Ana Lahoud TU Delft Application Portfolio by Ana Lahoud

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Through my life experiences, I have learned about empathy, not only towards other human and non-human beings but also towards the city and our surroundings...

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My undergraduate research... was directed as if the city were an archeological site, through the concept of the urban palimpsest... I found many clues that took me to evaluate today’s conditions and propose strategies moving forward into the future... developing San Bernardino into a better-connected district, booming with activities, public transportation... bringing a strong sense of identity...

Being an undergraduate student in Venezuela was not an easy task... it was clear to me that I felt the urge to find my path outside... I already had a successful and transformative experience with an international exchange in Japan... experiencing up close the Japanese way of life... enriched me in many more ways than I can now recount. One of those was learning about the concept of Ikigai, which roughly translates to “reason for being”, more explicitly, our purpose in life. LAHOUD D PORTFOLIO

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Residence for the Ambassador of Japan Institution: Instructor:

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Simon Bolivar University Luis Emilio Pacheco [luise2509@gmail.com] 14th Trimester, 2018 Country Club, Caracas Ambassador’s residency Individual Project

INSIDE/OUTSIDE DIALOGUE

UP & DOWN CONNECTIONS

SOCIAL/INTIMATE AREAS DISTINCTION

SUN & WIND CONSIDERATIONS

LANDSCAPE

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EXTRUDE RECTANGLE

The project is based on the duality between traditional and modern Japanese architecture to form spaces that play between introspection and extrospection, outside and inside, lightness and heaviness ... always keeping in mind the connection with nature, which It will be represented in the vegetation, the water, the stones and the wood that will make up and shape the building and landscape. The Place. Located in Caracas’ Country Club, the lot is surrounded by multiple vegetation species, which serve as home to the variety of fauna that are native to this city. To the northwest limit, there is also a drinkable water tributary. For these reasons, nature and its inclution in the design, take major importance in the proposal. G e ner a l M a ssi ng . Composed by two paralelepiped dispossed perpendicularly from each other. One of them is elevated and serves as the element which signals the

main access of the house. These two volumes intersect, making a two-storey courtyard, which articulates the first and second floor, each dedicated to social and intimate areas respectively. Finally, these two volumes “dialogue” with their surroundings through perimetral circulation, permeable facades and balconies. Spatial Organ izatio n . The residence has been divided in two ways, (1) vertically, where the spaces belong to the duality: social/intimate; (2) horizontally -meaning in each floor- where spaces belong to the duality: served/ servant spaces. In te rio rs . The surrounding nature is enhanced inside the residence through the use of materials and textures that remind of nature, such as stones, wood an bamboo among others.

SECOND FLOOR Private Level Terrace Kitchen / Dining Bedrooms Studio Guests Rooms

FIRST FLOOR Events Salon Library / Living Main Kitchen Maids Rooms Vertical Circulation Office

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Social Level

BASEMENT Service Level Security and Control Rooms Services, Storage Room Vertical Circulation

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Caribbean pine dry planed wood slat (mcs) dimensions .1 x .25 x 3.66 M

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Caribbean pine dry planed wood slat (mcs) dimensions .1 x .25 x 3.66 M

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retaining wall and basement roof concrete slab articulation concrete surface asphalt concrete gravel

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concrete column .45 x .45 m in plan, protruding .66 m from the pavement

stones concrete surface

basement

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asphalt concrete insulating

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concrete column .45 x .45 m in plan, protruding .66 m from the pavement

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basementâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s retaining wall

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footing + basement slab + column articulation

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basement

compressed soil

Caribbean pine dry planed wood slat (mcs) dimensions .1 x .25 x 3.66 M

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first poured concrete

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stones

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SCND. FLOOR TO BASEMENT COLUMNS

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air layer for protection & drainage waterproofing extruded polystyrene insulation

The Structural Details The use of structural materials is divided horizontally, having this way a concrete basement, which is then articulated through metal plaques to the wooden structure that conforms the residence.

basement

GREEN-ROOF GARDEN COLUMNS

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The Landscape The surroundings have been inspired by the traditional japanese gardens. Given this, different elements of the N gardens are related to each cardinal direction. N

Pond Water to the north simbolizes yin and attracts good energy.

Green-wall Used to conceal the limits of the plot.

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Sand courtyard Simbolizes the sea and its multiple islands, represented by the rocks. Bridge on pond Acts as a "portal" between sections of the garden.

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Gravel courtyard and rocks A different representation of the sea. Gray-sand courtyard and redcolored plants Simbolizes the fire element and yang energy.

rainwater downspout roof tile fiberglass in rolls for thermal insulation wood strip 1 1/2'' x 1'' Asphalt roofing wood strip 1'' x 1'' [tiles support] Tongue and groove 3/4 '' x 6''

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wooden pegs facade system rainwater chain

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cadena para lluvia tierra Capa de protecciĂłn y drenaje impermeabilizante Aislamiento de poliestireno extruĂdo

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screw with eyelet & tensioner round tubular profile CONDUVEN d 324mm e 9mm rounded metallic plaque wood beam 10 x 25 cm

Net just Wanna Have Fun!

Annex for Saitama’s Contemporary Art Museum

Tohoku University Ar. Taro Igarashi [iga-taro@momo.so-net.ne.jp] Year: 10th Trimester, 2016 Location: Museum of Modern Art of Saitama, Japan Program: Anex Modality: Individual Project

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Th e Place . Located in the green areas of the Museum of Modern Art of Saitama, the site is conditioned by the relations between: (1) the proposal and the (2) preexisting museum -designed by the metabolist architect Kishoō Kurokawa-, (2) The museum and the nearby (3) train station. V o lu m e try . It’s composed by three basic volumes; a parallelepiped, a cone and a cylinder, which are articulated with each other and with the museum by a dynamic and organic net, inspired by the facade of the preexisting museum’s design. Stru ctu re . Volumes are based in a basic concrete column-beam structure; and the net is composed by metallic tubular sections.

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(1)THE PROPOSAL _The parallelliped _The cylinder _The cone

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Lan ds cape . It’s sculpted by the own net, creating resting spaces -like the sculpture garden and the amphitheater-, or transitional spaces -like the vertical circulation space taht takes place inside The cone-.

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Spatial Organ izatio n . Each volume responds to a complementary program for the existing museum, being the parallelepiped that which serves to locate temporary exhibitions, also providing a “sculpture garden” space, as well as a studio for art classes. The cylinder conforms an anphitheater, proposing this way a space for other forms of contemporary art like dance and cinema. And lastly, the cone, which accomodates activities related with the exterior of the museum, like a cafe and a pocket-size souvenir store. This volume serves as well as a way to establish a direct relation with the train station and the pedestrian influx around that area.

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The cone

Attractor, gift shop, cafÃ©.

The cylinder

Amphitheater for performing arts.

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The parallelepiped

Temporary exhibitions, sculpture garden and art class studio.

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A functional structure

Net serves as support system for parallelepipedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s glass enclosure through tensors.

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Focal point

Cone serves as highlight and attractor, connecting virtually train station with the museum.

caracas san bernardino

City between times

urban palimpsest: discover the past, analize the present and propose for the future

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Institution: Universidad Simon Bolivar Tutors: Ar. Aliz Mena & Ar. Franco Micucci Year: 2018 Location: San Bernardino Urbanization, Caracas, VEN Key words: Footprints, memory, palimpsest, city, time Modality: Individual Thesis Research

From it’s begginings, the city has been a place which, through the impact of its citizens, has been able to develop and evolve. These generations, have been leaving its marks imprinted in the urban fabric through time, creating this way a group of “urban imprints”. It’s from this premise that the concept of Urban Palimpsest1 is born . The Place. San Bernardino was the first neighborhood that created a rupture in the old

colonial grid used to organize Caracas’ downtown. This rupture of paradigms, as well as the rich vegetation, water streams and the social and cultural dynamics of this particular area, marked the neighborhood. Although, even with it’s important background, today many of the aforementioned imprints have been forgotten, or they are only known and kept in the memory of the oldest members of San Bernardino.

However, there is a small number of them which are still found in the urban fabric. Through this work, San Bernardino and its footprints are studied in three times: past, present and future; last which will propose subsequent development scenarios, that result from the understanding of the evolution process of the neighborhood, and leaving this way a glimpse of what our generation could imprint on today’s San Bernadino.

1940S - THE ‘URBANIZATION’ ERA

1950S - THE ‘ADJUSTING TO THE CAR’ ERA

2018 - THE CURRENT ERA

1 9 7 0 S - T H E ‘ C O N N E C T I V I T Y / H I G H WAY S ’ E R A

2220S - THE FUTURE ERA

urban palimpsest: discover the past, analize the present and propose for the future 1

A Palimpsest is an “old manuscript that keeps the traces of the writings previously written and erased” to be written again, in this case, both old and new writings share the paperspace, and both past and present times are visible.

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1889 - THE ‘HACIENDA’ ERA

Discover The Past A summary of the past events, looking for the urban imprints

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The urbanization keeps on growing and new buildings keep popping up every month.

The urban space has been desconfigured by the removal of important articulators and the widening of streets, enhancing the necessity of owning a car.

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Due to the oil-boom, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s developed as a new suburb, designed by french urbanist Maurice Rotival as a gardencity. Immigrant settlements were also placed here.

Found just outside of colonial Caracas, San Bernardino was a traditional coffeeproducing estate, property of the Vollmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, a prominent german family,

The poor management and maintenance of the city led to the deterioration of the urban fabric, as well as the buildings with historical meaning.

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Imprints Summary Results on the pastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expedition

ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITS

HISTORIC PRECEDENT

ACTIVITIES CURRENTLY HELD IN PUBLIC SPACES

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CURRENT MOBILITY

Analize The Present

SCAN ME! to get immersed in San Bernardinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; streets

Due to the poor decisions made regarding mobility and public space, as well as the lack of legislation that promotes and maintains the cultural heritage that represents the architectural typology of San Bernardino for the city of Caracas, currently the urbanization is in a deplorable and deteriorated state, where disorder and congestion characterizes its most important access points.

C O N C L U S I O N S F R O M T H E P R E S E N T - D AY ON HERITAGE... _Loss of identity due to the deterioration and devaluation of both the pucblic space and built heritage. _Deformation of the original europeaninspired streets layout based in roundabouts, characteristic of San Bernardino.

ON CONNECTIVITY AND MOBILITY...

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_Urban fabric fails to incorporate and provide reliable transportation alternatives to the car, resulting in large traffic specially around rush hours.

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_Abscence of proper connection and articulation with the rest of the city. _Lack of urban infrastructure for pedestrian use.

THE PUBLIC SPACE EXPERIENCE...

_Insufficient spaces for the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s use, resulting in poor sense of appropiation and identity. _Obstruction of visuals and high sense of unsafety due to the building of bridges that divide the public realm and provide spaces for illicit activities under them. _Poor cohesiveness between important points of the urban fabric. resulting in a confusing and unorganized experience for the pedestrian.

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MOBILITY PROPOSAL _ EAST/WEST INTEGRATION

ENVIRONMENTAL PROPOSAL _ NORTH/SOUTH INTEGRATION

Propose forIntersections The Future of opportunity Based on the previously mentioned problems, and showing that most of the found imprints and the situations to be addressed occur in six of the most important access points to San Bernardino, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decided to work on these points and the connectivity of the urbanization, to later propose scenarios for its future development, addressing the current situation and taking into account what previously existed there.

PUBLIC SPACE PROPOSAL _ ARTICULATIONS

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Proposed Typical Street Section San Bernardino as an Urban Palimpsest of opportunities for future development scenarios

Proposed Strategies Summary

San Bernardino as an Urban Palimpsest of opportunities for future development scenarios

Interventions are proposed that promote the use of existing and proposed public spaces, in order to revalue the architectural and environmental memory of San Bernardino, and have a beneficial impact on the improvement of the dynamics of the public spaces of the urbanization. However, for this, and due to the particular structure of San Bernardino, it was decided to frame the strategies to be implemented into three large groups, these being the strategies aimed at interventions on mobility, dynamics of public space and identity (which includes both architectural and environmental memory).

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STREET SECTION REORDERING

CHARACTERIZATION OF URBAN CORNERS

ENVIRONMENTAL MEMORY

URBAN ARTICULATORS

TRAFFIC REDISTRIBUTION

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Current situation. Vehicular node lacking pedestrian transition structures, surrounded by buildings that are closed and do not benefit from the public space.

1. Proposal of the new “The Star” Square as a pedestrian and vehicular joint.

A sample scene: “The Star” Square The space lacks correct flow of both pedestrian and vehicular influxes. It’s missing as well the opportunity of recognizing and higlighting the patrimonial buildings of the sorroundings. SCAN ME! for the complete strategies catalog

Due to this, it is proposed to go back to the roundabout , which manages to articulate and serve as a space for community gatherings and outdoor events.

2. Use of ground floors as commercial spaces that benefit from the new dynamics proposed for public space. Reusal of the deteriorated billboard as an art intervention.

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Current situation. Lacking connection with the deteriorated public space. Nonexistent traces of the previous bodies of water of the place.

1. Ordering of the pedestrian and vehicular infrastructure. Opening of the Children’s Hospital (right) to the new public space.

A sample scene: “The Lake” Square A renegade point in the urban fabric, there’s not much happening currently due to being in one of the borders of the urbanization. Poor articulation as well as serving only as a no-place. Surrounding buildings closed completely to this space. SCAN ME! for the complete strategies catalog

Consequently, it is proposed to better the connection of this point, and use different new commercial and service facilities to bring liveliness to the area.

2. Proposal of public space and facilities to support current services provided by bank and hospital. Incorporation of water in square, relating to the environmental memory.