Architecture Portfolio - Leila Zali

Architecture Portfolio

Boustan St., Tehran, 1655657354, Iran

E-MAIL: leila.zali.9@gmail.com

PHONE: +989190829698

Leila Mohammadzali

Leila Mohammadzali

Architectural Designer

PHONE: +989190829698

E-MAIL: leila.zali.9@gmail.com

B.Arch. Islamic Azad University

#2 in Best Global Universities in Iran

Thesis: Theatrical Pockets , Supervisor: Dr. Parisa Alimohammadi

Academic History Projects

Professional Experience

Architectural Designer - QASTIC DESIGN-BUILD, Los Angeles, United States

Aquarius

Burning Man Global Art Grants Project Black Rock Desert, Pershing County, Nevada, United States making 3D model, drawing details and architectural documentations, rendering

Aparat Building

Office Building Project

Tehran, Iran drawing details and architectural documentations, designing the facade

Expo Competition

Desinging Iran Pavilion working on the project concept, drawing architectural documentations

Academic Experience

"Liquid Architectures In Metaverse" Workshop

DigitalFUTURES.international

Investigating the process involved in Metaverse Experience Design and its relationship with possible future business opportunities.

Liquid Architectures In Metaverse, Episode 06 Exhibition

"Blurred Hybridities" Workshop

Advanced Architectural Studies Summer School

Coordinated by Sina Mostafavi

Exploring Emerging Modes of Architectural Materiality

Language

"Cryptovoxel Metaverse Studio" Workshop

Futurly - imnotArt Gallery - ArchiDAO

In search of different types of Metaverse environments.

"Alternate Future" Seminar

Advanced Architectural Studies Summer School

Coordinated by Amir Ashtiani

In search of alternatives for upcoming global mega issues.

"Parallel Histories" Studio

Advanced Architectural Studies Summer School

Coordinated by Farnoosh Farmer

Questioning the relationship between drawing and construction.

"Rework Interactions" Workshop

DigitalFUTURES.international

InclusiveFUTURES: 'REWORK INTERACTIONS'

"A Possible Path" Workshop

CAAI

A speculative design workshop that marks the beginning of its movement in the historical architecture of Iran.

"Parafiction II" Workshop

CAAI Imagining an alternative reality

July 2021 -

2021

July 2021 -

2021

July 2021

Feb. 2020 -

2021

Projects

Competitions

"Designing boardgames and toys" Competition

www.ideaazad.ir

"Asia Young Designer Awards"

Forward a Sustainable Future

Tutor: Nilofar Niksar

“Young Talented Architects”

The Call for bachelor's Architectural Design I student competition

www.sanix.org

“Call for Ideas for Iranshahr Airport”

Concepts And Ideas For The Future "Iranshahr" International Airport

"Model Young Package"

CZECHDESIGN.CZ (Organisator of the competition

Model Young Package)

Creating packaging that will react to the all-present phenomenon of coffee

Other Experience

Piano Teacher Assistant

Valo Art Group, Tehran, Iran

Research Interests

Architectural history and theory

Software Skills

3D / BIM / Parametric Modelling

Rhinoceros

Nov. 2021

Oct. 2019

Revit

Grasshopper

Blender

Houdini

2D Drafting / Details

July 2019

AutoCad

Visualization

Enscape

KeyShot

Apr. 2018

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

Advanced Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate

Oct. 2017

Awards

Honorable prize in the “Cryptovoxel Metaverse Studio Competition”

Summer 2022

(twentieth century architectural history + contemporary architectural theory)

Architectural computing and digital media

(Generative Architectural Design)

Design studies

(design discovery and design thinking)

Jan. 2022

Honorable prize for the “The national event of the free idea of toys of the Institude For The Intellectual Development Center For Children” boardgame design competition

www.ideaazad.ir

The 2nd place winner in the “Young Talented Architects”

www.sanix.org

Award for the Top 6 Ideas of the “Call for Ideas for Iranshahr Airport”

Travel

Russia 2017

Turkey 2014

Oct. 2021

July 2019

Apr. 2018

Contents

Theatrical Pockets

5th Year Thesis Project

Supervisor: Parisa Alimohammadi

Floating City

Parafiction Workshop

Tutor: Pooyan Rouhi

Facade And the Production of Planes

Parallel Histories Studio

Tutor: Farnoosh Farmer

Extension to the Tomb of Artaxerxes II

A Possible Path Workshop

Tutor: Pooyan Rouhi

Lines vs. Poche

Blurred Hybridities

Tutor: Sina Mostafavi

Mod-Rise Building

Second Year Spring Housing Studio

Supervisor: Mahya Sadeghipour

Bubbling the Future

Alternate Future Seminar

Tutor: Amir Ashtiani

Winter - Spring 2022

September 2020

Summer - Fall 2021

Spring 2021

December 2019

Spring 2019

Summer - Fall 2021

THEATRICAL POCKETS

BACHELOR THESIS

How the formation of new activities and events has shaped architectural types and / or vice versa?

Is there a causal relationship between the formal system of spaces and the system of events?

The remains of an old cinema in the project's adjacencies make it possible to renovate and restart it.

Lalehzar is a street that experiences conflict between two non-homogeneous types of programs. The first sets up a dramatic and imaginary mise-en-scène, and the second deals with the naturalistic and everyday mise-en-scène of its today's fields (collection of lighting stores).

This street is not a faded memory of its past but a place that contains a significant part of the cultural history of the city; it is a place to investigate, a passage on the very first steps in the public arena, a street for conversation, and a road for walking—an avenue for watching, listening, learning, shopping, and many other neglected capacities of a city.

The placement of an active cultural core at a high historical concentration on this street will create a potential to renovate its cultural monuments—a multi-purpose project consisting of exhibition halls, shared work studios, and galleries.

Alborz Cinema _ 1960s Alborz Cinema _ 1980s

Alborz Cinema Taban Cinema

Iran Cinema

Nasr Theater Laleh Cinema Ettehadiye House

Alborz Cinema _ 2000s

Alborz Cinema _ 2000s

Map of Tehran - Lalezar St. - Location of the project

Street elevation of the project - View from the Lalezar St.

Alborz Cinema _ New Proposal

connecting direction

rotation

Three separated parts used in the design: Space Envelopes - Ramp - Elevator - Retaining structures

The built space (space envelopes) is located a certain distance from the ground. Therefore, the formation of varieties of program sequences at the street level would be possible.

Suspended Pockets

Sets of architecturals elements used in the project

Process of each spatial pocket's shaping

Spatial envelope along the ramplan idea

Through the idea of free section space organization, pockets are freely placed in the section in the form of envelopes independent of the level of each floor. In this project, separated space envelopes are freely placed on any level, while

supporting structure allows them to be suspended by a clamp connection. Each part has an internal structure that fits its geometry. The inner system is connected to the outer, and retaining structures from its upper part.

Detail of a wall section - The attachment part of the column and the inner structure of the pocket

Site

Ettehadiye Historical House

Cinema (Iran)

Cinema ( Laleh And Alborz)

Section of The Project From Lalezar St.

View to the Alborz Cinema and The Project

View to the the Project from Etahiyeh St.

Front View of the the Project

FLOATING CITY

PARAFICTION WORKSHOP

Creating an alternative reality; a strange reality that lies somewhere between a familiar reality and an unfamiliar reality; paraphysis: imagination; uncertain boundaries between reality and fantasy.

Different Typologies of Climate Responsive Persian Traditional Architecture

“Parafiction” is a research design workshop that marks the beginning of its movement in the historical architecture of Iran. The rich formalism of Iranian architectural styles makes it possible

to look at it as a source of ready-made objects with high search potentials; a collection of objects taken from existing reality. This set of objects is used as the starting point of the design.

the"Showadan" a cellar space in the basement - section

the ancient persian "Cistern" - section

the ancient persian "Cistern" - section

the ancient persian "Yakhchal" - plan

the ancient persian "Yehchal" - section

Sullivan’s oft-recited sentiment “ form ever follows function “ is a relational statement that insists function is the guiding force in the design of form. This turns form into a functioning object, or in ooo terms, a tool. Using the Heideggarian idea of the tool as forgotten background equipment, one can argue that architects of the past century have been unwittingly complicit in making architectural form invisible to the consciousness of its users. -Mark

Foster Gage”Killing Simplicity”

What will be the future of a boundless world of water? Will the creatures remain floating? Perhaps floating on imaginary objects, objects that have already shaped our new world, each are freely located somewhere, creating two different worlds. One vital outside the water and another inside it. A city between the two, not built on a ruined past; Rather, it creates a new body from the remnants of its own body.

It gives a new shape to the second self. Persistent disfigurement in an unstable state of breaking, destruction, and rebirth. And this possibility of transformation is made possible by the field of the city, water.

The designed object forms the city on the water and reproduces itself in a way that is a constant metamorphosis, like a mold that feeds on its own context/bed and expands itself.

this destruction and crushing, starts from the bottom and grows high. It begins and grows until the last point of the original geometry remains recognizable , somewhere between familiar reality and fiction.

FACADE AND THE PRODUCTION OF PLANES

EMBODIMENT OF IMAGINATIONS, INFORMATION AND SENSORY DATA

What is the relationship between drawing and construction?

Where is the boundary between architectural drawing and illustration?

The facade is the visible nature of every building in the city—a detached wall, a screen that stands alone on the ground, covering something behind it. At the same time, it has compressed layers on itself. These layers are a constant representation of history, so the past always floats on them. If there is no facade, the inside and the outside become meaningless, the duality between the two disappears, and it is also neutralized.

In the first encounter with the Zoqaliha Caravanserai, a facade and an entrance are visible, along with decorations, tiles, and other details on its entire front. However, confronting the separated space between the city and the facade, the repetition of multiple walls becomes apparent.

The walls are semi-complete with the parts that have been demolished and ruined. The existence of two-dimensional embossed plates in this building and its parallel repetition in its interior space remains a reproduction of two-dimensional subsets. The whole object (especially its facade part) has become a statue in the city due to its non-useless and fragmentation, which consists of rows of separated walls and a distinct headboard. The building is surrounded by railings, hiding a lost space behind its walls. A distinctive feature that has emerged compared to existing buildings is that, part of it is ruined and as a result parts of the back and inside space are exposed. This causes the facade to represent its interior space for now. This hidden and semi-obvious space is receptive to many forms. Its simplest forms are the display and objective presence of a building that is revealed after entering the inner. However, part of it, due to its absence (destruction in time), leads the viewer to imagine. The obviousness of the Empty section behind the building next to the fences, the entrance, and the facade, set up a show of absence, and this

issue, in itself, is a stimulus, for the viewer’s mind, and the formation of imaginations; the embodiment or image of the part that is trapped behind the remaining parts.

Zoqaliha Caravanserai - Front View

Zoqaliha Caravanserai - Sardar (entrance)

Zoqaliha Caravanserai - Side View

The Conceptual Model of the Project

Imagination is a chaotic and uncertain process, and apart from the uncertainty and infinity of its cases, its mental image is always fragmented and represents only some part of the truth. The same is true of drawings; The range of confidence in each drawing is relatively small. But in

drawing, different visuality, information, and sensory data (ie: information about the original building, historical events, sources, events, etc.) can be frozen in one moment. And redefined the kind of imperfect world buried behind walls.

EXTENSION OF THE TOMB OF ARTAXERXES II

“A Possible Path” is a speculative design workshop that marks the beginning of its movement in the historical architecture of Iran. Besides, the point of departure of the designing procedure is on the geometric of persian carpet. Selecting, extruding, cutting and deforming the geometries was the formula of this designing workshop.

Process of the formation of the geometries:

The Tomb of Artaxerxes II is located on the north side of the Persepolis, where thousands of years have passed since its construction. Rethinking this vernacular architecture has caused the incorporation of different masses in and around it, passing through and penetrating the buried historical layers. Floors that were previously filled with soil, but now the presence of a new addition has given a new character to the small space of this crypt.

Persian rug patterns Persian rug

Geometry iterations - Generated from persian rug patterns

Section of the project

Section of the project

Front view of the project

LINES VS. POCHÉ

EXPLORING EMERGING MODES OF ARCHITECTURAL MATERIALITY

Year Duration Location

Type

Worshop

Tutor

2021 - 2022

5 months (Dec. - April)

Iran, Kashan Academic

Blurred Hybridities Workshop

Sina Mostafavi

Course Brief

Blurred-Hybridities aims to rethink how we materialize architecture. In a creative design process, in multiple scales, the very physicality of architecture can be represented, computed, and modeled with different levels of abstraction and concreteness.

About the Location

Borujerdiha House, a traditional house in an integrated urban fabric in Kashan, Iran, comprises thick pochés and a courtyard. We decided to lift it one level up to invert its introverted space organization. Here, the issue explores a generative formal, functional, or structural system to connect the two divided parts of the chunk.

Borujerdiha House: view to the dome

Borujerdiha House and its urban tissue

Methods and Workflow

Blurred-Hybridities begins with an analysis of a historic or co temporary building with the goal of studying different models of materialization. These studies cover the way different building elements and sets of materials work in different scales ranging from micro to meso and macro. The selected buildings need to be situated within alive contexts in Iran or neighboring countries.

Initial sketches

One straightforward way to make an abstract spatial configuration or sketch matareializable is to use pre-existing or known architectural elements such as walls, stairs, columns, windows, etc. A plying these shortcuts in a design materialization process may result in building familiar enviro ments by selecting from a palette consisting of known architectural objects. While using these palettes, as our precedent references for materalization, may provide designers with ranges of easily constructible and socially acceptable solutions, they may not adapt to today’s everchanging requirements, emerging technologies, and demands for high-performance design.

Line vs. Pochés

This designed generative system should work with lines. This means that the pochés will transform into lines and join each other, therefore; another challenge is that the production system should work with strings in different scales ranging from micro to meso and macro and simultaneously functions in a way that applies to human public use.

As a system that aims to define space with its elements, this formulated installation works by joining sets of truss systems that, at some points, have structural functions.

a module of truss system

Initial sketches: blurring or blending the function of architectural elements

arrangement of threads in the inbetween space

a net of truss system

The second substance porous and strong

Intermediate substance to create adhesion

Entrance

Vestibule Side corridors

Centeral public space Sardab (underground level)

1st level

2nd level Dome

Lift the building one level to have public access from the streets

MOD-RISE HOUSE

Architectural design studio 1

How can a hybrid system be made out of two different types of space organization?

The site is in a region that has been growing since the decade (the modernism age). Architecture at those times had ambitious goals which, from the point of view of critical architects, did not reach any of them genuinely.

My concept for the project is because the project is located on a site built during modern age architecture; the part of the building with a body close to the site symbolically takes the style of architecture of that time. Therefore, the upper layers on it form differently, in a self-notation way, to represent its distinction from the lower part to build a hybrid architectural space. A self-notation form is a form that does not answer the issues related to its context, its quests, or problems.

Khovardin Village

Building the urban complex - The beginning of cities modernization the Revolution era of change

Construction of the city square

Initial model study

The hidden layers of the project's site Site Plan scale :

Model of the Project and its landscape Model of the Project Section-Model of the Project

BUBBLING THE FUTURE

IN SEARCH OF ALTERNATIVES FOR UPCOMING GLOBAL MEGA ISSUES

Year Duration

Type

Worshop

Tutor

Role in team

ARCHITECTURAL CONSEQUENCES

2021

5 months (July - Nov.)

Academic

Alternate Future Seminar

Mr. Amir Ashtiani Ideation and visualization

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES

In the near future, the possibility of increasing air pollution and the spread of acid rain will create a destructive phenomenon that will affect the durability of man-made objects such as valuable or public buildings or monuments and the rate of destruction in them.

Increasing on the other hand, disrupts human health and the natural and living environments. Therefore, there is a need for a protective layer that has different capabilities. A smart protective layer that adapts with changing weather conditions through features such as the Internet of Things, and is distinguished by its control and flexibility.

HUMAN AND CULTURAL CONSEQUENCES

The gradual spread of this phenomenon and the consequent increase in the use of this special protective layer will affect other areas as well.

layer will affect other areas as well. Including fashion, advertising of art fields and people’s lifestyle in general. So that this bubble-like protective layer becomes a consumer product and available to the public.

THAKNS