MIRRER CHAR, DHAKA
SUDIPTO SENGUPTA
sudipto_sengupta@hotmail.com
A REDEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR MIRRER CHAR Mirrer Char is an accreted tract of land located on the southern bank of the Buriganga River, directly south of Dhaka’s old city center. The site is challenged by a burgeoning population to the north, scarcity of land, lack of infrastructure and the exposure to deadly pollution. A better future rests in creating healthy, prosperous and sustainable communities that cohabit with neighboring rural agricultural and urban communities. The proposal calls for the expansion of Dhaka’s existing canal systems to strengthen the connection between the increasingly marginalized agricultural lands to urban centers. Linking farmlands to clean water and transportation networks with a revitalized canal system, will improve their ability to participate in Dhaka’s globalized economy.
SUDIPTO SENGUPTA
sudipto_sengupta@hotmail.com
SUDIPTO SENGUPTA
sudipto_sengupta@hotmail.com
INFRASTRUCTURAL INTERVENTIONS URBAN
RURAL
IN-BETWEEN
TOP: PROPOSED MASTER PLAN BOTTOM: COMMUTER CANAL SECTION
SUDIPTO SENGUPTA
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UNPLANNED The current, unplanned nature of development and sand-filling that is choking agricultural land
PLANNED The proposed strategy that designates zones of development that mediate urban and agricultural lands
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SUDIPTO SENGUPTA
sudipto_sengupta@hotmail.com
2007
WATER CLEANING AND MANAGEMENT
2012
2016
THE SKY MACHINE The Sky Machine is a contraption in the stratosphere that captures light and air to produce the sky and its many colors. Photoshop, 3D-Studio Max
SUDIPTO SENGUPTA
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BACKSTAGE - HOUSING FOR NEWARK 6 Years old with 10 fingers and 10 toes So much to see, so much to do, so much to explore. The Paramount! I’d like to climb or at least catch a ghost in. Maybe I’ll ride my bike around the block again and have a look; really really fast before the sun goes down. Pretty ladies and handsome men, all dressed up for the BACKSTAGE movies Right behind those old thug clothes and that dirtyPERFORMER window. The cracked pavement below me ARENA STAGE AUDIENCE that suddenly turns into bricks Along that dark little alley, bumpy BACKSTAGE that’s only big enough forBACKSTAGE one of those old carriages. I could live there! I think. PERFORMER PERFORMER Just like that woman on the corner THRUST STAGE AUDIENCE Or like that guy onARENA theSTAGE street. AUDIENCE
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SUDIPTO SENGUPTA
sudipto_sengupta@hotmail.com
THE BUILDING AS PROSCENIUM
2ND FLOOR - PERSONAL STUDIOS
3RD FLOOR - CHANGE ROOMS
SUDIPTO SENGUPTA
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6TH FLOOR - COSTUMES
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SUDIPTO SENGUPTA
sudipto_sengupta@hotmail.com
SURFACE-FORM The formal purity of the cup lends itself to certain geometries. This project set out to harness the geometric properties and inherent spatial qualities of the cup to create new surfaces and spaces by implementing assembly logics. Examined were the individual part, part to part and part to whole relationships, as well as the unified surface-form generated. The resulting surface-form exhibits a degree of porosity that the original component lacks. The pure cup has a sense of stillness due to its function of containment. The formal attributes of the project exhibit a sense of “containmnet” while simultaeneously creating a sense of movement. This is exemplified through the duality of smooth and “teeth-like” texture and positive and negative spaces. The unfolding and refolding of the pure form resulted in a understanding of the transformative nature of the cup component.
SUDIPTO SENGUPTA University of Pennsylvania sudiptos@design.upenn.edu
SUDIPTO SENGUPTA
University of Pennsylvania sudiptos@design.upenn.edu
SUDIPTO SENGUPTA
niversity of Pennsylvania udiptos@design.upenn.edu
INFLUENCE This proposal for a 24HR Arts Centre in the Northern Liberties, Philadelphia is generated from an understanding of existing programs, proximity and site conditions as forces that influence architecture and it’s relationship to a neighborhood. The reinterpreted map of Old Kensignton, Philadelphia, measures population density and the intensity of interaction in public and private zones throughout the site through the instrumentatlization of a dynamic and responsive gradient field. Increasing vector magnitude suggests an increased level in interaction while the density of the grid directly represents the relative population density in a particular area.
The vector field facilitates a visualization of ‘forces’ on the site extracted from a network of schools and their proximity to growth centers such as playgrounds, libraries and art centers. This rendition of an urban, current diagram examines the ways in which the disparate, surrounding neighborhoods in this area overlap, yield and respond to the existing infrastructure made up of these institutions.
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ELEVATION VIEW
MODEL EXPLORATIONS
SUDIPTO SENGUPTA
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PLAN AND SECTION
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DRAWINGS 502 STUDIO JENNY SABIN SUDIPTO SENGUPTA
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PTA DRAWINGS 502 STUDIO JENNY SABIN
SLOW SPACE Slowness as Infrastructure. This is a system that engages scale, light, texture, sound, which activates the space of notdoing, recognizing that richer experiences and environments can emerge from the dynamic interaction of these phenomena. ‘Doing’ suggests an active engagement in an activity while ‘not doing’ suggest the times within each activity when the user is disengaged or passively engaged. Each event in the building has moments of doing and not doing. It is also through the programmatic activation of the space of notdoing that one can experience slowness in a novel way that promotes social and spatial interactivity. OUTDOOR
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SUDIPTO SENGUPTA
sudipto_sengupta@hotmail.com
RELAXATION
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PERFORMANCE
PAVILION FOR THE LONDON CULTURAL OLYMPIAD This permanent pavillion for the 2012 London Cultural Olympiad, is designed as a dynamic environment that serves as a refuge during the busy months of the summer olympics. A green ecology, the connects people with the river, the Underground and the Skyway, sprouts from a bold incision in the flat landscape of the Greenwich penninsula.
GREEN VOID
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
SUNLIGHT ANALYSIS
PLANTING ANALYSIS
WATER MOVEMENT ANALYSIS
SUDIPTO SENGUPTA
sudipto_sengupta@hotmail.com
UNDERGROUND INTERVENTIONS
WATER MANAGEMENT
CROSS-SECTIONS
SUDIPTO SENGUPTA
sudipto_sengupta@hotmail.com