ALEXANDRIA SANDHU PORTFOLIO
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CONTENTS STUDIO WORKS FRANKLINTON HOUSING
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LONDON PUBLIC LIBRARY
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ARTS DISTRICT
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CRAFT BREWERY
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CONVENTION CENTER
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(currently in progress)
ADDITIONAL WORKS REPRESENTATION SEMINAR
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FIRST OFFICE WORKSHOP
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STUDY ABROAD
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PUBLICATIONS
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FRANKLINTON HOUSING COLUMBUS, OHIO AUTUMN 2016 CRITIC: ROB LIVESEY + BART OVERLY DURATION: 15 WEEKS
Eight blocks broad was spawned from the idea of including a variety of housing types from precedent research. The challenge of the project was the length of the site and its unusual thinness. Our solution was to subdivide the site into 8 equal blocks, with Broad street as its center. Each 175’ x 105’ block then uses the same 17.5’ grid to bring consistency across the blocks. These dimensions were established due to their flexibility to perform in various housing and building typologies from townhomes to tower. Public buffer zones occupy the space between blocks and are activated by the programming on the street level across the site.The symmetry across Broad Street sets up pair relationships according to the blocks proximity to Broad. Each pair utilizes a formal operation (wrap, shear, extrude, tilt) to relate to its counterpart. The result is eight unique blocks and four unique pairs.
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MASSING
BLOCKS
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LVL 35 [ 350’-0’’]
LVL 27 [ 270’-0’’]
LVL 18 [ 180’-0’’]
LVL 9 [ 90’-0’’]
SECTION
section SCALE 1’-0” = 1/80”
ground/site plan PLAN SITE + GROUND SCALE 1’-0” = 1/80”
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block one
block eight
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block four
block five
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block two
block seven
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block three
block six
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various unit plans [1 8 ]
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block six
UPPER PLAN block six - upper floor plan BLOCK 3 SCALE 1/16”
block six - ground floor plan
GROUND PLAN BLOCK 3 SCALE 1/16”
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block seven
block seven - upper floor plan
UPPER PLAN BLOCK 7 SCALE 1/16”
block seven - ground floor plan
GROUND PLAN BLOCK 7 SCALE 1/16”
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LONDON PUBLIC LIBRARY LONDON, ENGLAND AUTUMN 2015 CRITIC: KAREN LEWIS DURATION: 15 WEEKS
This project is heavily driven by the site on the Thames residing in a crossbreed between the residential district and the dense urban area of downtown London. The design is aimed towards a public library that participates in the “knowledge city” of London through an investigation of circulation. The site is a thoroughfare for pedestrians to get to the river’s edge and back to the streets so a clear path cuts through the site to maintain that flow. The hardscape, along with the restaurant, reaches out to the river and allows for views back to the city. The circulation allows for visitors to go through the building and then pop back out on the same path that feeds to the exterior. The building is made up of stable zones that align to the site and then the rotated volumes that are determined programmatically.
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Ground Plan [2 6 ]
upper plan
upper plan
subgrade plan
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the output of information back to the city completes the cycle of knowledge movement in the city
cities create a vessel for this knowledge and culture to foster people cohabitate in the built and unbuilt environment to spread and absorb ideas
built works live in the city to create a rich density of people from all demographics libraries hold information and provide a space for new information to cultivate
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the library program stresses the interaction between people and ideas
massing
building circulation
building footprint
site circulation
site outline
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longitudinal section
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marital status: single vs married
young people: age 17 vs age 25
employment vs lack there of [3 1 ]
section A
section B
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south elevationon
west elevation
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north elevation
east elevation
section perspective [3 5 ]
CAMPUS ARTS DISTRICT COLUMBUS, OH SPRING JUNIOR CRITIC: ROB LIVESEY DURATION: 15 WEEKS
This project is a design for an arts district on Ohio State’s campus. While the program is divided up into various departments of the arts, my design stacks the program of these departments into one building. The vertical gesture is in conjunction with the plan for the developing area by connecting it to downtown visually. My new building sits on top of the existing Mershon Auditorium and slips southeast of the building’s existing footprint. This allows for large lobby spaces to develop along the vertical progression through the building. The lobbies reveal themselves as voids that surround the program volumes that read as objects in the building. The purity of the glass box form is disrupted by the pulling out and exposing of certain program. The private program resides in the interstitial spaces of the building and the main classrooms and offices are on the top with a private entry and lobby at ground level.
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circulation
object vs.
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void
structure
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This is the ascension space into the main theaters. The void of circulation and lobby space brings a lot of space for events and prefunction spaces. Lobbies, reception, and overflow are all housed in these spaces.
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The void centered in the circulation system allows for clear views back down to the lobby and to various circulation environments so visitors can experience more than just one space at any given time.
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section perspective
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sixth floor plan
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fourth floor plan
ground floor plan
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CRAFT BREWERY CINCINNATI, OH AUTUMN JUNIOR CRITIC: LISA TILDER DURATION: 4 WEEKS
The site is crucial to this design because the neighborhood is being revitalized by people in Cincinnati. The program for this project is largely determined by the brewing process and the public presence in and around the building. The two programs of people and beer are fused through their respective circulation paths. The programs are held within perforated masonry skin walls derived from the surrounding context that allow views in and out for specific program elements. These walls command the site. While the public may flow in between the walls to find their way into the restaurant, the beer has more of a linear, factory-like movement. This center space rises up to hold the tanks above which creates a beacon for the building. The tanks become a symbol for the neighborhood, known for it’s brewing history.
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section perspective
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second floor plan
A
B
C
C
A
B
ground floor plan
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cross section B
cross section A
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CONVENTION CENTER LAS VEGAS, NEVADA CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS CRITIC: ANDREW ATWOOD DURATION: 15 WEEKS
This studio is led by Andrew Atwood of First Office and it calls into question a word he has been thinking about a lot lately: interesting. This word is a tough word to use when describing architecture because it has a kind of ubiquity that is hard to critique or defend. Interesting can be stemmed from something being dumb or smart. We started with a set of alternative terms for architecture: boring, confusing, normal. We made figure grounds that were then translated into three dimensional buildings. The building is made up of two squares in plan. One is rotated off of the other to form a cube and denote entry. These are the drawings developed before the midterm review.
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Form Studies
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Form Studies
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upper floor plan
ground floor plan
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section A
section B
section C
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ADDITIONAL WORKS
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REPRESENTATION SEMINAR GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH AUTUMN 2016 CRITIC: SANDHYA KOCHAR DURATION: 15 WEEKS “The representational mediums, techniques, and design methods architects conjure are approximate, indirect, and sometimes downright mischievous.” – Perry Kulper
Representation when it comes to architecture is meant to communicate. That communication then becomes drawn. These drawings become language for architectural measure. Common notations represent this language and make it legible to an audience. This method of communicating typically prefers translation over transcription. My drawing takes these typical characteristics of architectural representation and brings them into question. Should people be able to linearly follow a drawing? Should common notation(s) only be used for common use? How much needs to be drawn to communicate an idea of design? My drawing expresses a code without a key; an anti-narrative, if you will. There are clues and hints but no legend to follow. I am also bringing a different non-programmatic based approach to design when it comes to these perching stations. The greater context and dynamic relationships are more important to design.
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where the wildlife used to reign...
the humans adapted to their new way of production...
the accumu
the waste then accumulated within the tides... the humans learned to produce for themselves...
the humans then began to overproduce and waste...
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birds occupied the trash island in the pacific ocean...
the ocean was the only option...
the humans had no where to throw the waste...
the waste became home to all kinds of new wildlife..
ulation then needed robots to sort it...
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FIRST OFFICE WORKSHOP ANNAPURNA SPRING 2017 CRITIC: ANDREW ATWOOD + ANNA NIEMARK DURATION: 3 DAYS
You have all encountered this term before: formal analysis. We can always rely on it to produce transparency of mathematical precision and its consequent claim to truth. Through most of the twentieth century, modernist ideology found its roots in classical values by this formula. Now consider, for a moment, some objects that cannot readily be explained in this way: dolmens, Mondrian’s canvases, a mountain in the Himalayas. These things have seemingly nothing in common, that is, until you begin to draw them. Laid out against a grid or a set of coordinates, they come in and out of focus. Under the interpretive power of formal analysis, these objects tend to misbehave, to occupy the analytical frameworks informally. They do not reduce to a simple diagram, massing, or algorithm. They might, at times, align and, at other times, deviate from normal. Their imperfections— high tolerance, low resolution, blank finish—are rather difficult to model precisely. So they produce rude forms, odd details, blank corners, all products of what we will call informal analysis. This brief workshop will concentrate on drawing, modeling, and talking, in no particular order.
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STUDY ABROAD EASTERN EUROPE MAY 2015 CRITIC: JACQUELINE GARGUS DURATION: 4 WEEKS
This program focused on architecture design throughout time. The interplay of historic principles and design tactics and culture are very important to modern design. Sketching and developing a capability to communicate with your hand rather than a computer is essential. Before departing, intense research was done looking at specific buildings. I did a lot of analytical sketching of specific buildings, public spaces, and cities as a whole. I was able to discuss design as a primary account with my professors and fellow students. Traveling is so influential on one’s capacity to be a world citizen and design for so much more than yourself, your culture, your society, but for all of humanity. You cannot understand these places until you’ve been immersed in cultures. It started in Prague and progressed throughout many cities Germany, into Switzerland, down through Northern Italy and concluded in Austria. I will be the graduate teaching associate on the trip coming up May 2017.
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OMA : Dutch Embassy
Alvar Aalto : Wolfsburg Culture Center
Le Corbusier : Notre Dame du Haut
Mies van der Rohe : New National Gallery [7 5 ]
PUBLICATIONS COLUMBUS, OHIO AUTUMN 2013 - PRESENT POSITION: GRADUATE MANAGING EDITOR ADVISER: CURTIS ROTH
The student publication at The Knowlton School is called One:Twelve and is run by myself and another graduate student. We release a journal every semester that I not only assemble but also write and draw for pieces in the issues. We develop the call for submissions every year and this past year it was focused on vernacular and it’s role in globalization. The most recent issue was a call for a lampoon edition of the journal marking the journal’s twelfth year as a journal: One:Twelve’s twelfth. I did a piece on architecture mission statements and how ridiculous they have become. The piece was accimpanied with a series of black-out poems curated to create new messages. One:Twelve has also gone beyond the written publication by hosting forums and discussion panels from within and outside of the school.
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O N E :T W E LV E
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- Travel as a teaching assistant on the study abroad trip in May 2017
ALEXANDRIA KAUR SANDHU PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
30917 Pinehurst Dr., Westlake, OH 44145 Meyers + Associates Architecture 440-829-2826 // alisandhu16@gmail.com
Columbus, OH
Architecture Design Associate.
June 2015-present
- Work closely with project managers developing design concepts, presentation ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE renderings and construction documentation for various programmatic projects Knowlton School, Theconcepts Ohio State Universityand present designs to clients - Develop design independently materialsAnticipated for clients, May review boards and city council presentations Master- Create of Architecture, 2018.
Columbus, OH
Bachelor ScienceofinArchitecture Architecture, Information Honors, CumTechnology Laude, Graduated May 2016. KnowltonofSchool Department
Columbus, OH
Academic Competitions/Awards Student Systems Assistant. : Trustees Scholarship: 2012-2016, IMI/OSU Masonry January 2013-May 2016 Competition : Finalist, Archi Design Honorable faculty Mentionand , Studio Book - Provide hardware, software, printerCompetition: support for Knowlton students Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2016 -Award Train :new student employees on theAutumn policies2015, and procedures for the IT Help Desk
Neighborhood Design Center Graduate Teaching Associate
Columbus,OH OH Columbus,
Architecture Design Intern. History of Architecture Assistant.
-- Developed conceptual designs for to small commercial storefront Instruct recitation sections a week review material and answerrenovations questions -- Coordinated and lead meetings with clients through various phases development Assess papers and quizzes as well as provide one-on-one help to theof students -- Prepared technical drawings for small businesses and facilitated permit acquisition Travel as a teaching assistant on the study abroad trip in May 2017
January 2015 August2015-May 2016-present
SOFTWARE AND FABRICATION PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Software: Revit, AutoCad, Adobe Suite Creative Cloud, SketchUp, Rhinoceros 5, Grasshopper and V-Ray
Meyers + Associates Architecture Fabrication:3D printing (MakerBot and zCorp), Laser Cutter VLS series, CNC Router 5 axis Architecture Design Associate.
June 2015-present
- Work closely with project managers developing design concepts, presentation ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS renderings and construction documentation for various programmatic projects PRAXIS Journal Augustand 2016 - present - Develop design: Editor’s conceptsAssistant, independently present designs to clients European Architecture Studiesreview : Teaching Assistant, 2017presentations - Create materials for clients, boards and cityMay council Mean Details Symposium : Assistant, February - present One:Twelve : Vice President, 2014-present Knowlton SchoolJournal of Architecture Information Technology Department European Architecture Studies : Student Abroad, May 2015 Student Systems Assistant. BuckeyeThon Philanthropy : Graphics Coordinator, 2012- May 2016 - Provide hardware, software, support for Knowlton European Architecture Studiesprinter : Student Abroad, May 2015faculty and students -Buck-i-Serv Train new student employees on the policies and procedures for the IT Help Desk : Volunteer, March 2014
Neighborhood Design Center
Columbus, OH January 2013-May 2016
Columbus, OH
Architecture Design Intern.
January 2015-May 2015
- Developed conceptual designs for small commercial storefront renovations - Coordinated and lead meetings with clients through various phases of development - Prepared technical drawings for small businesses and facilitated permit acquisition
SOFTWARE AND FABRICATION
Columbus, OH
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Graduate Teaching Associate
Columbus, OH
History of Architecture Assistant.
August 2016-present
- Instruct recitation sections a week to review material and answer questions - Assess papers and quizzes as well as provide one-on-one help to the students - Travel as a teaching assistant on the study abroad trip in May 2017
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Meyers + Associates Architecture
Columbus, OH
Architecture Design Associate.
June 2015-present
- Work closely with project managers developing design concepts, presentation renderings and construction documentation for various programmatic projects - Develop design concepts independently and present designs to clients - Create materials for clients, review boards and city council presentations
Knowlton School of Architecture Information Technology Department Student Systems Assistant.
Columbus, OH January 2013-May 2016
- Provide hardware, software, printer support for Knowlton faculty and students - Train new student employees on the policies and procedures for the IT Help Desk
Neighborhood Design Center
Columbus, OH
Architecture Design Intern.
January 2015-May 2015
- Developed conceptual designs for small commercial storefront renovations - Coordinated and lead meetings with clients through various phases of development - Prepared technical drawings for small businesses and facilitated permit acquisition
SOFTWARE AND FABRICATION Software: Revit, AutoCad, Adobe Suite Creative Cloud, SketchUp, Rhinoceros 5, Grasshopper and V-Ray Fabrication:3D printing (MakerBot and zCorp), Laser Cutter VLS series, CNC Router 5 axis
ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS PRAXIS Journal : Editor’s Assistant, August 2016 - present European Architecture Studies : Teaching Assistant, May 2017 Mean Details Symposium : Assistant, February - present One:Twelve Journal : Vice President, 2014-present European Architecture Studies : Student Abroad, May 2015 BuckeyeThon Philanthropy : Graphics Coordinator, 2012- May 2016 European Architecture Studies : Student Abroad, May 2015 Buck-i-Serv : Volunteer, March 2014
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