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“My name is Sara El Jamal and I would like to invite you to browse through my academic and practice design portfolio. My dedication to make better implementation of Architecture started from solo research on the continuous harmony that link Architecture with our daily interactions. The past few years have been dedicated to studying architecture and exploring its fields that keeps transforming and reaching to a higher new level.�

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Professional Experience September 2015 - August 2016 Name Sara El Iyyad El Jamal Date of Birth 12/07-1993 Nationality Jordanian Place of Birth Abu Dhabi - UAE Education 2016-2017

The Bartlett School of Architecture | UCL | LONDON March Design

BiotA - Lab Alumni 2010-2015

American University in Dubai | UAE |Bachelors in Architecture 2010 Al Dhafra Private School

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High school Diploma

AudingIntraesa Middle East and Gulf LLC.

Junior Architect Urban Planning - Residential Development Architecture - Commercial, Industrial Interior Design - Hospitality June 2013 - August 2013

Centroid Engineering Contracting LLC. Internship - Site Architect - BOQ

Additional Experience

Events Planning - Flash Entertainment / MOTN March - May 2018 Architectural Association Visiting School DXB 4.0 Dec 5 - 15 2018

Data Aided Design Workshop Dec 17- 21 2018

Awards Research Dissertation Distinction Award Proliferation March Design - Merit American University Student Award Thesis project - Nanotechnology (10-9) AutoDesk Revit Certified Professional 2010 Team Management Organized Creative

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Fast Learner Dedicated Hard worker Digital Skills

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Houdini FX

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Hills Abu Dhabi - Abu Dhabi - UAE

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Co-founder of Nodes- Design Conductor of HiResDXB www.nodes-design.com

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Workshop | 2018 | D-NAT | Behavioral Topologies Workshop conducted by D-Nat , Matia Santi & Francesca Silvi

AGGREGATE

Aggregate is a fragmented alteration of different components that resist compressive stress and provides bulk based on a topological behavior. The components are altered based on three different categories; Seamless, Relaxed and Rigid.

The purpose of this project is to bridge the reationship between modularity and mass.

Modular elements allow the feasibility of additive manufacturing which can generate a specific behavior based on the density of the mass. Three components are combined to create a manifold of altered geometries.

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Workshop | 2018 | AA Visiting School DXB 4.0 | Additive Construction Workshop conducted by Riyad Jouka , Alessandro Zomparelli and Roberto Naboni

RE - BOOT(H)

Re -Booth helps you stay powered and connected wherever you are. The community can enjoy a pleasant break from the road and relax in a convenient shaded area while waiting for their cars and devices (smartphones, laptops, tablets etc.) to be charged. On top, a generous form enhances the ventilation operating as stack effect. With Re-charge, Dubai can envision an innovative proliferation of charging stations which can form a network forging a tech-identity of the city. It’s time we opted for Re- Booth!

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While this proposal is specific to the charging booth already spotted in the sidewalks of Dubai Design District (D3), it is flexible and applicable to all those present or intended in the city. This pavilion celebrates the possibilities of emergent technologies like additive manufacturing to present future solutions for improving the implementation of charging stations in Dubai. Using a robotic arm, eco-friendly bioplastic pellets are melt then stacked in terms of long strips. The 3D printing strategy offers a better ratio of time/production and material consumption, eliminating various steps of the traditional need for molding and casting processes to one of direct manufacturing.

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3.0 MESH RELAXATION CONCEPT

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March Design | 2017 | Bartlett School of Architecture | A Dissertation Submitted to the department of the AD Graduate program of University College London in Partial Fulfillment for the Degree of March Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture.

Proliferation

Designers and Architects usually perceive the elements in buildings as being rigid and lifeless. Materiality in the realm of design is treated as an additional skin rather than the main component that affects the overall shape. Similar to human skin, the materials that are chosen to be the second layer of the design repel and protect from any exterior inhabitants that can invade and grow.

However, one cannot be entirely certain whether these materials were designed to attract colonies of different species or not. These species can then be used as a building system that can be adaptive and transformative in its environment and the geometrical shape that it strives on.

The design of this thesis aims to explore various geometrical components on a horizontal surface that can host different kinds of species and promote growth in a controlled state. The controlled state can be achieved by simulating biological growth more accurately to promote colonisa-

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tion of multi-species, taking into account the many biological and environmental dynamics involved.

This thesis will assess the potential of agent-based modeling (ABM) in predicting the growth of species on material surfaces to achieve a level of bioreceptivity1.

Growth, a term that is often associated with nature, species and life, is a fascinating subject that has been the core research of many biologists and researchers. The main link between all living organisms is that they are all made up of cells that regenerate and substitute one another. Life in all its complexity starts off with a single cell. Cells first divide to form an embryo, then after reaching a certain number, the cells specialise in different functions to form tissues, organs and systems.

Growth is not only about the cell division, but more importantly about how the cell transforms to have a particular task that will form a more significant entity.

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cluster to describe a synthetic relationship between forms and nature. To be bioreceptive means to be ‘alive’ by attracting and hosting multiple species in a controlled state as part of the design.

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Fig 3D representation of Moss growth - Houdini FX Model - Script from Entagma.com. (2017). VEX in Houdini: Diffusion Limited Aggregation (Plus Rendering in Mantra & Redshift) | Entagma. [online] Available at: http://www.entagma.com/ vex-in-houdini-diffusion-limited-aggregation-plus-rendering-in-mantra-redshift/#more-879 [Accessed 14 Jul. 2017].

The Diffusion-Limited Aggregation model is one that emphasises such patterns. The DLA model is widely known as “a classic example of simplicity at a micro level creating complexity at a macro level.”

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Diffusion Limited Aggregation starts off with two simple rules, a ‘static’ agent, and an ‘active’ agent. The active agent is allowed to move one step at a time. However, this movement can be done randomly. The static agent remains in place until the active agent hits it and turns static. The active agent will be reborn once again, and the process will be repeated multiple times. The rule can be modified to alter the speed of the active agent and increase the chance of it sticking to the static agent. This can be achieved by adjusting the boundary of the static agent, thus, making the active agent move towards the static agent rather than wandering around. The active agent does not move towards the static agent in a linear manner but instead tries to find all possible directions to reach the static agent.

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DLA equation: the level of stickiness = Amount of shade (min 0.1 max 1.0) Density of the ‘moving’ particles = level of humidity If level of stickiness = 0.1 Density of particles = 4000 The growth level increases and escalates.

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March Design | 2017 | Bartlett School of Architecture | Skilling Module | Houdini FX

Emergent Structures/ Differential Strings

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systems is a theory that emerged as a result of nonlinear systems that did not follow the idea behind reductionism. This theory was proven difficult for people to comprehend due to its high level of complexity as its name suggests. “A complex system is any system featuring a large number of interacting components (agents, processes, etc.) whose aggregate activity is nonlinear (not derivable from the summations of the activity of individual components) and typically exhibits hierarchical self-organization under selective pressures.” (Luis M, 1999)

The technological developments in the field of science led to the awareness of the limitations that linear systems and mathematical equations brought upon the ability to understand complex behaviours. Complex systems have become more apparent since people became more aware of the level of complexity that surrounds their daily interactions. As scholars became more interested in complex systems, a new phenomenon arose as a characteristic of these complex systems; Emergence. The term “Emergence” was first introduced by the British philosopher G.H. Lewis who suggested the analogy between the sum and the difference of the interactions between discrete parts. He states that: “

Every resultant is either a sum or a difference of the co-operant forces; their sum, when their directions are the same — their difference, when their directions are contrary. Further, every resultant is clearly traceable in its components, because these are homogeneous and commensurable. It is otherwise with emergents, when, instead of adding measurable motion to measurable motion, or things of one kind to other individuals of their kind, there is a co-operation of things of unlike kinds. The emergent is unlike its components insofar as these are incommensurable, and it cannot be reduced to their sum or their difference.”

(Lewes, 1875 ) Throughout time, Post-Darwinian biologists became more aware of the Darwinian phenomena and regularly tested numerous theories and hypothesis. Herbert A. Simon, political and computer scientist, who is known for his work on the architecture of complexity, divides his theory on the evolution of complex forms into three categories.

First, the complex structures found in nature can be identified by simple rules that arise to create random process. Second, the hierarchy of the species proposed in Darwin’s theory of evolution is not compulsory. For instance, Simon explains that the element -Nylon- is made from identical components known as monomers. These components are regarded in a hierarchal manner with a span of one element. “Third, the evolution of complex systems from simple elements implies nothing, one way or the other, about the change in entropy of the entire system. If the process absorbs free energy, the complex system will have a smaller entropy than the elements; if it releases free energy, the opposite will be true.” (Simon, 1962)

Simon compares the conventional methodology of our daily and regular interactions with the biological evolutionary process. Natural selection is further explored using the human problem-solving process. He states that to achieve the desired result using a trial and error method, the system in which the primary element is based on must be selective. “When we examine the sources from which the problem-solving system or the evolving system derives its selectivity, we discover that selectivity can always be equated with some feedback of information from the environment.” (Simon, 1962).

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March Design | 2017 | Bartlett School of Architecture | Extreme Environment Studies

Digital Morphologies

The ability to transform one’s perception to a molecular scale requires a credible knowledge of the given subject. Simulating a single cell that proliferates to perform a chaotic behaviour had to be tested. Computation triggered the birth of diverse methods and techniques that have helped shape a new understanding of the emergence of life- growth in particular.

A German architect and researcher, Michael Hensel, examined the field of “performance-oriented architecture” (Hensel, 2006) through the work of Professor Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz. In his studies, Hensel argued that the term ‘growth’ can be calculated by extracting inputs driven by forces of nature. Environmental modeling challenges architects to design active materials that are sensitive to their surroundings. He stated that “every change in the input yields different growth result,” which gives designers the advanced toolsets to create and control their products.

Hensel further explores the possibility of the interlink between biology and form in his article Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies.

The complexity of the natural form that emerges and self-assembles to reproduce ought to be experimented by crossing the magnitude beyond its molecular level. The emergent properties that are inhabited from the environmental context within the self-organizing system form a unified complex behaviour that acts as a single entity. (Hensel, 2015)

The work of Tibor Ganti in ‘the principle of life’ influences Hensel’s understanding of living forms. Ganti’s work emphasised that a living organism inhabits five key features to maintain its survival among the living world; Unity, Metabolism, Stability, informative, and control. (Ganti, 2003) These characteristics show the synthetic behaviour that any complex system possesses, and it is highly recommended to understand and test these responses on a more sophisticated level of computation.

The image above shows a simulation of the growth development of a microbial species modelled on Houdini FX.

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March Design | 2017 | Bartlett School of Architecture | Design Thesis Submitted to the department of the AD Graduate program of University College London in Partial Fulfillment for the Degree of March Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture.

Sara El Jamal | Marisa Dewi | Ding Hao | Jeng Yeng Li | Idil Yucel

Permeable Plateau

The Plateau is a biological horizontal urban plaza that draws the boundaries between two main factors, growth and nongrowth. The urban plaza consists of multi-functional zones that include a pedestrian pathway, seating areas and growth components. The Permeable Plateau is a surface that captures different microbial species and promotes growth in a controlled state. The horizontality of the project is a key factor that aids in simplifying the complexity of the form that used to take part in the design process of any verticle element.

The Project is made up of three different geometrical components that multiply and assemble to form multi-functional zones. The horizontal transition between the elements is inspired by the Highline project in New York. The Highline is an elevated park that was refurbished from being a train line into an urban landscape. The key features of the Highline focus on the transition between different elements. These factors include pathways, benches, seating areas, plantation and staircases. However, the focal point of this project underlines the importance of non-living materials and living species.

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Taxonomy Matrix

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Fig 31 Micro-Colonies and Plantation proliferation on site

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Ecology Terrestrial species are used in the realm of design to investigate the probabilities of creating a living bio-receptive materials. The constant need for adapting to the conditions posed by the surrounding environment, without the necessity of any mechanical equipment, resulted in a cross-link between the fields of biology, computer science and design. Understanding the synthetic behaviour between the species and its biological process is a distinct approach towards creating the right containment to host and cultivate them.

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Week 2 out time (Bertrand et al. 2011). “Interactions can be beneficial, antagonistic or neutral regarding the impact they have on the species involved” (Lidicker, 1979). ‘Beneficial interactions’ is when the subject just benefits from one of the two allies. This act can be seen as commensalism, as the other partner who does not profit from the subject will not lose any characteristics. For instance, bio-degradation, “which corresponds to the consumption by commensal organisms of compounds produced by other members of the community.” (Karimi & Maron, 2017) Symbiosis is a sector of Mutualism, in which the interaction between the subject and the partner can affect the growth of that partner.

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Voxels This section starts with introducing the plateau as voxels that proliferate and change to achieve a higher complex geometries. The plateau experiments with different geometries that represent these Voxels. In this particular study, the plateau will focus on two distinct type of Voronoi; Arbitrary and controlled. Each Voronoi is controlled by the numerously scattered point that makes up the final form. Controlling these points will allow us to have unique geometries that will later be represented as Voxels.

Voxels will also enable us to be able to control the overall shape of the plateau and thus generate multiple components from different parameters.

Three primary inputs are used to generate these geometrical elements: The Voxel to fracture, the points to build around each cell, and the SDF volume to produce the depth of the cells. The interior on the surface is designed for each piece within the volume. This was an initial study for infecting a component. First, using polygon and subdivision surface modeling software, we created an inner geometry that will create a pocket system to retain water. Then inside, we scattered points according to a color mapping study in Houdini software. Based on this mapping, we have assigned a pocket geometry to each point. The points become micro-geometries on the surface. Depending on

the sizes, each micro-geometry has intersected or detached. The aim of these geometrical experimentations is to create the habitats of living organisms. It is important to generate different types of micro-scale geometries to provide a variety of habitats for species. In the every condition change, the exoskeleton will be providing a new environment.

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The Highline draws a clear boundary between the materials used for pathways, seating areas and the organic plantations integrated within the design. The permeable plateau breaks the limit of these two elements by introducing a multi-biorecptive material that can host multiple species without the need of artificial plantations. Moreover, the Highline lacks a higher level of intelligence from a computational perspective. The components used in the project are perceived to be static rather than dynamic. Nevertheless, the permeable plateau aims to explore further the transitional elements introduced in the Highline project by adding more features that are computational, biologically and ecologically driven.

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Using the analysis result shows the basic type of the sheltered area to find out the exposed area shape, with the exposed area shape designed to have some areas as the hollow area can let the sunlight go directly through it and create various insulation results on the surface.

Moreover, the changing of the thickness of the exposed area is related to the result of the amount of radiation on the surface of the sheltered area.

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From this starting point, we carried out design alterations using polygon and subdivision surface modeling softwares. The first studies performed for moss growth were just tests without using the existing boundaries. Growth components will become epicenters for hosting different species. We can divide these various strategies into categories as, pockets, channels and bridges. These systems will be holding the water. However, shading is also a crucial factor for moss growth. Besides these, it is important for the geometries to catch dust, pollens and organic substances. This can happen both with the design of the micro-geometries and textures of the surfaces.

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March Design | 2017 | Bartlett School of Architecture | TFL Project | Wall Design | Seeding Group |

Seed ing - Ro botic Printing

The project examines multi-disciplinary behaviour between the MPC scaffolds and the hydrogel water based material. The purpose of this project is to design a bio-receptive wall that can aid in controlling the behavioural growth of microbial species to be within the required design range.

The wall design will have three different stages that focus on the relationship between the micro and macro scale. The seeding group will examine the behaviour of the water-based material on different porosities and geometries.

The studies that will be presented in this almanack is a result of several workshops led by Christopher Leung, Sofoklis Giannakopolos, and Vicente Solar.

The main aim of using hydrogel as a printed layer on the MPC scaffold is to create a housing environment for the algae to be cultured in.

Getting the algae in a flexible water based membrane is an essential thing for survival and growth. Algae needs nutrients to survive. The need to be hydrated at all time is considered a very important strategy to be implemented throughout the design process.

The design task for the seeding group was not only to create structures that can be integrated within the scaffolds but also to achieve the right mechanical properties for the hydrogel to remain intact and hydrated within the scaffolds.

What is hydrogel?

A hydrogel is an example of a smart material.

It can change its structure in response to salt concentration, pH and temperature.Like a solid, hydrogels do not flow. Like a liquid, small molecules diffuse through a hydrogel.

Hydrogel is mostly water (the mass fraction of water is much greater than that of polymer). The ability of a hydrogel to hold significant amount of water implies that the polymer chains must have at least moderate hydrophilic character.”

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Rhodopyhta, the Red algae Host is a network of interactions between multiple systems. These systems are divided into three; Catenary, Mesh perforations and the shortest path offset. The catenary acts as a host mesh that is perforated and scattered into points or in this case, food for the Red Algae to feed on. This technique is achieved by using Dijkstra’s algorithm. The algorithm starts with an initial node and a goal node. The initial node finds the least cost path to the goal node by assigning a tentative distance value to every Food source.

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Al Ramz is a commercial tower located in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The main aim of this project is to design a commercial building that would enhance that performance of the employees. A mass is extruded in the shape of the site in order to keep the GFA required. The levels are shifted back and forth in order to create spaces that could serve as balconies for the offices on each level. Green spaces are implemented on every balcony ny on the east facade to serve as a shading element-for commercial space. Moreover, the green spaces will also enhance the performance of the employees.

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Al Ramz Commercial Tower | Abu Dhabi | 2016 | Option 2

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Professional Practice Al Marina is a residential project located in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The design concept for Al Marina Villa was the stacking of horizontal planes in order to maximizie views. this was done by shifting the upper floor plan to overcast shadow on all open spaces below as well as creating balconies on the upper floor using the lower floor roof slab. It was primarily based upon having open terraces that would enable users to experience winds coming directly from the sea as well as maximizing coastal views. There is an interaction between interior and exterior spaces within the villas that allows residents to experience the natural environment whilst being in the privacy and comfort of their own home.

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Professional Practice Al Naseem Development is a 50014 sqm residential project located in AlAin;UAE. This project accommodates a total of 93 villas, where the central area is occupied a mosque, ladies club, souq, public park, and pathways connecting all the buildings together. My main role in this project was to prepare the documentation needed for the design development stage.

Al Ain (ayn, literally The Spring), also known as the Garden City due to its greenery, is the second largest city in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the fourth largest city in the United Arab Emirates. With a population of 568,221 (2010), it is located approximately 160 km east of the capital Abu Dhabi and about 120 km south of Dubai.

[1] Al-`Ain is the birthplace of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the first president of the United Arab Emirates, and it has the country’s highest number of Emirati nationals.

Al-`Ain is located in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, inland on the border with `Oman. The freeways connecting Al-`Ain, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai form a geographic triangle in the country, each city being roughly 130 kilometres from the other two.

Historically a part of awam or Al Buraimi Oasis.

Al-`Ain has been inhabited for over 4,000 years, with archaeological sites showing human settlement at Al-Hili and Jabel afee. These early cultures built “beehive” tombs for their dead and engaged in hunting and gathering in the area.

The oasis provided water for early farms until the modern age.

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Ten to the Negative Nine

Ten to the Negative nine is a unit that describes the smallest scale in the universe.

This unit will be used as a measurement to change and tackle different aspects of everyday life. This includes technologies that go beyond one’s imagination and will result in the next Industrial Revolution. The past industrial revolutions led to a dramatic change in many fields including architecture. These revolutions helped in discovering new ways of methods and constructions that changed the way designers perceive architecture. Deriving from a dot, I imagined a space born of the dot.

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The project is divided through the hierarchy of the programs, as the spaces ascend in vertical, the research center is incorporated into the environment. That being derived of a private space, it is situated at the top symbolizing the all knowing brain. However, all this would not stand without a structurally composed unit, constructed by a cubical truss system, the project still abides by the laws of gravity, even with a missing piece. Not only is that the case, but it has the potential to evolve with time and eventually become an object of pure imagination.

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A modular measurement capable of being applied in multiple variations and orientations. By doing so, a research center & factory is born, a function well suited for the architectural typology selected.

Permutations of modular cubes generated the all growing categories of architectural spaces. Just as nano technology applies itself within its context, the project bends itself to suit its site and architectural requirements.

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Location Throughout the years, Dubai’s interest in Science and technology has reached its peak. Starting off with implementing research facilities in the country, Silicon Oasis was one of the first to set the new boundaries into this field. The Dubai Biotechnology and research park is considered to be on the most important developments in the Middle East that was inspired by main idea of Silicon Oasis.

However, Biotechnology Research Park does not only include research facilities. It’s a free Zone that enjoys a strategic location with world-class facilities tailored to the Life Sciences industry, ranging from offices, laboratories and warehouses to land plots, creating a vibrant Life Sciences community.

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Site Views The site is chosen due to its perfect integration with its surroundings. The site is located on the borders of Dubiotech, where it acts as the main attraction to the research park. The mixed-use surroundings help the site to adapt to its own structure and programs. Moreover, the site can be accessed from three different roads Barsha road, Dubiotech Main road and the service road.

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Typology The building types surrounding the site have a rhythmic movement depending on the zoning of the actual area. If looked from the north view of the site, one can see the lowrise residential villas of the neighboring area.

On the east view, two types of warehouses can be seen right in front of the school which is considered part of Dubiotech. The south view is the most eye catching view of the site, where it shows the full view of the research park and its busy environment.

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