Portfolio_Sharma_Karan

Site
Housing
Day care Centre
Community Centre
#Carbon Copy
Intermediate Studio
Sept 2018 to Dec 2018
Location: Queens, USA
Many megacities have emerged across the world in the recent
decades. New York City population will increase by 30%
in the next 15 years. In order to create compact cities, reduce
car emissions and improve health conditions, Mega cities will
have to build sustainable solutions. Our idea is to facilitate
this forecasted trend by introducing a new super structure
that fits the needs of a megacity by providing healthy living
quarters, while helping to alleviate the air pollution.
Wood is a natural renewable resource and is therefore readily
accessible. We start off with a clean slate, returning to days
where we were not reliant on machines. Like the primitive
hut, existing since the beginning of time, we apply a similar
idea via a building block and a set of rules that are meant to
be bent. The end result is a structure composed of an array
of building blocks – a system made out of 1-foot wide lateral
timber columns, aggregated through simple joinery. This will
thus provide an outline of stepped terraces while allowing
variability. The layout of each floor has the ability to vary from
one that encourages communal living to one that is more
private. It truly is up to the user of the space. The structure
can grow as tall and as wide as it needs to be. Its end-point
thus becomes limitless
1.Accessing the site
2.Placing the Programs
3.Unitizing the Programs
4.Connecting street to waterfront
5.Raising the mass
6.Maximising views and sunlight
7. Creating ground connections
8.Creating level connections
9.Maximising the surface area
10.Creating green terraces
Above: Form interpretation with the
context
Right : The Project estabishes a
connection with the existing water
frontground for social interaction