Undergraduate Portfolio 2015-2020

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Portfolio of Undergraduate Works

Lollipop

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Kindergarten Academic / Individual / Fall 2017

4+1 Houses

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A House For Five Families Academic / Individual / Fall 2018

Tetris

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Multi-family residential complex Academic / Individual / Spring 2019

... of dreams, longing to come true.

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Nexorade Freeform Space Structure Workshop / Group Project / Winter 2019

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Encoded Stereotomy Funicular shell Structure Workshop / Group Project / Spring 2019

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Art Works Saba Bagheri Bachelor of Architectural Engineering University of Tehran College of Fine Arts School of Architecture ssababagheri1997@ut.ac.ir +989171884355

A Part of my Paintings' and models' collection

Egoism Lighting Study and Photography on an egg Academic / Individual / Winter 2018

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Lollipop Lollipop

A Kindergarten for 3-6 year-old children , located near a park.

Form finding was the lead design method in this design studio.

Kindergarten / Tehran - Iran

Studio II -/ Fall 2017 / Fall 2017 Academic Individual Kindergarten,Tehran,Iran Instructor : Saeed Khaghani | khaghani.saeid@ut.ac.ir Individual work Instructors: Saeed Haghir - Saeed Khaghani

A kindergarten designed for children by children !

Lollipop design is based on children’s drawings.

First Moves 01 To prepare a concept for my design I started asking a group of kindergarten children to draw their dream kindergarten. Some of their designs are shown:

Process To create my design, I started by drawing a bunch of straight and inter-

secting lines on the paper (much like a small child trying to draw something) and then tried to figure out each building’s main shapes.

Some of these drawings are shown:

The result was almost predictable , kids love slides , they dream of a kindergarten that is like a big playground, and everything should be colorful and alive ‌ like lollipops and gummy bears.

02 Firstly,

I painted a conceptual art on a canvas, describing my emotions toward a kindergarten, kids and the whole environment. The result is as shown :

Oil paint on a 20*20 cm wood canvas

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Architectural Design Studio II

Lollipop (Kindergarten)

Functions of cubes

Interior design

The “Yellow” cube is a dining hall which has connections to library and studios.Kids can slip down to garden with a slide.

The “Kelly Green” cube , the main entrance, provides four tunnels connected to a dormitory , studios , a theatre and a gallery.These places are the most related ones to entrance.

The “Red” cube can be used as a cinema or a theatre.

The “Orange” cube , on top of the red one, is a gallery to exhibit kids art works.

Blue Cube - The Dormitory

Jungle green Cube - The Library First Floor Plan

The “Blue” cube is for those kids who feel sleepy in the mornings which is connected to entrance cube or those who get tired during a day.The slide invites them to the garden to play after their sleep.

The “ Jungle Green” cube is a library with a wide window.

The “Cyan” cube is consisted of four open studios where kids can participate in any where they want.Placed in center of this complex, it has connections with almost every cube and a slide to the garden.

Lollipop (Kindergarten)

Architectural Design Studio II

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4+1 Houses 5-unit house / Tehran - Iran Academic / Individual / Fall 2018 Instructor: Sediqe Masaeli | smasaeli@ut.ac.ir

A small 5-unit house designed for five families. The main goal of this studio was to design a residential complex based on each person's interests, abilities and occupation.

Choosing the Site

The goal -To create 5 groups of fictional characters -To provide residential spaces for each family/individual customized according to their needs and preferences

-To create a complex that resembles a group of houses gathered together ,rather than a apartment.

peaceful scene

Fresh air beside trees and river

First concept

Less sound pollution

Sharp slope (about 3%)

Site Introduction

It is located in “Shabnam” dead-end in “Rezayi” street which is a

two way street in “Elahie” district , one of the most luxurious neighborhoods of Tehran city. With a stream running in its two sides and tall trees in each side, Rezayi has a peaceful scenery .However a lot of traffic goes through its near streets due to cars’ rerouting to skip the traffic lights of “Shariati” Avenue .

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Shariati st.

Rezayi st.

Shabnam Dd. End

4+1 houses (5-unit house)

Architectural Design Studio IV

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Plans

Families These 5 houses are three generations of a family (Grand

father,children,Grand children).

2 Aunts : 1. Lawyer 2. Artist

Daughter : Teacher Husband : Teacher Grand Child : Student

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Grand Father : Alone

5 Public courtyard

Second Floor

4 Grand Child : Doctor

Art Gallery

Grand Child : Doctor

Concept The idea was to place the five houses so that they

have direct communications (through a public courtyard) while each having their private yards.

While Grand father is heart of the whole family who gathers everyone in his house, his house is located at center of the complex and everyone can have easy access to him since he is alone too.

Third Floor

Grand Father’s mutual private yard with his daughter

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Architectural Design Studio IV

Grand Father’s mutual private yard with his other daughters

Heart of complex where everyone gather in Grand father’s house

Public courtyard

Aunt’s Kitchen and private yard

4+1 houses (5-unit house)

Facade

How to build my design?

Combining a cold material ( concrete ) with a warm material ( wood )

not only as a decoration for the facade but also as a useful component of the building. Using glass facade for Art Gallery in order to attract visitors . Morover light is an important factor for artists to observe their art better. +

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WC callout Second Floor Plan

While the building is on a sharp slope , half of Gallery area is located

under the ground which functions as a painting exhibition without any sharp outdoor light

Foundation Plan

Section B-B

Wall section L1

4+1 houses (5-unit house)

Architectural Design Studio IV

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Tetris Multi-family residential complex / Tehran - Iran

This studio practice was to design a multi-unit residential complex.

The aim was to adjust and put each unit in the best position to receive adequate lighting and have enough private and public spaces.

Academic / Individual / Spring 2019 Instructors: Sediqe Masaeli | smasaeli@ut.ac.ir

Physical Model -Micro Photography

The Problem 1

In recent years with the massive increase in population of world, design of houses has changed into vertical habitats and gardens to accommodate more families. However , dense urban residential living didn't have to occur in an isolating skyscraper .

The Concept

Formation

The patterns of design and architecture in Persian gardens and the meanings intertwined with their patterns and significant elements such as water and trees. Persian gardens are not only about geometries and shapes; but also manifest different design elements, each representing a specific symbol and its significance among the society.

locating on a very steep land about 8m difference between the highest and lowest level of land , required a sustainable design for the highest receive of sunlight , fresh air and landscape view of each unit.

By locating high rise blocks on the highest level and a gradual decrease in number of floors by reaching the lowest level, the problem solved.

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Masuleh city locating in Gilan , Iran has a unique architecture inside a mountain .

The steep mountainside village is filled with lush greenery and mud-brick cottages built on a slope

The Public courtyards , semi private balconies and private green areas are based on the idea of vertical gardens of Habitat 67 and the integration and location of houses on the slope of Masuleh city of Gilan.

Tetris (Multi-family Residential Complex)

00 : Site Intoduction

01 :Planar Movements

03 : Outdoor Space

04 : Intoducing Yards

05 : Oudoor and Indoor

06 : Space vs Mass

Architectural Design Studio V

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Typology

Combination of Units

There are 6 types of units Based on three sizes of families and different sun directions:

Each floor plan designed by putting the unit types beside each other , mirroring , rotating to have a better overall view and function next to each other.

Module 1 & 2 : ~ One side sun | One or Two bedrooms

Module 3 & 4 : ~ Two sides sun | Two or Three bedrooms

Ground Floor NW Block

Module 5 & 6 : ~ Three sides sun| Above Three bedrooms

1bd - 110 m² 2bd - 190 m²

2bd - 208 m²

3bd - 254 m²

4bd - 168*2 m²

4bd - 393 m²

First Floor NW Block

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Architectural Design Studio V

Tetris (Multi-family Residential Complex)

Nexorade Digital Craft House | Winter 2019 Workshop / Group Project Role: Coding / Fabrication / Photography Instructor : Ramtin Haghnazar | Ramtin.haghnazar@gmail.com

Digital Craft House Free Form Space Structure (FSS) workshops are part of a long-term research focusing on developing computational design methods.

Process First part of the design process began with the

theory of spatial structures and the second part involved preliminary fabrication experience. In our quest to get acquainted with physical and structural aspects of this method, we made different alternatives by the use of wooden bars and elastic cords in a group of four people.

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Digital Craft House

First Practice Going from tiling grids to tessellation and from tessellation to a free form spatial

structure in a way that elements are eccentric at connection points, what we call Nexorade, was the main challenge of this first experience. Resulting Nexorades were in the shape of one or two curvature depending on the grid and connecting technique.

Nexorade (Reciprocal Frame Structure)

Second Practice

Wood Joints

Second practice was a dual experience of computa-

Among the different possible techniques in con-

tional design and digital fabrication. We tried computational form finding of a nexorade in grasshopper, a plugin for rhino, in a group of four people. The main challenge in preparing the model in grasshopper was actually the connections.

Nexorade (Reciprocal Frame Structure)

necting elements, we decided to use cross lap, in which the two elements cross each other at their indentation. Elements were further tagged and set into planes to be cut in sheets of 3 mm plywood by laser cutter.

Digital Craft House

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Final Design

Assembling pieces

The medium scale group project ,ended up to the fabrication of 1:1 model.This

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structure was coded,fabricated,crafted and assembled by 15 attendees of the workshop.The Final design was coded and generated in Rhinoceros vs. grasshopper and get cut and drilled by a rotary CNC . At the end ,all 15 people worked together to address the modules and assemble the structure.

CNC router 3

Assembling woods with a nail gun air compressor

Sanding and preparing wood

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Main structure 7

Digital Craft House

Adjusting the angle to fix parts 8

Addressing the modules

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Unprocessed Parts

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The end Nexorade (Reciprocal Frame Structure)

Encoded Stereotomy University of Tehran | CEAT | Spring 2019 Workshop / Group Project Role: Coding / Fabrication / Documentation Instructor : Dr.Ali Andaji

Encoded Stereotomy was a 4-week workshop focused on designing freeform funicular shell structures based on Thrust Network Analysis (TNA) and digitally generating the tessellated vault with the new digital fabrication methods by using 5axis CNC hot wire cutting machine.

01 Group Alternatives

02 Concept Development

38 Participants were divided into groups of 6-8 and were asked to draw their ideas for a compression-only vault in Rhino plugin “Rhino Vault” .

The selected alternative was developed in order to generate an appropriate vertical equilibruim for the vault.

Some designs are presented below: Alterantive 1 Form Diagram

Force Diagram

Funicular thrust Network G

Mesh isometric

Max Span = 5.75 m

Bounding Box= 11.70*8.70*4.0 m³

Max Span = 3 m

Bounding Box= 2.6*5.70*6.1 m³

Mesh area = 35 m² Alterantive 4

Max Span = 3.80 m

Bounding Box= 7.3*7.1*1.90 m³

Mesh area = 27 m²

Max Span = 3.70 m

Bounding Box= 2.80*5.5*6.60 m³

Mesh area = 56 m² Alterantive 2

Mesh area = 34 m² Alterantive 3

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Center of Excellence in Architectural Technology (CEAT)

Encoded Stereotomy (Funicular Shell Structure)

03 Form Finding

Pic Depiction

Thrust Network Analysis is a recently developed form-finding method using discrete networks for the design and analysis of funicular structures with complex geometry and vertical loading.

Based on this graphical representation of form and force in plan, the funicular thrust network G, in equilibrium with the given vertical loading, is defined.

• Outline Structure

The form diagram Γ defines the plan geometry of the structure and the force pattern; The branches of this form diagram represent possible load paths throughout the structure. Its corresponding reciprocal force diagram Γ* represents and visualizes the distribution of horizontal thrust. the corresponding branches stay parallel and nodal equilibrium in the primal grid is guaranteed by closed polygons in the dual grid.

• Bounding box dimentions

• Force Diagram

• Resultant Displacement

• Principal Stress

• Planarized Mesh

• Form Diagram

• Material Utilization

• Curvature Analysis

Encoded Stereotomy (Funicular Shell Structure)

Center of Excellence in Architectural Technology (CEAT)

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04 Fabrication

05 Assembly

At this point , all the modeled voussoirs were ready to be cut , so for the cutting the parts by Hot Wire CNC foam cutter , the G-codes for the arranged voussoirs were generated by Solid Works and all the pieces were ut in about 5 days.

After finishing the cuuting process , the assembly of pieces began. Using Polyurethane Foam , the process of assembling the vault was completed within a week . Finally a Cement Coating was applied on the final vault.

Assembling Arrangement

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Center of Excellence in Architectural Technology (CEAT)

Encoded Stereotomy (Funicular Shell Structure)

Art works

Individual / 2015-2019 Paintings : Watercolor and Pencil Models : Mixed media

In my opinion, nothing relaxes a person, more than recreation of a scene or

a person or even an idea.

Another practice is making maquettes and models out of waste materials.

Art Works

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Egoism University of Tehran Photography course Academic / Individual / Winter 2018 Instructor : Sayad Nabavi | s.nabavi.u@gmail.com

In this course , I was supposed to take pho-

tos of an egg in creative ways focusing on lighting study.

Light source from below

Simple lighting + White Background

Vinegar bottle

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Egoism (photography)

Grinder + Green plastic fork

Simple lighting + Black Background

Blue Plastic

Paper Shading

Grinder + CD

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