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Urban High Rise

ARCH 403 Capstone Studio Project, Spring 2023

Professors: Minyoung Cerruti, Marti Cowan, Shadi Abdel Haleem Team Project with John Brown, Trevin Thompson and James Gachari.

Urban High Rise

Vulcan is also responsible for many major developments near the site. The Paul Allen Institute developed by Vulcan across the street from the site features a 150-foot light changing LED panels art piece depicting the connections of neural pathways.

Taking into account Seattle’s future Woonerf development around the site and Vulcan’s communal philosophy, the ground floor is designed to bring in pedestrians into the walkway.

The walkway is seperated by a layer of vegetation, giving a sense of privacy. The modules inside are visible, inviting the people to come into the public art gallery.

The interactive experience makes the community more involved with the art gallery and the modules inside aim to educate the patrons.

The Client: Vulcan Real Estate

Site Plan

Columnade, South Entrance Walkway Seating

Columnade / Walkway

Urban High Rise

The ground floor features the gallery, the workshop, an informal auditorium and a cafeteria.

The second floor features the immersive experiences and conference rooms.

The exterior of the hanging immersive experience piece educates the people and communicates with the occupants about the building. For instance, blue indicates excessive use of water, urging occupants to reduce the water use.

Level 1 Plan

Level 2 Plan

Art Gallery with Workshop

Inside the Gem

Level 2 Immersive Spaces

Urban High Rise

The roof is designed as a social space for bar and club goers. The exterior and the interior space can be blended using NanaWall technology. The glass walls can slide and fold, opening up the space, or can be closed based on the weather.

Floors 3-7 feature the office spaces with the core on the west side. The core houses the mechanical room, electrical room, elevators, stairs, washrooms and janitor’s rooms.

Roof Bar Club

Longitudinal Section

Cross - Section

Bird’s Eye (Southeast)

Urban Shelter

ARCH 301 Studio Project, Fall 2021: Urban project based in Skid Row, Los Angeles. Team project with Michael Rodriguez, Samantha Jimson and Hank Acosta. Professsor: Sajini Badrinarayan

Aiming to uplift people through the pods acting as shelters. Based on the concept of movement and transition. Inspired by the nomadic lifestyle of the people on skid row.

THE UPLIFTING JOURNEY

Urban Residential

ARCH 303 Studio Project, Spring 2022 under professors: Taiji Miyasaka, Maryam Mansoori, Minyoung Cerruti

Team Project with John Brown, Nicolas McCracken, and Austin Bournique.

NATURE’S CALLING

Residential CLT project on Melrose Avenue, Seattle. Concept was based on the surrounding landscape of Seattle and the idea of a mountain, a stream and a cave/shelter. The models were developed in Rhino and Revit; renders and perspective sections were created using Lumion and Photoshop; sculptures were modeled using Blender Sculpting.

Urban Industrial

Individual Development of the LAGI submission, ARCH 401 Studio Project, Fall 2022

Title: Efflorescence - Fullness of cultivation: manifestation Location: Southside of Chiago

(41°39’58.58” N 87°36’19.33” W)

Theoretical Energy Production: 130 mWh/year

Date: September - December 2022

Professor: Marti Cowan

A complexly detailed, yet beautiful design that could theoretically power all the surrounding neighborhoods. The funnel system collects the heavy amount of rain and snow incident upon Chicago, and uses the heliostat system to heat the water and send it back upwards without needing electricty to pump it (inspired from an espresso machine). The hydroturbines and the solar panels generate power.

Perspectives

Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI)

Design Competition Submission

Title: Bloom

Date: September 04, 2022

Location: Mannheim, Germany

Goal: Creating beautiful forms of energy.

Theoretical Energy Production: 56 mWh/year (solar)

Team submission with Denise Galano and James Gachari

Project was selected for publication in LAGI magazine.

Section and Details

Urban Commercial

Urban Site Analysis and Research for ARCH 202 Studio Project, 2021

Mixed Use Performative space + Residential condos in downtown Albuquerque. Professor: Thomas Vliet

The research found that there was a large population of young people of age 23+ and small children below 12. The availability of studio apartments was low. The data led to an informed project with a mixed program of performative space and studio apartments. Used innovative graphical means to represent selected research information.

Art Analysis

Analysis of Non-Objective Painting (Line -1919)

by Alexandr Rodchenko

ARCH 202, Individual Project, Spring 2021

Professor: York Seiler

Project Goal: To analyze the painting and extract the architectural theories to create a manifesto. Three dimensional models were developed based on the principles of the manifesto.

Final Model

MUTED

UNIFORM COLUMNS HORIZONTAL EXTENSIONS FORMING DECKS CIRCULATION

Architecture Analysis

Analysis of Villa Le Sextant (1935) by Le Corbusier

ARCH 202, Spring 2021 Professor: York Seiler

Roman Proportionality and Verticality:

Analyzing Architectural Elements

Vancouver Convention Center, Roof

While the glass panels provide connection through light and ventilation, the windows next to the staircase in the middle are framed, and thus call out this connection to the city and lets the connection be seen from the exterior, communicating its intent very clearly.

Walls as Volume:

provide conncewall provide a the employees. achieved as the

Orthogonal:

Material, direction and history:

Controlling Light and access

roof perceived ground line

building super structure

The material of the wall, clad in travertine stone, brings back the audience from the overall international modern theme to the historical roman signi cance. It guides us through and directs us to the main hall inside.

San Francisco Federal Building, Windows

The architect brings out attention to the wall by juxtaposing it with the surrounding elements by its strong verticality. It protudes out from the horizontal elements. It represents a scale much larger, establishes grandeur and weight, thus making a comment on the importance of the monument upon entry.

ARCH 209, Spring 2022

Material, direction and history:

Professor: Ayad Rahmani

Modern Glass

Circulation Diagram:

The main hall walls which walls di erentiate front and the the relationship Museum of the Ara

Modern Glass Wall:

The windows are designed such that only ambient light can enter. The computer controlled louvres are dynamic and make sure that only enough light enters into the building and changes according to the light conditions. They block o excess light and limit over-access.

Communication to the glass panels connection and the windows staircase in are framed, out this the city connection the communicating clearly.

Monumentality/ Human Scale: Plasticity with Site:

Pros:

Light and access

are designed such that only ambient light can enter.

controlled louvres are dynamic and make sure that

The walls in the museum establish some very strong ideas of modernity, history, proportionality and directionality. They guide us through the space with the thick wall, convey a direct message through the inscribed Res gestae, and make the experience of the historical alter rich through intelligent use of natural light and

QUESTIONS:

Goal: To analyze the elements of architectural projects and present the ideas.

The material of the wall, clad in travertine stone, brings back the audience from the overall international modern theme to the historical roman signi cance. It guides us through and directs us to the main hall inside.

Pros:

The main hall brings modernity to the museum through the glass walls which bring in light into the space, to the artifacts. The glass walls di erentiate the hall from the travertine guiding wall in the front and the white walled auditorium in the back, thus de ning the relationship between the spaces.

The walls in the museum establish some very strong ideas of modernity, history, proportionality and directionality. They guide us through the space with the thick wall, convey a direct message through the inscribed Res gestae, and make the experience of the historical alter rich through intelligent use of natural light and open space.

Do the organic walls take away from the formality of the museum?

Do orthagonal and organic walls create a discourse within the center?

Cons:

well in Cons: While the windows focus is on e eiciency, Calling out communication to outside Controlling Light and Access

While the walls, as standalone features, communicate their intent very nicely, they could have been designed to make them relate to the fabric of the dense roman surrounding environment more. By making the overall structure more condensed, while still highligthing a singular wall on the inside,

Cons: While the their intent designed dense roman making the still highligthing thorugh its could do

Pacis, Walls

Segment: On Roofs

TA: Jean Baker

Analyzing Architectural Elements

Development of Roof

Name: Pranshu Agrawal

Course: ARCH 209

Segment: On Roofs

TA: Jean Baker

Analyzing stairs, ramps, and escalators of Seattle Central Library by OMA architects

The roof evolves from a simple gable roof to a curved roof, then evolves into a two part roof system, with a more detached metal overhang on top of the brick and clay structure.

The roof evolves from a simple gable roof to a curved roof, then evolves into a two part roof system, with a more detached metal overhang on top of the brick and clay structure.

Pros:

System

The roof evolves from a simple gable roof to a curved roof, then evolves into a two part roof system, with a more detached metal overhang on top of the brick and

Analyzing the roof of Gando Primary

The roof evolves from the present day Gando buildings with corrugated steel roofs and combines it with the concept of traditional raised truss roof system to give a truly modern and innovative roof.

Roof as Ventilator of Air Roof Evolution

Roof as ventilator of air

Roof as ventilator of air

Cons:

Could the combination of the two layers of the roof

The roof evolves from the present day Gando buildings with corrugated steel roofs and combines it with the concept of traditional raised truss roof system to give a truly modern and innovative roof.

The Spiral: Ramp used as an interactive experience

Typical Gando corrugated steel roof Traditional raised truss roof Gable roof Curved roof 2-Part Roof

Home Design

ARCH 303 Introductory Studio Project: Rethinking Home, Fall 2022

A home for a triathlete and fitness enthusiast Professors: Maryam Mansoori, Taiji Miyasaka and Minyoung Cerruti

Using a frame from an animation, created a floor plan and a design that allows continual flow throughout, for an active personality.

Floor Plan

Home Design

ARCH 201 Studio Project: Questioning Home, Fall 2020

Professor: Gregory Kessler

A hypothetical project for Le Corbusier at Cap Martin, embodying his unique lifestyle. The drawings were done by hand and edited digitally. Overall, the project aimed to capture the essence of Corbu’s personality.

Hand Graphics

MAXXI Museum case study under Professor John Abel, SDC 120, Fall 2018

Sketchwork, New York City, May 2019

harmonizes in both plan out from the ground.

central point, at the

Hand Graphics

ARCH 201, Fall 2020, Professor Gregory Kessler

urban context as the audience is towards the residential area, and the stage is towards the industrial area, and the green areas can be seen as proscenium.

areas can be seen as proscenium.

The Façade, specifically the cantilevers, are the dominant design element. Standing in front, the observer really encounters the depth, the strength and defiance of the structures accentuated by the concrete.

Rusakov Club

Konstantin Melnikov

Context: The metaphor extends to the urban context as the audience is towards the residential area, and the stage is towards the industrial area, and the green areas can be seen as proscenium.

Drawing Rusakov Club by Konstantin Melnikov 1927-28

Context: The metaphor extends to the urban context as the audience is towards the residential area, and the stage is towards the industrial area, and the green areas can be seen as proscenium.

1927-28

Built during the soviet constructivist era, Konstantin wanted to create something different from other constuctivist architects. With the use of an allegory of a muscle spun out from the earth, Konstantin makes a bold political statement by depicting the importance of workers and establishing a connection between the audience and the workers through art. In an era of socialist conformity, Konstantin answers Stalin’s call for realism while also keeping the architecture individualistic.

The dominant element is the floor-to-ceiling glass wall which integrates into the nature and provides a vista into the city as it overlooks from the elevation on the hill.

Tughendhat Building Mies Van Der Rohe

1928-30

The dominant element is the glass wall which integrates into provides a vista into the city as the elevation on the hill.

A masterpiece from Mies’s famous low-slung pavillion designs, the Tugendhat, while being influenced by Mies’s own involvement in the de-stijl movement and his own understandings of modernism, also influenced architects of the 20th c. such as Frank Lloyd Wright. Open plan concept is employed and Peter Behren’s “Less is More” ideology is embraced. The freedom of movement is exemplified by the columns and the carefully placed interiors, and the walls extend out into the nature as the glass turns them into a window into the city.

Ordering System/Parti: Radial design harmonizes in both plan and section, representing a muscle spun out from the ground. Hierarchical importance is given to the central point, at the back.

Ordering System/Parti: Radial design harmonizes in both plan and section, representing a muscle spun out from the ground. Hierarchical importance is given to the central point, at the back.

The Façade, specifically the cantilevers, are the dominant design element. Standing in front, the observer really encounters the depth, the strength and defiance of the structures accentuated by the concrete.

Ordering System/Parti: Radial design harmonizes in both plan and section, representing a muscle spun out from the ground. Hierarchical importance is given to the central point, at the back.

Structure: The auditorium is encapsulated in a concrete shell, while the cantilevers and the glazing on the exterior look out to the street. The space is not designed for mobilzation, but as a means of close interaction.

Ordering System/Parti: Radial design harmonizes in both plan and section, representing a muscle spun out from the ground. Hierarchical importance is given to the central point, at the back.

Image of Building

The dominant element is the floor-to-ceiling glass wall which integrates into the nature and provides a vista into the city as it overlooks from the elevation on the hill.

Context: The metaphor extends to the urban context as the audience is towards the residential area, and the stage is towards the industrial area, and the green areas can be seen as proscenium.

Ordering System/Parti: Radial design harmonizes in both plan and section, representing a muscle spun out from the ground. Hierarchical importance is given to the central point, at the

The Façade, specifically the cantilevers, are the dominant design element. Standing in front, the observer really encounters the depth, the strength and defiance of the structures accentuated by the concrete.

The Façade, specifically the cantilevers, are the dominant desig Standing in front, the observer really encounters the depth, the strength and defiance of the structures accentuated by the concrete.

Ordering System/Parti: Radial design harmonizes in both plan and section, representing a muscle spun out from the ground. Hierarchical importance is given to the central point, at the back.

Ordering System/Parti: Radial design harmonizes in both plan and section, representing a muscle spun out from the ground. Hierarchical importance is given to the central point, at the back.

Material: Humble materials are used: brick, steel and concrete embodying industrial productivism. The choice of materials is a rejection of the decorative and stylized art movements and symbolically absorb the art into industrial producation.

Drawing Tughendhat Building by Mies Van Der Rohe 1928-30

A masterpiece from Mies’s famous low-slung pavillion designs, the Tugendhat, while being influenced by Mies’s own involvement in the de-stijl movement and his own understandings of modernism, also influenced architects of the 20th c. such as Frank Lloyd Wright. Open plan concept is employed and Peter Behren’s “Less is More” ideology is embraced. The freedom of movement is exemplified by the columns and the carefully placed interiors, and the walls extend out into the nature as the glass turns them into a window into the city.

The dominant element is the floor-to-ceiling glass wall which integrates into the nature and provides a vista into the city as it overlooks from the elevation on the hill.

Structure: The curciform chrome-plated steel columns are thin and lustrous, further providing a transparent unobstructed freedom of movement while carefully designed and placed elements such as the macassar ebony wall and the onyx wall

Structure: The auditorium is encapsulated in a concrete shell, while the cantilevers and the glazing on the exterior look out to the str The space is not designed for mobilzation, but as a means of close intera

The dominant element is the floor-to-ceiling glass wall which integrates into the nature and provides a vista into the city as it overlooks from the elevation on the hill.

Structure: The

The Façade, specifically the cantilevers, are the dominant design element. Standing in front, the observer really encounters the depth, the strength and defiance of the structures accentuated by the concrete.

Structure: ther designed guide

Materials: reception the dining wall contextualize

Structure: ther providing designed guide the

is encapsulated in a concrete

while the cantilevers and the glazing on the exterior look out to the str The space is not designed for mobilzation, but as a means of close interaction.

Structure: The curciform chrome-plated steel columns are thin and lustrous, fur ther providing a transparent unobstructed freedom of movement while carefully designed and placed elements such as the macassar ebony wall and the onyx wall guide the circulation.

Materials: Luxurious interior reception area and the the dining area embellish wall contextualize the freedom

The dominant element is the floor-to-ceiling glass wall which integrates into the nature and provides a vista into the city as it overlooks from the elevation on the hill.

Structure: The auditorium is encapsulated in a concrete shell, while the cantilevers and the glazing on the exterior look out to the street. The space is not designed for mobilzation, but as a means of close interaction.

Material: Humble materials are used: brick, steel and concrete embodying industrial productivism. The choice of materials is a rejection of the decorative and stylized art movements and symbolically absorb the art into industrial producation.

Structure: The auditorium is encapsulated in a concrete shell, while the cantilevers and the glazing on the exterior look out to the str The space is not designed for mobilzation, but as a means of close interaction.

of Building n element. Standing in front, the observer really encounters the depth, the strength and

Structure: The curciform chrome-plated steel columns are thin and lustrous, fur ther providing a transparent unobstructed freedom of movement while carefully designed and placed elements such as the macassar ebony wall and the onyx wall guide the circulation.

Material: Humble materials are used: brick, steel and concrete embodying industrial productivism. The choice of materials is a rejection of the decorative and stylized art movements and symbolically absorb the art into industrial

Material: Humble materials are used: brick, steel and concrete embodying industrial productivism. The choice of materials is a rejection of the decorative and stylized art movements and symbolically absorb the art into industrial producation.

Structure: The auditorium is encapsulated in a concrete shell, while the cantilevers and the glazing on the exterior look out to the street. The space is not designed for mobilzation, but as a means of close interaction.

Context: Surrounded with vegetation and sparse houses, the idea of open plan extends to the surroundings. The vegetation is curated to blend into the hill surroundings while giving privacy to the house.

Organisation/Ordering movement while

Ordering System/Parti: Radial design harmonizes in both plan and section, representing a muscle spun out from the ground. Hierarchical importance is given to the central point, at the back.

Materials: Luxurious interior materials like the onyx wall in the reception area and the semi-circular macassar ebony wall in the dining area embellish the beauty while the linings on the wall contextualize the freedom of flow.

Material: Humble materials are used: brick, steel and concrete embodying industrial productivism. The choice of materials is a rejection of the decorative and stylized art movements and symbolically absorb the art into industrial producation.

Material: Humble materials are used: brick, steel and concrete embodying industrial productivism. The choice of materials is a rejection of the decorative and stylized art movements and symbolically absorb the art into industrial producation.

Structure: The curciform chrome-plated steel columns are thin and lustrous, further providing a transparent unobstructed freedom of movement while carefully designed and placed elements such as the macassar ebony wall and the onyx wall guide the circulation.

Context: Surrounded with vegetation and sparse houses, the idea of open plan extends to the surroundings. The vegetation is curated to blend into the hill surroundings while giving privacy to the house.

Materials: Luxurious interior materials like the onyx wall in the reception area and the semi-circular macassar ebony wall in the dining area embellish the beauty while the linings on the wall contextualize the freedom of flow.

Structure: The curciform chrome-plated steel columns are thin and lustrous, further providing a transparent unobstructed freedom of movement while carefully designed and placed elements such as the macassar ebony wall and the onyx wall guide the circulation.

Structure: The curciform chrome-plated steel columns are thin and lustrous, further providing a transparent unobstructed freedom of movement while carefully designed and placed elements such as the macassar ebony wall and the onyx wall guide the circulation.

Structure: The curciform chrome-plated steel columns are thin and lustrous, further providing a transparent unobstructed freedom of movement while carefully designed and placed elements such as the macassar ebony wall and the onyx wall guide the circulation.

Structure: The auditorium is encapsulated in a concrete shell, while the cantilevers and the glazing on the exterior look out to the street. The space is not designed for mobilzation, but as a means of close interaction.

Structure: The auditorium is encapsulated in a concrete shell, while the cantilevers and the glazing on the exterior look out to the street. The space is not designed for mobilzation, but as a means of close interaction.

Structure: The auditorium is encapsulated in a concrete shell, while the

Context: plan the hill

Context: plan extends the hill surroundings

Organisation/Ordering System: The movement while simulataneusly disseminating

Materials: Luxurious interior materials like the reception area and the semi-circular macassar the dining area embellish the beauty while wall contextualize the freedom of flow.

Materials: Luxurious interior materials like the onyx wall in the reception area and the semi-circular macassar ebony wall in the dining area embellish the beauty while the linings on the wall contextualize the freedom of flow.

Materials: Luxurious interior materials like the onyx wall in the reception area and the semi-circular macassar ebony wall in the dining area embellish the beauty while the linings on the wall contextualize the freedom of flow.

Median-Section

Macassar Ebony Dividing Wall

Onyx Wall

Column Detail

Image

auditorium

shell,

Macassar Ebony Dividing Wall

Physical Modelling

ARCH 202, 2021 Villa Le Sextant - Spring 2021

Professor: York Seiler Model was laser cut.

SDC 140, 2019 Pavillion - Spring 2019

Professor: Judith Theodorson Model was hand cut and assembled.

Physical Modelling

Studio Project: Uplifting Journey, Fall 2021

ARCH 301 Project, Fall 2021

Professor: Sajini Badrinarayan

Lasercut basswood model for project “Uplifting Journey”.

Studio Project: Performative Space, 2021

ARCH 202 Project, Spring 2021

Professor: Thomas Vliet

This model was lasercut for the final studio project of ARCH 202.

Digital Modelling

Individual works from ARCH 210, Fall 2020

Professor: Christopher Beorkrem

Used software as tools for fabrication.

Dunescape (SHoP architects) like structure built in Rhinoceres, and rendered using Photoshop and Ilustrator.

‘Structural Oscillations’ (by Gramazio & Kohler) like wall created in Grasshopper

Sagrada Familia catenaries created using Grasshopper.

Aqua tower, by Studio Gang, cantilevered balconies recreated in Rhinoceros.

Freeform Catalan Vault, by Phillippe Block Research recreated in Rhinoceros

Winnipeg Skate Shelters, built by Patkau architects, recreated in Rhinoceros and rendered using Photoshop.

Plan View

Single layered structure

Digital Modelling

Created a facade system using Grasshopper, responding to the dynamic nature of the environment and project needs.

ARCH 202, Spring 2021

Project: “Urban Performative Space”

Professor: Thomas Vliet

Sun Path

Axis of rotation

Evening configuration

Rotating Facade panel design for Dynamic Sun Shading

Rotating Panels

Afternoon configuration

Sun Light Simulation