Work Samples
By Mohammed Ali
Khesroh
C.V. Contact Information Mohammed Ali Khesroh mk3819@columbia.edu +1-(515) 441-2848 Emgergency: +965 99300097 181 Claremont Avenue, Apt 42a, New York, Ny, 10027
Knowledge - Rhino 5.0 | Grasshopper for rhino - Sketch up | Shader Light Rendering - Autodesk Revit 2016 | Vasari Beta 3 - Autodesk 3ds Max rendering through V-ray
Merits and Experiences Peer Mentor for Introduction to Drawing, 2011 Community Outreach Design/Build - Ghost Lands Studio, 2012 Writer for Architectural Journal DATUM, January 2014-October 2015 Health Care Design Studio, 24 Hour Surgical Center, Sponsored by HDR, Inc. (2014) Islamic Architecture Single Session Lecturer and Byzantine Architecture Research Paper, spring 2013 & spring 2014. Part of Dean’s List 2010-2014 (Year of Graduation)
- Adobe Creative Suite | Microsoft Office - Hand Drafting | VREP
References: Joseph A. Brennan
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation GSAPP Jjab2315@columbia.edu
James Spiller
Lecturer Department of Architecture Jspiller@iastate.edu
Jelena Bogdanovich
Assistant Professor Department of Archtitecture Jelenab@iastate.edu
Samantha Krukowski
Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of Architecture shk@iastate.edu
Education `
- Bachelors of Architecture. 2009-2015. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. - Summer Participant. 2013. Beuth Hochschule, Berlin, Germany - Summer Participant. 2013. Universita’ Degli Studi Di Firenze Facolta Di Architettura. Florence, Italy. - Summer Participant. 2011. kuwait University, Khaldiya, State of Kuwait. - Current: Masters of Advanced Architectural Design 2015-2016, Columbia University. New York, New York.
Biomimetics Research Studio & D3 Natural Systems 2014 Design Competition, Participant OPENGAP, A House For... 2014 Design Competition, Participant Representative of Iowa State University in Healthcare Facilities Symposium Design Charrette, 2014 RED/BLUE Gallery Installation, 2014 Multiple Art Gallery, annuals and competition entries 2011-present CSI: Construction, Specification Institute & Iowa State University: Depart of Architecture Annual Competition, Dec. 2014, 1st Prize Winner. IDEC 2015: Interior Design Education Video Competition, Mar. 2015, 1st Prize Winner. Free Lance Designer Jan. 2015- Current. Currently doing client work in Architectural Design & Illustration and Graphic Design. Residential Home Architect In Charge, January 2015 - Current ( Project Under Construction). Output Shop, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, June 2015 Dec. 2015. Graphic Designer in Charge for Grand Beauty, A cosmetics Distribution Company in Kuwait. December 2014 - Current.
In the name of Knowledge and The Grand Search of Answers. & To My Parents
Contained W o r k s E d u ca tio n a l W o rks 01 Health Care Addition 02 Terminal-77 03 Terra-Forma 04 Hybrid-Residential 05 Parametric Flow 06 Dream State
Pro fe s s io n a l W o r k s 07 Residential 08 Final Frontier
INTRODUCTION A Ret rospe c t i v e
The premise of portfolio is to establish a ground in which my recent journey from a small in the middle-east led me all the way to the land of opportunity in a small town in Ames, Iowa. During my years at the undergraduate level, I have experienced a glaring sensation to question the very notion of the basis of the design method and its inquiries into the creation and manifestation of Architecture. What does it mean to build? To hold and control space? In what relationship can we develop, nurture and provide for the human experience and the human spirit? Through questioning, I attained the grand opportunity to experience design in a multitude of setting and through many contenints, cities and schools, From New York City to Florence to Berlin and Kuwait.
By pure method of exploration, I have come to understand that are certain periods that have defined our approaches to architecture, its style and its kind. Though location is slowly losing its edge in the wake of Global Architectural design, architecture remains still in area where its kind is undefined nor is it clear. We exist in a transitionary state in which architecture is trying to find it self, through algorithims, parametrics, exploration of technology and software that is finally available as design tools to us. This collection of works is an exploration of the current kind of architecture and a questioning to what is coming next.
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HEALTH CARE ADDITION
A s p onsored studio by H D R , Inc. T e a m : Ashley S eefled & Ebulimiti Aikebai. D e v e lopment: Eight W eeks
For several years the engineering and Architecture firm, HDR, Inc. through Omaha, Nebraska office, sponsored several multi-disciplinary studio under the leader ship of Cameron Campbell and Jihyun Song. The studio imposed was to study the act of adding a new structured addition to the old existing campus why adhering to a newly proposed medical care act imposed by the Obama Healthcare act of 2014. The call for proposal asks 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.
Through many iterations, the landscape was manipulated and refilled in order to create a sunken garden condition that existed as a hidden zen garden for patients, doctors and visitors alike.. While that opportunity provided external approaches, it gave a grander hint on how we should approach the interior spaces. as we experimented, we reached a grand where the hightech parametric designed louvers were constrasted by warm low tech panelization and flooring in order bring a sense of calm and serenity to the space, making it a place of healing rather than a hospital.
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Waiting Area.
Cafe and Waiting Space.
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The entry zones leading to the hospital had several issues with parking, far away ambulances entry, no clear sign of entry towards the medical campus and such. Thus, we did some landscape design to allow proper visibility of the medical campus entry zone. The parking depicted in the image above is to show that instead of providing parking for the entire campus, we concentrated on providing parking for those who are in need for it the most. The approach was to blur the line between the hardscape and the softscape to allow for a more relaxing arrival and serene departure.
The spaces organized inside play to the benifit of circulation and privace above all. Hospitals of old, has this problem with congested corridors, lack of proper office and lounge spaces and improper patient distribution. Therefor, we provided a linear line of circulation for the patient and looping one for the doctors. The linear line means that the patients arrive from a point of entry, go through the process of healing and would depart through a different point away from the eyes of visitors or patients waiting their turn.
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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.
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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.
OPEN TO BELOW
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[T-77] TERMINAL - 77
C o m p e rhensive S tudio T e a m : K evin S tromert, Yan Chen, N ick D ean C ro s s D e v e lopment: T en W eeks
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.
Through research and multiple allowances of reading through travels journals, the understand of how speed is percieved by the human eye became an area of interest. The building was thus manipulated, stretched and deformed, much like a piece of clay in order to challenge the decorated shed uproach and arrive at a design that is low profile yet announces it self by sheer scale and elongation at to travel with the future occupant on the highway prior to their arrival.
The diagrams show, delibrate manipulation of the existing lot so that it manifests into a intentionally extration path driven approach dictated by two major worst case scenarios, one for a pedestrian vehicle and another for a commercial Semi-truck. The two cases allow us to understand how carve the site as to adhere to a vehicles turn radius and how should the architecture respond to that carving. Per say design from the machines prior to the humans.
With the fast pace/slow pace approach of the project, The spaces created for the projects give a sensation change in space by decree of rotation, location, and relative velocity of occupant goung through the space. By having two main types of vehicle we played with the notion of creating a multi-level fuel station. The first level goes to the regular pedestrian driven vehicles, while the lower haven is provided to the truckers. The underground area contains, areas to fix, wash and refuel the vehicle, with showers, gardens and a meditation zone.
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Underground Floor Plan
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
East Section
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TERRA FORMA R e s e a rch S tudio I n d i v i d ual W ork D e v e lopment: Eight W eeks
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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SAGUARO CACTUS
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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
The Creation of the new shell, will serve as the threshold in which one crosses between the harsh environement to one the offers protection, serenity and calmness, it will also provide nature with the opportunity to terraform and revitalize. Having an extreme solution to a problem that built up in 50 years and then suddenly accelarated by the effect of war, needs to be a counter force of equal measure, one where it forces terrformation.
Water Collecting
Wind Harvesting
Solar Shading
Seal: during hotter climate WWThe 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.
Winter Installation
Rain Collection
Skin Water Retention
Dust Storm Season
Sand Dune Formation & Warer Release in Winter
Desert Terraforming & Revitalization
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HYBRID RESIDENTIAL
A S q u atting Movement Into T he S capes of Rio De J a n i e r o. T e a m : M ohammad S addegh D adash D e v e l o pment: T en W eeks
The project is an exploration of the squatter movement in Rio-De Janiero. We conducted a substantial amount of resrach at the beginning few weeks to understand the nature in which people that lived in favela situation have struggled, allowed to for new social movements and their eventual return to the city center to re-occupy abandoned buiildings and establish them selves as member of the active society and the new social fabric.
While conducting research on favelas, we started to understand that during their chaotic construction and their flower like blooming when there is no farming or seeds, This chaos between the structures, allowed for the realization that there exists a hidden netwrok of connections leading from gound of public or living to one another. This network like condition became a prime interest to us and is the subject of our exploration.
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To understand the favelas, we created a diagram that illustrates that unlike the city's approach to ground, the favelas push private spaces to the back of the corridor as their was a job offer. The second diagram that illustrates the city condition of understanding the city's configuration and disconnect from the ground.
While studying the city, we came to that opportunity lied in taking the exiting fabric and nullying it to understand the collective zones in which activities are concentrated and per what they are. this would inform us of which buildings are squattable and which ones aren't. These would late inform the design approach of our project also.
By choosing three blocks of operation in the heart of Rio De Janiero's City Center, we are introducing a new type of structure that extends from Monoel Congo, the main building of the Squatting movement and extending from there, The new social ground would extend and support it self on three legs (buildings) that through research we have concluded to be either empty or of attraction to GMO's and Labor Union's. in that regard we allowing the people who have no places to live, an opportuntity to not only be part of the society they are in but also create a top down uproach of negotiation between the squatters and the work force who come to the buildings only during the daytime. Providing proper infraastructure would allow the opportunity of transormability. expansion and mixed used approaches.
As mentioned before, as we Nolli the city we tend to find many collective, work zones and living quarters in harmony. from distribution. As seen on the top diagram and the translation of the collective zones in our project allows for spacial distribution to run a certian protocol of design and which allows for rather quite a series of possibilites.
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PARAMETRIC FLOWS A S t u d y Into W ork Flows B etween R hino & Re v it. I n d i v i d ual P roject D e v e l o pment: Eight W eeks
` The project places it self into the context of the Affordable houses of Baruch, Located near Franklin bridge at lower South east side of Manhattan. A shady gray area where both affordability and crime and deterioration exists. The Proposal is aid the sustainability movement and support these relics to become viable and sustainble. This Project will explore taking the buildings down and creating a new “Animal� that sits within the site, one that looks into the parametric ways of the future and into the what can an algorithm generates to term it self with the environment.
Set of selected created components that were tested, during many phases of the design. the three pointed designs eventually Served best in order to reach the needed final result and resulted in their integration as a vital part of the final building and the others fell into dismay and left out at the end. The Search yielded that The components rather than complex would take life in a much puristic manner, simple, eleagant and elemental.
The triangle is labelled many times through out history as the perfect shape, one that can create all other shapes. Beyond the Davinci-an thought, the components through many iterations migrated from a triangle to a hexagon and a rectangle (multiples of triangles), but eventually returned to this form, as you will see in the next page.
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DREAM STATE A n E x p l o ration of the U nity 3D Engine T e a m : Y uan Liu, H asan D eniz, R ui P eng D e v e l o p ment: Eight W eeks
This project was done as a challenge to explore thenewly advocate unity 3d engine, in order to create an architectura or spatial design in which people could experience in Virtual Reality, virtually using the engine allowed us to create and generate a vast area of shapes a script that allowed them to behave and function and that will create a set beginning and end for the game.
Principles Environment Rotation
The premise of our game, is to create an endless dream in which you are contained in a box with six different environments. That way the site is diffenrent, the scale and experience of on a different baking what conected The infinite dream state would let you in and never out. , thus turning into a consistant nightmare that Martin Luther King join you in by spirt. Sound Maker
Chasing Balls
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RESIDENTIAL C o m m i s s ion T o D esign, D evelop and submit pro p o s a l t o C l i e n t. I n d i v i d u al P roject, P rofessional W ork D e v e l o p ment: January 201 5 - Current
This project was done after a RFP arrived after my graduation from Iowa.. The request was to provide adequate floors plans and an exterior design for a residential house in Kuwait. The house currently is underconstruction and a hard timeto follor
Monumentality was needed after explorations into the Modern and classical styles were made. the final results colors was to call upon a methods that allows the building's own image of beauty doesn't weather with time. Kuwait has a lot of sandstorm that occur with no prior warning out there. Yet, that is one of the main reasons to which these colors in particular were chosen and how the building was designed in the first place for what reason.
The Ground floor is dedicated to Guests and common spaces that residents from the top two floors could occupy. while the house is intended to a single family, the Second floor is designed to be two identical apartments that would be rented out and serves as a money generator for the family.
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FINAL FRONTIER Commision I n d i v i d u al P roject D e v e l o p ment: O ne W eek
This project was done as a challenge to explore the a realm of scientifically fictional worlds that could manifested through geometric understanding a hexagonal shape. By its extrusion, bending, twistion and deformation, we arrive at a set of animals and anomalies that creation the inhabitor (the occupant) and the inhabited (the vessel). The processional movement from beginning to end signifies that exploration has a beginning and an end, an endeavor that set a number of questions and begs the approperiation of their eventual deaths. Exploration no matter what it is, is the final frontier.
Taking precedent from the natural world, I was able to construct these worlds out the notion that buildings unit of them are brought from and understood and the very veins that course through our bodies. Perhaps, the biggest exploration would eventually occur in the one place that is truly dictates us, which is within our own vessels. Biology played a big part of this research as it gave way to grant hints and inspiration of entities underneath the microscope., there exists a world far beyond ours. A beautiful yet dangerous one.
After conducting many experiment with biology and how to find an approachable moment in which the spatial stream could be manifested.Stems of bio-nodes become monumental living entities that give humans the opportunity stream along the designated pathways leading to their eventual obsurption into the natural. From Nature to nature.