Nithya Subramaniam Portfolio by Nithya Subramaniam

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Nithya Subramaniam Portfolio of Selected Works

Nithya Subramaniam

City as Collage Thesis

Maya, Rhino, KeyShot, 3dsMax, Adobe Suite

Complex Morphologies Design

Public Appearances

Maya, Rhino, 3D Coat, ZBrush, 3dsMax, Processing, After Effects

Design

Adobe Suite, Rhino, Key Shot, Processing

Seven Sisters : Memoirs Design

Maya, Rhino, Key Shot, Adobe Suite

Moire : Galleria Centrecity Parametric Design

3D Printing, Rhino, GrassHopper, Photography

SoCal Design

Grass Hopper, Rhino, KeyShot, Adobe Suite

Urban Factory Product Design

Rhino, 3dsMax, Adobe Suite

‘Image Manipulations’ Parametric Design

Grasshopper, Processing, After Effects, Rhino

‘Shade’ Parametric Structures

Grasshopper, Adobe Suite, Rhino, Vray

‘Bloom’ Parametric Structures

Grasshopper, Adobe Suite, Rhino, Vray

City as Collage

Thesis, SCI-Arc Graduate Studies Year 2 Academic Project Mentor - Florencia Pita Proposed Site - San Francisco Mission District Scale - Masterplan Tools Used - Maya, Rhino, KeyShot, 3dsMax, Adobe Suite Project Brief // City as Collage is not a new urban type , Instead it is all types. It does not aim at discovering new typologies but rather to collect all available urban typologies. It is an assemblage of a whole range of ideas and content. The overall Image plays with different scales, profiles and morphologies to create a noisy image one that is unfamiliar and unique and is a mixture that provides diversity. It appears awkward but is yet precise. This project proposes a possible urban condition through collage technique and assembles existing urban types to create a new definition for the city. San Francisco mission district happens to be a site currently undergoing district planning. The influences of the CERDA GRID is seen where streets are divided, one for cars and the other for pedestrians. It helps open up space within each block almost like a compact GARDEN CITY model envisioned by Corbusier for Chandigarh. The METABOLIST GRID exists as an extension from the existing city streets as elevated pathways. The Historical Roman Map of NOLLI is seen more as an EXPRESSION when within each block. The MODERN MEGA STRUCTURE, a concept popularised by ARCHIGRAM is seen where smaller buildings are encased within a single large building and are connected via a built network. The ICONIC MEGA FORMS exist breaking the grid as large raised expansive plazas each hosting relevant public programs and large parking structures. The Expansive organisation of the structuralist MAT BUILDING as a typology is seen within the grid Event Structures like PARK FOLLIES are seen as ICONS while some land in courtyards and pockets within the city

//This new image emerges from the qualities and limitations of different city plans and assembling them all collapsed as a single entity.

// City Grid analysis, vibrations in the existing grid based on the movement of people and activity on streets. The ‘vibrations’ denote everyday discipline

// San Francisco CITY BLOCK STUDY- Study of movement and activity within a city shows the shift in the change of the block and its inl uences on the movement within the city

// DifFerent permutations of the vibration patterns seen to create a bufFer for the ‘everyday’ between the street and the building block

// This series is beginning to explore and also show how walls can become Floors, interIor can become exterior, private can become public and this way everything within the discipline of the everyday has a purpose.

// These are some of the Elements REINVENTED and INTERPRETED within the CITY AS COLLAGE. City as Collage uses figure ground to its advantage to ABSTRACT FORM. This form unlike any IDEAL CITY MODEL uses layers and elements from existing city models. Within a single design for a city, the city as collage redefines relevant elements while using them in its collage.

// Physical 3d Model 4’ by 4’ 3D Prints, Flat bed Prints, Framed Wall Art

// Park folios on raised public platforms // Streets dominate cities. //But what if there were a way to change that and give space back to the people and make cities friendly and different on the outside of streets?

// 12’ by 3’ prints on canvas scrolls mounted to the wall Now SOLD

Complex Morphologies

Design Studio, SCI-Arc Graduate Studies 2GAX Fall Semester, Year 1 Group (3) Academic project Instructor - Florencia Pita Proposed Site - Paris Scale - Media Archive Tools Used - Maya, Rhino, 3D Coat, ZBrush, 3dsMax, Processing, After Effects Project Brief // Paris is structured in a clear organisational and formal delineation, and at certain moments can appear visually monochromatic and formally repetitive. This project explores novel methods of addressing context as well as the integration of found forms (like the candy jar profile) to design conditions such as the architectural corner, geometry and color. The building unites and at the same time, breaks away with the adjacent buildings, creating a new icon to the surrounding context that maintains a subtle familiarity to its neighbors. Frayed edges produce the effect of transparency while graphic and tectonic seams provide a visual continuity from the interior to the exterior. By doing so it creates a dialogue with the adjacent buildings and the street. These striations that are projected from the surrounding context also help negotiate the vertical nature of the design and maintains a symbiotic nature between them.

Video Link// https://vimeo.com/152964289

// Mass generated from 3d coat using alpha images of the surrounding site.

// These images are post processed using processing to create a series of interesting massing.

//Alpha images used to create the mass

//The entrances are created to take the user underground for an initial experience of the texture and nature of the building before taking them up to major programs within it.

The Figure It is derived from the combination of curvilinear profiles of a jar with the architectural features that are extrapolated from the context. Both techniques provide a loose connection with each other and therefore is perceived as being unrelated and yet integrated into local paradigms.

The Texture Using a similar process of manipulation, photographs of the surrounding context and color are used to create texture. It is used to further exaggerate the striations running through the mass and is enhanced by the deformation of these visual cues. Textures come from the process of image manipulation and pixel sampling. Grain and verticality are produced through the stretching of pixel and at times these pixels are maintained as clear graphic. The textures expose foreign and contextual data, and the combination provides a pattern the is subtle and stands out from the context. The pattern acquires a unique materiality that does not belong to traditional materials such as stone and glass, but exists as a graphic material mixer.

The Geometry Frayed edges produce the effect of transparency while graphic and tectonic seams provide a visual continuity from the interior to the exterior. Porosity is also further attained through shifting and breaking down the mass using vertical striations, linear grains or through a method of shredding. By doing so it creates a dialogue with the adjacent buildings and the street. These striations that are projected from the surrounding context also help negotiate the vertical nature of the design and maintains a symbiotic nature between them.

Public Appearances

Design Studio, SCI-Arc Graduate Studies 2GBX Fall Semester, Year 1 Group (2) Academic project Instructor - Elena Manfredini Proposed Site - Los Angeles Scale - Court House Tools Used - Adobe Suite, Rhino, Key Shot, Processing Project Brief // The courthouse has great significance as a public building, often shrouded in opaque monumental forms, that signify dominance. Our version of the courthouse intends to take away the opacity while retaining the monumental splendour. Law has always had a broad scope of understanding and prescribes to different sensibilities of different people. Architecture and architectural forms however consistently have some connotations that adhere to understanding of spaces and programs. Architecture through its form and shape can create various expected or unexpected moments, that are orchestrated, in this case with the employ of materials, tectonics and program. For justice to exist, as an architectural element of democratic society, the form could very well be the exaggeration of growth, solidity and progress. The city skyline, often dominated by tall solid figures of commercial milestones, the justice seems to be small stubby remnant of the Greek era, with not much to offer to the 21st century idea of armchair justice with trails that face the scrutiny of media.

Video Link// https://vimeo.com/164778595

//Massing on site. Rendered in Key Shot. Simple massing developed using shifts, distrotions and cuts, terms likely to be used in the judiciary system as well.

// Primitive shapes develop into buildings taking cues from verbs. Shift, distort, cut, the verbs that one can associate with justice and its likes, have found their way into the massing.

Shape Development

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Iteration 1 _ Cut

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Iteration 3 || Conflate

Elevational Study

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// Architecture helps cope with these dissimilarities, of notion of justice and its most immediate physical representation. The tower, a departure from the stoic short forms of the most popular courthouse typology help resonate with the mega city-progressive skyline of the ever changing for the better image of society. Front View

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// The geometry of the building, signify the four pillar of justice, not equal, but weighed against their individual importance.

//The curves, soften the edges of the massive form, giving relief from the otherwise sharp angles it would form. The curves also take off some of the visual harshness associated with tall sharp edges, that cut off the lines of vision rather abruptly; apparently extending the sight lines, giving an illusion of far reaching sight.

// The material layering within the envelope of the building allows any user, both active and passive to experience varying levels of opacity and transparency.

// Model designed using printed patterned acrylic and dichoric films to create the same illusions the project creates. Keeping the material layering in mind it is manipulated and executed to fit the physical model as well

The envelope, distinctly divided into 2 kinds, flows along structures that house similar functions. The low security areas are screened with opaque material, whereas the courthouses are wrapped in mesh, creating a disjunction between the presumption of what needs to be screened. There colour shift help identify the extent of a certain program, and gives a different view of the architecture from the outside and inside.

Isometric View Federal Courthouse, Los Angeles

// The program is arranged such that it keeps considerable distance from the envelope, doing this enables the segregation of the skin and their program pronounced, helping in understanding the machinations of the courthouse. Shifting atriums allow visual connectivity, in an otherwise opaque program. The courthouse has rarely considered for the welfare of the civil officials working within. By creating open floor offices that are segregated from any other non personnel interference, helps the officials to have a better working environment.

Library + References Private libraries for judges and law clerks are located in the tallest building, without public access. It is served by a private elevator.

The courthouse, now, is a building for the people beyond it and the ones within.

Judge’s Suite Ancillary programs are re-oriented at the second level for multi-defendants court. These include judge’s chambers, offices, holding cells, attorney offices amongst others.

Multi-defendent Courtroom Special proceeding courtroom housing multi-defendant trials have larger areas for public to watch proceedings. The public entries are segregated from law personnel entry.

En Banc Courtroom Courtrooms do not follow the typical plan at the multi-defendant courtroom level. Smaller En Banc courtrooms populate the floor in case of these levels.

Public Lobby Public lobbies are stacked on top of each other, and have limited access to programs within. To ensure that the space and access is perceived larger than given, the walls of courtrooms are mirrored and the offices have a high gloss finish.

Multiple Entries Different entries are provided for all kinds of program users. Judges and defendants enter directly through their designated parking, whereas the jury enters through a separate entrance from the street level.

Transverse Section Federal Courthouse, Los Angeles

// The entries for the courthouse are separate for each user group, as required by the program, whereas the material finished for the same are derived through the logic of shadows that fall on the site.

Our design process entailed controlling and balancing its object like features with actual mandatory requirements. This can be seen through the program planning, the choice of material finishes, the placement of tectonic elements.

+ 450.0 ft Last Floor

+ 330.0 ft Elevated Ground

+ 157.0 ft Mezzanine for Defendent 7th Floor

+ 145.0 ft 6th Floor

+ 45.0 ft Lobby Level

+ 0.0 ft Entry Level

Typical Floor Plan Federal Courthouse, Los Angeles

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Tell Tale Facade The louvred facade changes colour through the day. The movement of the louvres indicate whether the court is in session.

Jury

Emergency Stretcher

Segregated Circulation

The public circulation is restricted to a singular tower. The access is limited to only a certain courts, that allows for audience during proceedings.

Public Public Public

Receding Slabs

The receding slabs allow for visual continuity. This also ambiently lights all floors by creating an atrium like effect.

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Jury

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// The building is framed within the site with the help of its context has brought about decisions of material finish, accesses, and even program orientation. The built form acts as an object and a public building.

Courtroom En Banc Courtroom Judge’s Chamber Jury Suite USMS Offices Public Lobby Law Clerk Offices Holding Cell Open Administration Offices

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// Despite the apparent transparency, the secure programs stay within the core, giving just glimpses of what usually stays hidden. With the public at the periphery, the building screens itself with the people it serves. The courthouse interacts with the city, through its tectonic systems, indicating its hours of work.

// The material, both mesh and glass are layered such that there are varying degrees of transparency. The view from the outside of the inside is distorted broken, fragmented giving it the much needed privacy, yet not completely blocking the visual continuity, giving it semblance of openness. The views from the inside, however are contiguous, and complete.

// From the outside, the facade allows one to see more than extant, from the inside the facade allows to blur the edge between the next tower, giving a sense of continuity even with the programmatic segregation. The curved vertical surfaces have textures reflective surfaces that give an illusion of extending the program reach both from within and without the building.

Seven Sisters : Memoirs

Vertical Design Studio, SCI-Arc Graduate Studies 3GAX Fall Semester, Year 2 Group (2) Academic project Instructor - Eric Owen Moss Proposed Site - New Moscow, Russia Scale - 131,000sqm, New Sberbank Tools Used - Maya, Rhino, Key Shot, Adobe Suite Project Brief // The Seven Sisters are a group of seven skyscrapers in Moscow designed in the stalinist style of architecture According the history there were originally 10 of these stylised buildings to be built and the last three of this set failed to be realised. The rules that these were based off were the idea of all the entries facing the Red Square, each building was designed such that they would be in clear sight of each other, public and private programs are housed separately and the public ones encase the courtyard. Maintaining these qualities was essential, therefore we used these elements and qualities to cater to the needs of our project. Using the roof profiles from the seven sisters we generated a new roof- lining the old to the new. The grid adopted pays homage to the buildings that were never realised. Boulevard acts as a spine of the bank, functioning as major circulation. Roof continues to change as you proceed down the boulevard. The programs are distributed to create an experience for every user of the building.

//View of the boulevard. Rendered in Key Shot. and illustrated in Photoshop Boulevard developed using the overall idea of the old russia seven sisters and how these building were connected to each other. The high cieling is also developed based on the inthe roof profiles seen in the seven sister buildings

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Form / Grid layout

Massing Strategy

Grid along New Moscow

Grid along Old Moscow

Ground Strategy / Layout

Detail Axonometric Roof NTS

Detail Axonometric View NTS ld Moscow

Detail Axonometric Roof NTS

// The view below shows the rise and fall of the roof and how it peels off the ground appearing one with its surroundings. The striations seen are public spaces for people to meet. They continue on the roof to let in light and forn winter gardens within the building.

// The geometry of the building and how the grids and site boundaries are used to achieve the same. While one grid faces the old Moscow city the other faces the new Moscow city.

// Model designed using 3D printed concrete roof, and etched acrylic used to represent the surrounding facade. The roof openings are created in locations where the conference hanging slabs are located to let in light.

//The three peaks seen in the roof structure immitate the 3 buildings that were not realized during stalins reign. The primary ribs of the roof and the secondary structure between it running in two directions work together to create a framework and an overall finned structure below the roof.

// Architecture helps cope with formal irregularity in the site boundary. The grid lines are used as a guideline for the roof structure and the columns for the building. The rise and fall of the concrete roof structure is used to generate a senario similar to

// The elevation view of the chunk model shows the split levels and its relations with the roof profiles. The view below shows the relations of the hanging slab to the roof and how its open plan nature canbe occupied by users.

// This section above through the cross section shows the glass wall detail that lines the boulevard on either side.

It also shows the slab detials and finned roof structure experienced from inside the building in contrast to what is seen from the outside.

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Boulevard Cafe / Restaurant Central Hub - Conference Space Offices - Share Space Conference Rooms Courtyards

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Glass Zones From the Roof Retail Zones Business Incubators Private Workspace Canteen Sports Facilities Cloak Rook and others

// This chunk model attempts to expose the kind of structure that is designed to hold up the roof and the hanging slabs from the roof within the building. 3D printed in parts in an attempt to expose this form.

// The building is framed within the site with the help of its context has brought about decisions of th egrid layout, and even program orientation. The built form acts as an object and a public building.

The Chunk is also picked to show maximum details adopted by the building to meet the conceptual and structural standards for this form.

// In this plan level the open layout can be seen. This caters to the flexible requirements of Sberbank.

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Boulevard Cafe / Restaurant Central Hub - Conference Space Offices - Share Space Conference Rooms Courtyards

Detail Section

Scale 1:500

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Glass Zones From the Roof Retail Zones Business Incubators Private Workspace Canteen Sports Facilities Cloak Rook and others

// The material layering within the building is specifically seen in the roof and the slab elements. This open section is cut trhough the boulevard. It helps reveal the splitting slabs, hanging slabs from the roof, ramps and circulation and the curved walls used to divided spaces. The contoured roofs creates irregular peaks each from which the new or the old city can be viewed. It gives the

// The program is arranged such that it keeps all its view into the boulevard or towards the outside at all times. Doing this enables the segregation of the skin and their program pronounced, helping in understanding the planning of a bank. Shifting ramps along the boulevard spine allows visual connectivity, in an otherwise opaque program. 14

By creating open floor offices that are segregated from any other non personnel interference, helps the officials working in a bank of this kind have a better working environment.

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Moire : Galleria Centercity

Adv Tectonics, SCI-Arc Graduate Studies Year 1, Parametric Design Group Academic Project Mentor - Maxi Spina Scale - Chuck Model Tools Used - 3D Printing, Rhino, GrassHopper, Photography Project Brief // After running a critical analysis on Galleria Center City by UN Studio, we designed a chuck model using all the systems it included. Starting from materials like Concrete, aluminium sections, Led lamps and Steel sections to creating a moire effect on the facade and creating a similar canopy along the curved end, this chunk model was designed. The primary mode of design and representation is the cut away axonometric drawing and sectional model and its analogue material incarnation. By reformulating its tectonic conjectures to adapt to a slightly altered design scenario, the design was carried forward.

// Galleria Centerycity, interactive facade, Canopy detail

// Technical drawing of the entire building

WORM’S EYE VIEW

Precedent Study: Galleria Centercity, Cheonan Facade System: Double Layer

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PARAPET DETAIL

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FACADE & PARAPET EXPLODED AXON 1. ROOF SLAB 2. METAL DECKING 3. I BEAMS 4. PARAPET CAP 5. C CHANNEL 6. CONCRETE SLAB FACADE & PARAPET EXPLODED AXON 7. INNER EXTERIOR GLASS 8. GLASS FRAMEWORK 1. ROOF SLAB 9. EXTERIOR WALL ASSEMBLY 10. VERTICAL C CHANNEL 2. METAL DECKING 11. ALUMINUM BOX EXTRUSION 3. I BEAMS 4. PARAPET CAP 12. RIVETS FOR TIEBACKS 5. C CHANNEL 13. INSULATED GLASS 14. DROP CEILING 6. CONCRETE SLAB 15.GLASS TRIANGULAR ALUMINUM PROFILE 7. INNER EXTERIOR 16. TRIANGULAR ALUMINUM MULLION 8. GLASS FRAMEWORK 9. EXTERIOR WALL ASSEMBLY 10. VERTICAL C CHANNEL 11. ALUMINUM BOX EXTRUSION 12. RIVETS FOR TIEBACKS 13. INSULATED GLASS 14. DROP CEILING 15. TRIANGULAR ALUMINUM PROFILE 16. TRIANGULAR ALUMINUM MULLION

PARAPET DETAIL

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FACADE & PARAPET EXPLODED AXON

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1. GAURD RAIL (PARAPET) 2. I BEAMS 3. PARAPET CAP 4. C CHANNEL 5. ALUMINUM RODS 6. METAL DECKING DETAIL 2 7. STRUCTURAL BEAM 8. STRUCTURAL COLUMN 1. GAURD RAIL (PARAPET) 9. EXTERIOR GLASS WALL 2. I BEAMS 10. INSULATED GLASS 3. PARAPET CAP 11. TRIANGULAR ALUMINUM MULLION 4. C CHANNEL 12. TRIANGULAR ALUMINUM PROFILE 5. ALUMINUM RODS 13. CONCRETE SLAB 6. METAL DECKING 14. DROP CEILING 7. STRUCTURAL BEAM 15. EXTERIOR WALL ASSEMBLY 8. STRUCTURAL COLUMN 16. TIE BACKS 9. EXTERIOR GLASS WALL 10. INSULATED GLASS 11. TRIANGULAR ALUMINUM MULLION 12. TRIANGULAR ALUMINUM PROFILE 13. CONCRETE SLAB 14. DROP CEILING 15. EXTERIOR WALL ASSEMBLY 16. TIE BACKS

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Advance Tectonics 3200 Aman Sheth, Claudia Wainer, Nithya Subramaniam, Zeynep Cinar // Detail technical drawing of features in this building

Advance Tectonics 3200 Aman Sheth, Claudia Wainer, Nithya Subramaniam, Zeynep Cinar

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CANOPY DETAIL

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CANOPY DETAIL

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1. EXTERIOR WALL ASSEMBLY 2. TRIANGULAR ALUMINUM PROFILE 3. TRIANGULAR ALUMINUM MULLION 4. INSULATED GLASS 5. STRUCTURAL COLUMN CANOPY PULL APART & DETAIL 6. CONCRETE SUB FLOOR 7. METAL DECKING 1. EXTERIOR WALL ASSEMBLY 8. STEEL I BEAM 2. TRIANGULAR ALUMINUM PROFILE 9. BOX EXTRUSION FRAMEWORK 3. TRIANGULAR ALUMINUM MULLION 10. SLOPED PANELLING 4. INSULATED GLASS 11. I BEAMS COLUMN 5. STRUCTURAL 12. PARTIAL 6. CONCRETE SUBSLOPED FLOOR PANEL 13. CANOPY MULLION 7. METAL DECKING 14. FRITTED GLASS 8. STEEL I BEAM

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CANOPY PULL APART & DETAIL

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CANOPY EXPLODED AXON

9. BOX EXTRUSION FRAMEWORK 10. SLOPED PANELLING 11. I BEAMS 12. PARTIAL SLOPED PANEL 13. CANOPY MULLION 14. FRITTED GLASS

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DETAIL 1 1. REBAR 2. CONCRETE SUB FLOOR 3. CONCRETE COLUMN 4. METAL DECKING DETAIL 1 CEILING 5. FINISH 6. STEEL I BEAM 7. ALUMINUM ROD 1. REBAR 8. TRIANGULAR ALUMINUM PROFILE 2. CONCRETE SUB FLOOR 9. TRIANGULAR ALUMINUM MULLION 3. CONCRETE COLUMN 10. METAL TIE BACK 4. METAL DECKING 11. METAL EXTRUSION 5. FINISH CEILING 12. INSULATED 6. STEEL I BEAM GLASS 13. GLASSROD CHANNEL 7. ALUMINUM 14. STRUCTURAL BEAMPROFILE 8. TRIANGULAR ALUMINUM 15. CANOPY ALUMINUM TRUSS SYSTEM 9. TRIANGULAR MULLION 16. CANOPY MULLION 10. METAL TIE BACK 17. FRITTED GLASS 11. METAL EXTRUSION 18. CONCRETE SLAB 12. INSULATED GLASS 13. GLASS CHANNEL 14. STRUCTURAL BEAM 15. CANOPY TRUSS SYSTEM 16. CANOPY MULLION 17. FRITTED GLASS 18. CONCRETE SLAB

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Advance Tectonics 3200 Aman Sheth, Claudia Wainer, Nithya Subramaniam, Zeynep Cinar

// Detail technical drawing of features in this building Advance Tectonics 3200 Aman Sheth, Claudia Wainer, Nithya Subramaniam, Zeynep Cinar

// Details of important joineries for this Chunk model

// Physical model - corner chunk model

SoCal ROOF TRUSS SYSTEM SUPPORTS THE STONE TILED SLOPED ROOF

Design Documentation, SCI-Arc Graduate Studies 3GAX, Year 2, 2017

STEEL FRAME WORK TO SUPPORT Z CLIPS FOR THE TILES

Group Academic Project Mentor - Herwig Baumgartner, Brian Zamoro, Mathew Melnyk, Jamey Lyzun Proposed Site - Los Angeles

3’X1’ EDGE BEAM, PRIMARY STRUCTURE

Scale - Court House Tools Used - Grass Hopper, Rhino, KeyShot, Adobe Suite Project Brief // The project involves designing a structural system for a courthouse housing 24 courtrooms. The building is designed with three structural systems. Each system is independent of the other. The truss system is designed as a bridge and the core is supported through braced frame and the slabs are hung from this and supported by the steel beams, columns and edge beams around the slabs. The flat slab structure is a simple post and beam one with least load subjected to it. Lastly, the building with the concrete core supports the slabs and has a primary and secondary steel structure which includes edge beams deep enough to counter the load it is subjected to. The MEP for the building is also designed in three parts. The details are designed keeping in mind the custom extruded glass and the effect needed to be achieved. The mullions, glass, structure in portions and mesh wall detail is customize for this building. The facade portion clad in stone tiles and the mesh between glass detail is customized to create the required effect and at the same time be structurally sound to hold itself up against all the support below.

CUSTOM STEEL EXTRUSION FOR, PRIMARY FACADE STRUCTURE CUSTOM STEEL EXTRUSION FOR FACADE MULLIONS

METAL GUARD RAIL

W16 I BEAM STRUCTURE FOR SLABS

METAL DECKING

DROP CEILING TIE BACKS

GYPSUM PANELLED CEILING

CUSTOM PINK AND ORANGE DOUBLE GLAZED CASTED GLASS BRACED FRAME STRUCTURE

3’X1’ EDGE BEAM, PRIMARY STRUCTURE

MEGA TRUSS SYSTEM

// Megachunk to show all the structural systems adopted by this builidng and the facade systems.

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MEGACHUNK NTS

1-3/4” STONE PANELS

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CUSTOM PERFORATED & STAMPED METAL PANEL

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CUSTOM ORANGE DOUBLE GLAZED CASTED GLASS

3’X1’ EDGE BEAM, PRIMARY STRUCTURE CUSTOM PINK DOUBLE GLAZED CASTED GLASS CUSTOM STEEL EXTRUSION FOR, PRIMARY FACADE STRUCTURE

8” POURED CONCRETE FLAT SLAB CHROME FLOOR CAP

CONCRETE DOUBLE WALL 5 FT THICK

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CUSTOM CORNER STEEL DETAIL

CUSTOM STEEL SSG RING BEAM

CUSTOM DOUBLE LAYER CASTED GLASS, 1 LAYER COLORED GLASS, 1 LAYER LOW E GLASS

PERFORATED & STAMPED METAL PANELS BETWEEN LOW E & COLORED GLASS PANELS

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CUSTOM EXTRUDED STEEL PRIMARY FACADE STRUCTURE

CUSTOM STEEL SSG RING BEAM

CUSTOM PINK AND ORANGE GLASS

CUSTOM EXTRUDED STEEL MULLION

8” POURED CONCRETE FLATSLAB

METAL GUARDRAIL CHROME FLOOR CAP C SECTION DROP CIELING TIEBACKS

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3D FACADE SYSTEM AT GLASS CORNER NTS

GYPSUM HANGING CEILING

CUSTOM PINK AND ORANGE DOUBLE GLAZED CASTED GLASS CUSTOM EXTRUDED STEEL MULLION

So Cal DESIGN

Design, Development, and Documentation CUSTOM STEEL SSG RING BEAM

GROUP 5 Claudia Wainer Nithya Subramaniam Hyoseon Park Connor Sullivan Mohammad Soleimanifeijani

STEEL PLATE WELDED TO BEAM

SCI-Arc 960 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90013

CUSTOM STEEL SSG RING BEAM

DATE : PERFORATED METAL PANELS BETWEEN LOW E GLASS SHEETS

December 05, 2016 Nithya Subramaniam

DRAWN BY : Hyoseon Park SCALE :

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BOLTED STEEL CONNECTION TO SUPPORT FACADE

8” POURED CONCRETE FLATSLAB

CHROME FLOOR CAP GYPSUM HANGING CEILING

Los Angeles Courthouse

METAL GUARDRAIL TIE BACK FROM SLAB TO FACADE 1FT BY 1.5 FT CROSS SECTION ON ALT LVL’S

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C SECTION DROP CIELING TIEBACKS

DETAIL AT FLOOR AND FACADE CONNECTION SCALE 1:32

T.O.ROOF 458'-1"

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Sixteenth Floor 364'-4" Fifteenth Floor 344'-10"

CUSTOM CORNER STEEL DETAIL

Fourteenth Floor 325'-6" Thirteenth Floor 305'-11" Twelfth Floor 286'-5" Eleventh Floor 266'-9" Tenth Floor 247'-5"

SCI-Arc SCI-Arc 960 E 3rd 960 E 3rd St,St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 Los Angeles, CA 90013 November 14, 2016 : 2016 DATE : DATE Nov 14,

DRAWN DRAWN BY : BY : NTS SCALE SCALE : 1/32”: - 1’-0”

Ninth Floor 229'-11"

Los Angeles Los Angeles Courthouse Courthouse

Eighth Floor 210'-5" Seventh Floor 188'-9" Sixth Floor 169'-0" Fifth Floor 151'-11" Fourth Floor 130'-3"

CUSTOM EXTRUDED STEEL MULLION

Third Floor 110'-9" Second Floor 91’-2"

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Urban Factory

Vertical Studio, SCI-Arc Graduate Studies Year 2, Product Design Individual Academic Project Mentor - David Ruy Scale - Board Game- Hypothetical urban scenario Tools Used - Rhino, 3dsMax, Adobe Suite Project Brief // The banal object that i studied was a vending machine. The research looked into the functioning and the evolution of a vending machine and how products were delivered, stacked and stored in each of them. These objects exist within our urban landscape, some of which work better than the others in different conditions. The conditions within the research game allow for simple re implementation and randomizations which helps create different scenarios and machines, each of which can be reimplemented and revitalized. The urban landscapes can be created using war game strategies and implemented rules, outcomes can be developed to challenge and improve environments to make them far more workable.The extent of how efficient, safe, sound, rich or poor a place is can be concluded through this process. By setting up permutations of how the urban landscape of a street can transform just by a process of repurposing and rearranging, qualities of those urban objects will be affected by a simple randomizations of inputted information, the perception of the built environment can then be challenged and changed. Motive of the game is to strive for best solutions while you have the opportunity to mix and match your existing and additional urban objects that you introduce based on the character you have adopted. It keeps in mind that urban plans in general allow for different kinds of inhabitants including people (characters depending on the kind of zones that get created along these streets. The project reconsiders urban planning in architecture inside, outside, between and beyond all monotonous rectangular building blocks seen in most city skylines and offers an urban landscape littered with surrealistic architecture in jarring environments while activating the Z Axis providing efficiency to urban sociology by gamifying the experience to urban plan.

Civilians- The aim is to envision a streetscape in a neighborhood, seek a sense of abundance, avoid decay and coexist to survive. Supervisors / Policing- The aim to to maintain public safety and pedestrian expenditure like comfort, health of local businesses, transportation habits such as traffic signals and signages, and local real estate value. Defiants - (homeless, thieves) The aim is to create wrecked environements while sabotaging the civilians and supervisors while they create dark alley ways, vandalise, dezone, destroy and disrupt the existing environment. On the Left are some of the board game cards designed

Image Manipulation

Visual Studies, Sci-Arc Graduate Studies 2GAX, Year 1, Parametric Design Tools Used - Grasshopper, Processing, After Effects, Rhino Role: Creating image manipulation with face tracking Project Brief // The project explores new software technologies that allow variables of time, reproduction, variation and repetition. The intention is to question the relationship of architecture to geometry and the idea of representation as a static organization of concepts. Geometry is no longer considered a static cartesian system, but an array of articulated variations, affected by new instrumental abilities. //Final Animation of the Image Manipulation exercise conducted over the course of 10 minutes.

Video Link// https://vimeo.com/153436573

// Processed images using image manipulation techniques. Scripted to create pixel samples using processing

// Processed images using grasshopper to question the relationship of architecture to geometry and its representation as a static organization of concepts. Geometry is considered no longer as a static cartesian system, but as an array of articulated variations

//Face Finder and Pixel motion blending

Video Link// https://vimeo.com/153436573

//The movement of the object was based on the real time movement of the face. This movement was tracked by a camera. The basic program is written in processing. The video explores the possibility of interaction with media, and how this interaction changes behavior. The 2D object splits to reveal a more 3D space with the movement.

‘Shade’

Adv Structural Systems, Sci-Arc Graduate Studies 2GBX, Year 1, Parametric Structures Tools Used - Grasshopper, Adobe Suite, Rhino, Vray Concept : Lattice structure Long Span and Vector & Form Active Project Brief // The beam depths are adopted based on the 450 ft long stretch/ span thus requiring a 30 ft deep beam. The frame work in general is designed to create a grid roof of an elliptical shape The roofing system is of to active forcesvector active (trusses) and form active (ETFE cladding that is stretched on the trusses). Due to two active forces there is a need to re direct them to the ground equally. The vector separation systems along with the surface tensions of the ETFE cladding is subject to external loads.

The stadium caters to a 360 by 75 ft football field. The seating is arranged within an offset of 75 ft on either side of the ground. The assymetrical thicknes/load system helps prevent the buckling and remains sort of flexible. The trusses as a whole transfer the load (both tension and Compression) through the members within to the ground. The secondary truss system between the two trusses and on either side of them increase the stiffness and resist deflection as a whole. The ETFE is stretched on these secondary members and is subject to tension load. The doubly supported systems allow of a more evenly distributed amount of force along the roof. The forces in this case are redirected into a singles stress condition called tension. It is propped up with the help of a latice truss running under it and a frame work over it. It helps tackle the surface tension of the material itself.

Two primary trusses of depth 30 ft along with a vector separation system increase the member forces due to the decrease in height and the components in direction of the external load and in turn will decrease and become less efficient. Same way the member forces decrease because the construction height is increased and the component in direction of the external load will increase and become more efficient.

The tertiary members in steel are designed to hold the ETFE sheets and brace them between the trusses on which they are stretched over. These members play partial role in terms of load transfer. The ETFE cladding is a form active member

//The structural system for the surface above is for a wall that is a 50’X50’ using at triangular panels of glass. The structural bracing -tie backs to the slabs are 6” by 6” box cross sections that are riveted rst to the C members and then these C members are xed to the concrete slab with the help of a rivets on the metal strip.

- Primary Mullions

Horizontal members (purple)- 3”X10” . spacing - 10’ Vertical members (purple)- 10”x10”. spacing - 16’

- Secondary Mullions

Horizontal members (red)- 3”X5” . spacing - 10’ Vertical members (orange)- 3”x 6”. spacing - 8’ Cross bracing Mullion- (pink)- 3”X3”.

metal strip on concrete slab

vertical primary mullion system

C sections on metal strip to brace tie backs

tie backs

tie back sections

Concrete Slab C section

cross bracing secondary mullion (orange)

primary mullion

secondary mullion (red)

primary mullion

metal strip

Primary Mullionsmetal strip on concrete Horizontal members (purple)3”X10” . slab spacing - 10’ Vertical members (purple)- 10”x10”. spacing - 16’ Secondary MullionsHorizontal members (red)- 3”X5” . spacing - 10’ Vertical members (orange)- 3”x 6”. spacing - 8’ Cross bracing Mullion- (pink)- 3”X3”.

horizontal primary mullion system

vertical secondary mullion system

The structural system for the surface above is for a wall that is C sections on metal strip to tie backs a 50’X50’ using flat triangular panels brace tie backs of glass

vertical primary mullion system

The structural bracing -tie backs to the slabs are 6” by 6” box cross sections that are riveted first to the C members and then these C members are fixed to the concrete slab with the help of a rivets on the metal strip.

Nithya Subramaniam _Quiz 1_AS

horizontal secondary mullion system

cross bracing mullion system

triangular panelling of glass between mullion system

‘Bloom’

Adv Structural Systems, Sci-Arc Graduate Studies 2GBX, Year 1, Parametric Structures Tools Used - Grasshopper, Adobe Suite, Rhino, Vray Concept : Lattice structure, Modular and collapsable, and Vector & Form Active Project Brief // The project aim is to design a modular system that can be repeated to cater to a long span roofing system. The roofing system adopted was based off two precedent studies - Kings Cross station in London and the Al Bahar Tower in Abu Dhabi. Using the precedent studies as a key this modular system which is collapsable was generated using Grass hopper.

The aspects used from precedent studies -its funneling space frame like structure, collapsable pannelling structure and ridge frames to hold such modules together. The arrangement of these panels are such that it caters to the need for light. There are three main trusses holding the form errect. The intermediate cabels running through these trusses act like a mesh whichi further enhance the support for the frame itself. The panneling itself is held with a piped framed structure that strengthens and gives ‘form’ to its overall appearance.This is a combination of a section and surface active.

//The structural system for the surface is generated using Grashopper and the repetitive truss is designed as a funnelling system like a space frame as it is done in the Kings Cross Station.

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