Shyam Samani Portfolio - Academic Works

SHYAM SAMANI GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

SELECTED ACADEMIC WORKS

CONTENTS

01. FERRY TERMINALS

A new ferry terminal in the Japanese city of Miyajimaguchi.

Competition Work

02. ULI HINES - THE OAKLAND LINK

Incorporating missing social links within the city of Oakland.

Thesis Work

03. PRAGMATIC UTOPIANISM

A mixed use hub within the business district of Mumbai city.

04. SPATIAL INSTRUMENTS

An operable mechanism within grasshopper.

Professional Work

05. THE JACOB CIRCLE

A 200 acre urban intervention.

Professional Work

06. THE COURTYARD HOUSE

Habitation around a courtyard engulfed by a screen.

07. INTERLACE

A light space modulator carved from a cube.

08. DESIGN EXPLORATION

Exploring design through different means.

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01 FERRY TERMINALS 10,763 sq.ft.

Adv. Architecture 1 | Brian Bell | Individual | Fall 2021

Architecture is often practiced as an art that helps us remember who and where we are. This design considers architecture that helps us forget, and the role of forgetting in forming new experince by redesigning a section of coastline and adding a new Ferry Terminal in the Japanese city of Miyajimaguchi - for ferries running to the sacred island of Miyajima and the Itsukushima (Shinto) Shrine.

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Conceptual Framework (Architectonic Idea)

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Massing (Orb Intersection)

Situation Plan (1:2000) 5

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TERMINAL 1 1. TICKETING 2. ADMIN 3. F & B ZONE 4. KIOSK 5. STORAGE 6. VIEWING Z 7. RESTROOMS

Floor Plan @-14.00m (1:500) 6

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Terminal A-B (Connector)

Module Section(Terminal A) 7

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TERMINAL 1& 2 1. CENTRAL ZONE 2. WAITING AREA 1 3. PASSAGE 4. WAITING AREA 2

Floor Plan @-6.00m (1:500) 8

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Restaurant (Terminal B)

Module Section(Terminal A) 9

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Exploaded Iso (Unraveling the layers) 10

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Orb 2 Terminal B

Orb 1 Terminal A

Orb Physical Model (3D Resin Print) 11

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02 THE OAKLAND LINK 764000 sq.ft.

Competition | ULI Hines | Group Project | 2022 Team : Shyam, Steven, Carmen, Aishwariya, Karunya Worked on : Renders, Concept Diagrams, Massing, Planning

The Oakland Link Central District provides the missing social links necessary to ensure the proper development of social capital, an increasingly influential commodity that predicated collective economic success and requires robust public connectivity.

Through the three guiding principles of social connection, social opportunity, and social support. The Oakland Link will lift the area's social capital, convert it into economic achievement and stability, and position the surrounding community for sustained success in the modern world.

Social Opportunity

CENTRAL SOCIAL DISTRICT Social Connection

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Social Support

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MASSING

CONNECTIVITY

|Competition Work| Social Incubator A

CENTRALIZATION

OUTREACH

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PHASE 1 - BROADWAY BLOCK

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PHASE 2 - EAST CENTRAL BLOCK

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PHASE 3 - WEST CENTRAL BLOCK

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PHASE 4 - SOCIAL DISTRICT

Social Incubator B

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03 PRAGMATIC UTOPIANISM 764000 sq.ft.

Undergraduate Thesis | Sukumar Adhikari| Individual Project | 2019 The intent of this design is to create a socially inclusive, vibrant and cohesive environment fused with another environment that is becoming highly monouse and programmatic in its nature, (and evolving to be isolated and fragmented in the present due to inconsiderate and capitalist approach), as an example for various zones with highly monouse functions. In turn fostering the fabric of the city by eliminating these socially isolated zones.

2nd Runer Up - Design Whack Awards Council of Architecture - U.G. Thesis Awards

Aditya College of Architecture

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Conceptual framework (Utopaian/Pragmatic)

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Elements of urban Fabric (Implementation of Utopian Principles)

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Research and Mapping

Cities

are, extremely complex objects in morphological terms.

They are integration of different objects made up of different parts. It is possible to distinguish a number of interconnections between these objects ‘from the part to the whole’ and to identify a hierarchy in these connections. To deal with the complexity of cities, urban morphology uses this hierarchical view of the city, structured according to a set of fundamental physical elements.

Commercial Hubs (Mumbai)

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Street Network

Social Nodes

Land Use

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Conceptual Iterations (Plans and Sections)

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Form Development (Contextual Forces)

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Site Plan

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PODIUM LEVEL 1 1. SUPERMARKET 2. RESTAURANT 3. RETAIL STORE 4. CHAIN STORE 5. CENTRAL ATRIUM 6. CORE 7. LIBRARY 8. KIOSK 9. UTIITY AREA

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Podium Level 1 Plan @ + 20m

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Urban Oasis (Incorporating vegetation throughout the layers)

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Peripheral Column Structure

Central Column Structure

Beams & Core

Slabs

Structural Components (Framework) 35

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Exploaded Iso (Unraveling the layers)

Exploaded View (Functional Distribution) 36

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04 SPATIAL INSTRUMENTS Media Modeling 3 | Kaseman | Fall 2021| Individual Work

Defining an intricate Spatial Instrument in GH, utilizing dynamic analytical approaches for geometric construction and parametric operation. Working in a digital volume not to exceed 25m x 25m x 25m. The challenge was to develop operable mechanisms that afford numerous modes of variable input, and relational hierarchies, dataflow logics, and behavioral differences.

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Dynamic Analytical Geometrvic Mechanisms

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05 THE JACOB CIRCLE 200 Acres

Professional Work| Abraham John Architects | Seoul Biennale| 2019 Team : Alan & Shyam Situated in Mahalaxmi region of Mumbai, India, the junction between Dr. E Moses Road and Bapurao Jagtap road has a heavy traffic flow, with traffic converging at the Mahalaxmi Station junction from all three directions, travelling to and from Jacob circle (locally known as saat rasta -7 roads). The Saat Rasta project is based on connecting the missing links between Dr. E Moses Road and Jacob circle via underpasses and R.O.B’s, thus the overtly congested Mahalaxmi Bridge is turned into a pedestrian bridge with 1.7 acres of space.

Seoul Biennale Entry - Crossroads 2020

Abraham John Architects

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Jacob Circle (Underground)

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Podium Garden (Functional Distribution)

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Jacob Circle (Seven Roads)

Jacob Circle (Underground)

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Podium Garden (Functional Distribution)

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Pedestrian Bridge (Pods)

Podium Garden (Racecourse Connector)

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06 THE COURTYARD HOUSE 8000 sq.ft.

Professional Work | Abraham John Architects | 2019 Team - Shyam, Alan, Soham Situated in Raipur, India, the private villa consists of a central courtyard with habitable rooms surrounding it. The G+1 structure has a linear entrance, opening onto the central court with living spaces on either side. It is engulfed with a screen around the courtyard to shade the spaces from the harsh sun.

The ground floor consists of living rooms, dining space, kitchen, guest bedrooms, servants room and a media room, all sharing a common central open space to spill out on. The house also needed to be and is Vastu compliant – conforming with the ancient Indian design principles regarding space, sunlight, flow and function.

Abraham John Architects

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Screen Iterations (Materiality) c

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Ground Level Plan (NTS) 51

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Screen

Structure

Architecture

Exploaded View (Anatomy) 53

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South West View (Peripheral Rooms) 54

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07 INTERLACE Advanced Architecture 1 | Individual | Brian Bell | 2021

Emphasizing a dialog between generative processes and descriptive systems utilizing both physical and digital means of modelling. Acting as a light space modulator, a cube is intersected with a Gyroid which is then subtracted from the cube forming intervoven pathways within, that intersect themselves as well as with all faces of the cube, while still maintaining the cubicity of the object.

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Diagonal Slicing (Intersecting Pathways)

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Exploaded Iso (Plan Layering) 57

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Materialty (Void-Mass) 58

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Physical Model (Revealing Pathways)

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Physical Model (Layering)

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08 DESIGN EXPLORATION

Backpackers Hostel

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Automobile Museum

Library

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Bulbous Columns

Mass Housing

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Multipurpose Hub

Experiential Museum

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Metaball labyrinth

Staggered drop

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History Museum

Folds

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Shyam Samani (+1)4708154979 ar.shyamsamani@gmail.com Georgia Institute of Technology