Lohitha Rao
Student
Third Year B. Arch
School of Environment and Architecture
Contact No. 9167773221
Email id- a21lohitha@sea.edu.in
Skills
Autocad
Photoshop
Rhino
Sketchup
Procreate
I am passionate about multi-disciplinary practices and would love to engage with opportunities that direct me towards it. I have been learning Carnatic and Hindustani Classical Music for a decade or more. I bring new critical questions to the table and strive to look at the world through different lenses.
HANDRAWN
Mirya, Ratnagiri
Incrementality as a concept of building, influencing the form of houses( as long rectangular forms) due to the addition of newer rooms.
To capture the softness of the landscape and the objects in the house , the textures and the experience of the transitional inside and outside spaces .
Environmental Flows,Gradualities,Daman, SEM 3
DIGITAL WORK
Genealogies and Ontologies, Melting Medians, SEM 5
Diagramatically breaking down the idea of 'What is a Market' and tracing down the evolution of markets . What makes the market so porous and lively, does the ephemeral quality of the market play a role in the space-making. Then what kind of architecture is required to hold on to that nuance, and how?
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How to incorporate the street in a traditional shopping mall, which in turn changes the dynamic from a disconnect to a seamless juxtaposition and how can we bring an equilibrium between the ephemeral and the built?
The play of levels, to prevent hard edges and direct distinction and that allow seamless flow of movement. The three courtyards and plaza are introduced as they acts as light wells and ventilate the space .
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Building Systems, Intermediate Spaces, SEM 4
Exploration of the forms through the idea of systems and their functions. To go beyond the idea of fitting systems in rooms but letting their expression be the form itself.
The project had three main systems- the stage system, the plastic segregation , and the junkyard .
The common elements of these systems -(physical and conceptual) were clubbed together to form a hybrid space and all the elements shaped the space allowing for a new kind of architecture .
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MODEL MAKING
Type Studio, SEM 4
Mosquito proboscis, SEM 1
Gradualities, SEM 3
GROUP WORK
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Spatiality of the Future
Studying the settlements in Kandarpada through the lens of different stakeholders such as politicians, landlords, and tenants along with their present circumstances and situation. Speculating the future with the information as the base and then designing according to the people's aspirations and requirements. The design ideas were then taken back to the community to engage with the ideas in further detail.
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Spatiality of the Future
Orchha Settlemnt Study
Goa Settlemnt Study
Landscape Design - Worli Seaface
Landscape Design - Worli Seaface
Ratnagiri Settlemnt Study
Ratnagiri Settlemnt Study
Bodies , Cities and Ecologies
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Architecture of Knowlege
The making of postcards to upturn the colonial idea of the Global South and circling conversations around the spatial practices of the spaces that contain intense densities of local knowledge . The above postcards were made mirroring the practices in settlements residing on marshlands in Mumbai. These conversations continued in Nairobi,Africa (through an exchange program) highlighting the social and cultural practices that formed/shifted their livelihoods.
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Mind - Borrowed from the past,
From thy vision to my last.
She is significant - yes
Titled as a ‘prostitute saint’
The vessels engraved with her name.
Embellishment - yes
Costless indisputable truth of shame.
Facing the burning candles,
Notionless a death; dangerously crawling
Off the dead.
Printmaking Workshop experimenting with textured paper forming raw, abstract prints that can be interpreted into many narratives whether it be read with or without the poems.
The poems are a collage of words and phrases picked up from different kinds of books .The question 'What is Original?' was engaged with to decode the idea of plagiarism, inspiration, etc.
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Participatory Design
Mhada colony in Govandi, a suburban neighborhood near Chembur where people from all over Mumbai have been relocated there through the lottery system and one will find people from all castes ,religion and communities. To have conversations that the people were comfortable with was our main aim. We made pop outs of their stories about their lives and journeys.
