sparsh gandhi selected works
2018
hello! My name is Sparsh Gandhi. I am currently a second year student at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. I am excited at the prospect of learning about the process of design from an idea’s conception to its ultimate influence on real people. I enjoy finding whimsy and play in the mundane, looking at the lighter side of architecture, the side thats able to make passerbyers stop for a moment to laugh or chuckle. The following are a few selected design projects. I hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I enjoyed working on them!
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c/v education Sept 2017Present
University of Waterloo School of Architecture Bachelor of Architectural Studies
Sept 2016May 2017
University of Toronto Daniels Faculty Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies
experience June 2018 - Aug 2018
Tim Hortons l Baker I Woodbridge, Ontario • Prepared all baked goods efficiently to ensure store is ready for the morning rush. • Trained new employees to conduct the morning bake safely.
May 2017 - Aug 2017
CLS Catering I Starbucks Retail Department l Mississauga, Ontario •
Quickly prepared Starbucks food items as a part of a team assembly line.
Sept 2017 - Present
Bridge Architecture + Design l Waterloo Architecture Student Initiative • Organized fun events such as Games Night and the Student Exhibition to bring the students and community together. • Wrote articles such as “Welcome to my Crib” collaboratively interviewing the professors of Waterloo Architecture.
Sept 2018 - Present
Waterloo Architecture Students Association l BRIDGE Coordinator •
Coordinated event schedules for BRIDGE and WASA to ensure a lively school.
awards Sept 2018
Finalist for “Climate of Dissent” Architecture Competition by Studio Bleak.
Fall 2017 and Winter 2018
Excellent Academic Standing at University of Waterloo School of Architecture.
June 2016
Most Valuable Player- Cross Country at Harold Brathwaite Secondary School.
abilities
interests
Rhinoceros 3D
V-Ray Render
Drawing & Painting
Slam Poetry & Reading
Adobe Illustrator
Maxwell Render
Hockey & Football
Coffee
Adobe Photoshop
Grasshopper
Cross Country Running
Vines
Adobe InDesign
Microsoft Office
languages
Sketchup
AutoCAD
English
Gujarati
Model Making
Hand Drafting
Hindi
Learning Sanskrit
CNC Milling
Laser Cutting 3
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contents the junction library
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counterpoint
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student residence
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spans
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personal works
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the junction library
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Reconsidering our assumptions of public life, self education, curiosity, and relationships in a community building. Course Location Instructor Software
1B Design Studio Toronto, Ontario Donald Mckay Rhinoceros 3D, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, V-Ray.
The Junction is a neighborhood that holds pride in its industrial heritage. The Junction Library and Community Centre aims to provide a space for the people to come together, collaborate, learn, and express their creative endeavors. The spaces created are done with the intention of bringing people together with a plethora of uses through simple architectural elements such as brick walls and arches. The front threshold becomes a public park, meeting area, performance space, art gallery, and market depending on how the public wishes to use the space. Inside the library the brick motif is repeated in the structure and organization of space to further bring people together.
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“place” Generic box form placed on site with public space in the front and back.
“split” Split through the middle to create public space between the library buildings.
“push” Colonnade introduced to push public space within the built realm as well as between..
The boy aged four asks the librarian how many books he can take out because he can’t decide between dinosaurs or elephants. He can’t read he just likes the pictures. A girl rides her bike past the brick walls, to the back street, the shortcut might only give her a few more seconds to catch the bus but that’s all she needs. A retired building operator arrives on site at noon, grabs a coffee and sits down with a stranger at the chess table behind brick wall #4. A mother watches her kid running through the columns staring at the arches above wondering when he’ll be able to fly and touch them. The librarian sits at a Café table unpacking her brown bag lunch during her break. A local intramural teen boys’ basketball team practices at the back court in the afternoon sun. They’re excited at the chance to make it to the finals this year. ENTRANCE SPACE DIVIDED BY BRICK WALLS
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1. Community Park, Art Gallery, and Performance Space 2. Library Entrance 3. Café 4. Featured Books Section/ Circulation Desk 5. Children’s Area
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6. Magazine Catalogue 7. Workspace with Printer and Copier 8. Loading Area and Fire Stairs 9. Community Kitchen 10. Serving and Dining Soup Kitchen
11. Wood-shop 12. Outdoor Wood Working Space 13. Vegetable Garden 14. Basketball Court 15. Car and Bicycle Park
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN ON SITE
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
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BRICK COLUMNS AND ARCHES IN THE QUIET STUDY AND CHILDREN’S AREA
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DIVISIONS OF SPACE CREATED THROUGH BRICK COLUMNS AND ARCHES
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LIBRARY TABLE INTERACTION
LIBRARY DESKS LIBRARY TABLE INTERACTION ALLEY WAY INTERACTION
OUTDOOR SEATING
LIBRARY TABLE INTERACTION
PARK INTERACTION
ALLEY WAY INTERACTION
RELATIONSHIPS CREATED THROUGH BRICK MASONRY WALLS
CAFÉ SEATING
ALLEY WAY INTERACTION
PARK INTERACTION
PARK INTERACTION
RECURRING MOTIF
RELATIONSHIPS CREATED THROUGH BRICK MA
RELATIONSHIPS CREATED THROUGH BRICK MASONRY WALLS
SPARSH GANDHI 20677923 THE JUNCTION LIBRARY DRAWING 2 OF 10 APRIL 9, 2018
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counterpoint: a heterotopia
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Reconsidering our assumptions of public life, self education, curiosity, and relationships in a community building. Course Location Instructor Software
2A Design Studio Conceptual Dereck Revington Model Making, Laser Cutting, Rhinoceros 3D, Photoshop, Illustrator, V-Ray.
Inspired by Italo Calvino ‘s Invisible Cities, Counterpoint imagines how we might live in the city of tomorrow. Counterpoint portrays a society divided architecturally into a superstrate, membrane and substrate. Stark atmospheric differences are resolved between the two membranes to create a constant exchange of ideas, goods, lifestyles with a hint of scandalous freedom. The model was constructed at 1 to 50 scale and hung in the Bridge Gallery as a part of the 2A “How might we live? The City of Today, Tomorrow” Exhibition. In Collaboration with Ben Hao, Christa Hu, Chi Un Lee, Bill CM Tang, and Annie Wang.
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The ivory clad monoliths pull away from the pale surface below in disgust. Winding between the rectilinear golems conveyor tunnels transport people; in single file, facing forward. Coming from below the surface people are directed to the eerie glossy cave above to be purified for re entry.
Light from within guides the diverse population inside the winding paths. A single glossy black path directs the flow of people from above into the market. Voices from inside those well rooms beckon the commuters to spend their money on exotic goods from different lands.
The flickering lights cast inconsistent shadows of scrawny cows on looping terraces. Neighbors shout out to each other as the local kids wander terrace to terrace. Fires burn bright within the precarious structures hung between the columns.
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student residence
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A skinny site cut even skinnier to create a conversation between the students and the community. Course Location Instructor Software
1A Design Studio Cambridge, Ontario. Rick Andrighetti Rhinoceros 3D, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, V-Ray.
This student residence aims to provide a space for the architecture student to connect with the city of Cambridge in an intimate manner without the need for speech. The entire residence features multiple moments of contact between the two including the alleyway that cuts across the property for bicyclists to use to access Mill St. The house overcomes its skinny site by the use of extruding portions of the building above the bike trail. These portions are for the kitchen and bathrooms and have windows looking down to the alley to provide further contact between the community and student. There is a secondary program of a bike repair shop facing Ainslie Street for both the students and community to use. Along the bike trail are bike storage units that can be pulled out and tucked away.
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AINSLIE ST SITE, CAMBRIDGE, ON MAPPED WITH LOCAL BIKE RACKS
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
FOURTH FLOOR PLAN
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Letting light affect sense of sight, hearing, touch, and place
Course Location Software
Clue Competition 2017 Worldwide Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, V-Ray.
Prompted by the goal of spreading appreciation for light, SPANS takes one step further to manifest the atmosphere of an intangible space. With the technological capabilities of today we are constantly connected but rarely aware the extent to which we are. In installation format SPANS flags down passerbyers inviting them to experience light through multiple senses.
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SIGHT PLACE
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PROTECTIVE LAYER PRESSURE SENSITIVE LAYER
TOUCH
O-LED PANEL
Using cameras, screens, lights, sensors and speakers planted in an exposed-steel matrix, this prefabricated module seeks to span the sensory distance between inter distant people across the world in which the INTERNET is the largest public place.
HEARING
Feel the presence of others as their own presence is transported Hear the sounds. See the footprints light up on the ground. See livestream video in screens above.
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GOALS + INTENTIONS Foster a world-feeling of connectedness. Span the distance of space in a way social media alone cannot. Elucidate both the opportunities and overexposing nature of our social media connected world.
The sound and video is collected and transmitted
CAMBRIDGE
Pressure on floor tiles is recorded and transmitted and displayed as light
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INSTALLATION ISOMETRIC
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Providing a home for those without and by extension providing an identity, a door to live a creative life, vote and live. Course Location Instructor Software
1B Design Studio Cambridge, Ontario Donald Mckay Rhinoceros 3D, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, V-Ray.
Overlay reclaims a piece of land previously abandoned as a vestige of an old plan never realized. Much like the intended residents the parcel of land is beaming with potential and dreams unfulfilled due to circumstances out of any one person’s control. The building erected on its ground attempts to challenge the thought that says the displaced and homeless cannot reintegrate to live creative lives. Through the stairs encompassed by the four concrete walls the ascent and descent between floors becomes an experience in and of itself. Multiple relationships between rooms are created through split level spaces, nooks and crannies, and passages in response to the changing topography of the site.
In collaboration with Andrew Yin, Stephen Hagan, and Olivia Pereira. 35
CONTEXT MAP: CAMBRIDGE ON.
PARTI MODEL OF CONCRETE WALLS AND STAIRS
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WALL SECTION
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SECOND FLOOR PLAN
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
other works: aggregation installation
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photography
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thank you!
(647) - 718 - 6404 sbgandhi@edu.uwaterloo.ca 45