PORTFOLIO ARCHIDES | AZM University
Hanadi Chaarani
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Pushing Efficiency and Sustainability in a Real Case
Rethinking the Mosque
Moving from Suburbia to the City
Cultural Center: Tower of Light
Car Repair Shop: Jaguar Company
Arts and Crafts School: Reviving the River
Tripoli Train Station Urban Project: Aesthete Mentor
FYP: Revitalizing the Historic City of Tripoli
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PUSHING EFFICIENCY AND SU STAINABILITY IN A REAL CASE During the semester, our design 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 competitiveness, 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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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.
Physical model
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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 family to relinquish the life qualities in the suburbs and move to the 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)
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COMMON FLOOR (HEART):
ROOF:
Rather than having a unique salon and dining room for each family, a common floor was created for each two 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 under the title of: “The Art of Performance”. 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.
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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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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.
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1: Housing 2: Show Room 3: Sass/Service Path 4: Workshop Storage 5: Workshop 6: Workers’ Changing Room
1: Waiting Space 2: Tellers 3: Director 4: Assistant 5: Accountant 6: Restrooms 7: Kitchen 8: Cafeteria
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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.
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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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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
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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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Fans Frames The fans are continuing the landscape, The frames that I intervene are present in and framing important spots to in and out. red color on the plan.
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Circulation The experience is through the highlighted red axis, from number 1 till 10.
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Physical model
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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. 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. 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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Site
Urban void
Road network
Seeing the importance of the site to El-Mina, a point should be highlighted: the sea shore should not be blocked only to the prayers.
Sun Study:
Summer - Morning
Summer - Afternoon
Winter - Morning
Winter - Afternoon
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Process of thinking:
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.
Mosque/Library.
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.
The spiritual language (sky) v/s the city and topography language (earth).
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Qiblah direction
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Section
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Relation with the sky
Relation with the earth
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C U L T U R A L
C E N T E R
‘Al Tall’ a culturally deprived city center. A heart of a glorious city that no longer can beat. We are reviving this attracting heart by highlighting the knowledge that has the ability to awake the dormant mentality, that has the ability to pump that heart again. Why not highlight the knowledge by creating a magnet? From here, the library will give its dominance to the city to revive it from its dormant condition. Going vertical, the books will call for a rebellion against the illiteracy. A cultural peak will support this heart and have our backs. The title of the project is: “Tower of Light”.
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Gardens
Landmarks
Sahat
Roads
Backbone Pension (existing building) Extension
Echo of an existing historic monument
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Program: - Roof restaurant - NGO/Administration - Library - library entrance/ reading spaces - park cafe
Relation of the old renovated building (Penson) with the new installed building
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Skin decision: After studying the sun path and the needed temperature for a library, a decision was taken to use the PTFE coated glass that can withstand huge temperature ranges and is known for being highly durable. Cooling Load
Surrounding buildings (photos were taken from the roof of the existing building/Pension shows the decision of the roject’s skin dimensions.
Skin material: corten Weathering steel, known as Corten steel, eliminate the need for painting by forming a stable rust-like appearance after several years exposure to weather. It shows how it ages beautifully in a historic aging city.
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Knowledge/Books
Dormant sites in the city Mapping the dormant sites of the city
Mondrian Mapping technique
Result in Sehet Al-Tall
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Basement floor
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First floor
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Second floor
Basement floor
Roof floor
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A R T S A N D C R A F T S S C H O O L Tripoli has always been a beautiful city with a river feeding all of it with the branches deviating through the narrow corners. Unfortunately, the river has been defined into one spine killing that spirit, that specific mark in the city. We are reviving this spirit, this sensation, these river branches by flowing the river again in the heart of our project. The old river traces that have the ability to awake that killed feeling that the city was known with. Going fluid contrasting the straight edges of the city, this Arts and Crafts School in the middles of the old city will call for the prosperous past of the city, will flow rather than water. Hence, the title of our project is: “Reviving the River”.
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Evolution of the river through time
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Our site was important that it was the transition point: it was the point of transformation from a spine to branches. From this point, the language of the city and the river will meet.
Introvert
Extrovert
Being surrounded with important landmarks (Khans and mosques), the idea of being introvert was the most dominant in such buildings. How to create this relation? By rethinking the courtyard: the circulation is becoming the intro/ extro core of the building.
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River language
Differentiation between the Departments
City language
Re-flowing the river in the city again
Practical department Common department Theoretical department
Circulation/ Core Practical department: rotated toward the river. Theoretical department: stacked with the notion of “Form Follows Function”.
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Exploiting the slope of the site
Combination of two languages
Departments and circulation/core
Overlapping of two languages City and exhibition galleries
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Using wood to create the mold, alginate to take the negative, and resin to have the organic shape of the project, an experimental model has been made inside the site model.
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Basement floor
Ground floor
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First floor
Second floor
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DESIGNING A LEVER FOR NEGIOTIATING THE REVITALIZATION OF THE HISTORIC CITY OF TRIPOLI The historic area of Tripoli is under constant stress due to a dysfunctional infrastructure and a number of economic, legal, social, and demographic pressures that are having their toll on its physical fabric. This is manifested through the large number of historic buildings that are under the threat of extinction due to structural failure and/or problematic modernization/additions on both the urban and building levels. The premise of my thesis is based on the fact that the craftsmanship and the cultural/aesthetic affinity that were responsible for the production of such a heritage is lost and the current education of architecture design is ill-directed to produce the necessary breed of architects who is apt in the gargantuan effort to rehabilitate and revitalize this cultural heritage.
MACRO-SCALE MICRO-SCALE
Reintegrating the big triangle to the squarish block through strengthening linkages to the historical area: Pedestrianizing the surrounded streets Decentralizing the functions of the project between the two, being complementary to each other.
Celebrating the spatial and functional node at the entrance of the great mosque itself.
CONCEPTUAL APPROACH: Narrating the story of my project using the remaining letters on the site.
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LEARNT NOTIONS FROM THE PAST: - Intimacy - Interaction - Layering - Social ties - Sustainable - High density - Walkable - Human scale
PLACEMENT SELECTION: The project will take place at the intersection of Al-Mansouri Great Mosque.
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UNIVERSITY
SECOND FLOOR
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Library
Bridge
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Classrooms
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Management, Planning and Design Departments
Workshops
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Multi-purpose room, police and civil defense
FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP
MUNICIPALITY
GROUND FLOOR Street
Workshops and the main stair
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South Elevation
East Elevation
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CIRCULATION APPROACH Learning from the past: INTIMATE CIRCULATION
Learning from the past: INTIMATE CIRCULATION Learning from the past: INTIMATE CIRCULATION
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CIRCULATION APPROACH Learning from the past: INTIMATE CIRCULATION
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FIRST FLOOR
FIRST FLOOR
PLANS AND CIRCULATION
PLANS AND CIRCULATION
GROUND FLOORGROUND FLOOR
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PLANS AND CIRCULATION PLANS AND CIRCULATION
SECOND SECOND FLOOR FLOOR
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ENVELOP APPROACH ENVELOP APPROACH
Learning from the past: THE MSHARABIYA Learning from the past: THE MSHARABIYA
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SECOND FLOOR
INTERIOR VIEWS OF EACH BUILDING
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