This is me :)
• NO TO REPETETIVE WORKS
• YES TO EASE AND AUTOMATION
SOMETIMES, WE SHOULD PAUSE WORKING ON A JOB WHICH EXPECTED TO PERFORM FASTER.IN THIS PORTFOLIO, YOU WILL LEARN ABOUT MY ABILITY TO MAKE SPECIAL WHEELS THAT CAN BE CREATED FOR A UNIQUE PROJECT.
General BIM Abilities
Dynamo and Computational Design
• Big Projects demand Best programs
• Creative designs need special skills
Dynamo is a great tool to design and perform big projects. I use dynamo to not only create dynamic, complex, and unique forms, but also facilitate BIM projects like coding.
• I Love Making Families Game Changing Families
It is art of making reference lines and dimension parameters (as skeleton), modeling elements and constraint them with these lines, taking off useful data, and playing with formulas, make me working with families joyful.
To better understand these works, please open my LinkedIN Profile and find them in the Featured section.
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Coding the Concept in Dynamo
Sketch
Detailed Drawing
Laser Cutting the Stone pieces, using the dynamo code of Laser Cut
Arsenale Pomtofico –
Academic Project
Sapienza University of Rome - 2018
Architectural Requalification
Interior Renders
Ground floor is considered for Sunday marketing stalls, followed by coffee bar in first floor and studying lounge in second floor. This design makes unique visions to each other part of the interior space.
The spaceframe structure made of glass and steel that goes through the interior space with two levels connected with escalators, combined with plywood floors, aside from existing walls and columns with original materials. The ground floor is considered for Sunday marketing stalls, followed by a coffee bar on the first floor and a studying lounge on the second floor. This design makes unique visions to each other part of the interior space.
First Floor
Second Floor
3D Section – Spaces Diagram
MARKETS – FOODS n BEVERAGES - COFFEE
STUDING LOUNGES – SOCIAL SPACES – MAGAZINES ROOM
FAS Hospital Professional Project
Liman Consulting Engineers - 2016
Façade Design and Technical Development
Liman company ’ s major field of work is designing and executing healthcare projects. One of my projects was to design and technical development of the FAS Hospital project. I had some restrictions for this job, no extra console and not any slanted element in the façade skin. At the same time, an innovative design that should be different from other projects constructed by the company was demanding. Therefore, I utilized reveals on walls, playing with materials to make a unique way design pattern, and in a subsequent step, developed that approach to other sides and parts.
As well as façade works, I was in charge of working on technical developments plans and sections by helping my colleagues. Working with other specialists of the project, mechanical engineers and structural engineers for instance, was a wonderful experience to get in deep touch with all challenges of executing an enormous project.
Technical Development - Wall Section
Prepared 2D details for technical development are mainly in dwg format.
Importing them in Revit and making them adaptive with the project are usually tricky. By importing them in Revit family environment, stacked with proper reference lines, and nested family, I managed to create time saving families that led to flexible and accurate drawing.
Technical Development Professional Wall Schedule
As part of the project, a take-off of Wall Schedule based on Thickness, length and area was demanded. To making walls with 10cm and 12cm together, 20cm 22cm and 24 cm together, and etc. I used formula as shown blow.
Technical Development
Parametric Amphi-Theater Detailing
In this part of project, I had challenge of drawing Audience Vision Lines for screen that had not fixed location on drawing time. This situation could led to repetitive redrawing works and time wasting in future. Therefore, I made it flexible for any time and any dimension.
Design Options
• Every moment you work values
• Every decision you make matters
• Every idea you get cares much
By constraining dash-lines with screen, the drawing never been shattered by changing screen ’ s position and size. Besides this detail is usable for any other project and adaptive in any dimension and quantity for easing work of drawer.
Final Design
Finally the option which the whole console has different color and random touches of that on the other parts of the building was approved by my supervisor and client. I had some restrictions for this job ,no extra console or and not any slanted element in façade skin for instance. At the same time, an innovative design which should be different from other projects constructed by the company was demanded. Therefore, I utilized reveals on walls and playing with materials and made a unique way design pattern and in subsequent step, developed that approach to other sides and parts.
Venice island – Ear Structure Academic Project
Hochschule Bochum - 2019 Architectural Design Studio
A very huge Island near Venice, Which is 21 Hectare in area. Project tasks was dealing with some existing buildings and developing new structures.
But designing a structure which is considered as an invitation for voyagers to this Island, was one of my major points of this project. This design is inspired from EAR that represents “listening to the tranquil sound of river“ .
Concept
According to the diagram below, the choice of material and structure form is based on softness of ear ’ s anatomy. Earlobe part for instance is made by grass (to make place for lay down and enjoying the view of sea) and glass in façade. Spaceframe structure with composite and glass panels are used for the other parts of façade.
Besides, the pattern of the façade is also inspired by the skin of fish.
3D Section Box
Vertical Access
All levels are connected with each other only with Ramps.
There is no Elevators or Stairs box at all.
Intercontinental Motors Building – Master’s Thesis
HBIM Process for the Rehabilitation of Urban Built Heritage
UTSA - Sapienza
San Antonio, TX, USA – 2022
As of my deep interest in BIM, for my master final thesis, I intended to do a practical conservation project utilizing BIM from fundamental steps to end of construction and preservation after construction, providing architectural documents as well as analyses and schedules by using BIM oriented software programs and 3D scanning.
Intercontinental motors building, designed by O’Neil Ford in 1960 was chosen as case study of this project. It’s been decided for new intervention of this building with a new function. Recreational space (multi-functional use) for the glass box and Cinema-Theatre for the Saloon. Dealing with phases of this building (Existing, fabrics that should be demolished or maintained and New intervention construction), 3D scan of it’s brick wall facade, LEED study and solar analysis for a sustainable design, taking off schedules and maintaining Mortars using 3D Scan and Revit tools were some parts of this project.
Glass Box Showroom
Front-Head of the building, the glass box showroom, acts as the vital signature of the building from it's establishment. Therefor it is recommended to save all of the modern architecture fabrications used in this part of the building as it is.
The composite panel wall, however, faces some modifications to comply with the new functionality of the building. The walls in the top floor will be demolished. In the first floor, as this showroom should have no straight connection with the office rooms behind in the new intervention of the project, all current connections with supporting rooms, the aisle way and windows for example, should be removed. Only one part of the wall will be remained the same.
Interior Natural Light
Subtracting the building Vertically to make Patio by demolishing Slab of Level 2 and Roof
In majority works of O'Neil Ford, he usually use natural light for interior spaces rather than artificial ones. As in our new Intervention design, we are transforming services' spaces to functional spaces like offices and public lounges, we need to make some patio by subtracting some parts in floors and roof Besides, adding green spaces and trees into these patios can enhance tranquility of office spaces and waiting areas, which psychologically leads to increase in efficiency of employees in office spaces as well as better experience for people in their waiting time.
Result
These created Patios through demolishing some parts of the slab and the roof, not only provide interior natural light with high windows, but also make tranquil views for interior sitting people
Interior Renders
Multi-Use Cinema Hall
A 180 degree theatre show room dividable with a moving wall acting as both screen projection and acoustic insulation. This converts a theater hall into two cinema hall.
Second Floor
First Floor
Surveying
Agisoft 3D Scan
Photogrammetry, is a useful tool in BIM process which can help to get accurate 3D scan of the existing building with real conditions and use it in our project For this step, a brick wall was chosen to start, with 52 pictures of above 060 quality rate that led to 56,453 points in Tie Points and 58,327,931 points in Dense Cloud mode The model merged with the project accurately through the software program Autodesk Navisworks
EROSIONS’ DRAWING
Surveying some erosion of the building in AutoCAD with hatches and lines was a part of the project. Traditionally, I had to draw manually over a picture, but in this case I utilized multiple use of some software programs to have it done automatically. I adjusted the photograph through the Photoshop, converted that black and white picture to DWG with help of illustrator, and the job was done. This process saved much of time and energy to get a valuable data.
Export img to dwg in illustrator with Trace Tool
The generated drawing in AutoCAD
Import in Revit and place in the proper place and scale
Timing and Scheduling
To preserve valuable fabrications of this historical building, the execution, and documentation of this project are challenging. Major renovation activities must be done inside the building. Meanwhile, the exterior walls and roof should not be in danger of demolition. Specifically, The interior cinema/theater construction demands giant vehicles, and there is no way to bring such things inside but the two voids which are provided as high doors' demolition. Besides, as the interior seats are precast concretes, to pass them from the provided voids, they should be divided into smaller pieces.
How to manage the Challenges above?
To figure out the challenges and correctly perform this project, an accurate schedule is demanded. MSP project is a suitable tool to plan this project. This plan is building information, and according to the 4D BIM definition, this information can be modeled through Autodesk Navisworks. We designate each task of the plan a 4D-ID and at the same time, we designate each element in the Revit file with the related 4D-ID.
To simulate the construction steps, we merge the MSP data with the Revit file, to control the workflow of the project's logistics
To Watch the Animation, hit this link to my LinkedIn post.
Phasing
Instead of manually drafting each stage of a project, through BIM it is possible to organize time stage of every fabrication of the building and document the project's life cycle based on. In conservation projects, after modeling the existing projects, we can designate fabrications that should be preserved, mark elements to be demolished, apply temporary elements in real world execution stage, and present New Intervention fabrications.
Solar Analysis and LEED STUDY
To have our design qualified for LEED points, Spatial Daylight Autonomy (sDA) and Annual Sunlight Exposure (ASE) should follow specific regulations. The glass box and southern rooms behind in this building have ASE of higher than 20%, meaning these rooms receive too many hours of direct sunlight, negatively impacting direct sunlight on occupant comfort.
With the insight Plugin in Autodesk Revit, the ASE and sDA calculations of the rooms were done and assisted me making the best decision for the New Intervention.
With the application of Louver on 3 Sides of the Glass box, the ASE of this massive glazed room decreased to 15%. Besides, by utilizing the horizontal sun shield, the director room, which had the issue of ASE in the existing situation, receives a suitable amount of direct sunlight.However, this addition, in my opinion, seems a big penetration in the characteristic of this modern building, instead, enhancing the comfort of the interior space in the long run. Such regulations are demanding in this era and future.
The application of this louver system can be temporary and removable to respect to the characteristic of this modern building.
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