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CYBORG MISPRISION/ AI COLLABORATION Brooklyn/NY We Work/We live/We show A desirable quality of the early images coming out of research in machine vision and machine learning is their being simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar and disconcerting to the human beholder. This is the quality of the “uncanny.” It is the quality of being strangely familiar rather than just strange. In contrast to the discourses of estrangement and de-familiarization, the uncanny emerges out of Freudian concepts and has been positioned as the “return of the repressed.” In this sense, the uncanny is a phenomenon that appears on the surface of things. The studio will design and evaluate architecture through and as image and so the problem of the uncanny will be an important topic of discourse. Though images produced by machine vision and machine learning seem meaningless or nonsensical, they are also deeply precise and articulated. Similarly, projects will be expected to develop a principle of precision and realism in its approach to formal articulation. We will try to avoid impressionistic or painterly attitudes about composition. Ironically, when we try to make something that “looks weird” we end up usually making the most familiar things. True monsters seem to emerge from impersonal logic. Similarly, the goal of the projects in the studio is not to make architecture that critiques the normal. The uncanny architectural objects that we will attempt to design ought to emerge out of a clinical attitude and should be fully formed according to a realist aesthetic.
Using AI to execute drawing and planing was the second phase of the project . I manage to extract the structural lines and poches of the actual image to feed the AI and get the results. On the other words I start to design a new language to communicate with the machine, the language that can provide me to get architectural results from the out put of the machine.
Clarified CNN plan
Processed CNN plan
42 layer plexi glass model, 18”x24”
42 layer plexi glass model, 18”x24”
SITE
From 2/5D to 3D Using AI to execute drawing and planing was the second phase of the project . I manage to extract the structural lines and poches of the actual image to feed the AI and get the results. On the other words I start to design a new language to communicate with the machine, the language that can provide me to get architectural results from the out put of the machine.
SELECTED CHUNKS
A.I Integrated CNN Plan
A.I Integrated CNN Sections
Chunck Model 8”x6”x20” Sc: 1/24
Docking section
16 layer glass site model, 16”x16” Sc: 1/64
VERTICAL BAZAAR/ OBJECTS IN DESERT Cairo/ EGYPT/ Zabeleen Incinerator/ Bazaar
This is a current studio that we are working on. The program is an incinerator integrated with Bazaar in Cairo. THE PROJECT IS LOCATED NEXT TO THE CLIFF. Zabeleen is a neighborhood in Cairo, the residents of this neighborhood are collecting the garbage through the whole city and RECYCLE them very efficient in their own houses. The idea of the incinerator as a power generator based in garbage is an interesting match with the context. Bazaar is not an only a commercial building. In middle eastern urban planning bazaar is an infrastructure which is a pathway and it connects the main plazas, mosques and other important urban plazas to gather We used this advantage of bazaar to connect top part clip to the Zabeleen so we got the 2D grid of bazaar and used the grid in vertical position to create VERTICAL BAZAAR/INCINERATOR.
Spring 2018
Object mass Concrete Rib structure system
Object mass
Funnel/Bladder objects
Structure Ribs and rings
Massing Objects Structure Ribs
structure rings ( beams )
Incinerator
Wind Catcher diagram
R2
R8
R1 R3
R7 R6
R4
R24
R5
R23
R26 R22
R21 R25
Plan
R9
R8
Bazaar units
R10
R11 Void
R12
R13
Structural Rib
R14 Smoke filters and chimney
Void
Egress
R15
R16 Ramp
R20
R17 R19
R18
Massing Model, Colored sand stone print 10”x13”x6”, 1/64
Short section, “Bazaar Void Bladders” Hybrid circulation
Facade Design EL Seed’s Masterpiece — A Graffiti Piece Across 50 Buildings for the Coptic Trash Collectors of Cairo. This urban graffiti was an important factor o our decision. They way that the graffiti pixelate in different facade with different depth an interesting approach for us to design the facade . we studied that based on the climate and other factors we need 25% glazing. In one hand the natural light and glazing is necessary on the other hand we wanted to keep the monolithic form of object . so we generated the pattern based on abstracted graffiti we 3 different depth which provides all time shadow on 50 % of the facade and we used printed glass with the continuation of the pattern on the glass. 50% first depth, 25% second depth and last 25% is glazing which is the deepest . The tolerance of the depth is 2”-5”.
Structural Re bars
Structural Rib
Joints
Precast concrete panel
Printed glass
3rd depth pattern, Concrete
2nd depth pattern, Printed Glass
1st depth pattern, concrete
T.O.SLAB 150.00
T.O.SLAB 170.00
T.O.SLAB 190.00
T.O.SLAB 230.00
T.O.SLAB
T.O.SLAB 150.00
T.O.SLAB 170.00
T.O.SLAB 190.00
T.O.SLAB 230.00
1 A-100
2 A-100
1 A-100
2 A-100
DETAIL 1 SC: 1'=1 1/2"
DETAIL 1 SC: 1'=1 1/2"
PAVING
PEDESTAL
STEEL CONNECTION BRAC
FIRE PROTECTED GYPSUM BOARD VAPOR BARRIER
SUSPENDED CEILING STUD
FIRE PROTECTION SEAL
INSULATION
STEEL CONNECTION BRACKET Precast concrete
VAPOR BARRIER
FIRE PROTECTION SEAL
INSULATION
Precast concrete
DOUBLE LAYER GLAZING
FRAEMLESS MULLION
DOUBLE LAYER GLAZING
FRAEMLESS MULLION
SUSPENDED CEILING STUD
SUSPENDED CEILING STUD
STEEL CONNECTION BRAC
STEEL CONNECTION BRACKET SEAL FIRE PROTECTION
FIRE PROTECTION SEAL
LIGHT WEIGHT CONCRETE
LIGHT WEIGHT CONCRETE
ADJUSTABLE PEDESTAL
ADJUSTABLE PEDESTAL
PAVING
PEDESTAL
VAPOR BARRIER
VAPOR BARRIER
INSULATION
INSULATION
BOLTED CONNECTION
Precast concrete BOLTED CONNECTION
Precast concrete Precast parapet cap
Precast parapet cap
WALL SECTION SC: 1'=1/2"
T.O.SLAB 0.00
T.O.SLAB 50.00
T.O.SLAB 110.00
WALL SECTION SC: 1'=1/2"
T.O.SLAB 0.00
T.O.SLAB 50.00
110.00
4 A-100
3 A-100
4 A-100
3 A-100
DETAIL 4 SC: 1'=1 1/2"
DETAIL 3 SC: 1'=1 1/2"
DETAIL 3 SC: 1'=1 1/2"
DETAIL 2 SC: 1'=1 1/2"
DETAIL 2 SC: 1'=1 1/2"
DOUBLE LAYER GLAZING
STUD
FIRE PROTECTED GYPSUM
INSULATION
Precast concrete
DOUBLE LAYER GLAZING
CONCRETE BEAM
FRAEMLESS FIRE PROTECTION SEAL MULLION
STUD RUNNER
FIRE PROTECTED GYPSUM BOARD
PRECAST GYPSUM
INSULATION
FIRE PROTECTED GYPSUM
Precast concrete
SUSPENDED CEILING STUD
DOUBLE LAYER GLAZING
FRAEMLESS MULLION
CONCRETE BEAM
PRECAST GYPSUM
STEEL CONNECTION BRAC
FIRE PROTECTED GYPSUM BOARD
FIRE PROTECTION SEAL
SUSPENDED CEILING STUD INSULATION
Precast concrete
CONCRETE BEAM
STEEL CONNECTION BRACKET
FIRE PROTECTION SEAL
FRAEMLESS MULLION
INSULATION
Precast concrete
DOUBLE LAYER GLAZING
FIRE PROTECTED GYPSUM
FRAEMLESS MULLION
SUSPENDED CEILING STUD
Massing Model, Colored sand stone print 10”x13”x6”, 1/64
MICRO HOUSING Brooklyn/ New York Housing Studio The evolving demographics and life-styles in urban centers demand new modes of living. A recent turn in New York City and other urban centers have been to explore the potentials of what is called “Micro-Units” and shared accommodations. Micro units are efficiently planned small (300 sqft) units for single occupancy. This push which is initiated by the Bloomberg administration and most welcomed by the private residential developers, resulted in the initiation of various pilot projects in the city. Another housing trend which is currently gaining traction put forward by the likes of We-Live/We-Work is shared or co-living for the young mobile work force. These new typologies of housing have arrived only with the rigor of efficiency and bear no disciplinary design/aesthetic agenda to advance architectural/cultural discourse. They aim to maximize the amount of transactions which can be fit in an “some envelope”.
PILOTI OVER PILOTI The self hybrid of two pilotis provided me a new “Urban condition” which can be defined as Public Piloti and Private Piloti. As the impact of these two pilotis in design a new mass with commercial use with court yards generated.
Fall/ 2017 Massing Model, Colored sand stone print 10”x13”x6”, 1/64
Chunk Model, how the legs used for egress and mechanical shafts. Sc : 1/16, 10”x10”x15”
View from Joralemon ST
Chunk Model, how the legs used for egress and mechanical shafts. Sc : 1/16, 10”x10”x15”
Shared master units
Shared Laundry
Individual Units
Void Shared Game Room
Shared Working Space Shared Kitchen
Shared units
Micro units Plan
Massing Model, Urban Condition 10”x13”x6”, 1/64
Ground Level Plan
Shared Spacs Plan
A
2' 1 A-100
steel and glass hand rail (typ)
pre formed parapet cap 8"CMU water proof membrane
adjustable pedestal
1'-0"
light weight concrete Concrete Beam
T.O.SLAB 484'-3"
2 A-100
15'-0"
16'-0"
exterior gypsum sheating
steel hand rail 1 2" tempered glass
4 A-100
pre formed parapet cap
anodized aluminum galvanized channel fastener rigid insulation 8"CMU adjustable pedestal
1 2"
1'-0"
light weight concrete (min 5"-6") gap
T.O.SLAB 468'-3"
2'-2 1/4"
suspended ceiling fastener over sized deadload stud exterior gypsum sheating Interior gypsum sheating suspended ceiling panel
11"
1 4"
2'-1 1/2"
header window flashing
15'-0" 11'-9 3/4"
4'-8"
2'-2 1/4"
1'-0"
1'-11" 0'-11" 2'-1 1/2"
3 A-100
2'-1 1/4"
window mullion footer window flashing
T.O.SLAB 453'-3"
1
Detail 2 SC 3"=1' 15'-0"
2'-1 1/2"
header window flashing
15'-0" 11'-9 3/4" 1'-0"
adjustable pedestal (bison)
11'-8 3/4"
4'-8"
16'-0"
high density polystyrene
thermo wood decking
1'-11"
1'-0"
11'-9 3/4"
concrete beam
steel flashing
thermo wood decking
connection bolt exterior gypsum sheating steel stud
sloped light weight concrete 15'-0"
exterior gypsum sheating
concrete beam connection bolt exterior gypsum sheating steel stud
exterior gypsum sheating
Detail 1 SC 3"=1'
T.O.SLAB 453'-3"
lintel (double steel stud)
T.O.SLAB 453'-3"
lintel (double steel stud)
15'-0"
15'-0"
Wall section 01 SC 21"=1' Detail 2 SC 3"=1'
Detail 2 SC 3"=1' rigid insulation
1 2" gap anodized aluminum galvanized channel
extruded aluminum anchor concrete beam
plastic shim dead load connection over sized dead load stud batt insulation 8" CMU exterior gypsum sheating rigid insulation vapor barrier 1 gap 2" insulation rigid anodized aluminum galvanized channel extruded aluminum anchor thermo wood decking plastic shim timber grid dead load connection over sized dead load stud batt insulation interior gypsum sheating exterior gypsum sheating suspended ceiling fastener 1 4" suspended ceiling panel
T.O.SLAB 438'-3"
T.O.SLAB 438'-3"
15'-0"
adjustable pedestal (bison)
connection bolt interior gypsum sheating exterior suspended gypsum ceiling fastener sheating " suspended ceiling panel steel stud 1 4
lintel (double steel stud) sealent and backing rod steel flashing
15'-0"
header window mullion
double layergypsum glazing exterior sheating engineered soil metal flashing reservoir layer lintel (double steel stud) aggregate
sealent and backing moister retention layer rod aeration layer steel flashing sloped highwindow densitymullion polystyrene header
T.O.SLAB 423'-3"
double layer glazing
drain sloped light weight concrete
T.O.SLAB 423'-3"
lintel (double steel stud) header mullion steel flashing
Detail 2 SC header 3"=1' mullion steel flashing
Detail 2 SC 3"=1' Detail 3 SC 3"=1'
interior gypsum sheating suspended ceiling fastener 1 4" suspended ceiling panel
1'-0"
15'-0"
2'-1 1/4"
2'-1 1/2"
0'-11"
double layer glazing
T.O.SLAB 423'-3"
lintel (double steel stud) sealent and backing rod steel flashing header window mullion double layer glazing
2'-2 1/4"
15'-0"
concrete beam
4'-8"
concrete beam high density polystyrene
T.O.SLAB 468'-3"
header window mullion
1'-10 3/4"
T.O.SLAB 468'-3"
T.O.SLAB 438'-3"
lintel (double steel stud) sealent and backing rod 2'-3 1/4"
16'-0"
Detail 1 sloped 3"=1' light weight concrete SC
rigid insulation 1 2" gap anodized aluminum galvanized channel extruded aluminum anchor plastic shim dead load connection over sized dead load stud batt insulation exterior gypsum sheating
15'-0"
sloped light weight concrete high density polystyrene concrete beam
adjustable pedestal (bison) Detail 1 SC 3"=1'
Detail 2 SC 3"=1' 15'-0"
2'-1 1/2"
2'-2 1/4"
interior gypsum sheating suspended ceiling fastener 1 4" suspended ceiling panel
11'-9 3/4"
adjustable pedestal (bison)
1'-0"
thermo wood decking
lintel (double steel stud)
2'-3 1/4"
T.O.SLAB 484'-3"
T.O.SLAB 438'-3"
2'-1 1/4"
steel railing base
steel railing base
0'-11"
mortar
T.O.SLAB 484'-3"
1'-0"
8" vapor CMU barrier 8" CMU mortar
T.O.SLAB 423'-3"
2'-2 1/4"
mortar anodized aluminum extruded aluminum anchor plastic shim
vapor barrier steel railing base galvanized channel
connection bolt exterior gypsum sheating steel stud
exterior gypsum sheating
rigid insulation 1 2" gap anodized aluminum galvanized channel extruded aluminum anchor plastic shim dead load connectionT.O.SLAB over sized dead load 453'-3" stud batt insulation exterior gypsum sheating
1'-11"
anodized aluminum
extruded aluminum anchor anodized aluminum plastic shim galvanized channel extruded aluminum anchor preformed parapet cap plastic shim metal flashing vapor barrier galvanized channel 8" CMU
4'-8"
preformed parapet cap metal flashing
11'-8 3/4"
2'-1 1/4"
window mullion footer window flashing
preformed parapet cap 3 A-100 metal flashing
header mullion steel flashing header mullion
Detail 2 SC 3"=1'
steel flashing
Detail 2 SC 3"=1'
Learning Enviroment/ School As A Connecting Tissue Brooklyn/ New York High School
The precedent is based on Hertz boarding school by Wolf De Prix in Germany, the idea is about an invasion the context to define an open system. This open system works with a circulation which provides a new open system. The idea of an invasion, connection, compression, and being open to context as an open system defined in site analysis and also program. The Church and existing school made the series of connection that can be designed by the idea which developed in precedent. This Project connects itself to another school which located on the other side of the street using an architectural bridge. The old school is a Catholic school which founded by the church next to it. Using the bridge as an ART GALLERY to provide a cultural interaction between NEW SCHOOL and OLD SCHOOL is one of the advantages of the project. An in-ground condition, the site has been freed to make an open system which works with city and generate an active plaza.
Fall/ 2017 Massing, urban Circulation Model 15�x15� 1/32
Massing, Aluminum Model 35”x35”x8” 1/16
Classes
Gallery as a connecting tissue
Semi Public/Private , Library, auditorium, Sport
Ground as a playground and cafe Connecting new school to old CATHOLIC school CATHOLIC school CATHOLIC Church
SPACE MOSQUE EXHIBITION Soho/ New York Aicon Gallery Jan 21st-Feb 23rd
http://www.aicongallery.com/exhibitions/saks-afridi-spacemosque
View from Joralemon ST
SCIENCE CITY SU 11 Architecture and Design Cairo/Tabula Rasa /Egypt Competition Entry Tabula Rasa is an area in Cairo, as a natural material the area is occupied with sand stone quarries and most of the building around the area have some relation with the sand stone. During the research we found the way that stone has been cut as “Strange Diagonals�. We wanted to create an architectural aesthetics or a formal language that derived and associated itself with the technology, place, color and the sand but also obviously moved beyond that and generate its own identity .
Summer/ 2017
FAUCET SERIES Hybrid Faucet Catalogue Like every artist investigating the field without any specific context, this practice was the same exploring the quality of real/fiction objects. Like musicians Practicing the notes, architects practicing the objects to create. These weird objects challenge your perception of what is real and what is unreal, the real qualities of the machine language of faucets and manipulate them in a very settle way to design new hybrids to reach that purpose.
SU17
HANDLE SERIES Hybrid Handle catalogue
SU17
DAMAVAND RESIDENTIAL This was the last project that I was involved in Iran, a residential located in Tehran suburb called Damavand. The client was four friends/ partners who have worked more than twenty years together decided be neighbors. One the most important spaces for them was shared and common spaces like pool and sport facility. I was mostly involved with massing and facade design. Currently project is under construction.
Summer/2015
M. ARCH GRADUATE THESIS Designing in historical fabrics, has always been Controversial among architects and critics, there are many different approach in this regard. Firstly some critics believe that the historic fabric should be intact and all new design should be produce with close attention to protect historical fabric. While others believe that new design should be in new framework which provide us resuscitation. My approach to this project comes with a question, “how can i design a new framework which can embrace both ideas?� how can we find a solution to provide us a fruitful context for new framework and historical function.
Summer/2012