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THE JEDDAH PROJECT _2013
THE THIRD WORLD_ 2012
OCCUPY THE BUFFER ZONE_ 2012
COSMOGONY OF BURNING MAN _2011
SHAPE TO FABRICATION _2011
THE SCHOOL OF NOSES _2011
RE-CONSTRUCTIVE CONTAINER_ 2011
COMMUNICATION CENTRE_ 2010
RESIDENCE_ 2010
** academic project
WAYS OF SEEING_ 2009
** practise project
* design workshop
ETRANCE TO PUBLIC SPACE
THE JEDDAH PROJECT _2013 INTERNAL OASIS SKYLIGHT
5 STAR HOTEL HOTEL ENTRANCE HOTEL PARKING
ENTRANCE TO INTERNAL OASIS PUBLIC PARKING
PUBLIC PARK RESIDENTIAL BLOCK
WATER CHANNEL AND STAR SKYLIGHT
FUNCTION HALL WATERFALL ON TOP
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hotel
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EAST SIDE 5 Star Hotel
It will consist of approximately 180
units and 2 penthouses taking special care to detail and elegance. The hotel will include a luxurious spa, a business centre, a conference room, an indoor/outdoor swimming pool and above all The World Restaurant. The well proportioned interior designs will boast high quality decorations satisfying even the demanding clients. CENTER OF THE PLOT I. The Internal Oasis will host all the public Facilities linked with water falls and set amongst luscious green landscape. II. There will be 10 different restaurants with outdoor/ indoor facilities. III. The project will also cover high end boutiques. NORTH WEST SIDE The part facing the west will be residential complex 1 and 2 bedrooms will accommodate all (size 80 – 120 sq. meter) services including Indoor and Outdoor Sports,Spa,nursery for Children SOUTH WEST SIDE It will fill the gap for the existing needs in Jeddah. It will be a high tech multipurpose function room which can be used for various events such as: conferences, meetings, seminars, workshops, special government and private events, marriages and other social occasions. It will also include an auditorium stage which can host 300 people. It will provide a high tech cinema room and special care and services will be provided for the celebrities.
cuba, politics of fabrication_2012 the third world Winning 1st Prize Design and Build an experimental proposal based on digital fabrications to change the relationship between architecture and public. The task was based to build a proposal out of any material brought from London to Cuba in the luggage or from found local objects.
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POLITICS ADAPTATION MOVEMENT
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phase 2: bridging plan level 1: scale : 1: 100
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OCCUPY THE BUFFER ZONE_2012
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OCCUPY THE BUFFER ZONE -CYPRUS: Inspired by the global “Occupy” movement, youths from across the divide in Cyprus have joined forces to set up camp inside the buffer zone that has split the island since 1974, demanding reunification. The activists are expanding day by day.
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Cyprus 1974: The forced geographical separation of the two main communities of the island, the Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots, today have been developed back to back, creating two realities separated but joined by the third space, the Buffer Zone. Because of the lack of a political solution to be given the “ Occupy” movement of Cyprus, have joined forces to set up camp inside the buffer zone demanding reunification. A network from different types of people with different backgrounds from both communities co-operate on site to create an actual and symbolic bridge. The assembly components are made out of waste timber found around the surrounding timber workshops. It is an emergent system that comes to life through a bi-communal effort to make their own style of living , and in that way becomes symbolic. The project is based on a time based growth of occupation in order to adapt to the expansion of the occupation in the future.
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http://wewanttolearn.wordpress. com/2012/06/17/occupy-the-bufferzone-final-thesis-project/
[Experiments for new materiality] Waste Timber + Additives = New Bricks
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NICOSIA/CAPITAL SCALE 1 :1000 [SHOPS/ WORKSHOPS] [GOVERMENTAL] [RESIDENTIAL] [OFFICE] [HISTORICAL] [EMPTY]
construction in process physical model
BUFFER ZONE 180km [CROSSING POINTS]
2008 Ledra Street recently opened on 3 April 2008 and now the most central of all crossings.
CYPRUS SCALE 1 :100 000 [DENSE TO SPARSE FOREST] [SPARSE FOREST AND BUSH] [BUFFER ZONE-UNITED NATIONS CONTROLED AREA] [GREEK CYPRIOT POPULATION] [TURKISH CYPRIOT POPULATION]
[Concept] Reconnecting the divided island of Cyprus
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More than one quarter of the population of Cyprus was expelled from the occupied northern part of the island where Greek Cypriots constituted 80% of the population. There was also a flow of roughly 60,000 Turkish Cypriots from the south to the north after the conflict The Turkish invasion ended in the partition of Cyprus along the UNmonitored Green Line which still divides Cyprus today.
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[Digital analysis of structural geometry] Rhino+ Grasshopper+ Hoopsnake
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occupy social area south entrance of bridge greek side north entrance of bridge turkish side bridge joint high point connection to existing buildings potential occupational spaces current vacant buildings greek check point
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London_2011 RoboFold factory shape to fabrication A new concept in architectural workshops. Experience the best in generative design software and digital fabrication techniques from the developers themselves. Four days of workshops that bring together software and hardware developers in 4 teams. Each team designs, fabricates and assembles components into a common structure. Tutors: Rupert Maleczek (KOGE, Innsbruck)//Al Fisher (Buro Happold)/Sam Joyce (Buro Happold) Element: Cantilever Leaders: Rupert Maleczek (KOGE, Innsbruck) Sam Joyce / Al Fisher (Buro Happold) Material: Re-Claimed sheet materials Hardware: 3-axis CNC router (RoboFold equipment) Output: Profiled beams Performance: Load bearing Software: SMART (Rhino plugin) Computation: Hanging chain optimisation Interface: Cast foundations / Metal facade
[Form finding process] Rhino+ Grasshopper
The cosmogony of burning man 2011
Cosmogony, as in the coming into existence, is a network of collaboration and participation in the city of burning man. Cosmogony is based on 50 000 components (10 variations of them) which will be given to 50 000 burners and their interaction will enable the social phenomenon of participation. People have their own freedom to make their own creations. People receive one single component with their ticket to the festival. The project is enabled only when the people intermingle with each other. The assembly process can be interesting and fun. It also invites curiosity. The beauty of the potential structure(s) is that no one knows where it will appear, it isn’t organized and it just grows. What is suggested is the direct interaction of humans. A manual of directions for possible structures to be made will be given to burners as a start point. A variety of scales, from a chair, to a bed, to a dancing platform to a mega structure. The aim of this project regardless of one’s physical capabilities, skills, interests or geographical location is to engage in the creation of a mega structure by adding their component to it. A structure made by everyone that belongs to everyone. When the festival will be over, the burners will be able to disassemble the structure and take their components back home. For more info visit: http://burningmanproject.wordpress.com/
THE academy for Noses 2010-2011
A redundant perfume factory set in a wasteland outside Madrid is (re)adjusted as an Academy for Noses. Once an immense Gal factory produced favourite Spanish scents. The one (huge) remaining building represents the last drop of this memory and skill base. In the whole world there are 500 Noses ‌ the gifted sniffers of the perfume industry. This extreme ratio is matched in perfume itself ‌ 15,000 lavender plants yield a mere 10ml of lavender oil. The academy sits in a field of lavender representing this equation. The lavender flowers are ritualistically harvested and prepared for an annual distillation ceremony coincident with the graduation of 5 more Noses. The thousands of oils arranged in tiny precious bottles and conjured by the Noses into seductive smells therefore represent an immense acreage. The students cultivate their knowledge and practice in laboratories, libraries and studios arranged within the factory shell, buffered from the odours of the everyday.
THE G.C.P. CENTRE 2008-2009
“There are three forms of visual Art. Painting is the Art to look at, sculpture is the art to walk around and architecture is the art to walk through�. The design explores the link between the three forms of visual Art and how they can be related in terms of space and form. Guernica of Picasso is the painting, Chicago Picasso is the sculpture and the Guernica Chicago Picasso Art Centre is the architecture. Like Painting, architecture arises out of political, social and cultural ideas that influenced my conception. Through a journey of visual perception influenced by material, space and light the relationship between art and context is explored.