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P o r t f o l i o RAMANDEEP SINGH PLAHA 2007-2012

Architectural

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ACADEMIC PROJECTS

01 ARCHITECTURAL THESIS / 6

02 REJUVINATING THE TANK AND INTEGRATING WITH THE KALI MATA MANDIR COMPLEX / 10

03 BUS TERMINUS AT MOHALI / 12

04 RE-DESIGNING THE REHRI MARKET AT SECTOR—15 CHANDIGARH / 16

05 AUDITORIUM FOR PUNJAB UNIVERSITY / 18

06 SCHOOL FOR PHYSICALLY DISABLED PEOPLES / 21

07 GOTHIC BOUTIQUE / 23

08 SHOE SHOP / 24

09 NIHARIKA ( NASA ) / 25

10 URBAN RE- DESIGN FOR BHADDI BHAROTIWALA IN HIMACHAL ( NASA ) / 26

11 LANDSCAPE DESIGN / 27

12 DIGITAL FORM FINDING / 28

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PROFFESIONAL PROJECTS

13 SHADOWS OF ART AND SCULPTURE WITH NITIN DUTT (MFA SCULPTURE) / 29

14 GROWTH [ AN INTERIOR WALL DECORATION WITH NITIN DUTT} / 30

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About me

I have recently completed my bachelor of architecture degree from Chitkara school of planning and architecture ,

Jhansla, Punjab.

Objective

To employ my knowledge and potential to prove a real asset to your organization

Education and qualifications

Institute Chitkara School of Planning and Architecture

www.chitkara.edu.in

Qualification Bachelor of Architecture B.Arch. 62 %

Year 2007-2012

Location Jhansla , Punjab

Schooling

Shivalik Public School Mohali - +2 with 71 %

St. Xavier High School Mohali - 10th with 73%

RAMANDEEP SINGH PLAHA

Kothi no- 208 Sector –70 Mohali

raman.plaha@gmail.com [9988889789]

Language skills

Conversational - English

Native - Hindi , Punjabi

Work experience

Internship at CREDA Architects in Bangalore

June 2010—December 2010

www.credaarchitects.com

Worked with Nitin Dutt from Michigan state University (MFA

Sculpture) on an interior decoration project in Chandigarh.

Proficiencies

Operating system - Windows

AutoCAD 2013 (2d) - 90%

Revit architecture - 80%

Sketch Up 8 pro - 80%

Adobe Photoshop CS3 - 70%

Impressions 3 - 70%

Microsoft office - 80%

Landscape architect 2 - 100%

V-Ray for Sketch Up - 80%

SU podium (rendering) - 100%

I renderer - 90%

Digital fabrication

Para cloud GEM 4 - 70%

Pepakura designer 3 - 90%

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The project being Gaming Hub and Animation Centre involves study of games and the behavior of the gamer. The fastest growing industry is the entertainment industry

and so do the animation industry. In that content my proposal to bring out a collaborative gaming and animation center for the entertainment industry in the developing

village of Chandigarh in Sarangpur district.

The project combines education and recreation together under one place. Site is 9 acre in the film city .

Research was conducted on the types of games i.e. 3d games, kinetic games, computer games etc. and also the behavior of the gamer

A museum on the history of games and animation is also designed at lower level. The height of game tower is 15 m and that of the animation center be 27m..

The concept for the form comes from the Microsoft game XBOX 360. the blocks are placed in that formation like a box , an X and linear direction.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

ARCHITECTURAL THESIS

GAMING HUB AND ANIMATION CENTRE AT SARANGPUR 01

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The goal of the project is to understand the problems prevailing in this region due to overcrowding and also due to Mandir devotees & mall . So combined effort to design

an urban space in which the look of the site is polished and there is a control on the problems like street hawkers, parking space , mela ground and lake is corrected..

Rejuvenating the tank and integrating with the Mandir

Urban design (Patiala) 02

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

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ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Bus terminus

Interstate bus terminus at Phase –6 Mohali 03

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Parking for 100 cars and 70 two wheelers

Office like inquiry, bus office and union office

Male and female dormitories 25 bedded each

10 rooms, 25 night bus parking space

ELEVATIONS

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Taxi stand for 25 cars

Auto-rickshaw stand 20

Rickshaw stand 30

Separate loading and unloading bays

Restaurant for 40 people

12 shops

Workshop for maintenance of buses

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Chandigarh as a city is ever developing and ever expanding . The whole city of Chandigarh boasts of many shopping area , the departmental stores are also scattered

across the entire city, thereby making it easily accessible for the buyers. Many markets in Chandigarh out of which we choose sector—15 market .

Redesigning the Rehri market of sector—15 Chandigarh with the principals of Le Corbusier by keeping the design very simple and more spacious.

Rehri market re-design in Chandigarh

Urban pattern 04

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

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The site is located in the Punjab university campus . Site area of 45000 sqm. The site is surrounded by many prominent building. The site has been resolved into three

main zones i.e. the parking zone , building zone and greenscape. The area in front and side of the buildings is fully landscaped so that the building form seems to merged

into soft green scape and the metaled area is seen less.

Geometric road layout follows the geometric building lines. The entry to the site is through 27m wide road. Parking area at north-west.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Auditor ium

Designing an Auditorium 1000 seated for Punjab University campus at Chandigarh 05

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ACADEMIC PROJECTS

School for phys ica l ly d isabled people

In Panchkula a school for Mentally challenged people & disabled 06

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This was a collaborative project with the senior . In this project I understood the design principles for the people who are physically disabled and mentally challenged . The

design incorporated special norms for these kind of peoples.

The design include an auditorium for 250 people, hostel for girls and boys, mess block ,staff quarters and principal’s house.

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The interior of a shop was to be designed so I choose the Gothic culture. The cloths , accessories and decorations shall be inspired from the gothic culture in the shop.

A 20 ft x 40 ft shop having private site on a highway. Materials used is according to the material so inspired from the gothic churches .

A light brown environments is created with sandstone walls and black granite pillars from gothic style of architecture.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Gothic bout ique

Interior design by theme 07

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Honey bee theme for the interiors of a shop in the mall proposed. The shop is on the ground floor with 2 entry from inside and one from the outside . Sells shoes for all

ages and genders. The display is made in a hexagonal pattern inspired form the bee hive. Floor also in hexagonal pattern with glass and Jaisalmer stone . The ceiling

made up to hexagonal hollow MDF board.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Shoe Shop

Interior design for a shop in a mall 08

PLAN

SECTIONS

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ENTRY

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The landscape design for the leisure valley in Chandigarh for the people to get in touch with the nature and surrounding and making it a part of museum near by.

It’s a NASA landscape competition prepared by my team using new software called real-time landscape architecture. .

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Nihar ika

NASA landscape deign trophy for re-designing the leisure valley of Sector—10 Chandigarh 09

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Incorporating the 5 urban elements into the design for the future city of Baddi Himachal Pradesh. It was for NASA competition held in the year 2011 .

Octagonal planning grid layout inspired from the 8 goddess that are worshiped in this area.

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Utopian c i ty (NASA)

Planning for the future city in Baddi (Himachal Pradesh) 10

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The design is kept as simple with the entry pathway having tree on both sides and having oak tree in the front lawn. Flower bed around the edges of the building and pine

trees in the south-west , the pool is also having small plants around it. The natural pond in the site is rejuvenated and vegetable growing plants are planted near it.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Landscape design

Farm house landscaping 1 1

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The architectural design is quickly evolving and the use of new software's able to manage parametric components which can be helpful for the research of innovative

solutions.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Dig i ta l form f inding

Parametric Components 12

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It was a pleasure to work with Nitin Dutt who is a MFA in sculpture from Michigan university on the project called the ―Shadows of Art and Sculpture ― which was exhibited

in the Alliance de Francaise in Sector –34 Chandigarh.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

Shadows of art and sculpture with Nitin Dutt

Alliance de Francaise 13

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The wall of a house was to be highlighted so with Nitin Dutt (MFA sculpture) from Canada made a design in the form of a growing tree having leaflet pattern with positive

and negative faces of different sizes holding each other on 90’ intersection. The 5ft x 9 ft wall was decorated with laser cut sun-board sheets.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

Growth

Interiors worked out with Nitin Dutt 14

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Architecture (des ign) should speak of i ts t ime and

p lace, but yearn for t imelessness.