PORTFLIO - ghita ouazzani touhami

1. studio projects

kaira looro (competition)

clepsydre f(r)ixion (competition)

the skatepark

social housing in brazil

social housing in paris(1)

social housing in paris(2)

2. MODELS OF EXISTING PROJECTS

Mesura, House by the ocean

Steven Chilton Architects, wuxi taihu show

Alvar Aalto, Maison Louis Carré

3. STRUCTURE AND MATERIALS REASEARCH THROUGH MODELS

the lacy surface

inflatble

city in suitcase

HYGRO SKIN PAVILLION

bending structure

4. 3D PROJECTS

Luxurious bathroom

4 Container restaurant

5. agency work

urbanism work Graphic line work

STUDIO PROJECTS 1

Subject: Kaira looro Competition

Instructions: Creation of a “Women’s House” inspired by local traditions, that can promote Gender Equality.

PROJECT LOCATION : Senegal

Duration: 2 weeks

Group of 3

“A single drop of water is enough to create a world” according to the quote from the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. Collecting water in a deprived area is time consuming. Having a nearby source of drinking water saves time for women especially because they are the ones fetching it. We intend on providing water, thus providing time. This time saved can be reinvested in other activities. The integration of multiple and flexible programs allows the diversification of activities

for Senegalese women.

Indeed, the space is designed to encourage dialogue and the transmission of knowledge. A library has been designed to provide a quiet learning space. A flexible space that can be accommodated for exhibitions is also present. The walls separating the internal spaces have been designed to be modular: this allows the creation of flexible spaces, more or less large depending on the activities hosted.

the pro cess

1 MODULE = 3 ALTERNATIVES

FLOOR PLAN

Subject: P10 - Digital matters

Professor: Frank Minnaert, Roberta Zarcone, Minh Nguyen, Roberta Zarcone, Quaglia Adrien

Instructions: Final degree project

PROJECT LOCATION : Morocco

Duration: 1 semester

Group of 2

This project was made in continuation of the previous project. The concept stays the same only the location changes. Here again, we collect dew and fog water with a specific system integrated in the architecture. Our location choice was motivated by our proximity to the cultural and geographical context. Thanks to our focus on the village in Morocco, we are able to identify fixed and variable parameters. While the conceptual and constructive logics are reproducible, regardless of the location of the

project, the materials and programs are required to change depending on the location and the culture of the establishment. Nevertheless, there remains an invariant within our materials with regard to the elongated cylindrical geometry (bamboo for senegal and reed for morocco). The context, the materials and the habits of the populations largely influenced the project, but a certain logic is preserved allowing to create a common thread between the different projects.

FLOOR

Subject: P7 - studio - Material’s life cycle

Professor: nicolas leduc, nguyen minh man, frank minnaert

Instructions: Assess the life cycle of a material and create a pavilion exploiting the material.

PROJECT LOCATION: Paris

Duration: 1 semester

Group of 3

Our project questions the use of magazines in architecture, in an up-cycling process.

Based on a spectacular physical phenomenon, friction, that makes two magazines with intertwined pages almost inseparable, we intend to deploy a giant hammock assembled without impacting the life cycle of the magazine. We implemented non-destructive assembly methods and

considered ourselves logisticians of an abundant resource to exploit without any guilt, constructively and aesthetically. More emblematic than its content, the cover/front page of the magazine is its signature, its trademark. This visual aspect being prominent, we wanted to take it into account during the design process. To do so, we relied on image processing algorithms.

the pro cess

Subject: P3A-Studio - «Constructure» : Conception-Construction-Architecture

Professor: Ahmed Albouelkheir

Instructions: Design a skatepark

PROJECT LOCATION: Paris

Duration: 1 semester

Single work

Subject: P6-Studio- Social housing

Professor:Mauro Santos

Instructions: Social housing rehabilitation project in rio de janeiro (the model is 1m/20cm)

PROJECT LOCATION: Rio de janeiro

Duration: 1 month

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Subject: P4-Studio

Professor: Catherine Clarisse

Instructions: Design an urban scale social housing project and develop one of the building to its fullest Project Location: Paris

Duration: 1 month group of 3

COUPE LONGITUDINALE AA’

COUPE TRANSVERSALE BB’

Subject: P4-Studio

Professor: Catherine Clarisse

Instructions: Design an apartment that fits in a box with given dimentions project location: Paris

Duration: 2 weeks

Single work

This project consisted in making a flat that fits in a box with given dimensions and then superimpose the same apartment on top. We couldn’t touch the side walls. My model is inspired by Le Corbusier’s concept of the drawer apartment .

MODELS OF EXISTING PROJECTS 2

Subject: Internship at mesura, barcelona

Instructions: Make the model of a the house by the ocean

PROJECT LOCATION : Equatorial Guinea

Duration: 2 Weeks

group of 2

Subject: TD P4

Professor: Catherine Clarisse - Eric Sfar

Instructions: Study through making the model a famous architectural reference

Duration: 2 Weeks

Single work

Subject: ECO-FICTION

Professor: nicolas gilsoul

Instructions: photographic exploration of the model of an eco-fiction architecture

Duration: 2 Weeks

Single work

3 STRUCTURE AND MATERIALS

REASEARCH THROUGH MODELS

Subject: C2B-Construction-Morphology

Professor: Ahmed Mansour

Instructions: Create a developable surface

PROJECT LOCATION : PARIS

Duration: 1 month

Group of 2

STEP 1 - Create a surface :

- Create a curve

- Draw tangents corresponding to this curve. The surface extends with the size of the tangents

STEP 2 - Design the shape and exploit the internal space :

- Make vertical plans along the tangents to fit the surface’s curvature. These plans represent our posts

- Pierce the plans in order to exploit the internal space

STEP 3 - Create a tiling out of a simple geometrical pattern

Subject:S7-Intesive work on inflatable structures

Professor: Robert March

Instructions: Create 2 inflatable structures (1 human scale, 1 model )

PROJECT LOCATION : Paris

Duration: 1 WEEK

Group of 2/15

During this exercise, we designed 2 projects on different scales. One on a human scale, made by a bigger group and one smaller, more complex made in groups of 2. I will only go through the process of creation of the smaller project. The goal was to create a penetrating inflatable structure with a play on the internal/external space. The design of our inflatable project was made thanks to the rhinoceros software, using the grasshopper plug in to get a better grasp of the shape. The geometrical definition had to be precise and totally controlled.

Each of the spheres composing our project is made out of a curve that was arrayed around an axis. The curves are then lofted together and unrolled in order to be contained on a flat sheet of paper, then reassembled in real life. The making of a paper model allowed us to see the weaknesses in our design, which motivated the addition of tabs along the edges of the spheres’s junctions and also along the edges connected to the ground. The goal was to facilitate the assembly and reduce air loss during the inflation of the final model. The structure is then inflated, gradually resuming the shape originally obtained using GrassHopper.

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Subject: city in suitcase

Professor:Bertrand Lamarche

Instructions: Free theme with the given subject

Project location: Paris

Duration: 1 semester

Single work

Theme : The Seed Cathedral built by Thomas Heatherwick. This pavilion built for the universal exposition of Shanghai stocks the seeds into thin glass tubes.

First research : Seed reserves. Life capsules held into buildings. I put in correlation the temporary aspect of the seed and of the building that holds them. The building itself, will imitate the seeds, by overcoming and adapting.

Second research : Scales : I get a close look on Rob Kessler et Wolfgang Stuppy’s photographic work (seed morphologist). Kessler’s work consists in

zooming with ultra performant microscope on seeds, their structure and cavity.. This photograph then gives color to the pictures in order to attract the spectator’s eye just like the flowers attract the bees and other pollinators. My work consisted in recreating a city like landscape inspired with Kessler’s work and also with Rem Khoolas’s work in « La Ville du globe captif ». This futuristic scene show’s a world in which a paradoxically perfectly disposed nature takes the power and forms the city itself.

Subject: Digital matters

Professor: Nicolas Leduc - Minh Nguyen

Instructions: Understand the concept of a chosen pavillion

Project location: Paris

Duration: 1 week

Group of 2

This work permited a better understanding of the HYGRO skin pavilion called responsive surface structure I. It was built in 20062007 by Achim Menges who worked in association with Steffen Reichert.

The objective of this pavilion was to create a porous skin structure using the absorbtion properties of wood in response to changes in humidity. The wood here is a kind of climate sensor, actuator and

also a regulating element, all in one. The aim was here to ventilate without a mechanical system. This hardware behavior required an adaptive design approach on the geometry as well.

The explorations were fist made through parametrical designs with softwares such as rhinoceros and grasshoper and we moved on to physical explorations afterwards.

Subject: .P3A-Studio - «Constructure» : Conception-Construction-Architecture

Professor: Ahmed Albouelkheir

Instructions: Explore self-forming processes

PROJECT LOCATION : PARIS

Duration:3 weeks

Group of 2

We specified our work on active bending surfaces with notches.

- Are the notches creating the bending?

- How do they react to a provoked bending?

- How are the material properties influenced by the shape? The challenge when working on bending surfaces is: not working with single elements that can be assembled. The surface has to be taken as a whole.

We started off with the pneumatic archetype research made by Tobias

Ohrstrom and varied the parameters and the materials (we used veneer and plyood) to come up with an « alphabet of variations ». Regarding the materials, veneer is a material that bends more easily on one direction because of the striations of the wood. Thus there is a main bending direction and a secondary bending direction. Acetate on the other hand is a material that has equal bending potential on both directions. As a consequence it alters hollows and bumps when bent.

Attached in the front

Attached at the back

Cut lines

4 3D PROJECTS

Subject: P5-Studio- Interior design

Professor: Igor de Vetyemy

Instructions: Design a luxurious flat and make the 3D model of the bathroom

PROJECT LOCATION: Rio de janeiro

Duration: 2 weeks

Single work

Subject: P5-Studio- Interior design

Professor: Igor de Vetyemy

Instructions: Design a restaurant and a lunch area with 4 containers

Duration: 2 weeks

PROJECT LOCATION: Rio de janeiro

Group of 2

Subject: Internship at archikubik

Instructions: Make an urban analysis

LOCATION : BARCELONA

Duration: 2 Weeks

Subject: Internship at mesura

Instructions: Create a visual identity to graphic documents for the firm’s website

LOCATION : BARCELONA

Duration: 1 month

For this type of projects i worked on plans, sections, axonometric views, and diagrams. These types of documents had to be able at the same time to abstract the project of the unnecessary details, and to showcase its most important features.

As a tool to communicate, they express what is seen, what is unseen, what will be seen in a near future. Measures, shapes, hidden geometry, structure, technical information, scale ... but also program, use, life, adaptability of the space, atmosphere and materiality.

They offer a common language to different projects, environment, scales and programs, putting on the foreground each project’s most surprising and unique elements.

While the ambition is to ensure the overall coherence of the documents following Mesura’s graphic identity, it was also important to bare in mind and preserve the pecularities of each project.

For more work, visit https://mesura.eu/projects/