Work Samples Sneha Lohotekar Architecture + Urban Design University of Michigan Master in Urban Design sneha.lohotekar@gmail.com +1 865 3353057
Contents Rio de Janeiro The city
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Introduction Monuments Transportation
Edge Favela of Rio de Janeiro, Santa Marta
Exchange
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Master Plan for Vargems, Rio de Janeiro Residential neighborhood
Campus city
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University campus at Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro
Research Refugee camps As extraterritorial space, Western Sahara
Uptown Ann Arbor Research proposal for re visioning the north edge of University of Michigan
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Miscellaneous Larimer Green-way Greenway proposal for neighborhood in Pittsburgh
Slum rehabilitation Under national scheme of JNNURM, Pune, India
Competition Hines 2013 - Re visioning Minneapolis downtown
Neighorhood Design Community enganement and vision planning Brookline, Pittsburgh
Institutional Campus Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune
Single Family Residential
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Rio de Janeiro The city Introduction Monuments Transportation
Edge Favela of Rio de Janeiro, Santa Marta
Exchange Master Plan for Vargems, Rio de Janeiro Residential neighborhood
Campus city University campus at Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Area - 1,260 sq. km. Population - 6,323,037 Following map highlights the location of slums
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Rio de Janeiro Introduction One of the largest cities of the world, Rio is punctuated by worlds largest urban forests. The city is composed of concentrated high density areas along the flat lands. The slopes however are not just natural reserves. They also house 80% of Rio’s favelas (slums) The adjecent map shows highlights the location of these slum pockets in the city. It is the most visited city in the southern hemesphere. It is also reagrded as the happiest city in the world. It is the secound largest GDP in the country and is the headquarters for tghe oil industry. The 2014 Football world cup, 2016 Summer Olympics and the Paralympics will take place in Rio de Janeiro. This gives the city an opportunity to portray its image on the world.
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Rio de Janeiro, Following map highlights the location of monuments in the city
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Rio de Janeiro Monuments Rio de Janeiro has been a modernist stronghold. The master architects like Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, landscape Municipal theatre Sambadrome Metropolitan Cathedra
Church of Lady Candelaria
architects like Roberto Burle Marx have generated a scale and
Museum of contemprory art
identity in the city. The built and the massive structures compete and complement the topography.
World War II monument
The study of monuments in the city relate to the scale, the history Christ the Redeamer
and context associated and the cultural significance associated with it. The beach in its scale context and social life covers in all
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the three cafeterias and forms a significant image of the city for the residents as well as the visitors.
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Transcarioca Transolimpica
Transoeste
Rio de Janeiro, Following map highlights the Bus Rapid Transit system in the city
Transcarioca BRT line
39 kilometer 43 stations
Transolimpica BRT line
25 kilometer 16 stations
Transoeste BRT line
56 kilometer 74 stations
Transportation
With 708 kilometers of Bus Rapid Transit [BRT] corridors in 30 cities with nearly 10 million daily passengers, Brazil is and historically has been Latin America’s leader in public transit. Rio de Janeiro - a city rooted in innovative transportation initiatives - is carrying the country’s transportation momentum forward with the implementation of an expansive BRT network connecting much of the city’s densest areas as well as sites projected for future growth. The TransCarioca line covers 39 kilometers and is the only line Transcarioca Unfold with land use destribution
which runs in the transverse direction of the city, reducing travel time between Barra da Tajuca and the International Airport more than 60% . The route passes through the dense neighborhoods of Maduraira and Penha and most importantly connects the main Olympic sites with the International Airport. TransCarioca is surrounded by large scale retail and recreational developments near Barra da Tajuca, wholesale commercial near Madureira and Penhe and institutional establishments near the airport.
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Transcarioca International airport
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Section index
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Estação Novo Leblon
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Madurera
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Terminal Alvoroda 3
Transcarioca BRT line
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Transcarioca Station conditions Madureira figure ground
streets
unbuilt area
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Term. Alvoroda figure ground
streets
unbuilt area
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Estação Novo Leblon figure ground
streets
unbuilt area
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Edge Favela (slum) at Rio de Janeiro, Santa Marta
The design proposal aims at bridging the gap between the formal and the informal. This is done by a designed promenade surrounding the favela Dona Marta. The promenade changes is character along with the topography and also accommodates certain activities on the way.
This is achieved through informal urbanism and minimum architectural interventions. This allows the space derive its form from the use. Public and beneficiary participation could be accommodated into this process, which would induce a sense of ownership among the people. If the people residents start benefiting from a space, they would maintain it and protect it from any vandalism
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Favela Santa Marat
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blurring the edges of the favela and making the splendid views that it offers accessible to the public.
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Favela (slum) at Rio de Janerio, Santa Marta
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viewing deck at the hiest point
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amphitheater and adjecent retail
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Land use distribution
Intensity of development
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existing wetlands
Exchange Master Plan for Vargems
Rio is a city within the forest. Bordered by iconic mountains and the Atlantic Ocean, the resulting urbanism is simultaneously in consolidated water channels
synch and out of step with the region’s natural processes across multiple scales. As the city expands into the Vargems sector, an opportunity exists to accommodate the rapidly growing metropolis’ needs while maintaining and celebrating the site’s lush environmental conditions. Three networks of exchange: ecology, culture and social life inform and guide the resulting urban interventions
transportation network and urban blocks
Vargems
Federal - State - City ifrastructure investment Private transit operators investment International Non Governmental and Governmental organizations investment Areas for NGO’s mediation due to land aquisition and displacement issues Areas for intervention of the private Real State sector
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Exchange Master Plan for Vargems
Housing design can unite as well as divide, it can engage or detach, it can eventually result into a close knit community with its inherent values or enter the shadows of a gated community. This design is an Community life
area of fo attempt to nurture this engagementTotal 23200 sq.m.
Housing design can unite as well as divide, it can engage or detach, it can eventually result into a close knit community with its inherent values or enter the shadows of a gated community. This design is an attempt to nurture this engagement into a residential fabric considering the vibrant street life and social context of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
into a residential fabric consideringNumber of Hou 2,580
the vibrant street life and socialTotal Populatio
It intends to house the diverse categories of people from different economic and social strata along with diverse age groups of Rio de Janeiro’s society. This diversity and engagement is achieved through an conscious hierarchy of public spaces as grounds for interaction The water and the natural edge has a vital role in the revitalizing this public realm.
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context of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Jobs Generated 3870
Number of Households 2,580 Market rate housing 1290 Afforrdable housing 774 Social housing 516 Stratification
Integration
Collective public space
Collective space
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Block typology
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Number of Households 2,580 Total Population 8000 Jobs Generated 3870 Built 12760 sq.m. Open 6960 sq.m. Parking 1300
It intends to house the diverse categories of people from different economic and social strata along with diverse age groups of Rio de Janeiro’s society. This diversity embarks exchange of values, thoughts and customs. This diversity and engagement is achieved through a conscious hierarchy of public spaces as grounds for interaction. These are shared spaces which derive their hierarchy through their scale, the activities they house
Residential 60%
and its landscape. They generate a flow of people within the site.
Commercial 10% Institutional 10% Open 25%
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Exposed concrete
Glass
Exposed brick
Bombacopsis glabra
Paving
Recessed window
Terrace garden
Bombacopsis glabra
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Campus city University campus at Deodoro
Located in the western part of Rio, the neighborhood of Deodoro is a patchwork of peripheral zones 5 4
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comprised of middle class neighborhoods, a densely populated favela with a young population, an industrial area, a vast green reserve, as well as the
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military neighborhood of Vila Militar, home to Brazil´s
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largest barracks and Latin America´s largest military concentration at over 60,000 soldiers. The grounds of the military camps – formed of large inaccessible
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blocks, parade boulevard, and barracks, further disconnects the different zones of the Western neighborhood. The city has expressed interest in relocating the base and many of its 100-year old facilities in order to accommodate the upcoming mega-sport events as well as Rio’s demographic and infrastructural expansion, particularly as the neighborhood is well connected to Rio’s downtown and surrounding suburbs by two major commuter rail routes, the country’s primary highway (Avenida Brazil) and an incoming Bus Rapid Transit line.
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Population Density RAILWAY, GAS LIGHTING, TELEPHONE INSTALLED IN THE CITY
External and Internal Events Universities and Education
MUNICIPALITY OF RIO INAUGURATED
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO ESTABLISHED
CAPITAL SHIFTED TO SAO PAOLO
MEGA EVENT - OLYMPICS 2016
CITY STARTED GAINING REPUTATION AS A TOURIST ATTRACTION PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDED RIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDED
MILITARY OLYMPICS
1930-50 - population moving towards the suburbs
REAL ESTATE 1980-90 - steady increase in population, congestion and overcrowding
1920-30 - population doubled due to industrialization
RIO DE JANEIRO POLITICS 1565 - FOUNDED BY THE PORTUGUESE
1800 - increase in port activity
PEOPLE
1889 - PROCLAMATION OF THE BRAZILIAN REPUBLIC
1964 - 84 Establishment of military dictatorship
1988 - Constitution, return to democracy
2014 - FIFA word cup
1880 - migration from abandoned coffee plantations to the city social conflict, emergence of first slum settlements - favelas
1947 - South American Basketball Championship
1985 - WCT/WQS surfing championships
1978 - Formula One Brazilian Grand Prix
2011 - World military games
2007 - Pan American games
SPORTS
2016 - Olympic games
DEODORO AND VILA MILITAR
1907 - establishment of Vila Militar
timeline of Rio de janerio and Deodoro
1919 - establishment of military aviation school and military railway station
2013 - population of 60,000 people, Vila Militar is equipped with various sports facilities to host the Olympics
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The mat proposes its distinct identity through loose scaffolding based on an organizational system superimposed upon existing conditions with an interplay of movement, waiting, repetition and variation through built form. It generates a hard edge while also allowing the city to flow through the network of various programs.
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Campus city University campus at Deodoro
Knowledge, not only makes one aware and better understand the world around us but also question it. A university campus is Research funding + Rebel against Authority and dictatorship
Education Knowledge
Building well rounded personalities
the place where the exchange of ideas and thought takes place. It is a space that doesn’t bow down to any institution or agency but knowledge itself.
Authority
Investment
The proposal situates the campus amidst two existing agencies of the military and the Olympic sports facilities. While sharing and accommodating the programs with these agencies, the campus imposes a grid which forms an organisational system. This grid provides a delicate interplay between repetition and variation. The voids so formed becoms a unifying system to link the divers programs. its strong vocabulary over the site can be
relationship between university and military military funded research in universities and the history of students revolution against military dictatorship
easily followed through future expansion. The tow institutions, military and the olympic site represent the two very strong agencies. The military with its changing image and engagement in peace keeping and also its dictatorial past, and the olympic building the city’s global image the introduction of university campus spans the void between the two by sharing their programs.
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1895 - modern Olympics
1932 - Nazi Agenda
1980-84 cold war
relationship between the Olympics and military
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residential + sports
academic
research + military
public transportation
parking locations with 200m walking radius
vehicular access
constructed voids
anchors and monuments
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delimitation
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housing + services housing + services retail + residential social science + museum architecture + auditorium environmental research military + social science research + commercial military + research sports + theatre research + library study + physics sports+ retail
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Research Refugee camps as extraterritorial space, Western Sahara
Uptown Ann Arbor Research proposal for re visioning the north edge of University of Michigan
Tindouf
Al Mahbes
Rabouni
El Aaiun
Bojdour
Guelta Zemmur
Oum Dreyga
Dakhla
Awserd
Western Sahara
Refugee camps as extraterritorial space, Western Sahara Bourj Hammound, Lebanon
Apaydin, Turkey
Camp Ashraf, Iraq
Alang, Pakistan
Cooper camp, India
The refugee camps of Western Sahara are such settlements constructed to protect and save lives in a state of unrest. But over time these camps have generated an everyday life and urban character even in extreme living conditions. This paper is
refugee camps in western sahara
an attempt to understand existing urbanity in these camps. The development trends and settlement patterns in refugee camps over the world
El aaiun, Algeria
The camp can achieve a permanent character further through a laid down infrastructure system to water, roads and electricity. Considering the only source in abendence in this region is the map 01 - World map showing the refugee camps around the globe as of 2003
solar energy, it could be exploited to connect the city to the watersupply system of the region. This solar energy could also
Tindauf
be used to extract the ground water and purify it for daily use. This infrstructure could be indirectly funded by the international organisations, which are now providing medical supply and educational facilities. These primary concerns can be handed
Western Sahara
over to the local people who have aquired education and could be trusted with self governence.
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El aauni refugee camp
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El aauni refugee camp and neighboring Tindauf city
El aauni refugee camp and its regional connectivity
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El aauni refugee camp and its international connections
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Uptown Ann Arbor Research proposal for re visioning the north edge of University of Michigan
This research analyses the feasibility to transform Plymouth Road into Uptown Ann Arbor-an attractive, vibrant community center where people will want to live work and play. Neighborhood residents will be able to walk to stores and restaurants instead of driving to a shopping center. Researchers at the NCRC will have a convenient and lively environment in which to socialize after work and during lunch hours, instead of driving to downtown. University students, faculty and staff will no longer be isolated on North Campus, but will have a rich urban context at their doorstep, with access to goods and services without a car.
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sidewalk + station
planting strip + parking
slip street
planting strip
travel lane
street car
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station + street car planter + left turning lane
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travel lane
planteing strip
slip street
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planter + 2 way parking cycle track
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street car
street car
sidewalk + station
travel lane
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travel lane planting strip 2 way cycle sidewalk + station + parking track
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Miscellaneous Larimer Green-way Greenway proposal for neighborhood in Pittsburgh
Slum rehabilitation Under national scheme of JNNURM, Pune, India
Competition Hines 2013 - Re visioning Minneapolis downtown
Neighborhood design Community engagement and vision planning Brookline, Pittsburgh
Institutional Campus Symbiosys Institute of Technology Pune
Single Family Residential
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Larimer Green + Blue Greenway proposal for neighborhood in Pittsburgh
A major goal is to establish a new identity as a state-of-the-art property line
green community. To achieve this goal steps should be taken to capture, clean, move, and express rainwater as the key sustainable feature. Additive bio-swells will slow and clean water, while rain gardens will capture and reuse rainwater. Other strategies, such as creation of new parkland, urban farming, green infrastructure. Streetscape improvements, and incorporation of green building practices should be implemented as the redevelopment process moves forward. Sustainability strategies will help to create a
backyard
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neighborhood street travel lane
residence
new character and identity for the neighborhood.
s e t - bio parking back swale + bike
low lying water retention area as a part of the rain garden
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sidewalk t r a v e l lane
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sidewalk 3.5’ 5’ 8’
bio swale / planter
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low lying water retention area as a part of the rain garden
mound
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Slum rehabilitation Under national scheme of JNNURM, Pune, India
The slum, Rajiv Gandhi Nagar is located in one of the fringe areas of the city of Pune. It has 338 residents in 71 households. The slum rehabilitation project proposal aims to create a healthy and safe living environment for the residents. This project was an attempt to explore innovative methods of design representation apart from the conventional plan, section and views. Open physical models and life size models were build to convey the spatial aspects of the design. This also ensured the participation of the slum dwellers in the process of finalizing the proposal.
GIS analysis of the existing slum
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Competition Hines 2013 - Re visioning Minneapolis downtown
Franklin Groundworks is a vision of Minneapolis’ Downtown East developing into a Complete Community – an amalgamation of ‘Live’, ‘Work’ and ‘Play’ elements tailored to drive economic, social and cultural well-being. Not unlike the city founder Franklin Steele, the designers and developers ‘stake a claim to the future’ by being the first to capitalize on Downtown East’s unique potential to transform and grow into THE urban destination for employers, businesses, residents and visitors alike. From the site’s local and regional context the designers identified four distinct personas populating it. The DEALMAKER, the INNOVATOR, the PLAYER and finally the DWELLER.
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Brookline Neighborhood design Community engagement and vision planning, Pittsburgh
Brrokline is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh coming up with an identity and a development vision for the neighborhood. Evolve ::environment architects is a firm in Pittsburgh working closely with the community in deriving this vision through community participation and charades. The process constitutes of 3 community meatings with discussions and hands on excercises with the community. Through the three meetings three visions are derived that make the neighborhood livable and family friendly and simultaneously builts its identity in the city and a multi cultural and ethinic food distric. The plan thus concentrates in the main commercial boulevard in the neighborhood making it walkable with a vibrant sidewalk culture and also introduce events and programs that would attract the visitors from all over the city and making a mark of Brookline on the Pittsburgh map.
community meeting
commercial and retail boulevard
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family friendly
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Academic Block
Play ground
Hostel Block
Amenities Block
Hostel Block
Institutional Campus Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune The 47 acres of Symbiosis Institute of Technology site planning accommodates facilities such as the academic block, undergraduate residential, mess, recreation center, canteen and staff quarters. Traffic segregation, creating formal and informal interactive areas while dealing with the sloping tarrain are the key issues. The landscape design of this proposal binds the built together, creating intermediate formal as well as informal spaces. The linear form that emerges in cohession with the built is a major accomplishment of this landscape proposal.
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Single Family Residential Golwilkar residence in Pune The single family residence located on a hill slope covered 220 sqm (2400 sqft) floor area. The project also included site development to accomodate the spill over outdoor activities in the surrounding, naturally inaccessible areas. This was achieved throgh equal cuting and filling along with water featues to channelise the natural water flows.
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Sneha Lohotekar University of Michigan Master in Urban Design sneha.lohotekar@gmail.com +1 865 3353057