PORTFOLIO - April 5 by Masih Barin

Masih Barin

PORTFOLIO Graduate University of Southern California

S T U D I O

D E S I G N S

L I G H T I N G

THESIS

Solace

CREVICE

Mystique

CLINIC

I N TERACTI V E

CodeX.yz

LA Medhive

Aerolux

WORKSHOP

Diversion

Virus

bipolar

RESEARCH

Backdrop

Pollenoid

COMPETITIONS

Hospitexan

flux()

2nd Place Winner

Outleech

Quilt

Honorable Mention

Furniture CPR

Net[work]

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HexX

Urban Fog

ZigPoint

Photos

Paintings

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PERSONAL INFO

EDUCATION

WORK EXPERIENCE

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LA MedHive Civic Healing Center

Prof. Patrick Tighe Teammates: Tori Smolinski (CBDS), Katelyn Lentz (Original Design)

The users enter the Med Hive Clinic+ Community Center through a restorative green fissure, breaking up the concrete block. Native plants guide your way as you journey through from the urban street to a vine-flanked path, into the covered aquaponics and out to the meandering landscape beyond. Structural members extend to connect the two buildings as the fissure cuts through. The project is focused around urban farming, exhibiting a solution for the food desert crisis of the greater Los Angeles area. The farming concept not only brings to light the need for fresh, healthy food but fosters connectivity to nature and fellow community members. The relatively new technology of cross-laminated timber exhibits superior strength, dimensional stability, ability to be prefabricated and assembled on-site, and an array of sustainability advantages. In comparison to steel and concrete, CLT has significant low embodied carbon and can span longer distances with relatively shallow deck depths (a CLT panel is 2/3 of concrete depth for the same spanning distance). CLT used in wall assemblies often takes on a standard approach, adapted to post-and-beam construction. The construction often involves the CLT wall fit into a metal plate or fastened to a concrete deck or footing, and screws are minimally inserted to remain protected from fire by the heavy timber.

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Site Address : 3519 Obama Blvd, LA,CA 1. Project Site 2. Empty Lot 3. LA County Building 4. Exposition Metro Line 5. West Angels Church 6. Crenshaw Metro Line

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Gross area/buildable area

1/2 of parcel is b

Paved surfaces

15,346 sf (20%)

Building footprint

38,367 sf (50%

Lanscaped areas

20,020 sf (30%)

Allowable building height

75'

Net Building Area

76,734 sf

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LEIMERT PARK is a home to many cultures arising from generations from different walks of life. Mostly centered around african-american population, It has grown to accommodate and be receptive to a variety of cultures and demographics. As with any potentially profitable piece of land and real estate, Leimert park is being threatened by the ever increasing fast-paced gentrification. Retrofitted buildings surrounding the site, house a mixture of cultural programs to strengthen the sense of belonging in the community. Nevertheless, gentrification can gradually have its impact in one way or the other. So keeping an eye on the population and their needs is paramount. Codex.YZ is mainly designed for youth demographics, with 7-storey building on the south designated for a typical family. Also the units on the first floor can be comfortable for seniors. The famous plaza in front of the old theater is a venue for different events, e,g. yoga, drum circles, black culture festivals. Construction of metro line to the west of the site means increasing number of pedestrian encounters with our site. Also, the plaza on the south can extend upwards to create a larger pedestrian-friendly area that can serve as a commercial and recreational hub for the neighbourhod. Building block shall be permeable to the east side, to potentially create a wider circulation path. Also, it sets some limits for the adjacenet site in terms of responding to the public nodes and gathering spaces. In order to create a wider civic space, our building can serve both as a public plaza and commercial space.

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Diversion Urban Housing

Prof. Alireza Einifar

Diversion is an attempt to revive a dilapidated neighborhood. This act inevitably takes place on different levels. small to large scale, covering a wide range of social classes. With pervasive crime rate plaguing Owdlajan, new approaches must be adopted to compensate for the big damage. Core issue is the security realized by creating an omnipresent neighborhood watch.

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OWDLAJAN COMMUNITY is worsening more and more in a vicious cylce that demands Small to Large Scale changes. CURRENT TREND : Alarming rate of drug trafficking, murder, rape and violence in this area, force people to vacate their houses and propably renting it as a warehouse to the Bazaar shops. Increasing number of warehouses will make a vicious cycle for the community to be deserted more and more, also perpetuating crime and violence.

DIVERSION partly diverts Bazaar stream of people into the site. The more people join this trend , the more this area is secured as a result of prevalent neighborhood watch. FUTURE OF OWDLAJAN : By exposing the community to a large public , security increases reverting the warehouss back into living houses, thereby increasing the number of people in the neighbourhood.

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Owdlajan is a historic neighborhood in Tehran, Iran. Old Owdlajan consisted of 2619 houses and 1146 shops and was one of the biggest and wealthiest neighborhoods in Tehran. The houses with many rooms around a yard (with a small pool in the middle) were called Ghamar khanoom houses. Owdlajan was the wealthiest neighborhood in the Ghajar era and kept its status until the Pahlavi era. However with the big changes in Iranian society in 1340 AH it gradually lost its status. The biggest obstacle to Owdlajan today is the expansion of the Bazar neighborhood. This trend has changed Owdlajan from a wealthy neighborhood into a storage area for Bazar and many old houses were turned into places for addicts.

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The only pulse in the area is the Bazaar running north-south while the rest is suffering from a vicious cycle of Warehouses, Murder, Drug and other worsening conditions. By creating a public space in the site, Diversion hopes to divert that Pulse into the site. In a piecemeal process, that pulse starts to spread into the surroundings and in the future we might have a criss-cross of public veins which increases the number of people, thereby making a safer place and also turning warehouses back into residential housing. This descion will liven up and basically rehabilitate this dilapidated archaic part of the city.

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BACKDROP Kindergarten+Orphanage

Prof. Afra Gharibpour *Undergraduate Thesis- University of Tehran

There are certain stages to development of a child which by and large involves parents or appointed guardians as the paramount part of this process. Lack of parents and growing up in a community with their peers can cause such children to develop a few certain charactersitics that might hinder their engagement in society and social life as an adult. For example they might not be able to play the role of a parent since the teachers or caretakers can not compensate for this prominent role. BACKDROP considers the layer-by-layer process of engagement in society as the basis for design. This sustainable commuinty starts out with a child and his non-collective private space. Then a roommate preferably of the same age that tries to emulate a sibiling. After this small community they can interact with other similar groups. Overall there will be a community for the children in the same age category. The community will function more powerfully by dividing children by age into perhaps three or four groups and letting them establish their own community but play and interact with each other in class or play ground.

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Any system is not sustainable and perfectly functional unless it has progressed through consecutive stages of growth. Backdrop is made up of certain stages in spatial configuration. Starting with Individual territory. This project tries to make a sustainable community that is not vulnerable against the outside forces like children, parents from the neighborhood. As a child, you need Privacy, Security, feeling of Ownership, Relationship with your peers and so on. Consolidation and formation of a child’s identity is crucially dependent on aforementioned factors. Direct and constant relationship with another child with the same concerns and needs can be an asset to development of a child. Despite the “Only Child” phenomenon, children in these facilities require strong contact with fellows in order to partially make up for lack of parents or even gaurdians.

Adjacent buildings are mainly medium height, with the exception of southern buildings that cast long shadow at noon. Building to the west also block the sun around sunset. As far as wind, the dominant direction is thwarted by the buildings, leaving a milder flow around the site.

Separation based on age can strengthen the overall health of the society in addition to discouraging harmful inappropriate accidents such as bullying or breaking other children’s properties. Assigning supervisors with specific abilities for each age can also make it easier to control the children. Although it seems socially beneficial to put all the childern in one single room, it endows the their society with more stability and stronger relationship if they are divided into different groups but the connection through a variety of activities in common areas such as playing or educational classes were maintained. Basically a society with multiple sub-groups is extensively more viable than single group. When all the preceding conditions are met, the facility can be receptive to neighborhood mostly children of the same age to take part in the classes or essentially relate to the occupants. Average Age Children Infants Care Room

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AEROLUX Pneumatic Sensibility

Prof. Kyle Konis Teammates: Mandy Moore, Prakhya Gadde Curtain-like responsiveness of AEROLUX

SITE/CONTEXT OF PROJECT We did not design this project with a specific site in mind since the advantage of this project is that is can be used on almost any kind of structure. However, we did design it with the intention that it would act as a shading structure for buildings prone to overheating, especially seeing the power outages caused due to extreme temperatures in Los Angeles. A city where most of its buildings, especially in downtown Los Angeles, are not designed to undergo such circumstances.

AEROLUX hopes to address issues in architecture surrounding increased solar exposure and building overheating, especially in today’s realities of climate change and frequent power outages. We hope to find solutions to this issue through the use of interactive shading facades that work on the principle of inflation. To address this issue, we were considering creating facades that would inflate and deflate based on the lux levels that they are exposed to. Hence, we will be considering various methods and materials through which this can be achieved at a larger scale.

USERS/INTERACTIVITY This project is meant as almost an inflatable light(lux) sensing curtain system that inflates and rolls up when the light(lux) levels are at a comfortable level and deflates and goes down when the light(lux) levels increase significantly. Thus, creating a shading system for users inside these buildings to maintain a comfortable level of lighting always.

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12 v battery Black Fabric Various kinds of Plastic sheets (For prototypes) Soldering Iron and lead Arduino Kit (with wires and bread board) Vacuum Pump AdaFruit TSL2591 light sensor Fabric glue Wood Relay

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We started off the project by trying out various materials such as clear zip-lock bags, white plastic table cloth, normal plastic bags, thick plastic sheets and even heat sealing fabrics before we finally opted for plain fabric. One of the biggest challenges was to see what material would inflate well and which ones would require more vacuum pressure to be able to inflate and roll in. This also brought on issues about the patterns that were needed to be made into the pouches to make sure that the roll into each other rather than just inflate and go up. We had to try various patters such as straight lines, triangles and hexagons before we realized that either sealed arch or small straight slits that were sealed worked the best. Additionally, we had issues trying to figure out how to program the vacuum to the Arduino (majority of our initial prototypes relied on a motorized airbed inflator).

PROGRAMMING AdaFruit TSL 2591 light sensor connected to Arduino with downloaded code to calculate lux levels Arduino connected to a relay that is attached to the vacuum pump Pump is connected to a 12v battery source Relay code added to light sensing code to switch the relay on and off based on lux levels Pump programmed to start when lux < 100 and stop when Lux > 100

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2 pieces of fabric are cut into the size of the desired façade dimensions Seal all edges of the fabrics together with glue Cut the two pieces of glued fabric into an identical fringe pattern Glue 2/3 smaller arc shaped patterns into each fringe at roughly the same distance from one another Again, seal all open edges of the fringes Cut a small opening on top of fabric at the size of the vacuum pipe Cut holes into the pipe for each fringe to let air into each pouch Slide pipe all the way into the fabric Seal any holes and openings to prevent air from escaping.

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RENOV Healing Appendage

Teammates: Arshia Eghbali, Amirhossein Adelfar

Qazvin Glass Manufacturing Factory wanted to create a better atmosphere for the aged main office building. With lots of new required spaces, the circulation and well-being of the staff was completely damaged. Therfore we decided to introduce a new circulation by attaching a new long staircase on the south side of the building. It will expose a large portion of facade to the sunlight. This staircase can also function as seating area on the long landings which eliminates the usual sole use of stairs as just risers. The glass facades clad with cement panels worked as a subtle pervasive light source in the building. As a professional project, attempts were made to rationalize the design to suit the needs and constructions demands. Facade Detail

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the diagonal cut in the panels allows for more sun exposure as opposed to regular louvres. The facade detail creates an illuminated wall on the interior.

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the new plans independently forming a closed loop give a slew of plan alternatives meeting the need for open office as the most important part of the work atmosphere.

the building is for the most part divided into recreation and working areas. The working parts do not necessarily need direct sunlight, so they are more compatible with indirect lighting on the north and facade.

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Beside the designing, we tried to make less changes in the building structure . Thus, there was a few changes in the structure such as the external beams to hold the stairs structure. As the result the change was only ocurred withoud involving the former structure. Another important objective that was asked in competition was the structure that we suggest beside of the design. The former structure was strong enough due to the mentioned items of the competition. Its coloumn were reinforced by plates and strong enough to tolerate the extra loads.

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Inner Ring Elevated Road in China, center of the crowded regions of Shanghai was selected as the site, So as to facilitate the access of cars moving along the circular ramp to the car park. As a result there is no need to exit the highway in order to park automobiles. The remarkable feature offered by the main ramp is avoiding the use of conventional; overly space occupying ramps solely for connecting the stories, Thanks to the circular ramp of the Ring Road , the connecting ramps inside the structure can be removed. The idea suggests that car park must integrate the surroundings considerably with green spaces hence a eco-friendly space made possible by making a twisting path alternating between indoors and outdoors.

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The structure is located in the center of the Ring Road and it is connected to the ramps by several roads along the ramps.

The site is a prominent node that links both sides of the city.

The ground ringed by the ramps can provide transportation facility as a node that leads to across the city.

There are many permutations to find a parking spot. The further the route, the more privacy. So this carpark offers different space qualities as opposed to regular ones with single function. You can choose a certain spot as your usual one, as if you “own” the place, imparting a warmer vibe to the place.

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The idea was conceived as a constantly floating source of food for such vulnerable context. Contrary to conventional construction methods that capitalize on every possible features of the context, this project attempts to cultivate the context, furthermore it puts the correlation between the Subject and Context first without overlooking the potential conflicts. This structure helps foster the life in its surrounding by constantly providing nutrition for the sea creatures ranging from sharks to minuscule species. It discharges basically anything of organic essence that requires great deal of energy and resources for treatment such as organic waste, human refuse, through a vertical arm that stretches down into the sea and assures that an assortment of sea creatures can feed on the organic substances from the human activities. This process provides food for the species and also eliminates the cost of transport, treatment of the overwhelming amount of waste from such a formidable structure. This flitting creature, can be a compensation for all the ill-treatments and damages to the natural habitat, by creating a joint benefit for both people and animals. Mobility of such structure, allows for roaming across the ocean, serving as a food resource, as opposed to negative impacts associated with ordinary buildings.The conventional inherent segments of every process is replaced by feeding the innocuous organic residues to other animals, therefore, it promotes the underwater life as well as cutting the costs.

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The vertical needle-shaped arm is responsible for distributing “Organic Materials” produced in the hotel. Through this organic pattern on the surface, it can develop into a massive sustainable habitat.

The elongated vertical arm, sprawls deep into the ocean to enable a constant convection flow through the structure that can generate electricity.

The constant water flow spins the crown of the tower, producing unlimited electricity.

Hotel areas are located in the center. The gradual pivot of the structure imparts different qualities to rooms

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The Hotel primary spaces sit in the top center part of the tower, composed of residential and other facilities stacked on top of one another in a certain manner. This layout creates an imposing courtyard that reveals the true essence of the Super Skyscraper.

The same principle applies when the parts are disperesed downward or sideways. Here, the cubes are arranged to reach furthest both harizontal and vertical points, former to minimize the shadow cast underwater, latter to meet species from different depths within the sea.

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Tehran, capital of Iran, as a financial, cultural hub with a population of more than 17 millions is subject to perpetual over-whelming pollution resulted from excessive motor transport and the general aversion to use public transportation. For the most part, the city does not recieve rain, snow or any other means to filter out the dangerous particles in the air. This affliction could deteriorate in the cold days and create a smoggy ambience which mostly affect the color gradients by dramatically reducing the saturation thereby eliminating the vividness in tones.

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Each vicinity, defined by a particular bright color, emits a particular color back up into the atmosphere and also characterizes, and provides a unique vibe for every street, node and so on. Overall, even the weakest rays reflected from CPR surfaces make up a portion of RGB channel associated with each point in the space. Indiscriminate rays bounced off the new bright surfaces will lead every spatial point to recover the RGB channel constituting the white light. Accordingly the pale light is turned back into the white light across the city

CPR can bring social life and urban legibility to life especially considering that by and large the downtown is struggling with this debilitating problem, CPR can help add definition to this deprived poor area.

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This project conceives of a World Cup Structure that houses people to chant and laugh under the same roof. It redefines an architectural context and instigate an intense long-lived interaction between the enjoyment of watching Football and people in the plaza. Instead of erecting a massive structure and placing different function inside it, Bubbled Flux incorporates an overarching Fabric overhead, made up of numerous points across that move up and down based on their corresponding spot on the floor. The overlapping of Gray circles enclosing and assigned to each occupied tile, determines the extent of which, each point is moved vertically. According to the definitely seemless transition through these circles and as a result maintaining the White-Black gradient, the ceiling is formed into a Bubble that is proportinal and responsive to the turnout. The denser a crowd, the bigger the bubble.

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Plaza that serves either as a setting for watching football collectively or as stairs leading up to the aquaduct that is being used as a tramline.

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can create permutations of enclosures providing different types of Shopping Stalls. These stalls can expand or contract based on the orientation of panels.

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Urban life usually seem more efficient and logical compared with rural life, which is considered to be a gradual and human improvisation of ideas. Rural areas with organic pattern feel more lively sustainable due to their inherent nature of unplanned steps that fit human’s need.Organic essence never gives the chance of prediction , hardly ever becomes outdated, thus always alive.

Our proposal concieves the market as a canvas for creating spontaneous paths varying from day to day.Rather than laying out a tesselation of stalls, we can make desirable enclosure out of a pallet of hexagonal shapes. the placement of the panels can change everyday and makes every visit an adventure. The upside to the concept is that the each seller can have a good chance of sale because of many factors in the setting and the permutations of panels.

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The panels that make up hexagon-shaped stalls come from Moorish lantern and traditional screen panels. Each stall can break up and rotate to create various turn into an umberella thereby making a stopping point on site.

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Oslow Music Festival put up this competition to provide a forum for architects to rethink Meeting Point. A place that is the main node or path. In this project we made a felxible line of foldable slats that bring people together.

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Zigpoint is conceived as a twisting foldable paper shred, able to adjust to any topography, offering settings for numerous activities and with components varying in heights, this assortment can be increased even more. People seek a spot to dance, perform, sleep, play games and so on. The fact that this structure is made up of a certain element and can be added up without any limit, will guarantee its suitability for being a “meeting point”

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Workplace has always been associated with separation from home, lengthy commute, spending hours in a place that hardly resembles your own room’s atmosphere and so forth all of which inevitably delineate the meaning of our entire life as if living and working are contrary facts . Most occupations seldom require any further daring venture and eventually stagnate. In turn workplace commute becomes unavoidable unchanging routes not only spoils liveliness but gradually eliminate the vital need to interact with the outer world , people of different ages ,races , cultures. What one experiences throughout the workday is mainly repetitive without any contributing value. History proves the significance of innovation realized by the increasing accuracy of machinery. In a world of globalism, deluge of media creates a mixture of cultures. While it’d create a sense of similarity in the population, the uniqueness of thoughts and exclusivity is practically diminished. Innovation and multitude of solutions will take the toll from the process of universalism. In an ideal world, creativity in the early childhood is maintained intact unlike what the typical educational paradigm dictates. Net[Work] capitalizes on the interdisciplinary discourse. It is not about having the Knowledge, but the Solution. this paradigm serves as an overarching theme and stimulus in the society.

The proposal suggests that despite all the discoveries and current implications of the future, the social life still lives on even more profoundly contrary to popular belief .that is to say that new inventions not necessarily make the human interactions obsolete but add to its significance

As we grow older , our creativity begins to decline but we gain more and more experience .so there would be a point common between the two graphs, marking the most efficient age for appointing a employee. People of that particular age hold the dominion ,yet they are referred to other part of the age spectrum for more experience or creativity.

Disciplinary discourse for EFFICIENCY Tehran, the capital of Iran is sitting on a sloping terrain leading uphill to Damavand, one of the highest summits in the world which covers a vast range of altitudes providing various weather patterns. Such patterns and cultural backgrounds has conspired to create distinguished region across the city. Tehran has been a popular hub for immigrants from the beginning of Ghajar’s dynasty. They have settled from different walks of life on the mountain feet to the plains on the southern lands . Tehran has served as a crucial point for the goods transport from and to the adjacent cities and neighboring countries.

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Inter-disciplinary Workspace for INNOVATION OUTPUT is most achieved through the proper timing and arrangement of Voids in the society. Whether literally a public space, or Virtual immersion different than the workday.

Temporary concentric circles represent the fields most related to certain problems and projects in question. It provides the firm ground for the further contributions from the outside.

White Volume represent the Infromation Digestion time. In one way or another there must be a relief from the constant Input. It could be an Empty Area, Mini-Forest, Civic hub , etc.

It is a new business relationship between the employer and employees, quite similar to the current one, but more competitive. the innovation outweigh other aspects of any occupation to a large extent.

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Place De Cannes , an old square dating back to over 90 years ago,is incessantly changing year after year, yet it is considered one of the main nodes that branches out into different routes. With the collapse of several governmental buildings on the site, its consistent development has run out of control. The project was conceived by submitting to the chaotic, worsening and incurable context, in addition to the inapplicability of the prevailing urban design. They conspire to bring about awkward interconnections, lack of enough visual interactions that consequently result in crimes and inevitable exacerbation of this prominent square. The idea is to make a complete entity out of two complementing subjects that allows for a new quality, context overall. It can change assorted non-matching qualities of the square into a family-friendly, functionally integrated setting that imparts a new character plus eradicates the increasing rate of crimes. It can also set a social, environmental benchmark for the growth of the neighburing areas.The vast unobstructed area walled with inconsistent mass and surfaces with an awkwardly high impermeable tower’s edge on one side, accounts for a big white structure of frames that strike the viewer as a collossal FOG that put a white coating on everything. In turn old dangerous place can turn into a public plaza with a Ferris Wheel that either attracts people to hang out or connects different elevations of the Fog structure. Fog is like a cloud, you dream, without thinking about the context, albeit hideous and unbearable.

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In order to liven up and secure the square, the number of points were increased and by incorporating a family place in the center, a dangerous hostile setting is transformed into a safe sanctuary

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1) Small Scale : we might only Teleport into a few certain parts of the house. So “What happens to the rest? ” 2) Medium Scale : Perhaps certain segments of any building are more popular, so in this case “What happens to the rest of Empire State ?” In this model, you can see how each point in the space adapts itself to the new metabolisms. Some masses are maintained and some are dwindled or removed in order to become empty hosts seeking new pollens, Empty hosts can change the whole appearance of the city since their qualities are in flux leading to a fluctuating world

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Environmental concerns. Digital world has influenced every facet of life. Individual power to trigger critical changes.

Wrongdoings need to be compensated for. Searching for life on other planets, alternative fuels. More constant but passive actions. global communications are vastly improved.

Damaged nature tries to counter-balances those changes by adjusting to the new artificial life, yet maintaining its entire integrity. Despite paralleling the very beginning stage of life in nature, In this scenario people go back to individual life in nature, but with quite a disparity from that of the early days in cave. Closeness does not necessarily mean being in proximity. Virtual life can offer a lot of possibilities.

Widespread varied transportation. Ambition for power and wealth tempts many to contradict nature in so many ways.

Humans cross boundaries. More sophisticated estab lishments using fabricated materials. Laws of nature start to unravel.

Artificial continues to grow larger and encroach upon the remainder of space. It will be complicated for the nature to offset the long-lived changes and recover from such transformation. As a result, the nature is replaced entirely with the artificial nature but with precise nature-like co-relations.

Fire led to power. The ability to mold things out of nature. domesticating animals for agriculture and food or for transportation. People congregation to form early communities and subsequently villages.

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As a result of Smart City and Smart Citizen, there are countless number of “Agents” in the space having the power to determine the properties of each point. TELEPORT is able to make Point by Point changes , meaning that such Information Cloud can make actual “Physical Changes to the city” or more generally Everything. Such Information cloud can be imagined as an ever-changing physical layer over and through the space. By virture of power of Teleport, metabolisms and interconections can perpetually change or transform.

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Many pollens like inherently public spaces can be haphazardly embeded into the city since we do not need access like paths to our new structures We can have an eclectic city with things pasted on very strange part of the city like Roman Amphitheatre , Gothic Churchs , Swimming pools on roofs or inside the buildings or even under the sea.

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Multi-centered contemporary city with typical sprawl. There are attraction points that define the density and qualities of space.

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“ Any object, Any building is ultimately the physical representation of an information node.”

The physical proximity is starting to become a meaningless measure since social networks are in some way keeping us connected all the time. Therefore in the future this virtual proximity can compensate for the lack of physical closeness possibly in so far as people start to live exactly like primitives while their basic needs are fulfiled. Essentially mankind can revert back to individualsim in the nature but with ubiquitous virtual connections on the side.

Does poximity of Pollens lead to combination? Does proximity necessarily mean agglemoration?

Can we assume that city of Points evolve into a city of Surfaces? Does proximity of points lead to surfaces? and potentially new tyoe of cities?

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Every pollen can jump to new proper hosts which results in a new nomadism and accordingly constant change in the city.

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BiPolar Urban Amalgam

Frankenestein Workshop involved thinking about the dream city not only using imagination but also an assortmant of materials from different pieces of architecture ranging from small-scale to urban scale as in Hillside Terrace. Buildings were connected to the characteristics they are mostly identified by. On the whole the concept was partly based on these qualities. Bi-polar project conceived the future city as a twofold space. First the sole private life preferably up in the air, leaving the ground intact for just the public space. GPS can put definitons on every point in the space without the need for solid architectural construction. Therefore this empty terrain can remain so forever.

The highway had to cut through a green area, doing away with the integrity of the place.

Different points are designated for different venues and activities, nevertheless, they can not lead to any permanant construction, in other sense, this uneven surface must remain empty.

By connecting the two separated parts together, an open field was created.

Public spaces are means to take us to out private spaces. There are many shared spaces in-between that divides the whole city into many smaller parts

The project merges all the public spaces into one “open field” with no possibility of becoming private. On the other hand, all the housing components are lifted up and separated from public field. Plus there is no shared space even between the houses. Only a path can lead one to their house.

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The aim of the workshop was to design an alien-looking 3x3 pavilion with potential to sprout and replicate to encroach up its context. The design was followed by breaking down the final model ( offspring ) into a dozen waffled pieces whose surfaces would be defined by patching fabrics through them. This Virus is intriguingly penetrable from five sides engaging the viewer to search for the views or assimilate the complexity of free forms. Design was started by using a variety of normal surfaces algorithms to create Alien forms that would lead to Viral Offsprings. Each alternative offered different paths or inner or outside complexity. These viruses resulting from interaction of Aliens with Earthly Squares with such amorphic surfaces can be pieced together with other viruses to create an ever-growing entity.

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SOLACE is conceived as a contemplation hub . While smoking is a bad habit, the feeling you associate with that could be changed. The ambience creates a muse and individuals will be dominated by an omnipresent quality of light. The Neon Ribbons located on the beams shine on the drop ceiling and reflect across the space. The metalic spectral quality of ceiling make the experience subjective where every moment changes as you navigate the room.

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Cigar Cafe’ spatial breakdown. the hung installation is the main spectacle that scatters the light throughout the space. It emits a sense of awe and subjective view of the hung aluminum panels makes every glance truly interesting.

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The DRAPERY at the entry creates a mesmerizing view. It also serves as a buffer between the harshness of the exerior and the soft and animated interior. It is designed to diffuse the Daylight intrusive radiation while turning into a glowing spectacle during the night.

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