Portfolio 2024 - Hetvi Shastri

HETVI SHASTRI

Architecture Design Portfolio

HETVI SHASTRI

Eager to sit for the Architectural Registration Examination for licensure.

As an architect, I am passionate about how buildings affect people’s emotions and well-being. I believe we can design spaces that make people feel good and calm. I’m committed to creating designs that really connect

www.linkedin.com/in/hetvishastri01/ https://issuu.com/hetvishastri

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER

Carhuff + Cueva Architects, Tempe, USA | June, 2023 - Present

- Collaborated closely with contractors and clients, conducting thorough reviews of Requests for Information (RFI) and promptly responding to queries to ensure project timelines were met and delays were minimized.

- Played a key role in reviewing project submittals, including materials, designs, and other related documents, with a focus on maintaining high-quality standards and attention to detail. Skilled in conceptual design, developing initial concepts based on client needs, site constraints, and project goals.

- Experienced in building design, including exterior elevations, floor plans, and sections.

- Skilled in construction documentation, prepared detailed drawings and specifications for contractors. Visted the construction site to gather information.

- Effective communicator and collaborator, able to work with clients, consultants, and project team members.

- Excellent time-management skills and ability to multi-task and prioritize work while frequently interrupted by phone calls and questions on work in progress.

ARCHITECTURAL INTERN

Carhuff + Cueva Architects, Tempe, USA | May, 2022 - May, 2023

CCA’s design is a TEAM approach, with every member of the team responsible for the success of their projects.

- Contributed to design development by creating sketches, renderings, and 3D models under senior architects’ supervision.

- Produced architectural drawings, plans, and construction documents using software like AutoCAD, Revit, Lumion, and Photoshop.

- Conducted research on zoning regulations, building codes, materials, and construction techniques to support project planning and design decisions.

- Improved interpersonal communication, relationship management, leadership, and organizational skills.

GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT

Arizona State University, Tempe | August, 2022 - May, 2023

As a TA, I helped professors with courses, led workshops and critiques, and assisted with AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop and model-making. I managed tasks efficiently, contributed to research, and developed teaching and leadership skills while fostering positive interactions between faculty and students. Conducted critiques, to enhance student project quality.

EXHIBITION INSTALLATION

ASSISTANT

Arizona State University, Tempe | October, 2021 - December, 2021.

I provided assistance to the professor in designing and arranging the exhibition space. I gained an understanding of visual thinking and its application to the design fundamentals of the built environment.

JUNIOR ARCHITECT

L.J. Purani Associates, India| Sept., 2020 - May, 2021.

At LJP & Associates, I contributed to a renowned firm founded in 1951. Specializing in architectural design, structural design, interior design, and project management consultancy.

- Actively involved in all phases of the project lifecycle, from conceptual designs to construction documents.

- Developed strategies for presenting design concepts to clients and led presentations.

- Coordinated with various stakeholders, including clients, team members, and consultants, on multiple projects concurrently.

- Managed full documentation coordination with structural, MEP, lighting, AV, landscape, and civil consultants, and worked directly with contractors.

ARCHITECTURAL

INTERN

L.J. Purani Associates, India | June, 2018 - November, 2019.

Worked with a team to analyze and design various government projects.

EDUCATION

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE

Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, USA. 2023 | GPA - 3.96/4

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE

ITM - SAAD Affiliated with Gujarat Technological University

Vadodara, Gujarat, India. 2020 | GPA - 3.3/4

SKILLS

TECHNICAL

- Autodesk Revit

- Autodesk AutoCAD

- Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator and Premier Pro)

- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Powerpoint)

- Corel Draw

- Lumion

- Trimble Sketchup

- Rhino

- Grasshopper

- Matterport

- BIM 360

PERSONAL

- Team Lead

- Responsible

- Strategic Planning

- Detail Oriented

- Dedicated

- Enthusiastic

- Team Player

AWARDS

WINNER

- Design Excellence Award - Spring 2022 ASU - Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

CERTIFICATIONS

Licensed Architect in India

- Council Of Architecture, India.

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Chinatown

Graduate Studio - 4th Semester

Co-Living Spaces

Los Angeles, California

Arizona State University

Global Engagement Studio

Graduate Studio - 3rd Semester

Library

Newyork City

Arizona State University

The Expansion Game

Graduate Studio - 1st Semester

Lucile Halsell Conservatory

San Antonio, Texas

Arizona State University

Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations

Graduate Studio - 2nd Semester

US Consulate General

Lagos, Nigeria

Arizona State University

Gandhidham Smruti Bhavan

Auditorium

Surat, Gujarat, India

L.J. Purani Associates.

Details

May 2022 - May 2023

Construction Details

Tempe, Arizona

Carhuff & Cueva - Office Work

Chinatown

Co-Living Spaces

Los Angeles, California

Architecture of Chinatown is a blend of traditional chinese architecture and modern design. A synthesis where East meets West thats welcoming to both tourists and residents. Co-Living Spaces which gives them a modern experience in a tradtional chinese context/ neighbourhood.

Every house must answer all fundamental needs for a human. Before over growing of cities and residential towers, houses were connected to the street with smaller streets giving the dwellers an opportunity to interact with people of neighborhood. Today apartments connect units by stairs and elevators which are in lack of Serendipity.

Softwares Used: Revit, Autocad, SketchUp, Lumion, Photoshop, Indesign, and Illustrator.

Walkthrough: https://youtu.be/PLXkiNL4oGo

Two Walls shaping a vertical core for the modules to be plugged in.

First level acting as a commercial space where occupants can directly access.

Creating 2 bedroom apartments mirroring the existing plan on level two.

Circulation

Circulation Core

Commercial Space

Circulation core containing staircase, elevators ( vertical access for modules) and utility area and refreshments.

Providing private terrace for every apartment, allowing the residents for contact with natural environment.

Public Space In-Between Space Private Space

Chinatown is all about Serendipity - means finding something good without looking for it. The design idea started with incorporating this idea into the planning. So the design is combined to form a continuous pattern of private, semi public and public spaces.

Creating 2 bedroom modules with private balcony on second level.

Voids providing lighting for lower modules. Creating double heigt spaces for some modules.

Apartment Balcony

Form Development and Conceptual Development

View 1 (Through the Alley towards the Yale Street)

Third Level Plan (With immediate context)

Fourth Level - The Bridge Connecting Two Buildings

Global Engagement Studio Library

Newyork City

My concept for a library in New York City is a modern, interactive, and community-centered space that provides traditional and innovative technology-based resources. The library features an open design that encourages exploration, with ample natural light and comfortable seating areas. Additionally, there are spaces for events and community gatherings, including an amphitheatre located nearby.

The library is designed with specific areas for reading, studying, and collaborative work, with comfortable seating and tables for work and study. The amphitheatre creates a strong connection between the library and the local community.To promote a sense of community, the library also offers a range of programs and events, such as author talks, book clubs, language classes, and cultural events.

Softwares Used: Revit, SketchUp, Autocad, and Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign)

The majority of the mass is concentrated at the back of the site.

The building is divided into two parts by an atrium, which creates a sense of openness and transparency.

The mass is lowered to form an open-air amphitheater, offering ample seating for gathering, and socializing.

The design includes spaces that are accessible for people of all abilities, as well as spaces that facilitate community gatherings.

Library

Tall buildings around the site block sunlight, while the surrounding structures create a stubborn atmosphere, making pedestrians feel abandoned on the street.

Site Constraints

Form Development - Conceptual Development

Sunlight infiltrated terraced atrium/ courtyard. Vertical connections with visual relations.

Design Strategies - Sectional Development

Roof Louvre Structure Columns and beams

Core Circulation

Back Facade

Roof

The design plan is to build a basic cubic building with an empty space that divides it into a multi-level atrium and a terraced inner courtyard, allowing easy visual connections on all floors. Due to the void, sunlight can infiltrate deeply into the inner building.

Open Staircase provides:

Spatial Connectivity

Sense of Openness

Focal Point of the Atrium

Double-height spaces make occupants feel more open, grand, and comfortable. They bring in more natural light and air, making the indoors nicer.

Hierarchy of Spaces

Cozy seating areas in the library provide private spaces for readers with windows on both sides of the spaces.

To balance the site, placed the building towards the rear end creating harmony between open space and the building’s mass.

Sunlight Street View

The main idea is to make people feel grand when they see the building from the street, while also making pedestrians feel less abandoned.

Double-height space

Louvers let sunlight into the atrium for natural light.

Symmetry

Balance

Site Plan + Roof Plan (With Immediate Context)

Building Axis

Hierarchy Of Spaces

Scale: 1/32” = 1’ - 0

Front Elevation

Interior Flooring : Carpet

Outdoor Amphitheater Seating Area Flooring

Exposed Steel for columns

Outdoor Amphitheater Flooring

Furniture Color: Jolly Green

Exposed Concete:

Interior Walls and Ceilings

Exposed Brickwork (Inspired from New York apartment style)

Exterior & Interior Paint

Color: Warm White

Atrium Staircase Tread

Material: Oak Wood Stair Treads

1. Entry 2. Reception Area 3. Restroom 4. Staircase

5. Elevator

6. Floor Entry

7. Double Height Space

8. Reading Space 9. Atrium

10. Amphitheatre 11. Ramp

12. Callout Spaces

13. Book Shelves

Scale: 1/32” = 1’ - 0

Wooden Tread

Diameter 0’ 0 1/2” Steel Pipe Attached with the Slab

Column 18” x 18” Handrail

Detail A

Showing the design that displays a rod that’s neatly built into the wooden step, coming from the concrete floor, and this setup is repeated twice.

Detail B

The steel pipe extending from the concrete base.

Anchor Bolts

Wooden Tread

10' 0" Back

Staircase Detailed Elevation

Diameter 0’ 0 1/2”Steel Pipe

2nd Level 10' - 0"

12” Concrete Slab

The Expansion Game

Lucile Halsell Conservatory

San Antonio, Texas, USA

During the first semester of the Master’s program, we explored the concept of architecture expansions as a “game.”

Our project involved proposing an expansion for the Lucile Halsell Conservatory in San Antonio, with slight modifications, and designing a new educational and public architecture to accommodate currently endangered ecosystems.

The expansion we designed for the Lucile Halsell Conservatory features four new pieces that follow the pattern of fragmented buildings on the site.

Team Members: Vivek Bhargav Nalluri, Brooke Berge and Olivia Forish

Softwares Used: Revit, SketchUp, Autocad, and Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign)

Axonometric Section - Palm House

To view the tank from an underground seating area, visitors can follow a ramp that curves along the lake’s edge and leads to the lower level.

The courtyard expansion is designed to be sunken into the ground, similar to the rest of the project, and it connects to the palm house along the building’s main axis. With its structured seating area and spacious patio, the courtyard serves as a more substantial event space to replace the existing tent.

One of the new greenhouses is designed as a butterfly pavilion, filled with flowering shrubs and bushes that attract a unique collection of insects. The pavilion has a cone-shaped geometry similar to existing structures, but it is shorter and wider to allow for easy navigation by the butterflies.

The final expansion piece is the Mediterranean shrubland, which features a diverse collection of plants from dry, coastal areas. The roof’s geometry resembles the existing conical shapes, but it is fragmented to accommodate an existing pathway passing through it.

Physical Model Pictures

Exhibit Room

Desert Pavilion

Event Courtyard Amphitheatre

Butterfly Pavilion

Fern Grotto Mediterranean Conservatory Tropical Conservatory

Existing Structure

To ensure a balanced design, the new courtyard and underground pond have been positioned along the central axis, flanked by two circular structures on either side of the fern grotto. The underground pond has been expanded to create a tank for marine life and corals, adding to the garden’s botanical diversity.

The Mediterranean rooftop has been divided into two sections to accommodate an important pathway and provide just the right amount of light for the shrublands below. The butterfly pavilion maintains its cone shape, offering ample space for the butterflies to fly freely. The central tube anchors the structure and provides a shaded space for a palm tree to grow.

Overall, the design achieves a cohesive and harmonious expansion for the Lucile Halsell Conservatory.

The roof forms were developed by deconstructing and combining basic geometric shapes, such as cones, cylinders, and pyramids.

Each form was tailored to the specific climate it would accommodate.

Similarly, when designing the new roof forms, we employed the same approach, starting with simple conical shapes and altering them to suit their respective functions.

Expansion roof geometry (Butterfly Pavilion)

Existing roof geometry (Desert & Tropical)

ROOF GEOMETRY DIAGRAM - EXISTING VS EXPANSION

roof geometry (Exhibit Room)

roof geometry (Palm House)

Expansion roof geometry (Mediterranean Pavilion)

Expansion roof geometry (Butterfly Pavilion)

DIAGRAMS

ROOF GEOMETRY DIAGRAM - EXISTING VS EXPANSION

Existing roof geometry (Exhibit Room)

Existing roof geometry (Palm House)

Expansion roof geometry (Mediterranean Pavilion)

Expansion roof geometry (Butterfly Pavilion)

RampRatio 1:12

3” Diameter Space Frame

1” Insulated Glass

Floral Collections: Lavendar, Lillac, Lupin

Butterflies

Concrete

Concrete Wall

Concrete Footing

Earth Fill

Concrete Retaining Wall

Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations

Embassy Lagos, Nigeria.

The 2050 embassy needs to consider the purpose and the structure of America’s representation abroad. There are significant steps to be taken to provide support to foreign governments through technologies and infrastructure development.

A future embassy should provide the opportunity to develop a relationship with the country and the communities and a core component of diplomacy will require significant financial investment through construction and maintenance.

Our proposed design solutions are impactful because they tackle the most prominent issues that Lagos, Nigeria faces.

Team Members: Brooke Berge, Tanner Baranski, Mohit Chaudhary and Lylaine Flores

Softwares Used: Revit, SketchUp, Autocad, Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign) and Lumion

This project received the Design Excellence Award from The Design School at Arizona State University.

We have identified the main vulnerabilities of Lagos, Nigeria, based on the five global drivers of climate, population, urbanization, resources, and technology. Our design strategies aim to address these vulnerabilities in Lagos, while also being applicable to other areas that share similar characteristics with Lagos. This approach allows for a broader impact beyond just Lagos.

The construction process of this building will also look to be integrated with lean construction principles and cultural anthropology. This will help mitigate on-site waste, streamline work processes, and develop a strong representation of the surrounding culture.

The defining feature of our design is the use of an algae facade and photobioreactors to generate clean and renewable energy through biofuels. As one of the leading countries in oil production and exportation, integrating this new technology could have a significant impact not only in Nigeria but also worldwide, potentially transforming Nigeria’s economy from one dependent on non-renewable resources to one that thrives on clean, renewable energy.

To address the projected population growth and rapid urbanization trends of the city, the design includes a modular layout with prefabricated systems, designed for disassembly at the end of the building’s life cycle for reuse.

Utilize shading strategies, such as self shading facade systems.

The building layout is designed to expand as needed with the growing population and space has been left between the facade and building with exposed structure, ready to expand when necessary.The expansions have been mapped out to add 400 square feet of space per unit. Allowing the building to grow an additional 43,000 square feet.

Incorporate modular design and exposed structure to allow building to expand and grow with the population

Gandhi Smruti Bhavan

Auditorium

Surat, Gujarat, India

The Local Governing body of Surat, Surat Municipal Corporation, was the client who desired the design of an auditorium that could accommodate a large audience. The client’s specifications included the requirement of multiple aisles, fixed tilting seats with upholstered seats and back posts, integrated armrests, writing tablets, and an articulated back to allow for maximum occupant passage space between rows.

Softwares Used: Autocad, Revit, and Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign)

My Role: Construction drawings, I have coordinated with various stakeholders, including clients, team members, and consultants.

Entry

Restroom

Back Entry

Staircase

Back Stage

Lower Level Seating

Construction Details Office Work

Tempe

As an assistant to senior architects, my responsibilities involved supporting the design and development of architectural plans for both commercial and residential projects. This included creating floor plans and elevations using drafting tools. Additionally, I collaborated with project teams to develop 3D models and renderings using software such as SketchUp and Revit.

To inform design decisions and ensure compliance with industry standards, I conducted extensive research on materials, products, and building codes.

I actively participated in team meetings and client meetings to discuss project progress, timelines, and budgets.

Softwares Used: Revit, BIM 360, Autocad, Adobe ( InDesign, Photoshop, & Illustrator) and Microsoft Word.

8” CMU W/ Joint Reinforcement at 16”

O.C. Solid, Grout Below Grade

#4 Bar @ 32” O.C. @ C/L of Wall, Full Height

Waterproof Membrane

#4 Bar @ 16” O.C. On earth Face. Extend 3’ Into CMU

Retaining Wall Detail

3 X 10 Nailer W/ 5/8 Bolts @ 24” in Bond Beam

4 1/2” Concrete Slab W/ #3 Bars @ 18” O.C. Each Way

(2) #4 Cont. in Bond Beam at Top of Wall

Granular Fill

4” Perf. PVC Pipe Wrapped in GEO Fabric Filter Set in Gravel and Drain to Daylight

(2) #4 Cont. in Bond Beam at Nailer

This wall section showcases the careful consideration architects give to construction techniques and materials. We’ve chosen specific framing systems, insulation types, waterproofing methods, and finishes to ensure durability and functionality. By drafting this section, we’ve ensured compliance with building codes and regulations, addressing requirements for structural integrity, fire resistance, insulation, sound transmission, and accessibility. This meticulous attention to detail maintains safety and legality in our building design, ultimately creating a space that’s both secure and compliant with regulations.

1. Wall per wall type schedule.

2. Concrete slab on grade o/ vapor barrier O/ 4” aggregate base course.

3. Floor finish per finish schedule.

4. Wall base per schedule.

5. 5/8” GYP. BD. Textured and painted per schedule.

12. Ceiling per reflected ceiling plan.

13. Light fixture per electrical plans.

14. Truss per structural drawings.

19. R-21 batt insulation between studs.

20. R-38 batt insulation attached to roof.

22. Roofing system per roof plan.

28. Prefinished metal fascia. Color to match standing seam roof.

31. Fence per site details

32. Concrete foundation per foundation plan. Provide thoroseal foundation waterproofing at Concrete walls below grade.

Bldg. Paper

Pre-Finished Alum. Gutter.

4” Continuous Soffit Vent Installed Per Mfr’s Instructions

Enlarged Restroom Plan Reflected Ceiling Plan

Interior Restroom Elevations

Per Wall Schedule

Stucco Soffit

Truss 22 Ga. Mtl. Panel Fascia