Work Samples 2013- 2017
Deep Chaniara Graduate Student | Masters in Architecture + Masters in Urban Design | Iowa State University
DEEP CHANIARA Phone: (612)-707-3657 Email: deep13@iastate.edu Website: www.deepchaniara.com Address: #22, 1019 Delaware Ave, Ames, IA 50014
EDUCATION
Master of Architecture + Master of Urban Design (Dual Major) College of Design, Iowa State University, Ames, USA Bachelors of Architecture Faculty of Architecture, S.C.E.T., V.N.S.G.U. , Surat, INDIA
2016- expected 2018 2010- 2015
WORK EXPERIENCES
Teaching Assistant- Prof. Kimberly Zarecor ARCH 222- History of Architecture II ARCH 321- History of American Cities Freelancer Architect, Ahmedabad, INDIA Internship at Hiren Patel Architects (HPA), Ahmedabad, INDIA
COMPETITION ENTRIES
Spring 2017 Fall 2016 July 2015- June 2016 2014
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ULI- Hines Design Competition
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COTE Competition
2016
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Green Design Competition by Indian Green Building Council
2014
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Annual NASA Design Competition (Shortlisted entry in top 25) Nari Gandhi Trophy- NASA (Citation entry at National Level) La-Journal Design Competition by Landscape Foundation of India
2013
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Louis I. Kahn – L.I.K. Trophy- NASA AutoDesk B.I.M. Competition (2nd winning entry at zonal level)
2012
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Annual NASA (National Association for Students of Architecture) Design Competition (Shortlisted entry in top 5)
2011
SKILLS
Softwares AutoCAD, Revit Architecture, Google Sketch up, Adobe- Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Microsoft- Word, Excel, PowerPoint Administrative Project administration, Office resource, Taking minutes, Preparing agendas, Confidentiality issues, Data mining
MEMBERSHIPS
COA - Register Architect at Council of Architecture, India (# CA/ 2015/ 73033) IIA - Associate member at Indian Institute of Architects (# A21026) AIA - Student Affiliate at American Institute of Architects, Iowa Chapter
CONTENT SENIOR COMMUNITY LIVING
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NORTH LANDING
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VACATION HOUSE
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CAMPUS INNOVATION CENTER
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WEEKEND HOUSE
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SEATING DESIGN
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LANDSCAPE DESIGN
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REGIONAL STUDY PROGRAM
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THE CASE OF KATHPUTLI COLONY
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CUBE HOUSE
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1. SENIOR COMMUNITY LIVING M.Arch I | Fall 2016 Howe Senior Community Living, located in Ogden, Iowa explored an idea of repurposing the existing Howe Elementary School spaces into a new architecture net zero design which is deliberately designed for prominent elderly community of town. The program incorporates nursing home, assisted living and recreational spaces for the old age people.
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Net Zero Unit Courtyard Geo-thermal Porch Entrance to the Park Community Space Bio-Swale Restroom Kids Play Area Soccer Field Retention Pond Wind Mill Room
Site Plan
View from Community Space
Atrium Space from First Floor
Atrium Space from Second Floor
Meeting Space
Keeping the existing structure of the building intake, the arrangement of the spaces encourages indoor-outdoor community interaction between community and strong neighborhood. The design is climate and context sensitive considering the extreme summer and winter climatic conditions. The existing brick walls are juxtaposed with distinctive addition of a new material pallet with the roof slab of atrium space that seemingly float overhead them.
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2. NORTH LANDING ULI Competition| Spring 2017 With the impending vacancy of the City of Chicago’s Fleet Maintenance Facility, the North Landing proposal aims to bridge the gap between two distinct neighborhoods: a thriving commercial district and a blossoming artisan community. Proposal incorporate dense multi use district consisting of over 650 homes, 900000 square feet of commercial and retail space and more than 24 acres of open space and water front amenities. This full utilization of space will enhance eco system services, create a live-work-play community, provide ample space for city dwellers to leisure, and reconnect the surrounding communities with their river roots.
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Master Plan
View 1 – Riverside Walk through Landscape
View 2 – Plaza Space
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3. VACATION HOUSE Professional Work | 2015 The two bedroom Vacation House is conceived of as a play of masses and voids from the exterior. The house was designed for a retired couple and their children who visit on weekend. The space inside the house flows seamlessly between the foyer to the living area through the beautiful atrium. The open plan extends into large verandah on the northern side and outdoor sit out space on the East direction.
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First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Parking Porch Foyer Kitchen- Dining Out-Door Seating Atrium Space Living Room Powder Room Balcony Bedroom Attached Bath/ Toilet Passage Verandah N Pool Garden
South Elevation
West Elevation
Conceptually the house has two opposing faces, an introverted exterior facing the street in the south , and an extroverted interior elevation facing the north. The street facing facade is more opaque while the garden facing mass provides transparency and views to the garden. The volume of the house reads as a series of staggered abstract linear planes. White walls were juxtaposed with distinctive exposed concrete element and the roof slab that seemingly float over them.
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4. CAMPUS INNOVATION CENTER Auto-Desk BIM Competition| 2013 The form of the CIC - Campus Innovation Centre at Ahmedabad is an outcome of functionality as well as aesthetics made possible by the use of softwares. The idea for the project was to conceptualize an innovation center as a place where creativity is encouraged and innovation thrives The design can be divided distinctly into two part- the Public Domain consisting of the exhibition and conference area; and the academic block consisting of class rooms. The design aims at bringing various architectural elements and materials so as to create experience, a setting that pushes creative thinking.
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Isometric View
Form Exploration
Entrance to Admin Block
Bird Eye View
Exhibition Space
The architectural form, surrounding and internal volumetric spaces are designed in way that has a motivational impact on the users. The form and the structure symbolizes the term innovation. The define play of light and shadow offers an sensorial experiences. 10
5. WEEKEND HOUSE B.Arch III| 2013 The weekend house project at Ahmedabad is a conscious attempt to articulate the design emerging with the landscape and breathed life of dialogue. The act of entry unfolds gradually and elaborately as a sequential experiences through the courtyard. This layered access to the family space lingers the person to the choice of settling down. The verandah is complementing the warm ambiance of landscape with a small pond. The living space opens up to verandah and negotiating the relationship with landscape on North West side that redefines threshold of functionality.
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6. SEATING DESIGN College Workshop| 2013 This seating place near college canteen area is a part of college workshop (on site design and execution) during the annual festival time. The sponsor for this event- Magicrete wanted to showcase their fly ash blocks (material for the wall construction). This seating design attempts to assemble those block in an interesting formation that allows users to find their own comfortable anthropometry and thus create unique seating patterns. In general, design reflects a new prototype for the activity serving the same function of seating by creating the virtue of levels to encourage informal interactions.
Anthropometry experiments
Workshop Outcome
One of the interesting Seating Patterns
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7. LANDSCAPE DESIGN La-Journal Competition | 2013 The task for the Shanivari Bazar, Surat, India was not to disturb the accustomed its activities, but to make it more organized. This was done by introducing a raised level for the bazar transitions with two lanes for the customers and a higher central platform for the vendors. The entire design process goes through an abstraction of the literal concept of the timeline of Suratas being rooted to the history of its waters. The design attempt shall portray the virtuality of the past with the help of Urban translations using elements of landscape. The objective of the entire development is to achieve a moral outlook rather than a design solution.
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8. REGIONAL STUDY PROGRAM B.Arch IV | 2012 This documentation is a part of national study tour to Maheshwar located in Madhya Pradesh state. Maheshwar, a historic temple town situated at a bank of the beautiful Narmada river, is over flowing with its past glory. The city arose as a major center in the region during the second wave of Indian urbanization in the sixth century BCE. As a group effort, Ahalya Bai Temple Complex was documented, situated in the ghats of Maheshwar. The aim behind studying the temple complex was to understand the ritual and cultural aspects of the city and its impact on the architecture formation of the town.
Plan and Section of temple complex
Elevations of Vithoji’s Cremation Cenotaph
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9. THE CASE OF KATHPUTLI COLONY B.Arch V | Undergrad Design Thesis | 2015 ‘The Case of Kathputli Colony’ is a community based housing design considering livelihood, cultural/social binding and shelter aspects in mind. The colony is a home of artists like magicians, puppeteers, acrobats and drummers with their vibrant culture in their living pattern. My thesis covers the study of their existing condition and provides an architecture solution to enrich their living condition. Although people of Kathputli have different lifestyle, they have the sense and value of unity among them. They have variety of skills and variety of beliefs. Each art form was minutely analyzed in terms of anthropometry while detailing out the interior spaces.
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Site Plan
North Façade
The idea was to create a pure geometrical object standing independently against the contrasting background. The proposal provides a sense of intimacy even though no one is directly connected, the presence within the structure can not be completely ruled out from obvious indicators like unique colored surfaces or through hanging artifacts at balcony space.
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10. CUBE HOUSE Professional Work | 2015 The Cube House, located at the gated community of affluent homes on the western edge of the Ahmedabad, India explores an idea that takes the ‘skin’ element of the conventional urban dwelling and transforms them into a new architecture arrangement. The footprint is pushed to the extreme allowable by regulations which helped in creating generous back garden. The building axis running along the length split the site into two forming the primary circulation space, terminating into garden area facing the north. Considering the hot arid zone and issue of thermal comfort, the living spaces are intentionally oriented regards to the light and breeze. Owing to this pattern of usage, garden space is generously scaled in contrast to intimate scale of the interior space. The structure is a combination of lime plastered brick wall and stone cladding. Conceptual Diagrams
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First Floor Plan
1 - Entrance court 2 - Foyer 3 - Mud room 4 - Incoming area 5 - Formal Living 6 - Temple Space 7 - Store 8 - Powder room 9 - Kitchen 10- Family Living 11- Bedroom 12- Closet 13- Attached Toilet/ Bath 14- Gazebo 15- Garden 16- Family Lounge 17- Parking N
Second Floor Plan
South- West View
North- East View
South Elevation
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