Mohammad Amin Jamali Portfolio
Introduction My name is Mohammad Amin Jamali, and this is the portfolio of my academic and professional works through the past eight years. I began to study architecture as a bachelor student at Islamic Azad University – Tehran Markaz branch in 2012. In the middle of my studies, in 2016, I started working as a professional in one of my professors’ studio. Since then, I’ve been through several professional projects and experienced the atmosphere of both the design studios and construction sites. Some of those projects have been successful and reached the construction phase, and some others left in the design phase. At the beginning of 2019, I began to work on my own with one of my friends, and we founded the Common Architecture Group together. Since then, we have collaborated with different contractors and clients in Tehran and other cities over Iran. In this portfolio, I’ve put my most notable works through chronological order and tried to show the process of developing my sense of design. I hope that you will recognize my attitude towards my work alongside my passion for architecture.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Guide
Information 2
Individual
Table of contents 3 Guide 3 Curriculum vitae 4-5 Collaborative Academic Works Mehrabad Neighborhood Hubs 6-15 Navvab Residential Complex 16-21
Academic
Khomeini Airport Extension 22-25 A House Based on a Story 26-29 Professional Works
Professional
Donyay-e-Eghtesad 30-31 Astan Qods Razavi Museum Competition
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Proximity Island Competition 34-35
Competition
Designs A Mirror 36
Under Construction
A Gift for a Friend 37 A Desk for my Room 37 Product Design
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Mohammad Amin Jamali Date of birth 11.05.1990, Tehran, Iran
the significant parts of visualization ,and also gave
them some consults on modeling and
design process
Living ever since in Tehran, Iran
11.2019-03.2020
Email: maminjamali@gmail.com
Made the as built Revit model of
Donya-e-Eqtesad newspaper headquarter
Phone: +989126863327 Social Medias: www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-amin-jamali
building with LOD 400 for Architectural
discipline and LOD 300 for structural
discipline, Tehran, Iran
www.instagram.com/maminjamali/
11.2019 – On going
Consultant architect for Donya-e-Eqtesad
newspaper headquarters building project, Tehran, Iran
EDUCATION 09.2012 – 06.2018
08.2019-11.2019
Designed the landscape of a village’s
cemetery, Kolur, Iran, CA-group
BA in Architecture, Islamic Azad University (IAU),
Central Branch, Tehran, Iran
08.2019-10.2019
residential building, Tehran, Iran, CA-group
• Bachelor thesis approved with straight A
06.2019-08.2019
• Graduated with GPA: 16.67/20 09.2005 – 06.2008
Designed the Facade of a seven-story
Designed the facade of a six-story
residential building, Tehran, Iran, CA-group
High school Diploma of Mathematics in Physics,
12.2018-06.2019
Mofid High School, Tehran, Iran
Designed the facade of Donya-e-Eqtesad
newspaper headquarters building, Tehran,
• Graduated with GPA: 16.98/20
Iran, CA-group 12.2018
EXPERIENCES
Co-Founded Common Architecture Group
(CA-group) alongside with Ahmad Reza Ala’edini, Tehran, Iran
08.2020-11.2020
08.2018 – 09.2018
Interior design of Donya-e-Eqtesad headquarters
building, Tehran, Iran 06.2020-07.2020
Proximity Island Competition by uni.xyz, I have
worked with the design team on the project, done
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Katoum Architecture Studio, Tehran, Iran
• Astan Quds Razavi Museum Competition,
made the 3d model in Revit with LOD 350,
member of the design team, Mashhad, Iran
03.2018 – 04.2018
Renovating an 84 square meter residential
apartment, redesigning the interior and
Extra-Curricular Activities and Experiences
designing new furniture for the new residents, Tehran, Iran 11.2017 – 01.2018
Worked with Elham Ayoubian Studio
on a project for providing basic educational and
sanitary needs as a new starting point for Kurdish
communities that were suffered damage from the
09.2008 – 02.2011
Studying BA of Metallurgy which I left
midway because I found that it was not
something that I want to pursuit for my life
06.2005 – 09.2005
Working as an apprentice in a metalwork
workshop
November Iran-Iraq Earthquake, Qasr-e-Shirin, Iran
Certificates
07.2017 – 09.2017
IELTS
7.5 overall: listening skill 8.5, reading skill 8.5,
writing skill 6.0, speaking skill 7.0
Designing the exhibition booth of
Paya Telecommunication Company for 18th International Exhibition of Telecommunication,
GRE verbal reasoning 153,
Information Technology and Innovative CIT
quantitative reasoning 160,
Solution alongside Soroush Riazi, Tehran, Iran
analytical writing 3.0
SKILLS 3D/2D & BIM Modelling
Rendering Engines and Software
Languages
Autodesk Revit
Lumion
Adobe Photoshop
English
Rhino
Twinmotion
Adobe Illustrator
Farsi
Autodesk 3Ds Max
V-ray(3dsMax)
Adobe InDesign
French
VisualARQ
V-ray(Revit)
Adobe Acrobat DC
Italian
Autodesk AutoCAD
Keyshot
Adobe Lightroom
C# Python
Algorithmic Design
Graphic Visualization and Data Processing
Rapid Prototyping
Grasshopper (+plugins)
Microsoft Office Suite
Laser Cutter 3D printing
Dynamo
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Mehrabad Neighborhood Hubs Bachelor Thesis 2016-2017 Adviser: Kaveh Bazrafkan, Phd email: kav.bazrafkan@iauctb.ac.ir Location: Tehran
What could be done for a poor old crowded neighborhood which is left to itself? The project site is located at one of the most crowded alleys in the Mehrabad neighborhood in the southwest of Tehran. Once being the old city’s western commercial hub, the area is filled with big old parking lots, workshops, and food factories. All these left their mark on the neighborhood’s face. 6
The alley hosts two residential complexes and two schools in it; I lived there for almost 20 years. Above all the neighborhood problems, the project’s first notion came to my mind when I observed the problem of insufficient parking spots and traffic jams due to the lack of organization. I thought about ways this problem could be solved, but I began to widen my scope after a while. The neighborhood has been facing numerous issues, essential facilities needed
without a proper place to be built. Lack of organization for street vendors caused problems for pedestrians and car traffic. Inadequate quality green space and overcrowding deteriorated everyone’s life quality. The neighborhood was split in half by highway alongside several other issues. The first approach that comes to mind for solving these problems may be building needed facilities and organizing things most logically and efficiently. However, the neighborhood itself was continuing to function as a living organism and solving its problem in the most genius ways, so I choose to observe it first. I began my work by using writing as a means of observation; then used the produced transcript as a manual on how the neighborhood worked. There were a Multiplicity of functions everywhere, bus terminals by day that worked as make-shift market places for street vendors at night. Workshop garages worked as parking lots at night. People were using all the spaces with as many simultaneous functions as possible.
Parked Cars Density
Bussiness Density
High Medium No Parking Spot
High Medium Low Street Vendor
Public Transport
BRT BRT
BRT
BRT Line Bus Line Bus Station BRT Station
Worn Out Buildings
Pedestrian Traffic High Medium Low
Land Use Residential Industrial Commercial Green Space Leisure & Sports Religious Residential Complex
Roads & Paths Highway Primary Road Secondary Road Alley Junction Dead End Emamzadeh Abdolah
Population Density (p: person) 0.35 p/m2 0.3 p/m2 0.25 p/m2 0.2 p/m2 0.15 p/m2 0.1 p/m2 0.05 p/m2
Concept Diagram Context’s Data Visualized Diagrams 7
Neighborhoods Affected Area
Mehrabad Shamshiri
Conceptual Models
Connecting Rhizomatic Neighborhoods Movements New Vehicle Route
Multiplicity
Parking Spots
Kindergarten
Layering Juxtaposition
Gym
Superimposition
Green Space
Library
Storages
Empty Spaces
Vertical Access
Work Shops
Fusion
Anti-Normalization
Services W.C Shops
Concept, Function, Scale
I was interested in some concepts such as duplicities, normality, and antinormalization. Others like layering, juxtaposition, and fusion gave me inspirations to organize things like function and other related architectural matters. With these ideas and concepts on my mind, I began to make physical models, trying to integrate these concepts into a form or find some formal representatives for them.
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After many 3d massing practices in different forms, I reached some key features that I thought must be included in my design. Using structure as a predominant part of my design, referring to the neighborhood’s historical context. Integrating the living context of the area to the buildings by function. And finally, trying to keep the sites’ historical functions and just ad-just them to the new time’s needs.
STRUCTURE GREEN SPACES CULTURAL & RECREATIONAL SPACES
I began the design in BIM and tried to be as precise as I can, had many re-vision sessions with my instructor, and at last, the project came out as Two Buildings, One Purpose. The project consisted of many functions such as a kindergarten, a gym, a library, 7 workshops, 10 shops, 75 parking spots, 16 public restrooms, 26 storages for storing the merchandise of street vendors, and a bridge following a walkway connecting the two separated neighbor-hoods. Moreover, I tried to include high-quality green spaces on different levels in my design. Plus, some empty spaces for street vendors use them as selling spots to sell their merchandise. Finally, the project created a pass for vehicles between the two buildings worked as a new route to channel the car traffic of one of the neighborhood’s most crowded alleys.
W.C COMMERCIAL SPACES STORAGE INDUSTRIAL SPACES
Making two shallow and light buildings in that crowded neighborhood, I hoped that these buildings work as a sponge to the mess and bring some peace to their bustling surroundings, where it is needed the most.
VERTICAL ACCESS
Functions
PUBLIC SPACES AND PARKING SPOTS 9
Building 2 Ground Level Plan
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Building 1 Site Plan
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Building 2 Facade
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Building 1 Section
Library
Gym
Shop
Workshop
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Building 1 / Level 2
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Building 2 / Ground Level
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Navab Residential Complex Design Studio Five 02.2016 - 08.2016 Adviser: Behrooz Mansoori, Phd email: beh.mansouri@iauctb.ac.ir Location: Tehran
The site of design studio 5 was adjacent to Navab Highway, and by accident, it was also just at the end of the alley that I was born at. In the early 90s, the municipality of Tehran began a massive renovation project at the Navab district. The project involved buying houses of the people and destroying them to make the Navab highway and a vast social housing project as a facade for this south to Tehran’s north corridor, connecting IKI airport to the downtown. But 16
considering the usual social housing principles and poor management and decision-making, the project did not meet the hoped and planned ends. The Design Studio 5 goal was to build a housing complex in one of the few available sites in the area, considering the neighborhood’s context and needs. As the reason that I mentioned before, I was familiar with the setting to a reasonable extent. I knew that before the highway was built, how the natural flow
of people around the Beryanak neighborhood (the neighborhood hosting the site) and other adjacent ones had made the whole district alive. Therefore, the first aim that I set for myself was to rebuild these connections. To achieve such a goal, I saw the entire building complex just as one of the old neighborhoods, with continuous and uninterrupted access to everywhere. The second main issue to consider was the buildings’ forms in that area, which were all dull and made the atmosphere dismal. Thus, in this case, I tend to create more playful forms to make various different spaces with different qualities to experience. The old buildings of the Navab social housing project were built with minimum semi-private and social spaces and were dim with the least number of openings. Therefore, I went the opposite way and made efforts to provide as many open spaces for light and social activities as possible. Finally, my third goal was about the lack of green spaces in the area, so I designed green spaces wherever it could be done.
I was always interested in algorithmic design; therefore, I chose to use Grasshopper with some of its plugins like Galapagos and Octopus to reach my desired solution. These tools are designed to be used in evolutionary problem-solving algorithms. I created an evolutionary self-resolving algorithm in Grasshopper considering all the needed parameters, such as sunlight and shade, temperature, openings, needed housing units, city’s master plan restrictions, and structural rules. With the raw solution in hand, I began designing and oriented the design due to my principal aims and intentions.
Light and Shade Calculations
Forming the Openings
Initial Form, Site’s Full Occupancy Making the Habitual Uniits
Feeding Initial Information to Algorithm
Octopus Light and Shade Calculations Forming the Openings
Making the Final Form
Galapagos
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Concept Diagram
Connecting Adjacent Neighborhoods
Solving the New Challenges with the Old Patterns 18
Creating as much Green and Open Spaces as Possible
The result was a seven 8 level high residential complex plus the parking levels underground. Ground-level is designed both for commercial use and social gathering space. The first level is extended to the other side of the highway connecting the two separated neighborhoods, hides the highway beneath it, and works as public space. Housing units are organized in a mimicking manner representing old neighborhood organizations with continuous access from level 1 to level 8 with green spaces here and there all along the way.
East Facade
Section
West Facade 19
Level 7 - Apartments’ Plans
Level 1 - The Bridge
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Level 3
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Khomeini Airport Extention Design Studio Four 09.2015 - 02.2016 Adviser: Kaveh Bazrafkan, Phd email: kav.bazrafkan@iauctb.ac.ir Location: Tehran
Design Studio 4 was focused on the role of function in architecture and how to organize a complex body of functions on a mid to large scale project to its most efficient state. The objective was to design a new expansion to IK International Airport, located 55 km south of Tehran. My first notion for the project was from my personal experiences with Mehrabad International Airport, located inside the city. At the time, my home was 22
located very near to it. I, alongside my friends, used to hang out in Mehrabad airport terminals, drink some tea or coffee and spend some time there. Somehow the atmosphere was attractive to us. This gave me the notion to change my focus from just solving the project’s functional complexities and relations to make it more than just a functional building with a rigid purpose and goal. From this point, I wondered about what I know
personally from airports apart from using them as someplace for hanging out. I realized that most people see airports as a transitory space to pass through and reach their destinations. On the other hand, my attention was caught to the airport terminals’ role in several movies as a prominent subject in the story. Sometimes airport terminals act as the theme and space that hosts the events. Other times even as something alive can change the course of the story. Lovers reunite in airports or say farewell to each other. Adventures begin and end in airports of the movies. New people meet each other in airports, and new relation-ships start. Movies’ airports can bring up fear, happiness, or maybe loneliness. These representations of airport terminals in films have become parts of our collective image of airport terminals. Putting both of these sources of inspiration together, I have reached a paradoxical concept of airport terminals. A place for specific tasks to happen and a place for fun and socializing. A place for stories to take place. A place for Boredom. As Walter Benjamin said: “If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. His nesting places—the activities that are intimately associated with boredom—are already extinct in the cities and are declining in the country as well. With this the gift for listening is lost and the community of listeners disappears.” Maybe this transitory place can become a place antithetical to its nature and purpose. A place for the community of listeners. A place for the resurgence of storytellers and their stories.
Airport Terminal From Latin porta (“passage,
From French terminal, from Late
gate”), reinforced in Middle
Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a
English, from Old French porte.
boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a
The Machinist
Rain Man
bound, boundary, limit, end”); see term, terminus.
Up in the Air
Concept Diagram
The Terminal
Considering this concept, I have dedicated enormous amounts of my space to public activities and provided adequate space for travelers to pass their time and do and discover the unimaginable: a new story.
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VIP & CIP Lounge
Cafe & Bars
Departure
Resturants
Arrival
Shops
Departure Route
WC
Arrival Route
Security Gates Vertical Accesses
+ 9.00
Movement & Sectors
Spaces & Functions
+ 9.00
+ 4.50
+ 4.50 Baggage Claim Check In
+ 0.00
+ 0.00
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A House Based On a Story Design Studio One 09.2015 - 02.2016 adviser: Rambod Ilkhani email: location: Tehran
Design Studio One’s goal was designing a house or villa based on a concept developed by each student located on a real site that was also specific to each student’s choice. The adviser, Mr. Ilkhani, was very open-minded and gave the students substantial liberty to design and develop their projects. Thus, I grabbed this opportunity to combine two things that I loved from my teenage years to that time; Stories and Architecture. 26
I decided to base my concept on a story that I wrote that semester. The story’s inspiration came to me from my relatives, an old brother and sister who lived with each other for a long time inside an old house in the middle of Tehran. Their home was located in one of the most polluted and noisiest parts of the city, and the house itself was no longer compatible with their unique needs, which were due to the inevitable consequences of old age. I tried to
imagine a scene of their everyday life in my story and, based on the events during this scene, design a house to suits their needs best. First, I chose a quiet location north of Tehran with good air quality and surrounded by lots of trees from Tehran’s old gardens. Then, I based my design on four major principles. - Installing as many as possible openings to provide residents with ample light and sight to the surrounding neighborhood alongside giving them a strong sense of personal space and safety. - Not removing any of the plants inside the site and using them in the design, whether they were old dead trees or alive green ones, to save the garden’s preceding spirit to which the site was allocated.
View Concept Diagram
- Using the least number of barriers in the interior design for ease of movement of the residents and implementing accessibility measures and equipment according to their unique needs. In developing the design, I tried to give the most straightforward answers to the problems that came up to reach a minimalistic design.
Structure Exploded Diagram
Vegetation & Plants
The load-bearing walls of level 2 carry the weight of the roof.
The old dead trees in the site have been used as supporting columns for the level 2 slab. Light 27
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The Pilotis
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Donyay-e-Eghtesad Building 12.2018 - 03.2020 Client: Donyay-e Eghtesad Organization email: Location: Tehran Common Architecture Group
Facade Design/ Interior Design/ BIM Modeling/ Architecture Consultant I began my work at the Donya-e-Eghtesad Building project alongside my friend and colleague Reza Alaeddini on a contract to design the building facade in December 2018. After this first contract with the client, several other tasks related to the same project have been coming to this day. The project is a 16 floors building with more than 12,000 square meters 30
of gross area with several different contractors and firms operating on different sections and disciplines. From October 2019, I have been assigned as the consultant architect and coordinator between other contractors to the project’s main contractor, Mr. Ebrahim Tavakoli. I have been given several minor tasks from day to day for designing different parts of the project. In August 2020, after a pause in the project’s design and construction process due to the
Covid-19 crisis, I have been assigned to design the building’s interior architecture. The building belongs to the Donya-e-Eghtesad Organization, the most prominent news agency covering majorly economic subjects in Iran. The organization is consisted of several different sectors and has several different kinds of publications; a newspaper with the same name as the organization, a weekly magazine, and an international newspaper called Financial Tribune alongside several various sites and news outlets. The Donyay-e-Eghtesad intends to re-organize its structure and renovate and replace some of their older journalism methods, consequently relocating all their offices scattered in different parts of Tehran’s downtown in this new building. According to these new intentions, several unique needs have to be addressed in this new building, and innovative measures need to be taken. On the other hand, there were some serious concerns about the cost of different design approaches and the client’s preferences. Therefore, I tried to give the most efficient and pragmatic solutions to design problems with all these considerations in mind. Furthermore, I have been assigned to model the whole five disciplines of the project in BIM format with LOD 500 standard (except for the structure discipline done with LOD 300). In doing this task, I had the chance to work with engineers and designers from different fields and firms. In doing so, I had the priceless experience of working with and learning from these professionals from various disciplines other than architecture. Moreover, I have learned a lot about working within a team and other professional groups outside my unit. The project is still going on and is in its final stages of development.
The concept of the facade’s design has been based on the development and the delivery of the news that takes place in different parts of the building. I used the familiar shades of gray of newspaper alongside the Donyay-e-Eghtesad’s logo’s trademark color to create the concept.
Donyay-e-Eghtesad Publication Editorshiip Journalists Reporters/ Raw News
Openings
Demonstrating the integration of the process
The final design
Floor Plans
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Astan Qods Razavi Museum Competion Katoum Architecture Studio 09.2018 Principle architects: Touraj Mirbaha, Katayoun Mashhoodi email: info@katoum.com Location: Mashad, Iran
BIM Modeling/ Visualization/ Design Team The project was an entry for the exclusive competition of designing the Grand Museum of Astan Ghods Razavi. The designed museum took place in a 13,000 square meter site and ended with approximately 80,000 square meters of gross area. The design principles were based on the context’s relations of the museum site to its surroundings. The museum site was located near one of Shia 32
Muslims’ most holy places, the mausoleum of Imam Reza in Mashhad. The mausoleum hosts tens of millions of pilgrims each year. Moreover, the mausoleum foundation has a vast and precious collection of cultural and historical artifacts. Considering these two facts, the need for a new modern museum to host this growing number of visitors was realized. The museum is dedicated to exhibiting the foundation’s precious treasures and
familiarizing the visitors with the 8th Imam of the Shia religion’s characteristics and life. The design mostly takes place under the ground, between -21.80 meters level and ground level. The Ground level is dedicated to the landscape and public spaces. The museum is organized around the center core, a translucent cube extruded from the lowest level to +10 meters above ground level. This cube is dedicated to presenting the historical figure characteristics, also bringing the natural light to lower level spaces. The movement in the museum takes place on ramps extended to more than 2600 meters in length. All the other museums’ spaces and functions, like theaters, exhibition spaces, and storages, have been shaped around the central core and the ramps. My role in this project was to model the whole project in BIM with LOD 300 alongside designing some spaces with lesser importance and creating the necessary drawing and graphical documents.
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Proximity Island Competition Old Creatures 07.2020 Architects: Mahta Aminali, Ali Kharaghanian, Hamidreza Esmail-Nazari Visualization: Mohammad Amin Jamali Web: uni.xyz/competitions/proximity-island/entries
Visualization/ Modeling and Design Consultant The competition was held by the uni.xyz between November 2019 and December 2020, aiming towards recycling the life of an abandoned old oilrig in the middle of the Adriatic Sea. The competition’s objectives were to turn the oil rig into an artificial island with multiple functions cohabitating alongside each other, considering the essential structural qualities of an oil rig and utilizing them in the design 34
process. The proposed project was named Old Creatures after the notion that the oil rig, like a live creature, after a lifelong taking from nature now will give back some benefits to mother nature. Moreover, the design is shaped to enable the oil rig to act like a living creature according to different weather conditions, situations, and various scenarios. According to competition organizers, the essential
functions to include in the project were a museum and some accommodation for the island’s residents. However, at least three significant functions have been added to the design—a laboratory for scientific research and a small-scale amusement park alongside some dining facilities. Regarding the nature of the selected design approach, all the materials and elements used in the project are recycled. The containers that define and separate different spaces, the movable louvers of the facade, and even interior finishes and the furniture used in various areas are recycled materials and objects. I have been added to the team at the last minute to help them visualize the project. Also, give the team some advice on modeling the project more efficiently alongside some minor advice on the design. The project got an honorable mention in the competition. Facade Different Formation due to Weather and Time
Spaces Typology
The Playground 35
Everyday Objects I am enthusiastic about every form of design and art, from the most industrious and pragmatic ones to the most delicate fine art pieces. I can find elements of genius and aesthetics to appreciate. Furthermore, every now and then, when I see the chance and need to create an object that can benefit from the design,
I grab that chance and participate in the process. Sometimes it is just a simple ordinary object for everyday usage like a mirror; other times, it may be a fine piece of jewelry that takes months to design and built to perfection by numerous tries and fails. I like these creations of mine because all of them have some subtle essence of me in them. Here are some of these objects.
A Mirror Mirror glass and 5x50mm metal straps
Early Sketches
Technical Drawing 36
Actual Product
A Gift for A Friend Concrete and 1mm thick steel plates
Technical Drawings
Actual Product
A Desk for my Room Plywood sheets and 5x50mm steel straps
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Visualized Product
November, 2020