ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO OF ABDULLAH NASIB
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CV
DOB: 11 / 07 /1996
C: +44 7469685412
E: nasib.96au@gmail.com
I am an architect from India and I have completed my MArch programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture. In the programme, we researched on reappraising the linear building life-cycles holistically, with the aid of Architectural robotics, Machine learning and designs developed with the support of Computational Algorithms. I am aspired to build my architectural career in this direction.
Education M Arch Architectural Design (Research Cluster 3 - Living Architecture) Bartlett school of Architecture, London B Arch MEASI Academy of Architecture, Chennai
2020 - 2021 2014 - 2019
Experience S Square Architects ; Residence, Gated Community, Retail Space Intern Architect (4 Months)
2018
Najeeb Associates ; Residence, Mosque, Shopping Complex Intern Architect (5 Months)
2017
Freelance ; Residence, Airport (Competition), Shopping complex, Auditorium, Office Architect (9 Months)
2019 - 2020
Honours Westminster Design competition - Special Mention Space Fest Pavilion Design Competition - 2nd place RFT Visualization Competition - Honourable mention
2016 - 2017 2019 2020
Language English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam
Skills 2D/ 3D Modelling Rhinoceros
Enscape Vray
Grasshopper Karamba
Post Processing
Maya + Animation Revit AutoCad Marvelous Sketch Up
Photoshop Illustrator InDesign After Effects Microsoft Office
Programming Language
Miscellaneous
C# Python (basic)
3D printing Laser cutting Jigsaw Cutting Raspberry pi (basic)
Game Engine Unity Rendering Lumion
Undergraduate Academic Work
Freelance Work
Graduate Research & Competition Work
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Index Urban Centre pg 8
Apartment
Auditorium
Residence
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pg 30
pg 14
Graduate Research pg 34
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Cruise Terminal pg 18
Airport pg 46
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Part 1
Udergraduate Academic Works 2017 - 2019
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Rhino + Grasshopper + Sketch Up + V Ray + Lumion + Photoshop
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RETTERI URBAN CENTRE 2018 - Academic Work
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Location: Chennai, Tamilnadu Urban Centre is proposed on a waterfront area. The main motive of the design was to break the concrete and glass composition in the city view and to develop a space where the public can escape from the traffic and pollution. The landscape continues from ground to roof to create an infinite loop which can create a sense of playfulness to the users. And the spaces are strategically placed to receive a scenic view of the lake.
Building Mass formation
Service point
Pedestrian walkway
Office drop off
Shopping drop off
Resultant space after carving out the circulation
Loop
Connecting the roof to the ground
Carving out the courtyard space for light and ventilation
Addition of Office block
Floor Plans Ground
Basement
CC BB
CC BB
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First Floor CC
BB
Lake View
Second Floor
Office Floor CC BB
CC BB
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Part Sections
Section BB
RG
RG
TF
TF
SF
SF
FF
FF
M
M
B1
B1
B2
B2
B3
B3
Section CC
Lake
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Lake View
Roof Garden Stack effect
Vehicular circulation Entrance
Wind
Public
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Sketch Up + V Ray + Photoshop
URBAN BLOCK APARTMENT 2017 - Academic Work
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Location: Chennai, Tamilnadu The design agenda was to create a balance between the buildings and greenery to fight these issues. Provision of roof gardens, private and public balconies for social interactions and functions. The ground space is completely allotted for vehicular movements by elevating all the recreational spaces to podium level. Thus enhancing saftey and comfort.
Building Mass formation
Typical Floor Plans B
F
A
D
E
Block A
C
Blocks
F B
E
D
C
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Block F
Suitable stacking
Block A
Subtraction of spaces for light and ventilation
Addition of roof gardens
Block E
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Block E
Block E
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Residential Units : 97 Bedrooms : 184 Parking : 117 car parking Block B
Block B
Block D
2BHK and 3BHK units are designed as 2 storey units to give the users the feel of a conventional house and the sense of spaciousness. Although the features inside the unit vary all the units follows same base layout.
2BHK
1BHK
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Location: Trivandrum, Kerala
VIZHINJAM CRUISE TERMINAL 2019 - Thesis Work
India is ranked as the 9th most popular tourist destination in the world and is today considered a preferred cruise destination. The government of India has recognised cruise tourism as a thrust area and initiated several positive measures to promote the cruise industry and position India as a global cruise destination. And this terminal design is a reimagined version of the government proposal. Unlike conventional cruise terminals, the topography of the site is not flattened for the functioning of the
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terminal. Instead, the spaces are organised into distinct levels along the contour to compliment the building function. The site allotted for the terminal is an integral part of the port. Therefore, the terminal is divided into 2 blocks to conceal the industrial environment of the port and to secure the port from the public and vice versa. These blocks are placed at 2 extreme ends of the port and are connected by an elevated corridor. While the primary block connects the users to the land transportation facilities, the secondary block connects the users to the Cruise ship.
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Rhino + Grasshopper + Revit + Lumion + Photoshop
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Spatial organisation
Service Area 2790 m2
Departure 5110 m2
Office 450 m2
Arrival 3227 m2 Monorail transit 4240 m2
Roof Garden 1750 m2 Commercial 2485 m2
The site is located on a heavily contoured region. Ergo each block is distinguished and arranged along the contour to reduce site intervention and is carefully manoeuvred to provide the best hospitality and view.
Circulation
Elevated Corridor
Disembarkation
Embarkation
Public
Each block is interlinked and it is the circulation patter which distinguish between spaces. This enables the users to identify their path without the support of sign boards or assistance.
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Section
The passenger and luggage flow is directed in downward direction for convenience and to conserve energy expenditure in luggage belts and escalators.
Views
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The waiting lounge & monorail platform is sandwiched between departure and arrival to facilitate easy accessibility to both emigrants and immigrants.
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The departure area is designed to have proper visual connectivity to all the relevant spaces.
The entrance & frontage is designed to attract the passengers as well as the public.
The cruise terminal site is located 1.2 km away from the wharf. Therefore, an elevated monorail corridor is proposed to connect the passenger to the wharf, this enhances the passenger comfort, view and reduces the traffic in the port.
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Part 2
Freelance Works 2019
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Rhino + Grasshopper + Lumion + Photoshop
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DH AUDITORIUM 2019 - Freelance Work
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Location: Palakkad, Kerala Based on client’s interest the whole design was manoeuvred to construct on steel. But due to the warm humid climate, it is necessary to protect the interior from heating up, Thus the idea of wrapping the building using a covered staircase and ramp was introduced. This eventually became the main feature that emphasized the aesthetics and function of the auditorium.
Level 1
Level 2
Isometric Sectional view
Spaceframe shell
Seating : 1000+ Dining capacity : 500 Parking : 60 cars + 1 van + 2 buses
Balcony, 400+ seating
Seating area 600+
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Dining
Glazing
Ramp
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The auditorium design ensures that the users have a memorable and comfortable experience in the interior aswell on the exterior of the building.
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HOUSE RENOVATION
Initial Structure
2019 - Freelance Work
Location: Palakkad, Kerala The primary motive of the work was to enhance the quality and aesthetics of the spaces and overall building. The building had several circulation issues in the interior as well as in the exterior. All of these issues were solved by reorganising everything with minimum intervention to the pre-existing structure. Reorganising made the place more spacious, for instance, previously the site had only one car parking space, but now it can contain two cars + bikes. For this project, almost everything was retained in the building including the furniture, to reduce the expenditure. Therefore, a bottom to top approach was taken while designing, that is the spaces are designed based on the existing furniture and craftmanship available locally. Balcony
Entrance
Living Room
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Part 3
Graduate Research 2020 - 2021
Details Read
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AMENITIES NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGY 2021 - Academic Research
Team members: Abdullah Nasib U, Shizhao Wang, Yixuan Xu, Haoyue Zhang ANT (Amenities Navigation Technology) responses to today’s housing crisis with a logistics-based solution utilizing autonomous distributed robots to reconfigure private and shared interior spaces to negotiate the requirements of its inhabitants. Inspired by space stations where all surfaces are utilized and warehouse robotics, the project embeds a continuous system of rails for robots to navigate, distribute, and store spatial elements and furniture across walls, ceilings, and floors in a continuously adaptive building life cycle. A series of robots were designed and evolved via sequential prototypes testing the constraints of the system. The architectural system employs a controlled set of continuous curvatures enabling robots to access all interior surfaces. Robotic agents
were trained in a simulator using deep reinforcement learning to learn collaborative space planning policies while navigating the rail system. Cellular automata research was developed exploring neighbourhood relationships to influence the configuration of space in the design process. A spatial assembly algorithm generates continuous building assemblages. An agentbased pedestrian algorithm was developed to simulate the changing building states in relation to dynamic occupancy. Finally, augmented and virtual reality was leveraged in a custom platform allowing people living in the building to interact with and influence their spaces enabling shared space optimization while considering each user’s unique lifestyle.
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Rhino + Grasshopper + Unity + C# + VRay + Photoshop
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Concept Conventional space usage According to conventional model around 1/3rd of space volume is disused
Usage
Static Rail
Proposed space usage Dynamic Rail
Usage
Therefore, we leveraged robots to make use of the inaccessible regions in the room. These regions are used to store architectural elements and furniture and use it when needed. This enables a single room to transform into 4 or 5 different types of spaces.
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Rails are used to facilitate the navigation of the rob rails. The static rails are responsible for the form a spatial layout transformation.
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Setup
Full setup
Conceptual section of the building chunk
Rails and robot setup
Robot with furniture component
Robot with wall component
Stage 1 Full setup
Robot with floor component
Rails and robot setup
ots. The system contains two types of rails which are static rails and dynamic and structure of the building, while dynamic rails are responsible for interior
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Work flow Spatial Assembly Algorithm
Each component defines a space with different features or functions. Massing Algorithm
Spatial Components
Input ratio of spaces(Public, Private, Atrium & Courtyard) required
Robotic Development
Algorithm building optio spatial com
Massing based on environmental conditions and sunlight analysis
Version 1
Version 2
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produces ons using the mponents.
Sample Results
This algorithm provides the details of spatial layout
Spatial Transformation Algorithm
Reinforcement Learning
Different spatial and furniture organisation of the same space at various time period
Final Robot version: This robot is responsible for making the spatial alterations.
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Spatial Assembly After testing and identifying the requirements of the robots to function effectively, we developed spatial components which are fed into SA (An algorithm developed by taking inspirations from the Wave function collapse algorithm). Along with the spatial components, the Mass of the building is also fed. Using this algorithm we can develop and analyse a plethora of design options that adhere to all the applied rules and constraints. Conceptual Section of the generation
Space ratio controller
Mass
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Reinforcement Learning The robots are trained on the digital platform to navigate in the space, idetifying its obstacles and shortest distance to the target position. Navigation 1
Robot population 30%
Navigation 50
Robot population 50%
Graphs showing the success rate and other values. Each colour line represents a training set
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Robot population 70%
Training Arena
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Spatial transformation Algorithm This algorithm is responsible for the spatial layout variation in the interior by assigning positions for the robots with wall components. The algorithm functions based on the user circulation in the space.
People simulation
Optimisation
Rooms
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Common Space
Circulation
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Interior Panoramic Views
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Part 4
Competition Work 2020
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ASA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 2020
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Rhino + Grasshopper + Lumion + Photoshop
Team members: Abdullah Nasib UmmerFarook, Bharani Dharan (Architect at Airport Authority of India) Location: Saudi Arabia The airport is designed for GAFZ. The airport has 5 gates in total and 17 ‘Code E’ Apron parking facilities. The airport is designed to carry the essence of Arabic culture. The glazings and specially designed roof panels enrich the spaces with natural light. Thus, making the structure feel more lightweight and giving a sense of serenity to the passengers. Likewise, this enhances the energy conservation of the terminal. The airport is designed for 10 million travellers annually in phase 1 and 30 million by phase 3(final phase). The airport
and plaza together attracts a lot of visitors and generates revenue throughout the year. The departure and arrival block is designed conventionally, however, the frontage of both blocks are connected to a huge Plaza. The plaza contains a large semi-indoor landscape area with elevated walking corridors, retail spaces and a prayer hall. This plaza enables travellers to have quality time with their family and friends and to maximise their travelling experience. Thus, each space in the airport ensures a soulful experience for the passengers.
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Waiting Area
Paid concourse
Green Spine
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Security check
Check In
Elevated walkway at the plaza
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Grasshopper file
Boundary
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Internal columns and its details.
Roof and its details.
External columns and its details.
The main structure is modelled entirely using grasshopper by inputting just the boundary of the building from Rhino.
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