SARA IBRAHIM PORTFOLIO 2014 UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
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SARA IBRAHIM
2014 Sketchbook University of Waterloo
The projects included in this portfolio is my gradual progress towards successful development and improvement. Each of my professional and academic experience is a reflection of my past background - rooting from diverse cultures of Sweden and Canada. Through curiosity I am passionate about learning further about global issues and addressing humanitarian challenges through architecture. Always wondering how we can catalyze growth in our present communities to help improve the ones who need it through collaboration, sharing of knowledge and the energy to make change through rational design for others.
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SARA IBRAHIM sibrahim.arch@gmail.com +226 338 1946 100 Fort York Blvd, Toronto, Canada
EDUCATION 2013-Present UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO Honors Bachelor of Architecture Studies, Co-op, 2A
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CV
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ARCHITECTSALLIANCE | TORONTO, CANADA, 2014 Internship May - August - Skyview Parc, Queens, New York, USA - Bloor & Spadina Subway Station and high-rise, Toronto, Canada - Gooderham, Distillery District, Toronto, Canada
HICKS PARTNERS | OAKVILLE, CANADA, 2013 Internship May - July
- Elia Cottage, Kawarthas Lakes, New York - Sharp Boathouse, Muskoka, Canada - Great Room of Weishuhn Residence, Toronto, Canada
MMMC. INC ARCHITECTS | BRANTFORD, CANADA, 2012 Internship June-August
- Fairview Lodge, Whitby, Canada - Stedman Hospice, Brantford, Canada
MAHA MUSTAFA | TORONTO, CANADA, 2009-2013 - Artist Assistant; Collaborated with international
artist Maha Mustafa on two winning art commis sions
in Toronto
- Lighting Canoes, Concord Adex, Toronto, Canada - Approaching Red, Concord CityPlace, Toronto, Canada
SKILLS
- AutoCAD, ArchiCad, Rhino3D, V-Ray, Google SketchUp, Adobe Creative Suite 6, Microsoft Office, Windows and Mac - Excellent craftsmanship - Work well independently and in teams - Excellent artistic and handwork skills - Fluent in English, Swedish and conversational Arabic
RECOGNITION
- 2014 Architectonics
model chosen to be on
Waterloo Architecture homepage
- 2012 Three independent projects selected
to be published in the 2012-2013 Building 22 Architecture publication
- 2010 Recipient of the Toronto Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche photography submission and selected to be featured in Retrospective Exhibit in Scotia Plaza, Toronto
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CONTENT
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aA Bloor & Spadina, Toronto
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aA Skyview Parc, New York
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Lightbox, Toronto
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Interstitial Spaces, Cambridge
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Toledo in Cambridge
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SSEF Competition, Toronto
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Approaching Red, Toronto
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Lighting Canoes, Toronto
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[SHELL]TER, Laos
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DYV-NET Research, Tokyo
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Architectonics, Cambridge
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Riverside Pavilion, Ottawa
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Site Photography
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Bloor and Spadina Intersection
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SARA IBRAHIM
View from North of Spadina
View from West of Bloor
View from East of Spadina
View from South of Spadina
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Bloor & Spadina, Toronto Internship at architectsAlliance Supervisor: Adam Feldmann Summer 2014
This project is an upcoming high-rise condominium located on Bloor and Spadina, downtown Toronto. It will be placed directly over the Spadina subway line. I assisted the architect by researching the TTC system for their hand drawn technical subway drawings and translated into a 3D ArchiCad model to create study diagrams and technical drawings.
Subway stations along side Spadina Rd
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
9:00 am
B1-S-301 Subway Track Perspective
12:00 pm
B1-S-301 West Section
B4516 West Section 2
3:00 pm
6:00 pm
B1-S-301 Floor Plan
B4516 Floor Plan
9:00 pm
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Skyview Site in Queens, New York
aA
Skyview Parc, New York
Internship at architectsAlliance Supervisors: Heather Rolleston & Rob Cadeau Summer 2014 This project is a large mixed-use development project spanning across 14 acres. The project is being developed in two phases and will consist of a large number of condominium units built above 800,000 square feet of retail space and parking garage. I had several team members in this project but specialized mostly in the interior planning and design of the residential units and sales centre. The client specifically requested for FENDI Casa interior furniture in which I independently designed each unit and sales centre.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Rendered Sales Centre Plan Charisma Panchapakesan
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sales Centre Plan 1
Sales Centre Plan 2
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Tower 1 of Skyview Parc Showing Sales Centre
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STUDIO WORK AT UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
St Clair West and Caledonia, Toronto
Lightbox of St Clair West, Toronto University of Waterloo 1B 2014 Independent
The goal of this project was to design a mid-rise apartment building. This location is engaging because of the GO railroad to the west and Earlscourt Park to the east. The intention of the design is to complement these two opposing programs yet create a center for public gathering and intimate residential dwellings. Through the use of public art and an offset building, I created a welcoming plaza for people to enter and gather. The ground floor is a complete public space. The interior has an evocative grand stair which develops into a public program of commercial space, and amenity space.
Central Core Concrete slabs Steel Columns
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LIGHTBOX OF ST CLAIR WEST
South Section
South Elevation
North Elevation
Ground floor plan
East Elevation
West Elevation
Second ground plan
Residential floor plan
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STUDIO WORK AT UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
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GROCERY STORE Perspective of trellis system
Interstitial Spaces, Cambridge
University of Waterloo 1B, 2014 Team Members: Antonia Stanev, Joel Tremblay, Nicholas Frayne, Philippe Fournier This project is sited downtown Cambridge along the Grand River. Through a pathway framed by a trellis system, the project links autonomous units together, creating a sense of community and life in this left-out corner of Cambridge. Intention was to create a comfortable and welcoming community for the students to gather and feel a home away from home.
UNIVERSITY
Site Access
Units Form Path
Site Division
Site Program
PROPOSED SITE
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INTERSTITIAL SPACES
Site and unit floor plan
Unit and trellis placements
Rendering through pathway
South site and unit section
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Cambridge, Ontario
STUDIO WORK AT UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
Toledo, Illinois
Toledo in Cambridge - A Paradoxical Public Space
South Elevation
University of Waterloo 2A Team Members: Ivee Wang, Gabriela Diamond, Ethan Shwartz, Alison McNeil 2014 This research project asked to compare the public spaces of the Glass Pavilion in Toledo and Food Basics in Cambridge. While these sites are different in size and cultural importance, their respective public spaces have much in common Included here shows there paradoxes of human vs non-human and privacy vs publicity. A site would not exist without the existence of both human aspects such as street infrastructure and the non-human, such as the ecology of the site. By separating the “streetscape” and “greenscape” apart it’s evident how the two complement and contrast one another.
West Elevation
East Elevation
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TOLEDO IN CAMBRIDGE
Residential Building
Private Homes
Rehabilitation Centre
College: Mercy College of Ohio
Private Homes
Greenscape
Rehabilitation Centre
Public Art: Calder
Parking
Parking
Food Market/Store
Glenwood Lutheran Church
Chung Oh Tae Kwon Do
Toledo Museum of Art/Glass Museum
Restaurants
Toledo Symphony LLC Photography
iBowl Church
Streetscape
Lizard
Turf Grass Wildflowers
Centennial Oak Black Maple Trees
Butterflies Grand River
Opossum Raccoons
Centipedes Black Jack Oak
Pine Trees
Cambridge, Ontario
Toledo, Illinois
Wildflowers
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DESIGN COMPETITION
Promontory Point Park, Chicago
SSEF Steel Competition: CircuitSpace University of Waterloo 1B 2014 Team Member: Danny Wei
Inspired by the curvilinear feathers of a gravitational wormhole, a span of time and space, this steel pavilion becomes a retreat and alternate detour from regular pedestrian trail. The structure spans over water, creating an elevated space between two ground points. During the day, the purity of the form is defined with the smooth steel and polypropylene. During night, however, the silhouette of the steel diagrid in combination with people occupying the space creates a duality in simplicity and complexity of the pavilion
West Elevation
Top View
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CIRCUITSPACE
Polypropylene Skin
Diagrid to frame connection detail
Polypropylene skin and steel frame clamp
Point supported spider fitting for polypropylene skin Steel Diagrid Frame
Diagrid steel detail ZK cylinder node system
Concrete footing for steel plates
Steel Panelling
West Section
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Underpass Elevation
Lighting Canoes
Spadina Underpass, Concord Adex, Toronto, Canada Artist: Maha Mustafa 2009 This public project was installed downtown Toronto by Concord CityPlace as a plan to stimulate this growing part of the city. This lighting piece was a collaboration with the international artist Maha Mustafa in which I helped with planning and 3D modeling.
PUBLIC ART COMMISSION
Detail Elevation
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Arrival day at site
Approaching Red
Concord CityPlace, Toronto, Canada Artist: Maha Mustafa 2013 This project stands below the Parade 1 and 2 Towers of Concord CityPlace downtown Toronto, joining the city’s largest collection of public art. Its form is engaging and interactive to visitors. I assisted Maha Mustafa in the early stages by making renders as well as photographing its finished stage.
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PUBLIC ART COMMISSION
Proposal render
Site plan
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Annual Precipitation Graph
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AT UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
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Annual Wind Speed
[SHELL]TER OASIS University of Waterloo 1B Laos, Prabang 2014
This environmental design project sought out to explore the experiential context of architecture. My intention for the project was to create a sense of safety and protection through the design of a shell. These “shellters� are designed with many different layers that allow the occupant to adjust, raise, lower, tilt depending on the current weather and their accommodation. The outer retractable shell acts like a wall to change wind speed and direction, and protection against insects and sunlight. Another layer can be lowered for privacy at night. A rain water collector at rear of shell gathers rain through filtration system. Providing clean water for resident. These spaces do not obstruct the environment but instead blend within which creates a poetic environment for both people, animals and nature. Sectional
Elevation
Top
Perspective
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Sectional Plan - Rotations
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Integrated system within each plate
Research Project: DYV-NET JAPA ARCHITECTS University of Waterloo 1B 2014
The DYV-Net infrastructure is an overall innovative concept which uses a network of hydroponic vertical farming to prevent future food shortages in several cities around China. This solves China’s problem of limited space for producing and farming food as well as the excessive amount of pollution that results from food transportation mileage. The structure uses shifting systems inside floor plates, allowing crops to rotate for sunlight during day. I enjoyed this research study because I learned how it is possible to explore the new paradigm shift of vertical agriculture and how it can be integrated into city life. This saves land and limits transportation pollution. For this project I remodeled the structure and researched possible and different kinds of systems for hydroponic plumbing.
Plate Design
PA
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Floor Plan
STUDIO WORK AT UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
Top View
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Sectional - light study
Architectonics
University of Waterloo 1A 2013 This project was chosen to be on the front of UWSA homepage. This conceptual space involves the contrast between enclosure, and openness, light and dark and the transitional experience of a person walking through this architecture. I enjoyed exploring the possibility to feel congestion and contrasting it with a humbling feeling vast openness. Inspired by Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematism 18th Construction
18th Construction Kazimir Malevich
Study Sketch
Study Sketch
Model
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Le Corbusier’s Sketches of Philips Pavilion
STUDIO WORK AT CARLETON UNIVERSITY
Study Models
Rideau Riverside Carleton University 1A 2012
This project was chosen to be part of the Building 22 publication showcasing Carleton’s outstanding designs. This project is sited right along the Rideau River on the Carleton Campus. This design was inspired by the Philips Pavilion by Le Corbusier. This hyperbolic shape fits into the site by becoming a shelter, a place of repose, and an interactive spot for students passing by.
Site - Rideau River
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Site Visits Photography & Research Internship at architectsAlliance Summer 2014
The highlights and most informative moments of my internship at aA were the site visits and research projects. While going on these visits I captured several detail images and creative photographs which enforces my understanding of structures and design. These images are of the 2015 PanAm/Parapan Games Athletes’ Village in the Canary District of Toronto. This is a mix-use development that will provide affordable housing and market housing as well as serve residence for George Brown College after the games.
SITE STUDIES
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SITE STUDIES
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This series of photographs are from a three tower complex located downtown Toronto (York Street at Bremnner Boulevard). Tower 1 consists of entirely offices, transparent and an innovative “double-skinned� building which controls solar gain. Tower 2 and 3 remain residential, sculpted in a way to frame panorama views of the Toronto Lake. The base of each tower is connected in a link of surrounding public promenades, bridges, walkways creating an entirely new urban plaza. The circular shaped openings are built to be green roofs, allowing light to enter through to the plaza proving light for people and nature.
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