Architectural and Urban Design Portfolio YASMIN ADEL
Yasmin Adel Selection of work and studies 2014-2016
Content Cultivated Variety CBD play area Bachelor thesis/2016 Transforming Madinat As Sultan Qaboos 7th semester/2015 EPHEMERAL STRU CTURES 5th semester/2014 Seabreeze- Seeb 4th semester/2014
CULTIVATED VARIE Personal information:
Name: Yasmeen Adel Abdullah Nationality: Jordanian Date of birth: 26th December 1992 Mobile: 96292511 E-mail: y.adel.yy20@gmail.com / 11-0247@student.gutech.edu.om
Education:
•Graduate from German University of technology in Oman in Urban planning and Architecture design. •Have IC3 certificate. •Have ILETS certificate with score of 6.
Work experience:
•7 weeks summer internship in Landscape Consultants company.
Key Attributes:
A creative individual who is seeking for an internship opportunity in architecture and planning firm.
Skills:
•Interpersonal Skills: A high ability to work in a team; •Organizational Skills: Developed through academic studies; •Artistic and design skills: Sense of space and knowledge of the construction materials;
ETY
•Artistic skills- with full ability of professionally using water colours and charcoal in sketching and designing; •Model building- simulates the design in 3D form with clear showing materials; •Use of high technical equipment such as laser cutters and plotters.
Computer skills: ++++ Autocad; ++++ Revit; ++++ Photoshop; ++++ Indesign; ++++ Illustrator; +++++ Microsoft; ++ Rhinoceros.
Languages:
•Arabic – mother tongue •English – Fluent (speaking and writing) •German – Basic (level A2)
Activities and Interests:
•Reading; •Drawing; •Painting; •Different languages learning; •Photography; •Graphic design; •Computer programming.
THE ONE BLOCK ST
Shopping centre area and path leading to the tram.
TAR QUARTER/CBD The CBD (Central business district) area is one of the first developed areas in Muscat in the 1980s. It used to hold every bank headquarter in Muscat, but as the development pushed horizontally along the cost, because of the harsh topography in the south, the banks’ headquarters start to move out and locate near the new development and the population clusters. Even though the big move, the banks kept its branches in the CBD as the land prices there is so high. In the other hand the living quality there was so expensive and insufficient for families for that living areas was far away from the CBD, that later caused parking and traffic issues.
Beside all the offices and the working environment along the bank street, the area end up with what it called “The star quarter”. It hold the very first cinema in Oman “The star cinema”, beside a super market, a coffee shop, the area telecom tower, a post office, the area municipality office, and another office building, all along a pedestrian way along the Wadi. It is arranged in a way to serve the banks area and to be a breathing space for the workers in the end of the day. Meanwhile the area do not work as it used to, as more and new cinemas appeared in Muscat, the area purpose start to fade.
Still the CBD lack many functions, the star quarter could envision the area and substantiate the missing functions, plus make it an attraction for the area around. To make that possible a massive population movement have to occur. Beside the existed bus system, a tram track was introduced to the area to energize the movement The new design consist of one building on
the quarter that open spaces was cutted through to have an inner courtyards. The tram moving passing inside the quarter. The new design consist of shopping facilities, public amenities (nersiries, schools, and clinics), oďŹƒces, event halls, sport and entertainment facilities, and residential. The inner courtyards dierentiate from green to public seating.
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Mixed-use Offices Entertainment/ sport Event halls Public amenities
Building functions
Retail & gastronomy in the ground floor
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Play Axonometric: highlighting 5 dierent buildings in the design. PS, the color scheme in the buildings function plan above.
Central Bank
The concept behind the MBD/CBD/Star quarter area.
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HOTEL Office
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Gaming area
Gaming area
Gaming area
Reception Administration
GAMING CENTER
Billiard area Gaming area
Setting area
Waiting area
Gaming area
Table tennis area
Storage area Reception
Pantry
Hall way
UP Cafe
Cafe
Business center
Cafe Viewing area
SHOPPING CENTER
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Tickets booth Conferences hall
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CINEMA
Cafe
Shops
Office
Service area
EVENTS HALL Main hall
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The walkway between residential area and the Wadi.
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Perspective view from the green to the coffee shops in the mall
PROJECT
On the edge of MQ (Madinat As Sultan Qaboos), before entering the area, there is a green space next to the water station and a famous grill restaurant. The space is mainly abandoned , from time to time some people sits there enjoying their meal, but there is no certain access to the area and only used by who know the area well. The concept in this design is to create a helix kind of shape
that balance the area accesses to a malt-functional bus station that act as a land mark for MQ. The idea keeps the original area functions as it is, as a communal space along with a restaurant. On the other hand the new design include more functions to it and invite more people.
The design consists of a bus station, a mall, an offices, and apartments. The bus station can be found in the ground floor, it is in between the topography and it is somehow hidden. Above and by the users eyes is a mall. It can be reached from the bus station stairs or elevators, by car by the ramp and by walking on the green hills along the mall floor. There are outside seating area for the coffee shops in the mall. At the second floor there are offices. Starting from the third floor until the seventh floor is apartments. The third floor apartments felicitate with big balconies with a swimming pool with it. It
Perspective view from MQ street
can be reached directly to the apartments from the western stairs and elevators. There is underground parking for the residents and the offices workers. The is a front parking for the mall.
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Digram section
Mall Bus station
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COMMUNAL AREA
Area 841 m2 OFFICES TICKET BOOTH
BUS STOP WAITING AREA
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OUTSIDE SEATING
COFFEE SHOP
50 m²
59 m² 71 m²
42 m² 32 m² 51 m²
SHOP
71 m²
COFFEE SHOP
99 m²
31 m²
APARTMENT
110 m²
94 m²
34 m²
80 m²
53 m²
CORRIDOR TECHNICAL ROOM
80 m²
TECHNICAL ROOM
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SHOP
27 m² 84 m²
BALCONY
58 m²
80 m²
SHOP
59 m² 30 m²
OPEN TO THE SKY
CORRIDOR
109 m²
PARKING
70 m²
94 m² 63 m²
58 m² 60 m²
47 m²
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THE PAVILIONS PR
The task was to design a temporary pavilions providing an exhibition space as well as inviting people to linger around the main building on GUtech campus. The design should showcase a smart use of materials and be feasible within the given constraints such as budged and time limitations.
The process followed a competitive and democratic approach. It started by each of the 30 participants creating an individual brief design, after the consultations it followed up with seven group designs were worked out on a detailed scale. A jury of the department professors choose the three best ideas to be buit up in GUtech campus.
ROJECT For more informations about the project please check: http://gutechpavilions.blogspot. com/?view=magazine
THE PALM HOUSE
The design is a structure that could be used by the public on the Cornish of Al Seeb beach.The design should be a public and a commercial space that would also act as an attraction. It should include a public toilet, a maximum of two stories and a free, opened ground floor level for the people to be able to walk under the structure.
the desire of making the structure tremendously elevated. It was decided to make the structure out of materials that go with the sea atmosphere, so it was found that timber would be the most “light” looking and most appropriate material to use in terms of merging the structure with the existing nature and landscape.
The wish was to create a thrill and a feeling of adventure for the people who would visit the structure. That happened by making different levels and transitions from one point to the other. The design is composed of three elevated timber boxes that hold different functions each, such as: Café/ Bar, a Store selling beach related items and the Initially, after visiting the site, the first desire was highest box acts as a place mainly for the youth to sit around and chill. In order to reach these boxes, to create something that would look light, dy one will have to climb a staircase up to the first namic and high, a structure that would act as a platform and from there; one should cross a sus“getaway” for the people. Thinking of a beach, pended bridge that connects the first platform to the first image that would come to mind would the second platform and finally reach the first box be the extremely long palm trees. Therefore, it from another staircase. was decided to integrate these long Palm trees into the design by making the tree trunks columns for the structure, which fit perfectly with The design was approached from different perspectives; the site, the landscape and the atmosphere.The existing Cornish is an elevated long platform that runs along the shore with palm trees separating the street from the Cornish.
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Third Floor Plans from third to sixth
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Site Plan in Seeb
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North elevation
Outdoor Prescriptive
Indoor prespictive
Model
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