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ARCH 473/3522 - DIGITAL DESIGN STUDIO AND WORKSHOP Shrouk Mohamed Spring 2019
The American University in Cairo (AUC) School of Sciences and Engineering - Department of Architecture ARCH 473/3522 - Digital Design Studio and Workshop (Spring 2019) Student portfolio documenting samples of work submitted along the course, including research, experimentation, 3D modeling, digital fabrication, parametric design and modeling, physical model realisation and analysis. Student name: Shrouk Mohamed Student ID: 900150383
Š The American University in Cairo (AUC), May 2019
Shrouk Mohamed Architecture Student
One of my tactics is to create an Egyptian Magazine tackling the modern conceptual designs of the egyptian architects encouraging them to again get back to the egyptian identity as a kind of marketing strategy. Searching for each and every egyptian building with a concept or a story behind it, publish it inspire people and let them know how much a space could be meaningful as well as visually appealing.
I am an architect/designer based in Cairo, Egypt. Curiosity and passion are my main drivers in such a journey, they make me carve my way out of the institutional kind of academics. Thus building up an architectural mindset of my own. As any other architect, we get to acquire plenty of skills, taste and maybe hobbies along the way. Mine are fashion design/ styling and designing whatever bothers me in my everyday life. Pointing out the problem always initiates a solution which I tend to do trying to impliment it somehow with my very limited skills and tools. My dream is to find a way in which we could define ourselves as Egyptian Architects that would only happen when we redefine the Egyptian Architectural identity.
BORAX SALT CRYSTALS MICROSCOPIC IMAGE FRACTAL AND EDGY.
01 CRYSTALIZTION
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3 WHY BORAX?
Borax is one of the most famous do it yourself experiments which encourages many of the students and even science teachers to experiment in it. This relates to our architecture department and how we are always apt to try different diy experiment. Borax is white, monoclinic crystaline mineral composed of hydrated sodium borate. The crystals are normally small having an earthy mass. Soft and very light.
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5 THOROUGH PROCESS OBSERVATION.
We were asked to have a more thorough observation on the visual and accumulative process of the crystallization so I started searching for a zoomed in timelapse of Borax crystallization process. I concluded that it first starts by forming a very fine line within the surface itself then some fractals take place around them forming a more bulky look then the rest of them have to touch at least 3/4 of it to be completely attached.
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7 BORAX CRYSTAL EXPERIMENT
Borax is one of the fastest salts when it come to crystallization. These pictures were taken after only one day of letting it settle and crystallize. We had to leave it in the chemistry lab so we could not observe it frequently . The first observation was that it all percipitated on each other and that the fractals accumulate showing the actual small size of the fractal and not growing smothly into one big unit. That emphasizes the role of a large surface area for the crystals to form. In addition to this, there are some fractals which decided to climb up the beaker itself, my assumption is that the white text varied the temperature or the light exposure.
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8 After three weeks, the crystals dried out and shrinked that it broke the glass beaker. As shown in the picture it transformed into edgy reflective and transparent units.Taking the shape of the beaker even after being broken which means that these units are strongly attached together. At last, I got inspired by the reflectivity and how it formed a shelter out of fractals but still letting light in.
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Site analysis
ANALYSING THE THREE PROPOSED COURTS AND CHOOSING THE MOST SUITABLE FOR MY CONCEPT.
02 SITE ANALYSIS ARCH 473/3522 - Spring 2019
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THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO
I chose this court because it has maximum sunlight exposure unlike the rest. In New Cairo, solar panels is getting trendy because of its excess in both seasons. That should be the future of energy production.
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Implmentation
ANALYSING THE THREE PROPOSED COURTS AND CHOOSING THE MOST SUITABLE FOR MY CONCEPT.
03 IMPLEMENTATION ARCH 473/3522 - Spring 2019
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INSPIRATIONS
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These units are composed of transparent photovoltaic glass with an edgy reflective shape going through a space frame structure to connect the outside with the inside. Its edgy shape is inspired from the real experiment which had dried broken edgy fractals. The top surface is supposed to catch the sun so its angle is always directed towards the sun.
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SHAPE SHIFTING UNIT The unit opens is made out of photovoltaic transparent glass catching the sunlight not only to generate energy but also to direct it towards the inside of the building to maximize illumination. Light gets reflected by the sides of the unit until it reaches the smallest point inside the building. The opening side is connected to an electronic system directing it to the sunlight. These units are held together with a steel structure that then are covered with cladding panels.
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GRASSHOP
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PPER CODE
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3D SHOTS ARCH 473/3522 - Spring 2019
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TURNING THE CONCEPTUAL FORM INTO A TECHNIICAL, BUILDABLE AMD MOST IMPORTANTLY FUNCTIONAL ONE.
04 DRAWINGS ARCH 473/3522 - Spring 2019
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