Nandini Goel
M.Arch
Nandini is a Master of Architecture candidate at MIT.
Projects
Permanence is a Myth
[MIT Core II, Spring 2025]
A space that centers storytelling and performance over conventional rituals, drawing on secular traditions of shared myth-making. Fabric curtains suspended from monolithic columns form a flexible system that invites movement and gathering through a temporal infrastructure.
A space that centers storytelling and performance over conventional rituals, drawing on secular traditions of shared myth-making. Fabric curtains suspended from monolithic columns form a flexible system that invites movement and gathering through a temporal infrastructure.
All Archives Become Landfills
[MIT Core I, Fall 2024]
Designed as a vertical section, the project stages the life and afterlife of architectural production. The removed existing façade provides fragments that are cast into new roofs as ghosts of the original elevation. Under the ground, the archive stratifies over time, questioning what we choose to preserve, and what we let quietly decompose (or fossilize).
Designed as a vertical section, the project stages the life and afterlife of architectural production. The removed existing façade provides fragments that are cast into new roofs as ghosts of the original elevation. Under the ground, the archive stratifies over time, questioning what we choose to preserve, and what we let quietly decompose (or fossilize).
In the Fresh
[MIT Core I, Fall 2024]
A single curved surface rethinks the wall-door binary, creating a threshold that stages a passage between enclosure and open sky.
A single curved surface rethinks the wall-door binary, creating a threshold that stages a passage between enclosure and open sky.
Eroded Types
[Cultures of Form, Fall 2024]
A family of geometric primitives sliced, mirrored, and merged to test the tipping point between structure and collapse.
A family of geometric primitives sliced, mirrored, and merged to test the tipping point between structure and collapse.
[Professional Project, SAAWorkshop, London, 2023]
An interactive acoustic installation that transforms an industrially standardized material into a site of sensory musical play. Each ceramic tile is hand-tuned to a note on the pentatonic scale, with its length precisely calibrated to produce a specific note – giving rise to the cascading form of the instrument's surface. By eliminating the possibility of dissonance, the installation invites untrained participation. The ceramophone was later donated to a music school for children in England where it currently resides.
An interactive acoustic installation that transforms an industrially standardized material into a site of sensory musical play. Each ceramic tile is hand-tuned to a note on the pentatonic scale, with its length precisely calibrated to produce a specific note – giving rise to the cascading form of the instrument's surface. By eliminating the possibility of dissonance, the installation invites untrained participation. The ceramophone was later donated to a music school for children in England where it currently resides.
[Professional Project, SAAWorkshop, London, 2024]
A lightweight scaffolding and corrugated canopy system was inserted into a narrow shell to enable light, flow, and informal gathering in this east London café.
A lightweight scaffolding and corrugated canopy system was inserted into a narrow shell to enable light, flow, and informal gathering in this east London café.
