Marwan El Menshawy - AUC - ARCH 473/3522

A R C H 4 7 3 / 3 5 2 2 - D I G I TA L D E S I G N S T U D I O A N D W O R K S H O P Marwan El Menshawy 900112886 Fall 2019

Portofolio Dr. Sherif Morad Dr. Passaint Massoud

Special Thanks to the whole team and everyone who supported us throught the semester it really was a challenging one, but definetely one to remember.

Dr. Sherif & Dr Passaint it really was a pleasure.

To the teaching assistance specifically: Hasab Youstina Daniel You really have taught us a lot I hope we can one day make you proud...

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: Marwan El Menshawy Student ID: 900112886

Š The American University in Cairo (AUC), May 2019

Marwan El Menshawy Architecture Student

Lewis, “has always represented more than responsible construction or durable shelter. Artfulness of form and artistry of building have long been the dominant standards for measuring the extent to which human made artifacts are transformed from the profane to the sacred.”

What is architecture? The word architecture can have many meanings. Architecture can be both an art and a science, a process and a result, and both an idea and a reality. People often use the words “architecture” and “design” interchangeably, which naturally broadens the definition of architecture. If you can “design” your own career goals, aren’t you the architect of your own life?

In my subjective view architecture is simply an expression of thought, expressions of art that are translated into simple experiences for the users of the space.

Being an architect is in that manner nothing more then being an artist, who uses the world the space between the skies and the earth as their own personal exhibition.

U.S. architect and journalist Roger K. Lewis (b. 1941) writes that societies tend to value most a structure that “transcends service or functional performance” and that are more than mere buildings. “Great architecture,” writes

Frank Lloyd Wright *1867–1959) claimed that this artistry and beauty can only come from the human spirit. “Mere building may not know ‘spirit’ at all,” Wright wrote in 1937.

“And it is well to say that the spirit of the thing is the essential life of that thing because it is truth.” To Wright’s thinking, a beaver dam, a beehive, and a bird’s nest may be beautiful, lower forms of architecture, but the “great fact” is this—”architecture is simply a higher type and expression of nature by way of human nature where human beings are concerned. The spirit of man enters into all, making of the whole a godlike reflection of himself as creator.”

This storybook describes my journey into Parametric design and computing.

Parametric design is a process based on algorithmic thinking that enables the expression of parameters and rules that, together, define, encode and clarify the relationship between design intent and design response.

Welcome into the mind of an abstract creature of thought...

Outline: 1- Transformable Architecture 2- Lightweight Movable Units I 3- Lightweight Movable Units II / Facade Re-Design

A Shelter for the Homeless Community in Suez

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The Octopus as a Concept

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Directionality independent from the movement

After deeper analysis of the octopus and its habbits the octopus with all its dynamic attributes became a great starting point for inspiration as it gave us an insight into the flexibility of nature and thus opened the door for new transformations and developments

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The Challenge became adjusting the movement patterns of the octopus to develop a new logic that can further be translated into a functioning architectural project

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5 A connection study needed to be done in order to be able to identify the possible flexible connections and transformations possible

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6 A Playful experience of an experimental model developed further inspirations for the movement and flexibility

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Closing Statement

Experiencing the computational design aspects of architecture in combination with the Design 4 course (Structures) really openend my eyes to different rather unique ways of architectural expression.

It goes without saying that architecture is a field that goes far beyond of what I have learned so far and maybe ever will learn.

If I had to choose one thing I really have learned from this course is, that no matter how far we go in architecture we always have to keep an open mind to different techniques, I strongly believe that the only true way of success in such a field of study is to always remain a student of the art.

So on this bombshell this chapter of my study ends, but with every end there comes a new beginning and no matter how far we walk the path of million steps remains a path of million steps.

Im pleased to say that no matter how difficult the architectural journey has been, Im glad to have entered it and Im honored to remain a student of that craft, for it is in itself a journey worth taking.

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