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Name
Omar MOUNIR ABOZEKRY AHMED AKL
Nationality
Egyptian
Address
8 Taha El-Dinary street, 7th district, Nasr city, Cairo, Egypt.
Phone
002 0100 40 44 106
o_akl_zekry@hotmail.com
EDUCATION 2011 BSC Architectural Engineering (Ain Shams University). CAIRO, EGYPT.
2010 BAUHAUS DESSAU SUMMER SCHOOL.
LANGUAGES ARABIC Fluent ENGLISH Fluent FRENCH Semi-fluent
CAD SKILLS BIM: ARCHICAD, REVIT ARCHITECTURE DRAFTING: AUTOCAD GRAPHIC DESIGN: ADOBE PHOTOSHOP SUSTAINABLE BUILDING DESIGN SOFTWARE: DESIGN BUILDER, ECOTECT ANALYSIS 3D SOFTWARE: 3DS MAX, GOOGLE S K E T CH U P , GR AS S H O P P E R ( R H I N O ), RHINOCEROS, VRAY MAX, VRAY SKETCHUP.
EXPERIENCE 2011September - current Cairo, Egypt
2010July
Magaz Magazine - Contributor.
Bauhaus Summer School 2010 SEE THE PROJECT VIDEO ONLINE
2011April - current
Giza, Egypt
Human Nature LLC - (Interior and Furniture Design Firm) Junior designer/drafter.
2011July
Alexandria, Egypt
Para-moiré (Parametric moiré) - workshop
2011July
Atlanta, GA, USA
Atlanta Beltline Project - Cross cultural program (Ainshams University, Clemson University) SEE THE PROJECT ONLINE
2011May
Cairo, Egypt
Basurama - Solid Urban waste workshop
2011February
Cairo, Egypt
Zero Energy Building Design - workshop
2010 September
Cairo, Egypt
Sednawi Rehabilitation competition - Assisted professional Architect.
2010April
Dessau, Germany
New Cairo, Egypt
1st prize winner - Namaa architecture design contest (Office building design)
2009August
Cairo, Egypt
UNION MEDITERRANENNE DES ARCHITECTES - workshop
2009July, August
Cairo, Egypt
Art Line Group (Design Office) - Intern
2008July, August
Doha, Qatar
Ashghal Schools - On site training
2007July, August
Doha, Qatar
Al-Reem complex - On site training.
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ARCHITECTURE SHOPPING ON A BIKE ATLANTA, USA, JULY 2011
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OPERA SQUARE REHABILITATION CAIRO, JANUARY 2011
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NAMAA STUDENT COMPETITION NEW CAIRO, APRIL 2010
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COURTHOUSE ASWAN, FEBRUARY 2010
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WORKSHOPS PARA-MOIRÉ ALEXANDRIA, JULY 2011
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SOLID URBAN WASTE CAIRO, MAY 2011
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ZERO-ENERGY BUILDING DESIGN CAIRO, FEBRUARY 2011 16 GLOBAL HOME PLATTE DESSAU, GERMANY, JULY2010
January 2012 Printed in Cairo, Egypt
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SHOPPING ON A BIKE Client: Atlanta Beltline project under the Cross cultural exchange program (Ainshams & Clemson universities) . Goal: Shopping center for the active lifestyle. Project type: Commercial Area: 15,000 m2 Location: Atlanta, GA, United States Project Year: 2011 Design: Omar Abozekry illustrations: Omar Abozekry
Designed with the active person in-mind, this mall takes Atlanta’s temperamental weather to mind, and creates a fun and comfortable outdoor walking and cycling environment for its clientele. The building consists of 4 shopping floors surrounding a public space for outdoor cafÊs and park for joggers, skaters and bikers
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Bike Parking places are in each floor.
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
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The building is divided into four sections that form a closed continuous shopping corridor. Between each section, ramps are available for visitors to move to the next level, +/- 1meter. For those with less time, elevators are available for both shoppers and their bicycles.
Vertical bicycle parking slots are available in shop faรงades giving cyclists peace of mind.
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OPERA SQUARE conceptual university project
Client: University project Project type: Cultural Goal: Redesigning the historical Opera square in the heart of colonial Cairo. Area: 35,000 m2 Location: Cairo, Egypt Project Year: 2011 Design: Omar Abozekry illustrations: Omar Abozekry
The building is designed to provide the users a special experience, As they start their visit from the “Opera square” when the sloped passage takes them to the underground theater entrance, bookshops and other cultural products as a contemporary vision for the renowned “soor el azbakeya”. The road takes you up again to Attaba square, where you find the museums combined together:
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We were asked to redesign the linking area between the Islamic old city of Cairo and the colonial part built in the 19th century, more than 100 years ago a magnificent opera house was built in what is called today “opera square”. This opera house was burnt as a result of a massive fire in the 70s, replaced by an ugly garage building to overcome the increasing traffic in this busy part of the Egyptian capital. Now the city has decided to convert the area again to a cultural area.
An open theater is designed as an addition to the “National theater” already existing. Also an underground theater accessed by two buildings at the Opera square, and the Post museum plaza.
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NAMAA STUDENT COMPETITION
FIRST PRIZE
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1ST PRIZE WINNER Client: Student competition Project type: Office building Goal: Designing an office building ergonomically to reach the maximum comfort standards inside the work space. Area: 35,000 m2 Location: Cairo, Egypt Project Year: 2010 Design: Omar Abozekry Ahmed Eid, Mohamed Hassan, Karim Wahba Illustrations: Ahmed Eid COMPETITION WEBSITE
A key feature of the building is a nexus of green planters as an ecological corridor connecting all spaces of the building. Also facilitating fire escape .
Terraces for the offices
-2 parking floor entry Parking ventilation
-1 parking floor entry
Meeting rooms
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Naturally ventilated meeting room Food outlet
Plaza for mid-day breaks.
Extra 1056 m2 of offices to the basement
140 car parking places
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The building Façades are facing south which causes extra heat gain during working times
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Subtraction of form in the southern façade would minimize heat gain.
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A Café place has been inserted between the building floors, and a place for long breaks in the ground floor.
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TYPICAL FLOOR - Uniform work spaces. - 85% plan efficiency.
GROUND FLOOR
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Further subtraction of forms to allow natural ventilation from the North-west to reach the building. Green terraces have been added to capture the breeze.
BASEMENT
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Beams which define the space and work as a shading device, The screen enclosure creating the green void protects it from southern sun during working hours, and it doesn’t block the street view. The pictures so the effect of the addition of the beams on the space and the shade.
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COURTHOUSE
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UNIVERSITY PROJECT
Client: University Project Project type: Governmental, Courthouse Goal: Ancient Egyptian inspired courthouse Area: Location: Aswan, Egypt Project Year: 2009 Design: Omar Abozekry Illustrations: Omar Abozekry
Ground Floor
First Floor
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Fourth Floor
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WORKSHOPS
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PARA-MOIRÉ
Workshop tutor: Encode studio Goal: Parametric design (designing a shading device based on the light analysis) Programs used: Rhinoceros, Ecotect Analysis, Grasshopper plug-in (Rhino) Location: Alexandria, Egypt Date: July 2011 Team members: Omar Abozekry Akl, Basem Samir, Omar Wanas, Shady A.Azeem
theoretical and functional understanding of graphical algorithm editor Making algorithmic definitions for forms integrated with performance evaluation (Shadow range-Solar Radiation-Daylight Performance-Visual Access…). to construct a relation between building performance and building geometry. Designing a shading device for a room at encode studio using the learned method.
Graphical algorithms editor: linking light analysis using ecotect with the shading device form.
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ZERO-ENERGY
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BUILDING DESIGN
Workshop tutor: Shady Attia Goal: Using Simulation tools for decision making Programs used: Design builder Location: Cairo, Egypt Date: February 2011 Team members: Omar Abozekry Akl, Mohamed Hassan, Mariam Hamdy, Mohamed Mostafa, Afaf Badran In this workshop we: 1-Identified the technical requirements for zero-energy building design. 2-Utilized simulation and decision making tools, to validate passive and active design strategies into a project. 3-Designed a case Zero-energy apartment block complying with the Egyptian energy standards.
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GLOBAL HOME PLATTE Bauhaus summer school 2010
Workshop Organizer: Bauhaus Dessau institute. Workshop Tutor: Adam Page (UK) Goal: 30 minutes video production analysing the effects of the “IBA” Urban Redevelopment program on a Plattenbau estate in Dessau-Süd . Location: Dessau, Germany Date: July 2010 Video Producers: Omar Abozekry Akl, Robert Grabczan, Danny Holland, G. M. Gómez Iglesias, Nicole Keußel, Paul-Hervé Lavessière, Brygida Michon, Adam Page, Shruti Subramanian, Deniz Yílmaz and Silvia Zheleva.
The short film Global Home Platte looks at the effects of the “IBA” Urban Redevelopment program on a Plattenbau estate in DessauSüd. It reflects on conversations with local residents about the themes of demolition, shrinkage, commuting and the role of the Dessaubased Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt) in the town’s north-south prosperity gap. It combines local people’s ideas with artists’ and architects’ visions.
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Platte stands for "Plattenbau" referring to the prefabricated social housing buildings whose use was widespread during the GDR reign for years. They over-exist in eastern cities (Dessau in this case) due to the massive exodus of the inhabitants to western German cities.
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IBA 2010 DESSAU : A governmental project in Dessau was particularly demolishing a huge number of the plattenbau buildings which was empty during the past few years. To replace these demolished buildings (prejudged as useless), They searched for different social participation concepts, with parts of the landscapes claimed to the people consisting largely of families of unemployed workers.
Pictures before and after demolishing a plattenbau building
In the video project we were critical about was the misuse of the land. As a few hundred meters away where there’s most of the demolition towards east, there’s a UNESCO biosphere reserve, a magnificent river. Why making a complicated project of social participation with rules limiting ownership when everything is just in hand?
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Printed in Cairo, Egypt