Design Portfolio by Tamanna Tiku

Design Portfolio

Tamanna Tiku Urban Design + Architecture September 2018

TAMANNA TIKU

540-200-5546 tamanna_tiku@berkeley.edu linkedin.com/in/tamanna-tiku issuu.com/tamannatiku

Urban Design, Architecture

SKILLS

EDUCATION Masters of Urban Design, College of Environmental Design, University of California Berkeley, CA GPA: 3.89 August 2017 – August 2018

Bachelors of Architecture, College of Architecture + Urban Studies, Virginia Tech, VA Major: Architecture, Minor: Mathematics GPA: 3.76 August 2012 – August 2017

Proficient: Adobe Suite, AutoCAD, MS Suite, Model-making, Hand drafting Familiar: Rhino, ArcGIS, SketchUp, Grasshopper

OTHER EXPERIENCES

KEY PROJECTS Masters Thesis: Harnessing Vulnerabilities: Resource-management strategies for enduring livability in the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh

University of Cambridge: Reciprocal Resilience: Addressing London’s Industrial and Housing Crises in Old Oak Common

Resilience by Design Competition: From Burden To Asset: A ‘leaf’ for the vulnerable region situated south of San Francisco in Baylands, California

Undergraduate Thesis: Growth and Decay: A new vision for abandoned cemeteries in New Delhi, India

Jan 2018 – Apr 2018

May 2018 – Aug 2018

Aug 2016 - May 2017

Aug 2017 - Dec 2017

1. Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge Feb 2018 - Mar2018

2. Center of Architecture, Sustainability and Art (CASA), Mexico City May 2016 – Jul 2016

3. Teaching Volunteer, Design Apprenticeship Program, National Building Museum, Washington DC Sep 2015 – Nov 2015

LEADERSHIP

WORK EXPERIENCE Urban Design Intern, SOM, San Francisco Developed design proposals, schematic design and base drawings for projects based in Xi’an, China and Hanoi, Vietnam. This included building physical models, working on precedent research and developing documents for competition-entries. The necessary skill development for these processes was in softwares like Rhino and InDesign. Every project required teamwork and multi-tasking. Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

Graphic Designer, Humans on the Run, Oxford University Press Represented the geographical aspects of the struggle of immigrants, refugees and humans on the run in the face of international political turmoil Aug 2017 - Dec 2017

Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkeley Researched aesthetic performance of sustainable urban design in cities around the world for a publication tentatively titled ‘Constructing Meaning in the Performative City’ Jan 2018 - May 2018

Graphic Designer and Student Assistant, Berkeley International Office Designed some annual publications, managed the front desk and learnt record-keeping Aug 2017 - Dec 2017

Architecture Intern, ADO, NOIDA, India Participated in international design competitions, developed drafting skills, got familiarized with material availability, needs, and local strategies unique to the Indian market Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

1. Admissions Chair, Urban Design, CEDSOC, UC Berkeley Jan 2018 – July 2018

2. Founding Member, SCOPE, Virginia Tech Nov 2016 – May 2017

3. Curator, Other Urbanisms, UC Berkeley Mar 2018 - Apr 2018

4. Cultural Secretary, Indian Student Association, Virginia Tech, VA Aug 2016 – May 2017

LANGUAGES English, Hindi, Urdu, Kashmiri

contents

Project Sites Education + Experiences

from west to east:

Baylands, California Resilience by Design, 2017

San Francisco, California GIS Project, 2018

Burden to Asset

Access to Sanitation

Rosslyn, Virginia WAAC, Alexandria, 2016

Old Oak Common, London University of Cambridge, 2018

Urban Transect

Growth and Decay

NOIDA, India Undergraduate Thesis, 2017

Reciprocal Resilience

Harnessing Vulnerabilities Dhaka, Bangladesh Masters Thesis, 2018

burden to asset A leaf for the region Brisbane, California The Bay Area is facing serious threats of climate change and sea level rise. It is also highly prone to social inequity and a massive housing crisis. In such a dire scenario, the lack of interest in the development of 950 acres along the Bay is a massive burden on the region.

Wind Energy Generation along revamped highway 101

Big regional amenities:

A floodable Lake along Bayshore Blvd

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Analysis of the available toilet facilities along the BART in downtown San Francisco San Francisco, CA

IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM Geo-Referencing + Network Analysis

This study began with a hunch that San Francisco's BART corridor is underserved in terms of sanitation infrastructure. This is a major public inconvenience. Thus, this research began with a count of the available free public toilet facilities around San Francisco that were provided by the San Francisco Public Works (SFPW) department. These were 40 and spread across the city. We proceeded to demarcate the regions of Demand (10 minutes from the BART stops) and the areas of supply (5 minutes from each facility) and marked the under-served areas in the BART corridor.

This study was conducted to: 1. Analyze pedestrian access to sanitation infrastructure within 10 minutes walking distance of the 8 BART stations in San Francisco. 2. Assess the opportunities and constraints in the proposal of Research Existing Conditions the Problem along 01 Identify 02the new Sanitation facilities BART corridor.03 Proposal for New Locations 3. Conduct a network analysis to locate new facilities.

ASSESSING LOCAL CONDITIONS Suitability Analysis

Data Collection

Locate BART line and stations within SF boundary

Locate existing free public restrooms (SFPW) in SF

Mark Demand Area within 10 min walking of BART stations through Service Area Analysis

Mark Supply Area within 5 min walking of existing restrooms through Service Area Analysis

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Locate existing free public restrooms (SFPW) in SF

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Google Earth

Identify Opportunity variables

Identify Constraint variables

Buffer the variables with weightages

Union the buffered layers and add the weightages to get the most suitable and least suitable locations to add more toilets

Locate BART line and stations within SF boundary

Existing Conditions 02ClipResearch the Suitability analysis to 1mile distance

Geo-referencing, Network Analysis

Extract Neighborhood Parks based on results of Suitability Analysis

Using Bart Stations as Demand points and Neighborhood Parks as Facilities, Solve the Network Analysis using Location Allocation

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from the BART line to focus the analysis in the relevant area

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Extract Neighborhood Parks based on results of Suitability Analysis

Using Bart Stations as Demand points and Neighborhood Parks as Facilities, Solve the Network Analysis using Location Allocation

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Mark Demand Area within 10 min walking of BART stations through Service Area Analysis

Find intersection of the Demand and Service Areas to get the Area Not Served

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Identify Constraint variables

This Location Allocation analysis was conducted while considering nearby Neighborhood Parks as the possible locations for sanitation facilities. We clipped all the neighborhood parks outside of out Opportunity Field and then proceeded to allocate in 16 or 8 'Facilities to choose' so as to study the locations for either 2 sanitation facilities per BART stop or 1 fcility per BART stop.

Malls, Museums, SFPW Restrooms, Libraries, Gas stations, Sidewalks (lesser than 12’), City Parks, Water bodies

Sidewalk >/= 12ft

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Identify Opportunity variables

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Extract Neighborhood Parks based on results of Suitability Analysis

Mark Supply Area within 5 min walking of existing restrooms through Service Area Analysis

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BUFFER WEIGHTAGE Retail Corridors, Neighborhood Open Spaces, Green Network Connections, Sidewalks(wider than 12’), SF BART stations

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Network Analysis : Location Allocation

Locate BART line and stations within SF boundary

03 Proposal for New Locations

All the following conditions were studied within a 1 mile buffer of the BART 01 Opportunities Constraints + Corridor in San Fransisco, in order 02to focus the analysis on the relevant area. Suitability Analysis The toilet prototype we used for this study was the San Francisco Public Works 01 (SFPW) facility, which is 1 ft X 1 ft in footprint.

Network Analysis : Location Allocation 01

02 Research Existing Conditions

Geo-referencing, Network Analysis

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OPPORTUNITIES DATA COLLECTION SOURCES:

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urban transect

Baths for Bikers and a Connection to the Waterfront Rosslyn, VA

Urban infrastructure and the George Washington Parkway presently separate the city of Rosslyn from its neglected waterfront. Proposal: A linear transect through the city of Rosslyn that choreographs varied interactions between the human body and different moods of water, until it meets the river. The baths, rising and falling with the earth to form an accessible built hardscape for bikers and pedestrians, become a joint between the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dense urbanity and the edge of the Potomac.

Showers for bikers

Waterwall for summer days Swimming Pool

There are two walls. Within the walls, the visitor interacts with water to cleanse, partake in recreation, swim, dip and contemplate. The progression from the city to the Potomac is marked by a rise in the volume of oaks on the transect, an increased sense of quiet and a lesser vigorous presence of water. At the end of the pathway is a staircase that descends to the edge of the river. The descent offers moments of pause.

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Dipping Pool

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Walkway

Sunbathing Room (above) Hot Dipping Pools (below)

Sauna Rooms (above) Cafe with a view (below)

Hot Private Dipping Pools

Moments of pause

Appoach to the Potomac

reciprocal resilience Addressing Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Industrial and Housing Crises Old Oak Common, London London is going through a housing shortage as well as a rapid displacement of local industry. This project brings the two crises together instead of addressing them separately. The vision is to build community around local industry and retail and to celebrate local micro-industry through street bazaars.

The High Speed Rail is coming to London

The neighboring Park Royale is considered the kitchen of London

The existing ecology of the Grand Union canal must be preserved

Block Type 1 A residential block for economically and socially diverse users

Block Type 2 A mixed-use block with street-facing ground floor PDR and interior residential buildings - amply served by alleys for loading and docking

Block Type 3 A block with all ground floors dedicated to PDR and residential units ranging from apartments to micro-units

Block Type 1 Residential courtyards, activated by a central park and criss-crossing alleys to slow down the vehicles and accentuate the pedestrian experience.

Block Type 3

Activated inner-block courtyards with maker-spaces, exhibition areas and alleys shared by vehicles as well as pedestrians

Block Type 2 An activated street with customized ground floor uses

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Areas between the restored Rolls Royce building and the Canal Park, activated by street bazaars

The curvilinear street by the Grand Union Canal, activated by boat bazaars, ground floor retail, and bridges across the canal.

growth and decay

A New Vision for Abandoned Cemeteries in Residential Contexts NOIDA, India

As the body withers, the tree grows.

How might a place reflect the inevitably connected occurrences of decay, birth, and growth â&#x20AC;&#x201C; inherently distinct in nature, but leading to one another as time goes on? 2020

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In the densely populated outskirts of New Delhi, residential mid-rises surround a park. This park lends refreshing moments of rest and activity to the neighborhood. How might a cemetery in this park begin a conversation about the sensitive acknowledgment of death within an active part of the city? This confrontation of loss through a living cemetery instead of a lifeless graveyard is a medium for the dead to fuel life into a place that becomes a living, evolving entity itself. The place then becomes a marker of the cycles of time.

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Key Plan

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Section B Section C

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PRAYER ROOM A courtyard and a room for reflection.

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PREPARATION ROOM Two rooms - one for preparing the body for burial and one for the rest of the living.

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MEMORIAL ROOMS Many rooms in a courtyard, stitched together by the memory of the deceased.

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harnessing vulnerabilities

Resource Management Strategies for Enduring Livability Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dhaka is one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest metropolises with a population of 18 million people. But it faces serious hazards - natural as well as social. There is massive socio-economic inequity with 33% of ts population residing in informal settlements and it is also the capital of one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most climate-change vulnerable countries. It is prone to flooding due to the decrease in its wetland spread and also is a recipient of other Bangladeshi villagers who arrive in Dhaka to evade the lack of employment opportunities as well as the tidal nature of their geographical locations.

PERPETUAL CYCLE OF LOSS DHAKA

CLIMATE CHANGE

TIDAL VILLAGES

Wetland cover, 1978

VULNERABLE AREAS

DISEASES + DECAY

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Light and Air

Water

In the heart of Dhaka is the informal settlement â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Korailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. This settlement is an anomaly since most other such settlements often occur at the periphery of the city where residents can find employment at the peripheral industrial areas. Built on the edges of Lake Banani, Korail is very prone to flooding since it has been informally constructed with the use of solid-waste landfill. The residents face health and security hazards due to waterlogging, regular fires due to faulty electric connections, a lack of air and light in the tin-shacks and the lack of a streamlined waste-management program.

Waste

Fire

Exisiting Condition

Re-Opening the channel

Constructing a productive levee

A network of sponges

Key streets for emergency access

Key streets for drainage

Identifying sponges and lungs on the key streets

Productive ground floors in the Nodes

Higher density housing in the Nodes

A more productive edge, that ensures safety and mobility

Exisiting Condition

Proposed Condition

A higher density housing intervention that compliments the anthropological scale of the settlement and uses design elements that are prevalent throughout Korail as well as rural Bangladesh

Existing block

Units selected for removal

Newly available ground

Amended ground

Smaller scale interventions in the blocks away from the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Nodesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Interlocking pavers built of waste - to keep the waste economy going - for the refurbishment of all existing street-scapes so as to turn all of Korail in to a sponge for Dhaka

tamanna_tiku@berkeley.edu 540-200-5546