ITERATIONS KARAN MANIAR
Architectural Work Samples
CONTENTS About Resume 01. Bio City Map, Exhibition Design 02. Elegant Formations, Mixed-Use Tower Design 03. Art_Landscape, Educational Incubator 04. Spaces within Places, Micro-Urbanism 05. Reciprocal Grid (Canopy), Parametric Construction 06. Design Gallery, Cultural Institute 07. Forensic Sciences Institute, Educational Institute 08. Rajkot Nagarik Sahakari Bank, Corporate Office 09. Future Race Track, Concept Design
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Professional Work I Sept. - Oct. 2013
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BIO CITY MAP: GLOBAL NETWORKED HABITAT Projected world population density of 11 Billion by 2110
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Bioinformatics beyond Buckminster Fuller Professional Work I Terreform One, NY, USA Principals I Mitchell Joachim, Maria Aiolova Position I Architectural Researcher Role I Analysis, Mapping, Vacuum Forming, Fabrication and Construction
The Bio Map City is a forecast of the world population density in the next 100 years. It has been modelled by combining all the world cities together as one continuous growth system. The current phenomena of explosive growth - the "Mega-city" (Shanghai, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Lagos) and the "Instant City" (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Zhengzhou, Ordos) merge together into a continuous urban construct. As human population expands, we see it as one single macro city spread across the continents. Other cities, mainly in the developed world, (Detroit, Leipzig, Manchester) demonstrate the opposite tendency, because they are shrinking at a significant rate. We argue that most nations cannot view the effects of planetary population density through the lens of just one city or region. Instead we aim to reveal the long-range effects of massive human population in areas of present and future urban intensity. On the reverse side of the mapping installation are focal points of biological details in specific localized city forms. They zoom in on density zones that are dispersed throughout the globe. These points use the technique of "bacteriography" (bacteria photography) to shift scale and underscore the highest zones of growth. Our method creates a real-time parametric display using Gammaproteo Bacterium Escherichia coli Strain K12 in agar medium that has been genetically modified to express color under UV light. The strains used are harmless variants of E. coli, commonly studied all across Europe and the United States. They have been utilized in schools for decades without any safety issues and are considered non-pathogenic and innocuous.
* Topological forms illustrate the shift in urban population density ac
ross continents as a biological habitat for 11 billion people.
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The Bio Map City forms have been transformed with DNA that encodes fluorescent proteins found in sea anemones and jellyfish. This enables those bacteria to emit red, green, yellow and blue light under long wave UV bulbs. The fluorescent proteins are based on the discoveries of Shimomura, Chalfie and Tsien, who were honored with a Nobel Prize for their work in 2008. Ultimately, the bacterial photos grow to reveal variant patterns of biological transformation in urban regions. Rather than using computer code to mimic growth in nature, this method is the actual iterative vehicle of growth itself. Bacteria in this constrained form and under the right conditions, behave almost identically to urban population patterns. Moreover, the resolution of these bio-based city patterns will change with more nuanced biological inputs. In many cases, they are as good as computational versions because they are the source which algorithms are derived from. In time, the mapping installation may illustrate patterns yet unobserved in typical digital models. It is this emergent and unfettered map of population we wish to make into spectacle. By using bio lab based materials, we expect to narrow the gap between idealized mathematical interpretations and observable events in nature.
“I have summarized my discovery of the option of humanity to become omnieconomically and sustainably successful on our planet while phasing out forever all use of fossil fuels and atomic energy generation other than the sun. I have presented my plan for using our increasing technical ability to construct high-voltage, superconductive transmission lines and implement an around the world electrical energy grid integrating the daytime and nighttime hemispheres, thus swiftly increasing the operating capacity of the world’s electrical energy system and, concomitantly, living standard in an unprecedented feat of international cooperation.� - Cosmosgraphy, 1993, Buckminster Fuller and Kiyoshi Kuromiya
* Dymaxion map of global population density in 100 years
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BACK SIDE
Petri-Dish
Transparent Plates for Petri Dishes
* Exploded view showing the formation of a single unit
Frames for Articulated Grid
Parametric model for Thermoformer
Paramet for Therm
tric model moformer
FRONT SIDE
Frames for Articulated Grid
Thermoformed Plates
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* Double Sided Mapping System - SIDE A: 100 Petri Dishes of Bacteria w/ Digital Stencil Control and Microscopes. SIDE B: Extruded Population Graphs.
* PetriDishes with Microscope.
* City Grown from E. coli Bacteria w/ 400x Microscope.
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* 25 World cities with highest population in PetriDishes with Red and Green E. coli
* Existing Population Expressed in Green& Projected Population Expressed in Red.
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[ Transformation and Iterations I Fall 2012 ]
ELEGANT FORMATIONS A Mixed Use Tower in SoHo, New York
* view from the Canal Street
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A Mixed Used Tower in Soho, NY Fall Studio 2012 I Professor Hina Jamelle
The proposal comprise of a mixed use Office and Hotel Tower in the diverse context of Tribeca strengthening the functions of the surrounding building in the vicinity. Located at the busy and crowded junction of Canal street and Varick street, forming a catalyst between Chinatown on east and affluent workplaces on west the building features Intricate and Delicate structure at lower levels creating a more transparent ground and blends to more solid panels at higher floors. The site act as focal point to various streets and buildings in the area and is to an extent reflected in the rotation of the building. The concept is evolved from the transformation stages of formation of a butterfly. The diagram evolved from the stages of butterfly formation is used to develop a thesis which will eventually help to generate a transformation of spatial units. The flow of structural columns to walls with openings and again to more structural elements reflects the gradual change or mix of the interior functions of the building and also their changing relationship to exterior. The relationship between the offices and hotel is carefully blurred such that at ground the workplaces has more programmatic weightage which gradually transfers to hotel rooms as one moves vertically in the building. * Night View
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* Ground Floor Plan
The transformation stages of formations of a butterfly from a larva stage is interpreted in form of a diagram based on the factors affecting the change. Various moments of the diagram are developed into the spatial unit which are then transformed into a series with a particular thesis representing the change. The thesis here focuses on converting surfaces to openings and vice versa. In a way its a transformation between solids and voids.
* Sectional Model through Ground Floor
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* Exterior Facade showing the transformation between the Skin and the Structure
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* Interior view of Hotel Room
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* Interior view of Entrance Plaza
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* View from the Hudson River Park
[ Institution and Mutation I SUMMER 2012 ]
EDUCATIONAL INCUBATOR The project proposes a remix of the city’s solid/liquid boundaries, the migrations and evolutions of its institutions at sites along the Hudson River Park
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Educational Incubator for Art_Landscape, NY Summer Studio 2012 I Professor Philip Parker The line drawing which shows various emergent properties in movement of a flag are transferred to a surface, which serves as the basis of the project. The qualities generated by the surface, site and various institutions present in the vicinity are compared in terms of convergence and divergence, in order to develop a proposal for educational incubator which place itself inbetween the Highline and the Hudson river park.
Changes in the Line The diagrams shows how the line moves, stretches, curves and deforms across its length. The idea is to generate movement in the surface to observe the qualities of in, along and through revolves around applying of forces to simulate the movement of lines in the diagram above. The forces pulls and pushes the surface along all the three axes to generate various organizational qualities.
* View from the Whitney Museum
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Section Cuts In total there are four different surfaces with two different sets of tearing patterns and two methods of applying forces. the diagrams shows the differences in the behaviour of the individual surfaces in terms of way it crease, folds and cuts.
Lines in Surface The lines produced are transported to a bristol board sheet and selectively have scoring or perforated cuts. These when pushed and pulled produces various cuts and folds, showing majority cuts in one direction which pops up to restrict the directional movement of the folds.
* Line drawing of the movement of a Flag
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Program: Institutions Diagrams of the evolution of highline and whitney museum shows a quality of beginning and then gradually contracting in due to some obstruction and than with various lines adding into it to again let it expand. In a way it produces a pulsating nature to the evolution.
* Concept: Flip along the river
* Evolution of Whitney Museum
* Evolution of the Highline Park
* Plan 1
* Plan 2
* Plan 3
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* Cross-Section between Standard Hotel and The Whiney Museum
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* Longitudinal Section between the Highline and the Hudson River Park
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* View from the Standard Hotel
* Landscape along the surface
Proposition The proposition is to use the idea of the flip in movement of people on site, and propose a landscape which helps to bring the edge of the Hudson River Park into the site (Meat Market, between the Standard Hotel and the Whitney Museum) and connecting it to the Highline Park. This landscape in a way will be a flatform for Whitney Museum to extend outdoors and thus produces an Art_Landscape incubator. * 3D printed model of the three animated surfaces creating volumes
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A new Urban Experience I Spring 2013
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SPACES WITHIN PLACES Inserting community spaces to the existing housing blocks of Manhattan
* New Structure
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Spaces within Places Spring Research Thesis I Professor Kutan Ayata Abstract There are part of city that only exists to those who know it’s there. Only a portion of the city is exposed, referring to the level of openness. These areas consist of high density, visibility, accessibility and movement. In case of Manhattan, the city primarily exists in form of its greatest grid - arrangement of the street network of the city in a grid iron, the structure of system allowing people to easily understand the city. These streets divide city into a specific sized blocks and this squeezing of city in plan allows it to extend it in vertical dimension. Thus, other evident element of the city is its tall buildings. But there is also a city that is hidden within the shadows of the previous typologies. They hold as much significance and charge as these high profile areas, however, they lack attention and space. One of such spaces are found in abundance in Manhattan are the open courtyards between the urban blocks of the city. Human Interaction: These courtyard spaces has been a great catalysts for human interaction through out the years giving a sense of blockness to the people living in them. But, in today’s time there’s no reason for people to leave their houses when the city is so disorienting and technology allows for easy virtual relationships. The human kind is transformed into an efficient machine by the environment that surrounds them. The thesis thus attempts to reenergize these courtyard spaces by adding program which can induce more community interaction and as well as gives a unique identity to each block. * Manhattan Plan
* Vacant lots in Manhattan
* Courtyard spaces in Manhattan
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* Process 1: Horizontal arrangement of slabs to respond to the surrounding apartments
* Process 2: Adding a vertical kink to break the horizontality
* Process 3: Stretching out the terraces in form of curves
* Process 4: Breaking the box like volumes of the surrounding into the voronoi structure based on process 2
Introduction
Final Model
Openings
Volumes generated
Structural Support
Splitting Connections
The arrangement of the street network of the city in a grid iron the structure of system in Manhattan allows people to easily understand he city. In such a system the signs on the street becomes a major factor for people to locate themselves in the city. The grid iron planning is also very efficient from functional and economical aspect for real estate. This is not the case everywhere in Manhattan, the lower part of the city which is formed due to overlaying of grid on the natural and organic character of the street from past gives downtown Manhattan a complicated, impressive and unusual landscape. Such instances of intersecting, shifting or breaking the grid vary and intone the urban landscape. Also these not so grided arrangement of streets produces some odd lots in the cityscape which act great places to create new urban experiences. “When we examined all the leftover spaces in San Francisco, New York, New Orleans, Minneapolis we found the same thing to be true in every city,”de Monchaux says. “You had a whole archipelago of city-owned lots lying fallow. In New York they add up to the size of Central Park and Prospect Park together. It’s a massive untapped resource that’s impossible to visualize without contemporary mapping tools”.
Roof
Block
The thesis starts with this idea of finding empty spaces in the busy fabric of the city and carrying on architectural intervention which re-energise these spaces allowing them to become binding agents for the surrounding neighborhoods and communities. One of such early works to locate and design the empty spaces in the city and to re-energise them as urban spaces was done by Gordon Matta-Clark. 51 I 52
* Extension of the roof of Existing Buildings into New Volumes
* Plan of the new volumes created in the courtyard
* Section of the New Volumes created in the Courtyard
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* Top View showing the Exsisting Block and New Community Activities
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[ Parametric Manufacturing I Spring 2013 ]
RECIPROCAL GRID CANOPY+ The project includes a proposal for a temporary installation of a canopy, spanning 10 feet within Higgins Hall, Pratt Institute
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Computer-Aided Construction Spring 2013 I Professor Christopher Whitelaw Team: Karan Maniar, Merve Poyraz, Erdem Tuzun, Ching-Tsung Huang The project includes a proposal of a wooden canopy spanning 10 feet long and the site chosen for installation is in the stair well at Higgins Hall, Pratt Institute. The two primary things are to use Grasshopper software to generate parametric components and CNC milling as to develop individual members. The concept is to generate a three dimensionally curved surface in between the stair well and divide it into components for purpose of construction. The challenge lies in using box shapes in plan as a single component to form the canopy. The pattern generated with the blend shape in Maya and then intersected with the surface in Rhinoceros 3D and then extruded to get individual boxes which are then transferred to Grasshopper to generate connections.
* Pattern showing the arrangement of boxes in plan
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Panel
Key
Joint
Connector
Structure Groups
Construction Process
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Process Model: The 3D print model showing the boxes separated to panels and connected by central connections.
Final Model: The render shows the final canopy form separated into boxes, lighter in mass than the process ones. 67 I 68
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Professional Work I December 2007
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DESIGN GALLERY Saurasthtra University, Gujarat, India
* Model
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Art Gallery for Saurashtra University,India Professional Work I Kishore Trivedi Architect Position I Architectural Intern Project Type I Art and Cultural Institute Total built-up area I 18,000 sq. ft. (Phase 1) 12,000 sq. ft. (Phase 2) Role I Phase2 - Programmatic Arrangement, Working Drawings, Construction Details Saurashtra University being committed to spread the awareness about the heritage of art and culture of the region to the citizens of Rajkot, Gujarat and the surrounding area. As a result it came up with a project of a design gallery that would house the exhibitions and collections of eminent artist, local crafts and documented heritage work. The design approach was to create an institution which blends into the landscape contours and forms an inviting entry to the campus of Saurashtra University. As a result the functions are made to spread out and connected through corridors and courtyards. Functionally, the building is separated in three major galleries (labelled as Red, Blue and Yellow) based upon the types of arts and crafts to be hosted by the structure, which are connected through a common landscaped courtyard which acts as an interaction ground between them. Also, the gallery has various facilities like auditorium, amphitheatre, etc. to support the galleries and also to the university it is a part of.
* Study Model
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* Ground Floor Plan
* Longitudinal Section
* First Floor Plan
* Cross Section
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* View of the Metamorphosis Circle
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* Entrance Plaza
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* Model
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Professional Work I 2009 - Under Construction
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GUJARAT FORENSIC SCIENCES UNIVERSITY Competition Project - Winning Entry, Educational Institute, Gujarat, India
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Gujarat Forensic Sciences University Professional Work I Kishore Trivedi Architect, India Position I Architect Project Type I Educational Institute Total Build-up Area I 250,000 sq. ft. Role I Design Development, Details Development, Construction Drawings, Presentation Drawings, Digital Modelling, Renderings and Client Meetings
The project is floated by government of Gujarat to create an educational campus consisting of three different departments - Research & Development, Forensic Sciences and Behavioural Science and other supporting requirements, including housing facilities. The site for the project is located near to the Secretariat complex of Gujarat Government and adjacent to the Directorate of Forensic Sciences, Gujarat. The project is first Forensic Sciences University of its kind in India. The design concept dwells around the idea of creating as much of informal interaction spaces as formal ones. There is a conscious decision to blend in internal areas to the external green courts. As a result there are different pockets of open spaces catering directly to each department as well as hostel block.
* Site Plan
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* Institution Ground Floor Plan
* Institution Elevation
A. Administration B. Lecture Hall C. Classroom D. Chemistry Lab E. Toilet F. Passage G. Terrace
* View from the Waterbody
* Courtyard between Institutions
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* Institution Buildings
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Professional Work I 2009 - Under Construction
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RAJKOT NAGARIK SAHAKARI BANK Corporate Office Building, Gujarat, India
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Rajkot Nagarik Sahakari Bank Head Quarters Professional Work I Kishore Trivedi Architect, India Position I Project Architect Project Type I Corporate Office Total Build-up Area I 350,00 sq. ft. Role I Program Formulation, Conceptual Design, Working Drawings, Detail Designs, 3D Modelling, Rendering, Client Meetings, Construction Supervision, MEP Coordination The project is to design Head Office building for a private bank, housing the offices for the owners and head staff of the bank and other supporting activity such as auditorium, conference rooms and cafeteria. The site is having high real estate value and the client’s requirements are exceeding the available area. Thus, the design tried to incorporate maximum possible area available without compromising architectural features. There is also a conscious decision of placement and treatment of the front of building as a response to the front 150 feet wide road.
* Plan
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* Longitudinal Section
* Cross Section
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Professional Work I September 2013
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FUTURE RACE TRACK For Vice Magazine and F1 Lotus Group
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F1 Lotus Future Race Track Professional Work I Terreform One, NY Principal I Mitchell Joachim Position I Architectural Intern Project Type I Concept Development Role I Concept Development, Maya Modelling, Rendering and Client Presentation
The Vice group in coordination with the Lotus F1 group is making a documentary about the future of F1 racing. The word ‘future’ here means to brainstorm the ideas of what could add more dynamics to the F1 racing. As we know through the history of F1 racing there has been a lot of innovations taken place on car designs, so Terreform One decided to focus on a different aspect of the racing, the Race Track.
The concept from Grass Fields
The design tries to focus on various aspect of the track which helps in making the F1 racing more interesting for user as well as drivers. Design Features: The upper layer of track consist of ‘Cilia’ which helps in generating friction and helps in controlling car movements. Also, the track is made in various sections and has a hydraulics system installed to create more interesting racing for audience. Also, the lamp post is designed to have multiple lights and camera squids, inbuilt safety barrier and vertical axis wind turbine.
The concrete base to lift the track
The hydraulics for the local moments in the track * Layers of Elements
The track is developed in sections
The lamp posts in form of squids
The concrete safety barrier
Adding the layer of cilia surface
The concrete safety barrier and the tracks
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Light Squids
VWAT
Safety Barrier
Cilia
Sectional Track
Hydraulics 97 I 98
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