Portfolio Dima

Application for SO Architecture

Portfolio Dima Abdu 0548044253 dima.abdu@gmail.com / dima.abdu@campus.technion.ac.il

R e sume

Haifa native Architecture student At the Technion, Israel

Date of birth:

Dima Abdu - Architecture Student -

03 January 1997

Address:

Abbas 86, Haifa

Marital status:

Single

Phone:

054-8044-253

E-mail:

dima.abdu@campus.technion.ac.il

EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION

ANALY TI CAL M APPER AT SI M PLEX M APPI NG

Currently studying for Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Planning 1 (MAch1).

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AT THE TECHNION- ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Faculty of Architecture and Town planning Entitled to a Bachelor of Science in Architecture (BSc) degree from

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the the faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at The Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Official graduation schedualed for July 1st, 2021.

Grade average:85.10

NATIONALITY

Studio grade average (8 studio courses) : 84.90

I SRAELI

CHOSEN B Y THE TECHNIO N TO PAR TIC IPATE IN I NTERNATI ONAL WORK SHO PS:

LANGUAGES 2019 - Tsukiji Market: Urban Design Workshop, at Meiji University Tokyo, Japan Participating Universities:Meiji University- Technion ARABIC 1 00%

HEBREW 1 00%

ENG L IS H 1 00%

2017 - Urban Design Workshop Shanghai, China

Native Speaker

Mother Tongue Level (speaking, writing , Reading)

Mother Tongue Level (speaking, writing , Reading)

QUALIFICATIONS

CAD & BIM: AutoCAD , R e vit

Participating Universities: ECNU- Technion - Bezalel 2015 - Graduated Orthodox arab college high school.

INTERESTS

Photography

Drawing and Painting

Reading

Sports and Fitness

Travelling

Community Service

3D Mode lin g : S k e tch up , Rh in oce ros (G rassh op p e r) R e n de rin g : L umion , V - ray G rap h ics: Adobe P s, Ai, Id V ide o e ditin g : Adobe P r

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L o c a t i o n Te l - a m a l , H a i f a , I s r a e l Programme Primary school Project Level Academic, individual project Type 4th year, 7th semester Date of Issue

February 2020

Supervisor Arch. Uri Cohen (uri@uricohen.com)

This project is all about planning of an elementary school at a site of our choosing within a semi-industrial area near Downtown Haifa while maintaining programmatic and technical demands of the Ministry of Education and Israeli construction laws.

The site I chose is the interface between three socio-economically weak neighborhoods: Tel-amal, Khalisa and Downtown. The design proposal is in an empty site with some greenery. The main concept is creating two separate spaces that are connected with a bridge, one that will be serving the children that are getting taught at the elementary school and the second space will serve the rest of nearby neighborhoods in after school hours. The proposed design aims to see the school as part of an urban whole, to encourage relationship between the pupils inside the school and the residents of the neighborhood.

The positioning of the building at the chosen site is dictated by the steep topographic contour lines moreover, so that the classrooms can get the best lighting inside. Entering the school is from ‘ani maamin’ street through the big basketball field that serves the school and nearby neighborhoods and in the same level of the street.

The southern part of the project underneath the basketball field are offices for the staff in the upper floors and the bottom floor are labs for the students in school hours and for rental for after school hours.

The northern sector of the project are all the classrooms that the pupils spend most of their time in with wide corridors so they can play indoors.

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Location Kishon Hills Park, Haifa, Israel

This project was developed through a course “Engineering and Architectural Harmony". A course that Programme Pedestrian and bikes bridge integrated Civil engineer students and Architecture Project Level Academic, Group project Students. During the Course we planned and Type 5th year, 9th semester designed a bridge for pedestrians, laid over water, that connects the Kishon hills park and the visiting Date of Issue February 2021 S u p e r v i s o r s A r c h . Y o s s i A m i r ( y o s i a m i r @ t e c h n i o n . a c . i l ) center tower (formerly Oil Refineries). The main concept for the bridge was for it to include different floor Engineer Faisal Eluli (Faisal.al@technion.ac.il) levels, one for the pedestrians and one for the bikers.

We chose the materials for the bridge so it would seem weightless next to the historic old oil refinery tower (floor detail - narrow sides), yet still made out of concrete that resembles the connected tower.

Pedestrians and bikers can cross the bridge and contemplate while sitting on the benches over the bridge looking at the Kishon river while having different experiences throughout the bridge.

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Location Khalisa, Haifa, Israel Urban Planning Project Level Academic, individual project Type 4th year, 8th semester Date of Issue Supervisor

July 2020

Arch. Oren Ben-Avraham

(baoren@013net.net)

Khalisa is a neighborhood located in the outskirts of Haifa. One of the least visited neighborhoods in the city. It is known for its violence, poverty, and historical fabric. The projects views Khalisa neighborhood as a hermetic place and as an urban gap because of its physical and social traits.

First, we look at the physical aspect, Khalisa is disconnected from nearby neighborhoods Nave Sha'anan, Hadar and Downtown .Second proof of Khalisa being a gap in the urban fabric, There is only one entrance to the neighborhood that leads to a street called “gush etzion” which branches out to create few dead-end streets.

The physical traits resulted in creating a hermetic place that led to creating a very tight community that celebrates weddings and funerals together and many protests together but also created a lot of friction between people that resulted into violence and drug abuse.

This project wants to seize the full potential of Khalisa neighborhood. By maintaining the positive aspects already existing, like the community that was formed due to the place being hermetic while altering negative outcomes like violence and drug use into neutral or positive takes by connecting Khalisa to the nearby neighborhoods and the urban fabric.

Furthermore, we notice that 70% of the buildings in the neighborhood including the mosque, do not belong to the residents they belong to a state owned housing company called Amidar, because of a law that got enacted in the nineteen fifties.

House

Passed by the Knesset in 1950 The Absentees' Property Law , Defines persons who were expelled, fled, or who left the country after 29 November 1947, mainly due to the war, as well as their movable and immovable property (mainly land, houses and bank accounts etc.), as “absentee”. This law dictated how Khalisa buildings look like today, since they stayed the same since 1950. Which makes the Khalisa residents feel a sense of spatial detachment from their own homes that may be taken away anytime. We notice a lot of light wight structures like steel and wood that are built without any permit that meet resident's basic physical needs.

Looking at the social aspect of the neighborhood we notice that 70% of the residents share the same identity being socio-economically weak Muslim Arabs, the rest are Jewish people and immigrants.

This project proposes different levels of openness and closedness to the neighborhood in a controlled way. First by building lightweight structures (that the government will fund) on the Bridge of Khalisa, which leads to the entrance of the neighborhood and it will attract residents from nearby neighborhoods like Hadar, downtown, etc.

the bridge will include small rooms that will be structurally “hanging” from the bridge with tension cable structures, looking at wadi rushmiya, and they will be used for alternative education and for cafes.

And second intervention will reside inside Khalisa, that will try to deal with the lack of residential ownership, not by new laws but by architecture. The project suggests doing that by transforming the first floors in each building to a commercial floor (if the residents living inside the specific building agrees), in order to create a continuous commercial shops that will invite the public (people outside of Khalisa) inside the neighborhood and the residents will be granted the money that the commercial stores are generating so that the residents can continue and develop and eventually to move up the socio economic ladder..

In short to redefine the public section through the private. The project suggests spatial situation that allows opportunities a self-sustainable model that will give the opportunity for the residents to have an agricultural private area near their homes to rent, to plant or to use it for farming.

Site before intervention

Masterplan

Existing situation 2020

Proposed design 2025

Proposed design 2030

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L o c a t i o n : To k y o , J a p a n 2 0 1 9

In this workshop we were given a specific cultural site which was

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the old Tsukiji Fish Market (now an empty site). located in Tsukiji

Project Level Workshop (academic), group project Type 4th year, 7th semester Date of Issue

September 2019

Supervisor Arch. Uri Cohen (uri@uricohen.com)

in central Tokyo between the Sumida River and the upmarket Ginza shopping district. The market opened on 11 February 1935 as a replacement for an older market that was destroyed in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. It closed on 6 October 2018 and moved to the new Toyosu Market, 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi) away.

When the inner wholesale market was operational, it offered only restricted access to visitors. After the inner wholesale market closed, the outer retail market, restaurants, and associated restaurant supply stores remain operational and the area is still a major tourist attraction for both domestic and overseas visitors.

The main concept of the project is to deal with the over tourism that is currently happening in Tokyo. The market was the largest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world that served the locals and provided work and income for many employees. The project aimed to connect the old fish market site with the urban fabric while providing working space and housing for the locals.

The urban planning was meant to create high density buildings with height hierarchy in order to create varied living and working spaces that are connected to the Tsukiji Outer Market where the local shops still operate.

The design also views the site location as a key design, being close to the river, the residents and the employees can enjoy being near the water by the different water fronts. The proposal envisions a dialogue between the water and the built spaces.

The proposed design

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Location Hadar, Haifa, Israel Programme Clinic 3rd year, 6th semester Project Level Academic, group project Date of Issue

June 2019

Assoc. Prof. Dafna Fisher-Gewirtzman (ardafna@technion.ac.il)

his studio was an off-campus design-build program, where the faculty of medicine in Technion collaborated with the faculty with architecture (Technion) to create a clinic in an existing historical building, a design that is meant for heritage preservation and to provide the practical space for the med students and doctors to work.

The design was at first individual then the studio worked as a team for the final design. Unfortunately, due to financial trouble, the project did not get build. The program included a community room, OBGYN, nurse’s room, dentist room and three general examine rooms.

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