2025 Selected Works by Eesha Nagpal

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EESHA NAGPAL // SELECTED WORKS // CARNEGIE MELLON

B.ARCH 2025 // MINOR IN PSYCHOLOGY

EESHA NAGPAL

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

BACHELORS OF ARCHITECTURE

// MINOR IN PSYCHOLOGY 2025

GPA: 3.65 / 4.00

Dean’s List F21 - 24

Rhinoceros Grasshopper

VRay / Rendering Tools

Adobe Creative Suite ( Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom )

AutoCAD

Revit

Rhino

ArchiCAD

Stability Matrix / ComfyAI

Microsoft Office Google Suite

Woodshop Tools

Laser Cutting

Intermediate Spanish Fluent Hindi + English

LEADERSHIP

REFERENCES

CMU AIAS CHAPTER VICE PRESIDENT // MAY 22 - MAY 23

• Corresponded with AIA, YAF and NOMA members to coordinate potential career and networking events.

• Met weekly with 7 other board members to plan events and problem solve.

• Organized events with other CMU orgs for 50+ members

DELTA GAMMA: HEAD DESIGN BOOTH CHAIR // OCT 21 - MAY 23

• Booth is a CMU tradition where organizations build multistory 18’ by 18’ wood frame structures including electrical, to code based on the theme of Carnival.

• Booth Chairs are elected for each org and begin the design process 8 months in advance, producing plans, buying materials and designing the interior and exteriors.

• Elected Head Craft Chair for 2 years: I managed 30+ people and multiple interior and exterior design projects including installation and integration with electrical for a 1st place “Rick and Morty” and 2nd place “Alice in Wonderland” in the Sorority division.

ERICA COCHRAN HAMEEN, Carnegie Mellon Studio Proffesor, ericac@andrew.cmu.edu

JANET SIEGEL, JBS Architects 973-845-8484 janet@jbsarch.com

(973) - 960 -2490 nagpal.eesha@gmail.com

ARCHITECTURAL INTERN

GENSLER // MORRISTOWN, NJ // MAY - AUG 2024

• Produced Retail Financial Institution CD’s in Revit, focusing on exterior renovations across the Tri - state.

• Collaborated on 9 week Intern Design Project. I focused on measuring exg conditions, digitally drafting in Revit, creating the Plans, processing Renders and diagrams.

ARCHITECTURAL INTERN

LGA PARTNERS // PITTSBURGH, PA // MAY - AUG 2023

• Designed and digitally draft multiple master plan options for a Church’s property

• Worked on Retail construction documents in AutoCAD

• Produced renders, and plan drawings for a Library Proposal

ARCHITECTURAL INTERN

ROSEN KELLY CONWAY ARCHITECTURE // SUMMIT, NJ // MAY - AUG 2022

• Measured and digitally documented existing site conditions in AutoCAD

• Helped design and digitally draft renovation solutions for single family home residences and commercial spaces

ARCHITECTURAL INTERN

JBS ARCHITECTS // MADISON, NJ // MAY - AUG 2021

• Measured and digitally documented existing site conditions in AutoCAD

• Helped design renovation solutions for single family home residences and digitally draft

• Worked on before and after renders calculated zoning regulation for variance meetings with town board

• Compared contractors bids to show clients in Excel

K - 12 ARCHITECTURE COORDINATOR

CMU ARCHITECTURE DEPT. // PITTSBURGH, PA // SEPT 2021 - MAY 2024

• Set up the classroom for architecture classes for children ranging from age 5 to 16 with equipment on Saturday mornings

• Aided teachers and staff through lessons and clean up

HEAD ORIENTATION COUNSELOR

CARNEGIE MELLON // PITTSBURGH, PA // JANSEPT 2023

• 1 of 7 Head Orientation Counselors selected to lead Carnegie Mellon University’s 9-day nationally recognized orientation program for 1750+ incoming firstyear students.

• Organized a complete shift from prior unengaging, lecture style Well Being day programs, to create a morning of activity samplers, followed by an afternoon of engaging conversations.

• Planned and used AutoCAD to design the Class Photo, communicated with vendors for Move in Night Entertainment, and worked collaboratively with campus partners to organize service trips to sites in Pittsburgh.

• Supervised and mentored 5 Orientation Leaders, 30 Orientation Counselors, and 300+ first-year students in the student residence halls on The Hill.

UPHAM CORNER’S PUBLIC

SPRING 2023 // MASS TIMBER STUDIO // 13 WEEK

PROJECT // INSTRUCTED BY JERMEY FICCA & KATIE

LAFOREST

Located in Upham’s Corner, a rich community filled with creative arts and a majority POC population, the library aims to become a community beacon of art and learning that connects consituents to resources. By creating a pertruding primary entrance inspired by the Japanese engawa, a narrow passageway between house and garden, this room will serve as a vestibule where daily transactions such as book returns and book pickups can occur without entry into the building proper.

With a library card, the room can be accessed outside of operating hours making the library more accesible to constituents. Large community rooms, an outdoor art zone and views facing the historic cemetary behind the site, encourages the community to gather and acknowledge its history.

Collage of Context and Library

CLT Beam to CLT Wall Connection using Steel Plate

Floor

Front Elevation from Columbia Rd.

Chunk Model

Entrance Render

Rear Wall Section with Wood Scrim

Existing Site Plan

02.

WESTINGHOUSE ACADEMY

FALL 2023 // PRAXIS III STUDIO // 13 WEEK PROJECT // INSTRUCTED BY ERICA COCHRAN HAMEEN

IN COLLABORATION W/ VIOLET CHU, AKANKSHA TAYAL AND EMILY FRANCO

Tasked to design a school in Homewood, Pittsburgh, adjacent to Point Breeze and East Liberty. The site is surrounded by primarily residential units, and nearby Westinghouse High School and the YWCA which serve as major landmarks. We also noticed high in-school violence rates and food insecurity that were combated with mural art, and food access programs.Thus, our primary aim is to create a school that nourishes both the mind and body to foster the cultural integrity of Homewood through the protection and inspiration offered by art and alleviate food insecurity, reducing the existing food desert. Our programmatic design encourages self-exploration, entrepreneurial passions, cultural identity and togetherness.

To organize our building we formulated a strategy to soften the transition from public to private and from outdoor to inside space, orienting people to move from outdoor trough transitional and then to indoor. Green terraces and the setback area connect to either a large activity-filled hallway or the atrium on the first floor, the transitional areas in which curved design emphasizes transparency, openness, and space for collaboration. The remaining spaces are categorized as “interior spaces”, dedicated to student learning and staff.

Site Plan with Connecting Ribbon / Path through Park & Community Garden connecting to School

Exterior Render from corner of Idlewile and Gerritt St.

Front Elevation from Gerritt St.

Basement Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Sample Classroom HVAC Plan

Niche in Wall Section

Hallway / Transition Space Render

Third Floor Plan

Fourth Floor

Roof Floor Plan

Existing Site Plan

DESIGN BUILD: PERGOLA

SPRING 2024 // DESIGN BUILD STUDIO // 13 WEEK PROJECT // INSTRUCTED BY STEVE LEE

IN COLLABORATION WITH STUDIO PEERS (12 STUDENTS)

The S24 Design Build Project was a continuation of the Spring 2023 Project, where a deck with a sloped ramp, benches, a rain garden, and bioswale were completed. With this mind, a 2 week design competition was conducted and the project that was built was designed with the filters of aesthetics, budget and workforce determined through a collaborative process. The design was intentionally limited to a pergola structure, due to rigorous time constraints.

Building on the west end of the Peace Garden, we framed this sidewalk as the primary entrance. The adjustable wooden slats oriented in the direction of the most sun and wind, allows visitors to have a customizable experience, protected under polycarbonate roofs. The foundation system includes Helical Piles and Simpson Strong Tie’s which are then installed to the kerfed columns. The S23 benches and deck were constructed with Black Locust Wood, which we continued to use in the Pergola. Throughout this process, I focused on the construction of the frames, the gabion benches, as well as structural problem solving, resulting in the installation of X-bracing using galvanized steel wire rope with eye screws and turnbuckles in the roof plane.

Rotating Slats South View

REVOLUTION ON NORTH PARK

SUMMER 2024 // GENSLER INTERN PROJECT // 9 WEEK PROJECT // LED BY INTERN PROJECT TEAM

COLLABORATION

Prompted to transform a vacant downtown storefront, into a vibrant exhibition that celebrates Morristown history as well as the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, guided by research we created an exhibition that utilizes the theme of Revolution and its various interpretations as an organized movement or innovation. Revolutionary War, Revolutionary Inventions and Revolutionary Stories.

By highlighting Morristown’s Revolutions, the exhibition looks to educate, inspire, and spur the desire for the community to organize, and transform the future of Morristown. The existing site’s U shapes led us to break up the spaces into a winding exhibit where visitors follow a timeline through the history of Morristown, with interactive activities such as “Dance Dance Revolution”, where one can tap out morse code, or even listen to oral histories and leave their own. Through the stories, they reach a retail space, showcasing local products. With two storefronts, one is dedicated to the exhibit while the other showcases the community space, where citizens can reflect and gather to create their own revolutions.

Existing Site Plan

W/ KASSIDY PUGGLISI & KYLIE GRIMM