PORTFOLIO AT H A R VA
R A N A D E
Fueled with an interest in Computation, Data Science and Neural Networks, I am looking to enter the professional industry to help improve its methodologies of working with data and bring a new perspective to design using machine learning techniques. I would like to use my experience gained at previous internships to build a platform where ‘machine’, design and the human intersect to make a productive world.
EDUCATION MSD - Advanced Architecture Design [MSD: AAD] University of Pennsylvania Aug 2019 - Dec 2020 GPA: 3.96 Research Area: Topological Structural Optimization, Robotics, Neural Networks
Bachelor of Architecture [B.ARCH] Virginia Tech Aug 2018 - May 2019 GPA: 3.61
(540) 449 6699 atharvaranade4@gmail.com issuu.com/atharvaranade linkedin.com/in/atharvaranade
EXPERIENCE 06/2020 - 08/2020 NYC, New York
ACHIEVEMENTS KOHN PEDERSEN FOX [ KPF ]
UPenn: Pressing Matters Publication
Intern - High-Rise Residential Studio
Spring 2020 Project selected in annual University publication 05/2020 Uni. of Pennsylvania
Intern - Mixed-Use Commercial 05/2018 - 08/2018 NYC, New York
GENSLER Intern - Aviation + Transportation Studio
Graduate School Academic Scholarship
01/2018 - 05/2018 Chicago, Illinois
STUDIO GANG
Excellence in academics in school 08/2019 Uni.of Pennsylvania
06/2017 - 08/2017 Chicago, Illinois
AECOM
06/2016 - 08/2016 University of Pennsylvania
Graduate Research [ Robotics Lab ]
Travel Scholarship Award 08/2017 Virginia Tech
Research Volunteer - ‘Site-Less’ House Project [ CEMEX ]
Dean’s List
COURSES
Intern - Civic + Impact Studio
Intern - Sports + Recreation Studio
Walter & Helen. H Beal Scholarship
Cumulative GPA > 3.6 2014 - 2019 Virginia Tech
[ selected ]
Undergraduate 3rd-Year Competition
08/2018 - 12/2018 Virginia Tech
Introduction to Computational Design
01/2019 - 05/2019 Virginia Tech
Material Processes [Robotics]
08/2020 - 12/2020 University of Pennsylvania
Geo-spatial Data Science
CERTIFICATIONS
Data Science, ArcGIS, Machine Learning | Python
AI Programming with Python
01/2020 - 05/2020 University of Pennsylvania
Robotic-Driven Carbon-Fiber Weaving
UDACITY | Nanodegree 07/2020
01/2020 - 05/2020 University of Pennsylvania
Baroque Parameters - LiDAR Scanning
08/2019 - 12/2019 University of Pennsylvania
Visual Literacy
Python Scripting | Processing
Runner-Up Award | Project Partner: Savannah Ward 03/2018 Virginia Tech
TACO ABB | Visose
TACO ABB | Raspberry Pi | Micro-controllers
Point Cloud Meshing | FARO
Hybrid Drawings | Technique and Representation
Data Science for Construction, Architecture & Engineering edX | National University of Singapore [ NUS ] 08/2020
Baroque Undulation ARCH 700: Research Seminar Point Cloud Mesh Modeling | LiDAR 3D-Scanning
STUDIO 01 POLYVALENT MATTER
06 - 17
704 Additive Manufacturing Studio University of Pennsylvania
02 POST-INDUSTRIAL UPS HUB
18 - 31
MSD: AAD Asset Architecture Ongoing Research University of Pennsylvania
03 MIX - USE URBAN DEVELOPMENT
31 - 39
Studio Gang Architects [ Work :: Study ] Virginia Tech
PROJECTS 04 AGENT BASED ROBOTIC WEAVING
40 - 45
700 Research Seminar University of Pennsylvania
05 STRUCTURAL COMPUTATION
46 - 49
600 Computation Seminar Virginia Tech
06 IOT + IEQ DATA ANALYSIS
50 - 55
Independent Project edX NUS
07 IMAGES PRODUCED USING AI 701 Artificial Intelligence Studio University of Pennsylvania
56 - 57
POLYVALENT MATTER ONGOING RESEARCH - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, SHAPEWAYS, NYC ARCH 704 STUDIO [ 01/2020 - 05/2020 ] ROBERT STUART-SMITH
In collaboration with David Forrero, Ruxin Zheng
The studio investigates additive manufactured architecture. Design research involves the development of industrial robot manufacturing methods and technologies. Design and building tectonics are formulated with an understanding of how additive manufacturing is achieves both structural and visually language a large scale project. The project proposes an additively manufactured car factory. The internal space and structure is informed through topological structural optimization followed by remodeling soft-forms using Autodesk Maya. The enclosure takes the metaphor of a car with its slender and directional articulation. The exterior articulation is developed using resultant stress curves and follows a tectonic hierarchy, which challenges traditional architectural detailing. Roof, wall and floor connections and redefined with sinuous forms that connect emerge from the interior of the building and complete the exterior facade.
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Facade: Directionality and Program The exterior facade achieves a sense of directionality as it moves from the front of the factory to the rear. Thin articulation is varying densities allows for opening to view outside the factory.
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Site Engagement: Public Plaza + Showroom The exterior facade of the factory offsets from the sidewalk and creates a central public plaza which serves as a outdoor showroom for cars. Reset entrances welcome the observer towards the central core of the building.
Design | Computation | Robotics
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Challenging a contemporary Maison Domino An additive manufactures process of construction offers a contemporary re-definition to the ‘Maison-Domino’. It challenges the architectural tectonics of floor-slab and stair by proposing a sinuous continuity of structure and form .
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Design | Computation | Robotics
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Automated Articulation: Automated Stress-Strain Analysis through a grasshopper script and millipede
Reflected Ceiling Plan: Articulation An automated grasshopper script uses millipede stress curves to generate structural material deposition tool-paths which act as both structure and articulation.
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Parallel Curves Density: 50
Concave Curves Density: 100
Grasshopper: Hyper-parameters
Convex Curves Density: 75
3D articulation with offsets Density: 300
Articulation Parameters The script is tested on curves of different builds and densities. Offset values projects the curves out of the plane and creates a weaving pattern.
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Programmatic chunks Selected chunks of spaces show enclosure, program, egress and structure.
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Hybridizing architecture building elements The facility challenges hybrid structural conditions. Columns, walls, stairs and handrails can now be printed as a part of one continuous material deposition process.
Design | Computation | Robotics
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POST-INDUSTRIAL UPS HUB NYC ONGOING RESEARCH - ASSET ARCHITECTURE, ALI RAHIM MSD: AAD ADVANCE STUDIO [ 08/2019 - 12/2019 ] NATHAN HUME, ALI RAHIM
In collaboration with Gao Sijie, Zhong Zhe
The project is an ongoing research into ‘Asset Architecture’ by Ali Rahim. This ongoing research derives its principles and design parameters by studying the service industry and economic framework of the city of New York. A UPS hub is studied through the lens of an urban fabric intervention in Manhattan. The building challenges a new typology into the Manhattan skyline - namely, “post-industrial”, where New York is held responsible for the emergence of service industries like logistics and manufacturing. The project challenges how such commodities fit within the realm of architecture discourse. The UPS hub questions iconic glass facades, where packages can have the ability to impart kinetics to the outer shell of the building. Inter-locking office and logistics spaces gives rise to contemporary office floor plan layouts while the two spaces seek and push and pull each other and create a sense of heterogeneity and juxtaposition. Lastly, the New York’s urban block condition is challenged through lifting the building off the ground, where loading docks descend and create public spaces of interaction.
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Contextual Engagement The site is located in the existing UPS facility in Manhattan. The site has consists of two vertical blocks of the city in the West Soho neighborhood.
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Urban Language The facility challenges a new industrial typology in the city of New York by proposing movement of packages on the envelope of the building.
Design | Computation | Robotics
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Logistic Systems
Office Spaces
Recreation + Services
A plinth condition Lifting off the ground
Staggered and embedded office Spaces The facility challenges a new typology of staggered office spaces where offices get a visual connection to multiple levels and the logistic spaces around them.
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Office space as an organism Package movement, conveyor belts, elevators, people, robots and trucks makes a production ‘organism’ with an industrial typology. It proposes a living factory where human and non-human (machines) interact.
Design | Computation | Robotics
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Physical Model: Color - Abstraction of Materiality 2 feet x 2 feet x 1.5 feet completely 3D printed model assembly showcases the layered facade systems and the interplay between indoor and outdoor working environment.
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2.5 feet
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Interlocked - Office and Logistics The office floor plan demonstrates the interlocking geometry between workspaces and logistic systems. Cafes, break-rooms and restrooms are integrated within the floor typology.
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Design | Computation | Robotics
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Layered Elevation Color used in the elevation is an abstract representation of concrete, steel and glass. Logistic systems create chunks of geometries on the facade, while an elevated plinth neutralizes the juxtaposition between office spaces and logistic units.
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Design | Computation | Robotics
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Section shows a filigree of functions The filigree of indoor and outdoor spaces demonstrates both the efficiency and the inter-connectedness of the two systems. The long section shows the movement of movement between human and in-human spaces.
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Design | Computation | Robotics
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URBAN MIX-USE DEVELOPMENT STUDIO GANG ARCHITECTS [ WORK :: STUDY ] SPRING 2018 [ 01/2018 - 04/2018 ] CHIP VON WEISE, MELISSA LONG, CORBIN KEECH
In collaboration with Alec Smith
The project is a mix-use development in the neighborhood of Wicker Park along the north branch of Chicago river, 3 miles from Downtown. The site occupies an irregular trapezoid geometry that borders CTA Blue Line, 606 highline extension (proposed), Chicago river, and two street intersection. Its proximity to transit makes it a desirable place to develop, and has the potential to make a community with hyper-connection and high energy. The site is located in the industrial district zone of Chicago and is free from the Chicago road grid. The mix use development engages the site by drawing a physical grid from its immediate context. The Chicago grid is then superimposed onto the site to create a dichotomy of a working narrative that attempts to reveal the qualities of the overlap. The project is rapidly developed in a professional office setting in collaboration with real community members as well as architects, engineers, and urban planners in the city to critique the project.
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Design | Computation | Robotics
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Modularity: Chicago Grid
Arbitrary: Site Grid
Social and Formal Overlap
Analysis of Grid Systems The overlapping of grid systems provide a base for making decisions on the form of the development. The dominant avenues define more prominent site features, such as the extension of the 606 into the site, and the orientation of buildings.
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Design | Computation | Robotics
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Lobby - Heterogeneity of spaces The ground floor plan shows the physical manifest of the dichotomy present between the two grids. Chicago Grid is abstract, and homogeneous in its nature while the site grid is arbitrary and hierarchical.
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606 (Extension) Commercial Tower 01 200
Commercial Tower 02 100 0
Waterfront
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Urban Plaza
Residential Tower 01
Retail Spaces
Residential Tower 02
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606 (Trail)
Intersecting programs governed by two grid systems Site plan demonstrates the overlap of the four high-rise towers onto the retail spaces. The 606 is extended into the site to form a connecting link between the four rooftop retail spaces.
Design | Computation | Robotics
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Thermal Isokorb - concrete Thermal Isokorb - steel Metal C - Channel Metal anchor ties
Insulated Glass
Limestone Cap Metal Tie
Amenity Space
Outer Brick Veneer Metal Stud Batt Insulation Butt Glazed Insulation Concrete Floor Spandrel Beam
Apartment Units - Heterogeneity in Homogeneity The ground floor plan shows the physical manifest of the dichotomy present between the two grids. Chicago Grid is abstract, and homogeneous in its nature while the site grid is arbitrary and hierarchical.
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Modularity of grid systems The amenity space shows the duality of the grid. It is the manifest of heterogeneity in homogeneity. The amenity floor can be considered as a city block where multiple modules come together to form larger public space.
Design | Computation | Robotics
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AGENT-BASED ROBOTIC WEAVING PYTHON - GRASSHOPPER SPRING 2020 [ 01/2018 - 05/2020 ] UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | INSTRUCTOR: EZIO BLASETTI
In collaboration with Andrew Billingsley and Patrick Danahy
This is a research project and tackles computation, robotics and topological optimization challenges. Based on the premise of topological optimization, or in other words, making a form with the least volume and surface area, the project demonstrates a robotic-driven weaving process which uses the least amount of material. The project can be broken down into three parts. The first part uses a topologically optimized form derived from a universal solver algorithm which is then tested for its structural capabilities. The second part breaks down the form into portions which can then be robotic-woven as modules. The final part proposes a wandering agent closet path seeking script which automates the tool-tip of the robot and creates a weaving pattern. The project is studied and simulated virtually and needs to be tested at real scale using robotic fabrication.
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Design | Computation | Robotics
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Topological Optimization A simple block is tested multiple times with even load distribution and constraints. The resulting form is then remodeled and broken down to be tested for strain, stress and deflection
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Extracting planes for automation The resultant form is broken down into fragments which are then used as 2D and 3D planes for a grasshopper-python based wandering agent script.
Design | Computation | Robotics
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Wandering Agent simulation Two agents are allowed to ‘wander’ about the plane and seek the closest distance of travel to reduce length of tool path. Each agent is constantly informed by the other’s location. Together a weaving pattern is generated.
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Robotic weaving simulation The tool-path created with the agents is tested with a custom robotic-weaving tool. Robotic arms are simulated locally to check for collision and node-wrapping constraints.
Design | Computation | Robotics
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STRUCTURAL COMPUTATION KANGAROO - GRASSHOPPER COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN | FALL 2018 [ 09/2018 - 10/2018 ] VIRGINIA TECH | INSTRUCTOR: MARTIN ANGST
In collaboration with Evan McIver, Santiago Sanchez
The project uses a computation methodology to transform a physical model into a digital model. Computational tools such as Grasshopper, Processing, and Kangaroo Plugin are used to transform physical constraints into digital parameters. The investigation forces a streamlined approach and helps create specific workflows between softwares to increase efficiency and output quality. Firstly, basic tools in illustrator are used to map constraints followed by image trace to compute the parameters of the constraints. These parameters are manipulated using kangaroo and lunch-box plug-ins in grasshopper to create a digital model with high accuracy.
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Physical Model
Digital Model
Design | Computation | Robotics
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Move the point along the periphery of each sub-division
Adjusting the number of sub-divisions while keeping height constant
Digital Mapping The physical model is fed into Image Trace to map out the location of each of the dowels and the nodes. This analysis is run into grasshopper which uses the data from the image trace to create a three-dimensional mesh.
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The placement of the dowel
Height of the dowel
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The thickness of the dowel 2
Digital script with parameters A Grasshopper script is formulated using three constraints present in the physical model-- Placement of the glass dowels within the grid lattice, thickness of each of the dowel and the height of the dowel act as parameters.
Design | Computation | Robotics
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IOT + IEQ DATA ANALYSIS PYTHON - PANDAS - SCI-KIT LEARN DATA ANALYSIS PROJECT | 07/2020 EDX NUS | INSTRUCTOR: CLAYTON MILLER
Individual project
This project uses a set of 500+ time-series meter data from buildings. It also uses outdoor temperature data obtained from an IEQ dataset. This data is obtained through the Building Data Genome Project. The following link includes an overview of data sets, sources, and publications that use the data set: https://github.com/buds-lab/the-building-data-genomeproject The project is coded completely in Google Colab, using python programming language. The packages used are Pandas, MatplotLib, Seaborn and Sci-kit Learn for machine learning. The project is broken down into 4 parts: Data Wrangling Importing raw data followed by transforming and mapping data with an intent of making it appropriate for analytics. Data Analysis Process of transforming and modeling data to discover useful information. Data Visualization An important part for an architect or designer and deals with the visual and graphical representation of information. Data Prediction or Machine Learning Extending the knowledge and information procured to make future analysis and speculations.
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Design | Computation | Robotics
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Data Wrangling Electric metered data and outdoor temperature data is gathered and cleaned. ‘NaN’ or null values are removed.
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Concatenating Datasets The temperature data from the weather data-set is concatenated with the meter data. This creates concurrent columns with common timestamp index.
Design | Computation | Robotics
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Visualization for analysis Meter Data is plotted against Temperature (C). The above(1) scatter plot shows all values while the above(3) scatter plot shows an average value for each day. The above(3) plot uses the seaborn library to show a more detailed and comprehensive analysis.
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Making Predictions Supervised learning machine learning technique uses linear regressing, dummy variables and one-hot encoding to find predicted (orange) values. These values are then compared against the true (blue) values.
Design | Computation | Robotics
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IMAGES PRODUCED USING AI ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FALL 2020 [ 08/2020 - ONGOING ] EUROPE
In collaboration with Sharvari Mhatre
Project examines images processing and visualization aided with artificial intelligence. The process uses a training set of images ( 1000 images ) to train a neural network and produce similar looking bur ‘fake’ images. The produced images are assessed through quality, light, expression, articulation and form. The process uses machine learning algorithms, neural networks and style transfer algorithms to create a visual palette.
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Villa Hadriana, TIvoli
SANAA Rolex Center, Lausanne
Castel Grande, Italy
Ricardo Bofill Office, Barcelona
Ronchamp, France
Pompidou Center, Paris
Calatrava Train Station, Spain
San Gimignano, Italy
Compidoglio Piazza, Rome
Portfolio | Selected Works
Champs-Elysees Urban Sketch, Paris
The Vatican Sketch, Vatican City
Duomo de Sienna, Sienna
Museum Querini Stampalia, Venice
Olivetti Store, Venice
Castel Vecchio, Verona
Laussane Cathedral, Laussane
Pantheon, Rome
Caixa Forum, Madrid
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Atharva Ranade atharvaranade4@gmail.com (540)-449-6699