Sherwan Mzuri Portfolio

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INDEX 01 PERSONAL JOURNEY

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02PROJECTS

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CHAPTER ONE

PERSONAL JOURNEY

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CH. 01 PERSONAL JOURNEY

PERSONAL STATEMENT

My passion for architecture could only be described in love terms. It’s little exaggeration, if any, to say I was born with this passion. Since I was a little child, any architectural item worthy of the name gripped my imagination, stimulated me to apply my pen and ruler to paper and sketch out all kinds of houses, buildings and bridges that impressed all those around me as shown in (Fig 1.2), I kept cultivating this passion through all my school stages, only to be lucky enough to make it to architecture for my college

studies. At first sight it seemed as if i found the Holy Grail, but college was actually another stimulus that ever more excited my passion.

Upon graduation I applied myself to field architecture where i spent a considerable amount of time and had a career that spanned a broad range of disciplines, including architectural design, interior design, freehand and sketching, digital modeling. And here where I’m, a postgraduate architect, but forever a student, hence I’m looking forward with ever greater passion for the next step.

Figure 1.1 • My photo when I was 16 years old.

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Figure 1.2 • Freehand sketching in 53/6/2005.

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SKETCHING PASSIONS

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Figure 1.4 • Sculpturing on wood.

Figure 1.3 • Sketched in 2012.

my dear father, who had never had the chance to complete his own education, that I kept on perfecting my craft, and doing my hobby/sketching every where and on every tool (Fig 1.4).

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I was only six years old when I first put pen to paper to sketch a house (Fig 1.6), I was destined never to lay down that pen again.

I soon began to draw pictures of houses of all shapes and sizes. It had become my dream that, one day, I would live in a house of my own design. It ingrained itself all the more deeply onto my psyche because the urge to draw was such an anomaly in my life as illustrated in (Fig 1.3), There was no one among my family and close friends who was an architect. It was only due to the encouragement of

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DREAMS COME TRUE

In 1999, at the age of nine, I drew my favorite sketch of all time (Fig 1.6), In my mind, I pictured a home at the edge of a small raging river. I picked up a pencil and did not put it down until the proportions looked perfect. Little did I realize that 17 years later as shown in (Fig 1.5), this drawing would become the inspiration for my first ever fully realized vision.

Figure 1.5 • The construction of the project.

Figure 1.6 • My sketch at the age of nine.

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PROJECTS

CHAPTER TWO

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CH. 02 PROJECTS NO.1

Designing year 2014

DARIN BUSINESS TOWER Client Darin Group

Status Proposal

The Concept

The general concept is all about modernity in design, The spire and points create a sense of forward motion and progress. This composition differs significantly from the design of other buildings in Kurdistan and in Iraq in general.

Figure 2.1 • Main components.

Figure 2.2 • The podium and tower.

Figure 2.3 • Facade detailing.

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During my stint as an architect working at the Darin Group, one of Iraq’s largest companies, I was afforded a unique opportunity to create a design proposal for the Darin Head Office Building.

A main feature of this design proposal is the distinctive of the building which has influenced the way it was conceived. Comprising a 30-story vertical tower along with a 10-story horizontal base, The building publicly accessible entertainment facilities

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Designing year 2013

PIRMAM HOTEL Client School Team

Status Graduation Project

The Concept

The concept derives its inspiration principally from the historically well known Khanzad Palace see (Fig 2.4), a celebrated archaeological site that represents a shining item of Kurdish architectural heritage. Hence, the building is more or less a contemporary version of the ancient palace, with a number of striking similarities, such as the site of the hotel, as it perches on a hill just as does the ancient palace, as well as its geographical proximity to it, so much the ancient palace serves as a delicious view for the hotel. Most conspicuously, Figure 2.4 • Khanzad Castle

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the design of the hotel is strongly inspired by that of the Khanzad palace, with a series of alterations having been made to confer on the hotel a modern design on the one hand, and to give a historical hint about the ancient palace on the other hand. The old palace as we notice is a square- shaped building with four supporting cylinders, it lies freely on a hill, having views

from all its four sides, while our hotel suspends, as it were, from the breast of a hill, thus due to the geographical nature of its site, we were forced to remove two cylinders and confer a rectangular shape on the building with some curvature to add further to its frontal view and to fit well into the site. However, the cylinders have the most obvious historical implications.

Figure 2.5 • Site plan

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upper twelve floors are devoted for accommodation, having two typical floor plans; A and B, with every single room having a downhill view overlooking a breathtaking natural scenery.

The accommodation segment provides rooms with a variety of qualifications, including standard, presidential, superior and honeymooning rooms. In the ground and first floors occur the public facilities, which include two ball rooms, four restaurants tow of which are special with VIP dining rooms being built on them, a lobby bar, three coffee shops and several other shops. In addition to a business wing consisting of a two

conference halls and two meeting halls. In the basement occur the main kitchen, the laundry, the storage, the employees' room and the maintenance department, that's mechanical and electrical areas. The minus two floor, which also has a frontal downhill view, consists of entertainment facilities, including a spa with sauna, steam baths, as well as multiple sports facilities such as a gym, a bodybuilding hall and a swimming pool. The hotel also has a few appendixes such as an outdoor swimming pool, a spacious green area and a helipad.

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This five-star hotel is an ambitious entrepreneurial project, located in Pirmam, a resort that lies about 40 kilometers north of Erbil/Iraqi Kurdistan. The launching of this project is well in keeping with the region's thriving economy and animating tourism, that has long placed enormous demands on the region in terms of accommodation and entertainment facilities. The site of the hotel, that's Pirmam resort, has not been chosen without good reasons, as it's a popular and fascinating tourist magnet. The hotel, which embedded in the breast of a hill, is a sixteen- story building. The

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Figure 2.6 • Section A-A

Figure 2.7 • Front Elevation

Figure 2.8 • Second Basement Floor Plan

Figure 2.9 • First Basement Floor Plan

Figure 2.10 • Ground Floor Plan

Figure 2.11 • First Floor Plan

Figure 2.12 • Second Floor Plan

Figure 2.13 • Typical Floor Plans

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CH. 02 PROJECTS NO.3

Designing year 2014

GOVERNMENT BUILDING Client Rwanga Organization

Status Proposal

The Concept The building of a government in Erbil city. It is a curious blend of both modern architecture and classical architecture of the city.

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Designing year 2014

EARC BUILDING Client Rwanga Organization

Status Proposal

The Concept

1 • Initial cubic shape.

2 • Subtracting from center & two lateral corners.

3 • Remodeling the subtracted objects.

4 • Providing open spaces (Courtyard).

5 • Water features and lighting providing spaces.

6 • Two opposite axis that define the entrances.

has changed. Modern concepts in general are, spacious, lightdrenched and accessible to the public. With this design, I aimed to resolve the tension by integrating several elements into one, In this case, the main concrete box-like structure represents identity, solid and strong. Modernity is expressed through the concept of a glass box, which is fixed on and supported by the concrete.

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The idea behind designing (Erbil Academic Research Center) building is inspired by the tension between modernity and identity.

Identity usually takes us back to our traditional culture and the way our grandparents lived. Composed of solid houses with solid brick walls, traditional housing was mainly inward looking. This contrasts sharply with modern designs in contemporary architecture. A lot

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CH. 02 PROJECTS NO.5

Designing year 2011

MASIF HOTEL Client #

Status Proposal

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The meeting of nature and architecture, the hotel building springs from the till in the same way a plant springs from earth. It reflects and embodies a national attribute of Kurds which is hospitality.

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CH. 02 PROJECTS NO.6

GAS STATION & RESTAURANT

Designing year 2014

Client Kosret Bashir

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goal is to provide facilities such as restaurants, cafeterias and car washes as illustrated below to people using these highways. The

structural design is built with steel and concrete that was combined together. Electricity is provided by using solar power.

The Concept

The idea behind this project is to construct a simple modern gas station on every highway in Kurdistan in northern Iraq. The OIL STATION

SERVICES

CAR WASHING

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GAS STATION

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CH. 02 PROJECTS NO.7

Designing year 2012

5 STAR HOTEL & SPA Client School Project

Status Proposal

The design of this five star hotel is a classic example of the Art Deco style, Although the relative thinness of the columns clearly alludes to these modern structural methods, the material finish visually hearkens to an older method of masonry construction

on an enormous scale. As with all architecture in the postmodern tradition of the “decorated shed,” the superficiality of this sign age not only fails to detract from its effectiveness but reflects a deliberate privatization of architecture’s affective capacity.

The Concept

This playful deployment of historical quotation explicitly contradicted moder imperatives and heralded the mainstream arrival of an approach to design defined instead by a search for architectural meaning.

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From the stylish guestrooms, studios and lofts to the more dramatic public areas and day spa, natural materials in neutral color tones provide warmth and texture while vibrant shots of color, accessories and upholsteries, create drama and excitement, While the Hotel Tower is designed to emerge from the ground, the Banquet Hall is designed to be more embedded in the landscape. Composed of three floors and a rooftop pavilion, the building has a crisp angular shape. Its Porte-coherer leads into a grand, two store lobby with a wraparound deck. Floors below the lobby contain a restaurant with views of the beach and a spa that opens up to dense vegetation.

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CHAPTER THREE

GALLERY OF WORKS

VILLA IN SHAQLAWA

Designing year 2014 Client Mohammed Salim

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RESIDENT IN HAWLER

Designing year 2014 Client Mohammed Salim

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VILLA IN PIRMAM

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BARZAN VILLA

Designing year 2014 Client Safin Barzani

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Designing year 2014 Client Mohammed Salim

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SANGAR HOUSE

Designing year 2014 Client Sangar Argoshi

RESIDENTIAL APARTMENTS

Designing year 2013 Client Emad Mzuri

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COMMERCIAL BUILDING

Designing year 2012 Client Khalid Sherwani

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MASJID OF PESHMARGA

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Designing year 2013 Client Mustafa Mzuri

This project is my biggest ever project to date. My intention was to design a masjid, which is simple, It is named the “Peshmerga Masjid” to honor the Peshmerga

fighters in Kurdistan who have achieved freedom for their people and fought against the “darkness”, a common metaphor for evil, mentioned in the Holy Quran.

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CHAPTER FOUR

INTERIOR DESIGNS

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HOTEL LOBBY & LOUNGE

Designing year 2012

Client School project

Status Proposal

The inspirations coming across oasis in the middle of desert, these words describe the design of the roof which conveys the core idea behind the interior design of the coffee shop (Fig 4.1), The roof embodies the desert feature while the white space representing an oasis as showed in (Fig 4.2).

Figure 4.1 • The view of the coffee shop.

Figure 4.2 • Roof reflect desert feature.

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Designing year 2012

INTERIOR OF FASHION SHOP Client School project

As a part of a school projects, I designed an interior commercial space which inspired by the concept of folding, The small number of basic curved folds can be combined in a variety of ways to make intricate designs.

Folded clothes in a shop. The principal material used is wood. The ceiling is notable for its white painted coloration, which thrusts into the beige brown space, thus creating a stark visual contrast, Fashion public relations; enabling practitioners to reach a wide range of consumers through various platforms.

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