Samer Aouad Design Portfolio by sameraouad

ARCHITECTURE

About me

Designer / Architect, constantly expanding my expertise in tools, materials and techniques of representation. I sway towards craftsmenship, excelling in handiwork and fabrication. My academic track has also led me to handle software to exalt my ideas on paper, ﬁnding inspiration in music, drawing and visual arts.

I have shaped my framework in design around my competence in the various ﬁelds I have been exposed to, such as, Architecture, Product Design, Interior Design, Graphics [print], and Photography. Proﬁciency and aptitude always drive my work.

Venue for the UnInformed Ear

01 [Final Year Project works]

Sound is necessary for space, without space we could never hear.

A sound venue in Mar Mikhael: A baggage of sounds is collected by the individual called a soundscape. One enters the project with an uninfotrmed ear, and starts to dissipate into a distinction between the types of sound emerging from the venue. This arranges the soundscape by differentiating the senses: Passing through moments of hearing without seeing and vice versa. One exits the project with a revised set of sound types that are unique to the venue, which makes one aware of the distortions that can affect the ear.

·01·Diagram of the Gesu Church in Italy showing time of reverberation. Graphic print [90x70cm]

Interior spaces are sound dissipators. The walls of each room, hall, staircase, booth, are slanted and curved according to desired sound qualities: The vinyl store walls are perforated with indented cubicles in order to hear hands shufﬂing records. The restaurant is sinked with a lowered roof to isolate diners’ conversations from the main hall. The central staircase walls are curved inwards and upwards to reverberate the stepping sounds on all three ﬂoors.

·04·Interior conﬁgurations of different sound qualities. Graphic print [70x70cm]

05 Sectional exploded model.

Physical Model [50x40cm]

·07·Section II southern unit. Graphic Print [50x40cm]

·06·Section I northern unit. Graphic Print [50x40cm]

On the mountain of Kfarchleimen, the grandfather was a stone-maker. He sculpts stones and builds terraces on the complicated slopes of the Lebanese north. He also has a passion for wine-making. The site is steeped with history, from troglodyte monk hideouts in the rocks, to frescoes in a hidden chapel, bunkers from the civil war, a pilgrimage trail… Aurora, vin de montagne was named by the second generation who now wishes to expand their vine yard, have a proper winery with underground tunnel, tasting terraces, venue and a small cabin for the parents to overlook their vast land.

08 Site Plan of Aurora Site. Graphic print [90x90cm]

Winery

Studio Competition Entry]

Chalet 4H

[KN Studio Under Construction]

A wooden box in the Sou Shugi Ban tradition will hide 4 bedrooms in its systemic and operable pine wood louvering. In the earth, through the rocks, all technical areas shall be hidden, including the depth of the pool that overﬂows in waterfall on the rocks and the soil needed for the three poplars that will relatively shade the facade according to the seasons.

·14·South Longitudinal Section. Graphic print

[90x70cm]

In-between, the absence of architecture, a 4.4m high reception, kitchen and dining will open up radically to the terrace, the pool edge, and the beautiful view of the valley.

To maintain the mystery, no structural mullions are added, and no detached columns to the inside. Solely 4 H columns that will compose with the rhythm of the 5 trees, the vertical louvers above and planking in the formwork of the cast concrete.