Architectural Designer
Hey, I'm Adi (Advaita Kelkar), an architectural designer from Mumbai, currently at SCAD in Savannah, USA. I work across architecture, interiors, and urban design, plus everything in between: computation, sculpture, graphic design, product. To me these aren't separate pursuits; they're one way of seeing the world. Always curious, always making. Glad you're here.
I'm an architect at heart. I think in systems, in how many parts come together to form a coherent whole. Designing, ideating, prototyping, making, documenting: each is a different medium for the same architectural way of thinking. Like my work, this archive doesn't keep things in boxes. Wander through it freely, and you'll notice forms, materials, and ideas recur and evolve from one project to the next.
- Year — 2022
- Location — Online
- Category — Freelancer
- Tag — Visualisation
Western superheroes lost in the villages of rural India.
This visual experiment drops Western pop myths into the raw reality of rural India. Displaced from their cinematic skyscrapers, iconic superheroes wander dusty village squares and mingle with local crowds, a little like Alice down the rabbit hole. Their legendary powers remain, but the new setting forces them to adapt, carrying out their heroic duties in surreal, humble surroundings.
Characters in this study: Batman, Captain America, Deadpool, Poison Ivy, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Wonder Woman, Juggernaut, Winter Soldier.
- Year — 2022
- Location — Online
- Category — Freelancer
- Tag — Visualisation
Western superheroes lost in the villages of rural India.
This visual experiment drops Western pop myths into the raw reality of rural India. Displaced from their cinematic skyscrapers, iconic superheroes wander dusty village squares and mingle with local crowds, a little like Alice down the rabbit hole. Their legendary powers remain, but the new setting forces them to adapt, carrying out their heroic duties in surreal, humble surroundings.
Characters in this study: Batman, Captain America, Deadpool, Poison Ivy, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Wonder Woman, Juggernaut, Winter Soldier.
- Year — 2026
- Location — Global
- Category — Freelancer
- Tag — Visualisation
Two architects who never met, fused into one building.
As a student of architecture, architects themselves have always fascinated me. Each one has a signature: a way of detailing, a material palette, a geometry you can spot from across the street. This experiment asks what happens when two of those signatures collide. I pair architects at random, ones who would likely never have met, and let AI imagine the building they might have designed together.
Architects in this study: Zaha Hadid, Peter Zumthor, Antoni Gaudí, Santiago Calatrava, Bjarke Ingels, Thomas Heatherwick, Carlo Scarpa, Roberto Burle Marx, Frank Gehry, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Kengo Kuma, Eric Owen Moss, Mies van der Rohe, Junya Ishigami, Studio Mumbai, Charles Correa.
- Year — 2026
- Location — Global
- Category — Freelancer
- Tag — Visualisation
Two architects who never met, fused into one building.
As a student of architecture, architects themselves have always fascinated me. Each one has a signature: a way of detailing, a material palette, a geometry you can spot from across the street. This experiment asks what happens when two of those signatures collide. I pair architects at random, ones who would likely never have met, and let AI imagine the building they might have designed together.
Architects in this study: Zaha Hadid, Peter Zumthor, Antoni Gaudí, Santiago Calatrava, Bjarke Ingels, Thomas Heatherwick, Carlo Scarpa, Roberto Burle Marx, Frank Gehry, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Kengo Kuma, Eric Owen Moss, Mies van der Rohe, Junya Ishigami, Studio Mumbai, Charles Correa.
- Year — 2026
- Location — Global
- Category — Freelancer
- Tag — Visualisation
Superheroes reimagined as a deck of playing cards through AI.
Since childhood I've been obsessed with superheroes: the universes of Marvel, X-Men, and DC. This project is a tribute to that early obsession, reimagined through generative design. Each playing card comes from a customized prompt that weaves a character's traits into the ornate structure of a classic deck. It's superhero storytelling squeezed into the physical limits of a card face.
Characters in this study: Captain America, Cyborg, Dr. Freeze, Emma Frost, Green Lantern, Jean Grey, Magneto, Martian Manhunter, Penguin, Scarlet Witch, Winter Soldier, Wonder Woman, Batman, Cyclops, Flash, Gambit, Hulk, Joker, Loki, Nightcrawler, Poison Ivy, Professor X, Spider-Man, Storm, Superman, Wolverine.
- Year — 2026
- Location — Global
- Category — Freelancer
- Tag — Visualisation
Superheroes reimagined as a deck of playing cards through AI.
Since childhood I've been obsessed with superheroes: the universes of Marvel, X-Men, and DC. This project is a tribute to that early obsession, reimagined through generative design. Each playing card comes from a customized prompt that weaves a character's traits into the ornate structure of a classic deck. It's superhero storytelling squeezed into the physical limits of a card face.
Characters in this study: Captain America, Cyborg, Dr. Freeze, Emma Frost, Green Lantern, Jean Grey, Magneto, Martian Manhunter, Penguin, Scarlet Witch, Winter Soldier, Wonder Woman, Batman, Cyclops, Flash, Gambit, Hulk, Joker, Loki, Nightcrawler, Poison Ivy, Professor X, Spider-Man, Storm, Superman, Wolverine.
- Year — 2026
- Location — Global
- Category — Freelancer
- Tag — Visualisation
India's lost kings and queens, restored through AI.
India's history is full of kings and queens whose faces, fashion, and presence have faded into the archives. This visual experiment uses generative AI as a restorative tool, translating fragmentary descriptions and traditional royal portraits into vivid, detailed representations. Recreating their ornaments, textiles, and expressions is an attempt to return their style and presence to the modern imagination.
People in this study: Emperor Akbar, Emperor Ashoka, Rani Padmini of Chittor.
- Year — 2026
- Location — Global
- Category — Freelancer
- Tag — Visualisation
India's lost kings and queens, restored through AI.
India's history is full of kings and queens whose faces, fashion, and presence have faded into the archives. This visual experiment uses generative AI as a restorative tool, translating fragmentary descriptions and traditional royal portraits into vivid, detailed representations. Recreating their ornaments, textiles, and expressions is an attempt to return their style and presence to the modern imagination.
People in this study: Emperor Akbar, Emperor Ashoka, Rani Padmini of Chittor.
- Year — 2026
- Location — Global
- Category — Freelancer
- Tag — Visualisation
Iconic Hollywood films reimagined with Bollywood masala flair.
I grew up in Bombay, the birthplace of Bollywood, watching Western films alongside Hindi ones, and I've always been curious how the two cinematic worlds would adapt to each other. Mafia movies felt like the right place to start: The Godfather and Gangs of Wasseypur are landmarks of the same genre on opposite sides of the world. This experiment recasts iconic Hollywood characters with the drama, grit, and raw emotion of a Bollywood masala film, using AI to give each one a new look and a new life.
- Year — 2026
- Location — Global
- Category — Freelancer
- Tag — Visualisation
Iconic Hollywood films reimagined with Bollywood masala flair.
I grew up in Bombay, the birthplace of Bollywood, watching Western films alongside Hindi ones, and I've always been curious how the two cinematic worlds would adapt to each other. Mafia movies felt like the right place to start: The Godfather and Gangs of Wasseypur are landmarks of the same genre on opposite sides of the world. This experiment recasts iconic Hollywood characters with the drama, grit, and raw emotion of a Bollywood masala film, using AI to give each one a new look and a new life.
- Year — 2024
- Location — Mumbai IN
- Category — Freelancer
- Tag — Exhibitions
Three-dimensional tile artworks in homage to Carlo Scarpa.
This artwork is an homage to Carlo Scarpa and his craft. Scarpa's signature elements, the orthographic steps, repeating patterns, and rigorous structural grids, have always reminded me of Indian stepwells. Bridging those two architectural vocabularies became the experiment: a series of custom tiles in varying dimensions.
The tiles are three-dimensional closed shapes rather than flat paintings. They interact with light and shadow, casting geometric patterns that shift through the day and giving the gallery wall where they were exhibited a quietly changing life of its own.
- Year — 2024
- Location — Mumbai IN
- Category — Freelancer
- Tag — Exhibitions
Three-dimensional tile artworks in homage to Carlo Scarpa.
This artwork is an homage to Carlo Scarpa and his craft. Scarpa's signature elements, the orthographic steps, repeating patterns, and rigorous structural grids, have always reminded me of Indian stepwells. Bridging those two architectural vocabularies became the experiment: a series of custom tiles in varying dimensions.
The tiles are three-dimensional closed shapes rather than flat paintings. They interact with light and shadow, casting geometric patterns that shift through the day and giving the gallery wall where they were exhibited a quietly changing life of its own.