Masoud Abedimoghadam

MASOUD ABEDIMOGHADAM UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN ARCHITECTURE

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Masoud Abedimoghadam Architecture Student Lincoln, NE (531)-220-9584 masoudabedi2014@gmail.com

E D U C A T I O N 2013 - 2017 Bachelor of architecture Tabriz Art University,Iran 2019- now Master of Architecture (2-year) University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Summer 2020, Lincoln, NE Sinclair hille architects: Architectural Intern 2018, Tehran, Iran Hooba Design Studio: Architectural Intern

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S K I L L S

OS: Windows 8/10 BIM: Revit Architecture Drafting: Autocad Rendering: Lumion Modeling: Rhino, SketchUp Graphics: Adobe CC(Photoshp/llustrator/Indesign)

L A N G U A G E S Persian: Native English: Fluent

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A W A R D S

Honorable Mention

Honorable Mention

Finalist

Special Mention

Second Prize Winner

Finalist

Finalist

Third Prize Winner

November 2016_Toronto,Canada Honorable Mention Winter Stations International Design Competition" May 2017_Tabriz,Iran Honorable Mention Designing a Gallery on the Roof Held by the Tabriz Art University July 2017_Berlin,Germany Finalist School Without Classrooms Held by the archasm Organization December 2018_Kermanshah,Iran Special Mention A House For a Teacher Held by Villa Magazine June 2019_Malawi, Africa Second Prize Winner IAA International Awards 2019 Held by The Architecture Community (TAC) February 2020_Copenhagen, Denmark Finalist The City Link International Competition Held by the UNI Competitions February 2020_Czech, Republic Finalist Inspireli Awards 2020 August 2020_Lagos, Nigeria Third Prize Winner Lagos: City of Water International Competition Held by the Voen Foundation November 2020_Gaudi Architecture Prize Second Prize Winner - Educational Category

Second Prize Winner

November 2020_Gaudi Architecture Prize Honorable Mention - Residential Category Honorable Mention

Editor’s Choice

Winner

December 2020_London, England Editor’s Choice Winter Pavilion by Switch Compoetitions January 2021_Boston, United States of America Winner - Unbuilt Category Boston Society of Architecture Design Awards 2020 04

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Content

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Suspended boxes

Competition

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A school in Africa

Competition

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The City Link

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School without classrooms

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Circles of Hope

Competition

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Chimneys Pavilion

Competition

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Sheldon Annex

Graduate Studio

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Dormie Club

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Concordia University, Dunklau center for science, math & Internship business

Competition

Undergraduate Thesis

Internship

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SUSPENDED BOXES INDIVIDUAL PROJECT

01 - Suspended Boxes

Year of Design: 2017 Type: Individual Project Location: Iran Designer: Masoud Abedimoghadam Awards: Finalist, Inspireli Awards 2020 Honorable Mention, Gaudi Architecture Prize 2020 Winner, Boston Society of Architecture Design Awards 2020 This project is respectful to the context by having the minimum impact on the natural environment. Exposed timber was considered as the main structure to hold the suspended boxes, each forming a small unit. Each box is considered as an independent house, which is accessible through the stairs next to the timber frame. These boxes are shifted over each other to create gaps for the trees to pass through.

This system creates an intimate relationship between the building and the surrounding greenery. In other words, the architecture and the nature have been melted together and the border between them has faded away. These houses will host the families to enjoy the forest, to watch the spectacular views and to submerge in it.

Boxes were stepped over each other to create roofs which could be used as outdoor seating area on each level. Users can climb the stairs, stop and enjoy the atmosphere, lay down on the roofs, or start to explore the boxes. The minimum interference of the architecture through the context lets the plants and trees to flourish inside and between the boxes. As it is shown in the illustration, the volume of the greenery has been considered as the available amount of space through the project which allows the trees to grow freely. As a result, this system creates an intimate relationship between the building and the surrounding greenery. So, this kind of approach toward the nature, can be expanded in every kind of site that is filled with trees and plants, and that’s why this project can be located in every forest through the world.

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Design Process Merging Architecture and Nature

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SUSPENDED BOXES INDIVIDUAL PROJECT

4.60 m 2.04 m

7.66 m

1.50 m

1.50 m

6.00 m

4.50 m

3.00 m 6.00 m

6.00 m

4.60 m

This diagram clearly shows the amount of greenery penetrated through the project.

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14.70 m

4.50 m

3D Section

Timber Structure

Suspended Boxes

Elevation

Careless construction in the northern regions of Iran is one of the most conspicuous factors which has led to deforestation. In fact, each year vast amounts of lands are being disappeared in order to create more space for the future constructions.

Moreover, this phenomenon has started to prevail dramatically, because the authorities don’t pay the adequate attention about this critical issue. Suspended boxes is offering a new type of building that is intensely friendly with nature. In fact, this projects creates an architecture that allows the nature to penetrate through the building. The boxes have been shifted in different axis, as a result the trees are capable of growing inside the project. In this way, there would be no need for removing the trees from the site, and the nature and architecture are being merged with each other.

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A SCHOOL IN AFRICA COMPETITION

02 - A School in Africa Year of Design: 2019 Type: Competition Location: Malawi, Africa Designer: Masoud Abedimoghadam Teammate: Negar Nikravan Awards: Second Prize Winner, IAA Awards 2019 Second Prize Winner, Gaudi Architecture Prize 2020

School as a border School as a border is a title which has been selected for a project that tries to define a new concept for the school. The traditional approach in designing the schools creates some spaces that are purely separated from each other, and there is no integration between them. So, this proposal seeks a new relationship between the school, farm, and animal area. As a result, the school has been considered as a border between the farm and the animal area. In fact, the school acts as a bridge to fade the borders between different realms. The entire site has been divided into three main layers, and school has been located between the farm and the animal area. Indeed, the schools would create a constant integration between three zones, and provide an opportunity for every student to learn in every spot. The main approach for locating the buildings mimics the local architecture of the country in a similar shape to a small village. All the classes and buildings have been oriented in different directions, clustering around a communal outdoor space which provides innumerable inbetween and outdoor spaces with various views.

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Traditional School

New School

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A SCHOOL IN AFRICA COMPETITION

Water Provision

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Animal Manure

Solar Panel

Agricultural Activities

Natural Resources

Farming Activities

Raising Animals

Animal Resources

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A SCHOOL IN AFRICA COMPETITION

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Natural Ventilation

Roof Structure Large over hanging metal roofs are pulled away from the interior spaces, and are supported by the trusses.

The vault is the inner ceiling which consist of perforations, allowing the passive cooling strategy to occur. This double-envelope system protects the building from rain and direct sunlight while allowing the interiors to breathe passively. So, this system would be the best way help a school with no electricity at all.

Natural Ventilation The roofs are barrel vaults which have been constructed from earth blocks. This construction method makes the best use of local resources, and it is climatically efficient. An overhanging flat iron sheet sits above this vault, protecting the interior and surrounding spaces from sun and rain. The stack effect created by the hot metal surface draws cooler air in from the windows and out through the perforations in the ceiling. This provides a passive cooling strategy without using the electricity power. So, this natural ventilation expels the hot stagnant air through the inner perforated ceiling, and keeps the interior cool during the cycle.

Roof Structure

Secondary Facade

Exploded Roof Structure

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THE CITY LINK COMPETITION

03 - The City Link Year of Design: 2020 Type: Competition Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Designers: Masoud Abedimoghadam, Abby Nelson Awards: Finalist, The City Link International Competition Designing cycling-friendly cities is an important facet of successful urban design. This means designing the urban environment around people, not automobiles. As a cyclist navigates a city, each of their senses take in their surroundings. Good urban design accounts for this sensual interplay while remaining practical, functional, and elegant.

Copenhagen understands how urban design can inspire sustainable modes of transportation and it’s evident in their cycling network.

Proper signage and color allocation allow cyclists and other modes of transportation to coexist safely. Discovery Link allows cyclists and pedestrians to discover a public space on a cycling bridge. A labyrinth of ramps winds around the bridge’s floating boxes, making occupants slow down and take in their surroundings. As users make their way through the bridge, they encounter green-spaces, retail stores, and a cafe. This combination of indoor and outdoor experiences serves to heighten peoples’ senses as they make their way throughout the design. Discovery Link aims to provide spaces where people can pause in their day and take in their city. Amidst the bustle that characterizes Copenhagen’s cycling culture, Discovery Link deliberately slows down the user and inspires them to find a place of their own.

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THE CITY LINK COMPETITION

Greenery

Circulation

Middle Openings

Main Programs

Programs

Activities

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Bike Storage

Bike Retail

Information

Bike Shop

Patio

First Level

Ground Level

Staff Lounge & Storage

Offices Retail

Cafe

Retail

Retail

Washroom Staff Lounge & Kitchen

Second Level

Third Level

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SCHOOL WITHOUT CLASSROOMS UNDERGRADUATE THESIS

04 - School Without Classrooms Year of Design: 2017 Type: Thesis Location: Berlin, Germany Designer: Masoud Abedimoghadam Awards: Finalist, School Without Classrooms International Competition

The purpose of designing this project was to create a fun and amicable atmosphere for the children to learn. We have removed all the borders and class divisions that are usual in nowadays school and instead of that we have merged the learning spaces by defining different zones on the basis of the age of the children. Learning process occurs in different spaces that have different qualities in both outdoor and indoor clusters. Individual learning spaces have been considered beside the collaborative learning zones and we have considered some separate open courts for each learning zone that will help to the learning process to be continued and expanded in these courts (yards).

These exclusive courts are connected to each other and despite their specific function, they also connect different learning zones to each other, in other words, we have a dynamic interaction between open and closed spaces that was made possible by these courts and the roofs enhanced it as well. The learning zones have been designed in a way to help the collaboration between children from different ages.

These learning spaces provide a fun and interesting atmosphere to learn and play in terms of flexible furniture and different fun colors for the interior. The learning zones are flexible and transparent so we can merge them together into bigger or smaller spaces for different purposes. All the spaces provide a different experience to the students, we have achieved this by applying fun colors, designing a dynamic form and creating rich visual interaction between different spaces. The transparency of the form perfectly responds to the visual appeal of the children and the vast views to different zones enhances this point as well.

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SCHOOL WITHOUT CLASSROOMS UNDERGRADUATE THESIS

Transformation

Circulation

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THE CIRCLES OF HOPE COMPETITION

05 - The Circles of Hope Year of Design: 2020 Type: Competition Location: Lagos, Nigeria Designer: Masoud Abedimoghadam Awards: Third Prize Winner, Lagos: City of Water International Competition

Lagos: Circles of Hope Lagos is a place full of pros and cons. Residents of this region feel that they really belong to Lagos, and they are not willing to evacuate to other places, but Lagos has some crucial problems. These problems lead to several difficulties regarding the daily life of people. In this proposal, the ambition is to envision a future for Lagos on water because water plays an essential role in this region. As a matter of fact, in this concept, residents still belong to the same context but in another structure, because they are fishermen and fishermen belong to the sea.

This proposal seeks to design communities that meet the demands and problems of the people that live in Makoko. In Makoko, there are a lack of health center, efficient schools, green spaces, fish farms, and several spaces for gardening. Hence, for this proposal, all of these factors were taken into consideration. Besides that, creating sustainable communities was another main point in the design process, which means that residents can harvest organic fruits and foods through the aquaponic system and their farms. Also, The community is capable of affording its energy and electricity utilizing the solar panel. Furthermore, human waste can be recycled and used as fertilizer through the barrels that not only work as a structure for floating each building but also can be a container for collecting human waste and use it as fertilizer over time.

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THE CIRCLES OF HOPE COMPETITION

Makoko, Lagos

Here the residents have the opportunity to do the agricultural activities in the central yards which have been considered on the circles.

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School

Fish Farms

Fishing is the most important part in the of people living in Makoko. There are circles called fish farms in the community where they can do the farming way better and easier than past. This could lead to a substantial financial growth for the people by creating more job opportunities for the youth and exporting the food to the markets of Lagos.

Hydroponics

Health Center

Housing

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CHIMNEYS PAVILION COMPETITION

06 - Chimneys Pavilion Year of Design: 2020 Type: Competition Location: London, England Designer: Masoud Abedimoghadam, Pegah Rahmani Awards: Editor’s Choice, Winter Pavilion International Competition Chimneys Pavilion 2020 has been started with a disparate and unfamiliar condition. The pandemic that was expected to be finished within days or months has continued for a year, and there is no optimistic prophecy for its termination. As a designer, we should not necessarily see this as the end of the world, and we should not overreact. Regarding the situation, This pavilion is designed in a way that its eight chimneys are sufficient spaces for some outdoor public activities with enough social distancing, while it is still dynamic and vivid. To celebrate winter’s beauty, various winter activities, like a hot water spa, fireplace, seating area, acoustic music area, and swing, have been considered.

Besides, space frames contributed to have more transparency and interaction with nature and visitors by incorporating greenery.

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CHIMNEYS PAVILION COMPETITION

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Programs

Elevation

Section

Plan

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SHELDON ANNEX GRADUATE STUDIO

07 - Sheldon Annex Year of Design: 2020 Type: Studio Course at University of Nebraska-Lincoln Location: Lincoln, Nebraska Designers: Masoud Abedimoghadam, Pegah Rahmani Instructor: Brian Kelly The Context: The fall semester of 2020 began with a quite uncommon condition. It was a challenge and even imagination of having a studio with webcam and digital contents was truly a nightmare.

Whatever the scene was, we started with a remarkably coherent and entirely dynamic program, and now we appreciate with the eventual outcome. COVID-19 forced a situation we feel “The enemy is in the street, in public spaces, in mass transit. The houses are presumably the safe space” but as a designer we found that we should not “necessarily see this as the end of the world; we should not overreact”. We heard a lot about dramatic virtual “six-foot black circles around” individuals that will protect them, but we need something more. We should alter the scene from dark social distancing to a lovely green one. Furthermore, there are a considerable number of vacated buildings that they could not survive by the pandemic, and our mission in DRS Studio Copy Right was saving them and keeping them alive.

Our Approach: “Architecture is an art that takes from everything, like music does. It’s really robbery, but robbery without a mask. You don’t really care where ideas come from. You pick and take from yourself and others.” We used these sentences as an exemplar during this fantastic journey. We learned about the role of the copy in design with two practical approaches. First, implementing several techniques applicable by a daily use device, our cellphone. There, we had a proper time to play with different photo apps to excavate each building’s potential to produce new functions.

Besides, we had a pleasant opportunity of using the collage technique based on the thematic archive we had collected in advance or any options we were finding through the assignments.

The Outcome: With respect to all above mentioned challenges, we moved into the last phase of our studio, which was designing an extension for Sheldon museum of Philip Johnson. Because of the quarantine restriction, most of the design approaches have been altered to the fact that “Interior functions are expanding into exterior landscapes,” and alfresco facilities. Thus, our conception started with some critical elements which cover this idea. Sufficient spaces for social distancing and some outdoor public areas for safe gatherings. Additionally, as Mr. Mason identified some limitations of the museum, there are not plentiful area for performances and installations, and we assigned most of our planning to these kinds of arts. As a result, lots of open and closed performing areas and also green roof top have been considered in our “Sheldon Annex” proposal. The major challenge through the project was providing adequate daylight for indoor areas, and this demand mainly formed our direction to explore unique possibilities which are not destructive for art pieces. Therefore, we worked on some colossal column/shafts going all the way down to the building that could provide an adequate amount of light for inside zones besides its structural purposes. In fact, these shafts are simultaneously playing distinctive roles which can bring light, hold floors and expand visitors’ views by extracting some extra holes. So, all interior elements such as floors, structural shafts and suspended boxes have been woven together, and having this constant interaction made it super vibrant. To make this lively interior approaches more visible to the city, and also inviting to our audiences, we tried to use a different kind of material for elevation which was semitransparent/translucent and The facade has a various percentage of transparencies applied to its separate locations, and it was done in order to filter the light based on the program.

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SHELDON ANNEX GRADUATE STUDIO

Roof Top

Open Gallery

Open Gallery

Open Gallery & Performing Area

Open Gallery & Amphitheater

Open Gallery & Amphie Theater

Roof Scape & Cafe

Open Gallery

Open Gallery, Outdoor Perform & Classrooms

Lobby & Staff Area

Warehouse

Parking Lot

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DORMIE CLUB INTERNSHIP

08 - Dormie Club Project Year of Involvement: Summer 2020 Type: Club Building Location: North Carolina Designer: Sinclair hille architects Role: Rendering the photos, drawing the diagrams and plans Dormie club is a conceptual project designed by Sinclair hille architects.

In fact, I was asked to work on this project during my internship, and I found this complex really interesting mostly because of its incredible context which is a remote forest in the North Carolina. So, the firm decided to update the drawings, and that is when I got involved. in this project, and I started by working on the renders. The scene was crated on Lumion and the materials were applied to the complex based on the SketchUp file which had been provided for me by one of the partners. Once the photos were created by Lumion, the post production part got done for applying the finishing touches. As it is shown in the documents, the plan and site plan of the complex are created by Lumion plus some post processing in Photoshop. The last part went to the diagrams which is the most interesting part for me in almost all the project. So, eight main diagrams were created based on various functions and design processes. These clay diagrams clearly show all the parts and design decisions behind them for this project through the simplest language.

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DORMIE CLUB INTERNSHIP

Plan

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Site plan

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DORMIE CLUB INTERNSHIP

Bar/Lounge Dining Area

Golf Course

Bar

Dining Area

Golf Course

Golf Course

Link/Lobby

Golf Course

Golf Course

Link

Kitchen Office

Patio

Patio Patio

Office/Kitchen

Accessibility

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Patio

Wineroom

Wineroom

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DUNKLAU CENTER FOR SCIENCE, MATH, AND BUSINESS INTERNSHIP

09 - Dunklau Center for science, math & business Year of Involvement: Summer 2020 Type: Higher Education Location: Seward, Nebraska Designer: Sinclair hille architects Role: Drawing the diagrams and plans

The Dunklau Center for Science, Math and Business features 58,000 square feet of new construction and 28,000 square feet of renovated space, for a combined total of 86,000 square feet. Situated on the main campus quad, this $24.5 million project will be entirely funded by generous supporters of the university. This project got built and finished recently, and as an intern I was asked to draw the conceptual diagrams and the plans as the updated documents. The plan is showing the main floor, and it was drawn using the Lumion and Photoshop. There are also eight clay diagrams just like the previous project showing various design decisions during designing this project. All these diagrams have been crated using Rhino and Illustrator simultaneously. In my perspective, diagrams are the most important part through presenting a project, and I have been trying to learn this part in order to present the projects in the strongest way possible.

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Photo Credit: William Hess

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DUNKLAU CENTER FOR SCIENCE, MATH, AND BUSINESS INTERNSHIP

Plan

Site plan

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New Building

Existing Music Building

Renovated Science Building

New Building Extension

Site Greenery

Co-Lab Space Lecture Hall

Angled Lecture Hall

Angled Co-Lab Space

Co-Lab Space

New Building

Link

Existing Building

The Location of the Link

View (Co-Lab Space)

New STEM Building Addition

Existing Music Bldg Co-Lab Space Renovated Science Bldg

Future Roof Garden

Lecture Hall

Link

Program Diagram

Future Roof Garden on the Link

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