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Portfolio N. Navaneethakrishnan

Academic | Professional

Curriculum VitaeN. Navaneethakrishnan

E : [email protected] M : +91-8375089818 W : http://nsnkpv.wix.com/frmd

Education -

+ Army Public School, New Delhi (1996 - 1998) + Western Academy of Beijing, Beijing (1998 - 2001) + Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, Trivandrum (2001 - 2005) + Dayanand Public School, Shimla (2005 - 2008) + School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi (2008 - 2013) - B.Arch

Work Experience -

+ IC&A (Ini Chatterjee and Associates), Goa (Feb 2012 - June 2012), Intern + Abaxial Architects Pvt. Ltd. (Aug 2013 - Mar 2015), Junior Architect + Firki Studio (May 2015 - Nov 2015), Architect + Freelance (Nov 2015 - ), Architectural Photography

Skills - + AutoCAD + SketchUp + Photoshop + InDesign + Illustrator + Architectural Modeling + Hobbies - Art, Sketching, Caricatures, Dry Media Sketching, Comics

http://nsnkpv.wix.com/frmd

ContentsAcademic

+ War Museum, Thesis (Sem X) + Karol Bagh, Urban Design (Sem IX) + Architectural Competitions, Seminar (Sem IX) + Inclusive Housing (Sem VII) + Other Work (Sem I - Sem VI)

Professional

Abaxial Architects +WTCServiceOffices + Ashoka University + Akosha + SOF

Firki Studio + Portfolio Development + Captain Common Sense

Architectural Photography + Anand Aptay and Jhabvala + Amit Khanna Design Associates

Hobbies

+ S.T.U.P.D. + NOW + Arts and Graphics Work + Photography

AcademicAug 2008 - May 2013

Hi,Welcome to my new and updated portfolio. this one contains far less academic work than my previous one which was made just after college, and more of my professional work and hobbies. I have chosen to show myhobbiesasIthinktheyreflectonthekind of work I have been leaning towards recently.

Old Portfolio (click for link)

I have attempted to present all my work in a comic book format because:

a)Ifinditeasiertouseasequentialseriesof boxes o convey my own train of thought while doing that particular piece of work.

b) I am a big fan of all comic books from Tintin, Asterix, Spiderman, Batman, Maus, Persepolis and Amar Chitra Katha.

c) On the off chance, my work fails to impress the reader, at least it looks different and perhaps will leave some sort of impression in their head.

For the readers' ease I have kept all my comments and explanations of the projects inside the black bordered boxes like these while actual text from the work is presented outside. The same is not true for images.I assume no one will read, but am still writing for my own pleasure.

In the Academic section we shall see some of the senior year projects such as Thesis, Urban Design, Seminars and Group Housing in detail (as much details as 2 A4s can provide). This is followed by a page of two older projects I like personally and wanted to show but you can ignore at your convenience.

If you don't understand anything about the project even with the new and upgraded description boxes, its still probably my fault. Simply recomposing badly done work and adding funny boxes with sarcastic statements in comic sans (career suicide) can only compensate so much.

So,Thank you for bearing with me till here (hopefully) and please enjoy the show.

Yes. Thats it. Turn Over.

Bye.

https://issuu.com/nnavaneethakrishnan/docs/navaneeth_-_portfolio__heavy_

War Museum

Thesis - Semester X, SPA

Being a representation of Imperial Rule on India, the major axis of New Delhi was called ‘TheKing’sWay’andtheminoraxis,‘TheQueen’sWay’.AfterIndependence,theywere re-christened as Rajpath and Janpath respectively,toreflecttheyoungdemocracyit represented.

However there is a contradiction in the names today.Shouldn’tthelargestdemocracyintheworldnameits‘grandmonumentalaxis’toreflectitsstatusasademocracy?

Shouldn’tRajpathbereallycalledJanpath?

InSirEdwinLutyens’vision,thecrossingbetweenKing’sWayandQueen’sWaywasto

wrapped around the edges of the site in the formofanupwardspiralusingthe‘walls’thatconnect the ‘towers‘ of the ‘fort‘.

This however leads to the visitor being stranded on the highest level leaving him/her to use only vertical circulation to return to the ground level. To avoid this issue, A second downward spiral has been wound on the inside

beflankedonitsfourcornersbylargepublicinstitutions. This thesis proposes to start from Lutyens’ideaandextenditalongtheRajpathof today.

This would create a large open lawn, bound on both sides by buildings that the common man may come and enjoy; this involvement of the ‘Jan’ofIndiarenderingRajpathintoJanpathas it ideally should be.

The Museum

In order to create an experience of a continued story line, the galleries have been arranged linearly with one gallery leading to the next. To efficientlyusethislengthinthesquareformof the site, the length of the gallery has been

of the previous spiral using the same method. This not only doubles the length of gallery space available, it also brings the visitor back into the entrance lobby without once crossing the people going up the other spiral, thus maintaining the linearity of the storytelling.

Shouldn't Rajpath really be called Janpath; the major axis of the national capital should benamedafterthepropertoreflectitsstatus as a democracy.

To make it truly democratic, the thesis proposed to create a Museum District along the current Rajpath to bring in more people to the central greens.

To detail how such a museum could work insuchaconfiguration,AWarMuseumwas proposed to honour and recognise the sacrificesofthesoldierswhoprotectournation.

As an extension of the museum, there needed also to be a new War Memorial. Independent India has yet to create a memorial for its fallen soldiers. The India Gate is a memorial for the Anglo-Afghan Wars of the early 20th century.

The site selected is two plots closest to the India Gate hexagon along Rajpath; the Vice President's bungalow and an empty plot nearby. As the entire area will have to be rezoned, this was an assumption taken to support the thesis.

ThesquareplotoftheVicePresident'sbungalow is used as the primary exhibition wing containing the bulk of the built up area. Admin, Library and Auditorium functions are split to the triangular empty plot adjacent.

Both the sites are connected to each other, nearby sites as well as the central greens by way of ramps and underpasses; thus connecting the courtyard of the Exhibition Building with the area around it.

The main entry is from the central greens, leading into the up and down spiral of the Exhibition Building. A reading room connects both the blocks at an upper level. The library, Admin and Audi open away from the central greens.

The spiral up and down the Exhibition building is made of ramps, making it easy tomoveheavymilitaryequipmentfortheexhibits. The light gradient also allows for a seamless movement through the history of warfare.

Issues:1. The Thesis had too many facets that needed to be resolved in the given time.2. The UD of the proposed Museum District is incomplete.3. The design on the Museum itself needs further study and learning.4. Design language is underdeveloped.

Karol Bagh

Urban Design - Semester IX, SPA- with Ankit S., Kabilan S. and Nikit D.

Key Points - The two major outer roads, Gaffar Market and their respective characters. The grid layout of the area. The Ridge forest as a major feature. The growth of the area in response to the Metro station andthetrafficitbrings.

Evolution - The design process involved several stages of sticking to the grid and then breaking it, only to reform it and break it again. This repetitive breaking andreformingledtoafinalurbanvolumeresponsive to all our observations about the site.

FinalDesign-Thefinaldesignwasanattempttoeasetheflowofpeoplefromthe metro station to the neighborhood more easily through green areas while maximising the zoning potential of the site while retaining some of the original urban experience.

ArchitecturalCompetitions

Seminar - Semester IX, SPA- with Ankit S., Kabilan S. and Nikit D.

Abstract: Veni Vidi Vici (seminar title)

Architecture is a slow profession; buildings may take a few months to several years to be realised after they are conceptualised. Thus it takes time for a new architectural idea to be accepted as part of the mainstream.

Competitions have helped catalyse change in architecture as they provided a competitive space similar to the consumer market, where only the best survive. Thus, architectural competitions have become an integral part of our profession as they have challenged architects to push the boundaries of their imaginations and yet manage to generate designs that can be realised.

This paper aims at exploring architectural competitions, the problems that surround them and how they have been heralds for change throughout architectural history.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------Excerpt : (an example of how two Competitions helped cause a major shift in design thinking)

Paradigm Shift 2: Modernism to Post-modernism

Bythe1970’s,,modernismhadreducedtocreatingformalismforformalism’ssake.Thusitloststeam towards the 70s with the large scale urban housings of that time being criticised for being too idealistic and unsuccessful. The demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis, Missouri was, according to Charles Jencks, “the day on which modern architecture died”. The reconstruction of several economies after the war years, larger optimism in society, and advancements in technology precipitated by the wars allowed for the return of more expressionism in architecture.

The Centre Georges Pompidou

In December 1970, President Georges Pompidou of France proposed the project for the CentreGeorgesPompidouinparttofulfillhisambitiontogainarchitecturalimmortalityforhiscontribution to the city of Paris. To avoid the limitations of prevalent thinking on arts centres,a team was set up to produce a brief for an international competition, which received 681 entries in total.(A.D.Profiles,1977)

The architects envisioned a museum which would break the wall of suspicion between the general public and modern art, responding to its growing democratic nature. Only half of the site was used, whiletheotherhalfwasleftasasquareinordertoenhancetheurbanfunctionoftheentiredistrictgivingit“allmannerofactivitiesnotspecificallystatedintheprogramme.”Otherentriesfollowedtheage-oldprincipleofafixedfloorlayoutandformalmuseum/artgallerysettinginapublic space. The winning idea, to create a single large spacewithchangeablefloorplatesdesignedtocreatevolumesasrequired,capturedtheimaginationofthe jury.

The Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Opera house stands out as a chronological anomaly amongst Neo-Expressionist designs as it is one of the earliest postwar structures to have a truly expressive design. The competition was initiated by J.J. Cahill (the prime minister of New South Wales), in September1955.Thejuryhad233designstochoosefrom;allofthemlinedrawingsasrequested.ThemostinfluentialmemberofthejurywasEeroSaarinen.Perhapsbecauseitcoincidedwithhisownapproachtoarchitecture,Utzon’sinitiallyrejecteddesigncaughtSaarinen’seye.Thewinningdesign had been submitted by the Danish architect Jorn Utzon. (Murray, 2003)

Aquickglanceatafewothercompetitionentriesshowsthatthewinningentrywasacleardeviation from the formality and the simplicity of the other designs, which were very modernist in their setting. Had any of these designs been built, the iconic status the Opera Housecommands today may not have been achieved.

A research seminar (click for link) conducted every year at SPA, our topic was architectural competitions as game changers - Veni Vidi Vici

We believed competitions have played a vital par as catalysts for major ideological shifts in architecture and design.

Despite the many problems faced by competitors and organisers alike, we found thatthebenefitsofholdingcompetitionsfar outweigh the reasons not to.

We attempted to prove this by comparing it with the phenomenon of paradigm shifts in science and technology.

https://issuu.com/bhavika/docs/2013.05.22_seminar_book

Inclusive Housing

Housing - Semester VII, SPA- with Shobitha J.

Our concept for housing involved three major points. One was that to achieve inclusiveness we had to increase the number of times people crossed each other.

This would only happen if we maximise public space, which we achieved by taking advantage of the then rule that voids of

three stories and higher were free from FAR.

Thus we made a series of criss crossing streets at every three stories that would act as both circulation, greens and play areaseasilyaccessiblefromallfloors.

Other Work

Studio Work - Semester I to VI, SPA

Bhopal (click for link) - A study trip to documentthehistoricGoharMahal-Iqbalmaidan precinct in Bhopal, followed by a suggested intervention to revitalise the area which has fallen into disuse over the past couple of years. The suggested intervention was an art gallery connecting the above two entities of the precinct.

House Design - A third sem project focused on introducing the basics of house design, where our focus was to maximise the climatic comfort of the occupants in the sweltering heat of Delhi/Faridabad. A large site allowed for lots of play in imagining different kinds of landscapes and groves.

https://issuu.com/kabi1990/docs/iqbalmaidan

ProfessionalAug 2013 - Present

Hi again,

Im back to try and explain the next part of the portfolio even though I could have just left the page blank and avoided this all together. Its not as if you would read this anyway. Fair warning, because this is the work section, there might be bigger words and more coring sentences.

Andthatrequiresthinking. Yes. Thinking.

...

Ah yes,My professional work mainly shows two major projects from my time at Abaxial Architects Pvt. Ltd. (click for link) and one smaller one. This is followed by my work at Firki Studio where I added more graphic and illustrative works to my portfolio. I have yet to handle a project where im involved in the civil aspects of design and have largely ended up doing interior work. This is a gap in myexperienceIhopetofillsoon.

After leaving Firki I chanced upon a photography project suggested by my professor for whom I had been covering (his) DesignXDesign events for two years.

This was an opportunity to work by myself and try and create work disciplines for myself and I jumped at the chance. I was able to hone my previous hobby of photography into a more marketable skill as an architectural photographer.

Freelancing gave me ample time to think about and formulate the story for my ultimate dream project - a comic book series. Set in future space yet drawing storytelling inspirations from Indian contexts I hope and expect that my coming professional decisions will ultimately allow me to realise this dream.

Sigh. Alright see you later.

http://abaxial.org/

http://abaxial.org/

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WTC ServiceOffices

at : Abaxial Architects Pvt. Ltd.- interior design for two offices

WTC1-OfficeforWTCNoida.ThesewereusedasmainofficesforWTCwhilethe actual building is currently under construction.Thefinishoftheofficehadtobeelegantand clean to match WTC standards and had toflexibletoaccommodatetheirvariousactivities and programmes.

WTC2-ServiceOffices.

Theseofficesweretoberentedtoprofessionals that are part for the WTC network.Theconfigurationsofthesmallofficeshadtobeabletocatertovarioustypes of clients that they expected would use them.

Thefinishofthisofficehadtobeslightlyless clinical and more homely feel as the clients would spend far more time here than thepreviousoffice.

A heavily wooden feel for the common areas is contrasted by plain and simple feel in the offices.

Ashoka Universityat : Abaxial Architects Pvt. Ltd.

- interior design for several blocks

A premier university for the liberal arts with an exemplary academic council and great faculty, this was an interior project but at a different scale and with a different character.

We were constantly on the clock to provide drawings and that gave us the opportunity

ofseeingthefinaldesignedproductrisebefore our eyes every week.

Also acted as a great learning experience interacting with the large multidisciplinary team, from laboredness, engineers, consultants, vendors, other designers and the clients.

SOF Foundation

Schoolat : Abaxial Architects Pvt. Ltd.- incomplete design for expansion

The Social Outreach Foundation is an NGO committed to providing primary education to underprivileged children.

The project was to add a few classrooms and a teachers' room to the already existing structure being used by the school.The school schedule meant that the project

was an intermittent one with lots of time to explore and research on low cost methods of providing a comfortable space for the students to study away from the heat of Delhi.

Design solutions ranged from folded plate roofs, to MS structures to RCC vaults, all of

which were explored to miimise the time for construction.

However, the project is in hiatus due to the low budget and lack of contractors willing to take up the project.

PortfolioDevelopment

at : Firki Studio- developing language for their portfolio

One of the major tasks at Firki Studio was to develop a style for presenting their work.

Most of their work was not a presentation condition and hence the idea was to develop a format that could allow the material to be presented with minimal touchupsrequired.

Thefinalsolutionwastouse the three elements of pictures, text panels and white space panels in a comic book format to tell a linear story explaining the project as well as to affect a more book type formal layout.

This allowed for easy addition of new information or rearranging as the information comes as discreet and separate units.

Captain Common Sense

at : Firki Studio with Vasanth P.- commercial comic book illustration

Aquick2nightprojecttodevelopacomicbookforanfilmstudentinEuropeaspartofa birthday gift.

From the large and extensive script we took out one passage and converted into an 8 page comic.

Anand Aptay and Jhabvala

Freelance Photography Documentation- exhibition with Dhruv K.

A freelance photography project to document the works of Anand Aptay and Jhabvala, commissioned by Mrs. Renana Jhabvala daughter of architect Cyrus Jhabvala and guided by Prof. IM Chishti.

AAJ was one of the earliest practices in Delhiandveryinfluentialandforgotten

Ramana Kendra - Primarily a prayer hall with administrative and residential functions for the Ramana Ashram in New Delhi.AsignificantdeparturefromAAJ'stypicalstyle, the hall brings on great amounts of natural light and is spectacularly framed by the towers of the block behind it.

Kurukshetra University - A large university located in Kurukshetra, Haryana, the entire core of the current campusisfilledwithamultitudeofdifferently planned and styled blocks for different departments.While they all have their own character, there is an underlying language that comes through.

today. Prof. Jhabvala is widely credited with building SPA into what it is today.

From out of 200-300 project a few were selected, hunted down, permission taken and documented via photographs.

The photographs and the archival drawings

were made into an pictorial exhibition with the help of my friend Dhruv Kumar to coincidewiththefirstannualCyrusJhabvalaMemorial Lecture that took place at India International Centre, New Delhi on the 20th of February 2016.

http://nsnkpv.wix.com/frmd%23%21architecture/ue77j

Kirori Mal College -One of the older colleges of Delhi University, this campus is a break from theregularrectilinearandsquarishformseschewed by AAJ.While primarily still functional, the many different elements added to the form staves off monotony.

Springdales School - A perfect example of AAJ's rectilinear design language and highly functional layout.Whilethelayouthasbeensqueezedbythe awkward site, the building ultimately succeeds in maintaining a formal composure withjusttherightamountofplayrequiredof a school.

Amit Khanna Design

AssociatesFreelance Photography Documentation

C56, NOIDA - A 3 bedroom house with as many windows as there are walls. The large openings allow for plentiful natural diffused light to enter and illuminate the interior.The inside spaces are spartan yet elegant going with the simplistic theme of the house.

Kailash Colony - A multistoreyed residential building with apartmentsoneachfloorfordifferentoccupants.The apartment takes advantage of the existing neighbour's courtyard to maximum advantage with many balconies and terraces overlooking it.

HobbiesAug 2013 - Present

Hi again again,

Hereisthefinalpartoftheportfolio,the most fun and the least professionally relevant, the hobbies section.

Please do not take to heart the bad jokes and self deprecation and my assumption that you would actually read all of this. If you have, thank you, it means a lot.

First we start with S.T.U.P.D. (click for link) acheapqualitynewsletterineverysenseoftheword.Cheapinprintqualityandcontent.The idea was that by reducing standards, we could explore the most bizarre humour that people usually have. It lasted two printed editions and went on hiatus for a good 6 years. Now recently I have tried to restart it online with an indeterminate release structure.

Then there is NOW a kind of diary entry about a month or two leading up to the events that led me to apply for an online course on comic books and graphic novels. The course was far more fun than I had imagined and reignited my love for comics and similar media.

We then go to two pages of doodles and sketches that I have done over the years and I am proud of.

I have vaguely attempted to explain or self analyse what sort of images i like to make and how i try to do them.

Lastly we have photographs that I have clicked on various travels I have been blessed enough to have made all over India. Photography as deepened my understanding of colour and composition and its importance in everything from art to life. Photography is like meditation where I can switch my active brain off and let y eyes wander and record. Hopefully doing something productive in the process.

So,

Again thank you for bearing with me and allowing me to write in such a familiar tone. You made it. Congratulations.

Hopefully this exercise has served its purpose and we shall meet soon.

Regards.

Navaneeth Out.

S.T.U.P.D.

short lived college newsletter

S.T.U.P.D. (click for link) -A low cost newsletter I attempted to start in college.Its aim was to collect whatever random sketches, doodles, write-ups, photos, thoughts etc, the everyday SPA student madeorhad.Tomakeacquisitionofworkeasier, the standard was set absurdly low

and even contained a bad joke corner to serve as a gauge for how silly the premise was. Each issue was to start with a major news story of the month parodying events around us,ThefirstissuewasasingleA4soldatprintcost ie. Rs. 1. The second and last issue was two A4s at Rs. 2. Exchangeable for cafeteria coupons.

http://stupd-blog.blogspot.in/

NOW

final submission for online course on comic books and graphic novels

NOW (click for link) -

In late October 2014 I enrolled in an online course with the University of Colorado on ComicBooksandGraphicNovels.Thefinalsubmission was to be a comic of our own. I chose to detail out the events of the two months leading up to the very submission,

ending in an attempt do a sort of twilight zone-esquetwist.

This was to me largely an exercise in framing and then using those frames to create a rhythm to the story that I could repeat and bend to see if that affected how readers read it.

https://issuu.com/nnavaneethakrishnan/docs/now

Arts and Graphics

various doodles, artworks, posters and sketches throughout the years

Shown here are several doodles and sketches I have done independent of any college submissions or commercial work.

I enjoy drawing things on the edge of reality and fantasy where something is never just right. It should bend away as you start to understanditandevenquestionwhether

there is anything there at all.

On occasion I like to draw a very interesting image that I saw or captured or remembered. But as I draw it, it subtly changes and becomes a different animal. The inability to match what is in my head to the drawing is both frustrating and

fascinating at the same time.

I also like working with themes, doing a few doodles that somehow share some sort of common weirdness.

I prefer working with dry media such as markers and pencils and stick to black and

white with perhaps shades of gray but very rarely colour. Black and white to me is like reading where the words help you conjure up an image that becomes the story. Black and white allows the viewer to add whatever colour suits them or see it just as black and white.

Thishowevercreatesaproblembyrequiringlots of detail and texture to capture the eye. The alternate to this is to use enlarged areas of a single black or a single white. The heavy contrast seems to adjust for the lack of colour.

Photography

various photos taken over the years during travels all over India. (click for link)


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https://issuu.com/nnavaneethakrishnan/docs/navaneeth_-_portfolio__heavy_

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