Mohanned Iskanderani's Resume (UofT Graduate)

MOHANNED ISKANDERANI

Education

Master’s

ABOUT ME

I have been heavily involved in enormous amount of projects all over Saudi Arabia from the concept design stage all the way to the Detail Design stages between 2014-2023. I played parts in the early stages such as, Sketching, Site Analysis, Massing Studies, RFPing, Space Programing as well as the Architectural development of moving the projects from a sketch to the computer to be modeled in 3D through Revit, CAD, Rhino and Grasshopper.

WORK EXPERIENCES

University of Toronto

Aug 2023 - March 2024

Research Assistant with Dr. Brady Peters & Maria Yablonina

Confidential project working with Hassell Architects in London and ESA

SCALE/LINE Architects - Jeddah, SA

Design Manager/Project Manager.

April 2022 - April 2023

Managing 4-6 different projects at the same time

• Preparing Technical & Financial Proposals

Preparing Contracts in Arabic & English

• Preparing meetings and communications with all of consultants such as mechanical, electrical & structural engineers

• Creating Time Schedules for each projects and all submissions

• Following up on payments with all different clients

• Developed and integrated new work flow for the office & integrat ed a central Server to shift the work from AutoCAD to Revit for the Architectural & Interior teams

Al-Mukaab - Confidential

Senior Architect/Computational Designer

• Developed an entire process for transitioning all the sketches of Islamic calligraphy, Islamic floral and geometrical patterns into 2D/3D in Rhino

• Managing and mentoring +15 Junior level architects in learning how to draw Islamic patterns, geometries and arabic calligraphy to produce the 3D models through Sub-D modeling and create the detailed tender package through Revit.

• Led the communication and integration of C++ Grasshopper scripts with our consultants in London into the design of the project.

Ink Design - Confidential

Project Based Architect

MOHANNED ISKANDERANI

Skills

Languages

Fluent in reading, writing and speaking English & Arabic

Teaching

Been teaching Introduction courses for Rhino & Grasshopper from 2014 to 2022 in Saudi Arabia

Given Lectures

Dar El-Hekma University, 2016 Saudi Design Week, 2017 Effat University, 2017 Tasmeem Fair, 2018 King Abdulaziz University, 2018 Jeddah Universtiy, 2019

Exhibited Art

2019 MNWR, Madinah

2018 Tasmeem Fair, Jeddah

2017 Saudi Design Week, Riyadh

Guest Critic

Been invited as a guest critic to Dar Al-Hekma University final jury between 2017-2021

Lectures Attended

Attended multiple lectures by prominent speakers at Harvard & AA such as:

Junya ishigami, Toyo Ito, Bjark Ingels, Ben van Berkel, Herzog & De meuron, Christian Kerez, Kazuyo Sejima, Shohei Shigematsu, Rem Koolhas, Moshe Safdie, Jurgen Mayer, Patrick Schumacher, Nader Tehrani, Preston Scott Cohen, Thom Mayne, Daniel Bonilla, Eike Roswag, Saffet Kaya Bekiroglu

Marwan Bajnaid Architects - Confidential

Project Based Architect

Al-Kayan Engineering - Jeddah, SA

Senior Architect

• University of Business & Technology

July 2019 - Jan 2020

Oct 2017 - Feb 2019

• ASSLA - 1,500,00 SQM Equestrian Master Plan Development

EdgeArch - Jeddah, SA

Junior Architect/Parametric Designer

• Abha-Two International Airport - Abha, SA

Aug 2014 - Sep 2017

Saudi Arabian Consulate Complex - Karachi City, Pakistan

• Al-Taif Children Hospital - 300 Bed Hospital - Taif, SA

Evolo Skyscraper - International Competition

• Al-Madinah Welcoming Center Competition - Medinah, SA

Sustainable Energy Technology Center - Riyadh, King Saud Uni

• Advanced Manufacturing Institute, Riyadh, King Saud Uni

SIDE WORK EXPERIENCES

TAM Sports Showroom

Worked on a design of a sport’s show room as a solo architect from the concept until the execution of the project.

Shakl3D

I was involved with Shakl3D to recruit, and teach Jewelry designers to design Jewelry through Rhino and fabricate them with 3D printing technologies.

Zahid & Zahid

Worked with Gem importers to help them realize their brand identity by creating their logo, business cards, papers, and envelope designs.

Collaboration with an artist, Ed Andrews - Boston, MA, USA

Developed an entire project parametrically on Grasshopper that takes a form from Rhino and Radially/Horizontally cut it with a waffle script, flatten it, and parametrically apply patterns to it. The finished sculptures were done with Steel.

Collaborations with local artists

I have continuously assisted artists in Saudi Arabia like Ahmed Angawi, Nassir and Al-Salim, Dania Al-Saib, and many more others to help realize their projects into reality and mainly by using Rhino and Grasshopper.

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RECOGNITIONS

Ithra Art Prize - Saudi Arabia - 2019

Short listed for the finalist 5 proposals.

Venice Binnale - Italy - 2018

Was part of a team that submitted 6 different proposals and made it to the finalist 4 projects

The International Architectural Awards - EdgeArch- Abha Regional Airport - Italy - 2018

Abha Airport was nominated and won an award for its category at the festival

World Architectural Festival - Saudi Consulate in Karachi - EdgeArch - Germany - 2017

First Saudi project to ever win an award at The World Architectural Festival Civic Category

Vmodern - USA - 2016

Competed with Raygon, a 3D printed lamp and made it to the Honorable mention list of top 20 out of 180 entries

Rinkak.com - 3D Printing Competition - Japan - 2015

Competed with a Candle Holder Design and made the finalist 8 out of 807 entries

eVolo Skyscraper Competition - USA - 2015

Competed with the “Refugee Skyscraper” proposal and was published in “eVolo Magazine 3” as one of the top 100 projects from 1650 entries submitted for 3 years of the competition

Building Health Care Award - EdgeArch - Taif Children Hospital - Dubai - 2015

Awarded Best Future Hospital in Dubai

6th Zahner Biennial Competition - USA - 2015

Competed with Rook in a collaboration with Ed Andrews and made it to the finalist 14 list

*All of the previous experiences does not include the two 6 months experience I had during my Co-op experiences which were practiced in the USA/Saudi.

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Re-imagining Erosion (Thesis)

Advised by Dr.Brady Peters & Prof. Paul Harrison

This thesis constituted a conceptual speculative design research endeavor, centering on the analysis of erosion phenomena from a spatial viewpoint and the application of natural principles to design.

The design explorations initiated with the simulation of erosion in Houdini VFX and progressed to speculative investigations into employing Conway's Game of Life as a sculpting method, utilizing Grasshopper and evolutionary optimization (Galapagos) to control the form.

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UofT Worksamples

Mass Timber Elective

Instructed by Ted Kesik Collaborative work with Yucheng Gao

The core of this project is to design the entirety of the unit through Grasshopper where the model is linked parametrically in its entirerty.

All of the 3D model and beam vs column drawings were produced through grasshopper to ease the process of working drawing after the finalization of design.

INNER COLUMNS HOLDING RING

T-SHAPED BRACKET

INNER MASS-TIMBER COLUMNS

INNER COLUMNS HOLDING RING

T-SHAPED BRACKET

OUTER COLUMNS

T-SHAPED BRACKET

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