Safa AbuKaf

Safa Abu Kaf

portfolio Intern LEED®

Architect AAA Green Associate

Safa Abu Kaf Membership & Registration Intern Architect # IA14568, AAA

Education Bachelor of Architecture-2013 American University of Sharjah Cum Laude, GPA: 3.56 NAAB Accredited Program

Experience EDGE Design, Dubai, UAE August 2013 - November 2014 Graduate Architect - Created entire Revit model for pedestrian bridges project with structural & material detailing.

- Provided concept renderings & diagrams for client presentation in preliminary design phase.

- Prepared schematic design and permit sets for various residential, commercial and urban planning projects using Revit.

- Developed 2D/3D models and computer visualizations throughout preliminary design process and general building and interior models, using programs such as Revit, 3Ds Max. Dubai Municipality, Dubai, UAE June -August 2011 Architectural Intern - Architect intern at the General Design Department.

- Concept Design - Markets place project in Dubai.

- Master Planning Department: Analysis of Master plans In Dubai Software Skills 3Ds Max Adobe CS [ Photoshop, illustrator, InDesign ] AutoCAD Autodesk Maya Flow Design Revit Architecture Revit-Energy Analysis Rhinoceros Sketchup Pro V-Ray for Rhinoceros and Sketchup Mental Ray for 3Ds Max Microsoft office [ Word, Excel, PowerPoint ] Languages Arabic Native proficiency English Professional working proficiency 1

Selected Work Penthouse

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My own work. The main focus was to implement ideas of passive house and sustainability. This can be seen in PV panels, shading louvers, outdoor green space and celerstory.

Exterior rendering | House

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My own work. Deisgned a house focusing on the exterior in the renderings.

Photovoltaic panels | Shading Device

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My own work. Looked at the opportunity of covering outdoor parking lots in downtown Calgary with PV panels.

The courtyard | Rendering

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Working at EDGE. Focused on the courtyard area using 3Ds Max for modeling, mental ray for rendering and photoshop for finishing touches

Private Villa |Rendering

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Tram bridges | BIM

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Working at EDGE. Modeled and rendered the Majlis using 3ds Max.

Working at Edge. Created the entire Revit model for the pedestrian bridge.

Barwa Motor City

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Residential tower | Interior

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Working at EDGE. Designed the layout of car registeration facility as a part of a larger urban planning project

Working at EDGE. Designed and rendered of the penthouse of the residential tower.

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Penthouse

The penthouse enjoys the view of the city, in which, the renderings are focused on displaying night and day views from first and second level. Fully glazed facade facing the south, where the living room and dining room are located and have access to the balcony on the first level. The second level have access to an outdoor roof garden that is shaded with louvers .Principles of the passive house design has been implemented to minimize the heat gain at the south faรงade, and use renewable 3

resources to produce energy. A clerestory allows access to daylight, and works as an operable window that provides natural ventilation and airflow through the penthouse that will provide a passive heating/ cooling opportunity. The Photovoltaic array is placed on the slanted roof facing south.Interior roller shades drop to limit the access of sun during the day to minimize heat gain; but they roll back up during the night not to disrupt the view.

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Exterior Rendering | House

My work here is a design of residential space. I have created renderings of a house using the software 3ds Max. I have used a location in the city of Calgary, Alberta. With several views showing different parts of the house

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Photovoltaic Panels | Shading

My work here is a submission for “Designing Cities� Course by the University of Pennsylvania through Coursera. This assignment required defining a problem, an opportunity that needed design to be resolved.

In this case, I looked into uncovered parking lots in Downtown Calgary.

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I saw an opportunity where it is possible to reduce an environmental issue “Heat Island Effect�, and at the same time take advantage of the sunny city and locate Photo-voltaic panels to south

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The Courtyard | Rendering

A luxury villa that combines the modern design with traditional regional design elemtns. Created the interior rendering of the using 3DMax; along with an outdoor rendering of the courtyard area of the villa.

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Private Villa | Rendering

Luxury pri­ vate residence with its Georgian exterior with Neo­ classical touches uses time-honoured detail and subtlety of proportion to create a timeless. Created the 3D mod­el for the Majlis (Extension of the house) in the Design Development phase.

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Tram Bridges | BIM

Worked side by side with Besix contractors in a design build arrangement to quickly deliver pedestrian bridges for the Dubai Marina and Al Sufouh Tram loop. Dubai, UAE. Created entire Revit model for pedestrian bridges project with structural and material detailing. Created the Architectural drawings set 17

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Barwa Motor City

Barwa Motor City - Doha | A 1 km2 master plan for Hospitality, Residential, Retail. Mixed use development outside Doha with sustainable street grid, community facilities, Governmental offices and regional motor sales showrooms. Doha, Qatar. Designed the layout of car registeration facility as a part of a larger urban planning project 19

Residential Tower | Interior

Designed and rendered of the penthouse of the residential tower. 3DMax renderings of interior space of bedroom; and living room.

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