Architecture Portfolio

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Revit (2 years)

AutoCad (5 years)

Hale Architecture | Architectural Assistant

March 2022 - Present, 1 Year 5 months

Bartlett School of Architecture | M.Arch

October 2019 - October 2021, 2 Years

Architectural Designer

SAUMYA GUPTA PROFILE

Hi! I think myself to be an enthusiastic designer. Even though my career originated from Architecture side of the creative industry, I am always keen on exploring more to it. Working in Residential and Industrial Architecture Studios for 2 years as Architectural assistant helped me evolve my skills and understand the building regulations. I am definitely ambitious to consume and experience interesting opportunities. Apart from producing architectural drawings and renders, I like to support the projects through illustrations, story boarding and sketches. Last few months I have been working with midjourney and chat GPT to create various conceptual images which can be a greate benefit when developing Architecture schemes. I am always eager to learn and teach, and work collaborately (I find it better than working individually).

CONTACT

Phone number: 07405321599

Address: 3 Acorn Court, 6-8 Oakdale Road, E18 1JX

Email ID: saumyag1996@gmail.com

SketchUp (3 years)

Keyshot (Rendering)

Enscape (SketchUp & Revit)

Rhino (2 years)

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

SquareSpace( webdesign)

Midjourney/ChatGPT

AfterEffects

Unreal Engine 5

Working from Stages 0 to 3 on various projects usually industrial & offices. Main tasks include designing the site & building layouts, conceptual modelling and rendering, compiling Design & Access statements including planning applications.

PDC Architects | Architectural Assistant

January 2019 - July 2019, 7 months

Worked in India for a Residential/Landscape company. Main tasks included designing residential floor layouts, elevations and sections. Also, worked on few Landscape layouts for office projects.

Vikalp | Intern

June 2016 - August 2016, 2 months

Worked with a Landscape Architect on a riverfront project in India. Main tasks included producing live handdrawn sketches, documentation of historical venues and 3D modelling.

Masters in Architecture focusing on Environmental Design & Construction. Exposure to Computational design and Additive manufacturing (in my case 3D Printing). I also took interest in storyboarding and illustrating design through diagrams & renders.

Manipal University | B.Arch

August 2014 - August 2019, 5 Years

For me Bacherlors in Architecture was all about developing concepts, evolving drawings skills manually as well as digitally. I grew a tremendous interest in Landscape design as well.

Ecole Bleue Global Design | Interior Design

January 2018 - June 2018, 6 months

Part of an Exchange Programme, I got a chance to flourish among brilliant designers in Paris. I got to experience the environment of Interior, Logo and Furniture Design.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO

THE PINNACLE, MILTON KEYNES Office Building Summary

The Pinnacle is a landmark office building, situated within 5 minutes walk of Milton Keynes Central Railway Station and the city’s extensive retail and leisure offering. Constructed in 2009, the property comprises two adjoining “L” shape buildings (Building A and Building B) eachproviding two wings of accommodation arranged around a central courtyard. The property is arranged over basment, lower ground, ground and seven upper floors totalling 189,393 sq ft.

Aim of the project :-

- To provide appropriate entrances into the building

- To enhance business lounge and reception areas with free flowing layout

- To design more interactive and social nooks/spaces inside

View showing the exterior building

Section showing exterior & interior spaces

Entrance to offices/ meeting rooms

Multi-level Industrial, R&D Industrial Building Summary

The shrinking amounts of industrial space and rising costs of land has meant that industrial sites within cities are becoming a scarce commodity. This has resulted in the need to innovate about how to use industrial sites more intensively. Historically, industrial buildings have been a simple building form which has leant itself to greater adaptability over the buildings life. This has the advantage of the building being flexible and allows for the addition of floorspace through mezzanines and extensions. However, there are limits to the amount of floorspace that can be added.

Multi-level industrial buildings offer a whole new approach. By layering the uses the multi-level industrial unit allows much greater intensification of industrial sites, much in the same way other building sectors have increased the intensification of a site by stacking the uses above each other.

Render showing Multi-level industry building

Render showing Loading/Unloading area of the building

The plants & trees will be easy to maintain due to UK’s weather

Green terraces that will become interactive sports for the people

Existing features on the site with the plot

Entry/Exit Offices

Parking Storage Reception

Areas with max. exposure to sunlight

Step 1

Step 2

Elevated base plane: Shelter for the building

Design

Human interaction initiated at all levels

Green

Step 3

Base plane: A raised platform offering an even plane

Step 4

Cladding based on max. & min. sunlight

Shade for the vehicles while loading/ unloading

Design

Green

Green

Step 5

Windows for ventilation & sunlight

Office areas receiving natural light all day

Ground floor precasted with concrete

Glazing on the facades with max. exposure to sun

Parallel placement of windows helping in cross ventilation

Step 6

Stepped terrace to increase access of sunlight & ventilation to max. spaces inside the building

terrace creating a continuum b/w interior & exterior

terraces help maintain temperature inside the building

terraces enhancing the levels of a buildings

& function of green terraces in mixed use buildings

solution for L-Shaped Multi-level building

BROMLEY ROAD Multi-level industrial Building Summary

The proposed Scheme offers a wide range of potential units for employment designation and due to the nature of the scheme can vary in use class from B1c, B2, B8.

Currently the potential size of units ranges from: 90sqm / 950sqft - 1,577sqm / 16,950sqft

There is also potential for future tenants to take entire floors allowing up to 2,418sqm / 26,000sqft per floor. We believe that this gives the local context the greatest opportunity to evolve its economical and business footprint on site. The site presents itself very prominently on both Bromley Rd and Aitken road; This gives any future development opportunities the ability to reflect and empathise with the surrounding context and respond to the local urban environment.

The Pinnacle, Milton Keyes

FACADE PROPORTION STUDIES

DALES MANOR, SAWSTON Midtech Building Summary

The site is located within a core employment area in Sawston, Cambridgeshire, as identified in the South Cambridgeshire Development Plan.

The site is composed of one plot of land and is located at Dales Manor Business Park, an established business and trade park located to the north east of the centre of Sawston. Dales Manor Business Park, provides a mix of class E(g)ii, E(g)iii, B2 and B8 and recreational uses extending over an area of approximately 15 Hectares.

The site is highly accessible by a range of means of transport. Shelford Train Station is located 2.7 miles from the site, connecting Cambridge with London Liverpool Street. Cambridge Train Station is 6.9 miles from the site which connects Cambridge with London’s Kings Cross Station. The nearest bus stops is located on Sunderlands Avenue, an 8-minute walk from the site.

Proposed Site/Landscape plan

Entrance view to Unit 3

Side view of Unit 3

Front view of all the three units

DECOY FARM, EAST WORTHING

Industrial Shed

Summary

The scheme comprises the Erection of 169,950 ft2 / 15,796 m2 of building area split between units of various sizes for a flexible range of employment uses (within Classes E(g)(iii), B2 and / or B8) including ancillary offices, together with new access road, landscaping and associated works.

The proposed site is located approximately half a mile to the north East of Worthing Town Centre, with a site area of approximately 18 acres. The application site itself is situated within an area comprising various retail and commercial properties including a Wickes store, a Screwfix store, a storage mart, motor services, the Worthing Recycling centre and various office buildings. It is situated just off the Dominion road, approximately 300 yards from East Worthing Station. the Dominion Rd links up with the A27 via Sompting Rd, approximately 1 mile north of the site.

Diagrams showing development of design

Exploding diagram showing elements of the unit

Proposed site plan

Proposed site model

Unit design with extended offices

Unit design with embedded offices

LANDSCAPE DETAIL Institutional Building Summary

Vyara is an institutional building, also in Ahmedabad, India. It comprises of a school with staff rooms, classrooms, labs, auditorium, staging area and temple. The drawing shows the landscape detail of the playground which includes park, tennis ground, badminton ground, swing sets, etc.

Landscape detail of the playground in Vyara

FLOORING DETAIL Commercial Building

Summary

Rajyash rise is a commercial building in Ahmedabad, India. It consists of retailing units and food courts and this zoomed in drawing is a very small part of the building. It shows the detailing of a flooring at the entrance with granite tiles.

Flooring detail of the entrance at Rajesh Rise

Detailed elevation of Orbit 2

FLOORING DETAIL Commercial Building Summary

Orbit 2 is also a commercial complex consisting of 15 floors. It comprises of hotel rooms, shopping complexes and cinemas.

Detail Y (Staircase & flooring detail)

Landscape drawings

Building plan of Orbit 2

Detail X (Landscape & utility area)

LANDSCAPE DETAIL Residential Building

Summary

Kevdifalia

Major Landscape and Residential project done during my role as an Architectural Assistant in India. The whole residential project consists of 288 apartments including 1 bedroom, 2 bedroom and 3 bedroom. The landscaping was mainly done in regards to accomodating all the facilities that the residents living over there can enjoy and their kids can grow around nature.

The project consisted of two decent sized parks, one swimming pool area, an open air theatre for people to host their events and lot many play areas for kids as well as for adults. It also consisted of a club house where residents can enjoy indoor games, sauna and bathing areas after swimming.

Location - Ahmedabad, India

Weather conditions - Hot and dry

Total site area - 23,985 msq.

No. of buildings - 8

No. of parking spaces - 1384

Entrance - 1

Exits - 2

Parks - 2

Club house - 1

No. of flats - 288

DOOR DETAIL

Commercial Building

Summary

Nysa Skydale:

This particular project belongs to a commercial building located in the city of Baroda in Ahmedabad, India. The project was almost done when I joined PDC Architects except few finishing details like entrance gate, lighting and furniture. This detailing was done in request with the client who wanted the pedestrian entrance door to be built with fibreglass while the entrances of the car and lorries were to be built out of vertical aluminium lourves. Two types of doors were to be used, one that a typical door and the other which was a wicket gate.

Entrance area gate detail

Typical gate detail

Wicket gate detail

ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO

ENTERPRISE OF BIO-DIVERSITY Museum

Summary

M.Arch project during 2nd year, term 4 which was called ‘Booster module’ where the design revolved around the term SCALE. Thus, each student was assigned with a minimalistic architecture piece, in this case Barcelona pavilion by Mier van der Rohe. This was arranged to understand the limits of the scale while diving into computational softwares to design a building. Furthur, the major skill developed through this exercise was environmental design capabilities. The pavilion being a base for this exercise was investigated through multiple environmental parameters and softwares to achieve desired results. The design tends to replace free standing marble walls of the pavilion with porous, massy walls that can inhabit various species of flora-fauna, invertebrates and giving opportunity to people to experience nature from outdoor and indoor at once through the same structure. Such structures can play a vital role in absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere when built from earth materials.

Images showing interpretation of the bio-diverse design through Barcelona Pavilion in Spain

Solar analysis on component A

Solar analysis on component B

Solar analysis on component C

Solar analysis on brick composition in component A

Solar analysis on brick composition in component B

Solar analysis on brick composition in component C

Component A serving as a bioreceptive habitat

Component B serving as a bioreceptive habitat

Component C serving as a bioreceptive habitat

Component D

Component B

Component C

Component A

Illustration of the original Pavilion and the components picked to be designed

Component D

Component C

Component B

Component A

Areas with minimum sun exposure

Areas with moderate sun exposure

Areas with maximum sun exposure

Illustration of different sun exposure

Illustration of the pavilion with designed components and growth taking over Solar analysis done on the Pavilion

ENFOLDING GREEN SPACES

Residential Building

Summary

The project is a continuation of the skilling exercise in term 4 during masters. The last term was called ‘final module’ where all the skills were to be executed. In this case, it was a group project lead by three people (Saumya Gupta, Jorge Soto and Ayelen Franceschini). Three people from different backgrounds and interests offer richness to this project, me being skilled at environmental design analysed every process of the design through natural parameters. This housing project proposes self sustaining enfolds flowing around the houses in form walls, roofs & patios that can support growth depending on the climatic conditions of a particular area. It consists of three scales, at macro scales; the city is envisioned to be environmentally informed by solar and wind analysis while the housing rows follow the topography. At meso scale, the patios & windows of the housing clusters are picked through solar analysis which have the maximum possibility of biological growth. At micro scale, the project zooms in to the surfaces that consist of narrow channels supported by the logic of water flow analysis which helps water from running off thus, acting like bio-receptive surfaces.

Images showing residential clusters around the site with 3D & 2D enfolds on the patios and roofs.

Image showing interior of a bedroom with the 3D enfolds acting like openings as well as habitat for certain species.

3D enfold acting like openings and habitat for plants which were marked by areas with maximum sun exposure

2D reaction diffusion sustaining air plants like moss, algae, orchids, etc., which were marked by areas with moderate sun exposure

Patios connecting exterior and interior spaces

Entrance to inside of the house

House with 2 bedrooms

House with 1 bedroom

Studio house

Illustration of a cluster showing transition spaces between the patios and houses.

Environmental information for F= 0.058, K=0.065

Environmental information for F= 0.014, K=0.053

Environmental information for F= 0.026, K=0.051

2D reaction diffusion patterns investigated through water flow tests (Patterns with the least water run off were picked to sustain air plants)

Environmental information for F= 0.022, K=0.051

3D reaction diffusion patterns investigated through solar analysis tests (Patterns with the maximum amount of radiations were picked for the design)

2D reaction diffusion

F=0.010, K=0.047

Windows picked from the areas of medium solar exposure

2D reaction diffusion

F=0.03, K=0.06

Openings and patios marked according to solar analysis

Mesh created on the investigated cluster

2D reaction diffusion

F=0.052, K=0.07

Average sun hours on the clusters Landscape around the

Process showing development of clusters through environmental design

Generated geometry Solar analysis

Water flow analysis Iterations of the tiles and envrionmental analysis

Generated geometry Solar analysis Water flow analysis Dry printed clay and bacteria cellulose tile Tile colonised by algae and moss in few months

Tile chosen for fabrication with maximum self shaders and water retention

Illustration of an interior wall with bioreceptive surfaces and niches that can sustain plant species as well as can act like openings.

Scattering of points across 20cm x 20cm grid

Simulating a pattern from circular starting points

Developing a mould of a particular pattern for PLA 3D printing

Digital development of a mould for slip casting (PLA 3D printing)

Image showing a PLA 3D printed panel (with various 2D reaction diffusion textures)

Scattering of points across 20cm x 20cm grid

Simulating a pattern from circular starting points

Digital representation of silp casted tiles with growth Process of developing positive of the mould

Envelope with tiles as cladding system

Section A

Section B

Slip casted tile panel (108cm x 36cm)

Image showing all the layers of a house in the design

Orthogonal windows with frames in the house

Slip casted tiles made from clay and bacteria cellulose composite

Wooden purlins to support the tiles

Plywood board fixed beneath the purlins to create the base Timber framing system to support the plywood boards

A 3D enfold flowing on the patio of a house was printed as a final prototype for Bartlett exhibition. The scale of the prototype is 1:20, measuring (L=42CM, H=30CM, W= 8CM).

Ground floor plan of co-working spaces

Roof plan of co-working spaces

IIM Institutional Building Summary

During the 6th semester of my bachelors, we were given a task of designing IIM, the most prestigious education center from MBA in India. The concept of the design is inspired by French architecture which has been travelling in India from vernacular to modern architecture in no time. It has always been formal and systematic which is the kind of planning an IIM needed. It gave an opportunity to create interesting spaces where students can enjoy different types of activities. It proposed a lot of open spaces which a learning space needs. The institute was lead by the case study of IIM, Indore which consisted of an academic block, admin block, hostels, recreational areas, staff rooms, staff housing and director’s house. The concept of the hostels is based on receiving diffused sunlight from the facade. The cubes of each room are arranged in such a way that it provides enough space to let the light in.

Hand rendered site plan of IIM, Amritsar

Hand rendered site elevation of IIM, Amritsar

MISCELLANEOUS

TINY HOUSE

2 Bedroom house

Summary

This project is the part of freelancing done for one of my friends. The residential house resides in a small town of India called Hosdurg, Kerala. The weather is humid and rainy whole part of the year thus, sloped roofs are necessary part of architecture. The two bedroom house was requested to be designed for an old couple who are around 65 years old. That meant barrier free and ground floor, low maintenance house which also keeps up with the culture around the town. Their old house was 150 years old, in a very besmirched condition and had to be built from scratch. The budget of the whole house including interiors was 30,000 pounds.

The proposed design included the reuse of terracotta tile in roofing and all the furniture that was in a usable state. The couple wanted a airy, spacious and open plan in an area of 102 mt. sq. As wood is widely available in the town, most of the flooring and interiors were proposed to be built with teak or oak wood. Even though the design proposed a sloped roof, the couple went for the flat roof as it was much cheaper and low maintenance for them.

Interiors of the house

Section A-A’

Section B-B’

Ground floor plan

LA MIE CALINE Bakery Summary

This project is part of student exchange program in Paris during my bachelors in 8th semester. In this we were asked to redesign a bar in Paris and turn it into a bakery. The bar was very old and had worn out so the challenge was to pick all the character sfrom La Mie Caline and execute them in the bar. The concept of the bakery was pastel colours as the interiors of La Mie Caline bakeries have a strict pastel colour usage. From walls to furniture, their interiors are funky and cheerful. And as they are popular for their desserts, concept of different pastel colours surely fits.

Images showing an existing picture of Nord express pub and a design illustration of the elevation of new bakery ‘ La Mie Caline bakery’ in Paris.

Elevation of the counter at new La Mie caline bakery (ELE. A - ELE. A’)

ARTWORKS

Hand drawings/logo

Museum of urban and social history of sureness: Logo design

Graphite/charcoal sketches

Watercolour paintings

Acrylic painting

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