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Designer: Ramy Makhaly Email: ramy.makhaly@gmail.com Contact: +1 (347) 552 4356 Date of print: January 2015
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Design Statement
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III Studio Designs
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Matrix + Stevens HQ*
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Salvatore Ferragamo: Retail Redesign
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INHABIT Artist Community*
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AUD Student Lounge Redesign*
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Matrix + Stevens: Daylighting Design
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Oppositio*
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Custom Design Luminaire
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Intercontinental Bangkok: Digital Reproduction
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JCBA’s ‘Cape Schanck House’
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Residential Loft
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘Falling Water’: Photohsop Rendering
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* Awarded projects and achievements
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Achievement + Awards
Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) New York City Thesis Prize for the New York School of Interior Design - 2013 Matrix + Stevens HQ (pg. 7), my thesis project at NYSID, recognized by the Illuminating Engineering Society amongst the graduation class of 2013 American University in Dubai (AUD) Senior Showcase - Most Ambitious Project and 1st Runner Up - 2012 The project INHABIT Artist Community (pg. 25) received this award, among 60 graduating students, after a series of verbal and visual presentations to guest jurists and representatives of the design industry American University in Dubai (AUD) Student Lounge - Executed Redesign - 2011 Personally selected by AUD’s Dean of Student Affairs to redesign the university’s student lounge (pg. 41), produced and delivered a presentation including project drawings and renderings for design proposal to AUD’s administration, supervised and assisted in design execution and construction AUD Best Interior Design Studio Project - Second Place - 2011 The project Oppositio (pg. 61), with a group effort, earned the Second Place award at this event involving 100 students enrolled in studio-based projects for 2011
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I Design Statement
In my work, I aim to attempt new things, I aim to break rules and steer away from what is a “standard� expected design. Even though I try to be unique and irregular, amongst my own designs I focus on a few key design principles that remain consistent in my works. Vector; creating a virtual passage to visitors of the designed space through the use of geometry, finishes and lighting. Continuity; making the space harmonious by creating a rhythm with the use of materials and design elements. Emphasis; creating a focal point in the design using the previously mentioned principles, making the emphasized element the core of the project.
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III Studio Designs
This section includes various design projects ranging from residential to commercial to even furniture pieces. Most of the following projects were produced during my Interior Design education at the American University in Dubai, as well as my Masters in Lighting Design from the New York School of Interior Design
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Matrix + Stevens HQ
Winner of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) New York City Thesis Award - 2013
The client for this project is a structural and civil engineering firm called Matrix New World, who recently joined forces in merging with Stevens Institute of Technology. The following project is a proposal for their new headquarters in suburban New Jersey. In highlighting the merger between the two parties this design revolves around contrast, between the structural rustic aspect of Matrix and the modernity of the Institute of Technology, by exposing the architectural I-beams in clean flat ceilings and by using structural shapes with more modern materiality and applications. Bringing these two different principles into one design forms a feeling of juxtaposition that would unexpectedly create a cohesive and harmonious design.
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Matrix + Stevens HQ
virtually created and rendered using SketchUp + Illustrator
Ground Floor - Top View
LOBBY + CONFERENCE ROOM
exposed and side-lit structural system | highlighting conference room | floor light creating vector
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Matrix + Stevens HQ
architectural drafting and detailing using AutoCad
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virtually created and rendered using SketchUp + Illustrator
OFFICE exposed and side-lit structural system | custom integrated task lighting | clearstories allowing for maximum daylight in central spaces
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Matrix + Stevens HQ
virtually created and rendered using SketchUp & Illustrator
Ground Floor - Top View OPEN OFFICES glowing vaults ceiling system | custom integrated task lighting
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Matrix + Stevens HQ
architectural drafting and detailing using AutoCad
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lighting plan - ceiling level
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Salvatore Ferragamo - Retail Redesign
This salvatore ferragamo retail proposal aims to flip the usual function of a fashion runway from portraying fashion to using these lit paths as circulation vectors for consumers. Therefore, instead of the fashion being surrounded by the audience, The audience will be surrounded by the designer’s merchandise. Continuous luminous pathways lead the user through the space from the entrance to different merchandise areas on both levels of the space. Aligned with the strips of light are suspended reflective metal structures making the lit surfaces traveling from the floors to the walls seem endless. Hidden above the suspended pieces are adjustable track heads functioning to accentuate the merchandise in the space with maximum flexibility in aiming and directing due to the grid applied to the design.
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Salvatore Ferragamo - Retail Redesign virtually created and rendered using 3ds Max
ground floor - top view
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first floor - top view
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Salvatore Ferragamo - Retail Redesign virtually created and rendered using 3ds Max
Ground Floor - Top View
WOMEN’S APPAREL ground floor
continuous luminous pathways | concealed track lighting system | feature core walls | complimenting ceiling and floor geometry
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Salvatore Ferragamo - Retail Redesign virtually created and rendered using 3ds Max
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MEN’S APPAREL first floor continuous luminous pathways | concealed track lighting system | feature core walls | complimenting ceiling and floor geometry
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INHABIT Artist Community
Awarded Most Ambitious Project and 1st Runner Up at the American University in Dubai (AUD) Senior Showcase - 2012
The following project was developed as a senior design project during my BFA course at the American University in Dubai. It comprised of a full renovation of an existing building in the United Arab Emirates. INHABIT is an artist community in Dubai with the main objective of bringing all types of arts and talents together under one roof; joining fine arts with photography, music, cinematography, sculpture and many more to create one entity representing art and artists in the UAE.
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INHABIT Artist Community
The redesigned building will incorporate a range of areas specifically designed to serve the different purposes and usages intended, as well as space requirements. These spaces include; an auditorium, art studios, filming and recording studios, lounge area, exhibition halls and more. INHABIT will also serve as an institution where different art courses and workshops will be offered to all levels of users. The proposed design concept consists of a compilation of different aspects and elements coming together to create challenging and fresh design solutions. A skeletal angular system creating complex exterior structures while the interior is inspired by simplified forms of graffiti art derived from the Bohemian lifestyle which then becomes the essence of INHABIT.
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virtually created on Revit and rendered using 3ds Max
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Overall 2D
architectural drafting and detailing using AutoCad
First Floor Plan
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Third Floor Plan
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Overall 2D
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Auditorium
architectural drafting using AutoCad + rendered using Photoshop
First Floor Plan
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virtually created and rendered using 3ds Max
AUDITORIUM first floor continuous angular walls | integrated lighting | curtain wall with automatic shutters | randomly colored seats for graphical representation
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Gallery
architectural drafting using AutoCad + rendered using Photoshop
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virtually created and rendered using 3ds Max
GALLERY added structure to existing building | bare materials | custom exhibition chairs | central structural focus
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INHABIT Artist Community virtually created in Revit + rendered using 3ds Max
RECEPTION ground floor angular curtain wall | bare materials | customized seating and reception desk | graphical circulation system continuing on walls and floor
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WORKSPACE third floor modular custom desks allowing personal working space | concrete architectural elements creating dynamic shadows | backlit stretch ceiling illuminating the entire space
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INHABIT Artist Community
RESTAURANT sixth floor conceptual restaurant design | lighting continuity from floor to walls to ceiling | colors derived from central graffiti wall
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RECORDING STUDIO fourth floor acoustical wall treatments | angular walls, ceiling and wall opening | personalized text graffiti wall paint | accenting dedicated space color
CORRIDOR randomly rendered lockers according graphical circulation system
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AUD Student Lounge Redesign
The following is an approved proposal of the redesign of the student lounge at the American University of Dubai (AUD) after being personally selected by AUD’s Dean of Student Affairs for this project. Due to the limited budget, the main design solutions revolved around utilizing inexpensive materials, such as paint, and re-using existing furniture to revamp this space.
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Conceptual Renders virtually created in Revit + rendered using 3ds Max
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Real Photos of Executed Design
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Matrix + Stevens: Daylighting Design
In redesigning Matrix New World and Stevens Institute of Technology’s office space, this design proposes solutions and approaches to daylight function and control within the space.
The overall space organization concept revolves around an open layout allowing for opportunities of flexible spaces and positive interaction between the different types of users of the space. In response to the client’s requirements concerning flexible spaces, retractable PVC sheet walls have been introduced to allow for maximum options of space organization.
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Matrix + Stevens: Daylighting Design architectural drafting using AutoCad + rendered using Photoshop
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Matrix + Stevens: Daylighting Design
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Since the space is on the last floor of the building, a fully glazed ceiling formed by a triangular Smart Glass pattern rests on top of the proposed layout. Smart Glass allow for controlling the amount of daylight entering the building, reacting to and communicating with the array of daylight sensors within the space. 7AM
The adjacent diagrams illustrate how the Smart Glass tiles would react to the Sun 1PM path throught the day. 5PM
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Matrix + Stevens: Daylighting Design
Utilizing AGi32, a lighting calculation software, to create year-round daylight studies using in order to ensure the design was working efficiently and correctly all days of the year.
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Matrix + Stevens: Daylighting Design virtually created in SketchUp + rendered in 3ds Max
AUDITORIUM - kitchen/lounge conditional dimming ceiling | loose furniture to allow maximum flexibility | interior window roller shading system | seperate ceiling grid control
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Matrix + Stevens: Daylighting Design
CORRIDORS - classrooms triangular smart-glass ceiling | flexible pvc sheet wall system
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OFFICE conditional dimming ceiling | seperate ceiling grid control | fixed pvc sheet walls
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Matrix + Stevens: Daylighting Design
KITCHEN conditional dimming ceiling | central fixed island | loose furniture to allow maximum flexibility
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DECK canopy continuing triangular pattern | loose furniture to allow maximum flexibility
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Oppositio
Awarded AUD Best Interior Design Studio Project - Second Place - 2011
‘Oppositio’ is a residential proposal project with a focus on universal design. It required us to work in a group to design a house for a family where the husband is hearing-impaired, the wife is in a wheelchair and the two sons are healthy. ‘Oppositio’ means juxtapose in English language. the main concept of the design revoloves around the contrast created between the complex exterior and the simple interior of the house. Another main design element in the architecture of the project is be the uninterrupted form, created by the ramp leading to the entrance and continuing to shape the walls and roof of the house. This project was chosen to enter a competition “Best I.D. Studio Project” by the Department of Interior Design at the American University in Dubai and won second place.
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Oppositio
furniture layout
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Oppositio
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Oppositio
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virtually created using Revit + rendered (by group member) using 3ds Max
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Custom Design Luminaire
The following fixture was designed during the course ‘Luminaire Design’ at NYSID. We were asked to propose a design using a re-usable found material and then create a mock-up of the proposed design. My design comprised of re-using the standard 18”x18”x18” cardboard box to create a custom light fixture by cutting out linear sections from the box, allowing light leaks.
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Custom Design Lumiaire
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adding an extra cubic acrylic layer withing the overall box for glare control and diffusion. a compact fluorescent lamp is suspended in the center of the overall box to create an omni-directional light making the acrylic layer glow. this design is suitable for a pendant or surface mounted fixture.
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Intercontinental Bangkok: Digital Reproduction 3Ds Max computerized remodeling and rendering
This project required digitally recreating an existing hotel room which, in this case, is a room from the Intercontinental Bangkok - Thailand, using Autodesk 3ds Max with Vray lighting and rendering engine.
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JCBA’s ‘Cape Schanck House’ Autodesk Revit remodeling and rendering
Autodesk Revit Architecture, a BIM solution, was used to digitally model an existing piece of architecture; Jackson Clements Burrows’ ‘Cape Schanck House’. This software enabled us to extract architectural drawings, schedules and 3D views. This project also required designing one of the interior spaces within and creating rendered exterior and interior views.
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Cape Schank House
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Residential Loft
Relux Pro 3D modeling, photometric calculations and rendering
The Following Project consisted of designing an residential space using Relux Pro to insert real lighting fixtures, create Pseudo color diagrams to study the distribution of light in specific areas, and also generate rendered views of the designed space. The Residential Loft benefits from a split-level to create a separation between the dining + kitchen area and the bedroom + living area while leaving the open layout intact.
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘Falling Water’ Photoshop Rendering
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Adobe Photoshop was used to digitally render floorplans and elevations of an existing project. Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘Falling Water’ was the building chosen for this project. Google SketchUp was also used to model the project in order to carefully study the shadows created on the elevations.
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Ramy Makhaly - Interior & Lighting Designer