Urban Design Portfolio 2020

PORTFOLIO JAYASHREE DURAI BABU

PORTFOLIO | CV

CURRICULUM VITAE

JAYASHREE DURAI BABU Location : Melbourne Phone no : 0452006747 Mail : djayashree12@gmail.com Linkedin : Jayashree Durai Babu D.O.B : 18 June 1995 Languages Known : English, Tamil, Hindi Visa Type : Subclass 485 ( Temporary Graduate Visa) License : Registered Architect, COA, India

WORK EXPERIENCE Apr 2020

HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, Tarenit, Melbourne Freelance Freelance Architect for Gaage Developments.

Conceptual design and 3D visualisation for housing types and commercial building for upcoming mixed housing development in Tarenit.

Jun 2016 - Oct 2016

FUTURE RESEARCH DESIGN COMPANY, Bangalore,KA Architectural Intern Mentored by Ar.Sanjay Agarwal.

Design development of retail stores which includes Reid&Taylor, Enamor, Allen Edmonds and Ramblers way.

Documentation, diagrams, site inspection, 3D visualisation and client communication.

Dec 2015 - Apr 2016

VEDIKA, Chennai,TN Architectural Intern Mentored by Ar.Benny kuriakose.

Projects includes retirement community design and residential projects.

Reasearch work, book publication, drawings and 3D visualisation for Maitreya Sun Spa, Prague.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS Feb 2018 - Mar 2020

ROYAL MELBOURNE INSTIUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Melbourne Master of Urban Design, CGPA : 3.7/ 4

Aug 2012 - May 2017

HINDUSTAN UNIVERSITY, Chennai Bachelor Of Architecture, CGPA : 8.3/10

Achievements July 2015

Second place in Social Housing Design competition held by TNSCB

Apr 2015

Second place in Academics - Year 3

WORKSHOPS Nov 2019 - Dec 2019

Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona, Barcelona Development of social housing with communal facilities in El Poblenou with Prof.Eva Prats, Ricardo Flores and Ian Nazareth.

Apr 2019 - May 2019

HKU STUDY CENTRE, Shanghai Development of speculative vsion for Taihu region with Dr. Neville Mars and Dr. John Doyle

SOFTWARES KNOWN Drafting and 3D

AutoCAD, Revit, 3ds Max, Sketchup, Rhino, Lumion

Post Production

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign

CONTENTS 01

Evolving The Grey

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Brunswick Design District

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Building Communities

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Food Connection

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Airbnb X Amplicity

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Documentation

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Urban Design | Studio Urban Design | Studio Urban Design | Studio Architecture | Studio

Urban Design | Research Interior | Internship

01 | EVOLVING THE GREY

01 EVOLVING THE GREY DETAILS Level Project Type Location Area Softwares Used

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Postgraduate Urban Design Shanghai, China 5,818 km² AutoCAD, Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop

BRIEF The studio focuses on the 100km2 region surrounding Lake Taihu. This zone sits in the centre of the Yangtze River Delta region and is centred approximately 100km to the west of the centre of Shanghai. The region includes a number of major cities, including important centres such as Wuxi & Suzhou, and a number of smaller cities that are large by world standards but small compared to China’s mega cities. Despite this we can view this region as a continuous urban agglomeration spreading out along transit corridors from Shanghai, and connecting on to other cities in the region.

Much of the growth that has happened in the region over the past 40 years has taken place through the ‘grey zone’ that spans between urban centres, the studio we will be focusing on understanding this space, understanding how it has formed, how it might grow in the future and developing a set of tools to work at a regional level to speculate on alternative visions for the city.

This was a 12 week studio with 2 weeks intensive workshop in Shanghai. The workshop provided means to understand the context of the urban evolution in China particularly in and around Taihu region and to create data and scenarios for speculation.

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Huzhou city in context of Taihu

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Taihu Region Context

Edge Condition

TAIHU LAKE AND HUZHOU

Edge Condition

Growth Morphology

The main aim of this “Evolving the Grey� studio was not just to develop ideas on the growth of urban centres around Taihu, lake but also to bring the seven urban centres together by integrating them thus forming this circular connection around the lake. & cities were identified around Taihu for the same. These cities by 2050, as a network would balance and compete with each other at the same time. The seven urban centres together in 2050 would share their total economy and resource to function as one circular entity.

One of the seven identified cities is Huzhou, which lies in the bottom left in Taihu is Tier-3, urbanised city with huge towers blocks and nearly vanishing villages. The existing edge conditions, the mountains, parklands and lake has been used to create a boundary, that would restrict the city growth and densification will happen only in the area between them thus to avoid sprawl. Through mapping and analysis a series of patterns of growth, trends and models which have occurred through time were identified.

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HUZHOU LAND USE AND PIXEL PATTERN The existing land use condition with large scale mono fcuntion blocks

Reclassifying the blocks to primary land use function

The existing land use was used as a directive tool to develop land use for 2050. A a series of patterns were produced in which each pattern would contain a primary and dominant land use with a mix of other potential land uses to support the primary land use, with all these land uses represented as pixels. The mix of land use would further breakdown the huge blocks. Though developed in terms of linearity, the city will be a mixed use Centre.

Every land use function has few types of pixel configuration that has been listed below. A speculative map has been generated with the projected land use for 2050 superimposed with the pixel typology.

Further breakdown of the primary blocks to dominant function and supporting secondary function is form of pixels.

Residential

Rural

Commercial

Civic

Creative Industry

Industry

Eco Industry

Urban Residential Mix

Industrial Rural Residential Mix

Commercial Resi Mix

Civic Mix

Creative IT Mix

Heavy Industrial Mix

Eco Agro Mix

Urban Residential Mix

Rural Residential Mix

Commercial Mix

Civic Mix

Creative Industrial Mix

Light Industrial Mix

Eco Industrial Mix

Urban Residential Mix

Commercial Mix

Civic Mix

Creative Resi Mix

Urban Residential Mix

Commercial Office Mix Urban Residential

Education

Hospital/ Clinic

Theatre

Market Community Facilities

Convenience

Convenience

Art Gallery, Studio

Green Space

Branded retail

Plaza

Restaurant

Entertainmnet

Hotel

Government Building

Huzhou landuse legend and pixel breakdown by function

Office Buildings Light Industry Heavy Industry Creative Indusutry IT Parks

Agriculture

Parkland

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Huzhou projected landuse 2050

Huzhou landuse pixel breakdown

07 | EVOLVING THE GREY

BLOCK MODEL TYPOLOGY The illustrations to the left are few of the speculative models for the pixel block typologies discussed earlier. These block models has been modified according to the context and condition before being incorporated into the bigger picture. These are density based models ranging from urban to rural blocks.

The model below illustrates the speculative vision for city of Huzhou, along with edge condition and block typologies.

Block Typologies

View of Huzhou

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09 | EVOLVING THE GREY

Eye Level View from Huzhou High Rise Towers

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11 | BRUNSWICK DESIGN DISTRICT

02 BRUNSWICK DESIGN DISTRICT DETAILS Level Project Type Location Area Softwares Used

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Postgraduate Urban Design Brunswick, Melbourne 24,400 m² AutoCAD, Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop

BRIEF RMIT University, Moreland City Council, and the Victorian Government (Creative Victoria and DEDJTR) have undertaken to develop and grow a vibrant ‘Design District’ in the heart of Brunswick. These partners will work collaboratively to develop a long-term vision and engage a wider network of stakeholders, experts and community members. Specific project and site proposals will then be developed for key initiatives, with a common focus on developing shared spaces for creating new industrial and design enterprises, linked to education, specialist expertise and new sources of business support.

This studio doesn’t have a firm position on the Brunswick Design District (BDD), but will rather look in to it as a proposal to speculate on growth and planning of cities. BDD will start with use – design, making, manufacturing, social enterprise and see if new infrastructure and zoning might increase its density and viability. The other interest is this program’s ongoing interest in the scale of the precinct, the district and in the agency of urban design to make a collective.

The key focus will be an attempt to redeem Melbourne’s middling recent history of design at the scale of the precinct. The disaggregated campus as a typology and propose counter arguments for designing and growing the city based on enabling infrastructure, catalytic agents and accelerated evolution will be analysed. Thus derived assumptions will be put to tset by providing a spatial design that will act as a catalyst for the BDD and which will provide a kind of framework to deal with the rapidly changing character of Brunswick.

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Brunswick Archipelago Based on Berlin Archipelago

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BERLIN ARCHIPELAGO AND BRUNSWICK The idea of this project is based on the “Berlin, A Green Archipelago� from The City in the City. The use of archipelago concept helped in giving distinct identity to areas within the city and to bring in green network within the city by eliminating areas that had very low population. The negative element of Berlin, the incoherence in spaces has been worked out as concept to produce these islands which are independent yet connected by the city. The city is made of spaces that vary from each other and a key element has to be identified within this space which can be projected to develop the district as a whole. The islands will not only differ by architectural characteristics due to the newly designed land marks but will also differ in social and economic character as well making every district carry it owns character and content.

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Such islands in terms of programs were identified in Brunswick and each island was to be designed by a different individual. This project focuses on the identified precinct in Albion Street, also marked in the archipelago map of Brunswick to the left.

Figure Ground Map

Existing Adjacent Uses

Civic / Public Buildings

Commercial / Offices

Educational / University

Open Space / Parks Manufacturing

Residential / Housing

Retail / Shops

Vacant / On-grade Car parking

Existing Adjacent uses

Community Educational Manufacturing Offices Studios Supplies

Venues / Galleries

Existing BDD uses

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The site is located between Albion and Tinning Street.

Albion Street and Tinning Street already have their share of buildings that contribute to the BDD including Art galleries, Community Makers space and Coffee art place.

Albion Arts Adobe project is focused on retaining the existing BDD spaces and amplifying them by providing support spaces that would strengthen the existing essence. As the site is dominated by warehouses, the movement inside the site apart from Tinning Street gallery is quite low.

Various iterations were developed to test the possible usage of spaces at the same time retaining existing functions and site characteristics. Existing exemplars were used to test the same. Nightingale model housing was introduced into the site to house the artist community and also to facilitate live- work relationship.

This will ensure a constant movement in the site. Retail spaces that will be introduced will take advantage of the existing laneways and alleyways to activate the space. Art supplies store that is proposed will help in bring more art related people together in to the site. The existing laneway will now connect to Sydney road thus increasing the porosity as well as to attract the crowd from the Sydney road. The laneway is also designed to be an incidental meeting space with smaller squares and open gallery spaces.

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Street view of the modified site

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19 | BUILDING COMMUNITIES

03 BUILDING COMMUNITIES DETAILS Level Project Type Location Area Manual

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Postgraduate Urban Design El Poblenou, Barcelona 26,000 m²

BRIEF The old neighbourhood of Poblenou in Barcelona grew under the industrial revolution during the mid-19th Century. When production started disappearing from European cities around the last decades of the 20th Century, this neighbourhood, a former major industrial area, became the scenario for the testing of different possible urban futures. The start of this process was the moment it hosted a brand-new Athletes’ Village for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics that erased all the industrial pre-existences. The second step was a plan to convert former polluting industry into clean-tech businesses in the early 21st Century. The global crisis of 2007 stopped the sequence of transformations and froze a scene that survives until today. It is the image of a fragmented reality. The old neighbourhood that grew under the industrial revolution is still a lively area, but one that has no real dialogue with either the Olympic newcomers nor the emptiness around the business centres.

This Studio will focus on the social and urban rehabilitation of this neighbourhood, introducing a program of social housing with communal facilities as a catalyst to change this fragmented part of the city into an inclusive neighbourhood. This was a 12 week studio with 2 weeks intensive workshop in Barcelona.

21 | BUILDING COMMUNITIES

Existing Site and Context

Balconies

Site Sketches

Heirarchy of Public Spaces

Porosity

Interactive Terraces

Sightlines

Key Design Elements

EL POBLENOU AND BALCONY The neighbourhood of El Poblenou declined with the fall of industrial revolution. The fragments and reminders of the once flourishing neighbourhood can be seen throughout Poblenou even today. This particular site is located to the west Avinguda Meridiana and opposite to the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya. The site is remarkable as it marks the end of the Eixample grid with a unfinished road which we like to call “THE BALCONY”, as it creates a visible level difference that looks out to Poblenou. The railway track running through the site also becomes a contributing factor to this division. The buildings adjoining the site are predominantly residential towers.

The key focus of this project is to create housing for the community with a mix of programs keeping in mind the key features and characteristics of the site, the level difference and balcony. The balcony will remain untouched as a reminder of past and will serve as point to observe the new community unfolding, similar to the balcony of a theatre.

The concept of “seen and to be seen” has been applied to create interactions and incidental meeting spaces at various levels with help of terraces. The amplification of the existing notable programs around the site including theatre.

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Site Plan

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Ground Level Plan

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FRAGMENTS AND SPACES The site is a combination of commercial, retail and public spaces. These fragments or the building profiles have formed keeping in mind the existing site lines and visual site connection from the surrounding site to the courtyard spaces. The courtyard spaces become the centre of community life with market spaces and other community spaces opening out to them. The fragments are connected at the second level which helps in creating a continuous circulation and terraces that looks out to one another. The basketball court on the top of the market is in the same level as the balcony in Meridiana and terraces from the housing blocks thus creating visual connection between the various activities.

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Massing Models

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Axonometric View of the Site

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Central Plaza

Balcony overlooking the community

Linear Plaza also acting as transition area

Terraces overlooking each other

Plaza between points of entry

Terraces as communty spaces

Balcony looking out to the drama unfolding

Portion of Civic centre converted to theatre

Use of the existing topography to mimic balcony

27 | FOOD CONNECTION

04 FOOD CONNECTION DETAILS Level Project Type Location Area Softwares Used

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Undergraduate Architecture Chennai, India 90,000 m² AutoCAD, Sketchup, Photoshop

BRIEF Developing your relationship with food and finding where it comes from is sustainable living. Developing relationship with your farmer and provider is very important. This green strategy must be implemented in conjunction with a development of spaces to educate people about food growth and preparation.A primary attribute of a sustainable community is a rational and robust green infrastructure, a network of open spaces consisting of both natural lands and the constructed public realm. This can be done architecturally through a design approach, a network of green space, educational space, and gardens that connect the community to a food storage facility, and an event space.

This project will have a food co-component, it will be a hub for farmers to produce and distribute their organic produce. There will also be a marketplace component that will service both a need for food and a need for sales.The main objective of this thesis is to develop a parallel relation producer and consumer, by creating an environment that will facilitate the interaction of both the sector.

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Site Plan

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Residential Area Around the Site

Industrial Areas

Mixed Residential Areas

Major Farming Areas

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GREEN GREENWORKSHOP WORKSHOP PAVILION PAVILION

GREEN WORKSHOP PAVILION FOOD COURT

STAFF

FOOD COURT

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STEPPED FOOD COURT LANDSCAPE

STAFF COUTYARD OPEN AIR MARKET

STEPPED LANDSCAPE

COUTYARD OPEN AIR MARKET STEPPED LANDSCAPE COUTYARD OPEN AIR MARKET

Ground Level Plan

RESTAURANT

RESTAURANT

RESTAURANT

First Level Plan

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PUBLIC MARKET The public market houses 134 shops which includes shops for vegetables, meat, fish and grains. Food court and restaurant will utilise the produce from the farm. The stall for fish are provided to support the fishermen community in chemmencherry housing area which is behind the market site.

The vegetables sold will be obtained from the farm located in the market site and also from the neighbouring farm lands.

The centre courtyard can be utilised by seasonal farmers and weekened sellers.

The partition between the shops can be removed in case extension in required by the shopkeeper. This provides a flexibility in space. Also the end stall which is sandwiched between two other stall is an extended storage which either one of the adjoining shops can takeover for extra storage space

Grains & spices

Market Zoning

Food court

Fruits & vegetables

Farm to table restaurant

Fish

Staff area

Meat

Teaching Kitchen

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Conceptual View of Entry

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35 | AIRBNB X AMPLICITY

05 AIRBNB X AMPLICITY DETAILS Level Project Type Location Area Softwares Used

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Postgraduate Urban Design Mebourne Not Specified Rhino, Grasshopper , Photoshop.

BRIEF Airbnb has been growing with the factor of double each year in Melbourne.

Over time typical housing is moving towards renting their properties (whether entire or a shared space) contributing their share in the ever growing economy of the World moving towards the concept of Shared Economy. This kind of economy has huge impact on the social and spatial distribu¬tion of the city, reaching new levels of diversity.

Concentration of Airbnb, its price and the usability is critically de¬pendent on various factors such as it location, local experience, public events, public transport and then further growth is on the basis of the time of the year.

Based on these factors we divided the city of Melbourne according to the functional mix based on Kim Dovey’s Live, Visit and work crite¬ria and then compared the number of Airbnb scattered around the city and started observing its growth pattern over last 3 years and it’s dependency on these factors.

However most of the Airbnb do not make the occupation pattern of their hostings as effective through¬out the year, which may be the cause of individual hostings and lack of quality services that a place might promise to offer but fails to meet the expectation.This research focuses on proposing methods to amplify the use of existing Airbnb to provide services throughout the course of the year and to incorporate new functional mix within the already available struc¬ture of Airbnb. Student housing, social housing and corporate housing have been take in to consideration for the very purpose.

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37 | AIRBNB X AMPLICITY

Airbnb typology and distribution

Live Work Visit - Melbourne

Streets with highest Airbnb concentration

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Airbnb coporate network

AIRBNB DISTRIBUTION AND PROPOSAL In the existing setup most of the Airbnb remains unused through¬out the year from the data collected through Airbnb website. The proposition is to introduce social housing, student accommodation, service apartment to amplify the use of Airbnb as flex¬ible programme mix within yearly timeframe.

There is growing trend corporate companies taking over as Airb¬nb Host. From here, it could be speculated that in future majority of the Airbnb will be directly or indirectly managed by Corporate Companies. In addition, student accommodation companies like Urbanest, Unilodge can be proposed join to the Airbnb host network in future to amplify Airbnb Uses throughout the whole year.

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Mar - Mid June (Academic year)

Conceptual Views of Pool Area Mid June - Mid July

Mid July - Oct

Oct - Feb

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Existing Airbnb Price Scheme

Proposed Airbnb Price Scheme

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Existing Block Programme

Academic

Holiday

43 | DOCUMENTATION

06 DOCUMENTATION

Floor Covering and Decor Plan

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Interior Elevations

Enlarged Storefront Plan

Storefront Elevationw

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