Nancy Morsy _ Architecture Portfolio

NANCY MORSY

Education

2019-2022

Masters of Science

Politecnico di Milano, Italy Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design | Score 110/110

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NANCY MORSY

ITA.

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EGY. EGY. EGY.

2 December, 1995, Cairo, Egypt. nancymorsy. linkedin.com/in/nancymorsy-88664015b

issuu.com/nancymorsy5017 behance.net/nancymorsy +39 3479216040 nancy.aly@mail.polimi.it +20 1001945675 nancymorsy@hotmail.com

About me

I’m a Master Degree Holder in Sustainable Architecture and Landscape design from Politecnico di Milano university in Italy; with a score of 110/110. I worked at Massimo Novati Architecture Studio in Italy and I built up my skills in groups of different nationalities in which we’ve exchanged expertise and backgrounds in architecture and landscape fields. I conferred my bachelor degree from Ain Shams University, Faculty of Engineering, Landscape Architecture, credit hours program with a project GPA 4. My three year architecture experience in Italy awarded me intelligence and opened my mind to different perspectives and shared skills and ideas while benefiting from the best of each leaving me with an eager potential to invest more knowledge and talent to my designs.

2014-2019 2021-2022

Bachelor Degree High School Diploma

Degree B.arch from Ain Shams University, Landscape Architecture - Credit hours program

IGCSE New Ramses College, Cairo, Egypt.

Trinity College Diploma

Conferred all 8 grades and preparing a diploma in Trinity college of London in Music performance and teaching.

Employment

Nov-Current

2011-2014 2005-2012 2016-2017

UNii Design Engineering

Consultancy

Architect Designing architecture, urban and landscape projects located in Egypt and Qatar.

Massimo Novati Architecture Studio, Italy

Architect Handled interdisciplinary tasks in Architecture and Landscape projects located in Italy as well as site visits and municipality bids.

Arab Contractors, Egypt

Intern Site Engineer Execute site engineering work.

2013-now

2013-2014

Piano Tutor English, Maths and Music Tutor

Suzan Mubaraks center Heliopolis Sporting Club Taught participants at and Heliopolis Sporting Club music piano performance at it’s dierent levels.

Private piano tutor for students enrolled in Trinity college of London.

Taught young children at three nurseries the English language, as well as organizing their files and preparing music sheets to perform a choir while playing on the piano.

Voluntary work Languages Software

Pianist at Arabesque Orchestra Performance, Egypt

PR member in ISLC (International Student Leadership Conference), Egypt

PR member in Basmah Charity Organization, Egypt

ARABIC

ENGLISH

Native C1 B1

Microsoft Office

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

AutoCAD

Photoshop

QGis

3Ds Max

Revit

Lumion

Rhino Sketchup

Premiere Pro

A1

ITALIAN

URBAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL REGENERA

TION PROJECTS

WATERSCAPE GREEN/BLUE BELT PIACENZA, ITALY

MASTER THESIS PROJECT ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT

EXPERIMENTAL JOURNEY FROM THE CITY TO THE RURAL CREMONA, ITALY

RELOOPING HISTORY IN LANDSCAPE TECHNIQUES MILAN, ITALY

NEW CITY IN UPPER EGYPT CAIRO, EGYPT

RESIDENTIAL COMPOUND AND RESORT RAS SUDR, EGYPT

INTERNSHIP PROJECT: A MULTI-USE FLOATING PLATFORM COMO, ITALY

ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN PROJECTS

TECHNOLOGICAL HOUSE IN A FOREST KOWLON, HONG KONG

PRIMARY SCHOOL REGENERATION RHO FIERA MILANO, ITALY

LAGOON ISLAND REGENERATION VENICE, ITALY

LIBRARY PROJECT AL-MINYA, EGYPT

INTERNSHIP PROJECT: A RESIDENTIAL BUILDING IN THE HISTORICAL CITY CENTER COMO, ITALY

BACHELOR THESIS PROJECT NEW ALAMEIN, EGYPT

CULTURAL CENTER CAIRO, EGYPT

MIXED USE BUILDING CAIRO, EGYPT

LIGHTING PROJECT CAIRO, EGYPT

MASTER THESIS PROJECT

REGENERATION OF HERITAGE COASTAL SITES THROUGH NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS

ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT

Climate changes and urban growth are two trends that force the world to consider the urban resilience to disasters in the coming years. This research studies the problems and vulnerability of the Al-Max village to the floods and sea level rise and how to follow Nature Based Solutions and Green infrastructure to manage the upcoming flood events in the area.

THESIS RESEARCH: https://issuu.com/nancymorsy5017/docs/thesis_ nancy_saleh

Canal Waterfront

Fishing Village

Lake Waterfront

Canal and lake waterfronts as well as wetlands are designed to store water in high flood seasons.

The fishing village is designed to be on the highest points from the sea level as an adapting measure to the flooding seasons.

The colors of the buildings in the new fishermen village are inspired from the colors of the informal settlements of the fishermen that were demolished by the government.

MASTERPLAN

Area: 0.75 km2

Al-Max old lighthouse

Commercial area

Al-Max low lighthouse

Mediterranean sea waterfront

Flea market

Buffer area

Al-Mamlouk fortress

Cultural area

Wadi Al-Qamar dwellings

Cultural center

AlMax canal waterfront Recreational park

Rain garden

Lake Mariout waterfront

Fishing village and wetlands

Al-Max high lighthouse

Commercial area

The historical and abandoned buildings of a high value are regenerated sustainably.

Tourists in the historical area will be in direct contact with the locals in order to experience their traditions and lifestyle.

CULTURAL PLAZA

Al-Mamlouk fortress

Open space / Detention pond

Open space / Detention pond

Cultural center (Regenerated)

Cultural open space

Wadi Al-Qama dwellings

Recreational park Green buffer

RESIDENTIAL

NORTH COAST, EGYPT

COMPOUND

A project designed by UNii Design Engineering Colnsultancy architecture team

This is a part of my intervention in the project design proposal according to the cliet requirements. I designed the landscape, buildings distribution, masterplan, basement floor plan with the parking and architecture design of the residential buildings. A residential compound that includes residential buildings with commercial facilities like a mall, hotel and social hubs. The land varies in heights from 0 to -18m below sea level.

The land is divided into three phases, phase 1 and phase 2 include the residential buildings in a symmetrical order with their landscape of pools, outdoor spaces, kids garden, amphitheatre, gardens and cafes. While phase 3 includes the mall, hotel and sport facilities like courts.

The project consists of 35 buildings that vary in types according to their area and direction, as well as a mall and hotel that consists of residential studios and apartments.

This plan illustrates the buildings distribution and landscape of phase 1 project design.

MASTERPLAN - PHASE 1

There are three building types in the project, A,B and C. All the types include 4 flats per floor that differ in their size.

In type A, the typical floor includes 4 flats in which the two large flats can be divided into studios and small apartments in other floors.

BACHELOR THESIS PROJECT

UNIVERSITY OF PEACE IN POST WAR RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY.

NEW ALAMEIN, EGYPT

Inspired by the world war II that took place in Al-Alamein city. Allies participated in the world war ll with it’s power whether it’s economic, scientific, industrial, information Adding that the largest military base in the Middle East is the Mohammed Najib Military Base in Al-Alamein region.

University of Peace in Post War Research, Development and Technology is committed to enriching it’s students with knowledge and information to be equipped with the mental moral and physical attributes rquired to cope with future technological challenges while developing sustainable peace with a focus on leadership, technology and the principles of peace-making, integrity, comunity and equality.

A powerful country should always be steady to defend itself from any war or attack tha it’s exposed to nowadays while taking into account developing the universal peace as it is a key power to maintaining it’s sustainability and it’s relations with other countries.

MASTERPLAN

Faculty of Envirnomental Engineering

Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Plaza

Research centersand virtual reality labs located in the basement floor

Faculty of Civil an Architecture Engineering

Faculty of leadership and non-profit administration

Faculty of Peace development

Museum and exhibition

Conference hall Administration

Faculty of mechanical engineering

Faculty of electrical engineering

Faculty of chemical engineering

Male dorms

Entrepreneurship center and post graduate research center

Sports center

Female dorms

Faculty of political science

FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

A KEY FORCE FOR DEFENCE A guideline for duture generations for peace-making development

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

FACULTY PHYSICAL MODEL

COURT SHELL CONCEPT

It’s surrounded by curtain walls representing political transparency with a voronoi pattern in the ceiling representing transmission of information.

EXHIBITION SCENARIO

Students enter through a maze experiencing war and conflict narrating the story of the World War ll with monuments and story boards and as the go up the mezzanine they experience peace with visual art and visual reality (VR). Adding the outdoor exhibition in the back of the museum which represents open mindness and the use of nature in a sustainable way getting through the inner peace of the students.

SHADE AND PIGEON CONCEPT

Glass and wooden strips of voronoi represent peace as they are inspired from the figure of a pigeon that connect the world together after the war as a postwar development

Seatings are designed in the shape of the pigeon wing.

Light structures are covered by a roof that represents the wing of a pigeon pointing to the direction of the faculty indicating peace.

DELINEATION LIGHTING TECHNIQUE FOR A DYNAMIC EFFECT

WATERSCAPE: PIACENZA’S BLUE/GREEN BELT

PIACENZA, ITALY

The southern area of Piacenza Province is hilly and full of mountains. There are four valleys that pass through them rivers and streams that some of them can still be traced in Piacenza today. The north of Piacenza, which overlooks the Po River, is the plain side, the location makes it a very fertile land especially its surrounding, the small towns. As a result agriculture is one of the most important economy in the city. Piacenza covers an area in the Po valley, on the right bank of the river Po; it is a completely flat terrain, with an average altitude on the sea level of 61 meters (going from a minimum of 43 meters to a maximum of 88 meters).

The concept focuses on establishing a series of re-habitation strategies on site that is reclaimed for human development, and emphasizes the site as a seeding process for the natural systems, as well as environmental education and eco-tourism. The belt provides key ecosystem services, regenerate abandoned areas & offers recreational opportunities, contributing to healthy lifestyles.

PROJECT RESEARCH: https://issuu.com/nancymorsy5017/docs/waterscape_piacenza_s_green_blue_belt

[Group Project]

Across the rural and urban wonders of Piacenza

This Route is made to unravel the relationship between the city and the rural areas of Piacenza using the infrastrcuture.

Two locations were selected across the rural and city center for a story telling process in an attempt to unravel the landscape system of Piacenza and understand it better. The first map from the rural side and the second is from the city center.

The second selected path in the rural area of Piacenza was the longer path, the one used for leisure, not for haste. Through this route, the different layers were identified and their intensity at different locations. From the small sections it is quite clear the depth and inntgration of the elements together to create this world of Cashinas.

The goal is to recreate a diverse local habitat. Using existing trees and new added ponds as a foundation, the idea is to apply minor earth shaping and careful replanting of local trees, shrubs and aquatic plants to restore shelters and habitats for aquatic life, amphibians and birds. In order to restore the resilience of flood retention and utilize riparian spaces, an adaptive landscape is suggested based on the existing topography and recreated ones: the lowest areas to be floodable natural wetlands, areas of lower flood risk were used for constructed wetlands and the highest areas on site for recreational, educational, production and leisure spaces.

DEFENSE SYSTEM

An upgraded Piacenza Belt that brings together both sides (Rural and Urban) in one place and co-exisit. Through the creation of a Blue/Green Belt established a series of re-habitation strategies to see Piacenza from a new prespective.

Building a “living filter”

A new Meandring Waterbody to imporve the Hydrological Function Opportunity. Hydrology filter layer: Replacing the existing system of dead-end and disconnected canals is a series of free-flowing rivulets, streams, ponds and marshland.

Productive Green Corridors

A multifunctional Network of open spaces along the canals where a system of retention reservoirs for excess water during flood season for water purification and productive landscape.

Wetland restoration, urban agriculture & reforestation

The ecological framework will adapt to the site condition over time. Bringing back wetlands that improve water quality.

Transitional belt

The belt is a primary link between the rural and urban zone with the tangenciale and a grey infrastructure, the transitional will be a green and blue infrastructure.

Natural water as cultural water

Public infrastructure of water systems that brings ecological developments and cultural activities together. Programs along the river, providing habitat for endangered species and making the water system visible to the public to celebrate water and culture.

MIXED USE BUILDING

The building is located in downtown cairo, egypt. it’s an area with a historical heritage that should be valued in the design, so a post modern identity is the charge for solving the challenge of preserving the historical identity while adding a sense of up to date integration.

The building is of a mixed use of commercial and residential. The ground and first floors are of commercial use, there are shops, cafes, a gym and a library; the upper floors are of residential use of three typical floors and the last two floors are duplexes. The basement floor is the underground parking area.

PHYSICAL MODEL

DOWNTOWN, CAIRO, EGYPT

NURTURED BY NATURE, DRIVEN BY TECHNOLOGY

KOWLON, HONG KONG

[Group Project]

Nature drives technology where technology acts as a medium between man and nature. by Understanding the human needs from nature post coronavirus pandemic. Choosing “hong kong”, an urban city that is surrounded by a great natural potential that is totally neglected for technology and targetting The modern man for the future was very relevant for A technological house in the middle of “forest” nature is designed all open to nature with no boundaries.

PROJECT JOURNAL: https://issuu.com/nancymorsy5017/docs/technological_house

Movement Diagram House Program

ILLUMINATED COLUMNS IMITATING THE VERTICALITY OF THE TREES

NANCY MORSY

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