Hiba Zubairi Portfolio Vol II (2019)

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ENCHANTE!

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L a h o r e 1 9 3 8 A lantern filled night He sings a song at her gate Leaves a small book With lists of names Of men and beasts Who’s lives she will T a k e .

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h i b a hasan zubairi

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19 years old. 1.73 meters tall. Brown hair, green eyes. Strength: can design, draw and paint to a dangerous level, high creativity, willing to take risks. Weakness: is a perfectionist, detail oriented and has no sense of direction. Born in Asia, in 1999 however likes to act as if birth place was London in 1899. Avid fan of Oscar Wilde; even more avid fan of Khaleed Hosseini. Plays more than five instruments yet shockingly has no sense of rhythm. Travels the world yet still perfers eating Digestive cookies. Speaks multiple languages yet still pronounces Wednesday wrong.

Email: zubairihib@gmail.com Phone: +1-905-805-0814

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curriculum

EXPERIENCE Architectural Atelier Tane Jan -

Intern, Tsuyoshi Architectes May 2019

Doing research, construction drawings, models, renders and curating research packages for clients. Closely working with project managers to produce well informed architecture and installations.

E D U CAT I O N University of Waterloo, School of Architecture 2017 present Candidate of Studies,

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Ontario Secondary School Certification, International Baccalaureate Art Program, Honour Role 10

Barista Starbucks May -

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Cashier Canada Sept 2018

Costumer service centred job that included strong team building. High stress work environment where the job needed to be done quickly, efficiently and to a high standard.

I N VO LV E M E N T Peer Mentor University of Waterloo, School of Architecture 2018 present Mentoring six first year students in academic, social and personal aspects to enhance their experience at the school

Orientation University loo, School September

Leader of Waterof Architecture 2018

Being a leader and helping hand to new first year students during their first year at the university

Barista Bakery 2016

Writer and Member ofBRIDGE Centre for Architecture & Design 2017 present

Costumer service and management job that required managing finances, employees and the appearance of the business. Included strong teamwork.

Researching and curating architectural articles for a large scale university and internet wide audience. Taking part in community wide design initiatives.

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A W A R D S President’s Scholarship University of Waterloo, School of Architecture 2 0 1 7 Entrance scholarship for an overall academic average above 90%

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Distinction for outstanding academic average above 80%

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INTERESTS Literature Film Drawing Script Writing

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Comedy

Laser Cutting CNC Milling 3-D Printing

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Romanticism, French Philosophy Tarsem Singh, Wes Anderson, Guy Ritchie Illustrations, Line Drawings, Still Life Dramatic films, pilots, fashion films John Mulaney, Dave Chapelle, 50/50 Personal works, Rumi, Iqbal, T.S. Eliot Flute, Violin, Cello, Piano

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Completely shroud in black She walks to the alter Legions of soldiers stand Salute and chant In her honour Handed a letter Sealed in gold Signed by Her dead father Whose head She stole.

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April 1B Design Instructor: Do Skills: Rhinoceros, Maxw Illustr Toronto,

Tucked in the growing streets of Weste any other. It offers the community a li workshop. The facility is also inviting on in the city that is pedestrian friendly d thing to people of all ages and interests pool of shallow water and a colonnade t is open to all. The entire lot is surround a safe haven in the he

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l 2018 n Studio onald McKay well Render, Photoshop, rator , Ontario

ern Toronto is a public building unlike ibrary, performance space, gallery and n the exterior, creating an outdoor space during all seasons. Kyklos offers somes. The building itself is surrounded by a that leads to the rear where a picnic spot ded by a three meter tall hedge. Kyklos is eart of a growing city.

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library ground floor;

library second floor;

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library ground floor;

library second floor;

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front/south elevation of building

north/south section of building

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April 1B Building C Instructor: Terri Boake, Co Skills: Rhinoceros, Maxw Illustr Flint, M

The people of Flint, Michigan have been 4 years. The government has yet to recti tion are low income African American in ode to the great civilization of Rome ueduct. Linking past and present to add and empower the People. Vox Populi is in downtown Flint that is

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l 2018 Construction ollaborator: Olivia Pereira well Render, Photoshop, rator Michigan

n without clean drinking water for over ify this situation as most of the populan families. In response to this issue and e, we present to you Vox Populi, the Aqdress the failings of modern civilization located in the Chevy Commons, a park undergoing development.

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aqueduct section detail

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sequence construction drawings

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April 1B Environm Instructor: Terri Boake, Co Skills: Rhinoceros, Maxw Illustrato Reykjadalur V

NASA’s ísagarður research station is nes one of the various rolling hills of the Re hour away from Reykjavik on the Nord and floor are concrete with phase chan to create thermal masses that store hea research station warm. Following Icelan station harvest’s all its energy from the hot springs i

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l 2018 mental Design ollaborator: Olivia Pereira well Render, Photoshop, or, HEED Valley, Iceland

stled into the southern lower hillside of eykjadalur Hot Spring Valley located an dic Island of Iceland. The interior walls nging material sandwiched within them at in the building to naturally keep the nd’s own method, the ísagarður research e geothermal renewable resource of the in the valley.

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An exploration of affect through the spa ed in film, this series of projects seeks to tecture in setting the scene for life and b film clips to analyze and interpret, later vironments to inhabit. Through the exp tion of modelling this project was able has on everyday life and building the pe are results of th

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atial and environmental qualities creato question and answer the role of archibeyond. We began with a series of three r creating three different spaces and enploration of film and the experimentato explore the impact that architecture erspective of individuals. The following his exploration.

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tchaikovsky’s dream Inspired and based of series of montages from the films Dreams by Kurosawa, Vertigo by Hitchcock and Orlando by Potter. A series of detached, experiental spaces for the individual to assume personas based on the affect created in the environment. The first space, inspired by the film Dreams, is a series of large, irregular columns filling a well lit space with translucent walls, giving the occupant a sense of massiveness and calm irregularity. The second space, inspired by the film Orlando, by contrast, is dark and dramatically lit, with a porous material covering the walls, giving the room a sense of moving light. The final space, inspired by Vertigo, is a upwardly extending spiral. The occupant is given the sense of height and depth without changing elevation.

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the psychedelic bibliotheque

Deep into the future...The year is 3018. Civilization has grown to sickening heights and moved across the galaxy to continue our ever consuming need to mine and destroy every resource we find. Back on earth, the disenfranchised and surpressed are left in the ruins of mother other.

Here we gather and here we shall rise. There is a secret on earth that the colonies do not know about... While humans have been busy visiting other plants, someone came here...& Earth’s visitors left us a gift. Scattered, black, hypermatter across the globe! The location of this matter are said to behealing and transcending. We have built communtiies around it. Always open. To everyone. A place for all...to do all.

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May Iceland Northern Ligh Collaborators: Olivia Pe Skills: Rhinoceros, Maxw Ilustrator, Reykjavik

The function of this approach to the gue fort and community with its private stru der pass with access to a shared buildin to watch the northern lights are intens shared view of the landscape found w

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y 2018 hts Rooms Competition Pereira, Lena Von Buren well Render, Photoshop, r, InDesign k, Iceland

est house retreat allows a sense of comuctures that are joined by a common unng and horse stables. The framed views sified by the restricted windows, with a within the hotel-style main building.

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subtitles (not) included

Lost. Stolen. Cut. Destroyed. The Koh-i-Noor diamond, once the largest diamond in the world, has a long, complicated and frustrating history. Many countries, nations and heads of state claim it as their own. The diamond is in the possession of the British Monarchy and is a part of the crown jewels. For now. Queue one of two of our protagonists, Noor, a 23 year old, confused but angry, art-restoration student, who’s dad passes away. Going through his stuff Noor discovers a passion and fierce drive her father had for knowledge, literature and historical artifacts.

Overcome with emotion, mourning, illegal substances and jet lag, Noor decides that the theft of the Koh-i-Noor, is the reason her father led a short, unfulfilling life. Those bastards! Recruiting the help of her childhood best friend, Raj, through emotional and other forms of blackmail, Noor hatches a plan to steal the Koh-i-Noor and return it to India. With her art restoration degree and Raj’s geological engineering career, the two are able to pull off one of the greatest heists of all time. Hold on, thats not where it ends! With the Koh-i-Noor in their posession, the lives of the two and the reality around them begins to shift. Past, present and future begin to meld.

Mad maharajas in abandoned desert palaces, and anarchist fighters in the time of Partition all take the form of our protagonists. Our protagonists begin to explore what it means to be South Asian, what it means to an immigrant, what it means to be a child and what it is to be human. An original screenplay that is an exploration of the colonization and decolonization of the mind and soul. Who has the Koh-i-Noor?

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Noor ( Jibrani) Noor is 23 years old, studying art restoration at Columbia and going through a crisis. And a serious one at that, this one isn’t just brought on by her copious amounts of student debt or reliance on marijuana to make her feel something. This is about her feeling like a fraction of a human being because of the colour of her skin and the name she was given. From a Pakistani background, Noor remembers little of the home that they left behind, other than the spice in the air and the heat of the sun. She does know that her parents never felt at home since they left Pakistan, and this gives her unmanageable guilt. This crisis intensifies when her father passes away, quietly and unexpectedly on a public bus. To cope with his death and the frustrations she has involving colonism all in one sweep, Noor blames the theft of the Koh-i-Noor diamond (her namesake) for her father having a hard and unsuccessful life. So naturally, she decides to steal it.

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“How else are we supposed to reclaim our agency from the hands of our malicious colonizers?“

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Yeh Sham Mastaani continues to plays in the background as Raj and his family zoom into the cul de sac. All the street parking is filled. People are shuffling into the small East London house.

Aapka saathi madh gaya hai aur aap Kishor Kumar kai ganay bajaare hain?

{Your friend died and you’re playing Kishor Kumar songs right now?} Kya? Main ne kya paap kardiya?

Yeh Sham Mastaani plays, wide shot of London zooms into a girl sitting on the roof of a duplex house.

Hi. Salaam, for all the uncles and aunties. My name is Noor.

Noor, turn the music off! Have some sharam!

{Sharam: Shame} I’m 23 years old. I’m stoned out of my mind. I’m sitting on the roof of my parent’s house in East London.

Noor turn the goddamn music off! It’s abba’s funeral!

{Abba: Dad} Oh, and my dad just died.

My dad. Waqar Jibrani. Born in 1950. Lahore, Pakistan to a clock maker and his novel reading wife. Raised in the Walled City. Obsessed with collecting stamps. Listened to strictly Kishor Kumar and Mohammad Rafi. Danced from time to time…in the company of no one, of course. Wore the largest glasses available to man, as fashion dictated. Dipped his hair in petroleum every morning, for the ladies. At the age of 23, he caught the eye of Seema, a girl at his local college. So the got married. And had three children. {Things were simpler back then.} Then load shedding increased and things got bleak and all his pals started jumping ship so Waqar got himself and his small family a shiny VISA to the UK. And they left. Forever.

So here we are.

My name is Noor, by the way. I’m Waqar’s daughter. A bad one at that. I wasn’t even in the country when he died.

{What? What sin have I committed?} Hi. Namaste, aunties and uncles who are tuning in. My name is Raj. These are my parents. Nithin and Shweta. Both from Delhi.

Moved to London in the 1980s, right after getting married. Their parents introduced them because my dad had an engineering degree and a VISA to London and my mum was young, quiet and made good tea. She was also had an honours degree in mathematics and won ten regional mathematics championships. {But of course, that didn’t matter.}

Stop scolding me!

Stop acting like a child who needs scolding! Your son is better than you!

Thats me. I’m there son.

Born and raised in East London. Was the perfect Indian son. Got good grades, went to a good school. Watched cricket every World Cup, went to the temple every Saturday. {Boring, I know.} Still couldn’t keep my parents marriage together.

Screaming continues But not even looming threat of intervention from the United States could keep a resentful marriage together.

At least thats what my childhood friend, Noor, says.

That’s why we’re here actually. Noor.

Her dad, my dad’s first friend in London, just died. Of a heart attack. How a lot of uncles seem to go, unfortunately. We’re going to the funeral. Or the pre-funeral. Or maybe the post-funeral.

Honestly none of us know how Muslim funerals work. I don’t even think Noor knows.

Had a heart attack, of course.

Car switches off and Nithin and Sweta begin climbing out of the car, still bickering. Raj climbs out the back seat.

On a bus.

Remember to touch aunty’s feet, beta. And ask Shamsher and Noor how there are doing. And ask Shamsher about his new job.

Too nervous to say anything to the bus driver.

Their dad just died, mum. This doesn’t seem like the best time to network.

Do what your mother says, Raj. Don’t talk back.

So he just sat there. And died.

Yeh Sham Mastaani continues to play This was his favourite song.

Noor, turn the music of and come downstairs! Khuda ka wastah.

Trying to come to terms with the fact that I’ll be treated like a 13 year old for the rest of my life. {Let’s have a moment of silence.} Camera pans up to the window of the house. Noor is standing looking down and Raj and her eyes meet.

{Khuda ka wastah: God’s sake.}

Let’s go in. (eyes still locked with Noor as she turns to leave the window.)

What are you supposed to say to your grade school best friend when their dad dies?

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until we meet again...

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Email: zubairihib@gmail.com Phone: (1) 905 805 0814