THE EPITOME BY SHABNAM MORAVVEJI
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO THE EPITOME
BY SHABNAM MORAVVEJI 2003_2017
EDUCATION
SHABNAM MORAVVEJI 200W Wilson Ave Glendale,CA,91203 4157416619
ba.shabi@yahoo.com
2016-2017
Master of Science in Architectural Technolog Southern California Institute Of Architecture;Sci-Arc
2009-2012
Master of Architecture Art &Architecture University of Yazd,Yazd,Iran Bachelor of Architecture Islamic Azad University of Khorasgan,Isfahan,Iran
2003-2007
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES 2007-2010
Project Director Fifth Dimention Architects,Isfahan,Iran
2010-2014
Senior Designer Zigourat Company,Isfahan,Iran
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES 2012-2014
Studio Instructor,Daneshpajoohan Institute of Higher Education,Isfahan,Iran http://www.daneshpajoohan.ac.ir
2011-2014
Studio Instructor,Islamic Azad University of Shahin Shahr ,Isfahan,Iran http://www.shaiau.ac.ir
CERTIFICATIONS 2012
LICENCED ARCHITECT in Design ,Supervision and Construction of Architectural Projects Iranian Construction Engineering Organization(IRCEO)Esfahan Council,since2012
2008
LICENCED Fashion Designer & Tailor Iran Technical & Vocational Training Organizatio,Since2008
SOFTWARE SKILLS Rhino,Grasshooper,Adobe Afterefect,Adobe Indesign,Adobe Illastrato 3Dcoat,r,Photosho,Revit,AutoCad,Maya,Vray,Python,Agisoft
THE TABLE
THE WALL
A new type of prosthetic for ballerinas . en Pointe looks at the evolution of prosthetics through new ways of touching the ground, and particularly design aims to enhance the traditional ballet movement en-pointe. Also we try to inverse the way we read structure and surface in the traditional sense , with out thin transparent plastic lacing pattern which was tradionally ornamental starting to morph into a hybrid of structure and aesthical qualities , and the tradional structure (usually metal) , now becoming just providing rigidity at importnant junction such as the attaching to the amputee of the touching the ground but is essentially held together by our semi structural semi aesthetic lattice structure. The design also deals with this idea of visibility , where we imagine our thinner more transparent strands while proving more structure seem to sort of dissapear as we move further and further away and we start to only see the metal/form parts so creating a kind of duality in the micro and macro view of the designed prosthetic. This design is also dealing with the fact of being able to create something beautifull along with being effortlessly functional such that he person wearing it would be proud to show it off instead of trying to hide it .
en pointĂŠ
THE HORSE
THE LEG
TABLE OF CONTENT
THE PHOENIX
THE CREST
THE ECHELON
THE POLYOPIA
THE PHOENIX
Teammate:Moheb Hezkhial Instructors:Marcelo Spina & M.Casey Rehm
Summer2017
THE PHOENIX
No matter how many times you burst in to flames you can always rise from the ashes
Lincoln Height Jail Rehabilitation Design Our aim was to create unique form of spatiality derived from a simple input like satellite image, not by exact one to one projection map but having some of the qualities within original drawings and interpreting them within various layers of structural system, our intuitive interpretation relies on extruded lines surfaces and panels driven from algorithm color relationship.This architectural methods of mapping shows us about organization of the site. Our drawings are our novel version understanding of the context We utilized the typology of transportation hub because it operates as a connective tissue and we used a color base algorithm that also operates to connect two sides. In this project a piece of architecture is transforming the context in the same way that the colors expand from the central building in our drawing Our agenda was to discover a novel contextual relationship between a piece of architecture and its site. By utilizing alternative forms of perception to engage contextual information allows for an exquisite form of architectural production by extracting the specific regions of information of the existing building and deploy it across regions of accessibility color wise whiten the site In this project technical apparatus happen to produce new style of representation. Using color information as an organizational model of the site lead to produce alternative formal production for the context.Through reading and misreading of information, architectural drawings become space
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
SECTION AA
SECTION BB
THE CREST Instructor:Eric Owen Moss Teammates:Sally Alshikh Bahar Tabatabaie Spring2017
THE CREST ›Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them‚ George,RR,Martin
Rooftop Extension Project in Culver City The project was a rooftop extention on top of a parking lot with six series of existing coloumns on the roof located in an exeptional rehabilitated site that contains several amazing structures In order to reach the rooftop one should experiance and pass all these diverse visual and spacial moments,Therefore we decided to devide the path to several parts with transition points from one visual frame to another and compress these images and create a mass that has the original genes of its own unordinary neighbours.Then six walls sitting on the existing coloumns and a ramp equal to the original path passing through the walls. The galleries , film studio offices and theatre are the main spaces in this rooftop building
elevator
Design Process Images
Overlay
walls
Transition points scenes
volume
Concept’s Evolution Steps STEP1
outline STEP2
STEP3
STEP4
Transition points scenes
volume
STEP5
Compressing Series Of Visual Information (Observers can precieve in each part of the path) And Volumizing them
ROOF PLAN
kitchen
B
B
ROOF GARDEN
Gallery
RESTURANT
FIRST FLOOR PLAN ART GALLERY AND OFFICES THIRD FLOOR PLAN NTS
Office
Metting Room
Office
A
A
elevator
Gallery
Amphitheater
SECOND FLOOR PLAN GALLERY AND OFFICES SECOND FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1/32
Office
Entrance
Office
Open Gallery
Gallery
THIRD FLOOR PLAN FIRST FLOOR PLAN SCALE 3/32
Office
GALLERY RESTAURANT
SDS-CAD
SDS-CAD
SDS-CAD
SDS-CAD
SECTION CC SECTION BB SCALE 1/32
SECTION BB SECTION AA SCALE 1/32
DAC-SDS
DAC-SDS
SECTION AA SECTION CC SECTION AA SCALE 1/32 SCALE 1/32
SOUTH ELEVATION
THE ECHELON Instructor:Eric Owen Moss Teammates:Sally Alshikh Bahar Tabatabaie
THE ECHELON THE STORY OF STEPS
A tower is the answer,build it high,build it strong,steps reaching the highest heaven,never reaching high enough Tower of Babel
Building a tower The projet was about defining a unique approach in making a tower,We were firstly supposed to choose inspiring towers and according to what we have been inspired of,we should have developed our own specific typology of a tower,Meanwhile we must have dealt with a very sophisticated site plan,that had a lot of serious constraints.In addition to its small size,the adjacancy to an old short building and a cactus tower made the whole design problematic,Our approach was firstly in paraodox of conventional towers,we have been going down instead of rising up and secondly inspired by ancient Zigourats creating a steped like amphitheatre that acousticly can perform execelent under the ground,The complexity of structure in additon to functionality of its unusual form made this project exeptional
TION BB
+56’.00
+26’.00
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SECTION BB
SECTION PERSPECTIVE
SECTION BB NTS
GROUND FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1/16
STAGE
UNDER GROUND AMPHITHEATER PLAN
GROUND FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1/16
SITE PLAN
SECTION AA
0.00
-25’.00
THE POLYOPIA Instructor:Peter Testa Teammates:Sanhita Vartak& hsiao-chiao peng
THE POLYOPIA
›The beauty is in the eyes of the beholder‹ Starting from studding Ledoux’s design procedures and his architectural elements, following by analyzing Comme de garcon’s method of assembling pieces, we investigated on various techniques in representing architecture parts By taking advantage of ledoux’s architectural elements Via establishing a generative
workflow that includes series of operations based on machine vision we could generate new architectural elements out of the existing ones In this process, via intensifying ledoux’s design procedures through the application of new matrices of vision ,we examined various understanding of the elements At first, we chose multiple pieces from leudox’s catalogue _as building blocks of a proxy project_ which mostly belonged to the same geometric family(circular) and they were visually homogeneous because they could nest together properly. Then we tried to compress our captures from selected elements together and created superimages with single point of view of two or more pieces Secondly, we allocated particular points of view to machines and manipulated its observation from the real object which resulted in creation of another series of superimages regarding multiple point of observation. In this phase deliberately diminishing the input information as a technique, we could receive different readings of our previous elements
Zero Dept
SuperImages
Super Position
Original Ledoux`s Parts
Considering shadows as a point of view we treated the shadows as new architectural elements in creation of Superposition’s, we discovered that the application of shadows in these procedures can be both subtractive /cutting one element by shadow of itself or another piece/ and additive /adding shadow’s geometry to real object Inspired by ledoux’s syntax in generating series of architecture from various kind of nesting multiple pieces together,we are introducing a series of architectural guiding documents in plan , elevation and site view as references for our new suggesting family of buildings
The Workflow
Extracting new physical parts out of digital superimages
Multiple Objects
Top view of multiple objects+their shadows
Side View of multiple objects +their shadows
Top +Side view of multiple objects +their shadows
Top + Side View of Multiple Objects
Single Object
Self Rotation side view
Single Object Side View+Its own Shadows
Single Object Top View+Its own Shadows Top View
Single Object Multiple Views+Its own Shadows
Introducing new objects to the site
THE TABLE
Instructor:M.Jake Newsome Teammate:Moheb Hezkhial
EN POINTE
Instructor:Herwig Baumgartner Teammate:Burchin Nalinchi,Anvita,Soham Spring 2017
A new type of prosthetic for ballerinas . en Pointe looks at the evolution of prosthetics through new ways of touching the ground, and particularly design aims to enhance the traditional ballet movement en-pointe. Also we try to inverse the way we read structure and surface in the traditional sense , with out thin transparent plastic lacing pattern which was tradionally ornamental starting to morph into a hybrid of structure and aesthical qualities , and the tradional structure (usually metal) , now becoming just providing rigidity at importnant junction such as the attaching to the amputee of the touching the ground but is essentially held together by our semi structural semi aesthetic lattice structure. The design also deals with this idea of visibility , where we imagine our thinner more transparent strands while proving more structure seem to sort of dissapear as we move further and further away and we start to only see the metal/form parts so creating a kind of duality in the micro and macro view of the designed prosthetic. This design is also dealing with the fact of being able to create something beautifull along with being effortlessly functional such that he person wearing it would be proud to show it off instead of trying to hide it .
en pointĂŠ
Surface Lace
Scientific Research Game
Structural Lace
Scientific Research Game
PROCESS DIAGRAMS
THE WALL
Instructor:Curime Batliner Teammate: johan wijesinghe Fall 2017
THE WALL Fall2016 Instructors: Curime Batliner, Jake Newsum ›If walls could speak,what they would say‚ In this seminar we moved within weeks from basic paper models and drawings to building a three dimensional facade system using industrial robots in the process. We applied tesselation techniques and a system of one repeating member to complex assemblages consisting of an seemingly 3d infinite amount of members with varioius degrees of variation Inspired by the work of M.C Escher we learned how to generate and organize a system trough repetion and transformation of a set number of members. Then we worked on these techniques to create variation within this system. Moving into the third dimensions we embraced machine logics and material behaviour as informing agents in the design and fabrication process. Via techniques of robotic incremental sheetforming and concrete casting, we aimed to materialize the richness of variation in form and texture of M.C Eschers drawings translated into architectural scale
Module Construction
Deformation Section Sphere
Module Construction
Diamond Deformation
Tiling Pattern and coherence
Module Construction
Diamond Deformation + Imposed line
THE HORSE
Instructor:Peter Testa ,Teammates:Arsenios Z ,Hsiao Chiao Peng ,Zihua Cheng Daniel Horowitz
Fall 2017
Two modalities and Cloning The start of the project is the Laruelleian non-correlationism and the concept of proxies and cloning The project focuses on the relations between the prototype and the representation, between the physical and the digital As seen in Ancient Greek Sculpture, the form of the horse head operates as a prototype trying to mimic the power and stability of the real horse. The artists, rater than attempting to mimic and reproduce successful examples that previous craftsmen created, rather adapt the work to current sensibilities The machine vision of the prototype and the new way of understanding the prototype as a combination of different parts is the main subject of the project. Through advance technics of representation , the prototype is represented by its own image which has its own authentic and unique characteristics, introducing a new kind of prototype. In this situtation the image of the initial object become new object reflecting some properties of the “one” but the same time having their own ontologies in spatial representation The projection of the image of a marble horse head of Parthenon on a piece of marble introduces a novel approch in percieving a well known artifact. The variety of the new representational images of the piece introduce new relations between the parts both from a spatial point of view and a new investigations
shadow and light
in materiality through