7. Brief: Pick a designer from the 20th century, using
his principles and design style create a
multipurpose building of your choice.
The chosen architect was Oscar Nieymer, known for
his structures inspired from a woman’s body shape
and use of concrete and glass. This unique shape of
the building was an imitation of his design
principles, it extended to even the materials, colour
and form.
The function of the building was to be used by fresh
graduates, specifically from the design and arts
background. The structure consists of 4 main
spaces, auditorium, gallery, work-stations and
library.
The aim was to, through angel investors, give ambi-
tious talented individuals their own work space,
exhibition space and a platform to put out their
ideas and products.
8. It’s Every child’s dream and ambition to have the most elaborate lego set.
What better way to get them to start reading that by creating a mobile
library inspired by the lego blocks.
The space/ box is divided into grids of 2X2’with holes on each corner. All
furniture pieces i.e table, chair, shelf, are of the same 2x2’ configuration
and each piece has pegs that plug into the holes provided on the floor,
ceiling and walls
MOBILE LIBRARY
9. Project Brief: Select a civilization in history and
design a specific interior space accordingly.
I chose the Classical civilization, concentrating
on mainly the Egyptian and Persian empire and
designed a luxury bathroom space using
colours, patterns and materials prevailing
during those times. The main feature of this
space is the Persian styled ‘Bath’ and an
adjoining infinity pool the semi-enclosed.
Materials used are - Sandstone, was widely
used during the Egyptian civilization as well as
giving of the perfect colour and texture that
evokes the look of pyramids and sphinx.
Mosaic to bring in some colour as well as
continue the Persian look along with white
marble.
LUXURY BATH
10. This project explores innovative uses for ceramics in interior spaces.
Over the course of the project, research was conducted in
understanding the use and manufacture of ceramics, their underlying
design fundamentals, and in tracing their viability and use case from
a historical and vernacular perspective. Concurrently, research was
also conducted into its contemporary use and applications. This was
done in order to build a roadmap of future sustainable applications
that utilise ceramic’s unique properties, as well as derive the
structural framework used to guide the project’s flagship goal - to
design an innovative and sustainable use of ceramics in real world
interior spaces. In the end 3 systems were created using Terracotta
as the main material through evaporative cooling to effectively cool
down a given interior space with little or no use of electricity.
MAJOR STUDIO PROJECT
11. TERRAVENT: an unglazed terracotta slab 1m
x 1m in dimension with a thickness of 20mm.
As shown in the diagram below, the slab
occupies a space in the wall on the interior,
while on the exterior there is a small protrusion
which houses the fan assembly that powers
the cooling system, a water reservoir that
moistens the terracotta slab. A wicking
systems carries the water from the reservoir to
the slab wetting the terracotta while the fans
aid in rapidly evaporating the water thereby
sending out cold air through the aesthetically
design perforations on the slab.
12. TCMS:- is a further step into making the Terravent
design more sustainable. This is accomplished by
completely eliminating the use of electricity. While
Terravent uses electric power to supply a forced
convection cooling effect through the room, TCMS
makes use of natural convection alone to cool the
space, thereby completely eliminating electrical power.
As shown in the diagram below, this system uses the
herring bone pattern, where each arrow head stacks one
on top of the other which are enclosed by a metal frame
on all four sides. The terracotta slats are have a metal
rod running through them that acts as an axis around
which it can rotate. At the bottom of the slab is located a
reservoir to catch the excess water that drips down
through the system.
13. TCMS - Greenhouse is the TCM design applied to a larger space like a tropical greenhouse. Since TCM
is already an efficient and sustainable wall cooling system using terracotta, the project’s goal then
expanded to ascertain whether there are other, more specific use cases for the ideas developed in these
designs. Specifically, spaces that required the kind of cool and humid places that evaporative cooling
excels at providing. The case of the tropical greenhouse stands out.
The following are the main design criteria for an efficient tropical greenhouses:
- High mean air humidity’s
- crop protection from heavy rainfall
- efficient ventilation
- diffused sunlight
Using the same system as the previous product - the design was modified to convert all four walls of the
greenhouse into a terracotta structure that incorporate the herringbone pattern terracotta tiles, while the
roof can continue to be any among the many materials used currently - including fibreglass, polyethylene,
double layered polycarbonate.
15. The Blue Lotus Festival is a music festival held annually in the small town of Pushkar-
Rajasthan. It focus’on presenting the richness of genres and styles of best indian Sufi,
Folk, Traditional, Gypsy, Tribal and spiritual music over 5 days.
The Brief: design a concert space for BLF if brought to Bangalore without disrupting
the existing style associated with the festival.The design created was inspired by the
turbans worn by men in Rajasthan. It mimiks the overlapping layers of the cloth, the
bright rich colours and patterns and lines and shadows it creates. The structure is
made of steel and canvas entirely. whie the stage is created with MDF. At night the
space is lit by the LED emebbeded into the structure under translucent canvas that
allows just a dim glow and doesnt over power the stage as one would expect from a
concert space.
