Architecture portfolio by Jawher Gaabeb

Education:

Architecture Memoir | 2020 with highest honors (Mention Très Bien)

1st 2nd cycle Diploma in Architecture | 2015-2019

National School of Architecture and Urbanism E.N.A.U Baccalaureate of Science in Technology | 2015 with highest honors (Mention Très Bien)

Experience:

BIMCollect - Canada | Present

BIM intern

Municipality of Sidi-bou-Said | 2019 Intern architect

Conceptia Group | 2018

Intern architect Bureau Hamdani | 2016 Intern architect

Prizes:

Competition : «Un toit pour la dignité» | 2nd Prize

Launched by the UN, participants should design living units that would provide a comfortable living. | 2021

Competition : «Vélorution» | 1st Prize

An association called «Vélorution» that invests in initia tives to encourage bike use launched a competition to design a bike rack prototype. The team composed of Nouha Alaya, Omar Hamzaoui and myself one the first prize. We followed its execution in the city of Ariana. The design was retained by the association for imple mentation in other locations. | 2019

Publications:

Archibat Issue 52 | August 2021

workshops/Courses:

BIM Project Management Certificate | 2022-Today

Collège Canadien des Sciences et Technologies

Design competition of a spa in Hammam Biadha | 2019

In order to renovate the Roman baths of Hammam Biadha, the aim of this contest is to design a spa. The proposal has succeeded in passing the selection phase, but the competition has been cancelled because of the pandemic.

Workshop El Houma Khir | 2017

Designing a public space in the Medina of Tunis using participatory approach.

Skiills:

2D & 3D Modeling: Autodesk Autocad, Autodesk Revit, McNeel Rhinoceros.

Dender & Visualisation: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Lumion, Twinmotion.

Documentation: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, Apple Pages, Apple Numbers, Apple Keynote.

Personal Skills: Physical modeling , Illustrating, Capacity for research and experimentation, Familiar and willinng to work with universal design methods.

Languages: Arabic | Mother language French | Fluent

House of Chanel

Khaldoun

House of Chanel

Located in the Lac II of Tunis, the House of Chanel is a building dedicated to showcase the work of the legendary fashion brand Chanel in Tunisia. The building will include a store, workshops, a warehouse to store the brand’s products that will be distributed across the country, as well as an exhibition space with a catwalk where the brand’s various events will be organized.

House of Chanel

The main idea is to create a building that reflects the work of Chanel. With fluid surfaces that flow like a couturier’s soft, woven white cotton fabric. These fluid surfaces and their dynamic form create movement in the heart of the building. The building stands as a sculpture that pays homage to Chanel, with two glass facades on ei ther side that invite passengers to enter and explore what the brand has to offer.

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Natural light comes through the glass facades and the glazing of both patios. These patios crossing the whole height of the building bring a certain level of serenity to the interior spaces. The staircase located at the heart of the build ing invites visitors to use it through its position and proportions, creating an intriguing element of horizontal circulation.

The final form of the project was reached after several experiments with models made out of paper, clay and sewing threads. It is mainly about the interaction of two fluid surfaces with each other celebrating what the brand calls “The Paradoxes of CHANEL”.

VILLA “A”

Typology:

Villa A is a design of a villa overlooking the beach of Gamarth for a family composed of two parents and three sons. The father is an architect, the mother is a housewife, and their kids are aged between 6 and 19.

This house has 4 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms and a total interrior area of 400m².

On the exterior, the maint entrance of the house is set down from the street level, this side of the building and it’s wooden cladding help to filter the intense southern light. The larger gate open towards a small drive way that can park one car. The smaller gate leads to the house where we are greated with a ribbon shape gives the building a fluid appearance.

Level 1

The fluidity of design continues light that flows into the interrior dining room and the kitchen. overlook the pool. The third floor the beach, a sitting area and a

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continues on thr inside, with an open plan, uninterrupted views and plenty of natural interrior spaces throughout the day. On the first floor, the living room is open to the The second floor contains the master bedroom and the architect’s office, which floor is dedicated to the kids, with three nearly identical bedrooms overlooking a reading space.

Particular attention has been attributed to the framing of views, the most used spac es are either oriented towards the Mediter ranean or towards the pool: the living room and dining room on the ground floor overlook the pool, the master suite overlooks both the pool and the sea, and the bedrooms on the third floor are oriented towards the sea.

The north side of the building is entirely glazed, allowing the interior spaces to be lit with diffused northern light throughout the day. By slid ing the glass door in the first floor, the living room, dining room and kitchen emerge to the outside and flow towards the pool. Creating spaces that aim to blur the spatial boundaries between interior and exterior.

Ibn Khaldoun Pavillon

Typology:

reading pavillion

Habib Bourguiba Avenue, Tunis, Tunisia

SITE

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Interior

Located in the heart of downtown Tunis, the Ibn Khaldun pavilion is a reading pa vilion that pays tribute to the historian, philosopher, diplomat and politician ‘Ab delrahman ibn Khaldun. The pavilion will offer books to consult free of charge on site throughout the month. A double challenge arises: How can we provide a temporary installation that aims to invite passers to a reading and communication environment while keeping costs low and assembling fairly simple and quick? And what can we do to pay tribute to Ibn Khaldoun through the design of this pavilion?

Ibn Khaldoun Pavillon

The structure will be locat ed in front of Ibn Khaldoun’s statue, in the central walkway, in Habib Bourguiba’s Avenue.

The west side of the structure forms a kind of stand facing the statue, where visitors can sit, read and communicate with one another. This symbol ic act is reminiscent of an au ditorium in which students are directed towards the lecturer.

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The structure is 5 me ter high, 10 meter wide and 32 meter long. It will be pre fabricated and assembled on site, consisting essentially of two materials, wood and glass. The wood will play a structural role, while the glass panels, located in the lower part will ensure trans parency, inviting pedatrians to access the pavilion from multiple directions. The rhythm and transparency are visually attractive and welcoming, encour aging public shar ing and interaction and communication.

In addition to creating a romantic and relax ing reading space in the middle of a congested city, the stands at the west end are also functionally oriented, excluding the nearby traffic noise, With wooden panels on either side that act as a sound barrier.

gamarth Thermal Spa

The site of this project is located in the town of Gamarth, located some 15 to 20 kilometres north of the capital. A couple of hundred meters from the Mediterranean Sea, on a sloped terrain. The site is char acterized by its rich vegetation that merg es with the sand of the beach. The build ing will have rooms for visitors, spaces to enjoy a multitude of treatments as well as a restaurant and a cafeteria. This project aims to create a relaxing and healing ex perience for visitors through architecture.

+The design premise was to create and rough concrete have been intention was to integrate the building slope rather than resisting it asserts spaces are oriented towards the cafeteria and the gym. Inside these soaking in hot water through large

create a center in constant contact with nature (the outside). Materials like wood, glass carefully selected to ensure perfect harmony between the building and the site. The building into its natural environment. The fact that the project follows the shape of the asserts its harmony with its site. Among the effects of such a choice is that all the living the sea, offering a framing view in all the rooms, the restaurant, the indoor pool, the these spaces, guests can look outside at the thick layer of green grass outside while large windows. They can also see the boats and yachts sailing to and from Gamarth port.

In modern fast-paced urban life, healing spaces like hot thermals are becoming increasingly important. When people show up in space after taking off their clothes, the complexity of the outer world, and their social identity. Communication between man and nature and communication between men becomes more honest and authentic. Gamarth thermal spa is providing a place and an opportunity for modern city people to encounter and interact with nature.

Apartment

In this project, we looked into the execu tion phase of an apartment hotel located in Tabarka, north-west of Tunisia. The proj ect includes 39 apartments, a restaurant, a gym and several stores.

The building has apartments from floor 1 to 3, on the ground floor there are stores and a gym over looking the street, a restaurant, a heated indoor pool and an outdoor pool.

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Sports High School

Typology:

Menzah Olympic City, Tunis, Tunisia.

SITE AREA:

Built area:

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The main object of this project is the ren ovation of the Pierre de Coubertin High School in Tunis (a high school that offers athletes the opportunity to improve their sport and educational performance), in or der to make it accessible for athletes with disabilities. Making educational facilities accessible is crucial, not only for reducing the ratio of illiteracy, but also for the inclu sion of children with disabilities in society at an early age.

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An inclusive High School

A building that follows universal design can make accessibility the central message of its design and treat it as its primary architectural and aesthet ic feature. The principles of universal design have the power to guide us through the design process to provide solutions that work for as many peo ple as possible. Details like the choice of furniture, millwork, signage can make a big difference in accessibility.

Different user needs can be satisfied either by designing a single solution that can be used by all, or by providing multiple solutions and creating a mul titude of ways to use and interact with the building.

Building navigation must be easy to grasp and intuitive for people with different motor and sensory abilities. Users must know where to go and how to get there and their current position, providing landmarks that target the different senses, these landmarks can be visual, using colors or light, sound as are a fountain. We can go further to create tactile landmarks using different textures or even olfactory by exploiting natural elements with distinct smells like vegetation.

Designing for human diversity might be the key to our collective future. It’s going to take a great diversity of talent, working together, to address the challenges we face in the 21st century: climate change, urbanization, mass migration, increased longevity and aging populations, early childhood development, social isolation, education, and caring for the most vulnerable among us in an ever-widening gap of economic disparity. You never know where, or who, a great solution will come from.

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-Kat Holmes

Landmarks

In this courtyard, camellias will be planted, this tree is characterized by its distinct smell through out the year, creating an olfactory landmark.

The main axis, which runs through has a sloping roof to enrich the of people with visual impairment sound characteristics to different roof creates site-specific echoes, determine approximately our position

Designing an accessible sports high school without providing space for training will not be an ideal solution. The ad jacent “youth city” can provide a solution. By designing a footbridge that crosses the wadi and leads to the youth city, 17 sports special ties will be immediately accessible.

The fountain yard pro vides an auditory land mark that indicateds the distance from the dorm where a tactile paving can lead the user to reach it.

through the entire school, the extraordinary ability impairment to attribute unique different spaces. This sloping echoes, making it possible to position on the main axis.

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The auditorium is equipped with telecoil technology . A telecoil, or t-coil, is a wireless receiver made from a small, copper wire that is wrapped around a core that picks up special broadcasted electromagnetic signals. Telecoils are often placed in hearing devices including personal sound amplifer products, hearing aids, and cochlear implants. When the user switches to the telecoil program, the microphones on the hearing device are significantly reduced or turned off, and the telecoil picks up sound from wireless transmissions. The telecoil system, when used properly, eliminates the distance from the speaker to the listener and can reduce or virtually eliminate background noise.

Some hearing devices have automatic telecoils. The automated system will switch to the telecoil program when a strong electromagnetic signal is de tected. Magnets can be used to activate the telecoil program and are often placed on landline phone receivers.

In addition, the space is fully accessible for wheelchair users. Wheelchair users have the choice of settling in several places. The idea is to always have multiple choices to accomplish any task.

Swimming Pool

Through the previously mentioned bridge, access was granted to 17 different specialties, with the addition of a swimming pool, the number increases to 19. This pool is fully accessible to people with motor deficits. Access to the pool is possible via a ramp and specially designed wheelchairs to resist chlorine. The new sports high school provides a statement, a landmark that exposes the functional needs of the school architecturally and thus provides a renewed identity to the school’s old buildings.

toit pour la dignité”

Typology: Living units

Location: Lac I, Tunis, Tunisia

SITE AREA:

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Group work realized with Aly Fourati and Ines Habbachi. The elements presented in this portfolio are created by the author.

Participants are to design living units that would provide a comfortable living accom modation either for a single individual or for a family. The design and concept of the house should be innovative, creative and sustainable. This living unit is thought as a temporary living space (1 year - 2 years) that could be offered by the municipality of Tunis to people without housing while waiting to provide them with a permanent home with the cooperation of associations working in the social reintegration of vul nerable people.

Un toit pour la dignité

organized by the United Nations.

This ideas competition presented a dual challenge. The first one is How to keep the balance of distin guishing and integrating in design, together with the task of quick exe cution and limited budget. The sec ond challenge was to help the occu pants regain a sense of community through design.

The answer to the first challenge was based on the exploitation of an element widely used in infrastruc ture works. It is the precast box cul verts. It is a rectangular section ele ment made of reinforced concrete, usually used for roads, railroads and water drainage. The principle is to create housing units using the culvert as the main module.

To make the box habitable, it will be accompanied by prefab wood mo dules. The first 1 module contains a kitchenette, a bathroom and the entrance hall. The second 2 module is used for lighting and ventilation through two openings. Its wooden structure gives a warmer look to the living space. The last 3 module is in the form of a sliding wall composed of a wooden cladding and a bay window.

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Compatible Profiles:

The first variant is called “solo”. It is 23 square meter unit, and as the name sug gests, it can accommodate only one person. Inside, the unit is divided into two sub-spaces. The first one is a service area where there is a fully accessible shower room for wheelchair users, and a height-ad justable kitchenette. The second sub-space is the living space whose end consists of a bay window and a sliding wooden shutter that opens onto a private terrace of 3 square meters, which in turn overlooks lake of Tunis.

Compatible Profiles:

The second variant is called ‘duo’. It is 28 square meters. It can accomodate two peo ple. In fact, the “duo” variant is identical to the “solo” in terms of its components, the only difference being the addition of a single concrete box to make the total num ber of boxes used three instead of two. The addition of this element expands the living space and increases its capacity. Although this model is designed to accommodate two people, the addition of a third child is possible.

Compatible Profiles:

The final variant is called “squad”. It is the family variant. With an area of 51 square meters, it is designed to accommodate 4 people but can go up to 5. It consists of two bedrooms, a shower room, a kitchenette and a living room. In terms of composi tion, this unit is the result of the fusion of a “solo” unit and a “duo” unit. The advantage of this fusion is that it offers a capacity that exceeds that of “solo” and “duo” if they remain separate. As with the other packages, “Squad” is fully accessible to people with motor disabilities.

The exterior configura tion will be structured in a direction that goes from “private” to “less privat”e to finally get to “shared”: Each resi dent will have their own outdoor space. Each unit group will have a common space shared with the neighbouring units. And finally, a common central space overlooking the lake will promote community life and facilitate so cial interaction.