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Design Portfolio
Georgia Institute of Technology
Sarthak Dhingra Current Education: Georgia Institute of Technology Major: Masters in Architecture Expected Graduation: May 2015 Previous Education: Georgia Institute of Technology Major: Bachelors of Science in Architecture Completed Graduation: May 2013
Contact Information Address: 1080 West Peachtree Street Atlanta, GA 30309 Email: dhingra.sarthak@gatech.edu Email: dhingra.sarthak@gmail.com Phone: +01-404-402-8865, +91-9821890192 Website: http://www.wix.com/dhingrasarthak/design-portfolio
Index:
Children’s Housing: Fabricating the Habitable Ecosystem
Fall ‘13
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Media and Arts Centre: Public Platform
Fall ‘11
5 - 8
Richter Art Gallery: Modulation of Experience
Fall ‘11
9 - 10
Pruitt Igoe Now: Green Network: Grow GREEN
Spring ‘12
11 - 14
Gowanus Water Works: Water Infrastructure and Community Center
Fall ‘12
15 - 17
Tata: Residential Development (HOK): Traditional & Contemporary
Summer ‘12
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Dheeraj: Commercial Development (HOK): Contemporary Classical
Summer ‘12
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Children’s Housing: Fabricating the Habitable Ecosystem Year: Fall ‘13 Professor: Fred Pearsall Location: Downtown Atlanta The parti concept employed here is one of interrelationships, interdependance and reciprocity between human and natural systems - new ones within the orphanage and existing ones within its urban context - constructed in ways that are more sustainable and inhabited by the children so that they can in turn construct for themselves an understanding of their important, interpenetrating nature.
The task assigned was to design an orphanage within the urban context of Altanta in a gentrifying neighborhood. The Program called for a gymnasium, cafeteria, library, children’s housing and an attached mixed use component Elemental Systems
Biotic Systems
Social Systems
Environmental Scale
Center, Right of Page: Strategy Diagrams (Ecotect + Illustrator + REVIT Energy Modeling) Bottom, Left of Page: Site Plan (REVIT + Illustrator) Below: Section Axonometrics (REVIT)
Situate Towards Light / Air Flow
Mitigate CO2 with Vegetation + Albedo
Frame Horizons In/Out to Engage Elements
Block / Building Scale
9.39 m/s
5 m/s
Morcellate + Perfollate for Light / Air Flow Unit / Body Scale
Regenerate Macro Natural Ecosystems
Interconnect Eco-Social Daily Rhythms
summer sun
winter sun
semi private
private rest
private study
air and ventilation
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Situate Work + Play Relative to Air / Light
Situate Work + Play Relative to Green
Situate Interiors for Rest / Contemplation
Left, Below: Plans (REVIT + AutoCAD + Illustrator) KEY:
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1. Mixed Use 2. Cafeteria 3. Medical 4. Admin 5. Indoor Rec 6. Gym 7. Amphitheater 8. Lobby 9. Library 10. Home Unit 11. Study Unit 12. Lounge Unit
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Center, Bottom of Previous Page: Sections + Elevations (REVIT + AutoCAD + llustrator)
Bottom of Page: Sections + Elevations (REVIT + AutoCAD + llustrator)
Top of Previous Page: Interior Render Sequence (REVIT + Rhino + VRay)
Right of Page: Exterior Render Sequence (REVIT + Rhino + VRay)
South - West Section
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North - East Elevation
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Media and Arts Centre: Public Platform
The task assigned was to design a performing arts and media centre for Emory University’s Oxford Campus. It would serve community and teaching functions.
Year: Fall ‘11 Professor: Sonit Bafna Location: Emory University, Oxford Campus The site, fairly cut off from central campus and adjacent to a large box building offered very little opportunities to pick up from. I thus decided to treat the building as an extension of the landscape, and architecturally the building became a platform.
Middle, Right of Page: Renderings of Platform and Lower Level (Sketchup + VRay) Bottom, Right of Page: Rendering of view on approach from street (Sketchup + VRay)
The major public functions would be sculpted in and about the platform with the more private functions being placed into a U-shaped building that was attached around the platform.
Right, Top of Page: Site Plan with Shadows (Illustrator) Right: Floor Plates Superimposed Below: 3D Axonometric Middle, Top of Page: Clay Exploration Model
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Community Academic Arts Platform
The amphitheater was sculpted directly into the platform with the auditorium regressing the platform below and above the main level. The galleries sit lightly around the auditorium, atop the public platform. The U-shaped building housing the more private teaching functions uses the platform in various ways, as means for light, as a roof and even for circulation.
Left, Below: Plans (AutoCAD + Illustrator) 11
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1. Analog Studio 2. Digital Studio 3. Classroom 4. Faculty Room 5. Library’ 6. Office 7. Workshop 8. Workshop Courtyard 9. Restrooms 10. Cafe 11. Amphitheater 12. Storage 13. Auditorium 14. Gallery 15. Digital Display Room 16. Arts Centre Lobby 17. Stage Room 18. Projection Room 19. Vehicular Drop Off 20. Platform Level 1 21. Platform Level 0
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Left, Below: Sections (AutoCAD +
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Illustrator)
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Left: Section (AutoCAD + Illustrator)
Center, Below: Elevations (AutoCAD + Illustrator)
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Richter Art Gallery: Modulation of Experience
The task assigned was to design an art gallery to house five of Gerrard Richter’s works. The design program also called for a rotating exhibition space as part of the museum.
Year: Fall ‘11 Professor: Sonit Bafna Location: 10th Street and Peachtree Place, Atlanta Right, Bottom of Page: Sections (AutoCAD + Illustrator) Right: Design Development (Sketch Renderings) Bellow: Floor Plates Superimposed
The design approach emerged from the site where the initial design parti worked around maintaining the existing trees on the site. Circulation Floor Plate Void
The concept began with transcending an experience apart from that of the experience of art. The building intended to use movement to create that experience. I split the floor plates and staggered them by five feet to imply a form of movement. Using a simple staggering of floor plates and the careful positioning of ramps, I created a suggestive path to set visitors on. The movement allows for the experience of the art with pauses where one would experience nature and the city thus creating a modulation of experience. 10
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The circulation path within the building allows for a programmatic flow as intended by the architect. Level 0
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Left: Floor Plans (AutoCAD + Illustrator)
Above: 3D Axonometric (Sketchup + Illustrator)
Top of Page: Processional Renderings (Sketchup = VRay)
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Pruitt Igoe Now (Design Competition): Green Network - Grow Green Year: Spring ‘12 Professor: Gernot Riether Location: St Louis
This project is a call for ideas for the redevelopment of the historic Pruitt Igoe Site in north, central St Louis. The brief does not require any particular programs to be placed on the site and allows for the consideration of surrounding areas as well.
A green networking strategy for the regeneration of North St. Louis that promotes a higher quality of life and higher standard of living within the city. From my research it was evident that the initial failure of Pruitt Igoe was caused by its lack of relation to the city development and migration trends. My development suggestion for the site goes out to the scale of a major portion of the city and using a mix of trend and strategy based growth predicts a master plan for the city. An example of the strategy based growth is the green loop, shown below. Due to this, what goes onto the site is merely incident of the larger context. The final developments of the site include, commercial, housing, a sustainability research center, a high school, a community center and a large public park as part of the green loop. Envisioning a Green Network, St. Louis
Key: Land Use & Plans Green
Office/Industry
Housing
Identifying Vacant Sites
Filling in With Green
Identification of Vacant Sites
Filling in of Vacant Sites
Networking Green Spaces
Adding Green Zebra Crossings and Urban Trails to create Green Network
Programming Green Spaces
Further Extensions and Adding in Public Amenities
Commercial
Community/Educational
Ground
Middle, Above: Land Use Diagram Bottom, Right: Site Master Plan
Office/Industry Growth + Green
Identifying Existing Office/Industry Conditions and Growth Sites
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Housing Growth + Green
Community/Edu Growth + Green
Identifying Existing Housing Conditions and Identifying Existing Community/Educational Conditions and Growth Sites Growth Sites
Commercial Growth + Green Identifying Existing Commercial Conditions and Growth Sites
Left - Right: Commercial, Housing, Community, and Entertainment Pattern
Middle, Left - Right: Green Loop Strategy Series
Top, Right: St Louis Green Network Envisioning
Top, Right: Schematic Street Sections
Bottom, Right: City Projected Master Plan Left: Proposed Site Plan Green Office/Industry Housing Commercial Community/Educational Park
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Top: Office Space Render (Sketchup + VRay + Photoshop) Bottom: Green Space Render (Sketchup + VRay + Photoshop)
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Full Page Spread: Detailed Office Space Conceptualization Rendering (Sketchup + VRay + Photoshop)
Designing for Optimum Sunlight
Top, Center of Page: Process and Development Diagrams (Ecotect + Illustrator)
Counter Programs Inserted Typical Building Block
Exploded Into Smaller Parts
Parts Placed on Site
Green Lounge / Library Gym / Swimming Pool 6am - 9am
Winter
6am - 9am
Summer Max Core Min 9am - 5pm
Maximizing Views
Designing Shading Devices to allow for light in Winter and block direct light in the summer without compromising on the views into the Green Space
9am - 5pm
Identification of Solar Patterns in designing building mass based on timing of usage of the programs to be accommodated
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Gowanus Water Works (Design Competition) Water Infrastructure and Community Center Year: Spring ‘12 Professor: Gernot Riether Location: Brooklyn, New York Bottom, Left - Right: Concept Sketches - Building Form Full Page: Brooklyn Map with Site
This project is located at a site near the tip of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York. The competition calls for a community center complete with program specifications that require the housing of 4 million gallons of water from the adjacent Combined Sewer Facility (CS0) along with programs of indoor and outdoor recreating for the community.
My design solution considers the use of a water process management system to manifest architecturally. Although the program only requires the housing of the CSO black water, I decided to reuse the water on site. I segregate the different kinds of water that come onto the site into black water from the CSO and stormwater from the streets and other urban areas. Using a living machine, constructed wetland the black water and bio retention for storm water, grey water is created, housed and reused. This grey water is then sent to a bio-electrolysis system that uses seaweed and pv panels to generate electricity from water and producing clean water as a resultant. This allows for further re-use on site. Architecturally the program is housed in the form of an urban square, the most iconic public space. Given the scale is that off a city block, the square is morphed and its edges displaced to create accessibility. The building roof then becomes an extension of the landscape housing exterior programs with indoor program areas located beneath. Water management systems purge this landscape to create connections with the roof and the building. At times a tank may become an outdoor water body for recreation with its water processes forming an infrastructural waterfall within the building.
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Below, Right: Water Diagram: Bio Filtration (Storm Water to Grey Water)
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Bio Retention Soil
Mulch Layer
Gravel Bed
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Below, Right: Water Diagram: Living Machine (Black Water to Grey Water)
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CSO Retention Tank
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Tidal Flow Wetland
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GREY WATER STORAGE & RE-USE
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Below, Right: Water Diagram: Bio Electrolyis (Grey Water to Drinking Water + Electricity)
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Grey Water from Bio-Filteration
Rooftop Water Tank
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Hydrogen Exteracted
Hydrogen Fuel Cell
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Bio - Electrolysis Chamber
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ELECTRICITY GENERATED
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Bio Electrolyis Living Machine Bio Electrolyis
Bio Filtration
Community Indoor Rec
Water Infrastructure
Office
Community Services
Community Outdoor Rec
Water Program
Infrastructure
Pool Services/Support
Left: Axonometric
Center: Schematic Orthographics Bottom: Schematic Section
Roof Plan
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Storm Water (Urban)
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Tata: Residential Development Year: Summer ‘12 Office: Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum (HOK) Supervisor: Rahul Kulkarni (HOK) Bottom, Right: Garden View, Traditional
Top, Right: Design Concept and Development
This project called for a residential development on a 40 acre site in Ahmedabad in the Contemporary Style and a similar development on a 55 acre site in Bangalore in Traditional Style In the Traditional Style the design used typical elements drawn from such architectural style to develop 2 different row-house types that are repeated in a determined configuration. In the Contemporary style, a similar approach is used however here one type was repeated and using mirroring to determine a configuration.
Bottom, Left: Balcony View, Traditional Middle, Right: Garden View, Contemporary Middle, Left: Balcony View, Contemporary
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Dheeraj: Commercial Development Year: Summer ‘12 Office: Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum (HOK) Collaborators: HOK India Design Team Bottom, Left: Option 1 Bottom, Right: Option 2
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Top, Right: HOK India Feature
This project was a 25 story commercial tower located in central Mumbai. In this project the client requested a ContemporaryClassical approach. The design uses the concept of a Doric column to break down the building into a base, shaft, capital, frieze and cornice. However, the design concept uses this segregation system with Contemporary design cladding elements.
Bottom: Final Option
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