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Email: pragyasalhan@gmail.com
Phone: +1 (587) 966 1580 Address: 2416, 16 Ave NW Calgary, T2M 5C7
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Pragya Salhan
SCHOOLS ATTENDED
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE | 3.77 GPA
University of Calgary | 2020-2023
BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE | SILVER MEDALLIST
Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, Delhi, India | 2015- 2020
EXPERIENCE
GRAPHIC DESIGN INTERN, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
Faculty of Graduate Studies | January 2022- Present
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
School of Architecture Planning and Landscape
ARCH 201 Architecture and the Future of Cities- Fall 2022
ARCH 406 Design Thinking in the Built Environment Studio I-Fall 2022
ARCH 201 Architecture and the Future of Cities- Winter 2023
GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
Center for Civilization | Sept 2021-May 2022
ADMINISTRATIVE INTERN, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
Faculty of Graduate Studies | December 2022- Present
INTERN ARCHITECT
CP Kukreja Architects, New Delhi, India | Jan 2018- July 2018
HEAD PRODUCTS AND STRATEGY
Start-Up, Family Script- Prarabdha Info Solutions Pvt. Ltd., India | Jan 2018- June 2020
Aikyam Intergenerational Living
May 2021- June 2021
Location: CBE Building, Calgary
Project partner : Ben Harrison
The project aims to promote healthy living for seniors in Calgary by creating a socially inclusive housing facility that offers interaction with the younger population and opportunities to work and contribute to the community.
The CBE building was previously owned by the Centre of Education in Downtown Calgary and is used for adaptive reuse because of its ideal location in the city. The project integrates the concept of intergenerational living by providing housing options for college students with rent waivers in exchange for their services to the senior inhabitants.
The project is titled ‘Aikyam’ which is a Sanskrit word for oneness, unity, and harmony.
SOFTWARE USED:
• Rhinoceros 3D
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
SITE PROGRAM
Massing Formation: Courtyard Introduced
Entry To Market
Landscaping to Activate Existing Parking
Greenhouse for Intergenerational Learning
Floors added on existing Built Mass Active Streets to Invite Pedestrians
Terraces created for Social Gathering
Outdoor Seating
Farmer’s Market
Circulation
1 2 3 3
1. 1 Bedroom Units For Independent Living Seniors.
2. 2 Bedroom Units For 2 Seniors Or Shared With Students For Assistance.
3. Studio Units For Students.
Second Floor Plan
Fourth Floor Plan
2 1
Housing Units
Community Terrace
Plaza above marketplace
Isometric View Section S-N
Reimagining the Police Station
January 2020- May 2020
Location: New Delhi, India
The lack of concern with the design and management of the police stations is reflected in the public experience, making them alienating, intimidating, and less approachable. A well-designed police station will have many benefits beyond improving confidence in the police. This thesis explores SMART policing that changes the current perception of police stations into friendly public complexes to allow better public relations and a healthy working environment for police personnel in Delhi.
SOFTWARE USED:
• Revit/ Rhino
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
FORMAL STRATEGY
Residence
Police
Courtyard Planning for visual interaction, natural light and ventilation
Connecting bridging for both programs, providing easy circulation and open green spaces on levels.
SITE PLAN
U-shape form looking into a green space for interaction
station split in 2 blocks for air movement to the residences.
for police personnel Police Station
GROUND FL. PLAN
Building Entrance GROUND FLOOR F.H.C. L.V. Electrical F.H.C. L.V. Electrical DUCT RAMP OUT FROM GROUND FLOOR TO BSMNT. RAMP IN FROM GROUND FLOOR TO BSMNT. F.H.C. ELEC. F.H.C. LVL 00.0 LVL +1500 30500 17200 30500 28000 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 10 12 13 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Legend: 1. Reporting room 2. Women Help Desk 3. Counselling Room 4. Emergency room 5. Child friendly room 8. Armoury 16. Canteen/ dining 17/18. Lockup 19. Juvenile Room
2- Bedroom Apartment
3- Bedroom Apartment
4- Bedroom Apartment
GROUND FL. PLAN
Residence Play Area
View of Residence from Station Terrace
Continuity through Fragmentation
September 2020- December 2020
Location: Nassau County Museum Ground, New York
This project is a residence for Umberto Boccioni based conceptually on his painting. The Artwork called Dynamism of a Cyclist is a futurist painting of the early 1900s. Boccioni’s painting depicts a head-down racing cyclist behind in the air, his movement indicated by the “force lines” and echoing curves showing the impact of its movement on the surrounding.
This study led to the concept of Continuity through fragmentation, inhabiting spaces of intersecting boundaries and volumes, creating spaces that seamlessly flow into one another and function as a whole instead of a congregation of parts.
SOFTWARE USED:
• Rhinoceros 3D
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
Dynamism of a Cyclist Concept Diagram
FORMAL STRATEGY
Starting geometry
Movement on parallel/ opposite axes
FLOOR PLANS
Movement in 3 dimensions
PERSPECTIVE SECTION
Multiplying dynamic movement in still frame
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
DN BEDROOM UP DN BATH DN STUDIO DN BEDROOM UP DN BATH DN STUDIO DN BEDROOM UP DN BATH DN STUDIO
View: Studio to Living space
View: Living space
Joint Multi-Unit Residence
January 2021- April 2021
Location: 15 Ave and 1 St. Calgary
This housing project constitutes 40 residence units for students, families, and seniors. The concept of joint engages both formally, with architectural strategy, and socially, by bringing people together. This project explores people in the high-rise with the green landscape enjoyed on the ground. Formally in massing, planning of individual floors, and creating void versus solid relations between units and open spaces, the concept of joint allows the inhabitant to interact in community green spaces. Greenhouses stretch over multiple floors and create a space for interaction visually and physically for students, families, and senior citizens for community engagement.
Concept Study Models
SOFTWARE USED:
• Rhinoceros 3D
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
Housing Social 0 5 10 25 M SHOP/ CAFE COMMUNITY ROOM 15 TH AVENUE 1ST STREET SW 0 5 10 25 M
GROUND FLOOR Community Room Shop/Cafe
FORMAL STRATEGY
3rd FLOOR UP UP 4th FLOOR 5th & 6th FLOOR 0 10 M 2 First Floor Plan Fourth Floor Plan Second Floor Plan Fifth and Sixth Floor Plan
Community Area
0
W-E Section N-S
SECTION Section
Gift to the City Museum of Energy
September 2021- December 2021
Location: 512 Riverfront Ave, East Village, Calgary
Project partner : Karen Ajala
The project intends to create a beacon of energy that educates about the history of energy generation and its economic, cultural, and environmental impact on Calgary and Alberta. The building design is based on the concept of a landscape with indoor museum spaces designed underground to give back the land to the city as public space and use the earth’s heat to create a passive comfortable environment within the underground building. The building form guides the users’ movement through the museum exhibition to create an experience of the evolution of sources of energy. The walls’ location and curvature on the landscape create a different wind experience for the users by altering wind speed, calculated using computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
CFD Analysis: Concept and Formal Strategy
SOFTWARE USED:
• Rhinoceros 3D
• Enscape
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Archicad (project partner)
• Lumion (project partner)
WASTE
CENTER MULTIPURPOSE
ROTATORY
AREA (BOILER, CHILLER, FAN ROOM)
WASHROOM LOBBY BREAK ROOM
LIGHTWELLS
RECYLING
PARKING ROOMS STORAGE RESOURCE AREA/ BOOKSTORE CAFE OIL/ NATURAL GAS EXHTBITION GALLERY RENEWABLE ENERGIES EXHIBITION
ROOM
JANITOR’S ROOM SERVER
WASHROOM SHIPPING AND RECEIVING/ QUARANTINE AREA
EXHIBITION
TEMPORARY
JANITOR’S ROOM FIRE EXIT 1 G
OPEN WORKING SPACE PRIVATE OFFICES PARK PROGRAM Geothermal Energy Exhibit
MECHNANICAL
B1 B2
SITE PLAN Outdoor Space. Water collection Installation
Siteless Revit drawings
September 2022- December 2022
Location: Siteless
The project was completed for the BIM course during the Fall of 2022. The aim was to develop a building of any program or size and construct its digital model in Revit. This helped me develop a working competency with Revit. Furthermore, I explored LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) using the One Click LCA plugin with Revit as my final project.
SOFTWARE USED: • Revit Architecture Ground floor 0 First Floor 4000 Second floor 10000 Third floor 14000 Roof 18000 1 Terrace 16500 Foundation -1500 Grade beam -235 2 1 : 75 Section 1 1
Siteless Object/ Office Building
3 4 5 6 8 7 1 A09
UP 1 3 4 5 6 8 A C D E F 950 950 2 B 7 4 m² Elevator m² Shaft 16 m² Meeting Room 17 m² Meeting Room 50 m² Pantry 33 m² Work stations 22 m² Workshop 4 m² Elevator m² Shaft Meeting Area 11 m² Office 11 m² Office 11 m² Office 25 m² Waiting area 31 m² Reception 22 m² Workshop 66 m² Courtyard 2000 2000 6000 8000 6000 2000 2000 28000 2000 4000 6000 8000 6000 4000 32000 1 A08 1 A09 1 A10 www.autodesk.com/revit CHECKED BY TITLE PROJECT PROJECT STATUS PURPOSE OF ISSUE CODE SUITABILITY DESCRIPTION Ground floor Project Number Assignment Owner Checker Rev Description Ground floor 0 First Floor 4000 Second floor 10000 Third floor 14000 Roof 18000 A C D E F H Terrace 16500 Foundation -1500 Grade beam -235 G B 1 A08 1 A10 www.autodesk.com/revit TITLE PROJECT STATUS PURPOSE OF ISSUE CODE SUITABILITY DESCRIPTION Section 2 Assignment Rev Description 1 : 75 Section 2 1
GROUND FL. PLAN SECTION 1
CONCRETE COLUMN WOOD STUD CAVITY WALL INSULATION WALLBOARD POLYETHYLENE VAPOR BARRIER SHEATHING VENTILATED AND DRAINED CAVITY BRICK VENEER CLADDING CERMAIC TILE FLOOR FINISH CEMENT SCREED CONCRETE SLAB RIGID INSULATION COMPACTED GRAVEL GRADE BEAM CONCRETE ISOLATED FOOTING RIGID INSULATION METAL FLASHING TITLE PROJECT STATUS CODE Rev Ground floor 0 First Floor 4000 Second floor 10000 Third floor 14000 Roof 18000 A C D E F H Terrace 16500 Grade beam -235 G B 1 A08 1 A10 www.autodesk.com/revit SCALE (@ A1) CHECKED BY TITLE PROJECT NUMBER CLIENT PROJECT DRAWING NUMBER REV DRAWN BY DATE STATUS PURPOSE OF ISSUE CODE SUITABILITY DESCRIPTION 1 75 East Elevation Project Number Assignment 2 Owner Checker A04 Author 01/23/07 Rev Description Date 1 : 75 East 1 EAST ELEVATION DETAIL
The Junction
Adaptive Reuse. Expandable Housing.
September 2022- December 2022
Location: 17 Ave and 4 St. Calgary
Project partners: Aliyah Dosanjh, Brooklyn Hoffman, Matthew Wong
This project proposes a solution for the high vacancy rate in downtown Calgary. Extensive research of the macro and micro scales of the site brought forth a lack of many basic facilities and other end destination programs that will increase density in the area.
In addition to the need for food and retail, there is an extreme difference in owner-to-rental status due to a lack of affordability for the younger demographic or small unit sizes that offer limited flexibility for growing household sizes. The vacant office building on site is repurposed as a hotel with different lodging typologies for people with different budgets and duration of stay.
SOFTWARE USED:
• Rhinoceros 3D
• Enscape
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
ADAPTIVE REUSE: HOTEL
Floors 3-5
Capsule Units/ Micro Units
3.5 sq./ 11- 17 sqm.
PROGRAM GROUND FL. PLAN
Food Alley
Upper level plaza: Rock Climbing
KIT OF PARTS
7.2 sqm. module
Unfilled Voids as social spaces
14 sqm. module
EXPANDABLE HOUSING
Housing- PRESENT
Housing- FUTURE: EXPANDED
Estranged Graphics Coursework
September 2020-April 2021
Location: CBE Building, Calgary
This chapter of the portfolio includes the graphic projects undertaken as academic projects for the first year of the master’s course. All pamphlets explore different technical skills and creativity. Adobe Creative Cloud, Rhino 2D, 3D, Grasshopper, and Blender are used to accomplish these projects.
Line drawings and rendering techniques were employed to create images and explore formal logic for massing, and atmospheric qualities.
SOFTWARE USED:
• Rhinoceros 2D, 3D
• Blender
• Grasshopper
• Adobe Creative Cloud
The estrangement of the boolean objects intentionally celebrates fragmentation and allure. These objects allow the viewer to interpret them and visually defragment them to their precedents as well as try to find meaning in the new defamiliarised objects. The addition of textures to the estranged objects enhances its readability to recognize the precedents, creating new cohesive objects simultaneously. These objects are defamiliarised in a manner that does not necessarily give regards to the parts and form of each toy giving an increased sense of estrangement to the new forms generated in conjunction with overlapping textures.
AGGREGATES: intrigue in ambiguity
B A A+B B+C A+C A+B+C C
PAMPHELT 1.3
THE IN BETWEEN: what can it be?
PAMPHLET 3.1
Between Irony and Sincerity
FRONT ELEVATION
PAMPHLET 3.2
It Could Always Be Otherwise
Models Academic and Research
September 2021- December 2022
Location: Calgary
This chapter includes images of models developed for academic coursework and a part-time research assistantship at the University of Calgary.
Various techniques are employed to achieve the results. These include woodwork, metalwork, laser cutting, CNC for multiple materials, dying painting, and basic circuits for lighting.
SOFTWARE USED:
• Rhinoceros 2D, 3D
• Adobe Illustrator
Crypto tower.
Research Assistantship: Center for Civilization
Model Design: Lourdes Narciso, Pragya Salhan
Construction: Pragya Salhan
Photographer: Neil Zeller
Truss (Kit of Parts)
Academic Project: Structures
Model Design: Taylor Jackson, Aliyah Dosanjh, Pragya Salhan