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Anjali Venkataiah
Contents Graduate Works - Texas A&M Redevelopment of Northgate Area, College Station Research and design of a sustainable development
Mixed Use Building at Fenway Park, Boston Design of a Mixed Use building in an Urban Context
Visitor’s Center for the Alamo Complex, San Antonio An addition to a Historically Significant Building
Praire Center of the Arts, Peoria
Reuse and revitalization of a warehouse as part of a larger plan to revitalise the warehouse district of Peoria
Transit Hub, Dallas
A sustainable approach to transit and urban development. The project is focussed on creating a pedestrian friendly walkable environment and attempts to reactivate this part of Dallas Downtown
Painting/Sketches/Photography
Arch 605
fall 2009
Arch 606
spring 2010
Arch 607
fall 2010
Arch 607
fall 2010
Final Study
spring 2011
Redevelopment of Northgate Area College Station
Research and design for a sustainable development
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Study and design for a New Down Town for College Station. The study was done collectively as a studio to understand the site and its surroundings as it stands currently. The research aimed at understanding the implication of its proximity to the Texas A&M campus and neighbouring Bryan.
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The program aimed at developing a sustainable mixed use development that is compact and more Urban. This project had an emphasis at developing a sustainable, walkable/bikable neighborhood.
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heavy pedestrian flow of students from the University
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flow of through traffic connecting the existing grid woonorf street leading to the central square which is not a through road proposal of the street dedicated to restaurants and retail in an effort to draw the crowd into the development
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A mixed use development was proposed with retail and commercial at the ground and the first level with the intension to engage the pedestrian. The residential units were proposed at the higher level. This was an attempt to create a sustainable development that was compact and connected where one could live, work and shop all in the same neighborhood.
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The Master Plan was designed with an intension of reinforcing the existing grid of the City in an effort to reconnect the existing roads and provide a continuity of the city grid. The site was divided into nine blocks of approximately 50,000 sqft each by streets that slightly bent to increase the visibility of the street facade as one walked down the street.
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Prof. Craig Babe
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Redevelopment of Northgate area. College Station
central square
Program Parking basement lvl -10’0” Retail Parking Retail lvl + _ 0’0” Retail Parking
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Ramp to Residential Parking
Whole Foods Super Market Retail
Retail at street level - To engage the pedestrian and to make the streets more walkable and pedestrian friendly Supermarket at the first level - to avoid blank walls at pedestrian level. It is connected to the parking levels by specially designed escalators to accommodate shopping carts. Parking- It is integrated in the core of the building to avoid surface parking. The parking that serves the retail and Supermarket is bordered by retail on all sides at the ground level. The commercial parking and the residential parking is separated and are on different levels accessed by two different ramps Residential- The residential units are designed on the upper floors which allows for a level of privacy. A large green roof and a shallow pool act as green spaces
lvl +15’0” Residential Parking
lvl +30’0” Performing Arts/ Mixed Use
Roof Garden
Art Center/Mixed Use
Theatre/Mixed Use
Farmer’s Market/ Mixed use
College Avenue
Wellness Center/Mixed Use
Equestrian/Mixed Use
Supermarket/Mixed use
lvl +40’0” Office Space/Mixed Use
Hotel/Mixed Use
Apartments
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University Drive
Master Plan of the Block
Arch 605 Prof. Craig Babe
Redevelopment of Northgate area. College Station
view of green roof and pool
view of apartments overlooking the green roof
Texas A&M Fall 2009
entrance to Whole Foods with its geen wall
graduate work
view of the building from College Avenue
Mixed Use Building at Fenway Park Boston
Design of a Mixed Use building in an Urban Context
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This project was situated in the heart of the Fenway Park area. The program required the design of a mixed use building in a context influenced strongly by baseball. The only fixed part of the program was a hotel exclusively for the visiting Baseball team. It would function as a regular lodge during off season. The other programs had to be proposed according to what one seemed best fit for this context. The program was developed keeping in mind the strong influence that Fenway Park had on its surroundings. It responds to the neighbouring building and uses and also address the issues of shortage of affordable housing in this neighborhood.
Visiting Baseball Team
Affordable Housing Commercial Space Movie Theatre Basement Parking Coffee Shop
Prof. Marcel Erminy
Hotel for the visiting team Rooms Gym Conference room Bar and Restaurant
Fenway Mixed Use Building. Boston
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Program
Community
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Baseball Fans
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Sports Bar Open Plaza Space Bandstand & Projection Screen
Elements that influenced the Design
Fenway Park
The Freeway
scheme development sketches
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Victory Garden
Possible plaza area connecting the site to the Ball Park
Major Axis of pedestrian movement during games
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Arch 606 Prof. Marcel Erminy
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Fenway Mixed Use Building. Boston
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Floor Plan @lvl 9m
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Floor Plan @lvl 3m & 4.5m B
Residences The residential units were designed in the southwest part of the site in response to the existing apartments adjacent to the alley. The entrance to the residential units are provided in this alley thus enabling a more private access as well as activating the otherwise dead alley.
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Commercial/Theatre/Sports Bar/ Coffee shop These programs being more public and catering mostly to the Baseball fans after games, is designed at the ground level facing the baseball stadium and the plaza
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view from sports bar
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aerial view
Typical Office Floor Plan
Hotel The two levels of hotel was designed to be on the 3rd and 4th levels separated from the commercial spaces thus providing a level of privacy for the players. All the hotel rooms open out onto balconies overlooking the Fenway Park
Section BB - through the band stand
Service Area The service areas for the whole complex is clubbed together in one area on multiple floors serving the needs for the hotel and sports bar
existing apartment
parking parking
Section AA
theatre lobby
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coffee shop
residential
Prof. Marcel Erminy
residential
hotel lobby level
Fenway Mixed Use Building. Boston
residential
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hotel level 2 residential
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residential
Visitor’s Center for the Alamo Complex San Antonio An addition to a Historical Significant Building
The Alamo The Alamo, originally known as Mission San Antonio de Valero, is a former Roman Catholic mission and fortress compound. It was the site of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836, and now a museum in San Antonio, Texas. The Alamo played a very important part in the battle of Texas and is a hallowed ground and Shrine of Texas Liberty and receives more than 4 million visitor’s a year. The design problem entailed of choosing an appropriate site and designing a visitor’s center for the Alamo Complex
night view of the Alamo Chapel
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The Alamo Chapel Battle Ground
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Visitor’s path of movement
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Selected Location for the Visitors Center
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Prof. Bob Warden
Design Approach • To retain the focus on the Alamo Chapel visually and spatially
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• To make the boundary of the fort where the Battle of the Alamo was fought more obvious • To design the visitors center as a gateway and information center before one enters the Alamo Chapel
meridian. This line consisted of dashes and dots, literally a site line, where the dashes are strips of brass inlay in the ground with an inscription of the significance of the line. The dots would be up lights inlaid in the ground which at night would seem like column of lights that would mark the boundary of the fort.
detail - where the site line crosses a building
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Fort Boundary - The great battle of the Alamo took place mainly within the boundary of the fort. This boundary today is hardly visible and very subtle. Parts of the foundation has been retailed in a few places and in some places its only a slight difference in the paving. The current Alamo complex has very little to do with the war and quite misleading to visitors who do not have prior knowledge of the Alamo’s history. To reinforce this boundary, a site line was designed similar to the rose line in Paris marking the Paris
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Visitor’s Center for the Alamo Complex. San Antonio
Proposed Peace Memorial
The Visitor’s Center
Most visitors who come to San Antonio visit the River walk and the Alamo. It was thought important that the visitor had some prior knowledge of the history of the place before entering the Chapel. Hence a point along the path between the River Walk and the Chapel was chosen for the Visitor’s Center. Since the intension was to retain the Chapel as the main focus the Visitor’s Center was designed 15’0” below the plaza. The center was envisioned to be a point of enlightenment where one would understand the significance of the battle of the Alamo and emerge literally to face the Chapel and see it in new light. The steps leading up to the Alamo from the Visitor’s center can also serve as an informal gathering space for small concerts and plays.
Peace Memorial
aerial view from the river walk
aerial view of the visitor’s center
A peace memorial was proposed in the current Alamo Complex as a place to contemplate the futility of wars. A lot of lives were lost on the Texas side as well as the Mexican side during the Alamo war. Though Texas won the war eventually, the current city has a very high Latino population and are an integral part of the city. It makes you question if the war was really necessary. The peace memorial also aids in way finding inside the complex.
Arch 607 Prof. Bob Warden
gallery space
Visitor’s Center for the Alamo Complex. San Antonio
information audio visual services Plan of Visitor’s center @ -15’0” 24 ft
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Alamo chapel
peace memorial
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view of the Alamo complex and the visitor’s center
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Praire Center of the Arts, Peoria
Reuse and Revitalization of a warehouse as part of a larger plan to revitalise the warehouse district of Peoria
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This was a studio project which entailed
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the development of a program and design for the reuse and revitalization of a structure that used to house a rope manufacturing factory. This historic building currently houses two companies. The Tri-City which is a machine shop at the basement level and the Praire Center of the Arts that uses parts of the of the building for their residency program. It also has a gallery space at the street level in one of the buildings. The studio worked in groups to develop different parts of the project that would eventually come together as a whole.
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The site with is located just outside the warehouse district, which ends at the north east end of the site. The site is flanked by a freeway on the east, an ethanol factory to the south and a car scrap yard to the west.
• The existing structure is very beautiful and is a point of inspiration for artists • The Machine shop is very popular with art students from Bradley who frequent Tri-city to use the water jet for their work existing structure which housing the machine shop and the Peoria Center of the Arts
• A need for affordable housing in this area for students and artists in residency • A need for designed work spaces for Artists in the residency program • Programs that would contribute to the revitalization of the Warehouse districts
view of the ethanol factory in the background
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views of the interior spaces that were being used as studio spaces by the artists
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• The need to make Peoria Center of the Arts a destination for Artists and like minded people
Prof. Bob Warden
• The city of Peoria has an industrial past and still retains a very strong industrial feel.
Praire Center of the Arts - Reuse and Revitalization
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Factors of Influence
Program Reuse of existing structure Flexible studio spaces for artists New Construction Student and Artist housing designed using shipping containers
Amphitheatre for concerts/art exhibitions/get together space Commercial space along the street to make it more pedestrian friendly and more urban
View of housing from the amphitheatre space
Prof. Bob Warden
Praire Center of the Arts - Reuse and Revitalization
Arch 607 View of Amphitheatre
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Indivisual storage units designed to change with need
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designed top hung movable pannels that make studio spaces
Housing with Shipping Containers • • • • • •
sustainable modular ties in well with reuse has an artsy and industrial feel economical structural
The student and artist housing was designed using shipping containers. Four High Cube shipping containers of 40’0” were used to design a prototype module of two interlocking units. Access corridors run every alternate floor. Services are all clubbed together to facilitate wiring and piping. Double height spaces creates a sense of openness.
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View of Apartment
Prof. Bob Warden
Praire Center of the Arts - Reuse and Revitalization
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Transit Hub , Dallas bridging the city
map of Dallas Scoring of Corridors in Texas and the Gulf Coast
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scoring of travel corridors in Texas & Gulf Coast
The Final Study focuses on the design of a Multimodal Transit Hub at Downtown Dallas. It will serve as an exchange point for the DART and the proposed High Speed Rail connecting Dallas to the neighboring metropolitan cities.
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The intent of this study is to not only address issues of logistics of smooth movement of commuters between different modes of transport but also address urban issues, the interaction of the transit hub with its immediate urban surroundings and its ability to act as an urban center and behave as a magnet for a denser, walkable, bikable urban development.
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This site would be the most appropriate site for a transit hub with high speed rail due to its location, history and existing infrasture. train lines
map of a section of Dallas downtown
view of the existing track with the Hyatt Regency to the right
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The Histotic Union Station
Final Study Chair Prof. Marcel Erminy
The historic Union Station
Transit Hub . Dallas Downown - An approach to Sustainable Development
The Union Station is also a point where the DART overlaps with the intercity lines namely the Trinity Railway Express(TRE) connecting Forthworth and also the Amtrak.
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The site chosen for this study is in Downtown Dallas where the current Union Station is located. The Union Station was built in 1916 to consolidate all the train traffic in Dallas making it a major transportation hub in the southwest. The Union Station is a historically important building. The first level of the building still serves as a train station while the second and third levels have been leased out to Wolf Puck Gang.
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Site Analysis
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• Bridging the city
• Old and the new
Multiple train lines at street level forms a kind of barrier and divides the city preventing pedestrians from getting to the other side easily. This is • addressed by shifting the DART lines above the ground and the intercity lines below the ground thus making it more pedestrain friendly at the street level.
To integrate the old and the new with a pedestrian plaza
Activating the space Including coffee shops, retail and resturants in the development introduces alternate activity and help activate the space.
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pedestrian path AMTRAK TRE HIGH SPEED RAIL
• Safety & Visual connection The station was designed such that the various levels are visually connected thus enhancing the feeling of safety. This allows a person way below the ground at the lower track level to be connected in some way to the outside world.
Final Study Chair Prof. Marcel Erminy
Design Approach
Transit Hub . Dallas Downown - An approach to Sustainable Development
union station
DART
TRE
AMTRAK
Hyatt Regency
existing section
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schematic proposed longitudinal section
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schematic proposed short section
bus stop taxi stand
retail bike stand
retail/resturant
commercial space
train station lobby
retail
drop off point DART office space DART office space ticketing waiting area Lobby area Wolfgang Puck
DART officee
floor plan @ street level
DART station @ +30’0”
mezzanine @+15’0”
street level
street @ + _ 0’0”
lower mezzanine @-18’6”
lower track level
longitudinal section
Amtrak /TRE/high speed
coffee shop DART upper track @ lvl +30’0”
commercial space
upper mezzanine @ lvl +15’0”
train station lobby area commercial space commercial space
street lvl
Transit Hub . Dallas Downown - An approach to Sustainable Development
roof structure
Chair Prof. Marcel Erminy
Final Study
Axonometric View
snack bar
union station
AMTRAK & Hign Speed Rail lower tracl lvl @ - 35’0”
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lower mezzanine lvl @ - 17’6”
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book store
lobby below
cafe
commercial space
kitchen
banquet hall
floor plan @ +15’0”
floor plan @ +30’0”
platform area below
cafe
floor plan @ -18’6”
cafe
book store
retail
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Chair Prof. Marcel Erminy Transit Hub . Dallas Downown - An approach to Sustainable Development
view of the pedestrian plaza
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Chair Prof. Marcel Erminy Transit Hub . Dallas Downown - An approach to Sustainable Development
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Painting/Sketches/Photography
Skandagiri, India
Skandagiri, India
Painting/Sketches/Photography
Torres Del Paine National Park, Chile
Rail Tube IIT, Chicago