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Architecture is bold thinking, liberty in execution, significance in details and a humble relation with living organisms and environments.
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OMAR HASSAN QARI | SELECTED WORK oqarei@gmail.com +966570227093 http://www.behance.net/oqarei http://www.linkedin.com/in/omar-qari
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Yamamah cultural park
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Company: Zamil Luxury Architecture Team: Me, Tarso Endres, Sami Abu Shanab Area: 92000² Type: Retail/leisure/hospitality Year: 2017
The project consists of 4 main elements: 11. Five-star hotel containing about 64 rooms and 8 suites. 22. Ballroom and conference hall building. 33. Retail and restaurants buildings zone. 44. Two parking levels for 1500 vehicles. There is two main access points to the site for visitors and service. The projects resides on a 48000 SQM plot with two levels to create topography which is used to cover the parking space that resides on half of the plot`s area.
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11. Hotel. 22. Restaurants and retail. 33. Ballroom. 44. Multipurpose plaza. 55. Public entrance. 66. VIP entrance 77. Service entrance. 88. Public exit. 99. Service exit.
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Lower ground floor plan
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THE RESTAURANTS The restaurant spaces are interconnected in all floors by landscaped areas, creating a pleasant walk between them through terraces, gardens, water featu atural shaded areas and art exhibition spaces. The concept foresees 20 restaurant units with various sizes ranging from 130 to 670 sqm. The restaurants are thought to be delivered shell & core, including basic MEP installations so every tenant can develop their own interior design. An Image Guideline Book will be provided by the clients to maintain the homogeneity of the external space. THE HOTEL -Ground Floor A capacious double height entrance lobby at the entrance of the hotel leads to the public areas in the ground and mezzanine floors. Ground floor houses the reception area that is connected to the lobby lounge and cafeteria for both men and family. The spaces are complemented by the elevator’s lobby, connecting to all floors, public toilets and ATM machine’s corner as well as administrative offices for the hotel. A sculptural staircase connects the ground floor to mezzanine floor where other public spaces are located. -Mezzanine Floor The sculptural staircase from ground floor arrives to a distribution lobby where a sitting lounge is located.
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Ground floor plan
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The lounge serves as connecting space between the restaurant and business area. The restaurant, thought to be the all-day dining, is divided into two sections: Male and Family. The business area houses a public meeting lounge, an internet corner, 3 meeting rooms for different number of users and a multipurpose conference room. The last one is dividable into smaller rooms according to the needs. The mezzanine floor is complemented by a pantry room to attend to the business area, an executive lounge for VIP guests and public toilets as well as BOH facilities. -Guestroom Floors A group of 3 public elevators take the guests to the lobby of each guestroom floor. Each floor counts 21 guestrooms and 2 suites. The rooms are divided into king, double queen, K2+Q connectable, suite and connectable suite. Service, housekeeping and technical areas are present in all guestroom floors. THE BALLROOM & CONFERENCE HALL -Ballroom The covered area of the drop off zone directs the guests to the ballroom’s main entrance. With an access through a revolving door, the guests find a double volume spacious lobby with a monumental staircase leading to the upper floor. The lobby is crowned by a sculptural chandelier. The main lobby leads to the pre-function room in the same floor. Elevators, toilets and a Service Area to attend the Pre-Function Room completes the floor.
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First floor plan
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The Ballroom, in the upper floor, is a magnificent 1500 plus sqm with very height curved cupula ceiling. The space of the ballroom is complemented by a bridal suite with independent back entrance and direct access to the event’s area. The service area attending the ballroom is connected directly to the ground floor BOH and counts with dedicated access to the event’s area. Male and female washrooms complemented the floor. -Conference Hall With an access through a revolving door, the guests find a double volume entrance lobby with a staircase and elevators leading to the floor below. The lobby is a pre-function area that houses a cafeteria and capacious cloakroom. The venue, with capacity for 1300 spectators, is designed as a theatre style and the volume is distributed in two floors. In the lower floor, there is a secondary entrance to the venue as well as a dedicated entrance to the back-stage area, both trough the parking. Public toilets, offices, storage rooms and reception are complementing the lower floor.
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Iconic mosque competition
Location: Dubai, UAE Company: Zamil Luxury Architecture Team: Me, Tarso Endres, Andre Moroni Area: 22200² Type: Religious Year: 2018
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he project is a proposal for the new iconic mosque in Dubai`s Creek Harbour, next to the new Dubai Creek Tower, the mosque hosts about 7500 worshippers internally and about 2000 others on the roof. The Site has two access routes, one in the direction of the tower (which is the central point of the disrtict), and the other one is on the park and river side.
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Ground floor plan
The main hall consists of a two two-tier (shoes on and shoes off) main entrances with restrooms next to each entrance, an ablution area on the main lobby that connects all these services to the prayer hall entrances, and another entrance directly from the site for females, which goes in the private females zone that contains a restrooms and an ablution area, and a staircase to the female prayer hall on the second floor. The Imaam and Moathen residence are placed on top of each other in the ground level and accessed from the parking area in the lower level. First floor plan
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Roof floor plan
The exposed prayer zone on the roof can be accessed from a monumental ramp that goes from the internal lobby of the main hall at the bottom reaching the roof prayer zone at the top. The carpets on the roof can be rolled in special cabinets on the edges of the roof space to avoid rain or dust. In the Qibla direction the structure is low enough for the worshipper and even the visitors on off-prayer times to enjoy the river and park view.
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The main prayer hall is divided into two section seperated by a mechanical transparent wall, one small section underneath the female prayer hall is the daily prayer section, and these walls can be moved to connect this section to the larger one to create a bigger hall for prayer that can be used for Jumaah and Eid prayers.
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Zamil tower
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Company: Zamil Luxury Architecture Team: Me, Tarso Endres. Area: 26000² Type: Mixed use Year: 2017
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he tower consists of two buildings, one is 42 floors and the other one is 16 floors with a high volume core lobby between the two buildings and a basement parking.
Mass study In a type of project like this, one of the most important things to consider is the aeshetic element, so studying the shape of the volume and how the mass works aesthetically and structurally was a critical step. So I designed the models based on an original approach and tried to come up with a unique form. Every different color in the picture refers to different type of approach.
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Louvers villa
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Company: Zamil Luxury Architecture Team: Me, Tarso Endres. Area: 1400² Type: Residential Year: 2018
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ouvers villa resides on a two sided street plot, one plot away from Tahlia street, so the client required a wide view on Tahlia street as a main consideration. The design focuses on providing the most visual connection to the street in most of the internal spaces and rooms, with respect to privacy and sun protection using louvers covering most of the facade.
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Ground floor plan
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Roof floor plan
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Lobby villa
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Company: Zamil Luxury Architecture Team: Me, Tarso Endres. Area: 1400² Type: Residential Year: 2018
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his is a modified alternative of the louvers villa based on the client`s request, this time he wanted a large inclosed lobby inside the villa that connects most of the rooms and spaces visually and physically, in addition to a circular amphitheater-shaped garden in the guests entrance.
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King Khaled`s palace
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Company: Zamil Luxury Architecture Team: Me, Tarso Endres, Andrea Moroni, Sami Abu Shanab. Area: 43000² Type: Royal residence Year: 2017
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xisting palace and facilities will be demolished, we redesigned the whole masterplan and each building in the palace`s compound. There`s one main entrance for the guests, two secondary entrance on opposite sides of the plot, a majlis building, main villa, a museum and a couple of service buildings.
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Main villa building Majlis building Guests entrance (Main) Secondary entrance (family, service and entourage) Museum building Entourage residence Servants quarters Horses stable
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Villa ground floor plan
Villa basement floor plan
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Villa first floor plan
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Sanad charity office building
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Company: Zamil Luxury Architecture Team: Me, Tarso Endres. Area: 4600² Type: Office building Year: 2017
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his is a female office building for the charity institution (Sanad), so our approach was combining a humble, simple and modern design with the local inspired elements for privacy and decoration. The entire building is elevated from the ground to let the sunlight into the basement parking. The office spaces are opened to either terraces, Mashrabiyas or court yards.
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Ground floor plan
Main entrance elevation (South)
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First floor plan
East elevation
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Volume cafe (Interior design)
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Company: Zamil Luxury Architecture Team: Me, Tarso Endres. Area: 187² Type: Food & beverages Year: 2018
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Saudi fisheries company store (Interior design) Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Company: Zamil Luxury Architecture Team: Me, Tarso Endres. Area: 240² Type: Food & beverages Year: 2018
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Private gallery
Location: Madinah, Saudi Arabia Company: Samaya holding Team: Me Area: 530² Type: Exhibition Year: 2016 Option 1
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Retro chalet
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Company: Freelance Team: Me Area: 210² Type: Leisure Year: 2017
Beach watch tower (Competition) Location: Cyprus Company: Freelance Team: Me Area: 20² Type: Structure Year: 2017
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Islamic animation center (Graduation project) Location: Dubai, UAE School Project (Winner of best project in college) Team: Me Area: 65000² Type: Office building/exhibition/theater/educational Year: 2016
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have poor quality to non media production that represents us as arabs and muslims in a proper way and carry out the isalmic culture and principals to the whole world. This project aims to achieve the best environment to host proffesional corporations and individuals in the animation industry in order to make the islamic animation, and attract investors and tourists. It aims also to introduce the animation and products of islamic animation as entertainment, merchandise, and education (training) to people of all ages and intrests. In addition to introducing the islamic values and principals through the products and the project itself.
Concept and elements of animation: Animation is a motion or an illusion of it, and the elements that create these motions we see combined with the features and pictures in the scene creates the final product wich is the animation. Elements of the animation scene are: Foreground (Dynamic element), Background (Static element), Colours, Sounds. Features of animations: usually animations have this fictional colorful atmosphere, the word atmosphere defines one of the most important features when describing an animation, because the stronger the impact of this feature on you the more you live in the story and scene, and it makes one animation different from the other. So when talking about the mental imagery of islamic animation what comes to mind is the image of old stories with large castles and mansions, which take place usually in arabian desert for example.
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Site plan
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The design expresses the fictional animation scene using shiny colorful elements, a transparent ornamental envelope around the two main buildings and unique structural shells flaoting over the water surfaces, gives one passing by this building a feeling that there`s a story behind this place.
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Arab peace center
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia School Project Team: Me Area: 29000² Type: Exhibition/conference/office Year: 2015 he arab peace center is a hub for the presidents of gulf countries, global political leaders and influencers to meet, it also contains a section for visitors to learn more about the local and arab culture and history through a small museum, an amphitheater and exhibitions.
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The building is sloped to the ground for landscape to continue until the top and for people to walk over the building as well to be more welcoming and peaceful, the main conference hall is emphasized and reflects the strength of centralization and it`s decorated with arabic calligraphy to embrace the arabic culture.
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Heritage renovation center
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia School Project Team: Me Area: 73500² Type: Exhibition/museum/theater/educational Year: 2015 his project contains exhibitions, a Saudi heritage museum and a gallery, a couple of cinema halls, an art institution for education and training, a library and a big theater. It`s for both visitors that want to spend some leisure time or fot the ones the want to to educate themselves, and VIPs who are invited to attend theater shows and explore the building.
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This design concept was inspired from the shape of local mountains next to Riyadh called (Towaiq), it was implented on the design in two elements, one is the coarse upper part of the mountain and the other one is the fine sand-like lower part, that looks like a crumble.
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Health clinic (Hand drafted) Location: Riyadh,Saudi Arabia School Project Team: Me Area: ? Type: Healthcare Year: 2014 Site plan
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Mountain house (Hand drafted) Location: Sodah, Asir, Saudi Arabia School Project Team: Me Area: ? Type: Residential Year: 2013
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