Architecture Portfolio (Selected Works) 2019

Ruchi Patel Architectural Portfolio of Selected Works

Ruchi Patel

ruchi@iastate.edu 847-804-4282 1052 Florida Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007

Skills Awards / Scholarships AutoCAD (2D) Rhinoceros 5 Adobe Creative Cloud Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Maxwell Revit Sketch Up Microsoft Office Hand Drawing Writing Material Exploration

Recipient of Award for Competitive Excellence Recipient of Gregory S Palermo and Olivia MA Madison Scholarship Dean’s List (2015-2018)

Past Jobs ASSIST ILLINOIS Senior Care Services (May 2017) Business card design.

ASSIST ILLINOIS Senior Care Services (May-July 2018) Caregiver.

Internship for Cook County Commissioner Candidate (July-August 2018)

Campaigning with and for Cook County Commissioner Kevin Morrison.

Languages Membership / Leadership English (Native) Gujarati (Native) Hindi (Conversational) Spanish (Conversational)

Education IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

Bachelors of Architecture Projected Graduation: May2020 GPA: 3.68/4.00

IE UNIVERSITY Student Exchange Program Fall 2018 JAMES B CONANT HIGH SCHOOL (2011-2015)

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY:

NOMAS (National Organization of Minority Architecture Students – Iowa State Chapter) 2016 – Present Helping restart Iowa State Chapter Event Coordinator Design Ambassadors 2017 - Present Datum (College of Design Architecture Publication) 2017 - Present Contributor for Issue No. 9 and 10 BUILD (Mentoring Program) 2017- 2018 Mentor for incoming design students

Reference Firat Erdim Assistant Professor firat@iastate.edu

Artist-In-Residence + Social Housing Designer:

Ruchi Patel Site:

Cocheras de Cuatro Caminos,

Madrid, Spain Project:

The site is an architecturally significant unused existing Garage for subway cars. The plot is to be reused for a mixed use social housing complex.

Located between an affluent neighborhood and a lower income neighborhood, the site is rich in history. The area within Madrid is a growing art district, with an increase of artist studios and schools. The young student population is countered with families comfortably living in the neighborhood.

Proposal:

The site draws the public in as an active park and studio where artists and local community may collaborate.

This mixed use proposal restores significant existing buildings for “open to public� spaces and creates a housing strip hugging these moments.

Courtyards become important play of spaces where pedestrians are led across the site to the center moment of tension.

This tensional area signifies the collaboration of artists, residents, and local communities.

multiple “naves”. Each had a different purpose for the cars; parking, review, rep Original Subway Garage Plans Subway Garage Existing assembly.

Buildings Iglesia, Chamberi, Bilbao, Tribunal, Gran Via y Sol.

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The garage for the train cars was located in Cuatro Caminos. It was designed with multiple “naves”. Each had a different purpose for the cars; parking, review, repair and assembly.

Current Living + Housing Situation Charts

As the Madrid grew, slums, inevitably

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organized within the urbanscape. In the Cuatro Caminos case of Madrid, the cost of living began to organize with people/of higher class

lower Income making their homes in the center of the

city, and the poorer laborers fend for Immigrant Neighborhoods themselves around the outskirts of the

Chambericity.

Originally, a higher

Affluent / population of inhabitants were in Chamberi, where there

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Traditional was still easy access into the center of

Madrid. As the members of higher class citizens fell into Chamberi, though, laborers were forced to move up the current location of Cuatro Caminos.

Around 1900, the census showed a majority of the population in the Tectuan region to be laborers. The main street running through the area, Calle de O’Donnell (later to be named Calle de Bravo Murillo) was lined with construction workers, artisans, merchants and “rag pickers”.

town was highly ignored by the governSiteThis of violent protest in 1917 ment.

“Ragpickers” piled garbage in the corclean water and other services was due ners toandfor governmental negligence lacking these overworked laborers. This eventually led to a violent protest of 1917. of Cuatro Caminos Area

Art Schools Art Galleries

Shared Zones Shared Kitchen Shared Living Space / Play Area

Ground Floor

One Bedroom

Live - In - Artist Studio

Two Bedroom / Double - Story

Section sketch of Courtyard, Housing, and Caf

fe/Gallery

Section Sketch of lightwell between housing and Ca

Section Perspective

Longitudinal Section

Hill Section Detail

Rail Track/Vegetation Section Detail

Wall Detail

Multi-Generational Large Scale Housing Designers:

Ruchi Patel

Alicia O’Neill

Andrew Miller Site:

5 Manhattan West, New York Project:

This housing complex aims to create more housing options for the growing population of minorities. There is a growing population of families that tend to have larger joint families. It also targets the need for housing options that can adjust to a growing family in the bustle of New York.

Proposal:

Housing units that can be just as flexible as a growing family are proposed to makeup majority of the new housing complex. There are options to open up two units and combine families or adjustable walls within units provide the option to increase or decrease the number of bedrooms. The building also provides amenities that are shared between residents and some are available to non-residential families also.

It is a social housing solution for busy and large families.

In the state of New York, 10.9% of Hispanic-American Residents, 10.4% of Asian-American Residents, and 11.6% of African-American residents lived in a multi-generational home. If these trends stayed true in the borough of Manhattan, 18,928 Asian-Americans, 28,536 African-Americans, and 40,330 Hispanic-Americans would live in a multi-generational home.

Sharing Diagrams

Bath Bath

Bedrooms

Kitchen Living

Bedrooms

Kitchen Laundry Living Kitchen Bath Living Bath

Bedrooms

Bath

Bath

Existing Building Vertical Circulation

New Proposal Implementing Subtraction methods Horizontal Circulation

Interior Hallways

Interior Hallways + Exterior Terraces

Concept of Flexible Floor Plans

Walls move in X and Y direction and rotate

Lofted Units

Section

Studio Units

Large Family Units

Section

Hallway Plan

Unit Relations

Floor 5 Floor 6

Floor 4 Floor 3 Floor 5 Floor 6

Floor 2 4 Floor Floor 5

Floor13 Floor Floor 4

Floor 8-10 Floor 11-14

Floor 7 Floor 6 Floor 8-10

Floor 11

Floor 11-14

FloorFloor 5 7

8’

40’

Floor 8-

80’

Floor 8-10

Floor46 Floor

Floor71 Floor 8’

Floor 7

40’

80’

on 1

Sect Floor 2 Floor Plans

Floor 5

Floor 8

Plans 8’

40’

80’

Building Sections

tion 2

Longitudinal Section

Second Floor Courtyard

Thank You.