PROfessional skills
Archicad
Sketchup
Autocad
Lumion
Artlantis
Photoshop
Indesign Office
Rhino 3D Grasshopper
EXPERIENCES COMPETITIONS SEMINARS WORKSHOPS
Rabat, Souissi
August 2015
Rabat, Agdal
June 2016
Rabat, HayRiad
September 2017
Rabat, Casablanca 2020 - 2021
Rabat
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
September 2017
Civil department internship: Logisoft
Architecture firm internship: Mamoun Zaari firm
Administrative internship: Ministry of National Territorial Planning, Urban Planning, Housing and City Policy
Freelance Architect: Team remote work with architecture firms (Morocco)
JLA STUDIO - Architect
Competition / EMC Cluster: Energy rehabilitation of the technical high school in Ouarzazate city - Design of a new earthen building, model of a bioclimatic architecture
December 2017
Email: archi.sophiarah@gmail.com
Nationality : Moroccan
Birth day : 4th April 1995
Workshop and competition / Nimar, VMX Architects
Amsterdam: The double skin in debate - Proposal for a memorial museum in Salé city
LANGUages PERSonal skills
Arabic
French English
Korean
Leadership and teamwork skills Learning and adaptability skills Honest, ethical and loyal Accountable Hardworking, diligent and organized
HOBBIES & INTERESTS
May 2018
March 2020
Workshop Kengo Kuma Associate x ENA: «Filter space»
Design contest / AMEE and IRESEN: Design of a solar canopy for recharging electric mopeds
‘3rd prize’
March 2020
Architecture Contest /KLK Khayatey Living Archimedia: Post covid 19 virtuous housing in Morocco
November 2021
Young Architects Competitions: Desert Accommodation
Baccalaureate - Maths Sciences class B
Belbachir School - Mention «Very Good»
State registered diploma - Master of Architecture
Photography amateur
Video Design: MFK - 4th edition - Best Video
2019
Rabat National School Of Architecture - Mention « Very honorable »
Defended thesis project : « Healthesna: health vocation for the reconquest of Tamesna city / A healthhub for a future Moroccan capital of medecine »
Korean language diploma - Level 3
Faculty of Letters and humanities
«HEALTH VOCATION» FOR THE RECOVERY OF A CITY IN DECLINE
The new city of Tamesna has failed to meet the objectives that were assigned to it, representing 17 years after its creation a major urban and architectural problem in Morocco. The total absence of a specific vocation that directs its development is an undeniable cause of its “failure”.
The vocation is intimately linked to the development of new towns. It fits as a tool in their conceptual approach and represents a determining factor in their programming. This vocation must be specific since the birth of the new city: all the spaces, including the built environment, must communicate the same message, to compose a precise image of the material and immaterial content of the city, an image which will make it possible to affirm the city and inprove its competitiveness.
By granting Tamesna this “singular cachet” , this more specific character, we are targeting the nature of its components, the profile of its inhabitants as well as their needs and therefore the very essence of its creation.
Thanks to the Health Hub, Tamesna will revolve around a resource-generating health identity, a job market and a socio-economic dynamic while promoting the attractiveness of the city and creating a feeling of belonging to its inhabitants. By givingTamesna this landmark+++, we are contributing not only to its rapid and efficient development but also to fulfilling the needs of the whole country in terms of health infrastructures, facilities and services.
In addition to the various job opportunities, the hub will train the country’s future doctors and paramedics while giving the city the image of «the Moroccan capital of health».
SUSTAINABILITY, PERMEABILITY, MARKETABILITY, INTEGRATION AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS
Healthesna aims to improve human health not only by providing various health facilities but also through a set of architectural and urban actions to help create a sustainable and healthy emblematic project across Morocco.
Healthesna is permeable, porous and accessible by all people from several entrances, which creates a social dynamic. The project is entirely accessible on foot: the pedestrian circuit connecting the buildings is laid out on slopes due to two majorconstraints: the nature of the project related to health care (people with disabilities , reduced mobility or sick people using weelchairs can move inside the project) and the very rugged uneven topography of the site (respect for the natural site, minimization of excavation work). The central pedestrian zone connecting the hub and +Tamesna is laid out in steps to increase people’s physical activity and thus improve their health, while representing an interesting public space for the project.
To create a resilient project, resistant to the floods of the river, two water collection basins are planned. When the water level rises, a valve opens thanks to sensors, allowing water to pass from the pipes to the basins. These same basins will also collect rainwater. The water collected will then be used to water the green spaces. Solar panels are installed all along the central pedestrian area and the river. A small part of the solar energy powers the lamps that support these panels. The other part is sent to the transformer/electric generator groups and distributed to each building.
A «Flagship» cradled by nature: The component buildings of the Healthhub are centered around patios to create a cool micro-climate and thus improve energy efficiency. To reinforce this aspect, the green element is inserted inside forming large wells of vegetation. A walking circuit along the river “Health Promenade” and a cycle path connect the neighborhoods of Tamesna to the hub. Convalescent patients will be in direct contact with the forest (ShinrinYoku therapy) to facilitate their healing.
learning pole
1- Medecine faculty
2- Residential campus
3- Training center for paramedical and medical personnel
4- Scientific research center
5- International congress center
HEALTH CARE POLE
5- Multidisciplinary HOSPITAL
6- Cosmetic surgery clinic
7- Center for liberal doctors
8- Psychiatric clinic
9- Medico-social establishment for the elderly
10- Medico-social establishment for disabled PEOPLE
11- Polyclinic
INTEGRATION with the natural landscape
PEDESTRIAN CIRCUIT, «HEALTH» Promenade HEALTHCARE AND LEARNING POLES
Descending drop 33 m
The morphology of the site helped delimitating the three main areas of the guest house as mentioned in the competition program (common area, women area, men area). The first constraint was to create a physical and visual discontinuity between the women’s area and the men’s area so that the spaces are more privatized and intimate according to the principles of Islamic Architecture (Al Horma principle).
Legomirage is a mesh structure resulting from the assembly of several parallelepipeds of heights varying between 4m and 8m (heights recommended for the project), nested and connected by links like a «lego». This makes it possible to generate two types of circulation: a circulation linking accessible roofs, terraces, green roofs, panoramic sociability and meeting places where visitors enjoy the breathtaking views of the surrounding desert, and a circulation just below in the form of shaded passages connecting the spaces on the ground floor. Visitors of the guest house are thus overwhelmed on all sides and on all levels with the splendor of the site with its rocks and sand dunes.
The project fits perfectly into the site, the interior is in symbiosis with the exterior. The underground sociability spaces take the shape of the rocks of the site, the passages on the ground floor create interesting visual breakthroughs on the desert, the facades are refined, the forms are simple and minimalist. The exterior walls have the same color as the surrounding dunes and the glass is mirrored to create this illusion of mirage where the project appears and disappears over the days and seasons, depending on the angle of view and the light.
The walls are thick, in adobe or brick to attenuate the temperature fluctuations between day and night. The central courtyards, oases hidden by the massive forms and the harshness of the desert act as thermal and social regulators. The majles, the most frequented spaces of the project, have a double height, the roofs are vegetated on certain parts to regulate the interior temperature and provide green spaces. As requested in the program , each area of the project includes a lawn for the organization of events as well as outdoor and indoor swimming pools with different atmospheres, amphitheatres and play areas.
Swimming pool - Common area
POST COVID 19 IN MOROCCO 4
TOWARDS A RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE RESIDENTIAL MODEL
«The virtuous habitat post covid 19 in Morocco»
KLK Khayatey Group and Archimedia
The uniqueness of the «Intersticia» project lies in the 3 tools it offers to create a resilient, sustainable post-covid model while offering optimal residential quality.
1-INTERSTICE SPACES
The project’s contribution appears first and foremost in the interest it gives to interstice or in-between spaces. It turned out during this period of lockdown that these interstice spaces were the only private/public articulation accessible by people, linking the habitat to the outside. The project is thus characterized by the quality and diversity of the interstice spaces it offers (terraces, balconies, passageways, courtyards, patios, private gardens, loggias and green roofs). These intermediate spaces between housing and the city are seen as a fundamental link for thinking about and producing the qualities of urban integration of housing. Beyond their aesthetic appeal, they embody modernist hygienist concerns (healing effects of light, nature and air).
2-EXTERIOR CORRIDORS+ UNIT ENTRANCE HALL + BATHROOM
The second very important feature that characterizes the project is the passageway + entrance hall solution. It is a same logic of spaces arrangement which will be recommended for the future collective housing whether it is of the social of the high standing …The inhabitants access from exterior staircases to passageways in order to access their apartments. In other words, this common area which is usually closed in Moroccan buildings, will be exposed directly to the outside The passageways benefit from aeration and natural sunshine, physical contact between the inhabitants is reduced and automatically the contagion factors decrease, and this without affecting the exchange, the meeting, the visual communication. The second part of the solution includes an entrance hall linked to a bathroom. The principle is simple: each apartment includes an entrance hall which acts as a buffer space. It is linked to a bathroom with double exits facilitating the “disinfection process”. To summarize, the inhabitants go through the passageways then the entrance hall then if necessary, the bathroom to finally access their apartments.
3-PERMEABILITY AND POROSITY
Intersticia is porous and permeable. Both the urban and architectural porosity can be observed in the U-L interlocking shape, the diversity of heights, the tracing of lanes and roads , the tracing of public spaces and green spaces...). The porosity allows to relieve and soften the density, to better ventilate all the entities, to optimize exposure to the sun as we are always working in this hygienic approach, and finally to create diversified visual breakthroughs, and ultimately ensure privacy without having an introversion.
This porosity is also reflected in the entirely pedestrian circuits which link the project areas to each other but also with the central mall (functional center of the project) bringing together public spaces, facilities and services).
The public spaces located at the central mall level are larger, less crowded and their layout easily adaptable to any change in use.
Gardens, plazas and fountain basins
Panoramic platform
Mixed use area overlooking the central garden with access from the functional center
Functional center : dispensary, gym, supermarket, coffee shops, restaurants...
Pedestrian circuit linking all the projects zones with the core area Direct exits to roads
T1 Collective housing- High standing
T2 Collective housing Public housing
Central
Central pedestrian circuit
Automobile tracks
Distribution of programs Roads and accessibility
ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT - COLLECTIVE HOUSING T1/T2
Imbrication U-L
Pseudo patios: Create a microclimate Good ventilation: «disinfectant power» of air flows
Exterior corridors
Green roof
Terraces
Straicases
Optimization of views: All the facades of the buildings U and L have views on the avenues
Stepped housing : Create terraces and exterior corridors Reduce the vis-à-vis
A better sun lighting of the central spaces including the pseudo-patios
BRING PAST AND FUTURE TOGETHER
The memorial museum of Sale city’s heritage is a project built around a part of Kasbah Gnawas, one of the largest fortresses erected during the reign of the Sultan Moulay Ismail. The fortress was made to protect coasts of Sale and Rabat cities against attempts of penetration and foreign occupations and later served as a gathering point for the Moroccan infantry battalions. It was promoted to a national heritage site but remained empty and not functional since 1948.
ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT
The first intention was to incorporate the kasbah in a museum without taking any drastic or bold action as it’s a heritage with high symbolic value, a historical building that needs to be preserved.
The second intention was to better express the idea that past and future can coexist despite the contrast in materials, shapes, functions but at the same time to intensify the profound relationship between history and the new, between tradition and innovation.
So in order to use the entire kasbah spaces in the museum and also to better express the contrast, the best way was to create many volumes that will be grafted to Kasbah and stacked one on top of the other. This allowed me to keep intact the historical building.
. The exterior and the interior walls of the kasbah segment used in this project are simple, made with adobe and bricks. The facades are plain without any relief or architectural. This lack of movement at the level of the facades allowed us to make some parts of the exterior facades in adobe interior walls of the museum. The visitor is therefore in direct contact with the interior and exterior of the kasbah.
By playing with the heights of this volumes, many paths were created inside the museum. While discovering the works of art exhibited, the people are also enjoying the different spaces generated by these volumes which makes the visit more intriguing and entertaining. To lighten the project, I decided to keep the center of the facade empty to frame the view towards the sea and also to make some walls completely transparent for the new building to be see-through.
Since museums are in general “opaque” buildings and we were in a site with a beautiful scenery, it was a waste not to let the visitor enjoy the view. This is why I decided to make outdoor public spaces on top of the volumes. These spaces are accessible terraces where temporary art exhibits are held.
DOUBLE SKIN
To stay in the same constructive logic of the volumes, I decided to have a double skin that will be grafted to the new building but just in specific places. The double skin is modular and movable: thanks to a mechanical system, vertical wood panels can rotate and translate horizontally depending on the sun position. The double skin can completely disappear showing that transparency is hidden behind the opacity of the museum. The museum comprises 3 poles: an exhibition pole with permanent and temporary spaces, a conservatory pole for the restoration of damaged art works and a pole for auxiliary functions.
«Special Exhibit space» Kasbah
Book Café
LINKIUM (To link with a planetarium)
The intervention area is characterized by the presence of 2 entities disconnected from each other by a fast lane: Technopolis and Sala El Jadida. From this site analysis observation came the intention to connect these 2 parts thanks to the city of science and industry and to have the planetarium which is the magnet within the project at the center of all flows: automobile flows coming from Rabat, Kénitra and pedestrian flows coming from Technopolis and Salé El Jadida. This is how the project was called «LINKIUM» («to link» +planetarium).
The planetarium is placed directly on the traffic and allows to better mark the entrance to the city of Salé. Thus a motorist who crosses the planetarium and is directly informed of his entry or exit of the city and is more insistent on stopping to discover the project. LINKIUM is a unique Morocco-wide flagship project that will enhance Salé’s image capital and competitiveness against its fierce competitor Rabat.
The public space fits into the site so as to link Technopolis and Salé El Jadida with the city of sciences. This link is represented by a set of paths marked by the pedestrian to end at the LINKIUM. Two aquatic elements are present on both sides of the project: a musical fountain with jets and a lake. Visitors can sit around these spaces on bleachers and enjoy the entertainment they offer. The space dedicated to the fountain can also be used for outdoor projections with the facade of the LINKIUM as a screen. An intermodal station is positioned at the end of the light metro line planned to connect the LGV line and the Tramway line with the intervention area. It is directly linked to the route that leads to the LINKIUM and fits into the overall landscaped layout.
