P O R T F O L I O S H R E YA S I N G H
Selected Works 2018-2022
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Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany Masters in Integrated Urban Development and Design (2021- Ongoing)
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Kathmandu Engineering College, Kalimati, Kathmandu, Nepal Bachelors of Architecture, 2014- 2019 (82.18%)
• Internship: Team Consultants, Kathmandu (Sept 2017-April 2018) • Junior Architect UDEC, Lalitpur (September-October, 2018) • Junior Architect Ar. Neha Suwal, (April-September, 2019) • In House Architect CG Holdings, Lalitpur (December 2019- July 2020) • Architect (Landscape Design) Vriksha Foundation, Lalitpur (July 2020- September 2021) • Architect A for Architecture Nepal, (November 2020- August 2021)
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
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Shreya Singh Weimar, Germany
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+49 15758088128 shreya.singh@uni-weimar.de https://www.behance.net/sreyaa83f2c3
Academic: •III/I:Design Topper (Commercial Complex cum Multiplex) •IV/II: Semester Topper •V/I: Semester Topper • SCAEF Young Architects Excellence Award 2020 National and International Competitions: •4th Position in College level Asian Paints Design Competition •4th Position in National Asian Paints Design Competition • Sustainable Green Home Resilient to the changing environment in Barpak (2nd Runner Up)
SOFTWARE SKILLS Autocad Sketchup/Vray Adobe Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Adobe Premiere Pro
Lumion Enscape 3D Rhino Grasshopper ArcGIS Microsoft office
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Undergraduate Thesis jiGYANsa: A Learning Center and Incubator
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Landscape Design Neighbourhood Park Design in Hadigaun
Women’s Empowerment Center Design Challenge Her Place
Architecture Design Competition (SONA) Sustainable residence resilient to the changing enviroment
Reanimate the Dinosaur 24H International Urban Design Hackathon Spring School- Bauhaus University Weimar
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Parametric landpooling in Libali, Bhaktapur Urban Modelling and Simulation WiSe 2021/2022
Miscellaneous Illustration Art (Acrylic painting & Digital drawings)
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Undergraduate Thesis jiGYANsa: A Learning Center and Incubator
P R O J E C T B R I E F
Year: 2019 Type: Institute/ Community space Location: Lalitpur, Nepal Kathmandu Valley being the most booming center in Nepal, many startups are popping up. But all these spaces are not getting enough nurturing. jiGYANsa: A learning center and incubator is a space that will act like a catalyst for the booming culture of entrepreneurship. With spaces like co working spaces, makerspace and an incubator, this space of collective functions bring together a center for everyone.
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jiGYANsa: A Learning Center and Incubator | Page 5
The site has two major elements: • The monumnent • The trees
View from the entrance
The monument dates back to 1970 AD when it was erected in memories of great soilders and has to be protected for its historic value of over 50 years. The trees are located in a line in each contours which are over 30 years old and contribute to the ecology and micro climate of the site. These elements have to be conserved. Therefore, the idea was to design around these important structures and pre existing conditions that not only conserves them but respects the history and environment when a new structure is put in the urban fabric.
Existing monument on site
Existing trees on site
Site model showing the site conditions
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jiGYANsa: A Learning Center and Incubator | Page 6 C O N C E P T
Narrative: The representation in art of an event or story Paradox: A statement that seems to say two opposite things but that may be true Narrative Paradox: An experiential space where the narration guides the paradox This is a space which fosters the concepts which are taken as paradoxes in the society and helps shape them into concrete prototypes as results to come out to the world.
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Water retention pond with open air theatre
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Buildings surrounding the monument Elevation
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The design idea is to work in angles in both plans and form and provide a dynamic and vibrant space that encourages creativity, ideation and growth of each individual through collaborative spaces that enhances networking and working outside their comfort zone.
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Conservation Studio (Research of Thaiba and Badegaun) Conservation proposal for Badegaun
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Year: 2018/2019 Type: Conservation project Location: Thaiba and Badegaun Lalitzpur, Nepal After the major 2015 Earthquake in Nepal, almost all the cities and towns were affected immensely. So were the traditional towns in the outskirts of the Metropolitan city Lalitpur. These towns are destroyed after the disaster and the traditional architecture that this place offered is in the verge of fading away.
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Conservation proposal for Badegaun | Page 10
S I T E & D E S C R I P T I O N
As a part of Conservation Studio, a Newari settlement in the southern part of the Kathmandu Valley was given. Two ancient settlements, Badegaun and Thaiba were to be studied, mapped and documented in its present state and propose solutions for the problems existing and that could exist in the future taking in consideration the conservation of these important towns which have been long forgotten. A group of 8 students were assigned the task of mapping the settlements that included mapping of the footprints of the buildings, roads, monuments, landmarks, and open areas. Along side the mapping, a survey both visual and interactive was conducted so as to document the buildings’ age, typology, height, landuse and the socio cultural aspect of each resident. With the help of this survey, the following maps were created that provided the overview of the settlement and the people.
Existing settelment
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Conservation proposal for Badegaun | Page 11
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All these maps were produced based on the first phase which involved surveying and mapping the whole town based on on-site interactions, measurements and surveys. They became the basis for the 2nd phase which was making proposals and design for the conservation of this traditional town.
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The road which we can see passing through the settlement divided the it in halves. Traditionally, this street was the town square with resting spaces for the travellers and monks travelling to Godavari, a holy site. These travellers on their way would stay in Badegaun which gave it its name. Bade translating to the Monk and gaun meaning the village.
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But due to the urbanization and unplanned development and no respect to the history and culture of the place, the narration was completely forgotten and a road tearing through the settlement was aligned. A new proposal by the Governement is proposed and passed to widen the road in order to minimize traffic congestion. This widening is the major threat to Badegaun as it will not only destroy few remaining traditional Buildings but also destroy the remaining piece of the town square which possess an ancient Stupa which is as important as Swoyambhunath Mahastupa.
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Since the road possessed such greater threat to the settlement, we proposed a bypass road that would travel from the back side of the settlement through the agricultural road and pedestrianizing the existing road so that it could be brought back to its original glory and restoring the buildings and squares.
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Conservation proposal for Badegaun | Page 12
The existing main road which when extended, the buildings in red will be removed.
A proposal to revive the original route was made.
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Conservation proposal for Badegaun | Page 13
Old Stories New Script 1. Heritage Conservation 2. Tourism Development 3. Economic Upliftment 4. Sustainable Approach
For the conservation of the settlement, we proposed a concept that through Heritage walk route can conserve heritage, develop tourism, uplift the economy, all through a sustainable approach. The route would pass through the traditional path, entering through the gates and going through each tols (smaller towns) which have their own unique identity. Some have traditional wine making, where as some have the traditional textile weaving. These places have been foreshadowed which were proposed to revive, bringing the old storied in a new script.
Heritage walk route
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Landscape Design Neighbourhood Park Design in Hadigaun
P R O J E C T B R I E F
Year: 2020/2021 Type: Landscape design Location: Kathmandu, Nepal As the urban landscapes in the concrete capital is decreasing day by day, the city is in dire need of urban public spaces. Vriksha is an organization that attempts to create urban landscapes for inviting the nature into the urban jungle. This project lies in the heart of the city and can be a place to breathe for the brooding population.
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Neighbourhood park in Hadigaun| Page 15
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The project which will be now constructed went through various processes. One of them being Design Charette, where we presented our idea to the community and they provided their feedbacks, ideas and many constructive critisism which brought us to the final design. The design basically is to create as much natural and organic landscape for the community to enjoy their daily activities such as morning walks, exercises, community events, playing area for kids, performances, contemplation and multitude of activities. This kind of landscape design is happening for the first time in Nepal. It includes the principles of Miyawaki forest that accelerates growth of trees 10 times fasters. With natural landscapes and permeable surfaces, the design also aims to solve the problem of rain water drainage.
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Entrance/ exit
Open air theatre
Water retention pond
Entrance/ exit
Pavilion
Children’s play area
Entrance/ exit
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Miyawaki forest
Site Elevation
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Neighbourhood park in Hadigaun| Page 16
D E S I G N
The design idea was to create various levels and spaces through the loop of paths that would allow the people to access the park through their ways and wants giving flexibility of spaces. The main idea was to create organic shapes, textures and volumes which would mimic the natural landscape. The landscape furnitures are intended to be created on site through the use of the stones found while exavating the land, thrownout tyres, wooden logs that would interestingly create a play of materials and spaces. The materials for the pathways are intended to be pervious membranes which will allow the rainwater to soak in inside the surface which would assist in ground water recharge and also aid in storm water management. The trees and plants are to be wildflowers, fruit bearing flowering trees so that they not only serve the purpose of greenary but also provide fruits, flowers and colors to the community. The wild flowers will last for years which require much less care and attention making the process of maintenance much sustainable.
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Neighbourhood park in Hadigaun| Page 17
Various phases of Design Charettes were conducted in order to get feedbacks and comments on the design of the park. It was held in the site itself so that the locals could understand the existing conditions. The people involved were a mixture of locals, architects, politicians, businessmen, housewives and many more.
F E E D B A C K S Charette
The feedbacks were based on the views of the people and the traditions with which they had grown up with. • Adding yoga and exercise spaces • Having ticket system to enter park • Representing traditional architecture • Not allowing couples to spend time in the park • Having a coffee shop • To have a jogging track As architects and designers it was our responsibility to educate the locals to have a different perspective towards the park. The conventional way of existing parks are basically restrictive and are not built for everyone. It was very difficult to raise awareness among people to go beyong the conservative thoughts and theories they already have and accept a park that transcends boundaries of such beliefs. Constructive feedbacks were welcomed and integrated into the design.
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Women’s Empowerment Center Design Challenge Her Place
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Year: 2021 Type: Women’s center design competition (Office Participation- AFA) Location: Nawalpur, Nepal As the women population of Nepal are vulnerable in the rural areas of Nepal, this is a competition initiated to bring awareness to the younger girls and provide them with a safe space. With collective spaces to learn from others and share experiences, this space is a multipurpose space for Women and girls susceptible to various social mishaps.
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Her Place| Page 19
The idea is to create a built environment that correlates with the vernacular set up of that territory especially that of Magar House and Tharu House- the traditional typologies of the indigenous. This type of vernacular examples are proven to be very site and climate responsive. The use of local and readily available materials and building techniques make these projects economically viable and also supportive of local economy. The proposal tries to emulate these vernacular traits to aid in thermal comfort, local economy and financial viabilities. These traits will also help the girls feel safe and comfortable in such an environment through topophilia. The progression from public to private space and various buffer or transitional areas in-between instills the feeling of privacy, comfort and safety. Careful planning and layouts of the spaces that encourage prospects and refuges further bolsters the restorative values of the environment.
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Her Place| Page 20
D E S I G N GROUND FLOOR 1.PARKING 2. ENTRY PAVILION 3. COURTYARD 1 4.RECEPTION (15SQ.M) 5.HALL 1 (200SQ.M) 6. WASHROOM 7.CHAUTARI ( COURTYARD C) 8.OFFICE/COUNSELLING(16SQ.M) 9. GARDEN FIRST FLOOR 10. HALL 2 11.GUESTROOM
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For thermal comfort, high ceilings and stack effect is also considered. The openings are placed strategically on South/west wall to intake the wind and run it though the interiors and out from the other side of the partition of the internal space. The courtyard C is a communal space inspired from a traditional gathering and resting space under a tree found extensively in various parts of the country. Several conducive and adaptive spaces are designed to encourage and facilitate multi-functional activities from trainings, interactions, consultations, contemplations, and even weekly market and trade to Precast columns, beams and floor slabs are used for the structure which is current wide practice of the Nawalpur area. CGI sheets are easily available and are cheap for the roofs. MS pipes for roof structure are cheap, light and readily available material in that area. Bamboo are also locally available.
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Architecture Design Competition (SONA) Sustainable residence resilient to the changing enviroment
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Year: 2020 Type: Residence design competition (Group Participation) Location: Barpak, Nepal As the epicenter of the 2015 earthquake, a dynamic change can be felt in the rural town of Barpak. It is a place which used to be blessed with the vernacular architecture of wood and stone and now in the race of making their buildings resilient to the disaster, the locals have changed the whole essence of the place.
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Sustainable residence resilient to the changing environment| Page 22
A design competition was launched by Society of Nepalese Architects (SONA) in the topic Sustainable residence resilient to the changing environment which allowed the participants to choose their site anywhere in Nepal with an area of 1700 sq.ft. We as a team of 3, chose Barpak as our site which is the epicenter of the 2015 Earthquake. SInce this place was our recent visit, a connection to the place was felt and we wanted to contribute our ideas so that their vernacular architecture is retained but with resilient designs that makes them stronger and follow their tradition instead of going for the belief of having concrete buildings to survive the disasters.
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•To retain vernacular essence •Incorporate sustainable and resilient designs by strengthening the rural technology Sustainable = Encouraging local resources and materials, Passive designs, Kitchen garden for self-sustaining Resilient = Strengthen by rural technology using seismic bands (plinth,Sill, lintel), lightweight materials) Design Process •Responding to the site Context by orienting towards south for sunlight and light, pidhi and balcony as transitional space and acts as cross ventilation, local building materials, finishes and construction techniques were used with slight new technology and improvement
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Reanimate the Dinosaur 24H International Urban Design Hackathon Spring School- Bauhaus University Weimar
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Year: 2021/2022 Type: Urban Design Hackathon (Group Participation) Location: ICC, Berlin Since the ICC building in Berlin is not in use at the moment, we attempted to create use for the garage part of the building using imaginative urban design interventions. It happened in two phases. The first phase was a 24H hackathon in which there were groups of 4 people from various universities across Europe. The second phase was the site visit and model making during the Spring School.
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Reanimate the dinosaur| Page 25
Since we were given the opportunity to work freely with the concept of the project, we decided to go quite immaginitive. From the looks of the ICC, it appeared to be like a spaceship which looked alienated in the midst of Berlin. Also, various movie scenes that were shot inside the building that were based on space exploration, inspired us to create scenarios in which the building actually was a spaceship.
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1. The building floating in the galaxy 2. It somehow lost it’s orbit and came forcing it’s way towards the earth 3. It crashed in the present day Berlin 4. Humans used it for centuries and now it is the ICC Berlin between all the networks of highways.
Concept visualization when the spaceship reached earth
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Reanimate the dinosaur| Page 26
We created visuals to what the futuristic ICC building would look like in the future. It was projected 50-200 years in the future where it functioned as a hub for space exploration.
Concept visualization of ICC Berlin
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The second phase started with a site visit to ICC Berlin and ended with a presentation. It involved understanding the site itself and creating models to further strengthen the idea. We explored with foam models creating various transformative cutouts off of blocks of foams. This concept was brought to the model and design as a futuristic space building that breaks down into parts that can detach itself from the main building and collect information with the surrounding ones.
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Parametric landpooling in Libali, Bhaktapur Urban Modelling and Simulation WiSe 2021/2022
P R O J E C T B R I E F
Year: 2021/2022 Type: Semester assignment Location: Libali, Bhaktapur As a course work for Urban Modelling and Simulation (UMS), we were required to create models of towns based on attractivity to various factors. With the use of rhino, grasshopper and C# scripting, parametric streets and landuse was generated for the traditional town of Liwali. This allowed to compare the existing design to parametric model.
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Parametric landpooling in Libali| Page 29
The site is Liwali landpooling site in Bhaktapur, Nepal. It was designed as a grid iron pattern which appears out of no where in the organic development of the City of Bhaktapur. Liwali being a traditional town, I do not think the grid iron pattern does justice to the traditional way of living. Here, an attempt is made to see if it was designed in a parametric way to arise from the existing streets of the surrounding.
Traditional organic settlement
Site area of Liwali
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Here, I changed a few things in the attractivity script. I changed it to people people like to be close to people and also workplace. Another thing I changed was that workplaces don’t like to be close to population. The scripting in grasshopper was done in two steps, first new settlement was designed using the existing surrounding streets to the site and then to the existing settlement, design parameters were added.
Parametric landpooling in Libali| Page 30
The result shows the analysis of same space but with existing layout and a new layout. The existing layout has a compact design with many intersecting streets in grid iron pattern where as the new layout offers an organic layout with the functionality of meeting the existing streets.
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C O N C E P T
08 Miscellaneous Architectural presentation is as important as architectural design and concept. We have represented our designs in plans, sections, elevations, renders and many other forms. All these require human perspective to complete them, that is why we have human figures to complement our drawings. But these figures are limited. They do not give the correct information since most of them belong to a certain region of the world and we have been using the same for every part. I always wanted to create resources for the Nepalese Architectural Community. These vector illustrations (also in dwg. format) represent the daily colorful lives of the Nepalese people. They belong to various region and ethinicity from all over Nepal. This is a small effort that created a greater impact in the illustrations and drawings for Architects representing Nepal.
Illustrations Diversed ethnic people of Nepal
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08 Miscellaneous
Inclusive design might be present in the architectural and urban scenarios but the representations are not enough. Therefore, I also created cutouts for architectural visualizations based on the people with disability.
For people with disability For people with disability
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Acrylic Painting| Page 33
08 Miscellaneous
Acrylic Paintings
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Digital art| Page 34
08 Miscellaneous Digital art
Vernacular skyscape
Taragaun Museum
T H A N K
Y O U Schützengasse 2 99423 Weimar, Germany Contact: +49 1745886019 Email id: shreya.singh@uni-weimar.de