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Siddhartha R Verma

The name derives from two words in Sanskrit language, siddha (achieved) + artha (what was searched for)

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In the pursuit of mastery

1.1 Hilton combo hotel

SD to CD, brand coordination, CA support

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Architectural Designer - Type Six Design & Development, 2023-24

This 160-room dual-brand hotel integrates Hilton Hampton Inn and Hilton Home2 Suites under a single roof, utilizing Type IIA construction. The design features a straightforward L-shaped layout, efficiently separating the two brands: Hampton Inn, catering to business and leisure travelers, occupies one wing, while Home2 Suites, designed for long-term guests seeking a residential ambiance, occupies the other. These distinct zones converge at a central circulation hub. The first level houses backof-house operations and thoughtfully designed shared spaces, fostering seamless functionality and interaction between the two brands.

On multiple projects of similar scale, I worked under the project manager to deliver SD, DD, IFP (Issued for Permit), and CD phases while securing brand approval. I conducted site surveys, accompanied PM for construction administration, participated in client presentations, created visualizations, and coordinated with consultants.

Upper level Legend

Hilton Hampton Inn

Hilton Home 2

Circulatio

Double Queen Guestroom

King Guestroom

3. Parapet wall cap callout detail at the roof line

DOUBLE QUEEN GUESTROOM

GUESTROOM

DOUBLE QUEEN GUESTROOM

KING GUESTROOM

DOUBLE QUEEN GUESTROOM

02. Marriott

Residence Inn hotel

Design Development to Permit Set

Architectural designer - Type Six Design & Development, 2023-

Carrollton, Texas -24

This189-key, six-story cold-formed steel hotel (Type II-B, NFPA 13) developed under Marriott brand standards and permitted under the 2021 IBC and City of Carrollton amendments. The project integrates full guestroom programming with activated ground-floor amenities including lobby, breakfast area, meeting rooms, fitness center, indoor pool, BOH operations, and structured site coordination.

As part of the architectural team, I contributed to permit documentation, guestroom plans and details, public area layouts, accessibility compliance, coordination with structural, MEP, and fire consultants, and façade development. The drawing set included full floor plans, RCPs, enlarged public area plans, guestroom layouts and details, exterior elevations, wall sections, and code compliance documentation, ensuring alignment with Marriott design standards and construction delivery requirements.

03. Double Tree Hilton

Exterior Renovation and Lighting

Laredo, Texas

Project lead - Architectural designer, Type Six Design & Development, 2023-24

Led façade lighting design development and exterior brand strategy for DoubleTree by Hilton, enhancing vertical identity and ground-level activation to elevate nighttime presence, and coordinating with consultants and contractors to deliver a compliant, high-performance façade.

04. TownePlace Suites by Marriott

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Architectural designer - Type Six Design & Development, 2023-24

This Type V-A wood-frame Marriott property balances brand standards, cost efficiency, and clear façade articulation through a combination of brick, EIFS, and metal panel systems. The ground level integrates stone cladding and a defined entry canopy to establish a strong arrival experience aligned with TownePlace Suites brand identity.

I contributed to the development of the architectural construction documents, including exterior elevations, material callouts, and wall assembly coordination. My role focused on producing and refining permit and construction-level drawings, resolving façade transitions, and coordinating with structural and MEP consultants to ensure accuracy, consistency, and constructability. This experience strengthened my technical proficiency in hospitality documentation and reinforced my ability to translate design intent into coordinated, buildable drawings.

06. Fontana Slovene Apartments

Climate-responsive facade - design, 3D, and visualization

Fontana, California 2025

Designer - Starq Design Inc, 2025

Starq Design developed the facade strategy and visualization for this multi-family project in Fontana, California, responding to Southern California energyperformance requirements within a growing Inland Empire context. The envelope prioritizes clear massing, passive self-shading, and a durable, climate-appropriate material palette that moderates solar heat gain.

Stepped volumes, recessed balconies, and articulated façades provide effective self-shading and daylight control, supporting envelope performance consistent with California Title 24 goals. The work involved coordinating with the landscape and civil consultants, and producing renderings and 3D studies that tested how the material palette and shadow lines would read across the elevations.

7.1. Hojas & Rainbow

Ultra-luxury residences, Costa Rica

Antoine Predock Architect, Albuquerque, NM, 2021-22

Junior Designer - core design team, Hojas and Rainbow houses

Inspired by Hojas, meaning “falling leaves,” this ninebedroom house cascades down a hill, its leaf-shaped roofs with knife-edge details opening views in all directions.

Working closely with FAIA Gold Medalist Antoine Predock, I translated his vision of “body in motion” into spatial sequences and built form. I developed parametric models in Rhino and Grasshopper, advanced SD and DD drawings, and produced renderings and walkthroughs in Lumion. I supported BIM coordination in meetings with consultants and local architects, and contributed to material selection and interior design alongside the lead architect.

7.2 Rainbow residence

Inspired from the Rainbow Boa MS Truss per structure

This 13-bedroom house adapts to the topography like a snake, with a retaining wall housing all services and a cart ramp on top. Its roof mimics snake skin with five shades of scale-shaped zinc tiles.

Knife Edge Roof detail

structure 10”x12” Zinc tiles on wooden battens

Reference render provided by the design team

8.1 Royal Palace

Residence for the Royal Family of Qatar

SABS Architects, Noida and Doha Architect, 2018-19

Anultra-luxurious palace inspired by sand dunes, designed for minimum heat gain in the Doha climate. Working across studios in Noida and Doha, I developed construction documents in Revit and AutoCAD from the lead design team’s tender drawings and Rhino models, advancing all three phases of the project. I contributed to coordination meetings, clash detection, site visits, and mentored interns on the BIM workflow.

DETAIL : Wall cavity & white exterior finish minimize heat gain.

Reference render provided by the design team

8.2 Horse Stable

Al Wajbah Palace Complex, Doha

The equestrian wing of the Al Wajbah Palace Complex houses sixteen stalls along a curved arcade of pointed arches, with adjacent grooming, medical, and tack programs. Working from the lead design team’s reference imagery, I built the Revit model and produced detailed construction documents under the BIM manager and project architect, resolving the curved geometry and arcade openings for fabrication.

Revit model

09. School of Arcology

Reimagining concepts of Paolo Soleri (Architecture + Ecology)

Arizona State University, M.Arch Studio Student work, 2019-2020

Aeroponic plants absorb sunlight while evaporating water through their leaves, lowering ambient temperature. Inflatable ETFE controls solar gain, creating a stable microclimate. A water mist system runs through the ceiling and dendrophile columns, supplying plants that grow downward from above, out of human reach but clearly visible, producing a biophilic environment for learning.

CLASSROOM

STAFF ROOM

SECTIONAL VIEW

WALL SECTION

AMPHITHEATRE

LOBBY

SOUVENIR SHOP EXPERIENCE CENTER

GREEN CAFE AND MEDITATION

ETFE SKIN & STEEL STRUCTURE

10. The Cloud Fire Station

Water from air, used for community

Third Semester, 2020 Site: Tempe, AZ

Independent Studio project Instructor: Ed Soltero

Inspired by a fire truck’s water-carrying role, I designed a fire station with a cloudlike, free-flowing copper skin that creates a comfortable microclimate for firefighters.

Located in ASU’s future Novus Innovation Corridor, the site receives abundant sunlight, making solar strategies a key design component.

The site receives abundant sunlight, making solar strategies a key design component.

The fire station’s form was shaped by the site’s triangular geometry and the turning radius of fire trucks.

Creating a Micro-climate using performative strategies :

Air to Water with Zero mass Solar Panels

Double Roof prevents heat gain

Overhead open water tanks store water, keep the rooftop cool and create a natural gravitational force for use.

Wall Section

1.1 Water Temple Project

Phase I: Vision and Government Adoption

B.Arch Thesis, 2015 Design originator and project lead

The Ganga is the most revered river in India and among the most polluted. Once every twelve years, Varanasi and its sister cities host the Kumbh Mela, the largest human gathering on earth, where pilgrims arrive to bathe in water that is now unfit even for agriculture in many stretches. The Water Temple began as my undergraduate thesis: an attempt to use the river’s own sacred significance as the instrument of its repair.

The proposal reimagines the Varanasi ghats as a riverfront that lets people see, taste, and return Ganga water through ritual, making the larger water cycle legible as a civic and spiritual experience. The project was presented to the Prime Minister of India and adopted under the National Mission for Clean Ganga CSR initiative, with land parcels identified along the Varanasi riverbank for a potential pilot.

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11.2 Water Temple Project

Water Temple Project

M.Arch Thesis, Arizona State University, 2019-2021 Developed with ARUP Group under their community engagement program and landscape architect Charles Anderson Design originator and project lead Phase II: Ecological Strategy with Experts

Five years on, the project returned as my graduate thesis, deepening from a single riverfront into a full ecological strategy developed with landscape architect Charles Anderson around the geography of Varanasi, the land between the Varuna and Asi rivers.

The scheme treats architecture as a temporal system aligned with the monsoon: lightweight 3D-printed earthen suites dissolve and are reprinted each flood season, and water purification runs as a visible living-machine landscape. As design originator and project lead, I advanced the proposal in collaboration with ARUP Group, who backed it through their community engagement program, funding the feasibility study, physical model, and on-site prototype

The project remains a working argument that a polluted sacred river can be repaired through the same rituals that draw people to it.

Physical model

The project responds to cyclical through a reversible construction Lightweight, modular earthen structures designed to perform during dry conditions dissolve during monsoon periods, the site to reset without residual Architecture is conceived as a system aligned with hydrological rather than a permanent imposition landscape.

cyclical flooding construction strategy. structures are conditions and periods, allowing residual impact.

temporal hydrological cycles imposition on the

3 Structure & skin design

Living Landscape 2

Water purification is embedded within the architectural experience as a visible, performative system. River water is filtered through sequential ecological processes including sedimentation, planting, and time-based flow.

The system operates simultaneously as infrastructure and landscape, making environmental processes legible while maintaining ecological balance.

The Water Temple is conceived as a lightweight, low-impact structural system responsive to the seasonal sensitivity of the riverbank. A steel framework is configured as a porous environmental system, integrating filtration, airflow, and daylight while organizing a central gathering space oriented toward the river.

Layered materials and passive strategies modulate light, temperature, and water movement, allowing the structure to perform as both enclosure and environmental mediator.

Geometry emerges from structural and environmental performance, informed by sacred geometry, balancing cultural reference with material restraint..

01 May 2022

Ganga Action Parivar / National Mission for clean Ganga

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01 May 2022

Arup Letter of Support to Ganga Action Parivaar

Dear Sir,

01 May 2022

Ganga Action Parivar / National Mission for clean Ganga

Arup Letter of Support to Ganga Action Parivaar

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Dear Sir,

Arup Letter of Support to Ganga Action Parivaar

Dear Sir,

Arup Group is a British multinational professional services firm headquartered in London. Arup provides design, engineering, architecture, planning, and advisory services across every aspect of the built environment. The firm employs approximately 17,000 staff in over 95 offices across 40 countries worldwide. For more than seventy-five years, Arup has been at the forefront of the most ambitious and challenging design and engineering projects. Starting with the Sydney Opera House, Arup has delivered numerous landmark projects. Our diverse workforce works extremely collaboratively across the regions to continuously challenge the status quo and solve some of the most pressing problems of today's world. Our aim has always been to shape a better world in the most sustainable way keeping the idea of benefit to the wider communities central to the projects. We have been working with numerous NGOs to support the most vulnerable sections of society and have been focusing on various areas, including water, sanitation, and education.

Arup Letter of Support to Ganga Action Parivaar

For more than seventy-five years, Arup has been at the forefront of the most ambitious and challenging design and engineering projects. Starting with the Sydney Opera House, Arup has delivered numerous landmark projects. Our diverse workforce works extremely collaboratively across the regions to continuously challenge the status quo and solve some of the most pressing problems of today's world. Our aim has always been to shape a better world in the most sustainable way keeping the idea of benefit to the wider communities central to the projects. We have been working with numerous NGOs to support the most vulnerable sections of society and have been focusing on various areas, including water, sanitation, and education.

Arup India Pvt Limited is a wholly own subsidiary of Arup group. Arup has been operating in India for several decades and has been the technical force behind some of the unique and exemplar projects like the Statue of Unity, the Hindu Heritage Museum, Master plan of the New Delhi Railways station and many more.

We have been presented with an exciting project named Water Temple, conceived by Ar. Siddhartha Verma. We are impressed by this idea of developing a sustainable relationship with rivers by leveraging the sacred relationship with the river and the community. We would be delighted to associate with the project and support Siddhartha in carrying out the initial feasibility study for the excellent vision he has come up with. We understand that the project has been adopted under CSR engagement by the National Mission for Clean Ganga. Arup is interested in carrying out a feasibility study to clearly understand the scope and technoeconomic dimension of the project before starting to work on the Detailed Project Report.

December 7, 2021

Shri Narendra Modi, Hon'ble Prime Minister of India

December 7, 2021

Dear Mr. Modi,

I recently hired Siddhartha Verma, a young architect architecture from Arizona State University. In 2016 proposal for a Water Temple in Varanasi to you.

Shri Narendra Modi, Hon'ble Prime Minister of India

Dear Mr. Modi,

People all over the world are inspired by your vision and adopt a sustainable lifestyle. I am impressed subject: combining science with yogic knowledge modern temple he is proposing has the potential humans discover a sense of oneness with the planet

I recently hired Siddhartha Verma, a young architect architecture from Arizona State University. In 2016 proposal for a Water Temple in Varanasi to you.

We understand that the project has been adopted under CSR engagement by the National Mission for Clean Ganga. Arup is interested in carrying out a feasibility study to clearly understand the scope and technoeconomic dimension of the project before starting to work on the Detailed Project Report.

I understand that in the recent past several suitable government in Varanasi, and last year Siddhartha as ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel and Jindal Steel Works National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG). The please Þnd attached documentation.

Your sincerely

Arup will assist this initial feasibility study with our Community Engagement and CSR funding. I would be grateful if you could please help with the next steps.

Your sincerely

Arup will assist this initial feasibility study with our Community Engagement and CSR funding. I would be grateful if you could please help with the next steps.

As the Chairman of National Mission for Clean Varanasi, I am humbly requesting that you connect you believe could bring the project into reality. the Indian government and/or corporate entities an icon for India.

Looking forward to your response.

Sachin Kumar India Office Leader

Arup will assist this initial feasibility study with our Community Engagement and CSR funding. I would be grateful if you could please help with the next steps.

Your sincerely

Sachin Kumar India Office Leader

e: sachin.kumar@arup.com

Arup will assist this initial feasibility study with our Community Engagement and CSR funding. I would be grateful if you could please help with the next steps.

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Sachin Kumar India Office Leader

Your sincerely

e: sachin.kumar@arup.com

Looking forward to your response.

Kind regards,

Antoine Predock, FAIA

Kind regards, Antoine Predock, FAIA

Siddhartha M.Arch,

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Rajesh Verma M.Arch, Arizona State University

Siddhartha Rajesh Verma M.Arch, Arizona State University

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

To Whom It May Concern, I recently had the pleasure to participate as a mentor for a student team-led design competition.

Letter from the Desk of Edward Jones Jones Studio, Inc.

To Whom It May Concern,

The brief was particularly challenging because it took everyone, regardless of experience, way outside their comfort zone. Imagine designing a home AND city in outer space!

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Siddhartha Rajesh Verma M.Arch, Arizona State University

I recently had the pleasure to participate as a mentor for a student team-led design competition.

Letter from the Desk of Edward Jones Jones Studio, Inc.

To Whom It May Concern, I recently had the pleasure to participate as a mentor for a student team-led design competition.

Siddhartha Rajesh Verma

M.Arch, Arizona State University

Each of the four teammates contributed to the exciting solution but it was Siddhartha who spearheaded the team, assigned responsibility and focused each individual’s efforts to not only meet the submission deadline but do it with excellence. I was very impressed with Mr. Verma’s leadership and organizational skills coupled with obvious talents for design, composition, storytelling and presentation.

Letter from the Desk of Edward Jones Jones Studio, Inc.

The brief was particularly challenging because it took everyone, regardless of experience, way outside their comfort zone. Imagine designing a home AND city in outer space!

To Whom It May Concern,

To whom it may concert,

You are likely to have many choices in hiring fresh graduates but with all due respect to other candidates, I strongly recommend you give Siddhartha your most serious consideration.

Sincerely,

architect from India who completed his masters in 2016 Siddhartha personally presented his you.

vision to use yoga to create harmony with nature impressed with Siddhartha's second thesis on the same knowledge to clean and revive the holy Ganga. The potential to become a beacon of spirituality helping planet by engaging with water.

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I recently had the pleasure to participate as a mentor for a student team-led design competition.

I have worked closely with Mr Verma at Mosaic, a construction-technology company, over the course of the summer of 2020 on two speculative architectural projects as part of an internship headed by ASU

You are likely to have many choices in hiring fresh graduates but with all due respect to other candidates, I strongly recommend you give Siddhartha your most serious consideration.

Sincerely,

The brief was particularly challenging because it took everyone, regardless of experience, way outside their comfort zone. Imagine designing a home AND city in outer space!

You are likely to have many choices in hiring fresh graduates but with all due respect to other candidates, I strongly recommend you give Siddhartha your most serious consideration.

These projects included the development of a masterplan and schematic unit-design as part of a feasibility-study and a rezone approval process

Sincerely,

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Eddie Jones FAIA

Principal, Jones Studio, Inc.

Jones FAIA Principal, Jones Studio, Inc.

Eddie Jones FAIA Principal, Jones Studio, Inc.

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You are likely to have many choices in hiring fresh graduates but with all due respect to other candidates, I strongly recommend you give Siddhartha your most serious consideration.

From my personal experience with working with Siddhartha I believe he will prove a beneﬁcial addition to any design team and I wish him good luck and success in his future endeavors

Sincerely,

Yonatan M. Cohen

To whom it may concert,

Architecture and Design Lead at Mosaic

Eddie Jones FAIA Principal, Jones Studio, Inc.

February 24, 2021

I have worked closely with Mr. Verma at Mosaic, a construction-technology company, over the course of the summer of 2020 on two speculative architectural projects as part of an internship headed by ASU

Eddie

Jones FAIA

Principal, Jones Studio, Inc.

These projects included the development of a masterplan and schematic unit-design as part of a feasibility-study and a rezone approval process.

These projects included the development of a masterplan and schematic unit-design as part of a feasibility-study and a rezone approval process

I enjoyed working on these projects with Siddhartha His dedication, design sensibilities and production abilities helped propel the projects forward and closer to realization Siddhartha has proved highly-skilled across a wide range of production and presentation platforms His design insights were well formalized and clear and I have appreciated conversing on design choices with him

I enjoyed working on these projects with Siddhartha. His dedication, design sensibilities and production abilities helped propel the projects forward and closer to realization Siddhartha has proved highly-skilled across a wide range of production and presentation platforms His design insights were well formalized and clear and I have appreciated conversing on design choices with him

From my personal experience with working with Siddhartha I believe he will prove a beneﬁcial addition to any design team and I wish him good luck and success in his future endeavors

Sincerely,

Yonatan M. Cohen

Sincerely,

Architecture and Design Lead at Mosaic

Yonatan M. Cohen

Architecture and Design Lead at Mosaic

February 24, 2021

Mosaic

Eddie

Siddhartha