SIMIRAN SINGH
School of the Architecture ssingh9@saic.edu
Art
Institute of Chicago Interior Architecture 312-918-9772
SIMIRAN SINGH E D U C AT I O N School of the Art Institute of Chicago Class of 2019 Chicago, IL Bachelor of Fine Arts with emphasis in Architecture/Interior Architecture and designed objects
SKILLS
Adobe Suite: Technical:
Languages:
Illustrator Photoshop
Woodshop 3D Printing Laser Cutting English Punjabi Hindi Thai
HONORS
312-918-9772 Chicago, IL
WORK EXPERIENCE Office Assistant International Affairs | SAIC | Spring 2017- Present Assisted students with matters such as OPT appointments, study abroad, tax filing, International affairs events and I-20s. Orientation Leader | SAIC | Fall 2017 Assisted new students to help ease them into the SAIC environment through team building and ice breaking.
Office assistant, ESO Traveling agency | Thailand | June 2016 Assisted domestic as well as international clients with their needs and scheduling trips. Coordinated with different agents around . the city to ease the transition of customers in, out and around the country.
Rhinocerous Keyshot Autocad Microsoft office Grasshopper
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RELEVANT COURSEWORK Architecture/Interior Architecture Studio 1,2, 3 & 4 Using the information on the site to drive our design sensibilities, formal analysis as well as sysnthesizing design to translate those intersections or in between spaces to moments in architecture, throught both as an individual as a well a group. Architecture Analog Drafting This studio prepared us for one of the most crucial precursors of architectural drawing,i.e learning how to draw via analog tools such as the T-scale, drafting table, etc. to articulate two dimension with precision before beginning with computer aided designs. Parametric Grasshopper 3D This studio introduced us to the basic concepts and understanding of grasshopper elements such as definitions, attractor points, parti through attached programs such as ladybug, weaverbird, and kangaroo.
Creative Honors scholarship recipient 2016 - Present Academic honors for highest score in Psychology 2015 Student government board 2015 Design Recognition in the National Seating Design Group Competition, Thailand Culture and Design Centre 2015
The Architectual Imagination: Harvard GSD1x | August 2017 In this online course, I learnt how to "read" architecture as a cultural expression as well as a technical achievement. Vivid analyses of exemplary buildings from a wide range of historical contexts, coupled with hands-on exercises in drawing and modeling, brought me close to the work of an actual architect or historian. South California Institute of Architecture: Making+ Meaning | July 2017 This was a four-week immersive summer studio of intense design processing, learning various model making techniques through the introduction of laser cutting, vaccum form and 3D printing. The articulation of composition, color, pattern, form, shape, and function are few of the main studio focus. Light and Space
This studio course prepares students to use light creatively through projects involving principles of light, natural and artificial lighting techniques, color and light, light sources, the lighting design process, and the control and measurement of light. The work of the studio is focused around the creation of lighting installations that define or transform architecture and interior architecture.
A TABLE FOR 100
CONTENTS
1. The Playcrate
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2. Troublemaker
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3. Wayside Oasis
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4. Objects of affection
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5. A Table for 100
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6. Chamber Live
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7. Tower tower
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THE PLAYCRATE This project is an exploration of what a civic center is and what it could be in this renaissance of architectural boom. In this exploration of spaces and their relationship, this design consists of three distinct spaces during the winter, a greenhouse, Ice-skating rink, and produce market that emerges as a result of the greenhouse farming which during the summer transforms into a pool, basketball court and a cafe. The major challenge was how we as architects have
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a responsibility of keeping in mind the life cycle of the civic while make efficient use of the space. Reimagining the idea of what defines “The Civic” and how we as architects can change the public’s relationships between bodies and spaces. This illustration is the big idea of what the future of “The Civic” could articulate towards. Where spaces of play, perversion, corporate and residential together coexist in harmony.
THE PLAYCRATE
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ELEVATION: SOUTH
ELEVATION: WEST
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THE PLAYCRATE
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THE PLAYCRATE
THE PLAYCRATE
This collage is an exercise that explores the mode of representation using the "21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art� by SANAA architects as a precedent. The mode of analysis and representation follows two trajectories - the flattened and the delaminated. The flattened is the expression of the multiple spatial systems compressed, but not simplified. The delaminated is the expansion of parts through depth and measurement. The delaminated representation depends on context and adjacencies, and exposes activities and operations and translating each of these elements to create a new pattern; repeat, separate, add, grow, scale, etc. Patterns on the right are translations of elements both from nature, concrete as well as the exhibitions at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art.
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THE PLAYCRATE
VERBS AND PLAY
Figure and ground is a metaphor for verbs and adjectives for the description of its relationship to the ground. These series of experimental models of the civic center based on verbs/adjectives were built prior to intensive design so that our understanding of the three dimensional space is a clear articulation of design, where six of the models were defined by a single verb/adjective, the remaining three are an in between hybrid of any two of the six individual verbs. The photographed models are: Griddy and flexible, open and shelter diverse and multifunctional, words that are a formal hypothesis in relationship with the “search of a civic center�.
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TROUBLEMAKER A SCI-Arc brat, the troublemaker is a multifaceted creature in itself. Its body, consisting of faces that expose, enclose, and coil in to create a secret nook within itself. The troublemaker sits as it please. It is a process that began as a two dimensional paper, distorted from its original two dimensional into a three dimensional form. The contour paper now photographed, focusing on composition, color, pattern, form, shape, and function is edited into halftone pattern to create intersections of details of lines that radiates illusion of the desert. The troublemaker was born out of the idea of two dimensional surface that begins to articulate the interiority of the host. 7
WAYSIDE OASIS A “forgotten element” of the 606restrooms. As we have observed, living in a city requires fundamental infrastructure, the most crucial being managing water, waste, and hygiene within the metropolitan area. These restrooms units will be part of the idealized community that crowd-sharing helps provide in today’s society, helping us unite neighborhoods as one moves through the city of Wayside Oasis. This project is an army of 6 units of restrooms that sits on the 606 and cantilevers over the street. The bathroom units upon sunset turns into a public movie screening pad that helps illuminate the street beside and below the cantilever, further including public safety and efficient of multipurpose use of traditional restrooms. 8
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Objects of affection are objects that surround us, objects that we choose to comfort ourselves with every day of our lives, objects that contain and helps us create our little universe, in elements of our own. Sometimes those objects exist in the form of tactile items like household objects, clothes, and those objects act like representations of ourselves bringing us joy in ways as small as collecting sea shells on a sunny beach, the smell of fresh bread straight out of the oven and the fluff poms of our favorite couch. My objects of affection exist in the form of colors and representations of both architectural and natural elements that are molded in polymer clay and oven baked until hard.
A TABLE FOR 100 “The beer channel� is a table that explores the idea of the preparation and consumption of a communal meal for one hundred people. In contrast to the organization of a restaurant or reception, which divides guests into smaller social groups, this table facilitates an event that is participatory and collective. Reimagining how a singular object accommodates two distinct activities with their own constraints, requirements and outcomes, how form, scale, and material organize space so the guests interact as a community of one hundred 11
CHAMBER LIVE Chamber Live consists of co-located housing and library components. The concept lies in a sound specific context, where the level of sound decreases as one travels up the circular staircase beginning from the noisy street music festival on the ground floor to the quiet top floor on the musician residence. The building seems as though it floats upon the ground in order to evoke a sense of curiosity, and to allow the passage of the public from one side of the street to another The housing accommodates twelve bedrooms where the micro-library provides focused resources on music books, instruments to check out, musician residency, public availing concerts and other resources to serve its community. 12
COWORKING 2018 TOWER-TOWER
Tower tower is a living fully functional lifestyle hotel. To pose a proposal to the question of “What is the future of co-working in the next ten years?”, to that a new tower inserted into a long narrow existing tri-parti building was the answer; this vertical life was the answer. Like delirious New York and other lofty spaces such as SOHO, this was not to be one, but to propose a space where the average community of Chicago can afford this vertical life. A life where community is a firsthand, where lifestyle is a priority, by exploring the idea of designing a co-working space without a co-working space. The tower includes amenities crucial to any working individual such as healthcare, childcare, laundry service, boutique offices, shared kitchen, common social spaces, common living, private living, a swimming pool and event space, all co-living within the inserted tower which is surrounded by an ethos of co-work. Co-working spaces today don't exist in a void where offices are in honeycomb cubicles but rather open plan spaces where members of the community benefit from one other; creating this inter-dependency of both work and companionship. The blob like event space crashing into the tower is a grand gesture that breaks away from the convention of the rectangular block, looking out to the heart of the city, tantalizing the very many individuals to want to experience the space.
Work is worship
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COWORKING 2018 TOWER-TOWER