Nisa Punjabi Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio

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URBAN HOUSING AND AGGREGATION Reconciling urban design goals and the metrics that frame housing design. Rather than starting with the outside-in issues of urban design and site orientation, design will begin by understanding the way that the building and accessibility code and the real estate market can inuence the fundamental design approach of a project. NEUKOLLN HOUSING PROJECT Study abroad studio in the city of Berlin, Germany : Understand the challenges of designing contemporary building types in parallel situations.

COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN STUDIO This project focuses on the materials and making of architecture. Considers architectural connections at all scales, from the nut and bolt to the scale of a door or window to the scale of the whole building and the city. Grounds design proposals upon a tectonic strategy, unlike traditional design studios that produce a schematic design before considering constructional ideas. CO-OP TAO ARCHITECTURE + INTERIORS Hotel apartment interior architecture.

CO-OP TAO ARCHITECTURE + INTERIORS Furniture mall at Dubai Design District

ADVANCED ARCH. COMMUNICATIONS Builds on computer-aided design skills to develop ability to model in three dimensions and develop surfaces and lighting. Also addresses strategies in design communication for effective presentation of digital material.

PHOTOGRAPHY Capturing architectural photography.

THINKING WITH TYPE Using typography as the basis of graphic design and visual communication.


URBAN HOUSING AND AGGREGATION



URBAN HOUSING AND AGGREGATION

High density in the city is likely to be the biggest obstacle when people are trying to choose a city life which could be more convenient than a suburban life. This project is about creating a new life style in a high density situation, and adaptable for the various kinds of demand of the people who has been struggling between living in the city and living in the suburb.


Boston Skyline

Branches / Leaves

Branches / Leaves

Trunk

Living with the tree

Flexibility

CONCEPT

Green entry sequence


Adapted to be an appartment

Adapted to be an office space

Rotate

Push / Pull

Adapting to the needs

Space to be rented


UNIT CONFIGERATIONS 38’

20’

8‘-4” 840 SF UNIT

8‘-11”

One bedroom apt.

Two bedroom apt.

Two bedroom apt.

35’

20’

6‘-8”

750 SF UNIT

8‘-10” Three bedroom apt.

Office

Each unit can have up to a maxiumum of three bedrooms. The client will have the freedom to design the interior as pleased. In addition to the flexibility provided within one unit, the client also has the choice of combining two units to create a larger apartment, by simply opening a door. No additional costs is required for this change.

Apartment with office

The Legend

Movable wall Potential entrance


THE APARTMENT

Apartment concepts

Compact mobile shelving Each unit is provided with four compact mobile shelves with sliding doors. the house transforms into several different configerations depending on the needs of the occupants. It could be reconfigures in minutes or changed over a period of years to meet the changing needs of a family/ client. The Plumbing: All the plumbing is located in cores making it cost effective. This also frees up space within the unit.

Circulation: Three types of circulation. 1) Egress 2) Green circulation 3) Corridor Space

Communal Space: Vertical gardens create a communal space. Balconies create private outdoor space.

Natural light: Skylight and communal space brings light into the center of the building.

Three units.

Two Units


DN

DN

UP

Private Outdoor Area

Skylight above

Connection Point

Pause

Typical Floor Plan

Movable wall

Entrance to unit


3 bedroom apt. DN

DN

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3 bedroom apt.

Typical Floor Plan adapted to the needs of client.

Movable Walls

Entrance to unit


Roof

Level 5

Level 4

Level 3 Level 2 Green space entrance

Massing

Mass

Two volumes

Green entry space

Push pull to accomodate the tree

Outside inside experience


ELEVATION

DN

DN UP UP

Open Facade

DN

DN UP UP

Closed Facade

The free running balcony is shaded with movable wood shutters. This allows for flexibility on many levels : passive heating and cooling, shading, and privacy. The elevation becomes dynamic and changes over the course of time.



SITE STRATEGY Buildings are placed on the site according to the rules illustrated below. The strategy allows the client to experience visual satisfaction throughout the site. This allows us to achieve a dense footprint, without the negatives of dense city living: peaking into neighbors house (lack of privacy), lack of suburb vast greenery. Clients are surrounded by shared public space, in addition to the private green vertical space in the building.

Buffer zone : Green entry sequence becomes the buffer zone between two buildings.

50 Feet

Rule 1 : Minimum of 50 feet between non-buffer zones.

25 Feet

Rule 2 : Minimum of 25 feet between the interaction of a buffer zones with a non-buffer zone.


Private Semi private Public

Soft touch to the site.

Green Space

Parking

Accessible Units


NEUKÖLLN HOUSING PROJECT



NEUKÖLLN HOUSING PROJECT Offers students an opportunitto understand the challenges of designing contemporary building types in parallel situations—the dense historic fabric of a city with ancient origins that has been manipulated over centuries and the more diffused, diverse, and irregular landscape typically found on the edge of the modern city. City location : Berlin. Inspired by Berlin’s urban interventions, and cutting edge strategies for sustainable and planned design has lead to the formation of this project.


The site : 490 sq.m

Massing concept

Solving corner condition

Massing concept

Identifying circulation zone

Sun orientation

Program

Facade treatment

Urban concept Massing is a direct result of the solution to the site contraints. The corner condition is solved, and keeping the sun orientation in mind the program location is solved : Sleeping zones are towards the back adjacent to the row houses (east), and living zones are towards the street (west). Furthermore acknowledgement to the existing tree, gives birth to the concept of this contemporary housing building: living with the tree.


Split circulation

The system :

Down

Solving the corner condition

Down

Is a result of the urban conce massing, split curculation, wall identiďŹ cation. These ele come together to allow for va unit conďŹ gerations.

Apartment splits : Maximum 4 apartment split The system is strategically designed to allow each apartment to look into their own apartment; thus solving the problem of privacy in a dense urban setting.


ept, and wet ements arious Wet wall 1 Bathroom to Bathroom

Bathroom to Kitchen

Kitchen to Kitchen

Wet wall 2

Wet wall 3



Flower Shop

Gallery

Down

Down

Down

Down

Down

Down

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COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN STUDIO The focus of the Comprehensive Design Studio is the integrated design and detailed development of a building including all of its requisite systems. This studio merges the full range of my architectural education to produce a design that is both responsive to specific criteria and prototypical of ways to build sustainable, adaptable, long-use buildings—a set attributes often described as “resilience” in contemporary discourse. My design responds to and integrates contexts (site, urban, climatic, and economic); project requirements (spatial, performative and programmatic); technical demands (materials, structural loads, environmental enclosure, energy management, occupant comfort, human health); and dynamic processes (construction, assembly, future transformation).



COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN STUDIO


Human Agenda Human interactions encouraged by architecture. Architecture that creates possibilities for destination, exploration, and communication.



THE MANIFESTO Agenda

Our agenda is to incorporate the human as an integral part of the building system. We have studied and created a framework within our parallel load bearing walls, where the load bearing wall start to take on multiple roles: service cores, landscape facilitators, structure. The system is designed around the foundation of the existing MBTA tunnel, and the carefully designed landscape allows for smooth transitions around, to and from the site. The systems are scaled to the human, making it accessible, effective and adaptable to the human’s needs and desires. Human interaction and movement is encouraged not only by the landscape and the load bearing walls alone, but also by the synergy between the two. The synergy creates possibilities for destination, exploration and communication. Our proposal allows for three different types of outdoor spaces and three distinctive types of interior spatial characteristics created at the point of interaction between landscape and loadbearing wall.


STRUCTURAL FRAMEWORK Seperate components working together in an integrated structural framework.

End loadbearing masonry walls

Interior loadbearing masonry walls

Loadbearing walls become the core


Shear wall and heavy timber bracing in the cores

Fixed circulation : egress + elevators

Floor joist diaphragm

Modular facade


The exible load bearing wall system The system is reduced to a diagram

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Opening in the loadbearing wall

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Seperate buildings: Maximum of 6 buildings

Future expansion

Seperate buildings: Minimum of 3 buildings

One building: Shared cores.

Openings

Punched opening. Filled in opening

Verticle expansion

Horizontal expansion

More cores can be constructed if needed

Fill in, as desired

Loadbearing walls are designed with exact punched openings in mind. Multiple "opening to wall" ratio analyses were conducted and the openings were decided based on the optimum paramatric ratio. The optimum opening ratio is one that allows for multiple spatial organizations within the walls.


The flexible service core x ft.

Through and exhaustive study of possible service functions, we have come to the conclusion that a 10 ft. 6in. by x ft. benchmark allows for multiple service configerations. Some configerations are illustrated in the diagrams below. Based on the program, the client must consult with the architect and chose from the set of pre-designed configerations. The architect and client will work together to design a service core that best fits the need of the program. Thus allowing for a dynamic and adaptable service core. Service Module

ADA Bathroom (M)

Kitchen Options

The flexible core

ADA Bathroom (F)

Service Elevator

Bathroom

Utility

Egress and Elevator

Loadbearing core walls

Circulation Path The service core is now thickened to 14ft. 6in

Powder Room

The service core is successfullly flexible with the addition of a free cirulation path. This allows us to plan the best and permanent opening in the load bearing wall that will allow for flexibility in all conditions.


MODULAR FACADE

Assembly and components diagram Modular facade assembly unit

Rigid bolt connection

Fins anchor bolts

Aluminium mullion verticle ďŹ ns Double glazed unit

Aluminium shading / shelves

Fins anchor bolts

Aluminium mullion

Aluminium cap with thermal strip


MODULAR FACADE Along the east and west facades, we have designed a dynamic facade with horizontal aluminum shades that relate to specific benchmarks. The benchmarks are illustrated on the right, and below is the various configerations. The facade can adapt with the needs of the program, and each unit can simply be replaced.

Access Variation 1

Variation 2

High Table

Table

Variation 1

Window + Shading Variation 2

Seating Variation 1

Door

Balcony

Shelf Variation 1

9 ft. 8 ft. 7 ft. 6 ft. 5 ft. 4 ft. 3 ft. 2 ft. 1 ft.

Variation 1

Variation 2

Table Variation 2

Variation 1

Variation 2

Seating


SECTIONS Human interaction and movement is encouraged not only by the landscape and the load bearing walls alone, but also by the synergy between the two. The synergy creates possibilities for destination, exploration and communication. Our proposal allows for three different types of outdoor spaces and three distinctive types of interior spatial characteristics created at the point of interaction between landscape and loadbearing wall.

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THE LAB SCENARIO Today

Service Entrance

Climate patters are changing, and there is a drastic need for research and development in agriculture, ecology, and climate. Thus the first scenario is a research facility,commisionned by the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). In addition to basic service needs, supply and exhaust utilities will have to be given special attention. Special program: Labs, utility space, recreational space, maintainance rooms Service core: supply and exhaust Ownership: single ownership Module: based on the lab

Exhaust

Adding cores

+ to house

lab services work station

Supply

2ft 6in.

Maintenance Room

5 ft. min ADA req. Supply

Exhaust

work station Adding cores

+ to house

lab services

Supply Exhaust

2ft 6in.

Exhaust

Supply

Ground level : Lobby


Maintenance Room

Second level : Common Floor

Third level: Typical floor plan

Roof


THE COMMUNITY CENTER SCENARIO + 30 years

Service Entrance

The BRA wants to invest in the intersection, and have a community planning policy. Special program: Reading rooms, library Service core: Storage Ownership: Single ownership Module: Based on library shelf

Maintenance Room

INDUSTRIAL RESIDENTIAL

INDUSTRIAL RESIDENTIAL

Current situation : Highly Industrial

Future situation : Res / Mixed use

Ground level : Lobby


Second level : Common Floor

Third level: Typical floor plan

Roof


THE LIVE/WORK ROW HOUSE + 100 years

Global warming has changed the face of the earth and the way we live. Boston is now submerged in water. We have learnt to adapt to these changes, and now live/ work evironments are suitable for such conditions. Special program: The home + the office Service core: Bathroom, kitchen, utility Ownership: Single / split ownership Module: Based on an apartment and office (Studio, single room, two bedroom, office)

6 5 4 3 2

Technology and infrastructure

Flooded Boston

1

Service core shared Split Ownership

Ground level : Lobby


Second level : Common Floor

Third level: Typical floor plan

Roof




Stone coping Drip Continuous Flashing Continuous counterflashing Roof membrane

Rigid Insilation Vapor retarder Wood 2x8 decking

Metal dowels retain the coping in place

Stone caping 1 Continuous Flashing 2

B

3 Roof membrane 4 Rigid insulation 5

A

Roof membrane 6 Wood beam with firecut end

Masonry Arch Lintel

1

7 Roof insulation 8

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Mechanical ducts and pipes for research labs 9 Cross Bracing 10

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Exterior Loadbearing wall 11 Cavities can accomodate piping, and wiring

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Interior Loadbearing wall 13

Radiant heating/cooling system 15

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Studs 16

Wire ties and joint reinforcing

Concrete slab on grade

6

Non-Loadbearing wall 12

Modular Facade 14

Metal strap anchor and bolts tie each joist to the wall

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One ft. joists 17

16

Finish floor 19

14

Concrete floor 20 Concrete foundation wall 21 Concrete foundation footing 22

Concrete foundation wall

21

D 19 22 Concrete foundation wall

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Ventilation ducts 18

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MATERIAL DETAIL STUDY Since load bearing masonry is our material of choice, it was imperitive that we do an exhaustive study on it. By doing so we were able to understand not only the limitations, but also the possibilities for flexibility.

Detail C

Detail A

Detail B

Window Detail

Window Detail

Air gap

Continuous rigid insulation Reinforcing

Exterior veneer Reinforcing Loadbearing wall

Loadbearing wall Vapor barrier Metal tie Mortar net

A continuous flashing and weep holes drain the cavity at the bottom Metal tie

Concrete flooring

Grout filling Concrete flooring

Insulation

Insulation

Detail D

Foundation footing

Foundation footing

Detail E

Modular Facade Details


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TAO ARCHITECTURE + INTERIORS Project: Private Villa + Hotel Apartment Location: Abuja, Nigeria Year: 2015 Stage: Finishing Stage


Apartment Entrance

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Dining niche

Dining niche



Master Bedroom


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Bedroom 2


TAO ARCHITECTURE + INTERIORS Project: Furniture Mall + OfямБce Tower Location: Dubai Design District, Dubai Year: 2015


Exterior Perspective

Exterior Perspective


Interior Perspective

Interior Perspective


Mall Ground Floor Mall Basement Parking 1 Parking 2 & Storage

Restaurant

Offices

O ce Lobby Mall Ground Floor Mall Basement Parking 1 Parking 2 & Storage

Restaurant

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Office Lobby Mall Basement Parking 1 Parking 2 & Storage


ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY


The Holocaust Memorial | Peter Eisenman



Zollverein Cube | SANAA


Reichstag, New German Parliament | Foster + Partners


Sony Center | Helmut Jahn



THINKING WITH TYPOGRAPHY Typographic Broadside Typographic broadside project is to design a broadside that intrdocus a typeface: Bauer Bodoni. Two different posters were designed to investigate the relationship between content and form.


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BOOK COVER DESIGN WITH TYPE Typographic Broadside Typographic broadside project is to design a broadside that intrdocus a typeface: Bauer Bodoni. Two different posters were designed to investigate the relationship between content and form.

J.M.Barrie A Millennium Fulcrum Edition (c) 1991 by Duncan Research


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