ChrisBiju_Portfolio

PORT FOLIO.

01 / HULSEY GATEWAY.

Atlanta, GA

ARCH 404

Architecture Design Studio I: Human-centered Design

Fall 2023

Professor Scott Dietz

The parallel relationship between the three forms of transportation creates a diaspora of forms in the Hulsey Gateway creating a unique feature that defines a new edge in the city of Atlanta addressing the Hulsey Yards as an activation for its surrounding context and forms. This unique transit hub allows for inter modal transit through a carved form reactive to the parallel relationships created by its axis. The Hulsey Gateway provides a rejuvenation to its commuters, a place of tranquility in the complexity of transit.

CONCEPT IDEAS

Through conceptual sketching I began to establish an attitude towards the program and site. Defining the relationship between the main parts of the program aided me in generating to the surrounding context. The conceptual modeling allowed me to grasp a general understanding as to the size and relationships between the parts of the program. Through this process, I was able to establish an understanding between connectivity and circulation.

Steel Structural Diagrid

Concrete Topper with Steel Decking Floor Plates

Reinforced Concrete Pylon Foundation

Steel Decking

Curtain Wall Glazing System

Structural Diagrid

Concrete Topper

Steel Perimeter Beam

Outrigger Beam

Hulsey Gateway

Ground level perspective of Hulsey Gateway

View from MARTA station overlooking public event space

MARTA station perspective render

Hulsey

02 / THE ARMATURE.

Savannah, GA

ARCH 303

Architecture Design Studio III: Structural Applications

Spring 2023

Professor Andrea Bertassi

Savannah’s distinctive grid plan with its prominent squares is the definition of its Armature as a city today. The Armature takes this unique square-grid plan to the next level to create a city of the future connected by its own grid, connecting communities within. A reflection of the heritage of Savannah in the future.

CONGRESS CENTER WASTE & SEWAGE TREATMENT

POWER

COMMERCIAL COMPLEX MUSEUM EXHIBITION

CULTURAL AND RECREATIONAL CENTER

FITNESS PARK COMMUNAL GARDENS

SPORTS STADIUM THEATER HOSPITAL RESIDENCES

As I explored my design through massing models, I sculpted the form to accomodate various elements of a post apocalyptic community. Vertical integration of the various parts of communal living was important in the culmination of the form.

Translating these ideas into my sketching, I was able to create a robust form that encompassed a vertically integrated society that is connected and emulated from a central focal point within the structure. As I progressed through this idea, the idea of balancing public and private in a tight-knit community helped influence the organization of the structure.

The Armature

Conceptual Renders

Final Model

03 / TRANQUILITY.

Savannah, GA

ARCH 302

Architecture Design Studio II: Site and Environmental Context

Winter 2023

Professor Andrea Bertassi

Tranquilityisastateofcalmachievedwhenoneisinabeingoftranquil. Today, we need to find that state of tranquility between our buildings and nature. Currently, humans have overpopulated the earth and have become heavily industrialized to a point where we are seeing almost irreversible effects on our planet’s ecosystems. Man-made has been taking away from nature, and now nature is starting to fight back.

The site posed a unique condition which allowed me to explore unique space configurations that caters to the sensory experience of the user. The play in level change and distribution of the form generates a unique journey for the user through my site.

The transition from ground to water, I was able to draw from my precedent studies through iterations to generate an intial conceptual idea to draw influence towards my final structure, a culmination of various ideas throughout the course of the studio.

Aerial Perspective

Bird’s eye perspective

Tranquility

Sectional Model Views

04 / CONTACT.

Sydney, Australia

BDES2026

Architecture Studio 2A

Feb - May 2021

University of Sydney

The Contact of two opposing programs is explored within the scope of this project. Combining a gymnasium with a children’s playground creates a unique relationship to be explored within the realm of architecture.

Situated within a mid rise building in downtown Sydney, this form comprises of a space that consists of a playground form that pierces through the space.

Conceptual Facade Render

The central program of the playground emulates the feeling of a play space through its organic design. The gymnasium space is organized around this central space to accompany the playground program as the atrium serves as a space which connects all the levels of the structure.

Through conceptual thinking of drawing and sketches, I found my design language for the two programs. A central playground atrium perforates through the gymnasium floor plates. The feeling of freedom and movement is conveyed through the organic form of the playground, and the routine, organized feeling through the hard concrete floor plates of the gymnasium.

Facade Render

Paraline Drawing

1:50 Detail Model