PORTFOLIO 2022 - Sandeep S Kumar

SANDEEP S KUMAR ARCHITECTURE + LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SELECTED WORKS

TABLE OF CONTENTS 01

YAGURA RYUKUCHI PARK

07

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

02

STUDIO CANOPY

DIGITAL FABRICATION ARCHITECTURE

08

SHORT FILMS

09

RESUME

ARCHITECTURE

03

FLEXIBLE SHADING ARCHITECTURE

04

HOUSE OF CIRCLES ARCHITECTURE

05

CHILD-FRIENDLY NEW ORLEANS URBAN DESIGN

06

WHAT IF YOU WERE THE US CAPITOL? ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN STUDIES

01 YAGURA RYUKUCHI PARK

LOCATION : OSAKA , JAPAN DESIGNED : FALL 2020

Yagura Ryukuchi Park, located on between the rivers Kanzaki and Yodo in Osaka, Japan serves as a waterfront park that commemorates ecofeminism inspired by the Japanese Shinto religion for the city’s demo graphic.

The park also sets an example for raising awareness, encourage self, reflect and inspire.

PROJECT PARTNER: SHARISSA PATANAPANICH

79% of

Japanese women say society favors men and 68% of men agree

25 hours are

spent on housework per week by married Japanese women

61% ofof

ehigh school females say they regularly see or suffer sexual discrimination

Bus Charter Baseball Field

Car Dealer

Transportation Service

Chemical Plant

Chemical Plant

Contractor Corporate Office

Manufacturer Iron Works

Auto Wrecker

Baseball Fields

110th:

Japan’s position in gender equality when ranked against 149 other countries

25 hours are

spent on housework per week by married Japanese women

Gas Company

Electronic Parts Supplier Steel Plant Machining Manufacturer

Recycling Center

SITE INVENTORY Yagura Ryokuchi Park (which translates to ‘green within the industrial’), is located in the Nishiyodogawa Ward at the end of the peninsula west of the Yodo River, the central and largest river of Osaka. The park is surrounded by industrial buildings and is adjacent to a school and a few baseball fields. It is also surrounded by water on 3 sides. Designed in 1999 by LandTec, the park is intended to serve as a place that offers people a closer access to the water while mitigating the urban climate. Prioritizing pedestrians, most visitors walk or bike to the park entering through the two paths southeast of the site.

(Those that drive may park at the baseball fields.) The space’s highest point is the center lawn with the topography slope going down from there to the ocean shore. Winding paths surround the topography and native vegetation canopy over the paths. Existing infrastructure includes a restroom, picnic gazebo, and an observation deck. The site also includes a preservation area up north to protect wildlife habitat and tide pools to protect shallow-water marine life as well as to help prevent disasters. The park has become a popular place for locals to fish.

CONSTRAINTS

OPPORTUNITIES

IDEATION DRAWING This drawing was created an emotional and visual connection between the demographic of Osaka and the Shinto Goddess, Ameterasu. The drawing revolves around the story of Ameterasu realizing her role and her importance to the world.

MASTER PLAN

EXISTING OBSERVATION DECK

ONNA-BUGEISHA MEMORIAL SPACE

MEDITATION SPACE NEW RESTROOMS WAVE-ENERGY CONVERTING BOARDWALK

EXISTI MAINTENANCE

FLOATING PLANTERS

EXISTING GAZEBO

MIRROR GATE

ING E BUILDING

INSPIRATIONAL WALKWAY

INSPIRATIONAL WALKWAY

This 800’ long sunken Inspirational walkway depicts the story of Ameterasu going into isolation only to realize her true worth. The Inspirational walk way allows a user to feel inspired by the many successful Japanese of the past and past and present but also motivates one to be the future.

Chiaki Mukai

Yayoi Kusama

Banana Yoshimoto

Sadako Ogata

NEW RESTROOMS

LIGHT POLE

2”ONE WAY MIRROR 2” CONCRETE PANELS

12’

COBBLE STONE PAVEMENT

1”=5’

NEW RESTROOMS

MIRROR GATE MEDITATION SPACE

ONNA-BUGEISHA MEMORIAL SPACE

MIRROR GATE

Mirror gate is a 5’ wide two-way spherical mirror. The mirror is designed and places at the center of the site as the user who views themselves in the mirror can place themselves with the environment they are surrounding.

ONNA-BUGEISHA MEMORIAL SPACE

The Onna-Bugeisha memorial spaces serves as reminder to the public of women’s involvement in early Japan. The memorial consists of an 8’ tall statue of Tomoe-Gozen who is regarded as one of the greatest Onna-Bugeisha’s

MEDITATION SPACE

The meditation serves a space to mediate, read or just relax within the park.

MEDITATION SPACE ONNA-BUGEISHA MEMORIAL SPACE MIRROR GATE

WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS FLOATING PLANTERS

WAVE ENERGY CONVERTING BOARDWALK

Floaters

Kinetic/Potential Energy converters

Floaters

02

STUDIO CANOPY

This project was concieved with idea of verticality and compactability. The idea of a dewelling that is expanded 50 feet high in the air while being constricted to a 10x10 square. This motive gives one the unqiue constraint of how to live or exisit in a tall but narrow space. In this exploration of verticality one can divide this dewling into three emotions of physical space which are; Earth, Air and Space.

SECTIONS + ELEVATIONS + PLANS

THIRD FLOOR

SECOND FLOOR

FIRST FLOOR

NORTH FACING ELEVATION

EAST FACING ELEVATION

WEST FACING ELEVATION

1/2”=1’

STUDIO CANOPY

SOUTH FACING ELEVATION

1/2”=1’

03

FLEXIBLE SHADING

LOCATION : AMES, IOWA DESIGNED: FALL 2021

PROJECT PARTNERS: NOAH WEBER LOGAN MAYER

In this project, my team and I were tasked with creating a new type of shading device that is different from the conventional methods. Inspired by the Masharaniya tiles from the Middle East, we asked ourselves the question of how such tiles can be made flexible. We took inspiration from Dukta Flexible Wood Studio to make flexible MDF and use it as a shading element.

04

HOUSE OF CIRCLES

With tired feet, I pull off my boots and set bare feet on the cool cement. The glass door closes behind me as I walk towards the kitchen. Across the tree filled courtyard, through tall panes of glass, I see my friend run from the bathroom, they offer me a warm hug. “The bath is ready” they say and turn away from the entry, heading towards the kitchen to stoke wood burning in the stove. I circle the courtyard, the floor changing from cement to wood; I feel playfulness rising in me, My hand passes over the top rough boulder separating or dining space from more intimate areas. As I revolve around the courtyard, the space becomes a playground.

Wooden ceilings and walls angle, glass facades arise from hidden corner, Vines hang from the ceiling compromising an art work that reminds me of running freely through fields as a child. My book still lays in the swinging hammock chair, promising relaxation after dinner. I reach the fork, a decision in the house. Should I go back to the kitchen or walk past the beds to the bathroom? The answer is clear after a long hike. The bathroom is too steamy; I step around porcelain tib and crack the large window, letting in the fresh forest air. I emerge as the sunlight wanes, toss my towel on the smaller bed and turn the corner. The courtyard is dark, encircled by the warm light of our home. Through the glass, I see my friend turn off the gas burners and a carry a large dish to the table. I walk parallel to them, shadowy trees between us, the stop to take the kettle from the wood stoce and pour boiling water over tea leaves. Fireflies dance in the courtyard, the last remnants of the sun fall through the skylight above us, We laugh as we break our bread..

05 CHILDFRIENDLY NEW ORLEANS

LOCATION : NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA DESIGNED : SPRING 2019

PROJECT TYPE: URBAN DESIGN +PLANNING

In this studio, the students were tasked in re-designing multiple parts of the city. I was specifically assigned to re-design the Lower Ninth Ward. The Lower Ninth Ward has many issues which involves the safety of the population and also the decreasing population of residents. The proposed plan involves converting vacant lots as corridors between streets and introducing new infrastructure for local business along with main streets and multipurpose buildings.

DEMOGRAPHICS

PRE-KATRINA

POST-KATRINA

14008

4188

3467

827

5601

1883

4293

682

POPULATION

FAMILY

HOUSING UNITS

CHILDREN UNDER 18

PRIVATE PROPERTY PUBLIC PROPERTY

CRIME VACANT LOTS

PROPOSED DESIGNS ISOMETRIC DRAWING PROPOSED STRUCTURES

STREET TREES

PROPOSED STREETS+ ROADS

LOWER NINTH WARD

MASTER PLAN

The proposed plan for the Lower Ninth involves three phases. The three phases follows an approach of re-building the outside and moving inwards. Phase 1 involves converting the main two road into main streets with mixed use structures which are pedestrian friendly. Phase two involves connecting streets through the fabric to create safer spaces.

NEW PATHS NEW MAIN STREETS

PHASE ONE

PROPOSED STRUCTURES PROPOSED ROADS AND STREETS

PHASE TWO

PHASE ONE MAIN STREET NORTH CLAIRE BORNE AVENUE

PHASE TWO CORRIDORS REYENS ST. - FALL ST.

06 WHAT IF YOU WERE THE U.S. CAPITOL?

LOCATION : AMES, IOWA CREATED: JANUARY 2021

PROFESSOR: MITCHELL SQUIRE

The Brreathing Studio of 2021 focused on understanding and predicting the futurabilty of the U.S. Capitol.

Phase 1 Students were asked to understand what breathing means to them indiviudally by creating a “Breathing Device” and portraying that device though a series of portraits and a film. My breathing apparatus was two masks and tube where two individuals of a different race grappled for their life and air.

Phase 2 A drawing assignment describing the potencies our “Breathing Device”. My drawing consisted on understanding the peace within death. A peace from the nullifications of the cruel world.

Phase 3 A drawing exercise for us to predict a future with our breathing apparatus in relation to the January 6th Capitol Riot. My drawing consisted on realizing that Dr. Marting Luther King gave his “I have a dream” speech geographically opposite to the U.S. Capitol. A a realization that maybe my breathing device can be used to achieve his dream.

Phase 4 Involves in a deeper understanding of what the capitol can be with the injection of the body as a concealment, reflection and impression.

PHASE 1

PHASE 2

NO MUSLIMS

NO JEWS

FUCK ANTI FA

STOP

STOP NO BLACKS

NO MEXICANS

FUCK ANTI FA

VOTER FRAUD

NO JEWS

TRUMP WILL SAVE US

VOTER FRAUD

FUCK ANTI FA

07 DIGITAL FABRICATION

LOCATION : AMES, IOWA CREATED: JANUARY 2021

PARTNER: MARY LE

We wanted a form that had interesting faces on all sides, which related to the shapes of origami, more specifically the fortune teller. By deriving from a 3”x3”x3” volume, where straight triangular cuts across the cube created varying types of faces, we made a shape that could be rotated in any direction. This allowed for many possibilities in configuration since all the face stood up the same amount of area when stacking on another module, creating both regular and irregular patterns.

FORM STUDIES

GRASSHOPPER SCRIPT

SPECIFICATIONS

8° 1.866”

1.866” 0.775”

.46” 1.992” 2.764”

1”

08 A GRELOTTER

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY SANDEEP

This film was shot to shed light on the psychological effects an individual person can have in the recent events of COVID-19. This film explores interior and exterior spaces when someone is truly alone.

08 B STILL ALIVE, WHO YOU LOVE

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY SANDEEP

This film explores two different realities of a suicidal person. One where the person chooses to end their life in multiple different ways and the other where the same person chooses to live and also re-lives those suicidal moments.

08 C YOU

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY SANDEEP

This film explores an experiment where two individuals were given a sorrowful topic to converse about.

They were filmed in a manner that their faces were never seen on screen/camera to investigate body language with individuals.

08 RESUME

Name

- Sandeep Suresh Kumar

DOB

- May 18, 1998

Phone

- 515-520-5898

Email

- sandeep@iastate.edu

WORK EXPERIENCE

Playground Alumni Collective Founder and Creative Director Fall 2021-Present City Leisure and Play Research Assistant- Team Create Spring 2021 Jeffrey L. Bruce & Company LLC Landscape Architecture Intern Spring-summer of 2020 Eco-flash Initiative and Sustainable Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Landscape Architecture Intern Summer of 2018 Chemical Engineering Department of Iowa State University Graphic Designer Summer of 2019 EDUCATION

Iowa State University Masters in Architecture (Advance Standing) Fall 2023 Iowa State University BLA in Landscape Architecture Spring 2021

AFFILIATIONS Sigma Alpha Pi - National Society for Leadership and Success National Organization for Minority Architecture Students Student Society for Landscape Architects Student Organization for Open Discussion Alliance Jiu Jitsu

REFERENCES Luis Rico-Gutierrez, Dean, College of Design ISU lrico@iastate.edu Debroah Hauptmann Char, Architecture deborah@iastate.edu

SKILLS

Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Bridge Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe After Effects Auto cad Rhinoceros Grasshopper Revit Lumion Google Sketchup Procreate MS office Hand Drawing Film Making

Carl Rogers Chair, Landscape Architecture rogerss@iastate.edu Benjamin Shirtcliff, Ph.D Assistant professor, Landscape Architecture & Urban Design bens@iastate.edu Douglas Spencer Ph.D Director of Graduate Education, Architecture dcs1@iastate.edu David Stokes Lead/CEO dstokes@jlbruce.com John Bennet V Peter Senior Landscape Architect john@eissworld.com Michael (Mikesch) Muecke PhD Associate professor, Architecture mikesch@iastate.edu

LANGUAGES PROFICIENT IN English Malayalam Hindi Tamil Arabic