Kalyani Jane Bhatt Rice Architecture M. Arch, 2020
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2019
2018
2017
2016
Stretch and Face
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Cutting Edges
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Writer's Block
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Unit Aggregation
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Organizing Voids
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Solid/Void Inversion Study
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Case Study: Municipal Library, Alvaro Siza
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Club Life: Urban Compound
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Case Study: Vitrahaus, Herzog & de Meuron
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Slice and Shift: Spatial Relationships
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Intimate Gallery Spaces
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Studio Work
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Stretch and Face
Our project positions the Auxiliary Dwelling Unit (ADU) as a housing type which should assert its physicality and presence at the street level. Typically positioned behind single-family homes and often hidden from view, ADUs in Houston are a more affordable housing type, and one which can aid in the densification of already-built neighborhoods throughout the city. The form of each ADU is specific to its site, as its linear dimensions and the rotation angle of the diagonal wall are derived from the lot length and shape, as well as the location of the primary dwelling and available backyard space. We approach the issue of visibility by positioning the ADU's entrace at the end of the driveway where it will be highly visible to those passing by. As the driveway and cars become obsolete, this allows the driveway to transition to an additional type of outdoor living space.
penetrate the wall assembly. The wall assembly consisting of the Stretch Studs and custom-cut bridging is designed to achieve maximum insulating values while reducing the amount of thermal bridging. Like the Miura-Ori facade, the stretch studs come in three sizes so they can be recombined to achieve the desired wall length. Project Partners: Sarah Lumelsky and Steve Hu Prototype for an Auxiliary Dwelling Unit (ADU) which can be adapted to over 10,000 sites across four Houston neighborhoods. The units each contain a living space, kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom, and are equipped with a solar array on the flat roof and battery storage.
The facade, a tesselated form derived from the Japanese Miura-Ori folding pattern, is used to call attention to the ADU and provide a mechanism for self-shading of the facade. The forty-five degree angle tilt and smaller surface area of the sky-facing tiles reduce the amount of solar radation able to Fall 2019
Kalyani Bhatt, Sarah Lumelsky, and Steve Hu
Professor Andrew Colopy
Front elevation, structural model 1/2" = 1'-0"
PROPERTY OFFSET
Taxonomic logic showing the ADU and its relation to the primary dwelling
Potential ADU deployment in a neighborhood. Sites were identified in Grasshopper, using parameters set up during design which included the requirement of a primary dwelling on the site.
An array of possible ADU configurations, using outputs from the parametric site selection process. 5
Typical Plan 1/16" = 1'-0"
Fall 2019
Kalyani Bhatt, Sarah Lumelsky, and Steve Hu
Professor Andrew Colopy
View from bedroom into backyard
Massing model showing relation to primary dwelling: 1/8" = 1'-0"
Typical Roof Plan 1/16" = 1'-0"
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South Elevation 3/16" = 1'-0"
North/South Section, facing West 3/8"= 1'-0"
Fall 2019
Kalyani Bhatt, Sarah Lumelsky, and Steve Hu
Professor Andrew Colopy
East Elevation 3/16" = 1'-0"
East/West Section, facing North 3/8"= 1'-0"
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2X10 Rim Joists 2X10 joists 24” O.C.
9'-8 1/8"
9'-8 1/2"
9'-9"
2'-6"
3'
9'-7 1/2"
2'
Sheathing attachment points 4” O.C. 2X6 Top Plate 4” Studs made from 1” plywood
2X6 Bracing 3/4” Tongue and Groove Sheathing 2X6 Sill Plate
6” Concrete foundation
Structural Framing Diagram foundation, sheathing, wall and roof framing with details
Fall 2019
Kalyani Bhatt, Sarah Lumelsky, and Steve Hu
Professor Andrew Colopy
Above: full-scale mockup Below: details of mockup focusing on Miura-ori facade and stretch stud to framing connections
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Fabrication of custom cut bridging and stretch studs
Stretch studs are attached to 2x6 frame with screws and custom-cut bridging, then framing is lifted and attached to foundation
Facade is brought to site, unrolled to the pre-determined angle and size, then attached through tongue and groove plywood sheathing to the bridging and framing studs
Fall 2019
Kalyani Bhatt, Sarah Lumelsky, and Steve Hu
Professor Andrew Colopy
Fabrication of facade with plywood panels attached through ballistic nylon or other foldable waterproof fabric
Fabrication of facade using large-format 3-D printer, using two substrates, one for the rigid panels and one for the flexible substrate
Test of 3-D Printed facade option
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SUBSTRATE FOLDED AROUND PARAPET RAINSCREEN FABRIC SUBSTRATE
ROOF MEMBRANE ROOF INSULATION (R-38) 2X10 ROOF FRAMING RIM JOIST 2X10 ROOF JOIST (EXPOSED TO BELOW)
RAINSCREEN FACADE PANEL
3/4" SHEATHING WEATHER BARRIER MECHANICAL FASTENER JOIST HANGER
3/4" TONGUE IN GROOVE PLYWOOD SHEATHING
J MOLDING 5 1/2" SPRAY FOAM INSULATION (R-22)
4" STUD MADE FROM 1" PLYWOOD 3/4" TONGUE IN GROOVE PLYWOOD SHEATHING 5/8" GWB 2X6 FRAMING
MECHANICAL FASTENER CUSTOM BRIDGING CUT FROM 2X6
MECHANICAL FASTENER
NOTE: HURRICANE STRAPPING AS REQUIRED BY CODE
SILL PLATE WITH DOWEL CONNECTION TO FOUNDATION SILL PLATE SEALANT 3/4" TONGUE IN GROOVE WOOD FLOORING ON SLEEPERS AND MEMBRANE
BUG SCREEN
6" CONCRETE FOUNDATION VAPOR BARRIER STRUCTURAL FILL EDGE BEAM
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Kalyani Bhatt, Sarah Lumelsky, and Steve Hu
9" Professor Andrew Colopy
5/8" GWB 5/8" GWB5/8" GWB 5/8" GWB
SPRAY FOAM INSULATION
5 1/2" SPRAY FOAM SPRAY FOAM SPRAY INSULATION FOAM INSULATION INSULATIONSTRUCTURAL (R-22) BRIDGING MADE FROM 2X6 LUMBE
CUSTOM BRIDGING CUTFROM STRUCTURAL STRUCTURAL BRIDGINGBRIDGING MADE MADE 2X6FROM LUMBER 2X6 LUMBE FROM 2X6 4" PLYWOOD STRUCTURE (MADE FROM 1" PLYWO 4" STUD MADE FROM 1" FROM 4" PLYWOOD 4" PLYWOOD STRUCTURE STRUCTURE (MADE (MADE 1" PLYWOOD) FROM 1" PLYWO PLYWOOD 3/4" TONGUE AND GROOVE PLYWOOD SHEATHIN 3/4" TONGUE GROOVE 3/4" TONGUE 3/4" IN AND TONGUE GROOVE AND PLYWOOD GROOVE PLYWOOD SHEATHING SHEATHIN WEATHER BARRIER PLYWOOD SHEATHING WEATHER WEATHER BARRIER BARRIER WEATHER BARRIER
RAINSCREEN PANEL RAINSCREEN RAINSCREEN PANEL PANEL RAINSCREEN PANEL MECHANICAL FASTENER
MECHANICAL FASTENER MECHANICAL MECHANICAL FASTENER FASTENER RAINSCREEN FABRIC SUBSTRATE RAINSCREEN FABRIC RAINSCREEN RAINSCREEN FABRIC SUBSTRATE FABRIC SUBSTRATE SUBSTRATE
Detailed Wall Section, Elevation, Plan 1" = 1'-0"
Structural Model Stretch studs, framing, sheathing, and facade 1/2" = 1'-0" 15
5/8” GWB 2x6 Framing
Stretch Studs
2x6 Bridging
5-1/2” Spray Foam Insulation
3/4” Tongue and Groove Plywood Sheathing
Weather Barrier
Miura Rainscreen Mechanical Fastener
Mechanical Fastener
Wall Assembly: Miura-Ori facade, weather barrier, tongue and groove plywood sheathing, insulation, custom bridging from 2x4, stretch studs, 2x6 framing, GWB
Wall framing with bridging detail
Fall 2019
Kalyani Bhatt, Sarah Lumelsky, and Steve Hu
Professor Andrew Colopy
Miura-Ori Facade test model 1/8" plywood and ballistic nylon, scaled to 1/4" = 1" 24" x 36" This prototype was used to test various degrees of folding to observe the effects on the overall dimensions of a facade segment. 17
Cutting Edges
Alexanderplatz
Given the proposal to re-envision Alexanderplatz through a podium building to increase density at the center of Berlin, this project explores the role of directional circulation in creating movement to join both the plaza and street sides of the site. Ramps originating at both Alexanderplatz and Alexanderstraße draw activity from both fronts into the building. The relationship of both the Alexanderplatz and Alexanderstraße facades to the primary circulation is treated as the same. Spring 2019
If circulation slopes cut and divide floor plates, these slopes become a site of visual and programmatic exchange. The slopes which originate from the Alexanderplatz and Alexanderstraße facades increase and shift the points of entry on each level to increase visual and physical connections to adjacent programs.
program visual interaction can occur. Both primary and secondary Circulation divide the program areas and become spaces from which to observe and look into adjacent programs. By surrounding major programs with circulation pathways, the points of entry into each program are increased.
Ramps lengthen time to move in both horizontal and the vertical directions, Increasing the planes upon which crossProfessor Ron Witte
AlexanderstraĂ&#x;e
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A series of adjacent pedestrian ramps connect various points of the Alexanderplatz and Alexanderstraße to the second and third floors, drawing life from the street and plaza into the numerous public areas of the complex.
Looking across Alexanderplatz, the project frames the plaza and curates a pedestrian transition to Alexanderstraße.
Spring 2019
Later in the evening, exiting towards Alexanderstraße
Professor Ron Witte
Stepping out of the cafe into a main circulation pathway
From the street, a continuous view through the transportation zone to Alexanderplatz
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Circulation Slopes originating from Alexanderplatz Slopes originating from Alexanderstraáşže
Spring 2019
Professor Ron Witte
Program Food Coworking Institutional Commercial Garden
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Level 3 1:4000
Level 2 1:4000
Level 1 1:4000
Street and Plaza Level 1:4000 Spring 2019
Professor Ron Witte
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Writer's Block
Micro-housing is short on square feet, but it is also troublingly short on the amount of spatial and social conditions available for its tenants. If micro-housing is to be successful, tenants should be able to access a range of spatial and social conditions, given they spend more time than sleeping in the building. Writer's Block proposes a unit with two distinct zones of spatial conditions that can be blurred, and an array of multifunctional rooms hanging outside every tenant's front door.
takes it to the fourth floor and thinks, just another Thursday night. Project Partner: Mitch Mackowiak 123 micro-units and 10,000 square feet of public space for the Center for Fiction, totaling 30,000 square feet
These rooms belong to the Center of Fiction, too. Microhousing is small and nimble enough to enjoy a more acrobatic mixed-use relationship than the traditional podium tower within cramped city lots. The Center for Fiction hangs alongside the housing. As the two zones within each unit mix to create a range of spatial qualities, the two building users, tenants and Center for Fiction visitors and members, disperse among the rooms to create a range of social conditions. An office worker returning from another drab nine-to-five hears a poet enchanting 150 people in the auditorium as she beelines for the elevator and Fall 2018
Kalyani Bhatt and Mitch Mackowiak
Professor Troy Schaum
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Ashland Place Elevation 1/16" = 1'-0"
Fall 2018
Kalyani Bhatt and Mitch Mackowiak
Professor Troy Schaum
Courtyard Elevation 1/16" = 1'-0"
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Fall 2018
Kalyani Bhatt and Mitch Mackowiak
Professor Troy Schaum
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First Floor: Center for Fiction Library, offices, public restrooms 1/32" = 1'-0"
Ground Floor: Center for Fiction Cafe, meeting spaces, theater 1/32" = 1'-0"
Fall 2018
Kalyani Bhatt and Mitch Mackowiak
Professor Troy Schaum
ALUMINUM FLASHING
3-PLY CLT PANEL
SLOPED DRAINAGE SURFACE
COPING
INSULATION 7-PLY CLT PANEL 2” RIGID FOAM INSULATION INTERIOR FINISH
COPING ALUMINUM FLASHING 3-PLY CLT PANEL
Typical Housing A 1/32" = 1'-0"
FLOOR PANELING SCREED INSULATION 7-PLY CLT PANEL 2” RIGID FOAM INSULATION INTERIOR FINISH THERMAL BREAK WATERPROOF TILING
FLOOR PANELING SCREED INSULATION 10” CONCRETE FLOOR 2” RIGID FOAM INSULATION INTERIOR FINISH
ALUMINUM FLASHING ALUMINUM RAINSCREEN PANEL CLADDING STRUCTURAL SYSTEM AIR GAP 2” RIGID FOAM INSULATION CONTINUOUS VAPOR BARRIER 5-PLY CLT PANELS FURRING 5/8” GYP BOARD PANEL ALUMINUM RAINSCREEN PANEL CLADDING STRUCTURAL SYSTEM AIR GAP 2” RIGID FOAM INSULATION CONTINUOUS VAPOR BARRIER 6” CONCRETE WALLS FURRING 5/8” GYP BOARD PANEL
FLOOR FINISH SCREED INSULATION 10” CONCRETE FLOOR 2” RIGID FOAM INSULATION INTERIOR FINISH
FLOOR FINISH SCREED INSULATION 10” CONCRETE FLOOR
8” CONCRETE WALLS CONTINUOUS VAPOR BARRIER FURRING 2” RIGID FOAM INSULATION 5/8” GYP BOARD PANEL
DRILLED CONCRETE PIERS
CONCRETE FOOTING AT BEDROCK
Typical Housing B
Detailed Facade Section
1/32" = 1'-0"
3/32" = 1'-0"
3/16” = 1’-0”
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Unit Aggregation
Fall 2018
Professor Troy Schaum
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Organizing Voids
Austin Branch Public LIbrary This project explores the relationship between two types of voids and how they organize space around them. I define the atrium as a full-height void, open to the air, whereas the courtyard is one floor in height. The atrium is accessible only on the ground floor, while the courtyard exists as a void only on the top floor, although the shape of the courtyard is traced and expressed on lower floors as the main public space of each floor.
Fall 2017
Professor Ajay Manthripragada
Two types of voids: atrium and courtyard
Floor plates and enlarged core structural system
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Third Floor: Maker Space, Classroom, Projection room Ground Floor: CIrculation and Special Collections
Fall 2017
Professor Ajay Manthripragada
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Fall 2017
Professor Ajay Manthripragada
Wall Assembly: Poured in place concrete load-bearing exterior walls with 2" rigid foam insulation. Total wall assembly 16". 8" floor plates with 16" pan joists, curtain wall enclosing atrium and courtyard.
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Looking down into the atrium
Fall 2017
Professor Ajay Manthripragada
Looking up through the atrium
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Solid/Void Inversion Study
Fall 2017
Professor Ajay Manthripragada
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Case Study: Municipal Library, Alvaro Siza
Municipal Library Viana do Castelo, Portugal Alvaro Siza, 2008 Teammates: Carlos Eric Inigo and Shuo Jiang
Fall 2017
Professors Carlos Jimenez, Dawn Finley, and Ajay Manthripragada
Municipal Library Viana do Castelo, Portugal. Alvaro Siza, 2008 A503 . Fall 2017 . Rice School of Architecture . Kalyani Bhatt, Shuo Jiang, Carlos IĂąigo
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Club Life: Urban Compound
Club Life is the remix of typologies and user groups. The 24-hour enclave is the synthesis of a health club, meeting spaces for children and adults in the afternoons, and a club and lounge at night. The site is bordered by a residential neighborhood and a commercial district, both of which inform the site as a place of connection and separation. The arrangement of multiple forms will create individuated spaces to address the multiplicity of programs and their spatial needs. Different activities require differentiated zones and spatial typologies. This will result in a scheme that retains the object-ness of the parts while creating a new figure as the forms are joined.
Spring 2017
Professor Mark Wamble
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Spring 2017
Professor Mark Wamble
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Level 1
Level 0
Spring 2017
Professor Mark Wamble
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Spring 2017
Professor Mark Wamble
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Case Study: Vitrahaus, Herzog & de Meuron
The arrangement of forms organizes the internal relationships. Staircases organize interior relationships between blocks, and occur when blocks overlap.
Spring 2017
Professor Mark Wamble
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Slice and Shift: Spatial Relationships
To increase the adjacencies of program types and create an environment for greater collaboration between the Center for Contemporary Studies, visiting scholars, and the public, slicing the building and shifting the parts vertically and horizontally along the cut lines realigns the relationship between programs, resulting in a circulation connection between half-floors and across that same cut line. The Center hosts multiple programs including a cafe, auditorium, exhibition space, classrooms, offices for visiting faculty, and library.
Fall 2016
Professor Ron Witte
Administration 3.5 Institute 3
Classrooms, Library Academic
Visitor Offices Academic 2.5
2 Exhibit, Work, Classrooms Academic/Institute/Public
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Exhibit Public/Academic
Auditorium, Cafe
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Public
initial form
primary cut
secondary cut
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Floors 3, 3.5
Floors 2, 2.5
Floors 1, 1.5 Fall 2016
Professor Ron Witte
View of primary split from above floors 3 and 3.5
Between floors 2 and 2.5
Floor 1.5, with views of floors 1 and 2 61
Intimate Gallery Spaces
By creating visual barriers so that the galleries are separated from their adjacent support spaces, the galleries will act as individual and independent entities. To separate the two galleries, my design was based on the relationships between the galleries and walls.
Fall 2016
Professor Ron Witte
View from exterior into lobby
View of large gallery space
Looking into small gallery space
Large Exhibition Large Exhibition
Small Exhibition Small Exhibition
Level 0
Level 1
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2019
Aligned-Grid Drawing Studies
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2018
Modern Architecture in Post-Independence India
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2018
Dichotomy and Oppositions at the Fondazione Prada
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2014
Mapping American Artist Anne Whitney's European Travels
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Research
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Aligned-Grid Drawing Studies
Zollverein School of Management Sanaa, 2006
Fall 2019
Professor Troy Schaum
New Museum Sanaa, 2007
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Villa Stein-de Monzie Le Corbusier, 1927
Fall 2019
Professor Troy Schaum
Villa Savoye Le Corbusier, 1931
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Modern Architecture in Post-Independence India My travel focused on modern architecture in India during the post-Independence period from 1947-1983 by Indian and Western architects. During this time period, India worked to create its image as a modern democratic country. Chandigarh epitomizes the relationship between modern architecture and the newly-formed Indian government. At the Chandigarh City Museum, which focuses on the city's conception, I learned how Nehru solicited Western modernists to design the city. The government wanted a new city which would symbolize India's aspirational goals for democracy and the national desire for a place on the world stage. Chandigarh also provided opportunities for Indian architects. BV Doshi was hired to work in Le Corbusier's Paris office, and he provided vital cultural insight as to how citizens would use the outdoor spaces. Cultural institutions in New Delhi hired American architects to design their centers. Indian architects who worked with the western architects reflect western modernism in their own work while reflecting the Indian context. Habib Rahman's Rabindra Bhavan references Mughal architecture in New Delhi. Doshi's IIM Bangalore campus draws on images from Fatehpur Sikri and its courtyards which disrupt the expected interior/exterior dichotomy.
Top, Adalaj Stepwell, Ahmedabad (1498); bottom, Lodhi Gardens, New Delhi (begun 1400s).
Summer 2018
Morris R. Pitman Award in Architecture
Rows from top to bottom: Indian Institute of Science Bangalore auditorium (Otto Kรถnigsberger, NB Bhatt, 1946); India International Centre, New Delhi (Joseph Allen Stein, 1962); Chandigarh Capitol Complex (Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, 1950s); Kanchanjunga Apartments, Mumbai (Charles Correa, 1983); University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore library (Achyut Kanvinde, 1969); Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi (Habib Rahman, 1961); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, interior (BV Doshi, 1983); Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, exterior (Louis Kahn, 1974); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (BV Doshi, 1983). 71
Dichotomy and Oppositions at the Fondazione Prada
"Two conditions that are usually kept separate here confront each other in a state of permanent interaction – offering an ensemble of fragments that will not congeal into a single image, or allow any part to dominate the others. New, old, horizontal, vertical, wide, narrow, white, black, open, enclosed – all these contrasts establish the range of oppositions that define the new Fondazione." - OMA, "Fondazione Prada," http://oma.eu/projects/fondazione-prada. This model investigates the spatial relationship and organization of different types of spaces within the Fondazione Prada complex. Previously existing buildings, indicated here in blue, are organized linearly, with a strong sense of separate rooms connected by enfilade. The inserted OMA buildings, in yellow, confront the organization and interior circulation of the adapted factory buildings.
Spring 2018
Professor Christopher Hight
As with OMA's Parc de la Villette proposal, Fondazione Prada consists of disparate programs and produces a congestion by placing these disparate programs in direct contact. Further manipulation of the ground plane choreographs the congestion and circulation. This creates a situation not unlike Raymond Hood's Rockefeller Center, which Koolhaas writes about in Delirious New York (1978).
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Mapping American Artist Anne Whitney's European Travels
Musacchio, Jacqueline Marie, Jenifer Bartle, David McClure, and Kalyani Bhatt. "Mapping the "White, Marmorean Flock": Anne Whitney Abroad, 1867–1868." Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 13, no. 2 (Autumn 2014). My research was presented at the 2014 Tanner Conference, Wellesley College Digital Scholarship Day 2014, and the 2014 Wellesley College Reunion.
This article illustrates the travels of nineteenth-century American sculptor Anne Whitney, who lived and worked in Italy during the politically turbulent years of the 1860s. I became involved with the Anne Whitney project in an advanced seminar in which we transcribed and annotated letters between Whitney, her friends, family, and other artists of the time. Following this course, I completed an independent study with Professor Jacki Musacchio of the Wellesley College Art History Department, in which a basic timeline of Whitney's life was created and published online. In my role as an assistant researcher for this publication, I organized content for the interactive timeline portion of the article, which involved sourcing contemporaneous newspaper articles, images, and descriptions in literature.
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Whitney, Anne and Wellesley College Archives, "Letter from Anne Whitney, Zell's Platte, Switzerland, 1867 September 10" (1867). Papers of Anne Whitney (MSS.4): Correspondence. 142.
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2014
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2014
Painting
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2013
Three-Dimensional
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2011
Drawing
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Undergraduate Work
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Untitled Oil on canvas, 60" x 72" Advanced Painting Spring 2014
Professor Daniela Rivera
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Spring 2014
Professor Daniela Rivera
Void Oil on canvas, 20" x 20" Advanced Painting
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Spring 2014
Professor Daniela Rivera
Base, Cloudy Saturday Oil on canvas, 12" x 14" Advanced Painting
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Off, Cloudy Saturday Oil on canvas, 12" x 14" Advanced Painting
Spring 2014
Professor Daniela Rivera
Rail, Cloudy Saturday Oil on canvas, 12" x 14" Advanced Painting
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Repeated Objects Cardboard and clay, 12" x 12" Three-Dimensional Design
Fall 2013
Professor Andrew Mowbray
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Weighted Cloud Styrafoam and toothpicks, 30" x 16" Three-Dimensional Design
Fall 2013
Professor Andrew Mowbray
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Shells Cast plaster, 12" x 12" Three-Dimensional Design
Fall 2013
Professor Andrew Mowbray
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Carlotta Unpacked Charcoal on paper, 18" x 24" Drawing I
Fall 2016
Professor Heddi Siebel
Open Window/Stairwell Charcoal on paper, 18" x 24" Drawing I
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Kalyani Jane Bhatt kj1bhatt@gmail.com 862.204.1072