SHWETA JOSHI shweta.joshi@woodburyuniversity.edu
Index 1. Micro Living 2. Working Drawings 3. Architecture for Community 4. Solar Boroque 5.House Renovation 6. Installation
1. MIcro Living 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
Ground Floor
First Floor
Roof Plan
Section AA’
Section BB’
Section BB’
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. Working Drawing Vernacular Wisdom CEPT University, India Faculty: Nitin Raje Hemant Wala 2010
Handdrafting and designing an appropriate structure to serve not only as a school but also for other community uses such as a vegetable market in the evening and a community space for elders. Putting together information in the form of abstract relationships which lead to a investigative design approach
This is a part of a documentation program understanding the vernacular ways of building in an earthquake prone zone. The ground floor is for cattle to warm the house, the middle floor is for people and the upper floor is for deities, creating a sectional hierarchy.
Site Plan
Section
First Floor Plan
Wall Section
Roof Plan
3. Design Thesis Architecture for Community Advocative for the preservation of Culture Faculty: Dr. Jason Rebiollt 2016
The thesis revolves around the concern to preserve the craft and provide a platform for weaver community to thrive. The site is located on the scared route towards stepwell, adjacent to fertile land capable of growing dying plants. This project is an extended cluster of weaver community, their workplace, communal living space,learning school and exhibition gallery. The idea is to creating a collaborative architecture, using local materials and traditional building techniques. Maximizing space utilization, addressing the issue of environment, creating less - utilizing more design methodology that may lead towards sustainable, self sufficient society.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Installation Jau Pavilion
DAY- 1
ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
PROCESS STAGES
DESIGN
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
DAY- 14
Conceptualising digital model structure and substructure
Working models
People involved-7 My role Detailing parts, CNC milling Physical installation
On-site-installation
INAUGURATION