PORTFOLIO Manikanta Kaveripatnam
Manikanta Kaveripatnam Masteres of Architecture Candidate manikantakaveripatnam@gmail.com manikanta23@ymail.com
content dwelling
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manintainance facility
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pavilion
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shipping container house
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exploration
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Warka Water
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environmental systems
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representation
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product design
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sketches
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dwelling
afordable housing for two families directed by Prof. Elena Canovas, studio 318
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The site at Lafayette Square, down town St. Louis, two sites combined 1925 and 1927 Hickory st, St. Louis 63104. The total site dimensions being 40’x127’, with a topographic drop of about 12’ from the main street to the back alley. It is a historic residential neighbourhood.
Thinking through making!
The project focuses on minimal use of space and efficient use of materials, making it affordable. Here I imagine, both the occupants to be a middle class family with two children. To begin with, the different elements that affect the location and demography of the site are considered, and models representing each element developed. Later using these models as a language to come up with the design/ form/ architecture. By conceptualizing all the necessary details that is being learned through the process of making study models, drawing plans and sections simultaneously. This gives clarity for the better understanding of the project. A site model was made by the group for the final model to fit in. In the project, importance has been given to the historic significance of the neighbourhood. To preserve the history, using bricks from the ruins of the original historic buildings from the neighbourhood to construct the front and the side façade of the building. The party wall on the west is being shared and there is a wider courtyard on the east for better sunlight and wind.
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Crime density : the density of staple pins represent the crime density in a certain area.
Sculpture : Curled up the paper strips and creating volume between the layers makes it look artistic and architectural.
Wind : Thin paper strips curled up againsed each other to create the pattern and show the direction of the wind.
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Walls : Vertical and horizontal walls arranged depicting possible volumetric space and also representing load baring walls.
Network : Depicting road ways, electric poles and plumbing connections.
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ruin
urban fabric
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roof
level two
level one
combined floor plates
Conceptualize into a program. The grids and the rectilinear cuts helps to conceptulize the floor plan consisting of light wells, coartyards and private and semiprivate areas.
study model for the above floor plates
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View from the west party wall. The light wells allowing light and ventilation of the house forming courtyards. The amount of light coming through the opposite side (east faรงade) can also be observed.
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North-south section
East-west section
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parking
level 1
level 2
Courtyard
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Private space
Semiprivate space
parking
level 1
level 2
roof
Breaking up of each floor plan into a model to give a better sense of space and circulation.
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Final bass wood model street view from the intersection (Mississippi Ave and Hickory street)
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Final bass wood model (street view from alley)
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Final bass wood model (east faรงade)
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manintainance facility in Forest Park
directed by Prof. SungHo Kim, studio 317
Hand drafted site plan; all the contour lines dotted and the other neighboring projects also drawn.
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Hand drafted conceptual drawing made to understand the site and site condition. On the top is a site plan drawn as mirror image from the perspective drawing.
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The site is located at the Forest Park along the Clayton Ave on the south. This specific site is surrounded by roads; Hospital Dr. on the west, Clayton Ave on the south and S Kings highway Blvd. on the east. The program of the facility is to house all the garden equipments like trucks, lawnmowers, gardening tools, manure, etc. which are necessary for the maintainance of the park. The facility has two openings, for easier maneuvering of large trucks in and out of the facility. There are two floors in the facility, level one is for the parking trucks and office space and level two is for the storage of goods.
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Hand drafted plan, section, elevation
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Intervening into the landscape where the walls bend into roof. The wave roof system that interacts with the landscape, which is interesting to walk on or to sit.
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Final bass wood model
pavilion on the lake
directed by Prof. SungHo Kim, studio 317
The project was based on theme of water and view.
Hand drafted site plan with hatch to represent land and water.
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Hand drafted plan, section, elevation with projections
The final model is made of 32nd inch thick bass wood sheet and the lake is made of paraffin wax which gives the frozen lake appearance.
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Final bass wood model
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shipping container house a studio house for one person
This project was from Boston Architecture College. The concept here was to build a house using set of four different sized shipping containers.
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Using a set of staple pins, it makes it easier to build and understand the different possibilities. Exposing half the walls with glass allow more sunlight making it look more spacious. All original hand drafted plans and elevation.
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exploration directed by Prof. Lavender Tessmer
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The narrative for the project goes like this; the landscape was discovered by an explorer and the site has rich deposits of a rare stone called “Alexandrite�. The character of this stone is that it changes its color with change in angles of sunlight. So, the explorer decides to construct an observatory and preserve the originality of the site. The observatory also houses a deposit where people can see the stones up close and observe the changing colour of the stone With different angles of sunlight.
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observation area for the deposit. All these drawings designed in Rhinoceros and rendered on V-ray, with material rendering.
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warka water directed by Arch. Arturo Vuttori
The components of an assembled Warka tower version 1.8 with colour coded rings and the spiral.
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Internship at Italy, hands on experience designing and building an installation which collects atmospheric dew, rain and fog to convert into portable drinking water. Pilot project in Etheopia and currently one being built in Haite. Made detailed video instruction manual to erect the tower. The cover picture of the project is a long exposure photo, shot with the following specifications: location Dimensions Exposure Focal length ISO speed rating Flash Make Model Lens
Bomarzo, Italy, Star-trail 4935 x 3290 731.0 sec at f / 5.0 42 mm ISO 100 did not fire NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D5500 18.0-140.0 mm f/3.5-5.6
Desiged solar pannel pattern for solar cells. The components of an assembly warka model version 7 of scale 1:10. 32 flags 5 spiral modules
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1 shade 16 wire pegings 32 brick base 8 triangular wooden base
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environmental system directed by Prof. Catalena Freixas The programe for the pavilion is wine tasting center, where all the walls are made
of wine barrels. the barrels are filled in different insolating material for insolation inside. the interior of the roof is made of wine bottle cork, since cork has a good R value and is good for aesthetics .
Composit R value of wall 68.63
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Composit R value of floor 16.95
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Composit R value of roof 14.11
Total composit R value 101.82
gravel concrete water proofing rigid insulation
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since all the walls are made of wine barrels, the walls are 3’ thick filled with respective materials. and the top 2 layers of the barrels have a reflective surface cladded inside them which allow the light to reflect off of the surface and disperse the light inside. since the light entering has to reflect, the intensity gets reduced, all because of the 3’ thickness of the wall. since all the walls are made of about 50% of glass, there is enough sunlight coming in and ample viewing available.
Plan
Argon Light shelf
water proofing concrete rigid insulation batt insulation plywood cork
Roof
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representation directed by Prof. Lavender Tessmer
The model made to understand and gain data from the object. Here, I have used the concept of grid system, to help me understand the object. The long wires are dropped down from every half an inch from the top and bottom to the three-dimensional object at the middle at different locations trying to map the X, Y and the Z-axis. The data colleccted were the distance from the top/ bottom towards the object, at that perticular point.
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Hand drafted axonometric drawing
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Using the base logic from the previous exercise, a new space being hand drafted using same geometry on the roof.
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lights At the bottom are bamboo baskets put up in the end of a narrow garden, giving the impression that the space is not narrow. On the right, is lufa that gives a charming glow with an LED inside.
Metal wire crumbled into a ball to form an outer fancy structure for a light bulb to go in. There are two different wires being used, one with a metallic finish and the other is a copper wire. As the light used is warm yellow, the tinge of copper.
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clenometer This is a device called clinometer, using trigonometry height of buildings can be determined. Innovatively I have added a laser pointer, which will determine the exact point of the top peak. The weight suspended would be perpendicular to the ground, giving us an accurate angular measurement made by the laser and the suspended weight.
computer stand The computer stand is made by hand and the texture on it is made by using a belt sander.
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phone stand This is a phone-speaker dock designed, 3D printed and CNC done during the summer program at the BAC. Using the 3D printed conical, the sound from the speaker on the either side of the phone is enhanced and intensified.
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sketches
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