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UNBOXED is a challenge to reconsider the architecture of the Big Box art museum. Despite the recent explosion of extravagant formal expressiveness in contemporary museum building design in the last decade, the myth of the white box ideal remains. Our focus will be negotiating the tensions between the container and its urban context; the container and the contained through understanding of subtleties of performative variations in architectural systems. Through a range of digitally driven aggregation and distribution techniques we will initially investigate and develop abstract formal systems and evaluate their performative and organizational potential for an evolved museum typology. (ARCH 8913: Option Design Studio, Prof. Dana Cupkova & Lise Anne Couture. Coauthor: Karbi Yuet Chan)
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The Indian street is part of a spatial complex, which also comprises the bazaar and the fair and together they constitute an unenclosed realm which provides a ‘meeting point of several communities’. Thus, the street is located within a cellular structure that suggests a labyrinth, with numerous openings and passages. The busiest streets, the main arteries of this spatial network, are never merely ‘machines for shopping’ but the site for numerous activities. (ARCH 7912: Option Design Studio, Prof. Lily Chi).
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M.Arch.2 20

sj443@cornell.edu

My interest in architecture started as curiosity and has developed into a life-long goal, that has landed me on a tough and exciting career path. As I have witnessed blueprints change into reality that brings a better environment to the society, I found that being an architect is a magical and sacred occupation.

Cornell’s M.Arch.2 program provides a platform to combine technological exploration and artistic experimentation, passing on the enduring originality of architecture and composing architectural melody on both local and global scales.

The first semester of the post-professional program takes place in New York City, where we refine skill sets and take seminars at the epicenter of the design world. The second semester showcases a series of graduate studio options covering the five territories alongside electives drawn from the department and across the university.

My choice was the Mumbai Studio where we embarked on a 10-day field trip to Mumbai and Ahmedabad, after which we explored a lot of data and scenarios as our basis of design. In my third semester I picked the UNBOXED studio, which aimed to develop an abstract tectonic system for an evolved museum typology through a range of digitally driven aggregation and distribution techniques.

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