Architectural Design Portfolio

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

TABLE OF CONTENT

Van Welden Architecten

Design & Renovation Works on 2 Single Family Houses - Flemish Brabant

Building Technology Studio

Exhibition Pavilion in the Age of Energy - Dubai

Green Building Solutions

Passive-House Design + CLT Construction for Student Housing - Vienna

ESSENCE - Smart City Antwerp

Simulations & Scenarios in Urban Context for the Installation of Smart Screens

Van Welden & Partners | Zemst, Belgium

The architecture studio was mainly focused on designing and renovating either single family housing or multi-story residential for local people who are living nearby and asking for accommodations. The work initially started by drafting CAD drawings, architectural details and later on preparing master plans according to Flemish construction regulations and building codes.

The upper plans represent the existing condition of the family house, and the plans on the bottom demonstrates the new design, shown in orange color, that took place.

An example of construction detail to renovate the facade & kitchen to apply thermal insulations and to extend the bathroom in the first floor towards the balcony.

Bathroom

Kitchen

Bathroom

Kitchen

Another example of Architectural works and designs to extend an existing family house located in the neighborhood of Mechelen in order to meet the clients requirements. The new designs over the exsiting structure are shown in pink colour.

In terms of building construction techniques, the majority of buildings are made of diverse building materials and structural elements such as wood beams, concrete slabs, masonry bearing walls out of brick and even the composition of two methods with each other.

MATERIALEN

GEVELSTEEN: (Wit geschilderd)

GEVELBEKLEDING: BREUKSTEEN (beige)

PLINT: BREUKSTEEN (bruin)

RAMEN EN DEUREN:ALU (goud)

RAMEN EN DEUREN: HOUT(bruin geschilderd)

GARAGE POORT: PVC (wit)

RAMEN EN DEUREN: PVC (wit)

DORPEL EN DAKRAND: ARDUIN

HANGGOOT: PVC (GRIJS)

HOUTBEKLEDING: WIT (geschilderd)

DAKBEDEKING :LEIEN (zwart)

ONTWORPEN ZIJGEVEL LINKS

ONTWORPEN

ONTWORPEN FUNDERING

MATERIALEN

GEVELSTEEN: (Wit geschilderd)

GEVELBEKLEDING: BREUKSTEEN (beige)

PLINT: BREUKSTEEN (bruin)

RAMEN EN DEUREN:ALU (goud)

RAMEN EN DEUREN: HOUT(bruin geschilderd)

GARAGE POORT: PVC (wit)

RAMEN EN DEUREN: PVC (wit)

DORPEL EN DAKRAND: ARDUIN

HANGGOOT: PVC (GRIJS)

HOUTBEKLEDING: WIT (geschilderd)

DAKBEDEKING :LEIEN (zwart)

DIRIL/GEGHAMYAN Nedim en Narine Steenweg op blaasveld 58. 2801 HEFFEN Steenweg op blaasveld 58 2801 Heffen (MECHELEN) Afd. 7, Sectie B, nr, 158 H

BESTAANDE VERDIEPING

ONTWORPEN VERDIEPING

DIRIL/GEGHAMYAN Nedim en Narine Steenweg op blaasveld 58. 2801 HEFFEN

Steenweg op blaasveld 58 2801 Heffen (MECHELEN)

Afd. 7, Sectie B, nr, 158 H

BESTAAND GELIJKVLOERS

Schaal 1/100

OPMERKINGEN:

- ALLE FUNDERINGEN ZIJN AAN TE ZETTEN OP DE VASTE GROND EN VORSTVRIJE DIEPTE, MIN. 80 CM DIEP.

- ALLE STERKTEBEREKENINGEN VOLGENS STUDIE VAN EEN TERZAKE BEVOEGD STUDIEBUREEL, TEN LASTE VAN DE KLANT.

- DE ARCHITECT IS NIET VERANTWOORDELIJK VOOR GEGEVENS WELKE DOOR DERDEN AAN HEM ZIJN BEZORGD.

- ALLE AFMETINGEN ZIJN TER PLAATSE TE CONTROLEREN EN AAN TE PASSEN AAN DE BESTAANDE TOESTAND.

Dubai is second in political and financial power to Abu Dhabi and exercises a degree of independence and autonomy in economic policy making, although it is expected to support the UAE in other arenas such as foreign relations and defense (EIU, 2005a). In terms of climate and hydrology, Dubai, a city known for its high-rise skyscrapers, located in Middle East follows an extreme environment and low rate annual precipitation which obviously has had a great influence on people and living conditions prevailing over there.

Dubai is situated at the northern tip of the Rub al Khali Desert, a desert which covers about 600,000 km2 of Southern Arabia (Guba & Glennie, 1998, p. 57). The first efforts to plan the evolution and globalization of the Emirate date back to 1960, when the British architect John Harris was entrusted by Sheik Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum with the task of systematizing the development of Dubai’s infrastructure.

More importantly, it was the discovery of oil at the end of the decade, as well as the growing role of the Emirate as a commerce hub for the Near East, which led to a renewed version of Dubai’s master plan, once again authored by Harris, in 1971 (Acuto, 2014, p.6). Dubai acts as a regional entrepot and promotes itself as the commercial and financial nexus of the Gulf, energetically creating freetrade zones and industrial parks such as the latest ones devoted to the Internet and Media.

Consequently, with a brief overview on the late history of Dubai through the years of civilization and construction it is clear how great oil has influenced the whole region in every possible aspects of life. The fundamental concept of our design in order to implement the user experience theme is based on Transition. How can we demonstrate the path in which mankind transformed the previous concept of energy - fossil fuel - to the most recent one that is so-called renewable energy?

By doing so, we need to transform the temporary source of energy to the one which actually is to be a permanent source of energy. In the same way, when we look back on days and memories that are already passed we mostly might have experienced dissatisfaction, depression and failures, on the other hand, while we look forward to the horizons, it means we are discovering new realms of hope, future, and life.

According aforementioned explanations, to better understand and illustrate the concept “Transition” we compose the algorithm and computer science with a given definition of past and future. In the second place, what we need now is to shape this transmission by using the programming language. The pavilion we are to design is overlooking south and north. Furthermore, with free form architecture we translate the absolute and rapid change of 0 – 1 into the flexible and glossy structure throughout the site plan.

GREEN BUILDING SOLUTIONS | VIENNA

MAIN PLAN FACADES

Three-week intense program of the Green Building Solutions, offered by number of prestigious Austrian universities, centers around sustainability, ecological and energy-efficient design and urban development, as well as integrating socially sustainable urban and building design.

The essential contents are an introduction into sustainable architecture, passive house planning, IEAA-Tool, grey energy, light and massive construction. In addition, the program continues with obtaining the fundamental knowledge through building technologies and automatisation, HVAC, control mechanisms in buildings, decentred application possibilities in smart buildings, dynamic thermal simulations in the planning process, thermal efficiency, heat pumps, innovative cooling strategies, photovoltaic, eco-balance in buildings, different quality labels, etc.

In the end, following the 3rd week, participants were divided into different groups to run the project of designing a residential student dormitory based on the outcome of 2-week of training and tutorials.

3 Moduls of the program:

. Sustainability in Building and Urban Planning

. Principles of Passivhaus planning

. Renewable Energies and Business Concepts

MAIN PLAN FACADES

ZONING AND PROGRAM

SECTION AND LIGHTING

OPTIMIZED FOR SHADING AT 65.45 DEGREES AT HIGH NOON IN THE SUMMER

SYSTEMS

OPTIMIZED FOR LIGHT DURING LOWEST 18.55 DEGREES AT HIGH NOON IN THE WINTER

AHU 1 (COMMON SPACES)

TOTAL AIRFLOW = 8000 M3/H

AHU 2 (ROOMS)

TOTAL AIRFLOW = 12600 M3/H

HEAT EXCHANGER NEW AIR/GROUND EFFICIENCY = 0.7

HEAT EXCHANGER RETURN AIR/NEW AIR EFFICIENCY = 0.7

AIR CONTROL - C02 AMOUNT INTO COMMON SPACES/ ROOMS

PREHEATING/ PRECOOLING OF AIR + DEHUMIDIFACTION IN AHU WITH HENTALPY WHEEL AND COOLING COIL

TEMPORARY HOUSING - Prefabricated CLT Cabin

BUILDING

TEMPORARY HOUSING - Prefabricated CLT Cabin

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(in)STABILITY ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO II Critics: SIMONE GIOSTRA | ELISA CATANEO

CONSTRUCTION

PV PANELS

PV PANELS

CONCRETE SKELETON

CONCRETE SKELETON

CLT DORM AND ENVELOPE

CLT DORM AND ENVELOPE

USE OF HEMP INSULATION IN THE ENVELOPE

USE OF HEMP INSULATION IN THE ENVELOPE

SOUTHERN PERSPECTIVE

I have been working as an exchange student for the thesis activity primarily in the planning & development phase of Smart City Antwerp. The smart city playground for the experiment was situated in the “smart zone” of Sint-Andries in Antwerp. The program so-called “ESSENCE” is to bring human perspectives into a smart city platform which collects daily information from personal devices and public displays to augmented reality. The ultimate goal of the project is to create interactive stories embedded in the city environment about any civic actions taking place in the urban district. The works are done firstly started by drafting urban-scale plans into CAD, then running interdisciplinary plug-ins such as Space Syntax, Smart Space Analyser, Ladybug & Honeybee, and Agent-Based/Crowd simulations into required programs like QGIS, DepthmapX, Rhino plus Grasshopper.

In the first place going through the Space Syntax theory by Bill Hillier coupled with some other scholars, the analysis of spatial configurations, in order to better understand the space and the pattern of space that how it brings individuals into each other to form a society. According to what Alan Penn adds “the shape of the space effects the potential social relations in the space”, I could practically use DepthmapX, an open-source and multi-platform spatial analysis software for spatial networks, to realize how the spatial dimensions of Sint-Andries Square are shaped with respect to the surrounding urban context.

Secondly, after acquiring spatial data, the environmental analysis were the ones to acquire the knowledge in terms of Cumulative Solar Radiation Analysis, Real-time Radiation Analysis and Urban Shading Effects to gather the information regarding the sun-light and shadow range effects, either annually or real-time, to finally arrange the placement of smart screens in Sint-Andries Square. In other words, to protect displays from the direct sunlight hit, we had to pick the right orientation to locate them properly in the square. On the other hand, having the concept of solar panels to power the smart displays was an alternative way to clarify the highest available solar radiation in the space while considering all existing obstacles such as trees, blockes, and buildings. To give an example, based on the geographical coordinates, Spring Equinox, Summer Soltice, Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice individually were set and run for getting real-time radiation analysis to optimize the versatility of light and shadow during day and night.

INTEGRATION

Integration is a normalised measure of distance from any a space of origin to all others in a system as it calculates how close the origin space is to all other spaces. In other words, Integration shows a degree value which a node is intergrated or segregated from a system as whole (Global), or as a partial (Local).

Sint-Andriesplaats

Sint-Andriesplaats

VISUAL INTEGRATION

Visual integration measures visual distance from all spaces to all others.

VISUAL Visual

VISUAL INTEGRATION INCLUDING OBSTACLES

Visual integration measures visual distance from all spaces to all others.

Sint-Andriesplaats

SPATIAL CONNECTIVITY

Spatial connectivity measures the number of spaces immdeiately connecting a space of origin.

AGENT-BASE

‘agents’

AGENT-BASE MODELING BASED ON VISUAL INTEGRATION

In the field of space syntax, an agent-based model is a simulation of individual movement behaviour in which ‘agents’ choose their direction of movement based on a defined visual field derived from visibility graph analysis, in which agents have access to pre-computed information about what is visible from any given location in the map.

SMART SPACE ANALYSIS

Distance To

How far away is everything from one or more key locations?

The Distance to analyser produces a colour map showing how far all accessible points are from a chosen target point. If multiple target points are chosen the colour map will display the shortest distance to any one of the target points. Green indicates a short distance from the target, red indicates a long distance from the target and grey indicates areas that are inaccessible. 20 100

SMART SPACE ANALYSIS

Walkability

Where are the most likely pinch points?

The Walkability analyser produces a colour map showing how far all accessible areas are from the nearest obstacle. Green-yellow indicate areas that are closest to an obstacle. Orange-red indicates areas that are furthest from an obstacle. 20