Poorvi Gupta's Portfolio 2023

POORVI GUPTA SELECTED WORK

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ABOUT ME

JUN, 2022

The Bernard Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, New York, USA

DEC, 2017

Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

JUN, 2015

Masters in Architecture (M.Arch)

Masters of Science in Environmental Design of Building (M.Sc)

Manchester Metropolitian University, Manchester, UK Bachelor of Art in Architecture (B.A)

383 Broadway, Somerville, MA 02145, USA

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

poorvigupta1973@gmail.com

JUN, 2022 - PRESENT

DESIGN DRAW BUILD, CALIFORNIA, USA - DESIGNER At Design Draw Build, I spearheaded the transformation of diverse architectural concepts into innovative, sustainable built environments, ensuring design integrity and enhancing client engagement through advanced 3D modeling and effective team coordination. My role involved continuously updating skills and integrating client feedback for optimal design functionality and aesthetics.

+1 (917) 432 9541 https://www.linkedin.com/in/poorvi-gupta03/ AUG, 2021 - JUL, 2022

SPITZER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, NEW YORK, USA - COLLEGE ASSISTANT Assisted in advancing undergraduates' structural engineering skills, supported pioneering concrete 3-D printing research, and explored funicular systems, enhancing architectural innovation.

JUN, 2018 - JUL, 2019

I am an architectural designer and artist with a rich educational tapestry from leading institutions across the globe. My academic odyssey began with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture at the University of Manchester, extended through a Master of Science in Environmen-

MAR,2015 - APR, 2016

tal Design at Cardiff University, and culminated with an M.Arch from the Spitzer School of Architecture at City College of New York. At Spitzer, I delved into pioneering politically and

MAY, 2014 - AUG, 2014

culturally relevant design via community-led projects, nurturing a collaborative approach to contemporary and forthcoming challenges. My passion for creativity permeates every stage of design and construction, celebrating both the essential and the complex.

3d Modeling & Drafting AutoCAD Autodesk Revit Rinoceros Archicad Sketchup Render Software V-Ray Lumion Enscape Presentation: Adobe Creative Suite Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adob Premiere Pro Adobe After Effects Parametric Design software: Grasshopper

Sustainable Design software: Autodesk Insight As a key member of a five-person design team, I enhanced site visit efficiency, researched sustainable materials, Climate Consultant actively brainstormed innovative design concepts, and produced detailed architectural models and renders. My DesignBuilder role involved organizing documentation for efficient project management and generating precise shop drawings, Ladybug Tools for Rhino significantly improving client engagement and project execution.

Photogrammetry software RealityCapture DESIGN FORUM INTERNATIONAL, DELHI, INDIA - ARCHITECTURAL INTERN Blender At Design Forum International, I enhanced project analysis, supported visualization with digital and physical Additional software: models, streamlined documentation for educational projects, maintained operational excellence, and gained inPlexus for After Effects dustry insights through shadowing experienced architects.

Karamba3D for Rhino Cinema 4D - Animation BOURNE STEEL, POOLE, UNITED KINGDOM - SUMMER INTERN Microsoft Office As an intern, I ensured workplace safety, enhanced 3D modeling skills with Tekla Structures training, and stream-

HEXAGRAMM DESIGN, DELHI, INDIA - SUMMER INTERN As an intern, I constructed architectural models, developed innovative design diagrams and floor plans, and enriched my knowledge through active involvement in project meetings.

LICENSES & CERTIFICATION OCT, 2023 NOV, 2022 ON PATH

Computer Skills:

ART IN ARCH DESIGN STUDIO, DELHI, INDIA - JUNIOR ARCHITECT

lined manufacturing by producing accurate fabrication drawings using AutoCAD.

MAY, 2013 - AUG, 2013

Skills:

LEED GREEN ASSOCIATE I LEED CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL IN REVIT FOR ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN BECOMING A LICENSED ARCHITECT

Model Making Laser cutting 3D Printing CNC Miling Soft Skills: Teamwork Time Management Creative Thinking Communication Problem Solving Work Ethics

ACADEMIC PROJECTS Spitzer School of Architecture, Master in Architecture NEW YORK CITY, USA

sAMSARA tERRACE cLUB eNGAGING tHE sUBNATURALS mERGE hOUSE

ACADEMIC PROJECTS Manchester Metropolitan University, Bachelors in Architecture MANCHESTER, UK

cOEXISTENCE..... cASTLEFIELD aRT cENTER sTREET pLUG-IN aRT

PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS rEDEVELOPMENT oF dHARAVI Art in Arch Design Studio India iNDIRA gANDHI nATIONAL tRIBAL uNIVERSITY Design Forum International India

sAMSARA (the cycle of death and rebirth) Spitzer School of Architecture, New York, United States of America Masters of Architecture (M.Arch) Year 2 Medium Used: Creative Thinking, AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, RealityCapture, Javascript and Model-Making techniques

sAMSARA focuses on architecture's instrumentality, especially the ability and constraints of its methods, procedures, and representational modalities to be vehicles for speculation on fundamental concerns impacting the world and its inhabitants. This initiative serves as a creative incubator for progressive agendas inside and outside the field of architecture, and it promotes academically rigorous, critically informed, speculative, and design-led research. The initiative demands creative and innovative approaches to complicated social, geographic, political, cultural, and environmental issues.

The study began with investigating a novel cloud system known as the "infinite truth cloud." This infinite truth cloud examines cloud creation while drawing parallels current social, political, and environmental challenges. When a person takes a breath, they say and live their truth, and clouds develop as a result of these truths. When truths become entangled with one another, a truth cloud begins to take shape in many shapes as crises in society rise and fall. This helps us recognize the widespread challenges in today's culture while also criticizing the existing architectural design approaches in use. The infinite truth cloud analyzes and criticizes the instrumentality of architecture the architectural profession, which excessively simplifies the problems we confront on a daily basis, via experiments and the process of producing.

Using this cloud system as a tool in my architectural profession, I began to realize my own truth. The identity of a person is vital in shaping that individual's truth. I am from India and have strong spiritual beliefs, but I have also noticed a severe social divide in my country based on caste.

In this project, I have implemented my truth about spiritual beliefs to resolve a social divide, intending to create a reincarnated world where everything can be recycled. Through this project, I understood the cultural agency of creative activity and how "architecting" a practice of the self is as essential in the twenty-first century as engaging in the practice of architecture.

The human activity has a significant impact on our environment and on our society, it has been destroying itself from inside out through capitalism, discrimination, and corruption. we have studied these problem and have found this relationship between the water cycle and society.

Glibal warming has triggered sea level and destruction of water resources as glaceiers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences.

Humans have been technological advanced in learning how to encode the“natural process ”of what makes a cloud, changing the system of order.

Floating

Urbanism

Tornado

Earth Science

Activism

Increase in Temperature

Peaceful Water

Maximum Protest

Heat Wave

Relocation

Clearing Forest

Movement

African American

Human

Discrimination

Race

Water Vapour

Color

Freedom

Neoliberism Increase in Awareness

Waste

Restoration

Poor become Poorer

Magnetic

Displacement

Demolition

How can I make more Money?

Power Voilence

Enterpreneuralism

Unemployment

Socioeconomic Class Privilege

Electric

SOCIAL ECONOMIC

Unfair Distribution Gender

Slum Clearence Poverty

Energy Efficiency

Impulse Buying

Poor

Consumerism

Religion

Mechanics

Demand

Black Lives Matter Elite

Structure

Capitalism Community

Rich become Richer

Wealthy White

Equilibrium

Evaporation Condensation

Materialism

Corruption

Carbon Footprint

Uniformity

I hope I get some money from

Land-use

the trash

Thermodynamics

Energy

Evaporation

Float between water and Cloud Condensation

GOVERMENT

ECONOMY SOCIAL

SCIENCE

SOCIAL

ECONOMY

GOVERMENT

GOVERMENT

CULTURE

CULTURE

CULTURE

SCIENCE

In India, the richest 10% have 77% of national wealth, the poorest 60% have only 5%.

Clear Social Divide

SCIENCE

CLIMATE

Melting

No fresh air to breath but all people can think about is Money.

ECONOMY

SOCIAL

Bond Getting Weaker

Freezing

Increase in Discrimination

Weakest Bond

Deforestation

Authorities Competition

Production

Hurricane

Water Shortage

Intense Storms Experimental

Police Money

Fossil Fuel

Drought

Greenhouse Gas

Sea Level Rise

Protest

Ice

Water Pollution

ENVIRONMNET

Pollution

Evolution

Oxygen Food Shortage

Global Warming

Plant Life

Hydrogen

Flooded Cities

Limited Resource

Ice cap Melting

Cloud

Oceanography

Fracking

Increase Wildfire Threat

Biology

Renewable

Troposphere

Ocean Current Kinetic

Botany

Sustainable

Black Lives Matter

Organized Planting

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WATER

EVOLUTION

Can never reach back to solid state, as negativity can not completely vanish from the society Stronger Bond

PRECIPITATION WATER VAPOR EARTH SCIENCE TROPOSPHERE

Unity

ELECTRIC

REACTION OXYGEN

EQUILIBRIUM

PHYSICS

PROTEST

MONEY WEALTHY

POOR

UNIFORMITY POWER

RACE

PRIVILEGE

LOWER CLASS

UPPER CLASS

SOCIO ECONOMIC CLASS

The three states of matter represent three-phase of society, an ice state can be represented as a society where every citizen have strong bond of love and friendship, thus everyone is treated equally with dignity. Water state can be represented as a reality, the social and economic impact act as a catalyst in weakening the bond between the citizens, which allow them freedom and give space for movement. At last, when all the good is destroyed from the world and a society in which there is great suffering or injustice, the society reaches its gas state, where each and every citizen gets maximum freedom and a large space for movement. This socio-economic impact cannot completely vanishfrom the society, thus new humanity floats between water and cloud.

THERMODYNAMICS

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

ENTERPRENEURALISM

WHITE

AFRICAN AMERICAN

COMMUNITY

COMPETITION

ELITE

LOW INCOME

PEACEFUL

VOLENT

WATER CYCLE POVERTY

RESTORATION

DISCRIMINATION

ACTIVISM

HYDROGEN

MAGNETIC

GENDER

DEFORESTATION

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

MOTION

PROTEST

ENERGY

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CONSUMERISM MATERIALISM IMPULSE BUYING

CAPITALISM DEMAND

SLUM CLEARENCE PROJECT

WASTE RESOURCE SCARCITY

STRUCTURE DEMOLITION

DISPLACEMENT

NEOLIBERISM EXCLUSION

CORRUPTION

PRODUCTION

The natural process of cloud formation is based on assumptions. The variety of formations are from people's own truths taken from outer sources and how they would interpret that information. The cloud is seen as a system of connections determining its character, showing how we practice affects the things that we make.

Everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time.

That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

Those stories form our soul, our soul is always going to whisper our truth back to us. our soul wants what is best for us, and if we try to silence its voice, eventually the whisper will become a roar.

Reincarnation of Life

Moksha like trash we are unwaned part of the society, but we believe in reincarnation and Typical Dwelling in Slums recycling

Good Soul

Dead body

in India

Reincarnated as Human

Living space

India is known for its spiritual religions, and we Indians believe that there is spiritual logic for each and everything.

“After death, every living thing is reborn.” this is the recycling attitude of poor people who follow hinduism, so recycling waste is a part of religion; also the crucial caste system makes the poor clean waste and recycles for living.

Small Recycling industry

Hell

Reincarnated as Animal

Bad soul

Rcycling of Waste

Recreating a Space

New moon representing New Object

Recycling Waste

Waste as Pollutant

Reusing Waste

tERRACE cLUB Spitzer School of Architecture, New York, United States of America Masters of Architecture (M.Arch) Year 1 Medium Used: AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Laser Cutting

TERRACE CLUB

A city is an accumulation of millions distinct urban visions, accumulated over centuries. This growth, a continuous process of cutting, hybridizing, and reconstructing, identifies great metropolises, frequently recycling generations of buildings in combinations apt the current place in time.

This gives cities their linguistic distinctions and historical evolutionary certainty. As an architect is our responsibility to cultivate the process of urban autophagy, celebrate the fusion of old with the new.

The project tERRACE cLUB is an Athletic center, which is built on the vision of adaptive reuse, it is located at the corner of the 7th avenue and 38th street in midtown Manhattan providing a space for a fitness and recreational activities. TERRACE CLUB provides a beautiful green atrium in a way that recreational activities can take in the beautiful view of nature, as spending time in nature can lead to some great mental and physical benefits. These recreational activities are placed in such a that every floor form terraces opening in the atrium creating step life impact in this atrium. And finally, by tailoring circulations as a part of new construction onto the historic building celebrating the fusion of old and new.

Rooftop Bar & Restuarant

Basketball Court Viewing Deck Swimming Pool

Jacuzzi

Studio spaces/ Future Development

Athletic Gym

Boxing Club Indoor Green Terraces

eNGAGING tHE sUBNATURALS Spitzer School of Architecture, New York, United States of America Masters of Architecture (M.Arch) Year 1 Medium Used: AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Lumion, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Laser Cutting, and 3D Printing

We usually refer to those aspects of nature that are desirable: sun, clouds, trees wind. These situations seem to occur in a pre-human condition that would remain to exist should all humanity and its concepts dematerialize. However, the most natural parts of the city are in fact experiences that only come into being through contact with people and the built environment: mud, dankness, smoke, dust, exhaust, gas, debris, weeds, insects, pigeons, crowds. While architecture often is designed particularly to distance us from these primitive, filthy, fearsome, and uncontrollable “subnatures,” the unavoidable reality of these conditions begs the question of whether and how we might invite a productive and harmonious relationship with them.

ENGAGING SUBNATURALS is a renovation project for an existing toilet located next to the playground in a New York City waterfront park. ENGAGING SUBNATURALS blend in with the topography and become a part of a park, these continuous curved surfaces provide an easy access of public toilets for the users from the street as well as provide those users a sense of being in the subnaturals.

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mERGE hOUSE Spitzer School of Architecture, New York, United States of America Masters of Architecture (M.Arch) Year 1 Medium Used: AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Adoble Illustator, Adobe Photoshop, Lumion, and Laser Cutting

mERGE hOUSE is a home in upstate New York, where husband is a photographer and wife are a musician and have two kids. Both are creative people and had a very specific requirement. Along with a studio space for both husband and wife, husband asked for a room with dramatic play of lights, and the wife asked for a small amphitheater for live performances. The studio space for wife need to have good acoustics. Their major requirement was to have a house that merge with the natural topography and blend in with nature.

cOEXISTENCE.... cASTLEFIELD aRT cENTER Manchester School of Architecture, Manchester, United Kingdom B.A (Hons) Architecture Year 3 Medium Used: AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Woodwork

Projects reflect creative problem solving regarding the physical and metaphysical qualities associated with urban ruins/artifacts, time, and memory. The project started to reconcile Manchester's history, the palimpsest of meaning associated with it, and the city's future by having to investigate territory defined as (Defunct) Systems of Movement as Non-Place: Castlefield Viaducts. For the project, we utilized theory as a means of motivation to question physical and intellectual boundaries. The theory provided us an intellectual infrastructure to which we could plug our theoretical interest as we addressed the issues found within the physical boundaries of the territory. Essay on Non-places: introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity by Marc Auge was assigned to us to contextualize the theoretical debate of place versus placelessness set within the scales of the territory of Castlefield. The Resulting discourse prompted self-directed investigation informed from the above essay and gave me the insight to observe a placelessness / non-place from a different lens.

In 1764, Castlefield had a significant role during the industrial revolution; the area was a hub for various businesses, and the canal in Castlefield was the world's first industrial canal built-in 1764. But today, the region lost its identity and has become a placelessness for many people.

The project aims to bring back its identity in the future and bring back the importance of canal by creating stopover markets; thus, canals serve as a network for the business; this business was created for the canal boatmen, to whom the entire journey along the canal was a place, and downtown/city center was a non-place. A process of bouncing backward and forwards between various scales and modes of operation throughout the year enabled my project to transform provocative propositions into unconventional works of architecture. This rigorous tactile and visual experimentation process yielded my projects that demonstrated the ability to challenge intellectual boundaries, employ an expanding skillset, and reconcile rhetorical propositions with the complicated palimpsest of meanings contained within a territory - a coexistence ... in theory.

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In the artcenter, boatman can produce artwork and can also showcase there work in the exhibition space in the artcenter.

“...the same place can be looked upon as a place by some people and a non-place by others...”

Marc Auge Boatmans love for art was clearly visible on my visit to castlefield. They needed a space to create more artwork and a platform to showcase their work.

Market along the Canal

SALE

50%

“A place ” is a place to which a person have maximum degree of attachment and “A Non-place” is place to which a person feel disconnected. According to me my apartment building was a place and a dark suspecious place in castelfield where all the boats were parked was a Non-place for me, but after interviewing the canal boatman, i understood that for those boatman the entire journey through the canal was a place for them and the city where i lived was a non-place. Only by changing our prospective a place for one person become a non-place for another person and a non-place becomes a place.

Creating Business opportunity along the canal.

Canal boatman can make money thorugh the business network by doing what they enjoy doing.

Ground Floor

First Floor

Second Floor

Today A Plant Tomorrow A Garden

sTREET pLUG-iN aRT Information Point: awareness of the environment, persuade people into home gardening by giving them

3 Plant it Chose a Plant

seeds to plant the containers.

Medium Used: AutoCAD, Sketchup, Woodworks, Graffiti Art, Planting, and Photography

Plug-in street arts help understanding how small element of art combined with information can produce arts that will not only enhance the space

Soil Plant Water Plant

Manchester School of Architecture, Manchester, United Kingdom B.A (Hons) Architecture Year 2 Teamwork (Charlotte Clarke, Anabel Garcia-Kurland,Poorvi Gupta and Karan Gandhi)

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physically, but also helps in shaping community. Plug-in concept implies easy assembly and disassembly process that led to temporary 3D street ats, the installation was designed with a minimal impact and maximum flexibility on the surrounding.

This art installation work as a new way of delivering messages to people regarding current green issues. It also helps to re-connect the community and the environment itself. The art was about expressing the information through arts. Emergence of 3-dimensional street arts gives a new opportunity in improving communication between environmental issues and community. With a short message of ‘start today save tomorrow’,

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Pick a container: jar, lightbulb, ceramic, tin can

we inspired people to start home gardening despite of their limited home space.

Fabrication process involved various stages: construction stage, infographic stage and finally planting stage. Each and every stage required teamwork and a constant learning process. After the fabrication, we engaged and interacted with the public and shared the knowledge of green city and encouraged them to recycle and home gardening by giving them a plant in a recycled pot encouraging them to start home gardening.

rEDEVELOPMENT oF dHARAVI Art in Arch Design Studio, New Delhi, India Architectural Designer Team (Ashish Jaiswal, Ekta Bali, Poorvi Gupta, and Darshika Khare) Medium Used: Research, AutoCAD, Sketchup, V-Ray, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Indesign

Slum redevelopment is a global issue that is primarily developing countries and underdeveloped countries face. As one of the cases, the Dharavi slum in Mumbai is one of the largest slums in Asia and has taken the world’s attention for a long time. Thus, this project required a massive amount of research to understand the site well to provide a space that could benefit the people of Dharavi.

During my professional experience in Art in Arch, I worked on a massive scale project. The redevelopment of Dharavi was a competition project, Art in Arch collaborated with the VEGA building for this project. We worked in a team of 4 for this competition project. For this project, we intended to use Vega’s system to replace existing construction practice with Vega’s system-based program to achieve “breakthrough” construction performance. From the detailed analysis of Dharavi, we understood the importance of community living for the people in Dharavi. Thus, design should incorporate community spaces, and as we wanted redevelopment to provide slum an affordable retail component, the design should have a simple structural system to provide affordable housing. It was a small team, and as a team member, I was majorly involved in the design phase for the project producing diagrams, drawings, animation, and graphical information related to the project.

Formation of Green Site is divided in 6 equal grids with the buildable zone. The front grid is for the green space

Internal Street

Towers of different height with the centre tower being the highest creates beautiful terraces with solar panels.

Corridor act as a lateral connectionbetween core and units.

Internal square

Commercial Space The remaining 5 grid left will be the built-up mass at lower level (Commercial). These 5 grids were further divided in 9 equal parts.

The central core act as community space. the 4 wings are connected with the corridor. This make design structurally efficient and stable

Double height Punctures are the spaces that act as a community area. These colorful double height spaces add to the aesthetic of a facade and makes the building more playfull.

Two level of Retail space act as an extenson of public Domain.

Tower Formation The central part of the main grid is used for the built-up mass at upper level (Residential).

Formation of Units Built-up mass is further divided with the help of central core and corridors to form 16 welling units.

Central Green

iNDIRA gANDHI nATIONAL tRIBAL uNIVERSITY Design Forum International, New Delhi, India Architectural Intern Team (Ashish Jaiswal, Mayur Verma, Ashish Lamba, Poorvi Gupta, Prena Saxena, and Pranav Sachdeva) Medium Used: AutoCAD, Sketchup, Lumion, and Adobe Photoshop

The idea is to create a "symbolic Green Campus with tribal art" that offers delightful, functional, and innovative, where the environment strengthens a culture that provides education and discovery. The master plan is envisaged as a vehicle-free campus, safe and secure for contiguous pedestrian movement.

During my internship in Design Forum International, I was involved in the project's design development phase, produced working drawings in AutoCAD for the institution block of the campus, and developed computer renders in Lumion for the campus library.

Key Features of Site Planning Gravity Focal Point

Pocket Dimensions and Area Existing Building Zone 1 (Central Green) Zone 2 (Institutional) Zone 3 (Residential) Zone 4 (Hostel) Zone 5 (Hospital)

Peripheral Green Buffer

To energize the whole central green, various social and cultural activities are proposed.

Along the water stream artificial lake was created.

Peripheral Loop Enclave Planning

Minimal Negative Spaces

Central green has strong Visual presence which acts as the heart of the campus.

Various Tribal art and cultural activities are incorporated in the heart of campus.

Connecting Green

Security

Central Lake Forest

Pocket Ste Zoning

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