William Rawn Associates Summer Internship

INTERN

Office: William Rawn Associates Location: Boston, MA Supervisor: Dasha Mikic, AIA, LEED AP Date: Summer 2021

During the summer of 2021 I interned at William Rawn Associates. I worked on an office building that is targeting LEED Platinum for a non-profit focused on climate change. I worked directly with the project architect on schematic design, program arrangements, and material studies in both Revit and physical model. I led a model making team for the building of studies and mockups for internal review and for an on-site design charrette with the client. I also conducted sustainability analysis on multiple schemes of a project, analyzing daylighting, ventilation, and solar energy efficiency with different roof designs. The work has continued during the following school year, part time, as the project has moved to DD.

SUMMER INTERN

Office: NBBJ Location: Boston, MA Supervisor: Jay Siebenmorgen, AIA, LEED AP Date: Summer 2020

During the summer of 2020 I was an intern at NBBJ’s Boston Office. Due to the pandemic the work began virtually from home where I worked on award documentation for a completed project in the form of plans, sections, and diagrams. Afterwards I worked on the Digital Cities Initiative, developing grasshopper scripts and methods for parsing large scale urban models consisting of buildings and topographies. In the second half of the internship I worked on a competition at the office, where alongside another intern we created a digital and physical site model as well as numerous iterative study models and a final model for the presentation to the client.

0’ 25’ 75’ 150’

AWARD DOCUMENTATION STUDY MODELS FINAL SITE MODEL

NIMA’S CYLINDER ماین هناوتسا

2017 Irwin Scholarship

Sculpture

Cast Bronze

Nima’s Cylinder is a bronze cast cylinder alluding to the famous Cyrus Cylinder, a relic that details the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great’s lineage. Nima’s Cylinder is inscribed in farsi with the stories of my family’s migration from Iran to the United States.

HAFT-SEEN

2017 Irwin Scholarship

Performance/Installation

Sabzeh, Samanu, Senjed, Seer, Seeb, Somaq, Serkeh, African Mahogany, Redwood, Rope

The Haft-seen is a traditional table setting in Persian households around the time of Nowruz (Persian New Year). It is comprised of seven items beginning with the letter ‘Seen,’ each representing an important aspect of the new year. Every year, I would return to Orange County excited to see the haft-seen back at my old house and my grandparents house. The haft-seen became one of the main signifiers of which places I felt connected to enough to call home.

The haft-seen acts as a portal to the Iran that my family had to leave behind during the revolution — an homage to a place that no longer exists, that cannot be returned to. The haft-seen was a means to grant intimacy to unfamiliar places.

This project consists of a wooden table that I have constructed utilizing a tatami corner joint so it can be easily disassembled. The wooden components and the items on the haft-seen are carried around and the haft-seen is set up at various locations, from art galleries, to forests, to strip mall parking lots, to my apartment.