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Farid Abbasi Farid_Abbasi@Outlook.com www.linkedin.com/in/f-abbasi 0046- 72 842 73 19 Stockholm, Sweden
The architect is merely the curator. He recognizes and honours a phenomenon which predates his involvement. He has complete authorship for it is his intervention which acknowledges and appreciates the subject, nevertheless the subject is authentic with or without an architect. It is this older authenticity, which originates from the events and social circumstances of the past, that offers weight to the subject. Thus, the architecture for its own sake never prospers. It thrives when it is about the sake of people.
Education 2018-2020
Umeå University, School of Architecture M ARCH in Architecture and Urban Design Umeå, Sweden
2012,2016
Azad University, International Parand Branch, Teheran B Arch in Architectural Engineering Tehran, Iran
Skills Rhinoceros
Adobe Indesign
Grasshopper
Adobe Illustrator
Autodesk Revit/BIM
Grasshopper Wallacei
Autodesk AUTOCAD
Environmental Analysis
Vray
Generative Solid Study
Lumion
Generative Urban Analysis
Lumion Animation
Honeybee and LadyBug
Adobe Photoshop
VR Visualization
Experience 2020
Stockholm
2014-2018 Tehran
Internship at Swegreen Following M.Arch II Thesis, Collaborated with Swegreen firm. The assignment was about designing spaces where vertical farming can integrate with architecture in programs such as restaurant, shopping mall and supermarkets.
Mahak Charity Hospital: Community Supporting Children Suffering from Cancer (Related Volunteer Activity)
Has a distinguished history of activities and achievements related to architecture, event’s design (space allocation and circulation), management, sustainability analysis, team work and team leadership.
Achievements 2020. UK 2020. Sweden 2020. Sweden 2019. Sweden 2017. Iran 2016. Iran
RIBA Presidents Silver Medal 2020 Shortlisted Entry RIBA nomination for president’s Silver Medal 2020 Selected By UMA Top 3 in Designverse World Campus Masters International Competiton Full Academic scholarship from Umeå University Innovative volunteer of the year Publication titled “Sustainable Architecture and its Principles”
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Swegreen Internship 2020 (July-September) Type Location Tasks
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Design Consultancy Stockholm , Sweden Consultancy, Design, Visualization, Presentation
After Graduating from UmeĂĽ School of about Vertical Farming, prospects of i the task to design and propose several various spatial programs. The Architect proposals were aimed to be presented t
Architecture, I presented my Thesis to CIO and CEO of Swegreen Company. We had a conversation integrating vertical farming and architecture and the challenges. Afterwards, I was assigned with l architectural scenarios where vertical farming solutions of the company could be utilized within tural programs which were selected were Supermarket, Shopping mall and Restaurants. The resulted to prospect clients and also help Swegreen to illustrate potentials of the company. Swegreen Internship
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Shopping Mall In Strore Design 01 Future of the urban farming is here. With this solution, citizens have the access to hyper local harvest of the day even in the middle of urban specific shopping malls
Shopping Mall In Strore Design 02 The Vertical Farming solution of the company can be integrated inside shopping mall units. The result can be a unit with exquisite lighting, welcoming design and maximum sustainability
Swegreen Internship
Restaurant Green Restaurant Company’s vertical farming solution can be designed with various dimensions and shapes. This flexibility of the design bring about a possiblity to make the distance between leafy greens and restaurants shorter as ever before
Restaurant Night lighting Vertical farming utilizes a lighting systems called blue/red lighting. It is seen as a purple light which results in the maximum rate of photosynthesis of vegetables. The design takes advantage of this lighting and bring a unique lighting and colour to the spatial configuration of the restaurant
Swegreen Internship
Grocery Store Farming as a Service Through the integration of vertical farming solutions of the company inside a grocery store, we can provide our citizens with fresh and nutritious leafy vegetables all year round. Built in ICA Focus in Gothenburg
Grocery store Fresh Leafy Vegetables Farming as a service provides our citizens with the nutritious food they require to lead a healthy and active life. All year round, you can buy buy vegetables which are the harvest of the same day.
Swegreen Internship
The High Garden
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M. Arch II, MA Thesis (2019-2020) Type Location Typology Area
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M.Arch Thesis, Individual Stockholm , Sweden Modular Timber Extension Varies
The High Garden Is an Architectural e Climate change and food safety in u engineering and IoaT in Architecture, th an algorithmic analysis tool which ana modular timber architecture and sun an possibilities of having sustainable vertic existing buildings’ insulation but opens
exploration concerning rapid urbanization, the sustainability of architecture, urban centres. Inspired by Ancient Japanese Architecture, modern timber he project develops and tests a series of tools. Firstly, the High Garden develops alyses the cities and finds prospect sites for intervention. Secondly, through nd exposure analysis, it forms a sustainable timber extension for buildings with cal farming. Formed by sustainable materials, the extension not only improves s new possibilities for the buildings and revitalizes them for the civic.
RIBA
Shortlist 2020
Top 3
Designverse WCM 2020
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State of The World What is the role of architecture today and What are the challenges
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109 Hectares of new agricultural lands are needed
By 2050, The earth’s population will increase by 3 billion and building sector is asked to construct 3 billion new units inside cities. Since one of the human’s fundamental needs is food, the agriculture sector also needs to adjust itself to this growth. Nevertheless, in 2019, Agriculture used 50 per cent of all earth’s habitable land and experts estimate that we need 109 hectares more land to cultivate. Moreover, the FAO (UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization) states that water use grew twice as much as population increase and agriculture already is using approximately 70 per cent of the global freshwater. At this point, experts like Professor Dickinson Despommier suggests that the only way humanity can tackle its future food safety issues is to find ways to introduce vertical farming inside Urban centres.
Agriculture consumes 70% of fresh water
Increasing Construction
Increasing Construction and Demolition Waste
Increasing Global Waste
1 in every 7 people is hungry
Covid 19 shows how insecure our supply chains are
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Half the population will be in water stressed areas
Vertical Farming inside cities is the answer
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Parametric Algorithm of the Urban Lens (Grasshopper Component)
The Project starts with the understanding and analysing the current state of the world. Therefore it was also essential to analyse the contemporary tools and their impact inside the architecture. One of the most influential design tools of 2020 is considered to be the parametric architecture and IoT in design. The High Garden thesis tries to study and develop its algorithmic tools. One of the tools that have been developed is an analytical algorithm and component inside grasshopper called urban lense; The input of the algorithm is open street map data of your site or your city and then the algorithm runs a multi-layer analysis for you. It studies and draws a series of analytical layers of illustrations for you. It highlights information such as main transportation routes, building plots and their height and area, the density of the population and speculative analysis of the relation between the size of each block and number of the residents and more. For more Information Please refer to: Abbasi, Farid. The High Garden: An Architectural exploration on how to integrate vertical farming inside city centres., M Arch II Written Thesis, UmeĂĽ University, P. 31-32 2020.Access-able From: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1437820/ FULLTEXT01.pdf
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Urban Lens Component The urban lens is a parametric component which the thesis has developed to analyse existing cities with speed and accuracy. This component feeds the information from OpenStreetMap exports and EPW files and then utilize them to draw conclusions and provide useful information regarding the city blocks and buildings (previous page). Moreover, it is also able to analyse the prospect site in more detail and analyse annual facade sun exposure, wind direction, sun vector direction, etc. This parametric component aimed to help the architect find prospect buildings for its timber extension.
Parametric Algorithm of the Urban Lens (Grasshopper Component)
Algorithmic Definition of the Urban Lens (Grasshopper Component)
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Inspired by traditional Japanese Architecture and i Architects3, Kengo Kuma and Associates4 and so ma project, Chris Precht) but with recycled engineered t engineers in Sweden5 and using a steel screw called structural and fire safety guidelines. Therefore the use elements inspired by the work of architects like Chris mountable and moveable joineries and light timber ele different configurations (Fig 6-10). The paramount ai afterwards, transforming them into a working adaptiv which due to its modularity, can form different kinds The modular and adaptive technology of the system m
Modular Architecture Challenging the sustainability of architecture and material consumption
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Drone Vegetables Delivery 1: Archive library in Kyoto, Kazuya Morita. https://morita-arch.com/
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its interlocking elements, work of Architects like Kazuya Morita1, Chris Precht2, Shigeru Ban any others, the project utilizes the same design concepts and joineries such as (Fig 4: Gardenhouse timber elements like used CLT and glulam pieces. Afterwards, Through collaboration with timber d SW-D, The project transforms the CLT pieces into resilient joineries with regards to Sweden e of non-timber materials such as steel and concrete are decreased(Fig 1-5). The hollow core timber Precht and Kazuya Morita offers exceptional flexibility to the modular design of the project. Easily ements enable the project to design different primary and secondary modules. These modules form im of the project is to combine the traditional and contemporary timber architecture findings and ve and modular construction technology. The projects result in an adaptive construction technology s of extensions for all buildings and bring synergy between old and new with minimum imposition. maximizes the use of space by providing variety in designed modules (Fig 11-15).
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Module Alfa (Integrated Solar panels)
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Architecture & Algorithms How Moduar and Parametric Architecture can reconfigure cities
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modular architecture and IoT, The High Garden project analyses cities and their current typographies. ally positioning itself within densely populated neighbourhoods and carefully analysed and selected th proper annual sun exposure and structure, the project stretches the constraints of urban planning ture to their limits. Hence, the high garden transforms the existing buildings into sustainable public
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The High Garden
Integral Sustainability
Snow/Rain Water Colelction
Harvesting Solar Energy
Closed Water Loop
Promoting Biophilia
Minimum Food Transport
Local Harvest inside Cities
Figure 1: Street elevation
Formed by sustainable timber elements and modularity, the extension results in a distinguished yet subtle intervention between old and new (Fig 1). Provided that the aim of the project is the revitalization of the existing buildings for future and future food safety, the project pushes towards maximum sustainability in its metabolism. The design offers the maximum amount of sustainability in electricity production and water collection through its roof’s design. The building has a closed-loop water cycle since it utilizes aquaponics vertical farming (Fig2). The project combines the vertical farming’s oxygen, light and productions with other programmes such as Eco restaurants, Eco gyms, cafes and Zen areas both for the public and residents of the buildings (Fig 3).
Figure 2: The High Garden Metabolism
Figure 3: Programs
The High Garden
Eco Restaurant Today’s Harvest in your plate Every year, a large portion of our agricultural harvest is wasted because of the time it takes from the food to be transfered to your plate. We can lower the waste and also provide healthier food
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Local Harvest Aquaponics Through water collection on the roof and use of Aquaponics vertical farming solution, your local greens are closer to you that ever before
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The High Garden
Green in Between Biophilia Every day, people inside our cities are further away from nature. Through integrating vertical farming inside our cities, we can relink our roots to our nature
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Evergreen Gym Exercise with fresh Oxygen Seasons change but you can always come to the gym and exercise in the vicinity of our leafy greens. By exercising in our system, you provide Co2 for our vegetables and in return, they provide fresh Oxygen for you
Pro Student
The High Garden
The High Garden Purple pearl of our cities Every day of every week, the high garden shines brightly even in the darkest of nights. it shines for all of us
The High Garden
Umeå Digital Hub
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M. Arch I, UMA 4 (2018-2019) Type Location Typology Area
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Individual , Academic Umeå , Sweden Mixed Use, commercial 10,000 m²
Umeå Digital Hub was part of Studio environment. I used this agenda to r interviews, talking with the municipa open building using open-source and
10 at UMA titled ‘Civic Cities’. The civic city concerns people’s presence and engagements in the built revitalize an industrial/residential neighbourhood in Umeå. Through Independent site analyses and al planning department and studying past and future detail plans of the area, I was able to propose an d citizen-led timber construction for small business owners and new small businesses. Umeå Digital Hub
Site, Challenges, question
The project’s interest was the connection between the living and working parts of the workhomes uni current residents wanted to expand their buildings, the municipality was against the expansion because water in the area. The question of the project was how technology and architecture and revitalize civic
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Old Vs New
Umeü is known for its dark and cold Nordic winters. Located in an industrial zone, Industrivägen offers neither joy nor protection for pedestrians. To bring light and colour to the street, firstly, the project used light coloured timber with maximum glazing and designed a pedestrian path. Secondly, Because of using open-source, citizen-led construction, each company can use a different colour pallet and shape for their office which offers distinction and individuality to the companies. Protected from the harsh climate outside, companies would maintain their momentum and synergy among them and offer colour and joy to anyone passing the building.
PUBLIC SPACE The building offers free sitting areas with electricity for young entrepreneurs and locals to sit and be included.
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WIKIHOUSE The technology of open-source construction can make Architecture democratic. Designed by the Architect, each unit is unique, cheap and modular.
UmeĂĽ Digital Hub
IBG House
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B. Arch Thesis (2016) Type Location Project Type Area
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Individual , Academic Teheran, Iran Commercial 14,300 m²
IBG House project’s paramount aim House is an architectural attempt to and through collaboration with them the project is a multi-functional fac workshop, etc. The project is located its imposition to the surroundings by
m is the promotion of non-oil industries. In a country where the most lucrative industry is oil, IBG empower other industries. The client of this project was a group called IBG (Iranian Barista Guild) m, the project was able to centralise their activities in one place. Centred around the coffee industry, cility for activities oriented by coffee industry such as research, exhibition area, auditorium, retail, d in the northern parts of the capital. Located in the rocky mountainside, the project tries to minimise y forming a deconstructed rocky concept. IBG House
Challenges & Achievements
The challenge of this project was to limit Architecture’s imposition to natural surroundings. The con and how every interpersonal interaction is affecting the surroundings. The dissertation achieved the Arch dissertation and it is saved at the school’s library.
ncept of this design was the complexity of human emotions e highest mark 20/20 for an exceptional submission of a B
IBG House
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Green Corridor
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Design Studio 5 (2015) Type Location Project Type Area
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Individual , Academic Teheran, Iran Residential 17,500 m²
Cities grow and architecture shoul that notion in mind. The project is neighbourhood. By using local and s combines different techniques to int
ld help people build sustainable communities. The green corridor is a residential complex with s located in the heavily under construction district of the city. The design aims for an integrated sustainable materials such as brick and wood, the project decreases the Co2 emission. The project tegrate nature with the building and tries to promote biophilia sense in people Green Corridor
Challenges & Achievements
Tehran is a city with a warm climate and one of the challenges of the project was the distribution of the masses and providing shadow for the spaces. Through the final distribution of the masses, the project was able to provide shadow for 50 per cent of the courtyards in mornings and afternoons. The integration of nature with the building was the second challenge. Through parametric architecture, the project provides green and sustainable public and semipublic spaces for the residents.
Green Corridor
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Horizon Children Hospital
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Design Studio 4 (2015) Type Location Project Type Area
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Individual , Academic Teheran, Iran Healthcare 23,000 m²
How hospitals can be both playful an look of the hospitals; Often tall and d toys as a concept, the project aims to
nd practical?’. Through working with children in Mahak I realized children are often terrified by the dark, hospitals have no place in children’s colourful minds. By utilizing the playfulness of the Lego o maintain its interior practicality whilst promoting the joy and playfulness of the children’s mind.
Horizon Children Hospital
Challenges & Achievements The biggest challenge of this project was to find a practical way to introduce playfulness and colour to hospitals’ design. The supportive steel structure around the façade supports the colourful pillars around the building. Through parametric adjustment of the height, colour and size of these pillars, the building tries to resemble Lego castles for children.
Main Entrance Horizon Children Hospital