Ahmed M Shokir Portfolio
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Ahmed M Shokir Portfolio Woodbury Gradute School work 2011 - 2012
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Dar El Ketab Book Store
Grouth tech Booth
Xerox Booth
Unilever Booth
Villa AEM Residence
Mpstation store
San stefano Booth
China revolution museum
BoG Stadium
Vittoria Resort
Saltation
Output
Competitions
Fabrication
Professional Venice beach museum Chrono_logics
Monomania
porto call
Studio Design+build The Algorithms of Event
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Other projections
Uncertain Ground
Arid land institute Competition entry
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Fighter X-1
Percolating Ceramic
DinBat 2.0
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Rail La call for idea’s
Output
Paradiso Shanghai
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Sustainable Little Tokyo
San Pedro Community Planning update
KMW Booth
Minyang City development
Yang hang Resort
Artist Studio
ChinaWood development
Atlantis development
Jerra Gated community
Green Patch
Sharm Aquarium
Mohsen Medical Group
Business incubator
Pioneer Office
Zamalak apartments
Tarra Gated community
ERA office building
B o A office building
Tekno print Booth
Segas Booth
El Esraa Trade Show Booth
Cotnil Booth
Plato T.v set
Nestle Booth
Point End Martime Museum
Monomania
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Space Research Center Confrence Center 2
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Villa GAF Residence
Khedivial Opera House Center .2
Maged Residence
Confrence Center
Lux Booth
Villa TK
Villa KR Landscape
Sebago Display Units
Darb El Ahmar Community Center
Mass Com. College Ext.
Cube Children’s School
Zamalak Library
O+Tower
Saltation
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Design a Room Projected Vila
Acadamic
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Percolating ceramic
Uncertain Ground
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Project: Saltation Class: Studio 3 Insructor: Jennifer Bonner Material: Salt Year: 2011-2012 Location: 36.448904,-117.985714
Owens Valley is an arid valley of the Owens River in eastern California. It’s located east of the Sierra Nevada and west of the White Mountains and Inyo Mountains on the west edge of the great basin section. The mountain peaks on either side reach above 14,000 feet in elevation, while the bedrock of Owens valley is at 4,500 feet. The Sierra Nevada casts the valley in a rain shadow. A rain shadow is a dry area on the back side of a mountainous area. The mountains block the passage of rain-producing weather systems casting a “shadow” of dryness behind them. The bed of Owens Lake is now a primarily dry alkali flat.
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7 The skin is entirely grown rather than built, is in constant formation rather than completion. Salt is collected from the landscape giving back to the landscape a salt ridden territory that can be new agriculture fields. I imagine that after 20-30 years the salt accumulation would transform the skin nearly dense. At this ‘mature stage’, salt could be harvested for commercial gains.
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1 - 190 highway 2 - 395 highway 3 - Sierra Nevada 4 – Keeler 5 - Lone pine 6- current water level 7 – Inyo 8 - 136 highway
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The mesh structure collects salt to grow building skin through a process called “salt-crystallization”. Sodium chloride (salt) - transforms into a solid from solid-liquid solution. The process itself can consume a structure in given time. There are six different soil conditions. Condition five is brine : a solution of salt (sodium chloride) in water.
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Year: 2011-2012
Location: 36.448904,-117.985714
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Program: 1 - Class room 2 - Lab B (Soil) 3 - Lab A (Salt) 4 - Lab C (Plants) 5 - Public space 6 - Lobby space 7 - Auditorium 8 - Cafe 9 - Farming cluster 9
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Project: Saltation
Class: Studio 3
Insructor: Jennifer Bonner 8
Material: Salt
Year: 2011-2012
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Location: 36.448904,-117.985714
11 In the first few hours the salt particles stay in their place. Then slowly in between the metal mesh, a white transparent layer starts to grow. Eventually the water dries out and the salt collects on the metal mesh. The salt accumulates on the mesh and the mesh slowly disappears.
This physical model shows the middle phase of growing the edifice. The building is usable without the salt fully growing to cover the roof assembly. The interior spaces between the salt architecture will have dedicated agriculture space; the soil will be able to sustain plants, and cultivate life. Project: Saltation
Class: Studio 3
Insructor: Jennifer Bonner 10
Material: Salt
Year: 2011-2012
Location: 36.448904,-117.985714
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Project: Monomania Class: visualization 3 Insructor: John brockway Material: Water Year: 2010-2011 Location: 36.448904,-117.985714
The focus of this studio was to observe California’s Owens Valley, through a critical lens by drawing the territory and only the water. In a landscape where water is scarce, we were asked to draw water in both its presence and its abundant absence. I concentrated on drawing water directionality, motion, ripple effect and volume. I also drew separate effects that relate to water directly - wind, earth faults, and the checkerbloom: a flower that only grows in the valley. The drawing for this project was published on suckerpunchdaily.com Project: Monomania
Class: Visualization 3
Insructor: John brockway 12
Material: Water
Year: 2011-2012
Location: 36.448904,-117.985714
15 The valley is drawn in 3 different scales. A Molecular scale, Current scale and Site scale. At the Molecular scale the water density, direction of motion and depth are drawn. At the current scale the deep affects the current and changes it’s directions. At the site scale only major currents are drawn.
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The checkerbloom is highlighted in pink as it dominates the east side of the valley. The next exercise was to draw the flower itself and imagine how the water penetrates the flower and how each section comes together and drawing the flower bud blooming processes.
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The last exercise was to re-imagine the flower as a water container that can collect water, the condition was for the water container to replicate and expand endlessly. Collecting and holding more water as it expands.
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Project: Monomania
Class: Visualization 3
Insructor: John brockway 14
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Location: 36.448904,-117.985714
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Project: Output Class: Igeo Insructor: Satoru sugihara Material: Plastic Year: 2011-2012 Location: 34.209673,-118.341662 This exercise is a formal imagination of growing architecture, architecture imagined as a biological creature that grows over time. The form is generated using processing software. Mesh boxes connect to four points across a surface multiplied over time. The project was exhibited in: Two × Eight Student Exhibition and 2D3D-3.
import igeo.*; import processing.opengl.*; void setup() { size(880, 660, IG.GL); IG.duration(40); IG.open(“surface.3dm”); IG.focus(); IG.perspective(); ISurface[] surfs = IG.surfaces(); for (int i=0; i<surfs.length; i++) { ISurface surf = surfs[i]; for (int j=0; j < 2; j++) { // 100 agents per one surface new MyBoidOnSurface(surf, IRand.pt(1, 1, 0), IRand.pt(-0.01, -0.01, 0, 0.01, 0.01, 0)); } surf.del(); } } class MyBoidOnSurface extends IBoid { ISurface surface; IVec surfPt; MyBoidOnSurface(ISurface srf, IVec pos, IVec vel) { super(pos, vel); surface = srf; surfPt = surface.pt(pos); hide(); //hiding a point of boid cohesionDist(20); cohesionRatio(20); separationDist(15); separationRatio(25); alignmentDist(0.09); alignmentRatio(15); } void interact(ArrayList agents) { super.interact(agents); for (int i=0; i < agents.size() && agents.get(i)!=this; i++) { if (agents.get(i) instanceof MyBoidOnSurface) { MyBoidOnSurface b = (MyBoidOnSurface)agents.get(i); double dist = surfPt.dist(b.surfPt); if ( dist < 2.0 && dist > 1.0) { if ( IG.time()%75==0 ) { (pos()); //update surface point } //new ICurve(surfPt.cp(), b.surfPt.cp()).clr(0); double depth = sin(IG.time()*0.05)*.125; IVec pt1 = surface.pt(pos().x, pos().y, depth); IVec pt2 = b.surface.pt(b.pos().x, b.pos().y, depth); double gray = sin(IG.time()*0.08)*0.5+0.5; IG.squarePipe(pt1, pt2,.2).clr(0); //IG.SquarePipe(pt1,pt2,0.125).clr(0); } } } } } void update() { if ( pos().x() < 0.0 ) { pos().add(1, 0, 0); } else if ( pos().x() > 1.0 ) { pos().sub(1, 0, 0); } if ( pos().y() < 0.0 ) { pos().add(0, 1, 0); } else if ( pos().y() > 1.0 ) { pos().sub(0, 1, 0); } surfPt = surface.pt
Project: Serial Series
Class: Processing workshop
Insructor: Satoru Sugihara 16
Material: Plastic
Year: 2011-2012
Location: 34.209673,-118.341662
19 The code is divided into 3 different operations overlapping each other. The main operation is conducted under these set of rules - Cohesion ratios, separation distance, separation ratio, Alignment distance alignment ratio. Each rule manipulated influenced the final outcome.
import igeo.*; import processing.opengl.*; void setup() { size(880, 660, IG.GL); IG.duration(40); IG.open(â&#x20AC;&#x153;surface.3dmâ&#x20AC;?); IG.focus(); IG.perspective(); ISurface[] surfs = IG.surfaces(); for (int i=0; i<surfs.length; i++) { ISurface surf = surfs[i]; for (int j=0; j < 2; j++) { // 100 agents per one surface new MyBoidOnSurface(surf, IRand.pt(1, 1, 0), IRand.pt(-0.01, -0.01, 0, 0.01, 0.01, 0)); } surf.del(); } }
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class MyBoidOnSurface extends IBoid { ISurface surface; IVec surfPt; MyBoidOnSurface(ISurface srf, IVec pos, IVec vel) { super(pos, vel); surface = srf; surfPt = surface.pt(pos); hide(); //hiding a point of boid cohesionDist(20); cohesionRatio(20); separationDist(15); separationRatio(25); alignmentDist(0.09); alignmentRatio(15); } void interact(ArrayList agents) { super.interact(agents); for (int i=0; i < agents.size() && agents.get(i)!=this; i++) { if (agents.get(i) instanceof MyBoidOnSurface) { MyBoidOnSurface b = (MyBoidOnSurface)agents.get(i); double dist = surfPt.dist(b.surfPt); if ( dist < 2.0 && dist > 1.0) { if ( IG.time()%75==0 ) { //new ICurve(surfPt.cp(), b.surfPt.cp()).clr(0); double depth = sin(IG.time()*0.05)*.125; IVec pt1 = surface.pt(pos().x, pos().y, depth); IVec pt2 = b.surface.pt(b.pos().x, b.pos().y, depth); double gray = sin(IG.time()*0.08)*0.5+0.5; IG.squarePipe(pt1, pt2,.2).clr(0); //IG.SquarePipe(pt1,pt2,0.125).clr(0); } } } } }
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The final operations overlap the first operation through connecting point one, point two and point three in the geometry created with a single line.
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void update() { if ( pos().x() < 0.0 ) { pos().add(1, 0, 0); } else if ( pos().x() > 1.0 ) { pos().sub(1, 0, 0); } if ( pos().y() < 0.0 ) { pos().add(0, 1, 0); } else if ( pos().y() > 1.0 ) { pos().sub(0, 1, 0); } surfPt = surface.pt(pos()); //update surface point } }
Project: Serial Series
Class: Processing workshop
Insructor: Satoru Sugihara 18
Material: Plastic
Year: 2011-2012
Location: 34.209673,-118.341662
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Project: Percolating Ceramic Class: Digital mold making Insructor: Joushua G.stein Material:Ceramic Year: 2011-2012 Location: 34.209673,-118.341662 Group: Pamas M.and Anali G. and Ahmed S
While researching water drainage in buildings, we became interested in channeling water and capturing it with a more unconventional and articulated approach. A series of formal explorations lead to the final overall figure of the modules. These explorations from beginning to end resulted into four different module types. Unit type A has a 70’ tilt with a 1.5’ aperture, unit B has an 80’ title with a .5’ aperture, unit C has a 90’ tilt with a 1.5’ aperture and unit D has a 90’ tilt with no aperture. Each module was fabricated in a process of mold design, CNC milling, pouring, casting, and firing, glazing and firing again.
Project: Percolating Ceramic
Class: Digital mold making
Insructor: Joushua G.stein 20
Material: Ceramic
Year: 2011-2012
Location: 34.209673,-118.341662
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Percolating ceramic consists of 96 units nested in a formation to work together in filtering sunlight, channeling water and collecting it. The ceramic modules are attached with standard screws and bolts to a steel frame. The mechanism is installed on a studio’s window at the Woodbury campus. The frame is suspended using steel cables attached together in a metal knot.
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Project: Percolating Ceramic
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Class: Digital mold making
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Insructor: Joushua G.stein 22
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Material: Ceramic
Year: 2011-2012
Location: 34.209673,-118.341662
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Project: Percolating Ceramic
Class: Digital mold making
Insructor: Joushua G.stein 24
Material: Ceramic
Year: 2011-2012
Location: 34.209673,-118.341662
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Project: Uncertain ground Class: Thesis prep. Insructor: Barbara Bestor, John Southern Material: Granular materials Year: 2012-2013 Location: 36.448904,-117.985714
The digital revolution, which marked the shift from analog to digital technology, has transformed the designer’s drafting board into a digital canvas. It seemed, was now divorced completely from the physical reality of its manifestation. The new design space afforded much liberation in the formal expression, but it has also broadened the gap between form and matter, and made the hierarchical and sequential separation of modeling, analysis and fabrication processes infinitely more pronounced. -Neri Oxman, towards a material ecology, 2012
As a discipline, architecture operates by establishing links with a physical place we call site and with an imagined physical place that we have come to call “context”. And that embodies our understanding of history, demographic and economic reality. One of the critical issues facing architects today is the artificial computational forms dissociated from its local context - landscape, sounds, air quality, scents, seasonal changes, flora, fauna and environment. While it’s well-suited for arriving at complex forms, today’s designers have yet to exploit software feedback loops to resolve real context-based issues. This thesis explores the process of developing architecture derived from its context, through a material system behavior; simulating the material and creating a feedback loop between the context, the digital representation and fabrication prototype. Through this processes; a material with bespoke behavior can operate in a specific context. The state of California has always been threatened by landslides, which occur due to forest fires, liquefaction and earthquakes. California’s history of geography is defined by these natural phenomena’s. In landslide phenomena nothing is removed or added the land only shifts its weights and transfers its materials, but the buildings are often affected and damaged. But what if we build to the specificity of this hazardous context? Can our buildings respond to these catastrophic conditions? Can we negotiate the boundaries between natural context and manmade constructs using today’s advancement in computation? Can we design architecture through a material system that mediates such phenomena? Born, Megan. Dirt. Philadelphia: PennDesign ;, 2012. Cache, Bernard, and Michael Speaks.Earth moves: the furnishing of territories. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995. Menges, Achim. Material computation: higher integration in morphogenetic design. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley ;, 2012. Oxman, Neri. Material-based design computation. Massachusetts : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. Sheil, Bob. Manufacturing the bespoke: making and prototyping architecture. Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 20122012.
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1 1906 - the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake reportedly triggered numerous landslides, including one at Devil’s Slide, where the Ocean Shore Railroad had parked more than $1 million in construction equipment.
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2 1929 - a land slide in San Pedro, a chunk of earth roughly 400 by 1,000 feet began sliding into the sea just south of Pacific Avenue and Shepard Street.
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3 1956 - Portuguese Bend Landslide, Palos Verdes Cost: $14.6 million, on California Highway 14 in the Palos Verdes Hills.
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4 1969 - slide in the 1200 block of Paseo del Mar - just east of San Pedro’s current landslide area - that resulted in several houses tumbling down the cliff during months of heavy rain.
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5 1969 - Glendora, Los Angeles County Cost: $26.9 million. rain caused many of the canyons at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains to overflow, causing debris flows that damaged 175 houses in the Glendora area alone.
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6 1970 - then-Gov. Ronald Reagan declared the Point Fermin landslide zone a disaster area.
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7 1977-1980 - Monterey Park and Repetto Hills, Los Angeles County: Cost, $14.6 million; 100 houses damaged due to debris flows.
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8 1978 - Bluebird Canyon, Orange County: Cost: $52.7 million ; 60 houses destroyed or damaged.
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10 1980 - Southern California slides: Cost: $1.1 billion in damage. Heavy win- Earthquake ter rainfall in 1979-90 caused damage in six southern California counties.
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12 1983 - Big Rock Mesa, Malibu, Los Angeles County: Cost: $706 million in legal claims; 13 houses condemned and 300 more threatened due to rockslide triggered by intense rainfall. 13 1994 - As a result of the magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake, more than 11,000 landslides occurred over an area of 10,000 km2. The landslides destroyed dozens of homes, blocked roads, and damaged oil-field infrastructure.
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11 1982 - landslides in San Francisco Bay Area. Landslides killed 25 people and caused at least $66 million in damage.
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9 1979 - Big Rock, California, Los Angeles County: Cost: approximately $1.08 billion rockslide causing damage to California Highway 1.
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Satellite launch 14 November 9:45 pm - San Pedro coastal landslide worsens; area fenced off.
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14 2003 - San Bernardino County, California Debris flows, 16 people were killed and estimates of losses were 26.5 million. 15 2005 - La Conchita mudslide in California, killed 10 people and destroyed 18 homes. 16 2011 – San Pedro a chunk of earth fell away from the south-facing cliffs in the 1800 block of Paseo del Mar - across the street from the White Point Nature Preserve and just east of Weymouth Avenue.
23 November 9:20 pm - Mayor villarigosa vists the site, the area is sealed off to visitors anticipating more landslides.
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17 2011 - Rambla Pacifico Rd., in Malibu collapsed. People in La Canada Flintridge have had to evacuate their homes off and on for weeks.
Project: Uncertain ground
Class: Thesis prep.
Insructor: barbara b. john s. 28
Material: Granular materials
Year: 2012-2013
Location: 33.715933,-118.314904