Anusree Sattaluri Portfolio by Anusree Sattaluri

ANUSREE SATTALURI urban design + architecture

P O R T F O L I O selected worksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 2017

ANUSREE SATTALURI urban design + architecture

P O R T F O L I O selected worksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 2017

EXPERIENCE detroit studio, Detroit, MI DESIGN INTERN

2016

+ Projects focused in Public Interest Design, Community design + Lead, East Grand Boulevard Community Study for GenesisHOPE + Team Member, Master-plan for Clark Park; North end design interventions; Recovery Park + Research including interviews, visioning workshops with neighborhood and youth, mind mapping, consultation, collaboration, co-design, stats analysis, technical investigation, brief writing, story telling + Design; Presentation drawings; Report collation; Community and Youth Presentations Presley Architecture Northville, MI INTERN ARCHITECT

A N USRE E SATTALURI 20315 Northville Place Dr Apartment 2505 Northville, MI 48167, USA

+ Worked directly with the Principal Architect on a proposal for Northville Downtown Development. Nature of work and other responsibilities include : + Assisting in documentation of Northville Downtown Development and responsible for creating base drawings of Northville city; Coordinating with Northville city officials for information; Creating design and presentation drawings. + Assisting in production of conceptual drawings and Sketchup model for a design of a high-end hotel in Petoskey, MI + Responsible for all presentation drawings of Architectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work portfolio + Site visits, Documentation and production of As-built drawings + Miscellaneous office administration duties.

anushsattaluri@gmail.com 313-434-2191

Joseph Mosey Architecture Northville, MI INTERN ARCHITECT

2013-14

+ Responsible for production of Sketchup models, as-built, construction and interior AutoCAD drawings for high-end Residential construction. Auroville Design Consultants Auroville, India DESIGN ARCHITECT

2011

+ Worked directly with Principal Architect and also as part of a design team. + Responsible for client meetings, design concepts, final design, construction drawings, structural drawings and on site management. + Part of a team responsible for design development of Refresh Project, a gated retirement community in Bangalore, India. + Responsible for conceptual development of Mohanam, a crafts village in Auroville, India. + Responsible for all structural and construction drawings of Nitya Gurukula, an adult education centre in Coimbatore, India C&M Architects Auroville, India DESIGN ARCHITECT

2010

+ Responsible for client meetings, site visits, conceptual & construction drawings Biome Environmental Solutions Ltd Bangalore, India INTERN ARCHITECT

+ Experimented with Earth Architecture. Responsible for design & construction drawings, on site work and site management. + Conducted workshops on the various practices and importance of sustainability for a group of school children and conducted tours for prospective clients.

2009-10

EDUCATION MASTERS IN URBAN DESIGN Lawrence Technological University Southfield, Michigan, USA

Ongoing

MASTERS IN ARCHITECTURE ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Chicago, Illinois, USA

2011-13

BACHELORS IN ARCHITECTURE (DISTINCTION) C.S.I INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Hyderabad, Telangana, India

2005-10

SKILLS Digital: Drafting + 3D Modelling + Mapping + presentation

English : Fluent in Speaking, Reading and Writing Hindi & Telugu: Native; Fluent in Speaking, Reading and Writing

competitions, aWARDS & certifications Led a team for the Louis I Kahn Trophy and got short-listed in the top ten for NASA (National Association of Students of Architecture), a national level Architectural Competition in India. Part of the Intern Development Program (IDP).

2009 2016

contents

Slum Lifting: Upgrade Masters Thesis, IIT Clark Park Hub Detroit Studio, LTU Sleep Centre Comprehensive Building Systems, IIT Haiti Sustainable Education Community based Building Project, IIT Residence Design with Biome Environmental Solutions Ltd.

slum lifting

Public interest design: Prakasam Nagar Slum, Hyderabad, India Masters Project, Illinois Institute of Technology, Spring 2013 Instructor: Martin Felson Almost 1 billion people, or 14 percent of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban population, live in slums, the majority of them in the developing world. The locus of global poverty is moving to the cities, a process now recognized as the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;urbanization of povertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Without concerted action on the part of municipal authorities, national governments, civil society actors and the international community, the number of slum dwellers is likely to increase in most developing countries. And if no serious action is taken, the number of slum dwellers worldwide is projected to rise over the next 30 years to about 2 billion. Slum Lifting deals with the complete revitalization of a slum neighborhood. This, in my opinion, could be achieved by establishing a chronological set of tactics that on a broad scale involve, firstly improving the basic infrastructure of the area, and secondly educating and empowering the slum dwellers. The idea behind this is to create a spark of development in the slum and ultimately provide the slum dwellers with a toolbox, a set of skills, that could be used by them to keep improving their lifestyle. In the past, several slum improvement solutions have failed due to the lack of involvement of the slum dweller in the process. In my proposed solution, the slum dweller is involved at every step of the solution. By making him the chief participant, and by educating him with tools that not only help improve the slum but also be an economy generating tool, he, in turn, becomes the most vital part in improving his own life. In my project specifically, Slum Lifting will help revitalize the slum neighborhood through a Community Centre which will be a holistic mix of Physical, Educational, Health and Income generating activities. The Centre will operate as an Informal school for the slum children during the morning, a Vocational school to train the women and the youth during the afternoon, and in the evening transform into an Activity Centre through Sports, Entertainment and a Social Gathering Space. http://issuu.com/anusreesattaluri/docs/anusree_sattaluri_2013_masters_project_slumlifting

An aerial view of the proposed changes in the slum

The areas that require im ate attention in the slum been marked in red.

1. improve existing infrastructure Improving the infrastructure could help transform the entire slum neighborhood for good. This has been established at the Klong Toey Community at Bangkok and the Favelas of Brazil. Improving the Infrastructure would help improve the overall functioning of the slum as a community. This process would involve firstly identifying the problems in the slum. After this, a complete cleaning up and fixing of these problems, while involving the local community is vital. This process could involve, pedestrianising the slum itself, to avoid too many relocations, and most importantly, improving the outdoor spaces to encourage community interaction. All these steps are to ensure the public safety of the slum, and also improving the community togetherness. The infrastructure development has to be provided through on-site solutions, to ensure the continuation of the development. This is to ensure that the slum dwellers themselves are involved in the process, and it wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be stopped due to any external reasons.

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2. educate and empower the slum dwellers The ultimate aim of Slum Lifting is to educate the slum dwellers, in order to help improve their life through complete involvement in the activities involved. They will learn by doing. The slum dwellers will help identify the places in the slum that require immediate attention and will be involved in providing ideas of solutions, for ultimately, they will be residing there. In particular to my project, the slum dwellers will help build the community center. They will be involved in the design process, and since the building will be built using what is available on site, they will help find resources, and be taught how to build with them. This would also be a new trade for them, and could also be used to improve their own homes later on. In the community center itself, the adults would attend vocational training, like computer education, craft making, which would provide them with a trade. The children, would attend school from an early age, to educate and prepare themselves for the future. The Centre will be built for the slum dwellers â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;byâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the slum dwellers. The building will be built mostly with material on site and trash collected on site and from around. Along with the help of trained engineers and masons, the building will be built by the slum dwellers. The grounds around the building, until further built development, will be used for conducting construction workshops in vernacular methods.

Proposed Community centre

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1 administration & dispensary 2 multipurpose 3 education 4 market 5 shops 6 women+kitchen 7 day care

Proposed plan of the Community Centre

Section through the Health Clinic and Market

Section through all the courtyards of the building

View at the entrance

View of childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s area

Courtyard view

View of the vegetable market

View of the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s day care space

View of the outdoor cafe area

clark park hub Community Design: Detroit, MI

Team Member, Detroit Studio, LTU Spring 2016 Detroit Studio was approached by members of the Clark Park Community and DPS in hopes to collaborate on a masterplan to strengthen the parks program and role as a hub in the community. Informed by the results of the guided tours of the Clark Park and its larger context, community meetings, community workshop, our own site observations, case studies and other research investigations, we suggested the following two framework concepts or models to clarify the community’s priorities and key issues and to guide their next steps.

context map Clark Park

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2000’

61.9% unfinished educational goals

existing conditions

Clark Park + Neighbourhood

Concentrated Hispanic Population in Michigan 63% limited English speaking Inverse Relationship earnings vs. education

62.6% making less than <$35,000 per year Business Improvement Zone

Clark Park

Mexican Town development

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Internal & Regional Connection with adjacent corridors

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The goal of the project is to connect and strengthen the existing conditions of Clark Park and the surrounding community with regards to five potential areas of focus based on initial research. These include Education, Health and Wellness, Economic Development, Community Amenities and Cultural Celebration.

- Need for a dedicated medical center for the community - Latch on to existing medical partnerships in the neighborhood - Need for more health and wellness related programs for overall community wellness. - Scope for sharing of educational and recreational resources and partnerships - Opportunity to develop a Pre K-16 Cradle to Career pipeline - Need for better safety strategies and connectivity with the park - More opportunities for improved economic equity - Scope to develop and latch on to local entrepreneurship & existing BID district - Opportunity to latch on to existing cultural assets - Need for inclusion of cultural elements in any future development (to ensure equity). - Need for improvement of connectivity between the park with the neighborhood and schools - Provide better community amenities (gathering spaces; wellness programs) - Need for a safe environment

healthy educational campus

Park Centric Framework This plan focuses on Clark Park. It envisions the park to be the center of the community (e.g., a community hub, an education hub, etc.). This model suggests that existing resources of the local organizations, agencies or institutions be consolidated or shared among them to benefit the community in a more effective manner. This plan puts the Clark Park before the larger community, attempts to make the best use of the Clark Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amenities, and maximizes its potential. This plan is more suited for short-term incremental projects that could be implementable in a relatively shorter time frame with small or modest investment. These projects include strengthening existing programs, renovating existing places/programs or creating a new space for programs to exist.

community well-being

Neighborhood Centric Framework This plan focuses on the community as a whole. While Clark Park still plays an important role in this plan, more emphasis is given to the bigger picture, i.e., a larger community. This plan puts the community before the Clark Park and advocates programs, services or projects that benefit the community at large. This model explores ways in which the Clark Park could be a connecting agent across the community. This plan is better suited for long-term initiatives or big idea projects whose implementation may require comprehensive strategies, more partners, more time and more investment. These projects include strengthening existing programs, renovating existing places/programs or creating a new space for programs to exist.

healthy educational campus

Medical Profession Pipeline Initiative

Programmatic Elements

Health & Wellness Classes

Exercise Stations

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Career Prep Initiative + Vocational Training

community well-being

Programmatic Elements

Co-Working + Business Incubator

Afterschool Programs

Medical Services

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Sports Facilities

Community Meeting Spaces

clark park

Site Plan

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Streets adjacent to Businesses Facade Improvements, Bike Lanes, Branding + Lighting

Streets adjacent to Businesses Bike Lanes, Sidewalks, Mid-block Crossings

Connectivity and Safety Eyes on street

Connectivity and Safety

Traffic Diversion

Lighting along paths

Creating safer streets

YMCA Recreational Centre Facade Improvements, Program

to connect and strengthen

Sheltered Amphitheater Improvements, Seating

clark park hub

Phasing Plan

Multipurpose Courts Improvements, Re-program

Phase 1: Alignment: Common Goals + Collaborations between local organizations Phase 2: Initiative: Non-physical elements to be launched around existing assets Phase 3: Funding to be obtained Phase 4: Physical Interventions: Maintain + Build

sleep centre

Architectural design: 924 N Clark Street, Chicago, IL Studio Project, Illinois Institute of Technology, Spring 2012 Instructor: Lucas Kowalzyk A building’s architecture should not be separate from the people that inhabit it. It has to harmonize with their perspectives and interact with them intimately. My initial response to this project was thus, the interaction of the very different types of people inhabiting a Sleep Centre, and how the intimacy and distribution of this interaction would affect the architecture of the space. Keeping this in mind, the aim was to create a building, that was an elegant yet simple space that broke down into intimate clusters and nurtured a ‘shifting’ form through subtle changes in spaces and light. The building that emerged, as a result of the program has these intimate clusters with spaces eroded in between to let in light and air, but also mainly, to act as acoustical barriers and green spaces. The concrete shear walls of the building have been designed to enhance this ‘shifting’ nature of the building. To juxtapose the concrete, I used wooden partitions and dry walls with sudden punches bringing in light dramatically to create a movement of the walls. Special attention was given to how people would interact with different spaces in the building. The building envelope, designed with an intention to keep the sound out, is an automated wooden louver system supported by a structural glass system. This project is a result of a lot of playfulness, many sketches to figure out how people actually move around in the building, and a lot of effort to create these sudden changes, to make this building an interesting experience for the user.

Proposed Sleep Centre

A concept sketch showing the possible interactions between various people in a Sleep Centre

People!

point of force continues all the way down

Technicians, Nurses and Doctors having some fun!

SHIFTING shear walls

People meeting Doctors

People getting cured! And the SOUND BUFFERS come into play!

The smart guys doing all the research!

More support on the perimeter and two cores on either side

Juxtaposition - Wood

Ta daaa!

Juxtaposition - Dry walls

Development of the building

Lets keep the sound out Structural glass enclosure

Automated Wooden Louvres

Roof Construction 2" concrete screed surface 3 1 4" x 4"sealing membrane 2" polystyrene insulation & vapor barrier 1 4" polythene 9" reinforced concrete

Automated Wooden Louvres: 11" wide, 1" thick wooden louvre inset in a 21" aluminium frame connected to the wooden facade using a metal frame with levers to serve as an automated facade. 6" wide, 21" structural glass connected to a 21" double insulated glass panels with spider clips

6" thk Dry Wall

Site Plan

nurse station

sleep room

Insulation joint 1'6" concrete slab and concrete wall 1 4" flexible vinyl trim 2" mineral fiber staffing 1 2" studs Steel studs and insulation

sleep room

seating space

6" thk Insulated wooden panels 'Midtones' which act as sound insulators and also are fixed with supply air inlets

head tech

seating space

store/service

Ceiling Construction: 24" hvac duct 5" polystyrene insulation 4"' x 4" wooden supports 1" plywood panel

Structural Glazing: 1'6" wide, 1" thick structural glass fin system connected to 1" double insulated glass panels with spider clips 2 41" glass panes with 21" air gap supported by silicon gel 4" x 1' aluminum support clamps attaching the glass fins to the concrete screwed to the structure

lobby B

control room

LEVEL 3 @ +36' 0" 3 scale: 32 " = 1' 0"

C EA Fan room OA

pantry

AHU break room

break room game room T

16' x 15'

seating space

Floor Construction: 2" concrete floor, surface power trowelled,waxed 4" foam glass thermal insulation 9" reinforced concrete floor slab

12' x 16' mechanical room

lobby

meeting room

Wall Section scale = 83" =

Wall Section

Key Floor Plans LEVEL 4 @ +53' 0" 3 scale: 32 " = 1' 0"

AHU

View of the exhibition space

AHU

Section AA

SECTION AA

scale: 1/16” = 1’0”

View of the Patient lobby

An overhead view of the building

Section BB SECTION BB

scale: 1/16” = 1’0”

haiti sustainable education public interest design: Grand Bois, Haiti

Studio Project, Illinois Institute of Technology, Fall 2012 Instructor: Ann Clark On January 12, 2010, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck 10 miles southwest of Port Au Prince, Haiti. Estimates of between 220,000 and 300,000 Haitians were killed and approximately 3.5 million people (9.7 million total population) were displaced from their homes. 4,000 schools had been damaged or destroyed, which represented 80% of the schools in Port Au Prince and 60% of the schools in south and west districts. The studio delved into the culture and history of Haiti through research, reading, listening, and conversations with Haitians, architects and experts who have been on the ground in Haiti and other developing nations, in order to design a boarding school for grades K through 12 for 800 children in a rural area of Haiti near the Dominican border called Grand-Bois. I wanted my school to be a model that would inspire the change in the country itself. The master plan has been developed to be a self-sustainable entity. By self-sustainable, I mean a community that would be able to be economically self-sustainable, and in the long run, help provides an economy for the children and also the local villagers. The school would be a place where the children come when very young, and grow up while living there, learning, playing and growing their own food and cook and eat. The campus is broadly divided into an administrative unit, school, a community kitchen, sports facilities, housing for the children and teachers and the headmasterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house.

View of the school from the entrance

Aerial view of hostels

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Masterplan

Aerial view of the school

Hostel entrance

Community kitchen

art & community space As a part of the development of a master plan for Haiti Sustainable Education, we were asked to develop one of the individual units of the master plan in depth. Building on the concept behind the Masterplan to create an economically self-sustainable Haiti, I included as a part of the program, an Art and Dance Community outreach space. While Music and Dance play a big part in expressing their culture, Art, Painting and Metalworks are some of Haitiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s local consumer trades. The program acts as an art school for the school children which includes sketching, sculpture, papermache works, dance and metal works during the day, and as a part of the community outreach, acts as a vocational school for the local youth where they are trained in the local arts and metal works which would help create a livelihood. Space also includes an open air theater space, exhibition space, and a store that would sell the products made on site.

View of the Art & Community space

Plan

View of the metal works area

Elevation

View of the front theatre/seating space

residence design Architecture: BANGALORE, INDIA

Intern Architect, 2009 Biome Environmental Solutions Ltd., Bangalore, India With Biome, I experimented with earth architecture, worked with Compressed Earth Blocks, Rammed earth and Cob techniques of construction and implemented the practices of Rainwater treatment and Greywater treatment in all design problems. Nature of Work: concept design, Design drawings, Model making and Construction drawings. This design was for the residence of a working couple in Bangalore. The challenge of this design was accommodating all their needs in a small site of 30â&#x20AC;&#x2122; x 50â&#x20AC;&#x2122; dimensions. mud blocks and locally available granite were the primarily used materials.

Level 1

Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

Design drawings - plans, elevations, views

Level 2

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