Cand. Aarch MAA Emerging Architectures & Sustainability
Rima Murad SELECTED PORTFOLIO 2019
�We tend to belong to what makes us proud when we identify ourselves with it�- Marwa Al Sabouni
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CONTENTS
PROJECTS
THESIS: Tripoli: The Architecture of Co- existence
P. 4
Aarhus City of Architecture - Godsbanen
P. 16
Labyrinth of Knowledge, Sydney
P. 22
OTHERS
Visualisation
P. 28
Detailing
P. 30
Re-use Workshop 1:1
P. 32
Sketching
P. 34
Model Making
P. 36
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.
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
URBAN CITY SCAPE
OLD CITY | TRIPOLI
OLD CITY|AL MINA
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
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
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
OTHERS - VISUALISATION TRANSFORMING THROUGH RE-USE AN ARCHITECTURAL STUDY
OTHERS - DETAILING TRANSFORMING THROUGH RE-USE AN ARCHITECTURAL STUDY
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
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.
SKETCHING
MODEL MAKING CONCEPT
FINAL
SELECTED PORTFOLIO FEBRUARY 2019 RIMA MURAD