Maal Ashkar Portfolio

MAAL ASHKAR ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN // 2017

PROLOGUE this book is a showcase of my selected works to express the thought of creativity, educated skills and personality as an architectural designer.

front cover: street view render of ‘grand opening’ above: concrete mold from ‘twist’

SELECTED WORKS 01 twist 02 funatomy 03 grand opening 04 cloud gate lakefront kiosk competition 05 walking on water 06 professional work

01 TWIST

POP UP EXHIBITION, SYRACUSE, NEW YORK in collaboration with evie soileau, dalton iannuzzo, ian jackson drawings by maal ashkar

concrete twist study model

maal ashkar

project

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06 - 07 professor larsen| spring 2016 | crafting the digital

digital twist variations and variables

a twisted concrete mold

twisted silicone mold

triangles set at desired twist configuration

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slotted triangles

pegs

a. pop-up formwork table

b. peg detail

maal ashkar

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project

2” x 4” posts

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concrete panels

threaded rods

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nut and washer connection

cinderblocks for counter weight

professor larsen| spring 2016 | crafting the digital

‘L’ connection

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c. final form exploded axonometric

d. final form

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a. test twist pour, no perforations

b. twist pour with perforations

maal ashkar

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project

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10 - 11 professor larsen| spring 2016 | crafting the digital

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d. twist panel

c. twist panel with breakage

bench

circulation

climbing

display

lounge

shelfing

02 FUNATOMY

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

softness diagram

maal ashkar

project

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12 - 13 professor hunker | fall 2014 | children’s museum

site isometric

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museum entrance elevators to parking garage ticket / information desk skate bowl entrance to exhibition administrative office wood shop water works arcade classroom museum shop auditorium outdoor amphitheatre

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Set in Downtown Los Angeles, FUNatomy is a children’s museum that blankets the site with a soft landscape. The primary exhibition space of the museum is contained within a one-level building with large figured courtyards. Within these courtyard spaces are smaller object-buildings, which are set into the soft ground plane. There is a close relationship between object and void - the objects fit closely to the plinth, leaving much of the courtyard space as play area. The museum’s program is easily distinguished. The plinth of the museum contains the exhibitions and the object buildings in the courtyard spaces contain all the special programs – classrooms, auditorium, administrative offices, café, museum shop, etc. The topography of the floor of the museum is envisioned fundamentally as a playground, where one climbs, plays, sits – whatever – with different slopes and inclinations for different happenings and age groups. The undulation not only creates hills that go up, but it also creates bowls that dip down. The topography of the ground plane also helps to create areas of public and private spaces bowls gather people (creating public space) and hills suggest users circulate around / away (creating private space on top of the hill). The circulation is continuous in the museum. All the exhibition spaces are connected, and each user’s experience could potentially be explored differently than another’s because of the endless possibilities of routes.

The design attempts to develop the miniaturization of the city – a city within a city – by including the different object-buildings set within the field of the exhibition space. The response to the context is plays between reflection, direct views, and complete dislocation. The white opaque plinth building is highly reflective, duplicating the urban context.

Once visitors occupy the museum, however, they lose sight of the city, and instead, catch sights of the brightly colored object-buildings through the glass-enclosed courtyards. When the visitor enters these courtyard spaces, views of Downtown LA are revealed – only more so at the upper levels. .....................................................................................

a. ground floor plan

[FUN]atomy Set in Downtown Los Angeles, FUNatomy is a children’s museum that blankets the site with a soft landscape. The primary exhibition space of the museum is contained within a one-level building with large figured courtyards. Within these courtyard spaces are smaller object-buildings, which are set into the soft ground plane. There is a close relationship between object and void - the objects fit closely to the plinth, leaving much of the courtyard space as play area. The museum’s program is easily distinguished. The plinth of the museum contains the exhibitions and the object buildings in the courtyard spaces contain all the special programs – classrooms, auditorium, administrative offices, café, museum shop, etc. The topography of the floor of the museum is envisioned fundamentally as a playground, where one climbs, plays, sits – whatever – with different slopes and inclinations for different happenings and age groups. The undulation not only creates hills that go up, but it also creates bowls that dip down. The topography of the ground plane also helps to create areas of public and private spaces bowls gather people (creating public space) and hills suggest users circulate around / away (creating private space on top of the hill). The circulation is continuous in the museum. All the exhibition spaces are connected, and each user’s experience could potentially be explored differently than another’s because of the endless possibilities of routes.

The design attempts to develop the miniaturization of the city – a city within a city – by including the different object-buildings set within the field of the exhibition space. The response to the context is plays between reflection, direct views, and complete dislocation. The white opaque plinth building is highly reflective, duplicating the urban context.

Once visitors occupy the museum, however, they lose sight of the city, and instead, catch sights of the brightly colored object-buildings through the glass-enclosed courtyards. When the visitor enters these courtyard spaces, views of Downtown LA are revealed – only more so at the upper levels. .....................................................................................

b. second floor plan

c. third floor plan

d exhibition exhibition office, woodshop office, woodshop auditorium auditorium playscape playscape museum shop, museum store, cafecafe classrooms classroom

exhibition office, woodshop auditorium playscape museum store, cafe classroom

d. program diagram

maal ashkar

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project

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14 - 15 professor hunker | fall 2014 | children’s museum

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e. interior perspective FUNatomy_Section

Maal Ashkar

f. 3d printed model in site context

g. section

03 GRAND OPENING

DETROIT, MICHIGAN

in collaboration with garrett wineinger

3D printed facade study model

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site and ground floor plan

MECHANICAL ROOM

MECHANICAL ROOM

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a. second floor plan

b. third floor plan

c. longitudinal section

maal ashkar project

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professor hubeli| spring 2016 | office building

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d. fifth floor plan

e. reflected ceiling plan

f. detailed plan

g. transverse section

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a. program diagram

b. structural diagram

c. circulation diagram

d. mechanical diagram

e. facade rendering

maal ashkar

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project

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professor hubeli| spring 2016 | office building

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f. exterior night rendering

g. interior office space rendering

h. acrylic framing model

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CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL: CLOUD GATE LAKEFRONT KIOSK COMPETITION

MILLENNIUM PARK, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS in collaboration with jacqueline morin, nolan metzler, travis telemaque drawings and renderings by maal ashkar

exterior perspective

maal ashkar

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project

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22 - 23 professor theodoridis| spring 2015 | portable retail kiosk

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a. floor plan

b. natural ventilation diagram - shelving unit open

c. natural ventilation diagram - shelving unit closed

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a. exterior rendering

b. photographs of physical detail model of rolling joint and operable track

maal ashkar

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project

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professor theodoridis| spring 2015 | portable retail kiosk

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c. longitudinal section

d. transverse section

e. operable track detail

f. exploded door axonometric

Primary and Secondary Areas Serviced by Water Condensers

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WALKING ON WATER

GAO, MALI

in collaboration with jack phillips

site overview of primary and secondary areas serviced by water condensers

ARC 408: Visiting Critic Studio| Fall 2015 | Maal Ashkar | Jack Phi

maal ashkar project

05 page

structure framing

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bamboo

pier-like walkway 6mm plastic skin

raised plinth to account for flooding

shipping containers

pumping station

exploded axonometric

professor shoshan| fall 2015 | water distillation facility

skin is tied to bamboo structure

tarp, as skin as water evaporates, the water vapor is trapped and condensates along the skin.

tarp, as funnel the water is collected as the gravity brings down the water droplets formed on the skin.

steel pipe water pump

20’ shipping containers water is funneled into the containers, where it is stored. (20,347 gallons of water can be held)

evaporative - condensing water system diagram

maal ashkar

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project

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professor shoshan| fall 2015 | water distillation facility

ARC 408: Visiting Critic Studio| Fall 2015 | Maal Ashkar | Jack Phillips | Professor Malkit S

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a. riverfront render

b. plan

c. longitudinal section

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PROFESSIONAL WORK

dillingham building, ithaca college, ny: exterior rendering

maal ashkar

project

06 page

30 - 31 professional work

flat iron building, syracuse, ny: site plan

maal ashkar project

06 page

32 - 33 professional work flat iron building, syracuse, ny: ground floor plan

flat iron building, syracuse, ny: typ. floor plan

maal ashkar

project

06 page

34 - 35 professional work

flat iron building, syracuse, ny: rendering

exposition center, new york state fair grounds: rendering

maal ashkar project

06 page

36 - 37 professional work exposition center, new york state fair grounds: first floor plan; rcp

exposition center, new york state fair grounds: enlarged rcp

maal ashkar project

06 page

38 - 39 professional work exposition center, new york state fair grounds: roof plan and details

city station north, troy, ny: rendering; parking level plan

maal ashkar project

06 page

40 - 41 professional work city station north, troy, ny: first floor plan; typ. floor plan

city station north, troy, ny: building elevations

maal ashkar project

06 page

42 - 43 professional work city station north, troy, ny: wall section details; stair and elevator plans and details

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