Riverfront Redevelopment, Newark NJ

This is academic work I did for a class I took last fall. This is a group project for which we were required to choose a site in Newark, NJ for proposing a redevelopment plan. Our site was a nearly vacant land on the riverfront, very potential and promising. We proposed to build this project in 3 phases, including a hotel, office buildings, some retail and mostly residential.

This view is courtesy Ignacio Correa (my classmate).

Masterplan

We also visited Newark and met the development authority. I also made a little video on Google Earth for the proposal. :)

Sculpting in Motion

Here is an animation video I made for a class last fall called "Sculpting in Motion". I made this in Maya for my final project. The assignment was called Highly Evolved Useless Things In Action.

Highly Evolved Useless Things In Action from Shilpa Ahuja on Vimeo.

Here are some stills from the animation:

Business Center

I designed this business center in India during my previous job. This was the company's first franchisee business center. The site was a furniture showroom built in early 2000's.

The design brief called for a tight-budget proposal, with maximum leasable space, something that was easily replicable for future franchisees. The space had to retain the look and feel of company-owned properties, and yet be simple enough to be prototyped.

So my design had public areas like cafeteria, reception, and conference rooms o

n the first floor, and office cabins on the second floor. With only 12% circulation space, the offices had a dense-configuration, a combination of open workstations and mixed-type cabins (2-3 seater, 5-6 seater) with movable partitions.

The offices also had low-cost and easy to maintain finishes and modular furniture. A color scheme of white, turquoise and lilac was used to give a fresh and lively look.