Moones Mirbeygi-Architecture Portfolio

MOONES MIRBEYGI

Spring 2023

2017

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EDUCATION

+ The Ohio State Univerity | Columbus - Ohio

Master of Architecture

+ Shahid Beheshti University | Tehran - Iran

Master of Architecture

+ Allame Tabatabai University | Tehran - Iran

AWARDS

+ The Home Competition

+ The ULI Hines Competition

+ Austin E Knowlton Faculty Prize in Architecture

+ Museum of War Competition

+ Art University Entrance Gate

+ University Entrance Exam

WORK EXPERIENCE

+ Schooley Caldwell Associates | Architectural Designer

Passed All ARE Exams ( Registration Pending for AXP competion )

+ BBCO Design | Architectural Intern

+ Ohio State University | Structures Teaching Assistant

+ Ohio State University | Fabrication Lab Teaching Assistant

+ Abadis Architecture Office l Architectural Intern

+ Freelance | Translator & Cultural Events Organizer

+ Freelance | Drawing- English- French Teacher

Director’s Choice Award Winner

Local First Place Winner Winner

Honorable Mention

Honorable Mention

Ranked 7th Among 35,000

PUBLICATIONS

One: Twelve - Issue 015 - Err in Convention

Revitalization of Deteriorated Urban Fabrics - Master’s Thesis Project

SKILLS

Rhinoceros, Revit, Autocad, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Sketchup, Vray, Enscape, Grasshopper, Lumion, Office

3D Printing, CNC

English, Persian, French

WORK EXPERIENCE - EXTENDED

+ Columbus Historical Society|Columbus - Ohio

Office, Exhibition ( Former Engine House Renovation )

Construction Documents

+ Capa Music Hall| Columbus - Ohio

Music Hall, Bar, Residential ( Existing Church Renovation, New Addition )

Design

+ Jaeger Square |Columbus - Ohio

Residential, Retail ( New Construction )

Construction Administration

+ Trolley District Construction|Columbus - Ohio

Multi Family Residential ( New Construction ) Construction Documents

+ Front and Fulton|Columbus - Ohio

Mixed Use Residential, Office, Restaurant ( New Construction ) Schematic Design, Design Development

+ Olive Global Headquarters|Worthington - Ohio

Office, Auditorium, Marketplace ( New Construction ) Predesign

+ Westerville Cultural Arts Center|Westerville - Ohio

Cultural Arts Center ( New Construction )

Programming and Concept Planning

+ Hocking Hills Lodge |Hocking Hills - Ohio

Lodge ( New Construction )

Design

+ Residential Development at Former AD Farrow Site|Columbus - Ohio

Residential ( New Construction ) Predesign

+ Newark Arcade| Newark - Ohio Retail ( Renovation of Existing Arcade )

Design Development

2017 - 2020

+ Historic Old Town | Old Town - Ohio Exhibition, Office ( Renovation )

Design

+ Historic Parkwood| Columbus - Ohio

Multi family Residential ( Renovation ) Design

+ Lakeside| Lakeside - Ohio

Existing Residential Inventory

+ The Next Home Competition| Columbus - Ohio

Single Family Residential ( New Construction ) Design

+ A House with Blended Boundaries| Columbus - Ohio

Multi Family Residential ( School Project ) Design

+ Archipelagos of Coolth| Columbus - Ohio

Cool Complex Design ( School Project )

Design

+ High Resolution Library| Columbus - Ohio

Library ( School Project ) Design

+ Thing Inside a Thing Inside a Thing| Columbus - Ohio

Hotel ( School Project ) Design

+ The ULI Competition| Columbus - Ohio

Mixed Use Development ( New Construction ) Design

+ Cataya Cemetary|Tokyo - Japan

Columbarium ( School Project ) Design

WORK EXPERIENCE - EXTENDED

+ A house with Two Scales| Columbus - Ohio

Residential Architecture ( School Project ) Design

+ Chinmaya Mission of Columbus|Columbus - Ohio

Religious Architecture ( New Construction )

Schematic Design

+ Department of Neighborhoods Renovation |Columbus - Ohio

Office ( Renovation )

Schematic Design

+ Bath and Body Works|Columbus - Ohio

Retail ( New Construction ) Design Development

+ Downtown Synagogue Competition|Detroit - Ohio

Temporary installation ( New Construction )

Design

2015 - 2017

+ War Memorial Competition|Tehran - Iran

Museum ( New Construction )

Design

+ Art University Entrance Gate Competition|Tehran - Iran

Gate Design ( New Construction ) Design

+ Cosmetics Store|Shiraz - Iran

Retail ( New Construction ) Design

+ Residential Facade|Tehran - Iran

Residential ( New Construction ) Design

+ Urban Revitalization|Tehran - Iran

Residential Development ( School Project ) Design

+ Oasis Design| Mesr - Iran

Mixed Use Development ( School Project ) Design

+ Prayer House Design | Tehran - Iran

Religious Architecture ( School Project ) Design

+ Cultural Center| Tehran - Iran

Cultural Complex ( School Project ) Design

A House with Blended Boundaries I

Knowlton school of architecture

Exit review project

Spring 2020

Instructor: Curtis Roth

The Home Competition Director’s Choice Award: Winner

Jury: Peter Eisenman, Tatiana Bilbao, Andrew Zago, Neil Denari, Toshiko Mori, William O’Brien Jr, J. Yolande Daniels, Sean Canty, Vishaan Chakrabarti, Amanda Levete, Aya Maceda, Jennifer Newsom, Clark Thenhaus

Building Code by which houses are legislated, Builder’s Catalogs as shopping platforms for selling houses and Revit as a tool for making them encourage distinctions and boundaries, breaking the house into specifically defined discrete units that map on our ways of life as social actors. This project subverts this principle of architectural and social distinction, providing an alternative to notions of domestic life by destabilizing the boundaries of the house and spaces of its occupants. The Revit sample house as a base is challenged in terms of individual programmatic units, relationships between occupants and divisional properties of its components. This single family house that is fully accommodating for a single family is now occupied by five families. It is put into tension by the new circumstances challenging the presumptions of privacy and boundaries, resulting in a house with three different levels of performance, changing through occupants perspectives, and read differently depending on points of view.

Absolute clarification of territories due to distinctions of inside and outside, public and private and specificity of use through elements and materials.

Draw

Distinctions though library, commands, limits, hierarchical structure. A room is defined through its distinct closed boundaries, overlaps are discouraged and elements are bound to limits through hosting.

Room by Convention

House is made of specific programmatic units to choose from, bed, living, dining, … are generic isolated incidents to be put together in an assembly with minimum dependencies

Overlapping Boundaries

The Revit Sample Project: A house with distinct boundaries

The house with blended

PAINT BOUNDARY / WALL

CARPET / FLOOR

LIGHT / WALL - FLOOR

COUCH / WALL

FOCUS / WALL - ROOF

LEAF / CEILING

SOFFIT / WALL

DESK / ROOF

The First Floor Plan:

Families A&B ( Yellow hatch) share a kitchen and dining area

They also share a living area with Family E

Families C&D ( orange hatch) share a living area

They also Share a kitchen with family E

Family E has the most overlapping boundaries

FAMILY A

FAMILY B

FAMILY C FAMILY D

FAMILY E

The Second Floor Plan:

Families A&B ( Yellow hatch) each have separate spaces in their bedrooms and share spaces in their living area

Families C&D ( orange hatch) have bedrooms with changing properties that at times become public to the other family

Families A&B&C&D share the hallways

Sharing Matrix

Family B bedroom/office: A bed is also a workstation

Family A bedroom/ reading room: A door is also a wall

Kitchen: Shared by C & D & E

CE ABE CD D

Sitting/ Watching/ Sleeping Area: Soffit and material Define a room

Different

Completion Composition

Forms and materials that look unrelated at certain angles complete a geometry in other views

Overlapping materials compose a new material appearance

views to the building reveals the hidden relationship between completed shapes

Conversion

appearance that is a combination of the two Materials change properties when affected by one another

A House with Blended Boundaries II

Knowlton school of architecture

Exit review project

Fall 2019

Instructor: Curtis Roth

Using Revit’s component library and the house builder’s catalog’s special features collection of rooms (Non-essential for living), an assembly is produced as a representation of a house that is no longer a place only to maintain life but where the acts of daily life are removed from specific rooms and can happen across based on occupant’s preferences. In this project absurd humor is created through making present both the house builder’s catalogue and Revit in seemingly irreconcilable moments where we are unable to rely on familiarities made through use and habit.

The relationship of object and architecture collapses opening a gray space between architecture and furnishing where a room is defined through its furniture made from architectural elements. Occupants shower in the closet, sit on the stairs and look out the window, sleep on a wall and hang their stuff from a door knob and spaces change their original function at times to accommodate the needs to maintain life. Demise of the wall as room separator offers flexibility in transitions where a house is no longer known as a place of privacy and individuality.

Room Schedule

ROOM 1. MUDROOM

ROOM 2. COURTYARD ROOM 3. HOME GYM

ROOM 4. SPLIT BATHROOM

ROOM 7. MEDIA ROOM

ROOM 5. SWIMMING POOL

ROOM 6. LAUNDRY ROOM

ROOM 9. LIBRARY ROOM 8. GAME ROOM

A house with a pool, a bathroom, a library and a game room

A house with a gym, a courtyard, a bathroom and a theater

Archipelagos of Coolth

Knowlton school of architecture

Spring 2020

Instructor: Mohamed Sharif, Anastasia Congdon

In Collaboration with: Thomas Mahoney

In the near future, where climatological shifts threaten to endanger human existence, Mies Van der Rohe’s Federal Center, in Chicago, Serves as an epicenter for radical experimentation of Coolth technology.

Through a re-understanding of commonly utilized building systems, this federal plaza will act as a prototype for processing the conversation of climate change. The federal center is a backdrop to a cold and shady community space of the future. Using the Miesian grid we create a network of pipes going around the site in a loop creating 3 different temperature zones around 3 pools that distort the grid. The pipes work as a conduit of cold fluid with geothermal cooling system that heat up in the sun as they move away from the main center of coolth, the post office with its field of cooling nitrogen pipes, only to cool down again when going back in the loop.

The site is sheltered from the sun surrounded by the Federal center buildings. Digging into the ground for increased cooling.

Three pools added. Each pool will have a different climate. Steps and bridges connect spaces with different qualities.

climate. qualities.

An intensive piping system provides coolth while contributing to shading in the site.

The post office houses the geothermal heat pump with a field of nitrogen pipes that extend through the site. The fluid heats up in the sun returns in the loop and cools down after going deep in to the ground.

Coolth is provided by shading and electromagnetic cooling

This space will work as a place where people gather,

cool down and continue with their daily activities It is a place for entertainment at the heart of the city

Pool l: The pool with coolest temperature Pool ll: The pool with most shade

Pool lll: The pool with the best view

The existing buildings establish the Miesian grid that extends throughout the site, the pools as external objects affect the grid and distort it.

Existing post office housing the Mechanical Equipment

Shaded north entry and elevated walkway

Pools and pipes affect the surfaces they sit in, pushing the ground in to establish their presence in an existing site

Translucent pool walls provide blurred view to outside

The ULI Competition

Knowlton school of architecture

Competition Enrty Spring 2019

Instructor: Daniel Ayars (NBBJ), Josh Helms, (OHM), Aaron Domini(OHM), Jeff Mohrman (Financefund)

The ULI Hines Local Competition: Winner

In Collaboration with: Sarah Lilly, Lizi Huang, Andrew Rizkallah, Nick Carlson

With the vision of connecting downtown Cincinnati and the riverfront, under the competition scenario, teams are selected as master developers to provide a specific vision and growth plan to create a comprehensive environment for the competition site that is programmed, designed, built and operated with all the elements necessary to promote a vibrant transit and pedestrian-oriented, sustainable, and mixed use neighborhood. Pulse is a mixed use development that connects downtown Cincinnati and the banks. The project is a dynamic hub that accommodates different lifestyle.

Community pulse, entertainment pulse and wellness pulse are at work so that this place is not just alive during football or baseball season; there is something going on around the clock and throughout the year.

City and nature inform the formal representation

City and nature meet and create the central space

A place that connects, a place where crowds gather

Pause points are designed to help with this integration, drawing people into the project is considered from both under ground and above the ground:

Cincinnati Sports Club Central

Is an exciting expansion of a longtime east-side Cincinnati institution. The campus combines a wellness and fitness center with medical and rehabilitation facilities through a partnership with Cincinnati Christ hospital, as well as a health food cafe and pharmacy.

The Nexus

With visibility of the iconic Roebling bridge, the two stadiums, the national underground railroad freedom center, and downtown Cincinnati serves as an important gathering space.

The Queen City Skyway

A raised pedestrian walkway, expands outward from the Nexus with exceptional views and overlooks

Freedom square

Is a hub for activity

The Cincy Gallery

Is a bright marketplace filled local retailers

The Hive

A transit hub, is an organic sculpture that serves as an art piece, a ride share drop-off area on game days and an important local transit junction

Development Breakdown

Investment Breakdown

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Phase 1 : Revive The Pulse | 2020-2023

Phase 2 : Amplify the Pulse | 2023-2026

PHASE 3 : Surge the Pulse | 2026-2029

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Thing inside a thing

Knowlton school of architecture

Spring 2019

Instructor: Sandhya Kochar, Erik Herrmann

In this project the goal is to place one thing inside Thing another thing. This will generate an immediate reciprocity between the toy and container. Once nested, the toy and container will become codependent and ontologically entangled. Rather than focus on the design of autonomous things this project will require considering the evolving ontological relationship between two things. The presented design consists of a series of boxes that are wrapped by a surface, the boxes being the toy and the surface being the container. The toy is to be occupied and nested inside a larger container. Consequently, the project has at least two layers of envelope and levels of interiority.

A series of rules are set to determine how the surface is wrapped around each box based on three conditions of Adjacency, Tangency and Intersection.

The occupied space is now considered as both the space inside the toy and the interstitial space between the toy and the surface.

Color is used to differentiate between the toy and the wrapper. The yellow represents the wrapper, the pink represents the toy and the green represents the occupied space within the toy.

Thing inside a thing inside a thing

Knowlton school of architecture

Spring 2019

Instructor: Sandhya Kochar, Erik Herrmann

An urban art hotel is the program that continues developing themes from the “thing inside a thing project”. The conceptual idea for this investigation is the “city within a city”, a concept for urban mixed-use development most often associated with Rockefeller Center in New York, but developed simultaneously in Cincinnati at the Netherlands Plaza Hotel. Architectural concerns in this project include the relationship of the project to a specific urban site and far more demanding programmatic requirements. The three conditions of adjacency, tangency and intersection come into play to create space and to determine the form of the project.

This Project is basically a thing inside a thing inside a thing, the ultimate container being the site. The formal gesture of the building and the openness of the ground floor all work to engage the site with the building.

The public circulation and interior urbanism of the project are of particular focus. Visitors to the hotel’s galleries should have access to a rich public realm of linked spaces located above the ground plane.

Embracing the theory’s demand for programmatic density, but evolving beyond a simple “stacking” of plates, this project uses strategies of volumetric nesting. The wrapper creates gallery spaces, works as an agent that weaves everything together and works structurally to hold the project up. There is a constant shift between the somewhat regular pink masses of the hotel and the fluid interstitial space between the wrapper and the cubic masses, the galleries.

The form that is created outside of the site is later placed within a site. This act of placing a foreign object inside an unchangeable site forces the object to adjust and adapt formally to be able to fit in.

Front Elevation

View to the rooftop garden and overlooking terraces Longitudinal Section

Interior atrium

Plan View Through Pool, Restaurant, Hotel rooms

The big steps, Lobby, Reception, Restrooms

High Resolution Library

Knowlton school of architecture

Fall 2018

Instructor: Beth Blostein, Jane Murphy

In Collaboration with: Rachel Hill, Hermon Habte

In this project the goal is to design a High-res library. The idea of High-res can be explored formally, structurally and programatically. In this project the idea of High-res is explored as a shift from simple extrusion to stacks. Formal qualities are determined by exploring different ways of avoiding extrusion. The boxes are stacked with different orientations and are bent and deformed based on their relationship with the site and each other, creating spaces with different qualities.

The shifting of the shapes also works as the main strategy to create openings along with another High-res opening strategy in the tessellated skin that changes color based on program, need for light and closeness of main openings. The building engages with the site in 3 ways, on the ground, above the ground and in the ground creating a variety of experiences in the project and the curves in the roof are not only a space making strategy but they also allow for a water collecting system providing water for landscape irrigation through water channels.

High Resolution Strategies

Stack VS Extrusion

STACK VS EXTRUSION DIAGRAM

Intricate Panel Systems

Longer spans and complicated forms made possible with trusses

QUIET LOUNGE

PERIODICALS, AND CARD CATALOGUES

COMMODITY COMPUTING

ADULT COLLECTION

READING AND LOUNGE SPACE

BUSINESS CENTER RESTROOMS

MANAGER’S OFFICE

HOMEWORK HELP

LIFE SKILL CENTER

STAFF AND CONFERENCE COMMODITY COMPUTING

ENTRY

RESTROOMS

TEEN DISPLAY AND COLLECTIONS

ADULT DISPLAY AND READING

TEEN HANGOUTS

PARKING GARAGE

LARGE MEETING ROOM

SERVICE SPACE FOR LARGE MEETING ROOM

STUDY AND TUTOR AREA

MECHANICAL AREA

PROGRAM AND CIRCULATION DIAGRAM

RESTROOMS

KIDS AREA

Truss Structural Diagram

SYSTEMS DIAGRAM

Systems diagram

Kids Area

Formal results of the curves in the stack are used to give character to specific spaces like the bumpy carpeted area in the kids zone

Cataya Cemetery

Knowlton school of architecture

Fall 2017

Instructor: Benjamin Wilke

This project explores designing a Cemetery in a dense urban neighborhood in Tokyo. This cemetery is based on Japanese funerary cultures and will include columbaria to store urns. The purpose is to use a platonic figure, in this case a pyramid, and to explore the influence of the urban environment on this primitive shape. Although the fact that we transform the otherwise ideal figures or forms to the point of imperfection means that it may have been modified to such a degree that is no longer a pyramid, It has changed based on the forces of the site and demands of the program.

The design is intended to have a calming atmosphere created by openness and light. Long closed spaces are avoided and each space is separated from the adjacent space by an open hinge. The circulation works as an integrating core and weaves everything together. Looking simple and unfinished the project wants to be different from it’s surrounding and to create a few moments of detachment from the busy city life.

Slice

Slice/Stretch

Slice/Stretch