Architectural Portfolio_Sparsh Rastogi

Email Id: sparshr2@illinois.edu

Contact: +1 (217) 200-2627

Location: Urbana, IL, 61801

2021-23

EDUCATION

Masters of Architecture

Building Performance Concentration

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, IL, USA

Bachelors of Architecture

2016-21

University School of Architecture and Planning ( USAP ), Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2022-23

PERKINS & WILL

Architectural Summer Intern 2022 & Part-Time Intern 2022-23

2021

2020-21

2019

2018-19

Seattle, WA, USA

New Delhi, India Project Architect

STHAPATI ASSOCIATES PVT. LTD.

STHAPATI ASSOCIATES PVT. LTD.

Architectural Intern

New Delhi, India

New Delhi, India Designer

FREELANCER

New Delhi, India Volunteer

SWAIT ARCH

CERTIFICATIONS

Licensed Architect India

Solar Decathlon India Challenge National Design Competition

2020

2022 2019

CEPT University and Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India

Entrepreneurship Development Programme

Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Ahmedabad, India

Sustainable Building Design

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

The Future Cities

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

The Architectural Imagination

Harvard University, USA

2018

GRIHA V2015

GRIHA Council, New Delhi

PERSONAL PROMOTIONS

2021-22

2020

Illinois Solar Decathlon Design Challenge - TOP 10 Globally Design and Construction Management Team

TERI Go4Youth Green Olympiad ( Level 4 )

Gold Medallion - Certificate of Distinction, Organised by TERI

GRIHA Trophy - TOP 6

Annual NASA Convention 2018-19

SOFTWARE SKILLS

A CLEARING IN THE WOODS

Visitor’s Centre

Master of Architecture | Integrated Design Studio | Building Performance

Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ARCH 575 | Team of 03 | Fall 2021

Therm | WuFI | Climate Consultant | Cove.tool Instructor : Prof. Ralph Hamann

The studio was an opportunity to design a state-of-the-art facility however they will also focus on performance related issues of the building enclosure and their simulation using advanced computer softwares. Other aspects of the design such as structural, environmental and lighting issues will have equal importance during this studio.

The aim of the design revolves around the idea of taking the users on a journey through the 100 years of Chicago World Fair 1933.

The site is located at the Beverly Shores consisting of the five historical houses from the fair. The design intends to celebrate the houses and the futuristic theme of the fair.

The vibrant, modern and aesthetic commmemoration of the journey connects the users of all age groups with the houses directly or indirectly inducing curiosity to reach out to the houses and experience their aura first hand.

Design Evolution

Adaptive Thermal Comfort Analysis

The Visitor Center has been planned as such that the public is unknowingly bound to traverse through the bridge for century of progress in architecture, materials and life, which decends along the beach and rewards the users with having the whole experience brought together in one frame at the end of the journey.

South Wall Section

Wall Section Analysis using WuFI

FRE-QUNITE

Chicago Jazz Center

Master of Architecture | Integrated Design Studio | Building Performance

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ARCH 575 | Team of 02 | Fall 2022

Revit | Rhino | SketchUp | Lumion | InDesign

Instructor : Prof. Thomas Leslie

The design interpretation starts from the idea of celebrating the musical harmony developed over the 20th Century. The concept revolves around integrating the Frequency of musical notes with sense Freedom it provides along with sense of Unity amongst the listeners.

The program supports and celebrates the vitality of jazz, with a focus on Chicago’s traditions and its links to blues, soul, and R+B. Jazz today represents some of the most important intellectual and stylistic development in contemporary music.

Acoustical Testing

Auditorium View Angles Workability

OFFICE DE BRASILIA

Office Building

Master of Architecture | Experimental Envelopes | Building Performance

ARCH 576 | Individual Work | Fall 2021 Cove.tool

Instructor : Prof. Scott Murray

As the primary interface between interior and exterior environments, the building envelope is an important architectural component with great potential for impacting building performance

The seminar focused on the theory, design, and analysis of building-envelope systems, with an emphasis on experimental approaches in the realms of energy performance, geometry, fabrication, and user experience

The design was formulated over four phases of analysis and modifications to produce a fully optimized solution for the absolute user comfort and lower EUI.

TRANSFORMABLE STRUCTURES

Deployable Physical Model

Master of Architecture | Planning and Design of Structures

ARCH 536 | Individual Project | Fall 2021

SketchUp | AutoCAD | Revit

Instructor : Prof. Sudarshan Krishnan, PhD.

The goal was to learn about an innovative structural system that serves special purposes and needs.

Just like disaster relief shelters where ease of transportation and rapid deployment are needed, for roofs of stadia to have all-weather sports, for structures used in responsive facades, for iconic public architecture to enliven a space, and whenever a structure needs to be reused without the burden of dismantling and reassembly.

Deployment Stages

Connectors

Deployed Stage Model

MOHALLA-E-LUCKNOW

Mix-Use Land Project

Bachelor of Architecture | GRIHA Trophy | NASA

Competition | Team Project | Fall 2018

AutoCAD | SketchUp | V-Ray | Lumion

Cognition is the way, people understand their environment through immediate sensory experience coupled with memories from the past. The idea of cognitive mapping is used in spaces to give immediate sensory insights to the user.

Transition areas have distinct niches and terraces, formed due to interlocking of units, that act as cognitive spaces. Each space with its unique spatial identity functions as a separate green system.

Interlocking

Duplex Typology

Shared Terraces

The design delivers spaces that offer various instances of environmental sustainability Hence these spaces become a landmark in the daily transition of the users and leave a mark in their minds. Working of each sustainable system has human involvement Thus, making them more responsive and resposible to the environment.

Interlocking Unit Concept

PANCHSHEEL HIGHS

Transit Oriented Development

Bachelor of Architecture | Mix-Use Housing | Sustainable Design

ARCH 301 | Team of 02 | Fall 2018 Rhino | SketchUp | V-Ray | Lumion

The design interpretation starts from the basic idea of celebrating the pedestrians and cyclists. The podium is arranged strategically to enhance the user experience by providing fluent pathways and corridors through out the complex and also increase the commerce for the ‘retail-tainment’ zone

The site is treated as a permeable edge to a new marketing approach i.e ‘pop-up bazaar’ and hence it becomes crucial to maximise the comfort of the pedestrian users.

Since the design program is influenced by porosity and fluidicity, Blobitecture becomes the architectural interpretation of the development.

The whole concept of the project was to bring the community together by using the spaces diligently, such that the residential and commercial sectors can share the space collectively but at the same time can craft their own space among spaces.

The pedestrians are having an upper hand on the site and major axes were defined in order to maintain a user-friendly and harmonious environment.

Parametric Building Form Study derived from applying sine curve in elevation to the balconies factored from 1.5 to 2 meters.

The public transport systems are more and more dependent upon the artificial intelligence and smart technologies, also as a global trend car manufacturers are seeking alternate fuels and new ways of interpreting public buses and pooling techniques.

We can predict that in near future, by efficient governance and executions, bicycles and NMTs will rule the roads. Hence, it becomes crucial to future proof the master plan for the predicted shift in the trend of private vehicle ownership status.

TRAVERSING THE SAHIBI

Riverfront Development

Bachelor of Architecture | HUDCO Trophy | NASA

Competition | Team Project | Spring 2019

AutoCAD | SketchUp | V-Ray

Sitting rightly glorified, in all our history books, not once the Indus Valley Civilization failed to inspire and astonish planners and architects all around.

Sahibi’s journey to the Yamuna through Delhi covers a stretch of 50 kms. Along this stretch, ten locations to act as prospective riverfront development points have been proposed.

Every module design responds to the context of each location. With these measures in place, the mammoth task of cleaning the dirtiest drain of the national capital diminishes to a small module.

Intuiting from the grid planning, water transportation and methodical drainage systems, the design alludes to our rich history and draws from it, its strongest holds. Further, it acknowledges the way which Najafgarh drain has been treated and aims to work on it and help it return to its original glory.

Aerial view of the Riverfront

RIVERFRONT PLAN

One of the most important aspect of this design is that it desires to use the river for a lot more than just waste and promote the idea of sustainable lifestyle, by being designed in a way that discourages vehicular movements and promote pedestrians following enhancements in road network and efficient connectivity between any or every set of two points.

800 DUBUQUE

Office Complex

Professional Work | Perkins&Will | San Francisco

Rhino | Revit | Lumion | Illustrator InDesign | Photoshop

The project was to design a new state of the art office complex. To enhance the integration of the geographical location an open air campus entry and drop off was designed to celebrate this urban connection and to create a porous site linking the existing pathways through this gateway and into the main courtyard and northwest vehicular drop off.

The form of the building has been designed by meandering the built mass with respect to passive and active design measures accomodating the needs and require ments of the institute.

The site design enhances the connection from the nearest train station and takes advantage of the existing network of bike paths and sidewalks connecting the project to the Caltrain Station to the south through the creation of southwest oriented landscaped path and a southwest facing entry court.

The project hosts a multitude of communal spaces for its

AMRAPALI GOLFHOMES AND KINGSWOOD

Mix-Use High Rise Housing

The project is a multi-family high rise housing in Noida, Delhi-NCR region. It is under construction right now as a podium-tower construction project. It houses a commercial complex on the entrance level to the site and residential towers up top consisting of 5500 units in total.

The project is being implemented in two phases and is being handled by Sthapati Associates for the past two years.

The whole project spreads through a 245,000 sqm site and consistes of 70 residetial towers just in Phase I of the construction.

NATIONAL SCHOOL OF DRAMA

The project was to design the new state of the art building complex for the distinguished institute while respecting the heritage buildings on site.

Designed as an affluent complex for the National School of Drama, it features numerous unconventional design elements.

The project hosts a multitude of communal spaces for its wide variety of stakeholders of NSD , which is a global icon for an institution of its stature. The form of the building has been designed by meandering the built mass with respect to passive and active design measures accomodating the needs and requirements of the institute.

The main idea behind the scheme is to design a space and form, respecting the context and the heritage of the site yet at the same time not emulating what already stands tall and creates a distinct identity of the new building amalgamating its design with the existing heritage building with an architectural vocabulary which is comprehensive of the Lutyen’s Bungalow Zone area.

AMRAPALI HEARTBEAT CITY

The project is a multi-family high rise housing in Noida, Delhi-NCR region. It is under construction right now as a podium-tower construction project. It houses a commercial complex on the entrance level to the site combined with two basement parking levels and twenty one residential towers in total along with a Club House maintained by the local residential welfare association.

INTERESTS AND HOBBIES

“ Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like. ”

-David Alan Harvey

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beautiful thing about architecture is that it never fails to surprise you “