Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio 2023

ARCHITECTURE

Greetings! I am a fourth year architecture student looking for an internship for my next semester. Architecture has changed my way of perspective of looking into the surroundings throughout the years and is still changing till this day.

I am keen on learning how architecture works in practical world and wanna join on internship where I can learn and grow as a person and in my field as well.

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SUSHAN SHRESTHA

CURRICULUMN VITAE

EDUCATION

2018 - Current B.Arch in Acme Engineering College, Sitapaila,Kathmandu

2015 - 2017 +2 from Kathmandu Model College ,Baghbazar, Kathmandu

2015 SEE from Little Angels School , Hattiban, Lalitpur

SOFTWARE SKILLS

ACHIEVEMENTS

2023 - 2nd Runner up in Utsarga EV charging station design competition

2021 and 2022 - Design Studio Topper ( sem V and sem VI)

2020 - Honorable mention in SONA energy effiicient house design

2019,2020,2022 - Top 3 in Design Studio II,III,IV,VII

Apartment unit is just a fractional part of building and people to live in a such a limited space can be challenging so the initial idea for the design was to create multiple open spaces throughout the building for interaction among the community.

I also gave some thought on the marketing context of apartment by creating a structure that looks completely diffrent from the surrounding buildings intending to catch eyes of people passing by for the marketting purposes..

So, personal requirements were met when each building floors were rotated at ‘30º’ creating a abstract volume while providing each apartment units with double heighted personal balconies and triple heighted communal balconies as well.

STUDY MODEL VERTICAL ZONING

Site was very limited so leaving out any space of the plot unused was not an option. I took a bold step in covering less ground coverage and going more vertically for possibilities of open spaces and sitouts on the ground floor where people could interact and hence create a strong community among the residents of the appartment.

Ground floor includes some ammenities like parking for two wheelers and four wheeler grocery store and cafe.

Entrance foyer is given triple height for a sense of huge space and grand entrance. Similarly, lobby inside is also given triple height which enables light to pass throughout the staircase and lift. Entrance leads straight to staircase for easy access and to avoid confusion.

TYPICAL STUDIO APPARTMENT FLOOR PLAN

TYPICAL 1BHK,2BHK FLOOR PLAN

1BHK,2BHK ISOMETRIC VIEW

3BHK ISOMETRIC VIEW

10th floor plan contains two terraces with each of its unique functions. Northern terrace being winter terrace with sitouts spaces and for sightseing where as southern terrace represents summer terrace containing infinity pool.

TYPICAL 3BHK FLOOR PLAN

10TH FLOOR PLAN

Lack of interaction among the residents of the appartment was one of my biggest concerns during the design process . I took inspiration from the kathmandu city where people interact with each other from their terraces and tried to immitate the activity in my design

Commercial Building

Teku, Kathmandu

Supervisor: Ar.Krishna

COHESION’

Building Design

Kathmandu

Ar.Krishna Ram Bhandari

CONCEPT

Historical newari settlements starts from north of the site so for the continuation and connection with the loacality adding newari elements into the building was the initial idea and which resulted in ‘the cohesion’ of traditional and modern technology.

One of my concern of this location was the lack of public spaces so I wanted to create a much needed place to breathe from the daily hectic city life.

Entry into the complex leads straight to the central atrium from where each shop can be seen for the visitors convenience

Central atrium serves as a multifuntional space for cafe, concerts and many more .

Roof of the atrium is covered witth glassed hyperbolic-parboloid structure which ends the structure well and puts a feeling of wonder among the users and people passing by the complex.

TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN

3RD FLOOR PLAN

ELEVATION

ELEVATION

CONCEPT

There arent many charging stations in Nepal and people donot seem to know about their locations . So, the initial idea was to develop a structure different from site suroundings for easiness to distinguish the charging station.With all the surronding buildings being in linear form the first step was to go with a curvilinear form. To promote electrical vehicles and use of renewable sources of energy, the form was developed from infinity shape which represents infinite energy(electricity) one can get from the source(sun).

MASTER PLAN

POSSIBLE FUTURE PLAN

Since in present context there are not much use of EVs so giving maximum charging station will not be logical. So, we decided to make a verstalille structure which when needed can be transformed and charging stations can be added. Currently, space for 8 vehicles is given where as upto 23 vehicles can be charged at a time in future.

Different facilities such as game zone, cafe department store and office spaces are given thinking about the variety of users.

Similarly the green roof acts as a public space where people from the locality can come here and connect with each other.

SQUARES’

CONCEPT

Design process for this project was the direct response towards the site problems.

Noise and pollution were the two main problems in this site so various zones were created accordingly and different parts of school were placed in required zones stratigically creating variety of ambience within the school premises rather than a single structure.

Colors was a major element taken in this project since colors are appealing to children attracting their attention and creating a sense of wondor and helps in the development process of childrens visual perception.

SITE

MIXED USE

ACME ENGINEERING COLLEGE

HOUSES

BUFFER ZONE CLASSROOM

SILENT ZONE

CLASSROOM BLOCK

Classroom Block placed centrally on site for maximum sunlight to enter directly into the classrooms and surrounding noises from the roads being absorbed by the buffer-zone, an appropriate study atmosphere is maintained.

Courtyard serves as a multifunctional space for various activities like morning assembly, outdoor classes, hangout spots,play area etc.

Library is placed on north-east part of the site as there were private residences nearby, so to maintain the noise problems placing library there was a win-win situation.

Multipurpose Hall

Multi-Use Sports Court

Cafeteria

Parking

Library

Classroom Block

Administrative Block

WORKING DRAWINGS

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

SECTION AT Y-Y

DESIGN STUDIO - VII RURAL HOUSING

CONSERVATION

BANDIPUR STREET NORTH

CONSERVATION SEM VII

NORTH PROFILE ELEVATION

LANDSCAPE DESIGN

SEM - VI

KAISER MAHAL