Academic Architectural portfolio

Esraa Samman Architectural Portfolio

Esraa Samman Architectural Portfolio

Bachelor of Science in Architecture

Contents Resilient Interlocking Envelops Aleppo, Syria - Spring 2016

Glass Bars Berlin, Germany - Study Abroad Fall 2016

Interlocking L-shapes operation Client contingency - Spring 2012

Two Learning center Chinatown - Fall 2012

Rotating C-shapes - Summer 2014

Resilient Interlocking Envelops Charlestown Headquarters - Fall 2014

Redefining the loss of Identity (Rebuilding the Future)

Professor Weldon Pries

Present News: Syrian refugee’s experiences consist of seeing the destruction of their homes and country and therefore being forced to leave their home country, deprived from parents and friends, disconnected from basic services such as electricity or water, and prevented from education.

Architectural Response: On Ground: Redefining the loss of identity and culture of Aleppo is to concieve hope and convert this sad cause to an opportunity for rebuilding the future. By bringing in together natural site elements the heart of Aleppo contains such as the courtyards and the water implied in the mosques and hans, assembly public gathering spaces is being created on the ground level revitalizing the space for the workers and public to socialize.

Inbetween: The access to the charitable non-profit organization, informational center and education institution through the vertical circulation has a role of showcasing some of the exising remaining infrastructure of the city ruins as an exterior skin causing the youth and foreginers to acknowledge its importance from a cultural and historical identity Above Buildings: Spanned volumes on a higher level across the top of the existing souk, the project integrates with the souk modular system inspring a visual language of continuity of the mass, the ruins, and the artificial pools.

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Glass Bars Circulations design

Extention to an exising liberary and museum design in Berlin, Germany.

My concept is physically connecting the old from the new by glass bar volumes that houses the circulation of the new extention, yet visually disconnecting the old from the new during human’s movement in space.

1) Exterior visual seperations between preserving the old and presenting the new addition, is presented by extended out and pushed in glass bar volumes entrances.

(Categories: public & semi public entrances zones) 2) Internal circulation is housed in a glass bar volume and guilded by light leading one from the most public to private or quite usage spaces.

3) Distinguish between old and new through the use of the glass bar volumes as transitional spaces with internal visual connections to the old and new facades.

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Professor Gabriele Ruoff

Interlocking Envelops resilient design

Professor Ann Pitt

Interlocking Envelops resilient design

Professor Ann Pitt

Interlocking Envelops resilient design

Professor Ann Pitt

Interlocking Envelops resilient design

Professor Ann Pitt

Interlocking Envelops resilient design

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DETAILED WALL ELEVATION

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Interlocking L-shapes operation

Professor Anthony Dimari

Assignment - Choose a verb operation from a list to design a client contingency.

Verb operation - Interlock Flex spaces - Art Gallery & Inside Garden.

Concept - Interlocking L shape Modules of both residentials houses creating a shared garage space. A lightening aspect is incorporated within the shifts of the L-shapes modules for fenestration.

Ralation with Neighbours Rule 1: The houses are centered to make no interference between them

Detailed Plans Floor 1

Rule 2: To maintain the views private.

No fenestration on the side facing site 4, and trees between the boundary of the landscepe of site 3

No View

Site Diagram Ground Floor

Program and Circulation Diagram Master’s Bedroom

Circulation 2 x Bedroom Circulation Double height walls Art Gallery Bathroom Bathroom

Bedroom

Closet Bathroom Dining Kitchen Bathroom Hall Living Kitchen

Circulation

Art Gallery Garden Storage Circulation Storage

Living room Dining room

Public Private Flex + Circ

Fenestration Glass walls Windows created Shift

Family House

Client House

Interior Garden

Art Gallery

Two Learning Spaces in Chinatown

Professor Robert Pavlik

Culinary School Culinary school includes a multi-purpose space to attracts high profile chefs to offer lectures by providing a venue for public and food industry events.

Multi-purpose space with different geometry and extruded glass spaces (Cafe and an event space) presents themselves to the outside as the accessable spaces by the public.

A seperate envelop incorporated on both sides to create a path and a patio space as a gathering apace at the entry point.

2. Creating a around the building that is visible on the facade.

Branch Library Library in Chinatown, Boston with an open space.

Branch library would have a large collection of volumes and associated reading spaces. Open space should be connected to adjacent public areas and accessable from street level.

Rotating U shapes floor plans while the elevator located in the core of the building, is creating airlocks around it. Airlocks is where a round circulation is placed revealing exterior views through extended out fenestrations.

Continuous square grid of windows’ scale, joints on glass, metal surface and tiles of open space.

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Circulation

Dark VS. Light Materials Brick - Service Concrete - Served Sandblast Glass - Envelop Glass - Multi-purpose spaces

Branch Library Concept Diagram:

Circulation: Elevator Egress Reading Spaces Interlocking with the Elevator

Circulation: Elevator Egress Reading Spaces Interlocking with the site

Interlocking with the Egress

Rotating C-shapes Dwelling

Professor Elizabeth Ghiseline

Concept: Rotated C shapes volumes creating a central courtyard core, that explore different floor and wall thicknesses, as well as inward and outwards views to emphasize on the theme of public to private scale of the dwelling design.

Two Rules: 1. Thickness A) Floor thickness The structure is rooting from the ground, meaning that as the levels go higher the floor slabs’ thinknesses decrease.The top level has an overhang creating a floating effect.

B) Wall Thickness As the levels go upwards, the walls thickness increase emphasizing a level of privacy.

2. Views Inward and outward views is a factor that differentiate between public and private programs. The public spaces have fenestration that is looking inward into each other, but the private spaces are looking outward to exterior views of the surrounding context.

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VIEWS: INWARD = PUBLIC SPACES OUTWARD = PRIVATE

FLOORS: THIN - LIGHT = FLOATING IN THE SKY THICK - HEAVY = ROOTING FROM GROUND

WALLS: THIN = PUBLIC SPACES THICK = PRIVATE SPACES

Interlocking Envelops resilient design

Headquarter resilient design for Boston Association in Charlestown, Navy Yard.

Relationship to the underground: An underground canal design preforms as a flood resilient system thatsurpasses under the structure and provide a visual relationship to the water through an interior floor glass strip below the main circulation.

Relationship to the sky: Three interlocking folded plane envelops creating three zones of programmatic hierarchy with some overlapping of the main program that is to be the visitor center for the public. A visual relationship to the sky is incorporated by the skylight strip located above the staircase and the terraces formed from the overlapping planes.

Professor Ann Pitt

Farm Volunteer Experience

March 2017

Plenitud Iniciativas Ecoeducativas, Inc. in Las MarĂ­as, Puerto Rico

is a non-profit educational farm and learning center that offer training and information on a wide variety of sustainable permaculture practices, including: agro-forestry; rain water harvesting; urban food production; animal husbandry; food processing and storage for value added products and food security.

> Built a Bio-construction design. > Excavated a natural sewage treatment. > Participated in an organic gardening and agroforestry Hands-on workshop. > Contributed in a community service of organic gardening at a public school. > Attended workshops on Grey Water, Natural Building, and Rainwater Management.

Rainwater Management

Building with recycable materials

Construction Work Experience

January 2014-August 2014

Habitat for Humanity Greater Boston in MA, U.S.A Habitat for Humanity Greater Boston is a Massachusetts charitable nonprofit organization dedicated to building simple low-cost homes by forming partnerships with low-income families in need of decent and affordable housing.

> Participated in constructing a house for a family in need > Supported with installing fiber cement siding > Installed foam insulation > Cut wood > Supervised volunteers

Construction Volunteer Experience

Un Techo para mi Pais Organization in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic TECHO is a nonprofit organization that mobilizes youth volunteers to fight extreme poverty in Latin America, by constructing transitional housing and implementing social inclusion programs.

> Constructed a simple house for a family in need > Assembled materials including panels of wooden floor and walls, and aluminum ceiling. > Measured to ensure level construction

March 2012