MRJ Architecture Portfolio & CV by M. Rachid Jalloul

MRJ

Mohamad Rachid Jalloul

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO & CURRICULUM VITAE Contents: 1: PERSONAL PROJECTS 1.a. Geometry of Wind, Barcelona, CAT, Spain 1.b. Emmergence Eames, Eames House, LA, CA, USA 1.c. Strip Lamp, Barcelona, CAT, Spain 1.d. Geometry of Termination, Barcelona, CAT, Spain 2: PPROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 2.a. Big Tree Monument, Changwon, Korea 2.b. Citizen Center, Changwon, Korea 2.c. Caixa Forum, Valencia, Spain 2.d. ISD Campus, Shenzhen, China 3: TEACHING 3.a. Masters Teaching Assistant, Barcelona, CAT, Spain 3.b. Organizing IAAC & VT Workshop, Blacksburg, VA, USA 4: ILLUSTRATION 4.a. Planet Personalities 4.b. Of Dead & Bread (featuring poem) 4.c. Voyagerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lodge 4.d. Sailing Away (featuring poem) 4.e. Driving Through (featuring poem) 4.f. School (featuring poem)

I am a 27 year old architect. I grew up in Beirut where I completed my five year and a half Bachelor of Architecture degree at the Lebanese American University. I did an internship both in Beirut and Paris with Karim Nader Studio and Nicolas Dahan Architecte DPLG respectively. I then worked in the international design and build firm PSLab. After that I decided to expand my education hence traveling to Barcelona to pursue an additional Masters degree at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. There I chose the research line of self-sufficient buildings where I met award winning architect Enric Ruiz Geli of Cloud 9. I had the chance of collaborating with him on selection of educational and professional projects. While assisting him in conducting his master class in IAAC, I was also taking part in his office on a selection of projects such as: the ISD Campus in Shenzhen, China, the refurbishment of his personal office and home in Barcelona, Spain, the Citizen Center and Big Tree projects in Changwon, Korea. Other than having architecture training, I studied music and am a meditator/yoga practitioner by traditional training. I have a passion for poetry, philosophy, etymology, history and new scientific discoveries.

MOHAMAD RACHID JALLOUL

27 - ARABIC - ENGLISH -SPANISH - FRENCH jalloul.mr@gmail.com, mohamad.rachid@iaac.net 0034600392110 Calle Enric Granados 49, B2 08008, Barcelona

BACHELOR AND MASTERS JULY 2018 MASTER IN ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE, INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE OF CATALONIA Self Sufficient Buildings Research Line with emphasis on Retrofitting Climatic Matter Studio Thesis Project investigates the potential of fluid eruption as a mode of building emmergence Program adopts Digital Fabrication and Computational Design as tools to reinvent 21st century architecture JANUARY 2015 BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE / DIPLOME D’ETUDE SUPERIEUR, LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY / ECOLE SPECIALE D’ARCHITECTURE PARIS Urban Thesis Project presents a study of the evolution of Martyrs Square in the heart of Beirut and proposes an intervention to vitalize it as the city port’s inland continuation

EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS FEBRUARY 2017, LOS ANGELES & ARIZONA Educational visits to the Broad Museum and Walt Disney Concert hall in LA Self Sufficiency Experience RV roadtrip across the desert of Arizona with private tours in Arcosanti and Taliesin West SEPTEMBER 2012, BERLIN Exploring post-war city as a laboratory for new architecture models Educational visits to the Neue Gallery, Neues Museum, Opera Philharmonic, IBA and other cultural sites JANUARY 2011, BARCELONA Proposing interventions like urban furniture in the city that would normalize homeless individuals with its experience NOVEMBER 2011, BEIRUT Joint workshop with the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg and the Beirut Green Project on thinking impromptu public space

EXHIBITED & PUBLISHED WORK MUSEUM OF URBAN HISTORY, BARCELONA 2017 LIVING (IN) FUTURE CITIES Project proposed an intervention on Case Study No. 8 of the Eames that transports human habitat from “house” to “ecosystem” CASA ELIZALDE, BARCELONA 2017 SCRIPTS - A CHRONICLE OF INCIDENTS Wind drawing machine powered by an Arduino KOOZARCH & NONARCHITECTURE COMPETITIONS BOOK “MAKING” HONORABLE MENTION Illustrated proposal for the factory of the future NONARCHITECTURE COMPETITIONS BOOK “SLEEPING” FINALIST Traveler’s lodge proposal as an extention to domestic living

OFFICE AND PROJECT EXPERIENCE FEBRUARY 2018 - AUGUST 2019 ARCHITECT & PROJECT ARCHITECT / ENRIC RUIZ-GELI, BARCELONA Lead an international team of six professionals (Norwegian, Italian, Indian, Iranian, Taiwanese and Lebanese) for the ISD Campus Competion in Shenzhen, China Managed construction work for new Cloud 9 office space and Enric Ruiz-Geli loft, organized artwork and designed exhibition space Lead the design of the Citizen Center and Big Tree projects, Changwon, Korea Architect on the Caixa Forum Agora, Valencia NOVEMBER 2018 PRIVATE COMMISSION FOR VITAMIN RIYADH OFFICE DESIGN Design office layout for new Vitamin Offices in Riyadh KSA OCTOBER 2015 - OCTOBER 2016 PROJECT MANAGER, PSLAB, BEIRUT Participated in design concept phase and technical development Created a template for BOQs and Offers Deduced formulas for pricing per sqm for standard and decorative lighting articles OCTOBER 2015 - JANUARY 2016 PRIVATE COMMISSION FOR TORCH SAL OFFICE DESIGN, BEIRUT Architect and Contractor, designed office layout and managed construction work in renovating an old loft MARCH 2015 - MAY 2015 INTERN, NICOLAS DAHAN ARCHITECTE DPLG, PARIS Worked on a football stadium design in Brazzaville, Congo Worked on a private villa and golf course design in Libreville, Gabon JULY 2014 - DECEMBER 2014 INTERN, KARIM NADER STUDIO / BLANKPAGE ARCHITECTS, BEIRUT

TEACHING EXPERIENCE JANUARY 2019 - JUNE 2019 SELF SUFFICIENT BUILDINGS STUDIO, MAA01, IAAC, BARCELONA Professional Research Assistant and Archive Manager with TAKK Architects and Physicist / Particle Theory Expert Josep Perello Course Leadership by Enric Ruiz Geli JANUARY 2018 - JUNE 2018 SELF SUFFICIENT BUILDINGS STUDIO, MAA01, IAAC Assistant Teacher in a course lead by Enric Ruiz-Geli and Mireia Luzarraga Organized an international workshop and site visit to El Bulli Foundation with Diploma 18 Studio from the Architectural Association in London BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIA 2018 IAAC IN VIRGINIA TECH Organized a joint workshop with Virgina tech as part of the IAAC research trip Trip to the USA included significant educational tours in MIT Media Lab, Harvard GSD, Autodesk in Boston and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City

WORK MEDIA AND TECHNICAL SKILLS RHINOCEROS - GRASSHOPPER - AUTOCAD - ADOBE PHOTOSHOP INDESIGN - ILLUSTRATOR - PREMIERE - KEYSHOT - SKETCHUP - VRAY

1.a Geometry of Wind, Barcelona, Spain 1: personal projects

(group work, responsible for digital drawing simulation with Rhino & Grasshopper + physical model construction) Project description: this work investigates the closeness of MACHINIC PARAMETERS to URBAN PARAMETERS by employing geometry as the vocabulary of dialogue. After obtaining a resultant geometry from machine parameters coupled with wind force, its relevance in therefore tested in the new “superilla” urban typology of Barcelona. The project is suggestive of applying a CARTOGRAPHIC VOCAB out of which an ACTIVE PUBLIC SPACE could emmerge.

PEN TO PAVEMENT MACHINE TO METROPOLIS

ANALOG GEOMETRY PRODUCED BY ARDUINO PROGRAMMED WIND DRAWING MACHINE

SPINE

SERVO MOTOR

PROPELLER

FAN

FAN ARDUINO

GEOMETRY OF WIND PARAMETRICALLY MODELED USING GRASSHOPPER

MACHINE PARTS: SPINE FOR AUTOMATED MOVEMENT AND FANS FOR WIND DIRECTED MOVEMENT

DERIVING AN ACTIVE PUBLIC SPACE SYSTEM FROM MACHINE LOGIC

1.b Electronic Eames, Eames House, LA (individual work) Project description: Not only was the Eames House a break through in construction being among the first prefabricated houses of the 20th century, but the Eames as a group promoted a distict home-style characterized by well being and eclecticism. The proposed retrofit in this project aims to reactivate the Eames site as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;playgroundâ&#x20AC;? for architectural discourse. Not only does is propose a structure dialogue by presenting a new electric field/ ion technology driven building that undermines geometric stability, but also by incorporating animal life (bats) into the ecology that characterizes human habitation and thus undermining seclusion of living. It is an urge to move domesticity from the box.

HABITAT DIALOG

ecological air building (bats)

tree

eames house

people

REACTIVATING EAMES = [STRUCTURE DIALOG: STATIC VS. MUTABLE] + [MATERIAL STATE DIALOG: SOLID VS. GAS] + [HABITAT DIALOG: HUMANS VS. BATS]

EXPERIMENTING WITH FORMS IN SPACE PLAYING WITH SCALE

DERIVING GEOMETRIC RELATIONS GEOMETRY HAS NO MEANING

PHYSICAL MODEL PROPS WOOL LED

THE MODEL IS A STAGE

PROPOSED RETROFIT photo of physical model

performative building

performative retrofit

people

trees

eames house eames house

architecture as a spectacle

eames garden

BUILDING DIALOGUE photo of physical model

EAMES GARDEN

BATS

FIBER TEXTILE RUBBER ETFE

IONS ELECTRICITY COLD AIRPOSITIVEHOT AIR

THE PHYSICS OF PERFORMANCE: POROUS RUBBER SLEEVE WITH ETFE INNER LAYERING INITIATED WITH ION CHARGED AIR SPATIALLY MANIPULATED WITH ELECTRODES

OTTO PIENE OLYMPIC RAINBOW

MIT ELECTRIC FIELD AIRPLANE

RETROFITTING PARAMETRICALLY: THE NEW STRUCTURE “DANCES” AROUND THE EAMES HOUSE IN RESPONSE TO CLIMATIC CONDITIONS

STRUCTURE DIALOGUE BETWEEN STEEL COLUMN AND BEAM AND THE NEWLY PROPOSED ELECTRIC FIELD SHAPE SHIFTING SHEATHE

CAN A BUILDING ERUPT?

THE EAMES IS AN ARCHITECTURE LABORATORY NOT A MUSEUM

1994 LICEU OPERA HOUSE ON FIRE

RECOGNIZING DISASTER AS SPACE

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1.c Strip Lamp Project description: applying a KERFING PATTERN with varying cut-out dimensions in laser cutting that define varying degrees of bendability. WOOD THEREFORE BEHAVES LIKE PAPER and could be formally manipulated as such.

1.d Geometry of Termination (individual research) Project description: this research stems from the personal observation and conviction that all geometry moves from the gross to the subtle, from the mass to the particle. The paradox here is that physical or geometric termination is a recipe for volumetric expansion. We can see that with nuclear detonations, with volcano eruptions, geyzers, the splashing of a wave on the shore, the flowering of a popcorn, the sewing of cotton candy from a heap of sugar, the structural expansion from a romaneque to a gothic cathedral. And very importantly in trees. It is about occupying a volume greater, and not necessary for the net mass to exist. This happening of expansion or termination is geometrically consistent irrespective of the arrangement of matter involved. Underwater experiments are conducted to simulate this notion. A site is located to architecturally infer.

(operation bikini atoll) /

/ (antarctic fumarole)

/ (nuclear bomb detonation test)

(solid CO2) /

(sea wave) /

/ (cotton candy viewed under a microscope)

/ (gothic cathedral section)

BLURR BUILDING BY DILLER AND SCOFIDIO & FOG BRIDGE BY FUJIKO NAKAYA PRESENT AN ARCHITECTURE OF ATMOSPHERE

GEOMETRIC PHENOMENA OF ERUPTION AND DEPOSITION BETWEEN UNDERWATER EXPERIMENTS AND REAL LIFE EXAMPLES

THIS IS ABOUT A HIGH VOLUME / MASS RATIO

POPCORN - COTTON - FEATHER - MOSTLY EMPTY

SPATIAL MAXIMIZATION IS ABOUT PHYSICAL TERMINATION

A WAVE IS A BUILDING OUT OF WATER AND MYST

VOXEL OPTIMIZATION USING “WASP” IN GRASSHOPPER

FIRST STUDIES IN EMPOLYING RESULTING GEOMETRY AS SPATIAL EXPERIENCE

AQUARIUM VIEW: WOOL, PINE RESIN, SUGAR

AQUARIUM VIEW: WOOL, PINE RESIN, SUGAR, BEES WAX

3d scan

1st Geometry Capsulation

corresponding / natural morphology: squid egg sack water level

3d scan

2nd Geometry Channel

water level

corresponding / natural morphology: tree cells

3d scan

3rd Geometry Surface water level

corresponding natural morphology: atolls /

(vessel elements: the tree cells responsible for channeling water vertically from the soil) /

EMPLOYING RESULTING GEOMETRIES OF ABOVE EXPERIMENTS TO RETROFIT THE OCEAN SHORE THAT BECOMES A “MYSTY PARK” DUE TO WAVE COLLISION FORCE AND ANGLE OF THRUST A BUILDING BECOMES A PERFORMANCE OF CLIMATE

(analog simulation of water currents forming self-similar canyons) /

(timelapse of tree growth) /

(infographic showing how giant waves in nazare, portugal are a result of a subaquatic canyon in the atlantic plate) /

A LIBRARY OF COMBINATIONS:

natural blowhole

MORPHOGENETIC FLUID DYNAMICS AND SYNTHESIS OF RESULTANT GEOMETRY:

FORM FINDING: EMPLOYING MORPHOGENETIC FLUID DYNAMICS TO GET THE CORRECT ANGLES IN SECTION (LEFT) FOR UP THRUST ABDUCTION OF WATER AND THE CORRECT BRANCHING ANGLES IN PLAN (RIGHT). THE ACHIEVED DESIGN IS A NETWORK OF CHANNELS THAT HELPS ACHIEVE A BUILDING THAT IS A “MATTER REARRANGEMENT”.

2.a Big Tree Monument, Changwon, Korea CLOUD9 2:professional practice

Responsibility: 3D modeling with Rhino & Grasshopper (renders by GRAPH) Project description: designing a public monument for the city of Changwon that would become a city symbol. The monument is also a public building accessible by people. The main structure is inspired by Shukhov’s steel towers. It is tripartite in arrangement: -groudfloor: dome with oculus -main structure with tree barks -patio and platform with natural & hydroponic trees & “pollinating poles”

HYDROPONIC TREE

NATURAL TREES

ARTIFICIAL STAMEN FOR POLLINATION

DEAD TREE TRUNKS

PUBLIC OBSERVATORY STEEL MESH

HYDROPONIC TREE NATURAL TREES

SHUKOV INSPIRED STEEL MESH PLATFORM

DEAD TREE TRUNKS HANGING ON STEEL MESH STRUCTURE

DOME

CAP DE CREUS ROCKS

DOME OCULUS

DOME RIB STRUCTURE

2.b Citizen Center Changwon, Korea CLOUD 9 Responsibility: lead designer, 3D modeling with Rhino & Grasshopper, CAD drawing, presentation (render by PLAYTIME) Project description: designing a public building for the citizens of Changwon that would house smaller buildings among which are: -a “cell” structure for relaxation -a library and restaurant building -a city auditorium -muti-porpuse roomss The structure is an “exoskeleton” inside which smaller “buildings” interact in an “agora” manner. The building is green.

GROUND FLOOR DISTRIBUTION PLAN

BUILDINGS INSIDE A BUILDING

FIRST FLOOR DISTRIBUTION PLAN

MULTI-PURPOSE CELLS

AGORA AUDITORIUM

3D MODELING OF INTERIOR USING RHINO AND GRASSHOPPER

+30.65m Height from +0.00

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT PHASE

+25.40m

Height of building

+9.48m +7.82m

+5.26m

+3.55m

+0.00m

Arc

Existing topography line

Arc

INSIDE THE “CELLS” PAPER STRUCTURE

Fil

RESTAURANT CATENARY STRUCTURE

Project Name

DaeSang Park Changwon

Library and administration reference in Caixa Forum Agora Valencia: Fiberglass formwork brick shell ceramic cladded

Barrisol false ceiling with iGuzzini lighting

Library and Restaurant

Main Structure triangular steel trussed arch painted white

Cells

5 axis CNC Milling

High density foam form work for Cardboard building (Cells)

Carton Lab Cardboard Strips wrapped around foam formwork

Architecture, Korean team

ACM

Architecture & Construction Management Incorporate

Jung, Jung Man - CEO / Ph. D.

Architecture, Barcelona team

ENRIC RUIZ GELI PROJECT Enric Ruiz Geli - Founder, Principal Architect

Project Team Mila Moskalenko Miren Agirre Pau Martínez Rachid Jalloul Yi Fan Liao Marc Lencina Tiaré Gálvez Cristina Bao

Finishes vary from raw to painted Project Stage

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT Layout:

CITIZEN CENTER Interior finish schedule File Name:

DD-CC-07.dwg Author

Date

ERG

28th July 2019

Layout number:

DD-CC-07 Scale A1 1:A3 1:-

Project Name

DaeSang Park Changwon

Ceramic triangle pearl color

Steel tube painted white Project Name Architecture, Korean team

ACM

Big steel truss with lateral wood bars

Wood laminated truss

Architecture & Construction Management Incorporate

DaeSang Park Jung, Jung Man - CEO / Ph. D.

Architecture, Barcelona team Changwon

ENRIC RUIZ GELI PROJECT Enric Ruiz Geli - Founder, Principal Architect

Project Team Mila Moskalenko Miren Agirre Pau Martínez Rachid Jalloul Yi Fan Liao Marc Lencina Tiaré Gálvez Cristina Bao

Steel deck

Project Stage

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT Layout:

CITIZEN CENTER Reinforcement detail drawing File Name:

Layout number:

DD-CC-29.dwg Author

Date

ERG

28th July 2019

DD-CC-29 Scale A1 1:A3 1:-

(Air in)

lights (theater)

Architecture, Korean team

ACM

Architecture & Construction Management Incorporate

Jung, Jung Man - CEO / Ph. D.

Architecture, Barcelona team

ENRIC RUIZ GELI PROJECT Enric Ruiz Geli - Founder, Principal Architect

Steel tube painted dark black matte

Project Team

Mila Moskalenko Miren Agirre Pau Martínez Rachid Jalloul Yi Fan Liao Marc Lencina Tiaré Gálvez Cristina Bao

Project Stage

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT Layout:

CITIZEN CENTER Structure calculation B File Name:

DD-CC-30.dwg Author

Date

ERG

28th July 2019

Layout number:

DD-CC-30 Scale A1 1:A3 1:-

(Air in) Tramex grating for technical maintenance

Barrisol false ceiling

Steel beams (lighter)

2.c Caixa Forum, Valencia, Spain CLOUD 9 Responsibility: concept design, 3D modeling with Rhino & Grasshopper, CAD drawing, presentation (render by PLAYTIME) Project description: retrofitting the original structure by Calatrava with smaller building units inside the latger one: -a library and administration vault -an agora space -a city auditorium -muti-porpuse rooms -a 3D printed â&#x20AC;&#x153;cloudâ&#x20AC;? The project is characterized by a DIALOGUE between heavy industry construction and DIGITAL FABRICATION.

agora concept sketch /

restaurant

top view render /

3D printed model /

auditorium

cloud library

3. AUDITORIUM

2. CLOUD 1. LIBRARY/ ADMINISTRATION

MULTI-PURPOSE SPACE

1. LIBRARY/ ADMINISTRATION SECTION

2. 3D PRINTING PROTOTYPE MODELED BY VOXEL OPTIMIZATION

INITIAL DESIGN

2. CLOUD 3D PRINTED ON SITE WITH ROBOTIC ARMS

3. AUDITORIUM SECTION

CAPA 1 FIBRA DE VIDRIO DE R&B CAPA 2 Pintura roja de imprimación aplicada antes de la proyección del poliuretano. Esta sirve de punto de unión entre los dos materiales. Aplicado con pistola. CAPA 3 Proyectado de Poliuretano.BASF Grosor 13cm Empresa WS

CAPA 4 Capa Instalaciones, Pasatubos de diametres 6 o 8 CAPA 5 Armadura; mallazo de diametre 8, con una malla de 20x20. Armadura: jácenas empotradas. grosor 45cm x 15cm grosor de la capa de hormigó esfera = 15cm, y lucernarios = 10cm, testimonios para el grosor cada 1m x 1m

altavoz circular BOSE diámetro 25cm pintado gris perla caja metálica tapa screen BEC color oscuro diámetro 30cm

CAPA 6 Hormigón proyectado, árido pequeño de 8mm, resistencia 350

CAPA 7 impermeabilización puente de unión + proyectado

Acabado extererior cultipo hidrpónico de Bures Innova

acabado interior proyectado de hormigón

/ restaurant render

/ surfaces represent fiberglass formwork

/ hydroponic system

2.d ISD Campus, Shenzhen, China CLOUD 9 Responsibility: Project Leader (renders by PLAYTIME) Project description: closed competition to design an architecture and tech school building in the ISD campus of Shenzhen, China. The design is a code of cells characretized by transparancy as an architecture quality that promotes KNOWLEGE SHARING. The building is also distinguished by a “rambla” space in the middle which adds to the visibility of the program. The project incorporates green technologies such as: -SOLAR COLLECTION -WATER COLLECTION (via etfe skin) -WATER FILTRATION -MICROCLIMATES -GREEN ROOFS

圳 zhén...education first

ISD 校园设计的核心为建构一个空间系统，一个以细胞式模块作为基础语言的编码系统，容许单位模块因应不同的空间需求自由变换，形成一个流动灵活的空间氛围。 ISD Campus design is conceived as a SYSTEM and as a CODE OF CELLS that could adapt to the changing necessities of the campus program. ISD 校园设计的核心为建构一个空间系统，一个以细胞式模块作为基础语言的编码系统，容许单位模块因应不同的空间需求自由变换，形成一个流动灵活的空间氛围。

ISD 校园设计的核心为建构一个空间系统，一个以细胞式模块作为基础语言的编码系统，容许单位模块因应不同的空间需求自由变换，形成一个流动灵活的空间氛围。

OF CELLS 1 CODE 细胞式模块

MOUNTAIN TOPOGRAPGY 山地地形

OF CELLS 1 CODE 细胞式模块

MOUNTAIN TOPOGRAPGY 山地地形

LINK TO EXISTING CAMPUS 与既有校园的策略性链接

04 05

DISPLAY / 展示

ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE 极大化可持续且环保的建筑性

OFFICE / 行政办公用房

LAB / 实验室

CLASSROOM / 教室

AUDITORIUM / 礼堂

CELLS TYPOLOGIES 18X18 METERS 模块类型

3.a 3: teaching

Masters Teaching Assistant IAAC I have had the opportunity to be part of organizing and tutoring in the SELF SUFFICIENT BUILDINGS STUDIO in the MASTERS IN ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE program in the INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE OF CATALONIA for two consecutive years. Firstly, when I was still a student, and secondly attending as a professional whilst carrying on my office involvement with ENRIC RUIZ GELI / CLOUD 9

3.b Organizing IAAC & Virginia Tech Workshop In the Spring of 2018 I set off to the United States along with the Self Sufficient Buildings studio in IAAC to conduct a workshop guided by Enric Ruiz Geli in Virginia tech. The aim of this educational “experiment” was to merge both cultures of education: the computational/digital fabrication approach of IAAC on one hand, and the analog, site analysis, craftsmanship oriented culture of Virginia Tech. Nonetheless, being a tech institute, Virginia Tech’s architecture students also had the chance to see their school in a new light and to inter-activate efficiency between their architecture studios and tech labs. The students went through the exercise of designing a university campus, working in different “clusters” of knowledge while retaining individual input.

AGENDA

NATURE

biodiversity farming architecture sensing waste

BODY sweat porosity heat salt

PUBLICNESS interviews soundscape anti-gravity silence health capsule

RETROFIT drones minecraft interaction invisibility landmarks traveling school

SKIN & STRUCTURE climate scales adaptive performative nano textile

NEW BUILDING me / we architecture educates identity

4.a 4: illustration

Planet Personalities Imagining planets as characters with different personalities, or rather temperaments, and translating that into shape. While these shapes were drawn digitally, they were laser cut into small acrylic figures, light cast on them from different directions cauzing peculiar personalities to emmerge in the form of shadow

4.b Of Dead & Bread Man is dead Heatless lump To fire fed Ashes drown In a stream so sound Water the crops In the ground Wheat gets milled On the hill Flour baked Bread itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ate A factory is directly linked to human consumption and to temporary use. Human beings, however, are also temporary, disposable, recyclable. Once they understand that they are temporary, consumption becomes more reasonable, more proportional to one lifetime. This crematorium bakery is set in a natural space. It is a public open space that allows reflection and rejuvenation.

4.c Voyager’s Lodge “I just arrived and I want to sleep... somewhere.” Bedroom, bathroom, kirchen living, dining... and a traveler’s lodge. This is a 21st century proposal for a residential typology. Just like having an attic, every apartment today should have a compartment for a traveler.

4.d Sailing Away PLANET DANGER! Pipes suck cows and pigs Little water Little trees People feast On dead meat The last meal Nations race To production rate Planet sales In ocean waste People flea Sky and sea Volcano Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; no

4.e Driving Through In the desert of Arizona Driving for days The sky takes Various shapes

4.f School A humble offering to Adiyogi, The First Yogi: What do we learn as children? How do we learn? Can we eat knowledge? Can we unfold the complexities Of our being Like a carpet? Mother and Father? Who is our real Teacher Let’s dance around fire Let’s play with the tiger In the jungle Let’s march with ants Let’s fall off The periphery of the world And meet The Crazy Cat Goddess Who spat the sun From her gut Let’s juggle precision Become Beauty Dissolve In what we don’t know Let darkness become Our warmest blanket

Thank You Mohamad Rachid Jalloul c/ Enric Granados 49, planta baja, 2 08008 Barcelona, Spain jalloul.mr@gmail.com