Portfolio - Anisha Shikre

ANISHA SHIK RE portfolio California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo +1 510 599 4353

thesis

disrupt the city

childrens area

There is a big stigma surrounding mental health in India, and an Architectural intervention with art based therapies and activities can be a subtle, yet long lasting way towards raising awareness towards mental health to create spaces that promote well being. Located in a commercial district in Mumbai known as BKC, the rigid, reductive, modern spaces foster a stressful environment. Introducing art based interventions will disrupt and slow down the environment. The site is a commercial plaza filled with plenty of unused non space in dire need of more dynamic engagement. Ritually commuted throughby professionals starting their day, school children pass by in the afternoon, the site attracts all ages at night.

The design test explores how the site can cater to different activities that happen from day to night to fit the needs of the space according to the different times of the day. The program includes spaces for art based therapies, meditative spaces, as well as gathering spaces. Inspiration is also drawn from traditional well being activities practised in India such as yoga, religious spaces, traditional children’s games and meditation. The design of these spaces seeks to merge both the forms and the uses of vernacular Indian typologies. The strategies employed include grafting onto the existing buildings on site and creating a system of pods that filter in the surrounding to provide disruptions and healthy interruptions to the day to day life of people. This specific commercial plaza serves as a precedent for the myriad other non place plazas located throughout BKC.

professionals area

grafting / attachments

anisha shikre / studio shields/ thesis 100

300 200

sound therapy

play therapy

art therapy

arch + arch + arch art therapy rooms

sloped roof + sloped roof meditation room

sloped roof + arch + jaali dance therapy room

sloped roof + jaali

veranda + arch

play therapy room

play area

150 75

art gallery

art therapy

sound therapy

yoga room

pavilion

grafting

sloped roof + jaali sound

sloped roof

used as a meditative space

arch

homes ; facade used as murals

veranda

provides privacy

courtyard

spaces arranged around it for meditation

jaali

keeps cool breeze in used in temples

balcony provides relief space in cities

STELLE OLTRARNO

Outdoor cafe, with the view of the countryside

Palazzina, holds study lounges, a bookstore and housing for younger students - dormitory style

Year of Project Completion : 4th year, Fall Semester (Fall 2020) - CSU IP Firenze - Study Abroad Observatory - main attraction of the site

Project Assignment : Student Housing at Forte Belvedere, Florence, Italy.

Project Description : The project is located on a historical site, which includes a house and fortress previously owned by the Medici Family of Florence. The existing buildings on the site includes the historical central Palazzina. The purpose of this project was also to find a way to bring together the locals of Florence and study abroad students in Florence together by creating a unique and mutually beneficial experience. I was inspired by the history of the site, where Galileo resided when he was a tutor for the Medici children, and where he made most of his most important discoveries. I chose to include an observatory and revolved my project around the views of Florence visible from the site as well as the views of the sky and constellations. After conducting research on the different constellations you can see from the sky at different times of the day, the form of the observatory was curated. Iincluded student housing in the existing Palazzina, as well as on the site, with the housing being underground to create semi private spaces and to also take advantage of the views of the sky.

Green Lawn - outdoor gathering space with views of Florence

Housing Units - with skylights and sunken courtyards, creating semi private spaces for students living in these spaces

Elevated Viewing Deck - to enjoy views of the Florence skyline, the famous Duomo is visible from here

Courtyard - sunken in courtyard space to double as a space for gathering and outdoor performances

Skylight angled so that Polaris is visible from underneath this point - The pointed skylight also doubles as a sun dial

Constellation Cepheus - A future pole star, circumpolar stars in this constellation always above the horizon Constellation Draco- almost directly overhead in the night - in 28 light years the star “Eltanin” will be the brightest star in the sky

Constellation Cassiopeia - Visible year round, low in the North

Constellation Ursa Major - The great bear, a part of the constellation can be seen from the sky at all times

Transverse Section - Palazzina

Longitudinal Section - Palazzina

Section - Housing Unit

Section - Observatory

Longitudinal Section through Palazzina

Longitudinal Section through units

Site Section - Units

Site Section - Palazzina

Detail - Underground 15’

Floor Plan - Palazzina Terrace Level

35’

Detail - Outdoor and Dining / Terrace Detail - Bookstore Study Lounge

- Landscape FloorFloor PlanPlan - Level 3 and 4

Detail - Housing Units Detail - Student Bedrooms

Floor Plan - Section Cut Roof Plan

sotto sotto lo lo stesso stesso tetto tetto Year of Project Completion : 4th year, Spring Semester (Spring 2020/21) - CSU IP Firenze - Study Abroad Project Assignment : Kindergarten for children and Library for senior citizens.

Project Description : My project combines a kindergarten and a library for senior citizens, all under the same roof, aiming to bring them together through proximity and shared experiences. The project opens up opportunities to promote and facilitate mentorship and guidance by the elderly to the children. By placing the kindergarten and the library under the same roof, this road to learning and growth for the kids is wide open. The historical city of Florence is lacking in facilities for both the elderly as well as the children. This project, set in the heart of Florence, near Sant’ Ambrogio Market, is one of the most popular and frequently visited markets in Florence, and is at an ideal location to bring together the elderly and younger populations of Florence. The proximity to many other gardens and historical landmarks in the city makes it accessible to and from many parts of Florence. By increasing interactions for the elderly, it serves to improve their mental health and well being. The loggia serves as a filter into the site, to ebb the main pedestrian traffic at the street adjacent to the loggia.

In my project, this space is left open to allow the people to occupy and roam freely in the area. The project itself has two excavations, aiming at facilitating permeability in the area. One of the voids is in the library, aim to guide the people from Del Matriri Del Popolo to Allgeri, which can then lead them to the Sant’ Amrbogio market, and to facilitate circulation throughout the city center. The other void, placed near the kindergarten, aims to facilitate permeability and circulation through the site itself.

Axonometric View

Program Diagram

multipurpose room

exhibition room

double height space / reading room

cafe

reading room

classroom classroom classroom

Program Division

Permeability Diagram

kindergarten

library

Site Plan

First Floor Plan

Roof Plan

Second Floor Plan

Transverse Section

Transverse Section Detail

Longitudinal Section

Longitudinal Section Detail

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Floor Plan - Underground

Year of Project Completion : 3rd Year, Double Quarter (Winter Quarter 2019 & Spring Quarter 2020) / Stacey White Studio Project Assignment : [ Future University ] Master Plan in collaboration with Studio class and a Performing Arts Center in a potential CSU Campus in Stockton, California Project Description : Many of Stockton’s major issues stem from a lack of community and opportunities for young people. The youth of Stockton needs more supervision, because they have parents who have to commute to the Bay Area for work. The community center and performing arts center can be a space for them to be in when they cannot be at home. This deficiency likely increases he amount of crime committed by youth who have no other outlets, diminishes their interest and participation in school. Floor Plan - Level 1 This also gets in the way of their desire and ability to pursue higher education and to contribute to the economic growth of the city. Our goal is to create a building that: gives Stockton’s youth the exposure, role models, and experiences that they’re currently lacking; providing a space for Stockton’s existing artists to showcase their work and inspire future artists, and that brings Stockton’s broader community together. Project was done using Revit, in collaboration with Elizabeth Reed.

For a more detailed view of the project visit : https://issuu.com/anishashikre/docs/book_anishashikre

Floor Plan - Level 2

Floor Plan - Level 3

Balcony Seating

Seating on a raised floor to accommodate for sight lines.

TERRACE

Outfoor terracewith a bar for the use of people attending the performace.

Operable WIndows

To allow for natural ventilation through the winds coming from the nortth.

Electrrical Lighting

Large Electrical LED lights in areas that will be used in the night as well in the day.

SPACE CAMP JOSHUA BOLAN

MARTINA GUGGIA

SOPHIA CLEMENTI

Year of Project Completion : 2nd Year, Spring Quarter (Spring 2018/19) / Norman Humberto Studio

ANISHA SHIKRE

CONCEPT

Project Assignment : Residence for Berndt Schaefers.

Space Camp is an experiential residence designed for our Client, designed Project Description : Space Camp is an experiential residence Bernd and his family ofand eighteen.

Using skylights, for ourSchaefers, Client, Berndt Schaefers, his family of various eighteen members. Using windows, and outdoor windows, spaces, weand developed transparent, but variations of skylights, ourdooraspaces, we defeloped a transcomforting collection ofcollection spaces that connects directly to the natural parent but comforting of spaces that connect directly to the natucontext of the site. This enables the inhabitants to fully realize their ral context of the site. This would enable the inhabitants to fully realise their thoughts and imaginations as they are no longer confined to the thoughts and imaginations as they are no longer confined to their physical physical space. Each area of Space Camp is arranged in a way so space. area of aSpace Camp is arranged a semi-private way so that the form that theEach form creates gradient of public, private, in and creates a gradient puvlic, private, andbetween semi-private The gadient spaces. The gradientofdevelops a balance familyspaces. interactions develops a balance between family interactions and privacy. Project done and privacy. in collaboration with Joshua Bolan, Martina Guggia and Sophia Clementi

Public Private/Semi-Private Bernd’s Room

PUBLIC/PRIVATE

ORIGINAL FORM

DEVELOPMENT FORM

CIRCULATION

PRELIMINARY FORM

THE FAMILY

PLAN OBLIQUE 1/16” = 1’

BERND

CAROLA

MAX

HELGARD

BERND

MAYA

NIKOLA

HANNAH

JULIA

FINAL FORM

STUDIO NORMAN SPRING 2019

GIORGIANA

CATHARINA

WILHELMINE

ELIZABETH

CAROLINA

MORITZ

KARIN

KATHERINA

MARIE LUISE

WITHIN THE MIND WITHIN THE MIND