Mahbanou Rostami P O R T F O L I O
408-320-3784 Banourostami@berkeley.edu
Education
Leadership
University of California, Berkeley, CA
West Valley College, Saratoga, CA.……..........………. August 2016-July 2017 President of Architecture Club
Bachelor of Art: Architecture………………........................................................ Spring 2019
West Valley College, Saratoga, CA Associate of Art: Science and Math…………................................................… Spring 2017 Associate of Science: Architecture.………………………………..................…......… Spring 2018
Experience Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, San Francisco Architecture Intern…………………………………………..................…..…June 2018- August 2018
American Institute of Architects Silicon Valley, Santa Clara, CA Volunteered Student Liaison…………………………………………..................………..……August 2016- July 2017 Design Awards………………………………………………………..................……….……………...… Fall 2016 Home Tours………………..………………..................………. October 2015, July 2016, June 2017
Pars Equality Center, San Jose, CA…..................…...…… January2016-April 2016 Volunteered VITA tax return
Rebuilding Together Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA…...................…. Fall 2015 Volunteered West Valley College, Saratoga, CA...............September 2015- September 2016 Math Tutor Santa Clara Swim Club, Santa Clara, CA.................. February 2014-July 2015 Swim Instructor
Skills 3D Modeling: Autodesk: Rhino, Revit Adobe: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator Google: SketchUp V-Ray Rendring Engine
Language English and Farsi
Competition Cal Poly Design Competition.………………………...........……………. Spring 2016
Awards West Valley College Scholarship Rossman’s Woman of Distinction Scholarship Endowment............ May 2017 Persian Scholarship.……………………………………....……….........………………......... May 2017
University of California Berkeley Scholarship Berkeley Undergraduate Scholarship...........................................September 2017 Berkeley Transfer Scholarship........................................................September 2017
UPTOWN ARTIST RESIDENCY ONE MARITIME PLAZA RENOVATION
MUSEUM STORAGE GOOD FOOD POTRERO LIBRARY LAP TOP STAND/ CONCRETE PLANT STAND/ WOOD
STAIR/ STEEL
BARCELONA PAVILION SKETCHES
HAND DRAWINGS/ SKETCHES
UPTOWN AIR-AN ARTIST RESIDENCY UC Berkeley: Fundamentals of Architectural Design IV... Professors: Architects Cass Calder Smith and Kurt Lavenson The organic shape ground plan seems to spread and flow into the surrounding urban context. Its shape is the result of spontaneous artistic inspiration and an expression of personal feelings, inspired by thinking about a place for artists to contemplate and create. The building stands invitingly opposite other buildings in the area, but it also respects and engages them, adding a topographical counterpoint to the hard edged urban context. Appearing, at first sight, to be a purely accidental shape, it proves on closer inspection to be a purposeful configuration of movement. Public and private bend around each other. The introverted becomes the extroverted. Contradictions flow together to become a single continuous form. This philosophy characterizes the interior of the building as well. Its shape allows the creation of many different room sizes oriented in all different directions but considered within the larger whole of the building as a single, connected interior space, a spatial continuum. Some of the spaces are two or three stories high spacious feel. Others are more intimate with intentionally low ceilings. Voids in the floor plates and the exterior skin are arranged to allow light and sounds to animate the structure. Public rooms take advantage of daylight illumination from the side and above by following the curved, glazed shell of the building. Whhe flat, darker one-story areas are essentially residential apartment stacks for the artists and staff.
C-C
B-B
A-A
2nd Floor
3rd Floor
4th Floor
5th Floor
6th Floor
7th Floor
8th Floor
9th Floor
Section A-A
Section B-B
Section C-C
Facade Detailing
Lobby Main Entrance View
Concave Room, Writing Studio
View from Outside Rooftop
Convex Room, Double Height Music Studio
ONE MARITIME PLAZA RENOVATION Internship Project ... Architects: Craig W. Hartman, Kenny Endo, Nick LaNasa
Clay Street Facade
SKIDMORE OWINGS & MERRILL LLP
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South Elevation [Clay Street] 1/4”=1’- 0”
ONE MARITIME PLAZA
Clay Street Entry Proposed Partial Elevation
SKIDMORE OWINGS & MERRILL LLP
Plaza Level Office Lobby
Plaza Level Office Lobby Materials
100% Design Development August 2018
Mazzanine level One Maritime
Clay Street Facade Detailing
MUSEUM STORAGE UC Berkeley: Fundamentals of Architectural Design III... Professor: Architect Neyran Turan Our project is about collection. Collecting two things. Firstly, it’s the collection of buildings, our building is composed of many buildings. And collection of stuff inside. We call these buildings minimuseums, each of them is the spaces for storing stuff of a certain art museum. In today’s environment museums are rapidly growing, because the collections are being added up. This is the result of human nature, culture, and our history. Therefore, the museum necessitates a space for this growth. A constant expansion. For instance, SF MOMA art collection grew 1.2 % from 2014 to 2016. The more we collect, collection in museums and the distance between user and collection grows bigger. This requires museums to build another building for their collections. Our project is about collecting collections by using group form. For us, the group form is not only interesting in how a building can be composed of many buildings. We propose a project that collects. the whole is made of different entities. AND there is a relation between them. For instance, the way stuff is stored in each mini-museums and the space that is being created by the forms. Our proposal is about collection that creates differences. For example, this mini museum is a collection of paintings and this is collection of quilts that can exhibit together. Opposite of the current paradigm,where each museum exhibition is limited to their collection. The underground is a venue for all of the museums a shared space in which they can create different kinds of exhibitions. The underground is excavated to create voids that would allow a visual connection between the underground and first floor. Collection works in two ways. How we categorize things, we organize information and knowledge. And its effect on how we experience that base on architecture approach. It’s not only about the investigation of how buildings co-exist together, but also ways of that repositories of knowledge exist together.
Underground Floor
1st-last Floor
Textile Storage Floor Mounted Art Storage Racks Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles
Furniture Storage Wire Shelving De Young Museum
Ceramic Storage Wide Span Shelving American Museum of Ceramic Art
Film + Photography Storage Floor Mounted High Density-Manual Cabinets San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Jewelry Storage Drawer System Cabinets San Francisco Jewelry Museum
Sculpture Storage Custom Made High Density Mobile Powered Storage System International Art Museum of America
Painting Storage Nesting Art Racks Masterwoks Fine Art Gallery
Map Storage High Density Mobile Cabinets Map and Atlas Museum of La Jolla
Quilt Storage Art Racks Storage-Mechanically Assisted System San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
GOOD FOOD UC Berkeley:Fundamentls of Architectural Design II ... Professors: Roddy Creedon, David Orkand The building is the conjunction of multiple and varied programs centered around a common sense of interest, which is described as production, education, and consumption. Each of these programs are in one floor, connected visually through the central space.
Top Floor Food Production
Visual Connection from Lobby
POTRERO LIBRARY UC Berkeley: Fundamentals of Architectural Design I ... Professors: Lisa Iwamoto, Jason Campbell A library enabling focus on the duality of social and individual space. It is designed to replace the former Potrero Branch Library in San Francisco. The goal was to create between program types that alternate between public and private areas. This is achieved by soft division. It will conceal movement intuitively and would allow duality to be sensed through subtle moves that create a dialogue the functional aspects of a library and the elegance of artistic forms and play of light.
I Floor
II Floor
III Floor
IV Floor
LAP TOP STAND/ CONCRETE UC Berkeley: Introduction to Construction... Professors: Dana Buntrock, David Jaehning, Nikita Tugarin Team members: Sam Li, Jacky Lau Objective: A slab of concrete with a deformation. The slab thicknes must be between 1-2” and a part of the slab must be 8” x 16.” The depth of the form in the third dimension is elective.The slab must have at least one hole greater than 6” in diameter. Result: Lap Top stand using the hole for cords and for the lap top to breathe. Medium used: Rebar, Plywood, Concrete Work size: 8” by 16”
PLANT STAND/ WOOD UC Berkeley: Introduction to Construction... Professors: Dana Buntrock, David Jaehning, Nikita Tugarin Team members: Christine Hikido, Heidi Ramli, Leonie Leonida, Nuri Lee-Hong
Essentially, this is a box inside a box. The boxes accommodate the different need of various plants, such as height and need of light. The tall ones are for overhangs; the middle part is for the plants with room for auxiliary lights. We used one simple joint throughout the design. To make sure the distance between two is same, we used a series of spacer blocks. To prevent wood rot, we added L shape aluminum base which would bring the plant stand off the ground. Medium used: 2”by 1” Pine lumber, L shape aluminum panel Work size: 24” by 48”
STAIR/ STEEL UC Berkeley: Introduction to Construction... Professors: Dana Buntrock, David Jaehning, Nikita Tugarin Team Members: Sam Li, Jacky Lau Steel tube joints are connected with rivets as the method of bonding. The rustic look is completed with the bend of continuous rebars. Medium used: Aluminum tubes, Steel rebars Work size:28� by 48�
Cold Connection
Welding
BARCELONA PAVILION SKETCHES West Valley College: Basic Architectural Design ... Professor: Chris Clancy
Mahbanou Rostami BANOUROSTAMI@BERKELEY.EDU
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