Mirna Wasef, School of Architecture
Portfolio
architecture+design selected works 2010 | 2013 * War Memorial, Ottawa | 2010
Fractus Architecture | Student centre
Decayed Cocoon Modelling | Materiality | Parametric Slit House Residential | Urban Urban CafĂŠ Mathematical | Modelling | Light study Drape Parametric | Representation
Building Networks Data visualization| Graphic
Simulacrum- Intension Model Making | Representation
Photography Perception | Representation
CONTENTS
Fr達ctus Studio Location Professor Collaboration
ARCH 405 Fall 2013 Concordia campus, Montreal Aaron Sprecher & Martin Bressani Jennifer Khairallah & Omar Almeddine
living, working and social condenser for Concordia University. Similar to a geological fault, the leaning monolith is fractured into two volumes emerging from the ground and juxtaposing private and public spaces while bringing together the diverse student community of Concordia. The program is clearly articulated into two main volumes, a highly regulated space and a transgressive space, the private residences being juxtaposed to a Piranesian network of interactive gathering matic elements meet and dynamic transitional circulation occurs in relation to the density and use of space. The project is composed of dramatic interior spaces where the fragmentation of the mass allows slits of light that stitches together disjoint spaces. *Exterior Rendering
Exterior Rendering
Atmospheric Image | Phase 1* *Exterior RenTancredi, Carlo. January 27: International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 2009. Kanuas 9th fort, Lithuania . Flicker.com. 1/09/13 dering
Physical Model | Phase 1
Axonometric Drawing - Phase 1
Axonometric Rendering| Phase 1
3D Printed Model| Phase 2
Diagram
Site Analysis Diagram
Concordia Campus
Block scale Analysis High-rise Tower Mid-rise Tower Low-rise Tower Parking Lots
Norman Bethune Square
Sidewalk Circulation ter twa nA ctio e ir D
Transportation Systems
Concept Diagram
DENSITY OF SPACES
Automobile Circulation Bike Paths Metro System Bus System
Fragmented Slabs
Split Slabs
Floor Slabs
Atrium Space
Initial Structure
Break down into Regular Slabs
Fault of Main Volumes
Fragmented Collision Occurs
Fractured Urban Landscape
Site Massing and Sun Path Diagram
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O oke bro her S e Ru
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Structural Diagram
Circulation Diagram
Elevator Shaft Access to top space
Main Circulation Elevator Core Structural Core Fire Exit
Boule vard d e
Maiso nneuv eO
Split- Slab Circulation Network of Stairs
Elevator Core - Main Circulation
Structural Core - Services
Floor Slabs - Programmatic Space
Structural Shell - Concrete Blocks
Facade Glazing - Light Slits
Comprehensive Assembly
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Blue Line Station Guy- Concordia Automobile Circulation Rue St -C at
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Fractured Landscape Rendering
Programmatic Distribution
Programmatic Circulation
Program Order Mezzanine 32
Terrace
+95.2m
31
+93.1m
Exhibition Space
30
+90.2m
Split Slab/ Program Relationship
Lounge
28
Terrace
27
Exhibition space
+82.6m
User Density Main Circulation Elevator Core
+78.4m
26
Green space
+74.5m
25 24
+71.1m
Fragmented Space
29
+87.8m
Mezzanine
+68.8m
Performance Space
23
+64.4m
Exhibition Space
22
+61.6m
Library
Residence
21
Library
+58.8m
20
+56.0m
19
Library
+53.2m
18
+50.4m
Exhibition Space
15
+42.0m
14
+39.2m
13
+36.4m
12
+33.6m
Lounge
11
+30.8m
10
+28.0m
09
+25.2m
08
+22.4m
07
+19.6m
06
+16.8m
05
+14.0m
04
+11.2m
03
+8.40m
02
+5.60m
Cafeteria
Split Slab
Residence Exhibition space
Split Slab
Residence Lounge
Split Slab
Residence Multi-purpose Room
Floor Slab
Residence Multi-purpose Room Residence Restaurant
Floor Slab Floor Slab
Residence Office Residence
Atrium
Administration Residence Service point
Entrance Green Space
B0 -5.00m
B1 -10.0m
B2 -15.0m
Metro Access
Fractured Landscape Underground Network
01
+2.80m
Service Area Programmed Space
16
+44.8m
Transgressive Space Interactive Platforms
+47.6m
Programmed Space Service Area
Split Slab
Residence
17
Transgressive Space Gathering Space
Split Slab
Residence
Perspectival Section
Fractured Landscape Program
Pathways Vegetation
Ground Level Ramp Access Bike Path Urban Gathering Space
Street Level
Entry Pathway
Fractured Landscape Rendering
5m
15m 10m
Split Slab Rendering
Serivce Split- Slab Plan
5m
15m 10m
Performance Space Plan
Performance Space Rendering
5m
15m 10m
Residence - Split Slab Plan
Exterior Rendering
Decayed Cocoon Studio Professor Collaboration
ARCH512-Arcitectural Modeling Michael Jemtrud Nehad Kamel & Wing Shu & Ariella Myers Colet
*to be exhibited at ‘Failing Fast’ exhibition McGill University
Split Slab Rendering
This modelling project is divided into two phases wherein modelling and experimentation creates architecture from model focuses on the ragged concrete, the structural 3D printed bone structure and deteriorated skin that delicately wraps around the layers and captures the process of decaying. The second phase of the project involves the translation of the initially created object into an architectural proposition- a tower. The process of failing fast was the method we approached this projct in order to access the disinhibiting power of technique, encouraging us to produce several material experiments capable of narrating the story of a decaying cocoon.
Model Phase |1
Model Phase |1
Material Experiments
In Memory of a Previous Existence overwhelmed. The sheltered cocoon is left behind to rapidly disappear into the darkness of death and a remembrance of the beautiful creature it protected. We experience death everyday, with every hour that passes. Moments die and new ones are created. We grow up, we move, we travel and little pieces and memories are captured through the spaces we go along in this busy journey, creating endless bittersweet moments. "In the midst of life we are in death" - Notker the Stammerer
Model Phase | 2
Material Model | Phase 2
Representational Plans
Representational Section
Deteriorated Core
Damaged Staircase
Defected Slab
Decayed Skin
Spatial Deterioration Diagram
Sequential Decaying Plans
Slit House Studio Location Professor
ARCH 305 Fall 2012 84 Rue Saint Paul Est MontrĂŠal, QC H2Y 3R1 Francisca Insulza
This project located in Montreal's old Port is rich with historical association, thus I initiated the project with a study of the urban context to open doors to interesting architectural features. The house features a series of orthogonal vertical and horizontal planes that accentuates spaces and frames varying views of the site. A slit runs along one side of the house that exposes the beautiful stone pattern of the neighbouring wall. elevated is experienced. At this instance there is a deliberate framing of views, turning the windows located on either side of the house into an ever changing picture.
Model
Urban Context
Interior Rendering
Perforated Facade
Invert
Change image resoultion to 300 pixl/inch
Contrast
Set contrast to +90 Set brightness to +50
Blur
Blur with gaussian blur, radious 5.1 pixels
Raster Phase1: 45ยบ Phase2: 45ยบ
Phase3: 45ยบ Phase4: 45ยบ
The exquisite stone pattern located on the shared wall and withered with time, is treated and left exposed within the house. The analysis started with an image of the stone wall that was digitally manipulated to abstract the image into a pattern, and then mapped onto the steel panels as perforations. This s of the stone wall. What unfolds is the process of translation from a 2D image onto a building surface that captures the story of the site.
Form Development
Formal Composition
SITE
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EXTRUD
PUSH
ION
IRCULAT
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Main Entrance
Ground Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan
Interior Circulation
Conceptual Axonometric
Interior Slit Rendering
Urban CafĂŠ Studio Location Professor
ARCH 202 Winter 2012 1691 Avenue du Mont-/royal Est Robert Mellin
modules are narrowly spaced, a more intimate atmosphere is created for the customers to relax and lounge. The construction process of the roof involves a simple mathematical sequence where two layers of translucent panels are oriented at opposite 30-degree angle. Due to the refraction of light as it travels through the interior, interesting patterns of shade and shadow are created within the space that makes the panels seem to be weaving together.vv
Interior Model
The roof pattern becomes the device that guides the architecture of the space, creating varrying atmospheres within the same space. Where the modules are further spaced out, a friendly atmosphere is created, while when the modules are narrowly spaced, a more intimate atmosphere is created for the customers to relax and lounge.
Light and Shadow Study Model
Roof Structure
Interior Space
Iterations of Aperture
Drape Studio Location Professor Collaboration
ARCH 341 Winter 2012 1380 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, MontrĂŠal, QC H3G 1J5 Aaron Sprecher Seong-Dae Kim
This project is based on the facade of the Muse des Beaux Art, Montreal, which is highlighted by an angled curtain wall that roofs a spacious atrium. The initial design strategy focused on the experience of the users inside the space and how the curtain wall could be manipulated to create an optimized light condition. The passive structure creates comfortable light condition as the rays of light seep through the structure, minimizing direct sunlight. The structure curves away from the position of the sun while the microcosmic detail implements a weaving like panel system that creates gaps. These gaps depend on the degree of curvature and ultimately create an optimum interior condition within the atrium space.
3D Printed Iteration
Shape Analysis
Side View
3D Printed Iteration
3D Printed Iteration
Bogazici University
Building Networks Work Professor Collaboration
*This Project was presented at McGill Sure presentation
Ipek Tureli Hadi Madwar
North American institutions of higher education continue to grow in terms of foreign presence — from study abroad programs to satellite campuses. What is missing from the present-day picture is a historical perspective that can missionary schools in the former Ottoman Empire and to critically assess their importance and relevance, as agents of cross-cultural contact in the Middle East. This visualization maps the overall human and non-human agents involved in the design and construction of the two representative college campuses: American University of Beirut and Robert College in Turkey, within the framework of sociological actor-network theory, taking precedence from Dr. Alberta Yaneva's “Mapping Controver sies in Architecture�
*Istanbul Map Istanbul City Guide
Actor-Network Theory Diagram 1932 1931
Van Millingen Library
Van Dyck Hall
Caleb Frank Gates
Charles R. Crane Lynn Scipio
George Washburn William Sloane
John Sloane
Charles Anderson
1914 John R. Allen
Imperial decree
Mrs. William E.Dodge
1869
Mrs. Van Millingen
Henrietta Washburn Hall
Elbert B. Monroe
Dr. Franklin T. Moore
1914 West Hall
Anderson Hall Rockefeller Foundation
Gates Hall Eveline A. Scott
Dr. Charles A. Webster
Ada Dodge Henry Lee
Board of Trustees
Exhibited at McGill’s Sure presentation
Albert Long
Balkan War Dodge Gymnasium
Mr.Cleveland H. Dodge
1908
David S. Dodge Board of Trustees 1863
Harry Dorman
Washburn Hall
The Near East Foundation
1904
Mrs.Davies Theodorus Hall
Board of Regents of the State of New York
The Near East Foundation
1902 Pasa
Frederick Marquand Fisk Hall
Daniel Bliss Hall
Alexander Van Millingen
John Steward Kennedy
Post Hall
Robert Haldane West
Pliny Fisk
Beirut, Lebanon 2009
Board of Regents of the State of New York
Morris K. Jesup ABCFM John Wortabet
Henrietta Loraine Washburn William E. Dodge
Studio Location Professor Collaboration
George E. Post
1894
Olivia Eggleston Phelps Stokes
Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin
Albert Long Hall
Caroline Phelps Stokes
Lee Observatory
1892
1891
Kennedy Lodge
Chapel
William E. Dodge
George B. Post
Beirut, Lebanon circa 1910
Christopher Robert
Cyrus Hamlin
Daniel Bliss
1883 Jesup Hall
1881 Van Millingen House
1879 Marquand House
Eponym/ Others
Dr. Cornelius Van Dyck
Trustees Patrons/ Donors
1874
Architects
College Hall Clock Tower College Hall
1871
Buildings Hamlin Hall Rumelihisari 1453
1873 Ada Dodge Hall
Medical Hall
Amherst, Massachusetts circa 1840
Simulacrum- Intension Histroy Professor Collaboration
ARCH 205 Winter 2012 Adrian Shepherd Dave Cameron
This Simulacrum was based on the Crystal Palace which at the time of its creation was a monumental achievement in architectural and structural advancement. The entire experience of the building was a cohesion between the many modular elements of the structure and the people within it to create a ‘healthy, breathing organism’, or the perfect machine. Thus, by using relatively modular elements with a unorthodox tension system, we were able to create an extremely light, open system that reaches out from a tiny base to span a large area. The entire system is built of only 8 elements and despite its apparent complexity; it can be built in a matter of hours; thus remaining true to the zeitgeist of the like the cohesive parts of the machine that is the crystal palace.
Simulacrum- InTension
Photography Photography is not only a way of seeing the world but its a way of retrieving memories, holding time still and touching emotions.
*War Memorial, Ottawa | 2010
*Vieux Port, Montreal | 2012
*War Memorial, Ottawa | 2010
*Vieux Port, Montreal | 2012
Contact Info:
MIRNA WASEF mirna.wasef@gmail.com Montreal, 5147755546