Academic Portfolio

Asad Khan Jaffer, 3rd Year B.Arch RVCE Bangalore India-E.mail asadjafferkhan@gmail.com
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Contents
•! Preamble
•! Fifth Semester
•! Fourth Semester
•! Third Semester
•! Second Semester
•! Other Interests
Grew up in a middle class household, with a
talent in drawing and art as a child, son of an
architect and a medical doctor. Academically
inclined towards mathematics and history, have
an unusual mixture of abilities : Languages
(German, French, English, Hindi, Urdu, Kannada,
Tamil and learning Italian), Music (piano,
learning), Art (ranging from abstract to human
figures), Ambidexterity, Architectural implications
of Vastu, Feng Shui, speaking backwards,
Culinary talents, A student of Comparative
religions, Italian literature and all of which are
self taught. Martial Arts (Learning) (Aikido ,
Karate and Wing Chun).

Architectural Influences : Mies Van De Rohe and

to an extent Jean Nouvel.

An Average student; interested in modular and

detail architecture and its use in spaces frames
further its implication in extraterrestrial urban
environments.

Software's Known : AutoCAD, Revit Architecture,

Google sketch up and Adobe Illustrator.

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Housing Project (Fifth Semester)

A housing project for a minimum of 40 families

( averaging 4 per family).

Aim: to have an innovative design.

Design: Using the most basic form of utility (cube/

cuboids), recessing and adding volumes so that it
formed a basic unit that could be repeated until it
evolved to contradict the intended volumes, in terms
of its axes, mass and geometry.

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The structure follows a single unit diagonal in shape is replicated and this makes the
section clearer as each house is a duplex, A new typology emerged where houses would
be built only for a celebrity like occupants.
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Projection of the dining areas on the façade make

for an interesting dining area as well as an
interesting treatment to the façade, the placement
of large dormer windows also aid the tropical
weather conditions in the city as designing for
climatic conditions was encouraged

The open spaces created create

semi-private open areas
interlacing with private spaces
that creep in to the master
bedroom.

The height difference between

the levels is about four meters
and furthermore this space is
accentuated further to a height of
six meters in case of the open
areas.

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Hostel Project (Fifth Semester)

a hostel for 80 architecture students.

Aim : To think as tangentially as

possible and ideas that could enable
practicality with innovation of
thought( meaning the technology
need not exist) are encouraged.

Design: By using the simplest three

dimensional form (tetrahedron),
replicating it and limiting it such that
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VARIATION ON LEVELS CREATES THERMAL

POCKETS DUE TO THE RECESSES ON THE
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THE UNITS THAT HOUSE ABOUT

THREE STUDENTS ARE DESIGNED IN
THE SHAPE OF A CIRCULAR CAPSULE
4.2M IN DIA.

Because the idea of the exercise

was to think as tangentially as
possible :

I proposed a thermal cycle that

would hold the structure and
maintain it. Nitrogen absorbed
from air would be converted to a
liquid form (assuming a
semiconductor is used) and
circulated throughout the structure
via pressurized ducts, because of
the naturally hot environment
around the structure the deficit in
temperature would not effect the
entire steel structure and maintain
a cold steel structure in a tropical
environment.

THE SIMPLICITY OF THE STRUCTURE

IS REALISED ON THE STRUCTURAL
FORM

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COMMUNITY CENTER ( Fourth Semester)

To build a community center, possibly taking into

consideration the Hindu shrine on the site.

Design :Using the concept of infinity at a micro level

where a community would exist first at a very primal
level i.e. at a family : mother, child and father where a
child would act as a neutral point for both positive and
negative infinities( the mother and father represented
respectively). Interpolating that with the safe
economic graph and further interlacing the concept of
infinity with that of the swastika to create a structure
that responded literally to the context.

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The bleachers form

sunshades indirectly
during the evenings and
provide a well lit corridor
during dusk

The moving windows give a geometric regimental form to a dynamic structure which is further an
abstraction of the concept of infinity
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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.
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Moving the city after it became a very complex network

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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” don’t 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.

A view of how the city could possibly act like a parasite to the environment, a
possible comparison to a real city which also does this in a micro-space-scale, where
the environment ranges from the life of an infant in a city to the changes that take
place during its growth.

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A three dimensional form of the city if it were to exist without the forces of gravity acting
upon it > A representational model.

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A movable habitat :
Aim :
To build a
temporary/
permanent structure
that would be a
collapsible, movable
and react to any
scenario it would be
used in, it could
apply to a desert an
island etc.

Design :
Use of a collapsible
frame integrated
with a honeycomb
board walls make for
a cheap, strong and
eco-friendly design.

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Grading of Skills

Skill Grade (0-7)

Acad 2D Drafting 3
Revit 2
Sketchup 2
Free Hand sketching 6
Model Making 5.5
Creative Design 7
Painting 4
Resilience/Behaviour 7
Referees:

1.! Dr Anantha Krishna, ka12rvsa@gmail.com

R.V. College of engineering, R.V. vidyaniketan,
Mysore Road, Bangalore 560059,
Phone: 0-9341225316

2. Ar. Anil Dube

#29/1,2nd Floor,
Nanjappa Road Cross, Shanthi Nagar
Wilson Garden, Bangalore -560027

Phone:080-22239549, 080-22271383

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Photography

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Contact Details:

Asad Khan Jaffer

3/23 2nd Main BTM 1st Stage
Bangalore 560 029 India
Tel: +918026789745
Fax:+918025289915
E.Mail:asadjafferkhan@gmail.com

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