SAMPLES 2021 by Omar Khalifa

OMAR KHALIFA

Class of 2019

EDUCATION

https://issuu.com/omarskhalifa

Syracuse University School of Architecture

May 2019

American University in Cairo

Fall 2015

Bachelor of Architecture / Cum Laude (Deans List: Spring 2017, Spring 2018, ) Visiting Critic Studios: Margret Griffin // Griffin-Enright Architects (Fall 2017) Katherine Hogan & Vincent Petrarca // Tonic Design + Construction (Spring 2017)

International School of Choueifat- Cairo

Class of ‘13

High-school Diploma

Summerfuel Pre-College Architecture School at UC- Berkeley

Summer 2012

Introduction to Architecture and Urban Planning

EXPERIENCE

Bond Collective / Junior Designer/ New York, NY

Sept ’19- Oct ‘20

SU SOA Fabrication Labs/ Fabrication Supervisor // Syracuse, NY

Jan. ’16- May ‘19

MATR Labs/ Research Assistant // Syracuse, NY

June ’18- Feb ‘19

Dar Al-Handasah (Shair & Partners)/ Internship // Cairo, Egypt

July- August 2016

Creating 3D build-outs for current & future projects. Created visualizations and renderings for various projects. Designed custom millwork furniture with detail drawings. Communicated with contractors and vendors, both on and off-site .

Oversaw Woodshop & DigiFab labs. Assist students in realization, fabrication, and construction of models. Exhibition construction/installation team for SOA events.

Developing digital & physical prototype for adaptive thermal insulation through novel material systems.

Primary Infrastructural Design for Ministry of Defense Working and detail drawings.

Ehaf Consulting | Architecture Department/ Internship // Cairo, Egypt

May- July 2015

IBM Corporate Social Responsibility/ Internship // Cairo, Egypt

Feb- April 2015

M. A. Consultants/ Internship // Cairo, Egypt

June- July 2014

Designed alongside department head on Egyptian Embassy Competition, Oman. Worked closely with Design team on 4 design projects Produced renderings for the Interior Design team on Islamic Research Center

Designed volunteering campaign. Designed Infographics for company-wide ODC (On-Demand Community) program. Designed Social Media advertisements. CAD drawing for a beach resort in El Gouna, Egypt

COMPETITION

ACMA Composites Challenge // Syracuse, NY

May 2018

King + King Architects Leadership by Design // Syracuse, NY

May 2018

Instructor: Daekwon Park Team: Elena Echarri Myers, Anja Pajevic

Instructor: Daekwon Park / Partner: Ethan Russel Benoit Finalist - Honorable Mention

LANGUAGES

English | Native proficiency Arabic | Native proficiency

SKILLS

Digital Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Revit, Autocad, V-Ray, Keyshot, ArcGIS Adobe Creative Suite (IL, PS, ID), Microsoft Office

LINKS

Fabrication Laser Cutting, CNC Milling, 3D Printing, Vacuum Forming Wood Working, Hand Modeling, Foam Cutting, Molding & Casting

TERRA PUBLICA (THESIS BOOK) LINK PORTFOLIO LINK ISSUU

BOND COLLECTIVE

LEFT DESIGN: CUSTOM RECEPTION DESK / AUSTIN, TX, USA

RIGHT RENDER: CUSTOM SEATING AREA / WASH. , DC, USA

LEFT DESIGN: CUSTOM MEETING BOOTHS / AUSTIN, TX, USA

RIGHT RENDER: CUSTOM KITCHEN AREA / LA, CA, USA

BOND COLLECTIVE

LEFT MODEL: QUIET MEETING AREA / WASH. , DC, USA

LEFT DESIGN: CUSTOM MEETING BOOTHS / AUSTIN, TX, USA

MODEL : KITCHEN/ COMMUNAL SPACE / WASHINGTON, DC, USA

BOND COLLECTIVE

ABOVE RENDER: KITCHEN & COMMUNAL WORKING SPACE/ / LA, CA, USA

CENTER RENDER: RECEPTION DESK DESIGN TEST/ CAIRO, EGYPT

BOTTOM RENDER: RECEPTION & COMMUNAL LOUNGE SPACE/ / LA, CA, USA

E H A F C O N S U LT I N G

ABOVE RENDER: ISLAMIC RESEARCH COMPLEX, GREETING ROOM, 2015/ CAIRO, EGYPT

CENTER RENDER: ISLAMIC RESEARCH COMPLEX, GREETING ROOM, 2015/ CAIRO, EGYPT

BOTTOM RENDER: PYRAMID HILLS COMPOUND, TYPICAL VILLAS, 2015/ CAIRO, EGYPT

B I OT EC TO N I C S ( A R C 5 0 0) BIO-TECTONIC BUILDING MATERIALS Spring 2017 // 3rd Year Elective Partners: Olivia Humphrey & Andrew Becker Tasked with creating a modular building block with bio-mechanical properties, my team and I, tested various systems to mimic the thermal effects of hair or fur on a surface. Utilizing the effects of electromagnet of iron fillings we were able to create ELECTROMAGNETIC (h)AIR. When activated, much like the human hair, these magnetized strands hanging off the wall-mounted system, trap hot air flowing along the surface. This warms the environment adjacent to it, especially when paired with direct sunlight. Thus creating both an visually stimulating surface as well as an interactive heater for the space.

MODELS: PHYSICAL MATERIAL TESTS/ SILICONE, IRON FILLINGS

DIAGRAM: WALL AGGREGATE SPECULATIVE ABSORPTION

PHYSICAL MATERIAL TEST/ SILICONE, IRON FILLINGS

E L E C T R O M AG N E T I C ( h ) A I R

RENDER: ALONG INDOOR EXPOSED WALL / SYRACUSE, NY, USA

RENDER: ALONG OUTDOOR WALL / SYRACUSE, NY, USA

ACMA COMPOSITES CHALLENGE Spring 2018 // 4rd Year Competition Instructor: Daekwon Park Partners: Elena Echarri Myers & Anja Pajevic One of 4 teams invited from Syracuse University School of Architecture, we were tasks to find novel ways to use ACMA’s new composite systems, other than just cladding. Utilizing the materials innate structural integrity, my team and I opted for a flat-pack adjustable system that could be rigged up at the users’ will. After many tests the result was, TESSELLATION, a series of rigid composite forms on a flexible membrane that act as an interactive furniture piece. Supporting itself, Tessellation could work both as a wall mounted surface, as well as a free standing structure. Aimed more towards children and education, my team and I believe we demonstrated the capabilities of using this novel material to find a better way for the user to interact with their built environment.

PHYSICAL FINAL MODEL / SYRACUSE, NY, USA

T E S S E L L AT I O N

COLLAGES WITH PHYSICAL MODEL / SYRACUSE, NY, USA

KING+KING COMPETITION FARMSCRAPER Spring 2018 // 4rd Year Comprehensive Studio King + King ‘Leadership By Design’ Finalist Instructor: Daekwon Park Partner: Ethan Russell-Benoit

The FARMSCRAPER is proposed as an economic engine to begin to respond to two major problems for the city of Syracuse: a lack of affordable housing downtown, and the lack of proper grocery stores within close proximity to affordable housing or to downtown. Our proposal is a mixed use development with a restaurant and farmer’s market that are supplied in large part by a vertical urban farm adjacent to a housing tower. The economic activity of such a unique attraction downtown would be able to subsidize high quality affordable housing on the upper levels for the developer. These programs are unified not only economically, but also architecturally within a monumental greenhouse structure to facilitate urban agriculture and to help temper the environment of all of the programs throughout the year. Our environmental strategy is about maximizing the growing season and the portion of the year in which the space can be passively conditioned through stack ventilation and the greenhouse effect.

OUTSIDE TYPICAL APARTMENT VIEW / SYRACUSE, NY, USA

“LEADERSHIP BY DE SIGN”

TYPICAL APARTMENT / SYRACUSE, NY, USA

KING+KING COMPETITION

SECTION / SYRACUSE, NY, USA

FA R M S C R A P E R

PHYSICAL SECTIONAL MODEL / SYRACUSE, NY, USA

VISITING CRITIC STUDIO

TYPEFACE TOWERS Fall 2017 // 4th Year Visiting Critic Studio Instructor: Margaret Griffin // Griffin Enright Architects

Facing the FDR and East River on one side and Murray Hill on S the W other, TYPEFACETOWERS, adds a recognizable symbol to the NYC skyline. The studio objective S W was the exploration of ideas of both essential mass and multiple profiles. TYPEFACETOWERS equates both it’s E and W facades, and faces both sides. Along with irregularity of the site, this lead to the creation of a diptych. The typographical treatment, and addition of ‘serifs’, to TYPEFACETOWERS serves several purposes: to S W enhance it’s profile and making it more recognizable, provoke directionality through the treatment of S extend W the raised sky garden by the openings, and S W providing more space for structure. S

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VISITING CRITIC STUDIO

INCUBATOR Spring 2017 // 3rd Year Visiting Critic Studio Instructor: Katherine Hogan & Vincent Petrarca // Tonic Design/ Construction

Overlooking the historic Nieumarkt in Amsterdam, Netherlands; INCUBATOR aims to act as a selfsustaining maker-space. The project is raised away from the public eye, utilizing the unused space on the roof, and creating a distinct crown on the building below. INCUBATOR allows designers to obsessively focus on problems at hand. To effectively program INCUBATOR, I reverted back to the cyclical process of design; being in constant rotation between physical and digital prototyping, display, and rest. With obsession and fixation in mind, the layout of the 3 main spaces is optimized through an iterative process based off the building below’s inherent load-bearing structure and systems.

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