Architecture Design Portfolio Selected Works Hala Makahleh 2013 - 2021
Made by Hala Makahleh 2013 -2021
CONTENTS
Resume
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Project I The Museum of Life Redefining the cemetery [graduation project]
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Project II The Mobile Healthcare Unit Raising awareness on FGM [2nd year project]
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Project III The Abstract Forest Redesigning the Ahmad ben Hanbal park [landscape design project]
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Project IV The Youth Unit Transforming dead space [interior design project]
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Collection I Implemented Projects
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Collection II Artwork and Painting
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Personal Profile “That’s all we are amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.” –Charlie Chaplin But we do live long enough to constantly evolve, shedding unwanted layers and welcoming new ones that allow us each day to surpass what we were the day before. I have graduated with a degree in architecture and have always been fascinated by its multidisciplinary nature which led me to dabble in many creative fields, ranging from interior design, illustration and art, all the way to psychology, social media influence, and marketing.
Contact Address Email Telephone
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Amman, Jordan H.a.mckahleh@gmail.com +962775779360
- HALA MAKAHLEH -
- HALA MAKAHLEH A R C HA IR T E I CT T C H E C. T I . N I NTT EE R R IIOOR RD EDS E I GSNIEGR N E R
Education Sep 2013 – Aug 2018 B.Sc. in architecture German Jordanian University – Amman
Work Experience 07.10.2020 – now IKEA Home Furnishing Specialist In charge of design and supervision of outdoor projects ranging from NGO projects, offices, hospitals, hospitality and residential projects. Developed space planning concepts, color palette selections and textile presentations. Consulted with clients to determine architectural preference to meet overall design goals. Developed key client relationships by providing design solutions that met needs and budgets without compromising quality or design intent. Created professional presentations using Photoshop and PowerPoint to creatively communicate design intent and direction. Designed floor plans, elevations, 3D perspective views and material boards for review and presentation. 09.02.2019 – 07.10.2020 IKEA Interior Designer Come up with inspirational and functional furnishing solutions to inspire all kinds of clients Stay in tune with current trends not only in interior design, but also in clients’ living and working situations. Being involved in all areas of the store, from room settings to restaurants to coworker offices and facilities. 20.02.2017 – 10.09.2017 Architekturbuero Schulschenk – Essen Architecture Student intern later Student assistant Assist in construction drawings, and AutoCAD drafting Participate in the product research, and selection of fabric, and furniture Develop alternative solutions and presentation graphics to communicate concepts to clients Organize and maintain project files 01.06.2016 – 30.06.2016 Tha’er Qub’a Consultant Architects – Amman Architecture Student intern Design schematics, as well as developing elevations, sections, 3d renderings of residential projects Create three-dimensional BIM models Conduct research on sites, such as zoning laws
06.03.2016 – 17.03.2016 TURATH: Architecture and urban design consultants – Amman Architecture Student Intern -
Conduct research on renovation, and heritage conservation Assist in the creation of a customized AutoCAD furniture library
International Experience Aug 2015 – Oct 2015 Dusseldorf, Germany B2 German Language course scholarship at IIK Dusseldorf funded by DAAD Sep 2016 – Feb 2017 Dortmund, Germany International semester at the TU Dortmund faculty of spatial planning Feb 2017 – Jul 2017 Essen, Germany International internship at Architecturebuero Schulschenk Jul 2017 – Sep 2017 Essen, Germany Job as student assistant at Architecturbuero Schulschenk Jul 2016 Amman, Jordan B1 Goethe German Language certificate
Workflow -
Sketch models using Sketch up Drafting using Autodesk AutoCAD/ Vectorworks 3d modeling using 3ds max or Revit Photo editing and post production using Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Illustration and layout design using Adobe Illustrator, InDesign Video editing using Sony VEGAS
Additional skills -
DSLR photography and videography Illustration, sketching, watercolor acrylic and Gouache painting Writing Content creation
Other Endeavors -
First Place JEA graduation project awards Honorable mention Isustain graduation project awards Founder of a live sketching group in Amman
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PROJECT I THE MUSEUM OF LIFE Redefining the cemetery
2017-2018
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THE MUSEUM OF LIFE
“Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender mercies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land, and their loyalty to high ideals.” –Sir William Ewart Gladstone.
The Cemetery inside the city, the land stuck in time, motionless. Sparked by a fascination with the juxtaposi- tions life and death create, the project sheds light on the forgotten spaces of the dead in- side our cities. It makes an attempt at revis- iting the effects of death, dying, and grief in the contemporary city, both on the built tan- gible levels and the social intangible ones.
Bottom, lines indicating all the cemeteries within the boundaries of the Governate of Amman
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2 Deaths Per Hour
36 Deaths Per Day
1008 Deaths Per Month
6048 Deaths Per 6 Months
Occupied land, but nonetheless, empty. Long after the physical bodies of those beneath the ground decay, the physical markers representing them remain, all the while new markers are built, and new land is claimed, only to Due to our psychology and un- repeat the cycle, forever. derstanding of death and grief, we have created markers for death which –because of their A society detached from death, is physical nature, act as a life- one detached from life. long attachment to the physical bodies of those who part- ed At what point in time was death with us, as a result, giving new extracted from our ev- eryday meaning to pieces of stone which internal discourse? house our loved ones. The way it is now, Burial is resulting in voids that have become a burden on the city, a burden that continues to be so for a remarkably longer time than it has to.
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How did the concept of death and dying go from constantly evolving in the human understanding, to being tossed into the back of our consciousness? Death, dying, grief, and the afterlife, have been concepts essential to the evolution of human existence, and have been subjects of curiosity since the beginning of mankind. The effect contemplating the abstract reality of death has on ones living experiences is an opportuni
252 Deaths Per Week
129600 Deaths Per Year Top, animation snapshots showing Capacity cemeteries are actually taking up from our land based on numbers of registered deaths from the Department of Statistics in Amman for the year 2015
ty wastedinmoderndaysocieties. Cemeteries could provide phenomenological spaces, and experiences which provoke questions about human existence, and thus become the main centers for inducing evolution in humankind, transforming the spaces of death from negative and empty voids in the city into positive spaces, which in- duce change from the insideout. Right, Timelapse took in Wadi al seer Cemetery showing connection to the markers of death during one-to-one visitation.
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PROJECT BRIEF Death, grief, and remembrance are key concepts that are now being hidden, hard to experience to the fullest, due to the constant fear of decay, and disintegration, we -as societies, hold and directly reflect in our places of burial. The Modern man is in a state of deni- al, and detachment from death and dying. The built environment of our cemeteries separates us from the ideas of surrounding death that have the ability to flourish our lives. Instead the contemporary space of buri- al embodies death in harsh physical representations: the tombstone, the urns, etc... “The Museum Of Life” proposes a different way in experiencing, and accepting decay and finding meaning in death, memories, and ideas that will in turn get mirrored into a better understanding of life, one’s self, and reason for being.
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Here’s how the Museum of Life goes about in doing this: Rethinking the concept of the cemetery, designing new rituals that reject the connection with the body, and instead focuses on the connection with the memories.
Because the concept of death of one’s self is usually concealed by emphasis on the death of one’s body, the rituals associated with death inour modernday arevery much based on the physical aspects of dying. The museum of life suggests new ritu- als in which the main focus is the hu- man life, and its contrast with death. It rejects the attachment with the human body (i.e. the specific-space burial, the tombstone, and one to one visitations of the grave), and instead focuses on the attachment with memories through rituals that focus on the deceased’s life, ideas and his relations with his family and friends, thus creating a new entity in the cemetery, celebrating human life, and human memories.
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Top, three illustrations presenting the narrative behind the project. from left to right showing the physical body , its disintergration from a physical form to a metaphysical intngible form (represented with “A Dream Within a Dream” a poem by Edgar Allan) to then get incorporated into the lives of other people. Left, Illustration showing the elevation of “The museum of life” and the wall of faces showing through the facade
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Project description and instead lead two different journeys that funnel down in the end to join them together. The waiting areas as well as the contemplation areas are set sepThe first part “The encounter” arated from the spaces where the is the first space in which people body is washed and prepared. are confronting death, it’s a space of complexity and contradiction, This is to evoke a sense of diswith many juxtapositions play- connection from the physi- cal, ing together to produce a space for and a connection with the living family, as well as the memories dealing with grief, and sadness. they shared to- gether with their The main feature distinguish- loved one. ing the first part, is that the After washing and preparing the deceased’s family, and the deceased’s physical body do body, the family is reunited together with their loved one to not share the same entrance, The museum of life is a suggestion for a new formation of a cemetery, where the program is divided into three main parts.
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start the funerary ceremony in the second part, which is a long walking path, with “courtyards of last memory” on each side. “The courtyard of last memory” is a space connected to the burial chambers, where the family sits together with their loved one, to bid themfarewell. Since the family is not permitted to enter the burial chambers, the courtyard –instead of the grave, becomes where they have seen their loved one last, which creates a senseof connection to thespace.
Top, Site plan of the Cemetery showing all three parts of the project Different Regions will be blown up in Later pages
In the future, the courtyards be come a collective space for visitation, which is as closest to the traditional one-to-one visitation as can be. This results in a diluted connection with the physical grave and in return a minimized sense of ownership over it.
Visitations take a new form, ing, and emitting light at night. as it is now not ing only visita tombstone, but recalling the actions, words, videos With that the project’s jour- is and pictures of our loved ones. ney completed, ending with reflecting spaces into They now serve to remind us of one’s soul, life, and journey. the life we had with those who left us and in return to make us The ceremony ends in the third reflect on our own lives. part, “The Museum of Life”, a space for celebrating the de- The ceremony ends with the ceased’s memories, achieve- “balcony of reflection” which ments and life. Here families looks back at the whole jour- ney and friends create digital meof the project, showing the morials and tributes dedicated to courtyards, paths, and light their loved ones, for them, and wells as holes in the ground, whole society to celebrate. filled with light in the morn
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This is the last stop in themuseum of Life. The rooms of reflection, and their collective balcony are spaces of isolation and reflection. Reflection on death, one’s self, and one’s journey. A Journey of enlightenment and self discovery starts with the idea of death, for learning and growing is killing one’s old self, and replacing it with something new. The contrast and contradiction throughout this journey are but a
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representation of the contrast and contradiction of life itself and this cemetery is but a seed of an idea that is to be planted in the meantime, and to grow biggerand stronger as time progresses.
Left, 3D Shot of the Room of reflection, overlooking the whole cemetery Right, Entrance to the rooms of reflection and their balconies
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PROJECT II THE MOBILE HEALTHCARE UNIT Raising awareness on female genital mutilation
2015-2016
THE MOBILE HEALTHCARE UNIT
Inspirational images from the typology of building used in Africa.
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The Project is a mobile medical center which aims at raising awareness about the problems of female genital mutilation in south Africa and the middle east. the center makes tours around cities to help girls having health problems because of circumcision. The Center is made of easy to construct and destruct units that allow it to cover the area needed in a span of one year to help with the solution of this problem. Female genital mutilation also known as
Female genital cutting and female circumcision, is the ritual removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. Typical carried out by a traditional circumciser using a blade, with or without anesthesia.
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STEPS OF ASSEMBLY
The main pieces come disassembled for easy transfer in trucks, they can be assembled on site to create different solutions
The different sizes and finishes offer a wide range of functions within the healthcare center.
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Materials offer easy assembly and are lightweight to make it easy to build them and take them down.
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Suggested formation for a medium sized healthcare unit with the different ways the units can be used.
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- multipurpose hall for various awareness raising activities, exhibitions, classes... ETC. - Clinics for diagnosing simple cases of FGM side effects, or any genital infection due to FGM. - Operation rooms for severe cases that need surgery or for pregnant women in need of a Csection,
- A Psychiatry for women or kids in trauma because of FGM. - An Ultra sound facility. - Indoor /Outdoor spaces as needed.
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Section showcasing construction of the single unit.
Different configurations to create functional flexible spaces.
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PROJECT III THE ABSTRACTED FOREST Landscape project
2017-2018
Master plan showing different areas and pathways
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Concept: An abstraction of the way we experience a forest. A space where all people of all ages can come and have a different experience.
Just like a forest with main building blocks, modular units with different treatments are used through-out the park to create different zones, and to connect upper, lower street, and The exercise was designing a the school. piece of land connecting an urban area with a school site. Evergreen trees act as a buffer between the main street and The project acted as a buffer other park facilities. from the main road while allowing the children in the school easy access to the facilities through platforms of different heights.
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Top, 3d views inside the park. Bottom: section showing the wall treatment and ramp from the upper street.
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Top: zoning and plantation. Bottom: Isometric showing wall treatment and entrance from the upper street.
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PROJECT IV THE YOUTH UNIT Interior design project
2021
Multi functional, and flexible
From a dark, small space to a n all functioning work station and brainstorming unit. the youth unit will focus on being a multi-functional, well lit, flexible space that supports the youth and makes them into active citizens in their different communities. Equipped for different functions and capacities the youth unit transforms a dull small room in the municipality of youth in Ajloun 39
through furnishing with light, and using flexible pieces of furniture that can be adapted to different functions. The space is kept light and mirrors are used to reflect artificial light from different pendants. Greenery is used to bring elements from the outside in, and the space becomes equipped for meeting, socializing, working, brainstorming, storing and
organizing. Speakers that double as display shelves and blinds that are retractable in addition to a projector and presenting podium that doubles as a storage unit and printing station all work together to create a space for presenting ideas and projects.
Left, zones and activities. Right, mood board depicting materials and ideas used in the youth unit. Bottom, main furniture layout, and blowup bubbles showcasing different functions.
Furniture is pushed to the middle of the room in order to maximize wall space and use it as storage and for note taking.
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The layout and function placement of furniture is made in a way that is adaptable to smaller and bigger spaces. This way when other youth units open up in several other cities in Jordan the layout can be adaptable to different room layouts and sizes.
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View showing the mirror wall, lighting, and hooks used to store extra seating and a stepstool for easy access to the projector and blinds.
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View showing the meeting table and green ceiling with pendant lights and replaceable notice boards for brainstorming.
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View showing motivation wall, storage and printing station, meeting tables/ work station and notice boards.
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COLLECTION I BUILT PROJECTS Interior design Home furnishing 2020 - 2021
MRS EMAN HOME
Pictures showing the home after implementation and styling.
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Pictures showing the home after implementation and styling.
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Top, living room wall A elevation. Bottom, living room wall C elevation.
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The Client came in with a clear vision, she wanted to create a living space that is warm and inviting and which has elements from natural materials. Space use and efficiency was a priority. The mix of styles and materials achieved the look the client was looking for. Top, home office wall C elevation. Bottom right, picture after implementation. Bottom left, home office wall A elevation.
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AL KHATAYBEH RESIDENCE a functioning bedroom for 3 girls
Pictures showing the 3 bed bedroom after implementation and styling
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IVF UNIT ARAB MEDICAL CENTER
Pictures in the reception area and hallway inside the hospital.
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AL KILANI FARMHOUSE
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Mood board showing materials, mood, colors, and overall feel of the farmhouse.
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COLLECTION II MISCELANIOUS Art and painting 2013 - 2020
A collection of small and large paintings done using watercolor, and gouache.
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Being defined by one form of selfexpression was never enough for me. Which is why I continue to express myself through painting. The mediums I especially love working with are watercolor and gouache.
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Water color illustration “RAINY DAYS”
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Different configurations to create functional flexible spaces.
I am blessed to have studied architecture purely for the interdisciplinary nature of the field, and how interconnected it is to all the different fields in life. That allowed me to explore my passions in expressive design, illustration, art, photography, and videography, all of which I can use to deliver architectural ideas though.
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Selected Works Hala Makahleh 2013-2021