Jonathan Guirguis - Collective

jonathan guirguis collective 2021-22

contents elementary

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silent simon

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lazy bim

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emergence

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hourglass

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homes by the bay

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programmable spaces

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randall st. artwork

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professional academic extra

elementary University of Toronto, Fall 2019, Prof. Christos Marcopoulos

Physical Explorations

Elementary is a project that explores simplicity in principle and simultaneously, complexity in design. It considers the most basic elements that come together to compose a harmonious space. Through the intersection of worlds of elements, both vertical and horizontal, the space achieves harmony through what is intended to seem naturally composed. In creating harmony, the experience of those interacting with the space parallels that consonance. As one navigates the interior of the project, they become connected with the exterior naturally.The elements were inspired from explorations with simple and uncompounded forms and theories from the De Stijl period. jonathan guirguis

South East Isometric View of Building

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Section Perspective A

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Section C

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A Harmonious Composition

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Intersection Logic

Micro-circulation Within the macrocosm of the various elements, intersections allow for moments of circulation.

Below, the intersection of stairs and enclosure elements from their respective macrocosm allows for movement and circulation through the project.

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Front Elevation

Rear Elevation

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Intersections on Intersections

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silent simon www.silentsimon.com fashion 2019-21

Silent Simon is a clothing brand I started with my business partner and childhood best friend Youssef Henien. The brand aims to disrupt the traditional take on fashion by “hacking” it. This implies the implementation of technology and its aesthetics in the clothing garments and in the events that the brand holds. The brand was started in 2019 and continues to grow as we participate in more fashion events and release more collections.

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Fashion as an Outlet With the evolution of the brand, I became more involved in the fashion community by participating in several fashion shows and events. Encompassing the message of the brand, the focus is primarily on creating non-binary clothing. Recognizing the constraints of labels and categories in fashion on individuality, the brand works to represent those seeking liberation from oppressions of society.

Silent Simon at Ripley’s Aquarium

Silent Simon at Ontario Science Centre

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Photographs from Various Shows

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THE THE NEW NEW AGE AGE OF OF FASHION FASHION ‘cyber-fashion’

Projected Fashion an Art and Fashion Collection by SILENT SIMON

Set in the heart of Ripley’s Aquarium, the pumping station will operate as the catwalk for Silent Simon’s 2021 Dystopia Collection. The technology in this room is used to pump thousands of gallons of water to all parts of the Aquarium everyday, however, in this show technology will be used to create disruption. Projecting designs on the models, the brand aims to unveil a new way of doing fashion. The model’s body is analysed, duplicated and distorted in cyberspace, and projected back to corporeality. What does that mean? Things are not what they seem.

What lies at the heart of the collection is a disrupted illusion.

Bodies are Digitized

Projected Point Cloud Visualization

Dystopia: Utopian Illusion Living in a utopia-seeking society, the belief that the digital age can attain this is merely an illusion. It is a dystopia. This collection, including the elements of the show, were curated and designed to depict this idea of a dystopia. Through the exploration and implementation of what I call, cyber-fashion, and more broadly, technology in the live show, the brand aims to create disruption and expose the illusion.

Spaces are Digitized

“Digital Flyer”

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Body Oriented Point Cloud

From Body to Points The models’ body was depth scanned and converted into a point cloud which could be tracked, at a rate of 2ms. The points had to be culled from the surrounding point-cloud to isolate the body movements.

Motion Tracking Projection

Operating the Code Live at the Show

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Location and Perspective Analysis

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On the Runway Every outfit in the collection had a projected digital component to it. Reflective materials were particularly interesting, as the depth scanner could not detect them. This piece, specifically, created a disruption of its own within the collection. Wearing an undetectable material, the model is able to remain invisible in cyberspace.

From Tracking to Projecting

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lazy bim

University of Toronto, Summer 2021, Prof. Andrew Bako Group Members: Philipp Cop and Sadi Wali

Lazy BIM is a project that interrogates the architectural production process and the urban built environment. In search of a workflow that accommodates the uncommon and mundane, architecture is gamified and a production process is automated. The expediency in the established production workflow enables exploration to produce unexpected spaces and realities.

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Image to 3D Reconstruction

3D Scan

From Database

Gathering Objects

Images from Lazy BIM Video Game, Developed by Sadi Wali

The workflow encourages the integration of any object. For this project, and for the sake of demonstration, we chose a common object, a fire hydrant. We experimented with various techniques of digitizing objects, prioritising expediency. Based on the innovation and incorporation of technology, an average person will inevitably have access to a built-in 3D scanner on their phone, giving them power to create.

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Game Time Once a library of objects has been collected, users are able to combine them together by scaling, rotating, intersecting, and/or placing them on top of each other in a video game environment.

Role: Concept, Generation Scripts, AR Development, 3D Scanning, Renders

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Tap to Place Object

Created Massing

Generated SubD

Site Placement of Object

Field Testing

Conversion

Users are also able to take this proccess directly to the field through the implementation of augmented reality (AR). The workflow is expedited as users can scan and directly test their creations in a real-world context.

Once the massing is created, on the video game or through augmented reality, an outer shell is generated through curvature analysis and other parameters.

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To the Built Environment The SubD created earlier is then converted to an actual building through the addition of structural elements, floorplates, and openings. Depending on the massing, users have the ability to choose various algorithms in order to generate different variations of the building.

Window Generation, Developed by Philipp Cop

Series of Images Highlighting Generation of Structural Elements

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Unexpected, Right?

Generated Floor Plan

The workflow developed in this project opens the doors to endless possibilities. It also questions the future of the built environment, considering factors such as expediency and ubiquity.

Various Renders from Different Floor Levels

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emergence University of Toronto, Fall 2021, Prof. David Han

Emergence is an interactive visual installation I created as part of a classroom exhibition.

The project consists of a portal-like opening that allows the audience to interact through proximity and touch. Time is depicted as a two-dimensional grid that becomes disrupted when the user interacts with it, or so it seems.

Disrupting Time Interaction with the installation is visualized through the change in colour of the individual pixels that correspond to the three-dimensional location of the user.

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Interactivity The installation is made up of a stretchable mesh unto which the interactive display is projected. The mesh fabric is transparent enough that it allows the depth sensor to scan through it, but fine enough that it acts as a screen to project onto.

Grid Being Disrupted by Touch

Depth Scanner and Projector Behind Screen

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Digital Representation of Grid Being Disrupted

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hourglass The Forks, Winnipeg, Canada, 2021 Project Lead: Andrew Bako

Hourglass is an entry for the Warming Huts competition hosted by The Forks in Winnipeg, Canada with my partner Andrew Bako. The overall form is designed using video game physics engines allowing primitive forms to collide, slump, and droop all together in a state of comfortable imbalance. The project is designed as a physical manifestation of our blurred spatiotemporal realities. Over the course of the past two years, our distinction between work, play and domestic life has been radically altered by rapidly shifting health guidelines and socio-politcal landscapes. We have reached an era of simultaneous comfort and unease. The proposal poses the question of when is time to hit the reset button, and what is here to stay?

Start. Pause. Reset The simulations were started with a few primitive objects and then paused at the moment of collision in order to capture the moment of juxtaposition: unease and comfort. The reset button was constantly hit until the final form was created.

Simulations on Simulations

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Role: Design Lead

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Deconstructing the Structure

Structural Concept The base structure consists of HSS framing, secured by steel base plates to a structural plinth. The cladding support consists of a CNC milled 1/2” OSB Plywood waffle supporting grid to achieve the desired curvature and overall geometry. Finally, painted recycled scrap sheet metal is attached as cladding.

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Left Elevation

Right Elevation

Back Elevation

Front Elevation

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homes by the bay Badrock Studio Inc., 2020-Present, Architect Kleanthes Isaias Pocologan, New Brunswick, Canada

Ocean View Unit with Third Floor Addition

Homes by the bay, designed by Kleanthes Isaias, is an ongoing development project by Badrock Studio Inc., in Pocologan, New Brunswick, Canada. The project features nineteen homes, inspired by the lifestyle of the Bay of Fundy, hence, resembling a lobster-trap stacking. Throughout this project my role was to create renderings and marketing drawings for the project in order to give buyers a better understanding of what the project is.

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Role: Marketing Drawings and Renders

Ground Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

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Secluded in a community Although the homes are close to each other in relation to the street, privacy is created by the orientation of the massing and location of the windows. Privacy is also created for the units with the AirBNB option (3-storey units) by creating a separate staircase that leads directly to the third floor.

Stairway and Sticks View

Project Site Plan

Garage View

Arial Back View

Views from the Bay

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Back View

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programmable spaces University of Toronto, Winter 2021, Prof. Maria Yablonina Group Members: Nour Fahmy, Nicholas Sarmas, Omar Kaltrachian

Programmable spaces is a project that explores modularity in organizing spaces. The purpose is to design a functional system that allows users to program their spaces according to their needs, ultimately, empowering the user. The spatial language revolves around a grid made up of 1x1m units, that can be installed into one’s space, that raise or lower partitions.

Through conceptualizing and prototyping the project, I was able to create and design a working proof-of-concept for the unit and come to a better understanding of materials facilitating the translation of this project onto a larger scale.

Alternate Office Floor Plans by Nour Fahmy, Edited by Me

Office Section Perspective by Omar Kaltrachian, Edited by Me

Materiality The unit consists of a roller system that allows specific bendable materials to raise or lower the partitions.

OLED Paper gears stepper motor truss

material Steel sheets

rollers Cell Mechanism Render by Nicholas Sarmas

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Role: Concept and Prototyping

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Digital Prototype: Wavey Grid App Users can easily program their spaces with the digital prototype Wavey Grid, and even save layouts for future use or scheduled events. The partition heights are also adjustable in the app, so users have full control of the space.

Saved Layouts Screen

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Layout Confirmation Screen

Cell Selection and Height Adjustment Screen

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Designing a Single Unit Prototype After three variations of the prototype, the final one was 3D printed and programmed to operate wirelessly from a phone. Paper was the material of choice, as it worked the best at this scale. The cell could also be linked to other cells in order to program a whole space.

Cell in Relation to Hand

Single Unit, Resembles 1:8 Physical Prototype

PROTOTYPE 1.3

Cell Components

Cell Prototype Instruction Manual Cell in Action

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randall st.

Badrock Studio Inc., 2020-Present, Architect Kleanthes Isaias 150 Randall St., Oakville, Ontario, Canada

‘Ithika’ - Constantine Cavafy

As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery.

Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them: you’ll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as long as a rare excitement stirs your spirit and your body.

Laistrygonians, Cyclops, wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them unless you bring them along inside your soul, unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Randall St. is an on-going project with Badrock Studio Inc. in Oakville, Ontario, Canada pending site plan approval. Located in the downtown core of Oakville, this mixed-use project is the largest in the city. Since joining the firm, I have been working closely on this project, designing and conveying a massing that is financially feasible, seeking the approval of city planners. With the unique challenges that have come with this site, in terms of zoning and the pre-existing official plan, this process has felt like a journey to me.

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the journey continues...

Role: Massing Iterations, Research, Renders

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Obstacles or Heritage?

One of the most important factors in the process was making sure that the massing of the building was contextually fit and did not hinder the surrounding properties. This included shadows affecting surrounding heritage properties, which the town protects. For every iteration, a shadow study was conducted to determine the effect on the surrounding context.

Proposed Massing

Existing Massing

Heritage Site

Shadow Casted by Proposed

Shadow Casted by Existing

Shadow Study Conducted for September 21, 2021

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Getting It Right As of now, 32 different iterations have been made for the building, all which the town considered and provided feedback to. It is key to not only get approval, but to design a feasible project building that makes contextual sense to the downtown core.

Current Proposed Massing

Mural on the Rear of Current Proposal Pays Tribute to Oakville Heritage jonathan guirguis

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artwork 2016-2021

Artwork is important to me as a creative. My creative journey began with photography, and eventually started to combine digital techniques into my work. Whether it’s working on an architectural project or commuting on a subway, I am always creating. Here are a few of my many creations.

Transforming Building, Photomontage, Toronto, 2020 Elegance in Lines, Processing, 2018

Lonely Nights, Photograph, Toronto, 2019

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Algorithms in Nature, Photomontage, 2018

On top, Photograph, Toronto, 2018

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Buildings, Series of Photographs, Toronto, 2019

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Landscapes, Series of Photographs, Toronto, 2018 (top) 2020 (bottom)

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Roadtrips, Photomontage, Burlington, 2021

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