LIVING STUDIO DINING BEDROOM 18.00 m N GROUND FLOOR PLAN LHS ARCHITECTS
2019 – 2025

Architecture,
Adaptation & Resilience

Lavanya Hari Shankar – Architect & Researcher

Architectural practice and research into responsive building envelopes and resilient built environments.

An architect developing
a research-led practice

Lavanya Hari Shankar

Architect | M.Arch | Emerging Architectural Researcher

I am a Licenced architect with a developing research focus on adaptive building envelopes, climate-responsive design, and multi-hazard resilience. My work explores how architectural design, responsive building systems, and computational methods can contribute to safer, more adaptable, and resilient built environments.

Through professional practice, academic projects, and independent research development, I seek to bridge architectural design and research into building resilience.

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Adaptive building envelopes
for multi-hazard resilience

Research Interests
  • Adaptive Architecture
  • Building Envelope Design
  • Multi-Hazard Resilience

My research interest focuses on exploring how adaptive architectural systems can contribute to more resilient built environments. I am particularly interested in the potential of responsive building envelopes to address challenges associated with extreme external hazards.

Through my proposed doctoral research, I aim to explore the intersection of architectural design, adaptive systems and resilience, investigating new possibilities for integrating responsive protective strategies into contemporary buildings.

My broader goal is to contribute to architectural approaches that move beyond conventional design responses towards more adaptive and resilient built environments.

Research Status

Proposed doctoral research under development.

Publications, investigations
and ongoing questions

Published Work

Strategic spatial planning-translating chess into architecture.

Academic thesis documentation exploring the translation of chess spatial logic into architectural organisation, massing, and public space design. Available via Zenodo.

Zenodo · Thesis Documentation
Master's Thesis

Intellectual Battle Hub – Design Project

The thesis investigates how the spatial logic of chess – piece hierarchy, movement rules, territorial control, and strategic adjacency – can be translated into architectural organisation and public space design.

Academic Thesis · 2019–2021 · Chennai, India
Proposed Doctoral Research

Adaptive Building Envelopes & Multi-Hazard Resilience

Proposed doctoral research exploring how adaptive building envelope systems can contribute to multi-hazard resilience in the built environment. Research under development – no findings or publications yet.

Proposed doctoral research under development.
06 – CONTACT

Academic and professional enquiries

Open to research collaborations, academic discussions, and professional architectural opportunities. Reach out via the contact page.