PORTFOLIO BEHZAD YAGHMAEI
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HOMA-KIDS COMPLEX ISFAHAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES CENTER KHISH-KHANEH NEGARESTANI HOUSE RENOVATION
MICRO-HOSPITAL DESIGN
AGGIE’S SENIOR OUTPATIENT CLINIC 21 CENTURY CLASSROOM PHOENIX CENTER MIXED-USED RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX URBAN DISTRICT RENOVATION REVIT AND DYNAMO EXPERIENCE SNAPSHOT OF MY PROJECTS
Homa-Kids Complex Responsibility: Participant in designing process A team work design by Environment Architects and Piramun Design Office. Homa-Kids is a community center for children, which contains commercial spaces, recreational facilities, clinical services, and daycare facilities specifically designed for their needs. The colorful playground space inside the building provides a sense of relief and joy for the children. This project was a team effort, in which I participated in different parts of design process. I generated plans for different functions inside the building, which were based on our concepts. The green courtyards inside the building provide opportunities for children to have access to the safe open spaces on each of the floors.
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THIRD FLOOR PLAN
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The application of colorful panels on the outside of the building gives the space a sense of place and refuge. In addition, The louvers and frames on the faรงade provide privacy and shade for indoor spaces, which were two of the primary goals of the team.
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Isfahan International Conferences Center Responsibility: Landscape designer
Esfahan Conventional Center was a great project, designed by ATKINS and developed by a variety of famous architectural firms in the local area. Shahrtash Architects was one of those firms, which participated in designing and consulting them about landscape design and relevant constructional details. This project was a team effort, in which I participate in designing its landscape, in a group of professional designers. Our concept was to preserve the nomadic shapes and forms of Esfahan historical garden design. In addition, The city is famous for its significant bridges. Therefore, the first step was to define their characteristics and utilize them on generating the initial concepts for designing landscape. We designed a walking bridge, which directly connects the drop off zone into the Conference Hall’s entrance. Thw landscape design was inspired by the historical Persian Garden, which includes water features, flower boxes and trees. We designed a beautiful walkway around the Conference Hall, which connect the hotel site, the shopping mall public space, and the residential zone to the entrance.
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KHISH-KHANEH Responsibility: Project Architect, Architectural Designer Nominated for the Building of the Year 2017 Link:http://www.archdaily.com/784190/khish-khaneh-residential-building-behzad-yaghmaei-plus-azadeh-mahmoudi
Though designed in a modern form, the Khish-khaneh residential building maintains traditional design concepts. Its interactive façade, which draws design elements and materials from diverse, incongruous surroundings, creates a unifying identity for the area. The building’s red rods, frames and louvers echo the color of neighboring brick structures, while its pale yellow walls harmonize with the use of similarly colored highlights on the adjoining buildings. Yellow is also picked up in stone flower boxes, randomly placed outside bedroom windows. The flower boxes, attached to the façade with modern construction methods, help enhance lighting and provide natural ventilation into interior spaces.
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The south facade employs a bilateral concept with randomly arranged columns framing windows that supply residents with both active and serene views. City life unfolds outside of the wide window views, while the tightly placed columns filter the outside world, providing privacy and calm relaxing space. The rhythmic column pattern, a nod to traditional Iranian residential architecture, also moderates the intensity of light that comes from the south.
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NEGARESTANI HOUSE RENOVATION Responsibility: Project Architect Published in: Memar Magazine Architecture and Construction Magazine Entrance is not just a doorway, it gives the sense of passing. Crossing over one level to the next step, from noisy urban space to the home calm space. Light, color, greenery, and materials all have their own effect on its quality. In order to have more privacy, Visual access toward the outside should be limited. On the other hand, green space and lighting should be added to make it an extraordinary place for visitors. To achieve this goal, Semi-closed visual access has been provided by synthesizing remained pipes which were retrieved from old installation of house. Flower box was added in different parts and the quality of lightening was improved in order to make a more wellcoming space.
Main Entrance
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flashing
Brick wall travertine stone Beam Metal frame Reed mat
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The Idea of designing living room’s wall comes from its traditional model in old houses in that area which have niches for placing decoration accessories. So the wall was design with recess, each contain unique lightening and can be used for different purpose as well as it becomes a memorial model of the old-fashioned ones.
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MICRO-HOSPITAL DESIGN Health Symposium Exhibition & Social (SES) competition 2017 Team work design Texas A&M University
The main idea was to design a place which could provides health facilities such as clinic and pharmacy as well as it could offer healthy product to people who cares about their wellness. Furthermore, it can actually become a place to improve people knowledge about their lives and how they can have healthy life. The site is located in very unique part of Houston. It is connected to the metro station and bus station, Houston children hospital and Dan L. Duncan children’s neurodevelopmental. This site is currently an open green area between those buildings, so we decided to developed it by adding more landscape features. There are three separated buildings which can be used in different time of the day and each one have its own access from adjacent streets. Buildings are connected in upper ground levels which provides shade for lower level’s walkways.
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HEALTH EDUCATION COMMUNITY CENTER
HEALTHY COMMUNITY
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Metro
Drive way
Bike lane
Elevator
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Car Parking
Bike Parking
Walk path
Elevator
Views
Walk path
Walk path
Photovoltaic Panel
Building’s kinetic skin drive from specific behavior of Mimosa Pudica which has quick reaction against touch. Similar treatment can be utilized as there could be lighting sensors insight the buildings. By calculating light intensity and sending command to an artificial intelligence system, it is possible to control the kinetic cells on façade. In order to have more sunlight inside the building, each particular cell could be shrinking. On the other hand, to reduce amount of day lighting they could be expanded to provide more shades. These patterns are totally adaptable to the sun position during the day. These kinetic skins could be controlled manually by users inside the buildings to obtain more privacy if its required. 24
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SECOND FLOOR PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
Aggie’s Senior Outpatient Clinic Final Study Project Texas A&M University Chair: Kirk hamilton Aggie’s senior outpatient clinic is a project that helps senior to enhance their wellbeing while it provides the opportunity for them to participate in a variety of healthcare programs. The senior clinic not only provides clinical facilities, but also it offers a variety of services, for instance day-healthcare services, in which seniors can participate in group activities and attending group discussions to enhance their knowledge of having a healthier lifestyle. The goals of this project were to provide easy access from clinic site into the Hotel Stella and MatueWell center, improving the quality of middle spaces and converting them to the successful urban spaces. This connectivity provides an opportunity to share services between those buildings and let them work together as a unique project. The wood frame structure which covers the open spaces, works as a unifying element for does buildings as well as it provides shade for indoor and outdoor spaces.
Concept 1
Concept 2
Concept 3
Final Concept
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First Floor Plan
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Slopped Roof
Mechanical Supports
Metal Cladding
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Second Floor Plan
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21 CENTURY CLASSROOM Studio 606 Texas A&M University Supervisor: Craige Babe
21 Century Classroom was designed based on the new methodology of education, i.e. more collaboration between students and instructors. The most challenging part of the design was to provide comfortable social spaces inside and outside of the building. The main idea was Exterior and Interior Urbanism, which refers to providing better facilities both inside and outside of the building to make an active place for all students with different educational and cultural backgrounds.
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The main stairs in main lobby become a place for relaxing and gathering. students can sit on them and watch the events happening outside in open field or on private yard in upper level.
The main idea could be called Interior Urbanism. The biggest challenge was to use dead spaces between Large scale classroom and change it to live spaces. It would be more pleasant to use natural figure and lighting in such spaces. 38
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PHOENIX CENTER Studio 605 Texas A&M University Supervisor: Kirk Hamilton
“The butterfly effect is the concept that small causes can have large effects” Design concept could be expressed in the design of build and unbuilt spaces which are going to influence the children’s lives and enable their recovery process. Both the built and unbuilt spaces have been designed keeping in mind the philosophy of sustainability, connection with nature and the traditional sloping roof. The designed landscape has the existing slope of the site and the natural flora has been retained on most portions of the site. In order to provide a safe, sheltered and interactive environment for children’s activities, the site has been remodeled with the inclusion of shade providing trees, butterfly attracting plants, infusion of colors through colorful plants, flowering plants, food forest and water play area near the creek. A more sustainable way to improve society would be using natural elements along the region, this also creates biophilia and reduces waste. Biophilia is an interesting concept which utilizes nature and design and blends them together to make a uniform structure.
The clinic has a seamless connection to the surrounding landscape. All corridors have access to semi solid partition walls which were covered by vegetation in mutual direction. Also, by providing open courtyards and green walls, children relation with nature would become improved in both indoor and outdoor spaces.
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CIRCULATION: One of the main Ideas in designing Phoenix clinic was to follow the topography of current landscape. So Levels are connected with ramps, which provide simple access different levels. Furthermore, two axial access connected interior yards to exterior environment.
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VENTILATION: Penetrated south facade facilitate summer wind to flow into the spaces. Winter wind deviated by solid north facade. This kind of passive ventilation system can be useful to reduce the costs of utilities and also is one of the important parameters in achieving sustainable design goals. 44
The climate of area requires to and make wet zone for children to get wet during the day. A reflecting pool was placed in interior yard which helps to make it comfortable for them. Also in plaza utilizing a water wall and vegetation, can have positive effect on reduce the temperature in the hot period of the day.
Private Court Yard
Physical Model
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Mixed-Use Residential Complex Architectural Design Studio 2 Master Degree Art University of Isfahan Supervisor: Farhad Ahmadi
The main idea was designing a sustainable project. It seems crucial to provide appropriate spaces for preparation of products. Buildings orientation is actually based on wind circulation and site boundaries. It was also important to get use of Earth Thermal Energy. To increase the inhabitant’s revenue and improvement of selling products, it seems unavoidable to renovate the shopping area adjacent to the street, which currently is used as Friday Market. There are four zones on site: farm lands, residential zone and workshop area, and market place. The arrangement of spaces inside the buildings was precisely based on current residents lifestyle. In order to preserve privacy inside the building and limiting direct view from outside, the main entrance was located on East side of the building. In each unit there is a corridor which connects the main entrance to the court yard. Family Terraces provide an open view toward the farm land. All residents have their own convenient private space in order to spend time with their families. Although the louvers provides adequate shade for resident to use this space in summer time. Meanwhile, it would let the wind to flow between units and cool down the sitting space on the upper level.
Shading Pattern private Terrace
Main Entrance
Semi-Private Yard
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MARKET
WORKSHOP
RESIDENTIAL
AGRICULTURE
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URBAN DISTRICT RENOVATION Architectural Design Studio 3 Master Degree Art University of Isfahan Supervisor: Eisa Hojjat
Modern urbanism in under-developing countries merge into designing streets
with maximum land-use and easiest accessibility. Sometimes, it causes to neglect the importance of people›s presence in even small spaces. Buildings are oriented in both sides of streets, tightly joined together and alleys are just a pathway for vehicles. It seems important to design public spaces, specially in the urban districts, to encourage people to be gathered in a safe places and spend their time with their neighbors. This kind of spaces, have to be designed based on local environment conditions and resident’s culture. It can also improve security, safety and sense of supportiveness among those people. In this case, an urban district had been chosen in the new developing area in city of Kerman. This site has two significant characteristics: first, it has a hot and dry weather which means it is more necessary to provide shades particularly for pedestrian side walks. Second, there are different types of families living there. Thus, there should be a variety of house models with appropriate accessibility at different levels. Consequently, vehicle accessibility was shifted to the back side of units and the main street was dedicated to walking pedestrian and bike path. Bridges were designed in first level to be used by upper level units, which can also provide more shade for people in ground level.
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Bridge Accessibility
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Private Courtyard
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REVIT | Dynamo Building Information Modeling Leon Auditorium Project | Arch 653
The challenge was to design a flexible facade pattern with controllable parameters in Revit and Dynamo. By using different values for the parameters, Dynamo can produce 1000 randomized facade pattern for the project.
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Snapshots of My Projects TL - Ahmadpoor residential building / Built TR - Askarpoor Interior design / Built B - Golgohar Recreational and cultural complex / Project 57
Snapshots of My Projects T - Ghassemi house interior design / Project BL - Jami / under construction BR - Askarpoor Interior design / Built 58
Snapshots of My Projects TL - Aramoon House Interior Design / conceptual design TR - Shojayi House Interior Design / Built BL - Shojayi house interior Design / Built BR - Askarpoor Interior Design / Built 59
Snapshots of My Projects TL - Fakhr Interior Design / Project TR - Shojayi Interior Design / Built BL - Omid Clinic / Project BR - Shams-Abadi Office Interior Design / Built
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BEHZAD YAGHMAEI Graduate Assistant | Department of Architecture SHEA Officer | Center for Health Systems & Design Texas A&M University | College Station, TX Tel: (979) 985 8978 Behzad.yaghmaei@tamu.edu Behzad.yaghmaei@gmail.com
WORK EXPERIENCE Professional:
Feb 2014 - Jun 2016. RASM STUDIO Architects, Isfahan, Iran Positions: Project architect, Architectural Designer, and Interior designer. Jun 2011 - Dec 2013. ENVIRONMENT Architects, Isfahan, Iran Positions: Architectural designer, Interior designer and Architectural Intern Job Description: BIM specialist, Architectural designer Sep 2008 - Sep 2010. MAZRA Consulting Engineers, Kerman, Iran Position: Architectural Intern, Architectural Designer Job Description: BIM modeling for architectural and structural Analysis
Academic:
Jun 2017 - Jun 2018. Texas A&M University, Graduate Assistant, History of Healthcare Design, advisor: D. Kirk Hamilton Jan 2017 - May 2017. Texas A&M University, Graduate Assistant, Graphic Designer and Editor, Phoenix Center Project Book, advisor: Zhipeng Lu Jan 2014 - Jun 2014. Art University of Isfahan, Design Studio 1 Instructor
Student Final project: Designing an art gallery in a traditional urban district
Sep 2012 - Jun 2016. Ashrafi Isfahani University, Design Studios 2 - 3 - 5 Instructor Student Final project (studio 2): Designing a single family house Student Final project (studio 3): Designing a shopping center and retail-store Student Final project (studio 5): Designing a multi-family residential complex
CERTIFICATE Healthcare design certificate from Center for Health System & Design ( CHSD), 2018 Licensed Architect from Iranian Construction Engineers Organization (ICEO), 2014
EDUCATION Master of Architecture, Sep 2016 - Jun 2018, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. course: Architectural Design, Building Info Modeling, Structure, GPA: 3.8 Master of Science in the field of Architecture, Sep 2009 - March 2012 , Art University of Isfahan, Iran. course: Professional Practice, Structure, GPA: 3.6 Bachelor of Architectural Engineering, Sep 2004 - Sep 2008 , Azad University of Kerman, Iran. course: Detail Design, Building Info Modeling GPA: 3.7 Experimental Diploma, National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents, Kerman, Iran.
VOLUNTEER Sep 2017 - Jun 2018. Department of Healthcare design, Texas A&M University, SHEA Officer, Treasurer Sep 2017, Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) workshop, Participant, Austin, Texas Nov 2016. Texas A&M University›s design team member, Charrette design competition, HCD 2016, Houston, TEXAS.
HONORS AND AWARDS Feb 2017. Second Place in SES design Competition, Texas A&M University team member, Houston,Texas Jun 2017. Project was nominated for the building of the year 2017, Khish-khaneh Residential Building. Archdaily Website Sep 2015. Semi-Finalist In Interior Design Competition (Architecture and Construction Magazine) for the Renovation of Negarestanis building. Sep 2014. Semi-Finalist in Iran Architecture Award Competition (Architect Magazine) for the Renovation of Negarestanis building. Mar 2012. Honored Master Thesis in Art University of Isfahan annual projects exhibition, 2012. Feb 2011. Winner of Special Vision Award in research and design, Isfahan First Competition for Designing Rural House.
SKILLS - Revit/Dynamo - BIM - Auto CAD - Sketchup
- Rhino/Grasshopper - VRAY Rendering - Adobe Indesign - Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Movie Premiere - Adobe Illustrator - Microsoft Office tools - Hand Sketching