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Pratisha Shakya
Pratisha Shakya
Email: pratishashk07@gmail.com Contact # 334.329.3679
Design TOOLBOX
Riverfront Recreation Center | 2010 Trishuli River, Nepal 04
Interaction between tourists with native settlers and Riverfront environment through Recreational activities.
Chattanooga Riverwalk | 2012 Chattanooga, TN
Engaging people into Tennesse River through Sunken Riverwalk.
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The Cut | 2012 Birmingham, AL
Studio Projects
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Minimalist approach of industrial experience in sunken elongated site through four different levels of Overhead trail.
High Performance City | 2012 Auburn, AL 22
Designing to bring a resiliency in Auburn with decreasing carbon footprint in the city and capturing individual site for design intervention.
Making Land-grant Institution Legible| 2013 Auburn University, Auburn 28
Proposing a possibility of future Research inside the Campus and integrating Research along with Productive Landscape on Campus.
Measured Drawings | 2011
Department of Archeology, Nepal Measuring, and drafting detail elevations of Hanuman-dhoka palace.
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Free Hand Sketches | 2011 Birmingham, AL 35
Designing MLA Brochure | 2012 Designing Auburn University’s-MLA Brochure- 2012 as a Graduate Research Assistant(GRA).
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Hand Rendering | 2012
Charrette | Team work
Graphics
Study of Space through Choreography and Scale of people.
Saltillo, TN 37
Mapping and identifying the brownfield sites in Saltillo through three days charette.
Conceptualizing and Installation of Rainwater Cistern | 2013 40
Dudley Hall, Auburn University, AL
Concept sketch for designing and installing Rainwater Cistern.
Model Preparation | 2007 Nepal 42
Building a model of Khwopa Engineering College as a team during my undergraduate study
Riverfront Recreation Center | 2010
Trishuli River, Nepal
Trishuli River, one of the famous tourist (domestic and international) attractive place in Nepal. This place is famous for rafting and its natural beauty of Hills, Himalayas and Trishuli River. The notion of this project is to design a recreation center for the tourists, serving the neighbouring settlement. The facilities provided in the Center will serve in employing the neighbouring settlers.
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Hand made model of the Proposed Concept
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Diagrams showing the relationship of site with the surrounding and the design concept for the site.
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Front Elevation
Floor Plans of Restaurant: Plan at level 0’- 0” (left) Plan at level 9’- 0” (middle) Roof Plan ( right)
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Plan and Elevations of Souvenier Shop [S]
Riverfront Swimming
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Beach Cafe
Riverfront Park
Plan and Elevations of Tent house [T]
Vehicular Road
Parking
Section through Q-Q
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Chattanooga Riverwalk | 2012
Chattanooga, TN
Buildings
The notion of my design is to offer varying experiences within the site with the change in choreography in different form of sunken riverwalk. The abandoned operation building is retained as an attraction, and a tree grid, referenced from the city grid, is planted. The geometry can order any development that subsequently occurs on the site.
Parking
Sidewalks
Road Network
Riverfront CBD Downtown
West Side South Side 12
South Broad
Detail Section of Walkway
Prototype_01 Prototype_01 was derived from the historical grid lines of the city which helps people to experience the historical continuity of grid system in the city. The sunken walkway also prioritizes the surrounding landscape above people.
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1959 Ideogram conveying Prototype_01
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The Cut | 2012
Birmingham, AL
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“The Cut” is coined due to its nature of linear cut through the ground. The Concept of my proposal is to design a Projected Trail connecting Sloss furnace in the east and Railroad park in the west of the site. The projected trail is allowed to interact with the vehicular road that connects the site and the ground plane of “The Cut”. At the same time, people can experience the Industrial history of the city of Birmingham through the quality of material used in the trail and making legible the “Industrial Labyrinth” in the heart of Birmingham. Ecologically, the site is allowed to grow on its own with seasonal changes that enhance the experience of the linear space.
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Continuity of Art from Site to Railroad Park on West
The Cut (site)
Continuity of Art from Site to Sloss Furnace on East
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The Cut
Thinking PROTOTYPES
Scrap Metal Mesh | HISTORY
Used Plastic Bottles| RECYCLE
Used cars Tires| RECYCLE
Conceptual Sketch of Elevated Trail
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Section at 1-1
Section at 2-2 Ideogram showing three different levels of elevated trail
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Proposed landmark location at “R”
Proposed landmark location at “RS”
Proposed landmark location at “S” 23
High Performance City | 2012
Auburn, AL
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My design is focused on improving Opelika- Auburn Rapid Bus Transit to make Auburn a High Performance City. Along with this, identifying the potential parking lots which could be developed as Pocket Park (PP) to reduce carbon footprint the the city. I tried to propose in detail, taking one of the parking lot at the heart of Auburn downtown as Pocket Park:01 (PP_01). The concept of educating people through landscape intervention in this pocket park(PP_01) is by creating a green landscape over grey landscape. The stormwater management through bioswale assessment in the pocket park would be helpful for sidewalk vegetation and filtration of stormwater before entering into nearby creeks.
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Chicago Riverwalk | Precedent
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PRECEDENT STUDY : Diagrams and Models
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Stormwater, pedestrian flow, vehicular and bike route in Pocket Park-01 (PP_01)
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Landscape Intervention by Peeling off Concrete on PP_01
Section at B-B
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Making Land-grant Institute Legible| Auburn University,Auburn Auburn University being a land grant institute, my proposal is to open up the possibility of future Research inside the campus. The notion of my design is to integrate the activities of Research and Productive landscape on Campus to provide the essence of Land-grant institute, which makes this Campus unique.
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Existing and Possibility Sites for Research through South Donahue drive
2000-2010
1990-1999
1980-1989
1970-1979
1960-1969
1950-1959
1940-1949
1930-1939
Auburn History as Land Grant Institute
1920-1929
1910-1919
1900-1909
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[VG_01]
Identifying Major route for Agricultural development inside Campus.
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Test Survey at different Locations : Best congregation location
Site VG_01 33
Algae False Wall : helps pedestrian to directly interact with the Algae Research
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After: Algae cultivating Walkway
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Measured Drawings | 2011
Department of Archeology, Nepal Measured Drawing is one of the important method to keep a record and preserving the historical architectural data. This took me almost two months to photograph, measure and draft in Auto-CAD, a detail architectural history of Hanuman Dhoka, Nepal. During this phase, while studying the historical elements, I learned the history being engraved in the intricately carved architectural elements.
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Sketches | 2011 Travelling and sketching has always been my passion. With some random sketches, I can always imagine various kinds of spaces that exist in the world which makes landscape legible for all living habitat and which distinguish from one another. These sketches help me to understand the choreography of people in spaces and their relationship with one another.
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Test:1
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MLA- Brochure Design | 2012
Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Among many opportunities as a Graduate Research Assistant, one of the opportunity I had was designing cover page and editing Master in Landscape Architecture (MLA) Brochure for our program at Auburn University. Here are some of the Test samples and the final design of MLA- cover and back page that was approved and printed to distribute to new graduate students for the program. (http://www.blurb.com/my/ book/detail/4090587-mla-brochure#share-pane ) Final Approved Brochure: Front and Back Cover
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School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture
School of Architecture, 38and Planning Landscape Architecture
Hand Rendering | 2012 [Intern Charette] Saltillo, TN
Worked on mapping through Hand Rendering in an Intern Charette with the firm FarmerMorgan at Saltillo, TN. The motive of charette is to identify the brownfield sites and to come up with the design idea convincing the community of Saltillo. 39
50 and 100 mile Radius Diagram
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Circulation Diagram
Property and Figure Ground Diagram
Local Assets Diagram
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Conceptualizing and Installation of Rainwater Cistern at Dudley Hall
Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Site for Rooftop Rainwater Collection and Rain Garden
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It is an Installation project of Rainwater Harvesting that came up through a Conceptual Sketch. The notion of installing this is to educate the students inside campus. This is an exciting project where we( group of multidisciplinary students) tried to come up with the innovative way of designing the flow of water from Cistern to the Rain Garden. Therefore, among two ideas that I drew, our group decided to install one of them.
Conceptual Sketch providing two options of Installation
Installed Rainwater Cistern and Rain Garden
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Group Model
Khwopa Engineering College, Nepal
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This was my first group model making experience(2007). We as a team came up with a model of Khwopa Engineering College, which was under construction. This model helped to give 3D Concept of the ongoing construction.
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