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Art House MoMA Masters Academic Work Fall 2017 Tutors - (vPPR) Tatiana von Preussen Jessica Reynolds Catherine Pease This project explores the potential of Domestic spaces for artists inside MoMa QNS using game theory. It does so by analysing Marcel Duchamp’s work and his obsession with the game of chess which reciprocates his design process of orienting and disorienting objects and spaces in various narratives. This Museum thus becomes a performative Art factory where its not just an archive of recognized art works but also starts contribution to the production of it by inhabiting the artist themselves. The artist house becomes a tool to live in. Almost fostering an archive of living thoughts and those represented.
montage model
School As Theatre Masters Academic Work Summer 2017 Tutors : Eric Bunge + Mimi Hoang TA : Sebastian Cilloniz Team: Swati Jain + Konrad Tai
To provoke architecture students into the act of learning architecture the school is designed in a theatrical setting to encourage students to perform design. The student becomes a performer and a spectator both at the same time. We challenged the ground to yield maximum visibility, playing with the stage techtonics thus arriving at a theaterical setting, where everyone can see everyone work, laugh, cry, and learn architecture. The stages and back stage are divided into variousgradients allowing various intensities(scales) of design performances like studio ,library and fabrication labs.
Parametric Kahn Undergraduate Academic Work Fall 2014 (4th year) Tutors - Harish Shetty Team: Swati Jain + Kevin D’souza This Project seeks to explore the aesthetic sensibility of Louis Kahn and his study of Light and silence in parallel to a parametric approach to design. The approach of “Parametric Kahn” involves taking decisions on adding archaic elelments as structural devices and not just openings and setting up grids to create servant spaces as experimental and leisure rooms.
Maharashtra Nature Park Professional Work : Studio POD https://studiopod.in/ Client - Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority Duties : Designing, Research and 3D views
A Global Competition that set off to redevelop of the 17 acres of Maharashtra Nature Park in Mumbai. The proposed interventions involve connecting one of the richest Central Business Districts in India to the gritty entrepreneurial hub of Dharavi to the south. The creation of these connections shall have significant impact on the growth and development of the region. The proposal also recommends daylighting reclaimed flood plains in a systematic manner to avoid flooding within the area in monsoons. Nature trails engage and disconnect with the river and the forest in rhythmic manner culminating into an elegant pedestrian and cyclist bridge connecting the communities across the river. The constructed wetlands along the waterfront edge of the park shall clean and restore the ecology along the Mithi river providing an ecologically sensitive redevelopment model for the rivers in India.
Developement plan for Sawentri, Rajasthan India Professional Work : Studio POD https://studiopod.in/ Client - UNITED STATES TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (USTDA) & GOVT. OF INDIA Duties : Preparation of Diagrams , Research , Swot Analysis , 3D Modeling. Sawentri currently has a population of approximately 2000 persons and is anticipated to grow over 4000 in 2040. Sawentri is an important religious town and hosts the Annakuta Mahotsav Mela. Jal Jhoolni Mela and Phagotsav Mela annually festivals which attracts over one lakh visitors annually. For the village. a comprehensive prepared Development Plan has been created considering a 25 year horizon period. The Development Plan includes a environmentally sensitive land use plan that identifies developable and Eco-sensitive parcels of land in and around the village that require to be preserved. Plans for efficient and environmentally sustainable management of civic infrastructure considering the existing and 25 year horizon period has been planned. A transportation plan has also been developed that considers improves connectivity within the village and the surrounding areas and also makes special provisions for the movement of visitors/tourists during the festival.
We are all islands Professional Work : Sharmistha Ray Studio, New York / Mumbai http://sharmistharay.com/ http://www.thegreateasternhome.com/about/thestore.php Client - The Great Eastern Home Conceptualization and fabrication of various art sculptures each in different medium. Working on site with carpenters. Project Management,and graphic designing of the Exhibition Brochure and flyer.
A Gallery Show For NYC based Artist Sharmishta Ray. The exhibition travelled to the Mumbai and Kochi Art Biennial. As we hurtle towards digital realities in the age of technology, the internet and social media, do we risk the extinction of our sentient consciousness, mediated by touch, human presence and an appreciation of beauty?Have we all become willful islands, fragments of humanity adrift in the ocean of virtual connections in a globalised world?
Urban Egress Masters Academic Work Spring 2018 Tutors : Sarah Dunn & Martin Felsen TA : George Lauras An urban egress built on top of a hybradized cemetry district starts syncronizing the fragmented figure of tombstones and the city by inhabiting new ways of preserving the memories of the deceased ones. Resonating with the city grid it programatically it embraces the idea of memory in 4 ways : 1)soft skin : The cultural convention of reinarnation leads to vaious animal cafes whereby the animals become containers of the energy of the deceased ones. 2)belongings : The egress encompasses storage spaces to store the belongings of the deceased ones as memoirs. 3)contemplation areas : strong transitional spaces that act like portals into the other world. 4)Pilgrimage path : The egress connects all the shrines and acts like a pilgrimage path for the shinto festival.
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO VI
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Karoshi : which can be transKaroshi lated literally as “overwork
death” in Japanese, is occupational sudden mortality.
Aokigara forest : internationally Aokigahara known as one of the world’s most prevalent suicide sites.
architecture, planning and preservation
Park Housing Cemetry Shrine
Housing
High-tech cemeteries
Celestis Memorial
Furthering encounters of orange geographies : Dream House Undergraduate Academic Work Spring 2011 (1st year) Tutors - Niladwuti Basu Chattopadhyay What is a Dream house , or is your dream to have a house itself a dream. Regardless of the query this project seeks to address issuses of form recogination along side having a dream. The Orange house is house for a brat who if desired could ride his motor cycle up to his room using the orange spiral ramp. The project questions why space requires form and does spatial standards of specific rooms require to be present in an house.
The cube disrupted my sleep,assigned a job To build one of him. that day the urban overwhelmed each heart, Looking for an encounter to envelope its instinct. For days together it blamed the formless sea then one day, Mother(nature) gave an orange post lunch It revealed the matter(pulp) in the most architectural way, And hence the beloved instinct acted its stay.