Aditya Kosman | Selected Works (2019 - 2023)

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

Aditya Kosman California College of the Arts BArch 2023

Timber Town Innovation

Pinwheel Place

Location : Greenville, California

Professor : Peter Anderson Student Team : Aditya Kosman, Alden Gendreau, Rizwana Lubis

Diagrams

Thereafter, how can architecture continue life ?

The Dixie Fire that burned through Greenville has forever changed the landscape of the Indian Valley region and the lives and memories of its inhabitants. As Greenville looks to investigate and reinvent itself after the recent wake of devastation, we remain passopnaye anout maintaining the history of Greenville while revitalizing the population.

Pinwheel Place is a community center composed of three different buildings, each with a distinct program relating to three essential forms of life: Rest, Work, and Play. Located in downtown Greenville, not only Pinwheel Place is a centural meeting point and landmark, the building also serves as a guide on how neighbouring buildings can be re-build after the fire. In the case of emergency, we would like Pinwheel Place to be an asset to neighbouring commuities in case of earthquake or fire.

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During our visit to Greenville, we invited the community to participate into the design by creating an interactive puzzle. Community member would write a program of their liking that relates to the category of Rest, Work, and Play, and then put them in the site where they see them fit.

The resultant interaction allows us to see how Rest, Work, and Play could interact with each other. Community members would then help assemble the puzzle to where they see fit.

PROCESS

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Site plan 7 | Timber Town Innovation

Rest offers the community and local Rancheria clinic access to an urgent care space and blood laboratories. In addition, the upstairs of this space provides co-living spaces for key operators of these spaces to live.

Work offers Greenville residents much need co-working office spaces, a workshop, and hardware store.

Play offers Greenville residents an dopportunity to socialize and congregate in reservable cafe and community room space.

Approach view Timber Town Innovation | 8

Section Perspective

In case of Scenario 2, where a fire has affected neighboring town of Taylorsville, Pinwheel Place is equipped with the capacity to accomodate people displaced from fire and operate as a resource hub in order to deliver food, housing, and clothing to those affected.

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Structural details Timber Town Innovation | 10

Materialities of Care

The Nest

Location : Fremont, California

Professor : Adam Marcus

Student Team : Aditya Kosman, Skyler Cheng

The project “Nests” intertwines residential space for hummingbirds, carpenter bees, and humans. The studio explores the use of rammed earth as the main material in order to generate strategies for multispecies domesticity.

“Nests” lies in the suburban neighborhood of Fremont by Alameda creek, it connects two streets while surrounded by fenced single-family homes. The aim of this project is to create a connection and a shared space through this interspecies residential space and to encourage the co-habitation between humans and non-humans. The typology of this project is essentially a reversed and twisted dingbat, transforming the isolated units into a socially and environmentally connected multi-living space. The project introduces a single room occupancy typology in response to the site designed for a typical nuclear family housing.

Calypte costae Calyptae costae

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Megachiles fidelis

Normal Single Family House Connect Two Street Urban Shared Space Program Pushing / Stretching Program Entrances Thermal Mass Bees Nest Hummingbirds Nest View Sun Dwelling

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Ground plan

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First floor plan

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Perspectives 17 | Materialities of Care

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Rammed earth study

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Regenerative Building Data

Regenerative Building Performance Analysis

Professor : Brendon Levitt

Software : Rhino, Grasshopper, Bumblebee

Defaults : Ext. Shade 2.5m overhang to east Int. Shade None Glazing U -2.4 W/m2-k SHGC 0.25 VLT-0.6 Optimized Scheme : Ext. Shade Dynamic Shade Glazing SHGC 0.15 Annual energy consumption = Total EUI x Area = 54.99 kWh/m2 x 672m2 = 36953.28 kWh 3.25 2.57 South Shade already cover the whole window at H75, making adjustment here does not make a di erence in energy use Dynamic Exterior Shading can reduce energy for cooling while keeping the heating energy the same as interior shading Increase vertical shading on west side can reduced cooling energy while keeping heating energy the same Changing SHGC allowing less solar radiation energy to enter, space is cooler and therefore heating is increased and cooling is reduced Daylight Dimming reduces the usage of light inside the building as it turned o the lighting during the day 21 | Materialities of Care

Energy kWh = 13706.55 kWh kWh/m2 = 269.69 kWh/m2 Energy kWh = 25333.65 kWh kWh/m2 = 269.69 kWh/m2 Solar irradiation = 1798 kWh Solar irradiation = 1798 kWh Annual renewable energy = 13706.55 kWh + 25333.65 kWh = 39040.2 kWh Photovoltaic Panels, kWh Production Annual energy consumption = 36953.38 kWh x 105% = 38800.94 kWh N 10’2” 3.10m 5’ 6” / 1.67m 5’ 6” / 1.67m 14’11” 4.57m 20’6” 6.25m 7’5” 2.28m a a a a a a a a a a a a a a b b c c a c d d a Materialities of Care | 22

Reframing Property

Adeline Complex

Location : 30th St, West Oakland, California

Professor : Janette Kim

Student Team : Aditya Kosman, Skyler Cheng

This project goal is to create a reciprocal relationship between retired seniors and the cannabis operation to achieve a regenerative neighbourhood in West Oakland. Oakland opened opportunity for cannabis business with the creation of the “Green Zone” that allows cannabis legal operations to open, from growing process to dispensaries. With the industry growing rapidly, seniors are considered the fastest-growing demographic of new users due to its medical benefits. This project helps to achieve the solution to issues of affordable living for senior citizens while organizing the cannabis operation into a more legal and cleaner environment. A safe and cheaper marijuana paired with proper education is one step closer to tackle the issues on the criminalization of cannabis.

As the senior housing is situated above the cannabis business, this allows opportunities for seniors to invest to the business as a new way to introduce rent. In return, the profit that is gained from the business will become rent reduction for residents. Retired seniors are able to enjoy an affordable retirement living in an urban environment, while at the same time, have access to their medical needs and recretional needs from their dispensary and grow house.

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Section Render

Diagrams

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Plan Site plan diagram Site plan 27 | Reframing Property

Interior perspectives

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Section model 29 | Reframing Property

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New NOONAN

Location : Pier 70, San Francisco, California

Professor : Craig Scott, Ryan Golenberg

The NEW NOONAN building serves to house artist studios, galleries, and street art exhibition. The building acts as a frame, with a core connecting the programs to each other and the bay views. The core gives an immersive experience of street art for the visitors in the heart of building.

The project takes a dive in analyzing street artist’s artworks, finding moments and elements that would be the drivers in creating an architectural language. The act of offsetting, shearing, and bordering defines the intersection of spaces and how programs are assigned to the specific views of the bay.

Diagrams, mural by Jason Revok Solid - Fragmented

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Framing Shearing

Site Mass Rotate to maximize views Core View framing to core Add shearing Final Form 100% border restrain 50% border restrain No restrain No restrain Diagrams Axon render New NOONAN | 34

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Interior perspectives

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Perspective Elevation 35 | New NOONAN

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Study

Model

Desert House

Location : Joshua Tree, California Professor : Clark Thenhaus, Dylan Krueger, Craig Scott

The Desert House explores the spatial relationship beginning from a simple movement of overlapping two squares. The squares are patterned based on the topographical lines of the site in order to create the initial figure ground. The lines shapes the connection and separation between programs, creating a clear pathway in both indoor and semi-outdoor spaces. The tatami table inside the house extends itself outside of the house, serving as balcony and a roof to the stairs leading to Ground Floor.

Diagrams

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Site Plan Desert House | 40

First Floor Plan Ground Floor Plan 41 | Desert House

West Section Desert House | 42

West Elevation

Main Street Pavillion

Location : Main Street Park, Brooklyn Professor : Matthew Kendall

The pavilion focuses on the exploration on the relationship between solid, surface, and carved void. The vibrant contrasting colors of the pavilion distinguished each elements as to create a clear boundaries between each of them. The panelized skins expresses the surface, acting as a gate between the solid and the carved void. The pavilion holds a performance area, gathering and seating area, and observation platform. These programs were given a view of the iconic Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge.