Portfolio by ola saad

OLA SAAD ZNAD

Part II Architect

Contact no: +353872112948

E-mail: olasaadznad@gmail.com Website: http://olasaadznad.com/

LANGUAGES :

Arabic English Turkish

EDUCATION:

University College Dublin I Department of engineer and urban planning I Ireland

M.Arch RIBA II I second upper-level degree with honor

BIM user certified in Revit Architecture University of Bahrain I college of engineering I department of architecture and interior design I Bahrain

BSC in architecture I second upper-level degree with honor

EXPERIENCES

June 2015-Sep 2015 I internship at Arab architects Sep 2018-PRESENT I research assistant at University of Bahrain

Oct 2019-Dec 2019 l BIM Architect at Bahrain modernization project December 2019-feb2020I Bahrain cultural representative-BACA July 2020 – Sep2020 I Architect and art director at Msquare Design

PROJECTS:

Architecture: Villa Car showroom Housing Kindergarten Cultural center Cultural hub Bahrain modernization Airport Kazakhstan Modrenization Airport

SKILLS

Autodesk programs

Revit Architecture (Autodesk

Certified – BIM User)

AutoCAD & AutoCAD

Architecture 3D Max

Urban: Isa town housing with UHL

Modern architecture in Bahrain with BACA Manama Path with BACA Irish museum of modern art path with UCD

PUBLICATIONANDEXHIBITIONS

March 2017 I Participant in “village and city “urban planningexhibitionI Bahrain

Aug 2017 IAffordable housing project responding to culture and social behavior

Published in ARCH-REPORTER magazine

March 2018 IConservation in buildings research Iuniversity of Bahrain

April 2018 I Art installationI Riwaq I Bahrain Sep 2018, IBook publication (Urban bridge of Baghdad-the whispers behindthe barriers) by NSP (natural sciencepublish house in USA)

AWARDS

2013 I Certified from "InzajBahrain" in Leadership.

2016 I Competition I Certified top 20 bestprojects (kids traffic school)Iuniversityof Bahrain I

2017 I competition Icertifiedfor participant Icertifiedfor top 10 distinction projects I Eskan bank award Iaffordable aesthetichousingdesignIuniversityof Bahrain

2018 I Competition I1st place prize in art installationI ministry of youth and sport affairs

2018 I1st place prize in graduation projects Idepartment of architecture andinteriordesignIuniversityof Bahrain

INVOLVEMENT

2017 I participant in ICSF internationalconference on sustainable futures I Bahrain

2018 I participant in sustainablesmart cities forum I Bahrain 2013-2018 I participant in multi activities with AIAS and engineering society

2018 I participant in AIA Conference Future Cities I Bahrain

Visualizers and rendering programs Lumion Inscape

Urban programs: ARC-Qgis

DepthMapX

Other programs Microsoft office Photoshop

Other Skills Curating Writing Rendering Mapping Archiving

Housing Social Housing in Boyle

Urban Projects Irish Museum of Modern Art Route

SITE PLAN - Scale 1:500 @A1

Competitions Youth House

Final year project public market

GRADUATION PROJECT 3 4

S O C I A L H O U S I N G

C O N C E P T - F O R M

Since light is one of the main elements of my design I chose this form to collect natural lighting from all sides.

“A successful housing typology on how its uniqueness is expressed and how its an appropriate social place connecting the family with other people “ – Cristopher Alexander

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

As an architect we are responsible to serve the human needs in responding to their life style by designing a good architecture without harming their habits .

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

SOCIAL HOUSING

9 10

SOCIAL

Second skin which is represented by vertical strips for: Privacy Views Shade and shadows

Glows at night

On the roof : protection from the humidity and drains the rain.

S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y HOUSING 12

D E S I G N A N A L Y I S I S

Livable Home like Sustainable Communication Life style

360 degree view of the building around the site

S U N ST U D Y

Eternal Recurrence

Our studies of past ages led us to believe that time is cyclical and many patterns repeat. The same peaks of evolution, the same valleys of dissolution, the same conﬂicts are expressed in every cycle, but in a different manner. The repetition is too prevalent to be merely chance." —Vendetta.

Eternal Recurrence: is a concept that the universe and everything has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a selfsimilar form an intimes across inﬁnite time or space.

How I will apply it in my design: I will have a cycle:

Things I will re-create by Conscious Inspiration Method:

I will take elements from architectural history , and integrate them with the cycle to re - create them again using conscious inspiration method .It is about taking thing that already existed and re-design them again an come up with a new ver-

1- Plan (Islamic Court Yard House)

2- 3D/Elevation (Great Mosque of Samara)

3- Landscape (Islamic Pattern)

C O N C

E P T

CULTURAL CENTER 14