities in the surrounding built environment along with a deep interest in materiality, led to the thesis research focused on endangered textile quilt named – ‘Sujani’ from a small city in Gujarat, India named ‘Bharuch’.

Thesis advisor: Linda Keane

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Golden bridge Dashawamedh ghat N.T. Dharamshala Bhrugu Temple S.N. Temple Ratan Talao Jami Masjid Parsi Agyari Begumwadi Fort wall Sardar Manzil Victoria Tower R.D. Library Sujani workshop Eidgah Dutch Cemetry

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Cultural Trail

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Interven�on Sites River Other Sites

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Victoria Tower

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Haji Khana bazaar Agyari

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A proposal for a ‘cultural walk‘ envisions a future for the city of Bharuch that would employ crafts as a way to connect with the city’s historic landscape in a unique way. It combines the heritage structures with the experience of the indigenous quilt suggesting awareness for the craft while opening the city to the lens of sentimentality as a form of nostalgia and also as means of production to preserve the craft. With the strong belief that Sujani can live in the memory of people as a part of collective consciousness through vision, touch and knowledge, the project takes into consideration 5-historically significant sites of the 16-existing ones along the heritage walk to make meaningful interventions for each of the five.

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Bharuch Tourism Development Society + Bharuch Heritage Forum + Corporate Sponserships

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Plan View

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Sujani quilt embedded in concrete building material to test ways to integrate the two with each other

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Re-design of SAIC’s Student Residency - Jones Hall - also Chicago’s historic landmark, was a great opportunity to experiment with architectural terracotta to form a new language for interior and exterior. The heart of the building being the central fire staicase constructed with optic fibres in concrete allows skylight from the top to penetrate and spread on all sides, lighting the core.

Professor: Odile Compagnon

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SITE STUDY SKETCHES current condition

future opportunities

claustrophobic volume

need to spread

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scope to stagger

north light inflow

scope to borrow light from south

PROGRAMMATIC WORKING stepped projection south side response

shared double rm. (w)divider

single room

single room

dining lounge

dn. gender neutral

student elevator

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student/ Freight elevator

mechanical /electrical room

shared double room

gender neutral

tenant & public elevator

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mechanical/electrical room

gender neutral

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w.c. passage

single room

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shared double room

corridor

shared quadruple room

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lounge

Office space for rent

conference void

Typical floor plan (nts) STUDY MODELS

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CRISS CROSS STAIRCASE SPINE PROPOSAL GIVING MYRAID POSSIBILITIES OF CONNECTIONS

existing building and staircase relationship

the criss cross staircase

staircase relationship with the proposed south side steel frame structural system.

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FACADE EXPLORATIONS WITH INTEGRATED PLANTER POTS IN THREE SIZES MADE USING 3D PRINTING CLAY TECHNOLOGY AS A GREEN STRATEGY AND ALSO TO MARK THE NEW-AGE TERRACOTTA

CONCRETE BUILDING MATERIAL AND OPTIC FIBRE EXPERIMENTS WITH FORMS INSPIRED FROM PROFILES OF FIRE-PROOF ARCHITECTURAL TERRACOTTA OFTHE EXISTING FACADE.

daylighting

Sunlight during the day penetrates through the roof and south wall giving ample natural light into spaces sround the atrium

Radiant slab

3/8� diameter tubing for hydronic radiant heating and cooling renders a energy efficient solution for winters as well as summer

PhotoVoltaic Panels

Solar Energy is used to generate electricity via PV panlling on the roof asa substitute for power distrbution

Plantation

Plants grown in new ceramic walls to insulate spaces both in summer and winter

New ceramic tile facade

The new 3d printed tiles for the proposed south wall facade are designed to insulate the spaces within in summer by incorporating plants, as well as winter by absorbing enough heat during the day time due to its black color.

Trombe wall effect

gap between glass curtain wall and black ceramic skin holding plants on the internal facade facilitates the removal of the sensible heat from interior of the spaces through thermal radiation thus generating a passive cooling effect.

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Cube 40X40X40 Visualizing a 40” x 40” x 40” cube as frames, surfaces, volumes and composites gave a great opportunity to explore iterations and digitally model to learn to imagine them as actual interior spaces and explore scales.

Professor : Terry Surjan

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Frame

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Volume

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Surface

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Meditation Centre Montrose beach - a popular site for migratory birds in Chicago, is perceived as a serene place for yoga and meditation for the co-existence of humans with birds and natural environment amidst the organic look and feel of the cave-like structure for the interior spaces.

Professor : Nicholas Benjamin

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Professional works The following works are a collection of working drawings from retail and residential design projects between 2007-2017 in Architecture and Interior Design firms, in Mumbai and Bharuch, India.

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Chintamanis Jewelry display-wall elevation

Hastkala Garments display-stand elevation

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Retail Store Design @ asmdesigns in Mumbai between 2007-2016, I have had the opportunity to work on multiple projects across retail stores for garments, jewelry and watches + residential interior design projects. As a Senior interior designer I was involved in designing shop-front displays, product display, material selections, consumer and the overall experience,

budget constraint modifications for clients, colour selections for spaces, sustainable ideas and approach to construction and execution of designs.

Architect: Saumil Bhagat

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Mumbai Residence kitchen wall-elevations

Hastkala Saree store-front elevation

As built

Chintamanis Jewelry store-front elevation

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Nikita Jewelry Store - Mumbai

Nikita-Store-front drawing

Nikita - lounge

Nikita-Store-front view

Chintamanis - Jewelry Store - Goa

Chintamanis - Store-front

Hastkala - Sari Store - Mumbai

Hastkala - Store-front

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Bed-room head board design laser cut on wood veneered ply-board and back lit gold painted wall

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Residence Design @ P&D associates in Bharuch, I was mainly taking care of high-end residential interior design for well-of clients. I was responsible for taking care of finer aspects in designs mainly to do with aesthetics, colour and materiality with considerations from client’s specifications.

Architect and Interior Designers: Pratik and Devang

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In-layed brass in wood veneered ply-board for lobby area of a residence

Feather motif in-layed with mother of pearl for the prayer room of a residence

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Materials + Art + Crafts The following works are a fun exercises during my term at SAIC and otherwise that have played a major role in shaping my design sensibility and approach.

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Do It Yourself Do It Yourself’ is a multi-purpose modular system for domestic use to hang ans shelf the many items in our daily lives. It is special due to the custom-made 3d-printed components for the freedom of a personalized configuration by every individual.

Professor: Seth Keller

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Crystal Deck On Hire A fun exercise to test light weight material and forms to design an object that could float on water. After several failed attempts with weights and forms this design of a crystal deck is a 3d-printed poly-propelene light weight plastic on objet-30 printer that could float very easily on water. It was later imagined as a deck for hire floating in the middle of Chicago river as a quiet wedding destination venue.

Professor: Douglas Pancoast

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Postcard Portfolio Postcard Portfolio, as the name suggests, is a box of postcards which sums my work as an Architect as well as my personal interest in making. These post cards are an honest expression of simple ideas expressed concisely through nine projects of my choice. Through the medium of postcards, I intend to stress on re-purposing this mode of personalized connections that has lost its value in today’s virtual world.

Professor: Joseph Altshuler

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Acrylic painting on canvas Every architect is inherently an artist. and so am I... and so to nurture that creative side time and again I enrolled in advance painting at OxBow School of Art and Artist’s residency to extend my understanding about art by being with co-artists and learning from their approach.

Professor: Nazafarin Lotfi, Erin Washington

Installation between tree trunks an exact on the OxBow campus grounds of the exact scene beyond but painted on canvas

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WATER COLOUR PAINTINGS

URBAN MAZE

VARANASI GHAT

THE CANON

RETRO VIBE

RETURN TO INNOCENCE

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Rupali Khanna 630 770 1267 livingtwocreate@gmail.com/ rekbot@artic.edu 4123, Kingshill Cir. Naperville, IL-60564

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