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About Work Experiance Assistant Architectural designer for Architect Mielat Kiﬂu

May 2021 - June 2021

Mar 2021- May 2021 Intern at Zeleke Belay Architects Intern at Ramnon Architects Oct 2020 - Dec 2020 Assistant Architectural designer at Bruk Zegeye Assosiates

Abel Dejene abelnegas5@gmail.com 0945956078

Jul 2020 - Sept 2020

Program & skills language skills Amharic | English design programs Revit | AutoCAD | rhinocer-

Education Hawassa University IOT BSc in Architecture Virtual Sofrware School School of Tomorrow High School

2017 - 2022 Jun2018- Aug 2018 2013 - 2017

os + V-ray_basics | Sketchup_basics graphic programs Adobe photoshop | Adobe illustrator | Adobe inDesign visualization program Lumion 8.5 | Twinmotion movie editing Openshot Video editor

Table of contents Architecture

Hawassa International Airport

Hawasssa Convention Center

4thyear second semester project Transport

5th First semester project Feb 2022 Civic Architecture

Hotel 4 3 ﬁrst semester project Feb 2021 Hospitality rd

Mount Olive School

Tilaye Apartments

Mixed Use Building

3rd second semester project Feb 2021 Educational

Collaborators: Abel D. & Architect Bruk Zegeye Aug 2020 Residential

OIC HQ Building

Internship Residential Project

Atrium House

2nd year second semester Project Residential Apartment

Residence

4thyear ﬁrst semester Internship project Zeleke Belay Architects May 2021 Bank HQ

Collaborators: Abel D. & Architect Abera Oﬃce : Ramnon Architects Dec 2020 Residential

Collaborators: Abel D. & Rehema Yusuf 2nd year Project Residential

Conceptual Residential Oct 2020 Residential

Collaborators: Abel D. & Mielat Kiﬂu June 2022 Commercial

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Thesis Project 5th year Project Landscape

Shell to Cheﬀe Street 3rd year Project Urban Design

01 Hawassa International Airport Location: Hawassa, Ethiopia Project date: September 2021 Passenger capacity : 2 million passengers per year

Total Area: 15,676m2 Airpot Functions: 10,832m2 Terminal Facillities: 813m2 Service Areas: 554m2 Employee Facillities: 443m2 Airpot Office space: 1171m2

Atrium Rendering

The Atrium Being located in the center of the Airport terminal, it’s a common ground where the two main function of the airport meet, the Arrivals zone and the departures zone. It becomes an intermediator zone where the boundaries between landscape and architecture blurs to create a gathering space for the passengers who use the space with the celebration of nature. The Airport embraces nature with the introduction of natural light, the integration of plants and water elements into the interior space to merge the natural world with the architectural

Structural Pattern

Concept Diagram

The approach is to adapt a series of equivalent spatial units or formal elements to an irregular edge condition by bending the linear array along the path of the irregularity. The irregularity can be regularized by visualizing it as a series of curvatures and recognizing the center of radius for each arc segment as well as the points of inflection where changes of curvature occur. Airport are becoming placeless cities that are disjunctioned from the cities they Serve.

Lines Fragmenting to create the form of the Airport terminal.

The organazation of the Airport was thought on single level operation, segregating Arrivals and Depature on two eings. The Central zone act as an organizing area of the building.

Blurring the bounderies Between the Airport the City with lines emerging from the lake side.

Clarifaying the Geometry for the building.

When designing the airport, I was curious about what the Airport of the 21st century can be and what shall it offer to the city and the people who use it every day including passengers and terminal employees. The 21st century as most would agree is the era of information where technology has shortened distance with the advance of transportation and communication. The Airport should no longer be eccentric to the city it serves by creating buffer zones, boundaries and wide setbacks from curbside. The hypothesis is based on the fact even in a domestic airport the passenger can spend more than 30 minutes through security, check in and immigration & 10 – 15 minutes for arrival passengers, hence the terminal building shall give porosity to the passenger to be able to see the airside and the apron while being processed.

Perspective rendering

The building as seen from different perspectives changes its form, from the west and east elevations it might seem as if two curvilinear buildings have collided each other.

Exploded Diagram

02 Hawassa Convention Center Location: Hawassa, Ethiopia Project date: February 2022 Main Auditorium capacity : 1400 people

Early Sketch

Context South Star International Hotel

Sidama Buna Mixed use building

Site

Area: 49,681m2

Lewi Hotel Meneharia South Police HQ

The site was chosen for designing a conventional center because of its proximity to different services such as hotels, banks,restaurants and transportation.

Concept: Porosity Discription When referring to porous architecture the term is mainly understood to solely concern a physical analysis of space and the way in which people flow through and writing the pores of the city. Humans are porous by nature, as the bordering creature who has no border. True urbanity occurs where humans can mix in unrestricted borderless environment and it is the way in which these diverse people mix that give a city its special character. Porosity refers to the level at which the soluble nature of human, be it collectively as culture or individually through experience is welcomed and embraced naturally within the city.

Responding to urban Setback The curve was intentionaly put to create urban plaza(Meskel Square).

The prorams arranged on the site based on the relation to site context and program relationship.

Theater Multi-purpose hall Confrence hall Mixed use retail Public foyer entance Public plaza

The idea of porosity influencing pedestarian movement within the organization of the buildings.

First Floor Plan @ + 4m

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The Main lobby is a space that connects all the major functions of the building by applying the idea of porosity to create visual and physical connections both horizontally and vertically. The circular void was intentionally designed to create connection to the basement programs and bring in natural light. The building is designed to be a civic building that can contribute to the public realm and, it does this by being porous, inviting people to the building though transparency and programs that citizens of the city can use such as cafes, restaurants, cinema, banks, library, shops and art galleries. The Amphitheater is designed to host diﬀerent political, social and commercial events. Under the amphitheater structure the space can be used for informal markets to integrate the city life and public programs included in the building.

Lobby Rendering

The second Auditorium has the capacity to hold 230 people at one time and is connected with other fuctions through the second lobby

3D Axonometric

Auditorium Interior

Second Auditorium Interior

3D section drawing

Second Lobby Rendering

Hotel 4 Location: Dato Hawassa, Ethiopia Project date: January 2020 Area : 5000m2 Project type : Hospitality

The overall target of this project is to test how a hotel can respond and activate the public realm in which the property is to be built and also to become a bridge between the cities built form and the natural landform. The Hotel Encompasses 51 King size Guest bed rooms, 6 twin Bed Rooms, 9 one bed room suites, 14 two bed room suites and a presidential suite. Being located on an entrance of the city the project has a potential of attracting guests and tourists coming to the city, it can also add a new image to the character of the project.

Perspective Rendering 1

Concept Title: Concatation Statement: a series of linked or interconnected things or enents in our case the idea was brought on by observing the location of the site its surroundings ,therefore the aim is to create a hotel tha has both the character of the city and the character of the natural aspect including the park the lake.

the site being situated between the two contrasting urban context

interlinking programs one another

the idea of interpreting concatation interms of program relationship

Lobby The idea of concatation being interpreted vertically

Form Development

Vertical Program Arangement

The concept affecting the form

Stacking the Programs together by appropriating with the site

Hallway

Bar

Voids for day lighting and Ventilation

Front Elevation

The hotel oﬀers diﬀerent sizes of conventional rooms, the large hall can occupy upto 400 people. The name Holel 4 was driven due the the shape of the site plan of the bulding.

First Floor @ +6m

Front Elevation

04 Mount Olive High school Location: Hawassa, Ethiopia Project date: March 2021 Area : 23,760m2

The overall target of this project is to explore new ways of designing a school in the context of Ethiopia by studying the constraints of learning environments and looks at nature as a way organizing space inside and outside by giving attention to the interaction and experience created inside the building. The School is designed for 450 pupils, major programs of the school include a sport facility with indoor basketball court, a multi-purpose room together with music performance areas, a library, administration & Staff Facilities, two dining halls, laboratories and workshop areas. The design was in way put to promote the curiosity of the student by providing different spatial qualities for student to collaborate, entertain, share ideas and enroll in different activities.

Class room Roof Garden

Courtyard

Gymnasium Football and Athletic field Multi Purpose Hall

Adminstration and Staff Faccilities

Library

Other Teaching Areas Enterance Landscape

Program Illustration

Concept

Axonometric Rendering

Program arrangement inﬂunced by concept and site response

Connecting the clustered programs

Site planning integrating the school with the

Incorporating movement patterns

Form Development Gymnazium and sport Library Other teaching areas Multipurpose hall

Adminstration & Staff Faccilities

Addition of programs and creating relation between the clustered programs

Organizing the school programs in response to site factors and context

The concept influncing the form respecting the form yet, showing the idea of movement

Section Drawing

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05 Tilaye Apartment Location: Hawassa, Ethiopia Project date: May 2019 Area : 1000m2

Tilaye Apartment is a project located on the road from Atote to Addisu Gebeya. The building sits on 840m2 area with total site area of 1000m2, 170m2 of a central courtyard is situated inside the building which all the inhabitants can share and create incidental relationships. The building consists of four 3 bedrooms, five 2 bedrooms, eight 1 bedroom and five studio apartments. The main idea of this project was to give inhabitants the chance to shape their living environment by extending rooms for the future.

Existing Context

Vertical Massing

Insertion of a central courtyad and cuts for ventilation

First Floor Plan @ + 4m

Unlike most of the apartment typologies in the city this projects offer different way of thinking of space, communal and individual spaces all the apartments have double floor space some occupied and most of the have double height space for future expansion. The roof garden is designed to be a place were community thrives and a sense of belongingness is created.

Exploded section drawing showing diﬀerent layers of the building.

1 Roof garden 2 Interior of 3-Bedroom Apartment 3 Central Courtyard

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06 Mixed Use Building Location: Hawassa, Ethiopia Project date: June 2021 Area : 2190m2

The building has 3 floors of office space, 4 Stories for retail, restaurants, supermarket and banks. The basement was designed for car parking. The conceptual approach for the form of the building was to create a solid building that has a rectangular form serving as a datum for the building, extruded form wraps the building to create an interaction with the street life and articulate the building.

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Ground Floor Plan @ + 0m

First Floor Plan @ + 4m

3D section Drawing

The building has a parking space for 74 car on the basement floor. The ground floor is occupied by a supermarket, banks, large shops and public amenities. On the first floor there is a large cafe and different kinds of shops. Fourth floor up to the floor six is rental office space with an atrium at the center. Interior Drawing

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07 Residential Project Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Project date: Aug 2020 Area : 360m2

Situating the house on one side of the plot to create parking space for 3 cars and a frontyard.

Program arrangement

Insertion for balconies and terrace

Right side elevation

Section Drawing

The house is designed for a large single family with 5 bedrooms, a guest bedroom and a master bedroom for the parents. The Ground floor encompasses the living + dining areas and the kitchen. The design of the house was set to provide a formal house for a large family, by situating the building on the corner of the site, I was able to provide large front yard with parking and a garden next to the living room. The Roof I wanted to create a different house that could stand out from its neighboring but also keep the context of the site, the building has different appearance from all its sides so the roof becomes a unifying element being a gently sloping roof creating a shaded space for the terrace. Living room rendering

Kitchen Rendering

08 OIC HQ Building

The interior-exterior work I was involved in was the design the arcade on ground level the can be used as part of the city life.

Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Project date: May 2021 Area : 3004m2

Plan Renderings

Diagram Representation Drawings

Interior Rendering

09 Intrernship Residential Project Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Project date: Dec 2020 Area : 160m2

The project is located in Addis Ababa with a plot area of 160m2 as an intern architect i was assigned to design a residential house with a maximum of 3 stories, the programs required by the clients were a large garden, a living room, 3 bedrooms, a master bedroom and a prayer room. The concept for the house was to make ground floor to encompass parking 2 cars, living+ dining room. On the first floor 3 bedroom for their children and a guest bedroom is located. The master bedroom with the roof garden is located on the second floor. The flat roof covering the house overhangs to shade the terrace on the third floor, when seen from ground level the roof seems to float over the house.

Section Drawing

10 Atrium House Location: Hawassa, Ethiopia Project date: Dec 2018 Area : 280m2

Form development

Massing

Subtruction for parking space

Insertion of an atrium

Addition of pergola to create shade for the terrace

The section drawing illustrates how individual spaces are inteconnected by the central atria and through floor level difference.

The Conceptual approach is based on the fact man and nature are inseparable, even though man has created negative impacts on it. We believe that humans, animals and nature as a whole are mutually interdependent. Our concept aims to develop a home that can create a feeling that the natural and the artificial feature can co-exist together, indoor and outdoor spaces to create a dynamic feeling as the family uses these spaces surrounded by trees, flower and natural light all together creating the feeling of being outside while using outdoor spaces. Interior of the living room

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Furniture Design Type: Book Shelf Project date: Nov 2020 Oﬃce : Ramnon Architects

Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Project date: Oct 2020 Area : 360m2

First Floor Plan View from the garden

Model

The Concept of the house was “stacking” different volumes to create a large garden, a parking space for 4 cars. The larger volume that is uplifted from the ground occupies Private areas, the smaller volume is for living and service areas and the vertical volume is for the stair.

The design of the book shelf was initiated to use a combination of two materials 30mm metal frame as a supporting element and 2cm wood to place books. The variation in the arrangement of the wood boards was to create a visual interest when placed inside a room.

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01 Condominium Community park BSC THESIS PROJECT Location: Hawassa, Ethiopia Project date: June 2022 Area : 2994m2

Location Problem Statement As Ethiopians most of our household activities are held outdoors for instance laundry, Cooking, Berbere mascha, and in times of funeral and weddings however, the typology is weak at addressing social life vertically and the use of modern technology for energy utilization. The open space allocated at condominium site is inadequate for the inhabitant’s outdoor activities, children playground, cloth drying and parking. The current open spaces at condominium site are not well designed for the needs of diﬀerent age groups; in terms of functionality they are rarely used by adults and the elderly due to the limit of choices of things to do at open spaces.

Urban Study Site Area = 14,500m2

Research Questions • • •

What makes a good open space in residential compounds? How to address social values in 01 condominium site? How can to create a well-planned open space at 01 condominiu site?

01 Condominium site Hawassa, Ethiopia 7004’16”N38028’52”E Elevation 1701m

General Objective

The project aims to identify and study open spaces at Condominium site in the city of Hawassa to address the issue of good open space management, improve quality of open space and the life between the condominium blocks.

Open space analysis

Figure Ground

Pedesterian Movement

-To analyze outdoor spaces at condominium sites in the city of HawaSsa -To investigate ﬂexible design solutions for open space in residential compunds -To study what makes a good open space in neighborhoods -To explore the activities between condominium blocks

Speciﬁc Objective

300 ft

Legend Strategic pedesterian/landscape links Key Public urban space Public green spaces

Legend

Pedesterian Movement

Concept Development 4

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By changing the street pattern the open spaces merge to create a large communal area.

The Current sizes of the open spaces On the selected urban study area.

300 ft

Grass lawn for inhabitants to spend their lesiure time

Easily accessible pathways

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Creating pathways by studying the street pattern and pedestrian flow

Shaded area where people can sit and do different activities

Organizing the pathways on the park with straight lines and insertion of al eliptical Swimming pool that can be shared by the inhabitants

Children Play Ground By depresing the land and creating well defined park space

0402 Urban Design Project Urban Design Project Location: Hawassa, Ethiopia Location: Hawassa, Ethiopia Project date: February, Project date: February, 20212021 Type : Street Design Type : Street Design

The project waswas to creates a friendly street that accomoThe vision visionofofthe theurban urban project to creates a friendly street that dates diﬀerentdifferent activities activities that servethat bothserve cheﬀeboth and hawassa university commuaccomodates cheffe and hawassa nity. The second vision was to enhance public space and public vistas of builtand and university community. The second vision was to enhance public space naturalvistas features. public of built and natural features.

By making the main vehicular transportation underground we can make use of the current cheﬀe street a district park that responds to both the cheﬀe community and the campus students. The proposed mode of transportation in the underway is vehicular transportation that includes public bus, taxi and three wheeled cars.

Shell Intersection

The street leading to Chefe Town

Section Illustration