ALANZI PORTFOLIO
Contact Information Email
alanzi_91@yahoo.com
Address
Apartment 65, 21 Colquitt Street, Liverpool, UK
Phone
+447463804236
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Community management Leadership Teamwork Time management Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) Revit AutoCad Photoshop Indesign Sketchup
Languages Arabic
Advanced
English
Abdullah Adnan Alanzi Architecture undergraduate keen on starting a career, offering support and creativity while also learning from seniors. I am an American born Kuwaiti studying In Liverpool, UK to be an architect, expected to graduate in the summer of 2019. I am passionate about Architecture and I wish to begin my career in a challenging atmosphere in order to learn and advance while also helping and assisting seniors and colleagues. I wish to be able to work in and be exposed to different types of projects, and also be able to learn to work in an office setting. I aspire to work in the best firms where I am sure I will be able to help others and learn a lot, ultimately being able to grow and develop as an architect, and being able to contribute to the global architecture community.
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Experience
Abeer2 Special needs School Kuwait June-2003 April-2009
Special needs Assistant
American Creativity Academy School Kuwait September-2005 May-2009
Varsity Basketball team
Volunteer work to help children with special needs, aged 3-25. The work consists of managing and coordinating various activities for students suffering from various disabilities, like field trips and athletic activities. The work also consists of support for older children while having special lessons with professionals.
Starting team member of the Varsity Basketball Team.
Advanced
National Union of Kuwaiti Student, UK branch London, United Kingdom November-2013 October-2014 Freelance Architect Ayoub AlMousawi Kuwait June-2013 September-2015
Education
Portfolio Abdulah AlAnzi
CDP/4-5
Public Relations Manager
Weather or Not/6-7
Head of the Public Relations team for the National Union of Kuwaiti Student, working in the United Kingdom to provide a service for Kuwaiti students coming to study and live in the United Kingdom.
Architecture Trainee
Golden Ratio/8-9
Working for nine months over three summers as an assistant to Architect Ayoub, managing clients and visiting various sites.
Urban Design Project/10-11
Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool, UK 2019 (expected)
BA in Architecture
Liverpool International College Liverpool, UK 2010
Foundation in Science and Engineering
American Creativity Academy Kuwait 2009
CV/3
High School Diploma
2
Contact Information Email
alanzi_91@yahoo.com
Address
Apartment 65, 21 Colquitt Street, Liverpool, UK
Phone
+447463804236
Skills • • • • • • • • • •
Community management Leadership Teamwork Time management Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) Revit AutoCad Photoshop Indesign Sketchup
Languages Arabic
Advanced
English
Abdullah Adnan Alanzi Architecture undergraduate keen on starting a career, offering support and creativity while also learning from seniors. I am an American born Kuwaiti studying In Liverpool, UK to be an architect, expected to graduate in the summer of 2019. I am passionate about Architecture and I wish to begin my career in a challenging atmosphere in order to learn and advance while also helping and assisting seniors and colleagues. I wish to be able to work in and be exposed to different types of projects, and also be able to learn to work in an office setting. I aspire to work in the best firms where I am sure I will be able to help others and learn a lot, ultimately being able to grow and develop as an architect, and being able to contribute to the global architecture community.
Experience
Abeer2 Special needs School Kuwait June-2003 April-2009
Special needs Assistant
American Creativity Academy School Kuwait September-2005 May-2009
Varsity Basketball team
Volunteer work to help children with special needs, aged 3-25. The work consists of managing and coordinating various activities for students suffering from various disabilities, like field trips and athletic activities. The work also consists of support for older children while having special lessons with professionals.
Starting team member of the Varsity Basketball Team.
Advanced
National Union of Kuwaiti Student, UK branch London, United Kingdom November-2013 October-2014 Freelance Architect Ayoub AlMousawi Kuwait June-2013 September-2015
Public Relations Manager Head of the Public Relations team for the National Union of Kuwaiti Student, working in the United Kingdom to provide a service for Kuwaiti students coming to study and live in the United Kingdom.
Architecture Trainee Working for nine months over three summers as an assistant to Architect Ayoub, managing clients and visiting various sites.
Education
Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool, UK 2019 (expected)
BA in Architecture
Liverpool International College Liverpool, UK 2010
Foundation in Science and Engineering
American Creativity Academy Kuwait 2009
High School Diploma
3
Portfolio Abdulah AlAnzi
BA Year 3 Semester 2
CDP/
Solstice Tower
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This is the Future of Work Comprehensive Design Project in which an office building is designed with contemporary ideas that would serve ideas for the future, including sustainability and moving away from the traditional ideas of how the office is occupied and how people interact and react to the everlasting concept of “work”. Solstice Tower was designed with a focus on open plan design and how people would react to daylight and it’s importance in the work environment.
Portfolio
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Abdulah AlAnzi
BA Year 3 Semester 1
THE DESIGN A Proposed weather station complex that incorporates multiple functions aimed at achieving social and cultural awarness around the subject of climate change. The complex includes a weather station, research facility, and educational centre aimed at climate change A COMBINATION OF WHITE MERGING WITH CONCRETE awareness.
THE CONCEPT 6121 AR Gathering and recording information regarding the weather has been performed by human kind for centuries. In our time, it has become increasingly important to have a better understanding of our weather, as it has become directly effected by alarming changes in climate. The building I have proposed is a multi-functional weather station, that incorporates multiple activities and functions to achieve an overall awareness and education of the local weather and climate change as a whole. I have looked at how people viewed the weather historically and found that it all began a couple of centuries ago with very humble methods, becoming more complex with time and with the development of science and new tools that allowed for a more accurate and scientiďŹ c way of recording the meteorological phenomena. The years of development it took to allow precise meteorological data to be collected in the present is represented in this building. It starts as an innocent poetic attempt to observe the weather and skies and develops into an elaborate process of human discovery and awareness of our surroundings.
SITE LOCATION
GLASS FAIR FACED CONCRETE PLANTATION
CONCRETE FACADE
VIEW POINT OF SKETCH BELOW CONNECTING BRIDGE BETWEEN BUILDINGS
MASTERPLAN
GARDEN LOUNGE
SITE DIAGRAM
Wea ther or Not/
Aeropetram
VIEW POINT OF SKETCH ABOVE
ABDULLAH ALANZI
COURT YARD GARDEN IN FRONT
CLIMATE AWARENESS
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
WEATHER STATION
RESEARCH FACILITY
CAFE- RESTURANT
EDUCATIONAL CENTER
Weather or Not? The weather itself is something we seem to be hurting the most this century. This project was aimed at trying to design for the weather, and The Aeropetram was exactly that: a weather station that would allow users to record the weather while also providing research facilities for crucial issues such as global warming.
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Plans and Sections Scale 1:200
WEATHER OR NOT: The Aeropetram Centre Abdullah Alanzi
The proposed design is presented as a “Climate Awareness Centre” aimed at Educating society about the swiftly changing global climate. It presents itself as a combination of public spaces where people interact in different ways, and private spaces where the weather station functions for gathering raw data about local and global weather if possible. A research facility allows for using the data gathered by the weather station to study global climate change, further contributing to searching for a solution to this phenomenon.
Design Concept 3D Images
This building was developed with the idea of having two contradicting forms, each serving differenct purposes but ultimately serving the same Idea. The Idea of having a society that is educated and appreciative of global climate change as something that needs facing, and this would start with architecture. The ground floor is made up of slate cladding and emerges from the hillside itself, representative of societies undoubted relationship with nature. The first floor is perpendicular in direction and creates an axis with the ground floor. It is made out of corten steel sheets, representative of people’s nature towards advancement and moving away from nature. But the steel also looks rusted as it faces the lake, metaphorical of the way society must find solutions to be able to achieve harmony.
Masterplan 1:500
Elevations Axonometric
Visualisations: Cafe and Education Centre
Sections
Elevations
Environmental Strategy:The Aeropetram Centre
Abdullah Alanzi
Abdullah Alanzi
Construction Detail
Energy Systems:
Rain Water/Waste Water Management:
Sunlight/Daylight:
The figure above shows where rainwater is collected and reused as grey water, utilising a pump to use rainwater in toilets. Rain water flows down from the roof of the first floor, with a green roof helping with gatherinng the rainwater. Sewage and blackwater is also collected within a seperate Septic tank, with the possibility of reusing this black water as biomass fuel. The figure above also shows the direction of the dominant wind and its interaction with the building.
The figure above shows the penetration of sunlight from a typical south sun. The windows on the side of the cantilevered first floor are fitted with a shading device that would help prevent penetration of harmful glare from the east and west sun. The shading device also serves to reduce excessive solar radiation heating that would prove to be difficult to deal with during the summer (May-September). The flow of fresh air into the building and its development into stale air and its eventual escape to the outside of the building is also demonstrated in the above figure.
A simple calculation can be used to find out how large the Greywater tank is required to use for this building. Rain water harvested available for re-use =Roof area x Annual rainfall x Run-off coefficient x Filter coefficient Roof area= 480 m2 Annual rainfall= 2000 mm Run-off coefficient= 0.75 Filter coefficient= 0.9 Rain water harvested available= 480 x 2000 x 0.75 x 0.9= 648,000 Litres Suggested storage tank size= Rain water harvested available x 0.05 = 648,000 Litres x 0.05 = 32,400 Litres
Materials
The energy source of the building is generated from a combination of Photovoltaic-Thermal Panels (PV-T) and Biomass fuel. These two systems would be responisble for providing electric energy for artificial lighting and the heating system for the building. Heating for the building is provided through low-surface radiators installed, where Biomass fuel (woodchip locally sourced). is used when the PV-Ts fall short. PV-Ts produce both electric and thermal energy, electricity for artificial lighting and thermal ennergy would be transported to a thermal store for a water boiler. The heated water would be used for the Cafe and Toilets. The figure also shows how heat is transferred and circulated from fresh air to stale air. This building is closer to an office type building, where it would not be used after office hours, giving the reason for choosing clean energy that would be accessable throughout the day. The figure above gives an insight 0n h0w these methods operate. The location of the building was the essential driving force for the decision process, as the building is in a rural area with no surrounding buildings that may obstruct the PV-T panels. In other words, there is no overshadow from other buildings or higher natural elements surrounding the building. PV-T’s are efficient monocrystalline PV collectors with a heat pump to collect waste heat. PV-T panels will be placed facing the south and tilted 30° degrees for optimum sunlight exposure throughout the day. The building will be used mostly throughout the day and rarely at night, which is a favorable condition for this method. Usability of the roof will be reduced by 25% in the least, and more so for this building. A 1m walkway on the roof of the first floor is required to allow regular maintenance for the PV-Ts. The PV-Ts require a minimum of 150mm gap space underneath for circulation to avoid overheating of the PV-Ts, where overheating will significantly reduce the system’s efficiency. Additional load to the roof will be approximately 20-25kg/m². Maintenance requirements also include regular cleaning, and a monitor solar input to check for any malfunctions. This system provides clean energy but also presents a challenge of being sensitive and requiring high maintenance. The yearly average solar radiation in North England is estimated to be 960 kWh/m² per year, and a simple calculation can be made to give a close estimate to the electrical energy that can be generated for the building. For every m², multiply the yearly solar radiation (960) by the panel efficiency (depending on the manufacturer, the best PV-T is 10% efficient) by 0.75 loss factor (25% of estimated radiation loss due to dust, dirt, snow, other factors) by the tilt factor.
Top: Corten Steel sheets, used for the first floor, is also known as weathering steel. It remains strong and is covered naturally by a layer that looks like rust. It protects the building from natural weathering effects. Bottom: Slate sheets sources regionally. This material is used for the cladding of the ground floor of the buildinng. It is a strong and durable material that also respects the context of the sight and keeps a feeling of tradition and history for the desing proposal. Both these materials are strong and durable, integrated to the design with an economic awareness by being sourced locally. They represent two contradicting notions, one of ancient strenght and the other of futuristic thought, but this thought may also be susceptible to weathering and tear. This is an indication of the need to face such problems, and global climate change is the problem that needs to be faced according to this design proposal.
Section C Window Detail with Shading Device 1:50 Section D Wall Detail 1:50
Structural Axonometric 1:200
Portfolio
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Abdulah AlAnzi
BA Year 2 Semester 2
Golden Ratio/
Everyman’s Gallery
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This building was inspired by the ideas of the Golden ratio, and how harmony in design is sought after using the dimensions we see in nature everyday. This project was mainly about how I started to understand model making, and how the golden ratio was used throughout the world as respect for nature and the classical ideas of the romanticism of returning to nature and one’s true self.
Portfolio
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Abdulah AlAnzi
BA Year 2 Semester 1
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PLAN SCALE 1:200 Pavement material is used to collect greywater that comes from rain and is used for trees and plants in the park without wasting clean water. OUTDOOR THEATRE Using solar system sheets to light up the park at night time, saving energy.
SITE VISUALISATION MODEL THEATRE
Gallery
SUSTAINBALE MATERIAL STUDIES
SECTION A - A SCALE 1:100
ELEVATION B SCALE 1:100
ELEVATION A SCALE 1:100
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PRECEDENCE/DESIGN CONCEPT The Los Angeles Greek Theatre
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Minack Theatre, Cronwall
These two open air theatre designs both gave examples of an urban space that people use in a unique way. The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles lies perpendicular to a main highway, which would be the main route of entry. A building where the theatre stage opens from the opposite side faces an uprising seating stage. The Minack Theatre in Cronwall is unique in that it is in cohesion with the landscape. The seating stage is part of the sloping rocks, with a walkway designes to give access. Even part of the stage is designed from the cliff. Behind the stage one looks upon the Celtic Sea and the horizon.
Designing for the urban setup is the noblest of causes. This is because an architect here designs for the community, and this is something I became passionate about working with this project in particular. Bringing people together creates culture, the one thing that gives people the most pride and attracts the attention of whomever visits. Architecture can achieve this and this project showed me how that can happen.
Portfolio
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Abdulah AlAnzi
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