ARCHITECTURAL&STRUCTURAL PORTFOLIO
Ahmed Othman
Selected Academic and Professional work
Ahmed Othman
Structural
Engineer and Architect
master of architecture and cultural heritage
Hochschule Anhalt
Recently an architect and a structural engineer with more than 14 years of experience ranging from structural design roles to construction technology roles on mega projects and companies all over the world. Currently I am working on my masters degree in Architecture and Cultural Heritage in Hochschule Anhalt to fullfill my passion in design and architecture. Vernacular architecture has been always an inspiration to me and I wish to create and design buildings utilizing my engineering knowledge in order to create passive architecture. I believe that the future of architecture and construction industry lies on the shoulder of automization and vernacular architecture that uses natural materials on its intials forms.
CAD & 3D Moddeling
AutoCAD, SketchUp, Rhino 3D & Grasshopper
Visualization Basic Photoshop, Indesign
Structural Analysis Sap 2000 , Staad Pro & Other FEM softwares
Arabic Fluent (mother tounge)
English Fluent
Russian Intermediate
German B2
E-mail ahoth2022@gmail.com
Mobile 01785547549
Address Dessau-Rosslau, Germany
Content
• Nubian Vault Revitilization (Academic)
• People’s House of Democray in Frankfurt (Academic)
• Japanese Modern Pagoda Model( 3D model + Physical Model)
• Urban Agricultural Hub in Berlin (Academic)
• Virtual Reconstruction of Gothic Church (Academic & Professional)
• Suspended Steel Bridge in Qatar (Professional)
• Steel Roof Structure in Qatar (Professional)
• Parametric Design Forms (Academic)
Nubian Vault Revitlization By
Hassan Fathy
Scope
: Building Technique Analysis and Visualization
In his efforts to use clay and straw bricks in the early 20th century going againt the modern movement, Fathy has discovered the technique of building vaults without the need for forms in ordet to shape it and use it to lay the adobe bricks. the techniques was really smart and cost effective as it eleminates the use of wooden forms and it gurantees the structural stability of the wet clay-straw structure. it was used by local builders in the villages of Nuba in the southern part of Egypt. fathy noticed that the same technique has been used in many of the ancient egyptian vaults and described the technique in his book the Architecture of The Poor. this study and visualization illustrate the building technique step by step and the different building units.
Isometric
Side View Front View
Masons working on Gourna Project building Nubian Vaults, Fathy 1973 Granaries of the Ramesseum in Old Gourna, nineteenth dynasty, Fathy 1973
Building Technique Steps
Building Units ( Adobe Bricks)
Brick 30*20*15 cm for the vertical load bearing walls
Brick 25*15*5 cm for the structure of the vault
Placing second course of bricks starting with half brick
Building the vertical load bearing walls
Third course of bricks is placed, claysand mortar is used between corses and bricks(not illustrated for clarity )
Outlining the vault parabola on the end wall with mud plaster
Forth and fifth courses of bricks are placed following the inclination of the parabola and previous courses
Placing courses continue simultaneously from both side until constructing the first complete parabola
Placing first brick againt the wall with inclination
Placing courses continue until finishing the whole vault construction
People’s House of Democray
The People of Frankfurt are of many different backgrounds and etchnicities as the city is considered to be the financial hub of Germany and one of the financial hubs of Europe. The city has been always an important roleplayer and a cradle for the German Democracy. There at St. Paul’s Church the national assembly met for the first time and it was named The PaulsKircheparlamnt.However nowadays an urge for a people’s house of democracy to motivate the citizen of Frankfurt to be an active reole players on the democracy process is needed and though the project is proposing an idea of how this could be achieved.
Concept
Frankfurt is divided to 16 zones represented by 16 local councils (Orts-beiräten) which are responsible for citizens contripution to decision making process. The House of Democracy will be a place to gether these 16 localcouncils under one roof on a very busy museum embankment zone of Frankfurt. ThePublic accessible House of democray will be a destination for citizens of Frankfurt to practice democracy and meet on weekly basis wit these 16 local councils represntitves.The building shape must be representive to stand out as a landmark by the river thus choosing and arch form will serve this function also it will blend smoothly into the landscape Utilizing the elevation difference in topography will allow to host a building that won’t block the river view in contrary it will merge and blend to the existing landscape.The roof has a public access landscape on both sides will be utilized through interactive and playful formations. in the center of the building the main conference hall overlooking the river
Democracy Conference Hall overlooking the river
River Walk and Inner Court
Floor Plan
Floor Plan
Ground
First
Side steps for river observation
Japanese Modern Pagoda Model
Normally a Japanese Pagodas consist of 5 stories and made out of wood using the traditional Japanese carpentry and joinery techniques which allowed these pagodas to resist the harshest seismic loads.
In my model here I wanted to investigate on how Japanese carpentry and joinery skills are being used in the buildings of traditional and even modern structures. I was inspired by one Japanese carpentry school experiment to construct a modern Japanese pagoda using the Japanese carpentry skills.
3D model of simplified 3 levels pagoda using Rhino3D I have modelled this 3 levels simplified pagoda on 3D program Rhino trying to figure out most of the connections The target was to build this Model without using any glue or nails imitating and investigating the real Japaese wood workinvg
Connection Details
3D Model
Top View
Horizontal Beams Order
Corner Joint
Japanese Carpentry School Real Model Photos
Selfmade 3 stories wooden model photos
Urban Agricultural Hub
COEXISTANCE between ARCHITECTURE and AGRICULTURE .An agricultural and Sustainable centre endeavours to be a catalyst to reactivate the community activities. It offers a series of spaces, serving as an educational hub for promotion of urban agriculture, natural materials usage and sustainable living style. The existing site of an abandond old ice factory is located in the urban centre of Berlin with many high density housing, business and commercial blocks, some hippies communities are occupying the site creating some farms and vegetables cultivation along the river side.Creating an urban agriculture community that would serve as a green catalyst for this area could play a major role on shifting resident habits and educate citizens through workshops and labs.
Front View
Longitudinal Section
Inner Court
River View Wooden Bar
Second Floor Plan
Virtual Reconstruction of Gothic Church/ wooden roof
Suspended Steel
Pedestrian Bridge
Scope: FEM analysis, structural members optimization, connection design and drawings
Steel Structure for Glass Roof
Scope: FEM analysis, structural members optimization, connection design and drawings
Parametric Design Forms
Rhino 3D + Grasshopper
The beauty of parametric models and there potential for forms optimization is endless, I want to show here a very basic form findings that I have been working on recently
Parametric Roof
Parametric tower
Parametric Pavilion
