OMAR ALSALEH ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
RĂŠsumĂŠ Education 2012 - Present | American University of Sharjah | Architecture | Currently in 3rd Year
Skills Digital
Analog
| Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe InDesign | Autoesk AutoCad | Rhinoceros 3D | Chaos Group V-Ray | Grasshopper
| Free-hand Drawing | Painting | Physical Modeling | Furniture Builder and Designer
Work Experience | Lenovo Company, Computers seller | Contributed to the exhibition of Cambodia Study Abroad in American University of Sharjah | Contributed to the exhibition of Art in American University of Sharjah
Languages | English | Arabic
Address Dormitories of American University of Sharjah, University City, Sharjah, UAE
Phone No.
b00046729@aus.edu
+971 56 7964123
Website
Date of Birth
www.omaralsaleh.wix.com/portfolio
29 December 1992
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Table of Contents
Community Center
4 - 13
Artist House
14 - 20
Bathing Ritual
22 - 25
The Wall
26 - 31
Floating Shelter
32 - 33
Drawing
34 - 35
Furniture
36 - 37
Community Center
In this project, we have been asked to design a public space public space in Al-Muwaileh area in Sharjah, UA. The site was very close to our uni, which gave us the oppurtinity to have multiple visists and develop a site analysis in which we were able to define the organizational system of the site and other factors. The main concept of my design is to have the Performance Hall being able to be open to the landscape linking the interior with the exterior together. The program of the community center is mostly designed for public use. There are private spaces such as meeting room, offices, library unit, and other service spaces. Therefore the facade was designed with twisting louvers since they are innovative, shuttering system for windows and other spaces. They are a flexible solution providing a very aesthetically appealing method of controlling light and privacy.
AUS Fall 2014 ARC 301 | Rhinoceros 3D | Grasshopper | Photoshop
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SECTION A-A SECTION A-A
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SECTION B-B
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Physical Models
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Artist House
Paying close attention and deriving inspiration from the contextual forces of the site was the key to the project. Located in the historical district of Dubai is the old city of Bastakiya; the given site for the project. An intensive study of the site was carried out to govern design decisions.
The project is an ammalgamation of living and working space for a potential artist. The project sums up certain key features of the Bastakiya, presented in fashion deem fit for modern design. The project deivates from imitation, rather it utilizes the site as a source of inspirtation.
AUS Spring 2014 ARC 202 | Rhinoceros 3D | Grasshopper | Photoshop
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Ground Floor
First Floor
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Section A-A
Section B-B
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Bathing Ritual
Inhabitation, Design a bathing ritual using the wall project as a structural element surrounding the bathing applying the variations we learnt in project one in manipulating the wall to become a functional volumetric condition. In this project, my intentions were to treat the bathing space as a retreat space where the client can go in to release all the stress from the outer world. In other word, the space is shifting the client from a world full of stress to another wolrd that it's different experientially and psychologically. Manipulating material and light to create texture and shadow to enhance experiential qualities of the space.
AUS Spring 2014 ARC 202 | Rhinoceros 3D | Grasshopper | Photoshop
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Parametric Wall
Design is a parametric Process. Given a modular of a brick, we were asked to design a parametric wall within a bounding box. Multiple techniques from pushing, pulling, rotating and sliding the bricks were used to explore the variations and the infinite possibilities. My intentions were to explore the transition from roughness to smoothness through a surface creating a drape like wall. Designing a parametric wall would be incomplete when limited to the use of bricks in a stereotomic fashion. In order to give the wall its true parametric essence I have designed a tool that will give a degree of convertibility to the wall and thus experiential shifts for the viewers. The tool, fixed on the edges of the brick will allow a rotation on the bricks in a domainof 0 to 30 degrees leading to formation of open and closed situations and making the wall parametric by all means.
AUS Spring 2014 ARC 202 | Rhinoceros 3D | Grasshopper
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Iteration 11
Iteration 20
Iteration 25
Iteration 32
Iteration 43
Iteration 50
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Back View
Back Elevation
Section A-A
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B
Front Elevation B
Front View
Plan
Section B-B
Section A-A Contour lines deďŹ ning a surface
Algorithm
A. Rotate maximun 10 degree with pulling B. Rotate maximum 20 degree with pulling C. Rotate maximum 10 degree with pushing
Smooth
Rough
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Fixed Jiont
Movable Jiont
Rotation domain ( 0 - 30 )
The joint is placed 40 mm from the edge of every brick
Placing the joint inside the bricks
Desiging a parametric wall would be incomplete when limited to the use of bricks in a stereotomic fashion. In order to give the wall its true parametric essence I have designed a tool that will give a degree of convertibility to the wall and thus experiential shifts for the viewers. The tool, ďŹ xed on the edges of the bricks will allow a rotation on the brick ina domain of 0 to 30 degree leading to formation of open and closed situations and making the wall parametric by all means.
Brick Dimension
Distance between bricks
Brick rotation ( 0 - 30 )
Floating Shelter
I have participate in an educational trip to Cambodia as a summer course.The project takes place in Tonle Sap lake located in Siem Reap. We were asked to work on designing a competition poster for the design of the Floating Shelter.
We have been asked to design a floating house in Tonle Sap, Siem lake in Siem Reap, Cambodia taking into consideration sustainable approaches in terms of materials and way of living. Hydroponic, Aquaculture, Solar energy, etc and focusing on Bamboo as the main material to work with due to it’s natural and renewable resource, capability of rapid growth.
Cambodia - Study Abroad Summer 2014 ARC 39301 | Rhinoceros 3D | Photoshop
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Drawing
With the use of pen and ink, my art pieces capture glimpses of visions projected during meditation. Forms depicting complex subconscious desires take life from quite state of mind depicted through a black spot acting as the nucleus of the composition. As the silence progresses, the mind becomes louder opening realms of consciosness and infinite possibilities. Visions flow into dimensions of consciousness depicted throught sheets. From a closer look the composition can be broken into individual, but from a distance it is read as one, depicting an astral where from closer look each element within the human body, the earth, the galaxy, and the universe is distinct; yet when seen from a distance, we are all one.
AUS Fall 2014 ART 211 | Pen and Ink
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Furniture
Building models to represent an idea no matter how complex the models are, is way too far from experiencing in the real scale. Proportion, ingenuity, craftsmanship, clarity, perfection, patience are few from among numerous characteristics needed to build a real scale object. In this project, We have been asked to design and build a a funriniture piece using Beach wood, limited to one log of wood where no mistakes are acceptable. Wood to wood joint with no fastener or any mechanical tool to join the pieces. The piece consists of two separate system working together to make the whole. Frame system of 3Ă—4 resembling continuity and structure for the table. Bridle joint was used to connect the frame members.Thin panels of 1 cm thick are fit into the frame system through the grooves in the frame system. The grooves in the frame system helped me to have a door that slides and open to have a cabine. Simplictiy within complexity.
AUS Fall 2014 ARC 237 | Hand-made | Beach Raw Wood
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