P O R T F O L I O Sucharitha Yelimeli Works from 2013-2015
CONTENTS
Clyfford Still Museum Precedent Study Spring 2014
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Archive Theater Summer 2015
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Potrero Hill Library Fall 2013
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Double House Summer 2015
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PRECEDENT STUDY CLYFFORD STILL MUSEUM, ALLIED WORKS, DENVER CO UC Berkeley, ARCH 100B, Spring 2014 Instructor: Legg Yeung The museum is built to house the paintings of Clyfford Still and support programs dedicated to the conservation and study of the art. The spatial organization of the museum uses the seemingly simple relationship between walls, floors, and ceilings as a starting point, but through subtle transformations and subtractions creates spaces that are highly specific without sacrificing the coherence of the whole.
DIAGRAM Exploded facade and roof components
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ANALYSIS (1) Transformation of the 9 square grid in multiple dimensions creates highly specific places for the viewing and conservation of artwork.
ROOF Subdivision of the roof plane into screen and skylight elements. Gradient of space from fully outdoor to fully enclosed.
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WALLS - SECOND FL Structural walls of the grid, with to structure view
LOOR lie along the lines h subtractions made w and circulation.
FLOOR SLAB Light, circulation, and views permeate through cuts in the floor slab.
WALLS - FIRST FLOOR Structural walls lie along the lines of the grid, with subtractions made to structure view and circulation.
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ANALYSIS (2) Space rendered as solid, showing varying light conditions created by the roof system. Further classified to highlight how different the museum experience is for different user groups.
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direct light outdoor circulation
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MODEL Exploring the structural properties of concrete and how it supports sectional variation in the museum.
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ARCHIVE THEATER UNION SQUARE, SOMERVILLE, MA Public marketplace, theatre, cultural institution. GSD Career Discovery Program, Summer 2015 Instructor: Zach Siebold The archive theater provides a home for the city’s film archives as well as a stage for independent filmmakers and fans to share and appreciate the art of film. The permanent and imposing nature of an insitution is transformed by its meeting with a diverse and unpredictable public.
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SITE Mixed residential, commercial, civic space.
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SITE STRATEGY This initial study of the site revealed how the rhythm and scale provided by hard building edges differ greatly from the chaotic and unstable edges formed by heavy traffic. I approached the project with the aim of restoring the site’s edge, or frame, and gradually establishing a place that could accomodate the diverse scales and usage patterns of the program.
DRAWING STATIC & DYNAMIC FIGURE-GROUND Charcoal and pencil, 24x18
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The program required the coexistence of highly active programs like an outdoor market and theatre with the more placid and permanent film archive and offices of museum staff. The dialogue between frame, object, and ground became a way to address these functional concerns and further repair the site’s relationship to its urban context.
CONSUME Institutional “objects” frame public market spatce. 14
CONCEPT MODEL FRAME
Establishing scale and identity. Public programs with a large footprint, such as the indoor theatre and lobby.
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Enclosed, semi-private spaces. Institutional programs that require controlled lighting, as well as program devoted to the study and research of film.
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Dynamic, shifting public space. Reserved for the seasonal market - the most eclectic and time-sensitive component of the program, as well as the part that most directly engages the public.
STUDY Multiple levels of framing, institution and public coexist.
COLLABORATE Building envelope is frame, distinction between institution and public disappears. 15
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The formal strategy of the project became three cores of varying size housing the fixed programs, containing further levels of interiority for more private and light-sensitive programs. Circulation is one continuous surface that allows the user freedom to decide their path in/around the cores.
MODELS Exploring distribution of program cores and circulation systems
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ABOVE Program diagram RIGHT Plans(from bottom): ground level, first level, second level
FINAL MODEL
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POTRERO HILL LIBRARY San Francisco, CA UC Berkeley, ARCH 100A, Fall 2013 Instructor: Rudabeh Pakravan On the site there exists a city grid with its regular orderly views of buildings and other functional spaces, but standing at the intersections of streets causes a radical transformation. Entire vistas appear that were invisible before and you finally understand where you are in the city, whether it’s overlooking a dramatic canyon or standing amidst a peaceful plateau.The insistence of the grid provides order and security, but the irrefutable landscape provides a much-needed sense of place.
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The branch library proposed for this site makes use of both order and surprise revelation. Books are a focal point throughout and act as both structure and thematic ties to the institutional nature of a library. They consistently frame the more exciting interactive functions of a modern library like the children’s area and community meeting room, which resemble a canyon carved out of the book stacks. These spaces would ostensibly be in tension with each other if not for the fact that a modern library and its visitors have equal need of both active and tranquil spaces, spaces to contemplate and spaces to collaborate.
BELOW Diagram showing generation of static and dynamic spaces RIGHT Site topography
Path lines
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Lines extruded
to form surface
Lines extracted from surface to allow transformation
Lines skewed to create distinct volumes
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PLAN
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BASEMENT 1. Reference 2. Reading area
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FIRST FLOOR 1. Community meeting room 2. Lobby 3. Computer room
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SECOND FLOOR 1. Viewing area 2. Young adult reading area 3. Children’s reading area
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ROOF 1. Administrative offices 2. Private reading area 3. Garden/ Event space
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SECTION
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DOUBLE HOUSE Shared residence. GSD Career Discovery Program, Summer 2015 Instructor: Zach Siebold This project was an exploration into how two distinct spatial logics could interface, and in doing so create a shared residence for two clients. The spatial logics were derived from two key words; I chose “Haunt” and “Nest” for their spatial as well as symbolic potential. Through modeling, drawing, and collage I came up with the logic by which a Haunt could dematerialize into a Nest, thus creating one dwelling for two people.
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Initial model studies investigating the formal and metaphorical meanings of Haunt and Nest, as well as the functional arrangement of residential spaces.
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CONCEPT MODEL HAUNT dematerializing into NEST.
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Translation from model to a language of points and lines, reconfiguring the concept to fit into a proposed site.
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COLLAGE Mixed media, 17x11
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PLANS (clockwise from bottom left): Ground floor(Haunt), first floor(Haunt + Nest), second floor(Haunt + Nest), third floor (Nest). 40
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SECTION
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FINAL MODEL
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