Architecture Portfolio Selected Works 2017-2020 Karthick Karuppiah
KARTHICK
KARUPPIAH
karthick.kr@caad.ac.in k_art_hick_ +91-861-032-9644
A individual , who believes that process makes more sense than the final outcome . What makes a great design in the front is the basic idea which was planted , back then when the design started evolving . Simpler the idea , better the design . My personal belief is that design to get a final outcome from a sketch is not a successful design . Designing the process of the design and eventually landing at a end result makes it a better design . More like changing each parameter to get a optimized outcome , and that bring in my inclination towards parametric design .
Karthick Karuppiah Student of Architecture
Education Chennai Academy of Architecture and Design Bachelor in Architecture Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary School
Junior High School Experience SWAT Manual presentation Resilent Refugee Hands-on workshop with Ar.Jafarkhan Grasshopper Workshop by Digitalintution.x Vaktra , NASA Lecture series by Ar.Sushanth Varma
, Ar. Madhumitha , etc.
Grasshopper Tutor at Archilab , conducted by
Ar.Saravanan Rajen
Skills Digital
General
AUTOCAD
REVIT
SKETCHUP
GRASSHOPPER
RHINO
VRAY
KEYSHOT
INDESIGN
MS OFFICE
PHOTOSHOP
ILLUSTRATOR
BLENDER
MODEL MAKING
PHOTOGRAPHY
CONTENT 01. COM-MIX BURG
MIXED USE TOWER
02. SYMBIOTIC CLUTCH
URBAN INCUBATOR FOR AGRICULTURE
03. OCTET
OPERA HOUSE / COMPETITION DESIGN
04. HILLTOP SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL
05. EXTRAS PARAMETRIC MODELING, RENDERING, DRAWING
COM M I X BURG
Mixed Use Tower Year 3 Semester 6
PLAN
@LVL +3.00
COM-MIX BURG Mixed Use Tower
This project is about bring in a vertical living space with a mix of residential , institutional and commercial spaces . the lower sector of the building consists the commercial floors and the higher part consists the residential floors . the main idea in the design is to bring a nice play of solid and voids enabling better flow of wind through the building and better lighting inside the spaces . The industrial age, however, brought new zoning laws and a stricter division between living and working spaces. The emergence of the car reinforced this trend, bringing with it an acceptance of traveling long distances between home, office, and shopping and an exodus from city living to suburban life. But now developers are once again embracing mixed-use development. People are returning to cities, and high-density development is trending. In addition, a relaxation in mixed-use zoning laws since the 1990s has helped to pave the way for architects and city planners to develop creative concepts that fulfill a variety of city dwellers’ needs in a single location.
SITE
BUILT UP AREA
SERVICE CORE
STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
VEHICULAR CIRCULATION
PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION
Concept The game of tetris forms the basis of the structure, in the game of tetris various shaped blocks are arranged in a vertical manner, which is exactly same as this design. In this design variety of functional spaces are arranged consciously in a vertical manner. The game of tetris is a two dimensional game. This is used in a building three dimensionally with the help a core in the middle of the structure. This core acts as both structural and service core in the middle. The core consists of vertical transportation elements. Then to add dynamic facade to the structure the blocks are placed 3d dimensionally using 3d-softwares with extrusions on the core. This helps the user have different spaces dynamic view from the building and a dynamic facade to the building. The block are re-arranged with voids in between them to allow air flow through the structure. It acts As pores and it allows the constant wind flow
Schematic Residential Floor Plan
COMMERCIAL PLAN
RESIDENCE PLAN
ROTATING VERTICAL LOUVER PARTITION
WALL
This rotating , and movable partition wall is used to separate spaces in residences , instead of a solid wall , this help convert smaller spaces into larger spaces and can also enable or disable visual connectivity in the interior. This also enables the flow of wind and light through the wall . As every house have a few spots of receiving natural lighting , this helps them use the natural light to its fullest This detail is patented by the inventors Bart Van De Bult , Michiel Jacobus , Johannes Langeveld , Bryan.K , Ruggles at european patent office . This details are used only for educational purposes
S E C T I O N
RESIDENTIAL FLOOR
COMMERCIAL FLOOR
SYMBIOTIC C L U T C H Urban Incubator Year 3 Semester 5
PLAN @LVL +9.50
ADMIN BLOCK
CO-LIVING BLOCK
CO-WORKING BLOCK
SYMBIOTIC CLUTCH
Urban Incubator For Agriculture The word urban incubator gives hint about the characteristics of the users . The word urban gives lead about the neighborhood context and the word incubator is used in the brief so as to mention the main function of the building as well as the drive inside the users who come to building to work. The thoughts of the person who lives in a urban scenario will be to market and sell their idea in a much profitable way and to earn money for their expenditure . A person in a urban city will also have to consider their cost of living in the city . The thoughts of the person who wants to join a incubator will be to break out the normal ideas in the society and make changes and create something new . A urban incubator is place where these two meet , where people come up with new ideas to change things and they market and sell it without getting influenced by the society , until the idea is converted into project
CONCEPT
Form And Zoning
First the site is divided into 3 parts, public semi private and private. Then it is zoned based on the privacy . There are 3 blocks co-working , co-living and the admin block . After this the site was triangulated and the triangle represented each block . They were stacked based on the requirement chart and the FSI . At this stage the schematic floor plates were derived and based on the heights of the vertices’s of each plane the roof was formed using a NURBS curve and later patched to obtain the surface . This forms the basis of the evolution of the form of the structure .
Play Of Levels The levels around the site is computer generated based on the proximity mapping of the zoning .The curves obtained from this coding were later patched . The curvature of this obtained surface were made into levels using contour command in rhino and for each .1M a riser was placed. According to the levels the function were also assigned . This helps remove the partition wall between spaces as the levels differentiate the spaces. This also makes the spaces interesting and the risers can be used to sit and have informal discussion spaces . The intent of the design was to bring in informal interaction spaces so the people of different category of work come together and have constructive discussions . And the levels in the site helps attain that .
S E C T I O N
O C T E T Shenzen Opera House Year 3 Semester 6 Competition Design
OCTET
Shenzhen Opera House As an important showcase of China’s reform and opening up, Shenzhen is a vibrant, creative and modern coastal city. Boasting the core engine of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), it is visioned to be a global benchmark that excels in competition, innovation and influence by the middle of this century. Located on top of Shenzhen Bay Park (Park on Shenzhen Bay Coastal Leisure Belt) at the south end of Shekou Peninsula in Nanshan District, the Project extends into the sea resembling a peninsula, overlooking Shenzhen Bay Highway Bridge and the skyline of Futian Center to the east, Hong Kong to the south across the sea, and Da Nanshan Mount/Xiao Nanshan Mount to the west. As a new icon of future Shenzhen and a landmark in GBA, Shenzhen Opera House will be developed into a world-class art facility, a new international platform for cultural exchanges in GBA, a new cultural landmark in the city, and a quality coastal art parlor for citizens.
CONCEPT
The theories of geometry of music is the key idea behind the design . Each musical chord is represented as a geometrical shape using the theory . Later those shapes were used to make a composition . The composition was later taken into rhino and the composition was turned into 3d without disturbing its 2d dimensional front view . This constrain help get many different forms in 3idimension and can help obtain interesting volumes. The curves were later smoothened to obtain continuous and flowing form was a iconic look .
OPERA HOUSE There are totally 3 opera hall at various level , the one on the entrance level is easy to access and thus being the main hall with maximum seating capacity and there are 2 other opera halls on the upper floors . The entrance of the opera house , is between 2 huge 3 dimensionally design concrete surfaces which give a new feel and make a new impression when the user is entering through .The transition from the exterior to the interior can be felt remarkably through the entrance . The materials used in this opera house is exposed concrete and glass . The entrance lobby is a very big lobby with full height spaces to give the user a grand feel inside . The lobby is also left undisturbed for public expos and events . The design also hold 2 other practice studios cafeteria private exhibition space .
HILLTOP SCHOOL YEAR 2 SEMESTER 4
HILLTOP SCHOOL
Primary School
There are totally 3 blocks where the main block consists of academic classroom , canteen and oat . The admin block for admission and the director and the chairman of the school , and the hostel block consists of the swimming pool , library and the hostel. The red area represents the landscape . The landscape are is continuously treated as the negative space and they were designed simultaneously as the blocks were designed. The main consideration was not to remove any prep-existing softscape features and it was consciously designed to compliment the features in site. The existing tress were used for a specific function .
Zoning
The site is divided into public , semi-private and the private zone .The admin block is in the public for easy access , the main block in the semi-private space and the hostel block in private zone for security of the students. This is done to separate the user of each block and to ensure the safety and security of the students .
Concept Initially the characteristic of small kids are written down on a sheet of paper . Then these aspect of a child are abstractly sketched and they are converted into elements of the design . These elements were used to define the characteristic of the design , this makes the design more responsive to the small children .
Landscape The admin block has a waffle roof structure to blend in through the contour of the site . The contour of the site is replicated through the roof and makes it responsive to the site .Roof garden on the roof makes it more pleasing and reduces the direct sunlight on the roof . The existing trees are use to screen the privacy the block from the open surrounding and well as give scenic views from the inside ,man made landscape feature screen students from going to the edge of the contour hence ensuring safety
S E C T I O N
HOSTEL BLOCK SECTION
MAIN BLOCK SECTION
CONCEPT SKETCHES Outdoor shopping Experience
Movement of lines
Hampi trail
Queens Bath, Hampi
BRIHADESHWARA TEMPLE DOT RENDERING , 1ST YEAR
GLIMPSE THROUGH THE JOURNAL
Vitra Fire Station
Heydar Aliyev Center
SC Johnson Wax Research Tower
RENDERING
DRAWINGS
“ T h e r e A r e 3 6 0 D e g r e e s , S o W h y S t i c k To O n e ? ” -
Zaha
Hadid