Rishabh Lunkad - Post Graduate Architectural Portfolio

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post-graduate architectural portfolio selected works ‘19 - ‘22

academic background

2021 - 2022 m.sc. architectural computation merit (124.6 credits, 69.2% ) london, United Kingdom

extra curriculars

timber gridshell workshop may 2022 the bartlett school of architecture, ucl london, united kingdom

rachana sansad’s academy of architecture 2015 - 2020 bachelor of architecture - 8.12 cgpa prabhadevi, mumbai, maharashtra

integrated entities - bartlett b- pro october 2021 the bartlett school of architecture, ucl london, united kingdom

k.c.e.s moolji jaitha college

2013 - 2015 senior seconary graduate - 86.15% jalgaon, maharahstra

st. joseph’s convent senior secondary school 2001- 2015 matriculation - 9.6 cgpa jalgaon. maharahstra

hi! i’m rishabh lunkad

the bartlett school of architecture, ucl software skills

C# programming language rhinoceros 3D grasshopper maya visual studio revit autoCAD sketchup enscape chaos v-ray lumion adobe photoshop adobe illustrator adobe lightroom adobe premiere pro cc

hobbies

guitarist, singing, billiards, swimming, squash, badminton, cricket

procedural modelling - spatial computational design march 2021 national university of singapore (edx verified) credentials id - e13f973947764200bea7ba47848705a9

sustainability in architecture - an interdisciplinary introduction.

credentials id - 7b7e2d8095d54a09b9f517b8bdf06519

march 2020 universitat politecnica de valencia (UVP) (edx verified) architect | interior designer computational designer musician urban sketcher business owner traveller | vlogger

experience

tangli - immersive workspaces

london, united kingdom

freelance architect september 2020 - september 2021 architectural conceptualisation, interior design, landscaping

jalgaon, maharashtra ; raipur, chhattisgarh

intern architect december 2018 - april 2019 bricolage bombay andheri, mumbai, maharashtra

lead designer - intern june 2022 - august 2022 interests

computational design|parametric architecture architectural design|interior design urban design|landscape architecture

english - fluent; hindi - fluent (native); marathi - intermediate languages

london, united kingdom+44

the dwelling configurator

post graduation semester 2, the bartlett school of architecture

london, United Kingdom

fabricating minimal surfaces as architectural facade systems

post graduation dissertation, the bartlett school of architecture post graduation workshop, the bartlett school of architecture

asymptotic gridshell

robotic 3D concrete printing

artist’s studio isckon nilachal vedic village

london, United Kingdom london, United Kingdom london, United Kingdom jalgaon, maharashtra, India talasari, palghar, maharashtra, India

pg no. 4 -13 pg no. 14 - 26 pg no. 27 - 30 pg no. 31 - 38 pg no. 39 - 46 pg no. 47 - 52

post graduation semester 1, the bartlett school of architecture interior design project, masterplanning project, 3

The Dwelling Configurator

AR application for customised configuration of voxels as habitable spaces.

London, United Kingdom

Team 3 | Studio 3 | (PG) Semester 2

Tutors - Vishu Bhooshan , Tommaso Casucci Team - Tommaso Pardini, Rishabh Lunkad, Fernando Rey Vidal, Julius Uberall

Softwares used - C# Scripting | Rhinoceros 3D | Grasshopper | V-Ray | Unity

Designing often involves a back and forth interaction between architects and the client resulting in numerous changes throughout the project. This exercise aims to transform the said design process by enabling the clients to generate customised voxel aggregations aided and optimised by a combination of cellular automata and genetic algorithms. They are then clustered into habitable spaces using k-means clustering algorithm after which, each voxel is replaced by a set of pre-defined architectural element involving structural, facade and internal spaces. The entire procedure enables the client to develop a desired massing option in the front end while its analysis, optimisation, clustering and transformation happens in the back - end, outputing a final result.

10 - Convergence:

Cellular Automata : Game Physics - Joining amongst cells

5 - Capture Collapsed Centroids:

Genetic Algorithm : Simulating evolution and mutation amongst population of aggregations.

Handled by - Tommaso Pardini

Input dataset

Desired number of clusters

Randomly select no. of points equal to the desired no. of clusters.

Consider selected points as cluster centers and assign nearby points to that cluster

Calculate arithmetic mean of the cluster

Reassign cluster center to that of the calculated mean and repeat the process.

Terminate the procedure if reassigning outputs the same result over and over again.

Final clusters.

Seed ‘I’

Seed ‘T’

Seed ‘n’

Handled by - Rishabh Lunkad

Structural stability

Maximum no. of clusters

Maximum average no. of unit size Accessibility and connectivity.

K-Means clustering : Aggregation and clustering variations for Seed ‘I’

Handled by - Rishabh Lunkad

Architectural element : 3D Graphic Statics - Column Generation

Architectural element : Connection rules and translation library

Architectural element : Structural elements replacing voxels

Handled by - Fernando, Rey Vidal, Rishabh Lunkad

Architectural element : Library of elements

Handled by - Fernando, Rey Vidal, Rishabh Lunkad

Architectural element : Voxel clusters as individual apartments

Minimal surfaces as cost - effective architectural facade systems

Architectural Computation Design Dissertation

United Kingdom

Mathematically derived Minimal Surfaces offer great potential for large scale explorations due to their minimized area and weight. This thesis aims to develop its applications in the architectural realm by exploring its geometric properties to achieve cost - effective solutions such as mold re-use for fabricating panels. Here, minimal surfaces for architectural applications are generated using a constraint based solver. A two – dimensional matrix is used to develop K – means clustering algorithm that accurately results in grouping panels who share curvature parameters irrespective of their location in the mesh. It is noted that this clustering roughly follows the isolines of the principle curvatures of the mesh. This is due to minimal surfaces being a special type of Weingarten surfaces and therefore have a functional relation between its two principle curvatures. An attempt is made to discretize the geometry following the curvature isolines and the asymptotic lines to examine the behavior of the resulting panels. The development of the computational toolset can be used to support the design of panelization of minimal surfaces. It can provide designers with information about ideal panelization or indication of performances of custom made panelization suggested by the designer.

London,

Dissertation Tutor - Tommaso Casucci Technical Tutor - Martha Tsigkari

Softwares used : -C# | Rhinoceros 3D | Grasshopper | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe Photoshop

Semester 3 (PG)

Overall Computational Workflow

Form - finding process :- Hypar and Architectural facade.

Form - finding process :- Gyroid

Form - finding process :- Mesh relaxation using Kangaroo 3D

Form - finding process :- Hyperbolic Parabloid (Hypar) and its Iso - Curves aligned to the edges of the surface.

Hypar before form - finding a minimal surface.

Hypar after form - finding a minimal surface.

Hypar : Principal curvature iso-curves on a low and a high resolution mesh

K-Means - Calculating values for centroid matrix of the clustering algorithm.

K-Means - Centroid matrix graph

K-Means - Evolution of clustering centroids

K-Means - Visualising clustering graph and its resulting clusters of vertexes.

K-Means - Caluclating curvature values of a mesh face at its centroid.

Surface curvature Iso - curves and Clusters of mesh faces.

Approximate allignment of mesh face clusters to the curvature isolines.

Clustering

variations on a Hypar

Catalogue of varied geometry undergoing mentioned procedure.

Clustering variations on varied geometry.

Comparison and performance analysis between conventional panelling method and proposed panelling method.

Asymptotic Gridshell

Fabricating minimal surfaces using asymptotic curves.

London, United Kingdom

Tutors - Vishu Bhooshan , Tommaso Casucci, Heba Eiz, Efthymia Dourodi, Jianfei Chu

Team - Rishabh Lunkad, Tommaso Pardini, Andres Amenabar, Irmak Ugurlu, Shahe Gregorian

Softwares used - C# Scripting | Rhinoceros 3D | Grasshopper | Vector Works | Maya

Architectural Geometry (AG) focuses on the synthesis of shapes that guarantee structural and fabrication optimality. It is also closely aligned with and complementary to the development of robotic and digital fabrication (RDF) technologies and design methods. The workshop explored the relevance of this state-of-the-art design and construction paradigm in the realm of timber grid shells. Specifically, the workshop is a collaborative design exercise exploring the design space of topologies that are form found using structural and fabrication constraints and prototyping of small scale models using laser cutting and assembly of timber sheet material.

Team 3 | Studio 3 | Timber Gridshell Workshop, (PG) Semester 2

Physical prototype of form - found minimal surface

Concrete is the second most consumed material in the world (4000 million metric tonnes+ in the year 2020). This project explores an alternative way to consume concrete in less and efficient manner using formfinding methods of 3D Grahpic Statics that enables one to distribute the material in required location only,

Exploring 3D concrete printed architectural elements as a substitute towards

3D Graphic Statics

Inverse Method

1 Internal Subdivision :-

3D Graphic Statics Inverse Method

2 Internal Subdivision :-

Form - Finding Process - Single Polyhedron

Geometry exploration for case study.

Lines Input

Base Polyhedra

Polyhedra Subdivision

Lines OutputWall Structure Element

Form - Finding Process - Combination of 2 Polyhedrons

Form - Finding Process - Geometry variations as a result of varied input polyhedrons.

3DGS to 3DCP

OverhangLayer Distance

4 Node Generation

A mini art studio designed as a space for showcasing art and craft as well as

Softwares used - Rhinoceros 3D | V-ray | Autodesh AutoCAD | Adobe Photoshop

Tinge art and craft by Swarna Lunkad Gandhi is a passion brand that offers a variety of handcrafted unique products and paintings in almost every medium, be it oil colors, pastels, charcoals, watercolors to craftwork involving quilling, lamasa, sauspeso and many more. The utmost important requirement of the client was to have ample amount of storage space to accomodate raw materials and equipments for craftwork, canvas and colors for paintings, space to work comfortably on an easel with sufficient natural light and enough moving space. Along with these, there was also a need to have a displaying unit, which could showcase some of the artist’s work to her visitors.

Maximum space utilisation

70 : 30

White : Wood

Light color theme to reflect diffused sunlight

Painting display and storage unit.

Working Drawings : Main Table

Working Drawings : Main Table

Working Drawings : Display Unit

With a plot size of 3.5 acres, the Nilachal Vedic Village is an existing ‘eco village’ that was being further developed at the time. The existing structues consists of Gaushala, Kitchen, Kuthir and a Temple. Additional proposed structures include - entrance gate, parking area, open amphitheatre, visitor’s centre, temple, prasadam, VIP cottages, vedic school, dispensary, Govind restaurant, grazing land, farming area and several gardens.

Under the guidance of Ar. Vinit Nikumbh and along with the Bricolage Bombay team, I was entrusted with the responsibility of preparing constructional working drawings for the amphitheatre, preparation of presentation drawings and display units and much more.

Softwares used - Autodesh AutoCAD | Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Illustrator | Sketchup |

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