Cand. Aarch MAA Emerging Architectures & Sustainability
Rima Murad EXTENDED PORTFOLIO 2019
�We tend to belong to what makes us proud when we identify ourselves with it�- Marwa Al Sabouni
CONTENTS
1.
PUBLIC SPACES
Tripoli: The Architecture of Co-Existence
P. 4
2.
Aarhus City of Architecture - Godsbanen
P. 16
3.
Labyrinth of Knowledge, Sydney
P. 22
4. 5.
6.
HOUSING
Transforming through Re-use
P. 28
Integrating Through Architecture: The Corridor as a meeting space
P. 34
OTHERS
1:1 Vejle Workshop
P. 40
7.
1:1 Reuse Workshop
P. 44
8.
Sketching
P. 46
9.
Model Making
P. 48
10. Digital Work
P. 52
1. The Architecture of Co-Existence
Thesis Project, Fall 2018 Tripoli, Lebanon
‘Tripoli: The architecture of Co-existence’ is a study on how a public space can encourage a sense of value and embody a sense of ’belonging’ as a method to bridge and unite between a split society. The architectural outcome is a free flowing space of stages and exhibitions that unite the things that are common to the locals across the different societies; Music, Dancing, Language, Crafts and Arts. The project attempts to merge specifically between what is Islamic and what is Christian (Western influence), as these are the main aspects of the culture and history.
When identity is threatened, existence is what becomes at stake - Marwa Al Sabouni
Exterior Visualisation
Key Concepts
VOID
STRUCTURE
FLOW
The site had once been a theatre, built in 1888 during the Ottoman Empire, by Italian Architects. It had the first opera stage of the country, and had hosted great artists, until it was hit by a bomb during the civil wars and later demolished by mistake in 2008. The new architecture takes up the history and transforms it into a project that can aid the social situation. The ground floor is elevated, giving way for free flow on the ground, integrating the building into the urban fabric.
Ground Floor Plaza
Informal Staging
Exploring Through Flow
The building mainly revolves around the architectural experience (and) of the local values. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor are for local people exhibiting what is ’a local value’, in a both social and industrial/skills aspects. Amongst the exhibitions, the stairs, that generate the flow, create informal stages for the people to perform or express themselves amongst each other. Perspective section 1:200
Selected Plans
4th Floor, 1:200
1st Floor, 1:400
2nd Floor, 1:400
3rd Floor, 1:400
Contemporary vs History
3D image from Digital model
URBAN CITY SCAPE
OLD CITY | TRIPOLI
OLD CITY|AL MINA
3D image from Digital model
OLD SOUKS |MAMELOUKE PERIOD
INTERNATIONAL FAIR |OSCAR NIEMEYER
’CASTLES’ |OTTOMAN PERIOD
Isonomentric
TRIPOLI HARBOR
OLD CITY
AL MINA
RAILWAY STATION
CITY CENTER ABU ALI RIVER
OLD CITY
RASHID KARAMEH INTERNATIONAL FAIRGROUNDS
CITADEL OF RAYMOND DE SAINT-GILLES
TRIPOLI
MUNICIPALITY HILL TOP CAFÉ
CHURCH
MOSQUE
MANSHIAH PARK CLOCK TOWER HAMAM OLD ’SARAYA’ SQUARE PROTESTANT CHURCH
OTTOMAN ’CASTLES’
SOUK OF SOAP SOUK OF GOLD
AL MANSOURY MOSQUE
DISTRICT OF AL TAL
AREA MAP
N LOCATION MAP, 1:40.000
2. AARHUS CITY OF ARCHITECTURE
Bachelor Project, Spring 2016 With Rasmus Hedegaard Jensen.
AACA is our take on the new Aarhus School of Architecture located on Godsbanerne in Central Aarhus. It seeks to create better working spaces for the students and teachers while at the same time becoming a public space, connecting the school with it’s sorroundings. AACA seeks to become a more ’transparent’ building, where the students and their works are visible for the city’s curious inhabitants who can easily access the building, on the ground and 1. level. The rest is privatised for eduacational reasons. The internal disposition of the spaces and program is designed in such a way the building itself becomes a city, where the corridors are like streets, and the rooms are either public areas or private spaces.
Exterior Visualisation
PROGRAM DIAGRAMS
Åen Carl Blochs Gade Å-Husene Grøn Kile Eksisterende bygning
Connection to sorroundings
Internal City structure
Bastion base as Public area
Privat
Offentligt
Public and Private
Site Plan, 500
SELECTED PLANS
1:1000, 1st Floor
1:1000, 2nd Floor
1:1000, 7th Floor
MERGING INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR
AACA integrates inner and outer space by gradually privatising the public areas. Going from exterior to interior, we start from ’Den Grønne Kile’, characterised as the large public space. Where AACA and ’Den Grønne Kile’ meets, there will be a semi-public space, a part of the School’s outdoor area, connected to the Cantine. Seperated by a large window facade, the Canteen is then considered a semi-private area (But the canteen is a public area within the AACA city structure). From the Canteen you can then go further in the building, which can become more privatised, according to where you decide to go.
Section - Collaboration by Rasmus Hedegaard Jensen and I
3. THE LABYRINTH OF KNOWLEDGE
5th semester, Fall 2015
With Yara H. Bassam at UTS, Sydney
The Labyrinth if Knowledge is a Library in which you have to find your way from the ’’least interesting’’ programmatic spaces, to the most interesting, whereas interesting is defined by books (english library) being the most interesting part of this specific library. This way you can ’get lost in knowledge’, and you can find shortcuts, that may lead you a few rooms ahead. You start by entering the public entrance going through circulation desk, to Multimedia space, discovery rooms, then the children’s area and afterwards come the journals and other books, ending with the English Library, which we defined as the main purpose of our Library, hence the ’goal of the Labyrinth’.
Exterior Visualisation
CONNECTING THE SITE
The ’base’ of the Library is the entrance level, which is an elevated ground floor, that leads up to the ’core’, which hosts the librarian working spaces, creating fast tracks to the big library, to increase worker’s efficiency. The elevated ground floor, the plateau, is the public space binding the site and the building both in form and motion. The form adapts to the characteristic site, while also following the flow motions of the pedestrians on site. To support this, we integrated a direct connection from the underground tunnel to the northern staircase. On the Southern staircase is a larger area for stay and entertainment(section). The whole ’arm’ is a 1:20 ramp taking universal accessibility into consideration.
Section
Siteplan
CONCEPT
Concept models for labyritnth
Concept sketch
4. TRANSFORMING THROUGH RE-USE AN ARCHITECTURAL STUDY
RE-USING STRUCTURE
A mixed use project of residences and adjoining workshops for innovators. The Brabrand Tulip grounds lay obsolete and decaying. The project is a conceptual study on how a production building can be transformed through re-use from the waste of the local site and area. The study included learning about the screening process and reuse possibilities of polluted materials.
Figure 5.17 Structural Iso
TIMELINE SCREENING
ANALYSIS
REMOVAL OF TOXINS REMOVAL OF BRICKS
DECONSTRUCTION
CLEANING OF BRICKS CUTTING OF CONCRETE DOWNCYCLE OF CONCRETE RECONSTRUCTION FROM CONCRETE
RECONSTRUCTION
RECONSTRUCTION FROM BRICKS ADD ON OF NEW MATERIAL DESIGN COURTYARD FROM WASTE
LANDSCAPE
Figure 5.16 Timeline
BUILDING PERFORMANCE
Shade Analysis
Daylight Income analysis, VELUX
DETAILING
Figures 4.41 Market Hall Detail 1:40
RUN OFF TO NORTH AND SOUTH FACADE
GUTTER NEW
RECOVERED WOOD (CUT)
SLAB EXISTING
DEBRIGUM WATERPROOF LAYER
SPACER NEW
INSULATION GLASSWOOL RECYCLED AGAINST CONDENSATION
U-PROFILE NEW
STEEL FRAME CURROGATED STEEL RECOVERED
CONCRETE BEAM EXISTING(CUT OUT) T-PROFILE SEPERATING STEEL FROM POLYCARBONATE
CURROGATED POLYCARBONATE SHEET NEW INSULATION GLASSWOOL RECYCLED 120MM BRICK
BOLTING: DISASSEMBLEABLE FLEXIBILITY IN FACADE
AIR GAP 50MM CERAMIC TILES RECOVERED
COLUMN EXISTING
5. INTEGRATING THROUGH ARCHITECTURE THE CORRIDOR AS A MEETING SPACE
7th semester, Fall 2016 The Design is a hybrid between the Single family house and the apartment block. It consists of units, in 1,2,3 and 4 plans, where each plan is one house. The units are then joined by a central space, a Corridor. This way each housing unit stands alone within the structure, giving the residents a sense of individuality inside the common. The ground floor common space can be used as a space for smaller gatherings, while at the same time bringing light in towards the adjoining housing units. The space in between the units acts as a circulation space. While it can also host smaller entertainment spaces, on both the ground floor and the galleries, it has one single very important character that binds the project socially; The open space and galleries give the residents a direct encounter with all the neighbors, which can evoke the social relation we found missing in the studied cases.
Gound Plan 1:400
PLANS
3rd Floor Plan 1:1000
2nd Floor Plan 1:1000
1st Floor Plan 1:1000
To activate the residents in their community, the existing buildings on site have been converted to common spaces. The former office will be used as a kindergarten while the youth center hosts several functions, such as a Social Meeting Space, Restaurant/Kitchen and a Workshop. The residents of this community will have shared tasks or jobs in the facilities, encouraging them to interact with the space and each other
Site Plan 1:1000
Atmospheric Sketch: Central Space
CONCEPT
PROGRAM FOR SOCIAL INTEGRATION
Kindergarten
Social Meeting Space
Greenhouse Workshop
Housing
Common Kitchen Small aprt.
Family
Large Fam.
Students
Synergies
Program Diagram: Common Spaces in Use
Program Diagram: Synergies
Concept Diagrams: Collective vs. Seperate
Student Housing Small Apartment Family apartment Large Family apartment
Concept Diagram: Mixed Residents
Concept Diagram: Common Roof Gardens
Concept Diagram: Central Space, Daylight Intake
6. 1:1 VEJLE WORKSHOP - MAY 2018
9th semester, Spring 2018 Studio 3B
In collaboration with Vejle Municipality studio 3B had a 1:1 workshop which included a two round competition phase and an on-site buiding phase. The foundations of the competition was to design and create a pavilion of waste building materials from a given site as a part of the city’s Resilient City image. Part of the labour put into the erection of the pavilion included cleaning bricks and the wood from any excess materials, as a method to learn the time consuming aspect of re-use.
VEJLE WORKSHOP - PROCESS
VEJLE WORKSHOP - COMPETITION, 2ND PLACE FISHBONE ON A FLOODPLAIN FISKEBEIN PÅ EN FLODSLETTE
EN MANDS SKRALD ER EN ANDEN MANDS GULD
ROOFLIGHTS WITH NEW FRAMES
Fishbone on a Floodplain is a pavilion proposal inspired by Nordic timber construction. Reminiscent of Viking long houses, it alludes to Vejles rich history. Having initially explored the rack structures commonly used across Scandinavia to dry fish, the timber A-frames creates an atmospheric and beautiful internal environment that provides shelter from the elements and a place to meet, sit and learn. In this upcycled pavilion, instead of acting as a rack for fish, the structure acts as a rack for waste. While still maintaining some open sections of structure, we propose a series of cladding panels constructed from household waste which will protect the timber joints from the Danish climate. Our intention is to make the waste cladding subtle enough that it is not immediately obvious that this pavilion is made from waste from your home. Inspired by the examples shown here, we believe we can make waste something intriguing and appealing.
ROOFLIGHTS ATTACHED TO WOODEN A-FRAME
The structure is inspired by nordic fishing rack construction but instead of fish it will be upcycled materials.
The A-frames would be constructed on the ground and lifted on up, allowing for multiple teams of students to be occupied at the same time. The waste cladding system also allows for school groups to participate in the construction of the pavilion at a later date. We envisage workshops that teach about how household waste can be re-used in the built environment. This would go hand in hand with teaching about the heat pump, which we propose surrounding in a brick ’chimney’, a reference to the fact that heat pumps can be our modern-day heating systems. We intend for the heat the pump produces to be distributed below the seating, which would be pleasant in the evenings and cooler months. To power the heat pump, we also suggest that solar panels could be integrated into the cladding on the South facade, as a sustainable solution to operating the system.
SHELTER FROM THE ELEMENTS
WOODEN A-FRAME MADE WITH UPCYCLED RAFTERS Solar panels and a variety of waste materials can be upcycled and incorporated into the cladding.
BRICK SEATING MADE WITH UPCYCLED BRICK BRICK HOUSING FOR HEAT PUMP
Waste materials like old Pallets can be upcycled and cut into boards to be used as shingles for cladding the structure. The orientation has been based upon the wind and the sun, but most importantly upon framing the view of the pond and the surrounding nature, whilst also allowing a journey through the site, making the pavilion part of the new planned Vejle route.
FRAMING THE VIEW Seating Seating
Heat Exchanger
The timber bracing is used to create a fish-bone like aesthetic that echoes down the spine of the pavilion.
Entrance/ Exhibition Space
10m
5m Seating Seating
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The shape and structure of the pavilion are evocative of an old Viking longhouse. The meandering seating was inspired by the river in Vejle and Vejle’s connections to the water and future flooding. We are proposing a tiered configuration to maximise the amount of seating available and create a dynamic and interactive space for visitors.
Tin Cans
Crushed Cans
Smaller battens can be easily sourced from waste timber; even our school has available scrap. CDs
Plastic Bottles
POSSIBLE CLADDING OPTIONS
6,5m
3m
10m SECTION
NORTH ELEVATION
Collaboration with Kevin Kuriakose & Lydia Stott
7. 1:1 REUSE WORKSHOP 2015
4th semester ’Faglig Optik’
In groups we were to track down and harvest waste materials of different sorts and hands on create something from it. PAPER The chosen wasted resource of our group was paper and magazines from which we created a flexible design that can create larger and smaller structures. REFLECTION The strength of the design can be discussed as such; the ’weak’ side is the dynamic side, that flexes and curves, but as the joints are not glued or attached, the structure can be split very easily. On the other hand, the paper combination is extremely strong and han withstand loads of weight.
8. SKETCHING
9. MODEL MAKING CONCEPT
FINAL
Semester Project, 1st year
2nd Semester Project
10. DIGITAL WORK
Photografhic Section, 1st year
In collaboration
Photografhic Section, 1st year
In collaboration
EXTENDED PORTFOLIO FEBRUARY 2019 RIMA MURAD