PALLAV PANIGRAHI || PORTFOLIO || SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
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CONTENTS
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The Reflex Pavilion
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Meta-morphing Pavilions
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Dubai Sky Palaces
ARC 207, Fall 2021
Intern Work, Summer 2021
Intern Work, Summer 2021
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Pages 6 - 10
Pages 12 - 13
Pages 14 - 16
Pages 18 - 22
Pages 24 - 31
Intern Work, Summer 2021
ARC 108, Summer 2021
ARC 207, Fall 2021
BoxPod Masterplan
Nested Gallery
Ocular Promenade
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The Reflex Pavilion
Site Location: Intersection of East Onadaga St. and Montgomery St. - Syracuse, NY Medium: Rhino 6, Lumion Pro, Adobe Ilustrator, Adobe Photoshop Program/Function: Common Square, Amphitheatre, Community Centre, Permeable Market Screen, Bus Stop Professor: Theodore L. Brown, Studio ARC 207, Fall 2021 The Reflex Pavilion is a pavilion addition to the urban fabric of downtown Syracuse, that lies opposite to the controversial Columbus Circle. It seeks to unify the Civic Centre’s municipal surfaces with the more publicly-owned urban surfaces of the Church and the Columbus park. The design program consists of a quasi-public market stall membrane, a flexible-program Community Center, a hyper-tectonic amphitheatre space, and a circulatory bus stop. All of these spaces utilize variations of a module that’s made up of light-wood framing, co-dependent structure. Most notably in the amphitheatre, we see this single wood module create communal space through means of curvilinear array, using an interlocking tectonic strategy, with areas through which pedestrian traffic can flow. Through this ‘gestural’ site strategy, a communal space is created, with programs that juxtapose bodies of people from seemingly contrasting surfaces.
Various Scales: Site Plan, Overhead Experiential Render, and Interior Render of FLEX Community Center
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Reflex Pavilion - Various Scales: Experiential Renders + Site Plan
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Reflex Pavilion - Project Scale: Tectonic Systems
Project Scale: Exterior Street-Level Renderings + Physical Model of Typical Aggregated Bay
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Reflex Pavilion - Project Scale: Renders and Physical Model
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Reflex Pavilion - Site Scale - Constructed Site Diagram
Project Scale Drawings: Orthographic Projections (Long Section and NE Axonometric)
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Reflex Pavilion - Project Scale: Orthographic Drawings
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Meta-morphing Pavilions
Site Location: High Island, Sai Kung, East Dam Hiking Trail, Hong Kong SAR Medium: Rhino 6, Adobe Illustrator, Lumion Pro, Adobe Photoshop Program/Function: Hiking Trail Deployable Structure Viewing Platform, Pavilion Nested In Natural Landscape Supervising Architect: James Law. Design work done by me, with supervision from James. Done during Summer 2021 Internship. During my intern period as a junior architectural designer at James Law Cybertecture, one of the projects I was involved with was to spearhead a design competition; designing a series of modular pavilions and viewing platforms, to enrich the hiking journey available of the East Dam/Po Pin Chau Hike in Sai Kung, Hong Kong. Our design intervention seeks to enhance the human experience of the trail, along with facilitating ease of construction from a contractors perspective. With this twofold design intent in mind, myself and the head architect set out to design a transforming module that repeated itself 3 times on a small scale and then finally a fourth time on a larger scale at the end of the trail, allowing for multiple viewing platforms and shelters.
Viewing Platform Transforming Process, Experiential Renders + Deployable Structure System Outline
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Meta-Morphing Pavilions - Project Scale: Deployable Viewing Platform
Project Scale Drawings - Viewing Platform and Intermediate Picture Point Platforms Plan/Elevations
Photo-Taking Platform Module
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Viewing Platform Module
Meta-Morphing Pavilions - Project Scale: Plans and Elevations
Site Scale Drawing + Transforming Renders Given that the ideology of this flexible, light-framing platform system was to have it so that quick construction and deployability was possible, we designed the smaller-scale modules throughout the trail with the same transformation, shown and rendered below. Also shown is a 1:500 Scale site plan, complete with locations of all 3 Photo-Taking Modules throghout the trail, and the Viewing Platform Module at the end of the trail,
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Meta-Morphing Pavilions - Site Scale: Intermediate Module Renders + Site Plan (1:500)
Exterior + Interior Renderings of Photo-Taking Modules at Intermediate Points of Hiking Trail
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Meta-Morphing Pavilions - Project Scale: Intermediate Module Renders
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The Dubai Sky Palaces Site Location: Adjacent to Zabeer Palace, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Medium: Rhino 6 Model, Lumion Pro, Photoshop Program/Function: Palace/Lavish Residence Complex, Apartment Cluster, High-Class Event Location, Hotel and Spa Architect Supervising: James Law, CEO And Founder of James Law Cybertecture Holdings. Done during Summer 2021 Internship. A high-rise set of lavish residences, penthouses, apartments, function rooms, and hotels in the thick of Dubai, the Sky Palaces project is a residential and commercial skyscraper addition to Dubai’s iconic cityscape. With dizzyingly high and monumental penthouse volumes that cantilever out from the elevator core of the building, I modelled this initial CAD Model of the project’s form, with supervision from the head architect, and began to explore ideas of striation, traffic, and materiality through rendering studies.
Project Scale Render
Depicted in this render is a view from an adjacent building’s perspective of the Sky Palaces, with inclusions of Dubai’s urban context and notional flow of traffic.
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Dubai Sky Palaces - Exterior Render
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The BoxPod Masterplan
Site Location: Flat Desert Landscape, United Arab Emirates Medium: Rhino 6, Lumion Pro, Adobe Illustrator, Google Sketchup, Adobe Photoshop Program/Function: Modular Housing “Village”, Affordable City Housing Complex Architect Supervising: James Law. James Law Cybertecture Holdings
The BoxPod Module, designed originally by James Law. is a proprietary modular integrated construction housing module, and can be used in repetition for countless function. In order to create a new generation of housing that can be built faster, cheaper, innovatively, and more sustainably, this masterplan of both my own and the architect’s design can create attractive and affordable housing for young people in the UAE. In this design package I did during my time interning for the firm, I outline the construction methods and schedule it in phases, show the drawings of the masterplan, and interior renderings of the complex.
Typical 20-Unit Bay, Aggregation and Construction Methods of Masterplan, and Exterior Street-Level Render
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BoxPod Masterplan - Project-Scale: Extracted pages of Design Package
Construction Phasing of 20/40 Unit Clusters in correlation to time and Masterplan
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BoxPod Masterplan - Masterplan Scale: Construction Chronology
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Nested Gallery Site Location: 33 South Salina St, Syracuse, New York Medium: Rhino 6, Lumion Pro, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop Program/Function: Public Use Arts Incubator, Studio Space, Office Space, Outdoor Cafe Professor: Anthony Gagliardi, Studio ARC 108, Summer 2021
In this project, which I have dubbed “ The Nested Gallery”, I define space through selective elements of striation, an interplay between private and public space, and framar/planar elements impacting circulatory and spatial design moves. Materiality shifts are carefully placed to demarkate programmatic shifts and show discernability/blurring between exterior and interior. My vision for this art incubator was to create a series of galleries, in discourse with each other, to bind together creative minds.
Project Plans + Interior Rendering Section Vignette of Plan Cut Locations
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Nested Gallery - Project Scale: Interior Render
Project Scale Drawings
Axonometric Projection + Project Plans +Spatial Diagramming
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Nested Gallery - Project Scale: Orthographic Drawings and Spatial Diagram
Project Plan + Section, Initial Massing Model, Courtyard Rendering
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Nested Gallery - Project Scale: Exterior Render
Project Scale - Street Elevation, Courtyard and Street Facade Renderings Plan Vignette (Rendering Locations A and B highlighted in Red)
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Nested Gallery - Project Scale: Exterior Facades
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Ocular Promenade Site Location: W. McMicken Street, Over-The-Rhine District, Cincinnati, Ohio Medium: Rhino 6, Adobe Illustrator, Lumion Pro, Adobe Photoshop Program/Function: Digital Fabrication Shop, Welding Lab, Wood Shop, Meeting Area, Office Space, Community Center, Pathway to/fro Residences Professor: Theodore L. Brown, Studio ARC 207, Fall 2021 The Ocular Promenade is a workshop that also acts as a traversable corridor between contrasting urban surfaces. It adaptively reuses a pre-existing warehouse in the iconic brewery district of Cincinnati, which bridges natural lush topography and urbanity. The figural additions/subtractions, namely the circular “Oculus” addition and the linear light well subtraction both utilize double-glazed polycarbonate with steel framing and staircase membranes, with circulatory programs leading to the hill corridors, roof gardens, and interior program. It is my vision for a flexible-use space with figural spatial strategies that harmoniously connects starkly contrasting ground conditions.
Exterior Renderings: Corridor + Street Level
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Ocular Promenade - Project Scale: Exterior Renders
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Site Scale Drawings: Plans + North Axonometric
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Ocular Promenade - Site Scale: Orthographic Drawings
Constructed Site Diagramming: Exposing the Contrasting Urban Surfaces between which the Site is located The Iconic Brewery District OTR’s brewery district is hailed as an attraction for professionals, students, tourists, and locals alike. Well known for its series of popular walking trail filled to the brim with guided tours, the district celebrates the intricate brewing history and heritage of Cincinnati. Constantly adapting to the times, the history of the district is littered with embedded markers showing the trail’s trajectory, public signage featuring local stories and pictures to match, visual explorations by artists and locals, and a whole host of other amenities. The question is raised that situating the proposal I’m designing to not only facilitate the growth of nature and the existing foliage, but also to allow seamless travel and integration into this rich district, could be a suitable design response.
Overhead view of the city’s intersection with the natural landscape
Public Trajectory through Trail
The Existing Natural Landscape With a large percentage of trees and nature remaining intact despite the urban gentrification of the city, the Over-the-Rhine sector of Cincinnati does well to juxtapose the existing natural instances of thickets of trees, mountainous landscapes being integrated into the city’s composition, and embracing the preceding foliage rather than overpowering it. The popular “Bellevue Hill Park”, above the parcel in question, exposes the vital connection between Elm Street and Ohio Heights/Clifton Heights, offering an open channel of travel between residential and commercial sectors. Between this channel is where my site is located. The focal point of my initial site strategy is unifying/extending the park and poising my proposal as an “appendage” of the park that acts as a permeable and transitional space between urban areas and residential sectors.
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Ocular Promenade - Site Scale: Urban Diagramming
Interior Renderings: Oculus + Workshop For the spatial strategy of the various programs elaborated upon in my earlier program diagram, my strategy was to allow my architectonic strategy to create a seamless transitional series of spaces between the interior warehouse programs, ocular circulation, roof communal spaces, and hilltop corridor membranes. In this tectonic impact on program, I sought to create a spatial seqauence and hierarchy in the proposal.
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Ocular Promenade - Project Scale: Interior Renders
Project Scale Drawings: Section & Elevation
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Ocular Promenade - Project Scale: Orthographic Drawings
Exterior Renderings: Workshop + Green Roof The Oculus structure and the Linear light well structure, both rendered here, are spatial moves I make that fall into the category of figural subtractions from the pre-existing warehouse structure and it’s columnar tectonic systems. These moves create green, lit spaces for workers and people to inhabit. The larger Oculus structure that intervenes at the right side of the workshop building allows for traversibility to the roof gardens and the corridor that ascends to the hill. This access is allowed from inside the warehouse through a spiral stair, (which is shown in a later page of this portfolio), and the sidewalk of West McMicken Street. The light well staircase allows for pedestrian access to the hill and the residences above, creating a clean channel of circulation to and from the residential district down to the commercial brewery district. Both of these areas utilize greenery and foliage between their double-glazing and steel framing systems, and refractive properties to illuminate the spaces that they inhabit, lighting up the interior workshops with frosted glass stairs & vertical light channels.
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Ocular Promenade - Project Scale: Exterior Renders
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