Veronica Zaky I Architectural Portfolio 2020 - The American University in Cairo

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Years 2015 I 2020

ARCHI TECTURE

Graduate

VERONICA NASHAAT ADLY ZAKY Selected Works +academic works +CV

Bio Veronica Zaky ( b. 1997), I am a graduate student at the American University in Cairo, School of Sciences and Architectural Design. Veronica has earned the B.Sc. in Architectural Engineering with “Highest Honors� in 2020.

Still at the starting line of my career path, looking for opportunities to apply all my knowledge learned from my bachelor (architecture) and minor (business).

As an intern in multi-national firms, architecture department, I have dealt with mega projects starting from the finest details all the way to the comprehensive image of a project.

I have interned at multi-national companies including Erga Saudi-Lebanese Consulatncy Group and Muharram.Bakhoum "Arab Consulting Engineers."

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Architectural Engineering And Design

I am passionate about details and utilizing new technologies to reach a high level of creativity and innovation. I want to build a strong resume and grow in the Engineering development and Sustainability industry to achieve my maximum potential.

I am currently preparing for the ISO Certification in Strategic Management, Enterprise Risk Management, & Business Continuity from BSI Group and the LEED Green Associate Certificate.

The following selection of projects is intended to be a brief guide from my journey of learnt skills and experience through my years as a university student and a thesis student.

A revolution that does not produce new space has not yet discovered its full potential.

- HENRI LE FEBVRE SELECTED WORKS|AUC The American University in Cairo

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VERONICA NASHAAT ADLY ZAKY Address: 424th block, South 90th Street, New Cairo Mobile: +20 12-2-4177442 E-­mail: veronica_zaky@aucegypt.edu

veronica.n.zaky@gmail.com

EDUCATION 2020

2018 2015 2020

Bachelor of Science and Engineering, The American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt, June 2020 • Major: Architecture Engineering • Minor: Business Administration • GPA: 3.88, Major GPA: 3.88/4.00 Architectural Summer Abroad Semester, UAB, Barcelona-Spain, Summer 2018 • Urban redevelopment of Barcelona Course • Entrepreneurship Course American Diploma Highschool, Al-Oruba Int. School (OIS), Riyadh, KSA, Spring 2015 • Graduated with GPA:4.00, Highest Honors Courses Preparing for, June 2020 - Current ISO Certification in Strategic Management, Enterprise Risk Management, & Business Continuity from BSI Group

LEED Green Associate Certificate

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2019

2018

Teaching Assistant, The American University in Cairo, Feb.2019 - Current • Reinforce lessons by tutoring individual students or small groups • Document progress and oversee lesson preparations Site Engineer Intern, Moharram-Bakhoum Consultants- Arab Consulting Engineers, Aug.2019 • Supervised the contractor company time plan of The State Courts Complex, New Cairo, Egypt • Supervised labor force for interior and finishes tasks • Analyzed the Contract and tender file process of the Project.

Intern, Creators Group, July.2019 • Designed ultramodern interior for El-Kermet International School, New Capital City, Egypt • Designed commercial spaces in El-Lotus complex, New Cairo • Used photoshop for presentation of plans and landscape areas to clients Intern, Erga Saudi-Lebanese Architecture Consultancy, Dec.2018 – Jan. 2019 • Designed of Strip Mall Complex next to King Khaled International Airport, Riyadh, KSA • Designed, with a team, the Residential-Office Building Complex along with the Sheikh Villa in Riyadh, KSA • Analyzed the Contract and tender file process of the Project.

Intern, Al Yousif Company for Contracting, July.2018 – Aug. 2018 • Detailed King Abdulaziz Port Multi-Purpose Buildings for Customs Dept. in Dammam, KSA • Detailed of Dammam Airport Customs Employees Project

WORKSHOPS 2019

Architecture Workshop Participant, TUB campus El Gouna, Egypt, January 2019 • Designed innovative and contextual student housing • Attended guided excursions in different areas of El Gouna

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Architectural Engineering And Design

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES 2019

2018

2017 2015

Camps, Trips, and Events Organizer, The Assembly Team, Jan.2017– August 2019 • Supervised university-based Youth Camps, and Graduation ceremonies • Organized in several camps and trips such as Wadi Sports Camp and Well Spring on both big and small-scale camps.

Usher, Lafarge Holcim Forum, March 2019 • Guided participants to their designated areas- Ensured the reputable speakers are guided to the intended venues for the event Tour Guide, SSC, Sep.2017–Dec.2018 • Advised the students and their teachers about key social and cognitive skills that the students required to boost their first-year experience at AUC. Skills Member, FYE Eagles, Sep.2017–May.2018 • Guided and advised all peer leaders to assure the development of the freshmen’s operational and social skills • Designed games and activities to enforce social communication among freshmen.

• Communicated with all committees to ensure operations and logistics related to skills are accomplished.

Public Relationships Director, KE- Kapital Empire, Sep.2017–May.2018 • Representative of the club during all operational events in the absence of the precedent and his vice.

• Targeted sponsors to provide financial support to events for advertisements.

• Guided and advised all operational heads to assure the development of their operational skills.

• Organized meetings and trainings for committee members to improve their social and public skills.

Committees Member, Enactus AUC, Sept.2016-May.2017 • Assured that AUC community is entertained through small scale events organized by Entertainment Committee - Organized/ Supervised retreats for club members.

SU Vice President, Al-Oruba Int. School, Sept.2014-May.2015 Organizer TEDx and Ignite in 2013, 2014 & 2015, Al-Oruba Int. School, Sept.2013-May.2015

AWARDS 2019

AUC Departmental Project Exhibition Nomination, Certificate of Honorable Mention for Excellence in Design and project display in AUC Outstanding Project Exhibition, Fall 2019

-Redefined Heritage in a Modern Hospital, a services design project of a hospital located in El- Korba,

Cairo, Egypt.

-AUC Architecture Responsive, a sound responsive structural skin of the Architectural Department

extension in AUC Campus, New Cairo, Egypt.

AUC Departmental Project Exhibition Nomination, Certificate of Honorable Mention for Excellence in Design and project display in AUC Outstanding Project Exhibition, Spring 2019

2018

-Rebirth, an urban redevelopment of Nazlet El Semman area & proposed master plan, Urban

Design Project.

-The Downtown School, an educational center targeting anthropology enthusiasts, Design IV Project.

Honors Assembly for Seniors, Certificate of Academic Honor for outstanding academic achievement Spring 2020, Spring 2019 and Spring 2018

AUC Departmental Project Exhibition,

Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Design and project displayed in AUC

Outstanding Project Exhibition, Spring 2018

-AUC Old Campus Extension designed for social studies students, Design II Project.

-Waste-to-Energy Plant and Education Center for AUC Research Center, Design III Project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS AUTODESK AutoCAD, Revit, 3Dmax ADOBE Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

MODELING and RENDERING Rhinoceros 6.0, Grasshopper, Sketchup, Lumion MICROSOFT OFFICE

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P O R TFOLIO Content

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Architectural Engineering And Design

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Thesis Project Contextual/ Technical Manifestation

The Coptic Campus of Egypt Hayat El-Korba Hospital

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Power Orchestration

Turning The Dividor into a Connector

INSTALLATIONS

Parametric Exploration

AUC Architecture Dept. Extension for Exhibition

SELECTED MODELS & REFLECTIONS

SELECTED WORKS|AUC The American University in Cairo

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ARCHT E C T U R E

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Architectural Engineering And Design

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Thesis Project Contextual/ Technical Manifestation

The Coptic Campus of Egypt Hayat El-Korba Hospital

SELECTED WORKS|AUC The American University in Cairo

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Making Religion Relatable To The Modern Community

The Coptic Campus

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A concept that aims at Re-Inventing Sohag’s Religious Tourism into a Transformational Experience that Manifests Cultural Exchange to Create a Sense of Community and Extends the Scope of Religious Tourism through a Co-Creational Experience of Users’ Shifting Statuses of Manifesters and Manifested To’s with the holistic aim of (Exposing “The Fruits of The Spirit”).

Spring 2020 Thesis Bachelor Project Instructor Prof. Dr. Ahmed Sherif, Chair of The Architecture Department, The American University in Cairo

The Coptic Campus Screening

The screen openings and the light reflecting from the interiors intend to show the “light” and “airy” structures that resemble A Modern Interpretation of Coptic Patterns With A Local Material Integration To Converge the Campus’ dynamic Architecture into the Context.

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Envisioning The Architecture Language

A Family Social Spine Paralleling The Nile Front Public Korneish

Modern Methods, Empowered Context

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Does The Architectural Language of Sohag Manifest Culture Exchange?

Residential High-Rise Tower Design of Shifting Modularity

A Street Breakthrough Empowering The Community

Centralized- Source of Experiential Giving

Architecture Character & Language

Spaces For Solitude And Self Reflection

LOVE and JOY CULTURAL SHOWCASE SELF-CONTROL and PEACE SOCIAL COLLISION GENTLENESS, KINDNESS, AND PEACE IMMERSIVE ACCOMMODATION VALUE CO-EXISTENCE

Theater

Family Social Spine & Street

Exhibition

Hospitality Tower

Platform-Pixel Intersection Social Volumes creating negative centralities

Residential Tower

Visual Accessibility To The Nile Privacy From Adjacent High-Rise Buildings

-Exposed Structures: High Solitude/ Spiritual Experience -Massive Architecture: High Social Intensity

What Differentiates The Social and The Solitude?

“A Series of Dialogue Between “The

Massive and The Light”

Exhibition

Proximity To Agricultural Lands Experiential Connection To Nature

Response To Coptic Context “A Series of Dialogue Between “The Heritage and The Modernized” The Age Gap TIMELESS AS CHARACTERISTIC OF VISUAL COPTIC ART Vertical Screen Logic

- The Spiritual Zones The screen to emphasize the Inside-Out and PersonalCommunal Experience.

Bird’s Eye Shot

A Centralized Icon Merging The Dynamics Between The Urban and The Agricultural

The Coptic Campus of Egypt

Making Religion Relatable to 21st Century User CONCEPT Sohag City is known for Religious heritage sites.

Religious tourism should not only provide pilgrimage travel services for religious believers, but also provides service activities for people to understand religious culture and recognize religious culture. Studying how Coptic Churches in Egypt integrate social program within a religious context resulted in my thesis statement: Re-Inventing Sohag’s Religious Tourism into a Transformational Experience that Manifests Cultural Exchange.

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DESIGN APPROACH AND USERS The campus is designed to Create a Sense of Community and Extend the Scope of Religious Tourism through the Co-Creational Experience of Users’ Shifting Statuses between Manifesters and Manifested To’s on the different dimensions of The Sohagians, Cairo-ians, Foreigners, and people of different religious ideologies.

The holistic aim is exposing “The Fruits of The Spirit”Galatians 5:22 (NIV), widely accepted religious qualities.

TYPOLOGY: A NODE FOR CULTURAL EXCHANGE Main Social Anchor is a Redefined Theatre/Concert Hall. The functional anchor is The Hospitality Zone in which communal spaces set the lower levels of the tower while the higher levels are designed for solitude setting solitude as the iconic experience of the complex. The negative centralities identify The spaces of cultural exchange.

AXONOMETRIC EXPLOSION

Zoning Key

Hospitality Zone

Elevated Collision Plaza Youth Ward

Family Ward Multi-Purpose Spaces

Exhibition Zone

Solitude Halls

Exposed Reflection Plazas

CULMINATION OF THE HOLY FAMILY’S TOUR The Reasons Why People Go For Coptic Campus

I. Strategic Location - Sohag is located in direct access to Egypt’s Top Tourist Destinations, Hurghada, Luxor and Aswan.

Allowing tourists to passerby The Coptic Campus during their Holistic Visit In Egypt.

Sohag

Hurghada

Luxor & Aswan

- “Information Communication Through Interactions ”

Modular Floors (+20.00 - +92.00m)

Families And Religious Figures Meeting Point

IMMERSIVE CONNECTION LIBRARY ZONE

II. Proximity To The Last Stop of The El-Drunka Monastery, the final and most famous stop of the Holy Family’s route in Egypt, is located North of Sohag.

Study Rooms

- Youth Attracted to Exhibition Through the design of Ramps and Elevated playgrounds

Library

Youth Elevated Playgrounds

Collision Node

Collision Node

Backstage Theater

Exposed Exhibition

Exhibition Hall

Pre-Theater Stage

Nile Walk-Through

Allowing The Coptic Campus to be a Node for Concluding, Reflecting, or Discussing Coptic Culture.

- “Dialogue between different perspectives” - Youth and Religious Figures Collision Nodes

Indoor Amphitheater Cinema

Family Nile Walk-Through

Level (+8.00m)

VR Transitional Stage

VR Exhibition Spine

- “Dialogue between Social and Young” - A State of Realization

IMMERSIVE ACCOMMODATION FAMILY SOCIAL ZONE

- “Dialogue between different perspectives” - Exhibitions as Circulation Modes

Rehearsal & Theater Studios

Hotel Reception Exposed Performance

Library Seminary Library Zone

Backstage Reception/ Atrium

Theater

Exposed Communal Plaza

Indoor Amphitheater

CULTURAL SHOWCASE THEATRE ZONE

Local Products Gallery &

(User Participation) - ”Between Open and Closed” - “The Globalized and the Traditional”

RESPONDING TO DESIGN STRATEGIES Elevating the Passerby to have a maximum view Level (+3.00m) of the activities while walking by the Coptic Campus by Lowering the “Ground level” to -2.00m and -3.00m. The horizontal grid line is extracted parallel to the Nile and the Korneish to develop a parallel rhythm of experience along the Nile on site.

The vertical grid line is extracted parallel to the adjacent agricultural lands to develop a rhythm of VALUE CO-EXISTENCE FAMILY SOCIAL ZONE Spirituality and nature connection perpendicular to Lower Level the communal grid.

- “Dialogue between different perspectives” - Exhibitions as Circulation Modes

INFORMATION COMMUNICATION EXHIBITION ZONE

SELF-CONTROL and PEACE - ”Co-Existence”

LOVE and JOY

ACTIVITIES AND SPORTS ZONE

- “ Discussions And Conferences”

Rehearsal & Recording

Auditorium

Pedestrian Street

Counseling Offices

(0.00m/ -2.00m/ -3.00m)

Coptic Arts Workshop

Exhibition

Retail Stores

Theater Reception/ Atrium

Bazaars Exposed Performance

Exposed Plazas

VALUE CO-EXISTENCE COMMUNITY SERVICE COMMERCIAL ZONE

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Main Social Anchor 01: Hospitality Zone From The Community To The Individual

Iterative Module:

Multiple Space Qualities

ENCOURAGING USER SELF-REFLECTION ELEVATING CONVECTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL EXAMINATION

SUPPORTING EXTROVERTEDINTROVERTED INDIVIDUALITY CONVERGING CREATING PRIVATE TERRITORIES TO EMPOWER SENSE OF BELONGING

The Solitude Series of Spaces In the higher section of the Tower, the modules are smaller in size to emphasize individuality. The quality of the space is overlayed with diffused light and more segmented personalized seating arrangement.

Small Pixel Scale

1.00m 1.00m

FOSTERING USER PARTICIPATION LEVELING PLATFORMS OF VIEWS

Screen Scale as a Social Potential

POSITIVE USER ORIENTATION TWISTING TO VIEW CONCENTRIC VISUAL ACCESSIBILITY

Adaptive Skin

The screen materiality is tensile fabric to reduce the heat conductivity in higher floors against the steel structure.

The Series Intermediate Spaces The middle section of the Tower is where cultural exchange and exposure is designed for limited groups of people as a per-setting stage for solitude.

The qualities of the space are overlayed with sharp light perforations to create a sense of excitement.

Structural Pattern

Intermediate Pixel Scale

The screen materiality is tensile fabric to reduce the heat conductivity in higher floors against the steel structure.

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Patterns in Coptic Orthodox The Red Monastery in Sohag

Cultural Value

The Churches Old Cairo The Coptic Cultural in Old Cairo has been affected by the Arabic and Islamic Cultures and the “Inverse Process” making Mashrabeyas an important cultural Connotation in Religious Egypt.

Northern Elevation

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The Negative Exposed Space The shot shows the lower podium of the Tower, where the pixel size is enlarged to allow for exposure and user interaction.

2.00m

Enlarged Pixel Scale

2.00m

Composite Mapping: Truss Pixel Scale; Porosity Adjusted for Height and corresponding Insulation and Solar Reception

Composite Mapping: Screen Openness Degree and Direction corresponding to different Orientations

Pattern Openness Ratio increases to allow indirect sunlight according to Solar and Energy Mapping

Mapping of Vertical Garden on Unfolded Enclosure

THE EXPERIENTIAL SUSTAINABILITY The Church outer walls set the visual anchors of the social spaces in the church complex. Therefore, the Architectural Language manifested in the hub is based on Kinetic Screens that accentuate Negative Spaces.

OVERLAYING STRUCTURE, AESTHETICS, & SUSTAINABILITY The abstraction of the 6-folded Coptic pattern is a light responsive facade based on structural elements that set the different gradients of social interaction along the Hospitality Tower.

Responsive Facade Analysis Day

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The metal members move in a 1-End circular motion causing the fabric to twist in counter-clockwise direction and vice-versa.

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Insulation Map on Segregated, Unfolded Enclosure

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Structural Grid Board

Configuration 60°

Vertical Gardens Attached to The Truss Structure

Operational Facade (Tensile Fabric)

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Semi Open

Operational Facade (Tensile Fabric)

Laminated Glass W/ 25% FRIT HVAC Diffuser

Structural Grid Board

Ventilation System Interior Cladding

Spatial Structural Truss

Cantilever Bracket Embedded Skirting Metal Deck Floor System Main Steel Beam Gypsum Board Ceiling

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User Multi-Layered Vision

The screen creates a series of visions from the inside and outwards.

Double Skin Wall Section SCALE 1:50

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Central Heart of The Coptic Campus Ultimate Exploitation of Cultural Exchange

Redefining Negative Volumes

Position on Plan

PLANS/ZONING Centrality; The plan shows that the Theater is the main node of Cultural Exchange located in the Heart of the Project in which the volumes of spaces and Activities define the Borders of the Theater and Not the Reverse Process.

The Theater shows the standing platforms where performers and the Audience Switch Experiences of Manifesters and Manifested To’s.

The Exhibition is designed to immerse the user in an spiritual experience of gradual public to private gradient.

Theater Form Generation

Main Social Anchor 02:

- View Platforms

The Theat with “Standing View maximize the flexibility of c opportunity.

GIVING VIEWS

STEPPING Oriented to Social Anch SEEING “THE OTHER” FROM EVERY NODE

GIVING OPTIONS INTERSECTING

USER AS PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE “DUAL FUNCTION”

CULTURAL SHOWCASE

GIVING SERVICE: LOVE & JOY

Pre- Collision State

Row Seatings Operable False Ceiling

Main Social Anchor 03: Exhibition Zone The Emotional Staging As A Mode of Culture Exchange Exposed Ramps The ramps expose the Users to the Agricultural Lands segregating them from the Distraction within The Coptic

Campus

The Optimum Cultural Exchange Node

Floating Truss

The Trusses impose an experience of Solitude as well as allow for Sunlight exposure.

Solitude Private And Screened

“Self -Reflection And Solitude Zone”

The Circulation is designed in loop of interconnected halls and open spaces.

Self Reflection Halls The Halls are clustered in a single direction circulation to force the User from one Debate hall to the other.

Debate Halls

Average Public And Exposed

“Knowledge, Attachment, And Debate Zone”

Historical Sites in Sohag Monasteries, Egypt History of The Emergence of Christianity in Egypt Exhibition Halls VR Studios And Exhibition

The Project Materiality reflects back to the natural context of the site.

“Distraction Zone”

Highly Public And Exposed

Coptic Arts And Architecture

Local Arts and Products Gallery Market

Ground Floor Street

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The Public-Private Gradient

A transitional experience that attracts users to the higher stages of solidarity and deeper connection and exposure of self.

Open Exposed Plaza

The Access node creates a pre-social hub integrating the Nile Korneish with the Project.

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Youth Elevated Playgrounds

GIVING IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE INTENSIFYING REDEFINED CONCERT HALL THEATRE TYPOLOGY

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- Cultural Extensions The Cultural Showcasing bridges to Adjacent zones

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GIVING DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES ROTATING CIRCULATION AS COMPONENT OF PERFORMANCE

Theater Extension and Directionality

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SOCIAL COLLISION

CO-EXISTENCE, ACCEPTANCE & CONSCIENCE

Theater Extension and Directionality Boundaries Between Manifesters

Cultural Exploitation Radiation View Platforms

DUAL VIEWS INFORMAL SHOWCASING AS FORM OF USER PARTICIPATION

View Platforms

Multiplying The Cultural Showcasing

The Coptic Campus

Making Religion Relatable To The Modern Community

The Dual Function Within Cultural Exchange

GIVING PARTICIPATION

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Higher Floor Levels are for PostControversy SelfReflection Stage.

The halls turn into small prayer halls.

Distraction

Upper Floor Level Plaza that emphasizes the USER “Attraction� into a public space.

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Main Tower Section

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2nd Floor Level is an initial introduction to the Users about The Emergence of Christianity in Egypt.

Confrontation

4th Floor Level is a stage of self-confrontation in which there are debate halls tackling various controversial topics allowing for user participation.

Attachment

3rd Floor Level is a deeper connection with Saints and Heritage Sites and their Specific history related to Sohag Monasteries.

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Zoning Key Family Zone

Zoning Hospitality Reception and Cafeteria

Seminary Library Zone

Indoor Amphitheater Theater Zone

Rehearsal Studios & Theater Admin

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Vertical Circulation Horizontal Circulation Experiential Axes

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Upper Ground Floor Plan

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Family Zone

Zoning Seminary Library Study Rooms &

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Nile Front Walk-throughs &

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Youth Activities & Elevated

Playgrounds Theater

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Vertical Circulation Horizontal Circulation Experiential Axes

Primary and Secondary Axes Circulation And Collision Nodes

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Second Floor Plan

SCALE 1:250 Level (+8.00m)

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Architectural Engineering Department

-Breaking Typological Experiential Norms-

Within Its Context; El-Korba, Heliopolis”

“A New Egyptian Architectural Character

Hayat El-Korba Hospital

HEALTH CARE HOSPITAL IN EL-KORBA, HELIOPOLIS

Contextual Hospital Design Project Brief Studio on design in critical SettingsDesigning in Historical Contexts. A critical review of works, theories, and polemics in modern architecture. Case studies of buildings within urban settings will be the focus, with an emphasis on adaptive re-use, historic preservation, urban and landscape design practices. Within the context of a historical survey, students will develop a framework to assess and design for contemporary issues in architecture.

Spring 2019 Architecture Project Instructor Prof. Dr. Bassil Kamel

HAYAT EL-KORBA HOSPITAL |ARCH Projects

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BEST VISUAL THAT SHOWS YOUR PROJECT

“BUILDING INTEGRATED HUMANITY”

“Dispersing Users’ Fear of Typology And Empowering Way-Finding ” CONCEPT

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DESIGN APPROACH The site, El-Korba, Heliopolis, is characterized by the communal nodes affecting Al-Ahram Street.

The user culture in Heliopolis is affected by the street morphology. El Ahram Street is a central axis that divides the context into 2 zones.

The Western zone is a hub for malls and cinemas, the southern zone is a “pedestrian extroverted mall”.

The social nodes are highly dense near street edges creating an imaginary “Social Edge”.

The hospital design prioritizes users by designing “Communal Pockets” as an integration between the street and the building as a living organism that co-exists with El-Korba as a rich context.

HOSPITAL SPACE PROGRAM The Hospital is designed to accommodate the needs of El-Korba Residents besides the current available health centers and hospitals on site.

The hospital capacity is 200 In-Patient Beds. The hospital design offers: -Emergency Department -Imaging Unit -Physiotherapy Department -Maternity Division -Endoscopy Unit -Renal Dialysis Unit 7- Oncology Unit FUNCTIONAL ZONING 8- Laboratory 9- Surgical Ward 10- ICU - NICU Departments “HOSPITAL DIVISIONS”

FIFTH FLOOR LEVEL INPATIENT ZONING LEGEND IN-PATIENT NURSING UNITS LONG-STAY WARD SHORT-STAY WARD Capacity AREA X 150 Doctors And Staff Patients/Beds

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FORM GENERATION

“COMMUNITY HOSPITAL”

LONG-STAY WARD SHORT-STAY WARD Capacity AREA X 150 Doctors And Staff Patients/Beds

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225m2

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THIRD FLOOR LEVEL INPATIENT ZONING LEGEND IN-PATIENT NURSING UNITS LONG-STAY WARD

“Maintaining the Connection” CREATING “A PEDESTRIAN PATHWAY” IN A PRIMARY FORM

The “Pedestrian Pathway” The pathway divides the hospital segments into 2 parts.

To allow for public passage in-between the wards inn ground floor.

SHORT-STAY WARD Capacity AREA X 150 Doctors And Staff Patients/Beds

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AREA Ratio

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27%

839m2

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671m2

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1459m2

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SECOND FLOOR LEVEL ZONING LEGEND DIAGNOSTICS DEPARTMENTS SURGICAL WARD INTENSIVE CARE UNITS AREA Capacity X 250 Doctors And Staff

“Opposing Typical Modern Structures”

CREATING EXPOSED COMMUNAL SPACES

The “Outdoor Portals” The outdoor space used by the long stay inpatient sector of the hospital users.

Such communal spaces are necessary for the patients’ health care, physically and psychologically.

AREA Ratio 39%

Operation Rooms

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Maternity OP-Room

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ICU And NICU

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27%

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14%

Oncology Units

19%

792m2

FIRST FLOOR LEVEL ZONING LEGEND DIAGNOSTICS DEPARTMENTS OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATION

“Maintaining Communal Nodes”

CURVING THE WALLS TO OPTIMIZE CULTURAL AND SOCIAL BEHAVIORS

“The Community Derived Grid Line” The curved edges break the sense of formal typologies.

Furthermore, create a space for communal nodes on edges.

Capacity Doctors And Staff

X 200

Out-Patient Clinics

X 35

AREA

Laboratories

X 30

Renal Dialysis Rooms

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“Elevating the Social and Healthy Community””

CREATING A WALKING TRACK SCALE 1:1000 ELEVATION OF SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

The “Connector” The Connector is the second communal zone in the In-Patient Unit. This zone is for multiple hospital users.

Users include 1- Nurses, Doctors, and Staff 2- Long/Short Stay Patients 3- Visitors (patients’ Family and Friends)

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HOSPITAL SCHEMATIC DESIGN “SITE LAYOUT ” SITE IDENTIFICATION

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“ALTERING THE PERCEIVED TYPOLOGY THROUGH THE EXPERIENCED” The design approach is based on user behavioral and responsive reactions. It considers the user’s perception of the typology based on the Perceived, Conceived, and Experienced.

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Materials derived from the sight are adapted to reflect “ The Next Architectural Typology ” The Stone is used as a Cladding Layer to accentuate depth of the Islamic Pattern. The Glass in the Curtain Walls is used as an element in the design to segregate the Public Divisions of the hospital from the Private Division.

The screens are designed to be fully parametric mimicking the Islamic hexagonal module. The module sizes grow and expand when the noise amplitude on site is low. It contracts and closes as the sound amplitudes and frequencies increase.

Cumulative Analysis shows that North has moderate heat and solar exposure, thus shading devices are added.

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Design Solution The hospital is designed to have screens that accommodate to the light intensity on site.

The “Leveled Platforms” The outdoor platforms are leveled to create a multi-dimensional view experience for the hospital users.

It’s also accessible by the In-Patient users.

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The “Hexagonal Grid” is derived from the Openings and Fenestrations on Site.

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“VISUAL WAY FINDING” The Hospital is designed to have exposed stairs to the community to emphasize way finding to users who suffer fear of “Claustrophobia.”

SOUTHERN ELEVATION

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The entrances are accentuated in the exterior facades using arcades as an architectural vocabulary.

Exits are accentuated from the interior by leading the user into a communal node outside the enclosure of the building.

HOSPITAL SCHEMATIC DESIGN “THIRD FLOOR LEVEL DESIGN ”

INTERTWINED CORRIDORS The hospital main circulation corridors are designed to accumulate and accelerate the user excitement to reach the end destination. For example, reaching communal zones in the ground floor.

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Power Orchestration

Turning The Dividor into a Connector

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“TURNING THE DIVIDOR INTO ATTRACTOR”

Nazlet El-Semman Urban Case

Beyond The Power Dynamics in Nazlet El-Semman

Urban Design Case

Project Brief Design an urban masterplan of about 35-acres that incorporates mixed-use development with cultural, residential, business, and recreational activities that is in harmony and respect to a historic context with the goal of creating lively streets, engaging public spaces, and sustainable communities. The objectives of this exercise is to: explore and comprehend the meaning of the urban grid, street network and urban pattern; identify the relationship between people and urban growth using needs assessment study; investigate the social, economic and environmental potentials to generate sustainable urban development; generate an urban space program; communicate the design solution in graphics and three-dimensional models; manageworking in groups and teamwork environment on real contextual projects. Elements of urban design and landscape architecture are included. Design is performed by groups of five students. Different design factors are taken into consideration. Different design alternatives are presented.

Fall 2018 Urban Project Instructor Prof. Dr. Mo’men El-Hussaini

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“TURNING THE DIVIDOR INTO ATTRACTOR”

“The users’ space is Lived- not Represented or Conceived. - Henri Lefebvre PROBLEM DEFINITION Nazlet El-Semman is an important social and economic node in Cairo. Different power dynamics are battling over control of the area. Cairo Vision 2030-2050 is developing a masterplan that deludes the Locals and their living economies from the site stakeholders. This leads to the three different perceptions of the site, The Conceived, Preceived, and Experienced.

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CONCEPT: Redefining the Modes of Contestation on Site Urban Vision “Turning the Dividor into and Attractor” Redefining Henri Le Febvre’s “Modes of Contestation” in Nazlet El- Semman.

Urban Objectives referring to the SDGs Allow for locals Urban Expansion without encroachment into ‘The Giza Plateau’. Increase site’s permeability and empower Gender Equality on site. Empower Reconnection to Heritage. Enhance Economic and Touristic Cycles on Site.

Urban Design Mission Establishing sustainable economic and social nodes for Establishing a Touristic Appropriate program integrated with local activities. Redefining district sustainability and walkability. Extending the contours of site to enhance motion fluidity.

Redistributing Urban Density.

PROPOSED MASTERPLAN

THE PROPOSAL FOCUSSES ON PROVIDING:

- Considering the Juxtaposition on site and combining two opposing movements, the divine sacred world of the desert and the nihilistic material world of the city.

A main pathways/ corridors leading to the peak of tourism on site, Sound and Light and Plateau Gate. The Corridor will act as a linear hub to bazaars, restaurants, and Commercial nodes.

3D SHOT - Considering the function of the wall as physical obstruction between the locals on site and ‘The Pyramids.’ Reconnecting over topographical gaps.

- Considering the function of the wall as living urban infrastructure manifesting the Conceived, the Perceived that prevents urban encroachment into ‘The Plateau’ by duplicating the function on site.

A main centralized area with branching interwining spines that creates a spine connector between the landmars on site. It multiplies the streets in the air allowing for more pedestrian pathways and horse-pedestrian separation for circulation.

A sequence of mix used nodes along the site to empower the Economic and Social Activities on site and increase the landuse percentage of the commercial and mixed use typologies while maintaining open spaces on the floor area.

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THE MULTI-NODAL COMMUNITY: Each District is landmarked with a public typology that serves as a physical and social catalyst on site.

DESIGNING FOR DIVERSITY Multidisciplinary Activities along ‘the Wall’ are personalized for the locals social and economic cycles on site.

DESIGNING FOR CULTURAL EMPOWERMENT The green spaces are classifie to serve the rich social and cultural activities that take place on site.

SOCIAL, ECONOMIC CATALYSTS PHYSICAL, SOCIAL, ECONOMIC CATALYSTS

CONSTRUCTION PHASES OF TYPOLOGIES AND URBAN CATALYSTS The Construction of the newly interfering urban typologies will start with the small intervention of the modular mixed use typology in contextual residential districts.

The phasing will proceed with the refurbishing of the streets and view corridors.

The Urban Typologies will be introduced along with the streets building up.

The last phase will be concerned with the rebuilding of the Stables district an d intervening with the Hotel amnd Market.

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REDISTRIBUTING THE URBAN SPACE PROGRAM The residential density is higher in the Northern side of the site towards Abu El-Houl El-Seyahi while the horse activities desnsity will be higher in the Southern side of the site towards the agricultural lands.

TYPICAL RESIENTIAL ELEVATION

Duplication of the site area to program ratio: The Modules are clustered and layed to divide and shift the urabn density.

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SOCIAL CATALYST DESIGN AND ANALYSIS This is the main centralized area from which the spine emerges and branches out to connect nodes and landmarks. Several sub-areas extend from the Social Attractor and into the midst of a residential zone to act as a place where the community can gather. Another area is directed towards the male community in the area and is a place where they can hold their cultural horse events.

ELEVATION OR 3D SECTION/SECTIONS

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TOURISTIC CATALYST DESIGN AND ANALYSIS

THE POP-CULTURAL CITY

TRANSFORMING THE WALL & CONNECTING TO THE MARKET Several nodes are designed along the wall. A node on the site acts as a horse and camel stop as well as a local’s self-orientalism hub. Other zones are designed for toursist and locals as an open museum extension of ‘The Plateau.’ The site nodes are personalized to accommodate for street vendors. The view port is a community developed program that allows tourists to to have a full view of the ‘Giza Plateau’

WALL ELEVATIONS AS SOCIAL & ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE

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Parametric Exploration

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“ The Design of Sound Responsive Experiential Building”

Extension Exhibition

“ Learning From Nature and Responsive Materials”

The Biomimicry Of The Beating Heart

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Project Brief

In depth application of advanced CAD concepts. Real time computer graphics.

Computer applications for performance animation, virtual reality and interactivity. Modeling, texture mapping, environments, navigation, lighting, animation and sound. Generative design and Avatars. Digital tools and methods of design with manual tools within the design process. Computational design methodologies, visualization, digital fabrication, cost-estimation, scheduling and facility management. Parametric design and Building Information Modeling (BIM). Applications through design studio and workshop on digital fabrication.

Spring 2019 Architecture Project Instructor Prof. Dr. Sherif Mourad

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BEST VISUAL THAT SHOWS YOUR PROJECT

The Architectural Building Extension is built in 2 zones to allow for public and private studio spaces. As well as an open exhibition in the middle of the courtyard.

Parametric Definition

“Sound Responsive Module” “The different layers of the single module” Beat allows for different possibilities of the module.

Sound Beat Grid Formation

Structure Generation

AUC Architecture Department Extension

“ The Design of Sound Responsive Experiential Building” CONCEPT: SOCIAL INCLUSION Dynamic Solid - Void Shift The design Concept is based on Student circulation on site, across a single path while rarely clusterig in courtyard corners or around the seating areas. Mapping the relative sound intensity, the form subtraction is caused by the high sound intensity, creating a void within the soild that accentuates the user social behavior. This is where the exhibition (Ultimate Exposure Experience) is zoned.

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DESIGN APPROACH Zone Separation - Stimulus: Sound Frequency Response: Kinetic Architecture The building is separated into 2 components.

- Act together as a structure the pattern screen responds to the concept of a self - deployable structure.

Inflow activity conserved Outflow momentum (circulation) conserved

THE KINETIC PATTERN DESIGN LOGIC

The initial concept was to develop an automated/responsive sound control and reflective-absorptive sound system, which could be incorporated in a new kind of building skin.

The distinctive properties of the material should not only become a mere actuator replacement but be orchestrated for their aesthetic qualities. EAP is a highly attractive component for Kinetic Architecture Application due to its extreme flexibility, lightness,thin dimensions and smooth actuation.

AXONOMETRIC EXPLOSION

The Series of Juxtaposed Layers of Design Kinetic Electro-Active Bi-metal (Sound Responsive Element)

Kinetic Motion Designed The Circular Module Within the Hexagonal Structure 1- Rotates 2- Scales 3- Moves in the Z-Direction

To create a concave circle that reflects the sound into the space, empowering the spatial

Secondary Structure as Fixtures for the Kinetic Pattern

PATTERN ILLUSTRATION

The Kinetic pattern is designed to accentuate the open space where high frequency-producing activities take place in SSE’s Courtyard.

Concrete Shell External Structure

THE STRUCTURAL LOGIC The building is designed to be structured with steel frames that are malleable enough to form the complex surface.

The steel frames 40 cm in depth to tolerate lateral loads on the curved surface.

The main steel structure is supported with a secondary beam system that creates a structural grid that carries the concrete shell that acts as the external skin of the building.

The Series of Diagrams Depict the Structural Integrity of The Design.

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“Detailed Prototype”

SITE LAYOUT/ANALYSIS The Architectural Building Extension is built in the courtyard entrance to accentuate the user circulation into the exhibition set. Designing upon sound, site selection was informed by the previous stages to be in the courtyard near AUC’s crowded and noisiest location, Quick and Steps zone.

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DIGITAL FABRICATION MODEL “3D - PRINTING” The softwares used to digitally fabricate the model include “Cura” and “Meshmixer” to optimize the use of material and the time consumption of the process. As well as design the required support for the structural buildup of the model.

ayout Zoom in shows the user interaction with the uilding out of the courtyard context.

Low Frequency Shape Shifting

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High Frequency Shape Shifting

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Main Elevation Scale 1:200

05- Highest Frequency

“The Module responds to the frequency levels; the higher the frequency the higher the module walls expand to create a concave enclosure that reflects the sound into the exhibition.

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STAGE 1 - GROUP REFLECTION GROUP MEMBERS REFLECTIONS The first stage was solely based on analysis of the city of Korba, which is located in Cairo, Egypt. As architectural students, over the past few years of learning, we rarely paid attention to facade designs. We simply focused on the plans and then in the last few weeks of the semester, the elevation would simply be a result of the plans rather than taking proper time to design.

Building Analysis of El-Korba not only on its rich social diversity but also on the “Geometric Essence” of the Context.

This stage truly grasped the importance of the communication of the facades along a single street and helped us understand how much of an impact we can have on people’s daily lives in the streets. for example, by providing arcades, one can create social nodes for the people to rest and gather.

Several different aspects were introduced in analyzing these elevations which helped broaden our horizons and uncover new ways of designing and dealing with facades. We were taught to appreciate and pay attention to the little details of the facade. Some of the buildings were inspired by Islamic designs and others were neoclassical. The authenticity of these were questioned since a lot of them were copied in New Cairo which depicts how an architect can simply copy the aesthetic without recreating the soul that used to make these elevations lively.

After-all, what we leave the public to interact with in simply the facades.

All in all, being in a group of 7 people was a challenge in order to figure out timings that everyone agrees on and deciding in which direction to go. However, the experience was very eye-opening and pleasant. We still managed to display all of our strengths in poster design and concept as well as produce an outcome we were all proud of.

Scale 1:5000

Building El-Korba

“The Transition from Macro Level Analysis to Micro Elements analysis.

El-Korba Geometry “Visually and on the Social Media” Social media users responsively recognized El-Korba Elements while not in context. Frequent site users, when asked how did you know, replied that El-Korba is the site that combines heritage with recent social behavior and therefore, it’s the mostly visited historic site by youth in Cairo.

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