NOORHAN REDA PORTFOLIO 2019
CURRICULUM VITAE
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EDUCATION B A C H E LO R O F A R C H I T E C T U R E A N D U R B A N D E S I G N
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GERMAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO | 2014-2019 BACHELOR GRADE: A (Excellent). CUMULATIVE GPA: B (Very Good).
A M E R I C A N D I P LO M A ( S AT G R A D U AT E ) PIONEERS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL | 2009-2014 GRADE: A
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EXPERIENCE
NOORHAN REDA
ARCHITECTURAL INTERN
K&A DESIGNS | JAN 2017 - FEB 2017 • • •
Review tender drawings. Preparation of revit drawings. Assist in submissions.
ARCHITECT | DESIGNER
ARCHITECTURAL INTERN AL MASRIYA FOR CONSULTATION AND ENGINEERING DESIGN | JULY 2017 - SEP 2017 • • •
PROFILE
Model making. Designing presentation boards. Working drawing.
ARCHITECTURAL INTERN
A team player architecture fresh
TALAAT MOSTAFA GROUP (TMG) | JULY 2018 - AUG 2018 • • •
graduate with communication
Analysis. Site visits. Develop construction documents.
skills and academic qualifications,
KG T E A C H E R
seeking full/part time position in
ESHBELIA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL | JULY 2013 - JULY 2014 • • • •
architecture on graphic design
Class teacher. Teach all class subjects. Develop and maintain lesson plan. Create and manage activites.
field. Posses on-going experience in designing and analyzing
SKILLS SOFTWARE • • • • • • • • • •
AutoDesk AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Revit Rhinoceros Grasshopper+Diva Sketchup V-Ray Microsoft Office
studies. HOBBIES • • • • • •
LANGUAGES
Photography. Drawing. Traveling. Digital Painting. Stargazing. Reading.
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English Arabic French German
T +201098186274 E noorhanr@gmail.com A 134A South of Academy.
SPECIALITIES ARCHITECTURAL • • • •
Design development. Digital graphics. Rendering Surveying and analysis.
CONTACT
CERTIFICATES •
Adobe Certified Associate in Visual Design using Adobe Photoshop.
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Photographing and editing (Nikon Online).
TABLE OF CONTENT
ARCHITECTURE.
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BRANDING EGYPTIAN CITIES. (ALAMEIN EDUCATIONAL HUB | ARTS RESEARCH CENTER). INTEGRATED DESIGN. (ATTABA MARKET HALL). RE-IMAGINING THE SLUMS | EL MOHAGREIN. (GENERATIVE HOUSING). URBAN DESIGN. (MIT AKABA AS A CITY OF KNOWLEDGE). BACHELOR PROJECT. (DARB EL BARABRA - THE LIGHT DISTRICT). NEW YULIN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS. POWER OF VOID. (RE-IMAGINING THE DYNAMCIS OF HELIOPOLIS RAIL). INTERIOR DESIGN. (MAADI BOOK CAFE AND BAKERY).
GRAPHIC DESIGN.
PHOTOGRAPHY.
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RE-BRANDING EGYPTIAN CITIES Arts Research Center | Location: New Alamein, North Coast. DESIGN IX | 2019.
Alamein’s location gives the city some wonderful opportunities, many of which are ripe for realization. The project’s objective was to form a masterplan of the New Alamein City. In collaboration with 15 members, Alamein’s city’s first phase masterplan was created. The design’s most prominant vision was to plan the most liveable city for youth throught educational, touristic, walkable and eco-friemdly strategies. A further step was to divide team members into smaller groups of 5 to further develop in designing different focal points. The team’s focal point was developing the tram lineEducational Promenade, where the main vision was to acheive an activated campus with all surrounding facilities available by a walking distance ensuring a walkable day and night promenade. Finally, the individual task was to design a detailed intervention- building scale: Arts Research Center.
Prof. Hussam Hussien Salama. In collaboration with: 15 members (first design stage, Alamein masterplan scale).
TERRITORIAL ANALYSIS.
REGIONAL ANALYSIS.
PHASE ONE ANALYSIS.
VISION: MOST LIVABLE CITY FOR YOUTH.
SUSTAINABILITY.
TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY.
MASTERPLAN.
VISUALIZATIONS.
EDUCATIONAL PROMENADE.
URBAN SECTION I
URBAN SECTION II
ZONING.
CONCEPT LAYERS.
DETAILED TRAM PLAN.
CAMPUS PROGRAM.
ALAMEIN ARTS RESEARCH CENTER.
Site Plan
Courtyard Sketch
PLANS.
Ground Floor.
First Floor.
Second Floor.
Third Floor.
Main Elevation.
Section A-A
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ATTABA MARKET HALL. Integrated Design | Location: Attaba, Cairo. DESIGN IV | WINTER SEMESTER | 2016.
In the heart of the Egyptian downtown, El Attaba Square is one of the city’s largest and most important squares. Now, Attaba square is the largest affordable clothes market. In this project, Attaba was chosen to its unique atmosphere. The aim of this project is to create a market hall that handles change, adapt with people’s needs and reflects the city’s identity,
Professor Thomas Loeffur. In collaboration with Nermeen AbdlWahab and Raneem Hamdy.
Concept: Thinking externally an internally, the steel roof is divided into smaller parts alternating different heights forming triangular gaps between them which provides many opportunities for different functions. The triangular gaps, covered by transclucent panels, are penetrated by sunlight, lighting up the market place. The roof protects all stalls from sun and rain. Materiality: Equitone is a through coloured facade material, characterised by a sanded surface and naturally occuring hues within the material. Every panel is unique, strongly expressing the raw texture of the raw fibre cement material.
Ground Floor Plan.
Structure Plan.
First Floor Plan.
Section A-A.
East Elevation.
Callout.
Section Facade.
Section B-B.
South Elevation.
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RE-IMAGINING THE SLUMS. Generative Housing | Location: El Marg, Cairo | El Mohagrein. DESIGN VI | WINTER SEMESTER | 2016.
The challenge according to Colliers (2015) an average of 90,000-100,000 units are required annualy to meet the demand generated by new households alone in Greater Cairo; in addition to the already existing gap that would amount to 6 million households by 2020. Nevertheless, it was recorded that 45,000 units enter the market every year, suggesting that only half of what requires could barely be met. The project aims to address one of the major challenges facing sustainable housing development of Egypt, namely speedy innovative and sustainable housing by: revisiting futurstic concepts and exploring its application within the Egyptian context where architecture is designed to shape the urban spaces.
Professor Wafaa Nadim. In collaboration with Raneem Hamdy.
A look in the design: Tree inspires art, design and architecture with their elegance, strength and sense of history. Inspired by the mushrooms’ way of reproducing, the form is complex and fractal-like. The relation between shape and structure strength is of great significance. The design’s structure gives the impression of tree trunks in a forest. Abstract in shape, the design features tree-like steel pillars supporting capsule units. The capsules are mostly about verticality and flying. ‘True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.’ ‘I don’t divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me, they are one.’
Site Plan
Ground Plan
Floor Plan +16.00m.
Floor Plan +20.00m.
Floor Plan +24.00m.
Duplex Unit Area: 50m2
T Unit Area: 100m2 Users: 6
Users: 4 Vertical Expansion.
Horizontal Expansion.
Triplex Unit L Unit
Single Unit
Area: 75m2
Area: 75m2
Area: 25m2
Users: 6
Users: 4
Users: 1 or 2
Vertical Expansion.
Horizontal Expansion.
Apartment Typologies
Conceptual Sketches.
3D Longitudinal Section
Diagonal Section
Main Elevation
Main Elevation
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MIT AKABA AS A CITY OF KNOWLEDGE Activate the Potentials | Location: Mit Akaba, Cairo. DESIGN VII | WINTER SEMESTER | 2017.
The challenge was how to transform threshold zones in Mit Akaba to create more activites for everyone, make people walk more in the neighborhood, and inspire them to stay outdoors longer. This project helps invisitagates the urban reasons that answers what really make a neighborhood work. Design phases transitioned from mapping the educational landscape and potentials and analysing the role and needs of women in the neighborhood to using the findings in order to have Mit Akaba as a city of knowledge and help empower women.
Professor Christina Jimenez Mattson In collaboration with Nermeen AbdlWahab and Raneem Hamdy.
Activate the Potentials! Work, play and socialize.
INTERVIEWS | USER ANALYSIS Name: Magda Age: 57 Status: widowed and living alone. Observation: stares in the balcony for hours out of boredom. Interpretation: needs pleasant seating in the neighborhood near her home that allows her to socially interacts with other women.
Home consists of three rooms: Bedroom, living and bathroom. No kitchen. Cooks in the bedroom.
Plan of existing home.
Name: Kassed. Age: 42 Status: married; 3 kids. Observation: lives and owns a butcher shop in Aly Abo Taleb Street. Interpretation: would prefer more communal night-life at Aly Abo Taleb alley. In addition, need of direct access to kids while playing in the alley to make sure of their safety.
Targeted users: all citizens but most importantly women and children.
WOMEN
MOTHER/CHILD.
WHY ALLEYS AND DEAD-ENDS? Alleys are often forgotten spaces in the urban environment, although they hold great potential. Understanding how they are used, what their potentials are, and what challenges they hold will help to determine what is possible for the future. With some work and care, alleys can be an important layer in Mit-Uqba’s public realm, especially for women.
trash collection.
events.
power lines.
street furniture.
water lines.
lighting.
drainage.
landscape.
DAY IN MIT AKABA.
women/children schedules.
women/children. women (work). women (shared time).
URBAN RESOURCES AT MIT AKABA (FINDINGS).
URBAN LAYERS.
void solid
main streets. secondary streets.
side streets. dead ends.
Compared to other public spaces, alleys/deadends have unique shapes, sizes, and qualities in the neighborhood. With some creative thinking and a little work, simple solutions can transform an ordinary space into an extraordinary public amenity, adding a newlayer to urban life.Alley can be very dynamic places, bringing women together in one little strip of space, creating some very interesting corridors and nodes for the city. Case
Study:
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Further details: Bahlool El Kafrawy Street, Ibrahim Ateya Street, Ismail El Kaferawy, El Ghareeb Street (Souq/Market)
URBAN SECTION.
EXISITING SECTION. Ibrahim Atteya Street
Using locally manufactored lights and colorful lighting helps in creating ambiance and atmosphere in the alley. The ‘Sabat’ which means the wooden basket that helps in delivering food to people dining in the alley.
Clear and direct access to the dining events in the alley. The dining table or the ‘tableya’ adds identity plus communal warmth to the space and makes it more inviting. Straight direct access to the alley from the ground floor makes it an easy task for the woman to deliver food directly to the tableya.
PROPOSED SECTION. Ibrahim Atteya Street
VISION AND GOALS. 1.QUALITY OF SPACE. Great public spaces strengthen neighnorhood interacion. A diversity of type of spaces provides invitations for people to stay and interact. Quality of space is vital to liveable and dynamic neighborhood. Quality also adds to exciting city experiences, and alleys are the perfect places to stimulate vibral communal life. Alleys can be programmed as places to play and socialize.
2. HEALTH AND IMAGE OF THE CITY.
Alleys and dead-ends are excellent opportunities for local plants, stormwater drainage and could be symbols of green neighborhood. Through greening alleys, a healthy environment for people and ecosystem may be created.
3. SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR PEOPLE.
Alleys are often neglected in Mit Akaba, and sometimes have uneven pavement, discarded items and dark places for potential crimes. While alleys are invaluable for giving service access, additional uses such as women seatings, art venues and small women industry will ensure that alleys are cared for and looked after for a safer Mit Akaba.
Location: Aly El Tantawy, Abo Taleb Street. A neglected deadend that carries lots of potential. Children may carry out fun activities in it with direct supervision of their mothers. Lighting, paving, recycled street furniture and colors makes it more inviting space.
Location: Afify Sheikh Street, 26th of July. Misused space that could be transformed to a communal space: cinema/ event/ gathering space; with assigned time for women only.
Location: Near the market and Mit Akaba Sporting Club. A neglected vacant space that carried lots of potential that may further be used for workshops for women. Allowing women to handle own business strengthens the woman power in the neighborhood.
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DARB EL BARABRA THE LIGHT DISTRICT Light Design Institue | Location: Darb El Barabra, Attaba, Cairo. DESIGN VIII | BACHELOR PROJECT | 2018.
Downtown, has been the urban center and commercial heart of Cairo, Egypt since the late 19th century, when the district was designed and built. In this project, Darb El Barabra District was chosen due to its unique atmosphere. In collaboration with four of my colleagues, we propose a new interpretation of Darb El Barabra by rethinking its typologies. Our intervention targets the heart of the city, Attaba, where a disruption is caused by several reasons. We worked on reconfiguring the qualities of the district to develop simultaneously the urban, architecture and landscape dimensions. Furthermore, this project is a fight against stereotyping typologies. It manifests the importance of the link between history, context and architecture. It promotes realizing the existing reality and including it as a crucial part in a newly introduced system in El Barabra District which is a crucial destination of Downtown Area, an urbanism unique story.
Prof. Hussam Hussien Salama Arch. Raef Fahmy In collaboration with: 5 members (first group design scale)
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Figure .1 shows the chosen urban site. Darb El Barabra District connects betweentwo main streets; Port Said Street and El Geish Street. The width of the district varies from 4 to 6 meters. Building heights varies from 3 to4 story levels. Building were mainly mixed-use; ground commercial floor and 1 or 2 residential levels. Figure .2 shows the chosen spots of the future design proposals. The existing spots were mainly unused leftover spaces or ground floor commercial kiosks. Any commercial spaces used by the projects were transferred to the proposed commercial projects of the street. Figure .3 shows the site I individually chose to work on the architectural scale. The existing space was formerly ground floor kiosks that successfully were replaced in other proposed projects. The site is in front of an existing school and beside an existing church. The design proposed to create an educational zone in this specific area, adding to account the neighboring proposed project of the Art Institute.
SITE ANALYSIS
DISTRICT QUALITIES.
LIGHT GATE
SHADING DEVICE
FESTIVAL
URBAN APPROACH.
FLEA MARKET
PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE
GARDEN GATE
MASTER PLAN.
LIGHT DESIGN INSTITUTE.
To project lighting, it is necessary to understand what is light and its technical components. The perception of space is directly connected to the way light integrates it. What we see, what we experience and how we interpret the elements is affected by how light interacts with us and the environment. Concept: -Studying light, main theme of street. -When light crosses a prismatic shape, it starts to break down (diffuse) into 7 colors. -Transfer of previous concept and transferring it to a main mass (theoretically as the prism) research center- and 7 main functional studios and destinations. -Masses were further connected by a pavilion that was created at later stages in the design. VIision: A space that creates a better atmosphere through practicing lighting design; to cultivate the universal acknowledgment and appreciation of the Power of Light in human life.
KEYWORDS: Illuminance, color, direction, time, balance in contrast.
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Red raises the studios energy levels.
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Orange evokes enthusiasm and excitement in the chemical lab.
Y Yellow is energizing and uplifting in the chemical lab.
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WHITE PRISM (RESEARCH CENTER)
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Green enhances calmness and is good for long-term concentration.
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Blue creates a sense of well-being.
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Indigo creates sense of security.
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Violet enhances calmness.
ACCESSIBILITY.
The site is in front of an existing school and beside an existing church. The design proposed to create an educational zone in this specific area, adding to account the neighboring proposed project of the Art Institute. The bridge connects both the Light Design Institute and the Art Institute A minor exhibition is created on the bridge in the space between the projects, showing products created from both Institutes. The existing space of the school is used in the proposed educational zone. At times the school is unused professionally, it is transferred into a flexible event space platform serving the Institute. i.e: selling products or creating bazaars for students from the Institute to show and sell their products. As well as, events in the church could be celebrated in the event space and that might benefit the Institute by allowing more people to access products locally made by students from the Light Design Institute.
SITE PLAN.
PLANS.
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
First floor plan shows the entrance and the exit of the bridge, passing beside the masses. The Research Center, including lecture halls, staff rooms, meeting rooms, is shown in the plan of the main mass. Second floor plan shows the bridge entering the third floor in the Research Center, The Exhibition Space.
3D Section.
Footing Detail.
Structural Diagram.
Figure .1
Figure .2
Figure .3
Figure .1 shows the view from above the bridge looking to the courtyard and the masses. Figure .2 shows the atmosphere in the courtyard in front of the main mass. Figure .3 shows an overview from above the pedestrian bridge.
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Figure .2
Figure .1 shows an interior collage from the exhibition space in the main mass (Research Center). The movement of the surface of the roof creates a unique atmosphere in the space and allows lighting fixtures to be directed on specific spots. Figure .2 shows an interior shot from the metrological studio viewing the courtyard and the other masses by the glass facade and the louvers. The scheme of the studios are monochromatic, and every mass has its own hint of color from the colors that get dispersed in the prism. This studio, as shown, have the highlight of the color blue mixing with the white monochromatic atmosphere. Blue is shown on the handrail, portraits, and other decor fixtures.
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NEW YULIN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS Renewable Energy College | Location: Shaanxi, China. DESIGN X | 2019.
Yulin’s location (in between two landscapes and two cultures: Inner Mongolia and Northern Shaanxi) highlights the city opportunity for establishing an urban campus. Yulin’s Campus is highly expected in the industrial driving force, planning of the new city of science and technology innovation. The project’s objective was to form a masterplan of the New Yulin University Campus. In collaboration with two team members, we recommend a set of design and planning actions intended to fulfill a university’s goals and objectives as a higher education institution. The design’s most prominant vision was conceptualized as a mixed, compact, well connected, well-structured, inhabited, and green campus in an urbanized setting. Compactness, connectivity and context dimensions were the focal key drives that inspired the masterpan. In the division of spaces, a co-centric concept -that ensured walkability- was applied.
Prof. Bott Helmet. In collaboration with: Raneem Hamdy and Nermeen AbdelWahab.
VISION.
An important contribution to the city’s economic activity by developing future professionals, fostering knowledge and innovation, and attracting international talent around its campuses.
SWOT ANALYSIS.
A walkable and pedestrian friendly city, including: more kilometers of pedestrisn walkways, more kilometers of cycle paths that helps reducing pedestrian waiting times.
The vision lays the foundation of low-carbon, energy-resilient transformation through aa focus on green growth. This requires a transformation to a more ‘liveable city’ based on: 1- Suistanable resource use (waste minimization and recycling). 2-An economy that pursues green growth 3-Maximize renewable resources.
SITE ANALYSIS LAYERS.
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT LAYERS.
OPEN SPACE TYPOLOGIES.
ECO LINK.
PLAZA.
SQUARE.
NEIGHBORHOOD.
COURTYARD.
OPEN SPACES PATTERN.
MASTERPLAN
URBAN SCALE.
BUILDING SCALE.
ZONING DIAGRAM
ADMINSTRATION VISUALIZATION.
COURTYARD VISUALIZATION.
SECTION A-A | ADMINSTRATION.
SECTION B-B | COLLEGE.
SECTION C-C | COMMERCIAL TRAM LINE.
SERVICE ROUTE. PEDESTRIAN.
DETAIL.
URBAN DETAIL.
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POWER OF VOID Reimaging the Dynamics of Heliopolis Rali | Location: Korba, Cairo. IX | ELECTIVE | 2018.
This project aims to investigate the tram line in Heliopolis, Cairo that has been an infrastructure since the 20th century and by reading it as a void, it had been extracted that the emptiness that elsewhere is simply only a neglected void between spaces; in this project, becomes the primary structure and identity of the city, a void that finds its reasons in relation to the context in which conveys the flows. The project aims to introduce the concept that uses fragments of the abandoned tram rail to form a structure that sets a series of gates and simple urban uses (linear park) of the space that is implemented in the city.
Prof. Rita Pinto de Freitas.
In a city like Cairo, the constant production and reproduction of of urban space has a considerably vast and scattered by-product: void spaces. When focusing on voids, unused railways are a peculiar spacial element in Heliopolis, often close to being an urban nothingness. Interestingly not considered voids- are often passive spaces that do not invite people to interact with them. Ironically, it is these planned spaces that often function less than the unintended voids.
‘RUINS MAY BE DECAYING, THEY ARE NOT DEAD, THEY ARE FILLED WITH POSSIBIITIES FOR WONDROUS ADVENTURE, INSPIRING VISIONS, QUIET MOMENTS, PERIPATHETIC PLAYFULNESS, DYSTOPIC PREPARATION AND ARTTISTIC POTENTIAL.’ Bradely Garertt
IMPERFECT, INCOMPLETE, BROKEN AND ILLUSIONARY FRAGMENTS
IMPORTANT COMPONENTS IN NARRATION AND RELATE PEOPLE, PLACES, HISTORIES AND FUTURES.
‘BECOME LOST, STOP AND ENJOY THE COOL AIR, OR RUN OFF’
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MAADI BOOK CAFE AND BAKERY Interior Design |Location: Maadi, Cairo. X | ELECTIVE | 2019.
This project aims to create a cafe that would stand out on the busy Maadi streets, as well as welcome locals through a ‘feel at home’ atmosphere. The cafe conveys a lived-in, homelike feel with a Scandinavian influence. The use of authentic and original materials that were exposed and retained during construction, as well as the addition of reclaimed timbers and striped back-and-white brick walls. Wooden floors, white paneled ceilings, woven fabrics and tan leathers all add the modern interpretation of vintage Scandinavian inspired cafe. The design follows the ‘Farmhouse” style: rustic country elements updated with a rich mix of minimal and Scandanavian touches. Natural yet refined, country yet electic and sophisticated as go-to farmhouse characteristics.
Prof. Hussam Hussein Salama.
Client’s brief: New coffeshop in Maadi, should be inspiring for writers and readers but also include some co-workung spaces for meetings or else. The idea is to include both activities without one distracting the other. Must be different and maintains a ‘feel at home’ vibe. Figure above shows some inspirations the client have in mind.
MOODBOARD
PLANS
Mezanine.
Ground Floor.
Ceiling Plan
HVAC
Plumbing Plan.
Electrical Plan.
WALL DETAIL.
WALL SECTION
CALL OUT
WALL ELEVATION
REFERENCE PLAN
PRODUCT DESIGN
PRODUCT I WINDOW SEAT
PRODUCT II WINDOW SEAT+ BOOKSHELF