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C l i c k h e r e t o v i e w r e f e r e n c e l e t t e r s

II. COMPETITION ENTRIES

VI.

THE VILLAGE

Mix-use Project

Consultant: Emaar Engineering Co. W.L.L. Client: Horti Group & Ministry of Works and Municipality Affairs Location: Al Dair, Bahrain

The Village is a mix use project in The Kingdom of Bahrain, it was developed by Bin Hejres Real Estate Development Company. The project consists of a public park with a variety of activities such as jogging and cycling tracks, football fields, food trucks, kiosks, outdoor gym and children playground, the other half of the project is a strip mall with more than 50 retail shops.

Scope of work:

1. Design and detailing.

2. Procurement.

3. Tendering.

4. Site coordination.

5. High level meetings with stakeholders.

6. Regular site visits.

7. Marketing.

8. Assisting the leasing efforts/ supporting tenant subcontractors.

9. Landscaping.

The project consists of 3 phases:

Phase 1 comprises of the public garden that contains football fields, kiosks, food containers, kids play equipment, outdoor gym equipment, jogging track and drive through food trucks/kiosks.

Phase 2 is the commercial zone with shops and the main parking.

Phase 3 is a zone dedicated to services. At the time of production of this portfolio, it contained a high class car wash.

Revenue range in phase 3 options 6-12k BHD/Month ~+55k BHD/Month

~+39k BHD/Month

BHD/Month ~+39k BHD/Month ~+50k BHD/Month ~+41k BHD/Month ~+41k BHD/Month

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Phase 3 exploration starts on site

More phase 3 Concept exploration Work slows on site

2020 2021

Final concept approved Work near completion 2022

One of the most interesting parts in this project that are very thought provoking is the amount of changes that it went through. The changes span the entire life of the project and it is interesting to measure in detail how the client was chasing the most profitable design option, however, because changes kept happening in very late stages of the project, it caused significant loses of time and money in the way of variations.

The time line above showcases the different design alterations of the project. Even if the final design improves the revenue in numbers, the cost and time loses negate all this effort. It is a very enriching experience to witness this first-hand.

One of the main challenges in this project was the pavement pattern. The client wanted the cheapest materials possible, however he wanted something unique. The client purchased a very large quantity of leftover stock of interlocking pavers , and they were random bundles of random colours, shapes and sizes. My task was to sort through this massive quantity and decide what goes where in the project.

I measured all quantities of different paved areas in the project and segregated the areas into areas of similar theme. Then I measured the quantities available and created different designs with a varaiety of colours. The procedure was long, tedious and required meticulous attention to details. The final result is shown in the images on this page. I worked with the interlock labour on site to create the samples and the results were a mirror image of the 3d renders I created.

A unique experience that was interesting and extremely fun was designing and executing this amazing front signage. It became the face of the project and a land mark.

The experience had me spearhead the design, work hand in hand with structural designers to ensure the safety of the structure, lead the procurement and work hand in hand with the executing sub-contractor to bring the final product to life.

DIYAR AL MUHARRAQ ETRANCE COMPETITION

(PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE OR MONUMENT DESIGN) THE DHOW (OPTION 1)

From the home of pealing path emerges “The Dhow” welcoming all who cross the heritage of Muharraq into the innovation of Diyar Al Muharraq, a city that embraces the beauty of the past as it leads the charge into the future. “The Dhow” takes inspiration from the traditional pealing ships, it abstracts the elements into a landmark that acts as a welcoming open gate.

The bridge consists of two cores that are surrounded by wooden pillars that symbolize wave breakers that protect them and two massive masts that hold the cables that are suspending the bridge in the air. The main bridge walkway consists of flowing lines that shape the body of a vessel and they widen at one end portion to become an observation deck with a glass floor and views into the sea. Moreover, the cables and structure of the bridge allow a variety of shading devices to be installed easily when needed.

A collision of the past and future. Not a violent collision, however, a graceful clash of ideologies where the element do not crash into each other, but dance together in harmony until they fall in their place.

THE TEMPORAL BRIDGE (OPTION 2)

The bridge combines elements of the traditional Bahraini architecture with a contemporary steel and polycarbonate structure that makes the bridge bright, airy and cool on the inside and allows the bridge to glow out into the night marking a beautifully luminous gate as the entry point into Diyar Al Muharraq.

The bridge is a composite truss structure. The design features extruded boxes that are suspended in the air designed with inspirations of the traditional Bahraini style. Two cores are present resembling the traditional wind catcher with an elevator and stair case for each side.

The bridge is 125 meters in length with a clear height under the bridge of 5.5 meters. The inner walkway is 3 meters wide. The maximum height of the wind tower is 20 meters. The main bridge walkway is 3.5 meters in height.

MULTI-FAITH CENTRE

Religious Project Competition | University of Bahrain

Location: Tanaf, Senegal

Enter the village of Tanaf in Senegal, a disadvantaged area full of hopeful people. The site is located in the heart of the village overlooking its main axis. This spiritual project is set to be the meeting point for all the Senegalese people regardless of ethnicity or faith.

The conceptual approach looks at the elements that are sacred and significant to the locals. These el ements include the indoor praying spaces, the nature-oriented rituals of the Animists (local religion) and the sacred Baobab tree. We juxtaposed them in adjacency, subtly forcing the paths of the users to intersect. This stems out our belief that this where bonds between people are created. Then we turned these spaces to their most simple and humble forms. Physically articulated their presence and augmented the similarities that the locals share and disregarded the differences. With the insertion of symbols that are neutral yet mutually spiritual for all.

Standing in the place of a minaret or a church tower is a physical and functional embodiment of the baobab tree. The consideration of light as a material in these spaces helped us create spatial poetry. This effect is accentuated by the presence of the element of purity by the collection of rainwater. The transparent process safely integrates rainwater into spaces and offers different temporal experiences in different times of the year. Now the Scene is set for the earthly and the divine to communicate.

The second phase of this design project involved taking the project’s final form and modifying the external skin and elements into a more of a contemporary style with new materials.

The plan stayed the same. The dome was replaced with a number of lenses (skylights). These skylights give the building a temporal effect on its surroundings, casting an interesting shadow inside during the day and glowing like a beacon at night.

The Tower was also replaced with an intricate bamboo rain catcher.

Individual work phase

SOCIAL HOUSING

Residential Project

Academic | University of Bahrain

Location: Isa Town, Bahrain

The premise and goal of this design studio was to propose a housing development that covers high density vertical living, the sense of community, context awareness, affordability and above all a solution that would attract young bahraini families to apartment living.

The existing site is an old housing project with terrible living conditions. The solution proposed here started from the macro scale to understand the context, then progressively moved to the scale of the individual unit. From the bigger scale the sense of the horizontal individual communities (houses sharing an open space) is flipped to be a set of vertical small communities that are linked visually and physically to each other in the bigger picture.

The individual units were designed with stacking and interlocking as the overall intent of the form and how they interact with one another.

Maximizing the surface area exposed to sunlight

Dividing the mass into three zones creating public areas with clear layering of privacy

Paying attention to the sur rounding urban context and establishing connections

Slicing voids in the Building to increase Permeability

WAQIF CORNER

Commercial Project Consultant: Emaar Engineering Co. W.L.L. Client: Lazer Group W.L.L Location: Hamad Town, Bahrain

Waqif Corner consisted of a car wash zone and a drive through zone. The zoning was organized in a way that ensures full exposure of the drive through to the main road and keep a streamlined flow of vehicles in and out of the car wash. The two zones complement each other as they both rely on people driving in.

Scope of work: 1. Design and detailing. 2. Procurement. 3. Tendering. 4. Site coordination. 5. High level meetings with stakeholders. 6. Regular site visits. 7. Landscaping. 8. Marketing. 9. Assisting the leasing efforts.

~+10k BHD/Month

~+8k BHD/Month

~+17k BHD/Month

~+9k BHD/Month

~+15k BHD/Month

~+18k BHD/Month

~+8k BHD/Month

Petrol station concept introduced First Project Tender

Drive through concept introduced Second Tender Site work begins

2020 2021

Car wash & drive through Concept chosen Drive through units tendered 2022

Since it had the same client as The Village, the same behaviour is present again. The project went through many changes and design alterations. The concepts span from pure commercial, to pure services, to petrol stations to drive through to a mix of all.

And of course this process took years and is still happening to this day.

It is interesting to see the significant disparities between percentage of land used and the expected revenue. This highlighted an interesting point of only comparing the results to predecessors and using that as a benchmark instead of going through the effort of rigorous research and creating a new design.

The scope of works at the site really provided a unique outlook into the difficulty of coordination between the consultant, contractor, site team and subcontractors. This is amplified by the client’s requirement of rejuvenating and integrating the existing steel structure into the proposed car wash design.

Moreover, one of the client’s requirements was to plant the trees before the construction even began in the second phase of the project that contained the drive through outlets. This presented a challenge in itself as the client did not want surveyors to be used and we had to rely on manual measurements and the equipment available with the already under-equipped main contractor. This forced me to be present at the site and manually mark the trees with the contractor.

INSTITUTE OF PRACTICAL SKILLS

Graduation Project | Educational Building

Academic | University of Bahrain

Location: Um Al Hassam, Bahrain

The Institute is a complementary educational facility that covers the weaknesses of public education. It provides the grounds for a holistic learning experience with project-based learning through which multiple courses are taught. Courses vary from robotics, engineering principles and renewable energy, coding and video games, as well as design and 3d printing applications. Along this is also strengthening lessons in computer literacy and English.

The core intent is to allow student from ages 14-19 to use theoretical knowledge taught in schools and their own interests to tackle real life problems from their community and around the world with practical oriented projects.

Moreover, the institute would harbor occasional external speakers to provide new skills, lectures and showcase new technologies all while sustaining public interest.

OPPORTUNITY FOR URBAN LINKAGE UTILIZATION OF A PUBLICLY POROUS BUILDING TYPE

MODIFYING THE TYPE TO BETTER FIT THE CONTEXT AND CREATING A PASSAGE

PIERCING THE BUILDING WITH VOIDS

ADDING TERRACES AT THE POINTS OF INTERSECTION

AN IMAGE OF A MEETING POINT BETWEEN TWO PARALLEL WORLDS

Suspended World:

A highlight of this project is the structure that features a suspended steel box structure that is surrounded by ETFE bubbles that admit light during the day and glows outwards during the night.

The solutions and details although basic and full of mistakes, really helped in exploring a new concept at the time.