Architecture Portfolio - Navid Ghafouri

A R C H I T E C T U R E P O R T F O L I O

N A V I D G H A F O U R I

S ELECTED ACADE M I C. PROFES S IONAL WO R K S 2017 - 2021

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My name is Navid. I am a multi-disciplinary art & architecture practitioner. Having an immense interest in the social aspects of architecture, I embarked on my master studies in Umeå School of Architecture where I investigated subjects such as Design Activism, Participatory Urban Development and Digital Communication. The pleasure of architecture for me lies in the process of discovering the contextual layers of socio-spatial conditions that architecture performs within, and exploring the possibilities of challenging the conventional human interactions in both physical and virtual spheres. I hope to gain more experiences by doing an internship in a relevant field and nourish the ambition to bring more sustainability into the world. > 1 January 2022

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> collage from the project “ a n t i - s t a g e ” Spring 2021, Umeå School of Architecture

C O N T E N T S ACADEMIC WORKS 01

A HAPPY ROOFTOP

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ANTI - STAGE

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UDDEN : LINEAR TACTILITY

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TEHRAN PAVILION

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RE-THINKING DORMS

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RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX

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JACUZZY

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ECO-PLUG

MA Architecture / 2021 / Umeå School of Architecture

MA Architecture / 2021 / Umeå School of Architecture

Workshop / 2020 / Umeå School of Architecture

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Project Collaboration / 2019

BA Architecture Thesis / 2018 / Azad University of Mashhad

B Arch Design Studio 5 / 2018 / Azad University of Mashhd

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ArcXsite Competition / 2017

Workshop / 2017 / CAAI School of Architecture

PROFESSIONAL WORKS NEXT OFFICE

Sharifi-ha House, Safadasht Dual: Architectural Drawing

ABAR STUDIO

Cheshm-o-Cheragh Bazaar: Architectural Drawing

FREELANCE

Interior and Furniture Design/Rendering

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ACADEMIC WORKS

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A HAPPY ROOFTOP F O R T I AF I C O MMU NITY CE NTE R

The aim of the project was to design a playground on the rooftop of TIAFI Community Center, located in Izmir, Turkey to allow refugees spend time with their children in a safe and lively environment. The structure needed to be temporary and flexible to be moved into other sites. We proposed a modular system made out of a series of curved metal tubes which was affordable and durable. By developing different variations of the modular system, we designed different activity spaces such as a football pitch, a gathering space and a series of gardening facilities.

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Umeå School of Architecture December 2021 UMA5 - Studio 10 building a future: Architecture for displaced populations in Greece and Turkey.

Design team: Adele Valtersson, Benjamin Roobol, Cecilia Johansson, Claire Hannon, Fanny Chaiyarach, Fatima Garcia De Tiedra Terron, Jesper Ullbing, Julia Olström, Karina Gataullina, Kasimir Suter Winter, Ludvig DAovberg, Maureen Doye, Navid Ghafouri, Paula Vallejo Terceño, Viktor Wahlén Diederichsen

Studio tutors: Prof. Robert Mull, Amalia Katopodis, Sangram Shirke

My role: Project communication, Visualization through rendering and illustration, 3D Modeling, Details Design, Spatial Development, Diagrams

3 . A HAPPY ROOFTOP

> Visualization: The activity spaces formed by the modular system From the top: The small gathering space for adults,

the big gathering space, the play area for children

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> Drawing: Detail design of the steel pipe modules, corrugated plastic and fabric

5 . A HAPPY ROOFTOP

> Prototype: Steel Pipes Prototyping 1:2

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> Drawing: Detail design of the joinaries

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> Visualization: View from the front side of TIAFI community center into the rooftop

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ANTI-STAGE

AN NEW DYNAMIC FOR MUSIC PERFORMANCE The project “anti-stage” investigates musical stage as a ground for new possibilities in architecture to alter the conventional understanding of musical performance and introduce a new dynamic of co-creation of culture to urban life.

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Umeå School of Architecture April 2021 UMA4 - Studio 11 work in process: socio-spatial scenarios and architectural experiments.

Studio tutors: Daniel Movilla Vega, Mette Harder, Lluís J. Liñán, Carla Collevecchio

The conventional painting technique on a vertical canvas was challenged when Pollock decided to lay a canvas on the floor and step inside it. I investigated stage as a canvas that can be challenged within different urban pockets.

An explorative process of analyzing and observing the possible ways of interaction between audience and performers within public and domestic domains helped me redefine the common understanding of how a stage can be perceived and can perform.

Working with both traditional and nontraditional media —

including drawings, models, renderings, photographs, collages and prototypes, I tried to unravel the underlying potentials existing in different domestic and urban conditions. The outcome of these practices land on a propsal of different transportable structures that can respond to different urban pockets and performing conditions. The proposal tries to argue that stage as a medium carries a rich set of meanings in the way that it performs and the way it can stake a claim to public space.

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Earlier in the process, I investigated Piano as an object that can organize the space around it and change the way that human bodies relate to space.

I tried to analyse the ways that people interact with a piano in public and domestic spaces.

> Drawings overlayed with models, investigating vertical & horizontal conditions

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> Drawing from A Jazz musical event in Umeå at Birgit Lindberg’s living room based on the Youtube video: https://youtu.be/nrmQkP3ORxw

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To speculate how this interaction can be extended as an urban interactive performance, I started designing transportable wireframe spaces within 3 different urban pockets in the city that can carry a piano and create an interactive relationship between the passengers, audience, performers and the instrument itself.

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[SCOPE OF THE PROJECT] > Designing a series of artefacts that can activate different urban conditions in Umeå by incorporating donated pianos in second-hand markets. These artefacts should be able to conduct spontaneous public performances and make a meaningful dialogue between the city and its residents. Providing the spaces for public interaction with music performance, this project introduces temporary installations charactrized by their certain spatial features they provide to make playful public events and become a part of the urban culture in Umeå.

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[THE THE MOBILE ARTEFACTS] ARTEFACTS The Penetrator Can penetrate to buildings through a long and narrow staircase, creating a circulation from outside to inside and making a semiclosed performance space in the middle.

The Framer Acts as a frame and it can divide an in-between condition into two different spaces, by facing the performers on one side and the audience on the other side.

The spinner A circular staircase with a sheltered space underneath it that can spin and change its direction.

The Extractor Being attached to the facade of a building, this artefact can be best used for a vertical performance in a balcony, providing spaces for sitting and a pulley system for assisting the movement of a piano.

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The attachment of artefacts in different configurations creating new typologies of event spaces.

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> Prototype of the “Extractor” artefact

The tectonics of the artefact is shaped by a modular scaffolding system. The proposed shoring system comprises prefabricated modular components that fit together and lock without using couplers or bolts. The Mills Tour shoring system is constructed so that each vertical face, including the telescopic level, is fully braced over the whole height.

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> Visualization of the proposed event, viewpoint from the balcony of a 2-storey house located in Östra Strandgatan Street, Umeå

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The radicality of this proposal is not on the structure, nor the movement of the piano. The structure with the piano needs human bodies in order to complete the stage, and that’s where the concept of stage is no longer static, exclusive and hierarchical.

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Umeå School of Architecture September 2020 UMA4 - Vertical Workshop Investigating The Nature Reserve in Grössjön Students: Navid Ghafouri, Karl Lind, Linda Lindkvist, Viktor Lindström, Linnea Lundmark, Arvid Matton

> Photo Credits: Navid Ghafouri / Grössjön / September 2020

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The previous fireplace and seats

The fluid form of the landscape

The horizontality of the lake view

the serenity of the sky view

The task was to rebuild the existing fireplace in Grössjön, situated about 7 km from the Arts Campus in Umeå, Sweden. The existing fireplaces constituted a concrete ring for making fire and benches offering seatings providing comfort (heat) to the hiker.

The benches were in poor shape and our task was to construct new benches using the provided wooden material and hand tools.

As the goal was that the new fireplaces would be standing for a long period of time, thinking of questions of maintenance was important.

The material of the benches we built will be left untreated. In a couple of years, the idea is that Umeå Kommun will treat them with tar or sludge colour.

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Making the Prototype

Preparing the base

Making the Curves

Transportation and Assembling on Site

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TEHRAN PAVILION A Dialogue Between the old town & the modern metopolitan”

How can a pavilion represent the historical evolution of a metropolitan city like Tehran?

The adjacancy of contradicting physical components of the old and the new fabric of Tehran lays in the veins of the city.

Exposing these layers through different structural and functional components in a pavilion was the objective of this proposal.

The co-existence between the long highways and the narrow alleys, the highrise buildings and the small houses, the view to nature and the city life within a walking distance is what users of this pavilion will experince.

Project Collaboration Via Roja Azizzadeh March 2019 My role: Design Development, Modeling, Visualizations, Diagrams, Drawings

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Gallery/Exhibition Boxes

Existing Steel Structures

Bridges

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> Drawing: Ground Floor Plan

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> Drawing: A-A Section

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> Rendering: Exterior view of the main court-yard

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31 . TEHRAN PAVILION

> Rendering: Birdeye view of the paviolin

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RE-THINKING DORMS STUDENT HOUSING & COMMUNITY CENTER IN MASHHAD

> Physical Model: Using foam and balsa wood

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A suitable site for the proposed programs required a remote place from the traffic congestions and also accessible within a walking distance from the university. This site, with an 1800 m2 area offers the students great convenience both in the safety of the region and also the suitable connectivity to the urban facilities and public transportation.

The idea was to lift-up the landscape to make room for the public functions and on top of them, create semi-private open spaces for the dorm residents.

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Amenities such as dormitories have the potential of shaping new communities among students.

Every year, Almost 50,000 new students residing in Mashhad, the second populated city in Iran to study. Providing the collegians temporary residentials within remote housing districts, the dorms typically disconnect students from the city life. This proposal tries to widen the scope of the investigation and offers more interactional spaces to student housings while establishing a connection with the local residents of the city.

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The project sits in a way to create a habitable space inside a park. It is comprised of -13 meter wide dormitory masses over a park, adjacent to the university in order to crop the landscape with communicational programmes below the ground.

> Programs Distribution Diagram

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> Student units

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> Drawing: Section Perspective

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> Rendering: Exterior view of the project

The most conspicuous material is the exposed concrete that makes up façades. Horizontal louvres are used with three different dimensions. They are attached each with the maximum cantilever from the vertical support to create a woven pattern to comprise a unified façade to the public and shaded walkways with a dynamic play of light for the inhabitants.

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RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX HOUSING PROJECT IN MASHHAD Regarding the increasing approach to living in residential complexes, the necessity of paying attention to the design and decision making about these spaces becomes serious. Also, one of the problems that we face today, is the matter of amount and type of people’s social interaction in the residential places, having increasingly been weakened recently, due to the gradually fading concept of neighbourhood.

This residential complex, located in Mashhad, tries to amalgamate different lifestyles into a united structure.

> Rendering: Exterior view of the project

Azad University of Mashhad Architectural Design 5 Studio January 2018 Tutor: Leila Zamani Aghaiee

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Accordingly, the hypothesis of the present practice is based on the principle that the way of organizing open spaces and blocks in residential complexes –due to its effect on factors like legibility, permeability, flexibility, and domain can influence the formation of public and semipublic spaces, and consequently affect the social interaction of residents.

The following pixelated settlements try to investigate different ways of organizing the residential blocks in between the open spaces by emulating the existing pattern of density distribution in the old residential complexes adjacent to the site.

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Isometric view of the proposal and the analysis of the social groups in the neighborhood

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Entertainments Live with Family Recreational Facilities Semi Closed Public Spaces

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> Drawing: Floor plan: Third floor of low density residential blocks

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> Drawing: Site plan: The continuity of the landscape beside the residential blocks

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Site Theatre International Competition ARKxSITE COMPETITION PORTUGAL November 2017

The Baleal Fortress is a significant landmark located within a remarkable place; a powerful natural scenery where the remains of the Fortress rises from the landscape and together with the cliff surfaces eroded by the wind are notable features within this setting. The competition aimed to create a new cultural destination and provide a place for open-air performances to enhance the experience within the landscape. The proposed project was a vast terrace that sits on the overlap between the water front and the cliffs to provide visitors with a unique experience of nature and culture.

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Due to the historical value of the site, the decision of not destroying any parts of the landscape became a priority. The idea was to extend the potential of the existing water activities alongside the coast into the project. Therefore the theatre was defined not only as a platform for performances, but also as a place to percept the performance of the nature.

The emplacement of square-shaped planes with a large void inside sits in a way that expands the horizontality of the topography. The requested programs are distributed in two levels, each accesible from the main cliff.

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ECO PLUG

Redistribution of Greenery in the Masterplan in the West of Tehran

CAAI School of Architecture Plugin Systems Studio September 2017

Students: Ehsan Rezakhani Mohsen Dehghan Navid Ghafouri

Tutors: Houman Talebi, Homa Farjadi

My role: Urban Research, Modeling, Design Process, Drawings

The environmental issues of Tehran has been an on-going problem for decades. The previous regional plans left massive ecological spaces that need enormous resources in order to sustain.

The biggest ones located in the westermost district of Tehran, known as natural lungs of the city, were designed before the new urban developments in district 22 of Tehran. While these green spaces do not have a strong connection to the urban fabric, their maintenance costs are rather high. This practice tries to evaluate the previous approaches while proposing a new strategy of ecological distribution in the region.

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The most significant attribute of the district 22 is the elongation of its boundaries. A disorganized urban tissue with discrete structures, and at the same time high-rise buildings that are focused on few ecological focal points. This disconnection between green spaces that leaves the social activities disconnected.

The current ecological expansion across the district results in inconsistent variations is forced to work trans-regional due to the early masterplans of the district. The out-of-scale artificial forest and the artificial lake that consumes large amounts of natural resources without having a proper pedestrian access.

Our strategy is to mislead these ecological forces to make space for pedestrian networks. Known as Ecological-Flows, these forces pull focus from individual objects such as big shopping malls and the open areas of the luxurious residential high-rise buildings and at the same time make them related to each other by new ecological networks.

By incorporating various urban pockets into flexible and growing frameworks, our proposed master plan balances the distribution of greenery within large residential complexes. These frameworks can be percieved as ecological Mega-Structures that can contain urban infrastructures and distribute their green spaces vertically.

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attaching a second skin to the shaded face of placing a surface the building to use the shadows efficiently. release the radial as a bridge landscape to the between the two surrounding open separate parts of spaces. forest.

place a linear products selling open space to the industrial zones in order to connect the agricultural fields.

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Park along Chitgar Lake

Industrial zone adjacant to Chitgar Forest

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[PROPOSED MASTERPLAN]

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PROFESSIONAL WORKS

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SHARIFI-HA HOUSE / NEXT OFFICE 2019 Isometric Drawing: Using Rhino & Adobe Illustrator

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CHESHM-O-CHERAGH / ABAR OFFICE 2019 Section Isometric Drawing: Using Sketchup & Adobe Illustrator

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SAFADASHT DUAL / NEXT OFFICE 2021 Section Perspective Drawing: Using Autodesk Revit & Adobe Illustrator

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FURNITURE DESIGN / FREELANCE 2021 Modeling, Rendering and Post Production Using Rhino, Keyshot & Adobe Photoshop

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INTERIOIR DESIGN / FREELANCE 2020 Photography, Rendering & Post Production_ Using Sketchup, V-Ray & Adobe Photoshop

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ANIMATION / UMEÅ SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ( 2021) Photography, Post Production & Animation_ Using Adobe Photoshop & After Effects Click to watch the animated version instagram.com/uma_architecture

C O N T A C T

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+46 72 848 0691

> Photo Credits: Amir Hossein Bazianfar / September 2018

JAN 2022

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