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Academic portfolio Asad Jaffer Khan

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STUDIO WORKS:
10th Semester: Government Science & Arts Center 9th Semester: Temple extension 8th Semester: Science and research institute 5th Semester: Apartment complex Time Problem: Hostel Design for B.Arch Students 4th Semester: Community Center 3rd Semester: Theoretical Hypothesis: Italo Calvino: Ersilia. Contact & Academic information

Hostel for Architecture students.

Government Science & Arts Center


Site Context: The museum is nearly 148 years old. It was built as a neoclassical museum with Corinthian columns and circular pillars. Popularly, the museum was also known as Thamashe bungalow' (fun house). The Government Museum is a part of commonly structured buildings in the whole Cubbon park complex. Though culturally significant in the past it has since dwindled due to lack of visitors to the museum.

Program: The program revolves around retaining the government museum, as its current function and planning around the structure such that the proposed science centre and the art gallery activate the government museum as a foci as integrated wings. The idea revolves around constructing 2 structures that represent future versions of the existing museum: where one is perceived as a relic and the other a structure that is synonymous with the future zeitgeist.

Exploded View

View From Entry

Section & Sectional Elevations

Temple Extension Center

Site Context: Site is structured around an important temple in a predominantly Hindu Locality. The response was to build a context around the axis that the temple formed with the context around a park. The main input was to build an artificial ecosystem to entertain the possibility of re-introducing an artificical terrarium or a menagerie.

Program: Since the temple became a notional center. It was important for the temple to retain itself as a singularity rather than the formal language that it was forced to become. The notion of a marker became an important directive for the functioning of the community.

Science and Research Institute..

Site Context: The institute was positioned on the outskirts of the city thereby calling for an independent body. It did however form a part of an existing complex of academic institutions, which reduced the possibility of catering fo these portions of the program. The project was essentially an extension to a larger master-plan for a group of institutions.

Apartment complex building

Site Context: Essentially a housing project. The highlight of the context is its proximity to a metro station. Which challenged the possibility of building a housing project so close to a public utility area. The metro station was not constructed at the time of the proposal but taking into account the possibility of constructing along it was encouraged.

Design resource: Using a standard module to construct a building would limit the possibilty of any new type of typology to emerge. A study of the negative and positive volumes was conducted to arrive at common places at regular intervals within the structure itself

Hostel for Architecture students.

Time Problem: The time problem was a part of a design exercise to test the possibility of typology used for construction. The highlight of the project was to test the structural and analytical limitations of construction systems as well.

Community Center: Rangashankara

Community Centre: The centre was a proposal for a theatre community in Bangalore, India. The notion was to specifically design around an existing temple on site.

Ersilia: A theoretical hypothesis

ABSTRACTION OF A CITY(Third Semester): In


Ersilia, to establish the relationships that sustain the city's life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, white or black or gray or black-and-white according to whether they mark a relationship of blood, of trade, authority, agency. When the strings become so numerous that you can no longer pass among them, the inhabitants leave: the houses are dismantled; only the strings and their supports remain. From a mountainside, camping with their household goods, Ersilia's refugees look at the labyrinth of taut strings and poles that rise in the plain. That is the city of Ersilia still, and they are nothing. They rebuild Ersilia elsewhere. They weave a similar pattern of strings which they would like to be more complex and at the same time more regular than the other. Then they abandon it and take themselves and their houses still farther away. Thus, when traveling in the territory of Ersilia, you come upon the ruins of abandoned cities, without the walls which do not last, without the bones of the dead which the wind rolls away: spider-webs of intricate relationships seeking a form.

Italo Calvino, Invisible cities

The idea is of reconstructing a module that can form a part of the final form that spreads itself based upon the amount of exploitation that individual module does to its environment. The final form takes an example as a part of a shard that is highlighted alongside. The meso-form forms a cone that upon replication forms a dodecadahedron. Upon completion of form it turns into a semblance of a planet.

Imagination of a micro-shard-module.

The whimsical description of an author vs. an actual city: How Ersilia can apply to buildings in the suburbs of Bengaluru, the structures merge to such an extent it becomes almost impossible to distinguish between the canonic background and the phantasmic city.

How relationships dont matter when the city came across a mineral or a site where it would approach an apocalyptic scenario : meaning an excess of an invaluable mineral or the surplus of trade both of which can breakdown the structured method the description of the city runs on.

Academic information:
Software skills: 1) Auto CAD 2D 2) Revit Architecture 3) Adobe Photoshop CGPA: 8.0 R.V. College of Architecture Additional skills: Model making; Photography; Painting Work Experience: 7 months training: June 2011- Dec 2011, under Ar. Anil Dube.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Ph: +91 080 9449839916; email: khanasad@aol.in ; Address: 3/23 2nd main, off 9th A main BTM 1st stage; Bangalore: 560029 India.

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