AIA International India - Parametric Design Detailing
Darwin Bucky Exhibition Gallery
Event Description
Bucky is inspired by Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome. The project is envisioned to be a traveling gallery complemented by its aesthetic architecture for curators to exhibit their work anywhere in the world. One of the major inspirations was to create a gallery that it should be designed for repurposing and can be recycled or deconstructed to minimize unnecessary footprints.
Bucky is designed as a complete set of parts that can be assembled and disassembled if necessary at the site. It is a parametric dome tent anchored to the ground without a foundation. Bucky can be used as an exhibition gallery or a center for performances or a bar or a nightclub. The structure is a black box that provides a wide array of programs that could be decided by the tenant who rents by the day. It is designed to be placed in public gardens or exhibition grounds or even in a city square permanently or temporarily provided the ground is flat.
CES: Estimated 1 LU for AIA Members
Speaker
Kuber Patel, Director, KPA 789 degrees
Moderator: Lanre Olusola, Int’l Assoc. AIA, FNIA, FNIM, FIMC, At-Large Director and Nigeria Country Representative, AIA International
Kuber Patel graduated [year March 2016] with Masters of Architecture in Emergent Technologies and Design from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, and has a total of 6+ years of global professional experience. In addition, he is also a visiting faculty at CEPT University and the author of the book 'Algorithmic Thinking- A parametric approach to problem-solving '. His most recent achievement includes being A' Design Award Winner for Generative, Algorithmic, and Parametric Design Category in 2021 for Darwin Bucky Exhibition Gallery and being accepted to work in the U.S. as an Individual with Extraordinary Ability or Achievement. He strives to achieve his goals by developing high-quality skillsets and sheer passion rather than through experience because of which he has been the youngest local architect of the World's Largest Cricket Stadium, the youngest faculty to lead a master studio, and the youngest to start his first project in 2010 much before his undergrad in 2013. He is currently working at the globally renowned architecture, design and strategy firm in Atlanta, NELSON Worldwide, where he is serving in a lead/critical role on numerous architectural and generative/parametric design projects.
His skills work best in parametric modeling through algorithmic design techniques using advanced computational tools and digital fabrication. Kuber hopes to add more value to design by introducing a more data-driven design process through computer science, mathematical thinking, and philosophy. As we live in a post-digital world, this data, if given the right manifestation, can lead to a well-informed architecture representing a better reality and a responsive future. He would like to add to the studio a more concise approach to the translation process of architectural representation rather than the invention of a new architecture.
Kuber has been practicing Architecture since 2013 soon after his graduation working on projects in India, UK & USA. He always plays a lead and critical role in all the projects he gets involved. He has worked on stadiums, hotels, museums, temporary structures, pavilions, retail, residential, art installation, housing, mixed-use, commercial and corporate buildings. Kuber has been extensively published in an article titled use of glass in bridges by Surface Reporter due to his innovative use of glass on facades. He also gets frequently invited to a Jury panel by top-ranking universities. One of his beloved projects is Bucky, the first of its kind largest prefabricated modular traveling gallery developed entirely using a parametric workflow. One of his innovative academic projects 'The Twist' pavilion received a small project award for its innovative use of plywood.
In the future, he wishes to pursue his Ph.D. in Architectured materials through selective laser sintering techniques. Overall, his architectural style mostly revolves around Performance orientated design that has a strong response to material, structural, social, and environmental behavior. Kuber's graduate thesis reflects on a similar system using agent-based methods to work on developing a flood resilient system that has a coherent spatial configuration between climate and the socio-economic fabric of informal settlements in an urban context.
Moderator: Born in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, Olanrewaju Olusola is a registered architect and a project management consultant.
With over 30 years of professional experience, Olusola has served as project management consultant in the past 18 years to significant construction companies and corporate organisations in various parts of Nigeria as well as the United States of America, managing projects that have ranged from a small maintenance job to multi-billion Naira building assignments.
A Registered Architect, Certified Management Consultant and an active member of several professional bodies such as the Project Management Institute PMI Nigerian Institute of Architects NIA, American Institute of Architects AIA IR Association of Consulting Architects Nigeria ACAN.
A Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Architects NIA, Institute of Management Consultants IMC Nigeria and Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered) NIM.
He has actively participated in various local and international workshops and conferences on architecture, construction, leadership, investment and project management in the UK, the Middle East, Africa and North America.
He is the CEO of Creation Consult Group and currently serves on the following Executive Councils: Association of Professional Bodies of Nigeria APBN, The Nigerian Institute of Architects NIA.
