PRANJAL SHARMA
GRADUATE URBAN DESIGN PORTFOLIO A-SCHOOL | UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MUEP & UDC | CLASS OF 2020
PRANJAL SHARMA
ps7tk@virginia.edu | 434.227.1798 | https://issuu.com/ps7tk
Listening attentively Speaking effectively Perceiving nonverbal messages Writing concisely Persuading Reporting information Expressing ideas Describing feelings Facilitating group discussion Negotiating Providing appropriate feedback Editing Solving problems Creating ideas Setting goals Extracting information Imagining alternatives Identifying resources Analyzing Persuading Commitment Strong Work Ethics I am an Urban Planner/Designer with a passionate interest in the wholesome development of the community and its habitat. I have a creative, professional and benevolent intent to help people live with equity in a safe, beautiful and healthy environment. I am in this profession with the sole purpose and commitment to create meaningful and useful spaces. My interests lie in Urban Planning and Design for the benefit of the community.
EDUCATION
TRAINING & CERT.
University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia Fall 2018 - Present
School of Architecture Master in Urban & Environmental Planning | Class of 2020 | GPA 3.74/4.0 Major in Urban Design, Minor in Environmental & Transportation Planning
University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia Fall 2018 - Present
School of Architecture Urban Design Certificate Class of 2020 | GPA 3.74/4.0
University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia Fall 2018 - Present
School of Architecture Urban Design Certificate | Class of 2020 | GPA 3.74/4.0
University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia Fall 2019 - Present
YouTube Video Director Student Planning Assoc. spaatuva@gmail.com
Sharda University Greater Noida, India Fall 2013 - 2018
School of Architecture & Planning Bachelor in Architecture | Class of 2018 | GPA 3.97/4.0 | Gold Medalist
Northern Neck RAFT Resilience Action Workshop
Institute for Engagement & Negotiation, Weldon Cooper Center
Licensed Architect
(CA/2018/96386) Accredited License to practice | Council of Architecture | India
Virginia Sea Grant Graduate Symposium
Introduction to foundations of community engagement
Autodesk Certificate Greater Noida, India
Autodesk 3Ds Max, AutoCad 3-Month Coursework
Auroville Green Practices Pondicherry, India 2017
Student practicum on Building materials and Sustainable Technology
WORK EXPERIENCE Neighborhood Development Services Charlottesville, Virginia January 2020
Graduate Planning Intern 1 week internship shadowing the city planners, urban designers and GIS analysts
Institute for Engagement and Negotiation Charlottesville, Virginia Fall 2018 - Present
Graduate Planning Intern The project is called RAFT (The Resilient Adaptation Feasibility Tool). It is designed for the communities that face periodic inundation due to sea-level rise. Responsible for creating GIS maps for Northern Neck localities
Arvind Vivek and Associates Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi, India 2017 - 2018
Architecture Intern Responsible for creating good for construction drawings, presentation drawings as well as views and renders of the architectural projects. I also helped with project cost estimates.
SKILLS Technical Skills:
Adobe Creative Suit AutoCad Rhino 3Ds Max | Sketch Up Arc GIS Qualtrics | Survey Monkey SPSS Statistics Microsoft Office Suite
Fabrication Skills:
Physical Modeling Painting, Sketching, Drafting Lazer Cutting, 3D Printing
COMPETITION Urban Land Institute Hines Student Competition 2020
An area in Midtown Miami, split between the Wynwood and Edgewater neighborhoods. The Florida East Coast Railway bisects the study area, where students will evaluate the potential to create a thriving, mixed-use neighborhood around a commuter train station.
CONTENTS
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TORONTO, CANADA
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03
VARANASI, INDIA
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, US
05
MIAMI, US
06
EASTERN SHORE, US
GHANA, AFRICA
Conserving Ecologies and creating a Sustainable Future
Redemption of Varanasi Ghats (Riverfront Development)
Elevating Urbanity/ Wynwood meets Miami
Redeveloping Brownfields as Waterfronts of Toronto
Revitalizing the Downtown Mall
Resilience tool for vulnerable communities GIS Maps
01 | GHANA, AFRICA
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Trauma Hospital
GHANA, AFRICA
Conserving Ecologies and creating a Sustainable Future Klimovic Hospital
Preserved Forest
Ntakrafah River
UEW North Campus
Education & Social Science
Green
Green
Green
UEW Central Campus Theatre & Arts
Fishing Market Pankye UEW South Campus Science & Business
Ideological Institute Green
Green
Akosua Village
Sir Charles Beach
Old Town
LEGEND Waste-Prone Sites Clean sites A block covers 500x500 meters Schools Church UEW Campuses .5 Mile Zoomline Trash collection *The matrix of 500m x 500m is a depiction of areas on the basis of their sanitary conditions in accordance with the intensity of the color. The cleaner areas are much lighter whereas the unsanitary areas are in darker boxes.
Green
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0.175 0.35
0.7
1.05
km
1.4
°
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES IN GHANA: CONSERVATION - Lack of land to grow food and build houses as the population grows by 1 million in the next decade. Depleting natural resources and unsustainable practices. INFRASTRUCTURE - The shift in sustainable housing construction practice from vernacular to western/international. Poor living conditions giving rise to epidemics, slums, poverty cycle etc. ECONOMY - Pragmatic shift in income generation, need other models related to agriculture and farming. Can use property as a means to earn income as rent. EDUCATION - The need for public-private partnership models to construct better housing and living conditions for the poor via sustainable affordable housing.
SERIES OF THOUGHTS
CONCEPT
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
CONCEPTUAL
ELEVATION
OUTCOME BASED PLANNING
PLANS BYPASS ROAD
Walkable Service Core
BUILT- UP 60% OF SITE
Massing for Courtyard Planning
AGRICULTURE FARM
BUILT-UP SERVICE CORE
BUILT-UP
SERVICE ROAD
PROGRAM LAYOUT & ZONING
VERTICAL MASSING
For Sustainable Land Use
NEW CIVIC SHARING
Community grown farm for consumption and sale with area attached FARM 600 m2
MASSING FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS
MULTI-PURPOSE HALLS 300 m2 EACH COMBINING TO A TOTAL OF 2100 m2
FARM 600 m2
Single and Family occupancy
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
COMPOUND PLANNING
Community Houses around shared courtyard
DIFFERENT UNITS ACCORDING TO NEED
1 BHK, 2 BHK
EDUCATION AND RECREATION
Shared facilities on ground floor
COMMUNITY ENERGY PLANNING
Community shares common resources & energy
42 SINGLE OCCUPANCY UNITS OF 25 m2
SERVICE CORE
MARKET GATHERING TOILETS BATHROOMS RAINWATER HARVESTING TANK BIOGAS COLLECTOR
42 DOUBLE OCCUPANCY UNITS OF 40 m2 TOTAL NO. OF PEOPLE LIVING = 250 (APPROX.)
1-3 STOREY FLOOR PLAN
02 | TORONTO, CANADA
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TORONTO, CANADA
Understanding different urban layers of the site to create a system of sustainability and to channel the excess rainwater carried by the Don River to the waiting Port Lands.
Redeveloping Brownfields as Waterfronts of Toronto
G.) WATER PLAZA & GREEN SPACES
F.) RECLAIMABLE LAND
E.) EXISTING AND PROPOSED PROGRAMS
D.) ROAD NETWORK
In light of benefiting Toronto by utilizing one of the most “potential” waiting land, the eastern port land, the strategy was to reduce pressure on the city by using the waiting port lands in the era of growing urbanization. It acts as a connecting missing link (the site) between the north south and east west axis that serves a great opportunity not only to be called a green ecological corridor but also is a stepping stone to revitalize and connect the port-lands to the city and also tackle the inundation and water problem that happens more frequently than ever in this era of global warming. C.) PRIMARY ROADS
CONSTRUCTED WETLAND SYSTEM
B.) EXISTING GRID
USES IN DIFFERENT SEASONS HISTORIC COURSE OF RIVER
Special events The plaza can help to held special events like music concert or displays.
Winter Under snowing circumstances, the bottom of the plaza would be used as ice arena. Citizens can play on it.
Severe Flood Rain water and river run off will be collected during flood season and send back to city water recycle.
Activities: Spring festival concerts Farmers market Film festivals Artists shows
Activities: Fishing Swimming Playing water ball Feeding waterfowl Bird watching Play with water
Historic Marshland provided the resistance against flooding and therefore are essential to replicate as ‘sponge’
Activities: Playing ice hocky Skating Snowball Fighting Skiing Making a snow man A.) PROPOSED GEOGRAPHY
The synergy between the island infrastructure and the buildings which hold the programs. The water is harvested and given back to the people for daily needs.
WORK, LIVE, PLAY
Children can play while their parents work in the surrounding buildings
The Island is self sustaining and resilient to the rising water level. Its armature acts like a sponge and stores water to be used at later times. The infrastructure is timeless and regardless of the programs that happen on surface, it manages to cope up with the inundation and water problem.
CELEBRATION EVENTS
Multipurpose spaces to be transformed to host any celebrations
SEPARATION OF GREY & BLACK WATER
The marshes are the soft edges of the island that provides a buffer and turning radius to splashing water and also provides time-lapse for the ground to soak the excess water. The water-plazas are also ‘sponge’ spaces that can be used by nature as well as humans. It also provides scope for multi-user activities in every season.
GROWING TO WILDERNESS
The open pool can also develop itself to wilderness for nature lovers
The edges around the Don River are rigid and provide no buffer for water at times of inundation. Also the public infrastructure is old and out-dated with the factories and manufacturing spaces, empty parking lots and waste lands that needs to be developed to their full potential.
EDUCATION PURPOSES
An education opportunity for students interested in ecology and nature preservation
03 | VARANASI, INDIA
04 |CHARLOTTESVILLE, US
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA
05 | MIAMI, USA
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COURTYARD TOWER
MIAMI, USA
Elevating Urbanity/ Wynwood meets Miami
Introduction of a new typology [Courtyward Tower] to mark the site vertically and to bridge between Edgewater and Wynwood.
PODIUM TOWERS IN EDGEWATER DOUBLE LOADED
Podium towers with a semi private rooftop landscape topographies.
WYNWOOD COURTYARD
SINGLE LOADED
Existing courtyard typology in Wynwood can be used as ‘seeds’ of public activation. These courtyards can infill the other existing plots.
COURTYARD TOWERS IN WYNWOOD
COMMERCIAL
Existing courtyard tyopology in Wynwoodcan be used as “seeds of public space activation. These courtyards can infill in the other existing plots.
COMMERCIAL
RESIDENTIAL
RAIL STATION
New office hub radiating out from the transit node and ultimately blending into the Edgewater urban fabric
INTERMODAL ELECTRIC CAR
RESIDENTIAL RESIDENTIAL
N MIAMI AVE
NW 1ST AVE
OFFICE
NW 2ND AVE
NW 5TH AVE
EDGEWATER TYPOLOGY
DOORSEY AVE
Creating a typolgy on the Wynwood side to amalgamate the Edgwater and Wynwood building types. This forms a courtyardtower typolgy in Wynwood.
The site is located at the intersection of three distinct neighborhoods: Wynwood offers lively urban spaces nested in a low-density fabric, while Midtown and Edgewater represent the high-density conditions. This project combines the best qualities through offering a higher density neighborhood containing vibrant urban spaces, and connections to the greater Miami region. A signature tower anchors the initial phase of investment to underwrite the proposed infrastructure and public space improvements and provide an identity to the district as a new sub-center for Miami at the intersection of three neighborhoods
RESIDENTIAL
OFFICE
PARKING
OFFICE
PARKING
MIAMI Hello! Greetings
Wynwood
The infrastructure and open space investments facilitate an urban vibrancy that can be leveraged by the successive phases.
Five interrelated urban strategies invest into the emergence of a new sub-center. The project interprets the urban context to allow for an elevated urbanity offering high-density, rich cultural programming, diverse economic and ecological performance, as well as connectivity by bridging the current divide of the
MARKET
BISCAYNE BAY
NE 5TH AVE
BISCAYNE BLVD
NE 2ND AVE
Five interrelated urban strategies: 1. Typological Strategy 2. Infrastructural Strategy 3. Programmatic Strategy 4. Ecological Strategy
06 |EASTERN SHORE, USA In 2019, these maps were created by the Institute for Engagement & Negotiation (IEN) to assist Virginia’s Eastern Shore in planning for resilience. When developing the prototype, IEN worked closely with Northampton County to determine what they would want included in a “critical infrastructure” map analysis. Once the method and content were solidified, the method was replicated for other Eastern Shore localities. The maps incorporated data from The Nature Conservancy (TNC)’s Coastal Resilience Mapping Tool, the AccomackNorthampton Planning District Commission, the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS), the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, the Virginia Geographic Information Network, as well as additional data layers developed by the Institute for Engagement & Negotiation’s student interns. TNC provided Virginia Flood Sea Level Rise data, including both projected highest high tide and storm surge layers for 2040 and 2065 conditions. They also provided data on protected lands and public water access. VIMS provided data on shellfish aquaculture including oyster gardens and private leases. Population data for 2015 was sourced from the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 5-year estimates. The evacuation routes and road systems used on all maps was downloaded from the government’s Virginia Geographic Information Network. The road flooding data on the Critical Infrastructure Maps came from the AccomackNorthampton Planning District Commission and includes information provided to them by the Virginia Department of Transportation. Finally, the locations of critical infrastructure and key assets were all researched and geocoded by IEN student interns with input from county staff and residents. Find my maps here at https://raft.ien.virginia.edu/raft-resilience-maps
Esri, HERE, Garmin, Š OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS user community
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PRANJAL SHARMA
ps7tk@virginia.edu | 434.227.1798 | https://issuu.com/ps7tk
