Architecture Portfolio Pouya Hamedi
2021 2019
+32 494 69 59 07 pooya.hamedi@gmail.com
Rijsenbergstraat 366, Gent 9000, Belgium
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2021 2019
+32 494 69 59 07 pooya.hamedi@gmail.com
Rijsenbergstraat 366, Gent 9000, Belgium
Issuu: https://issuu.com/pooyahamedi Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/pouya-hamedi
Master of Architecture, Resilient and Sustainable Strategies
KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent
Master’s Thesis: White Spots Gent, Belgium
Bachelor of Architecture, Architectural Engineering
Tehran University of Art, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Development
Bachelor’s Thesis: Aftab House of Books and Culture Tehran, Iran
Architecture Stagiair
Edward Sorgeloose Architecture - Full Time
I took over a number of projects; ranging from office buildings to residential apartmens. I was involved in all levels of work such as voorontwerp, OV submission and uitvoering. All projects were designed and documented completely in Revit.
Antwerp, Belgium
CrossOut Calendar - Part Time
Joined the team before the app’s initial launch and I worked on the second version of the design. I conducted user research, created journey maps, drew wireframes, and made low fidelity prototypes in Figma. I also created the Polka UI library (first and second levels) to give structure and guidance for the current and future designs.
Antwerp, Belgium
Architecture Stagiair
Architect de Fonseca - Full Time
I learned practical skills such as construction detailing, “developmental approval” (omgevingsvergunning) and producing “material take off” (meetstaat) documents. Also, weekly site visits taught me the link between the ‘back-office’ tasks and their real-life execution. Moreover, my knowledge in BIM modeling and documentation grew immensely since I was tasked with transitioning the office from AutoCAD to Revit.
Gent, Belgium
Professional Photographer
ACG | Aftabnet Communication Group - Part Time
I was assigned to various projects ranging from commercial, industrial, and event photography to behind-the-scenes videography. I was also an official photographer at the 34th and 37th international Fajr Film Festival, Iran’s most prominent movie festival.
Tehran, Iran
Professional Professional Intermediate Beginner Professional Advanced Advanced Advanced Intermediate Intermediate Advanced Intermediate Beginner
Revit
Autocad Rhino
Autodesk CFD
Lumion
Twin Motion, Enscape Sketchup
Adobe InDesign, Lightroom
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator
Adobe After effects Microsoft Office Figma Python 2022 2021
Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design Google
Jun 2021 Oct 2019
Aug 2019 Apr 2019
Student Ambassador KU Leuven
I became a student ambassador to help interntional students moving to Belgium. Gent, Belgium
Author Digiato Media Group
With a passion for technology, I became an author at Digiato Media group, one of Iran’s most popular technology websites. As a content creator covering technology news, I was also assigned to write extensive reviews on multiple digital gadgets.
Tehran, Iran
Crash Course on Python Google Persian Mother Tongue
English Fluent
Dutch Intermediate (Learning)
The villa in Waasmunster was designed for a client and their partner. The goal was to set the building in such a way that it would have a low impact on its green surroundings. The building consists of two main parts connected by a corridor, which doubles as an entrance hall. These parts form a “U” that hosts a central courtyard followed by a pond. The left wing includes the kitchen, visitor’s sanitary unit, and a changing room. While the right one houses the living areas, the master bedroom, and a guest bedroom.
I joined the project after the initial design was made and the building permit was obtained. Therefore, I was assigned with drawing construction details, fine tuning the design and create renders, meetings with the client, and visit the construction site. I was also in charge of drawing the ventilation and electricity plans. The project was drawn in Revit, and I used Lumion to create the renders. My takeaways from this project were technical detailing, learning about electricity and ventilation systems, and construction site checks.
The drawing shows two main sections of the project, highlighting four of the main details drawn for the construction crew.
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Temse was the first project I was assigned to at Edward sorgeloose architecture, and it was the first time I had to consider and design all aspects of a large scale project and submit for a building permit. The scale of the project brought many challenges. I had to coordinate with mechanical, environmental, transportation and fire teams to address every point.
The project includes four over ground levels and a large parking underneath. It includes six similar shapes which represent a typical flemish house to reduce the impact of such a large volume in the area.
have a larger area and offer more generous interior spaces. The penthouses occupy the last floor of every volume with spacious terraces. The design also allowed us to place technical shafts in between volumes and hidden from sight.
This project thought me how to navigate through construction rules, and the communication with different teams helped me develop my management skills. I also had to draw fireplans for the first time and learned how to work with model groups in Revit
The visualization below shows the six volumes, wadis
Being the first project I had to independantlly design and submit for environmental permit, there were many new things to be learned. Although I had some experience with submitting building permits from my first architecture job in Belgium, I had never drawn a project with this scale from scratch. With the help of my colleagues, I learned more about the process and the neccessary data that needs to appear on this type of plans.
This is the inplantation plan of the project, showing the ground floor apartments and the social housing units. There are also multiple bicycle parkings
spread through the site to faciliate the use of green transportation for the residents.
The plan above casts some light on the different teams and advisors who helped me finish this project. Deelwagens are a courtesy of the transportation team, wadis reffer to the landscape architects, the fire routes, etc.
I gathered many valuable lessons throughout this project and I am very thankful to be assigned to a project of this scale so early in my career.
Top: The view above shows a typical floor plan and the larger units in the joint. Maximum plan efficiency was achieved by placing the technical shafts between volumes, and staircases in between units.
Bottom: Front view of the project, highlighting the different materials and the large terrases of the penthouse units.
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Residential complex
Feasability study
Edward Sorgeloose Architecture | Fall 2022
Role: Drawing the master plan, creating 3D models and renders
Aartselaar, Belgium
The project in aartselaar is an ongoing feasability study still in the works. The large site hosts many trees that are to be kept during construction. Moreover, the remainder of an old castle still stands in the site. This building is highly valued among neighboring residents. Therefore, the goal is to try and either fully renovate, or immitate it with a new building in the future planning. The current study consists of 3 new semi-highrise buildings, two low rises and a proposal for the existing castle.
This was the first time I had to develope a masterplan for a project of such scale, and required close contact with the landscape architecture advisors.
The current proposal suggests adding a central pond to the area to create an attraction point for the community, and place the added buildings around it to have a view at the water. There are small hills added to the area to filter the noise pollution coming from the busy main road on the edge of the site.
I learned how to approach larger sites, and how to organize people’s movement through it. The project was drawn using AutoCAD, Revit and Adobe illustrator.
Site plan: Existing trees are shown in black, while the added trees are seen as white
A view at one of the new apartments, recreation of the old castle, added lake and a cat
Master’s Dissertation | Winter 2020 - Spring 2021
Promoter: Martine De Maeseneer
Alternative ways of urban development Chicago, United States
For my master’s thesis project, I chose the studio “Chicago: My kind of Town”. My Promoter, Prof. Martine De Maeseneer had a completely open mind regarding the topics to choose and develop through the thesis. During the research period, I was looking into the post industrial status in Goose Island. A place that once beamed with factories and warehouses more than a century ago, now left with many buildings awaiting demolition or turning into high-end office spaces. At the same time, the property price growth, specially in the office sector caught my attention. A trend that is pushing many small businesses and entrepreneurs out of cities, only because they are not able to afford the expenses. And a third noticeable trend, was the de-urbanization of cities currently in progress. Where corporate buying of land and clearing out the urban tissue are resulting in the disappearance of variety and diversity in larger cities.
Sharing these findings with my promoter, she introduced me to Eva De Klerk and her work at Amsterdam Noord Shipyard or NDSM, where an abandoned ship manufacturing warehouse had been turned into a self-organized community of creators and artists, who owned the building as a group and built their own workspaces within the added grid. After carefully reading her book, Make your City, through which she clearly lays out the idea of “Stad als Casco” or “City as a shell”, as well as all the steps, thoughts, struggles and efforts that led to the creation and success of NDSM, I decided to take that mindset as an inspiration for my design in Goose Island. To further develop the idea, I chose two different sites with
different features. One with high ceilings, wide spans and large, uninterrupted open spaces, and the other one an old furniture manufacturing factory with multiple floors, shorter ceilings and a well-arranged column system.
For the first test site, I’m adding a grid system similar to the one in NDSM, as well as basic facilities like sanitary units, paths and staircases. From that point, as users start to move into the building and form their community, they will build their workplaces within the grid, being allowed to choose between a single, double or triple unit. There are also open areas with no added grid system to allow for exhibitions, markets, gatherings, etc.
In the second test site, I decided to go for a more general approach, one that could be applied to a wider range of buildings, since the second factory had more generic features which are shared between many of the buildings belonging to that era. Therefore, a different grid was designed, which runs in between the columns while with movable panels, users will be able to create their own plans within the building. This way, changes are easily made and spaces could be created or wiped in a matter of minutes, keeping the building fresh and responding to the changing needs of its users.
These proposals were highly appreciated by my promoter and jury members, and I was able to achieve the highest jury point marks.
The North Branch’s distinctive urban character is distinguished by its namesake waterway, which fostered the area’s industrial development and nearby rail and expressway construction. The landscape is punctuated by material silos, large industrial equipment, rail lines, vehicular and railroad bridges and viaducts, sea walls, highway embankments, and many masonry industrial buildings.
Approximately 60 buildings, structures, and industrial features throughout the corridor have been identified as having unique historical, architectural, or another impact on the corridor environment. As the area transitions to a more mixed-use employment center, the corridor’s unique physical and natural assets can be integrated into a modern, functional job center.
R2 is an integrated, private equity real estate firm with offices in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis. They were founded in 2006 and “develop, operate and invest in real estate assets in high barrier-to-entry markets with favorable supply and demand fundamentals”. Among the 50 buildings that they own in Chicago, Louisville, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis, 4 of them are located on Goose Island and salt district. Two of these buildings have been chosen as test sites which will be explained later on.
Properties owned by R2 group on Goose Island which are considered character buildings
The high ceilings of this building, combined with wide spans and uninterrupted area, make it a great candidate to try and emulate a similar space to NDSM. By adding a grid system that only includes stairs and platforms, tenants/ owners will be able to create their own, specific workspaces within the given structural system. This approach provides great flexibility for the users, as well as keeping renovation costs to a minimum.
The perfect order of columns in this building along with vast, uninterrupted floor spaces and similar columns makes it a great potential to be used as a flexible workspace. The two buildings, one 6 stories high and the other one three, provide plenty of floor area to be used by many groups and/ or individuals. A grid system is added to each floor which combined with sliding panels, provides endless planning options for any user. Also, this leads to groups being able to modify their space through time. The grid and panels are made of affordable materials such as aluminum and fiberglass, keeping the renovation costs as low as possible.
As part of the grid, Stairs and runways are added in order to create access to the second level of units.
Following the example of NDSM Shipyard, a grid is added to the building containing column, floor and roof. The grid is made of steel and concrete for the roof and floor. This way, users will be able to create their own workspace within the prepared guidelines.
As owners and tenants will have to create their own workspace, they will be creating unique units that fits their needs perfectly. They will be allowed to use between 1 and 3 spans in width and one span in depth to create their space.
Areas with a lower ceiling are kept open so they will be available for any public event. These events range from markets and exhibitions to gatherings, etc.
Considered as essentials, sanitary units are created along the main grid. Each area has one since workspaces do not contain infrastructure for toilets.
The grid has been created in a way to avoid the expansion at the top of columns. Therefore, it runs through them with two lines, allowing panels to move effortlessly through the floor. This way, users will not have to move their walls if other groups need to make adjustments to their own space.
Common rooms act as an acoustically private area for the users of each floor, since they have floorto-ceiling panels Each group can use them in case of conferences or any activity that requires a more quiet atmosphere. These rooms are included as basic elements of each floor similar to sanitary units, the grid system, and panels.
Sanitary units are placed Along the edges in order to maximize the grid potential through the floors, keeping it uninterrupted.
Protected from the wind by the taller building, the roof has great potential to be used as an urban garden.
Vertical transportations have not been moved. They all use the cores which have already existed in the original plans of the building.
The two-way grid system allows panels to move in both X and Y directions. They can be stacked by the walls while they are not needed, and moved if users need them to create/modify a space.
Noise insulator made of lightweight Polyethylene foam
Two-way aluminum rails enabling doors to slide side by side
Handles
Fiberglass panels, acting as additional sound proofing and cover
The integration course aimed at adapting a previously designed project to Belgian construction and fire safety guidelines. In a group of four, my bachelor’s thesis project was chosen by the tutors to be further developed. The main design was a three story Bookshop where fire safety was solved by placing water sprays in every floor. In order to create a truly fireproof building, the design had to adapt.
Therefore, we divided the building into compartments, yet, we tried to keep its original openness as much as possible. To separate the compartments, we used concrete walls, fireproof windows and fireproof floors, made of concrete and CLT beams. Also, Two fireproof stairways are placed in the building, each runway 2.6 meters wide, which was calculated considering there would be a maximum of 200 people on each floor,
600 people in total throughout the building.
As part of the assignment, we also had to create a total of 12 construction details, 3 per student. Moreover, the lighting, ventilation, and drainage pipes all had to be considered, designed, and calculated. These parts were also approached as a group initiative and all 4 members worked together to design each section.
After tackling the main topics as a group, each student had separate tasks to finalize the design. I was in charge of modeling the building and its structural components, as well as Making renders for the final presentation. I used Autodesk Revit to make the 3D model and Lumion to create renders.
Spatial openness was achieved with the help of voids and fireproof windows
Exploded Levels: Showing the Structural elemets, void placements and terraces
The main section containing details of joints, walls, windows, connections, etc. Also visible are the parking area and basement, which provides car park area for staff and disabled groups, as well as bike slots for staff and users, as well as technical rooms for mechanical facilities.
This studio was about proposing a design for the planned train station in the city of Al-Khor, Qatar. Qatar will be the host of 2022 FIFA world cup and the city of Al-Khor is the home to one of the stadiums. Therefore, the city plans to add a train station to its infrastructure to move visitors between cities.
Al khor central station is an attempt to create a truly sustainable train station that not only lowers its environmental impact to a minimum, but also benefits its city and surroundings. The design highlights a slanted roof and three openings through the site, in order to facilitate natural ventilation Through the vents and air intakes, we were able to direct air through the station and create a pleasant environment in a hot climate like Qatar’s, without using any electrical energy. The roof is slanted in a way that as well as taking in cool breezes coming from the sea, it prevents hot winds which potentially carry a
sand storm from the south west to enter the station. Through the building, All the transportation from and to the station happen in the inside, providing a seamless experience and protecting users from the heat at all times.
This project was designed in a group of two. Concept development, as well as the initial design were done by both members. In the second chapter, My groupmate was in charge of designing the station in Sketchup, and I took the responsibility of analyzing wing behavior and optimizing the natural ventilation.
In order to do so, I created a model of the building and its openings in Autodesk Revit, and the analyses were carried out in Autodesk CFD. The model for the section below was created in Sketchup.
In order to maximize the passive ventilation efficiency, I used the Combination of Autodesk Revit and Autodesk CFD in order to simulate different airflow scenarios through the building.
With the help of these simulations, the optimum number of air intakes and exists, the shape of the openings and the roof slope, as well as the internal vents were calculated. In the final version visible on the left, 21 sections are shown from the width of the station, indicating how air passes through the building during a normal day, with a sea breeze entering the station through the main entrance and the two openings in front (visible on the right side of the sections), and exiting from the openings on the roof and in the back (visible on the left side of the sections).
Also, in order to cool down the lowest level where the train passes, a vent was added in the bus station area. Due to the negative pressure created by the smaller openings in the roof and the back of the station, the vent is able to take air in from the two openings in the left, pass it over a small pool placed on the lowest floor and blow the cool breeze into the waiting area.
In an event of a sandstorm, the air exit in the back of the building and the openings on the roof, as well as intakes in the front will close up.
This way, air circulation will stop within the station in the duration of the storm. The roof is designed in a way that in these circumstances, the sandstorm will pass over it and as a result, there will be no need to fully close the entrance.
It was important to keep the enterance as open as possible since in normal conditions we needed to maximize airflow and, naturally, that area was our biggest intake.
Technical design | Spring 2017
With: Farzad Zerehdaran, Amir Ahitabar, Yasaman Nasr
Tutors: Dr. Mojtaba Mahdavinia | Dr. Kaveh Shokuhi
Tehran University of Art’s Architecture campus has a lot of empty grass fields which are normally unused due to direct sunlight or being wet as a result of rains. They also lack any other features. As a result, our task for technical design on 2016-2017 spring semester was to design a low budget, easy-to-install structure to make these fields usable for students as an in-between space to hang out and be shielded from direct sunlight or light rain, as well as being connected to surrounding areas.
The structure consists of cable re-enforced columns in order to use less material and make the structure lighter. The triangular trio columns are based on a prefabricated concrete base, which acts as a foundation and sitting place. The columns hold the tent structure above used for shielding. Also, the modular design allows the structure to be used in different fields with various
dimensions. Moreover, by re-enforcing the columns with cable, the project uses lightweight metal pipes which cut the building costs by a big margin, as the budget was an important factor.
A simpler 1:1 prototype of the project was built on-site on the campus to test the structure’s durability. All metal parts were re-designed and produced by CNC cutting for this task. The prototype was built over 3 years ago and there are no signs of weaknesses to this date.
I used Autodesk Revit to make the 3D model and the renders were created in Lumion.
Hand Sketch, Concept: Covering the ground via modular tent structures and trees
Karaj, IranRendering: An example of module placement and usage
Rendering:
Top detail, showing tent structure’s connection to the main column system
Top, Rendering:
Showing details, cable connections to the column system, and the column system to the base.
Right, Isometric drawing: Exploded model showing design details
I have been close friends with my camera for many years. Through this period, I have looked closely at my day to day life, surroundings, people, the night sky, buildings, etc. Here is a little collection of my photos. Thank you for going through my portfolio, Hope you enjoy the pictures!
- Pouya