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urbanism architecture design

MARCO TADROS

rESUME EDUCATION 2016-2017 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE_SCIARC

M.S. DESIGN OF CITIES GRADUATED SEPTEMBER 2017 2009-2014 THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO_AUC BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING WITH HIGH HONORS. FALL 2012 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, EXCHANGE PROGRAM_UVA. 2006-2009 IGCSE ST. FATIMA LANGUAGE SCHOOL, CAIRO, EGYPT. GRADE: 114.6% EXPERIENCE 2017 LEHRER ARCHITECTS LA (OCTOBER 2017), PROJECT DESIGNER -GOOGLE PLAYA VISTA CAMPUS MASTERPLAN -IKAR @ LA CIENEGA -LA/GLENDALE W.R.P. NEW PERSONNEL BUILDING 2015-2016 ARTSHAH ARCHITECTURE & INTERIORS, JUNIOR ARCHITECT

- GRAVITY CODE, EGYPT’S FIRST TRAMPOLINE PARK -DR.MAURICE RESIDENCE -Confusing NORMS_Resedential tower

ARTYNOVA FURNITURE, DESIGNER. 2014-2015 MODULE DESIGNERS, JUNIOR ARCHITECT -The WaterFront Proposal, Larnaca-Cyprus -CHIPSHOP BOOTH, CAIRO -Umraniye Tower, TURKEY

-Villa W.Doss Restoration ARTYNOVA FURNITURE, DESIGNER. 2011-2016 TEACHING ASSISTANT, URBAN DESIGN, DR. SAMI SHAKER 2010-2016 FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER, INCLUDING AUC EVENTS, WEDDINGS & FURNITURE SHOOTS. WINTER 2014 INTERNSHIP AT ARTYNOVA, LEMARCHE EXHIBITION WINTER 2013 INTERNSHIP AT ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS GROUP FALL 2012 SEMESTER ABROAD AT UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SOFTWARE SKILLS AutoCAD AutoCAD Architecture Rhinoceros, VRAY MAYA KEYSHOT 3D Max Google Sketch up, VRAY Adobe cOLLECTION, Photoshop, INDESIGN, AFTEREFFEECTS, ILLUSTRATOR

OTHER INTRESTS SCUBA DIVING, Photography , Music , Painting , Doodling , Travelling and Reading.

PERSONAL INFORMATION Date of Birth 1/6/1992 Place of Birth Cairo, Egypt Nationality Egyptian

Dear Mr./Ms., I am Marco Tadros, a recent graduate of Southern California institute of architecture in the M.S. Design of Cities Post-Graduate program.

I have been long interested in urbanism and the projects that lie in between the Person scale and the public scale, and the problems of urbanism are problems that deal with the scales of public and individual.

In my resume, you will see that I have A VARIETY OF EXPERIENCES ALLOVER THAT EXPOSED ME TO THE DIFFERENT SIDES OF THE ARCHITECTURE WORLD. As well, my portfolio will show you my interest in the different scales I discussed before and that is what I hope to be of value in at your firm.

I have a Bachelor of Science degree in architectural engineering, a masters of science in design of cities, as well as two years of experience as an architect. In addition, as an architect and an engineer I am more efficient and productive in developing ideas,solving problems, and keeping the bigger picture on track while reinforcing the smaller parts as well.

My resume, which is attached, contains additional information on my experience and skills, as well as THIS portfolio. I would appreciate the opportunity to discuss the opening with you, to provide further information on my candidacy. I can be reached anytime via my cell phone, 323-401-7292.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

I look forward to speaking with you about this exciting opportunity.

Sincerely, Marco tadros

Marco tadros 208 Del sol court Los Angeles, CA, 90033 323-401-7292 marco_hany@aucegypt.edu

Table of contents : ELEVATION OF A ACCELERATED LOS ANGELES VERTICAL DESIGN STUDIO I_TRUMMER

PROFESSIONAL WORK AT LEHRER ARCHITECTS

MISCELLANEOUS WORK

ACADEMIC WORK_SCIARC EDGE_M.S. Design of Cities GRADUATION PROJECT_TRUMMER VERTICAL DESIGN STUDIO II_GEHRY VISUAL STUDIES_HOWARD VERTICAL DESIGN STUDIO I_TRUMMER

INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS SCULPTED BENCH_00 FURNITURE SETS_01

PROFESSIONAL WORK

AT MODULE DESIGNERS & ARTSHAH

CONFUSING NORMS_ARTSHAH WaterFront - Lankara_mODULE dESIGNERS CHIPSHOP BOOTH_mODULE dESIGNERS Umraniye Tower _mODULE dESIGNERS Villa W.Doss Restoration_mODULE dESIGNERS

ACADEMIC WORK_AUC

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE ENGINEERING

Graduation Project Urban design studio P1 Urban design studio P2

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LEHRER ARCHITECTS MISCELLANEOUS

This is a collection of different projects that i got a chance to work on during my time at Lehrer Architects. I am not at liberty to share the full information of these projects, and that why I chose to include them as “untitled “ works to show their interesting designs and visual qualities.

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This was a design proposal for a religious center, which is a young and diverse community that is growing in LA. They have been looking into different locations with a complex program that includes, a sanctuary, classrooms and offices. The design challenged included dealing with a tight plot with strict F.A.R boundaries, hight limits and encroachment from neighboring properties that had to be accounted for, resulting in this design proposal.

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GRADUATION PROJECT_TRUMMER A POST HUMANIST CITY

Introducing an urban model that provides a Post Humanist desert city, which is infrastructurally self-sufficient with the possibility but not based on the necessity of human habitability.

The project utilizes the aspects of sustainability, infrastructure, and density while speculating the finance-driven ghost-urbanisms to create a new form of an autonomous desert metropolis. This metropolis pushed beyond superficial notions of liability to explore the options of a Post Humanist city.

Infrastructure is always a fundamental driver of urban form. For this project is inspired by urban models such as the Aerotropolis, which selects a particular infrastructure and organizes everything around it.

The post-Humanist city accepts sustainability as a leading ideology of the 21st century; therefore, there is a solar power plant instead of an airport at the center. Concentrated solar plants use mirrors or lenses to focus a large area of sunlight onto a small area. The greater the number of reflectors will generate more energy, which produces the idea of the density.

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CITY MODEL

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VERTICAL DESIGN STUDIO II_GEHRY prison of the future 50 ft 10 ft

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Looking into the current incarceration system, what is being proposed here is a different perspective of this institution. The usual and the current way of viewing someone in the incarceration system is as a “prisoner” which is now a term that dehumanizes that person and strips them of their rights, humanity, dignity and their place in society.

Looking into the Norwegian prison system which is presenting itself as the most efficient and successful model of incarceration at this point in time.Their motto is “What kind of neighbour do you want?”, because utterly whoever goes into prison and comes out could be your neighbor. And this question is the base to my proposal, where the people in the prison are the users of this facility we are proposing, and everything there is for their convenience. So in that sense we are creating the environment where the intervention of the judicial system that sends someone to be incarcerated actually has a positive effect and not a deteriorating experience that makes things worse.

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CAMPUS MASTERPLAN

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SECTIONAL ELEVATION B-B _ SCALE 1:40 50 ft 10 ft

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QUAD 3 ORIENTATION QUAD

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QUAD 2 COMMENCEMENT QUAD

MAIN CAMPUS BUILDING

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COMMENCEMENT QUAD builDinG proGrAM residence prog ra m staff residence prog ra m Communi t y prog ra m public inter fa ce prog ra m health Clinic

SECTIONAL ELEVATION A-A _ SCALE 1:40

Administ ra tion offices

indoorB-B recre _ ationSCALE prog ra m 1:4 SECTIONAL ELEVATION outDoor proGrAM

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SELECTED PORTION

CENTRAL BUILDING GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1’:16’’

CENTRAL BUILDING GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1’:16’’

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RIVER ELEVATION 1’:16’’

CENTRAL BUILDING FIRST FLOOR PLAN 1’:16’’

SECTION C-C 1’:16’’

RESEDENTIAL FLOOR PLANS 1’:8”

PROTOTYPES 1’:8”

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One Bedroom Apartment

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Four Bedroom Apartment Bedroom Bathroom Living Space Kitchen Laundry room Circulation Vertical Circulation

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VISUAL STUDIES_COY HOWARD FASHION/FILM/FOTO/FURNITURE/FEELING

A transformative piece, the idea of taking something that was used in a certain way then giving it a new identity is a fascinating idea. Taking the energy of an old kitchen table used by a family and chopping it up into triangular segments and rejoining them with hinges to make a modern and sharp coffee table.

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Vertical dESIGN sTUDIO - i design of cities

Los Angeles is a city of great diversity, which gave us a chance to find a new LA that is embedded in Los Angeles that we can understand and simplify into rules of intensity that we can accelerate to get to our density, We explored the bunker hill area for the public to private relation that is already intense in the bunker hill area.

Using the California plaza, along with other references from the bunker hill area, to form our precedent study to answer the question “How to densify Los Angeles?�.

This precedent allowed for several different interpretations of the densification dilemma to be formulated and implemented.

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These interpretations include a new reading of the relationship of “public to private” and “private to public”. Examples of this include a public stairway that starts on the public sidewalk that leads to a private part of the building that extends over and covers the public street below. Furthermore this private building has columns that support it that are built on public space forming a “new Infrastructure” idea. The next reading comes from a public plaza that is carved out of the top of this same private space, that is accessed from the other side of the building from the public street.

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These sets of rules were used as a guide to help inform the placement of the new infrastructure.

First step was choosing a fairly generic site with enough variety in urban grain and road hierarchy to allow for different types of implementation. The first implementation of the rules was looking for appropriately sized building from the built environment of Los Angeles with a proportionally sized mass to cover, bridge, or extend over the different road/Public spaces in the site. The second rule was re -creating that public space on top of the added building, by carving out a public space.

The next step was creating secondary connections between buildings to make an interconnected mass that has connections to different public and private parts of our site and buildings.

By doing so our rule becomes the inhabiting of infrastructure to create a new type of infrastructure that duplicates the space by moving the “right of the public space” to the top of the added building. And reuses the “privately owned public spaces” to create publicly owned private spaces that originate from that transfer of rights vertically and horizontally.

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INDIVIDUAL PROJECT_00 SCULPTED BENCH A CUSTOM BENCH DESIGN FOR PERSONAL USE, SCULPTED OUT OF A SINGLE BLOCK AND MORPHED INTO ITS CURRENT FORM. THEN GOING THROUGH ANOTHER PHASE OF TRANSFORMATION TO BE BUILD-ABLE, CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

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fURNITURE SETS;POLYGONS & lINES

This is a collection of furniture pieces and interiors created as studies and designs for different projects, having 2 sets as an output the “POLYGONS” and “LINES”.

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ARTSHAH ARCHITECTURE & iNTERIORS cONFUSING NORMS_Resedential tower

A RESEDENTIAL TOWER THAT WAS DESIGNED TO MANIPULATE NORMS, AND CUSTOMS OF EGYPTIAN CULTURE. USING LINEAR MODULES, THAT SATISFY GENERAL SPACE REQUIRMENTS NEEDED THE ELEVATION WAS CREATED TO SELL THE “LOFT-LIKE” INTERIORS WHILE STILL BEING EFFICENT,HAVING MAXIMUM NUMBER OF UNITS and challenge the box type of buildings.

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Module Designers The WaterFront Proposal-Larnaca-Cyprus

The Design task assigned was to develop a proposal for a mixed use development along 2 kilometres of the coast of the city Larnaca in Cyprus, where programmatic elements were somehow defined and an initial zoning was proposed. The following step was the design of the main programmatic attractions and concepts which were to make an iconic, fluid gateway in and out of the city through our project.

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MODULE DESIGNERS CHIPSHOP BOOTH

This was a project for designing a new booth for a Major shoes and flip-flops store in Egypt.

The booth was part of a re-brading project to give a new identity to one of the oldest shoes stores in Egypt, so the client was struggling with old ideas in general and how the functionality of everything would work, with a few compromises we reached this design.

With three scenarios for different types of uses, according to the provided space for exhibition and weather conditions.

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Module Designers Umraniye Tower

This was a competetion proposal to devlop several design options, and facade treatments for a mixed use tower in Umraniye, Turkey. We managed to create a basic program of the different uses and functions and sugested three alternatives for the developer from which he chose the tower on the left which is then devloped more conceptually.

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Module Designers Villa Wahib Doss Restoration

The Villa is 102 years old, and was built using a wall bearing system on time increments and each addition was done by a different architect.

The Glass annex along with a few other motifs is how we re-imagine the Villa to compliment the architecture of the building.

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undergrad thesis project transportation hub

This is a project that is part of a bigger scale development project designed to upgrade the area a degraded neighbourhood in the heart of Cairo ,where one of the oldest crafts is mastered which is tanning leather, as well as the ancient aqua duct passing through this area and creating a social crack that in essence is similar to many in the Egyptian society.

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uRBAN dESIGN sTUDIO - iI MIXED USE DEVELOPMNT

Responding to the existing urban fabric; by creating rectilinear forms, But also Corresponding to the river Nile; by modularizing the entire project and rearranging the modules to provide the best orientation, Natural ventilation and view to all the available units while maintaing and uplifting the quality of spaces, gateways and identity of the project.

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HEIGHTS HIRERCHY

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uRBAN dESIGN sTUDIO - i rESEDENTIAL SUBDIVISION DEVELOPMNT

This was a design excercise in which the task was to create a community of resedential on a hypathatical land that gives us the best features in land, so forming the shape, topography and type of land was of great importance.

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Masterplan_alternative 1

The land was later filled with clusters of single family houses that have trapizoidal plots that allowed for the formation seen.

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Masterplan_alternative 2

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