SHWETA JOSHI shweta.joshi@woodburyuniversity.edu
Index 1. Total Building 2. Viscus Landscape 3. Solar Baroque 4. Renovation 5. Installation
1. Total Building MAXING AND MASQUING Woodbury University Faculty: Linda Taalman Matthew Gillis Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter 2015
The project explores the potential to innovate within a highly defined building envelope in a dense urban condition. With a prescriptive constrained volume in an infill site, this project includes a school of architecture for 100 students, including micro-housing for 25 students and a public gallery. The program operates between two extremes public and private. The project retains its own identity while integrating within and filtering its environment, questioning of the relationship of autonomy to integration.
Autonomous bodies: MAXING The new WUHO lab in Hollywood is an outpost of the existing architecture campus in Burbank, increasing the school’s capacity to engage architectural education in the coming century in multiple contexts. The challenge is to maximize the autonomy of the school, gallery, housing and site while maintaining a cohesive building.
Filtering Skin: MASQUING Masquing is both performative and aesthetic. The envelope engages the environmental qualities such as light, air and circulation. The skin is a recorder and negotiator with the outer environment. It adapts its character on the basis of need. It is a tight fabric at some places and stretches out to create habitable spaces in other parts. The skin challenges aesthetic and performative constraints in pursuing its functional character.
Contextual bird’s-eye view
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WUHO Hollywood Blvrd, LA 24 Feb’ 2015 Primary structure is a simply supported grid of column and beams and concrete slabs are resting on these colums. The roof is having a concrete slab which is perforated and steel pipes are inserted in that. Load gets transfered through columns. There is another tertiary grid whih hold the skin.
Terrace PLan
Structure Plan
Solar shadow range for Winter solstice
Turshiery grid of Skin
Concrete Floor Plates Simply supported system
Building tries to connect primary structure and secondary skin as an integrated system. Tertiary structure attaches itself to secondary members and transfer loads to primary members.
Skin System
Double skin system
ARCH Building 4 / ARCH 464 Systems Linda Taalman / Matthew Gillis / Lauren Lynn Shweta Joshi
WUHO Hollywood Blvrd LA 4 MArch 2015 Project aims to simplify different double layered facades. Idea of transparency and penetration. water collector
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Skin grid
ARCH Building 4 / ARCH 464 Systems Linda Taalman / Matthew Gillis / Lauren Lynn Shweta Joshi
Solar shadow range for Summer solstice
Ground Floor
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Roof Plan
Section AA’
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Structure, Environment, Envelope Plantation space
Wooden louvers to cut west sun
Concrete beam structure
Central void for light
Cross ventilation
Steel columns for structure
Translucent glass Sprinkler Outlet Folded steel plate Wooden blocks
Chaina mosaic flooring Concrete floor
Bent glass
Wooden planks Thermal insulation
Anchor with spacers
2 Infrastructural Territories Viscus Landscape, Woodbury, USA
Faculty :Thomas Stanley Joshua Stein
2014
Viscus Landscape The City has injected itself so thoroughly into the surrounding geography that we can scarcely differentiate one from the other. This is a proposal for an Urban Archaeological Institute to create a Contemporary Cabinet
of Curiosity.
SITE PLAN SITE SECTION SCALE -/32”=1’-0”
Contemporary cabinet of curiosity Balancing the solid void The proposal addresses the balance between two extremes, manifested trough distinct material and construction method of subtraction, addition and reinterpretation. The institute incorporates aspects of archaeology, ecology and detection. The urban archaeological site acts as a cabinet which collects all sorts of junk collected from excavation of the site. A bone of dinosaur is as important as plastic bottle. It represents reworking of an orthodox procedure of collecting, identifying and classifying to suggest more poetic and open approach to interpretation.
Device recives data in thin wings where sensors are atteches
Sensors detect dierent layers of topography and allocate them time period
Divides land into geometrical grid and excavates the land
Makes traces on the ground through excavating it
Collected specimens are parceled to laboratory unit. This laboratory will try to collect samples to understand relationship between fragile natural e nvironment and human interventions.
A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house.- Alice Munro
MACHINE SCANS THE TOPOGRAPHY AND LAYER IT ACCORDING TO ITS DESIGNATED TIMEZONE AND REARRANGING IT TO UNDERSTAND THE WAY IN WHICH DOMINANT IDEOLOGIES AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS SHAPE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY, KNOWLEDGE AND THE NATURAL WORLD. QUESTIONING THE SUBJECTIVITY-OBJECTIVITY
2. Solar Baroque The House fallen down the well Woodbury University Faculty: Berenika Boberska 2015
Transformations, Deployments and Ex-Urban Pioneers! One looks at the territories just beyond Los Angeles, at the ex-urban dwelling outposts on the edge of the Mojave Desert, and speculate on the unexpected ways solar generating surfaces can actually become spatial, occupiable and programmed shared spaces amongst and within these fragmentary outposts of normative suburbia transforming them through a blossoming of experiential and poetic architectures. One looks at a new more hybrid typology emerge, which plays quite radically with the found local forms through undoing, attaching, deploying, billowing-out, inflating, weaving together of new shared spaces. Solar technology moves beyond the purely pragmatic and technocratic into more sensual, architectural, cultural realms.
Fragments of medieval echoes appear through the endless fabric of the hinterlands pf Mojave desert. The archetypal sprawling can be found worshiping the contained and feeling out the edge. Emerging against a backdrop of flat-lining cultural ubiquity, default destiny assumption and environmental neuroses, comes a new romantic urbanism of figures and fields, Emerald cluster and flowering asphalt.
Treasures of California city Celebrating water well in desert as a lifeline for community
3. Renovation Project Extension and renovation of house Architect: Shweta Joshi 2013
Renovation project I worked within a very tight budget. In this project I used handmade paper and cheaply available materials to create ambient lighting. The intention was to maximize day lighting and create natural environment with the hint of local craft.
4. Installation Jau Pavilion
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DESIGN
ETH, Zurich, Switzerland Faculty: Tom Emerson Phillipe Block 2011
Demolition of old structure
Working models
On-site construction
People involved-50 My role Initial design development Execution
INAUGURATION DESIGN
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Conceptualising digital model structure and substructure
Working models
People involved-7 My role Detailing parts, CNC milling Physical installation
On-site-installation
INAUGURATION
5. Surface Box Mapping Woodbury, LA
Faculty: Biayna Bogosian Shweta Joshi (Teaching Assistant) 2015