Harsh Vardhan Jain Architects

24/08/2020

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12/07/2020

On India GoodHomes

Studio Juggernaut creates a spectacularly modern home in Gurgaon with a distinct Mid-Century-inspired underbelly!

19/05/2020

Our project for CIPL House on architecture photo.net

https://architecturephoto.net/93667/

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16/05/2020

Progressing further with the design of details in the studio, I was able to combine the various developed joinery conditions to create a composite system that encompassed space. Systems for framing, floors, walls, roofs etc. were now taking shape.

In this model, the assemblage of various components is placed on a contoured site condition. The cast concrete walls act as a via-duct held up by piles, contain the track system on which the frames moves.

16/05/2020

Our project for Alliance Francaise de Delhi on Architecturephoto.net

https://architecturephoto.net/93387/

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15/05/2020

This series of models are from Edward R. Ford's studio at the UVA school of architecture. It may very well have been one of my favorite studio projects as well as the process we followed to achieve the end result. Starting small, our task was to explore joinery systems in construction that would lead to a complete building towards the end with necessarily no preconceived form to begin with.

I was interested in railway systems as well as joinery that was developed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1920s for his furniture combining that with the sensibilities that Kengo Kuma employs in his buildings. Something of an expanded joint on tracks.

14/05/2020

Our project for architecture studio on Architecturephotonet. One of Japan's leading architecture website.

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13/05/2020

While I mentioned making models out of 'found' materials, there is another approach I followed. I would often procure raw materials without any intended purpose at that point in time. Something that would catch my eye or something too beautiful to let go was acquired. I wont call this rummaging, but chancing upon such items like the gorgeous piece of rose wood slab I found which now serves as my dining table or a 30" ×18" solid brass sheet 1/8" thick I found lying in a metal supply store while buying supplies for other ends. The brass sheet was formed into a chimney for my stove almost a year after I bought it. Both these objects can be seen in images for 'An Apartment for 2' on or on my firm's website. For this model I bought l this beautiful piece of Mohagany on a trip made with some colleagues to a timber supply store in Charlottesville. There was so much to choose from but this piece just seemed perfect.

The model represents my thesis project site at 1:2500 showing the various layers of construction. The tiny pieces represent buildings made of load bearing brick masonry. The longer bass wood stubs suggest concrete frame and the glowing acrylic pieces represent steel frame construction. All work work in incremental modules of 4.5m × 4.5m

13/05/2020

I was working with Prof. Peter Waldman at UVA School of Architecture, who in many ways was my guru and guide throughout my time at grad school and beyond. I loved to hear him speak about architecture or simply how his mind worked connecting disparate components to make new. I enjoyed working with 'found' pieces to make models with. This made you work with the limitations of size and scale of the pieces for the model or completely reimagine what such pieces would represent. Probably Peter's influence somewhat rubbing on me. In this lockdown, I decided to read Robinson Crusoe, I sort of knew the story but never read the text written 290 years back. This was perchance listening to Phoebe Judge reading The Moonstone through a podcast where Robinson Crusoe was mentioned several times. I now understand why that story would be such a huge influence on Peter Waldman in his teachings as well as the design of his house Parcel X. It simply is Robinson Crusoe's house, a cave and a tent. Furthermore, his repurposing of material that he salvages from his ship when marooned on the island of despair, keeping exact count and meter.

This model as well as components of the previous one is made using some found pieces such as the piece of squared log and the rusty bearing wheel. The model represents some of the infrastructural systems such as solar collectors (tent) and stepped well for water collection (cave) in my proposition. The bearing would represent underground conduits to either move energy or people.

12/05/2020

Digging from buried files, sometimes it is good to look back at the work you did in times that seem so diametrically opposite to what we are facing now. The intensity with which one would work in the studio producing drawings and models for their semester projects seems to be a time long gone by me. The weeks before the final reviews did seem like a self quarantine of sorts while one worked towards putting together their projects hiding behind their computer screens. I miss spending time at the UVA School of Architecture model workshop, working with different materials such as timber, metals or acrylic.

For the next few posts I will be showing some of the models I made during my time in grad school. Work that is now only documented in photographs, lost in the digital archives.

This is a model I made for my graduate thesis, representing the different construction systems that exist in India, some traditional and some upcoming.

20/12/2019

Hello friends, we are really excited to introduce our new avatar of our architecture practice - JUGGERNAUT.

It is after several years of working together on projects and many conversations that we have decided to combine the practices of Harsh Vardhan Jain architects, Co.Lab Design and Humanscape Design Lab with offices in New Delhi and Tokyo.

As an international office, we will be posting our work on our new Instagram page . We request you to follow us on to stay updated with all the exciting projects our studios are designing.

20/12/2019

is partnership of three offices Co.Lab Design + Humanscape Design Lab + Harsh Vardhan Jain architects, having offices in New Delhi and Tokyo. Follow us on for architectural works new and past.