PORTFOLIO IBRAHIM ISMAIL 2015-2022
PROFESSIONAL - ACADEMIC
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PROFESSIONAL WORK 01
DESTINO
ACADEMIC WORK 07
Graduation Project - Cairo University Theatre complex
Mix used tower - El Ezz Developments Offices - Retail - F&B
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DIAR II
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CIVIC CENTER Mixed Use building - Hyde Park Developments Offices - Clinics - Retail
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THE CONDO Residential Building - 4th year
Mixed Use building - Taamer Developments Offices - Clinics - F&B - Retail
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HALO
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LE CHAT Pavilion - 1st Year
EL ARABY Mixed Use building - El Araby Group Showrooms - Offices - Workshops
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BOULIVARD F&B Complex - Multiple Contributors
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GOV COMPLEX Office Buildings - Ministry of Utilities, Housing and urban communites
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PROFESSIONAL WORK v
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Commercial | Mixed use Tower - Destino Location: New Adminstrative Capital, Egypt | Area: 13137 sqm
Conceptual Deisgn, Permits The tower stands out elegantly through the city’s skyline at the downtown district as the epitome of futurism & development. Starting with a welcoming commercial base that activates the plaza , the building is gracefully staggered upwards into quieter and calmer office spaces with green terraces. Streamlined paths leading users into the project which blend elegantly with the louvers that encompass the building into unique comfortable, transparent spaces. Thus, the tower welcomes it’s users into a lively plaza, into a hub of diversity, overlooking different views through different lenses, and allowing for unique diverse experiences.
Defining Landplot and setbacks
Footprint 872 sqm, views and activity spaces
Extruding the FP for Max BUA 13137sqm
Manipulate mass, conserve BUA, create terraces
Adhering to regulations, using louvers to protect against direct sun light
Final Mass showing terraces, louvers, & outdoor plaza
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2021| Mixed Use Tower | Distance Studio Consultants | El Ezz Developments
Ground Floor ( Entrances, F&B)
Second Floor (F&B)
3Ds Max | AutoCAD| Photoshop - InDesign
Typical Floor (Offices)
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Commercial | Mixed use building - Diar II Service Building Location: October 6th, Diar 2 Compound, Egypt | Area: 15090sqm
Conceptual Deisgn, Permits
The Mixed use Strip mall/ Office buidling is located at 6th Of October city serving as the service building for Diar 2 compound, which is developed by Taamer developments. It consists of a mixture of F&B outlets, as well as a wide range of retail, Offices & clinics spaces, a supermarket, all over looking a spacious plaza and a clubhouse with its own private plaza. The Building had a few challanging constrains which were working around compound walls in ministral decree, Allow for public use without violating compound’s privacy, accomodating a club house without being accessed directly by external visitors.
Defining Landplot, Setback and Foot Print
Defining Entrances, approaches, and views
Manipulate mass, conserve BUA, Create Front and Back Plazas
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Extruding the FP for Max BUA
Defining Plazaz and maxmizing them for Public (F&B) and Private ( compound) Activities
2021| Mixed Use building | Distance Studio Consultants | Taamer Development
Ground Floor Zoning
First Floor Zoning
Second Floor Zoning
3d Shot of the Public Plaza
3d Shot of the Clubhouse Private Plaza
3Ds Max | AutoCAD| Photoshop - InDesign
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Ground Floor
First Floor
Second Floor
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2021| Mixed Use building | Distance Studio Consultants | Taamer Development
Building is designed under the provision of future modifvvication to compound walls upon negotiation with authorities, focusing main entrances on main plazas, with temporary enrtance and exit from land edges. All F&B spaces, Retail terraces, & the majority of Offices & Clinics are overlooking a very active and a welcoming spacious plaza, while enjoying the main street view. all that while maintaining clubhouse’s private entrances and plazas which are completely separate than public ones.
3d Shot of out foor F&B
3d Shot of main Retail Entrance
3Ds Max | AutoCAD| Photoshop - InDesign
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Commercial | Mixed use building - Hyde Park Civic Center Location: New Cairo , Hyde Park New Cairo, Egypt | Area: 12000sqm
Conceptual Deisgn, coordination
This building was Commessioned to DSC by Hyde Park Development to serve as a mixed-use building by their new newcairo compound. building consists of 3 floors each devided equally to 2 parts, one serves as offices for Hyde Park management, and the other is a rentable area, sold as a 2 storey gym and a clinics floor, while the ground floor is entirely renteds to Seoudi Markets.
Street Elevation
3d Shot of the street elevation
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2021| Mixed Use building | Distance Studio Consultants | Hyde Park New Cairo
Basement Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Second and Third Floor Plans
AutoCAD| Photoshop - InDesign
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Commercial | Showroom Complex - El Araby Showrooms Location: New Aswan , Egypt | Area: 5060 sqm
Conceptual Deisgn, coordination
Stands as one of El Araby Group’s largest showroom complexes in New Aswan City, as well as containing El Araby’s showroom, it’s hosting a group of local distributers as well, providing a variety of spaces for home appliances and electronics showrooms, a super maarket, a pharmacy, and a mosque, in addition to serving as a maintainance center for Electronics. The Project was intended to provide an image, a visual identity for al Araby group, and work as a prototype for their upcoming buildings in Egypt.
Style Alternative One
Style Alternative two
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2021| Showroom Complex | Distance Studio Consultants | ElAraby Group
Basement Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Second and Third Floor Plans
AutoCAD| Photoshop - InDesign
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Commercial | F&B hub - Boulivard Location: Bahrain | Area: sqm
2d Design, presentation
Defining Landplot, setbacks, and FP
Creating a plaza to host acitivities while keeping the FP consistent
Splitting the plaza into front and back plazas to allow active and welcoming entrancnes
Cutting through continous mass to allow access back and forth between plazas
Just as the ground floor is connected via passages between buildings to connect each plaza, first floor is as connected as well , through fly over bridges to achieve connectivity.
Nudge the first floor mass edges as well to create outdoor terraces and spaces as well as connect the resulted terraces.
Nudging the masses’ egdes to break the dull formality of the rectangular boxes & further maximize external facades on the plazas.
Unifying the sense of the multiple masses, connect them visualy, as well as providing shade for facades a gainst the sun as well as shading the 1st floor terraces,
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2022| F&B Complex | Various Contributors |
Variuos Contributors
AutoCAD | Photoshop - InDesign
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Commercial | F&B hub - Boulivard
Ground Floor
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2022| F&B Complex | Various Contributors |
Variuos Contributors
First Floor
AutoCAD | Photoshop - InDesign
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Adminstrational | Government Service Complex Location: Various Locations , Egypt | Area: 5060 sqm
2d Design, coordination
A project that is set to be widely implemented accross all Egypt’s governorates to work as a Government service complex. Project is set to accommodate office spaces, Including the governers office, citizens service center, a theatre, a library, a gallery, and MPUs. Project is designed with 3 alternatives, alternating in areas and elevations language, depending on which governorate it is located in.
Style Alternative One
Style Alternative two
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2022| Government Service Center | Distance Studio Consultants | Ministry of Housing, Utilities & Urban Comm.
Ground Floor Plan
Typical Floor Plan
Building Entrances
Main Paths
AutoCAD| Photoshop - InDesign
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2021| Showroom Complex | Distance Studio Consultants | ElAraby Group
AutoCAD| Photoshop - InDesign
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ACADEMIC PROJECTS 21
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Performative Art Venue | Halo - Graduation Project Location: Downtown Cairo , Egypt | Area: 21500 sqm Thesis project of my class was about Energizing Architecture, it is the kind of architecture that has a stimulative influence on its witnesses, those witnesses may be people, natural environment, built environment, or even non-physical witnesses like economy, culture and beliefs. Any architecture that would boost development, increase productivity, enhance environment, or even restore physical well-being is considered Energizing Architecture. My Project would Energize People through
Academic Project
- Project Logo
“Reviving” the “Festival Garden” t hat was once there, a new Interpretation of the Contemporary Life in the essence of the Old Glory Days. The Project would be a blend of the “Formal & Informal” where Formal festivals take place together with the informal performance Arts that are always taking place.
-Creating an Entrance on the intersection of the - The building is burried under the ground with - Adding the wings to allow wider spaces two main streets along the land, while burrying its start and end tips only above the ground, - Focusing more on the directionof Al the middle part of the building to allow to allow for connectivity between garden Azbakeya by enlarging the end of the connection with the garden sides. grand theater.
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- changing the concept of slits to work as -Parabolic section to give more clear height on the sides and reduce the loads from the soil structural frames with spacing in between, to -Opening skylight slits for natural ventillation use the frames as structural & environmetal elements for natural ilumination
2019| Halo | Graduation Project
- Project Typology
As the Current Artistic Product is very monotonus,in a deotrioration period; now its the time to help provide an a ccepting environment for new generations and Ideas to grow, specially popular arts such as music and drama. Art Avenue Project aims to shelter all a matuer, new artists in the Fields mention-ed above to help them express, develop a nd perform freely in a place that meets their needs from Rehersal/ recital/ training & Recoding studios, along with theatres and cinemas to show their work to the ` public. Along with a section for visual Arts.
- Initial Conceptual Sketch (Section)
- Initial Conceptual Sketch
Revit- Rhino - 3Ds Max - Sketch up | Photoshop
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Ground Floor Plan
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2019| Halo | Graduation Project
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Basement Floor Plan
Revit- Rhino - 3Ds Max - Sketch up | Lumion | Photoshop
3D Zoning
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3D Section Study
Entrance
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Roof Shot
2019| Halo | Cairo University - 4th Year - Graduation Project
Circulation Study
Interior Shot
Revit- Rhino - 3Ds Max - Sketch up |Lumion |Photoshop
Lay out
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Revit- Rhino - 3Ds Max - Sketch up |Lumion |Photoshop
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Residential| The Condo Location: Mohandseen, Giza, Egypt
Academic Project Project was set to be a state of the art skyscraper in Sheikh Zayed City, an investors attraction beacon, a business hub, and a social for the surrounding community. The office building is 150 m in height, consists of a G+5 podium, and 40 typical floors varying in areas.
Main Elevation
Main elevation shot
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Ground Floor Plan
2018| The Condo | Cairo Univeristy - 4th Year -Academic Project
Corner Study Model
Typical Floor
Entrances and apartments
Revit - Sketchup | Vray 3.4 - Lumion Photoshop
Apt Areas
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Cultural | Pavilion - Le Chat Location: N/A
Academic Project
We were challanged to design a serpentine like Pavillion deriving the concept from nature, or even the most bizzare objects around us. As a cat person, I was always fascinated with how cats always fall standingon their feet, and from that point, the idea s parked. Be Tracking a slow motion video of a falling cat, tracing her b ody axis, given the cat being stable at these specific moment, and is only moving under gravity, and abstracting her motion, resulted in the following figures.
Cat movement Abstraction
Floor Plan
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Elevation
2015| Le Chat | Cairo Univeristy - First Year - Academic Project
Trying with different materials and different C ompisitions to reach the best outcome:
Typical Floor
Section
AutoCAD| Photoshop
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Floor Plan
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2015| Le Chat | Cairo Univeristy - First Year - Academic Project
Shading study
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