Koosha Mirassadollahi - Undergraduate Portfolio - Draft

Koosha Mirasadollahi UNDERGRADUATE

PORTFOLIO

Seyedkoosha Mirasadollahi University Of Tehran, B.Arch, School Of Architecture Email: koosha1996@gmail.com

06 PLUM TREE

05 FOLDING MATTERS

04 COHEXISTENCE

03 LUMINARE

02 URBAN FARM

01 SOLARIS

PROJECTS

S O L A R I S How to revive the lost interaction in Tehran?

Design Studio II - Cultural Center Instructor: Dr Khaghani, Dr Haghir.

Individual

3 PROCESS

1 THE PROBLEM Based on gallup, Iran is the 7th country with the highest negative

The main statement first started based on an expressionist painting. The main codes of the environment , the sense of site, society and the result of analysis and the dialogue of site was brought on wooden canvas. Then the main concept was simply turned into diagrams and basic form. Afterwards, in order to realize a well practical and functional building in the site, the coding and optimization was taken into practice in addition to art and expression.

HOW TO REACT?

experience worldwide in 2017.Negative experience is an annual index of stress, anger, sadness, physical pain and worry. This index rises dramatically in metropolitan cities such as Tehran. As a result, their residents experience lack of sense of community, togetherness, creativity and finally happiness.

THE "EXPRESSION" THE PUBLIC, TEHRAN, Photo Credit: “Parisa Bazzaz�

2 AIMS

T he main motivation of this building is to revive the

lost interaction between people in the metropolitan capital of Iran, Tehran through the use of Public plazas and cultural centers. It is in fact, a building for everyone. A public plaza for the forbidden act of being, sitting and laughing together and practicing art.

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THE "CODE"

THE "BUILDING"

3 SKETCHES The primitive sketches of concept and site that at last turned into the final building.

DETAILS

SUSTAINABILITY

THE SOLAR PANELS

OPTIMIZNG THE ROOF HEIGHT AND ANGLE VARIABLES FOR MAXIMIZING THE SUNLIGHT

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1.Cafe 2.Workshop 3.Cinematech 4.Music room 5.Gallery-1 6.Gallery-2 7.Sideways 8.Stairs 9.Entrance 10.Stairs 11.Entrance 12.Library 13.Office 14.HVAC

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TEHRAN RADIATION THROUGH THE YAER

Solaris is located in

the northern area of Tehran, it faces mild slope in the most parts. With this tilt taken into account, its inclination is used in forming stairs as gathering areas.

SITE The taken

Inclination is into account

THE STAIRS/CIRCULATION

ROOFS

Stairs provide all private, semi private and public spaces.

Solar panels are inclined towards the sun to get the maximum energy

URBA N FA RM DesignStudioIV

Residential Complex Instructor: Dr. Ebrahimi INDIVIDUAL

#1 1 PROBLEM HOUSING Today, unmethodical large scale constructions in metropolitan areas have resulted in dismal neighbourhoods with Lack of human interaction.

#2 2 PROBLEM FOOD A critical issue in metropolitan areas is how to produce food.

The movie Ready player one, illustrates a city in 2045, where people seek escape from life through virtual reality.

Our cities are rapidly moving towards this tragic future.

Producing food is a daunting process, accompanied by ecological issues, inaccessibility, food waste and high prices.

"Ready player one"

Today's challenge is to feed the exploding world population in a sustainable, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly way.

Urban farming allows people to grow their own food.

3 THE SOLUTION: URBAN FARMING

FARIMGN IN TEHRAN, could provide interaction between neighbours as well as providing:

Food security Economic growth Sense of community Sense of belonging Base for food Startups Interaction with urban Vertical farming rack

Communal space 7

Facade Farming

Overview

If each city on earth were to grow 10% of its produce indoors, it would allow us to take 340,000 square miles of farmland back to forest.

Hydroponics/ Growing without soil

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THE PROCESS

PLANS

First floor plan

Formation and design process of the urban farm

Second floor plan

Third floor plan

COMMUNITY GARDEN

The building and population grows with the nature 8

Vertical access and pilotis, providing community gathering spaces

Numerous glazings and opennings providing transparency and interaction

The communal space as an interactive farm

LUMINA RE

Commonness One in five people have Seasonal affec�ve disorder

Chemical imbalance Serotonine deficiency affects mood. It is responsible for maintaining mood balance and regula�ng cyclic body process

LIGHT DESIGN Sunlight

SEASONAL AFFECTIVE

DISORDER IS EVERYWHERE.

“As modern humans with adult obligations, we have relatively static sleepcycles, but since the solar cycle changes throughout the year, that often means waking up in pitch black fall and winter.”

This mismatch between the solar cycle and our sleep cycle is the main reason for mood change and depression.

However, using a light-therapy box wakes up and tells your brain to start its 24- hour cycle at that moment, effectively putting it back in spring-summer mode.

Poor design

Common symptoms include feeling down, laziness, lack of mo�va�on, trouble concentra�ng, sadness, restless sleep

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My Contribution: Conceptual design, computational design, visualization and fabrication

Common symptoms Common symptoms include feeling down, laziness, lack of mo�va�on, trouble concentra�ng, sadness, restless sleep

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Collaborative with: Parto Jahangiri

Light therapy Serotonine deficiency affects mood. It is responsible for maintaining mood balance and regula�ng cyclic body process

The Problems of other S-A-D lamps.

Design Developeent

Base curve

Dividing the path

Base sec�on geometry

Rota�ng hexagons in propor�on with rela�ve distance from center point

Defining tangent planes

Lo�ing the base component to create six Mobius strips

Fabrication Process

21 components shape the geometry

Choosing specific points on one of the six Mobius strips

Luminare can be used as indoor enthusiasm

Two component to mutual surfaces Designed mutual to Two component to indicate the juncture connect surface to indicate the juncture connect

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Drawing diagonal lines in order to stablize shapes

Two selected components

detail on edges to Designd a detail attach on edges to a�ach

Unrolled

component

Unrolling each component ready fo laser cutting to make them ready fo laser cu�ng

Componentsr ready for lasercutting

Applying the same rule to other Mobius ribbons

C O - H E X - I S T E N C E

A FOLATING CITY OF IDEAS COMPETITION 2018 Team Members: Koosha Mirassadollahi, Parto Jahangiri, Borna Moinpour

BAYBRIDGE

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FUNCTIONAL ZONES

50m

My Contribution: Conceptual Design, Sketching, Prototyping, 3D Modeling, Visualization, Graphic Design

ENTERTAINMENT

KNOWLEDGE

Site Plan Formation

Diagram of Functions

MEDIA

FORMATION

1 We are surrounded by an 2 With its modular design, ocean of floating ideas; ideas that might seem unachievable individually, but can become a reality once they have been developed in a group."COHEXISTENCE" is a dynamic media center designed for people to gather and share their ideas together while it helps them free their minds, relaxing near the bay, watching the ocean. cohexistence is divided by 3 zones (Entertainment, Media & Knowledge)

Cohexistence can be easily extended when needed. On the other hand, the modular design is very economical while the parts can be produced and get connected easily. Modules are varied from the big hexagon shaped cores that create the cafe and the library, to small triangles for stairs and to lozenge shaped idea tubes that float and can displace on water.

3 Idea tubes are situated

Magnets

Wave absorber For energy profuc�on

SOCIAL

ECONOMICAL ENVIRONMENTAL Recycled Plas�c

MODULES

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SUSTAINABILITY

on the east side of the project where people can either ride them around individually or connect them via magnet and communicate in a larger clone. The tubes are made by recycled plastic and empowered via fluctuation of waves in energy absorbing units.

F O L D I N G FABRICATION WORKSHOP Under supervision of CAAI and ITKE Collaborative - Summer2018

My Contribution: Computational design, Conceptual design, Prototyping, Fabrication and Assembling

TUTORS: Axel Kรถrner Vahid Eshraghi Maryam Kalantari Leyla Asrar Haghighi Assistant Tutors: Pooria Baniadam Amir Pourmoghaddam

1 PRIMARY IDEAS

Folding Matters is an Exploration

5 FABRICATION

of The potential of transforming flat sheet materials into self-supporting structures and double curved geometries by utilizing principles of folding using Grasshopper, Karamba and Galapagos.

3 ALTERNATIVES

Producing new developable geometries, considering foldability, stiffness and aesthetics.

2 MODULES

Primary paper, Aluminium and Steel prototypes 14

4 COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN

Overview of Grasshopper algorithm

Fabrication, Welding, Assembling, Coloring and Folding

6 DESIGN PROCESS

The main geometry is a simple extrusion between

two polygons, and the two modules are simply made by folding the edges inside and outside.

7 ANALYSIS

Structural analysis of snowload and deadload through using Grasshopper and Karamba.

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8 DETAIL

I n t e ra c t i v e I n s t r u m e n t Under Supervision of Helioripple Studio My Contribution: Computational design, Conceptual design, Prototyping, Fabrication and Assembling Collaborative: Koosha Mirassadollahi, Amirhossein owliayi, Yasaman Norouzi, Mahdis Asadabadi

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https://youtu.be/ehddIj3rpbI

copper

Plum-Tree, as an interactive instrument, provides a musical experience in social aspect and spatial side as well. Having tweaked Delta-z Project, Plum-Tree enhanced the pavilion in terms of adding a new interactive layer.

Recieve pin Send pin

Proximity

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Copper

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Touch HETERODUINO INPUT

Overview of sensors, inputs and outputs OUTPUT

CICADA

plum MPR 121

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ARDUINO

INSTALLATION

plum copper

INSTRUMENT

Plums and copper!

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The code and Arduino

How plum tree involves people passing by

�he most noticeable feature about this archi-

tecture project is that it is a sensor needless of additional sensors, which turns it into a “Project without sensor module”. There are two kinds of “sensory input” in this project: 1. touch this sensor1* 2. don’t touch this sensor 2*, which altogether form a three dimensional midi- controller.

INITIAL

RESONANCE originates from an artifact in the original cutoff filter used in old hardware synthesizers.

It is narrow band of frequencies, near the c utoff level, where the sound is amplified.

VCO originall sound of a UFO! a sound effect inherited from the aliens.

a sudden instance of malfunctioning in an electronic system. usually described as a "aesthetic of failure”.

BRILLIANCE describes a high degree of intensity in perception by the sense and How sharp is the contrast between notes.

Touch response initial pitch.

CUT-OFF is used to block certain frequencies from a sound.

Sound effects, glitch, ....

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plum tree project is a strong evidence stating that presence of music could give a new life to a leftover space, while encouraging people to interact with existing architecture elements in such medium.

Arduino Uno and Shield

With the use of Arduino Uno, the gathered charge in the plum tree is inserted and processed as an input for Grasshopper. After then, the taken input from heteroptera plugin will be used in cicada (plugin for grasshopper) as an output. The gathered data enters the loopmidi and turns into MIDI musical notes, which now is ready for mixing and composing in FL studio software.

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Testing the effective distance of planes

Overview of plum tree

The plum tree is an organism with music as its beating heart. It senses every movement and motion around. It senses touch and presence without any sensors in an unexpected way termed capacitive sense.

*1 capacitive touch sensors based on gathered electric charge which shows if plums are touched or not. *2 capacitive distance sensors which basically work with electric charge gathered in copper planes. (capacitors).

The Delta-z project with its promising design potential was designed to provide a modern public space for Caai School. Although it’s astonishing in design, shortcomings like improper positioning and lack of required shading has led to lack of interaction and attention for individuals. using musical sequences and notes, the plum tree project has turned this abandoned structure into a vibrant and live atmosphere.

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