Mariama M.M. Kah: Architecture Design Portfolio 2015 2018

Mariama M.M. Kah

Architecture Design Portfolio 2015-2018

www.mariamakah.wixsite.com/archportfolio www.issuu.com/mariamammkah

CV

Education.

The American University of Sharjah Sharjah, United ArabEmirates Bachelor of Architecture (Currently a Third Year Student)

Marina International High School

Bakau, The Gambia HIgh School Diploma (Honors) International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) (Distinction)

Achievements and Awards.

Chancellor’s List

Academic Year 2016-17

Dean’s List

• Spring 2017 • Fall 2016 • Spring 2016

Drawing & Painting Competition (Student Residential Life Department) • Third Place Winner Academic Year 2017-2018 • Participant Academic Year 2017-2018 • Participant Academic Year 2015-2016 • Participant Academic Year 2014-2015

Scholarships.

Chancellor’s List Scholarship Fall 2017

Dean’s List Scholarship Spring 2016 - Fall 2017

Work Experience and Activities.

2018

The American University of Sharjah Art History Tutor - DES 122: Modern Developments in Architecture, Art, and Design Alserkal Ave., Dubai, UAE (Exhibited from 19th March- 24th March) Work Exhibtion: D. Academy by The Young Architect and Design Program(YADP) under the mentorship of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for their display of “First Ideas.

2017

The American University of Sharjah Art History Tutor - DES 122: Modern Developments in Architecture, Art, and Design

2014

Dubai, UAE Private English Tutor for Elementary Students

Skills.

Digital

• Adobe Photoshop • Adobe Illustrator • Adobe Indesign • Rhinoceros 3D • VRay • Autodesk AutoCAD • Grasshopper

Analogue

• Laser Cutter • Physical Modeling • Wood Shop

Languages.

• English • French • Wolof

• Autodesk Maya • Autodesk Revit • Google SketchUp • Microsoft Word • Microsoft PowerPoint • Microsoft Excel

• Hand Drafting • Hand Drawing and Sketching • Water Color Illustration

Contact Information.

The American University of Sharjah University City, Sharjah, UAE PO Box 2666 mariama.kah@gmail.com g00061108@aus.edu +971 56 312 3199 Instagram: @mariama.arch LinkedIn: Mariama M.M. Kah Website: www.mariamakah.wixsite.com/archportfolio

Contents

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Spiritual Construct Library Design Structural Fabrication The Bathing Ritual Foundation Year Hand Drawings and Sketches

Spiritual Construct

SPRING 2018 • Prof. Faysal TABARRAH The following is a project curently in development for the design of an urban daily mosque (Masjid) and public space along the Al Khan Corniche Street in Sharjah, U.A.E. This project is meant to enhance the urban life in the area, provide a space for prayers and reflection as well as promote the culture of the region.

Work from this project was exhibited by “D. Academy of The Young Architect and Design Program (YADP) under the mentorship of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for their display of “First Ideas.”

(Exhibited from 19th March- 24th March)

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Library Design

FALL 2017 • Prof. Marcus FARR This project aims to reflect on nature’s influence on Architecture and the human experience through the lens of erosion by drawing on the geomorphic forces (wind abrasion) that shape the ecology of the natural environment. By utilizing this same force in the urban environment to carve out habitable spaces for reading, the project seeks to embody the ideas of the “Sublime and the Beautiful” to shape space and perception to curate nurturing learning space. ​

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Balloon Cast Models: Material, Wall and Form Studies

Balloon Cast Models: Material, Wall and Form Studies

Balloon Cast Models: Material, Wall and Form Studies

Site Analysis

Sectional Perspective Render

Interior Render of Confrence Room

Ground Floor Plan

Detail 1.1

Detail 2.1

Structural Fabrication

FALL 2017 • PROF. Faysal TABBARAH ​ is is a structural investigation into the ideas of Th compression, tension, load transfer and form.

Project Design: Mariama M.M. Kah Group Leader: Mariama M.M. Kah Group Members: Mariama M.M. Kah, Habibah Salman, Farah Ahmed, and Laura AlDhahi

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Load Reception Structural Detail

Steel Scissor Joint Detail

Joint Detail

Axonometric Drawing: Tension and Compression Points

The Bathing Ritual

SPRING 2017 • Prof. Gregory SPAW This is an expansive study of “The Wall” assignment, in three dimensions to construct a habitation of meditative contemplation through the Ritual of Bathing.

The form is located in a remote desert in the United Arab Emirates. In response to this context, the project intends to deal with adverse climatic conditions by optimizing shading opportunities through vaulted enclosures and manufacture moments of meaningful light interaction to enhance the ritual of bathing.

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Charcoal Sketch

Entry Sequence Render

Changing Room Entrance Render

Main Bathing Space Render

Series of Operations Drawings

Foundation Year

FALL 2015 - SPRING 2016 PROF. Erik HEINTZ • PROF. Brian DOUGAN From Fall 2015 to Spring 2016, Mariama M.M. Kah was engaged in her Foundations Year and was in competition for one of forty-eight seats into the Architecture Major at The American University of Sharjah, College of Architecture and Design. The following are a few selected images of the work produced during the course of this time, which earned her a seat in CAAD. To view her Full Foundations portfolio, please visit: https://issuu.com/mariamammkah/docs/portfolio_

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Skin and Bones This project explores the properties of a folded plane. The plane can be folded and cut to produce a texture, pattern and space in unique and surprising ways. Explore the subtlety that light plays on form to create a design that responds to the properties of the material and the qualities of surface. Historically in architecture, the skin always responded to the bones. In this project, the bones will respond to the skin.

Skin & Bones

Materials: Bristol Paper And Wooden Splints

Skin & Bones

Bar+/This project explores three-dimensional systems of organization and space making with two-dimensional graphic representation. The focus of this conceptual exploration is the development of a critical process of making and remaking to examine relationships and variations of form through order, continuity, transition, layering, connection, penetration, juxtaposition, implied movement, density, repetition and/or hierarchy.

Bar +/-

Materials: Cardboard, Cement, And plaster

Bar +/-

Bar +/-

Superkit X This project integrates issues of space, form and image in a single 3 dimensional mixed-media composition with the integration of a lost object of our choosing.

Materials: BaseWood, Carboard, Museum Board, Wooden Splints, CrossWord Puzzel, and Pencil

Super Kit X

Hand Drawings and Sketches The following are a selection of hand drawings and conceptual sketches.

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Door Handle Concept Drawing

Spiritual Construct Concept Drawing

Collage.

Collage.