SHARAN SABOJI
ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PORTFOLIO
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These are some of my works from the Master of Advanced Architectural Design (MAAD) - Urban Works at the California College of Arts.
These are some of the projects I worked on during my time at Greyscale Design Studio, Bengaluru, India and also some freelance work.
This was an team entry during my undergrad for a design competition held by the National Association of Students of Architecture, India.
01 Destination Bazaar 02 Designing a Just City 03 Bee-ing!
04 Jagannathan Residence 05 Askewn Matrix 06 Open House
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2019-2020
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MAAD
CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
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Destination Bazaar Spring 2020
This work was part of an urban scale studio that was a response to the retail apocalypse using design research to investigate a series of issues, develop a thesis around how architects have agency in engaging with them, and construct a visual argument or proposal for how architecure can address them with a primary focus on retail and its relationship to the ground floor of the city by developing research that falls into five lenses of analysis.
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After the construction of the central bedesten was completed in 1461, the building was endowed to the waqf of Aya Sofya. As more guilds emerged, all contributed a share of their earnings to the mosque to carry out social and cultural welfare of the city.
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Gold, 19.90%
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Copper, 25.50%
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Antiques, 2.30% Silver, 3.80% Fabric, 4.70% Jeans, 8.40% Souveniers, 10.80%
Rugs, 10.70% Leather, 13.90%
Central Bazaar
The guilds formed territories which gave the present streets the names after the goods sold there.
Program Legend
Stores
Individual stores with their compact scale could expand in affordable means.
Roads, Building, Footprints
Corridor
After the Ottoman Empire established the central Bedestein concentric rings of markets developed over time into a system of guilds which operated in coopetition.
Density, Mass, Typologies
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This is the original mall, one of the largest covered retail spaces in the world.
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Grand Bazaar Case Study
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Shop Interior Circulation Retail Footprint Domed market Formal market Informal market
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Density, Mass, Typologies
Streets, Parks, and Parking lots Surface Legend
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The Neighbourhood Corridor District (NCD) is governed by height programming that focuses on two nodes. The rest of the NCD is primarily one or two floors in height while the heights around the nodes tend to go upto six floors
Green Space Buffer Sidewalk
Ownership Legend NCD
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Properties, Finance, Public Infrastructure
Residential Mission Street
Outer Mission Excelsior Crocker - Amazon 1
San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living
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Roads, Building, Footprints, Transit
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Parking Lots GENEVA AVENUE
Parks Muni routes
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Longfellow Elementary School
Outer Mission Site Study This was a site study of Outer Mission analysing the 2.2 miles long monotonous retail corridor of Mission Street. Small parcels have supported family owned businesses but have also created similar building types. Narrow sidewalks and lack of reachable public spaces limit animated street activity and communal gatherings. Mission Street is served by infrequent regional transit infrastructure and fails to effectively connect the farther reaches of San Francisco.
Ocean Avenue Node
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Existing personal cars will be directed to an underground parking lot which will gradually transform into artist gallery spaces and an educational museum as automated cars will become the popular mode of transportation.
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Wider sidewalks and streets only for buses, TNC’s and delivery bots will create a more vibrant ground floor environment with urban furniture under planted trees.
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The Ocean Avenue Node has fragmented city blocks that will be unified into a ground floor bazaar with flexible retail space arrangements that will provide greater resilience for fluctuating retail markets and a central plaza space, and an elevated park space.
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Other open spaces can be unified with some rigid retail spaces and new ground floor retail that has more value as a bazaar system.
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M I S S I O N N S T R E E T
A Business Improvement District will regulate the dedensification of the existing monotonous Mission Street, intensifying these nodes into vibrant and diverse retail destinations.
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The Geneva Avenue Node has an internal open space in the form of a traditional parking lot that can become a park/market space by consolidat-ing the parking into a new structure.
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Longisect An exploded axon that reveals the inner components of the Ocean Avenue Nodal Bazaar. Due to the strong existing built context, the upzoning proposal takes form vertically to acommodate new programs engaging the public realm at different levels. The spaces also operate in a temporal nature such as the proposed underground parking that will be repurposed to artist galleries and educational museums for the surroundinng schools, as personal vehicles will give way to autonomous vehicles. The ground floor retail spaces are also scalable according to the ability of an establishment to expand or contract based its economic standing.
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mall scale and large scale businesses operating in coopetition
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parking lot as an underground bazaar and artist gallery space
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elevated park to provide a neighbourhood open space
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offices at the upper level provide stable rents
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stable establishments hold the mezzanine level with access to the upper level bazar
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upzoned area with multi level housing towers, a result of SB50 housing bill
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Flexible wall system to support all scales of businesses
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Clear storey lighting to reach the depths of the superblock
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Wide sidewalks with urban furniture, tree shade and spill over for retail
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Public transit control, street and sidewalk programming
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Outer face of walls as digital screens for showcasing artist graffiti
The BIG U The following work was analysed under the broader topic of Ecology that assess urbanism’s attitude towards environment that demonstrates how the concept of nature has changed from wilderness preservation movements to the age of ecology.
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Designing a Just City: How architecture reshapes property, equity, ecology and economy.
It looks at the rise of the landscape urbanism movement and its transformation through the lenses of risk and resilience with the arrival of climate change and complexity theory.
Designing a Just City Spring 2020
This work was part of a design elective that reveals architectural and urban design strategies for influencing politics, urban economics and social action by studying built and unbuilt projects to locate a shared language through which designers, politicians, activists, developers and others can come together and open up more probing questions. The aim was to unpack more deep-seated and open-ended ways to shape social justice in cities today.
U The BIG U, Bjarke Ingles Group The BIG U was the winning entry of the Rebuild By Design competition to develop resiliency measures along the Manhattan waterfront, in response to the devastating effects of hurricane Sandy in 2012. This project operates in a binary state between establishing economic resilience and ecological investments. On the one hand, the BIG U compels the communities to embrace the vision for a flourishing economy around these resiliency infrastructures while on the other, it also provides the communities with the toolkit to incorporate sound environmental practices for building porous ecological neighborhoods. - Sharan Saboji
The berm proposal at Lower Manhattan. Source: The BIG U Report for Rebuild By Design Competition
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ECONOMIC RESILIENCE
ECOLOGICAL INVESTMENTS
Benefits of Protection ($NPV) Cost of Protection ($NPV) Economic B/C Ratio
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$1,912M
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STAKEHOLDER COALITION Battery Conservance Downtown Alliance NYC DOT NYS DOT Business Community
LES-Ready (and all constituent orgs) NYCHA NYC DOT NYS DOT
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LES-Ready (and all constituent orgs) NYCHA NYC Parks NYC DOT NYS DOT
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FLOOD PROTECTION MEASURES
FLOOD PROTECTION MEASURES Pavilions under FDR Deployable barriers under FDR Low T-Wall Landscape Berms in Battery
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Deployable barriers under FDR Low T-Wall Wet Feet concept for buildings
Berm along FDR Flyover along ConEd facility Pavilions under FDR Deployable barriers along 23rd St
Pavilions under FDR Deployable barriers under FDR Low T-Wall Landscape Berms in Battery
Deployable barriers under FDR Low T-Wall Wet Feet concept for buildings
Berm along FDR Flyover along ConEd facility Pavilions under FDR Deployable barriers along 23rd St
ASSETS IN FLOODZONE 64,000,000 sf Commercial Office Space 200,000 People Working in Flood Zone (estimate) 15,000 Residents 25 Historic Structures (estimate) 2 Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel Entrances 17 Subway Entrances & Vent Shafts (estimate)
11,000 Residents 2,500 NYCHA units 30 Small Businesses (estimate)
120,000 Residents 29,000 NYCHA units 1 Power Plant and Substation 1 DEP Primary 300 Sanitary Pump Station Small Businesses (estimate)
Total Estimated Damages 2014 / 2050
Storm Recurrence Interval 10 Year
$117M / $886M
$18M / $97M
$15M / $271M
50 Year
$947M / $1,742M
$106M / $222M
$251M / $832M
100 Year
$1,391M / $2,042M
$172M / $281M
$583M / $1,129M
500 Year
$2,299M / $3,134M
$349M / $611M
$1,370M / $2,234M
RESILIENT COMMUNITY PLANNING 1. WET PROOFING 2. ADDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING ON REPLACEMENT BUILDING 3. USE ‘PARK’ FOR BERM 4. USE BERM FOR PARKING/AMENITIES/STORMWATER 5. DEVELOP NEW BUILDINGS TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND GENERATE REVENUE 6. BUILD A CO-GEN PLANT 7. EXTEND THE CHINATOWN- LES ACQUISITION FUND 8. LOCK IN NOT-FOR PROFIT HOUSING IN THE PROTECTED FLOODZONE 9. ADD COMMUNITY CENTRES
UPLAND RESILIENT LANDSCAPES 1. PLANT STREET TREES 2. PLANT RIGHT-OF-WAY BIOSWALES 3. STORE WATER IN SOFTSCAPE 4. PLANT COMMUNITY GARDENS AND MICRO FARMS 5. PLANT RAIN GARDENS 6. REDUCE AND UPDATE PERVIOUS SURFACES EXISTING INITIATIVES 1. NYC GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM 2. TWO BRIDGES NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL 3. LOWER EAST SIDE ECOLOGY CENTER 4. NYCHA GARDEN AND GREENING PROGRAM
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Territory of compartments The BIG U proposal is envisioned in compartments that cater to their specific set of communities and can develop at their individual pace. What unifies the neighbourhoods are the long term resilient upland landscape goals that will respond to global warming, while also making stronger ties between the people and their waterfront with programs tailored to their community needs and goals.
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The BIG U Report for Rebuild By Design Competition
From top to bottom: C1.The Bridging Berm at East River Park C2. Two Bridges community with the BIG Bench C3. The Reverse Aquarium Source: The BIG U Report for RBD
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Legibility of stakeholder inclusion The BIG team approached LES Ready with an umbrella of 26 community groups which revealed what the community finds important, major stakeholders like the Battery conservancy and Downtown Alliance and a vast array of city, state and Federal agencies, elected officials, and planning boards.
Charles E Schumer The BIG U expands the range of planning and policy ideas beyond flood protection to address ways we might achieve the shared vision for a more resilient, equitable and just city.
We commend the inclusion by the BIG Team of specific proposals to fund initiatives that seek to create greater access to economic opportunity for local residents, as well as those that would increase affordable housing production and preservation.
Letters of Support for the BIG U proposal addressed to Honorable Shaun Donovan Secretary, US Department of Housing and Urban Development
The BIG U Report for Rebuild By Design Competition
From top to bottom: C1.The Bridging Berm at East River Park C2. Two Bridges community with the BIG Bench C3. The Reverse Aquarium Source: The BIG U Report for RBD
Specifically, we urge you to approve the request for $50 million to replenish the Chinatown / Lower East Side Aquisition Fund, which you helped to establish while at HPD, to preserve at-risk private affordable rental housing in our communities. FRIENDS OF THE
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I commend the BIG team for exploring ways to combine resiliency with creating new economic opportunity for local residents, ways to increase affordable housing production and preservation, creating new open spaces, and strengthen communities’ relationship with their waterfront.
The Binary Aesthetics of Nature The BIG U proposals in one point of view with their vibrant visuals seem to be prolonging the image of risk which is very much associated with flood proof infrastructure. From another view point, these proposals are helping build the necessary social and economic resilience in communities around these infrastructures.
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The BIG U Report for Rebuild By Design Competition
Above: The BIG U proposed market pavilions around the flood wall. Below: Removable flood wall installation at Coralville, Iowa Source: Flood Control America
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Scales of Influence
Bee-ing!
Spring 2020
Propositions can operate from the scales of an individual, to social groups and to the urban environment itself.
This publication was designed by the students of CCA’s Master of Advanced Architectural Design (MAAD) as a collaborative project which is a proposition for wearable interventions to support bee behaviour.
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This map was part of the larger publication that provides a speculation of the different scales at which humans can operate from an individual to social groups that go as far as even influencing the nature of our urban environment. Through our research, we identified three human behaviourial traits that can begin to act through the instruments that this proposition has to offer.
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The Fashionista - consumerism and individual expression courses through their veins which may or may not align with what the bees need.
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The Eco-Goth - surendering their life and literally their bodies is second nature to their way of living and their actions will expand habitats for bees in unepected places.
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The Tracker - data and efficiency is what they care about and are willing to let a top down system guide them to do their part for the bees.
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1. *ping*-you were visited by 20 bees today 2. We need more poppies in our garden 3. My new bee suit earned me 10% on my tax break 4. Our neighbourhood was voted as most buzzing by National Geographic 5. Latest pop icons in bee fashion 6. Don’t our UV coordinated outfits look great in this dance festival? 7. Check out those new UV trousers on De Caprio? 8. Just hit 10K likes on my latest bee gown post 9. Ubuntu-I am because we are 10. our rooftop garden is all for the bees 11. Just gonna get pollinated today 12. We are taking over the neighborhood, one overgrowth at a time
PROJECTS GREYSCALE DESIGN STUDIO FREELANCE &
Jagannathan Residence 2017-2019
Due to the vast nature of the site, the design intent was to create layered spaces to break the scale. Using a combination of screens, different experiential vistas unfold as one journeys deeper into the site. Mid sized canopy trees and low level woody shrubs add a seasonal bloom across this hot and dry site.
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Askewn Matrix 2018-2019
This was an exploration of facade system that can perform climatologically for the vast spatial volume that warehouses are known for as well as creating a visual impression in an industrial neighbourhood dotted with a similar building fabric using hollow clay blocks and a system of steel beams.
Z PURLIN FRAME TO SUPPORT ROOF SHEET PROFILE
CORRUGATED STEEL SHEET AS ROOF PROFILE
RCC SLAB WITH STEEL I BEAM
SLIDING GLASS SCREEN
POROTHERM HOLLOW CLAY BLOCK
GYPSUM BOARD FALSE CEILING
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Open House 2014-2015
This project required modifying a planned three bedroom unit into a two bedroom unit with interiors in solid wood and plywood. Existing furnitures from the clients end was included in the design. This is an open concept plan where a large, unified space is defined by the two glazed openings at either end. The kitchen is to one side, opposite to a staircase which leads to the terrace garden.
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1 lounge 2 balcony 3 seating 4 utility/balcony 5 study
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COMPETITIONS UNDERGRADUATE
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Spring 2020 The design competition was a collaborative effort by the National Association of Students of Architecture, India and the University of Westminster, London to introduce an international learning dimension to a long-standing student organisation in India. The purpose of the competition was to encourage innovative and creative solutions to local issues of sustainable development. It aimed to bring out a holistic understanding of severe environmental problems facing local neighbourhoods and the communities that inhabit them, taking into account their social, economic and political circumstances.
live in the treetops, it makes your horizon better
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