KESHAVA NARAYAN

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I am an architect/design technologist, based in India. Currently, I'm working on projects related to complex form resolution, facade fabrication and BIM documentation in India with a graduation research thesis on the deployment of open source interactive web interfaces for 3d geometry generation and urban analysis.

Education

2020-2021

Master in Computation in Architecture | IAAC, Barcelona

2015-2020

Bachelor in Architecture | CEPT University, Ahmedabad

2019

Student Exchange Program - Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Experience

+ Design Technologist / Computation Design Consultant

External Consultant for design and execution of complex forms
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+ AEC Programmer Intern

Imagine Computation GmBH
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+ Architectural Intern

sP+a (Sameep Padora and Associates, Mumbai)
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Skills

Concept Modelling

Rhinoceros,Grasshopper, Sketchup
AutoCAD, MS Office,

BIM

Revit,Rhino Inside Revit,Vectorworks

Rendering

Twinmotion, Lumion, V-Ray,Adobe Suite

Others

Unity, Unreal Engine
Languages
English, Tamil,Telugu, Hindi,Gujarati
Programming

Python

Keras ,TensorFlow, SciKit Pandas, GhPython, RhinoScriptSyntax

C#

Rhino/Gh/Revit API (Learning Unity API)

HTML, CSS, Javascript

( three.js, node.js, heroku cli ), Rhino.Compute
Grants & Awards

+ Third Place in Co(VAI) Urban Design Competition

organised by the Coimbatore City Corporation (CCMC) and the German Corporation for International Cooperation GmbH (GIZ)
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+ Research presented in RESPONSIVE CITIES SYMPOSIUM 2021

“ Urban (AI)D - Aligning Urban Development with UN SDGs using Machine Learning ” - A Case of Lisbon, guided by Prof. Angelos Chronis, head of City Intelligence Lab, Austria. ISBN - 978-84-120885-6-4
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+ Research thesis to be published in DEEP CITY 2021

Reinterpreting the role of Computation Design Models in Housing Design using AI ” - A Case of Charles Correa in DEEP CITY 2021, a symposium organised by EPFL, Lausanne and HKU, Hong Kong
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+ International Scholarship Recipient - ACADIA 2020

Participant in the workshop conducted by Autodesk
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+ Scholarship Recipient - Minimal Densities

Additive Manufacturing and Prototyping with G-Codes for Mass Customisation
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+ Honourable Mention in Resilient Housing Design Competition, Kerala

for the proposal “ Rethinking Resilience on Aluva Island”
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+ Shortlisted for CEPT Excellence Awards

Best Design Thesis for - The Contested Interstitial(s) - Investigating decentralised manufacturing systems with an experiential outlook at Eastern Waterfront, Mumbai
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+ Finalist in Asia Young Designer Awards 2020

for the same project in the National Level
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