PORTFOLIO Fourth Year | ARCHIDES | Azm University
Hanadi Chaarani
.. A passionate designer who seeks to translate human values into architecture
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Hanadi Chaarani
Undergraduate Architecture Student
Personal Info
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Tripoli, Lebanon, Abou Samra, Oujaza Street, Above Sultan
Adobe InDesign Google SketchUp Rhinoceros KeyShot AutoCAD 2D Microsoft Power Point Microsoft Movie Maker Microsoft Excel GIS Revit Adobe PhotoShop
Pharmacy, Fifth Floor 1996-05-13 hanadi.chaarani@st.azmuniy. edu.lb
Education
hanadichaarani@gmail.com
09-2015 present
AZM University
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. GPA: 85/100
10-2014
Lebanese University
06-2015
. Biology in the Faculty of Sciences, 3rd branch
09-2011 06-2014
Al-Iman High School
00 961 81 619 161
Languages Arabic Native language
French Good speaking, writing, and listening
English Good speaking, writing, and listening
. Undergraduate BA in Architecture
. GPA: 85/100
Activities 01-2019
Hult Prize
04-2017
Theemar Business Idea Competition
Participant
Participant
Experience
Awards
06-2018
Internship in Benchmark Development
08-2018
Downtown, Beirut
06-2017
Internship in construction sites
07-2017
Summer university internship
06-2016 07-2016
Internship in eight material factories
11-2015 04-2016
Bayan Summer Camp instructor
Summer university internship
Cultural Questions Section
Volunteer Activities 05-2017
Volunteering in the project: “Our City, Our Way” Administrative assistant
10-2011
Volunteering of Eid activities (holi days) for kids
Organizer
07-2017
Won JAH scholarship for leadership at AZM University Major: Architecture
Won AJWAD full scholarship at Univer sity of Balamand
Major: Education
07-2014
Won the Perfect Student Award at Al- Iman High School
08-2014
Workshops 10-2018
Cycles of Collapsing Progress: Re-en visioning Oscar Niemeyer’s Interna tional Fair
10-2017
Design for Culture- Interuniversity Ur ban Design Workshop
01-2018
Part-Timer Entrepreneur
Conferences 04-2017
Entrepreneurship Symposium
10-2016
AFED annual Conference: “Sustain able Development Goals in a Chang ing Climate”
AUB University
AZM University
Embroidery Desserts cooking
Interests Horseback riding DIY crafts
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Door 2016 [p.9]
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Jacobs’ House Revisited 2017 [p.27]
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Reinventing the Vehicle 2016 [p.13]
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A House around a Tree 2017 [p.35]
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Back to Home 2016 [p.19]
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Pushing Efficiency and Sustainability in a Real Case 2017 [p.41]
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Order of Physicians - ll 2017 [p.51]
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Tripoli Train Station 2018 [p.77]
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Rethinking the Kuruma Dansu 2018 [p.123]
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Moving from Suburbia to the City 2018 [p.61]
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Rethinking the Mosque 2018 [p.97]
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Resizable Chair 2018 [p.131]
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Jaguar Car Repair Shop 2018 [p.69]
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Armarium 2018 [p.113]
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Truss Bridge 2017 [p.139]
Nawfal Palace
Cultural Center
Al - Tall Garden Al - Tall Square
The Old Municipality
Al - Tall Mosque
Al - Tall Coffee
Al - Nejmeh Square
The Old Saray
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Concrete Structure 2017 [p.143]
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Modelling|Rhinoceros 2017 [p.163]
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Al - Mansouri Mosque
Khan Al - Saboun
St. Georges Church
Tripoli Castle Khan Al - Khiyatin Khan Al - Askar
Design for Culture Al - Attar Mosque
2017 [p.147] Al - Bortasi Mosque
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Modelling|Revit 2018 [p.173]
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Modelling|SketchUp 2016 [p.159]
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Modelling|Physical Model 2016 [p.179]
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Phenomenology of the doors: the “in and out� of all buildings is possible only because there are openings on the walls. Besides, doors define the inside and the outside of our existential spatiality; they separate, at the same time, connect our spatial life world. If we count the times we open and close the doors, we can tell the story of our whole life. A door can be something to open/close great opportunities in life. It can be a medium to protect us from the outside. A door can’t achieve its role unless it is made by the one who can solve the lock. To my mind, the main characteristics of a door are: the lock, the peephole, and the bell. The first characteristic is my main theme of investigation.
p. 11
This type works by rotating the small arrow in the bottom. This way, the key will be unlocked and the door will open.
This type consists of opening the door by arranging the series of letters in the appropriate order, and putting them by rotating each circle starting from the biggest one, then rotating the whole thing which becomes, with the arrow, one entity.
This type is based only on the linear movement: you have to swipe the lock to remove it, and then the door will open.
Models
Sketches
p. 12
The balance lock is the new mechanism that no one knows how to solve except the person who designed it and has chosen its multiple centers. This balance and its rotation create a unique mechanism that reads the door through its lock.
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REINVENTING
THE
VEHICLE
Creating a relaxing environment using the vegetation in an effective way to make the university an environmental building that can reduce the waste of water and of energy. The main factors of this project are: the lack of green spaces in the university, the passive measures to reach the omfort zone, creating an evaporative cooling through vegetaion, searching for some specific kinds of flowers and plants to fit the area of the garden taking the sustainability into consideraton , and knowing that a roof garden can create a system in the building that allow it to reduce the waste of energy and water.
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In this project, we started the first phase as a team of three students by analyzing the university and model it the way we see it. We analyzed the building applying three lenses: Spatial Composition, Vertical Vs Horizontl, and Structural System. I was personally responsible to elaborate on the last one.
As a second phase, each team was responsible to offer a particular reading of the building. Our team looked into two systems: the structure of the building and its skin/envelop.
p. 16
: Filter membrane
The third step concentrated on our reading of issues that militated against the building to meet our desired learning experience - the building as a vehicle of learning. The vital prob-
: Gravels
lems that I wanted to adderss were a lack of green open space and high depency on mechanical climatization of our studio that had a southwesterly orientation.
: Drainage My two fields of intervention where both the roof as well as the skin of the building where I have investigated ways to : Vapor control
inhabit them by creating a system of balconies with a small garden on the first level of the western facade, and a green roof. This system was designed to be interconnected with
: Thermal insulation
one another to ensure a continuum of the provided open space and a sustainable vegetated hydroponic system that ensures a reduction of waste of water and energy.
: Support panel
: Waterproof membrane
Layers of the green roof
p. 17
Perforated fiber sheet/scrim where vegeStructure
tation grows from each balcony enducing evaporative cooling.
Scrim
Water trickling on the perforated fiber is used to irrigate the plants on the balcony. Water collected in tanks at the lower level
Balcony
Water tubes Scrim
and pumped back to the roof so as to irrigate the vegetation on the roof. Wind turbine located on the roof is to harness the wind and is rendered to produce the necessary sustainable energy. Different types of vegetation are distribut-
FDV Vegetation
Structure
ed according to their height to create the necessary shadow on the roof garden.
p. 14
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“Every touching experience of architeture is multi-sensory; qualities of space, matter and scale are measured equally by the eye, ear, nose, skin, tongue, skeleton and muscle. Architecture strengthens the existential experience, one’s sense being in the world, and this is essentially a strengthened experience of self.”
-The Eyes of the Skin by PallasmaThis design studio was formed of a series of projects under the same title:”Back to Home.” It invited us to revisit our own home dwelling and aimed to focus on the development of analytical and critical skills for culturally perceiving, understanding, and manipulating spatial definitions and relationships. In the process, elements of form and space and the cultural [mis]-conception of dwelling formed the central parameters of our design investigation. Our journey in this semester was composed of four phases. These phases will be discussed in the following pages.
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PHASE ONE
First phase is about exploring our own dwelling, through a number of lenses. The main ones were: Structural elements and partitions, public vs private domains, circulation pattern, color palette in the varied spaces, ventilation-odor, light-shades-shadows, view: obstructed and limited, sound-voices (noise-silence), and thermal condition (hot-cold).
p. 22
PHASE TWO
Second phase is based on the study of precedents. Kafka castle by Ricardo Bofill, Spain, is selected due to the non-repetitive stacking of the units.
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PHASE THREE Thrid phase is to model the skeleton of our buildings and to put different horizontal, vertical, and lateral planes inside to have a new perception of spaces and how to read them. Each space will be defined through the intersection of these planes with the skeleton. The exercise helped to distance us from our habitual apartment and to be exposed to an abstract three dimensional manipulation of space.
: Vertical plane
: Horizontal plane
: Perpendicular vertical plane
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Space two
Space one
Space three
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PHASE FOUR We have been guided through each exercise of the previous phases into an introspective promenade, during which we have been raiding questions, reconsidering the current and familiar status of apartment buildings in our city.
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Closing this journey, we will go back to our home to redesign it.
: Private : Public
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My idea was to break the traditional wall partitioning of the house by taking individual rooms and rotating them creating sometimes an overlapped space and sometimes a void between the rotated rooms. These overlapped and interstitial spaces will be considered as new spaces that will offer sometimes more light and view to the outside, sometimes a service space for two functions, and sometimes a gathering space. The recctangle won’t rotate only, but will be displaced in the vertical direction creating a dynamic space that will give more privacy to the private zones, and more action to the public and gathering zones.
p. 28
J A C O B S ’ H O U S E R E V I S I T E D As a part to understand the design approach of well-known architects, I had chosen to study and offer a conceptual reading of the Jacobs House, by Frank Lloyd Wright. This project is expected to function as a precedent for our following design project. This house is composed of two rectangles perpendicular to each other. The architect used local material to integrate the house with the site. Its main concept is the layering that play on the view: the back of the house, where the entrance is, is a very thick wall with no view to the outside. The opaqueness decreses as you enter, and its last layer is very transparent that lead to the outside terrace.
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A H O U S E A R O U N D A T R E E As a second and main jump into the creative realm, and following the analysis of the previous case study, this project is about designing a new house following the principles of the previous house. Frank Lloyd Wright’s house, Jacobs House, carry conceptual principle of layering to close totally the view and to open it to a terrace to offer an experience that will carry the owner from the darkness into the light. From this principle, I will build a house which will adjust and define the spatial composition of my house taking into consideration to readapt its design by the changes of the site: there is a Cedar Tree in the site that has a 30% slope located along the western slopes of Lebanon’s Western mountain’s chain at an altitude of 500 m, overlooking the Mediterranean sea to the West; it is accessible by car only from the upper side to the East, and has adjacent two similar resideantial plots to the North and the South.
: private space : public space : circulation
p. 37
house
: Cedar tree : house : site
garden
view to the sea
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First floor
Ground floor
p. 42
PUSHING EFFICIENCY AND SU STAINABILITY IN A REAL CASE During the semester, our desing studio aimed to investigate a real project. Our subject was the new headquarters of the Lebanese order of physicians of Tripoli (LOPT). The goal was to create a medical hub that has its signature in the city and that enjoys the maximum efficiency of an office building. Our main challenges revolved around achieving efficiency on a small site, market competitveness, and environmental sustainability that minimizes the O&M costs of the building.
SFR: 35% Floor plate area: 560.2 m² FAR: 1.8 2 Basements ( 53 Cars) 3 Rentable floors 1 Order floor Rentable Area: 523.88 m² Rentable Order floor Multi-purpose room Mezzanine Entrance Cafeteria Services
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CORE OFFICES W.C.
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Second, third, and fourth floor
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Floor slab section
The enclosure of my project is a double skin facade that consists of glass and perforated aluminum sheet due to the high performance for each material and the way they are affecting the building’s thermal behavior. The varied perforation of the aluminum sheet is designed to cater for different orientation and needs.
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West elevation
West elevation
Since the physicians’ main purpose is to protect people, the aluminum sheet being the enclosure of the building is all around it, giving it as well this sense of protection.
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Physical model
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ORDER OF PHYSICIANS OF TRIPOLI - ll The LOPT requested an alternative design based on a smaller program and the accomodation of an auditorium. A team from the design studio volunteered to work on the new alternative design. The work was done between fall and spring semester of the third year.
p. 53
Buildings: existing building future building
Landscape/greenary: future green space existing green space
Access: Parking access main entrance
Materiality: marble terrace concrete terrace Master plan
p. 54
SHF
35%
Far
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2 Basement
48 cars
Floor Plate
505m2
LOPT
1010m2
Multipurpose room 200m2 Cafeteria
60m2
p. 55
Ground floor
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Type
Area
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Area
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Entra nce
22 m²
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Li bra ry
70 m²
Cl ea ning room
6 m²
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Room
43 m²
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Offi ce
18 m²
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Mecha nical
10 m²
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Stora ge
6 m²
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Res trooms / men
16 m²
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Res trooms / women
17 m²
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Core
42 m²
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Lobby reception
38 m²
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Cl ea ning room
6 m²
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Res trooms / men
16 m²
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Mul ti -purpose room
200 m²
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Servi ces
15 m²
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Stora ge
28 m²
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7 m²
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Technical
20 m²
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Res trooms / women
17 m²
Mezzanine floor
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NB
Area
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Area
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Secretary
42 m²
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Lobby / Wa i ting
35 m²
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Lounge
32 m²
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Audi torium
204 m²
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Sta ge
38 m²
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Pens ion
32 m²
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Projecti on room
29 m²
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Di rector
33 m²
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Stora ge
8 m²
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Servi ces
7 m²
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Ki tchen
15 m²
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6 m²
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Soci al security
20 m²
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Accounti ng
19 m²
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CME
19 m²
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Meeti ng rom
27 m²
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Lounge
17 m²
10 m²
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Trea surer
14 m²
El ectri cal
5 m²
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Offi ce
17 m²
Res trooms / men
16 m²
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Technical
10 m²
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El ectri cal
6 m²
Res trooms / women
17 m²
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Res trooms / men
17 m²
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Res trooms / women
11 m²
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Core
42 m²
17
Cl ea ning room
6 m²
Second floor
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Third floor
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Meeti ng room
35 m²
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Vi ce president
42 m²
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Pres i dent
32 m²
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Commi ttee
33 m²
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Meeti ng room
20 m²
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Lounge
19 m²
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Offi ce
19 m²
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Technical
27 m²
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17 m²
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Res trooms / men
17 m²
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Res trooms / women
11 m²
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Core
17 m²
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Cl ea ning room
14 m²
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MOVING FROM SUBURBIA TO THE CITY The Case of a Multi-story Building in Ras-Beirut The project consists on working with a real client with an objective to design a multistory building for an extended family in Beirut. The project must therefore be tailor-made responding to all family members different needs. The central design challenge was to offer a creative design solution that convinces the familty to relinquish the life qualities in the suburbs and move to te city and offer a building that reflects the different identity of its inhabitants while maintaining the unity of the architecture. Enhancing the interaction between the family members, each two families will benefit from one main lobby becoming the heart of the two independent units. Although the expressed client need is to have four independent habitation units unified in one building, I wanted the units of the building to look vertical by overlapping the same functions and stressing on the horizontal openings. House 1 House 2
Heart 1
House 3 House 4
Heart 2
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The internal division of each unit was based on a grid that was derived from the best position of the core in the basement, taking into consideration ,in the upper levels, the sun and view studies to benefit from what we have
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LANDSCAPE: The landscape is completing and insisting on the same idea: overlapping the same functions and stressing on the horizontal openings till the ground that will be distinguish through the different materials used that are aligned with the building
GROUND FLOOR: The ground floor is separated into two parts: services for the building and a gym with its mezzanine
Main floor: - 4 storages for each family ( 4x11 m²) - 1 mechanical room ( 16 m²) - Space for pets ( 10 m²) - Gym with its services ( 70 m²)
Mezzanine: - 4 rooms for each driver ( 4x10 m²) - 1 studio for the concierge ( 27 m²)
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HOUSE 1: Each unit has a floor with its mezzanine
Main floor: - Living room ( 72 m²) - Kitchen ( 34 m²) - Maids’ space ( 47 m²) - Office ( 28 m²) - Small library ( 17 m²)
Mezzanine: - Bedrooms and restrooms
HOUSE 2: The ground floor is separated into two parts: services for the building and a gym with its mezzanine
Main floor: - Living room ( 72 m²) - Kitchen ( 34 m²) - Maids’ space ( 47 m²) - Office ( 28 m²) - Small library ( 17 m²)
Mezzanine: - 4 master bedrooms with their services ( 25 m²)
p. 66
COMMON FLOOR (HEART):
ROOF:
Rather than having a unique salon and dining room for each family, a common floor was created for each units (each two houses) between them forming the heart of the building
Pool ( 75 m²), Shower space ( 7 m²), Technical room ( 18 m²), Outdoor dining space ( 33 m²), Indoor dining space ( 22 m²), Kitchen ( 21 m²)
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C A R
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S H O P
Every car company offers the design of a car, and its motor. Jaguar has a classic design that gives a little bit of fluidity, but it hides the power of it motor/engine. This project is a car repair shop for Jaguar company, on the highway of Qalamoun. It consists of a showroom not only a repair shop.
“The Art of Performance�
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Buildings : Automative Shop Neighbor building Landscape/ greenery : Forest Grass
Master Access Plan:
Parking access Main entrance Workers access to the workshop
Lengend
Workers access to their houses Roof access
Buildings :
Since the logo of the Jaguar is: “The Art of Performance�, the client will start his/her journey from the moment he/she enters to park his/her car, and not from the moment he/she is inside the building.
Automative Shop Neighbor building Landscape/ greenery : Forest Grass Access : Parking access Main entrance Workers access to the workshop Workers access to their houses Roof access Services access (truck) Car access Materiality: ---
Services access (truck) Car access Materiality: ------Gravel Mechanical equipments : HVAC equipments
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I created a promenade architectural at the entrance of the building that will lead me to the administrative section of the building creating an elegant alley that will expose the client to see the workshop as well.
ELECTRICAL ROOM
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1: Housing 2: Show Room 3: Sass/Service Path 4: Workshop Storage 5: Workshop 6: Workers’s Changing Room
1: Waiting Space 2: Tellers 3: Director 4: Assistant 5: Accountant 6: Restrooms 7: Kitchen 8: Cafeteria
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The program of this project was to integrate housing for workers, so I wanted to enhance the workers to exploit the forest present in the site, and to have the same shape in plan as the automotive shop. The workers will experience that they live in a city not in a shop.
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What makes it special is its dynamic shape with the elegant curves as an elevation, but its plan is a rectangle with sharp edges to give it the power of its engine that is hidden inside the car, and so is the plan: you can’t judge unless you enter to the inside.
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: Rigidity
MUSHROOM WALLS A way to grow wall insulator and packing materials using mycelium, a bacteria found in rotting organisms like tree trunks and agricultural byproducts. If placed in a mold, these organic matters grow to the desired shape within a couple of days.
CLADDING Aluminum
PLASPHALT Plasphalt is made up of grains of plastic produced from unsorted plastic waste. In testing, it was found that plasphalt roads were far less vulnerable to wear
OPENINGS Glass CORTEN Corten is a weathering steel. This material is a corrosion resistant steel, that left uncoated develops an outer layer patina. This patina protects the steel from additional corrosion.
STRUCTURE Steel
SMOG INSULATORS Placing an electrically charged metal mesh over a building, which attracts large smog particles and sticks them together.
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T R I P O L I
T R A I N
S T A T I O N
All over the world, buildings are dying slowly or rapidly, consciously or unconsciously, expectedly or not… All around us, in many spots, abandoned buildings, forgotten neglected spaces are begging for architectural theoretical and practical solutions. Decay is a not fixed, it takes time and is in a continuous process leading to certain surreal image that provokes emotions and thoughts. Not surprisingly, decay is a main creative inspiration for artists and writers. the aesthetic value of these abandoned places has for long been the inspiration of major works of artists (photographers, painters, writers, movie makers etc…) whose works do manifest and declare loudly an unprecedented love and passion to these spaces… The architectural discourse is of no less importance and incessantly requiring furthermore reactions, thoughts and consideration. This project does indeed venture into this deserted land, and attempts to offer a variety of dreams, proposals and architectural responses to the case of abandoned places. The case study would be that of Tripoli Train station – El Mina, which offers itself as a great example to study and approach the need to ponder on its situation, propose a reuse/an addition and/or any other approach to its current condition of neglect and abandonment.
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READING A critical issue facing decision makers and conservation professionals is accommodating change to heritage places and adding new layers to the historic urban environment in ways that recognize, interpret, and sustain their heritage values.
Their stories can sometimes be discerned easily, and at other times need to be discovered through thoughtful consideration. The story can be as simple as a metaphor or as complex as a novel. Just as the age goes, you can’t judge the object (book) by its exterior (cover). The richness of the object is its contents.
p. 80
My experience
Transition from a story to another
After studying the fear feeling that I had in this site, I discovered that four elements were affecting that feeling: building condition, human intrusion, acoustic/sound, and vegetation condition.
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All the previous factors create a dissected reading of the site: each part was talking in a different language as if it is from a different era/age.
Non-linear time axis
Fixing the previous factors I mentioned will change the non-linear time axis notion, and will decrease the fear level.
Stories
Spots that trigger stories
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Increasing the fear --Increasing the fear --Decreasing the fear --Decreasing the fear ---
Increasing the stories Decreasing the stories Increasing the stories Decreasing the stories
Decreasing the fear will be by correcting or playing with the four mentioned factors.
Increasing the stories will be by framing/highlighting them.
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STORIES “Including a story in a building creates a level of meaning and connection to the patron or user that can be engaging and provoking. The ability for the observer to learn something beyond the obvious causes them to remain rather than pass by.�
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It is very important to know the age value on anything! Let’s say that your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears... It’s beautiful! Signs of aging show that your body has carried you through a full life, full of fond memories and millions of adventures. You’ve walked across this Earth, tasted what life has to offer, and thought about all those big questions. You’ve lived, so why wouldn’t you want to show it?
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Physical model
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Site plan
Old Lebanese residential houses
Forces The site has many forces that attracts its direction.
Intervention The biggest intrusion/intervention in my site is its landscape.
Materiality Trying to recall the old typology of all the old residential houses, I used bricks.
Orange trees spread in the past in Tripoli
Work & Exhibition
: Hangars structure presence
Dimension I used the dimensions of the hangars structures for my intervention.
Orange trees Recalling the urban dimension of the old orange trees.
City Hub
Residential
Dissection I dissected the site into three clear functions.
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Demolishing These were the buildings that were demolished based on their condition.
Entrance The entrance was put based on the importance of Al-Mitein Street.
Entrance My entrance is a frame with two orange trees as a reflection of how the city was.
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R E T H I N K I N G T H E M O S Q U E Mosques do play a vital role in every Islamic society. Although it is primarily a place for worship and “praying”, the mosque has a significant influence beyond religious focus into most, if not all aspects of the life of the community. It is as the name in Arabic means ‘jame3’: a venue where the community meets, interaction takes place, where spiritual and social connections among citizens are expressed. Today the jame3, the mosque is rarely all of this, and although mosque architecture did undergo many changes / developments based on many socio – political – economic influences, nowadays, mosque architecture is frozen and always recalling in its formal language old prototypes. In this architectural exercise, the aim is to propose a shift in the paradigm, looking up the actual current prototypes existing in the city and reflecting on the new possibilities of a MOSQUE responding to the technologies and the social dimensions of the present city of TRIPOLI.
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A review of the current architecture of the mosque often generates a stereotype view of the typical architectural form of domes and arches. What is missing is: - A discourse as to what constitutes a more spiritually-linked framework linking Islam to the formative ideas and eventual compositions of mosques in the modern world. - A confidence in the knowledge.
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The present diversity of the Islamic world including new cultures in the world necessitates a wide research of rethinking of what fundamentally constitutes the spiritual basis of space in Masjid. The history of mosque was contrived from the Oriental perspectives and historical writings of the Islamic civilization on architecture.
What is lacking nowadays is: New writings, raising the issue of the lack of scientific research of the Islamic Religion.
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Integration with the topography (rocks) of the land.
A circle has no edges: no beginning and no ending. It will reflect the serenity and purity of the project.
Accentuating the Qiblah direction.
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Entrance to the mosque and to the library.
Circulation.
Entrance and ablution for men.
Entrance and ablution for women.
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Sea view to all religions.
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Starting by getting familiar with the Roman Period, we knew that the Armarium (plural: Armaria) was the biggest invention back then. Going from this point, we were commissioned to do it on a 1/1 scale. We started to predict the dimensions from the only picture that was available. After that, we started working to achieve our goal! We were starting to get familiar with the new wood machines, tools, and instruments.
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Using the different joints techniques, we were able to join the Armarium pieces together.
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“Woodworking is a most satisfying pastime, so varied and multifaceted you will never complete the twin processes you have undertaken: acquiring tools and learning how to use them. You have begun a lifetime pursuit.” -Michael Dunbar, “Essential Tools”-
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RETHINKING THE KURUMA DANSU Moving to the reinterpretation part that follows the second section of our historical survey of furniture design -Romanesque, Gothic, Chinese, Japanese, Art Nouveau, De Stijl and Art Deco periods-, we are asked to choose one iconic piece from the previously presented period (Romanesque, Gothic, Chinese and Japanese) and one designer from the modern periods (Art Nouveau, De Stijl and Art Deco). After the selection is done, we will have to imagine how this particular piece you have chosen from the ancient times could be reworked or reproduced in the modern times by this particular designer. We have selected the Kuruma Dansu Piece from the Japanese period, with Eileen Gray as a designer from the modern period. We will identify the key elements and motifs of the original piece, along with the design philosophy of Eileen Gray. By combining them together, sketches and drawings with dimensions will help you in brainstorming our ideas while going through the design process that will lead to the new final piece. Our piece is to be delivered in a 1:2 scale model using foam board and wood.
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Great thought and care were given to the culture when designing Japanese furniture. Every piece, while simple, had a function and elegance that helped enhance the living area of the family it belonged to.
Japanese culture: Simplicity Functionality Attention to nature Attention to space
Kuruma Dandsu Function: Mobile storage cabinetry Made with wood and iron fittings.
Space for storage
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So… If I was Eileen… How can I re-think the “Kuruma Dansu”? First of all.. Who is Eileen Gray? Eileen Gray (1878 - 1976) - An early pioneer of modernism - Gray was forgotten for many years (because she was a woman in a male dominated field) - Eileen Gray was independent, determined, a universal free spirit, a creator and a visionary - Born in 1878 into a wealthy Irish-Scottish family in Ireland’s County Wexford - She was one of the first women to study painting at London’s Slade School of Fine Art - Achieved critical acclaim for her work in traditional Japanese lacquer art - The art form was to inspire Gray’s iconic hand-lacquered Brick Screen - Gray’s body of work reveals the permeable borders between these ostensibly divergent styles from the early twentieth century - Nonconformist Designer
Eileen worked with geometric forms. Her work was practical and multi-functional.
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This new piece is multi-functional. It can be used as a bed, storage, seating for more than two people since it can be extended. Adding to that, it is easy to move and practical.
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Our final project consists of creating our own piece of furniture. We are assigned to be the designer this time, while getting inspired by one of the contemporary designers. The first step is to choose our designer, and identify his/her design philosophy, materials, techniques, iconic pieces etc. We have chosen Achille Castiglioni. Based on the evolution of furniture throughout the periods, each piece was produced according to a specific purpose and for serving a specific need. What are our contemporary aspirations? What do we need from furniture today? It is not always affordable to buy new things every while! It is a contemporary problem that needs to be solved via furniture. In this project, we are going to blend the design philosophy of Achille Castiglioni with ours, and create a piece that solves that problem we are currently facing. Materials: Wood & Metal
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“Strat from scratch. Stick to common sense. Know your goals and means.” -Achille Castiglioni-
Principles that Achille sticks to: - Practicality - Rethinking the product rather than copying. - Spontaneity
“Phone stool” that translates into sitting while on one’s feet. Height of the seat can be regulated.
Made of four pieces: the seat in stamped enameled metal (tractor seat designed in the early 1900’s), a large wing screw, a stainless steel leaf spring and a solid beech cross bar.
Outdoor seat composed of three slender legs, curved steel tubes supporting a pressed metal seat enameled grass green.
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Recycling/Reusing Observing the present things might be the reason of great ideas! The walker has a mechanism to resize it the way it suits its user.
Some people solved this problem with resizable clothes.
Others solved it with resizable clothes.
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We are solving it with furniture! Hence, we decided to make a resizable chair. This is why we studied the parameters and the components of the chair that needs to be resized.
Sketches according to the needed dimensions for all ages.
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REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURE This project is developing our ability to integrate the structures with architectural objectives; conceptual design of structures for gravity and lateral wind and seismic loads. In this project, we have to know how to distribute columns and beams in a ready architectural design file. We will go through many steps that will lead us to know how to design a column and a beam. We will go through eight steps: positioning of columns, checking the bracings (shear walls), checking the eccentricity, slab thickness, positioning of beams, loads (dead, live, and ultimate load), tributary areas of one beam and one column, and design of one beam and one column.
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We learnt in this project that real numbers that we get by calculation are not applied as they are, but a safety factor is added to avoid any trouble in construction. The circumstances that we went through while finding a way to solve are the ones that made us understand well : area that each colum holds : columns
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“Culturally-led regeneration” workshop was an attempt to expose Tripoli’s rich cultural heritage. It’s an opportunity for the transformation and regeneration of the city. Our interest was the street that connected the clock tower of al-Tal and the Burtasi mosque near river of Abu Ali. The workshop involved the class of design for culture working as a team to achieve the maximum of data gathering, and the opportunity to work with other universities such as AUB, Beirut Arab University (BAU), Lebanese University, and Al Manar University. Shifting from the usual eagle eye overarching approach, residents of the city were involved to share their knowledge of their own area through answering questionnaire, mental mapping and proposing ideas on how they want to improve their urban experience.
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FIRST WORKSHOP
This workshop was divided into 8 lenses that offered different perspectives on and a deeper level of understanding of the spine. IDENTITY // USERS’ USERS’ PROFILE IDENTITY PROFILE Our analysis covered the following: the natural ecologies, people engagement, scenography...
Our findings formed the stepping stone and the design brief for the second workshop. PURPOSE AND AND PURPOSE BENEFIT BENEFIT
This lens lens helps helps in in knowing knowing more more the the people people on on various various aspects aspects of of their their ‘being’ ‘being’ in in the the Spine Spine .. This
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live live interviews interviews were were our our means means to to unravel unravel and and identify identify their their profile.Topics profile.Topics are are :: gender, Origin, gender, age, age, Origin, occupation occupation ,marital ,marital status, status, number number of of children, children, economic economic status/income,positivity/ status/income,positivity/ attitude attitude ,wish ,wish list,how list,how long long they they have have been been working working there,ambulant there,ambulant vendors/ vendors/ static static ,condition ,condition of of place/shop ,literate ,Friendly,memory,belonging ,Friendly,memory,belonging ,relation ,relation with with the the neighbors neighbors ,Picture,record ,Picture,record ,ownership,,demeanor,children,how ,ownership,,demeanor,children,how do do they they commute,repetitive commute,repetitive words/ words/ lexicon lexicon ,number ,number of of employees employees place/shop ,literate Religion,political affiliation,number affiliation,number of of visitors visitors per per day day ,is ,is this this inherited inherited ,duration ,duration of of work work ,genuine ,genuine ,source ,source of of products.how products.how we we felt felt speaking speaking to to them them Religion,political
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Identity-Users Profile lens team: Purpose and Benefit - This lens helps in knowing more the people on various aspects of their ‘being’ in the spine.
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Methodology: Live interviews were means to unreveal their profile. Topics are: gender, age, origin, occupation, marital status, number of children, economic status/income, positivity/ attitude, wish list, how long they have been working there, ambulant vendors/static, condition of place/shop, literate, friendly, memory, belonging, relation with the neighbors, picture, record, ownership, demeanor, children, how do they commute, repetitive words/lexicon, number of employees, religion, political affiliation, number of visitors per day, if the their work was inherited, duration of work, genuine, source of products, and how we felt speaking to them.
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SECOND WORKSHOP The aim of this workshop is to come up with urban design proposals that are founded on the decoding of the area through our field investigation as well as people participation. Our main objective was to formulate strategies and design interventions that would build on the cultural and spatial assets of the area leading to its economic regeneration on one hand and the enhancement of the quality of life on the others.
Circulation lens team: Aims and Objectives - Creating a pedestrian friendly environment that conforms with the historical character of the city in order to - Preserve the historical environment of the city - Help in promoting tourism activities in the area (Create a Touristic Trail) - Adopt Environmental strategies for streetscaping.
Macro Scale: Flows in the City
Micro Scale: Enhancing the Pedestrian Experience
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Constraints Public Transportation nodes Land use affecting the flow Two types of traffic: - Through Traffic - Service Traffic
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Computer Aided Design ll is a course that gave us the necessary tools to explore our design concepts, allowing us to accurately model our design projects at all levels of details. Google SketchUp is an indispensable tool in today’s design environment. It is allowing us to model easily and create detailed study models and perspectives of our projects. The class was lead with simple exercises that demonstrate methodologies of the program. At the end of the course, each student was in charge to make a SketchUp model of one of the mosques of the Old Tripoli, having the drawings as JPEG files as a start to achieve this mission. I was charged to model Al-Mansouri Mosque (also known as Al-Jamea Al-Kabir).
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MODELLING | RHINOCEROS The course provides the continuation of the training in CAD programs. It introduces us as students to additional specific programs that allow us to simulate entire design projects through computer- based programs. It makes it easier to design parametric shapes than any other program. Rhinoceros Software can create, edit, analyze, document, render, animate, and translate NURBS curves, surfaces, and solids, point clouds, and polygon meshes. There are no limits on complexity, degree, or size beyond those of our hardware. In this course, we were in charge to make a lot of projects including museums, pavilions, and towers. The last structure model was an exercise to do after the course ended.
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This project is a restaurant that lays on a highway that gives an uncomfortable situation to a certain category of people. Going from this idea, I want to transform the cars’ movement into a static movement: shape of the bridge restaurant. Closing all the views to the highway and the cars’ movement, the roof will play an essential role to give the needed view and light giving the project an added value that will make it special. Creating a promenade on a ramp will let the people feel the highway movement before blocking it and translate it into a static movement.
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This course applies with us as students the fundamental concepts of creating Building Information Modeling (BIM) through the application of tools in Revit architecture. The Autodesk Revit platform offers a wide range of functionality, and supports a BIM workflow from concept to construction. During this course and by working on and towards a comprehensive design project, we will learn to create an intelligent 3D virtual model that represents building facilities, and to integrate project data across the full range of architectural documents. Furthermore, we will learn to apply a comprehensive set of analysis leading to a more informed and sound design decisions. In the process, we will carry a complete overview of all building parts and building performance on structural, thermal, and lighting levels. By the end of this course, we are expected to understand the core concept of BIM to apply it to our own projects and design practices.
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MODELLING | PHYSICAL MODEL Model building is a hobby that involves the creation of models either from kits or from materials and components acquired by the builder. The kits contain several pieces that need to be assembled in order to make a final model. Designers use physical models to visualize information about the context that the model represents. It is very common for physical models of large objects to be scaled down and smaller objects scaled up for ease of visualization. The primary goal of physical modelling is to test aspects of a product against user requirements. Thorough testing at the design development stage ensures that an appropriate product is developed. Physical modelling not only allows designers to explore and test their ideas, but to also present them to others. Engaging clients, focus groups and experts to interact with physical models of products allows designers to gain valuable feedback that enable them to improve the design and product-user interface.
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