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Summary Experience About Design Projects Design Workshops
My name is Mohamed Amin, Senior Architect and founder of Design Tour initiative. Also, travel loving photographer and professional public speaker.
01 Summary
I started my quest in 2012 to discover diverse patterns of buildings and cultures. I have been to Aswan, North Sainai, Also I had a chance to deliver Design Thinking workshops and collaborate with local communities in Siwa and South Sainai. During my quest I discovered how different intangible cultures can inspire a tangible wall. Also, I experienced different centers of gravity in architecture business during the past decade; starting from site supervision, ending with moderating brainstorming sessions for large scale design projects. I was a guest speaker at TEDx Wadi El Rayan in Fayoum in March 2017, where I gave a presentation about Design Thinking. I am also former president of the Alexandria
Facilitating Design Thinking in “Eltarfa Workshop� Eltarfa, South Sainai
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Founder of Gedar Architects (2015 –
present) We experiment creative techniques and collaborate with our clients and local builders to take responsible design choices.
Founder of Design Tour (2016 – present) Design Tour is an Initiative that involves a series of workshops that help undergraduates as well as freshly graduated architecture/arts major students get a feel of the practical issues faced by designers. -
Experience
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Senior Architect at Bonian Construction (2013 – 2014)
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I used to facilitate the process of developing conceptual design, make primary sketches and at last deliver execution detailed drawings. Moreover I held the role of coordinating between the Design Studio and the other divisions in the company.
Education (2010) Bachelor of Science (B.S.)in architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University. (2016) Master of Science (M.Sc.) in architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University.
03 About
Languages Arabic (native) English ( IELTS score 6.5) German (Good Command) Organizations (2016) President of Alexandria Toastmasters Club, a club made for practicing public speaking and leadership skills Honors and Awards (2014) 3rd place in Alex DevFest contest by Google Developers Group (2015) 3rd place in Google Start-up Weekend contest by Google for Entrepreneurs (2017) Speaker, TEDx Wadi El Rayan Certifications (2015) “Competent Communicator Certificate� from Toastmasters International Hobbies Traveling, Writing.
Photography,
Directing,
Acting
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04 Design Projects
04 Design Projects
Elhawarya Guest House
The guest house project in King Marriout was a challenge for us to optimize the use of materials, minimize the costs and create new living spaces using the old structure. With these goals in mind, we focused on using the existing resources of the site, including the site's best asset (the view). The new building has more rooms, better lighting and ventilation, as well as, new outdoor living spaces that make it possible to enjoy the surrounding countryside.
04 Design Projects
RUTUNDU North Coast
Located in kilo 82; RUTUNDU is the first resort that captured the spontaneous and cheerful spirit of the African life style in the north coast.
04 Design Projects
RUTUNDU North Coast
Located in kilo 82; RUTUNDU is the first resort that captured the spontaneous and cheerful spirit of the African life style in the north coast.
04 Design Projects
Sales Booth RUTUNDU
Back to RUTUNDU again. This time we faced a different design challenge. We were asked to deliver a booth design that responds to the nature of such unique project. We choose the parametric way of thinking to reflect organic shapes with a high-tech style.
04 Design Projects
Sales Booth RUTUNDU
Back to RUTUNDU again. This time we faced a different design challenge. We were asked to deliver a booth design that responds to the nature of such unique project. We choose the parametric way of thinking to reflect organic shapes with a high-tech style.
04 Design Projects
PLACIDA
North Coast
In this project the client asked for our help a bit late, villas were already built in concrete structures and needed redesign. We accommodated the existing situation to formulate modern high end design.
04 Design Projects
Classical Reception
Based on valuable classical furniture pieces owned by the client, we delivered classical makeover proposal that merges to separate apartments into one. The challenge was to assure harmony between the two apartments through the reception design.
04 Design Projects
Designing and Fabricating TV set
This “Art Nouveu” TV set was designed to accommodate a classic reception area enviroment and modern –out of the box- aspirations of our client
05 Workshops
05 Workshops
Tabdeel
Tabdeel in Arabic can be translated to two verbs in English: 'Pedaling' and 'Change'. This page is a call for Safer, healthier and human centered cities. Design Tour had both planned and organized the kick starting workshop in cooperation with Tabdeel initiative and Alex Med.
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Goethes Garten
In cooperation with Goethe-Institute in Alexandria and Ecumene Studio, Design Tour delivered “Design and Build� workshop that links the subject of design with urban farming applications. The output of the workshop is an community garden on the rooftop of Goethe-Institute.
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Siwi
“Abdo� was a participatory workshop with the Siwi community. Its target was to train students and fresh graduates of architecture, urban planning and other design disciplines on handling real life situations and framing it in a design brief that can be tackled later on by design.
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