Architecture Portfolio 2021 by masih davari

Masih Davari Architecture Portfolio Winter 2021

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ISSUU

“I believe that everyone has great potentials as much as the chances to empower them. For me, it was the art of solution making. Not only for problems but also for doing tasks better and more efficiently. Architecture was the best platform for me to use this potential through different projects, competitions, and a considerable amount of time in voluntary team works inside and outside the academic environment. Architecture is a multidisciplinary area that relates to many other areas. As an Architect, I do my best considering them to make the best decision and create a contextual solution.” MASIH DAVARI

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ISFAHAN WATER MUSEUM

INTERIOR DESIGN BASED ON HUMAN FEELINGS

(WITH EMPHASIS ON SOCIAL INTERACTION)

NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN

Academic, Spring 2013

Academic, Spring 2016

Academic, Winter 2015

Academic, Winter 2014

CLINIC RENOVATION

COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN

NATURE INSPIRATION

OPEN MARKET

Proffesional, Summer 2018

Academic, 2019

Academic, 2021

CONTEXTUAL DESIGN

ISFAHAN......CITY OF DOMES

Isfahan has always been famous for its beautiful domes, and many of them spread all over the city. They mostly have a hole in the ceiling for lighting purposes which I used as a symbolic sign in this project.

ISFAHAN WATER MUSEUM Spring 2013 Isfahan, Iran This project is located in Isfahan. A city with a rich historical background and a river crossing from the middle, thriving the whole city with itself. Thus, my project had to reflect both aspects through an architectural approach toward a rich and meaningful design. Therefore, I started with the city›s historical and architectural background. Then I started investigating all possible features you can have with water from a physical and spiritual point of view to reflect in my design approach.

WATER MUSEUM......WATER FLUIDITY & ICONIC SHAPES & SPACES

DESIGN PROCESS

Water pool Water play ground WC Water statue Open theater Museum gallery Library and Office

PLAN

SECTION

CLAY MODEL

RESEARCH PROCESS STEP 2

Research Question

Experiment Samples

Curve Design

STEP 1

Straight Design

How we can evaluate emotions inside an architecture design?

I chose to use the EEG method for measuring people’s cognitive state and then translate it into emotional parameters. People will have different emotional reactions in various places with varying design styles.

INTERIOR DESIGN BASED ON HUMAN EMOTIONS Spring 2016 Isfahan, Iran

In architecture, our success depends on people›s willingness to live inside our design, which is subjective. Therefore, it is essential to assess the outputs of user experience regarding the users› emotions about a design. This assessment can provide a preliminary indication of design influence on people. It can be achieved through real-time measurements of people›s brain waves (target group) while experiencing the design and analyzing the captured data using analytic methods.

STEP 3

Balcony and workspace were the most important places for my target group, so I designed two samples of each, only focusing on their Form. I had to eliminate other parameters like color, texture, and others to measure only one, which was Form in interior design.

Brain Signal Recording

After analyzing the current living situation of the target group and designing new samples based on their interests, now it›s time to design the experiment protocol. This protocol consists of the procedure of how to show the sample pictures to the person and the steps between watching the samples, like resting time(with closed eyes as shown in the pictures) or the active time (when they’re watching the sample renders on the monitor in front of them). Then we can start the experiment by showing the pictures and recording their brain signals.

STEP 4

Signal Processing & Analysis

After finishing the data recording, it’s time to process the data and extract the emotional parameters we’re looking for. In this stage, I had to get some help from a neuroscientist to process the data. We extracted some features from the people’s brain signals, as you see in the picture. But the fact is that the accuracy of these features is different, and I only measured the research proposal with only the “Engagement” feature, which had approximately 80% accuracy. The final results showed that my target group has more tendency to curve design in those samples.

FINAL DESIGN PROPOSAL (BASED ON TARGET GROUP RESEARCH)

View to the living room, balcony and kitchen

View to the kitchen

Lobby design based on curve system

Different levels have the same planning and Interior design based on curve system. View to the balcony

View to the library

MASTER PLAN ANALYSIS During the master plan design, I tried to maintain the main contextual assets. I also designed the masses and spaces considering the nature of the hill. These approaches had occurred in order to keep the area acceptable to people in the neighborhood.

Residential area Natural hill

NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN

Public space

(WITH EMPHASIS ON SOCIAL INTERACTION)

Access route

Winter 2015 Tehran, Iran

Public transportation route

This project is located in Evin neighborhood, one of the highest living areas in Tehran. Our assignment was to design the whole master plan for a specific area and then magnify one neighborhood to design it in detail. The main context of the area is shaped by organic and non-rigid forms and site plan mostly has a mild slope. This region had also a rich form of social interaction which was our main orientation in designing the neighborhood.

Sport area Commercial Educational center

Level 3

View to the whole neighborhood

Level 2

Level 1 Neighborhood main court

Entrance to the neighborhood main court

NEIGHBORHOOD Natural hill Residential units Public space Commercial Level 4

Sport area Access route Site Plan: High up on the hill in a rural area

Level 3

This project is located in mountain areas where rural communities are living. Because of the cold weather in this area, I decided to design highdensity volumes and side-by-side units deep into the ground with few openings to maintain heat inside buildings. I also considered the vernacular context of the area by using native and proper materials and design methods.

Type F: 3 bedroom Type C: duplex with 3 bedroom

CONTEXTUAL DESIGN Winter 2014 Hamedan, Iran

Residential area

Type F: 3 bedroom Level 2

Type A: duplex with 2 bedroom Entrance

Level 1

HOUSING H TYPOLOGY

Type A: duplex with 2 bedroom

Type E: 3 bedroom

Type B: duplex with 2 bedroom

Type F: 3 bedroom

Type C: duplex with 3 bedroom

Type D: duplex with 4 bedroom

Type G: 3 bedroom

Waiting Room

CLINIC RENOVATION PROFFESIONAL PROJECT Summer 2018 Isfahan, Iran In this project, the challenge was to design one common space as the waiting room and two rooms for two doctors with various necessities, a Psychiatrist and a pediatric surgeon. Therefore, I had to do hours of observation and analysis to find the best solution possible. Then, I spent hours using the waiting room like anyone else and observing the doctors while visiting a patient, and I wrote and sketched ideas for each problem.

Psychiatrist Office

Pediatric Surgeon Office

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN & FABRICATION I started from one cell design with a simple algorithem. Then I tried to combine simple ones together and also expanded the algorithem to some more coplex ones. At each point we had to print our forms with a PLA 3D printer to also learn the methods of working with 3D printers.

COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN Autumn 2019 Lund, Sweden This course was about learning how to create new forms base on various algorithm in Grasshopper plugin and also the ways to print those form by using PLA 3D printers and even Silicon Mold and Casting. In the current project, we had the freedom to dig into different logics and datas in order to find the best forms in Grasshopper and the goal was to understanding how these algorithms and logics work.

Digital Model

3D Print

FORM FINDING

Digital Model

3DPrint

NATURE......THORNY DEVIL

Design Project

Capillary Action

Nature Inspiration

Thorney Devil

In an arid climate Morocco, we have low resources of water and a high temperature which makes the living so hard. After lots of research, I found a little animal with an extraordinary feature of absorbing water by his skin. On the skin, there are very narrow canals that works with the help of Capillary Action to transport the water through the skin and all the way to his mouth. So I decided to use this feature on the surface of an interior wall to spread the water all over the surface and by having cross ventilation we can have a cooler interior. Then, I tried to mimic this feature by designing lots of patterns to finally find the one the works the best.

DESIGN PROCESS......FINDING BEST PATTERN

NATURE INSPIRATION Autumn 2019 Lund, Sweden This project is related to arid climate regions like Morocco. The goal for this project is to see if we can translate the geometry and function of the Thorny Devil to an architectural scale in order to be able to create a comfortable interior environment in an arid climate. This was one of the projects in my second master degree in Spatial Experiment in Architecture. This program was mostly about finding and mimicking patterns of nature by using our digital tools like Grasshopper plugin in Rhino Software and 3D Printers for CNC milling.

FINAL PROTOTYPE

PROJECT DESCRIPTION Malmö is a city which houses people of a multitude of origins. Klättercentret in Annelund shows quite clearly how groups within the society do not always mingle and meet. The visitors of the center roughly belong to the same socio-economic group. The streets outside of the center house very different activities which are mainly visited by other socio-economic groups. One way of encouraging mingling is the intertwining of activities and spaces. The program consists of a marketplace combined with an extension of the climbing center or one of the other clubs. . The two programs can be seen as spaces where we seek to extend ourselves, through communication, interaction, learning and expression. The activity center extension: A space for personal physical activity and recreation. We have the park on top. An open and green landscape with the essence of a public domain in this region. Site Plan

A large part of this region is filled with the harsh cold pieces of old

OPEN MARKET Autumn 2021 Lund, Sweden Open market in Malmö for cultural intereaction. As architects we are aware of the potentially transformative power of physical spaces and how these can enable changes in interaction, engagement and a sense of belonging. Contemporary technological change is affecting how such spaces are used as well as how they are created. The task we were set with was to use the new possibilities offered by such new technologies to create spaces that enable interaction and positive change.

industrialization and I see these wall paintings as an effort toward pushing to the other side, to more humanization.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION There is a connection point between the park and the project to emphasize on the main goal of this

Bike Path

project which is interaction. I tried to build a platform for the city and the people to express themselves

Walking Path

the way they are with any social and cultural background.

Bike Stands

Having the market place in both side of the site is too much for this area and this scale. So, I was thinking that maybe it’s better to have only one side as the market function and the other side empty and for future development. Therefore, I only have an empty frame on the left side only for the sake of composition in the project. To keep the harmony at this stage of the project. Market connection Path

If I want to break down the Market area, it consists of these elements all

Market Place Future Development

over the market which define the spaces around them. Spaces that you

Open Space

would put your table and stuff for sale. The idea behind this approach Exhibition and Music Stage

was to not making specific places for shopping stores and boundaries

Open Area

around them. But it was more about flexibility and still having an organized Market space that people can choose the spaces around these elements and not just use the whole spaces any way they want.

Climbing Center

So, there is a balance between flexibility and order in this space.

Roller Skating Center

Music & Dance School

Park

DETAILS & FABRICATION

3D Printed Samples

Each of these elements in this project have five important layers and you can see in the picture how each layer places on top of the other or fit into each other. I wanted to test the idea of having flexible roofs with 3D printing so here is the fabrication process and results which shows different levels of the process and the final result as well. For doing that, you should take care of these points: 1- Using the correct pattern. 2- Using suitable material. 3Designing the 3D model of the pattern with the proper specifications and details. 4- Printing the pattern with the correct settings on the 3D printer The whole process is trial and error, and you can’t say that there is a specific instruction for it. I tried different models for my pattern until I found some level of accuracy in the fabrication process, but it’s still a sample to show the possibility of the fabrication.

3D Printed Pattern

Close / No Air Pressure Balloon Shape Object

Main Frame

Subframe

3D Printed Pattern

Open / With Air Pressure

PRODUCT, MODEL MAKING & FABRICATION

MODEL MAKING (TEAMWORK LED BY ME) This project was the final project for one of our second-semester courses as a Bachelor’s student, for which we voluntarily built a 1/50 scale size model for it. First, we surveyed the existing building, in and out, with almost all the details. Then, we draw the measured survey all by hand. And in the end, due to our high motivation for this project, we voluntarily built this large 3D model. The course’s purpose was to help us understand the details and measures better, mainly when it’s all done non-digitally. This project then won the university’s best student project of the year 2009.

Amphitheater of the Art University of Isfahan, Architecture faculty. Where I studied for my bachelor’s in Architecture.

Except the dome, the whole model is cut and shaped by hand

32 cm

PRODUCT DESIGN & FABRICATION These are some product and fabrication projects I have done lately for a startup company I’ve been working for. The first project at the left is a cap for their EEG headset, which you put on the person’s head to reduce the electromagnetic noises on the EEG device. The second project was designed by an industrial design team and then assigned to me for the fabrication process. It’s a prototype for the company’s future product.

QUICK SKETCHING &

STORY TELLING

PERFORMING THEORIES COMIC Here is an example of one of my quick sketching projects. This is a practice for the course “Performing Theories,” where you tell a story in the form of comics. This is the same method I use for making storyboards for videos I want to make or a project before I get into the details and in order to find the best narrative for the project.