A M I R M AZHARI M ALEKSHAH ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
AMIR MAZHARIMALEKSHAH MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENT
2015
University of Southern California Cell: (747) 800-1167 Email: Mazharim@usc.edu
University of Mazandaran Dormitory
P E R S O N AL
STATUS
Language: English, Farsi Permanent US Resident / Green Card holder Marital: Single Birth: 05/17/1993
E DU CATI O N Aug2017- In Progress
Master of Architecture
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Anticipated Graduation Date: May 2020 Sep2011-jan2016
B.Sc. in Architecture
University of Mazandaran – Iran
E X P E R I E N CE Jan 2019 - SouperGreen Exhibition assisstant. Sep 2018 - SouperGreen Exhibition assisstant. May 2018- August 2018 INTERNSHIP
GARY PAIGE STUDIO (gp/s) -Los Angeles, CA
Client: University of Mazandaran Responsibilities: - Schematic design team - Project Drafter 2015
Residential Complex for University of Mazandaran Employees Client: University of Mazandaran Responsibilities: - Schematic design team - 3D Artist
ACT I V I T I ES
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AWA RD S
2019 - 505B Graduate Architecture Design Class Assisstant. 2018 - 505A Graduate Architecture Design Class Assisstant. 2018-2019 - USC School of Architecture merit Scholarship for the 2018-2019 academic year 2017-2018 - USC School of Architecture merit Scholarship for the 2017-2018 academic year. 2014 - University Of Mazandaran Model construction – member of main construction team. 2014 - Received a letter of commendation from Mazandaran’s Art and Architecture department dean.
S O F T WA RE
S K I L L S
- Auto cad - 3D max - Rhino - T-spline - Photoshop - In Design - Illustrator - Rhino Paneling tools
ACADEMIC DESIGN
T H E
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C O L L E C T O R
A NEW PERMANENT HOME FOR THE SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR [p.6]
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P E R F O R A T E D
F A C A D E
A MODULAR FACADE ADDITION TO AN EXISTING USC PARKING LOT [p.14]
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S U B T E R R A N E A N
G A L L E R Y
A SUBTERRANEAN GALLERY ADDITION TO USC FISHER MUSEUM OF ART [p.24]
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N O N S E C T A R I A N
C H A P E L
A CHAPEL LOCATED IN USC ARCHEMEDES PLAZA [p.32]
FABRICATION
B I R D
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H O U S E
EXPLORATION OF ADVANCED METHODS AND MATERIALS IN FABRICATING A BIRD HOUSE [p.52]
3D Skills
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R E N D E R S
SELECTED 3D RENDERINGS [p.66]
T h e
C o l l e c t o r
A NEW PERMANENT HOME FOR THE SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR
Project Brief
Site
This project brings the Space Shuttle Endeavour to a new permanent facility after a long journey and provides the shuttle with its final mission; to educate, and inspire interest in science, technology, and space exploration. A 200,000 SF museum expansion to house the orbiter Endeavour and a new air and space exhibition has been designed by the firm ZGF and awaits ground breaking. 2018’s ARCH 605a studio borrows the premise of this museum in a hypothetical and abbreviated form. The gallery program, beyond being a medium to explore the pragmatic design objectives of building systems and code, provides an extraordinary opportunity for the study of dynamic spatial and formal relationships within, as well as the potential for building form to organize the site.
The site is adjacent to and directly east of the current California Science Center. The plan dimensions of the site are approximately 358 feet by 150 ft (53,700 SF) with the long dimension running east-west. The site is currently occupied by 2 separate one-story buildings that will be demolished. Along with the California Science Center, the site has direct adjacencies to the California African American Museum, the former Aerospace Museum designed by Frank Gehry (to be utilized by the CSC in a use yet to be determined), the Rose Garden to the North, and to the South a sunken Parking structure.
VERMONT AVE
CONTEXT ANALYSIS EXPOSITION PARK , LA
University of Southern California
Studio 605a Instructor : Rick Gooding
EXPOSITION BLVD
Rose Garden
School Wallis.A Building
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles Space Shuttle Endevour
California Science Center
California - African American Museum
Museum
Team Alejandra Cardenas Andrew Ericsen Bo Zhu Bushra Muhammadi Evan Rubel Heather Owings Hesby Cruz Marissa Taddeo Minehli Petrossian Qing Xiao Sai Liang Shuchi Mishra
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Swim Stadium
LA Memorial Coliseum
Ahmansan Senior Center
LA Memorial Sports Arena Ralph M. Parson Pr-School
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Site Strategy
Statement
Currently, there is a discontinuity between the north and the south parts of Exposition park. this discontinuity has been amplified by the California Science center building which is located right in the middle of the park creating a visual ans physiccal barrier for people to navigate the park. It also created a dead space between Science center of African American museum on the west side of the building where the projet’s site is located.
The building goes beyond the convention of the museum as a place to exhibit objects and instead creates a dynamic public space in exposition park. Situated just east of the California Science Center this building forge connections between the north and south parts of exposition park. The building form creates a public plaza which provides an exterior, distinctly urban venue for leisure and cultural events, in a grand space easily accessible to the public.
The design intends to break the discontinuity and create a pivot point in exposition park from which visitors can start navigatin the park.
In Orbit
Orientation
Coming Home
On the Ground
Ascent to Orbit Gift shop
Site Plan
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First Floor Plan
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Second Floor Plan
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Third Floor Plan
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Fourth Floor Plan
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P E R F O R A T E D
F A C A D E
A MODULAR FACADE ADDITION TO AN EXISTING USC PARKING STRUCTURE
The focus of this project is on strategies and techniques of form generation that involve sampling, adapting and transforming a “found pattern� into a new module (or primitive) in order to produce a new porous spatial field of solids and voids then applying this solid and void field on USC PSX parking structure. The project started by analyzing the existing facade in terms of its structural elements and elevation components. based on our design ideas, we were allowed to remove some of the elements of the existing facade.
Existing Elevation
Elements to be Removed
Elevation With Modification
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Shear Walls
Columns and Beams
Stair Towers
Floor Plates
After analyzing structural elements of PSX we were asked to design a structural grid system compatible to those elements to use it as the main structure that holds the new facade and overlay it with a dotted line over the existing PSX elevation. The module for this grid should be 8 feet +/- in one direction and a multiple of 4 feet +/- in the other direction, with no module longer than 16 feet. There should be a minimum of 100 units.
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For the next phase, we spent some time walking around the campus studying various repetitive and rhythmic patterns. Photographed them frontally and close up (2-4 feet +/-) and Produced a catalog of alternatives and variation. After presenting, analyzing and discussing your photographs and diagrams, we started to adapt the selected pattern to the module and proportions of the PSX elevation without losing the proportions of the initial pattern. Adaptation process involved Enlarging this pattern and superimpose it on the PSX elevation, paying close attention to the relationship between the various modules, that is, the structural module defined by columns, beams, and floor plates.
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The next phase involved taking one (or more) of the repetitive patterns and transforming it into a repetitive and variable surface of solids and voids. By selecting one of the following verbs to serve as an operation for transforming the repetitive pattern that we’ve been working on, we Develop a matrix of 2-9 diagrams that graphically represent and describe in carefully calibrated steps the phases leading to the final transformation. (Elongate, Extrude, Torque, twist-Gradate (to make a gradient), Interlock) In my project, the result is a gradient field of rectangular apertures that are based on a Flemish bond brick pattern found on campus buildings and paving patterns. The new facade screen works in a couple of ways: From the inside it directs user views in a few different directions; from the outside, the gradient pattern produces a subtle visual dynamic or variable ripple-effect based on a viewer’s relative distance and point of view.
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S U B T E R R A N E A N
G A L L E R Y
A SUBTERANEAN ADDITION TO USC FISHER MUSEUM OF ART
This project, an addition or extension to an existing building, is intended to provoke a confrontation between form’s temporal and immaterial and other, light, space, and movement in order to address architectural problems of a broader or more complex nature. Specifically, the challenge is to develop an architectural strategy that translates and synthesizes conceptual intentions into a design proposal for re-organizing and adding to an existing spatial sequence without significantly altering the current use. The site for the new addition is situated on a plot of ground below the Fisher Art Museum Courtyard, with an area measuring approximately 35 by 68 feet, and a depth of 20 +/- feet. In addition to providing a new gallery space(s), we will develop ideas and diagrams for connecting the new subterranean gallery to the existing building and courtyard.
Subterranean Gallery
Loop Ramp
Elevator
Zigzag Stair
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The program for this project is to add several new movement elements in order to connect the existing building to a new subterranean space that will be located beneath a courtyard. In brief, the task is to add new staircases, a hydraulic elevator, and a ramp in order to create new threshold spaces, entry points, and spatial sequences. Additionally, since a significant portion of the intervention will be situated underground, elements such as skylights will be required to provide and modulate daylight. This project investigated the spatial properties of a loop and zigzag diagram as a way to facilitate movement and connection between an existing museum and new gallery space.
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The challenge, to reconfigure and add these elements requires a rigorous understanding of the formal, spatial and structural logic of the existing building and courtyard as well as a working knowledge of the aforementioned movement and light-modulating elements. The two skylights designed in this project serve as a tool to modulate light and bring it to subterranean gallery spaces.
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N O N S E C T A R I A N
C H A P E L
A CHAPEL LOCATED IN USC ARCHEMIDES PLAZA
The objective of this project is to closely examine a set of ideas in Venturi’s seminal text Complextity and Contradiction in Architecture. Specifically, we were asked to read Chapters 3: “Ambiguity” and 9: “The Inside and the Outside,” and to select an idea to explore as a strategy for forming and developing a spatial concept to design a chapel. Additionally, we wre asked to use the chosen idea to study the relationship between planimetric and sectional space in terms of complementary, contrasting, and/or complementary contrasting relationships.
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in oder to familiarize ourselves with some architecturally-notable chapels; also, to give us a sense of what’s already been done. We were asked to select a chapel and collect the architect’s drawings, models and photographs; and prepare a set of sectional diagrams that analyze the project in terms of the following: • Form / Space (envelope, mass and interior volumes) • Area (square footage) • Circulation • Structural system • Aperture system (skylights, windows; how light is modulated)
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Chapel of the Hopitaldes Invaliders
Dome 1
Dome 2
Dome 3
Apertures
Clerestory: Direct Light
Upper Dome and Oculi: Inirect Light
Spatial Layers
Visible Parts of The Upper Dome
Invisible PArts of The Upper Dome
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Lantern
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Form Generation
Volume
Primary Volume
Primary Volume
Secondary Volume
Secondary Volume
Tertiary Volume
Tertiary Volume
Dome
Dome
Entry Vestibule
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Entry Vestibule
Inverted Dome
Inverted Dome
Lantern 1
Lantern 1
Lantern 2 and 3
Lantern 2 and 3
Inner Lanterns
Portal Arch
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B I R D
H O U S E
ADVANCED FABRICATION
In advanced fabrication course, we were introduced to a range of new fabrication techniques and technologies such as milling, assembly, 3-D printing, laser cutting and the use of robots of various kinds in the construction industry. Then we were asked to choose a method and material to build a birdhouse in a group of 2. The material used in this project is aluminum. We developed a design for a birdhouse and started generating 2D drawings to use them to cut aluminum sheets using water jet cutter. By folding the pieces and putting them together, using the joint we designed specific to material, we were able to fabricate our design.
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R E N D E R S SELECRED 3D RENDERINGS Software Used: 3DMAX-VRAY-Photoshop
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