Tina
Binazir
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I was motivated to study abroad in order to broaden my international outlook
while simultaneously strengthening my professional abilities. I earned my B Sc in the field of Civil engineering at Chamran University in my country. Consequently, I feel strongly that my educational background and work experience helped me through my last four semesters at Boston Architectural College and will help me further in this major.
I have been interested in architecture since I was a teenager and I have been
interested in painting since my childhood. But studying architecture at the BAC changed my vision about architecture, I used to mostly pay attention to the art part of this major. I found out architecture covers vast part of our life, affects our behavior as inhabitants and it can change our feelings into space easily. All of these are hidden in our daily life which is the amazing thing about architecture.
Every time people asked me: “what I want to do as an architect after my graduation?�,
I used to reply designing residential houses. My goal was to be self-employed and design Online through all over the world. I do love to travel around the world and study each countries unique architecture style. But after studying architecture, my dream becomes bigger. Now I am interested in the effects of architecture and design on human behavior and quality of their life. Also I am interested in green architecture and healthcare design. I believe I still have a lot to learn and my perspective of architecture will change each semester, as a result I do not have a defined answer to that question anymore.
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Tina Binazir 275 Western Ave. , Cambridge, MA 02139 Tina.binazir@the-bac.edu
EDUCATION Boston Architectural College, Boston, MA Candidate for Master of Architecture degree
Aug 2013 – Present
Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran Bachelor of Civil Engineering
Sep 2007 – July 2011
SKILLS Design / Engineering skills •
Design and analyze variety of steel and concrete structures manually and via software
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Experience in structural design using various software and calculations (3D Studio Max, V-Ray,
AutoCAD, Adobe, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Revit, ETABS, Auto Land, and CRESS)
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Skilled in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)
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Read drawing maps in order to estimate materials
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Analyze and propose redesign solutions
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Work within a team and individually in different projects
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Preservation study of Unitarian Universalist Salem Church
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Write strategic plans, marketing and interviewing for a project, negotiating contract.
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Analyze projects in terms of both programming and code requirements
EXPERIENCE •
Boston Architectural College, Boston, MA
Volunteer peer note-taker in Academic Services and
Disability Services department
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Gateway Program - Unitarian Universalist Salem Church, Salem, MA
Project Coordinator and Design Researcher
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Sazeh Pardazi Iran Consultation Engineering, Tehran, Iran
Designer trainee in architectural department
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Sazeh Pardazi Iran Consultation Engineering, Tehran, Iran
Technical engineer in breakwater design department
Jan 2015 - May 2015 Feb 2014 - May 2014 Oct 2012 – May 2013 June 2010 – Aug 2010
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Transdisciplinary Studio 1
Architecture Studio 1
Sustainable Material Assemblies
Making and Modeling
Gateway Project
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Fall 2013
Transdisciplinary Studio 1
Art work Analysis
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Site Analysis
Design Process
Final Design
Course description This course introduces the fundamental processes and concepts of design thinking and making to beginning design students. This first design studio emphasizes thinking, iterative making, and discussion as a means for understanding spatial composition and human inhabitation. Through a series of projects that increase in complexity, the student will learn methodologies for exploring and representing design ideas in drawings and models. This course explores the commonalities and differences among four design disciplines: landscape architecture, architecture, interior design and design studies.
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Map of Broken Glass by Robert Smithson, 1969 is a metaphor representing something valuable which is dangerous to be close to and be touched.
OE-15 by Sarah Oppenheimer, 2010 has influences on how a visitor will move around the installation and will interact with other visitors.
Untitled (Transparent Plyster Film) by Tara Donovan, 2008 is a piece made out of a daily material which has an organic curves. Depend on where a visitor stands, the color of the artwork will change because of the lighting.
The final project of Trandisciplinary Studio1 was designing a new Boston gallery for the Dia Art Foundation which houses three artworks . The given site was on a relatively quiet street off Massachusetts Avenue, and faces a part of the Berklee School of Music campus. Site
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TDC Studio 1 . ART work Analysis
Inspiration
Process Sketches - Model Problems
Axonometric Drawing
Process Sketches - the transation from Midterm to Final Design
The intentions
that drove my design were some elements from all three artworks; curves inspired by Tara Donovan’s piece, different levels because of OE-15 and changing visitor experience based on three artworks. Last driving intention was based on circulation and movement of people in the given site. Mid-term Model
TDC Studio 1 . Site Analysis
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Circulation diagram shows that there are three type of people who pass by the site: Berklee students, residents and passerby.
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TDC Studio 1 . Design Process
Materials were imagined to be concrete , wood and glass. The roof will be a combination of transparent material with lightweight concrete columns in the real model which I created with dense and flexible plastic sticks to represent columns. The ground that Map of Broken glass laid on will be filled with small rocks as it is now in the existing site.
TDC Studio 1 . Final Design
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Spring 2014
Architecture Studio 1
Precedent Study
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Site Analysis
Design Process
Concept Model
Final Design
Course description In this studio, students are introduced to the responsibilities and considerations of architecture through the analysis of a significant works of architecture. Students investigate the structural, formal, social and cultural ambitions of an architectural precedent. The subsequent design work extends the implicit rules and methods of the precedent to create a hybrid architecture.
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The intentions that drove my design were inspired by my precedent study and my site analysis. The whole project was about ability of analyzing a site and a design, being inspired by them and creating our own pavilion in North End neighborhood with a given program which was commuter ferry services. My precedent study was the Azuma house, which if I wanted to define it in one phrase spatially it would be “three connected boxes which are separated by inhabitant’s experience there”. My reading of the building was that the inhabitants of the Azuma house have their own Modern(abstract)-Green-Japanese-house in a crowded city. They live with natural light and wind in a house isolated from the city atmosphere.
Plans and Sections drawings of the Azuma House
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ARC Studio 1 . Precedent Study
Diagrams
The site brings the feeling of relief from density and I want ed to keep that feeling in my design. At the time I needed the feeling of density in my design to provide that relief and an appreciation of that contrast. . My design for the site would have that focal point which is a connection for different paths and proposed different kinds of feelings depending on where you are standing. I wanted residents that come from a dense neighborhood to experience openness to closeness, and commuters that come from a vast open space to experience density first and then openness.
Route 1- Commuter
Route 2- North End residents
I walked in a pathway to get the sense
I walked from TD Garden to the site. My
of coming from an open space to
main discovery in this route was noises. At
the site and city. When I was near
first there were sounds of the city; I went
the harbor I felt that I can stay there
and sit in a cafĂŠ there, which was a nice
for a long time and not be bothered
place. When I came out again I noticed the
by noises and crowdedness of the
sound. As I arrived at the intersection of
city. But when I passed through the
the Charlestown Bridge and the Causeway
site there was feeling of rush, “ I
Street, the amount of sound changed. It was
cannot stay, I should move�. My view
more opened and I was not surrounded by
changed too; buildings with different
buildings. As I walked through the site, it
heights and streets with different
became more peaceful and it was easy to
widths.
ignore a little sound from the city. ARC Studio 1 . Site Analysis
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I want to change the experience and the feeling of
the visitors during their short journey into the site. I designed different kinds of walkways around the site (Tennis courtyard). In my different designs, I did not fill the front part of the site to keep the relief and feeling of an open space. There are different paths in my design and each one will propose a different experience. First Model
Second Model
Midterm Model
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ARC Studio 1 . Final Design
First Iteration
Second Iteration
My conceptual models were representing my idea of compression and release. In my final conceptual model, black represents most compression in the site versus white as release. The curl is a symbol for changing experience through the site and my design. I tried to imagine how it will be if I want to make my model out one piece of paper. My intention for this was to design a structure made
Third Iteration
out of one piece which is folded like the conceptual model. This works with my concept, changing the experience by changing the height. I tried different ways to do that and at the end I chose to do that with different height for roof.
Final Iteration - Concepyual Model ARC Studio 1 . Concept Model
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Folding Diagram
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ARC Studio 1 . Design Process
Unfolded Sections
Diagrams drawn on Unfolded Section
TDC Studio 1 . Final Design
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Fall 2014
Sustainable Material Assemblies
Case Study 1
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Case Study 2
Course description Through this course, students will develop an understanding of sustainability through material selection and assembly. Shared Lectures and coursework examine strategies utilized by the each of the design professions to negotiate sustainable material flows, performance, and life-cycle cost with regard to our impact on the built environment. The second half of each class engages shared case-studies through a set of disciplinary investigations that evaluate the construct-ability and performance of materials at a range of scales in the context of each design profession
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The Glass Pavilion at Toledo Museum of Art was designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. It was our case study and our material was glass which is easy to make because of abundant raw materials; however the manufacturing process is very energy consuming. The biggest environmental concern about glass is about energy consumption in buildings, because it remains the weak link in the thermal structure of most buildings. New generations of efficient furnaces, oven, trucks, insulted glazing units and modern energy codes are being used more and more. In conclusion, the production of glass has improved in terms of environmental impact but there is still room for improvement. In the Glass Pavilion, each space is enclosed in clear glass, resulting in cavity walls that act as buffer zones between different climates; museum exhibition spaces, the glass making hot-shop, and the outdoors. The glass walls divide space, while their transparency encourages visitors to connect objects and activities across boundaries.
Detail Drawings - by Nehal Alharbi
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SMA . Case Study 1
Connection Diagram in Section - by me
Temperature Diagram in Axonmetric Drawings - by me
Temperature Diagram in Plan- by me
SMA . Case Study 1
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SMA . Case Study 2
Material process
Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park was created by Weiss/Manfred. The design team shaped and sculpted the earth, reinforced a fragile seawall, and resorted the shoreline’s ecosystem. Our material for this case study was earth. The site had undergone at least eight land alterations since the late 1800s; the consequences of this alternations were dramatic environmental impact.
Material capacity diagram
Original Ground Surface 1800s Ground Surface 1910-1990 Existing Ground Surface 1990 New Ground Surface 2005- Present
all three Diagrams - by me
SMA . Case Study 2
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Fall 2014
Making and Modeling
Softwares
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Techniques
Additive/ Subtractive
Final Model
Course description This course develops a sensibility of hand and material exploration to generate spatial ideas. Students will engage a choreographed sequence of materials and actions to confront the limits and possibilities of making. The premise of this course is that spatial ideas are discovered through making and modeling.
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AutoCAD drawing
SketchUp
Subtractive assignment
Making and Modeling Intensive was three days of the intensive and eight regular classes. In the first three days, we learned how to work with AutoCAD and SketchUp. Our case study was Simmons Hall-MIT. In eight regular classes, we were taught many techniques for working with different medias; mostly laser cutter and Rhino. 28
SketchUp with Photoshop editing
Making and Modeling . Softwares
Additive assignment
Chair by Autodesk 123d make
Rhino
Simmons Hall was divided in six sections for each student. I modeled section two. My concept was based on additive and subtractive exercise. The different colors around the windows in the facade is presenting a diagram showing load bearing in the structure by the engineer. I did that in my model because I think it was interesting way to make a point in terms of construction.
Voids inside of Simmon Hall by Autodesk 123d make
Making and Modeling . Techniques
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Additive Exercise
Subtractive Exercise 30
Making and Modeling . Additive/Subtractive
Final Models
Making and Modeling . Final Model
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Spring 2014
Gateway Project “UU Salem Church�
Historic Preservation And Sustainability
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Development Of Historic Trail
The New Historic Trail
Project Introduction After a productive first semester of work with students from the Boston Architectural College, The First Universalist Society of Salem signed on for a second semester of work with the BAC to expand and develop ideas from the previous semester’s work. The Spring semester’s work had two focal points. The first was to develop an index of building concerns, which will provide the The First Universalist Society with a reference for maintaining the building with a focus on sustainability, and ensuring its longevity as it changes purpose. The second focus was to develop the idea of the historic trail, an idea proposed in the previous semester, by designing content and signage for the trail’s creation.
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Federal Era Brick Buildings are generally constructed out of structural brick walls laid several layers deep. A timber roof shelters the building and double hung windows let in light and provide ventilation. In this first section, we have compiled information relating to the potential challenges that each part of a building faces as time passes. We have also provided suggestions for maintaining these components, not only to preserve the building, but also to enhance its energy efficiency. In addition, we have looked at the current mechanical system, which provides heat, and made suggestions to improve its efficiency as well.
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Brick spalling
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Coated water proofing
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Paintef bricks
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White scum
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Cracking brick or mortar
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Efflorescene
UU Salem Church . Historic Preservation and Sustainability
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The steel lintels over the windows and doors
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Lime run
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Stain
N/A
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Efflorescene on mortar joints
N/A
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Lintel replacement
N/A
Seals Check seals around framing for cracks and other failures. Check seals around glazing for cracks and other failures.
Double- Hung Window
Operability Correct operability of the windows: make sure they open easily and close tightly.
Storm windows
Solutions Found on Site
Install storm windows on each window. Check storm windows for tight seals around sashes and proper drainage for condesation at sill.
Solution
inside
double Glazing Window Space between glass may be gas-filled It can be Argon gas
Windows
Check sills to be sure they are sealed to interior and pitched to the exterior, so that water runs off easily.
Outside
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Roof
The Heritage Trail
This part of our project examines that existing Heritage Trail and the assets and challenges that we observed while walking it.
ROOF DETAILS | EXISTING CONDITION
Precedents: In colonial America, and particularly New England, the abundance of wood roof framing and the English tradition of building made the timber frame house was popular. Until balloon frame construction began to supersede it in the mid-1800s, timber frame construction was the construction method for all frame houses in 17th and 18th century America.
Actual Condition: The type of roof identified at UU Salem church is the typical timber frame, King Post Trust. One of the disadvantage of this type of roof framing is that it has limited life expectancies because of normal organic decay and wear. Its was not identified potential damage on the Timber framing or structure of the roof framing at UU Salem church, but signs of deterioration and rotten was observed due tp moisture or possible water infiltration through wooden roof planks of the framing.
Wood Planks deteriorated showing sign of rotten and moisture
Struts, rafters, and posts in good condition
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HEAT LOSS | DIAGRAM
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The ceiling fans in the sanctuary are domestic ceiling fans. Typical domestic ceiling fans have an airfow effciency of 80 cubic feet per minute per watt, and the actual airfow / heat airfow is 6,947 cubic feet per minute. Inadequate to circulate the amount of air in a room this size. These fans do not keep the warm air close to the floor in the occupied area during the heating season.
ROOF INSULATION | THERMAL COMFORT
Roof Insulation We propose adding a vapor barrier and insulation over the ceiling of the sanctuary to conserve heat and prevent moisture from accumulating on the roof boards.
SANCTUARY
BASEMENT
SANCTUARY
BASEMENT
SANCTUARY
New Ceiling Fans Due to the inefficient air flow and heat loss we propose new ceiling fans with a higher effciency level per cubic feet to improve comfort in the sanctuary area. The Big Ass Fan Company manufactures high volume, low-speed fans, which are an example of a suitable fan for a large space like our sanctuary.
BASEMENT
The Physical Trail From our research, we found the Heritage Trail to be a red painted line with a corresponding map that one could pick up at various places along the trail. The trail itself can be confusing to follow for two reasons. First, the paint on the sidewalk and street is worn away in some areas and can be difficult to decifer especially at intersections.
Signage Because of the lack of consistent signage, and no signage that relates exclusively to the trail, the historically significant sites and buildings are lost withing the long list of retail, cultural, and tourist sites found on the map. An easily navigated and clearly marked Historic Trail, which highlights the history and architecture of Salem will provide the visitor with an appreciation for the richness and depth of the City.
BOILER
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BOILER
UU Salem Church . Historic Preservation and Sustainability
Our Proposal
We propose converting the existing trail to a line with permanent material, such as stone, and creating a map for the visitor to hold and signage that matches the map for the visitor to follow through the city. Following is a proposed tourist brochure and proposed signage to use in town.
Proposed Signage
Signage to identify an historic building
Shape of direction indicating signage
Signage to orient a visitor and indicate direction
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Witchcraft Trial Sites in Salem The town where the Witchcraft Trials of 1692 occured, Salem is home to buildings and sites of this dramatic moment in history.
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First Universalist Church
UU Salem Church . The New Historic Trail
Salem Maritime Historic Site
Jonathan Corwin House
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2 Salem Witch Museum:
Housed in the former Second Church building, the museum offers a multimedia presentation of the story of the Witch Trials of 1692.
3 Jonathan Corwin House:
2/1 310 Essex Street The home of magistrate Jonathan Corwin who examined and sentenced suspected witches.
4 Peabody Essex Museum: This
museum houses the largest collection of documents related to the witch trials.
5 Salem Witch Trials Memorial and
Old Burying Point: The site of the oldest cemetery in Salem and the site of the memorial to the Witch Trial victims, erected in 1992.
1 Pickering House:
18 Broad Street (1651) Oldest house in Salem and example of First Period Architecture; Oldest house to be lived in by 10 generations of one family.
2 Jonathan Ward
House: Brown Street (1684) Example of First Period Architecture.
3 Turner House:
54 Turner Street (1668) Home of the captain John Turner, First Period Architecture; Made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne as The House of the Seven Gables.
4 Crowninshield-
Bentley House: 126 Essex Street (1727) Salem’s best example of Georgian Colonial architecture. Home to the diarist Wm Bentley.
5 Derby House:
168 Derby Street (1762) The oldest brick house in Salem, a Georgian Colonial, and home to Elias Hasket Derby, the first millionaire in
6 Hawkes House:
174 Derby Street (1780) Georgian Colonial designed by Samuel McIntire.
7 First Universalist
Church: 211 Bridge Street (1808) Federal Style church, attributed to Samuel McIntire; Oldest continuously used church building in Salem.
8 Hamilton Hall:
9 Chestnut Street (1805) McIntire designed Federal Style Social and Community Meeting Hall.
9 Gardner-Pingree
House: 128 Essex Street (1805) One of Samuel McIntire’s best preserved designs; built for the merchant John Gardner.
10 Custom House:
176 Derby Street (1819) Federal Style Custom House, in use until 1930.
MaritiMe History sites in saleM
The site of the jail where accused witches awaited trial and sometimes death.
ArchitecturAl history in sAlem
Witchcraft trial SiteS in Salem
1 Site of Salem Gaol:
UU Salem Church . The New Historic Trail
1 Peabody Essex Museum
161 Essex Street Most important repository of Salem’s maritime documents and artifacts. Orginally the East India Marine Society (1799), then the Peabody Museum. It merged with the Essex Institute (1992).
2 Pickering Wharf
Derby Street Largest of the Pre-Revolutionary Wharves.
3 Salem Maritime Historic Site:
Derby Street Maintained by the National Park Service, this site includes two wharves, the customs house, a merchant vessel, and three former merchant houses.
4 Old Town Hall
The former site of the Derby mansion, home of Salem’s greatest merchant and America’s first millionaire.
5 Turner House
54 Turner Street The oldest of Salem’s merchant mansions.; built for Capt. John Turner. Today known as the House of the Seven Gables.
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