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PORTFOLIO INDEX ARCHITECTURE (course projects) HOUSING & LANDSCAPE (course projects) INTERIOR & FURNITURE DESIGN (course projects) GRAPHIC DESIGN FASHION DESIGN SKETCHES, PAINTINGS
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ARCHITECTURE
ONE: GRADUATION PROJECT
VOLUMETRIC SPACES
Rehabilitation of the historical Stock Exchange building of Alexandria for a Micro-finance Bank and Development Center The micro-finance bank, built for the locals of Mina El Basal in Alexandria, Egypt, rehabilitates the historical first stock exchange building of Alexandria. The Stock Exchange building initiated in 1872 and closed in 1967. Its exterior facades are fully preserved and the 2-storey building is in good condition for re-use of function.
PROTRUDING STRUCTURES
HISTORICAL ENVELOPE
BLOCK ARRANGEMENT
FORM
G E N E R AT I O N
Aglomeration of spaces within envelope of historical building. The Micro-finance Bank & Development Center creates a complex driven by open spaces and a central court.
RE-ADAPTION OF FUNCTION ENVELOPED WITHIN HISTORY
SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
MAIN CENTRAL PLAZA STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY
CONNECTING BRIDGES BETWEEN SPACES
PLANS
E & FIRST FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
FOURTH FLOOR PLAN
BASEMENT PLAN
FLOOR CIRCULATION STUDIES
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
ELEVATIONS & SECTIONS SOUTHERN ELEVATION
SECTION B-B
SECTION A-A
MAIN NORTHERN ELEVATION
TWO: COURSE PROJECT ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL
COURSE KEY:
HIGH TECH ARCHITECTURE
The course project required a re-design of the old science building in the American Univerisity in Cairo’s old campus in Tahrir. The science building was constructed for the purpose of housing science laboratories. The requirements were to transform the building to house a new architecture school in the American University in Cairo.
The modular science building was ‘hit by a bomb of creativity’, which is the architecture school.
The figurative explosion results into the new, irregular forms which are the insides of the old science building protruding out.
SEEN IN STRUCTURAL SYSTEM & FORMS
OLD MODULAR VS. NEW, DYNAMIC & RANDOM TRANSFORMING OLD MODULAR & RIGID BUILDING PLANS
INTO EXPLOSION OF IRREGULAR FORMS
SEEN IN
INSIDES REVEALED TO EXPRESS AN ‘OPENING UP’ & INSPIRATION
INCORPORATION OF GREEN ROOFS AT LEVELS FOR RECREATION
INSIDE-OUT CONCEPT GLASS INTERIORS EXPOSED ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT LIT
PLANS, SECTIONS, ELEVATIONS FIRST FLOOR PLAN
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
G R I DS
CIRCULATION
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
SECTION A-A
FOURTH FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
NEW GRID BOMBARDS INTO OLD MODULAR GRID
SECTION C-C
CREATIVE LEVELING & SPONTANEITY
MAIN ELEVATION
NATURE AS A BUILDING BLOCK
NEW STRUCTURE RESTS ON
OUTDOOR JUNGLE-LIKE EXPERIENCE
BAMBOO REINFORCEMENT FOR CONCRETE IN SLAB WORK
VERY RESISTABLE TO DEAD & WIND LOADS ACCORDING TO ARRANGEMENT
SLITS IN WALLS ALLOW CONTROLLED PENETRATION OF LIGHT
HYBRID BAMBOOCONCRETE COLUMNS
THREE: COURSE PROJECT STRUCTURE CARDBOARD 1:1 PAVILLION (GROUP) COURSE KEY:
The first course project required derive a concept statement for the architecture department in AUC and to build a pavillion representing that statement. The challenge was to build a life-size pavillion out of a selected material - CARDBOARD. The challenge was to make a 4 meter cubed space which could be walked in or through. Only cardboard was to be used without any adhesive support like glue or tape, or additional elements like wires, nails or staples. The structure was to support itself completely.
STATEMENT
FOOTPRINTS CREATING A REALM EACH SLICE IS UNIQUE IN SIZE AND SHAPE SYMBOLIC FOR EACH STUDENT’S UNIQUE FOOTPRINT IN THE DEPARTMENT. THE MESH STRUCTURE ADDS TO THE IDEA THAT EVERY SLICE CONTRIBUTES TO THE STRUCTURE JOINING OF FORCES CREATING STABILITY.
PROCESS
STRENGTH THROUGH UNITY
GIVES EACH SLICE
WEDGING OF SLICES
STRUCTURE BASE CREATES COMFORTABLE SEATING
INTERACTIVE PAVILLION E SPROVIDED SEATING & READING MATERIAL FOR USERS GPOST-ITS ENCOURAGED ADMIRERS TO LEAVE COMMENTS
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WIDE BASES
CREATING STRUCTURE STABILITY
FOUR: COURSE PROJECT
ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT EXTENSION The architecture department at the American University in Cairo was not a planned space. It inhabited the previous chemistry department. Hence, its function did not accomodate for the architecture students’ needs. The extension serves the needs of the students. The course required a structural challenge. Space frames was the choice of structure for the architecture department extension to follow the concept statement.
COURSE KEY:
STRUCTURE
DESIGN STATEMENT FOR THE AUC ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT:
FOOTSTEPS CREATING A REALM
HANDING OVER EXPERIENCES
LEAVING A FOOTPRINT GROWING GENERATIONS TOWARDS A PATTERN CREATING A REALM
SPACE FRAME STRUCTURE
PLANS, SECTIONS, ELEVATIONS
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
SECTION A-A
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
SECTION B-B
S
STRUCTURAL FRAMING PLAN
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
SECTION C-C
LAYOUT
CIRCULATION THROUGH EXISTING & EXTENSION BUILDINGS
WESTERN ELEVATION
PHYSICAL MODEL
FIVE: COURSE PROJECT FAMILY BEACH HOUSE
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Designing in the philosophy of Rem Koolhaas The course project required the design of a family beach house in the philosophy of a renowned architect. The student is required to address how their “role” architect would build in the assigned context- environmental, geographic, socio-cultural, political and historical. The architect chosen is Rem Koolhaas. The family requirements were set by the student and the design criteria was decided accordingly. This family consisted of a father who is a musician, a mother, a son and a daughter with down syndrome. The design of the house required, therefore, a musician’s room, and a possible design where the daughter could be in clear visual connection at all times. These factors dictated and influenced the design of the house, as Rem Koolhas would have managed it.
RESEARCH ON REM KOOLHAAS
STUDY OF WORKS
TIMELINE OF WORKS
COURSE KEY:
FORM
PLANS, SECTIONS, ELEVATIONS CENTRAL PLAY ROOM FOR DOWN SYNDROME CHILD TO ALLOW FOR VISUAL ACCESS FROM THE REST OF THE HOUSE
CREATIVE REDEFINING OF FUNCTIONALITY
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
ELEVATION
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
SECTION
PHYSICAL MODEL
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CURTAIN WALL VIEW TO THE SEA
LOGICAL RATIONAL FUNCTIONAL FLEXIBLE C R E AT I V E INCLINED ROOF FOR VISUAL ACCESS TO CHILD FROM FIRST FLOOR
OPEN PLAN SPACE
SIX: COURSE PROJECT
COURSE KEY:
FORM
ART GALLERY PAVILLION
The requirement called for “Architecture for Expression”. The project required a pavillion to house the archive collected of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. This pavillion was to be built on the campus of the American University in Cairo.
DESIGN CONCEPT PLAN
ONE PEOPLE
LOVE OF NATION UNITY
SECTION
The Pavilion expresses Unity, the very concept that led to the success of the Egyptian Revolution. In Tahrir Square, different gender, religion, social classes and backgrounds came together as one. The use of One Element, repeated to create a form which expresses unity and its victory. The model arises from the ground much like the people of the revolution symbolically rising from the dead; rising from the silent lives they led in ‘captivity’.
ELEVATION
SEVEN: COURSE PROJECT BEHAVIORAL &
COURSE KEY:
ORPHANGE IN SOHAG An orphange located in Akhmim, Sohag, Egypt, dedicated to sheltering girls of all ages and teaching them the skill of weaving. The possession of this valuable skill is a priveledge considering that the demand for it allows the girls to become self dependent and financially stable women when they leave the orphanage.
LANDSCAPE EXPRESSES RADIAL EFFECT FROM THE WORKSHOPS.
LAYOUT
SOCIO-CULTURAL RESIDENTIAL UNITS RADIATING FROM WEAVING CENTER
WEAVING WORKSHOPS SERVE A SOURCE OF INDEPENDENCE
PLANS, SECTIONS, ELEVATIONS VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE IN ADHERENCE TO SURROUNDING
HASSAN FATHY’S ‘SWASTIKA’ WEAVING WORKSHOPS ARE THE
SOURCE OF INCOME
WEAVING WORKSHOPS PLAN
WEAVING WORKSHOPS ELEVATION
SECTION A-A
SOURCE OF INDEPENDENCE
SOURCE OF FREEDOM
RESIDENTIAL UNIT PLAN
RESIDENTIAL UNIT ELEVATION
SECTION B-B
Studio on design in critical Settings- Designing in Historical Contexts. A critical review of works, theories, and polemics in modern architecture. Case studies of buildings within urban settings are the focus, with an emphasis on adaptive re-use, historic preservation, urban and landscape design practices. Within the context of a historical survey, students developed a framework to assess and design for contemporary issues in architecture.
RESEARCH
CAIRO HISTORICAL STREET SURVEY & ANALYSIS
IGHT: COURSE PROJECT
ANALYSIS OF ADLY STREET, CONTEXT DOWNTOWN, CAIRO COURSE KEY:
ANALYSIS OF
STREET ELEMENTS
WITH REFERENCE TO
BACKGROUND IN HISTORY
COLLAGE:
ADLY STREET ELEMENTS
NINE: COURSE PROJECT (GROUP)
COURSE KEY:
HOUSING PLANNING
RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT IN BOULAQ, CAIRO
SITE ANALYSIS
This course about housing in Cairo requires a survey and thorough analysis of a given problem area, in this project, Boulaq Abu El E’la in Cairo, to be re-planned for housing & services area.
SWOT ANALYSIS
LAYOUT
PLANS PROTOTYPE
CLUSTERS PROTOTYPE
ELEVATIONS
TAHT EL RABA’ STREET
URBAN PLANNING
COURSE KEY:
URBAN ANALYSIS OF STREET IN CAIRO
EN: COURSE PROJECT (GROUP)
The objective of this project is to analyze the area of Taht El Raba’a at Bab Zuweyla in Cairo, an area of heritage and high density . It is an old part of Cairo and the city. A thorough street/path analysis was conducted including monuments, street patterns, building conditions and other visual studies.
ELEVEN: COURSE PROJECT (GROUP) PLANNING RESIDENTIAL COMPOUND COURSE KEY:
URBAN PLANNING The objective of this project is to design a residential urban area that is oriented around a focal point while accounting for parameters of north orientation, view, light penetration and wind direction. The project accounts for form and space generation in landscape architecture.
LAYOUT MASTERPLAN
MODEL
RESIDENTIAL UNIT PLAN PROTOTYPE 2 STOREY
INTERIOR DESIGN
& FURNITURE DESIGN
TWELVE: COURSE PROJECT (GROUP) INTERIOR RE-DESIGN OF GROPPI CAFE, DOWNTOWN CAIRO
COLOR PALETTE
MOODBOARD
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The objective of this project is to re-design the renowned and established Groppi Cafe in Downtown Cairo into a modern cafe to be up-to-date, with a theme of the interior of our choosing.
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SECTION THROUGH BAR
PLAN
THIRTEEN: COURSE PROJECT LIGHTING FIXTURE
The project required to use a single element and design a useable object through only this element. The element chosen for this project was toothpicks.
TABLE LIGHTING
SINGLE TOOTHPICK A
MADE TO
CRETE A UNIT
UNITS
ARE
DESIGNED TO CREATE THE
LIGHTING FIXTURE
GRAPHIC DESIGN &
B R A N D I N G
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BRANDING
BRANDING
BRANDING
BRANDING
LOGOS
FASHION ILLUSTRATION
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PAINTINGS, SKETCHES
DIMENSIONS: HT. 100 cm, WIDTH: 70 cm MEDIUM: OIL ON CANVAS
DIMENSIONS: HT. 100 cm, WIDTH: 70 cm MEDIUM: CHARCOAL, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
DIMENSIONS: HT. 70 cm, WIDTH: 40 cm MEDIUM: ACRYLIC, GLASS
DIMENSIONS: HT. 120 cm, WIDTH: 90 cm MEDIUM: ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
DIMENSIONS: HT. 130 cm, WIDTH: 105 cm MEDIUM: PYROGRAPHIC ETCHING AND SMOKE ON WOOD
DIMENSIONS: HT. 130 cm, WIDTH: 105 cm MEDIUM: PYROGRAPHIC ETCHING AND SMOKE ON WOOD
DIMENSIONS: EACH VARIES BETWEEN HT. 50-80 cm, WIDTH: 40-60 cm MEDIUM: ACRYLIC AND MEDIUM ON CANVAS
3 DIMENSIONAL WORK DIMENSIONS: HT. 80 cm, WIDTH: 60 cm MEDIUM: PLASTER, WAX AND MIXED MEDIUM
DIMENSIONS: HT. 45 cm, WIDTH: 70 cm MEDIUM: CHARCOAL ON PAPER
DIMENSIONS: HT. 05 cm, WIDTH: 40 cm MEDIUM: CHARCOAL ON PAPER
MEDIUM: CHARCOAL ON PAPER
MEDIUM: PENCIL ON PAPER
MEDIUM: INK SKETCH
MEDIUM: PENCIL SKETCH
MEDIUM: PENCIL SKETCH
MEDIUM: PENCIL SKETCH
MEDIUM: INK SKETCH