B.Arch Portfolio 2023

Zainah Bagaber Architect

EDUCATION:

Jan 2023 B. Arch from Dar Al Hekma University (CGPA: 4.96/5)

First-classhonoursrecognition

EXPERIENCE:

2023 - Member of the Alumni Council

current

ZAINAH BAGABER

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Zainah is an architecture graduate who is passionate about creating architectural value through aesthetic, innovation and experience. She has worked on more than 11 architectural projects (academically and non-academically) and won 6 excellence and innovation awards in the architectural and design fields and was nominated to 4 others.

CONTACT

zainah.m.bagaber@gmail.com I +966 (57)-056-0232

LinkedIn: Zainah Bagaber

DarAl-HekmaUniversity,Jeddah,SaudiArabia

2022 - DAH Ambassador

current

DarAl-HekmaUniversity,Jeddah,SaudiArabia

2019 - Student Council Representative

2023

DarAl-HekmaUniversity,Jeddah,SaudiArabia

2021 Architecture Student /Real-life Project

ÉcoleFrancaiseInternationaledeDjeddah

- Designing a theater with collaboration with Dar Al-Hekma University.

2021 Architectural Intern

DarAl-HekmaUniversity,Jeddah,SaudiArabia

2021 Architecture Student /Real-life Project

DarAl-HekmaUniversity,Jeddah,SaudiArabia

- Proposed a design for a real-life mixed-use project for a client including a financial

2020 Architectural Intern

KHEliteArchitecture,Jeddah,SaudiArabia

2019 - Student Math Tutor

2020

MathSupportCenteratDAHU,Jeddah,SaudiArabia

2019 Architectural Intern

Kaf Inc., Istanbul, Turkey

COMPETITIONS: SOFTWARES:

2022 Designathon Participant - Top 10 projects

2022 Students’ Research Competition Winner

- Won Second Place with my capstone research thesis: “The Lost Place of Focus: Reclaiming Our Focus in the Age of Distractions”

National Competitions Participant

2022

2021

2020

Participated in Retal Mosque Design Competition

Participated in Mujassam Watan Competition

Participated in the Red Sea Ecotecture Competition

2022 Innovation Design Challenge Winner

UnitedNationsDevelopmentProgram,BabsonGlobalUniversity,MOE,MBSC

- Out of the 27+ universities and 15 in particular who reached the final stage in Saudi Arabia, we were the 3rd place winners with “SEED OUTBURST” design innovation, which solves desertication.

Global Competitions Participant

2022

2020

Participated in eVolo Skyscraper Competition

Participated in Abu Dhabi Flamingo Visitor Center Competition

ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS:

2022 Student Achievements Award

2020 - President’s Honorable Mention

2022

- On President’s Honor List in recognition of the outstanding academic performance

2022 Special Mention

IVInternationalGoldenTrezziniAwardsforArchitecture&Design

- Special mention in the best design project for library category

2021 Magazine Publication

- Publishing the Hidden Flamingo Center Project in Archipedia Magazine

2021 Excellence Award Winner

- Won Prince Abdulmajeed Excellence Award for her academic success

AutoCAD

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

Rhino

Revit

Cinema 4D

Lumion

Miscrosoft Suit

LANGUAGES:

Arabic . native

English

Turkish . basic

SKILLS & INTERESTS:

- Teamwork/Leadership

- Analytical & critical thinking

- Innovative design thinking

- Problem solving

- Self-discipline/Adaptability

-Research driven

- Verbal presentation with

enthusiasm and condence

- Time management

- Design development

- Freehand sketching

- Fine arts

- Designing analysis diagrams

- Playing basketball

- Horse riding

THE LOST PLACE OF FOCUS Studio VII

THE HEALING GROUNDS Studio VII

Design

THE REVERSED FUTURE

VI

THE NEIGHBORHOOD Studio V

THE LOST PLACE OF FOCUS

MENTAL TRAINING CENTER

Studio: Capstone Project

Supervisor: Dr. Mohammed Gomaa - Ms. Rasha Farsi

Location: Jedddah, Saudi Arabia

Project Proposal:The capstone thesis highlights the problem of distractions in the age we live age. Therefore, the project aims to consider distraction (Aural, Visual, Behavioral) in the architectural designs to design a project that minimizes the effects of distractions on users and designs an experience with distractions in a positive matter.

The project consists of three different zones which are: subtle distractions zone, moderate distractions zone and complete distractions zone, and they are connected by transitional spaces. In each zone, all the different types of distractions are controlled.

RESEARCH PROBLEM

SOLUTION

BALANCED MIND RYTHM

USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN

SPATIAL QUALITY ANALYSIS

PROGRAM + USER PROFILE

KEYWORDS

• FRAGMENTATION

• CONNECTION

• HARMONY

• JUXTAPOSITION

SITE SELECTION/ANALYSIS

Drop off

high-pressure fountain

Blocking noise by water sounds

Fountain observation bridge

Activating vision

Contemplation tunnel Main entrance Interaction with water Sea observatory Slowing walking speed

Lobby Trainees’ Lounge Library Cafes

Terrace Workers’ Lounge Relaxing niches Coworking zone Transitional zone

Services Training rooms Offices Lounge

Regular visitor

Trainee

Worker Observation

THE ROOF IS DESIGNED TO AMPLIFIES WHITE NOISE FOR INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP SPACE

TRAINING ROOMS OFFICE OFFICE

CO-WORKING SPACE

CAFES+RESTAURANTS AREA

WORKERS’ RECEPTION AND LOUNGE

CO-WORKING SPACE

RECEOTION AND LOBBY

STORAGE+KITCHEN

LIBRARY

: THE HEALING GROUNDS GROUND FOR PROMISE

Studio: Urban Design Supervisor: Ms. Lara Al Khouli

Team Partners: Noor Shata, Afnan AlMaflehi, Dalia Gharawi

Studio Brief: The studio seeks to design a new city planned for refugees that acknowledges the transient nature of city populations: configuring its rules of engagement, its economies, and, of course, its layers and forms. Students are free to explore limitless and boundless design theories and strategies.

Project Proposal: The ‘Ground for Promise’ project is a transitional city to provide the homeless people with a better quality of life, opportunities, education, and secure life. The objectives are achieved by designing a 5 years program that begins with traveling them from the main country by a movable part of the city to the fixed city which locates in the international water. The program ends by ensuring that all the citizens of the city are prepared, educated, and qualified enough to re-enter their new societies. The new host countries are the European countries that lack middle-class people. Therefore, it is a two-way benefit where both ‘the host countries and homeless people’ depend on one another to have an advantage whether raising the economy or securing a better life.

CULTURAL EDUCATION

GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE

THE HEALING GROUNDS

Individual Intervention: When the team took different jurors and designers’ feedback on the design of the city, they found out that the design focuses mainly on the physical healing aspect for the homeless users. However, it lacks considering the other healing dimensions including, mental, emotional, and spiritual, which are the core and base for the success of the city program. Therefore, this individual intervention focuses on developing the healing design considerations in the main open and urban spaces of the city. Deep and comprehensive research is made to form the start and base of all the design decisions of the project.

STAGES OF HEALING

CROSS-ANALYSIS

DESIGN PROBLEM

Minimal consideration of healing in the open spaces of

DESIGN Investigating healing environments

PROCESS DESIGN SOLUTION

the concept of environments

Applying healing design considerations in the urban open spaces

Viewing

Bridge Communication towers to find help

Connection with nature

ACTIVATING EDGES

BEFORE Retail Government Health care Cultural Education Residential

Interactive memorial Soup kitchen

Self-reflection seats

Emotion expression panels

Emotion expression (music-socializing)

MEMORIAL ANALYSIS

MESS

IRREGULARITY FABRIC/CARDBOARD

TENT

DRAWING/WRITING

ROUGH MATERIAL TANGIBLE/VISUAL INTANGIBLE

LONELINESS

COMPLEXITY

Spirituality (Open air-Under water)

Connection with nature

Visual art making + activities

Connection with animals

Flexible market

SHARING & DOCUMENTING STORIES

STORYTELLING TOWERS

TOWER COMPONENTS

SOUND ECHO

CONNECTIVITY

TEMPORALITY

EXPERIENCE SHARING IN THE MORNING

PERFORMANCE STAGE AT NIGHT

THE REVERSED FUTURE REVERSED

Flexibility - Technology - Nature

Studio: Comprehensive Design Supervisor: Ms. Sima AlRefae

Project Location: Abha, Saudi Arabia

Studio Brief: The comprehensive studio course focuses on the architectural design process from beginning concept through schematic design, detailed development and final comprehensive presentation. It covers the integration of building structural and environmental systems, and technical coordination into the building design.

Project Proposal: The ‘reversed future’ proposal is designed in response to the global issue of destruction natural landscapes in cities, including the city of Abha, due to the rapid growth in populations. The proposal aims to reverse the spiteful approach of housing and city expansion by allowing architecture to be integrated with nature rather than considering nature as a trivial aspect in urban design. The objective is achieved through the design of a flexible and light architectural prototype, which could be reflected in various cities to occupy high-density spaces and reintegrate the users with their natural landscapes.

Adding the main cores (vertical circulation) of the towers

Extruding the circular masses of the towers (Residential + Hotel)

Sharpening the towers mimicking the sharpness of the mountains

Converting the masses into horizontal structures that extend from the main cores

Plugging and detaching the units into and from the structures to satisfy the concept of flexibility

SCENARIO 1

SCENARIO 2

Terrace Micro Sky Garden Expansion Structure Bridge Module

When occupants choose their units, a glass panel connect the

choose the desired space to plug in panel of the core is detached to the bridge modules.

2

The desired components are connected directly to the bridge and structure with the flexibility to expand or remove some components later.

THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

Community - Eclecticism - Sociality

Studio: Mixed-use Design

Supervisor: Ms. Lara Al Khouli

Project Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Studio Brief: The mixed-use development is characterized as pedestrian-friendly development that blends two or more residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, and/ or industrial uses. As the project is real-life, the students are required to follow the client brief, which focuses on the concept of neighborhood and eclecticism.

Project Proposal: The project is a mixed-use development that is located in Al-Rawda District, Jeddah. The program of the project is defined by the stakeholders, and it consists of restaurants, cafes, shops, an entertainment venue, a gym, and an event hall. The project aims to create a social environment that represents a neighborhood where children, adults, and families are all interacting and connecting. The design creates a journey for visitors that takes them from AlKayyal street into another life inside the project where they have a different experience. The design also depends on the composition of different masses each of them has its unique design. All the masses together form a neighborhood-like and eclectic place.

ECLECTICISM

ELEVATION DESIGN

AL-FALAH MOSQUE

Retal Mosque Competition

Location: Al-Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Team Partners: Manar Al-Rougi, Alaa Alamoudi. Arwa Atwa

Competition Brief: “Retal Competition for Mosque Design” is an international architectural competition to design a local mosque in Dammam, organized by “Retal Urban Development Company” and managed by the “Abdul Latif Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture”.

This competition was launched to motivate architects to enrich the urban environment with innovative designs that elevate the architecture of local mosques, and that the design takes into account the use of environmentally friendly materials as part of the design and taking into account the future maintenance and operating costs of the building.

RANDOMS

Academic projects + Professional works

Real-life Project