Rami Namani Portfolio Works SP.2022

Architecture Portfolio Rami Namani

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Table of Contents Subterranean Landscape

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Subterranean Landscape Phenomenonology, Self-Reflection, Commemoration Typology: N.M.P.J Dialogue Center Location: 417 Caroline Drive, Montgomery, AL 36104 Area: 23,000 sq-ft.

Group Project with Martin Rodriguez

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The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened publicly on April 26, 2018, is the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved Black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence. The mission of the Peace and Justice Memorial is to render visible the tremendous loss of life . The Memorial for Peace and Justice was conceived with the hope of creating a sober, meaningful site where people can gather and reflect on America’s history of racial inequality.

As an addition to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (N.M.P.J.), Subterranean Landscape borrows elements and strategies of the existing memorial in order to practice them through choreography of volume, light, shadow, materials, as well through envirnmental and structural systems.

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As you step into the courtyard, you are greeted by a field of spiritual glass monuments engraved with the names of innocent victims lost at the cost of modern day lynchings- police brutality.

The field itself appears random, just as random as the police brutality that has affected the names inscribed on the monuments. The true nature of these “ghosts” are not revealed until sunset, in which they are illuminated from the inside to display an angelic phenomenon.

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The top glass monuments also serve as skylights, bringing in dappled light through hollowed out corresponding corten sarcophagi underneath, allowing the light to pierce into Subterranean Landscape.

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Aguas Negras Society, Reconciliation and and Unification, Interaction Society, Reconciliation Unification, Interaction

Typology: Self-governed Water Parliament [Domestic] Location: Xalpa (Iztapalapa), Mexico City

Group Project with Ana Sevilla

Aguas Negras (Black Waters) Since the conquest of the Spanish, the element of water, which once was the protagonist for who once occupied it, began to evolve into the enemy. Through various conflict arising from urbanization, CDMX (Mexico City) is now just as thirsty as it is eager to spit water out. Complex high-tech systems have developed in an attempt to pump water to where it needs to go, yet simultaneously the inequality in water distribution from the municipal networks is extremely evident.

Aguas Negras proposes a decentralization of municipal water networks to build an open localized water system overlooked by a self- governed water parliament.

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Josefina Soto, (the anonymous voice in the video) is one of the 1.8 million habitants of Iztapalapa whose lives are shaped by the absence of water. In Iztapalapa, old water tanks colonize the airscapes while streets flood with no proper way to evacuate, buckets replace the function of empty faucets and water is reused over and over...

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This project seeks to solidify ways of care towards our environment by making the abstract systems that carry water less distant and more sensible.

The failure of hidden modern technologies demands us to reconsider our relationship to these systems.

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On the skirt of La Ciudad riding onto an old volcanic zone is Xalpa, a barrio in Iztapalapa, one of most impoverished communities in the city with lack of proper access to water and flooding caused by a 90% concrete surface. The neighborhood provides a productive site for engaging with issues of water in CDMX.

Volcanic Region (permeable soil conditions)

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We propose a decentralization of municipal water networks by making use of the scape conditions to build an open localized water network.

This will be overlooked by a self-governed water parliament that is embedded within the vecindad rituals. The parliament is dispersed throughout the site strategically to account for a .25 mile walking radius, providing 6 nodes where the parliament gather in dialogue and also distribute captured water.

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The rooftops are concrete mountains with abysses on the sides: The streets flow with commerce and people. Ahead, La Ciudad is merely a roof.

The 6 month period of significant rainfall in CDMX will aid consumption rates, water consumption per capita should be 100 gallons daily, in Iztapalapa locals are lucky to see 10.

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3. Water Tanks, ‘Rotoplas’ 4. Laundry, ‘Lavaderas’

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The roofs are silence, noises are heard in the distance There is only the sound of water flowing through pipes and dripping water tanks.

One tank can supply: 32 residents with a nice shower for the day.

50 residents with clean laundry.

100 residents with a hot meal and a drink.

780 toilet flushes per vecindad.

The roofs are strictly tied to dawn and dusk, during the day the ‘lavaderas’ hang clothes and don’t stay long because the sun is hard. The roofs receive all the light day brings, sun and water, sky and laughter.

Two 1,000 gallon tanks are acquired for 8 sections, each section accounts for water consumption of all individuals below.

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Gravity trickles rain through volcanic rocks clarifying it for consumption within the radial node, rituals emerge around this new cistern…

During the monsoon season, the 4 stage Piedemont filtering cistern contains up to 19,148 gallons, treated with uv light.

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The beams of light begin to populate the landscape creating frequent nodes of coexistence.

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The display of the municipal pipelines from the wall exposes the hidden and complex approach of the current system that usually requires technical and political expertise to engage with.

The new water tanks connect to the existing municipal supply system and feed into the vecindad.

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New powers of agency within the domesticated network solidify the individual role of the residents within the vecindad.

4 Stage Piedmont Purification Cistern

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Book Collection

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The cistern core accounts for the drier seasons of cdmx, and provides additional meaning within itself.

During off season, spaces are used for tool storage and maintenance, commercial stores provide necessities and leisure space for children.

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1. Courtyard 2. Archive

3. Cistern 4. Small Dwelling

Parked cars fill the streets on the sides while cones are used to claim ownership. From inside the houses the megaphone can be heard announcing that the water has come. The buckets fill the sidewalks surrounding the new cistern feeding the neighborhood.

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Researchers gather data from their own dwelling and archive, alternating to monitor the cistern and maintenance of the courtyard...

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Every kitchen frames a view to the commotion of the interior courtyard. Residents are going about their normal day, workers drilling and shoveling out debris, children range up and down the stair.

Pipes are freed from within the walls and free the plan.

The courtyard that lays on the Piedmont, also known as the transition zone, is depaved to recharge of the aquifer. It is vital that these meetings are held in the openness of the courtyard to allow for maximum accessibility, inclusiveness, and democracy.

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Objectives of the self governed water parliament: -A water schedule pertaining to who can come gather their water and when they are permitted to do so.

-Officials for each of the 6 nodes that are all accountable for one another; event organizers, speakers, data collectors, maintenance, etc…

-Constant analysis of the weather, as these conditions begin to effect the amount of water captured, and therefore the amount of water distributed per capita and how frequent water can be distributed.

The rainfall schedule of cdmx is in parallel with the efficiency of the cistern capturing water.

Rocky, and porous soils allow rainwater to runoff into deep subsurface layers. This allows plant and animal species to inhabit the area that appears relatively dry for most of the year…

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In this territory where present and past coexist, memories and resistance, we confront ourselves with questions of understanding nature and our futures. Futures that would entail ethics and politics that encourage us to use our systems with precaution, where humans and nonhumans create new forms of coexistence.

Beneath the pavement, blue gold...

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