Harshita Gupta S

AT4011

aerie - a 5 minute city

Aerie creates a light, flexible structure that respects the natural landscape and enhances public life. It forms an open, shaded ground level that adapts to evolving community needs while improving comfort through green terraces and natural cooling. An exposed Vierendeel structural system defines the space’s character, blending architecture with nature through clarity, openness, and dynamic shadow play, forming a resilient and ever-evolving civic landmark.


Report Content

Decoding Watson Hotel - As a program and a structural system.

Adaptive reuse of Watson hotel as Neu street.

Program derivation through site analysis, inference, precedent studies and area program.

Aerie - Perspective section - Hero image.

Iterations to understand the modularity of a Vierendeel truss and matrix of diagrams.

Architectural intent depicted through spatial planning, iterating through volumes in section and inter relations through area program from instances and spatial experience.

Section isometric depicting structural system.

Structural intent - Understanding systems and instances through detail.

Resolution of structural system - Changes in system.

Understanding volumes through weaving, stacking and spanning.