Portfolio

Mirametta Botrous Professional and academic work

Mirametta Botrous

• Education

(2013-2018)

• Professional Experience:

Sept.2021- Present

Nov. 2019- Present

Oct. 2020- Nov. 2021

Nov.2018-Jan.2020

• Workshops & Volunteer Experience

Nov.22nd -25th 2022

Nov 28th - Dec 05th 022

Feb 2021 – Aug 2021

Nov.2020- Feb.2021

University of Khartoum (BArch, GPA: 7.46 (Upper Second)

Teaching Assistant, University of Khartoum Faculty of Architecture.

Designer and Architect, Freelancing.

Architect, Steel Chris Plus Prefab and Contracting.

Architect, Chrisco for Construction.

Participant ,10th International Conference on Appropriate Technology

Participant, IHS short course, University of Erasmus in Rotterdam.

Voluntary teaching assistant, University of Khartoum

Voluntary Field Researcher, AICS (Italian Agency in Sudan)

July 2016- Aug.2016 Research Assistant, University of Khartoum Faculty of Architecture

April 2016-June2018

Nov. 2017

April 2017-June2017

• Publications and Exhibitions

Oct. 2022

August 022

Sept.2021

• Platforms

Sept 2021

August 2020

• Computer Skills

MS Office

Adobe CC

CAD/BIM

Participant , University of Khartoum Archic Debating workshop

Took part in the HSB University of Bremen, Germany student exchange program.

Participant, Yalla Khartoum Art Workshop

Solving the Urban Problems from within : The Case of MayoUp, Scientific research paper

Into The Gallery: Young Sudanese Female Artists Pop Up Show

A Place Called Mayo: The path to resilience, Booklet

Contributor, Archway Architectural Mentoring Program

Contributor, Salon Fouz Virtual Platform

PowerPoint Word Excel

Photoshop InDesign Illustrator

ArchiCAD AutoCAD Revit Sketchup

Rendering Lumion

• Languages

Arabic

English

French

Mother Tongue C1 A1

Industrial Rest Area

The project is an extension to an existing industrial building, already composed of lockers, storages and sanitary/plumbing services.

In the new proposal, a restaurant, dining area and an extension to the lockers and toilets were the new brief’s components.

Introducing an aesthetical approach that expresses the pristine essence of an industrial building while explicitly demonstrating the elements of architecture through volumes and lines, was the focus of the design.

In an attempt to introduce the new cluster emphatically in the exterior, the staircase was exposed outside the realms of the building, serving as a visual guide and allowing the birth of a balcony that extends along the main elevation, in order to define it, create a connection between the interior of the building and the exterior and accentuate the entrance.

Diagram shows the new structure extending above the existing ground floor. Highlighting on the addition of the new components and its external access.

The Guardhouse

The project serves a security booth to an existing rest area. It consists of two major double height blocks, both are linked together forming and accentuating the main gate. While the security room, the first floor office and the reception are for the public, an upper floor living room is devoted for the private use of the guard. With those four spaces the main components are formed and manifested through the exposition of various structural elements of the building.

The structural concept, as exhibited in the two monolithic concrete walls that support the staircases alone, while the concrete columns bearing the space frame, to perform an elegant binary opposition between materials: brick, concrete, steel and glaze.

The structural elements exposed highlight the vertical circulation of the clusters, defining and dominating a space, in a rather smooth and free manner.

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SouthElevation

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EastElevation

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Administrative Building and Apartments.

This mixed-use type of a building serves as housing for the workers of the company, while the ground floor and mezzanine includes a different function of an administrative building and a show room, for the same company as well.

The zoning of the entrances and circulation, had to facilitate for both types of users; the administrative staff and the residents of the apartments, in such a way that provides a clear and private access and exit to the users through the design, without any delays or confusion with the different contexts.

Revolving around two different spatial combination, each leading to a different zone, the plans were distributed to achieve the most efficient gross area and flexible/modular designed space. While the orientation of the site molded the design into a rectangular shape, with the length oriented east west, the timber screening of the east elevation relatively protects it against thermal discomfort, direct heat effect and glare.

In order to create passages of ventilation and dynamism the rectangular plan was broken into smaller modules that keep shifting, allowing a sense of human scale for the use in the apartments.

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St. Joseph's Church

Built on the basis of a specific religious ethnic group based in Egypt, this Coptic Orthodox Church reflects its culture through the design while being located in Sudan. It is rather an illustration of a conserved heritage, an image that manifests specific architectural themes. Those themes are a combination of a basic byzantine church’s components, but follows the Coptic monasticism heritage. Built within a private farm, the location is in the outskirts of Omdurman city, where the family would spend there weekends, for meditation and prayers, family gatherings and ceremonies. Designed using adobe bricks and concrete frame, the dome of the alter and the arched roof rests on attached dropped beams, cantilevered to the outer edge of the church. The brief of the project was determined by the activities assigned by the client, which added beside to the main church body, the plaza and the trellis of vines. During the zoning process all church’s components were distributed according to the rituals and the tradition, allowing the rise of environmental challenges that had to be tackled. A literal built oven, for an instance, oriented east to the church had to be architecturally treated and isolated in order to avoid overheating of the church's inner space. Accordingly the idea of the green screen around the circular built oven was implemented, and the trellis to surround the church with cooler air.

Slit windows in concrete shell.

Concrete arched beam.

Concrete shell roof

A Quest for a Fit: Adult Active Community

An adult active community is an age targeted housing, basically focused on users aged 55 and above. It offers a single accommodation place or an apartment for a person and their relatives and offers care for those who can’t afford taking care of themselves.

The graduation thesis project is an attempt to serve a marginalized group of the society- the elderly. It focuses on them as significant figures who have been neglected in many ways and not taken into consideration in the local design codes. The active adult community idea is meant to break the taboo, which depicts the elderly house as an exile. The theme, “universal design” and the priority was to design for a marginalized group in the society a way to integrate them back in an ambience they could relate to. The site, located in an old, of modern history category land, neighbors the Nile River.

The Nile, being a significant landmark, invited the design to extend above the natural land contours, made use of the agricultural banks and has been connected to the people visually and physically through the design itself.

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ACADEMIC

This 2nd year’s project was a landscape illustration to the surrounding natural land landscape. The location is Meroe, and the main mass shape was inspired by the surrounding ancient Pyramids as a way of borrowing from its organic lines, the natural ambience. The experiment was to sculpture random cubes into a real space that hosts a function. More of a community centre, the club hosted a library, a lounge, gaming room , conference hall and services building.

The illustrations below show how the combination of the masses concluded a skyline of different figures.