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MAHMOUD SADEK
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE (DoArch) Graduate Teaching Assistant Brookings, SD May, 2020 - Present
Department of Architecture South Dakota State University Mahmoud.sadek@jacks.sdstate.edu Linkedin.com/in/sadekmahmoud +1 928 707 9627
TESLA Architectural Intern Reno, NV August, 2019 - January, 2020 DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE (DoArch) Digital Documentations & Publications Designer Brookings, SD May, 2017 - August 2019 ADOBE Adobe Youth Voices Educator Cairo, Egypt September, 2011 - January 2016
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SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY Brookings, SD Masters of Architecture August 2020 - May 2022 Bachelor of fine arts in Architecture January 2016 - May 2020 GPA: 3.6
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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DEAN’S LIST Arts & Sciences Dean’s List ADOBE CREATIVITY SCHOLAR Winner A R A B I C
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AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURAL STUDENTS South Dakota State University Division Chapter Vice President - 2019/2020 CIEE CIVIC LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Fellow
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Laser scan of Volga, SD.
CONTENT PUBLIC SPACE - 06 A GYMNASIUM- 12 DECAY - 18 THE RIBBON - 22 DIESTE WALL 3.0 - 26 VOLGA, SD - 30 MAISON JAOUL - 34 CENTRAL PARK - 38 PROTOTYPE - 42
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01 PUBLIC SPACE This project is a Public Space and Art Center to bring the community of Brookings, South Dakota together in one space.
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During this pandemic and the social isolation, we realize the importance of human touch, gatherings, and daily interaction with people from the community. The lack of public gathering space in Brookings, SD defines the need for one. The building meets the ground in two different ways, hovering over the ground, and excavated underground. The open excavated space is for summer use, but the enclosed structure is open year round for everyone to occupy. [ PARTI ]
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Studio ARCH 452 Professors Brian Lee Semester Spring 2020
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Software AutoDesk Revit Enscape Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop
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F LO O R S 4 T H F LO O R 3 R D F LO O R 2 N D F LO O R
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Sec tion
THE SHELL
O P E R A B L E RO O F S H E LT E R
PERMANEN
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F R E I G H T E L E VATO R
OUTDOOR
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SCREEN
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A G y mn asium
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Elevation an d l ong it ud ina l s ect io n.
02 A GYMNASIUM The gymnasium is split into two tiers, allowing the building to separate active participants and viewers. The top tier sits level with the ground, offering a smooth transition from exterior to interior. Upon entering from the west façade, the user passes through 2’ thick rammed-earth walls. Within these walls are structural columns which support the 4’ thick roof. A series of 5‘ wide translucent channel glass placed within the rammed earth wall defuses harsh southern rays. The thin openings juxtaposes the thick rammed earth walls while framing the basketball court. The lower tier is carved into the ground, giving active participants a chance to descend into the earth, while viewers may stay above. The gymnasium court can be accessed through a ramp on the mezzanine, or the staircase seating. The roof joists span 65’ to allow a nonobstructed gymnasium court beneath them. Jointure between the walls and roof is emphasized by pulling in the roof 3’ on the north and south walls, allowing sunlight to flood the court in the lower tier. In addition to the north and south roof openings, two sets of apertures sit directly above the court, extruded 5’ above the roof, allowing direct light to bounce between its walls before it descends to the court.
Studio ARCH 555 Semester Spring 2021 Software Rhino3D Adobe Illustrator
A G y mn asium
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Tran sverse sec tion.
A G y mn asium
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Tran sverse sec tion.
Ra ci a l M an ual (s) for Am er ica n Wea lt h
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Map of segregated cit ies in t h e U . S.
03 DECAY OR Racial Manual(s) for American Wealth
In the United States, wealth is captured by homeownership, yet for many black Americans, this wealth has been denied, which contrasts the case of their white counterparts. Following the Great Depression, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was created to insure home mortgages and played a major role in restructuring the home mortgage system through the Underwriting Manual of 1936. Cataloguing the classification systems and language implemented within the manual, the FHA’s role and intent to obstruct black citizens from obtaining homes is clear and contributes to race-based socio-economic inequality in the United States. https://decay.webflow.io/
Studio ARCH 452 Professors Jessica Garcia Fritz Federico Garcia Lammers Semester Spring 202 Collaboration Dakota M. Schmidt Software ArcGIS Excel Adobe Illustrator Webflow
Excerpts f rom the Fed era l H o us ing Ad m in istration’s Un d er w r it ing m a nua l
Ra ci a l M an ual (s) for Am er ica n Wea lt h
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Catal ogu e of ever y p a ra g ra p h in t h e F H A’s Ma n u a l . T he proc ess of get t ing a n ins ured lo a n t h ro ugh t he F H A .
T h e Ribbon - B erl in
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04 THE RIBBON This architecture studio focused on the historical layers of the urban fabrics of Berlin. The Jüdengang in Berlin was the site for this project. Two large vaults frame the site infilled by two towers floating above the ground to allow a connection from Kollwitzplatz to Jüdengang. Each tower is essentially a series of volumes stacked upon one another. They are separated by a void serving as a light well. The stairs are detached from the building and stitched back to the towers by bridges which consciously seem too small to be considered bridges. GEOMETRY
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Le Corbusier’s Maison Jaoul was the precedent study for The Ribbon. The two houses were designed to be economic. The houses use construction elements like concrete and brick on the outside as part of the design, but plastered interior walls with exposed Catalan vaults.
Studio ARCH 352 Professor Robert Arlt Semester Spring 2019 Collaboration Dakota M. Schmidt
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Software AutoDesk Revit Rhino3D Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop
T h e Ribbon - B erl in
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Elevation
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Dieste Wall 2.0 brick and mortar lines.
05 DIESTE WALL 3.0 Building Shop explores the work of the Uruguayan engineer Eladio Dieste through the construction of Ruled Surface using local traditional building materials like bricks. Dieste Wall 3.0 focuses on the analysis and documentation of a previously constructed iteration through an itemized catalogue and individual spatial relationships. The work started by analyzing the structure of the wall previously constructed by students in an earlier version of the building shop. Total of 84 lines were drawn on the wall. Each line represents a section cut. The height, the depth, and the indentation of each brick and mortar line that section lines crossed were measured and recorded manually. The information extracted from Dieste Wall 2.0 were later used to create a virtual version of the wall using Rhino 3D.
Bldg Shop ARCH 461 Professor Federico Garcia Lammers Semester Spring 2017 Collaboration Ted LaCoursiere Software Rhino3D Adobe Illustrator
Top view of Dieste Wall 2.0 brick and mortar lines.
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Di este Wal l 3 . 0 u nd er co ns t r uct io n.
Construction photographs
Vo lg a, SD - 3 D S c an
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A xonometric view.
06 VOLGA, SD PUBLIC WORKS Reconstructing space through point-cloud “We have built a monumental space, the Volga Corner, at the center of a small town. The Volga Corner is one of four projects (a square, an arcade, a threshold, and this corner) that make up a larger inquiry, Making Public Space Concrete, funded by the Precast Concrete Institute (PCI). The workflow from initial observations to completion is an exploration of the nature of monumentality at a small scale. For grounding we looked to the monuments of Pop Art, especially the text paintings of Ed Ruscha, and to the lessons on monumentality in Learning from Las Vegas. We needed to make something small also monumental. Pop Art and Learning from Las Vegas showed us a path to monumentality beyond building at grand scales. We’ve found in this that the key to a small monument is in building a phatic rather than semantic structure; one that projects communal atmosphere rather than communicative meaning.” - Brian T. Rex
Research Summer 2019 Professor Brian T. Rex Collaboration Autumn Schlomer Hardware Faro 3D Scanner Software AutoDesk Recap Adobe Illustrator
3D Sc an s views.
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Maison Jaoul geometry.
8:13 relation in plan and section,
Vertical circu lation in plan diagram.
Vertical circulation in section diagram ,
Collapsed floor plans for the three floors.
Elevation drawing.
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07 MAISON JAOUL LE CORBUSIER A study A pair of houses were designed separately, sharing a courtyard that connects the two buildings together. The two houses were designed to be economic. The houses use construction elements like concrete and brick on the outside as part of the design, but plastered interior walls with exposed Catalan vaults. According to Le Corbusier, he used Catalan vaults on the inside as a symbolic space connoting the image of the first human habitation within a rocky crevice, the very essence of a shelter. The information extracted from the research were later used to create diagrams and digital models to emphasize the characteristics of Maison Joaul. Three physical models were made, each was designed to emphasize one or two main characteristics extracted from the research. The tectonic model emphasizes the catalan vaults and 8:13 relationship. The aperture model shows the openings and Modular Principal in the openings. The last model shows the vertical/orizontal circulation and service/served spaces.
Studio ARCH 352 Professor Robert Arlt Semester Spring 2019 Software AutoDesk Revit Rhino3D Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop
Ma i s o n J aou l
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Stu dy D iagrams
Physic al model pho t o g ra p h s
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08 CENTRAL PARK This building arts studio focuses on urban design using main city blocks and town squares around North America. The southeast corner of Central Park was my main focus in analyzing and understanding the movement from the city to the park.
Studio ARCH 351 Professor Brian Rex Semester Fall 2018 Software AutoDesk Revit Rhino3D Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Study D iagrams
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Physic al model ph o t o g ra p h s .
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09 KINETIC VAULT
12’ - 8”
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The goal of the kinetic vault was to prototype a deployable structure using a sustainable material like cardboard. The vault was used as study to test to capabilities and limitations of cardboard as a building material. Inspiration for the scissor joint structure came from the kid’s toy “Haberman Sphere”. The form and function of the sphere were modified to act as a barrel vault that collapsed in a similar motion. The width of the barrel vault fully extended is 12 feet with the depth able to be modified by adding additional 30-inch sections. When collapsed, the vault closes to 3’ wide and 8-inches deep.
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0’ - 2” 0’ - 1½”
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2’ - 2¼”
Bldg Shop ARCH 461 Professor Garrett Walter Semester Spring 2019 Collaboration Mitchell Woldt Software Rhino3D
Si ngl e piec e breakd ow n
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