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A NEW AGORA FOR ALEPPO Masters Thesis
Aleppo, Syria 2015 pg 4
BAUHAUS MUSEUM Competition
Dessau, DE 2015 pg 14
FULL CIRCLE
Academic/Theoretical pg 18
BUNKER HOUSE Academic
Berlin, DE 2014 pg 24
DATA SILOS
Europan 12 Competition Groningen, NL 2013 pg 28
JUSTUS HOF COMMUNITY CENTRE Invited Competition
Christian M端ller Architects Flums, CH 2012 pg 34
EL HOUSE RESIDENCE Commision
Self Practicing Mosta, MT 2011 pg 36
LIFE SCIENCES PARK TBA Periti San Gwann, MT 2010 pg 38
PUBLIC CONNECTION PAVILION Bachelor Thesis Valletta, MT 2008 pg 40
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Masters Thesis
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Aleppo, Syria
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A NEW AGORA FOR ALEPPO
The original studio topic was called “Dissapearing�. Being highly motivated with socio-political topics and by the Middle Eastern region I adapted an aproach that includes both these elements. The initial subject led me towards a topic which is very controversial at the moment. I came across various researches showing that Christianity was a minority on its way of extinction in this region. The project followed the methodology of first Identifying this dissapearing phenomenon, defining a specific problem in the architectural realm and finally transforming all the research and knowledge into an architectural project. The current situation in Syria created a very unique and facinating setting for a social analysis and thus Aleppo was chosen as a specific city for the siting of the project. The project pictures a post conflict situation and the creation of this Agora shows the evolution from Religion to Secularity.
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CHRISTIANITY GROWTH IN THE REGION
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CHRISTIAN POPULATION 5% CHRISTIAN POPULATION 5%
What’s Disappearing? The photos below are part of a photo essay that gave rise to my fascination with the Middle East. It documents the life of Syrian refugees in camps in Jordan and Lebanon. Although refugees are displaced from their home country they do not necessarily disappear. This fact led to a more concise analysis of the region and a search for cultural
or social disappearing elements in this part of the world. This research made it very clear that although the Middle East was the cradle of one of the most popular practiced religions world wide; Christianity is disappearing at a very fast rate in this region. This fact became the main research topic of this thesis; The Disappearance of Christianity in the Middle East.
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HARD FACT:
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CHRISTIANS ARE DISAPPEARING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST
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LAWFUL KILLINGS
CONVERSION TO OTHER RELIGIONS
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HEIGHEST RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE WORLD
WHY IS THIS A PROBLEM?
AT THIS RATE CHRISTIANITY IS GOING TO DISAPPEAR AS A CULTURAL AND POLITICAL FORCE IN ITS PLACE OF BIRTH
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Why is it Disappearing? The flow charts show various reasons which can be linked to this disappearance phenomenon. The intricate network of reason was compiled during the research phase in order to discover ways or programmes how this abstract topic of disappearance can be translated in to the architectural realm.
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1. Original Situation 2. The Breach created with the destruction of the minaret and main gate is retained as a reminder of a period of conflict and as a clear connection to the urban context. 3. Front perimetre wall is opened all along into the internal arcade to enhance the urban connection. 4. The minaret is recreated, relocated and reoriented both as a landmark and as a symbol of Secular communication.
4. A New Agora for Aleppo
A New Agora for Aleppo
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t e a a r e a ( i n f o r m a l )
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The programme follows a narrative based on the themes of Knowledge, Dialogue and Action. This narrative uses the bare minimum functions to create a platform for dialogue and discussion and forms a New Agora for Aleppo.
The new programme is a highly interconnected facility where circulation and functions follow no hierchy whatsoever as a symbol of freedom and open communication.
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Pre-cast roof concrete panels Pre-cast edge concrete panels Gravel for extra DPM protection Rigid Insulation
Cast insitu Slab and Beam system part of a 3D Vierendeel Structure Cast in-situ Concrete wall system composed of a 300mm internal skin, rigid insulation and a 250mm external skin Soffit system filleted at the edges
Polished Concrete floor finish Cast insitu Slab and Beam system part of a 3D Vierendeel Structure Rigid Insulation Pre fabricated Concrete slabs
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International Competition
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Dessau - RoĂ&#x;lau, DE
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Spirit of the City Bauhaus Museum Dessau
The building of Bauhaus Museum does not try to compete with the iconic presence of Bauhaus School building but to follow its orientation toward basic design. The proposal is the ultimate mono block, monumental because of its size, but humble because of its simplicity. The whole building appears in exterior enveloped in a translucent glass and in interior bathed in diffused skylight. Translucency and diffusion are dematerializing massive volume into ghostly white shadow. This uncanny trope is turning indifference of a generic glass box into an unexpected experience. Being upstanding in its massive volume and ephemeral in its character, Bauhaus Museum has a potential to become the landmark of Dessau. The building is stretches from north to south using the whole length of the plot - 135m. It is leaned to the west plot border in order to make space for plato in front of it. By articulating boundary between the city and the park it is giving urban argument to both new public space in front of it and new public garden that follows the museum building as it used to follow historical palaces.
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Although divided both sides are connected by the entrance throughout the building and by the passage underneath. The whole setting is a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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contemporary allusion to modernist typology of the glass pavilion surrounded by the garden. Entrance to the Museum is in the direction of Ratgasse emphasizing connection with Rathouse and Market Square. An Enlightened corridor going all around the ground floor connects and enables unobstructed approach to all the rooms and staircases. The entrance to the logistic area is on the north side of the building at the ground floor, closest to the street connection. It is organized in such way to enable truck to go inside for downloading and uploading.
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The Exhibition area for the permanent collection stretches toward the south following linear curatorial concept which defines seven sections. Although divided exhibition space is flexible and can be easily adopted to any future changing. The line of the galleries is finishing with the large size window on the south side that is spieling everyday reality into exhibition space. The main attribute of the exhibition space for permanent collection is determined by the diffused skylight.
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Full Circle is a story told through a Manifesto, images and a short movie. It narrates the evolution of a society where it’s obsession with the past is questioned and tensions between different conditions are created. The project evolves over the studio topic; “Between technocrats and Mustaches”, where one needed to find and develop an interpretation. Through theoretical, political and phylosifical thinking the project attempts to critisice and create a mock situation of my native country and culture. The story opens with the creation of a Temple of/ to Nostalgia and through destruction and creation it
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evolves into The Ring; a structure created to erease what are considered mistakes done through the years with a hopeful view on the future. The story concludes with a dilemma on what would happen to this new society if the past is always considered as sacred. The Story starts with the quote; ” There are no Creatives. No Designers.No Architects. No Thinkers. There are just Guardians.Guardians and their Mother; ‘Nostalgia’.Time is frozen, and the longing for the past has turned into a continuous slow present.” The complete video can be found on vimeo.com/99885134
Evolution of the Temple of Nostalgia
The Meta
The Silent Sanctuary
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physical Evolution of the ‘Original Temple’
Sanctuary of the Divine Knowledge
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Academic
2013
Berlin, DE
Roger Bundschuh
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Bunker House
Remembering what is no more The project is an experiment to discover how to represent something which doesn’t exist anymore through the void left behind. This exersice required answers to questions such as; What is a Void? Are internal voids the same as external voids? How can we represent the Non-Existant? Instead of utilising the old BASA Bunker on site to create a space or spaces to live in, the Bunker was removed completely. The programme on site was to create a building with a dual/intertwined programme and the scheme consited of a Psychological Trauma Centre with open residences for the centre’s patients on top. The Bunker is used as a symbol of Trauma and thus it is removed. However through psychology one learns that Trauma is impossible to vanish completely, and one has to learn to live with remnants of it. The design tries to represent the Bunker by wrapping the new scheme around the old
volume and by doing so enhancing the presence of the void, creating what I am calling a Phantom Bunker. The volume facing the canal represents the old bunker through a metal matrix which again uses the volume of the now demolished bunker as a cast. This creates a temporal illusion of the bunker while the public is moving or driving along Hallessches Uffer. The pit (Void) left by the demolished bunker is transforemd into a Garden of Eden, where now the symbol of trauma is changed to it’s inverse. The metal matrix becomes now a trellis where vegitation will with the passing of time take over and cover the whole structure.
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Portfolio 2015 Urban/ Architectural Competition Project Type
Europan 12 Submission Short-listed
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Data Silos
Excess Heat Enabling Civicness With the shift from manufacturing to (global) service industries, the challenge is to sustain local benefits from this re-alignment while simultaneously marketing the city competitively. Telecommunication services and the infrastructure for supporting a digitally enabled society is a booming industry, at the core of which are datacenters. With a young, creative demographic and a forward-looking entrepeneurial spirit founded on a strong quality of living, Groningen is ideally suited to host data-centers. Sitting on an abundant and relatively cheap power source, in a cool climate, on pre-existing fiber-optic lines, and boasting an institutional framework supporting internet innovations, Groningen is poised to expand its digital presence. A decisive and stand-alone destination program of an infrastructural nature which nonetheless leaves options open for its neighbours is called for. Its’ fate ought not be tied to the north, but wager instead on the more likely success of the southerly SuikerUnie site. Post-industrial and failing-retail
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sites are ideal locations for new data-warehousing. In the long-term it will form the nexus and hinge between the west and south development parcels, and perhaps even engender an alternate future for the failing furniture retail immediately north, making a virtue of its relative inaccessibility by retrofitting their shed-buildings as data-center annexes. There is much to be gained by co-locating data-centers with other uses. By plugging other uses into the system, waste heat is capitalized upon, effectively creating a district heating system. In the first phase (DataSilosGEN1) the holistic approach to waste heat
sustains a public thermal pool and greenhouse. Expanded as a model for re-branding the area over a 10 year period, DataIsland2025 shares its excess heat as an incentive for development on all sides. A vertical format for the data-center reserves ground level for occupied activities and ensures scalability of the servers above without compromising the configuration of the pools or greenhouse. Initial investment is minimal as industrial-scaled power already arrives at SuikerUnie site, and a fiber-
optic connection has recently been made as part of the community metro ring. The data-center could be operated by a private hosting firm (one which leases out server space), a proprietary firm (like Google or Amazon), or be government run (to support start-ups or support state agencies). The City has proven its viability by three other data-centers in the area (the latest at Eemshaven). The economic viability and the much sought-after positive public profile of the project is improved by its re-use of waste-heat for which a monthly supply contract could be negotiated as an additional incentive.
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INTER-EUROPEAN AND CONTINENTAL FIBER-OPTIC CABLES A small country with a big digital presence
FIBER-OPTIC CABLES & DATA-CENTRES AROUND THE SITE A new identity for the West builds on recent telecommunications investments.
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The global data storage capactiy needs to grow 380% by 2015.
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The global data-centre physical footprint grows 10% annually.
Digital data storage capacity needs to grow 2012 2015
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Data-centres use 1.5X the energy of New York City in a year.
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On a more abstract level, it is a manifestation of the digital Cloud rendered in concrete and fabric, and builds on a long tradition of architecture learning from industry/telecommunications. With DataSilosGEN1 Groningen once again leads the way by demonstrating a future where digital culture is balanced against traditional civicness and communalism, invests in its competitive future on a global scale, and re-confirms its’ pioneering spirit. The first generation of a new building type; the urbanistically responsive data center.
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Data Centre
PROGRAMMING: A PARASYTIC POOL & GREENHOUSE
The challenge of the data-center is its architectural and urban integration with the city. Condensing the servers vertically and parasitically linking amenity programs to its’ base amerliorates its impact, making it a genuinely desireable neighbour.
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SYSTEMS: A HEAT ENGINE
Traditional data-centers produce enough heat to supply a building three times its size. Diverting that heat flow through intermediate civic functions adds value and profile to the system without hindering its functioning, and offers sustainable operational cost recovery. While server technology continues to improve by reducing operating temperatures, turning wasteheat into a resource turns the problem on its head.
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WATER LOOP
(a) Cool canal water is siphoned into a series of filtering ponds (10o) (b) Cool clean water supplies the chiller (19o) (c) Water proceeds through the heat exchanger, absorbing waste heat energy from return air (28o) (d) Hot, clean water floods a cooling basin (e) A series of chlorinated and pools variously inset in the basin absorb heat energy depending on their exposure and how far upstream they are positioned (26o 20o 18o) (f) Water is returned to the canal cleaner and slightly warmer than when it came in (14o)
DATA CENTRE
GREEN HOUSE
AIR LOOP (1) Air is cooled in the chillers, intake air being made up of both fresh but mostly recycled air (16o) (2) Cold air is delivered to the data compartment where it is distributed down the cold aisles (10o) (3) Hot air is exhausted in the hot aisles and collected in the penthouse chamber (28o) (4) A portion of the hot air is directed through the greenhouse, a smaller portion bypassing directly for recycling and collecting solar heat as it moves through the ETFE plenum (30o) (5) Hot air is processed in the heat exchanger transfering its heat energy into liquid conveyant before beginning the cycle anew (16o)
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Section AA’ through Thermal Pools & Data-Center
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Invited Competition
2012
Flums, CH
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Christian MĂźller Architects
Justus Hof
Community Centre in Flums, Switzerland The community of this tiny village in the Swiss Alps has been aging. This elder community needed appropriate housing that can cater for all their accessibility needs. However this type of society doesn’t only have accessibility needs; but also social needs. The brief asked for the creation of living units of various scales together with community facilities. The Parish church had been asking for an extension of their premisis and the developer has agreed to incorporate some of their needs into this project. This community project restored and incorporated a heritage building on one corner of the plot.
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Residential Commision
2011
Malta
â‚Ź130,000
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EL House A New Home for a young Couple
The 2 storey home was designed for a Maltese family in Mosta; a small town surrounded by country side in the heart of Malta. Light and quality of space were set as major priority in the design and programming. Located on top of a 2 storey terraced house, the new development turned the typical Maltese house configuration upside-down/ inside-out and placed the living quarters on top the sleeping quarters. This allows the country views to be enjoyed by all the users of the house from the terrace and common living space.
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3rd Floor
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Design & Build Tender
2010
San Gwann, Malta
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Budget
TBA Periti
Life Sciences Park Bio-Malta Campus will be a knowledge cluster between the University of Malta, Malta’s National public hospital and the Life Sciences industry. It will initially consist of four key buildings, which will provide 10,000m2 of space and 3,500m2 of incubation facilities. The Campus will also include a multifunctional conference and meeting facilities, intended to
support the continuing educational and professional development of scientists, researchers and medical health professionals. The commission regarded specifically the design of a holistic facade concept, that could be easily adapted to the Life Sciences buildings and surrounding landscape, forming the masterplan. Keeping in mind the Maltese climate and that most of the research
buildings are literally sealed and artificially ventilated, the design emphasised on great environmental considerations. Each facade is designed and moulded appropriately for the orientation it is facing.
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Bachelor Thesis
2008
Valletta, Malta
Prof. Paul Gauchi
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Connection to Thinking Design of a Public Connection Pavilion to Edward de Bono’s PALACE OF THINKING
This Project is about the regeneration of Fort St. Elmo and its’ environs. Fort St. Elmo is situated in the north of Valletta; Malta’s Capital, at the tip of the peninsula; flanked by both Marsamxett and the Grand Harbour. Throughout the years it was part of various military victories such as the triumph over the Ottoman fleet during the great Siege of 1556. Built by the Knights of St. John and the people of Malta in less than a year, it kept evolving until the British Military service left the Maltese islands in the late 1970s. Up to recently the main star-shaped
fort has been used as a police academy, while its’ ancillary facilities have been used as stores and workshops. Today this military architecture gem is neglected and one can say that it is in a dilapidated condition. Outside the fortified walls, the area is predominated with residential blocks. The Mediterranean Conference Centre, a block of government offices and a small tourist attraction break this trend, however, these are not enough to generate the sufficient urban activity such a location deserves.
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Initially the problems within the area where identified. A Masterplan was proposed to provide solutions for the site. The envisaged solutions must blend in a harmoniously to the existing context while improving the activity around the area. The second part involved designing a structure which was part of the envisaged uses. Similarly, the architectural additions placed in different areas of the Fort and it’s environs had to respect and blend in wit the existing fabric.
Current activity stops half way of Valletta’s longitudinal length. The proposal is to extend the activity over all the peninsula.
Current entry points to the city make activity on the northern part of the city unfavourable. Adding new entries would improve accessibility.
Current perimetre of the city stops at the extents of Fort St.Elmo. The proposal stretches perimetre till the tip of the peninsula.
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This solution creates the possibility of an intricate public transport network using ferries and water taxis in the two harbours flanking the city, that would greatly reduce the commuting time from cities and towns around the harbours.
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Connection Pavilion
Residential
Entertainment
Residential Common Areas Admin Residential Common Areas
Administration Public Core
Commercial/ Retail
Public Core
Entertainment
In 2008, Edward de Bono, one of Malta’s most prominent thinkers and a world-renowned author on creative thinking, has proposed the siting of a Palace of Thinking in Malta, a building where ideas would be generated. The following is an abstract from an article published in The Times of Malta in October 2008. De Bono’s idea of a Palace of Thinking in Malta is an ideal solution for the masterplan. Besides solving the urban problems around Fort St. Elmo, one had to find a proper use worthy of such an important part of the Maltese heritage. A Palace dedicated to thinking is an ideal proposal.
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Entrance Lobby Lounge Area Utilities Secondary Entrance Lift Residential Apartment
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The connectivity within the pavilion is primarily based on stairs and ramps. This is due to the fact that the structure is planned on a ramp; a space which uninterruptedly changes in level. As you enter the pavilion from either entrances, you are greeted by a prominent staircase. This space is the most public area within the pavilion. The stairs is used primarily as a vertical link but also doubles as tiered seating for public lectures, debates and performances. The rest of the pavilion is interconnected by ramps. These
ramps enhance the users experience and transform it into a stimulating experience. The main ramp that is suspended over the main lobby has a very important programmatic aspect. The ramp doubles as a link and a buffer to a zone where the public can exchange ideas and discuss in a more intimate setting. This ramp while eases multilevel circulation but simultaneously acts as a barrier due to its’ length. This automatically makes the Mixing Chamber an ideal space for thorough discussion.
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Archive & Library
Research/Reading
Accession Room
Direct link to Palace
Instead of creating a faster connection through a vertical link, a series of interconnected spaces with different level of public use are conceived. The higher the level of the space, the less public it becomes because of the nature of its use.
Second Degree Public Area Private Discussions/ Bar/Cafe’
Kitchen & Stores
These spaces are terraced over the existing ramp and connect the 3-dimensional space beneath the fortifications in a very intricate manner. In order to get to the Palace of Thinking; one has to go through all the spaces. The spaces and links create a symbolic journey to get to enlightenment.
First Degree Public Area Lectures/Debates/ Bar/Cafe’
Although the pavilion contains different levels of public use this is not meant to discourage the use of the Palace of Thinking facilities by the general public. On the contrary, they ease the flow of the general public through multiple levels. The pavilion is envisioned as a catalyst for the public to come closer to Palace and encourage them to be more thinkful.
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