ran.krkasawi@gmail.com | 513-888-1911
:// Rania Abdelmoniem Karamallah Architectural Portfolio.
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Education Experience Projects Skills Self Portrait
://B. B.000 - The future city Manifesto B.001 B.002 B.003 B.004
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Globalization and city planning Hand sketch “Unfolding” Contemporary society city Fractal geometry and city planning
://C. C.000 - The future home Manifesto C.001 - Redefining the house C.002 - Hand sketch “The house”
://D. D.000 - Architecture as mass production
D.001 - Mixed-use high rise Chicago tower-1 D.002 - Mixed-use high rise Chicago tower-2 D.003 - Real estate Vs. Design
://E. E.000 - Testing the city of Vancouver - Canada E.001 E.002 E.003 E.004
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Redefining Public Realm Redefining Nature Appreciating the architecture of nature Hand Sketch “Architecture Vs. Nature”
://F. F.000 - Airport Design
F.001 - Hand sketch “Destroying the static city” F.002 - Urban motherboard
2015
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2017
| Oxford, Ohio
Miami University of Ohio
Miami University of Ohio
Master’s Degree in Architecture
// Graphic Media Class Assistant
Merit Scholarship GPA: 4.0
2013
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2015
| Abudhabi, UAE
Dewan Architects + Engineers Summer 2 0 1 6
A.000 // Architect Harvard Summer School + Concept / Schematic / Design DevelopHi, I’m Rania Karamallah, from Khartoum ment Phases Architecture of Boston - Sudan. I’m an obsessed designer and + Site Visits / Construction Documents an architect. I learned how to color, + Client Meetings understand the world through 2sketch 0 0 7 — 2 0and 12 my pencil University before I learned how to speak. Khartoum Jan — Jun 2 0 1 3 | Khartoum, Sudan My dad did not fail to pass me his pasBSc in Architecture sion in Arabic calligraphey and sketchPBM — Contractors Second Division ing. I owe him all the drawing competi// Project Manager tions that I won back in school days. + Coordinate and conduct documents for ongoing my projects 2And 0 1 5 now, through 2 0 1 5 my pencil I reflect and of architec+ Office work management / documentation Ppersonality MP L E Emy D visions GA ture. IofspeakCertified this language fluently. + Paper report of project status Certificate
+ Managed campaigns and marketing.
: // See A.003 2011
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2014
Aline Graphics // Partner & Creative Director
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2015
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2017
| Oxford, Ohio
Miami University of Ohio
Miami University of Ohio
Master’s Degree in Architecture
// Graphic Media Class Assistant
Merit Scholarship GPA: 4.0
2013
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2015
| Abudhabi, UAE
Dewan Architects + Engineers Summer 2 0 1 6
// Architect + Concept / Schematic / Design Development Phases + Site Visits / Construction Documents + Client Meetings
2007
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2012
Khartoum University
Jan — Jun 2 0 1 3
BSc in Architecture
| Khartoum, Sudan
PBM — Contractors
Second Division
// Project Manager + Coordinate and conduct documents for ongoing projects
2015
2015
PM P
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+ Office work management / documentation
Certificate of attendance
Certified
+ Paper report of project status
S ki lls
+ 3dsMax + Archicad
I also sketch by hand very well, and I make fluid, artistic & beautiful arabic calligraphy. Reach me: ran.krkasawi@gmail.com 513-888-1911
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Architecture of Boston
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Harvard Summer School
attendance
I developed a passion in business after I planned and ran a number of non-profit organizations in Sudan to help orphans 2 0 1 4 — 2016 + Revit and poor people who lived in khartoum + SketchUp Integrated Africa get through Data Ramadan and the brutal win+ Adobe Suit // Brand & Campaign ter. That led me Consultant to think about starting + AutoCAD LT small business plans. + Maya + Founder & Partner of the company.
2015
Experience
513-888-1911
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ran.krkasawi@gmail.com
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// Architecture BA & MA // LEED GA // Enterpreneur
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RANIAA. KARAMALLAH :// 513-888-1911
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// Architecture BA & MA // LEED GA // Enterpreneur
ran.krkasawi@gmail.com
RANIA KARAMALLAH
S ki lls + Revit
Integrated Data Africa
+ SketchUp
// Brand & Campaign Consultant
+ AutoCAD LT
+ Adobe Suit
+ Cinema 4D
+ Founder & Partner of the company.
+ Maya
+ Keyshot
+ Managed campaigns and marketing.
+ 3dsMax
+ Lumion
2011
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2014
Aline Graphics // Partner & Creative Director
I also sketch by hand very well, and I make fluid, artistic & beautiful arabic calligraphy. Reach me: ran.krkasawi@gmail.com 513-888-1911
+ Archicad + Cinema 4D + Keyshot + Lumion A.000 A.004
A.005 Self Portrait.
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This is a futuristic, anti-heroic and pro-consumerist architectural dialog. My understanding of architecture is solely expressed through hypothetical p rojects in this portfolio in an at tempt to create a new reality through the lens of technology. I’m attempting to address the generation I belong to that freaks out when the Internet goes off and lives in a world without boundaries through the platform of the Internet. While looking through this portfolio please notice the emergence of the visual language of the Internet in the physical world.
Inspiration :
Archigram Martin Heidegger Rem Koolhaas
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B.000 :// I believe that cities of this time should be more generic. I have a vision that urban planning will disappear as a discipline in the far future, because a city with identity is not what we need, a city with identity is too static, fixed and inflexible.
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B.001 “Paris can only become more Parisian, it is already in its way to become hyper Paris, a polished caricature. There are exceptions : London it’s only identity a lake of clear identity, it’s perpetually becoming even less London, more open less static” - Rem Koolhaas ://The influence of globalization and the Internet physicality of the digital age, is a cultural revolution that will transform the way we design our cities.
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B.002 Unfolding. :// Concept hand sketch.
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B.003 :// As a result of globalization,it’s estimated that 220 million people around the globe move from where they are originally from. This movement succeeded to form a new structures of community. A mass of individuals who only share a common physical place. A huge floating tribe. They do not value their origins as much as their destinations. This step in evolution should be celebrated.
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B.004 // City Planning : In an attempt to extend the concept of theoretical fractional dimensions in geometric patterns, fractal geometry led the planning of my city. The visual in this page is showing the formula that developed one cluster.
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C.000 “Where do you come from? It’s such a simple question, but these days, of course, simple questions bring ever more complicated answers” - Pico Iyer Understanding the meaning of a “Place that you come from” for a generation who experienced the “Place of the Internet” comes with way more complicated answers What If we are not rooted to a piece of land, we enjoy the possibilities the virtual world is offering to us ,How can architecture address us? Our houses should look a little bit different, visually and functionally.
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C.001 ://Internet physicality : Spacial hierarchy of the digital house.
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C.002 Floating and ungrounded. :// Concept hand sketch.
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D.000 This project got the attention of a real estate developer in Chicago for Its well-designed spaces and the return of investment value. :// Mass production : If real estate is asking for is functionally-efficient buildings, will architecture be limitied to producing only effecient buildings?
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D.001 :// Project : High-rise mixed use development building ( offices + Hotel + Plaza + shopping mall ) ://The design succeeded to deliver the maximum achievable office space. Most of the lower level areas are restaurants,retails,a 5 star hotel and a plaza that walks you down to the river taxi. The use of spaces was focuced on the return of investment. :// This specific view sold my design to the client.
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D.002 :// Concept : Connecting the city to the river. A strong connection that will walk you from Upper-Wacker street of Chicago, through the building lobby, to a breathtaking view of Chicago river where you can dine the restaurants of the lower level of the building and enjoy the view. Poduime 4 levels is occupied with spaces for retails, spa ,a health club , and a roof top to enjoy music and drinks at night. If you are working at any of the offices of this building -43 office floors-, elevators that are dedicated to your office space will take you privatively to the office. Efficiency in the use of space besides the convenience of the workers and the visitors of the site was the leading aspects of this building design.
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D.003 :// There is an illusion between the understanding of the mixed use space to public and the demands of the real estate development.
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E.000 :// Testing Vancouver - Canada : This project is attempting to root a generic city at the heart of Vancouver Canada. Vancouver has a high level of globalization and high-tech architecture that is trending in the city. :// Three main urban planning design elements : 1. City cores + Public Realm 2. Connectivity (streets) 3. Green infrastructure (Site analysis)
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E.001 :// Redefine public realm of Vancouver city in Canada : Besides all the shopping malls, cafes and parks, this project is an addition. ://Urban corridors: are walking bridges located in different spots around the city that connects people in different places through the segmented reality. Because why should socializing be limited to the physical place? ://This bridge works in pairing point001 and point002 which are two different cities in different countries.People by visiting this bridge in two locations can hang out together.
:// Design concept : Architecture should stop perusing old dreams of modernity instead should start linking digital imagery to reality, and question what radically a different future can reveal ?
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E.002 :// Connectivity + Green infrastructure : I believe that the nature of the generic city has two elements, one is green infrastructure and two is the hidden digital connection. ://This project is enhancing the use of the smart devices and the Internet in daily life.Gradually, the city will need less physical architecture and more open spaces to experience augmented reality. The far vision is to vanish high-rise buildings because we are less attached to one spot in the world and more frequently moving around the glob.
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E.003 :// Instead the city design will enhance the sense of nature more than high-rise building , and the highest visual point in the city will be made by nature.
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E.004 Architecture Vs. Nature. :// Concept hand sketch.
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F.000 ://The airport is the most singular, characteristic element of the generic city. The airport can simply replace the city of the future. Designing a generic micro city at the heart of Vancouver-Canada to transform the living of that area and smooth the city to algorithmic efficiency.
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F.001 Destroying the static city. ://Pr-project sketch.
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F.002 :// Urban motherboard : The Airport is a combination of small flying machines that re-produce their own energy. Taking a flight is as easy as taking a cab. It is the heart the future generic city, and a step towards an architecture of our age that can bring modernism and post modernism to an end.
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All previous projects are different divisions of one city, a city that is a part of a vision, that for now I can only call it “Utopia�.The dream-like dimension that Utopian architecture holds can not be less important than solving emerging society issues. Reflecting the social formation is a powerful massage architecture could and should be a tool for. References and mentors : ://Dick Overton Harvard GSD Alumni, 1979 513-529-6431 | overtos@miamioh.edu
://Sergio Sanabria Princeton University Alumni, 1984 513-529-6426 | sanabrsl@miamioh.edu
Reach me : Rania Karamallah
| ran.krkasawi@gmail.com | 513-888-1911