2024 Summer Portfolio

mohammed

elabbasi

portfolio

ME Richmond, Va mohammede197@vt.edu 804-655-7710 https//www.linkedin.com/in/ mohammed-elabbasi

Mohammed Elabbasi Education + 2021-Present Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Bachelor’s of Architecture (B.ARCH)

Experience + Moseley Architects (Jan 2023) | Attended site visits, client, firm ops, interior design, structural, and MEP meetings | Did case studies on projects from proposal to design to construction | Created Revit wall details, image renderings, and graphic layouts + Additive Manufacturing and Prototyping Lab (Oct 2023 - Present) | Help students 3D print models using slicing softwares and advise users with inquiries involving the creation processes fostered by the print lab + AIA Virginia Prize Competition (2-Day Competition, 2024) | Honorable Mention: selected from proposals across 3rd-5th year students at VT to compete at the state level

Skills Rhino Revit AutoCAD Adobe Creative Cloud

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Used Rhino for the past 3 years for models, complex geometries, iterations, and 3D scanning.

Worked with Revit for the past 4 years. Created floor, MEP, Electrical, and Structural plans.

Worked with AutoCAD for the past 6 years. Did floor plans, elevations, details, and parts.

Used Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign for submissions, portfolios, and image editing Currently learning Grasshopper to delve into generative form creation and energy analysis.

Organizations + Achievements + The Architectural Imagination Course

+ Architecture Student Forum

+ Virginia Tech Dean’s List

+ Project Blacksburg Service

Harvard Graduate School of Design Fall 2021 - Present

Member

Co-Founder

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Art Museum Leave a good first impression?

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Law Office

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Scale Relations

A design of architectural typology and elements

Design in section and through scale

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At the Heart of Hampton Center and spread out to address the site.

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Cabin on the Appalachain Where hikers and architects meet

Table of Contents

Museum | VA Wesleyan University 3rd Year Studio Prof. Hunter Pittman Medium: Sketching, AutoCAD, Rhino, Photoshop This building aims to create an iconic building for the university using various architectural elements and tectonics. First, it steps back and steps up to give the building importance. The plan offsets off the road, parking lot, and pond to be in dialogue with the site. The use of columns and stairs then creates a front porch. Then the design looks at framing a view through capping the columns at the top and creating an arcade.

The arcades then serve as an architectural ordering and framing from exterior to interior. To complete the design the entrance uses the energy at the corner to spring forth the rest of the building.

gallery section

gallery render

lobby section

courtyard render

arcade detail section + plan + exploded perspective

entrance wall detail section + plan

entrance wall section + plan + elevation

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E Private Restroom Male

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Mechanical Room Public Restroom

Public Restroom

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General Storage 207

1' - 4"

Private Restroom Female

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Paralegal

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Technology closet

First year associate/paralegal

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Janitor closet

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D Visitor office

Fitness center

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Associate office

Partner / principal office

Associate office 216

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lunchroom staff (the café)

Mock courtroom training center

Full time graphic design office

Paralegal 205

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112 File room 109

Small Conference Room

5' - 0"

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5' - 0"

Small Conference Room

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Associate office

Associate office

Associate office

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Paralegal 204

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Assistant

Secretary

Paralegal

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C Impromptu meeting space

Workroom

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C Partner / principal office

Impromptu meeting space

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library 113 ---

Assistant

Secretary

Paralegal

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Reception

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Intern

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Office manger 202

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Medium Conference Room

Large Conf / Board Room

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Partner / principal office

Waiting / lobby

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Associate office 221

Partner / principal office Secretary

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Retired partners office

Vestibule 100

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first floor plan

Law Office ARC 222 - Desing in Revit Prof. Marcia Powers Medium: Revit, Photoshop In the second level of two classes, this class looked at designing a building in Revit. The class’ mission was to become proficient in the software by designing a complete building. The design generated floor, structural, MEP, and reflected ceiling plans. These plans included compound custom walls, elevations, sections, and custom schedules.

The design had created families, components, and custom elements.

All of these elements of the software, needed to be manifested in a semester-long final project. Apart from a specific number of program requirements, the project allows us to use what was learned to design a building. The project includes choices of material, columns, entrance, shading, glass, and various other architectural elements.

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second floor plan

3' - 0" 1 1/2"

1" SOLID SURFACE TRANSACTION TOP

2X4 WOOD STUD FRAMING - CORRDINATE WITH ELECTRICAL

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1" SOLID SURFACE TRANSACTION TOP WITH SQUARE EDGES - WIDTH VARIES - SEE PLAN

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3" BUILT UP SQUARE EDGE

2' - 6"

1 1/2" x 3" SOLID MAPLE WOOD TRIM - SEE ELEVATION FOR LENGTHS

PLAM over 3/4" PARTICLE BOARD - ALL EXPOSED SURFACES

BASE, SEE RM FIN SCHED

structural model

reception desk detail

lobby section

vestibule section

Photovoltaic (Solar Panels)

Photovoltaic

Cork Roof Cork Roof (Green Roof) CLT Cross-Laminated Timber

Draperies

Draperies

Glass

Glass Epoxy Resin Light Oak

Epoxy Resin Light Oak

Glass

Glass

MEP System ETFE

MEP System ETFE

Scale: Whole-to-Part-to-Whole 2nd Year Studio Prof. Enric Ruiz-Gelli Medium: Sketching, Rhino, Photshop The prompt was to design a building with the focus being scale. To study and design based on construction scales while also considering the human to the building scale relationship. All of the drawings were to be examined in section. Each scale looked at what could be designed at that scale to be part of the project as a whole. This demanded how to bounce back and forth between different scales.

For this project, the largest scale looked at the building to the site, the scales in between looked at the energy systems, and the smallest looked at the construction details. For the human-to-building scale relationship, things considered were movement, material, and inside-to-outside spatial relationships relative to the occupants.

4 At the Heart of Hampton AIAVa Prize Competition (2-Days), Honorable Mention Center and spread out to address the site.

on the Appalachain 5 Cabin 3rd Year Competition (1-week) Where hikers and architects meet

Competitions

At the Heart of Hampton AT THE HEART OF HAMPTON AIAVa Prize Competition (2-Days), Honorable Mention Medium: Rhino, Photoshop At the heart of Hampton lies this one of a kind library. Or

is itthat a library.

Thehow design looks atthe new ways Here lies a design explores to engage surrounding sites. To elevate to treat the site by converging to a center and spreading and create a unique experience andasks interpretation what is site and forth out.

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2 1. Elevate for flood control

1.2.Elevate for flood control Structural Timber Trunk + Reused 2.shipping Structural timber trunk + contrainers Reused shipping containers 3. Converging then Diverging 3.4.Converge Publicthen Vs.disperse Private Public Vs. Private in Elevation 4.5.Public vs. Private 5. Public vs. Private in elevation

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1. COMMUNITY MEETING ROOM 3. MAIN ENTRANCE + GALLERY

1. COMMUNITY MEETING ROOM 2. DIGITAL ACCESS LOUNGE 2. DIGITAL ACCESS LOUNGE

3. MAIN ENTRANCE + GALLERY RECEPTION, EQUIPMENT CHECK IN/OUT, + 4.4. RECEPTION, EQUIPMENT CHECK IT CONTROL+ IT CONTROL IN/OUT,

5. CHILDREN’S SPACE

8. BATHROOMS

5. CHILDREN’S SPACE 6 OUTDOOR OPENROOM AIR + COMMUNITY 6. OUTDOOR COMMUNITY RAIN GARDEN ROOM + BIORETENTION GARDEN 7. OUTDOOR LEARNING TERRACE

9.9.STAFF PARKING STAFF PARKING

7. OUTDOOR LEARNING TERRACE

10. BIKE PARKING

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8. BATHROOMS

10. BIKE PARKING

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Cabin on the Appalachain 3rd Year Competition (1-week) Medium: Rhino, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Model

cross-section north

floor plan

cross-section south

Plan

Elevation

joint detail: column + floor beam

rectangular volume

roof as protector and spacemaker

diagram

vertical seperation of public & private

wall as protector and spacemaker

axon perspective