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Khaled Gamal

M.Arch

Contact:

Khaled Gamal

khaled.ahhmeed19@gmail.com

M.Arch

+393517915801 khaled-jamal-32a5931a6

EDUCATION

From 2022 to 2024 Masters in Architecture, Urban Renegeration Program at La Sapenzia di Roma University, Rome, Italy.

exp. GPA: 110

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.

GPA: 3.56 / 4.00

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

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Furniture designer at Nazzek Furniture Company,, responsible for designing annual dining setting including, tables, chairs, sideboards, and interior setting.

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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

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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.

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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.

Skills

LANGUAGES

Italiano

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English Fluent

Arabic Fluent

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Rhinoceros 3D Modelling Grasshopper

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Vray for Rhino Adobe suite

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Comfyui Midjourney

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Revit AutoCAD

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Lumiun D5 render

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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.

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Teacher Assistant Feb 2024 to Present

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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Invited by Kuwait curators of 2020 Venice Biennial in a workshop to participate in Kuwait publication (Space Wars) in Venice Biennial.

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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.

Academic Projects: 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

Projects of the intervention using sustainable active and passive quo of01 the Architecture adjacent context School and the performance systems. Part of the environmental technological design studio

Content

1- Architecture of Political Power: The case of St.George Hotel

Practice: 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,

1- Smurf Farmhouse supervision.

I was the main architect involved.

3- Levels Kashta: Winter desert resort conceptual proposal.

2- Sense Italiani Competition (Sadu design 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

Smurf Farmhouse Shelter

Architectural Typology In Collaboration with Adana Design and Fasila Premaculture. The project is part of an intensive research framework on alternative building methods and techniques in the Arab world.

A reflection against the status of architecture, construction, and

Toilet

Mosque

Rain Room

Living Room

Dining Room

Treehouse

urbanism. Also, an exploratory opportunity on the sustainable future of urbanism and construction.

This project aims to set a prototype that exemplifies not only sustainable building, rather demonstrates the beauty and honesty of vernacular natural building. Also, an interactive experience as the structure would be erected by volunteers in a workshop setup where educators will hand to hand build and educate vernacular building techniques. The site is located in Abdali farms area south of Kuwait at hour far from the urbanized city. The design approach was to create a dome typology for each function. Each is distinguished and independent while also being welded together and composed as one whole. The same narrative would continue in the interior spaces where each interior is held with differently but also a complementary to each other. Moreover, responding to the climatic conditions sensitively and studying the sunlight penetration to provide adequate sunlight while also avoid heat radiation using more than one lighting and shading techniques.

1- Architecture of Political Power:

East Elevation

South Elevation

North Elevation

Tree House Exploded

Co-living - Tiburtina III Social Housing

From an existing building to a sustainable solution. The Tiburtino neighborhood of Rome is home to the studied space. Following a thorough analysis of the current state, a novel design has been put forth to improve the building’s efficiency and architectural quality.

The solution foucsed on active and passive systems of regulating tempreture and air flow with a specific focus on nature based solutions. This includes rearranging the spaces inside, adding green house terrace buffer zones to mitigate direct solar radiation adding vegetation to improve air quality. The structure looks out onto an interior courtyard with a small forest planned to improve air quality and provide shade.

Sadu Space

Exploded Axonometric

FIrst floor plan

Roof detail

Floor detail

Section detail

Section detail

Villa Erasmus - Roma Rehabilitation of Ex-Filanda

Multi-functional Stairs Theatre

3 Playground

Public space Improve quality of public spaces

Seatings

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Treehouse playground

Panoramic point

Ex-Filanda

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Urban Re-wilding Foster social inclusion

Increase biodiversity

Bike Lane Enhancing connectivity Dedicate part of the existing vehicular roads to non-motorized mobility

400 sqm of rain-gardens

Rain collection Reduce soil erosion and run off

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3300 sqm of green cover Reduce heat island effect Provide shade

Villa Erasmus Rehabilitation of Ex-Filanda

Timber cladding

Insulation

Glue Laminated Timber (GLT) Roof Structural Frame

Centrally located in a densely populated area facing the

Wood Boards

Aurelian Walls between the Archbasilica of St John Lateran and the Basilica di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme sets the

Insulation Water-Resistant Membrane

basis for a unique chance of urban regeneration. The historical building, originally intended to be a craft institute,

Wood Cladding with Building-integrated photovoltaics

Glulam Column (GLT)

was later destined and used for different purposes.

GLT Roof Structural frame

CLT Structural panels

Recycled Wood Envelope Cladding

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.

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Sadu Space

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.

Architectural Projects

Al Jasser House

LEVELS KASHTA

Sand ripples Contours., Structures Stretching from the ground., Horizontality and transparency were the main keywords driving the concept form generation of Levels Kashta resort. Through exprimentations carried-out using various AI model generations like Mid-journey and Comfy UI. Forms where later tested and optimazied to contexualize and embed.

Pizzaria/Bar Kuwait 2022 I was responsible on production, design review, designediting, and presentation.

Project: Interior design of T La Felice, an Italian brand FRȼHH VKRS Location: Muroug Status: Completed

Red Cream

Bakery, Kuwait 2024

Earth Dining Setting

Coral Coffee Table