Architecture Portfolio 2020

Suhasini Nadig Selected Works

2016-2020

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

This portfolio contains selected work from my four academic years in the architecture course. It highlights my design process, representation language and other interests.

All drawings, images and texts have been produced by the author.

Under group projects, images produced by the author have been compiled. If otherwise, credits have been mentioned.

Bangalore, India suhasini.nadig@gmail.com

SUHASINI NADIG

+91 9036884079 suhasini_nadig suhasininadig

A motivated and passionate individual who believes design thinking and the ability of Architecture can strengthen positive existance.

I enjoy working both in teams or independantly, which has led me to be a creative and critical thinker.

Ardent interest in Technology and contemporary Futurism of Architecture.

Amrita Vidyalam Mysore 2009

EDUCATION

Sketching Media Technology Movies Basketball Fiction novels Drums Airforce / National Cadet Corps

Adobe Photshop SketchUp

Demonstration Multipurpose School 2016 Mysore Dayanada Sagar College of Architecture 2021 Bangalore

AutoCad | AutoCad Architecture

Lumion Rhino

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

INTERESTS

Microsoft Office

Adobe Illustrator

Unbind Architecture “Render me awesome” Installation Workshop / 2017

Adobe InDesign

Winners of ZONASA Fashion Trophy COUTURE / 2017 Konappana Agrahara Documentation Mysore / 2018 Winners of ZONASA Fashion Trophy MODIFY TO AMPLIFY / 2018

LANGUAGES English Kannada Hindi

Software Workshop Lomos Archilabs / 2019 HarvardX course / An Architectural Imagination / 2019 Thimphu, Bhutan Urban Documentation / 2020

Revit

EXPERIENCE

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Humanizing Density

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Ornithology Campus

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Religious Ambiguous Plaza

Urban Documentation

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Furniture Design

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Interior Design

Construction Drawing

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Miscellaneous

Contextual map of EPIP Zone, located north of Bangalore city which is primarily a IT Tech layout.

1 Project type Humanizing Density Semester Seven Year August - December 2019 Institution DSCA Guides Ar. Sandhya Rao

Ar. Samhitha B S Ar. Madhavan

Ar. Lakshmi K

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Co - Working Space

Co-Working Space Design The brief “Humanizing Density� was meant to decode how architecture plays a role in tackling pubic density. The steps later on were on our own on how we would interpret a large population of people and how an architectural solution could be the step to controlling them. In this project I interpreted the brief to a co-working office space. The office of tomorrow.

A human’s mind and body tend to lean towards the following things - To ideate, focus, to find the right problem, testing the right design decisions and overall to follow a systematic process as possible.

The work life balance in Architecture can be achieved by a space which provides a balance among physical, spiritual and psychological states off mind.

For a co-working space to serve as a focal point in an urban neighbourhood to ensure its business stability, it must not only provide stimulating activities to promote interactions but also provide

effective physical setting for occurrence of such events.

What distinguishes human-centered design from other problem solving approaches is its obsessive focus on understanding the perspective of the person who experiences a problem, their needs, and whether the solution that has been designed for them is truly meeting their needs effectively or not. At its most effective, the very people who experience a problem the most are a constant part of the design process and when possible, become part of the design team itself.

Targeting other lines of work including vocational and professions jobs. This expands networking and improves humanizing connection between people.

Dancers, Architects, Designers, Artists & Sculptors and Media & Alternative.

Contextual Diagram of how the space fits in retrospect to EPIP zone.

Contextual Diagram of how the space fits in retrospect to EPIP zone.

Broadly, have categorized the spaces into three zones.

I CO-WORKING

II PUBLIC

III INNOVATION HUB

Offices Individual stations Small conference rooms Large meeting rooms Restaurants Nap rooms Cafe

Eateries Performance area Parks Informal gathering

Gallery Science park Exhibition centre The site is divided into three broad divisions of Liveability, Humanizing and to bridge the gap between them.

Co-working spaces relate to designing for liveable spaces as work has become such an integral part of a person’s life, spending an average of 40 hours of a week at work.

Massing block model of the volume representing the three zones in which spaces were divided into.

Humanizing is the design to tend to large groups of people as we are headed to populated future. Catering to such large groups of people, to find a common ground of interests represents the space I.

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Co - Working Space

Space III is bridging the gap between IT working class and the public. An innovation hub is a space for people to learn more about upcoming technology and other alternate forms of budding media like robotics VR etc.

Top floor for group meetings. (TYPE 1)

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Block 1 for freelancers and Block 2 for big corporate companies (TYPE 2) Studios in the centre (TYPE 3)

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Public spaces - Consisting of eateries and Performance areas.

Ground level for individual work stations.

Exploded Axonometric view to depict the vertical circulation with respect to the horizontal spatial considerations as well.

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Four different typologies keeping in mind the above factors : 1. Conference area with visual connection to either a green space or public spaces.

2. Studios with workstation. For transparency as well as privacy. A feeling of joint contribution.

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Co - Working Space

3. Performance areas with avenues. These invite the public into the site which adhere to humanizing density.

4. Open areas - Informal meeting spaces and kiosks.

Above fig - Longitudinal section depicting the various spaces & typologies with human interaction.

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Spatial considerations for the office of tomorrow. Targeting other lines of work including vocational and professions jobs. This expands networking and improves humanizing connection between people.

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Co - Working Space

Typical floor plan repeated through first, second and third floors. The spaces include offices, nap rooms, common gathering, small and large meeting rooms and informal lounge areas.

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Administration

Bird watch tower

Library Cafe Academics Labs Clinic Hostels Exhibition/Museum

Bike trail

Walking trail Planters eco

Bridge Walkway

Plan at Site level highlighting dam reservoir, dam wall, forest context, one main access and existing site buildings.

Generated photo sphere of the site. In view, dam wall and existing site structures.

Panoramic capture of the site and its context with its existing features. Highlighted : Site overlooking the dam wall.

Project type Campus Design Semester Six Year January - May 2019 Institution DSCA Guides Ar. Malvika Naik

Ar. Vishwapriya P

Ar. Satej B. Alur

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Ornithology Campus

Site located next to TG Halli dam also called Chamrajsagar which is 35 km west of Bangalore, brief was to design an Ornithology campus. Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the “methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them�. Since the site is located in such a ecological and cultural sensitive

area, it was key to maintain the sanctity even with built forms. The existing site features accommodate an abandoned water treatment plant. Four circular tankers of 30m diameter. They had to be re-purposed and involved into the design.

Using nature as a grid, the atmosphere of bird magnetism needed to be the concept highlight. Camouflaging the built with green terraces, foliage, path nests created an attractor point.

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Axonometric View of Laboratory Block - Ground Floor.

The deconstruction of Plan (Bottom fig) highlights spatial flow and circulation.

Spatial requirements of the campus were Administrative Laboratories Academics Library Research labs Cafeteria Residential hostel Guest house

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Campus Design

Spatial circulation zoning was done in a way that it kept footfall to the minimum throughout the campus. Each block was conceptualized as a shell with a lot of fenestrations. An easy movement from outdoors and indoors and not clear boundaries was an important factor. Volume couldn’t rise above two storeys hence form was kept minimal.

The cubic and rectilinear structures helped having a straight roofing which was all turned into green roofs. The

Axonometric View of Laboratory Block - First Floor and the deconstruction of Plan (Bottom fig).

tankers were designed to be a mimic a diverse vault of plants and conifers. An architectural site element designed is a bridge running over the tankers and overlooking the forest. This space is ideal for birdwatching and observation.

It connects to the bike and walk trial which runs across 70% of the site. Since the site is also heavily contoured, design positioning path nests at lower points to entice avifauna was also incorporated in macro zoning.

Specific to an ornithology campus, spaces provided were Bird observatory Avifauna clinic Bird watch tower Green open spaces Walking trails Water reservoirs

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Deconstruction of Academics block into spatial flow with circulation and isometric 3d view.

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Campus Design

Illustrator render of academics and laboratory blocks representing the importance of open spaces in the campus.

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Site location - Thimphu, Bhutan. Map here shows the valley city surrounded by extreme mountainous terrain .

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Religious Ambiguous Plaza

Project type Urban Design Semester Eight Year January - May 2020 Institution DSCA Guides Ar. Sandhya Rao

Ar. Samhitha B S

Ar. Bhavesh Mehta Ar. Tawhid CULTURE AND TERRAIN Do the two go hand in hand?

Re-imagining religious hotspots and identifying the connections with terrain. I intended to understand the terrain’s role in culture and religion in terms of Built Structures Practices Open Spaces

The cultural connection were deeply rooted to the context of the city which can be seen in their practices like i) Religious Structures on high grounds ii) Flags of the dead

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Urban Design

iii) Monks migrating to Thimphu in the summer as it was the Summer capital, Paro being the winter capital.

An ambiguous religious structure at high points of the city was the design proposal since the valley city worshipped ultimate powers of nature at these higher terrain points - Water, Earth, Wood, Iron and Fire.

Levels of Public permeability 1. Tourists and People for recreation 2. Devotees of all religion 3. Buddhists monks 1 Entry 2 Parking 3 Visual Marker - Ladhar Flag 4 Pause points 5 Fire Alcoves 6 Cafe 7 Museum 8 Iron Structure 9 Meditation Pods 10 Water Body 11 Handicraft Workshop 12 Meditation rooms 13 Wood symbolising 14 Performance area

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Fig 2 // Master plan. The representation language focuses on the rich context of the site surrounded by forests.

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Water as an element is broken down into two streams from the highest point of the site. The sound of water creates a suspense and gets carried to meditation pods.

This allows a sense of visual and aural curiosity. This also strengthens the Buddhist culture of how a water body among forestry is sacred.

Interpreting it in a prayer wheel which is a cylindrical wheel on a spindle, in which a scroll is placed with a mantra (prayer) written hundreds or sometimes thousands of times. The wheel is spun in a clockwise direction (based on the movement of the sun across the sky), allowing with each revolution the accumulation of as much merit as if each of the mantra inscriptions were read aloud separately. Expressing the strength and impermeability by creating nodal journey through iron partitions which when wind hits produces mellow music. Often made with metal and sometimes, wood.

It is believed that when the wind moves prayer flags, even with the slightest breeze, these prayers and blessings become activated, and then are carried through the air in a spiritual vibration across the vicinity. Not only does the flag planter, but everything that is touched by the wind, and all sentient beings, benefit from the prayers and blessings that are carried by the wind.

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Urban Design

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FIRE

FirehasastrongconnectionthroughtwowaysLIGHT - Warmth and heat to the cold Himalayan country DANGER - Flaming Dragon and the destruction it brings if bad luck falls upon Mewang ceremony (Fire Blessing) is a ritual where people and guests jump over the flames to get themselves purified from their sins and evil deeds The Fire Alcoves refer to the point of the plaza where salutations are paid to the element of fire. It is designed with relation to wind patterns as it is designed right to be at the high point view of the whole city..

EARTH

Manifesting of ecological significance to built architecture. Interpreted to be made from rammed earth to create a large volume of spaces. In which, the initiative “Polluted Pottery” uses soil which cannot be use to grow crops shall be used to make pottery and handicrafts as an activity for tourists and residents.

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The site located in Sangaygang View Point which is a 20 minute drive // 1 hour 30 minute // 8km from Clock Tower plaza.

As a prominent high point in the city, it offers the journey to spiritual calmness a person desires. The view and adjacency the site offers to the immediate nature helps in the case of how belief system is governed by higher powers for a place of worship.

This location thus also brings together tourists and locals alike generate human activity and a sense of peace.

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Urban Design

Religion inclusion as a major element in the successful city, and how its proximate relation to terrain and nature can be imagined as an urban architectural solution. The strength was to build commonality than distinction. Aiming at pedestrian destinations among the journey and open spaces are to be a central plaza surrounded by concepts - Fire, water, earth, iron and wood.

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Site sections along three axes of sites. The relation to terrain and culture is strongly depicted here.

The programmatic proposal is divided into two categories - Open and Built.

OPEN Kora path - Walkway to pedestrian destinations View point Tshokhang (Assembly space)(dukhang or kunre) Recreation space - Children’s park Recreation space - Open air theatre Characterising water Characterising wood Characterising earth Place of worship BUILT (AREA ~ 3000 sqm) Characterising fire Characterising iron Meditation space Cafe Utilities

Site cross sections on the right.

The museum and Cafe placed central to the plaza, having being designed at this location it gives maximum visual connectivity to public areas of the site than the private meditation pods.

The performance area enhances the public relation and provides a space where no religion plays a role in influencing exercise of speech and declamation.

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Glossary of architectural language of Bhutan illustrated for simple understanding and documenting their culture better.

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Urban Documentation

Project type Group Documentation Semester Eight Year January - May 2020 Institution DSCA Members Suhasini Nadig Zaib Shaheen Radha S Yash Singhi Soundarya

Group urban documentation of Thimphu was undertaken under the broad aspect of History and Culture by members of our group. Under categories of architectural typologies, tales of culture, practices, activities and the different user groups.

The architecture of the capital is heavily influenced by their cultural background and religion. It is made necessary for the architects to design all the buildings with slanted roofs, small windows and colourful wooden doors to uphold them just like the traditional buildings. Given the large influence of Buddhism in the country and its

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long history with Tibet, the Main architectural style of the buildings here is that of the Tibetan Buddhist style.

Iron bars and iron nails are strictly not used in the construction. Most buildings are two or three stories. To make the building look more exquisite, the size of windows is kept small for the first storey and it gradually increases as one ascends on the upper floors. The unique typologies found there are Dzong - Religious and Administrative centre.

Lhakhangs - Religious structures Chortens - Receptacle for offerings of religious relics / Memorial Stupa.

Goemba - Monastery built like a fortress with a main tower.

Statistical base map of Thimphu indicating historical and cultural standpoints in the city.

Timeline of urban morphology of structures of importance to Bhutanese architecture, educational and pure public.

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Various typologies in Bhutanese Architecture - Religious, administrative, monasteries and memorials.

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Activity Mapping of three Principal Public Officials - The King, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, Monks and Government Employees.

The King - Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

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Government Officials Fig below - The prime minister with Indian Prime Minister

Buddhist Monks

Activity Mapping of different Age Groups - 8 to 15, 15 to 25 and ages 60 and above.

Children of Ages eight to fifteen

Young Adults of Ages fifteen to twenty five

Senior citizens of age sixty and above

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Key plan of a modular residence in where these three variations can be used efficiently.

An eighth semester building materials and construction project, brief provided was to design a showcase with a minimum of two different materials.

My design concept was to have three different variations of the same furniture which can be used in more than a single space. The form for that needed to be modular, easy to use and practical. One as a partition shelf between living and dining spaces or transition spaces, one as a shoe-rack cum display with seating included and the last variation as a television stand for the living area.

The design itself focused on cubic forms, open and closed shelving made of plywood, stainless steel verticals, drawers and adjustable slats.

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Furniture Design

Project type Building Material & Const.

Semester Eight Year January - May 2020 Institution DSCA Guides Ar. Jagadeesha Chandra

Ar. Pallavi M

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Furniture Design

Exploded isometric view illustrating the joinery connections and materials.

Top Wooden Joinery - Dado and Rabbet Joint

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Back

Front elevation of variation 2 Shoe rack, seating and display shelving.

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Connection Detail of Steel box section to Wooden panel

Detail of plywood to stainless steel box section of dimensions 20 x 28 mm.

Alteration 1. A bookshelf and showcase. Works as a partition furniture between living and dining spaces or between transition spaces.

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Alteration 2. A part of it is dedicated as seating. It is a shoe-rack at the bottom, hence the seating to sit and wear footwear is functional and efficient.

Alteration 3. TV stand with display and bookshelf. Used mostly from one side, but in other spatial cases can serve from two sides as well.

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Realistic render of alteration 3 where it is used a TV stand cum showcase in the living area.

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A mood board representing the concept of open courtyards, green spaces, radiating panels, wooden textures and collage tiles.

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Architecture College Interiors

Project type Interior Design Semester Eight Year January - May 2020 Institution DSCA Guides Ar. Kavitha Pole Ar. Preethi

Ar. Deepthi R Brief was to design ground floor of our DSCA block to an exhibition cum lounge seating for students of all semesters. The requirements were to include a performance area and hall of fame to hold small events and display sheets and works of our students.

The concept was to focus natural lighting and open up exhibition area into a circular courtyard. The panels on which sheets would be displayed are radiating from the courtyard. It opens to the backyard of the block to an informal, model making, gathering area. The model display is at the centre from the panels which goes all around a green space.

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The stage is envisioned in two halves, the inside and the out. A panel folding door is the partition which when collapsed is one whole area for addressing a larger crowd. The two large flowering trees are highlights around which seating is designed. The fenestrations are wooden cladding to build a rustic, casual environment for students. The colour palette with muted but with bright accentuated colours on columns and feature walls.

The flooring is a customised block pattern with granite tiles of all grey swatches.

Circulation played an important factor since it was the entrance to an educational institute, it had to cater to multiple users - students in hurry, lounging students and effective flow for teachers and admin but also for transporting furniture and goods to thee above floors.

Floor plan highlighting exhibition space, radiating courtyard, performance area and outdoor cafe.

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Longitudinal cross section of the ground and first floor. The highlighted renders focuses on spaces of concept. Here the outdoor seating area with lawn slope provide a relaxed environment for students and teacher.

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Exhibition space is wrapped around the circular courtyard to bring natural light which will maximise viewing comfort. The cafe serves as a buffer for the outside lounge and institutional ambience of the interiors.

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Interior Design

Vertical circulation, the most busiest space in the morning is unadorned with an easy going colour palette to not clash with activities and the crowd.

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Construction Drawing

Site Plan

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Working Drawing

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B’ Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

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Column Grid Layout

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Working Drawing

Section AA’

Section BB’

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Working Drawing

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Selected works of interests in hand sketching, model making skills, architectural photography and nasa fashion debrief.

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Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

Suhasini Nadig +91 9036884079 suhasini.nadig@gmail.com