Khaled I H Abushahla Architecture | Design | Furniture
Personal Information
A highly passionate designer with an excellent sense of responsibility. Aspiring to produce work that speaks to its surroundings and communicates with the people through observing life around us. Finding architecture in everything from a small table design to a large community building, for that it is the assembly of different materials in a comprehensive manner that brings architecture closer into being a piece of art.
Address: Abudhabi, United Arab Emirates Email: khaled.i.h.abushahla@gmail.com Mobile: +971502626642
Curriculum Vitae Education I. Rawafed Private School Highschool Diploma Class of 2012
II. American University of Sharjah Bachelor in Architecture Class of 2017
Work Experience Gensler & Associates INT. Included: 3D modeling, rendering and visualization al Sayah institute of health 2D drafting and post processing King Faysal corniche development 3D concept modeling ADIA space management 2D Visualization Muscat retails
Exhibitions
Skills
I. CAAD pop-up shop Furniture | Sundooq II
Software Adobe Creative Suite
II. Sheikha Manal Young Artist Award 2017
Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Premiere-Pro After effects
Architecture | Azureus
III. Sheikha Manal Young Artist Award 2017 Design | Sundooq I
AutoDesk
Rhinoceros
Awards Highest Acedemic Destinction
Microsoft Office
Rawafed Private School
Other
Short-list Sheikha Manal YAA 2017
Architecture | Azureus
Short-list Sheikha Manal YAA 2017
Design | Sundooq I
Physical Model Making
Dean’s list American University of Sharjah
Fall 2015 | Spring 2016
Building | Mockup
AutoCad 2D drafting Maya 3D modeling | Animation Revit 2D drafting | 3D constructing Rhino 3D modeling | Animation Grasshopper Word | Excel | Powerpoint Zbrush Modeling Sketchup Pro V-ray Keyshot Rendering | Animation Meshlab MasterCam Laser Cutter | 3D Printer | CNC Router Wood labs | Metal Labs
Tarkeeb 2.0 - A Security Booth The life of the security guard revolves around the campus. For 12 hours every day, the security guard is bound to a rotating but predetermined location. If he is lucky he is provided an air conditioned booth. The existing booth does not fully respond to his needs, but does provide a primitive shelter against the heat. The security guards take it upon themselves to constantly add and improve upon this shelter in order to make a comfortable space. This shelter has no specific owner, as the security guards constantly share this space according to their shifts. The location of the booth, being in close proximity to College of Architecture, Arts and Design (CAAD) and the public front of campus, predetermines it to become the landmark and a beacon for CAAD. The landmark quality and other programs of the project demanded formal deviations of the mashrabiya producing signage, seating, and oculus. Bar-grate as a standard, off-the-shelf, material was used because of its mass-produced mashrabiya-like qualities. Access to digital fabrication equipment allows for easy deviation from standard panels to solve for micro-programmatic requirements.
Project Status - Built
Oculus (Window)
Exterior Render - Street Side
Warehouse - Construction Phase
Project on Site - Street Side
Plan Drawing
Longitudinal Section
Glow - Fine Arts Building A piece within a puzzle, the building was designed as a replacement of the already existing fine arts college building. Physically connected to a walkway that creates a shaded area for students to navigate through. The design intended to visually and conceptually create a modern building with a large essence of the elders surounding it. While the front facade of the building fits in the already existing cumpus infrastucture, the back side of the project transforms into an exterior garden space designed for students seeking a different envirenment. Using materials that helps both the project’s aethsetics and function to the needs of the students and the campus. The fine arts major students at campus use their facilities to a fair 12 hour per day period. With that it was a conscious design choice of materials such as channeled glass sheets that filters light during the day into the building’s studios and transfers diffused light to the extrior campus plaza.
Exterior Night Render
Exterior Render - Birds Eye
Landsape - Interior Library Space
Second Floor Plan
CHANNELED GLASS
STEEL MESH BRIDGE PROVIDING ENTRY TO THE BUILDING LANDSCAPE FROM THE PLAZA LEVEL
PANELS THAT ROTATE TO OPEN UP THE STUDIO
5
MECHANICAL 9 sq.m STUDIOS 450 sq.m
102
102
106
DN
103
4 OFFICE 20 sq.m
103
106
103
106
4 OFFICE 20 sq.m
106
OFFICE 20 sq.m
106
4
OFFICE 20 sq.m
UP
103
STUDY ROOM
ELEVATOR 9 sq.m OPEN TO GALLERY BELOW
6 106
4
EXTERIOR SPACE
107
106
4 OFFICE 20 sq.m
UP
EGRESS
106
STUDY ROOM
ELEVATOR 9 sq.m
RESEARCH LIBRARY 360 sq.m
102
103
103 EGRESS 103
UP
DN
106
RESTROOMS 8.5 sq.m
103
EXTERIOR SPACE UP
RESTROOMS 8.5 sq.m
103
SECOND FLOOR 6.70m 107
106 SHOP 90 sq.m
CABINETS STUDIO 50 sq.m
EXTERIOR WALKWAY
LANDSCAPE 0.00m
1 A103
SECOND FLOOR PLAN Scale1:200
INDIGENOUS TREES PLACED INSIDE A CONCRETE CASEMENT
South - West Elevations
14m
7000mm x 500mm CHANNELED GLASS
6.8m PERFORATED CONCRETE BEAM 3.3m ZINC PANELS
0m
1 A201
ELEVATION Scale1:200
7000mm x 500mm CHANNELED GLASS
14m
PERFORATED CONCRETE BEAM
ZINC PANELS
6.8m
3.3m
0m
Sections
INDIGENOUS TREES FOR THE LANDSCAPE
STEPPED CONCRETE FOR SEATING
7.3m
LANDSCAPE
0m
PARKING
1 A252
PARKING
SECTION Scale1:200
STOREFRONT INTERIOR GLAZING
GYPSUM DROP CEILING
DRAINAGE SYSTEM
INDIGENOUS TREES FOR THE LANDSCAPE
STEPPED CONCRETE FOR SEATING
14m
RESEARCH LIBRARY OFFICE
103
STUDY ROOMS MAIN STAIRCASE
6.7m
GALLERY
104
101
LECTURE HALL
0m
LANDSCAPE 101
2 A252 Notes:
SECTION Scale1:200
WATER TANK
KEY PLAN
Project:
Drawn by:
Wall Section - Elevations
13m
OFFICE
OFFICE
4
4
5.8m
PLAZA
EXTERIOR WALKWAY
103
0m
LANDSCAPE
1 A301 Notes: Date: 9 mar 2016
EXTERIOR ELEVATION Scale1:75
2 A301
3 A301
WALL SECTION Scale1:75
KEY PLAN
INTERIOR ELEVATION Scale1:75
Project:
Drawn by:
STUDIO ARTS BUILDING
DIPESH KOTWANI & KHALED ABU SHAHLA
Location:
Checked by:
SHARJAH
GEORGE NEWLANDS
Azureus - Architecture Museum Growing up in the city, there was always a tendency for me to always look at it from a distant view. Blurring out all the details of the skyscrapers and contouring them into an object parallel to the horizon. And as I have aged with it, this blurred image of the horizon got denser yet the edges remained as imprecise as they were. Instead of looking up at the tallest tower in the world I looked across and admired the depth of the layers and layers of buildings covering it. This project revolves around the idea of depth: how a space can be perceived as much deeper than it actually is. In order to achieve this idea, the public programs are placed within two planes which come together at their edges to create an artificial horizon. The intensity of light that comes through the created slit, which contrasts with the gentle dimmed lighting in the rest of the space, creates the desired illusion of infinite depth. Short-list Sheikha Manal YAA 2017 Architecture catergory
Physical Model - Crafted
Exterior Render - Street View
Longitudinal Section - 360 Interior View
Exploded View
Model Studies
Muwailah - A Community Centre Developing a comprehension of urban design, the building acts as a wind funnel that creates well conditioned public plaza for its community. The exterior corridor is a result of thorough studies about air flow in Al-muwailah area. Using materials such as glazed terra-cotta fins which created a visual pleasure along with its envirenmental value. The design is generated from the narrow alleways that were studied and observed intensely on the site. Carrying on the life style of the community where they seek the shaded walkways for protection from the harsh climate. This building intended to achieve an enhanced system of the industrial/commercial area.
Front View Render
Exterior Plaza Render
Interior Reception Render
South Facade - Cross Section
Second - Third Floor Plans
Mirror Mirror - A Gestault Pavilion This Gestalt Construct is the reflection of the sky and trees above the American Univesity’s garden. The fragmented reflections will create an aggregated image that adapts to the atmosphere of the surroundings. It will create an agitated image due to the different angles of the mirror panels. While as you get closer your view will represent the current conditions where your reflection will start to become the distorted imagery within the site. Hence the perception of the construct would vary from different viewpoints, as well as during different timings.
Sectional Model - Crafted
Interior Render
Exterior Render
Sundooq - A Stool A story of old times was told that as a tradition, my grandfather received a wooden box on the day of his wedding. A box that he would keep all his precious items in. Watching him care for it as if his life was captured in the essence of its memory. And as generations passed by, our views towards those objects being of importance have disappeared. Using them until their fashion is gone then they are of no mean to us. This project addresses two of the most basic forms of furniture as a wooden box, and a stool in function. Implementing the idea of how people perceive different objects at different moments. It consists of two symmetrical boxes that come together to lock with friction. Each box contains individual strips that come along to formulate the diagonal ebonized strips that skew with movements of the individuals approaching them. The stool element of the design operates as a seating condition only when the pairs are united into one. Providing a space to store items and appreciate them. Status: Built Short-list Sheikha Manal YAA 2017 Design catergory
Full Size Model
Revit Construction Being the most on-demand program and a very convinient form of working. It is in fact a requirement to excel in the digital world of BIM, more specifically Revit. This project was entirely constructed and processed with Revit only. Formulating a full set of drawings, renders along side other forms of Autodesk representation features such as VR renders and Animations.
Perspective Street View
Exterior Street View
Interior Bedroom Render
Stuctural Axon - Wall Section
Interior Bedroom Render
Digital Naturalism - A Maya Model The world around us is filled with new ways to create Architecture. It is therefor a must for us to seek those new ways and develop them further. Hence this project was done entirely using AutoDesk Maya for the simplest reason that it can create much more antigeometrical forms. This building was purely a study of how humans can inhabit such spaces and making the best out of every element this program serves from nHair particals simulation to nCloth and animation.
Schematic Model
Exterior Render
Interior Render
Al-sayah - Institute of Health As an intern at Gensler, it was a decent amount of work done throughout the 3 months duration attended. Al-sayah was an interior design project with set requirements from the client and the municipality. With the guidance provided at Gensler I was given the task of producing process renders and visualize the interior spaces of the project.
Reception View
Waiting Room
Patient Room
Credits Tarkeeb 2.0:
William G. Sarnecky (Professor in charge) Micheal Hughes (Professor in charge) Juan Roland (photography) Sawsan Gad Judy Munir Al-Khatib Heba Saleh Omar Ayman Khaireddein Omar Al-Saleh Yolla Al-Ali Asmaa Abuassaf Mohammad Al-Rukhaimi Nada Al-Mulla Nooran Al-Rashidy Nouran Sharafeldein Mary Nasif +Others
Glow:
Depish Kotwani
Mirror Mirror: Asil Zureigat
khaled.i.h.abushahla@gmail.com +971502626642