MOHAMMAD QASEM AZAD
Cell: (+39)-3513780786
Email: q.azad599@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://af.linkedin.com/in/qasemazad599
Address: Rome, Italy
PUBLICATIONS
Aligning Smart City Indicators for Sustainability outreach in Developing Countries: A case study, Kabul City. Springer Publication doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7179-4_3
CONFERENCES
International Conferences Series on Sustainability Outreach in Developing Countries (SODC2020) May 30–31, 2020, Kabul, Afghanistan.
3rd National Urban Conference, (3Nov – 6Nov), 2016, Kabul, Afghanistan.
WORKSHOPS
Pace Building Workshop, Kabul University, 2019, Kabul, Afghanistan. Basic Carpentry Workshop, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, 2018, Kabul, Afghanistan.
REFERENCE
Sayed Farhad Alavi
Ph.D. candidate at the Kumamoto University of Japan. Assistant Professor at Kabul University.
EDUCATIONS
SEP 2023 – PRESENT Master’s Condidate in Architecture-Urban Regeneration Sapienza University of Rome.
SEP 2020 – OCT 2021 Diploma in Academic English Katib University.
MAR 2015 – DEC 2019 B.Sc. in Architecture Kabul University.
MAR 2012 – DEC 2014 High School Diploma, Abdul Rahim Shahid High School.
WORK EXPERIENCES
JAN 2023 - PRESENT Freelancer (BIM Modeler) Rome, Italy.
SEP – DEC 2022
APR 2020 – AUG 2022
Research Assistant Kumamoto University of Japan.
Architect Assistant Emran & Sarpnah Shahr Construction Company.
FEB – MAR 2020 Internship Kabul Municipality, Kabul City.
COMPUTER SKILLS
EXCELLENT
Revit (BIM)
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Illustrator
AutoCAD (2D Drawing)
Sketchup (3D Modeling) Very-Rendering Office Suite
INTERMEDIATE
3Ds Max (3D modeling) ArchiCAD Lumion
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Dari: Native.
Pashto: National Language (B2)
English: TOEFL iBT 85 (B2)
PERSONAL SKILLS
EXCELLENT
Hand Drafting Sketching
Documentation Leadership Communication Team Work
INTERMEDIATE Photography Modelling Carpentry
HOBBIES & INTERESTS
Research
Humanitarian architecture
I - COMPETITION WORK SAMPLE
II - VOLUNTEER WORK SAMPLE
III - ACADEMIC WORK SAMPLE
IV - OFFICE WORK SAMPLE
V - BACHELOR THESIS PROJECT CONTENT
KOCHI MOSQUE
National Competition - Mosque Design for Kochi (Tent Living People)
Position: 1st Price
Location: Adaptable in Afghanistan
Architects: Mohammad Qasem Azad, Abdol Hamid Ebrahimi, and Mujtaba Alemi 2020
RASULULLAH MOSQUE
The national competition for Mosque design announced in the fall of 2020 by the office of presidency among Architecture Firm in Afghanistan. Based on the requirement of competition all Architect were obliged to design a masque that can be able to adapt in any location around Afghanistan as well as the area of footprint also should be adaptable. Moreover, this porject has full Technical, Architectural, Structural, Electrical, Mechanical, Plubming, and Cost Estimation Details.
It is obvious, that Mosques are the facilities in which various needs of Islamic community activities like praying, worship, education and many others are fulfilled. When looking at the form and plan at the same time, it is associated with the situation in which the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is standing in front and the two companions are praying behind him. The front mass and volume, where the altar is located, is higher than the other two volumes and has a dome due to pay homage to the great personality of the Prophet. The two side volumes can maintain the potential of a «sense of welcome» as much as possible by maintaining the correspondence and placing Islamic-Afghan elements such as a porch and a sofa.
The form and building elements enormously demonstrate the Islamic value of the Mosque. All building elements such as arch, Islamic patterns as well as Islamic landscaping tremendously add value to our concept.
The separation of the minaret from the body of the mosque and its side arch has been done to give it more activities and to prevent the usual luxury aspect of today’s mosques. The zoning of the minaret next to the ablution has been done to strengthen the spiritual sense of death and the ascension of the human soul to God and to associate the advice that has been done in connection with the «permanent reminder of the event of death and the hereafter. »
1. SERVICE UTILITY POWER PLAN.
2. GROUND FLOOR LIGHTING PLAN.
3. FIRST FLOOR LIGHTING PLAN.
4. SECOND FLOOR LIGHTING PLAN.
5. GROUND FLOOR POWER PLAN.
6. FIRST FLOOR POWER PLAN.
7. SECOND FLOOR POWER PLAN.
8. TOTAL LOAD CALCULATION.
9. ILLUMINATIONS CALCULATION.
10. LOAD ESTIMATION.
11. TOTAL LOAD CALCULATION.
LEGENDS
12. POWER AND LIGHTING FIXTURES SCHEDULE.
13. MAIN AND SUB CIRCUIT SCHEDULE.
14. FIRST FLOOR PLAN SOUND SYSTEM.
15. SOUND SYSTEM CALCULATION.
16. SECOND FLOOR PLAN SOUND SYSTEM.
17. SOLAR PANEL CALCULATION.
FIRST FLOOR LIGHTING PLAN
GENERAL NOTES:
1. All electrical equipment shall be single phase 220V, 50Hz and 2Wires.
2. Lighting switches shall be installed 120 cm above finished floor and shall be provide with box.
3. Switches shall be rated 16 A and minimum 220-volt AC service.
4. Wiring should be attached to the structure with a suitable conduit.
SINGLE LINE DIAGRAM
FF: First Floor
SF: Second Floor
SC: Sub-Circuit
MTS: Manual Transfer Switch
MDPB: Main Distribution Panel Board
SSDPB: Sub-Distribution Panel Board
MB: Main Breaker
Manual Transfer Switch
Utility Power Source
GENERAL NOTES:
1. All electrical equipment shall be single phase 220V, 50Hz and 2Wires.
2. Receptacles shall be installed 40 cm above finished floor and shall be provide with box.
· All electrical equipment shall be single phase 220V, 50Hz and 2Wires.
3. Kitchen, toilet and bathroom receptacles shall be installed 140 cm above finished floor and shall be waterproof.
4. Receptacles shall be rated 16 A and minimum 220-volt AC service.
· Receptacles shall be installed 40 cm above finished floor and shall be provide with box.
5. Wiring should be attached to the structure with a suitable conduit.
· Kitchen, toilet and bathroom receptacles shall be installed 140 cm above finished floor and shall be waterproof.
· Receptacles shall be rated 16 A and minimum 220-volt AC service.
· Wiring should be attached to the structure with a suitable conduit.
· For power fixture refer to DWG(E-14)
LEGENDS
Due to the privacy of the porject, I mentioned only the general technical details.
For more information about the full Technical, Structural, Architectural, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, and Cost Estimation Details, please contact me via the following email address (q.azad599@gmail.com).
OPEN SPACE
Location: Backyard of Library in the Engineering Faculty of Kabul University
Team Design: Mohammad Qasem Azad & Abdol Hamid Ebrahimi Fall 2021
OPEN READING SPACE
This project is a proposed design for an “Open Reading Space” at Kabul University. Location of this open space is the backyard of the engineering library where is a non-functional and abandoned area with lots of weeds, the terrain is long oriented from west to east.
In this project, we use functional concept for making batter and high-quality open space. The concept of our design is derived from the consideration of four different zones;
• Interact zone
• Thinking zone
• Transition zone
• Watch zone
The zoning relies on decreasing the weaknesses of this library and enhancing the quality of a reading space.
Interact zone: the eastern part of the yard that serves as a place for group works and discussions that have bothering noise for those who study individually. We can distinguish this section with large tables and long benches.
Thinking zone: the western part of the yard that serves as a place for individual activities. We can differentiate this part with individual chairs and tables.
Watch zone: the middle part of the yard that serves as a place for rest and hanging out with its Terrace. We can distinguish this section with its raised elevation for a better view to the surrounding.
Transition zone: the middle part of the yard and attached to watch zone serves as its name shows as a way to pass and circulate through the space. Watch zone and transition zone: both are located between interact zone and thinking zone to control sound or noise privacy of thinking zone.
According to the requirement of the project we adopt some strategies for “communicating boundaries” between four zones to not conflict with each other:
1. Proposed four different types of paving masonry.
2. Proposed different elevations.
3. Proposed different and appropriate furniture for each zone for security and crime prevention.
4. Consideration of fluent surveillance not only in the outdoors but also for indoors to outdoors.
5. Elevate the watch zone for better supervision between the other three zones.
6. Proposed green-permeable partition walls from bamboo wood for the east and west sides to close the area.
STUDENT GALLERY
Kabul University, Engineering Faculty
Supervisor: Dr. Sardrudin Tajik
Interior Design Course
Architect: Individual Project
2018
OUT IN THE INDOOR EXHIBITION HALL
Based on the Interior Design course, we learned general knowledge about types of design, such as Interior Design, Design Principles, and Element of Design. In recent years Engineering School of Kabul University faced with lack of enough places problems in classes, laboratories, and many necessary others; the exhibition hall is one of them. As a result, each student has a mission to express their knowledge in a real project. In this case, I decide to plan and design the exhibition hall/class in the extension project of engineering faculty of Kabul University.
The concept of this project is the connection between the outdoor and indoors of the gallery as well as presenting and application of Structural Design, Geometric Design, and Decorative Design. For these aims, I useprinciple designs like Balance, Harmony, Rhythm, Repetition, Proportion, and others with the Open Plan strategy.
Zonings are applied according to separate zone for each department with Open Plan strategy, because the main concept is outdoor and indoor connection.
For each zone, we chose the best partition arrangement style like ALCOBA, PASILLO, LINEAL and LIBRE. Each style has its characteristic.
• ALCOBA style: Excellent arrangement of partition and good circulation in the civil and energy department exhibition zone.
• LIBRE style: Excellent privacy, Circulation for Architecture, and Mechanical exhibition zone
• PASILLO style: This style satisfies the circulation, arranging partition of the Urban Planning department exhibition zone.
• LINEAL style: Excellent arrangement of partitions, good circulation, and good indoor space for the electrical exhibition zone.
Materials and colors are used according to the consideration of sustainability and psychology. In the design of the Cilling and Entrance, I used wood patterns in other to demonstrate sustainable materials as well as the outdoor
OFFICE WORK
Location: Nasaji Bagrami Town, Kabul City
Residential Project
Architects: Emran & Sarpnah Shahr Construction Company
2022
RESIDENTIAL BUILDING
This project was located at Nasaji Bagrami of Kabul City with various land use.
Town Area: 23500 m2
Land Use: Hospital Building, School, Mosque, Commercial Building, 6-story Residential Apartment
LAND USE:
Hospital building
School with a 300-person capacity
Mosque with a 480-person capacity
Commercial building
6-story residential apartment
60 Three-bed unit
180 two-bed unit
each story has one 3 bedrooms and three 2 bedrooms
Population of 1080 person
6- public space (area= 1750m2)
MY ROLE:
Participating in design debate.
Developing schemes using 2D and 3D computer packages such as Vector works and Revit. Assisting with the production of feasibility reports, detailed workings, drawings, specifications, calculations, forecasts, costing, and presentations.
Participate in presentations, site visits, and Client meetings. Create hand-drawn sketches.
Due to the policy of Emran & Sarpnah Shahr Construction Company, I included only general infromation about this project.
For more information about the full Technical, Structural, Architectural, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, and Cost Estimation Details, please contact me via the following email address (q.azad599@gmail.com).
BACHELOR THESIS PROJECT
Location: Daralaman Corridor, Kabul City
Fulfillment of Bachelor Degree
Kabul University, Engineering Faculty
Supervisor: Ahmad Ramin Sadiq, Sayed Farhad Alavi
2019
ALLAUDIN NODE
This project is situated on Daralaman Corridor in the Alauddin Node, which is extremely important because of the existence of important educational, government and commercial centers, and its strategic location. The project is designed according to SASAKI master plan which has identified urban design jurisdictions that set specific rules for Kabul city development. In this design urban redevelopment strategy has been used.
CURRENT LAND USE:
According to a survey I conducted in the area, the area comprises sixth and seventh districts, residential homes located in the seventh district, most of its materials are made of clay and cream, and rarely in concrete houses. And the houses are located in the sixth district Because most of the government officials are abandoned there and require a strong structural need, so most of the buildings are concreted.
From the height, most buildings are analyzed based on low-rise, mid-rise, high rise, so the buildings in these two areas from the height, depending on the type of use, it can be determined that most public buildings are Mid-rise and the buildings used for private purposes, such as commercial and various buildings, mostly highrise and most residential houses located in the seventh zone are low- rise, and the lands used for two purposes both residential and commercial are used to be mid-rise. More specific, details can be found in the table below:
1 Orphanage
and mix-use
8 Commercial Mid rise Concrete
9 Residential and commercial Mid rise Concrete
10
According to studies, surveys, and needs assessment some spaces such as (Plaza, cinema, and stadium) have been added to the area and areas such as schools and orphanages have been preserved. The existing residential homes in this node are housed in proposed redevelopment buildings according to municipal law. Since each project has goals; this project is also designed to achieve the following goals:
1. Create a successful and exemplary business center.
2. Creating a popular gathering space.
3. Increasing social cohesion.
4. Project self-sufficiency financially.
School: Expanded because of increasing capacity.
Sport Area: Not available any sports facility within a 2km radius of accessibility Orphanage.
Mixed-use: Proposed for land owners (Residential and Commercial).
Cinema: To revive the tradition of old Kabul City.
Plaza: Enhancing the concept of commercial node.
Alaudding school
Mixed-Use D
Sport Facility
Plaza including Nursery
Public toilet
Orphanage
Mixed-Use C
Underground Passway Bazar
Plaza including Coffe shop Amphitheater
Cinema
Mixed-Use A
Mixed-Use B
Financing Plan:
The plans, we have considered for project estimation and financial calculations only cover the demolition costs, machinery costs, and human costs, based on our estimated criteria and update rates.
In the estimation and financial calculations of residential, commercials, mix uses, and public incentives construction we perform the following based on practical regional criteria.
Contribution Rate:
The contribution rate in the above project varies according to the land value of each owner, so depending on the location and area of each owner, we give them the building units the same value as their land.
Expenditure:
Besides other expenses, this project has some extra spaces that need their expenses, in the following table the estimated costs are calculated:
Plaza and underground passway boosts social cohesion as well as generate gathering space for people from both sides. This plan clearly illustrates the connection between the two sides of the corridor, the shops in the underground passway and third place of the plaza.
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