ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO NADINE HANI AUC FALL 2017 ARCH 352
Table of Content: 1) On Heading Home 2) What is Contemporary Egyptian Architure? 3) Tawfikeya Site Analysis 4) Restoring Civil Pride - Design Project 4) Structure - Midterm
“In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.� - Bjarke Ingels
ON HEADING HOME Each student was required to submit a visual representation of their journey from their chair in the studio to their chair at home. The purpose was to provide a tool which can get someone on that road whithout the need of oral assistance. Qualitative elements were added to elaborate on the cognitive experience along the journy.
Starting at the American University in Cairo . . .
Starting a long bus ride home . . .
Snapshots through the window . . . On heading home is a travel guide for anyone going from the AUC to Dokki, Egypt. It shows snapshots of what the traveller sees along the journey. It gives instructions of the travel supplies needed. The long geometry reflects the lengthy ride across the city.
Day turns to night . . .
From wheels to feet . . .
HOME SWEET HOME.
WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE? Beginning with the understanding of design as a complex, multi-disciplinary process, the works of various successful Egyptian, regional, and international architects of the past decades will be analysed. The objective of this analysis will be to ascertain the commonalities and differences in vocabulary and approach amongst these works, with the ultimate goal of discovering appropriate design criteria and form generation principles to aid in the design of a contemporary architecture appropriate to today’s Egypt. This analysis will look beyond the typical stylistic approaches of classifying architecture, and explore the “why” and “how” of architectural manifestations and organizations, rather than the “what”. In other words the analysis will be more process and philosophy driven rather than product oriented.
“ A R C H I T E C T U R E C I T I Z E N S H I P ” Egyptian contemporary architecture was seen as a composition of four major characteristics. As such, the outcome was presented in a series of layers. If one was to look at one layer on its own, it would seem to be incomplete, but when they all come together, the picture becomes clear.v
TO PORTRAY ACTIVISM, ARCHITECTS SHOULD: -CONFRONT TABOOS -BLUR THE BOUNDARIES - REACT
KMC CORPORATE OFFICE, RMA ARCHITECTURE, INDIA, 2012 -A GREEN SCREEN THAT MERGES BETWEEN THE EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS
POLIS STATION, STUDIO GANG, USA, 2010 -REDESIGN OF AN EXISTANT POLICE STATION. THE NEW BIKE RINK AND BARBER INVITED PEOPLE TO USE THE STATION IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
VERTICAL GYM, URBAN THINKTANK, VENEZUELA, 2004 -MAXIMUM USE OF SPACE: AVERTICAL PLAN. THE GYM WAS BUILT AFTER A THOROUGH RESEARCH ABOUT THE COMMUNITY AND ITS NEEDS.
SANDBAG SHELTERS, NADER KHALILI, IRAN, 1995 -QUICK AND EFFECTIVE SOLUTION TO HOUSE AN INCREASING NUMBER OF REGUGEES.
TO PORTRAY INCLUSION, ARCHITECTS SHOULD: -DESIGN FOR INCOMPLETNESS -EMBRACE HUMAN DIVERSITY -WORK WITH, NOT FOR -
QUINTA MONROY, ELEMENTAL, 2004 -PARALLEL BUILDING: A BUILDING CONSISTING OF 2 FLOORS. THE GROUND FLOOR CAN EXPAND HORIZONTALLY, AND THE 1ST FLOOR CAN EXPAND VERTICAALLY.
VILLA VERDE, ELEMENTAL, 2010 -BUILDING HALF A HOUSE: BI-DIRECTIONAL PARTICIPATION CONCENTRATES ON THE FAMILIES' PRIROTIES AND CONSTRUCTIONAL CAPACITIES. THE VOIDS ARE DESIGNED FOR EXPANSION.
HOUSING UNITS, PETER RICH, SOUTH AFRICA -INCLUDE THE COMMUNITY IN THE CONSTRUCTION PROCESS BY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THEIR EXISTANT ORGANIZATION AND CONSTRUCTION SKILLS.
CHILDREN PARK, ABDELHALIM IBRAHIM, EGYPT, 1989 -A WALL OF MOTHERS: INSTEAD OF HAVING A MASSIVE WALL ENCLOSING THE PARK, SHOPS WERE BUILT CONNECTING BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY AND THE PARK WHILE ALLOWING MOTHERS TO WATCH AND PROTECT THEIR KIDS WHEN WORKING.
HAMNET HOUSE, TAHM AND VIDEGER, DENMARK -INCLUDING THE COMMUNITY BY ALLOWING THEM TO VOTE FOR THEIR PREFERENCE AND TAKING THEIR OPINION IN ALL THE DESIGN STEPS.
TAWFIKEYA SITE ANALYSIS This project is proposed as part of AUC’s Neighborhood Initiative and works to support AUC’s strategic goal to revive its Tahrir campus as a cultural hub for artistic dialogue and exchange. The relationship of each project to AUC’s programming, both academic and extra-curricular, should be central to the development of your deign. Hence, each student group was responsible for selecting a site from among several downtown locations. Site analysis was conducted, both the quantitativly (sun direction, wind, topography, site boundaries, neighbouring structure, natural environment etc.) and qualitativly (visual boundaries, vistas, textures, materials, sensory context, social context, community etc.)
The site had a high male vs. female density. Cars dominated a huge part of the street, and interfered with pedestrian traffic.
A high interplay between the tangible and intangible was observed. The tangible which was the high street vendor domination, interlocked with the industrialv and territorial aura of the neighbourhood, vs. its surrounding downtown aesthetic.
The site showed a variety of both formal and informal vending outposts. However, their was an informal law outlining the dimentions of each vending space, as well as the opening and closing hours
It was found that the peripheral experience of Tawfikeya highly overshadows the conventional architectural facades. There was also a minimal amout of trees on the sidewalks.
RESTORING CIVIL PRIDE - DESIGN PROJECT As part of the growing initiatives currently in Egypt and the role of architecture for social change- artistic expression and cultural identity has come to the forefront of many discussions. From traditional crafts, to historical graphic representations, to the emergence of contemporary art forms- such a digital art, graphics, calligraphy and graffiti art, Egyptian art is at a clear turning point. It is therefore the objective of this project is to create an architectural response to this shift, and design a contemporary art museum.
Elevated Streetscape Extension First Floor
Material Collection Vendor Infills Recycling Workshops
THE CONCEPT In an attempt to bring back art to an industrialized neighbourhood, this piece of architecture attempts to bridge the gap between the culture-oriented residents and the business-orientaed market arena. It is hypothecised that the prevelent boundrey between these two main user groups, is at the core of all of Tawfikeya’s problems. Hence, an artspace that utilizes urban timeshare and walkability fundementals, is created.
Youth and Research Node Exhibition Spaces Kids’ Node Sculpture Garden Ground Floor
Cafe Node
USER GROUPS Youth
Street Researchers Vendors Site
Residents
Kids
Youth gather at the sculpture garden and the recycling workshops. A kids’ zone attracts the whole family. The marketplace and oriental cafe attract the vendors. Researchers meet up in the workspace and project to the rest of the activities, teaching Tawfikeya’s users and learning from them.
Streetscape Extension
UTILIZING URBAN TIMESHARE
Stimulating Walkability
ARCHITECTURE OF LIGHT
Cultivating Territoriality
Advocating Permeability
Entrance -Sunrise
Entrances-Noon Entrances-Noon Central-Sunrise
Entrances -Afternoon Central-Noon
Entrances -Sunset
The streetscape extention uses strips of fabric that are attatched to steel skeleton structure. Their simple geometry is shaped according to the users’ needs. The fabric’s pattern can be changed depending on the festivities.
FORM GENERATION
FINAL DESIGN The final design is a complex of several functions connected through a spine. The spine starts from the present market activities in the main street, twists and truns inside the building, and creates a continuity into the neighbouring sideway.
Solid and void is combined with a streetscape spine. A public staircase leads an elevated streetscape.
Workshops are given a flexible structure. Nodes take the shape of downtown.
The roofscape is utilized for urban farming. Elevated streetscape and children’s nodes are cre-
Re-Envisioning Resources
INSPIRATIONS Family Attraction Coninuum of Marketplace
Neighbourhood Attraction
The main elevation draws everyone into the art space. Exhibitions reflects Downtown’s Neoclassical architecture. A furniture showroom draws in shoppers. A streetscape extensions works with the present market geopolitics. A public staircase welcomes the whole community.
The art workshops are built from refurbished car parts. This is to portray the different uses of such treasures. Some side panels open completely for ventillation while some roof panels act as skylights.
A visual connection is created between all user activities at all times. Light is utilized, both as a navigator and a shelter. LIGHT AS AN URBAN ACTOR
A steel structure is used for flexible spaces: - Kids’ zone - Vendor spaces - Workshops
GROUND FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:100
FIRST FLOOR WALKABILITY ROOF WALKABILITY URBAN FARMING
SIDEWAY
SITE LAYOUT
SCALE 1:200
STRUCTURE - MIDTERM The objective of this assignment is to deepen your understanding of the potential, limitations and expressive qualities of structural materials and their systems. Focusing on the primary structural material chosen for your project, you are each requested to demonstrate its scope, diversity, versatility and limitations. This exercise is to be carried out through a graphical exploration of diverse examples of this material, in different contexts and building types.
“Use the best possible materials and reveal the qualities of those materials and the craftsmanship of their assembly.� Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Table of Content: 1) Concrete a)Adjustable Forms, Inc. b)Ordos 100 #20 c)NEST HiLo Shell Roof 2) Recycled Materials a)McGee Salvage House b)Panhandle Bandshell 3) Steel a)Vakko Fashion Center & Power Media Centre 4) Hybrid Structures a)Collage House 5) References
Adjustable Forms Inc.
The project is comprised of an expansion and renovation of the existing office and warehouse facility.
Architects: DLR Group Location: USA Area: 20145.0 ft2 Project Year: 2013
Reinforcing elements are revealed in the form of a post-tension cable system that serves as a visible trellis system and a security wall application separating public and private.
Concrete as a material and a process Construction Methods: -
Post-tensioning roof and floor slabs Full height thermally broken and insulated
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sandwich walls Form liner and board formed textured walls Integrally colored stamped and polished
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concrete flooring Traditional reinforced concrete
Color, texture, and concrete mix Reused Building Elements: -
Structural piles Foundations
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Steel joists Columns Roof deck
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Brick masonry walls Existing concrete slabs (crushed and repurposed as granular fill material for new floor systems)
NEST HiLo Shell Roof
The project is a prototype of a two-story penthouse, which academic guests will use as accommodation and workspace.
Architects: Block Research Group, ETH ZĂźrich Location: Switzerland
Architects: Atelier Bow-Wow / Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Momoyo kaijima, Shun Takagi Location: China Area: 1,000 sqm Project year: 2008
Area: NA Project Year: 2017 This full-scale experiment investigates the feasibility of spraying a textile reinforced thin concrete shell using a lightweight flexible formwork composed of a tensioned cable net as falsework and tailored fabric as shuttering.
Ordos 100 #20
The house contains a protected courtyard around which bedrooms and smaller rooms are placed at the perimeter a height of 1 story.
Ultra-light Concrete Shells 5 meters tall concrete arches cover the entire interior space, creating a forest like condition. Within the repetition of the concrete arches, different types of spaces exist that contain varying light conditions,
Large surface area for heat transfer Purpose of The Node: -
Ensures the cable's freedom for shaping Facilitates the placing of the fabric and the textile
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reinforcement Provides a guide for the correct concrete thickness at any point
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Provides target points for the measurement of the as-built shell.
Development of the Cable-net and Fabric Formwork System The spraying of a thin layer of concrete through the carbonfibre reinforcement onto the fabric shuttering
Reduced Material Waste The cable net is spanned within a reusable timber boundary supported by conventional scaffolding.
scales and proportions, depending on orientation, adjacencies, and connections between spaces.
McGee Salvage House Architects: Leger Wanaselja Architecture Location: USA Area: 1140 ft2 Project Year: 2013
The project is comprised of a tiny architect’s house, built from salvaged materials.
Over 100 Salvaged Car Roofs
Resource efficient and low toxic materials. • All concrete contains 50% flyash cement • All interior doors have wheatboard cores. • All walls and ceilings are of unpainted plaster. • All the finish wood is salvaged wood. • Wood floors are sealed with a plant resin floor finish. • Woodwork and exposed steel beams are finished with a natural coating • The upper floor exterior finish is salvaged car roofs with original car paint intact. • The lower floor exterior finish is Poplar bark, from trees grown to make furniture. • The awnings are fabricated from junked Dodge Caravan side windows. Once advertised as “America’s best selling minivan”, now a common item in junk yards.
Salvage and Reuse
Panhandle Bandshell Architects: BRAF, The Finch Mob, REBAR Group, CMG Landscape
The project is a full-scale performance stage constructed almost entirely out of reclaimed and repurposed materials
Dismantle, Move and Re-assemble
Architecture and the North of the Panhandle Neighborhood Association (NOPNA) Undersides of the car hoods Location: USA were all painted to give a tinArea: 500 ft2 ceiling effect. Project Year: 2007, 2009, 2010
Reclaimed and repurposed materials: -
65 automobile hoods Hundreds of computer circuit boards
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3,000 plastic water bottles French doors Reclaimed wood
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Recycled structural steel
Fully Modular Structure
Vakko Fashion Center & Power Media Centre Architects: REX ARCHITECTURE P.C. Location: Turkey
The project is the new headquarters and production studios for preeminent fashion and media sister
Area: 9100.0 sqm
companies.
Project Year: 2010 A set of steel boxes that could be assembled in myriad configurations.
Clad in glass to permit views through to the inner building, made up of stacked mirrored boxes.
Abandoned Skeleton of an Unfinished Hotel
Adaptive-reuse
By slumping a structural “X” into each pane to increase the glass’s strength, the glass’s thickness was reduced and the need for perimeter mullions was eliminated.
Two structurally independent components (the “U-shaped” concrete skeleton, at which’s center, a new six-floor steel tower is available)
Collage House
The project is comprised of a home built by collaging different recycled materials and structural systems.
old vs. new,
Architects: S+PS Architects Location: India
traditional vs. contemporary rough vs. finished.
Area: 520.0 sqm Project Year: 2015
The project looks at the idea of recycling and collage in several ways, from the very physical - like materials, energy, etc. to the intangible - like history, space and memories.
Recycled materials: -
old windows and doors of demolished houses old textile blocks
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Flooring out of old Burma teak rafters and purlins colonial furniture fabric waste (chindi)
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Riveted scrap rusted metal plates Kitsch colored tiles Cut-waste stone slivers lifted off the back of stone cutting yards and waste generated on site, for wall
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cladding Hundred-year-old columns from a dismantled house carved wooden mouldings
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beveled mirrors heritage cement tiles
Concrete frame - in a rough aggregate finish outside and in a smooth form finish inside - wraps and connects all the spaces from back to front and across all three levels
A Delight For All The Senses.
Metal pipe leftovers pieced together like bamboo form a “pipe wall� integrating structural columns, rainwater downtake pipes and a sculpture of spouts Lightweight, steel and glass pavilion
Exposed concrete faceted ceiling above countered by the polished white marble with intricate brass inlay on the floor.
References: Adjustable Forms / DLR Group. (2014). Retrieved from https://www.archdaily.com/474918/adjustable-forms-dlrgroup Black Rock Arts Foundation. (n.d.). The Panhandle Bandshell | Black Rock Arts Foundation. Retrieved from http://blackrockarts.org/projects/civic-arts/scrapeden2007 Collage House / S+PS Architects. (2016). Retrieved from https://www.archdaily.com/786059/collage-house-s-plusps-architects McGee Salvage House. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.houzz.com/projects/519622/mcgee-salvagehouse Rebar Group, Inc. (n.d.). Panhandle Bandshell | Rebar Art & Design Studio | San Francisco. Retrieved from http://rebargroup.org/panhandle-bandshell/ Saleh, N. (2009). ORDOS 100 #20: Atelier Bow Wow. Retrieved from https://www.archdaily.com/14243/ordos-100-20atelier-bow-wow Tom Van Mele. (2017). Full-scale construction prototype of the NEST HiLo shell roof. Retrieved from http://www.block.arch.ethz.ch/brg/project/full-scaleconstruction-prototype-nest-hilo-shell-roof Vakko Headquarters and Power Media Center / REX. (2010). Retrieved from https://www.archdaily.com/56149/vakkoheadquarters-and-power-media-center-rex-2
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