Architecture Portfolio of Hadi Tamim by Hadi Tamim

A1.1 Colborne Building

Colborne Building was a branch of the Old Victoria Hospital, a cluster of hospital buildings located in Soho London. It is the only building that was left while the rest was demolished to have a new residential development built on the site. What used to be a hospital building is to be adaptively reused to become a commercial building. The new program is composed of leasable spaces including retail, offices, and restaurants. Moreover, an addition will be built to it, serving as the main entrance and a vertical circulation verstibule for the building. The drawings are extracts from the working drawing set. Roles on the Project:

• Fully documented the existing building conditions including site measurements, photographs, existing drawings, and historic research, then organized them in an efficient method. Used the collected data to draw 2D base plans, sections, and elevations on AutoCAD, as well as a 3D model on Sketchup.

• Assisted the project architect across all project phases including schematic design, design development, OBC research, wall and floor assemblies, envelope performance, material palettes, product specifications, and permit applications.

• Created a complete set of working drawings through teamwork with technologists that provided technical guidance. Select drawings from this set are included in this portfolio section.

• Participated in meetings with the client to present design options and project progress to get decisions and approvals.

• Cooridnated engineering systems of structural, mechanical, electrical, civil, and landscape subconsultants to ensure successful integration in the projet across all phases.

• Referred to Heritage guidelines and knowledge acquired from education to improve the building performance and adaptability while simultaneously preserving its heritage value and character defining elements.

• Generated renders using Enscape to visualize the roject with respect to context.

OBC Review Plan Demolition Plan

A1.1 Colborne Building

Enlarged Stair Section

Enlarged Stair Plan

A1.2 People and the City Monument

The People and the City Monument is a renowned landmark in downtown London, designed by a local artist. The project scope was to reclad it with a new granite stone layout on top of the existing concrete foundation. The existing conditions did not have reference drawings, so the concrete base was laser scanned to extract precise existing measurements. Then, the point cloud model was used to create a 3D digital model to apply the new stone layout on.

Roles on the Project:

• Created a set of working drawings with precise dimensions and building instructions for the new stone layout based on the existing foundation measurements under the supervision of the project architect.

• Built a 3D model of the existing condition and proposed intervention on Sketchup, then created a series of axonometric diagrams that complemented the construction documents to better communicate the assembly.

• Reviewed shop drawings of stones that were received from the contractor.

Axonometric Diagrams

Point Cloud Model Construction Documents

A1.3 Springbank Pumphouse

The Springbank Pumphouse is a heritage building restoration project. The restoration includes rehabilitating the deteriorated roof and gutter system. Based on historic photographs, the original roof was slate as opposed to the current asphalt shingle roof, so the approach will be to reintroduce the slate roof for increased durability and performance. Additionally, the doors and windows will also be repaired as part of constant maintenace and performance imporvement. This project is currently in progress.

Roles on the Project to this point include assisting the project architect in documenting the building through aerial photography using a DJI drone, and then generating a 3D photogrammetry model using Metashape. Next was preparing the following drawings, researching slate roof assembly details, and studying the heritage impact of a retrofit roof ventilation system on the building.

A1.4 Port Burwell Lighthouse

The Port Burwell Lighthouse is the one of the last surviving wooden lighthouse in Canada. A heritage designated building, the scope of work was to conduct an assessment for the deteriorated cladding. However, inspections unravelled that the overall structural integrity was compromised due to severe rot in the main columns. As a result, the project shifted to an emeregency stabilization because of a high risk of toppling and a threat to public safety. A major challenge was the lack of doucmentation of the building, so it was laser scanned to generate a BIM model.

Roles on the Project include assisting the project architect on historic research, report preparation, site documentation, generating working drawings, and creating the series of drawings below to present as a case study in multiple heritage conferences (presentations were conducted by Hadi Tamim).

Photogrammetry

Institution: Lebanese American University School of Architecture & Design Semester: Fall 2020 Spring 2021 (Final Year Project)

The chosen site is an abandoned silk factory to create an unprecedented typology, the working resort, as a common ground between working outside the city and revitalizing abandoned industrial heritage. It’s entrapped on a rich topographical land of vegetation and forests.

The remnants of this industry are rehabilitated to their original purpose, but in a contemporary approach for the 21st century. In this way, the relation of the city to the hinterlands would be redefined. The richness of this factory is in the spaces that circumscribe it, the vast green lands that are now chaotic and left untreated. In order to provide a connection to nature for the visitors in the project, this forest is preserved. The campus masterplan is divided into branches for different visitors and their intended activity. They alter between working destinations, housing, and recreational zones.

Each building of the silk factory served a specific function. Also, upon the influence of time from 1860 till now, some structure have aged while others have withered, between wars, preservation, and attempted reuse. Consequently, the rehabilitation design strategy balances functions of work and productivity on one hand, as well as recreation on the other.

AL HASSEL

The first building in the plot, originally named al hassel, is a building for collecting all the produce of the factory and exporting, now partially functioning as car garage and modest housing.

The building is grounded against the topography and extends longitudinally and repetitively with different spatial conditions and structures on each floor.

STRUCTURAL CONFIGURATION

The building is designed to cater for interlocking functions within a rigid shell.The ground floor and basement are uninterrupted common working spaces for visitors, extending to an auditorium on the other extremity. Whereas the upper and lower floors are private housing units for temporary visitors. As for the lowest level, grounded in earth, is a low ceiling cross vault to block irrigation, and it provides a cozy feel for visitors interested in rather enclosed spaces.

The upper floors that are the working spaces are supported with 70cm thick existing load bearing sandstone walls. For reinforcement and slab additions, steel beams and columns are introduced to the building as supporting elements.Then, the housing units access is separated from the main space, and it extends from the ground level up to the attic.

The lowest part of the site is the productivity belt, titled the 80 for the 80 spinning wheels it used to propel, a silk production powerhouse. The series of structures are currently abandoned and in remains as they are semi-destroyed. However, this state generated a compelling phenomenon, which is a courtyard from the dilapidation of the roof.

The intervened structures are added to the existing one in a hybrid mode. The roofs covering the now enclosed spaces are composed from steel beams and columns then timber. Horizontal separations are defined by glazing and concrete walls, mute elements to keep the poetry of the stone walls.

This is designed as the powerhouse of the resort, where is optimized for working spaces of various types, services, and experiences. The existing structure is attractive with its dynamism of prominent arches and protruding piers, so it stimulates the working and focus experience as the visitors tend to interact in this poetic space. The activities of the users would upgrade as the historical layer of this heritage site would provide incentive for work instead of mediocre workspaces that we are accustomed with.

Institution: Lebanese American University School of Architecture & Design Semester: Spring 2020 (Fourth Year)

Institution: Lebanese American University School of Architecture & Design

Semester: Spring 2020 (Fourth Year)

A2.5 The Tech Fort

The Fort of St Helene Island’s Adaptive Reuse Into a Contemporary Tech Headquarter

A fortified defense landmark from Montreal’s heritage fabric, the fort of St Helene’s Island reclaims its major urban contribution as a host for today and tomorrow’s longevity of cities by rehabilitating it into a tech company campus.

Situated within a forest on the border of the floating forest along the St Lawrence River, the Fort’s strategic location overlooks Montreal’s city skyline like a watchful protector. As a military headquarter, its urban coordinates were optimal, as well as its reinforced structural integrity with a highly durable envelope and subtle linearity that ducks under the trees to remain in camouflage mode. As the fort retired from its defense duty, its light was dimmed as a result of the limited functions it hosted that did not optimize its features which remain undisclosed to this day.

Historically, military bases were keystones in the urban infrastructure of a city, so the fort possesses major heritage value amongst Montreal’s city through military grade architecture designed to endure attacks.

To restore the fort’s strobing light amongst Montreal, a major metropolis pioneering in the global tech industry that’s pushing economic and urban growth, this proposal creates an ideally compatible program that utilizes all of the features and resources the fort has to offer.

The Tech Fort is a vision that allows the fort to become a headquarter for a major tech company, bringing to Montreal the present day’s urban pillars that are being erect within major international cities for urban evolution. This booming industry shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon as it has become a cornerstone in our daily lives and a tool that aids in the thriving of communities on social and economic levels.

Based on international precedents, headquarters for tech companies have redefined the typology of a workplace. Instead of a mediocre office building, the contemporary workplace turns into a campus that has versatile work spaces, communal halls, and functions that create a more dynamic and interactive environment, a key ingredient for the psychological welfare of the workers and optimized productivity. In addition, these campuses have been competing to snatch the title for the most environmentally friendly companies with sustainable solutions that minimize their carbon footprint and reverse towards net-zero solutions. Taking into account all these factors, The Tech Fort demonstrates an opportunity to set a new benchmark in this competitive race for a better future of our cities.

Located in Parc Jean Drapeau, a forest that is abundant with huge trees and green spaces, the natural landsape of a campus is already present for our proposal. As for its sustainability approach, the adaptive reuse of an existing building into a contemporary program is by far the most ecofriendly method of designing new architecture, an opportunity that makes our fort contribute to the vision of the Parc Jean Drapeau Masterplan 2020-2030. Moreover, the intervention is refined to become more intricate as our building is historic with high heritage value. By adhering to the Standards and Guidelines of the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada by Parks Canada, the chosen approach is a rehabilitation. Prior to intervening, the historic building requires maintenance to preserve its character defining elements as some cracks were spotted on the facades upon visual inspection.

While respecting the altitude of the fort underneath the grand forest surrounding it, the plug-ins mimic the proportions of the existing structure. Hybrid interior spaces take formation by the visual complementarity between the exterior walls and contemporary enclosures. The two different timelines weave smoothly, yet distinctly as the architectectonics provide a distinction between the new and old. The historic building remains superior and prominent as the new volumes are composed of subtle materials that accentuate the value of the historic space without competing with it. Moreover, the plug ins possess their independent structural system that keeps the built additions reversible in case of disassembly in the future. The new roofs communicate the same language as the existing gables, and the structure of the plug ins pays homage to the trusses hidden in the attic of the fort.

With this new program and spatial configuration, the fort’s linearity across the entire complex ties together its different branches. The interior spaces of the fort become workspaces as well as main arteries of inhabitant flow. More importantly, its highly reinforced interior spaces turn into server rooms and hardware zones providing ventilation and protection for the atomic nucleus of the entire company. Therefore, the two faces of the stone walls are now utilized.

Upon this new life given, the fort reprises its status as an active contributor amongst the historic, economic, and technological urban layers of Montreal.