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THE METROPOLIS OF TOMORROW

Model kits from outside architecture are a special kind of model. They have the dual quality of both -being kits pf parts that make a ‘scale’ model, but the ‘set’ is also crucial to the overall understanding of the thing.

The design project is to make a model as an end product to use it as a method for producing architecture. It focuses on the strange scale effects that are germane to models,and project these into everyday reality in a variety of ways. Strange scales, mixed resolution, toy-like qualities and strange componentry comes into play as the project develops into a real-scale building design.

SCI-Arc | Spring 2020 Instructor : Tom Wiscombe

DESIGN PROCESS |

The project is inspired from Hugh Ferris’ sketches and his imagination of an ideal city of the future with skyscrapers placed well apart from each other, broad avenues and a coherent organization of building typologies.

The alternate version of the mega-city is imagining Hugh Ferris’s buildings as a compressed version or a mat. The voids created make room for adding parts to form a new scheme for interiors.

Special care is given to the orientation, scale and detail of parts in the kit, with tricks like duplication of parts, spare parts, missing parts and multiple scales to activate a ‘curated’ collection of things.

THE TOY KIT |

Parts of the model are designed and detailed in ways that makes them lively and alien. The kit can be seen as a hyper-object which is not built from the precedent study at all but rather suggests an alternate, unfamiliar reality.

The mega-city model is generated like series of cities enclosed in box. This proposal seeks to imagine this city as a toy where the building parts click and lock to assemble or disassemble to showcase the dual characteristics of the building.

OBM HEADQUARTERS |

For METROPOLIS OF TOMORROW V2 OBM EXTENSION mega-city model is scaled down to form an office complex and New York skyline takes the form of the ceiling. The form of the base of OBM Headquarters is derived from the geometry of Hugh Ferris’s buildings and model kit produced earlier.

The project considers the kit models as mega-building which acts like a shell, and the interior is treated with inner liners to add a dual effect to the structure.

1. Entry

2. Open Office

3. Open Small Conference Area

4. Personal Office Space

5. Recreational Area

6. Auditorium

7. Enclosed Soundproof Zone

8. Elevator

9. Restroom

10. Coffee

11. Hot Desk

OBM headquarters showing the inner liners

Plan showing the office interiors

THE SECTION HOUSE

SCI-Arc | Fall 2018 Instructor - John Enright

This project proposes utilizing unused land above sunken train tracks within the city of Paris to create affordable Pre-fabricated Housing that uses trains as primary delivery method of construction materials, reducing construction costs.

Logistics is a major concern for a city like Paris which is dense and does not have a spare space in any area, wealthy or otherwise.

In this project, as the complete site is above railway tracks with prefabricated construction technology, all modules can be brought by trains to the location and lifted onto the site, which saves the city from being affected because of construction and keeping all the logistics away.

DESIGN PROCESS |

This design proposes a housing complex on land which is partially used in the city of Paris. Being above rail tracks allows for easy transportation of materials to assemble the structure. This design ideology can help in creating more A A combination of 1 – 2 Bedroom, 2 – 1 Bedroom and 1 – Studio apartment are designed as a tessellation which can be repeated linearly above the railway tracks. The voids on the ground floor are treated as commercial spaces and the voids on the upper floors are social spaces for residents.

Pre-fabricated parts transported through railways and assembled on site

Studio Apartment Module

One Bed Apartment Module

One Bed Apartment Module

Two Bed Apartment Module

DESIGN |

If we see the map of Paris, it clearly contains 5 huge patches of land allocated for railways. All these train routes end right before entering the center of the city. This project controls the rising costs of housing in the sub-urban areas and allowing for affordable living.

The Section House is a prototype model placed along the “Rue de Rome” in the 17th arrondissement as an example of how the project might look in different parts of the city.

The design has 132 apartments comprising of both single and multi family dwelling units within a span of 100mtrs. With the same design process, the number of units can be extended to 12000 units with no land costs.

NEW ATLANTA CENTRAL LIBRARY

SCI-Arc | Spring 2019 Instructor - Jackilin Hah Bloom

The library is a 40000 sqft structure that gives a civic presence on the street. The library features communal spaces for instruction, digital collaboration, technology support, and educational events and exhibits. For reading, flexibility is a core design principle.

Spaces are engineered for separate groups of users with different needs – each user wanting a customized reading experience for him. The library allows people to select the environment and tools that work best for them. It has large open stocks/ shelves for users who prefer to read a printed book and also a digital management and filing system for those who want to read an e-book.

ELEVATION

This library will be both; familiar and surprising, massive yet minimal. It will be a grand space with vast window looking into the landscape and the future. It will be a comfortable room with a view in which to learn and to grow, a place to answer a question, engage an idea, a place to riff on life as it is or daydream about life as it could be. The design and location of the library embraces the opportunity by creating an urban plaza and positions the vibrant, active library spaces to the community. The library will thus be a macro level project holding intellectually diverse people, knowledge and information; individual experiences in a cohesive environment.

PLANS |

The massing of the library started by taking two different containers: a mother board being a carrier of information and a water floater being a tube of air. These two dissimilar objects were explored in unisonmotherboard replicating a digital analogous system creating interesting voids for light and scooping out major functional areas. The floater containers blend with these voids, enhancing fluidity in the structure and breaking the monotonous cubic-look of the structure.

URBAN COMPLEXITIES

SCI-Arc | Fall 2018 Instructor - Casey Rehm

Urban Complexities, is an elevated sculptural garden as an extension to the plaza of MOCA in Downtown Los Angeles. The project aims to exemplify contemporary urban complexities through a hyperdense urbanism. The experience through this dense urban space, derives from the paradigm of traditional English sculptural gardens. The project rethinks how art is displayed in the contemporary age of social media, where the experience is just as important as the art. This gives an experience of informal engagement, allowing the viewer to see art with a complexity of backgrounds. Planes are used to isolate pieces of art, developing more engaging user paths within the urban garden.

DESIGN PROCESS |

The site is infilled with components allowing the design to have complexity within itself. The design comprises of 3 modular components which formulate an elevated platform. The components are - egress tower, structural decking, and an isolation wall. The tower acts as a conjoining element in the design where it showcases as an entry to the exhibition space. As we see the design, the components are growing towards the tower. This is achieved by developing an agent network with the tower being the attraction point, for the agents, furthermore manifesting the urban sculpture garden. This defines design as an addition to MOCA. As a transition into the next era of architecture, the design blends with the present structural ideology evolving into a network of modular components.

GARDEN VIEW |

DETAILED DOCUMENT

SCI-Arc | Fall 2019 Instructor - Herwig

This project investigates issues related to the implementation of design: technology, the use of materials, systems integration, and the archetypal analytical strategies of force, order and character. It reviews basic and advanced construction methods, analysis of building codes, the design of Structural and Mechanical systems, Environmental systems, Buildings service systems, the development of building materials and the integration of building components and systems. The intent of this project is to communicate complex building systems for the built environment and to demonstrate the ability to document a comprehensive architectural project.

Baumgartner

MATERIAL ANALYSIS |

GFRC Panels (Red)

AUDITORIUM CHUNK

GFRC Cladding

Low E-coated glass curtain wall

Seating Assembly (as per specs)

Low E-coated glass curtain wall

GFRC Panel (Light Grey)

Champagne Anodized Aluminum reveal

READING HALL CHUNK

Kinetic square shading device

Colored concrete in-situ staircase

Colored concrete in-situ landscape

Aluminum framework for glass

Concrete topping slab

Converging system or Escalator

Framed guardrail with aluminum finish

PANEL ASSEMBLY |

MECHANICAL ASSEMBLY

• Horizontal glass spandrel

• Wire cable support

• Cable attachment

• Vertical structural glass spandrel

• Clevis attachment for glass spandrel

• Low E-coated glass

• Titanium extrusion

• Translucent Fabric

• Spiral Joint system

• Frame extrusion

• Stiffening rods

• Clevis attachment

• Rubber gasket

• Gear Bearing

• Metal couplings

• Pivot Barings

• Mechanical Rotar

Electronically powered Kinetic shading device attached to wire cable

• Coated aluminum sheet

• Translucent Fabric

• Spiral joint system

• Frame extrusion

• Stiffening rods

• Clevis attachment

• Rubber gasket

• Gear bearing

• Metal couplings

• Pivot barings

• Mechanic rotar

• Coated aluminum sheet

FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON

SCI-Arc | Fall 2018 Instructor - Maxi Spina and Randy Jefferson

The project is a transformation of a chunk transformation of Fondation Louis Vuitton by Frank O’ Gehry.

The transformation proposes replacement of existing glass sails with ETFE panels. Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene(ETFE) is a high strength plastic polymer which is design to have a strong corrosion and heat resistance. When used in pneumatic panels, ETFE becomes a great roof material. The plastic is self cleaning and recyclable, decreasing the amount of maintenance needed. The material is lightweight and can span longer distances than glass, decreasing the amount of structure needed to support the panels.

ENVELOPE ASSEMBLY

Envelope system

Aluminum mullions connect timber frame to aluminum glass mullions

Secondary system

Steel beams connect from interior concrete slabs to additional steel support and timber frame

Primary system

Concrete and columns connect to underground foundation

Top Aluminum Mullion

Tempered Glass Glazing

Bottom Aluminum

Timber Beam Frame

Trusses

Glass - sail pull-away

Top Aluminum Mullion

6mm Tempered Glass

Sealant

1.52mm layer with 50% opacity reflective white frit

Aluminum Mullion

Timber Beam Frame Steel Joint

Steel beam

Glass - sail cross section

Design Development

Terrace

Retention Basin

Iceberg pull-away

Iceberg cut-away

Slip cable

ETFE panel

Steel chair

Steel chair

Air intake value

Inflation Supply duct

Diagrid Aluminum pipe

Slip cable

Concrete foundation walls

ETFE panel

Steel chair

Aluminum mullion

ETFE aluminum mullions

With ETFE we can decrease the thickness of the sails structure, giving Fondation Louis Vuitton a more lightweight aesthetic. The reduction in Structure allows for visitors to have a clear view Paris and the surrounding Park. The use of fabric ETFE panels relates to the Fondation Louis Vuitton and the company’s program.

ETFE Panels

Design Development

Terrace

Retention Basin

THE SEXY CHAIR

SCI-Arc | Fall 2018 Instructor - Dwayne Oyler

This project explore new possibilities by combining two mobile modes.

The dark wood chair is drawn slowly from the smooth white wall, and then rotated so that people can sit on its surface. The contrast surprises people and makes it interesting. This is a design from details to the whole, the appearance of the chair changes with our mobile system, which let the details generate the design rather than the details assist the design.

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WORKING MODEL

Slide and rotate mechanisms of movable chairs are combined in this project which is embedded in the wall. Slide and ball bearing are directly connected by bolt. The design focuses on how to hide the hardware and to maintain its continuity and integrity. We cover slide with a ‘U’ Shape to make this mechanism a whole. The chair that comes off the wall are seen as part of the wall, and this can be seen in the curves of the wood that are nested within each other.

LA/G WRP PERSONNEL BUILDINGS

PHYSICAL MODEL |

INCREMENTAL HOUSING

AS YOU GO’

Sushant School of Art and Architecture | Thesis 2016

The project explores the idea of incremental housing as a solution to rapid urbanization and demands of the society. The ambition is a new alternative highrise residential typology, in which its inhabitants are given unique units and allocations in accordance to specific zoning strategy within a tower structure, thus creating a phenomenal living experience through bonding and acquiring needs by each and every single individual. It is a reinterpretation of the balance between generosity and specificity aiming at formulating an extraordinary democratic living concept. The design process is unique and could be developed as a model to tackle rapid urban growth in cities.

INDIVIDUAL UNIT WORKING |

The proposal is a plug-in system where the modules when assembled create a living unit which can be moved from one place to the other. This is specially favorable for the working class population in metropolitan cities.

Today, the ideology of group housing is changing. In this project, an attempt is made to use the traditional courtyard system in a contemporary way. The central courtyard acts as an interactive zone/family zone.

The section demonstrates the various addon modules which can be incorporated in the module as the requirements change or taste demands.

One Bedroom Apartment

Two Bedroom Apartment

Three Bedroom Apartment

Typical Floor Plan

The structure of the building is not affected by the plugging in and out of the apartments. The structure of each module of a unit is put together using rectangular hollow steel sections and other contemporary materials. Constructions cranes can be proposed as a permanent part of the building, thus adding a new room or replace parts that had worked out with a better product.

THE COURTYARD HOUSE

Sushant School of Art and Architecture | Fall 2015

The aim is to develop a Mixed Use complex including residential, commercial and retail zones based upon the study of site on the factors of growing need for commercial spaces in nearby areas which fail to cater to the growing population needs. Each individual unit in the housing tower is unique in itself because of its placement strategies. The design is proposed such that people living in an apartment also get the comfort, luxury and feeling of a bungalow in a highly chaotic city such as New Delhi. The design aims to uplift the traditional courtyard system and contemporarise it as per modern needs and demands.

INDIVIDUAL UNIT |

The towers are designed in such a way that all circulations are centralized and each house acts like a villa. The idea is to use the traditional courtyard system in a unique way. Each apartment unit is cantilevered from the central core tower. The design of the structure allows for natural light and ventilation, with no obstructions in views

One Bedroom Apartment

Three Bedroom Apartment

Two Bedroom Apartment

HERITAGE WALK, HUSSAINABAD

Internship at Archohm Consults, New Delhi, 2017

Heritage Walk- Hussainabad, Lucknow, India, is a heritage city that presents a multi-layered pastvestiges of which still route contemporary life . It has a specific set of challenges in its urban renewal programme.

The comprehensive development has been proposed along a clear 1.3 kilometer linear stretch that has at one end-the Chota Imambara, at the other-the Bada Imambara and a series of monuments dotting the in-between.

MASTERPLAN |

Museum Building

Museum Building

FLOOR PLANS |