Shirin Pramod | Architecture Portfolio

SELECTED WORKS SHIRIN PRAMOD

2020-2022

SHIRIN PRAMOD EDUCATION

May 2023

May 2023

AWARDS

Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ

Bachelor of Science in Design in Architectural Studies

Bachelor of Science in Sustainability

Hello,

My name is Shirin and I am a fourth-year undergraduate student double majoring in Architectural Studies and Sustainability with a focus on Materials, Energy, and Technology at Arizona State University (ASU). I am also the Co-Chair of the AIAS West Quad Conference as well as the Vice President of External Affairs of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) at ASU.

I am most drawn to the impact that architecture has on shaping the way individuals perceives and interact with space. This, coupled with my strong advocacy for environmental stewardship has been my personal guiding principles throughout my design processes as I believe architecture has a significant role in mitigating social and ecological challenges we have and will be faced with in the future.

Design Excellence Award Winner | The Design School, Arizona State University

December 2021

Spring 2019 - Fall 2022

July 2020

SKILLS

Sarawak Energy Top 10 Best Intern Award | Sarawak Energy Berhad

Dean’s List Award Recipient | Arizona State University

2nd Place ULDP Business Simulation Championship | Axiata Young Talent Program

LANGUAGES

Rhinoceros

Revit

Archicad

Photoshop

InDesign

Illustrator

Grasshopper

AutoCAD

Canva

Fall 2020 | Spring 2021 | Fall 2022 English

Google Workspace

Microsoft Office

Social Media

WORK EXPERIENCE

October 2022 - Present

Co-Chair | AIAS West Quad Conference | Tempe, Arizona, USA

Responsible for developing strong relationships with the professional community to garner participation and involvement with conference programming while simultaneously orchestrating a team of 10 conference committee members to effectively fulfill weekly conference planning targets

International Specialist | ASU Prep Digital | Tempe, Arizona, USA

September 2019 - Present

Carry out extensive research regarding the education sector in various countries as well as design marketing and presentation materials to ensure successful market penetration

Sustainability Division Intern | Sarawak Energy Berhad | Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

May 2021 - July 2021

Executing SEBs Climate Action Strategy research projects to identify alternative sustainability-based design solutions for the built environment and energy consumption challenges currently faced by the company with the goal of reducing GHG emissions

Desk Assistant | ASU Adelphi Commons | Tempe, Arizona, USA

August 2019 - January 2020

CLUB & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

August 2021 - Present

Resolved guest concerns with professionalism and level-headedness, using administrative and customer service skills to develop mutually beneficial solutions

Vice President

of External Affairs | American Institute of Architecture Students

Coordinate events held by the AIAS for our member population by acting as a liaison for all external interactions, events and guests

Marketing Director | Coalition of International Students

May 2020- May 2021

Carry out extensive research regarding the education sector in various countries as well as design marketing and presentation materials to ensure successful market penetration

University Leadership Development Program | Axiata Young Talent Program

July 2020

Worked with a diverse group of individuals from varying backgrounds to complete numerous business simulations where I learned effective methods of applying leadership and strategic qualities in order to achieve long-term goals for future projects through special training programs

President | Malaysian Students’ Association

May 2019 - May 2020

Worked closely with the executive board to help create a sense of community amongst the Malaysian students within ASU by planning and organizing several events throughout the term Treasurer | Coalition of International Students

May 2019 - May 2020

Planned, created and implemented budget proposals for all events held by the coalition throughout the term helping to safeguard our annual finances

TABLE OF

CONTENTS

THE CREST LIBRARY 01

Academic Work

Award Professor

Duration

Year Completed

Software

Public Branch Library

Design Excellence Award Winner Spring 2022

Tom Hartman

13 weeks

2022 | Year 3

Revit | Rhino | Photoshop | Illustrator | InDesign

The Crest Library sits nestled into the topographic landscape between Tempe Town Lake and the iconic Tempe Center for the Arts. In response to the changing needs of library users today, I designed a space that would encourage conversation, creativity, technology, and productivity all while remaining connected to the natural environment. The faceted roof structure calls upon the rippling waters of the Salt River that once ran through the site over 100 years ago. Within the main circulation of the library space stands six clear water-capturing columns of which the faceted roof acts as a funneling system to guide rainwater into underground storage tanks. During rainstorms, the columns call attention to the scarcity of water resources within our desert environment.

INSULATED METAL ROOF

temperature regulation warm ambiance

WOODEN CEILING

STEEL BEAMS

structural support access to natural light

TRIPLE-GLAZED CURTAIN WALL

STEEL COLUMNS

environmental resistance easily maintainable

CARPET TILES

Lobby

Multi-Purpose Meeting Room

Meditation Room

Public Service area

Children’s Services

Adult Services

Cafe Management Workspace

Quiet Reading room

Young Adult Services

New Material Collection

Creative Studio

Restroom

Structural Column

Rainwater Capture Column

PERSPECTIVE

Sediment filtration

Top filtration mesh

Non-potable water storage tank

THE TEA CAMPUS 02

Tahoe Expedition Academy Campus

Fall 2022

Max Underwood | Tom Kundig

13 weeks

2022 | Year 4

Revit | Rhino | Photoshop | Illustrator | InDesign

Molood Thamasebi | Avery Moric

Our concept for the new TEA campus consists of a layered experience as students enter the forest to then find an array of buildings that blend into nature while facilitating community experiences. This main array contains learning one, cafe hill, maker hill, and the cloud performance arts center. As the students continue to walk through the campus they can discover a variety of specialized learning spaces that serve as outposts into the wilderness. Students hike and find their own paths through the forest to find new connections between learning spaces. The essential structures create a backbone and public interface to the campus while the learning spaces are scattered down the hill side promoting exploration and adaptability.

DEMOGRAPHIC | VALUES

- Campus to cater towards K-12 children and surrounding community

- Education occurs primarily outside the classroom as students are placed in their surrounding “real-world” environments

LANDSCAPE

- Dense Ponderosa Pine and Sagebrush coverage along with a natural water flow line through the site

- Prone to forest fires and long winter conditions

TOPOGRAPHY

- Transitional terrain to inform both programmatic and pragmatic attributes of the project

- Provides opportunity for varying building types and scales

Students begin their day being greeted by the main cafe and garden space, modeled after a hill and the surrounding topography, the cafe emerges from under a layer of Earth. Coming into the site one sees an Earth form amongst the beautiful Tahoe landscape but when entering the cafe from the front they are welcomed by a vibrant community space. Inside the cafe are greenhouses that allow some of the youngest students to learn how food grows while watching the seasons change around them. Seating inside and out allows for students to bond over food and share their discoveries of the day, becoming the heart of the campus.

- Gray water collection for interior garden

- Sunlight used to heat interior

- Geothermal heating loop

Next, students alongside community members can enjoy a wonderful show at the Cloud Performance arts center . Students can climb onto and sit on the folded roof structure to enjoy plays, music, and performances with the wonderful Tahoe landscape as a backdrop. For example, the middle aged students put on plays that show to the local community what they have discovered through exploration and challenge. The black box theater below is clad with mirrors to help support the cloud-like roof structure and allows students to see themselves around and within the space.

- Reflective skin

- Solar heating for lobby

- Cooling airflow below roof

The students next visit their learning spaces which are divided into specialized learning outposts and storage and safety burrows. These learning spaces are spread across the biomes of the TEA campus, allowing students to explore the different aspects of nature within the Tahoe area. Students can engage with subject specific activities inside the outpost and when they are working in groups they can take tents and other deployables from the burrow and into nature. This allows for teachers and students to create dynamic and responsive learning environments every day as well as empowering the students to design their own learning environments. For example, the oldest students use this community outpost to host farmers markets to benefit international relief work.

- Water collection and storage for educational use

- Water filtration system to reuse gray water

- Exterior water cools interior

TEMPERATE SOLACE 03

Academic Work

Professor

Duration

Year Completed

Software

Column to Space - Will Burder Phoenix Central Library

Claudio Vekstein | Nenwe Geeso

6 weeks

2021 | Year 2

Rhino | Photoshop | Illustrator | InDesign

Originating from the columns in the Burton Barr Central Library by Will Bruder Architects, the space was formed through a series of disciplined and symmetrical yet organic transformations. It sits nestled amongst the dense trees of a temperate forest secluded from the chaos of urban life. The idea behind the space was to create a sculptural landmark that helps accentuate the beauty of the natural environment providing users with new perspectives that would otherwise go unnoticed.

Users begin their experience on the forest floor by exploring the exterior spaces cocooned by the wooden massings. They will then be greeted by the steel pathways that ribbon through and around the structure in a whimsical yet controlled manner promoting users to enjoy the unconventionality of their movement through the space. The pathway leads them through the various levels of the forest ultimately arriving at the glass tree house space. Here, users will be amongst the tree canopies where users can experience a 360 degrees view of nature in its truest form.

SPACE

SLICING, BENDING & EXTRUDING

transformations utilized to form landmark structure amongst a dense temperate forest

ARDENCE 04

Academic Work Award Professor

Duration

Year Completed Software

Imanginative Graft Design Excellence Award Winner Fall 2020

Tom Hartman

7 weeks

2020 | Year 2

Rhino | Photoshop | Illustrator | InDesign

Ardence was developed with the idea of wanting to break the exclusivity and expense of experiencing the wonders of performative art. I wanted to be able to create a space that would help to “display” the talent and passion that goes into these productions while also providing an opportunity for much of the community that might not have the means to experience events of similar scale. I wanted the program to also be a reminder that you don’t need fancy set-ups or a big stage to “display” your talent. It would be a space that would be open to anyone and everyone from all walks of life to share and create their passions.

SITE OVERVIEW

The graft is placed on the lawns outside of the main Gammage building where many students, faculty and visitors frequent to either hustle their next class or enjoy the weather when it is nice outside regardless of whether or not they have the privilege of attending a show in the historic auditorium. The many trees surrounding the lawn helps to mute out the busy roads surrounding the lawn which makes it a perfect spot or the graft. The graft is embedded into the ground as I wanted people who were performing to feel as if they were inside a safe space to be their truest self while also making it so that if people wanted to watch, they would have to come right to “experience” the performance, similar to coming to Gammage to watch a show or to viewing an art piece in a gallery; a place for display.

GAMMAGE AUDITORIUM

COMPLIMENTARY COMPONENTS

SITE PLAN

projector platform structuresupport

water flows around the rim and down the sphere drum

removable projection canopy

- water flow represents a free flowing spirit

- adds a sense of serenity to the graft

- play on the idea of something being displayed in a display box

- structure is slender to not take away from the view of gammage

sphere drum embedded into the ground

- creates a safe space for users to freely express themselves

- viewers would have to come right up to the graft to view a performance similarly to viewing a show at gammage or an art display in a gallery

multileveled platforms are a node to the perseverance & dedication needed to be apart of a production or to professionally pursue performative art

POWDER-COATED GOLD STEEL BEAMS

- captures attention

- withstand harsh weather

TEXTURED GOLD METAL GALVANIZED STEEL

- sense of grandeur

- withstand water erosion

BEIGE NATURAL STONE

- represents arizonas rich mineral resource

PINK NATURAL STONE BLOCKS

- inspired by Gammage facade & Arizonian red clay

DOOR DETAILS

DETAILED ANALYSIS 05

Academic Work Professor

Duration

Year Completed Software

Building Component Detailed Analysis Claudio Vekstein

5 weeks

2021 | Year 2

Rhino | Illustrator | InDesign

FLOOR DETAILS

GRASS HOPPER 06

Academic Work Professor Duration

Year Completed Software

3D Paneling Scott Murff

2 weeks

2021 | Year 2 Grasshopper

PHYSICAL MODELS 07

Academic Work

Duration Year Completed Skill

Spatial Exploration Studies 5 weeks

2020 | Year 1 Handcraft

PHOTO GRAPHY 08