Design Portfolio Saagarika Dias #24181091
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Rock Cast: Herbal Healthcare Practices 5th Year Architectural Design Studio, AUS Winner, Sharjah Sustainability Award 2021 (Sustainable Model Design)
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Vernon East Affordable Housing
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Lagos Multipurpose Stadium
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4th Year Architectural Design Studio, AUS Participant, Timber in the City Competition by Urban Habitat 2019
4th Year Architectural Design Studio, AUS Open Ideas Waste Competition by Arch Out Loud 2018
Tectonic Tangrams 5th Year Architectural Design Studio, AUS Final Shortlisted, exhibited at d3 RIBA Gulf Architecture Exhibition 2020
Corporate Biophilia: Facade Design Skins Facade Design Competition by SqrFactor 2019 3rd Prize Winner
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Undergraduate Project
01 Rock Cast: Herbal Healthcare Practices Winner-Sustainable Model Design Sharjah Sustainability Award 2021 EPAA Sharjah
5th year Architecture Design Studio Professor Faysal Tabarrah, AUS in collaboration with Rana Salah Through initial research done on Marrakech, Morocco, a public health crisis was discovered where the existing doctor to patient ratio is 7.2: 10,000 with the ideal doctor to patient ratio is 35: 10,000. This allows for a shift to traditional methods of healing such as herbal medicine. The project provides an educational and agricultural center that positively impacts the production of oil seeds and the reliance on medicinal herbs through the cultivation of sunflower and herbal plants. It explores a rock and concrete cast method of construction that utilizes rubble and sand as formwork that will influence the produced structure. The material study develops a distinct relation between the base form and the overhead structure while maintaining the connectivity of the 2 systems. 3
Rock Cast: Herbal Healthcare Practices
Construction Diagram + Project Overview (by Saagarika Dias)
Construction Method
Cavity is created within the sand
Stone is stacked in the sand cavity
Densely packed stone is used to hold the concrete
Concrete is added to the formwork
Material seeps through the stone and the cavity material is removed
Final module allows for multiple spaces shaped by the cast
Crop Cultivation Plot 1
Plot 2
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Jul
Sunflower Cycle (with Soya)
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Jul
Lavender Cycle
Dec
Thyme Cycle
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Ginger Cycle
The program calls for an educational and agricultural center that positively impacts the production of oil seeds and the reliance on medicinal herbs through the cultivation of sunflower and herbal plants.
Crop Curriculum Batch 1
Batch 2
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Learning
Mar
Training + Working
Exploded Chunk Diagram + Kit of Parts
Learning + Training
May
Working
Jul
Jul
Training + Working
Learning
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Oct
Working
Learning + Training
Dec
Jan
Overlapping training periods allow for a continuous cycle of students that engage in the learning/ working process.
Training + Working
May
Working
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Rock Cast: Herbal Healthcare Practices
Site Plan + Site Section (by Saagarika Dias)
Wall Combinations Catalog (by Saagarika Dias)
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3C 3A
3B
Exploded Chunk Diagram
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Rock Cast: Herbal Healthcare Practices
Renderings (by Rana Salah)
Exploded Housing Diagram (by Saagarika Dias)
Detail Plan and Section Drawings
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Rock Cast: Herbal Healthcare Practices
Project Render from the Wadi (by Rana Salah)
1 Herbal Medicinal Hospital 2 Wadi through Site 3 Argricultural Land for Oil Seeds 4 Hospital and Research Center 5 Underground Healing Pods 6 Healing Center 7 Healing Center Entrance
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Undergraduate Project
02 Vernon East Affordable Housing Participant
Timber in the City Competition 2019 Urban Habitat
4th year Architecture Design Studio Professor Roberto Castillo, AUS in collaboration with Samrakshana Suresh Vernon East is a high-density, transit-oriented development that programmatically includes affordable housing, education, and wellness centres. It is situated near the Santa Monica regional transit station and is one of the first new developments planned for the area. The project is adjacent to the Queensborough/Ed Koch Bridge. Overlooking the East River, with views to Roosevelt Island and Manhattan, the vacant site can be understood as a segment within a larger chain of mixed-use waterfront development in the Borough. These new approaches to affordable housing stand in contrast to the NYCHA Queensbridge Housing development to the north. The project utilizes a timber and concrete construction to create varying levels of public and private zones that prioritize the waterfront. 8
Vernon East Housing
Exploded Circulation Axonometric (by Saagarika Dias)
Concrete residential core
WNW WIND DIRECTION
Residential circulation
Duplex circulation
Grand stair circulation
Ground floor circulation
Generative Diagram + Site Plan and Renderings (by Saagarika Dias)
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Vernon East Housing
Exploded Structural Axonometric (by Saagarika Dias)
Concrete residential core
Timber frame system
Load bearing walls
Timber shading system
Concrete floor slab; plinth
Concrete structural walls
Concrete floor slab; plinth
Concrete columns and footings
Housing Section + Wall Section Model (by Saagarika Dias and Samrakshana Suresh)
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Vernon East Housing
Wall Section + Interior Elevation Drawings (by Saagarika Dias and Samrakshana Suresh)
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Undergraduate Project
03 Lagos Multipurpose Stadium Honorable Mention
Open Ideas Waste Competition 2018 Arch Out Loud
4th year Architecture Design Studio Professor George Newlands, AUS in collaboration with Gbadebo Giwa and Mary Gerjikian The Olusosun landfill is a site in dire need of remediation and regeneration. The process of transforming this site is done by integrating its history, materials and the multipurpose qualities that a stadium can embody. The remediation for the site into a place of hope and light for the people is a six step process where solar electricity, recycled materials, soil transformation, water harvesting, wind harvesting and phytoremediation comes together to create spaces with multiple purposes. Along with the remediation of the site, we propose the concept of an amusement park being integrated into the site. The main expression of amusement that weaves itself into the stadium is the rollercoaster. 12
Lagos Multipurpose Stadium
Exploded Stadium Axonometric Stadium roof (that tapers down to the core)
Core vertical structure
Rollercoaster tracks
Windmills on rollercoaster structure
Stadium tiers
Stadium radial structure
Interior walls of the stadium
Sources (Team Project): Wiork by Saagarika: • 3D Modeling and Design for Landscape and
Mound created by landform
Amusement Park along with Recycling Center • Generative Diagram and Exploded Axonometrics
Football pitch
• Park Color Narrative Work by Team Members:
Basement parking and trash mounds
• Plan Drawings • TwinMotion Rendering
Stadium Plan + Generative Diagram
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Lagos Multipurpose Stadium 1
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Exploded Recycling Centre + Training Centre
+ 30.0 m
+ 21.0 m
+ 17.0 m
+ 13.0 m
+ 9.0 m
+ 5.0 m
0.0 m
Solar panels on recycling center roof
TRUCKS / BUS CARS SECTION CUT TRASH
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ARC 401 DESIGN STUDIO V | FALL 2018 | PROFESSOR GEORGE NEWLANDS GBADEBO GANIU GIWA | MARY KRAJEKIAN | SAAGARIKA MARTHA DIAS
LONGITUDINAL SECTION 1 SCALE 1 : 250
LAGOS OLUSOSUN LANDFILL STADIUM | FINAL REVIEW
Truss system for long span spaces
Interior walls of the recycling center
Trash berms
Green roof of training center
Truss system for long span spaces
Court divisions
Olympic size pool + trash used as structure
Stadium Section + Additional Program Drawings
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Undergraduate Project
04 Tectonic Tangrams Final Shortlisted/ Selected
d3 RIBA Gulf Architecture Exhibition 2020, supported by RIBA
5th year Architecture Design Studio Professor George Katodrytis, AUS (Individual Project) Situated in the Sabkha Salt flats of Abu Dhabi, Tectonic Tangrams is an architectural proposal that mediates between environment and inhabitation through performative pieces of architecture that respond to climatic changes through the variations in salt levels. The concept was initiated through an exploration of tangram puzzles that unravel from an initially closed three dimensional object to an open multifacted entity. These tangram spaces were then repeated to create a project that spans a large distance (200m) to derive information from a varied and elongated sample of existing sabkha salt from the landscape. With the duality of environmental and spatial performance, the project aims to integrate the realms of environmental systems and data driven multidisciplinary design. 15
Tectonic Tangrams
Sectional Mechanism + Axonometric
Sectional Drawing
Movable tectonic arm responding to the change in salt levels in the Sabkha region
Site Plan + Mechanism
Immovable tangram piece fixed using 90 and 180 degree rotational joints.
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Tectonic Tangrams
Transformative Tangram Collages + Models
Line Drawings: Sections + Elevation
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Architectural Competition
05 Corporate Biophilia: Facade Design Third Prize Winner
Skins Facade Design Competition SqrFactor 2019
In collaboration with Alina Sebastian and Rania Mohamed
Corporate biophilia explores the idea of a living, breathing building envelope that uses passive methods to contribute to the net zero potential of an office block. The project explores two primary façade systems to respond to the public spaces surrounding the two buildings – the rain chain system that flanks the central public plaza and the modular system that address the open public areas. During dry seasons, the landscape, due to its sectional variation provides shaded exterior workspaces. During wet seasons the façade incorporates rainwater harvesting system through use of rain chains that direct the water from the roof to the underground water cisterns. These rain chain additionally serve as irrigation channels for plants that grow on the mesh like facade. 18
Corporate Biophila Facade
Wall Section Diagrams (by Saagarika Dias) Mesh gutter conditions allow for water to be collected in cisterns
SUSPENDED CEILING I-BEAMS MAIN RUNNER PARTICLE BOARD
Vertical vegetation is supported by mesh and metal chains
Metal chains allow for supporting vertical vegetation on the facade TRELLIS STRUCTURE RAIN CHAIN WIRE MESH
Metal mesh walkways allows for an intermediary space
PRECAST CONCRETE PANEL WIRE MESH VEGETATION
DETAIL A
Transparent facade condition marks the entry to the lobby space PRECAST CONCRETE PANEL PRECAST CONCRETE CONCRETE PANEL
Ground floor slab creates an exterior water flow to water cisterns
TERRACE STRUCTURE STEEL MESH PANELS GUTTER PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB I-BEAMS DETAIL B PRECAST CONCRETE PANEL PRECAST CONCRETE OPENING PARTICLE BOARD EMBEDDED LIGHT FIXTURE PRECAST CONCRETE SEAT DETAIL C
Drip irrigation method used to irrigate the vertical rain chain plants
Permeable ground floor allows for water seepage into the cisterns
Floor slab that is carved at specific points for co working areas
FLOOR SLAB WOODEN FLOOR BOARD SLEEPERS CEMENT FINISH PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB SUSPENDED CEILING I-BEAMS PARTICLE BOARD BASEMENT FLOOR WOODEN FLOOR BOARD PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB VAPOUR BARRIER GRAVEL GEOTEXTILE LAYER FOUNDATIONS AND DRAINAGE
Underground water cisterns for rain water harvesting
Opaque amber panel Inhabitable pod module
Green mesh module
Floor slab Translucent facade condition Inhabitable module with seating
Opaque amber module
Floor slab
Rainwater Harvesting Diagram (by Saagarika) + Transverse Section (by Alina Sebastian)
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Corporate Biophila Facade
Renderings (by Rania Mohamed)
Front Modular Elevation + Site Plan (by Alina and Saagarika)
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Saagarika Dias saagarikadias@gmail.com +971559531246
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