Summer Internship Portfolio

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO SABA BAGHERI | 2022

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SABA BAGHERI

Architecture student

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Master of Architecture University of Calgary, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Calgary, Canada Bachelor of Architecture University of Tehran, College of Fine Arts, Tehran, Iran - Thesis: A Center for Homeless Women Model Maker McKinley Studios, Calgary, Canada - A collaboration work with Steve Kunz to fabricate three wooden models for The Essential: The Mak-

2020 - 2023

2015 - 2020

April 2021 - Jul 2021

ing of Commonplace project which highlighted the creative work of Mckinley studios in their creation of the innovative prefabricated home platform Commonplace Homes and exhibited in Meat Hook Gallery click HERE

Architectural Assistant Herampey Consulting Engineers, Tehran, Iran - Tehran Grand Bazaar: A field research through the Historical houses and their Iranian traditional

Mar 2018 - Aug 2020

architecture plans

- Abbas Abad Private Airport: Modelling and Rendering of the site plan

VOLUNTARY EXPERIENCE

Gallery Director School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Calgary - Coordinate and curate the SA gallery wall with internal + external student work with monthly themes

2021 - 2022

Event Analyst and Designer TEDx Tehran - Designed the activities and experience of event participants

2019 - 2021

Photographer TEDx Tehran, TEDx@Youth Tehran, TEDx Tehran Women

2018 - 2020

Lead Member & Website Designer Students Architecture Association, University of Tehran, Iran

2017 - 2018

- Held sessions with association members for arranging workshops, extracurricular activities

RESEARCH

Graduate Research Assistant Innovative Design Mapping Project, University of Calgary - A design/study under the supervision of Prof. John Brown and Prof. Josh Taron to create a platform

for Calgary-based innovative projects, with identifying the firms, projects, users, tours and doing the overall UX design of web/app platform

May 2021 - Present

AWARDS

SAPL Continuing Scholarship School of Architecture,Planning and Lanscape , University of Calgary

2021 - 2022

Gibbs Gage - Marten Rhead Memorial Scholarship in Environmental Design School of Architecture,Planning and Lanscape , University of Calgary

2020

EVDS Dean's Advisory Council Entrance Scholarship School of Architecture,Planning and Lanscape , University of Calgary

2020

Tehran University Exceptional Talent Awarded to continue Master Studies without taking the National University Entrance Exam

2019

University of Tehran Foundation Fellowship

2015 - 2019

COMPETITIONS

Berkeley Prize Essay Competition – Architecture & Climate Resilience Selected as one of the 30 Semifinalists, University of California, Berkeley

2019

WORKSHOPS

Machine Intelligence in Architecture DigitalFUTURES World 2020, Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez, Harvard GSD

2020

Digital Clay:The Future of The Past DigitalFUTURES World 2020, Negar Kalantar, California College of the Arts (CCA)

2020

Encoded Stereotomy Architectural Computation & Fabrication Studio in collaboration with Center of Excellence in Architectural Technology (CEAT), University of Tehran, Iran

SKILLS

2D/3D Modelling

Digital fabrication

Rhino Revit AutoCAD Sketchup Maya Blender

Grasshopper Robotstudio Pachyderm acoustics Cura

Visualization

Coding

Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Lumion Enscape Vray

Python C# Arduino

May - June 2019

SELECTED PROJECTS

ACADEMIC 01

Farm Avenue

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The New Normal

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Tetris

FABRICATION 04

Nexorade

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The light modulator

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Essential: The making of commonplace

01 Farm Avenue Re-imagining the tall building Intermediate studio | Fall 2021 | University of Calgary Farm Avenue is an Infrastructure Engine addressing the current quality of public space within the Downtown West end of Calgary. This program includes a giant biological water filtration system that gathers local wastewater and cleans it with a vertical system. The urban farming at the top of it will use this water, and local people can buy the products from the farmers market on the lower floors.

Moreover, at the front of Farm Avenue, a public water treatment system is designed to engage local people with the biological wastewater filtration system.

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Mixing the roads to create an intersection specialized for locals

Coverting the intersection to the hub of activity and vibrancy

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4 Season Farms

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Storage 4 Season Farms

7.6% 25.5%

Storage Water

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Water

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Laboratory

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Green house

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Equipment

Farm

Laboratory Cleaning

Cleaning

Equipment

Overall mass

Farm

Market Market place place

10 Flower farm

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Waste management Waste management

Structure

Farm Control

Biological filtering

Control

Solid shell

Fish farm

Sani�zing

6 Water treatment system 7 Fish Tanks

Quality check/lab Water tanks

Cool storage

Packing area

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Cannabis market

Circulation

Organic market

Delivery

Main farmers’ market

Piping System

Private Semi-public

Solid farm waste Ground

Public Preliminary program distribution

System Configuration

Selected Plans

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Level 77--Fish fish and market andtreatment waste water treatment Level Fishtanks, market water system 1:20s

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Level 11 --Main market Level Mainfarmers' Farmers Market 1:200

12 Soil/seed storage 13 Green house

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Bow river

Clean water

Waste water

Waste water to clean water The local houses waste water transformation into clean water for Bow river

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Waste to Food flow How waste water filtration helps to grow and sell farm crops and clean water

Greenhouse

Flower farms

low-light farm

Tool and equipment storage Biological waste water filtration system

Salt/fresh water fish tanks

Sanitizing and cool storage

Cannabis market Organic products Farmers' market

Mechanical room and waste management

Fish market

02 The New Normal CHUNKITECTURE: Toward a New Politics of Housing Studio II | Winter 2021 | University of Calgary What if the Covid-19 never ends, and no vaccine will help? Humanity thought it was impossible...but it wasn't. After years of trying to contain this pandemic, humanity has learnt that it's futile... Social distancing, also called “physical distancing,” means keeping a safe space between yourself and other people who are not from your household. In 2019, by the spread of Covid-19, communities were forced to social distance to slow down the spread of the virus.

In this world people use VR cameras to picture their own desirable scenes or remember past memories or moments.

How social distancing works in this housing?

Detail of Units

Entries and walk-ways are congestion points in every building therefore it is difficult to maintain social distancing in these areas. One solution was to increase the number of entrances and isolate them to make them more safe.

Third Floor

Circulation Public spaces Private Spaces Ground

Second floor

Utopian Environments

In this world people use VR cameras to picture their own desirable scenes, memories or moments. The interior of a room might be seen in different ways.

Utopian Environments

Each space in a building can be augmented with anyone's taste

How does the lack of raw materials affect the design in this apocalyptic world?

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03 Tetris Multi-family residential complex Studio V | Spring 2019 | University of Tehran

This studio practice was to design a multi-unit residential complex located in Tehran, Iran. The aim was to adjust and put each unit in the best position to receive adequate lighting and have enough private and public spaces.

Physical Model -Micro Photography

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.

00 : Site Intoduction

01 :Planar Movements

03 : Outdoor Space

04 : Intoducing Yards

05 : Oudoor and Indoor

06 : Space vs Mass

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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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

04 Nexorade Digital Craft House Workshop| Winter 2019 | University of Tehran Role: Coding, Fabrication, Photography

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

Final Design

Assembling pieces

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

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CNC router

Unprocessed Parts

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Assembling woods with the nail gun air compressor

Sanding and preparing wood

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Adjusting the angle to fix parts 8

Addressing the modules

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Process

First Practice

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.

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.

Second Practice Second practice was a dual experience of computational 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.

Wood Joints Among the different possible techniques in connecting 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.

05 The light modulator Studio III | Winter 2021 | University of Calgary Materials : Cardboard, paper, lamp The design and construction of a light modulator with three light sources.

The challenge of this assignment was to create a solid and stable structure while being aesthetically pleasing, which are the two most critical elements in designing high-rise buildings.

06 Essential: The making of commonplace Model Making | Mckinley studios Photographer: Whentheyfindus studio A collaboration work with Steve Kunz to fabricate three wooden models for The Essential: The Making of Commonplace project which highlighted the creative work of Mckinley studios in their creation of the innovative prefabricated home platform Commonplace Homes and the exhibition took place in Meat Hook Gallery on September 10th, 2021. The main materials of these models are basswood, plywood, and plexiglass. The whole process took about 2 months and all of the parts ( Walls, Floors, Base, etc.) are hand-cut, sanded, and assembled.

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