Architecture Portfolio by Saif B. Horani

As an Architect you design for the

PRESENT

PAST

with an awareness of the

FUTURE for a

which is essentially unknown.

Norman Foster

Saif Horani 11.04.1995 +962799229375 saifhorani95@gmail.com Amman -Jabal Amman JORDAN

INTERESTS architecture music photography cooking photomanipulation friends

SOFT SKILLS Team work Quick adaptation Endurance Quick learning

C U R R I C U L U M

V I T A E

academic journey Oct. 1999 - Jun. 2013

Rosary Sisterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School Aqaba enrolled in the scientific stream in 2011

Jul. 2013

passed TAWJIHI ministry of education exams under the scientific stream with an avg. of 95.6%

Oct. 2013 - Now

German Jordanian University Bachelors of architecture in the school of architecture and built environment

skills software

languages

activities

Adobe Photoshop CC Illustrator CC InDesign CC

ARABIC

Autodesk Autocad 2D Autocad 3D Revit Architecture

football

basketball ENGLISH table tennis

Other Sketchup Rhino Grasshopper Sony vegas Pro

GERMAN

hiking

Microsoft office Word Powerpoint Excel

swimming

FRENCH food

TABLE OF CONTENTS

8 - 11

ARTS ACADEMY

12 - 13

AHMAD OSNII PEI PAVILION

14 - 17

AQABA RESORT &WELLNESS CENTER

18 - 19

JAWAHAR KALA KENDRA EXTENSION

20 - 25

JABAL AMMAN PUBLIC LIBRARY

second year | 2015 third year | 2016 third year | 2015 third year | 2016

second year | 2015

PROJECT DISCRIPTION

second year 2015

The excercise was to design an academy for the arts and crafts majors in Amman, the site was also in the Jabal Amman area, theprogram should include multiple workshops, for wood metal and other types of crafts, Studios, exhibitions and Administration.

ARTS ACADEMY

THE CONCEPT

On the east and west side of the site,there was two streets, the one on the west had yearly events which made it a known street, on the other side, the eastern street was abandoned and dead, I wanted to both streets through my project which might create an opportunity to bring back the life to the street. Also, I wanted to optimize the use of the view and minimize the cut and fill chances, by building on mulitiple levels and creating an courtyard.

create a enclosure by building walls around the site.

cut the walls to create significant entrances.

accomodate the targeted audience.

optimize the inner space as a public park.

create entrances at multiple vivid nodes in the area.

adapt to the context by lowering the northern side to maximize view and lefting the southern side to create shade

DRAWINGS scale to fit

Basement level

Ground level

First level

Second level

Site Plan

Third level

Sections & Elevations South elevation A-A

West elevation

North elevation

B-B

East elevation

PROJECT DISCRIPTION

third year 2016

Using the ruled surfaces method, we had to design a pavilion that would be inspired by an artist, this artistâ&#x20AC;şs work should be featured in the nationa Jordanian museum of Modern Art in Jabal alWeibdeh

RULED SURFACES

THE CONCEPT

AHMAD OSNII PEI PAVILION

In geometry, a surface S is ruled (also called a scroll) if through every point of S there is a straight line that lies on S. The most familiar examples (illustrated here in three-dimensional Euclidean space) are the plane and the curved surface of a cylinder or cone. Other examples are a conical surface with elliptical directrix, the right conoid, the helicoid, and the tangent developable of a smooth curve in space. A ruled surface can always be described (at least locally) as the set of points swept by a moving straight line. For example, a cone is formed by keeping one point of a line fixed whilst moving another point along a circle. In this project we are to use one type of the ruled surfaces, in which the swept line, is meerly in the opposit location as the original location.

Ahmad Osnii Pei, a visual artist from Indonesia, something special and appealing about Ahmad`s sculptures, it is the unity and wholeness that comes through so well. "this intellectual sculptor produces pieces which challenge paintings on canvas, with their nonfigurative forms symbolizing unity, joined in harmony with the idea of wholeness, a concept of gestalt" Looking at one of Ahmad`s sculptures that was displayed in The Jordan National Gallery of fine Arts, Polanoor, It made me realize soothing and eye appealing his curves are, so i decided to use the way he draws line and creates them to portray his style in this pavilion. And reacting to the site, it had to be adapting to the parameters of the location. Visiting the site, the first to catch my eye, was the Bell tower of the Orthodox Church and the minaret of the Kind Abdullah I Mosque. And I had to frame those two great elements, that introduce the coexistence of religions in Jordan.

DRAWINGS scale to fit

Site Plan

Plan

Sections & Elevations

East Elevation

South Elevation

Section

third year 2015

AQABA RESORT AND WELLNESS CENTER

THE CONCEPT The sun can be the ultimate healing element and a great architectural parameter.

define the site boundaries.

since we are building on a beachwhich used to be public, the site should be divided to keep fullfilling the public needs, the southern side will be the site of the resort to maximize the use of sun light. after dividing the site, the public area will be landscaped to inrich the area with greenery, the functions of the resort will be placed on the southern side with the pools and the outdoors area.

arrange the administration functions along a big wall to divide the two zones giving more privacy, and creating shade for the public beach.

bend the wall along with the sun path to optimize the largest availbe amount of sun light at the area of the resort.

extending lines from the large wall to create the guest rooms, unifying form and maxmizing sun use in the whole area of the resort.

DRAWINGS scale to fit

Site Plan

Street level

-2 level (sea level)

-1 level 15

Sections & Elevations East Elevation

North Elevation

A-A

South Elevation

B-B

PROJECT DISCRIPTION

third year 2016

The excercise was to design an extension for the Jawahar kala kendra, by the architect Charles Correa. The Kala kendra is located in Jaipur in India.

JAWAHAR KALA KENDRA EXTENSION

THE CONCEPT

old Kala Kendra. original concept was the 9 squares mandala.

the extension was added above the old kala kendra, in order to up, one must pass the dome. the extension includes a bazaar for the workshop users and an additional space for the library

the dome workshops the library

the most important parts are highlighted, those should be included in the new program of the extension

the bazaar was planned as a big open space keeping the voids of the original roof to maintain the open to sky concept, the circulation could only be organized by addidng elevated platforms to define the spaces.

* http://www.buzzintown.com/jaipur/restaurants/jawahar-kala-kendra-jawahar-lal-nehru-marg/id13141--.html

DRAWINGS

Site Plan

Extension Plan

A-A West Elevation

B-B North Elevation

PROJECT DISCRIPTION

second year 2015

The excercise was to design a public library in the jabal amman area in Jordan, the program should include, a children's library, a public library and a cafe. The site had great opportunities, as it had a slope of 21 metes and a northern view to jabal alQala' area which had ancient Roman ruins.

JABAL AMMAN PUBIC LIBRARY

THE CONCEPT On the east and dead street west side of the lively street site,there was two streets, the one on the west had yearly events view which made it a the site has a slope of 21 Meters. known street, on the other side, the eastern street was abandoned and dead, I wanted to both streets through my project which might create an opportunity to bring back the life to the street. Also, I wanted to optimize the use of the view and minimize the cut and fill chances, by building on mulitiple levels and creating an courtyard. 20

optimize most area of the site.

distribute construction to mutiple levels to minimize cut and fill effect.

create an openning to define entrance.

create roof garden and open the area from the west to link the two streets.

DRAWINGS

scale to fit

Street level -

Cafe level Site Plan

Ground level open spaces to view, and create internal courtyard. -

add greenery to the inside of the project.

First level

Sections & Elevations

A-A

East elevation North elevation

B-B

West elevation

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ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO SAIF HORANI