JAD ISMAIL DESIGN PORTFOLIO Selected Works, 2009-2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS
BRANCH LIBRARY Cambridge, Massachusetts Instructor: Sam Choi
CONTEXTUALIZING TOPOGRAPHY Ballyvaughan, Ireland Instructors: Mira Cantor + Julia Hechtman
FLEXIBLE HOUSING Lynn, Massachusetts Instructor: Suzanne Charles
SEA SPRAWL Amman, Jordan Instructors: Filippo Nassetti + Rana Zureikat
CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY The given prompt imagined Cambridge looking to rebuild one of its smaller branch libraries in a new site after the expansion and restoration of its main branch. The new program consisted of book stacks, reading spaces, and service areas. Initially, I organized these three areas of program as three disengaged volumes, allowing them to function independently. I later decided to pierce the reading spaces with the book stacks, rather than completely isolating these volumes.
This gives the separate programs the opportunity to
function autonomously, but still encourages interaction throughout the library as a whole. After further development, the final library design consists of three parts: a book stacks core, reading floor plates that hover around the program. The skin of the library folds in and out depending on the reading space it covers. The reading spaces have physical access to the book stacks, but the system of louvers prevents them from having visual access.
BRANCH LIBRARY
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a. Study Models b. Parti Diagram: core, floor plates, + skin c. Final Model seen with and without skin
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a. Perspective of Ground Floor b. Perspective of Reading Floorplate
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a. Perspective of Admin b. Perspective of Reading Nook in Bookstacks
BRANCH LIBRARY
BRANCH LIBRARY
CONTEXTUALIZING TOPOGRAPHY Designed and built while studying at the Burren College of Art, Contextualizing Topography takes its inspiration from the two major influences of Ireland: its history and its scenery.
Aside from its
majestic hills and blue skies, Ireland is also a country with a bleak and tumultuous history. As an ode to these two polarizing traits, the piece uses Ireland’s fight for independence to create an undulating inverted topography.
Read from one end to the other, the
installation is a timeline of the Troubles, the decades-long conflict ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that resulted in the deaths of nearly two thousand civilians. Each string represents the number of civilians lost throughout a full year of the Troubles; each dip representing a loss of life. Despite its dark context and Ireland’s ongoing sporadic clashes, the final piece is to represent hope and a peaceful future for the people of Ireland.
CONTEXTUALIZING TOPOGRAPHY
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1969
1973
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1978
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1990
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Frame
Grid
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a. Timeline of The Troubles b. Exploded axon of installation
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CONTEXTUALIZING TOPOGRAPHY
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a. Process photo: weaving fishline grid b. Process photo: stringing of the “topography”
CONTEXTUALIZING TOPOGRAPHY
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a. Reflected Ceiling Plan b. Elevation c. Installation in its permanent home
FLEXIBLE HOUSING Lynn’s rate of distressed housing, or foreclosed housing, is nearly double the state average, with Lynn ranking as the fourth most distressed gateway city in Massachusetts and two of the most distressed census tracts in Massachusetts residing in Lynn. Though this has prompted Lynn to pass the Anti-Foreclosure Ordinance to help decrease foreclosures, thousands of families still live in fear of possible eviction. Designed as an architectural responses to the foreclosure crisis in Lynn, this development provides the Lynn community with a number of flexible housing units to allow tenants the opportunity to manipulate their residences in order to adapt to their changing and evolving lives.
Inspired from the suburban
detached housing model, these new units in conjunction with dense multi-family residential buildings use varying levels of unit aggregation in the form of innovative interlocking to create a new residential block that reduces inefficiency in planning and allows for a cost-effective and versatile living standard.
FLEXIBLE HOUSING
1 bedroom 701 sf
1 bedroom 916 sf
1 bedroom 676 sf
1 bedroom 1,014 sf
2 bedrooms 904 sf
1 bedroom 731 sf
2 bedrooms 1,045 sf
2 bedrooms 936 sf
1 bedroom 792 sf
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a. Unit clusters b. Aggregation Flexibility c. Exploded cluster
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+ 15 yrs.
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FLEXIBLE HOUSING
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a. Typical cluster: Level 1 b. Typical cluster: Level 2 c. Interior Perspective
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a. Urban block transformation b. Perspective section through urban block c. Section through flexible housing
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FLEXIBLE HOUSING
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a. Model of typical aggregation b. Exterior Perspective down wรถnerf
SEA SPRAWL The strategy of Sea Sprawl is to translate a physical manifestation of crystallization occuring at the micro level in order to explore spatial autonomy and dependency at an urban scale. Our design realizes the natural processes of crystallization occuring only on certain surfaces and exploits this phenomenon to generate two different types of spaces. Clusters work in a systematic way, allowing their modularity
to
generate
equally-sized
spaces
with
similar
geometries on the highest most surfaces. Shared, open spaces exist on the lower levels and divide the natural behavior of sprawl, designating distinctive private and public space. Bridges connect these isolated clusters to each other, allowing the individual clusters to connect.
SEA SPRAWL
SEA SPRAWL
SEA SPRAWL
SEA SPRAWL
SLOPES
SHARED
CLUSTERS
CIRCULATION
TERRAIN
SEA SPRAWL
MACRO MICRO
SEA SPRAWL
CLUSTER
WATER
BRIDGES
campsites
sports rafting swimming kayaking meditation
parks activities paragliding climbing skating meditation
SEA SPRAWL
SEA SPRAWL