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Abdelrahman Magdy 2015 - 2020
Abdelrahman Magdy Graduate Architect Faculty Of Fine Arts Architecture Department Helwan University
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"Everything you do in architecture must have a reason for creating, even ugly buildings should have a reason to be created ugly."
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ABOUT ME Nationality Egyptian
Date Of Birth 19/01/1996
Marital Status Single
Abdelrahman Magdy
Architect / Interior
Designer 2017 - Present
Technical Office
Internship Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
Technical Office
Internship Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Site Engineer
Internship Jul. 2017
Site Engineer
Internship Jul. 2016
Freelancer
Shop Drawings - Cost Estimation - Preparing BOQ - Brand Identity
EMAIL Abdelrahmanmagdya96@gmail.com
LANGUAGES
Nasr City - Cairo - Egypt
ENGLISH FRENCH
EDUCATION Faculty Of Fine Arts
Architecture Dep. 2015 - 2020
Khalid Ibn Al-Walid Language School 2001 - 2014
Reviewing, Modifying, And Updating The Programme Of The Project Based On The Latest Changes And Received Feedback. - Shop Drawings - Cost Estimation - Preparing BOQ Elbadry Contracting
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ARABIC
Residential Interior Design - Office Interior Design - Shop Drawings Elbadry Contracting
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ADDRESS Architect - Designer
WORK EXPERIENCE
CONTACT ME
Bachelor's Degree In Architecture Cumulative Estimate : Very Good Graduation Project : Excelent Secondary Education Certificate
PROFICIENCY Autocad
Photoshop
Trainee At Arab Contractors
3D Max
Indesign
4 Workshops Session 2
Sketchup
Illustrator
Revit
Lightroom
Lumion
MS Office
Trainee At Arab Contractors 4 Workshops Session 1
V-Ray 5
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Architecture Design
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Art Museum & Library
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Old Cairo Art & Crafts Center
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1.3
Sustainable High School
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Cube House
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Kindergarten
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Interior Design
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2.1
Nordic Restaurant
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2.2
Minimalist Reception
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2.3
Minimalist Bedroom
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Working Drawings
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3.1
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Office Building
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Landscape Design
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4.1
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Japanese Garden Design
Miscellaneous
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5.1
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Maquettes & Logos
Photography
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Luxor & Aswan Trip
Competitions 7.1
Transcendence
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Art Museum & Library Architecture Design
Project Type : Graduation Project Total Area : 15000m2 Year : 2020 Software Used : Autocad , Sketchup , 3d Max , V-Ray , Adobe Photoshop , Adobe Lightroom
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The site’s connection to The Green River area presents an opportunity to merge with it by lifting the building volume above a semi-open ground floor to extend the Green River`s landscape directly into the city. This gesture creates a topography of programmed spaces within the ground floor lobby. Adding an atrium to Integrate between the Museum And the Library and creating visual connection between different functions, By shifting a conventional atrium into a dynamic stepped one to create multiuse areas for cultural activities.
Form Generation
Lifting The Building Volume .
Extending Landscape Topography .
Adding Dynamic Atrium .
Creating A Visual Attracting Entrance .
Adding Louvers And Uplifting It At The Entrances .
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Site . (Area =15000m2).
1.1 | Art Museum & Library , Graduation Project , Architecture Design
Concept
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Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Basement Floor Plan
Mezzanine Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
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1.1 | Art Museum & Library , Graduation Project , Architecture Design
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Main Elevation
Section A-A
Section C-C
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Section B-B
1.1 | Art Museum & Library , Graduation Project , Architecture Design
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Old Cairo Art And Crafts Center
Concept
Project Type : Academic Project Total Area : 5000m2 Year : 2020 Software Used : Autocad , Sketchup , Adobe Photoshop .
Our location is in old cairo district and surrounded by great historical buildings including Amr Ibn Elaas mosque and foustat crafts center so the area has a great historical value which must be used as our main concept for the design .
Architecture Design
Amr Ibn Elaas Mosque is a historical building which has a great historical value so it can be our point of interest and our main project concept is to use it as attracting point . Projecting the building upwards to have a clear view to amr ibn el aas mosque so that the visitors have its view infront of their eyes while they are exploring the gallery and shops . Using the underneath area for workshops storages and educational classes in addition to a concert hall for public use .
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Densifying the program along the available area. Sequence of stairs forming gallery area. Adding different hieghts Of stairs for more flexibility.
1.2 | Old Cairo Art And Crafts Center , Academic Project , Architecture Design
Concept
Main Section
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Main Elevation
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Ground Floor Plan
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Sustainable High School Architecture Design
Project Type : Academic Project Total Area : 8500m2 Year : 2017 Software Used : Autocad , Sketchup , 3d Max , V-Ray , Adobe Photoshop , Adobe Lightroom
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The composition of volumes housed under one big roof creates interspaces that are open for public use ''There is no architectural loss''. From a bioclimatic point of view the orientation of the building allows to emphasize the natural cross ventilation . The roof of the building is providing the maximum shade,protecting the biggest openings against rain and collecting rainwater into the courtyard. The lifting of the roof high above the volumes has achieved a considerable reduction of heat build up within the spaces.
1.3 | Sustainable High School , Academic Project , Architecture Design
Concept
Ground Floor Plan
Main Section
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Back Elevation
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Cube House
Architecture Design
Project Type : Academic Project Total Area : 600m2 Year : 2017 Software Used : Autocad , Sketchup , Manual Presentation .
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1.4 | Cube House , Academic Project , Architecture Design
Concept The Impression Of The Fragmentation Of The Constructed Building , Absence Of Harmony Continuity, Or Symmetry . (Deconstructivism) The finished visual appearance is characterized by unpredictability and controlled chaos.
Front Elevation
Section B-B
Section C-C
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Section A-A
Ground Floor Plan
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Concept
Kindergarten
Architecture Design
Project Type : Academic Project Total Area : 2400m2 Year : 2016 Software Used : Autocad , Sketchup , Manual Presentation .
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Using Origami, The Art Of Paper Folding As A Main Concept Of The Project Because Of The Relation Between The Art Of Folding And The Kids Kindergarten . Paper Folding Gives A Very Direct And Intuitive Perception And Comprehention Of Geometry And Rigidity Of Folded Plate Structure.
1.5 | Kindergarten , Academic Project , Architecture Design
Master Plan
Main Elevation
Section A-A
Section B-B
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Folded Plates Are Assembles Of Flat Plates Rigidly Connected Together Along Their Structural System Capable Of Carrying Loads Without The Need Of Additional Supporting Beams Along Mutual Edges, It Adds Structural Stiffness To A Surface
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nterior Design
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Nordic Restaurant Interior Design
Project Type : Academic Project Total Area : 500m2 Year : 2019 Software Used : Autocad , 3d Max , V-Ray , Adobe Photoshop , Adobe Lightroom .
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2.1 | Nordic Restaurant , Academic Project , Interior Design
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Minimalist Reception Interior Design
Project Type : Academic Project Total Area : 38m2 Year : 2019 Software Used : Autocad , 3d Max , V-Ray , Adobe Photoshop , Adobe Lightroom .
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2.2 | Minimalist Reception , Academic Project , Interior Design
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Minimalist Bedroom Interior Design
Project Type : Academic Project Total Area : 20m2 Year : 2019 Software Used : Autocad , 3d Max , V-Ray , Adobe Photoshop , Adobe Lightroom .
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orking Drawings
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Office Building
Working Drawings
Project Type : Academic Group Project Area : 620m2 Year : 2020 Software Used : Autocad
Ground Floor Plan
Main Elevation
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Section A-A
Wall Sections
Toilet Details
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Reflected Ceiling Plan
3.1 | Office Building , Academic Group Project , Working Drawings
Flooring Plan
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Ceiling Details
Ceiling Details
Flooring Details
Flooring Details
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Counter Details
Door Types
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Skylight Details
3.1 | Office Building , Academic Group Project , Working Drawings
Stairs Details
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andscape Design
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Japanese Garden Design Landscape Design
Project Type : Academic Group Project Total Area : 7560m2 Year : 2020 Software Used : Autocad , Sketchup , 3d Max , Lumion , Adobe Photoshop , Adobe Lightroom .
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Combining different types of japanese traditional gardens to give the user full experience of the japanese different aspects of landscape design .
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miscellaneous
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Maquettes
Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Santiago Calatrava Academic Project Foam, Canson Paper, Thread
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Recycling Paper Pavilion Academic Group Project Foam, Canson Paper,
Temple Of Karnak Luxor Academic Group Project Foam, Canson Paper, Sand
Farnsworth House Mies Van Der Rohe Academic Project Foam, Canson Paper, Grass Paper
Cologne Cathedral Germany Academic Group Project Foam, Canson Paper
5.1 | Logos & Maquettes , Miscellaneous
Logo Design Owner: Faculty Of Fine Arts Student Union . Concept: Redevelopment the old logo which combines the two Arabic letters of fine arts into a more modern design and keeping the same old identity.
Owner: Elbadry Contracting Firm . Concept: A simple design which represents the letters of the firm name.
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Owner: Akadia Contracing & Furniture Firm . Owner: My Own Logo . Concept: A negative space logo which represents Concept: A minimal design which represents the the letters of the firm`s name described in a way that letters of my name A,M. looks generic.
Owner: Owlsome Outfitters . Concept: Creating an owl which describes the brand name and adding a simple circle arround it which represents the moon which is always related to the owls.
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hotography
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Luxor & Aswan Trip Photography
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"The Egyptian Contribution To Architecture Was More Concerned With Remembering The Dead Than The Living" - Stephen Gardiner
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ompetitions
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Transcendence Competition
Project Type : Team Competition Year : 2019 Software Used : 3d Max , V-Ray , Rhino , Sketchup , Adobe Photoshop , Adobe Lightroom Shortlisted (Editor`s Choice) Link : https://uni.xyz/competitions/ di-generic-cities-tokyo/entries
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Transcendence.. Is an attempt to capture the city from an alternative perspective, or a set of perspectives. following the narrative of three characters, moving from the perception of the city, to the transformative experience of the building reaching for the final conclusion of each of the three characters in their search for transcendence.
Premise
Challenge
The 21st century is known for the age of globalization. The process of urbanization in cities, the interaction between people and integration among businesses & society are no longer driven just by local forces. It’s a well-known fact that data-driven technologies are playing a major role in shaping us and the kind of cities we live in today. These forces of technology, for all the good they are doing well to us on one hand and are powerfully speeding up the homogenization of culture in the other. This force of technology in the world we live in today has been there for quite some time and seems to be unstoppable. Cities have been seen as an incubator for creative ideas and human evolution in the past. However, with our technological evolution, the question one must seek is retaining this distinct identity of a city as an incubator of creative ideas in the next century.
If skylines around the world are looking too much the same, is this because the new and important buildings are done by the big names (designers) from far away and not by the locals or the opposite is true? Not only skyscrapers but, museums, civic center, concert halls, bridges, libraries, opera houses all give cities part of their identity. This makes us ponder, that how do we reclaim our cities to stand out from each other in the next centuries. What are the urban programs that can be useful to the inhabitants and can architecture be an icon instead of an object?
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The Citizen
A placeless place. It was neither Utopic nor Dystopic, it was rather a heterotopic place. A Space where things are different. A collage of spaces that have more layers of meaning than what immediately meet the eye.
You start with basic cognition. Moving from purely materialistic perception of the city, to traversing pure geometrical sensuous spaces, reaching out for pure concepts of understanding. A transcendental schemata.
A path & process through which new experience is assimilated to and transformed by the residuum of a lost past to form a new whole. Same as the person who’d traverse it.
Creating a place where the emphasis is on being there. How to break the generic aspect of the city? How to blend in the experience of time, the experience of space, the experience of material to achieve mindfulness through space.
A unity of form that systematizes the appearance as it is grasped; One that is understood along the way. Paralleling an understanding of one’s own purpose in place and time.
Passing the threshold into consciousness, A revelation.
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A Dialogue. In my quest of understanding the city, I had to engage in an authentic dialogue with it, with its spaces, & architectonics. bridging the poles of thought and sensation.
7.1 | Celebration Of Faith , Tokyo , Japan Architecture Competition
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Character 2 The Expert
Locked inside. Each in his own comatose island, a corner veiled in darkness amidst shimmering neon world. We were literally living within the glitches of a binary world. It seemed as if our perception of the world was lost in translation, following an algorithmic life, a world path that has already been set for us. Or so I thought!
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Outside, same route, same path, taken by everyone, the world is generic, the same route is crossed by everyone, but when I was approaching this building my perspective was broken up to pieces, I was faced with multitude of paths, a choice I rarely had.
Into the stillness. Slowly, then all at once, I was devoured by it, rough in texture, but elegant in form. Passing isolated volumes, losing all connection with the world I left behind. Not a sound, Not even a trace of the world is left, We are left with nothing but a single beam of light to adjust our compass to.
Transcendental tune, the walls started to break, as if the light was trying to break through, confusion and helplessness started to get replaced with curious desire to connect with some meaning.
“In the cherry blossom’s shade there’s no such thing as a stranger..”
Disconnect to reconnect. Suddenly the boundaries of the space was blurred, Even time was blended in with the space. It was a moment of serenity in a loud shouting world. A Getaway.
Reaching out for meaning. Finding my way out of the labyrinth.Trusting one’s intuition to reach out for intangible meaning for this journey. Shedding light upon my once darkened world.
“Having come to the end of the route, I was presented with an external view of infinity. Inside the space, we look for our own internal, personal infinity.”
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The Expat A Question of tradition. How to capture the tenets of faith. How to materialize a centuries old dialogue that lasted between the people and their environment? Breaking away from a generic world.
One of the by-products of the digitization of everything is the steep rise in nostalgia for physicality. As more and more of our lives get vacuumed into the digital realm we’re increasingly likely to look for symbols that mimics the traits of a lost sensuous spaces.
“The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. The cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It’s a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.”
Japanese architecture emphasizes transitional spaces, ‘En’ is the Japanese word for such transitional spaces, it means edge & connection, yet it also means destiny. It’s as if one’s destiny lies in the journey they take.
The circulation mimics the path one would take towards reaching one’s own nirvana. A Halo of light. An understanding of one’s position in such an alienating world. To simply transcend above its trivialities, find your own compass.
The answer seemed to have always been in imitating nature, creating spaces in the likeness of nature, true to its environment, planned in accordance with the site topography. & evoking a mood that’s honest to its context.
Light reigns. In a final act of intensified sensual experience of such light forest, accentuating sensual experiences blending together the
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One of the essential tenets you’d see captured throughout every transition across the building is the Japanese insight that reality is transient and evanescent, soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence, quickly fading out of view.
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