Architecture and Design Portfolio

Architecture And Design Portfolio I Samriddhi Sharma

SAMRIDDHI SHARMA

sharma3@cooper.edu

+1 ( 917 ) 513 - 1608

P rofessional W ork

PROPOSAL FOR MUSEUM EXPANSION

KRANTI HOME, MUMBAI

THE TOILET MANUAL

KASAULI HOUSING SCHEME

RESIDENTIAL PROJECT, NEW YORK

a cademic W ork

BODY / FIGURE / FORM

CONFINEMENT, EXPOSURE AND LIBERATION OF THE FEMALE BODY

VESSEL WITHIN A VESSEL

FORMAL VS INFORMAL GROWTH SYSTEMS

PUBLIC ART INTERFACE

draW ings

IN TRANSITION

HOUSING EVOLUTION IN MUMBAI

STORY OF McCLUSKIEGANJ

DELIRIOUS

SHINJUKU JUNCTION

risogra P h P rints

WRAPPED BODY SERIES

INTERWOVEN NARRATIVES

NOISE objects

VESSEL SERIES

Role : Architectural Intern

Principal Architect : Junya Ishigami

Location : Tokyo, Japan

PROPOSAL FOR MUSEUM EXPANSION

Professional Work : Junya Ishigami + associates

During my work at Junya Isigami + associates, I was involved in making presentation drawings and models for a couple of International competitions and projects. The drawings that I created here could be abstracted into beautifully crafted physical spaces lying at the intersection of art, architecture and design.

Conceptual Sketch for the Museum

Light Renders

KRANTI : COMMUNITY HOME, MUMBAI

Professional Work : Mad(e) in Mumbai Architects

Kranti provides a safe, long term home to socially marginalized girls. Kranti home, will be India’s first long-term healing home for girls, who do not wish to be repatriated/ married but want to become financially independent social change agents within their communities. Keeping this in mind the building has been designed to allow a proactive dialogue between the space and its inhabitants.

Role : Junior Architect

Principal Architects : Kalpit Ashar and Mayuri Sisodia Location : Mumbai

Program Diagram for Kranti Home

Front view : Kranti Home Side view : Kranti Home

THE

The ritual of bathing has always played a significant role in the community life of Indians. The architectural manifestation of the social space of bathing, serves both the community and the individual. In order to understand and develop this relationship further, this project investigates parameters such as demography, social and geographical context, construction methodologies, sanitation systems and various other factors involved in the design of public toilets, to come up with public toilet typologies .for diverse contexts.

Role : Junior Architect

Principal Architects : Kalpit Ashar and Mayuri Sisodia Location : Mumbai

Public Toilet : Railway Typology

Professional Work : Mad(e) in Mumbai Architects

TOILET MANUAL : RE- IMAGINING PUBLIC TOILETS IN INDIA

Role : Architectural Intern

Principal Architect : Bijoy Jain

Team : Vrinda Seksaria, Lam Long Tat, Samriddhi Sharma

Location : Kasauli, India

KASAULI HOUSING SCHEME, INDIA

Professional Work : Studio Mumbai Architects

Overlooking the planes, the project lies amidst a picturesque location of pine and deodar trees. The housing scheme forms a network of residential units, puntured with pause points and social spaces, offering the spectacle of the entire valley and the peaks of the Himalayas. The scheme sensitively fuses locally harvested bricks and lime, stone and marble to create the earthen space. The spaces have been very meticulously crafted through architectural details.

Photograph of the Site Model with the residential units

Section through the shower area

Plan : Pavilion

Site photograph : Pavilion

Role : Designer

Principal Architect : Marc Turket, Morgan Hare and Shawn Watts

Team : Pauline Shu, Kory Worl, Jonathan Fernandes, Max Park, Haydar Baydoun and Samriddhi Sharma

Location : New York, NY

RESIDENTIAL PROJECT, NEW YORK

Professional Work : Leroy Street Studio

The project is situated in the heart of Manhattan in Greenwich village. Its design has evelved through the narrative created between the residential unit and the art gallery. I joined the project in its construction phase where I have been actively involved with detailing out the interior spaces including the wine room, theater, gym & juice bar, spa area and stairs.

Wine Room Detail drawings-CD Phase

Wine Room Detail drawings-CD Phase

Summer 2018 I The Cooper Union MArch II Thesis

BODY / FIGURE / FORM

Wrapping Lines Towards The Ephemeral Poche

My [hypo]thesis challenges normative thickening of poché , in architecture today through spatial experiments [and iterations] of body/figure transformations in both scale and taxonomy, of alphabetical forms. This dynamic process of form- finding uses the animate method to reveal and reinvent, how we structure form and tectonic materiality, while searching towards novel interstitial boundaries of spaces.

The core of my thesis is activated through a representational matrix of aerodynamic body figures, where the mass of poché is geared towards an ephemerally light thickening, while questioning if poché could be then re-invented through a field of ‘lines’ , while moving past the traditional notions of ‘mass’ in architecture, that are normatively defined linearly from surface to the opaque solidification of a figural volume.

Inspired by the tectonic wrapping of textiles, new spatial boundaries are inverted, dissolved, and ephemerally obscured towards a novel tectonic lightness, resulting in a poché that blurs, shifts and weaves. These dynamic experiments are captured by an animate system of representation that tests the geometry of the weft and warp [textiles] lines, while inventing new spatial bodies and figural taxonomies of architecture.

Profs : Mersiha Veledar, Nader Tehrani, Lauren Kogod Study Model : Farnoosh Farmer

Taxonomies of spatial experiments exhibiting body / figure transformations using fabric and the reminiscence of the female figure.

Taxonomy 1 : Axonometric of the ephemeral body in motion

Taxonomy 1 : Elevation of the lined poché

Taxonomy 1 : Spatial iterations of the interstitial space in formation

Taxonomy 2 ( The Hybrid Body) : Axonometric of the ephemeral body in motion

Taxonomy 2 ( The Hybrid Body) : Elevation of the lined poché

Taxonomy 2 ( The Hybrid Body) : Spatial iterations of the interstitial space in formation

Taxonomy 3 ( The Hybrid Body) : Axonometric of the ephemeral body in motion

Taxonomy 3 ( The Hybrid Body) : Elevation of the lined poché

Taxonomy 3 ( The Hybrid Body) : Spatial iterations of the interstitial space in formation

Photographs of surface and volumetric studies done with plaster to understand gravitational forces acting on the body

2018 Student Exhibition I The Cooper Union Curated by Prof. Mersiha Veledar

CONFINEMENT, EXPOSURE AND LIBERATION OF THE FEMALE BODY

The transformation of a fabric into a woman’s personal space

The female body has been confined through history and different cultures through the addition of layers of inner garments, such as the corset and crinoline to the natural body form.This study explores the concept of wrapping as seen in the Indian garment Sari , a condition in which the body is always in a state of flux. Where confinement and liberation both are perpetually acting in forms of concealment and exposure, creating a hybrid situation. The operations of the sari here question the boundaries of public and private space, with respect to the engagement of the body with the outside. In this case the fabric transforms from being a flat rectangular surface, into a center focusing on the personal space of the body engulfed Thus signifying the embodiment and the disembodiment of the identity of the wearer through the act of wrapping.

Spring 2018 I The Cooper Union Graduate Research Design Studio II

Prof.Diana Agrest

Study Model : Farnoosh Farmer

Woman’s body deformed under a Corset

Sectional axonometric through the outer and inner female garments, the corset and the crinoline

The highlighted moment shows the the personal space of a woman when wrapped

Photograph of the negative mold of the female torso wrapped in Organza fabric, casted in plaster

Photograph of the positive mold of the female torso wrapped in Silk Taffeta fabric, casted in wax

Photograph of the negative mold of the female body wrapped in latex, casted in plaster

Photograph of the negative mold of the female body wrapped in felt fabric, casted in plaster

Hybrid typologies alternating between confinement and liberation of the female body

2018 Student Exhibition I The Cooper Union Curated by Profs : Diana Agrest, Professor Pablo Lorenzo Eiro

VESSEL WITHIN A VESSEL

From Material Media to the Formation of the Body

The history of hardware, instruments and vessels has demonstrated a balance of different types of thinking, between material media and the body on the one hand, and the mechanical functions of certain instruments and the ergonomics of engaging them on the other.

My partner and I worked on redesigning the vessel.In containing a liquid, the vessel improves the act of carrying and conserving, objectifying the hand into a container. In the evolution of the relationship shared between the hand and the vessel we discovered the versatility of the hand, unfolding the possibilities of holding and grabbing the vessel, serving as a prop to the hand.

By making the object versatile, this process investigates the idea of a “vessel within a vessel” rethinking its norms, set standards and performances in containing a single element, transgressing the restrictions of an earlier understanding of a vessel. This project presents a series of variations that address the question of the hand, the vessel and the contained exploring materiality, through the lens of transparency and insulation, stability, maneuverability and orientation, involved in our understanding of a vessel. Materiality is looked in this research through the lens of transparency and insulation.

Spring 2018 I The Cooper Union Architecture Technology Seminar

Team : Jose Mateluna and Samriddhi Sharma Prof. Nader Tehrani

Ontoloical Transformation of the Hand into a Vessel

Vessel Typologies to study containment of the liquid on two sides

Vessel studies for the axis of rotation and splicing

Photograph of the 3D printed Vessel

Fabricated Vessel Typologies

Drawings of proposed Vessel Typologies

FORMAL VS INFORMAL GROWTH SYSTEMS

A systematic controlled proliferation of a dichotic form within the confines of the city

The development of Mumbai has not been according to a comprehensively laid out plan, instead it has been a result of two narratives. One is the formal development of the city, defined by the British and the other being that of the informal settlements. The informal settlememts have emerged in the interstitial spaces between the connections and the natural spaces of the city.

The purpose of this study is to analyse and test the extents of this dialectic growth of the city, through a logic driven system. The logic of Cellular Automata, is used here to produce different architectural systems for the proliferation of the informal settlements. Since, the algorithm is generation based, it produces a multiplicative growth of the architectural elements using the parameters of time and economy. The emergent typologies resulting from this algorithm are a side effect of its governing logic of chaos and order, leading to the decentralisation of the city in smaller clusters.

Fall 2017 I The Cooper Union Graduate Research Design Studio I Prof.Pablo Lorenzo Eiroa

Plan of Mumbai showing the conflict between formal and informal settlements under the alogorithm of Cellular Automata

Cellular Automata growth : Generation 2

Cellular Automata growth : Generation 4

Cellular Automata growth in interstitial spaces : Between Formal Settlements and the Railway

Cellular Automata growth along a horizontal axis

Cellular Automata growth in an informal settlement

Cellular Automata growth along a vertical axis

Cellular Automata growth in a cluster

Cellular Automata growth : Generation 1

Cellular Automata growth : Generation 3

Cellular Automata growth in interstitial spaces : Between Formal Settlements and Open

2014-2015 I Academy of Architecture, Mumbai

Undergraduate Thesis

Prof. Oormi Kapadia

PUBLIC ART INTERFACE

Using Art As A Medium to Negotiate Contrasting Social Environments

Series of public spaces when designed as exhibition narratives for various artistic media can engage the people using the space in ways otherwise rarely possible, on account of the general inaccessibility of art, in Mumbai. The project is an attempt to reveal the alluring art world and understand how art can negotiate between contrasting areas, such as the large informal slum settlement of Dharavi, and the newly built planned commercial development of the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai.

I propose a series of three intricately woven programs and spaces, the Workplace, the Auction House and the bridge connecting the two. The Workplace is where all the workshops and studios are located to craft recyclable materials such as metal, glass, plastic and so on with the help of local people, students and other collaborators to create art work to be auctioned and archived on the other side of the bridge, at the Auction House. The art work produced is then taken along the bridge to the Bandra Kurla Complex on an enclosed conveyer belt.

Plan of the Workplace

Section through the Workplace

Conceptual Sketch of the Bridge

Plan : Bridge

Entrance to the Bridge

Module 1

Module 2

Module 3

Module 4

Plan of the Auction House and Archive

Section through the Auction House and Archive

Exploded Axonometric drawing of the Auction House and Archive

Story Of McClukieganj

Delirious Shinjuku Junction

Wrapped Body series Riso Print on paper I 11 X 17” I 2019

Wrapped Body series Riso Print on paper I 11 X 17” I 2019

Vessel I Tebineri technique I 2019

Vessel II Tebineri technique I 2019

Vessel III Tebineri technique I 2019

Vessel IV Tebineri technique I 2019