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Honors & Awards First Place Award at AUD Architecture Senior Showcase.
Raghdan Abu Hassan 10 / 01 / 1994 Jordanian
About Me I was born in Syria, raised in Dubai. Design is the natural choice of career for me. I love it. I’m fascinated by it. I want nothing more than to earn a respectable living doing something I love and that makes me happy. I’d say that my strengths are: (1) A strong sense of effective & functional design. (2) A very hard worker with a sharp sense of humor. (3) An insatiable thirst to learn everything I possibly can. (4) Effectual communication skills. (5) And lastly, an ability to visually conceptualize abstract ideas. Aside from design and art, I love photography, poetry, philosophy, urbanism, music, and traveling. Im excited to continue my career with you and look forward to creating things that simply, weren’t there before.
Education American University in Dubai 2012 - 2016
Elected to represent AUD’s School of Architecture, Art, & Design in regards to NAAB’s accreditation in both my Sophomore & Junior year. Chosen as the Senior representative for the UAE’s Ministry of Education Accreditation visit.
Achievements Founder & president of The American Institute of Architecture Students AUD Chapter. (September 2014 - May 2016)
Organized & hosted more than 15+ events at AUD such as architecture competitions, presentations, lectures, & talks. Organized the Sou Fujimoto talk/visit to AUD.
Certificates Certified Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015 user. ( 93% Score )
Dubai International School 2011
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Languages
Participant of the “Hotel Lazarus” work shop by Dr. Platon Issaias & Dr. Hamed Khosravi.
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Participant of “Diagrammatic Architecture” work shop by Dr. Miguel Luengo.
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Professional Experience RMJM Intern - 3 Months
(June 2015 - August 2015)
Scale Architectural Engineering Consultancy
Intern - 3 Months
(June 2013 - August 2013)
Software Skills Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Premiere Pro Autodesk Revit Autodesk Autocad
Autodesk FormIt Autodesk Flow Design Google SketchUp Rhinoceros Lumion
Interests & Hobbies
Contact Me +971555537142 Raghdan Hassan
raghdanhassan@gmail.com
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https://ae.linkedin.com/in/raghdan-hassan
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Reading
Urbanism
Writing & Poetry
Traveling
Photography
“I am the Architect, of my own design.”
Film
What is
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A personal project. A prosperous process to continuously corrode and compose, redefine and rectify myself; my capabilities and corroborate my continuity. It’s a pestering proposal traveling solo, you evolve and elevate evading enigma that once left you questioning concepts composing and containing you. The ease of expression is an existential elegance only entailed to an exquisite exclusive elect ensemble of few. I’d prefer to prosper and not prolong my prophecy, and so I’ve decided to deliver of utmost quality. It is my form of fortune to fortify my forces and fence off my faint feeble faultering faith in my fossil of a body. It is the balance I face and fear every day of finding myself lost in some form or some other way. Two languages lingering in my long lasting life, and so I’ve learned to live lively and outlast my line. Exploring new arts, new muses, new starts, new fusions. Define yourself daily, set purpose to what you do, you brand what you like, until it becomes you.
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An Urban Restoration
A Return to Homs
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A Wildlife & Cultural Center
Populas
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JBR The Bridge
Urban Ethnography
Other Projects
Table of Contents
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May Include
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URBAN ETHNOGRAPHY JBR The Bridge
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ubai is a rising metropolis built around a highway; resulting in a fragmented urban fabric that lacks walkability and pedestrian-ism. This project focuses on the potential found in people to adjust and restitch the details in the fabric, through the use of architectural design to corroborate the importance of urban spaces suh as streets, squares, places etc. Urban Ethnography " JBR the Bridge" rejuvenates the urban status and spaces of Dubai by using art as a catalyst for change. Through focusing on 3 social groups, The Artists, The Buskers, and the Pedestrians; the project is no longer confined by a certain duration of interest, instead by investing in people and resembling them as art that demands exhibition, the project becomes eternal as people encourage others to express and inspire.
Concept Sketch
3m Radius Sphere
Pedestrians
6m Radius Sphere
9m Radius Sphere
When I focused on the performance of Buskers, I analyzed that people react to their presence in three different varying spatial distances based on their sense of comfort, safety, and satisfaction. As indicated above the three distances are : 3 meters, 6 meters, and 9 meters. This invisible spatial radius, through my studies, constructed an invisible language of architecture established by the performer. By translating this 2D language, into 3 dimensional spheres that varied in size, I now gained the ability to apply the spheres and study their gravitational force onto a fabric, that resulted in the space and form of my bridge. I also studied the spatial relation between buskers, and the duration of attention each audience member provided.
25 m
12:00 pm
10:00 am
Buskers
Artists Busker Pitch Time & Distance Analysis
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Sound & Sight Improvement Diagram
The bridge resembles a canvas, one that with time will grow with the city and people it circulates from JBR The Beach to the new Blue Waters Island. It also functions in a way that allows the visitor to experience the space through varying mediums of circulation. Interior spaces are of organic and fluid nature, utilizing slopes and dedicated to artists, it allows a shorter duration of time to cross the bridge. Exterior roofed spaces utilize the varying eclectic para-metrics of a step; for sitting, lying down, standing, walking, performing, and even athletic purposes. Further studies & analysis explained in my thesis book. (You can find it on my Issuu account, or follow this link for the animation: Watch the project’s fly through animation.)
Steps
Contour Exterior Fabric Generating Stepped Roof & Merged Environment for 3 Social Groups.
Stepped Roof for Buskers, Organic Floor for Artists, Both Experiences for Pedestrians
Produce Secondary Fabric from Impact of Busker Spheres Resulting in Interior Spaces.
Created Interior Fabric for Climate Issues Within Dubai
Insert Busker Spheres onto Exterior Fabric.
Insert Busker Spheres based on 25 by 25 Grid from Busker Pitch Time & Distance Analysis.
Structure
Voids
Interior Space
Space Frame
Concept Proposal Collage
Exploded Diagram
Process Diagram
Generate fabric from Connection.
Establish Connection from Access Points. One of many Busker Performance Spaces
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Art Exhibition Space
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Interactive Art Space
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Ground Floor Plan Scale 1:1000
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Experience the spaces of the bridge through an animation by clicking on this link.
West Elevation Scale 1:500
East Elevation Scale 1:500
West Elevation
East Elevation
North Elevation
Rendered East Elevation Scale 1:500
East Elevation
South Elevation West Elevation
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Section A-A Scale 1:500 West Elevation
North Elevation
North Elevation
Section B-B Scale 1:500
South Elevation
North Elevation Scale !:500
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Recreational Activites Space
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JBR The Beach Access Space
One of many Roof Stepped Spaces
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POPULAS A Wildlife & Cultural Center
Immediate visual of site
Proximity to water cancal
Allowing space for other projects
Collecting Sun Path
Collecting Wind Direction
POPULAS
Site Position Diagram
A Wildlife & Cultural Center Located in Dubai’s Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary. “Populace” is the perfect symbiotic addition to the contextually rich site that focuses on maintaining the serenity and essence of the space. Generated purely by an extrusion of a partial area of the provided plot; The project simply ascends its topography vertically while allowing for functional cultural spaces to transparently exist among the void. Appealing to its urban fabric, Populace integrates transparency and translucency as its core concept to maintain the spirit of the context it lays within. That being the case, all functions are enclosed by using double layered thermally insulated glass, while circulation and recreational spaces are of a free plan design.
Form VS Void Diagram
Glass Enclosing Diagram
Functions Location Diagram
Form In Context with Function Locations Diagram
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Site Plan
Concept Diagram
Experience the spaces of this project through an animation by clicking on this link.
Concept Sketch
Project Height
Food & Beverages
Underground Cores
Workshops
Accommodation
Exhibition Spaces
Library
Auditorium All Plans
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Circulation Spaces
Vertical Circulation and Core Distances
Functions Slab & Height Diagram
Observatory Space
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Section B:B 1: 500
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Abstract Illustration of Underground
Abstract Illustration of Access
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Elevation Detail // Scale 1:50
Plumbing Detail // Scale 1:50
AC Unit Detail // Scale 1:50
Slab & Coulmn Detail // Scale 1:50
Roof Structure Detail // Scale 1:50
Roof Garden Detail // Scale 1:50
Garbage Shoot Detail // Scale 1:50
Stair Section Detail // Scale 1:50
Section B:B 1: 500
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ARETURNTO
HOMS
An Urban Restoration
ARETURNTO
HOMS
An Urban Restoration The project focuses on a visionary perception of a post war site which is that of the city of Homs, Syria. It is quite evident that after the effects of the Syrian revolution, the entire nation was greatly effected. Hence a revitalization project was in order. The proposal is to inject life into the urban fabric by providing the adequate needs and facilities for the people of Syria. The design strategy focuses on attracting both international and local entrepreneurs to invest in the site having in mind that the local community will be involved in the construction process. That being the case the project is divided into phases with business incubators first and foremost. The proposal hopes to shed light on the rebirth of a destructed city.
Lined perspective from villas view Urban Design Sketch
Urban Design Completion
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Experience the spaces of this project through an animation by clicking on this link.
View of Centralized Social Space & Memorial Walk
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Elderly Home Incorporating Self Grown Agriculture
View of Mosque that is based on the form of the Church The mosque and church designs are based on the form of the same cube. Inspired by the Kaa’ba, they symbolically represent how the 2 major religions must stand together to overcome the dismay left in Syria.
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Centralized Social Spaces That Feature Parks & Memorial Walk
View of Church that is based on the form of the Mosque
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OTHER PROJECTS
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The View House The View House is designed under conditions generated by both the potential and limitations of large suburban developments. Situated near Rosario on the vast landscape of the Argentine plains, the 3200 sq foot house occupies a 22,750 sq foot parcel. The design is driven by two connicting desires: engaging the living experience of the house with the views of the surrounding landscape and preserving privacy from neighbors.
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Raghdan Abu Hassan & Oana Fayyad - IDES 475 BIM II - Spring 2015 - The View House - Rosario, Argentina - Professor Alex Albani
Ground Floorplan 1: 50
First Floorplan 1: 50
Concrete Stairs Detail 1: 5
Section AA 1:50
Section BB 1:50
House - Rosario, Argentina - Professor Alex Albani
Glass - Wall Detail 1:10
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The Music Conservatory “Sufism is a school for the actualization of divine ethics, it involves an enlightened inner bring, not intellectual proof, but revelation and witnessing, not logic. By divine ethics we are referring to ethics that transcend mere social convention of a way of being that is the actualization of attributes of god.” Allowing the visitor of the space to enter the realm of religious euphoria by experiencing the folding and embracing forms of the project. Shaping the structure to provide further emphasis on the rhythm and balance required for “Whirling” as the dervish. Furthermore, the idea of musical complexity was implanted through the interior spaces with fluid circulation and escalating ramps, ones that run throughout the entire two buildings. In conclusion the building represented the connection between Sufism and music using the form, space, and circulation. Interior spaces and circulation is continuous just like the flow of the dancer, uninterrupted by walls or private spaces.
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