Jasmin Malhotra_Undergraduate Portfolio

PORTFOLIO Jasmin Malhotra

undergraduate 2022

CONTENTS

Garden of Precedents 3

Shelf Retreat 19

Desert Grotto 7

Chicago Frame 15

Vertical Things 23

Technical Drawings 26

Research 29

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Garden of Precedents fall ‘21 Francesco Marullo

Our knowledge of architecture has always been tied to the past, and learning it often happens through its precedents.

Since this journey of acquiring knowledge is different for everyone, this school allows students to experience architectural precedents at a 1:1 scale as well as different architectural scales. This is achieved through a series of stacked rooms wrapped by a circulatory balcony and ramps that overlook the garden. The first level of the school works as the start of the circulation and the open plate allows for different programs to occur. The school begins with the garden of precedents, an open malleable space sprinkled with historical typologies, monuments at different scales, and replicas of the architecture we learn.

The tent that encloses the school grounds is made of a translucent metal mesh that allows light and weather to perforate into the space. The school cumulates at the top level, that escapes the tent and provides open air seating for interaction and contemplation amongst the students.

Year End Show 2022 AIA Chicago Award in Architecture Nomination

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As students progress with their education, they move up through the school. Entering through the garden of precedents, the scale in which the garden is seen starts to change as one travels up through the school; the references becoming more abstract as there is more detachment from the ground. The studios are sandwiched between knowledge hubs of the garden and the top level of the archives and library. This journey through education eventully accumulates in the exposed roof that escapes the enclosure of the tent and looks to the desert beyond.

This becomes a space for the community to interact and contemplate the dense collection of information throughout their educational career and see the potential in the open landscape.

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The garden grows with every generation of students and the natural cycle of birth and decay happens as time passes. The temporality of the garden creates the experimental ground upon which students are able to openly exploit.

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Desert Grotto

in collaboration with Alberto Valdivia

fall ‘20 Francesco Marullo Monasticism began with the desire for a solitary life.

The first Christian monks sought refuge in caves and shelters in the desert, in an environment that was almost frozen in time while the world continued around them. This led us to design a monastery in the form of a grotto: a carved-out architecture to emphasize the idea of withdrawing from society, rejecting consumption, and living within the natural element of the mountain.

Year End Show 2021

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NOVICES´ CELL

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Precedent studies of Cartoixa d’Escala Dei, Spain and the Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico

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An understanding of monastic life in regards to our given site pushed us to dig underground, referencing the Vardzia monastery and cliff dwellings to excavate into the mountains to create our monastery

Site in Caliente, Nevada, a hot and dry mountainous region

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The monk’s cell needed to accomodate all necessary living requirements, a method of passing time, and a defined separation where they could remain solitary. A small nook in the stairwell allows novice monks to provide food without interaction and a small garden in each cell gives the monks a cultivating space that also collects water for their use.

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The living and working/ public spaces of the monastery are separated through a ziggurat stair that gives access to the church and refectory. Placing the two separate areas in valleys formed in the mountain creates more privacy for the life of the monks

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Chicago Frame fall ‘19 Grant Gibson

Diagonal beams move up in section to create repeating “pitched roof ” spaces, which become the primary shape of spaces within the frame. However, the diagonal beam runs from a halfway point on the columns and fall just off plane onto the bottom plate of the floor above. This might call for a floor, once cladded, to have its own texture, creating little bumps at the beam intersections. These beams that work almost as strands that were combed, move in the direction of the front facade, the tips agglomerating into the window bay frame that caps the open diagonal beams. The front facade bay is also accompanied by a diagonal beam that has been pulled and stretched to touch the bottom plate of the top floor and create a cave-like opening to pull the eye to the entrance.

Year End Show 2020

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Between the Great Fire of 1871 and 1925, Chicago saw an unprecedented development and exploration of metal frame structures, resulting in a proliferation of buildings that influenced the evolution of modern architecture. This studio looked at the development of the Chicago Frame through the analysis of its most iconic historical examples and speculated about possible alternative uses, creative alterations, and improvements via the design of a new multistory building.

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Ground Floor Plan

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Shelf Retreat spring ‘19 Clare Lyster

This city with its laid back lifestyle and certain nonchalance for strict rules and regulations to a way of moving around is mirrored in the high density of organic shapes.

These forms scatter through out the project to create a non-systematic networking pattern. Additionally, the presence of a monumental staircase overlooking the rest of the city provides residents with a space to hang out and relax or explore the accessible shelf form that the stair extends into, all incorporating the organic forms of the city.

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What is interesting about the American landscape—urban or rural—is that it is organized the same way: as a grid. This studio looked to cities around the United States, learned from them, and brought that research back to the American grid, leveraging its flexibility to project new possible architectures and urbanisms that would support new ways to live in the American city

Rearranging the city of San Francisco and incorporating its undulating topography, the shelf brings the landscape into the city, becoming a habitable space for various public programs to occur

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Vertical Things fall ‘18 Thomas Kelley

Based on a study of Walter Netsch’s Architecture + Design Studios building, vertical things redistributes wall elements extracted from the building and arranged on the nine-square grid to create explorable pavilions.

Year End Show 2019

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In studying various rooms in Netsch’s school of Architecture and Design at UIC, rooms redrawn were arranged in the 9-square grid and a path between them was determined. Interesting wall types were then pulled out into a catalog before being rearranged into another 9-square grid at a smaller scale. This resulted in a pavilion of wall elements, extruded at different heights to perform different functions in the experience.

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Technical Drawings

for a Penthouse

fall ‘20 Christopher Frye

In collaboration with Shravani Kopalle, Donovan Lawnicki, Brian Ma, Ruilin Ma

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Research

spring ‘22 Francesco Marullo Chaco Canyon was a major center of ancestral Puebloan culture. The monumental and distinctive architecture served as a hub of ceremony, trade, and administration for the area in an unprecedented way that archaeologists and historians are still trying to figure out today This ongoing research contains redrawn topography, the settlements of Chaco Canyon, and some more detailed settlement drawings.

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Una Vida

Pueblo del Arroyo

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Pueblo Bonito

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Hungo Pavi

Kin Kletso

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Chetro Ketl

Casa Chiquita

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