Architectural Portfolio

Hanieh Sotudeh

Architectural Design

Comfort zone

Four house

Stadio Design IV

Individual / Fall 2018

Hypermnesia

Cultural and sport center

Stadio Design III

individual / spring 2018

Awareness

Environmental EcoCamp

Architectural Bachelor Thesis

Individual / Fall 2019

Connected To...

Multidisciplinary research center

Comprehensive Studio Group / Fall 2022

Connected To

UNC Charlotte

Integrated Studio

Fall 2022

Group, Semester-long

Instructor: David Harrison

The new multidisciplinary research center, which will be built on the main campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, will provide an excellent opportunity to recognize, promote, and emphasize the importance of a wide range of connections. While the building program and space planning will have an effect on the network of people, space, and various majors in order to expand and maintain the connection between humans, nature, future generations, and space, the design of the research lab will place a strong emphasis on the incorporation of environmentally friendly elements in order to reduce the carbon footprint and provide a healthier environment for students, faculty and general public.

Multivwall Polycarbonate Sheets Aluminum Composite Panels (ACP)

A 100% Recyclable Polycarbonate Envelope for a Bright and Sustainable Building.

Multiwall Polycarbonate sheets filter around 5% of sunlight, and saves about 30% more heat than single wall panels.

The Aluminium Composite Panels comprises of recycled materials such as aluminium, polymer and few minerals. Choosing Aluminium Composite Panels is choosing sustainability as it is 100% recyclable and retains all its qualities throughout the process of its making and design.

Design for Recycling

Site and Setback

There is 20 ft setback from site border. Based on the site’s existing vegetation, one third of the parking deck will be demolished to preserve the existing trees in the site.

Parking Deck Demolition

One Third of the parking deck is around 47472 square foot of parking deck.

Connected To

To preserve connection between different spaces and creating a path around site to enhance the connection between individuals and nature, two bridge are connecting the massings

The Overall Mass Height Code Requirement and Exceptation Based on the building code, while the building code is 40 ft. One foot from the property line allows for two feet in height above 40 ft.

Connection Between Site And Botanical Garden

To preserve the connection between the massing, and parking deck toward the botanical garden, the main massing has been cut to highlight the main entrance and circulation in the building.

Vegetation Preservation

To preserve the Trees on the edge of the university city Blvd, massing got cut from the front side. This setback will help preserving at least four oak trees in that area. Each Oak tree can store as high as 48 pounds of carbon dioxide every year.

Rotation and View

Rotating the mass form 0 degree to 50 degree will allow more solar exposure and more surface area for photovoltaic panels.

Parking Deck

Parking Deck

Design for Equitable Community to Connect Users:

Facade Opening is based on an attractor point in front of the community spaces to enhance connection between different groups of people from different majors to nature and create these moments of all sorts of connection.

Design for Water

Awareness

Gilan, Iran

Bachelor Thesis

Fall 2019

Individual, Semester-long

Instructor: Afra Gharibpoor

The world has been witnessed irreversible enviromental phenomenons, creating serious concerns. To address these concerns and avoid corresponding conspicuous threats, international communities are now willing to put efforts into improving social awareness among people.

Camping in the middle of a jungle or desert and practicing the principles of ecotourism, not only will educate people effectively and practically, but also brings up a sense of loyalty about nature. Hence, being in touch with what they might lose in the coming years will make them more aware about their obligations for protecting the environment.

Site Analysis

North of the Iran, due to its rich resources, is one of the most suitable places for eco-tourism to touch the pristine nature.

The awareness project is located near an area called the edge, one of the unknown attractions located 83 km south of Rasht in the North of Iran, adjacent to a shallow valley and covered by a diversity of vegetations. Furthermore, not only the building’s site is in an area with the least vegetation in order to avoid tree cutting, but also it is surrounded by plants from two sides to avoid suns’s intense light and provides great view for the building.

Using material-efficient solutions in order to reach a cost effective design with lower environmental impact is highly important to reach a sustainable design with minimum energy usage. Hence, the most accessable materials, timber and natural stones were choosen as main substances in the interior and exterior design.

To create a friendly environemnt for socializing goals, places such as tea-house and the amphitheater were desined in open areas. Instead of using formal chair and tables, sitting regions were designed from natural stone and wood and specific areas for making fire and feeling the nature.

The educational area cosists of three seperate part. First, four classes for students to learn theories about climate change and environmental issues, second, a working area for scientists, and third, a green house consists of a diversity of plants for scientific studies and projects.

Residential section, inside each room

Tea House

classes view from colonnade

Hypermneisa

Tehran, Iran

Spring 2018

Individual, Semester-long Instructor: Ali Asghar Adibi and Mahdi Babaie Awarded “one of the best projects in the Studio”

Educating at the university is considered as a glorious period in every person’s life. People attend this place to not only achieve a remarkable degree and augment their education but also make beautiful memories as well as friends. Signs, centers, and programs related to the university will make these hypermnesias by producing vivid memories or recalls of the past.

Site Analysis

Keshavarz boulevards, one of the oldest boulevards in the Tehran in the central part of the city, has hosted most of the educational, historical and cultural places in Tehran, include Different faculties of University of Tehran (UT) which are distributed in the area.

The intended site is located between Keshavars boulevard and Poursina alley, currently used as a parking lot, and a 5 minutes walk to the main campus. Also, it is located in front of one of the largest parks in the area, called Lale park.

campuses of UT Site of the project bus service Lale park

Using a specific, designed tent structure in the free space as

A pass beneath the complex, next to the coffee, links the main courtyard to the smaller one.

Three entry. A prime, extend one in the south, face to the campus, and one in the north, for students. And also one more formal entry for staffs.

foodcourt’s membrane.

collage N.2

Collage

Collage, an exciting way of waking architects’ unconscious, offers different approaches to beginning a project rather than other conceptual methods. This method contains:

0. Initial research on psychological, educational and social aspects of users.

1. Making a collage from different types of pictures

2. Creating meaningful spaces by sketching from collages

3. Analyzing every collage based on the colores, lines, areas, lights etc.

4. A preliminary effort of creating every spaces’ quality in several etude models.

5. Extracting architectural drawings including plans.

6. Observing architectural proportions and adding the requiring parts that did not mention in the above sections.

Stadium

Third entrance / Collage n.2

Analyse of collage n.1

Collage n.1

Green areas

Rhytem

natural light

colors spectrum

collage N.1

central yard

Stadium Structure Design

Comfort Zone

Tehran, Iran

Fall 2018

Individual, Semester-long

Instructor: Alireza Einifar and Ehsan Masoud

Awarded “one of the best projects in the Studio”

Home is a safe haven and a comfort zone. A place to live peacefully with our families and friends and build memories as well as the future. A place where we can indeed just be ourselves. For me, home means a place where I can lie back and enjoy drinking your cup of tea after spending a long stressful day in the snowy winter.

Concept

The cause of this project is to revive the great friendly relationship between neighbors, living in the same apartment by both, meeting each family’s needs individually and observing ancient architectural invaluable blessings that are prevalent in the area.

Based on the data gathered through field research, a rectangle land, faced a dead-end alley in the north and another alley in the south was chosen for the project.

Due to the slope of the land and cardinal direction, a fracture occured in the initial concept.

Two central courtyard as both iranian traditional archetype and a model in sustainable design has been placed.

four house and an architectural workspace has been located based on each family’s needs.

secondary central courtyard

primary central courtyard

Section A-A

Interior Design

As Critical importance of interior design in humans life, Details of “house A” has been brought under attention more specifically.

First Floor

Second Floor

Position of dining table near the kitchen and balcony

Beneficial use of wasted space as a working place

Living Room Office

Kitchen design/ House A

Ground floor plan

Wall-section

Computational Design

Chain

Surface Active Structure

Group / Summer 2019

Floating Circles

Parametric ceiling design and construction

Cooaporation with Dahi Studio

Summer 2020

Sparkle

Pavilion Design

Computational Method

Group / Fall 2021

UNC Charlotte

Fall 2021

Group project, Semester-long Instructor: Rachel Dickey

Role: Ideation, Scripting, Fabrication, Drawings

Sparkle is a design based attempt to investigate computational thinking and design process step by step. Based on initiative studies on pattern formation and different variations of parameters of starfish in 2D environment, a final 3D Pavilion will be designed.

Rhino | Grasshopper | Lumion

Design Process

Starfish pattern

2D pattern Prototyping

The Design process evolved from a pattern studey for a 2D model fabrication and a 3D form finding in the second step. The 2D study included investigating different parameters and their variation in the starfish pattern, the spines, and different elements in the star geometry like the number of arms and their proportions.

Circle Packing

Number of Arms

3.

Fabrication Process

The structure of the starfish was a eye catching inspiration for thinking about the pavilion fabrication as well. Therefore, different scenarious for joints between the structure parts and stracture and the skin were studied.

Digital model of final assembly

Physical Model detail

Design Joints

Structure 3D printing

Floating Circles

Tehran, Iran

Summer 2020

Cooaporation with Dahi Studio

One month

Role: Ideation, Fabrication, Drawings

In the practice of architecture, it is often necessary to push disciplinary boundaries to solve more complex problems. In this vein, Parametric design gets nurtured from creative abilities such as critical thinking, problem solving and even the designers’ intuition in order to integrate a higher number or variables approaches to solve problems through parallel or recursive schemes. Accordingly, the Floating Circle is the story of design and fabrication of a parametric ceiling for interiour design of Mofid brokerage

Rhino | Grasshopper | C# | V-ray

Design Process

problem

The place where was considered to be one of the new branches of Mofid brokerage had a height of 6 meters which was not appropriate and needed a ceiling to attract people’s attention.

Solution

As the first step of design, a surface with a curvature based on different zoning in the place was generated. The private area with the smallest height, the entrance and the public area with the larger height were designed. Moreover, the whole surface was suspended at the appropriate height from the ceiling.

Presented alternatives to employer

Installation details

Cables installation Plates installation

Final photos

Chain

Tehran, Iran

Summer 2019

Group, Two weeks workshop

By Digital Craft House

Role: Scripting, Fabrication

Grasshopper | Rhino | Photoshop

Surface Active Structure

Freeform Space Structure Workshops are held for the purpose of research and practice the two areas of free form structures and computer integrated construction and design methods. This workshop tried to design and construct two different structures by examining surface active and bending active structures. At first, students have created ways to develop the form by studying the materials and understanding their behavior. Then, they have developed their designs using digital fabrication tools and produced them on a real scale. All parts of these two structures are made of Plywood with thicknesses of 3 and 6 mm and cut using digital fabric cutting machines. Then, by applying force and using the elastic properties of the materials, they are bent to their final shapes.

Prototypes

Testing materials for their elastic deformation

prototype, selected system

The Final product of this workshop is a pendant structure installed in the Exhibition Hall of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran. The structure is made up of a triangular module that forms a flat U with two 90 ° angles. By bending the two ends of the U, it bends the members to form a bended triangle. The flat structure is made of these triangles. Next, by enlarging some triangles, the students attempted to create a three-dimensional form. After understanding this structure’s behavior, we tried to create an algorithm in Grasshopper to simulate the final form in digital space and determine the dimensions of each fragment to reach the final form. The entire structure is mounted on six strings of cable that hang it.