portfolio

Selected projects and initiatives. Click here for an extended portfolio of work.

Hilltop School

#greenarchitecture #socialresponsibility #participatorydesign #designaccess #spacesoflearning

A charity school for children from disadvantaged backgrounds inside the historic Golconda Fort in Hyderabad, India. The green school was built on the rocky side of a cliff on a minimal budget, and has been widely published and received various awards.

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psi.neu: A Deflatable Architecture

#designresearch #academia #tech

How can architecture be resilient and recyclable, low-cost and low-energy? psi.neu, a thesis project at the Design Research Lab of the Architectural Association, explores the use of vacuum as an actuator for a deployable architecture, combining low-tech material with hi-tech methods.

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Smart Office

#tech #datadriven #futureofwork

Well before the pandemic sent the workforce home, Volteo had the idea for a combination of remote and in-person teams collaborating in their office space in Hyderabad, India. This smart office for the IT and IoT company serves as a working model of their products, and is a performative building that responds to user needs.

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Fractals Workshop

[virtual studio]

#pedagogy #designresearch #computation #generativedesign #tech #virtualreality

The Fractals Workshop online series that has reached participants from all over the world and collaborated with international organizations and universities. The design outcomes are a part of a collectively authored, perpetual virtual reality exhibition that we will continue to grow.

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Sacred Space

#materiality #socialresponsibility #designbuild #computation #microarchitecture

A pro bono project to design a small prayer space within two parking spaces of an existing apartment building. The micromosque questioned accepted norms of vocabularies in mosque architecture and experimented with minimalistic soft to structural material systems.

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Fractals Workshop

FLOCK

#pedagogy #designresearch #computation #generativedesign #designbuild

What started as a concept for a participatory, unpredictable public art installation for a street art festival in Dubai, UAE evolved to design research into materiality, fabrication and collective design/make, with a focus on bottom-up design processes that are inevitable in multi-authored systems. A series of workshops and explorations in the studio led this research to become an upcoming Directed Research Project at CEPT University, Ahmedabad.

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Rewind

#designbuild #microarchitecture

An ice-creamery for a local, artisanal ice-cream brand in Hyderabad, India. The retro-inspired design pushes the boundaries of inside/outside and redefines the scope of work of the designer: from brand identity to architecture to urbanism to execution. The project has been featured in various design magazines and has won several awards.

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Crescendo

#computation #datadriven #materiality #tech

Situated on a tight, urban, parallelogram-shaped site in Hyderabad, the resultant design of the built form for this residence looks like a series of stacked boxes, with offsets in the x and z axes to increased the floor plates at each level. The dynamic 9-grid façade itself is computationally-designed and data-driven, a series of louvers that rotate at particular angles to create different levels of openings in response to the program within each space and user requirements of light and privacy.