Megha_Portfolio_2023

MEGHA SENDHIL

UNDERGRADUATE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

2019-2023

TABLE OF CONTENT

THE ROOM (INTERIOR)

FRAME STUDIO DISCONNECTED

PENTHOUSE PROPOSAL LANDSCAPING PROJECT

METAL CLADDING SHIFT CITY

FAÇADE DESIGNING INTERIOR DESIGNING NESTED BREAK FORMS STAIRS MAZE

SHORT STATEMENT

This portfolio shows the versatility of my work and how I approach the different aspects of architecture. Through the development of these projects, my skills, Knowledge, and the way I view architecture also have evolved.

THE ROOM ( Interior project)

In the context of this project, I would describe a “Room” as a space with a boundary defined by color. The space is mainly approached through colors. Colors are used as a space-making device in this project. I used a softened primary color palette. For spaces with furniture just in some parts of the room, I have used color only in certain places to highlight and complement furniture spaces. The furniture, floors, walls, and ceiling use different colors to complement each other for a room with less furniture. For spaces filled with furniture and the central part of the room, I have made the entire room a singular color for the table to be highlighted and seen as an art piece of the room that can be used. The floors, walls, and ceiling use the same colors, while furniture uses many colors for the room filled with furniture. Apart from the colors, other elements like materials, furniture, and connections to other spaces also turn the space into a pro-grammatically defined “Room. ”

The centralized core circulation unit structurally runs in the middle throughout all floors with the egress stair, elevator, feature spiral stair, and bathrooms. This core unit acts as a support system for the grow- ing floor plans of the entire building. The floor plans grow on both sides to create cantilevers on each lev- el.

FRAME STUDIO

The frames in the plan view move forward and backward every three floors to create interesting void spaces in the plan and section.

DISCONNECTED

The project intends to create spaces with different spatial effects in an underground path disconnected from the city. The path is built alongside the canal, leading the city to the river. The program is divided into two categories; institutional buildings and recreational buildings. The path is narrow toward the left side of the facility, where the institutional buildings are situated, creating privatized exterior space for those buildings. The path is broad in the right half of the facility, where the recreational buildings are, with more exterior space for activities. The shapes of the buildings define the shape of the path.

Model Pictures

21ST AND 22ND FLOOR PENTHOUSE PROPOSAL

Roof Plan

North elevation

22nd Floor Plan

East elevation

21st Floor Plan Scale

South elevation

Long Section (north)

21st Floor Dimension Plan

Long Section (south)

22nd Floor Dimension Plan

Section (East

Scale : ¼” = 1’-0”

22nd Floor Enlarged Bath and Kitchen Elevations

OVERALL 21st Floor Frame Elevation

22nd Floor Enlarged Bath and Kitchen Plans

OVERALL 22nd Floor Frame Elevation

21st Floor Enlarged Elevation

21st Floor Enlarged Kitchen & Bath Plans

LANDSCAPING PROJECT PROPOSAL

(for Rathinam group of institutions, Coimbatore, India) (Summer 2021)

The strip land alongside a privately owned road by the Rathinam group of institutions was asked to be developed. The development was focused on landscaping, outdoor lounging for students, pathways, and sidewalks.

LANDSCAPING PROJECT PROPOSAL

Proposed rendering

(for Rathinam group of institutions, Coimbatore, India)(Summer 2021)

In-progress site photos

METAL CLADDING WITH CORRUGATED SHEET METAL ROOF

R-value calculation, standard measurements & standard material representation, Detailed cut plans and sections

METAL CLADDING WITH CORRUGATED SHEET METAL ROOF

R-value calculation, standard measurements & standard material representation, Detailed cut plans and sections

SHIFT CITY

This city is designed to show an abrupt shift in the physical environment when traveling on t city's roads. The change in the environment is in terms of climatic change, landscape change, and change in urban, rural, and suburban settings. when there is a change in the direction of the road, a shift in the environment happens. This is a completely manmade space with a different landscape, different climate, and settings.

FACADE DESIGNING (Internship at Vastukriti, Coimbatore, India)(Summer 2022)

OPTION 1

Façade with plaster claddings of different levels of extrusions. The design embraces the horizontality of the building as well as creates balance.

OPTION 2

A simple design that is vertical extrusions of the columns in the façade between the window. And just giving some variation with ribbon windows stair wall which extends to the logo wall.

OPTION 3

Façade is divided into three completely different parts with different elements. The central curve element cuts the horizontal façade into two. Leaving both halves and the center with distinct features.

INTERIOR DESIGN – KITCHEN DETAILED DRAWINGS

(Internship at Vastukriti, Coimbatore, India)(Summer 2022)

INTERIOR DESIGN – BATHROOM DETAILED DRAWINGS

(Internship at Vastukriti, Coimbatore, India)(Summer 2022)

NESTED BREAKFORMS (Interlocking

Standing Seam)

This project is about Breaking and forming metal interlocking standing seams integrated with wood. The materialistic qualities of these materials are in contrast. The heaviness of the wood and the lightness of the sheet metal contrast and create a different kind of tension in the environment. The main essence of this project is that the exterior is completely covered with 45-degree diagonal standing seams in the same direction and sized with so much uniformity and low tension. There are different size standing seams in opposite directions in the interior, breaking the normative grid seen in the exterior.

The different-sized seams are proportional to each other. And the entire structure itself replicates the standing seam. In the interior, the seams grow and change direction in a controlled way but look organic. Whereas on the exterior, it is more controlled, and strictness can be seen.

STAIRS DESIGN

A Freshman-year project of a four-story stair design solely. In this design, the edges of the stairs in the plan keep increasing on each level to create interesting visual and spatial moments. In the section, the edges of the stair are cut 45 degrees to create different headspaces and void spaces while walking through the stairs.

MAZE - Vertical things

Freshmen year activity to Study the vertical elements of the precedent to experiment and create moments by designing an open roof maze.

9-SQUARECOMPOSITION