Architecture Portfolio - Benyamin Nemati 23

Hi! This is me. A young architect with so many actual and potential skills. At this very moment, I’m searching for challenges that can help me to bring my ideas into reality.

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Born in 1996.08.09 Rasht, Iran

Currently based in Rotterdam, Netherlands

Benyamin Nemati

Education:

Politecnico Di Milano Milan, Italy | 2019-2022

Master of Architecture Built Environment

Grade 110/110

University of Guilan Rasht, Iran | 2014-2018

Bachelor of Architecture

Architectural Experiences:

Sciveres Guarini Associati Milan, Italy | Nov 2021 - Feb 2022

Intern Architect

Superspatial Milan, Italy | Apr - Jun 2021

Intern Architect

Tarh Va Afarinesh Tehran, Iran | Mar - Aug 2018

Assistant Architect

Non-Architectural Experiences:

Café Flordi Ghent, Belgium | Dec 2022

Volunteer Staff - Construction

Simone’s Kitchen Antwerp, Belgium | Oct - Nov 2022

Volunteer Staff - Cook

Tivedstorp STF Hostel Tivedstorp, Sweden | Sep 2022

Volunteer Staff - Administration

Agricampeggio Darwin Otranto, Italy | Agu 2022 Volunteer Staff - Administration

Languages:

English Fluent C1-C2 Italian Intermediate

Mother Tongue

NOTACOURTYARDHOUSE

Hustle Hub Housing Competition - 2023 A Design Proposal for a Youth Housing Competition Project - Individual Moscow, Russia

A central garden and a community residing on the edges of nature! This project deals with the problem of housings in the urban periphery and tries to establish a new relationship with the landscape through a simple act of embracing the nature. The underlying idea of the project is based on a huge shared garden that is surrounded by a series of housing in a centripetal arrangement all facing the garden. The unique location of the site in the periphery of Moscow and the presence of a vast agricultural lands leaves the site of the project with a significant spatial openness that is so crucial to preserve. Hence, the nature within the site forms the backbone of the project by turning into a shared garden. The principle idea is to keep the site as free and open as possible by pushing the new housing development to the edges. This project avoids the punctual integration of housing blocks and instead through incorporating the courtyard typology tries to give a significant attention to the existing landscape.

The garden in this project acts as a focal point to shape a strong sense of community and is surrounded by 4 blocks of housing accommodating 3 groups of people. Young, migrant/local and the working population of 20-35 years of age. The biggest aim of this project is to create adaptable and optimized living spaces that give the residents adequate freedom to personalize their own space.

This project is comprised of two parts: The shared garden and the housing units on the edges. The plan is based on a perfect square initiated by the garden which is simple crop of the land. 4 rectangular shape buildings on the edges form the residential units and the 4 figurative objects on each corner are the main entrances to the garden and the housing units.

The initial idea and the resultant mass brings up the question of how to articulate the garden to the residential units and to create a more profound connection rather than a simple view? Following this very first question comes the idea of how to break down the verticality of housing units and create a more interconnected volume. To tackle this, a gradient is registered in the project affecting both the program and the form of the building. The first gradient shapes the garden and runs horizontally creating three loosely defined areas. First is the thin strip of the land in front of the housing units divided into small vegetable garden with dense planting. The middle zone is planted with meadow and create a pleasant flat surface with different greenery and flowers. The central part is densely populated with perennials and is covered with a more wild natural plantation. The second gradient runs through the project vertically defining the core program of the housing block. Three levels of two-story housing units are designed for the three groups of residents which subsequently results in spaces with different rental/ownership period concerning each group. Furthermore the presence of common spaces increases in each level with double height terraces and multifunctional rooms.

Oblique View 1 - Outside of Garden

Oblique View 2 - Inside of Garden

Ground Floor Plan - Private, Shared and Studio Housing Units With Vegetable Garden

First Floor Plan - Private, Shared and Studio Housing Units

2nd Floor Plan - Private Duplex Housing Units with Double Height Terraces

Image 1 - Family House With a Studio For Rent

Image 2 - Tall Shared House

4th Floor Plan - A Big Co-working Space

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3rd Floor Plan - Private Duplex Housing Units with Double Height Terraces

Floor Plan

Long Shared House with Common Kitchen and Living Space

Image 3 - Long Shared House

Image 4 - Long Shared House

NON-STOP-STATION

Master Thesis Project - 2022

A New Proposal for East-Side Milan Railway Embankment

Supervisor: Andrea Tartaglia

Academic Project - Individual Milan, Italy

In this research project the presence of railways in cities and the inevitable consequences they bring to urban area has been critically rethought through the lens of architecture. Railway primarily is considered a mobility infrastructure and one of the most significant part of transportation system in modern cities. Nevertheless, their form and function is fundamentally based on technical codes for trains and mobility system. This coupled with essential constructive codes, make railways a series of generic objects bearing the same look all over the world. Therefore, irrespective of the urban area they are located, the spatial issues created by railways tend to fall into the same categories of problems. Hence this thesis tries to turn railway into a project of architecture initiating a critical analysis on the railway in East-Side Milan following by an alternative typology for railway embankment in city.

The main issue addressed by this project is the problem of typology in architecture combined with the most important aspects of mobility that create a basis by which a meta project is envisioned. This project which is conceived in a conceptual site creates the basis for the final project dealing with the railway in east-side Milan. In this proposal all the theories and hypothesis discussed in the primary analysis have been realized in two different zones of east-side Milan to understand how the new proposed typology is able to transform the real situation of the railway in a city like Milan. Non-Stop Station, an alternative typology for the railway in the city. As a mobility infrastructure in an urban area and considered a primary element in the city, railway consists of a series of buildings interconnect all together. In this thesis by proposing an alternative reality I try to envision the railway not an engineering structure providing mobility services but a infinite building that is engaged within the urban context. Railway in East-Side Milan as the initial case study has been critically analyzed throughout the lens of architecture. Strong linearity, brutal divisiveness, mono-functionality are all results of architecture’s ignorance toward railway typology. This project envisions a new possible typology for railway formed by a certain urban archetype. Nevertheless transposes the themes of Human and machine through the symbol of the house. Non-stop station is a house for mobility system. The iconic forms used in this project are repeated in an infinite manner stripped of their iconicity or any conventions related to their primary definitions, meaning and scale. Yet they deploy the familiarity that comes with these forms. This image demonstrates a possible reality for the railway typology in a conceptual site after carefully combining the hypothetical orders extracted from the railway and the architectural definitions of typology.

For complete information on this project check my thesis booklet on: https://issuu.com/benyaminnemati/docs/master_thesis_booklet_square_issue

Layout

Layout 1 - Axonometric Plan - Redefined Tunnel and Piazza

Image 1 - Pool in the Sky

Image 2 - New Facade for the New Piazza

Image 3 - Green Figurative Wall

THE-URBAN-ESCAPIST

Advanced Design Studio - 2021

Advanced School of Performing Art

Tutor: Arian Heidari Afshari

Academic Project - Collaborative

Milan, Italy

In centre of Milan and in one of the most historic parts is located “The Urban Escapist”. This building endeavours to establish a new dialogue with the surrounding by means of contrasting itself and transcending the rigidity of the context. The question here is how a building can establish a new typology while strongly relate itself to the place?

Site of the project is located behind Piazza Sepolcro overlooking an important church “Cripta di san Sepolcro”. In the north, the site is adjacent to the police station which was formerly casa del fascio di Milano. The monumentality of the buildings in the northern side and the domesticity of the housing blocks in the south give the site a sense of complexity. The project tries to incorporate this factor to become a mediator, an object in between, being both monumental and domestic, a futurist which showcase itself by escaping the context.

The project is designing a performing art school on an archaeological site. Due to lack of open space in the area and the presence of archaeological remaining, one of the very design principles is suspending the volume to create pilotis by which the discovered archaeological site is likely to be showcased to the public. In order to achieve the mentioned quality the program of the school is broken down into 3 different parts and embraced by separated masses.

Concrete volume in the south incorporate all the vertical and horizontal connections and it connects the ground floor to the school by means of bridges and corridors. The second part is the transparent volume in the north which embrace all the primary and private space of the school. This volume establishes a domestic and economical attribute and tries as much as possible connect to adjacent buildings. The third volume is the escaper, a function that is drifted apart from the primary volume of school and try to showcase itself to the surrounding. This freedom of movement is provided by registering a new ground floor levelling the skyline and roof tops of the surrounding buildings. The upper elevated volume is comprised of 2 auditorium and collective space which are directly connected to the ground floor and the school.

Physical Model sc 1:200

6th Floor Plan - Performing Stages

5th Floor Plan - Bar / Relaxing Room

X-DOME-COMPLEX

Design And Construction Studio - 2020 Ice Hockey Arena

Tutors: Andrea Tartaglia - Giovanni Muciaccia

Academic Project - Collaborative

Santa Giulia, Milan, Italy

Milano Santa Giulia is located between the districts of Rogoredo and Taliedo, an area that was known for its industrial character since the late 19th Century. The new PalaItalia in the Santa Giulia area of Milan will be the main ice hockey arena for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games.

The design underlying principle is to deny the monumentality and centrality of the sports complex, Therefore, a large suspended roof is considered to embrace the arena. This is mainly creating a strong connection between the arena and the surrounding.

The Complex is comprised of two articulated parts, one is the canopy supported by freestanding columns and the other is the arena that is structurally autonomous and offers a capacity for 10000 spectators. Due to the flux of people during the Olympic period, functions as restaurants, cafeteria, and shops are considered in a close proximity to the arena while at the intersection of the complex the information box is located to distribute and guide the spectators. The arena can be approached by all sides and all the covered space is creating a so-called buffer zone for the spectators to bide their time before the competitions.

The future of the arena is always a big question for developers and government, especially a big arena such as Olympic games, as a result, they are seeking for a flexible building that can be used for different functions after the Olympic Games. we consider this in our design in two ways, firstly we separated other functions like restaurants, shops, gym from the main arena. So, the complex doesn’t need to work with the arena and the other buildings can work independently. Secondly, we made an arena flexible with different configurations for 5 kinds of sports or even entertainment activities such as concert.

Ice Hockey Arena

Ground Floor Plan Layout- Buffer Zone

Buffer Zone View

Longitudinal Section Layout

THE-PRISONER

Thematic Design Studio - 2021

Cucine Popolare+Hostel

Tutor: Giancarlo Floridi

Academic Project - Collaborative Milan, Italy

In the intersection of via Giovanni Battista Sammartini and Raffaele Parravicini there exist the plot number 6. The site is adjacent to the elevated railway and it is facing the tunnels passing through the railway which is characterizing the district in a dominant way.

The old, abandoned factory in front of the building and the bridge spanning via Giovanni Battista Sammartini altogether create an industrial cityscape.

The plot is occupied with 2 volumes: a L-shaped roofless building and a 2 story volume with square base. The significant feature of the site is the existing wall wrapping the building and continue to cover the whole urban plot. The wall morphologically corresponds with the surrounding and it is in the same height with the railway. The connection of the buildings with the wall is tight and they seem to be covered with it instead of using it as an exterior facade.

In this project the building is dealing with the city in a delicate manner. By considering the urban morphology the existing roofless volume in the plot is converted to urban void. In doing so the proposed volume in the project is set back bearing the same width of the prior volume. It is indeed forming an embraced interior garden coming out of the urban morphology. The volume is consisted of 5 volumes stacked in stepped way. The ground floor is covered with the openings derived from the existing windows on the wall and they are creating a visual connection between the front yard and the back yard. The traces in the project overlooking to the urban void in the back side of the plot create a gradient in height to both correspond to the adjacent apartments and the railway.

Physical Model sc 1:200

Physical Model sc 1:200

Image 1 - Cucine Popolare Dining Room View

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