marwah garib
.worksamples
marwah.garib@gmail.com marwahgarib.com
marwah garib.
email marwah.garib@gmail.com website: marwahgarib.com
education Columbia University in the City of New York | New York Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
June- expected May 2017
Master of Science Architecture and Urban Design
German University in Cairo | Cairo, Egypt Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning
September 2010 - June 2015
BSc. of Architecture and Urban Design
University of Stuttgart | Stuttgart, Germany Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Statbau Institute
April - June 2014
Semester abroad - Bachelor project
work experience Gallery Assistant Arthur Ross Gallery, Columbia University | New York • •
Sept 2016 - current
Research and collect images and articles from the Avery Archive and Library on Architectural photographer Louis Checkman leading to the Stagecraft Exhibition’s model photography. Currently conducting research on Shausaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins’ architecture philosophy and built projects for future exhibition.
Urban Planner KEO International Consultants | Abu Dhabi, UAE • • • •
January - May 2016
Prepared land use plans and development policies for master planning and urban development projects. Assisted in developing zoning and development control regulations, design guidelines, processes and procedures for mixed use developments and residential compounds. Researched and analyzed factors affecting land use and community development including economic, socio-demographic, and environmental aspects. Acted as a liaison between disciplines involved in master planning including infrastructure and traffic engineering teams. Summer 2013
Intern OTAK International | Abu Dhabi, UAE • • •
Researched landscape materials and street furniture suppliers. Assisted staff in construction detail documents and graphics of an urban park project. Conducted site survey and reported through analytical drawings and multimedia Summer 2012
Architectural Intern ATKINS | Abu Dhabi, UAE •
Supported staff with 3d renderings and visualization of a two-tower development Project on Al Reem Island, Abu Dhabi.
skills Adobe Creative Suite AutoCAD ArcGIS
Rhino + Grasshopper 3Ds Max + V ray Google Sketchup
Adobe After Effects QGIS Microsoft Office Suite
+ Hand drafting, Sketching, Oil Painting, Pastel Coloring, model making.
languages
English
Arabic
dakshineshwar temple
belur math monastry howrah
kolkata
if global temperatures increase 2C, much of the region would become submerged
sunderbans
Designing the Pilgrim’s Journey between Kolkata and Sagar Island
sagar island
the sacred horizon
gangasagar mela
8º
bay of bengal
Crits: Kate Orff, Geeta Mehta, Laura Kurgan, Julia Watson, Dilip Da Cunha In collaboration with Jessica Adiwijaya and Jesfae John. Spring 2017. Columbia GSAPP. New York, NY.
The Sacred Horizon aims to improve the pilgrim’s experience while addressing changes resulting from climate change, particularly sea-level rise. The project’s scope involves two sites on the Hooghly river: The Dakshineshwar Kali temple, Belur Math and other Kali temples north of Kolkata which are particularly popular with locals; and Sagar Island at the meeting of the Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, which is a major pilgrim destination particularly in the month of January, when millions visit this island in an event called Gangasagar Mela. At Dakshineshwar, we are proposing to redesign the riverfront and the existing ghats to allow for public spaces and amenities engineered to treat the water. The project exploits the tremendous opportunity of the Hooghly River to aid the massive floating population that comes to Kolkata to commute between these sacred
points of interest and Sagar Island. Today, Sagar Island is one among the rapidly vanishing islands in the Sundarbans, one of the largest mangrove forests and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We propose to address this urgency by implementing nature based solutions such as mangroves afforestation and sediment accretion. These solutions will serve to anchor a floating infrastructure of amenities for pilgrims coming to Sagar Island by boat. As the route from Kolkata is considered holy by millions, we propose introducing an agenda to enhance mangrove cultivation all along the river, but particularly around Sagar Island as part of the rituals of the pilgrimage. We believe that this initiative will lay the ground for a resilient ‘GangaSagar Mela City of the future’, one that is adaptable to the ever increasing pilgrim population and future sea level rise.
dakshineshwar temple
belur math monastry
sagar island
kapil muni temple
Sagar Island
edge typologies Boardwalk
Ghat
step 1 bamboo stilts Mangrove afforestation
Solid Waste Filtration
Floating Village
Energy generating breakwater
Floating plaza
Floating pool
step 3 mangrove afforestation
step 2 silting island making
Floating garden 0.0
3.0
6.0 km
Dakshineswar Belur Math
elevated bund
ferry terminal
flow of sediment road tideline
village
farmland
ferry terminal hindu temple coastal wetlands settlement
Kolkata
mangrove agricultural fallow land
sediment flow from hoogli river
sand crop / paddy field salt marshy land sparse vegetation
bamboo boardwalk
elevated tuktuk bund stop
houseboats from kolkata accretion (n) is a process by which layers of soil are formed as small amounts are added over time.
sediment flow with river, which increases during monsoon season.
bamboo boardwalk
constructed creek
erosion (n) is a process by which surface of earth is worn away by action of water.
constructed mangrove habitat
bamboo boardwalk
sedimentation proposal
constructed mangrove habitat
elevated bund
backwater
fresh water collection system
elevated bund
energy-waste plant
benuban ferry bay of bengal
kapil muni temple
beach
kapil muni temple
raised grounds
sediment flow changes direction as river and bay of bengal converge. sediment now carried north by waves.
Water Collection System
Constructed Mangrove Habitat
Bamboo boardwalk
Energy Generating Breakwater
Spines Main promenade Green Corridor Business promenade Building Semi-public Space / Podium
Nodes Landmark Public Space Building Semi-public Space / Podium
Entrances Zone Entrance Building Entrance Building Semi-public Space / Podium
Land Use Offices Commercial Mixed Use Convention Center Hotel Research Center Recreational
waterfront business district
manial island
mixed-use landmark
Crit: Hussam Salama In collaboration with Marwa adel and Sandi Boulos. Spring 2015. German University in Cairo. Cairo, Egypt.
The project is located in a section of the western waterfront of Al Manial, a Nile Island in the center of Cairo famous for its hospitals and medical schools. The 60 students of the design studio collaborated to create one masterplan proposal dividing the site into Zone 1: a business and science district, Zone 2: concerned with community development and promoting culture, and Zone 3: which has different facilities such as hotels and an art school. The zones are divided into plots with each 3 students designing a single plot. My group designed Plot 2 of Zone 1. Our proposal is a science center and museum which is integrated with exhibition halls, shops and cafes that exploit the Nile view. The Science Center is reached through a continuous public space on the roof that takes visitors to a panoramic Nile experience. Trees and seating elements are integrated in the design to provide shade and comfort. The building, although having separate entrances for the different functions, appears to come out of the ground and reaching out for the Nile.
mixed-use
aquarium
science museum
hotel convention center recreational facility
offices
science museum
exhibition space
public space
4
3
2
1
1
1
1
1
Floor Plan (+4 meter) 1 Shops 2 Exhibition Space 3 Employee Offices 4 Storage Space
4
3
1
3
3
2
Floor Plan (+4 meter) 1 Shops 2 Exhibition Space 3 Employee Offices 4 Storage Space
Existing Buildings
Existing Buildings New Industrial Affordable Housing
Existing Buildings
New Commercial
Existing Buildings New Industrial
New Industrial New Commercial
New Housing
Hells Kitchen, NY
New Housing
Existing Buildings
Existing Buildings New Industrial
Rethinking Urban Industry
New Industrial Affordable Housing
New Commercial
Affordable Housing
Crits: Kaja Kühl, James Khamsi, Thaddeus Pawlowski, Brian Baldor and Ben AbelmanIn In collaboration with Nishchal Agarwal, Yan Pang and Nabi Agzamov. Summer 2016. Columbia GSAPP. New York, NY.
Owing to the development pressure that happened on other post-industrial sites in New York such as Chelsea and Hudson Yards, this project proposes a special zoning district that would allow for a creation of a communitysensitive mixed-use neighbourhood, integrating light to medium industry with medium to high-rise residential complexes. In a phase-wise development, this project envisions housing, commercial and industrial uses integrated in a design governed by the new guidelines. By keeping some of the industrial uses in the initial phases with the vision of evolving into light industry to integrate with housing. The porous nature of the design connects the neighbourhood to the waterfront through a series of integrated walkways. The goal is to promote growth of a much more diverse waterfront that would allow for residential and leisure development, reviving industrial, and transportation use.
RES
IDE
CO
NC
IAL
Neighborhood
MM
ERC
IAL Height Tendency
NEW
IND
UST
RY Pedestrain Walkable Street
OLD
IND
Building Connection
UST
RY
Hudson River
New Commercial
food justice
poughkeepsie food network Crits: Michael Murphy. Lee Altman. In collaboration with evelina knodel, jesfae john and mayra mahmoud. Fall 2016. Columbia GSAPP. New York, NY.
Food waste and food insecurity exist side by side in Dutchess County, yet it is the only county in the Hudson Valley region without a gleaning network. Gleaning essentially means to save food which would otherwise go to waste. Our project seeks to address the issue of food insecurity by tapping into the gleaning gaps that exist within Dutchess county. Poughkeepsie is a city where instances of poverty and unemployment are disproportionately concentrated, and a direct consequence is irregular access to nutritious fresh food. The same systems that allow 40% of food that is produced to go to “waste” also allow 20% of Poughkeepsie’s population to remain unemployed and impoverished. The existence of 18 emergency food assistance programs, the highest in the surrounding four counties, is evidence that the issue of food insecurity has been recognized, but not resolved.
We see the Hudson Valley region as a gateway to restoring food justice by proposing a multi-scalar sustainable model that leverages untapped assets of both food waste and human potential. In order to do this, we propose to establish a gleaning network in Dutchess County that collects viable food that would otherwise go to waste and redistributes it through a food hub. This food hub will be located within the center of the city which aims to train and employ local residents to repurpose this food and stimulate economic activity. Our network seeks to empower its residents through the collaborative efforts of collection, distribution, education and resource recovery of food.
concept diagram of poughkeepsie food hub.
processes in facility
non-spatial
soup kitchens pick food for free
partners
cooked by + for trainees
farms
livestock farms
supermarkets
gleaning
stored for winter months
meat - diary
individual donations
food food scraps
garden greenhouse
produce
soup kitchens
dining seasonal storage
deli partnerships
edible food
gleaning
sorting..
key
food processing
WASTE
products
market
compost
satellite hubs
sold/exchanged with farms + used in garden exchanged with meat, eggs + dairy
temporary markets
administration information desk storage
cafeteria wc kitchen
rethinking cairo’s ring road
wood
young cairo Critic: Urs Walter In collaboration with Ahmed Ades + Karim Mandoury. Fall 2014. German University in Cairo. Cairo, Egypt. This project aimed to investigate urban spaces created underneath the Ring Road in Greater Cairo. The Road aims to connect the city’s different districts yet fails on the neighbourhood level by creating a barrier with lost dark, unsafe and unclean spaces underneath its bridges. The site investigated was underneath the southern section of the Ring Road dividing an informal low-income neighbourhood (Torab Al Yahoud) and a planned middle-income neighbourhood (Saqr Quraish). The project followed an organized methodology to reach design solutions. First, locals from both areas on the side of the bridge were interviewed to understand local complaints and needs. Then, a photo mapping of the area was conducted. In the mapping my group was particularly interested in existing textures on site which resulted in our to classification and mapping of the different textures. Then we studied the relation between textures, people and the urban context. Understanding the psychological effects of trash as a texture on people, we proposed an community space where workshops and community gatherings can take place. This space would act as a bridge and a safe connection between both neighbourhoods.
concrete
red painted concrete
identical unit
x7
gap for emergency access
x2
rethinking stuttgart
Stöckach
cl hi ve
sp
e in
s de pe
rk pa
Critic: Helmut Bott Spring 2014. University of Stuttgart, Gemany.
e
tri
an
m
co
e in
sp
ls cia
n pi
e
er m
Land Use Housing
+ Terrace
Offices
The district of Stöckach in western Stuttgart, Germany is a parkway district that is currently facing severe environmental problems such as noise pollution and poor air quality as well as inefficient and energy-consuming building structures. The site has a privileged location next to a spacious inner-city parkland (Schlossgarten). There are currently two bridges crossing over the highway (Cannstatter Straße) connecting the site with the park, and two more are proposed. All connections are wide bridges with vegetation to make the crossing a more pleasant experience. The connections are extended into the site with the aim of creating green fingers into the city fabric. The site is divided into three zones: Zone A, which is along the highway, has mainly offices acting as noise barrier; Zone C, which is along Neckarstraße, buildings in this zone would remain with mixed use functions; and Zone B, which is sandwiched between the two previous zones, has mainly residential units. Also, the existing school in Stöckach Square, which lies in Zone C, is proposed to have an extension in Zone B which includes a sports hall and a playground area .
ne
zo
y cit
A
z
e on
B ne
zo
Mixed Use Hotel Educational
C
Governmental
+ staircases
Building Heights
Open Spaces
5-6 Floors
Pockets
4-3 Floors
Green Corridors
1-2 Floors
Educational Space Main Square
Can we at least have a children’s museum?
We demand freedom! mubarak please leave, don’t make us look bad!
egyptian museum of antiquities
children’s museum Critic: Barbra Pampe, Vittoria Capresi Spring 2012. German University in Cairo. Cairo, Egypt. A new building of the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities complex in Tahrir Square, Downtown Cairo. The new building is a children’s Museum. The concept was to create a loop circulation through the different themes of the museum. The building appears to come out of the ground pointing south to the entrance of the site. Guests would start their journey by climbing monumental staircase which acts as a gathering area. They are then greeted at a reception area into the top floor of the continuous space of the museum. The first theme is “The House” which introduces children to ancient Egyptian housing, furniture, food and everyday life. As the guests descend through a staircase, there is an access into a stepped garden which divides the main museum from the proposed children’s museum. This outdoor space museum aims to introduce the children to ancient Egyptian farming, papyrus and writing as well as merchandise and trade. The stepped garden descends back to the lowest level of the museum. The themes in this level are mainly about ancient Egyptian royalty, religion and afterlife. The final station is the restaurant and the rest rooms which have access to the garden.
ancient agriculture
religion
yup, that’s the infamous tahrir square!
mummies! yaay!
daily life
Integrated Design Project
Knowledge Center Critic: Thomas Loeffler In collaboration with Dina Ossama, Noha Salama + Yomna El Gendy. Fall 2012. German University in Cairo, Egypt. The German University in Cairo’s Knowledge Center is a new library building proposed in the center of the university campus. The main concept is to create two main reading areas: an outdoor casual area which acts as a transition between a busy food court and a quiet formal reading area enclosed in the building. An existing street that went through the plot, which we proposed to turn around the outdoor casual space to ensure continuity of the reading space. The building form emerged from the curvature of the street. In addition to a secured library, the building also houses lecture halls, computer labs and a cafeteria which overlooks the casual reading area.
marwah garib marwah.garib@gmail.com marwahgarib.com