Ram_A_Thennaapan_Selected_Works

ram annamalai thennaapan selected works

contentstable MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING, nassau, ny 4 RONALD MC DONALD HOUSE, philadelphia, pa 8 NEUMORS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL, philadelphia, pa 12 NORTHWELL HEALTH SOUTHSIDE HOSPITAL, new york, ny 16 FAMILY COURT, philadelphia, pa 18 CAPE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, cape may, nj 20 NORTHWELL HEALTH LONG ISLAND JEWISH HOSPITAL, new york, ny 22 RESINTECH, camden, nj 23 BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY STUDENT CENTER, bloomsburg, pa 24 PIXERCISE, research 26 INHABITABLE SURFACE, research 28 MIRRORED CURVES, research 30 published - pressing matters 5

PENN STATION[S], new york city, usa 32 published - asset architecture no.1

THE MACHINE, new york city, usa 40 KAHN FUSION, tokyo, japan 46 THE NEST, kollam, india 52 finalist - international competition

UKRAINA HOTEL ENTRYWAY, moscow, russia 58 first mention - international competition - Goethe Instut, Germany BEACON, chennai, india

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winner - national competition - National Association of Students of Architecture, India MADRASAPATTINAM, chennai, india

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winner & published - competition - 9to4 magazine THE CUBE, chennai, india

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Ram Annamalai Thennaapan EwingCole, Architectural Designer University of Pennsylvania, Masters of Science in Design - Advanced Architectural Design architecture RED, Junior Architect Anna University, Bachelor of Architecture Software Autodesk AutoCAD, Revit, 3DS Max, Autodesk Maya, SketchUP, Rhino, Revit, V-Ray, Keyshot, Mentalray, Maxwell, Lumion, Adobe - Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge, Premier Pro, After effects, Illustrator

Content Page - Ukraina Hotel Entryway competition entry

Memorial Sloan Kettering interior design for new facility

CONTEXT Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Nassau, a hospital offering a variety of oncology services and treatments. Memorial Sloan Kettering has acquired a parcel of land in Nassau County,

Long Island. Construction plans are under way for MSK Nassau, a new freestanding outpatient treatment center, expected to open in 2019.

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DESIGN The interior design for the facility revolved around the theme of a barnyard. The warm tones played an important role to make the otherwise cold nature of a clinical space feel more

comforting. The furniture and accessories used to populate these spaces drive the design leaving the user with an experience that is warm and comforting.

VIEW OF THE WAITING AREA FROM THE SECOND FLOOR

VIEW OF THE CAFE FROM THE COUNTER

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VIEW OF THE CAFE FROM THE CORRIDOR

VIEW OF THE CAFE FROM THE SEATING AREA

VIEW OF THE WAITING AREA NEAR LOBBY

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VIEW OF THE WAITING AREA AT STAIRS

VIEW OF THE WAITING AREA FROM THE SECOND FLOOR

VIEW OF THE CAFE FROM THE COUNTER

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VIEW OF THE WAITING AREA NEAR INFUSION

Ronald Mc Donald House interior design for addition

CONTEXT Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House is to provide a home away from home for children and their families while they undergo specialized medical treatment at local medical centers. The

project program expands the existing facility, housed in a landmark Victorian mansion and an adjacent mid-seventies building from a 40room house to a 123-room community.Â

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VIEW OF MAIN STREET

DESIGN The program includes a new tower for rooms, a new dining facility, a new entry and reception area. Main street becomes the entry point to the building, with guest services, seating areas, and

a connection to all the elevator cores and entry points to the mansion, dining, and play and family area.

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The tiered levels of the family and play area provide an open floor for multiple functions such as a young children play area, a teen area, a parents lounge, a small tiered theater, a small gym, an arts and crafts area, and a study area. The wall fragments that run north south absorb the building infrastructure but also provide a level of compartmentalization

and privacy in an open plan. The openness of the floor, its different tiers, and its striation provide a place of interest and exploration.

The cascading sectional quality of the floor provides an opportunity to step the program down and into the garden, create separations providing visibility, and allow for the design of a tiered theater and a small slide.

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VIEW OF THE PLAY AREA SCREEN AND SLIDE UNDER CONSTRUCTION

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VIEW OF THE SEPERATION SCREEN

VIEW OF DINING AREA

Neumors Children’s Hospital interiors for the children’s area

CONTEXT The requirement was to design a children’s waiting or play area within the children’s health facility at Neumors. The area needed to cater

to different age groups, have colour, playful elements, space for performance,treatment rooms, offices, reading and lounge areas.

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DESIGN Starting from the reception, the area for children can be seen to be split by a blue sky element.

This element is a super graphic of the sky that is illuminated. Large posts with interactive elements are placed along the sky. From these posts, large custom light fixtures are designed with a light green tinted glass element. This all together paints a picture of trees lining the sky.

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The dramatic play area has a graphic of a beachside and completes the look to tie the sky with its context. Cozy reading nooks with bright colours are strategically placed between the tree trunks of the reading area to provide visual contrast.

The walls and tables have been topped with a layer of blue to create strong visual lines.

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D. VIEW OF THE DRAMATIC PLAY AREA

VIEW FROM THE RECEPTION DESK(1) LOOKING DOWN THE CORRIDOR

VIEW OF DRAMATIC PLAY(7) FROM READING(5)

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VIEW FROM ARTS & CRAFTS(2) LOOKING AT CCTV AREA(3)

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VIEW DOWN THE CORRIDOR FROM TEEN SPACE LOOKING AT CCTV AREA(3)

VIEW FROM ARTS & CRAFTS(2) LOOKING AT CL KITCHEN(11)

Northwell Health Re-branding reworked interior for the southside hospital

CONTEXT As part of the rebranding for the Northwell Health hospitals in New York, NY. The company decided to unify their five major health facilities with a uniform design language. Southside

Hospital is a 341-bed hospital with physicians, nurses and staff who provide health care services in all medical specialties.

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DESIGN The design for this facility primarily focussed bringing the outside in. Taking inspiration from nature, a green wall is proposed and the wall is seen as breaking away from being solid in the

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form of panels with light inlays suspended inbetween the floor and the ceiling. A skylight is added to make the whole space feel light.

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Family Court sculptural piece for the play area

CONTEXT The requirement was to design a children’s waiting area module within the Family courthouse in downtown Philadelphia. The

courthouse, a 15 storey building, is home to the Family division, is one of the three major divisions of the Court of Common Pleas.

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The module has different sections that builds up the final form, with seating on the ends and storage space in between. The surface of the sculpture is made is capped to articulate

softness. Colour is added to the area in the form of inlayed translucent panels and floor tiles. The whole arrangement provides an arrangement of colour and form to the viewers from both sides.

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The sections of plywood are placed at a foot apart from each other giving room to playfully inlay translucent resin panels that provide the area with colour. The ceiling and floor patterns

picks up similar colours as the resin panels.

The whole arrangement abuts an escalator and provides a pleasing arrangement of colour and form to the viewers from both sides.

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Cape Regional Medical Center addition to existing facility

CONTEXT Cape Regional Health System, a facility which serves a local population and more than 1 million seasonal visitors with a variety of coordinated

clinical expertise is located in the county seat of Cape May Court House and is the southernmost gateway to advanced care in New Jersey.

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DESIGN The proposal called for a single level addition to the existing facility consisting of patient rooms and operation rooms. These rooms would serve as an extension to the present facility thereby

relieving some load from the primary building.

To that extent, a site was located on the eastern side of campus.

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The design involved using planes placed in angles to the abutting driveway to give a sense of a cascade for the onlookers. The base material, brick is the same type of brick on

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the existing facade to make it look less like an addition but more like an extension. The main entrance lobby has been included in the design to embolden its present stature.

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Glass planes held by a continuous white band is used in the design to accentuate the bricks are either defined as frames, voids or insets. This made it look like a mass was

cut up into smaller pieces. At night, when the place is lights up, the voids pour out light giving an illusion that these are free standing monolithic brick planes.

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Northwell Health Re-branding reworked exterior for the long island jewish medical center

CONTEXT Long Island Jewish Medical Center offers world-class cardiology, cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, orthopaedics, head and neck

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oncology, urology, gynaecology and vascular programs. The proposal involved renovating the exterior and interior.

DESIGN The present facility here needed a screen that would cover the present glass lobby. A screen with slots was devised in such a way that incremental increase in widths would change the

nature of the screen from opaque to transparent. The density of the slots was dictated by the function within the lobby.

The screen would be more transparent towards the patient waiting areas facilitating views and opaque towards nurses stations that needed privacy. Combining these parts

and having smooth transitions between them gave rise to a pattern which made the skin look like it was breathing.

Resintech redesigned entryway

CONTEXT ResinTech Inc., an acknowledged leader in ion exchange, manufactures a broad range of ion exchange resins for water and waste

water treatment, including de-ionization, softening, metals removal, product purification, resource recovery, and pollution control.

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DESIGN The proposal was to redesign the entryway to the facility. The design evolved from careful placement of planes and tapering two critical elements, the lobby a volume and the

canopy a plane. The support frames, columns were accentuated in form of wood cladded planes making it look as though the mass has been pierced by the plane.

Bloomsburg University proposed new students center

CONTEXT Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is a comprehensive public university located in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. The proposal calls

for the design of a New Student center to be built in place of the old one to match up to student needs.another seamlessly.

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DESIGN The location of the present student facility played a pivotal role in the design of the new facility. With students bustling on the 1000 foot green field that lay between the site and the library, the design desired to be included as an extension to the green creating an accessible link from one plane to another seamlessly.

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By creating semi covered public realms on the ground and at the top of the stairs, the design is able to extend itself into the green field outside. The green peels away from the ground and leads the user right into the upper realm that leads directly into the second level of the student center with conference and study rooms.

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The interior of the building is designed in such a way that the size of the main campus circulation is maintained. Hence the reason to move of the entry to an identified node where students from dorms, dining hall and the navy hall congregate. This path punctures, drives through the building as a double height atrium with bridges and joins the path on the other side connecting to the field.

The green screen, derived from a web of steel members drapes the facade serving as a link to the roof garden thus continuing the line of green from the library all the way down to the student center. The layout of the building is organized around the main street cutting through the building. The inside of the student center, is designed with glass panels with super graphics depicting the school’s pride.

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Pixercise investigation into the effects of resolution on moving voxelsised objects

CONTEXT The word voxel originated by analogy with the word “pixel”, with vo representing “volume” and el representing “element”. A voxel represents a value on a regular grid in three-dimensional space. As with pixels in a bitmap, voxels themselves do not typically have their position (their coordinates) explicitly encoded along with their values.

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PROCESS The study explored the effect of resolution on moving voxels by using a composite chronophotograph of an action, plotting points along the moement of pivotal points

and using these points as particle emmiters.

The particles would then be attractercted/ deflected by feilds that would be spread across the area.

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The result form gave the base for testing out different resolutions which exhibited different qualities of the same object. The larger resolutions showed columetric tendencies

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while the finer resolutions displayed structural tendencies. These findings were then compiled to be used to generate a landscape by the river.

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The larger resolution particles align ing together form the plane of the landscape while the smaller pieces come together to form sculptural elements on the landscape like paths, stairs and seating.

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Inhabitable Surface research based on fabric manipulation techniques

CONTEXT Fashion employes different systems of elements creating an aesthetically appealing form.

Employing similar affects to surfaces and volumes would open up a world of possibilities in

architectural design. Like in fashion, the individual elements can be compacted or loosened within the composition to accommodate structure, volumes or surface treatment.

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PROCESS The research started off with the analysis of different fabric manipulation techniques. Taking one technique to see its capacity to handle varying parameters (depicted below) was the first

step to observe what is happening. These were then combined together to obtain a mixed result to be used within the next product.

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The result, an object obtained from the combination of elements that breaks the sternness with digital techniques fostering support for refining to let loose pertinent knowledge to design.

The process allowed to develop a unique aesthetic sensibility that is rooted in understanding the systems that develop the image allowing the ability to distance oneself from symbolism.

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This meant that the design could be seen as a work of art allowing these aesthetics to be contemporary and having the potential to cross cultural boundaries.

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Mirrored Curves mathamatical research of computational mirroring

CONTEXT The geometric patterns used in architecture has always captured human imagination. With that age old idea along side the computational

power of coding, this was an exploration into expressing 3 dimensional projections by mirroring and rotating two dimensional curves.

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incrementally increasing specifications in terms of rotation parameters, the number and angle of reflections. A change in the order of parameters resulted in the generation of new complex results like the one below.

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PENN STATION[S] re-imaginning penn station published - pressing matters 5

Positioned at the intersection of urban planning and architecture, transportation hubs have always been a generative catalyst and the raison d’être for the urban ecology of any great city. Among the major three modes of public transportation: harbour, airport and train/rail has had the greatest impact at the urban scale and remains the most viable platform to redefine the identity of a city’s future.

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The goal of this study of was to speculate about the national crises of transportation and re-claim the importance of regional rail for the advancement of 21st century urbanism.

In comparison to the enormous advances in public transportation throughout Europe and Asia, the United States suffers from an outdated operational system and generations of reactive development rather than nurtured strategic growth.

Penn Station, originally designed for 200,000 people, now services around 650,000 people a day which is almost the whole population of Boston moving through this tiny portal everyday.

Travellers using the Amtrak, NJ transit and the Long Island Railroad form a complex web of interweaving circulations that ends underneath the massive Madison Square Garden.

This proposal instigates a radical change in a scheme that benefits the users and affects the urban fabric of lower west Manhattan.

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A recent study of the rental rates in New York City shows that properties surrounding Penn Station is almost half the rate when compared to those around Madison and Fifth which is right next to it.

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Properties next to open The proposal was to spaces increases the address the existing land value exponentially. situation of Penn Station by creating a large More specifically so, if open space that gives a within a 5 minute walking rejuvenated identity as a radius of any park; the portal to the city. value increases 33% as soon as such project are completed.

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Penn station lies between 33rd street and 31st street. To make an open space as large as the Battery park, the proposal requires extension up till the 28th street. The proposal expands into the city by adding one block south of the Farley post office.

This block creates a continuity to the developing Hudson Yards project, thereby creating a steady line of tall buildings.

To make this space open, Madison Square Garden is proposed to be moved underground beside Penn station and it’s extension. This opens out three city blocks of open space in the middle of the bustling city.

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BASIC IDEA BEHIND PROPOSAL The existing development of 5.2 Million square feet along with the excess of 7.1 Million square feet is compensated in the form of towers around the newly created open space creating a ring of newly formed buildings.

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BREAKS IN THE RING TO ENGAGE EXTERNALLY The ring surrounding the open site is broken near the post office and at the gate of FIT institute to interact with city, providing two main entries into the site. Large openings like these become ambling spaces for the entire complex contrasting the small entries along the edges leading to the concourse. The ring forms a base for various options in the tower placments for required results.

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the MACHINE development of new urban asset typologies published - asset architecture no.1

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Looking through the chronology of built structures, it can easily be deduced that architecture and urbanism are affected by growth in capital. In times of immense growth due to flourishing economies in China, India and the Middle East there is more capital than ever in the world today. While monetary capital has always played a significant role in determining the built environment, recent shifts in the character of global finance have resulted in a new relationship between investment practices and buildings. More specifically, the design probes the notion that the increments of architecture increasingly operate primarily as financial investment assets in contradistinction with the performance attributes typically associated with the art and science of building.

New York City for example has 12% of its housing market vacant - a large number.

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DESIGN This tower proposal is an uninhabitable asset.

The structure serves to function as investment in place of the luxurious residential tower at 157 W 57th street in Manhattan, New York City, between 6th and 7th avenues.

New York City, more specifically lower Manhattan, proves an ideal ground for a building which serves its occupants without being occupied. The New York Times tower at 1475 Broadway, NYC is the best example for a building generating massive capital all year round, without occupancy!

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In today’s urban way of life, electricity plays a major role.

Besides when one lives in New York City he/she knows about the rising value of electricity.

According to a publication, NYC power consumption jumps 3.5% in a day, which affects a blanket of entities. Hurricane Sandy made the officials realize the need for a cleaner, stronger and more efficient electric grid that evaluates itself and expends energy at times of need.

Thus coming to the decision of redefining assets and proposing a non-habitable structure, housing electrical production and storage units. This in turn makes the proposed building an asset as a neighborhood electrical back up.

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This back up needs to be clean and strong; hence the notion of geothermal and wind energy are used as primary generators on-site. Geothermal energy is facilitated with the help of enhanced geothermal energy system that enables utilizing the earth’s heat even through the hard bedrock of New York City. A predominant North-East wind permits the use wind turbines in a building that is a thousand feet tall. These systems get plugged into the existing grid taking a portion of the load and become the source of energy for the tower charging up the storage units.

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The design looks into the possibilities of alternate energy production and storage and suggests a solution where electricity can be tapped and be used. The tower create electrical storage units that flank the power generating core. Electricity is generated in two forms: Geothermal energy and Wind energy.

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(KAHN)fusion flagship store for alexander Mc queen

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The fashion of Alexander McQueen is one of provocation which evokes a deliberately aggressive emotion through the deployment of different materials and forms. Different systems of aesthetics are layered together, overlapping and penetrating one another, so elements of his dresses are constantly in tension and conflict offering a unique compositional style to Haute Couture. The capacity for architecture to employ surfaces and volumes to create an effect can only be achieved when they are bundled, bunched, and propagated excessively in a controlled tension is the basis for an architectural logic based on formal redundancy. The densification, tightening, relaxing and unfurling of layers are combined for structural necessity, space-making and ornamentation into a system of packed surfaces.

Developing a flagship store for Alexander McQueen in Tokyo through exploration of Haute Couture, pushing beyond the austerities of digital technique and reductionism, encouraging refinement and precision to unleash an intelligence pertinent to architecture.

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The design coalesces artistically designed elements into the building to create an overall harmonizing effect charecterizing the finished products in a fashion designer’s line.

The program included a flagship store, a workshop with fitting rooms, a runway, offices and conference rooms, as well as a museum for past collections. All research and development for Haute Couture and ready-to-wear happens in the facility, including fashion shows, displays and other modes of presentation.

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Kollam, a city in Kerala, India, decided to address it’s growing density by allowing a zoning law change by accommodating much needed towers within the city. The design being the first of its kind is pivotal in solving the issue. Also paving the way for future constructions.

To create a neighbourhood by stacking masses vertically that are connected by a green path resulting in a 100,000 sqft tower.

After careful study of the neighbourhood, it was decided to emulate the surroundings to create a vertical neighbourhood.

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clusters offset to make community spaces

horizontal configuration of clusters relating to the neighbourhood.

vertical re-configuration of clusters

density maximised by stub tower

gallery space added to engage the building with the street

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The design emulates the contexts where it sits; segregating units into housing blocks and placing them one over the other, a green belt weaves through the building’s height providing plenty of gathering spaces starting from the public realm on the ground floor, to the recreation facilities, topping off at the deck.

The units have been designed to make use of the visual panorams and shading the building with vertical louvres.

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SECTION showing vertically organized community spaces

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upper level

lower level

typical plan 4 bedroom duplex floors

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typical plan floors

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typical plan floors

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hotelUKRAINA

entryway redesign competition, moscow, russia finalist - international competition

PRESERVATION BY RELEVANCE Historic preservation of buildings become sustainable when it stays relevant to the changing times and continues it association with the people. By rendering its usefullnes to the city - through program or function, a building ceases to operate in isolation but integrates itself and contributes to enhance the urban fabric.

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The design intervention proposal is to sensitively integrate with the architectural language of the Hotel. While respecting its character, the proposal attempts to seamlessly knit the old with the new; accentuating vital elements and re-interpreting them using a contemporary vocabulary. Emphasizing the existing without competing with the compositional concept or facade, the entryway maximises its location creating a vista ahead and forging a connection with the waterfront.

UKRAINA - MOSCOW’S HISTORICAL,

CULTURAL AND URBAN LANDMARK The last of the Seven Soviet Skyscrapers to be built, the Ukraina Hotel forms the famous silhouette on Moscow’s skyline. It is more than just an architectural monument; it is one of the great symbols of the city along the waterfront. Built in the 1950’s, it is today a historic and cultural landmark, also marking the beginning of the Kutuzovsky prospect: one of the city’s main transport arteries.

WATERFRONT

- AN UNTAPPED SOCIAL OPPORTUNITY A historically significant and culturally vibrant city, ‘Moscow’ literally translates to ‘the city by the Moskva River’. Ironically, most of the waterfront near the city center (about 90%) is currently surrounded by vehicular traffic- creating a barrier between the city and the river- a noisy zone that discourages people from lingering and promenading.

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REDEFINING THE PORTAL

AN EXPERIENCE - Rather than an iconic pause, the entryway is an experience in itself; unconfined and stretching beyond. Apart from being a gateway to the Hotel it also leads on to connect to the waterfront, activating the space along the way.

Conventionally, an entryway functions as the threshold of the building clearly demarcating the insides from the outside. Also, it serves as a means to welcome and define one’s approach and entrance into a building. While building upon its traditional roles, the project aims at redefining the entrance as a medium that engages the building with its surroundings. The design proposal for the entrance focuses on creating an experience through visual and physical dialogue with the waterfront of Moscow River and consecutively, the city.

- Acts as a transparent stage for the building, without an imposing form.

- An expression of Art

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THE ENTRYWAY AS A PROGRAMMATIC DIALOGUE

PIER

The datum is programmed as a public space for recreation through art.

The space is made engaging by follies for public activities and events.

Through the program, the Pier, Metro and the Ferry are linked at a larger scale. The landscape gardens at the rear end of the Hotel are connected to the proposed anchor points by the green pockets in front while defining and strengthening the axis.

METRO STATION

PARKING

PORTAL

CIRCULATION PLUGGED INTO THE DATUM

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PICK UP

ENTRANCE TO CAR PARK

DROP-OFF

A FOREGROUND TO THE MONUMENT The Monument is preserved in its glory by refraining to interfere with the existing building, rather creating a setting as a foreground for the building to be appreciated.

The horizontal extension is one to one with the height of the building, this creates a large foreground that allows one to experience the facade in full.

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BIRD’S EYE VIEW

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DATUM INTERIOR

BEACON

urban re-development of mrts station

first mention - international competition - goethe Instut, germany

The Mass Rapid Transport Systems or MRTS in short, play a major role in public transportation for the city of Chennai, India. The program, has had several challenges from it’s inception.

The alignment was more based on access to available land rather than a study of requirement of the commuters, the stations became surrounded by squalid and overcrowded areas and at major hubs, the stations were functioning autonomously rather than being multinodal with the city’s public road transport systems. These situations made commuters feel unsafe, making the station desolate and empty when trains arrived.

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EXISTING BUS ROUTE

PROPOSED BUS ROUTE connecting the bus route to the station and madras presidency college, bringing in more people to the light house station

The solution for this situation lay solely in rejuvenating the station by bringing people into the station. The Light House station, a prominent station along the line was selected for this rejuvenation. Firstly, to maximise on the efficiency and optimise on the use of the MRTS as a mode of transport, linking the existing road transport to the station is a necessity. Another inclusion in this design is secondary commercial and office uses within the station to help induce a more constant, lingering crowd, providing “safety in numbers”.

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The building is evolved from the very basis of transportation “SPEED�. The building is perceived as being in motion, even though it is standing in one place. The fluidity of a moving object is brought out in the form with varying heights. The proposed form showcases two objects moving in opposite directions which emphasize the movement of the trains. The dynamic form of the building does not compromise on the experience within, creating light, airy spaces with sufficient breaks that while keeping with the concept in mind.

FORM GENERATION

The ground floor with its large, double-heighted lobby and food court acts as a space that draws and comforts users. The large ambling space and the visual link between this floor and the next act to increase the feeling of security and also induce a sense of direction in the users.

On the same floor is provided vehicular parking connected to the lobby through a secured entrance and the intra-city bus drop off with a large platform.

The mezzanine is linked physically to both the other floors and visually to the ground floor to add to the illusion of a single large space. Apart from ticketing and back-office facilities this floor houses commercial spaces strategically laid out such that incidental shopping is supported.

Adequate vertical movement is provided with sufficient number of staircases, escalators and elevators which takes the users to another level of check at the platform level.

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The platform level houses the required admin spaces, secure entries and exits to all vertical cores through turnstile systems along with commercial spaces placed in cozy pockets that are comfortably spaced on the platform. ground level

mezzanine level

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SITE PLAN

MADRASAPATTINAM urban re-development of egmore station

winner - national competition - g-sen award for urban re-development - national association for students of architecture, india

The competition called for renewal of a major city landmark so as to revitalize tourisim and trade.The cultural heritage and global lifestyle plays a big role in the concept and design of madrasapattinam. Modelled after the Madras Central station, the Egmore station had to be put in full use bringing back the essence of its original use.

located in the commercial heart of Chennai offers some of the best attractions in the city in terms of shopping, trade and transport. Egmore is also home to some of the architectural inheritances such as the likes of the museum and the Egmore railway station. This region offers best cityscapes and subsequently thrives to be a haunt for people of all ages.

EGMORE - A MAJOR ECONOMIC AND

Ever since its establishment in the late 19th century, the railways are an inevitable means of transportation in India. It has made life comfortable for people regardless of caste, creed and status.

URBAN LANDMARK OF CHENNAI The Indian Railways is the largest rail system in the world under a single management. Egmore,

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VIEW FROM BACK

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VIEW FROM FRONT

The conception of life revolving along the lines of interdependency helped in designing spaces where one overlooks the other spaces and creating a feeling of safety which creates an impregnable wall of existence. The evolution of the form came across the sense of seamlessness and continuity which nurtured the concept of “WAVE�.

With technological advancements and keeping in mind to preserve the built heritage value of the station, a proposal to cater the function and necessities of common man with regard to railway station and travel. The proposal includes the stretch of railway tracks spreading over 50 meters which is flanked by the commercial complex on one side and a star-rated hotel block on the other. The two blocks are connected by an overhead passage- a glass

bridge that floats over the busy scene of the station- providing magnificent views of the station below.

The design includes luxury facilities like a gym, spa, game rooms, etc. providing for a comfortable stay to the commuters.

The much awaited metro rail connection is taken into consideration and sufficient facilities have been provided to make inter-modal transit available.

The encasing shell is a composite structure of steel and glass manifesting the form of recurring waves. The glass panels are retractable and provide a rain shelter when required. The towering mast with the steel ropes support the metro floor plate and provide an aesthetic appeal.

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CUBE personal space design

winner & published - competition 9to4 magazine december 2011

The cube is a competition project for a personal space held by 9to4 Magazine, Chennai. The cube, is a small self sufficient bi-level unit in a 230 square feet footprint. The lower level is 230 sqft and the upper level is 95 sqft making the total 325 sqft.

The design revolves around the play of light.

During the day, it is the natural light and at night, the glass shower placed in the centre becomes a singular source of light illuminating the room

from within for energy efficiency.

The space is designed to flood light at any point of in time. Chennai, a hot and humid city in the south of India could be the wrong place to make a glass self sufficient unit, but that problem can be taken care off by innovative low emissivity glass that reduces inflow of heat lowering the cooling load. Solar panels and exhausts on the top of the unit keep it ventilated and powered making this unit self sufficient.

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