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I recently got my master’s degree in architecture (MARCH) from University of Waterloo. By devoting almost eight years of my life to architecture, I assume that architecture can play a vital role in making the world a better place for people in any color, belief or race. Having experience in creation of different architectural projects, I introduce myself as a passionate creative sole who is interested in a kind of interactive architecture that is adaptable enough to be changed based on different conditions of its surrounding and its user’s needs . Referring to my master thesis project, I believe that interactive architecture can be expanded to different scales of space and different formats where there is the possibility for (high or low) technology to be an intermediate connecting the user (people) to the space. All in all, as most of my colleagues think, architecture is like an ocean, the more you get into it, the more you realize its depth. So, I want to learn and experience more. I would be more than excited if I can accompany you in this journey. The following works are part of my selected architectural projects and art works which I have done during the past few years. I wish you enjoy this gallery :)
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negar behzad |Currently based in Toronto, Canada negarbehy@gmail.com | nbehzadj@uwaterloo.ca
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Education Professional master of architecture (CACB accredited) University of Waterloo school of Architecture, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
2015- 2018
2009- 2014 Bachelor of architectural engineering Islamic Azad University of Esfahan (IAU), Esfahan, Iran 2007-2008
High school diploma in mathematic
Shayan high school, Esfahan, Iran
Experience Spr-sum2017 What Makes a Space a Place?” an installation hosted by Gardiner Museum| team project Activating the outdoor space of Gardiner ceramic Museum(Toronto,Canada) by deigning and building a
curvy bench and a bar covered by colorful ceramic tiles, design- build project, elective course, Waterloo school of architecture https://www.flickr.com/photos/waterlooarchitecture/sets/72157685916850576/
2016- 2017 “Flotsam and Jetsam” installation hosted by Winter Station competition | team project winter stations competition (Toronto, Canada), design- build project, elective course, Waterloo school of architecture, more articles available on archdaily, Globe & Mail, Azure Magazine: http://www.azuremagazine.com/article/winter-stations-2017-toronto/
Arduino workshop (stage I and stage II) | team project Designing and building two interactive prototypes called Wouldlouse and Spider, Esfahan, Iran http://kid.arduino.helioripple.com/ 2015-2016
Freelance designer Collaborating with my undergraduate professors and colleagues in creation of some of the
2013-2015
interior design projects, international competition proposals and the visual presentation related to some of the commercial and residential projects (prepration of diagrams, posters and renderings)| Esfahan, Iran
2010-2013 Architectural designer at Saranasb Engineering Company Providing the initial design documents, preparing the technical drawing documents, working on visual pre
sentation of the projects (prepration of diagrams and renderings)| Esfahan, Iran
Thesis Projects 2017-2018
Expanding space: Redefining Persian cultural hubs in Toronto Through interactive architecture Master Thesis presented at University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada| Supervisor: Maya Przybylski
http://hdl.handle.net/10012/12881
2013-2014 Science and technology pavilion in Yazd, Iran Sustainable architecture inspired by domestic architectural elements of the hot climate cities of Iran, Bachelor thesis presented at (IAU) | Supervisor: Massoud Nabavi Nezhad
Competitions |awards Feb 2017 Winner of Toronto Beaches Winter Stations Design Competition (Built) | Team Project University of Waterloo School of Architecture group, Flotsam and Jetsam installation https://www.archdaily.com/804603/8-projects-selected-to-transform-torontos-beachfront-in-the-2017-winter-sta tions-design-competition
2014 Cellopolis (Compact dynamic cities )| Team Project Jacques Rougerie Foundation, sea category| Certification of attendance 2013-2014 A cultural center in Yazd (Iran)| team project 4th International Holcim awards Competition for sustainable construction projects“Next Generation� vision| Certification of attendance
Seminars and lectures Fall 2016
Joined LASG(Living Architecture System Group)
Participated in meetings and events of LASGO, organized and directed by Philip Beesley (Toronto and Cambridge, Ontario, Canada)
Spring 2014 Attended the AA Tehran Visiting School keynote lecture by Kengo Kum Certification of attendance (Tehran, Iran)
Software skills
Visual Presentation and Diagram Adobe creative suite: Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign
Drafting, 3D modeling and rendering Robert McNeel & Associates: Rhinoceros, Grasshopper | Autodesk: Autocad, Revit(beginner) Google: Sketch up Other softwares and plugins Microsoft office package, Processing(Beginner), Arduino (Beginner) Expertise and interests
Sketch and Free hand drawing | Origami model making | Photography and photo editing| Post production | Watching social documentaries | Writing about everyday life | Dance and choreography| Traveling and exploring different kinds of culture and nature | Using different woodshop tools and machines including laser cutter machine
Language
English ( Superior), Persian(Native), Arabic( Familiar)
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Expanding space: Redefining Persian cultural hubs in Toronto Through interactive architecture status: Master thesis project Supervisor: maya przybylski Location: toronto, ontario, canada Year: 2017-winter 2018
Persian communities in Toronto use certain public spaces as a group. One of the less obvious, but interesting, spaces that serve as cultural hubs for these communities are strip malls. These cultural commercial spaces sometimes act as spaces for political protest or cultural gatherings. This observed use of space was the basis of this thesis and formed the initial thesis question: “how can we start thinking of the strip mall as a public gathering space?” In seeking the answer to this question, there were challenges to face. The nature of strip malls is that they sometimes act as a public space and sometimes as a parking space. In order to expand the public uses of these kinds of hubs, space needs to be shared between cars and people. This thesis therefore seeks to explore a dynamic (interactive) architecture that can be expanded based on the different conditions of the site (strip mall). This thesis aims to study and employ three different elements to create prototypes that have the capacity to expand limited space in this context: the strip mall’s spatial qualities, deployable techniques for creating a dynamic space, and Persian culture. Among several models produced using deployable techniques, two prototypes have been developed as the most appropriate models for expanding the public space in a Persian context. These are the “Market Shell” and “Gathering Shell.” When there is a cultural or social occasion after business hours, these shells activate the strip mall through the functional space that they provide. However, during opening hours, these shells are deactivated to permit the stores and parking area of the strip mall to function.
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Top-right: Persian neighborhoods in GTA Bottom-left: Commercial public spaces along Yonge street in North York Toronto (like strip malls) Top-left: Persian strip mall located in North York, Toronto Bottom-right: Parking area of Persian strip mall (plaza) 12
Images on the left are demonstrating different social,cultural and political events that are happening on the side walk and parking area of the site (Persian strip mall in North York Toronto)
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Images on the right demonstrating the first initial interactive models of this project that are kind of a responsive shell acting as a public space. Whenever there is no car in the parking area of the Persian strip malls, (located in North York, Toronto) people can interact with these flexible shells and create their specific public space (furniture, canopy , exhibition, gathering space and market) .
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As the next step for creating a public space in the Persian strip malls in North York Toronto through a kind of interactive architecture, I inspired by Persian culture (circular pattern of dancers in Persian dance, linear space syntax of bazaar and circular gathering of people around fire in Persian fire festival)
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Top: axonometric view of the site (Persian plaza/strip mall located on Yonge street, North York, Toronto) Bottom: front view of the site
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Left: initial interactive models inspired by Persian culture than can be expanded based on the existence of cars in the parking area of the site. these expandable modules acting as temporary public space for different Persian events. Right: the images displaying use of parking area in differnt time zones 17
Top: Persian bazaar architecture as the main concept for designing the “Market shell” with its differnt formal states and its truangular rigid furniture Bottom: Circular Persian gathering events as the main concept for designing the “Gathering shell” with its differnt formal states and its trapezium and parallelogram rigid furniture 18
Right: the site plan demonstrating different states of Market and gathering shells when they are off and on , site location: Iranian plaza in North York Toronto Top- left: A zoomed in axonometric view of off version of Gathering shells and on version of Market shells bottom-left: A zoomed in axonometric view of off version of Market shells and on version of Gathering shells 19
Top: Strip mall (Persian plaza) west elevation Bottom: Strip mall latitude section
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Top: An interior view of the Market shells in the site (Persian plaza) Bottom-left: An interior view of the Gathering shells in the site Bottom- right: An exterior view of the Market shells in the site
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Overview of the Thesis Scope Some of the many strip malls in Toronto act as centres of cultural activity, such as the Persian strip malls in North York. Criticism has been levied against the spatial quality of these commercial-cultural hubs. However, there is evidence to suggest that these strip malls have the capacity to be public gathering spaces. Therefore, in this thesis, I have proposed a design to expand the limited space of one of these Persian strip malls, called Iranian Plaza. to inform this design, I have analyzed different aspects of the site, deployable design concepts, and Persian architecture. After exploring different iterations of dynamic models which have the capacity to be changed based on limitations of the site, I developed two prototypes: “market shells” and “gathering shells,” both inspired by Persian culture. These shells improve the spatial quality of the Iranian Plaza through the market and gathering zones that they create. I predict that, if implemented, these shells could be the attractors for not only Persian people but also other communities to gather and celebrate this new spatial quality of the strip mall. In other words, these shells are representative of Persian culture but within a Western context, created through a modern kind of architecture, which is interactive architecture.
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What Makes a Space a Place? status: design- build project, elective course led by:Jonathan Friedman Location: gardiner museum, toronto, ontario, canada Colleagues: Suhaib Bhatti, Golnaz Djamshidi, Alexandra Hucik, Carly Kandrack, Ali Mohebali, Cam Parkin, Fotini Pitoglou, Danielle Rosen, Pavel Tsolov, and Anqi Zhang. my position: designer, fabricator, ceramic tilling year: spring and summer 2017
“People are no longer just the users of space, but the creators.” A team of Waterloo Architecture students created a site-specific built installation on the Gardiner’s outdoor plaza. Coinciding with Waterloo Architecture’s 50th anniversary, visitors were invited to embellish colorful benches with mosaic tile as part of a month-long communal art-making activation exploring the scarcity of meaningful public space in Toronto. Originating as a graduate elective course taught by Friedman in the winter of 2017, we as graduate students from the University of Waterloo’s School of Architecture were tasked with activating the Gardiner’s outdoor plaza with a site-specific built installation. The course focused on three key areas of architectural investigation: materiality (linking traditional methods with new technologies); the site (an opportunity to engage with the building, the forecourt and the public realm in a meaningful and thoughtful way); and the poetics of space (the opportunity to create a poetic and provocative piece of art and design). In the process, we have had the opportunity to examine the importance of civic space and to engage directly in the act of city building.
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these images are kind of inspiration of envolving people and artists in tiling ceramics, (Tehran, Iran)
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Top: a rendering view of our proposal (street furniture tiled by ceramics) for the utdoor plaza of Gardiner museum in Toronto Bottom-left,right: an initial view to the project (Bar and bench) Bottom-middle: top view of the site
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Different construction steps: wood frame assembly setup and corner detail, Plywood and foam support member, Attaching lath and cutting to fit the curves and finally, spreading concrete overtop of the lath.
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Different steps for ceramic tiling: Spreading the tile mortar onto surface of the concrete, Attaching the tiles, Apply ing grout with the grout float or plastic spreader after 24 hours and finally, wipeing off the haze that forms on the surface of the tiles.
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A glimps into some of the construction steps: attaching, clamping and sanding foam and spreading concrete overtop of the lath. Photo credit: Ali Mohebali
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Tiling most parts of the designed bench and bar before moving them into the site, these images were taken at waterloo school of architecture . Photo credit : Ali Mohebali
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Bench on the site(Gardiner museum, Toronto): people are collaborating with each other to fill the gaps of the vertical surface of the bench through ceramic tiling.
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Bar on the site (Gardiner museum, Toronto): Different images of the bar on the site where people in different ages are tiling some parts of the bar.
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Flotsam and Jetsam status: design- build project, elective course Location: Kew beach, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Colleagues: Nicola Augustin, Anne Cheung, Bryce Clayton, Catherine Cohen, Mona Dai, Sarah Donaldson, Parshan Fatehi, Allegra Friesen, Golnaz Jamshidi, Carly Kandrack, Ryan Pagliaro, Elida Pletikapic, Alexandra Sermol, Kirsten Sheppard-Neuhofer, Eric Sviratchev, Joel Tremblay and Danny Wei my position: designer, fabricator, photographer, social media year: fall 2016 and winter 2017
Winter Stations is an international design competition to encourage Torontonians to explore the city’s winter waterfront landscapes. The public art exhibition inhabit six lifeguard stations along Balmy, Kew and Ashbridges Bay beaches in Toronto’s east end. These lifeguard stands will serve as the base structure for temporary installations designed to withstand Toronto’s winter weather. In 2017 theme for the Winter Station was Catalyst. “Converting one form or substance into another. Its the finger that tips the first domino over. It is the flap of butterfly’s wing that that sets off a chain of chaotic, unpredictable reactions. This seems especially fitting in this time of international political, social and cultural search for a better way forward.” Designers were asked to intervene in a way that will challenge traditional interactions with the landscape, unearthing new experiences and perceptions. Flotsam & Jetsam was designed to engage with its visitors as a playful and poignant fixture in the Toronto beaches’ landscape. As one approaches from the vantage of the city the 20 foot high colourful sculpture generates curiosity and invites a closer look. Upon arriving at the station, however, Flotsam & Jetsam is not what it first appears. The installation reveals the realities of plastic consumption, resulting waste and its effects on the aquatic biodiversity of the planet we share. Constructed from cubes of metal mesh, apprimately 20 foot high the fish will tower over the visitor ensuring that it is highly visible along the beach. The bottom-most layers of the mesh structure will be weighted to provide a foundation in order to resist the wind or snow loads. To achieve the colourful, textured finish the mesh cubes will be filled with recylced plastic collected from the local community. The materials employed in the design are completely reusable and recyclable. 36
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Community engagment and Material sourcing: using different platforms for making people aware of plastic pollution and inviting people to collect their plastic bottles for our installation.
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Design development and construction: Construction of the cubes begins by cutting a 406 mm square from welded wire mesh panels, and the ends of each wire section are bent 135° inwards to form connection points, or hooks, between faces and to protect visitors from any sharp edges. Two paired hooks per face edge are connected with zip ties to form a cube, and individual cubes are connected together along their edges with additional zip ties. 39
The process of construction: organizing, color codeing and cleaning all of the collected plastic bottles, filling all the bottles with water and finally placing them inside the cubes and making them ready for moving them to the site.
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The installation on the site (different steps of construction)
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FLOTSAM & JETSAM is not what it first appears. The installation reveals the realities of plastic consumption, resulting waste and its effects on the aquatic biodiversity of the planet we share.
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Children’s library
status: Master Design studio Professor: Val Rynnimeri Location: cambridge, ontario, canada Year: fall 2015
According to diagrams I have provided in next slides the main program I have considered for my project consists of three parts (Diversity, Interaction with older people, Different activity). These are the main attributes of the building program. This library would be located in Cambridge city of Ontario with a cold climate zone. As the main features of the design, there are three small court yards and a big glass box within the project. One of the architectural challenges of this building is, shading of the glass skin of the library and the way that I connected the glazed curtain walls to exposed wooden structure which are the main structural systems. I chose cedar wood as the main material because I supposed that this material is a kind of recyclable one and could be environmentally friendly as well. Also, it would be thoroughly coordinated with children’s nature in terms of mental health. When comes to motivating thoughts for technical aspects of the project, I would say curtain walls could be the most important ones. Because they would provide perfect day lighting as well as green space for children to have different activities. Additionally, the big glass box could be like a chimney and act as a wind tower providing kind of passive ventilation during summer times. Hence, court yards, big glass box and exposed post and beam in wood play a vital role in providing sustainable and aesthetic aspects of this children’s library.
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Different states of the project formation
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Top: an exterior view to the Library Bottom: an interior view to the Library
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This diagram illustrates the distribution of differnt programs in the library (ground floor)
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Top: a view to the outdoor cafe of the library Bottom: a view to the outdoor garden of the library
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COMMUNITY GARDEN COMPLEX Multidisciplinary project status: Master Design studio (3 week project) Professor: rick andrighetti Location: toronto, ontario, canada Year: spring 2016
Since this project was supposed to be designed as a high density building with different kinds of programs such as residential, office and shopping, I thought about my first design hint with declaring this question: “how it is possible to design a high density building in an old neighborhood in Toronto with considering open public spaces in all over the building?” So, based on with this simple question I developed this idea that the main massing of the project consists of two courtyards, one is more pubic facing the park in northern part of the site and the other one is more private facing the southern part of the site benefitting the south sun light and lake view. Gradually, I applied some huge yards to different heights of the building acting as open public spaces. Hence, people can enjoy nice views and lighting. Additionally, in the process of project formation different parameters have influenced. For instance, the initial massing strategy came from considering the adjacent buildings in the site that could affect the basic feature and program of the project. According to the morphology of the neighborhood, most of the buildings in the site consist of a considerable numbers of “bars”. So, this was the very first idea of the project.
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Different states of formation
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Ground floor plan of the complex consists market and food court _ complex connection to its neighborhood
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Some of the renderings of the building open spaces
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The diagrams illustrates functionality and different open green areas of the building
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Left: second floor plan of the complex consists market and food court Top-right: seventh floor plan consists public green yards Bottom- right: residential floor plan of the complex 63
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Cellopolis Compact dynamic cities status: Jacques Rougerie Foundation, sea category Colleagues: Fatemeh Karimi, Sara Khorrmarai, Ahmad Rajabi My position: Designer and developer year: 2014
There is some evidence proving that in the future there would not be enough territories on our planet for living. So we would have to move to the watery spaces and adapt to the conditions of water. Conceptually, for creating that specific kind of architecture we were inspired by the characteristics of lipids in chemistry. So, we started to think about our proposal by imagining an aboriginal source on water which can generate billions of similar units. To make an analogy, this source acts as a mother breeding and multiplying in the biological world. In our project, the mother’s off springs are the independent residential units moving throughout the water and contacting with other units to create spaces with different dimensions and qualities. Therefore, they would provide an appropriate life for human being. Gradually, as the time passes the mentioned units and the main source would create various complexes known as “Cellopolis�- the compact dynamic citiesEventually, with a lot of research we thought that the Cellopolis could be more practical through the new technology which is Protocell- a chemical manipulated droplet converting inorganic matters into the organic ones- Obviously, the specifications of such droplet is coordinated with the concept.
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Protocell as the main material of the project which is shedding a skin-like coating and has the architectural properties
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The process of breeding, separation and connection
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Interior views of one unit: intelligent membrane of Cellopolis
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different views of the cellopolis units
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A CULTURAL CENTER IN YAZD (IRAN) status: 4th International Holcim awards Competition for sustainable construction projects, “Next Generation� vision Colleagues: Fatemeh Karimi, Sara Khorrmarai, Delaram Tajnni My position: Designer and developer year: 2013-2014
As a whole, this project is designed for several main reasons. the most sustainability one is using potential winds and making a natural ventilation. Also, we try to create a center for protecting people from sun rays through shadows and layers under the ground. Another thing is that people come here to deliver their works of art. Here are some features that prove this cultural center is part of Yazd architecture: wind suction, shadows, court yard Generally, we would like to introduce our project as a representation of sustainable architecture that its focus is on the suction of the northwest and southeast winds and making a cooler space through the holes on the surface of the complex that act as Yazd wind towers. we tried to use the function of the wind towers inside our project. Another thing is that we also used courtyards and basements of traditional houses of Yazd. Needless to say, we used such architectural features of Yazd in order to save energy.The proposed location of the cultural center is in one of the historical neighborhoods of the city. It is surrounded with hundreds of old houses consisting of beautiful courtyards. Clearly, this typology of court yard was an inspiration for the project. So, we proposed a fabric that is coordinated with its surrounding geographically and architecturally.
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Left: images are kind of inspiration which demonstrate the domestic architecture of the historical hot climate city of Yazd , Iran. Right: the diagram demonstrates differnt layers of our proposal which is a cultural center in the heart of the historical city of Yazd
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Interior views of the courtyard and springhouse of our proposal which is a cultural center in Yazd, Iran
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Ok arduino workshop stage i, ii status: Design-build project, four week workshop supervisor: amin bahrami Colleagues: Shahrouz Beheshti, Niloofar Rahimi, Mohammad Farzadnia, Massoud Ghasemi, Soroush Asadi My position: fabrication, visual presentation, design year: winter and spring 2015
There are many problems in the field of computer environments and it is felt that there is necessity of an intermediate tool to correct and change the data into analog. The need of possibility and capability of controlling inputs and outputs of analog in the computer have been one of the questions in human’s mind. Fortunately, answering to this need is possible with many different tools such as arduino hardware, Rhinoceroses software, grasshopper and fire fly plugin. In this 4 week workshop we created two different interactive projects. In the first one which is called “Woodlouse”, we designed a smart glove to make an effective and comfortable control in software environment. Implementing the idea was to make more control possible by noticing the capabilities of bending sensors by us. In this case, we put the bending sensors on the glove and under the fingers, so that these data can be sent by bending the fingers and we can control the data in rhinoceros software (in this case the imaginary interactive façade of a building). Compared to the virtual output of the first project, the result of the second project was physical and that is called “Spider plotter”. In this prototype the main goal was to create and make graphical forms and shapes by a triangular structure including two stepper motors and the gravity force which all play as a tensional force role and this can provide us the geometrical justification of the project.
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we started to design and fabricate the join elements of the plotter which are positioned on the top corners of the vertical surface we want the plotter to work on. The function of these elements is to hold stepper motors inside and also bear the force of the gravity against the “Pen Holder�. These elements are able to be placed on top corners by using suction arms, hooking on edges and hanging on spike objects and this is why these elements can adapt it selves to different positions.
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The “Spider Plotter� is able to draw forms and words on vertical surfaces from glassy windowshops and bedroom walls to wide building facades. Also, the Spider Plotter is able to be programmed by diverse manners so that it can draw simple words to complicated forms and shapes. Another significant trait of the plotter is its ability to be carried in a small bag or backpack so that it can be even carried, assembled and dissembled by a single person in a short time span.
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In this “Woodlouse� project, we put the bending sensors on the glove and under the fingers, so that these data can be sent by bending the fingers. Attending to limited time of the workshop, we decided to make the idea simplify and finally the idea was performed just with three fingers. So the output makes one of the functions like twisting, bending and changing one of the volume dimensions possible by bending on of the three fingers.
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This project has the possibility of extensive development in a variety of environments. Feasibility of getting both digital and analog output let us have the capability of controlling quantities and different space qualities in the environment as we need. These controlling facilities can be included opening or closing level in openings, controlling the environment artificial light, controlling heating or cooling system and etc. also it is feasible to define different codes by moving the hand that it is because of the significant potential of the idea in the development and so many functions can be controlled by just a smart glove.
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09. IMAGINARY SKETCH OF REFUGEES|
PHILIP SQUARE | TORONTO| CANADA| INSTRUCTOR: PHILIP BEESLEY| 2017
In this experiment, two complex systems that are considered for coupling are Persian refugees and the dense atmosphere of downtown Toronto. For combining these two systems I defined two scenarios for the hybrid process. It should be mentioned that in both scenarios I predicted human behavior patterns and captured those patterns in different circumstances. In the first scenario, it is supposed that those refugees are in a crowded area in Downtown Toronto like City Hall. Actually they would be allowed to be in some specific spaces in the city and they do not have any money but their personal possessions and tents. I captured some specific moments showing how refuges and Canadian citizens may interact with each other in this scenario. 82
In the second scenario, I would imagine the pointed out refuges in a different financial situation where they are given certain amount of money and freedom but with some intense limitation. For example, they are not allowed to buy or rent any place to settle down and live a normal life. Actually, they are given a specific modular tent to use. They can extend the module in different scales. It should be mentioned that one of the most crucial needs that an immigrant is struggling with is security and privacy. So, I assume that in this scenario people tend to have another transparent physical layer around them to feel more secure and at the same time they can be aware of their surroundings as well. In other words, in this coupling of complex systems, I tried to picture the feelings of “introversion” and “extraversion” simultaneously. 83
09. REALISTIC SKETCH |
ESFAHAN | IRAN
Left: Ceiling of Hashtbehesht palace, Esfahan, Iran, 2014 Top-right: Hashtbehesht palace, Esfahan, Iran, 2013 Bottom-right: Hashtbehesht palace, Esfahan, Iran, 2013 84
Top-left: Main facade of Hashtbehesht palace, Esfahan, Iran, 2013 Bottom-left: Hakim mosque, Esfahan, Iran, 2014 Right: Main entrance of Shah mosque, Esfahan, Iran, 2014 85
09.PHOTOGRAPHY Top-left : Glassy Reflection, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada, 2016 Bottom-left: Symmetry, Waterloo school of architecture, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, 2016 Right: light and shadow, AGO, Toronto, Canada, 2016
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Top: Shah square, Esfahan, Iran, 2014 Bottom-left: Ceramic tiles, Chaharbagh school, Esfahan, Iran, 2015 Bottom-right: Water reflection, Chaharbagh school, Esfahan, Iran, 2015
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