Sria

Born on 19 March 1993. She did Bachelor of Architecture from Acharya Nagarjuna University College of Architecture & Planning, Guntur. Currently pursuing Masters of Arts at Annapurna International School of Film + Media, Hyderabad.

She's into lot of co-cirricular activities apart from conventional studies like Carnatic music (vocal) and into dance, dramas and other stage performances.

In her words...

I’m the founder of XyTyZ Innovations (pronounced as Kshitiz), which is an Architecture and Interior Design Service firm. In addition to this, I'm pursuing Masters in Arts (Film+Media), in Annapurna International School of Film+Media.

I start with mentioning about the place where I was born and evolved sprouting; Sriharikota- a serene environment filled with simple yet powerful thoughts and commitment (Sriharikota is the centre for launching rockets). I spent 15 years here till 10^th standard.

Then I went to Nellore city for Intermediate for a couple of years followed by Graduation at University College of Architecture & Planning, ANU for five years after selecting through National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA).

I feel privileged to work with two renowned architects; a researcher and architect, Sri Chetan Shivaprasad (specialist in Bio-mimicking structures) and Sri & Smt Yagniks (USA based architects). They both had their own styles towards looking at the world as an architectural ensemble.

The story of my graduation can’t be concluded without mentioning my remarkable contributions to the field of architecture in this short period which gave me an immense satisfaction, recognition and stimulation to love architecture and interior design, namely. 1. Modelling Solar Hyper Tree for Urban Lands, 2. Spiral Structures for vertical Farming, 3. Algae integrated structures as a contribution of an architect to pollution reduction for mega cities. Whereas the first work in 2013 (3^rd Year B.Arch.) attracted best student paper award at Singapore, the second paper made me to contribute for a chapter on spiral structures in Science Direct special edition in 2014 (4^th Year B.Arch.), the third paper, although was written in 2014, couldn’t be presented in University of Philadelphia due to non-availability of visa. This was presented in University of Chicago in 2015.

Later, I started working on my own.

Initially, I worked as a cofounder of Navarth Architects at Bengaluru for a short period of six months. There, I took up design of a Sathsang: a spiritual centre. Then I worked on interiors for a prototype project- Aeroponics (a type of farming method without soil and water)at Esquire Engineering Solutions pvt ltd., Hyderabad for almost a year. Aeroponics is still at research level and demands various intellectual resources.

The experience I gained during academics, writing and presenting papers to various International forums abroad and working with various talents in India, culminated into my dream job of standing on my own contributing to the world of architecture one day. This is XyTyZ Innovations. XyTyZ is a representative of 3 architectural axes X,Y,Z. The time dimension, a representative of management is sandwiched between the axes.

My first work is for a competition on Architectural Design of SBI’s Start-up Incubation Centre proposed at Mumbai and went up to finals. Simultaneously, I started teaching Interior Architectural Design at Hamstech Institute of Fashion & Interior Design, Hyderabad.