Architecture & Objects

Built work, interiors and objects · Project Architect, Studio Chintala, Bangalore · B.Arch, SPA Vijayawada

Towers, interiors and an object, taken from the first sketch to the construction detail.

Discipline: Architecture, interiors and objects
Role: Project Architect · Intern Architect
Practice: Studio Chintala & Collective Project, Bangalore
Years: 2021 to 2025

Six years of work as a project architect. The selection covers the public face of a beverage plant, a net zero experience center, and the redevelopment of a tech park, alongside a folded plate chair, graphics, and the architectural thesis that preceded the built work. Each project is shown in the order it was developed, from massing study to construction detail.

SameSpace

Office building · Tech park upgradation · Pune

An upgradation of an existing office building for a technology company. The work proceeds through a sequence of moves, including mass, a sculptural stair, a new envelope and core, and a set of inserts. The intent was to reinforce the building's identity rather than replace it.

SameSpace — the upgraded office tower seen from the street

An axonometric cutaway of the building in its urban context, the red core visible through the glass

The design moves as stacked isometric blocks — mass, sculptural stair, envelope, core, inserts and skin — Mass, stair, envelope, core, inserts, skin.

The identity mark, and the same mark carried onto the mesh facade.

The retail frontage at street level, people and cars passing the new facade — The retail frontage at street level.

Galla Foods

Office front · Beverage manufacturing plant

The office front for a mango juice plant. The brief was to give the factory a contemporary public face. The new structure frames and reveals the original factory wall and its painted mural, and a study of solar radiation set the pattern of the facade cutouts.

Interior of the new office front, the factory's structure visible through it

The factory's original painted mango mural, revealed at street level — The original mural, revealed through the new structure.

Wall art peeking through the structure at intimate intervals

A solar-radiation study mapping incident sun across the facade cutout panels — The solar radiation study that set the cutout pattern.

The full interior hall, the revealed factory wall running its length — The new front set against the established factory.

Residence in the Hills

Private residence · Traditional and modern

A residence that sets a traditional East Asian roof against a modern reading of it. The peaks and troughs follow the waves and the mountain behind the site.

The residence in its hillside setting, the curved roof reading against the trees

The parametric roof definition, built in Grasshopper

Traditional roof, a two dimensional extrusion of cylinders.

The form of a traditional East Asian roof follows a two dimensional extrusion, which holds a clean, linear geometry.

Reimagined, generated from three dimensional spheres.

Reworked with a modern approach. The key geometry and proportions are kept, the curves simplified, and the forms made more dimensional. The result retains the heritage reference while reading as restrained, modern architecture.

The completed residence — the reimagined curved roof rising among the trees — The completed residence, the reimagined roof against the hills.

AIRE

Net zero experience center · Brookfield, Bangalore

A net zero experience center within a tech park. It has twelve metre ceilings, a planted facade that flowers, and a passive cooling strategy. The project was carried from the first massing diagram to the construction detail as the single point of contact.

Axonometric of the planted, net-zero envelope — solar roof and green walls over a raised floor — The envelope, with a solar roof, planted walls and a raised floor.

Axonometric cut of the same cube, showing the interior volume and passive-cooling section — The same cube, cut to show the volume within.

Construction detail at the floor drain, drawn 1:10

Raised-tile, pedestal and overflow-drain detail in isometric

Strip-light and light-felt ceiling section details — From envelope to edge, the drain, raised floor and lighting cove.

The realized green cube set in the tech-park campus, its planted faces in bloom — The cube in the campus, its planted faces in bloom.

The experience center under construction on site — On site, the frame going up.

The same brief produced the Brookfield Experience Center at The Bay. It is a sequence of entry, gather, lounge and meeting spaces, planned around the workplace it sits inside.

Plan of the experience center — entry, gather, lounge and meeting zones, colour-coded — Plan of the entry, gather, lounge and meeting zones.

The experience-center interior — warm metal and marble against a dark workplace — The experience center interior, warm metal and marble against the workplace.

Interventions at Ecoworld

Tech park upgradation · Bangalore

An upgradation of the Ecoworld tech park. A family of interventions is threaded through the existing campus, each one tuned to its building and its edge.

A landscaped public plaza between the campus buildings, animated with people beneath a canopy

An axonometric of the whole campus with each intervention colour-coded across it — The full site, with every intervention located across the campus.

A study model of one intervention, its fit-out laid out on a dark plinth

A study model of the canopied pavilion intervention

A study model of the linear retail intervention

A study model of the market intervention — The interventions, modelled.

A covered outdoor lounge between buildings, glass-walled and set with seating

The realized glass pavilion among campus greenery

The built pavilion at the building's edge, dark glass against planting — The completed pavilions at the campus edge.

Massing option one — a colour-coded volume study set over the existing tech-park site

Massing option two — an alternative arrangement of the added volumes

Massing option three — paired towers tested against the site — Massing options from a related tech park redevelopment in Bangalore.

Shell India Workplace

Office interiors · 50,000 sq ft refurbishment

A 50,000 square foot refurbishment of Shell's India office. The work covered the workplace interiors and the full set of drawings and graphics that set them out.

The refurbished Shell workplace — a vivid, social office floor

Folded Chair

Object · Continuous bent metal plate

A chair folded from a single continuous metal plate. One sheet is bent into seat, back and legs. The piece is a small study in how far metal fabrication can be taken before it becomes furniture.

The folded chair in orange, seen front-on

The chair as a bench, a cat perched on it

The chair drawn as plan, elevation and the unfolded plate with its fold angles — Plan, elevation, and the fold angles of the single plate.

Architectural Thesis

Public library to cultural hub · SPA Vijayawada · 2022

The Public Domain. The thesis reprograms a public library into a cultural hub. It proposes a new kind of public space built around a library, in order to reconnect a growing disconnect between the public and institutional buildings. The aim is dynamic public space, adaptable to the people who use it rather than fixed in rigid rooms.

The cultural hub in its public plaza — an organic perforated shell over open ground, with people, steps and trees — The cultural hub in its plaza, an organic shell over open public ground.

Two form studies side by side — a rigid orthogonal sculpture beside its elastic, web-like counterpart — Generating visual elasticity from a rigid sculpture.

An isometric of a floor plate — an organic web threading through an otherwise rigid grid of rooms — The elastic web threaded through an otherwise rigid plan.

The library block as an exploded view — silent reading, co-working, classrooms, gallery and lounge stacked through the tower — Exploded view of the library block.

The long elevation — the perforated public face of the building, framed by trees — Long elevation of the perforated public face.

A planted courtyard with a reflecting pool, set within a curved, glazed building

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