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selected works
2011-2015
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site plan
A prospective client requests the design of a small weekend and vacation dwelling on a site of spectacular natural beauty. The client is a single woman in
her middle thirties. She is a professor of classics at a university in Germany and has recently inherited a coastal property on the island of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean. Agriculturally, the property has little value due to the rocky soil, but it is located near the town where her mothers family has lived for
generations. As a city dweller, she seeks a quiet retreat from the busy, urban, intensely social rituals of her professional life in favor of a direct relationship
with the surroundings through the spatial occupation with the place, in terms of weather, vegetation, and views. During much of the year the climate of the
Mediterranean region allows one to treat the outdoors as a simple extension of indoor livingwindows and doors can remain open and much of life can
occur in the fresh air. To enhance this lifestyle outdoor spaces should be developed in association with the primary indoor living spaces.
Her immediate interest is the design of a path which celebrates and integrates the features of the site, provides places to sit and look, to write and read, to
create art, to converse and visit, to picnic and to access the beach.
site section
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PRIVATE ZONE
PUBLIC ZONE
GROUND PLANE
INHABITED SPACES
CIRCULATION
3d narrative diagrams
site section
B
DN
DN
UP
section AA
oor plan
section BB
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Initial 2d diagrams illustrating the thought process that led to the nal brick wall design. The diagrams show how the wall is treated in terms
of solid and void, and the attempt to create a gradtion of how porous the wall is in allowing light to lter through. Bricks were manipulated and
rotated in order to ahcieve other desired conditions.
solid
void
3m
2m
7m
7m
A =10mm
120mm
65mm
250mm
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120mm
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3m
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10mm
SHIFTING DECREASES BY A
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I N H A B I T A T I O N : T H E
W A L L
Initial 2d diagrams illustrating the thought process that led to the nal brick wall design. The diagrams show how the wall is treated in terms
of solid and void, and the attempt to create a gradtion of how porous the wall is in allowing light to lter through. Bricks were manipulated
and rotated in order to ahcieve other desired conditions.
L I V E/W O R K
You are asked to create an architecture that is both contextual and contemporary. This presumes a careful study of both conditions and a sustained search for connections across
time. Now is the time to combine material, experiential and spatial experimentation with an ongoing study of vernacular building traditions and landscape integration. As a proposal
for a full-scale endeavor, the project represents an opportunity to discover evocative, sublime, and subtle design opportunities a located in common typologies, pragmatic necessity,
and standard construction materials and methods. The projects should evidence an attempt to challenge the fragmentary nature of contemporary architectural practice in which drawing and making, site and building, interior design and spatial container are too often seen as separate, codied realms of expertise. Specically, a focus on spatial landscapes, outdoor
live/work space, vernacular and climatic inuence, and a rigorous attention to material craft informs the basis for the project.
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PRIVATE / PUBLIC
PRIVATE
SEMI-PRIVATE
PUBLIC
INDOOR / OUTDOOR
INDOOR
OUTDOOR
AXIAL
ORGANISATION
PRIMARY AXIS
SECONDARY AXIS
CIRCULATION
PRIVATE CIRCULATION
PUBLIC CIRCULATION
section AA
ENTRY
ELEVATION
oor plan 00
oor plan 01
entry elevation
view to the public entry of the building towards the gallery and courtayrd
Flashing
Wall tie
Thermal insulation
Cavity
Brick exterior
Whitewashed brick interior
Weep hole
150mm
Expansion joint
700mm
Earth
Concrete footing
365mm
Rebar reinforcement
365mm
365mm
1.095m
365mm
D E T A I L
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A R
In response to your work in Bastakiya, I would like to engage your services on a new project that we might call a Knowledge Archive, for lack of a better term, located at Qanat Al
Qasba in Sharjah. The name or typology does not fully capture the scope and sensibility of the project I imagine, but I trust in your intellect and sensitivity. Please help me imagine a
place where one might visit in homage to knowledge and all that it entails. This place would accommodate, and be inspired by, a variety of activities familiar to the typology of the
library, book store, lecture hall and cafe, but it can not be limited to these known entities. Consider a full spectrum of activities, such as - lectures, library, caf, book store, research
center, rare book archive, map archive, digital database, lms, or even a museumto create an architecture that is the inspirational domus for the mind as well as the senses.
I am looking for a project that recognizes the advancement of knowledge from its past forms, accommodates the present forms and looks to the future continue its advancement. I
trust that you will be able to accomplish an inspirational project that situates itself perfectly into its surroundings. While I have purchased a 540 m2 site adjacent to the existing Al
Qasba building, I would like to occupy, or provide interior space equal to approximately sixty-ve (65%) percent of the site with the other thirty-ve (35%) percent devoted to exterior
space, such as gardens, courtyards, and outdoor rooms: a variety of spatial experiences that activate all of our sensory perception. Local building codes require that the new architecture does not exceed the volumetric parameters established by the height and width of the existing, adjacent building. The code does allow construction to extend to ve meters
below the existing grade.
As this is essentially an addition to the existing building context, your proposal should address, or dene, the entire volume of the site such that the addition communicates with the
existing rather than appear as not something completely foreign. We might say it has similar genes but is not an identical twin.
I look forward to your creations and the opportunity of working with you. I know that you will produce an inspirational, experiential, ephemeral architecture that will bring a tear to my
eyes.
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oor plan 02
oor plan 01
oor plan 03
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section BB
section AA
level 00
level 01
level 02
level 03
level 04
view of the entry staircase beside the skylight that extends throughout the levels of the building
STRUCTURAL
TECTONICS
Tectonic structures rst bloomed in the 1800s which coincided with the industrial revolution and marked the birth of
pure tectonic structures that ourished in the Salle des Imprimes by Henri Labrouste. This opened one of the prominent areas of study in the eld of architecture and inuenced the way contemporary architecture is approached. In
the pursuit to further investigate this topic, a furniture designer had asked for a new design for a furniture gallery as
well as its workshop and studio.
drawings | plans
exploded axonometric
site plan
oor plan 00
drawings | sections
section AA
section BB
(S U B) U R B A N
H O U S I N G
(Sub)Urban Housing is a multi-family housing project in a suburban inll condition of the city of Sharjah in the United
Arab Emirates. This housing strategy targets issues specic to the suburban condition and specic to the region
respectively: density + affordability. It consists of 4 + 1 ADA housing units.
A - 301
A - 301
drawings | elevations
10
11
11
+ 10.6
roof level
10
+ 10.9
+ 10.6
top of parapet
roof level
second floor
second floor
+ 4.06
+ 4.06
first floor
first floor
+ 1.00
+ 1.00
+ 0.00
ground floor
+ 0.00
elevation A
property line
3m setback
3m setback
property line
3m setback
3m setback
property line
elevation B
top of parapet
+ 7.12
+ 7.12
ground floor
+ 10.9
drawings | elevations
A - 302
A - 302
+ 10.6
roof level
+ 10.9
+ 10.6
top of parapet
roof level
second floor
second floor
+ 4.06
+ 4.06
first floor
first floor
+ 1.00
+ 1.00
ground floor
+ 0.00
elevation D
property line
3m setback
3m setback
property line
property line
3m setback
3m setback
property line
+ 0.00
sharjah road level
elevation C
top of parapet
+ 7.12
+ 7.12
ground floor
+ 10.9
A - 302
A - 301
drawings | sections
11
+ 10.6
roof level
unit #1
balcony
1-206
unit #1
bedroom 1
1-302
unit #1
bathroom 1
1-304
unit #1
bedroom 2
1-303
unit #1
bathroom 2
1-305
10
+ 10.9
+ 10.6
top of parapet
roof level
unit #1
deck
1-207
unit #5
bedroom 1
5-302
unit #5
hallway
5-301
unit #4
bedroom 1
4-302
unit #4
hallway
4-301
unit #3
bedroom 1
3-302
unit #3
hallway
3-301
unit #2
bedroom 1
2-302
unit #2
hallway
2-301
unit #1
bedroom 1
1-302
unit #1
balcony
1-206
unit #1
kitchen/dining
1-202
unit #1
bathroom
1-204
unit #1
laundry room
1-205
+ 7.12
second floor
unit #5
kitchen/dining
5-202
unit #1
deck
1-207
A - 201
A - 202
unit #5
hallway
5-201
unit #4
kitchen/dining
4-202
unit #4
hallway
4-201
unit #3
kitchen/dining
3-202
unit #3
hallway
3-201
unit #2
kitchen/dining
2-202
unit #2
hallway
2-201
unit #1
kitchen/dining
1-202
second floor
unit #1
hallway
1-201
+ 4.06
A - 203
A - 204
first floor
unit #1
ofce
1-102
unit #1
bathroom
1-104
unit #1
storage
1-105
unit #5
ofce
5-102
+ 1.00
trench drain
unit #5
hallway
5-101
unit #4
ofce
4-102
unit #4
hallway
4-101
unit #3
ofce
3-102
unit #3
hallway
3-101
unit #2
ofce
2-102
unit #2
hallway
2-101
unit #1
ofce
1-102
unit #1
hallway
1-101
+ 1.00
+ 0.00
ground floor
+ 0.00
section B
property line
3m setback
3m setback
property line
property line
3m setback
3m setback
property line
section A
+ 4.06
first floor
unit #1
gathering area
1-103
ground floor
top of parapet
unit #1
hallway
1-301
+ 7.12
unit #1
living room
1-203
+ 10.9
10
11
6.65m
0.9m 1.3m
6.35m
1.2m
4.15m
1.0m
6.35m
1.2m
4.15m
1.0m
1.2m
6.35m
4.15m
1.0m
1.2m
6.35m
4.15m
1.0m
3.05m
3.0m
1.2m
4.15m
0.9m
2.1m
2.1m
6.65m
0.9m 1.8m
6.35m
0.7m
4.15m
6.35m
1.5m 0.7m
4.15m
1.5m 0.7m
8.64m
unit #1
hallway
1-101
unit #1
bathroom
1-104
unit #2
hallway
2-101
unit #2
hallway
3-101
unit #2
ofce
2-102
unit #4
hallway
4-101
unit #3
ofce
3-102
unit #4
bathroom
4-104
unit #5
hallway
5-101
unit #4
ofce
4-102
unit #5
bathroom
5-104
unit #5
ofce
5-102
1.9m
1.9m
6.4m
1.1m
+1.00m
+1.00m
+1.00m
3.0m
0.3m
C
2.2m
0.9m 1.3m
+1.00m
unit #3
laundry room
3-205
unit #3
storage
3-209
UP
+4.06m
unit #4
laundry room
4-205
unit #4
storage
4-209
UP
unit #5
laundry room
5-205
unit #5
storage
5-209
UP
unit #2
hallway
2-201
unit #1
kitchen/dining
1-202
DN
+4.06m
unit #1
balcony
1-208
DN
+4.06m
unit #1
balcony
1-206
+4.06m
unit #2
bathroom
2-204
unit #2
kitchen/dining
2-202
+4.06m
unit #2
balcony
2-208
DN
+4.06m
unit #2
balcony
2-206
unit #3
bathroom
3-204
unit #3
hallway
3-201
A - 202
A - 701
DN
+4.06m
unit #3
balcony
3-206
+4.06m
unit #4
hallway
4-201
unit #3
kitchen/dining
3-202
+4.06m
unit #3
balcony
3-208
1.6m
3.05m
unit #1
hallway
1-201
A - 403
A - 701
A - 204
unit #1
bathroom
1-204
+4.06m
unit #4
bathroom
4-204
unit #5
hallway
5-201
unit #4
kitchen/dining
4-202
+4.06m
unit #4
balcony
4-208
DN
+4.06m
unit #4
balcony
4-206
+4.06m
unit #5
bathroom
5-204
unit #5
kitchen/dining
5-202
+4.06m
unit #5
balcony
5-208
+4.06m
unit #5
balcony
5-206
D
+4.06m
3.05m
A - 401
unit #2
laundry room
2-205
unit #2
storage
2-209
UP
+4.06m
1.6m
A - 202
+4.06m
unit #5
living room
5-203
1.4m
+1.00m
3.05m
3.05m
+1.00m
3.05m
3.05m
+1.00m
unit #1
laundry room
1-205
unit #4
living room
4-203
5.1m
+1.00m
elevator
1.6m x 1.6m
+4.06m
2.1m
+1.00m
2.1m
+4.06m
A - 203
1.1m
+1.00m
unit #5
deck
4-207
+4.06m
+4.06m
unit #3
living room
3-203
+4.06m
UP
A - 302
+1.00m
0.9m
3.0m
1.7m
unit #3
bathroom
3-104
unit #4
deck
4-207
+4.06m
+4.06m
unit #2
living room
2-203
+4.06m
1.7m
unit #1
ofce
1-102
unit #2
bathroom
2-104
unit #3
deck
3-207
+4.06m
+4.06m
unit #1
living room
1-203
2.2m
A - 204
A - 203
unit #2
deck
2-207
+4.06m
+4.06m
4.3m
unit #2
storage
5-105
8.64m
unit #5
strogae
5-106
UP
1.1m 0.7m
unit #4
storage
4-105
unit #4
strogae
4-106
UP
22.1m
unit #3
storage
3-105
+1.00m
A - 302
unit #1
deck
1-207
2.9m
3.16m
2.4m
5.0m
1.6m
1.0m
5.8m
unit #3
strogae
3-106
unit #5
gathering area
5-103
unit #5
entrance
+1.00m
UP
+1.00m
13.5m
22.1m
unit #2
storage
2-105
4.15m
22.1m
unit #2
strogae
2-106
unit #4
gathering area
4-103
unit #4
entrance
+1.00m
UP
1.5m 0.7m
12.0m
unit #1
storage
1-105
unit #3
gathering area
3-103
+1.00m
22.1m
elevator
1.6m x 1.6m
UP
4.15m
8.4m
+1.00m
+1.00m
unit #3
entrance
1.5m 0.7m
3.0m
1.9m
unit #2
gathering area
2-103
4.15m
6.35m
2.4m
+1.00m
unit #2
entrance
6.35m
1.9m
A
+1.00m
8.4m
3.16m
2.4m
+0.00m
+1.00m
11
A - 201
3.16m
3.16m
A - 201
unit #1
gathering area
1-103
10
unit #1
entrance
2.1m
3.81m
3.81m
3.05m
A - 301
A - 301
10
6.35m
0.7m
4.15m
6.35m
1.5m 0.7m
4.15m
6.35m
1.5m 0.7m
4.15m
1.5m 0.7m
6.35m
4.15m
1.5m 0.7m
3.05m
3.0m
4.15m
0.9m
2.1m
2.1m
6.65m
6.35m
4.15m
6.35m
4.15m
unit #3
balcony
3-306
+6.12m
A - 405
+6.12m
unit #4
balcony
4-306
+6.12m
0.9m
2.1m
+6.12m
unit #5
balcony
5-308
+6.12m
unit #5
balcony
5-306
1.9m
8.15m
3.77m
3.65m
1.2m
8.6m
chiller
A - 302
A - 701
roof plan
chiller
2% slope
D
+6.12m
A - 204
chiller
chiller
chiller
3.5m
22.1m
unit #5
bedroom 1
5-302
1.6m
A - 202
+6.12m
+6.12m
unit #4
balcony
4-308
DN
5.5m
+6.12m
unit #5
bathroom 1
5-304
unit #4
bedroom 1
4-302
A - 203
+6.12m
unit #3
balcony
3-308
DN
A - 204
unit #5
hallway
5-301
unit #4
bathroom 1
4-304
unit #3
bedroom 1
3-302
unit #5
bathroom 2
5-305
1.6m
unit #2
balcony
2-306
4.15m
2.6m
1.9m
1.9m
2.55m
6.4m
1.15m
2.55m
6.8m
8.65m
1.1m 0.7m
2.2m
+6.12m
DN
1.6m
+6.12m
+6.12m
unit #2
balcony
2-308
3.05m
unit #1
balcony
1-306
unit #4
hallway
4-301
unit #3
bathroom 1
3-304
unit #2
bedroom 1
2-302
unit #5
storage
5-309
unit #4
bathroom 2
4-305
1.4m
3.05m
+6.12m
unit #3
bathroom 2
3-305
0.7m 2.1m
+6.12m
unit #1
balcony
1-308
DN
4.15m
22.1m
unit #1
bedroom 1
1-302
3.0m
+6.12m
unit #4
storage
4-309
unit #3
hallway
3-301
unit #2
bathroom 1
2-304
4.15m
6.35m
17.2m
unit #2
hallway
2-301
unit #1
bathroom 1
1-304
DN
unit #2
bathroom 2
2-305
unit #5
bedroom 2
5-303
8.4m
unit #1
hallway
1-301
unit #4
bedroom 2
4-303
+6.12m
unit #3
storage
3-309
+6.12m
0.7m
22.1m
1.9m
+6.12m
+6.12m
unit #3
bedroom 2
3-303
+6.12m
unit #2
storage
2-309
unit #1
bathroom 2
1-305
A - 203
+6.12m
unit #2
bedroom 2
2-303
+6.12m
unit #5
deck
5-207
+6.12m
2.4m
+6.12m
elevator
1.6m x 1.6m
unit #4
deck
4-207
+6.12m
4.5m
+6.12m
unit #1
bedroom 2
1-303
A - 302
unit #3
deck
3-207
+6.12m
6.35m
A - 201
1.9m
unit #2
deck
2-207
+6.12m
+6.12m
11
A - 201
unit #1
deck
1-207
10
6.65m
0.9m 1.8m
A - 301
2.1m
3.81m
3.81m
3.05m
11
A - 301
2% slope
2% slope
2% slope
2% slope
C
roof
drainage
2% slope
roof
drainage
roof
drainage
2% slope
roof
drainage
2% slope
roof
drainage
roof
drainage
roof
drainage
A - 202
2% slope
roof
drainage
roof
drainage
2% slope
roof
drainage
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+4.06m
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3860mm from
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6640
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4140
2215
1040
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2205
smoke
detector
1000
1200
1550
2860mm from
nished grade
1990
1649
1649
UP
access
panel
access
panel
Return
S
DN
SEC
1120
2860mm from
nished grade
2270
oor
D
2860mm from
nished grade
D
1500
ground
2860mm from
nished oor
+4.06m
1430
enlarged
2270
+4.06m
Return
2860mm from
nished oor
790
+1.00m
D
+4.06m
1335
+1.00m
smoke
detector
3540
5125
5125
1120
SEC
3540
4190
+1.00m
4190
1730
SEC
1200
1730
2860mm from
nished oor
1730
3540
1335
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3540
access
panel
Supply
Return
735
1730
1730
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1200
smoke
detector
smoke
detector
smoke
detector
2460mm from
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650
650
2460mm from
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940
Supply
3260
18685
4280
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Supply
3260
13500
2600
2645
access
panel
1040
2645
1040
940
smoke
detector
660
660
2600
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smoke
detector
5790
UP
Return
1650
940
3540
1650
2860mm from
nished grade
1990
2340
+4.06m
1550
smoke
detector
smoke
detector
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1200
2860mm from
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1040
970
3925
3627
1000
2590
210
+1.00m
3540
+4.06m
5360
2860mm from
nished grade
B
+1.00m
735
2590
+0.00m
940
2860mm from
nished oor
smoke
detector
SEC
SEC
6640
2500
Flashing
Vapour Barrier
Rigid Insulation
4140
2200
2060
+6.12m
Mullion
3230mm from
nished oor
2450
1650
1140
610
Railing
5360
735
2550
570
+6.12m
3230mm from
nished oor
S
1300
B
1040
+6.12m
1040
Supply
Return
2500mm from
nished grade
1200
1550
6785
2830mm from
nished oor
1355
950
735
1140
SEC
610
2930
1040
2200
Screed (30 mm )
S
access
panel
1355
DN
Supply
3850
18685
3335
3335
access
panel
A - 501
2590
SEC
1990
Return
940
1000
Furring Strips
Plank Wood Finished Flooring
3230mm from
nished oor
Supply
Return
1120
Soil
5125
935
+6.12m
oor
D
Sand
Gravel
Terra Cotta Drainage Pipe
Retaining Wall
D
+6.12m
1430
1500
second
580
enlarged
Steel Rebar
2270
+6.12m
1465
2600
Concrete Footing
Earth
S P A C E [LESS ]
C I T Y
A B U
S H A G A RA
The project is looking for an architectural solution that will provide a house for the cars. LHabiter pur la machine. Scope of the investigation is to create a building that will both function as used cars shopping mall as well as retail/commercial hub for the inhabitants of the area, and, nally as one the most important public
space / urban park of the city. Due to the peculiar functional program, architecture and landscape must be conceived as one design. The building will be a hybrid
functional organism inserted into a regular built grid of anonymous blocks where the open space / public park will be the key feature for the neighborhood while
the used car market will attract visitors from the whole city and beyond. Your architectural solution must achieve an iconic role for the area.
concept diagrams
MOSQUE
BANK
SHOPPING
A
C B
MEDICAL
industrial area
abu shagara
al nud
the site
density
functions of surrounding
existing views
voids
accessibility
enclosure
solid edges
the sites
noise
roads
car shop
parking
furniture shop
mixed - use
car circulation
open vs closed
private
private
public
public
car drop-off
entry-points
car park
retail
ofces
car mall
parking
CLOSE
OPEN
diagrams | implantation
retail
ofces
car mall
park
streets of interest
site plan
functional diagram
drawings | plans
+0.75m
.00m
+0.00m
drawings | plans
+5.50m
+5.50m
+5.50m
+5.50m
+5.50m
+10.50m
drawings | sections
+25.5
roof level
+ 25.8
+25.5
top of parapet
roof level
+ 20.5
top of parapet
+ 20.5
second floor
second floor
+ 15.5
+ 15.5
second floor
second floor
+ 10.50
+ 10.50
second floor
second floor
+ 5.50
+ 5.50
first floor
first floor
ground level
ground level
+ 0.00
section AA
+ 25.8
+ 0.00
section BB
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Tareq Al Khawam
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e: mtareq.alkhawam@gmail.com