ELMIRA HOSSEINKHANI ARCHITECTURE P O R T F O L I O
Cloud Gate, Chicago, I L
TABLE OF CONTENTS
B.R.O.N.Z Race to Net Zero Energy - 2nd Place
The Garden Block Superblock 2 - Garden Urbanism
The Pause Louis Vitton Spark Award Competition - Finalist
P-Chord Venue Adaptive Reuse of Packard Motor Plant
Dynamic Space Space Flow in an Urban Setting
Computational Design CAD, CAM
Trainings Spring 2008 - present
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B.R.O.N.Z Spring 2017 Department of Energy - Race to Net Zero Energy: Urban Single Family Home - 2nd Place Collaborated with: Ezgi Bay, Lindsey Rice, Julia del Pino Torres, Al Mitchell, Ariel White
Urban Single Family Home Location: Chicago, Illinois The B.R.O.N.Z.E. House is an urban single family home for a family of four, located in Chicago’s South Side on a narrow lot 20’ X 148’. The main challenge in the design has been the narrow lot size, a typical lot size in Chicago (Approx. %70.). The main design concept of the B.R.O.N.Z.E. House is the utilization of natural light due to the minimized daylighting capacity of the lot, with neighboring two story residences on the both side. Radiation studies informed the floor plan and massing of the home and led us to implement a courtyard that helps to bring daylight into living spaces. Additionally, a light well on the northwest corner of the house brings southern light into adjacent spaces and also allows for stack effect ventilation with an operable window at roof level. The home has a unique split level approach to bring sunlight in more effectively.
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Roof
Typical Building Mass
Lightwell Bedroom Level Kitchen Level Living Room Level
3ft
Entrance Level
Pushing back from the South
Basement Level Circulation Core
Pulling to the West
Third Floor Plan
Tacking out the center mass, Creating the Courtyard
Second Floor Plan
Inserting the Lightwell
First Floor Plan
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The Garden Block Spring 2016 Studio Professor: Martin Felsen Collaborated with: Saly Alzraikat, Akinade Aderele
This project is an attempt to form a balance between the social and the ecological concerns. However, the project challenges the social hierarchy of the Chinese garden and offer diverse social spaces to different social groups by expanding and extending the garden horizontally and vertically.
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Site Contour
Overlaying the ground garden
Subtracting the buildings foorprints
Expanding the garden vertically
Expanding and layering the garden
Garden proposing multi-functionality
Functional design of having garden as a connecting tissue
Major Street SEMI-PUBLIC
Selected Blocks
PRIVATE
Eco-Boulevard Lake Major Street
SEMI-PUBLIC
PRIVATE
SEMI-PUBLIC
PRIVATE
Garden at ground level SEMI-PUBLIC
PUBLIC
Elevating the Garden
Figure-Void Garden Type
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01 Eco-Boulevard
Garden Urbanism concept development
02 Expanding garden on the ground level
03 Integration of the built-form and the garden by ramps
04 Expanding the Garden in different levels
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Site Ecological Challenges: The land suffers from two main issues: Lake flooding and water pollution. A solution was proposed which tackles both of these issues along with creating a social space for the site’s occupants, and that is the Eco-Boulevard. (Explanation in Water Treatment Section). The Eco-Boulevard functions all year long and it’s responsive to seasonal changes. The integration of contemporary systems promotes sustainble community development and healthy living in superblocks by embracing hybridity and tackling major social and ecological challenges such as air pollution and water flooding, and finding a balance between them. Hybridity represents a potential adaptive prototype that generates community stability, public benefit and sustainable practices. Proposing the garden as a system by imposing different applications can enhance the quality of life and propose new characteristics for superblocks, such as multifunctionality, integration with context and promoting social cohesion within an environmentally friendly block, that’s built for diversity of uses and supports different initiatives. The garden system achieves socio-ecological sustainability and economical independence. The Idea of implementing a Garden System employs the abandoned nature and includes it in the development, rather than consuming it and challenging it.
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Twelve physical characteristics of the Chinese garden were extracted and translated into twelve different garden-building types, forming a garden system that offers a new healthy living in superblocks and sustainable community development. Figure-Void Garden
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Deforming Garden
Figure-Ground Garden
Rotating Garden
Stepped Atrium Garden
Atrium Garden
Integration of the gardens by function and social flow, providing diversity and options for different purposes, from Collective to Private Gardens.
Hanging Garden
Uncovered Pocket Garden
Green Facade Garden
Pocketed Garden
Connecting Garden
Floating Garden
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living Living
480F
360F
240F
120F
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live-work Live-Work
office Office
hotel Hotel
civic Civic
cultural Cultural
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Section through Connecting Garden
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South Elevation
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Water Treatment The Eco-Boulevard functions as a destination to the collected water. It filters it and slows down its run-off to the lake. The slow run-off prevents the lake from flooding and it provides clean filtered water. Rainwater is collected through collector pipes and sent to interior and exterior ponds on the ground level. Slight inclination (conveyance element) is made on the ground level forming a ground contour that helps the collected water to run-off to the Eco-Boulevard, were it can be treated and filtered. Beneath the plantation of the EcoBoulevard there are four levels of filtration; three course and fine sand levels that filter and send to the fourth level which is a perforated underdrain. There are some exposed water ways in the Eco-Boulevard that are filled with water when it rains that work as a water feature in the public space.
Water Collector System in the site - Vertical and Horizontal
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VIDEO STILL IMAGE
Click the link below to view the movie presentation: The Garden Block
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The Pause Spring 2016 Louis Vitton Spark Award - Finalist Collaborated with: Mohammad Hossein Abbasi
Transforming seperate destinations into a web of destinations
Activating the Lakeshore Park and creating a new connection between Michigan Avenue and the axis
a man and his interaction in the city
points where can serve their circumfrance
presence of people on points activate them and also make a connection among them
network
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points : events lines : movements
Street is an anonymous and endless site of temptation that also symbolizes the search for freedom and self-discovery. In a truly public space, you might find yourself confronted by others, not like you, adding to the joys of human interaction, where should be something open, free, and happy. Our goal is to improve the quality and atmosphere of this axis by providing a brief pause in a public space, a point-like activity, space for activity and interaction that would evoke a sense of freedom within a superimposed organization that would give the visitor points of reference. Our design is inspired by the Magnificent Mile and its shopping nature, and the Museum of Contemporary Art and its artistic and educational identity, general characteristic of this East-West axis – a duality that influenced both the larger concept and the project’s details. It is more of a space that is meant to be
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Site Analysis
Proposed Node Distribution
Functional Diagram
explored and discovered by those that visit the site. Principles of organization of this proposal consist of lines and points, where lines correspond to systems of movement and points equal to the moment of pause for people to interact, do activities, and partake in entertainment. Linear pavers arrange the line system, and points are three dimensional platforms on a one or two 3'x3’ module. These points are in a state of constant discovery and reconfiguration. The series of point of pause gives a dimensional and organizational quality to this East-West axis serving as points of reference and a moment of a break in a verse. The repetitive nature of each point of pause, even though each one is unique and different, allows for the visitors to retain a sense of place through the path; there is no designated program just a space with plenty of potential for developing the groundwork for social activities, that a curator can give a proposal for all or some of the platforms, monthly or seasonally.
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Creating a Modular, Flexible and porous urban furniture for physical and virtual events
System and Elements
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VIDEO STILL IMAGE
Click the link below to view the movie presentation: The Pause: a break in a verse
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P-Chord Venue Fall 2014 Studio Professor: John DeSalvo Collaborated with: Chen Jia
who are we? who needs to know? why should they care? and how will they find out?
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GRID Transform the grid and intervals into the new structure to embrace the building Continuity Repetitions Variation Differentiation Grouping
Regular Rhythm
Rhythm
Flowing Rhythm Progressive Rhythm
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Administration Office
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Lobby Office
Entrance B
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Entrance
Outdoor Venue
Ground Floor Plan
Music Shop
Stage Service Area A
First Floor Plan
Entertainment Center
Bar and Club
Lobby
Main Auditorium Music Studio
Music Experience Center
VIP lounge Practice Rooms
Second Floor Plan
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Center Auditorium
Third Floor Plan
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Final Physical Model
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Section A-A
Section B-B
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Dynamic Space Spring 2009 Studio Professor: Mehrdad Golkar Individual Project
A- Khajoo Bridge-Historical Bridge B- Artist’s House Building C- Bozorgmehr Bridge-Contemporary Bridge
The parallel lines taken from the river direction affecting opposite plane and advance. In collision with the axis of the Artists’ House Building, the surfaces in some parts becoming pressed. Each of the created spaces have the potential for taking various use at any time by different users.
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By folding some surfaces influenced by site elements and direction of the river, some spaces have been produced that can take various uses at any time by different users. A surface went up higher to form an outdoor cinema screen, while another surface proceeds towards the river horizontally to form a space with a view of the river. Different groups can sit between layers for reading, drawing, studying, talking while other passengers can pass by along the river.
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Computational Design Since Fall 2014 Individual Works Using Grasshopper and related plugins
Effect Study on a Cube
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Form Finding - Kagaroo
Form Finding - Weaver Bird
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Trainings Since Spring 2008 Individual Works Drawings, Photographies, Workshops
RORRIM
MIRROR
EXHIBITION
Architecture is an unbroken line of obsessions. A permanent focus on ideas, indifferent to success, failure, and time. Where a single thought is ever just a point, a moment. Our exhibition is a reflection into the discipline’s running themes. By coupling contemporary student works with canonical historical works we interrogate the same obsessions at different moments. The tension in their relationship makes apparent their parallel realities; without each other, neither exists. The link is broken and the line is lost.
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THE EH WALL LLA Curated by
Ian Achong Daniel Godziszewski Melania Grozdanoska Elmira Hosseinkhani Elham Mirzaei Olumurewa Oguntade Taylor Schaub Mario Serrano Daniela Sesma Natalia Struk Luis Yanez
4/19/17 7pm 2233 S Throop St Architecture is an unbroken line of obsessions. A permanent focus on ideas, indifferent to success, failure, and time. Where a single thought is ever just a point, a moment. Our exhibition is a reflection into the discipline’s running themes. By coupling contemporary student works with canonical historical works we interrogate the same obsessions at different moments. The tension in their relationship makes apparent their parallel realities; without each other, neither exists. The link is broken and the line is lost.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?
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1937. Rene Magritte. Not to be reproduced.
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ILLUSTRATION
My Neighborhood 54
Neighborhood Elements and Industrial Man
Gathering places
Housing choices
Safe street
Walk to Shops
Get around easily
City Services
Part of a whole
Special Caracter
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Needle Technique
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Cube Technique
WORKSHOP
Needle Technique
Pasta Technique
Strip Technique
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MODEL MAKING
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