Architecture Portfolio - Mohanned Iskanderani

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Mohanned Iskanderan Thanaweiat Badr 4th/Junior year Architecture Portfol

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Name

Education

Age

Northeastern University - Boston, MA Candidate for Bachelor of Science Degree in Architecture [May 2014] Lexia International - Berlin, Germany Study Abroad program

Mohanned Iskanderani

22

Nationality

Work Experience Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 21째34'51.86"N 39째 9'38.47"E

Current Location

Boston, MA 42째21'8.73"N 71째3'36.89"W

Contact information

Iskanderani.m@husky.neu.edu 617.460.3188 (USA) (9665)05686233 (Jeddah)

Languages

English Arabic

Interests/Hobbies

Video Games, Video Editing, Photography, Rollerblading, Music, Playing Piano.

Integrated Design Group. Boston, MA Modified and created plans, sections, detail drawings, legends, families, and 3D models in Revit.

Imported Sketch-Up models into 3D Studio Max and Kerkythea for renderings.

Used Adobe Illustrator as well as Power Point to create presentations.

Ahmad Zidan (Edge). Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Modified hundreds of CAD drawings for a large scale hospital project.

Designed a villa for a client from the conceptual phase to the final presentation phase

Tlal Adham. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Was part of a value engineering study for Arar Airport.

Created renderings for Arar Airport on Kerkythea.

Skills Revit, Rhino , AutoCad 2D/3D, Sketch-Up, Ectotect, V-ray, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Kerkythea, Maxwell, Microsoft Power point, Word, Excel, Sony Vegas, Fraps, Beginner at Grasshopper.

Professional Development Attended an intensive two day workshop at modeLab in New York City for an introduction to the fundamentals and basics of Parametric Design using Rhino and Grasshopper.

Attended many lectures at the GSD by prominent speakers such as: 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, Kengo Kuma, and Farshid Moussavi.

School Preschool

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One of the top 3 people in the entire grade through the years,

Introduction

4.5 Hotel Liebesnest

5.5

8.5

11.5 Mohammed Bin Ali School The longest I stayed in a school was 3 years and the shortest is a week.

Visual Art Performing School

Cambridge Library

Professional Work

A bit about me Period

My life in Saudi Arabia

Al-Nour School

Al-Qayrawan School

3 Years

2 Years

Thanaweiat Badr Kindergarten

Ebin Majid School

Al-Andalos Al-Ahleyya Om Al-Qura

Forgotten Childhood

1 Year

Age

0

One of the top 3 people in the entire grade through the years in schools while taking 10-15 subjects a semester.

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Mohammed Bin Ali School

I went to 8 different schools from Kindergarten to the 12th Grade. The longest I stayed in school was 3 years and the shortest was a week.

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My life in America Made a world record being one of the top players in the top 100 guilds in the world in World of Warcraft

2 Achievements: 1

3 Years

Mastered Prelude in C # Minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff after 2 years of learning the piano

Freshman & Sophomore year of architecture

24 Months

Scan to watch me play piano Highschool at Cambridge public highschool for 2 years

12 Months

Berlin study abroad program Integrated Design Group - Coop

Majored in Graphic Design

8 Months

4 Months

16

18 Cambridge Rindge and Latin Highschool

Moved to America!

18.5 Off-semester

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H iebesnest

Evolution

ERLIN

ROOMS

Luxury hotel One hour hotel Apartments for prostitutes Display windows Total rooms

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Concept: The site was located infront of the “red light district” in Berlin. The street had prostitution that is considered legal in Europe. It was really difficult for me as a human and a student of architecture to see such tragedy happening. I felt that it was my duty to do something about it. I had to take my rule as an architect to change what is happening in Berlin, hoping to improve people’s life conditions.

Program: Main Program:

OTEL

Taught by: Bettina Kraus Location: Berlin, Germany Project Length: Four Months Foot Prints : 1521 Square meters Middler Year of Architecture - 2011

I decided to create a hotel integrating the prostitution in the surrounding area. The idea was to take the prostitute off of the street and actually put a roof on top of their head. The hotel ended up to be a sex hotel that integrated the prostitution and introduced different programs. The hotel is created from 4 different towers that connect through the lobby where they meet. All the four towers celebrate the sexuality that brings this program together.

They all break the boundaries between the bedrooms and bathrooms. Tower A&B hosts the more romantic luxurious hotel rooms while Tower C works as a one hour hotel, and finally Tower D works as a residential for the prostitutes.

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6 Private outdoor space

2 Display Windows

7 Storage Rooms

3 Lobby

8 Restaurant

4 Bar

9 Kitchen

5 Public outdoor space

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Evolution through the semester

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10 Garage

There are nine different unique plans in Tower A where the big rooms are always placed on different sides, with their bathtubs extruded out of the building for different unique views.

Tower A

Plan 1

Plan 2

Plan 3

Plan 4

Plan 5

Plan 6

Tower B has three different schemes of plans where the big rooms are always placed on different sides, with their bathtubs extruded out of the building as well.

Plan 7

Plan 8

Plan 9

Tower B

Plan 1

Plan 2

Plan 3

Section

Tower C

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Ventilation for the display rooms

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Tower D

1 Bathrooms

5 Elevator

2 Bedrooms

6 Stairs

3 Living Rooms

7 Storage Rooms

4 Hallways

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The site was located in the corner of a major intersection between Potsdamer Strasse and Kurfurstenstrasse. The ground floor of the hotel becomes more of an interior street hosting display windows for the prostitutes, a restaurant, the main lobby and an outdoor public space that opens up in the front and back.

The four towers are confronted with each other while they are connected on the ground floor through inner streets

The living streets in the lobby become an interaction space between the prostitutes and the users of the hotel

Tower C - Large room rendering.

The bathtubs are placed in the bedrooms and the boundaries are broken between the bedroom and bathroom

Tower A - Large room rendering.

The boundaries are broken between the bathroom and bedroom with glass walls

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A nalysis

chool

Concept: Before we started designing the visual art performing school, each student got to analyze an existing school. This is an Analysis diagram that shows and studies the concepts behind Gray Middle School

Taught by: Rebbecca Whidden Location of the project: Boston, MA Project Length: Three Weeks Foot Prints : N/A Sophmore Year of Architecture - 2010

Special Classes Circulation

Gym

Library/Administrative

Gym

Lunch Room Regular Classes Most Auditoriums

Serves Least

Outdoor forming the building

Circulation carving to create openings

Circulation ca spaces and l

Understanding the main concept behind every push and pull in the plan of the building

Circulation connecting program together

Circulation Carving to create major gathering spaces

Circulation Carv separating and

arving creating main green learning spaces in the back

ving creating main hallways connecting programs together.

Circulation carving creating space for the main stairs

Circulation Carving creating spaces for doorways

Circulation carving defining the spaces from the outside facade

Circulation Carving creating space for the main stairs

VA Interior perspective - Interior Lobby

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Concept: The main concept was revolving around an idea that I have experience in my highschool in Cambridge Rindge and Latin Highschool. The idea was to mix all the different art department between themselves to encourage the students to learn from each other and inspire one another. By mixing the program and not isolate the different departments, you get the students to bump into eachother and see each other perform different art skills. Therefor the students will influence each other to learn other art skills.

Program: Main Program:

SQ FEET

Residential Commercial Visual Art School

110,000 15,000 40,000

Taught by: Rebbeca Whidden Location: Boston, MA Project Length: Four Months Foot Prints : Sophomore Year of Architecture - 2010

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First floor plan

Ground floor plan

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Connection between the city and the classes.

Diagram #2

Diagram #1

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Connection between the Common space and the classes

Second floor plan

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Third floor plan

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Connection between the Improvised space and the classrooms.

Diagram #4

Diagram #3

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Connection between the outdoor space and the classes.

Disciplines , Admin, Library, Computer Lab, Classes, and bathrooms

Performance outdoor space and secondary outdoor space

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Voids: Gathering spaces, Common Space, Auditorium, Improvised space, Outdoor space, and Gallery

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Main and secondary circulation cores

Interior perspective - Common spaces.

- The school is always live with the vision of activity through the walls of program

Interior perspective - Improvised space.

The voids are formed by the different colors and different art classes

Interior perspective - Lunch space.

The colors are always creating harmony with the spaces they form

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AMBRIDGE

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IBRARY

Concept: The project to introduce a new public library to the city of Cambridge. The library will be used by all kinds of different residents, especially those who often use online services and computers.

Program: Main Program:

SQ FEET

Books of 30,000 volumes: Reading Rooms: Open Public Space: Serves total of:

5100 3800 5000 5000

Taught by: Sam Choi Location: Boston, MA Project Length: Two Months Foot Prints : 13,000 Square feet Sophomore Year of Architecture - 2010

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Elevator Circulation Desk Offices Loading Dock Children Reading Outdoor Space Local History Periodical Main Reading Room Secondary Reading Spaces Computer Lab Class Auditorium Bathrooms Online Catalog

Interior perspective - Middle void You are always surrounded by books no matter where you go. There are books above and beyond you

Sections

Section A

Section B

The idea of the facade was to cover where the books are and expose the reading spaces to the sun light with an intersection between both sides. The intersections that happen between the reading spaces and the books allow some natural light to penetrate the skin to reach for the books.

Books

Library Program

Interior perspective - Common spaces A triple high space for the main reading space

Interior perspective - Hallway between the book shelves.

Shaded books and exposed reading spaces by the facade

Interior perspective - Houvring reading space

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ROFESSIoNAL

This sample sheets includes work from my professional work experiences.

Internship: -Tlal Adham. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia -Ahmad Zidan (Edge). Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Coop -Integrated Design Group. Boston, MA

Arar Airport Rendered in Kerktheya

Building F Modeled in Sketch-up Rendered in Kerktheya

Building G Modeled in Sketch up Rendered in 3D Max

My personal design for the client while working at Edge The design was a compitation between other 5 Co-workers for a client to design a duplex-villa that will be built. There were no specific requirements for the project expect the total needed rooms in the house and the building codes.

The idea of the design started with tilting everything in the plan 45 degrees to create two different experiences and faces of the house. The concept has turned around and ended up to what it is today. An experiment between light and shadow with the voids that penetrate the house.

Note: The design and the concept idea was fully developed by me with the help of Hani Shata. The rendering and the materials chosen are the work of a co-worker.

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GREEN

HE WAY

The project studies the burying of the I-93 and the development that inhabited the I-93 into what we know today “The Green Line”. The project focuses directly on Dewey’s Square, the different programs it hosts and the way it connects underground.

12PM

Morning Hours

8AM

North

5PM

Lunch

Time of occupation

This diagram studies the different activities that happens around Dewey square and how it changes through out the day depending on the activity level.

Airport Info

1min 3min 5min 10min +15min

Points of Attraction

Points of Transportation

Mail Shops W/C

Hierarchy of Attraction

Rush Hour

Restaurant

Least

Most

Trains ER

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Silver Line Red Line

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6 Red Line Users Silver Line Users

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Distance between Red and Silver line users:

1-5’

20’

3874 uses the red line a day 5131 uses the silver line a day

5 This diagrams study the sectional difference between the ground floor, red line and silver line platform. The sequence diagram shows the relationship between the red& silver line users . How they enter through the same entrance but end up in different platforms to reach their destination.