Hamsika Gummadavelly is an Indian architecture student currently studying at CEPT University. She provides her portfolio including education history, skills, competitions, workshops, studio projects, and other experiences. Her portfolio showcases design work from her Bachelor of Architecture program including residential, museum, and institutional projects applying principles from master architects like Le Corbusier.

1. PORTFOLIO
HAMSIKA GUMMADAVELLY
ARCHITECTURE
CEPT UNIVERSITY

2. Name
Hamsika Gummadavelly
Date of Birth:
31.10.1999
Nationality:
Indian
Languages:
English, Hindi, Telugu
Phone:
+91 8374568264
Email:
hamsika.gummadavelly.
barch17@cept.ac.in
Address:
S-6
Sai Residency
Ayyappa Nagar
Hoodi Road, KP Puram
Bangalore - 560036
EDUCATION
CEPT University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Bachelor of Architecture (Sem 06 ongoing)
Narayana Olympiad School. SSC- CGPA -10/10
Narayana High College- 98.8%
ACHIEVEMENTS
CEPT Excellence Award Winner 2018
SKILLS
MANUAL SKILLS
Sketching
Painting
Hand Drafting and Inking
Model Making
DIGITAL SKILLS
Autodesk AutoCAD
Sketchup
V-ray
Revit
Rhinoceros 3d
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
Microsoft Office
Illustrator
COMPETITIONS
The House
Crafting ‘Home’ through
‘spaces’- Archdais 2018
WORKSHOPS
Understanding Place:
Brief and Lunuganga
Gardens Bentota, Sri Lanka
Arches, Vaults and Domes:
Theory and Masonry Auroville
Earth Institute
INTERESTS
Craft Works
Bag Making
Travelling
Sketching
Photography
STUDIO PROJECTS
Of Immediate and A Far X
Tectonic Operations
DE Master Code
Foundation Studio 2
COMPETITION
The House
WORKSHOPS
Relative Study Programme
Understanding Place
Arches, Vaults And Domes
Scrap To Sculptures
OTHER SUBJECTS
Construction 1
Construction 2
Structures
BEYOND ACADEMICS
Installations
Miscellaneous
A compilation of selected works from 2017 to 2020.
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3. STUDIO PROJECT
OF IMMEDIATE AND AFAR X
An oasis nestled between the Ellis Bridge, the Sabarmati
river and the hustle and bustle of the old city of Ahmedabad.
Second Year
Spring Semester 2018
Project Type
Planning and Organization
Project Programme
Human Library
Built Up Area
900 sq. m
Project Programme
Human Library
Site
Abandoned Plot in Old City of Ahmedabad.
Brief
Old city allows one to perceive spaces in a nuanced way
because of multiple activities that happen at the same time
yet create coherence. Inspiration is taken -from the most
prominent thing in old city that is “street”. A sense of street
has been created in the project, where the main activity
human library will happen. Which in turn makes the space
become a thoroughfare as this connects one end of the
street to the other. The living spaces or the residing spaces
of the old city tend to be more private. So, the balconies
are an outreach to the rest of the context. This makes the
privacy prevail yet allow to be in a public environment.
Acknowledging this, Human Library in the project becomes
an outreach space and create a sense of privacy in a public
environment.
Human Library 3

4. SECLUSION HIBRIDISER CONTEMPLATE
ICE-BREAKER
HIBRIDISER
1:200 Scale Built Form Idea Models Illustrating multiple forms of activities happening on
the terrace
Human Library
Creating secluded spaces for the untold stories to come out
SECLUDED
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BUILT FORM IDEA MODELS
Conceptual ideas in form of models to respond to the site,
programme and the users were explored. Which were merged to
create 1: 200 scale models in site context

5. CLUSTERED CONTEXT THE LIBRARY SPACE AND EVENTYARD
SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Illustration showing its relation between the context and the human
library in the form of a section cutting through the River Front Sabarmati
RIVER FRONT SABARMATI RIVER
Human Library 5

6. PLAN SECTION
Floor plate offset inside the
Parallel Walls
Floor plate extending out
from the Parallel Walls
Floor plate extending out
from the Parallel Walls from
all four directions
Floor plate establishing
composite relationship with
the Parallel Walls
Floor plate establishing
composite relationship with
the Parallel Walls
Floor plate coinciding with
the Parallel Walls
6Human Library

7. STUDIO PROJECT
DE MASTER CODE
Center for DoCoMoMo International
Second Year
Monnsoon Semester 2018
Project Type
Planning and Organization
Project Programme
Center for DoCoMoCo International
Built Up Area
5000 sq. m
Project Programme
Empty plot opposite CEPT Campus
Brief
This studio was about understanding the principles
used by master’s architects Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn
in their buildings, and then reflecting them in our own
designs. DoCoMoMo is an institution built for the people
to understand the importance of modern architecture
around the world. In order to increase the accessibility of
the people to the built space. The free facade, which acts
as a lubricant to maintain the fluidity between inside and
outside, is provided. Light and order is the key to open the
doors of experiencing promenade. The trajectory leading
right from the ground to the top cutting through the
spaces helps in experiencing the eight principles such as
light, volumes, levels, organization, landscape, served and
servant spaces. For the space and light to fall in the right
place. Order plays a crucial role. The golden ratio is the
guide which help in composing and dividing spaces.
* This project was selected for CEPT Excellence Award 2018
7De Master Code

8. MASTERS MODELS
Understanding the organisation principles of Le Corbusier buildings by the process of making
La Tourette
Mill Owners, Ahmedabad
National Museum of Morden Art, Tokyo
ABSTRACT MODELS
Extracting the principles from the
Master’s Buildings
TIME PROBLEM - DESIGN EVOLUTION THROUGH ORIGAMI
Parking in the project has been evolved through an origami. Interestingly the structure has been obtained from the folds that were
created while making the origami object.
8De Master Code

9. View from the library
View from the Double Volume entrance
View from the library View from the exhibition space View from the ramp entrance View from the main corridor
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
9De Master Code

10. Section cutting through multiple volumes and levels in the institution.
Placing similar cuboids
together to achieve voids
Trying to create voids and
central spaces together and
break the grid
Exploring grid by changing
the angles
Incorporating roof garden and
creating public spaces at top
to enable roof
Trying to create linear spac-
es and increase playfulness
among the spaces
Trying to bring all masses
together and creating usable
terraces
Section cutting through Entrance ramp into a double volume space
10De Master Code

11. STUDIO PROJECT
TECTONIC OPERATIONS - 3
Hydrology Museum at Science Museum
Second Year
Monsoon Semester 2019
Project Type
Extension, Working Drawings
Project Programme
Hydrology Museum
Built Up Area
120 sq. mts
Site
A.E.S Girls Hostel Blocks
Brief
The Museum is experienced through a ramp. It tries to
spread inside and outside from the existing building.
understanding the properties and qualities of water helped
in making several decisions. In the study of hydrology,
terrain plateau or landing plays a major role. Whereas,
in the project where ever there is landing it becomes the
exhibition. This kind of mutual understanding between the
program and creating architectural responses out of it was
well studied. The ramp in the site represents Sabarmati
River. All the places that are being encountered are where
the hydrology Museum happens is made of WPC board and
the river engraved is filled with blue resin. The ramp tries to
squeeze in between of this forest of columns and establish
a thoroughfare relationship with existing.
11Hydrology Museum at Science Museum

12. ELEVATIONS
Explaining various relationships that it created with the existing built throuhg its material, structure, geometry
Design transformation through a series of plans
FLOORING
Blue IPS has been used on the existing old building floor. The ramp has been made out of WPC Board with Sabarmati River engraved
and filled with blue resin.
Site Plan which resulted with all the 13 studio-mate’s interventions
12Hydrology Museum at Science Museum

13. RAMP DETAILS
Ramp junctions detailed out according to the design development.
FINAL SET OF DRAWINGS
This complete set of working drawings has been drawn in AutoCAD
SEQUENCE OF CONSTRUCTION
Initial site portion
Cut outs in the existing load bearing walls
Placing of MS columns on the either sides of the
existing site
Placing WPC board as on the the beams in the
grid of columns
PLAN
13Hydrology Museum at Science Museum

14. 13 Students of the studio made 13 different programs that altogether comprise the science museum shown in the photograph above WALL SECTION AND EXPLODED AXONOMETRY
14Hydrology Museum at Science Museum

15. STUDIO PROJECT
FOUNDATION STUDIO - 2
Aalloa Artists’ Retreat
Second Year
Spring Semester 2017
Project Type
Planning and Organisation
Visualisation And Representation
Project Programme
Aalloa Artists’ Retreat
Built Up Area
800 sq. m
Site
Aalloa Hills
Breif
This is an artist retreat far away from the hustle and bustle
of the city along the banks of Sabarmati river. As one
approaches the site, a banyan tree sits in the undulating
hills. The two major mounts in the site was the nucleus
in the site. The key parti diagram was based on providing
transitional views for the user in and around those two
mounts. The activities were scattered based on the degree
of privacy required. The multifunctional place was the only
connector between the two mounts. Which is in the form of
a bridge. The exhibition to happen here also acts a viewing
gallery towards the flowing Sabarmati river. During the
night, for the artists to relax, this also acts like a hovering
spot glancing at the moon and the river.
15Artists’ Retreat

16. Multifunctional space (BRIDGE) becomes a major transitional space A storyboard depicting one day of an artist imagined in the retreat showing the activies and life visualised for the project
16Artists’ Retreat

17. COMPETITION
HOUSE THE
LIVING SPACE
An oasis nestled between the
Ellis Bridge, the Sabarmati river
and the hustle and bustle of old
city of Ahmedabad.
Second Year
Fall 2018
Project Type
Visualisation and
Representation
Project Programme
House
Built Up Area
900 sq. m
Site
Abandoned Plot in Old City of
Ahmedabad.
Brief
A house had to be imagined
which responses to the
individual’s chosen site and
context.
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18. RELATED STUDY
PROGRAM (RSP)
Chota Oda, Rajasthan First Year
First Year
Fall 2017
Project Type
Measure Drawing, Group work
of 3 students
Site
Chota Oda
Brief
Studying Vernacular
Architecture in a village far
from Udaipur, using tools
like sketching and measure
drawing.
The main chowk in the village
has been measure drawn which
connected 5 major streets.
This is one major streetscape
measure drawn to study the
characteristics of open spaces
between houses, gradients,
ground cover, etc. of the village
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19. UNDERSTANDING
PLACE: BRIEF AND
LUNUGANGA
GARDENS
Second Year
Fall 2018
Project Type
Visualisation and
Representation
Project Programme
Understanding Place
Site
Bentota and Lunaganga,
Sri Lanka
Brief
Each student had to represent
their own visualisation of
the garden in the form of a
storyboard or sketches or
collages.
Story board showcasing the entire path of Brief Garden through multiple sketches
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ARCHES, VAULTS
AND DOMES
Second Year
Spring Semester 2019
Project Type
Workshop
Site
Auroville Earth Institute
Brief
Theory and making of arches,
vaults and domes, where
the students learned how to
stabilise an arch of a particular
type and span theoretically
and design the bonds for it.
Masonry for the making of
arches, vaults and domes was
also taught.
Ploted the graph to stabilized an arch by using
minimum material
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21. SCRAP TO
SCULPTURES
Metal and metal scrap
sculptures making workshop
Second Year
Spring Semester 2019
Brief
Some people see a pile of scrap
metals and envision a work
of art. The main idea is not to
invoke life into a pile of scrap
metals but also to recognise
the scrap metals as a nascent
force; not as wasted energy but
invested with creative energy.
The eventual outcome exhibits
products through which,
students can prove that ‘ART’-
in any form of assemblage
or installation could also be
made without using traditional
materials.
Drilling the holes to place solid bamboos
perpendicular to the main split bamboo
Marking the positions where the bamboo
should be split and to remove the dead load
PROTOTYPE
MATERIAL : BAMBOO + METAL
Reducing material required, by using steel
tension cables and metal pipe.
Solid bamboos connected and tied with
the tension cables
CONSTRUCTION
FEATHER
PAVILLION
Cantilevered Structure
Second Year
Spring Semester 2017
Brief
The mandatory, construction,
was a hands on subject where
we were required to construct
a cantilevered structure in a
group of 12 students. There
were 6 groups working on 6
different structures, each having
different materials and joineries.
This structure was explored
with split bamboo and tension
cables.
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22. FUNDAMENTALS OF
CONSTRUCTION
Second Year
Monsoon Semester 2019
Project Type
Group work
Project Programme
Folded Triangular Plate Shell
Structure
Brief
Using softwares like Rhinoceros
and Grasshopper a shell structure
was developed and worked out.
Keeping in mind the material with
which it could be constructed.
Joineries to construct the same had
to been designed. A prototype in
1:10 scale was made.
Combining two different systems
a structure was designed and
constructed in 1:1 scale. The
intention of this exercise is to
understand different shell structure
systems and how materials can
govern how the load transfer takes
place. The structure was made out
of aluminum strips and Plywood
Panels by the batch.
FOLDED TRIANGULAR PLALE SHELL STRUCTURE
1:1 CONSTRUCTION OF SHELL STRUCTURE
The structure was imagined to made of perforated metal sheets
A composite system of folded plate and ribbed frame was designed, resolved and
constructed by the batch in 1:1 scale
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23. STRUCTURES - 1
Second Year
Spring Semester 2019
Project Type
Measure Draw, group work of 3
students
Site
Manav Sadhana, Ahmedabad
Ar. Yatin Pandya
Brief
A case study on the overall
structural system of Manav
Sadhana, Ahmedabad. It
included measure drawing
the school and analising the
structural system of the steel
truss.
Load Transfer Diagram
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24. BAMBOO CHANDELIER
This is one of the installations for Navratri at CEPT
University. The idea was to explore Bamboo as a material
and the expression was to give a sense of hierarchy.
TWISTED TUNNEL
This is one of the installations for Navratri at CEPT University. It is made from box section modules repeating with
certain change in the angle of frames to give a sense of a twisted path
The structure consists of 2 modules, with 12 units of split and bent bamboo in each.
Split bamboos are conected to the metal ring and with each
other through tension cables
Prototype model
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25. HOME DECORS
made out of foam sheet
HOME DECORS
made out of handmade paper
BAG MAKING
made out from an old pants
ABSTRACT FORM
made out of hollow circular MS rods
WOODEN HORSE
made out of waste wooden block
MISCELLANEOUS
LORD KRISHNA UNDER A TREE
made out of metal scrap
Abstract forms and craft works created out of waste
materials during moments of leisure and enthusiasm
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26. HAMSIKA GUMMADAVELLY
hamsika.gummadavelly.barch17@cept.ac.in
+91 8374568264
CEPT, Ahmedabad, India