Part 1 Architecture Portfolio and CV

S H R E YA A D A D A BSc (Hons) Architecture Experience RIBA Part 1 University of Bath

PORTFOLIO 2021

CV Pronouns she/her Email dadashreyaa7@gmail.com Telephone 07955498708 Address Flat 35, Frederick House, BA23GA LinkedIn https://www .linkedin.com/in/ shreyaa-dada/ Hand sketching Model making Photoshop AutoCAD InDesign SketchUp vRay Rhinoceros 3D Microstation

I always seek opportunity, knowledge and inspiration. I am passionate about architecture that acknowledges its social, cultural and environmental responsibility – a product of a thorough process of questioning, experimentation, and idealisation.

Whether it is my studio projects, academic essays or other personal work, they are deeply influenced by this process.

I am a keen learner who offers dedication, initiative and a creative approach to all tasks that I am confronted with. In my spare time, I love to practice yoga, perform Indian classical dance and paint.

EDUCATION 2017-2021

University of Bath BSc (Hons) Architecture Design Studio, incl. multi-disciplinary group projects, structural and detail design, environment and sustainable design, history and theory of vernacular architecture, 20th century architecture, western ‘canon’, Greek Revival, Rome and Renaissance, Gothic Revival and Construction, Baroque, modern architecture in the 19th century and, issues in contemporary architecture

2013-2017

Hopetown Girls’ School Higher Education (ISC) Physics, Mathematics, English, History and Fine Arts An overall aggregate of 92.7%, third highest grader Topped Fine Arts, 97%

2003-2013

Sat Paul Mittal School Primary Education

WORK EXPERIENCE 2020-2021

University of Bath Social Distancing Plans Administrator Bath, United Kingdom 6 months Adapting layouts of teaching, studying, catering and communal spaces; to prepare for the University’s re-opening amidst the COVID pandemic.

2020

Studio Bipolar Part 1 Architectural Assisstant New Delhi, India 4 months Private Residential, Hospitality, and Corporate (RIBA Work Stages 2-5)

2019

Patel Taylor Part 1 Architectural Assisstant London, United Kingdom 7 months High-rise Residential, Masterplans, Landscaping (RIBA Work Stages 0-4)

2017

Yiangou Architects RIBA Student Mentee

AWARDS AND EXPERIENCES 2016-2017

Diamond House Captain, Hopetown Girls’ School

2017

Artist of the Year, Hopetown Girls’ School

2015

Leadership Award, Hopetown Girls’ School

2013

Initiative Award, Hopetown Girls’ School

2013

Raahat, Hopetown Girls’ School Organised a fund-raiser, to provide relief to Uttarakhand, India after the 2013 cloud burst and flash floods.

PLAYSCAPE Multi-Cultural Centre, New York January, 2021 - BSc Arch. Final Year Individual Project

Situatted in an extremist neighbourhood in East Harlem, Manhattan, the scheme aims to encourage relations between its different communities. Three distinct approaches, all directed at increasing social integration are implemented. The Creative Village consists of art workshops, exhibition spaces and a sermon hall allowing the community to grow together and develop bonds based on shared passions.

The Community Hub is a community-run cafe complete with its own rooftop herbal garden and community kitchen. Whereas, twhe Meditation Pavillion, the ‘gem of the scheme’ is a secularly designed space for chanting, meditation and yoga. A beautifully landscaped playscape sits at the heart of the scheme, bringing it together.

The former two are fun, and educative spaces that remind adults of their childhood, stirring a nostalgic journey to their explorative, and innocent selves. Whereas the Meditation Pavillion offers a juxtaposed experience, a journey towards their spiritual and mindful evolution, a moment of respite in adulthood and old age.

The design derives great inspiration from a child’s innocence and aims to preserve their oblivion about hate and discrimination. No one is born with hate.

Creative Village and Meditation Pavillion, as viewed from the Playscape

Community Hub, as viewed from the Playscape

NW Elevation ~ Creative Village and Meditation Pavillion

NE-SW Section ~ Creative Village and Meditation Pavillion

NW-SE Section ~ Creative Village and Community Hub

Sermon hall, Creative Village

Cafe, Community Hub

Art workshop, Creative Village

Herbal garden allotments, Community Hub

The pavillion’s sectional development, commenced from the volume occupying its place on ground.

Lift the pavillion above the flood risk plain, allowing views and access through the undercroft.

Angle the walls to permit light to sustain the flora underneath.

Employ a structural system in sync with the building form.

An atrium with a small tree accentuating the experience of the raised pavillion and assisting ventilation and lighting is carved in.

Windows allowing ventilating and daylighting are punctured in the facade, focussing on the floor and ceiling.

The roof is angled inwards, directing rainwater to the undercroft flora through the atrium.

The roof is detailed with an upstand window skylight, to achieve a desired halo-like lighting experience.

Meditation Pavillion - Sectional Development

Bridge to Meditation Pavillion, as viewed from the Public Plinth

Meditation Pavillion

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Sunken Courtyard detail, threshold between the Public Plinth and Community Hub

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- Concrete Paving Slabs

- Concrete Panels

- 25mm Polished Concrete Slab

- Flexible Rubber Pedestals (encasing drainage pipes)

- 50x50mm Horizontal Timber Battens at 600mm centres with infill Phenolic Rigid Insulation

- 60mm Screed with UFHC Pipes

- Waterproof Membrane

- Vapour Control Membrane - 60mm Insulation Tray for UFHC Pipes

- Screed Firring at 5 degrees

- 150x50mm Vertical Timber Battens at 600mm centres with infill Phenolic Rigid Insulation

- Vapour Control Membrane

- Breather Membrane

- Damp Proof Membrane

- 200mm Concrete Slab

- 18mm OSB Board for cladding

- Sand Blinding

- Plasterboard Finish

- 200mm Mineral Wool Insulation

- Geotextile Membrane

- 180x200mm Titanium-Zinc Gutter

- Vapour Control Membrane

- Hardcore

- 200mm Phenolic Rigid Insulation

- 450mm Concrete

- 300mm Concrete Deck - 150mm Phenolic Rigid Insulation

American white oak vertical fins provide depth to the facade, and create a framework for windows, doors etc.

This facade treatment is employed to protect views in whilst, continuing to provide ample light and assisting natural ventilation.

South-facing windows are inset, within deep vertical fins and deep window heads, preventing glare ingress and overheating.

North-facing windows are inhabitable bay windows protruding out of the facade and occupying the depth of the fins, maximising daylighting.

VOICE A Library for the World, New York September, 2020 - BSc Arch. Final Year Group Project

The proposal aims to empower the community it serves through the means of storytelling. The establishment is not a mere storage facility, it is a space for curating, producing, preserving and facilitatig the essence of cultural records in all its myriad forms.

The project brief was to design a library for the United Nations, adjacent to their headquarters in New York. The development was required to accommodate libraries for UN officials, academics and the public, an auditorium, around 200 offices for the librarians of each delegation in the UN, a generous archive, and ancillary public spaces.

The social infrastructure offers equitable opportunities to its visitors and aims to empower the voiceless. The library and its archive is dedicated to photographs, a means of communication that bridges gaps between different languages, and cultures and makes stories universally accessible. These photographs are sourced from around the globe by the respective librarians and help keep intact the history of the world seen through the lives and lenses of the common people.

Viewed from the East River

West Elevation

Street view

Rooftop play area

Public realm street

Rainwater harvesting to suffice grey water needs.

Mix-mode ventilation, with mechanical HVAC systems.

Aluminium mesh engulfing the building, acts as a second skin and creates a ventilated cavity between the building and the external environment. It doubles as a shading device.

Employment of solar panels.

Geothermal piles are responsible for providing heat to the building, via the ground source heat pump. All floors are fitted with underfloor heating/cooling pipes.

Overview of the environment strategy

Reinforced concrete cores

Steel frame and concrete slabs

Keeping the 150 year long lifeline of the building in mind,the scheme optimises the use of steel columns and beams alonside concrete cores and floor slabs, to provide a durable structural solution.

3D model of the scheme, as viewed from the East River

3D model of the scheme, as viewed by helicopters

BAUWKUNST Sculpture Gallery, Amsterdam November, 2019 - BSc Arch. Third Year Individual Project

The proposed gallery was situated in the heart of Amsterdam’s art district, along its iconic canals. The brief was to design gallery spaces and accommodation for artists that would be invited to the property to create new work. Each exhibition would be hosted for six months, after which a new artist would be offered the space.

This schedule of accommodation was supported by a small library, cafe, shop and a public offering.

An important theme in the scheme was reexerting the relationship between the people of Amsterdam, and its canals. The scheme developed as a stepping profile descending towards the canal, creating an outdoor space, for the public to be able to enjoy and appreciate the flowing water from.

Whilst designing the gallery spaces, key considerations and investigations followed to understand the qualities of different types of light, and manipulating its effects to maximise the potential of these spaces.

Lastly, the site served as a bottling plant and cardboard factory in the past and contined to maintain fragments from each developments.

Due attempts to preserve its history were made, whilst developing the scheme for this phase.

Street view, viewed from across the canal

3D sectional model of the scheme

Museo Canova, Carlos Scarpa, Possagno

Summer Solistice, 12pm

Koshino House, Tadao Ando, Hyugo

Summer Solistic, 12pm

The first step in understanding how to the qualities of different forms of light, how to control it and maximise its potential in a gallery setting, was studying projects and techniques from masters in the field.

The precedent study was followed with due experimentation. A variety of maquettes were put to test in a Heliodon, presenting a fair picture of how the spaces would receive natural light.

Diffused Light Direct Light

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Gallery 2

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CROSSING Bridge October, 2019 - BSc Arch. Third Year Group Project

The project brief was to design a pedestrian and cyclist bridge at the Bristol’s Floating Harbour, spanning from Brunel Square to Millenium Promenade. It was a collaboration between civil engineering and architecture.

Our proposal extended beyond the span of the bridge and aimed to create social hubs at both landings, regenerating the area with new life. The site hosted a significant cultural landmark, the SS Great Britain, a key site for educational trips in the area. The site could further be developed as a gathering space to view and enjoy the sailing boats during the annual Bristol Harbour Festival.

The final proposal was an accumulative response to the mentional contextual ques. The Millenium Promenade is designed to protrude into viewing bays, allowing for small gathering spaces. The bridge form kinks to create a viewing deck looking at the SS Great Britain. Finally, Brunel Square is accommodated with bays of protected flora, encouraging the ecosystem, and providing educational spaces for the children to play in.

Structurally, the bridge hosted a central steel box girder with a diaphragm spine, transferring the loads of the cantilevers evenly. Further, there were two supports at either end of the kinks.

Aerial view

Millenium Promenade landing and viewing bays

Brunel Square landing and educational flora

MOBILIA Exhibition Pavillion October, 2017 - BSc Arch. First Year Individual Project

The pavillion was supposed to exhibit the Marshmallow Love Seat, an iconic mid-nineteenth century chair designed by George Nelson. A pioneer of pop furniture, its bright multicoloured vinyl cushions and varnished steel structure design was a retaliation against the global race for the acquisition of nuclear weaponry during the atomic age. This theme was prevelent in the art, design and architecture during the era.

The pavillion was designed to mirror the chair’s inspiration. A satire on a luxury furniture piece symbolising international nuclear tensions. The result is a juxtaposition between the global nuclear pressure and the bold and fun style of pop culture. Conclusively, the pavillion is a beguiling, object-responsive timber structure, that accentuates the visitors experience of viewing the chairs.

The parabolic structure, transposes from brightly polished timber, echoing the tones of the Marshmallow Love Seat; to a charred piece, embodying the horrors of nuclear weaponry.

All furniture pieces are displayed on glass boxes of different heights oriented in various directions for the visitors to be able to assess the chair in its entirety.

External view of the pavillion’s 3D model

Internal view of the pavillion’s 3D model

PATEL TAYLOR Alperton Masterplan BSc Arch. Second Year Placement Client - Peabody Housing Association Stage - 0-1 (Feasibility study) Typology - Residential and Commercial Mix-Use Multiple typologies of tower blocks, with varying heights were tested to examine the massing and deliver the desired number of apartments, as requested by the client.

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PATEL TAYLOR Beam Park Masterplan BSc Arch. Second Year Placement Client - Countryside and L&Q Stage - 3 (Planning Application Submission) Typology - Residential led Mix-Use Closer to the submission of its planning application, I joined the team, helping them produce quick visuals, and drafting final technical drawings to support the landscaping strategy of the scheme.

Beam Park Masterplan

Aerial View of the Masterplan

Massing and facade treatment - Building N

Central Park axonometric

Roof orientation - Terraced Houses

Massing explanation - Building Z

STUDIO BIPOLAR Private Residence BSc Arch. Third Year Placement Client - Private Stage - 5-6 Typology - Residential I worked on multiple private residences, restaurants, and offices. My work often included creating 3D visuals, tectonic details, designing and exploring materials for small spaces, and landscaping.

Entrance Foyer

1:1 Sculptural Detail - Wall Cladding

1:2 Joinery Detail - Wall Cladding

Family Room

Theatre

Master Bathroom

PERSONAL COMMISSIONS Nursery Client - Private Interior Design Typology - Residential The brief was to turn a couple’s gym to a nursery. The process included designing the room layout, all storage units and furniture pieces (that were crafted on site), and assisting with the final fit out.

Entrance Lounge Client - Private Interior Design Typology - Residential The brief was to plan the layouts, source, and furnish an entrance foyer and lobby space, to align with the house’s aesthetics and the family’s requirements.