TABLE OF CONTENTS
01. INTRODUCTION 02. OUR SITE LOCATION 03. THE EVOLUTION OF OUR PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE THE 04. INTERVENTION AND ITS LOGIC 05. THE CONCEPTS THAT AFFECT SPIRITUALITY 06. RESEARCH OUTCOMES 07. THE INTERVENTION STATMENT 08. THE FORM GENERATION 09. THE TECTONIC LANGUAGE 10. FINAL OUTCOME 11. THE CONNECTIONS 12. THE CIRCULATION 13. THE STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS 14. SHOTS
INTRODUCTION First part of a vertical design studio sequence. Design adopts an innovative approach and a theoretical position in one of three areas of interest: building design; human and environmental studies; tectonics and computational design; and architecture and urban heritage design. There are 5 main lenses: Phenomenology, Semiotics, Placemaking, Sustainability, Heritage
OUR SITE LOCATION
Zenhoum
VS.
Features from Zenhoum: • More organized • 45 degree grid • +10 m above al khalifa street • Identical residental buildings only
Al Khalifa
Features from Al Khalifa: • Dense • Organic grid • Has lots of monuments • Different heights of buildings and functions
THE EVOLUTION OF OUR PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPERIANCE THE SITE FROM OUR LENSE USING THE PHENOMENOLGICAL APPROACH VIDEO
INTERACTIVE MAP
We first experience, we rush to judgments. But more we experience the site the closer we come to its totality and not only what is striking. After several site visits we had a more similar yet not totally accurate image. We started to get adapted to what was striking for us at the beginning as it dominated experience. So the longer you experience it the more we start to see the small details that make the difference.
The First Impression
After Several Site Visits
THE INTERVENTION AND ITS LOGIC The Thematic Statement : El Khalifa is a place where spirituality is embodied within the dense everyday life. The problem that is worth addressing 1. The density of El Khalifa: • Al-Khalifa district population size was 105,235, and average street area is 273 people per feddan and an average crowdedness rate of 1.135 2. High illiteracy rate and drop out: 2. High illiteracy rate and drop out: • Those who are illiterate, 58.7% are women in al-Khalifa street • Al-Khalifa street area has an average of 10.3% of people who drop outand 25.9% of people who never enrolled in school 3. The lack of safety • Unemployment as well as its intersection with other socioeconomic issues such as disability, homelessness, and drug use.
The Basic “Why Spirituality” Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs In the modern world the places we inhabit, be they private or public, are the vessels through which our needs as humans are nurtured and satisfied.
THE CONCEPTS THAT AFFECT SPIRITUALITY Impermanence
The mythical consciousness and unconsciusness and the feeling of crowdness and emptiness
A framework for exploring spirituality in the built environment
The Way (Tao) The balance between man’s action upon his environment is not felt as a conflict, Should be spontanous.
Wabi-sabi The nature of existence, emotional well-being, state of mind , behavior, and materiality.
• Come up with questions, produce hypotheses and enunciate solutions, focus on the small details that make the difference • People are amalgamated into spaces by way of processes of perception, imagination, and memory
RESEARCH PHASE OUTCOMES
• Including functionalism, everything has a purpose in only its aesthetic considerations, and contextualism • The concept of dwelling and the meaningful relationship between man and a given environment .
• The feeling of belonging or alienation and how comfort is achieved, inclusion and exclusion, the material and non-material character • Sustaining the unique features of this community and keeping the Socio-spatial perspective • Dealing with the way people take control of the space and their everyday lives • Louis Khan’s idea that it is not what a place is that is important, but what it wants to be
The Intervention Statement Highlighting the density of el khalifa and taking its positive effect and its relation with spirituality to solve the negative traits of the place.
How it is translated into the model: By responding to the density on El Khalifa street to match the prorities of the volumes. The first line is super dense and busy, however, as you go inside towards the center the narrow pathways and alleyways gets opens up to a more open space. In addition to that density is relating to the context well yet what was missing was for them to ‘Breath’ and by creating scattered open courtyards for different functions we can use the in between spaces. Other spaces gives them the freedom to see how they shape the space, yet not the total freedom for it to be overused.
THE FORM From Conseptual Model 1
This model was.. • Research Phase • Segregated The features I took from this model to my final model is.. • Modular grid and buildings • The play of openings in some areas • The rectilinear form
The Main Inspiration for this model was.. • Graphic compositions using planar compositions and lines. The Main Idea for this model was.. • Started with a basic form to show the directions • How they come together and its relationships with 90 and 45 degrees grids.
From Conseptual Model 2
GENERATION From Conseptual Model 3
Potentials from this model were.. • Play with the topography. • Use of different enternaces, centeral courtyard. • The idea of having the multipurpose area as a shell structure started here to highlight its importance.
The idea(s) that started from here: • Creating different pathways and alleyways between activities. • Having the shell goes around the project with different forms • Having shade above pathways between activities
From Tectonic Model 1 & 3
THE TECTONIC How this had helped me in my project: • Exploring the different structural systems that I used in details and what it needs 1. 2D Truss 2. 2D frames 3. Arches • Also explored their connections and how it can be done differently • The integration between different structural systems and how it can serve the design. • The concept of the intersecting arches is representing how spiritualtiy is embeded in the day to day life, which is our main thematic statment.
C LANGUAGE
THE CONVERGENCE BETWEEN SPITIUALITY AND DENSITY
THE FUNCTIONAL PROGRAM
AND ITS JUSTIFICATIONLS
ZONES
LAYOUT
PRESPECTIVE
Modularity and Axes Hay El Khalifa El Sayeda Zeinab
El Khalifa and Zenhoum
Thats an Example of how cells can be joined horizontally or vertically.
THE CONENCTIONS
Around our site el khalifa street grid is organic, yet has a straight main street and zenhoum is 45 degrees. Yet, I was inspired from a zoomed out area in Hay El khalifa. As in my opinion modularity helps to organize the space without limitations, can merge multiple together. Surrounding and Different Elements • Courtyards are designed spread around the project as nodes between different activities, some have specific usergroups, some are public use.
• All elements are as equally important. • Each has unqiue features. • Linking the different buildings together with different alleyways and functions.
THE CIRCULATION The Question here is.. How do we move.. To the Site • The site is both accessible from Zenhoum and El Khalifa. By either walking or vehicles, and there is a parking lot dedicated to the emergancy medical center.
Into the Site • Multiple enterances are designed from different areas and for different uses and activities.
Around the Site • The journey inside the project will be a loop, depending on the activities and almost all activities are connected by pathways (some are narrow, some are wide) to make the circulation easier around.
THE STRUCTU 3 different structural systems are used , Simple column & beam for most buildings, 2D truss for vocational learning for bigger spams and 3D Shell structure for the multipurpose hall as it represents ‘Spirituality’. THE CHOICE OF STRUCTURAL SYSTEM IN RELATION TO THE USER EXPERIANCE • The column and beam blends with the context. It also surves the modularity and highlights the main element which is the other structural system. • Straight lines gives the feeling of organization, less spontanous than what they are used to. Residence of Zenhoum said that they felt a good change after things were more organized on their side. • Some areas are isolated so that is reflected on the structure on
• The Play of form, being much more spontaneous, play of light and penetrations as you go this complex structure. • Creating a welcoming, controlled, self sufficent environment for multiple activites in the multipurpose area • The whole project is meant to be fused with the world, even the shell is pulled from multiple sides which makes it more flowy, powerful and acts as a prime mover.
URE SYSTEMS Simple column and beam with respect to the topography levels
The Vocational Workshops 2D Truss (For Larger Spams)
Simple 4*4 shops with a modular shading device
Grid-Shell Multipurpose area
Simple Column and beam structure
Connection of Space truss
Simple column and beam Elevated gallery with socializing space on top
Why Grid-Shell:
Joints:
• Grid pattern replaces the shell material which enables the overall structure to benefit from the combined action of shell and arches and thus to achieve unique shapes. • Intersetion of 4 members, with pinned connection to allow the rotation movement • Same structural behavior as shells, gain their stability from their geometric shape • Increased member size also increase in the the initial • Internal forces are carried by members and therefore bending stress have to follow a restricted number of paths. Flat to curve: • A plain, continuous shell can resist normal and shear forces while the lattice shell can only resist forces in the direction of the lath i.e. axial forces.
Diagonals are used to strengthen the structure.
The grid-shell starts as a flat surface then pulled by points to create this shape, which increases the bending force, which its joints are designed for.
THE GRID SHELL
THE IDEAS I HAVE FOR
Structurally:
DETAILED SPACE PRGRAM
This space program is designed to benefit all users, respecting the function of the space also their culture and traditions. Some activities are interconnected together which will appear in the circulation diagrams later. In addition to some areas are used for multiple activities at different timing of the day and year. For instance, the most important time of the year in El Khalifa is El Mouled and for this the multipurpose area will all be dedicated to this function.
GRASSHOPPER DEFINITION FOR THE SHELL
SHOTS
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