Areeba Bawani Portfolio 2020 Selected Works
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RESUME
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Areeba Bawani abawani@umich.edu
DEQUINDRE WEST
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Designing Entaglements Taubman / Winter 2020
PUBLIC REALMS Redesigning the Urban Office
09 Taubman / Fall 2020
DEINTITUTIONSALIZED
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City Hall Taubman / Fall 2019
RURAL URBAN FRAMEWORK
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RTEH, Tertiary care hospital Arcop / Oct 2017
CANYON VIEWS
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Emaar, Residential Development Arcop / Mar 2018
SALUTOGENESIS
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Pakistan Kidney Liver Institute University Arcop / Dec 2018
NATURE PLATFORM
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Hisaar, Water Research Institute Arcop / Jul 2018
SYNERGY DWELLINGS #Venice-Call - Housing for Biennaleenice Competition / August 2019
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AREEBA BAWANI abawani@umich.edu linkedin.com/in/areeba-bawani-0a8622155 https://issuu.com/areebabawani/docs/bawani_areeba_portfolio
EDUCATION M.ARCH I University of Michigan, Ann Arbor I 2018 – 2020 B.ARCH I National College of Arts, Lahore Pakistan I 2011 – 2016
EXPERIENCE RVTR Research Assistant, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Jan 2020 – Mar 2020 Developed proposals using participatory design sessions and hands-on workshops for renovations of the Center of Inequality Dynamics co-working hub. ARCOP ASSOCIATES Intern Architect & Designer I Karachi, Pakistan I Jun 2019 - Aug 2019 Designed and developed drawings and presentation for Competition Project, Emaar, Crescent Bay - a residential highrise. ARCOP ASSOCIATES Junior Architect & Designer I Karachi, Pakistan I Mar 2016 - Jun 2018 Prepared drawings for Schematic, Design Development, Tender and Construction. Developed graphics and presentation for proposals (conceptual design). Coordinating and collaborating with engineers, consultants, and clients during all phases of design. Projects include Recep Tayyip Endrogan Hospital (Muzaffargarh, Pakistan - 40,000 sq. m), Indus Hospital Punjab (Lahore, Pakistan - 60,000 sq. m), Indus Hospital Residential and Commercial Complex (Lahore, Pakistan - 12,000 sq. m), PKLI University (Lahore, Pakistan - 12,000 sq. m), Canyon Views, Emaar (Islamabad, Pakistan - 24,000 sq. m) ARIF BELGAUMI ARCHITECTS Intern Architect I Karachi, Pakistan I Jun 2014 - Aug 2014 Worked primarily in the design phase of a residential project. Constructed a physical model to aid the design process. HABIB FIDA ALI ARCHITECTS Intern Architect I Karachi, Pakistan I Jun 2013 - Aug 2013 Designed and developed a 40-bed resort.
SOFTWARES AutoCAD
Revit
Rhinocerous
Sketchup Pro
Lumion
Illustrator
Photoshop
InDesign
Grasshopper
GIS
MISCELLANEOUS Metal Workshop, 3d Printing: Ceramics and Plastic, Laser Cutting, Wood and Metal workshops #VENICE-CALL - Housing for Biennial garden district – Aug 2019 Publication: The Future of Work - Applied Research Thesis | 2019-20 - Vol 3: Technology In The Workplace + Futures Of Telepresence by Nick Hennessey, Areeba Bawani & Vama Garrimella
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DEQUINDRE WEST DESIGNING ENTANGLEMENTS TAUBMAN / WINTER 2020
activity and life to a street that is currently lifeless. As one moves into each side of the site, the program gradually gets more private with amenities tailored specifically for the residents.
Dequindre West is an incubator for small scale entrepreneurship. The close proximity to Eastern Market makes it a valuable place for the market’s laborers, with occupations ranging from butchers to cafe owners, and their families. The project’s proximity to the Dequindre Cut inspires a variety of public program that works to connect the Eastern Market to the Dequindre Cut. Understanding the diversity of residences’ living and working near the Eastern Market various housing units accommodate a number of key players that could be located at this residence. The diversity of users influences a program that taps into the 4 elements of a food-focused economy:cultivation, processing, distribution, and consumption.
Parks: Secondary axes within the site serve as semi-public connects between the site and the Dequindre Cut. These promenades were created through existing site conditions. Transit: A Rest and Repair Shop will hold the southeast corner of a site. This shop will store and repair bikes for the residence but also double as a public transit stop. Blight: The project reutilizes the existing structure and re-purposed it as a communal kitchen and a restaurant for the site.\
Retail: The project features the main road of Division Street that is dedicated to the major commercial components of the site. The cafes and grocery stores will bring
Authors: Areeba Bawani, Allison Booth, Asya Shine.
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The site is filled with opportunity to engage with the Dequindre Cut and the surrounding context. The project utilizes he components of the existing infrastructure on the site. On the northeast corner of the site, the existing structure will be revitalized as a communal kitchen for the site, and a restaurant that services the Dequindre Cut.
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DEQUINDRE CUT
ALFRED STREET
DEQUINDRE CUT
DIVISION STREET
ADELAIDE STREET
Ground Floor Plan / Longitudinal Elevation The project features the main road of Division Street that is dedicated to the major commercial components of the site, such as cafes and grocery stores which will bring activity and life to the street. The program gradually gets more private, as one moves into the site, with amenities tailored specifically for the residents.
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Solid glazed ridge
12mm tempered glass 4” I Beam 1” mullion
Finish Flooring 1” XPS insulation 5 layer CLT floor Self tapping screws Steel clip angle
Double Pane Glazing GS window frame Stainless steel Lintel for brick Metal railing
Wall Section / Facade Elevation
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Floor and Wall Detail
Detail of Insect Hotel
Greenhouse Eave Detail
Solid Wood Beam 18” x 4.5” x 30’ span Solid Wood Girder 24” x 6” x 20’ span Solid Wood Column 12” x 12” x 12’ length
Modular bird house
Exploded Axonometric with Structural Detail The greenhouse and the facade of the complex serve as major components for constructing entanglements, areas where human interact with other species, such as birds, insects and plants.
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P U B L I C
R E A L M
REDESIGNING THE URBAN OFFICE TAUBMAN / FALL 2020
Site: Saclay-Paris, is an upcoming research oriented suburb of Paris which is under construction with an intended completion date of 2050. It is currently composed of residential, office, university and other small developments with plans to expand all typologies.
A harsh boundary exists between the closed building and the open spaces. Public spaces in the urban environment have become leftover space, created as an afterthought at times, which results in devoiding people of the urban/public life. This isolation is extremely evident in office environments, where many people spend a majority of their daytime. With the everincreasing role of information technology, diffusing global networks and the increase in flexibility of labour, the role of the workplace has seemingly eroded. This digitalization has triggered architects to rethink the importance and benefits of the work space and thus to reinvent the office. In the current workplace conditions, a lack of fluidity into the public realm has been observed. The disintegration isolates them from their surroundings. By transitioning into the public forum, design can begin to integrate with the urban fabric, and rejuvenate public space.
Strategy: The essence of this proposal is a series of courtyards, portals and terraced landscape to create thresholds between the public and private entities. The streets are three dimensional as they continue to carve terraces and bridges, weaving the public program into the complex. Design: The project attempts to provide an amalgamation of diverse programs, an expanded mosaic of urban spaces with more landscape characteristics creating new urban spaces and scales for the individual and collective spaces, thus integrating campus into the neighborhood.
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Extruding site to create a courtyard
Subtracting pedestrian and vehicular axes
Setting back site at corners
Adding market along the main axis
Bridging and staggering to create connections
Towers as the urban connector
Main connections
Vertical circulation
Public Program
Public circulation
Massing Diagram / Placing the public program The concept of a 15 minute neighborhood provides easy access to basic necessities required everyday. Keeping this idea as a benchmark, the existing program, pedestrian and vehicular pathways were determined which led to an array of public programs and its potential placement.
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Ground Floor Plan The complex celebrates its multiple entrances by entry portals and plazas. The streets converge into a central plaza which becomes the datum for civic activities. The arcades and the verandas are moments of thresholds between the diverse users.
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Section through site
Section detail / Part plan
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The architecture resonates the city’s urban context by juxtaposing the qualities of two building typologies – the introverted nature of the courtyard and the efficiency of the tower. All floors are connected to the courtyard, terraces and roof garden so that every workspace and public space has ample daylight and fresh air in order to create a healthy and creative working environment for the user.
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D E I N S T I T U T I O N A L I Z E D CITY HALL - GRAND RAPIDS, MI TAUBMAN / WINTER 2019
The City hall is a crucial dialogue between the city’s residents and its government. Its a mutual ground where these parties can come together. By creating a communication link between the two parties, good governance and participatory design can be established. This requires a two way transparency; adequate political overview of the public’s desires and problems along with public’s awareness of the political process.
On the east side of the side of the site lie the bureaucratic buildings, whereas the west is full of civic buildings. The city hall acts becomes a connector between these two extremes. The form of the building is governed by this phenomenon, being pulled towards each side, trying to create a balance between the civic and the government. In the midst of this tension the Calder is framed, introducing visual connection between site boundaries.
This new design of the Grand Rapids City Hall allows public to access the building from both levels. By placing cafe, restaurant, art gallery, the building becomes more porous for the public, hence, allowing it to be transparent as the departments are placed right beside these public programs.
Another major component of the program is hierarchy. As the City Hall becomes a symbol for empowering public, the gallery and council chambers reside on the top most floor. Council chambers can also be accessed by the public, in gallery mode, ensuring transparency.
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Site hindered due to vision
Sloping the site
Placing the program to monumentalize the calder
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Relationship of public to calder & government to site
Establishing hierachy
OTTAWA AVENUE
MONROE AVENUE
Master Plan / Section The public is pulled into the city hall from the west side. The cafe, bar, restaurant and gallery have a continuous pathway, as one space leads to the other. The departments exist simultaneously on the east side and are buffered using vertical circulation.
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BUILDING 1
Gallery Circulation Staff Circulation Gallery City Office/Departments Cafeteria Customer Service
Public Circulation Staff Circulation Council Chambers City Office/Departments Mayor’s Office Shared Facilities City Office
BUILDING 2
Customer Service
Circulation and Program
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LEVEL 1
1. Gallery 2. Transport 3. City Attorney’s Dept 4. City Enterprise Dept.
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1. Gallery 2. City Attorney and Administration 3. Mayor’s Office
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Visualization
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R U R A L
U R B A N
F R A M E W O R K
RTEH, Tertiary care hospital, Muzaffargarh ARCOP / OCT 2017
RTEH aims to create a hospital which provides Emergency, Diagnostic and Imaging, Clinics, Dialysis, Wards, and Surgical departments. It was planned in collaboration with CPG. The core of the hospital lies in the ‘Hospital Street’, covered with bamboo, which forms the heart of public activity. The street provides a sub waiting for the large amounts of patients and their attendants. The building, although made in concrete, has a brick cladding, RTEH is part of a larger facility, which houses hostels, mosque, apartments and a small commercial zone.
I was assigned as the assistant project architect during the design development stage. I worked on preparation of tender documents, along with development of plans as per the clients’ requirements. Room data sheets were also developed as part of the package. Further, under the supervision of the project architect, I coordinated with the engineers to bring the building towards the construction phase. Area: 40,000m Cost: USD 70 Million Building Type: Healthcare (200 Bed).
ICU CCU SICU Holding Bay Operation Theaters
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Ward On Call Nurse Base Waiting area Ward
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Radiology Out patient Emergency Waiting area Out patient
LEVEL 1
Staff change Cafeteria Medical storage Labs Dialysis
LEVEL -1
OT - RDS
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Ground Floor Plan / Facade Elevation
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FFL +375’-3” STL +375’-0”
R.C.C COPING
BRICK CLADDING SOLDIER COURSE R.C.C LINTEL CAST WITH BEAM
FFL +362’-3” STL +362’-0”
BRICK CLADDING SOLDIER COURSE R.C.C LINTEL CAST WITH BEAM
12 mm THK TEMP. GLASS ALUMINUM WINDOW
ALUMINUM MULLION BRICK CLADDING STRETCHER COURSE FFL +349’-0” STL +348’-9”
BRICK CLADDING SOLDIER COURSE R.C.C LINTEL CAST WITH BEAM
9” R.C.C COLUMN COLOUR CREED R.C.C FINISH SILL R.C.C BEAM BRICK CLADDING
FFL +335’-9” STL +335’-6”
8” TH. BLOCK MASONRY 2” TH. INSULATION BRICK CLADDING STRETCHER COURSE
2” TH. INSULATION WITH WATER PROOFING.
12 mm THK TEMP. GLASS ALUMINUM WINDOW
ALUMINUM MULLION R.C.C FINISH SILL 1/2” TERRACOTTA TILE 8” TH. BLOCK MASONRY 2” TH. INSULATION FFL +322’-6” STL +322’-3”
3” TH. FLOOR FINISH
Detail Facade Elevation / Facade Section
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C A N Y O N
V I E W S
Emaar, Islamabad ARCOP / MAR 2019
Emaar Canyon Views is a part of a large residential development in Islamabad, Pakistan. The design comprised of 65 row houses with views and vistas opening towards the canyon. Three types of houses were designed, each addressing different site conditions and client’s requirements.
exploited to pull the gardens towards the back side, and sometimes on the basement level. I overlooked the project in its Schematic and Design Development phase. During the schematic phase we produced 3d visualization, conceptual drawings, and BOQs which were presented to the client. Upon approval, detailed drawings were produced for the mock-up to be constructed.
Along with the master plan, the residential units were designed. I headed the design team which produced the 3 iterations for the same plot size. The rear end of site faced the canyon. It also had a large amount of fill; these condition were
Role: Project Architect Area: 35,000 sq ft. Building Type: Residential Development
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LEVEL 3 - 24’-0”
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Study Master Bed Walk in closet/Bath Terrace Bedroom Bath Bedroom Bath Closet
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Foyer Drawing Room Dining Room Kitchen Living Room Guest Bed Bath Powder Room
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House C
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LEVEL 2 + 12’-0”
LEVEL 1 + 2’-0”
LEVEL 1 - 8’-0”
House B - Architectural Plans / Section
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House B - Visualization
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S A L U T O G E N E S I S Pakistan Kidney Liver Institute University, Lahore ARCOP / DEC 2018
PKLI is an on going project in Lahore. The hospital complex comprises of a Transplantation Center, Nursing School, Male and Female Dormitories, Patient and Doctors’ Apartments, Bazar, Energy Center, Nursery and Mosque.
and artificial light, but has skylights punctured to ensure diffused natural light. The building uses brick to merge with the surrounding building, however, it plays with form as it tries to reach out and instill the passion for trying something new. The ‘3V’ columns are a signatiure of PKLI, as they are used all over the site. However, their use was only sculptural. In this building it is the first time that it has a strctural component. Using the phenomenon of a branching tree, the column attempts to take the weight of the four floors above.
The school comprises of labs, auditoriums, research facility and a large library for the staff and students. It aims to act as a support facility for the hospital. The school is connected with the main hospital building at Lower Ground level, throgh a hospital street. The cafeteria is placed on the same level, as it ensures constant activity on the floor. The right mass of the building formas the auditorium which is 18m high. The auditorium can be accessed by public and has a rooftop for further entertainment. To mantain the structual integrity, both the masses had seperate structures, and an expansion joint exists in between them.
I worked on the design development and tender stage of the Nursing School. Apart from the design and coordination, I was involved in preparing working drawings, and planning the interior of this university. Packages included, architecture, reflected ceiling, landcape and vertical circulation. Currently it hasn’t gone into construction stage as the focus is on the completion of the hospital.
The top floor is dedicated to research by allocating it completely to the library. The library is well lit, not only through windows
Area: 40,000m Building Type: Educational Institution
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Master Plan
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Ground Floor Plan
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LEGEND: Tree stake (2250x50x50 square section softwood post planed finish pressure impregnated, painted with 2 no. coats of wood dye preservative, colour : dark brown.
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19Mm th. Marble
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Top screed laid to slope
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Boston pavers
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Gravel
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Tree tie fixed as per manufacturer’s recommendations
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Landscape Plan and Section / Detail of Planter
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Facade Elevation / Longitudnal Section
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P L A T F O R M
Hisaar, Water Research Institute, Karachi ARCOP / JUL 2019
Hisaar is a part iof the NED University of Engineeering and Technology. The institute aims to tackle issues relating to water: its quality, conservation and engineering. Sustainability is the core of this institute and that became one of the main golas for its architecture too. Principals that drove the design were: provide maximum shadingbut maintain natural light, avoid large exposed exterior surfaces or large open spaces where hot air collects, include green areas to help provide shade and cool air, plant and cultivate xerophytes that require little or no water, promote evaporation and heat
loss by radiation, integrate water bodies, which evaporate and therefore reduce temperature, introduction of strategic vegetation, trees, and landscaping for dust reduction and moderate the effects of strong undesired winds. The primary material was rammed earth which provides a high R value. I participaated in its conceptual phase, and was a part of the team that produced drawings and renders for the final presentation. Area: 2,500m sq Building Type: Research Institute
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D W E L L I N G
#Venice-Call - Housing for Biennale, Venice, Italy COMPETITION (GROUP) / AUG 2019
The Venice Biennale is a dialogue between various cultures, in order to promote multiculturism and diversity. This scheme intends to create alcoves for communication and cross connections for the travelling artists, vistors, and the residents of Venice. The building delves into the idea of porosity, creating free flowing spaces by layering them in way that they merge naturally into each other. This transparency is created by layering functions with open spaces that act as thresholds and create visual barriers between the private and public functions by converging them together. The design of the ground floor maximizes connection from all sides and opens the floor plan for circulation and public activity in the central
courtyard. The terraces and open space were dictated by the lines generated by the site and its context. The form of the intervention responds to the existing site conditions. The design intervention seeks to create an artistic haven and an urban oasis for the resident artist and the local public. for the resident artist and the local public. The proposal aims to create an interactive platform for the exchange of ideas. Art and design is a discipline which cannot be achieved in isolation, therefore the scheme aims to achieve open spaces on every level to allow open conversations and critique within the artists and the viewers. Authors: Areeba Bawani & Bariya Hussain.
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Ground Floor Plan LEVEL 5 Staff change
LEVEL 4 Staff change
LEVEL 1 Staff change
LEVEL 3 Staff change Cafeteria Cafeteria
LEVEL 2 Staff change Cafeteria Cafeteria
LEVEL 1 Staff change Cafeteria
LEVEL -1 Medical storage Labs Dialysis
Wall Section / Delayering the Program The building caters to the visiting artist and the local public, therefore the zoning of the design was phased in such an order that the first three levels of the site would be dedicated to the public use; the remaining area would be for the residential apartments and the basement for service and utility.
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Opening terraces and courts on multiple levels allowed to open views into the site, meanwhile opening vistas from the building towards the, context framing the historical picturesque beauty of the Venetian heritage. Further, each apartment has a connected terrace with the neighboring apartment which overlooks a larger communal terrace on the lower floor.
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A R E E B A
B A W A N I
abawani@umich.edu (734)-846-9856