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Personal Info born 1989.03.06 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia live Lund, Sweden tel +46725042506 mail ermiasdesyibelgn@gmail.com skype ermias.d
Education 2014 -2016 Lund University, Sweden 2 years Master degree in Sustainable Urban Design 2006-2012 Addis Ababa University AAU - EiABC, Ethiopia 5 and 1/2 years Bachelor degree in Architecture with Distinction
Skills Computer Microsoft Office Programmes AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, Rhino, SketchUp V Ray, Artlantis, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Physical Sketching, Physical Modelling Language Amharic (mother tongue) English (proficient) Swedish (basic)
Social and Organizational Competence Social Skills Teamwork: - I have worked in teams of people from different nationalities in an international setting at Lund University - I have worked in various types of teams from design teams in student projects at school to design teams in private firms and worked with colleagues in the Department of Architecture in teaching activities. Organization skills In the department of architecture at Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, I supervised teams of instructors in teaching - learning activities.
Professional Experience August 2012 - August 2014 Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Ethiopia 2 years (Acting) Head of the Department of Architecture - Assistant Lecturer Organizing, directing and developing the activities of the Department of Architecture, Giving course lectures and instructions to students of architecture May - August 2012 K2N Architecture and Engineering Consultancy P.L.C., Ethiopia 4 months Architect Working on architectural projects from concept to working drawings July - October 2011 AFET Consultants P.L.C., Ethiopia 4 months Junior Architect Working on architectural projects from concept to working drawings July 2010 - January 2011 JDAW Consulting Architects and Engineers P.L.C., Ethiopia 6 months Junior Architect Working on architectural projects from concept to working drawings October 2009 - February 2010 NK Consulting Architects and Engineers P.L.C., Ethiopia 5 months Intern Working on architectural projects from concept to working drawings
Honours and Awards May 2016 Swedish Institute Study Scholarships Diploma March 2012 Distinction in Bachelor of Science in Architecture - Addis Ababa University - EiABC
SelectedaProjects chronologically and categorically
academic - masters 01 Recreating the VOID Zhangjakou, China
02 Verket
Moss, Norway
03 Thickening
Lund, Sweden
professional 04 E.A. Guest House Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
05 Shifting Prisms
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
06 Generator Room
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
07 Business Development Center Debre Markos, Ethiopia
academic - Bachelor 08 Designing the Void: Old Airport Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Lawcourtype
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
10 Wire Factory
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
11 Angular Yards
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
1 Recreating the VOID Project info
Studio: Sustainable Urban Dynamics Year and School: 2015 Fall, School of Architecture and Built Environment, LTH, Lund University Duration and Site Location: 4 months, Zhangjakou, China Individual Project
Zhangjakou, a city surrounded by mountains in three sides, is growing southwards to the agricultural fields and the city center is losing its importance. The project is an attempt to revitalize the city center along with addressing the major environmental problem in the region – water scarcity. The area is also dominated by cars with big blocks and good pedestrian density along the streets but in conflict with cars and lacking public spaces for people and cultural activities. A series of public spaces in the form of squares and a linear park with a pedestrian and transit connection to the old hutong area across the river and the surrounding context, are introduced turning the old closed train line in to a storm water collection, treatment and reuse park maximizing efficiency of water use. The storm water system is district based which can grow as a network through the city providing a green recreational landscape. The Smaller perimeter blocks combined with point towers will densify the city center along the newly proposed tram line and around the stops which will allow to free up the void for public spaces and parks which will re-establish the city center as a dynamic destination place.
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Zhangjakou Guanting River Basin
Guanting River Basin
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China’s biggest environmental problems today are water scarcity and pollution. The Hebei region is a high risk water shortage area. The region is water provider for Beijing and it is the most water depleted region in the country.
Zhangjiakou Guanting River Basin Cities > 5 mil inhabitants 1 mil inhabitants to 5 mil > 1 mil inhabitants
Water resource per capita in Zhangjiakou is 399m3 which is lower than the international water scarcity measure of 500 m3. The Guanting reservoir which supplies Beijing with water and where the Zhangjiakou River ends up in, has now 10% of its original amount and is now polluted (category IV).31% of the water supply in China is from ground water. Water consumption in Beijing is 39% domestic, 38% agriculture, 20% industry.
Strategies: Regional and Local Storage District 1
Local Strategy
Intensify the local water cycle for efficient use of water
The regional cycle is cut-off at Beijing. Due to High demand in Beijing, water is redirected from the region and kept from flowing downstream to Tianjin which is a city close to the sea.
All year round flow of water from storage
Irrigation laundry, cleaning, toilet
Aerobic treatment of collected rain water in storage
Pump
Storm water Collection, Treatment and Reuse
Vision Open Storm Water System
Tram Stops
Collection + Reuse Catchment Districts
Project Site
Water Storage
High Speed Train Station
New Tram Line
River
A new tram line is introduced connecting the high-speed train station in the south, the city center and the old houtong area ending up in the historical northern gateway to China.
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A new pedestrian and transit connection to the old Houtong area
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Park
Smaller blocks for better accessibility
Perimeter blocks
2 Regional Transport Network
Verket: City center expansion to the historical core Project info
Studio: Sustainable Urban Landscape Year and School: 2015 Spring, School of Architecture and Built Environment, LTH, Lund University Duration and Site Location: 4 months, Moss, Norway Individual Project Moss within the Oslo fjord region, has a character of a commuter city. For the region to develop as poly-centric and for Moss to be regionally competitive, its city center needs to expand in a dense manner. Verket, the former industrial site surrounded by hills, the water fall and the fjord presents a unique challenge. The blue and green network was the driver for this particular project. Green corridors going up from the waterfront park to the surrounding hills are introduced celebrating the unique perceptual qualities and providing view corridors to the sea and back to the hills. Streams in the form of a bio-swale are reintroduced (inspired by the historical water channel which used to serve the industry) to manage the storm water from the hills and the water front park takes care of the sea level rise and the possible flooding. A dense mixed use blocks with street level shopping and recreation along the main axis and the green corridors will extend the city center north wards with a vibrant street life.
Main Axis View
Green Corridors and Water Front
Blue - River + Streams
City Center Strategic Plan
Sustainability The green and blue network manages the storm water from the hills and allows the landscape to adapt to the sea level rise due to climate change and the possible flooding from the fjord side. The water front park with short term recreational uses and in the long term it becomes a landscape to be flooded in the case of a possible flood adapting to the sea level rise. The mixed use neighbourhoods provide spaces for dense living and local businesses in the effort to create a local center in the immediate surrounding of Moss. The water front park and the elevated promenade which extends along the fjord to the new harbour in the existing train tracks, create a platform for and generate an active outdoor public life taking advantage of the local landscape.
Key Diagrams
Building Height
Street Level Functions
Section CC showing the stream along the green corridor
Upper Level Functions
Detailed Plan
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Section BB
3 Campus Street View
Thickening the LTH Landscape Project info
Studio: Sustainable Urban Recycling Year and School: 2014 Fall, School of Architecture and Built Environment, LTH, Lund University Duration and Site Location: 4 months, Lund, Sweden Individual Project Transforming the landscape and activating the campus street in LTH. LTH is part of the university wedge in the NE direction of Lund with two spines crossing it. Across this wedge, the campus street at LTH is used as a generator to re-create and intensify the existing landscape character as part of the northeast sequence of urban blocks starting from Lund C.
Diagrams - thickening across the wedge
park
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street
Existing
Thickening is a strategy to raise the landscape and create small hills with two faces: street and park side - thereby activating the campus street as a place to stay and adding several layers of qualities to the landscape: visibility, water feature, mixed use and street life.
Thickened
Inspired by the low-rise buildings in courtyards of the big block at Clemenstroget, the low rise structures with two faces: the campus street ( the bike passage) and the park are used as the two main elements to recycle the block.
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Retail + Communal
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Retail + Communal
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Retail + Communal
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Retail + Communal
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Location along the green connection
Brunshog
Lund C
Tram Line Knowledge Spine
University wedge and public transportation
Green Connections
Sustainability The thickening idea brings life to the pedestrian street by creating small scale spaces for communal and retail functions which can be administered by nations (unions that are part of the vibrant student life in Lund), small businesses and the faculty. The park, with sequence of spaces starting from the tram line through the flat lawn and the winding path for pedestrians, across the water running south and climbing the hill with a path on the top overlooking the campus street and the LTH landscape, provides active platforms which will generate a lively outdoor campus life. Storm water is collected and channelled into a swale where infiltration to the ground is facilitated and the water is cleaned as it moves down the swale. And it is finally directed to a narrow canal along the campus street bringing environmental and perceptual qualities to the site.
Section AA
Park View
IKDC
A Huset A path overlooking the street A path through the park V Huset Navet
KĂĽr Huset Campus street Amphitheatre extension
Existing amphitheatre
4 Business Development Center Project info
Studio: Competition Entry Year and Firm: 2012 Summer, K2N Architecture and Engineering Consultancy P.L.C. Duration and Site Location: 1 month, Debre Markos, Ethiopia Project architect under supervision The project is a competition entry for Debre Markos University Business Development Center which is to built in the city center of Debre Markos away from the campus. The program includes offices, training halls, conference halls, cafe, gym, supermarket, shops, book store and other functions with underground parking.
university with the public. The central atrium with an internal balcony for informal interaction between users along with the public activities on lower levels provides spaces maximizing engagement among the university community and the public. The internal spatial stratification is manifested in the external appearance of the building making the reading of the spaces easy and interactive.
The concept is to create a center open for the public with a range of public programs to engage the city residents in an effort to link the
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Bar Store A = 28.3 m2
Bar
Restaurant
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Terrace
A = 137 m2
Childrens’ wear
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Games
A = 53 m2
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Store
A = 18.6 m2
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Servery
A = 18.4 m2
A = 23 m2
Kitchen
A = 78.9 m2
First Floor Plan
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Boutique
A = 112 m2
Jewelry
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Gift articles
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Cosmetics
Boutique
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Managers
Supermarket A = 95.9 m2
Store
Ground Floor Plan
5 E.A. Guest House Project info
Studio: Architectural Design Year and Firm: 2011 Summer, AFET Consultants P.L.C Duration and Site Location: 1 month, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Project done individually under supervision The project is part of a larger need in Addis Ababa of hotels, guest houses and places for conference venues with the shortage of accommodation for the conference tourism along with the growing diplomatic status of Addis Ababa in Africa and the world. This particular guest house is in a growing central area of Addis, Haya Hulet. The program includes public functions on the street level, basement parking and guest rooms with generous semi public lobbies on each floor.
6 Shifting Prisms Project info
Studio: Architectural Design Year and Firm: 2010 Spring, NK Consulting Architects and Engineers P.L.C Duration and Site Location: 1 month, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Project done individually under supervision as part of an internship The Shifting Prisms is a scheme for a single family residence in Addis Ababa which combines the detached residence with a separate service quarters which includes a traditional kitchen - a usual trend in the city, into an integrated and unified design. The living, dining and cooking areas including the traditional kitchen is on the ground floor and sleeping areas on the first floor.
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EGA Sheet Roof CIS Purlin 6cm ∅ Eucalyptus Wooden rafters 10cm*15cm Eucalyptus 10cm thick acoustic blanket framed with 10cm ∅ RHS 10 cm ∅ Eucalyptus lining 5cm*5cm Chipwood ceiling 2.5cm thick Chipwood ceiling
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EGA Sheet Fastening
Rafter and Perlin 90cm x 120cm 1% Slope
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Stone and Concrete Building
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Studio: Architectural Science Year and School: 2010 Summer, Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building construction and City development (EiABC), Addis Ababa University Duration and Site Location: 2 months, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Project done in a group of 4
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Thesis - DESIGNING THE VOID
Sub-thesis : BRINGING LIFE TO VOIDS
If it is true that the current practice of urban / architectural design focuses on the object instead of the void spaces and therefore, the quality of void spaces is neglected, then reversing the approach should lead to an urban / architectural project which enhances the quality of the void spaces.
Unlike traditional cities, pedestrian movement and social interaction on voids is being lost, since much of the movement in our cities take place in corridors and lobbies, that is indoors, and people are taken away from voids. The other factor is the domination of voids by cars which makes them abandoned and dangerous. Therefore, making internal circulation part of public streets and bringing movement between rooms to pedestrian streets results in lively voids hence enhances social interaction.
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Designing the Void: Old Airport Project info
Studio: Architecture and Urban Design Year and School: 2011 Fall, Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building construction and City development (EiABC), Addis Ababa University Duration and Site Location: 4 months, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Individual thesis Project (Zoom in 1 and 2) Group of 12 (Urban Design Scheme)
DESIGNING THE VOID - OLD AIRPORT High density, mixed, walkable, public transport oriented developments go a long way in capitalizing on existing infrastructure and bringing socio-economic benefits in Addis Ababa’s long term growth.
Design Process Main thesis Sub-thesis Project title Void analysis Void pattern Void program Void scheme Edge scheme Solid program Solid scheme
designing the void bringing life to voids a shopping promenade HayaHulet, Addis Ababa + a 12 European cities case edges generate voids shopping promenade street + building circulation building circulation retail + entertainment a shopping and entertainment complex
First Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan
Cross Section
Longitudinal Section
09 Lawcourtype Project info
Studio: Architectural Design Year and School: 2011 Spring, Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building construction and City development (EiABC), Addis Ababa University Duration and Site Location: 4 months, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Project done with a partner Lawcourtype is a tentative prototype to 10 first instance court houses for Addis Ababa city administration, at different locations of the city with an additional court of appeal at Sengatera (the test site). The project was inspired by Brook Teklehaymanot’s lecture. ‘…among the recent major developments shaping characters of Addis Ababa, some are: - fences everywhere - bright colors - street extensions and - replicable school and condominium buildings. . .(due to rapid growth)...’ Brook Teklehaymanot (2008) The concept revolves around the replicability of the design (an effort to adapt to the trend in the city’s practice of building in mass). Adaptability and cost efficiency were taken into consideration. The court rooms with a symbolic grand appearance are organized to allow a smooth meeting between the public, the judge, witnesses and the defense. Simple organization of the 3 parts: the court rooms, the office and the public waiting spaces will make the prototype adaptable to different sites. Manifesting the internal organization of the court rooms in a grand symbolic way in the external appearance, was intended to portray the importance of the court in the public sphere.
inspiration from a meditating man and the calm, focused and relaxed state of the sitting position. . .’otherworldly’ state of purpose, direction and concentration
Repetition and harmony
n an analogy with the courtroom, where the wrong in everyday life is made right’ and justice practiced
Proportion and Scale
Self imposed limit: inspiration from a human figure
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Court Room Negotiation Room Witness Room Cell Cafe Public Waiting Consultation room Judges Chamber
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Cross Section
10 Electric Wires Factory Project info
Studio: Architectural Design Year and School: 2010 Fall, Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building construction and City development (EiABC), Addis Ababa University Duration : 4 months Site Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Project done with a partner The semester project started with studying the process of an existing electric wire factory and developing a program for a new factory in the industrial zone of Addis Ababa. The production is divided into 2 major halls in the program - single wire and braided wire production halls. The process is linear starting from raw material storage to Single wire production and storage. Some part of the product in the first hall is stored and taken to distribution, the other half before insulation goes into a second production hall, is braided and insulated, stored and goes to distribution. The layout and organization of the spaces reflects the linear nature of the manufacturing process.
Simplified and summarized manufacturing process 1. Drawing - bringing a continuous cast copper rod into different gauges of thickness. 2. Annealing - the wire is softened so that it will be flexible for working. 3. Galvanizing - it will be coated so that corrosion free surface is obtained. 4. Stranding - wounding and finishing the above process and making it ready for braiding or direct insulation. 5. Braiding - bringing different thickness of wires and braiding them together for the different purposes.
Model Picture
Elevation 1
Elevation 2
Production Hall
computer lab
class rooms
Studiolos
View to the river and Piassa hills
cafe Caretaker and Offices
Learning Yard
staff
Offices
Public Yard
11 Local Learning Center: triangular
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Project info
Studio: Architecture and Space Year and School: 2007 Fall, Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building construction and City development (EiABC), Addis Ababa University Duration and Site Location: 2 weeks, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Project done with a partner Triangular Yards was a concept for a local Learning Center in an irregularly shaped site around one of the historic places in Addis Ababa (Piassa) under the theme architecture and space. It was done in the second architectural design course in my bachelor study. The program includes classrooms, studiolos, staff rooms and offices. The concept was to have two yards with different qualities. 1. Learning yard: quite and active at different times of the daily routine surrounded and framed by classrooms and studiolos. The smaller studiolos with lower room height descending into the yard and framed by two storey class rooms with higher room height on the other side. 2. Public yard: relatively noisy and vibrant accommodating the daily activities of staff and office work defined by staff rooms, offices, cafe and caretaker rooms. The angular public yard leads from the entrance into the cafe with wide vistas in to the river and the Piassa hills. The yards are surrounded by colonnades creating a transition from the yards into the interior spaces.
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