Snigdha Bhattiprolu I N T E R I O R A R C H I T E C T U R E P O R T F O L I O
+1 513-399-1669 bhattica@mail.uc.edu College of Design Architecture Art and Planning, University Of Cincinnati
Tesla Design Research and Experience Center WORK SAMPLES OF
2019
Semester 9
AWARDED THE TAG ‘BEST OF CEPT’ (TOP 26 PROJECTS OF THE UNIVERSITY) SELECTED FOR HONORS EXHIBITION AND PUBLISHED BY CEPT UNIVERSITY
Program The Tesla DREC ( Design Research and Experinece Center) is imagined to be the introduction of Tesla to India. An old automobile service center shed is re-designed to be the edgy structure that truely alligns with both Tesla’s goals in sustainable future and the brand personality. Tesla DREC plays wih the interactions at all levels when oppositely natured programs are juxtaposed: the private and confidential versus the pulic and open. The resultant schematic is the private Research Center volume held suspended safely in the center and the public networks running around and under it as ramps, stairs and a basement without compromising the privacy of the first but revealing different stages of automobile design process.
1. AERIAL VIEW OF THE SITE
ROADSIDE VIEW OF THE ENTRY - SOUTH WEST VISUALIZATION
THE INNER RESEARCH CENTER VOLUME ENTRY EXPERIENCE “The spatial narrative begins with the bright red ramp leading from the ground level leading into the first floor of the inner volume. The translucent Bendheim channel glass, delicately encases the visually heavy metal structures. “
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN
3. EXPERIENCE CENTER : The second part of the program is the interactive experience center. For the most part, this program, being an overlap of the real exhibits and virtual information, uses the naturally dark basement volume completely. This is a awe inspiring, learning space that is public and open in interactions.
DESIGN RESEARCH CENTER : The ďŹ rst part of the program is the futuristic Design Research Center, living up to the advanced methodologies of Tesla. It is conďŹ dential, private and demonstrates a new approach to automobile design with the help of Microsoft Hololens and other augmented reality tools.
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Concept The design process started with visualizing the brand-identity as a skin and roof. The two factors were sustainablity
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questioning the norms, a significant aspect of the brand personality. The facade is a louvered jacket over a inner volume covered with a butterfly roof covered in Tesla’s solar roof tiles which alligns with and sets an example for the brand’s aim of ‘accelarating the progress towards a sustainable future with innovations in electrical energy’ .
PHYSICAL MODEL - NORTHSIDE ENTRANCE - THE
MODEL REVEALS SPACES BY ELEMINATING VERTICAL PARTITIONS
PHYSICAL MODEL - INTERIOR RAMP VIEW OF DECONSTRUCTED MODEL
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Translation of Concept in Space The concept translates into space by ‘questioning’ the way we carry out usual activities such as retail or circulation. For example, this project questions the use of a floor, and uses colour clocking as subconscious directing force in circulation in the building and external ramps. Another example is re-lookin at retail experience through the interior elements. Cars are displayed on the vertical surface, landings and along ramps. Exhibits include dismantled cars showcasing the perfect Tesla mechanics, the buildings working powerwall on display among Tesla merchandise which are displayed on custom partitions in the experience center. This is how the Tesla’s attitude of questioning is translated into the design decisions in the interior architecture.
PHYSICAL MODEL AND MATERIAL PALLETTE - SOUTHSIDE LOUVERED SIDE TRANSLUCENCY OF THE FACADE CREATES INTRIGUE BY REVEALING RED RAMP
PHYSICAL MODEL - NORTHSIDE ENTRANCE - THE MODEL REVEALS SPACES BY ELEMINATING VERTICAL PARTITIONS
Before CEPT
Tree as a sense of enclosure “ The introduction of a simple geometry in a void has a variety of impacts. To think what I can achieve by consciously choosing the element to be introduced excites me, and seeing its impact is a learning. “
Semester 8
Experientiality in a dynamic enclosure An abstract idea of the future of nature coexisting with bridges that could be long walkways across the Hudson, New York. This is a kinetic pavillion over a bridge, rendered in Maya as a animation snapshot from a chinese dance form.
Tensile Structures: Design Process 1
What is the nature of a tensile structure? In a tensile membrane, all points are in tension and none are in compression. Tensile structrues can span long distances without a support.
2 What is the context of site? The site is packed between buildings on all sides which are 4.5m to 12 m high. we use existing buildings to anchor the tensile 3 Can membrane?
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Position of existing landscape vegetation The older beize membrane is shifted to give space for the tree. An additional anchor point is added on the library facade to accomodate that.
2 Common anchor point for the high points and strategic low points An additional column is added and the low point is created where the natural earth is present at the floor level. This is strategically made to drain the rainwater.
The library building beam and column grid can be anchored on for a high and low point. The roof of the sit-out as a low point. Foundations can be made in the soil area with the shrubs.
are form-finding methods? Physical models 4 What and Grasshopper. - Two high points were pulled together to create additional tension by physical model exploration. - The anchor points of the buidlings could ‘slide’ along the beam and column grid, so Grasshopper was used o freeze the form from iterations.
5 What are the best details relavent to this form? Cable strings are pulled into loops at the anchors. Headrings will be used at the two high points to distribute the tension. Drain points are in the soil except the low point anchored to the library. The Drain over the brick floor is to bbe resolved.
Mallya’s Residence This project had a live client who we interacted with over the semester and gave our design proposal to. My project focuses on in depth understanding of the client and detailed contruction data. This was a manglorean family wo relocated to ahmedabad. However, they were deeply attached to their lifestyle in Udipi. They grew up really knowing, constructing every element in their house. They knew which tree became the wood for the columns in their coutyard.
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Semester 5
Experientiality by un-design Before the residential project, this is a collection of items representing home. I noticed that the ‘un-designed’ items that find their way in the home, create a sense of nostalgia by an allusion to an familiar interaction that was experienced.
Moodboard made for my home in my native village. It shows schematics of interactions which are essential to define my home.
Semester 5
The Strategic choreography of Movement Designing around the traditions. Rituals and lifestyle of the inhabitants can be a powerful method of creating an expereince that triggers another experience back in time; transforming a house into a home.
Plan and material pallette of a Residential Studio project.
Semester 5
Barrier by social parameter Could be societial class, or age, physical ability. In the navratri senario, religious allusion was the strongest parameter for a barrier.
Navratri Installation designed and executed at CEPT University along with RishiTej Aritakula.
Design Internship Rockwell Group, New York, USA
Barrier by level differences Cascading pools. levels spanning 7-12 m height difference. Circumference lined with ramps and radial staircases that fanned out. Arrangement of Cabannas created islands. Preferences for occupying certain cabanas are inuences by factors such as gender; females and children occupy the inner private pool, marked in yellow line, for privacy / safety in the Mexican context.
Design Internship Rockwell Group, New York, USA
Gender response to inner private pools Ocuupying the boundary of anti-enclosure.
Cascading pools: Sunken sitout, water submerged walkways.infinity edges Bar infont of a water fall from an infinity edge
Vegetation as barrier for safety
Evaluation as tools to design During the exchange semester studio work, from the stage of zoning, paths can be evaluated in Massmotion, a crowd simulation software. Evaluation was a design process to arrive at a optimal lightrail station, Beijieng. Civil changes were guided by an evaluating the existing system and working on the shortcomings. Additions were evaluated for their physical form and expereintial quality that was strategically positioned. h t t p s : // w w w . y o u t u b e . c o m / watch?v=MHCDuRTnmUM&feature=youtu.be
Visual heatmaps Heat maps showed not only evaluated the most efficient design, by wait time. It also evaluated surfaces that got most visual attention, thus a strategic surface for creating signages or even experiences
Tobi Eye tracking Is the paths taken by people are so personal and speciďŹ c, why can’t the signage become an intelligent, personal experience too?
Retail: The Khadi Luxury
The Khadi Catalouge
Khadi, once a poor man’s fabric is new a piece of luxury. Responding to this changed status of Khadi is a project that functions as a seasonal, andKhadi, changing of fabric the best Khadi from all once adisplay poor man’s is new a piece over country. of the luxury. Responding to this changed status of Khadi projectis that functionsthrough as a seasonal, Here theis aclient walked a curated and changing display of the best Khadi from all forrest of fabric . over the country.
Here the client is walked through a curated forrest of fabric .
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Walkin catalouge for women of today who embrace elegance and subtlety. One can get lost explorng a seasonally changing forrest of the purest khadi from all over India.
On chosing your Khadi with the help of expert opinion, the expert takes your measuremnets and sends then outsourced to a deisgner. Luxuriously customised to your personality and style.
THE FABRIC IS HELD IN PLACE BY A MAGNET IN NATURAL LENGTH OF A SPRING ATTRACTED TO METAL STRIP PRESS SPRING TO RELEASE FABRIC
WOODEN SPACERS THAT SUPPORT LED WARM WHITE STRIP
WOODEN BOXING FINISHED IN MATT
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THE FABRIC IS ROLLED OVER A ROD TO AVOID CLUMPING AND PRESS BUTTONED FALSE CEILING WITH A 50 MM WIDE CUT FOR THE FABRIC BRASS OF 10 MM SIDE ROD FINISHED IN HIGH GLOSS MIRROR FINISH
HORIZONTAL DIRECTION OF WOOD GRAINS IN A WARM SHESHAM WOOD FINISHED IN MATT
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Thirdwave Coffee Roasters Set in the bustling city of start-ups, Banglore, is one such with a young, ambitious client. This low budgeted coffee shop was to serve inhouse brewed cofee, which was new to Banglore. We were going for an industrial look to suggest a barn, country-side style. The examples show design proposals made to the client with high on aesthetic but low on budget details.
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Science CityScience Competition APJ Kalam City The winning entry for the Abdul Kalam Science City in Patna, Bihar,India. Closely worked with a junior architect and a landscape architect to design an intergrated water management system which could have D VFLHQWLĂ€F H[KLELW TXDOLW\ EXW DOVR D ZHWODQG park. Using traditional step farming methods and native species was the key idea so that visitors could indulge in the site with a network of walkways and pavillions
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Bhat Farmhouse Situated in the quiet valley of Pune, is a privategetaway house designed for a family.Its simple structure and architectures spreads the rejuvenating residence program over the periphery of the house in a network of pathways along vegetation and meditation platforms. This is a design proposal that was accompanied by a basic cost estimate.
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Gulbarga Primary School As a part of the Azim Premji Foundation’s primary school develpoement program, the School at Gulbarga, Karnataka,India. This is a balsa model sized 900mm by 900 mm in the scale of 1:150. Made in Balsa wood
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Hertitage hotel Project EXISTING STRUCTURE
PROPOSED STRUCTURE
This is a gazebo structure for a semi outdoor dining experience at the celebrated authentic Gujarati Thali at the unique heritage hotel, Mangal Das ni Haveli. This was an initiative to revive and showcase Ahmedabad’s craft of Matani Pachedi. I worked with a local craftsman to digitalise his patterns that went of the 3 ft by 13 ft panels. There was a lot of material experimentation for the drapes and Aabla(mirror work).
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Summer School Abari and SMA, Dhulikhel, Nepal
Bamboo and Mud construction at Nepal.
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Bamboo Watchtower As a part of Summer school, this is an example of a 13 ft high design project done over a short period of two and half weeks. This included designing, process models, deatiling with respec to available material in the isolated village in Kheda and also the construction; foundation to decking. We learned to plan and manage resources such as electricity from the generator for the drills and one pedestral fan in the summer. This was a beautiful riverside experience of working on day and nigh shifts with a team of
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Tools for Making Derived from Alice platform used by Zaha Hadid Architects, this was a method of using a curve, gradually smoothened for ďŹ nding form. During the exchange program, under Prog Mara Marcu, we used the KUKA PRC to challenge the machines and materials’ ability to cantilever and close into a dome.
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Conclusion: The inquiry Methods of evaluation can verify qualitative aspects more tangibily. And the use of traditional methods and machinery to make forms that were only sketches. The future could hold an inquiry in the ďŹ ne balance of this juxtaposition.
Section rendered in Watercolour and Hand drafted representational Drawing
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