ARTI VERMA ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO averma515@gmail.com
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ARTI VERMA phone +1(404)-819-0546 email averma515@gmail.com / arti.verma@gatech.edu address 950 Marietta Street NW, Apt 4321, Atlanta GA-30318
EDUCATION:
• GRADUATE DEGREE: Master of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology (Expected Graduation: Spring 2020) Current GPA 3.98 • UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE: Bachelor of Architecture, IES’s College of Architecture, Mumbai (2011- 2016) Graduated with First Class • REGISTERED ARCHITECT Council of Architecture, India (CA/2017/82674)
PROFICIENCY:
AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino, Grasshopper, Diva, Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Indesign, Ilustrator) Sketch Up, Lumion, MS Office, Bluebeam Revu
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Dynamik Design, Atlanta - Project Co-ordinator May 2019 to Present Multifamily, Hospitality, Retail • Contributed towards BIM of various projects on Revit for SD, DD and CD • Conducted front end research, municode studies, site planning & density studies Safdie Architects, Boston - Architectural Extern March 2019 Luxury Hotel, Arena, Waterfront Development • Developed 3D models & physical models for design study & client presentations STUP Consultants, Navi Mumbai - Architect June 2016 to July 2018 Airports, Museums, Convention Centers, Luxury Resorts, IT Parks • Led a team of 6 architects through SD and DD for an International Project in Niger, Africa for which the Project team won the Highest Civilian award of Niger • Lead Architect of the team that won the competition bid for the museum & statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in Mumbai for the Government of India • Co-ordinated with Landscape, Interior, MEP, Civil, Structural, Acoustic consultants, various vendors and fabrication experts on many projects • Contributed to Landscape design, Interior design, Facade design, Master Planning and compilation of Bill of Quantities and Design Basis Reports STUP Consultants, Navi Mumbai - Architectural Intern December 2015 to April 2016 Airports, Museums, Luxury Resorts, Luxury Residential, Icon Bridges • Involved in conceptual study and schematic design, integral part of design team • Developed many client presentations, construction documents and 3D models 3
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CONTENTS WORK EXPERIENCE:
1. Mahatma Gandhi International Conference Center Niamey, Niger, Africa
2. Beach Club
Azaiba, Muscat, Oman
3. Mixed Use Development Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
4. Aerospace Museum: Ticket Complex Delhi, India
GRADUATE WORK
1. Music Rooms at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA Advanced Graduate Design Studio, Fall 2018
2. The Art Factory
Portman Studio, Spring 2019
3. Back to the Future - Colleges - Shape Grammar Design + Research Studio, Fall 2018
4. Open Doors : Reimagining the Future Flourishing Communities Collaborative, Fall 2019
4. School of Music, University of Missouri Construction Technology, Spring 2019
5. CCTV OMA Analysis
Media and Modeling, Fall 2018
6. The Puzzle
Advanced Graduate Design Studio, Fall 2018
7. I Build a Pyramid
Portman Studio, Spring 2019
UNDERGRADUATE WORK 1. Museo Mumbai
Design Dissertation, Fifth Year B.Arch
2. Women’s Welfare Center Design Studio, Spring 2013
3. Urban Dense Housing
Competition Entry, Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
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MAHATMA GANDHI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTER CITY OF NIAMEY, NIGER, AFRICA
Professional Work : STUP Consultants Pvt. Ltd. Project Involvement: Design, Co-ordination and Team Management for Schematic Design and Design Development Project team won the Highest Civilian award of Niger February 2018 too July 2018
The Mahatma Gandhi International Conference Center in Niamey, Niger is a state of the art, world-class Conference Center completed by the end of 2019 for the 33rd Ordinary Session of the Conference of the Heads of States and Government of the African Union gifted by the Ministry of External affairs, Government of India to the Government of Niger. My involvement in this project was from the conceptual design stage to execution drawings. My role was of leadership and co-ordination. I had to manage a team of 6 architects, communicate with the client and co-ordinate with sub consultants and vendors. This was a design-build project with time line of 14 months for construction. Construction started: September 2018 Project Completed: December 2019 Actual photograph: Under Construction
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BEACH CLUB MUSCAT, OMAN
Professional Work : STUP Consultants Pvt. Ltd. Project involvement: Led the schematic design phase. Facade design and details. Coordinated with 3D visualization team foe renders. Part of Client meetings and coordination.
Beach Club at Azaiba, Muscat is a luxury hotel and club for the Government of Oman. It is located in Azaiba along the coastline. The program calls for luxury rooms, gymnasiums, multiple dining facilities, swimming pools and a conference center. I was involved in planning and faรงade design. Single handedly managed the conceptual design and preliminary design stage Current status: Under Construction
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MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA
Professional Work : STUP Consultants Pvt. Ltd. Project involvement: Parametric facade design
This building is a mixed used complex in Jaipur consisting of a Hotel and luxury Residencies. For the Hotel facade, a perforated skin with varying sizes of perforations was devised based on a attractor curve. A typical perforation pattern was designed inspired from Jaipur’s traditional ‘Jalis’. The size of the apertures of the typical perforation pattern was gradually decreased as they moved away from the attractor curve. My involvement in this project required developing a double skin parametric facade for the Hotel Block. The double skin facade was chosen to combat excessive heat gain as the climate in Jaipur is hot.
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TICKET COMPLEX AEROSPACE MUSEUM JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA
Professional Work : STUP Consultants Pvt. Ltd. Project Involvement: Development of Design Options and Execution drawings
The Aerospace Museum in Delhi is a Museum showcasing various aeronautical achievements of India. My involvement also included designing the ticket complex ready for execution. I was involved in the planning and circulation of the same. After basic designing and 3D modeling of the same on Rhino, I had to develop the design further to produce execution level drawings which involved co-ordinating with structural designers, plumbing engineers and various other vendors to deliver a complete design.
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MUSIC REHEARSAL ROOMS GEORGIA TECH CAMPUS, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Advanced Graduate Design Studio, Instructor: Mark Cottle Fall 2018
The brief calls for a modestly scaled free standing pavilion comprised of practice and rehearsal rooms for the School of Music in the Georgia Tech College of Design. The brief required the design to focus on campus strategy, building massing and construction material. The demarcated parcel of land was then analyzed to select the exact location of the design insert in such a way that it proves to be minimally invasive to the existing scenario. The aim of the was to not only retain but also improve the current activities taking place on that parcel of the site. SITE DATA Site Location: Georgia Institute of Technology Campus, Atlanta BUA of design: 7500 sq. ft. (inclusive of outdoor spaces)
DESIGN PROGRAM 10 Practice rooms (2 large, 3 medium, 5 small) 10 corresponding garden spaces Storage Toilets Circulation 27
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THE ART FACTORY BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Advanced Graduate Design Studio, Instructor: Jude Le’Blanc & Alan Organschi Spring 2019
The brief called for exploring the architectural potential of emerging mass timber structural technologies and the technical and environmental implications of material systems and construction assemblies drawn primarily from regionally sourced and renewable, reused, or recycled building products. The program mainly consisted of 3 components: A market, a Community component and 40 units of short stay housing. The site located in Boston, has an unmistakably remarkable view of downtown which has been capitalized on by creating vistas through and from the Public Art World, that sits as a permeable glazed box. Nested at the threshold of the industrial and residential area of South Boston, the design idea responds to the urban context by establishing itself as an Art Factory; a place where art is Manufactured, Stored (displayed) and Purchased. 35
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BACK TO THE FUTURE: COLLEGES BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Graduate Design+ Research Studio, Instructor: Asthanosis Economou Softwares used: Shape Machine for Rhino Fall 2019
In this studio, I was engaged in the expressiveness of the formal system of Shape Machine software developed by the Shape Computation Lab at Georgia Tech and used constructively some of its potential usages in design thinking and making, using the typology - Colleges. The typology selected was analyzed and both building as well as master plan options were generated in Shape Machine on a selected site in India. The master plan options were derived by dividing a single square into various configurations using only two rules under Similarity in Shape Machine. These two rules were used to the extent that they could locate buildings, derive partis, articulate those buildings, place rooms, right up to placement of windows, columns & skylights. A series of Building rules were then used to add the necessary building elements. 43
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OPEN DOORS : RE-IMAGINING THE FUTURE UNITED FIRST METHODIST CHURCH, COLLEGE PARK, GA
Graduate Work: Flourishing Communities Collaborative with Cooper Carry & Good Places Team Project (10 students) under the guidance of Prof. Julie Kim and Prof. Ennis Parker Fall 2019
This class involved studying the College Park First United Methodist Church property and adjacent site with a focus on pre-design, programming, site analysis, conceptual cost estimating, and initial architectural concept. We worked in teams and engaged with the community stakeholders to help determine the project direction for the College Park First United Methodist Church property and adjacent site with guidance from Cooper Carry and Good Places. We were engaged in site, precedent, and program analysis as well as developing an architectural and functional concept for the project. There were several community engagement workshops at the First United Methodist Church as well as public presentations at Georgia Tech. 49
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SCHOOL OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI
Construction Technology: Softwares used: Revit Spring 2019
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In this studio, I was engaged in the expressiveness of the formal system of Shape Machine software developed by the Shape Computation Lab at Georgia Tech and used constructively some of its potential usages in design thinking and making, using the typology - Colleges. The typology selected was analyzed and both building as well as master plan options were generated in Shape Machine on a selected site in India. The master plan options were derived by dividing a single square into various configurations using only two rules under Similarity in Shape Machine. These two rules were used to the extent that they could locate buildings, derive partis, articulate those buildings, place rooms, right up to placement of windows, columns & skylights. A series of Building rules were then used to add the necessary building elements. 55
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System -Facade Exploded View (Diagrid, External Beams and Columns, Glass Partition)
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MEDIA & MODELING: CCTV, OMA ANALYSIS Graduate Work: Group Project with Devanshi Kesaria Softwares Used: Rhino, Grasshopper, Ladybug, Honeybee, Millipede, Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign Fall 2018
This assignment called for analyzing the CCTV building by OMA in Bejing, China by using parametric tools of Grasshopper and Rhino and optimizing the building to compute variations with optimum floor area to facade area ratio.
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Step 01 Deriving square based pyramid Variable Parameter: Height of pyramid =X * Base length
Step 02 Chopping off pyramid cap for void Variable Parameter: Height of slicing plane =X * Base length
Step 03 Cutting void 1 Variable Parameter: Void =Chopped off pyramid / X (Scaled down)
Step 04 Cutting void 2 Variable Parameter: Void =Pyramid / X (Scaled down)
Step 05 Angular Slicing of top Variable Parameter: Slicing plane =(X * Base length) rotated at Y°
Step 06 Resultant Mass Resultant Mass= Pyramid -Void 1 - Void 2 Angular Slice
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The Diagrid forms the majority portion of the facade. The diagrid is a reflection of the stress/ strain that the building faces. It has 3 variants; 12m x 12m, 6m x 6m ans 3m x 3m and is denser in areas that face most load. It is scarce in areas with lesser load
The external beams are aligned with the slabs 4m apart. The external columns are in line with the facade and parallel to the edges of the mass derived from the base pyramid. Due to this, there is a point on each of the vertical facades where the parallel columns from opposite edges converge creating a trapezoid in between them. 61
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THE PUZZLE Advanced Graduate Design Studio, Instructor: Mark Cottle Fall 2018
The brief called for twelve interlocking rooms having a geometric character and specific relationships between them, creating patterns as they fit together into a single smooth volume. These rooms were to follow a strict set of rules. Some such as square footage, stair and ramp slope, and minimum head heights. The exercise required to expand the given rule set in the process of establishing strategies that would explicitly address family relationships among the volumes, organizational strategies and sequences of movement. DESIGN PROGRAM Building Volume : 80’ x 80’ by four stories with Circulation system Building Components : Four “large” volumes, 4800 sq. ft each Four “medium” volumes, 1200 sq. ft each Four “small” volumes, 375 sq. ft each 63
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I BUILD A PYRAMID EXPERIMENTING WITH TIMBER Advanced Graduate Studio: Group Project with Tanya Agarwal & Devanshi Kesaria All parts created from scratch from a block of wood Spring 2019
This project required for experimenting architecturally with wood as a material and its capacity to control the flow of different forms of energy: here, the amplification of daylight. Through that experimentation, we drew some physical conclusions about the capacity of architecture to act as an interface between an energy source and its physiological reception. THE PROBLEM: A standard 2” X 3.5” business card to be read by a single viewer with two separate apertures: 1. A viewing aperture, through which the card on the interior of the enclosure can be read from the exterior 2. A day-lighting aperture, which illuminates the business card sufficiently for the text (assume a variety of font
types and sizes) to be easily legible. The day-lighting aperture must be invisible from the viewing aperture and must be at least as far from the card as the viewing aperture. The business card’s position relative to the viewing aperture must take into account the focal length of healthy (or optically corrected) human eyes. 67
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Assignment 1: Light- Devanshi Kesaria | Arti Verma | Tanya Agarwal
Assignment 1: Light- Devanshi Kesaria | Arti Verma | Tany Assignment 1: Light- Devanshi Kesaria | Arti Verma | Tanya Agarwal
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MUSEO MUMBAI BANDRA KURLA COMPLEX MUMBAI, INDIA
Undergraduate Design Dissertation: Fifth Year B.Arch Softwares Used: AutoCAD, Photoshop, InDesign, Rhino, Grasshopper, Kerkythea, Key Shot Fall 2015- Fall 2016
An Iconic City Museum with culture & entertainment facilities to exhibit the spirit of the city & its people. Our sight forms the threshold for viewing a city. However, this view primarily been restricted to the worm’s eye. We fail to see the panorama, the bigger picture. It is necessary to provide a platform to aid the shifting of this mono-centric view to a social centric one. And what better way than a piece of architecture, a symbol of the city that will be a constant physical reminder for the same. SITE DATA Site Location: Mumbai Site Area: 37,500 sq. m. BUA of design: 31,400 sq. m.
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WOMEN’S WELFARE CENTER DADAR, MUMBAI, INDIA
Undergraduate Design Studio: Third Year B.Arch Representation Method: Hand drafting Rendering Medium: Color Pencils Spring 2013
The brief called for redesigning a Community Centre, and upgrading it to a Women Welfare Centre along with revitalizing its existing activities. The design solution involved creating an icon displaying the identity of women & catering to the strong context it lies in. SITE DATA Location: Dadar, Mumbai Site Area: 5,500 sq. m. BUA of design: 7,000 sq. m.
DESIGN PROGRAM Marriage & Banquet Hall (existing) Badminton Court (existing) Swimming pool (proposed) Gym, Yoga, Aerobics (proposed)
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URBAN DENSE HOUSING MUMBAI, INDIA
National Association of Students of Architecture: HUDCO Competition My Involvement: Team Leader (Team of 20) Along with being a crucial part in design, my role involved creating a report document of 15-20 pages stating the research work behind the design. My role also involved management and co-ordination of the team. Dec 2014 - Jan 15
The competition brief required creating innovative affordable housing design solutions catering to the Economically Weaker Section (EWS), Low Income Group (LIG), Middle Income Group (MIG) and the High Income Group (HIG) in the country. The chosen site was located in Mumbai as Mumbai is one of the most common cities in India where there is a dearth of affordable housing. The main form of the design was derived from the floor plates of the built form which was designed in a curved layout. This considerably decreases the lateral movement of the building, which in turn increased its seismic strength.
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