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LEBENSLAUF Persรถnliche Daten Name: Geburtsdatum und -ort: Familienstand: Adresse: Mobil: e-mail:

Omar Akl 02.12.1989 Kairo Ledig Badstraร e 35/36, 13357 Berlin +49 (0) 176 75110298 o_akl_zekry@hotmail.com

website:

www.omarakl.com

Ausbildung Highschool (2003 - 2006)

Alsun school, Kairo Gesamtnote: A

B.Sc.Arch (2006 - 2011)

Ainshams university, Kairo Gesamtnote: B+

M.Arch.

Dessau International Architecture School, Dessau Hochschule Anhalt Gesamtnote: 1,9

(2013 - 2015)

Sprachkenntnisse Deutsch

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Englisch

Gute Kenntnisse in Sprache und Schrift

Franzรถsisch

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Arabisch

Muttersprache

CAD Erfahrung Bauzeichnen

AutoCAD.

3D

Rhinoceros ( Grasshopper ), 3Ds max, Sketchup.

BIM

Archicad, Revit Architecture.

Graphik

Adobe ( illustrator, photoshop, indesign ).

3D-rendering

Vray ( 3Ds max, Sketchup ).

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2/2 Berufserfahrung (Design-b체ros) 10.2012 - 07.2013

TASMIMAT, Kairo Architekt -Entwurfplanung (LPH 3) -Genehmigungsplanung (LPH 4) -3D zeichnen.

-Abstimmung mit Kunden.

08.2012 - 10.2012

DW5 Bernard Khoury Architects, Beirut Intern -Vorbereitung der Vergabe (LPH 6) -Vorplanung (LPH 1) -Bauzeichnen.

(link)

03.2012 - 06.2012

Shahira Fahmy Architects, Kairo Architekt -Vorplanung (LPH 1).

-Bauzeichnen.

(link)

04.2011 - 12.2011

HUMAN NATURE LLC, Giza (link) Bauzeichner -Zeichnen und Kooperation mit Auftragnehmer.

07.2009 - 08.2009

Art line group, Cairo Intern -Design Wettbewerb.

-Bauzeichnen.

-3D zeichnen.

Berufserfahrung (Kultur) 08.2011 - 08.2013

(link)

Built Environment Collective (Megawra), Kairo

(link)

-Administration.

-Grafik Design.

-Kuratieren Designer Gespr채che.

09.2011

Awards 10.2010

Magaz Magazine, Kairo

(link)

-Durchf체hrung verschiedener Interviews mit Architekten.

Namaa Student Architecture Design Contest, Kairo 1st Prize

Berlin, 01.2016

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CONTENT Maison ProuvĂŠ .................................................................................................6 Seil Design Hotel ...........................................................................................14 Shopping On A Bike .......................................................................................24 Berlin Law School ..........................................................................................34 Understanding Growth ...................................................................................40 A Century Of Solid Waste Collection In Cairo ................................................48 Armduino ........................................................................................................50

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“We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us�

Winston Churchill

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MAISON PROUVÉ -Nancy, France.

-Studio Architecture as a product 2014 -2nd semester, Master program.

-Supervision: Jasper De Haan, Jelle Feringa

Traditionally, architecture provides design as a service, being far removed from the materialization, far from the act of building. The Architectural robotics provides a means to anew the profession, taking upon a more central role in the building process. Can we think of architecture as a product, rather than the mere service of design?

I chose to redesign the house of Jean ProuvĂŠ in Nancy, ProuvĂŠ is a self-taught Architect who is known for transferring manufacturing technology from industry to architecture.

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Axonometry showing the construction system of the house.

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Redesign of a linear house Jean Prouvé decided to build his house in 1954, he bought a steep plot of land where he was only able to design a linear house with all the spaces viewing the southern façade, He built his house in the

course of few weeks and with limited resources, he got the help of family members, friends and some craftsmen, the house prefabricated panels are leftovers from his closed factory in Maxéville.

Floor Plan and Elevation of the redesigned house.

Metal Sheets to constructive elements While Jean Prouvé tweaked metal sheets from a temperature sensetive material to make his well known sandwich panels, my redesign tweaks metal to form construction elements which form the entire shell of the house.

Inspired by the simplicity with which the

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Stages of development of the constructive elements of the redesigned house.

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Living space

Dining space Bathroom

Sleeping space

Constructive elements made by folded metal sheets and erected on-site.

Glass sheets.

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Jean ProuvĂŠ collaged in the redesigned house.

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Jean Prouvé decided to build his house in 1954, he bought a steep plot of land where he was only able to design a linear house with all the spaces viewing the southern façade, He built his house in the course of few weeks and with limited resources, he got the help of family members, friends and some craftsmen, the house prefabricated panels are leftovers from his closed factory in Maxéville.

While Jean Prouvé tweaked metal sheets

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Exterior view for the house, collaged in an old image of the original ProuvĂŠ house.

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SEIL DESIGN HOTEL -Marsa Alam, Egypt -Tasmimat (Architects) 2012 - Role: Design development, 3D images.

The hotel is inspired by the drainage pattern created by flash floods that flow through the land. (Seil stands for flash floods in arabic). These floods have left an imprint on empty streams, tributaries and rivers that contour the land and create natural pathways for human flow.

The directionality of the floods left us with a grid of 45 degrees to the edge of the plot and the vast horizontality of the nature around us inspired a design that

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was very rigid in its directionality and strived to keep very visible clear horizontal lines. Strong prevalent north-east wind paired with noise from the generators and chillers of the neighboring hotel led us to take shelter in the hill and build into it as opposed to above it.

Rooftops were integrated into the design for a number of the hotel units around the bend in order to catch the sea view.

Zoom in Floor plan +6 m above sea level.

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Hotel rooms scattered on the slopes.

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hotel rooms overloooking the swimming pool and the common space.

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The main service building, with the common space around the swimming pools.

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SHOPPING ON A BIKE -Atlanta, GA, United States.

-Bachelor, Thesis Project 2011 -Clemson university - Ainshams exchange program.

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Designed with the active person in-mind, this mall takes Atlanta’s temperamental weather to mind, and creates a fun and comfortable outdoor walking and cycling environment for its clientele.

The building consists of 4 shopping floors surrounding a public space for outdoor cafĂŠs and park for joggers, skaters and

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g is divided into four sections closed continuous shopping etween each section, ramps e for visitors to move to the /- 1meter. For those with levators are available for both nd their bicycles.

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+7 m Floor Plan

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different activities in the open space.

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Bike lanes passing through the building

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Bike parking spaces

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INTERNATIONAL LAW SCHOOL IN BERLIN -Berlin, Germany.

-Studio International law school 2013.

-1st semester, Master program.

-Supervision: Johannes Kister

The school is located in a block where most of the buildings were destroyed during WWII, now a historical and touristic spot where the wall remains, various museums and exhibitions are located. The school’s program doesn’t only contribute with the diversity of its space uses, but also with a rich experience to the existing urban condition, where the

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pedestrian experience around the block is a fenced garden on one side and tourist hotels on the other. The blocks of the school form paths that connect the street to the outdoor exhibition where “Topographie des Terrors” building is located, at the same time providing a self-defining spatial constellation of buildings and public space.

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kitchen lecture hall lecture hall

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UNDERSTANDING GROWTH -Cairo, Egypt.

-Master Thesis Project 2015 -DIA (Dessau international school of Architecture) -Supervision: Gunnar Hartmann, Regina Bittner, The change happening to cities today is not dictated by planners, municipalities, architects or even its dwellers. The real-estate market has become the main motor for the change of the city. This has become increasingly obvious in Cairo, where the formal (planned) neighborhoods of the city are being collectively reshaped by micro processes of real-estate investment on the scale of apartment buildings.

Nasr city is a neighborhood in Cairo that was planned in the 1950s by Sayed Karim, a Swiss trained Egyptian Architect and

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planner, inspired by modern concepts of city planning at the time. Nasr city was planned as a grid of main streets 50 m width, dividing it into a number of sectors (districts). It contained many land plots for private development as apartment buildings.

Until the 1980s, the culture of extended family dwelling was prevalent within the apartment buildings of Nasr city. The extended family acquired a piece of land and developed a low-rise building to live in its apartments.

As a result of the transformations that occurred to the housing market in Nasr city, the extended family dwelling stopped taking form in the built environment, and started recently to disappear within its low-rise buildings. To be demolished and replaced by high-rise buildings driven by investment plans.

Building heights in Nasr city illustrated.

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The informal growth of the apartment buildings in Nasr city.

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1- family dwelling (1959 - 1980s) Low-rise buildings were being built until the 1980s, rising up to a maximum height of 4 stories according to the regulations.

While the infrastructure was developed by the publicly owned „Nasr city company“, land parcels were sold privately, mostly for families seeking extended family dwelling as

a prevalent mode of development.

Until the 1980s, living in Nasr city was dependent on its connection with the city center, as a constellation of family housing that is lacking services, described by older generations as „the desert“.

2- Investment (1976 - 2000s) High-rise buildings rising up to 16 stories started to be built following the “unified building laws” first issued in 1976. The law allowed apartment buildings to rise up to 36 meters height; raising the value of the land plots as an opportunity for real-estate investment.

Consequently, the building processes started to be increasingly driven by investment plans

rather than family dwelling needs, the apartments within the high-rise buildings were sold according to the speculative real-estate market to many separate nuclear families.

This transformation of the housing market has collectively changed the family structure within the apartment buildings of Nasr city.

3- Migration and Displacement (2000s - current) Replacement of Low-rise buildings with Highrise buildings started to occur in the last two decades, accompanied by the displacement of extended family modes of dwelling that characterized the demolished buildings, and their replacement with multiple nuclear families within the developed apartments of the high-rise buildings. The case studies detected a rising wave of urban migration of the extended family dwelling patterns towards the recently constructed desert developments on the outskirts of Cairo.

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Influenced by the extension of the formal city of Cairo, the development of “New Cairo” in 2000 as the most remarkable with its scale and its proximity to Nasr city, extended families are relocating outside the overcrowded Nasr city, where the plots of land that are empty for development have become scarce and over-priced.

As a result, more and more low-rise buildings are being demolished and replaced by high-rise buildings, the investment is shared between informal developers and migrating families.

Mapping the development of the case study district. sources: (field mapping, Google earth satellite images) 1980 situation is speculated accordingly.

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The research is published in the Redesign book. http://issuu.com/dialive/docs/redesign

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ARMDUINO -Dessau, Germany.

-2nd & 3rd semester 2015.

-DIA (Dessau international school of Architecture).

-Role: design & assembly.

-Supervision: Alexander Kalachev.

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ARMDUINO is a self made robot, that is able to cut form in foam. And is controlled by the user through the computer.

The design of it is lead by the rotation of the arm and controlled by the owner. In order to activate the arm there is 4 servos.

The hot wire works due to a battery attached.

Servo Joint

Arm Hot wire cutter Joint

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A CENTURY OF SOLID-WASTE COLLECTION -Cairo, Egypt.

-2nd semester, 2014 -DIA (Dessau international school of Architecture) -Supervision: Gunnar Hartmann

This analysis is dedicated to understanding the solid waste management systems that took place in the Egyptian capital for the past century.

The bottom-up garbage collection systems that was generated in the city in the early 20th century is obviously distinctive.

However, such systems have similar alternatives in loosely governed develop-

street level wahiyya

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COLLECTION

TEMPORARY STORAGE

HAULING

ing countries solutions for The introduc solutions for nineties by t has not com tems, howev in a parallel merging the

s that depend on indigenous r operating their cities. ction of modern western r garbage management in the the neo-liberal government mpletely erased the old sysver they continued to operate way to date. The process of e several systems was never

free of social and economic issues that participated in shaping the very complicated Cairo’s solid waste collection system.

Three actors that has participated actively in collecting Cairo’s solid waste will be presented briefly explaining how they managed to continue to work to date.

80 % animals (pigs)

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zabaleen 80% recycling 20% burning

residents (expansion)

animals (pigs)

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international companies

20% recycling 80% landfills

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SORTING

RECYCLING

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Omar Akl M.Arch., B.Sc. www.omarakl.com BadstraĂ&#x;e 35/36, 13357 Berlin +49 (0) 176 75110298

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