ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO OF
MISDAR ALNEEL
CURRICULUM VITAE
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MISDAR ALNEEL A Sudanese Architect, Holder of Master degree in science of Architectural Design from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Have a diversified working experience as an architect in several countries with a first built design at the first year of professional practice. Aiming to study and experiment with architecture and lift the architectural scenery by pursuing to define the Sudanese approaches in beauty, urbanism and human habitat. m.a.alneel@gmail.com Milan, Italy +(39) 3892596863 Muscat, Oman +(968)9880560
Education 2016-2018 2011-2014 2005-2007 Academic Achievements Feb-2013 Jun-2013 2017 Employment History 2019- 2020 2014– 2016 January- July,2016 June-September,2013 October 2012-May 2014
MSc. Architectural Design (110/110) Politecnico di Milano, Italy Degree in Architectural design (6 studios) with a CGPA of (3.76/4) University of Nizwa, Oman General Education Certificate 2007 with total grade of 92.7% Hail Alawamer high school- Seeb, Oman. Dean’s list of Honor GPA (3.68), CGPA (3.73/4) Dean’s list of Honor GPA (3.9) , CGPA (3.78/4) Academic Merit Scholarship, Average (29.4/30) Freelance Architectural designer Sudan Residential and commercial buildings design, site supervision. Architect - Landscape Consultants Muscat, Oman Design and detail buildings and landscape designs Architect - Green And More Dubai ,UAE Design and detail buildings and landscape designs Intern Architect-Huckle & partners Muscat, Oman Trained in design, site supervision, client management, drafting and graphical communication. Tutor – University of Nizwa Muscat, Oman Prepare and conduct classes and workshops for students
Workshops and Exhibitions January 2018 Reinterpreting cultural institutes
MACAO, Milano
May 2012
Muscat from the eye of a pedestrian
University of Nizwa, Oman
July 2010
Product design workshop
KAED, Malaysia
July 2009 Integrated Multi Disciplinary Project UIA, Malaysia Languages & Skills Administrative: Microsoft Office (Word/ Powerpoint/ Xcel/ Acess) Graphic: Adobe CC (Photoshop/ Indesign/ Illustrator) Drafting: Autocad 3D modeling: Sketchup BIM Revit Languages: Arabic (native)/ English (bilingual proficiency)/ Italian (Basic) References Jon Ware General Manager of Landscape Consultants Email: jon@landscapeconsultants.om Tel: (+968) 97414577 Domenico Giuseppe Professor at Politecnico di Milano Chizzoniti Email: domenico.chizzoniti@polimi.it Full Portfolio issuu.com/misdaralneel
SELECTED PROJECTS REFUGEE CAMP DEVELOPMENT, GAZA
HISTORIC CENTER REDEVELOPMENT, ALEPPO
MUSEUM, PRAGUE
PARK, MILAN
RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX, DUBAI
SCHOOL, CAIA
RESTAURANTS, SALALAH
VILLA EXTENSION, MUSCAT
Urban Acupuncture -REFUGEE
CAMP DEVELOPMENT Deir El-Balah Camp Gaza Strip, Palestine 2019 Academic
team: Misdar Alneel Marco Lunati
The camp is a densely populated area located between the shore line of Gaza and the town of Deir El-balah. The camp takes its name from its host town. Recently the town has taken over the spine road of the camp with commercial buildings, cutting the camp and creating a hostile center. This project is an act of resilience and reclaiming the right to recognition. Using the theory of urban-architectural acupuncture, this design aims to raise the quality of urban life in the camp by inducing thorough planning in chosen nodes and axes to influence the general order of the camp as an architectural entity. The project aims to set up strong base for the nature of architectural intervention needed in this pacific site, by presenting a building culture, materials, a plan attitude and the manner of combining these elements to create different types of spaces. The proposal is not only the designs submitted but also the potential of growth and the type of urban solutions in the future presented by the designs submitted.
The problems of focus seen from the master plan of the camp are; gentrification of the main road, lack of access in the narrow camp roads, lack of public community spaces, and environmental issues emphasized by flooding due to train and urban density.
The solution proposed was born from a study of local materials and construction technology. The basic unite of the design is made of thick masonry paralleled walls and light metal roofs, openings and shade devices. These materials reflect the identity of the camp as it is no longer a temporary shelter but a genuine urban habitat. The unite is composed and decomposed around the built masses of the camp to create open and closed spaces of different nature and scales. this unite also interacts with the terrain to create a solution adapted from vernacular typology of the cave houses, and also interact with the dense human main terrain to create open green terraces to elevate the outdoor ambiance. Three general intervention scales were based on this design, The basic unite made of one or few number of unite combination creating the service and functional areas, the pavilions that are compositions of unites catering to communal activities, and the building that is a complex order of unite combining a wider range of spatial atmospheres and relations. The squares are existing urban voids. A frame was introduced to these squares using the unite with special alignments to the dense built environment. The frame itself is a system to insure that the squares stay usable and welcoming. In the flood area the square forms the slopes to direct the water out and harvest it to insert greenery in the residential area. Unused structures in the surrounding are renovated using similar techniques to the units construction to be used as community spaces.
Pavilions are the most ephemeral design in this project. They are abstract structures around the main road. They represent the camp life through their construction materials and the space they provide for refugees within the main street connecting the two sides of the camp. On the other side the build up the street facade by filling the gaps of the horizontal lines of the commercial multi-story town buildings adjacent to them.
The community center is designed to be a women’s support center that helps to elevate the life quality in the refugee camp of Deir El-balah. This building is located at the junction of the clash between the camp, the city and the beach. The building works with the axis, completing the facade of the street and creating a common ground. A modular unit of 4.20m was adopted as a multiple of human scale that insure social and thermal comfort in public space. The camp was initially built on a fixed grid, hence was the approach to follow a specific module for the new building as well.
The plan is a linear grid that facilitates both the continuation of the facade and the inner public courtyard. The street-facing part of the building mass is responsive to the heights of commercial buildings that it is adjacent to. The other part is a fragmented scattering mass that reflects the organic growth of the camp slum-like architecture.
The composition of the deign continues across the street and down the cliff to the shore. Facing the sea is a mass of terraces and caved spaces into a rocky cliff. The excavation of these spaces is the provider for the stone used for the base of the main building. Mean while this mass is instilled into the topography and reaches out to the sea shore.
Fragmented masses with different interior ambiances.
Stone, being the most available local material,is used to construct the signature thick walls of the ground floor, while the upper floor is a light metal frame and metal sheets which are the vernacular materials of the camp.
Responding to the topography creating changes in level.
Inner multi-level public space.
Urban Architecture-HISTORIC
CENTER Aleppo,Syria 2018 Academic
team: Misdar Alneel Stefano Davolio Marco Lunati
The historically rich city of Aleppo had a big portion of its historical center demolished by the ongoing war. This design is a representation of a proposed methodology to redevelop the missing pieces, respecting the history and the needs of the returning population. Aleppo’s historic center was a complex merge of urban characteristics. That includes two main orientations of the city, the linearity of the souq system, the bulkiness of the in-closed courtyard (Khans), the verticality of the minarets and the beatific elevated citadel. The proposed urban architecture adheres to these characters as well as to the memory of the war and the contemporary life of the post-war Aleppians.
Functioning as the backbone of the old city is the souq. Hence it is to be restored and linked to the new architecture. With respect to the traceable ancient grid, the pieces of courtyards are placed as branches. Semi-destroyed enclosures are reintegrated with a tailored piece of mass to link and complement the geometrical representation of the Aleppian architecture. The memory of the destruction is preserved by a void framed rigidly, pushing the spaces into the ground and introducing a hidden underground city.
Spaces hierarchy, as in the historic building, is uttered in the articulation of the connection. While the mass of the different level of space is almost typical, the spaces of higher importance located around the constructed void are realized by the relation between the exterior and the ground and the ground and lower and higher levels.
A secondary orientation is used for the vertical masses of minarets and towers. It is an optical connection of a landmark.
Redefining Walls-MUSEUM Prague, Czech Republic 2017 Academic
team: Misdar Alneel Njood Alanbari Zhu Lin
Prague is a city of character, The historic skyline of Bohemia and the colorful articulated facades of tightly connected streets preform as guidelines to new architecture. The site of the museum is on the bank of Vltava river, adjacent to Saint Agnes convent. Museums are spaces that showcase architecture as much as they do the exhibits within them. The aim of the project is to exercise designing a modern space that contrasts the historic site but matches the strong heritage of the city. The building rebuilds the same sense of interaction with architecture that is reflected from the context. That is evident in the fragmented facade broken to smaller masses in the scale of the street, as well as in the radial circulation derived from a centralized plan.
A signature wall functions as the core of the plan, accommodating the vertical circulations to the whole building. This wall is parallel to the street. Its two parts lead to the main square that functions as open space and distributes the movement throughout the plan. The design breaches into the wall of saint Agnes convent and pivots to align to the historic structure and recreate the void between them.
Vertically stands the massive wall acting as a physical and a visual connection of the masses. The connecting masses seem detached from the wall as they are split by a light linear circulation to guarantee that the wall and the surrounding masses are read as separate entities which is indeed what they are.
The details are designed to create variety in the fragmentation of the facade but to keep the general primer mass intact and contribute to the identity of the interior spaces.
Patch-PARK Greco Pirelli Milano, Italy 2017
team: Misdar Alneel Ruggero Buffo Carolina Gonzalez
A piece of abandoned land is across the tracks form the culturally infused area of Bicocca. The area is physically more connected to a residential area. The main features of the site are the existing warehouses facing the train tracks, the characterless street passing through and the tunnel to cross to the train station on the other side. Landscape aspire to reflect the society it is serving. Thus this project is a patch of land that stitches together the context and function both as a community garden and as a gate to the culture representative architecture of Bicocca.
Looking at the urban scale it is suggested that this park continues to be a patch in its location in a circle of green spaces in the north of Milan. This puts pressure on the patch to have a strong enriching identity that stands out but complements this green circle. This identity is taken from the micro context. The playful topographical left creates a hill veiling the tracks and opening a new visual connection to the other side. The hill is pulled as a blanket over the existing buildings to include them i the public space while upgrading them to a more private and beguiling status.
Visual stitches cross the streets in the form of alternating material. The creation of curved passes in the street slows down the traffic and makes it part of the park. The square keeps its green open space feature as it functions as a paved piazza that is in many ways the gate the park.
Hidden details of different atmospheres are created with shades and level changes and then united by following the city grid overplayed on the entire design,
Collective Culture-RESIDENTIAL
COMPLEX Khor Dubai Dubai, UAE 2018 Competition
team: Misdar Alneel Mouna Ghedamsi
Dubai is building new neighborhoods for the growing population. The urban identity of such definitive projects must be studied delicately. In the competition of a cultural village complex adjacent to the public library and facing the water of Khor Dubai, it is important to emphasize the connection with the water front and the atmosphere of the community and open spaces. In the fusion of international society that makes Dubai, the levels of privacy and connectivity is a promenade aspect in the way the user interacts with the space. The design aims as well to sense the sites climate to insure comfort and reduce energy consumption. Between the fragmented high-rise buildings and the water, lays the low-rise structures with vibrant ground.
Linear buildings along the wind lines are shaded with a veil of thin mesh that shades and traps the breeze. Cantilevered balconies and bridges in several floors provide communal links in all levels,. In addition to the narrow ground floor that is reserved for commercial and cultural venues to keep the space interactive. The waterfront is made of open spaces to a wider public. They are accommodated by shades and water canals interfering with the planes of docks and squares.
Adjacent blocks function as one system. They confine in between inner courtyards that have the possibility of staying shaded all day long. ALL different residential unites are insured a visual link to the inner greenery as well as a view to the outside. The necessary thick thermal walls give character to the building’s bulk and accommodate the needed privacy.
Modular Experiment-PRIMARY SCHOOL Caia District , Mozambique 2016 Academic
team: Misdar Alneel Chiara Landini Marco lunati
Vast open spaces of land in Caia District in Mozambique are populated by scattered villages. This is the site of a needed primary school. The surrounding villages are composed by similar structures ranging in scale around a main square. Villages grow in this pattern creating new secondary squares and new congressional structures. Academic structures in their nature are module and collective, thus the vernacular urban scheme is used as a basic approach. There are three stages in which this design works. The base module that can be reused as a base for a new system, the master plan as a school structure, and the master plan as a base to a dynamic new system hosting the base module among other structures.
The umbrella-like roof with three slopes is used in combination to create spaces that are , dynamic, rhythmic or congressional. The master plan of the school is made of the different combinations of spaces’ , arranges around a common courtyard. The courtyard is sunken into the brick base of the whole structure. The base avoids harm from flooding and provide space for pipes, and water collection. Between the spaces there lays trapped spaces of ambiguity and flexibility.. TYPOLOGIES
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According to the tradition of the project area, the buildings are organized around a courtyard, place of meeting, sharing and other spontaneous or organized functions. The masterpaln is flexible to any kind of expansion. This can be achieved adding a further courtyard that helps the connection between all the parts.
AGGREGATION
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Blending In-RESTAURANTS Salalah, Oman Designed, 2014 Constructed, 2015
team:Misdar Alneel LC Oman Several traditional restaurants inside a public park were the first built design of the designer, within the first year of professional work. Salalah , a southern tropical city in Oman, is developing rapidly to cater for the its growing tourism. A regional park has been recently opened, hosting ten traditional restaurants. The experience of local food involves engagement in the cooking process . That has drawn out the open plan of the restaurant and the surrounding open congregational space.
The horizontal mass of the restaurants and the local stone facade blends in with the surrounding park from an eye level.
Intimate luxury-VILLA EXTENSION Muscat, Oman Designed, 2016 Under construction team:Misdar Alneel LC Oman
A collective design of building masses , shaded and green open spaces, and a pool. They have been designed looking outward from the existing villa. The spiral contentious circulation connects the spaces in an infinite journey. Stone and wood detailing is the reoccurring link that unifies the spaces.
Office Building Nizwa Academic
Fish Marker Muscat Academic
School Muscat Academic
Residential Landscape Dubai Built
Private Villa AL Hamra Academic
Farm House Sohar Under-construction
Coastal Park Muscat Under-construction
School Extension Muscat Built
Vernacular Typological and Urban Study Omdurman
Community Library Kuala Lumpur Academic
Farm House Muscat Under-construction
m.a.alneel@gmail.com Milan, Italy +(39) 3892596863 Muscat, Oman +(968)9880560
MISDAR ALNEEL