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PROFILE Selam, I am Hawi Fituma an Architect from Addis Ababa ,Ethiopia.

An enthusiastic learner and determined hard working individual with the desire to manifest my skills into a professional workplace, study environment or research program.

In the course of my stay in EIABC, an architecture school I attended, I have been able to work on variety of projects which I have rendered henceforth. The multidisciplinary skill I have is run by my keenness and aptitude towards new task- design process, analysis, conceptualization, drafting and presenting. Apart from studio work I have been able to work in the research facility situated at my school - ECl- Emerging City lab and With the renown architect Fasil Ghiorghis.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIANCE ECL- EIABC- AAU

Emerging City Lab- Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building construction and City development. Addis Ababa Universty. (2017-2018) Position -Intern The design and Digital modeling of housing prototypes For the emerging cities in Addis Ababa.Modeling and designing Building element For Parametrization of building typologies.

Saelam naew bauhaus, B100S

DAAD/ BMBF funded collaborative exhibition project between BUW, Bauhaus university, Weimar and EIABC, Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and city development.

A chance to Exhibit the works that I have participated on at the annual summary of bauhaus university in Weimar Germany Following the 100 year celebration of the Bauhaus university.

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CONTACT Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 0922597724 hawifituma263@gmail.com Hawi Fituma @hawwish

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Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building construction and City development. Addis Ababa Universty.

(2017-2018) Position - student Assistant Assisting Freshman year student With technical staff (Model making, Drafting ,panel presentation and project documentation.)

Elementary-

Freelancing

Higher Education

(2017 and onwards) Work - Graphic design, Model making, crafts, Product design, architectural design, Drafting, Renderings and Interior design.

Fasil Ghiorgis Architects and Engineers Office

Position- Architect team member Designing an Extension Office building for the House of peoples representatives.

Armenian School-(2000-2008) High School- LemLem school- (20082011)

Preparatory-

Nazareth School-(2011-2014)

AAU Addis Ababa university EIABC -Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building construction and City development.

B.SC. In Architecture- (2014-2019) Graguate Architect with CGPA of 3.62

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CONTENTS

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Water Recycling facility

Affordable rural dwelling units

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Architectural thesis project

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Rira Residence

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Architectural on space

Addis Sefer: Dejach webe- slum settlement. Introduction to kevin lynch’s city elements. Designing a facility that could counter the damages done to the environment.

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Auditorium

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Designing a residence for Elders which serves as a day care and Equipped with skill sharing environment For the purpose of giving elders the attention and interaction they need to lead a healthy remaining life.

Integrated design- Dejach Webe- slum settlement Design of Auditorium to understand how Architecture is related to science. Designed with the concept of blending the modern with the traditional.

Design of a dwelling unit typology for the planned 2000 micro- cities in Ethiopia. A single dwelling unit is designed using different kinds locally available and affordable building materials.

Design of an appropriate building for Wurch climate in the Bale mountains.

Use of locally available and affordable material and building form.

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Goro Library

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Chicken Coop and retail

Urban catalyst- Goro Ghiorgis- Slum settlement. The design of a Library that acts as an urban catalyst activating and integrating the marginalized society of Goro Ghiorghis with the rest of the city.

Architecture for social change- prototype. Design of a chicken coop prototype that will serve in empowering the female community of Ghoro- Ghiorgis.

Available for Investment.

The Fifth place- architecture in contempt of the Digital revolution. - An Architectural project that tries to address the problem with current academic libraries of Ethiopia . Diverting it to cope up with digitalization.

Experimentation

Introduction to the concept of space in architecture. Use of black wires and black threads to define space.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT I would First like to thank almighty God for all the grace he has supplied me with to finish my Bachelors degree in Architecture. Special thanks to my family who where there for me. Thank you for all the moral and emotional support you have given me. I will always value your advice and guidance. Thank you to all my teachers in EIABC. your unwavering guidance, strictness and support has helped me get to where I am today. All of my academic achievements and academic products would not have been possible if it was not for your mentor ship. Thank you to all my friends and my batch students for making my stay in EIABC a very adventurous enjoyable environment and thank you to all my design partners for all your motivation, dedication and hard work. In conclusion I would like to thank my country, its citizens and adminstration for supporting the free education opportunity. Thank you all!!

Architecture school- Batch of 2007

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Water Recycling Facility

Addis Sefer: Dejach webe- slum settlement. Introduction to kevin lynch’s city elements. Designing a facility that could counter the damages done to the environment.

The project revolves around city and its elements and how program emerges from the cities own identity. The first section of the semester which as urban study was conducted in a group of four after which we carried on individually. Different layers were used to analyse the sefer and come up with a valid program.

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Use the central major disecting road as an economic activity line integrating the neighbourhood through economic activity fostering self- sustainment.

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The site is located near a river side which has a potential to revive this lost site in to a walkable chill destination.

The seleced region integrates natural invironment with the city as it sits in between a park and a city the nearby mosque can benefit from the recycling facility that is designed.

SITE ON THE NORTH WING OF DEJACH WEBE. this site has been treated like a trash can for decades but the natural setting gives it an imense potential to be utilized.

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Programmatic Relationship The whole concept lies in making the recycling facility a place of education and awareness creation aswell. For this reason it is mered with a museum that revolves around water. besides this the facility also showcases how the recycled ater could serve the immediate neighbours the mosque congregation ,the car-wash and the rest of the neighbourhood.

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The steepness of the area became a major determining factor for the different levels achieved in the project. level difference creating various occupy able levels blurring the edge between nature and built environment.

Planes overlooking the river. the faces over looking the river are transparent to capture the scenery.

Projecting planes used as terraces

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The parameters for this zoning is mechanized extreme and display extreme. Another factor which is the terraces are added to this zoning to help you see the interfaces and their relation to the general programming.

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Residence Plus

Designing a residence for Elders which serves as a day care and Equipped with skill sharing environment For the purpose of giving elders the attention and interaction they need to lead a healthy remaining life. In the context of Ethiopia the design of residences does not consider elders and with all the young population ot today. it is only a matter of time before the youth of today ages and things go in reverse hence it is only fair to design a house around aging population.

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Senior design regulations; - Avoiding steps - Immense lighting - Contrastin color use - Considering Interior colors

Close proximity to nature can be refreshing to the mind leading to a better health.

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With all the space syntax figured out then the formal expression is formed by a concept.

Relate to the client- Represent the sameness of the different lives that we have and that there is a start and a destination to life

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This moving wall are mechanically operated they open up to create a shded indoor outdoor space for the childrens space.

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Opened walls create semi- indoor space. This opened walls separated the space in to two separate spces connected only by shade.

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Merkato

This is an International competition I took part in with my friends Eyerusalem and surafel. The whole idea of the competition was to come up with a space saving sustainable building design in the middle of the city centre. “The metropolis of te 21st century takes up too much room its sprawls it must not keep evolving simply by expanding. What vital and disruptive architecture can one come up with to transform the existing spaces of your choice?�

Under this we have been able to come up with a design idea that was not yet finished when submitting it. This is just a rough Idea presentation we did.

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We have choose merkato as it is a very hectic and big market area which is constantly evolving. Change is happening but how should it be done?

Merkato

We tried to look at organic forms that could sew the city together but a the same time possess some structural property.

The organic structure is to stand above the ground leaving ground level for pedestrians and greenary. the top will be market places and residences where merchants live in. While searching for organic forms that depict this idea we thought of the Ethiopian corn rows. the inspiration for the form came from this corn rows.

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rural dwelling units

Design of a dwelling unit typology for the planned 2000 micro- cities in Ethiopia. A single dwelling unit is designed using different kinds locally available and affordable building materials.

TASK 1-Building element and infrastructure integration 2-Building typology 3-Building parametrization

Intern-ship Project

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Prof. Dr. Dirk Donath, Prof. Bernd Rudolf & Vertr.-Prof. Dr. Sven Schneider (BUW) Dr. Ephrem Gebremariam (EiABC)

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ECL-AA -EIABC-Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development.

-Metadel Saleshi Belihu -Bauhaus-Universität Weimar InfAR | planning. Systems Belvederer Allee 1, 99425 Weimar -Dipl. Ing. Nicole Baron

The ECL-AA was co-founded by the Institute for Experimental Architecture (ifex) at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development (EiABC) of Addis Ababa University 2015. At the end of April 2017, it celebrated the opening of its office in Addis Ababa. Currently, eight Ethiopian and German architects, engineers and city planners are working on the »Integrated Infrastructure« project.

ECL is Research and teaching lab working on major project on fast growing cities in Ethi-

opia. -“Integrated Infrastructure” is the title of the research project initiated by the “Emerging City Lab - Addis Ababa”

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OBJECTIVE -Establishment of criterion, parameters and constraints for a flexible building and infrastructure system in EMERGING TOWNS. -Achieving universal layouts and principles that are open and flexible enough to fit different climate, regional identity, construction skills, utilization of building materials etc.

-The framing extends from exploring traditional existing building systems to contemporary technology, contemplating future development and innovation in the sector.

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IN³ - INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE Integrated Infrastructure (In³) is an interdisciplinary international research project at the Bauhaus- Universität Weimar (BUW) and the Ethiopia Institute for Architecture, Building Construction and City Development (EiABC).

The main objective of Integrated Infrastructure is to create knowledge, tools, and networks for establishing high-quality, interdisciplinary, cross-continental research and education on planning and building of resilient cities in Ethiopia and Germany.

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STRUCTURING Organization of Building Elements and Building system

Choosing the typology

Produce building element families with a 4*4 module

Finalize assembly

Assemble building elements

Recommendations

Update and archive building elements

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BE D E S I G N Design and parametrisization of building elements.

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INTEGRATION Catagorization of building elements under three building structural systems

AGGRETATION Design of prototypes- a single prototype is designed using three different building systems

Parameters

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BT-1 Building typology two has a left masonry structure and a right frame structure. For the Masonry structure I took concrete and For the frame wood.

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Building typology one has a lower load bearing structure and an upper frame structure. For this specific case I used a lower stone masonry wall and an upper wooden frame structure.

Building typology three is made of frame structure all in all. For this structure I choose bamboo OSB boards as structural elements. BT3 is not completed to the same level of details as the others due to changes made.

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Rira Residence

Design of an appropriate building for Wurch climate in the Bale mountains. Use of locally available and affordable material and building form.

Appropriate building technology

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Rira is a small village in the natural reserve of Bale mountains, in oromia which , is the last inhabited area before gain up the denatti plateau. The inhabitants here live in huts made of earth and wood.

The oldest of which are shaped like a ball that ends in the point which, are set around a small mosque. The principal activity here is agriculture but everyone also raises a sheep and grow vegetable in their backyards.

Wurhc is one of the climatic zones in Ethiopia found on 32003500m attitude high having loss than 10 degree celcius temprature and more than 1000mm rain water.

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Most of the site is highly exposed ot wind and less sun exposure

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Older houses have a circular plot. In recent years rectangular typologies are appraring.

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Rira has a mall amount of trees along the near by valley. Since it is rainy there are only shrubs resistant to the climatic conditions.

Around the bus station which is near by the central market of rira people and their mosque, Since 77% of the people are muslims.

There is a good interaction of people giving life to the small relar village. Further more, in recent years the road side is evolving in to a tourist reception.

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A family of four people.

need for a fire place, indoor barn and back yard garden

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To create an architecture that considers natures dynamics in all aspect and uses it for a better purpose. In this prospect the architecture should: - follow the sun - observe the wind - Watch the flow of water - uses simple and locally available material.

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Biomimicry at the ecosystem level

A number of components and processes make up an ecosystem and they must work with each other rather than against in order for the ecosystem to run smoothly. For the architectural design to mimic nature on the ecosystem level it should; be dependent on contemporary sunlight, optimize the system rather than its components, attend to and dependent on local conditions, be diverse in components, relationship and information, create conditions favourable to sustained life and adapt and evolve at different level.

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Building sitting in a natural unaltered setting with all the natural grass and the trees surrounding it.

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Urban catalyst- Goro Ghiorgis- Slum settlement. The design of a Library that acts as an urban catalyst activating and integrating the marginalized society of Goro Ghiorghis with the rest of the city.

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TOTAL POPULATION - 6000 MALE - 2880................48% FEMALE - 3120.............52% YOUNG PEOPLE - 4200.....70%

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Thesis Statement If a library is to serve a society of young people in a socially produced habitat( Informal Settlement). Its design should invoke a sense of curiosity and stimulate them for an imaginative creative thinking taking them out of the reality around them and immersing them in to a state of Euphoria through nature integration and form and space manipulation.

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Chicken Coop & Reail

Architecture for social change- prototype. Design of a chicken coop prototype that will serve in empowering the female community of Ghoro- Ghiorgis. Available for Investment.

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Goro Ghiorgis is a site situated on a former stone quarry place. The residents here are informal settlers who settled here around the 1990s.

This settlers although illegal have proper water supply and an air map. They build houses out of mud and CIS sheets and rent them out at times.

This small city in a big city. It has schools, churches, small market places and social gathering spaces with in it. This place is a unique place with its own dignifying character. The sites land form alone could be taken as a major life shaping entity. It has altered how blocks are arranged, how people and vehicles move and how water runoff The sewage disposal is very poor given that no one has a proper sewage disposal line.

It is disposed on to The major river running through it, Goro river , on the streets and the roof top of other residents at times . The river is currently being mistreated by its residents. Nonetheless people stereotype dwellers as loosers. This led to them becoming marginalized communities in the outskirts of Addis. This inturn leads to a socio- economic crisis which then leads to lack of information creating a barrier to opportunity. This communities are those who most need but least afford the services that architects give. The government built many initiatives to change their quality but most of them have been around the bush. what this communities need the most is financial and educational empowerment so that in the long run the rest will be taken care of.

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- create a chicken coop that encourages social interaction over work which creates a strong work-culture with in the society.

- Integrate the chicken coop and retail with the daily activities of house wives and vendors to in order to gradually break the habit of sitting around.

- Address space issues related with time.

- Maximize chicken production in a compacted space.

Individual units/ Chicken coop

The individual units are arranged in a way to incorporate the daily activities of the house wives. This is to initiate a desire with in them to come to the coop everyday to work and involve in the Local economic activities.

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The programs are arranged following the stages of chicken life cycle to minimize any cannibalism and violence. And also to make egg and meat production efficient. The addition of the vegetable retail is informed by the economic activities the housewives and also the needs of customers when buying a chicken.

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Village Arrangement

The coops will be arranged in rows to create a chicken-ville, a community of chicken breeders. In between the rows is located a common open space where the breeders bring the chickens they want to sell. In the middle is the shaded market place where all breeders bring their chickens for sale. Each coop will have its own space there will not be any sharing of space. next to each coop is an open space that serves as a chicken run. This space is fenced and serves only for one breeder. The distance between the chicken coops is in 1:2 ratio. This is to avoid any spread of disease.

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When it comes to developing the form of the coop we began with a regular rectangular form for the sack of efficient use of space.

This rectangle was divided in two three parts following the zoning diagram and stages of chicken life-cycle For the sack of lighting and ventilation openings need to be maintained at all the spaces. The living unit and the broiler space are fully opened closed only by using curtains. The layers space is a two open coop. this is to create a natural lighting and ventilation mechanism. The openings in this space will be closed tight for thermal control.

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Once the major plan layout drawn we had to think of means of construction and portability.

This design is to be built as a Product by the local Metal workshops and carpenters Therefore as a product it should be made at any local metal workshop and be delivered to the site on a truck for this purpose the size should be able to fit any medium sized truck which is 2x3 meters. Following that we proposed a convertible design. The spaces that are going to be depressed are the indoor outdoor spaces that is the living space and the Broiler space this spaces require a light weight wall that is easy to fold and get packed.

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The roof is a flat roof with a 1% slope Barely persevered with eye. The roof has sky lights which can be closed at night and during cold weathers with a pulley system. The space for chicken run is a sand filled space or covered by grass. There is a pavement all on either sides of the coop for ease of access.

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The Construction will be held in two phases on thefirst level we have small scale production while on the second level we have a large scale production. The Societies Will shift fron phase one to phase two with in after aquiring enough capital. In both case it will start with the government loaning money.

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Site Plan Phase 1 Minimize transportation troubes by providing a storage spacIntroduce them to the market with what they already haveThis is intended to:individuals enabling them to whatever they have to the public. a free range production. In phase one we will be adressing The societies already produce chicken at their homes but it is intensive and market oriented.

Phase 2 growing to processisng and distributing.larger scale. Here we have all the processes from hatching and In this phase the Individuals grow in to a group and sell in on a larger scale to different hotels and food producing companies 88

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The color of the material used is brown and black. This is because we don’t want the village to appear as a row of CIs boxes. Brown and black together will create an earthly and cozy feeling. Both for the chickens and the breeders. The curtains are also chosen to match the Color theme of the project. Further more there is a play on void and solid this is not a simple intuition it is for the purpose of proper ventilation an also to make the compacted space appear as though it is wide.

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The structural system of the chicken coop is a joint between steel and wood. The primary support structure is steel while wood serves as a secondary structure. The wall is a cavity wall filled with cloth with insulation. The exterior cladding material is a CIS thorough profile steel clad while the interior is a Wood cladding for the purpose of temperature regulation. There are two types of floors in this design one that is a framed floor and another which is a framed folding floor which has a 1.2cm diameter steel road mesh as a structural support. The ceiling is cladded with a chip wood and painted black to match the theme.

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The Fifth place- architecture in contempt of the Digital revolution. - An Architectural project that tries to address the problem with current academic libraries of Ethiopia . Diverting it to cope up with digitalization. “…Space is a living area and enclaves’ a life.” (proceedings of the seventh international space syntax symposium edited by Daniel Koch, Lars Marcus and Jesper Steen, Stockholm: kth, 2009_page 3). Our existence is a record and, as we Exist or live we have traceable footprint. Our footprints are the results of our way of life. The things we do in a certain period of time. Time is a changing quantity. As time changes, technologies advances. These advancements bring forth a change in the society. The thesis project narrates how digitalization has changed many aspects of human-lives all over the world and bring the thought of creating and designing in contempt of digitalization to the context of Addis Ababa. In this accord a digitalization trend that is taking over in the context of Ethiopia is taken in order to choose a specific case for research. Hence e-reading trend is considered as it has been determined to be taking over. Under e-reading the library space has been identified as being under threat. After setting a set of parameters to select a specific library typology the focus of this research became The Academic library Of EiABC.

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Problem Statement

A Spaces enclaves life. It emerges from the life of humans and is designed around it. What happens when the way of life of humans or their footprints change due to digitalization? Space that is designed for a certain activity is to be rendered vague due to change of footprint or the death of footprint. In the era of information technology, Certain Architectural spaces are loosing their -sensibility. Their necessity is in question as ,the original footprints after which they are designed are changing or dying.

Digital technology is one area that has changed the way we used to function at a certain point. The invention of smart phone overthrown the phones of the 1995 that, required a specific station in a space (living room, bed room..) now we can take phones anywhere even to bathroom where we use them while we are…Following the invention of smartphones the “telephone speaking space” in living rooms, bed rooms… and pay phone stations at reception areas and urban spaces have almost entirely disappeared.

Objective

- Study how Digital technology has altered the life of humans changing their footprints.

- Choose a specific study area based on set parameters.

- Study how the study area is being utilized currently and who the users are.

- Study international cases of the space and what futures are being foreseen considering the activities in the space.

- Draw the footprints of humans for the past, present and future predicted use of the chosen study area.

- Identify which Footprints have changed, are changing and will change and study where the footprints are residing and will reside.

- Study how stack-holders of the selected space occupy space in relation to the selected digitalization trend.

- Come up with a valid Architectural solution to the observed scenario.

Research question

1. How do stack-holders of the selected space occupy the space and other spaces in relation to current digitalization trend?

2. How has the Footprint of humans in the selected space transformed and how will it further transform in the era of digitalization?

3. How Should an architectural piece be designed around the changed and changing footprints of humans for the selected case?

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Questions under the research question for the stratified target groups 1. How do stack-holders of the selected space occupy the space and other spaces in relation to current digitalization trend?

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1. How do you conduct your work/ study? (Digitally, Manually) 2. Between digital means and manual means which do you prefer to aid your programs/ work requirement?

3. What is your opinion on the EIABC academic library space in terms of changes that need to be made to meet your needs?

4. Which zones in the library do you prefer?

5. Which Spaces In EiABC campus do you use for working /studying when you are not using the library and how do you use these spaces?

6. Between the library space and other spaces in the campus which do you prefer to work/study? and, Why? 7. What kind of spaces do you think will meet your preference with respect to the current era( the era of digital revolution) ? In terms of v .

2. How has the Footprint of humans in the selected space transformed and how will it further transform in the era of digitalization?

1. what changes did you observe in the way people use the library over the course of your stay here?

2. How do you think people will use the library in the future?

Research/ Literature review Personal observation Space Character Comparison among different spaces in the compound and how people use them interms of study.

Conclusion 3. How Should an architectural piece be designed around the changed and changing footprints of humans for the selected

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After conducting the literature review I have been able to find the following activities to be affected by digital technology. The following table shows the spaces that are deforming following the morphing of activities around digitalization.

The above are summarized in to the following e- activities.

The graph above shows that e-banking is taking over the world. It is the core of all e-commerce activities and touches on the other e-activities through digital payment using different methods such as PayPal, visa card etc‌This is a world wide statics

The statics of Ethiopia. hence the e - reading activity is taken.

The effect e-reading has on reading / study spaces had been conducted following this.

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A case that relate to local context.

A space that has a constant high internet connectivity.

A space used by active digital device users.

Personal Experience.

Justification

According to the data obtained from ethiotelecom e-reading is a given to any citizen who have access to the internet and ac­counts for a larger percentage of rate compared to the other e- activities in the context of Ethiopia.

So, which spaces are affected by e-reading?

e-reading affect or causes the death of industrial/ traditional library spaces and from this in our context those who have a constant high internet connectivity are affected the most. According to Ethio telecom High and constant internet connectivity is provided For Governmental higher Education institue Libraries. High internet connectivity is the must have of higher education institutes of Addis Ababa as registrations now is done online. In this institutes libraries are equipped with high internet connectivity hence making them undeniably prone to change following change of user footprint due to digitalization. In addition as a higher institute, the social groups know how to read and write and use digital media in their daily life. Interms of personal Experience the Researcher/Author attended the institute for almost 5 years.

Following this the focus area of this study will be Academic libraries more specifically the Academic library of EIABC (Ethiopian Institute of Architecture building construction and city development.)

An academic library is a library that is attached to a higher education institution which, serves two complementary purposes to support the school’s curriculum, and to support the research of the university faculty and students.

(Curzon, Susan; Jennie Quinonez-Skinner (9 September 2009). cademic Libraries. ncyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. pp. 11– 22. doi:10.1081/E-ELIS3-120044525. 78-0-8493-9712-7. Retrieved 10 September 2013.)

“A university is Just a group of Buildings Gath­ered around a library” Shelby Foote

What happens when the library space looses its original sense due to digitalization?

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PROBLEM REINSTATEMENT

An academic library is designed to house the academic needs and outcomes of it’s mother institution and it enclaves the academic life of the institutions commu­nity. What happens when the academic needs and outcomes together with the academic life of the community change in the face of digitalization?

The space is to be rendered vague due to change of footprint or the death of footprint. In the era of information technology, the academic library is loosing its sensibility. Its necessity is in question as ,the original footprints after it was de­signed are changing or dying in contempt of digitalization.

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Research Finding

After conducting the research I have been able to summarize the following taxonomy and quality of spaces which I had Incorporated in the design of new academic library typology of the digitalized area.

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Under the notion of the term “ third place” by Ray Oldenburg (1989), I suggest the design of a building that acts as the

fifth place (Learning Commons) in EiA­BC compound next to the library, Class rooms, Escape areas(lounges) and Dor­mitories.

The Fifth place will be designed to have the DNA of the other four places in consideration of future forseen learn­ing trends.

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Site Analysis The university compound Site is analysed in the following four ways. In this the specific site for the building is determined.

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The site is a major factor in defining the form of the building hence a thin rectangular plot is created as the site is located near the foot ball field of the school. this thin rectangular plot gave character to the other protruding forms.

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The programs are related in such a way to allow space convertibility. In this order the interactive space acts as a major con­ necting function Following this spaces transform in to an interactive space when needed and when other functions are needed it service can be shifted.

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The identified spaces taxonomies are classified under the identified space typologies as follows.

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Ground Floor The spaces are separated by the structural system of the building any additional wall is either a folding wall or either a retractable partition wall enabling the space to be deformed as per the need of the user .

Central circulation space has enabled the creation of pocket spaces some with partition and some open air pockets.

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WALL FIELD POCKET HORIZONTAL HOLE ROOM CUL-DE-SAC POCKET VERTICAL HALL WAY SUPPORTIVE FUNCTION

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First Floor Field spaces cut through the long corridor space enabling breaks to the long journey.

The further ends of the spaces are open spaces designed as cul-de-sac and field space the spaces along the corridor are dedicated for sanctuary( reading on the left and studios on the right. The external stair is a field space designed for students who like to read in

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WALL FIELD POCKET HORIZONTAL HOLE ROOM CUL-DE-SAC POCKET VERTICAL HALL WAY

WALL FIELD POCKET HORIZONTAL HOLE ROOM CUL-DE-SAC POCKET VERTICAL HALL WAY

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Rooms with folding wall to join in discussion with other groups. Gallery is adding as a supporting program to display selected outstanding projects of students. the wing on the left side is where students collaborate/ meet with teachers to discuss. it joins the tow separated sections together.

Cul- de sac space with a central green space and an open roof to create a corner escape green zone in the basement.

Teachers wing is dedicated to a collaborative environment. again walls are detachable or either folding rooms and spaces are high tech with screen walls . spaces are flexible. the horizontal open air pockets

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The proposed design is in accordance with the requirement of the students specific to this campus as it is meant to be for an educational centre. The simplicity of the design makes it easily constructed and easily transformed. the created spaces in the building are zoned according to the general zoning set following the immediate context. The spaces are designed in such a way that they can easily be transformed from one space to another with ease. The project is a direct projection of the research / Finding from the research. This design will be able to serve generations to come s its design is highly flexible designed to meet the deeds of the digital society. In the case of other international educational centres the library space has been transformed in to a learning common typology this case is also the same only appropriated to local context and the needs of the institute. it wil serve around 2500 students with a 0.6m2 per Site plan person.

The library space been considered as a vague or dead space this created project is intended to reinvent the morphed vision of the academic library.

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Introduction to the concept of space in architecture. Use of black wires and black threads to define space.

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use of wires to define space then use of threads to create informal spaces which are then integrated in the the initial wire created spaces giving a blend between regular and irregular space types.

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This portfolio is just a small section of the selected projects I did the details of each project are compiled in a large report pdf which might be available if needed.

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