SELECTED WORKS Krati maurya / 2018-2021
DIGGING AND FLYING OYSTER FARMS
STUDIO PROFESSOR: NEIL DENARI
The project is situated in Governor’s Island, where the Billion Oyster Project is based. The organization aims to plant 100 Billion oysters by 2025 to clean the New York harbor. This project’s scope is an Oyster Farm that aims to become an extension of this organization. Our studio’s program was to explore the concept of digging and flying, which inspired this project to be approached in three zones based on moisture content. An evidence-based study was also conducted on how the structure, sub-structure, and super-structure of oil rigs are inter-connected. The study also revealed how oil rigs can be uprooted and transported to different locations. A play of words led to the irony that though these oil rigs are used for extraction, this project aims to give back to the environment it is located in. Additionally, this oyster farm’s spatial program is also meant to display this space almost as a science project for Maritime schools and other educational purposes. This project also incorporates the study of volumes and how they function and form a layered effect – almost like the connection of a point, line, and tangent. These layers give a sense of body, dynamics, and ergonomics, and their functions as a well-oiled machine. This leads us to understand how the body and the environment communicate to each other and create a cohesive ecosystem, which can be extracted and re-located to cater to its environmental needs. Thus, the water here, adds an analogical purpose to the structure.
Floor Plan: Eplaning the innterconnection of pavillions and platforms.
Axon view / Oyster farms
Aerial view of Oyster farms
Top to Bottom: Explaning the circultion of the platforms and the pavillions and the relation of the oyster farms.
CRISICITY: URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANT + OYSTER FARMS STUDIO PROFESSOR: ALEXANDRA BARKER
Evolution of the terrestrial sphere has seen an existential crisis of mankind. We as human race have contributed enormous genocide to the various ecosystems leading to anthropocene and hence to preserve the natural evolution it is obligatory to add sustainable and meaningful development. The Greenway Master Plan [GRID] (Green Resilient Industrial District) houses many projects out of which the Geothermal power plant amplifies around the idea of retaining the existing factories. The focal point of the geothermal plant is to encourage green manufacturing and dispense jobs to the local community at Sunset Park. The project approach revolves around preserving the existing industrial disposition adjoining the greenway master plan.The existing building envelope was treated like a shell which encapsulates the idea of a weathering ship’s hull, the complex systems like conduits, machinery, and ductwork required for the plant and the systems catering to green architecture are packed in this envelope. The wastewater generated from the geothermal plant avails itself for algae cultivation running at the bottom of the complex geometry of the pipes.
Monatge View of the Geothermal Powerplant from the Ferry
Ground Plan of Geothermal Plant
Site Plan
Long Section / Geothermal Power Plant
Chunk Model: Diagonal Conduits Habiting the Geothermal power plant and the circulation
Aerial View / Geothermal Powerplant
Aquaponics
WASTE TO ENERGY + RECYCLING CENTRE AQUAPONICS AND BOTANICAL GARDEN STUDIO PROFESSOR : DYLAN BAKER-RICE STUDIO PARTNER : SOHHEE OH
The project is a waste-to-energy + recycling centre located in the Brooklyn Navy Yards. The design merges the native wetland with industrial processing system by connecting them through public circulation that weaves through both the interior and exterior to as a kind of experiential diagram of interconnected material waste and renewall streams. The formal design derives from casting vessels which could then allow the systems and process machines to occupy for their core functions while connecting with one another through a network of pipes that penetrate the building shells. Like living creatures occupying and appropriating their environment as it is, the systems occupy the best of what’s available imperfectly while smaller organisms make use of the diminishing left over space. It’s an assemblage of components that evolves into something richer and more robustly interconnected with time. The inclusion of a botanical garden and aquaponic fishery temperature regulated by the waste processing system, and each contributing to combined material collage, highlights the aesthetic of system.
Cross Section: Explaining the Recycling centre and Exhibition Centre.
Floor Plans Top to Bottom: 1.Recycling Centre and Waste to Energy Power Plant. 2.Botanical Garden and Vertical Farming
Cross Section: Explaining the Recycling centre and Botanical garden
Chunk Model Top to Bottom: Explaning the circultion of the vertical farming and Incinerator
Long Section: Explaining the circulation of the Incinerator and the botanical Garden and vertical Farming
Photo Montage: Street View of Residential tower in Downtown Brooklyn
URBAN QUALITIES AND MATERIALITY: URBAN HOUSING CO.ED AFFORDABLE HOUSING STUDIO PROFESSOR: KUTAN AYATA
The project deals with the exterior trying to blend with the urban context and the interior acting as one single entity. The aim of the project was to understand how the negative spaces could start building as a habitable space. The project further deals with understanding the correlation between habitable and inhabitable spaces and develop a co-living space. A 40-story housing project located in Downtown Brooklyn. This project deals with the amalgamation of different typologies of housing. It further develops the correlation between the interiority and the exteriority of the residential spaces and the public spaces. The aim of the project was to develop an understanding between the in-between spaces and how they
Top to Bottom: Mid-Floor Plan and Top Floor PlanCo.ed Living spaces with Roof Gardens- The circles meeting the tanget lines create a co.habiting space and space for gathering and inetraction.
Top to Bottom: 1.Detail Strip section of Facade 2. Detailed Plan
Left to Right: 1 & 2. Panel Detail 3. Roof Garden detail
INTERIORITIES AND CONTEXTS MARITIME SCHOOL
STUDIO PROFESSOR: MARIA SIEIRA
This design studio addresses a specific site through the interior. It emphasizes the related conceptual and material impacts of this inside out approach. Circulation and its material and spatial qualities are explored through the design of a small building that responds to a detailed ensembled of architecture programs and the multiple context of a local institution.
The school is lifted above the flooding plane so that the ground level of the school is continious with the surrounding urban ground and park. Within the school, the spaces are organised arround exaggerated circulation spaces, which become more important than the classrooms themselves. Special care is taken to not let that ground be shaded and become an unpleasant space, by carving through the building and letting sunlight penetrate all the way down to the ground floor and through the southern face that face the park.
Floor Plan: Exploring the Interior and Exterior Spaces.
Top to Bottom: 1. Section: Explaining the circulation spaces amd the Interactive Corridors becoming classrooms. 2. The models explore the Carving of interior and exterior spaces and blending them together. 3. Speculative Flood Plain View.
MEDIA AND METHODS PAVILLION
STUDIO PROFESSOR: RYAN BROOKE THOMAS
This studio is an introduction to the fundamental concepts, processes and skills required for architectural design. with a series of abstract yet non-reductive exercise the project will create and discuss formal, spatial and material relations. Spatial inclusion Pavillion : To develop a space meant to enhance the sensual experience, visual experience and perpetual experience. with the help of the space syntax, the project includes axiality, centrality, symmetry, rhythm congurence and repetion in the design.
Long Section: The section deals with how the contour lines meet each other to create tangency and axiality.
NEW INTERIORITIES CIRCULATION
STUDIO PROFESSOR: HART MARLOW
This course introduces students to contemporary mediums, methods and theories of how digital tools impact basic concepts of architectural representation and experience. This course introduces students to advanced methods of architectural modeling, drawing and visual communication. The focus of the course emphasizes multimedia methods of modeling and drawing. Topics include the introduction of composite modeling/fabrication/assembly, composite visualization, methods of developing Building Information Models (BIM) and methods for scripting within various modeling environment. This project for me catered to learning softwares like grasshopper and Revit and exploring theses softwares to create a rather versatile design approach rather than the conventional method.
ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION NO-BOUNDARY SCHOOL
STUDIO PROFESSOR: ABHIJIT SAHASRABUDHE
My thesis proposes a school where students gather to learn which becomes a means of passage for the exchange of information between the city & the isolated community. To create a campus which ignites the senses and the natural curiosity of children, to have a place where innovation, creativity and learning flourishes. A school which provides learning a new meaning and develops the students creativeness in every possible field which interests them. Like any institution, the school must cater two audiences: its users and the public. A formal education: a school consisting of lecture space for children of age 3 to 18 years old. Alternative education: a school consisting of alternative learning spaces for performing arts, literature, sports, agriculture etc. Which will let students identify their strength and weakness. Accommodation: as the school is a distant learning system it will also cater to their residential needs.
Site Plan: Grown-ups see space more on form, functions and aesthetics though kids see the space more on its function as opposed to how it looks. As indicated by the hypothesis of a child’s cognitive advancement and writing on kids’ perceptual psychol-ogy, buildings which are designed with an adults perception may not create feeling connection, thus the kids aren’t able to create sense of belongingness in the design. Accordingly kids feel bored to go to schools. At the end of the day, the design neglects to animate the kids’ intellectual working, and has insufficient space for physical activities and networking to their own control. Thus the schools designed in keeping mind of how a child’s brain works towards a space and how he feels more connected, is the school which makes learning more fun and easy for the child.
ISO[NATION] AND HOMETOWN STUDENT COMPETITIONS
ISO[NATION] / #M000 ARC During this outbreak of COVID-19, most people across the world have been working from home. While a lot of health workers putting themselves on the line to save those who are suffering, as a community of architects, we can contribute more to the society. It is only natural for our creative minds wonder how we could transform our living spaces into a better home office during this period. In this competition, we want your creative output in designing your own home-office. HOMETOWN / ARCHISOURCE A collective drawing challenge creating a giant tessellated isometric drawing from creatives around the world! A collaborative insight into your staying-home experiences!
HOMETOWN: Working with the idea of hyper reality.
ISO[NATION]: Working with the idea of Building a home during the times of COVID-19
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