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STUDIO WORKS:

10th Semester: Government Science & Arts Center

9th Semester: Temple extension

8th Semester: Science and research institute

5th Semester: Apartment complex

Time Problem: Hostel Design for B.Arch Students

4th Semester: Community Center

3rd Semester: Theoretical Hypothesis: Italo Calvino: Ersilia.

Contact & Academic information

Government Science & Arts Center… Site Context:

The museum is nearly 148

years old. It was built as a

neoclassical museum with

Corinthian columns and

circular pillars. Popularly,

the museum was also

known as ‘Thamashe

bungalow' (fun house).

The Government Museum

is a part of commonly

structured buildings in the

whole Cubbon park

complex. Though

culturally significant in the

past it has since dwindled

due to lack of visitors to

the museum.

Program:

The program

revolves

around

retaining the

government

museum, as

its current

function and

planning

around the

structure

such that the

proposed

science

centre and

the art gallery

activate the

government

museum as a

foci as

integrated

wings.

The idea

revolves

around

constructing

2 structures

that

represent

future

versions of

the existing

museum:

where one is

perceived as

a relic and

the other a

structure that

is

synonymous

with the

future

zeitgeist.

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Temple Extension Center…

Site Context:

Site is structured around an important temple in a

predominantly Hindu Locality. The response was to

build a context around the axis that the temple

formed with the context around a park. The main

input was to build an artificial ecosystem to

entertain the possibility of re-introducing an

artificical terrarium or a menagerie.

Program:

Since the temple

became a

notional center. It

was important for

the temple to

retain itself as a

singularity rather

than the formal

language that it

was forced to

become. The

notion of a

marker became

an important

directive for the

functioning of the

community.

Science and Research Institute..

Site Context:

The institute was positioned on the outskirts of the

city thereby calling for an independent body. It did

however form a part of an existing complex of

academic institutions, which reduced the possibility

of catering fo these portions of the program. The

project was essentially an extension to a larger

master-plan for a group of institutions.

Apartment complex building

Site Context:

Essentially a housing project. The highlight of the

context is it’s proximity to a metro station. Which

challenged the possibility of building a housing

project so close to a public utility area. The metro

station was not constructed at the time of the

proposal but taking into account the possibility of

constructing along it was encouraged.

Design resource:

Using a standard module to construct a building would limit the possibilty of any new type

of typology to emerge. A study of the negative and positive volumes was conducted to

arrive at common places at regular intervals within the structure itself.

Hostel for Architecture students.

Time Problem:

The time problem was a part of a design exercise

to test the possibility of typology used for

construction. The highlight of the project was to

test the structural and analytical limitations of

construction systems as well.

Community Center: Rangashankara

Community Centre:

The centre was a proposal for a theatre

community in Bangalore, India. The notion

was to specifically design around an

existing temple on site.

Ersilia: A theoretical hypothesis

ABSTRACTION OF A

CITY(Third Semester): In

Ersilia, to establish the

relationships that sustain the

city's life, the inhabitants stretch

strings from the corners of the

houses, white or black or gray or

black-and-white according to

whether they mark a relationship

of blood, of trade, authority,

agency. When the strings become

so numerous that you can no

longer pass among them, the

inhabitants leave: the houses are

dismantled; only the strings and

their supports remain. From a

mountainside, camping with

their household goods, Ersilia's

refugees look at the labyrinth of

taut strings and poles that rise in

the plain. That is the city of Ersilia

still, and they are nothing. They

rebuild Ersilia elsewhere. They

weave a similar pattern of strings

which they would like to be more

complex and at the same time

more regular than the other. Then

they abandon it and take

themselves and their houses still

farther away. Thus, when traveling

in the territory of Ersilia, you

come upon the ruins of

abandoned cities, without the

walls which do not last, without

the bones of the dead which the

wind rolls away: spider-webs of

intricate

relationships seeking a form. –

Italo Calvino, Invisible cities

The idea is of re-

constructing a

module that can

form a part of the

final form that

spreads itself

based upon the

amount of

exploitation that

individual module

does to it’s

environment.

The final form

takes an example

as a part of a

shard that is

highlighted

alongside.

The meso-form

forms a cone that

upon replication

forms a do-

decadahedron.

Upon completion

of form it turns into

a semblance of a

planet.

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The whimsical description of an author vs. an actual city:

How Ersilia can apply to buildings in the suburbs of Bengaluru, the structures

merge to such an extent it becomes almost impossible to distinguish between

the canonic background and the phantasmic city.

How “relationships” don’t matter when the city came across a mineral or a site where it would approach an apocalyptic scenario : meaning an excess of an invaluable mineral or the surplus of trade both of which can

breakdown the structured method the description of the city runs on.

Academic information: Software skills: 1) Auto CAD 2D

2) Revit Architecture

3) Adobe Photoshop

CGPA: 8.0 R.V. College of Architecture

Additional skills: Model making; Photography;

Painting

Work Experience: 7 months training: June 2011- Dec

2011, under Ar. Anil Dube.

CONTACT INFORMATION: Ph: +91 080 9449839916;

email: khanasad@aol.in ;

Address: 3/23 2nd main, off 9th A main BTM 1st stage;

Bangalore: 560029 India.