Bio Experience Skillset

Softwares
Taha Anees Khan +V Architects | April - May 2016
AutoDesk AutoCAD
(Architectural Intern)
+91 9158816797 Learned and worked on an ongoing project (Radha Kunj at Kalote.) Was put on task to design the swimming pool and
the amphitheater using representative software i.e., SketchUp. Also presented hand-drawn iterations. AutoDesk Revit
@tahakhan1620

Design Workshop | June - July 2019 SketchUp 3D

[email protected]
(Architectural Intern)
16th Feb 2000 TwinMotion
Worked on a variety of projects, including surveys (both in and out on the field) and designed many iterations for a
city crematorium and created features for other ongoing projects.
V-Ray

Clothbearer | Feb - Nov 2019

Rhinoceros 3D
(Design Associate)
Explored the world of Product Design and created a brand visual identity for a clothing firm. Product
Adobe Photoshop CC
Education conceptualization, designing other digital media material were the responsibilities undertaken. Participated in a
variety of activities including photography, videography in order to build a brand identity and other commercials.
Adobe Illustrator CC
O.P Jindal Global University
Bachelor of Architecture | 2018 - Currently Enrolled Spincorp | Jan - May 2021
Adobe InDesign CC
(Design Head)
Don Bosco Junior College Lonavala Managed the job of Design Head, which included managing various clients and overcoming numerous design
Adobe Premiere Pro CC
GPA 6.7 | Class of 2018 difficulties. Created designs, websites and headed their social media accounts. Also fabricated advertisements using
photography and videography.
Ryewood International School, Lonavala Adobe After Effects CC

GPA 7.3 | Class of 2016 Ajay Realty | May 2021 - Apr 2022
Adobe Lightroom CC
(Principal Design Head)
Managed the job of Principal Design Head working on various projects, including surveys on site, iterating designs as
Procreate
well as handling drawings, commercials, social media and representing work on paper and 3D softwares.

Achievements Kala Chaupal | Aug - Dec 2021

Blender

(Architectural Intern)
Microsoft Word
Asst. Sports Captain | 2014-15 Learned how to conduct mixed method and multimodal research and understood the architectural structure and
design of an e-commerce website utilizing text, drawings, and other visual material.
Sports Captain | 2015-16 Microsoft Excel

School Football Team Captain | 2013-16 Gayatri Architects | Feb - Apr 2022
Microsoft PowerPoint
(Architectural Intern)
Silica Design Competition: 2nd Place Worked on several projects both on the drawing board as well as on site. Project included the representation of a
restoration and design project using photography. Interests & Other Skills
Emerging Digital Artist | Jindal Global University 2019-20

Photography
Mentor (Aperture) 2020-21 |Jindal Global University Freelance | 2017 - Present
Freelanced a variety of projects, including architecture, graphic and product design, photography, and Cinematography
Vice President (Aperture) 2020-21 |Jindal Global University
cinematography. Posters, social media posts, websites, motion posters, commercials, 3D modeling, and other digital
creations have all been commissioned Football
Certificate of Leadership for Disciplinary Committee | 2021-22
Graphic Design

Sketching
 1 [ 06 - 11 ] CONTAINER HOUSE

2 [ 12 - 17 ] MADH ISLAND HOUSE

3 [ 18 - 27 ] KOTI VILLA

CONTENTS

4 [ 28 - 37 ] BANQUET HALL

5 [ 38 - 45 ] URBAN + COMMUNITY ATELIER

6 [ 46 - 49 ] PHOTOGRAPHY
Casa de Contenedores
2020 - semester 4 / 2021- revision
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BEDROOM

Subject: Structures and Survey Levelling III

Prof. Kiljae Ahn /objective tain e r
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To learn and understand
SketchUp and use the software
as a tool to create a house using BALCONY

containers and other objects

given in the file. The house was
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After many iterations, a plan was designed carefully in order to maximise on the space since a shipping The house is built on a steep provided in the SketchUp file by the professor. The constraints set in place
container does not provide a great inception point. With its limited width, it was challenging to did not permit the use of other objects and material than what was provided in the file. Since the
maximise on the space. Although considering the fact that the house was to be built on a slope in the house was supposed to be built on a steep terrain, it stands on pillars and land light on the terrain. The
Himalayas, balconies and outdoor decks seemed like the only viable option to maximise on space. staircase is added externally so as to add to the structural integrity of the house since the structural
walls of the containers tend to weaken when the corrugated sheets are removed.
The lower-level acts as a living-dining room with an outdoor balcony. That space leads to the upstairs
master bedroom and porch. The top container has two functions, the master bedroom with a panoramic window where the user
finds solitude in the vast and beautiful Himalayan scenery, and also an upper-level deck for morning
routines and rituals in the fresh air of the surroundings. Even though the harsh site faces north the living-
dining and the bedroom is flooded with direct sun and the roof terrace has a great evening sun
location.
Madh Island House
2020 - semester 4 / 2022- revision
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Subject: Site & Services

Prof. Wills Thomas & Prof. Jasim Alam
02
/objective
To design a detached Row House
on a plot size of 30’ in width and 40’
length for a family of four consisting
of two adults and two children. A
study room, a kitchen, a dining and
Living room was also included in the
client’s brief. The objective of this
project was to design a small home
while carefully understanding and
designing the services layout for
the house.
 /weather /reconnaissance

One of Mumbai’s most well-known beaches is Madh Island Beach. The beach is not just a well-known
tourist destination, but it’s also one of the state’s cleanest. On Mumbai’s northwestern shore, this stun-
ning beach is actually made up of a collection of tiny villages and farmlands. Mangroves line the
beachfront, which not only enhances its natural beauty but also divides the beach from the mainland.
April is the hottest month of the year, with an average temperature of 27.4 °C | 81.4 °F. The yearly aver-
age temperature is lowest in January. It is 20.4 °C (68.8 °F) outside. With an average of 1 mm | 0.0 inch, /Sun Path
January has the least amount of precipitation. The month with the most precipitation is July, with an av- The sun in Mumbai is harsh with temperatures
erage rainfall of 641 mm | 25.2 inch. Families that work in Mumbai’s suburbs but want to live in a home reaching almost 45 °C during the summers. The
with better weather conditions can consider Madh Island, which has a 17AQI air quality score. It also sun path also helped in designing the orientation
gets a lot of rain during the monsoon, which is perfect for homes who use rainwater harvesting. of windows and other fenestration
11.4 mph
18.5 kmph /

25.2 in
641 mm /

27.4 °C /
81.4 °F

/Wind Map
Madh Island in particular recieves constant winds
considering there aren’t huge skyscrapers that cut
out the wind.

N: 12 %
NE: 6%
E: 4%
SE: 2%
S: 6%
SW: 13 %
W: 36 %
NW: 20 %
/master plan and division layout One other design constraint was to apply and use Solar electrical layout/
Panels in the house and study the working with respect to
the electricity grid and it’s storage.

Master Bedroom 9’8” x 11’9”

Bathrooms 3’8” x 8’7” Fan Regulator

Data Outlet
Bedroom 10’3” x 10’7” 6A Socket with Switch
1 No. 5A Switch
Study 7’1” x 4’ 20A Socket with Switch
6/16A Socket with Switch for TV

Kitchen 9’11” x 8’11” 1 No. Master Switch

6/16A Socket for AC
Fluorescent Light Switch
Living Dining 11’10” x 8’11”

drainage and sewage layout/

Sewer Pipe
Soil Pipe
Slops to Drainage

The design for the house was mainly decided by the plot area i.e. 30x40m to build a row house.
Considering the FSI in Mumbai, there was not a lot of space to build a house for a family of four which
also accommodates for parking spaces. Multi-use and intersecting spaces are the focus of the interior
in order to maximize the utility of the limited footprint.
 In a modern and stressful day’s work in a city
like Mumbai, families often want their home
to be in a place where the house greets them
with warmth and relaxation. Madh Island in
Mumbai is great place to build such homes
since it faces the sea, with plots enveloped in
tropical palm trees. Where you can see the
sea waves crash onto the beach as you brew
your early morning coffee or see the moon
rise over the horizon as you prepare dinner.
Although, Mumbai is not a place where plots
of lands are readily available and if they are,
they can be very expensive. Which is what ties
the brief for this house together; a modern day
compact house that envelopes a family of two
adults and two children, which is exactly why
intersecting space design was the answer to
the design constraints. With the above design
criteria, it was decided that the house would
be raised on a platform to accommodate
parking as well as the Battery and Inverter
for the Solar Panels installed on a roof. The
house accommodates a Master Bedroom, a
Children’s Bedroom, two bathrooms, a Study
as well as a Living-Dining-Kitchen Area as you
enter the house. The courtyard on the ground
floor is a space to connect family members,
has a flexible function.
KOTI VILA
2020 - semester 4 / 2021- revision
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Subject: Structures and Survey Levelling III

Prof. Kiljae Ahn

/objective
To observe structural systems in
hilly or mountanous areas and
plan and design a house on an
incline near the Himalayan region
exposed to natural calamties and
perils, taking into consideration
the structure can withstand
these catastrophic events.

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Site
Location: 29°39’28.1”N 79°40’09.1”E
Nata Dol, District of Almora,
Uttarakhand.
Site Area: 400 sq.m

Site Selected: Zabar Green Valley, Natadol,

Almora, Uttarakhand

North Facing

Ground + 1 Construction Allowed

Land Price: 460 per sqft

Site Accessibility:

Approx 2hr from tourist destination Almora

Near Bank

Near Small Village Market

Nearest Train Station: 71km

Nearest Airport: 104km

Temperature:

Summer: Max- 40°C | Min- 22°C

Winter: Max- 23°C | Min- 2°C

Annual Rainfall : 44.59 inches

Height Above Sea Level: 1,814 m / 5,951 ft

References:
to understand traditional ways of construction in
Kumaon region and other ways used in hilly region
45 Low Angle Roof Slab
especially to tackle with earthquakes. with INSULATION

Vernacular Architecture: (specific to this region)

• Stone walls
• Mud floors
• Slate roofs STEEL TRUSS SYSTEM

• Patangans (courtyards of grey stone)

The houses are from two to four stories high and
are substantially built of mica slate and roofed
with slabs of the same material and profusely
carved and some bear decorative lamp-rests of TRUSS SYSTEM WITH
SOUTH-EAST FACING
deer’s antlers. SKYLIGHT

• The windows are more apertures for the most

part resembling pigeon-holes cut in the wooden
panels and closed by a slide.
Monopitch Roof +
Trusses Iterations: GROUND FLOOR LAYOUT
WITH TRADITIONAL STYLE
SKIN
Retaining Wall for foundation and roof structure through few
Cut & Fill
Retaining Wall
concept sketches getting a basic idea for our
Cut & Fill
CONCEPT - I
building structure

BASEMENT WITH PORCH

Drilled Concrete
Piers Design Decisions for the building structure and
Retaining Wall
Cut & Fill
grid layout by presenting them on building
AutoCAD plans and SketchUp model. STRUCTURAL SYSTEM GRID

CANTILEVER RETAINING WALL

Basement
Banquet Hall
2022 - semester 8 /
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Subject: Form Stuff and Space Layout

Prof. Abu Talha Farooqi, Prof. Mudassir Ahmed,
04 project brief
To propose an architectural design and plan for a Banquet Hall with provisional
Lodging accompanied by a Quick Service Restaurant (QSR). The objective of the
project was to provide both indoor and outdoor areas to host fun-filled, memorable
events that visitors can carry glimpses of with them for a lifetime.

Prof. Jaideep Chatterjee, Prof. Mohit Dhingra The varied program brief of this project arrives from the client’s requirement of
ensuring 300+ days of revenue generation through business ventures that would be
housed on site. Thus, on of the main ideas our exploration focuses on was to to see
how the building can accomodate for contiinuos activity.

Site
Location: 28°33’50.0”N 77°26’02.2”E
Site Area: 7,850 sq.m

The site lies in a pre-dominantly residential area and is flanked by residential apartment complxes and
gated communities within a 1.5-3km radium
SITE ANALYSIS Market Analysis
Building Type (as per NBC): Assembly Building
Commercial and Retail
Site Area: 7,850 sq.m
Although there aren’t any large supermarkets
Permissible FAR: 1.5
or shopping complexes in the area, the rise
Max Buildable Area: 11,775 sq.m
Square street expected to be completed in
Permissible Ground Coverage: 55% Events and hospitality
early 2023 may pose to be heavy competition
Max. Height of Construction: 16m The events and hospitality space is largely
with their shopping mall, sports complex,
Abadi Land: isn’t encompassed in GNIDA untapped, with no well known hotels
banquet hall and variety of restaurants.
or banquet halls in the vicinity. Although
there are a few banquet halls nearby,
many of them do not offer certain facilities
which can become our project’s USP.

Daily Chance of Precipitation in Jalalpur, Bisrakh

Average Hourly Temperature in Jalalpur, Bisrakh

Average High and Low Temperature in Jalalpur, Bisrakh

Business Model
(Banquet Hall + QSR + LODGING)

• The Budget for this project set by the Client is 9 Crores (or 1.15 Million
USD) although the client has specified that he would take a loan if the
cost and expense crosses the initial budget limit
• The Banquet Hall(s) would be the primary source of revenue for this
business model.
• All halls combined to accomodate 1000-1500 visitors.
• The Client has taken responsibility for all business operations associated
with the Banquet Hall.
• The Halls would be accompanied with 10-12 rooms for lodging
purposes that can be availed by those renting out the halls.
• The price range per plate is Rs.1000-Rs.1200.
• A Quick Service Restaurant would also be a part of the project; the
designted areas would be rented out to a franchise. (This provides a
year-round revenue as the revenue generation
of a banquet hall lies between 100-150 days of the year, i.e, mainly
during the wedding season)
• The respective franchise would be responsible for all business
operations associated with the Quick Service Restaurant.
The client Keeping in
wished to mind the look
have a more and feel of
traditional the facade
look and fee;l that our client
to structure preferred,
and the we decided
facade, as to implement
he believed the idea of
that minilism symmetry
does not from the
come reference
close to the and develop
character it further,
that through our
traditional site plan
structures and facade
hold. design
Dehradun (Urban + Community Atelier)
2021 - semester 7 /
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Subject: Urban + Community Atelier

Prof. Alokeparna Sengupta

/objective
To understad the various factors that affect and influence
the behaviors of the road users and their mobility. This
involves multiple aspects of mobility and urban planning,
like trip length, soft mobility modes, conjuctive spaces,
land use that affect the use of open built spaces.

The purpose of this study is to better understand the

streets in our selected area for potential intervention, so
that we are better able and equipped with knowledge
to design and generate an equitable built space that is
acssessable and inclusive to the needs of pedestrians,
public transport and Non-motorised vehicle users who’s
needs are often neglected as a result of modal hierarchy
in urban planning of our cities which prioritises motorised
vehicles.

05
//Site Position /Reconnaisance
Radius : 400 m​ • Finding Problem Areas
Centre Point : Edge of Uttrakhand Forest Dept.​ i) Footpaths
Main Market: Dilaram Bazaar​ ii) Parking Spaces
Bus Stands: Amritdhara Pharmacy, Dilaram Bazaar, & iii) Hawkers
Madhuban Hotel​ • Finding Specific Problem Sites
Neighbourhood: Ashok Vihar, Chaderlok Colony (Left))​ i) Dilaram Chowk
ii) Sulabh Sauchalaya Complex
iii) Hawker’s Adda
iv) Bus Stops
• Interviewing Several Users and Locals
• Identifying problems specific to the site that can be
tackled through the means of intervention guidelines
Congestion Map Legend Legend Road Network Map
Pedestrians - Sub-Arterial Road
Vehicles - Distributory Road
Hawkers - Access Road
Parked Vehicles - Local Street
Dilaram Chowk: ~ 1
Uttarakhand Forest Department: ~ 2 Cantonment Road: 8m in width
Madhuban Hotel: ~ 3 Rajpur Road: 14m in width
DL Road: 5m in width

/Congestion /Road Network

The hot spots depict the congested spaces across Rajpur Road. The congestion spots are mainly across This zone has one of the important road passing i.e., Rajpur road, which is also route to Mussoorie. Th
the Sulabh Complex (Public Toilet), Dilaram Chowk Roundabout and near bus stands. These spots are is road has heavy traffic volume of tourist buses, cars and other vehicles.
conjunctive spaces with hawkers, and informal markets, pedestrians and parked vehicles. Lack of clear The radius consists of Rajpur road which is a sub-arterial road based on the standard geometry
segregation in land use edges creates chaos. Lack of Parking spaces is one of the major concerns for however serves the purpose for an arterial road based on its functions. Another important road is the
congestions where vehicles are parked infront of store fronts or on walkways. New-cantonment road leading to the cantonmet area and has been prioritised as it is a dedicated
space for Government officials. The roads in the city are narrow due to the lack of space which affects
the space segregation for parking, carriage way and walkways.

Land Usage Map

/Traffic Congestion Map

Legend
Vehicular traffic varies throughout the day and week Industrial Land -
as a pattern. Dilaram Chowk has intense traffic during Commercial Land -
the evening hours and gets congested particularly Open Land -
on weekends as the traffic going to mussorie passes Parking Space -
through the main road. The vehicular traffic modes Residential Land -
are mostly either two-wheelers or cars. Heavy vehicles
do not pass through this road as they mostly use outer
roads.
 01 03 05 07
Footpaths INTERVIEWS TAKEN: 9 Intervention guidelines Road Crossing
While identifying the problems • Clear and purposeful The traffic and passage of vehicles
SITE ANALYSIS / PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION

INTERVENTIONS
USER INTERVIEWS

OTHER CHANGES
on the street, a major issue that GROUP DISCUSSIONS: 2 segregation of ROW on Rajpur Road is heavy, although
caused traffic and accidents were • Creating parking infrastructure it misses out on pedestrian road
uneven and or even missing strips INTERVIEWEES: Bus Conductor, to regulate it crossing which cause plenty of
of footpaths. Barber amidst the Shops with his • Retrofitting of existing pedestrian road accidents every year
friends, Bus Conductor, Vegetable infrastructure
Parking Vendor, Caretaker of Public On Street Parking
A secondary and major issue that Toilet, Technician at the Bus Intervention Points It allows for vehicles to be parked
was recognized was the non- Stop, Ice Cream Vendor, Traffic • Hawker Space: Creating rest on the street, anywhere on or
existent parking system that was police officer, Pan shopkeeper, spaces for pedestrians and space along the kerb of streets.
implemented. A number of cars Shopkeeper and their friends. for hawkers (‘IRC 103:2012, 6.10, 3IRC 86-1983,
were seen parked halfway on to • Sulab Complex: 6.2.9)
the footpath. INTERVIEW TAKEAWAYS: Parking congestion and hawkers
• There is a lack of parking • Dillaram Chowk: Tree Grates
Hawkers infrastructure. People don’t Carriage way & pedestrians flow To be installed at the same level
Since Dilaram Bazaar is a major comply with the rules and only regulation with the pavement around a tree
market in the city of Dehradun, complain. that allows the soil underneath
hawkers seem to flood the market • The shopkeepers and the street General focus areas to stay uncompacted and the
to run their business. Although, vendors have to compete with • Footpaths pedestrians to walk without
due to no regulation in place and the parked cars for spaces. • Parking stepping on the soil.
with the existence of corruption, • Not all of them are licensed. • Bus Stops
hawkers often are unable to run Unlicensed Vendors run into a lot • Hawkers
their business without troubles. of trouble with the authority, at
times have to bribe.

Dilaram Chowk Dilaram Chowk

No provisions for pedestrians • Acknowledging space
Road crossing indicator faulty/ occupied by parked Govt. office

SPECIFIC PROBLEM SITES INTERVENTIONS

incomprehensible vehicles
A lot of space occupied by illegal • Managing free flow lanes
parking • Retrofitting of footpaths

Sulabh Complex Sulabh Complex

Corrupt authority • Regulation of hawker spaces
Lack of parking and licencing
People drink here at night • Dedicated parking for dilla ram
market
SPECIFIC PROBLEM SITES

Hawker Adda • Organised parallel parking in

The National Street Vendors existing space
Act, makes it mandatory to • Adding a platform with ramps to
accommodate vending areas discourage vehicles from entering
in the street designs. These street the space.
vending areas should always
include spaces for spillover Hawker Adda
• Adding Bollards near the road
Bus Stops side to give the hawkers a vehicle
Congestion around the bus stop free space
Buses are discouraged from • Create a designated space so
stopping at the stops because of as to remove corruption from
congestions these spaces.
02 06
/Interventions for Site C (Hawker Adda Space)

• Regulation of hawker spaces and licencing​

• Adding benches and seats to accomodate crowds

• Organised parallel parking in existing space​

• Provisions for Informal weekly market

• Adding Bollards to discourage vehicular traffic in the space

/Interventions for Site B (Public Toilet Junction)

• Regulation of hawker spaces and licencing​

• Dedicated parking for dilla ram market​

• Organised parallel parking in existing space​

• Retrofitting of existing store fronts to clear ambiguous space​

• Resting space around sulabh shauchalya​

• Clear carriage way to DL road​

• Provisions for Informal weekly market

/Interventions for Site A (Dilaram Chowk)

• Pedestrian infrastructure (crosswalk, islands)​

• Acknowledging space occupied by parked Govt. office vehicles​

• Managing free flow lanes​

• Retrofitting of footpaths​
 Photography
i have been doing
photography for the I like to take black and

past 4 years now, and white photographs to erase

my interests have grown meaning. Lately in the past

from the essence of couple of years colours

street photography have seems to play such an

to the complexities important role in depicting

of astrophotography, meaning and identity,

although something leaving every photograph

that has remained as a with a meaning to decode,

constant is that all images overpowering the beauty

and or any recording only a photograph might hold.

exists in monochrome. I’m For me black seems to hold

often asked as to why I meaning in the shadows,

do only Black and White like an unsolved puzzle and

photography. white, the highlights are

the parts that are showing
through. When the two
combine in my eyes, colour
seems to lose meaning.
Allowing me to create
images that let the view to
breathe while they look at it.

My interests lie in Architectural, Landscape and Astro Fine Art photography, over the past several years I have been spending time to
grow in these spheres of photographhy in particular.
Street photography is
essentially where my journey
began although, for me it
was rather difficult to create
portraits and therefore I
chose to not only focus on a
subject but also capture the
essence of what they are
doing and where they might
be. Monochromatic formats
have allowed me to achieve
that by isolating subjects not
only by highlighting them but
also inverting them into the
shadows of the world.

Astrophotography was something that I picked up in late October of 2019. Astrophotography is something that I grew fond of each and everyday and have been
trying to incorporate it not only in my landscape photography but also in my architectural shoots. With the onset of the lockdown in 2020, it allowed me to focus on
this particular aspect in my craft and learn it with a deeper context. Although at first the stars seemed pretty, slowly they do start forming patterns in star trails and
other photographs such as the Orion Nebula photograph on the top.
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