Steel Booth II
Location: Amman, Jordan Built-up Area: 49 sq.m (527 sq.ft) Client: Steel Buildings Company ltd
Year: 2012 Status: Construction Completed
Job Title: Senior Project Architect – Lead Designer/ Project Manager at symbiosis designs
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or the second time, the steel booth was designed using manufacturer’s steel sections and products to create a design-build demonstration, to market high performance design-build abilities. The simple dual expression between the raw stand alone steel I-Beams and an elegant glass platform that morph the fifth façade (the floor) into samples’ exhibition stage. To balance the steel elements a natural material ‘ gravel] was used as a ground base. The steel I-Beams were placed playfully around two perimeter edges to create an enclosure which gentle skews interplays with the light. To free the clutter only four brochure stands and an LCD screen were set unto the base and a steel stenciled cylinder at the welcoming corner of the booth to express, market and highlight the new branding slogans.
Booths
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Lina As’ad
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Architekton Apartment Building
Location: Amman, Jordan Built-up Area: 3,175 sq.m (34,175 sq.ft) Land Area: 980 sq.m (10,550 sq.ft) Client: NACE Company
Year: 2012 status: Construction Drawings, on going
Job Title: Senior Project Architect – Lead Designer / Project Manager at symbiosis designs Program: five high-end residential lofts, 2 cellars for parking and services and 5 floors above ground with roof garden.
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pen plan duplex units designed from within. An outer skin that is an extension of the quality and nature of this plan layout which is Light, Bright, Novel, Flexible offering different options (shaded / blackout / screened / open views / balcony feeling). Designed with special attention to Energy Consumption and Green design requirements. Scope included architectural interior design that starts at the threshold of the project with a sculptural stairs at the main entry lobby that is grand, impressive , sophisticated yet simple and unique. The enchanting cozy shadows at the inside gives a softening playful effect that is always different as living facade with its unique and customized pattern solution.
Residential
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Lina As’ad
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Doha Mixed Use Oasis
Location: Doha, Qatar Built-up Area: 273,000 sq.m (2.9 mmsf) Land Area: 38,849 sq.m (9.6 ac)
Year : 2011
Program: 2 hotels and 50 serviced apartments, office buildings on top of retail crystals, anchor department store, retail, gym and wellness spa, 2 cinemas and 170 residential units Job Title: Senior Project Architect – Lead Designer at symbiosis designs
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he project’s program was designed as a comprehensive living life cycle that combines residential, wellness and spa, entertainment, cultural, commercial and recreational. It is a neighborhood where a user finds all his living needs as if he is living in a larger cosmopolitan city with many offerings. The Project complex was developed as an urban plaza to include districts within standing as an iconic stem cell. The entire plan is conceived within a vision for a park that balances its urbanity. The park became the stage unto which buildings overlooked. In some sub-districts the park-scape was stretched deeply into areas where buildings lift up to yield for it at the base with café / retail crystals, or carve within its facades as hovering garden terraces. An extension of this park as green roofs were introduced to offer a new skyline.
Mixed Use
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Lina As’ad
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Kawar Headquarters Building
Location: Abdali, Amman, Jordan Year : 2010 Built-up Area: 18,700 sq.m (201,285 sq.ft) Land Area: 1,560 sq.m (16,800 sq.ft) Client: Kawar Group Status: Design Completion, Site Excavation Completion Program: retail, offices, restaurants, café and underground parking Job Title: Senior Project Architect – Lead Designer at symbiosis designs
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he expression of a solid central core to an outer clear glass perimeter of offices projecting outwards beyond the heavy mass. The light skin of Zinc Coated panels wraps and lifts dynamically ; it made the operable screened panels which are perforated in front of windows/door presents a subtle, Unique and uncommon material in Amman, authentic hence timeless. Some of the green strategies that were adopted in the building; the double skin facade treatment of horizontal louvers, along with a green roof and an open to sky atrium above the main entrance with connecting bridges between the two offices’ wings.
Commercial , Office – Retail
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Lina As’ad
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Steel Booth I
Location: Amman, Jordan Built-up Area: 80 sq.m (861 sq.ft) Client: Steel Buildings Company ltd
Year: 2009 Status: Construction Completed
Job Title: Senior Project Architect – Lead Designer/ Project Manager at symbiosis designs
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he booth is a representation of the fabrication capabilities of a prominent steel manufacturer. The structure was designed to stand vertically visible within exhibitions to attract visitors in its direction. The lower level is cleared of all clutter to allow a staircase to impose its invitational presence unto the second floor. All samples and creative drawings were exhibited within the lower floor plane. On the upper level a silo is constructed, however turned horizontally to become a digital gallery with rhythmic screens further telling the story of the host. A meeting room is also constructed as an extension of the assembly of the overall structural frame tectonic hierarchy. The booth’s primary gesture is to express materials and assemblies true and honest to their behavioral assembly process.
Booths
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Lina As’ad
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Ali Jabri -
Human Heritage Foundation
Location: Amman, Jordan Year: 2009 Built-up Area: 150 sq.m (1,615 sq.ft) Client: Fadi Ghandour Status: Construction Completed Job Title: Freelance Interior Designer
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he Ali Jabri Foundation, is an exhibition design for the late Jordanian artist Ali Jabri; the first since his death, titled Journey Back. A collection of his sketches, collages and paintings from the time he spent in Cairo, a place he passionately loved. Ali Jabri’s journey was a life recorded in his sketchbook and accordingly it was represented in each room in a minimalistic approach, all in white exhibit to draw the attention on his belongings, hand written quotations and paintings. His desk, his paint boxes and brushes, his drawing table his picture frames which were turned into mirrors, etc…all together created unique display pieces for his sketch books and paintings. Recycled newspaper display stands were crafted for the artist’s sketches which resembles his humble soul.
Cultural Interior
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Lina As’ad
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Doha Corniche Development Competition
Location: Doha, Qatar Year: 2009 Land Area: 7.5 km (4.6 mile) Long Client: Government of Qatar, National Council for Culture, Arts and Heritage Status: Design Completed Job Title: Senior Project Architect - Lead Designer at symbiosis designs Joint venture with Wilmotte & Associés S.A., Paris
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oha Shore Zones, envisioned as a primarily natural sandy beach, is an extension of the desert coming into the city from the North. In this zone, the buildings reverse their traditional selves and become nodal green parks reminiscent of oases and a humanly sustainable functionality unique to Doha and Qatar – celebrating the environmental and human ecology. All buildings will be designed as public garden follies where visitors can interact in shaded areas, water features, art-scape and localized themed landscape. The green folly experiment should creatively evolve into many unique building typologies merging imperative parking space with socially, culturally, financially and environmentally sustainable aesthetic urban fabric. The South Shore Zone 9, stands as an airport gate area to the city. The profound event building with rich memorable experiences and dramatic visual gesture that capture the senses of visitors in the first and final hours of their visit to the city. It is proposed that Doha’s airport district will be the site for the largest and most enterprising duty free shop in the world – a lucrative and rewarding one kilometer stretch green building that redefines what is traditionally a strict indoor commercial exchange.
Large-Scale Site Projects
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Lina As’ad
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Abu Tawileh plaza II
Location: Amman, Jordan Year : 2008 Built-up Area: 26,500 sq.m (285,243 sq.ft) Land Area: 3,700 sq.m (39,800 sq.ft) Client: Mr. Qais Abu Tawileh Status: Design Development led to sell proposal to another developer Program: vertical anchor store, retail, sky retail, offices, restaurants and underground parking Job Title: Senior Project Architect – Lead Designer / Project Manager at symbiosis designs
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he project is distinctly demarked with a crystal sky retail store above a simplistic backdrop office building block and a frontal hovering, dynamically skewed, vertical anchor retail store. One form is articulated with modern progressive glass and fiber cement linear panel cladding, the other with internal wooden shutters behind clear glass to further polarize the visual tension between the two forms while articulating geometries of balance to achieve a settling synergy. Both forms sit on an urban tray platform activated as a cultural plaza – a tribute to the urban landscape. The building is an innovative attempt at greatly increasing the retail space percentage beyond the typical yields on the same street.
Commercial , Office – Retail
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Lina As’ad
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RSICA - Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Arts video | archdaily Link
Location: Aqaba, Jordan Year : 2007 Built-up Area: 30,000 sq.m (323,000 sq.ft) Land Area: 26,500 sq.m (285,240 sq.ft) Client: RSICA in collaboration with USC - University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and The Royal Film Commission Status: Site Excavation Completion Presented the project at the Co-Festa Tokyo Festival Oct,2007 Media/Audio/Visual Consultant: Sand Hill Media, Berkeley, CA Acoustical Consultant: Newson Brown Acoustics LLC, CA Program: film school with 160 seat screening room, a luxurious 80 room boutique hotel with a film museum, swimming pool and 3 screen public cinema, on-grade parking lots and underground Job Title: Senior Architect/Project Manager at symbiosis designs
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SICA is designed as a didactic building environment that intuitively teaches students much about spatial movement, different light conditions, shadows, traveling sound, visual layering and several related film making compositional considerations. The building is mostly built, indoor and outdoor, with pigmented concrete that is left natural and raw with the imprints of the wooden formwork. The negative space maintains integrity by claiming the larger share of the site as expansive arid landscape interrupted by two subterranean oases.
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Lina As’ad
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Bagutta Retail
Location: Amman, Jordan Built-up Area: 90 sq.m (970 sq.ft) Client: World Fashion Trading
Year: 2007 at Zara Mall Center Status: Construction Completed
Job Title: Freelance Interior Designer
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agutta represents an interweaving of classic Italian tradition with contemporary designs specialized mainly for men’s high-end shirts. A grand mural wall with a gentle skew forms the main gesture within the retail. The hanging shirts are displayed within a huge carved opening in this sculptural wall, whereas the store’s retail is located behind this wall as it opens up towards its end. In contrast with this minimal media wall, 5 moveable dynamic wooden stand alone louvers displays are placed orthogonally on a shiny black reflective floor to give glimpses and act as a teaser for the people passing by; to step in the retail and explore. The tectonics of the ceiling with its exposed mechanical duct and waffle slab are black painted, and two hanging lighting tracks are fixed.
Retail Interior
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Lina As’ad
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Blue Fig University Branch
Location: Amman, Jordan Year: 2007 Built-up Area: 177 sq.m (1,905 sq.ft) Client: Blue Fig Status: Construction Completed Job Title: Freelance Interior Designer
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he blue fig is a social theatre of a building; staging internal scenes as social theatrics. The building is expressed with both extreme evocative materials and forms. On one end, extreme heavy thick grounded walls, and on the other end, light transparent in-flux steel and glass forms. The blue fig is inherently a soulful place exchanging a flow of authenticities, be it so light, shadows or rustic and natural materials. Major renovation solutions were tackled in this branch to create a distinctive restaurant and coffee bar. This adaptive reuse remodeling included recycled products design (custom hand-made iron and coffee mugs chandelier), branding, ff&e’s, signage, material selection, Lighting selection, supervision and project closeout.
Restaurants Interior
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Lina As’ad
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IAA - The International Academy Amman archdaily Link
Location: Amman, Jordan Year: 2006 Built-up Area: 35,000 sq.m (376,740 sq.ft) Land Area: 105,000 sq.m (26 ac) Client: IAA Status: Construction Completion Program: separate buildings for administration and pray hall, primary school, senior school, theater and cafeteria, gym hall and swimming pool, running track and field, on-grade parking and bus route Job Title: Senior Architect at symbiosis designs
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he IAA is a new fresh perspective on the educational built environment. It is a didactic environment which holds emotional equity, identity and intuitive purpose beyond the text books and the internal classrooms. Through incorporating traditional vernacular architecture with high-tech solutions resulting in a new approach to the campus and classroom design. Created themed outdoor learning spaces, such as the “hovering gardens.” Also designed iconic Wind Towers, transforming the skyline while providing passive ventilation.
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Lina As’ad
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Theatre Square
Location: Abdali, Amman, Jordan Year : 2006 Built-up Area: 58,000 sq.m (624,300 sq.ft) Land Area: 6,428 sq.m (69,190 sq.ft) Client: Philadelphia Company Status: Design Completion, Site Excavation Completion Program: anchor department store, media offices, residential apartments, retail, restaurants, 2 cinemas and underground parking Job Title: Senior Architect at symbiosis designs
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heatre Square is located in the most prestigious and comprehensive urban master plan development designed to be the new downtown of Amman, Al Abdali. The total master plan is well over 400,000 square meter (100 acre) of land and will accommodate residential, office, institutional, retail and entertainment projects who’s both scope and scale never seen before in the capital The project “primary income generator” is through “retail /office space”, however will leverage “film, media and entertainment” as an intense pivotal glamorous pull theme, while providing a percentage of alternative modern working and living space and support facilities to achieve a healthy vibrant and enterprising district/block. The project will be pedestrian friendly attracting traffic into its central plaza from three main gates where multimedia, cinema, café culture and colorful retail will be on centre stage. Theatre Square will be a lively urban open living room.
Mixed Use
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Lina As’ad
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Blue Fig City Mall Branch
Location: Amman, Jordan Built-up Area: 65 sq.m (670 sq.ft) Client: Blue Fig
Year: 2006 Status: Construction Completed
Job Title: Freelance Interior Designer
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branch designed to fit as a gourmet fast food spot within the city mall food court. The Program included theatrical open kitchen and a coffee bar, a back service kitchen, ff&e’s selection, mural graphics design, lighting design and new branding identity. Dualities at its extreme; Large glass mural ceiling/ wall with its high ceiling against a compressed cozy kitchen enclosure, with its rough textured warm colored wall & wood shelves. Due to the Market & the required focus on Merchandising; the kitchen counter bar details were customized. Dyed concrete wall base with a top Plexiglas box filled with fresh coffee beans layer which acts as a perfect background for the products and mugs.
Restaurants Interior
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Lina As’ad
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Canyon Boutique Hotel
Location: Amman, Jordan Year: 2005 Built-up Area: 2,960 sq.m (31,860 sq.ft) Land Area: 795 sq.m (8,560 sq.ft) Client: Steel Buildings Company ltd Status: Construction Completed Job Title: Senior Architect at symbiosis designs
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he building is simple in form, articulated with the careful use of contrasting materials, through the strict use of minimal details and a respect for the power of the orthogonal module with a light skew . The two masses of single loaded wings created a dialogue between the physical composition and the visual transparency of the project. The dualities between the folding concrete mass that wraps around a glass box of mullion-less glass panels, the suites of which have floor-toceiling windows and a massive stone backdrop that holds the dynamic tectonics of the panoramic elevators. Besides creating a negative lower plaza that connects the upper main entrance’s bridge with the lower street , a carved open to below atrium offers permeability and fluidity through a sculptural stairs to the reception lobby level at the basement.
Hospitality
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Lina As’ad
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Vy Gym archdaily Link
Location: Amman, Jordan Year: 2004 Built-up Area: 6,000 sq.m (64,580 sq.ft) Land Area: 4,000 sq.m (43,000 sq.ft) Client: Gravity Athletic Investment Company – Vy Status: Construction Completion Program: main gym halls facilities, semi olympic pool, semi olympics flying running track, squash courts, bath and changing rooms, spa, beauty center, restaurant (250 seats), retail shops and parking Job Title: Senior Architect at symbiosis designs
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y Complex is the largest, most comprehensive and most progressive sport facility in the Middle East. Conceptually the spaces and their configuration build up on the notion of energy and well-being, enforced through several internal dynamics such as exchange of natural light and scenographic visual connections, many of which reveal kinetic movements. The overriding sensory perception within Vy is that of invigoration. The halls at Vy were initially designed as social spaces that were then developed to accommodate sport events and not the other way around. The visual conversation within and between the halls took great consideration to ensure inspiring vantage points while visually panning during exercise. Externally, the building expresses its typology and is unmistakably read as a gym complex. The upper level 200 meter steel structure running track roams through many of the halls overlooking many activities and continues outdoor flying over external spaces and views Much of the internal activities and motion are also framed as clear visual perspectives inward towards the heart of the building on each façade, while kept bright through the utilization of large areas of skylights.
Health, Sport - Fitness
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Lina As’ad
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Living Bridge & Water Hotel Competition
Location: Zarka, Jordan Built-up Area: 30,000 sq.m (323,000 sq.ft) Land Area: 23,000 sq.m (247,570 sq.ft) Client: Mawared
Year: 2004 Status: won 1st prize
Job Title: Senior Architect at symbiosis designs
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ilitary site in Zarka was redeveloped into a war prevention peace city. In tribute to peace, pillars of peace on water at the memorial themed park was celebrated. An open festive market square with debkeh, amphitheater with souvenirs, crafts, spices and scents with bike and running paths that encourages healthy living Over looking the old city horizon; a horizon cafe’ with new expression and a bridge library for digital books over the highway lane, anchored yet hovering in between to link an old heritage-new language museum. A brand museum - tunnel under the tunnel - a cocooning museum. On the other side over the hill is water tower reservoir which was reused to accommodate a 50 suites water hotel celebrating oriental books and culture.
Large-Scale Site Projects
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Lina As’ad
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AL Qassem Villa
Location: Amman, Jordan Year: 2003 Built-up Area: 1,500 sq.m (16,145 sq.ft) Land Area: 1,200 sq.m (12,900 sq.ft) Client: Mr. Fozzi Al-Qassem Status: Construction Completed Job Title: Architect at symbiosis designs
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he building comprises of two adjacent villas. The building skin is a result of the inhabitants’ need for privacy, consequently morphing the solid walls with constraint openings at the front street level to disintegrating clear glass facades between orthogonal plain walls that opens to the dramatic view of old Amman houses and mountains. The spaces within the house offer a maximum inward and outward permeability through leveled garden terraces and views. The slit windows in the back façade frames the skyline of Amman as timeless paintings from and within its walls.
Residential
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Lina As’ad
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Dental Clinic
Location: Amman, Jordan Built-up Area: 90 sq.m (970 sq.ft) Client: Dr. Carol Fadayel
Year: 2003 Status: Construction Completed
Job Title: Freelance Interior Designer
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welcoming Entrance wall that morph into the secretary counter, a built-in bench at the main seating lounge and a dynamic wood partitions divide the clinic/ private doctor office zone. These three elements are the main features at the clinic. Special Wood desks designed as multiple furniture pieces with voids inside that sometimes hold the files others are built in planters. Green which is calm and neutral was chosen for the main wall as it is considered to be the most relaxing and refreshing color, promoting peaceful atmosphere.
Light vs. Heavy, Dynamic vs. Fixed & Cold vs. Warm… are few of the qualities that define the concept of dualities in this quite cozy clinic.
Health Interior
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Lina As’ad
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Sanctuary of Light - Research Center and Museum
Location: Amman, Jordan Year: 2001 Built-up Area: 8,750 sq.m (93,650 sq.ft) Land Area: 7,000 sq.m (75,350 sq.ft) Client: Ministry of Tourism 40% ,Private Lighting company 40% and The Jordanian Architects Society 20% “A space that provides little fantasy light in the learning center.”
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he building leads visitors through a journey in space & time ranging from public; the light museum, expo & plaza to private in the research & training center. Each function is directly affected by the integration of light. The orientation & mass location is placed with respect to the movement & availability of sunlight over the course of the day. Accordingly the facade of each zone is treated differently due to the events’ duration , timing & operating hours. The goal of this institute is to create an atmosphere that inspires a sense of wonder & imagination. A space that is entertaining & valuable for the public, tourists, researchers, experts & architects. Thus encouraging members in the urbanite multiple use city at “Jabal al-Qalaa” to act together as a community in an enchanting mixture of ancient and modern..
Thesis Project
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Lina As’ad
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Blind Artist Studio
Location: Amman, Jordan Year: 1998 Built-up Area: 55 sq.m (590 sq.ft) Land Area: 500 sq.m (5,380 sq.ft) Client: Blind Artist Third year Design at the Jordan University
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studio for residence and production. A place where the Artist can create, rest, bath and display his work to the public. The artist creates carpets on a loom. Following the process of making a carpet and being inspired from the loom’s structure. The studio’s structure evolved from locating the loom at its center and using its structure for the whole as an exposed columns and beams to connect back to its origin. A fragment as a key to formulating the concept where the studio would proceed from the “part” to the “whole”. The corridor is the main connecting element between spaces. Respectively, the building spatial organization elaborate a sequence of ceremonies which mediates between the public and the private. The entry journey starts with a semi dark corridor, a carpet wall, a stairs & ends with a bright loft. Contrary to us; the Blind doesn’t connect to a space, he connects only to a wall. So the studio was composed of irregular wrapping walls around a loom which leads to the center which is defined by a stairs element. Under the stairs the artist has his bathroom and kitchen. Whereas at the upper level, the artist’s loom which is at its brightest top floor through a series story lighting windows around its periphery .
Residential
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Lina As’ad
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