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Curriculum Vitae

Education

August 2022 - July 2024

Illinois Institute of Technology

Masters in Architecture

1st Semester, Grade 3.66

August 2016 - July 2021

CMR School of Architecture,Bangalore, India

Bachelors Of Architecture

Overall Grade 3.11

2014 - 2016

Experience

September 2021 - July 2022

June 2021 - August 2022

July 2019 - January 2020

Computer Skills

MS Office

Adobe CC

CAD/Render

Languages

English

Kannada

Telegu

Hindi

Expert P.U College

Mangalore, India

Studio Pensieve, Bangalore India Junior Architect

Design Studio, Ballari, India

Enviarch Studios, Bangalore, India

Internship

Word | Powerpoint | Excel

Photoshop | Indesign | Illustrator | Aftereffects

Autocad | Sketchup | Rhino | Revit | Lumion

Enscape | Grasshopper

#1 CONCROD

The Future of Mixed - Income High Ruse Housing in Chicago

Year: 2022

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Type: Academic, 1st semester, Graduate School Group work: Srishti Reddy, Anthony Battaglia, Maurice Gaston

#1 Concord is a hybrid mixed use high rise building designed to provide a gathering space for the community. The design improves the synergy between proximity, public spaces and privacy to create a social bond. This space will improve the social and economic impact by allowing seniors to live in the community and to provide social access. Concord is a road map for mixed income senior living crating community spaces they can use. The main concept is to use the form of the building as a medium of attraction and make the space inviting for the seniors and the community can use.

DESIGN INTENT

The concept of the project was uniting, designing a space which unites the community and senior citizens. The concept of uniting was used for the form itself which creates a petal, which provides maximum visibility. The residential tower follows the organic form to create a synergy with the base.

Built forms facing each other and meeting at a point

Curving the edges of the built form for maximum visibility of functions

Adding the service block as another petal

Rotating the second floor to create green balconies and shading spaces

W. Lawrence Avenue

N. Long Avenue

M.Milwaukee Avenue

STRATEGY DIAGRAMS

RESIDENTIAL ENTRANCE

The built form Community gathering spaces

Green spaces

Transparent Facades

Structural System

YOUTH DISTRICT

An Urban Catalyst For The Youth

Year: 2021

Location: Ballari, India

Type: Undergraduate Thesis, 10th semester

The aim of this project is to offer the youth of the developing tier II cities a specific location where they can participate in recreational activities, receive help with their academics ,learn specific skills, and develop a sense of identity.

The design of this facility seeks to investigate how architecture can be used as a cohesive and motivating element towards the social and physical development of these youth in order for them to become successful adults.

SITE ANALYSIS

SITE IMAGES

1. Ballari Sport Complex

2. Ballarai Stadium

3. Private Bus Stand

4. KSRTC Bus Stand

5. Ballari Nimith Kendra

6. Valmiki Bhavan

7. Fashion Technology University

8. City College

9. Navodaya Hospital

10. Ballari Rural Sub Division, GESCOM

11. Ballari Urban Development Authority

12. Naryana Rao Park

View of the Ballari Sports Complex

View of the Ballari-Hubli state highway

Ballari-Hubli State Highway

View of the site from the highway and the minor road

‘An Urban Catalyst For The Youth’

The intent of the project is to provide a specific space for the youth which can act as a small city in itself. Which provides different indoor and outdoor destinations for the youth to experience,explore and learn. Providing open spaces in between built spaces used by the youth for either playing or as gathering spaces which depicts the existing urban fabric of Ballari. The design explore how different architectural factors can act as catalyst to bring in the users.

INITIAL IDEAS

USING THE CITIES LAYOUT AS AN INSPIRATION

Experiencing different spaces as you move from one function to other

The city has developed around a main historic monument which is the center of attraction

DESIGN STRATEGIES RESPONDING TO THE CLIMATE OF THE CITY

1. Natural Ventilation Cross Ventilation and Stack effect

2. Shading Shading by tress and built structure

3. Natural Cooling Sources Courtyards with vegetation and water bodies

01. Site

The existing site

02. Built form

The built form following the site geometry and positioned facing the north direction

03. Elevating the built mass

By elevating the built mass, the center frees up more open spaces for casual gathering and more flexible activities for the youth

DESIGN STRATEGIES

04. Freeing up the ground floor

Providing only entry and lobby spaces for the main functions and creating a spine connecting the main road directly to the stadium

A central spine connecting the main road to the other side of the site

Providing green cover on either side which will help in reducing the issue of noise pollution

The transition spaces letting western and eastern winds addressing the hot and dry climate

Potential Pedestrian and vehicular entry to the site

1. Admin and waiting lounge

2. Restaurant and Cafe

3. Sports Zone entry and staff rooms

4. Learning center lobby and staff rooms

5. Mental health development center lobby and counseling rooms

6.Central open space, for events and gallery spaces

7. Basketball courts

8. Football Field

9. Water body

10. Service core

SECTIONS

View of the entrance OAT expanding into the built space

View of the entrance and the outdoor cafe

WALL SECTION

Spill out space for Counseling room

Brick Jali Wall

200x400mm exposed concrete Beam

Textured concrete wall

VIEW FROM THE WATER BODY

Designing Safe and Accessible Neighborhoods for Children

Year: 2020

Location: Bangalore, India

Type: Academic Urban Design, 8th Semester

The urban design studio consisted of intensive study of a ward as a group in the city of Bangalore,India. Following this smaller area was focused on to work on a public intervention.

The intervention mainly focuses on redeveloping the existing parks and streets in the neighborhood to be children friendly. The existing parks and streets need to be redesigned according to the users to be colorful, inviting and safe.

The ward was intensively studied as a class group by dividing it into smaller zones and analyzing it based on a common footprint such as build/unbuilt, typology, street studies, activity zones, green spaces, ease of access, lakes and their quality etc.

BEML CHILDREN PARK

BEML SMALL PARK

BEML WALKING PARK

DESIGN STRATEGIES

Zonning Diagrams

ZONE 1: Play park

ZONE 2: Youth Park

ZONE 3: Sports Park

How can these parks together be accessible and safe for children?

EXISTING SITE

With all the four parks catering to different activities but is not used as much, but all are easily accessible and are situated right in the center of a well planned residential layout

1. CONNECTING PARK 1 AND 2

The existing parks are divided by a junction, by blocking the junction and connecting the two parks creates a safe connectivity between the two parks which leads to reduction in traffic congestions in the community.

2.USING THE EXISTING VACANT PLOT

Including the existing vacant plot along the either side of the narrow park creates a huge space with lots of existing landscape, which provides a huge space to create a zone with lot of activities for kids.

CONNECTING THE FIRST ZONE TO PARK 3 AND 4

Physically connecting zone one and park 3 and 4 creates a huge open space. The huge zone will act as an attraction of the ward inviting more people to this layout and the ward itself.

DESIGN STRATEGIES

Physical Connection

Blocking The Junctions

Street Design

Park Edge Treatment

Entrance To The park

Creating Spaces Around trees

MASTER PLAN

LEAF COMPOSTING UNIT

STAGE AREA FOR PERFORMING AND ACTIVITIES

BASKETBALL AND BADMINTON COURTS

STEPPED SEATING AROUND THE COURTS

FOOTBALL AND TENNIS COURT

SKY WALK CONNECTING THE TWO ZONES

ENTRANCE FOR ELDERLY AND THE DISABLED

SEMI OPEN MULTIPURPOSE SPACE

GRASS MOUNDS FOR SEATING

PLAY AREA WITH JUNGLE GYM

FOOD TRUCK AND DROPPING ZONE

SEATING ALONG THE WALKING TRACK

FOOTPATH ALONG THE ALONG THE VENDOR ZONE

WALKING TRACK ALONG RUNNING ALONG ALL THE ZONES

WALKING TRACK RUNNING ALONG ALL THE ZONES

PLAY AND LEARN ZONE

SEATING AROUND THE TREES

of play park

View

View of learning area

View of entrance into the youth park

A bridge connecting both the parks from the safety of the kids

Football And Basketball Courts with seating all around

Basketball court

Stepped seating

Stepped seating

View of the sport park

INTERIORS FOR A START UP COMPANY

Year: 2020

Location: Bangalore, India

Type: Academic

Interior Design, 8th Semester

The brief involved designing a constrained office space on the third floor of a multi level building for a start up company.

The office space demanded a co-working environment among the employees with collaborative as well as focus spaces. The design focuses on dividing the space according to the users, placing the functions used by the clients in the entrance and the other silent places in the back.

Reception Table Design

table is built using concrete and mesh with a metal frame work to bring a unique combination of textures to the office space

View of workspace and pods

View of the conference room

FARM HOUSE

Year: 2021

Location: Coorg, India

Type: Work

Residential building in a farmland

The brief involved designing a residential family home amidst a dense farmland. Which resulted in us designing more open but secured space to keep the space safe from animals in the farmland.

As the main idea we tried to include the cultural aspects of Coorg, few aspects like katte and having an semi open kitchen

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

EXTERNAL VIEW

FRONT ELEVATION