Yotam Ben-Hur- Digital Portfolio by ybenhur

Y.BEN-HUR PORTFOLIO

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Academic Work: 1. Laboratory School, NYC, 2019 2. 'Tidelands- Synthetic Teritorries, LA, 2024 3. High Density Low Rise Housing, London ,2017 4. Nepal Housing Studio, Kathmandu, 2016 5. Columbia University Boathouse, NYC, 2016 6. Pratt Institute Dormitory, NYC, 2015 7. Wave Hill Academy, NYC, 2015 8. Library for the Performing Arts, NYC, 2014 9. 'Boundary Home', Tel-Aviv, 2013 10. Zhoushan Rise Lane, Shanghai, 2013

Professional Work: A. 'Countryside' Exhibition, OMA, 2020 B. 'Making Doha' Exhibition, OMA, 2019 C. Multiple Projects, FMA, 2018-2019 D. High School, Shanghai, Commissioned, 2020 E. Reiser + Umemoto. 2016 F. 'Under Magnitude', THEVERYMANYâ&#x201E;˘, 2015

Laboratory School Harlem,NYC

Fall 2019 Prof. Hilary Sample Harvard University

Laboratory School, Stacking & Pragmatism Urbanite children need a school that connects them to nature. A school that uses the natural environment as a therapeutic instrument. A pedagogy that explains the history of the previous eco-system and terrain once inhabiting their site. One that enriches them with the knowledge and skills of restoring and producing nature, food and water. And furthermore, educates them about the meaning of a sustainable future living. Where in a single story building, an emphasis is put on constructing an enclosure or an interior, stacking enables an attempt to construct an extensive exterior- a particular experience or sensation of being outside. From stacking to collapsing, through the shifting and rotating of spaces, the project creates a system of codependent spaces. The void between the stacked bodies becomes a vertical ecosystem, activating a variety of enclosed classrooms, exterior terraces and semi enclosed green houses.

clockwise: 1. Interior Views from classrooms, greenhouses and terraces 2. Corner street view 3. Ground level plan

John Dewey rejected the duality of epistemology and metaphysics of modern philosophy and believed in the naturalistic approach that viewed knowledge as arising from an active adaptation of the human organism to its environment. On this view, learning is a process which initiates human action, proceeds to active manipulation of the environment to test hypotheses, and issues in a re-adaptation of organism to environment that allows once again for human action to proceed. A school of nature, a garden school will teach its students real things that have a concrete value in life. Students will constantly adapt to their seasonally changing environment. Every floor will initiate a different type of human interaction with the natural surroundings.

Bottom: Section through soil core Top Right: 1/8'' model Bottom Right: Section through tilted greenhouses

The stacking is an attempt to construct an extensive exterior- a particular experience or sensation of being outside, connected to your environment. From stacking to cascading, through the shifting and rotating of spaces, the project creates a system of codependent spaces. The void between the stacked bodies is filled with earth soil, becoming a vertical ecosystem, and activating a variety of enclosed classrooms, exterior terraces and semi enclosed green houses.

Enclosed Space Exterior Terrace Semi-Enclosed Space Landscape

Right: All floors plan configuration Top: Typical Floor Plan

Tidelands / LA2024 Los Angeles, US

Thesis Project 2017 Prof. Dragana Zoric Prof. Evan Tribus Pratt Institute

Tidelands offers a new organizing tool for the City of Los Angeles. Tidelands is a synthetic device to implement the spatial attributes of â&#x20AC;&#x153;natureâ&#x20AC;? in an urban environment. The project offers a new water typology which will synthetically recreate multiple modes of occupation and enable fluctuation between users and scales. The project offers to invert the public edge (from the beach to the River) to reconnect the city and create a network of public spaces, using the Los Angeles river. To do so,it uses the beach as a model, understanding the edge configuration at the beach, where edges are soft, adjacent, and fluctuating, and how different it is from that of the river. The goal of the project was to transform the rigid edge configuration of the river into a fluid one, that enables endless spatial conditions.

The project offers a new water typology by synthetically controlling the water. Creating a system of reservoirs and dams to allow the synthetic retaining and flooding of different segments. The water shifts from conditions of drought, to that of a flood, and offers a variation of modes of occupation, for dry or wet, day and night scenarios. The variation of modes is created by the intertwining of three architectural systems. The first, a continuous man made topographical system, that navigates the water, enabling endless changing spatial conditions (Dry/Wet, High/Low, Flat/ Sloped). The other two navigate people throughout the project. The first, an elevated bridge system, which begins in a commercial community center inside the neighborhood, carrying people from both banks of the river, flooding people in and out of the project. The second, adjacent to the water edge, routing people across the river, from north to south, allows a slower and more integrated experience with the water. Merging of these two systems, create crisp moments of enclosed and semi-enclosed spatial conditions, places of gathering.

SUNKEN - WET MODE

CLIFF - WET MODE

ENCLOSED - WET MODE

CAVE - WET MODE

CLIFF - DRY MODE

ENCLOSED - DRY MODE

CAVE - DRY MODE

STREAM EDGE - DRY MODE

ENDLESS HORIZON

FLOOD

BRIDGES

CAVE

ENCLOSED

CLIFF

WATER EDGE SYSTEM

STREAM

STREAM EDGE

SUNKEN

DROUGHT

In a dry, drought like condition, the topographical system will lead and provide dry activities such as tanning, hiking, and climbing. While the Sunken Pool, using both the topographical and the water edge system, will offer a specific wet location of gathering and play. In a stream condition, water related activities and spaces will take charge, activating the stream edge surface, for swimming, kayaking and in water experience. The enclosed space will be used for restrooms and dressing, the cliff point, overlooking the water, will hold dancing and music activities. And the cave condition will provide an intimate and naked location. In an extreme condition of flooding, the bridge system will take charge and enforce the endless horizon moments, suspended above the rushing water. This condition will enable deep water activities such as sailing. And redefine the use of previous spaces, putting emphasis on using their exterior skin.

Tidelands is as an opportunity to create a new public identity for LA. One that is driven by water. A place which chooses to sit on the fence between landscape and urbanity, the synthetic public space will offer an endless variation of activities, in scale, use and time.

High Density Low Rise Housing London, UK

Fall 2017 Prof. Farshid Moussavi Harvard University

The degree of change in the way Londoners cohabit the city today compared to the last century is an opportunity for a radically different approach to the architecture of the multistory residential building. This studio draws inspiration from an earlier high-density ‘continental’ model developed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, as well as architecture’s potential to embody diversity, inclusivity, and social mobility.

My project offers a direct contact between its residents and the exterior environmentboth urban and natural. Using the large footprint of the site, as an excuse to maximize the relationship between people and the outside.

As shown here, the site strategy, entails maximizing the area of the city block, dividing it to max width segments, shifting heights in relation to points of interest, pulling down mass to maximize view, and finally creating courtyards in between the linear massing.

A direct relationship to the outside, will minimize the ‘tiresome’ moments of ‘in-between’, as seen in projects similar in scale and typology, built in London post -WWII housing crisis. By allowing each unit direct contact to the exterior, the project will empower the residents’ sense of individuality

Right: 1. axon and relation to park and existing project Left Clockwise: 2. street view, in-between housing bars 3. site plan 4. typical level plan

Nepal Housing Studio Kathmandu, Nepal

The site for this studio investigation will be a test site, chosen by the Prime Minister and Nepal’s Department of Planning. It is a site in Tohka, just north of Kathmandu, while still within the city boundaries, yet remote from Katmandu’s city center. The site is approx. 35 acres and will accommodate 300 homes, a kindergarten, primary school, community center, clinic, and parks. A testing ground for the new housing typologies, axillary programs, landscape and master planning.

Fall 2016 Prof. Enrique Limon Pratt Institute

Within Nepal there is an immanent, growing, and deep rooted problem of deforestation. The average annual deforestation rate has amounted to 1.9% in total between 1990 and 2005, thus, Nepal has lost approximately 24.5% of it’s forest cover (1,181,000 hectares). Deforestation and land degradation appear to affect an impressive, and substantial proportion of the population and have the worst consequences for economic growth and individuals’ livelihood. By restoring the spent terrain, the occupant becomes integrated and conscious of the forest around them. The city becomes a hybrid of landscape and home. By rethinking the implications a city has on the valued forestscape of Nepal, the green space becomes the urban fabric and the community space for the occupant.

Proposing a Rhododendron necklace of public spaces in different scales. A pedestrian forest experience. Living inside the woods.

EDUCATION ACADEMY

SITE APPROACH PUBLIC/ PRIVATE DIVISION

PLAZA MARKET PARKING

BIO DIVERSITY CENTER

RESIDENTIAL PRIVATE ACCESS MAIN PEDESTRIAN PATHS GATHERING INTERSECTIONS BIKE PATH

SEAMS & GREENSPACE SUBDIVISION

CIRCULATION

ENCLOSED PUBLIC SPACE SHARED COURTYARD MAIN GATHERING GATES

'NECKLACE' HIERARACHY OF PUBLIC SPACES

TERRACED SITE

SCHIMA OAK PINE RHODODENDRON

SITE PLAN

TREES IDENTIFICATION

OCCUPATION LEISURE AGRICULTURE AESTHETIC

STRIPE PROGRAMMING

UNIT TYPOLOGY

Units can aggregate from a detached unit condition to multi family entities, or scale up to apartments buildings. In addition, units can adapt to both flat and sloped topographical context.

APARTMENT BUILDING FLAT CONDITION

DETACHED UNIT SLOPE CONDITION

APARTMENT BUILDING SLOPE CONDITION

DETACHED UNIT FLAT CONDITION

MULTI FAMILY UNIT FLAT CONDITION

ATTACHED UNIT FLAT CONDITION

MULTI FAMILY UNIT SLOPE CONDITION

ATTACHED UNIT SLOPE CONDITION

UNIT FLOOR PLANS

Single family triplex unit. Consisting of a undeground parking and storage level, a middle living level anda top private level, connected through a vertical patio garden. The roof of the unit is public.

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Columbia University Boat House New York, NY

Spring 2016 Prof. Gonzalo Carbajo Pratt Institute

The University wants to continue to grow its neighborhood outreach, dedicated to the belief that the sport of rowing provides unique abilities to promote personal and community growth through teamwork, discipline & physical fitness. The site, owned by Columbia University, is a parcel at 555 West 218th Street on the shore of the Harlem River. It is bordered by Columbiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Baker Field sports complex to the south and Inwood Hill Park to the west.

The ground floor consisting of the boat storage, an entrance space and a private circulation for Columbia's rowers. On the 1st Floor, the private 'incubators' merge out of the skin, creating 'inbetween' spaces for the use of the public rowers.

1. Site Plan 2. Ground Level Plan 3. 1st Level Plan Columbia Neighborhood Park

Columbia

Undefined

Public

Static

Community

Movement

Analysis of circulation and its different users: Columbia rowers, Community rowers & General Public. Concept: Leading the public's movement from the Cliff and to the park. While creating an elevated plaza and ramp which, in return, "frees" the ground for Columbia's needs. Hybrid Landscape: Extending the park to the site and pulling in the people from the street and the neighborhood.

'Incubator' Typology- Closed Vertical elements containing the 'Private' spaces for Columbia's Users. Extending from roof to ground, the incubators act as usable spaces, circulation and main structural elements. Left: Incubator study Top: A long section depicting the public ramp and plaza connecting the cliff and park. Right: A view from the water and boat dock. Bottom: A Short section emphasizing the structural and spatial significance of the 'Incubators'. Detailed Section

Top-Down: Incubators & InBetween Spaces Diagram. Roof Activation Diagram, Water and Drainage Diagram

"I love being on the water because the oars spoke. Listen: they spun poetry out of equations drawn from fluid dynamics. They summoned the ghosts of other rowers, from nineteenth-century collegians to Nile boatman. Mostly, though, they asked tough questions about who I am and what I am made of" - Barry Strauss, 'Rowing Against The Current'.

1/16 Model & Site

1/2 Scale Sectional Model

Pratt Graduate Dormitory Brooklyn, NY

Fall 2015 Prof. Beth O'Neill Pratt Institute

6 The design of a medium density dormitory housing is an opportunity to investigate three problems: 1. What it means to dwell within an urban area: Internally – the apartment typology, the nature of its household composition, an articulation of the live/study arrangement and the promise of shared communal spaces. Externally – the visual and physical relationship to outdoor space and surrounding context. 2. An investigation of form as a response to multiple limitations: Formulating a building project from the opportunities presented by the safeguards and restrictions that governmental authorities prescribed for multiple dwellings. 3. The idea of an architectural identity expressed through façade: Understanding the external skin as a unique overlaid system of relationships – environmental, social, organizational, tectonic.

PUBLIC

INTERACTING PRESENTING

Exchange of ideas, creativity and space given by contribution of light, air and movement.

CIRCULATING

WORKING COOKING EATING

UBLIC

Concept-Macro

Donation The single act of giving to a cause. 1 out of 3 units donates 1/2 of its SQFT to benefit the mutual complex.

NTERACTING

ENRICHING

REFRESH

CONCEPTS

SLEEPING BATHING PRIVATE

RESENTING

OFFERING

IRCULATING

WORKING OOKING ATING

LEEPING ATHING RIVATE

ARTIST SPACE

PRIVATE

INTERPERSONAL EXCHANGING

CIRCULATING

COMTEMPLATING COLLECTING

TRANSITIONING

PRIVATE

INTERACTING

PRIVATE

REPLENISH

COLLECTING INTERNAL EXCHANGE

PRIVATE

PROJECTING

IDEAS

UNDERSTANDING

REPLENISH

INTERPERSONAL OFFERING

INTERACTING

COLLECTING

CREATING

REFRESH

COLLECTING

PRIVATE

EXCHANGING

DISCOVERING

REPLENISH

COLLECTING

PRIVATE

SCULPTURE INSTALLATION

PRIVATE

REPLENISH

COLLECTING

On the Macro level, an exchange of space and ideas between a central public player and two side private players. The central element holds the most public collective activities while the two adjecent private elements contain the most private and intimate activities.

PRIVATE

Top: Ground Level Plan & Activity Mapping Diagram Right: 1. Circulation Diagram 2. Programmatic Diagram 3. Public VS. Private Diagram

PRIVATE INTERACTING

INTERPERSONAL EXCHANGING OFFERING

INTERNAL EXCHANGE

COLLECTING

MOVING

CIRCULATING

COMTEMPLATING

REALIZING

PRIVATE

ENRICHING

INTERACTING

INTERNAL EXCHANGE

OFFERING

INTERPERSONAL

COMTEMPLATING

UNDERSTANDING

PRIVATE

REFRESH

EMBODIMENT

FILM

PRIVATE

IMAGINING

CREATING

VISITING

OUTREACHING

REALIZING

WORKING COOKING EATING SLEEPING BATHING PRIVATE

REFRESH

COMMERCE

DISPLAYING

EXHIBITION

COMMUNITY EXCHANGE

PLAZA TRAVELING

PLAZA

PUBLIC

PRIVATE REPLENISH

PRESENTING CIRCULATING

CONNECTING

PRIVATE

REFRESH

EXCHANGING

CREATING

PUBLIC INTERACTING

REFRESH

IMAGINING

COLLECTING

IMAGINING ARTIST SPACE

PLAZA PUBLIC

EXTERIOR

REPLENISH

PRIVATE

REFRESH ENRICHING

DISCOVERING

COMMERCE CONNECTING

Concept-Micro Typical Private Floor Plan

CONCEPT - MICRO EXCHANGE OF IDEAS, CREATIVITY, AND SPACE GIVEN BY THE CONTRIBUTION OF LIGHT, AIR, AND MOVEMENT. CONTRIBUTION A CONTINUOUS ACT PLAYED BY A PERSON OR THING IN BRINGING ABOUT A RESULT OR HELPING SOMETHING TO ADVANCE. A COMMUNAL SPACE THAT CONTRIBUTES NATURAL LIGHT, PARTITIONS, AIR AND CIRCULATION.

DONATION THE SINGLE ACT OF GIVING TO A CAUSE. 1 OUT OF 3 UNITS DONATES 1/2 OF ITS SQFT TO BENEFIT THE MUTUAL COMPLEX. SECTION AA 1/2"=1'-0"

TYPICAL COMMUNAL UNIT PLAN 1/2"=1'-0"

SECTION BB 1/2"=1'-0"

SECTION CC 1/2"=1'-0"

CIRCULATION DD

Typical Communal Floor Plan

TYPICAL PRIVATE UNIT PLAN 1/2"=1'-0"

Unit Sections: Both transverse and longitudinal, showing the communal mid level serving the six tenants for eating and cooking. And the top and lower private spaces, each serving three tenants for sleeping and showering.

Right: Unit Plans- Private Level & Communal Level

SHOWER SLEEP COOK & EAT WORK & MEET

PUBLIC PRIVATE

EXTERIOR SECTION DD 1/2"=1'-0"

Contribution A continous act played by a person or a thing in bringing about a result or helping something to advance. A communal space that contributes natural light, partitions, air, and circulation. Donation The single act of giving to a cause. 1 out of 3 units donates 1/2 of its SQFT to benefit the mutual complex.

Top Down: Unit Diagrams: Unit Skin & Materiality Donation of SQFT Circulation Public VS. Private

A series of work models studying the relationship between the three elements and the street condition.

Left: A Section representing the shifting of voids and spaces between the public building and the two residential buildings. The excluded private levels and the more open communal levels, which also connect by a system of inner bridges. Right: Longitudinal Section through the residential building showing the six tenant units. Each unit consists of an open communal floor, in it are the kitchen and a dinning space. Above and bellow the communal floors, are the private floors of each unit. In the private levels are the sleeping and shower spaces. Connceting the levels in each unit is the internal circulation sytems that serves also as light and air wells. Down: Eastern and Southern Facades. 1/8 Scale Model

Wave Hill Academy Bronx, NY

Spring 2015 Prof. Ran Oron Pratt Institute

Visiting our site at Wave Hill, one must immediately notice the impact of the trees surrounding him. In a forest filled with trees, and only a number of scattered built structures, it was clear that the trees were in control of the space, and that their impact on visitors is greater than any other element that exists on site.

To understand the relationship between the trees and the site, I produced a series of sections covering large portions of the site. Examining different conditions of figure ground, built and unbuilt, solids and voids. Creating a 'bark-like' mapping of the trees on site, according to their location, size and intensity.

In the making of the 'site analysis' model the mapping was translated into a repetitive world of rectangles emphasizing even more the spatial voids created between the trees on site.

A joint model, representing a structural idea of making the site, which later became a representation of not only structure, but also of light, skin, and space.

"These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased." (Gaston Bachelard, 'The Poetics of Space').

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Right: Floor Plan As a response to the strong verticality of the trees I had created an endless horizontal element dominating its surroundings. The building is divided into three parts by two clear and open entrances. Entering from the south entrance is the private residence, separated from the semi public work spaces. On the other end is the communal auditorium space. GROUND PLAN 1/4''=1'0''

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Below: Site Plan

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SECTION AA 1/4''=1'0''

GROUND PLAN 1/4''=1'0''

Using the railed joint system I created an outer skin shell, semi open to the outside. Within it are the sealed spaces, arranged in different positions, creating a constantly changing relationship to the skin and to the outside. In a way, the structural skin became Bachelard's forest, with the inner spaces as the rooted trees, and between them were the moving spaces for the visitor to explore.

Below: Section

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An Archive for the Performing Arts Chinatown, NY

Fall 2014 Prof. Eva Perez De Vega Pratt Institute

We live in a world of information technology, where the collection and distribution of information is itself the dominant component of economic and cultural discourse. Information is often transmitted in a packet, whether it be a book, a piece of artwork or as a digital bit. The storage, maintenance and administering of access to these bundles of information is as important as it has ever been. The proposed archive is concieved as not only satisfying these functions but also as an operative architectural response, enhancing these issues.

What would be the nature of a contemporary archive? How can it facilitate and augment the relationships between users and the archived materials within? How can it facilitate and augment the relationships between users and the field of information beyond the physical confines of the facility and the site? What challenges to public and private, local and global exist in this context?

Left: Site Plan & Site Section

A Series of sections examining the relationship between the two folding systems. The inner system reacting to the visitors' needs and the external system folding in relevance to the street experience.

An archive for the performing arts, located in the center of high densed Chinatown, in New York City. An area known for it's growing level of traffic, noise and pollution. An Area that is in need of a new architectural gesture. The Idea was to create an archive who serves as a gesture to the human and to the urban scales.

The archive acts as two unfolding systems. The first, an articulated 'striated' surface, that relates to the scale of the body and the collection, creating different gathering and media spaces. The second, a 'smooth' envelope surface, shielding the building and creating exterior urban gestures, such as outdoor street view points. The relationship between the two systems creates changing exterior & interior conditions and moments, which vary in levels of privateness and publicness.

Right: Typical building section representing the dynamic relationship between the two folding systems, and the changing spatial conditions of the spaces inbetween.

Offices

Open Stacks Study Space

Lavoratories

Conference Space

Auditorium

Private Stacks

Non Formal Performance Space Reception

Ground Level Plan

Audio Space

1st Level Plan

Video Space

2nd Level Plan

3rd Level Plan

1. 1/4 Scale Sectional Model 2. Grid Shell Facade Model 3. 1/8 Scale Model 4. 1/16 Scale Model & Site

'Boundary Home' Housing Studio Tel-Aviv, Israel

Spring 2014 Prof. Dafna Matok & Leonardo Kalichman Tel-Aviv University

Examining the behavior and living of the homeless as a case study and a unique type of living situation. Working with sections, understading how the homless person reads the urban enviornment and uses it for his needs and way of living. Understanding how the homless spreads his activities within the given urban field-like system, and how he sets new borders to create his own living space and enviornment.

Macro - Concept

3D Organization

Residential Complex Units

Main Movement Walls

Street Sections

Housing is one of the major topics in Architecture and represents a significant portion of the professional activity and construction in the country and around the world. The Studio will deal with these issues, studying, considering and comprehending the Housing issue in both Israeli and World architecture history. The Studio will work on the documentation, study and analysis of both national and international examples throughout the years by examination of professional literature and study tours to existing sites.

Walls Sub-System

Walls Structural System

Ground Level Plan

Emphasis is given to the continuation of the crossing streets and bringing the street life inside the project. The six residential complexes are touching ground, having the communal office spaces face the street and interact with the pedestrian public. Furthermore, on the communal level of each complex are the collective cooking, eating and meeting spaces with a semi-open green space and an interior patio, shared by the tenants.

Micro - Concept

Unit Complex Plans: 1st & 2nd Level PlansEach Complex serves 5-6 families. On each lower level are the eating and meeting areas with inner patios and exterior public spaces. On each higher level are the sleeping private sections for each family. Northern & Eastern Facades

Top & Left: Views emphasizing the continuation of the streets, first on the ground level and then the elevated street leading to the top complexs.

Right- Bottom Up: Unit TypologyStructural System Mass Organization Setting New Boundry Formation of New Space Interior Division Skin

Zhoushan 舟山路 Rise-Lane, Shanghai, China

Fall 2013 Prof. Dr. Eran Neuman Tel-Aviv University

A project held in the unique neighborhood of Tilanqiao, Shanghai, China. One of the only traditional, low rise residentials, remaining in the very fast developing city of Shanghai. A very poor neighborhood, with high density, and lack of public and green spaces.

Proposed Relation Public Private Values Studying Tilanqiao's private and public relations. offering a new balance of collective and private zones.

Private Activities Public Activities 21

Top: Roof Plan Right: Pattern Diagram

1. Openings diagram 2. Greenary and Stay Spaces diagram 3. Circulation Diagram

Creating a Collective Roof top. A layer above existing Shikumen's rooftops. A system that provides circulation and gathering spaces, and behaves as a topographic system. An alternative to the existing street and community life that enhances the collective and individual essence.

Countryside, The Future, Exhibition Guggenheim NYC

Spring 2018- Spring 2020 Rem Koolhaas OMA_AMO & GSD

A OMA AMO Rotterdam

Countryside, The Future, is an exhibition addressing urgent environmental, political, and socioeconomic issues through the lens of architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal, Director of AMO, the think tank of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). A unique exhibition for the Guggenheim Museum, Countryside, The Future will explore radical changes in the rural, remote, and wild territories collectively identified here as “countryside,” or the 98% of the earth’s surface not occupied by cities

Countryside, The Future, Exhibition Guggenheim NYC

Spring 2018- Spring 2020 Rem Koolhaas OMA_AMO & GSD

Curated by Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal of OMA/AMO and Fatma Al Sehlawi and the Qatar based research team from Atlas Bookstore, and designed by a team from OMA/AMO, Making Doha 1950-2030 brings together seventy years of photographs, models, plans, texts, films, oral histories, and archival materials to chart Doha’s transition from organic growth to more modern and .deliberate planning practices

Farshid Moussavi Architecture London, UK

Spring 2018- Summer 2019 Farshid Moussavi

Working for Harvard University GSD Professor, Farshid Moussavi, on multiple international projects.

National Portrait Gallery London, UK, 2018

Ismaili Center, Houston, Texas, 2020 Victoria & Albert Museum Fashion Gallery London,UK, 2019

NINGBO GULIN VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Commissioned Project, Shagnhai, China Est. Completion 2021

D NINGBO GULIN VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Commissioned Project, Shagnhai, China

The school performs as a miniature city that creates experiences and memories. A place that integrates different environments, carrying all functions of life, entertainment and learning. The Project uses a series of interconnected courtyards to connect different programs and create an overall image of a campus complex, breaking away from the monotony of conventional school space that is defined by mono-functionality and the isolation of teaching units, providing innovative vocational school students with innovative Practical education. The spaces created are flexible enough to adapt to innovative learning atmospheres and build open communities with diverse values. At the same time, the program upholds the teaching philosophy of "environment educating people". Combining natural water features, roof greenery and courtyard views, the plan creates a multi-dimensional, multi-scale landscape.

Reiser & Umemoto Summer 2016 New-York, NY

As part of my internship at Reiser + Umemoto, I was working on the publication of book covering 30 years of the firm's work. In addition I took part in an ongoing competition in the city of Osaka, Japan. Shown here are drawings reproduced for the Water Garden project done in 1997 for the Jeffrey Kipnis residence.

Marc Fornes & THEVERYMANY Brooklyn, NY

Built Project, Orlando, OCCC Florida, US 2016

Under the leadership of Marc Fornes, I have led the design of a short list submission which we was ultimately awarded and which is now built. The project is entitled ‘Under Magnitude,’ and is situated in the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The computationallydesigned and digitally fabricated installation is 23’ high, 31’ wide and 44’ deep, and hangs in a large exhibition hallway. Read as one element from far, the piece is in fact the sum of many sub-elements- a network of bulbous and bone-like branches unified by a single smooth white. Composed of an intricately curvilinear singular surface, the piece itself is not a surface, but a three-dimensional subspace, triangular in plan and reaching upwards into a funnel-like shape element.

An internship at Marc Fornes & THEVERYMANY™, a New York based studio engaging Art and Architecture through the filter of systematic research and development into applied Computer Science and Digital Fabrication.

Thank you.