Sewar Architecture Portfolio by Sewar Khasawneh

Sewar Khasawneh

“A Work of Art is never finished, it is Merely Abandoned”

E.M. Forster

Contents Project 1: The Nomadistic Mores Museum Project 2: Residential Complex in the Manner of Moshe Safdie Project 3: HYBRID | CO-HOUSING Building in District VIII, Budapest Project 4: Hortobagy Observatory Project 5: Zirc Municipality Library, Community Hub and Media Centre Project 6: Movable Structure – A Living Container Interior Shots and Adobe Photoshop Skills Art Pieces

01 Physical Model 02 Main Museum Functions 03 Supporting Facilities and Administration 04 Axonometric

Sequential Plan

The Museum Is Divided into Three Main Zones (Honesty, Bravery, And Generosity/Hospitality). Each zone has a court that is charecterized by each Moral Symbols and meanings, Each Court represents the destination function that Holds the meanings of: Hospitality/Generosity, Honesty and Bravery that Arabs Used to be known for. The Hospitality Zone contains the beginning and the ending of the whole journey; So it was Separated into two zones. Between each moral there is Transitional Zones Where the linking Stories are interpreted.

- “There are two sides to every story and the truth usually lies somewhere in the middle”. - The Sun As A Symbol Of The Truth and The Right Direction. - Honesty In Narrower Definitions Is The Tongue Conformity To the Truth, and in More General Definitions is the Conformity of the Outside With The Inside. - There are So Many Ways to Lie, But Only One Way to Tell The Truth.

Generosity/ Hospitality Zone

Bravery Zone

Plan Layouts

HYBRID | CO-HOUSING Build

ding in District VIII, Budapest

Residential Units, Open-Air and indoor Gymnasium, Cafe and Study Lounge An Accommodation composited of 11 almost identical residential units and indoor and outdoor Gymansium with 2-3 Public Facilities (Cafe, Study Area) for youngsters and recent graduates looking for a job. The plot area is filled with other residential buildings, hotels and hostels, not to mention its proximity to many other facilities, including: educational, institutional and commercial buildings. in addition to the plot being situated in a strategic location close to the main public transportation system. The main idea of using fragmented building units was to create some privacy for each apartment and to create a residential street-like environment within the plot which will deliver a similar image of the inner courtyard flats system which is common in the Hungarian residential complexes but with a different approach to it. These fragmented units resulted in creating some (Private or shared) roof gardens for many flats. The Housing units are 8m*4m, with an area of 32m2 with an open-plan organization. slight changes in the bathroom positioning within the flat depedning on the space dynamic in relation to the paths that lead to each flat. the outer shell of these units is made of grey steel structure (columns and beams) filled with light-weight pre-fabricated concrete panels (which come in standard size of 4m*1.5m). Creating a private and safe entrance and circulation system for the flats’ dwellers was a main issue to be resolved using a similar system used in Budapest flats plus open-air bridges at the same time to link the two sides of the residential apartments. to ensure that light will reach the lower units of the building: the material used for the circulation system is called “Nagev”, and it allows the sun to reach to multiple levels because of the small openings within the material structure.

Hortobágy Observatory, Hortobágy, Hungary The Purpose of any Building is defined by it’s Audience 1. Tourism Or Entertainment. 2. Learning about Astronomy (as a complete Beginner). 3. Educational Purposes (From Children at School to Researchers. The Observatory Should work as a complete guide about the History of Astronomy and to provide it’s Visitors with Basic Guidelines on how to begin researching in this field. Ancient monuments and altars of sacrifice face EAST, SOUTH, or WEST to within a few degrees (CARDINAL DIRECTIONS) a clear indication that Neolithic peoples had begun very early to identify the most fundamental concepts of astronomy. The most famous of the ancient monuments is Stonehenge. The stones of the monument mark the Positions of Sunrise on the summer solstice, among other things. The Building during the day is trying to be light to the natural surrounding, by using Glazed Facades all around the building, where you can see all the different building structures and functions inside, and the roof looks like it is hanging on small sectioned poles, and when the night comes and the building should emit 0 % of light to help improve astronomical observations that occur in the building, an extra outer solid smart Envelope shades the Facades all around the building creating a kind of territory, interprets the shepherd s Journey at night, when he/she creates a fenced area for his/her cattle to settle in until the morning comes.

Hortobagy Observatory

ZIRC MUNICIPALITY LIBRARY, COMMUNITY HUB AND MEDIA CENTRE The project is part of the municipality program to revive the town of Zirc especially in the touristic sector. The program constituted a proposal of combining bekefi Antal City Library, a Media centre which lies relatively far from the center on a plot in the city center and to add a community hub spaces to the whole program. To expand the library capacity to include up to 35,000 volumes, to have a section dedicated to kids, to create a different, more fulfilling environment that enhances and encourages learning and social interactions, as well as to create a platform where events coming from inside and outside Zirc can take place. Zirc is a town in Veszprém county, Hungary. the capital and the gate to the Bakony mountains.1 It contains many attractive buildings to the tourists and has the Antal Békefi Library and community centre. The building was built on the site in 1898 and has undergone many works of renovation, refurbishment, and adaptive reuse overtime. The Municipality of Zirc merged the Studio KB – Youth and Community House into the Antal Békefi City Library and Cultural House. The merged public cultural institution started its operation with three units within independent buildings: Municipal Library (in the building at József Attila Street 1), House of Culture (in Alkotmány Street. Constitution Street 14, flfloor). The Plot occupies a double-corner position defined by the intersections of Reguly Antal street and József Attila street and Petőfi Sándor streets.

ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT The three main functions of the Building are: a community hub {house of culture), a Library and a media Centre. The outcomes of these important functions stem from one another and their roles complete each other. As the community will not grow and develop without knowledge (Library) and the knowledge (Library) will not be useful or will not even exist with no community that exist to sustain and build upon this knowledge attained, and at the end to use what the media centre has to offer to produce actual material that can be shared with the whole town, country or even spread it to the whole world. The Plot in question is an accumulation of three plots, so having a bulky mass will make the scale of the proposed building odd relatively to the neighboring buildings. So that was successfully done by defining the main three functions and placing them into three different masses and an extra mass was added in a relatively central location along the longest façade to contain the main services and to form distribution point to the other masses. The Plot affords openness, since it is located on three streets, to use every potential the site provides in the architectural design, which in this case to attract in as many people from all the three sides.

The Massing Began from the two critical points which form the side firewalls of the building next door. As Zirc is known for its good land for greener areas as the Arboretum suggests, the creation of a court (in this case an inner (as a reflection of the neighboring department store) to make sure the building is surrounded by nature for peaceful environment. Stepped facades feature is one of the decisions made to show the variety of functions the Building Provides (A community of Functions). The café, the seating area are located close to the main entrance and has its own secondary entrance, so that it can run outside the working hours of the rest of the building. The building harmonizes with the building’s layouts in town in a modern way and in a way that exposes the interior to the pedestrians to attract people in by having rich elevations and full of Life, Literally. This has been achieved by the application of some of the critical regionalism principles by paying attention to the climate, light and the plot shape which inspired the tilted mass of the community hub functions and by taking into consideration the local materials and using the same materials to match the surrounding and to lessen the fact of having a somewhat modern-looking building with a flat roof amongst very traditional surrounding.The elevations were designed to emphasize the differences that have grown up through 100 of years of building in a particular place (Zirc) with the introduction and integration of contemporary architectural features used to produce a building with a similar spirit to the context it is being designed in. and to unite the building, similar openings pattern was used throughout the whole premises except for the entrance mass that was defined by multiple mass tuning and tilting towards the narrower street to create an equally welcoming view to the people coming from different directions.

Movable Structure – A Living Container The main concept behind this project, is to maximize the use of a container to make it suitable and spacious enough to house two different functions; to function as a house and a hair salon, where it can reduce the costs on a person who’s just starting their own career and another advantage to this container living is the possibility to move and relocate to different cities and spots. the structure is made out of a wooden-like structure with tongue and groove connections.

6.06m X 2.35m X 2.44m Container The concept was to create an adaptable and flexible space that can be rearranged as desired to accommodate both a residence and a hair salon for its Dwelle; this has been achieved by using this wooden structure which opened slots where other regular pieces with dimensions identical to the roof opening of 2.00m X 0.80m are placed on different levels where the structure is opened so that these pieces can slide over and moved comfortably to different spots within the container, these pieces make up the diffrent pieces of furniture to this building.

01 Tongue-Groove Connections 02 Top View 03 3D 1 04 3D 2

3D Shots- Exterior/ Interior

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