Portfolio 2025

A R C H I T E C T U R E

P O R T F O L I O

CHITRAVAHINI RAGHU

CONTENTS MIXED USE OVERLAY ZONING ANALYSIS THE GLOW - STAGE DESIGN MAGGIIE’S CANCER CARE CENTER CALTECH WELLNESS AND RECREATION CENTER ECOLOGICAL CHARTER SCHOOL ANALYSIS MODELS STUDY TRIP - SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA

Mixed use overlay zoning Proposal analysis

PROPOSAL IDEA FOR THE ZONING LAYOUT

CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS This project envisions a strategic revitalization of Beverly Hills’ commercial corridors through a mixed-use overlay framework that promotes walkability, economic vibrancy, and sustainable urban form. Focusing on the Golden Triangle and adjacent zones along Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevards, the proposal integrates tiered development, active ground-floor programming, and adaptive reuse strategies. Inspired by successful urban precedents, the design prioritizes public realm enhancements, affordable housing incentives, and a contextual building hierarchy that transitions smoothly from commercial edges to residential interiors. The introduction of flexible zones, pedestrian-friendly trails, and modular gathering spaces aims to transform underutilized parcels into vibrant, inclusive, and economically viable destinations.

*This project is a personal vision of a conceptual proposal informed by ongoing planning discussions, community outreach, and urban design precedents.

REIMAGINING THE WILSHIER BOULEVARD

Breaking down a mixed use 4 story building to blend into the surrounding

Visual breaks and human scale design to mixed use buildings

activating road front areas using flex zones creating pedestrian experience to enhance walkability and reduce parking requirements

FLEX ZONE USAGE

URBAN GRAIN IMPACT

REVITILAZATION By leveraging zoning flexibility, building form regulations, and contextual street activation, this proposal reimagines Beverly Hills as a resilient, future-forward urban district. The integration of green corridors, activated plazas, and multi-level public spaces supports both local business vitality and community well-being. Through phased implementation, this vision fosters equitable growth while preserving the city’s distinctive character blending its heritage of luxury with inclusive, human-scale urbanism.

The Glow - design Directed Research SPRING 2024

"Why bring people to concerts venues when you can bring venue around the people?"

Live music and entertainment have the power to unite people, but access to concerts is often limited by location, venue capacity, and ticket costs. Our Portable Stage Design redefines live performances by bringing high-quality concert experiences directly to communities whether in urban centers, remote locations, or unexpected pop-up venues. This innovative, mobile stage merges architecture, technology,and performance to create an immersive, adaptable, and transportable concert platform.

DESIGN IDEAS & FORM EVOLUTION

Maggie’s Cancer care center FALL 2023

This center is designed to provide them comfort, safety, healing space, through giving opportunities of social engagement, but also privacy. This empowers the patient to feel like a home when needed, a hospital for cure, a gallery to explore and a door to connect with nature. The time they spend here should let them be themselves, vulnerable and sense of belonging to the surrounding. The site itself creates a lot of opportunity for it through the views of the beach that’s calming, the contour land breaking down the mass of the site and surrounding and also makes the nature approachable.

FORM EVOLUTION

The concept of this design is the connection of soul and space through journey of users from Dark to bright spaces as a experiential connection to their healing process. The proportion of spaces play in relation to the voids creating the tumor effect of normal cells and cancer cells coexisting.

The same effect is turned into a positive impact of hope being the light taking over the dark. The variation in form creates a language of light and dark providing natural light and a connection with the surrounding as a hope to their life. The darkness is to remind that it is evolved from their past and that is what makes the present look the way it is. The spaces connecting within itself and to the surrounding provides a better healing environment.

HIERARCHY OF SPACES

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KITCHEN AND DINING AREA

OPEN CIRCULATION AREA WITH LANDSCAPE

CALTECH WELLNESS AND RECREATION CENTER SPRING 2024 The Caltech wellness and recreation center is to support the academic, research, and social needs of students, faculty, and staff. Especially, an athletics and wellness center in higher education serves as a hub for physical activity and wellness on campus. It typically includes facilities for a wide range of sports and fitness activities, as well as space for health and wellness services. There is a growing number of interests in campus wellbeing and more schools want to build, modernize, or expand their athletic facilities to brand their school and to serve community. This project challenges students to consider its complexity, adaptability, and NZE (Net-Zero-Energy) goals.

PARTI

PROGRAMMING

SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS

The Programming was based on the user type and circulation hierarchy of spaces. The spaces are grouped and accesed by 4 types of users like Athlets, Coaches , Students and Public.

Based on this the approach and orientation is organized

The north side of the site mostly has ambient lighting and less heatgain. Whereas the southern side is having a greater exposure to sun as there are not any neighbouring buildings. However the Programing spaces exposed to the heat gain has minimal ventilation or that space could adapt to the heat gain. Such as the varsity gym, swimming pool .

SUSTAINABILITY Kinetic responsive systems are gaining attention in architectural applications, to reduce the building’s energy consumption and environmental impact, while improving the indoor comfort conditions.

The paper explores the potentials of Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) for the design of autoreactive facade systems without using additional energy. The exploration is conducted and assessed through the design of a facade concept for the city of Athens, aiming to both improve the indoor environment and reduce the negative impact towards the outdoor environment, by means of a kinetic autoreactive system, with a focus on the building’s impact on the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect.

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

BASMENT FLOOR PLAN THIRD FLOOR PLAN

VARSITY GYM

View point

SWIMMING POOL

View point

Ecological Charter School SPRING 2023 The design project is a Charter school for STEM programs aspiring High school students. The site being located at downtown riverside opposite to the main library this design contradicts the Urban anchor point structure. The conceptual approach was about progressing through the experiences of learning not only through academics but through aspects of life.

The building structure has resemblance of the Egyptian pyramid where it symbolized that stepping up was progressing to ascend through the rays of sunlight falling on larger regions of mass.

So that relates to the structure actually capturing sun light by stepping up in south direction where the exposure of sun is maximum.

FORM EVOLUTION

FLOOR PLANS AND WALL SECTION

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1. DESIGN FOR EQUITABLE COMMUNITY- Public access for the Fitness center, Main assembly with parking and also interactive Facade, Disposable waste collection.

2. DESIGN FOR INTEGRATION- Incorporating sustainable building materials, passive design techniques with courtyards, microclimate and sensory heat reduction.

3.DESIGN FOR ENERGY- Usage of solar panels, collecting storm water, grey water and disposable waste to recycle.

4.DESIGN FOR ECOSYSTEM- Landscaping's with native plants, breaking down the urban fabric scale.

5. DESIGN FOR WATER- Minimalizing fresh water usage by using recycling water for Cooling systems, maintaining water table and quality by using soil for treatment.

6.DESIGN FOR ECONOMY- Usage of sustainable local materials that has longer life span and reducing cost of energy consumption on daily basis by conserving.

7. DESIGN FOR WELL BEING- More outdoor spaces encouraging daylighting and fresh air.

8. DESIGN FOR RESOURCES- Reducing carbon emission and also replanting the native plants over the built spaces.

9. DESIGN FOR CHANGE- Adaptable planning along with rest of the site could be used for future developments.

10. DESIGN FOR DISCOVERYuser learns the conserving techniques and the building learns to experience the surrounding

C.O.T.E CRITERIAS ACHIEVED

3D MODELS AND RENDERS

analysis models

STUDY TRIP Seoul, south korea

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