Portfolio 2023 Laila Mourad

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO LAILA MOURAD

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Old Victoria Hospital Lands

Redevelopment of the parcel of land including hundreds of new housing units, including 300 that will be affordable. It includes two heritage buildings, the Health Services Building and the War Memorial Children’s Hospital, part of a five and half acre parcel bordered by Waterloo Street, South Street, Colborne Street and Hill Street, as well as a one-acre parcel at 124 Colborne St.

Co-op Student NSA, London, Ontario Public Presentation Context

LAHF

COLBORNE ST. COLBORNE ST.

HOMES UNLIMITED HEALTH SERVICES WATERLOO ST. HILL ST.

WATERLOO ST. WAR MEMORIAL LAHF HILL ST.

COVID-19 Long Haulers Co-housing Village

Long Hauler COVID-19 patients are slowly recovering physically and emotionally from the life-threatening illness they have gone through. They need to socialize and get long term treatment.

In order to relate the purpose of the project to its site, the project gets inspiration from Cambridge little towns and villages. The idea of bringing different institutions under one roof.

Moreover, to help speed up the recovery process and ease it, the healthcare center emerges with a villagelike atmosphere and form. Combined with farming as an occupational and physical therapy in a co-housing community.

ARCH 691 - 1st year master’s

Waterloo University, Waterloo

Individual Project

Former town of Galt

Conceptual Sketch

Narrative Diagram

From Left to Right

Second Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

Fourth Floor plan

North Elevation West Elevation

Relationship of the micro community tower and its surroundings

Section A-A

Relationship between the building and the courtyard Section B-B

175mm CLT load bearing wall

2.5mm SUPREMA® SOPRASEAL

STICK 130 Water, Air, and Vapour barrier

150mm SUPREMA® SOPRA-XPS 30

Rigid thermal insulation

19mm Vertical wood board cladding

Treated 50x50mm batten at 600mm center.

edge of batten angle cut to 15

20mm polished screed floor

4mm Profloor Acoustic Mat

50mm In-situ screed with inlaid under floor heating pipes

30mm rigid insulation

19mm Vertical wood board Using board on board cladding system to cover holes behind the finished cladding and for drainage and ventilation.

2.84mm CERTAINTEED® GlasRoc® Sheathing Water shedding

1. 175mm CLT wall

2. 2.5mm SUPREMA® SOPRASEAL STICK 130 Water, Air, and Vapor barrier

3. 150mm SOPRA-XPS 30 with square edges Rigid thermal insulation

4. Vapro ss self-adhered flashing for transitions

5. Self-adhered flexible 304 stainless steel flashing

6. Sloped sheet metal head flashing with folded end dams attached to sloped wood blocking

7. VaproLiqui-Flash Vapor-permeable, liquid applied

8. Continuous perimeter air and water seal at window head, jamb, and sill

9. SOPRASEAL® LM 200 T Exterior shedding sealant Exterior backer rod and sealant joint

10. W5 Wood Aluminum Window in intermittent shims

11. 10mm SURESILL™® PVC sill flashing with folded end dams

12. Self-adhered, flexible 304 stainless steel flashing sill

13. Triple glazed 3/4+201D insulation glass exterior and 1/4U+201D interior

14. 2.84mm CERTAINTEED® GlasRoc® Sheathing Water shedding

Exterior view featuring:

1. The trombe walls on the South and East sides of the project. 2. Activities on the Western south side. 3. Continuity of the buildings.

View from street featuring:

1. Activities happening in the micro community tower. 2. Community kitchen extension to the wide sidewalk corner.

Passive Strategy

Solar System Diagram

Pavilion Passive strategies

Mixed-use Wood Complex

This mixed-use complex project aims to imbue downtown Sudbury with new life and vitality. The site is a large unbelt parcel of land that is currently being used as a parking lot. My partner and I are exploring creative design approaches to embrace proposed Elgin Greenway along the site, in addition to engaging the existing train station on site. Our intention is to propose solutions for the issues found after our site analysis. The project also explores different mass timber technologies to develop innovative solutions for more sustainable living.

Design Studio 7 - 4th Year

Laurentian University, Sudbury

Group Project of 2

Daylight Study Model

Selected Work from Site Analysis

The downtown of Sudbury used to act as the financial center of the whole city when miners would come in on Tuesdays and Thursdays to cash their checks. Other establishments started to spring up around the banks making downtown the heart of physical, social and intellectual interactions.

Currently there is no unique amenities in downtown that don’t exist in other parts of Sudbury. Because of this, these services only serve the people of downtown, not all of Sudbury. Further isolating downtown from the rest of the city.

As noted by the Greater Sudbury Action Plan there is a drive to bring back value into downtown for all of Sudbury with plans for cultural centers and mixed-use development. These new projects will also provide value to current and future residences of downtown.

Adaptive Reuse Gallery

This project adapt the industrial Northern Breweries complex located on 185 Lorne Street, Sudbury. The functional program of the project is an art gallery and contemporary art practices.

My concept is inspired by the ancient Japanese technique Kinstugi of repairing pottery with a gold glue that becomes a part of its new identity, the adaptive reuse strategy focuses on nostalgia and the building as a relic of Sudbury’s history should be as engaging experience as the art in the building. In that sense, the building reveals the transitions and moments of change and tries to glorify them.

Design Studio 6 - Third Year

Laurentian University, Sudbury

Rhino - Vray - Photoshop

3D rendered shot of the proposed main entrance of the gallery

Existing Second Floor Plan

Artist: Mique Michelle

Art: Cotemporary

Artist: Theaster Gates

Art: Make Art from Abondened Buildings & Objects

Artist: Glenn Ligon

Art: Historical

Section

New Experience

Transitional Zone

Journey of nostalgia and metaphysical physiual connections

Minimal Change

A-A

Rhino - Photoshop

Section B- B

Photos of Existing Building

Bergen Wood Festival

After submitting proposal, 6 students were chosen and put into two groups to develop the design and prepare for the international competition in Bergen.

BIWF design-build competition 2018

UNESCO Historic Site

Byrggen, Norway

Photo taken by another student

Bergen International Wood Festival

The installation serves as a m eeting place and i nvite the community t o use i t as seating in any a rea of i t. T he design of the w aved w ood a nd w avy shape not only challenge the community t o use w ood m ore but also support the f ace t o face social i nteraction. T he gentely s loped s irface c reates unique spatial conditions that attract people to use i t and give t hem the choice o f view and b roader v iew of their surrondings.

My intial sketches from the proposal

The team poster showing the simple methdology of building by repeating, using 2X2s

The design was influnced by the surrounding mountains and the fjords of Bergen

The peaks of the structure creates shaded nooks where people can sit or lay down

Photo taken by another student

The Canoe Project

As a studio, we collaborated to build two birch bark canoes in the Me’tis way, which is related to Anishinaabe building methods. I believe that Canoe building relates to architecture in that all architecture begins from the scale of the human body moving in space.

Design Studio III - 2nd Year

Laurentian University, Sudbury

Studio Group work

Understanding of materials, technical ability and traditions

The canoe in its final stages -

Photo by another student Spruce tree skin

Ice Station Model

Since the process of making is as important as the finished project, during the design phase of an ice station, I made a scaled model that help the process of making to be alchemic, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary to then translate the design into a built structure at 1:1.

Design Studio II - 1st Year

Laurentian University, Sudbury

Group of 2

Photos by another student

Ice Station

We started the design process with an exploration of wood joinery. Many prototypes exploring conventional and innovative wood connections lead to a strategy of joining milled 2x2’s using jute twine. The challenge was to install it using limited number of tools on the ice surface. Thus, we divided the structure to five separate units and construct it in an interior environment in order to achieve a high level of craftsmanship.

Design Studio II - 1st Year

Laurentian University, Sudbury

Group Project of 14

Attaching Details

People interacting with the final structure

Interior shot of the woven seats

Photos by another student

Detail from Altach Cemetery

After finishing a research on how historical narratives are interpreted and translated into physical form that eventually becomes the vehicle for the making of place and cultures, through analogous methods, I created a detail model of a critical portion of the building.

Sacred Places: Culture History Course - 1st Year

Laurentian University, Sudbury

Prototype model

The Geometric Model is the exact scale of the original large lap jointed wood wall

Elevation of the Building, AutoCAD,

The cemetery’s jointed wood wall - (Archdaily 2012)

Oak Ornmentation

Investigation of the methods of lap joinery