Portfolio 2023

Hamid Estejab

Hamid estejab

EDUCATION

MASTER OF HEALTHCARE DESIGN ..............................................Spring 2021-Present Kent State University | Graduate Research Assistant | GPA: 3.98

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE, ................................................Fall 2012 - Spring 2017 Shiraz University | GPA: 3.51

work experience

ARCHITECURAL INTERN 2022 (3 Month) ZGF Architects | New York City, NY

GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT 2021-Present Kent State University | Kent, Ohio

VR/AR CONSULTANT & XR CONTENT CREATOR 2021- Present Volunteer job, Design Innovation Hub | Kent, Ohio

RESEARCHER AND EXECUTIVE MEMBER 2018-2020 TechLab of Shiraz University | Shiraz, Iran

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER 1 2018 (6 Months) Gerashsazan CO | Shiraz, Iran

ARCHITECTURAL INTERN, 2015 (2 months) MehrdadIravanian Architects | Shiraz, Iran

awards

(240) 906-4097 linkedin Profile Link Kent, Ohio

hestejab@kent.edu

BREAKING THROUGH COMPETITION 2022 Semifinalist | Teamwork | Healthcare Design Magazine

OHLINGER HEALTHCARE DESIGN SCHOLARSHIP 2022 (1500$), Kent State University

PDC SUMMIT STUDENT CHALLENGE .............................................................................2022 Runner-up | Teamwork

HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT AWARD 2021

Winner in conceptual category | Awarded by the Center for Health Design, Teamwork

2A CONTINENTAL ARCHITECTURAL AWARDS OF ASIA 2018

First place in the section of Urban Projects, Rural Projects, Landscape & Public Spaces for Déjà vu Pavilion 2A Magazine Teamwork

WA AWARD (WORLD ARCHITECTURE WEBSITE) 2018 For Deja Vu Pavilion | Cycle 28 | Student Category | Teamwork

Conferences

European Healthcare Design Congress, London, UK................................................2022 Presented with Sara Bayramzadeh, Hossein Mirzajani, Identifying the role of the physical environment in causing disruptions and interruptions in trauma rooms: An observational study

European Healthcare Design Congress, London, UK................................................2022 Presented with Sara Bayramzadeh, Hossein Mirzajani, Augmented reality simulation of healthcare environments: Limitations and potentials.

Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) 53, Greenville, SC.......2022 Presenting with Sara Bayramzadeh, Hossein Mirzajani Non-linear workflow in trauma rooms and its impacts on physical environment design

PDC Summit, New Orleans, LA.............................................................................................2022 Presenting with Sara Bayramzadeh, Hossein Mirzajani, Maz Md Islam Level I trauma rooms: Challenges and opportunities in designing for safety and efficiency

Freestanding Emergency Department

Academic | Spring 2022

Project Description:

The subject of this project is designing a freestanding emergency department. The emergency department is one of the complex healthcare environments which requires fast, error-free, collaborative actions by clinicians as well as a relaxing environment for patients and visitors. Prior to the design phase of this project, an online survey and an interview have been conducted to understand the needs based on the design goals including “enhancing user-experience of staff and patients”, “improving wayfinding”, and “lower cognitive loads for staff”. The site of this design is in Chicago, this location has been chosen based on the criteria of “proximity to other EDs”, and “proper accessibility through the adjacent streets”. The building has 14 exam rooms, 2 resuscitation rooms, imaging, and a lab section.

Site Analysis Design Process Concepts References

Site location: Chicago, US

Proximate ED Northwestern Memorial Hospital

All function in the ground floor except wellness centre, offices, and staff lounge

Roof gardens for staff and patients

Skylight for interior for better user experience / wayfinding

Split the shape to open the visual access to the outdoor green space

Accessibility

Site Location

Sloping roof to support the folding concept, maximize the ceiling height and bring light to indoor spaces. Sheltered walk-in and EMS drop-off to protect users from precipitation, sun, and wind

Expansion Opportunity

Waiting area

Corridors width differentiation

Reception / Pharm Fast track Triage/Exam rooms

Entrances Staff/ Walk-in/ EMS

Arrival

Active spaces

Walk-in and low acuity

Staff core area Lab Imaging Resuc rooms Support Area

Walk-in and high acuity

EMS and high acuity

Roof gardens for staff and patients

Bringing light to indoor spaces with consideration of glare issues

Waiting area

Nurse station

Palette

Exam room and pod

Academic | Fall 2021

Project Description:

This workshop course was an exercise to design a pod starting with a single exam room. Therefore, in the first step, an exam room was designed according to the FGI guidelines with ADA compliance. Next, by adding 6 exam rooms together with adding new functions such as soiled and clean room, a pod was formed. Finally, 4 pods were shaped an entire unit with consideration of adjacencies, space visibilities to medical assistants, easy wayfinding, and optimized space area.

Course Process: Design one exam room with compliance of FGI, HIPAA, ADA

Design one pod containing 6 exam rooms with a station for medical assistants, soiled and clean room, patient toilet and intake alcove

Exam Room Design Process:

Design 4 pods together with consideration of efficient workflow and wayfinding 11’ 10’ 6”

10’ 4” 10’

Iteration 3 was chosen to work with due to its cost-efficiency

Opportunities: ADA, FGI Compliance Visual privacy of the exam table Spacious room

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Iteration 137 SF

Challenges: Lack of visual privacy of visitors Waste of space between rooms when they gathered into a pod

2

Iteration 113 SF

Opportunities: ADA, FGI Compliance

Visual privacy of the exam table Visual privacy of visitors

Challenges: Provide chairs just for two visitors

3

Iteration 95 SF

Opportunities: ADA, FGI Compliance Visual privacy of the exam table Visual privacy of visitors Cost-efficient room size

Challenges: Provide chairs just for two visitors Compact visitor’s space

Pod Design Process

Same-handed exam rooms

Final Pod Design

Enough room for medical assistants

The close connection between staff spaces with consideration of interactions, to reduce unnecessary traveling

Intuitive wayfinding by reducing path intersections

Level one trauma room Design

Academic | Spring 2021 | Teamwork, Role: Design Lead

Project Description:

This design focuses on the technological advances in the next 25 years by tracking today’s technological trends and their probable impacts on the design of future trauma rooms. Prior to the design phase, research including focus groups and interviews were conducted to gather evidence-based design guidelines. During the design phase, clinicians in different specialties reviewed the design in two sessions and their feedback was implemented. To address challenges different features were considered. One of the main features is the advanced medical boom focusing on enhancing team collaboration and individual clinicians based on their preferences. For example, in case the trauma surgeon is left-handed, surgical lights and medical column will position themselves in order to provide a more convenient workplace. Another feature is scenario-based device positioning. Given the fact that each patient needs specific care consideration, the lighting setting and medical column should be adjusted to provide maximized efficiency based on the condition of the patient and prior to the patient’s arrival. This design also suggests a novel way of patient transfer from EMS stretcher to trauma room stretcher and in imaging procedure since it may cause injuries. Some other features include 3D printing device consideration for casting, customized cart arrangement, color-coded area, and anteroom. The research part of this project is associated with a $2.4m funded research project on the design of level 1 trauma rooms, in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic (PI: Sara Bayramzadeh).

1- Main Entrance

2- Auto Hand Washing Station

3- Auto Shoe covering

4- Auto PPE Dispenser

5- Charting Nurse Station 6- Doors between Trauma bays 7- Storage with glass material for convinient visibility 8- Code Cart 9- Pyxis 10- Blood Bank 11- Vital Sign Display 12- Imaging Display 13- Door to OR/ Imaging 14- Digital and Analogue Clock with time lapse

Deja Vu Pavilion

Click here to watch the video of this project.

Spring 2018- Competition- Team effort (member of both design and executive teams)

Project Description:

This project is constructed under the supervision of Qavam-al-Din workshop-competition. The main aim of it is to make users and people rethink climate change and its consequences, especially the water crisis. The central material of the project is a common reed which citizens of Shiraz are accustomed to it through traditional houses and the Khoshk River. So we call it Deja Vu Pavilion. This project won first place in 2A Awards in Asia, the sector of Urban Projects, Rural Projects, Landscape & Public Spaces. Furthermore, it won the WA award (World Architecture Award) in Cycle 28 of the student section.

With the help of architecture and using its ability to communicate with different layers of perception (vision, hearing, smell, and touch), the message can be transmitted much deeper into the mind of the addresser. perhaps an important message - through repetitive ones - like the dangers of climate change, can be well-published in the context of architecture. The apparent climatic changes, and especially the issue of the water crisis, are considered by the people of Shiraz to be tangible changes in the Khoshk(dry) river. The use of reed as the main material of the Pavilion is desirable, in addition to impregnation with memories of the past, since it can contain a critical concept and alert the experiencers on the consequences of climate change.

Concepts:

Hafeziye Shopping Mall Spring 2017- Educational- Individual Work

Project Description:

The main aim of the final project was to design a shopping mall with high economic efficiency. By using Space Syntax Theory, and conducting a survey on shopkeepers and customers, shops are distributed to malls deliberately to decline the affliction of shops on each other. Furthermore, gamification facilitates efficiency with competition and collaboration in-game context. Finally, machine learning would propose to implement a post-occupation evaluation to find the best possible pattern in the distribution of shops in seasons and in bad economic conditions such as inflation.

Restrictions: Space Syntax Analysis:

Historical context: limited facade colors ( grey and brown) limited height of the building

Subway station: A viable alternative to a subway station in future development

Users:

Costumers: Challenges: there is always a chance to miss visiting a shop Opportunities: Shopping for fun and needs

Shopkeepers: Challenges: Profit’s dependency on time, seasons, and occasions / high rate of rent Opportunities: Competitive workplace, win-win situation in collaborative cases

Advertisers: Opportunities: looking for a place with numerous target-customers to advertise

Survey:

Favorite goods in shops

Using this approach to find the best distribution of shops and evaluate the lobby for reward in a Gamification method.

Lowest

Figure1: Agent analysis, ground floor

Agent and visibility analysis can help to understand the potential zones to put the advertisements in the shopping center.

Highest

Figure 2: Visibility analysis, ground floor

Figure 3: Step depth analysis from enterance, ground floor

Step depth analysis can help define the distribution of popular shops based on the survey and their proximity to the main entrance. In this case, popular chain stores will be located farthest from the entrance so the other local ones can have a fair situation to sell.

Interactivity: Zoning:

Business A experiences a boom while business B struggles with recession. So shopkeeper B rent an amount of his lot (half of C) to shopkeeper A. Now business A can have a larger space which leads to selling more goods and attracting customers. On the other hand, business B would earn money by renting the lot.

Business A and business B both are satisfied with their profits and income, so they are in a balanced condition. Opposite

Commercial Zone

Office Zone Service Zone Enterance of Subway Area for REWARD

Second Floor Plan:

Services are located in corners where have a proper accessibility and visibility based on Space Syntax analysis. Shops have interactive walls to enhance collaboration with proper distribution base on Space Syntax analysis

1- Shops 2- Office

4- Restaurant 5- Cafe

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Elevation:

South

Bahar Residential Complex Spring 2016- Educational- Individual work

Project Description:

This residential complex includes 26 housing units dedicated to the teachers of Shiraz University. For the convenience of the end users, a site close to the university was chosen to host the complex. The main concept is the Woonerf. Residents’ safety, social spaces, changing the conventional views of vehicle-oriented urban areas and providing privacy and private green spaces for each housing units, are our priorities. In Iran, most urban spaces are vehicle oriented; we have tried to correct such view in this project. It is tried to limit the speed of vehicles by architectural elements and design measures where needed. Furthermore, changing material would also help to achieve that goal. On the other hand, privacy is essential in our society due to the traditional and cultural perspective. So, by controlling views of users by plants and louvers, we overcome this problem. Moreover, we distribute housing units in the area so safety and sociability would increase.

Ideas: Site Plan Analysis:

1 2

Car path

1- A straight line which let cars increase their speed.

2- A curved path with different obstacles to reducing driving speeds.

Privacy

In the balcony, neighbors should not be able to see private yards and windows which are adjacent to pedestrians path should be covered with plants and curtains.

Organizing dwelling units

In one vertical building, the safety of the area decreases because residents do not have enough sights in every corner of the area, compared to the horizontal distribution of houses.

Materials & social spaces

1- Different materials instead of asphalt in paths can change the mindset of drivers and residents.

2- U-shaped areas can create spaces to increase the socialization of neighbors.

Residential Area

Best Lighting

Prevailing Wind

Residential Complex

Faculty of Art and Architecture

The site is located near the Faculty of Art and Architecture where professors teach on a regular basis. As a result, they should not commute a time-consuming distance daily.

Detail A

Type A10

Detail B

Flashing Capstone Sand and concrete plaster

Flashing Drip

Wall Rendering Brick Wall 20cm Facing Brick 10cm Mesh Skirting Sandand cement plaster Tar Paper

Mosaic flooring Sand and cement mortar Sand Tar paper Sloped concrete Concrete

Wall Rendering 0.5 cm Rendering 2cm Brick Wall 10cm Moisture Barrier 0.5cm Sand & Cement Plaster 2cm

Flooring 2 cm Sand & Cement Mortar 2cm Concrete Slab Foundation Wall 20 cm Fooring Footing Q18@13cm Concrete 10cm Soild

Shiraz Train Station

Fall 2016- Educational- Individual work

Project Description:

Shiraz is a city that recently has accessed railways. Designing a train station is challenging due to the important consideration of the structure and functions. Designing fully parametric modeling and building makes it possible to coordinate structure and architecture.

Site design was meant to be fully functional considering, easy and simple access, Public Transportation, staff and public parking areas and leisure and idling Areas. In addition, a large landscape was determined to be an outdoor waiting hall (long-term) to serve the station, and a public park to play a leisurely role for an urban neighborhood.

Concept: Circulation and Zones:

Trains Path

Main Entrance and Exit Access Control Gateways Departure and Arrival of Trains Main Hall Office and Service

cHARRETTE 48-hour student competition

Project Name: LinkAge

HCD Conference 2021

The task given to the charrette groups was to design an ambulatory surgery center in the given site located in downtown Cleveland. This project focused on “age diversity” as part of the subjects that groups may choose. During the design process, the results of the published papers were considered to give the project an evidence-based design touch to guide our group’s decision-making.

Design Goal:

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Generational Diversity

SOURCE: NURSING DATA FROM AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION FACT SHEET, 2011; AND PHYSICIAN DATA FROM AMA PHYSICIAN MASTER FILE, 2012. GRAPHIC COURTESY OF BALLINGER This graphic from Ballinger illustrates the different focuses of the various generations as they relate to each other.

cHARRETTE

48-hour student competition

Project Name: Convergence

PDC Summit 2022

48-hour student charrette with the subject of designing urgent care in a historic district of New Orleans, competing in interdisciplinary groups with students of Architecture, Engineering, Nursing, and construction management. Subtract the mass from the property volume Adding the greenery spaces Adding Balconies

Design Process:

In the international day of light ( 16 May 2019), we performed a 3d video mapping show in the Department of Art and Architecture, on one of the famous modern statues named Farhad. It has been made by Parviz Tanavoli (a well-known Iranian sculptor). Click here to watch the video of this project.

Photo of the statue