Portfolio Architecture + Design
2015
Precautionary principle: exercising caution preserve natural systems and environment and species
Though we are all continuously connected to a vast hidden network of maps, places and people, we lack the basic physical human connection; a fundamental relevancy that can be found in our simple everyday social interactions. It is important to create architecture that is aware of the necessary physical network of people, places, and their needs.
M. Ali Navidbakhsh
2010-2015 Portfolio
M.Arch
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Nothing In-Between In Search of The Miraculous
B.Arch
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Rec.ol.lec.tion 245 Dalhaus Community Reveal Re-imagining Urban Spectacle Spatial and temporal Spaces Object of Desire Details
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Arch Tech 4 Build Project
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Hub Ottawa Competitions Life on Mars
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M.Arch
2014 - 2016
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STUDIO 1 - 1ST Year M.Arch Nothing In-Between Gateway Studio, Building Civic Knowledge September 2014 The Gateway Studio (ARCS 5105) is a comprehensive building project. It is a unique studio in the M.Arch curriculum. Complementary to the studio is its integration with Advanced Building Systems (ABS). The studio will design a new central library for Ottawa.
INITIAL RIBBON AS A VISUAL TOOL TO CONNECT SPACES
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There are two streets in Ottawa’s financial district, Laurier Avenue and Slater Street. The building spans from one to the other, from the other to one. Actually, who knows where the other and the one meet. The city has been planned in such a way that the pace where the one and the other meet is ambiguous, to the point that it begins to be nothing! This project is an exploration of the place where the one and the other may meet. Adolf Loos’ Raum plan is a useful tool for this exploration. The Raum plan creatively questions the limits of every room. When you are confronted with one, the other, and the ambiguous space where they meet, you may easily get caught in a conversation. They may either say something interesting, or they may say nothing! The library is a mistaken mirror image (the two Janus faces on Laurier and Slater)….the mirror being the nothing (in the nothing)!!
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“Nothing” primarily aims to bring a new
building?
dynamism to its site, and to interrupt the
Fragments of narratives are simultaneously
formal order of the city.
presented to the visitor as they enter,
The initial study started with the idea of the
ascend, and descend through the building.
“unknown”, or the “in-between.” It set out to
All events and fragments are connected
discover the “undefined” domain between
visually, or with a direct physical connection
open and closed, light and dark, and real
to the unknown space.
and unreal.
“Nothing” is the point of view. The observer
The concept developed as a continuous
can be the vanishing point in a reverse
impulse throughout the design, and it
perspective. The visual connection of space
has manifested as a series of layers/ skins
and fragmented stories was inspired by the
/ mediums, which lead to a completely
adjacency program created in response to
indefinable space. The unknown can be
the Gateway Studio program requirements.
understood as a metaphor for the city
The fragmented narratives are held together
life. The ambiguity of city and the others,
by a visual connection with the unknown
also known as the “public,” becomes the
central space. In order to express the
question.
potential of the unknown, a temporary
What is public and what is private?
experimental farm is proposed.
How can a public institution / library
As if the building is not there……..
address current programmatic principles of a public library with respect to the formal or informal fabric of Ottawa’s orthodox grid? The Gateway Studio program requirements have been re-purposed to challenge the ways in which occupants and visitors occupy space, particularly through the illusion of order. As a result, they can reinvent themselves and the ways in which they perceive space. The multi-functional polyvalent wall on Slater St attempts to alter the experience of waiting for the bus. The wall do not act as clear separations between the inside and outside. Instead, they serve as temporary boundaries of the in-between, or the buffer between city and the library’s interior. What is going to happen as one enters the EXTERIOR VIEW
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CONCEPT MODEL
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MAIN LOBBY
NOTHING SPACE
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MAIN COLLECTION
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STUDIO 2 - 1ST Year M.Arch DSA - Lisboa In Search of The Miraculous January 2015 ARCS 5106 Graduate Studio 2 aims at the design of a culturally significant built work set within a prominent urban site or natural landscape. The project addresses critical architectural questions – the cultural and social significance of space-making; the uses of technology; the relevance of existing site conditions or the creation of new ones; and the practical and philosophical discourses on the contemporary built environment – to shape an thoughtful and well-designed resolution of program and tectonic expression.
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ERMIDA DA MEMÓRIA
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The project is located in Cabo Espichel, less than an hour away from Lisbon. Cabo Espichel stands on a high cliff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, with a breathtaking view. It is a place of archaeological remains, religious cults and, until today, a pilgrimage destination. While barren and austere, it comprises an assorted ensemble of constructions including a chapel, a church, a dormitory, a reservoir, and a lighthouse. A project for such a site should be precise and “acupunctural,� dealing sensibly with heritage and landscape. The proposal respond to a functional brief comprising a bus stop, a residence for artists, an art school and a museum dedicated to the oeuvre of Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader (19421975).
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INTO THE POND AND INTO VIEW FROM RESIDENCE THE GALLERY SPACE
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OVER ALL SCOPE OF THE PROJECT LOOKING WEST TOWARDS THE CHURCH
VIEW FROM THE EXISTING RUINS INTO THE REFLECTIVE POND
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B.Arch
2010 - 2014
STUDIO 7 - 4TH Year REC.OL.LEC.TION Carnival Grotesque Exercises
January 2014
Studio 7 is an exploration of architecture as critique. As the last studio of the Undergraduate program and a threshold to the graduate program, it seeks to bring together the complexity of an urbanscale design project with the theoretical underpinnings of critical reflection. This Studio will take a very particular approach to critique exploring the overarching theme of carnival. Carnival as less the periodic festivity or parade than the temporary disregard for social hierarchies, the inversion of structures, parody with vocation, and a reminder that no authority knows no contradiction.
PHYSICAL MODEL INITIAL SKETCH
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FINAL PROJECT Re-Collection NAC The National Art Center Collective Memory Archive Our memories of the city are only fragments of real concrete places, they are rather recorded places rendered immaterial by our thought and emotions, virtual images recollecting an original which can never again concretely exist. The NAC Collective Memory Archive explores this idea by suggesting a “depository of experiences” as an addition to the National Arts Centre. The addition, which also serves as a grand new entrance to the center, collects and stores unaltered memories of events from visitors which others can access through a series of virtual –reality immersive environments. These events reconstruct fragmented experiences (Some for public, some for private use). Experiences are collected from visitors to the NAC in specially designed extraction rooms. Digitally stored in underground servers, each memory and experience adds to the growing collective public memory of the NAC. The project forms part of a growing network of collective memory archives spread across the city and the country. People use these new spaces to actively participate in and are reminded of their shared memory, common joys and fears, nostalgia, and the various values that make up their heterogeneous identity and culture.
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The drawing is a graphic laboratory for speculations on spacial experience and recollection of memories. Similar to project 2 it is about being in and out at the same time . The spacial narrative as a journey through an imaginary NAC which exist in a temporarily state of recollection. There is always missing pieces of experiences or irrelevant fragments of memories. Perhaps this is a temporarily autonomous laboratory where it is possible to experience in side and outside at the same time, where it is possible to put together clear memories or recordings which indefinable experiences.
FINAL MODEL
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Working with fragments This Project is concentrated on carnivalising the National Arts Centre. One aspect of the project was to define, through our exploratory design work and the Carnival as the theme, what a national arts center can mean (not necessarily the NAC). Art’s relation to carnival ambivalence (not necessarily the NAC). Art’s relation to carnival ambivalence a particularly significant exercise.
FINAL MODEL
FINAL MODEL
FINAL DISPLAY
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ADVANCE SERVER ROOM AND MEMORY HALL
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COLLECTIVE IMMERSIVE STUDIO AND MEMORY EXTRACTION LABS
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STUDIO 6 - 4TH Year 245 DALHAUS Urbanity, Dwelling and Community December 2013 Studio 6 explored the development of a multi unit residential complex on an urban infill site in Ottawa. It engaged the issues of design in a detailed and inclusive manner.
Land Use / Access Map Commercial Civic Hotel
Residential Retail
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Main Road
Transit
Local Road
Bike Station
ACCESS GALLERIES
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245 Dalhaus responds to the need for increased density on Dalhousie street. The new elevated residential apartments over the retail leaves the ground level for commercial use and allows the building to have a set-back for a more generous sidewalk. A friendly entrance off of Dalhousie gives presence to the residence and provides a comfortable way to the new raised residential ground plane. This new ground plane is extended into a garden where it forms a green buffer between the building and the neighboring block towards the east. Access galleries with light wells that provides light, fresh air and moderate the temperature of galleries. The galleries are enveloped by a glass-block structure allowing the galleries to act as an extension to the living spaces which bring pleasant spatial experiences to the housing complex.
Teamwork with Stephanie Murphy, Dwelling layouts, 2013 ...all night long that’s all he has, drawing plans and all its jazz...
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WEST VIEW
LOBBY
EXTENDED GARDEN
SOUTHWEST CORNER
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LEVEL 7
ROOF TOP PATIO
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ACCESS GALLERIES
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ELEVATED GARDEN
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PARKING
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Atrium Glass Block Detail
Steel Beam and Column to Concrete Wall Connection
Garden Door and Slab Detail
South Foundation and Slab Detail ACCESS GALLERY AND COURT DETAIL
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STUDIO 5 - 3RD Year Re-imagining Urban Spectacle Just Add Urban January 2013 As an exercise for design studio 5 this group project required teams of 2 to identify two areas within Ottawa, one of which they would characterize as an extremely good urban space and the other of which lacks characters from an urban perspective.
wtf!?
there is nothing attractive inside the park
there is no people are there is no enviroment pause afraid to be observed of the dark
people don't like to sit with their back unprotected
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no sports there is not enough views throught people walking the park around the park
Paliament Hil illl
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Urban Spectacle aims to enhance the Park on Elgin St. on the east of The Museum of Nature. The lack of aesthetic and dullness of the landscape deprives people from using the park; hence, making the park unusable. To induce the ritual of walking, the existing pathway will be transformed into a more enjoyable trail by providing elegant lighting and continuous seating that can accommodate all. The outdoor kite-like veil that stretches from the north to the south of the park will cover the entire pathway and will bring a memorable walking experience for the public.
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Teamwork with Alex MartĂnez De Velasco drawing, 2013 ...urban participation individual intoxication, with subtle subluxation a fairly cohesive graphic illustration...
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seating that can accommodate all
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designated bicycle path
celebrated Museum’s landmark
framing the surrounding environmnet
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emb embraceing the nature
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STUDIO 5 - 3RD Year COMMUNITY REVEAL Building in the City March 2013 Studio 5 focused on architecture as a contributor in a larger urban setting. “Building in the city” takes priority over the iconic, standalone work of architecture. This project examines urban ideas and theories. Design in this studio emphasizes a better sense of public responsibility and theoretical positioning within a greater strategy of city involvement.
PROPOSED RENDERED SITE PLAN
Reveal aims to enhance the public experience. The design bring a new excitement to the curling club facilities by providing more spaces for the members and staff. In addition Reveal establishes an identity for the curling club and would generate potential business opportunities. The building houses the New 6 sheet curling club, retail and commercial office spaces under one roof. All functions are integrated yet separated by a continuous dynamic path that reveals access and develops a relationship between public, private and nature. Design strategies allow the building to reveal the Lion’s park and all three programs to stand out. This new exciting architecture will generate revenue, reveal identity and enhance public access with respect to the existing community design development plans.
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Teamwork with Shaghayegh Poursalimi, The new community, 2013 ...business ideal curling’s appeal, this structural steel makes community reveal...
STUDY MODEL
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STUDIO 1 - 1ST Year Spatial and Temporal Experience of Architecture The Sense of Wonder April 2011 Studio 1 of the Bachelor of Architecture studies Program. As such, its seeks to introduce fundamental principals of governing the natural and man made environment. Exploring the embodiment within us and the things we choose to make, by focusing on several artists and art moments. The projects will develop through an investigative process of discovery by researching and exploring an assigned artist.
FINAL HYBRID DRAWING
This project is an extensive investigation of Vincent Floderer’s work (Crimp). Following the geometric models and spaces, The Pavilion introduced a new way of looking at Origami folds. Folds add structure and make spaces. By means of a strange simplicity these folds reveal new forms and spaces that contain hidden order and obvious disorder.
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FINAL PAVILION MODEL
OBSERVATION OF POSSIBLE ARCHITECTURAL ENVIRONMENT
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STUDIO 4 - 3RD Year Object of Desire Hybrid Design October 2012 This Studio was a duplication of traditional architect’s atelier. Organized to rethink the design of third year studio space at The Azrieli School of Architecture. Full scale test configurations for individual territorial spaces, and collaborative communal spaces where established to find a creative solution to meet the needs of the studio design process.
Teamwork with Daniel Chapotchkine, Matthew Mckenna and Arron Griffioen Design and Fabrication, 2012 ...in studio he explored craft, detail design and drawing board the architecture ego that he adored...
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Hybrid studio design intends to promote the idea of an all-in-one workstations that celebrates materials and methods of fabrication. This handcrafted workstation strikes to appreciate the existing studio environment and create a careful balance between research and design space. An all-in-one workstation will provide all the student’s needs and works as an organizational element in the studio. It can be combined with other existing tables and respond to the shifting needs in the studio environment.
Table top Functions
Built Process
Mechanical Details
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DETAIL - 4TH Year Architectural Detail Building Technology 4 December 2013 As part of the requirements for The Architecture Technology course, this project required a team of 4 to detail construction methods, Materials and environmental barriers proposed for use in the three Building Envelope Components of Foundation, Floor and Wall.
Teamwork with Neil Yan, Abbi Kusch and Cole Boersma, Wall Detail, 2013 ...he is a proponent of fiction architectural detail, such addiction this is blue-skin’s jurisdiction...
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Build Project Resonant Currents Ceiling Installation
August 2013
This project was a design build installation at HUB Ottawa located on 71 Bank St. Hub Ottawa is one of several non-profit cooperative organizations located in major cities throughout the world. This global network of organizations is focused on community engagement initiatives and relationships that address social and environmental challenges. The project is inspired by the parallels between the underlying themes of the research and those of the global and local HUB initiative. The project was developed along with the Structural Morphology Workshop which was inspired by global commonalities, connections, and their expressions through human cultural artifacts. Envisioned as an integrative network and support structure, the installation would be in resonance would the open concept and inclusiveness of its environment. As a woven structure would bands of birch plywood as the generative cellular unit, the interwoven network reflects its material capabilities and properties while simultaneously responding and adapting to its setting. The modulating patterns, with their configurations and inter connected parts are envisioned as metaphors for the HUB’s collective social initiatives and their equivalent parallels within the multicultural diversity of the Canadian setting.
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CENTER OF THE WOVEN STRUCTURE
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INSTALLATION PROCESS
Teamwork with Crossing Workshop Group and Manuel Baez, Hub Ottawa, 2013 ...non-profit engagement, a resonant currents excellent, twisting turning arrangement, collective Architectural achievement...
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BEFORE THE INSTALLATION
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COMPETITION Life on Mars Transmutation Inter-university Charrett February 2013 The 2013 Charrette, entitled Transmutation, invited young designers to question the future of the city in the age of information technologies. Transmutation encourages the production of new modes of representation regarding Montreal and its ability to adapt, transform and mutate according to economical transactions, social distributions, and political actions.
Earth no longer sustains human life. Overcrowding and congestion plagues cities. Humankind must become a multi-planetary species. Citizens of Montreal have volunteered by the thousands to brave a new colony on Mars. It will be prepared ahead of time by robots and drones. The •irst mass-launch occurs in the spring of 2063. History will call it “The Great Migration”.Humanity looks in awe and marvels at the achievement. The Earth’s population begins to enjoy a new era of peace and prosperity. This armada of spaceships traveling to Mars embarks on a one-way nine month journey. Those leaving will never return. Life aboard the ships is sophisticated and smart. Material and personnel are easily exchanged between the vessels. There is time to socialize and acclimate to the new surroundings. The •irst baby born in space is celebrated universally as an epochal moment in humanity’s evolution. New Colonies must be created. The Montreal Star Corporation brings the Old World to the New. Montreal’s Underground City is transported to the surface of Mars. With it, Mars Base Alpha arises. The Rich soil of the Martian planet is too valuable to cover with mega-structures. The old Underground City is now elevated on piers. Massive machines exploit the mineral surface, turning Mars dust into building materials. Mont Royal is 3D-printed from the soil as a token of home. Earth-sick human visit friends and family on Earth via robotic avatars. More cities begin the journey space ward. Life on Mars… is like life in Montreal… but with a view.
Teamwork with Race D’Atri, David King, Daniel Nedecki and Marcus Poon Transmutation Charrett, 2013 ...pure art and architecture from montreal to mars we seek departure android’s 3D infrastructure...
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Architecture + Design “You who go where no one else would dare will you be my god, Architect? Finally, I have met you. You will not rebuild you house again. But, I am your house! And you live in me. Oh lord of my ego. You are pure illusion, you do not exist. The earth is my witness.�
M. Ali Navidbakhsh