Mansour's Portfolio 2021

MANSOUR HAZMI Architect | LEED AP BD+C

P O R T F O L I O

Tempe, Arizona Tel: (480)-703-2618 Email: Arch.Mansour@mail.net.sa

UCL Suumer Studio.

2018

Daylight

2020

Outdoor Thermal Comfort

2020

Race To Zero | DOE

2017

Design.Develop.Build

2017

Medical City

2013

Contents

DRONES CONQUERING THE STREET

The main concept of this project is to radically reimage and explore how technologies will transform the streetscape of the future. In order to do that, we must ask three main questions. First, what will the street of the future look like? Second, how will one use the street of the future? Finally, what’s your street like, e.g., windows, plantation, layering?

LOCATION

The location runs from the heart of London at Euston Station all the way to the Senate House Library. The location is also divided m into three parts. The Euston station which is very crowded, the Square garden where people sit and relax, and finally, Torrington Square where the Haymarket is located and sets up every Tuesday.

To answer the first question, I observed and looked at people, as they bought their needs at the grocery, market, meals, etc…. I wanted to see whether people went shopping and to the grocery, or ordered what they needed online. Therefore, people will wait a few days in order to receive their packages that they ordered depending on the courier, or they wait for enough free time to go shopping physically. With the use of drones that can now land on towers actually constructed in the street, people can receive their packages within an hour.

Moreover, a drones system doesn’t need employees to set them up. Other drones can take packages automatically from the warehouses and deliver them to the towers where people can come and get them. Drones will be widely available in the future, and people will be able to shop or buy their groceries and even their meals using their phones or tablets.

Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU)

Finally, drone towers will be spread around the city streets for receiving these packages. The towers can also be connected to different levels for pedestrians, thereby allowing people to sit, relax or maybe even gather socially. The design of these towers will be inspired by the exciting architecture buildings and towers on London’s streets. Most of these inspirational buildings were constructed from concrete; therefore, I used the same material for the towers’ design. The collage below explains the main theme of these ideas and separate them into three levels -- Street, pedestrian, and air—for both the drones and the towers.

Gordon Square Garden SOAS University of London

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

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Exploring & Observing

At the Bartlett School of Architecture, we spent the first three days observing and exploring London’s streetscape, starting at Bloomsbury and the Barbican, to understand the ideas from the past. Then we moved through North-South Regent’s Canal to explore London’s streets as they are today, and finally, we visited West-Victoria and the Albert Museum to develop more ideas for the future.

Inspire by London’s Street During our exploration, we observed the details of London buildings, their materials, and the streets. We tried to understand how these components interact with each other, to thus be inspired by these unique interactions. Therefore, the design and material of the drone towers should be inspired by the look of London’s towers. I tried to mimic the shape and texture of the exiting towers to make it align and be homogeneous to the current London streetscape.

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The existing location was viewed and compared with the first proposal from all the students’ working on the canvas. Each student explained and presented his/her ideas in precise models.

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Working Process The entire process passed through different stages and iterations, starting with exploring and observing the past, then the current, and the future. Then, the project was developed, sketched, and collage work was utilized to generate ideas.

Below is some of the work that was processed during the final week.

DAYLIGHTING PERFORMANCE OF THE LIGHT SHELF

Window light shelves are becoming a design option increasingly being evaluated and adopted in commercial buildings. These devices allow daylight to penetrate further inside rooms providing better working environment and reducing glare in areas near windows. However, the efficiency of different designs has to be evaluated for specific environmental and building geometric conditions. This paper describes the development of a simulation environment using Ladybug tool coupled to the Radiance illumination software for evaluating light shelf designs. The simulation model is then validated using actual experimental data collected from a test cell built specifically for this purpose. Measurements of sky radiation, reflectivity of shelves and interior walls along with illumination levels at different locations inside the test cell are recorded over a full day. Part of these measurements are used to first perform a proper calibration of the model, and the rest of the data used to validate the model against predictions. The analysis results are presented in this paper along with a discussion of how such a simulation model could be used to reduce glare and provide more uniform daylighting in actual building spaces.

Optimizing the design of the light shelf - Three shelves design - Three reflectivity of the shelves (0.1, 0.5, and 1) - Three reflectivity of interior wall (0.1, 0.5, and 1)

Impact of surface material properties and building morphology to the urban climate.

This project aims to measure the impact of the surfaces reflectivity and its impact on the pedestrian thermal comfort. To achieve this purpose, a workflow is developed using Grasshopper coupled with Ladybug tools to calculate the pedestrian comfort using the UTCI index. It begins by measuring the surface temperature, longwave radiation, and shortwave radiation using EnergyPlus and Radiance engine. Phoenix is selected as a case study to run the simulation on two days to represent a summer and winter day. The results show there is a negative impact when using high albedo material on pedestrians’ thermal comfort. This study’s novelty is to be able to integrate the calculation of irradiance reflected from the vertical surfaces to calculate the shortwave radiation in the UTCI index.

GaTech | Race To Zero Competition “1st Place” Project Summary Atlanta’s West End neighborhood is a historic area developed in the mid-19th century. Initially prosperous, West End has witnessed a slowdown in recent decades. However, access to public transportation and the ongoing development of the Beltline – a trailpark circling city – presents new opportunities to revitalize and regenerate this community.

Westart is a multi-family building consisting of 36 dwelling units. It is designed mainly for local residents wishing to improve their housing quality with limit budget. The goal of this project is to design a building to provide a high living quality at low total cost, bringing a sustainable, affordable and equitable Net Zero Home to the residents of West End. Relevance of Project to the Goals of the Competition Our team of 9 GT students come from different majors and backgrounds, but we share the same interests in building science and wish to practice it professionally. We will design Westart in an independent study course for the Spring 2017 semester to exemplify environmentally responsive building appropriate to Westside Atlanta.

This project will complement the building performance related coursework that many in the team are taking, and introduce team members from other disciplines to building physics and performance-based building design. As high-performance housing, Westart meets DOE Zero Energy Ready Home criteria, satisfies housing needs for residents and accommodates the affordability for local people.

Design Strategy and Key Points Westart is designed as a multi-family building which satisfy local affordability and housing needs, while also supporting the overall energy system strategy and reducing building maintenance and management burdens.

Based on site conditions, building shape is optimized to maximize rooftop photovoltaic output. A study of the community conditions will support an Evidence Based Design decision-making process to ensure the design responds to the neighborhood. An Integrated Design methodology will be applied throughout the design decision- making process so that the final design is consistent with the design objectives.

http://www.greenbuzz.gatech.edu/news/students-takehome-1st-place-us-department-energy-2017-race-zerostudent-design-competition

Design Goal

Considering the community and site situation, we believe the multi-family housing can best satisfy the need of the local people in the West End community.

Sustainability, Affordability and Equity are selected primary goals to inform our design decisions. Their definition are as follows: Sustainability—Net-Zero energy consumption, water conservation and carbon footprint reduction; Affordability—Minimized initial and long-term housing cost; Equity—Cost-effective living standard for the local people.

From the interrelations of the primary goals, we derived three secondary goals: In order to realize Sustainability and Affordability, Westart should minimize the energy and construction cost, specically: - Achieving net-zero energy consumption; - Reducing water consumption, - Using recycled construction materials as available.

In order to realize Affordability and Equity, based on discussions with our community partners, Westart should have small units with no loss in functionality, speci ally: - Reducing the unit area to make it affordable to local people; - Equipping the unit with all functions that a household needs; - Providing units with different layouts to households with different compositions.

In order to realize Equity and Sustainability, Westart should have full access to natural energy resources, specically: - Ensuring all the units have access to sunlight and natural wind; - Providing high indoor air quality to every unit with an efficient centralized air conditioning system; - Producing domestic hot water with a centralized solar water heater.

The 3-story building has a maximum floor area ration of 0.696 and a total construction area of 27,454 square feet

the total construction area is divided into three equal floors, these floors are stacked together to satisfy the maximum floor story

Each floor is divided into three equal blocks, and each block is divided into 4 apartment units.

In order to give variation to the design the two blocks are tilted by 4 degree and merged together to create the main element. The main element then is divided into 2 bedrooms apartment and 2 studio.

Each building section has its own staircase access from street level as well as the parking level, each staircase serves 4 apartments each floor.

The building faces the south to increase solar exposure and to provide natural light to all units equally. The roof is tilted 16% (1:6.00) to maximize the solar gain.

Site Plan There is two access to the building. First, from the basement where the parking is located. second, from the street where there are two handicap parking available. Moreover, Each block has it’s own entrance, and each block serve 6 apartment units.

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Daylighting Analysis One of our design concepts is to enable each unit facing south to enjoy the sunlight, but this design makes a relatively narrow shape of units and results in a inefficient lighting at the center part of the room. To solve this problem, we applied Lighting Shelves to the windows on the south façade to introduce sunlight deeper into the room. In addition, lighting shelf also provides shading at the area near the window to reduce glare as well as solar radiation introduced.

We use illuminance map to examine the daylighting performance, and the results are shown below. In the result at September 21st 3:00 pm, all living area meet the residential daylighting requirement (100 lux, higher than dark red) and glare only occurs in a very small area (higher than 5000 lux, bright yellow).

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Design | Develop | Build

The project is part of a program where the students from the Georgia Institute of Technology, in collaboration with two German Universities (RWTH Aachen University and PBSA Düsseldorf), design and build a mobile education facility. Starting from the first design sketches and models, to detailed design plans, students experience all phases of a construction project. Detail design, calculating quantities, scheduling, financing/ sponsoring and cost control are part of the task. During the design and construction phase students learn how to deal with different construction materials and their specific application as well as the entire building process from constructing foundations to the cladding of a building. Through teamwork and selective prefabrication of building components in the Digital Fabrication Lab at Georgia Tech the project can be built within a short time span.

Ghana

Ghana contain a diversity in topography, include rivers, hills, artificial lake, and forest.

However, in the Volta region there is the highest point in Ghana the Mount Afadja which is at 885m height. As well the volta region have the largest artificial lake the Lake Volta.

Volta Region located in east of Ghana and its one of Ghana’s 10 administrative regions. The total area of Volta Region is 20,570 km2, the Volta Region divided into 25 administrative districts, and Ho designated as its capital.

Volta Region include groups such as the Ewe, the Guan, and the Akan peoples.

However, The native and largest ethnic group of the Volta Region are the Ewe people which consist of 68.5, Other ethnicities include the Guan people forming 9.2%, and the Akan people 8.5%, finally, the Gurma people 6.5%.

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Working Process During the time in Ghana and in the construction site, we develop and experiment with bricks and explore different set and combination to be in installing and serve as the wall, windows, and openings. We have been exposed to different stages of construction starting from earth digging and filling, concrete blooks lay down and construct, concrete making and mixing, all the way to the exterior bricks finishes and bamboo column assembly and construction. we have been used different tools on site to fabricate, cut, mix, drill...etc, in order to construct the building and keep moving.

Medical City The Medical City is located in the city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, city of Mecca and Jeddah. It aims to serve pilgrims, visitors, Mecca as well as its suburbs. This projects consists of the Obstetrics and Gynecology building, and Renal Diseases building. has accommodation for physicians and employees.

on the main road between and citizens in city of main hospital building, Furthermore, the project

Photo Credit: @Almajnoni

Photo Credit: The Rahnuma Daily

Photo Credit: @Almajnoni

Photo Credit: FAHIM RAFEEK

Main Hospital

The design idea is based on respecting the land shape. All buildings were distributed in a way to suit the land nature. Moreover, the design of the main hospital takes into consideration the separation of circulation between the visitor, employee, emergency, and service. Each has its own access, to maintain the privacy of the patent and the visitor. In addition. the main hospital takes advantages of the natural daylight into the building through exterior glazing and through the 10 skylights that are distributed throughout the building. The main hospital has a capacity of up to 584 beds. It has ER, laboratory, radiology department, physiotherapy department, 6 operation rooms with its services, intensive care unit, Inpatient Dept, and management.

Accommodation It was designed in a way that allows easy access to it by maintaining pathways and eliminate the use of cars. The residential unit has two apartments on the one floor.