Sami R. Khoury, AIA - Detailed Portfolio

Sami Raouf Khoury, AIA Architectural Design Design Technology Project Management Real Estate Development Art Work

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Selected Works 1996 - 2012

...artistic design and business feasibility with constant endeavor for synchronized solutions...

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email: sami@samikhoury.com Int’l USA: +1.562.250.5621 | Jordan: +962.77.680.6081 Web Links: Linked In | Resume | Selected Projects List | Short Portfolio

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California Architects Board, California - License no. C33280 The American Institute of Architects, AIA - Member no. 38105280 Jordan Engineers Association, Jordan - Member no. 06033/2 Society of Engineers, United Arab Emirates - Member no. 20849

“Retail - Mixed Use” 002 Dubai Festival City, Festival Waterfront Centre 016 Ibn Battuta Mall Expansion 018 Bella Terra 019 Commerce Town Center “Urban District - Mixed Use” 022 DIFC - Dubai International Financial Center - Woven Gardens Retail Link 030 San Diego Navy Broadway Complex- Waterfront Masterplan “Hospitality - Mixed Use” 038 Al Maabar Mixed Use Development - St. Regis Hotel and Branded Apartments “Waterfront Urban Development” 048 Marsa Zayed Waterfront Urban Development 056 Jumeirah Garden City Masterplan 062 Jumeirah Hills Masterplan 068 Albert Basin Mixed Use Development “PBS Broadcast Station - Mixed Use Development - USC Thesis 2004” 074 Los Angeles Agora Mixed Use Development - PBS Headquarters “Residential” 086 Southwester Law School Graduate Housing 092 Venice Beach Townhouses 096 Echo Park Apartments Housing Project 102 Delaware Avenue Condominiums 106 Six-Unit Beach Row House Project 110 Skid Row Housing “Cultural” 118 Artists Colony 126 Los Angeles Maritime Museum

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“Federal Government - Institutional “ 132 United States Courthouse 138 Left Coast Press Newspaper Plant “Commercial - Services” 146 414 Bamboo Lane Mixed Use 150 Automobile Service Center and Gas Station “Educational - Sports” 154 UCI Computer Science 3 Building 158 USC Rowing Crew Boathouse “Religious” 164 Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Grand Masjid “Surreal Landscape Environment” 170 Surreal Landscape - Self Portrait - Red Eye 175 “Sketches and Art Works”

Retail - Mixed Use

Dubai Festival City, Festival Waterfront Centre Location: Dubai, UAE Client: Al Futtaim Group Year: 2007 Design Architect: Jerde Partnership Land Area: 78 acres (31.6 ha) Architect of Record: HOK Retail Area: 2.5 mmsf (232,000 sq m) Engineer: Hyder Consulting Cost: approx. USD 1 billion Fire Consultant: Ove Arup Program: Retail - Entertainment Contractor: Al Futtaim Carillion Food & Beverage Roof Sub-contractor: Waggner Biro

Dubai Festival City Masterplan - Physical Wood Model

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Dubai Festival City Center Under Construction - View from Al Futtaim Tower

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Legend Retail Restaurants / Bars/ Cafes Dinning Patio [leasable] Public Patio Flagship Stores Service / Back of House Common Area [outdoor] Common Area [indoor] Public Escalator Public Circulation Water Feature

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First Floor Plan

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Dubai Festival City is an Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate development project which covers 5.2 million sq ft (483,095 sq m) and stretches 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) along the historic Dubai Creek optimizes the thriving and visionary spirit of Dubai.

Dubai Festival City is an established creek side, mixed use destination and premier waterfront community interconnecting finest residential, shopping, dining, leisure & entertainment, international hotels, schools, golf course, automotive park and offices.

It is formed into three distinct districts and connected by a 30 kilometers internal road network and creek side promenade.

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Retail Crescent Walk

Festival Sqaure - View from within the Origami Water Feature

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Dubai Festival City, Festival Waterfront Centre, At the epicenter of Dubai Festival City development is the landmark 2.5 million square feet urban waterfront retail resort which is one of the UAE’s most exciting retail, dining and leisure attractions. The shopping district brings together a magnificent retail offering, an unsurpassed selection of restaurants and cafés and a rich entertainment experience all within an architectural masterpiece. Shimmering with water features and infused with natural light, it features over 450 shops, including 25 anchor stores, over 65 restaurants, a heath and fitness centre, cafés and bistros as well as holding events. Festival Centre is also houses “big box” power stores. Retailers include Anne Klein, Danier, Guru, Lancel, Lamarthe, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Marccain, Nougat of London, Sephora and Paul Frank. Big Box retailers include HyperPanda, IKEA, Toys R’ Us, Marks & Spencer, Ace Hardware and Plugins Electronix.

DFC Waterfront Center consists of numerous program components including a marina, high-end retail, canal-front dining, shopping, and a boulevard that are organized in five arcing and radiating paths that mimic the ripples of the water. The middle arch of the mall forms a crescent of a glass trussed vaulted skylight structure giving natural lighting to the indoor mall. On the outdoor arch, there is an artificial canal that gives a buffer between he connected shopping center and the restaurants, and the separated pavilions on the creek giving a landscaped walk connecting the shopping area to the hotels. Key pedestrian paths and gathering spaces are organized along the water create a new center of energy that is envisioned to inform future development that will connect to downtown Dubai. The indoor and outdoor crescent walks both intersect the radiating line forming the Festival Center Square and the entertainment district emphasized though the tapered vaulted skylight covering festival square with a crowning knuckle.

At the core of the Festival Center and at the end of the axis of Festival Square in the entertainment zone at is DFC’s Cinema Complex which houses a 73,000 sq ft 12 screen grand cinemas with seating for over 2,300 people. It has access to a wide variety of cafés and restaurants offering a varied selection of fast food outlets.

Festival Marina is located around a 100 berth cosmopolitan luxury yachting hub surrounded by fine dining, shopping and 5-star accommodation.

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Festival Canal Walk Night View

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Allure Water Feature and Festival Square Ceiling Knuckle

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Oval Court and the Beads Waterfall Water Feature

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Ceiling Knuckle False Ceiling Setting Out Plan

Ceiling Knuckle Framing Plan

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Ceiling Knuckle Showing Intersecting Glass Vaults and Fire Smoke Curtains Treatment

Oval Shop Photos and Setting Out Construction Drawings

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3d Modelled Construction Details of Ceiling Knuckle’s Steel works and Construction Administration Photos

Ibn Battuta Mall Expansion Location: Dubai, UAE Year: 2009 Mixed-use Programme: 4,500,000 sq ft (418,063 sq m) Budget: USD 1.2 Billion Client: Nakheel Retail Architect: Cubellis Costa Project Manager: Thinc Projects Structural and MEP Engineer: Norr Cost Consultant: Davis Langdon

Ibn Battuta Mall Ground Floor

Nakheel Retail’s most ambitious project, Ibn Battuta Mall, comprises expanding Dubai’s existing largest themed mall, already almost 1km in length, resulting in a substantial 18 million sq ft (1.672 million sq m) mixed-use development. This includes 3 million sq ft (279,000 sq m) of retail and entertainment district, a 220 key 5-star executive boutique hotel, a 2,500 key 4-star entertainment/lifestyle hotel, a 200 key 2-star hotel, 3 million sq ft (279,000 sq m) of Class A office space and 1,300 luxury residential units and a 18,000 structured parking spaces supporting this array of uses. The expansion shall link the mall to the Dubai Metro giving direct access to the building from the metro station.

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Bella Terra Location: Huntington Beach, CA Year: 2002 Land Area: 50 acres (20 hectares) Built Area: 770k sq ft (71,535 sq m) Cost: USD 170 million Developers: J.h Snyder Co., DJM Capital Partners, Inc., The Ezralow Company Architects: Perkowitz + Ruth, Jerde Partnership, L.A. Group (landscape design)

Bella Terra (“beautiful earth”), an open-air lifestyle center, is a redevelopment renovation project of the former Huntington Beach Town Center, Southern California’s oldest enclosed mall that was originally built in 1966. It has become a vibrant destination retail and entertainment destination that includes a 20-screen theatre, restaurants, specialty retail and other large retail anchors. Converted to an all-outdoor experience, the center was themed after an Italian hill town and features a large civic space and amphitheater. The intent was to create an authentic streetscape by juxtaposing a variety of façades and styles that express the identity of each tenant, thus creating the cadence of real streets. Bella Terra is anchored

by Kohl’s and a 20-screen Century Theatres megaplex, along with new tenants Bed Bath & Beyond, REI, ULTA Cosmetics, Solitaire Diamonds and T-Mobile.

Retail Anchor Theater Restaurant / Cafe Retail Specialty Service Vacant

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Master Plan

Commerce Town Center Location: Commerce, Los Angeles, CA Year: 2005 Land Area: 36 acres (14.6 hectares) Built up area: 350,000 sq ft (32,516 sq m) Budget: approx. USD 80 million Developer: J.h Snyder Co. Architect: Jerde Partnership Targeting a prime site in the heart of Commerce, located at Telegraph Road and Tubeway Avenue, fronting the Interstate 5 Freeway, Commerce Town Center is a 350,000-square-foot urban retail center featuring an assorted mix of popular retailers, restaurants and a 3,000seat theater. The center allows for an outdoor court space and an circular open market within the parking area. The project aims to create a Town Center similar in nature to the precedent successful Huntington Beach Town Center, Bella Terra, which is shown on the opposite page.

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Urban District - Mixed Use

DIFC - Dubai International Financial Center Woven Gardens Retail Link Location: Dubai, UAE Year: 2008 Land Area: 110,157 sq m (27.2 acres) Built up Area: 805,384 sq m (8.67 mmsf) Client: DIFC Design Architect: the Jerde Partnership Engineer of Record: WS Atkins Project Manager: Turner Construction

The project explores a new model for urban development, creating a landscaped retail experience at Dubai International Finance Center (DIFC), as the Woven Gardens intends to be at heart of Dubai Named “The Woven Gardens of Dubai� this development creates a place to experience the vivacious urban life of this vibrant city, gazing from its breathtaking tower villas, strolling the gardens. Its organic shape stems from the desert sand dunes that are naturally carved by the basic elements of water, sun, and wind.

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Concept Model

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The DIFC Woven Gardens program components are : 01a: Retail

- High end retail

- International retail

- Arab specific retail 01b: Food & Beverage

- Daytime - International food bazaar

- Daytime - cafes, Business lounges

- Nighttime - World class dining hookah bars

- Nighttime - hookah bars 02: Entertainment

- 2500 seat Performance Theater

- Cirque du Soleil auditorium

- Music venues (jazz clubs, live studios) 03: Cultural

- Islamic Art Center

- Children’s Science Center

- Media Library

- Traveling Exhibition Pavilion 04: Offices – DIFC Icon Towers

- 250,000 sm of premiere office space (Grade A)

- Sky conferences / meeting rooms

- Wi-fi gardens / atriums 05: Residences – DIFC Icon Towers

- Residential units (studio, 1, 2 & 3 bedrooms)

- Sky Lounge (fitness center, pools)

- Sky Villas (Luxury Residential) 06: Hotel – DIFC Icon Towers

- 400 key luxury hotel

- Sky Wellness Center (spa, fitness center, baths, pools)

- Penthouse suites (Luxury Service Apartments)

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Tower Concepts Lineup

Creating a vertical village evolving from the organic forms of the woven garden fabric, Modern architectonic forms express the vertically articulated multiuse community on the inside, focused on the gardens and waterfalls below. Incorporating lavishly planted and designed sky gardens, bridges and terraces within the multiuse offices, 7 star hotels, spas and luxurious condominium sky neighborhoods.

The master plan additionally suggests adjacent towers equally compelling in the adjacent districts and neighborhoods, in a place that enhances life with an abundance of information, entertainment, relaxation, and discovery. The garden attracts visitors. The Woven Gardens delicately blend architecture and nature with everyday activities create an elevated, integrated concept of live, work, and play. It intertwines the premier stock exchange with luxury living, world-class offices, and high-end retail, cultural and entertainment venues with a tranquil water garden.

The Woven Gardens will connect existing buildings in the plots that are not owned by DIFC at their podiums which shall conceal these buildings with high technology solutions to create a nice walking experience through connecting Sheik Zayed road to DIFC through bridges and streets while creating Piazzas and node areas furnished with landscape, water features, landmarks, screens, and fountains. The project furnishes the right of ways with shops and outdoor sitting areas creating an amazing outdoor walking experience, while simultaneously hiding the services and substations creatively.

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Woven Gardens Concourse

San Diego Navy Broadway Complex Waterfront Masterplan Location: San Diego, California Public Land Owner: US Navy Year: 2003 Architect: the Jerde Partnership Land Area: 12 acres (4.86 ha) Hotel Operator: Starwood Built up Area: 3,250,000 sq ft (302k sq m) Project Finance: Merrill Lynch Client: Clark Real Estate Vision: The North Embarcadero Visionary Plan would dramatically transform the water’s edge, making it more green and pedestrian friendly.

The Waterfront masterplan would create open space along Harbor Drive and Broadway and stitches the green space of the boardwalk into the project. The project’s high-rise towers are integrated into the existing city block grid and step down in massing to the waterfront to create an urban and open human scale waterfront. At its design core, the proposal aimed to bring the San Diego skyline to the water and by creating a unique waterfront experience of vibrant public spaces. The current downtown skyline and pedestrian routes do not extend to the water’s edge.

Underdeveloped waterfront lots and an inadequate waterfront boardwalk separate the city from the bay.

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Main Water Front View

The Project: In addition to providing a new home for the Navy Region Southwest Command, the project houses 1.6 million square feet of Class A waterfront office towers. San Diego is growing in both its residential and office markets and the inhabitants desire convenient and quality neighborhood retail, cultural, and recreational amenities. The project will house a 30,000 sf market and a 1,800seat live performance theater both located on Broadway and Pacific. The masterplan also provides for three new hotels with 813 rooms total, 400,000 sf of retail and restaurant space, substantial on and below grade public parking, and a large flexible public space, The Waterfront Theater, centered around the historic U.S.S. Midway Aircraft Carrier Museum.

A Maritime Legacy: San Diego’s deep-water bay is home for naval technology, oceanographic exploration, and a pristine coastline unique to the world. The city’s importance as a port has a long and storied history with the U.S. Navy, Scripps and the America’s Cup. The proposal calls to integrate many Navy programs within the active lifestyle of the project. At the base of the Navy Tower overlooking the bay and the U.S.S. Midway, a Navy Library is a good public outreach forum highlighting the strong partnerships between the city and the U.S. Navy and a valuable public resource. The cultural center and adjoining theater along Broadway will be prominent attractions along the water that reinforce San Diego’s maritime history. Marine retail and commercial uses will be encouraged and cultural amenities such as the museum, theater, and public spaces will project the unique importance of the San Diego waterfront. A 400’ tall waterfront office tower and large formal plaza along Broadway frames the terminus of San Diego’s financial and cultural corridor in front of Broadway Pier.

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Urban Retail Boulevard: A tree-lined, wide sidewalk along Pacific Highway, with low-rise office space and large glass storefronts, creates convenient retail and office options for a growing downtown.

A courtyard space at the top of a wide stair leading to The Waterfront Theater, The Navy Terrace will house shops and restaurants open to the public. Higher in the building podium, secure from public access, sun terraces and an outdoor/ indoor cafe gather around the base of the Navy Administration Building offering commanding views of the bay for government employees.

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Hospitality - Mixed Use

Al Maabar Mixed Use Development St. Regis Hotel and Branded Apartments

Land Area: 18,000 sq m (4.45 acres) Built Up Area: 126,000 sq m (1,356,253 sq ft) Budget: approx. USD 200 Million Owner: Al Maabar International Investments Hotel Operator: Starwood Design Architect: Perkins Eastman Architect of Record: Arabtech Jardaneh Interior Designer: Forrest Perkins Project Manager: KEO International Cost Consultant: NEA partners

Location: Amman—Jordan Year: 2010 - 2015 (projected)

Aerial View from the North West

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View from the 5th Circle

Site The site is approximately 18,000 sq m and is located near the 5th Circle in Abdoun. The site has considerable topography, with a nearly 15m slope from the NE corner up to the SW corner. Views from the site overlook landscaped valleys of rolling hills of Amman.

Narrative: The ST. Regis Hotel & Residences Mixed Use Development is intended be the one of most prestigious location in Jordan and one of the most exclusive destinations in the region.

Situated in one of Amman’s most affluent neighborhoods, the development comprises of a Hotel, Serviced Apartments, Branded Apartments, and Retail. The development shall be operated by Starwood, one of the world’s top Hotel Operators, and shall create new level of luxury in the city of Amman and across Jordan.

Project Overview The project consists of a podium and three tower blocks, forming a hotel tower and two twin residential towers that are semi connected above the podium.

The podium forms a Retail Village, and giving it prominence from the main Street. A large water feature forms the backdrop for the Retail Village, with shops, cafes, and restaurants overlooking the water feature, dancing fountains and gardens.

The F&B of the Hotel is closely associated with the views of this feature also.

The main entrance to the Hotel and Retail is from a Large Piazza, which is off of the North road allowing for good security as well as a controlled image of the property.

The Ballroom is prominently located off the Piazza, giving easy access to events.

The Residential occupies the highest point of the site, with access from the West road. All guestrooms and units have unobstructed views through established view corridors and an increased access to the South.

The inspiration starts with the Culture, Tradition and Location of Amman and this particular site. The architectural design will establish a sense of timelessness and prestige, paying homage to the history of Jordan while at the same time interpreting the vocabulary into a more modern context. Rooted in history, but still looking forward, ST. Regis Hotel & Residences will be a beacon for the new growth of the city of Amman. The St. Regis Hotel & Residences will establish a new lifestyle for the residents and guests who visit and live there, as well as create a destination for the neighborhood of Abdoun as well as greater Amman.

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5-Star Hotel and Serviced Apartments SECTION Scale: 1:500

The St. Regis 5-Star Hotel, is located on the eastern edge of the site forming a V shaped structure totaling 16 floors, positioned to “embrace” the main road and provide a gesture towards greater Amman. The tower has three main elevator cores. The first core is the Guestroom unit elevator core with four passenger elevators. The second is a serviced apartments elevator core including Two passenger elevators, One service elevator, One VIP Royal Guest elevator. The third is strictly a service elevator core including three service elevators with one of them is designated as fireman lift.

Building Elements Podium The “Podium” serves as the base of the project, creating a plinth for the Hotel/Serviced Apartments and Branded Residential Towers above. The podium houses public amenity spaces, including the main entry lobbies, restaurants, lounges, and retail shops.

Administration and facilities areas, storage and food and beverage support spaces are also located within the Podium. Parking for the development constitutes the remainder of the podium, along with multiple entrance and exit points.

The ST. Regis 5-Star Hotel and Serviced Apartments each have their own dedicated entrances within the same drop-off area. These are both located on the west side of the tower and on the main Arrival Courtyard.

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ST. REGIS 5-STAR HOTEL Typical Standard Hotel Room Junior Suite 2 Bay Suites Executive Suite Ambassador Suite Royal Suite Total Keys

175 23 9 10 3 1 221

SERVICED APARTMENTS 1 Bedroom 2 Bedroom 3 Bedroom 4 Bedroom Total Serviced Apartments

BRANDED APARTMENTS 12 16 8 4 40

2 BR Units 3 BR Units 4 BR Units 5 BR Units Total Residential Units

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Branded Apartment Towers The Branded Apartment Towers total 16 floors and are located on the Southern edge of the site. They are connected at ground with the primary entry and lobby form the connection base at the ground floor which is accessed from West side of the property. Then they split into two separate wings each with its separate vertical core.

The branded apartments have a private pool, a gym, kids playing area, executive room, and a theatre.

The mix of apartments ranges in size from 2-bedroom to 5-bedroom units.

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The main entrance to the Hotel Function spaces is located on LL2, with a separate arrival plaza. A Grand Ballroom totaling 1100 sq m (11,840 sq ft) is provided along with dedicated support space and facilities.

The Ballroom has a separate Pre-Function space totaling 485 sq m (5,220 sq ft), along with service access to the BOH. A common Arrival Hall/Lobby is located at the main Entrance/ Arrival Court directly connected with pre-function and other spaces. Outdoor function space is provided on the level above the Ballrooms and adjacent to the swimming pools.

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Executive Lounge

This outdoor space can be accessed through two numbered of passenger elevators located off the Arrival Hall/Lobby and can be accessed through an external stair case directly connected with arrival courtyard.

RETAIL The Retail component is located primarily in the podium beneath the Hotel Tower. Located on LL2, LL3 and LL4 levels with double volume spaces, the retail is entered from the North Road, next to the Retail Rotunda, or from the arrival court through hotel guest passengers’ elevators. The lowest level of the retail opens up to the plaza and water feature, while the upper floor, along with some Dining establishments, are set back with a terrace overlooking the water features below as well as the view of East Amman.

MEETING ROOMS The Meeting Rooms are located on LL2, with access from the main Arrival Hall/Lobby. The meeting rooms are aligned along the eastern façade of the podium. The Meeting Rooms are divided into various sizes, and are flexible in their layout and configuration.

PARKING STRUCTURE SPA Below the Podium structure are several levels of structured parking providing 740 spaces.

The majority of the parking spaces will serve the needs of the development with dedicated parking for the various function spaces. The parking is accessed from several entrance/exit points adjacent to the various drop-offs. The Branded Residences parking is located on 2 levels; the ground floor and LL1 levels below the Branded Residential Tower. However, the Hotel and other functions parking are allocated on 3 levels; LL2, LL3 and LL4 levels.

There is a spa/health club located at LL2 on the North portion of the Podium on the LL2 Level with treatment rooms. There is Women’s Salon also located in this area.

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Waterfront Urban Development

Marsa Zayed Waterfront Urban Development Phase One Development: Al Raha Village

Owner: Al Maabar International Investments Program Manager: Hill International Design Architect: Maisam Architects and Engineers Masterplanner: Callison Landscape Architect: Franco Zagari Infrastructure Consultant: Arabtech Jardaneh Master Plan Cost Consultant: AECOM Phase 1 Quantity Surveyor: NEA & Partners Business Consultants: Jones Lang LaSalle Primary Infrastructure Contractor: Hussein Attieh and Sons Establishment

Location: Aqaba, Jordan Year: 2011 Site Area: 3.2 million sq m (790 acres) Built up Area: 6.4 million sq m (69 million sq ft Phase 1 Site Area: 122,958 sq m (30 acres) Phase 1 Built up Area: 71,775 sq m (772,000 sq ft) Marsa Zayed Details: Marsa Zayed, which was named in memory of the Late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, is a 3.2 km development including 2 km of waterfront and is the biggest real estate and tourism project to take place in the history of Jordan. It is also one of the most significant developments in the region.

Master Developer: Al Maabar Aqaba is a subsidiary of Al Maabar International Investments; a joint venture company formed

by Abu Dhabi’s largest real estate developers and investment power houses namely Mubadala, Aldar Properties, Sorouh Real Estate, Al Qudra Holding, Reem Investments, and Reem International.

Marsa Zayed is a mega mixed-use waterfront project, including high-rise residential towers, retail, recreational, entertainment, business and financial districts and several branded hotels. Several marinas will add to the current berthing capacity which will transform Aqaba into a premier yachting destination; in addition to a state-of-the-art cruise ship terminal, which will become one of Jordan’s touristic landmarks and a welcoming gateway to Aqaba.

Project Phases: The project will be implemented in several phases over a period of 30 years.

To date, Al Maabar has received 2.0 million sqm of land out of the 3.2 million sqm, and the remaining 1.2 million sqm is still occupied by the Aqaba Port facilities and it is anticipated to be received for redevelopment in a couple of years.

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Major components: 8 hotels Including around 3,000 hotel rooms More than 20,000 residential units of premium villas, townhouses and apartments At least 350 marina berths Phase One Development (2010 - 2014 projected) Infrastructure works construction efforts for Phase I began in the first quarter of 2011; they include: • Starting at the farthest East and West ends of the masterplan with completing the entire infrastructure work for approximately 200,000 sqm of land.

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Jumeirah Garden City Masterplan Location: Dubai, UAE Year: 2007 - 2008 Re-development Land Area: 9,000,000 sq m (2,224 acres) Budget: USD 95 billion Client: MERAAS Holding Architect: the Jerde Partnership

This urban development was conceptualized to be a part of the 2015 strategic plan for Dubai. The development consists of about dozen districts and envisioned 14 million sq m (150 million sq ft).

The Jumeirah Garden City aimed to cater to a population of 50,000 to 60,000 residents.

This project responds to the verticality of Dubai’s skyscrapers proposing low-rise development towards the gulf in contrast. It brings in the water inside the spaces in between the buildings and creates an extension to the waterfront.

The intent was to interweave green parks with Dubai’s urban development.

The concept was designed in clay model sculptures in order to ensure the quantities of the transformation within the land between cut and fill materials are visually accessed, then later digitized into a 3d model to accurately quantify these amounts of excavation. This also allowed the freeform fluid creation for the development of buildings and canal paths.

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Jumeirah Hills Masterplan Location: Dubai, UAE Year: 2007 - 2008 Re-development Land Area: 1.5 million sq m (371 acres) Built up Area (GFA): 4.64 million sq m (50 million sq ft) Client: Sama Dubai Architect: the Jerde Partnership Project Manager: E.C. Harris The masterplan offers visitors and residents a wide spectrum of world-class amenities and entertainment, Jumeirah Hills is a multi-faceted, evolving community featuring an vast diversity of urban centers, commercial corridors, and artistic enclaves in Dubai.

The masterplan for this rich cultural landscape aims to distill the energy and spirit found in other great city centers around the world into one incredible destination.

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Albert Basin Mixed Use Master Plan Location: Newry, Northern Ireland Year: 2005 at Harvard Design School Land Area: 15.5 acres (6.3 hectares) Built up Area: 1.1 million sq ft (10,000 sq m) Budget: GBP 53 million (USD 85 million) Public Land Owner: Newry and Mourne District Council Client: Parker Green International Urban Designer: Sami R. Khoury The Albert Basin is a 15 acre site owned by Newry and Mourne District Council, located to the South of Newry City Centre. The site is bordered to the East by Newry Canal, the oldest summit level Canal in the British Isles, and to the East by Newry River. Following an announcement in December 2003, Albert Basin is set to become a significant City Centre mixed use development.

Development Approach: Previously, in March 2001, Newry and Mourne District Council had adopted an agreed way forward for the future development of the Albert Basin which would involve the preparation of a Development Framework for the site in partnership with a Private sector developer to be selected by way of Public Tender. Two years on Newry has become a City and the Council’s aspirations for the site have grown much bigger.

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Destination Newry: In June 2003, the Council appointed its Director of District Development, Mr. Gerard McGivern, on a short-term secondment to lead and research a development strategy for the site. A subcommittee of City Councilors, Political Party leaders and Senior Executives embarked on an intensive and high level research programme to drive the initiative forward.

Research: A Series of investigative visits to Belfast, Dublin and Scotland were undertaken in July 2003, with a particular emphasis on successful Development Models.

Scotland was chosen as Local Authorities there have used their land assets and Development Powers to good effect. This has undoubtedly shaped the Council’s thinking for the Albert Basin’s future

Recommendation: The Council would promote the Albert Basin Development Opportunity…to attract potential investors…This should also include the active lobbying of Central Government to provide funding for infrastructure works where necessary.

Background Study: Land Use Distribution Around City Center The lack of mixed uses in the city center creates 8 hour environments and uninviting “dead zones”.

From the analysis diagrams, one can see how the city center is empty from residential units. It is all commercial, civic and industrial buildings.

The river and canal run through the heart of the city and form a natural path for extending an open space corridor.

This motivates dense residential development to make opportunities of live-work places and recreate in the same place an environment that will increase social interaction. It will be good for new industries, and shall prevent urban sprawl and protect pastoral resources with and keep them safe from dead zones.

Goals • Introduce a contiguous pedestrian path linking the key sections of the city to create a new itinerary and options for experience.

• Set precedence for dense infill development of city center to preserve pastoral resources and make transition between existing scales.

• Emphasize the importance of and make connection with the river and canal.

Historic Center The district defined by Hill Street (3) is an important factor in defining the character of Newry. New program in the city should maintain a connection to this area so that it can continue to thrive.

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Market Analysis: • High demand for Hotel • High demand for Residential • Lower demand for Office. Max (300,000 s.f.)

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Retail/Commercial Office Hotel Apartments Townhouses Marina Meeting Center Buildings Total Floor to Area Ratio

Proposal Programming Site area 56,701 square feet 99,303 square feet 112 rooms 26,904 square feet 530 units 92,684 square feet 12 units 23,137 square feet 40 berths 8,881 square feet 307,610 square feet

Total gross floor area 56,701 square feet 300,000 square feet 107,616 square feet 492,813 square feet 69,411 square feet 106,572 square feet 1,133,113 square feet 3.68

The large shopping centers (4a, 4b) in Newry attract people from a catchment area with an estimated population of 300,000 extending well outside the city boundary and across the Northern Ireland Border. The Bus Center (2) serves points across the country, the Republic, and is centrally located within the city.

Layering Concept Axons: The Diagrams layering sequences how the site shall be developed: 1. Underground parking with ramps leading down to parking basement from the street level.

2. Street network connecting the existing city streets to the site and to the ramps at multiple points to provide easy car access.

3. The concourse on which the development should sit provides a platform for the parcels of each building.

4. The water deck, which has the boat slips and a public walkway that shall blend between pedestrian, landscape and existing city streets.

5. The linear public landscape would flow through the development to provide life and activate the mixed use areas to get rid of the dead city center.

6. The buildings are color coded as follows: Office Retail Housing Hotel and Civic The Scheme: The concept enhances the linearity of the site as it flows along the canal and the river. It provides a smooth flow for the street along a parallel axis to the Quays, the river and the canal.

The scale of the buildings breaks down as they reach the edges of the site, and as the buildings approach the Northern part, their scale completely blends with the urban fabric as they become small townhouses, maintaining integrity with smooth transitions.

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PBS Broadcast Station - Mixed Use Development University of Southern California Graduation Thesis 2004

Los Angeles Agora Mixed Use Development PBS Headquarters Location: Above and West of the Hollywood 101 Freeway, Downtown Los Angeles Year: 2004 at University of Souther California (Thesis) - revisited 2009 Land Area: 15 acres (6 hectares) Built Gross Area: 1,600,000 sq ft (149,000 sq m) Proposed Owner: PBS -Public Broadcasting Service Urban and Architectural Designer: Sami R. Khoury As a parallel reinforcement and in response to the Grand Avenue Redevelopment Project in Downtown Los Angeles, this public private development partnership aims to make use of ignored land parcels typically resulting from cities’ freeway and road networks. Learning from Boston’s Big Dig project, which puts the freeway network underground to allow the maximization of the pedestrian experience in Downtown area, and increases the landscaped plots above ground, the Los Angeles Agora Project proposes making use of the air space above the Hollywood 101 Freeway and its butterfly connections’ land plots to house the PBS Radio and Television Broadcast Towers to complement the dynamic motion of cars with a sky freeway roof garden linking LA’s existing landmarks into one meshed network of activities accessible to pedestrians.

Project Mission: 1. Establishing a new head quarters for PBS public broadcast station that would emphasize the monumental power axis of the city and parallels the proposed Grand Avenue Redevelopment.

2. Linking with pedestrian paths Union Station, Los Angeles Cathedral, School of the Arts, LA City Hall, the Old and New Courthouse buildings, and other monuments through a freeway sky garden.

3. Bring the public to the location of the Agora by linking it to the historic EI Pueblo area to extend pedestrian access.

4. Create public parking structures that will substitute the existing wasted land of flat parking lots with useful buildings.

5. Change the experience of how one walks through the city and create buildings that would frame the existing important views in the city to give the context more importance, like the Our Lady Queen of Angels - La Placita and the Old Los Angeles Courthouse.

6. Express the speed and potential of our mellinium with expressive and dynamic forms.

7. Show the synergy of clustering mixed use buildings within an unconventional site where streets, freeways, freeway on-ramps and off-ramps, bridges, dynamic landscape, pedestrians, and mixed use building programs can coexist in the same volume without interrupting each other, thus creating the most efficient use of land.

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Project Program: 1. Two office towers serving the PBS Television and Radio Stations 450,000 sf (41,800 sq m) 2. Convention Center going under Spring St. and freeway ramps 136,000 sf (12,600 sq m) 3. Two public theatres 9000 sf (836 sq m) 4. Retail: distributed in the Agora, on top of freeway park, next to El Pueblo and Union Station 50,000 sf (4,645 sq m) 5. Public parks: One for each important monument 6. Five parking structures on top of Hollywood 101 Freeway 620,000 sq ft (57,600 sq m) 7. Office building between Union Station and El Pueblo 180,000 sq ft (16,700 sq m)

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8. Freeway City Roof Garden 160,000 sf (14,900 sq m) which includes: a. Retail b. Sports facilities: two tennis courts, two basketball courts, and two swimming pools c. Vista points overlooking Broadway, Spring, Main, Los Angeles & Alameda Streets’ axis d. Urban ramps that connect the Freeway Sky Park to the city e. Pedestrian link from Chinatown f. Parking Structure System with an adjustable concept to freeway topography as it slopes up and down and turns left and right, with vertical transitions at split levels in the middle of the structures allowing full adaptation to extreme sloping site conditions.

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Southwester Law School Graduate Housing

Land Area: 1.27 acres (5,140 sq m) Built Up Area: 105,000 sq ft (9,775 sq m) Budget: USD 20 Million Architect: Corsini Stark Architects Client: Southwestern Law School

Location: Los Angeles, California Year: 2009 – 2013 (projected)

The project is state-of-theart graduate student housing complex for Southwestern Law School, which is known for its award-winning restoration and adaptive reuse of the renowned art deco Bullocks Wilshire landmark as the hub of its Wilshire Center campus, which is shown in color on the aerial view on the top right corner.

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The new addition features 133 dwelling units, a large open-air courtyard and related parking situated on the southwest corner of the campus. Over 67,000 square feet of living space will include 60 studio, 53 one-bedroom and 20 two-bedroom fully furnished units that can accommodate 153 students.

The building design includes four floors of housing above two levels of parking.

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This phase of the campus expansion intends to transform the urban law school campus into a more inviting environment and an inspiring liberal arts college setting with a live-learn village created by on-campus housing as a natural extension of the student-centered approach.

Unit size will average over 425 square feet for studios, 500 square feet for one bedrooms and 800 square feet for two bedrooms. The units are designed to be fully furnished with amenities such as an on-site business center, private study rooms, a roof-top sun deck, covered parking, large open courtyard and two-story lobby-lounge, with a state-of-the-art security system and wireless internet access, among other features and services.

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Venice Beach Townhouses Location: Venice, California Year: 2001 at University of Southern California Land Area: 22,142 sq ft (2,057 sq m) Built up Area: 19,865 sq ft (1,846 sq m) Designer: Sami R. Khoury The project is located on a plot parallel to Abbot Kinney Boulevard on Electric Avenue, in Venice Beach in Los Angeles. The area is famous for its boutique retail and high end restaurants and many artists and designers reside on the adjacent plots. Thus the project proposes 8 housing units on the plot for a similar user group of audio and visual artists while providing them with a community space that serves their needs.

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With having different types of artists ranging audio and visual, some artists would need bright rooms to work on their visual art work, while others would need dark, or sound insulated rooms to work in. Thus some have studios with wide glass windows while others have underground basement workspace.

The building’s different masses are uniquely colored coded according to their function. The studios are yellow, the servant spaces which are the bathrooms, the parking , and the stairs are colored in brown, while the living spaces and bedrooms are colored in light grey. Each room has an outdoor space that serves it. The living outdoor spaces have trellises that shade them. The trellises give a different character from the bedroom spaces. From the outside, and the inside, each unit has one parking space and one unit is handicap equipped with an elevator. All units have an entry from the street.

There are four types of units that repeat twice, four two-bedroom units, and four one-bedroom units, half of them have underground dark studios. The units are two stories, but they alternate in height forming a sectional silhouette, where there are voids where units are raised, creating voids punching in the complex forming two pathways and gathering spaces over two decks. The deck on the corner is larger than the one in the middle to emphasize the site’s corner as it lies on a wider visual axis.

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Echo Park Apartments Housing Project

The Echo Park housing projects proposal chooses a prime site fronting the Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles, and has the Downtown Los Angeles view from the rear, while being adjacent to the Hollywood 101 Freeway, yet at an exit off-ramp on a very busy street corner. The site’s long axis of faces north and south, with the Northern view being the Lake and the Southeastern view being Downtown Los Angeles.

Location: Echo Park,Los Angeles, California Year: 2001 at University of Southern California Land Area: 38,000 sq ft (3,530 sq m) Built up Area: 96,858 sq ft (9,000 sq m)

The requirement was to afford a density of one unit per 800 sq ft (74 sq m) of lot area and to provide support space not exceeding 2000 sq ft (186 sq m).

The building is laid out as follows: 1. Eastern Zone has 8 one bedroom units, 4 floors of double loaded corridors on every floor.

2. Central Zone has 24 two-story two bedroom units, 4 floors with a double loaded corridor every other floor. It also has 2 handicap units that are three bedrooms equipped with a lift.

3. Western Zone has the community space and 6 three bedroom units, and 7 one bedroom units. This zone forms the corner of the site.

Designer: Sami R. Khoury

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The orientation of the Central building breaks and bends at the middle with a staircase that interrupts the rhythm and curves slightly to face the Echo Park Lake and Downtown LA, yet the upper two bedroom units gradually step back in the Western piece of the middle bar and create larger terraces for the upper units. This break came as an opportunity to face downtown better, and a reaction of the sloping topography in the rear which forms the repose angle of the freeway.

The first floor units have front yards on both sides.

The two bedroom units interlock, giving the advantage of sharing the North indirect light and South direct light but also having at least one quiet room in the apartment that is farther from the freeway and facing the lake; either a bedroom or a living room. This also gives views of both downtown and the lake to all the two bedroom apartments, thus giving a similar value for apartments facing either side.

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Program: 47 Units One Story Units: 15 One Bedroom Units 6 Three Bedroom Units Two Story Duplex Units: 24 Two Bedroom Units 2 Three Bedroom Units (Handicap) Support Space: 1 Community Space 1 Outdoor Playground The playground is placed at the back side of the middle part of the building where the building does not step back. Where it does step back, it creates the front yards of the first floor two bedroom units, which have their living rooms facing the freeway.

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Delaware Avenue Condominiums Land Area: 8,200 sq f (762 sq m) Built up Area: 7,000 sq ft (650 sq m) Construction Budget: USD 1.6 million Design Architect: Corsini Stark Architects

Location: Santa Monica, CA Year: 2005

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This multi-family Residential project is a four-unit townhouse building located on a narrow linear site with its shorter end facing the street. The building blocks have been skewed and clustered in a stepped way to allow better lighting. The roofs have been sloped and laid with Photovoltaic panels facing the sun to take advantage of sunlight energy.

The units are two story condos. The lower level has the living spaces and kitchen, while the upper level has the bedrooms. The upper level windows have vertical louvers to allow mediate the direct sunlight from the East and West, and also to create privacy for the bedrooms.

The lot has a shared continious paved path going on the West side allowing for the enrties to each unit, while on the East each Unit has its own back yard. At the ground level outdoor path cuts the bulding in half to create a connection between the Eastern and Western sides of the lot. The building has an underground parking garage servicing all its units.

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Six-Unit Beach Row House Project

The project is located on a linear narrow piece of land with the longer access facing the beach. The site is on a slope with the higher level being on the street and the lower level being the ocean front walk. The beach facing faรงade has a protruding upper level creating a shaded seating area facing the water.

Location: Hermosa Beach, California Year: 2001 at University of Southern California Land Area: 10,440 sq ft (968 sq m) Built up Area: 8,400 sq ft (780 sq m)

The two split-level floors maximize the utilization of the units through introducing four separate zones. From the street level one enters to the living area zone, then descends to the kitchen and dining area, which opens out to the beach level. From the living area, one can also ascend to the bedrooms level, which opens to both the beach and to a floor above street level. From the bedroom area another floor splits upward leading to a private study room.

Designer: Sami R. Khoury

Each two units are couple together through mirroring forming one reinforced concrete structural entity sharing two columns and the shear walls.

Circulation is minimized to the side of the units as land value is high on the beach front.

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Skid Row Housing Location: Skid Row, Central City East, Downtown Los Angeles, California Year: 2003 at USC Land Area: 27,343 sq ft (2,540 sq m) Built up Area: 108,407 sq ft (10,071 sq m) Proposed Owner: Skid Row Housing Trust Vicinity Plan

Designer: Sami R. Khoury

The project is situated in Skid Row which is a location in Downtown Los Angeles with the largest stable populations of homeless persons in the United States. Skid Row Housing Trust is a supportive housing organization that aims to end homelessness by providing homes that are affordable coupled with the help needed to permanently break the cycle of homelessness.

The project examines the role of creating a space of transformation within a troubled socioeconomic and urban context. A six-story mass, Skid Row Apartments encompasses 89 transitional housing units along with a communal space, a theatre, and cheap retail area that can provide jobs to the inhabitants of the project. The project has amenities and facilities such as a dining area, communal kitchen, meeting rooms, covered and uncovered outdoor decks and gathering areas and a laundry facility. In addition the building incorporates offices and conference rooms that provide social services and workshops for tenants as part of the assistance program to help transitioning them back into society. area and an outdoor theatre interrupted by landscape and water features. Five floors of residential units cradle a central community room on top of the retail plinth, and administrative functions on the ground floor and second floor interlock the housing over the parking basement.

A chain of open deck spaces and exterior gathering areas are notched out or subtracted from the

The project addresses how to offset the solitude nature of the inhabitants’ daily concerns helping them overcome their insecurities, introducing connectivity in social spaces, and enabling the reintegration of their lives into the public life as a whole. Arranged in a court shaped configuration floating over a curvilinear extended passage of retail and commercial shops, a covered community

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mass to erode the building’s apparent solidity, creating a cascading stepping on the roof under the trellises forming a view towards the downtown area. The building corridors wraps around the building on the outside perimeter at the infill sides of the building and the northern elevation, allowing all windows of the apartments to get direct sunlight from the South, East and West.

The units are paired and each four units are cluster around a shared foyer that is open to corridor, creating a closer relation between the neighbors. This arrangement varies depths of connection and views between the internal life of the courtyard and the world outside. The design links the two parallel streets, San Pedro and San Julian, with each other with a path. The connection between the two sides is extended by curving and branching the paths, as such the distance is maximized, along with the elevations’ surface area. The elements of hardscape, landscape, sculptures, theatre, and water features, in combination with the structural grid, all would contribute to the extension of the moving-through experience. In the basement, natural parking lighting is accomplished with structural glass floor openings forming skylights in the slab.

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FIFTH FLOOR

FORTH FLOOR

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THIRD FLOOR

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Basement Parking

Aerial from San Pedro

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Aerial from San Julian

Cultural

Los Angeles Artists’ Colony

Years: 2000 at USC (revisited 2009-2012 for www.architecture-studio.fr competition) Land Area: 6,500 sq ft (604 sq m) Built Up Area: 25,600 sq ft (2,378 sq m) Proposed Owners: The Brewery Art Colony & University of Southern California

Location: Downtown Los Angeles California, USA

Designer: Sami R. Khoury

The Brewery Art Colony, located off of the 5 freeway in Los Angeles, has been called the largest live-and-work artists’ colony in the world, yet it is at a distance from Downtown LA. However, in Downtown LA there is the Artists District where many artists reside in other scattered smaller art colonies. Proposing partnership between the Brewery and the University of Southern California this project yearns to join the LA’s artistic environment with the USC Fine Arts Department into one building located within the LA Artists District with the objective of hosting 12 visiting artists/art faculty members from around the world over varying time intervals, to come together and share their ideas and artwork with the Downtown Los Angeles and USC Academic community, while having them develop mutual relationships with the local artists at the heart of Downtown LA.

The building aims at coupling the experience between the public and private domains. The public shared part of the building lies in the first two floors of the building, which host a public gallery, a fine arts library, a small theatre space, and a botanical outdoor gallery that is enclosed within the concave void generated by the rear elevations negative space. In addition there is a roof terrace that looks over Downtown Los Angeles and the opposing mountains in the distance, creating a perfect environment for artists and the public to mingle when having an open house for the resident artists.

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Study Models

Aerial view of East facing faรงade

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The private program of this project consists of 12 boarding spaces along with 12 artist studio spaces.

It is structured like a communal space, similar to college dormitories, where the resident artists will share the facilities at the two ends of a double loaded corridor, while this corridor has on its Eastern side the studio spaces and has on its Western side the bedroom spaces. The intent of separating the working studio spaces from the living and bedroom space is to have the artists mix with each other when moving within the building floor. They shall interact; they can leave the doors of their studios open and in turn, they can exchange ideas and conversations.

Since it is an infill site, the program is organized around two elevations: A street-facing convex elevation which is celebrated by the gallery, the twisting stair, and the inward stepping concave copper façade of the studio units forming the rear elevation facing Downtown Los Angeles, which is celebrated by the library, internal court, and inverse stepping bedrooms forming the botanical elevation.

The building components cluster into an expressionist sculptural form that reflects motion, enthusiasm and excitement. The gallery has a double volume space wrapped in a fully tessellated curtain façade that forms a glass skirt enclosing the exhibited artwork, making a statement for a transparent inviting public space.

One experiences the entry to the building from the space in between the gallery’s glass skirt and a twisting glass and steel staircase to which leads to the second gallery floor and also to the residences and art studios.

The East facing studios’ elevation is sculpted with folds, offsets and louvers directed towards the North to allow only Northern light to come in. This is essential for visual artists who need the ambient daylight from the sky rather than direct sunlight. The studio becomes a light box as a result of the light shelves and the protruding offsets of the building skin. Each studio is afforded a balcony.

As for the West facing bedrooms, the treatment for the direct harsh sunlight comes from the concave form of the façade, then from the horizontal light shelves and finally from the wire meshes forming the tracks for growing the ivy plants of the botanical façade. This shall give a cooling feel to the elevation and a green façade effect. The plant meshes have been stretches throughout the façade and punctured by the bedroom balconies.

The library space is lit by passive light coming from the folded façade. The libraries windows look out to the outdoor gallery court on the second floor.

The concept models show the ideas behind the glass façade, the separation between public and private, the sculptural motion of the twisted stair and circulation.

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Clay Concept Models

Rear Elevation

Fifth Floor Plan

Sixth Floor Plan

Ground Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Seventh Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

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Front Elevation

Forth Floor Plan Floor Plans

Copper Cladding Close-up Detail of Library Windows

Above: Circulation Diagram Below: Structural Diagram

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Library Internal Courtyard View

Sectional Perspective

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Rear Courtyard

Southwestern Corner with City View

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Northwestern Corner View from Graffiti Street

Los Angeles Maritime Museum Expansion Location: San Pedro, Los Angeles, California Year: 2003 at University of Southern California Land Area: 10.8 acres (4.38 hectares) Built up Area: 71,811 sq ft (6,671 sq m) Proposed Client: Los Angeles Maritime Institute Designer: Sami R. Khoury

The existing Los Angeles Maritime Museum is located at the foot of 6th Street in San Pedro. The project's intention is to create an extension of the gallery spaces and to combine the Museum with a Maritime institute, which is an educational facility that supports the museum to increase the community’s intellect and provide a student community on the waterfront.

The other mission is to develop the waterfront to create a link between the existing fire station and the museum, allowing a promenade that links the pedestrians from the Catalina Island Ferry to the end of the waterfront. At the same time it will be a nice walk that passes through a plaza in front of the museum.

The institute would share an auditorium, classrooms and the plaza space with the museum to complete the complex working shop and open working space that include a crane and launching dock for the boats.

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The idea of the design was to take the waterfront edges and use offsets and parallel lines to create the first direction of lines, then to take lines perpendicular to the first set to create secondary lines forming the second direction. The two sets would form a planar grid of UV directions from the NURBS geometry. The forms of the design would follow the flow of the site lines. As for the museum extension the decision was to expand south and use the existing shell of the building as the form generator, as the existing forms already have a curvy nature.

First the south wall is removed, then the roofs are extended and deformed according to the parallel offsets from the site lines. The middle volume in the shell is used as the service space as the intention was to use the higher volumes as gallery and office spaces. The new entrance is shifted to the south as it creates the path to the lobby space. The curvature of the new angles is the same curvature of the museum's rounded corner to maintain the level of harmony between the old and the new.

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Aerial View Looking East

There are five gallery spaces, three of them are in the new addition and two are in the existing shell. The new galleries are generated from the extension of the original roofs.

Although the structure is new, curved beams that attach to the walls and concrete platform that sits on the existing piers. The Eastern gallery spaces are laid within solid walls that open on axis with the entrance leading to large windows open to the water so the visitors can see the harbor upon their entry.

Then the institute is linked at the end of the museum.

First Floor Plan

Maritime Museum View from Water

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The office spaces are organized inside the wing of the old shell where they were originally. However the new layout is organized in a free-plan open space. For the interior design in the round old shell, the offices are laid out within curved partitions to match the language of the shell.

In front of the museum water features are placed to create a buffer between the old building shell and the new entrance, redirecting pedestrian movement to the new entry. As one enters the lobby space, it is possible to see the old building through the glass skylight for it is aligned with the old clock tower. Also beneath the tower are still the old cranes that used to carry cars onto the San Pedro Ferry. One can see the harbor from the large glass windows that are modified by tilting to the outside to create a more generous circulation space.

The institute is linked to the museum with the plaza, as one enters from the shared outdoor space into a pavilion that opens to the work area, and the same plaza also links to the shared auditorium that sits as a hinge between the two buildings. The roofs of the institute are one continuous ribbon of roofs that are connected extending from the museum’s roof as it comes out of it and yet disassembles as it gets farther creating a language defining the newer complex. Through circulating inside one can get views of the auditorium, the harbor and the existing museum as seen in the renderings.

Maritime Institute Working Area

To have public access to the water and to engage the project with the waterfront, there are steps that go down into the water that are located between the fire station and the old museum shell. They begin to take a similar curvilinear language to enclose the museum with landscaping and a plaza.

As one observes the site, the relationship between the existing monument and the complex is shown. The monument and the institute are lying on the same axis, which is parallel to the southern part of the waterfront.

The structure is split between reinforced concrete and a steel framing system that arches to the old shell and extends south, then shares the loads with bearing and sheer walls as it tries to serve the form.

Maritime Museum Main Entrance

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This also lets a view to the docks and the sailboats as they become more tangible to the eye. Even to the reach of the public as the docks extend out in the water perpendicular to the site lines and to the institute’s axis.

Maritime Museum Interior View Looking at Clock Tower

Federal Government - Institutional

United States Courthouse

The project was a competition submittal in response to the GSA (General Services Administration) design competition Request for Proposals for the Bakersfield courthouse.

Location: Bakersfield, CA Year: 2004 Land Area: 229,000 sq ft (21,000 sq m) Built up Area: 41,500 sq ft (3,900k sq m) Budget: approx. USD 25 million Client: General Services Administration Tenants: Magistrate Court, U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Probation & Pretrial Services Architect: Carrier Johnson + Culture

Site Location

The courthouse tenants include the Magistrate Court, the Marshals Service, and the Probation and Pretrial Services.

The courthouse is organized into five zones as seen on the color coded plans: 1. Public.

2. Judges.

3. Probation Officers.

4. Administrative and Marshals.

5. Prisoners high security sells.

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Site Plan

Facing the main road is the main entry which is celebrated by a sculptural corner accessed through an arcade connecting the main street and the parking lot with the entry. Frontend by a reflecting pool the main façade gives an image of power to the judicial system of the US Courthouse.

The judges have a private secured entry as they have an enclosed parking lot with its own skylight.

As shown in the circulation diagrams on the following pages, special care is made for each circulation type as per the building zones and uses. The judges have a separate path. The probation officers and marshals have their paths that intersect with the prisoners’ circulation, and then there are the high security circulation areas of the defendants and convicts. The public has limited access to the lobby and the court rooms.

The main lobby protrudes from to the outside of the clean rectangular canopy that wraps around the building, creating a double volume space for circulation of the public to the court rooms.

To the rear of the building is the employee parking which is secured by a high wall.

The sally port for transporting and delivering prisoners is on the side of the building and has a separate access, yet is identified through the narrow slit windows in the elevation.

The building uses different materials including red brick, lime stone, metal cladding and clear and spandrel glass curtain walls. The site is landscaped around creating one sculptural element on axis with the courthouse’s atrium giving the public something to contemplate while waiting for the hearing sessions.

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Offices/ Management

Location: Little Tokyo, Downtown Los Angeles, California Year: 2002 at University of Southern California Land Area: 48,623 sq ft (45,17 sq m) Built up Area: 110,927 sq ft (10,305 sq m) Proposed Client: Left Coast Press

Program: • Office Spaces: serving the editors, writers, managers, layout, and publisher.

• Production Spaces: that house the pressplant functions which are the plate making room, paper storage, press room, mail room, delivery truck space and parking • Public space: Internet cafe and public paths to welcome people and engage the with the pressplan.

Designer: Sami R. Khoury The project combines all the necessary programatic and functional elements of a publishing house and a paper pressplant in one location. It relates to the site context and the public through the concept of transforming the main elements of the pressplant; the press machine, folding and delivery, and the offices into a panoramic exhibit.

Printing/ Production Assembly/ Delivery

Zoning Model

Organization: The Program’s organization is split by a public path that devides the site into two zones, offices and production, affording the plant exposure for its paper press machine its the major sculptural element, and teaching the public the process of making the newspaper.

Site: Located at Little Tokyo, in Los Angeles next to Museum of Contemporary Arts (MOCA) opposite the Federal Building and adjacent to the Japanese memorial monument west of the site.

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Second Basement Floor Plan

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First Basement Floor Plan

Ground Floor Plan

Office Building: Since the office building is at the corner of the site, it is the most sculptural part of the project. Its interior layout is transformed to have the same freedom and free form plan. It is furnished with a 120 degree angle workstation layout, which allows the furniture to be laid out on a hexagonal grid around the projects triangular column grid, thus allowing creative solutions while being space efficient at the same time. The publisher’s office and the main conference room are on the top level and open to a terrace that looking over MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Arts) and the Japanese monument.

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Section B-B

North Elevation

West Elevation

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Public Space: The public entrance has been given the same free form spirit and the outdoor space was treated with curvilinear spline triangular openings, which allow a view to the Internet cafe at the basement of the corner. The openings allow indirect sunlight into the cafe space.

Paper Storage: The trucks unload the heavy paper rolls, which are then transported to a freight service elevator that brings them down to the storage space, where they are stacked at the press machine’s paper loading level to be ready for be feeding and instalation.

Parking: The parking is located under ground and its shear wall structure goes up to the ground level to support the mailroom’s floor, which is subject to heavy loads of paper pallets and fork lift vehicles.

Interior Experience: The columns have inverted cone capitals to support the thin concrete stabs that form the office space structure.

Glass Fixing Detail: The glass of openings above the internet cafe is fixed over wrought bent pipes and have the curved glass panels fixed over a track. The glass is fixed to it with a heavy duty special silicon adhesive and insolator, which is the same material used to affix car wind sheilds.

Site Edge: The vertical circulation from the parking leeds the workers to a path that goes along to the office spaces. The Mail room is open to west side of the site to expose its functions.

Sculptural Hierarchy: The office spaces are raised up to signify their importance, and the production spaces are pressed down in the ground to give them the wider span industrial feel. Office spaces front the street and are separated through public path at ground from the production and distribution.

The Mailroom: The roof of the space is a double curved hyperbolic shell surface. It is carried on the extending columns and walls from the parking level. It spans 60 feet. This allows the freedom of movement along the mailroom. This double curved system will maintain the sculptural column-free look of the mailroom’s interior.

Press Exposure: The space is open to public as it goes down to the internet cafe. One can see the press and its mechanism on the three levels.

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Panoramic Windows Exposing the Three Story Press Machine

Commercial - Services

414 Bamboo Lane Mixed Use Location: Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA Year: 2006 Land Area: 2,443 sq ft (227 sq m) Built up Area: 6,266 sq ft (582 sq m) Budget: USD 1.3 million Design Architect: Corsini Stark Architects The building is an elegant 3 Story structure located in Chinatown. It is fronted by vertical bronze tubes on the facade which, when they age, will form a patina that shall visually reference bamboo forests.

Designed to house offices on the second and third floor and a restaurant or commercial space on the first street level. Within the urban fabric, the building fits its program on a difficult site that is only accessible from a narrow alleyway.

Street Context Colored Elevation Renderings Showing Before and After Conditions for City Approvals

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Longitudinal Section

Rear View from Chinatown Market Complex Showing Buildings Effect on the Visual Context for City Hearing

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Automobile Service Center and Gas Station Location: Amman, Jordan Year: 1997 at University of Jordan Land Area: 6,800 sq m (73,195 sq ft) Built up Area: 630 sq m (6,781 sq ft) Covered Area: 1,750 sq m (18,836 sq ft)

rest of the project, with management being paramount at the center. The volume has two floors. The ground floor mart opens to the gas pump islands at the front, and to a dining area at the back. A stair goes up to an L-shaped mezzanine floor that has the offices, which open down to the ground floor forming a double-volume space giving the mart more hierarchy within the cluster. Linear skylights top the space emit natural light. The pumps are covered with a dominant folding canopy emphasizing the most important element of the building.

Designer: Sami R. Khoury The facility combines most automobile services; gas pumps, mechanics’ shop, automated car wash, and three car bays with a pit and two hydraulic car jacks, plus a convenience shop, car accessories shop, and three offices.

The program elements are organized in a hybrid socio-commercial setting leading to customer interaction with most functions. Volumes and spaces are sculpted to express speed forms.

Functions are clustered into four masses of different volumes and are enclosed under two intersecting canopies creating a central mass and forming two axes; a dominant axis, and a recessive axis.

2. Northeast of the market is the largest mass, which combines two bays, a pit, an automatic car wash, and an accessories shop along with storage serving workers in the drying and waxing area. Customers leave their cars at the automatic car wash tunnel then go through a parallel corridor with a panoramic window for viewing the automated car wash tunnel. The corridor subsequently links to the terrace of the mart’s dinning area where customers can order food awaiting their car’s drying, vacuuming and waxing.

Zoning: Each of the volumes is linked to an outdoor space relating directly to their function:

3. Thesmallestmass,whichisadouble-volumemassonthedominantaxis,isthewaxing,vacuuming and drying facility. The upper part above the canopy is a water tank serving the whole compound.

1. The market and offices are in the central double-volume mass, forming a hinge joint for the intersecting canopies. As such, the market and offices have equal access distances from the

4. The long mass is the employees lounge. It has the employees’ parking, a resting area, and few service facilities rooms.

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Computer Science Building 3, UC Irvine The UCI campus architecture reflects the highest standard which are illustrated in the six-story, 160,000 sq ft Bren Hall. It is the new home of the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, which was renamed in 2004 in response to Donald L. Bren’s $20 million contribution.

Bren Hall is a cast in place, integral color architectural concrete structure. The building included a built-up air-handler which is feed by the University’s central plant.

Location: Irvine, California Year: 2004 Built up Area: 160,000 sq ft (14,864 sq m) Cost: USD 40.2 million Client: University of California Irvine Architect: Carrier Johnson + Culture Contractor: Hensel Phelps Construction Co. Project Award: LEED Gold (2009)

Bren Hall accommodates 10 classrooms (from 30-seat to 65-seat); four lecture halls; 90 research labs, wet labs and/or research offices; more than 125 administrative and faculty offices; and administrative support areas for the school’s 62 faculty members and approximately 1,700 students. It also houses a 250-seat lecture hall, 125-seat lecture hall, Dean’s office, Departmental offices, Bren School staff offices and facilities.

This project was the first project at Carrier Johnson + Culture to integrate building information modeling as a standard for delivering the project through Autodesk Revit Architecture. Not only was this a success, but also the project won an LEED Gold Award in 2009.

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Classroom Building Relocated Program Original Program at same floor level Program Relocated from other floors Path of Circulation

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Second Level Floor Plan

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West Elevation

USC Rowing Crew Boathouse

Site Analysis and Influential Forces: The site has an open view completely exposed to the three opposite corners of the two intersecting canals. There is a bridge landing into the adjacent street to the Southwest of the site. There are two other further bridges that look over the site from a nearby distance when overpassing the canals. The site is highly visibility from numerous different angles, and at different velocities. As such, these site forces influenced the curvilinear formation of the project, for when it is perceived from these different angles they give a different impression of its expressionist suggestive fluid forms.

Location: Belmont Shore, Long beach, California Year: 2000 at University of Southern California Land Area: 43,792 sq ft (4,608 sq m) Built up Area: 13,501 sq ft (1,254 sq m) Proposed Client: University of Southern California Designer: Sami R. Khoury

University of Southern California Boathouse Project serves USC’s Rowing Crew at Belmont Shore in Long Beach, CA. It would encompass bays for housing at least eight 60-footer boats, training room, two coach offices, locker rooms, working space, facilities, rigger’s shop and office. The boathouse is designed to launch boats from their storage bays to the water in the easiest and fastest manner.

Concept: The idea was to create a Dynamic Speed Form that conveys the function, program and context in an organic way relating to the site, the water, the boats, the race, and the rowing acceleration.

The Site: A corner of two intersecting canals in Long beach, California with the longer straight axis parallel to the annual regatta racetrack and opposite of the existing Long Beach State University Boathouse.

Program: The program is organized on tree axes. On the longest axis the boat storage and launching functions are laid, with the bays fluidly extending out of the storage racks spaces, and splitting around the mass holding the rigger’s shop and office, to continue flowing into two shooting docks that fork around the cleaning area, continuing their momentum into the water. On the short axis the other functions are split in section. One section bridges over ground to have the theatre and training room. The other dives underground giving privacy to locker rooms. On the diagonal axis, the building’s entrance forms the outer angle, and the exit forms an inner angle opening to a court embraced by the building L-shaped form in both elevation and plan.

Structure: The building’s roof is a thin concrete shell supported by a two joined arches, and sits on curved shear walls at the storage area.

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Aerial Looking North

Religious

Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Grand Masjid

As part of the Marsa Zayed Development in Aqaba Jordan, and as a contribution to the community, the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Grand Masjid comes to echo the original brilliant white Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Abu Dhabi. It carries a string of domes crowning the building, cumulating with the largest dome over the central pray hall. A vast courtyard spreads out before the main hall and is anchored by the Minarates piercing the sky.

Location: Aqaba, Jordan Year: 2012-2014 (projected) Land Area: 18,000 sq m (4.5 acre) Built up Area: 3,885 sq m (41,817 sq ft) Cost: USD 6 million Client: Al Maabar International Investments Architect: Dar Al Omran Cost Consultant: AECOM, NEA & Partners Project Manager: Hill International

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Programming Strategy: Functions of the Masjid are distributed on three levels: - Ground floor level: includes the Main Praying Hall and the vertical circulation elements leading to the other levels.

The Main Praying Hall: approached through an outdoor court surrounded by a roofed arcade creating a ceremonial entry appropriate for the Sheikh Zayed Masjid.

In the center of the court a fountain is introduced to create the spiritual effect of Tahara and a cooling effect for the court. The fountain cools the air coming from the north and entering the Masjid.

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- The Mezzanine Level: includes the women’s praying hall overlooking the main praying hall and yet not being exposed from below. This level is accessed from the men’s entry point to create the privacy requirement for women.

The Extended Praying Hall contains a Library and is used as praying hall if needed on Fridays and the Eid Pray. Throughout the remaining days of the year it could be used as Dar Qur'an.

The Moathen and Imam house are overlooking a sunken garden separated from the main body of the Masjid and accessed from a private entry Functions on the Mezzanine Level are placed there in order not to disturb the grandness of the Masjid.

- The Basement Level: contains an Extended Praying Hall for men and the houses of the Moathen and Imam. It also encompasses all services, i.e. Ablution (Motawada) and W.Cs.

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Surreal Landscape Environment

Surreal Landscape - Self Portrait - Red Eye Years: Sketched & Designed 1998 - Painted & Sculpted 2000 - 3d Modeled 2010 Painting, Sculpture and 3d Modeling: Sami R. Khoury This project explores the transformation of an abstract painting into a three dimensional surrealist landscape project.

Titled as Red Eye- Self Portrait, the painting itself is multi-layered with three dimensional forms which are apparent in the sketches; there is a spherical element, organic floating element, and a deep drop with a quad layout around the central elements.

The painting inspired a sculptural landscape environment. In this merger between art, landscape, and architecture that was created within the world of cinematic digital media, these images are a work in progress for a component of a much larger project, which has been in the works for few years with the author.

Red Eye Painting - Acrylic on Canvas - 2000

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Wood Sculpture - 2000

Earlier sketches and ideas of this vision (in pencil and oil paint) were published in USC’s Palaver, which was a semi annual publication for creative works at the University of Southern California.

Sketches and Design - Pencil and Marker - 1998

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3d Modeling and Texture Mapping - 2010

The three dimensionality was introduced few years later in a landscape project at University of Southern California, which was exhibited in wooden sculptural model showing the contrast between organic forms and pure geometric elements; a sphere and datum of radial columns spreading out the left half of the layout.

In a later development the forms, voids and volumes were merged with the original spirit of the painting’s flamboyant saturated colors.

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Enclosed Theatre in the Lagoon

Its latest status shows a programed layout showing a covered theatre, an open theatre, a vista point, paths leading to the center, lakes and landscapes, and a geodesic glass and steel trussed element with a spiral path inside the sphere.

Pencil Drawings of Plan and Cross Sections - 1999

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Le Corbusier’s Sainte Marie de La Tourette - Rhône-Alpes, France - 2002

Gaudi’s La Pedrera - Barcelona Spain - 2002

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Neighborhood View - Saintes, France - 2002

Gaudi’s Park Güell - Barcelona, Spain -2002

Santa Maria del Mar church - Barcelona, Spain - 2002

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Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion - Barcelona, Spain 2002

Corbusier’s Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France -2002

Church - Saintes, France - 2002

Notre Dame Cathedral - Paris, France 2002

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Church - Saintes, France - 2002

On a Long Bus Ride - Fountain Pen on Paper - 2002

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Friend Sleeping - Charcoal on Paper - 1997

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Father Sleeping - Charcoal on Paper - 1997

Brother - Watercolor on Arches Paper - 1997

Sister - Charcoal on Paper - 1997

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Self Portrait - Acrylic on Canvas - 2002

Wife at Lodge - Pencil, Pen & Watercolor on Canson Paper - 2011 Lady on Couch - Acrylic on Canvas - 2001

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Mother - Oil on Wood - 1997

Wild Flowers - Watercolor on Paper - 2002

Farewell Grandmother - Watercolor on Arches Paper- 1999

The Couple - Acrylic on Canvas - 2001

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Still Life - Acrylic on Canvas - 2000

The Guitarist - Pencil on Recycled Paper - 1996

The Quartet Cycle - Acrylic on Canvas - 2001 These four paintings form a set cycle composition of continuous lines and subjects. Going clockwise from bottom left as follows: The Tree of Life (bottom left) The Voodoo Magician (top left) Fire Blowing at the River (top right) The Quilt of the Mermaid (bottom right) The paintings tell a surreal story through a series of abstract paintings. It is a story of a tree growing into a human figure torso pointing upwards, forming “the Tree of Life”. The lines of the first painting extend into the second painting forming an abstract male human figure, dubbed “the Voodoo Magician” with his right arm pointing upwards and his left arm pointing outwards to generate the next lines for the third painting. The left arm extension turns into a river flowing downwards with another human figure blowing fire above the river, hence the painting titled “Fire Blowing at the River”. The flow of the river forms the lines of the forth painting, where the river turns into a quilt that is attached to the female body of a mermaid and fish tail, which ends this quartet with “the Quilt of the Mermaid”.

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