AA ARCHITECTURAL Ô PORTFOLIO M L N F | SANA El ABDALLAH Selected works [2015-2019]
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A -RT-LLEGORY Graduation Project A -RT-LLEGORICAL LAYERS Ô -LIVE M ENNA
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YEAR:2019 | LOCATION:LEBANON,BEIRUT | BUILDING:EXPERIMENTAL MUSEUM | TYPE :ACADEMIC | SUPERVISOR: Dr.Rola Saadi | contact: rola.saadi@gmail.com THESIS PROJECT SHORTLISTED : The 11th annual competition for engineering and architecture graduates in North LB. FINALIST : One drawing challenge by ARCHITIZER EXHIBITED : The Omrania | CSBE Student Award for Architectural Design 2019 12h Cycle
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A -RT-LLEGORY
Compared to the Phoenix, Beirut was destroyed and rebuilt 7 times. However this city of contrasts between the new and the old, the western and the local is struggling to preserve its identity: both archaeologically and artistically. A lot of archaeological terrains are left abandoned or even demolished by developments. Moreover, an exceptional artistic heritage is left in danger with no exposure. Located in front of the “archaeological Tell” in Downtown Beirut, A-RT-LLEGORY becomes an opportunity to rehabilitate this historical terrain while highlighting the story of Lebanese art. The project through its artistic layers opens up as an artistic extension to the historical layers of the adjacent site. ART: A-RT-llegory is an experiential art museum that stimulates in the mind of the visitor a debate on the past, the present and the future of “ART”…The project proposes a series of what can be called “Pavilleries” (“Pavi” --“Pavilion”+ “llery” -- “Gallery”) inspired by a number of the most influential art movements that left deep impacts on the art world in general and on the work of Lebanese artists in particular.. Each art movement’s philosophy escapes the border of the canvas to be translated into successive architectural signs that try to tell the story of Lebanese art in an unconventional way generating both experiential and exhibiting spaces… Allegory: As life, love or death…ART is one of those abstract notions hard to grasp or frame into one definition. Dealing with such controversy through architecture requires a new conceptual approach in design strategies. Thus the project uses “allegory” in architecture to trigger the mind of the visitor to elaborate his own visions, definitions and positions. The word traces back to the Greek word “allēgorein” meaning “to speak figuratively through enigmatic signs”.
Kindly also check this project’s animation on myYouTube Channel : https://youtu.be/EmyRb2MkvXU
CONTEXT Integtating the Heritage trail
Site’s cultural+historical richness
The Heritage trail
Project as an extention
From “archaeological” layers to “Artistic” layers
Map of archaeology documentaion
Pedestrian Flow studies
Integration
The plot is located in Downtown,Beirut along Damascus Road, where the city’s civil war demarcation line (Green line) once stood but now flourishes with cultural attractions. A project called beirut heritage trail is intended to link archeological sites, historic public spaces and heritage buildings over a 2.5 km walking circuit in the historic core of the Beirut city center. The vision is to extend this heritage trail into the site creating an artistic extension to the historical layers in the adjacent site .Visitors will explore beirut’s history first then its art story in A-RT-LLEGORY.
ARTISTIC/CULTURAL APPROACH - RESEARCH ART?
“ ALLEGORY “ is primarily an EXPERIENCE ; an experience of the world as no longer permanent, but FRAGMENTARY and ENIGMATIC : “transforming things into SIGNS is both what allegory does -its TECHNIQUE -and what it is about -its CONTENT “.
DEATH LIFE
IT IS THE ART OF SPEAKING FIGURATIVELY THROUGH SIGNS
HAPPINESS
IN PHILOSOPHY Visual memory Multiple Meanings
Allegory of the cave -Plato
IN PAINTING
Unfinished
Primavera - Sandro Botticelli
IN SCULPTURE Battle & Progress The thinker - Auguste Rodin
Collage-Mind Mapping
Allegory in Architecture?
Allegory’s traits to Architecture
From Lebanese DATA Paintings
THE PAVILLERIES
PAVILLERY OF FRAGMENTED REALITY - CUBISM
Questioning The future of ART
PAVILLERY OF FLUIDITY WITHIN ORDER -ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY
Questioning The Death of ART
PAVILLERY OF CONTROVERSIAL FEELINGS - ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
The impressioninsts
PAVILLERY OF THE NOTION OF SPACE : ART & WAR + SURREALISM
Project your own Allegory
The Golden square
Sacred Art
Design Process
1 - GRID risen above the ground to ensure the continuity of the promenade at the ground level
2 - White Grid as: 1. A three-dimensional white canvas 2. The pure soul of the human being after birth
3- The grid : Uniform (Green):Depicting Realities Fading (Blue):Ideologies Arbitrary Maze:Could anything be ART?
4- Telling the story through Pavilleries
Concept of layering
Kindly also check this project’s animation on myYouTube Channel : https://youtu.be/EmyRb2MkvXU
The journey : At the beginning, a translucent wall representing “The
allegory of the cave” by Plato blurs the whole project into shadows generating suspense towards the unknown. A white grid representing the pure soul of the human after birth holds the hanging colorful layers as the accumulative experiences that mold his personality throughout his life.
The story is divided into 4 main eras:
- Depicting realities: Uniform grid 3.6*3.6 -classism. Includes 3 Pavilleries: the Beginnings (sacred art), the Pioneers (including Gibran Khalil Gibran) and the Impressionism zone. -Ideologies: Fading grid representing modernism’s abstraction of reality. Includes: -The pavillery of fragmented realities (cubism) which is an optical illusion exhibition space .It can be seen differently from every corner of the project as cubism introduces: There’s no single perspective of truth. -The pavillery of fluidity within order (Arabic calligraphy). -The pavillery of controversial feelings (Abstract expressionism) inspired by the complexity of the human being. -The pavillery of the notion of “Place” (Surrealism & War): these two are linked in the story of Lebanese art since surrealists drew their fears of sectarianism which caused Civil war.
T H E P A V E L L E R I E S
1. Impressionism zone
2. Pavilery of fragmented realities (cubism)
3. Pavilery of fluidity within order (arabic calligraphy)
“Pavilleries”
(“Pavi” --“Pavilion”+ “llery” -- “Gallery”) 19th c
18th c
Lebanese Painting Timeline
SACRED ART PURE CUBE IDEAL FORM FOR AN IDEAL GOD
THE PIONEERS THE GOLDEN SQUARE CLASSIC IMPACT
IMPRESSIONISM TRANSPARENCY INCREASE IN SCALE LIGHT + NATURE
PAVILLERY OF FRAGMENTED REALITY - CUBISM
Can be seen differently from every corner of the project as cubism introduces: There’s no single perspective of truth.
OPTICAL ILLUSIONS AS ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS:
PAVILLERY OF FLUIDITY WITHIN ORDER -ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY
ARABIC LETTER’S FLUIDITY FREEDOM CURVES HUMAN BODY FLUID MOVEMENT
Cubism
- “ is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view�.
4. Pavillery of controversial feelings (expressionism)
5. Pavillery of surrealism (notion of “place”)
6. Pavillery of Art & War (notion of “place”)
PAVILLERY OF CONTROVERSIAL FEELINGS - ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
- ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM - ULTIMATE SELF EXPRESSION - EVOKING THE CALM - HUMAN COMPLEXITY - SHARP EDGES
PAVILLERY OF THE NOTION OF SPACE : ART & WAR + SURREALISM
surrealism & war are represented as 2 opposite forces through two ramps one leading nowhere(surrealism) and one incising a descending ramp as a scar in the heart of the project . linked in the story of Lebanese art since surrealists drew their fears of sectarianism which caused Civil war. SURREALISM The world of DREAMS and unconscious FEARS DREAMS HAVE NO PLACE : NOTION OF “NOWHERE”
ART & WAR NOTION OF DEFENDING THE PLACE NO PLACE = NO ART
7. The death of art / Vantablack wall.
8. The maze of plurality.
MAZE OF PLURALITY
NO RULES SOME RAMPS LEAD NOWHERE OTHERS ARE HIGHLIGHTED OTHERS ARE DEADENDED
DANTO’S THEORY “Art has reached its end, not by being abolished but by being dissolved into everything else”
- The maze of plurality represents the total democratization of art nowadays. Visitor will be exposed of numerous paths some of them will be highlighted , other are dead-ended. - A second large wall painted with Vantablack the blackest material on earth questions Arthur Danto’s theory: The death of art: “Art has reached its end not by being abolished but by being dissolved into everything else”. - The last immersive pavillery questions the future of art in the age of post-human development. How HUMAN art will be in the future?
What’s your own A-RT-LLEGORY?
A-RT-LLEGORY : FUTURE VISION An “ALLEGORY” is never finished .... This vision proposes a new system to design art museums. Apart from displaying art inside a museum, how can we turn museums themselves into storytelling urban elements? How architecture can tell a nonending art story? How can art museums always transform and cope with new art trends or forms? The initial project already explained, composes the basis which can later expend. It embodies the past and the present of Lebanese art..The future is left for the future emerging artists & architects. The process suggest a collaboration between these two players to design new pavilleries based on Artistic data that transforms into architecture. The prefabricated pavilleries will be installed into the extended white grid and so on ….the museum will turn into a white urban canvas waiting art interventions.
YEAR:2019 | INSTALLATION | TYPE :ACADEMIC / BUILT / THESIS PROJECT FINAL PRESENTATION PERMANENTLY EXHIBITED AT : MACAM (Modern and Contemporary Art Museum -Alita-Byblos , Lebanon) EXHIBITED AT : The 11th annual competition for engineering and architecture graduates in North Lebanon
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A-RT-LLEGORICAL LAYERS INSTALLATION
EMBRACE YOUR LAYERS YOU ARE THE ARTWORK. Aren’t we all layers of joy, frustration, failure, glory, hope, defeat, energy, success […..]? As any painting and its never ending layering process, aren’t we all pieces of art in our own ways? Living in what can be called “an era of post-human development” makes us rethink our creative nature, isn’t that what really make us unique as human beings? …. It is this accumulation of layers of experiences and encounters what really molds our personalities .No combination is similar to another: As in this installation each life experience (layer) has its own form and color. And what’s really interesting is that we react differently to each of these encounters (each layer is carved out differently and invites the body to adapt to it). We do only grow by embracing our layers of diversity. We’re all unique in the order and the beauty of this layering process.
Kindly also check this project’s animatios on myYouTube Channel : https://youtu.be/4WHNitXRRf4 https://youtu.be/D4mLZXuaJ-Q
PHISICAL STUDY
DETAILS
Body adaptation
VIDEO ON REPLAY
Kindly also check this project’s animatios on myYouTube Channel : https://youtu.be/4WHNitXRRf4 https://youtu.be/D4mLZXuaJ-Q
YEAR:2018 / 2nd SEMESTER/ 4th YEAR | LOCATION:LEBANON/TRIPOLI-ABU SAMRA| BUILDING:PUBLIC PARK | TYPE :COMPETITION /TO BE BUILT | TEAM : Sana Abdallah ,Rouba rima,Racha chehaita,Chaza ghamraoui,Ahmad minaoui, Julia Katrib 1rst PRIZE WINNER: HONOR FOR ACADEMIC ACHEIVEMENT: EXHIBITED AT :
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“ABU SAMRA PUBLIC PARK ”design competition organised by UN-HABITAT From the president of The Lebanese University Dr. Fouad Ayoub. World urban forum 9 /Kuala lampur,Malaysia: as an award fromUN-HABITAT . Arab Architects Awards - Biel/Beirut .
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This competition for designing a public space was organized by UN-HABITAT Lebanon in collaboration with the Municipality of Tripoli and the Order of Engineers and Architects – Tripoli. The Purpose was to support the municipality in obtaining an appropriate solution for one of the few remaining public spaces in “Abu samra” neighborhood -Tripoli. Another Constraint was to design a sustainable project that is conform to a restricted budget while meeting people’s expectations. I was involved in all the stages of the project parting from the reseach ,to the design process , the visulisation and the presentations to the municipality & at the world urban forum during many events. The Current situation of public spaces in Tripoli can be explained by: Privatization of public spaces, Lack of spaces dedicated for public benefit, Plurality of actors and policies, Lack of maintenance due to its high cost and public spaces are not used at night due to the taboo of being relatively dangerous. Considering that our plot is one of the last few remaining patches in Tripoli, the challenge was to preserve its identity while creating a social alley. Our first strategy was to find a way to create a relation between the inhabitants and the place through their collective memory. The answer was simply the Olives(which “Abu Samra” is famous of) , thus the project’s name. The design was based on a participatory approach . Resident’s were interviewed all along the design process and contributed in the construction . Two main paths draw the whole project: A main path determined the main functions. A secondary path creates a sort of a network, determines our sub-functions, and descends bellow the main path at some intersections. Architectural follies: The main path links “follies” or structures located in different parts of the project. The follies are multifunctional structures and each one of them evokes a different mood and experience .
CONTEXT
Wind
Summer Solistice 68’ Sunrise 5:43 am Sunset 8:35 pm
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Winter Solistice 22’ Sunrise 4:43 am Sunset 4 : 38pm
After a study of the city by UN-HABITAT Lebanon, the site was chosen due to the lack of public spaces, its location near the old city center in a new extension and due to the surrounding educational institutions.
PARTICIPATORY APPROACH Age of Interviewed Samples
AGE (YEAR) LESS THAN 18
18-25
25-60
60+
Hobbies and Activities SOCIAL MEDIA and tech
DRAWING
READING
WALKING
BASKETBALL
BIKING
FOOTBALL
60 SOCIAL MEDIA & TECH
40
Culture and Art
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SPORTS
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SAMPLES
Activities that requires leaving Abu Samra
YES 80 60 40 20 0
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NO YES 30%
program
Interviews
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Do you frequently go to public Places in Abu Samra?
NO 70%
Questionaries
Our first observation was children playing under totally unsafe conditions. For a further understanding and interpretation of the neighbourhood, we interviewed some samples from the neighbours collecting a database that reflects their interests: like how the visualise a public space? The questions were asked to different social groups: 50% of the interviewed samples were refugees, we aimed to include syrians and palestinians due to their crisis. We focused also on other groupes:Woman 50%, youth (girls and boys), and also children.
Design Process
Pedestrian flow Preseving the collective memory of the olive fields. Main path zoning the project : - Olive tress promenade - social zone Curvy path: -suspense,curiosity -different perspectives -public space in constant innovation A second path allowing a longer walk encouragng : spontaneous communication meet ups through socializing areas. Zoning Community sharing zone allowing: -community engagement -contribution in the building process -sense of belonging -stimulating innovation
O-LIVE AWARDS, PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS
LEBANON AWARDS
1st PRIZE
Jury :
WINNERS ANNOUCEMENT - Order of Engeneers & Architects
EXHIBITIONS
ART & ARCHITECTURE DAY - Lebanese University
Presenting to the Mayor of Tripoli For implementation
Bernard Mallat , Architecture & Design Department , AUB Carla Aramouny Architecture & Design Department , AUB Dr.Yasser Abunnasr, Landscape and Ecomanagement Department,AUB Hala Younes, Architecture & Design Department , LAU Azza Fatfat, Head of the Engineering Department , Tripoli Municipality
Honor
We received an honor from the President of the Lebanese Uiversity Mr. Fouad Ayoub for our academis achievement.
Arab Architects Awards AAA
PRESENTATIONS + EVENTS + EXHIBITIONS
WORLD URBAN FORUM 9 KUALA LAMPUR-MALAYSIA
With Ms.Luisa Bravo of “City Space Architecture”
At “Urban resilience Hub” Booth
At “Urban Brains “ Bamboo Pavilion
LEBANON’SCITIES PUBLIC SPACES | UN- HABITAT | Samer shiender +Maryam
PUBLICATIONS
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QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327156838_Lebanon_Cities’_Public_Spaces?fbclid=IwAR2cRTaIziQI_LuXbWxbcAExVVEL0kWtYbbv4nJOqMdijbknyHcznJbYFQk
THE JOURNAL OF PUBLIC SPACE 2018 Vol 3 n1 | Luisa Bravo + Mirko Guaralda: https://www.journalpublicspace.org/index.php/jps/issue/view/29
AL MODON MAGAZINE | Jana Dhaibi :
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“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody only because and only when they are created by everybody�.
-Jane Jacobs-
ZONING
Spiritual Zone
Olive trees Promenade
Spiritual Zone
Atop folie
Cafeteria & Kids Zone
Communion space Piazza
Zoning
Barefoot walk, Spiritual zone
Zoning and Vegetation: • In front of the mosque, where the spiritual zone is, we included a barefoot walk, which is a sequence of organic pavement cells (like wood, gravels, mud and others…) based on the Chinese treatment called reflexology. This walk represents the social act of taking of the shoes before entering a mosque; it embraces a green lawn opened to sky as a negative space for the people to enjoy the sun heat. It can also hold religious events during “Ramadan” and Eid for example. •For the communion space, where people interact, get to know each other, and create, we used fruitful and aromatic vegetation. •As for the piazza we implemented the oak tree to evoke the Lebanese tradition of gathering under its shadow. • The olive promenade includes wooden furniture, having different aspects. • We named the kids zone the jungle fever; it includes two follies or structures as a stylization of playing in the jungle. Children can create their own game on the same structure.
Multipurpose structures:
A-TOP FOLIE :
Multipurpose room:
Architectural follies: The follies are multifunctional structures and each one of them evokes a different mood. The multipurpose room : it is the main architectural structure. To emphasize on the multi-functionality, we installed movable acoustic partitions, giving more layouts, by a 4×4 grids in the interior space. This gives us many possibilities to use the space according to the needs. The Jungle fever: takes place in the kids area. The Atop folie: This folie is located at the end of the communion zone overlooking the olive trees promenade. The Multipurpose structures: To emphasize the concept of the participatory approach, our proposition was to put permanent multifunctional structures that can accommodate people’s interventions. Pre-made and hanged samples will help in making this new idea more familiar to the public guiding peo-
Intervention on Multipurpose structures:
Kids zone:
Piazza:
The jungle fever:
SUSTAINABILITY : the used vegetation in the garden is wild, native and local, which helped, besides conserving the collective memory in reducing the needed maintenance and in saving water. •Roofs are covered with PV panels in order to generate power to the project. •Water rain system is use to collect the water in order to use it in the irrigation system, thus, the water tanks will be installed in the lowest point of the project.
SDG’S: Our project responded to Eleven Of The SDG’s , most important of them are: • Good health and well being • Gender equality • Sustainability and community • Partnerships for the goals
The cafeteria:
FENCING: to integrate the fence with the context of the park, we use the Bobotanic Architecture which allows tree branches to become such a strong structures. To do so, we put steel columns to mold the growth of the climbing vegetation. Years after, when the branches will take the desired shape, the guiding steel columns will be removed keeping a totally natural fence.
SUSTAINABLILITY + SDG’S INTEGRATION Water & Energy efficiency
SDG’S Integration
Fencing strategy (Baubotanik Architecture)
YEAR:2018 /5th year/ 1st Semester | LOCATION:LEBANON/TRIPOLI-MINA| BUILDING:Community Hub | TYPE :ACADEMIC
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M ENNA : A community Hub
“Menna” , an arabic word which means “from us” also inspired by the name of the area studied “Mina” .So basically the main source of inspiration for the design is the people theirselves.The aim was to create a community hub that hosts Mina’s civic and cultural activities. This area flourishes with civic organization, entrepreneurs, artists and many promising initiatives that need to reunite in one single communion space .The research conducted was mainly based on the social inspection of these activities, focusing on their mission, way of thinking and visions. Innovation is what unites these creative people thus the design must reflect this creativity. The site is located in a very dense neighborhood and acts like a knot or a meeting point that unites people together. The research showed a necessity to divide the functions into 4: a green open space to play and to be inspired by nature, an art house, an entrepreneurship house, and a multifunctional modular space.
SOCIAL & URBAN ANALYSIS
A green space as a sonor barrior
The green space as a link
Roads & Urban structure
Linking social & civic institutions
Inserting the playing tree houses
Continuity of the urban promenade
Voids study
Zoning
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ZONING
YEAR:2017 /3rd year/ 2nd Semester | LOCATION:LEBANON/TRIPOLI-DAMA & FAREZ| BUILDING:PARKING | TYPE :ACADEMIC
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L INK-ARAGE , Parking Garage + Public space
This project is an attempt to change people’s perception of what parking is and to introduce a type of building that becomes a social gathering space. It investigates the potential of merging parking buildings with public spaces and social activities. The area of “Dam & Farez” always flourishing with a vehicular and commercial activities suffers from a lack of parking spots what left cars parked at the sides of roads. Meanwhile, there’s an urgent need for a public and green spaces. This design links the area with the city’s downtown by resolving the parking issue while lifting the ground up thus reserving the whole site as half-lifted public garden. After studying the vehicular flows in the area the parking spots are divided into two facing buildings. The structure consists of simple slabs lifted by V columns inspired by Herzog & de Meuron’s 1111 Lincoln Road multi-storey car park .A concrete mesh turned to an open planted green roof People invites people to take a continuous promenade by turning the project’s roof into a public experience of greenery and pleasure.
URBAN STUDY Vehicular study:
Concentration study:
DESIGN PROCESS
site
Lifting up The site
Lifting the ground 1
Substract
Inserting parking slabs
2 Parking volumes 1
2 Parking volumes 2
Linking the green roof
Merging open green spaces
YEAR:2016 /3rd year/ 1st Semester | LOCATION:LEBANON/TRIPOLI-AL TAL| BUILDING:RESIDENTIAL + OFFICE + CLINICS| TYPE :ACADEMIC
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N ew in Old
This project tackles the architectural interventions in historical zones. It is an invitation to question how to build what’s new in a traditional context while respecting the sensibility of the site. The site is located in a transitional area between the new and the old city with buildings dating back to the late ottoman and French mandate period. An old traditional dwelling was once built then demolished on the same site, what could only be preserved is its traditional facade. The design process is based on 3 main strategies: - Integrating this remaining façade as a design element (a gate to the project), - Minimalizing the impact of the building on its historical context by lifting the whole project on pillars , the whole mass is then pixelated and fades away from top to the bottom .the porosity resulting from this process opens up the project to the exterior by using the negative space as terraces . - Creating a public space at the ground floor in response to the lack of greenery in the area. - The historical neighborhood as a concept driver: studying the area’s urban evolution and the traditional facades. An organized chaos can be depicted and translated to the building.
CONTEXTUAL APPROACH Tripoli historical developement
Site’s traits
Traditional Architecture Ottoman-French Colonisation...
Site’s Mapping
Old,Mendatory,Modern Zones
Slopes & Stairs
Public Spaces
Damaged Heritage
Main attractions
DESIGN PROCESS
Massing
Lifting the mass up Creating public space at the ground floor
Pixelating & Porosity Process
Negative space as green spaces
“ The historical neighborhood as a concept driver: studying the area’s urban evolution and the traditional facades. An organized chaos can be depicted and translated to the building.”
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Architectural Sketches
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Allegorical Paintings
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Portrait Paintings
Flavours: Nature’s photography
Being an art , science , architecture and technology enthousiast My artistic work take the form of a continious exploration of forms , growth systems and patterns . believing that nature is the ultimate perfection and the first teacher , i depict its behaviour with rafinement through my work . I aim at developping those personal explorations through integrating biomimectic strategies into my futur architectural and computational array of skills.
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