Brianne Nueslein wins 2024 SARA NY Student Design Award for Yamuna River Project Studio Proposal

Brianne Nueslein

UVA School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Brianne Nueslein (MArch and MLA '24) has recently been recognized with a 2024 SARA NY Design Award of Excellence in the student category. The award acknowledges her design proposal titled "Reintegrating Urban & Natural Flows in Okhla, Delhi, India" for the Yamuna River Project Studio held in Fall 2023 and co-taught by Assistant Professor Maria Gonzalez Aranguren and Professor Pankaj Vir Gupta.

Each year, SARA NY (The Society of American Registered Architects New York Chapter) hosts a Design Awards program to celebrate and honor design achievements in architecture. Nueslein's proposal, one of four projects receiving a "design award of excellence," responds to the challenges of groundwater depletion, stormwater runoff, and lack of sewage infrastructure in Okhla, Delhi, in India.

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Yamuna River Project - rendering of people near plaza
Reintegrating Urban and Natural Flows. Yamuna River Project Studio. Fall 2023. © Brianne Nueslein


Through her proposal, Nueslein asks:

How can water and sanitation infrastructure become reintegrated with the urban and natural flows of the city, connecting people to each other and to the natural systems that sustain them.


Her project identifies an unutilized open space in Okhla and proposes to reimagine it as a new urban park network organized around stormwater management and sanitation infrastructure. 

Three typologies were identified, each with different scales and types of water treatment infrastructure. These typologies work together to serve the city's water and sanitation challenges while also creating 1.5 square kilometers of park space for the nearly 300,000 people of Okhla.

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Yamuna River Project Mappings of Land and Water Conditions
Analysis and Concept Diagrams of Gound Conditions, Land Ownership, Sewage Infrastructure, and Stormwater Runoff. © Brianne Nueslein
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Yamuna River Project - Proposed New Urban Park Network Plan Drawing
Proposal for a New Urban Park Network to Capture and Treat Sewage and Stormwater. © Brianne Nueslein
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Yamuna River Project - Renderings of Plant Growth and People Outside
Renderings of Stewardship and Engagement; Diagram of Native Bioremediation. © Brianne Nueslein
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Yamuna River Project - Axon drawing of proposed Stormwater Park Typology
Axonometric drawing and plan/section drawings of Proposed Stormwater Park Typology. © Brianne Nueslein

 


Congratulations to Brianne Nueslein on this well-deserved recognition!

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