Portfolio 2024

PORTFOLIO ARCHITECTURE

Ahmed Othman

Selected Academic Work 2022/2023

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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.

Skills

CAD & 3D Moddeling

AutoCAD, SketchUp, Rhino 3D & Grasshopper

Visualization Photoshop, Indesign, Illustartor

Structural Analysis Sap 2000 , Staad Pro

Languages

Arabic Fluent (mother tounge)

English Fluent

Russian Intermediate

German Basic B1

E-mail

archoth2022@gmail.com ahoth2023@gmail.com

Mobile 01785547549

Address Dessau-Rosslau, Germany

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1. Urban Agricultural Hub

COEXISTANCE between ARCHITECTURE and AGRICULTURE

An Urban 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.

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Cross sectional elevation River Side Club and Beer Garden

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2. 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. Many international Banks and Firms are operating on the ground that are attracting more and more forigners to the city. 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 with these 16 local councils represntitves

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Site Selection

on the museum embankmet by the river walk using the elevation differrence of the topography to create a building huging the river and on the same time allowing for public access.

Concept Development

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 is accessable with roman steps on both sides creating public space over the building also the landscape on both sides will be utilized through interactive and playful formations.

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

On the center core of the building the main conference hall overlooking the river.v

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Isometric View

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Floor Plan Front Elevation View

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Interior and River Views

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Main Conference Hall Main Entrance

Side steps for river observation

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Top Landscape

3. 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.

The link below shows the video of this experiment. https://youtu.be/Na3wtwcsJYs

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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 Japanese wood working

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Column Column

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Connection Details

Final Model

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3. Virtual Reconstruction of Gothic Church/ wooden roof

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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