SHAHAB AHGAHRI architecture portfolio
STUDIO PROJECTS
UC BERKELEY - COLLEGE OF ENVIROMENTAL DESIGN BEYOND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 NOTHINGNESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 DOUBLE NEGATIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 TENDERLOIN STAIRS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 TENDERLOIN LIBRARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 SCENE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 SANSOME PARKLET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
OTHER PROJECTS
UC BERKELEY - COLLEGE OF ENVIROMENTAL DESIGN CONSTRUCTION AND METHODS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 FURNITURE DESIGN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 STRUCTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
PHOTOGRAPHY SELECTED WORKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
STUDIO PROJECTS UC BERKELEY
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BEYOND
ARCH 100B | JEAN PAUL BOURDIER | SPRING 15’ The building is a conjunction of multiple and varied programs centered around a common set of interests, which could generally be described as food awareness and education, challenging the norms of mass food production, advancing food research, slow food, promoting and supporting urban farming and food production, and the celebration of good, healthy, local food. In this project I used Morphosis 41 Cooper Sq. as my precedent and put my focus on how to bring the intensity of the city into my design.
First Level: Food Hall & Kitchens
Second Level: Auditorium & Gallery
AUDITORIUM
GALLERY
Building as a key part of city’s intensity of intellectual creative capital
Food Hall
Third Level: Research Center Labs Working Area
WORKING AREA
LAB
RESEARCH
RESEARCH TERRACE
Fourth Level:
CLASSROOMS
TERRACE
CLASSROOMS
GARDEN
CLASSROOMS
Gardern Classrooms
Conceptual Cut
NOTHINGNESS
ARCH 100D | SARAH HIRSCHMAN | SPRING 16’ This project develops from previous investigations in relationships between spatial formations and objects, and it dedicates a design of an empty lot for a specific curated collection. My project focuses on the exhibition of “Nothingness” by an Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli. This art exhibition customizes space specifically around the art pieces to be pathless yet interesting.
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1. LOBBY 2. AUDITORIUM 3. RESTROOM
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ADMIN OFFICES CLASSROOM STUDIO/ TEMP EXHIBITION SPACE RESTROOMS
8. EXHIBITION SPACE
DOUBLE NEGATIVE
ARCHITECTURE 100A | ROUDABEH PAKRAVAN | FALL 14’ The production of architecture has often vacillated between privileging the design of external form at the expense of interior space, or vice versa. Resisting either approach, and positing another approach whereby the design of space and form will be thought of together as a complementary and subtractive process. The product of this process will be a three dimensional spatial construct, a Double Negative. This project explores the spatial experiance of creating space by twisting, rotating and re-scaling some simple geometrical shapes which are belong to a photo montage that I had done to construct an idea about a relationship between void and solid, delineating the space where movement happens and the form that creates those spaces.
analytic spatial montage & drawing
projection of selected shapes to create void
forming the main voids by triangulationing the projected forms above
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SEQUENCE: TENDERLOIN STAIRS
ARCHITECTURE 100A | ROUDABEH PAKRAVAN | FALL 14’ San Francisco is in a sense a vertical city, defined by its hills as a consequence of its geography as much as for its famous bridges and buildings. San Francisco's steep streets are legendary and immortalized in film and television. The public stairs that connect those streets are spaces woven through the urban context providing unique opportunities for public space. This project requires to consider the stair as more than circulation defined by limitations [height and access] but as occupied public space within the urban environment that provides opportunities for program and experience. I took this limitation as an opportunity to approach my project in the way that the experience of the space would be different from one point into another one. Same as my double negative project, I created the space by rotating, twisting and re-scaling one four sided geometry. The whole project is a combination of six triangulated void that are intersecting togheter. Each intersection creates a ramp or a gathering area.
tumbling diagrams
twisting
rescaling
rotating
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O’farrell st.
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OLIVE ST.
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Olive st.
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axonometric drawing
TENDERLOIN LIBRARY
ARCH 100A | ROUDABEH PAKRAVAN | FALL 14’ This project was designed to focus on interior social and individual space, sequence and vertical circulation, negative and poche program space, form and envelope in a constrained site. Design proposal of my project is to accommodate the program of the library while continuing the formal solid/void exploration that I began in the Double Negative and Stair projects. First by rotating, re-scaling and twisting a simple geometry a central void as the circulation has been created. Later by offsetting the central void (in plans) the bookshelves (solid) have been shaped. Another offset (in sections) of the central circulation with much less amount of details also shaped the exterior of the building. Offset also can be read in the plans & sections by the way that the program has been set.
creation of the circulation (void) through twisting, rotating and rescaling a simple shape
creation of the first offset around of circulation to form bookshelves (solid)
creation of the dirty offset around the bookshelves to form the exterior of the library
axonometric drawing of the circulation and the bookshelves aroud it
o’farrell st.
olive st.
first levell - entrance from the olive st. - lobby - refrence area
second level - entrance from o’farrell st. - computer room
third level - kids area
fourth level - offices - cafe area
fifth level - studying area
section C - C
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section A - A
section B - B
site plan
it’s not the destination that matters...
SCENE
ARCH 100D | SARAH HIRSCHMAN | SPRING 16’ This project a response to the soulless everyday architecture. San Francisco as one of the key locations of this country is leaking of a true avant garde architecture like what we can see in LA or New York. This project is a proposal for a new SF Moma, a place with the function of display and the nature of curiosity. The goal of this project is to allow one to wonder and perhaps lose himself through atmospheric qualities.
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2.1/2” layer of concrete finished smooth 1/2” galvanized steel cage at 10x10” 1/2” rebar connection weldd to cage 6mm low iron glass 14mm air space 10mm low iron glass steel mullon air supply vent Kronoswiss Noblesse Concrete 8mm Tile Laminate Flooring
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it’s the change of scene
SANSOME PARKLET
ED 11B | RAVEEVARN CHOKSOMBATCHAI | SUMMER 14’ At the foot of Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, it is an entry point uphill leading to Coit Tower, one of the significant historical site in the City attracting thousands of visitors each year. It is also a densely populated area surrounded by commercial and residential neighborhoods. As parklett has been developed all over large metropolitan areas including San Francisco, we were asked to design a parklett for this specific site to be an urban site for the following purposes: - a lunch time break for the neighborhood - resting point for the passer-by as well as residences - an entry point for hikers who hiking up the telegraph hill towards Coit Tower For this project I looked at the earthquakes that happend in San Fransisco before, and created some photo montages based on my understanding of what is going to happen to my site in case of an earthquake. I began my design by shearing a the ground to create a crack and later shaping the space inside of the crack by the method of tesselation.
case study photo montage
diagram of creating space by shearing
san francisco liquefaction map around the site
OTHER PROJECTS UC BERKELEY 2014 - 2016
diagram of the process
formworks
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SWIMING POOL
STRUCTURE | FALL 15
PHOTOGRAPHY
ZERO GRAVITY
NO SELF PORTRAIT
SURREALISM
METAMORPHOSIS
HOPE
HOPE