Architectural Portfolio

Mitra Forouzandeh

Architectural portfolio

Email: mitra.rouh@mail.polimi.it mitraforouzandeh@gmail.com

Telephone: +393203071217

Address: Viale Romagna, 56/3, 20133, Milan, Italy

Experiences

LANGUAGES

Persian : Native

Turkish : Native English : Fluent (C1)

Italian : Intermediate (A2)

German : Intermediate (A2)

Education

Consultant | Documenting product design drawings and manuals | Microelettrica Scientifica Spa. | Milan-Italy | 2021-Current

• Documenting products’ design drawings and preparing manuals to adapt the standards for specific variants based on the needs of specific customers. (Creo view, AutoCad, Adobe suites, Office package)

Internship architect and urban designer | Systematica Srl. | Milan-Italy | 2020-2021

• Benchmarking for various urban design and public space projects

• Drafting urban feasibility study, landscaping, public area mappings, transportation and mobility masterplaning

• Detail drawings to present organization of spaces (concept design)

• Modeling and documenting architectural residectial and public buildings (Projects worked with Revit, AutoCad and Adobe suite)

Junior draftsman | Tabriz Petrochemical company construction section | Tabriz-Iran | 2016-2017

• Documentation and drafting technical drawing for executive and construction phases, Architectural modeling (AutoCad, Revit)

Architectural designer | Tabriz-Iran | 2017-2018

• Residential complex design, preliminary and definitive phases

• Interior design of residential villas (3dsMax, AutoCad, Adobe suite)

Master of Science Architecture and Urban Design | Politecnico Di Milano | MilanItaly | 2018-2021

• Specialized in sustainable design of several urbanization projects, public spaces, architectural design and modeling of the residential units and public buildings

• Thesis title: Transnationl mobility of masterplan designs in Middle eastern citiesProfessor Davide Ponzini

Bachelor of science in Architectural Engineering | University of Tabriz | TabrizIran | 2012-2017

• Demonstrated proficiency in modeling, structural design and technical skills through numerous studios

• Thesis title: Architecture School

Workshops and courses

Revit MEP and HVAC systems | Udemy | 2022

• Create HVAC Systems, Generate report on Heating and Cooling Loads, Hydronic Piping systems, Plumbing, Documentiation

Revit and BIM application | Coursera | 2022

• BIM modeling structural elements, Family creation, Creating quantity schedules

Revit BIM and dynamo course | Politecnico di Milano | 2020

• Architectural modeling, Creating worksets, Layout design, Creat and editing families, Launching Dynamo and User Interface, Nodes, wires and the browser, Data Input, Output and Null Actions

MIAW workshop | Politecnico di Milano | 2020

• Design tasks range from overall urban concept to buildings, bridges, urban infrastructure, shelters, light, furniture to designing with plants and green spaces

Architectural preservation studio | Politecnico di Milano | 2019

• Survey and digital modeling for renovation of castle

Urban Archiscapes | Tabriz Art University | 2016

• Seminar and workshop of Urban Archiscapes, a design-based research and process of shaping alternative urban public spaces. Prof. Nur Çağlar and Adnan Aksu

Modern and Traditional Architecture | University of Tabriz | 2016

CONTENT

First of all, we started by observing historical maps and tried to understand architectural and historical quality of the city. These maps shows how Vybogskaya area has changed during years.

Then we observed some buildings on cultural heritage list and their architectural qualities such as baroque, classicism, eclecticism and neoclassic.

Historical development of the Vybrogskaya area

In the beginning of design phase, we consider this urban project according to contribution to the city and to the society. Functionality and quality of life was key elements to identify how to “produce more for city” and we did same analyses about sense of identity in the city, people’s common choices about urban spaces and cultural growth of the city to understand how to “produce more for society.” Thus, our research started with metropolitan master plan and then ended with detailed look to the study area and close surroundings. In the design phase, we took into consideration urban analysis, characteristic of existing settlement forms and types of general intervention such as conservation, requalification and transformation. It helps us to understand how to approach the study area by understanding the quality of surrounding.

After first observations about the city, we analysed close surrounding then we proposed the urban project. In the project, we considered to keep riverfront as it is and filled gaps on the sithouette with an office and public library building. Also the project corresponds needs of surrounding such as lackness of residential building.

Moreover, the area has good potential because of accessibility from city center and has an important industrial buildings which are abandoned mostly and need regeneration.

Axonometric drawing of one of the residential buildings and kintergarten

We influenced from very well known Constructivist building in Moscow which is Narkomfin building. While we are thinking about façade and architectural elements of building, we considered the surrounding example and their features with Narkomfin building. We designed two types of residential blocks, one has a commercial stores on the ground and the other doesn’t have it. That’s why, the one who has commercial activities on the ground has direct access from street level. But for the one who doesn’t have elevated from the street level by using pilotis. Morever, internal spaces is isolated from the street to crate a place for trees and silence which allows for individual use especially on ground floors. The open space between buildings are designed to have a common garden for residents, safe space for children and easy to access from buildings and controlled accesibility from streets. We encouraged the central green space as a collective garden and it helps to considere individual gardens as simple balconies.

The Narkomfin Building (Dom Narkomin) in Moscow was designed by Moisei Ginzburg and Ignatii Milinis in 1928 to host collective housing for employees of the Narodnyo Kommissariat Finansov (the People’s Commissariat of Finance).

Completed in 1932, the Narkomin is one of the few actually built architectural works responding to the constructivist aim of reinventing the everyday life of people, (byt in Russian), trough typologically experimental buildings that embodied new Socialist ideals.

Residential building references

Ground floor plan 1/250

First floor plan 1/250

Second floor plan 1/250

Second floor plan 1/250

Section A-A 1/50

Axonometric

drawing of public library

Easy access to public transport and well-centered location of area can encourage people to have a new place to gather. In terms of the view. it is also a nice spot because on the other side of river there is a botanical garden so people who access the study area can have a chance to observe other part of river. Also on that part, there are museums and many cultural activiy places such as theatres, art galleries etc. But on this part of the river, unfortunately there are only business related offices, some educational and health related buildings. That’s why to connect this two part of the river, it would be nice to have some cultural activities on this part of the city. In other saying, we proposed a library in one of the best place of riverfront because it has a view of botanical garden and also create a nice city silhouttes on the part of study area. On the backside of library, there is a public garden which act as a public space to attract people from surrounding such as people who work on those business related offices. For this library, we took Exeter Library by Louis Kahn as a reference. Since it is an iconic building, we consider that this reference can be a part of our design strategy for riverfront. Also dimensions of library on the back and height of the library buildings are based from an important factory right next to the library. Also when it is seen from other isde of the river, main aim is to make complete this riverfront by respecting heights and architectural qualities of those builidngs.

Library building references

02. Reconstruction of Neighborhood in Frankfurt - Fall 2019

Reconstructing the city with use of historical references

Team mates: Miguel Gomez, Cansu Caner, Marjan Choroumi

Frankfort lost the majority of its urban fabric during the second world war. There was fast construction period after war, but today, the citizens of the Frankfurt are dissatisfied with the buildings built in that period, claiming their cities’ lack of identity. Based on this facts, there are new attempts to reconstruct the city based on the pre-war condition. The theme of our studio was the new old city. We started by tracing the historic maps in our thematic studio. Then we tried to regenerate the block based on its prewar state.

The neighborhood is located near the Main river, and has the potential for regenerating the residential buildings. The aim was to develop the riverside functions, revitilize the existing public spaces, and courtyards. In first place the historical background of the city was studied, and based on that study the neighborhood was redesigned. Moreover, for redesigning the buildings inside the area, the UTCI analysis was done by use of the model in grasshoper.

The design of neighborhood is consisted of different typologies; mixed use of residential with ground floor commercial, public buildings such as library, office buildings, kindergarten. For the residential buildings there are various types of family housing designed for each block.

Urban block 1628

Urban block current situation

Current situation

1947 Plan

1860 Plan

By tracing the maps in different periods of time, like 1861 and 1947, we observe riverside rows of housing, mainly four stories with pitched roofs. There were two vertical routes and one horizontal, and number of openings in the row of housing that would connect those roots to the riverside. None of those features exists in the currant situation, so we tried to regenerate them. The site is facing two different directions of slope. In one way we have marginal slop ,from cathedral toward the cross,another one is in contrariwise direction. We used this situation to create different typology of buildings.

Private Gradens

Riverside connection

Public spaces Church

Museum

Diagram Proposal

Urban facade

Inner facade

Underground floor plan

Second floor plan

First floor plan Sections

Ground floor plan

Reverside facade Underground level

03. Architectural School - Spring 2016

with the approach of sense of belonging to the space

Design of this project was due to attention to one of the significant needs of the community of architects and also architecture students in this area of the city, which was the need for a place where architects can gather, negotiate and work together. A space that stimulates students’ creativity and they feel like they belong to the place they are in and they can improve themselves in many aspects of architecture.

Concept design:

The main concept was inspired from sunken courtyard to provide a central space to gather in a relaxed place, rest and rehabilitate mind, so that architects can continue to work in a better situation. The empty glass cube with a tree inside of it, provides a tranquil space for students and workers. After this refreshment, the movement starts around the central space with ramps and leads the people to different spaces of the building; with the respect of space hierarchy. Spaces like ateliers for designing, workshops for practical works, library for theorical studies, gallery, conference hall, and other spaces.

Site has been placed in a semi-managerial and cultural region of Tabriz city. Tabriz university, metro station, the library and the hospital do not pose any limitations for the educational space. Two separate entrances have been planned for the site which are shown on the map. The second entrance is near metro station and set for pedestrians. The ramp that covers the sides of the site provides the access for aiding in emergencies and also for bicycles in all levels of the site.

Interior view of resting area of School

04. Regenerating Suburban area of Tabriz - Spring 2017

Urban regenerating project

Suburban areas of city or town is an outlying part of the city which is far from city center and is developed organically. In Tabriz, because of emigration from rural areas or other cities there is a growing number of people who are living in these suburban areas. (Most of these people are working as construction workers plus in low income jobs.)

Due to lack of a predefined and an appropriate plan for these areas, it seems to be severe problems such as lack of green spaces, road way and enough security. The purpose of the project is to redesign a site in this area which has the capacity to improve and optimize the condition.

First of all, it was necessary to solve the problem of lack of an access route for vehicles like ambulance, fire truck and police car to reach to all residential buildings. For this a main road is placed in the position of an alley that reached to the top of the site. This road divides the site into three altitudes that has a street separated from the main road. In Islamic cities streets and alleys are irremovable places, so in these project they are in the same place they were, with some alters.

One of the elements of site optimization is to respect the land and the current situation of it. Because of that no excavation or earthwork is done on the site and the location of existing residential houses, shops and mosques is not changed and all of them are improved in their own locations on the site.

The second problem was the lack of proper orientation of the houses and not having enough lightening in most cases. By changing the angle of site axes 10 degrees in a clockwise direction, and rotating the second floor of the houses to south the lighting problem and other climate and religious issues are solved.

[ today’s situation of Hasan-Padishah mosque ]

05. Villa design - Tabriz - Iran - Fall 2015

Tradition and modernity in one building

The purpose of this project was to design a villa for a family of 4 with the idea of integration of tradition and modernity inspired by the spatial relations inside traditional houses in Tabriz. In addition to pay attention to the cultures and customs of the people in this region, the project is also responsive to climate terms.

By studying old houses in Tabriz we found some noticeable factors considered through design process. One of these important factors is privacy which was essential for the residents. That is why different zones are separated in these houses e.g. private zone - included bedrooms - , semi-private zone and public zone.

In most of the old houses there is a covered area named Vestibule (Hashti) beyond the entrance of the house which prevents direct entry to other areas of the house. Designing a house is due to needs of the people living in that house this means spaces be placed in the right place and with the decent order, so space hierarchy is another important factor. Moreover, most of these houses have a pool room (Howz khaneh) or a pool in the courtyard (Hayat).

The site which we chose to work on unlike the traditional part of the city, is a modern site with modern structure and we had to choose a system which is compatible with the area. For creating the form for villa, we have tried to consider issues which were important for the family members including privacy and full lighting. The main lightening required for spaces like sitting room and bedrooms is provided from south and north sides. The all-around windows provides the lighting for these spaces decently. The shear roof also helps meet this need. The semi-open pool is placed between two volumes and under the upper volume in order to prevent sight from buildings around (privacy) To create a space like an Ivan (veranda) beside the pool, and in order to increase the stability of the bulding there are 3 columns placed under the upper volume.

The spaces are located in a clear and legible form in the villa’s plan in order to have appropriate access to required spaces. The plan is the same as what is seen in the volume with no complexity.

At the entrance to the house there is a Vestibule (hashti / division space) for not entering directly to the sitting room area.

A staircase toward more private spaces in upstairs is also in this space. There is also a work room for the father of the family to set meetings and work which is accessible from vestibule.

Exterior view of the villa

Interior view of the villa

06. Paseo boulevard

Systematica Srl

This project is regenerating project of a long street in Barranquilla-Colombia to a pedestrianized street, named Paseo Boulevard, to have a shared street for all pedestrian and cyclists besides having cars inside the street. First a benchmark study was done on shared streets and their characteristics. With presenting various sections for pedestrian, bike and car paths in shared streets in order to understand how shared streets work with different details.

The masterplan of street was drawn then prepared it in illustrator, with drawing sections for different parts of the street, and the current situation of the site has been studied, the problems of the current pedestrian areas were extracted and shown in the sections. Then the designed pedestrianized version of street was drawn as well with the new sections of the designed situation for same parts, doing a before after work for understanding better the changes in the project. Also the details for the street were drawn and visualized as axonometric views. to present the details of the street, bike, bus, car and pedestrian path ways on both section and axonometric views to have a better understanding of the design. The maps attached are selected from the several maps that were prepared for the project.

Regenerate and pedestrianize the boulevard - Barranquilla City

07. MIND - Milano Innovation district

Regeneration project for sustainable urban development

MIND project is a urban and city districts regeneration, Mixed-Use Developments. In Systematica, the team was responsible for urban interventions by innovative and multi-modal strategy – territorial and local accessibility, public transport systems, sharing schemes, on-demand services, walkability, parking strategy. The area is characterized by a pedestrian layout. The entire area is reachable and easily accessible walking. The internal MIND cycling network is proposed to be connected to a wider metropolitan cycling system increasing the soft accessibility to the area. Private bike parking areas follow LEED requirements and general regulations. Each location are specifically analyzed in relation to each plot. In order to set a pedestrian friendly environment, the vehicular accessibility is only guaranteed in a “free” way to the roads that give immediate access to the MSCP structures located within the boundaries of the whole Masterplan area. The localization of the structures is set close by the boundaries, in order to minimize the influence of the vehicular internal network and its possible conflicts with the pedestrian flows. In this process, the circulation maps, pedestrian, biking, and parking maps, inside the masterplan, and the specified area are prepared for the general report. The maps attached are selected from the several maps that were prepared for the report.

(Systematica Srl. in collaboration with BEMAA, LAND Italia)

Microelettrica Scientifica

Designing Electrical products and preparing products’ working manual to adapt the standards for product placed on the market by the company, for specific variants based on the needs of specific customers.

In these projects the products are designed with Creo view and the manuals are prepared with office package and adobe suites.

The company is a global leader in state-of-the-art electromechanical and electronic components and systems for rail vehicles, traction power and energy & industry applications.

Two of the main products are contactors and disconnectors. Our power contactors are suitable for the railway, and energy-intensive industries, as well as for renewable energies and e-mobility. High performances are achieved through a strongly optimized design, which ensures a robust dimensioning of components with reduced weight and costs.

In each manual, the introduction to each product is mentioned, technical characteristics and main parts are being presented and how they work has been described. In the following chapters the replacement of the main parts in case of damage is described. The part list of each products are the last part of these manuals.

Abu Dhabi, Januar y 17, 2022

To Whom It May Concern,

it is my pleasure to write this letter of reference fo r Mitra Rouh Forouzandeh, since I believe she is a good student.

I know Mitra since she started to develop her final dissertation in the MSc program in Architecture and Urban Design at Politecnico di Milano in 2021. Her final work was titled “Transnational mobility of neighborhood master plans in Middle Eastern cities: Urban design patterns in Dubai and Cairo ” and covered neighborhood models and patters in two important cities. She collected and managed a good amount of data and developed original analyses and maps. She has obtained a good grade in that occasion. During her education and professional path, she has been exposed to an international environment . I think she will successfully contribute to her team in the fields of urban planning, urban design , and architecture.

For these reasons, I recommend Mitra and I will be glad to provide any further information.

Best Regards

Davide Ponzini, PhD

Full Professor of Urban Planning Department of Architecture and Urban Studies Politecnico di Milano Via Bonardi 3, 20133 Milano, Italy Tel +39 02 2399 5414 Email davide.ponzini@polimi.it

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