Nima Shariat Zamanpour M. Arch I 2022 Harvard GSD
CONTENTS
Harvard GSD Liberated Design School Sugarland’s Disrupted Tangents Paper Clay Lamination Paul Revere Fragment
Tower Visitor Center Hidden Room Robotic Fabrication Construction Systems
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NBBJ - Boston
Summer Internship
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Mixed Medium Rumi’s Lamp
Joinery Lamp
Work
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LIBERATED DESIGN SCHOOL
Critic: Alfredo Thiermann Studio: Core 3 | Integrate Site: Bobst Library, NYC Date: Fall 2019
For Core 3 we were tasked with building a design school on top of the central building of the NYU Campus, the Bobst Library designed by Phillip Johnson. The project maintains the original buildings program while adding a 275,000 sqft Design School above. This addition also needed to account for its own structure systems, and with the security concerns of the library, its own entrance. Our critic Alfredo Thiermann assigned us to do a close study of a design school, with mine being the Nantes School of Architecture by Lacaton & Vassal as a source for design rational and programmatic logics. In my reading of Nantes, I focused on the schools creation of ‘liberated spaces’ through the compression of rigid programs like office and classroom. In these liberated spaces students are able create full scale mockups and change the physical nature of the school from year to year. These ‘liberated spaces’ serve as a new model for an urban design school, allowing for students to break away from their desks and to instead collaborate with physical experimentation. This design logic is met with a a tapering Hugh Ferriss inspired massing, that crowns the simple block of Bobst in a way that aligns with the Manhattan skyline context and minimizes shading impacts on Washington Square Park. The mass is accomplished through a continuation of the moment frame structural grid of the existing library that allows for continual reconfiguration of floors as the needs of the school change. NYU DESIGN SCHOOL
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LIBERATED SPACE
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SUGARLANDS VISITOR CENTER Summer Solstice Sunset
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Critic: Jeanne Gang & Claire Cahan Studio: Can Parkitecture Heal? Site: Great Smokey Mountain National Park Date: Fall 2020 (half-semester)
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Fire Pavilion / Skyhenge
Partner: Jack Rodat HOPEFULLY KEEP ELEVATION AT 1IN OFFSET 2X DISTANCE FROM CONTENT EXTENTS
Under the larger Green New Deal superstudio, this project focuses on a new Sugarlands Visitor Center for the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. The proposition is a set of distributed interventions, which seek to expand the narrative of the park, while achieving a set of commons goals:
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1. Encouraging a more inclusive access to the park, 2. Raising attention to the environment through sustainable building practices, 3. Encouraging a novel and more thorough experience with the land. Just as the Green New Deal tethers social, political, and environmental issues of together, this project uses a similar multifaceted approach is that is essential in the success of any one goal individually. Each intervention takes a role in expandingAXON the narrative of the park by highlighting an observed contradiction. An entry pavilion contrasts what goes in with what goes out of compost and signage. A classroom amongst the trees features both experiential and tacit knowledge. A view pavilion equipped with twin hearths, brings together “traditional” park recreational activity, hiking, with a novel one, playing basketball. The interventions themselves are constructed using sustainable and low impact materials and constructions remain open to the environment wherever the program allows. As park visitors travel between them, they will be fully immersed in the park’s greatest asset, the nature itself, avoiding the pitfall of visits currently that merely stop by the gift shop. Finally, this decentralized plan can be incrementally developed, accommodating the parks historic funding challenges. It also enables more nodes to be added as organizational need and additional narratives arise.
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RIVER LIBRARY & CLASSROOM TACIT/EXPLICIT LEARNING
An example of the foundation assembly. Used in the river classroom to minimize impact upon the creek these foundations remind visitors of the artificial and temporary reality of the park infrastructure. Throughout, we leave the construction techniques highly visible with exposed framing and structures elevated on piers such as these.
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Gabion library walls offer porosity to allow the river to freely flow underneath the library, offering a passive method of cooling utilized in American spring houses.
Steel gridded mesh floor gives views of the river below in the classroom area.
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FIRE PAVILION HENGE HUMAN/CELESTIAL GATHERING
Summer Solstice Sunrise
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Winter Solstice Sunrise
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Fire Pavilion / Skyhenge
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HIDDEN ROOM
Critic: Elle Gerdeman Studio: Core 1 | Project Date: Fall 2018 (3 weeks)
For the hidden room project we were tasked with creating a set of five rooms, with one of the five being ‘hidden.’ In this system of tangential rings, the initial order is disrupted, shifting the enfilade off-axis and allocating space to one of the residual spaces enough to become the fifth hidden room. In the system doors are created at the tangential meeting of two circles. The hidden room is instead accessed through the intersection of circles, with the corner entrance placed out of view of the stairwell that leads to it. The other entrance is from the perimeter circulation. In this circulation the central room is skipped, leading to a new reading of four that shifts the label hidden from the original to the central room.
HIDDEN ROOM
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DISRUPTED ENFILADE
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PAPER CLAY LAMINATION
Instructor: Nathan King Course: Material Systems Partners: Delara Rahim, Ayaka Yamashita Date: Fall 2019
This project is an exploration of an underexplored fabrication process of layered clay and paper. The research process explored the material qualities of the artifacts generated form this process. Through numerous trials the process was refined and later semiautomated using the ABB IRB-140 robot arm. The toolpath was designed to mimic the smooth movements of a human hand that would normally be doing the brush stroke. Through the standardization of this craft-based and labor intensive process, we were able to reliably creating <1mm thick ceramic sheets that survive bisque firing. The project synthesized into a research paper that documented the findings, and new process recommendations, providing the foundation for future research into this novel fabrication technique.
GSD COURSEWORK
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PAUL REVERE FRAGMENT
Instructor: Billie Faircloth Course: Construction Systems (Fragment) Nima Shariat, Luke Warren, Jack Rodat (Drawing) Isaac Pollan, Diandra Karen Date: Fall 2019
In this class we were tasked with creating a 3’x3’x3’ fragment of a given case study, which in our case was the Paul Revere House. Due to the age of this house and the numerous changes it has gone through throughout its history, there is limited documentation of its construction. The fragment thus required a close in person survey of the building, and research into historic New England building techniques to fill in the gaps in information. We built the fragment using only hand tools and from a tree that we personally felled and hewing into beams. The riven lathes and floorboards come from found woodscraps from a barn of that time period. In this spirit of the spolia that Paul Revere House was built from, the infill is comprised of ‘rubble’ such as failed 3D prints and foam offcuts from around Gund Hall.
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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.
NBBJ BOSTON INTERNSHIP
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NBBJ BOSTON INTERNSHIP
STUDY MODELS
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MATERIAL MARRIAGE
RUMI LIGHT
Material Marriage makes use of the dovetail, known for its aesthetic qualities and functional strength, to create an amalgamation of two disparate mediums, 3D printed plastic and poplar wood. Material Marriage joins the avant-garde with the archaic through its merging of additive and subtractive materials.
PREVIOUS WORK
Rumi Light is a lamp designed with a poem from the Kolliyat-e Samsi Tabrizi تربیزی شمس کلیاتby Rumi inscribed on the shades. The inscriptions are written square kufic form, an arabic calligraphic script. The screens on the lamp are 3D printed, with thickness of the print determining the transparency. The poem is only shown when the lamp is illuminated.
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