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appendix1: small projects (2 days- 2 weeks charrettes)
contents appendix2: building systems
appendix3: professional work
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fall2015 SanJuan, PuertoRico AIA St. Louis, award of merit in unbuilt category “this project is quite beautiful with the bowtie in the plan, and the way the building parts shift relative to each other.” -Annabelle Selldorf, AIA St. Louis 2018 jury
CollectiveHousing
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beyond all issues on site, climate and culture, this project starts with the very first notion about a dwelling: human home, is the one and the only place he owns in the whole world; in fact, it is his very own WORLD within the WORLD. the transition between these two WORLDs, is the point this project begins. the “passageway� in this project, is the path that takes a person to his World; moments of walking in it, are moments of perceiving the sense of dwelling.
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since Puerto Ricans’ intimacy, sociability and warmth only seek a shade, a point, a circle to bloom, each passageway, more than being an access tool, acts as a node in the middle of four units to connect the residents.
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being located right in front of a park, the funnel-shaped passageways bring in more fresh air which is cooled down, passing through the park. also, the openness in the prevailing wind direction has been fully maintained by using flexible aperture, in order to provide entirely natural ventilation for the building.
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the metal bars of existing houses in San Juan, express how the critical safety issues have imprisoned the people in their houses and have left the city alone. the utmost openness in this project allows sounds of talking, kids playing, the smell of food, the warmth of the dwellings, pour out from the building and help people reclaim their city and take over their street once again.
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Standing Seam Metal Proofing Panels Purlin Vapor Retarder
Perforated Metal Roofing 1” Standing Seams @ 12” Spacing Thermal Insulation Vapor Retarder
Post-tensioned Pocket Thermal Insulation
Tongue-and-groove wood flooring Polyethylene Film Wood Sleepers
Tongue-and-groove wood Bench Gypsum Board Thermal Insulation
Hanger Wire 1-1/2”(38) Main Runner Channels Spaced Up tp 4’-0”(1220) o.c. 3/4”(19)Cross Furring Channels Tied to the Main Runners Metal Lath Tied to Furring @ 6”(150) o.c.
Beam Gypsum Plaster over Metal Lath Concrete Exterior Wall Sheathing and Finish
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1-1/2”(38) Main Runner Channels Spaced Up tp 4’-0”(1220) o.c. 3/4”(19) Cross Furring Channels Metal Lath Tied to Furring @ 6”(150) o.c.
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Louvered Revolving Window Tongue-and-groove wood flooring Polyethylene Film Wood Sleepers
Exterior Wall Sheathing and Finish Cavity Insulation (unfaced fiberglass batts) Gypsum Board Interior Wall Finish 2*6 Studs
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realized fall2015 location: Washington U main campus, St. Louis, MO design and illustration: Fatemeh Shirpour advisor: Pablo Moyano construction team: Alexander Ayres, Shao Liu, C Y Ren, Dong Yan, Megan Gill, Mingxi Li, Yuxiang Wang, Adam Barnstorff, Fatemeh Shirpour
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sitting has a small part in the broad act of “staying still�, therefore, a bench can respond to many more needs associated with staying still; a bench can be a space. based on the needs of Art and Architecture school, this bench is designed to be a space of solitude for reading, drawing and thinking. while maintaining the connection with outside, this bench forms a personal shell for self discovery and internal focus. the act of sitting itself, is not an act to be forced to user in some certain way, at the same time, consideration of variation of human behavior adds an excessive complexity to a project. in this project, the simple geometry of a circle allows the bench to be produced using only one set of molds but to be positioned in many different angels in order to offer the users a variety of sitting positions.
(Salvador Dali's egg shell)
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(an assembled inner mold piece)
(holes for the screws, provided for changing the position of the bench)
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fall2016 Aleppo, Syria
SenseOfShelter
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through each moment of existence, human inhabits a world, in which there is already “Something” and within that “Something”, there is him, conducting a life. the moment he doesn’t get comfort from the environment, he makes a tweak, in order to live peacefully.
(drawing based on Italo Calvino’s “Baron in the trees”, collaborator: Farhang Dadfar)
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he makes this “tweak”, where there is already “Something”; but that something is just what he has in his imagination. in fact, human inhabits an imagination, which is the limit of his experience in this world, and affects the way he interacts with his environment and the way he interacts with himself. this imagination doesn’t always come from within the people. the image people inhabit, is conveyed to them through words and communications. Only some people see the unseen layers of the world and are able to have a personal image of the world and in fact, a personal world.
(kids of Aleppo have found ways to have fun in the ruins of their city)
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the city of Aleppo in Syria, is the oldest city of the world which has always had life in it, through thousands of years. in the heart of Aleppo, there is a complex of Bazaar, mosques and schools, beside the Grand Citadel and in the Aleppo old town, which is partially destroyed and burnt through years of the Civil War. Bazaar, is one of the interesting parts of this region’s architecture, since it is all about people and their presence in the place and the only valuable aspect of it, is the life in it; a public life that is vital for people’s mentality and health.
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the project tries to make an image of all valuable layers of the life in the ruins of Aleppo, that are not easily seen. developing around the old bazaar, the structure of this shelter lets the old building to lean to it and survive until the time it can be reinforced and preserved; this new structure can be a shelter for a temporary market and public space to let the vibrant life of the city go on.
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Shell #2
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Salvador Dali’s egg shell with fully grown human inside it, can be interpreted as a womb for giving birth to one’s “emotional and intellectual potentialities”. “birth is only one particular step in a continuum which begins with conception and ends with death. all that is between these two poles is a process of giving birth to one’s potentialities, of bringing to life all that is potentially given in the two cells. but while physical growth proceeds by itself, if only the proper conditions are given, the process of birth on the mental plane, in contrast, does not occur automatically. it requires productive activity to give life to the emotional and intellectual potentialities of man, to give birth to his self. it is part of the tragedy of the human situation that the development of the self is never completed; even under the best conditions only part of man’s potentialities is realized. man always dies before he is fully born.”
Man for Himself, Erich Fromm, pg91
(Salvador Dali's egg shell)
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shell #2, is a personal spot for solitude to connect one to himself. the circle on the bottom, defines a spot for sitting; being in touch with the ground surface and feeling himself in close connection with the outer space. the bigger circle on the bottom, containing one all around, lets him lean to it. the bigger top circle, bounces back the attention to the center of the shell and brings the focus inside and the small top circle is an opening for air and light, for growth.
(sit)
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(grow)
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(material, assembly and grain test)
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(1:1 scale mock-up, pink foam)
(the stacked material, ready for milling)
(the piece on the CNC table)
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fall2014 St. Louis, MO
TheLusterPath
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constructing a site: the project starts with surveying the light as a natural phenomena on the site, inventing a notation system for representing the result of survey and constructing the site based on the invented notation system. constructing an encounter: Imagining an encounter with the light phenomena on the site, through designing a narrative, concerning the sequence of encounter.
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(narrative of encounter- serial sections through the 3d notation on topography)
chapter 2- lightning constructing an event: after drawing the lightning phenomena on the site, the project is a narrative of encountering the event of "lightning". walking through a "pit", the visitors are exposed to a net of "lightning rods" on top of the pit. feeling safe under the ground, while being exposed to lightning and the reflected light of the lightning on the reflective structure of the pit.
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spring2015 St. Louis, MO
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libraries are such lonely places. you never know who is reading what. you never get exposed to what really is inside those books unless you open them one by one. this project tries to make such graceful place more exciting and to expose what is happening inside books and what people are absorbing. the library library, is a library of digital screens, each one of the digital screens is in fact a library of limitless books in pdf. having the books on the screens as limitless resource lets people read in groups, be exposed to what others are reading and more importantly make a more dynamic place for readers, giving them the possibility of walking through the pages. of different books and “get to know what they don’t know”.
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spring2017 Providence, RI
TheRiverAccompaniment
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what distinguishes a river from the rest of the city is its natural energy, movement and sound, which has been said in old myths that can have meditating effect; people in old times believed that singing to water would take away your sorrows. this bridge project, more than being a connection between two sides of the river, tries to embrace the essence of the river and to capture and echo the sound of the river through tunnels on the water.
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instead of only passing by the river, the tunnels let people walk along with the water and in the direction of the river. the program designed for this bridge is a music school. the tunnels of this bridge are the spaces for practicing music, where the students have the river as their accompaniment and the public get to listen to the music as they pass through the bridge.
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the structure is shaped using series of connected metal frames, basically with building series of dense beams sitting on existing pillars of an old destroyed bridge. each section of the bridge is unique and separately drawn in order to make the bridge customized to the surrounding site and the two sides that it is connecting to.
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spring2015 Berlin, Germany
BerlinWillkommenHaus
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Berlin welcoming house is a place for welcoming immigrants and refugees of the war, newly arriving in Berlin. encountering a new world, the people coming to this building need to feel safe, respected peaceful and “at home�, therefore, the project focuses on an element that is only one, belongs to everyone and is the same all over the world: SKY. all spaces that refugees and immigrants would use in this building, such as offices, event hall, library etc will be simple, serene and open to sky.
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(studies of series of separate spaces opening up to sky)
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fall2017 St. Louis, MO
JubileeWorldÂŽ- outburst
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each person has a world based on his experience, imagination and thoughts and a city is a mix and overlap of all its people’s worlds and that is what makes a city the place of availabilities, possibilities and as a result, the place of GROWTH. thus, the spirit of a city is the immaterial relationship in the air, which mostly indwells in between the buildings. the body of a city though, should be capable of an interchange. as simple as a window, giving its light, sound, smell and warmth to outside world, the buildings can share their lives with the city. in a city like St. Louis, the window which could give its life to the city, is suddenly alienated and the life of the buildings are imprisoned inside, since the city is shaped based on dividing, not sharing. today, this divorce of the buildings and the city is causing serious social issues, while there is still the possibility of sewing the parts and pieces to each other.
author’s thesis
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“when the isolation of man from things becomes destroyed: in that moment we discover the wonder of relationship between man and things. the moment in which we become aware of the fullness of life by cooperative action... the relationship between things and within things are of greater importance than the things themselves. one can express this awareness of relationships and one can also predict how they may develop.” therefore, no matter dense or spread out, the city is about the relationships inside and between the buildings and not the physical forms.
- the CIAM discourse on urbanism, 1928-1960, Eric Mumford
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the project is trying to share the life of an existing building with the city. the selected site is located in an under served neighborhood in North St. Louis; the neighborhood is a food desert area, has very high crime rate and lacks basic facilities such as park, public space, library etc. the studied building is from 1843, formerly an orphanage; it has been recently bought by an international non- profit music and performing arts organization, named: Jubilee World. the organization is currently renovating the building and plans to open a school of music and performing arts, bringing in students from under served communities of all over the world. on the same block, there is an elementary school and an elderly living building.
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dilution: scale pace energizing the void movement relationships
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holding on to the programs and the existing buildings on the site, the proposal would try to overlap the activities on the block as much as possible. with having the music center as the core of this complex, the scale of the empty space of the block and also the buildings would be broken to resemble the scale of dwellings in the neighborhood. defining a new relationship between the buildings on this block and between this block with the rest of the neighborhood, the space in the middle of the buildings will become a public space which would always have the live music, being played, as an event.
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(bringing out the life of the building through the windows, study models))
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each music or dance room is designed to echo the sound to its immediate surroundings. through a small window on a funnel shaped wall, the sound can be projected into designated direction.
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ground floor plan stage 1 entrance 2 office/administration 3 library 4 back stage spaces 5 Jubilee World organization office 6 existing kitchen 7 mechanical 8 gym 9 existing pool 10 laundry 11 store 12 community kitchen 13 community garden storage 14 community garden office- tools 15
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SolidShower spring 2015
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to present the actual characteristics of a shower is the main idea of this project. the glass, best material representing the water, is used as a structure hung from the ceiling, to give the feeling of stepping inside the falling water and its fluidity and brightness.
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BeeVision
TX, USA spring2013 PlayHouse2 competition collaborator: Faeze Ensafi illustrator: Fatemeh Shirpour
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to design a movable playhouse for the back yard of any house in Texas was the subject of this competition. To give a dream of fun flying bees to the kids, this playhouse lets them see outside like bees.
(human vision)
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BasicDwelling Barcelona, Spain fall2015
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an exercise in the design process of a housing studio. designing a dwelling in different context, was a break to get distance from the primary subject and an opportunity to bring new ideas into the main project. the rotating doors and shades, horizontal openings between two levels and also the sunken gardens were discovered in this exercise and were later injected to the main project.
see ‘collective housing’ pg.6
(ground level plan)
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Tangled
spring2017
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this project is the initial exercise of a studio. as the studio subject is designing a bridge, this exercise focuses solely on the structure of a bridge. as the length of a beam increases the depth should increase too; this depth can be filled with any kind of “stuff” as long as all parts and pieces are strongly “tangled”
see ‘water accompaniment” pg.118
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Appendix2: BuildingSystems
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EnvironmentalSystemsDesign Doha, Qatar spring2016 collaborators: Marija Draskic, Micah Macaulay, Deanna Kohnstam
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a basic office building project, solely dedicated to environmental systems design and putting the design strategies into test, using multiple softwares such as Diva and Computational Fluid Dynamics
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North Facade
East Facade
South Facade
West Facade
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South Facade
North Facade
Typical Floor Plan
section representing the active chilled beam system in the building
section detail drawing
cooling tower 1 boiler 2 absorption chiller 3 chilled water circuit 4 hot water circuit 5 air handling unit (AHU) 6 supply air 7 return air 8 thermal supply for absorption chiller 9 active chilled beam 10
outer facade - clay 1 steel frame 2 concrete corridor slab 3 L profile - steel 4 rubber barrier 5 double glazed glass facade - sliding door 6 concrete floor slab 7 stone floor tiles 8 lowered ceiling - gypsum boards 9 active chilled beam 10
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R values:
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(.17/10.43)*32 = 0.51
100 - 0.51 = 99.49
Tdp = T - ((100 -RH)/5)
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100 - 1.13 = 97.5
Tdp = 100 - ((100 - 58.9)/5)
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Tdp = 91.78 F
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Solar Heat Gain Analysis- Diva
Floor Plans Solar Heat Gain Analysis by Diva
Exterior View
EAST FACADE Interior Space Solar Heat Gain Analysis
Elevation Second Floor Solar Heat Gain Analysis- Diva
Exterior View
SOUTH FACADE Interior Space Solar Heat Gain Analysis
Elevation Third Floor Solar Heat Gain Analysis- Diva
Exterior View
GENERIC BUILDING SOUTH FACADE Interior Space Solar Heat Gain Analysis
Elevation
Generic Building Floor Solar Heat Gain Analysis- Diva
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StructuralSystemDesign Kashan, Iran spring2013
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a project solely designed to practice a structural system through delivering precise technical drawings
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Grass Concrete paving Sand Soil Pumice Gravel Concrete Shell Mastic Steel Sheet Screw
Concrete Shell Mastic Screw
Steel Sheet Steel Sheet Mortar Soil
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Spacer Grass Concrete paving Spacer Stone paving
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Inclosure fall2015
collaborator: Megan Gill
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studying an existing building’s wall section through reproducing the details, using both hand drawing and digital modeling
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Appendix3: ProfessionalWorkSample
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St. Louis ZooÂŽwater management solution St. Louis, MO summer2017 summer internship at HOK collaborators: hok summer 2017 interns illustrator: Fatemeh Shirpour
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the site is located in the middle of the St. Louis Zoo, intended to be used as a stopping point for the visitors. the clients came to us with the flooding problem; our solution was to take out all the impervious surfaces, leave the earth alone to take in all the water, and take people one level up into the tree crowns.
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Samarkand tourism center Samarkand, Uzbekistan Fall 2018 HOK Los Angeles lead designer: Mark Ejnes
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collaborated with the diverse design team consisted of individuals sharing experience from HOK offices in different locations to deliver the conceptual design for the tourism center, in the historic city of Samarkand. Samarkand is going to host the great SCO summit in 2020 and this complex is planned to serve the gathering of world leaders. after the summit, the project is going to further develop in two more phases, to host tourists who visit the UNESCO world heritage sites in Samarkand. the program includes convention center, hotel, retail and residential.
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during the 8 weeks design charrette, the design team tried to develop design ideas and solutions to make a proposal which is modern and forward looking and in the same time earthy and tied to the culture, the ancient architecture and city fabric.
(ground level: earthy, organic and connected to the city fabric)
(upper levels: forward- looking, modern and superimposed forms, proposing a new view of the ancient architecture)
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(screenshots of the digital model were continuously used to test ideas in numerous spaces, throughout the process)
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(different interpretations of colors and patterns of Uzbekistan)
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(the SCO summit, arrival of world leaders)
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(all interior spaces are designed to have flexible uses after the 2020 summit)
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Cape Girardeau county courthouse Cape Girardeau, MO summer2018 HOK St. Louis lead designer: Jonathan Wirth
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collaborated with the team in organizing the program and designing the form, facade and expression of the building.
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Education
rĂŠsumĂŠ
Class of 2017
Master of Architecture Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA
Spring 2016
Abroad Semester Berlin, Germany
Class of 2013
BA in Architecture Engineering Kashan University, Kashan, Iran
Class of 2009
Diploma in Math & Physics Tehran, Iran
Software Skills Sufficient Sufficient Sufficient Sufficient Sufficient Sufficient Sufficient Sufficient Sufficient Sufficient Familiar Familiar Familiar Familiar
AutoCAD 2d drafting and 3d modeling Rhino 2d drafting and 3d Modeling Revit 3d Modeling and rendering V- Ray rendering in MAX, Rhino and Revit Maxwell rendering in Rhino Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Rhino CAM Lumion SketchUp Grasshopper T-splines CFD-Computational fluid dynamics
Scientific Activities 2013
Submitted and published the paper: “The interaction of vernacular architecture and environment, an inquiry in design attributes” International conference on civil engineering, Architecture and urban sustainable development, Tabriz, Iran
2007
Researcher, lecturer and organizer of “Peace and Justice” iEARN Seminar in Tehran, Iran Collaborator in iEARN International Organization
Award/Competition/Publication-s 2018 Award
AIA St. Louis Collective Housing in San Juan Award of Merit in Unbuilt category
2017 Award
Architecture Faculty Book Award SamFox school, WU
2015 Publication
‘International Housing Studio’ ‘Approach’ Collective Housing in San Juan
2013 Competition
Awarded the “Highly Commendation Project” title- Slant Open International Architecture Design Competition- Ireland (Collaborator: Faezeh Ensafi)
2013 Competition
Finalist of "PlayHouse 2"- Life of an Architect Open International Architecture Design Competition, TX, USA (Collaborator: Faezeh Ensafi)
2009 Award
Awarded as a top Novel Writer Novel writing national high school competition, Iran
Work Experience 2018 Fall 2018
Professional Designer HOK, St. Louis, MO Faculty Assistant Design Thinking- Graduate Thesis Book SamFox school, Wash U
Summer 2017
Architecture Intern HOK, St. Louis, MO
Summer 2016
Architecture Intern MayesOffice, Los Angeles, CA
Fall 2015 Fall 2016 Spring 2017
Summer 2012
Design Teaching Assistant GRAD design studios Digital Fabrication Lab Monitor CNC Lab Monitor SamFox school, Wash U Architecture Intern Sadeh Architects, Tehran, Iran
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