MANAGED RETREAT Urban Design
Academic Urban Design Studio Project Summer 2022
GSAPP, Columbia University I 2022
Location: Brooklyn, NY Team: Group of 5
Graphics: Sanah Mengi, Maria Flores, Yaoze Yu, Whitney Zhu and Siwei Tang Design Faculty: Nans Voron, Sagi Golan Galen Pardee, Sean Gallagher, Austin Sakong, Sanjukta Sen, Miriam Peterson, Candelaria Mas, and Yasmine Katkhuda Contribution: Research, Presentation, Analysis, GIS Mapping, Video Editin g and Drafing
Rising sea levels resulting from climate change affect the livelihood of coastal communities everywhere, more so when working with the underrepresented. In designing for future high tides, we foresee burdens to residential health and wellness, as well as a city laden with maJor repairs and maintenance to infrastructure in obsolescence, costly improvements to storm water drainage, and perimeter barriers for waterfront protection. Facing the crossroads of an ethical dilemmato remain a steadfast stronghold within one's community or to go elsewhere.
The project tried to explore the neighborhood of Canarsie in Brooklyn. Canarsie as a neighborhood is highly affected by floods and stormwater. The neighborhood of New York saw a disastrous situation during the super-storm Sandy. In the next 100 years, most pars of Canar sie would be underwater. The project seemed to be stuck on the crossroad - 'to stay' or to go'. However, the strategy adopted suggests that a managed retr eat could be a tactical solution to the issues. The project proposed a resilient alternative: to stay within the community, but relocate on dry ground.
MANKIND PHARMA -HQ Architecture
Professional Hotel Project - Design and Construction I June 2019
MalikArchitecture 2019
Location: Delhi, India Team: Groupof 7
Graphics: Ekta Naidu, ErumChauhan, SanahMengi, Shekhar, Pradeep,Amay Group Members: Arjun Malik, Ketan Chaudhary, MeghanaTipnis, Ekta Naidu, AmayGurkar, ErumChauhan, andSanah Mengi
Contribution: Hotel Room Interior Design (Incl. furniture design) and IFC awings, Hotel workingdrawings, IFC hotel drawings, SiteInspection, rendering, 30, and presentationdrawings
TheproJectislocatedinaformerindustrialzoneinDelhi.Thequadrant shaped plot is flanked by long green spaces densely populated by trees.
The first thought on visiting the site was to consider the possibility of voiding the streetlevel spaces to allow 'Nature' in. Another recurring aspect of the project is the subversion of the growing imbalance between the public and private domain and the desire to activate the ground for shared community space and increasedurbanporosity.
Thebuildingcantileversandcorbelspreservetheoutdoorvievvsfor all theworkingspaces whileshading the community spaces at thestreet level, where the building essentally opens up to the city park and mediates the relationship between the public and private domains throughthe courtyard.
Thearchitectural proposalusestheextruded quadrant as itsstarting pointfromwherea series of excavations and shiftsbasedonorientation, program, courtyard shading, view angles to the trees beyond, andaccessibilityareperformed, resultinginabuildingthatmutates to binditsdefinedinternalprogramwiththe courtyard and thetrees beyondthrougha series of shadedterraces.
1.)DROP OFF
2.)ENTRANCE LOBBY
3.)WAITING AREA
4.)MEETING ROOM
5.)GYMNASIUM
6.)CAFETERIA
7.)MULTIPURPOSE AREA
8.)TOILETS
g.)AUDITORIUM
10.)COURTYARD
11.)CONFERENCE ROOM 12)WORK SPACE
13.)LIFT LOBBY
