I’m an undergraduate from Sasi Creative School of Architecture, coimbatore. During my Education I enjoyed exploring and adapting to different environments which helped me become versatile. Growing up, I have always enjoyed creating new things and have always been fascinated with designing and crafting. Pursuing this passion for design in the form of architecture I aspire to design spaces that value human experience.
Experience
Intern Architect l August - December 2023
Kham Design, Bangalore
Junior Architect l March - December 2024
Cadence Architects, Bangalore
Junior Architect l Feb - present 2024
Terra atelier Architects
Lectures & Workshop
Language
Tamil , English
Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam , Korean Basic
Webinor by Ar. Patrik Schumaher, Zaha Hadid Achitects
IFC’s Certificate course on sustainabilityDesigning for Greater Efficiency (DfGE)
3D Printing Workshop by Ar. Ilayaraja Chinnaiah
“Just give me some space” by COA
Brick masonry workshop at SCSA, Coimbatore
Competitions
Volume Zero - Tiny Library design. ANDC 2019, NASA bus terminal design.
Archmello competion - The Brewed Bar an urban coffee house design
2016 2018
20182023
class 10 - R.N. Oxford matriculation school, Namakkal.
UD (Coimbatore), Dissertation (sense of space and time in contemplative space), Practical Training at Kham Design
Thesis (Memorial Museum for Tamil Freedom Fighters at Chennai)
class 12 - TVS matriculation higher secondary school, Madurai
b.arch - Sasi creative school of architecture, Coimbatore.
Drafting & modelling
Rendering
Adobe creative suite
Madurai , TN, India Education
Concept Ideation, Designn Research & Context study, Digital Illustrations, Photography, painting, Graphic Design-Logos & posters
Microsoft Office
Autocad, Sketchup, Revit, Lumion, Enscape
Photoshop, Illustrator, premiere pro word, Power point, Excel
Sciography workshop by Ar. Balram, Coimbatore @_srik_i @the_blankpage__ Sri krithika
Ph :+91 7339689908
Porfolio l Srikrithika N
1. Monument of Hope Celebrating Tamil Rebels & Rebellions
Memorial Museum - Thesis
2. Xperia - A Sports Hub
Academic - Sem 7
3. MICE center
Academic - Sem 6
4. Internship
At Kham design, Bangalore - Sem 9
5. Junior Architect
At Cadence Architects
6. Miscellaneous
Monument of Hope
Celebrating Tamil Rebels & Rebellions
Location- ECR , Chennai
Thesis l sem 10 l year5 l 2023
A Memorial Museum at Chennai for Tamil rebels and rebellions involved in Independence Movement.
The impactful tales of our liberation movement conceals the 200 year struggle for identity. The generations long after the freedom have lost the opportunity to understand, learn and most importantly feel, what efforts our ancestors have made to gain the liberation. The direct connection with those time has disappeared. In order to hold the celebration of their legacy and bring back the energy they once had, the memorial for the tamil rebels is being proposed. To kindle the sence of regional nationalism among the growing tamil society is indispensable.
Exploring the possibilities of creating an immersive experience in built forms through the engagement of our sensorium, and in turn exploring the relationship between architecture and the human experience is the aim of this thesis.
MEMORIAL MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
Memories are the connection to immaterial expression in architecture, the narrative aspects that contains what the building wants to communicate. Parallel to its function in the city, memory can refer to the direct context of a building (like its history) as well as to abroader complex of interest. Understanding these broader complex of interest in the context to a tragedy and hence its memory, onenow looks at the 'built' for the memories of the tragedy which we call memorials.
The intimate association between memory and narrative arises from urge to use the past to instruct the present and future generations. A memorial may be built as a sign of collective memory. These memorials refer to events, which are public or social in nature. Memory is a social, not a psychological phenomenon, can reside in society rather than simply in the heads of individuals. It is through interconnections among these shared images that the social frameworks of our collective memory are formed. Taking the example of war memorials aiding to the collective memory-War memorials acquire their landscape definitions from sentiments, utility, social purpose and historical interpretation.
USERS
SENSE OF EXPERIENCE
The point of anchorage, is essentially the setting or place in which the experience occurs. When we experience an event, our brain ties the sights, smells, sounds, and other sensorial input from the environment subconsciously to primarily create the place of experience. The secondary informational input that we then receive (the incident), although varying from person to person, is anchored to the primary sense of place that our mind has already registered.
A MATTER OF PERCEPTION
ACTIVITIES
-Memorialization
-Experiencing the movements and iberation
-Contemplation through different transitional spaces
-Reasearch and Learning -Leisure and Recreation
The Poligars of Dindigul and Malabar rose up against the oppressive land revenue system under the British during 1801-06. In September 1799, in the first Polygar War, the poligars of Tirunelveli District rose up in open rebellion. Veerapandiya Kattabomman Nayak of Panchalankurichi was considered as the main leader of the rebellion. The Second Polygar war of 1800-01, given the magnitude of participation, is also known as the ‘South Indian Rebellion’. Velunachiyar recaptured Sivagangai and was again crowned as a queen with the help of Marudu brothers.
POLIGAR REVOLT
What is referred to as India's first war of independence was the Sepoy mutiny that started in Meerut in 1857. But in 1806, a rebellion broke out against the rule of the East India Company in the Vellore Fort of Tamil Nadu. Some historians say that the Vellore Mutiny should be considered India's first war of liberation. Tipu Sultan's family was imprisoned in the fort. Since this mutiny took place in Tamil Nadu and many Tamil soldiers took part in it one could say that it marks an important event in the freedom Struggle in Tamil Nadu.
S. Satyamurti actively involved in the Swadeshi Movement. He was one of the prominent leaders of the ‘pro-changers’, who were defeated by the ‘no-changers’ in the year 1922.
Chidambaram Pillai spread the movement to Madras and organised the strike of the Tuticorin Coral Mill. He founded the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company in Tuticorin on the east coast ras Province. Subramania Bharati was a member of Tamilian revolutionary group and an eminent poet, played a significant role in arousing nationalism in the Tamil areas.
VELLORE MUTINY SWADESHI MPOVEMENT
Annie Besant from Ireland called for autonomy for Ireland and India, which were under British rule. He migrated to India in 1893 and started the Indian Autonomy Movement in Adyar, Madras in September 1916. The Autonomy Movement had 40,000 members with 200 branches. Demonstrations and protests for Indian autonomy were consolidated. The movement attracted scholars and college students.
Annie Besant was arrested in June 1917. The autonomy movement was instrumental in bringing reforms in the British government so that India's demand for autonomy was not considered anti-national.
SALT
Rajaji led the same protest from Trichy to Vedaranyam in Tamil Nadu. Sardar Vedaratnam Pillai coordinated this struggle. Leading journalists like AN Sivaraman, Kalki alsoparticipated in it. The Salt Satyagrahainstilled the spirit of liberation along the banks of the Cauvery. As Lal-Bal-Pal, the Triumvirates laid the strong foundation of Indian Independence movement, during the same period, in Tamil Nadu (then Madras Presidency) three patriots, Chidambaram, Bharati and Siva equally praiseworthy sacrificed their blood, sweat and all the resources at their command for the liberation of our Motherland.
KEY PEOPLE INVOLVED IN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT IN TAMIL NADU
Martyrdom of Tirupur Kumaran
On 11 January 1932 a procession carrying national flags and singing patriotic songs was brutally beaten by the police in Tirupur. O.K.S.R. Kumaraswamy, popularly Tirupur Kumaran, fell dead holding the national flag aloft. He is hailed as Kodkatha Kumaran.
The Madras session of the Indian National Congress in 1927 declared complete independence as its goal. In the 1929 Lahore session of the Congress, Poorna Swaraj (complete independence) was adopted as the goal and on 26 January 1930 the national flag was hoisted by Jawaharlal Nehru on the banks of river Ravi as the declaration of independence.
On 8 August 1942 the Quit India resolution was passed and Gandhi gave the slogan ‘Do or Die’. The entire Congress leadership was arrested overnight. K. Kamaraj while returning from Bombay noticed that at every railway station the police waited with a list of local leaders and arrested them as they got down. Kamaraj gave the police the slip and got down at Arakkonam itself. He then worked underground and organised people during the Quit India Movement.
The Quit India Movement in Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, started on 11th August 1942, with students of some schools and colleges observing a hartal (stoppage of work). This led to clashes with the police, and their arrests marked the beginning of the involvement of students in the movement.
INDIAN HOMERULE MOVEMENT
-Current war memorial museums in India that exhibits the journey of rebels and rebellions
Location- Muttukadu, ECR , Chennai
In Accordance to -
1. CHENNAI PROPOSED MASTER PLAN 2026 - RECREATIONAL ZONE
2. COASTAL REGULATION
NOTIFICATION 2019 - CRZ II (BUILT UP TO A CERTAIN EXTENT)
POSSIBLE ACCESS TO THE SITE FROM SERVICE ROAD
POSSIBLE ACCESS TO THE SITE FROM ECR HIGHWAY
EXISTING PEDESTRIAN ACCESS
EXISTING VEHICULAR ACCESS
VISUAL CONNECTIVITY TO THE SITE
BUS STOP - MEERAN NAGAR
thiruchendur
Kanya Kumari
Thiruvannamalai
Ooty
Kanchipuram
Mamallapuram
Cont.
Tamil Nadu District wise tourist data 2018, Tourism Report , Ministry of Tourism
Area- 17 Acres
The site is located along the ECR road. Which is basically a tourist corridor in the city Chennai
The access to the site by means of vehicles is from the ECR state highway.
The site ends with the view from the jganath beach. overlooking the sea in the east.
The site is surrounded by resorts and dinings on either sides.
There is scattered settlement around the site which makes it free of sound pollutionand makes the area quiter. the only means of sound is from the high way.
-soil type - sandy soil
- A flat site
- existing access is from ECR road
-Towards North - it leads to areas like uthandi, Palavakam, Thiruvanmiyur. -Towards South - it leads to Mahabalipuram through semencheri.
PORTRAYAL OF REBELLION
The following elements are the main points to portray a war and independence
PROVOCATION
NEUTRALISATION
HEALING
Chronological order of the movemts
1. South Indian Rebellion - Poligars Revolt/ (1795-1805)
2.The Vellore Mutiny - 1806
3.Swadeshi Movement -1906
4..Vanchinadhan Inacident-1911
5. Indian Home Rule Movement - 1916-1918
6.Civil Disobidience Movemnt
- Towards Purna Swaraj
- Vedaranyam Salt sathyagraha
- Martyrdom of Tirupur Kumaran
7. Non Cooperation movent - !921-23
8.Quit India Movemnt - 1942
REMEMBRANCE
MEMORIAL EXHIBIT
JAGANATH BEACH
VIEW TOWARDS SEA
PROVOCATION
VISITOR’S AXIS
BUBBLE DIAGRAM
SPACE ORGANIZATION
The concept is to depict the chronological order of the movements with the help of these points of portrayal of war in terms of experiential spaces.
The liberation hall is the interface space and the sub-space placed halfway at the middle level, signifies the transition from adark past to a hopeful future
Swadeshi market
Swadeshi
Jaganath Beach
Permanent Exhibit
THE SPACE NARROWS TO A NARROW OPENING FROM A BROADER SPACE REPRESENTING THE EMERGENCE OF THE STRUGGLE
THE MISPLACEMENT OF MIRRORS AROUND AND MIRROR COLUMNS TO REFLECT OURSELVES HIGHLIGHTING EVERYTHING IS WITH IN US
PLACEMENT OF BLOCKS IRREGULARLY REPRESENTING THE DISOBIDIENCE TO THE RULES MADE BY THE BRITIS
POLIGAR REVOLT SWADESHI MOVEMENT CIVIL DISOBIDIENCE MOVEMENT
BRINGING COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE FIGHTING AGAINST THE BRITISH IMPERIALISM
ROAD TO FREEDOM
PURNA SWARAJ QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT
EXPLODED VIEW
VELLORE MUTINY
THE VOIDS REPRESENTING THE MAJOR SHOT EVENT HAPPENED AT THE VELLORE FORT
HOME RULE MOVEMENT
AUDIO VISUALS OF THE EVENTS HELD OUT BY ANNIE BESANT FOR THE HOME RULE MOVEMENT .
VEDARANYAM SALT SATHYAGRAHA
THE SAND PATH REPRESENTS THE ESSENCE OF THE MAJOR PROESTS OF THE SATHYAGRAHA HAPPENED AT THE SHORES OF THE MARINA.
THIRUPUR KUMARAN MARTYRDOM
THE FLAG BEING HELD DOWN TO THE GROUND REPRESENTING THE INCIDENT
PLAN - PERMANENT EXHIBIT
The permanent exhibit showcase the series of prominent events of freedom movement that involved Tamil Nadu. The exhibit is designd with apertures that plays with the light and volumes which enhances the experience of the space for the visitors. the use of closed walls thoughout the exhibit is to make sure the visitors feel the struggle of the freedom movement and transitional space from the exhibit to the post freedom is signified by the open vantage point to feel the liberation,
Monolith walls
The liberation point is the interface space and its placed halfway at the middle , signifies the transition from a dark past to a hopeful future. It’s the vantage point pointing towards the jaganath beach where the sky meats the vast sea. this vantage point is palces as such to make the visitors fell the transition from the struggle to freedom and following that big monolith wall stands high which denotes that the way to a new free india. The water body next to that reflects the tear of the struggled nation. the wall of names are sculpted with the names of the tamil soldiers involved in the post freedom wars and are open to the visitors to pay respect to thier respective family member.
Entry Plaza
Chamber of Rebels
Gallery of Rebels & Rebellions
Tribute Stamba
Wall of names is followed by the tribute stamba which reflects the void that the freedom fighters left in the people by their absence. The tribute tower is made of two slanting columns looks like it merely supporting each other and the void is filled with the water curtain. the water bodies on the site is surrounded by rain gardens to cpnserve water and to process the runoff water in case of storm water.
Tribute Stamba
Wall of Names
Tear of Nation(water body)
OAT
Liberation point
xperia
Location- Avinashi road, Coimbatore Academic l sem 7 l year 4 l 2021
Sports hub - A complete space designed for indoor and outdoor sports and allied events. This hub is the combination of Training and practice sessions for both professionals and the general public and also fun and entertainment zones. It is a place to promote sport, health, leisure and entertainment. This design studio had a project of designing a Sports hub with a theme of “Fit - Fun -Discover”,
Concept is based on constructivism. Incorporating lines, cylinders,rectangles &merged elements of constructivism such as tension cables, concrete, steel girders. and to make the structure extroverted by glass walls to make the users more involved in all the activities. the roofs form is based on trajectory parabola placed over the truss structure.
1. MAZE
2. BOWLING
3. FOAM PITS
1 PAINTBALL
2. GIANT CHESS PAVILLION
3. COMMONDO NETS AND CLIMBING WALLS FOR KIDS
4. DASHING CAR
5. CARNIVAL GAMES
6. ARCADE GAMES
7. CLIMBING CENTRE
8. VR GAMES 9. INDOOR SURFING Ground
CLIMBING CENTRE FOR ADULTS IN INDOOR FUN GAMES
GIANT CHESS PAVILLION
CLIMBING GAMES FOR KIDS
2.
CAFETERIA
1. SWIMMING
2. JUDO, WRESTLING, BOXING
3. BADMINTON
SKATING
TENNIS
VOLLEYBALL
JUDO AND BOXING
DISCOVER BLOCK
ISOMETRIC VIEW
Zoning of the “FUN, FIT & Discover” was done based on the users. People coming to the Fit zoned area are professional sportspersons so they were zoned as such other public visitors wouldn’t enter that part of the area. And the Fun and Discover parts were designed with glass facades to make it more extroverted and more welcoming to the visitors and to make the visitors wonder what kind of games are inside and take part in them. Equal importance for the games were given based on the age group as in both kids and adults.
PaintBall climbing games
Giant Chess Bowling Indoor maze
Kid’s Play area Flowriding Food court
Tennis court Volleyball court
Skating park Judo, Boxing, Karate swimming Pool
Gallery, Museum, Library Climbing center
TENNIS & VOLLEY BALL COURTS FOR PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS
First Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan
Basement Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Art Installations done for the event showcase of Karnataka’s Handlooms and Handicrafts at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishatt
Illustation of Aurinko Academy, Bangalore
Bathrooms below were designed and rendered by me in this project.
my part of work in the left image was the tv unit design.
my part of work was that i’ve rendered these images and i’ve designed the tv units and the staircase.
these drawings were the part of the plumbing centerline drawings that i’ve worked
Miscellaneous
Illustrations, Sketching, Photography
Growing up i have always enjoyed painting and sketching with different mediums. Portraits are one thing that fascinates me the most so I enjoy studing human faces and proportions.
Illustrations of places in coimbatore done for the Coimbatore Library interiors as a Freelance work.
