16-18 ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO
OUSSAMA GARTI
SELECTED WORKS ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
OUSSAMA GARTI PERSONAL DETAILS nationality date of birth
moroccan 02/10/1995
EDUCATION 2015 - present
Five year undergraduate program (ARB/RIBA) at the Architectural Association school of architecture in London, UK
2014 - 2015
Foundation year at the Architectural Association school of architecture in London, UK
2013 - 2014
Preparatoire Art at Atelier de Sèvres in Paris, France
COMPUTER SKILLS AutoCad Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Rhinoceros V-ray
EXPERIENCE sep - present 17/18
Archaeology of the Future: Exploring Tangiers with Sylvie Taher and Rodolfo Rodriguez, AA school
june - august 2017
Working on several projects in freelance in Morocco
sep - june 16/17
Policitcs of Vertical Living: Re-imagining the High-Rise building in Bogota with Francisco Gonzalez de Canales, Nuria Alvarez Lombardero, AA school
july - august 2016
Humanitarian project “WATCH” | Building a school in Mechkralla, Morocco
LANGUAGES Arabic French English Moroccan Spanish
Mother tongue Native Fluent Fluent Basic
CONTACT e-mail tel
gartio@live.fr +447901985651
Even if the facilities are almost equally distributed in Bogota, the problem is the public program of the metropolitan size being mostly located in the city centre. Which leads to a city where all the flow is converging in only one point, the centre. Because I believe that equality comes through interaction, Bogota should be decentralized. Creating a new centre by relocating some of the public program in my design will raise the attractiveness towards the periphery. Any healthy city or country works in a polycentric way. Bogota itself is interacting with all the Colombian cities.
SPATIAL ANALYSIS Here is explored the idea of a high structure that looks and works in way that would make it more welcoming to the people and especially to the Colombian population that is very hostile to anything that is related to money or power. The tower is divided in two main volumes, one trapped inside the other. The private volume hides the semi-private spaces standing at the core. This makes the building look less distant and more accessible from the outside. It also gives the opportunity to the public to discover every level and side of the tower. The blocks are stacked one on top of the other and creates an interesting pattern and different voids opening all the levels to each other and maximizing the light inside the building. Each block is open on one of its sides and reveals it self to the outside. But you can still control how open you wanted it to be and which side it faces.
General mass containing the public and private volumes and the voids
Defining the private volumes
Defining the public volumes
Central void
142 m
20% of the ground floor is private
Refining the public volumes to create the voids
Volumes envelope
Refining the private volumes to create the voids
Circulation towers for the the private volumes
Distinguishable floors
The public volumes are connected allowing a circulation all around the building
Viewing plateforms
Voids let the vertical light go through the building
Open pattern to this side
Open ground floor
South West view
North West view
Mass and voids
Volume allocated for the public and private space
Void applied
Final form
Patterns
Abstraction of the perforation by disarticulating the planes
Plan of the proposal
Exterior rendered view
In the idea of injecting my high-rise but blurring its borders at the same time, I wanted to create spaces that would no be enclosed but rather volumes that would always be interacting and having a conversation with their surrondings. A set of inhabitables volumes actings as walls not to enclose spaces but to obstruct the view at different levels according to how private the inner volume is. The building will be divided in to two main volumes. One being used for affordable private housing in the idea of investing for the disadvantaged people before the area becomes too expensive because of its new attractiveness. The other would work as a space for the public program being relocated in the area. The public program would be distributed all over the design to give the possibility to experience the whole building.
Right image: Section of the proposal Left image: Interior view
Right and left image: Metal models part of the exploration Lower image: Wax model
Model of the enveloppe made in metal
Tangier, a transition point for illegal immigration
Being very close to Europe, Tangier’s lanscape is not perceived as one by the locals but rather as the final obstable to reach their dreamland. An important subject that I wanted to confront in my project.
Collage of the mood I want my design to express as point of gathering but also a landscape perceived as one and acting as a transition between the medina and the new city.
Using the technique of prints to understand the different urban fabrics of the Medina and the new city.
Facing two problems, the first being the difference of height and the other the absence of a building or a design that could achieve the same attractiveness than the other transition spaces working at the edge of the Medina. I decided to design a landscape instead of a building that would follow the typography and act as transition between the two areas. The old pats used by the boats would meet and create and oasis acting as point of gathering and a statement of the strong social and economical relation the locals had with the port that is now lost. Also, creating a landscape that would be viewed as one and not an obstacle is an important point of my project.
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oasis has been the point of gathering in arid ons for a long time as the water is the most cious thing for the nomadic people.
just like any source of water, its epehemeral ation makes it a transition point and disaprs after being used by a large group of nods.
Technical studies project questions the idea making the oasis a perennial gathering point not only act as a place of congregation but creates a cyclic energy through different hnologies.