SIDDHI ZAVERI

Architect & Interior Designer

Via Ludovico Lazzaro

Zamenhof, 15 English

Hindi

Gujarati

Marathi

2019 - 2022

2019

2017

Freelancing

Responsiblities - Completed three residential interior design projects in Mumbai.Worked as an independent designer and successfully completed execution of all three projects.

2018 Architecture firm - We Design Studio

CEPT Summer School Amsterdam, Netherlands

Light and Design

By Praveer Sethi

Domus Academy, Milan

Masters in Interior and Living Design (In progress)

SVKM’s NMIMS Balwant Sheth School of Architecture, Mumbai

Bachelor of Architecture

Print making

By Indrajit Prasad

2017

QGIS Workshop

Final year CGPA: 3.68 / 4

Jamnabai Narsee School, Mumbai

Princial Architects - Ar. Saahil Parikh and Ar. Nupur Shah

By Abhijit Ekbole

The Indian School Certificate (ISC)

Percentage: 92.5%

WORK EXPERIENCE WORKSHOPS EDUCATION SKILLS

2017 Junior Architect - Se-arch Studio for Environmental and Architecture

Project Management

Responsiblities - Worked as the project architect, for projects ranging from interior residential to small scale architectural projects. Looked into all aspects of the project, right from accounting, designing, working drawings, project management and exceution.

By Arti N.

COMPETITIONS + INSTALLATIONS

Bombay Sapphire + Domus Academy Design Marathon - Second position

24 HOURS Global Competition

Knowledge

Position - Top 50

Bombay Scottish School, Mumbai

The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE)

Percentage: 92%

Principal architect - Ar. Kapil Bhalla

Responsiblities - Worked on the GFC (Good for construction) drawings, moodboards, 3D models and renders.

2016 Intern - Thot Pot

Principal architect - Ar. Tapan Mittal

2022 2023 2017

Responsiblities - A part of the design team for competitions in India and around the globe.

Kala Ghoda Arts Festival

Mumbai

Position - Awarded certificate of Merit

Festival of Arch. and Interior Design Wood is Good

Position - Second position

2020 - 2019 2022-2023 2015-2020 2012-2014 2002-2012 2019 2019 2018 2018

Self Organizing Patterns in Nature Installation, BSSA, Mumbai

24 HOURS Global Competition Matrix

AUTOCAD

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

RHINOCEROS

ADOBE INDESIGN

ENSCAPE

V-RAY

AUTODESK 3D MAX

SKETCH UP

MODEL MAKING

HAND RENDERING + DRAFTING

Module 03, Domus Academy

Mentor Mrs. Marina Baracs

Site : Bangkok, Thailand

Programme : Health bar for Clinique La Prairie

ProjectBrief Project in collabration with Clinique La Prairie. In the context of designing a health bar for a luxury brand like Clinique La Prairie, the main challenge was to derive a concept and reveal it in creating the aesthetic and ambient interior space that aligns with the brand’s identity and offering a holistic relaxing experience. The bar should exude elegance and minimalism, reflecting the brands strategy towards luxury and well-being. The interior space should blend with luxury aesthetics with elements that promote well-being and rejuvenating atmosphere.

Project :The project embraces concept of cellular growth, reflecting the brand strategy towards luxury and well being in the harmonious space. Inspired by the vitality of cellular growth the design incorporates cells structure, and is exposed on the outer side. The color pallete and materials used, reflects rejuvenating atmosphere evoking a sense of renewal and vitality. The space is designed with sense that remarks a memorable customer journey, including all the envisioning aspects like, energy measurement pods, customisation area and retail.

Cells take in the nutrients from food , convert those nutrients to energy to carry out specific functions.

Understanding the compostion of the necessary ingredents that are consumed by our bodies.

Inside Out

The Cellhub Bar adopts an inside out approach across the total environment, making customers aware of what is stimulating the growth of their cells, which in turn impacts the nutrients.

Cellhub Bar Layout

Customer Journey Concept

The concept for the health bar is derived from the brand strategy itself that is cellular growth and energy production. It is based on the exposition of the inner cells to the outer world. Basically, how the cells provide structure for the human body and helps in energy production. We divided our space in grids, further creating cell structure and dividing them in different spaces.

We divided the space into four major programes, relaxation pods, the cellhub bar (main bar area), vitality cell and retail area. The cellhub bar is the main bar in the space, where food and juices will be prepared. The Vitality cell is more of customisation area, where the customers can order food based on there blood test report, so that they can get nutrients that is majorly required to each individual.

Incorporating the concept of cells into the design, we created smaller cellular blocks with various programs. Our concept consists of a capsule that is flexible and adaptive in any area also alter the materials while preserving the same structure of the capsule. As technology advances, we provide digital screens and interactive digital pods, as well as modest testing rooms with artificial intelligence to determine BMI and build a diet plan accordingly.

Blurring Boundaries

As the trend of working away from desks and dedicated workspaces contiues to climb. We would find that the office building typology has to evolve once again. Coupled with the fact that there is an up- coming trend of office employees working and conducting meetings in places such as coffee shops and other commercial places, it may not be a suprising notion that in the future office buidlings would become obsolete as a type. As workspaces become more fragmented and get distributed everywhere else. These fragmented workspaces are no longer restricted into just single floor spaces, spiling out of individual office buildings and getting distributed into fragmented amounts, embedded into various spaces Such as homes and third spaces. Hence the need to create a hybrid office typology is important, for offices to function where people have the option of working from whichever space they prefer and also have the comfort of a home space or various break spaces in an office set up.

Our design objective was to develop an all-encompassing strategy to guarantee productivity, effectiveness, engagement, and cooperation. As the most recent trend in workplace design has taken hold, there are many offices prepared to provide welcoming spaces for their staff. We arrived at this conclusion on how the workspace in the past was more formal with closed-off divided rooms and how it has changed in the present situation based on our study and case studies. Also, the social and experiential opportunities were restricted, but now they are more numerous and involved.

Flexible meeting areas

Informal meeting areas, designing such that the person using the space feels at home and is comfortable. At the same time the space can be used is various ways with the curtain system designed to allow smaller meetings and larger meetings. Hence providing a flexible space for different times of the day based on the two companies working schedules.

BLURRING BOUNDARIES

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Formal Meeting Area

A meeting space designed for the use of both the companies at different time slots. The flooring is designed to give an idea that the space is common for both the companies. Covered in glass on all four sides, gives opportunity for enough natural light to enter into the space.

Manager’s desk

The manager’s area is designed as an open layout. Hence breaking away from the heirarchy system of working and creating a more informal work environment.

BLURRING BOUNDARIES

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Working Areas

Creating work spaces which are more open and hence more interaction between employees of the different companies. Close to the working area is an informal meeting space, which is designed as a large cushioned area, where people can sit informally and feel at home, while having quick informal meetings. One significant feature here is the virtual pods connected to the core, which allows people to work or take calls in a more wuiet and enclosed space.

BLURRING BOUNDARIES

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Back to the Future

For this workshop we have the challenge to create a system for Valcucine’s showrooms, using as an example it’s actual showroom locate in Milan. The system should be flexible, easily fitted in any space and highlight their kitchens as well as the brand identity and values.Analysing valcucine history and italian architecture toghether with the brand main values, we decided to focus in the timeless caractheristic, because as we saw in it’s history a good design remains through time.With this in mind, we decide to bring the feeling of passing through a time tunnel.

As an interior design project made for the Valcucine’s showroom, a high-end kitchenware brand. It aimed to break through the existing limitations of Vaculcine’s showroom, making it more attractive for the customers, more flexible, and giving the possibility of being applied in other places, such as other showrooms or stands in events. Through the excavation of the Italian architechture history and valcucine’s, we used “back to the future” as the concept. Thus, we create a flexible curtain system and reset some space attributes, so that people could interact more with the products, which strengthen the brand awareness.

Transition of Material

Transition from traditional to modern materials. From a more heavy material like stone to brick and wood, to concrete and further changes to glass and metal. Inference: Materials start getting lighter as you go ahead towards the future.

Partitions

Transition of Forms

Evolution of architecture over the years, while retaining elements of the past.

BACK TO THE FUTURE

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Evolution of partitions

Defining the paths and creating a system

From our concept, back to the future, we end up with the solution of defining a path with a steel curtain. This curtain has partitions where people can pass through and reach the kitchens. It started with semi circular shapes, making a reference to the arcs and ends up with more linear openings as it goes ahead to the future. Also, the path has the shape defined by geometry, where the volumes left creating the different zones of the program, and it is highlight by lighting making it even more clear.

Curtain System

Creating something more interactive, connective and harmonious with the spaces of the kitchen displays and the people going through it. To start with, we followed a linear pattern for the curtains so that the spaces are designed in a way that the activities are divided in a more operative manner. We created similar shapes using organic geometry leading to a linear one through the transition of spaces as we go through the showroom. The flexibility of the strings was the material pallet cluster which would be supported by a magnetic clamp attached to the strings so that the user can access it in an easy way to compare between the multiple options provided by the company.

Value and Potential

From the perspective of materials, colors and lighting, we use the concept of back to the future throughout the project. The interactive touch screens and interactive devices allow people to experience a sense of technology and the future. The curtain system is where material panels and slogans can be hung redomly, and it guides how people pass through the space. It’s a strong, visually striking and flexible system. It can make people clearly recognize that this is the space where the territory of Vaculcine is in. It also promote the use of other showroom in the future.

Mango Orchard House

We Design Studio

Site : Karamsad, Gujarat

Programme: Residential

Project Brief : To refurbish an existing bungalow. However, on visting the site in Karamsad, Gujarat, it was evident that the decades old structure did not do justice to its setting amidst a lush orchard, surrounded by hundreds of mature mango trees.

Concept: Conceived as a single monolith, the house incorporates a variety of spatial gestures. The architecture has been liberally punctured to create visual connections from one space to the other, as also across indoor spaces to the trees and landscape outside. Further, five intimate open to sky courtyards form a link to the outdoors in the vertical plane as well.

One enters the house passing under the shadows of a pergola that will soon be taken over bt the planted bougainvillea. The entrance lobby is a calming space adjoining one of the internal courts and right ahead lies the voluminous living area. Nature is the hero here and the space is kept uncluttered with only a central seating cluster and a console.

The austere approach continues through the project, with a singualr material chosen for the flooring and a rough painted tectured paint for the walls. This neutral palette allows for bursts of colour to come in through the soft furnishings and the artworks, creating an idyllic weekend home that evokes a feeling of contentment and encourages one to linger on.

Ground Floor Layout

As you enter the residence through a steel canopy permeated by white bougainvillaea, the interplay between the permanent building and the ephemeral landscape becomes defined. The ground floor features the living, dining, kitchen and guest bedroom, while the upper floor houses the three primary bedrooms. A freestanding staircase made of mild steel connects the two floors.

Mango Orchard House

Project Brief: To refurbish an existing bungalow. However, on visiting the site in Karamsad, Gujarat, it was evident that the decades-old structure did not do justice to its setting amidst a lush orchard, surrounded by hundreds of mature mango trees.

Site: Karmsad, Gujarat

Programme: Residential

Concept: Conceived as a single monolith, the house incorporates a variety of spatial gestures. The architecture has been liberally punctured to create visual connections from one space to the other, as also across the indoor spaces to the trees and landscape outside. Further, five intimate open-to-sky courtyards form a link to the outdoors in the vertical plane as well.

One enters the house passing under the shadows of a pergola that will soon be taken over by the planted bougainvillea. The entrance lobby is a calming space adjoining one of the internal courts and right ahead lies the voluminous living area. Nature is the hero here and the space is kept uncluttered with only a central seating cluster and a console.

First Floor Layout

The austere approach continues through the project, with a singular material chosen for the flooring and a rough textured paint for the walls. This neutral palette allows for bursts of colour to come in through the soft furnishings and the artworks, creating an idyllic weekend home that evokes a feeling of contentment and encourages one to linger on.

The home is perched precariously above its surroundings due to the careful sizing of its apertures, which optimises the mass to void ratio. Floor-toceiling glass windows maximise the visual connection between the interior rooms and the exterior landscape. Moreover, as a direct response to the region’s severe temperatures, the house was constructed exclusively from locally produced cavity brick walls.

Status: Completed in December, 2021

Material palette

What’s endearing is the sparse use of material finishes, which creates a neutral palette and sets the stage for the homeowner’s priceless art collection, which hangs on the walls with grace. We wanted the mango trees to be the protagonist here. The brilliance of the green needed to be experienced. This inspired the material selection; limiting the colours to white, grey and black. A light grey slate runs across the floor and bathrooms of the home. The walls are finished in a textured white paint. The doors are made in recycled Burma teak stained black. The windows are from Schueco and finished in a textured black powder coating.

Evidently, the Mango Orchard home, is an attempt at harmony between indoors and outdoor. Unusual seating configurations, interactive lighting fixtures, and last but not least, the iconic artworks ranging from commissioned works by Yashwant Deshmukh and Vrindavan Solanki to pieces from Japan and the client’s private collection are a visual feast for all! A variety of spatial gestures create visual passages between rooms and through interior spaces to the trees and the landscape beyond, despite the house’s initially monolithic façade.

Indoor-Outdoor connect Staircase

The staircase serves as a focus point and can be seen from many rooms thanks to its sleek black finish. The stairs, in an interesting twist, were built in three distinct pieces: the upper and lower flights, and the intermediate landing. These were then painstakingly assembled on-site with the assistance of a compact crane and welded together.

LaFon

We Design Studio

Site : Bandra west, Mumbai

Project Brief : Divided into two distinct parts separated by an entrance foyer, the decor stems from the designers’ aesthetic sensibilities and their ability to create deceptively simple solutions. What’s more, the house is user-friendly with zero wastage of space.

Concept: Upon entering the home, on one side lie the living, dining, lounge and balcony, while the other side is flanked by four bedrooms. But what captures your attention is the soothing colour palette comprising whites and browns, punctuated sparsely with pops of vibrant colours in the form of art, tapestries and accessories.

Local marble and recycled teak wood come together to form a harmonious whole. The sensual and animated teak wood juxtaposed against the soft white walls, floor and ceilings strikes a balance and helps create a strong sense of tranquillity.

When you live in a city like Mumbai, often referred to as the ‘city of dreams’, you inevitably become a part of the hustle culture. Amidst all the noise, it’s imperative to go back to a place that feels like a warm hug. Quiet and timeless simplicity is what the designers were aiming for and have achieved with flying colours. However, what stirred them more was the expansive 500 sq ft sun deck peppered with a breakfast table, spacious seating and lots of outdoor plants.

Project Brief

Divided into two distinct parts separated by an entrance foyer, the decor stems from the designers’ aesthetic sensibilities and their ability to create deceptively simple solutions. What’s more, the house is user-friendly with zero wastage of space.

Project Layout

Spaciousness, epitomises luxury. Especially in a dense city such as Mumbai. This is an inherent quality the apartment had and something to retain. And this thought is what drove the process of placing the furniture art and accessories. Upon entering the home, on one side lie the living, dining, lounge and balcony, while the other side is flanked by four bedrooms. But what captures your attention is the soothing colour palette comprising whites and browns, punctuated sparsely with pops of vibrant colours in the form of art, tapestries and accessories.

Look and feel of the house

When you live in a city like Mumbai, often referred to as the ‘city of dreams’, you inevitably become a part of the hustle culture. Amidst all the noise, it’s imperative to go back to a place that feels like a warm hug. Quiet and timeless simplicity is what the clients were aiming for and have achieved with flying colours. However, what stirred them more was the expansive 500 sq ft sun deck peppered with a breakfast table, spacious seating and lots of outdoor plants!

Liminal Spaces

Mentor: Ar. Atrey Chhaya

Site Lower Parel Programme: Mixed used

Exploring the idea of the in-between realm in architecture. This transition space is in a s tate of constant movement and change as compared to state A and B. Thus the transition space engages the user in a journey of experiencing the space and not just using it.

In our society, where everything is based on the intrests or requirements of the consumers, the real question to ask is not whether we are surrounded by transitions, but what is the qaulity of the transitions. How is that quality integrated in our day to day lives, to generate an improved environment.

Understanding the importance that these spaces hold and how they are changing due to the impact of the elctronic information highway. A collapse is seen between programmatic divisions, different programmes start merging into each other and the in-between spaces start blurring and become less relvant day by day. People are begining to get more isolated and disoriented living in a scaless space, where all programmes and tasks can be performed from the same space.

Thus bringing back the strong qualities and experiences of the in-between relam in a space with blurred boundaries between functions.

Mapping the in-between spaces

The third space, engages the user or observer in a journey of experiencing the space instead of using it. The absence of a concrete identity is what makes the in between of such value. “An understanding of thresholds can make us conscious of how we move in a state of between-ness.

Mapping streets, historic monuments and temples to understand the value of the in between space in the past and present.

Increasingly, telecommunication systems replace circulation systems, and the solvent of digital information decomposes traditional building types.

Due to technology, a collapse in in-between spaces and transitions between different programmes. All programmes collapse into one space, with no thresholds.

Everyday activities can be superimposed on each other as the boundaries be-tween WORK, PLAY, HOME AND OFFICE disappear.

Mapping

The Site And Designing Transitions

Understanding different aspects of the site like pulls based on node density, public and private boundaries based on pulls and derivation of void placement. Studying these aspects of the site, helped dervied a layout and designing for the pathways and the programme placements.

A CONNECT TO THE OUTSIDE, THROUGH GREENS FLOWING THROUGH THE STRUCTURE

BALCONIES AND ROOF TOPS, FRAGMENTED IN A WAY TO HAVE A VISUAL CONNECTION AS YOU MOVE THROUGH THE STRUCTURE

A CONTINOUS INTERACTION WITH PEOPLE AND VARIOUS PAUSE POINTS THAT KEEP YOU CONNECTED TO NATURE.

Part axonomteric views to understand different spaces

KEEP THE PROGRAMMES CONNECTED AND BOUNDAIRES BLURRED, WITH BUFFERS CREATED AT VARIOUS LEVELS

TRANSITIONS MAKING THEIR WAY THROUGH DIFFERENT PROGRAMMES

BLURRING OF BOUNDARIES BETWEEN DIFFERENT PROGRAMMES, STILL MAINTAINING THE QUALITY OF THE THRESHOLDS TRANSITIONS FLOWING THROUGH THE STRUCTURE AND CREATING DIFFERENT CONNECTIONS AND RELATIONS TO DIFFERENT PROGRAMMES

STRUCTURE FACADES BLURRING THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN THE STRUCTURE AND THE OUTSIDE

PASSIVE CORRIDOR

STRUCTURE FACADES CREATING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN RESIDENTS AND CONNECTION WITH GREENS

ACTIVE CORRIDOR

CONNECTIONS AND PATHS FLOWING THROUGH AT DIFFERENT LEVELS

A library to us is an agglameration of experiences, vehemence, fervor, excitement, and spirit; induced by its content. Such unfettered experience in a fringed space is what constitutes a library. These sentiments when abstracted via waveforms become the generators of our design.The product hence is a multi-functional, iterative furniture piece structured by the physical translation of the waveforms.

This product is most suitable for a library space or reading rooms as it allows its users to have a variety of posture adjustments and utilitarian uses so as to make reading more comfortable.One of the key traits of this product lies in its modular and compacting ability, where the entire system can be flattened to a seamless surface when not in use.

Sapph-AIR 07 B

In collabration with Bombay Sapphire, we proposed a breath of fresh air through glass bubbles in abandoned alleys in the city of Milan. We explored tools like Midjourney and Chatgpt throught the process of the design marathon. Due to air pollution in a city like Milan, people have lost the idea and feel of what it is like to be in fresh air, which is not contaminated with dust, dirt and other harmful substances which have a direct effect on our bodies. Via Ascanio Sforza in Milan is transformed into an innovative and refreshing environment with blue glass bubbles filled with algae, purifying the air, and botanical plants emitting fragrances of juniper berries, coriander seeds, angelica root and orris roots.This unique integration of nature, technology, and art creates a captivating experience, showcasing Milan’s dedication to creating a cleaner and more delightful urban setting.