Khalid López Alsugair

Khalid L. Alsugair R I B A Part 2 AA Diploma Architectural Association School of Architecture, UK

BSc. Architecture (Hons) Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, UK

2017

My name is Khalid Alsugair and I am currently applying to your company as a Part II Architectural Assistant. I graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, UK with an AA Diploma (equivalent to a Masters in architecture), and formerly, at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, UK with a BSc. Architecture (Hons). I have also had more than 3 years work experience abroad, and 1 year in London,

-Currently applying as a Part 2 Architectural Assistant.

No visa required to work in UK Currently holding a Tier 4 UK Visa under the sponsorship of the Architectural Association School of Architecture. Please refer to CV for more information.

My final year at the Architectural Association School of Architecture under John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönskog (Territorial Agency) was spent examining the current colonial, and post-colonial conditions still visible in Greenland. The intervention, The Repository of Fragments strategically augments the moments of exchange that happens between people of differing disconnected ways of observing (reading, surveying etc.) and materialising the ground, both “foreign” and “local”.

The Repository of Fragments is a network of six buildings- ‘fragments’, all dispersed throughout South Greenland: each connected, each different from one another. They are spaces of diplomatic encounters, both state-based diplomacy, and most importantly diplomacy between the different practices and processes in South Greenland. Each repository is a condenser of different knowledge types, scientific and traditional; recording social-technological transformations on the ground where the diplomatic exchanges between practices and knowledge-types are never formal, and are never structured. The project is extremely political, requiring the colleciton of primary data by interviewing prominent personalities that fight the inevitable prospect of a radioactive extractive future of Greenland. The interrogation and investigation of the ground in South Greenland, as well as the primary data collected is crucial in strategising a proposal that would intercept the radioactive futures of Greenland. The repositories would help augment the ways in which processes take place on the ground; strengthening connections in an archipelago of attritiion. Creating repositories throughout the region would help counter the colonial system of Economies of Agglomeration and establish well-connected local economies. The year was spent creating large cartographs that precisely map out different polities of space in South Greenland through the use of programs such as ArcGIS, and investigations through the use of Google Earth, and the collection of primary evidence.

At the Architectural Association under the tutelage of Shin Egashira, I proposed habitable local infrastructure in Farringdon: The Fleet Water Centre. It is an insertion within the existing Royal Mail Sorting Office that addresses the current issues surrounding flooding and drinking water shortages in the City, by introducing a localised water facility as an argument to the recently approved development of Royal Mail Group in Mount Pleasant (WC1X 0DL). It is a polemic, challenging London’s current shift towards gentrification as a regenerative mechanism and argues the increasing importance of establishing localised infrastructure to tackle local issues. The insertion of monumental composite rammed earth walls into the existing building processes grey water that flows directly out of the excavated subterranean Fleet River, providing visitors with an opportunity to interact with the water in its different stages of purification: touch, swim, drink.; orchestrating an urban landscape in the most unexpected of places.

Having had the opportunity to read architecture at both the Architectural Association, and the Bartlett schools of architecture, and being raised in different cultures with contrasting customs and traditions, have shaped my own interests and views on contemporary issues in a world that is rapidly transforming. I have always had an interest in the ways in which architectural knowledge can be applied to a more dynamic architectural practice. I fortunately do not need a visa to work in the UK*. Having the opportunity to work for your firm will further enrich my interest, and offer you the knowledge that I have gained from my past experiences.

Flat 36 Dorset House Gloucester PlaceLondon United Kingdom NW1 5AE T +44 7932371786 (United Kingdom) T +973 17792367 (Bahrain)

Date of Birth 4th July 1989 Nationality

NO VISA REQUIRED Type: Tier 4 Valid Until: 22 / 10 / 2018 *4-year AA (Architectural Association) sponsored visa, including 2-years work experience for ARB Part 3 qualification.

Private Projects Master Bedroom - 2014 GBP 24,000.00 Saar, Kingdom of Bahrain

Andalucian Master Bedroom - 2013 GBP 17,000.00 Saar, Kingdom of Bahrain

Saudi Arabia

ksugair89@gmail.com

Education

Bathroom Suite - 2012 GBP 34,000.00 Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain

AA Diploma ARB Part 2 Diploma Unit 4 Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, UK 2014 – 2016

MSc. Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Management Imperial College London 2011 – 2012

Skills Languages

English – Native or Bilingual Proficiency Filipino – Native or Bilingual Proficiency Arabic – Minimum Working Proficiency French – Limited Working Proficiency

BSc. Architecture (Hons)- 2:1 ARB Part 1 Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK 2007 – 2010

CAD Programs Main

Rhinoceros Microstation V8i (BIM) ArcGIS

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3D Max Sketchup Revitt (BIM) Vectorworks Adobe AfterEffects

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Photoshop Illustrator InDesign

Microsoft Office Suite

Word, Excel, Publisher, Powerpoint

Advanced Levels Fine Art – A Design Technology Graphics – A Business Studies – B Mathematics – B St. Christopher’s School, Bahrain 1996 – 2007

Professional Experience Part 2 Architectural Assistant Boyarsky Murphy Architects Competitions: Cyprus Archaeological Museum, Tampere Art Museum Extension, Seoul Yeoui-Naru Ferry Terminal London, UK 2016 – present

Site Architect and Assistant Project Manager Saudi Toledo Bahrain Private Villa 2012-2014

Part 1 Architectural Assistant Omrania & Associates Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Kingdom Hospitals Extension 2010 – 2011

References John Palmesino & Ann-Sofi Rönskog Diploma Unit 4 Design Masters Architectural Association School of Architecture research@territorialagency.com

Chee-Kit Lai BSc (Hons) DipArch (UCL) MArch ARB BSc Unit 9 Design Master Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL Mobile: +44 (0) 7879 401 592 chee.lai@ucl.ac.uk

Nicholas Boyarsky & Nicola Murphy Boyarsky Murphy Architects nm@boyarskymurphy.com nsb@boyarskymurphy.com

AA Diploma / Diploma Unit 4 / 2015-2016 John Palmesino + Ann Sofi Rönskog

Architectural Association School of Architecture

Spaces of Diplomatic Encounters: Augmenting the Processes of Extraction in South Greenland, an Archipelago of Attrition South Greenland is a complex space, composed of islands and peninsulas, fragemented also by processes that take place on the ground. Millennia of multi-cultural interactions have created valuable inherited knowledge, that also form the many processes that take place. Ways of observing and materialising the ground bring about tensions due to the lack of land-ownership laws in Greenland. This lack of land-ownership create violent colonial conditions, amplified most recently due to the government of Greenland’s ambitions to become a nation of extraction. Blessed with one of the world’s largest uranium and rare-earth mineral deposits with a population of 56,000 (2010), the government of Greenland sees mining as the only way in which the nation can finally gain independence from Denmark. But with these opportunities brings about violent colonial and post-colonial conditions that destroy and interrupt the pristine conditions of Greenland, which many feel will destroy their ways of life. How can processes on the ground be augmented so that a long-term solution for both economic and financial independence from Denmark be devised?

The intervention is a network of 6 buildings, the Repository of Fragments, where data deposited by people from Kujalleq’s different ‘interior’ spaces is stored, and accessed. Each repository is positioned in a site that sees many tensions due to the different occupations that inhabit the ground. Data deposited by people with different ways of observing the land can be accessed and interrogated by others- a way in which they can “communicate” with one another. Over time, models of the ground increase in complexity giving people the opportunity to augment their ways of observing and materialising the ground. The repository is a space of diplomatic encounters which records social-technical transformations of the ground. The repository does not only promote statebased diplomacy, but also diplomacy between practices and knowledge types. Symbolically, if a foreigner decides to set up an enterprise in Kujalleq, they would have to ‘ask’ the Greenlandic people by first entering the Repository of Fragments.

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© Jens Østergaard

South Greenland is a fragnmented archipelago, composed of many islands and archipelagos that are surrounded by fjords and glaciers that exacerbate the fragmentation of settlements in the region. Settlements are dispersed throughout the south of Greenland inhabited by people of differing ways of observing and materialising the ground, that form interior spaces. Each of the interior spaces are not exclusive from one another, and create violent conditions in parts where interior spaces overlap.

The lack of land ownership in Greenland, as well as the island’s abundance of natural resources have created a reality where Greenlanders are intruded upon by mining firms that prospect the ground for uranium and rare-earth mineral deposits.

The lack of land ownership in Greenland have enabled miners to intrude on Greenlanders, drilling land that was passed on father-to-son for over a millenia due to the ease of acquiring exclusive and non-exclusive licenses to prospect and extract minerals out of the ground. © Tanbreez

What will the social, cultural, and environmental cost of gaining independence from Denmark- Greenland’s motherland?

Both Greenlanders and foreign professionals enter the Repository of Fragments, and take part in a ‘Kaffemik’- inspired setting; a gathering event, where both take part in dialogue on both knowledge types and practices. Scientists, and foreign professionals are surrounded by Greenlanders, observing the ways in which Greenland is percieved through the different understandings of “strangers”. Decisions on what Greenland is, or should be are made by Greenlanders themselves. they are no longer tokens, but proactively take part in diplomacy between practices of different interior spaces and different people, and ultimately state-based diplomacy.

Augmenting Archaeological Observations and Materiality & The Interrogation and Enrichment of Models of the Ground The Repository of Fragments: intricate models of the ground are created by layering different knowledge types of the ground through the process of depositing and interrogating knowledge. The different ways of observing the land through surveys and data collection that are accessed by both Greenlanders and foreign professionals may lead to the augmentation of the ways in which they observe and materialise the ground- achieving symbiosis and most importantly, appreciating the ways in which other professions materialise and observe the land.

Foreign professionals and scientists who arrive Greenland must first go through a Repository of Fragments located in Narsarsquaq that is connected to the Narsarsuaq International Airport- The gateway to Greenland’s south. The Repository is a way in which foreign scientists and professionals can have an insight on the different ways of observing of the people of Greenland who inhabit the many “interiors” in Kujalleq.

This is an opportunity for them to also observe Greenlanders without intruding in their everyday lives- a phenomena that always takes place in Greenland.

This process of discovering new ways of reading and rearing the land may lead to the decrease in dependence on Denmark, where local economies are established; going against the colonial system of Economies of Agglomeration.

Each repository is a condenser- both social, and knowledge based. They are Spaces of Diplomatic Encounters: both state-based and knowledge-based diplomacy.

Data collected can in turn pave the way for decisions made in international institutions of diplomacy that would create legislation that would protect global interests that are directly linked to the transforming landscape of Greenland.

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This detail illustrates the importance of prefabricating components that fit together well through joints and thoroughly designed components. This would minimise the dependence on adhesives that may not perform well during its application in temperatures that prevent adhesives to harden and bond.

Due to the extreme weather conditions in Greenland, there is only a 3-month construction window. The technical studies determined that concrete construction is the factor that makes it difficult construct in Greenlnad. The curing temperature of concrete prevents construction to take place during colder months. The technical aspect of the project was to increase the construction windo from 3 months, to 8 months per year, by exploring other construction methods.

Prefabrication components from Scandanavian companies, and assembly on site via local companies was a strategy adopted to maximise the conventional construction window in Greenland.

Insulation in extremely low temperatures require drainage to prevent damp to develop and settle in teh layers of materials that compose the cladding system of the building. A vent gap between the zinc cladding and a breather membrane would ensure that air circulates in the layers of the building skin.

AA Diploma / Diploma Unit 11 Shin Egashira / 2014-2015 Architectural Association School of Architecture In a current shift to the construction of large mixed-use luxurious development projects in the city of London, Royal Mail Group has also ambitiously allocated plots in their Mt. Pleasant site (WC1X 0DL) for redevelopment.

Approved by Boris Johnson yet still contested by the boroughs of Camden and Islington, the development will include accommodation, shops, offices, as well as green pubilc spaces. Royal Mail strongly promotes the development as a benefit for the local area that would “contribute to its regeneration”. Many critics however argue it to be a failure in addressing current issues that plague London.

The Fleet Water Centre address the current issues surrounding flooding and drinking water shortages in London by introducing a localised water facility as an argument to the recently approved development of Royal Mail Group in Mount Pleasant. It is a polemic, challenging London’s current shift towards gentrification as a regenerative mechanism. It argues the increasing importance of establishing localised infrastructure to tackle local issues compared to far-flung facilities that respond to those issues in an erroneous manner. Gentrification promotes the pushing out of infrastructure with unpleasant bi-products. The Fleet Water Centre is a working localised habitable infrastructure inserted within an area gradually experiencing the effects of gentrification. The contrasts between the shiny development above, and the raw, unrefined constitution of the intervention below stimulates a conversation between the Fleet Water Centre and its surrounding con-text. It is inserted underneath the Royal Male Sorting Office, peeling back the ground to reveal historical layers preserved under centuries of urbanisation.

The insertion of monumental composite rammed earth walls composed of the excavated ground in the site, process grey water that flows directly out of the excavated subterrannean Fleet; a Thomasson providing visitors an opportunity to interact with water in its different stages of purification; touch swim, drink. Interplay of raw textural qualities, both introduced and unearthed/exposed by splicing and inserting will orcehstrate an urban landscape in the most unexpected of places.

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London typologies have been recreated, and then put together like a puzzle.

Spatial creation and design come from the concept of ‘play’.

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The intervention is mostly subterrannean, enabling the processing of water from both the River Fleet and the subterrannean landscape/strata. The dramatic vertical spaces and pockets created within and under the current Sorting Office building will bring about the opportunity for these spaces to be inhabited by both the public, and the existing building employees. The deep vertical connections excavated open up historical layers that bring about a newfound value for the site.

Concrete, wood, and plaster used to recreate portions of the ‘Inhabitable Infrastructure’, exploring the ways in which people can interact intimately with water within the intervention.

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Professional Experience 2016 - 2017

BOYARSKY MURPHY ARCHITECTS Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere, Finland Responsibilities- 3D Modelling, Sections, and Visualisations Programs- Rhinoceros, VRAY, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

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2012 - 2014 Saudi Toledo Llc Private Villa, Al-Markh, Kingdom of Bahrain

I had the great opportunity in being directly involved as the lead architect in the design, and construction, and interior design of an Andalucian-inspired luxury villa in Bahrain where I faced many challenges. Although luxurious in nature, the client gave only two and a half years to complete the construction of the villa. This required research ad development with prefabrication processes involving local traditional craftsmen to meet the two and a half year construction deadline. These challenges however enabled us to cut costs allowing us to relocate funds to other parts of the building. This has also enabled me to pursue projects on my own, dealing with clients, and many subcontractors and suppliers directly involved.

BSc. Architecture / Unit 5 / 2009-2010 Pedro Font-Alba Bruce Irwin

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL The Malmsey: Reviving the Docklands In this model-based project, relationships between the Canary Islands and Canary Wharf inspire a scheme that would hopefully bring life to London’s docklands through the introduction of a wine club. Prior to London’s tensions with Spain during the 16th century, Spain exported Malvasia wine to London. Malvasia, which was then corrupted to the British name ‘Malmsey’, was England’s staple drink.

Cochineal, a red insect imported into England was used create the iconic red pigment intimately associated with the United Kingdom.

Cochineal, used to make the red uniforms of British soldiers which then inspired other icons such as the red telephone booth, and the red double decker buses is something that is becoming less important when it comes to formulating the contemporary British identity.

The Malmsey Wine Club addresses issues facing financial and capital centres within cities such as London, by introducing a venue that encourages the establishment of a night-life in a place that is depopulated after working hours. The Malmsey is a wine club on a bridge that intercepts pedestrians, exposing processes of wine tasting to passers-by’s stimulating a conversation surrounding the importance of leisure facilities in areas of work. The club is composed of ‘pods’ that formulate internal spaces of the club that are ejected into the docks, that sail into the Thames, dessiminating the colour red throughout London.

BSc. Architecture / Unit 5 / 2009-2010 Pedro Font-Alba Bruce Irwin

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL The Droitwich Brine Baths The southern coast of Gran Canarias has a brackish lake that is fed fresh water from the moutains, and salt water from the Atlantic Ocean.

Due to the continous weathering caused by the tourism industry in Gran Canarias, the lake is unfortunately depleting, and along with it the unique biodiversity that comes with such a unique natural feature. With tourism being the predominant industry of the Gran Canarias, it seems there are no plans to reduce tourism levels within the area.

The Droitwich Brine Baths is a mechanical building that utilises water from the ocean to form intimate spaces that serves the ageing tourist population of Gran Canarias. The sea water is transported to the building via an inhabitable aqueduct, and is then naturally heated, filtered, and purified to a certain level as the water travels through the building.

The pools that form a system integral to the nature of the building filters and purifies the water until it is then released into the brackish lake, and the surroundings; in turn rejuvenating the biodiversity of the site, as well as maintaining the water level of the brackish water lake. The building is made up of pools with differing temperatures, with upper pools made of U-beams that frame intimately the surrounding context.

Alternative heating and filtration systems have been explored as a part of the technical aspect of this project, that compose the unique, open composition of the spa.

The Droitwich Brine Baths - Maspalomas, Canary Islands, Spain Unit 5, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL 2010