Architecture Portfolio_Aastha Aggarwal_2020

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Timeless

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Grotesque Beauty

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Integrated Landscapes

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McCallan Distillery

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The Sticky Grid

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River Front Development

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University of Health Sciences

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Vidhan Sabha

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Making and Meaning

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Timeless SCI-Arc | Design Studio | Spring 2020

TIMELESS is an encyclopedic museum that creates a stunning visual timeline of history by creating multiple narratives. The museum is located in the city of Los Angeles and floats atop Wilshire Boulevard lending spectacular views, public influx and a new language of imparting knowledge. A large public plaza in the center becomes a focal point on Wilshire Boulevard for the dissemination of knowledge. TIMELESS showcases the exhibits in unique and immersive ways, both physically and digitally, giving the visitor the option to curate their narratives in the museum.

The museum holds temporary exhibitions using permanent collections of LACMA for the neoteric age. Through the night, TIMELESS is a visual opera to experience art with ĂŠclat.

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01 The interior scheme of the project focuses on the inconsistent mix of objects and stories from different eras and geographical regions. It creates experiences by exhibiting permanent collections of LACMA in temporary locations allowing visitors to curate their narratives while inside the museum. The exhibition spaces are unique as they present the artifacts in their original context digitally and take the visitor through a time-travel journey of that art period.

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Elevation on Wilshire Boulevard Section through Wilshire Boulevard

01 TIMELESS consists of four rings in an unfinished loop metaphorically symbolizing time as the only constant in our ever-changing world. Each ring seems to welcome and engage with the important landmarks nearby – La Brea Tar pits, Peterson Automotive Museum, Motion Pictures Academy, Downtown LA, and Wilshire Boulevard itself. The form of the building allows for a large public plaza in the center that becomes a focal point in the heart of the city for rendezvous with art and dissemination of knowledge.

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After closing, the faรงade of the building turns into a digital projection of stories inside. Through the night, the public plaza becomes a theatre where a visual opera takes place unfolding stories of art and history.

Museum during the night

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Grotesque Beauty SCI-Arc | Visual Studies | Spring 2020

The front view “Empire” and the back view “Monarch” depict a kingdom- like stage plagued by the juxtaposition of morbidity and beauty. The stage presents a platform for the skeletal nature of the structure ornamented with grotesque sculptures and figures. The sculpture emulate the bizarre nature of existence wherein one endeavors to morph the original nature of being to meet irrational standards of beauty. While the externally applied texture can deceive the viewer to perceive a healthy vision, the flesh and the skeleton within cannot hide the pathological effects.

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Integrated Landscapes SCI-Arc | Design Studio | Fall 2019

INTEGRATED LANDSCAPES questions the contemporary status of the image in architecture. The project began with a process of extracting visual and physical information from a site in Chinatown, Los Angeles as well as several urban artifacts of diverse scales. The aim was to produce a composite form of selected source material derived from the site that redefines the formal relationship inherent in selected elements and convert these into an architectural scale.

3D Photoscanned images from site to explore different architectural scales and formal quality of objects to produce a new composite form

Object geometries obtained from extraction of visual and physical information

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INTEGRATED LANDSCAPES incorporates techniques to produce forms and geometries from images of objects.

The composite forms produced new perceptions of common artifacts.

The project uses a cohesive design strategy by making use of contrasting themes which can be seen from part to whole. The formal quality of the 3D scanned objects integrate with the soft landscapes obtained from vacuum-formed models. The landscape and the built-form allow for an atrium in the centre which becomes a recreational area.

Design process from part to whole

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The building envelope is a pixelated and planar version of the 3D objects obtained from site. As a contrast smooth organic elements are placed onto it. The texture and colors of the building add to the playfulness and dynamics of the project and the immediate context around site.

Inspired from pod working spaces, the atrium has smooth and organic extrusions at different levels which act like extended areas for small offices.

03 The design of the co-working space is to create an architectural project to be viewed from outside as well as experience the interiors. The office space offers a flexible infrastructural environment for pod spaces, small businesses, large companies, conference halls and retail shops.

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Macallan Distillery SCI-Arc Fall 2019

The Macallan Distillery and Visitors’ Experience Centre in Scotland, designed by Richard Rogers, was chosen for the precedent study. While selecting an appropriate transformation for the building, possible alternative solutions for the roof of the Distillery were explored and researched upon. The existing Glulam panels that make up the framework of the roof of the building were replaced by MPP (Mass Plywood Panels) which are lighter and can be customized into larger panels. The vegetation cover on the timber panels over the domes was removed and the panels were also replaced with green tinted glass panels and insulated glass, to allow more light to enter the interior of the building.

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04 Part Section - Existing Structure

Part Section - After Transformation

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04 Instead of keeping the original small triangular skylights at the corners of the domes, the vegetation cover on the timber panels over the domes was removed and the panels were replaced with glass. The final intervention was to include a curved brie-soleil just below the glass dome, attached to the steel frame with cables in tension, to ensure that only diffused light enters inside.

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Sticky Grid SCI-Arc Fall 2019

The Sticky Grid is a graphical outcome of Grasshopper scripting and post-processing to form a hyper-flat sticker. The line patterns are used to make a panel bound to a robot arm.

The robotic simulations created patterns; one of which was transfered to a MDF board to form a temporary column.

The aim of the studio is to use primitive geometries, lines, colors with digital processing techniques and to produce new graphics and media.

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Panel bound on the robotic arm to create patterns

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The Column

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The STICKY Grid

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Riverfront Development Professional Work | DDF Consultants Pvt. Ltd. | India

An integrated plan for TRIVENI SANGAM, Allahabad, India is proposed without interfering with the existing activities and topography of site. A 5.5 km floodplain was to be designed for recreational purposes to invite more tourists to the river.

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The riverfront with various recreational activities

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University of Health Sciences Professional Work | DDF Consultants Pvt. Ltd. | India

The project was a competition for the KALPANA CHAWALA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, Haryana, India The scope included design of campus including institutes, hospitals and on-campus residences.

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LEGEND 1. Super Specialty Hospital 2. Organ Transplant Center 3. Mental Health Center 4. Advanced Research Center 5. Regional Cancer Center 6. Infectious Disease Center 7. Sports Medicine Center 8. Central Amenities 9. Diagnostic Center 10. Central Library 11. Pharmacy College 12. Nursing College 13. Dental College 14. Ayurveda Institute 15. Herbal Gardens

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Geriatric Center Physiotherapy College Administration Block Auditorium Football Field UG Boys Hostel PG Boys Hostel PG Girls Hostel UG Girls Hostel Nurses Hostel Type 7 Residence Type 5 Residence Type 6 Residence Type 4 Residence Type 3 Residence Type 2 Residence

32. Community Center 33. Shopping Center 34. Sports Complex & Student Activity Center 35. Dharamshala 36. ESS Block/ Residence Services Block 37. Hospital Services Block

SITE PLANNING AND CONCEPT The campus is envisioned as an integrated hub for innovation and technology which will form a nucleus for national and global health policy development

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Conceptual section through the Super-Specialty Hospital 34

Views of the buildings and the central parks, integrated with the infrastructure to promote a healthier environment for wellness.

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Vidhan Sabha Professional Work | DDF Consultants Pvt. Ltd. | India

The project was to design the legislative assembly for Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.

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Vidhan Sabha

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Making and Meaning SCI-Arc | Summer Workshop 2019

3D scan of human bodies using digital techniques was done.

The scans were used to make new geometries to texturise with patterns. The exercise dealt with using different modes of media using the human body as a scale to produce 3D forms.

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1:1 scale model of the body compositions

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09 Primitive shapes were taken to form a 3D composition and then overlayed with different colors and lines. The aim of the project was to make a physical model and to study the play of light and shadow.

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