Selected Works
Molood Tahmasebi
Molood Tahmasebi
A talented and dedicated junior Architect who has experience working on a wide variety of subjects. My good communication skills allow me to complete different projects, interact with required parties, and quickly get to know their interests and needs. I am a very motivated and result-driven individual who always ensures that projects are completed within the deadline while maintaining the cost within the budget and high quality and seeking an opportunity to drive productivity through quality assurance.
EDUCATION
MArc, Architecture Arizona State University 2023 - 2025
BSD, Architectural Studies
Arizona State University 2019 - 2023
Associate in Science Mesa Community College 2017-2019
AA, Architecture Hafezieh Institute of Higher Education 2014 - 2016
Design Excellence Award Winner ASU | The Design School Fall 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2024 AWARDS
CONTACT
Phone: (480) 848-**** Email: moloodt72@Gmail.com
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/molood-tahmasebi
EXPERIENCE
Architecture Intern Orcutt | Winslow May 2024 - Present Phoenix, Arizona
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Arizona State University Aug 2023 - Present Phoenix, Arizona
Intern Levine Machine L.L.C. May 2023 - Sep 2023 Phoenix, Arizona
Computer Aided Design Drafter Presidential Pools•Spas•Patio Jul 2021 - Sep 2022
Architectural Drafter Tarahan Shiraz Jan 2015 - Jan 2016 Shiraz, Fars, Iran
SKILLS
Revit
AutoCAD Rhinoceros Archicad
Sketch-Up
Photoshop
Illustrator InDesign
Twinmotion
Grasshopper
CloudCompare Microsoft Office
APEX
Instructor Year
Typology Site
Software Award
Greg Wattier Spring 2024
Higher Education &Student Housing High rise
Tempe, AZ
Rhino, AutoCad, Twinmotion, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
ASU Design Excellence
AP X
At our architecture school, we envision a future where design harmonizes with nature in the desert landscape. Embracing sustainability, biophilic principles, and cherishing water and light, we cultivate a community committed to creating environments that thrive amidst arid beauty. Join us as we shape a sustainable, inspiring tomorrow where architecture seamlessly integrates with the delicate balance of the desert ecosystem.
Design Concept
Building Facade Exploration
-Community and Connectivity:
After surveying students and professors at the design school, an idea emerged to enhance connectivity between the new tower and Design North’s building. it will repurpose an underutilized space while providing easy access for graduate students transitioning to the new building. Professors would retain their current Design North or South offices, ensuring continuity. A pedestrian bridge would serve as a direct link, leading to a rooftop open space, as a moment of rest and reflection before going one level up to attend classes. The tower incorporates private and public elevators, catering to students residing in the upper-floor housing units and those attending to academic spaces. This uninterrupted connection fosters a stronger integration between student housing and the design school, enhancing convenience and community engagement.
Whole-body illustration of Heloderma suspectum.
Micro-CT scan of a single Heloderma suspectum osteoderm
Skin Texture helps regulate temperature in extreme climate
South Elevation
3rd Level
By elevating the building, flow of human circulation is preserved at the ground level, maintaining site connectivity. Open spaces between the structure creates semi-private outdoor areas while enhancing natural ventilation.
1st Layout
Strategic edge reductions ensure that all units receive ample daylight, optimizing passive lighting strategies. The combination of sunlight exposure and wind circulation supports vegetation growth on open-air terraces, fostering a sustainable microclimate.
2nd Level
1st Level
Open Roof Top
Site Layout
Chuckbox
Aluminum frame holding sheets
Frames bolted to the concrete slabs
Frames bolted to the concrete walls
Perpendicular metal support holding panels
Post tension slab
color coated sheets
Catwalk for maintenance
4” 90 degree angle bracket
4” U shaped metal support screwed to slab port
4” Aluminum frame
Photovoltaics Panels Storefront window system on slab
Design South
Atmosphere
NAU’s International Conservetory
Instructor Year
Typology Site
Software
Teammates
Beau Dromiack
Fall 2023
Performing Arts Center
Flagstaff, AZ
Revit, Rhino, Enscape, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
Ricardo Alarcon (Grasshopper) + Raneem Mujahed (Renders)
Ardrey Auditorium, located at Northern Arizona University, has a rich history and a story that brings the people of Flagstaff together. From student performances to symphony and coral famous performers have been coming to this place for decades. However, the goal for Ardrey is an International destination, that is not only acoustically flawless but also practical to the needs of performers and workers of any show that wants to perforce at this place. At Ardrey magic comes to life. For students learning to perform on stage to start acting their magical stories. Like the magic of the first performance experience or Marry Poppin’s magical bag, at Ardrey, everything is possible, even the impossible.
Looking into floral stitching of Marry Poppins bag inspired the patterns or grids of the building skin at Ardrey. This skin of the building carefully wraps around the building to provide enclosed areas and inspires visitors to explore the building.
Entrance to Music School
The structure of the skin is made of steel framing. It follows a hexagonal structure such as the pattern on Mary Poppin’s bag. The material of panels is made of tinted fiberglass that is sustainably and locally fabricated. The new skin protects the building from the climate. When the sun shines on the skin, the panels open up letting in daylight. When it is cloudy/snowy outside, the panels close to protect the building’s facade.
Ramp to Ardrey Lobby
Trucks back into the loading dock next to the detached tower behind the stage for easy unloading and access to storage and dressing rooms.
Cutting back the existing balcony and adding side balconies will help with improving the acoustics for the seats under and on the balcony. To further improve the acoustics and aesthetics of the building the form and material of the balcony and ceiling have been changed for a better reverberation. The adding a heavy, floor-toceiling curtain to divide the balcony, Ardrey can have small rehearsals and performances when needed. To appreciate one of the biggest organs in Arizona, variable acoustics has been introduced to Ardrey by adding gaps in the ceiling that are covered by fabric for better absorption of sound.
Exterior Finish
Water Protector
1/2” DensGlass Sheathing Insulation
5/8” Gypsum Board 24” Beam Metal Stud
Metal Decking
Water Protector
Exterior Finish
First Floor
Floor
PHX Seed & Feed Warehouse
Instructor
Year
Typology
Site
Software
Rene Corolla
Spring 2023
Industrial Phoenix, AZ
Rhino, Grasshopper, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
S 7th St E Lincoln St S 2nd St
Oldest Phoenix warehouse that survived disasters throughout the century and still stands without any reinforced structure. In the process of preserving the history of the building the fabricated barley sculpture was an addition to celebrate the buildings past. An architecture firm is a great fit for this warehouse since architects have the knowledge and passion to care for these types of buildings. To Museums
To Airport
To Salt River
Phoenix Seed and Feed warehouse is the oldest standng warehouse in historic district of Phoenix. After surviving many distaster this free standing warehouse is still standing to be re perpused and loved again. To celebrate the life this warehouse had once, by introducing new program, this beuilding can be reperpused to a architecture office to be reused and cared for in the furture.
New reconstructed steel roof and glazing
New steel structure support new roof
Existing Wood Truss and column to remain
By introducing barley sculptural pieces in the space, the identity that this warehouse once had will be remembered.
After 3D Lidar scanning the building to document this historic landmark. The process of preservation started by adding a new steel structure that can reinforce the brick walls and the original wood roof and truss.
By using the point cloud form the 3d lidar scan, and using grass hopper scripts, the pattern of the original door was laser cutter to metal sheets to make a new railing door for a better access to the warehouse.
To better pass on the resilient of this mater piece, the pattern of the newspaper to the date of building fire, was used to create a pattern to be the design of the new sheets that make the new door.
Tahoe Expedition Academy
Instructor Year
Typology Site
Software Teammates Award
Max Underwood + Tom Kundig
Fall 2022
K-12 School
Truckee, CA
Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
Shirin Pramod + Avery Moric
ASU Design Excellence
Our concept for the new TEA campus consists of a layered experience as students enter the forest first to find an array of community buildings that blend into nature while facilitating community experiences. As the students walk through the campus, they can discover a variety of learning pavilions that serve as outposts into the wilderness. The main array contains the learning one, the Cafe, the Maker Space, and the BlackBox theater.These essential structures create the backbone of the campus while the learning spaces are scattered downhill. Students hike and find their own paths through the forest to find new connections between learning spaces.
Exploration
Keeping spaces open for maximum engagement with nature and exploration
Embodiment
Community Involvement through Gardening, farmers market, cooking class, food truck, and club
Incorporation
Cloud Performing Arts Center
Students alongside community members can enjoy a wonderful show at the black box theater and outdoor amphitheater. Students can climb onto and sit on the folded roof structure to enjoy plays, music, and performances with the wonderful Tahoe landscape as a backdrop. The black box theater below is clad with mirrors to help support the cloud-like roof structure and allows students to see themselves around and within the space.
Water Outpost
Students visit their learning spaces which pavilions and storage and safety burrows. across the biomes of the TEA campus, allowing aspects of nature within the Tahoe area. specific activities inside the pavilion and they can take tents and other deployables
which are divided into specialized learning burrows. These learning pavilions are spread allowing students to explore the different area. Students can engage with subject and when they are working in groups then deployables from the burrow and into nature.
Students being greeted by the main cafe and garden space, modeled after a hill and the surrounding topography, the cafe emerges from under a layer of Earth. Inside the cafe are greenhouses that allow some of the youngest students to learn how food grows while watching the seasons change around them. Seating inside and out allows for students to bond over food and share their discoveries of the day.
The Victory Library
Instructor
Year
Typology
Site
Software
Thomas Hartman
Spring 2022
Library Tempe, AZ
Archicad, Twinmotion, Photoshop, Illustrator
A library where the past and future meet. The future library is not a place to only collect thousands of books but a place for people to meet, interact and gather as a community. This library is developed as a hub for people of all ages and generations for a better social experience. The design of this library brings back the unique history of Victory Acres to its community and neighborhood. The Victory Library is designed to be a better place for not only readers but for any visitors with a purpose. This library offers both indoor and outdoor experiences where the visitors can choose to read outside in the courtyard or inside, in the lounge area. The Victory Library is a place to invite families and young readers to the world of social and personal improvements.
-Inspired by Apache history of agriculture.
-Negative Spaces for more Vegetation.
-Sloped Roof and Natural Advantages.
11/2”- 25’
Reading Area
Entrance
Seating
Using pitched roof to collect rainwater to be displaid and reused for irrigation on the site during hotter months.
Rairwater Collection
Study Room Computer Lab
Craft
Instructor
Year
Typology
Elena Rocchi, Warren Murff
Fall 2019 - Present
Spatial Exploration Studies
Inspired and enthusiastic in mastering carpentry to better express feelings and emotions. Processing design concepts and approaches through collage and data mapping.
Studio Physical
Physical Models
Molood Tahmasebi