Vivono Designs presents Livingetc #TheDesignChallenge: Student Edition
As we embrace the new normal, Livingetc India Edition, the Homes Magazine for Modern Living, invites Students of Design Institutes to think design in the digital space.
Students of design have the golden opportunity to think out of the box and design solutions for the way our spaces will be used in the near future. Think #WFH, #flexi-spaces, #space-turnaround, #am-pm space #multi-function spaces #new priorities, #kickass design #be your own interior-designer. Essentially, to design the layout of future homes, keeping in mind the new realities, such as sanitising merchandise and a cloak area for outers to be put away (our new norms), among others.
How would you design the spatial layout of a modern Indian home for a young couple, in a post-Covid world?
Partnering with Trezi & Vivono Designs, Livingetc poses these questions as a means to reinvent design articulation in a post-Covid world, through a pan-India design contest that invites creative entries in a variety of mediums – from conceptual sketches to VR-powered walkthroughs.
Joining hands in this exciting Design Challenge is Vivono Designs, a name that brings together Italian Furniture brands that qualify as art, with a timeline that is as updated as the furniture studios in Italy.
Download design brief for #TheDesignChallenge: Student Edition
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Download Plan below.
(Drop a mail at trezi.livingetc@gmail.com to get SketchUp and DWG files)
Send us your ideas by the 30th of September 2020; write to us at trezi.livingetc@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Varun Mathur
Head of Engineering
Varun has got 12 years of experience in engineering management, architecting and developing cloud-based highly scalable and available complex web-based products. He is a perfect amalgamation of both technical and management skills with a proven track record of project definition, execution, and support for web-based products. A hands-on engineer with working experience in all phases of a product, right from boot strapping to making it highly available, high scalable, multi-tenant application with a micro services architecture in a high paced agile environment. As Head of Engineering, he will take our vision further on how Trezi will evolve as leading immersive design collaboration platform for the building industry.
Varun Loves
Reading books and online tutorials, Learning new technology, being hands-on with technology while leading execution and delivery of products. He enjoys talking to people and debating on various topics. Theater is his passion and had performed plays all over Bangalore. He also plays games like Squash or Badminton, listens to music and watch movies.
On a Regular Day
Varun designs and executes solutions with his Agile team. He always tries to learn new technology and look for ways to leverage that technology to create high-quality products. He’s always seeking an opportunity to master the “Build-Measure-Learn” Loop.
Sambhav Verma
Senior Product Manager
Sambhav is a product leader and strategist with 11 years of experience. Seasoned in rolling various products such as digital asset management/CMS software on web and mobile platform for winning sustainable revenues and users. He has a learning experience in VR, e-commerce, SaaS, ad monetization, and machine learning applications. Carries entrepreneurial approach and strategic vision for delivering revenue winning products with the best UX for a demanding environment.
Sambhav Loves
Finding technology solutions for problems by envisioning and building sustainable products. Long trips and on his bike covering miles along with his riding group, meeting new souls and expanding his people network. Passion for photography has kept him motivated for being creative.
On a Regular Day
We can find Sambhav thinking and shaping the product vision and channelizing teams to make it a reality, sharing and socializing his thoughts on platform product thinking. He endeavours to coach people on product thinking and agile/scrum practices. His work experience and continuous Interactions with people of different countries, cultures and ethnicity provides the ability to work with diverse groups of people. He works for his own YouTube channel where he shares his learning from his bike trips and maintenance.
Vidit Goel
Advisor
Vidit joined the Gensler Bangalore office in 2018 after completing his internship in 2017. He is an enthusiastic architect who is realistic about his design approach with modernist ideas. He has been involved in space planning, design development, construction documentation and visualizations in various projects at Gensler. He aims to bring forward design that is founded on strong concepts and expressed intelligently to the viewers. Vidit seeks to realize efficient, relevant and unique designs in an organised manner.
Vidit brings the passion of a new-age architect to the Trezi advisory board, and advises the Trezi team on making the product future-proof and relevant for new-age architects and designers.
Dhiraj Chilakapaty
Advisor
Dhiraj is an integral part of the core design team at Venkataramanan Associates. He has over ten years of experience leading large commercial real estate, corporate, hospitality and urban-scale developments. He fosters a keen ability to develop tailored design strategies that positively influence his clients’ business and work culture. Sound technical knowledge, coupled with a background in research has enabled him in spearheading the design and development of several benchmark projects like Nirlon Knowledge Park and BASF Green Leaves Project.
Dhiraj advises the Trezi team on making it more customer-centric for large design organisations.
Rajesh Kalra
Advisor
Rajesh is an alumnus of IIT Madras and a drop out of IIT Delhi where he was pursuing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence before joining the founding team of RMSI. Throughout his long career, he has been transforming engineering design processes through smart automation & innovation. He was most recently the Managing Director of Atkins India and led many of their global digital innovation initiatives for the adoption of AI, RPA, AR/VR. Rajesh is currently Director and head of Khatib & Alami’s (a leading architectural, planning and engineering consulting firm) design center in India.
Rajesh brings AEC industry-specific knowledge to the Trezi team.
Ajai Chowdhry
Advisor
Mr. Ajai Chowdhry, one of the six founder members of HCL (a pioneer that brought modern computing to India), began an exciting journey more than four decades ago with a dream to give India its very own microcomputer. The sheer clarity of vision and hard work led to a revolution and laid the foundation for the Indian IT industry, taking India to the league of major economies of the world. Mr. Ajai Chowdhry has constantly been driving a vision of “IT for the masses” and has been on several Government committees working towards taking PC and broadband into every village in India. It was this vision that made HCL Infosystems the first company in India to create special products for the rural market place like a rural PC that works on a car battery or specially developed financial inclusion software and hardware products.
Mr. Chowdhry is helping the Trezi team with its enterprise sales strategy.
Veda Prakash Nidumolu
Head, Engineering
A problem solver at heart, Veda graduated from BITS Pilani with a Bachelors in Electronics and a Masters in Mathematics. He has over 10 years of experience in designing and developing highly scalable, available and performant systems, leading teams in UI, back-end, QA and Devops. Veda has worked extensively in startup environments, taking products from the bootstrapped phase to production, with extensive involvement in requirement elicitation, system design, engineering solutions and deployment.
Veda Loves
Learning new technology, being hands-on with technology while leading execution and delivery of products. He enjoys a cup of coffee anytime. Cricket is his passion. He’s been getting immersed in VR of late.
On a Regular Day
Veda codes, listens to music, designs and executes solutions with his Agile team. He’s always seeking an opportunity to master the “Build-Measure-Learn” Loop.
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Chandan Singh
Head, Virtual Reality
Night or day, Chandan is the best person to answer any and every question about the field of virtual reality. His love for VR stems from hands-on experience with this phenomenal technology at an early age, and he demonstrates this with an obsession to get every aspect of the product right – be it UI/UX, art or technology. Chandan has a decade of experience setting up graphic pipelines and training and leading game developers to ship AAA PC, console and mobile titles.
Chandan Loves
Playing loads of video games, researching and reading about VR, visualization and games, and spreading diabetes.
On a Regular Day
Exploring the diverse cultures of the world through Dota 2, working on the next seemingly-impossible technical issue, finding out new places to order dessert from.
Darren J. Rizza
Vice President, Product
Darren is a digitally informed leader, leaning on 25+ years of business technology leadership in professional services. His career experience and education place him at the intersection of design thinking, business strategy and operations, digital and information technology, ready to accelerate business leaders and DevOps teams to capture their full potential. At SmartVizX, Darren leads the creation and development of our VR products. He is responsible for driving the product vertical and leading SmartVizX expansion into the US market.
Darren Loves
Putting down technology and picking up his cook’s knife to further his skills as a self-taught cook focused on the cultures and recipes of Italy and India.
On a Regular Day
One can find Darren teaching the brightest minds in VR how buildings go from design ideas to built structures, learning and writing about the latest advances in design technology and virtual reality, attempting to become an agile scrum guru, and being a dad to a very happy and energetic 5-year-old son.
Ajay Lavakare
Chief Product Officer
The ‘product’ guy, Ajay is instilling the product culture at SmartVizX. A Civil Engineer by education, Ajay received his Bachelors in Civil Engineering from IIT Delhi and a Masters in Structural Engineering from Stanford University. He worked on collaboration problems that exist in the AEC industry at the Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering at Stanford as well as at Kumagai Gumi in Tokyo, before founding RMSI, a leading Indian geospatial services provider. Ajay honed his product management expertise as the head of data solutions at Risk Management Solutions, California.
Gautam Tewari
Co-Founder
After his masters in construction management from the University of New South Wales, and experience as a Project Manager across Asia Pacific, Gautam returned to India, where workplace Design-Build was in a nascent stage of development. He pushed for its adoption and challenged existing ways of design visualization and collaboration in the AEC industry. Gautam also saw tremendous waste in product selection, and became convinced that the solution lay in the use of immersive technology. Gautam is committed to growing the role of this technology in building a better building industry ecosystem, and is convinced that Trezi will do the same.
Gautam Loves
All things Tolkien, relished while tuned in to classic rock. Cricket and marathons are his passions and VR was recently added to that list.
On a Regular Day
Spending hours working or reading, hunting for something new to do or develop, fueling his excitement to constantly innovate.
Tithi G. Tewari
Co-Founder
There is no Trezi without Tithi’s keen eye for aesthetics and detail. An accomplished architect from CEPT, Ahmedabad, she has played pivotal roles in business and creative design through her career. In her practice, she frequently encountered gaps in communicating the vision of a design and the limited means available to translate that vision onto paper/screen. A true entrepreneur, Tithi realized that this age-old problem of matching design intent to execution necessitated a solution that enabled clients to experience design in a different way. And thus, Trezi was born.
Tithi Loves
Design – night or day – it’s what keeps her going, while pondering over every tiny detail, aiming and achieving perfection.
On a Regular Day
Pouring over details with unstoppable energy and diligence ensuring 100% accuracy and efficiency, mostly while humming her favorite tune.
