Iman Elshafei, a graduated AUC student, currently a teaching assistant in AUC. I graduated with a major GPA of 3.41. As a TA for Digital Representation Tools for Architects, I Introduce students to different forms of digital & graphical representations software e.g. (BIM). I aid students in developing their Design, 3D-modeling, animation, image editing & evaluate students’ performance. I explored my interest further, not only in transferring the information to others but also in learning. That experience gave an edge and I was nominated to teach AENG 455 Design 5 for High-tech on a Active building / Active Cites summer school in Technische Universität Darmstadt/ Germany that AUC is involved in. Inaddition to Africa Reload Before my practical life, I have been involved in several internships, trainings and extracurricular activities that enhanced both my technical and interpersonal skills, and allowed me to be involved in the larger community that prepared me for a healthy real practical environment. I’ve been having high achievements in both the academic and extracurricular career. I’ve been awarded two honor awards in May2011 and 2012 for outstanding academic achievement in Architecture engineering. I’ve been well known for my unique outstanding geometries and 3D outputs. My renderings were developed to achieve an almost realistic shots with new forms that are inspired from different aspects according to the project nature. Moreover, I’ve been involved in the team that won the first place in the Olympic Village Competition, January 2012. In addition, I have been involved in most of the large scale concerts on AUC campus, I’ve been through many positions till I reached a multimedia head. I generated multiple videos with several editing programs that were viewed in the largest concerts on campus. One of the unique events is the one that had the top singer in the Arab world Amr Diab performing in carnival 2011 organized by AUC student Union. As well as many other videos for well known actors in different event organized by AUC theater and film club. This nominated me to be a Robotics club vice president later on where I became responsible for the OC activities.
Internship Fun, January 2012
Docents inTechnische Universität Darmstadt Germany 2013
Honors, May 2011
Multimedia Head, Theater & Film Club, December 2010
Honors, May 2012
Work Experience Freelance Work Company: ELraboa Elhadya Project: Dunes Compound,2013 Location: 6th of October, Cairo. Interior Day Shot Rendering
Interior rendering for living space, using the column as a piece of decoration rather than a piece of structure . Creating simple lightning pipes to illuminate the corridor rather using traditional lightning.
Work Experience Freelance Work Company: ELraboa Elhadya Project: Dunes Compound,2013 Location: 6th of October, Cairo.
Iman Elshafei
Work Experience
Office: United Engineering & Technical Consultants Project: Olympic Village, Jan 2013 (Awarded by Competition, Feb 2013) Location: Jaber Al-Ahmad City (N3)
Work Experience Office: United Engineering & Technical Consultants Project: KOC New It Group Building Location: Ahmadi Kuwait Client: Kuwait Oil Company( K.O.C)
AENGÂ 491Â - Senior Project II Recreational Convention Center A continuation of senior project I. Comprehensive architectural design demonstrating an understanding of the different conceptual and technical aspects of architecture
AENG 491 - SENIOR PROJECT II
Fig2 Damietta Land plot before urbanism
Fig4 Solid and Void
Fig2 Street Network
Fig5 Building Geometry
Fig3 Plot Division
Fig6 Mud Cracks
Problem Definition
To trigger innovation, though enhancing the different mediums of communication to allow new ideas to appear, collision of ideas and hunches and for that, some spaces were needed allow proper conference facilities. Also it’s important to complement the other projects as the incubation center will need lecture halls to carry the sponsors, the tutoring and development conferences. While the industrial zone (carpentry, Textiles and sweets) will need a space to share their new ideas with people. To fulfill these requirements a Convention center was the solution. However this will not fulfill the main target and concept of having a bottom up approach to enhance new ideas and solutions because it’s only formal and with one way of information. As a result an Atypical Convention Center was suggested that would fulfill both targets the formal and the informal space in a bottom
AENG 491 - SENIOR PROJECT II
RECREATIONAL CONVENTION CENTER | LAYOUT
Iman Elshafei
AENG 491 - SENIOR PROJECT II
RECREATIONAL CONVENTION CENTER | Environmental and shading analysis
AENG 491 - SENIOR PROJECT II
RECREATIONAL CONVENTION CENTER | GROUND FLOOR PLAN
RECREATIONAL CONVENTION CENTER | SECTION A-A
RECREATIONAL CONVENTION CENTER | FIRST FLOOR
AENG 491 - SENIOR PROJECT II
RECREATIONAL CONVENTION CENTER | FRONT ELEVATION
RECREATIONAL CONVENTION CENTER | NILE ELEVATION
RECREATIONAL CONVENTION CENTER | SECTION B-B
AENG 491 - SENIOR PROJECT II
RECREATIONAL CONVENTION CENTER | NORTHERN BIRD’S EYE
Iman Elshafei
AENG 491 - SENIOR PROJECT II
Iman Elshafei
RECREATIONAL CONVENTION CENTER | NORTH EASTERN PERSPECTIVE SHOT
AENG 491 - SENIOR PROJECT II
RECREATIONAL CONVENTION CENTER | RESTAURANT OPEN AREA
Iman Elshafei
AENG 491 - SENIOR PROJECT II
Iman Elshafei
RECREATIONAL CONVENTION CENTER | RESTAURANT INTERIOR SHOT SHOWING STRUCTURE
AENG 456 - Architectural Design Studio VI
AENG 456 - Architectural Design Studio VI Cinema Radio Rehabilitation CENTER
Studio on design in critical Settings- Designing in Historical Contexts. A critical review of works, theories, and polemics in modern architecture. Case studies of buildings within urban settings will be the focus, with an emphasis on adaptive re-use, historic preservation, urban and landscape design practices. Within the context of a historical survey, students will develop a framework to assess and design for contemporary issues in architecture.
AENG 456 - Architectural Design Studio VI
Iman Elshafei
CINEMA RADIO REHABILITATION CENTER | OUTDOOR RESTAURANT NIGHT SHOT
AENG 456 - Architectural Design Studio VI
Concept Art has always played an important role but technology had helped developing it. For that the main cinema building is surrounded by two art buildings; Art gallery and art pavilion. The building design is inspired from the binary technology created by boxes Development. The research found out that the bar code inspirations is the Kufi patterns. For that my building is integrating both Kufi and it’s development to the binary art. They are always juxtaposed over each others. CINEMA RADIO REHABILITATION CENTER | PERSPECTIVE
Iman Elshafei
From Kufi to Binary
Studies
Iman Elshafei
CINEMA RADIO CENTER | BACK ELEVATION
AENG 456 - Architectural Design Studio VI
CINEMA RADIO REHABILITATION CENTER | OUTDOOR OVERLAPPING PATHS
Iman Elshafei
CINEMA RADIO R. CENTER | THEATER
Iman Elshafei
CINEMA RADIO REHABILITATION CENTER | EXHIBITION AREA SHELL WITH KUFI PATTERN
AENG 456 - Architectural Design Studio VI
Concept Development To Achieve that Goal the plan was designed on a binary grid affected by the light points and Juxtaposed on the kufi pattern. Also on a plan level it starts with Kufi and ends with Binary style.
CINEMA RADIO R. CENTER | GROUND FLOOR
CINEMA RADIO R. CENTER | FIRST FLOOR
AENG 456 - Architectural Design Studio VI
The concept is applied in the section as well as
the plan. On section A-A the Kufi grid is acting as a wall partition and placed according to the binary grid. This shows the development and mix between the kufi and the binary. Section B-B shows a clear graduation of movement from the Art- Deco elevation is clear from left to right.
CINEMA RADIO R. CENTER | SECTION B-B
CINEMA RADIO R. CENTER | SECTION A-A
AENG 468 - Urban Design
AENG 468 - Urban Design
Mixed use Development Residential Subdivisional Development
Study & Analysis of Visual Elements. Urban Form, Grain, Texture, and Fabric. The Phenomenon of Perception. Space, Time, and Function. Space and Path Visual Analysis. Study & Analysis of Historic Urban Squares, Piazzas and similar spaces. Form and space generation in landscape architecture. Elements of Landscape Architecture.
AENG 468 - Urban Design
Concept Inspired from the ripple effect, Rippling from all the important contextual spaces that is affecting the project plot.
AENG 468 - Urban Design
AENG 468 - Urban Design
AENG 468 - Urban Design
Ripple effect around the Revolution Council, allowing the building to over look it, integrating the
landscape sharing the same effect. The buildings are having maximum exposure to the Nile. Connecting bridges are linking the buildings together at the middle floors making it a unified complex.
MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT | MODEL SHOTS
AENG 468 - Urban Design
Top View of the model showing the degradation of each building assuring the ripple effect. A vertical land mark after the gate building
MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT | MODEL SHOTS
AENG 468 - Urban Design
RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION DEVELOPMENT| ALTERNATIVES
AENG 468 - Urban Design
AENG ELECTIVE- Landscape
AENG ELECTIVE- Landscape
AENG ELECTIVE- Landscape
AENG ELECTIVE- Landscape
AENG 455 Architectural Design Studio V
Iman Elshafei
AENG 455 Architectural Design Studio V High-tech Tree House
Studio on smart buildings and high-tech architecture. Expanding on the 1970’s theme of High-Tech architecture, this studio aims at redefining the role of cutting edge technology in design- both process and product. Digital technology has revolutionized the way we conceptualized, visualize, present and are eventually able to construct our buildings, making impossible designs of the past a reality. Rapid developments in materials, building systems and construction methods have broadened our design horizons. Issues such as virtual architecture and smart buildings will be explored with regards to their viability and role in the future of architecture.
AENG 455 Architectural Design Studio V
AENG 455 Architectural Design Studio V
The concept is clearly applied in the plan and sections. The design process took place on the 3D and drawings in parallel. The project has a unique 3D where it carries a tree structure mixed with the mushroom column idea.
TREE HOUSE | SECTION A-A
The column acts as a structure an a storage for the bubble balloon that could the entire structure that could be completely/ partially opened for ventilation.
TREE HOUSE | GROUND FLOOR PLAN
AENG 455 Architectural Design Studio V
Iman Elshafei TREE HOUSE | PIANO AREA
TREE HOUSE | CLOSED BALLOON EXTERIOR DAY SHOT
Closed balloon allow exterior view and to separate the exterior mechanical louvers are shut
Iman Elshafei TREE HOUSE | CLOSED BALLOON NIGHT SHOT
TREE HOUSE | CLOSED BALLOON CORNER DAY SHOT
AENG 455 Architectural Design Studio V
Tree House, Exterior Open Balloon, Day Shot Rendering. The shot is showing the structure of the house and context.
Iman Elshafei
Iman Elshafei
Iman Elshafei TREE HOUSE | CLOSED BALLOON SHOT
AENG 454 Architectural Design Studio IV
Iman Elshafei
AENG 454Architectural Design Studio IV Structure Design25th of Jan Museum Studio on the Art of Structure and Technology. This studio’s primary objective is to link the two basic components of architecture- art and engineering. Based on a firm understanding of structural systems and their appropriate application to architectural design, projects will be designed to incorporate both aesthetic beauty and structural thinking. The influence of technology in the form of new materials and methods will be examined through their design potential. Three-Dimensional manual and digital models will play an essential role in the design development processes of this studio.
AENG 454 Architectural Design Studio IV
TAHRIR SQUARE MUSEUM| LAYOUT
TAHRIR SQUARE MUSEUM| UNDERGROUND TUNNEL FROM BURNED NDP TO THE MUSEUM.
TAHRIR SQUARE MUSEUM | GROUND FLOOR PLAN
TAHRIR SQUARE MUSEUM | MAIN ELEVATION
AENG 454 Architectural Design Studio IV People unified again after the Camel’s aggression site. They may still have different opinions about who they would like to vote for but with a clearer vision in their paths with better understanding of where they are heading. In this area of the project people pass through sensor screens where every individual wears a political character in the mirror reflection not in reality. The structure also changes from simple frame to trussed representing the complication of the stage. Finally an open space where people have the choice of where to head with a seating area, a gallery, an amphitheater overlooking the Tahrir square and finally a multifunction hall that could be used by the revolution council to meet or watching documentaries above the amphitheater. The structure changes again for space frame. TAHRIR SQUARE MUSEUM | FIRST FLOOR PLAN
TAHRIR SQUARE MUSEUM | SECTION A-A
AENG 454 Architectural Design Studio IV
Different frame types are used to express different space functions on the interior and exterior aspect. The structure starts from simple frame to mega structure space frame.
TAHRIR SQUARE MUSEUM | STRUCTURE SKIN
TAHRIR S. MUSEUM | STRUCTURE INSPIRATIONS
TAHRIR SQUARE MUSEUM | STRUCTURE SKIN
AENG 454 Architectural Design Studio IV
Different frame types are used to express different space functions on the interior and exterior aspect. The structure starts from simple frame to, Trussed frame and then to mega structure space frame.
TAHRIR SQUARE MUSEUM | MAIN ELEVATION STRUCTURE
TAHRIR S. MUSEUM |LIVE SECTION
TAHRIR S. MUSEUM |BACK ELEVATION
TAHRIR S. MUSEUM | EXPERIENTIAL MAZE
AENG 453 Architectural Design Studio III
AENG 453Architectural Design Studio III
Lotus Office Building
Studio on Environment and Sustainability. This studio will allow students to investigate various aspects of the environment and ‘sustainability’ as a force within the architectural profession. Recent increases in global climatic and social pressures have necessitated environmental awareness as well as new architectural design solutions. Using current sustainable design strategies as a foundation, students will analyze and implement their own environmentally responsible analysis and designs. Conservation and recycling of materials and waste management. Field trip to gain hand on experience on the sustainable design and waste management is a requirement.
AENG 453 Architectural Design Studio III
The building is built in 6th of October are that is closer to upper Egypt than the rest of Cairo as well as close the ancient Egyptian monuments as the pyramids, the concept was as a result inspired from there. Inspired from the lotus flower that floats to the top of the water in the morning and sinks at night. This was a great myth in ancient Egypt as it represented the recreational process for them which is the main concept behind their way of thinking. The main geometry is based on several lotus buds intersecting. Every floor is stepping to the exterior giving the feeling of openness on the perspective level and acting as a shading device to the following floor.
LOTUS OFFICE BUILDING |MAIN GRID
LOTUS OFFICE BUILDING |FURNITURE GRID
AENG 453 Architectural Design Studio III
LOTUS OFFICE BUILDING | GROUND FLOOR PLAN
AENG 453 Architectural Design Studio III
LOTUS OFFICE BUILDING | 3D SHOT
Project 3D Shots showing the lotus buds, their openness, shading devices, landscape and solar panels. Solar panels covering the top of the building to optimize the use of energy.
LOTUS OFFICE BUILDING | 3D SHOT
AENG 453 Architectural Design Studio III
LOTUS OFFICE BUILDING | SOUTHERN ELEVATION
The southern elevation shows the stepping of each floor that acts as a shading device on the lower floor. The eastern elevation has a wooden vertical shading devices that acts as part of the design.
LOTUS OFFICE BUILDING | EASTERN ELEVATION
AENG 453 Architectural Design Studio III
LOTUS OFFICE BUILDING | EXTERIOR SHOT
Different views of the elevation in perspective. A clear shot of the different levels of the building, the different use of shading devices and landscape elements.
LOTUS OFFICE BUILDING | EXTERIOR SHOT
AENG 453 Architectural Design Studio III
LOTUS OFFICE BUILDING | INTEGRATION OF LANDSCAPE FEATURES WITH THE BUILDING
Landscape acting as a main feature in the project reducing humidity and creating a more sustainable environment. In addition of creating a friendly environment and a middle plaza. Allowing people to gather around it in and get out the mood of the work and formal life to a break.
AENG 453 Architectural Design Studio III Hanging leaves is a different type of shading devices that is used in the project to cover the pathways, emphasis the entrances and exits, create a harmonious environment and more sustainable one. It doesn’t only shade the pathways but also the buildings as shown in the pictures as well.
LOTUS OFFICE BUILDING | EXIT SHADING
Shots showing the different sustainable materials used in the project, water features, greenery, roof solar panel’s in one shot and green hanging leaves and vertical shading devices on the other.
LOTUS OFFICE BUILDING | GREEN & WATER FEATURE.
LOTUS OFFICE BUILDING | WALKING PATHS VS. BUILDING SHOT
AENG 368 - Housing Design and Geographic Information
AENG 368 - Housing Design and Geographic Information Systems Lotus Office Building
Context, history and framework of regional, city and urban planning. Concepts, features and characteristics of human settlements. Interrelationship between socio-cultural contexts and housing processes. Design of housing areas and housing units. Design of ‘appropriate’ and ‘responsive’ residential environments within specific resources. Concepts and system components of GIS. Creation and management of a geodatabase. GIS analysis and applications in housing projects.
AENG 368 - Housing Design and Geographic Information
AENGÂ 368Â - Housing Design and Geographic Information
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hysical model for the project showing the main spine. The use of the acrylic material showed the different floors of each building and allowed an integration with the main plan.
AENGÂ 368Â - Housing Design and Geographic Information
The connection middle class the is connecting the Low and the high income buildings. The model shows a unique for engaging a garden in the middle and having the buildings overlooking it.
AENG 352 Architectural Design Studio II
AENG 352 Architectural Design Studio II Pavilion for children
Studio on form, space and composition. Students are required to think of architecture from the “outside-in� approach, with focus being placed on the form of architecture and its composition. An emphasis will be placed on the compositional aspects of spatial design- proportion, balance, rhythm, dynamics etc. and their use as tools of functional accommodation. Three-dimensional models play an important role in design development and students will be encouraged to think spatially rather than in the conventional Cartesian format. Issues of meaning, message and symbolism will be discussed and applied. Various works of architects adopting this formalistic approach will be reviewed and analyzed.
AENG 352 Architectural Design Studio II
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he use of solid and void to obtain shades and shadows to engage the children in understanding the different material. Also the use of colors to allow the child to explore the different colors. The use of a circular shapes to have an infinite beginning that allows the child to have his own world. Also the shape is inspired from the children’s counting game the Abacus. The design has made understanding of sun direction locating the max amount of beads on the south and minimal amount on the north. This allowed the max use of shadow on the southern area. Inspirations for the use of solid, void, shade and shadow in different pavilions and the engagement of people.
Th main inspiration for having a human inside a bead.
AENG 352 Architectural Design Studio II
Eastern Elevation
Southern Elevation
Western Elevation
Project drawings, plan elevation and section. The plan clearly shows the different functions of spaces, the Admen area with the rigid forms while the children’s area in it’s free form and space.
Section
AENG 352 Architectural Design Studio II The project development though out the process, showing the beginning with white colors to the final product with the harmonious mix of colors.
AENG 351 Architectural Design
AENG 351 Architectural Design Studio I Villa &Office building
Studio on designing in behavioral and socio-cultural contexts. “Inside-out� approach to Architecture. Design through the study of behavioral use of space. Age, sex, culture and individuality as well as complex functional relationships influence on architectural design. Study of the nature of human behavior and how it can be incorporated, facilitated, modified and influenced through architectural design. Design for special needs populations. Introduction to developing project brief through definition of the needs of society, users and clients.
Architecture drawing
Architecture drawing Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright
The principal task of the architect is to design buildings which accommodate human activity. Drawing is its most expressive form. The course introduces the student to basic drawing skills and techniques. Fundamentals of architectural drawing; conventions of graphic representation, drawing as an important means to architecture, orthographic projection, architectural composition through abstract shapes and forms, study of architectural orders, architectural space, plan, section, elevation, sectional perspective, other graphic means.
AENG 473 Advanced Computer-Aided Architectural Design
AENG 473Advanced Computer-Aided Architectural Design Pavilion for children
Introduction and application of advanced CAD concepts. Real time computer graphics. Computer applications for performance animation, virtual reality and interactivity. Alternative inputs and displays. Modeling, texture mapping, environments, navigation, lighting, animation and sound. Generative design and Avatars.
AENG 473 Advanced Computer-Aided Architectural Design
AENG 473 Advanced Computer-Aided Architectural Design
One of the very unique projects that involved different applications , scripting and programs having
a powerful output with unique patterns that where not thought of as a human before. The process was scripting on Grasshopper, mixing the different pattens of circles and rectangles this allowed exporting the layers to 3Dmax adding the material and contextual layer to it.
AENG 473 Advanced Computer-Aided Architectural Design
The use of grasshopper allowed baking (exporting) the output to Auto-CAD that allowed that enabled
Digital fabrication. This took place on a laser cutting machine cutting through paper material resulting in the physical model.
Art Work
Art Work