ABOUT ME
I am a 22 year old Kurdish architecture student studied from Liverpool John Moores University with an immense level of passion towards designing buildings that serves a purpose for the community and solutions for the users needs. I deeply enjoy exploring a variety of architectural software’s. This has provided me to not become limited when developing my skills thus pushing my creativity allowing more options when designing. I made a commitment to become the year representative during my 2nd year as I saw an opportunity for my leadership and communication skills to expand becoming a voice for other students. Reading a book at the park is my hobby and this brings peace to my mind. During times of reflections, this sparks my mind with different ideas for my designs.
CURRICULUM VITAE EDUCATION
Location:
Liverpool Merseyside, England
• 2019 - 2022
Liverpool John Moores University: BA (HONS) Architecture
• 2016 - 2019
Newcastle College: Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Mechanical Engineering = (Grade DDD) Level 2 General Engineering = (Grade Double Distinction DD) GCSE Maths = (Grade C)
• 2011 - 2016
Phone number: 07400660686
Mortimer Comprehensive College: English = (Grade C) Product Design = (Grade C) Level 2 ECDL in IT Application Skills QCF = (Grade Distinction D)
Email:
anihad261199@gmail.com
SKILLS • DESIGN
• RENDER
AutoDesk AutoCAD AutoDesk Revit SketchUp Pro AutoDesk Fusion 360 Ultimaker Cura VELUX Daylight Visualizer Morpholio Trace QGIS Adobe InDesign Adobe Photoshop Microsoft Office Word Microsoft Office PowerPoint Microsoft Office Excel Microsoft Office OneNote
Lumion Twinmotion Enscape V-Ray
• MEDIA
Adobe After Effects Adobe Premier
• PHYSICAL
Drawing using drafting board Physical model-making
EXPERIENCES • 2020 - Became year representative during my 2nd year study at university • 2017 - Assistant Restaurant Volunteer for Nabis Kitchen in Liverpool • 2016 - Assistant volunteer for Gateshead Halal Food Store • 2015 - Training for barbering at 4 LIFE STYLE in Liverpool
PERSONAL SKILLS • CREATIVITY • ORGANISATION • COMMUNICATION • TEAMWORK
Instagram page:
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LinkedIn:
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LANGUAGES • ENGLISH • KURDISH • ARABIC
Lake District, Gummers How
South Shields, England
Liverpool City
CONTENTS
UNIVERISTY • BA Year 3 Semester 2 - Comprehensive Design Project - Birkenhead School of Art Architectural Phenomenology and Spatial Hierarchy within Art School • BA Year 3 Semester 1 - Experimental Design 2 - (Weather or Not) The Weather Through Senses • BA Year 2 Semester 2 - Experimental Design 1 - (Elements and Energies) The Elemental Powers of Yin Yang Energy Engagement • BA Year 2 Semester 1 - Urban Design Project - (Fabric District, Liverpool City) Rejuvenating The Fabric Community • BA Year 1 Semester 2 - Architectural Design 1 - (A Place for Crafting) Tandoori Naan Bread (Bakery) • BA Year 1 Semester 1 - Architectural Design 2 - (Archifilm) Temple of Stars
Birkenhead School of Art
Comprehensive Design Project (Birkenhead School of Art)
ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY AND SPATIAL HIERARCHY WITHIN ART SCHOOL
Narrative / Preface My CDP project is about creating a higher education art school connecting this to the sites context and community which would be located in Birkenhead close by Hamilton Street. The role of education has always been important to the development of society especially when focussing in onto art schools. The spatial hierarchy for the interior occupants uses such as students and teachers is critical, creating a more coherent and a psychological comforting learning environment. The quality of how spaces are designed can only be appreciated once the manifestation of the education setting is accomplished through sensitivity towards the human emotions, reactions, responses and thoughts. The proportions and scale of how a space is laid out has a direct relation to the quality of teaching that can be shared as well as how much positive impact is reflected upon a student learning development. This in result would create an informed outcome for the architectural building in which the differences would inevitably spark a desire for signifying the different levels of design decisions such as the cultural, philosophical, technological, function and form.
MASSING DEVELOPMENTS
OPENING THE BLOCK
VOLUME
VIEWS OUTWARDS
DIVISION
BUILDING CUT DOWN
VIEWS
SPALYED GLAZING
ABSTRACT MODEL
CONCEPT MODEL
MASSING MODELS (DEVELOPMENTAL)
SITE MODEL
CRYSTAL BALL - VIEWS
MATERIALS
EXPLODED TOPOGRAPGY AXONOMETRIC
FIGURE GROUND
SITE PLAN
Site Buildings
Tunnel Line
STREET / ROAD PATTERN
Public Limit
Trees
MASTER PLAN
River Mersey
TRAFFIC
Contours
Terrain
CULTURAL CONTEXT
War Cenotaph
Hamilton Square Mersey Rail
Georgian style architecture
Sandstone material (most of the site)
Rear elevation of listed buildings
Queen Victoria Memorial Town Hall
Wilfred Owen Statue (War memorial) View to Liverpool
Different elevation height to listen buildings
After upon visiting the Hamilton Conservation area within Birkenhead, my immediate first reaction was a sense of calmness and comfort due to the form and layout of the site. By visually viewing the long and wide roads with the Hamilton Square split into equal proportionate four quarters surrounded by sandstone Georgian listed buildings with identical elevations, clearly provoked the thought reminding me how the architect James Gillespie Graham intended to accomplish his plans for the site. However, the interaction with the locals residences within the community was quite limited as people felt uncomfortable to open up of how life and the ongoing changes to the site feels like especially living there which brought curiosity and bewilderment to my mind. However, one interaction with a local made it clear as to why police was always present everywhere and mentioning how he got Post-traumatic stress disorder and was caused due to a crime occurring on site. So, therefore although the Conservation area carries a great deal of historical value, I therefore question what has created such crime to be present making the lives of the innocent at risk as well as preventing the architecture and site less welcoming.
SITE ELEVATION
LANDMARK SKETCHES
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LOWER GROUND FLOOR
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1) Fab lab 2) Library / social learning 3) South side escape stairs 4) Emergency exit 5) Printing space 6) Communal leisure 7) Elevator 8) Disabled W/C 9) Gender neutral W/C 10) Spiral staircase to ground floor 11) Hallway to 3d workshop 12) Staff room / storage 13) North side escape stairs 14) CNC machine room 15) Delivery entrance 16) 3d workshop work station 17) Delivery entrance
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GROUND FLOOR
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1) Front courtyard seating area 2) Central outdoor walk through arcade 3) Cafe 4) Public Pavilion space 5) Exhibition display 6) South side escape stairs 7) Light-well to lower ground 8) Private School 9) Foyer 10) Spiral staircase to upper or lower floor 11) Elevator 12) Entrance to lower ground 13) Disabled W/C 14) Gender neutral W/C 15) North side escape stairs 16) Basketball rear half-court 17) Entrance to lower ground
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FIRST FLOOR
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1) Central atrium 2) Open study space 3) South corner balcony 4) Fashion studio 5) South side escape stairs 6) Photography studio 7) Cleaning store room for W/C 8) Disabled W/C 9) Elevator 10) Gender neutral W/C 11) Technician room 12) CAD suite 13) North side escape stairs 14) Digital Graphics and media room 15) Spiral staircase to ground and lower ground floor 16) North corner balcony 17) Staircase to second floor 18) Staircase to first floor
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SECOND FLOOR
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1) Central atrium 2) Staircase to first floor 3) Staircase to third floor 4) Open hallway 5) Security office 6) Elevator to third floor mezzanine 7) Printing room 8) Fine arts studio 9) South corner balcony 10) Elevator to lower floors 11) Seating space 12) Disabled W/C 13) Gender neutral W/C 14) Hallway space for PC access 15) Hallway seating 16) North corner balcony 17) North side escape stairs 18) Staff room 19) South side escape stairs
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THIRD FLOOR
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1) Central atrium 2) Staircase to third floor mezanine 3) Staircase from third floor to second floor 4) Open hallway / seating spaces 5) Elivator to lower ground floors 6) Disabled W/C 7) Gender neatural W/C 8) History of Art and museum studio 9) North side escape stairs 10) Quite studio space 11) Storage space 12) Spiral staircase to rooftop terrace
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THIRD FLOOR MEZZANINE
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1) Central atrium 2) Staircase to third floor 3) Architecture studio open space 4) Staircase to rooftop terrace 5) Lecture teaching space 6) Physical model space 7) South side escape stairs 8) Studio group tutorial bays with pin up partition walls surrounded 9) Storage space 10) Elevator to second floor
STRUCTURAL / FACADE MODEL
EXPLODED STRUCTURE AXONOMETRIC Glass skylight atrium Glass roof skylight Concrete roof Parapet roof glass balustrade Third floor 300mm mezzanine concrete Third floor 300mm concrete slab Concrete walls for W/C Concrete staircase within atrium Limestone wall for splayed windows Rammed earth external retaining wall for vehicle entrance 400mm concrete egress walls Concrete emergency stairs Limestone facade Curtain glass wall splayed windows Concrete spiral stairs Second floor 300mm concrete slab First floor 300mm concrete slab Curtain wall around glass arcade Transulacent 30mm round floor glazing Ground floor 300mm concrete slab Stone mullions for facade glazing
Structural 500mm concrete columns Concrete 400mm lower ground retaining wall Lower ground 300mm concrete slab Pile concrete foundation 2000mm deep and 900mm x 900mm conrete sqaure slab head
EXPLODED FLOOR PLAN AXONOMETRIC
Private building - Foyer
Atrium / staircases
Photography studio
Public Exhibition
Central outdoor arcade
Library / social learning
Third floor out to architecture studio mezzanine
Front street perspective
Birkenhead School of Art
The Weather Through Senses
Experimental Design 2 (Weather or Not)
The Weather Through Senses
Narrative / Preface My design manifesto is a weather station located within Lake District at Gummers How intending to provide a strong reminder regarding climate and weather. This can be done by heightening the senses and changing their fixed habits through their journey of experiences educating visitors the connection between architecture and the natural world. A curved rooftop that allows rainwater to naturally flow filling up checkpoints of pools then gushing down the hillside streams as a symbolic architectural element respecting nature upon the hilltops, an exhibition space exposing extinct rare animals and species due to humans daily decisions as well as an education space. The connection between weather and senses is the core focus during ones experience. Location: Lake District, Gummers How
EXPLODED AXO
FLOOR PLANS
KEY: 1) Scientist entrance/exit 2) Living room
Retractable louvres
3) Kitchen 4) Dining space 5) Laundry 6) W/C 7) Bedroom
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Roof
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12) Education space
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13) Public exit
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14) Bi-fold doors to seating steps
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Curved beam system
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KEY: 1) Public entrance 2) Gathering space 3) U-staircase to first floor
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First Floor
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lower ground 5) Disabled W/C 6) Male W/C
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9) Storage space 10) Staff room 11) Bi-fold doors to public balcony 13
12) Pool from rainwater
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14) Service space
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Ground Floor
16) Reception space 17
17) Outdoor seating cafe
KEY: 1) Emergency
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staircase 2) Exhibition space 3) Exit to balcony
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Lower Ground
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Site embedded seating steps
SECTION A-A
VIEW TOWARDS CAFE SPACE
EXHIBITION SPACE
SECTION B-B
LIBRARY SPACE
STAFF ROOM
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
VOLUME
DIVISION
RAINWATER POOL AND BALCONY
ROOF AND LOUVRES
Vertical timber columns
TOPOGRAPHY
Arched structural beams
LAKE DISTRICT - GUMMERS HOW Buildings Weather Station
Hiking routes
Joist arched roof beams (secondary structure)
Horizontal timber floor joists Streams
Public limit
Trees
Rammed Earth fllors and walls
Glulam Timber cross bracing
Lake windermere
Contours
Terrain
The Elemental Powers of Yin Yang Energy Engagement
Experimental Design 1 (Elements and Energies)
The Elemental Powers of Yin Yang Energy Engagement
Narrative / Preface The design intention is to manifest a Yin Yang Research Centre located close to China Town within Liverpool’s Waterfront beside the Queen’s Dock. After visiting the site, in order to understand it’s physical contexts and connecting my building design to this with fluidity, This area contains one of the most important and crucial physical element of Yin Yang which is the water and mostly exposed to its open surroundings. The aim is to provide a variety of opportunities for the multicultural and diverse community as well as researchers to explore and share the Chinese wisdoms bringing light to ones psychological and physical wellbeing. Yin Yang - The wisdoms that lay beneath the ancient culture of Chinese connects also to medicine such as cupping therapy (as seen on the right performed on my body), acupuncture, natural herbal remedies, as well as within the disciplines of martial artist. Additionally, the five fundamental natural elements within Yin Yang also known in Chinese as ‘Wuxang’ these are Water, Wood, Fire, Earth and Metal. Each has it’s own unique significance and importance regarding ones life. I believe the current circumstances where all living beings must adapt through this unprecedented pandemic due to Covid-19, by further exposing the Yin Yang, I consider many will benefit from this immensely and raises more awareness of Chinese Elements and Energies. This in result has influenced my architectural project of the building for my design.
Cupping therapy on my body
CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT MASSING
VOLUME OF BUILDING
DIVISION OF BUILDING
BALCONY AND COURTYARD
COLUMNS AND TERRACES
EXPLODED AXO (FLOOR PLAN)
Roof
Third Floor
Second Floor
First Floor
Ground Floor
STAIRS AND WAVEY ROOF
SITE ANALYSIS
FIGURE GROUND
STREET PATTERN
TRAFFIC
Time: 8:30am Fast Traffic Slow Traffic
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Bicycle-Friendly Road Trails
Dedicated lanes
BUILDING HEIGHTS
LAND USE
Queens Dock (Site) Vegetation Education
Car Park Retail Commercial Accommodation
1 Floor 2 Floors 3 Floors
4 Floors 5 Floors 6 Floors
7 Floors 9 Floors 11 Floors
North Elevation..
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East Elevation.. 1 : 200
West Elevation.. 1 : 200
Rooms/Spaces: 18
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1) Delivery back entrance 2) Male (WC) 3) Female (WC) 4) Restaurant and cafe area 5) Service space 6) Cleaning storage space 7)Main kitchen 8) Staff break room 9) Managers office 10) Yin Yang display room 11) PUBLIC elevator to upper levels 12) Yin Yang central courtyard 13) Spiral staircase to first floor with center void 14) Main entrance 15) Reception area 16) PRIVATE elevator to accommodation 17) Library 18) Entrance to Queens Dock 19) Emergency fire exit
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First Floor First Floor 1 : 150 6 1 : 150
Third Floor
1) Open public terrace/balcony on first floor 2) Start-up unit balcony no.1 3) Start-up unit no.1 4) Start-up unit no.2 5) Start-up unit balcony no.2 6) PUBLIC elevator to upper levels 7) Male (W/C) 8) Female (W/C) 9) Teaching lab #1 (Cupping therapy room 1) 10) Teaching lab #1 (Cupping therapy room 2) 11) Teaching lab #1 (Cupping therapy room 3) 12) Spiral staircase to second floor with center void 13) Yin Yang central courtyard 14) PRIVATE elevator to accommodation 15) Teaching lab #3 (Martial Arts) 16) Start-up unit balcony no.3 17) Start-up unit no.3 18) Start-up unit no.4 19) Start-up unit balcony no.4 20) Emergency fire exit staircase outside
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Rooms/Spaces: 15
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Ground Floor 1 : 150
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Third Floor 8 1 : 150 Third Floor 8 1 : 150
1) Open public terrace/balcony on second floor 2) Meeting room balcony 3) Meeting room no.1 4) PUBLIC corner balcony on second floor 5) PUBLIC elevator to upper levels 6) Teaching lab #2 (Acupuncture room 1) 7) Teaching lab #2 (Acupuncture room 2) 8) Teaching lab #2 (Acupuncture room 3) 9) Prototyping lab storage room 10) Prototyping lab 11) Spiral staircase to second floor with center void 12) Yin Yang central courtyard 13) PRIVATE elevator to accommodation 14) Acupuncture treatment #1 15) Acupuncture treatment #2 16) Acupuncture treatment #3 17) Design lab (Acupuncture and cupping design) 18) Design lab balcony no.3 19) Meeting room no.2 20) Prototyping lab balcony no.4 21) Emergency fire exit staircase outside
Rooms/Spaces: 1) Bedroom no.1 2) Bedroom no.2 3) Accommodation balcony 4) Living room 5) Dining space 6) Storage space 7) Accommodation entrance 8) PRIVATE elevator to lower floors 9) Kitchen 10) Accommodation W/C 11) PUBLIC corner balcony on third floor 12) PUBLIC elevator to lower floors 13) Cleaning storage room 14) Male (W/C) 15) Female (W/C) 16) Engineering lab - (Chinese herbal medicine) 17) Spiral staircase to first floor with center void 18) Yin Yang central courtyard 19) Office 20) Lecture room 21) Lecture room balcony 22) Emergency fire exit staircase outside
KEY:
ROOF ENCLOSURE AND WALL
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1) Damp proof membrane covered in a layer of asphalt material mixed with water repellent coating 2) Liquid rubber concrete 25mm layer. 3) Reinforced curved concrete 400mm. 4) Thermal roof insulation layer 150mm. 5) Metal panel 20mm. 6) Water drip from rain. 7) Acoustic ceiling tile 12mm. 8) Drainage path. 9) Pressure plate. 10) Double glazing 6mm thick. 11) Insulation board 15mm. 12) Damp proof memebrane. 13) Break in rigid insulated sheathing board filled with flexible fire stop with cavity tray over it. 14) Small gap filled with acoustic sealant. 15) Baseboard trim 3mm x 10mm. 16) Marble flooring 3mm thick. 17) Screed 10mm above this is vapour control membrane. 18) Insulation board 15mm. 19) Reinforced floor concrete slab 200mm thick. 20) Rigid insulation 50mm thick. 21) Ceiling gypsum board 12.5mm 22)Acoustic ceiling tile 12mm. 23) Light steel panel separating the concrete wall to the room 5mm. 24) Gypsum board last layer internal wall 12.5mm. 25) Additional thermal insulation as well as for acoustics against external noise 50mm thick. 26) Detail break line. 27) Brick 215mm x 102.5mm x 65mm. 28) Mortar between bricks 10mm thick. 29) Partial fill cavity 30mm. 30) Insulation board 50mm thick. 31) Damp proof course. 32) Timber separation block 37.4mm x 51.8mm. 33) Foundation block 102mm x 215mm. 34) Reinforced concrete footing 500mm x 200mm. 35) Structural concrete blocks 100mm x 220mm. 36) Insulated plasterboard 40mm with 3mm skin finish. 37) Marble flooring 3mm thick. 38) Screed over the concrete floor slab 10mm thick. 39) Rigid insulation above the concrete slab 25mm thick. 40) Damp proof membrane. 41) Reinforced steel rods 12mm within the concrete slab. 42) Concrete raft foundation slab. 43) Sand. 44) Earth.
Section perspectiveperspective A-A Section A-ASection perspec 99 10 FIRST FLOOR TO WALL 11
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EXPLODED AXO (STRUCTURAL)
STRUCTURAL MODEL
Third Floor
Second Floor
First Floor
Ground Floor Ground and first floor interior view
Second and third floor interior view
Ground Floor - Main entrance reception
Ground Floor - Restaurant and cafe space
First Floor - Public open terrace
Exterior East elevation - fire escape
Rejuvenating the Fabric Community
Urban Design Project (Fabric District, Liverpool City)
REJUVENATING THE FABRIC COMMUNITY
Narrative / Preface To enhance and stimulate the overall communities experiences when visiting the site, with the utilisation of an outdoor public seating step that arises, their views can expand, with a simultaneous hidden car park allocated beneath, this element supplements more space for parking. Furthermore, as you begin your first step up the stairs beside Kempston Street and reaching each landing, you have the ability to digest different views at distinctive stages. By reaching the part crescent shaped moon bridge supported by two concrete columns leading to the outdoor public Hourglass Rooftop Garden (inspired by a Black Widow Spider), during night-time you can view and begin stargazing as there is little light pollution allowing clear clarity visibility to be present. In addition to this, as the building is shaped into an Hourglass from a plan view, this creates a hard edge to Islington and lifts pedestrians up to roof level thus away from the noise pollutions of the streets. One can view and capture a sense of panoramic view allowing you to observe multiple areas whilst on the rooftop. One of the amazing features of this is that you can view the North Star as the location of Liverpool is slightly higher up the countries position within the North West of England and the city architecturally speaking is a marine environmental city in the form of an irregular crescent shape on the shore of Merseyside. This means the higher you begin to travel the higher the North Star gets and if you’re in the South of England, the North Star is simply quite difficult to view. The next North Star will possibly appear ‘March 24th, 2100’ ((Rao, 2017), The North Star: Polaris) and this will be an exciting moment to absorb this spectacular view of a once in a lifetime opportunity to be in full presence generating an everlasting world class experience for the community.
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Stafford Street Section - AA
Kempston Street Section - BB
Site Plan
Public round bench
Center of bridge view to the pathway leading to the stairs
Bridge, vegetation landscape, seating steps and building.
Outside view from first floor
Rejuvenating the Fabric Community
Tandoori Naan Bread (Bakery)
Architectural Design 2 (A Place for Crafting)
Tandoori Naan Bread (Bakery)
Myrtle Street, Liverpool Merseyside
Narrative / Preface For my crafting design, baking naan breads has been a ch osen decision and one of the major reasons for this is that tandoori baking ovens is a heavy part of my Kurdish heritage. The area is populated with different backgrounds and cultures, this is mostly covered by university students staying in student apartments. Moreover, breads in general is a human necessity need when eating, therfore providing convenience to the area and neighbourhood allows further expansion to the reach and accessibilty of freshly warm baked naan breads esspecially when seeked in the morning for breakfast. By creating my physical site model, pyhsical and digtial crafting model as well as drawings, a representation can be viewed from different perspectives as this can become crucial for the analyses phase as people need to be aware of the existance of the building’s location and the relationship in terms of how this is situated on the site.
EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC
ASSESSMENT OF DAYLIGHT FACTOR
A pysical model of my crafting building with the intention to utilize the light meter in order to investigate and explore the Daylight Factor lux levels. By using an endoscope, I was able take pictures of key areas of the crafting and living accommodation space as light entered the building when faced North direction. Additonally, 3D digital model using Sketchup Pro to then imported onto VELUX Daylight Visualizer in order to further investigate and analyze the Daylight Factor and lux levels attacking this from a different method. A pysical model and 3D digital Sketchup Pro model allowed me to compare and contrast results to understand the light limitations and restrictions from two different and distinctive approaches.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
AXONAMETRIC DETAIL FOUNDATION 7) Tiles 1) Glass plane window 2) Steel C section
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
3) Timber block 4) Earth 5) Damp proof membrane DPM 6) Steel rods
8) Polypropylene 9) Screed 10) Damp proof membrane DPM 12) Rigid Insulation 100mm 11) Reinforced Concrete slab 300mm
STRUCTURAL SECTION DETAIL
ROOF ENCLOSURE AND WALL (1:20)
KEY DESCRIPTION:
WINDOW AND WALL STRUCTURE (1:20)
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FOUNDATION (1:20)
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1) A layer of asphalt material on the roof. 2) Isolating membrane. 3) Concrete that includes steel reinforcement. 4) Damp Proof Membrane for the roof under concrete. 5) Timber block between concerte and insulation. 6)Foil backed slabs. 7) Concret wall . 8) Insulation 100mm. 9) Cavity Weep Holes. 10) Timber block between U channel and Cavity Weep Holes. 11) Galzing unit (window/glass).
12) Tiles glued. 13) Polypropylene. 14) Screed. 15) DPM under screed. 16) Concrete slab 300mm. 17) DPM under slab. 18) Bricks. 19)Cement. 20)Reinforced concrete floor. 21) Timber block. 22) Steel beams . 23) U channel for glass. 24) Concrete pavement. 25) Timber block. 26) Steel C section. 27) Earth/underground.
North Elevation
Public dining space (ground
Tandoori service area (ground
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Public balcony (first floor)
Private living room (first floor)
Temple of Stars
Architectural Design 1 (Archifilm)
Temple of Stars
Narrative / Preface Human beings are so attached and connected to nature. However, with the passage of time we begin to rely more on technology and neglect the beauty of our surroundings and what it contains. There are multiple purposes of the Temple of Stars this is to simply allow you to experience the journey in many ways. As you begin your first step up the stairs and reaching each radial checkpoints you have the ability to digest different views at different stages. By reaching the top of the Trow Rocks, during the night you can lie down and look through the hole in the dome (inspired from the Pantheon) and begin stargazing as there is very little light pollution allowing clear clarity visibility. Furthermore, the reflection from the mirrored interior of the dome creates a panoramic view allowing you to see mulitple areas whilst facing one direction. One of the amazing features of this Architecture is that you can view the NORTH STAR as the location of the Trow Rocks is higher up the countries position in the North East of England next to the beach beside the seashore. This means the higher you begin to travel the higher the North Star gets and if your in the South of England the North Star is simply quite difficult to view. The next North Star will possibly appear ‘March 24th, 2100’ (from SPACE.COM, The North Star: Polaris) and it will be an exciting experience to absorb the spectacular view of a once in a lifetime opportunity.
STORYBOARD SKETCH #1 Standing at the base looking up, only part of the Temple of Stars is visible this is to provoke you to inspect or tour the site above. Furthermore, multiple different circular checkpoints on the hill was there with the intentions to create order and links to one and another.
STORYBOARD SKETCH #2 As you approach the last checker landing, you catch the full view of the Temple of Stars and the Gun Machine from a reasonable distance. The gun machine was part of an armies coastal defences for South Shields back in the 1887, so expecting a historical element can become significantly intresting to historians.
STORYBOARD SKETCH #3
As your lying down on the bench, your view through the hole of the dome during the night is sharp and visible. Also the interior of the dome is mirror material material.
• Dome = Galvanised steel sheet (Gold) • Beam = Concrete • Columns= Concrete • Wall around the columns = Thick glass • Interior of dome = Dome shaped metallic mirror • Benches = Hardwood • Tiles = Tiles (Ceramic Glazed) • Base = Bricks • Steps = Concrete
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO YEAR 2019/22 LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN AHMAD NIHAD ABDULQADIR Location:
Liverpool Merseyside, England
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