Rayal Anand Yelamarthi - Graduate Portfolio

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RAYAL ANAND YELAMARTHI

P O R T F O L I O - Masters Of Architecture

Our immediate environment is a space that we subconsciously create and inhabit. We can make this space very familiar, or we can expose ourselves to unfamiliar elements that provoke our response and re-evaluation.

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Nominated For The BlueScope Steel Glenn Murcutt Student Prize

EPILOGUE

Studio Head Trip ( Thesis Project )

The design explores its relationship between a person and place.

This place is an episodic memory of a broken bridge from the past, where natural phenomenon of wind, water and the land tune in and become an orchestra of our experience.

The project seeks to integrate this episodic memory on its poetic Australian landscape through the idea of a perceived home; the broken bridge of the memory is reinterpreted as a pier of Portland in Victoria.

The broken bridge and pier are conceived as placeless. It is the threshold where the land and water marry together, witnessing and recording the movement of wind, wave and sound. This harmony plays its role in blurring the boundary of our perception and reality.

Reality had a way of influencing the consciousness. It defines our internal state of mind and allows to create its own set of rules and strategies

Trigger Project The place is the threshold between man and nature, land and the sea .

The capacity to realise that reality exists outside of our mind.

Image of the pier The mind has a way to shape one’s vision of things, making us take sides during a situation that requires a decision.

The project begins with an attempt to understand how decisions are made, more interestingly the process of how a person makes decisions. Initial the main idea adopted was that “reality had a way of influencing the consciousness�, this consciousness defines the internal state of mind. It allows the mind to create its own set of rules and make decisions. The project is developed through the use of this basic logic.

Using myself as a basis to understand the logic, the project is a home for my client 30 years in future. My client is a character developed based on my personal experiences. An anatomy of the mind diagram was developed; which tries to explain how my clients mind is broken down to key words and how different things are in visioned in his mind.

Image of the broken bridge

Culture is our inhabitation.

It is our adaptation and active engagement to a place which defines our ‘being’ in time.

Conceived as a response to the broader theme of the studio to explore the notion of time in both natural and man-made physical world, this project began by contemplating the perception and memories of places we grew up; where memories were made.

The design was expanded and developed to explore this interrelationship between a person and a place on its own narrative. It responds to how these perceptive memories can physically adapt into the natural environment of Australian landscape.

The culture is understood as our metaphysical response to a specific place and this design response is a rigorous intervention in its Australian natural setting.

Concept of the beach and broken bridge, explored in both watercolour and digital generation

Trigger Project

Wei ght ed Walk wa y

Wi n d Wa l l

View of ‘the home’ at high tide, the wind walls are completely extended while the ocean erupts as the waves collide against the towers

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Internal view of the tower, the wall mechanisms are at content tension and the central space flooded with light to capture the atmosphere of serenity. The distinctive odour of sea residue generated by the pooling of ocean water at the bottom level which enhances the experience of the nature internally.

View from land at high tide, revealing the dynamic of the built form. The programme and circulation of the built environment become responsive to natural phenomenon.

Technology is what triggers our memory.

This carefully designed mechanisms no longer work as to understand the efficiency and productivity but to evoke and manipulate our senses. The roar of water and air are used as a source for this technology to be developed. The technology plays its role in recreating our senses and experience between a person and place.

Footprints on the beach are reinterpreted in this design as to define our action and inhabitation. The fluctuating tide patterns synthesize and exaggerate its role in evoking our senses. Guided by the episodic memory where the user explores, a series of experiential volumes bleeds the land at low tide and hovers uneasily above the crashing waves of the high tide. The wind is the metaphor of a flying kite.

Best Of Masters Exhibition - Best Of Masters (Studio E) 2012

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Archiodoche (Studio E)

NEW O LD The project is a celebration of the forgotten lives; the work creates a three-dimensional object with an intense psychological dimension. It masks the face of something long forgotten to radiate new expressions, which reinvents old stories through an unexpected and new visual language.

The architecture is used as a medium to capture a moment.

It traps some kind of reality to use and reuse every time you look at it. We all still look at it as if it’s real, you can see that, a part of them is still there and the other part has become something else.

There is no intention to cover or to erase; it’s about feeding the other dimensions. What makes the idea work is that the old and the new feed each other.

The proposal tries to identify a solution on how a place could retain its lost heritage in an urban context.

OLD NEW OLD, diagrams

The old housing the new and the new housing the old Proposed program on site Retirement home Old

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Apartments Individual and couples Gathering spaces Recreational spaces Health care Cafeteria and kitchen Commercial spaces

Bank Vegetable garden Community programs Outdoor theatres Convenience store Outdoor gym

View from the corner of flagstaff gardens

Old, new old site diagram

Embroidery on Vintage Photography by Maurizio Anzeri

Maurizo Anzeri layering with contemporary art over found and fashion photography

Tracing the silhouettes of existing and demolished buildings on to the edge of the site

Using the entry of the old building to form entry for the new old building

Form Development Diagrams

Connecting the edges to form the negative space

Adding program to the void spaces

The generated negative form

Adding program and the form together

About the old mint it is more interested to use as an object and material rather than in its process. The mint captures a moment in space that is truly fascinating. It’s trapped there and it’s like you managed to cast some kind of magic spell on it to entrap some kind of reality to use and reuse every time you look at it. The design wants to create a passage for the mint to escape from their present form.

Old, new old section diagram

Diagram of the connecting red stair

Physically connecting the new old mint pub with the old new mint restaurant thought the new red stair.

New old , mint restaurant and the connecting walk way to the old new programs

Elevation along Williams street

View across the site connecting la Trobe street and Williams street

View from the theatre looking at the new old restaurant over the old new cafe blow

View of the new old urban farm and outdoor cafe

View from inside the old mint housing the old new cafe and the connections to mushroom structure above

Section through the old mint and the new old mushroom structure

Procession, Structure and Light in Architecture

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Studio Slow ( Studio C )

The studio centred around the design of a Buddhist temple complex on a relatively large open site in Narre Warren North, Melbourne.

Through the process of investigating the narratives as one journeys’ through spaces in various religious and non-religious architecture, examining the origins and meanings of relevant religious as well as everyday rituals and their relationship with the creation of architecture “parti” diagrams were generated to help in development of the design.

Another strong focus of the design is an emphasis on how light enters the building as well as the role the structure plays as part of architecture.

The narrative is designed with an intention for accidental interactions between the residents of the complex and the patrons of the temple.

The different programs are interlaced and have inherent relationship with each other. The design allows the immediate surroundings to be untouched and sits comfortable amid a cluster of trees on top of the hillock.

SECTION of the main temple

The YUN YANG temple creates a journey ,which allows the visitor and to create an intimate relationship with the space and the users of the space.

The temple fuses the religious function of the visitors with the daily functioning of the occupants of the temple, thus creating change interaction between them.

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The main temple is placed in between a large cluster of trees on top of the hillock, to give it importance.

The monk housing and secondary functions respond to a line of trees that existed before and orients itself towards it and generating a semi formal courtyard in front of it.

The meditation hall and abbots residence are placed along the edges of the courtyard opposite to each other to generate an importance to the space and a relationship between each other. This linear organisation gives the courtyard a sense of privacy

The building are slid further away to form an entry between the meditation hall and administration into the large ceremonial court yard.

View of the ceremonial courtyard, with the temple in the background Entry between the building thought the structural frames

Entry to the main hall of the temple though a compressed space guided by light

The main hall, with corridors of light forming the different programs in the building

Community and ceremonial spaces

Building relationship visual

Building relationship structural

Public circulation

Section through the dormitories

ORANGE HOUSE

Kohosla Associates

This Bangalore house explores the dynamics of a partially enclosed, open to sky, semi permeable and transitionary space using a contemporary expression in the design The built space has interesting facets that all tie together to exhibit an amalgam of tropical sensibilities with a modern approach. As one come close to the house built on a corner plot, It is the modulation in scale and massing of built space that has an immediate appeal.

Along the western faรงade, a large orange pivoted door marks the formal entry to the house. The cheerful door sets the tone for the special story that unfolds beyond, reflecting the very exuberant personality of the home owner.

The Manglore tiled terracotta sloping roof forms are reinterpretations of the vernacular houses in the region. The east and northern faces of the house are transparent and permeable, the open to the soft morning light.

View of the entry door

Ground floor plan

First floor plan

SEOLIM GOA

Kohosla Associates

The project site is located to the north-east of Siolim, the largest town in the area. Plot 11 is located towards the centre of the site, and has views westwards across the lower palm-fringed fields to the Chapora River The design explores the idea of outdoor living thought the use of courtyards, outdoor spaces and semi-outdoor spaces drawing inspiration from characteristics of Balinese architecture.

The entry to the house in on the norther facade though a long walk way gently floating over a pond of lotuses and marked by temple trees in the middle. This transitional space transports the occupant into the house.

The house is prefabricated teak wood structure built off site, To stay honest with the style of architectures explored. The timber structure is designed to be assembled on site with out the use of any metal fittings. The bedrooms and outdoor living space are exposed to the rasing eastern sun while the western facade is blocked by the services.

Site plan

Outdoor Dinning

Ground floor plan View from North east

Living Room

Master bed room

Entry Walkway

Outdoor Living