shreya krishnan selected works

projects at RMA architectshouse at shantiniketan, delhitoilet for SPARC at govandivirchow house at hyderabadretention pond for house at awasspa for house at awasambuja office building at kolkata

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At RMA architects from left to right (top): kuriakose paulose, elangovan govindan, yogesh chan-drahasan, siddharth nadkarny, mahendra, dinkar panchal, adithya ranghara-jan, prashant saudagar, josephine fernando, priscilla fernandesfrom left to right (bottom):pradip, shreya krishnan, itziar zabaleta, amrita kulkarni

resume

projects at utsoa

competition entry

fall creek wineryshoal creek swimming holemasterplan for the university of texas at austincinemetricsdrainlight study

projects at utsoa

4final model: facade detail

This is a vision for a winery in the Texas Hill Coun-try. The site is flat with panoramas on all sides. The striations created by the long, continuous parallel lines of the vinerows define this landscape. I was concerned with creating three tectonically distinct spatial components out of the striations. The project is based on a design sketch that adds a third dimen-sion to the flat landscape by manipulating the stria-tions and creating a building that literally rises up from the vinerows.

fall creek wineryspring 2009instructor: john blood

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floor plans: program is linear, accommodating both the wine tour for visitors, as well as the wine-making process

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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grape receiving and crushing

destemmer white wine press

pressing area

visitor entrance

fermentation room

reception tasting room retail

lab

red wine press

cased goods storage kitchen rest-rooms

barrel storage restaurant

patiorest-rooms

mechanical

tool shop locker rooms

office

employee lounge

rest-rooms

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left: profiles of the two “movements” and the corresponding plan.below: short sections

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grape receiving and crushing

destemmer white wine press

pressing area fermentation room red wine press barrel storage restaurant

below: east elevation and long section AA

8initial design drawing; graphite on tracestructural design sketch: graphite on trace: initial tectonic concept illustrating idea of three distinct “movements.”

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final model construction wall section

1- metal roof cladding2- roof insulation3- 4” thick steel decking4- woodjoist spanning 10’5- outer cladding (wood planks)6- inner cladding7- 1’ deep curved glulam beam8- glulam girder spanning 12’9- square steel tube10- extruded aluminum mullion11- operable louvers12- 4” diameter hollow steel tube column13- diagonal tension member for lateral loads14- double-glazed spectrally selective window:1/8” lowe 0.041/2” argon1/8” clear

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In this project I identified a site and devel-oped a program that integrated Shoal Creek into the urban fabric. Shoal Creek was the original western boundary of Austin and runs north-south down the center of the Central Business District before emptying into the Colorado River. The corridor under study extends for roughly a mile. The creekbed is generally dry but prone to flooding once a year. It is sometimes used by bikers and jog-gers. I treated the ecology of Shoal Creek as a complex adaptive system and focused my efforts on identifying how the urban ecology of the creek interfaces with the city, and in designing an intervention that responded to and was integrated with the ecology of the creek.

The project is a swimming hole at a site in the middle of the Central Business District surrounded by hi-rise residential units. Be-fore the advent of underground storm drains, Shoal Creek was home to swimming holes further upriver, and I was interested in bring-ing back a part of the heritage of Shoal Creek as a way to create interest in and attraction to the creek bed. I chose a site that is cur-rently a surface parking lot adjacent to Whole Foods and a tall residential block. This site, situated as it is in the heart of downtown,

shoal creek swimming holespring 2011instructor: coleman coker

while close enough to residential high rises and to the University of Texas campus, as well as the Lance Armstrong Bikeway on Town Lake, would, by virtue of its location, serve a diversity of users.

The project consists of a ramp leading from the street level down to the level of the creek bed. At street level benches accommodate weekly markets and other public gatherings.

left: shadow drawings of objects found on site

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left: patterns along the shoal creek corridor that are abstracted from organic forms and shapes found on-site, such as the spreading trunk of the live oak tree depicted below. these exercises reflect an attempt to develop an aesthetic based on the ecology of Shoal Creek.

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bottom and right: final model and plan of public space, park and swimming hole

boardwalk

swimming hole

bus stop

5th St bridge

6th St. bridge

(changing rooms, cafe and restroom below)

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site sections

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below: perspectives of wetland and swimming pool at the interim review stageright: perspective of project at street level

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a number of documents, each map-ping factors such as green space, game-day density of use vs everyday density of use, sports facilities, and transportation networks were overlaid to identify areas of density and sparse-ness as a design aid.

This is a masterplan for the University of Texas at Austin focusing specifically on the area south of the stadium on either side of the highway. I identi-fied this site as the most critical for the expansion of the university in the future as it lies at a point where disparate and distinct areas of the large, sprawling campus meet each other. Connective strategies such as landscaping, public transit, bike routes and pedestrian walkways lend coherence to and diminish edges to this part of campus as part of this proposal.

masterplan for the university of texas at austinfall 2009instructor:dean almy

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I-35 PARKING DORMPARKING+ONLINE EDUCATION CENTER

light tower

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bike+pedestrian walkway

connects to peter walker’s plan for speedway on 21st

establishes connection to little campus

connection to waller creek

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green networks

landbridge is habitable public space, 30’ above highway at all times

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UT sports museum/visitor facility

student center

online education center and conference faciity

university coop outlet

hotel

student dorms

hard turf

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1metro rail station

bike and pedestrian walkway

ventilation tower- fitted with solar panels, acts as a beacon at night

new program facilitates connections

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1- existing green spaces2-soft and hard landscape3-important landmarks4-edges and boundaries5-surface and garage parking

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30 second film that the drawing below represents. the camera can pan and zoom but not move from its position.

representation of 30 second film through an architectural medium. the camera does not move, but it pans as it records the movement of the actor. strives for objective system of representation of the space shown by the camera.

cinemetrics: systems of representationfall 2008instructor: nik nikolov

This research studio focused on the interaction between cinema and architecture, culminating in four drawings based on three 30 second filmed events. I explored the subjectivity of the spatial experience behind a lens, whether that of a camera or of the eye. I eventually created a drawing system that attempts to capture the subjectivity of spatial experience. It is concerned with a frame of reference revolv-ing around the lens and that evokes the three-dimensional quality of space than that of a typical architectural drawing with its birds-eye view frame of reference.

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representation of another 30 second film. in this instance, there are two cameras (denoted by red and blue). neither camera pan but both can zoom and are at right angles to each other. the drawing conveys the difference between space as experienced behind the camera, and space as it is depicted in an objective architectural medium.

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above: objective representation of the movement of the camera vis-a-vis the actor.right: representation of the same space from the subjective frame of reference of the lens: although the camera moves in two dimensions, this drawing illustrates how space could be represented as moving relative to the camera.

30 second clip on which drawings are based. the camera moves, pans and zooms, but the actor is stationary.

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this is a model of the cones of vision from the previous drawing stacked on top of each other, to illustrate the topography cre-ated by space from the frame of reference of the camera.

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topography generated by the movement of the camera in the previous drawing. the movement of the actor in the frame of the camera is denoted by the red line.

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drainsummer 2007instructor: judith birdsong

drawing: light study of littlefield housesummer 2007instructor: nik nikolov

competition entry

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Charleston HuB competitionfall 2010

This was a competition for architecture professionals and students conducted by Architecture for Humanity. Our team consisted of three architecture professionals includ-ing myself. The program brief was to design a transit hub in downtown Charleston that would respond to the urban fabric, such as a historic railway station abutting the site. The folded building skin creates inhabitable public space both in its floor plan as well as on its roof, which more than doubles the total public space present on the original site.

left: view of rooftopbelow left: view of platformbelow: site plan

Southern Railway (historic)

Charleston MuseumWragg Mall

MEETING STREET

pedestrian entry

pedestrian entry

bus stop

bus and bicycle thoroughfare

entry from bus-stop

pedestrian entry

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This was a residence for an extended family comprising of a mother, her son, daughter and their families. The site is in a leafy sub-urb of Delhi. It was necessary to balance the zoning regulations with the clients’ program requirements. The building is programmed tightly while green spaces are provided for both around and within the building. The apartments are broken up on different floors such that each individual suite has at least two levels and all three suites overlook a large courtyard in the middle. The project attempts to merge the building into the sur-rounding greenery so that it doesn’t over-power the mostly residential street with its presence.

I worked on the plan during the design development stage and then on presentation drawings.

house at shantiniketan, delhi

left: view from the street; in collaboration with itziar zabaleta

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bottom: view from the terrace bottom right: facade from the street

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The RMA Toilet: annotated axonometric diagram

WOMENS WWTOILETSTT

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Mens ramped queue

Separated entrances

Steps up to childrens and community space

Steps up to caretaker and terrace

Womens ramped queue

COMMMUNITY MMMMSPAACEA ECEEA

COVERED EOTERRACERR

HILDRENSCHHOILETSTOO

RETAKERCARR

bottom: programming diagram of toilet; not worked on by me; included to provide contexttop: photograph of site at vashi naka; not taken by me. top right: photomontage of toilet on site; not worked on by me; included to provide context.

RMA architects was commissioned by SPARC, a non-government organization which acts as an advocacy group for slum-dwellers. The brief was to create a modular toilet that can be installed easily and cheaply at several locations all over mumbai for use by slum-dwellers. Over 50% of the popula-tion of mumbai lives in informal settlements, or slums. Slum-dwellers are not well-served by municipal toilets which only provide 1 toilet per 1440 people in the slums. SPARC wants to reduce this gap to 1 toilet per 800 people.

SPARC came up with the concept of a com-munity toilet that was used and maintained by the community that it served. following this principle, the toilets would be multi-purpose, with community space as well as housing for the caretaker provided for in the building especially since the SPARC toilet would be one of the only community spaces in the neighborhood.

toilet for SPARC at govandi

Some of the problems faced by public toi-lets are: odors due to lack of ventilation, and reluctance of women and children to use the toilet because of the risk of molestation. The modular toilet developed by RMA seeks to reduce these risks by providing separate entrances for men and women as well as a separate children’s toilet to reduce accidents as well as to provide community space on the terrace.

The actual floor plan for each toilet vary based on the site. The sites are extremely irregular due to the nature of the informal settlements around them and the basic floor plan needs to be tweaked to fit each site and to function at its optimum level.

I worked on the floor plan for the SPARC toilet at Govandi, supposed to be the one of the largest residential slums in Asia. I took the modular design developed by RMA and adapted it to the site.

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top right: second floor planright: first floor plan

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bottom: photomontage of building from the street

This is a house for a couple and their two young children in a green suburb of Hyder-abad. The house was designed according to the principles of Vaastu, which is an ancient indian tradition of ordering houses for op-timum energy flow, much like the Chinese Feng Shui. The house is organized around a courtyard flanked by a spa on one side, garage on the other and the house on two

virchow house at hyderabad

sides. It presents a blank face to the street. In order to mitigate this it is wrapped in a green wall which attempts to dissolve the building facade into the surrounding green-ery. I worked on two sets of presentation drawings for this project.

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The retention pond at the back of the holiday home at Awas was already constructed but needed additional improvement as the client was not satisfied with it. I was delegated with the responsiblity of developing a landscaping plan for the area on and around the retention pond.

I demarcated broad areas for different kinds of vegetation and then provided options of specific species for each area. For example, I provided for circular planters for lotus plants within and reed beds on the sides of the pond.

The landscape plan is currently being executed and photo-graphs of the planters are included.

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bottom left: section of retention pondright: photograph of island and lotus planters

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There is a spa adjoining the holiday home at Awas which was under construction. I worked on the last stage of the construction sections and flooring layout.The spa includes a toilet, an outdoor shower and a gym area. It is embedded into the ground by means of a berm and is made of dry-stacked igneous rock. It is designed to be inconspicuous and to present a backdrop against which the main house stands out.

spa for house at awas

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left: inerior elevations of spaabove: photograph of finished spa

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This project is a mixed-use office block with high FAR in a special economic zone outside of Kolkata in the north-eastern state of West Bengal in India. The tower is seen rising out of the roof of a three-storey building faced with terracotta. The idea is to create open and landscaped space at different levels and of achieving this within the context of high FAR.

I worked on the presentation documents for this project.

ambuja office building at kolkata

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SHREYA KRISHNAN |shreya@utexas.edu | +1-936-201-2200 |1905 Nueces St Apt 501 Austin TX 78705

EXPERIENCE

Jul-Dec 2010

May-Aug 2008 Benny Kuriakose Architecture

Rahul Mehrotra Associates (RMA architects)

•Developed a design solution utilizing the concept of rain gardens for water catchment to prevent flooding during the Monsoon that acts simultaneously as an outdoor playscape at a high school in Chennai.•Documented and drafted plans, elevations and sections of the historic Hotel Dasaprakash in the hill town of Ooty prior to its restoration.

The University of Texas at AustinDecember 2011Bachelor of Architecture, 5 year ProfessionalBachelor of Arts, Plan II Honors Program with Special HonorsGPA: 3.63

AUSTIN, TEXAS EDUCATION

Six-month internship for academic credit under the Professional Residency Program for students at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture.

MUMBAI, INDIA

Software and Analog Skills: Revit, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Sketch-Up, Grasshopper3D, Rhino, Microsoft Office, Laser-cutting, Model-building | Languages: Fluent English, Hindi, Tamil, Intermediate Arabic

SKILLS

CHENNAI, INDIA

RESEARCH AND POLICY PAPERJan-May 2011 Principles of Planning Policy Academic Paper: Walkability in Austin

Oct-Nov 2010 Charleston HuB Competition

Synthesized a design solution addressing issues of urban densification, public transit and preservation in Charleston, SC in collaboration with two other architecture professionals for a competition organized by by Architecture for Humanity. The design brief required an innovative design for a mixed-use transit hub in the heart of Charleston’s historic downtown. Manipulated ground plane to create a green roof peeling off of the sidewalk thus incorporating program on both the interior as well as the exterior skin of the building.

ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS

MUMBAI, INDIA

Distinguished Scholar and University Honors for Academic Merit 2006-2010

Published Fall 2008 Design V studio drawings in “Cinemarchitecture: Memory and Duration as Determining Elements of Architecture” by Nik Nikolov, issue 9 of In.Form magazine

Recipient of Renee Wolfe Zelman and Norman Zelman Endowed Scholarship 2006-2011

Nominated for the 2011 UTSOA Architype Travel Review Award in honor of Lawrence W. Speck. Nominations are anonymous and made by faculty members on the basis of architectural design merit

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

Special Honors for one-year Plan II HonorsThesis entitled “Creating an Iconic Narrative: The Role of History Textbooks in Shaping Nationalism in Tamil Nadu”. Conducted interviews with schoolteachers, school admin-istrators and government employees and did original research studying the impact of Dravidian Nationalism in shaping the idea of the Indian nation in Tamil Nadu.

Feb-May 2010 Independent Project for Chinmaya Mission Temple

•Assessed program and space requirements with Chinmaya Board Members and drafted schematics based on the organizing principle of the central courtyard, common in Hindu temples.

An independent project for a new campus for the board of the Chinmaya Mission, a Hindu religious organization in Austin.

AUSTIN, TEXAS

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST• Policy Paper frames lack of walkability in Austin as a major urban problem and recommends the inclusion of a Walkability Plan in the Comprehensive Master Plan of 2012 for the City of Austin. Recommendations to promote walkability include a blueprint for better co-ordination of existing policies and integration of Neighbor-hood Plans with an overall vision for the city which includes public transit, infill and mixed-use developments. Paper was cited as a model by professor Lynn Osgood.

•Initiated the deployment and training of Indesign which increased office productivity tenfold.•Contributed to team projects from conceptual design through documentation and construction.•Prepared presentation and construction drawings for large institutional and residential projects.•Monitored progress on actual construction sites•Compiled a 110 page catalogue of 80 landscaping species used on RMA projects.