Work

Everything I've made so far

First year to the thesis. The four at the top are the projects in my portfolio. The rest are here because they're part of how I got there, butter paper and all.

Culinary Arts Institute, the cover drawing.From the portfolioSemester 6 · 2025Culinary Arts InstituteAn empty school in Shivajinagar becomes a culinary institute. If you replace every part of a building, is it still the same building?Natural Thresholds, the cover drawing.From the portfolioSemester 8 · 2026Natural ThresholdsAn old, dried-up kalyani in Cubbon Park, opened up again as a public space between the road and the park.Water Given Back, the cover drawing.From the portfolioSemester 3 · 2023Water Given BackA green roof you can walk on, built around a kund that saves the rain. This one is in my family's village in Madhya Pradesh.A Laboratory for Presence, the cover drawing.From the portfolioSemesters 9–10 · 2026–27A Laboratory for PresenceMy thesis, in progress. An anti-mall at Mantri Square, built around a twelve-rule manifesto against passive consumption.
Section through the raised hub: brick-red rooms hung between tall columns under a sawtooth roof, people on the open ground below, misty trees behind.Semester 7 · 2025Raise itThe old NGEF factory ground. I lifted the whole building up so the neighbourhood gets the ground to play on.Pencil and blue-pencil iteration over the printed site plan: two circular courts joined by sweeping curved paths that bridge from the road into the site.Semester 5 · 2024Halasuru BridgedA civic project in Halasuru. A lot of trace paper and a lot of iterations.Revit view of the Z-Living housing block: five storeys of beige walls with coral slab bands and balconies, behind a row of trees under a blue sky.Semester 4 · 2024Z-LivingA co-living block in Revit, and where I learned what a services shaft is for.Hand-drawn site analysis of the Mavallipura landfill: the dump as a hatched block among lakes and trees, an orange sun-path arc and blue arrows of the south-west wind.Semester 4 · 2024A home from the landfillA 25 sqm home for a couple who work at the Mavallipura landfill, built from what the landfill throws away.Overlay map of Kodiyala Karenahalli's building heights: houses in hot pink and red strung along the village street among outlined tree crowns.Group workSemester 2 · 2023KarenahalliDocumenting a whole village, overlay by overlay, with my class.Plumbing section through a five-storey housing block: stacked toilets on every floor with colour-coded flush, domestic and hot water supply lines and drainage stacks running down the shafts (Working Drawings 2, Semester 7).Semesters 6–7 · 2025Working drawingsA G+4 housing block, drawn properly. Staircases, toilets and plumbing included.Exploded isometric of a steel space frame: a red top grid, a purple layer of diagonal members and a blue bottom grid pulled apart in three layers.Semester 5 · 2024Building constructionTrusses, space frames, a geodesic dome made of sticks and a tensile roof.Blackbird poster detail: a grey jet with bold chevron patterns on black, white Rhino wireframe views of the jet at left and black-and-white wave bands at lower rightSemester 5 · 2024BIM portfolioA Barcelona Pavilion in Rhino, a few chairs, a jet and some posters. Still my favourite set.The 7aathAdda logo: a folded-ribbon 7 beside the wordmark, shown in eight colourways.Semester 7 · 20257aath AddaAn urban culture forum in Richmond Town, led by its brand.Theme Week poster for Dimensions 16: the headline over ticket-stub panels for Clash Tuesday and Wicket Wednesday, white tickets with navy type on a navy groundCollege fest · April 2025Dimensions 16Posters for our college fest. Ticket stubs were involved.ORNJ brand marks in bold orange: the stacked OR/NJ monogram and the ORNJ 'Citric Goodness' pill logo on olive green, above the top of the menu cardSemester 7 · 2025ORNJRebranding a fruit cart. Everything citric, everything orange.The AECORD wordmark, 'aecord.' in large off-white letters on sky blue, from the cover of the pitch deckOngoing · 2024–AECORDA marketplace app for construction. I built it myself, and I still work on it.Detail of a first-year painting, 'Verb: Untangling': a circle of bright yellow, ochre and grey crossed by a black-and-white dashed band, with a small curled figure at its centreYears 1–2 · 2022–24Where it startedCharcoal, pastels, paper models, a lamp and a movie storyboard.