Ali_Jbil_Portfolio

Ali Jbil MArch Graduate — ARB/RIBA Part II alij61@hotmail.com +44 (0) 7535 60 51 61

Academic and Professional Portfolio - Ali Jbil

The Glitch Project 01 - Architecture as a tool to REVEAL

Challenging the Cunard listed status to store Liverpool’s artefacts publicly Academic Project - 3rd Year Bachelor - Architectural Association

Reframing Transit Project 02 - Architecture as a tool to PAUSE

Collective Rest in the Tangier Me^dina Academic Project - 5th Year Diploma - Architectural Association

Ali Jbil MArch Graduate — ARB/RIBA Part II Portfolio 2026

A Line Through Stone Linking Communities through Landscape Project 03 - Architecture as a tool to CONNECT

Based in London

Academic Project - 4th Year Diploma - Architectural Association

Professional Experience 01 - Public & Civic

Moroccan League For the Protection of Children Professional Work - June 2025 - September 2025

Mother and Child Reception Center Professional Work - June 2024 - September 2024 Moulay Rachid District - Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Casablanca, Morocco

Dyar El Manzah - 160 Residential Units Professional Experience 02 - Residential

Professional Work - June 2026 - August 2026 Atelier AB, Casablanca, Morocco

Academic and Professional Portfolio - Ali Jbil

The Glitch Challenging the Cunard listed status to store Liverpool’s artefacts publicly Location University Year Course Instructors

| Liverpool, England | Architectural Association | Third Year, 2023-2024 | Intermediate 13: Counter | Stephanie Rae Lloyd, Jessica Reynolds

Project Overview

The Glitch challenges conventional approaches to preservation within Liverpool’s Grade II listed Cunard Building, questioning whether imperfections within historic fabric can become opportunities for new forms of occupation rather than conditions to be concealed or repaired.

The project begins by investigating fractures found within the existing building through a sequence of physical experiments.

3D scanning, printing, vacuum forming, visual extraction, and material imprinting progressively isolate these irregularities from their original context, allowing the fracture to be understood not simply as damage, but as a spatial condition with its own geometry, depth, and scale.

These extracted spaces are then inhabited through architectural insertions that extend within and beyond the existing fabric.

New platforms and structures accommodate Liverpool’s stored artefacts, transforming normally inaccessible museum storage into moments of public encounter. The Glitch reframes preservation as an active relationship between existing fabric, imperfection, and new occupation.

Academic and Professional Portfolio - Ali Jbil

The Glitch - Challenging the Cunard listed status to store Liverpool’s artefacts publicly Academic Project - 3rd Year Bachelor - Architectural Association

URBAN GLITCH Identifying discontinuities within Liverpool’s urban fabric

SPATIAL GLITCH Testing disruption within the existing architectural form

PROGRAM GLITCH Extracting irregular conditions as spatial opportunities

CUNARD GLITCH Locating the intervention within the existing building

Academic and Professional Portfolio - Ali Jbil

The Glitch - Challenging the Cunard listed status to store Liverpool’s artefacts publicly Academic Project - 3rd Year Bachelor - Architectural Association

01 REPRODUCING THE FRACTURE 3D printing the scanned geometry

02 ISOLATING THE VOID Vacuum forming the fracture to reveal its spatial condition

03 EXTRACTING THE FRACTURE Separating it from the existing fabric to understand scale

04 MATERIAL IMPRINT Registering the fracture through material impression

05 INHABITING THE FRACTURE Transforming the extracted condition into space for Liverpool’s stored artefacts

Academic and Professional Portfolio - Ali Jbil

The Glitch - Challenging the Cunard listed status to store Liverpool’s artefacts publicly Academic Project - 3rd Year Bachelor - Architectural Association

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6th Floor Plan with Intervention - Above Building

Ground-Floor Plan with Intervention

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2nd Floor Plan with Intervention Green : Public circulation & exhibition Beige : Art storage

3rd Floor Plan with Intervention

Section AA’ with Intervention

Academic and Professional Portfolio - Ali Jbil

The Glitch - Challenging the Cunard listed status to store Liverpool’s artefacts publicly Academic Project - 3rd Year Bachelor - Architectural Association

Academic and Professional Portfolio - Ali Jbil

Reframing Transit Collective Rest in the Tangier Medina

Location University Year Course Instructors

| Tangier, Morocco | Architectural Association | Fifth Year, 2025-2026 | Diploma 8: Transience | Nuria Alvarez Lombardero, Francisco Gonzalez de Canales

Project Overview

Tangier has historically operated as a threshold between Africa and Europe, where arrival, waiting and departure formed part of the city itself. Contemporary port infrastructure has transformed this condition into a system focused on circulation and efficiency, progressively removing spaces of pause from the journey.

The project reimagines the Medina as a distributed rooftop infrastructure of rest for the seasonal return of the Moroccan diaspora. A cooperative network of residents, local labour and lightweight interventions creates temporary spaces for travellers waiting to cross the Strait of Gibraltar.

Reversible steel staircases and adaptable textile structures connect rooftop clusters, providing varying degrees of shade, privacy and temporary inhabitation without permanently altering the Medina. Rather than treating it as a static heritage object, the proposal positions the Medina as an active civic infrastructure for transition, relief and collective pause.

Academic and Professional Portfolio - Ali Jbil

Reframing Transit - Collective Rest in the Tangier Medina Academic Project - 5th Year Diploma - Architectural Association

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+ Northern Medina / Transit Territory Locating the rooftop network

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Rooftop Cluster / Site of Intervention Existing fabric selected for reactivation

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Reframing Transit - Collective Rest in the Tangier Medina Academic Project - 5th Year Diploma - Architectural Association Plan of Intervention 02 Rehabilitation

Plan of Intervention 01 Consolidation + Reactivation

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Reframing Transit - Collective Rest in the Tangier Medina Academic Project - 5th Year Diploma - Architectural Association Consolidation introduces an independent staircase network that connects the rooftops and provides travellers with direct access without disrupting the privacy and daily life of residents.

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Reactivation repurposes abandoned yet structurally sound houses to accommodate civic functions supporting travellers during their temporary stay.

Interior Render Reactivation

Physical Model of Intervention Consolidation

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Reframing Transit - Collective Rest in the Tangier Medina Academic Project - 5th Year Diploma - Architectural Association Rehabilitation reinforces buildings identified as structurally unstable or designated for demolition, stabilising their existing façades and structures to reclaim their interiors for new accessible routes and civic uses.

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Rehabilitation

STEP 1 Initial steel frame defined by a regular grid of columns and beams at 2m intervals.

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STEP 2 Central beams are removed to optimise the system and reduce material use.

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STEP 3 Secondary beams are added to support future circulation and landing points.

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The beam–column junction is achieved through bolted steel plates, ensuring continuity and rigidity within the frame. This modular connection enables precise assembly while maintaining the reversibility of the intervention.

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Technical Detail 2

STEP 4 Staircase-supporting beams begin to structure the internal movement system.

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STEP 5 Final structure relies on staircase beams performing dual roles- support and circulation.

This detail shows the relationship between the steel column and the existing wall through a bolted connection.

The structure is laterally stabilised while remaining structurally independent, ensuring no vertical loads are transferred into the masonry.

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The column base is anchored into a concrete foundation using embedded rods and a steel base plate. This connection transfers all vertical loads directly into the ground, allowing the steel frame to operate as a self-supporting system.

Academic and Professional Portfolio - Ali Jbil

Reframing Transit - Collective Rest in the Tangier Medina Academic Project - 5th Year Diploma - Architectural Association

Academic and Professional Portfolio - Ali Jbil

Reframing Transit - Collective Rest in the Tangier Medina Academic Project - 5th Year Diploma - Architectural Association

Academic and Professional Portfolio - Ali Jbil

A Line Through Stone Linking communities through landscape Location University Year Course Instructors

| Derbyshire, England | Architectural Association | Fourth Year, 2024-2025 | Diploma 13: The thick of it | Elena Palacios Carral, Lola Lozano Lara, Jon Lopez

Project Overview

Located within the limestone landscape of Derbyshire’s Peak District, the project responds to the environmental and social fragmentation produced by the continued expansion of Hindlow Quarry. As extraction reshapes the terrain, existing connections between neighbouring communities are progressively interrupted, leaving the quarry as both a physical and social divide.

Rather than treating this industrial landscape as a territory to be abandoned after extraction, the proposal introduces a new civic line through the quarry, reconnecting communities while reclaiming damaged ground for collective use. Working directly with the site’s topography and extracted limestone, a sequence of paths, walls, stairs and civic spaces establishes new relationships between movement, landscape and occupation.

The project ultimately considers architecture as a tool for repair and reconnection, transforming the quarry from a landscape defined by extraction into one capable of supporting movement, gathering and a renewed relationship between communities and the ground they share.

Academic and Professional Portfolio - Ali Jbil

A Line Through Stone - Linking Communities through Landscape Academic Project - 4th Year Diploma - Architectural Association Once the quarry is declared exhausted, extraction leaves behind a fragmented landscape with limited public access, damaged ground and weakened connections between neighbouring communities.

The project identifies Harpur Hill and Earl Sterndale as connection points, establishing a new route through the quarry that transforms the exhausted landscape into shared civic territory.

Landscape of Extraction Quarrying progressively transforms the landscape through ground excavation, habitat loss, dust, heavy transport and industrial disturbance, leaving lasting environmental damage that extends beyond the quarry boundary.

Reconnecting the Settlements A new civic route links Harpur Hill and Earl Sterndale, crossing the quarry landscape and transforming an industrial divide into a shared connection between communities.

Academic and Professional Portfolio - Ali Jbil

A Line Through Stone - Linking Communities through Landscape Academic Project - 4th Year Diploma - Architectural Association

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02 BUILDING ON DAMAGED GROUND The first intervention introduces a limestone wall directly onto the damaged terrain, establishing a new architectural datum within the quarry.

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+ 01 READING THE EXHAUSTED GROUND Tracing the quarry edge as the physical record of extraction

03 ANCHORING CIVIC MOMENTS Strategic points along the line expand into spaces for access, gathering and occupation.

Academic and Professional Portfolio - Ali Jbil

A Line Through Stone - Linking Communities through Landscape Academic Project - 4th Year Diploma - Architectural Association

GROUND WORK

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STRUCTURAL INTERVENTION

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CIVIC SPACE FOR COMMUNITIES

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Plan of civic intervention

Academic and Professional Portfolio - Ali Jbil

A Line Through Stone - Linking Communities through Landscape Academic Project - 4th Year Diploma - Architectural Association

Academic and Professional Portfolio - Ali Jbil

Professional Experience 01 Moulay Rachid District - Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Casablanca, Morocco

Location Year Role

| Casablanca, Morocco | June 2024 - September 2024 / June 2025 - September 2025 | Architect Intern

Projects Overview Moroccan League For the Protection of Children - Professional Work - June 2025 - September 2025

As part of the design team, I contributed to the development of a project for the Moroccan League for the Protection of Children, focused on creating safe, functional and welcoming spaces for children. My role involved assisting with architectural drawings, design development and visual representation, supporting the project from spatial organisation through to its technical resolution. I worked closely with the architectural team to refine layouts, coordinate design elements and communicate the proposal clearly. This experience strengthened my understanding of socially driven architecture, where spatial, technical and functional decisions respond directly to the needs and wellbeing of its users.

Mother and Child Reception Center - Professional Work - June 2024 - September 2024

As part of the design team, I contributed to the development of the Mother and Child Centre, with my work focused primarily on producing the project’s architectural sections and elevations. These drawings involved translating the design into clear spatial and technical representations, resolving relationships between internal spaces, façade composition, levels and material conditions. Working closely with the architectural team, I refined the drawings throughout the design process to accurately communicate the project’s architectural intent. This experience strengthened my skills in technical drawing, architectural detailing and the translation of design concepts into coordinated documentation.

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Moroccan League For the Protection of Children Professional Work - June 2025 - September 2025

Ground Floor Plan

Section CC’

Elevation 1-2

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Mother and Child Reception Center Professional Work - June 2024 - September 2024

Elevation 1

Elevation 2

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Professional Experience 02 Atelier AB, Casablanca, Morocco Location Year Role

| Casablanca, Morocco | June 2026 - August 2026 | Architect Intern

Projects Overview

As part of the design team, I contributed to the development of a 160-unit residential project, with my work focused on the production and coordination of architectural plans and technical drawings. I assisted in developing apartment layouts, organising residential typologies and ensuring consistency across the wider housing scheme. The project required balancing individual dwelling requirements with the organisation of the overall development, strengthening my understanding of residential planning, drawing coordination and the development of large-scale housing projects.

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Dyar El Manzah - 160 Residential Units Professional Work - June 2026 - August 2026

1m² stairwell smoke ventilation linked to D.A.D., with control at ground floor level

Static ventilation 30 cm above slab

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Ali Jbil MArch Graduate — ARB/RIBA Part II alij61@hotmail.com +44 (0) 7535 60 51 61