Aarthi Saravanakumar | Selected works 2020 by aarthis

AARTHI SARAVANAKUMAR SELECTED WORKS

INTERLUX MEMPHIS COTE ENTRY

GOAN MARKET UNDERGRAD THESIS

URBAN LAKE RESTORATION CITATION

SELECTED

TRIANGULARIS DESIGN BUILD

EXQUISITE CORPSE SUMMER 2019

WORKS

COTE ENTRY

The city of Memphis is the capital of High Energy Burden throughout the states of the US. The major cause for this inequality is the improper usage of resources, uneven Socio-economic conditions and lack of energy conservation measures. This condition advances to poverty and reducing population. INTERLUX addresses these concerns by integrating retail, co-working spaces and high- density residence as the major program along with utilizing the diversity and topographical potentials of the site.

CONTEXT OF

The project ensures provision of natural foliage through the presences of the courtyards. It uses locally sourced timber and brick from around the Mississippi. The orientation of the site provides access to ventilation from the Mississippi river on the west and solar power for most of the year, taking care of the energy needs.

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Team of 2 SITE : 324 S. Front St LOCATION: Memphis PROGRAM: High- Density Mixed housing Co-working space Retail spaces

SITE MAP DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS With 50% aﬀordable and 50% market-rate apartment units, Co-working spaces and retail spaces accommodating 200 people, INTERLUX creates the density Downtown Memphis desperately needs while cultivating a sustainable micro-community BEALE STREET LANDING

The Aquifer is losing water at an unsustainable rate. INTERLUX’s roofs, equipped with low-lying vegetation, along with the regional vegetation of the courtyards, allow for responsible use of rainwater

MUSIC DISTRICT

ORPHEUM THEATRE VANCE PARK

OLD DOMINICK DISTILLERY GUS’S WORLD FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN

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The site sits on the bluﬀ along the Mississippi river and has a natural slope that helps in drainage. The clay deposits of the river basin support the brick production that reduces the embodied carbon

Memphis gains 90% of its energy from non-renewable sources. INTERLUX utilizes the orientation of the site to reduce the energy burden by building volumes that shade each other.

HISTORIC WAREHOUSE DISTRICT

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3.5 miles nearest grocery store

Bike Score

Proposed Design

Walk Score

S. FRONT STREET

VANCE STREET

DESIGN & PROGRAMS

ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN MATERIALITY

TEMPERATURE

HUMIDITY

LIGHT

VENTILATION

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LOCALLY SOURCED RAW MATERIALS

NATIVE FOLIAGE

BUFFER ZONES

FIXED SHADING

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APARTMENTS 50% MARKET RATE + 50% INCOME-BASED +

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1 BEDROOM 25%

3 BEDROOMS 29%

2 BEDROOMS 46%

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ANNUAL REVENUE

$1,070,000

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retail space

$12,000 / month

parking

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co-working space $11,300 / month

rent income (market rate + aï¬&#x20AC;ordable) $60,000 / month

8,800

SQ. FT

PUBLIC COURTYARD

RETAIL SPACES + 10,000 square feet coworking space

$4,400 / month

$1,500 / month

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electricity generation

HIGH THERMAL MASS MATERIALS

UNBURNT BRICK

OPERABLE SHADING

TROMBE WALLS

ENERGY RECOVERY VENTILATION SYSTEM

PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY PRODUCTION

ROADSIDE PERSPECTIVE INTERLUX’s focus on sustainability is evident throughout the design. Utilizing the sun and wind as pivotal drivers for human comfort, INTERLUX’s key design features ensure human comfort through the year. During the hot and humid months, the building takes advantage of its Southwest orientation and vicinity to the river edge to allow for cross-ventilation through the buildings.

By incorporating shading devices, both ﬁxed and operable, along the East, South, and West facades, the building ensures that little heat will enter the building in summer through glass. In winter, the window shades open up to allow sun to penetrate into the building, thus allowing the building’s thermal mass to passively heat and reduce heating loads .

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CLAY DEPOSITS

BRICK PRODUCTION

SHALE DEPOSITS

SILIICA SAND GLASS PRODUCTION MASS TIMBER + WOOD MATERIAL

80%

SOUTHERN PINE FORESTS

Local Resources

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Sun Shading Natural Ventilation

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Evaporative Cooling High Thermal Mass Night Flushing

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DRY BULB TEMPERATURE PROGRAMABLE LOURVE SYSTEMS

allow for thermal comfort at all times of the year

GREEN ROOF

allows excess water to replenish the Memphis

warm fresh air circulates

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exhaust air exits

02 THESIS

GOAN MARKET INDIVIDUAL PROJECT SITE : Panjim Bus Depot LOCATION : Goa,India PROGRAM: Market, Transit, Tourism and Handicrafts Hub

A market exists for multiple public purposes, such as job creation, access to fresh and healthful foods, celebrating festivals, putting up ďŹ&#x201A;ea markets and also as an urban hangout spot.This market in Goa is positioned in a prominent location at the entrance of Panjim which would serve as a Gateway into the city. It is supported by a strong residential crowd and a transit node for better functioning.It functions year round, adapting to seasonal changes. The city of Goa has a young and a vibrant setting, a community that is driven by its rich heritage of varied ancestors and immigrants. This city has an adaptive nature as it follows its practises old yet encourages new ideas.

WHY A

MARKET?

There is a mix of natives, Portuguese settlers and immigrants from the Arabian coast. This city has a hustling tourist population who come to visit the beaches year round. This surge has created an expensive environment along the coast and an abscence of intresting public spaces within the city. As a result, the Goan government has proposed many new commercial areas for development within the city, my site being one of them.

SITE

LAND USE MAP

LOCATION

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HIERARCHY

ROAD

MANDOVI RIVER FERRY POINT

RE-ROUTING

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SITE MAP PANJIM BUS DEPOT LEGEND 1. Market and stalls 2. Walkways 3. Food Court and Waiting area 4. Gathering Space 5. Car Drop-oï¬&#x20AC; area 6. Handicrafts hub 7. Tourism Hub

8. Outdoor seating 9. Vendors space 10. Play spaces 11. Back entry 12. Bus Depot 13. Entrance Patio 14. Walking entry

MARKET STALL

The site has access to three roads which gives an opportunity to have a porous design. The main line of vision is achieved through the axis of movement.

MAIN SECTION

The Market block and the bus terminal are placed along the line of vision to the site. The site accommodates activities like entrance plazas,seating spaces and parking area.

HANDICRAFT & TOURIST HUB

The design integrates many points of entry acting as a Gateway to the city.

CITATIONO

URBAN LAKE RESTORATION Kallu kuttai lake is a shallow lake and part of the pallikarnai watershed. The region has clayey soil and the bedrock is quite near surface at around 11m. This urban lake is a part of the Chennai Metropolitan Area (CMA) and faces problems of urbanisation like pollution, encroachment and lack of awareness.

There are three major contexts of neighborhoods around the lake. A well planned residential neighborhood on the west bank. A dense Mixed Income Group (MIG) settlement on the north with wall to wall constructions. A huge settlement with hutments to the south which is largely unorganised.

The Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS) line built across the lake is one of the main reasons why the lake started dying out. It has stopped the natural flow of water and has divided the lake into smaller portions of waterbodies which can be encroached easily.

The lake is treated as a backyard and a huge proportion of the lake is not accesible. Most houses do not face the lake and dump garbage in and around the lake. This physical disconnect also gives rise to a mental disconnect.

Team of 3 SITE : Kallukuttai Lake LOCATION : Taramani, Chennai PROGRAM: Community and Ecological solutions

The contour depicts the historical connection between Kallukuttai lake and Pallikaranai marsh. When it rains, the region gets flooded quickly and water runs to the marsh through residential neighborhoods all because of encroachments on the flood plains.

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THE BAMBOO CYCLE The restoration of wetland ecosystem involves the removal of sludge, sediments and other contaminants. This can be performed by certain plants and is termed as phytoremediation. Bamboo is one such plant that performs phytoremediation and also provide opportunities for construction and employment

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PHYTOREMEDIATION The saplings of bamboo are planted along the edge of the wetland. The roots are fibrous and hence absorb the nutrients from the soil performing phytoremediation.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

After 2 year the bamboo is harvested. It can be used to make furnitures and small scale products fetching a job opportunity.

CONSTRUCTION RECONSTRUCTION The bamboo structures starts to degrade beyond the 4th year and hence has to be reconstructed.

The bamboo harvested during the third year becomes structurally stable . It can be used for construction of structures like decks and temporary houses by the people of the community.

PROCESS OF

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DESILTING

CLEARING BELOW THE MRTSBUND

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JOINING THE WATERBODIES

CONNECTING TO MARSH VIA CANALS

MASTERPLAN

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EVENT SPACE NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS PLAY AREA LINEAR LINKAGE PALLIKARNAI ACTION FORCE ANGANWADI FISHING MUD REUSAL FROM DESILTING URBAN AGRICULTURE BAMBOO CULTIVATION WOMEN SELF HELP GROUP PHYTO REMEDIATION FLOOD PLAINS

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SECTION B

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House

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SITE

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SECTION D

BENCH DETAIL

DETAIL B

STREET LAMP DETAIL

DETAIL A

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Walkway

Road

Neighbo Lake

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Lake

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Canal

Bamboo

Fields

Store

TRIANGULARIS-DESIGN BUILD

The Project was to build a temporary canopy for a local business owner in Ames. The process involved individual parametric design iterations inspired from biological patterns.

The next step involved choosing some of the best iterations in class and producing a combined design.My iteration was chosen as a promising one along with three otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

CANOPY INSTALLATION

Live Class Project SITE : 303 Welch Ave LOCATION: Ames, Iowa PROGRAM: Canopy design

PROCESS Patterns in nature intrigue the mind and catches the eye. My design was inspired from corn which had radial and symmetrical elements. It helped me pick up strong curvatures that can be shrinked and expanded to produce a variety of light penetration patterns.

The design involved having a circular metallic rim with fabric cut and suspended at various depths. The fabric is quite porous that helps produce a scintillating eďŹ&#x20AC;ect when the sun shines.

INDIVIDUAL ITERATION TOP VIEW

INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS

PATTERN

MODULE

INSTALLATION

1/16” Vinyl coated 1/8” SS Wire rope cable

9am

Quicklink 1/8” 10am 3 4'-5 " 8 11am

12pm

1pm 2'-6"

SHADOW

2pm

3pm

PATRON’S VIEW

The ﬁnal design for construction was a suspension of chandlier-like triangular forms. It also had concentric, smaller forms at selective zones to create dense shadows based on the sun path.

EXQUISITE CORPSE Individual Graphic

The Graphic work was a result of analysing a site and abstracting its elements . It was followed by reintrepreting the elements on site visually which would then be edited by another person with their own interpretation.

The site was a stretch at Downtown Ames that has a variety of spaces such as parking lots, open areas for farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s markets and a railway line.

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