KARIMA PEERMOHAMMAD Academic Portfolio
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KARIMA PEERMOHAMMAD M. Arch
Toronto, ON, M5H 0B1 e: karima.pm@gmail.com c: +1 647 9794473
AWA R D S 2018 2016
Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award | University of Toronto Paul Oberman Graduate Student Endowment Fund | Daniel’s Faculty
PR O F ES SIO NAL EX P ERIENC E Sep-Dec 2017 Toronto
KPMB Architects Design Intern Designed scheme for a research tower; developed via renders & drawings Prepared programmatic strategy for a health institute master plan
Jun-Aug 2017 Boston
MASS Design Group Design Intern Set graphic standards as co-editor of the monograph: Justice is Beauty Designed urban prison typology for publication with Vera Institute
2016-2018 Toronto
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, & Design Teaching Assistant, Architectural Representation Prepared and conducted tutorials on Rhinocerous, AutoCAD and Adobe Guided students in concept development and representation strategies
May-Sep 2015 Toronto
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, & Design Research Assistant Conducted research on landscape detailing Compiled research as reference material for graduate course
E D U C AT IO N June 2018
University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design M.Arch
July 2013
Harvard University Graduate School of Design Graduate, Career Discovery Program
May 2013
University of Toronto B.A (Hons) with Distinction Majors in Architectural Studies & Urban Studies, Minor in GIS
L E ADERSH IP 2016-2017
Graduate Architecture, Landscape, & Design Student Union President Created new platforms for dialogue between students and faculty Introduced the Professional Development Program for students
Architecture can be healthy, it can sustain, or waste, promote or inhibit, enable or disable. What is the impact of Architecture? on life? on the mundane? As a designer I am curious to test it’s potential in shaping the environment we occupy.
CONTENTS SYSTEMS DESIGN Designing with Disaster 06 Social Infrastructures for Rural Security
SPATIAL DESIGN Fifth Dimension 24 Urban Park Design | Transition: Toronto Transit Museum 34 Public Private Spaces R.C Harris Education and Recreation Facilities Public Infrastructure and Spaces
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INSTALLATION Mid Winter Fire 54 Winter Stations Competition (Built_2017)
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01 DESIGNING WITH DISASTER Social Infrastructures for Rural Security
Thesis Project John H. Daniels School of Architecture, Landscape, and Design Advisor: Mason White Duration: 4 months Winter 2018
This project redefines infrastructure as it relates to the status of livestock in rural economies. With increasing unpredictability and frequency of floods, rural infrastructures are identified as spaces of opportunity within the complex system of disaster management. Designing with Disaster explores vernacular design and systems of hierarchy to mediate between two states of daily vs emergency living. Three scales of existing infrastructures: the bus stop, embankment and bridge are reimagined to provide community gathering spaces, markets, and restaurants. The same social infrastructures emerge as a holistic system in the management of livestock during floods: rescue, shelter and healthcare, defining infrastructure as a negotiation between two realities.
Left: Web image of stranded livestock during 2010 floods
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The embankment serves The embankment serves as a as a walkway foreveryday walkway for everyday commuters. commuters. It is designed to be activated as It is designed to be activated as a market with the infrastructure a market with the infrastructure for a livestock flood shelter for a livestock flood shelter for during emergencies. livestock during emergencies.
The permanent permanent sheltered sheltered areas areas The of the the embankment embankment use use steel steel for for of its durability. durability. A its A key key feature feature of of the the reimagined embankment embankment is is its its reimagined ability to to allow allow for for more more structure structure ability through the the posts posts designed designed to to through facilitateaddition additionof ofbamboo. bamboo. faciliate
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The bridge Bridge serves serves as as aa walkway walkway The for everyday everyday commutes. commuters.ItItisis for designed to to be be activated activated as as aa designed roadside Dhaba Dhaba (rest (rest stop stop and cafe). roadside In times of flooding it can be be cafe). In times of flood it can converted to to aa service help center forfor converted center livestock. livestock.
The bridge uses steel for its durability but allows for additions with the most commonly used additions the most commonly local materialbamboo and used local material, bamboo thatch and thatch.
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02 FIFTH DIMENSION: PERTH PARK The Ecology, Residential, Employment and Museum Mix John H. Daniels School of Architecture, Landscape and Design Instructor: Victoria Taylor Duration: 3 weeks Fall 2016
This project speaks to the cumulative nature of the Sterling Perth development where residences will coexist in close proximity to light industrial and employment use buildings. Perth’s open space is a unique opportunity for mediation between the 4 realms. Land uses come with users, and typologies that surround these should reflect the characteristics of the uses that are more often than not hidden behind walls. What’s left shapes and informs the experience of the fifth dimension: the public- a tension or unison between scales, enclosures, textures, and resulting activities.
Left: Entrance to Park from the West Toronto Railpath
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Southern Park Larger scaled spaces associated with Employment building in the south side. The space serves as a multi purpose space for daily retreat and public art exhibits. 32
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03 TRANSITION: TORONTO TRANSIT MUSEUM Public-Private Spaces John H. Daniels School of Architecture, Landscape and Design Instructor: Francesco Martyre Duration: 10 weeks Winter 2015 Partner: Monika Gorgopa
The proposed Transit Museum is situated on the Ben Nobleman Parkette site, located at the truncation of Allen Road, where the auto-focused urban infrastructure meets the ex-urban residential neighbourhoods to the south of Eglinton Ave. W. This proposal, is one where architecture and infrastructural intervention work together to resolve this lack of connection and instead propose a transition. The museum and archive create an intermediary and transition space between the urban Allen Road to the north and the residential neighbourhood to the south. The form of the north facing side the existing form and setback of adjacent buildings. Windows are set-back into the building to provide a reading of the form on the south façade of the building – a series of projections protruding into the parkette behind, creating an intimate series of courtyards, outdoor terraces and park space for public and private uses.
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North Perspective The design provides bands of views into the building and its collections for the cars and people passing by on busy Eglington Ave. W. 36
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CIRCULATION + CURATORIAL 04. Reading back volumes on front STRAGIES 05. Uniform structural grid
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Environmental strategy South facade broken up into smaller volumes with varying orientations to sun and operable windows Curatorial strategy Central exhibition spaces with smaller temporary exhibits branching off Structural strategy Steel Structure and Prefabricated Concrete Panels Total GFA floor area 8028 m2 Number of Occupied Floors Below Grade One 39
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Curtain wall window system, frameless on exterior (Kawneer Glass Vent Window
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10. 6 mm floor finishing 100 mm concrete with radiant heating 10, 6mm floor finishing tubes in laid 38 mm steel deck 100mm concrete with radiant steelheating structure tubes W760x389, W530x85 and C150x12 in laid
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04 R.C HARRIS EDUCATION AND RECREATION FACILITIES Public Infrastructure and Spaces John H. Daniels School of Architecture, Landscape, and Design Instructor: Carol Moukheiber Duration: 6 weeks Winter 2014
This proposed extension to the R.C Harris Water Treatment Plant, Toronto focuses on adding educational facilities, exhibition spaces and swiming facilities for public and private use. The driving force behind this proposal is an exploration of the current at-ground, above-ground and below-ground conditions on site. The new building is accordingly added on, subtracted from and submerged into the existing building and ground conditions to maximize exposture to existing infrastructure, archaic architecture and beautiful views onto the lake. The addition of the following programs is proposed: classroom, auditorium, exhibition space, a staircase ramp looking onto the facade of the existing building, storage facilities, offices and a library; as well an experience based swimming facility.
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04 MIDWINTER FIRE Public Space Installation (Built) John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design Instructor: Pete North Duration: 2 months Winter 2017 Group Project: John Beeton, Rachel Bradbury, Herman Borrego, Anna Chen, Vikrant Dasoar, Michel DeGirolamo, Leonard Flot, Monika Gorgopa, James Kokotilo, Asuka Kono, Julie Wong, Rotem Yaniv.
The Midwinter Fire installation is an enclosure created around a winter interest garden. The planting scheme has been curated using Red Osier Dogwood, Yellow Twig Dogwood and Paper Birth to create the feeling of a fire emerging from the woodchips beneath, in an other wise cold beach environment. The enclosure is meant to create an intimate space for social interaction and to reflect upon the native ecology of Toronto, and its urban potential.
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