Briefed Architectural portfolio by Shahenda Amr Mossalam

hahenda amr ismail

URBAN DESIGN

ARCHITECTURE

Architectural porTfolio [BRIEFED]

German University in Cairo (GUC)

Briefed Architectural Portfolio of selected works SHAHENDA amr Ismail mossalam https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahenda-amr

shahenda.amr@outlook.com

To view my full portfolio of architectural and urban projects; please check the link below https://issuu.com/shahendaamr/docs/architectural_portfolio

AUGUST 2014

AUGUST 2015

July July 2015 2016

Spring - fall 2016-2017

CONTENTS building design

Restoration centre

museum design

The egyptian film museum

HIGHRISE OFFICE design

NEW CAIRO TOWER

visual design

The folding element

residential design

urban housing project

urban analysis

CAIRO SEEN AS A DIVIDED/diverse CITY

urban design

The innovation hub of the 6th of october bridge

urban design

AN ALEXANDRIAN NEIGHBORHOOD AS A SUSTAINABLE SPRAWL

Architectural Building Design

building design

Restoration Centre mainly the concept is a superficial tension of complexity expressed through the clarity of simplicity. It is simple but imaginary; for the circulation inside the building is easy yet interesting. The entire scenario of movement is well planned and guided as each function is designed to own its zone and identity according to the level of privacy and security.

SITE PLAN Scale 1:500

The concept behind the design is to drag the greenery into the site through the axis connecting the public park to Al Fustat Gardens. Working with masses flowing with greenery and ramp strips; to formulate a clear discipline, combining all the functions into a single spine and then integrated the two sides through landscaping.

SOLID AND SOLID VOID AND VOID

cale 1:10000 Scale 1:10000

SOLID AND VOID Scale 1:10000

GREEN SPACES

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-3.50

-4.00

-5.00

GREEN GREEN SPACESSPACES SITE PLAN

Landscape Section A-A Scale 1:500

Scale 1:500

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-3.00

andscape Landscape Section A-A Section A-A

cale 1:500 Scale 1:500

-3.50 -5.00

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-5.00

Landscape Landscape Section B-B Section B-B Scale 1:500 Scale 1:500

-4.00

-3.00

Landscape Section B-B Scale 1:500

-3.00

+17.50 FFL

0.60 1.05

5.00 6.45

0.60

+12.50 FFL

0.72

1.25

1.05

3.10

1.05

2.50

1.05

+10.00 FFL

3.95 2.50

6.25

+7.50 FFL

1.05

6.45

1.73

2.22

2.50

2.58 1.05

1.05

22.51

+5.00 FFL +2.50 FFL

5.00

3.80 6.50

6.50

-2.50 FFL

2.50

-5.00 FFL

+17.50 FFL

+12.50 FFL +10.00 FFL +7.50 FFL +5.00 FFL +2.50 FFL +/-0.00 FFL

NORTH - WEST ELEVATION

Scale 1:200

Technicalities and Workshops

Entrance , Confrence Hall and Exhibition (Public Areas)

Cafeteria and Admin

Education

Entrance , Confrence Hall and Exhibition (Public Areas) Education

All platforms extend as cantilevered ramps connecting different levels through the whole building. The plot is integrated with the surrounding landscape through green ramps penetrating the building. Thus an interior design of functions, spaces, uses, and distributions are complex; it is rich in interrelations rather than in form; for which simplicity is above all a triangulation of the experimental field.

17.50 FL

12.50 FL

10.00 FL

7.50 FL

5.00 FL

2.50 FL

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FFL

+17.50 FFL

ST ELEVATION

+12.50 FFL +10.00 FFL +7.50

+17.50FFL FFL

+5.00 FFL

+2.50 FFL

+12.50 FFL

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+10.00 FFL +12.50 FFL

1.05

+7.50 FFL

SOUTH - EAST ELEVATION

Scale 1:200

+5.00 FFL

5.00 3.95 +7.50 FFL

1.05 5.00 3.95

+2.50 FFL +/-0.00

17.50

+2.50

FFL

1.05 +/-0.00

+12.50 7.50 FFL 6.45

1.05

FFL

-3.00 FFL

5.00

-5.00 FFL

3.95 +7.50 FFL

1.05 5.00 3.95

17.50

SOUTH - EAST ELEVATION

Scale 1:200

CONCRETE PARAPET

TILES 2 CM SCREED / MORTATRM 2 CM SAND 4 CM SLOPING ORDINARY CONCRETE 5 CM WATER PROOFING 2 CM THERMAL INSULATION 9 CM PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB

CONCRETE PANEL

20 CM

CONCRETE PARAPET

TILES 2 CM SCREED / MORTATRM 2 CM SAND 4 CM SLOPING ORDINARY CONCRETE 5 CM WATER PROOFING 2 CM THERMAL INSULATION 9 CM

PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB

20 CM

THERMAL INSULATION CONCRETE PANEL

PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB THERMAL INSULATION

WALL SECTION DETAIL 1: ROOF LAYERS + PARAPET DETAIL Scale 1:10

PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB

SECONDARY BEAM PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB

SECONDARY BEAM

HANGER ROD

MAIN BEAM HANGER ROD

FALSE CEILING

HOLD DOWN CLIP

MAIN BEAM

FALSE CEILING

HOLD DOWN CLIP

WALL SECTION DETAIL 2: FALSE CEILING TO SLAB CONNECTION

TILES 2 CM SCREED / MORTATRM 2 CM

WALL SECTION DETAIL 2: FALSE CEILING TO SLAB CONNECTION

Scale 1:10

SAND 4 CM

TILES 2 CM

SCREED / MORTATRM 2 CM

Scale 1:10

SLOPING ORDINARY CONCRETE 5 CM

SAND 4 CM

WATER PROOFING 2 CM SLOPING ORDINARY CONCRETE 5 CM WATER PROOFING 2 CM

TILES 2 CM

THERMAL INSULATION 9 CM TILES 2 CM

MORTAR 2 CM

PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB

MORTAR 2 CM

SAND 4 CM SOFT CONCRETE 4 CM PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB 20 CM

THERMAL INSULATION 9 CM 20 CM

PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB

20 CM

SAND 4 CM SOFT CONCRETE 4 CM PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB 20 CM

VINYL SURFACE VINYL SURFACE

MEMBRANE RESIN FOAM MEMBRANE RESIN FOAM

MARBLE TILES MARBLE TILES

ACOUSTIC WALL ACOUSTIC WALL

MARBLE TILES MARBLE TILES

ALUMINUM C CHANNEL ALUMINUM C CHANNEL

ORDINARY CONCRETE ORDINARY CONCRETE

ORDINARY CONCRETE ORDINARY CONCRETE PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB

PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB

WALL SECTION DETAIL 3: CONCRETE PANEL TO SLAB CONNECTION Scale 1:10

TILES 2 CM MORTAR 2 CM SAND 4 CM

WALL SECTION DETAIL 3: CONCRETE PANEL TO SLAB CONNECTION Scale 1:10

SOFT CONCRETE 4 CM

TILES 2 CM MORTAR 2 CM

PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB 20 CM

SAND 4 CM SOFT CONCRETE 4 CM PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB 20 CM

STEEL ANGLE BOLT THERMAL INSULATION

STEEL COLUMN

STEEL ANGLE

STEEL SUPPORT

BOLT MAIN BEAM

THERMAL INSULATION GIRDER

CLADDING PANEL

STEEL COLUMN

STEEL SUPPORT

MAIN BEAM FALSE CEILING

GIRDER CLADDING PANEL

WALL SECTION DETAIL 4: CONCRETE PANEL TO STRUCTURAL FRAME + EXTERIOR CANTILEVER

CONNECTION Scale 1:10 FALSE CEILING

WALL SECTION DETAIL 4: CONCRETE PANEL TO STRUCTURAL FRAME + EXTERIOR CANTILEVER

CONNECTION Scale 1:10

THERMAL INSULATION

PLASTER

CONCRETE PANELS

MARBEL SKIRTING 10 CM GRANITE TILES 2 CM THICK

MULLION

MORTAR 2 CM

GYPSUM BOARD GLASS PANEL

THERMAL INSULATION

PLASTER

CONCRETE PANELS

SAND 4 CM

INTERLOCKING TILES 8 CM

ORDENARY CONCRETE SLAB 10 CM

MORTAR 2 CM

WATER PROOFING MEMBRAIN 2 CM

SAND 4 CM

ORDENARY CONCRETE SLAB 15 CM

ORDINARY CONCRETE 10 CM

COMPACT SOIL

MARBEL SKIRTING 10 CM GRANITE TILES 2 CM THICK

MULLION

GYPSUM BOARD

MORTAR 2 CM SAND 4 CM

INTERLOCKING TILES 8 CM

ORDENARY CONCRETE SLAB 10 CM

MORTAR 2 CM

WATER PROOFING MEMBRAIN 2 CM

SAND 4 CM

COMPACT SOIL

WALL SECTION DETAIL 5: GLASS PANEL TO CONCRETE PANEL CONNECTION ORDENARY CONCRETE SLAB 15 CM Scale 1:10

GLASS PANEL

ORDINARY CONCRETE 10 CM

WALL SECTION : FACADE SECTION Scale 1:20

WALL SECTION DETAIL 5: GLASS PANEL TO CONCRETE PANEL CONNECTION Scale 1:10

ELEVATION : NORTH ELEVATION Scale 1:20

museum design

The egyptian film museum downtown cairo The design presented is based on the concept of layering illustrated through diagrams and info graphs of urban and cinema culture analysis. The idea is to synchronize with the existing mixture of urban development (i.e. the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s layers of Islamic Cairo pattern, Khedivial Downtown grid and the transportation layer). This concept was further developed through series of sequential sketches and physical modeling, guided through problem definition and proposing solutions. Therefore, the museum was designed as an additional layer to integrate with the existing layers. The challenges posed were diluted through attentive steps by integrating the museum with the context visually, physically and functionally, while considering the resultant impact of the outcome.

The multi storey parking garage is a bulky intrusive mass; thereby I intend to extend part of the museum above the existing parking garage. In this manner utilizing the space and integrating the museum and the garage with the context.

I plan to create a connection between the Attaba Square and the museum; for the Attaba Square is currently fenced, closed and neglected. The idea is to create an attraction factor to the public to revive Attaba Square and attract museum visitors. This could be through a landscape intervention in Attaba Square and an underground connection to the museum.

The project location is between Opera and Attaba Squares that are collectively considered a main transportation node in Cairoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s central business district; connecting Khedivial Cairo to Al Attabaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Al Azharâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s markets. The Northern verge of the site is occupied by the Azbakeya Garden which is currently intruded by a number of buildings, a garage and a bus stop. To the South and East directions, administrative use dominates the area in addition to a large historic market. On the other hand, mixed usage ranging from offices and residential to commercial in addition to heritage complexes, are the leading treatment on the western and south western borders. The main design aim on the urban scale is to connect Opera Square and Attaba Square. The idea is to introduce some modifications and intervention in order to attract people back to the area and offer public attraction facilities. This would then enhance the urban scene and attract visitors to the museum. It is also important for touristic and safety reasons; for Attaba Square is currently fenced and unused as it is unfit for the public needs. In addition possible reuse of the ground floor of the multi storey parking garage could promote the situation. A huge defect in the situation is that there are no enough safe and planned pedestrian routes. These routes could also be diffused on all road network levels; i.e. it shall extend underground and through the museum. The whole design is bound under the concept of layers that form the entire scene and urban image. These layers are different design elements, solutions and planning techniques that are all referenced to the diagram I created from the combined cinema culture data and urban analysis.

Opera Square

Administrative Governmental Building

Opera Multi story Parking Garage

Attaba Square

The mega scale traffic network of bridges and tunnels are imposing on the entire urban situation. I believe that this calls for a planned pedestrian route that would give back the area its former glory

Undefined situation that seems to be two incomplete squares or nodes

Movies act as an invaluable documentation of the layers of the social level, political situation and lifestyle and all the components that a place struggles with and ends up the way we perceive it now. Thereby to convey this key of understandmentof a full, un-blurred vision of our urban scene; the urban context of the museum must be as much full of history and acting as a focal point in the city; presented in the selected urban context between Attaba and Opera Squares. Through my own perception of the situation, I have decided to include the Opera parking building and the Attaba Square into my design process. Researching on both the urban layers and the Egyptian film layers, I collected data that I then translated into diagrams; combined in a conceptual diagrammatic representation that is abstracted and refined to turn into architecture. The Diagram of layers reflects on the Museum in both form and circulation to house a cycle of planned routes with transitional spaces for completely interesting journey.

Extracting lines

Visualizing the Layers

Library, Mediatheque, Sound Archive, Administration and Screening hall

Urban Stage and Special Exhibition

Exhibition Slab

Ground Floor

Underground Floor

The design presented is based on the concept of layering illustrated through diagrams and info graphs of urban and cinema culture analysis. The idea is to synchronize with the existing mixture of urban development (i.e. the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s layers of Islamic Cairo pattern, Khedivial Downtown grid and the transportation layer). This concept was further developed through series of sequential sketches and physical modeling, guided through problem definition and proposing solutions. Therefore, the museum was designed as an additional layer to integrate with the existing layers. The challenges posed were diluted through attentive steps by integrating the museum with the context visually, physically and functionally, while considering the resultant impact of the outcome. For instance, the lack of public spaces and pedestrian routes was treated by studying the context of the area, reviewing its TIS - Traffic Impact System and thus designing a spacious public platform connecting Attaba Square

to the museum, in addition Attaba Auditorium.

+8.00

+6.00

Exhibition Hall 3 +4.00 Cafeteria / Waiting Area +4.00

The Dark Void Exhibition (For 3D movie scene projection)

+8.00

Walk In Movie Scene +6.00

Exhibition Hall 1 +8.00

+8.00

Screening Cubicle +6.00

Exhibition Hall 2 +4.00

Screening Cubicle +6.00

Walk In Movie Scene +8.00

Walk In Movie Scene +4.00

+12.00

+4.00

+8.00

+6.00

Individual Screening

+26.00 Sound Archive

Screening Hall

screened scenes Headsets of Individual

+26.00 Library

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+26.00

+26.00 Mediatheque

+22.00 Foyer

Meeting Room

+26.00 Adminstration Group Screening

A B

+20.00

Special exhibition features Exhibition Hall 6 +16.00 Car Cinema

Foyer +22.00

Outdoor Urban Stage +16.00 Screening Hall

+22.00

+20.00 Outdoor Urban Stage +14.00

PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB

20 CM

WATER PROOFING 2 CM THERMAL INSULATION 5 CM SAND 4 CM SCREED / MORTATRM 2 CM TILES 2 CM

TILES 2 CM MORTAR 2 CM SAND 4 CM SOFT CONCRETE 4 CM PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB 20 CM

TILES 2 CM SCREED / MORTATRM 2 CM SAND 4 CM THERMAL INSULATION 5 CM WATER PROOFING 2 CM PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB

20 CM

TILES 2 CM

MORTAR 2 CM

SCREED / MORTATRM 2 CM

SAND 4 CM

SAND 4 CM WATER PROOFING 2 CM PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB

SOFT CONCRETE 4 CM

20 CM

PRECAST CONCRETE SLAB 20 CM

Mediatheque

Exhibition Hall

MARBEL SKIRTING 10 CM GRANITE TILES 2 CM THICK

Exhibition Hall

Urban Stage

The Dark Void Exhibition

MORTAR 2 CM INTERLOCKING TILES 8 CM

SAND 4 CM

MORTAR 2 CM

ORDENARY CONCRETE SLAB 10 CM

SAND 4 CM

WATER PROOFING MEMBRAIN 2 CM

ORDINARY CONCRETE 10 CM

ORDENARY CONCRETE SLAB 15 CM

COMPACT SOIL

Exhibition Hall

Entrance Hall

Reception Office

Lockers

MARBEL SKIRTING 10 CM GRANITE TILES 2 CM THICK MORTAR 2 CM SAND 4 CM ORDENARY CONCRETE SLAB 10 CM WATER PROOFING MEMBRAIN 2 CM ORDENARY CONCRETE SLAB 15 CM

Service Corridor

Toilets

Restaurant

COMPACT SOIL

HIGHRISE OFFICE design

NEW CAIRO TOWER

Residential Educational

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Residential

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Educational

Residential Educational

250 meters

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very few urban public spaces

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The Module Block

Low Rise Urban Fabric ranging from 3-8 floor height

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VISUAL Design

visual design

The folding element This intervention is an attempt to re-Design The GUC D-Building to provide a sense of orientation and identity, in addition to utilizing the wasted indoor and outdoor spaces. The design is based on functionality and the user demands of the spaces, through the different departments including the architectural department.

The Conceptual idea

RESIDENTIAL Design

residential design

urban housing project new cairo To exploit the contrast of the Solid and Void to create courtyards and open spaces both horizontally (In plan) and vertically (in section/elevation); thereby, serving an intended wider vision of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Framing Viewsâ&#x20AC;?. The idea is to use the voids and control their amount and size according to the view they face. In addition, this allows for added quality, better lighting and ventilation and more private open spaces to be used. The division of the units of each block is oriented and shaped according to its orientation. The heights of all the Blocks are decided according to a 1:1 or 1:1.5 ratio to the open space or the street. This is to make sure all masses receive good amount of light and ventilation and for the masses to be proportional to its context.

Functional Distribution Commercial / Rented Duplexes Triplexes Appartments

Ground Floor

Site Plan

First Floor

Second Floor

Third Floor

The initial step impacting the elevation design is the vertical voids of the Framed views, these voids are many and small on the south façade to create the maximum shaded spaces and break the bulkiness of the huge mass. The openings at this side are covered with movable horizontal louvers at the night use rooms. However, the biggest void is on the side facing the petrified forest (East) which also has the maximum amount of openings possible to exploit the advantage of the desert view, with vertical louvers at the Daytime used areas. The North façade has no louvers and a sufficient amount of windows to all the rooms. This is because; the North is the coolest side of the building, doesn’t need shading elements and to reflect the spaciousness of the Public space that it over views. Moreover, the West Façade, facing the street, is the bold façade expressing the idea of voids and framing views with minimal openings having louvers at the night time used areas. The section A-A shows the complex interactions of the different voids – courtyards, vertical voids, terraces and patios of different types; some are open on two sides (for example the street and the courtyard), others are one sided, while some can be open to the sky with one or two sides open.

EAST ELEVATION

WEST ELEVATION

Section A-A

Concept for Flat Arrangement

Flexibility in Plans Change of Use Example

Flexibity in the flat arrangement Concept

Possible Change of Use Rooms

Living Room Space Extension

Flexible Storage Rooms

URBAN MAPPING & URBAN DESIGN

urban analysis

CAIRO SEEN AS A DIVIDED CITY

DIVIDED I V E R S E

THE DIVIDED CITY IS A SUCCESSFULL INTEGRATED DIVERSE MODEL ON THE URBAN AND THE ARCHITECTURAL SCALE WHEN THE DIVISION IS WITHIN URBAN PROXIMITY Stiched Patchwork of Cairo’s Fabrics

Building Section

Street Elevation

Street Section

Patches of Similar Urban Planing Areas

Cairo’s Map

The potential of division to promote diversit y is investigatd through analysis on urban scale models of Cairo’s urban fabric (800m radius circles). The analysis models where three cricles in Cairo; chosen to include a very distinguishable difference in the urban pl anning and use. In each case model, the separating borders vary from physical ones i.e. the Nile, and functional borders to just an old abonded railway track. Although the borders seem to divide 2 districts, the analysis showed that both depend on each other and roles of serving and being served diminishes.Unexpectedly, the results demonstrate that the difference is a huge potential that might be also considered a successful protot ype model to apply throughout the cit y of Cairo.

Unintended Similarities of Cairo’s Urban Fabric

IMBABA - ZAMALEK

ISLAMIC CAIRO - DOWNTOWN CAIRO

BASATEEN - MAADI

Residential

Residential Residential

Residential

Residential Residential

Residential

Residential Entrance

Commercial

Residential

Commercial

Pigeon Tower

Residential

Residential Residential

Residential

Storage

Residential Residential

Commercial

urban design

The innovation hub of the 6th of october bridge

This project is a narrative based future-prediction; it is to address a vital crisis to come i.e. a blockage due to the high dependency on vehicular commutation. The narrative illustrates the possible scenarios of how the people, the state and the city would react to the situation. Moreover, it includes a solution scenario in context and that is applicable throughout the main route of commutation in Cairo â&#x20AC;&#x153;The 6TH of October Bridgeâ&#x20AC;?.

The Design Intention

urban Design

AN ALEXANDRIAN NEIGHBORHOOD ALEXANDRIA As cities need affordable housing and any neighborhood diversity in population and facilities, tHE IDEA IS to investigate possible plans for the transformation of various medium-scale brownfields in Alexandria. THE challenge IS to develop fresh insights and tools to realize AN intense, polycentric neighborhood of maximum diversity and accessibility, with taking various income groups from low to middle-class into consideration. The concept adopted is based on analysis of surrounding situation on various scales of demand. It is also a cry for an upgrade in the lifestyle in the city. The idea is to apply a SUSTAINABLE SPRAWL in these brown-field in Alexandria. The term is a challenge to combine the two seemingly opposing vocabs to form not only a new term but also a new definition and a new investigative idea to test in context.

Analysis Conclusion

NW - SE Topography

NE - SW Topography

Block Division Concept

STEP 1

STEP 2

STEP 3

Dorms Moo

University Situatio

Social Cultural Spa

Market Situatio

Section A-A

Level 2

Student Dorms

Family 1-2 kids

Workers / Singles

Elderly

Family 3-4 kids

Thank you for your time and consideration SHAHENDA AMR ISMAIL MOSSAL AM https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahenda-amr

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