NIMA SAFAEIAN UNDERGRADUATE PORTFOLIO WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
RESUME
WATER EDUCATRIUM PLAZA
ART INSTITUTE OF SEATTLE
SALUD ES VIDA
PHOTOGRAPHY
Table of content 1
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RESUME
Nima Safaeian.
Profile
Architect
540 SE Pioneer St Pullman WA (206) 816-5979
Education
nimasafaeian@gmail.com
2011 - 2015
Bachelor of Architecture
Proficiency
Washington State University
95%
Photoshop
85%
Revit
80%
Illustrator
90%
Autocad
Experience
75%
InDesign
75%
3D Max Studio
Alside
90%
Sketchup
80%
Rhino
High School Diploma Shohada, Iran
2014(Summer)
• Assembly of Aluminum/Vinyl door and windows systems. • Assist with prepping doors and windows. • Assembling door transoms. • Measure and assemble units to order specifications. • Installing glass into windows and door system.
2007 - 2009
Compass Group USA • Serve customers in a friendly, efficient manner following outlined steps of service. • Resolves customer concerns and relays relevant information to supervisor.
Personal Skills 99%
Creativity
81% Organization
89%
Team Player
79% Communication
Resume 3
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WATER EDUCATRIUM PLAZA PULLMAN, WA
Water educatrium plaza 5
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EDUCATORIUM PLAZA Water is one of the essentials for human survival, without it there will be no life. The purpose of the Water Education Plaza is to bring awareness to people pertaining to the negative effects from people to water. Also it will educate people about the importance of water. There are four outdoor water-learning spaces in the garden and each represents the causes and the effects from an architecture standpoint. Our goal is to develop an Educatrium to educate people on the negative effects we have in water and how this impacts our lives.
Perspective 7
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Design process:
1. Site
Library Restroom
2. Existing excavation
DN
3. Circulation
Library Restroom
OfďŹ ce
Restaurant
Research center
Research center
Housing
Presentation hall
Visitor center
Plaza Level
1st Level
Form Process:
4. Centralized water garden
5. Platform
6. Platform oriented around the water
Water Pollution: We have changed our environment to the point that our nature is limited to expand in free space. To create appealing landscapes, we tend to frame and enclose the nature in certain places. For instance, we create walkways around gardens with unnatural material such as concrete and asphalt, which has a negative effect on the environment. Also, factories and cities produce toxic materials that are disposed in sewers and then these waste tend to end up in oceans causing water contamination. Taking this into consideration, Educatorium Water Plaza included these situations, in purpose of educating people, as shown in the diagram.
Diagrams 9
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Prespective 11
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South Elevation Scale: 1/32” = 1’-0”
Long Section
Scale: 1/32” = 1’-0”
Elevation + Section 13 | 14
DN
Plaza Level
Scale: 1/64” = 1’-0”
First Level
Scale: 1/64” = 1’-0”
Floor plan + Perspective 15
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ART
INSTITUTE OF SEATTLE SEATTLE, WA
Art institute of seattle
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ART INSTITUTE OF SEATTLE Inside each of us, we have a different vision and personality that make us a different person. Our clothing is an exterior example that reects part our personality in different occasions; it gives us a sense of belonging in our society. This example is shown in the skin of this building since it represents the clothing that blends the people into a place. The skin of the building was design with the intention to make the brick be able to switch with the school art work or to be upgraded with a different look based on the different time just as like we change clothes to match the fashion of our or to make a statement of how we feel.
Perspective
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Design process:
1. Box
East
2. Skin
3. Box squeez
Library Ciculation
Library Studio
OfďŹ ce
Print lab
Studio
Computer lab
Print lab
Cafeteria
North
East - Right North - Back
Twists and Turns:
Corner use to connect OCCIDENTAL PARK and alleys also direct people to STAIRS
5. When the two meet
4. Box stretch
South South - Front
Library Studio
Library
Circulation
Cafeteria
Studio
West
West - Left
The Building has Two faces: One about outside, one inside; One about CONTEXT one about PROGRAMS
Rest of the city
Business destric
Neighborhood scale, texture material
Digrams
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Skin process:
1. Floors
4. Extra structure to support the skin
2. Structure
5. Frames holding the bricks within
A primary frame that allow for two frames to sit within, so the layers could be switched .
3. Structure extended out to support the skin
6. Bricks
Digrams + Prespective
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North Elevation Scale: 1/16” = 1’-0”
West Elevation
Scale: 1/16” = 1’-0”
Elevations
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Long Section
Scale: 1/16” = 1’-0”
1
2
2-B
3 1
2-A
2-C
2 1-A 4 3
Ground Level
Scale: 1/32” = 1’-0”
1. Reception 2. Art gallery 3. WC 4. Services
3-A
4-A
5
4
3rd Floor
Third Level
Scale: 1/32” = 1’-0”
1. Teaching kitchen 2. Office 3. Food storage 4. WC 5. Services
Section + Floor plan
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SALUD ES VIDA SEATTLE, WA
Salud es vida
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SALUD ES VIDA Now days, our life has become busy and stressful either with school activities, work or our life in general, so we tend to fall into the norm of staying at home due to heavy amount of work preventing us from having a healthy life. Also, the technology has an influence in our life such as a car, which takes us from our job to our home or vice versa. This prevents us from socializing. However, what if architecture breaks the norm by creating buildings that give residents the opportunity to interact more? Having this in mind, Salud Es Vida is a multi use building design with turns to maximize the use of natural lighting and to take advantage of the fresh breeze ventilation of the building. Also, this building focuses on creating exterior spaces allowing residents to have their own garden and open space in their apartment area. This gives them the opportunity to interact with neighbors and family, so they are not stuck in their apartment, but they have the chance to get away and enjoy their time outside. In total, Salud Es Vida includes a gym in 1st floor, a architecture firm in 2nd and 3rd floor, apartments in the 4th and 5th floor, a tennis court in the roof and a swimming pool in the basement all with the intention of leading people to a healthier life.
Perspective
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North Elevation Scale: 1/16” = 1’-0”
West Elevation
Scale: 1/32” = 1’-0”
Elevations 34
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Long Section
Scale: 1/16” = 1’-0”
5
2 5
5
6
1
DN
12
UP
4 UP
3
DN
2
UP
UP
1
3
7 8
9
10
11
6
3
4
2nd Level
4th Level
Scale: 1/32” = 1’-0”
1. Comptroller and accounting department 2. Storage 3. Print and supply room 4. Reference Library 5. Restroom 6. Building services
Scale: 1/32” = 1’-0”
7. Public relations department 8. Principal secretarial area 9. Balcony 10. Administration 11. Conference room 12. Circulation
1. Exterior space 2. Restroom 3. Bedroom 4. Balcony 5. Dinning and Livingroom 6. Kitchen
Section + Floor plan 36
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography 38
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Photography 40
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"Those who pursue an ideal and fight for it have to be made of steel" Le Corbusier "All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable." Frank Lloyd Wright
"My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older i get the more i enjoy it, is because i believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people." Richard Rogers
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Albert Einstein
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. it will never fail you." Frank Lloyd Wright "The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life." Frank Lloyd Wright
"Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space… On the one hand it’s about shelter, but it’s also about pleasure." Zaha Hadid
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"As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown." Norman Foster "To create, one must first question everything." Eileen Gray
"I am always searching for more light and space." Frank Santiago Calatrava
"I may not be the most interesting architect, but I’m still out there and have maintained some position of integrity." David Chipperfield
"You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see." Tadao Ando
"Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it." Buckminster Fuller
Thank you.