MIXED USE CONFIDENTIAL PROJECT - COMMUNITY SPACES page 6
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
DIPLOMATIC QUARTERS RETAIL EXPERIENCE page 8
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
CONFIDENTIAL HEADQUARTERS page 10
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
CONFIDENTIAL MALL EXTENSION IN BAHRAIN page 12 Bahrain, Bahrain
CONFIDENTIAL MALL IN SHARJAH page 14
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
BAHRAIN BAY HOTEL SERVICED APARTMENTS page 16 Manama, Bahrain
DUBAI SOUTH COMMUNITY page 18
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
BUSINESS BAY MIXED-USE TOWER page 20 Dubai, United Arab Emirates A VILLAGE IN BEIRUT’S SKY page 22 Beirut, Lebanon
LUSAIL CLOUDS page 24
Lusail, Qatar
DUBAI CREEK HARBOUR page 26
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
DUBAI SOUTH page 28
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
PARADIGM, A NET ZERO HOME page 30 North Vanocuver (British Columbia), Canada
SUMMER HOUSE RETREAT page 32 Lac-Mégantic (Quebec), Canada
STANFORD UNIVERSITY NET ZERO HOME page 34 California, United States
“NEW CLASSIC” COUNTRYSIDE DEVELOPMENT AND VILLAS DESIGN page 36 New Haven (Vermont), United States
CARLES III, SEASIDE URBAN AND LANDSCAPE PLAN page 38 Alcanar (Tarragona), Spain
PLA DE PONENT URBAN DEVELOPMENT page 39 Viladecans (Barcelona), Spain
CARRER DEL MIG, OLD TOWN URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND PLAN page 40 Tortosa (Tarragona), Spain
ECODISTRICT PRAT NORD, MIXED-USE PLAN AND MASTERPLAN page 41 Barcelona, Spain
EDUARD MASiP RIBA
M.Arch, Barcelona Experience +11 years
(+971) 50 867 3371
eduard.masip.marin@gmail.com
I am an Architect (RIBA - M.Arch) graduated from the Architecture School of Barcelona (ETSAB) with more than ten years of international work experience in Architecture, Masterplanning and Urban Design.
I worked in Barcelona for more than four years in different award-winning offices. After that, I moved to Montreal to gain international experience where I worked as Project Designer for two years and was responsible for projects across Canada and the United States. Since February 2016, I have been an Associate in Gensler Middle East (Dubai/Abu Dhabi) where I also became a Mixed Use and Retail Center Practice Area Leader for the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions.
Passionate about architecture and design, I am ambitious, focused, and dynamic. My attention to detail, organization and excellent problem-solving skills ensure that every project is done accurately and to the highest standards. I strongly believe that a good project only occurs if every single step has been given the adequate consideration. From the first sketches, to design, choice of materials, budget, and construction methodologies, I am highly client focused in order to exceed their expectations. I work well under pressure, multitask, and always meet deadlines. I am responsible, hard-working, and always willing to learn more.
Leading a team and supervising a project from start to finish has allowed me to become acutely aware of the design changes that might happen and the financial implications of each decision. I am highly efficient in bringing out the best of each colleague, encouraging them towards a common success in achieving a fully integrated design solution. I also very much appreciate mentoring intermediate and junior staff.
Senior
Architect,
Associate at Gensler
Feb. 2016 / Current Dubai - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Lead a team of architects and designers to deliver mixed use, residential, workplace Architectural and Urban Design projects. Mixed Use and Retail Centers Practice Area Leader for Asia Pacific and Middle East region. Responsible for mentoring intermediate and junior staff.
Participate in different project phases, including conceptual designs, presentations, schematic design and competitions. Attend and lead client and project meetings to discuss project requirements and design strategies. Address design related queries and concerns in a timely manner and develop cost reduction initiatives while maintaining quality and productivity.
Collaborate and coordinate with design team, clients, consultants, contractors, fabricators, specification writers, regulatory agencies and other vendors to meet overall project objectives.
Coordinate with consultants to produce accurate technical documentation for construction of project.
Produce graphic presentations, 3D renderings and detailed drawings.
Utilize hand rendering techniques and models to communicate design concepts.
Project Designer at BONEstructure
Montreal, Canada
Oct. 2013 / Dec. 2015
Lead Designer of single-family houses, small and medium commercial buildings, Housing Plans and Mixed Use Plans (Masterplan) across Canada and the United States. Responsible for junior staff.
Prepare design layouts and sketches and provide assistance in integrated project design and development based on customer requirements.
Attend and lead client and project meetings to discuss project requirements and design strategies. Support marketing department and company events.
Design in accordance with project schedules, budgets, applicable codes, bylaws, ordinances and company design standards. Manage both the design team and the design process itself.
Develop design documentations, technical specifications and other project documents proposing effective design solutions to meet project goals. Job site visits and report.
Architect at TERRITORiSXLM
Barcelona, Spain
Design and development of Urban Plans, Mixed use Plans and Housing Plans.
Feb. 2013 / Aug. 2013
Conceive and develop conceptual urban designs and documentations. Prepare presentations to staff internally and clients. Coordinate full development of construction documents and specifications and manage outside support and sub-consultants. Evaluate design alternatives based on site and understand bylaw and ordinances requirements and assist with specification preparation.
Architect at Loles Herrero
Barcelona, Spain
Sep. 2010 / Feb. 2013
Multidisciplinary Architecture and Urban Design: Urban Plans, Masterplans, Public spaces, Mixed Use buildings, Mixed Use Plans, Commercial Plans and Housing Plans.
Initiate and create architecture and urban designs, sketches, schematic designs, diagrams and plans with responsibility for presentation drawings, models and narratives.
Prepare contract documents including details, sections, elevations and schedules and thorough knowledge of building materials, costs, ordinances, code and bylaws.
Intern at JORNET LLOP PASTOR
Barcelona, Spain
Urban Design and Planning.
Jun. 2008 / Sep. 2009
Assist and prepare drawings for concept and schematic design. Perform site analysis, including survey of existing conditions and field measure¬ments according to specified standards.
EDUCATION
Sep. 2004 / Nov. 2012
Master in Architecture, Barcelona School of Architecture (Polytechnic University of Catalonia)
Sep. 2009 / Jul. 2010
International exchange program, Faculty of Architecture in Prague. (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)
RIBA accreditation in 2017. Registered in Spanish Order of Architects since 2018.
Master Thesis distincted 9/10 and published in HIC* Arquitectura, Q9 Magazine and others.
LEED GA course. Expected exam for Nov. 2022.
Revit plugins courses taken, including Sepharia Architecture and Robot Structural Analysis.
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
With: Gensler
Year: 2021 / Ongoing
Stage: Pre Concept Masterplan
Scope: Senior Architect / Design Manager
Area: 43,266 m2 (BUA)
Software: Revit, Rhino
Gensler ME was appointed to design three exclusive retail and mixed use plots, in Wadi Safar masterplan. The sites are located to the west of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia and the three plots are the Fairways North, the Fairways South and the Green Core. These plots will act as the heart of the surrounding residential community’s.
Wadi Safar will be a place of discovery and experiences, a natural retreat that feels a million miles from the city, where each resident feels like the only one in the wadi. Residents, visitors and travellers to the site will be immersed in an undulating landscape that skirts seasonal tributaries, rising dramatic summits and stretches across vast plateaus.
The landscape will speak to the heritage of Saudi Arabia and be a place of discovery and experience. This is a destination that will be unique to each resident, feeling like the only one in the wadi. With the Five Principles of design - exclusivity, tradition, nature, privacy and quality, Wadi Safar will nurture space and person with dramatic summits, exclusive residential address, luxury retail and open space.
ADQ OFFICE CAMPUS (MODON)
With: Gensler
Scope: Senior Architect / Design Manager
Year: 2020 Area: 36,157 m2
Stage: Competition - Placemaking Masterplan, Offices and Workplace
Software: Sketchup, Revit
Inspired by what is the background scene of the Campus site, we are aiming to create an environment and experience for people and businesses to thrive. Gensler approach will combine innovative practices on what we believe - and what the data tells us - making an impact on human experience, and thus on business performance. A community catalyst and generator of a sense of belonging by connecting to the people as well as to the city within which it sits. It promotes sustainable working & living by responding to both the natural and built environments and use them to optimize passive cooling and lighting strategies and impact investments.
The UPLIFT Campus will become a place that prioritizes health and wellbeing at the human scale by connecting to nature and the outdoor environment and creating places that improve the livelihood and work-life balance of its users through a mixed-use program.
Located adjacent to the eastern gate to the Diplomatic Quarter in Riyadh, Gensler’s design for a new mixed-use development captures the essence of the neighborhood and the spirit of the city.
The entertainment cluster houses a variety of programs including Retail, Food & Beverage, Cinema, Bowling, and Offices. The ground level is designed as a free flowing, vibrant courtyard that opens outwards in every direction that invites passive movement of wind and shade from the exterior.
The facades take their cue from the character of the Quarter. The influence of Salamani architecture reveals itself in our contemporary design with a refined palate of elements and shapes such as triangles and narrow vertical slits. The exterior limestone cladding match the traditional stone facades of the surrounding neighborhood. The façade surface begins as a relatively fat surface on the facades facing the road but transform into undulating strata bands in the central courtyard space. This undulation and subtle variety of colors throughout the façade promotes continual visual movement throughout the project.
Mall extension in Manama Bay. The existing mall Phase 01 is consolidated by creating a series of new districts: Forum, Grand Avenue, Plaza, Electra and Market.
The Plaza district is a grand space which will allow for an ice rink and other various activities. Electra creates a high tech street inspired by the busy streets of Japan with its LED screens. Market is a young and vibrant space with spill out stores and lots of natural light and earthy elements.
Along the mall, three different districts with activities create the spaces where people can gather. The scheme proposes six evenly distributed escalator & lift cores. For wayfinding and strategic purposes; toilet blocks are found behind each primary core at ground.
The mall responds to the residential side with the entrances placement, aligned to the streets. Two entrances also open up towards the highway side of the development.
The internal elevation of each district becomes a composition of facades that have been designed to be flexible. The typologies vary in height and width in order to fit any space requirement. In the event of units needing to join, the typologies all fall within the same 1.5m modular system which can adapt for such changes.
Ground floor plan
First floor plan
FOUR SEASONS RESIDENCES AND PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE
Manama, Bahrain
With: Gensler
Year: 2017 - 2018
Stage: Pre Concept & Concept Design - Residential and Hospitality
Scope: Senior Architect / Design Manager
Area: 28,508 m2
Software: Sketchup, Revit
The project is part of the prestigious urban development of Bahrain Bay adjacent to the iconic Four Seasons Hotel. The siting of the buildings has been developed to maximise views across the bay and connections to the adjacent boardwalk. The proposal also includes a bridge connection to the Four Seasons island.
The architectural expression reflects the hotel geometry and materials as means to visually connect the complexes. We have created private garden spaces that would link to the adjcent park and the boardwalk along the bay.
The development consists of 110 apartments with a mix of one bedroom, two bedroom, three bedroom and four bedroom penthouses. A small retail and food and beverage component sits on the ground and opens to the main boulevard and boardwalk.
A community needs space for people to gather, meet and grow their relationship with each other.
The community design concept of the Dubai south Mixed Use Development, is to create a linear park that connects the 9 plots. Bringing the residents together in a safe and secured environment.
The park will provide the much needed communal space for the 2,000 residents to relax, gather, exercise and enjoy. This lifted open space also acts as an icon of this development that diferentiates Dubai South to its neighbouring competitors.
Simplicity is a direct reaction to the overly complex visual environment of modern Dubai. In thinking about the design of the statement tower, one must consider their residents, their expectations and demands, providing a sanctuary away from the rapid chaotic pace in the world. Residential tower with a component of a hotel (111 hotel keys, 152 serviced apartments and 770 branded apartments) and retail. A contemporary approach to a framed facade, using the facade parti to proportion the tower, and express base and crown. The panels in the frame can be a combination of solid and transparent, depending on the internal
Tower C | Facade Detail
Tower B | Facade Detail
Facade parti option 1
Facade parti option 1
Facade parti option 3
A VILLAGE IN BEIRUT’S SKY
With: Gensler
Scope: Senior Architect
Year: 2017 Area: 61,766 m2
Stage: Concept Design - Residential
Software: Sketchup, Autocad
A Village in the Sky is a reinterpretation of the previously designed Venus Towers in Beirut. After a passage of eight years, the surrounding neighbourhood has changed, becoming one of the most prestigious in Lebanon. To realign with its context, A Village in the Sky has been designed according to certain design drivers in order to make this development a unique place to live in Beirut. New and exclusive value has been brought into the development, by bringing the amenities to a higher level, with panoramic sea and city views. And the new apartments have been designed
First floor plan
Lusail, Qatar
With: Gensler
Scope: Senior Architect
Year: 2017 Area: 33,425 m2
Stage: Competition - Residential
Software: Sketchup, Autocad Winning Entry
Ultimate sustainability within a living elevation, inspired by the elements and responsive to the human spirit.
Create living places in the sky that define the space, or rather, “a home”. This area materialises the sense of exclusivity, security, comfort and belonging. By associating these emotions to the design of the building, both exterior and interior, we aim to create a living ambience that respects individuality while building a unified community. Complex but simple, elegant but earthy, minimal but encompassing, cosy but protected, all at one with nature.
We are excited to define the new living experience in Doha.
Placed in an unique location facing The Observation Tower by Calatrava, this project is designed to complement its neighbour with understated elegance and simplicity of design.
Our aim was to create luxurious residences with fantastic views complemented by pleasant private and urban spaces to a human scale. The towers form a gateway at the start of an axis leading to the island district and are as such family in terms of appearance and treatment. The towers on plots E.003 and E.004 house 475 and 515 units respectively and are placed on a 5 level podium which consists of parking and retail placed along the edge. All car and drop off access is from the back of the plot on the lowest level. The podium entrance is level with the main square, which results in a half recessed basement for the lowest level.
We are creating vibrant communities that are programmed to accomodate healthy life style communities which are lively and varied throughout the day catering to residents and visitors alike.
The development has one, two, and three bedroom luxury apartments, designed with fine exterior and interior details. Dubai South Golf Views will become an address that everyone will want to be a part of, a haven of stylish apartments where the city meets nature.
Completed in early 2017, this home features three levels that are divided in two living units. The main unit features three large bedrooms, and an open living area. Access to the main floor terrace from the living room is provided by a large sliding door system with close to 20 ft. of glazing, offering incredible light and a great view of the mountain range in the distance. The cellar level unit can be used as a mortgage helper or as quarters for a multi-generational family.
Ground floor plan - Permit plans Lower ground floor plan - Permit plans
Permit plans
Lac-Mégantic (Quebec), Canada
With: BONEstructure
Year: 2015
Area: 2,350 sq.ft. / 220 m2
Single family house in two levels: ground floor and walk out basement. The main living spaces and the master bedroom are placed in the upper level, where we find the main entrance and a carport. One of this level’s features is an exterior terrace that brings the inside to the outside and viceversa. A glaced corner brings a lot of light to the staircase, in order to emphasise the connection between floors. In the lower floor, a family room with access to the backyard divides the space, with two bedrooms in both sides and an office. The materials give a natural and traditional look, with natural stone and dark cedar wood planks, but the volumes are easy to understand, following a contemporary design attitude.
Ground floor plan - Preliminary plans
Walk-out basement floor plan - Preliminary plans
With: BONEstructure
Year: 2015 Area: 3,761 sq.ft. / 349 m2
The ground floor space is defined by the simplest architectural element: two walls, one to guide you towards the entrance door, and one to take your sight to the backyard.
Upstairs the bedrooms are strategically separated, to allow for different levels of privacy between the family components. The architectural design responds to the Californian climate, with overhang roofs to protect from the sun in summer but still letting the light go in in winter.
The combination of a thoughtful design with the high quality envelope made possible this Net Zero home.
“NEW CLASSIC” COUNTRYSIDE DEVELOPMENT AND VILLAS DESIGN
New Haven (Vermont), United States
With: BONEstructure
Year: 2014
Area: 6 Ha (development) / Villas: Small 1,500 sq.ft. / 140 m2 - Medium 2,500 sq.ft. / 230 m2 - Large 3,200 sq.ft. / 300 m2
Countryside development required the creation of multiple and different types and sizes of villas: Small, Medium and Large single family houses.
The traditional type of construction with a pitched roof is redefined, following contemporary design methods, materials, volumes and shapes. The combination of natural finishings such as stone, wood and shingles with modern ones such as steel, aluminum and acrylic, established a multi-generational neighborhood, in order to serve all types of families and needs.
CARLES III WATERFRONT, URBAN AND LANDSCAPE PLANNING
Alcanar (Tarragona), Spain
With: Loles Herrero
Year: 2012
Area: 16,000 m2 / 1.6 Ha
An urban project became a landscape one due to the characteristics of the place: The Mediterranean sea, the pines, the rocks... Reconversion of commercial land use (camping) into residential. The volumes are placed saving the maximum number of trees and letting the green corridors fill the space. A new “promenade” is created alongside the coast and some sensitive urban actions such as a starcaise and a ramp are made to reach the beach.
The houses distribution prioritises the open spaces: in the ground floor the common areas with higher ceilings and in the first floor the rooms, prevailing the views for the coast and the sunshine.
With: JORNET LLOP PASTOR
Year: 2009
Area: 12.4 Ha
The scheme is set with seven moves that should serve to achieve the overall strategy of economic and social renewal and revitalisation: the construction of a central space: The Promenade; The formation of a cross-park with the shape of a green corridor; The provision of equipment and services; New and affordable housing; A commercial ground floor with services and new activities; Rehabilitation and improvement of existing housing; The redevelopment of the road network, improving internal mobility and parking.
CARRER
MIG, OLD TOWN URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND PLAN
Tortosa (Tarragona), Spain
With: JORNET LLOP PASTOR
Year: 2009
Area: 65 Ha
The Old Town of Tortosa needed a fully development plan, a redesign of it’s urban architecture. The proposal creates a path that connects the new open spaces placed alongside and acts as an articulation having the new pulbic buildings in it’s core. The roofs of the neighborhood act as a 5th facade, becoming part of the plan’s landscape. Last but not least, many inhabited and old buildings are restorated, and many empty spaces are filled with new houses and commercial buildings.
ECODISTRICT PRAT NORD, MIXED-USE PLAN AND MASTERPLAN
El Prat (Barcelona), Spain
With: JORNET LLOP PASTOR
Year: 2009
Area: 2.5 km2 / 250 Ha
Ecodistrict Prat Nord becomes both an Urban and Regional project since it is a key point of the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona and at the same time a municipality with small neighborhoods from El Prat del Llobregat.
This strategic position takes advantage of the surrounding synergies for the benefit of its inhabitants (economically, environmentally and infrastructurally) with new and different public spaces, housing and commercial buildings.
