DESIGN PORTFOLIO IFRAH ASIF
EDUCATION
LANGUAGES
SCHOOL OF ART, DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (NUST) Bachelors in Architecrue
Islamabad|Pakistan 2012-2017
FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, MIDDLE EASTERN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY One Year Exchange Program
Ankara|Turkey 2015-2016
Khanewal|Pakistan 2010-2012
PUNJAB GROUP OF COLLEGES Intermediate
EXPERIENCE Lahore May 2018- Present
UNISON INTERNATIONAL Project Architect ABDULLAH KHAN ARCHITECTS Architect
Islamabad August 2017- Feb 2018
MARS MIMARLAR Summer Intern
Istanbul|Turkey June 2016-August 2016
ABDULLAH KHAN ARCHITECTS Summer Intern
Islamabad June 2015-August 2015
ALOOCLAN Visual Communiation Designer
Islamabad 2015-2016
English Urdu Punjabi Turkish German
SKILLS SOFTWARE Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, Autodesk AutoCAD, ArcGIS Rhinoceros, 3D Max, Autodesk Revit, Sketchup, Lumion, Grasshopper,V-Ray, MANUAL Sketching, Woodwork, Ilustration, Sketching
WORKSHOPS FURNITURE DESIGN AND FABRICATION Participant | 2013 PARAMETRIC DESIGN AND FABRICATION Participant | 2014 3D SOFTWARE WORKSHOP Participant | 2014
EXTRA-CURRICULAR HONORS AND AWARDS MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS School of Art, Design and Architecture | NUST
Islamabad 2013|2017
EXCHANGE PROGRAM TURKEY Middle Eastern Technical University
Anakra|Turkey 2015-2016
MEVLANA SCHOLARSHIP Middle Eastern Technical University
Anakra|Turkey 2015-2016
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COMMUNITY SERVICE Explore Ville School Rawalpindi | 2016 THESIS CURATOR School of Art,Design and Architecture | NUST VOLUNTEER Institute of Architects Pakistan | 2015 COMMUNITY SERVICE CLUB Memeber| NUST | 2012-2017
Rawalpindi is one of the old cities of Pakistan with various heritage sites. The aim of the Heritage Walk was to explore and document the rich historical sites of Rawalpindi. The Walk served as en exploration into the historical architecture and culture that the city has to offer.
HERITAGE WALK
HERITAGE EXPLORATION RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN 8 hours
SPRING
2015
Visited Sites
Hathi Chowk
Moti Bazaar
Sujan Singh Haveli
Mangat Raam ki Daramshala
Lal Haveli
Syed Shah Chan Charagh
Kanjimal Ujagar Mal Mandir
Lal Haveli Temple
Bagh Sardaran Guruduwara
Gordon College
Purana Qila
ROUTE
Purana Qila HISTORY
The area of Sadar is a hub of countless bazaars of Rawalpindi. Located on a high ground as all forts were normally built in the old days, the Purana Qila has small alleys or bazaars of all kinds of stationary items, Sarafa Bazaar, gold market, Mochi Bazaar or the leather market,Qasai Gali or the meat market and Bhabra Bazaar for general purpose goods. Though Rawalpindi is not a walled city, there are some localities which have gates and walls. This locality in Purana Qila has a gate and so does Madanpura in Gawalmandi. Massy gate Saddar, Gowalmandi, Akalgarh, Narankari Bazaar, Bhabara Bazaar, Moti Bazaar, Nayya Mohallah, Arya Mohalla, Ratta Amral and Purana Qilla have two to ten gates as per the length and width of the area.
The gates were built by wealthy Muslims, Sikhs and Hindu families before partition of ‘Indian Subcontinent’, for security purposes. These gates now have historical values. The Purana Qila also had a gate, constructed in 1896, which at present remains in deteriorated form. The Lakshmi Mandir in Purana Qila was built more than 150 years ago, said Mahmood, a trader in Zari market. “It was attacked in 1992 in retaliation for the razing of Babri Masjid, but was saved by the administration”
The Wazir Khan Mosque is 17th century mosque located in the city of Lahore. Construction of the mosque began in 1634 and was completed in in 1641. The mosque has been under extensive restoration since 2009. The project aimed to document North Facade of The Wazir Khan Mosque through photo-ortho rectification methods. Damage analysis of the north facade and interior hujra was then carried out based on icomos standards of heritage restoration analysis.
NORTH FACADE DOCUMENTATION
HERITAGE DOCUMENTATION WAZIR KHAN MOSQUE, LAHORE, PAKISTAN 8 hours
SPRING
2015
Wazir Khan Mosque Plan Credits: Conservation of the Wazir Khan Mosque Lahore: Preliminary Report on Condition and Rish Assessment by Agha Khan Trust for Culture. Agha Culture Services Pakistan. Lahore, Pakistan. 2012
Selected Area
PLAN
SECTION LOOKING NORTH
Selected Area
PHOTO-ORTHO RECTIFICATION
Kashikari
Deterioration of Kashikari
Upper Arch Later Interventions
Intervention by illegal encroachers on the facade Weathering of masonry
Window Disintegration pieces from edges
Facade Wooden beam intervention Lower Arch
Missing Parts of masonry Alteration by the addition of wooden beam Damage on facade due to plastering
Hujrah Excavated area below street level
Deterioration of masonry
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
FACADE DAMAGE ANALYSIS
PRODUCED B
Cracks and Deformation Detachment Features induced by material loss Discoloration/Deposit Biological colonization
Facade Damage Analysis
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
A’
B’
B
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
Interior of Hujr Separation between inner and outer Hujra removed by illegal encrochments
Section B-B’
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Section A-A’
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Plan
Damage Analysis of Interior Hujra
Missing element - partition between inner and outer hujra
Damage caused due to plastering of walls Efflorescence on Plaster
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Cracking on walls
Decolorization of masonry and Plaster
Deterioration of masonry
Urban transformation is in the agenda of many cities in Turkey. Among the several triggering factors of large scale and extensive urban re-planning and transformation are the presence of industrial buildings and production facilities that fell out of use in the recent decades. Such abandoned sites are often located within urban centers and as such provide an opportunity for initiating an urban regeneration by adapting new functions for public use and attraction. Antalya Dokuma FabrikasÄą is such an example for an industrial facility. The factory and the auxiliary buildings occupy a large and dominantly green site in a central location in Kepez municipality area. The facility has several abandoned buildings with various functions from production and storage to residential and administration. This context presents a productive medium for addressing issues like urban transformation, industrial heritage preservation, contemporary approaches to preservation and reuse of heritage sites and buildings, developing functional proposals for public benefit and social value. The architectural design focuses on these issues and proposals for transforming this facility for public use
INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE PRESERVATION
BETWEEN PRESERVATION, TRANSFORMATION AND RE-USE DOKUMA FABRIKASI, ANTALYA, TURKEY 4 Months
FALL
2015
Transformation of the factory into a public space
The project aims to conserve the industrial essence of the factory building and transform it into an exhibition space. An artist residency is designed with Dokuma Fabrika to make its preservation sustainable. The transformed factory building will then be used by the artists to exhibit their art using the old factory building as the backdrop.
URBAN NEIGBORHOOD PLAN
EXHIBITION SPACE
PROPOSED MASTER PLAN
PERFORMANCE SPACE
Left Top:Factory Transformation Plan Bottom: Dyeing pit transformed into Performance Space Right Top: Flexible Performance Space Middle: Performance Space Bottom: Intervention
Multan is a third largest city in the Punjab Province of Pakistan. It is located in the southern part of the province, and is steeped in history. The city is an example of the model of the Islamic and Indo-Islamic city, speciďŹ cally designed to protect the privacy of the house and defend against difďŹ cult climatic conditions for many months of the year. It is attached to the ground and to its morphology according to a system of growing intimacy, leading from the busy street bazaar to the private cul-de-sac location. The Walled City of Multan is analysed to understand how old cities were designed around climatic, cultural, defensive constraints and how they grew over time. The Walled City of Multan has an intricate design with narrow streets that promote ventilation as hot air rises up. The streets have been alligned with major wind channels, resulting in cool and breezy streets. The analysis of Walled City serves as a precedent for furture urban planning.
WALLED CITY
HERITAGE ANALYSIS WALLED CITY, MULTAN, PAKISTAN 2 Months
FALL
2017
N
Major streets orientated towards dominant wind direction
Major Street pattern
Major wind channeling
Covered area Open spaces Public spaces
Intricate street pattern
The narrowness of the streets and arrangement of buildings surrounding space for alternate uses
Private courtyard
Communal courtyard
Public Street
Narrow Street
Street as a Public space The streets are connected to larger public spaces which makes a network of pedestrian pathways in the neighborhood which open into those public spaces. The narrowness of the streets and arrangement of buildings simply defines the surrounding space for alternate uses and users. Compacted streets and buildings makes walking easier. Narrowed street pattern was a deliberate climate adaptive mechanism that enables shadow casting which cools the frontages for sitting and walking comfortability The courtyard features as an open space in the middle of three or four building blocks and in some locations, multiple courtyards are found in large house compounds. Courtyards serve as a modifier of micro climate to the living habitat
optimal protection against solar radiation by mutual shading
+ narrow streets permit breeze flows
Generalized street section
Cooling Tower
Istanbul is a major city in Turkey that straddles Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait. The city is famous for its arcitecture and historical sites. The aim of the project was to document a historical church in one of the old districts of Istanbul. The documentation included terrestrial survey though which the building was measured and then 2D architecture drawings; Plans, Elevations, Sections were produced.
ISTANBUL CHURCH
HERITAGE SURVEY ISTANBUL, TURKEY 1 Month
SPRING
2016
N
Ground Floor Plan
E3
E2 E1
First Floor Plan
E3
E2 E1
Section
Elevation 1
Elevation 2
Elevation 3
The building was documented by taking on site measurements, which were then translated into architecture drawings. Photo-ortho rectification method also helped in producing elevations of the church. The aim of the project was to document the architecture of the church in as much details as possible. All the levels in the building, windows, doors, all intricate details of the building were measured and translated in the form of 2d drawings. The building needs to be documented in detail for it to be restored properly.
Dwelling in the landscape is about the rich intimate, ongoing "togetherness" of beings and things which make up textures and which, over time, bind together nature and culture. Textures blur the nature/culture divide and emphasize the material and temporal nature of landscape. In this way, landscape is a never-finished process of weaving, an "entanglement “of materials and activities. Textures incorporate time; they are result of a slow but constant change of the very texture of a surface. Mundane practices which might have a very minimum impact on the surface can, in a long term, combine to form a distinctive texture. People relate to landscape through tactile and visual experience, experiences of surfaces around them, beneath their feet and in their hands. neath their feet and in their hands. Since this change is very slow and gradual we tend not to notice it with time and perhaps donot consider it as a part of landscape or built landscape for sure. the project tries to highlight ”mundane landscapes” that we experience in our daily lives and presents them in a new perspective.
EXPLORING METU LANDSCAPES
MUNDANE LANDSCAPES METU, ANKARA, TURKEY 4 MonthS
FALL
2015
MORNING WALK MUNDANE LA Tim Ingold, in his essays on environmental perception (2000) demonstrates that recent critique of vision has been based on a limited conception of sight as perception which distances and objectifies. Ingold points out that sight can also be intimate and engaging. It is not the emphasis on vision that is problematic, but rather a particular "way of seeing". When our eyes move across a richly textured surface, occasionally pausing but not really focusing, making us wonder what we are actually seeing, then eyes are functioning like organs of touch, like fingers.
Textures are the most immidiate Textures incorporate time; they constant change of the very tex practices which might have a ve surface can, in a long term, co texture. People relate to lands visual experience, experiences neath their feet and in their h Since this change is very slow notice it with time and perhaps of landscape or built landscape create, in this proposal two ma
When we interpret landscape imagery, we look at the things in the image. We pick out features from the background. There is of course nothing wrong with this – far from it. It is and will stay, the main way we acquire knowledge about the past. But there are also other ways of looking that might be worth exploring. Textures offer access into the richness and immediacy of the perceivable world and allow us to enmesh with it. When we turn the eye in the organ of touch, we are able to see the "stuff" of landscape rather than its "things". It is a highly subjective, embodied view of the world, but one that helps us to understand “materi ality" of the landscape. Dwelling in the landscape is about the rich intimate, ongoing "togetherness" of beings and things which make up textures and which, over time, bind together nature and culture. Textures blur the na ture/culture divide and emphasize the material and temporal nature of landscape. In this way, landscape is a never-finished process of weaving, an "entanglement “of materials and activities.
The first thing is to highlight in an ironic kind of way. The i textures of ground when people in interesting installations ar reason, it comes into a differe people. This is mainly focused fabric of the landscape. The se lighting the landscape generate walking on the landscape. Since people , it becomes a very comm divided our proposal into two p sists of the morning walk which ground through interesting inst campus. The second part include replacment of material and clev second dimension of landscape, direct dialogue between what is fabric and unbuilt fabric of th
ANDSCAPE
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t the texture of the ground idea is to bring forth the don’t notice and forget them round the campus. For this ent perspective to be seen by around the already built econd art focuses on highed by just the action of e it is directly generated by munity based design. Thus we parts, the first part conh highlights the textures of talations throughout the es the night walk which uses ver science to create a night landscape. It is a s consdered to be the built he users.
NIGHT WALK
The basic idea in night walk is to highight what cannot be seen during the day. We as users take many shortcuts and use many pathways during the day intentionally and unintentionally. In order to highlght the landscape generated by these walking activities we proposed certain installations and replacment of material at certain point of the campus. We targetted the route that students take while walking from dormitory area to the Alley and majorly the path to the Mimarlik campus. The replacment material was phosporecen sandwitched between the layers of plexi glass and thin soil layer on top. In morning when students walk over that path they take away the soil particles of that specific area. This is repeated throughtout the day. The areas which have removed soil partices absorb daylight and during the night releases the same daylight. For a moment of night the mundane landscape gnerated by people lights up and leads people back on that pathway. Not only this. but it generates dialogue between the built landscape and the texture generatd by human beings.
1. During morning the soil is eroded by walking
2. the layer of phospherecene absorbs light from the eroded soil area
3.Lights up during the night to to create the pathway
1. From Dorm To the slope
3. Sunset Point
2. From dorm to stadium
Near the Alley area
The thesis presents research on the integration and transfer of knowledge from the field of urban micro-climatology into the field of architecture design. The main research question is: How can the design of urban neighborhoods contribute to micro-climates that support human comfort? The thesis proposes a framework for identifying and analyzing ‘Micro-climate Moderators’ at master planning, public space design and architectonics level. The research further examines the vernacular architecture of Multan and identifies the micro-climates existing in the vernacular Multan which can form precedents for design principles and for developing a master plan and an archetype that is sensitive to its climate and context. The design process involved developing a master plan through repeating units and overlapping micro-climate moderators; orientation, wind channeling, network of large public spaces, street patterns and site contextualized for features. The final design outcome was a complex master plan of urban neighborhood that is the harsh climatic conditions of Multan City based on the research parameters, case study analysis and design iterations.
ARCHITECTURE THESIS
MICRO-CLIMATES ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMAN COMFORT
MULTAN, PAKISTAN 6 Months
FALL
2017
MICRO-CLIMATE MODERATORS MASTER PLANNING
PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN
ARCHITECTONICS
Orientation
Street Profile
Building Line
Network of Large Public Spaces
Paving
Building Materials
Street Pattern
Strategic Vegetation
Wind Chambers
Wind Channels
Courtyards
Thresholds
Network of Water bodies
Left: Micro-Climate Moderators Right: An analysis of Micro-Climate Moderators on Site
Right Axonometic View of the Housing Complex Left Top: Water bodies as Micro-climate modefiers Bottom: Courtyards as public spaces
Unit A | North,South Oriented Right Axonometic View of Unit A Left Floor Plans of Unit A
Unit B | East, West Oriented
Left Axonometic View of Unit B Right Floor Plans of Unit B
The project aims to develop a modular housing system which encompasses all the essential design elements to provide for a better micro-climate in the neighborhood. A unit is designed that allows for a particular shape grammar to be developed. The units have been staggered vertically and multiplied to form a module, which is then repeated throughout the complex, based on optimum solar and wind orientations. The modules have then been repeated throughout the complex to form intimate courtyards and semi covered public spaces. The project is an example of how vernacular design elements, such as public courtyards, semi covered spaces, voids can be translated into contemporary architecture in a modern expression.
EXPLORING SHAPE GRAMMAR
MODULAR HOUSING F-7, ISLAMABAD 4 Months
SPRING
2017