Design Portfolio 09/2011

Image
Environment Discourse
Space Time
Experience Perception
Video

Apoorv Tomar - Portfolio 09/2011

II Architect am an and
C ommunicat Desi ion gner
with interests in space-
t im e
discourse and
interrelat ionshi p b etween cinema
and architect ure. I am
passionate about
the collision and
use of space
and
t im e in
films and
architect ure
and my aim in research lies in explor ing
theor ies em erging
from these two for ms
of disci pline, that can in effect
b e realized in
creat ing new environm ents
and exper iences

In the future cell, in a translucent glass Apoorv Tomar - Portfolio 09/2011

*Space Time Experience
Space-time experience was my masters thesis project at the I.I.T
Guwahati. It studied theories that evolve from collision of
space and time, formed through interaction of various new
dimensions of architecture and cinema, and proposed a
methodology generated from theoretically built observations
and formulated assumptions.

Spatialization of Time – Representation in the form of
Narratives
Based on the observations from the research, four hypotheses
were formulated, that were suggested explanations and a
group of theories talking about the nature of space-time,
spatiotemporal conditions and experiences. These were
illustrated and visualized to get certain scenarios, which were
in the form of narratives.

Dynamization of Space – Simulation to form an Experience
Reproduction of selected narratives were experimented with
reflection of a physical setup for their respective spaces. Thus
the hypothesis formulated earlier provided data for visualizing
these narratives, which were then simulated to form a multi-
sensory experience.

Hypotheses and experiments were based on following
domains:
Television Spaces
Game Spaces
Perception of Time in Space

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Metamorphosis
Translated transformation of the project structure and time-line
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Telecast Gamut, miniDV, 11:38min, May 2011
Surveillance within the densely layered, intertextual environment of televisual space.
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External Essence, video, 4:15min, May 2011
Simultaneous spatial journeys through time inside the game spaces
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In Security Loop, video, 42min, May 2011
Perception of time in space - Time as it really is experienced in their waking and sleeping states.
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*Scenography - NDT V Profit
Proposed design for the NDTV Profit News Desk at the NDTV
Profit Mumbai Studio while working with Anagram Architects

Sculpting space inside the congested NDTV Mumbai studio, the
idea was to design a space with an approach to reorganize the
visual dynamic aesthetics into an auditory image. The design
evolved from deconstructing geometry to spatially buffer an
active temporal vivacity that becomes an aid to the moving
camera, committing different perspectives in movement.

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NDTV Profit News Desk, Mumbai, March 2009 *

*Scenography - NDT V Gadget Guru
Design of the NDTV Good Times Gadget Guru Set at the New
Delhi Studio produced at Anagram Architects

The design builds on the subject of space and interaction,
using media as a form of expression. Developed within the
financial and logistic concerns, the form and aesthetics were
determined within the design parameters set by a distinct and
well-defined activity. Focus was also to brace the lightings and
colors on the venue. The design evolved from idea of a cyber-
pod creating a visual enclosure within the constructed space.

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NDTV Gadget Guru, NDTV Good Times, New Delhi, Oct 2008 *

*Scenography - NDT V Profit
Selected design for the NDTV Profit News Desk at the NDTV
Profit Mumbai Studio while working with Anagram Architects

This was the second and final proposal given to the NDTV
Profit Studio. Among few reasons of this design being
preferred over the previous one, cost chop-down was a major
rationale. With an altered approach, the design of this news
desk aimed at a much more resolute and uncomplicated
structure. Two more separate sections were recessed out of the
packed full studio space along with the main news desk.
Details of the news desk were structured with the optimal use
of materials.

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NDTV Profit News Desk, Mumbai, April 2009 *

NDTV Profit News Desk, Mumbai, April 2009
Working drawing details of the news desk and the small side table
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*Montage - Nothing of Consequence to be Responsible for
This short video ’Nothing of Consequence to be Responsible Abstract
for’ was a second semester design project at the Department
of Design, I.I.T. Guwahati. It was this tendency with which the character in this fiction is
openly and forcibly brought to the stage from his everyday
The video was designed on a realistic approach in creating a life. Where in, he seemed to lose life and colour along with his
semi-fictional plot around a past middle aged inhabitant of a ideal past. Here his longing transcends a passing moment, may
village by the river Brahmaputra. The idea of this project was be in his dreams while he is asleep. But before this passing
to show a link between the traditional beliefs of Assamese moment could be accepted, he is accidently dragged into a
rural culture and the unnoticed everyday heroic deeds of the situation where he is himself held responsible for a reason
people. which is not only alien to him but also finds him in an anxious
state of mind. Now no comfort avails anymore and as he tries
With the groundwork of a comparative study, in relation to to understand the situation, he is unavoidably affected by it. In
distinctive works done by film makers and novelists, an the course of time he is again acquainted with the similar
understanding of their sense and approach gave essential passing moment, however this time he gets absorbed within
brain-waves for choosing the medium and creating a narrative. the reality and meets up to its highest consequence.

The outcome intended to draw-in an intensified sense of
temporality in the play, creating a factual experience of the
genuine time spent on respective events. The video can also be
viewed as an amalgamation of left out simultaneous spaces in
the montage and the odds of deliberate sense of time passing
through them.

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Nothing of Consequence to be Responsible for, miniDV, 22:55min, April 2010
Stills from the video
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Nothing of Consequence to be Responsible for, miniDV, 22:55min, April 2010
Initial concept sketches from the storey board
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*Montage - Not Equal To
‘Not equal to’ is a self initiated photographic montage. This
was made to explore the possibilities of sequential assortment
and study the form of a graphic novel.

In the process I also learned about the juxtapositioning of
images, and how different meanings can be created out of
altered arrangement of pictures. Through this montage, I was
able to experiment and learn how to communicate ideas
within a condensed format.

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Not Equal To, Pictorial montage, 11.5 X 8”, June 2009 *

*Montage - Identity Theft
Identity Theft is a self initiated stop-motion which was an
outcome of a casual experiment carried out in a days time.

The idea was to communicate the issue of identity fraud, going
along with a symbolic approach, indulging in the version of
the term coined in 1964, that was actually considered as a
misnomer because it is not literally possible to steal an identity
as such. Though primarily what I intended to commit, was
solely a representational form in order to get across the idea.

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Identity Theft, stop-motion, 42sec, June 2009
Few stills used in the stop-motion
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* Print Design - Graduating Students Work Store
This is the Work Store for the 2011 graduating students of
Department of Design at Indian Institute of Technology
Guwahati. Academic works of thirteen design students along
with their graduation projects were showcased in this work
store, maintaining two pages for each student. Featuring
unpaginated A5 layouts displaying work and personal
information each on alternate sides of the spiral-bound loose
leaves. Illustrated text fore-thoughts were also designed to be
separated by spiral-bound boards on either sides of the work
store.

The idea was to bring about the challenge of creating a
formation that stands out and creates an impression for the
multi-disciplinary design learning at the institute. The aim of
the catalogue was also to seek commission and employment
opportunities for the graduates.

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Graduating Students Work Store, Spiral-Bound, 8.3 X 5.9”, Sept 2010
Unpaginated layouts printed on sprial-bound loose leaves
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Graduating Students Work Store, Spiral Bound, 8.3 X 5.9”, Sept 2010
Unpaginated layouts printed on sprial-bound loose leaves
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* Print Design - The Space and Time
Self-published book ‘The Space and Time’ as graduation This exercise was a part of New Media Studies course, at the
research piece for my M.Des at I.I.T. Guwahati. I took a visual Department of Design, where extensive use of cultural
and discontinuous approach as a response to my interface was studied as a medium having a non-linear history.
understanding of the subject. Other than concentrating on the The idea of experimenting with this medium was in order to
content, which was mainly dealing with the premises of my understand the interface as a n act, treating interaction
dissertation, the main idea was to go beyond a mere visual through the book as an event. The experiment also dealt with
representation of interesting thoughts and ideas, and conjoin the future of information, which in this case being ‘space-
message with the medium itself. Hence the flow, design and time’, taken as a theme, my aim was to see how this
sequence of the book evolved from the idea of understanding information can be aesthetized with the dominance of media.
the subject space and time separately, and eventually arriving
to the notion of simultaneity in Space-Time.

The narrative of the book was given a discontinuous order
where the story is divided into parts, without a conventional
explanation through chapters. But instead, the book was
divided into three relative events that consisted of space and
time starting simultaneously from either sides of the book, and
the notion of space-time in between. With this book I intend
to suggest the reader, how the movement through time in
consuming the content becomes a relative interpretation of
your thoughts when you are not directed to any sequential
pattern or flow, while grasping a diverse topic such as space-
time. The time is quantized. This way you are more immersed
within the subject, creating your own narrative unsuspected in
the approach.

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The Space and Time, Paperback Bound, 5 X 7”, Nov 2010
Illustrated with colour and b/w representations of research and information, the page layouts were considered individually, immediately suggesting of their
wide range of potentials.
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The Space and Time, Paperback Bound, 5 X 7”, Nov 2010
The dominance of the content is no more than an extension of the variations of ideas, interpretations and observations in the context of space-time.
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*Illustrations - Whales
Three static, dim impressions of those few ineffable body to
space tragic events that had caused fractures on an ahistorical
daily grind, leaving a lining motif that is oddly peaceful
without them.

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Water in the whales, gel-ink pen & felt-tip, 16.5 X 11.7”, Oct 2010 *

When sunrise confused with sunset, and blood is mixed with oil
When scream turns to a song, you breathe below the soil

Surfacing from the depths, gel-ink pen & felt-tip, 16.5 X 11.7”, Oct 2010
When sunrise confused with sunset, and blood is mixed with oil. When scream turns to a song, you breathe below the soil.
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Last stone was black, gel-ink pen, 16.5 X 11.7”, Oct 2010 *

*Illustrations - Perplexes
A scope of occasionally emerging minute ideas, made in that
sum of the minute.

Prints of some pieces are available for a deal.

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Movement and Effect, gel-ink pen & felt tip, 16.5 X 11.7”, July 2011
Multiplicity is a process. It can be adjusted and brought into alignment. Each element has its own specific alignment; result of which is a pronounced effect of its
metamorphosis. The entropy behind adjustment endures a high probability of disorderly control.
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Illustration for Periferry, gel-ink pen, 16.5 X 11.7”, Dec 2010
Periferry is a artist-led space, situated on a ferry docked on the Brahmaputra River in Guwahati, Assam. It was intiated in 2007 as a project alternative by Desire
Machine Collective, to create a nomadic space for hybrid art practices.
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Study Finds No Logical Reason Why Planes Fly, gel-ink pen & fineliner, 16.5 X 11.7”, July 2010 *

Unidentified, permanent marker, 16.5 X 11.7”, June 2010 *

Unconscious kinesics, ball point pen & felt tip, 16.5 X 11.7”, May 2010
Two time-worn strechmarked women communicating happy tunes, while they are unaware that they are sad, absorbing at length their restored tranquility.
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Time, gel-ink pen & fineliner, 16.5 X 11.7”, June 2011
Illustration made for a teacher whose journey in time has transcended her prodigious memory and knowledge into a spectacular city of admiration, of which she
bore the fruits once, has rendered those 25 years onerously stupendous.
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Forever Tourists, ball point pen, 11 X 7.9”, June 2010
To all those happy tourists - somewhere below the top of that hill, those who think they would stay there forever and wished if they had a small hut at the top, isolated
from the rest of the world. Along with that beautiful river flowing in their backyard, surrounded with those empty fields... I wish they suffer for their life. I wish sickness,
maltreatment and agonizing journey back to their puppet shows. I have no sympathy for them, I wish torture at every breathtaking site they visit. I wish they are ripped
out of their body and flow through the free sketch into the landscape forever. Forever Tourists.
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*Illustrations - Symbolic Constructs
A set of sketches plowed to form an understanding, lying
within the scope of limitless characteristics of individuals or
characters. Adding a relative dimension beyond the original,
with the intention to provide an imaginative designation to it.
Further dedicating a basic sensitivity with respect to its
learning.

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From left to right
Friedrich Nietszche, charcoal(plastered wall), 132 X 152.4cm, Jan 2010 | Rabbit White, pencil & felt-tip, 10.5 X 9cm, May 2010 | Ashish, charcoal, 32 X 32cm, Dec 2006 |
He who knows and knows not he knows, permanent marker, 9 X 12cm, June 2009 | Nana, charcoal, 17.5 X 22cm, May 2007 | Bird, gel-ink pen, 4 X 10cm, Jan 2008 |
Furry Animal, ball point pen, 15 X 12cm, May 2010 | Chinmay, pencil, 29.7 X 21cm, Oct 2007 | Self, permanent marker, 10 X 15cm, March 2010
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*Illustrations - Geometry Led Form Study
Form Study exercise was a working studio course at the
Department of Design, I.I.T. Guwahati, carried out to expand
our understanding of design theory as it relates to the three
dimensional world.

Working primarily in paper and file board, in this exercise we
explored concepts of modularity, sequence, series, relief,
contour, structure and symmetry. We also examined the
function of space, volume, mass, plane, and line. Sculptural
issues were explored through the solution of design problems.
The main emphasis of this course was the development of
critical thinking skills as they apply to three dimensional art
forms and to help us gain a deeper understanding of visual art.

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Geometry led Form Studies
Illustrated ideas of the finished Archimedian and Platonic solids, after studying and understanding their form and structure through design problems
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*Illustrations - Ill Chosen
These are a set of self initiated conceptual illustrations,
reciprocating some ongoing ideas and narratives. These are
mostly represented using mixed media, also exploring the use
of different mediums for specific details.

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Conceptual Illustrations, Mixed Media *

*Apoorv Tomar
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M.Des - 2011
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

B.Arch - 2008
National Institute of Technology Nagpur

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I am an Architect and Communication Designer with interests in space-time discourse and interrelationship between cinema and
architecture. I have recently graduated from the Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and previously
from the National Institute of Technology Nagpur. I am passionate about the collision and use of space and time in films and
architecture and my aim in research lies in exploring theories emerging from these two forms of discipline, that can in effect be
realized in creating new environments and experiences.

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+91 9616082470
apoorv.tomar@gmail.com

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C-155
H.A.L. Township Korwa,
Distt. Sultanpur - 227 412 U.P
India

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