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Bilbao SkyGarden. Spring ‘12
um of Industrial Objects. Fall ‘11
U. New York Housing. Spring ‘11
ISU. Boston Hall for Experimental ce. Fall ‘12
art + design
ly, Canyon. ISU. Studio Furniture to. Furniture Design. Fall ‘11
p. Needlab. Spring ‘17
Visual Mapping. Spring ‘17
Art + Design. Fall ‘11 o Art Installation. Fall ‘11
ted Group Art Show. Fall ‘15-’16 d Group Art Show. Spring ‘17
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ann Monson. CS stage ‘13 nn Monson. DD stage ‘14
e. CD-CA stage ‘15-’17
ace. CD stage ‘15-’17
uild. Pace. CD-DD stage ‘15-’17
s. Pace. DD-FD/TD stage ‘15-’17
I DIAMETRIC DUALITIES/Architectural Association spring‘12
Bilbao Highway A8 Urban Regeneration
Closed Urban Loop Robert Mapplethorpe + Taj Mahal This project was about hybridizing a highway with The centre was designed to preserve program that would revitalize the community at the notion of ‘movement’ on the the perimeters of Bilbao, adjacent to the A8. It highway but in a relevant way, so it begins with a superimposition of photographs as allows seasonal parades to go through a hybrid action; compositional patterns merge, it on the street level and a bicycle and form, similarities accentuate eachother, route on the highway designed to see differences are exposed, juxtaposition of public art in the city. contrasting atmospheres creates new meaning in Resident - Visitor Hybrid Residents circulate through the path relation to one another. is also used by the visitors as DESTINO: EL VIAJE | BILBAO LEISURE PATH DESTINO: EL VIAJE | BILBAOwhich LEISURE PATH Blurred Space Different programs on the site converge to a walkway displaying all the resident create undefined, new spaces, similar to how new activities. The path weaves through alignments emerge in the photographic hybrid. outside and inside spaces. The internal skylight structure The intervention occupies the street level, the path has a roof DESTINO: ELorganic VIAJE | BIL engulfed by spanish moss, an highway surface, and the space in between. INDO CIRCULATION superimposition onto the city-like OUT structural grid. The visitors see an authentic side of IN Bilbao not present on the riverside.
TRAM THROUGH A8 AND PARADE PATH
AREAS OF PROGRAM
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DESTINO: EL VI CIRCULATION
Second Floor Plan
DESTINO: EL VIAJE DESTINO: EL VIAJE| BILBAO | BILBAOLEISURE LEISUREPATH PATH INDOOR-OUTDOOR
CIRCULATION
INDOOR-OUTDOOR
CIRCULATION
INDOOR
OUTDOO
INDOOR
OUTDOOR SPACE OUTDOOR SPACE
DANCE DANCESTUDIOS STUDIOS
INDOOR SPACE INDOOR SPACE
RESTAURANTS RESTAURANTSAND ANDCAFE CAFE
BLURRED SPACE BLURRED SPACE
ART WORKSHOPS ART WORKSHOPS
OUTDOOR
FOOTB FOOTBALL
BASKETB BASKETBALL
SQUASA SQUASH
EL VIAJE | BILBAO LEISURE PATH NO: EL VIAJE | BILBAO LEISURE PATH INDOOR-OUTDOOR INDOOR-OUTDOOR
PEFORMAN PEFORM
PLANS PLANS
INDOOR INDOOR
OUTDOOR SPACE SPACE OUTDOOR
DANCE STUDIOS DANCE STUDIOS
INDOORINDOOR SPACE SPACE
RESTAURANTS ANDAND CAFECAFE RESTAURANTS
BLURREDBLURRED SPACE SPACE
ART WORKSHOPS ART WORKSHOPS
OUTDOOR OUTDOOR FOOTBALL FOOTBALLCOURTS COURTS
BASKETBALL BASKETBALLCOURTS COURTS SQUASHAND ANDGYM GYM SQUASH PEFORMANCEAREA AREA PEFORMANCE
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II BONDS in Columbus, IN / Iowa State University [ISU] ‘11 The legacy of Columbus,’ innovations in industr y and architecture has shaped the community’s pride towards the city.This inter vention is one in which the legacy is showcased as a way of telling the stor y of Columbus, and one that acts as a platform for bonding between community members. To the direct right is a wood and twine model representing the conceptual basis on which this design emerged.
Urban Strategy People’s circulation on the main street was tracked and defined the location of the plaza. The cafe and multipurpose hall are adjacent to the plaza which has diverse seating options with steps and an accessible ramp to the ampitheatre.. All design and visual production work was divided equally.
Shafts of Light Light shafts are dispersed through the building, piercing through all floors and offer views into other floors.The distance and physical screen present a contemplative atmosphere. Plaza Nightlife The facade works as a mass, elevated by a frame, with light shafts piercing through to negotiate the two contrasting elements.The plaza space is a multipurpose space to activate the site in the evening.
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III CONTEMPLATIVE ENCLAVES / ISU ‘11 Slow volume in a fast city
A Space for Contemplation Within the dynamic nature of New York, SoHo sits in the midst, hearing echoes of fast life.The place needed a clog in the system, a block of slow life, that frames the city, but secludes you from it to allow a new view of the place.
A seclusion & a contemplative surface are necessary for an enclave providing an escape from the ‘noise’ of the city. The contemplative surface must be a textural pattern with embedded subtle complexities that beg the mind to wander. Studies were made of textures for the facade and the apartment walls. All design and visual production work was divided equally.
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IV FRAMEWORK + IMPROVISATION / ISU fall ‘12
Boston Hall for Experimental Music
The Concept of Jazz The uniqueness of Jazz as a musical form lies in its structure, whereby it is partially controlled with a prescribed rhythm and melody, and the rest is improvised. Framework + Improvisation The city of Boston reveals itself as an improvised city, constantly growing with landfills infrastructure built wherever needed.As it is today, there are several auditoriums and venues for Jazz and Classical music.We therefore focused the project on a large hall for experimental music, where we create a framework of full flexibility [seating arrangements, acoustics, outdoor connection], for the musicians to improvise with and consequently create new forms of music. I was equally involved in all stages of the work except the structural design.
NALP DNUORG
NALP DNUORG
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V STUDIO FURNITURE / ISU ‘12-’13
Concept furniture designed and built in the university woodshop
FURNITURE DESIGN / Freelance ‘15-’17
Commissioned restaurant tables and exhibition booth, built by craftsmen
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VI NEEDLAB WORKSHOP / Needlab Events ‘17 Architecture workshop on digital fabrication with local materials
needlab_kuwait matters Needlab is a workshop company that travels to different countries and collaborates with Fab Labs and unive to teach students how to use the latest technologies in digital fabrication, latest software for parametric mo and structural and environmental analysis to build structures that could enhance urban living all with only manufactured materials. In Kuwait, sand-lime brick was used to build a pavilion in a popular park in the ci is frequented by the general public and was designed to be self-shading and allow for venturi-effect ventilat provide a cool environment for park-goers to rest in.
The team consisted of the founder of needlab, Sameera Chukkapalli, partners of Basics architects, Dr. Rodrigo and Alessandro Mattocia, myself, Ahmed Almonsouri and Ameena AlQabandi. I was the coordinator of the wor getting sponsors, engaging the local Fab Lab, collaborating with the university to hold classes and a discussion about decentralized fabrication of which I was a panelist. I also organized a lecture series at the visitor centre park which invited several architects in practice and academia to show their work and speak about their philoso I also promoted the event by consulting graphic designers, Almakan design studio, and some art and design media channels to share the events with the general public but mainly the architecture students of the univers
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‘act local, think global’ building and exhibiting an architectural-scale structure in Al Shaheed Park for registration and deadlines, visit
www.needlab.org
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VII MATERIAL LANDSCAPES / The Maker Issue - Select, spring ‘17 Cartographic visual mapping research project
Materials + Production Mapping Select is an annual journal exposing local creative talents; 2017 was the year to showcase product designers, so I interviewed all who were in the book and researched about material import, production and sales to and from Kuwait by these designers. WTD in New York were the theme consultants for this journal and Two Thirds were the graphic designers, originally I was briefed by WTD that the mapping will be on one spread, but as the mapping developed and after working closely with the graphic designer, we decided to make it a fold-out four-page spread so that each map can be twice as large, hence, twice as legible. Data was gathered from the Kuwait Central Statistics Bureau’s 2014 Annual Statistical Abstract, 51st edition as well as the interviews. The Select team found this mapping to be so representative of their project that it was then incorporated in the front cover of the book and translated into an animation that was used in the project’s press video.
craftsmen nationalities
east-asian gulf arabs non-gulf arabs european
x6 metalsmiths
american
x6 sandcasters x2 plastic craftsmen x9 woodworkers
x6 metalsmiths
shuwaikh industrial 1
shuwaikh educational
ita
ly
workshops + material suppliers
khaldiya
x6 cnc millers
lighting
kuwait city
marble, ceramic
shuwaikh industrial 3
textile metal wood retailers
friday market
x7 jewelry craftsmen
alhishan
paper
shuwaikh industrial 2
qasr jahra
x9 tailors
amghara industrial
hawally
qairawan
salmiya
shuwaikh
sulaibikhat nahdha sulaibiya
andalous alardiya
bayan
firdous
salwa
khaitan jeleeb alshuyoukh kuwait international airport
qusor qurain
alrai
materials + production mapping
citations: Central Statistical Bureau. “Labour Force.” Annual Statistical Abstract. 51st ed. Kuwait: Publications and Dissemination Department, 2014. 126. Print. Alawadi, Abdullah, Ecru, Fahad Alnusf, Kawther Al Saffar, Laila Al Hamad, Loulwa Al Radwan, May Al Qassar, Mohammed Al Muhanna, Muneera Alsharhan, Najeeba Hayat, Najla AlRadwan, Nanu Al Ham
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kuwaiti craftsmen . 0.7% non-kuwaiti craftsmen . 10.6% kuwait’s labour force . 88.7%
woodworker+craftsman+tailor
x50 shoe makers + 4 potters + 4 block printers + leatherworkers x3 woodworkers
united states of america united kingdom spain france germany italy turkey
woodworker+craftsman
poland egypt algeria cameroon ghana
australia
aleppo x3 tailors
lebanon beirut
jerusalem
palestine egypt
homs
woodworker+craftsman
syria
damascus
iraq baghdad
jordan
karbala najaf ahvaz
shiraz hafar albatin
bam
kuwait
hail aljubail buraydah
dammam
arabian gulf
azzulfi alduwadimi afif
jeddah mecca
zahedan
pakistan
x5 woodworkers + 3 jewelers
x4 embroiderers+printers x3 tailors
ras alkhaimah
riyadh alkharj
qatar
japan
dubai muscat
al ain
nizwa
sur
x6 metalsmiths +woodworkers + marble craftsmen
laos thailand sri lanka malaysia
alaflaj
legend oman
x4 woodworkers
china afghanistan pakistan bangladesh india
abu dhabi
united arab emirates
saudi arabia
taif wad albahah bishah adduwasir
bandar abbas
bahrain kish
arrass
medina
farah
afghanistan zabel kerman
rafha
alkhanafa wildlife sanctuary
anar dara
iran
basrah
sakaka
thuwal
birjand
isfahan
hurrat alhurra arar wildlife sanctuary
x4 weavers
= material source locations = materials transportation = retailer locations = retailer transportation
mad, Nour Al Sana, and Sulaiman Al Bader. “Production Landscape.� Online interview. 10 Dec. 2016.
ceramic
plaster
stone
paper
porcelain
marble
gemstones
copper
silver
gold
concrete
animal leather/hide
brass
glass
plastic
metal
textile
wood
material popularity with designers
materials + production mapping
VIII MASALLAH / Freelance ‘12-’16
Modular Partition Wall intended as a divider in a living room to create a semi-private spiritual space for prayer or meditation. Exhibited in USA, Kuwait and UAE. Media: CNC-Cut MDF, screws.
AlKhayal In Hakaa Freelance ‘15
[When
Imagination
Speaks]
A solo art installation that takes the visitor through a journey of the 3 year process to build the creative art+culinary collective ‘Almakan’. Media:Tracing paper, fabric, steel pipe, neon lights, video projection.
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IX WHAT’S YOUR LOCATION? / WYL? ‘15-’16
A currently active research collective that began as a group art exhibition curated by Ruth Jones, Anotnio Da Silva and myself that has been exhibited in Porto Alegre in Brazil, Shuwaikh in Kuwait and next; London in the UK.The exhibition talks about how all individuals re-imagine reality and how these perceptions of our world influence our behaviour whether psycho-geographically or virtually. 16 artists from Europe, Asia and South America. My contributed artwork is the fine art film photography at the bottom left. Media: Disublimation print on aluminium.
Gaudencio Fidelis, chief curator of the 10th Bienal do Mercosul (South American Biennale) visitng the exhibition in Porto Alegre.
HARMONY IN THE CITY / HITC ‘17
A group art exhibition curated by Jasmine Singh and myself that investigates and/or comments on urbanism in many of its aspects, namely energy production/consumption, food production/ transportation/consumption/waste management, marine pollution and social division. 8 artists from Asia and North America. My contributed artwork is the steel reverse-prism in sand titled ‘Oil Memorial’.
Exhibition tour for high school and university students
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X 350 EAST LOCUST / NEUMANN MONSON ARCHITECTS ‘14 A mixed-use building in the heart of the East Village in Des Moines, Iowa. I was involved in the design of the elevations of the building, penthouse massing, producing visualizations and a physical model for the client. CD - SD stage
NMDM OFFICE / NEUMANN MONSON ARCHITECTS ‘14 I worked at the Des Moines branch of the architecture firm and joined right before construction, I was involved in producing and approving shop drawings, coordinating subcontractors and site supervision. CA-CS Stage
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XI Solo projects / Pace ‘15-’17 Tefaseel exhibition: The Red Cube Pace was participating in a design exhibition with a them of details. I lead the project and worked with colleagues to design an installation and produce drawings of Pace buildings that were designed very thoughtfully with regard to natural light animating the spaces. CD/PD - CS stage.
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Baitak Tower MEP Shelter One of Pace’s built office towers needed additional firefighting water tanks due to a change in land ownership, they would be placed on top of the ramp going down to basement parking. I designed the shelter to complement the tower built in the early 2000’s by taking motifs and reinterpreting them in a contemporary way. CD/PD - FD/TD stage
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XII Team competition projects / Pace ‘15 & ’17
Below was a competition submission for a Kuwaiti corporation’s offices that wanted as much greenery as possible, we thought of putting the garden over the building and parking. To the right is a competition proposal for a mixed-use development in Bahrain (hotel, mall, apartments, boardwalk, yacht club), we experimented with the building-water edge and putting program on islands. CD/PD Stage. I was equally involved in all design and visual production stages of the projects.
KNPC Eco Campus
KNPC Eco Campus
Intent
How it is generated?
Storage (Accessed By Trucks) Parking and Services (Accessed By Cars) Building (Pedestrian Access)
Detect the best place for the of building
Separate cir culation and use
Create a topography
PARTNER: LOURDES CARRETERO [LEAD DESIGNER]
Integrate the landscape
XII PARTNERS: RAFAEL PORTILLO [LEAD DESIGNER], RICARDAS BLAZUKAS
XIII Commissioned design projects / Pace ‘15 & ’17
OBK Schools Pace was commissioned to design a complex of 3 schools; an American school, an Arabic school and a Bilingual school. My involvement was planning and facade design of the exterior facade and the courtyard lamellas, which coincided with the branding of each school, contemporary tertiary colour schemes were used to identify the character of each school and courtyard. Each school had a boys half and a girls half with their own sets of classrooms and facilities, so the plans were designed to foster that. My responsibilities were designing the plans, drawing plans, sections, elevations, wall sections, coordinating with rendering company, choosing contemporary colours to identify a character for each school, designing the multipurpose halls and outdoor playgrounds.
PARTNER: RAFAEL ALONSO, MOHAMED ELIAS, RICARDAS BLAZUKAS
New Messila Beach and New Eqaila Beach Pace was invited to compete for the design of two waterfront projects, one was a family water park with a private beach and day rental huts, and the other was a leisure sports-infused waterfront, each is an existing beach in different parts of Kuwait and each redevelopment would engage with different communities in the city. The family waterpark would have a long pier that stretches into the water with a hot air balloon at the end, the other would have basketballs and tennis courts inside the olymic-size swimming pool and they would host high-diving events such as red bull or the like. Work was divided equally, each team member has equal authorship.
XIII PARTNER: HOUSSAM FLAYHAN
XIV ASMEP+PM consultant projects / Pace ‘15-’17 Wafra Towers at Bahrain Bay Below is a winning RFP design by Wiel Arets Architect that was paired with Pace in order to deliver a mixed-use development on a new artificial island in Bahrain. It comprises of basement parking, ground floor retail and F&B, overground parking, offices, gym & spa, common rooms, podium-top garden, 1 - 3BR apartments, and rooftop pools. I was project architect; working alongside the project manager, refining the design, coordinating ASMEP, meeting with the client, materials selection, coordinating with manufacturers, consultants etc. DD-FD/TD Stage
Kuwait International Tennis Complex [top right] This development is an extension of an existing shopping mall, it comprises of retail, F&B, a hotel, tennis clubhouse, ATP standard indoor stadium, outdoor stadium and outdoor tennis courts. I was heavily involved in producing paving plans and reflected ceiling plans which require a good deal of coordination with SMEP. DD-WD/FD Stage Private Villa [bottom right] The owner of the plot commissioned NADAAA to design their private villa in Kuwait, my involvement was project managing, meeting with the client, coordinating ASMEP, communicating with manufacturers etc. DD Stage
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