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PORTFOLIO | PRERNA AUPLISH
DESIGN
TECNICAL
PROFESSIONAL
PERSONAL WORK
DIGITAL EXPLORATION
• Working Drawing – Ground Floor Plan
• Working Drawing – Section and Details
• Sultan Qaboos Youth Complex
• IIIT- Allahabad Alumni Bhavan
• Apartment Renovation
• Plateau City – Recoding of San Francisco
• Space Weaver
• Neighbourhood Community
• CCA Building modelling, Advanced BIM
• Sublime Architecture, Unity 3D
• Lamp in Polypropylene
• Experiment in Kerf Patterning
• Painting with Airbrush
• Painting with Soap Dispenser
DESIGN
PLATEAU CITY – Recoding of San Francisco
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The project deals with current housing crisis faced by the city. A block in San Francisco is recoded along historical phases from 1906
earthquake to current day. The concept is to create multiple grounds with air parcels and a pedestrian network at higher levels to
accommodate for dense living conditions. Thus whole city block is imagined as series of plateaus acting as ground for rooting of various
programs.
Parcel division and code diagrams
Parcel division (1906)
Pedestrian movement network (1906)
Freeway off-ramp accommodated (1960)
Pedestrian network on upper plateaus
Mandatory public space in air parcels created by
each building as per code
Development and transition over time periods
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1. Residential building to be
replaced to house 400 bed hotel
and freeway ramp.
Green roof
Public space plateau
Plateau level 2: 50%
buildable
Plateau level 1: 75%
buildable
400 bed hotel
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1960s demolition plan 1960s development plan
1980s demolition plan
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2. Industrial building to
be replaced
4. New parking
garage (500 parking
slots)
3. New residential
building (56000 sq ft)
5. Freeway ramp
Green roof
Public space plateau
Plateau level 2: 50%
buildable
Plateau level 1: 75%
buildable
1980s development plan
Preserved Historical
buildings
Site plan
Detail building
Plateau Level site plan
Site model
Proposed housing building
The building further explores concept of air parcels in city code. Three
apartment buildings are built by different developers. Above plateau level 3,
collaboration between them creates new large parcels above ground.
The circulation is designed in a way that it
ensures continuity of city plateau network and
connect them vertically.
City plateau network continues through apartment building
Building Section - Bridge Network
Space Weaver is designed to create ultra-lightweight woven structures with fibrous materials. Using a 3-axis gantry system, in a similar
process as 3D printers, except they produce higher strength-to-weight ratio, zero waste, and no support material. Space Weaver is a seven
foot tall 3D printer that uses carbon fiber and fiberglass to print five foot tall woven structures.
SPACE WEAVER – Ultra light weight column weaving machine
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Base frame
20 mm precision rod and linear bearings
Pulleys
Geared 1.8 degree stepper motors (Z-axis)
3D printed spools
Magnets
Glass print bed
Spool base
3 axis CNC gantry (4 NEMA stepper motors)
A-axis picker
Magnets
7 ft tall fibrous 3D column weaving machine
SPOOL DESIGN & SPECIFICATIONS S. Diameter – 1.44”
S. Height – 2.50”
Magnets – 3”
M. Diameter – 0.25”
M Height – 0.25”
Top
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3D
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support
Guidance
rod
Rotating
tube
Holder for
fibre
winding
Screw
Magnets
Magnets
Magnets
holder
bottom
piece
Spool wound with carbon fibre and glass fibre at home position Bottom part of spool with magnets
Column design iterations
Final design
for
fabrication
Spool movement pattern on glass print bed
5 ft tall carbon and glass fibre fabricated column by space weaver
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The housing project deals with very close knit Muslim community. The site, Bhendi Bazaar, serves high density of population, yet the
observation was that people long for a space which they can identify with and distinct it from others. This came out strong with gestures of
cladding the front wall of individual houses with tiles or simply giving it a different colour to provide the space an identity and call it as their
own place.
NEIGHBOURHOOD COMMUNITY
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Washing place
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Reading place
Playing place
Walk Place
Dentist Clinic
Prayer Place
Washing Place
Playing Place
Reading Place
Ariel View
Program Diagram Ariel View
Playing Place
Washing Place
Prayer Place
Reading Place
Plan at Level 2 Plan at Level 4
Living Private Work
Units aggregate to form small to large community space within the building
Convertible living units with flexible accesses
CCA BUILDING MODELING , ADVANCED BIM
This class seek to update us with current industry standard of BIM. The class gave us hands on experience on REVIT, Navisworks, Cobie
Extension, Dynamo, Autodesk cloud service on lighting analysis and rendering. California College of the Arts building was drafted and
modelled for the BIM study.
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Daylight Analysis using Autodesk 360
SUBLIME ARCHITECTURE, UNITY 3D
The software, unity 3D is a game engine used to develop games. I used this software to make sublime architecture. Architecture, that is symmetrical
and based on pure geometry. The model uses exterior of Geode , Science Museum at Parc de la Villette, Paris to give a sense of sublime. First
character controller changes scale at strategic locations to experience the place with different perspective.
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1 The dome: it is modelled to reflect the surrounding
areas adding a sense of realism.
2 Inside the dome: Sky is used to give a sense of
sublime interior. Scaled down first person controller
adds to the expanse felt. The staircase kept in the
centre of the room also enhances this idea.
3 But when the first person controller is scaled up,
suddenly the large expansive space turns into a room.
So, the play is seen in monumental scale to human
scale and its relation to utopia in architecture
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TECHNICAL
Cross section of mixed use building
Ground floor plan resolved to the level of construction drawing
Wall section
Floor and ceiling detail
PROFESSIONAL
This building is under construction at Salalah in Muscat, Oman. It is a youth cultural and sports complex over 89000sqm expanse of land. It
includes, indoor sports halls, library and other facilities for men and women designed separately. I was responsible to resolve sections and
roof details by incorporating comments and suggestions from various consultants
SULTAN QABOOS YOUTH COMPLEX
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Resolved section as part of construction drawing
Tiling Pattern,
Designed by me
Aerial View of project with cultural centre in front and sports facilities at rare
Roof and parapet details as part of construction drawing
Resolved elevation as part of construction drawing
Central
Building
IIIT- ALLAHABAD ALUMNI CENTRE
The proposed project was a winning competition entry to a Government owned education university. I was responsible to resolve design for
sports complex and prepare BIM model for the same. The sports complex includes indoor halls for badminton, basketball, billiards room. The
facility includes swimming pool, gym and spa, Much attention was given to landscaped roof.
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BIM model section
Level 3 plan for gym and spa facility
PERSONAL WORK
RENOVATION OF PARENT’S APARTMENT The apartment was remodelled to get open plan for living, dining and kitchen area. The strategy also gave the house spacious look. The
design was realised by hired contractor.
Entrance
Living room
Dining room
Bedroom 1
T1
Kitchen
Bedroom 2
Bedroom 3
T3 T2
B2
Entrance
Altered
Living room
Dining room
Bedroom 1
T1
Kitchen
Bedroom 2
Bedroom 3
T3 T2
B2 B1
Original Plan Remodelled Plan
View from the altered entrance towards Balcony 1
Living room - informal seating Kitchen
Living room – formal seating
DIGITAL EXPLORATIONS
Lamp of Polypropylene
designed in
Grasshopper and
fabricated with laser
cutting machine
Pattern Exploration
Stool of plywood,
designed in Rhino and
Grasshopper, fabricated
in Laser cutting
Experiment in Kerf patterning to make plywood flexible
6- axis robot used to paint with airbrush
Air brush on museum board
3- axis CNC used to paint with soap dispenser
Acrylic on museum board
Thank you!