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Maryam Shahabi

OBJECTIVE

As an architecture student, my passion lies in visualizing and contemplating the built environment to find innovative and practical solutions to enhance people's lives. My drive to continually broaden my perspectives has led me to explore new design avenues and create interactive installations throughout my studies. I am determined to turn my curiosity and creativity into meaningful designs that positively impact humanity.

EDUCATION

Aug. 2021 - May. 2023| MA in Architecture | Iowa State University| Ames, Iowa

Jan. 2014 – Jan. 2017| BA in Architecture | Islamic Azad University| Bandar Abbas, Iran

Sep. 2011 – Feb. 2014| AA in Architectural Drawing| Islamic Azad University| Bandar Abbas, Iran

Sep. 2010 – May 2011| Technical school Diploma in Architecture | Ayatollah Sadr Technical School | Bandar Abbas, Iran

EXPERIENCE

Aug 2021 - De. 2023| TEACHING ASSISTANT | Building Science and Technology I, II, and III | Iowa State University| Led groups of undergraduate students (~60), Managed groups’ work and discussions through in-person/virtual meetings, Developed and graded homework assignments and projects, Provided reports for professors

Mar. 2018 – Jun. 2021| FOUNDER & ARCHITECT | TEN GROUP| Prepares and modifies architectural design and documents. Managing others utilizing building information modeling (BIM)- concept designer- design developer | Bandar Abbas, Iran

MAR. 2018 – JUN. 2021| ASSISTANT ARCHITECT | SOUTH ARCHITECTS| Architect and head of interior design - consultant & content marketer- Concept designer- Design developer| Bandar Abbas, Iran

OCT. 2017 – MAR. 2018| ENTERY LEVEL ARCHITECT| RSA STUDIO| assistant architect, 3d designer & head of interior design section-Construction detailing and presentation - Concept designer- Design developer | Bandar Abbas, Iran

SEP. 2017 – OCT. 2017| INTERNSHIP CONSULTANT & CONTENT MARKETER | AFTAB ADVERT CO., promoting brands marketing and making installation for them| Bandar Abbas, Iran

SKILLS & ABILITIES

LEADERSHIP & AWARDES

Apr. 2022| Sound installation| Solo exhibition about wh y some people do not enjoy art| Innovation Center, Iowa State University

May. 2022| An art installation| Solo exhibition about racism | King pavilion, College of Design, Iowa State University

Aug. 2021| Focus grant award | 600$ award, which led to a huge interactive installation about international student problems on campus| Iowa State University

Feb. 2021 - Mar. 2021| Facilitator & Architect | Teaching native children how to think like a designer and turn their ideas into reality| Hormoz Island, Bandar Abbas, Iran

Apr. 2018 – May 2018| Leader at Qavam Al-din Contest| Architectural Workshop Competition which had two parts: choosing the leaders, and after that, each leader had 12 students to build up the idea on the site in 10 days| Shiraz, Iran

Feb. 2018 - Sep. 2018| Workshop & Seminar Organizer| Earth Structures Seminar with Mr. Pouya Khazaeli- Ceramic workshop with Ms. Homa Ebrahimi - Contemporary Architecture Seminar with Mr. Ahmad Saffar | Bandar Abbas, Iran

WORKSHOPS

Sep. 2017 – Oct. 2017| Commercial Management| Bandar Abbas, Iran

Jul. 2016 – Sep. 2016| Hedracrete| taught by: Mr. Masoud Akbarzadeh,, Mr. Amirhosein Tabrizi,, Mr. Mehrad Mahnia, Mr. Ramtin Taherian| Tehran, Iran|

Publications: Projects Catalogue of the 37th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture(ACADIA)2017 | Prefab, Concrete Polyhedral Frame: M aterializing 3D Graphic Statics| Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposiu2017,Interfaces:architecture, Engineering, science | 2017On Structural Behaviour of the First Funicular Polyhedral Frame Designedby3DGraphicStatics.Structures,2017| Published in Architecture and construction magazine 5th issue called “small.

Mar. 2016- Apr. 2016| Shaaf Miraye| taught by Mr. Pouya Khazaeli & Ms. Parisa Bahrami| The Theoretical section held at Institute of Contemporary Architects|Tehran, Iran, and The Practical section held at Esfahak, Mashhad, Iran

Publications: Architizer

VOLUNTARY ACTIVITIES

Jan. 2019 – Feb. 2019| Iraj Village| Making adobe, building vaults & walls, Electric working, plastering with clay and saw, agriculture, Live stocking, Cooking

Dec. 2018 – Dec. 2019| VHQ Team, Conscious Impact Group | Takure, Katmandu, Nepal| Working with cob, earth bags, adobe & earth blocks; Making human fertilizer; Meltwater; Ag riculture; Cooking

WORKS

I am proud to present my portfolio, showcasing my diverse projects and demonstrating my ability to bring both small and largescale designs to life. Through my work, I aim to highlight my unique perspective on architecture as not just functional structures but as public sculptures that shape and enhance the cityscape. With each project, I strive to leave a lasting impression and create spaces that inspire and captivate the community.

YOUR CLOUD 19 UNIVERSITY PROJECTS 1 CONTENT SHA’AF 32 WORKSHOPS 31 KAME 24 COMPETITION 18 KAME CHIRO 27 TEN GROUP 23 HEDRACRETE 36 EXPANDING BOUNDRIES 2 SAY THEIR NAMES 6 MAHR 29 TROPICAL FOREST ACADEMY 12

UNIVERSITY PROJECTS

EXPANDING BOUNDRIES

Instructor

Bosuk Hur Students:

Maryam Shahabi - Sepideh Shahnemati

Seattle, Washington, United State

August, 2022 - December, 2022

CONCEPTUAL MANIFESTO

Monumentality:

A typical IT office where users have less expansion and one directional route between home and office, and They experience the same daily routine every day.

The relationship between architecture and the human body obviously has a long history. Architecture can determine how the human body moves. In our project, we want to engage the human body through architecture and design a building that engages the human body. It means that make people do some physical activities during everyday life and expand their experience and memory of every day. Creating a combination of office with entertainment center which includes different outdoor/indoor sports and gathering places. It brings an attachment between public spaces and the vacancy of offices that are affected by Covid-19.

New monumentality:

Engaging humans with the building and expanding their everyday experiences.

The new monumentality will have different city events, outdoor/indoor sports, and gathering places to provide an opportunity for people to extend their daily experience. our office extends the meaning of office in the urban context. This new monumentality extends the office space to the public which has some advantages for the public. Also, the office has an opportunity to advertise its identity and brand through architectural space. How people can extend their daily exercise routine through your space? The new monumentality will have different city events, outdoor/indoor sports, and gathering places to provide an opportunity for people to extend their daily activity.

public stairs public interior private spaces Display wall free street galleries Screen

First Floor- Lobby Secound Floor- Stores Fourth Floor- Office

SAY THEIR NAMES

Lead Designer Leaders: Ulrike Passe- Chengde Wu

Team Members: Maryam Shahabi- Emily Kuhlmann

55409 38th street, Minneapolis ,Minnesota, USA Aug.2021- Dec.2021

“Say Their Names’ is a net zero building for the homeless. The housing market has made transitioning from homelessness to homeowner a huge hurdle. This multi-use apartment building provides all the resources necessary for those who want a space to call their own but cannot afford current housing or rental prices. ‘Say Their Names’ provides micro apartments with communal kitchens, dining, laundry, and office space with computers. Small retail units for lease provide start-up opportunities for tenants.

Apartment

Kitchen

Space Atrium Stair Mechanical Public Bathroom Laundry Counseling

Communal

Office/Work

Average annual rainfall

74,880- 133,120 gal

The entire rooftop area as well as the atrium window acts as a collection surface to harvest rainwater, which is funneled to and held in an underground cistern. Municipal water will provide potable water while the cistern will provide water for showers, laundry, gardening, etc. The runoff from these sources (greywater) will flow into the toilet system which once used will be

192,284 KWh

The vines will die off in the winter and allow passive solar heating to warm the building reducing heating loads. The thermal envelope was designed to have a high R-value, increasing insulation and reducing heating and cooling loads throughout the year. Electricity demands will be met by the PV panel system on site.

Natural stack ventilation reduces cooling loads. Coupled with indoor vegetation creating oxygen, these passive strategies reduce the demand for active air exchange. Vines grown on custom hydroponic tracts will suspend downwards across the atrium window doubling as shading during the summer.

Annual PV energy potential

Windows are krypton filled low-e triple pane with thermal breaks

Concrete

Air Gap

Rigid Insulation

Water Barrier

Vapor Barrier

Gypsum

TROPICAL FOREST ACADEMY

Leaders: Cruz Garcia & Nathalie Frankowski

Student: Maryam Shahabi

Porto Rico

They embraced the faith but what did it brought? Prolonged, chronic suffering. Took them from the home and promised them heaven, instead left them behind, far from home without means to reach the goal.

CONCEPT DRAWING

Plan

Section Elevation 16

COMPETITION

YOUR CLOUD

Instructor

Leaders:

Maryam Shahabi, Bahador Mozafarin, Arash Abaszadeh

Students:

Sahar Zal, Majid Torabi Rad, Ardalan Godarzi, Ardalan Yademelatian, Amin Mohamadi, Rozbeh Hafezzadeh, Fatemeh Karimi, Ozra Torkamani,Fateme Bashiri, Nilofar Torabizadeh, Zahra Kazemi, Sara Ghodosi.

Shiraz,Iran

Apr4,2018-May10,2018

usual consequence of construction projects

our approach in the construction project

“WASTE PRODUCTION” TO BUILD TO BUILD

“WASTE COLLECTION”

TEN GROUP

KAME

Lead Designer Leaders:

Mohamadali Sheybani- Maryam Shahabi

Team Members:

Mohadese Azadi, Pooria AminAzad, Fateme Bashiri, Nilofar Torabizadeh, Ozra Torkamani, Sara Jafari, Nastaran Salarpoor, Ali Salehi, Erfan Alavimoghadam, Emad Ghafori, Zahra Kazemi, Fateme Karimi, Dorna Mohamadi, Elham Mahmodi, Fateme Molavi.

Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan ,Iran Mar6,2018 – Mar18

KAME CHIRO

Lead Designer Leaders:

Maryam Shahabi, Erfan Alavimoghadam

Team Members:

Mohadese Azadi, Pooria AminAzad, Fateme Bashiri, Nilofar Torabizadeh, Ozra Torkamani, Sara Jafari, Nastaran Salarpoor, Ali Salehi, Emad Ghafori, Zahra Kazemi, Fateme Karimi, Dorna Mohamadi, Elham Mahmodi, Fateme Molavi.

Chiro café and restaurant, after Baghestan town, Shahid Rajaye road, Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan, Iran Mar20,2018- Mar27,2018

An interior design project inspired by the same “Kame” material that was used in the Kame project. Our client, the owner of the restaurant, needed an affordable design that could be done in less than two weeks. Therefore, we managed to complete the process, due to our previous experience with the “kame” material.

Using KAME wooden components for lighting

Final structure

MAHR

Lead Designer

Leaders:

Leaders: Mohamadali Sheybani- Maryam Shahabi Team Members:

Shahyar Abad, Emad Ghafouri, Erfan Alavimoghadam, Mostafa Taghipour.

International Exhibition, Banda Abbas, Hormozgan, Iran Feb10,2019- Feb20,2019

Ancient people in rural areas used to make these cottages with palm stick to live in and also escape the heat of Bandar Abbas. They had a special knitting technique to knit palm sticks together which it is unique in its kind. In this Exhibition we decided to use a inner mold to set palm sticks and then tie them together with ropes. When these palm sticks were woven into a circular state it made a beautiful Islamic pattern at the top of the structure.

Inner Mold Inner Mold Inner Mold Palm Sticks Palm Sticks

Plan 30

A Kapar

Section A-A

WORKSHOPS

SHA’AF (EXCITEMENT)

Instructors: Pouya Khazaely- Parisa Bahrami

Team Members: Amirhosein Tabrizi, Amirali Zinati, Davoodmohamad Hasan, Adib Khaez- Mitra Ahmadi, Maryam Shahabi, Behnaz Motarjem, Sajad Ramesht, Mohsen Khazdoz, Adib Iravani, Khazar Pourahmadi, Mitra Ahmadi, Niloofar Namdar, Mehdi Maleki.

Theoretical section: Institute of Contemporary Architects,Tehran,Iran

Practical section:Esfahk,Tabas,Mashhad Mar2016 – Apr2016

Isfahak is one of the villages of Tabas suburbs that has been inhabited since the earthquake in 1978. But in recent years, architects such as Pouya Khazaeli, Kaveh Mansouri and Faramarz Parsi have attempted to restore rural houses and show their architectural attractions to the world. In 2016, we attended a two-part course, theoretical and practical, which the theoretical part lasted 10 days at Contemporary Architects Association in Tehran. It resulted in 3 designs of new and modern layouts using old techniques.

In the second part of the workshop, which lasted 13 days, we built real-life scale models in the village, which was significantly welcomed by the villagers and became a place for community gathering.

Each of the sculptures had a unique concept and technique. The first design was inspired by the shape of a palm tree’s trunk that was native to the area.

The second design was based on rotating the arch onto one another, creating a completely new form.

Finally, the third design had a completely new layout, with the bricks positioned obliquely and producing a half dome in each row, which was a very unique form.

HEDRACRETE

Instructors:

Masoud Akbarzadeh, Amirhosein Tabrizi, Mehrad Mahnia, Ramtin Taherian

Team Members:

Alireza Bayramvand, Parham Gholizadeh, Soroush Garivan, Maryam Shahabi, Fatemeh Salehiamir, Seyed Ali Mirzadeh, Nastaran Saeidi, Niloofar Imani, Pooria Gachpazan, Sobhan Sarabi, Armin Shayanpour, Yasaman Samaie, Kimiya Safakhah, Anahid Attaran, Banafsheh

Tavassoli, Sepehr Farzaneh, Ayeh Fotovat, Maryam Mollahasadollah, Shahyar Abad, Neshat Mirhadizadeh, Mohamad Hossein Karimi, Mohamad Ebrahimi, Pedram Karimi, Mobin Mousavi, Mehrzad

Esmaellie, Sahar Barzani, Atiyeh Sadat Fakhr Hosseini, Niloufar Namdar, Setareh Hoshmand, Ehsan Heydarizadeh.

Theoretical section: Institute of Contemporary Architects,Tehran,Iran

Practical section: Saad Abad Complex, Tehran, Iran July2016 - Seb2016

DISRUPTION: Projects Catalog of the 37th Annual Conference of the Association for ComputerAided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) 2017

Prefab, Concrete Polyhedral Frame: Materializing 3D Graphic Statics. Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium

2017, Interfaces: architecture. Engineering. science, 2017

On Structural Behavior of the First Funicular Polyhedral Frame

Published in Architecture and construction magazine 5th issue called “small.

Hedracrete is a unique research project aiming to address three important topics in the field of digital design and fabrication. These subjects include efficient structural form finding in three dimensions, fabrication of complex spatial systems, and the innovative use of conventional materials The form of the structure is a funicular polyhedral frame comprised of both compression-only and tensile-only members with a maximum height of 3.33 m, spanning from three supports located 5.4 m apart from each other. The structure consists of 45 prefabricated joints, 54 compression and 30 tension members sitting on steel supports connected by steel rods. The structural concept has been designed using 3D Graphic Statics which is state-of-the-art geometric structural design method. This approach has been recently developed based on a 150-year-old proposition, and Hedracrete is the first built prototype designed using this method. Thus the structure can be considered a proof of concept for 3D Graphic Statics. What makes the form-finding process unique and intuitive is that by changing the boundary conditions in 3DGS model, a designer can explicitly change the internal forces in the structure from compression-only forces to a system with both compressive and tensile forces.