ultraStructure - Architecture Portfolio by Saif Haobsh for Harvard GSD Master in Design Engineering

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UL•TRA•STRUC•TURE:ˈəltrəˌstrəktʃər (n.)

the complex physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise

Works by Saif Haobsh

ultra STRUCTURE UL•TRA•STRUC•TURE:ˈəltrəˌstrəktʃər (n.)

the complex physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise

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BEHAVIORAL URBANISM : the simulation of decentralized systems to optimize spatial scenarios of internal displacement, mitigating the implications of urban crisis.

Fall 2014 + Spring 2015 - Individual thesis conducted final year of B.Arch degree Mentorship by Richard Garber and Maria Hurtado De Mendoza

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BEHAVIORAL URBANISM : the simulation of decentralized systems to optimize spatial scenarios of internal displacement, mitigating the implications of urban crisis.

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Neighborhood Sample: Shuja’iyya Base Map

Infrastructure Profile

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Land Profile

arable land orchard built up bare ground damage

Shuja’iyya, one of the most densely populated areas of the strip, was heavily devastated during the 2014 air-strikes with more than 1800 buildings affected.

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Subtraction Simulations System 1: Safety Corridors

Agent Paths

Intersections

Interaction Meshes

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System 2: Safety Plaza

System 1 + 2 Overlay

Simulation Parameters

Particle Generation

Particle Speed

Agent Mass and Size

Environment Boundaries

Swarm Behaviors

Particle View Radius and Angle

Attractor Points

Flow Along Lines

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Exploded Axon

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Built Form

Mesh Triangulation

Mesh Intersections

Agent Paths

Curvature Analysis

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Sections Sections

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Taking Buildings Down: HYPERMODERNURBANWARFARE

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: an inversion of suburban ideals in light of a radical environmental awakening Fall 2014 - Graduate studio offered to advanced undergraduate students - completed in a group of three Contributions include leading concept, systems research, digital modeling, rendering, drawing production

02 RESILIENT COLLECTIVE HOUSING : an inversion of suburban ideals in light of a radical environmental awakening

Union Beach, NJ The approach to the site in Union Beach takes into consideration the urgency to which a new social implication is needed as a counterpart to a radical environmental awakening.

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Through this design scheme, an attempt is made to address the rising sea levels in the future and the response required from urban design to limit the damage caused to human life, infrastructure, and the environment. This

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prototype can be used as possible response to the changing environment that can begin to populate across the Union Beach as a regional attempt to mitigate the changes.

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Storm Response STORM RESPONSE WATER PLAN

GREEN ROOF MITIGATES RAIN RUN OFF BY ABSORBING H. NEEDED WATER FOR VEGETATION. IF STORM EXCEEDS FULL CAPACITY, EXCESS WATER DRAINS OFF

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SITE RUN OFF RECYCLED WATER IS USED FOR LANDSCAPE IRRIGATION RECYCLED WATER IS USED FOR NON POTABLE BUILDING FUNCTIONS CISTERN FILTRATION AND TREATMENT SYSTEM

RAIN GARDENS AND BIO-SWALES COLLECT AND MODERATE STORM RUNOFF

VERTICAL CIRCULATION ABOVE FLOOD PLANE

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F. RAIN GARDENS G. BIO-SWALES H. GREEN ROOF RETAINS WATER AND FILTERS RUNOFF WATER I. RUN OFF WATER NOT CAPTURED BY THE RAIN GARDEN VOIDS ARE GATHERED IN THE BIO-SWALES

PLACES OF REFUGE ARE AVAILABLE AS NECESSARY IN CASES OF EMERGENCY. INSITUTIONAL SPACES CAN BE CONVERTED TO SUPPORT GREATER DEMAND.

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SITE RUN OFF RECYCLED WATER IS USED FOR LANDSCAPE IRRIGATION RECYCLED WATER IS USED FOR NON POTABLE BUILDING FUNCTIONS CISTERN FILTRATION AND TREATMENT SYSTEM

16’ LOWEST BUILT WATER SENSITIVE POINT

14’ PROJECTED FLOOD ELEVATION ESTIMATE FOR 2050

F. RAIN GARDENS G. BIO-SWALES H. GREEN ROOF RETAINS WATER AND FILTERS RUNOFF WATER I. RUN OFF WATER NOT CAPTURED BY THE RAIN GARDEN VOIDS ARE GATHERED IN THE BIO-SWALES

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FEMA BASE FLOOD ELEVATION SITE MEAN ELEVATION SEA LEVEL

SLOPING CONDITION CHANNELS WATER OUT TO WETLANDS

STORM RESPONSE Water Plan ENERGY PLAN WATER PLAN

GREEN ROOF MITIGATES RAIN RUN OFF BY ABSORBING NEEDED WATER FOR VEGETATION. IF STORM EXCEEDS FULL CAPACITY, EXCESS WATER A. BIPV FACADE AND ROOF TOP DRAINS OFF B. GREEN ROOFH. REDUCE THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT C. WIND DIRECTION PULLS FORCES FROM UNDERNEATH THROUGH VOIDS

C. WINTER PREVAILING WINDS FROM B. WEST

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RAIN GARDENS AND BIO-SWALES COLLECT AND MODERATE STORM RUNOFF

SLOPING CONDITION CHANNELS WATER OUT TO WETLANDS

Energy Plan STORM RESPONSE ENERGY PLAN

GREEN AND ROOF MITIGATES A. BIPV FACADE ROOF TOP RAIN RUN OFF BY NEEDED IF B. GREENABSORBING ROOF REDUCE THE WATER URBAN FOR HEATVEGETATION. ISLAND EFFECT STORM EXCEEDS FULL CAPACITY, EXCESS WATER C. WIND DIRECTION PULLS FORCES FROM UNDERNEATH THROUGH VOIDS DRAINS OFF

I. 16’ LOWEST BUILT WATER SENSITIVE POINT

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14’ PROJECTED FLOOD ELEVATION ESTIMATE FOR 2050

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SITE RUN OFF RECYCLED WATER IS USED FOR LANDSCAPE IRRIGATION RECYCLED WATER IS USED FOR NON POTABLE BUILDING FUNCTIONS CISTERN FILTRATION AND TREATMENT SYSTEM

RAIN GARDENS AND BIO-SWALES COLLECT AND MODERATE STORM RUNOFF

C. WINTER PREVAILING WINDS FROM WEST

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PLACES OF REFUGE ARE AVAILABLE AS NECESSARY IN CASES OF EMERGENCY. INSITUTIONAL SPACES CAN BE CONVERTED TO SUPPORT GREATER DEMAND.

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VERTICAL CIRCULATION ABOVE FLOOD PLANE

VERTICAL CIRCULATION ABOVE FLOOD PLANE

F. RAIN GARDENS G. BIO-SWALES H. GREEN ROOF RETAINS WATER AND FILTERS RUNOFF WATER I. RUN OFF WATER NOT CAPTURED BY THE RAIN GARDEN VOIDS ARE GATHERED IN THE BIO-SWALES

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FEMA BASE FLOOD ELEVATION SITE MEAN ELEVATION SEA LEVEL

PLACES OF REFUGE ARE AVAILABLE AS NECESSARY IN CASES OF EMERGENCY. INSITUTIONAL SPACES CAN BE CONVERTED TO SUPPORT GREATER DEMAND.

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14’ PROJECTED FLOOD ELEVATION ESTIMATE FOR 2050

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FEMA BASE FLOOD ELEVATION SITE MEAN ELEVATION SEA LEVEL

SLOPING CONDITION CHANNELS WATER OUT TO WETLANDS

TheENERGY form of the PLAN building is designed to have The voids in the building mass have been A. BIPV FACADE AND ROOF TOP B. GREEN ROOF REDUCE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT of steel a light footprint byTHEminimal touching designed and placed strategically as to allow C. WIND DIRECTION PULLS FORCES FROM UNDERNEATH THROUGH VOIDS columns on concrete foundation. There is for maximum solar exposure in winters and C. WINTER additional vegetation on the roof to reduce the PREVAILING natural ventilation. The voids at the ground WINDS FROM WEST B. heating loads and provide an elevated landlevel plane become the rain garden and collect scape walkway experience. and store rain water back to the ground instead A.

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of disposing it off to the storm outlets. Parking populated the ground plane to allow for surface parking coupled with bioswales to offset the runoff of pollutants and chemicals.

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Existing Typology

Development Plan

Cluster Plan

Site Section

Units are organized through various thresholds of publicity with living and kitchen spaces placed towards the street-scape and bedrooms and intimate spaces placed towards the voids. Privacy is achieved in the voids through a vertical louver system that prevents cross views for adjacent apartments but encourages solar penetration. This strategy also encourages the views out and over

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the canopies of trees places in the voids.

Essentially, the scheme achieved a ground-scape, street-scape, and roof-scape divorcing itself from the negative connotations inherent to the idea of raising structures off the ground. Thresholds and relationships are achieved through section that speak to the need for a more developed elevation strategy.

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Proposed Typology

Development Plan

Cluster Plan

Site Section

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03 SANDU’AO BAY : a closer look at highly-resilient live/work scenarios of floating villages in Sandu, Ningde, Fujian, China

Fall 2014 - Work completed individually for Graduate Elective titled “Low Rise - High Res” Research will be featured in the future publication “Alimentary Design” which is a forthcoming publication of work from the Harvard GSD and original research on the topic of food and design

03 SANDU’AO BAY : a closer look at highly-resilient live/work scenarios of floating villages in Sandu, Ningde, Fujian, China

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Sandu’ao is one of the China’s largest aquacultural floating communities living on the sea. Located in the Fujian Province, the self-sustaining village was established on the economy of fishing and ocean farming. The

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vast network of cages, platforms, houses, and nets are built with salvaged pontoons, bamboo, wood, wire, and plastic. Located in the Sandu Bay, the infrastructure of the villages is safe from open sea waves,

floating to the change of sea levels. Seasonal typhoon cause minor damage on the aquatic structures allowing farmers to quickly repair the metabolic networks and continue on with trade.

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The most cultivated species is the abolone, a very rich and desirable delicacy in the global market. Seawead and kelp are grown on strung buoys that are harvested to feed the abalone.

Daily lives of the aquaculturalists are spent entirely on the bay creating a very apparent work-live scenario.

Although fish farming practices are highly unstustainable, posing a threat to the ecology, the rudimentary infrastructure provides an example of highly resilient, self-organized design.

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04 SHARK TANK Re-imagining the design for office buildings in a contemporary business culture of start-ups, high-tech innovations, and entrepreneurship Spring 2015 - completed individually for an undergraduate comprehensive studio with instructor Will Prince Project featured in SuperArchitects social platform

04 SHARK TANK Re-imagining the design for office buildings in a contemporary business culture of start-ups, high-tech innovations, and entrepreneurship

In my approach of designing the next iteration of an office building, I took into consideration the engagement of key user groups associated with a corporation as a way of analyzing program adjacencies and spatial relationships.

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Through several programmatic and user studies, I was able to consolidate the program into four parts: office space, office amenities, public space, and public amenities.

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STUDENTS

FLEXIBLE WORKERS

INDIVIDUALS

SMALL COMPANIES

LARGE COMPANIES FRONT OF HOUSE OFFICE SPACE

CONFERENCE SPACE

WORK AMENITIES

BACK OF HOUSE

PUBLIC AMENITIES

User Group Study

Program Consolidation

Sectional Development

The exhibition space and gallery serve as the next realm in user engagement. Subsequent program occupies the central volumes including the multi-function hall, device library, and cafeteria. Conference rooms and the workshop serve as the gateway in program to the office floor slabs. Vertical and horizontal circulation tie together

volumes extending the atrium feel through the central zone, forcing user interaction as one proceeds from one end to the other.

The structural truss system provides a framework for which the coordination of volumes and circulation can exist while achieving various facade conditions.

lobby reception office space managment office workshop device library exhibition hall multifunction hall conference hall recording studio photography studio printing/copier room gym and locker room cafeteria kitchen food storage restrooms supply room bicycle storage room it/server room security office maintenance

Adjacency Study

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Section Diagram

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Building Components

Slab + Core

Volumes

Circulation

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Structural Truss System

Suspension System

Envelope + Exterior Space

Building Cross-Section

Interior View

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Longitudinal Section

Cross Sections

In section, the building is articulated through office floor slabs, volumes, circulation, and public space. These volumes serve as the gradation from the two ends, providing a platform for which the shifting levels of user engagement can occur.

The lobby is designed as a forum style space in which interested members can gain exposure to the corporate resources and precarious networking. In this area,

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users can configure spaces with adaptable furniture for activities such as meeting, working, or pitching ideas to investors.

Conference Rooms of the central zone are activated by providing various typologies of spaces for convening including pinup rooms, screening rooms, broadcasting booths, and living room style seating as seen in section.

Details

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Elevation

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05 CAMERA LUCIDA/ CAMERA OBSCURA

The application of nanomaterials on small-scale spatial conditions Spring 2014-Completed for a graduate studio in a group of three Contribution included material research, idea generation, and model making

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The application of nanomaterials on small-scale spatial conditions

Through the use of photoluminescent paint and optical fibers, Camera Lucida / Camera Obscura explores the materials’ potential to control the collection and distribution of energy in the form of light. The photoluminescent paint acts as the storage agent of light and slowly transmits it over time through the optical fibers to a field of remote points. The intent of the artifact is to demonstrate how the materials can be used to produce the emission of light at a location that is otherwise removed from a light source.

The photoluminescent paint’s ability to store and emit light for a long period of time without the use of a power source is limited due to the fact that the light can

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only be emitted at the surface of the paint. The design of Camera Lucida / Camera Obscura was driven by the desire to be able to reroute this light to a location that is separate from the storage location of the paint. The paint could be applied in an area adjacent to the source of light, and stored there for a length of time. By using optical fibers, light could be picked up off the photoluminescent surface, redirected through an opaque barrier some distance from the source, and then emitted across a field of point lights. The production of light without an electrical power source could be realized beyond the limitation of the location of the paint’s light collection location.

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The form of Camera Lucida / Camera Obscura is designed as two cubes: one cube houses the light source and the other houses the light terminals. The source cube contains a piece of acrylic coated with the photoluminescent paint. This collects light off of an LED light bulb while the object is powered. Strands of optical fibers are secured in contact with the painted surface at a single point, becoming the light input for the fibers. These fibers are extended to the second cube, the surfaces of which are opaque and covered with a grid of perforations. The

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fibers are individually routed into the perforations and terminate on the inside of the cube. The ends of the fibers create a field of light emission. While the power is turned on, light from the bulb charges the photoluminescent paint. Once the power source is switched off, the paint continues to emit light, sending it across the fibers, and evenly distributing it within the terminal cube, where the glow of the paint can be observed at the ends of each fiber.

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