ARCH.BAKARMAN

Mohammed Bakarman

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Design statement

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Resume

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Gulf Hotel

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Public Library

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Computer Complex

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Shopping Mall

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Gulf Village Resort

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New Orleans: Toward a Healthy City

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Gowanus Canal : Refreshing the Waterfront

Architecture is a space for people to live

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and interact in that rises out of the culture. To me, a building expresses a culture. Any culture has its own characteristics that form its society and thus its people needs, thoughts, and beliefs. Understanding the different aspects of any culture begins through interaction with the people who move throughout the built environment in that culture. Like culture, a building is composed of small and large units, seen and unseen, that must work coherently and harmoniously together. So, buildings are developed and designed under the influence of the receptive culture to create consistency and avoid conflict. The failure of avoiding conflicts and expressing the culture of the site produces an odd building that could destroy the identity of its built environment and thus change users’ attitude toward it.

DESIGN STATEMENT

EDUCATION 2009 – 2011

Master of Architecture Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA. With a GPA: 3.9/4.00

2008 – 2009

Intensive English Program ELS Language Center, Cleveland, OH.

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Intensive English Program English in Chester Institute, Chester, UK.

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Bachelor of Science in Architecture & Building Science King Saud University ( KSU ), College of Architecture & Planning, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. With a GPA: 4.52/5.00

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2005–2008

Teaching Assistant KSU, College of Architecture & Planning, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

2005–2008

Architect & Researcher – Part-time Dar Al-Montada for Development & Investment - Real Estate Development Department, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Internship Omrania & Associates , Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

HONORS AND AWARDS 2005

Career Development Award- Graduate Scholarship in Architecture KSU, College of Architecture & Planning, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Placed first among the undergraduate students KSU, College of Architecture & Planning,Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Second Class Honor KSU, College of Architecture & Planning,Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

COMPUTER SKILLS AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, Photoshop, Artlantis, Microsoft Office(Word-Excel-PowerPoint)

Fluent Arabic and English

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LANGUAGE SKILLS

Al-Khobar City, Saudi Arabia

Location Al-Khobar City Saudi Arabia Sit area: 42,000 m2 (452,085 square feet) Year: Studio 5 Fourth year Fall semester 2002 - 2003 Duration: 7 weeks

This hotel is the main element of the Gulf Village Resort which is located almost in the middle of the resort. Due to its significance, the building had to be designed to become a dominant landmark for the entire resort. The hotel occupies a prim locatiwon that provides a great view toward the sea for the majority of its units.

The main concept was creating a building resembling a sail of a boat, which has a significant meaning in the history of the area. The building has two wings oriented toward the sea that are receding in their area while the building rises.

G u lf H o t e l

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The project encompasses 90 rooms, 12 suites, restaurants, fitness center, business center, retail shops, in and outdoor sitting areas, and administration.

DINING AREA 1. Front elevation 2. Section

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3. Waterfront elevation

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G u l f Hote l

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Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia

Location Prince Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz Rd. Riyadh Saudi Arabia Site area: 11,000 m2 ( 118,404 ft2 ) Year: Studio 3 Third year Fall semester 2001- 2002 Duration: 12 weeks

The building consists of men and women sections (Reading areas, conference room, computer lab, copy room, and cafeteria), and common section (book stores, multi-purpose room, theatre, administration, and support services).

P u blic Lib r a r y

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The task in this project was how to achieve a full privacy in use between men and women throughout entrances’ locations, view, operation, and circulation, in addition, how to design a building that facilitates the use of both genders at the same time without any conflicts or invading the privacy. In the same time, there are some spaces are combined for both like the auditorium and the multi-purpose hall, and these elements are located between the two sections (men & women).

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1. Ground floor plan 2. First floor plan 3. Second floor plan 4. Third floor plan 5. Elevations & Sections

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P u blic Lib r a r y

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6. Site plan

Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia

Location King Fahad Rd. Riyadh Saudi Arabia Sit area: 11,165 m2 ( 120,180 square feet ) Year: Studio 4 Third year Winter semester 2001- 2002 Duration: 7 weeks

This project consists of two parts: A tower (30 stories) and a shopping center (4 stories). It is located in one of the most vibrant areas in Riyadh city, the capital city of Saudi Arabia, and this area is known as a commercial strip that is considered the busiest area in the city.

Therefore, big companies are concentrated in this area as a prime location to attract more customers.

Co mp u t e r Co mple x

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In this project, it was im portant to accumulate everything that belongs to a computer world in one complex to be the first building that has these features to attract the IT companies and the big names of retailers. It is design to achieve an environment which facilitates both companies’ and retailers’ job. Also being one of the building users will give them a good reputation while they use the building.

1. Tower typical plan 2. Site plan 3. Ground floor plan 1

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Co mp u t e r Co mple x

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Al-Majmaah City, Saudi Arabia

Location: Al- Majmaah City Saudi Arabia Sit area: 40,000 m2 (430,556 square feet)

Year: Graduation project Fifth year Winter semester 2003 - 2004 Duration: 12 weeks

This project is located in one of the most conservative communities in Saudi Arabia. So in these locations, it is essential to understand and be aware of the local culture and traditions to be addressed in the new project in a way that avoids conflicts, and this issue was the main challenge.

The mall design represents two completely different periods of time and two generations who have various differences in their lifestyles, interests, and thoughts. Therefore, the incorporation between these variations was achieved in the project’s design by adopting some of the traditional elements and activities whether for seniors or children. These activities are taking place main square which is located in the center of the building to be considered as a focal point. The square is surrounded by small shops that stimulate the old environment and operated by old people to sell traditional tools and objects and to teach the children their history and heritage.

The main elements in the project are a mosque, a supermarket, and an anchor that are placed in the corners of the building to work as magnet points that attract shoppers and pass by the majority of the small stores in between. This way will enhance the performance of the building to be active and exciting.

The building contains three main entrances that lead directly to the main square. The building components - beside the main three elements - are various sizes of shops, food court; entertainment space, coffee shops,

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administration, and service department.

General View

1. Site plan 2. Ground floor plan 3. First floor plan

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4. Second floor plan

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S h o ppin g M a ll

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Main Courtyard

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1. Cross section

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2. Side elevation 3. Front elevation

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Coffee Shops Area

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Al-Khobar City, Saudi Arabia

Location: Al-Khobar City Saudi Arabia Site area : 1,000,000 m2 ( 10,763,900 square feet ) ,( 248 acres ) Year : Studio 5 Fall semester 2002 - 2003 Duration: 7 weeks

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1. Civic building

8. Mosque

2. Administration Office

9. Restaurants

3. Short-term rental cottages

10. Hotel

4. Golf Club

11. Park

5. Health Club

12. Ladies Club

6. Fitness Center

13. Owned Cottages

7. Kids Gardens

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The resort is located in the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia, which is considered as one of the most attractive area in the country.

This area contains many of projects to encourage tourism industry. The mission was how to create a distinct project that reflects the position of Saudi Arabia among the surrounding countries and attracts more people to enjoy staying and recreating inside the resort. The project involves vast uses that complement each other and make the users feel comfortable and exciting.

NEW ORLEANS TOWARD A HEALTHY CITY

Location The Upper Ninth Ward New Orleans Louisiana USA

Year: Studio 2 First year Winter Quarter 2010

School Savannah College of Art and Design Post professional - Master of Architecture

Duration: 10 weeks

The City of New Orleans highlights the uniquely human process of recalling and retelling, as well as forgetting an urban activity, as an integral part of urban culture and the materiality of cities. After Hurricane Katrina, the City of New Orleans was truly in a state of disaster, disease, and trauma.

In this city, memory is forevermore overlit with trauma. Psychological trauma occurs when an experience overwhelms the individual’s ability to integrate ideas and emotions into his or her familiar ideas about the world or about what persons or institutions can be depended upon.

The city, along with its people, has suffered severely from Katrina, which changed the character of the entire city. This suffering is obvious in the destroyed buildings, parks, roads, and other infrastructure systems.

This has had a huge negative impact on people. After Katrina, the flooded areas in low-lying neighborhoods (usually low-income districts) have experienced different kinds of health consequences, which have immediate impact

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Therefore, New Orleans is a “traumatic landscape” that has become a symbol for a range of injuries and losses. Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath have been a source of “urban trauma”. Low-lying regions in the city have become unhealthy places for people to live in; consequently, those areas remain abandoned, neglected, and undeveloped.

UPPER NINTH WARD In Louisiana’s colonial era, this area was used as plantation land. The portion closer to the river was developed for residential use at the start of the 19th century at the same time as the Bywater area. As late as the 1870s the area north of St. Claude was still mostly small farms with scattered residences, and the area on the “woods� (away from the river) side of Claiborne was mostly undeveloped cypress swamp.

The Industrial Canal prompted development of the land farther back along the Canal, and provided steady work for labor in the area. As shipping became containerized in the later 20th century, demand for labor declined with negative economic consequences on the neighborhood.

The portion of the Ninth Ward along the riverfront between Faubourg Marigny and the Industrial Canal is known as Bywater.

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Although the Upper Ninth Ward was one of the most devastated areas that affected severely by Katrina, it has not been identified as an opportunity area of development in the future.

The childhood PTSD typical signs and symptoms include anxiety, impulsivity, distractibility, depression, suicidal behavior, violent behavior, dissociation, sleep problems, school failure, and regressed or delayed development. Those children are the future of New Orleans.

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THE USER GROUP

The most affected group of people is the children who experienced the dis aster. Many of them lost their homes, family members or friends, and the necessary infrastructure systems that supported their daily lives. This experience resulted in many traumas for children that affected their bodies negatively, such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, hypertension, or diabetes.

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Like a human body, the Upper Ninth Ward suffered many diseases after Katrina that affected its performance, environment, and health. So, when the human body suffers a deviation in any of its parts’ function, the body needs to be cured immediately, in the same ways as the district. The human body contains important organs, such as lungs, liver, and kidneys that are working together in a consistent way and all of them are connected to the heart by main arteries to provide it with blood. The deficit of any artery’s function will affect the entire body negatively.

In the Upper Ninth Ward, Hurricane Katrina affected the main parts of the district, such as infrastructure, connectivity, green spaces, and affordable housing. This prevented the displaced people to come back, while the people who remained suffered through these deficits of infrastructure. To make the human body become healthy, it has to inhale a sufficient amount of oxygen and omit a carbon dioxide.

Oxygen is associated with the blood that moves through many arteries to the heart. In the Upper Ninth Ward, the main artery, which connects the whole district to the heart of the city – Central Business District- is St. Claude Ave., which became unhealthy after Katrina.

The idea is to provide intensive green spaces, which are connected directly to it from north to south, to provide sufficient amounts of oxygen and absorb the carbon dioxide from the air. Also, St. Claude Ave. itself contains green areas to become a green corridor; therefore, St. Claude Ave. will become a healthy artery that allows the whole Upper Ninth Ward to feed the heart of the city with clean air and oxygen.

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Low Topography ( 0’ -10’)

High Topography ( 0’-5’)

Historic District

Mississippi River

Urban Farms

Community Gardens

Neighborhood Parks Linear Green Corridors Green Corner Plazas

Vest Pocket Parks Linear Public Park

Public Dock

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refreshing the waterfront

Location Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn New York USA School Savannah College of Art and Design Post professional - Master of Architecture

Year: Studio 3 Second year Spring Quarter 2011 Duration: 10 weeks

The Gowanus Canal is located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, geographically on the westernmost portion of Long Island. Connected to the Upper New York Bay, the canal borders the neighborhoods of Red Hook and Carroll Gardens to the west, Boerum Hill to the north, and Gowanus and Park Slope to the east; Sunset Park is further south along the eastern edge of the canal’s outlet into the bay.

There are five east-west bridge crossings over the canal, located at Union Street, Carroll Street (an historic retractile bridge), Third Street, Ninth Street, and Hamilton Avenue. The Gowanus Expressway (Interstate 278) and the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway, the only above-ground section of the original Independent Subway System, pass overhead. Currently designated an EPA Superfund site, the canal and its surrounding neighborhoods have begun the process of a federally-guided remediation of contaminated land.

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Gowanus Crossings is an inaugural international ideas competition, which invites speculation on the value of urban development of postindustrial lands, and the possibility of dynamic, pedestrian-oriented architecture that either passively or actively engages with the canal and the surrounding watershed. This competition, the first of a series, focuses on the design of connections in and around the canal, and the residual moments around these connections.

Adoptive Reused Building

Mix-Use (North Waterfront) Mix-Use (South Waterfront)

Single - family with retail

Hotel

Whole Foods Amphitheater

Cultural Plaza

Mueseum

Urban Farms

Adoptive Reused Building

1. Multi Family

8. Cultural Plaza

2. Single Family

9. Hotel

3. Urban Farm

10. Amphitheater

4. Lofts

11. Kayak Landing

5. Mix- use Urban Housing

12. Recreational Open space

6. Museum

13. Platform

Library

Mix - Use Urban Housing

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7. Library

Section B-B : One-way street /

Section A-A : Two-way street / Mix-use

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Mix -use ( South waterfront )

Western Platform

Residential

Eastern Platform

Green open space

Section C-C : One-way street / Mix-use

Mix- use single family

Library with roof garden

Cultural Plaza

3rd Avenue

Urban Housing

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Museum with roof garden

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Semi-public open space Private green space Public green space

Private open space

The urban housing buildings are located in the area west of the 4th Ave. and east of the 3rd Ave., and south the 1st st. to the north of the 5th street, which is well connected location and its proximity to Byrne Park, Park Slope Neighborhood, and a direct connection to Prospect Park within an enjoyable walking distance.

This location will create a transition between the surrounding highly dense residential neighborhood and the water front area. The building design takes into consideration the safety issue by intensifying the users’ engagement with the sidewalk with many kinds of open spaces, Also, these open spaces will consolidate the social relationships between the residents themselves and with strangers within safe environment.

The system harvests rainwater and gray water from the urban housing buildings, as well as water running through the bioswales. There is an underground storage tank located at the corner of the housing blocks and connected to the main tank at the urban farms.

There are many advantages of harvesting rainwater for landscape use : Makes use of a natural resource and reduces flooding, storm water runoff, erosion, and contamination of surface water with pesticides, sediment, metals, and fertilizers Reduces the need for imported water Excellent source of water for landscape irrigation, with no chemicals such as fluoride and chlorine, and no dissolved salts and minerals from the soil No filtration system required for landscape irrigation Increases the quantity and quality of the water supply for landscape plants, and helps

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keep potential storm water pollutants out of streets, watercourses and the groundwater

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C U LT U R A

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Mohammed Abdullah Bakarman Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, P.O Box : 806 Riyadh 11392 Cell (KSA): +966-504212241 Cell (USA): +1216-482-9454 Fax: +966-1 2050458 E-mail: a_bma@hotmail.com