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POOJA NADIPALLI

Selected Work 2024

Roncolo Castle, Bolzano

Project Time: Fall 2023 | Advisor: WG Clark | Location: Philadelphia, PA

AN ARMATURE TO PLACE

Can architecture serve a community?

“A community clubhouse and Acropolis in one; this is the Social Center. A Community organized about some center for its own political and social welfare and expression; to peer into its own mind and life, to discover its own social needs and then to meet them, whether they concern the political field, the field of health, of recreation, of education, or of industry; such community organization is necessary if democratic society is to succeed and endure”

This project is a social center that serves Philadelphia’s Old City as an armature of building and park. Conceptualized as a still life of free standing object buildings, placed in a landscape, and connected by sky bridges, the project aims to grow alongside the needs of the community rather than prescribing tailored programs.

- Childs, C. S. (1913). A Year’s Experiment in Social Center Organization: An Account of the Activities Conducted in Public School 63, Manhattan

Concept painting in gouache, 36”x50”

Study models exploring scale and composition within the urban context of Philadelphia

Study of Le Jour by Braque in water soluable graphite.

Braque’s incorporation of Cubism into still-life art. Forms are flattened and abstracted by collaging multiple vantage points.

Compositional lines extracted and used as the basis for initial design sketches.

In the virtue of cubism: “Take reality, slice it up, turn it around, and put it back together in a way we have never seen before.”

-Harry Cooper, Curator of Modern Art at the National Gallery

Study model exploring form and composition, form is intended to suggest function through a variety of interconnected space.

Building Section

Project Time: Spring 2022 | Advisor:

Robin Dripps

| Location: Richmond, VA

THE HUMAN CONDITION

What does it mean to live and work?

This is a space for artists to live and work among the public and private realm. Based on the writings of Hannah Arendt in, The Human Condition, where she outlines three fundamental human activities: labour, work, and action. Labour as vital necessities, work as a product of human artifice, and action as the human condition of plurality, in relation to the public and private realms.

Ultimately, the design aims to democratize the world of art by providing accessibility to resources and exposure with the public. By fostering an already existing art culture in Richmond, it reconsiders the paradigm of art production as disconnected to place and community and widely esoteric and unreachable.

Base Form Arrangement intended to create meandering path engaging with the street/urban fabric.

Interstitial space below creates space for immersive exhibits and storage/support spaces. Sunken courtyards provide outdoor spaces exclusively for residents.

Towers at the ground level house studios for public use. Above are living units and shared laundry spaces are directly below.

Public gallery weaves through towers interacting with artist studio spaces. Places of intersection house atriums as a break for conversations and contemplation.

Ground floor plan

Typical floor plan

Project Time: Spring 2024 | Advisor:

Peter Waldman

| Location: New York, NY

OBSOLESCENCE AND SPECULATIVEGROWTH

How do buildings die?

This project attempts to demonstrate a new potential for high rise buildings, using the modernist icon of the Seagram building as a site. The Seagram is dismantled and put back together, reconsidering the American skyscraper by transforming its hermetic container into one symbiotic with the earth.

The building acts as a juncture of place and vertical garden, altering its singularity through layers of multiplicities. Inspired by vernacular architecture and shanty towns, prosthetic structural interventions connect to surrounding buildings compensating for structural support. The project aims to connect an enclosed tower to its earthen home, as opposed to a chess piece deployable anywhere.

Diagramatic core and shell model

Project Time: Fall 2022 | Advisor: Peter Waldman | Location: New York, NY

THE ANTHROPOCENE

An Architectural Microchosm

This design is an addition to the NYC Museum of Natural History, aiming to not only house exhibits, but display the museum within itself and to the city. In this sense, natural history occurs alongside the museum, rather than serving as a container for curated exhibitions alone.

The project utilizes porosity, ramps, and terraced spaces as a means of creating a landscape within itself. A stepped well is carved into the ground housing a pond full of aquatic life, while a roof of net like quality references a nest for birds to perch. Luminant prismatic volumes of various heights allow for sight lines across the museum from within and from the street, these forms are composed of crystalline glass and wood, contrasting one another through planes of transparency and opacity. Ramps on the exterior of the masses act as the primary means of circulation, connecting to bridges, and guiding users indoors and outdoors to further engage with the natural environment.

LESSONS IN MAKING AND BUILDING MASS

A collection of work created as a first-year student investigating the translation between two-dimensional composition and three-dimensional spatial design. Through exercises of drawing, collaging, and layering, this work presents foundational principles consistent with my development as a designer.

A compiled dictionary of formal operations guided this body of work, and subject to a vigorous iterative process, these pieces serve as an integral lesson in the cyclical nature of design. These early exercises set the stage for my continued exploration of the intersection between art and architecture.