Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio_Maitreyee Rele

2023

maitreyee RELE
/mie_trey_e ray_lay/
27.10.1996
born in Mumbai, India
present address is Dheeraj Valley Tower, Sai Baba Complex,
Goregon East, Mumbai.
tel.(India): +91 9930272722
email id: maitreyeerele@gmail.com
profile: Architect and Urban Researcher

Drawing: the city
center of Sidhpurlife
and activites
around 3 pm on a
weekday.

o u t d o o o r w o r k s h o p s
Design, Technology and Innovation
Workshop - We choose to study one dense
settlement in Mumbai and then along
with teammates who were from different
backgrounds, proposed a more human
centric urban plan for our individual sites:
Massachusetts Institution of Technology
Glulam workshop - designed and built a coat
rack by the process of gluing and bending
planks of wood: Gurudev Singh
Urban Flowers - designed and constructed a
jungle gym from scratch that was made out
of bamboos, designed for a primary school :
Martina Spies
Rammed Earth - made rammed earth
benches in our campus while we learnt the
art of working with sustainable materials : Put
Your Hands Together
Thread and sculpt - understanding the
transformation of spaces through drawings
and models : Prasad Shetty

s t u d i o w o r k s h o p s
Appreciation of Urdu Literature - we
learnt the smaller intricacies of the
language and what makes it beautiful :
Sheema Fatima
Illustrations - we pushed our
imaginations to the brim to connect two
diverse topics visually : Harshad Marathe
Visual Literature - in groups we acted
out one story from Italo Calvino book,
Invisible Cities - understanding space
from page to stage : Snehal Vadher
Theatre - we understood how we view
our personal space and how changes in
them affect us emotionally : Mahnoor Yar
Khan
Film Appreciation - we watched and
reviewd several short films that were
made in India during the first half of the
20th century : Avijit Mukul Kishore
Modern Poetry - we studied the ways in
which poetry was written and the people
behind them, from Ezra Pound to Yeates :
Yale Online Courses
Drawing: the clocktower
and a representation of how
the lives of people literally
revolve around it, as it lies in
the center of the city.

e m p l o y m e n t +
07.2017
Helped produce a short art film for Bharati Kapadia
08.2017
Volunteered at an exhibition by Godrej - India Culture
Lab: Remembering Partition
11.2017 - 02.2018
Architecture writing internship at I.M.Kadri architects
11.2018 - 04.2019
Architecture internship at Saket Sethi Design
(Archilogics)
06.2021
Worked on retrofitting a salon space in Mumbai

Drawing: Studying a
house in the coastal
village of Erangal
v o l u n t e e r i n g
08.2021
Retrofitting an office in an industrial estate
09.2021
Worked with an art director in the capacity of a graphic
designer to produce an advertisement film
11.2021
On-going Project -- interiors and Landscaping for a
house in Pune, Maharastra
01.2022 - 10.2022
Worked as a Junior Architect at an Architecture office
(Samira Rathod Design Atelier)
11.2022 - ongoing
Working as a Urban Researcher at the reseach arm of an
architecture firm (P.K. Das and Associates)

1
reading
the city
thesis dissertation research

The potential this research offers is a way to build and
intervene thoughtfully in a city that will take into account
micro narrative, unique histories and specificities.

2
writing a new
narrative for
the city
thesis dissertation design

3
the exhumed
whimsicality
studying home and the self

4
visakhapatnam:
old town tourism
urban design

5
what is a school?
Vocational School

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