danah owaida a journey through my creative musings architecture and design portfolio three-year applicant dana.owaida@mail.utoronto.ca
contents The Ci(r)rcus
2022
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Childhood Fever Dream
2022
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Camp New Circadia
2022
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Felt Lights in Situ
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Rampscaping
2023
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Por la paz y la paloma
2022
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Adidas Queen West Storefront
2022
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Multipurpose Pavilion
Digital Artwork + Machine Learning Experiment
Traveling Exhibition + UofT Design Build
Professional Work
Proposal for an Accessible Homestead
Casted Sculpture
Professional Work, Storefront Design Proposal
The Cir(r)cus Multipurpose Pavilion / Winter 2022 ARC480: Re-integrating Design / academic individual project Instructor: Salman Khalili Araghi
This is a project centred around lightheartedness. It’s about how we can approach ‘postpandemic’ life in a way that is more human; still prioritizing keeping people safe, but without the constant reminder of a looming threat. The Cirrcus is a play on words and was named after Cirrus clouds, drawn from my inspiration in clouds, and the playfulness and leisure of circuses. Atmospherically and kinetically, it was modeled after the movement, sensual experience, and lightness they possess, while the key formal elements of undulation stem from the formal appearance of clouds. Employing The Shed by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro as precedent, I designed dual purpose lightweight seating/walls that possess wheels, capable of moving on a base track and reconfiguring the interior spatially in relation to program. The benches in the seating configuration are designed to maintain social distance, and the wall configuration utilizes a winding circulation to disperse visitors. Capacity = 50 people.
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Camp New Circadia Design Build + Traveling Exhibition / Summer 2022 ARC395: Design Build Studio / academic group project Instructors + Assistants: Richard Sommer, Natalie Fizer, Sutton Murray / Shamim Khedri, Omar Abdellatif, Omar Ismail Group Role, in equal collaboration with Julie Seeger and Chanel Chin: designed colour logic/ambiance, configuration/social interaction, material optimization. Individual Role: produced all drawings, addressed aesthetic concerns on site, took up a large and instructional role in mass production and fabrication.
Camp New Circadia (CNC) is a traveling exhibition meant to host communal rest, as well as the practice of dream-sharing—the sharing of dreams anonymously through writing and drawing in a moderated environment to attempt to make sense of one another’s reveries through a variety of different cultural lenses and practices brought to the table by the diverse participants in attendance. The exhibit is composed of a series of tent-like modular structures configured to face the main stage where the dream-sharing is facilitated, while also mediating social relationships and engagement with the facilitators; communal/isolated, and active/passive. We built the ‘Beta’ version of CNC in Haliburton Forest, Ontario, which is to circulate around a variety of different locations and natural landscapes—the tri-grid flexible base geometry and prefabricated parts are to support that aspect of relocation. I learned so much about concerns in the practice of architecture, from optimizing budget, to mass production, to building and coordinating on-site.
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Colour Logic
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permits larger gatherings of sleepers and sitters
tunnel predominantly sleeping groups
Design Logic
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Tarp 3/8” Acetal Rods 1/2” Acetal Rods
Tarp (visible/top layer) Foam Tarp (invisible/bottom layer; blue underside makes for irreversible ravioli)
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Camp New Circadia
Angelica Bonacini
Angelica Bonacini
Seth Martosh
Angelica Bonacini Fabrication
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photographs courtesy of Mel Sommer
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Felt Lights in Situ Professional Work / Summer 2021 ARC399: Research Opportunity Program / professional individual project Instructor and Supervisor: Pina Petricone
Completed during my Internship at Giannone Petricone Associates, the purpose of this project was to create a series of emotive hybrid drawings of bespoke light fixtures in situ designed by the firm. These drawings were to become part of an ‘Atlas’ of light fixtures designed by the firm for its clients. My precedent fixture-of-focus was the Felt Light, designed for the Royal Hotel’s Annex situated in Picton, Ontario. By taking precedent from the renowned collage works of Mies van der Rohe as well as adopting an aesthetic direction that blends drawing and photography, the aim of this work was to present the Felt Light, its unique hotel environment and its multi-leveled ceilings in a whole new light.
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Rampscaping Proposal for an Accessible Homestead / Fall 2023 Form Studio / academic individual project Instructors: Adam Fure, Kevin Moultrie Daye
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With a goal of refining skill in constructing working drawings, the goal of this project was to adapt a simple, classic tectonic design of the classic suburban single family home in Michigan to the tectonic style of the Mews House in London. Part of the assignment was 16'-6" 3'-4" 11'-10 " 10'-11 " 3'-7 " also to adapt the design3'-5to" code in Michigan. 6'-11 " 72'-0" 001
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London, England 00000
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2000 Bonisteel Blvd Ann Arbor, MI 48103 p.734.764.1300 f. 734.763.2322 taubmancollege.umich.edu
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window screen double glazing 1.25" drywall vapor retarding layer 3.5" rigid foam insulation waterproof membrane 3.5" cavity 4" masonry bricks
Douglas fir flooring
impact sound mat OSB 2x8 LVL
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project address London, Englan
House in Londo
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Adidas Queen West Storefront Storefront Design Proposal / October 2022 HXOUSE x Adidas CPMP / professional group project Advisors: Chris Pandolfi, Drew Hall, Arthikka Jey Collaborators: Sabrina Elewa, Kenneth Song, Avery Medina, Benjamin Agbeke, Arwa Hussein Role: storefront concept, design, photography and visualization; campaign concept shared with collaborators.
With an architectural sensibility, I designed this storefront for Adidas Canada as part of a competitive challenge for groups of select creatives and marketing specialists to “Create a window activation, [and ultimately, a marketing campaign] highlighting the lifestyle around two iconic products with basketball DNA – The Forum and The Superstar.” The winning group of this challenge was to be granted the opportunity to execute their proposed designs Canada-wide. We thought up the campaign slogan “Create Your Next” as a means of demonstrating that the shoes are immersed within a long history beginning on the basketball court with Kareem Abduljabbar popularizing the shoes, and continuing in streetwear enthusiasts claiming and taking them along their journeys. They created their next while making the shoes culturally iconic. In the storefront design, the alternating use of mirror planes and planes containing past campaign imagery is intended to place the observer/the pedestrian within the journey of the shoe, in turn propelling the viewer to understand their own journeys as propelling how this shoe is defined.
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Por la paz y la paloma Casted Sculpture / February 2022 ARC465: Casting / academic individual project Instructor: Angela Cho
In a case study of objects in Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s House and Studio in Mexico City, this object, though subtle, stood out to me like no other in the house. Though the house is filled with trinkets, this piece, a dove in all its fragility, seemed so immaterial. I was so incredibly drawn to the pleating technique in this paper mache work. Upon further research, I discovered that the dove was a very prominent symbol for Kahlo herself as well as a recurring one throughout her work. Nicknamed ‘the dove’ by her father, the dove was also a symbol for peace, freedom, and life to Kahlo. I intended to reproduce the hanging dove in an abstracted manner through first producing a clay original, creating a mother mould and then casting a positive from this mould. I was pushed towards conveying the same immateriality as the original still situated in the Mexico City home. This project was all about embracing the casting process and the details that get lost along the way, and after many unsuccessful casting attempts, For the Peace and the Dove was finally created.
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Childhood Fever Dream Collage + Machine Learning Experiment / Winter 2022 ARC384: Simulation and Data Visualization / academic group project Instructor: Paul Howard Harrison
Collaborator: Anna Witzke
Role: conceptualization, final collage. Dataset compilation and AI training shared equally with collaborator.
The purpose of this assignment was to enable us to explore generating a new work of architecture by training an AI model using curated datasets. I took this as an opportunity to explore the form-finding potentials of employing an existing dateset to generate new dream-like forms derived from familiar ones using the software Runway ML, employing AI in my process for the very first time. For this project, I prioritized having fun with artful collaging and exploring that hobby with a whimsical sensibility, attempting to push the limits of typical representation. Taking precedents from the art of the Surrealists and more specifically Salvador Dali based on my Art Historical background, I was interested in conveying a marriage of familiar childhood environments.
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danah owaida a journey through my creative musings thank you.