aliasgar a tapya Portfolio
ALIASGAR TAPYA 14 . 06 . 1998 Tanzanian
Arusha, Tanzania +255 782 217 829 +255 782 217 829 aliasgartapya@gmail.com @ali_tapya
Achievements • Nominated for Architect’s Journal Prize
EXPERIENCE Draughtsman | GMP Consulting Engineers. June - Aug 2019 Arusha, Tanzania.
Volunteer Project Manager | Sparkling Elephant project, NGO. May 2015 – March 2016 Moshi, Tanzania
Camp Counsellor | Camp Homeward Bound. June - Aug 2018 Bear Mountain, New York, USA
Volunteer | Anjuman-e-Burhani, Islamic Community Charity Organisation. 2012–2016 Arusha, Tanzania
Photographer | University of Kent, TEDx. February 2018 Canterbury, Uk
Volunteer | Boy Scouts 2006–2014 Arusha, Tanzania
Design Assistant | Meru, Glass Showroom. June - Aug 2017 Arusha, Tanzania Office assistant | Embee Oak, Accountant Consultancy. Jan 2017 Rickmansworth, UK
• Lead an elephant conservation campaign • Climbed Mount Kilimanjaro
EDUCATION
Languages •English
BA(Hons) in Architecture | University of Kent 2017-2020 ERASMUS | Istanbul Technical University 2019
IB | International School Moshi 2014-2016 IGCSE | St.Constantines International School 2012-2014
•Swahili •Gujarati •Hindi
SKILLS REFERENCES
Drawing
Graphic
Sketchup
Photoshop
Tom Sweet - Final year tutor T.P.Sweet-22@kent.ac.uk
AutoCAD
Illustrator
Rhino 3D
Indesign
Beverly Mcentarfer - Director of Camp Homeward Bound
ArchiCAD
V-ray
bmcentarfer@cfthomeless.org
Revit Cinema 4D
Photography Model Making
clifftonville civic accelerator 3rd Year Margate, uk
Theatre ROYAL 3rd Year Margate, uk
BETWEEN WORLDS 2nd Year Istanbul, Turkey
120 (competition) 2nd Year Svalbard, Norway
SPARKLING ELEHANT PROJECT IB Moshi, Tanzania
clifftonville civic accelerator
The Clifftonville Civic Accelerator is a project that responds to social detachment between Margate and Clifftonville West. Margate has recently experienced an influx in tourism, with most visiting the town for its uprising art culture. The Turner Gallery and efforts by artists like Tracy Emin boost the art sphere in Margate. This attracted a large population of mainly Londoners to Margate. In turn, this creates a divide in the city because on paper the city seems to be rejuvinating, meanwhile wards like Clifftonville West are being left abandoned. Taking precedent from a bee and its hive, the building aims to collectively empower the local ward through community, education, and business mindedness.
Neglected current state
Community
Education
Buisness
Pupa Day 1
Chews itself out Day 22
Cleaner Day 22-24 Blending the street
Building a third street
Nurse Day 24-32
Communal engagement arena
Creating an open market
Builder Day 32-40
Guard Day 40-45
Approach In order to rejuvinate the ward of Clifftonville West, an undrstanding for social interaction is crucial. Thus the model of a bee hive and its communal complexities prove to be a relevant precedent. A bee colony works harmoniously and collaborates cohesively.This project intends to build on social bonds for the people of Clifftonville and Margate by empowering them in three fundamental moves: Community through agriculture and beekeeping. Education, giving the people a channel to further/realise their potential Business Mindset, Through the encouragment of buisness practices, a person would gain independance.
Pollinator and Food gatherer Day 43-
Street Market
Masterplan
Port
Roof Kitchen Gardens
Hive Deck
CLIFFTONVILLE’S
NEW
HOPE
Clifftonville’s Civic Accelerator approaches the greater context of the site with an urban intervention to accentuate its cliff, a suspended chalk walk that serves as Clifftonvilles New Promenade, dotted with bee hive towers that activate a viewing deck set along intervals of the walk to create moments of enganement along the path. This is an enviromental sustainability approach to give awareness to the cliff and also to serve new agricultural incentive by involving.
Boat view perspective
Street level This aspect of the buildings design encompasses the buildings tone. Its facade intends to provide a very low slung flat profile with a very dynamic timber structure to create an engaging street presance. The primary way into the building is through a series of cascading stairs that melt the sidewalk into the building. The roof profile is intended to create a harmoniuous relationship with the adjecent buildings. Its form evokes a humble approach through the streets urbanscape. The design informs a very malleable plan. The architecture is derived from a hanger like form that allows freedom of spacial organisation. This also serves part of the furture sustaunablitiy strategy. In hindsight, the building adopts the role of a social hub that that caters for educational and social services, the resturaunt bleeds onto the cliff walk through the interior of the building, the common central arena serves as a performance space.
Street Perspective
Street Elevation
Viewing decks
Library Study space
Honey production and workshop
Upper level plan
Open Market Shop
Innovation hub
Education center
Resturaunt Food Market
Arena
w/c and utilites
Lower level plan
Exploded Axonometric
ELEVATED
The axonometric on the left demonstrates the buildings open plan and flexible use. Its open program has the ability to stretch out to the courtyard created by the surrounding Lido buildings into a market space,this could accomodate any form of communal/ social event (i.e food market, business expo, street market). The large glass doors allow the structure to exhibit its porous nature. The drawing below show how the spaces could be furnished modularily.
Bee hive
Garden box frame DPM Timber ring joists Timber wishbone support
Water reservoir
Water basin section
Workshop & Factory
Library
Seating
Market
StudyY
Roof Garden
Arena
Public Extention
Section -
Construction
Secondary twin timber beam
Rammed Chalk Mineral Wood Insulation Polished concrete finish
Concrete retaining wall
Screed
DPM
Ridgid Insulation
Education Hub
-- Elevation
Public Extention
Innovation Hub
Interior Perspective
theatre royal Built in the Georgian era, the Theatre Royal in Margate is a building that documents generations of the city’s history. It was renovated in the late 17th century into what is today majority of the Theatres make up. It is currently in a disappreaciated state, although the chique interior and victorian aesthetics contribute to the buildings character, architecturally in does not function well. This project deals throughly in the archeology and conservation of the theatre but also works to inspire a new regime for the building and its management.
composition
A dissection of the building exposes the structural and historical composition of the Theatre Royal. The concept derived through the buildings evolution is that over time the buildings has been gutted from its interior and have been wrapped around in it Victorian exterior fabric but maintaining its core Georgian structure. Thus the modern intervention systematically wraps around the north facade adding another layer The drawing to the left is a sketch of the wrapped extension for the buildings new cafe, external circulation, garden and resturaunt. The building must not be tampered with excessively due to its 2 star rating for its conservation, thus only the buildings ciculation
Existing section
Exploded Axo
3
4
1
9
8
2
Ground level
1. Entrance / Foyer 2. Garden / Performance space 3. Stage 4. Ground Stand 5. Gallery Stand 6. Bar / Cafe 7. Lounge 8. Resturaunt 9. BOH 10. Terrace Stand
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First level
Second level
ORDER
The building’s circulation and order feels forced due to its numerous interventions over the past 200 years. But its identity is not encompaased by its Victorian plater motifs, I felt strongly about maintained this feature and emphasising its entrance. The tone for the intervention’s facade is derived from the local shipping forms and intends to create a contrast to the existing streetscape. This is to attract attention to the building as its economical situation is on a decline. This space also acconodated the bar/ cafe, resuraunt and garden/performace space to increase revenue streams, it also serves to clean up its internal circulation by opening up the south side to the galleries and terrace levels.
Elevation
Construction
Timber beam Gypsum plasterboard Vapour permeable barrier Aluminium brackets Celluslose insulation Sheathing board DPM Timber structure
Battons Plywood finish
Vapour Premeable barrier Wooden floor
Timber beam Cellulose insulation
EXPERIENCE
The Theatre Royals External relationship is as important as its internal organisation. Thus blending the Garden / Performace space under the cantilevered extention engages the existnting dark alleyway into a lively street space.
Section
MODEL
The understanding of form and space through modelmaking is vital to my learning process, this development model in this project played a crucial role in my understanding of the building as its evolution as a structure is like a jigsaw, only through slicing, puncuring and bonding planes did I experience the project.
Development Model
Extention
Front Facade
Street Perspective
bETWEEN WORLDS An insight into a dystopic Instanbul, water levels having risen to what is now an unidentifiable landscape. This project presents a water settlement that gravitates around a docking systems set around the city’s new coastline. This project presents to challenge the technological and social dynamics of modular and hydrological architecture. The drawings that follow demonstrare a series of conceptual sketches and diagrams of a a steel build anchor plotted around points of interest in and around instabul connecting it to the rlaimed space in the Bosphorus.
The section below illustrates the docking systen anchored in the water bridging a water settlement made of fundamental timber construction. The mentality is operate in an ecosystem of simple but impactful design, one that does not burden environmental conditions. The plan to the right is a mockup of settlement circulation and how elements are bridged with each other. The idea od a cental park/garden is to break the space and engage a more social atmosphere.
Section
Exterior Perspective
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Plan
Svalbard to us, is a metaphor, it represents our earth. It’s riches are a source to our existence, and its physical tools as a gauge of its health. But it is these offerings that will result in its death, we play the role of the consumer, when in fact we should be the nurturers We orbit in a society where our materials have advanced but our intentions stay primitive. Believing that the workings of our greed us inevitable, Svalbard in our future has been exhausted. The seed planted by a mother in the past serves as a manual of living. We should aspire to be a mother, we are that mother. We need to reserve our attitudes to that of a child, where life is simple. We present a settlement of honest intentions. It’s structure maintains modesty so its people can develop the understanding to the truth of their world, this settlement functions to cater to its host as it follows its natural tuitions We resonate the design for this community, with the idea not on the survival of the fittest, but the survival of its virtues.
Section
Isometric
Sparkling elephant project The Sparkling Elephant Project is an NGO that works to stop elephant poaching and raise its awareness in Northern Tanzania. Commisioned in 2016, with a team of school colleagues, I built a life sized elephant made from an A-frame internal structure, ribbed and formed with bent iron bars, tied together with binding wires and covered over with weld mesh. It was built in 3 weeks in January and participated in the Kilimanaro Marathon at the end of February. The mission was to create a conversation surrounding elephant conservation, this was successfully executed as our SEP team was invited with the elephant to Dar es Salaam later that year to participate in further conservation matters.
Bab al Nasr, Cairo, Egypt.
Bab al Futuh Cairo, Egypt.
VM Houses Copenhagen, Denmark