Hamza Jamjoom Portfolio

Hamza JAMJOOM

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Columbia University (M.S. Architecture & Urban Design)

2023-present

Penn State University (B. Arch) 2018 - 2023

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Nature Education Center

Hamza JAMJOOM

Self-directed, innovative, and highly motivated learner equipped with experience in architectural planning and design. Passionate about interior and exterior design, urban planning, and civic architecture with an interest to incorporate new technology and materials into projects. Demonstrates a strong desire to learn and collaborate with others in the industry to improve the human experience

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hamza.a.jamjoom@gmail.com

New York, NY

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Modular Low-Cost Housing:

Concrete Printing Technology Page 12

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Aurelian Wall Intervention

Page 20

Meditation Space

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Neue Galerie Expansion

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Boathouse

Lantern

Page 32 Page 42

After-Property: Atlanta

09 Page 44 Page 50

Building a Reselient Jamaica Bay

Nature Education Center

Fall 2020-Spring 2021 Professor Laia Celma | ARCH 330/331

“The mission of The Arboretum at Penn State is to engage the academic strengths of the University in promoting scholarship and education about plants and their history and importance on earth. The Arboretum at Penn State strives to be a place of beauty and renewal, a venue for the arts, and a pathway to discovery and enrichment.

The Nature Education Center would be at the heart of the cultural district at the University; It will be the main destination at the Arboretum where students, professors, and visitors can learn about the lush plants of Pennsylvania.”

The building design is inspired by an existing garden (Poplar Court) that is considered formal within an organic setting.

Hence, the trees, columns, and walls are driven by the garden’s grid to have a vocabulary that is familiar to the site. The ‘lines’ from the Poplar Court are extruded into the education center, as shown in the site plan, creating a modular sequence of space that focuses on verticality and modularity.

Site Plan:

The poplar court is located behind the Education Center and the tree lines drawn created a 6 feet module into the building.

Exploded Axonometric Wooden columns were utilized to mimic the rich trees of Pennsylvania.

Section A-A

Section B-B

North Elevation

East Elevation

South Elevation

West Elevation

Basement Access

A ramp from the Poplar Garden directs the visitors to the basement of the building where galleries and the auditorium are located. The trees are spaced 6 feet to follow the modularity that the garden created.

Entrance:

The entrance is a bridge towards the main door surrounded by trees establishing the purpose of the building. The trees are following the same grid line of the poplar court but at the basement-courtyard level.

Lobby:

The visitors are welcomed with different types of plants that are placed on the ceiling and are extended all the way to the basement level.

Entrance (Night):

Uplights highlight the verticality of the trees as visitors are walking on the bridge

Active Strategy: Water Collection- When it is raining, there is a water collection system that begins on the roof. The plants collect water and it is moved down through a thicker pipe within the column which involves a series of filteration steps till it is stored at the cistern. The water is reused in the building.

The constructed wetland allows for collecting stormwater. The welands are connected through the outlet pipe as there is a natural flow of water through the angle of the ramp.

Visitors could enjoy the weather and learn about the lush trees found in Pennsylvania.

The lighting strategy of utilizing colored uplights allows the outdoor sunken garden to be highlighted and celebrated at night. This is important as visitors cannot access the area directly from the entrance, but must be gravitated towards the area.

Modular Low-Cost

Housing: Concrete

Printing Technology

Fall 2021 Professor Jose Duarte &

Nazarian Arch 431

Partner: Gaurav Ganguli

“The focus of the studio was governed through parallel systems of research and design activities. The objective was to establish the design of a small low-cost housing units and explore novel ways to develop and represent through Automated Additive Construction technology.

The project comprised a deep-dive into the technological complexities of integrating elements related to design, material properties, and printing system, resulting in the utilization of Robotic Additive Construction as a new design initiative within the fields of architecture and engineering.”

Site:

Sahara Desert, Issaouane Erg Sand Sea.

Located in Eastern Algeria, the Issaouane Erg has sand dunes as tall as 400 feet. The design is inspired by the sand dunes and therefore the structure becomes part of the landscape, with a contrasting element of concrete.

Project Responsibility:

Responsibilities entailed learning new technology-based skills to be able to print concrete structures using robotic systems. Research, prototyping, arid climate testing, and design-development procedures were established prior to producing a flexible system that could be utilized in the Sahara Desert. Research was also established independently to consider unit modularization. Further, focused on designing using Grasshopper to represent a variety of iterations and printing multiple models before reaching the best solution.

Concept Development: Drawn from the Sand dunes of the Sahara Desert

Printing

Utilizing the robotic arm, we printed a scaled portion of the housing unit to test the technology

Shadi

Plan Configurations: First, the central unit could be closed to create space. Second, at night, the sides of the unit unfold to create beds for the nomads. Third, the tables that cover the unit could be taken off when needed.

Section Diagram

Interior Renders

Prayer Room:

At

the back of the housing, there is a prayer room in which visitors could pray in tranquility

Roof

The sun penetrating through the roof informs the nomads prayer timings through the angles

Aurelian Wall Intervention

The project title POMERIUM 2.0 derives from “Pomerium” the name given to the ancient, symbolic enclosure of Rome, coinciding with the city walls, which separated its “sacred” space, with its laws, traditions and religious rites, from the outside world with its agricultural practice, military activity and alien populations and deities.

Phase 1 Group Site Analysis

Partners: Emily Freid & Holly Zimmerman

Concept Statement: The intervention is an interactive route along the Pomerium for visitors to be enlightened about the local art, history and culture. It provides a new connection between the Testaccio and Ostiense neighborhoods. Pods attached to the Aurelian Wall create a unique park which connects the two museums. Visitors can directly interact with the Aurelian Wall

by climbing, touching and passing underneath the pods. Each pod teaches visitors about a different part of the neigh- borhood

Phase 2 Individual | Community Center Program Goal: To offer a flexible organi- zation of space that acts as a platform for visitors to learn about the arts in the area, simulate interaction between different disciplines, and become inspired by the end of the journey.

Spring 2022 | Professor Silvia Aloisio| Arch 499A Pantheon Institute

Design

Community Center

Section A-A

Elevation 2

Elevation 1

Section B-B

Interior & Exterior Renders

Exploded Axonometric

Meditation Space

Design Brief: ARKxSITE Competition

The fortress is located at Veracuz Figueira in Algarve, Portugal. Built in the 19th century, abrasions occurred through time and the stones remained. The program was to create a meditation space for visitors overlooking the ocean.

Concept:

The heaviness of the mountain along with the ruins is celebrated through the

contrast of a light structure at the end of the cliff. This reflects nature; Earth is contrasted with the sky and water is contrasted with the stiffness of mountains.

When visitors approach the site, they will be attracted towards the linear structure at the end of the cliff. Walking between the ruins till reaching the carved-out entrance that is contrasted to the light system. There, an infinite space towards the horizon will reflect the notion of meditation

in a space that enhances elevation of mind and body. This is meditation, the sensation of existing in a space that is boundless and limitless.

As it is a flexible-modular sequence, one can contemplate by climbing up a ramp that symbolizes elevation of mind. Another possibility is focusing on one element by viewing a ruin wall from the building as sunlight creates shadows of columns and trusses.

Fall 2020 | Professor Katsuhiko Muramoto Arch 331

Concept Models

Models

Concept

Collage of Concept

Neue Galerie Expansion

Design Brief: NCMA Competition (National Concrete Masonry Association)

This is an expansion design project located at the Neue Galerie in New York City. The program is to expand the galerie to the neighboring building and offer improved accessibility to the location from 5th Avenue. The first week of the project revolved around studying a precedent with a group (partners Madison Ausbury and Adam Figueroa)

through analysis and model-making. The precedent chosen was Zaha Hadid’s Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati where I learned the importance of ‘negative’ space as means of circulation. Also, I learned how to connect the urban fabric with the building itself.

Design Concept: The expansion I designed is titled Pods Woven by Space

The New York city streets are organized

as a grid that connects through a dynamic central park. As shown in the sketch on pg. 35, the paths in central park ‘stitch’ the two grid halves together creating an organic movement and a break from the congestion of the streets. My Neue addition symbolizes the connection of the grid across the space of the park. My Neue addition consists of gallery pods supported on a grid that are divided by a large open atrium of space that cuts from the sky to the basement of the addition.

Spring 2020 Professor Felecia Davis | Arch 232

Precedent Sketches

New

Precedent Models

Concept Models

The string represents the ‘dynamic space’ which reflects the nature of the New York City grid. It is a reflection of how Central Park breaks the grid and creates breathing space.

Concept Interior Development

Existing Neue Galerie

Section

Boathouse

The targeted clients for this project are kayakers at the Bald Eagle State Park. The dynamic terrain of the site resonates a radiant interaction between the viewrs and the park. As visitors approach the boathouse, either along the water or via the pathway from parking,the building appears to puzzle the visitors as there are multiple layers (structure and scree- ning) intrigues the kayaker to explore. A flexible kayak rack was also built to store the kayaks throughout the seasons as the water levels change

Section

Side Elevation

Front Elevation

Dock View

Kayak Rack Mechanism & Models

Lantern

This project features a lantern that was designed based on geometry. The design concept was presented with a physical model constructed with papers that is a fusion of our preliminary work. Afterwards, we utilized the CNC machine to cut steel panels to create the final lantern.

Spring 2019 Professor Benay Gursoy| Arch 132

Swirl

Snub Dodecahedron

Partner: Christopher Castiglia

After - Property: Tuexedo Park, Atlanta

Fall 2023 | Professors Emanuel Admassu, Nina Cooke John, Jelisa Blumberg, A.l. Hu, Christin Hu, Oscar Oliver-Didier | Urban Design Studio II Columbia University

Partners: Candelaria Gassiebayle, Heejung Kim, Yiqun Feng

Tuexedo Park, Atlanta has the highest average income in Buckhead. It is characterized by single family homes in large estates. For the community of Tuxedo Park, property equals individual value. The neighborhood is a hostile enclave where only a few are invited to participate. Property owners hoard resources in large estates and constantly fight attempts to breach inequity in the area.

In these large single family lots, there is an abundance of spaces that are underutilized and overserved. These interior and exterior vacant spaces appear to exist just to be maintained.

As a test, we decided to push property to the extreme. We studied all the systems a property would need to function autonomously without support from the government and their neighbors; creating a city inside their own lots plugging in food, energy, water, and waste systems. Also, a full staff to run all these new systems and living spaces for them. However, this is a very inefficient system that doesn’t allow for things like larger production, crop rotation and division of labor. This system

will eventually lead to its own collapse.

Living independently from society is unsustainable in the long term. We magine how secret activities hidden under the dense tree canopy would transform the rigid boundaries of the properties into a living socio-spatial canvas of informal exchange.

The backyard becomes a palimpsest after all the previous worlds inevitably collide. We envision a future of after property where Tuxedo Park is a space of collective living, aiming to puncture and break the rigid edges of the individual property and dismantle the power struc- ture. In this re-imagined world, different domestic practices take over the mansions to transform the way spaces are used.

Re-imagined Backyard: Pools are transformed as hydroponics.

Re-imagined Backyard: Residents dry cloth in the sun.

Building a Resilient Jamaica Bay: Unleasing the Value of Salt Marshes

Summer 2023 Professors Nans Voron, Austin

Sakong, Sagi Golan, Sean Callagher, Elizabeth Camuti, Daphne Lundi, Grant McCracken Urban Design Studio | Columbia University

Partners: Mengqi Xiao, Jisoo Kim, Wenbo Yu

The focus of the studio is to design resilient, equitable, vibrant, and healthy urban environments within NY and its metro-region.

Site:

We chose the salt marshes of Jamaica Bay as our site of focus. The reasoning was due to the benefits of salt marshes that stabalize the global ecosystem and its ability to protect cities from climate changes.

Design Strategy:

1) Salt Marsh Restoration

2) Salt Marsh Migration

3) Multi-Scale Approach

Design Site Plan:

In response to the pressing factors that are affecting the vulnerable salt marshes of Jamaica Bay, we focued on restoring and migrating the salt marshes through a multi-scalar approach.

Phase I:

The first phase of the project revolves around integrating the salt marshes with the Canarsie community to restore the marshes and create a paradigm shift in the way people view nature’s importance in building a reeselient city. Building

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Columbia University (M.S. Architecture & Urban Design) 2023

Penn State University (B. Arch) 2018 - 2023