– Master of Science in Architecture Engineering, 2016, IAU-CTB, Tehran, Iran. Thesis and Final Project: “Joy of Recreation in Interactive Space: Design of Chitgar Recreation Center”, M. Pourzargar: Chair.
– Bachelor of Science in Architecture Engineering, 2011, IAU-CTB, Tehran, Iran.
– Collaboration with V-SENSE Research Group, 2018 to 2019, in “DublinCity: Annotated LiDAR Point Cloud and its Applications”, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Published at the 30th British Machine Vision Conference, Contribution: Conducting Data Labelling Team.
– Freelance Architect, Designer, and Tutor, 2020 up to now.
– Collaboration with Spilat as Technical Expert, 2019 to 2020, in Iran Mall Project, Tehran, Iran.
– Interior Design of Heravi Jewelry Boutique, 2016, Tehran, Iran.
– Collaboration with DayaStudio as Design Team Foreman, Design and Construct Assistant, Developer, and Graphic Designer, 2013 to 2016.
– Theory / Design Workshop, “Hyperpoly: 3D Graphic Statics and Structural Form Finding”, Tehran, 2020, M. Rahbar, H. Behmanesh: Instructors.
– Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Workshop, Tehran, 2018 to 2019, M. Rahbar: Instructor.
– Digital Design / Construct Workshop, “Random Symbiosis: Responsive Architecture”, Tehran, 2016, M. Kiani: Instructor.
– Design / Construct Workshop, “Le Corbusier, Form as Concept and Bernard Tschumi, Concept as Form”, Tehran, 2014, M. Hadighi: Instructor.
– Painting Group Exhibition, Behzaad Gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2015.
– Painting Group Exhibition, Behzaad Gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2013.
– Architecture Project Printed in “Architecture and Art Magazine” #23, 2018.
– Architecture Project Ranked 2ⁿd Place in Residential Buildings, 2A Continental Architecture Awards for Asia and Europe, 2018, in Collaboration with DayaStudio as Design Assistant and Developer.
– Painting Printed in “The Eight Land: A Selection of Iran’s Watercolor and Acrylic Paintings”, 2017.
– Thesis and Final Project Proposed for MSc. in Architecture Enginering Program graded an Excellent Degree, 2016.
– Painting Printed in “The Eight Land: A Selection of Iran’s Watercolor and Acrylic Paintings”, 2015.
– Architecture Project Printed in “Architecture and Construction Magazine” #40, 2014.
– Architecture Project Ranked 1st Place in Public Buildings Class, 7th Iran Interior Design Award, 2014, in Collaboration with DayaStudio as Design and Construct Assistant, Developer, and Graphic Designer.
– Painting reviewed in “Tandis: Biweekly Magazine of Fine Arts” #261, 2013.
– Design and Graphic: Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, AutoCAD, KeyShot, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects.
– Programming Language: Python, Processing.
– Language: Persian (Native), English (Fluent), Arabic (Advanced), German (Beginner), Turkish (Beginner), Latin (Beginner).
contribution: CONDUCTING DATA LABELING TEAM
PUBLISHED in 30 th BRITISH MACHINE VISION CONFERENCE (BMVC) - SEPTEMBER 2019
IMAN @ ZOLANVARI . COM supervised by Iman Zolanvari, Ph.D.Scene understanding of full-scale 3D models of an urban area remains a challenging task. While advanced computer vision techniques offer cost-effective approaches to analyze 3D urban elements, a precise and densely labeled dataset is quintessential.
Urban Modelling Group at University College Dublin (UCD) captured the major area of Dublin city center, i.e., around 5.6 km^2, including partially covered areas. This area was scanned via an Aerial Laser Scanning (ALS) device carried out by a helicopter in 2015. However, the actual focused area was around 2 km^2 (Figure 01, inside the red boxes). The flight altitude was mostly around 300m, and the total journey was performed in 41 flight path strips.
The paper presents the first-ever labeled dataset for a highly dense ALS point cloud at a city-scale. This work introduces a novel benchmark dataset that includes a manually annotated point cloud for over 260 million laser scanning points (out of 1.4 billion) into 100’000 assets from Dublin LiDAR point cloud in 2015 with full coverage by aerial images.
This area includes diverse types of historical and modern urban elements. Types of buildings include offices, shops, libraries, and residential houses. Those buildings are in the form of detached, semi-detached, and terraced houses, belonging to different eras, e.g., from 17th-century rubrics building to the 21st-century George’s Quay complex as a modern structure.
Objects are labeled into 13 classes by using hierarchical levels of detail from large, i.e., building, vegetation, and ground, to refined, i.e., window, door, and tree, elements (Figure 02 and Figure 03).
To validate the performance of our dataset, two different applications are showcased. Firstly, the labeld point cloud is employed for training convolutional neural networks to classify urban elements. The dataset is tested on the well-known state-of-the-art CNNs, i.e., PointNet, PointNet++, and So-Net. Secondly, the complete ALS dataset is applied as detailed ground truth for city-scale image-based 3D reconstruction.
Figure 04
Overview of the labeled Results: Percentage of assets only in building class
Table 01 Overview of the labeled results: Total number of labeled points in each class
“CHITGAR” INTERACTIVE RECREATION CENTER - TEHRAN - 2011
PROPOSED as FINAL PROJECT for M.ARCH PROGRAM and GRADED an EXCELLENT DEGREE
current landuse
urban masterplan landuse
Tehran’s 22nd region -> military zone subtracted -> +1400 meters height -> contour line subtracted
outside of urban -> masterplan subtracted
major/minor arteries
subway lines and stations .
project placemark intervened between park and pond
Chitgar Park is a man-made forest covering an area of 14.5 square kilometers west of Tehran, Iran. It lies within the borders of Tehran’s 22nd district and includes ramps and facilities for cycling and skating. Situated on the way of the west-east wind flow, it has a purifying effect on Tehran’s air.
SPRING SUMMER
An interactive/responsive skin prototype was firstly designed and fabricated through a workshop instructed by Mehdi Kiani in 2010-2011 at Iran University of Science and Technology.
Ultrasonic sensors perceive the distance of moving objects, and servomotors react to the signals received from the microcontroller (Arduino Uno). The more distance a sensor recognizes, the more angle a servomotor’s shaft rotates. Then, the rotary motion converts to a linear one by the use of a mechanism including a rack and a pinion. Finally, the tip of the rack stretches the elastic covering.
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This project answers how interactive architecture fulfills the desire of being entertained. And whether interactive architecture could be a step forward in promoting social interactions.
Interactive/responsive skin is exercised as the membrane for internal organs or guts of architecture. This skin equipped by sensors as input channels and actuators as output channels reflects user/participant’s existence.
“Living organisms interact with their environment interchangingly on three main levels: matter, energy, and information”
“Isolation may be fatal to the organism”
“Every touching experience of architecture is multi-sensory”
“One’s flesh is simultaneously perceiving subject and perceived object; at the same time, it is self-sensitive, sentient and sensible”
Whereas Möbius strip is a surface with only one side and only one boundary, the flesh of design can be considered as a Möbius strip in which interiority and exteriority are not definable and separable.
The location is adjacent to ShahrTheaterat the intersection of two historic streets in Tehran. This cross is the most commuted landmark of Iran during the daytime indeed. The east-west axis is considered the cultural axis that aligns with many universities, colleges, movie halls, cafés, and bookshops.
ShahrTheateris located in city center of Tehran, and recorded in Iran’s national heritage. The construction was commissioned in 1967. Ali Sardar Afkhami, an architect from the New Iranian School, created a building that incorporated Greek, Roman, and traditional Persian elements. The roof structure, for example, consists of a dome that takes up style elements of the Ilkhani period. The building is designed as a round structure signifying the classical Greek and Roman theaters.
To bar the chaotic disorder of the streets from distracting students and instructors in the building, a protective skin is needed to be applied as the cladding of the building. However, this skin has to be porous to permit the light to pass through.
To coalesce these two contradictory attributes, the theory of Gestalt psychology is applied. A porous skin that distorts the outer picture like a glitch can answer the objectives. At the same time, this skin has to be harmonious with its context (i.e. ShahrTheater).
Derived from the geometric ornaments of Shahr Theater, a 3D modular pattern is designed. All elements of this pattern have a common length and height. The width of modules shrinks gradually from bottom to top to intensify the needed glitch.
To keep the skyline of ShahrTheater untouched, substantial height of the building buried in the ground.
FOREST RANGERS STATION - GILAN, IRAN - 2011
The location of design is placed in the depth of natural forests of Gilan, Iran.
Gilan ecologically has humid subtropical climate (almost 90% humidity in summer),the heaviest rainfall in Iran (almost 75 inches annually), and deep forests.
Morphologic and structral specifications of vernacular buildings are adapted in response to extreme climatic condition.
ETFE PANELS EDEN PROJECT in CORNWALL, ENGLAND>
SOLAR PANELS
Covering shell is designed and structurally optimized based on the theory of 3D Graphic Statics in Polyframe Grasshopper plugin developed by Dr. M.Akbarzadeh, Polyhedral Structures Laboratory.
“BAA-EJAAZEH” TV PROGRAM SET - TEHRAN - 2013
BUILT
INFO @ DAYASTUDIO . COM
supervised by Parisa Alimohammadi, Ph.D.
contribution: DESIGN ASSISTANT, DEVELOPER, GRAPHIC DESIGNER, and CONSTRUCT ASSISTANT
PRINTED in “ARCHITECTURE and CONSTRUCTION MAGAZINE” #40 - 2014
RANKED 1 st PLACE,PUBLIC BUILDINGS, 7 th IRAN INTERIOR DESIGN AWARD - 2014
in collaboration with DAYASTUDIO team: P.VAKHSHOURI, A.ALIMOHAMMADI, A.KARAMI
This television set is designed and constructed for a talk-show discussing society and social norms.
The total operational area was about 40 sqm. So all of the surrounding sides were considered integrated to maximize the use of the provided space.
The effective parameters, i.e. plot, filming instructions, and construction limits, were written down and later were took into account in the design.
. warped by parameters as forces
1373 individual pieces cut out of plywood by a CNC router, then concatenated manually to form the wavy truncated pyramids.
“SINAA-SAN’AT” MAIN OFFICE - TEHRAN - 2013
in collaboration with DAYASTUDIO
INFO @ DAYASTUDIO . COM
supervised by Parisa Alimohammadi, Ph.D.
contribution: DESIGN ASSISTANT and DEVELOPER
team: P.VAKHSHOURI, S.MOHAMMADI, S.JAMALI, H.BARZEGAR, S,NAHALBAR
This building is designed as the main office of a company producing and providing home safety facilities.
The construction site (with approximately 625 sqm area) is located in Tehran’s Technology Park.
Design idea embodied in wrapping shell is derived from fences as the prototype of the safety element.
The most demanding steps in the design process are: First, uneven force distribution between the unparalleled columns. Second, articulation between the structure and the cladding.
acrylics and lino print on cardboard - 2015
watercolor on cardboard - 2015
PRINTED in “the EIGHT LAND: a SELECTION of IRAN’S WATERCOLOR and ACRYLIC PAINTINGS” - 2017
DISPLAYED in a GROUP EXHIBITION in TEHRAN - 2016
mono print on cardboard - 2015
watercolor on cardboard - 2013
PRINTED in “the EIGHT LAND: a SELECTION of IRAN’S WATERCOLOR and ACRYLIC PAINTINGS” - 2015
REVIEWED in “TANDIS: BIWEEKLY MAGAZINE of FINE ARTS” #261 - 2013
DISPLAYED in a GROUP EXHIBITION in TEHRAN - 2013
logo for an organic products store
2016
logo for an architecture office
2019 logo for a printing/publishing company
2020
ART GALLERY in HUMID, SUB-TOPICAL CLIMATE and its waffle slab detail
2011
ENTRANCE for a CONCERT HALL
2006
CLUB for SENILE INDIVIDUALS front and back view
2011