Architectural Portfolio
Behnaz Banishahabadi 2015
Contents REGENERATIVE ARCHITECTURE
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Versatile Dwelling
DRIFTING VITRINES
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Exhibition & Engagement at the Edge
ENTANGLED SPACES
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Versatility
HOUSING +
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Urban Grid
SMA + C
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Amalgamate
Stepping Beach
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Boot Camp Design
MATERIALS & METHODS
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Model Making - Learning Objectives
Hand drawings Sketches, Rendering & Detailing
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Regenerative Architecture Versatile Dwelling
Year: Spring 2014 Location: San Francisco Advisor: Thom Faulders
The minority religion is marginalized and pushed to the border of Iran. In order to stay united, and not dispersed, residents insist on staying in the same neighbourhood. Increase in population and limited land due to a horizontally oriented architecture is not responsive to incremental demands. The current thesis intends to explore the concept of continual growth not as an architecture that regenerates itself, but, as finding the potential of prolong generational expansion. As the new city emerges, the existing one turns into more public spaces over a few generations. Eventually the territory will be transformed into entangled living spaces, creating an elevated city over the existing one.
Existing Suroo Housing Conditions
Surrounding Images I Density
SANAA_Moriyama_Houses_Tokyo
Yazd_Iran
FAMILY FAMILY TYPE 11 TYPE
FAMILY FAMILY TYPE 22 TYPE
FAMILY INDIVIDUAL INDIVIDUAL FAMILY FAMILY FAMILY TYPE 33 TYPE 44 TYPE 55 TYPE TYPE TYPE
FAMILY TYPE 1
FAMILY TYPE 2
FAMILY TYPE 3
INDIVIDUAL TYPE 4
21 x 4725 SF
18 x 4050 SF
15 x 3375 SF
12 x 2700 SF
EXISTING HOUSE COMPONENTS
FAMILY TYPE 1
FAMILY TYPE 2
FAMILY TYPE 5
9x 2025 SF
FAMILY FAMILY TYPE 66 TYPE
FAMILY FAMILY TYPE 77 TYPE
INDIVIDUAL INDIVIDUAL TYPE 88 TYPE
FAMILY TYPE 6
FAMILY TYPE 7
INDIVIDUAL TYPE 8
6x 1350 SF
3x 675 SF
1x 225 SF
FAMILY INDIVIDUAL FAMILY TYPE 3 TYPE 5 TYPE 4
FAMILY TYPE 6
FAMILY INDIVIDUAL TYPE 7 TYPE 8
Older Generation Family Type
Newly Weds Large Family
Grand Parents Young Family
Temporary Permanent
Additional Public Components
Visiting Family Teenagers Communal Space
Young Professionals Students Working Couple
Kitchen/ Kitchen/Dining Dining Living LivingRoom Room Bedroom Bedroom Communal CommunalSpace Space Bridge/ Bridge/Balcony Balcony Bathroom Bathroom
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Yard
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Family Living Room
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Bedroom
Guest Living Room
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Kitchen & Dining
Bathroom
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OLD GENERATION Existing Buildings
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SECOND GENERATION 2nd Floor
THIRD GENERATION 3rd Floor
FOURTH GENERATION 4th Floor
FIFTH GENERATION 5th Floor
SIXTH GENERATION 6th Floor
SEVENTH GENERATION 7th Floor
SEVENTH GENERATION 7th Floor
SIXTH GENERATION 6th Floor
FIFTH GENERATION 5th Floor
FOURTH GENERATION 4th Floor
THIRD GENERATION 3rd Floor
SECOND GENERATION 2nd Floor
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Scale 3/16” = 1’-0”
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OLD GENERATION Existing Buildings
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Drifting Vitrines
Exhibition & Engagement at the Edge Year: Fall 2014 Location: San Francisco Advisor: Margaret Ikeda | Evan Jones | Adam Marcus
This project proposes an exhibition of the interface between the public and technological innovation by facilitating different kinds of interactions between the private programs of Autodesk’s Pier 9 Workshop and the public environment of San Francisco’s Embarcadero. The vessel’s program is organized around a circulation loop that brings visitors through the workshop on an elevated walkway that allows them to observe the design, fabrication, assembly, and exhibition of artwork from above. This walkway later descends to the water line, and then loops back to Pier 9. As such, it negotiates the complex zone between the City’s datum (grade) and the Bay’s datum (a shifting waterline). The project’s logic of exhibition and display extends outward with a series of large scale, floating vitrines that can detach from the vessel and relocate closer to the embarcadero, providing great public exposure for the work produced by the Artists-inResidence. This programmatic shift also engages the inter-tidal, inter-datum zone where city meets water.
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Program Use : 1. Entry to vessel from second levels 2. Access to shop through ramp 3. Gantry transfer material to workshop 4.Bridge over the Assembly Space: participation with no involvement 5.Floating platforms: programmatical and formal extension
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Staff’s Circulation
Visitors’ Circulation
Visitors’ Circulation
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FABRICATION
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EXHIBITION DESIGN ASSEMBLY levels Two entry toFABRICATION vessel different EXHIBITION DESIGN from ASSEMBLY FABRICATION
Access to shop through fiber-reinforced ramp The structure is fabricated from composite polymer panels, which are molded on the underside to promote the Gantry transfer The material workshop growth of marine life underwater. vesseltoincludes laboratory space for researchers and biologists to monitor these ecological over Assembly substrates. There isBridge a slip in thethe center of theSpace: vessel that can acparticipation with no involvement commodate a small boat that would allow this research to continue at other sites throughout the Bay. Fix and floating platforms: programmatical and formal extension Circulation path as a loop
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High Gantry GantryDay High Tide Tide GantryGantry Day Gantry GantryNight Low Tide GantryGantry Night Low Tide
The tidal change of the site is exploits for the benefit of material transportation.
399 SF
550 SF
Stair-B ST-B 84 SF
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399 SF
STORAGE 128 72 SF
TEST KITCHEN 138 338 SF
550 SF
DW
Stair-B ST-B 84 SF
F.E.C.
STORAGE 128 72 SF
TEST KITCHEN 138 338 SF
F.E.C.
+9.25” PIER LEVEL +9.25” PIER LEVEL
+15.25” DOCK LEVEL
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+15.25” DOCK LEVEL
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DECK LEVEL SCALE: 1/8”=1’-0” DECK LEVEL SCALE: 1/8”=1’-0”
FLOATING VITRINE FLOATING VITRINE
ASSEMBLY SPACE ASSEMBLY SPACE
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WORKSHOP WORKSHOP
+6.26” HIGH TIDE +3.18” SEA LEVEL +6.26” +0.00” HIGH TIDE LOW TIDE +3.18” SEA LEVEL +0.00” LOW TIDE
MEETING ROOM MEETING ROOM
STORAGE +6.26” HIGH TIDE +3.18” SEA LEVEL +6.26” +0.00” HIGH TIDE LOW TIDE +3.18” SEA LEVEL +0.00” LOW TIDE
STORAGE
EXHIBITION EXHIBITION
MEETING ROOM MEETING ROOM
BIO LAB BIO LAB
+6.26” HIGH TIDE +3.18” SEA LEVEL +6.26” +0.00” HIGH TIDE LOW TIDE +3.18” SEA LEVEL +0.00” LOW TIDE
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1. Composite fiber-reinforced polymer hull structure 2 layers FRP with honeycomb core 2. Transparent solar cells function as skylight 3. Draining gutter Sloped 1/4� per foot 4. Operable sliding insulated glazing unit wall 5. Fixed insulated glazing unit wall 6. Stainless steel frame bolted to hull 7. Operable acrylic panels Hinged axis 8. Robot arm suspended from elevated grid 9. Ecological substrate molded into FRP surface 10. Integrated LED lights 11. Suspended walkway
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The unfolded section and plan drawings shows the public circulation route, which allows visitors to travel through the workshop without physically entering the Artist-in-Residence making space.
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s project proposes an expanded notion oF interFace by Facilitating diFFerent kinds oF interactions between the private pro-
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autodesk’s pier 9 workshop and the public environment oF san Francisco’s embarcadero. the vessel program is
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anized around a circulation loop that brings visitors through the workshop on an elevated walkway that allows them to
erve the design, Fabrication, assembly, and exhibition oF artwork From above. this separation limits interFerence with the
sts and the machinery oF the workshop. this logic oF exhibition and display extends outwards with a series oF large-scale,
ating vitrines that can detach From the vessel and relocate closer to the
work produced by the artists-in-residence.
embarcadero, providing great public exposure For
vessel is Fabricated From composite Fiber-reinForced polymer panels, which are molded on the underside to promote the
wth oF marine liFe underwater. the vessel includes laboratory space For researchers and biologists to monitor these eco-
cal substrates. there is a small slip in the center oF the vessel that can accommodate a smaller boat that would allow research to continue at other sites throughout the
bay.
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Structural process models to study vessel stability and hull design
The vessel includes a central slip for small research boats
The primary vessel and the floating vitrines can be positioned in a variety of ways, allowing for a high degree of flexibility for workshop, research, and exhibition programs.
The public circulation route is suspended above the workshop space, allowing visitors to see the activity below without interfering in the workflow of the artists and makers in the shop.
The vessel incorporates a dynamic louver system that moves with the changing wind and tides, as well as a lighting system to attract fish to the underside of the hull. These features take advantage of the site’s constant flux, and the vessel itself becomes a large-scale, responsive environmental public artwork that is visible from the Embarcadero.
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Entangled Spaces Versatility
Year: Spring 2013 Location: San Francisco Advisor: Thom Faulders
Exploration of vertical urbanism that achieves polymorphic capabilities for expanding not only upwards but also laterally outwards through the bundle of buildings that are connected, entangled and are spatially varied. Spatial clustering and branching will operate both integrally within the building itself, as well as with external adjacent structures and larger urban infrastructures.
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Two towers work as conjoined twins. Two mesh structures are supporting each other. Structural mesh is 30% less torqued with a denser uniform diagrid. The looser diagrid in occupiable tower is not structural and functions as mullion for the skin. The purpose was to expose infrastructure as an art and push it to create new conditions. Wind farm at lower open space used to generate energy.
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This high-rise design subverted the traditional idea of the highrise tower that is typically constructed as a singular and discreet icon of architecture. This proposal, proactively explored vertical urbanism that achieves polymorphic capabilities for expanding not only upwards, but also laterally outwards through a bundle of buildings that are connected, entangled and spatially varied. Based in part on biological system, this design allows for spatial clustering and branching. These conditions will operate both integrally within the building itself, as well as with external adjacent structures and larger urban infrastructures. For the duration of the studio, site and context was investigated as conditions rather than land plot.
24th Floor Plan 24th Floor
17th Floor Plan 17th Floor
6th Floor Plan 6th Floor
Section A Scale 1/8” = 1’ -0”
6th Floor Plan
17th Floor Plan
24th Floor Plan
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Housing + Urban Grid
Year: Fall 2012 Location: San Francisco Advisor: Thom Faulders
Being inspired by Gifu Kitagata apartment building, using a single block as a modular with different compositions and configurations is the basic principle and formula for different units. Each of those units are oriented in different positions, so same composition of blocks can be as single level or double level or sometimes even triple level housing unit. The primary 12’ cube is set to create the units. This is a typical San Francisco modular based on dimension of lumber. Three different families are created from the cube offering 3 distinctive unit sizes. Most units have different composition derived from the same modular. There is an open space or balcony neatly considered and accessible from each apartment. The activated interior courtyard offers the outdoor program fully for residence of the complex and partially for public. The opening in the facade creates transparency through the building, and the public façade and interior façade vary both in form and function.
The site in Hayes Valley has different personalities. It’s located at the corner of Fell and Octavia . Through initial research it seems there is a break in the urban development and three different neighborhoods are meeting at the critical point in the Market Street. In order to merge the neighborhoods and avoid the separation, introducing a stronger, deeper link among these zones are needed. I have decided to take the city grid coming from Market and Soma, and project them into Hayes Valley in direction to generate the stronger connection; and further, these grids will be reflected into the housing elevation. The proposal is to suggest new pattern for San Francisco housing. Offering affordable, flexible, vibrant housing units with a vibrant interior courtyard at the heart of the building; bringing different programs into built platforms such as cafe, outdoor theater, shops and restaurants that people can get together. The housing is divided into three separate neighborhoods. There are open spaces in between housing unit that will serve the other programs. Access to these stages will be through a network of stairs and elevators that are more central and accessible from different neighborhoods of the complex.
Context Key Plan/ Location Plan
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Site Plan
Octavia Blvd.
Octavia St.
Oak St.
Tetris Stackable Apartment Units
Typical Floor Plan
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This design creates a whole new closed neighborhood, which is between commercial and residential area and can act as transition between the two regions. Also, the large opening in the façade at the corner of Oak and Octavia allows to see thought the building along the Octavia corridor and let the influences of the site come back into the interior courtyard. The need for single housing and co-habitation is quite tangible in San Francisco. This design address the need for a flexible type of housing that not only is responsive to family needs but also to young individuals.
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50 Unique Units Designed Based on Modular System
First Floor Plan
Fifth Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Sixth Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan
Seventh Floor Plan
Fourth Floor Plan
Eighth Floor Plan
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SMA+C
Amalgamate Year: Spring 2012 Location: Seattle Advisors: Jason Johnson Christina Marsh
Seattle is a city that embraces the public within its public spaces. Public programs of the SMA+C are given preference by being a cohesive unit together with the corresponding public circulation being more direct. Public programs also have a certain degree of access to some of the museum programs that are otherwise only granted to those who pay admission.
Seattle Downtown Street Grid
Pike Place Market
Site/ Ground Floor Plan
Urban Program in Plan
Begins by defining continuity
More Resilient Program
More Rigid Program Ends by constructing continuity Hinge+Ramp+Enclosure+Program
Program Division Based on Receptiveness Resilience of Program Support Program
Gallery Program
Public Program
Private
Particular
Public
Rigidness of Function
Cafe
Library/ Reading Room Book Store Receiving Public Restrooms
Longitudinal Section
Lobby Reception Ticket Counter Coat Check
Immersive Virtual Black Box The Urban Model
+ 76’ - 0”
+ 69’ - 0”
Lecture Hall
+ 36’ - 0”
+ 24’ - 0”
Storage Mechanical Archives & Repair Restroom
+ 3 - 0”
Second Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan
Fourth Floor Plan
Fifth Floor Plan
Sixth Floor Plan
Roof/ Seventh Floor Plan
Public Particular Private
Driving Path Biking Path Walking Path Bay
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Stepping Beach Boot Camp Design
Year: Fall 2011 Location: San Francisco Advisor: Geneviève L’Heureux & Joshua Stein
China Beach is located in a rich neighborhood where there is little public interference, however the beach is a wonderful destination for families to spend most of the day enjoying this amazing site. Our approach revolves around the needs of the family and the kind of activities they will want to engage in on the beach. We will provide access to several different stepping platforms which users can view the site from. This unique perspective allows our clients to see multiple angles of the site so they can have mobility while basking in the beauty of the beach and include the children in outdoor activity without worry. Kids can play independently and at the same time have a safe environment where they can be viewed by their parents from different areas on site. The idea is to provide some kind of private setting where the user can feel comfortable and safe while spending the day outdoors and doing diverse activities. We will improve the community with our concept by increasing the safety of China Beach and attract more users to spend time here as they experience different activities on the premise. The terms and conditions will be imposed and simultaneously filter the type of users.
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Spatial Condition Mapping & Catalog
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House in Kurakuen II Waro Kishi, 1996-2001 Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
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Materials & Methods
Model Making – Learning Objectives Year: Fall 2011 Location: San Francisco Advisor: Brendon Levitt
Understanding of the tectonic levels of building system including site, foundation, structure and envelope. Knowledge of the basic construction systems utilized in Western traditions, including masonry, timber, concrete, steel. Understanding of the basic material properties and configuration of assemblies that affect performance of basic gravity support systems. Understating of the basic material properties and configuration of assemblies that affect performance of envelope systems including light, heat and moisture transfer and durability. Ability to recognize the relationship between manufacturing processes, components and assemblies. Ability to recognize the relationship between the basic physical abilities of materials and assemblies and their potential to generate ordering systems. A recognition of the technical cycle – how resources are transformed, utilized and recycled.
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Hand Drawings
Sketches, Rendering & Detailing Media: Ink, Color pencils, Soft pastel, Felt-tip Pen, Marker
Renderings & Freehand Drawings Color Pencil & Soft Pastel
Case Milla Felt-tip Pen, Ink, White Pen
Physical Interface between Land & Bay Detailed Drawing for Possible Strategies