Gheyath Mohammed B.Sc Architecture & Built Environment Selected Works, 2012-2016
Gheyath Mohammed +96 2 796 094 499 Tamim Ibn Elmoez Street Amman - Jordan gheyathm@gmail.com
EDUCATION German Jordanian University
Hochschule fĂźr Technik Stuttgart
Amman, Jordan B.Sc in Architecture
9/2010 - 2/2016
Stuttgart, Germany
9/2013 - 9/2014
Partial requirement of B.Sc
Swansea College
Scientific College EXPERIENCE German Jordanian University
Swansea, UK
9/2008 - 6/2010
SKILLS Proficient skill in the following programs: AutoCAD
Rhinoceros 3D
Maxwell Render
Grasshopper
3Ds Max
Vray Render
Adobe Creative Suite
Microsoft Office Suite
Google SketchUp
Intermediate ability in the following programs:
A Levels (Maths, Physics, Business Studies, ICT)
Revit Architecture
Amman, Jordan
Extensive experience in model making and photography
2/2005 - 6/2008
O Levels (Maths, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, IT Arabic, English)
2 - 9/2016 Employee Part-time lecturer of computational design software teaching Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, and various rendering engines.
BFK Architekten
3 - 8/2014 Intern Involved in the design, drafting, 3D modeling, rendering, model making, and presentation of the Veranstaltungpavillon project in Bad Ditzenbach, and an apartment building project in Fellbach, Germany.
Lumion 3D
Keyshot 5.0
WORKSHOPS Grasshopper Beginners Workshop
2/2013
German Jordanian University
5th Public Space Workshop
7/2013
Studio-X Amman/Columbia GSAPP
Vertical Variables V1.0
5/2016
Rhinoceros 3D/DesignMorphine/90 Degrees Studio
AWARDS & HONOURS
Raed Al Naber Architects & Consultants
NBH International Youth Creativity Award, 2nd Prize Selected by faculty to instruct computational design software courses
Dar Almarifa for Techniques & Electronics
LANGUAGES Fluent written and spoken Arabic and English with great drafting skills Comprehensive German
7 - 9/2013 Intern Took part in the drafting, working drawings, 3D modeling, and rendering of a villa project in Amman, Jordan.
Part time document control
Employee
7/2011 - 2/2012
CONTENTS
creative works
Vertical Complexity
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ActLab
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GJU Recreation Centre
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Goethe Pavillon
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SABE Canopy
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eyePortal
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Veranstaltungs Pavillon
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Inbox
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CoRanch
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Amman, Spring 2013, Single Project Amman, Spring 2015, Graduation Thesis Madaba, Winter 2012, Single Project Amman, Winter 2012, Single Project Amman, Summer 2015 with M.Mallah, L.Masarweh Amman, Summer 2013 with N.Gammoh, C.Barnes, T.Burch Stuttgart, Spring 2014, with N.Pfanz Competition Entry, Manamah, Spring 2016 with O.Tbakhi, L.Halaseh Amman, Spring 2016, with K.Hamadna
VERTICAL COMPLEXITY Amman, Jordan This project focuses on the integration of computational tools, being parametric, generative morphogenesis, evolution or other, and the use of these methods and techniques to arrive to a detailed design for a single mixeduse skyscraper for Amman. Extensive research was carried out on the impact of environmental and seasonal factors on highrise buildings. Wind force was then selected to drive and shape the final outcome for its significance in the site and its impact on the building structure.
Spring 2013 | Single Project
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RISE WITH THE WIND Nature of Site
Wind Effect on Frame Structure
The site selected to be the working area is comprised of two pieces of land of about 55,000m2 of which 4000-8000m2 to be used for the project. The site is specific and its topography is of great value, as this project aims to study the relationship with the ground and the surroundings. A tall building will have to establish contextual communications , provide views and vistas, make a statement within its urban context. The analysis adresses the social problem of the land which resulted from the visual and social barriers between the opposite sides of the Abdoun valley. The initial objective is to come up with a suitable design solution related to the natural forces of the site that will establish a social connection between those two sides.
vertical & horizontal steel frames
different footprint trials main roads - no conncetion
bridge visual connection
social bridge possibility
Environmental Simulation
20m x 50m footprint + 40 floors
wind simulation
model with maximum rotation and mimnumn vertical members
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ACTLAB Amman, Jordan This project aims to evolve, develop, and materialise ideas of innovators within the industrial sector among different user groups including artists, designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, curious creators, and anyone who would like to fabricate with accuracy and creative freedom of digital technologies.
Winter 2014 | Graduation Project
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DISCONNECT TO CONNECT The Innovation Space GJU Recreation Centre
ACTLAB digital fabrication centre leverages the state of the art industrial technology to perform design research utilizing machinery automation to perform both subtractive machinery and automated assembly processes. The centre focuses on manufacturing, fabrication, prototyping, construction and analysis of fabricated assemblies and materials. The project consists of five main components:
Digital fabrication offers major potential connections to various instructional objectives in variuos fields. Today, the utilization of computer controlled machinery in the industry has become crucial to make products As the project acts as an which can succeed in the market and have a positive impact on both attraction point for all its users, Integration of mininculture and economy. mal surfaces and a vortex structure was established to render it as such. The building sits on site as a magnet within its context. users, vehicles, and landscape are pulled towards it along ramps and curved floor slabs. All elements are invited to connect to each other inside the building under the condition of disconnection from the outside. 09
ground floor plan
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first floor plan
section a-a
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second floor plan
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fourth floor plan
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GJU RECREATION CENTRE Madaba, Jordan As a recreational complex in the German Jordanian University campus in Madaba, this project combines various sports and lesiure activities. It acts as a getaway for university students to gather and interact with one another. The aim of the studio was to introduce parametric tools and plugins to the design process in order expand conceptual potential and provide more architectural scenarios and possibilities.
Winter 2012 | Single Project
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SPATIAL NETWORKS Spring Dynamics The initiation of the parametric approach started with spatial diagrams which corresponded to a given area program using Galapagos, a generative plugin within Grasshopper. After the diagrams were flattened, the distances between specific spaces in the program of the recreational center were set fixed and other distances were given a variable of minimum and maximum inputs. In addition, each bond between between the functions was given a spring constant according to its importance to the functions it is connected to. Galapagos generated a set of variations and many design possibilities according to those inputs making it easier to examine multiple plan layouts.
Plans Variations
forces between spaces
a study of access points, spatial networks, shoretest distance, and visual exposure
Galapogas solutions
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ground floor plan
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masses roof plan
Coating Structure After all the project masses were set and a comfortable circulation was achieved, an additional study was carried out to look at the voids and spaces between those masses in order to intoduce a roof strucutre which connects the functions together.. Voronoi panels were then mapped onto the structure with variable sizes and materials each responding to the nature of activity underneath it whether public or private.
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GOETHE PAVILLON Amman, Jordan CONNECT THE DOTS Formation of the Grid One of the first architectural project for me to design was a pavillon in Goethe Institute in Amman. The client required a classroom in the backyard of the institute which was about 80 squared meter. A 60 year old tree in the backyard was not to be touched. The tree is located around the North Eastern corner. My main concept was to set this tree as a focal point and establish a radial grid formed through connecting the rest of the trees in the backyard.
Winter 2012 | Single Project
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SABE CANOPY Amman, Jordan Student Space The aim of this project is utilize computational and scripting techniques to design a simple canopy structure in the terrace of the German Jordanian University Architecture school. A site analysis was first established to set major structural nodes from which the roof structure branched out. Multiple variations were produced to examine an optimized scenario based on the size, location, and desnsity of structural elements.
modelling process
Site Analysis
nodes location
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circulation diagram
activities
structure variations
Summer 2015 | with Mahmoud Mallah & Laith Masarweh
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Columbia GSAPP
Amman, Jordan
Public Space Workshop PublicBit is a mobile, open hardware unit developed for deployment in public spaces with sensing capabilities networked for realtime transmission of site specific city data. The data is synthesized to develop spatial proposals for connecting physical and virtual public spaces, both within and between cities.
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ACCESS, PARTICIPATION, AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE Tour Roulette eyePortal rethinks the public space by connecting inhabitants from distant cities through temporary shared vision and mutual experience. Locals from each city have the chance to give tours of their surroundings to users abroad through the mobile eyePortal device. Tour guides exchange roles with tourists and the favor is returned.
rainbow st. analysis
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Summer 2013 | with Nawras Gammoh, Cecil Barnes & Taylor Burch
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VERANSTALTUNGS PAVILLON Bad Ditzenbach, Germany BFK Architekten I took a great part in the realiasation of this multi-purpose pavillon project during my internship period in Stuttgart, Germany. The main design addresses the idea of a sculptural architecture in Kurgarten, a spa and health garden in South Germany.
Spring 2014 | with Nadia Pfanz
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PEOPLE IN, MUSIC OUT. The building is located at the entrance to the recently planned Kurgarten and thus has an important location. The basic idea is a sculptural architecture in the newly designed environment in order to render the garden solitaire. The envelope includes two large cut-outs in the facade which represent the two main areas of action.
To the one on the entrance, the building opens to the East side towards a parking lot, and in a broader sense, in a central direction. Being the smaller of the two openings of the facade, it extends through its shape to articulate an inviting spatial volume. As for the other opening, it defines on one hand a multi purpose event room (approx. 200 m2) inside the pavillon and on the other hand an outdoor spectator area outside the pavillon and a generous opening towards the Kurgarten giving the entire project its formative shape. 29
The Interior The features inside are clearly organized around the central space. All visitor utilities (Foyer, dressing room, etc.) are on the East side of the plan. On the South side, there is the parking lot and all serving function rooms, catering area and rehearsal room with separate entrances. On the West side, there is the furniture storage space which can open to the multi-functional event space through a sliding partition. The roof acts as an amplifier for interior acoustics., it holds the building all together, and gives it its clear form.
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INBOX Competition Entry
Manamah, Bahrain
Children Creativity Centre Creating a space where children can work, play and feel safe enough to explore and connect with each other is not an easy task. InBox enables the children to carry out various activities around playgrounds and workshop spaces which are all connected through a central and peripheral ramp system.
2nd Prize
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Spring 2016 | with Omar Tbakhi & Lina Halaseh
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section a-a
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Vertical Variables
Amman, Jordan
Tower Structures Vertical Variables V1.0 focuses on the applications of parametric modeling in the form of towers and skyscrapers. The workshop is oriented towards developing skills on computational strategies which will lead to form finding and optimization through various parameters. The computational approach enables designers and architects to overcome the imposition of a prefixed form in order to enhance performance-driven designs. Spring 2016 | with Katrina Hamadna
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STRUCTURE OF THE VOID Coral Branch Structural stability is a major factor in tower construction. The concept of the CoRanch is infulenced by the natural growth of the coral plant. We have found that coral structure can be of an architrctural use acting as a light and ventilation distributor along the core of the tower. Therefore, the solid formation is inverted into a negative space branching out to envelope in various levels and directions
Algorithmic Definition
massing process
base spine curve
branching generation
Multiple Variations
geometry smoothing
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Gheyath Mohammed +96 2 796 094 499 gheyathm@gmail.com Amman - Jordan