Raju Roleru Portfolio

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Raju Roleru Raju Roleru

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C o nta c t

35 NE 17th Ave Portland Or, 97232 rnroleru@gmail.com (425) 223-2031

Educa ti on

W a shin gto n S tate U niv ersit y Pullman WA, 2015 - 2016

Master of Architecture

W a shin gto n S tate U niv ersit y Pullman WA 2010 - 2015 Bachelor’s of Science in Architectural Studies

E a stla k e H ig h S ch o o l Sammamish WA 2007 - 2010 High School Diploma 2010

E xper i ence

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I have 2 years of experience working in the architectural field implementing design, developing strategic and smart ways of detailing mix-used, retail and K-12 schools. I bring great communication, efficiency, culture and collaboration of integrated design to any firm I work with. I have an open mind, drive and willingness to learn more about my profession.

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Sketch Up 8 Auto Cad Revit Rhino Word

Power Point Illustrator Photoshop InDesign Model Making

421 Sw 6th Ave #1212 Portland, Or 97204 Architect Designer Description: Designed, detailed and developed K-12, Mix Retail

W a shin gto n S tate U niv ersit y 2014 - 2016 100 Dairy Road, Pullman, WA 99164 Teacher Assistants; Arch 213 Sustainability Description: Graded test, papers assignment and projects . Held lecture for several class.

W a shin gto n S tate U niv ersit y 2014 - 2016 173 Bohler, Pullman, WA 99164 Academic Media Service Description: Maintained and serviced classrooms. Oversaw video conferences to make sure all equipment functioned properly.

Y m ca C a m p C o un s elo r 2010 - 2014 8011 Fauntleroy Way SW, Seattle, WA 98136 Summer Camp Counselor Description: Oversaw 20 to 25 children per week. Created a safe environment and enjoyable camp experiences.

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Table of Contents 1-4

West Seattle. Elementary School

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Ainsworth Hot Spring

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Seattle: C.L.T Skyscraper

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Housing First: Designing for Dignity

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Adaptive Expansion: Spokane Visitor Center:

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Adaptive Systems

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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

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Pullman: Mix Use

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Fabric Casting: Tension Variation

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Portland: Designing for Urban Growth

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Designing For Urban Growth Page 1

Designing for Urban Growth

NW Riverscape St, Portland, OR

The North Pearl Distract used to be and still is an industrial area. The city of Portland, however, has been actively trying to create a new urban site. How do you get people from the city, or even the suburbs, to come to the North Pearl District? It requires a lot of work, but city planners have already attracted people who see real potential in that area.

Now how do you get other people interested? How do you create urban growth?

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Portland City Site

Downtown Portland

Retail

Restaurants

Hotel

Function shaped the form One of the first things I believe the people are really attracted to are views. They always try to get a place with a panoramic view or something of interest. The city of Portland is a perfect location for spectacular views. The river provides an aesthetic appeal to the existing site. Bridges, mountains and the city can be seen from our lot.

Designing For Urban Growth

To ensure that urban growth is successful, the location has to provide efficiencies. What I mean by that is retail, transportation (all forms) and access to essential things without going too far. People tend to prefer easy access to services.

Trying to provide them is often a challenge.

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Living opportunities

Finally, I believe a variety of housing opportunities is the most important aspect of this type of planning. Temporary, rental and permanent living each has its own role to play. Temporary living usually consists of hotels. These are convenient places for people to stay while getting to know a place. Next is providing rental able space for people who have decided to relocate. These are usually people who are just married, starting a family or people that are young and looking for an urban environment. Finally, permanent housing serves families or older people that are interested in purchasing a long term home.

My approach was to have a central line where there would be a slow moving traffic zone. With the central line, there are small breaks to provide exits.

With this function already laid out, I designed it so that the hotel is on the main street with the most public spaces. Next are the apartments which have unique designs but also share similarities are providing their own green zone. Finally there are the town houses. They are placed strategically in the back and closest to the water to provide the most private and scenic location on the site.

Apartment Circulation

Vertical Circulation

Structure

Hotel Circulation

Vertical Circulation

Structure

Designing For Urban Growth

Private vs public spaces

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West Seattle Elementary Page 5

West Seattle Elementary

The design theory behind the school comes from the idea of creating community with different age’s groups around a circle. In the middle of the campus is a centralized auditorium. This space can be viewed from all parts of the school. I visualize the whole school using this space for gatherings, play etc. Another aspect of the design was to create outdoor learning areas in the lower level. The shape itself was intentional in that I wanted wide views to create a sense of expansion and exploration which would encourage students to be more creative.

Breaking the circle

Seattle WA,

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Ainsworth Hot Spring

This community integrates buildings with the natural environment. Ainsworth, British Columbia was created by two glaciers coming together and creating huge mountain peaks and steep hills for water to collect. The terrain has created hot springs on the mountainside. I tried to recreate these aspects of water collection in my design. I did this by slanting the roofs inward to collect water into a central location. I created two zones of water to collect one inside the spring to go of the already naturally formed hot-spring.

The second was the outside pool which represents the lake formed by runoff.

British Columbia, Canada

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C.L.T. High Rise

C.L.T. High Rise

Denny Park, Seattle Wa

The genotype evolution starts with a geometry selection that will inform the basic shape of the offset floor planes. Next the global building form is manipulated by three transformations: rotation, scale, and movement. The building’s structure is then selected from a set of geometric grid options.

Desired grid density is achieved by controlling the U and V count. Structure reduction selects walls to be removed based on a global or local relationship pattern. Finally the structure is given dimension based on the grid cells.

Morphology

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Designer: Raju Roleru

IDEX: Mass Timber CLT High Rise

Transportation to site

Architectural Site Plan

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C.L.T. High Rise

C.L.T. skyscraper

We started with two rectilinear forms to provide for the essential programs needed in our area. These rectilinear forms are connected at a 90 degree angle so we can optimize our program space. Overlapping them together with a centralized core, provided for optimal views, multiple site usage and also separation of programs. Having the form overlap creates a cross axis symmetry allowing for simple structure throughout the form. A centralized core allows us to have access to both buildings through one main area. The Centralized core also allows us to have a center of rigidity. This is crucial when building a high rise because of lateral forces.

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Hosing First Page 17

Housing First FAR: #UNITS: UNIT AREA(S): GROSS FLOOR AREA: EFFICIENCY:

Designing for Dignity

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I was approached by an organization to design a Homeless Residence hall. When designing this building I was given a specific program and guidelines to cater to this clientele. The residents of this building are the homeless who are seeking a place to stay. The theory behind this design was “housing first�. This policy allows for a homeless person to have a long term place to live. The design aspect came in creating unique programs and spaces that differ from the previous building that the client has already built.

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Hosing First

Designing for efficiency

The design itself highlights efficiency of maintenance in the living spaces. In the public or common areas I created spaces for individuals to be able to have some level of privacy in a public space.

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Adaptive Expansion

Adaptive Expansion

Visitor Center: Spokane WA

Adaptive system research + exploration

Our objective was to design a responsive building through the interactions of people-to-mass. The way we wanted to accomplish this was by developing the conceptual idea of integration through site analysis, research and application of our adaptive system.

Desert snail inspiration

100 ft

Responsive systems Room Expands

Study Space

Student Users

App activates space

Occupant size put into app

Optional room layouts

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High radiation

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Interior Temperature (85 degrees)

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Interior Temperature (60 degrees)

Study space

Temperature reacting ventilation

Adaptive system opens

App collects desired average temperature from occupants Low radiation

Cafe

Adaptive Expansion

Visitor center

Interior Temperature (72 degrees) Adaptive system closes

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Adaptive Systems

Adaptive System Inspiration

Bi-Metal Nitinol

Consists of bi-metals with different expansion rates,

Case Study #1: Bloom

allowing the metals to bend

Environmental Elements Environmental Elements

Human Reaction

Human Reaction

to different situations. These bi-metals consist of copper, brass, aluminum and steel.

Wind

Wind

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Sun

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Case Study #2: Desert Snail One of our inspirations came from a system located in the desert which has the

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ability to naturally ventilate itself in very hot climates.

Case Study #2: Expanding Circle A mechanism that requires no manual input by human or technology.

Human reaction to environmental elements

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Environmental factors cause humans to have a natural reaction to either open or close due to the conditions. We wanted to create a system that adapts to the environment without these outside forces.

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The nitinol panels and rods reacts due to temporal changes, it bends to allow for airflow or straightens to close the system.

People Responses to Temperature

Opening Windows

Adjusting Temperature

Natural ventilation

Adaptive systems have inspired many people to explore a new generation of design. We as students have taken on the challenge of creating an adaptive system that no longer requires human or technical influence, creating a reaction with not only the user but with the natural environment.

Through our research of natural ventilation we have discovered that it is impacted by both human and environmental factors. These factors are typically controlled by technology or human action. We wanted to go a step further by using smarter materials that would allow for natural interaction with the environment. The smarter material known as Nitinol, reacts to both heat gain and heat loss. This allows for our design to have interactions with both the interior and exterior of the building.

Attaching Nitinol in our panel system allows for the fluctuating temperatures of both interior and exterior environments to control the individual panels by opening and closing them. Through this developmental design we believe that we have found a system that can be incorporated into real-life applications.

Adaptive Systems

Closed

Entering into a Space

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Materials

Limitations

Adaptive Systems

Although nitinol is a very innovative material, it has caused some setback within our design process. After searching we were able to find nitinol that was affordable but in small quantities. This gave us the opportunity to experiment with the material. The first order of nitinol was not a sufficient amount to complete our larger scale model but we were able to salvage it and incorporate it into our secondary design. The second shipment of nitinol was much thicker, and with that much more expensive.

Another component that has brought complications was the inner wall system.

This mechanism includes an expanding and contracting circle. The shape that we decided would work best requires specific construction but we weren’t able to dedicate sufficient time to perfect it.

Nitinol Panels

Metal Frame

Aluminum

Nitinol Rod

Metal Frame

Nitinol Rod

Aluminum

Responsive system

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Environmental inducers Temperature

Precipitation

Wind

Sunlight

Adaptive Systems

Application

In real world applications we can see this system applied to large facade systems that could naturally ventilate the building. This system would be located in a moderately warm climate.

Kinetic response

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Pullman Mix Use Page 27

Pullman Mix Use I was assigned to design a building in Pullman, Washington. The proposal was to remodel what used to be the Mimosa building into a mixed use building.

The building consists of a restaurant, retail and low income housing. The key inspiration of my design was to make a connection between various entities.

One connection was between different age groups in Pullman. The second was to bring some connection to the land. The third was to bring some cultural aspects to the building. Historically, the city of Pullman has had a classical reveal style and has not progressed to keep up with the modern world. Through this project I wanted to bring a more modern style to the city so it would branch away from the classical reveal style.

E Main ST, Pullman WA, 99163

Pullman Mix Use

I did this by choosing more modern materials like concrete and wood. To create a strong accent and a more powerful statement towards the material, I accentuated the edges of the materials. I also brought a natural connection to the building by having outdoor plaza spaces for residents on each level, as well as a complete outdoor plaza on the top floor. This allows for a human connection to the outdoors. I also put mesh around the wooden trellis to allow people to grow plants or have a green wall throughout the entire year.

This also acts as shading from the sun.

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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion Page 29

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

This space is unique because it is a temporary place for people to design pavilions that are built every 6 months or so. When designing this space I wanted to create an infinity walkway. Most pavilions are not an interactive experience. My goal was to encourage people to come back and be able to experience the walkway differently each time. One could loop around several times and enjoy different aspects of the landscape. Each stage of the walk provided a unique view and perspective of the surrounding park. I have also chosen to put reflective glass on alternating panels so people may experience different angles of each view.

London UK

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Fabric Casting Page 33

TENSION VARIATION

TEA M DE SI G N

William Bilyeu

Raju Roleru

Tension Variation is focused on the manipulation of fabric, this consisted of the alteration of the fabrics tension to encourage the dispurcement of plaster in the formwork to create a predited form.

To create an architectural element, we began brainstorming ways which fabric could enhance the structural integity. We concluded that structural members reguire greater thickness in areas where there is higher forces to prevent collapse. We used this idea to allow the fabric to expand in locations which need greater thickness by controlling the tension of the fabric to allow for further expansion.

Fabric Casting

FABRIC CASTING:

Using this method we were able to create a variety of architectural elements. These elements had structural purposes such as beams, collumns, and panels with the end goal of creating an assembly which would serve as a pavilion or another architectural application.

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