Leila Mazhari Leila Mazhari mazhari.leila@gmail.com
Dwell, Canmore, Alberta
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Dilemmas of dwelling in Canmore, Canada pertain to the inner-town economical, social, and environmental segregations. The response is implementing a growing organism that blurs the threshold of building and landscape and unifies the intervention by housing the entire required mixed use residential and commercial development within. Through designing the beginning and preparing for unknown scenarios, this project was focused on envisioning and connecting to the possible processes and outcomes rather than being limited in a static and defined end. The proposal would be actualized over a number of dynamic phases. The first initiation stage is to claim potential brownfields along the Highway. Second stage is responding to the immediate needs of Canmore through multiple “seeds� of inhabitable crossing points. The third phase is implementation of a series of infrastructural layers, which is the basis for the services and amenities of fourth phase. The fourth phase is an ongoing process that embraces the notion that future could only be anticipated. This creates a level of flexibility that allows the social, economical, ad environmental context of Canmore shape the size and function of this dwelling.
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A PRAIA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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A Progressive Realm of an Amalgamated Interactive Aura, A Praia, is a direct architectural response to the cultural, intellectual, and social influences of Rio de Janeiro. Based on the concepts of learn and play, A Praia emphasizes the importance of connection and fluidity, providing a unique visual form while supporting and enhancing the public realm. As a progressive entity within the urban fabric, A Praia becomes an iconic symbol within its architectural inventory, establishing new and innovative forms and programs and becoming a catalyst for energy production and sustainability in Rio. The resulting fabric structure is responsive to specific physical conditions, spreading its fabric over the water to harness its turbulent energy potentials, piercing though the water surface to create new, interesting environments and programs, and minimizing its form over natural land areas in order to preserve the natural beauty of the landscape.
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A PRAIA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Stretch Push/Pull Fabricate B Process This project was an entry for Arquitectum competition for an iconic tower over an island, a kilometer away from Copacabana beach. As a competing figure within the monumentality of the natural horizon, a tower disrupts the contoured beauty of its context. Besides, it provides a familiar fabric to the city as a new beacon, arguably unacceptable as an iconic form for Rio. The disconnected location of this tower also threatens to become a separate entity from its urban context and thriving public sphere.
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Each module along the web consists of hydraulic rams that resist the motion caused by waves. The hydraulic rams pump high-pressure oil through an alternator that drives electrical generators to produce electricity.
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RyeArch, Toronto, Canada
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In this new integrated model, architectural education takes on two fundamental roles: to act as a conductor of knowledge and a processor for individuals’ growth. It becomes a “Bazaar”, which celebrates a collective and knowledge-based growth. This growth is linear yet spontaneous. When the paths cross they form a synthetic web. The solidity of this web is dependent on these crossing points, the thresholds. Relatively, intensification of this web maximizes the potency of a shared growth. This model has formed as a habitat where this interactive pedagogy was optimized and celebrated. As a result, this habitation was reformulated through weaving of its encompassing communicative qualities. This weave creates a temporal experience saturated with thresholds and a journey of constant separation and reintegration between self and the other, the inside and outside.
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CSUI, Toronto, Canada, The Center for Study of Urban Issues
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Located on Queen Street East, Toronto, CSUI is a research facility with a focus on studies of urban issues. These issues are embodied with the network of social, political, economical, and technological matters. The sustainability of this synthetic network is rooted in the woven relationships between these embodied elements. This integrated network became an inspiration for examining the building systems of this institute. This integration was intervened through introduction of a “buffer-zone” that would carve through the narrow site and define the spaces of public and private realms. This “buffer-zone” has been fabricated through interplay between elements of circulation, structure, and skin.
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This organic interplay demands a non-homogenous structural system. At the same time, there should be a system for enforcement of constructional efficiency. As a result a mass-costumizational system has been introduced for fabrication of each unique column. Every reinforced concrete column could be formed through a single formwork and be customized by only controlling the edges of that mould.
Physical Model of a Typical Column
Carrot City Exhibit, Ouro Preto-Brazil, Community Kitchen and Food Market
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In reaction to issues of food and water in Ouro Preto, Brazil, a “Continuous Productive Urban Landscape” is proposed within the fabric of the town. This stretched urban landscape project was impregnated at nodes along the way and diversely programmed in respect to different aspects of these issues. One of these nodes is a community kitchen and food market. It acts as a bridge between two residential neighborhoods. Two support programs are suggested in immediate neighborhood of the site: An educational institute and a market with an extensive agricultural landscape on the ground level. In the historical town of Ouro Preto , context plays an essential role in implementation of new construction. On one hand, revealed layering of construction materials and methods is a powerful characteristic of Ouro Preto’s aged built environment that is adapted in this project. On the other hand, vernacular techniques of integrating “brise de soleil” and creating an optimal interior micro-climate has become a central design idea. N 20 0m
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Carrot City Exhibit, Downsview Park, Toronto, Vertical Gardens and Market Carts
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This project is a apart of TREE CITY, redevelopment plan for Downsview Park, Toronto. This project became an opportunity to take a critical look at the role of urban agriculture within Toronto’s Park and Recreation Action Plans. It is inspired by Bruce Mau’s explanation of the redevelopment as “designing it to be changed, designing it to be evolving, but to make the design so robust that it sustains itself through that evolution--like any other living thing." A part of this project was proposal of rentable food carts and vertical gardens that are designed base on the same system. The idea is to provide the basic framework were the panels could be plugged into it. The compositions of the panels would be up to the individuals. This customized modularity would allow the built forms to be a reflection of their community. A wide variety of pre-fabricated panels could be proposed for the compositions. Few possible panels have been illustrated as a sample.
Building Elements of Market Carts
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[the tendency of a fluid, usually water, to pass through a semi-permeable membrane. A subtle or gradual absorption or mingling. ] It is to experiment a refabrication through a Porous structure. A porosity that involves fluidity. Fuildity of those who “dwell” through. It is to examine possibilities of “dwelling”. Dwelling of a “non-place.” “Osmosis” was an installation, as a part of “Dwell” project. The intention was to create an interlude in order to observe the potentials for a more meaningful inhabitation of an existing fluid space .
Organic Machinery, Emergence of Morphological Architecture
Digital technology has changed how architecture is imagined, represented, and perceived. Digital architecture challenges the metabolic body with this “technological speed”. When human defeats the body, in illusion of achieving this “transcendent realm of disembodied perfection”, a culture of passivism and individuality grows. As a reaction to this issue, a new type of critical architecture emerges. This new architecture focuses on “movement” and “time” as the two fundamental elements to the rhetoric of “speed” and aims for a healthier engagement of mind and body within the built environment. Leading researchers on this topic suggest that “morphological architecture” is the answer to this issue. The result is architecture as “organic machinery”. 14A
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