PORTFOLIO Faraneh Nouraei Architectural Graduate 2017-2021
03 Ferrytales story telling in architecture
05 Stepped conceptual phenomena
02 Monolith
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comprehensive design
Polaris
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“moonception” competition
Up on the Ramps psychology and architecture (thesis)
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Ville Des Ponts landscape and urban design
CONTENTS
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Tumbleweed grasshopper project
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structural design (thesis)
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Hand Sketches
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The Staircase technical exploration
08 Light Box
net-zero housing
09 The Vault design-build
01 UP ON THE RAMPS Spring 2021 | Downtown Vancouver, BC Master’s Thesis Project | Individual *In times of crisis, such as COVID-19 pandemic, architecture has a crucial role of offering emotional and psychological repair to societies through engineered ‘Affect’ in design by synthesizing form, material and scale to enhance our experiences of and provide resilience. This project is providing an opportunity for a playful and calming journey away from the routines and stresses of everyday life, especially -but not limited to- lifestyle changes due to COVID-19 outbreak. In addition to providing a framework around a physical-virtual journey, the project itself can be seen as a vertical garden of lights and colors, especially at nights when the building appears as a glowing beacon in a narrow lot in downtown Vancouver.
*This font, used in my portfolio and resume, is designed by Faraneh Nouraei and Razman Goudarzi
MIND MAP
SITE
BUILDING ELEMENTS
Envelope
Movement is key to the project. The design takes people through a 3-dimensional labyrinth on intertwined ramps, giving them opportunities to have their unique adventure by changing paths and encountering enticing views and inspiring scenes of art while allowing them to take moments of respite in between and enjoy casual performances, as well.
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Galleries Ramps (Exterior) Ramps (Interior)
BUILDING ORGANIZATION
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01 | Street View Walking Down Granville
04 | Walking Up to a Gallery Space
02 | Close-Up View - Corner of Davie & Granville
03 | Building Entrance Where the Ramps Begin
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05 | Live Performance Plazas, Street Artists and the Crowd
06 | Up on the Ramps Going Outside the facade
07 | Ramps to the Roof Plaza with City View
08 | Lights, Colors and the Sky
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02 MONOLITH VANCOUVER MARITIME MUSEUM Spring 2020 | Metro Vancouver, BC Studio Project | Group Members: Robin Jones, Faraneh Nouraei My Responsibilities: I was focused more on the interior organiza-
tion, plans and site plan, 2D drawings, the structural design and the physical model building. We collaborated on the concept and HVAC design.
Located in Hadden Park, close to the Museum of Vancouver, the new Vancouver Maritime Museum, is spotted; a sinking bar extending over the ocean, providing a unique experience for the viewers, the prize at the end of a journey. For this project, we were interested in the notions of “journey” and “progression” and how they are experienced. Linearity and spatial dilation become our primary architectural responses, allowing us to control form and materiality to accentuate the above values.
We wanted our building to embrace all its surroundings (street, trail, beach, harbor) therefore, we envisioned our plan in relation to the beach and the harbor, where would be the second point of entry to the building.
Drawn to the dynamic of a boat being above/below water - and the evolving quality of natural light from pure darkness to light, we explored the interaction our building could have with the ground.
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Formally, the building is shaped like a giant sinking form housing floating boxes on different elevations. Each box is either a part of the exhibition or a specific program. The circulation happens around them.
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The largest box at the north end of the museum houses the prized artifact of the museum, The St. Roch.
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Structurally, the building resembles a 20-meter wide -23m including the outer layer of the facade- that is held in place by reinforced concrete walls on the exterior with perpendicular shear walls along the length of the building and Glulam beams that span across between the concrete walls. The beams are placed on cross sectional grid marks, every 12 meters apart. The outer layer of the double-skin facade, is curtain wall that sits on concrete walls that end at ground level to give a more unified look and a sense of floating to the building.
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304mm Reinforced Concrete Walls
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Beams are placed on cross sectional grid marks, every 12 meters apart Glulam beams are 365mm x 1292mm as per the l/d ration of 18 and a total
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VISITOR EXPERIENCE Visitor Experience Coat Check Cafe/Gift Shop Rest Areas EXHIBITION Temporary Exhibition Permanent Exhibition
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St. Roch PRODUCTION Workshop Boat Building Model Ship Building EDUCATION Library Boat Building
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STAFF/STORAGE Administration Curatorial Storage SERVICES Mechanical Rooms Washrooms/Lockers Circulation LOWER FLOOR
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03 FERRYTALES Fall 2019 | Somewhere between Powell River and Comox, BC Studio Project | Individual Ferries are a big point of contact between people, cars and coastal communities. This studio proposes BC Ferries vessels as sites for architectural inquiry and spaces of expanded coastal urbanism. The project is the result of questions about the nature of a floating vessel, exigencies, its phenomenological effects, and connective possibilities. As an antidote to standardization, we engage architecturally with the “room.” Rooms for people, rooms for things, rooms for communities. After observing several coastal cultures of the Vancouver Island, our journey continued with material explorations and experiments on them to build a vessel for an object and finally telling the story of an existing Ferry in accordance to its communities and their history. This floating vessel goes back and forth between Powell River and Comox.
Voyage 1: Reimagining The “Waiting Room” On the Queen of Surr
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Taking the “waiting-room” as the core (un)program of the ferry, I explored t organization and material can produce “rooms” and encourage a considered e
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Voyage 2: Vessel for a Pine Cone
DIFFERENT TYPES OF PINE CONES
As an investigation into specificity, buoyancy and scale, I designed a floating toy-vessel for a pine cone, creating a micro architectural response which finds a home for the cone at sea, treating the cone as a passenger and paying close attention to it’s needs, the vessel is created so that the cone, hanging upside down in a corner, dries, opens and releases its seeds along its voyage to shore.
The shape of the vessel is driven from scales of a pine cone.
FINAL VESSEL
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Voyage 3: The Story of Powell River and Comox Ferry
This is the story of a vessel built, handcrafted and decorated by the carver
The story begins when a sailing carver notices a floating log in the ocean and
As word spread over the years, many craftsmen came across the log and lit across the ocean, while craftsmen can leave their mark while on aboard.
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UPPER DECK | Carving Room Crafting Station Lounge (View of the Front of Raft)
LOWER DECK | Main Waiting Area (Views Inside Raft)
MAIN DECK | Seating Logs (View of the Back of Raft) Log Loading Zone Cafe Seating Deck (View of the Water Beneath)
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PARALLEL CONNECTION
CORNER CONNECTION PERPENDICULAR CONNECTION
ROOF CONNECTION
TARP CONNECTION
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A Day on the Raft
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04 VILLE DES PONT Fall 2018 | Downtown Vancouver, BC Mini Studio Project | Individual
TS This project is an exercise to explore connection between architecture and landscape and understand the importance of transition from the city to the building. Ville des ponts is an attempt to integrate architectural design into urban design and re-imagine downtown Vancouver. The site is located between two large parks namely Coal Harbor Park and Barclay Heritage Square.
The bridges wo change elevatio along the way passing over ea other.
Breaking the site from the middle to encourage traffic to go through for better exposure to the library
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The site is located between two large parks namely Coal Harbor Park and Barclay Heritage Square. DESIGN PROCESS SKETCHES
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Ville des ponts is a library that is divided into two sections: Block A which contains archives and books; Block B which is designed with individual study booths and meeting rooms.
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05 STEPPED Fall 2018 | Vancouver, BC Mini Studio Project | Individual
s exercise investies the interaction rogram, form and ce in generation development of as. Stepped is deed for two dist occupants preming that they separate lives have differneeds.
Each occupant has two characterizing artifacts that define their living space (shown in esquisse and plans.)
Each house is also given architectural agency by an opposing phenomena (light and darkness. This specifies how and where those lives separate or come together.
PHYSICAL MODEL
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Higher ceilings makes rooms seem lighter.
More distance from skylights in the upper roof makes rooms darker.
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06 POLARIS Summer 2019 | Lunar South Pole Moonception Competition | Group Members: Ali Adnan, Faraneh Nouraei, Denon Sheppard, Tricia Tecson My Responsibilities: My main
focus in this project was on figuring out the layout. I was also in charge of the 3D modeling and drawings.
The Moon is an important companion of the Earth and with new waves of technology reaching new heights, it is time to envision the presence and habitation of humans in space. We now have an opportunity to define what architecture beyond the boundaries of Earth might be. This competition called to design a Lunar Experience Centre + Research Centre for the first humans -10 tourists and 5 researchers- to enhance their stay on the moon. Polaris is inspired by Big Dipper. The concept was to connect occupy-able areas with multiple tunnels equipped a hydroponic system to grow plants in outer space called Life Tubes.
We chose the lunar south pole as our site because of the occurrence of water and ice in permanently shadowed areas around it.
The thick shell has two separate layers. The outer layer protects the base from sun radiation and the inner layer helps to maintain a suitable environment for the occupants.
The entire construction will be done by 3D printing. The industrial printers will be sent by space shuttles and once there, the rovers will deploy them to begin construction. This base is selfsustainable. To this end, it is vital to grow crops in outer space to get food and oxygen. It also ensures the recycling process that is needed.
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PHASE I
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A modular system was also integrated it this process for expansion in next stages as it would be hard to design every time. So more blocks can be added to the initial base if more space was required.
The Experience Centre will help the Space Enthusiasts visiting the lunar surface for the first time to understand and draw inspiration from it.
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07 HORIZON Fall 2017 | Tehran, Iran Graduate Thesis Project | Individual
One of the busiest railway tracks in Iran stretches between Tehran and Mashhad with 60 daily trains commuting between the two cities. The existing Tehran railway station will not have enough capacity to cater this huge amount in the near future, raising the need for a new station to help with the growing load. My proposal was to design a new station with the necessary infrastructure to support fast electric trains, dedicated to Mashahd-Tehran lines, to relieve the pressure from the current station.
DESIGN ITERATIONS
The final design has the capacity to have two trains connected to Tehran Tehran railway.
n’s current train station and another two will serve solely the Mashhad-
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Located south of the city on the route of the Tehran-Mashhad railway
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This diagram shows the hierarchy of the various programs required for a typical train station and their relation to one another. The next step was to assign each program a physical space.
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The roof trusses have the form of bird wings which points to the speed of modern travel.
Trusses and columns are arrayed throughout the building to match the measurements of the entrances and the wagons.
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08 LIGHT BOX Spring 2019 | Wesbrook Village, UBC Studio Project | Individual In an era of housing crisis, social fragmentation and lack of environmental sustainability the need for sociable, affordable and sustainable housing is vital. In Vancouver, 56% of all GHG emissions are from buildings of which 82% are of residential nature more than transportation and waste combined. This project explores design investigations that focus on innovations in sustainable building practices and socially responsible design interventions through the design of a Net Zero housing development for a student family housing at UBC. The site is located in Wesbrook village, a master-planned, family oriented, walkable community in UBC. Wesbrook is zoned for midrise buildings (5 to 6 stories) with an allowable site coverage of 55%.
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Exterior facades are from standing seam to blend in with the neighborhood. Wood is used on the interior facades for a homier feel.
To maximize energy saving, all buildings have green roofs and solar panels on their southern facade.
Tennis Courts
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122 units ranging from studios to 4 bedroom units are distributed in 4 blocks. Each block has 2 buildings and each building has 6 floors.
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Buildings in each block are connected to each other by a public patio every other floor.
SECTION THROUGH THE BLOCK
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Summer 2015 | Tehran, Iran Design-Build Workshop | Co
The Vault is the result of a three-day worksho one the most important concepts in traditiona
In Islamic architecture domes were commonly Thus, it is crucial to understand this ver
This hands-on workshop covered eve calculations to a 1:1 scale construct the workshop was an to work with adobe.
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“Karbandi” (Persian) is a term generally referring to the structure of domes and its techniques. A “Karbandi“ usually has a complex geometry and is comprised of even number of arches; in our case twelve arches were used to build the final structure.
KARBANDI STRUCTURE
03 These patterns are commonly used in Islamic architecture and are originated from natural motifs such as stars and trees in an exact geometrical order.
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10 THE STAIRCASE Fall 2021 | UBC Technical Mini Projects | Individual
The staircase is certainly one of the most expressive components ava architect in the development of a design.
It plays multiple roles in a building according to its function and design: a circulation, spatial organizers, social facilitators, stage sets, sculptural el obstacles. Understanding this component is therefore essential to the architect to be able to apply this knowledge to the detailed design of a staircase in a project. Construction in different materials and meeting building codes and accessibility requirements of different jurisdictions are all important factors when designing a set of stairs.
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With an appropriate stair design, the act of ascending/descending can become a choreographed event and provide an opportunity for intentional or unintentional social interaction.
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DETAIL AND MATERIALITY
Steel of course is a very common material employed for staircase construction due to its strength and durability. It is primarily used for structure, but often combined with other materials such as wood to provide the finishes.
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THE SCULPTURAL FEATURE
The helical stair has historically been used to emphasize a sculptural role as a building element. It can exhibit a multitude of geometric configurations, all of which can show its significance within a space.
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11 TUMBLEWEED Summer 2019 | UBC Experimental Project | Individual
Tumbleweed is an experimental process that explores grammars and algorithms in architecture. The goal was to generate shapes using grasshopper and make architecture out of the created forms in three stages: 2D esquisse, 3D objects made from last stage, architectural realization and function from the last two stages. Everything from the concept and master plan to structural details are designed using grasshopper process.
01 Raw 3D form created by extruding highlighted 2D forms
Water Pools Volume from Grasshopper
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and the journey continues...