Nandini Goel
M.Arch
Nandini is an M.Arch candidate at MIT interested in the future of building materials and how architecture can respond to systems of extraction, waste, and repair. Her work focuses on reimagining extractive systems and on redesigning the construction economy through research and design.
She has lived and worked in New Delhi, London, and Glasgow, where she also completed her B.Arch (Hons) at the Mackintosh School of Architecture. She often works across disciplines to understand how materials are sourced, used, and discarded – and how these processes might be rethought to help us design within the planetary limits we inhabit.
Projects
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.
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).
[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.
