KARIM KHAYATI
PORTFOLIO 2019-2022 SCI-ARC | M.ARCH II AUD | B.ARCH
© Karim Khayati 2022
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KARIM KHAYATI
PORTFOLIO 2019-2022 SCI-ARC | M.ARCH II AUD | B.ARCH
© Karim Khayati 2022 “All rights reserved. No part of this portfolio may be produced, copied, or plagiarized in any form without the permission of copyright owner.”
This porfolio consists of selected architectural works from 2019 until 2022. This is my work, my portfolio.
PORTFOLIO CONTENT
CONTACT| KHAYATIKARIMM@GMAIL.COM +971529575518 IG @THEKHAYATI
SELECTED WORK
06| OFFICE TOWER IN CULVER CITY
DELUSION IN LOGIC // ERIC OWEN MOSS // ACADEMIC // M.ARCH2 // SCI-ARC // DS4000 // FALL 2020
20| 1/193
ARCHITECTURE IS A LINE // TOM WISCOMBE // ACADEMIC // M.ARCH2 // SCI-ARC // DS1420 // SUMMER 2021
28| HOUSE IN SANTA MONICA
AN ARTIST’S HOME // ERIC OWEN MOSS // ACADEMIC // M.ARCH2 // SCI-ARC // FALL 2020
42| FLAT OUT LARGE
ECLIPSE // TOM WISCOMBE // ACADEMIC // M.ARCH2 // SCI-ARC // SPRING 2021
52| LACMA / LA COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART
DIVERGENCE/CONVERGENCE // RAMIRO D.G // ACADEMIC // M.ARCH2 // SCI-ARC // DS1202 // SPRING 2020
60| GROUNDS OF HOPE COVID-19 MEMORIAL
URBAN MEMORIALS // DESIGN COMPETITION // 1ST PLACE WINNER // 2020
64| MONOLITH
THE HOME COMPETITION // 2022
70| CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS
UG THESIS PROJECT // GEORGES KACHAAMY // ACADEMIC // B.ARCH // AUD // ARCH502 // SPRING 2019
SCI-ARC
OFFICE TOWER IN CULVER CITY DELUSION IN LOGIC Project by Karim Khayati & Di Liang Eric Owen Moss Vertical Studio (DS 4000) SCI-Arc, Fall 2020 Location - Culver City, CA, USA Duration - 2 months Softwares - Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, Photoshop, Illustrator, CAD Height - 435 feet (133 meters) Floor Area - 300,000 Sqft ( 28,000 sqm) 22 Floors & 3 Underground
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ACADEMIC
2020
3D Section
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ELEVATIONS North Elevation 40ft (12m) 40ft (12m)
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ACADEMIC
2020
South Elevation 40ft (12m) 40ft (12m)
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CONCEPT Located in Culver City at a height of 435 feet, the project stands out with its verticality within a height-restricted zone. This project is a mixed-use tower programmed to host office spaces, residential apartment units, retail shops, and community areas. Our project has the desire to hybridize metaphoric forms with the use of rationality and logic. The odd feeling between the interaction of different architectural forms raises questions about its identity. We perceive this project as an image of an isolated town from thousands of years ago that grew and evolved with time. The structural strategy was not only to make the tower achievable but also a way to make the interaction between different formal languages become coherent. Since the idea results in a vertical town, we have established a gesture within the project by creating a staircase ‘high way’ that conducts human behavior, provides circulation within the heart of the building, and creates an outdoor/indoor experience.
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M.ARCH II
ACADEMIC
2020
Perspective view from the Canal
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M.ARCH II
STRUCTURE North/East iso
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Steel Color Coded Diagram
ACADEMIC
2020
South/West iso
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M.ARCH II
CIRCULATION North/East iso
* The highway is the highlight of the project; how to create a vertical town that grew throughout the year while incorporating a highway within in.
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ACADEMIC
2020
X-RAY ENVELOPE North/East iso
* The structure of the project makes the different formal languages of the project become cohesive. The structure tends to obey and disobey to the overall massings, and that is the way to blurr its identity.
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3D FLOOR PLANS Residential Floor Plan iso Cut at 310ft (95m)
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M.ARCH II
ACADEMIC
2020
Community Areas Floor Plan iso Cut at 375ft (115m)
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M.ARCH II
. MULHOLLAND
. HOLLYWOOD SIGN
. GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY
. HOLLYWOOD
. SUNSET
. CENTRAL LA
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. WILSHER
ACADEMIC
2020
. DTLA
. SILVER LAKE
. USC CAMPUS
. INTERSTATE 10
. CULVER CITY
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SCI-ARC
1/193 ARCHITECTURE IS A LINE Thesis Project & Research by Karim Khayati Graduate Thesis Project at SCI-Arc, SU 2021 Thesis Advisor Tom Wiscombe Location - SeaPort District, NY, USA Duration - 4 months Softwares - Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, Photoshop Height - 1000 feet (305 meters) Floor Area - 850,000 Sqft ( 85,000 sqm) 80 Floors & a Forest
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ACADEMIC
2021
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CONCEPT Starting with the thesis title which is a fraction number. This fraction is a ratio used in architecture to give a number on how slender a building is. The ratio in many cases is the XY plane of a mass in relation to the Z plane. According to research, a building is considered slim or slender if its ratio is between 1/7 and 1/12. For precedent, 432 Park Avenue located in New York has an X equal to Y with 93 ft and a Z of 1400ft. Thus its slenderness ratio is 1/15, which is considered super-slender. However, this thesis is not the exploration of height in regards to the floor plate, nor exploring the possibilities of how tall and slender a building can be. This thesis actually expresses interest in an architecture that starts with a line, then a ratio, then transformed into a silhouette. The thesis starts with a line. Its dimension can be undetermined or unlimited, but for this thesis, the dimension is 2 miles. This line is given a rectangular thickness of 40ft by 70ft, which is a golden section ratio. So in relation to the precedent, this ratio is 13 times smaller, with a ratio of 1/193, thus the thesis title. This ratio is then folded creating several abstracted silhouettes of mountain peaks, then wrapped around itself several times creating a centralized clustered space within it.
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M.ARCH II
ACADEMIC
2021
NEW SKYSCRAPER? As we approach the last 5 years, it has been noticeable that the recent New York City Towers are getting slimmer and slimmer. Looking at 432 Park Avenue and 111 West 57th Street, their XYZ is similar with a floor plate of 93 square by 1400ft in height. This raises the question of; is slenderness in architecture a design choice and intent? Or is it simply the design result derived from site dimensioning, regulations, and air rights? If the future of skyscrapers is regulated to be slender, this raises also the question of; how much slender is too slender? How does it affect the interior space? its spatial use? its program and its functionality?
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M.ARCH II
ACADEMIC
2021
1/193 x GODZILLA DETAILED CHUNK
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M.ARCH II
1/193 is not a project that imposes itself with height. It is a vision of a thesis project that starts with the idea of architecture as a line. An impossible slenderness ratio that was later transformed into a strong abstracted graphic silhouette, which was later on positioned on the Hudson River in New York City. 1/193 sits on a water forest, an idea that emerges from having a waterfront meditative green space within a super-dense city, offering nature where it is lacking. I would like to also mention that this project at a larger scale interacts with the FDR freeway drivers, the sidewalk pedestrians, the Brooklyn bridge users, the boats and fishermen roaming through the Hudson River, and the city of New York itself.
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ACADEMIC
2021
1/193 x GODZILLA 2D & 3D PLANS
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SCI-ARC
HOUSE IN SANTA MONICA AN ARTIST’S HOME Project by Karim Khayati & Di Liang Eric Owen Moss Vertical Studio (DS 4000) SCI-Arc, Fall 2020 Location - Santa Monica Canyon, CA, USA Duration - 2 months Softwares - Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, Photoshop, Illustrator, CAD Height - 33 feet (10 meters) Floor Area - 4,500 Sqft (415 sqm) 3 Floors & 1 Underground
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ACADEMIC
2020
Elevation of the house
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SCI-ARC
STALACTITE * A Stalactite a tapering structure hanging like an icicle from the roof of a cave, formed of calcium salts deposited by dripping water.
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ACADEMIC
2020
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SCI-ARC
CONCEPT The project intends to design a post-COVID home that would be a free-soul space. An architecture that serves as a space for deep thinking, introspection, imagination, daydream, and contemplation. The house is located on a small site in Santa Monica Canyon and is boarded by the Rustic Creek. The formal language of the house takes the shape of a stalactite and is gently resting on an artificial landscape that allows water from the canal to enter the site and create water ponds where the building and landscape connect. The water is then collected and stored in an underground container which will later be used to pump water onto the west facade and the bottom surfaces of the house, creating unique urban views with waterfall effects. The structural design of the house is orchestrated by three columns rising from the landscape, followed by structural floor rings, and secondary structures. Spatially, the 4 level house creates distinctive spaces for each program such as a living room, bedroom, contemplation space, workspace, library, wellness area, and multiple outdoor spaces. At the top floor, a panoramic balcony followed by a long ribbon window allows the user to have a full uninterrupted view of the pacific ocean and the urban landscape.
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ACADEMIC
2020
Longitudinal Isometric Section
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M.ARCH II
3D SECTIONAL QUALITY * The house sits lightly on the sunken site. The formal quality of the design is emphasized by 3 connections to the ground generated from the stalactite. When the house makes contact with the site, the landscape formally adapts.
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ACADEMIC
2020
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SCI-ARC
M.ARCH II
2D SECTIONS * The house is on 4 levels; The underground being a space of meditation, the ground floor is a space for living, the first floor is a space for resting, the the third floor is a space for work and itellect.
Section AA
Flexible Space
Workspace & Library
Master Bedroom
WC
WC
Kitchen
Living Room
Car Parking Waterfall
Contemplation Cave
Outdoor Plaza Under the House
Underground water tank
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ACADEMIC
2020
Section BB
+33ft
360 Balcony
Workspace & Library
+23ft
+13ft
Living Room
+3ft Waterfall
+0ft
Outdoor Plaza Under the House
-15ft
Underground water tank
-21ft
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SCI-ARC
M.ARCH II
2D FLOOR PLANS Underground Floor Plan
B
A
Cut at -10ft (-3m)
Outdoor Plaza Under the House
Contemplation Cave
A
B Ground Floor Plan Cut at 5ft (1.3m)
B
House Entrance Kitchen
WC Living Room
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Car Parking UG access
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A
ACADEMIC
2020
Second Floor Plan Cut at 15ft (4.5mm)
B
Master Bedroom
WC
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A
B
Third Floor Plan Cut at 25ft (7.8m)
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360 Balcony
Workspace & Library
A
Flexible Space
A
B
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SCI-ARC
CIRCULATION North/East iso
* The straircases of this house are either outdoors or indoors to facilitate the way residents get tthe different spaces.
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M.ARCH II
ACADEMIC
2020
X-RAY ENVELOPE North/East iso
* The structure of the project makes the different formal languages of the project become cohesive. The structure tends to obey and disobey to the overall massings, and that is the way to blurr its identity.
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SCI-ARC
THE FLAT OUT LARGE ECLIPSE Project by Karim Khayati & Jonah Klinghoffer Tom Wiscombe Vertical Studio (DS 5000) SCI-Arc, Spring 2021 (TA: Sam Flower) Location - LA LIVE! at the Staples Center, CA, USA Duration - 4 months Softwares - Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, Photoshop, KeyShot Height - 1200 feet (368 meters) Floor Area - 3,000,000 Sqft ( 28,000 sqm) 100 Floors
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M.ARCH II
ACADEMIC
2021
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SCI-ARC
GODZILLA DRAWING
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ACADEMIC
2021
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SCI-ARC
M.ARCH II
ZOOM ONTO THE DISKS
PROGRAMMATIC LAYOUT INSIDE A CIRCLE
Each disk is programmed to host different programs which encourage residents to spend more time in the eclipse. Programs such as appartment units, office spaces, play rooms, gyms, restaurants, bars and nightclubs consist of nearly 90% of human needed activites. Each eclpise is equipped with 25,000 to 45,000 sqft of solar, making it self sustaining. The cores of each eclipse are split with the presence of skydecks. Each of these eclipses self sustained ultimate living machines for the future of real estate and urban living in Los Angeles.
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ACADEMIC
2021
Eclipse A
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SCI-ARC
FLOOR PLAN AT 35M (115FT) THE NEW CONVENTION CENTER
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M.ARCH II
ACADEMIC
2021
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PHYSICAL MODEL PHOTOS 3D PRINT
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ACADEMIC
2021
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SCI-ARC
LACMA // LA COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART DIVERGENCE/CONVERGENCE Project by Karim Khayati & David Lee Ramiro Diaz Granados 2GBX Studio (DS 1202) SCI-Arc, Spring 2020 Location - Wilsher Blvd CA, USA Duration - 4 months Softwares - Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, Blender, Atlas, Photoshop, Maya, Unreal Engine Height - 215 feet (65 meters) Floor Area - 650,000 Sqft ( 60,400 sqm) 5 Floors & 1 Underground
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M.ARCH II
ACADEMIC
2020
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SCI-ARC
TOP VIEW The project brief addresses the design of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. After Peter Zumthor’s critics regarding his new vision and design of LACMA, we were asked to redesign the museum. What we propose is a new LACMA, a levitated mass hovering above Wilsher Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. The new museum is suspended and not touching the ground, as there is no obligation for something remarkably artificial to directly be connected to the site. It needs to float, to float above the plane of reality.
The illusion of levitation of the rock relies on a steel frame, as it three dimensionalize the default grid that is projected onto a mass of landscape and topography (it is similar to the concept of magnitude and longitude). The three-dimensional grid is a way to discipline the map and rationalize it. As a result, the steel gridded frame imposes order onto the chaos. The grid suggests an overarching and intrusive system that determines where rooms will be placed and where circulation goes, controlling the chaos inside the exhibition spaces. The partition systems are contained and stacked vertically within four even square sections of the building. This is why the gridded structure is the only thing touching the ground beyond the megacores. It is a suggestion of something being sourced by nature but still being completely artificial. It does not belong, but nothing is completely new.
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M.ARCH II
ACADEMIC
2020
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SCI-ARC
MUSEUM SPACE Geological Terrains + Museum Partitions? What we propose is 4 museums in 1, with 4 distinct partition systems. These partitions are then contaminated with 7 distinct terrains. The project works with terrain and partition fields to bring a different take on the known possible arrangements of a museum gallery space. Our final intention is to emphasize the separation of the building’s internal arrangement from the site. The specific moments within each room are not really closely examined or designed before insertion. The same applies to the terrains - they are sliced out of the Sierra Nevada, terrains in Arizona, and combined in a terrain sandwich at every level.
Within the exhibition spaces, the contamination of terrain, slab, wall, and steel frame is maintained. The convergence of terrain, slab, walls and steel fame contaminate each other indefinitely to create a wellbalanced hybrid of museum typologies. Some exhibition walls extend all the way to the ceiling while others don’t, it is a way to suggest that the terrain is not an even or stable surface, therefore elements resting on it should not be stable either. As an architectural response regarding the security of artwork, the stepping terrain and floor slabs create an architectural barrier between the artwork and the viewer, making the presence of ropes or any additional security elements unnecessary. The sign of security is architectural.The terrain textures of the building are meant to glow during evening and night-time, making all additional or extra conventional lighting devices useless. The architecture speaks for itself. It is a way to suggest an imaginary museum. Why use conventional methods of installations when we can invent something completely unique and new?
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ACADEMIC
2020
These terrains and partition fields are composed together vertically, overlapping, cutting and hollowing out each other. Whether or not certain spaces are occupiable is not really a question - every space that is a result of the combining is made occupiable. Underneath the site connected to the megacores is the underground storage. The entire area of the basement is reserved for storage use. Works of art being transported vertically through the megacores. On the other hand, the levitated mass is purely reserved for gallery space - suggesting four different museum typologies for varying exhibits with cross circulation between them.
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SCI-ARC
SECTION BECOMES ELEVATION
On the roof of the museum, experiential sculpture gardens are open for visitors to roam freely under the artificiality of the gridded frame, as well as enjoying a levitated view of the mountains along with a perfect Instagram picture with the Hollywood sign. This installation is a revolutionary way of conceiving land art, where artificially generated landscapes become the basis of site-specific sculptures. This Museum is a universe, a world with its own fantasies, to an extend where the imaginary museum can become an art-to-display by itself. A levitated mass much bigger than Michael Heizer’s, honesting a museum that exploits all experiential possibilities, whether within it, underneath it, or on top of it. This is Le Musée Imaginaire.
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ACADEMIC
2020
‘A museum is a place where one should lose one’s head...’ Renzo Piano
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+971ARCHITECTS
1ST PLACE
GROUNDS OF HOPE COVID-19 MEMORIAL URBAN MEMORIALS Project by Karim Khayati & Jessica Abou Haidar 1st Place Prize Winner in the Competition (2020) Location - All Around the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Client - Plus971Architects Duration - 2 months Softwares - Rhino 3D, Photoshop, Illustrator, CAD Modular Architecture
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COMPETITION
2020
COMFORT Memorials representing ‘comfort’ are located in the desert as a symbol of emotional release.
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CONCEPT Our proposal for the COVID memorial is an urban experience throughout the UAE and its emirates. The UAE is a country with a unique urban fabric orchestrated with its skyline of skyscrapers, rocky mountains, desert landscapes, and coastlines. Why limit such a memorial experience to one location while it can be scattered around the emirates? Why not propose a scenario that encourages the inhabitants of the UAE to reconnect with the cities? A connection that people have long been waiting for while confined and isolated inside their homes due to the pandemic circumstances. The experience we are proposing is a delicate balance of architectural and urban integration that pays tribute to the seven Emirates, its leaders, and its people. We designed four small-scaled memorials inspired by the characteristics of the COVID times. The memorials are distributed around the seven emirates and each is conceptually designed to portray one element: hope, comfort, faith, and life. Memorials representing ‘hope’ are designed to overlook landmarks as a symbol of aspiration. Memorials representing ‘comfort’ are located in the desert as a symbol of emotional release. Memorials representing ‘faith’ are located on top of mountains or holy places as a symbol of spirituality. Memorials representing ‘life’ are located on the shoreline as a symbol of calmness and peace. What we suggest is to have a formal module that is flexible and adaptable to each memorial. The choice of the truncated pyramid design emerged from the notion of power and spirituality. It is a shape that gives a sense of claustrophobia, the same feeling people felt while being enclosed between four walls every day. On the other hand, the truncated pyramid offers light at its narrow tip, a light that people will look-up to while confined inside the space. What we’re trying to provide the visitors is an experience that triggers the feeling of escape, breaking-free, and guidance as the only source of light in the memorial is where hope is found. The spirit of time is represented through the paneling of corten steel, which is defined by its rustic and aggressive aesthetic. Memorials are powerful spaces. They are meant to be experienced for a moment. It is a space where time stops, a silent architecture that honors a disquieting episode of life.
“In times where everything seems to collapse shines a bright light, the light of hope, we seek to escape the darkness..”
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1ST PLACE
4 memorial designs
Hope - symbol of aspiration locations 1- Burj Khalifa Square 2- Emirates Palace
Comfort - symbol of emotional release locations 3- Al Khatim Desert 4- Al Qudra Desert 5- Al Badayer Desert
Faith - symbol of spirituality locations 6- Sheikh Zayed Mosque 7- Hatta moutains 8- Jabal Jais moutains
Life - symbol of clamless and peace locations
9- Kite Beach 10- Sir Baniyas Island 11- Yas Island 12- Fujairah shores or any UAE shore
faith
life
comfort
hope life
faith
life
comfort
comfort
hope
life
faith
COMPETITION 2020
UAE MAP LOCATIONS
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THE HOME COMPETITION
MONOLITH THE HOME COMPETITION Project by Karim Khayati The Home Competition 2022 Location - United Arab Emirates & Oman Duration - 2 months Softwares - Rhino 3D, Maya, Photoshop, Illustrator, CAD Mountain Architecture
CONCEPT Monolith is a proposal that combines traditional middle-eastern courtyard architecture with Peter Zumthor’s idea of mountain living in Vals. The concept is an exploration that suggests a new approach to mountain living in a dry and hot climate; a design that promotes natural light, ventilation, and access to the outside and nature. The house is an architectural monolith, a single artefact inserted in a natural setting. Courtyards are compositionally voided out of the massing; creating a sense of familiarity and belonging between the mountain, the architecture, and the users. The proposed project is a vertical courtyard home buried inside Al Hajar mountains located on the border between Oman and the United Arab Emirates. The main façade proposes an interplay of square, rectangular, and arch openings which suggest programmatic and sustainable strategies. Small window clusters minimize the infiltration of direct sunlight, therefore reducing the heat gain within interior spaces. The windows also give a glimpse of the exterior environment, allowing the users to see the outside through multiple frames. In addition to its conceptual and technical aspects, the house offers spaces such as: Indoor and outdoor living rooms (1), a semi-outdoor swimming pool (2), a hammam (3), a small cinema (4), a workspace (5), a kitchen (6), four master bedrooms (7), two guest bedrooms (8), and outdoor terraces (9). The Monolith is a machine, a home curated for post-pandemic living.
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COMPETITION
2022
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THE HOME COMPETITION
3D DRAWINGS & DIAGRAMS
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COMPETITION
2022
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THE HOME COMPETITION
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COMPETITION
2022
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AUD
CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS SELECTED SAMPLES FROM MY UNDERGRADUATE THESIS PROJECT Project by Karim Khayati Georges Kachaamy Thesis Class (ARCH502) AUD, Spring 2019 Faculty Award Winner (2019) Location - United Arab Emirates (UAE) Duration - 4 months Softwares - Rhino 3D, Photoshop, Illustrator, CAD
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2019
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