Portfolio - Yasir Hameed by Yasir Hameed

YASIR HAMEED

PORTFOLIO

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page 3 GIS Analytics+ Research + Design

Richmond, CA - Urban Design Studio Page 4 GIS Analytics + Design +Financial Modeling

Paya Labar, Singapore - Housing Competition Page 5 Design + Financial Modeling

Atlanta, GA - Housing Competition (ULI Hines) Page 6 Research + Design

Leprosy Colony, Delhi - Undergrad Capstone Page 7 Abstract Idea Exploration

Rewiring the Future - Idea Competition The contents of this portfolio present the outputs of my efforts and contributions to the projects showcased. The diagrams, graphics and underlying research is my work. When necessary, team members have been added to identify exceptions. 659, Fairview Street, Oakland, CA | yasirhameed@berkeley.edu | +1 (510) 725 2811 Graduate Student, Department of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley LinkedIn | More Works

Richmond, CA - Urban Design Studio Year: 2016 (Ongoing) This studio addresses numerous sites in the Bay Area (each site handled by either a single students or a team). It began by identifying potential sites, for which I chose to pursue the City of Richmond. Particularly the area in immediate vicinity of the BART station. The City of Richmond continues to deal with issues of racism, health and environmental degradation. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extremely progressive general plan for 2030 presents numerous directions for development, however realization on the site is yet to be seen. In addition, the site shows a lot of potential due to the presence of numerous vacant lots in the vicinity of the BART station that can be used to develop infill mixed use housing projects. As the immense pressure for affordable office space and housing persists I see this area as one of the next prime development areas. While I recognize that such a project may also raise concerns of gentrifications and displacement I believe that appropriate policy measures accompanying this project would ensure benefits to existing residents of the area. For this project Rama Husamddine and I have initially worked with on the research of the Bay Area. However, I developed the suitability analysis model on GIS to locate potential sites and on Richmond alone. The scope of the project also includes the street design for Macdonald Ave. along the new proposed development.

SITE AND CONTEXT

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parking

micro units

senior assisted living

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Students and Young professionals

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3rd street

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work live

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Technology Square, aimed towards students and young professionals. This phase will consist of micro units, affordable rental and retail • The first phase of ‘low line’ integrates the bike lanes and public amenities which act as an urban wetland collecting the surface runoff. Additionally, it becomes a buffer between the interstate and Midtown, and an • This phasetofocusses primarily densifying Spring extension the 5th street plazaon along the interstate. Street to create an active street life that is vibrant and urbane. • Midblock lanes that enrich pedestrian experience by offering numerous route choices invigorated by street art, cafes, galleries. • Housing units for market sale • Affordable housing units • Live-work lofts to help reduce vehicle use amongst professionals that can practice their professions from • home. This phase focusses primarily on densifying Spring Street to create an active street life that is vibrant and urbane. • Midblock lanes that enrich pedestrian experience by offering numerous route choices invigorated by street art, cafes, galleries. • Housing units for market sale • Affordable housing units • Live-work lofts to help reduce vehicle use amongst professionals that can practice their professions from home.

295,942 SF

Parking Retail Office

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Sustainability

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stadium

bank of america

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olympic torch

hotel indigo

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georgian fox theather terrace

Bike sharing stations

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church

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Team: Daniela Vargas, Marine Oudard, Sonali Prahraj, Current Site Value Current Site Value $ 13,282,890 Nabihah Azim, & Yasir Hameed Phase 2: Oasis of Freedom Year: 2016 Proposed Site Value Financing Uses Proposed Site Value (Result Awaited) Phasing $ 884,916,238 Site Value project The project focused on the financial modeling andPhasedesign of Current a housing Phase 3: Rising to Majestic Heights 1: I Have A Dream 1930 in Atlanta, GA. ‘Rise-Up Midtown’ is a vision that seeks to bring back the lost VSPhasing Proposed Site Value 2016 pace of continuous growth and prosperity, especially seen after the formation Phasing of the Midtown Alliance 1978, Auntil the economic crises of 2008. Rooting Phase 1:inI Have Dream Phase 3: Rising to Majestic 4Heights Phase 1: I Have A Dream 3 The Low Line : Green Connector Utilization of topography for parking Bicycle sharing system 1 Reclaiming back alleys Peachtree street midtown back to itsActivating past trajectory, the proposal focuses on four key elements i.e. accessibility, urbanity, sustainability, and equity. • The first phase aims at implanting a cultural catalyst housing

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Singapore, Housing Competition Team: Stephanie Lin, Micaela Bazo, Kasey Elliot, Srinidhi Kumar, and Yasir Hameed. Year: 2015 Award: Second prize at Vertical Cities Asia 2015. The goal of this project was to understand the context of Singapore and propose a potential site for the location of a high density housing project. We chose to add a potential watershed development next to it in order to address Singaporeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growing dependency of water on Malaysia. The design brief challenged participants to accommodate a density of 100,000 people on a square kilometer of land. For this, we used several GIS analytical techniques (Suitability analysis, Interpolation etc.) to locate a site for a suitable for a watershed development along with high density housing. The GIS analytics and financial modeling in the project were mainly my responsibilities; however, I have also contributed to the planning, design, and rendering as well.

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Leprosy Colony, Delhi - Undergrad Capstone Year: 2013 Award: Second prize winner in 11th Annual International Design Competition 2013-14, organized by International Association of Humane Habitat The objective of the redevelopment project was to provide housing solutions along with economic opportunities that empower the community and enable them reach their full potential and live with dignity and free of stigma. The project encompassed both symbolic and institutional identifiers that are aimed at enhancing imageability of the community. This project was the first in which I grappled with segregation, inequity and complex housing issues in India. While I consider the project to be a personal failure as I failed to make any real changes. It was nonetheless a learning experience that has led me further in my pursuit of tackling inequities as a professional.

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Rewiring the Future - Idea Competition Team: Bhrigu C. Kalia, Tahmena Tariq & Yasir Hameed Year: 2014-15 Awards: Commendation (My livable City Magazine Ideas Competition, 2015); also Shortlisted in top 20s teams from all over the world in IAAC advance design competition 2014 (Publication expected 2016).

It is possible now, during the information age that we use the simplest tools like social networking and open sourcing improve lifestyle. The era of smartphones should be making the users smart as well, educating him/her of their environmental footprint and ways to curb it in the positive direction. Streets, Neighbourhoods, Cities all would have real-time data associated with crime, pollution, property rates and many other variables like available carpool service etc. to enable citizens to assess quality and mobilize changes to wherever necessary. A forefront to the truly democratic city.

“A CITY EXISTS FOR THE SAKE OF A GOOD LIFE, NOT FOR THE SAKE OF LIFE ONLY.” -ARISTOTLE

Smart street lighting systems, algae based, made for minimum light pollution.

Street landscaping doubling as urban farms. Smart street furniture: Public toilets that can Garbage bins that compact collect human waste that garbage, powered by solar, can be reused and recycled, may also be used for powered by solar power. surveillence and signage.

Exploring alternates for a better tomorrow in a bottom’s up approach. From the individual to the neighborhood, to the city, to the globe.

Large billboards can also be used to collect condensed water, which can even be used for drinking

Public transportation systems running on wireless electricity transmited by induction.

Dedicated bicycle lanes with strategically placed bike rentals and bicycle parking spots.

Dedicated lanes for ON GRID running electrical vehicles, will use electricity directly transmitted wirelessly via induction. This will allow a direct billing of electricity consumed on travel. Emphasis also on other alternate technologies like compressed air vehicles, hydrogen etc.

Wireless electricity transmitors The earth in its current state is the resultant of the simplest and complex actions of the many people that populated it. Each action may hold consequences that when added to consequences of other actions, multiplied by the actions of other people achieve exponential effects. These effects simply put can be either positive or negative. To draw a mental picture, it is a fact that the climatic changes seen through the recent years may have its roots in the simplest actions of people for e.g., usage of CFC based coolants, Spray propellants, usage of fossil fuels etc. Another example would be the fact that most common garbage items found polluting the oceans are cigarette butts, beverage bottles, straws, plastic bags, lids and candy wrappers; all items used daily routine life. Drawing conclusion from the abovechaos’: it is imperative Ourincities today in a simple verbal illustration would be ‘organised tothe start makingconspiracy changes attheorist a muchmight lowerreport scale,major changes at the human eloquent corporations as scale

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While minor lifestyle changes may have drastic effects on the current built capital it might just save the environment and the human species from a self-inflicted blow of destruction. The change in the simplest of functions in daily life may change the future devastation.

masters of masses, their reigns being the rampant consumer culture of the world. To the less paranoid it might still look like layers of society being altered in manner mostchanges suited to globally the ones start falling with higherourselves; in the economic Our efforts to make changes food chain.

in lifestyle and daily choices can make a huge difference to the world: adopting alternate technologies for daily needs e.g. 1. Powering most small electronics like mp3 players, mobile phones, wrist watches via pulse driven systems, body heat systems that convert the motion from a pulse, heat from the body or a coffee mug into usable electricity. 2. Using social media and smart phone technologies to inform people of their ecological footprints, it will allow people to compete and achieve a smaller footprint and also demonize those that have larger ecological footprints. 3. Replacing daily hygiene products and toiletries with non polluting organic alternatives. There are plenty of options available and emphasis will be on local products that bear less embodied energy. This will also boost local economies and smaller sized industries. 4. Locally grown hemp, organic cotton, bamboo and vegan silk can effectively reduce the embodied energy in clothes and also present very viable options that are not based on petroleum based fibres. 5. All of the materials that are more ecologically feasible including hemp,organic cotton, coconut, cork, bamboo, eco-latex, organic wool, silk, recycled plastic and rubber may be used to produce eco-footwear. Numerous such efforts and changes can be taken to reduce dependance on fossil fuel based technologies and reduce one’ ecological footprint. CO2

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A radical change in the city life will take place when virtual presence is adopted as a method for working. The daily influx of population to city centres and other places of work will reduce significantly along withmore transportation and fuel consumption, Ecocentrism may draw a path more inclusive, complex, more cost integrated, consequently reducing our dependance on fossil fuel based modes of and perhaps more utopian, but it denotes certain humility in the approach, transportation and also making life more convenient

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City playgrounds can also help meet the cities energy and water deficit if utilized.

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Smart sensors in street furniture will report fires and such accidents swiftly

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that the materials of the earth are not to be used exclusively by humans for serving the needs of humanity. That in fact, people are inseparable from the organic and inorganic nature that surrounds them. Perhaps a slight shift in our outlook may change the course of our future, perhaps if we were to acknowledge the value of clean air and water in direct equality to the money Coconut Fibre Lighting purifierswe have Drydone. Toilets we desire soSmart much,Sensors we may find the true cost of water the damage Perhaps its time to rewire the future and undo the effects of what we’ve done. Smart Heating Appliances

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URBAN AGRICULTURE: Small scale home and street farms coupled with large scaled urban farms (practicing sustainable intensive farming using hydropaunics etc.) within the urban and peri-urban environment. These will provide a healthy, fresh, organic, local, sustainable (with less embodied energy) options to people. It will eliminate the need for long distance transportation and cold storage etc. The excess production of the farming can be further used to export to nearby cities, that may have a deficit in production. It will also provide more jobs opertunities within the city and a healthy pass time for many. It will break the traditional model in which the city would be the consumer market and the rural areas as the producer.

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Open city spaces and parks can be used as direct markets for farmers to sell their produce.

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Formation of global cities, ones that interact with neighbouring city in the best manner possible.

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It is our anthropocentric approach to all concerns that has led us to our current state: Man’s prime motive being his own welfare at the cost of the other species it shares the planet with. Man has changed the surroundings to fulfil his own needs i.e. altered habitats of other species, harvested the earths minerals to near exhaustion, depleted biodiversity by favouring a limited gene pool (growing only favourable species of crops), polluting the atmosphere, oceans and rivers . Man has the leading role in creating an imbalance in natural cycles, and ultimately creating an undesirable situation for himself.

Predestrian friendly smart streets providing adequete lighting, walking space and access to public transport

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Things may or may not be controlled to the extent we think they are, but certainly our priorities are being directed in a manner most suited for our self-created concepts and issues of Economy, rather than the foremost issue being the Ecology or environment. Although it has been accepted by most Ecological Economies/Economists that Nature capital is an irreplaceable and priceless commodity, it is often overlooked and/or side-lined when it becomes a question huge sums of money. In simpler words an ethical (in favour of the environment) stance is not assumed when the interests of large corporate powers are at jeopardy.

It is a fact that self sustainabilaty cannot be achieved in a closed system. Every place has its own pros and cons, its own set of strengths and weaknesses, thus its imperitive to build global cities, a collective that strengthens each other which achieving a good ecological balance. A good balance betweens man, man made and nature.

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WASTE REUSE: Waste segregation and Reuse centres and virtual exchanges, Remanufacturing, Refilling programs, Repurposing, Upcycling, Solid Waste Water Management, Grey Water Reuse, etc. are few examples of how a city can over come various problems of waste disposal. An effort of such things at a city level can surely add up to a huge impact. Utilisation or reusing the waste generated by the city within the city is a must to achieve a better future.

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Every city in the world has the potential to produce energy depending upon the demand of that of energy of the city and also the city’s climatic conditions which may favour the energy generation. Solar Energy, Tidal Energy, Wind Energy, Biofuel Energy, Geothermal Energy, Algal System, etc. Fortunately many of these do not require climatic favourability to generate energy. Using gymnasium machines, human heat from public spaces, play pumps, etc. can be used as an easily available source to convert into energy.