Khaled Gamal
khaled.ahhmeed19@gmail.com
+393517915801
khaled-jamal-32a5931a6
EDUCATION
From 2022 to 2024
- Masters in Architecture, Urban Renegeration Program at La Sapenzia di Roma University, Rome, Italy.
Thesis title: Colonial modernism in the post-colonial era, The case of Beirut from the eyes of St.George Hotel.
Advisors: Prof. Angelo Figliola, Francesca lembo Fazio
From 2015 to 2020
- Bachelor of Architecture from The Department of Architecture at Kuwait University, Kuwait.
Thesis Title: The Architecture of Political Power. “ Architecture as a tool and an end ”
Advisors: Dr. Abdulaziz Al Saqobi, Arch. Fareed Abdal.
EXPERIENCE
Architect - Remote
March 2023 to Present
exp. GPA: 110
GPA: 3.56 / 4.00
- Furniture designer at Nazzek Furniture Company,, responsible for designing annual dining setting including, tables, chairs, sideboards, and interior setting.
- Responsible for producing high quality renders and detailed drawings for various projects from high-end dining setting to commercial projects.
Researcher / Designer
From December 2022 to August 2022
- Joined as a researcher and designer with a background of an architect to develop techniques and methods of implementing computational design and product design in finding solutions in the medical industry.
- Established an Innovation Lab that specializes in 3D printing applications for the Medical industry using parametric industrial design techniques at Jaber Al Ahmed Hospital. My role was to introduce solutions to localize various means of production using 3D printing and educate doctors about the potential of such approach.
LANGUAGES
• Rhinoceros 3D Modelling
• Grasshopper
• Revit
• AutoCAD
• Vray for Rhino
• Adobe suite
• Lumiun
• D5 render
• Comfyui
• Midjourney
• Audodesk Forma
• QGIS
EXPERIENCE
Architect
July 2021 to September 2022
- Full time Architect at Edama Consult specializing in designing energy efficient residential buildings with Solar power infrastructure installation. Responsible of the architectural design process from concept generation and development to supervising the final detailed drawings.
Teacher Assistant
Feb 2024 to Present
- Following Prof. Angelo Figliola Environmental technological Studio for Urban Regeneration course that revolves around environmental design studio, that discuss the possibilities of transforming under-utilised, hidden, and abandoned spaces into architectural nodes that aren’t only sustainable and highly-efficient but also aesthetically and symbolically coherent.
- Attending Jury and giving seminars on the use of Climate Studio and grasshopper and extracting Bio-climatic information and applying it during site analysis, design development and concept proof stages
Architect
From January 2020 until April 2022
- Architect at Adana Design in a research initiative about urban sustainable development in Kuwait aiming to study Kuwait’s post-oil development boom and the role of architecture in fueling this development.
- Co-author of “ Shelter “ where all the research, methodology, and literature review were documented. The book explored different modes of formal and informal settlements around the Arab world and the key political, social, and economical drivers of settlement.
Participant
January 2020
- Invited by Kuwait curators of 2020 Venice Biennial in a workshop to participate in Kuwait publication (Space Wars) in Venice Biennial.
- Mapping the Hinterland, the underlaying concept behind the publication where we participated in mapping the layers of history, trauma, and events that occurred in the desert along with the inhabitants of the desert i.e. the flora and fauna.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Kuwait Fund of Development
March 2019
- Scored first place in designing a pavilion in Lebanon arranged by the Kuwait Fund of Development and invited to a site visiting trip to Lebanon
Politecnico Di Milano
August 2020
- Scored among the first recipients of the best project and research proposal. In Sense Italiani competition about the use of Senses in architecture.
Kuwait TV
March 2022
- Invited by official TV streaming to present the developments and accomplishments of Kuwait’s first Innovation Lab curated for the medical industry.
1- Shelter: A morphological investigation into the aesthetics of the indigenous. Part of a research of Kuwait’s future sustainable urban development.
2- Sadu Space: Stitching the Sea-Desert relationship. How can Kuwait’s architectural and cultural duality be bridged?
3- Co-living - Tiburtino III: Rehabilitation and regeneration of Tiburtina III modular blocks. Part of the environmental design studio.
4- Mura Aureliane - Indexing the Missing: A conversation design project aimed to preserve, intervene and index patchs of the wall back to the city. Part of the conservation design studio.
5- Villa Erasmus - Rehabilitation project: A regeneration project that aimed to upgrade the status quo of the adjacent context and the performance of the intervention using sustainable active and passive systems. Part of the environmental technological design studio
Academic Projects: Practice:
01 Architecture School Projects
1- Architecture of Political Power: The case of St.George Hotel
2- Comprehensive Studio: Al- Madrasa Skyscraper
1- Tla Felice: Interior design project of the Roma based bar franchise.
02 Architectural Projects
2- Villa Al Jasser: Multi-story single-family project in Kuwait city. Scope was architectural, interior design, supervision. I was the main architect involved.
1- Smurf Farmhouse
3- Levels Kashta: Winter desert resort conceptual design proposal.
2- Sense Italiani Competition (Sadu Space)
4- Venice Biennale: Mapping the Hinterland.
03 Other Projects
5- Red Cream: Interior design project of Bakery
1- Parametic Chair & Bus stop design
6- Bespoke Furniture: Featured best selling Dining/coffee tables
2- Venice Biennale Workshop
Architectural Typology
In C oll a bo r a t i o n w i th Ada n a D e s i g n a n d Fa si l a
Pr e ma cu lt u r e. Th e p r oj ec t is pa r t of a n in t ensi v e r ese a r c h fram e wo r k
o n alt e r n a t i v e b ui ld in g m e thods a n d t ec h niques in th e Ar a b wo r l d
A r e fl ec t i o n a g a in s t th e s t a t us of a r c h i t ec t u r e, c o n s t r uc t i o n, a n d
u rba ni s m. Al s o, a n e xplor a to r y oppo r t uni t y o n th e s u s ta in a b l e f u t u r e
of u r b a nis m a n d c o n s t r uc t i o n
Th is p r oj ec t a i m s to se t a p r otot y p e th a t e x e mpl i fie s n ot o n l y su s -
ta in a b l e b u i ld in g, r a th er d e mo n s tr a t es th e be aut y a n d ho ne s t y of
v e r n a cu lar n a t u ral b ui ld in g. Als o, a n in t e ra c t i v e e xp e r ience a s th e
s t r uc t u r e wo u ld be e r ec t e d b y v ol un t ee r s in a wo r k shop se t u p
w h e r e e d uc a to r s w i ll ha n d to ha n d b ui ld a n d e d uc a t e v e r n a cu la r
b ui ld in g t ec h nique s Th e si t e i s lo c a t e d in A b dal i f a r m s a r e a so u th
of Ku wa i t a t ho u r f ar f r om th e urb a ni z e d ci t y Th e d esi g n a pp r oa c h
wa s to c r e a t e a dom e t y pology f or e a c h f unc t i o n. E a c h i s d i s t i n -
g uis h e d a n d in d e p en d en t w h i l e also bein g w e ld e d tog e th e r a n d
c ompo se d a s o ne w hol e Th e s am e n arr a t i v e wo u ld c o n t i n ue in th e
in t e r i or s pa ces w h e r e e a c h in t e r i or i s h e ld w i th d i f f e r en tl y b u t al s o
a c ompl e m en ta r y to e a c h oth e r Mo r e ov e r, r es po n d in g to th e
c l i m a t ic c o n d i t i o ns sen s i t i v e l y a n d s t u d yin g th e sun l i ght p ene tr a -
t i o n to p r ov i d e ad equ a t e sun l i ght w h i l e also a v o i d h e a t rad i a t i o n
usin g mo r e tha n o ne l i ght in g a n d s had in g t ec h nique s
East Elevation
South Elevation
North Elevation
Mura Aureliane - Indexing the Missing
Through surveying the evolution and the current state of the wall. The aim is to highlight the stories and voices that have been left out. We're researching and designing to bring attention to the overlooked collasped parts of the galleria of the Aurelian wall.
Gio Ponti, Alessandro Mendini, and Mario Cresci were the major sources of inspiration for this concept. The first was Ponti's teachings on utilizing colors from the surroundings to create unlimited possibilities in tile patterns, furniture, and other areas utilizing the same color scheme. The second was Mendini's use of classical furniture, which he transformed into a new vision by adding a new layer of colors, materials, and so on. Finally, Cresci's pictures from the Culture Heritage lecture demonstrated how common culturally entrenched elements are transgendered and presented in new ways, revealing hidden levels of significance.
As a result, my idea attempted to encapsulate some of these notions and adapt them to a different environment, in this case Kuwait. First and foremost, I've always been fascinated by Kuwait's nomadic culture and its engagement with the city throughout history. Also, how has the junction of nomadic and urban culture in Kuwait developed and taken diverse forms before and after the oil era? As a result, my idea provides a chance to reimagine the city-desert link.
The desert was famed before Kuwait's oil boom for "Sadu," a textile woven and patterned in limitless forms from sheep's fur. For long, Sadu was indispensable as an architectural solution for shelter, furniture, cloth, and a variety of other uses. On the other hand, sea front was renowned for their use of clay earth and mud.
The experience that I want to provoke is the merge of sea and dessert trying to discover other possibilities of some well-known cultural symbols from the desert and the sea. For instance, the encloser takes the contours of the hill, but also embodies the structure of a desert tent. However, the clay texture indexes the urban city while the addition of Sadu pattern engraving marks the nomad.
Al Jasser House
