Sonalika Arora Portfolio 2020

The Space Odyssey

Architectural portfolio | Résumé 2014-19 Sonalika Arora

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Résumé

Work experience Ant Studio, Delhi, India Architectural Volunteer December 2019 (1 month) 42 mm Architecture, Delhi, India Architectural Intern January-May 2018 (4 months) FAT Maison, Monza, Italy Interior Design Intern July-August 2017 (30 days) Team3, Delhi, India Architectural Intern June- July 2016 (45 days)

Sonalika Arora Architect New Delhi, India +919810030325 s270arora@gmail.com Languages English

Education

Hindi

Skills

School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, India Bachelors in Architecture 2014-2019 Aggregate 73.7%

Autocad

SketchUp

Mater Dei School, Delhi, India Central Board of Secondary Examinations India 2000-2014

Photoshop

VRay

Grade 12 Senior School Examination Aggregate 94% Grade 10 Secondary School Examination CGPA 10

Ecotect

MS Office

Revit

Lumion

Rhino

Grasshopper

Prayag Sangeet Samiti, Allahbad, India Senior Diploma in Vocal Classical Hindi Music 2002-2010 First Division and Distinction in Practical Music

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Achievements

SPA-Kohler Architecture scholarship Shortlisted as top 10 highest scoring students in Bachelor of Architecture in SPA ,Delhi 2018 KoWo competition University of Applied Sciences, Erfurt, Germany First Prize, (Team) 2017 Dach Welten Selected on a merit to attend international exchange workshop at FHE University, Erfurt, Germany 2017 Global Children's Choir of Peace Training and performances with maestro Gerald Wirth and Pt. Ravi Shankar in Austria and across India 2005-2009

Workshops

Terrametric Workshop SPA Delhi x Ant Studio December 2019 (1 week) International exchange workshop in architecture FHE University, Erfurt, Germany June 2017 (1 week) CSEB Construction Auroville Earth Institute, Tamil Nadu, India July 2016 (1 week) 

Contents 

The Social Network Urban Design

Thinking Small/Big Dissertation

garbagriha Interpretation Centre

The Ascent Mixed Use Building

Passive Peace Skill Centre

The Linked Continuum Urban Design

On The Waterfront Restaurant

The Ultimate Narcissist Imaginative Spaces

Architectural Models

Graphic Work

FAT Maison Internship Work

42 mm Architecture Internship Work

Academic


Academic Work

The Social Network Sub district Centre Hari Nagar, Delhi, India Undergraduate Thesis: Tenth Semester

Situated amidst a vast stretch of disused green area, where an urban greenway is proposed by the Delhi Urban Arts Commission as an attempt at reactivation, The Social Network is an urban design project that attempts to connect the city’s urban development to its green by creating an alternate pedestrianised corridor, providing an alternate way to navigate the city and blurring the edge of built and green.

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The Social Network

View of active street edge of sub district centre

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Academic Work




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The Social Network

Urban planning strategies have been implemented by linking surrounding residential and commercial development at different scales, making the site a thoroughfare. Existing nodes have been linked through shortest movement lines, with the built developed around these movement patterns.

The program composing of offices, retail, cultural centre and community centre is planned in smooth synchronisation, coming together to form a pleasant social hub. The proposed Greenway has been continued within the site, with a series of public spaces at the interface of built and green, activating the space. 

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Academic Work

 

Sky Network:Visual connect

Restaurants, food court, gym, spa, health club, indoor recreation facility, common rooms, lounge

Green Network: Notional connect Restaurants, library, exhibition space, cineplex, rooftop public garden

Street Network: Physical connect Public plazas, retail, auditorium, community centre, open air theatre

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The Social Network

Informal Retail Plaza

Sports Complex Park

Bus Stand

Bus Stand NMT Stand Hari Nagar Lake Park

Entry Plaza Retail

Retail Cineplex

Cultural Plaza

Hotel Retail

Business Plaza

Auditorium

Hotel

Retail

Hotel

Community Plaza Office

Community Hall

Power Station

Hospital Complex

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Entry Plaza

Academic Work

 

Volumetric disposition arises out of voids and terraces to facilitate a visual and notional connect at different levels of the network, while highlighting the public accessible levels as a continuous network through exposed circulation.

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The Social Network




Section

Elevation

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Academic Work

 

Flat section of the building complex

The upper public realm is a continuous vertical and horizontal network highlighted by a glass strip and green terraces running along the facade over areas with open access to the public, connecting various levels and building blocks.

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The Social Network

Series showing variety in building massing and retail corridors for edge interaction.

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Academic Work

Thinking Small/Thinking Big Space Saving Furniture in Architecture Dissertation : Seventh Semester

Aim This dissertation aims to study the impact of space saving furniture on housing design in India.

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Objectives To identify the need for a new space saving housing typology in India To identify the need for space saving furniture in Indian markets in residential architecture.

To determine applications of space saving furniture in residences within the scope of study.

To identify and analyse how space saving furniture changes layouts in residential architecture in terms of spaces and the functions associated to them To identify the parameters of comfortable minimum space required for a person to perform each function in habitable spaces in a residence To study the impact of space saving furniture on housing unit design.

To measure the success of space saving furniture in a housing unit design for the user.

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Passive Peace

With increasing urbanisation, land scarcity in urban areas and hike in land prices causing a hike in housing prices, there is an urban housing crisis in India. Combined with the coming up of a new demographic of millennials who have a demand for small and compact housing, affordable homes and technology driven lifestyle, there is a demand for a new housing typology in India.

Space saving furniture is explored as one possibility to solve these issues. Space saving furniture impacts housing unit design by decreasing the unit size due to efficient space planning and layouts and combining mutually exclusive functions to reduce space. It also increases the importance of certain design features to make the unit visually more spacious. Space saving furniture completely changes the way zoning and circulation patterns are looked at in a residence. It also creates an urgent emphasis on targeted design that is tailored to the person who will be residing there as user participation plays a great role in the success of the unit.

Most importantly, it can be a solution towards affordable housing. In such micro housing buildings, recreation facilities are of greater importance. To further make the furniture more affordable in India, it is necessary to take the step towards manufacturing it in greater volumes. Once it is done, the way forward to a new category of housing design can be based on space saving furniture in the Indian context. 

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Academic Work

garbagriha¡ Inner Sanctum Interpretation centre Badami, Karnataka, India Fourth Semester

Nestled in the majestic landscape of Badami, capital of the Chalukyan dynasty, that was the experimental grounds of a grand Indian dynasty in the 6th-8th centuries to build thousands of prototypes of temples paving the way for large Indian temples to be built later, the Interpretation Centre ,housing a museum, guest house, library, cafe and a local outreach centre, aims to tell an age-old story, mysticised by folklore and romanticised by the red cliffs in a new way.

The intent was to capture and freeze the soul of the place rich in history and culture and design to create outdoor spaces and interesting connections using contours of the site as guides to attract tourist traffic and create a public space for the settlement next to the site.

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garbagriha

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1. Library 2. Research Centre 3. Admin 4. Open Air Theatre 5. Workshop 6. Workshop 7. Multi Purpose Hall 8. Interpretation Space 9. Interpretation Space 10. Guest House 11. Restaurant 12. Lockers and Toilets 13. Reception 14. Shops 15. Temple

Academic Work

Concept for the interpretation space: Understanding enlightenment through architecture by Deriving the essence of the interpretation space from Chalukyan Temples

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1.Mukhamandapa Entryway used for religious dancing, full of distractions of the world.

2.Mandapa Sense of light decreased going deeper, heightening other senses.

3.Garbagriha Small, dark reflection chamber, with a small lamp for focus, emerging enlightened.

Interpretation: Exposed to entire Badami landscape through glass galleries and museum with information, sculptures and artwork.

Interpretation: Sense of light decreased while entering inner chambers, tactile, olfactory and sound senses heightened.

Interpretation: Light coming at the end of cave attracts focus, enlightenment by view of Badami landscape from a new and educated perspective.

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Academic Work

The Ascent Mixed Use Transit Oriented building Nehru Place, Delhi, India Sixth Semester 

In a fast paced, rapidly changing city, the intent was to design a building that would symbolise the ascent of Delhi from being a lowrise settlement into the future. Keeping in mind that the site would be visible from a vast distance, an iconic structure was designed that could act as a landmark, be high up and bold and yet not be a liability to the environment.

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Passive Peace




The site

Ground Floor plan

Office Floor plan

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Academic Work




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Passive Peace




WEST ELEVATION (1:500)

WEST ELEVATION (1:100)

C CHANNEL RCC SLAB MACHINE ALUMINIUM PELMET RETRACTABLE BLINDS FALSE CEILING SUSPENDER ALUMINIUM JALI A/S

GYPSUM BOARD C CHANNEL WATER DRIP PIPE JET SPRAY MS ANGLE

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C CHANNEL

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POCKET OF SILICA GEL

EVAPORATIVE COOLING PADS VERTICAL LOUVRE C CHANNEL MS FLAT ALUMINIUM FRAME

DOUBLE GLAZED GLASS

HYDROPONIC PLANT

STONE CILL CLADDING RCC CILL G I CHANNEL FOR PLANT

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CHANNEL STRAP 12 THK. PLASTER 230 THK. AAC BLOCKS WALL

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WAX TOP COAT SKIRTING

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20 THK. CEMENT PLASTER RENDERING COAT

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SECTION PP' (1:10)

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40 THK. CONCRETE MIXED WITH RED OXIDE FLOORING

SECTION QQ' (1:10)

Facade detail showing a system of natural evaporative cooling through lattice screen and cooling HIGH-RISE FOR THE MILLENNIALS WEST FACADE pads designed as part of the facade for passive cooling, and hydroponic plants to create a better working environment in the office space.

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2016-17

SCALE

Academic Work

Passive Peace World Class Skill Centre Vivek Vihar, Delhi, India Fifth Semester

The intent is to create an institution incorporating greenery and interesting interactive spaces to remove a sense of intimidation of the institute for students, in order to make it an intimate studying environment.

The site planning and design is driven by passive techniques of cooling, lighting and ventilation for building efficiency. As a strategy, courtyards and light-wells generate a series of clusters with a hierarchy of open spaces, giving rise to intra-departmental and inter-departmental interactions at different levels.

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Passive Peace

Canteen

Classroom Common Room Common Room

Gym

Sports

Laboratory

Classroom

Laboratory

Classroom

Multi purpose Hall

Admin

Admin

Lecture Hall Admin Classroom

 

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Academic Work

The Linked Continuum Transit Oriented Development ITO, Delhi, India Urban Design group project: Ninth Semester

Since time immemorial Delhi development authority, police headquarters and income tax office Concrete their prominence In roots of the capital’s urban spine Vikas minar standing tall in the skyline Endorsing transit oriented urban redevelopment While preserving the cultural and social sentiment From extents of the city to an individuum We propose the linked continuum. 

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The Linked Continuum




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Academic Work

Site planning strategies  Node of major high density vehicular movement.

Pedestrian corridor created connecting to metro station.

Public entry plazas formed by combining existing nodes, connecting to a central food plaza, leaving open corners as antidote to traffic density.

Retail corridor created, activating pedestrian path

Building form hugging greens and water channel, while highlighting prominence of corner of site

Institutional link created between surrounding and site commercial area; similar residential link created between affordable housing and contextual bastis.

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The Linked Continuum

Site plan showing macro and micro linkages 

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Academic Work

View of the recreational public space on the Linked Continuum


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The Linked Continuum

Street Elevation


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Academic Work

On The Waterfront Restaurant Garli, Himachal Pradesh, India First Semester 

Indoor Sitting Outdoor Sitting

Viewing Deck Toilets

Vendor Bay

Kitchen

Campfire

Semi Covered Sitting

Chabootra Road

The restaurant is designed as a bridge on a lake in the small hill village of Garli, with locally sourced materials of wood, slate and brick. Being the first restaurant in the village, the sitting is designed unconventionally, with the structure adding more to the village than just a place to eat, with areas of floor sitting, bay for vendors and different levels of interaction with the water.

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The Ultimate Narcissist

The Ultimate Narcissist Imaginative Spaces First Semester

Look closely, as close as you can; Because the closer you look, The lesser you’ll see.

The exercise to create two spaces, similar in essence, but different in scale. The first model is a maze that appears a simple from afar, but is complicated inside, much like the human mind.

Changing the scale in the second model to create a narcissist space, high and closed to the outside world, with a complex flowing inside world.

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Academic Work

Architecture Models 

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Architecture Models

 

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Academic Work

Graphic Work

Five feet tall rendering of Badami cave temple column Media: India Ink on paper 

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Graphic Work

Cubism artwork representing surrounding environment Media: Acrylic on paper 

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Internship 


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Internship Work

FAT Maison Interior Design for Luxury Chateau in Switzerland

The key responsibility was to work upon initial interior design schemes for bedrooms, salon and powder room at a chateau in Switzerland and develop first 3D models of the design to be presented to the clients.

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Internship Work

42 mm Architecture Architecture and Interior Design for Office, Residential and Group Housing Projects

During the course of four months, a variety of projects was worked upon in the scope of architecture and interior design. The responsibilities included concept design, making client presentations, coordination work with contractors and clients for small projects, drafting working drawings and also working on design proposals in the team. Working drawings consisted of both architecture as well as interior drawings for a variety of projects. 

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