SHRADDHA SANTHOSH
SELECTED WORKS
FALL 2019 - PRESENT
LANDSCPAPE DESIGN INTERIOR DECORATING TAMBOURINA
MIDNIGHT SUN
PREVIOUS FIRMS
the HYDRIUM
Two Harbors/Avalon Harbor, Catalina Island
This thesis explores hydrology, ecotourism, and education through the transformative intersection of tubes, arches, and vats, using an interactive water filtration system and museum experience to reconnect humans with hydrological systems. Water is essential to humanity’s survival, yet our relationship with water waste is selfish and shortsighted.
On Catalina Island, visitors often remain unaware of toxic DDT waste contaminating its waters, but the reimagined landmark, Catalina Casino, serves as a beacon for water filtration, drawing attention to the ecological crisis. It gestures to the main water filtration systems located at Two Harbors where the immersive museum experience revitalizes ecotourism, reconnecting people to hydrological systems. At [TheHydrium], immersive pathways, bio baths, and awe-inspiring filtration vats convey the cultural, physical, and spiritual significance of water while promoting efforts to restore ecological balance.
into the BURROWS
Firenze, Italy at Forte Belvedere
Perched upon the largest built fortress constructed in the 1590’s, [Into the Burrows] tackles the challenge of designing a student hotel and combining ideas such as defining citizenship, inhabiting a historic city, and theoretically approaching culture through the use of bold excavations. The series of “burrows” promote the concept of embedding oneself into an experience rather than a building.
Blurring the lines between positive and negative spaces, the delicate yet suggestive pathways encourage dwelling in the negative space and traveling through a system. Each excavation deliberately starts, ends, and intersects, derived from existing angles throughout the city and within the fort itself. The ultimate goal : to utilize experimental preservation as a form of contemporary reuse.
PalazzinaDining and Museum
Student HotelLiving Spaces and Balcony Lounge
Palazzina to Student HotelPhysical and Visual Connections
interior DESIGN
San
Jose, California
Freelance interior design beginning in April 2024. Currently on-going consultation and furniture selection.
Los Gatos, California
Freelance interior design from May 2024 - November 2024. Phase 1 of aesthetic decided and revision 1 of furniture selection.
landscape DESIGN
San Luis Obispo, California
Freelance front yard landscape design done in Fall 2021. Project completed March 2022.
Los Gatos, California Freelance landscape design completed in 2022.
TAMBOURINA
Vellum Competition 2021, San Luis Obispo
What kind of incentive can peak the interest and concern in society to participate in more sustainable ways of life? Moving and discovering is an effective way of learning, allowing for a faster cognitive processing speed to absorb more information effectively. Through the utilization of sliding tambour doors, [Tambourina] facilitates a sensation of uncovering what is held within. Designed to be orientated in numerous ways, the transformability of the piece and opportunity for multitude of use is sustainable in itself. Each interaction with Tambourina invites curiosity and adaptability, encouraging users to reconsider how objects can evolve alongside their needs.
MIDNIGHT SUN
Vellum Competition 2020, San Luis Obispo Coldfoot,Alaska
Bright enough to illuminate a stormy night sky, [Midnight Sun] is a beacon that will shine day and night to signal and direct truckers to their long-awaited rest stop. Standing at 192 feet tall, and built to 6 feet tall at a 1”=32’ scale, this colorful sculpture is hard to miss. Inspired by the curvilinear nature of the Northern Lights that graze the Alaskan sky, the form of the beacon is fabricated with 1/8” thick steel tubes, curved and welded together. The planar forms of the lights are represented through the multi-colored fabric stretched between the metal.
work from PREVIOUS FIRMS
2023 - 2024, Bay Area, California
Samples from various projects worked on during previous work experiences. Displayed work includes annotated site plan, floor plan for commercial property, section, eave detail, floor build up detail, sun and shade study of proposed shade structure designs for custom ADU, exterior elevations, and interior elevations. Complete drawings available in person upon request.
