SARAFALLAHI
The University of Texas at Austin Master of Landscape Architecture I 2014
SARAFALLAHI sarafallahi@utexas.edu +1 512 206 6585
3489, Lake Austin Blvd, Apt A Austin, Texas 78703 USA
Construction Engineering Headquarter Khuzestan Competitiont I 2009 First Prize Published in special issue of Khuzestan Construction Engineering Disciplinary Organization Total Built Area: 4,000 square meters Client: Khuzestan Engineering Organization
Khuzestan Engineering Headquarter, similar to Building’s typology in hot and dry parts of Iran, takes the advantage of some architectural element such as enclosed courtyard, double skin facade and wind catcher to become compatible with adverse climatic condition of the region. This project, a new headquarter for a large engineering and architectural organization, develops a thesis exploring the limits of spatial legibility and coherence regarding interior circulation and pedestrian movement within a corporate business environment. The company has hundred of employees divided between several different departments, which are distributed in this design along a closed loop of circulation spaces. A single larger overall “loop� defines the entire building, and within this a series of smaller programs intersect and overlap. The basis for the proposal is a perceived need to allow for a certain unplanned, arbitrary events or mixing of office workers, as a vital means of communication and exchange within a large organization.
Secondary Entrance Main Entrance Parking Access
Vertical Access
Administrative spaces are highly connected by ramps and continuous floors
The main feature of the spatial organization is a closed loop which arranges different spaces.
Section Perspective On the sloping ceiling of the entrance, the open office and library are designed where reading desks, book shelves and open meeting areas are placed on large gradients.
Integrated flow through building
Closed loop passing through open office Facade Concept The envelope of the Construction Engineering Organization produces a geometric affect by using light to create a new form from Mashrabieh , a traditional ornate screening device in Islamic and Arabic Culture. An irregular pattern, generated by algorithm that rotates and scales the extended lines of a Diamond, is cropped to produce a seemingly random pattern through a regular process.
Pedestrian access Parking entrance
Section C-C
Section E-E
Designing in Tehran- Benetton International design competition I 2009 Location: Tehran, Iran Square meters 12,000 :Total Built Area Client: Benetton Group
Concept: The proposed design for mixed use benetton headquarter is an extraordinary hybrid building which involves three public plaza in different levels morphed together by a cascade of stairs. Each plaza has a unique character. The first one which is located at the ground level is very active and the activation declines in the next two plaza on higher altitude. Stairs rise smoothly from public space to more private where one can be detached from hectic mode of street life just by ascending stairs and relaxing in a public plaza overlooking the city .
Multi level Plaza
First Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan
Multi level plaza
Eastern Elevation
Southern Elevation
Tehran Zoroastrian Complex Architectural Competition I Religious- Cultural Honorable Mention I 2008 Location: Tehran, Iran Total Built Area: 25,000 Square meters
Tehran Zoroastrian Complex is inspired by traditional types of Zoroastrian temples which were located on hills or plateau above the ground level, in order to detach pilgrims from the rudimentary life. A continuous surface which rises from the ground level and defines a pathway to illuminating temple is the main feature of the project.
View towards the sky through court yard
Dawat- Invitation The scheme has adopted the concept of ÂŤDawatÂť or invitation to Zoroastrian by physically and metaphorically reaching out to provide new urban connections. Dawat space is a place for Zoroastrians and non-Zoroastrians to interact, debate and promote a greater understanding between ideologies and faith.
Team Members: Sara Fallahi. Ladan Ghobad
Fire Temple Floor Plan
Zoroastrian complex comprises temple, multi-purpose hall, cinema, museum, gallery, library, selling market for cultural products, educational department, administrative building, meeting room, sport hall, kitchen, mechanical rom and parking .
23rd Street
A Stretch of Waller Creek Design of the University of Texas at Austin campus along Waller creek
Dean Keaton
Texas ASLA Award Design III, Fall 2012 Instr. Dr. Allan Shearer
East Dean Keeton Street
the turn
21st Street
The studio was asked to re-imagine the Waller Creek Corridor on The University of Texas at Austin campus. This presented a unique opportunity to introduce a new type of corridor to the campus that would redefine Waller Creek as the baseline around which this campus is travelled and experienced. This also provided an opportunity to rewrite the storyline of what it means to live, and work within this university. The project investigation began by looking at the existing corridor network on campus, and resulted in identifying the campus as a series of lines and limits. The series of lines consisted of the thread (the corridor) which spans the length of campus, ties into the existing corridor network, and has the potential to collect, connect, and direct movement and development in and around the campus and the city corridor; the trace (the banks) that defines the riparian edge, and thickness and thins on the surface creating the space which allows activity to happen, and the crack (the creek), which divides the campus into two distinct parts. The limits of the corridor were defined not only by its physical boundaries, but also by its social potential. The context map shows these limits on campus that are currently popular gathering spaces, and defines four potential areas for further development along the creek corridor.
new engineering complex
terraced seating lawn
24th Street
the loop East Mall
outdoor sculpture gallery
continuous creek trail
the bend
terraced patio
MLK Boulevard
clark field
Environmental Environmental Line Line Access Dots Access Dots
continuous creek trail
campus threshold new campus welcome center
Programmatic Segment
alumni center & stadium
wildlife viewing platforms
the knot MLK Boulevard Team Members: Sara Fallahi. Danuta Dias. Bailey Rankin. Sunny Lu
covered art walk
23rd Street
21st Street
Programmatic Segment Programmatic Segment
elevated observation platform
West M
lk Bou
levard
connection to city trail
increased pervious cover
continuous paths widened tree canopy
Engage the Creek
Dean Keeton
Improve Access
Enhance the Environment
Objectives
increased activity space added seating
opened water access moderated slope
added tree canopy
MLK Jr. Blvd.
opened views
repurposed parking lot
poor unsatisfactory moderate satisfactory good
The studio was also asked to address three objectives- to engage the creek, to enhance the environment, and to improve access. Given our new understanding of lines and limits on campus, these objectives were then redefined by line type to work together in strengthening the creek corridor.
The Bend
The Loop
access
Stakeholders UT
students staff faculty
VIEW
building entrance
Austin families football fans artists tourists school groups passers-by
CONNECT TO
wildlife
bridge [blocked views]
exposed limestone
Site for knowledge
students staff faculty
Austin families football fans UT artists students tourists staff school faculty groups passers-by Austin
activity spaces
seating STABILITY
STABILITY
intersections
STABILITY water access
HABITAT HABITAT
SHADE
groundcover building entrance
CONNECT TO
shrubs THRESHOLD
families football fans artists tourists school groups passers-by
LEVEL CHANGE bridge [blocked views]
exposed permeability [perviouslimestone cover]
PROVIDE SPACE
wildlife
TERRESTRIAL HABITAT
slope MATERIALITY
tree wildlife
tree canopy
IDENTITY/ CHARACTER
MATERIAL
soil
banks
Site for recreation
IDENTITY/ CHARACTER
STABILITY
STABILITY
extend the line
wildlife
enhance the environment proposed
Stakeholders
UT
students staff faculty Austin families football fans artists tourists school groups passers-by
shrubs
permeability [pervious cover]
STABILITY
ARBOREAL HABITAT
wildlife
water
Introduce adaptive plant palettes exposed limestone
Invasive species plant management Habitat diversity Animal disease
IDENTITY/ CHARACTER
LEVEL CHANGE
slope
SHADE water
Introduce adaptive plant palettes exposed limestone
AQUATIC HABITAT
path
Invasive species plant management
STABILITY
Austin families football fans artists tourists school groups passers-by
slope
building entrance
banks
ACCESSIBILITY
improve access proposed Connect
bike paths
ACCESS
ACCESS
trees
CONNECT TO
CONNECT TO
STABILITY
existing 5.2 miles
Creek as a means of moving across campus
STABILITY
CONNECT TO
path
Improved access across creek
roads
SHADE
number of water access points
Improved access to creek banks
bridge
bus stops
THRESHOLD
intersections
Stakeholders
proposed 18.77 acres
Animal disease control
sidewalk
students staff faculty
existing 14.44 acres
connect the dots
CONNECT TOAMPHIBIAN/ REPTILIAN HABITAT
UT
acres of tree canopy cover
control
Prevent run-off into creek
wildlife
trees
Stakeholders
Prevent run-off into creek
wildlife
banks
AMPHIBIAN/ REPTILIAN HABITAT STABILITY
ARBOREAL HABITAT
LEVEL CHANGE
TERRESTRIAL HABITAT
permeability [pervious cover]
shrubs
Habitat diversity
IDENTITY/ CHARACTER
slope
MATERIAL
soil
AQUATIC HABITAT
tree canopy
banks
STABILITY
groundcover
proposed 36 benches
Animal disease control
TERRESTRIAL HABITAT
MATERIAL
existing 12 benches
Invasive species plant management
AMPHIBIAN/ REPTILIAN HABITAT
soil
number of benches with views to the water
Introduce adaptive plant palettes exposed limestone
LEVEL CHANGE
proposed 14.46 acres
Habitat diversity
Prevent run-off into creek
slope
AQUATIC HABITAT
existing 9.53 acres
Site for knowledge
banks
LEVEL CHANGE
slope
SHADE
acres of activity space
Program
Site for culture
groundcover
students staff faculty Austin families football fans artists tourists school Stakeholders groups passers-by
engage the creek proposed
IDENTITY/ CHARACTER
wildlife
ARBOREAL HABITAT
water
UT
thicken the segments
path STABILITY
tree canopy
Site for recreation Site for culture
water
path
THRESHOLD
Stakeholders
Stakeholders
banks
MATERIALITY
tree
LOCATES
Objectives UT
SPACE
HABITAT
STABILITY
existing 12 points
miles of continuous path
proposed 8.4 miles proposed 18 points
points where you can cross or directly interact with the water edge
Engage the Creek Vegetation blocks views to the creek
Lack of programmable activity space
Introduce program and diverse vegetation along the creek
Enhancing pervious surface by adding programmed space
Enhance the Environment Poor access to the creek and open space
Tree canopy for trail and walkways
Continuous trail along creek
Improve Access Existing
A
B 0
50’
100’
The Turn
Proposed
BASTROP CEMETERY Studio IV, Spring 2013 Instr. Jason Sowell Bastrop, TX
DISPOSITION DETAILS MARKER 36”
36” 11”
A 1500 acre cemetery for the growing Central Texas community was proposed within the area burned by the 2011 Bastrop County Complex Fire. Concept: Every generation marks a shift. These shifts are made of many layers: layers of people, stories, and place. Over time, these layers grow and accumulate, shaping our shared history, driving and reflecting who we are and how we feel about our landscape. Theset layers are constantly growing and regenerating until eventually there is a shift between what once was and what could become. We used this idea of regeneration as a guide in helping us better understand the ideas and processes involved in death, reforestation, and place-making. In this Studio, we were asked to develop a cemetery for the AustinBastrop region. Further exploring this idea of shifting and layering, we began this process in the development of a modular marker system. This module is made of precast concrete and can be shifted and rotated to accommodate various burial types. We saw the markers as being made of three layers: a name and date, a shelf, and an epitaph. By shifting these three pieces forward and backward, a unique pattern is developed which marks and reflects the changing growth and development of the area over time
11” 9”
2”
9”
2”
pattern studies
grave // natural burial
columbarium
bronze
Graves // natural burial
Retaining columbarium
MARKERS with shelf
MATERIALS
“RULES”
precast concrete bronze
no shelves directly adjacent all must have name + date epitaph + shelf optional
epitaph
no epitaph
claudia taylor johnson 1912-2007 “lady bird” a gentle heroine for nature and mankind
mausoleum
no shelf claudia taylor johnson 1912-2007
epitaph lyndon baines johnson 1908-1973
no epitaph lyndon baines johnson 1908-1973
36th President of the United States of America
Scattering marker
concrete mortar crushed stone soil
Freestanding columbarium
Retaining mausoleum
Scattering fields
Site
Waterways//Floodplain
Slopes
Soils
Habitat Strategy Plan
PaE SkC
Blackland Priarie
Riparian Wetland
SA DeC
mesquite
bald cypress AtD DoD UH TfB
Bastrop, TX 1,500 Acres
SkC DeC SA AtD DoD UH TfB
silstid loamy fine sand robco loamy fine sand sayers fine sandy loam edge gravely fine sandy loam dutek loamy fine sand uhland clay loam tabor fine sandy loam
wildflowers
little wulnut
native grass
live oak
Loblolly Pine Forest loblolly pine
black hickory post oak forbs wildflowers
One
Two
PROGRAM PHASE PARCELS
BURN I WATER LINES
native grass
BURN LINES - primary technical, secondary biophysical
- primary biophysical, secondary technical
Hackberry
Post Oak Savannah
STRATEGY BURN GRADIENT
live oak
Pecan
The site has also undergone a major shift and was seriously affected by the Bastrop wildfires in 2011. We examined various existing conditions on the site in order to help us better understand the types of interventions we may need on a site level and what sort of constraints there may be moving forward, whether it be finding areas for burial program or finding where we can begin and focus reforestation efforts.
PROGRAM PHASING
elm
Cycamore
PaE padina fine sand
Three
Objectives revitalize lost pines habitat region through reforestation
Four
Five
establish austin regional cemetery engage the neighborhood
by providing social space and active program
Reforesting Burned Land
PRESCRIBED BURNS
ENSURE STREAM PROTECTION
-- Promote hydrological and biological
-- Remove excess tree litter+ Understory Vegetation -- Create additional space for emergent species -- Construction of firebreaks and fire lines for wildfire
-- Hand Planting to avoid snags I Protruding Stumps -- Soil stabilization to prevent erosion I through terracing or seeding
connectivity.
-- Buffer stream bank to protect
suppression
-- Replenish Loblolly Pine population -- Introduce drought hardy native hardwoods -- Plant+ seed young and mature trees
ENHANCE WILDLIFE HABITAT
--
ENCOURAGE RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
Strip Disking to encourage growth of forbs + Annuals Protect+ promote Aquatic Habitats
PRESERVE SOIL PRODUCTIVITY
breeding+ Emergence habitat for the Houston Toad. Protect water quality.
Terracing for erosion control, storm water
-- filtration, creekside habitat
At the site level were looking to use these techniques in order to help revitalize and repair some of the areas which were severely damaged, but also we were looking at how we can think about these techniques as ways to develop other program ideas for the site.
One TERRACE
BURIAL
BURIAL
PLANTING, COLLECTING//HARVESTING SEED
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMING
TRAILS
Two
BURIAL
BURIAL TERRACE
PLANTING, COLLECTING//HARVESTING SEED
ROAD CHAPEL
TRAIL
PHASING Introduce retaining burial Terraces to stabilize slopes Itnitial replanting Establish nursery Build main chapel//Crematorium
BURIAL
BURIAL TERRACE ROAD
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMING
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMING
Three
One
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMING
CHAPEL
PLANTING, COLLECTING//HARVESTING SEED ROAD
TRAIL
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMING
Two
Three
Extend burial to eastern boundary Continue replanting Expand nursery Build mound chapels
Introduce natural burial // scattering to site Connect trails Fill out nursery Build plain chapel
service access
THE CLEARING 115 ACRES
Site entry//Exit Main Chapel + Crematorium Cemetery Offices
primary site entry / exit
main chapel+crematorium chapel chapel
THE MOUND 429.8 ACRES
primary cemetery program memorial bridge + tunnel west mound natural area recreational trails memorial tunnel
THE CONFLUENCE
scattering ground
418.4 ACRES
primary ecological program secondary site entry//exit wooded riparian trail system
secondary site entry / exit
confluence trail maintenance +storage facility
THE BASIN 262.4 ACRES
primary ecological program nursery + seed bank active recreation natural education area maintenance facilities
natural burial +scattering field
THE PLAIN 274.4 ACRES
nursery/educational program area
primary cemetery program recreational trails
chapel
THE PLAIN
natural burial
scattering
service access
natural burial
THE Mound
retaining
columbarium
free standing mausoleum
scattering
THE MOUND Memorial Tunnel
THE PLAIN View along Marker Wall + Service
GREEN WALL Digital Fabrication and Component Prototyping Course, Summer 2013 Instr. Allan Knox
Back view
This course was a project-oriented design seminar offering opportunities to make original architectural artifacts while concurrently exploring intellectual and professional issues inherent in the transformation of ideas into material reality. We were supposed to tangibly realize individual designs by forming materials using the digital production resources at the school.
Front View
Greening the Rtust Belt / Edible Forest A Green Infrastructure Model for Right Sizing the city of South Bend Advance MLA StudioI, Fall 2013, Design Excellence Award Inst, Hope Hasbruck South Bend, IN tThe issue of vacant and abandoned properties has been a major concern for South Bend.Population decline and loss of manufacturing were some important factors contributing to this problem. Like many rustbelt cities, in second half of the 19th century South Bend’s industrial economy grew rapidly, In the years following World War II, industrial growth decline and South Bend particularly hit when the Studebaker plant closed in 1963. The site has been chosen based on the concentration of the abandoned area. Thinking about productivity and also bioremediation, the proposed idea for the site is Edible Forest. The forest is perceived as economic, social and environmental tools for reinvesting of the central neighborhood and reshaping the South bend.
Rust belt Area Coal mining/ Industrial Mix Automative Industry Metal Indusrty
132,445 people
101,166 people
yellow fever pandemic
cholera pandemic panic of 1819
quasi war
war of 1812
cholera pandemic
great lakes bessemer process iron ore pacific railroad acts surveyed american civil war mexican-american war
influenza pandemic
Site for Automative Industry spanish flu pandemic
panic of 1893
Population decline g.i. bill
world war 1
world war 2 korean war
2010
University of Notre Dame was founded
Studebaker plant closed
2000
City stablished
1990
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1960
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1890
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1860
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7,206 people
Housing crisis Property value reassessment
domestic steel world wide web real first commercial computers estate bubble vietnam war war on terror
South Bend Airport
University of Notre Dame
Maximize continuous forest Forest fragmentation is a form of habitat fragmentation, occurring when forest are cut down in a manner that leaves relatively small, isolated patches of forest known as forest fragments or forest remnants.
Memorial Health System
Most fragmented Patch
Transitional Parks and Green space Flood Plain
Edge perforated
Abandoned properties Vacant properties
Undotormined Interior
Wind Break Forest
Food Forest
Learing Landscape
The forest has been designed in a way that provide an appropriate structure for growing different food plants, vegetables and crops. That could bring urban agriculture and productive landscape in to the heart of south bend. The Proposed idea for achieving this goal is having 3 types of forest: 1. Wind break Forest, 2. Food Forest, 3. Woodland recreation
Farmland, productive landscape Garden
Food Park
Woodland recreation trail
Edible Forest: Represents the intersection of Design, Food, Ecology. The corten steel raised beds leave more space for planting and circulation and create a clean modern look to match the rest of the garden.
Section of Garden
Most of the planting is in clumps Primary Plants: Purple conflower Blue giant Wild bergamot
Plant Palette Blue giant hyssop Agastache foeniculum perennial with dense, terminal spikes of small, tubular, bright blue flowers
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
BENEFIT Conspicuous Flowers: yes Fragrant Flowers: yes Fragrant Foliage: yes Attracts: Butterflies , Hummingbirds Nectar Source: yes
May
June
Bloom Color
Bronze Fennel Foeniculum Vulgare
Bronze fennel is a architectural perennial plant, an excellent single grower plant for garden floral arrangements. It brings plenty of summer/fall colours to mixed flower beds and borders
Purple coneflower Echinacea purpurea
Bloom Color make an extremely popular herbal tea, purported to help strengthen the immune system;
Growing Borage Borago officinalis
Broadleaf cattail Typha latifolia
Cattalis offer such a wide variety of foods in all season. Cattalis grow in thick patches in swampy areas around ponds,
Tufted hair grass Deschampsia cespitosa perennial grass is mostly evergreen with very fine-textured flower stalks rising 3-2 ft
Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
popular and showy perennial. Clusters of lavender, pink or white flowers, looking like ragged pompoms, bloom atop 5-2 ft., open-branched stems.
Apple orchard
Edible Garden
Smooth Sumac Rhus glabra
Edible Prennial Garden
Deciduous leaves become extremely colorful in early fall.
Sugar maple Acer saccharum Marshall
Apple Orchard
Pink ladies Oenothera speciosa
Raised beds
Vegetable Garden/ Community Garden
Edible and ornamental are integrated to create a Function yet beautiful aesthetic.
Bloom Color
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov Dec
The Edible Garden aims to demonstrate the aesthetic value as well as the horticulture of edible plants.
Perennial Garden
Tufted hair grass Deschampsia cespitosa
View of the perennial garden between the wetland garden and vegetable garden. Wild Bergamot
Coral bells (Heuchera sp.) Purple coneflower Echinacea purpurea
Linear Patterns: Leading away from the eye stretch and make it look longer and narrowet.
Bronze Fennel Foeniculum Vulgare Borage
Tufted hair grass
Deschampsia cespitosa Broadleaf cattail
Typha latifolia
SWA Summer Program_ First 2 Weeks Taylor Yard’s Park- Revitalizing River Ecology
Ecosystem
Infrastructure + Eco Water drainage pipes
In a one month summer program in SWA Group each student examined two underutilized spaces and their potential to be part of the future of greater Los Angeles area. As the first project, the 247-acre former rail yard known as Taylor Yard is currently the focus of revitalization efforts in a key section of the LA River.
Water wells
+362’
324’
Soil contamination zones
+356’
metal TPH VOC
320’
+350’
+334’
The proposed idea is to re-imagine and reuse the water resources available in the site and to create ecological pattern based on hydrological design. By proposing a series of storm water wetlands and variety of patches and orchestrating water distribution in to the site, we can provide habitat value and increase the opportunities for recreation and environmental education.
Railyard remnants
316’
+348’
312’
Power line stations
Conceptual Approach watershed
+362’
Existing Water Flow Direction
Water drainage pipes +356’
watershed
Confluence
site water collection parks/green spaces
Water Catchment Water Deposit
Wetlands / Bioponds Diversion Irrigated area
+350’
Proposed Ecological Systems Pocket Parks light rainfall | dry season heavy rainfall | wet season
+334’
+348’
rail buffer
Habitat diversity based on water resources Study area
eco river activation
Pocket ecologies develop along existing infrastructural systems by using water from and cleansing the LA River. The water movement through the site reflects the motions of historic rails in Taylor Yard, providing the users an ecological, cultural and historic education.
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Riparian Habitat
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Upland Habitat Irrigated area t nS
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Los Angeles River
Trail Student study area Open Water Habitat Aquatic Plants
Remediation nursery Main Entrance Main Plaza
Initial impressions collage:
Transition between Urban and Nature Illustrates how the city istdisconnected from the LA River.
Waterfront Terraces
Plan
Waterfront Platform
Perennial Bunchgrass
Riparian Woodland
Wetland (Open Water)
Fresh water marsh
Emergent Wetland
Riparian Thicket
Remediation nursery Prennial Herb Shrub
Simulated Alluvial Riverbank
Controlling water sources for different habitat
LA River
The Water cleaning mechanism of wetland
Stormwater
Terraced Irrigation
+362’
Open Water Habitat
Upland Habitat
+356’
+350’
+334’
+348’
Riparian Habitat
Dune Ecology Pavilion, Design Build Studio AIA Austin Student Award
Advance MLA StudioI, Spring 2014 Inst, Coleman Coker Client: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute
Port Aransas, TX Working closely with the University of Texas Marine Science Institute, the studio was asked to design and build a shaded structure that could help educate patrons on the importance of the surrounding dune scape. Before the schematic design phase, research was conducted on what purpose the dunes serve in coastal regions. The dunes provide a natural buffer zone for high risk flood areas. The dunes serve as a habitat for many unique species of animals. The unique placement of the dunes also serves to naturally filter the seawater to freshwater. The project aims to serve middle school students that will visit the site on educational trips. Like the wetland education center, located on the northern part of the site, MSI plans to extend and eventually expand their dune ecology education program.
2” * 8” SYP Galvanized Steel Panel 2” *2 “ Steel Column 2” *6 “ SYP
Northern Elevation
Deck Plan
In addition to designing an education pavilion, we wanted to make sure that the design could be expanded upon and over the course of time implement a trail system extending into the dunes. By doing this, the ultimate end goal would not only be to create a pavilion that acts as a destination point, but as a point of departure into the landscape as well.
Week 2
Layout Structure (stake out and plumb lines) Excevate Foundation Install Structural Steel Columns Install Primary Cross Beams for Floor and Roof Install Longitudinal Beams at Floor and Roof Pour Concrete Foundations Install Longitudinal Beams at Floor and Roof Install Floor Decking Install End Wall Framing Install Wood Screen
Week 3
Install Wood Screens Install Roof Purlins Install Metal End Wall and Roof Panels Install Wood Handrails Pour Concrete Bench
Allthread- Plated 3/8�-16-6 ft
2*10 Wood 2*2 steel Column Joist Hanger All Thread 2*6 Wood
Wood Screen Detail
As a group, the studio focused on three key concepts to narrow the options of the design phase based on the Marine Science Institute’s requests: Comfort To provide comfort through covered, stepped seating in a peripherally enclosed space. Access To direct physical access to the berm and into the dunes whil also narrowing the visual scope before fully impeding on the natural surface. Engagement To provide direct focus on the subject matter, dune systems, encouraging mental, and eventually, physical interaction.
Sun Study
Week 1
Construction Phase
10 AM
12 PM
2 PM
PAINTINGS
Professional Experience SWA Group Los Angeles and San Francisco Office I June- August 2014
Intern
SARAFALLAHI e:sarafallahi@utexas.edu c: 512.206.6585 3489, Lake Austin Blvd, Apt A Austin, TX 78703
Participated in the Summer Intern Program (Being selected as one of the 7 winners among 200 applicants) . Design studio focused on the L.A. River and proposals for its revitalization at Taylor Yard and Union Station. Second month: prepared a comprehensive booklet introducing the landscape projects in San Francisco and Bay area. Worked on North First Campus Project which included designing the roof garden, completing the design drawings, creating the 3d models renderings and preparing presentation slides for client meetings. Rah Shahr International Group I Tehran, Iran 2009-2011
Project Designer
Education CURRICULUM VITAE
The University of Texas at Austin Master of Landscape Architecture, Advance Program, 2012-2014 Shahid Beheshti University I Tehran, Iran
Master of Landscape Architecture, 2005-2008 Azad Tehran University I Tehran, Iran
Bachelor of Architecture, 2000-2004
Predominantly engaged with the Enghelab Streetscape Revitalization project. Worked on different stages of the project from researching on Great Streets and urban furniture to mapping, analyzing the existing situation ,designing and redeveloping the street, detail drawings, creating 3d models and animation. Fouzi Architecture Group I Tehran, Iran 2008-2009
Project Designer
Worked on an educational project from competition to construction documents. Completed designs and construction drawings, specifications, cost estimates, office responsibilities, fieldwork and supervised construction under guidance. Metamorphosis Method Architects I Teharn, Iran 2005-2006 Intern
Academic Experience
Awards
Teaching Assistant for Visual Communication III
AIA Austin Student Award I Dune Ecology Pavilion
University of Texas at Austin , August 2014 - Now Teaching and assisting architecture students with digital media, including 3d modeling software: Rhino, Revit, 3ds Max, Grasshopper and Rendering tools: Mental ray and Vray. Supervisor: Prof. Marla Smith [512.471.0708 - marlasmith@utexas.edu ]
Teaching Assistant at school of Architecture IT Center
University of Texas at Austin, 2013-2014 Assisting UTSOA Students with digital fabrication tools and modeling. Providing tutorials and lectures for Autocad, Adobe illustrator, Sketchup and Rhino. Supervisor: Eric Hepburn [512.694.7067 - ehepburn@utexas.edu]
Teaching Assistant for Visual Communication II
University of Texas at Austin, 2012-2013 Teaching watercolor, drawing techniques and constructed analytical drawings as well as Rhino , Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop skills to freshman architecture students. Supervisor: Judith Birdsong
[512.471.0708 - jcbirdsong@utexas.edu]
Design Assistant, Studio IV I Shahid Behehsti University, 2006-2007
Skills Design & Analysis : from detail and site to city from grading & vegetation to structure. Visual Communication: Analog and digital drafting and modeling techniques, with proficiency in AutoCAD 2014,3ds max 2014, Revit 2015, SketchUp 2015, Rhino 5, Vray, Grasshopper, Adobe Photoshop CS6, Adobe InDesign CS6, Adobe Illustrator CS6, Microsoft office, and Arc GIS Digital Fabrication: CNC Milling Machine, Laser Cutter, 3d Printing
Design Build Studio I 2014
UTSOA Design Award I Greening the Rustbelt Published in Issue 10 (UTSOA Book) I 2013 Texas ASLA Award I Student Design Competition Honor Award / Waller creek Design I 2012 UTSOA Design Award I Design of UT campus along Waller creek Excellence Award, Published in Issue 8 I 2012 Design Competition Award I Water& Architectural Competition Special Jury Prize I 2010
International Design Competition Award I Engineering Headquarter
First Prize I 2009
International Design Competition Award I Zoroastrian Temple Honor Award I 2008
References Dr. Allan Shearer [ ( 512(232-5268 - ashearer@austin.utexas.edu] Hope Hasbrouck [ ( 512(475-7994 - hhasbrouck@austin.utexas.edu] Jason Sowell [( 512(475-9212 - jsowell@austin.utexas.edu]