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Khan
+1 (954) 459-7771
shambil.khan@gmail.com
RESUME/Portfolio
BARCH Florida Atlantic University School of Architecture [Completed as of May the 6th, 2022](Cum Laude*)
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(Awards/ most recent)
2022. Thesis Prize (overall)Material Entropy (attached)
2022. Award for Research in Development, AI training and execution+ ANN’s and NLM’s (Competitions)
Traits_2022. TRAITS of Postdigital Neobaroque. PDNB Obergurgl, Austria : [TRAITS 2022 CONFERENCE OBERGURGL 07.-09.12.2022]
M.Mine_2022. Allihies mines, Ireland meditation destination immersed in nature. YAC Bologna, Italia : [COMPLETE]
Bio: Bangladeshi-American Citizen. English Native/and Bengali Fluent.
I am obsessive about details. I excel at producing models both physical and digital, and have extensive practical knowledge of fabrication. For the past 3 years I’ve worked as a Fabrication Lab Technician in the Florida Atlantic University School of Architecture. I’ve guided students and faculty in the materialization of their respective projects, and to create provocative digital and physical representations of form, space and experience.
I’ve had experiences realizing several architectural projects at different scales. From simple renovations to private homes, to the reworking of penthouse interiors, to the revitalization of historic properties through my internships and consultant work,--all projects undertaken simultaneously with my design studios and lab-job.
I am in pursuit of the design and realization of highly expressive and evocative architecture unhindered by traditional tools and mediums.
>Work /Experience:
Intern @ J Mikael Kaul Architect Inc.[2017 Summer, 2018 Spring]
Model making, CAD and sketching. As-builts, Demo-documents and construction documents.
Consultant @ J Mikael Kaul Architect Inc. [2021 Summer]
...Designing, troubleshooting, competitions etc.
Fabrication Lab Tech @ FAU SOA [2019-2022]
-providing confident guidance and training SOA students in the use of university equipment including, 3D printers, CNC, and laser cutters, virtual fabrication programs, AR/VR tools and the more traditional FAUSOA woodshop.
-COVID 19 Relief effort 1500 3D printed visors from the SOA Fabrication Lab to local ‘at risk’ non-profit organizations including Broward Women’s Health Center, and Broward Public Housing Assn.
>Skills:
Computational design: Rhinoceros 3D(advanced) modelling and parametric solutions(GH+).
Traditional CAD drafting.
Generative Design: AI Models [GANS and Neural Language Models].(pipelines attached)
Desktop publishing:
Working knowledge of full Adobe suite.
Photoshop(certified); Illustrator; Indesign.
Analogue skills:
-maquette construction, carving, casting, wireframing, forming and sculpting. Resin and Glass cloth sculpting.
-Photogrammetry and collage.
>Extra:
International Baccalaureate graduate with a certificate in photography. Certified instructor of Vinyasa(flow) Yoga.
Shambil Khan +1 (954) 459-7771 shambil.khan@gmail.com
RESUME/Portfolio [CONT’d.]
>Skills: GIS: Satellite topographic sensing. +3D scanning/ point cloud mapping.
Drone opperation/ still-frame manipulation. AGISOFT METASHAPE/ (***)
DigitalFUTURES_2022. DALLE2, a ‘cadavre exquis’ model. @digitalfutures_world [ongoing] YACademy_2022. Marketing and Communication for Architecture. YAC Bologna, Italia [ongoing]
https://www.behance.net/gallery/153054517/Buried-Interiors https://issuu.com/shambilkhan/docs/portfolio_5
Using moments of grid network from prolific intersections in Rome, Hong-Kong and Paris as drivers for a series of agent based simulations, stigmergic relationships can be derived from the clustering (read as voids or blocks) and the best-fit line through the thousand [agent]points, as paths. The simulation is reinterpreted into gridlines and remodelled with a system of scaffolding which approximates the density of the new block. Be it a hyperdense scaffold, in a reletively tiny block flaring towards the Harlem riverside, or a superblock which shrinks back into the boulevard, the general density, size and height of the individual scaffold units in and towards Malcolm X Blvd have been respectfully maintained.
The Reanimation of derelict industrial buildings with hyper-ornate baroque period interiors.Baroque means "irregularly shaped" The [CycleGAN]AI is trained with augmented images of in both directions, taught to imagine the corrupted interiors of Basilica San Pietro, Another [StyleGAN]AI is used in series to stylistically interpolate the same industrial building interiors, generating highly vibrant imagery of connections in moments of the factory interior with baroque complexity and ornament.
Domain A
Domain B
StyleGan Domain A StyleGan Domain B
Combined StyleGanCycleGan
StyleGan Nada
Source: Factories Target: Baroque Architecture
decay2baroque Domain B to A
Domain A Dataset
Domain B Dataset
There is a hevily involved curatorial process in the early phases of training a neural network. To have a sucessful dataset plugged into the CycleGAN training a number of percautionary measures were taken with rules extracted from earlier, reletively dissimilar trials with stillpertinent information.
2500 super-resolution images had to be prepared for the domains[A,&B]. Each image had to be cropped, shifted and augmented to expand the coverage of clusters in the latent space.
PIXPLOT, a dimensional reduction tool which allows the exploration of tens of thousands images clustered and layered by their similarity, was pivitol in the culling of the early datasets for highly dissimilar images which might deter or stall the AI trainings.
Moments of change from a recognizable factory structure, to an utterly new organic composition
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The highly industrial aesthetic is present through the guilded images and though the images are highly distorted the fabric, pattern and order of the baroque detail structures remain intact.
_Falsified neo-baroque interiors
