Vinit Nikumbh M.Arch - (Cornell University - School of Architecture,Art and Planning),B.Arch - (Mumbai University - Rizvi College of Architecture),Registered Architect - (Council of Architecture India )UDRI Research Fellow

A Selection of Works

Research and Fellowship WorkProfessional Work -

Mumbai

Competition Work Academic Work - Cornell &

RCA - Mumbai

Third Prize in Zero Carbon City Competition Second Prize in Bus Stop Design -Build Competition.National Winner of Transperence Design Competition.Winner of National Competition for Design Dissertation.Third Prize winner of Housing Design Competition organised by MCHI.

List of Design Competitions

Participated - Individually

Shortlisted for the Norman Foster Scholarship.

Awarded - Group EffortHUDCO 2008 - Housing Design Competition.

Participated - Group Effort

Participated in the India Today Architectural Journalism Contest.Nominated for the Charles Correa Gold Medal for Design Dissertation.

HUDCO - Housing Design Competition.Architectural Documentation Award (LIK)

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HUDCO - Housing Design Competition.Architectural Documentation Award (LIK)

Participated in HP Skyline Design Competition.11

Awarded Individually

Work For Design Firms

House In Khar Danda

Bus Stop

Cube Project The Picasso Project

Container Housing

School in Pune

Case Study of Bhuleshwar Interpretation Centre

Comprehensive Design Studio

Housing in SuratCultural Centre Bandra

Design Dessertation

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B.Arch Rizvi College of Architecture - Mumbai University

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Digital Ceramics Installation.

Cinematic City - Short Film Fold on Clip on House

Formalized Music - Short Film

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Noguchi Plaza - Redesign ProjectInvestigating Building Facades in New York City Third Way - Moscow - Design and Build Pavillion

Tactical Design Approaches for Berlin

Graduate Studies - Cornell University New York

New York - Utopia Installation.11

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Intern at SE-ARCH Mumbai

Junior Architect for Pinkish Shah Architects Mumbai

Collaborative Architect with 8:23 Design Studio Mumbai

6/2007 - 2/2008

6/2009 - 2/2010

6/2008 - 4/2009

11/2010 - 5/2011

Junior Architect for elm Designs

+ Drawings of school in Airoli using Revit BIM. This project was a 7 storied school with each floor measur-ing about 45,000 sq ft in Airoli - Mumbai. I was involved in issuing drawings and co-ordinating with HVAC,Electrical Consultants.

+ Designs of Bungalows in Mumbai using Revit, CAD, 3D Max. I designed around 9 prototypes that fit in 2 masterplanning schemes. I also worked on the masterplans of a suburban housing development in Raipur India.+ Assisted in preparing Construction Documents and supervision of a 12,000 sq ft residential building. I was involved in making constuction drawings for the structral engineers and co- ordinating the layouts and column positions.

+ Conceptual Design for a 2000 sq ft residential interior project in Vashi. + Design and drawings for retro fitting an existing house in Pune. I was involved in the design of adding more floors to the existing structure and redesigning a roof structure.

Architect - Bricolage Collective Mumbai - A Collaborative studio which works in architecture, art.+ Designed an Art Residency on a cliff in Honnavar on the western coast of India. The building has been designed in stone,locally availabe wood and adobe. I worked on the design and execution. It is still in construction.

12/2010- 5/2011

+ Drawings of school in Airoli using Revit BIM. This project was a 7 storied school with each floor measur-ing about 45,000 sq ft in Airoli - Mumbai. I was involved in issuing drawings and co-ordinating with HVAC,Electrical Consultants.

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Urban Design Research Fellow 9/2009 - 10/2010

+ Research and Design for issues of “Walkability in Mumbai ”.The study focuses on the idea that increased pedestrianization is a critical method to achieve economic, social and environmental sustainability and aims at exploring the problems of pedestrians in Mumbai through urban design interven-tions. Focusing on some typical nodal points in the city where pedestrians face difficulty (such as railway station precincts/ hawking and informal market settings/ religious or tourist spots), the study analyzes the problems and propose alternatives to make the experience of negotiating streets pleasant for pedestrians.

The project has an internal street that runs through out the whole building . It leads the visitor from the ground floor to the top floor leading him throughout the voids (public spaces in the building ).

MCHI Housing Design Competition

Project Housing CompetitionDate March 2010Client Maharashtra Chamber of Housing IndustryAwards Third Prize at the National Level

A Indian Government Sponsored Housing Competion - I entered as a Professional Architect and won the Third prize .

Mix Use High Density Walkable Development .

Competition Work - Professional

A View of the Building with the ramp that passing through all the voids.

A View showing how the build-ing opens up to the riverfront.

Creating street life in high density developments

Achieving Vertical Walkability

Possibility to walk

Facilities along Walkable

Spaces

Continuity of the Walkable Spaces along vertical core

The building is a collection of the interior mental images formed in the users mind when he navigates the facilitywhile walking. The street in this context is a place where conversations would happen.

The street is lined with homes and shops which have windows overlooking them .The combination of overlooking and the creation of a variety of visual patterns creates supervision. The walkable corridor creates a pedestrian conitinuity in the whole com-plex.

+ + = Vertical Walkability

Section of the Building through the Courtyard

Front Eleva-tion of the building.

Details of the Courtyard

View of the �oorplate

Project Design for the Advanced Design Research Studio at Cornell.Date Feb - May 2012

Berlin (Neukolln)

Staging the Street Working with the Urban Edge to create Programmatic Possibilities

“The arabs and turks SHOULDNT just BE priced out . The economic improvements SHOULD actually FEED down to the immigrant communities

-jobs, careers etc.”

choice, there is no moving van to help, there are no concrete shoes, it sneaks up, it is facelesss

The skin of the Building as an activator. The view shows the use of the external skin beingappropriated for various uses.

Advisors - Sabine Muller Lily Chi

A Publication of a Tactical Manual was produced at the culmination of the studio, compiling all the Design Approches and Tactical Case Studies in Urban Areas.

Academic Work - Cornell

Restaurant

Ground Level

Rentable Space (Banquet Hall)

Second Level

Owned Rented

Theme Restaurant

Third Level

Sold

The staircase as the extension of the street and a corridoor of appropriation

The Roof as Urban Activator

Project Design for the Advanced Design Research Studio at Cornell.Date Feb - May 2012

Berlin (Neukolln)

Staging the Street Working with the Urban Edge to create Programmatic Possibilities

“The arabs and turks SHOULDNT just BE priced out . The economic improvements SHOULD actually FEED down to the immigrant communities

-jobs, careers etc.”

choice, there is no moving van to help, there are no concrete shoes, it sneaks up, it is facelesss

The skin of the Building as an activator. The view shows the use of the external skin beingappropriated for various uses.

Advisors - Sabine Muller Lily Chi

A Publication of a Tactical Manual was produced at the culmination of the studio, compiling all the Design Approches and Tactical Case Studies in Urban Areas.

Academic Work - Cornell

Restaurant

Ground Level

Rentable Space (Banquet Hall)

Second Level

Owned Rented

Theme Restaurant

Third Level

Sold

The staircase as the extension of the street and a corridoor of appropriation

The Roof as Urban Activator

A View of the building from across the street

Project - Design Dissertataion Date -May 2008Advisors - Prof.Akhtar ChauhanAwards - First Prize at the Regional Level , Jury Award at the National Level. Publication in Newspapers.

My design dissertation was based on working with a derelict building and transforming it into the neighbour-hood centre. I was involved with the residents and framed Urban Guidelines .Some ideas from the project are being implemented by the City council.

Design Dissertation Academic Work - Mumbai University

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Buildings in Vile Parle Station area have residual leftover areas and inbetween spaces that offer potential sites for small plazas, gardens, passageways and community spaces. The design proposal tries to re examine the standards for public spaces and adaptive reuse. Amend the standards to provide more open spaces in small pockets.

Conceptual drawing of reusing the the urban open spaces.

A Section of the design showing a the theatre and the public areas for shopping.

Axonometric view of the design

Aim the programIts a mixed use typology that can be placed in station precincts in Mumbai. This typology shall have programmed with content from art , the market, the public sphere. The city dosent just rent space it rents time.

The Urban intervention is to be a focal point for expressiveness and identity , bustling with life from early morning to late night.

The building requires framework and infrastruc-ture which can accomodate the modular and interchangeable components of the program

The Building responds to the edges of the street and the infrastructure to aid the pedestrians.

The opening up of the courtyard to the street.

Section through the shopping area.

Moscow Midway Up - Design Pavillion

Project --Academic Project at Cornell Date - Aug 2011Instructor- Alex MergoldPublished -Execution of the Pavillion and Exhibition , Project and Design work Published in “ Moscow

We Designed and Built a Pavillion to express our meomries of Moscow as a city. The Pavillion was designed with a shipping container at its core.The studio investigated into visual representation. The cultural production of the studio included 1. Films2. Design Pavillions3. Collages4. Graphic Design 5. Books

Vinit Nikumbh > Selection of Works > Academic Works > Cornell University M.Arch2 > Moscow Midway up - Design Pavillion

A handrafted section show-ing the conceptual ideas for a design pavillion.

Poster for a film on infinite space pavillion.

This project was a design and build exercise in the process of which we produced collages, reinterpretations , films , postcards and pavillions to take on the challenge of expression of Russian History. Pavillion 3 , our peep show is the means by which our memories , learnings , misunderstandings , projections and fantasies coalesce into the ultimate object of architecture : the production of space.

Constuction of the Pavillion using the shipping container. Material produced for the Diorama exhibition in the Container Pavillion.

Project -Art ResidencyDate -Dec 2010.Client -Mugli Beach

I collaborated with Ar.Prakriti Shukla on this project. The Client wanted a traditional structure which will keep the wind and the rain out. The triangular design maximises the view of the sea - keeping out the obstructive rain and the wind. The materials used were Adobe, Bricks and Wood for the Roofing and Column

Art Residency

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curved door with glass

series of horozontally divided shutters on the external wall will

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Professional Work - Freelance Project

Conceptual section .

Exploded View showing the construc-tion mechanism of the roof

A cut section through the spaces.

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Residential Building

Professional Work- Design Office

I was a part of the team that was working on this project .All of the work is part of the team effort and is reproduced here only for representational purposes.

Project -Residential Building ThaneClient -Highway Rose

A part of the construction drawing showing the floorplan.

An elevational view of the lobby design of the build-ing done by me.

Project - Walkability in Mumbai Date - March 2009-September 2010.Advisors - Pankaj Joshi, Amita Bhide,Deepali ModyProject Exhibitions -AIA New York , Chattrapati Shivaji Museum MumbaiPublications - In the 2009 Mumbai Reader , parts of this study were published in several newspapers

UDRI(Urban Design Research Institute Mumbai- Is a NGO that supports interaction among architects, urban designers and professionals) I was selected as one of the first UDRI Research fellows through a competitive selection . I worked on the issue of Walkability in the City.

Walkability in Mumbai

Building entries that front directly onto the street without parking between entries and the Public right of way.

Building and thoroughfare design that is pedestrian scale

Relatively compact developments.

A highly - connecting , mutimodal circulation

Transform the centre into a welcoming place through the slow conversion of Streets to Pedestrian friendly areas.network for pedestrians.

Low Rise High Density PedestrianFriendly

Neighbourhood

“Place Making “ in Urban City CoresFellowship Work - UDRI Mumbai

Neighbourhood Centre

A sketch of the street level in Mumbai showing urban activity

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Project -Visualizing Musical Patterns in SpaceAdvisor -Prof.Andrew Lucia

Inscribing Musical Patterns in Space

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Spatial Behaviour

Starting point

Ending Point

Observation No 1The curve always loops about itself if the value of the resultant rotation is an acute angle.

Observation No 3

Observation No 2

The points in the curve always come and join together. The starting point and the ending point should be isolated single spatial points - but

complete itself

The curve inscribes itself over and over again on the same line creating a thick lines between certain points .

A Raga (Sanskrit ) is a series of five or more musical notes upon which a melody is made.

Reading the Raga

Musical works have been used as creators of data based on frequecies. This study uses the Patterns generated by Ragas.A raga is a Melodic Framework in Indian Classi-cal Music. Ragas are meant to invoke special moods if they are performed at the specific time of the day or season. The idea was to create a comparative of spatial behaviour of ragas. Spatial behaviour overlaid in this manner can be used to understand inherent patterns . This manual also tries to describe a vocabulary to understand the spatial behaviour of the raga.

This is a study in the Visualization of Music into spatial patterns.