Graduate Work - Winter and Fall 2020
Stranger than fiction - UCLA AUD
Instructors: Natasha Sandmeier and Nathan Su
Team: Alekya Malladi, Gesthimani Roumpani, Yanrong Yang
Graduate Work - Winter and Fall 2020
Stranger than fiction - UCLA AUD
Instructors: Natasha Sandmeier and Nathan Su
Team: Alekya Malladi, Gesthimani Roumpani, Yanrong Yang
Graduate Work - Winter and Fall 2020
Stranger than fiction - UCLA AUD
Instructors: Natasha Sandmeier and Nathan Su
Team: Alekya Malladi, Gesthimani Roumpani, Yanrong Yang
Graduate Work - Winter and Fall 2020
Stranger than fiction - UCLA AUD
Instructors: Natasha Sandmeier and Nathan Su
Team: Alekya Malladi, Gesthimani Roumpani, Yanrong Yang
Log line: A missing persons case. A police detective and an AI analyst. The fallibility of memory and witness testimony pitted against cold, hard forensic evidence.
Center for the study of Culture and Society
Under-graduate Work - 2014
campus design
Instructors: Thomas Oomen and Anitha Suseelan
Design Proposal by: Alekya Malladi
Tools Used: Hand Drawings, Sketch Up and Photoshop
Manikavelu Mansion in Bangalore is a historical artifact, acting as the face of the institution. It aims at involving the everyday lives of the people as part of academic as well as a social function. This requires spaces of interaction between the students and the public.
The pedagogical framework of this institute attempts to study ‘culture’ from an inclusive, every day, interdisciplinary framework by attempting to create and be a ‘crossroad’ or ‘meeting place’ of the human sciences - history, language studies, art practices, economics and development studies as well as philosophy. The stress is therefore not only on research and knowledge production by incubating an academic environment that breeds collaboration, but being a ‘place’ in Bangalore where ‘culture’- viewed as an ‘everyday’ and ongoing phenomenon in production - is itself hosted and produced.
HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
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MANIKAVELU MANSION, BANGALORE
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
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VEGETATION ANALYSIS
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SITE ANALYSIS
The rich variety of vegetation offered by the site provides a green breathing space at the center of the city. Abutted by traffic on all sides, the site is an oasis in its own being. To maintain this nature of the site, an inward looking organisation of the spaces was adopted.
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CLIMATE ANALYSIS
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PROGRAM COMPONENTS
There are three program components: Academic Core, Mediatheque or Research - Public Interface, Residential.
Four centers/departments or research streams form the academic core:
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Center for History and Language Studies
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Center for Development Studies
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Center for Art, Aesthetics & Performance Studies
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Center for Philosophy
This academic core functions with the support of the following resource or research centers/spaces referred to also as a Mediatheque:
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Digital Humanities Center
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Rare Manuscript Library
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Academic Library
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Audio/Video Archive – Resource center
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Gallery/Loft Spaces for Art/multimedia Installations | Public/Performance Space ( indoor/outdoor)
RESPONSE
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MOVEMENT ACROSS THE SITE
DESIGN PROPOSAL
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SITE PLAN
CENTER FOR HISTORY , LANGUAGE AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
SECTION THROUGH THE AAP CENTER AND THE OPEN AIR THEATRE
SECTION THROUGH THE AAP CENTER AND THE OPEN AIR THEATRE
SECTION THROUGH MANIKAVELU MANSION AND THE LIBRARY
The classrooms and studios around the open air theater encourages interaction amongst the users
The open air theater makes culture an ‘everyday’ phenomenon. It adapts to the various needs of the users like area for performance, cultural exchange, relaxing etc
A large gathering space beside the Mansion
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SITE SECTION
WORKING DRAWINGS
CENTER FOR ARTS, AESTHETICS AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES
WOODEN DECK DETAIL
DOOR DETAIL
DIFFERENCE IN LEVELS
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
EAST ELEVATION
DETAILED SECTION AA
FOUNDATION DETAIL
DETAILED SECTION BB