Architecture Design Portfolio 2015-2020 - Preethi Chandrasekaran

Preethi Chandrasekaran

Architectural Design - Selected works from 2015-2020

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS : School of Planning and Architecture New Delhi - B.ARCH D.A.V Girls Senior Secondary School Chennai - 12TH CBSE D.A.V Girls Senior Secondary School Chennai - 12TH CBSE LEADERSHIP/ORGANISATION SKILLS

• Organising Paper waste recycling in SPA • Coordinating plaster workshops in Made • Coordinator of Mudra( Dance society) 2 dance events.

• Held positions as Captain and Vice Cap houses for four years consecutively 2011 OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

Preethi 22 I am a 22 year old Architecture graduate waiting to jump into the pool of opportunities the world has to offer!

The portfolio is compilation of selected works over the period of five years of Architecture course. I can bring a mix of creativity and pragmatism to the table. The best is yet to come and I constantly push myself.

I believe the best way to learn architecture is to begin by unlearning.

“Do” is my favourite verb, “Doer” is my favourite noun.

• Subject Topper in 12th CBSE Board- Co • Group Dance, Adzap, Literary Character • First Place- classical Dance Duet , Rang INTERESTS & HOBBIES • • • • • • •

ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS: • • • • •

• Contact i Preethi Chandrasekaran 9871446234 preethz98@gmail.com 25-01-1998

Dance ( Trained in Classical Dance-Kath Wall painting Sketching Carrom Writing Travel Upcycled crafts

120 Hours - Build a blanket fort-Honorab Archmello Student Housing 2020 India Infrastructure Summit 2020 120 Hours 2018 - Space for Communica Unbox-Volzero 2017- Shipping Containe

Permanent Address: Flat 3B Sorrento Kasyhap flats 6/31 Deivasigamani Street Royapettah Chennai 600014

SOFTWARE SKILLS: 70.70 % First Class 96.8% 10 CGPA

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INTERNSHIP • Made in Earth, Bangalore ( Sustainable earth buildings practices) January 2019 - June 2019 CSEB residence in Attiguppe Bangalore Understanding process of earth building, Planning Gantt charts Working drawings, Figuring out CSEB bond patterns Weekly Site coordination CSEB residence in Konankunte, Bangalore Achievements Working drawings, Site visits, Site coordination Earth kitchen ( plaster workshop space) Working drawings, Site visits • Tangram Design Studio, Arumbakkam, Chennai -Facade development, 3d modelling and rendering ACADEMIC ACHEVEMENTS • JEE AIR- 478 • Autodesk Certified Revit Professional • Attended CSEB(Compressed stabilised earth block) course in Auroville Earth Institute, Sustainability Workshop • Study of Smart Village Dhaula presented in Rashtrapati Bhavan • Documentation published on studies of Shahjahanabad, Baolis of Bundi for SPA Library • Seminar paper- Language, Energy, Architecture and Plan-

Languages English Tamil Hindi

Selected works 2015-2020

1 Market to Manure

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Green street

Urban Housing

4 Canal and the Community

5 House and its staircase

6 Competitions

7 Internship

8 Research and Documentation

9 Other work

1 Market to Manure- Wholesale Flower Market Thesis- Semester 10 Gazipur, New Delhi

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“Market to Manure� - The thesis proposes to evolve an architectural response for a phool mandi located in an urban fringe mediating between the urban and rural contexts, which is derived from the present and future needs of the existing market, re-establishing the link between farmers and feeders as well as man and nature.

The project is to design a Wholesale flower market with spaces for flower markets, auction hall, dorms, offices and exhibition spaces. Manure market is an addition to the program in an attempt to close the resource loop and connect people with nature.

Exhibition bridge Terrace for research Terrace for cultivation

Solar panels

Dorms

Foliage shops

Cut flowers shops

Loose flowers shops

Offices

Manure Market Core 3 Entrance Core Core 2 Goods ramps

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The m lation nent dorm linea

core Public entry Pedestrian staircase

Truck entry

Exhibition bridge

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Market zones Service zones

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The d corri zonta cent

Mark Serv yard char the b core

massing has evolved from the renship between program compots being markets, services, offices, ms, exhibition zone. The horizontal arity is emphasised in the massing.

diagonal axis is emphasised in this idor that spans across the horial market space, splitting the two tral courtyard into two.

ket spaces are resolved and vice zones are delienated. Courtds provided for markets add racter. The diagonal element ties building together and two main es.

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The market plan layout is repeated for the three floors- Loose flowers, cut flowers and foliage markets. Each stall has access to service lane on one end and byer’s path on another. The stalls are movable modular units that can be assembled and dis-assembled as per convenience.

First floor plan

The fourth floor is the Earthen realm of the market. A large terrace landscaped and used for floriculture research. It becomes the melting pot of farmers, buyers, sellers, workers and the community.

The terrace is used for activities like agricultural research, open air workshops and a urban public space that enhances the neighbourhood community as well as an identity for the Gazipur IFC.

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The front facade is designed to be porus using bamboo lo vered skins and letting the north-south breeze in, natura ventilating the building. The exhibition bridge- Floral realm an Cultivation terrace- Earthen realm come together and contrib ute to the essence of the market. The manure market and th triple height public space above emphasises the closed loo practices in the market to the public as well.

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Gazipur Phool Mandi - Front view

On the back end of the shops is the service lane where loading and unloading can take place seamlessly. Oh the other end is the buyer’s path which opens to the building exterior as well as the courtyard, making it an enjoyable experience fot the user..

The design of the stalls are from observation and analysis of the existing shops and the needs of different kinds of flowers and packaging. They are designed as modular panels that can be assembled and disassembled. Retractable shelves, sliding garland holders are new additions. The panels are made of Aluminium sections and plaster panels.

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By challenging the world we live today against the world we want to become, we aim at a community that thrives where people are healthy,safe and secure, whose physical, cultural and social needs are fulfilled; where there is open space for children to play , elders to walk, office goers to look up the screen and glare at the green, and retail users to rest and loiter, roads are not just asphalt beds but streets, avenues, boulevards and plazas bustling with the life of the community. A language of spaces carefully woven together. An Urban forest.

2 COMMUNITY CENTRE PRECINCT REVELOPMENT Urban Design- Semester 9 Vikaspuri, New Delhi

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Office

Hotel

Housing

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Bridge

Club house

Green street Open air theatre

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The Green Street

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HOTEL

The Green Street

HOUSING

RETAIL

OFFICE

are used to differentiate the two. The retail block unlike the others is facing the street and opens outwards achieving a sense of entry and attraction. The buildings are designed such that it responds to the street on either sides effectively. Massing of the buildings gives the feeling of an urban courtyard.

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EWS Housing Typical

Site- Typical floor plan

The floor layouts are laid out in a way each unit gets to interact with green street. All housing clusters face inwards, and enhances the community experience. The ground is let open for stilt parking and recreation spaces. Natural light and ventilation is achieved for every unit designed.

Housing Typical floor plan

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Hotel first floor plan

The retail block is upto three flors above which the office block continues. There is a connecting bridge between the Hotel and Office to help people move easily. The retail block connects to the informal market street behind. Office and Hotel has their own green spaces that are carved out from the C shaped massing.

Office Typical floor plan

Retail first floor plan

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3 AFFORDABLE URBAN HOUSING Housing Design- Semester 7 Faridabad, Haryana

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2BHK I The project looks closer into designing livable compact housing layouts that constitute affordable housing in the city.

Mapping different spaces within the house and the relationships between each space, avoiding unused spaces and efficient clusters letting in natural daylight and ventilation to every room is the key.

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3BHK

2BHK II

4 CANAL AND THE COMMUNITY Community centre Design- Semester 4 Pondicherry

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To bring both Tamil and French towns together in a central community s smart and sustainable. To design for the future. Bridging Smart.

The program is to design a community centre on the Canal road, that ru French and Tamil towns in Pondicherry. The design idea is to use materia to introduce an experience that can be related by both the cultures and nature. Rammed earth is a material that is researched and explored in Au 12 km from Pondicherry). Earth is compacted in successive layers within material is excellent in thermal mass keeping the interiors cool in a hot a like Pondicherry.

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5 HOUSE AND ITS STAIRCASE Residence Design- Semester 3

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House and its staircase Concept sketch

The project is unique as it is site-less and context less. It aims to create flexible accomodating living spaces. The design is anchored around the idea of a stairwell becoming the heart of the house. Each step is also a seat that melts into the cooking and living spaces. There is no “room� demarcated, the entire residence is one space that melts into each other.

Foldable dining seats Dining table re usually underused and become storage slabs. Hence they are made foldable and it opens up the kitchen psace.

Way up to sleeping spaces and lounge

TV Unit and book shelvesbelow the staircase

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Fisherman’s cove- Unbox Volzero Container design

6 COMPETITIONS Volzero, Archmello, 120 Hours

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STUDENT HOUSING Archmello Competition Design

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SPACE FOR COMMUNICATION 120 hrs Competition Design- Semester 9 Pondicherry

A space that makes people communicate with each other.

A playful bridge that is suspended on a central pivot like a see-saw.

It requires people to maintain equal forces constantly on either ends so that the bridge is at level and the person can reach the other end safely.

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7 INTERNSHIP

Made in Earth,Bangalore- Semester 8

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Working in Made in Earth has been one of the most enriching experiences in my five years of Architecture.

KEY PLAN (Not to scale)

3'-10" 6"

LVL +6'-9 1/2" (L00 MID LANDING)

1'' WOODEN PLANK

438"

6"SLAB

1/2'' NOSING 3.5'' THK RCC SLAB 12MM THK HANDMADE TILE 1 2''

RCC STAIRCASE (3.5" THICK SLAB)

678"

8" 521"

LVL +1'-6" (L00 SFL)

838"

10" 3" FINISHED FLOOR LEVEL (Stone Flooring- Smooth Finish)

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Ive worked on a variety of projects that includes residences constructed with CSEB block and earth plasters. Other than Civil work I have worked on Interior design, Renovation, Natural plasters research and conducted workshops.

LEVELLING MORTAR RECESEED FROM EDGE BY 21 ''

678"

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3'-621"

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SECTION AA' NOTES :

1. All dimensions should be verified before execution. Do not scale any measurement from the drawing. Written dimensions to be followed.

2. Drawings should be read in conjunction with related structural and services drawing.

3. Any discrepancy should be brought to the notice of the architect immediately.

4. This drawing is the property of Made In Earth only; it shall not be copied or printed without permission.

SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING PRACTICES Bangalore | www.madeinearth.in

2' 6"

6" -3'0'' LVL

60'

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SIZED STONE MASONRY

DRAWN BY : PREETHI SCALE : NTS

PROJECT TITLE : YOGANAND AND PARIMALA RESIDENCE

DATE : 8/02/2019

6'' DIA GUTTER

6'' DIA RAINWATER PIPE

SILT TRAP

PCC(1:4:8)

DETAIL A INSPECTION CHAMBER

TO MUNICIPAL SEWAGE LINE

FFL - -2'0' ICIL - 3'2''

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FFL - -3'0'' ICIL - -4'2''

6'' dia - Rainwater pipe

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FFL - -3'6'' ICIL -4'11''

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STAIRCASE SECTION

CHECKED BY : AJINKYA

MS GRATING COVER

1'-10"

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DRAWING TITLE :

PAGE NO. : P65 - 001

Gutter slope 1:100

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A Sewage pipe

A Gutter slope 1:100

I got the opportunity to handle various tasks that includes Working drawings, Presentation drawings, Service drawings, reading Structural drawings, Metal fabrication and woodwork drawings, Site coordination, Site visits, Client meetings.

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6'' dia pipe under SSM

4'' Rainwater pipe

Rainy filter Clean water outlet to sump Open ended outlet Overflow pipe

SECTION AA

4'' Rainwater pipe

2'' pipe

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PLUMBING LAYOUT

EARTH KITCHEN NAGAR

NOTES :1. All dimensions should be verified before

execution.

2. Do not scale any measurement from the drawing. Written dimensions to be followed.

3. This drawing should be read in conjunction with related structural and services drawing.

4. Any discrepancy in the drawing should be brought to the notice of the architect immediately.

5. This drawing is the property of Made In Earth only; it shall not be copied or printed without permission.

B' PROJECT TITLE :

GREEN THEORY RENOVATIONEXTENSION OF DINING- III

Existing plywood partition removed 1'' thk 1'3'' wide plywood framing for arch finished with veneer matching wooden floor

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DRAWING TITLE :

FLOOR PLAN Tables, chairs and leather upholstered sofa from LGC

4'-4"

Doorway to be packed with masonry, finished with cement plaster and putty flushed with inside wall Wall niche to be packed with masonry, finished with cement plaster and putty flushed with inside wall

1'-1"

4'-4"

Wooden flooring reused from LGC

PROJECT NO : P69 SCALE : NTS DRAWN BY : PREETHI CHECKED BY : AJINKYA DATE : 29/05/2019 PAGE NO. : 1 OF 5

4-seater table and chairs reused from LGC

Wood and cane door- reused from LGC

MADE IN SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING PRACTICES

BUILT AREA- 2010 SQ.FT.

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8 RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION Lanuage,Energy,Planning and Architecture Seminar Semester 9 Athangudi Tile Making Traditional building craft study - A photo essay Miscellaneous Adaptive Reuse of Traditional Houses Dissertation Semester 7

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Language,Energy,Planning and Architecture Seminar research published in Student magazine Semester 9

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Athangudi Tile Making Miscellaneous

The handcraft of Tile making has been passed over generations from older to younger hands in Athangudi, a small village in Sivaganga District, in Tamil Nadu, India.

Floored by this marvel in flooring, during my visit to this village decided to document them through a photo essay.

Step 1 :

CAST IRON FRAMEWORK

CHEMICAL

PAINTS - Mixture of colour, cement, sand and chemical

Raw Mateirals kept ready.

Step 2 : Oxide paints usually poured over the framework with a glass plate below.The pictures on the left is the method without framework to create spiral patterns.

Step 3 : Mud spread over to hold the paint in position. Final coat of cement-sand mixture is applied.

Step 4 : Framework removed but not the glass. Soaked in water for three days. (Curing)

Step 5 : Tiles are dried and glass is removed.

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Adaptive Resuse of Traditional Houses

AIM

The dissertation aims to for valuing ‘traditional hou the built heritage by adap

Dissertation- Semester 7 OBJECTIVE

1.To understand the conc its application on traditio 2. To understand the pr through primary and sec draw parallels and comp necessary.

4.To interview personalitie Conservation architects, enthusiasts as well as com sociated with traditional h 5.To analyse the issues fa reuse of houses and way 6.To list down the positive of this process and und adaptive reuse on house ABSTRACT

A sustainable way forward.

In the architectural cont of adaptive reuse began and large abandoned fac there has been an incre architecture firms and ho to old traditional houses ditional pieces of archite week and wobbly over tim tial creative spaces.

Architects, authors and across the world have ‘Adaptive Reuse’ in numer act definition is unclear,

CASE STUDIES

Visalam Hotel, Kanad

o re-emphasise the need uses’ and hence conserve ptively reusing them.

cept of adaptive reuse and onal houses. rocess of adaptive reuse condary case studies and pare salient features where

es related to this field like , engineers and heritage mmon people who are ashouses of a previous time. aced during the adaptive ys to overcome the same. e and negative outcomes derstand the feasibility of es.

derstanding that it is the act of reusing a built structure or an old site other than which it was designed for.The Burra Charter(2013) defines adaptation as ‘changing a place to suit the existing use or a proposed use’ whereas the Practice Guidebook for Adaptive Re-use of and Alteration and Addition Works to Heritage Buildings, 2012(Hong Kong) defines it as ‘modifying a building for a use other than its original use’. There is a subtle difference between the two.

Traditional houses are archives of both human skills and lifestyles. Our ancestors have spent immense amount of time, money and resources into building their homes that reflect their culture, family and economic state.

This could happen through a series of steps like conservation, structuring and modification, the extent of each depends on the type of building, its present structural state and future use. Adaptive reuse of traditional houses helps in saving a huge amount of embodied energy, architectural conservation, retaining climate responsive and interactive spaces like verandahs and couryards.

PROCESS

Reasons due to which adaptive reuse of traditional houses is not practised widely 1.There is not enough awareness about restoring and reusing the house among owners.

2.Usually the ancestral house is shared by more than one family and as years pass by, they are more interested in dividing the property equally to avoid problems rather than restoring the house.

3.Adaptive reuse not only depends on the house owner but also on finding another suitable function for the house and the new client(if exists). If this process takes a longer time, the owner usually loses interest and sells the property.

4.Adaptive reuse is not easy. It requires special needs to be met within what is existing and what can be constructed new that will follow the built language as well as the structural concerns of the existing house.

CONCLUSION The various positive effects of adaptive reuse and how it strikes a balance between sustainability and preservation is studied. With alarming rates of pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and waste generation it is high time we realize the need to minimise new construction as well as demolition. Hence there is a need for this realization to come about in common people, property owners, architects, engineers and service providers as well. Though the process requires a huge collaborative effort and time, it is sustainable and profitable in the long run. Architects have the responsibilty to spread this awareness and encourage more restorations and adaptive reuse. This will also provide opportunities and revive traditional crafts, eventually reducing restoration costs. Though the goal of restoring and reuseing more houses seems far fledged, if passion to conserve resources and energy along with responsibility towards a sustainable future is shown by every house owner/entrepreneur/ architects/engineers , this can be achieved.

text, though the concept with historical monuments ctories, in the recent years ease in interest showed by ouse owners in applying it . Houses that treasure traecture, but have become me can be seen as poten-

heritage conservationists defined and interpreted rous ways. Though the exone can come to an un-

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UNDERSTANDING FEASIBILITY

59 Mango tree restaurant, Chennai

Khushru Irani Studio, Pune

8 Other works

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Model making Model making has been an integral part of the design process as well as final representation. Materials explored are paper, ivory card, sun board, acrylic, ethaflex, MDF. Surface development, laser cutting, stacking, layering are methods explored.

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MISCELLANEOUS

Digital art, Logo design, Painting, Sketching

Adalaj Stepwell Pil

Wall painting in Budur Government School

120 Hours- Tranquil in my terrace

Hands on exercise- Canteen seating

Tranquil in my terrace- Honorary mention

Coaster desig

Do you see a butterfly or

llar site sketch

T - Shirt Design for Chennaigaga - a Chennai based Souvenir store

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When unused credit cards can hold pens!

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The think-in loo- Lunar loo Competition entry

Layered paper model

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Portrait postcards

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Preethi Chandrasekaran preethz98@gmail.com 9871446234

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