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SAMAR MARZOUK
UNDERGRADUATE WORKS I NJIT
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CONTENTS
EN-LIGHTEN 01 IRONBOUND BRANCH LIBRARY 02 SOUNDS OF CHANGE 03 NEWARK GRADUATE HOUSING 04 HIGHLINE URBAN NEXUS 05 SOFT CITY CENTER 06 thePOOL 07 WESTON HALL CANOPY 08 TRIANGLE PARK 09
NEWARK, NJ ART GALLERIES
VOID DIRECT/INDIRECT
SOLID
ATRIUM SPACE BRIDGES GALLERY STAIRS
DIRECT/INDIRECT
ATRIUM/CIRCULATION
GALLERY ROOMS
GALLERY ROOMS CAFE
EN-LIGHTEN FALL 2016 / Prof. Darius Sollohub + Simon McGown
By providing inspirational and memorable experiences, EN-LIGHTEN is a place to meet up, exchange ideas and build a community. It seeks to enhance its adjacent streets and buildings in its location on Halsey St. which expands the art-based programs of Newark Express in the Hahnes building. It re-thinks the assembly of a gallery, how the art is hung on a wall, how light emanates from a ceiling and how users stand on the floor. EN-LIGHTEN examines the many different ways to modulate light: Natural/Artificial Direct/Indirect. Each gallery provides different visual experiences through lighting. The different types of rooms examine the way light integrates with the space directly to connect with our perception of it. What we see, what we experience, and how we interpret each element is affected by how light affects it.
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2ND FLOOR PLAN 0
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STEEL ANGLE CONNECTION TO MULLION
METAL ROD CONNECTION
EXPANDED METAL MESH STEEL PLATE FIRE STOPPING
T-BOLT IN CONCRETE HOT AIR RETURN INTO DUCT GYPSUM DROPPED CEILING TRIPLE PANEL GLASS
CATCH BASIN EXTERIOR DRAINAGE
STEEL ANGLE CONNECTION 8” STRUCTURAL CONCRETE SLAB ON GRADE BEAM VAPOR BARRIER WATERPROOFING RIGID INSULATION GRAVEL FOOTING
LIGHTING TRUSS FRAME
ASSEMBLED IN PIECES EASY TO REMOVE FOR CURATOR TO ASSEMBLE PROPER LIGHTING
LIGHT SOURCE INSTALLED TO ACTIVATE ROOM TYPE
PERSPECTIVE SECTION AA 0
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IRONBOUND BRANCH LIBRARY SPRING 2015 / Prof. Anthony Schuman Libraries, as repositories of knowledge and places for the transfer of information, have been a vital force in civic life since earliest times. The Branch Library for the Ironbound, will play a comparable role in the life of its neighborhood. In recent times, the way our society stores and accesses information has changed dramatically. Some have questioned the future of library architecture, others understand that libraries will not become obsolete, but rather evolve. The traditional role of libraries has moved away from being simply a storage facility for books to serving a much larger role. Innovative libraries act as centers for community members to interact, access new forms of information, research, study and explore.
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SITE MASSING
COURTYARD FOCUS : SUNLIGHT ENTRANCE
EXTRUSIONS FOR VIEWPOINTS
ENTRY DEPLETION OF VOIDS
OUTER SKIN INTRODUCTION
Being one of the most culturally diverse communities in all of Newark, the Ironbound is a city of fast paced environments. A large amount of the city is located off the street. In between large masses of buildings lies a more private and secluded set of spaces, such as the small alley ways that lead into large open backyards. The diversity in its points of interest brings much culture and history to the community. This is important in my design, fulfilling the idea of having angular stairs in the back of the building that activate a vertical static gallery. Because of this the building is separated and there is a clear distinguish between the “gallery� circulation and main program spaces. My main massing surrounds the street view and opens in the back left side where the exterior gathering area is. It is also set back 10’ from the property line on the first floor to allow users to feel a similarity to the adjacent park and also for exposed structure and a feel of an overhang on the upper floors.
ADAMS ST ELEVATION
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URBAN SPINE RE-IMAGINING JERSEY CITY’S HARSIMUS STEM EMBANKMENT SPRING 2016 / Prof. Sean Gallagher + Simon McGown Jersey City has been actively re-imagining the future of its Harsimus Stem Embankment which is currently an abandoned raised railroad. The Embankment Preservation Coalition is working with the City and others stake holders to preserve the structure and its longer right of way for a habitat-oriented linear park. The Embankment is imagined as a soft infrastructure that moves through the heart of Jersey City connecting key public institutions of past and present to allow for the growth of social space to support the increase in population density. But key sections/layers of the urban fabric of Jersey City must be re-examined in a wholistic way to allow for the implementation of these ambitions. It is the goal of this studio to influence the uncertain future for this industrial zone by defining new and innovative relationships between the public and emerging industrial, infrastructural, and ecological networks of Jersey City. The design includes recreational activities, creating places of gathering and isolation using materials to mitigate/amplify sound.
Bergen Arches Cross Roads Trial In this area, there were factories and overpasses that affected the frequency levels
Embankment - Alleyway a quiet path with a twenty-foot wall amplifies the sound, capturing my footsteps on the gravel
Embankment - On top recordings were taken from the first block having a great number of trees that surround the area which muffled the noise causing the space to be low frequency
TOGETHER
COLLECTIVE
INDIVIDUAL
SEPARATE
INDIVIDUAL SEPARATE
COLLECTIVE SEPARATE
COLLECTIVE TOGETHER
+ QUIET + BACK ALLEY + TALLEST EMBANKMENT
+ JERSEY AVE + CENTRAL TO NEIGHBORHOOD
+ MALL + MAJOR INTERSECTION + BASEBALL FIELD
local elderly
couple a place for intimacy secluded from other people
peace and quiet, time to think and admire scenery
INDIVIDUAL SEPARATE
skateboarder a place to skate and relax with friends
dog walker
child space to play and run around in
COLLECTIVE SEPARATE
a safe space to play, grassy area
office worker a space to eat outside with fresh air
COLLECTIVE TOGETHER
INDIVIDUAL SEPARATE
(FUTURE) OVERHANG TO VIEW UNTOUCHED EMBANKMENT
(HISTORY) WALKWAY GOING THROUGH THE SURFACE TO LEARN ABOUT THE HISTORY
COLLECTIVE SEPARATE
(PRESENT) POINTS TO VIEW THE NEIGHBORHOOD
SEATING
QUIET
SKA
COLLECTIVE TOGETHER
BASEBALL FIELD
ATE PARK
OPEN TO PUBLIC - NO CARS
PLAYGROUND
AMPHITHEATER SEATING
PROJECTOR SCREEN
A1
OPEN SPACE - GROUND LEVEL
LOUD
NEWARK GRADUATE HOUSING FALL 2014 / Prof. Michael Mosteller Partner: Jess Guzman
A proposal for a high density, mixed-use urban graduate student and visitor housing for a one block area in University Heights. For the purposes of this project, the housing will be shared by the four academic institutions--Rutgers, NJIT, UMDNJ and Essex Community College-all located in the University Heights neighborhood of Newark. Newark Graduate Housing (NGH) is intended as a place where graduate students, resident scholars and visiting lecturers can live as a part of a community. The goal is to establish exchanges between the residents and the neighborhood.
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DOWNTOWN
COLLEGE UNIVERSITY
GARBAGE
Halsey Street GYM BAR/RESTURANT
STARBUCKS
GAME ROOM
STUDY HALL
WHOLE FOODS
OPEN TO BELOW
LAUNDRY ROOM
RESTAURANT
GYM
STUDY HALL
DAYCARE
STUDY HALL
OPEN TO BELOW LAUNDRY ROOM
Level 3 1/32" = 1'-0"
STUDY HALL
AA
ART STORE
OFFICE BARNES AND NOBLE
GYM
2ND FLOOR 1\16” = 1’ - 0”
GROUND FLOOR 1\16” = 1’ - 0”
Washington Street
Level 4 1/32" = 1'-0"
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ELEVATOR
CIRCULATION
FIRE STAIRS Level 5-13 1/32" = 1'-0"
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HIGHLINE URBAN NEXUS
FALL 2013 / Prof. Frederick Cooke
The goal of this design is to create a staircase that would not only lead to the highline but also give virtual experience of the whole structure. The use of curves maximizes space and gives more opportunities to design around the Highline. A spiral or circular stairs will separate the conditions of reading the old structure and the history of it and of the new design that allows you to observe the city.
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SOFT CITY CENTER
SPRING 2015 / Prof. Anthony Schuman
Sited north-west of the city of Modasa, India, this studio project focused on a master plan for a land designated for fodder harvesting, solar energy, dairy barn and bamboo forest. The brief called for a development of new social processes through the introduction of leadership thinking, sports competition, and arts/entertainment development and access.
1. market 2. learning center 3. art center 4. canteen
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5. artist residence 6. rec center
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
SITE SECTION AA
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the POOL
FALL 2015 / Prof. James Dart
The studio project is an outdoor swimming pool + attendant facilities for Rutgers/NJIT located on Warren Street between Bradley Hall, home the Rutgers Fine Arts Department, and the sports field, home of the Scarlet Raiders. The sloping site is currently a parking lot. The pool will serve recreational, competitive + therapeutic needs. Though its principal constituency is the Rutgers/NJIT community, it will also serve as a training + instructional venue for intercollegiate competition and inner-city outreach to the larger Newark community. The entire facility will rely exclusively on passive strategies for light, heat, ventilation + water filtration.
While the studio project is the POOL, the studio object is the BODY: one's own + those of others, specifically, that of one's beloved + one’s antagonist. Attitudes towards the body – its display in private and public life, its role in social and political discourse – are based on the its physical determinants, however culturally derived and oblique they may seem. Our age and cultural milieu privileges body image and display, while at the same time legislating how, and to what purpose, individual bodies can be put. Such rarefied and fickle ideals are difficult to reconcile. We become disembodied, as it were, from an easy occupation of our own bodies. Indeed, the body is contested terrain in most every age or cultural milieu, whether restrictive or permissive. Examining the physical underpinnings of cultural determinants can reveal novel ways to reoccupy the body and more fully inhabit the world.
GRAVEL
METAL FENCE
ASPHALT
BRICK
MATERIALS ON SITE
CONCRETE WALL
The site for the POOL lies between two geological conditions: the Coastal Plain and the so-called Newark Supergroup, an assemblage of Late Triassic and Early Jurassic sedimentary rocks which out-crop intermittently along the United States East Coast; the exposures extend from Massachusetts to North Carolina, and named for the city of Newark.
WATER FLOW
“It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.� Lyall Watson, Supernature What you see, is what you see. The clever aphorism belies the minimalist intent: to distance the artist-creator, as author, from the art object in order to engage the viewer in the work; to make the observer an integral part of the creative moment. The scheme unearths the former site’s landscape topography and renovates it as an interactive frame that links multiple programs to guide, orient you, and offers dynamic views of the city.
WESTON HALL CANOPY FALL 2013 / Prof. Frederick Cooke The task is to design an entry canopy for the eastern entrance to the College of Architecture and Design along MLK Boulevard. The canopy contrast the existing design that mainly focuses on the horizontal and vertical relation. It contrast by using a horizontal element, such as the steel beam to keep a continuous design. In all, it would have a more dynamic entry way that would be more appealing to the circulation.
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TRIANGLE PARK SUMMER 2015 / Prof. Darius Sollohub Team: Zeel Parekh, Agnes Puzio, Kate Ganguzza Triangle Park is named for the fan-shaped geometry of an old rail yard, the triangle forms by extending vectors from the east faรงade edges of the Prudential Center to intersect at the abandoned yards overpass entry. First proposed as passive open space in 2011, recent 2015 plans for the park initiated by the City include development. This decision has sparked debate among stakeholders and my team engaged that debate through design.
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RESIDENTIAL
HOTEL RESIDENTIAL
RESIDENTIAL
COMMERCIAL PARKING
RESIDENTIAL
RESIDENTIAL RESIDENTIAL
COMMERCIAL
SKETCHES l WATERCOLORS SUMMER 2015 STUDY ABROAD STUDIO/ Prof. Ersela Kripa
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