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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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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Playing

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!