This portfolio contains the design work of Mohammed Khesroh.
To My Father, A dedication of knowledge and inspiration.
Contained Works Comprehensive Projects 01 The Healing Ground 02 [T-77] Terminal-77
Research Project 03 Terra-Forma 04 RED / BLUE
Exploratory Projects 05 Terra-Firma 06 House of Nomadism
Misc. 07 Extras 08 Resume’
The Healing Ground A Group Project. partners: Ashley Seefled & Ebulimiti Aikebai. Development: Eight Weeks
The proposal calls to assess an existing infrastructure that was at a point disserving to the needs of the medical and patient society on local grounds. The added landmark was to be the beacon that represented the moving of times towards a fast and more economical healthcare care society. The studio was also to analyze and research Health Care reform after the Obama Care Act went into effect and the emergence of 23-hour surgical centers.
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The first main main goal was to provide an environment of healing for bor the patients and the doctors. The second was for the center was to comply with the Sentara standards of quality, beauty and function,
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Diagrams. Developed and photoshopped by Mohammed
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The project had to comply with the emergeant, 23 hour surgery regulation issued by Obama Care and instated by the State of Virginia. The new added center had to also provide the oppurtunity for future expansion.
Proposed site
Site Plane, Developed and Photoshopped by Ebulimiti
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Extrusion
Seperate
entry
Entry
language
Language
Block
Define O.R.
remove extra volume
Remove Extra Volume
Reconnect
healing garden
Helaing Garden
connect to old
Connect to Aid
Diagrams. Developed and photoshopped by Mohammed
North Elevation
East Elevation
Elevations Developed by Mohammed & Ebulimiti. Photoshopped by Mohammed.
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DN
UP
OPEN TO BELOW
SCALE | FEET 0
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Ground Floor
Public Waiting
Pre/Post Operation
Anesthesiea Office
OR Suite
PACU
Second Floor
Staff Lockers
Administration
Central Supply
Mechanical
Vertical Circulation
Perspective rendering developed by Mohammed, Ebulimiti and Ashley. Rendered by Ebulimiti. Photoshopped by Mohammed.
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COMPLETED FEILD MEMBRANE. FLINTLASTIC MODIFIED BITUMEN CAP SHEET, 8” - 12” VERTICAL SURFACE. BATT INSULATION. TYVEK® SD2 - AIR LEAKAGE BARRIER / VAPOUR CONTROL LAYER. BEAM AND GIRDER SYSTEM.
SPRINKLER SYSTEM.
WOOD CLADDING SYSTEM.
CLADDING TIE SYSTEM.
W 14 STEEL COLUMN.
3/4 “ WOOD FLOORING. LOWER WINDOW SILL. I-BEAM CONNECTION TO VERTICAL MULLIONS. HORIZONTAL SHEAR HOLDING.
DROP DOWN CEILING. SOLAR SHADING VERTICAL ALUMINUM PANELS.
60MM HORIZONTAL MULLION.
DAYLIGHT ENTRY, DOUBLE PLANE AIR INSULATED GLASS STRUCTURAL GLASS.
METAL DECKING AND CONCRETE FILL SLAB. GIRDER CASING. 24” RECTANGLE DUCT SYSTEM. BATT INSULATION. WOOD CLADDING SYSTEM.
DRAINAGE HOLE.
RETAINING WALL.
The otherwise rigid structure of the proposed building is softened by the elaborate manifestation of the Parametric .ecapS llehS Aluminum Panels that were made to provide specific shading within the different seasons of the year. Wood paneling is also used over the glass faรงade to bring a warm element to the face of the property and assist with maintaining privacy within the facility. This strategy serves as a provider of privacy from the outside world while providing an easing sense of transparency and connection from within the structure.
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Section Detailing and perspective Developed by Myself.
Section Perspective Developed and photoshopped by Mohammed.
[T-77] Terminal-77 A Group Project. partners: Kevin Stromert, Yan Chen, Nick Dean Cross Development: Ten Weeks
Located near a crowded Highway 77, south of Dallas, Texas, we were challenged to design a fueling station that would serve as a part of the larger whole within the culture of velocity and cars. Through research of vehicular culture we deduce a set of drivers that serve as the project parameters. Which allowed us to make a fueling station that serves the nation of truckers that carry the domestic supply of goods around the nation keeping businesses alive, while challenging the programmatic organization of the architecture allowing the birth of a new two levelled fuel station.
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Diagrams Designed by Mohammed
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Site plan Model Built by Mohammed and Kevin Background design: Mohammed Photoshopped by Yan chen
Ground Floor Plan Model Built by Mohammed and Kevin Background design: Mohammed Photoshopped by Yan chen
Underground Floor Plan Model Built by Mohammed and Kevin Background design: Mohammed Photoshopped by Yan chen
NW Bird’s Eye ViewPerspective Render Developed and photoshopped by Mohammed.
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Entry Render Developed by Mohammed. Photoshopped by Yan.
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Sunset Highway Perspective Render Developed and Photoshopped by Mohammed.
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Night Time Ground Level Developed by Mohammed. Photoshopped by Yan.
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Day Time Ground Level Developed by Mohammed. and Kevin Photoshopped by Yan.
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Night Time UnderGround Level Developed and Photoshopped by Mohammed.
East Section
South Section Developed and Photshopped by Kevin
14.5’ x 7’ long span box truss with 8” members and occupiable center 5’ deep steel truss bolted connection to box truss -shape steel bracket for bolt and weld connection between steel structure and precast concrete panel 4” precast hollow core concrete slab panel with #3 re-bar
6” deep top and #5 re-bar 18” o.c. 2” structural glass 1” rubber gasket 18” deep steel truss with bolt connection 6’ deep poured concrete girder
3’ wide poured concrete column unit with #7 bar 1’ o.c. 8” poured concrete floor slab with #5 bar 18” o.c. 1” expanstion joint between floor and column 8” crushed gravel subgrade 18” poured concrete pile cap with #7 reinforcing bar 12”x12” precast concrete pile with #3 bar
Section Detail Developed By Nick Section Perspective “ below” Developed and Photoshopped by Mohammed.
Terra-Forma An Individual Project - Development: Three Weeks
In this Project, we were asked to imagine a remote desert research station that sits in the Arid climatic Condition of the Desert, Through personal research and focus, I decided to place the project in the North Western desert of my country Kuwait. Eighty percent of natural wildlife was eradicated due to over glazing, unsupervised human activity and the 1990 gulf war that yielded the burning of 737 oil wells, polluting air, land and water. The aim of the project was to design an architecture that had the ability to terraform landscape in order to restore and revitalize a lost eco-system in the desert while lessening dust storms and allowing researchers to occupy the architecture before its consumption by the desert as part of its healing process.
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PROGRAM WIND SCULPTING S O LAR RESP. W A T E R S Y S. NUMBER ONE W A T E R S Y S. NUMBER T WO
WIND HARVEST
W I N D T U N N E L ANALYS I S .
DESERT SNAIL
SAGUARO CACTUS
WAT E R R E S E R V O I R
PERSIAN WIND CAT C H E R
Wind Sculpting
Body Shape Reflector
Cell Water Retention System
W a t e r R e s e r v o i r C o l l e c t i o n S y e t em
Wind Reception Barrier
Seal: during hotter climate The cells are made of material that are able to expand when the weather is warm, which will be able to seal water that was collected during rainfall. and allows the sand dunes to form while the water is sealed for later use.
Release: during cooler climate During cooler season when the dunes have formed, the cells then open to release the water into the sand and onto the seed blanket allowing plants to start to grow on and within the dune, to prevent the sand from participating in a sand storm.
Secondary Water Collection system The secondary water collection system that runs in between all the cells would, over a long period, continuously absorb and store water much like the saguaro cactus in a reservoir underground to keep water from evaporating due to high heat on the desert surface.
Plant Seed Blanket For Revitalization The mesh- like blanket, would serve as the main element in which plants grow from. It aims to reduce the needed time for seeds to planted or to be transported naturally through air.The blanket carries native endanged plant seed, such as, Arfaj. The hope is that this method of growing protected plants on buildings would be the precursor to revitaliztion of a fragile and damaged ecosystem.
Water Collecting
Wind Harvesting
Solar Shading
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Winter Installation
Rain Collection
Skin Water Retention
Dust Storm Season
Sand Dune Formation & Warer Release in Winter
Desert Terraforming & Revitalization
RED/BLUE A Group Project. partner: Brandon Persson - Development: Eight Weeks Exploration and research of spatial delineation and visual sensory over stimulation to generate body awareness in space. We engaged the space by exorcising its structural and spatial organization to achieve a proper ratio of spatial division. Once we delineated our spatial parameters, we were able to test different lighting conditions in order to achieve visual sensory over stimulation using the anaglyph model used in older three dimensional projection practices. By providing a set of anaglyph glasses, we allowed the visitors to experiment and experience the space through either lens as they both deliver two very different spatial experiences. The installation held on Design on Main Street, Ames, Iowa, served as part of Iowa State University’s College of Design of Independent Research Exploration.
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Process Photos
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Openning Night, December17th, 2014.
Terra-Firma A Group Project. partner: Jon Basset, Development: Four Weeks
Through the merging of the soul and the landscape, the research of atmospheric interpretation came to manifest in the study of making. “The work will teach you� was the motto of the studio, which inherently led to the creation of over 80 drawings both 2d and 3d over the course of 5 weeks. The drawings explored possibilities of allowing the land to dictate and shape atmospheric architectural delineation and the process of arriving at the final solution to design in its complete abstracted technicality.
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The example on the right, is an abstract technial drawing of the landscape as a threshhold of elaborate melodies in which experiences are created.Through the exrcises such as these, four main concepts come to be:
1. Integeration
2. projection
Diagrams Developed and Photoshopped by Mohammed.
3. connection
4. Healing
Plaster Cast Developed by Jon Basset Carved and Tinted by Mohammed. Hybrid Topographical Exploration “page after� Developed by: Mohammed
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6’x 12’ Architectural Delineation Hand Drawing Developed by: Mohammed
The House of Nomadism An Individual Project - Development: Two Weeks The reincarnation of the prospectors of old yielded changes that made the world mend its order. The environment to change, hotter and colder, lives to adapt, leaner and stronger, all in the pursuit of the gold that is not solid and the gold that is not yellow. Profit is the denominator to decide the value is valid. Harvest the ground they did, into the realm unseen by human eyes, deep down in the flesh of the world we occupy. Deeper and deeper they have dug; in search of the one, they call Black Gold, and oh my, have they found the nectar of prosperity. Seemingly endless, and bound only by the infinitesimal. I have adapted to accommodate the needs of the nomads of extremity in many places around. North to South, East to West, I have travelled, through the seasons of hot and cold, dry and wet. Now my skeletal structure morphs into a three larger beings in the ritual of my growth to allow inhabitation of those who share my destiny. A destiny in which the principles of the nomads are sacred. Temporality is our essence, in that and with time, retracts my skeleton and with that, I hibernate for the sake of travel. Never settled, I serve the needs of that of far; to dig in a land only inhabited by nature and it is off springs. On my arrival, my feet stretch my slumbering body, and touch the ground ever so lightly, allowing me to respectfully be among the land. My skin then, grows it’s regulate skin like scales reacting to the environment around me. In sorts, I am an alien with a purpose and agenda. Now my inhabitant stands proudly on the lip of my existence, awaiting the prospect of hope and prosperity.
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Upacking Phase 01
Upacking Phase 02
Dynamic Environmental Shell
Structural System
Upacking Phase 03
Interior & Floating Foundation
Photovoltaic panels Heat Sink Panel slider
Drainage for water Collection Bolt Connection Vapor and Moisture Barrier
Bat Insulation
Structural Tie Flexible Crux Deussata Bracing
3.175mm Wood Panelling Tubular aluminum Bar
Steel Structural Membrane
Wall Connector\ Joiner Gypson Board
Wall Connector\ Joiner
Flexible Crux Deussata Bracing
Floor Construction: 25mm Pine Planks, Rubber Bearing Polythene Member, Geotextile: Thermal Isulation.
1’ Flooring Water Collection Down Pipe Floating Foundation Re-inforcement bars
Glazing system 0.7 mm white polyester fabric membrane Double glazing system
Extras
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[T-77] Terminal-77
Terra-Forma
lab
hosis living
sleeping
Courtyard
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Wind catchers Evaporative Cooling
Diffused Solar Day light
south
= Water Harnessing and reservoir
The Grounded Being A Group Project. partner: Brandon Persson - Development: Four Weeks
The Healing Ground
Resume’
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Contact Information Mohammed Ali Khesroh Mohammedali0516@gmail.com +1 (515) 441-2848 111 Lynn Avenue, Apt 507, Ames, IA, 50014
Languages Arabic (Native) English (Proficient)
Interests Solving Design Problems Process of Conceptiolization Sketching/Painting/Drafting Architectural Photography Diagraming Concepts Design Cherattes Learnging Design Strategies
Education - Bachelors of Architecture. Iowa State University. Ames, Iowa. ` 2010-2014. - Summer Participant. Khaldiya, State of Kuwait. 2011. - Summer Participant. Beuth Hochschule Berlin, Germany 2013. - Summer Participant. Universita’ Degli Studi Di Firenze Facolta Di Architettura. Florence, Italy. 2013.
Knowledge - Rhino 5.0 - Adobe Creative Suite - Sketch up - Shader Light Rendering - Autodesk Revit 2014 - Autodesk Vasari Beta 3 - Microsoft Office - Hand Drafting - Traditional Illustration
Merits and Experiences Multiple Art Gallery, annuals and competition entries (2011-present) Artwork featured in: - Danish Drawing Competition, 2013 - Curated Iowa State University Exhibit, Art Inspired gallery, 2012. - Curated Iowa State University Exhibit, Studies In Creativity, 2013. - Part of the Black Tie event’s art exhibitors, 2014. - Curated Historical District of Ames Art walk event, Snapshot, Octagon Photography Gallery, Ames, Iowa, 2014. - Participated in 18th Annual Art & Artists Celebration at Franconia Sculpture Park, 2014.
Embassy of Kuwait Sponsorship Awarded (Spring of 2010 - Fall 2014) Peer Mentor for Introduction to Drawing, (Spring 2011) Community Outreach Design/Build - Ghost Lands Studio, (Summer 2012) Berlin Energy Modelling Study Abroad Applicant (Summer 2013) Publication Datum #5: A birnacular (August 2014)
CSI: Construction, Specification Institute & Iowa State University: Depart of Architecture Annual Competition, 1st Prize Winner. (Dec. 2014)
Health Care Design Studio, Sponsored by HDR, Inc. (Spring 2014)
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Islamic Architecture Single Session Lecturer. (Spring 2013)
References:
Byzantine Architecture Research. (Spring 2014)
Peter Goche
Senior Lecturer Department of Architecture goche@iastate.edu
Biomimetics Research Studio & D3 Natural Systems 2014 Design Competition, Participant (Summer 2014) OPENGAP, A House For... 2014 Design Competition, Participant. (Fall 2014)
Jelena Bogdanovich
Assistant Professor Department of Archtitecture Jelenab@iastate.edu
Representative of Iowa State University in Healthcare Facilities Symposium Design Charrette. (Fall 2014)
Samantha Krukowski
RED/BLUE Gallery Installation. (Fall 2014)
Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of Architecture shk@iastate.edu
Part of Dean’s List 2010-2014 (Year of Graduation)
Jihyun Song
Assistant Profressor Department of Interior Design jsong@iastate.edu
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