Architectural Portfolio by Obinna Nnamdie

2016-2022

Selected Works

Obinna Ekezie

Engaged in promoting the agency of architecture and design by challenging and advancing building typologies... Inspired by the transformative capacity of architecture through the democratization of design, construction, and material culture to improve the lives of individuals and the vibrancy of communities... Influenced by ecology, people, cities, and the infrastructures that form that urban glue...

Product Design + Research

Professional Works

Competition Entries

Academic Projects

Contents

Downtown Kunsthalle Uniting Dualities - Synthesizing Ecologies.

Comprehensive Design Studio IV : Winter 2021 | University Of Calgary | Supervisor: Keir Stuhmiller Given the nature of the Kunstalle as an active and dynamic disseminator of culture in its environment, this project acts on the site as a pulling force for the existing surrounding conditions, to present a different perspective on the dual relationship between what exists and the potential of what could exist, Past and future, Day and Night, Inside and Outside, Calm and Dynamic, Large and Small. Individual and Collective. We identified the physical environment elements around the site bounded by Bow River, as well as the existing travel paths and connections that lead into the site. Given the proximity to Bow River, the massing strategy takes into consideration a flooding mitigation strategy, detaching the exhibition program from the ground. This strategy allows for freedom of passage between the three surrounding streets as it pulls the visitor in. Once on the site, they are detached from their context, and the relationships attached to it are presented with new possibilities. The massing of the building is shaped by the site conditions, views, solar exposure, and wind conditions. The ground floor is also shaped, unveiling an open valley that hosts a multifunctional space for expression and engagement. To set in motion the uniting of a community, the program allows for all kinds of diversity to embrace the dualities generated, not as means of segregation but as means of creating something new, a possibility for uniting dualities to create stronger communities.

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We identified the needs the project can serve the community, and the way dual experiences can interact to create new ones and rearrange them to take the visitors from the exterior and involve them into the program spaces. The relationship between the urban fabric and the environment is realized in this project to showcase the sense of belonging and allow for visitors to embrace the site and become part of the community. This experience begins while approaching the site. The open plaza creates an opportunity for engagement with the community and the natural conditions of the site. While The reception of the building acts as a filter that detaches the visitor from the urban environment. Changing Glimpses of visuals, sounds, lights, and shadows join visitors as they move toward the program spaces acting as filters to set the pace for the next space. The project presents to the visitor an experience of dualities of the space, environment, the city, and the community. The finalization of the process is a release moment through the ramps experienced as the uniting of dualities where the final experience in the building becomes a beginning.

Freedom of passage + Flooding mitigation strategy

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Program Logic Academic 11

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Dubai Heart Recreation Centre

Competition Entry | Dubai ( 2017 ) Collaborators : Y. Helal, F. Najizadeb,Q.Sorunke The brief was to create a highly flexible complex that provides an amazing leisure atmosphere with respect to the site,creating an icon for tourism and recreation. The response is an architectural gesture designed to catalyze urban life .The challenge of the design was to create an architecture that complements the iconic Burj Al Arab nearby rather than compete with it. This proposal does just that, fusing a heart shaped island around a central tower to symbolize strength, vibrancy and growth,reflecting the spirit of Dubai.

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Site Strategy Shaped like a heart, the island site takes off from the urban community, inviting millions of tourists of all ages yearly to a unique experience.

Programmatic Association Buildings A and B wrap around the central tower (Dubai lighthouse) as they form a programme for ancillary services.

Spatial Zoning

The observation tower, guest charlets and science park are arranged to ease circulation and provide clear ambient views.

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Building B ( Ice City, Under Water Zoo and Museum )

Walk Bridge ( Observatory, Visitors services facilities, Ticketing Information)

Dubai LightHouse (Water Slide, Observation Tower)

Science Park , Yatch Club (Marine Research Centre)

Water Villas ( 56 Luxury Villas )

Building A ( Botanical Garden, Artificial Waterfall, Open Sea Aquarium, Restaurant, Cafes, Gift Shops )

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Passageways

Towers Of Sound - Restoring History through Oral Tradition

Design Studio I : Fall 2019 | University Of Calgary | Supervisor: Catherine Hamel A culmination of several stages of design explorations and considerations, studying site context, border transgressions and possible design interventions towards producing a ‘House of Scarcity.’ Passageway recognizes the history of the indigenous community and pays homage to such a rich heritage and missing history. It symbolizes a candle light that lights pathways from the past to the future, memorabilia that recognizes, reunites, revives and restores culture through story telling of oral tradition. Since the end of the Ice age, Aboriginal people have occupied and walked the foothills and Prairies of Alberta. Travel was mostly on foot which creates a network of trails. Passageway as a programme responds to its site context as mixed-use towers for living, recreation and reflection. As a piece of architecture, it recognizes the land and its history as it emerges and floats above the surface as three interconnected unrestrained towers that lay claim to the land they sit on, enacting a strong presence for many years to come. Several design considerations were made in response to its strategic position: movement, fluidity, privacy, openness etc . Perhaps the most important part of the building is the network of ramps and walkways that connects the three towers to its site context. The ramps speed up and slow down motion while gently meandering the towers. This is a deliberate attempt to create pause and moments of reflection for the visitors. Two of the three towers- “Towers of Sound” house spaces for story telling while the larger tower is a residence.

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Design Considerations

Cultural Context

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Totem Pole

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Sketch Studies

Public Towers

Residential Tower

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Suspending the towers on stilts elevates the programme above surrounding buildings, claming the skyscape and securing longetivity in an ever growing city.

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Circulation Diagram

The 3 towers assemble to form a crater below, providing community spaces for recreation and story telling.

The 3 towers are interconnected with a contextual floor/ ramp network that creates a homogenous podium and ensures circulation ease. Main Public Pathway Private/Residential Pathway

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First Floor Plan

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Symbiocity An Urban Ecopolis

Competition Entry | ULI Hines, 2022 Designed in Collaboration with Deepali Dang, Garima Chaudhary, Diba Mohebzadeh and Nahr Gill. Symbiocity is a transformational, mixed -use development in Southwest Downtown Oakland,USA, that fosters diversity, neighbourhood cohesion, and economic opportunities. Symbiocity embraces the concept of regenerative urban development to achieve equity, resiliency and community. The proposal aims to enhance a restorative relationship between an urbanizing humanity and the ecosystems from which we draw resources for our sustenance. Weaving nature through the built environment amplifies the cooperative relationship between them, the necessary symbiosis between humans and the Earth. Symbiocity provides a social environment that fosters bonds and relationships within the community. It’s a human nest - where most of us live.

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The Cultural Centre in the Arena hosts arts and performance events activating the cultural placemaking for the community. Artist living suites on the last floor or the Arena create live-work opportunities for the existing and emerging artist community and allowing them to bring their creations into the public art area of the plaza.

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Competition Entry 49

Aqueous Monolith Wellness, Creativity, and Urban Architecture Design Studio III : Fall 2020 | University Of Calgary | Supervisor: Graham Livesey

Aqueous Monolith culminates my research on wellness, the therapeutic qualities of water and how water can influence architecture. It intersects water and design to provide a phenomenological experience by exploring the idea of water and the garden. The formal qualities of the architecture was partly driven by the idea of the ‘Chora’. It poses the question- how can a piece of architecture in serving as a host and receptacle for water allow itself get deformed willingly? The site strategically borders 11th street, 16th and 17th avenue Calgary. I responded with what I believe is a unique piece of architecture that offers spaces for play, renewal and relaxation. The floor plans were designed to ease vertical circulation between dry and wet areas providing the ultimate urban water park experience in a tower.

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The formal explorations considered transparency, void spaces, deformations on the building skin as inspired by water and the various water activities. The circulation plan recognizes the traffic incidence on 17th avenue. The problem was solved by routing vehicular pathways to the 16th avenue facing side of the building while maintaining pedestrian access through all sides of the building.

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Lazy River Underwater Restaurant/Rain Room/Aquarium Service Floor On Level 13 Botanical Garden Water Playground Swimming Pool Baths and Changing Rooms Restaurant and Cafe Exit Podium

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The Oculus Mixed-Use Development

48 Glover Place | Lagos, Nigeria (2016) Collaborators : PM+CDC ASSOCIATES- C. Iroegbunam , K. Oduekun, S.Quadri

The mixed-use building is conceived as two concentric towers united by a contextual base fabric to provide about 96 apartments and 6000m2 of office suites. The Oculus is respectful of its location in the heart of Glover Road Ikoyi, one of the most affluent neighborhoods of Lagos. The challenge for its design therefore, was to create a new building that harmonizes with its surroundings, yet has it’s own integrity and presence. Offering all the advantages of a distinctive life,work and recreation style in superb surroundings that echo the glory of its location, the Oculus emerges from it’s landscape as a contemporary hybrid of work, residential and recreation spaces fully integrated to provide the ultimate residential address. Filled with natural light, the living spaces lead to large wrap-around terraces that blur the boundary between inside and outside, creating ‘verandas in the sky’ that take advantage of the climate, capture cooling sea breezes and encourage an outdoor lifestyle.

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UCS Sharjar

Shopping Mall | Competition Entry | U.A E (2017) Collaborators : Archdome Consulting Engineers | Y. Helal, F. Najizadeb

Desert Stars

Shopping Mall | Competition Entry | U.A.E (2017) Collaborators : Archdome Consulting Engineers | Y. Helal, F. Najizadeb

Babylon Gardens

Residential Building G+8 | U.A.E (2017)

Collaborators : Archdome Consulting Engineers | Y. Helal, F. Najizadeb

La Cascade

Residential Building G+2P+8 | U.A.E (2018) Collaborators : Archdome Consulting Engineers | Y. Helal, F. Najizadeb

Terrace View

Residential Building G+29 | U.A.E (2017) Collaborators : Archdome Consulting Engineers | Y. Helal, F. Najizadeb

Tooba

Chair. Table. Bench. Sculpture

Design Studio II : Winter 2020 | Supervisor: Alison Maclachlan

Tooba is an exploration in architectural intentionality, and the human body mapping. It is a multifaceted object purposed for a chair, table, bench and a sculpture. Beyond an Aesthetic agenda, it’s performative qualities furthers my interests in product design.

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Amara Illumina - Series 1.0

Making a Luminaire Design Studio III : Fall 2020 | University Of Calgary | Supervisor: Graham Livesey Amara, as an object seeks to reimagine existing and readapt existing conditions to read new meanings. Built from recycled materials, Amara was designed as a first of a series of luminaires designed to be easily installed and disassembled with two hanging modes- up or down, to double as a floor lamp and ceiling lamp.

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Hanging in a Space

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Travel and Photography A brief travel story.

Traveling to experience architecture opens my mind to new horizons of culture and design. The opportunity to observe the human interaction with buildings, cities and the infrastructures that form that urban glue helps us appreciate the integral role design plays in every society. Seeing these buildings in their context reveals so much about the minds of their designers. There are also lessons to learn on composition, materials, proportion, tectonics, juxtaposition and illumination.

Law library, University of Zurich | Santiago Calatrava

La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona Gaudi Leutschenbach School, Zurich || Antoni Christian Kerez

Barcelona Cathedral, Barcelona.

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Residential Building , Zug Schleife | Valerio Olgiati

Drone Port Protoype at the Venice Bienalle 2018 | Foster + Partners

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Volta Zentrum , Basel | Buchner Bründler

seum Extension, Zurich | Christ & Gantenbein

Fondazione Fretinelli, Milan | Herzog & De Meuron

Shelter for Roman Ruins. Chur, Switzerland | Peter Zumthor Ekezie Obinna Nnamdi - MArch. 2019 - PORTFOLIO

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Travel and Photography A brief travel story.

Of the buildings featured in this category, La Sagrada Familia stands out as perhaps one of the greatest buildings of our time, evoking feelings of transcendency, tranquility and awe. Zumthor’s Shelter for Roman ruins is another thoughtful piece . Vitra Campus Weil am Rhein showcase good pieces of architecture with Herzog & de Meuron’s Vitahaus a personal favorite. SANAA’s Rolex Centre at the EPFL, Lausanne is a testament of how architecture can engage its community, creating a unique experience.

Hotel Porta Fira, Barcelona | Toyo Ito + Fermín Vázquez Ekezie Obinna_MArch _2019Portfolio

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Under One Roof, EPFL, Lausanne | Kengo kuma

Bamboo installation

Bern | Renzo Piano

at the 2018 Venice Biennale | VTN Architects

Rolex Learning Centre, EPFL, Lausanne | SANAA

Messe Basel, Basel |Herzog & de Meuron Ekezie Obinna Nnamdi - MArch. 2019 - PORTFOLIO

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Travel and Photography A brief travel story.

The Los Angeles field architecture trip in January 2020 represents Traveling to experience opens my mind to new a life changing me as a student of architecture and horizons ofexperience culture andfordesign. perhaps a point ofto departure in my understanding The opportunity observe the human interaction ofwithdesign, form, space,cities context, of ideas buildings, andtime, the universality infrastructures that and formhow thata building evolves over time in terms of material, usage and significance. urban glue helps us appreciate the integral role design It is true that to be able to tell the story of a building right, you plays in every society. Seeing these buildings in their must be there. Such experience cannot be reduced to mere incontext reveals so much about the minds of their formation, It is only experiential designers. There are also lessons to learn on composition, materials, proportion, tectonics, juxtaposition and illumination.

Academy Museum, Los Angeles | Renzo Piano

LawGetty, library, University of Zurich Santiago Calatrava The Rancho Palos Verdes, Los |Angeles | Richard Meier

Salt Institute of Biological Studies, Los Angeles | Louis Khan

La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona Gaudi Leutschenbach School, Zurich || Antoni Christian Kerez

Barcelona Cathedral, Barcelona.

Residential Building , Zug Los Schleife Eames Foundation, Angeles| Valerio | CharlesOlgiati and Ray Eames

Drone Port Protoype at the Venice Bienalle Chapel, 2018 | Rancho Palos Verdes, SwissCANational Museum Wayfarers | Frank Lloyd Wright Ext Foster + Partners

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VDL House, LA, CA | Richard Neutra

Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles | Frank Ghery

The Broad, Los Angeles | Diller Scofidio + Renfro

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