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RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Schindler Global Awards
Leapfrogging Development | Urban Transformation in Mumbai
Schindler Group
Entity Competition
Contemporary Entrepreneurial Urbanism
ZDS Architects
REVIVE | BACHELOR THESIS
SYNTHESIS
ECLECTIC RHYTHMS
LIGHTING DESIGN
AZBAKEYA MARKET HALL
This portfolio shows a selection of projects. Projects not shown to completion.
Luxor Rehabilitation Center
Luxor | Egypt
Bachelor Thesis 2018 | Prof. Dunja Karcher
Our bachelor studio addresses a Health Rehabilitation Center in Luxor, Egypt. Natural elements are found in ample around the site: the waters of the Nile, the green fields of the west bank, the stretches of sand beyond the greenery, the shining sun and the moderate weather; all providing the city with crisp and clean air. Thus, making Luxor an ideal and most welcoming destination for someone in need of a quiet down until they regain their health.
Since the patients are restricted, since they would stay at the rehabilitation center for long periods of time, the task was essentially about designing a multifunctional, diversified building, with plazas, gardens and spaces of unique air and different qualiesy, whilst maintaining the many and complex functions of the rehabilitation center, in order to alleviate the experience of the users.
As stated by Juhani Pallasmaa in his book, The Eyes of The Skin: “Architecture strengthens the existential experience, the one’s sense of being in the world, and this is essentially a strengthened experience of the self. Instead of mere vision, or the five classical senses, architecture involves several realms of sensory experience which interact and fuse into each other.” It was one of the aims of this design: to achieve an engagment of all sensory experiences in the rehabilitation center through its architecture.
One of the goals of this project was to create a complex, which does not only serve its function as a rehabilitation center, but that also serves as an addition to the city, creating a unique experience for the public user, thus, serving as a catalyst to bring the city alive once more.
Since the Corniche at Luxor is bound to end, due to all of the private properties on the water front, a question was arised: how to make sure it ends with a better statement than just a solid wall, which is the current situation?
The answer this project is presenting is to make possible bringing the people from the lower level of the Corniche all the way to the park, which is attatched to our site. Bringing both, the locals and the tourist of Luxor, into a green, open space overlooking the Nile and is welcoming and open to all.
Sports Treatment Center
Business Center
Conference & Schooling
Wellness & Breathing
Entrance Hall
Adminstration
Neuro Center
Pediatrics Center
Physio Care
Weight Management Center
Hydro Therapy
The section shows the slab that forms a shading element on part of the ramp, and how the ramp itself shades the courtyard beneath. The lifted mass on the water front also provides a shaded area, to make the outdoor spaces more inviting and pleasant in a city of high temperatures.
The design of the columns lifting the mass on the water includes the same curvatures of the openings, affirming the swift motion in the masses.
Synthesis
Leapfrogging Development | Urban Transformation in Mumbai
Mumbai | India
Schindler Global Award 2019 | Design Studio VI | Assoc. Prof. Holger Gladys
Our project aims towards restoring the identity of the city, through the reintegration of the natural elements that were an iconic feature of the history of the city of Mumbai; including the mangrove forests, water tanks, and productive plantation. The design treats the Eastern Water Front as the middle ground where both entities -the natural elements and man-made structures- seamlessly intertwine.
One of the main features of our design is the restoration of the typology of the public space around the water tanks, which not only valuable for its various functions, but for its cultural and religious importance, as well. Such typology further enhances the iconic relationship between the city and the water; it being an island city.
The water tanks serve various functions. The tanks are an integral part of the drainage system. They are connected to the low lying areas and are used to drain the water from the flood-affected areas during the monsoon season. The water is then recycled and used for plantation of productive trees and green open spaces.
Another most important aspect of the design is the plantation of mangrove forests. Mangroves can be highly beneficial in a context like Mumbai’s. The need for green open spaces is highly [required] due to the poor air quality of the city and need for natural purifiers. Mumbai suffers from high levels of soil contamination and water pollution, which the mangrove forests can also be the answer to. Mangrove roots are fed on by fish, thus acting as a catalyst for the fishing activity in the area. Hence, the fishing villages and fishing farms are placed in direct correspondence to the mangrove forests.
Eclectic Rhythms
Agri-Urban Metropolis | The Kafr Ghatati Pilot
Kafr Ghatati | Giza | Egypt
Design Studio VII | Assoc. Prof. Holger Gladys
Through the last few decades, Urban Expansion has continued to take over the agricultural lands without any means of compensation for the lost green footprint. Shall this pattern continue, agricultural lands in Egypt would be under eminent threat.
Realising that the expansion cannot be stopped, our project explored a possible way to control the expansion, and look into ways with which the lost green lands can be compensated.
In the metropolitan context, the urban and agri are separatd. The aim of our design is to reintegrate both entities in a coherent and complementary environment. The starting point was the traces of the canal network, used previously to water the agricultural lands in the area, which was used as a guide for the proposed structures.
The structures aim to host both green and built. They should create an incentive for settlers to take home in the newly built structures which would host most necessary functions. The intersection point would act as the starting nodes for the structures and they would continue to grow along the canal network following the rates of population growth. The area encompassed between the canals and the structures acts as a social space which can host various activities and markets.
The Island
Cairo. . . Metropolitan, Green and Public Manial | Cairo | Egypt
Design Studio V | Prof. Rita Pinto De Freitas
The project aims to revive the neglected parts of Cairo through a sustainable transit system that connects the entire metropolitan context, whilst activating the area in the process, and creating transit hubs that act as new urban
Realizing that Al Manial island has a strong relation with the wateredge and is surrounded by ample green spaces, it showed great potential to be a possible new center. Our first approach was to re-design the introverted waterfront, and make it into one big and connected open space for the public user.
The project revistalised the island’s center, creating a new green void that connects the palace to the market, then to the wateredge. Then we created a prototype for the transit hubs, one which connects the island to the main land, to Garden City.
Azbakeya Market Hall
Integrated Design Project
Azbakeya | Cairo | Egypt
Design Studio III | Prof. Dr. Thomas Loeffler
The main feature of the design is the U-shaped space defined by the different masses of the building. This outdoor space brings together the various functions of the market hall and encourages the use of outdoor space.
The Urban Food area serves as connection between the main and temporary market halls, and has a direct connection with the shaded open space centered between the masses. The Urban Food area also maintains an uniterrupted visual connection to the Azbakeya Garden which it owes to the glass facade towards the garden.
The different masses of the building signify different functions. The hierarchy of the different functions could easily be observed through the different heights of the masses. The biggest and heighest mass had to be the market hall itself, along with a temporary hall, a market support area, and a relocation of the famous Azbakeya Book Market.
A special treatment has been applied to the facades and the roofs of the building, giving it a prominent feel and a unique quality, creating a special kind of experience for the users of the Market Hall.
Functions were divided into three main masses.
The Urban Food area is centralised to catch a special view of the park.prak.
Support facilities were placed to serve all three masses. The central area connects the two main halls.
The Village
New Luxor City - New Housing Typologies
New Luxor | Luxor | Egypt
Design Studio IV | Christina Jimenez Mattsson
Since the site of the project lacked any physical context, given that the city of New Luxor has not yet undergone development, it was solely based around the people of Luxor and their needs.
After meeting with many villagers of different lifestyles and needs, an image was drawn up to what elements ideally need to be available. For example, the souq which acts as spine for the village, and to implement an incremental strategy into the design to account for the possible expansion.
The project includes the design of a small part of the new town; a cluster of houses, specific for the residents of the villages of Luxor. The project aims to promote urban activity by means of architecture in a friendly work-live neighbourhood, through integrating public spaces and commercial areas.
Rhinoceros
3D Modelling | Post Production
The modelling task on this project was rather challenging, as it started with a mere abstract drawing, leaving the rest to our interpretation. It was then modelled to the finest detail. Render shots were taken via VRay, and the post production was done in Photoshop.
Mosque of Mohamed Ali
The Light of Egypt
Lighting Design | Elective | Assoc. Prof. Ruairi O’Brien
The Mosque of Mohamed Ali is situated in the Citadel of Cairo, Egypt. This Ottoman Mosque, the largest in the city, was built in the 19th century, with its animated silhoutte and twin minarets. It was built to be the most visible mosque in the city. Mohamed Ali is one of the first features to be seen when approaching the city in any direction.
The project aims to enhance the building’s architectural features through lighting design, highlighting the unique elements of its architecture. The proposed lighting system can be adapted to different situations, given the various functions of the complex; for example, during the month of Ramadan and during wedding ceremonies.
The Wall, A Recurrence
Architecture Fairy Tale
Architecture Storytelling | Elective
The world is at war.
The destruction is unsurmountable. Half of humanity is dead, whilst the other half live to survive the cruel consequences.
The world is divided. Wars breakout at every corner, every man pinned against the other in a fight for survival. Death and violence have become the norm.
Humanity is losing hope.
But, perhaps, not all divisions are on the darker side of the spectrum. Perhaps another chance can rise up from the ashes; and the wall goes up.
Promising not only safety and protection, but pronouncing a new begining.
Life is tranquil in the settlements, but the balance is quick to tip off, and the equality that was to be safe guarded has become its opposite, and the groups have formed, and the power has been apprehended, and the balance has broken off, for the new wall is being built, and the spectrum shifts to dark again.
