NAVID M AANI GHAFOURI PORTFOLIO
Navid Maani Ghafouri Iranian, born 15 sep 1995
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Islamic Azad University of Mashhad - IAUM Sep 2013 - Sep 2018 | GPA: 17.67/ 20 Caai School of Architecture - CAAI Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE CYCASS ltd. Mashhad, Iran| 6 months| 2014 | Graphics and UI Designer IAUM Architectural Academic Association Mashhad, Iran| 1 year| 2015 | Secretary ZARVAN Architectural Company Mashhad, Iran| 1 year| 2016 | Designer NEXT OFFICE Studio of Architectural Research and Design Tehran, Iran| 4 months| 2018 | R&D team
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Design Research Graphic Design 3D Modeling Rendering Post Production Animating Physical Modeling Langueges
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Sketchup Pro, Rhinoceros, Autodesk Revit Lumion, Keyshot Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, Lumion, Cinema 4D Handcrafting of foam board, balsa wood and wire
Farsi (Native), English (Fluent)
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PROJECTS
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Architectural Design 5| JAN 2018 | Islamic Azad University of Mashhad Tutor: Prof. Leila Zamani
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Eco-Plug| SEP 2017 |CAAI School of Architecture Tutor: Houman Talebi (Plugin Systems Studio)
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SKY DIUM
Skydium| MAY 2017 |CAAI School of Architecture Tutor: Houman Talebi (Plugin Systems Studio)
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Architectural Design +| SEP 2018 | Islamic Azad University of Mashhad Tutor: Dr. Mehran Kheirollahi
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IN BETWEEN POTENTIALS| AUG 2018 |CAAI Workshop Tutors: Prof. Helder Casal Ribeiro, Prof. Cristina Pallini
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Architectural Design 4| JAN 2017 | Islamic Azad University of Mashhad Tutor: Eng. Kourosh Abdi, Eng. Navid Nazemi
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Gradient Space| FEB 2017|CAAI School of Architecture Tutors: Homa Farjadi, Houman Talebi, Alireza Taghaboni, Farshad Mehdizadeh
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Inversives| APR 2017 |CAAI School of Architecture Tutor: Houman Talebi (Plugin Systems Studio)
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JACUZZY| NOV 2017 |ArcXsite Competition
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Architectural Design 2| JAN 2016 | Islamic Azad University of Mashhad Tutor: Prof. Naser Mohseni, Eng. Mahshid Livdani
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Architectural Design 3| JUNE 2016 | Islamic Azad University of Mashhad Tutor: Eng. Sistana Sarshaar
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PROFESSIONAL WORK SAMPLES NEXT OFFICE
GUYIM VILLA | SAFADASHT DUAL | VILLA FOR A FRIEND |
Section Drawing + Details
Section Drawing + Diagrams
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Rendering + Post Production
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Rendering + Post Production
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SADRA ARTISTS FORUM |
SHARIFI-HA HOUSE |
MARZ DESIGN NAMAK ABROUD| ZARVAN BUS STATION Design|
Section + Structural Drawing Section + Plan Drawing Section Perspective Drawing
GRAPHIC DESIGNS
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ARCHITECTURAL VIDEO PRESENTATIONS
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CONTACT INFO
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Regarding the increasing approach to living in residential complexes, the necessity of paying attention to the design and decision making about these spaces becomes serious. Also, one of the problems that we face it today, is the matter of amount and type of people’s social interaction in the residential places, having increasingly been weakened recently, due to the gradually fading concept of neighborhood. Accordingly, the hypothesis of present study is based on the principle that, the way of organizing elements and blocks in residential complexes –due to its effect on factors like legibility, permeability, flexibility, and domain- can influence the formation of public and semipublic spaces, and consequently affect the social interaction of residents.
JAN 2018|IAUM| RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX
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URBAN DENSITY ANALYSIS
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Pixels indicate three conditions of urban density in order to simulate the exisiting pattern inside 600 dastgah and extend it through the site.
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Sitting the masses in a more coherent settlement in terms of the proportion of open spaces existing on the ground to the residential masses, I came up with several different settlements and picked one, as the final alternative. These were all followed by the analysis of the existing pattern of distribution in other sorrounding residential complexes.
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The design of the typical units was a pararel process to the design of the whole settlement, in which each unit differes in every block, due to the needs of different family types, considered before designing the whole housing units. To find the possible location of each block, a pixelization method was used in order to comeup with the best possible proportion of the open spaces, compared to the housing blocks.
The environmental issue of Tehran is not a new thing. It has become one of the most essential phenomena of the city since the last few decades which also has raised the global attentions. The question is about the steps we have taken to control it.
GREEN SPACE PER CAPITA IN TEHRAN These massive ecological spaces were designed before the new urban developement of district 22 and they do not have an strong connection to the urban fabric.
SEP 2017 | CAAI | LANDSCAPE URBANISM
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Landscapes along Chitgar Lake
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Low rises along Latmal
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PLACE A LINEAR PRODUCTS SELLING OPEN SPACE TO THE INDUSTRIAL ZONES IN ORDER TO CONNECT THE AGRICULTURAL FIELDS.
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ATTACH A SECOND SKIN TO THE SHADED FACE OF THE BUILDING TO USE THE SHADOWS EFFICIENTLY.
FULFILL THE STREET LINES WITH GREEN SPACES TO MAKE AN INTERCONNECTION WITH THE POCKET PARKS.
RELEASE THE RADIAL LANDSCAPE TO THE SURROUNDING OPEN SPACES.
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PLACING A SURFACE AS A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE TWO SEPARATE PARTS OF FOREST.
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PROPOSED MASTERPLAN
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Skydium is a programmatic integration between two common buildings. When the introversion of the stadium interacts with the extroversion of skypod, it can produce spaces with new functions and programmes. This practice tries to discover these spatial and programmatic possibilities.
MAY 2017| CAAI SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
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The alternatives are developed in order to understand more about the physical interactional potentials between the two buildings. Every alternative aims to find new possibilities in the programmatic aspects of the spaces.
Different alternatives of sectional interactions
Early Hand-Sketches
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In today’s world, not only the universities, but also other spaces such as dormitories and cafes are in charge of educating young people. These spaces often provide the possibiliy of social interactions among students, away from the control of their universities. However, to a large extend, collegians nowadays use dorms as a temporary residence to only have rest and eat, I tried to widen the scope of my investigation in order to come up with the idea of more interactional spaces, in order to discover potentials out of a typical building. A community center in touch with the urban life, located inside one of the un-used parks near the university can be a great help, when it comes along with a dormitory.
SEP 2018 | IAUM | DORMITORY & COMMUNITY CENTER
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One of the most notable challenges in terms of finding a suitable site for the proposed building was to find the best possible area that can remain remote from the traffic congestions and at the same time, be connected to the exsiting public transportation routes. This site, with 1800 m2 area, facilitates the students with a great convinience both in their residence and connection to the urban facilities.
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The idea was to take the advantage of a park which is now out of use, in a way that lift its green landscape to make room for the public functions provided by the community center. And also put the residential blocks in a way that does not limit the pedestrian routes.
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The projects sits in a way to create a habitable space inside a park. It is comprised of a 13 meter wide dormitory masses over a park, adjacent to the university in order to engage the landscape with communicational programmes below the ground.
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The most conspicuous material is the exposed concrete that makes up faรงades. Horizontal louvers are used with three different dimensions. They are attached each with the maximum cantilever from the vertical support to create a woven pattern to comprise a unified faรงade to the public, and shaded walkways with a dynamic play of light for the inhabitants.
In every large city, there exists lots of spatial potentials to develope new spaces in harmony with the needs of modern citizens. The sorroundings of city theater of Tehran, existed at the heart of the most memorable cultural landmarks of the city, has not been experiencing any foundamental changes throughout the past decades, while the need to develope a set of new programs is becoming vitally important. This project aims to come up with spaces to activate some of the potentials of the site.
AUG 2018 | IN BETWEEN POTENTIALS WORKSHOP | TEHRAN
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PROPOSED SPACES
City Theater
The connection between the two main focal points, the underground station and the core of the park, come together in two interconnecting spaces that is proposed in this project. This will direct the flow of people and the activities that they can not find a proper place, like street selling and performing, to a more proper space.
City Theater of Tehran
Existing Park Proposed space
Underground connection below the plaza
The Underground subway station
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The main challenge in the architectural scale was to place the demanded programmes, in a way that would not enterfere with the existing activitie that are taking happen in the site. The Programme was to design a cafe, a box office, a multi-purpose hall and an event space for some national and religious ceremonies. Early hand sketches
The interactions between the existing park, adjacent to the proposed space
As it may seem from my earliest sketches, the necessity of causing the minumum changes to the skyline of the site led me to think about a penetration to the underground, instead of putting objects on top of the plaza, which could appear a noise to the existing plaza.
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Unlike the most hotels in Mashhad which seemingly try to isolate themselves from the street and local communities, this hotel opens its interior boundaries to the city in order to make a spatial organization, leading to an effective interaction between tourists and the local people.
IAUM | HOTEL | JAN 2017
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SOLAR PATH STUDY In order to cast the minimum shadow on the sorroundings of the site, we tried different formations of mass blocks.
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The elemtns inside the public spaces of the hotel like lobby and cafe, try to connect with the exterior spaces, in order to deliver a sense of continuety between inside and outside. Given the site, there was a limitation to the built area. To analyse different aspects of the sorroundings which could affect the act of massing of our hotel, we divided the site into 3 equal parts. The diagram shows the segmentation in order to analyse the whole site. Q
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Doublex Room Type The interior spaces are designed with the least walls in order to maximize the openness of different parts of the residence.
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The question of objectivity of objects and their changes through time, defines the main objectives of this practice.
FEB 2017| CAAI SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
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By understanding the potentials of fire, as an object, in term of its spatial features, I tried to organize different spaces, using the planar surfaces in three differen types. Study Model Random Organization
Study Model Linear Organization
Study Model Centralized Organization
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The initial exercises of the Plugin Systems Studio presented concepts on the mutual relationships between two things, diagrammatically. In this particular exercise I tried to explain these relationships by using lines and dotted lines.
APR 2017| CAAI SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
INVERSIVES
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Following the second exercise, the third one occurred in a three dimensional space. In this exercise, I defined empty and filled cubes as a grid which could intersect with different surfaces and volumes to generate spaces with different states. The intersecting volumes and surfaces would invert the position of the empty and filled cubes. Hence, “Inversives� was the principal keyword throughout my exercises and it displays how inverse behaviors can showcase the synchronization of two shapes or volumes. Finally, we also analyzed the behavior of the context which could influence or be influenced by the system.
Due to the historical value of the site, we decided not to destroy any parts of the landscape. The idea was to extend the pontential of the existing water activities along side the coast into the project. We believed that the characteristics of a theatre adjacent to these activities, must defferentiate programmatically, compared to a theatre located inside the city. So we difined the theater not only as a platform for human performances, but also as a place to percept the performace of the nature.
NOV 2017 | ARKxSITE COMPETITION | PORTUGAL
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The emplacement of square shaped planes with a large void inside, sits in a way that expands the horizontality of topography. The void also helps the audience to be in touch with the performances from a distant location. There are both boats and pedesterian access to the project.
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The concept of a house, as a place that carries memories and preceptional belongings, is a significant factor when it comes to design a residence. The program was to design a house for two families, considering 3 bedrooms for each, and a guest house for one of them. It was also important to find a way that connect the individual houses with each other, both formally and functionally.
JAN 2016 | IAUM | H O U S E
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The sorroundings of the site clearly shows how the small park has affected the quality of the region. The idea was to extend the linear trees of this landscape to separate the site into two parts, so that both houses could benefit from it.
As it may seem from the plan, the massing of each house unit is affected by the viewpoints, both towards the open spaces inside and outside of the project.
This project is museum of literature located inside the city center of Mashhad. Owing to the fact that persian classical literature has always been enterwined with nature, the concept is to take the advantage of the persian garden paradigm and convert it to the modern languege of landscape design.
Programme | 6000 m2 Open Spaces | 4500m2 Floor area
JUNE 2016 | IAUM | MUSEUM
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Due to the location of the site which is adjacent to one of the most congested streets in Mashhad, I decided to create a sillent zone inside the given site and design a landscape with spatial features of a persian garden. Passing the visitors from a crowded zone to a silent landscape, this museum takes the advantage of the exisitng rows of old trees in order to give the experience of a natural environment to the street passengers who may want to take some time in a more tranquil atmosphere.
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PROFESSIONAL
WORK SAMPLES
DRAWINGS, RENDERINGS, VIDEOS
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Structural Programmatic Organisational Cones
Brick Wall Support
MATERIAL LAYERS
Masons Making Prototype
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MATERIAL LAYERS
45 GUYIM VILLA | NEXT OFFICE
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MATERIAL LAYERS
47 SAFADASHT DUAL | NEXT OFFICE
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49 VILLA FOR A FRIEND | NEXT OFFICE
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IX F ID O V X I F ILE B O M
51 SHARIFI-HA HOUSE | NEXT OFFICE
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53 NAMAK ABROUD TOWER | MARZ DESIGN
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55 BUS STATION DESIGN | ZARVAN
GRAPHIC DESIGN
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VIDEO
The Design of A Bus Station
Vertical Houses In An Apartment
The Carpet Bazaar of Mashhad
Topographic Highrise
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