PORTFOLIO 2023 - SHYAM SAMANI

SHYAM SAMANI GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

CONTENTS

01. RAISING COMMUNITIES

Elevated housing at the banks of Mississippi .

02. ULI HINES - THE OAKLAND LINK

Incorporating missing social links within the city of Oakland

03. PRAGMATIC UTOPIANISM

A mixed use hub within the business district of Mumbai city

04. FERRY TERMINALS

A new ferry terminal in the Japanese city of Miyajimaguchi

05. THE FLOW

A fluid pedestrian bridge at Georgia Tech

06. BUILDING SYSTEMS

Detailing the systems of Greenpoint Library

07. THE JACOB CIRCLE

A 200 acre urban intervention in the heart of Mumbai

08. INTEGRATED BUILDING SYSTEMS 3

Integration of architecture,structure and MEP.

09. INTERLACE

A light space modulator carved from a cube.

10. DESIGN BUILD TEST

Fabricating and testing vertical structures.

11. SPATIAL INSTRUMENTS

An operable mechanism within grasshopper.

RAISING COMMUNITIES 01

Top 15

This proposal looks at a cohesive implementation of 3 strategies i.e. Community habitation and sustenance, Community engagement and aquaculture, and lastly transportation and logistics. These strategies are implemented from the landside moving outwards towards the river in a continuously interconnected ecosystem.

Portman Prize | Daniel Baerlecken | Individual | Spring 2022

Elevated Housing (Self Sustainable)

Elevated Pathway (Connector)

Community Center (Aquaponics)

Connection D (Housing)

Conection C (Housing)

Connection B (Housing)

Connection A (Housing)

THE OAKLAND LINK 02

Competition | ULI Hines | Group Project | 2022

Team : Shyam, Steven, Carmen, Aishwariya, Karunya

Worked on : Renders, Concept Diagrams, Massing, Planning

The Oakland Link Central District provides the missing social links necessary to ensure the proper development of social capital, an increasingly influential commodity that predicated collective economic success and requires robust public connectivity. Through the three guiding principles of social connection, social opportunity, and social support. The Oakland Link will lift the area's social capital, convert it into economic achievement and stability, and position the surrounding community for sustained success in the modern world.

Social Incubator

PRAGMATIC UTOPIANISM

764000 sq.ft.

The intent of this design is to create a socially inclusive, vibrant and cohesive environment fused with another environment that is becoming highly monouse and programmatic in its nature, (and evolving to be isolated and fragmented in the present due to inconsiderate and capitalist approach), as an example for various zones with highly monouse functions. In turn fostering the fabric of the city by eliminating these socially isolated zones.

Undergraduate Thesis | Sukumar Adhikari| Individual Project | 2019

2nd Runer Up - Design Whack Awards Council of Architecture - U.G. Thesis Awards

Research and Mapping

Cities are, extremely complex objects in morphological terms. They are integration of different objects made up of different parts. It is possible to distinguish a number of interconnections between these objects ‘from the part to the whole’ and to identify a hierarchy in these connections. To deal with the complexity of cities, urban morphology uses this hierarchical view of the city, structured according to a set of fundamental physical elements.

Urban Oasis (Incorporating vegetation throughout the layers)

Peripheral Column Structure

Central Column Structure

Beams & Core

Slabs

FERRY TERMINALS

10,763 sq.ft.

Adv. Architecture 1 | Brian Bell | Individual | Fall 2021

Architecture is often practiced as an art that helps us remember who and where we are. This design considers architecture that helps us forget, and the role of forgetting in forming new experince by redesigning a section of coastline and adding a new Ferry Terminal in the Japanese city of Miyajimaguchi - for ferries running to the sacred island of Miyajima and the Itsukushima (Shinto) Shrine.

Roof Structure (Terminal B)

Conceptual Framework (Architectonic Idea)

05

THE FLOW

61,210 sq.ft.

Design Studio | Daniel Baerlecken | Individual | Spring 2022

Connecting the main Georgia Tech campus to the new development Science Square located at the north west of the campus. This bridge runs 1400 ft. in length with two different types of spans. One span is the cable stayed structure and the other span is a simply supported I beam on a Y column. Since the motto of Georgia Tech is moving forward ,the idea was to represent motion with the design.

3rd Prize

Secondary Span(Structural Analysis)

Main Cable Stayed Span (Structural Load Analysis)

Y Columns

Junction at Science Square

Junction at Randall Brothers

INTEGRATED BUILDING SYSTEMS

Spring 2022 | Scott Marble | Individual | Greenpoint Library

IBS focuses specifically on detailing the structural framing and building enclosure assemblies through research and digital modeling of existing contemporary case study buildings. The building take here is Greenpoint Library by Marble and Fairbanks.

Facade Details (Parapet Wall and South Facade)

Facade framing + enclosure (South Facade)

Facade framing + enclosure (West Facade)

Framing Details (Corner Junction - Entry Sofit)

Front Facade (Skeleton)

07

THE JACOB CIRCLE

200 Acres

Situated in Mahalaxmi region of Mumbai, India, the junction between Dr. E Moses Road and Bapurao Jagtap road has a heavy traffic flow, with traffic converging at the Mahalaxmi Station junction from all three directions, travelling to and from Jacob circle (locally known as saat rasta -7 roads). The Saat Rasta project is based on connecting the missing links between Dr. E Moses Road and Jacob circle via underpasses and R.O.B’s, thus the overtly congested Mahalaxmi Bridge is turned into a pedestrian bridge with 1.7 acres of space.

Professional Work| Abraham John Architects | Seoul Biennale| 2019 Team Alan & Shyam

Seoul Biennale Entry - Crossroads 2020 Abraham John Architects

Jacob Circle (Underground)

Jacob Circle (Seven Roads)

Podium Garden (Functional Distribution)

Jacob Circle (Underground)

Podium Garden (Functional Distribution)

Podium Garden (Exploaded)

08

Spring 2022 | Prof. Howard | Group project Team :Shyam, Aanna, Ian, Shaun,Harshika

HVAC Isometric View Outdoor Air Handling Return Duct Supply Duct Supply Stack Return Diffusers Supply Diffusers VAV Outlet Plenum Return Stack |Academic Work| |Academic Work| 46 45

Structural

Pile (Section)

Typical Concrete Column (Section)

Shear Wall to Slab Detail (Section)

Typical Column Reinfocement (Section)

Typical Beam Detail (Section)

Typical Slab at grade (Edge Condition)

Cast-in-place Columns

Shear Wall Core

Ribbed Slab

Cast-in-place Piers

Top level Beams

1ft. deep Beam

Framework (Isometric)

Edge Beams Staircase

Emphasizing a dialog between generative processes and descriptive systems utilizing both physical and digital means of modelling. Acting as a light space modulator, a cube is intersected with a Gyroid which is then subtracted from the cube forming intervoven pathways within, that intersect themselves as well as with all faces of the cube, while still maintaining the cubicity of the object.

Diagonal Slicing (Intersecting Pathways)

Advanced Architecture 1 | Individual | Brian Bell | 2021

Physical Model (Revealing Pathways)

Physical Model (Layering)

10 SPATIAL INSTRUMENTS

Media Modeling 3 | Kaseman | Fall 2021| Individual Work

Defining an intricate Spatial Instrument in GH, utilizing dynamic analytical approaches for geometric construction and parametric operation. Working in a digital volume not to exceed 25m x 25m x 25m. The challenge was to develop operable mechanisms that afford numerous modes of variable input, and relational hierarchies, dataflow logics, and behavioral differences.

Dynamic Analytical Geometrvic Mechanisms

DESIGN-BUILD-TEST

Integrated

Building Systems 1 | Russel Gentry | Fall 2021

Designing, fabricating and testing a physical model of a 1:12 scale tower that is capable of resisting lateral loads. The fabrication process involved both digital and hand methods of material handling. The primary elevation components were derived from a comprehensive digital 3D model and coordinated with natural deficiencies in a select 4’x8’x1/4” slab of birch plywood.Common board (whitewood) was planed and ripped to 70” wood dowels and glued to the interior of each joined corner of the frame.

CNC Milling (Birch Plywood)

Structure Components (Tower)

Team - Shyam, Bryce, Mark, Sekou, Archi

Force Diagram (Axial Force)

Structure Deflection (At each phase)

Structure Axon (Forces Applied)