Sneha Arikapudi Architectural Portfolio
Contents
The Trellis
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GRG Studio Project - 2019-2020
Museum of Knowledge
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Bachelor Thesis - 2016
Perfumery Park
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Project as Junior Architect - 2018-2019
Perforated Pattern
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Small Project(studio) - 2020
Hands On
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Laurie Baker Workshop hosted by Costford - 2015
The Gallery
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Comprehensive Project(studio) - 2019
Smart Neighbourhood Studio Project - 2017
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1 The Trellis Location : Silo City, Buffalo, NY, USA Typology : Public Pavilion Softwares : Lumion, Rhino 3D, Sketchup, Adobe Photoshop Trellis aims to create a space for observing the time and growth of both the site and structure by using architecture and infrastructure for habitat and landscaping. This is a full-scale construction project with a large team led by professors Nick Rajkovich and Joyce Hwang. The concept development was a part of the studio of Fall 2019. I was a part of the studio in Spring 2020, where we worked on the working drawings, and Fall 2020, where we constructed on-site.
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Form Finding
How do we continue the process of regenerating a post-industrial landscape?
Fall 2019 studio team
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As the Silo City became degraded from the site’s industrial activity, native plants had trouble surviving, and adverse species, such as Japanese Knotweed, began to take over. While these plants help improve soil health through biomass and plant matter decay, They are very aggressive and severely limit biodiversity. The proposed intervention is a 60ft diameter trellis for training new willow trees. It aims to the system of regeneration for the area of monoculture on site.
Hügelkultur Process:
Initial plantings
Early growth
Complete coverage
Fall 2019 studio team
Construction Drawings
Site Dimensioning Plan Locating the Internal Foundations 5
An important part of the foundation’s design and construction was developing a methodology to accurately locate the foundations’ foundations. The stainless steel tubing meets the foundation by fitting over solid stainless steel rods embedded in the foundations. As a result, there is not a large tolerance for error in locating the foundations. The next step is to locate the centers of Internal Foundations, i.e., Red, Blue, and Green Points are shown in the plan. The scope and center point of the plan, using the lengths and triangulation method, the center points of each internal foundation are marked. The center point of the plan and the center of interior foundations, i.e., the funnel’s center, exterior endpoints, are marked using the triangulation method. Two other team members and I developed these drawings.
Full-scale Construction Process
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Full-scale constructed Trellis at Silo City
2 Museum of Knowledge Location : Capitol Complex, Chandigarh, India Typology : Multi- faceted Building Softwares : AutoCAD, Sketchup, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator The project would function as a decision-making or briefing center for government officials and serve the city’s common people. The Museum is designed to promote social interaction, communal harmony, and recreation that will eventually enrich and activate the public life in the Capitol complex concerning Le Corbusier’s principles.
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Secretariat
Assembly-
Museum of Knowledge
Illustration showing how the five points of Le Corbusier reimagined in the design.
Five points of LE CORBUSIER “REIMAGINED”:
Museum of Knowledge
Open Hand Monument High Court
Total Site area - 120 acres Museum of knowledge area -4 acres
Site Plan showing The Capitol complex
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Building upon and re-imagining Le Corbusier’s Five Points of Architecture, the building is pushed below ground allowing the surface of the site to be free of structure. Consequently, the area doubles up as a park, allowing it to extend itself and be a part of the public realm. The structure is supported by pilotis – which lends us the opportunity for free design of the ground floor plan and with all four sides anointed with full-height glazing, natural light filters in a controlled manner. Being underground, open-to-sky courtyards and slits within the roof garden provide additional opportunities for light to permeate.
Parking
Library
Research Laboratories
Museum
Auditorium
Amphi-Theatre
Lobby Area
Exhibition Halls and Seminar
Second Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan
Cellar Floor Plan
Axonometric View showing the plans and views of different spaces
Design includes built and unbuilt spaces both in and around the museum to promote social interaction, communal harmony and recreation that will eventually enrich and activate the public life in the Capitol complex with respect to Le Corbusier’s principles. Facilitating with demonstration and exhibition’ spaces promotes learning, knowledge and awareness. It provides a conducive live working environment for them, serving as a space for ‘creation’ of knowledge rather than just ‘exhibition’ of knowledge.
Open - Atrium Exhibiton Halls Parking
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Site Plan
Library
Gallery Auditorium Research Laboratories
Entrance Lobby
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3 Perfumery Park Location : Shadnagar,Telangana, India Typology : Ecological Regenrative Park Softwares : AutoCAD, Sketchup, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator The aim is to design a landscape area in the industry site of Dubey Perfumers for creating a pleasant, pleasurable and colorful surroundings in the factory area for the people to enjoy nature in its pure form all the time of year.
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Site and its surroundings
Zoning/dividing the spaces
Creating access
Creating levels
Clubbing the spaces and levels
Naturescaping (or nature scaping) is a landscaping method that allows people and nature to coexist with landscaping. Restoring native plant habitat is vital to preserving biodiversity. By creating a native plant garden, each patch of habitat becomes part of a collective effort to nurture and sustain the living landscape for birds and other animals. Nature scaping landscape design fosters healthy ecosystems and enhances biodiversity. The plants and trees chosen in this project are native plants habituated to the local climate and increase eco-system. As the landscape project is in a perfume factory, I made sure that trees have a certain kind of good odor to them, which sums up the park’s whole experience and stays authentic to the context.
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Site Plan
Terminalia Mantaly
Korean Grass
Millingtonia Hortensis Siamese Cassia Spathodea Campanulata Bauhinia Variegata Mahua Longifolia
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Tabebuia Rosea
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Jacaranda Mimosifilia
Red Cassia
Indian Almond Tree
Coconut Palm Tree
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St. Augustine Grass
Key Plan
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Hybrid Terminalia Mantaly
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Rendered images of the Park from different angles
4 Perforated Pattern Group work with Benjamin Ezquerra Softwares : Rhino 3D, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Bluebeam Perforated Pattern has an intimate relationship to the skin of the Bird Blind. It is not so much about the form of the bird blind in itself, as it is about the implications that this skin system has. The ability one has to look through these perforations and observe wildlife, in this case, birds, without being noticed. It is a simple system whereby perforated metal patterns can easily attach to a structure and create an overall pattern in birds. The spacing of these holes allows air to flow through the skin and light to pierce into space.
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Diameter Variation 1/4”
Original Image
1/2”
3/4”
Perforated Panel
The system’s skin is broken up into simple 2’x2.5’ panels, which would then be perforated several times at every one-inch interval. This pattern is created on the panels by varying the size of the holes according to the shade in the image next to it - darker colors result in larger holes (with 3/4” being its current limit due to the spacing), and lighter colors result in smaller holes (with 1/4” being its minimum size).
5 Hands On The workshop was held by COSTFORD, in collaboration with NASA, held the workshop is conducted in Trivandrum at LAURIE BAKER CENTRE, India. Laurie Baker‘s philosophy of sustainable development is through research, extension, training, documentation, dissemination, and networking. At its core, it is intended to include such areas as design and use of appropriate materials for buildings creation of support facilities such as sanitation and drinking water waste treatment, water harvesting management, land development, promotion of non-conventional, eco-friendly sources of energy, creation of awareness of the need for sustainable development.
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Construction of rat-trap bond.
Learning the use of bamboo as a reinforcement material.
Construction of arch with bricks using the basic instruments of a mason.
Experimenting on different types of Jaalis with bricks to create a play of light and shadow.
6 The Gallery Location : North Tonawanda, NY, USA Typology : Entertainment Complex Softwares : Rhino 3D, AutoCAD, Lumion, Sketchup, Adobe Photoshop The project explores the design of a gallery complex to involve the public in a common space. This studio project will look at the historical development of naturally lite gallery spaces. The spaces are designed to develop a specific position on the relationship between the gallery environment and social interaction spaces.
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Site and its surroundings
Direct view from the accessing point
Adding more public spaces to engage people into the space
1 Theatre - 55’ x 45’ 2 Meeting space - 1800 sqft 3 Workshop - 30’ x 35’ 4 Meeting room - 15’ x 14’ 5 Business office - 15’ x 13’ 6 Administration - 25’ x 24’ 7 Cafe - 40’ x 25’ 8 Kitchen- 6’4” x 14’ 9 Men’s washroom 10 Ladies washroom 11 Mechanical room 12 Electrical room 13 Lift
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Creating two access to connect public space and waterfront
Creating view points for the spaces and making tree as a focal point
Connection of lobby area to the outside creating an inside-outside feel
Hand made model showing the connection of building with the surroundings
The roof concept is to work with angles to convert the direct sunlight into indirect light and lighten up space. The roof section showing its connection to beams which are further connected to louvers.
Key Plan
Section
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Initial roof concept for better lighting conditions
Hand made scaled model of roof and the reflection of light into the gallery
Raised floor for passing of HVAC ducts Concrete slab
Glass
Louver
Wall Section of connection of louver to the beam
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Typical Wall Section of raised floor, slabs and beams
Third floor plan
Second floor plan
First floor plan
Basement floor plan
Boiler unit Chiller unit
Return Air Duct Supply Air Duct AHU units
Axonometric showing the Mechanical ventilation system
7 Smart Neighbourhood Location : Info Park Expressway, Kerala, India Typology : Residential Gated-Community Softwares : AutoCAD, Revit, Sketchup, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator To design a master plan for a smart residential neighborhood, keeping in mind the context in which it is situated. Challenge is to design the master plan keeping in mind the aspects of eco-friendly and sustainable parameters.
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Respond to the site
Respond to the climate
Massing of the buildings
Smart Neighbourhoods are designed to be efficient and healthy places to live, work, shop, and play. A successful smart neighborhood can act as a catalyst for community support for further widespread adaption of more sustainable practices. It is similar to a green neighborhood wherein utilization of energy efficiently is the main criteria. The primary goals of sustainable design are to reduce the negative impacts of buildings and create buildings that have a restorative, positive impact on their inhabitants and the environment as a whole. Concept :
Trees converting hot air into cool winds . They act as buffer.
Better Lighting
Cool Winds Due to evaporative cooling Cross-Ventilation
Zoning of the spaces Cross-View Communication
Hot Winds South east winds
4-BHK blocks 3-BHK blocks 2-BHK blocks
Trees act as sound barrier
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Typical section of an apartment
Club House
* Rain water harvesting pits for storage of rain water. * Use permeable tiles to allow the seepage of rainwater into the canals for storage
The placement of solar panels on the roof of the apartments to support the residents’ electricity needs.
Use of low emission building paints and coats.
The podium top’s utilization as a green roof makes it a semi-funtional area and a garden space for residents.
Placement of huge balconies with trees which helps in creating coolness and also helps in maintaining fresh environmental conditions.
Sustainable Approach
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Key Plan
Ground Floor Podium Parking Floor 1 Podium Parking Floor 2 1
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Sneha Arikapudi
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