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Table of Contents
Laboratrio Civico Mexico City - 5
Living Memorial for the dead Inhotim - 17
Casa Modulo Arlington - 23
Hydro-Thinkery
New Braunfels - 33
Artist Residency Santa Fe - 37
Professional Work
Lake Flato - 47 Renzo Piano Building Workshop - 49
Tectonics of Taste Kitchen - 53
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LABORATARIO CIVICO Can architecture help bring the public and the governing bodies together? Spring 2016 Mexico City, Mexico Professor Pia Sarpaneva 5
Mexico City Mexico 6
Centro Historico Mexico City 7
Site Plan Mexico City 8
Situated in heart of Mexico City with a metro entrances at the site, task was to create a government building for public debates and discussions on topics that matter to the welfare of Mexican citizens.
1 Ramp 2 Gathering Spaces 3 Metro Entrance 4 Bike Parking 5 Street Vendors
6 Street Exhibition 7 Gathering Space 8 Light Well 9 Offices 10 Metro Entrance 11 Garden Cafe
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Jacarandas
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Library for Blind & Visually Impaired Mauricio Rocha + Gabriella Carrillo
Estudio Iturbide Mauricio Rocha + Gabriella Carrillo
Can the Jacarandas inspire architecture? The form is inspired by the tree with a heavy service core contrasting with a light, transparent, and floating served spaces around the core. The use of architectural mesh is to represent the idea of a canopy formed by the branches of the trees. The climate allows for a breathable building with light wells that help circulate air while providing sunlight into the deep spaces of the building. How can structure be used to do something more? Standard approach will not help organize the spaces effectively. Splitting one column into four thin columns help organize various elements within the laboratory. The five foot separation helps lay the circulation and service elements successfully. Can a public plaza serve all the needs of a community? A plaza in Mexico City only needs two elements to be successful. It needs to provide shade and seating. Any form of shade is very welcoming due to high altitude of where Mexico City is located. With the density in the city, the population in the city has learned to occupy every inch of comfortable space one can find. The street vendors and musicians form a fabric of society which is undeniably local and true to its urban culture.
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Conceptual Massing and Lighting Studies 12
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LIVING MEMORIAL FOR THE DEAD How can a you memorialize a recurring catastrophe? Fall 2018 Inhotim, Brazil Professor Fernando Lara Design Excellence Nominee 17
In 2015, Brazil was struck by a mining catastrophe that killed 19 people, displaced thousands of families and killed a major river 270 miles to the Atlantic Ocean. This project is about how awareness about such disasters can be brought to the international community through art and architecture in an existing context of Inhotim, a 7.8 mi2 art park funded and operated by a mining billionaire. This pavilion sits at the edge of Inhotim and the mine that is in its backyard and attempts to expose the two sides of the same coin. The spaces that are created are meant for user interaction rather than guided circulation. The garden reveals the beauty of nature and visitors are encouraged to take their shoes off to heighten the experience. A turn around the corner reveals the ramp that is surrounded by rebars that hold the boulders from the mine. The ramp reveals part of Inhotim or the mine slowly as you move up the sequence when the wood structure with swings is finally exposed. Only one person is allowed at a time up the structure where the sounds of the 19 creaking swings representing the dead might haunt while the awe of the view starts to bring some meaning about the two sides. The visitor has to choose which way he wants to face. Either towards the scars of the mine or towards the beautifully manicured “natural� landscapes of Inhotim.
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CASA MODULO How can we redesign and change the way we think about micro-housing? Fall 2016-Spring 17 Arlington, Texas Prof Bang Dang & Brad McCorkle
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1. Living Room 2. Kitchen 3. Deck 4. Bedroom 5. Closet 6. Bathroom
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Typical American suburban home
Elongating the volume to accommodate all the functions
Fragmentation of volumes to create outdoor spaces & pods
Pushing & Pulling of pods to emphasize entry & backyard
Lifting the spaces off the ground to create cistern & crawl space
Creating a shading structure to externally connect the two pods together
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The build team
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HYDRO THINKERY How can a water facility be a community resource for its citizens? Fall 2017 New Braunfels, Texas Professor Nichole Wiedemann 33
The site strategy for the project dealt with ideas of juxtaposition in landscape and architecture and finding overlaps and connections within this framework. We were tasked to create spaces that help bring the community together by acknowledging the role of water for the city of New Braunfels and recognizing the role in the city. The genesis of my project began by answering what can architecture of water mean. My program dealt with water in multiple ways, and it was situated on the edge of the river. The inspiration of how water moves through the karst limestone provided the initial parti. The water moves within the limestone under the heavy mass with points of infiltration for fresh water. My project was conceived with similar conditions where the points of infiltration could be light and the path is undefined. The Hydro Thinkery is a proposed learning center for adults and children where each space deals with a different quality of water which are juxtaposed against one another by not just creating transitional spaces but seams that seem spacial.
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ARTIST RESIDENCY Can a building blend in the landscape while making it presence felt? Spring 2018 Santa Fe, New Mexico Professor Elizabeth Danze and John Blood Design Excellence Nominee
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This artist residency is a collaboration between two architecture and two fine art students. The chosen site has an existing house, home to multiple land sculptures dispersed throughout the hilly terrain. Our proposal is to consolidate all the functions of the artist residency into one structure in order to minimize impact on the landscape and preserve the existing site for the artists to discover. The proposed building is situated on a low ridge-line, distinctly separated from the existing house, which provides views to both sides. The building is organized through two masses along the exterior of the building where all the service spaces are carved into the thickness. This leaves the interior of the building to be open served spaces with varying porosities, which heightens the distinction between the exterior and interior. While the main interior spaces are structured, the poche invites a unique opportunity to carve into the mass and create moments of discovery and individualization for the occupants.
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PROFESSIONAL WORK Summer 2018 San Antonio, Texas Lake | Flato Architects Fall 2019 Genoa, Italy Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Across, Hotel San Cristobal Todos Santos, Mexico Top, Gulf Coast Research Lab Ocean Springs, Mississippi 47
SNF ThessalonĂki Pediatric Hospital ThessalonĂki, Greece This hospital in northern Greece is a provides tertiary pediatric care in the outskirts of the port city of Thessaloniki. Biophilic design is a crucial concept in all three hospitals to increase connectivity of the patients to nature. My contribution to the project came in during Schematic Design phase and I was in-charge of sections, elevations and models.
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SNF General Hospital of Sparta Sparta, Greece The current hospital is in disrepair and in desperate need of new facilities. The proposal is to build a new building south of the existing and demolish the old building to make way for parking and a garden on top of the. My contribution to this project was mainly working with the hospital consultants and coming up with internal layouts of the various functions of the general hospital.
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TECTONICS OF TASTE How does food become an outlet for creativity rather than a necessity? Personal Explorations
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PRARTHAN SHAH | PK prarthan.k.shah@gmail.com 817-899-1675 issuu.com/prarthanshah
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EDUCATION UT Austin Masters in Architecture Expected graduation 2020 UT Arlington B.S. in Architecture
SKILLS Revit Rhinoceros Photoshop Indesign Illustrator Grasshopper AutoCAD Sketching Painting Casting Model Making Cooking
TRAVEL Fall 2019 Internship Travel Italy, Spain, Portugal Winter 2018 Research Trip Singapore & Indonesia Fall 2018 Studio Travel Belo Horizonte, Brazil Summer 2015 UTA Study Abroad Italy, France, Switzerland
WORK EXPERIENCE Renzo Piano Building Workshop Architectural Intern Working on two hospitals in Greece through initial design phase while working with consultants on producing drawings and models for workshops
Sept 19 - Jan 20
Alterstudio Architecture Architectural Intern Helping with design development drawings of a house in south Austin.
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Lake Flato Architects Architectural Intern Developing presentation graphic standards for the office while implementing the standard across several built projects.
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Bercy Chen Studio LP Designer Helping with design development and preparing award submission packages.
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Far+Dang Architectural Intern Helping with schematic drawings & construction documents while managing daily affairs of an office.
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AWARDS + ACTIVITIES Nominated for Boone Powell Travel Scholarship Alpha Rho Chi Award for Leadership and Merit
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AIAS Vice President - UT Arlington Chapter Selected for AIA Dallas ‘You Got 5 Minutes Kid’ student edition to speak on topic of personal architectural significance - Dynamics of Drawing. Member of Tau Sigma Delta Architectural Honor Society
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REFERENCES Mark Carroll Managing Director Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Lawrence Speck Professor UT Austin SOA lspeck@austin.utexas.edu
Elizabeth Danze Professor UT Austin SOA edanze@utexas.edu
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