Portfolio Jayati Gupta
125 PRK FOSTER VILLAGE Re-model of a fostery care facility Parsons School of Design Fall 2017 Award: Project exhibited to represent Parsons, School of Design Building a strong personal identity is complex for a foster teenager. Identity is the sum of many elements within an individual’s life. In this case identity is a fusion of the individual with family, community and culture within an urban setting. These areas of life play the largest role in shaping a foster teen’s identity. Our design approach was to support the development of a strong personal identity through evaluating these areas of life and their spatial relationship within a new and innovative foster care home. The site is located on 125th street within Harlem. It stands in close proximity with the Metro North Railway Station. This results in constraints around the site such as noise and sound, but also allows views into the building from the stations. The building is comprised of eight levels including a basement and is oriented into the typical Manhattan grid. The programs related to the foster care facility will be located within the different levels of the building.
9 THE ROOF
8 THE LOOKOUT
7 THE HALL
INTERIOR TERRACE COMMUNAL KITCHEN
6
APARTMENT
TECH LAB
THE CORNER
5 ROOMS
HANGOUTS
THE CORNER
“125PRK Sound Studio”, basement
“The Hangout”, 3rd floor.
4 ROOMS
HANGOUTS
THE CORNER
3 ROOMS
HANGOUTS
THE CORNER
2 125 PRK
STUDIOS
DRAWING/PAINTING CERAMICS METAL WOOD
1 125 PRK GALLERY & MARKET
SECURITY ENTRANCE INFORMATION
B 125 PRK
SHOWROOM SOUND STUDIO REHEARSAL ROOM THEATER MAINTENANCE
“The Corner”, 3rd floor.
“The Hall”, 7th floor communal
“The Roof”, 8th floor.
“125PRK Showroom”, basement. Performance space for residents and mentoring artists.
“The Roof”, 8th floor.
“Ceramic Studio”, 2nd floor.
Community
Concept: Identity
Individual
elevator
elevator
Family
Entrance
Private space is essential to developing a strong personal identity, especially for a teenager. However, for a foster teenager, developing identity is even more complex. With a history of displacement and continual transition from one place to the next, these teens have little opportunity to put their bags down and create a space of their own. Creating a private bedroom for each resident was a top design priority.
Model of the Foster Village Scale: 1/4� Family: Outside of foster living, the teen residents have a family history which is a contributor to their identity. These relationships are important to continue from their past as are building new family relationships with their peers and mentors for their future. Cultural: Harlem has a long and rich history of a flourishing arts community. By providing studio arts, performance and radio/ podcast programming, the tradition of the neighborhood is honored. These programs promote the development of a cultural connection to the immediate neighborhood. Through a mentoring program within the studios and theatre, teens will build positive relationships with adults. They will also learn making skills such as carpentry, a viable trade for their future. With the incorporation of a podcast program their voices can be heard. The ability to create, perform and be heard will boost their sense of self and ultimately their sense of identity. Urban: Although uprooted and displaced from their family homes, New York City is still the larger home to these foster teens. They are New Yorkers. This is a deep association with their identity. Foster teens have all experienced the feeling of being disoriented with a lack of direction and no sense of place or home. The roof re-establishes the teens connection to their home within the urban landscape of New York City. The roof features radial ledge seating which invites residents to gather leisurely to enjoy the view.
For circulation, the elevators consists of a reimaged button panel which incorporates a non-hierarchical arrangement. As can be seen here in the full-scale model, each floor is identified with a uniquely sized copper button and number. Communal floors are faced with translucent glass, and private floors are backlit. Copper is a repeating element through the program, selected for its unique patina and antimicrobial properties. The elements are backed with red oak that topped with a wax finish, a healthy alternative to polymer-based sealers, especially important when given the individuals we are designing for.
Full scale model, elevator panel. Reinventing cab interiors with nonhierarchical buttons; Differentiating residential floors with backlit copper disks. Self-fabricated: Oak wood, natural wax polish
COMMONS AS CULTURE Parsons School of Design Spring 2018
Historically, public Commons are architectural places, which have allowed diverse peoples to come together. However, due to Globalization, there is a cultural shift, that is bringing people from different cultures together, yet people function in a cellular way of living. There is rarely a cultural exchange. How can design of Commons foster relationships so as to broaden one’s perspective through introduction to new cultures rather than being absorbed by cellular or individualistic living? How can Commons help to merge cultures and generations through shared learning and recreation to provide a sanctuary space for people who are culturally isolated? Do these culturally isolated people get an opportunity to merge with others to exchange their cultural heritage? Does the senior population interact with young children for inter-generation experience, in today’s world which is moving towards nuclear family construct? In what ways can interior design function as a catalyst, rather than further divide, cultural gaps and age groups of people?
Site Location and its relationship with the Bay & Verrazano Bridge
Stepping into the Future: Commons as Culture with respect to the city
Exploded Axonometric : First floor; second floor
Perspective Section
Perspective View of the Reading area, designed to generate interaction between generations and cultures
Perspective View of the First Floor, showing the Performance Area and the stairscape meant for watching the performance
Perspective View of the Edible Gardening area, with a Communal Basin, form designed to generate interaction between generationsand cultures
Perspective Section
Perspective View of the communal dining area, which has seating on the floor as well as a communal dining table, next tot he pantry; double-hight space
THE JUNCTION Re-model of a fostery care facility Parsons School of Design Fall 2017 The site is located on 125th street within Harlem. It stands in close proximity with the Metro North Railway Station. This results inconstraints around the site such as noise and sound, but also allows views into the building from the stations. The building is comprisedof eight levels including a basement and is oriented into the typical Manhattan grid. The programs related to the foster care facility will be located within the different levels of the building. The main typologies that the project would focus on include the Teen home and a program for Young Adults. Apart from the residential programs, the building also hosts spaces for communal acitivity in the building on the different floors.Due to its proximity to the railway station on 125th street, the east facade lends itself to becoming a buffer cutting off the sound and noise to the interiors. A space, called the junction emerges on each floor by the east facade wall. The programs assigned to this junction would involve activities for the entire community within the building like therapy spaces, fitness facilities, lounges and recreational facilities.The junction would also provide a lens for the passers by to view the building and to an extent de-stigmatize the idea of who foster children are. The lower levels of the building extend itself into the community through a retail or a commercial enterprise.
The Junction: Situating the Light shelves
DAYTIME
The Junction: Vertical Relationship between the floors
NIGHTTIME
Detail: Light shelf, Lighting condition
The Junction: Schematic Program of Foster Typologies
Floor Plan: Ground Floor
Relationship of Foster Typologies in The Junction Floor Plan: Fourth Floor 1/4” SCALE MODEL OF THE JUNCTION
DISSOLVE
Parsons School of Design Fall 2017 Light, Space Art Studio Faculty: Derek Porter
Dissolve is a temporary art installation conducted by students in the Light Space Art elective, within the Master of Fine Arts Lighting Design program at Parsons School of Design. It looks at the point of confluence between interior and exterior, artificial light and natural light, as each dissolves into the other over time. The installation was a temporary art work that served as a feature and back-drop for the Natural Light and Architecture conference that took place at Arnhold Hall, The New School on 26th October, 2017. “Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light and darkness or darkness and light.� - James Turrell
“The phenomena of the space of a room, the sunlight entering through a window, and the color and reflection of materials on a wall and floor all have integral relationships.� - Steven Holl Experience: On the evening of the event, the installation transformed before the audience. The power of the natural light against the saturated artificial light during the early evening was undeniable, evidenced clearly on the scrim screens. Subtle changes in daylight conditions, that would normally go unnoticed by most, were seemingly amplified by the installation’s simple planar interception of natural light and contrast to the less-familiar hue of electric light. The magenta electric light, purposely chosen as an opposition to the cool natural light, appeared to dissolve into the natural light towards the center of the scrim, producing a wash of pink and blue.
Fleur Play +
COFFEE HOUSE
FLEURPLAY
Parsons School of Design Fall 2016 Faculty: Alan Wexler The middle of a well, gloomy, waiting to reach a point that sustains life. A tunnel, with a ray of light entering from its end. Hints, leftovers from the previous dry cleaner. A knotted rope, rusted iron wardrobe hangers, hooks and nooks. Displaced autumn leaves from the broken glass window call the cold wind to blow them back to their home. Walls smeared with black soot. Maybe from the train approaching? A tunnel, with a ray of light entering from its end. Three large glass windows bring life and light, like the handshake of the building. The remains of the wood wall claddings, standing strong, acoustic fibre missing, all sound and life of the tunnel has been absorbed. Angled walls, curious of what the adjacent space beholds. Built to last they said, the corroded tin ceiling, Victorian style old buildings, hourglass that shows the age of the space. The space reminds me of an old book I once opened after a long time, covered in dust, with a few pages falling off. Surrounded by streets on two sides, the space interacts with people passing by. Facing the North South orientation, the sunlight falls majorly in the initial area near the entrance.
A view showing the central Flower Preparation Area, which appears like a pool of flowers on the glass pyramid ceiling,in order to amplify the essence of waiting while the flower bouquet being prepared. The glass ceiling also reflects the flowers to the street outside on all three sides.
Front Facade of the Flower Shop: Slanted vitrine vessel to display the flowers, it follows a ramp inside the shop leading upwards to the coffee house/ tea house
Purpose: Flower Retail Store, Benefit for Youth, socializing, combining Art and Coffee/Tea house made from the ingredients of Flowers in order to amplify the essence of waiting while the flower bouquet is being prepared
Section: Relationship between the Ramp, the minus level Flower Pool area and the Upper level Coffee waiting Area.
Plan: Beginning the journey, the ramp leads upwards, surrounding the Flower Pool, where the seasonal flowers are being displayed, to the Coffee/Tea House to wait, while the Bouquet is prepared.
House NA, TOKYO Parsons School of Design Fall 2016
Le Corbusier famously declared the house “a machine for living;� efficient, streamlined and composed of basic formal components--a contemporary technological product. The goal of your study of the house precedent is to develop a thesis about the house design and an approach to representation that embodies concepts of the house through drawings and a flip-book. Various types of drawings from diagrams to orthographic and three dimensional projections expresses a unique line of inquiry. Programmatic, functional and spatial elements that it is composed of: Threshold, Frame, Room, Closet, Hearth, Roof, Interior Auxiliaries (basement, attic, etc.), Exterior Auxiliaries yard, porch, etc.
House NA, Tokyo Perspectives Collage Pencil on Paper, 2016
House NA, Tokyo Sections Collage Pencil on Paper, 2016
IT TAKES FOUR TO TANGO Parsons School of Design Spring 2017 Faculty: Alex Schweder It takes four to Tango explores a balance of dependencies between four queer guys sharing a Railway-pattern apartment at Bedford, Brooklyn. The four residents have different political opinions, as two of them are Democrats and the rest are Republicans. The design emphasizes on balance of dependencies on each other’s patience, communications, movements, and usage pattern. The apartment is divided into three smaller apartments, the Republican couple occupying one apartment, the Democratic couple occupying the second apartment and the third being the shared space in between them. The apartment requires all four of them to interact together in order to expand and become more functionable. The space expands and contracts with the number of people and its usage. The function units like the breakfast table, the study desk, the turning tv unit require negotiation between the politically diverse viewpoints, in order to be built by finding a balance.
Republican Apartment Democrat Apartment Circulation Shared Space Toilet
Schematic Exploded Axonometric showing the zoning
Proposed Plan
Exploded Axonometric showing the placement of the turn TV, the breakfast counter, the moving partition and the study desk
Working of the negotiation dialogue of the breakfast counter and the residents, revealing its function and a skylight.
Working of the negotiation dialogue of the partition and the residents
Working of the negotiation dialogue of the study desk and the residents.
Working of the negotiation dialogue of the turning tv unit and the residents.
Interior view of the shared space, when the space is developed by all the residents; showing the breakfast table revealing the skylight above.
Interior view of the shared space, showing all the units.
OUTHOUSE
Project 810, Former Interior Designer 2014
Retail Project for high end cosmetic and semi-precious jewelery brand-Outhouse. The Outhouse Jewelry is for the fun, fearless and audacious and thats exactly what Project 810 has aimed at creating for them. The store is located at Bangalore’s only seven star hotel, The Leela. The store sprawls over 600 sq.ft at the Collonade-Leela’s boutique shopping arcade. The design of the retail store is inspired by an eclectic, pop and a high-end luxury pallette. The shelvings systems are made from Brass and a high end imported marble. More retro in stylization, the floor is Black and White Oak patterned wooden floor. The store has a large show window, seating space and a private consultation zone as well.
Interior view showing the space, furniture design details
Front view of the Cash desk
View of the front facade, showing the signage design details View of the interior, showing the linear system of furniture; mirror and drawer details
Front view of the Mirror suspended from ceiling
Front view of the Vertical Display Box for jewellery
HOUSE FOR HER Lifestyle Dessein, Co-founder Independent Project 2016 The residence design project in situated in a busy area of New Delhi. The area comprises of the top floor of an existing residence building and the terrace. The main focus of the aestehtic language for this project is driven by the woman of the house, who desired a luxurious, dramatic yet a timeless comfort associated with her home. The project was named after her, as ‘the wisest woman, builds her own home’’. The house is spatialized according to the nuclear family construct, having a master bedroom with a balcony that overlooks a more private side of the house, a kids bedroom, a guest bedroom, and an open layout between the living room and the dining area. The use of exclusive imported marble from Italy, brass accents, bold lighting fixtures help create an aesthetic that builds the design language of the house. The terrace is visualized as a flexible space, which can accomodate a large gathering and also the needs of the family, that cannot be served by the main residence floor. It comprises of an extension that has a jacuzzi bath for the famly with flexible skylights, extra storage to meet seasonal needs, a small working studio for the man of the house. The terrace also has upper level seating with a pergola which makes it weather friendly.
Conceptual Render showing the Terrace
View of the working studio on the Terrace, with a living wall
View of the Terrace, showing the two-level sitting ledge for interactive bigger gatherings
View of the Terrace, showing the Pergola and upper level
Floor Plan
View of the corridor leading tothe Bedrooms
View of the living room with a flexible partition leading to the Dining area
View of the Master Bedroom with suspended reading lights
Publication: Insite Magazine, Jayati Gupta, Abhinav Gupta (Partner) Projects featured under the category, ‘Emerging design practices’