Portfolio of Works | hadi Madwar

hadi Madwar | portfolio of works Center of Fine Arts | The Memory Organ | Tribute to Aleppo 2063 | Floating City, Inverted City

01 hadiMadwar | curriculum vitae

02 hadiMadwar | curriculum vitae

PORTFOLIO CONTENTS Center of Fine Arts for McGill University The Memory Organ* completed with Jack Bian Tribute to Aleppo 2050* completed with Julia Chang Floating City, Inverted City

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hadiMadwar | curriculum vitae

WORK EXPERIENCE SURE Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (Architecture) | McGill University, Montreal, Quebec | May - September 2013 Professor Ipek T端reli Building Architectural Networks: Missionary Schools in the Eastern Mediterranean | researcher Avi Friedman Consultants | June - August 2012 Professor Abraham Friedman Convertible Housing for Sept-Iles | co-author of research preceeding housing proposal Arab Development Initiative | Montreal, Quebec | 2012 - 2013 Dina al-Qaysi, Amina Samy, Nena Alvarenga Montreal Envision Arabia Summit 2012 | stage design coordinator New York City Envision Arabia Summit 2013 | summit organizer, speakers selection committee, stage design coordinator International Conference on Geometry and Graphics (ICGG) 2012 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | August 2013 Professor Aaron Sprecher, Professor Paul Zsombor-Murray ICGG 2012 Montreal | Operations coordinator + technical support team Estudio Nomada | Barcelona, Spain | May - July 2011 Arnout Krediet, Iris Tonies, Kirsten Campbell assistant and artistic apprentice Atelier Hani Moncef | Damascus, Syria | July - August 2009 Hani Moncef assistant Habitat for Humanity | Damascus, Syria | 2007 - 2009 Ewan Crouch chapter president and active member

EDUCATION McGill University School of Architecture | BSc Architecture | Montreal, Quebec | 2009 - 2013 Marianopolis College | Pure and Applied Science | Montreal, Quebec | 2009 Kells Academy | Montreal, Quebec | 2005 - 2007 Damascus Community School | Damascus, Syria | 1994-2009

LANGUAGES Fluent in English | Fluent in Arabic | Basic command of French

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SKILLS Digital Modeling | Rhinoceros, Grasshopper Drafting | Rhinoceros, AutoCAD Post-Processing | Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Rendering | Vray for Rhinoceros, Adobe Photoshop Advanced Physical Modeling | Laser cutting, 3D printing GIS Mapping | ArcMap

COMPETITIONS Think Space | Zagreb, Croatia | May- July 2012 with Mona al-Jadir Artists’ Housing in Boka | Boka, Herzegovina | May - July 2012 with Jack Bian eVolo 2013 | Montreal, Quebec | January 2012 with Jack Bian Lyceum | Montreal, Quebec | February - March 2013 Canadian Centre of Architecture Charrette | Montreal, Quebec | February 2013 with Caroline Voyer + Stephanie Vallieres + Robert Rabie + Paule Viau Hetu

CONTACT INFORMATION madwarh@gmail.com 1536 Avenue Summerhill H3H1B9 Montreal, Quebec , CANADA

05 Center for Fine Arts | completed independently | Professor Pierina Saia

| Center of Fine Arts at McGill University completed independently Professor Pierina Saia

The proposed project for a Center of Fine Arts at McGill University derives from the planar projection of building-street alignments onto the site located at the intersection of Peel Street and Sherbrooke Street.

It is moreover an extension to the adjacent Bronfman Building belonging to the Desautels Faculty of Managment. The resultant pattern formed by projections - at times rationalized, at times not - comprises the basis of a logic of formalism and transparency which articulates a programmatic procession weaving through spaces dedicated to the storage, viewing, and production of fine art. This procession is topographical in nature, hence emphasizing itself as an encapsulated concentration of the urban landscape set in an envelope of concrete and translucent glass.

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16 The Memory Organ | completed with Jack Bian | Professor Martin Bressani and Professor Aaron Sprecher

| The Memory Organ completed with Jack Bian Professor Martin Bressani and Professor Aaron Sprecher The Memory Organ is a data archive, programmatically dedicated to the recollection, storage, retrieval, reconstruction, and representation of public memory.

Unlike the traditional bank and/or museum of a comparable program, its wealth is virtual. Unlike the conventional data server, it is not concealed from the public eye. On the contrary, The Memory Organ celebrates the success of the Information Age and as such - embraces the ever increasing centrality of data to contemporary culture.

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17 The Memory Organ | completed with Jack Bian | Professor Martin Bressani and Professor Aaron Sprecher

(T) photographic analysis of site (l) terranian atmosphere (r) subterranean atmosphere

18 The Memory Organ | completed with Jack Bian | Professor Martin Bressani and Professor Aaron Sprecher

(T) three dimensional reconstruction of site atmospheres (l) anterior (r) posterior

19 The Memory Organ | completed with Jack Bian | Professor Martin Bressani and Professor Aaron Sprecher

(T) Axonometric view of architectural intervention

20 The Memory Organ | completed with Jack Bian | Professor Martin Bressani and Professor Aaron Sprecher

(T) Interior perspectives (l) digital archive (r) exhibition ramp

21 The Memory Organ | completed with Jack Bian | Professor Martin Bressani and Professor Aaron Sprecher

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Metal grating Trapezoidal section ribbed metal sheeting I-Beam 100 mm deep 140 mm channel (forms drainage channel) 10 mm steel sheet bracket 2 x 50/7 steel flat ETFE membrane 50 mm dia. steel galvanized handrail Curved I-beam IPE 200 40 mm steel tension cable Diagonal steel bracing Vertical support arm connected to hidden metal gasket bolted to curved I-beam 13 Sound-absorbing element, part-perforated sheet aluminum filled with insulation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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10 mm aluminum extrusion 40 mm diameter tensile steel cable Bird netting fixing Continuous flat along the external side of the spiral ramp Bolted ETFE extrusion Double ETFE sheeting 80 mm steel cap to hide 50 mm opening for steel tension cables puncturing the spiral ramp 9 Bolted connection for ETFE joint to the side surface of the spiral ramp

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28 House by Memory | completed with Julia Chang| Professor Ipek Türeli and Professor Sinisha Brdar

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| House by Memory: Tribute to Aleppo 2063 completed with Julia Chang Professor Ipek Tureli and Professor Sinisha Brdar

A series of architectural interventions is derived from the reconstructed narrative of the Kurdiyeh family of Aleppo, Syria, forced into hiding in 2013 to escape the atrocities of civil warfare. These interventions are set within the rebuilt half of their destroyed apartment building - envisioned in 2063 to be the last remaining pre-war structure in their respective neighborhood.

The physical reconstruction and chronicled deconstruction of their experience is approached through a series of material treatments that emphasize casting as a process of both preserving and narrating memory. In fifty years’ time, The Kurdiyeh’s home will become a defining landmark of a city undergoing physical and psychological rehabilitation and will stand as a universal symbol of courage, resilience, and public reconciliation.

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the war will end within a few years the neighborhood completely destroyed but they will remain whomever they knew whomever had survived at least partially, would have escaped

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but in fifty years, the city will be repopulated and they will be joined by those of different memories of other visions, of other dreams

disconnected from the war and from the city it had destroyed their house is that remains to tell of the past

what was once a place of tragedy becomes a space of spectacle and the war story was not just their own but all of ours

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“We are at the dangerous frontier between rebel occupied and government controlled sections of Aleppo.

We have come here to speak to the Kurdiye family whom “They came into the months apartment for the past three and to leave`ìmmedihavetold beenushiding in a cellar ately’.

We didn`t know who underground. We have not they were, any theyfactual didn`t inknow disclosed us either but they didn`t One of them could have been formation out of concern for kill us.of But they took our the our neighbors. the son family’s security. home as if it nothing to Ever since they came, he us.” has become one of them. He wore a mask so that we could not “The strikes were all around recognize him.

I suspect he us. just ran out feltWe bad having donewith that. nothing. We just ran and ran until we got down here. The shrapnel was falling all over.....For a month we have been here, this is like a prison. bombsmy fall, “I don’tWhen wantthe to send we choke”out. I dream every children

nightofthat willleft. kill “All our someone neighbours We have not heard from some them” of them and others have been killed. The owner of this shop is a distant relative.

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We are just want to be able to on feel “This place is a grave.” our sun own.again. I want to go the to Sweden. My friend went years ago and told me that One their hideout traveling she enters was very happy by there. down a staircase. The only way to navigate the staircase is through the aid “We are poor, but proud. I of a flashlight. will not go anywhere else: we will not be at the mercy of others. I send my son to scrape some money and buy us food. Otherwise, we will stay here until it is safe to go back home”used to be a carpenter’s The hideout workshop. Amongst the family’s belongings are chair parts.

(T) axonometric of architectural deconstruction (1) exit (2) ascent (3) confrontation (4) look out (5) perforation (6) descent (7) hideout

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House by Memory | completed with Julia Chang| Professor Ipek T端reli and Professor Sinisha Brdar

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(T) scale model of restored and reconstructed house

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(T) material examination of bullet-light shaft

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34 Floating City, Inverted City | completed independtly | Professor Ipek Türeli

| Floating City, Inverted City completed independently Professor Ipek Türeli Though only open to the public from 06.00 to 22.00, the foodcourts of Montreal’s underground city are constantly consuming light energy and producing solid wastes. They are untapped ecosystems in their own right. Simultaneously, they are sociallty forbidding environments, excluding a heterogenuous floating population of students, migrants, beggars, and commuters highly dependant on the use of its facilities. Through the mapping of the social and functional operations of the Eaton Center foodcourt - the largest in Montreal - this project proposes the installation of a second ¨inverted¨ city running throughout the underground network in an attempt at achieveing an overall social and energetic balance.

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131,279 students total

The underground foodcourts directly and/or indirectly feed into the campuses of McGill University, the University of Quebec, and Concordia university. Many tend to socialize in these spaces, often pursuing otherwise controversial interactions. Pictured is an adolescent same-sex couple.

7,500,000 travellers per day

For newcomers and travelers to the city, the underground foodcourts are landmark locations. Pictured is a recent immigrant from southeast Asia awaiting the arrival of a friend to assist him with legal documentation.

30,822 homeless total

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Montreal’s homeless are banned from the underground city. As such, they are concentrated throughout various points in the immediate periphery of the food courts (usually in the metro stations).

1,111,700 commuters per day

The metro trains arrive every 8.6 minutes. 95 exits feed into the underground city. Circulation is primarily facilitated through the metro network and pedestrian thoroughfares.

500,000 + conversers per day

For newcomers and travelers to the city, the underground foodcourts are landmark locations. Conversing is their main social activity. Hence conversations were recorded and mapped.

x,000 custodians (cleaners + security)

Cleaners and secuirty officers maintain consistent sureveillence over floaters and conversers - escorting them out of the mall whenever necessary.

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37 Floating City, Inverted City | completed independtly | Professor Ipek T端reli

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operating hours: 06.00 - 22.00 capacity: 2000 persons

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Floating City, Inverted City | completed independtly | Professor Ipek T端reli

(T) operations frequency map surveilled hours cleaning operations store operations recorded conversations circulation intervals sound levels