Architectural Portfolio Nasib

ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO OF ABDULLAH NASIB

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DOB: 11 / 07 /1996

C: +44 7469685412

E: nasib.96au@gmail.com

I am an architect from India and I have completed my MArch programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture. In the programme, we researched on reappraising the linear building life-cycles holistically, with the aid of Architectural robotics, Machine learning and designs developed with the support of Computational Algorithms. I am aspired to build my architectural career in this direction.

Education M Arch Architectural Design (Research Cluster 3 - Living Architecture) Bartlett school of Architecture, London B Arch MEASI Academy of Architecture, Chennai

2020 - 2021 2014 - 2019

Experience S Square Architects ; Residence, Gated Community, Retail Space Intern Architect (4 Months)

2018

Najeeb Associates ; Residence, Mosque, Shopping Complex Intern Architect (5 Months)

2017

Freelance ; Residence, Airport (Competition), Shopping complex, Auditorium, Office Architect (9 Months)

2019 - 2020

Honours Westminster Design competition - Special Mention Space Fest Pavilion Design Competition - 2nd place RFT Visualization Competition - Honourable mention

2016 - 2017 2019 2020

Language English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam

Skills 2D/ 3D Modelling Rhinoceros

Enscape Vray

Grasshopper Karamba

Post Processing

Maya + Animation Revit AutoCad Marvelous Sketch Up

Photoshop Illustrator InDesign After Effects Microsoft Office

Programming Language

Miscellaneous

C# Python (basic)

3D printing Laser cutting Jigsaw Cutting Raspberry pi (basic)

Game Engine Unity Rendering Lumion

Undergraduate Academic Work

Freelance Work

Graduate Research & Competition Work

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Index Urban Centre pg 8

Apartment

Auditorium

Residence

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pg 30

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Graduate Research pg 34

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Cruise Terminal pg 18

Airport pg 46

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Part 1

Udergraduate Academic Works 2017 - 2019

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Rhino + Grasshopper + Sketch Up + V Ray + Lumion + Photoshop

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RETTERI URBAN CENTRE 2018 - Academic Work

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Location: Chennai, Tamilnadu Urban Centre is proposed on a waterfront area. The main motive of the design was to break the concrete and glass composition in the city view and to develop a space where the public can escape from the traffic and pollution.

The landscape continues from ground to roof to create an infinite loop which can create a sense of playfulness to the users.

And the spaces are strategically placed to receive a scenic view of the lake.

Building Mass formation

Service point

Pedestrian walkway

Office drop off

Shopping drop off

Resultant space after carving out the circulation

Loop

Connecting the roof to the ground

Carving out the courtyard space for light and ventilation

Addition of Office block

Floor Plans Ground

Basement

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First Floor CC

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Lake View

Second Floor

Office Floor CC BB

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Part Sections

Section BB

RG

RG

TF

TF

SF

SF

FF

FF

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M

B1

B1

B2

B2

B3

B3

Section CC

Lake

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Lake View

Roof Garden Stack effect

Vehicular circulation Entrance

Wind

Public

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Loop

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Sketch Up + V Ray + Photoshop

URBAN BLOCK APARTMENT 2017 - Academic Work

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Location: Chennai, Tamilnadu The design agenda was to create a balance between the buildings and greenery to fight these issues. Provision of roof gardens, private and public balconies for social interactions and functions. The ground space is completely allotted for vehicular movements by elevating all the recreational spaces to podium level. Thus enhancing saftey and comfort.

Building Mass formation

Typical Floor Plans B

F

A

D

E

Block A

C

Blocks

F B

E

D

C

A

Block F

Suitable stacking

Block A

Subtraction of spaces for light and ventilation

Addition of roof gardens

Block E

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Block E

Block E

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Residential Units : 97 Bedrooms : 184 Parking : 117 car parking Block B

Block B

Block D

2BHK and 3BHK units are designed as 2 storey units to give the users the feel of a conventional house and the sense of spaciousness.

Although the features inside the unit vary all the units follows same base layout.

2BHK

1BHK

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Location: Trivandrum, Kerala

VIZHINJAM CRUISE TERMINAL 2019 - Thesis Work

India is ranked as the 9th most popular tourist destination in the world and is today considered a preferred cruise destination. The government of India has recognised cruise tourism as a thrust area and initiated several positive measures to promote the cruise industry and position India as a global cruise destination. And this terminal design is a reimagined version of the government proposal.

Unlike conventional cruise terminals, the topography of the site is not flattened for the functioning of the

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terminal. Instead, the spaces are organised into distinct levels along the contour to compliment the building function.

The site allotted for the terminal is an integral part of the port. Therefore, the terminal is divided into 2 blocks to conceal the industrial environment of the port and to secure the port from the public and vice versa. These blocks are placed at 2 extreme ends of the port and are connected by an elevated corridor. While the primary block connects the users to the land transportation facilities, the secondary block connects the users to the Cruise ship.

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Rhino + Grasshopper + Revit + Lumion + Photoshop

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Spatial organisation

Service Area 2790 m2

Departure 5110 m2

Office 450 m2

Arrival 3227 m2 Monorail transit 4240 m2

Roof Garden 1750 m2 Commercial 2485 m2

The site is located on a heavily contoured region. Ergo each block is distinguished and arranged along the contour to reduce site intervention and is carefully manoeuvred to provide the best hospitality and view.

Circulation

Elevated Corridor

Disembarkation

Embarkation

Public

Each block is interlinked and it is the circulation patter which distinguish between spaces. This enables the users to identify their path without the support of sign boards or assistance.

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Section

The passenger and luggage flow is directed in downward direction for convenience and to conserve energy expenditure in luggage belts and escalators.

Views

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The waiting lounge & monorail platform is sandwiched between departure and arrival to facilitate easy accessibility to both emigrants and immigrants.

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The departure area is designed to have proper visual connectivity to all the relevant spaces.

The entrance & frontage is designed to attract the passengers as well as the public.

The cruise terminal site is located 1.2 km away from the wharf. Therefore, an elevated monorail corridor is proposed to connect the passenger to the wharf, this enhances the passenger comfort, view and reduces the traffic in the port.

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Part 2

Freelance Works 2019

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Rhino + Grasshopper + Lumion + Photoshop

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DH AUDITORIUM 2019 - Freelance Work

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Location: Palakkad, Kerala Based on client’s interest the whole design was manoeuvred to construct on steel. But due to the warm humid climate, it is necessary to protect the interior from heating up, Thus the idea of wrapping the building using a covered staircase and ramp was introduced. This eventually became the main feature that emphasized the aesthetics and function of the auditorium.

Level 1

Level 2

Isometric Sectional view

Spaceframe shell

Seating : 1000+ Dining capacity : 500 Parking : 60 cars + 1 van + 2 buses

Balcony, 400+ seating

Seating area 600+

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Dining

Glazing

Ramp

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The auditorium design ensures that the users have a memorable and comfortable experience in the interior aswell on the exterior of the building.

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HOUSE RENOVATION

Initial Structure

2019 - Freelance Work

Location: Palakkad, Kerala The primary motive of the work was to enhance the quality and aesthetics of the spaces and overall building.

The building had several circulation issues in the interior as well as in the exterior. All of these issues were solved by reorganising everything with minimum intervention to the pre-existing structure. Reorganising made the place more spacious, for instance, previously the site had only one car parking space, but now it can contain two cars + bikes.

For this project, almost everything was retained in the building including the furniture, to reduce the expenditure. Therefore, a bottom to top approach was taken while designing, that is the spaces are designed based on the existing furniture and craftmanship available locally.

Balcony

Entrance

Living Room

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Part 3

Graduate Research 2020 - 2021

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AMENITIES NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGY 2021 - Academic Research

Team members: Abdullah Nasib U, Shizhao Wang, Yixuan Xu, Haoyue Zhang ANT (Amenities Navigation Technology) responses to today’s housing crisis with a logistics-based solution utilizing autonomous distributed robots to reconfigure private and shared interior spaces to negotiate the requirements of its inhabitants. Inspired by space stations where all surfaces are utilized and warehouse robotics, the project embeds a continuous system of rails for robots to navigate, distribute, and store spatial elements and furniture across walls, ceilings, and floors in a continuously adaptive building life cycle. A series of robots were designed and evolved via sequential prototypes testing the constraints of the system. The architectural system employs a controlled set of continuous curvatures enabling robots to access all interior surfaces. Robotic agents

were trained in a simulator using deep reinforcement learning to learn collaborative space planning policies while navigating the rail system. Cellular automata research was developed exploring neighbourhood relationships to influence the configuration of space in the design process. A spatial assembly algorithm generates continuous building assemblages. An agentbased pedestrian algorithm was developed to simulate the changing building states in relation to dynamic occupancy. Finally, augmented and virtual reality was leveraged in a custom platform allowing people living in the building to interact with and influence their spaces enabling shared space optimization while considering each user’s unique lifestyle.

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Rhino + Grasshopper + Unity + C# + VRay + Photoshop

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Concept Conventional space usage According to conventional model around 1/3rd of space volume is disused

Usage

Static Rail

Proposed space usage Dynamic Rail

Usage

Therefore, we leveraged robots to make use of the inaccessible regions in the room. These regions are used to store architectural elements and furniture and use it when needed.

This enables a single room to transform into 4 or 5 different types of spaces.

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Rails are used to facilitate the navigation of the rob rails. The static rails are responsible for the form a spatial layout transformation.

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Setup

Full setup

Conceptual section of the building chunk

Rails and robot setup

Robot with furniture component

Robot with wall component

Stage 1 Full setup

Robot with floor component

Rails and robot setup

ots. The system contains two types of rails which are static rails and dynamic and structure of the building, while dynamic rails are responsible for interior

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Work flow Spatial Assembly Algorithm

Each component defines a space with different features or functions.

Massing Algorithm

Spatial Components

Input ratio of spaces(Public, Private, Atrium & Courtyard) required

Robotic Development

Algorithm building optio spatial com

Massing based on environmental conditions and sunlight analysis

Version 1

Version 2

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produces ons using the mponents.

Sample Results

This algorithm provides the details of spatial layout

Spatial Transformation Algorithm

Reinforcement Learning

Different spatial and furniture organisation of the same space at various time period

Final Robot version: This robot is responsible for making the spatial alterations.

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Spatial Assembly After testing and identifying the requirements of the robots to function effectively, we developed spatial components which are fed into SA (An algorithm developed by taking inspirations from the Wave function collapse algorithm). Along with the spatial components, the Mass of the building is also fed. Using this algorithm we can develop and analyse a plethora of design options that adhere to all the applied rules and constraints.

Conceptual Section of the generation

Space ratio controller

Mass

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Reinforcement Learning The robots are trained on the digital platform to navigate in the space, idetifying its obstacles and shortest distance to the target position.

Navigation 1

Robot population 30%

Navigation 50

Robot population 50%

Graphs showing the success rate and other values. Each colour line represents a training set

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Robot population 70%

Training Arena

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Spatial transformation Algorithm This algorithm is responsible for the spatial layout variation in the interior by assigning positions for the robots with wall components. The algorithm functions based on the user circulation in the space.

People simulation

Optimisation

Rooms

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Common Space

Circulation

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Interior Panoramic Views

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Part 4

Competition Work 2020

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ASA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 2020

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Rhino + Grasshopper + Lumion + Photoshop

Team members: Abdullah Nasib UmmerFarook, Bharani Dharan (Architect at Airport Authority of India) Location: Saudi Arabia The airport is designed for GAFZ. The airport has 5 gates in total and 17 ‘Code E’ Apron parking facilities.

The airport is designed to carry the essence of Arabic culture.

The glazings and specially designed roof panels enrich the spaces with natural light. Thus, making the structure feel more lightweight and giving a sense of serenity to the passengers.

Likewise, this enhances the energy conservation of the terminal.

The airport is designed for 10 million travellers annually in phase 1 and 30 million by phase 3(final phase). The airport

and plaza together attracts a lot of visitors and generates revenue throughout the year.

The departure and arrival block is designed conventionally, however, the frontage of both blocks are connected to a huge Plaza. The plaza contains a large semi-indoor landscape area with elevated walking corridors, retail spaces and a prayer hall. This plaza enables travellers to have quality time with their family and friends and to maximise their travelling experience. Thus, each space in the airport ensures a soulful experience for the passengers.

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Waiting Area

Paid concourse

Green Spine

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Security check

Check In

Elevated walkway at the plaza

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Grasshopper file

Boundary

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Internal columns and its details.

Roof and its details.

External columns and its details.

The main structure is modelled entirely using grasshopper by inputting just the boundary of the building from Rhino.

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PORTFOLIO OF NASIB

THANK YOU

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