Deebak Tamilmani | Design Portfolio
Over the years, I have worked on many projects. Some were built, some were developed in great detail, and others never moved beyond an idea. This space is an attempt to hold them as I remember them now, drawn in real time as a point cloud, arranged not by scale, chronology, or how complete they are, but by the impressions they left behind.
Projects
- Hues of Al'Ula is a farm dwelling in the Cultural Oasis of Al'Ula, a landscape that holds 200,000 years of human activity.
- A Street Within is an office for a real estate developer in Ahmedabad, planned around the idea of a street.
- Olakh, the Marathi word for identity, reimagines the Pre-Embarkation Security Check (PESC) zone of Mumbai Airport's Terminal 2.
- Atmos & Aura is a housing project in Bangalore built on one idea, a neighbourhood that does not stop at the ground.
- Club & Courts is a high-performance centre for domestic cricket in Chennai, built together with a sports club.
- Cloud Forest is an aviary, a forest planted under one continuous mesh canopy.
- Dingbats 2.0 is a modular housing system for a typical California lot, designed for the 2025 Small Lots, Big Impact competition.
- Terraces is the staff and student housing for the Urban Excellence Centre in Telangana, India, designed as part of a larger competition entry for the centre.
Research
- Embedding Intelligence in 3D Modeling Workflows (2026). Model in Rhino just by describing what you want, with a language model adapted to the Rhino API. Read the thesis
- Graph-based Floor Plan Maker (2026), a generative floor plan tool built on a graph of rooms.
Experience and education
- Research Assistant, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, 2025 to 2026
- Research Assistant, Stuckeman Center for Design Computing, Pennsylvania State University, 2024 to 2025
- Project Architect, Sameep Padora and Associates, 2021 to 2024
- Architect, architecture RED, 2018 to 2020
- MSc in Architecture (Design Computing), Pennsylvania State University, 2024 to 2026
- Bachelors in Architecture, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, 2013 to 2018