P/SPRAKRITI
SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE

Cities are conversations.
I listen through data.

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Exploring cities by changing
the scale, the lens,
and the question.

STUDY CITY

Bengaluru

REAL TIME SENSINGIN BUILD

What does the city sound like?

An edge instrument on a Jetson Orin Nano that records sound, air quality, temperature, humidity and video against one GPS coordinate and one clock. Diagnosis before design. SEED Chairman Award.

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  1. 01NOT YET What can you reach in fifteen minutes? Walking reach on the real network, merged with transit access, and where new transit would close the largest gaps.
  2. 02NOT YET Where did the water go? Surface water change across the lake chain, and flooding read against the water bodies that were lost.
  3. 03NOT YET Which way is the city growing? Land cover change over time, sliced into growth direction and loss of green.
  4. 04NOMINATED What changes if the network changes? Scenario Simulator. Nominated for the Sidara Endeavour Program, 2026.
RESEARCH

London

ISOCHRONIC CITYAWARDED

What does urbanisation look like in the post covid era?

MArch thesis at the Bartlett. Spatial signatures, urban decay across 2010, 2015 and 2019, amenity grading and angular step depth, feeding a generative loop that proposes void, mobile and elevated street segments. Team of four.

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COMPARISON

India

THE SOCIAL GEOMETRY OF INDIAN CITIESMEASURED

How do cities shape encounters?

Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bengaluru, each cut by a ten kilometre network distance ball from its historic core and measured the same way. Kolkata comes out least connected, which is close to the opposite of the usual story.

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Singapore

URBAN MORPHOLOGYNOT YET

What is a planned city made of?

Block, street and building pattern for a city planned end to end, as a counterpoint to five that mostly were not.

  1. 01NOT YET Where does movement concentrate? Space syntax on the full network, validated against observed movement where it exists.
Urban morphology 04 / 04

About

I trained as an architect and stopped drawing buildings when I realised the questions I cared about were about the space between them. Now I work as a spatial data scientist, mostly on cities, mostly with street networks, sensors and whatever the city will let me measure.

My pattern, for better and worse, is saying yes to something before I fully understand it and then refusing to put it down until I do. That is how a person who had never touched a breadboard ended up building a sensor.

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Senior Urban Data Scientist, Urban Intelligence Lab, Bengaluru
EDUCATION
MArch Urban Design, UCL Bartlett B-Pro, RC14 Machine Thinking Urbanism, 2023. Architecture, BMS College of Engineering
2026
Nominated for the Sidara Endeavour Program for Scenario Simulator
AWARDS
SEED Chairman Award for Sounds of the City. Gold medal, World Architecture Student Awards 2022. Student Award, Media Architecture Biennale 2023
PUBLISHED IN
ArchDaily, Arch Hive, ArchiDiaries, Inspireli, UCL Bartlett
BASED
Bengaluru, India

Every city leaves evidence.

I am still collecting it.

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