Iman ElShafei Art & Architecture Portfolio

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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.

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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

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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

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AENG 491 - SENIOR PROJECT II

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RECREATIONAL CONVENTION CENTER | NORTH EASTERN PERSPECTIVE SHOT


AENG 491 - SENIOR PROJECT II

RECREATIONAL CONVENTION CENTER | RESTAURANT OPEN AREA

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AENG 491 - SENIOR PROJECT II

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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

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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

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From Kufi to Binary

Studies

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CINEMA RADIO CENTER | BACK ELEVATION


AENG 456 - Architectural Design Studio VI

CINEMA RADIO REHABILITATION CENTER | OUTDOOR OVERLAPPING PATHS

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CINEMA RADIO R. CENTER | THEATER

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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

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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.

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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



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