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Neev
Limbachia

A Levels in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Accounting at Loughborough College. Looking for a degree apprenticeship in civil or structural engineering, or architecture.

LocationLeicester

Tel07708 591 407

Emailneevlimbachia@outlook.com

StatusS3 · For review and comment

RevP02 · Sept 2026

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The mandir's main hall mid-renovation: scaffold tubes run the length of the hall, a cement mixer stands on the bare floor, and the lower walls are stripped back to brick.

Mandir, main hall under scaffoldPhoto

SketchUp model of the stadium concept: a white shell with a black helmet-grill frame arching over the pitch, among white blocks for the surrounding buildings.

Stadium concept, SketchUp modelCAD

The finished stadium model at night: a brushed-metal helmet shell with a polished grill over the lit stands and pitch, on a white site base with model trees and blocks.

Stadium concept, final modelModel

Mandir renovation

Claremont Street, Leicester · Ongoing, 4+ years

Ongoing

A converted Methodist church, bought and run by a members’ association. There is no developer and no professional client, so the community funds the work and makes the decisions itself.

Notes

Hiding the hall’s exposed steel tie rods was my idea. I proposed taking them up above a new ceiling line and put it to the structural engineer myself, who agreed that new frames above the ceiling could carry the load. It was built to my proposal.
I spent several weeks on the renovation alongside the builders: labouring, measuring, setting out and helping with the build. When they took me up into the ceiling void, I asked to see how the load had been picked up.
I put design and interior views to the committee, where the members paying for the work price and argue over every option, and worked with the contractor on cosmetic decisions.
A circular stained-glass window from the original church was kept.
The high windows on the right-hand wall sit roughly 4 m up and are about 80 × 60 cm. They suited a church. They don’t suit how the hall is used now.
On festival days I set the barrier lines that move over a thousand people through one hall without it backing up at the door.
I’ve been one of the building’s main volunteers since it was bought, and I’m the only one of my generation among them.

The same view in September 2026: backlit murals along the new ceiling and no rods across the hall, a pale floor with gold barrier posts and red ropes, and the carved shrine at the far end. — 01.1Before and after. The same hall from the same end, April and September 2026. The steel tie rods no longer cross it: they were taken up above a new ceiling line, as I proposed. The ceiling designs are by Yash R Limbachia, and the carved wooden shrine by Rajesh Sompura. Drag across the photo to compare.

The main hall in April 2026, before the work: white-painted roof trusses with thin steel tie rods running across the hall beneath them, a brown carpet with a rolled-up floor covering, a low stage and a dark red arched doorway in the far wall. — 01.1Before and after. The same hall from the same end, April and September 2026. The steel tie rods no longer cross it: they were taken up above a new ceiling line, as I proposed. The ceiling designs are by Yash R Limbachia, and the carved wooden shrine by Rajesh Sompura. Drag across the photo to compare.

Jun 2026 The tie rods

The hall’s roof in June 2026: white-painted trusses with curved brackets, and thin steel tie rods crossing the hall beneath them. A ladder and scaffold stand in front of the arched doorway at the far end. — 01.2The tie rods, June 2026. Steel rods cross the hall under the roof trusses, with scaffold going up for the work.

Close-up of a roof truss and its curved bracket on the side wall, with a steel tie rod running from it across the hall. — 01.3Where a rod meets the truss. Hiding these was the proposal I put to the structural engineer.

Apr – Jun 2026 Strip-out and framing

Scaffold filling the whole hall in June 2026, looking towards the far end: the hall’s existing red steel beam runs overhead in the foreground, new timber support frames line the roof slopes, and a wheelbarrow stands on the bare floor. — 01.4Scaffold across the whole hall, June 2026, under the hall’s existing red steel beam, with the new support frames going in along the roof slopes.

Inside the building during strip-out: the floor broken up into rubble, and an orange tracked dumper parked between plastered walls. — 01.5Strip-out, April 2026. The floor broken out, with a tracked dumper working inside the building.

New concrete blockwork built up against the old red-brick wall, inside a frame of scaffold tubes, with an aluminium ladder rising to an arched window high in the wall. — 01.6New blockwork against the old brick, June 2026. The ladder goes up to an arched window high in the wall.

One of the new timber support frames, built on the sloping roof between two trusses high above an arched window, with scaffold tubes in the foreground. — 01.7The new support frames, June 2026, built between the trusses. Once the ceiling is on they sit above it and carry the load.

Jul 2026 The new ceiling line

The new ceiling in July 2026, boarded out with sloped sides and a flat centre panel, and no rods crossing the hall. Timber lengths, tools and a light stand lie on the floorboards. — 01.8The new ceiling line, July 2026. Sloped sides and a flat centre panel, with nothing crossing the hall.

The main hall during fit-out: the new ceiling has sloped sides and a flat centre panel, where a painted sky mural is going up. Empty mural frames sit on the slopes, the downlight holes are cut, and people are working from ladders among scaffold tubes on a sheeted floor. — 01.9The sky mural going up on the flat centre panel, July 2026.

July 2026: a painted sky and a carved round medallion on the flat centre of the new ceiling, with large framed murals being fitted along the slope. Three people stand looking up at them. — 01.10The framed murals going in along the slopes, July 2026.

Jul – Sep 2026 Finished

The finished hall in September 2026, looking to the far end: backlit murals along the ceiling, cream walls with small high windows, gold barrier posts with red ropes set out down the pale floor, and the carved wooden shrine at the end. — 01.11The finished hall, September 2026. Backlit murals along the ceiling, and barrier posts set out down the middle of the floor.

Looking up at the finished hall ceiling: a backlit sky mural runs along the flat centre panel to a carved mandala medallion at the far end, gilt-framed backlit murals line both slopes with white corbels beneath them, and tall windows and small high windows sit in deep reveals in the walls. — 01.12The finished ceiling, July 2026. No steel tie rods cross the hall any more: new frames above the ceiling carry the load, and backlit murals fill the centre panel and the slopes.

The ceiling at night in September 2026, seen from below at an angle: the backlit sky mural and gilt-framed murals along one slope, with rows of downlights between them. — 01.13At night, September 2026, with the murals backlit.

The finished ceiling lit up, seen from directly below: the long sky mural on the centre panel with its mandala medallion, framed murals along both slopes, and rows of round downlights between them. — 01.14Lit up. Looking straight up at the centre panel, with rows of downlights between the framed murals.

The ceiling at night from below: the long sky mural on the centre panel, framed murals down the slope beside it and round downlights between them. — 01.15Along the centre panel, with the framed murals down the slope.

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The void above the new ceiling, where the support frames sit. — 01.16The ceiling void, where the support frames sit.

Town Hall Project

Pick Everard, Leicester · April 2024 · Five days

Placement

A five-day placement with the architecture team at Pick Everard on a live Leicester site, in Year 10. The brief was to research the surrounding area, establish what the community needed, and show the scheme could generate real economic value.

Revision history · the process, in the order it happened
Rev	Stage	What it shows
P01	Site study	The area in 2010 against 2024, the accommodation around it, and the context in plan
P02	Bubble diagrams	How the spaces relate, one sheet per floor
P03	Floor plans	Ground and upper floors, drawn over the real street
P04	Elevation	The front, between its two neighbours
P05	SketchUp model	Aerial, front and side
P06	Visualisation	AI-assisted renders of the SketchUp model
P07	Physical scale model	The scheme, built as a physical model
P08	Presented	To Pick Everard’s architects, and defended the decisions under questioning

P01 Site study

Google Earth street-level view of the site in 2010: a row of red-brick buildings with a shuttered unit on the corner. — 02.12010. The site from Google Earth.

Two Google Earth street-level views of the same site in 2024, showing the red-brick buildings either side of the gap. — 02.22024. The same place, fourteen years on.

Map of central Leicester with pins marking the student accommodation around the site. — 02.3Who lives nearby. The student accommodation around the site.

Aerial plan view of Town Hall Square in Leicester and the streets around it. — 02.4The context in plan: Town Hall Square and the streets around it.

P02 Bubble diagrams

Bubble diagram on tracing paper for the ground floor stationery shop: entrance, displays, till, storage and staff entrance. — 02.5Ground floor: stationery shop.

Bubble diagram for the second floor dry cleaners: till, staff room, storage and machinery. — 02.62nd floor: dry cleaners, machinery at the back.

Bubble diagram for the third floor bar and restaurant: seating, kitchen, bar, and a piano in the middle. — 02.73rd floor: bar and restaurant, piano in the middle.

Bubble diagram for the fourth floor rooftop bar: soft seating, bar, glass roof and a balcony with bar seating. — 02.84th floor: rooftop bar, glass roof and balcony.

P03 Floor plans

Pencil ground floor plan on tracing paper laid over a printed elevation of the street, with the site boundary in red and the context in blue. — 02.9Ground floor, over the printed street. Red is the site boundary, blue the context.

Pencil plan of the second floor dry cleaners with a handwritten key. — 02.102nd floor. Key: VM vending machine, CM coffee machine, RR rotating rack.

Pencil plan of the third floor bar and restaurant with tables, stairs and a key. — 02.113rd floor. Key: H host table, P piano.

Pencil plan of the fourth floor rooftop bar with seating and a stair. — 02.124th floor: the rooftop bar.

P04 Elevation

Pencil on trace, over a printed elevation of the two real buildings either side, so the new front is measured against their actual floor and window heights.

Pencil front elevation on tracing paper of a narrow four-storey building between two printed red-brick neighbours, with arches at street level and a shop sign reading Pensmiths. — 02.13Front elevation, between its two neighbours. The shop sign reads Pensmiths.

P05 SketchUp model

SketchUp model from above: the narrow building between two plain blocks, with a glazed roof and a roof terrace. — 02.14Aerial. Glazed roof over the top floor.

SketchUp model from the front: a glazed frontage with a spiral stair, set between two blank neighbouring blocks. — 02.15Front, in the gap between its neighbours.

SketchUp model from an angle along the street, in sketch style. — 02.16Side, looking along the street.

P06 Visualisation

AI-assisted render of the front of the building at dusk, lit from inside. — 02.17AI-assisted render of the SketchUp front view. A visualisation, not a drawing.

AI-assisted render of the building from above at night, showing the glazed roof. — 02.18AI-assisted render of the aerial view.

P07 Physical scale model

I built a scale model of the scheme and took it into P08, the presentation to Pick Everard’s architects, who questioned every decision behind it.

The physical scale model of the Town Hall scheme. — 02.19Physical scale model of the scheme.

P08 Presented

The presentation I gave to Pick Everard’s architects, all 14 slides: the brief and my plan, the four floor plans, then the SketchUp model. The renders on slides 9 to 14 are AI-assisted, made from the SketchUp model.

Slide 1 of 14: Project brief and my plan: a profitable building between two existing buildings on Town Hall Square, with my front elevation — 01 / 14 Project brief and my plan: a profitable building between two existing buildings on Town Hall Square, with my front elevation

Exhibition stand, NEC

Food & Drink Expo, NEC Birmingham · Ivar Design Consultants

Built

A stand of roughly 6 m × 4 m, built from lightbox units with printed fabric panels. The graphics were designed by our team at Ivar Design Consultants, and I was one of the two people who assembled the stand on site.

Build day at the NEC: two people in hi-vis vests assembling white lightbox frames in front of a shell-scheme wall, with packaging and boxes in the foreground. — Site fix (revision 1) Several units wouldn’t sit flush once they were up. We tied their tops together with spare legs that were already on the van. It pulled the run straight, and the stand was up the day before the show opened. 03.1Build day: the lightbox frames going up, before the fabric went on.

The finished stand at the Food and Drink Expo: printed, backlit fabric panels of drinks and snacks across the back wall, product shelves, and a branded counter in front. — 03.2Finished. The printed fabric panels lit from behind, with the shelves and counters in.

The corner of the finished stand: backlit panels of drinks, a white table and chairs, and a branded counter. — 03.3The corner, with the seating area.

3D visual of the stand: a back wall of panels with two shelf rails and three pink counters. — 03.43D visual, before the build.

Electrical layout of the stand in plan, marking 2 amp 500 watt and 5 amp 1000 watt socket outlets along the back wall. — 03.5Electrical layout: 2 A / 500 W and 5 A / 1000 W sockets.

House extension

Self-set design study · 2024

A design study for a two-storey extension to my family home: drawn, then built as a scale model to test its massing against the existing house.

Drawing sheet for the extension: proposed front, side and rear elevations above the existing ones, and ground and first floor plans with beams and dimensions in red. — 04.1Drawings. Proposed elevations above the existing ones, then the ground and first floor plans, with the beams marked in red.

The finished white card model with its roofs on, showing the new two-storey side extension against the original house. — 04.2Roof on: the extension’s massing against the existing house.

The model with its roof off, showing the internal walls and window openings. — 04.3Roof off, internal walls in.

The model half-built on a desk, with foam board offcuts, a scale rule, a calculator and pens around it. — 04.4Making it: foam board, card and a scale rule.

Stadium concept

GCSE Product Design

A stadium derived from the structure of a cricket helmet: a layered outer shell, an exposed structural frame and an articulated roof, resolved against long-span demands and crowd movement.

Pencil concept sketch on a cutting mat: the layered, ribbed shell of a helmet drawn as a roof form. — 05.1Concept sketch. The helmet’s layered shell as a roof.

Rough cardboard study model of the curved shell, with lines drawn on in blue pen. — 05.2Card study, working out the shell.

The cardboard study model from above, with the pitch in green inside the shell. — 05.3Card study from above, pitch in green.

The final model: a silver shell with gold ribs over the stadium on a white site base, with surrounding blocks and model trees. — 05.4Final model on a site base, with the blocks around it.

The whole NEA, page by page. Use the arrows or the page numbers, and click a page to enlarge it and read the detail.

Page 1 of 23: Problem, initial design brief, location and mood board — 01 / 23 Problem, initial design brief, location and mood board

How architecture shapes the way people use spaces

College research project · 2026

I asked how design influences the way people use and experience buildings, with primary research among 18 industry professionals: in-person interviews combined with a questionnaire.

Alongside it, case studies of Fallingwater, The Shard and Bosco Verticale, written up against Ching, Rasmussen and Pawlyn.

18 professionals

5 architects 10 architecture students 3 design agency directors

Rated most important

Natural lightOpen spaceGreenery

The presentation itself, all ten slides.

Slide 1 of 10: Title slide: How Architecture Shapes the Way People Use Spaces — 01 / 10 Title slide: How Architecture Shapes the Way People Use Spaces

Commercial design work

Ivar Design Consultants · 2025 – present

A paid role held alongside a full-time A Level timetable, at a branding, advertising and FMCG packaging agency.

Handle most of the agency’s social content production, static and motion, from brief through to finished assets.
Packaging design for FMCG clients, now stocked in Asda and Tesco.

NL-710 · Websites

Websites, designed and built

I’ve designed and built 5+ websites for FMCG brands, from concept through to live site, with the front end written myself. I also rebuilt the agency’s own site end to end, including a scroll-driven logo animation.

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5+: websites for FMCG brands
Concept → live: designed, built and launched
Front end: written myself

The EatDesi homepage on a phone. — 07.1EatDesi homepage, desktop and phone. 4 screens

The Daadis homepage on a phone. — 07.2Daadis homepage, desktop and phone. 4 screens

D-one homepage: 'The first to taste the world', beside an illustrated woman in a patterned head-wrap. — 07.3D-one homepage, desktop and phone. 4 screens

The D-one homepage on a phone. — 07.3D-one homepage, desktop and phone. 4 screens

Click a site to see more of the page and the phone version.

Show the graphics and videoHide the graphics and video 14 videos · 16 storyboards · 14 images

Video

Social video for Ivar clients. Some scenes began as AI-generated clips before being cut into the finished posts. The Diwali 2026 pieces were generated in Higgsfield with the real packs composited in, never redrawn.

Daadis, Diwali 2026 2 videos

Daadis Diwali reel: a rangoli on navy, built from turmeric, chana dal, moong dal and red mukhwas around a lit diya, with four Daadis packs at the corners. — **Dal rangoli**

Logo rangoli

Daadis, product films 8 videos

Kesar mango pulp

Alphonso mango pulp

Chia seeds

Cloves

Curry leaves

Himalayan pink salt

Mukhwas

Turmeric

Daadis, animated posts 3 videos

Daadis animated post: a chana dal pack glowing in a burst of sparks on navy, with the line “So do we.”. — **“So do we.”**

Daadis animated post: moong dal pouring into a Daadis pack on navy. — **“She nourished her family with only the finest.”**

Daadis animated post: two Daadis packs side by side with a light between them, ending on daadis.co.uk. — **“The only way we know how.”**

Royal, LinkedIn film 1 video

High-protein ready meals

Storyboards

The plan for Daadis’s Diwali 2026 run: 15 posts between 20 October and 11 November, 6 reels and 9 carousels, each boarded with its hook, shots, sound, caption and how it gets made. Board 5 is the dal rangoli reel above.