RAJVI SHAH rshah26@ncsu.edu +1(919)-985-0685
EDUCATION NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY Master Of Architecture May 2021 SARVAJANIK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Bachelor Of Architecture Class Of 2018
LEADERSHIP / HONORS Project Manager Freedom By Design - AIAS 2020 - 2021
EXPERIENCE Institute Of Transportation Research and Education Graphic Design Intern Jan 2021 Designing graphics related to road safety and editing reports for Transportation Department , NC State University, USA.
Circular Triangle, Durham, USA Research Intern Dec 2020 - May 2021 Dealing with the research involved in making buildings circular and effective ways to share our part to the building Industry.
INI Design Studio, India Junior Architect 2019
Graduate Student Officer National Organization For Minority In Architecture 2021
As an part of Urban design team, while working on Rajkot Smart City Projects. I sketched and drafted 3D Model of buildings using software programs such as Autocad, Revit and Sketchup for various projects.
Social Media Chair National Organization For Minority In Architecture 2020
Architecture Intern 2019
Urban Land Institute Competition - 2021 Worked on urban Issues, Phasing and Planning while curtailing energy efficient systems. Social Distancing Housing Block - 2021 Affordable Housing with focus on work from home and health of the residents. Star Student Awards - 2018 Achieved Second Position in Design Thesis for Traditional Housing Category. LEED - 2016 Participated in group of 4 initated by Ethos, India. Port Design through Incorporating guidelines of LEED and GRIHA
Huma,Spain (Exchange Program)
Worked on conceptual design to design development on Informal Library Project, creating various design presentations, drawings using autocad, photoshop and Illustrator.
Studio 919, India Architecture Intern 2017 Contributed in design development and drawings of Residential Units and Interior Project. GUIDED RESEARCH IN SPAIN ON “Architecture Recycling and Flexible Housing” AT UPCT,SPAIN.
SKILLS Autocad Adobe Suite Lumion Revit Open Studio Twin Motion Enscape Vray MS Office
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The architecture is situated underneath the sky or more the ground as the subject and object of the human experience.The type of design should not be debased, as a model yet rather, it should introduce the living structures inside the metropolitan setting supporting incalculable spatial encounters for the individuals. My own idea of the design is to be seen and used for the individual who is passing along the road, giving a consecutive encounter that is proceeded from the city. I think the structure advancement with all around planned graphs or design with spatial relationship is simply only a structure which isn’t architecture. The portfolio includes the cycle of my edification and challenge that I continue elevating to make another sort ofarchitecture dependent on empiricism.
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Contents
Selected Works (2017-2020) 01 Inside Outside ..............................4 - 11 02 Atheneum....................................12 - 17 03 Nexus...........................................18 - 27 04 Shaping the Shapers................28 - 33 05 Indoor the New Outdoor.........34 - 35 06 Miscellanous.............................. 36 - 37
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1. INSIDE OUTSIDE There are two opposite worlds that lies within human body, inside is a reveliation of humans real identity and outside relates to the mask that each one wears. A balance of inside and outside is really important to keep a human body stable and sound.The building configures the respect to a human body by connecting it to the elements of nature - earth, water, air and space. CREATING LIFE UNDERNEATH THE BUILDING, CONNECTING PEOPLE THROUGH ACTIVITIES. 4 INSIDE OUTSIDE
HEALTH IS STATE OF MIND AND BODY IS STATE OF BEING
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PROJECT TYPE : Wellness and Recreation STUDIO : Institutional DATE : Fall 2019 LOCATION : Raleigh, NC, USA. INSIDE - A cohesive space of silent and green spaces with a soft music makes the mind connected with the soul and makes you feel relax from inside. OUTSIDE - An energetic graphic wrapping around the upper peice of the building motivates you to exercise, serving as a magnet for the pedestrains on the street. Wellness Centre is magnet of activities bringing people together where they meet, learn, eat and greet. A FLOW TO NEXT GENERATION, Making Life Healthy, Social and Happier. Wellness begins with nature and ends enlighting the various connections of body making them active and flexible.
The circulation of in and around the building makes the building interactive as well as articulated in a better way. 6 INSIDE OUTSIDE
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ENERGY COMES THROUGH THE SPACES WE CREATE
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SITE Site is located at the end of Raleigh downtown and beginning of residential area.
FORM The rectangular peice sits into the cuboid, seperating the outer box from the building.
COURTYARD Bringing Light and nature into the chaos of mind. Changes the vibes that we get from outside as we go inside.
LANGUAGE The elements wrapped around the cuboid makes it stand out, filled with the high energy into the space. 9 INSIDE OUTSIDE
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LET THE BUILDING DEFINE ITS ENERGY
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Solving the beautiful puzzle called LIFE, Translating Health to Lives, Growing each day Rejuvinating souls, shaping life.
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ENGAGMENT WITH THE FACADE
2. ATHENEUM Fabricating interior and exterior spaces that hook up into the dramatic building with space to magnatize people and emphasize the reading culture in proportion to its functionality. Library creates anonyms relations with the books that remain perpatual. A 21st century ‘library in a park’ paradox that will incorporate the social factor in an anti-social built form like a library. “ LIBRARY IS NOT THE LUXURY BUT ONE OF THE NECESSITIES OF THE LIFE ”- Henry Ward Beecher 14 LIBRARY
A LIBRARY IS A PLACE WHERE UNKNOWN CONNECTIONS GET BUILT UP WITH MEDIUM OF BOOKS.
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PROJECT TYPE : Library INTERNSHIP : Huma, Spain DATE : Spring 2017 LOCATION : London, UK. The site is located in Hyde park, London along the serpentine river. It has been articulated in the form of ribbon with the formulation of spaces in and out of the ramp that accumalates the antithetic sensation at each level to magnitize people towards library. The reason behind this library is to cultivate reading habit in the new genaration which is a culture from older times in England. The Library has multifunctional courts in it and has been played into various level to unlock its rigidity and refreshing volumes. The other intangible programmes such as blogs which create interaction between authors and readers, making a place that not only attracts people but endorse people to read through its interiors and quiet spaces.
SITE LOCATION
The loop shows the base behind the formation of a shape.
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Strong connection of water with public space.
Green roof a magnet for different activities and age groups.
ROOF PLAN
EXPLODED VIEW
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3. NEXUS In this era of pandemic, the need of linkage between nature and human habitats has become a necessity.Away from the everyday routines, in a city centre a building combining both architecture and nature is proposed. An inspiration rooted in the nature allows to form a representation of an external world in a shape of external structure. Nexus drives a new opportunity for the people over here to have healthy lifestyle by providing landscapes which tend to stimulate diverse and complex range of sensual experiences not only visual but olfactory, thermal, acoustic, knisthetic etc. which permit vertical interaction for the community. Each element in the building provides connection to the outer world through the series of views and its form allowing it to be pragmatic in nature in each of its sense, making the world a better place to live. 20 NEXUS
“CULTURE IS THE ARTS ELEVATED TO A SET OF BELIEFS” - THOMAS WOLFE
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PROJECT TYPE : Skyscrapers STUDIO: Tall Building (Group of 3) DATE : Fall 2020 LOCATION : Almeda, California,USA. The project starts with the city design for the Alameda leading to design Tall building for the city. The New City will be halfway between the dense Financial Center of San Francisco and the Urban Center of Oakland, which will make it the hub of the Bay Area, both in terms of population density and professional opportunities. The city will serve housing demand for 700,000 residents coming from Oakland and Alameda. It will serve the human community with the green infrastructre with an opportunity to interweave green fabric into the cityscapes. Further disintegrating city into Microcities where we peel apart and then weave back together the three components of a typical road into a new urban fabric: a street optimised for automated vehicles, bicycles and a linear park for pedestrians.The resulting pattern of microcities creates a multitude of different econiches for social life, culture and commerce.
CONNECTIONS TO OAKLAND
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Connection of Sanfrancisco to Oakland via Alameda. 21 NEXUS
Highlighting the green belt, modes of transportation, as well as pedestrian and biking lanes.
Populating the blocks to show how the density varies.
CITY DESIGN PLAN
BRIDGE SECTION
RECREATION ZONE 22 NEXUS
PROJECT TYPE : Skyscrapers STUDIO : Tall Building (Group of 3) DATE : Fall 2020 LOCATION : Almeda, California,USA. As a pragmatic approach, the design aims to address some of the concerns leading to sustainable life along with being very site specific to achieve our design goals. Ground connection promote active pedestrian and social life at the ground level, therefore creating a urban recharge centre from an urban design perspective, environmental impact assessment in the need of an hour. The form of the ground connection represents the fabric of the city that helps to interweave the human connection into the building through the entrance plaza, for activities, concerts and festivals. The green roof of the ground connection, becomes a congregation of human and nature with a view of sanfrancisco and the bay. It permits certain types of outdoor activities as well as organic farming.
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ENTRANCE OF THE BUILDING 23 NEXUS
Platform for Ground connection.
Connecting it with the nature.
Massing and form creation of building.
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1.Studio Appartment 2. Core 3. Multipurpose Space
PROJECT TYPE : Skyscrapers STUDIO : Tall Building( Group of 3 ) DATE : Fall 2020 LOCATION : Almeda, California,USA.
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Orientation of the building being north south makes it energy efficient, also the hexagon shape of building provides views from all six sides. The tower has been divided into residential, office and hotel zones. To enhance the living of the residents and encourage vertical community.
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We have tried to recreate the experience of nature by providing amenities such as yoga, garden,waterfalls, orgaic farming, kids zone, gym and other recreational activities on alternate levels specifically on east and west providing views of sunrise and sunset.The design goal of the building is also to address the mental health of the residents. The external structure system that adds beauty to the building is through its diagrid which also holds the building. The amalgamation of the horizontal ground connection and vertical tower, creates a beautiful juxtaposition embracing the skyline of Alameda. TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN
THE VIEW OF THE YOGA SPACE 25 NEXUS
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HOTEL ZONE - The greens and relaxing luxurious spaces adds on a life to the monotonous corridors, bringing charm to the visitors stay at Alameda with beautiful scenic views of sanfrancisco skyline and Bay area.
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OFFICE ZONE - The open office planning provides them opportunity to have impromtu green spaces which breaks the typical office atmosphere, bringing creativity in persons life. The green spaces could be a small garden with massage chairs while watching a beautiful sunset or get away space bringing silence to the mind.
RESIDENTIAL ZONE - The residential zone has various recreational and other basic amenities on the east and the west part of the building providing views of sunrise a and sunset endorsing community interaction and offering good mental health. A step to provide people healthy lifestyle by spaces with thematic views, bringing botanic life indoors and stimulating for organic farming.
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4. SHAPING THE SHAPERS We are perpetrated to endorse a supporting and life enriching community that fosters with each other, work and play together. Arrange their regular habitual meals, community celebrations, social gatherings, help each other in difficult times. Journey is not always about that you travel from one point to another its a path that develops with experiences, nature, life from different angles at same point. CONNECTING PEOPLE , UPHOLDING VALUES , SUPPORTING DREAMS 29 SHAPING THE SHAPERS
WE WILL TAKE CARE OF OUR LAND AND SHARED FACILITIES
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PROJECT TYPE : Community Housing STUDIO : Housing DATE : Fall 2018 LOCATION : Jaipur, INDIA. Murtikar community housing of Rajasthan has marvelleous craft in stone and women are finesse in the handicraft sector. The community currently resides in the city center of Jaipur. Community faces strenuousness while residing in such jammed and polluted areas.The inner city being too cramped, the government proposed the site around 50 kms away from the city with all basic amenities. The motive behind the Murtikar Awas Yojna is to provide a platform to reflect the culture of one’s community, traditions, handicrafts in its own habitable space.Being a patriarch community, the spaces are designed such that it blends the tradition and modern thoughts providing comfort zone to each of them responding to the climate and vernacular architecture. Spaces are formed with the articulation of material and elements, creating confined spaces which will create over all an different experience at each level.These spaces will create recharge corners at each level. Here at each level courtyard becomes the heart of the Space.
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OPEN BUILT SCHEMATIC SECTION
SITE LAYOUT CLUSTER
The designing of the housing is based on their vernacular typology of courts focusing on climate and availibilty of local materials that help to make it affordable and sustainable. 32 SHAPING THE SHAPERS
WALL SECTION 32 SHAPING THE SHAPERS
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5. INDOOR THE NEW OUTDOOR
The Social Distancing Housing Block competition confines the plot area of 25mx25m with flexibility to choose site anywhere or could be kept undefined. It should have block of footprint 20m x 20m and height of 15m with minimum accomodation of 40 residents, with provision of minimum 3sqm of outdoor space per resident. In this pandemic situation where social distancing is the new normality, the home-scape becomes the new commute. In such an inevitable state, it is important to create an environment that aids in recommencing growth with spiritual metamorphosis. Therefore, the design approach paramount the notion of creating the windows of opportunities: happiness, strength, love, care, faith, health, and safety in the latticed living cells. 34 INDOOR THE NEW OUTDOOR
Units are designed considering covid 19 with seperate entry for the covid patients through collapsible walls and providing a seperate room for quarantine in the entrance. Also, through application of passive design aspects such as orientation, daylighting, and natural ventilation through the units increases human productivity.
The envelope comprises a thoughtful creation of solids and voids with design considerations of both private and co-working spaces that catalyze the social engagement. Along with the habitable spaces, the provision of healthcare units are considered.
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ARCHITECTURE WRITING SUMMARY OF JUNK SPACE
“If space-junk is the human debris that litters the universe, junkspace is the residue mankind leaves on the planet” Junkspace refers to the architecture built after modernism, contains a piece of work carved with the combination of human intelligence and science. They are well-thought architecture conceived under the controlled environment, which loses its meaning if are naturally ventilated. Its a product of thoughtless, refutable, shallow spaces fitted in the built environment. Junkspace provides an essence of continuity of space, exploits any invention that enables expansion. It enlists any device that promotes disorientation and deploys an infrastructure of seamlessness. Airports create series of junk spaces with extra amenities and all the baggage of unwanted space that comes with them, to compete in the race of infrastructure. In the past, new terminals would be added, each characteristic of its age leaving the old ones as a readable record, a progression. Since passengers have amply demonstrated their infinite malleability, the idea of rebuilding on the spot has gained currency. Travelators are turned in reverse. Metal ducts are replaced by breathing textiles. Thus, one shift creates new space, others consume old space. Junkspace belongs to an artificial world creating spaces that add to the matter, changing according to the aesthetics in an unthoughtful way with the motive to give humans comfortable interiors. All these structures remain meaningful, if someone pays bills to run mechanical systems. As we switch off the air conditioner it’s just a body without a soul. Thus, a structure gets converted into the junk space. Space which is no longer related to density and intensification but inflation and deflation. “Junkspace expands with the economy: its footprint cannot become smaller, only bigger.When it’s no longer needed, it is abandoned.”
REYERSON CENTRE - SECTIONAL MODEL ( LIBRARY)
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