Portfolio Daniel Kaldas

Daniel Kaldas / Architecture Portfolio +

Content Competitions 01 Mototaxi Urbanism. Rio, Brasil. With A. Mohamed. & A. Elgendy 02 Residential Complex. Fellbach, Germany with WSA Architekten.

Master Plan / Urban Design / Architectural Design / Research.

Master Plan / Architectural Design / Architectural Details.

03 New Apostolic Church. Stuttgart, Germany with WSA Architekten.

Master Plan / Architectural Design.

Academic Work 04 Opening Up The Leper Colony.

Master Plan / Urban Design / Architectural Design / Research.

05 Living +.

Architectural Design.

06 Port-Said Urban Development.

Master Plan / Urban Design.

07 Peri-Urban Social Housing.

Urban Design / Architectural Design.

08 BMW - Show Room.

Architectural Design.

09 Al Fustat - Youth Center.

Urban Design / Architectural Design.

10 The House Of a Blind Man.

Architectural Design.

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11 The Rituals Of The Unfolds / A Pilgrimage Of One. 12 3031 Art Exhibition, Taking Over Z. 13 Freelance Interior Design.

14 3D Rendeing Artwork.

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Visual Design + Spacial Exploration.

Art Exhibition.

Interior Design + Visualization.

Digital Art + Execution.

Education

Daniel Kaldas

Bachelor Degree in Architecture University Of Stuttgart.

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Architecture And Urban Design German University In Cairo.

2015 - 2020.

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High School / College De La Salle - Daher.

2001 - 2015.

Experience

Contacts

Jr. Arch at Dar Arafa Architecture Cairo, Egypt.

2020.

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Intern at WSA Architekten Stuttgart, Germany.

2019.

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Intern at BFA Architecture Antwerp, Belgium.

2018.

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Intern at ZDS Arhitecture Cairo, Egypt.

2018.

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[+2] 01224202389 daniel.kaldas@hotmail.com linkedin.com/in/daniel-kaldas/ Languages Arabic

Freelance Project, AMK Contractors / Cairo, Egypt.

2019

Mother Language

English

Fluent

French

Fluent

Armenian

Mother Language

German

Basic

Freelance Architecture And Interior / Cairo, Egypt.

2018.

Software Proficiency

Photoshop

Indesign

Illustrator

Autocad

Revit

Rhino

Grasshopper

3DsMax

Corona

V-Ray

Sketchup

Lumion

Cura

Primavera

Allplan

Depthmap x

Unity

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01 Mototaxi Urbanism.

Rio, Brasil. / UIA Competition Entry 2020 Team : Daniel Kaldas, Adham Mohamed And Abdelaziz Elgendy.

Master Plan / Urban Design / Architectural Design / Research.

While reading on Rio de Janeiro and the area of Complexo da Maré, the public transportation services using motorcycles, the so-called mototaxis caught our attention for bridging the gap between the existing legal infrastructure and means of transportation, and the somehow inaccessible areas inside the favelas.

Mototaxi Urbanism engages in utilizing, remodeling and reprogramming; it attempts to enlarge and upscale activities that can be associated with and actually found at and in the vicinity of the various mototaxis stops.

Missing functions are introduced in compact multifunctional structures that enlarge the mototaxi stops with mechanic and tuning shops, funk carioca cafés and other related use in their ground floors, and activities perched on top, conceived as independent structures, on existing rooftops or inside abandoned warehouses, providing access through a system of wide ramps and stairs, upgrading current pedestrian bridges at Avenida Brasil to moto-bridges serving as well the crossing by mototaxi.

The proposed interventions at and around the mototaxi stops are divided into two main types. There are the multifunctional passage buildings at prime locations with on a daily basis large numbers of people passing by and through, set as stacked public spaces allowing for different activities, programmatically integrating with the existing political observatories and cultural non-governmental institutions at Maré. The second building type offers specific uses to the area.

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COMPLEXO DA MARÉ PACKAGING MINI FARM WORKSHOP BUTCHER

COMMUNAL KITCHEN

BAKERY SUPER MARKET

GAS CYLINDERS

STUDIO PETS SHOP

PUBLIC POOL

CINEMA T H E AT E R

PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB + EXHIBITION

VOCATIONAL S C H O O L

CHILD F I S H I N G OPEN CARE TOOLS SHOP SPACE

S O C I A L BUILDING

BARBER SHOP BAR / CAFE PHARMACY RESTAURANT HEALTH CENTER OPEN SPACE

CARPENTRY W O R K S H O P STEEL WORKSHOP S O U P KITCHEN S K AT E P A R K

CRAFTS CENTER BAR + CAFE

CO-WORKING SPACES CAFETERIA MOTO REPAIR

S O C I A L BUILDING

PLAYGROUND RESTAURANT

FOOTBALL CYBER STATIONARY MAGAZINE HOUSE

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RESTAURANT C I N E M A

PRINT-SHOP P L O T T E R

YOGA STUDIO SPORTS B A R

SPORTS COMPLEX DANCE CLUB GYM

Existing Mototaxi Stop New Mototaxi Stop Open Space Mototaxi Charging Pod Motobridge

Transit Map

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Seven Initial Mototaxi Stops

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Mototaxi Stops Network Solidification

First Generation Of Building Interventions

The Upscale Of The Rooftop Take Over Process

Warehouse Roof Tops Take over

Moto-Bridge

Steel Structures + Cement Bricks

Piezoelectric Tiles [ Electricity Generator ]

Urban Furniture + Charging Pods Accessibility System

Existing Warehouses

Mototaxi Stop Furniture Variations

Stepped Spaces

Bridges Morphing Into Buildings

Accessibility Structures

Adapting To Existing Rooftops

Columns Mototaxi Stop Definition

Motobridges

Leisure Activities

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02 Residential Complex.

Fellbach, Germany with WSA Architekten / 1st Prize Team : Jörg Weinbrenner, Anthi Kanelli And Daniel Kaldas Master Plan / Architectural Design / Architectural Details.

Extract from the jury’s assessment.

The design impresses with its clear volume distribution in urban space. An open block edge is formulated through its interplay of existing and new buildings. This blends in well with the surrounding area and creates an attractive, self-confident building ensemble with well-placed spatial connection points. The architectural form of the presented draft seems appropriate to the task, especially with regard to the urban planning aspects.

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03 New Apostolic Church.

Stuttgart, Germany with WSA Architekten. / 2nd Prize.

Team : Jörg Weinbrenner, Anthi Kanelli And Daniel Kaldas Master Plan / Architectural Design .

The reason and purpose of the multiple commissioning is the new building of the New Apostolic Church in Uhingen.

On the Alemannenstrasse property (Flst. 670/1 in Uhingen, the realization of a new building adapted to today’s community needs is planned.

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04 Opening Up The Leper Colony / On Going Project Master Plan / Urban Design / Architectural Design / Research.

For being socially segregated for 80 years, this project explores the possibilities of bringing back the Lepers community back into the social realm in Abo Zaabal, where it is located. The proposal introduces a new urban community, proximate to the Leper Colony, where in the proposed new urban tissue, The colony is introduced in a position of power in the new settlement, offering to the urban dwellers space for interaction and medical hospitality . The main strategy of the proposal is based on a research process that identifies the Maw’af ( informal Micro-bus Stop ) as a powerful urban catalyst in Cairo, and specifically in the studied area from Abo Zaabal.

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Abo Zaabal Stop Leper Colony

First Metro Line Extension Potential.

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Ring Road + Suez And Ismailia Roads Exit. + Al A’sher Stop Proximity.

Abo Zaabal Existing Plan / Grid 100 x 100

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Rome Noli Plan / The power of the church

Maw’af + 500 Radius services

Esxistin Abo Zaabal Station / The power of the Transportation Hub

Services repositioning upon the infrastructure

Proposed Urban Setting / The Power of The Colony

Final Urban Model

Living + Agriculture Idea

Void Plan Before

Existing Urban Tissue From Abo Zaabal

Re-orienting the fabric

Adjustment of the distances between the buildings

Void Plan After

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Proposed Master Plan [ Colony ] / Grid 50 x 50

Figure Ground Plan / Grid 10 x 10

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Architectural Design.

A mixed-use residential complex located in the Nordbahnhof district, Stuttgart. The building aims to create a proximity between residents, a market place, a bar and an exhibition space for creative practices.

The design of the architectural complex is an exploration for a new way of living, where spaces are mainly created by subtracting volumes out of a solid mass, offering more defined spaces to dwell and compacting all secondary uses in carved volumes out of the space boundaries created for dwelling. The complex has three main subtracted courtyards which serve as daylight source for the residential units within the complex. Those three courtyards extend to the facades to create pockets used as communal spaces for the residents cutting through the main corridors and the domestic units.

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06 Port-Said Urban Development Master Plan / Urban Design.

A master plan for an extension to the city of Port-Said and Port-Fouad. The proposal introduces a new urban tissue with a connection to a new designed water front promenade on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal. The Promenade offers open spaces bounded by a sequence of old ships creating an open museum perceived from both, the canal and the streets.

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07 Peri-Urban Social Housing Urban Design / Architectural Design.

Agricultural lands joined the government’s master plan of housing. The proposal introduces a cross-program residential and commercial ground floor spaces to fulfill the owners’ needs of get the most used spaces out their parcels, and being open to the main street with commercial activities.

The design focuses on the hierarchy of privacy in the spatial structure of the building, offering spaces for the dwellers to practice their traditional activities based on the observations and the interaction done with the city inhabitants.

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SHOPS M A IN ST RE ET

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08 BMW - Show Room Architectural Design

A BMW E-Mobility center and show room in the New Capital of Egypt. The building introduces the E-Cars to the Egyptian market through a show room, museum and car maintenance / research labs. The building showcases the movement of the cars inside it’s volumetric boundaries, showing the cars moving on its facade, which is a statement in itself of hosting in the interior spaces of the building complex, moving low emission cars.

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09 Al Fustat - Youth Center Urban Design / Architectural Design.

The youth center offers spaces for learning, working and interacting. The urban layout of the proposed center links the neighboring cultural center, Darb 1718 to the main court of the youth center, where events and interactive learning sessions take place. The center focuses on craft practices in order to compliment the activities taking place in Darb 1718 and the pottery market on the other side of the youth center.

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10 The House Of a Blind Man. Architectural Design.

A house design for a blind musician. Spaces are designed to have transitions from lit to dark zones in order to allow the house owner to feel the arrival to new spaces, and give the owner the freedom of moving in the house. the transition from space to another is through a slight change of levels using ramps to guide the blind man through the house.

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11 The Rituals Of The Unfolds / A Pilgrimage Of One. Visual Design + Spacial Exploration.

The art work inspired from techniques from Medieval architectural representation in search of alternatives that integrate lost qualities back into the modern architectural image. Drawing upon Le Corbusier’s Promenade Architecturale, it unfolds the complexity of the architectural experience of La Tourette through a sequence that represents a continuously evolving visual experience.

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12 3031 Art , Taking Over Z. Art Exhibition.

Taking Over Z is a series of photographs taken on Egyptian highways and roads. A documentation of the city expansion through the Z axis, taking over vertical spaces that bridge between the existing city of Cairo and the new urban expansions of the city. The photographs are overlapped into a digital collage that creates an imaginary and exaggerated form of vertical space invasion. An expression of a surreal form of a layered city, that started to seem less surreal.

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13 Freelance Interior Design.

Interior Design + Execution.

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14 3D Rendeing Artwork.

Digital Art + Visualization.

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