Siddharth Hosamath is an architectural designer , currently based in Los Angeles, pursuing his passion in architectural design and critical thinking.
He has a Masters degree at the southern California Institute of Architecture. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Architecture at BMS. School of Architecture , Bangalore, India.
During his education , he explored effectively with contemporary and futuristic architecture pedagogy, deepening his thought into the field.
Siddharth’s architectural work has evolved regularly throughout his career. He believes that the only thing which is constant is change, and this change through critical thinking and experiences of Architecture and design. Learning new and innovative ideas to travers the art tech craft world (Architecture world).
Creative and resourceful Architectural Designer with a Master’s degree in Architecture and experience in both residential and commercial designs. An articulate communicator who has effectively explored contemporary and futuristic architecture pedagogy, and worked on housing projects and interior renovations. Possess a solid understanding of building materials, systems, specifications, codes, details, and construction techniques. Committed to developing new skills in the field and possess proven ability to contribute to the organizational discourse, and deliver presentations, and contract deliverables. Passionate about excellence, innovation, sustainability, green design principles, and collaboration.
Master of Architecture (M.Arch II) | Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles, California 2020 – 2022
Bachelor of Architecture(B.Arch) | BMS School of Architecture (BMSSA), Bangalore Karnataka, India 2015 – 2020
“Cross-Cultural Design in Architecture” | Winter School, The University of Adelaide Jul 2018
• Architecture
• Residential & Commercial Designs
• Physical Models & Animations
• 3D Models & Diagrams
• Institutional Projects
• Metal Fabrication
• Drawings & Renderings
• Model Making Carpentry
• Workload Management
• Client Satisfaction
• Process Innovation
• Conceptual Design
• Project Collaboration
• Unreal Engine
• Documentation
Technical Skills: Rhino | Autocad | Zbrush | C4D/Redshift | Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.)
| MAYA | Microsoft Office | Grasshopper | Fologram | Sketchup Pro | Lumion | Twinmotion | V-Ray
Soft Skills: Critical Thinking | Quick Learning Curve | Verbal & Written Communication | Team Work | Initiative | Problem Solving | Decision Quality | Attention to Details | Precision & Accuracy | Presentations | Time Management
Junior Designer | AUX Architecture
• Consistently modeled design options for a multi million dollar residential project.
• Developed and curated physical models based on client requirement.
• Consistently Drafted construction documents.
Teaching Assistant | Tending the Wild ,Sci-Arc
Nov 22 – Jan 23
Aug – Dec 2021
• Instructed on the use of C4D/Redshift, critiqued visual content, coordinated site visits, and organized class materials and schedule.
Teaching Assistant | IDD Introduction to Digital Design Sci-Arc
Aug 2021
• Instructed and problem-solved the new incoming class with skills in MAYA and Zbrush, and organized class materials and coordination.
Architect Intern | Kulkarni Associates, Bangalore
May 19 -Sept 20
• Worked on projects like the State Bank of India’s branches in Bangalore, three (3) apartment projects, as well as a campus design. This included designing, site visits, contract, and tender drafts, and client meetings.
Intentionally Opaque Sculptural Installations, 2022
Sci-Arc Spring Show, 2022
Details,Details,Details... 2022
“Instead of perfecting a precedent, I was encouraged - as were all of Balanchine’s dancers - to set one, if I dared. We started breaking the rules at the very first rehearsal.” - Susanne Farrell, Holding on to the Air The West Los Angeles site at the intersection of La Cienega, Jefferson, and National Boulevards and the Ballona Creek has the potential to redefine the urban conception of the West Side of Los Angeles, and perhaps the entire city. LA: A city? Or cities?
The largely underdeveloped site at the crossing of the two boulevard axes - north-south and eastwest - marked by the new La Cienega Expo Line station and the currently concretized Ballona Creek, suggests a forthcoming new urban focus in a city long known for its ephemeral urban emphases.
Is La Cienega/Jefferson then a new Los Angeles center? The first (W)rapper tower on the site on the north-west corner is to be completed in 2022. (W)rapper 2 on the adjacent site, directly east, Jefferson adjacent, is in the offing. To the south, on a separate site, a third office tower is proposed.
The studio project is to design both new towers, to define the visual and organizational relationships between the three and the area, to organize the ground plain that connects the 3 discrete buildings, and to fulfill the specific program requirements of each building.
VOLUME C
RIB·BON
PRIMARY FRAME
RIB·BON + PRIMARY & SECONDARY FRAME
TERTIARY FRAME CONNECTION
The intersection of the masses and the adapting structure that supports the cantilevers generate unique interior layouts and structural schemes for each floor. The floor slabs are designed to adapt to the changing structural layout. A lot of atrium, mezzanines, views and circulation paths emerge from the intersections of this dynamic massing and structure strategy.
The section demonstrates the relationship of structure with the floor slabs, interior spaces and continuous volumes of the interior spaces.
SHADOW GLAZING, based on the shadow of itself on the day of summer solstice , a grade of different glazing shades are pursued on the glazing for the facade system.
For Your Confort is an investigation of human postures through furniture, expanding on anthropometric relations, of the body and comfort. This is a correlation between constraint of the body and comfort , which derives the form of the chair.
The embodiment of different feelings and emotions based of the intensity and positions through our bodies has established a certain language of chairs . The exploration can be framed as de-antagonizing of the wrong, where wrong being the importance and the history of the correct posture(s). Historically there has always been an obsession of controlling and moulding the body, since the invention of the chair by the Egyptians. The body was meant to conform to the chair and be controlled, a desire
to constantly constraint. Postures are always in a flux, ever changing in those movements and micro movements, through time , state and emotion. Colonialism played a major role in the aspect of introducing this control of the body to various distinct cultures ,which made an impact on these freeing ways of living. Yet for a leader like Gandhi , the action of sitting crosslegged amongst the people gave a sense of comfort and trust , in their postures through times of difficulty, which ties back into a deeper personal reality. At some level the scope to claim that we are currently living through a new stage of posture evolution related to the particular conditions of labor and leisure of the 2020s which design needs to reinvent itself to accommodate.
For Your Confort is a catalog of chairs which conform to the body in a fluid morphology and through a specific feeling of posture. As a result each posture of the body sculpts itself a desired chair , fluid and distinct from another. Unintentionally , the catalogue converts into a laboratory for design speculation revealing new ideas of comfort & constraint. The representative nature of these objects are only a reflection of the body and its movement. The ideology of comfort within our body is through position, and sensation. For comfort being in a specific posture , this thesis , provides those specific illustrations in which the chair is conforming to the posture, where comfort is only a matter of time.
From an office chair to a lounger , these objects turn into a cloth like entity , without concern of borders of rigidity , whilst structuring itself intentionally through features narrated by the embodiment.
The world as we know changed the way we live, work and most importantly communicate. With the hybrid model of work from home continuing to be the norm, the typical office model has been forced to adapt. Digital meetings with in person employees in the office makes it challenging to isolate noise.
This project is an iteration of the near hybrid future where collaborative work though the physical and digital realms is brought together.
An acoustic pod which transforms as per the needs of the media of communication, an open office floor plan , for in person workflow and a closed setting with the Office Pod. The digital space being unique to each , brings in the need for individual acoustic isolation.
The pods are configurable as per the needs of a single person through the vertical isolator, and customizable through horizontal moving panels guided by a track system ,to change sizes of meeting rooms and group offices together.
The office pod is a polycarbonate shell with sound dampening foam panels strategically placed based on the user position enclosed in a frame. Each shell is supported by a roof truss and can move vertically when it is not needed (to allow an open floor plan?). The pod includes an audio visual system incorporated into the panels in order to accommodate digital meetings.
1. Individual pod enclosed configuration.
2. Twin collab pod configuration
3.Individual+ Team space moving wall config.
4. Open office configuration + moving walls
5. Exploded
Terraforma is an approach to the housing problem with an intent to integrate urban farming and landscape within the homeless housing facility to create a new hybrid form of building and green space. The project is aiming to help people transition back into society with one of mans most important and instinctively simple task of farming. The project takes upon a social skill of cultivating to uplift and maintain ones well-being.
This idea of co-living and learning a skill, is making an effort to bridge the gap in a way how nature doesn’t differentiate humans. The space gives an opportunity to learn a skill to get back on one’s feet, and in the process, renew their life. Terraforma is a space , where urban farming , vocational training and mental wellness are of the core objective. The system of the landscape has been transformed vertically. The use of plant grow lights to aid the buildings farming capability
The project aims for a distribution of spaces with boundaries focused on three user groups. The Residents, Non-residents and Day Boarders. The residents are located on the L2 and L3, and they are separated by the terraforma level which houses the main space for farming. The space hosts a recreational and meditation halls. This brings about a sense of confidence by interacting and sharing with the community.
The ground floor is a safe meeting space with a community kitchen , laundry, showers, a library and a medical space. This gives people access to the services as they can be transitioning on a day to day scheme. This helps support the group of individuals who choose to be non residents of the project.
JORGE DE OVANDO , SOPHIE AKOURTY , DHEER TALREJA , PATRIK MQUILLEN , HUI WANG , YIXING XIAO, KERAN DUAN
The project is a musical school located at the month west corner of Exposition park. The building is taken from Ramiro Diaz Granados design studio, Designed by Jorge De Ovando. Design Development by the team of 8 students, which involves complete structural , facade , HVAC, Plumbing, Fire safety and ADA compliant.
Our cabinet is meant to be located in the Maison de Verrre by Pierre Charreau, where the shelves and the handrail are one and only element, situated on the edge of the top floor. We wanted to design a piece that would imply the horizontality and continuity of its location, as if it was one section that was cut off from an initially elongated piece that spans a whole floor edge.
The materials used were 3/4” Cherry wood for the exterior, 1/2” birch wood for the drawers, 3/4” bent steel rods for the handrail and legs, and 0.2” steel rod for the front drawer handle. The furniture piece includes three drawers of different sizes and depths, with a different type of handle to open each.
The design of the drawers’ handle began with the exploration of IKEA pieces, specifi-cally the legs of the KRILLE table. We recreated that same bend, flipped it horizontally, and inserted it into our carved wooden front piece. Our cabinet is an exploration of the different ways steel and wood can complete eachother, finding different techniques to combine those two materials seamlessly.
.04” per forated aluminum guardrail
1” diameter aluminum tubing, typical
.0625 aluminum threshhold
existing steel catwalk
125” per forated aluminum landing
painted 4x4 hardwood to reinforce 3/8” thru-bolt
existing dr ywall replaced with 5/8” plywood- attached at stud locations w/wood screws
1” diameter aluminum tube struts
existing painted 5/8” gypsum wall board w/3/8” plywood backer
existing painted gypsum wall board
4” metal studs
2-1/2” long x 1/4” lag bolt
SECTION AT LANDING
.04” per forated aluminum guardrail
existing painted 5/8” gypsum wall board w/3/8” plywood backer
existing painted gypsum wall board
aluminum tubing welded together at 8” on center, typical
1” diameter aluminum tubing, typical
.04” per forated aluminum guardrail
existing dr ywall replaced with 5/8” plywood- attached at stud locations w/wood screws
125 and .04 per forated aluminum bent at joint and bolted together at 4” on center
125” per forated aluminum tread
1/8” x 1/2” aluminum flatbar welded to aluminum tubing - per forated aluminum landing bolted to flatbar
4” metal studs
2-1/2” long x 1/4” lag bolt
SECTION THROUGH TREAD
Exploded Axonometry
Drawers (D1, D2, D3) and the different steel insersions methods in the wood
The leg is sandwiched in-between two pieces of wood
The handrail slides into the holes of the side piece and glues to the top cabinet
The legs are bolted onto the bottom of the drawer
Exploded
The building process
14 slices of cherry veneer vacuumed press on a foam mold
This tectonic class is divide into two parts there in the first part consist of a deep research to identify the main details that defined a facade’s system. We were interested in timber structures and explored the Shigeru Ban’s Nine Bridges Country club. A deep understanding of the tectonic system was explored through research & 3-D modelling.
The country club is made up of three buildings which encompasses different structural systems present in a more modern sense through traditional materials like wood and glass.
Materiality of the joints and facade system was explored. Shigeru Ban’s approach to the facade design consisted of solid sustainable wood columns which was parametrically visualised.
After after having explore fully Shigeru Ban’s Nine Bridges Country club and how are the structural and tectonic design strategies worked harmoniously to create structure, we choose the Novartis building by Frank Gehry, to further expand on the tectonics of building technology. The challenge was to combine the timber structure of the steel and glass envelope where elements of the Novartis building for both facade and the roof of Nine Bridges.
The dynamic facade to our wooden columns where created a new tectonic element that would be sound both structurally and formally. The diagonal metallic mullions of the Novartis harmonise well with the hexagon and Timber grid of the club.
