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Architectural PortfolioMhd Haian Al Zouabi

In This Portflio

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Statement.................................................

East Tigara Community Center..............

Swimming pool Dynamic Roof.................

Red Crescent Medical Center...............

Dariya Post-war Reconstruction..........

Urgent Shelter Response......................

Dynamo Work Sample..............................

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Statement

Architecture can be seen from a variety of vantage points. Personally, I find that architecture (along with urban design) represent the process of solving problems that the communi-ty (or costumer) encounters, it is the process of researching, designing and constructing buildings with consideration of the most serve problems the community (or costumer) encoun-ters.

The process definitely has to take the key elements of archi-tecture (that Vitruvius spoke about), however, it also should take into account the modern problems that are currently facing humans, such as climate change and the global econ-omy.

It is clear that the world is suffering from climate change, which is triggering more natural disasters and damaging the third world’s economy. Architecture can help with such prob-lem, through proper design and more scientific research our buildings can consume less power thus decreasing the car-bon footprint.

Moreover, we are still recovering from the financial crisis, and some parts of the world are still in ongoing conflicts, this means that more and more people are in need for shelter, housing and facilities to support their living. Architecture can have a leading role here, more research in building materials and finding sustainable solutions for buildings and cities (that support economy and urban life) can afford more housing and jobs for societies. I believe that architecture currently have to work with these challenges. And what is really required is a sustainable ar-chitecture and urban design, not only in the sense of natural sustainability, but rather an economic and social sustainable.

I see architecture as process of seeking solutions to these problems, and in order for that to happen we have to invest in the current scientific and technological developments, and moreover to research and study the humanitarian and eco-nomical aspects that architecture affects.

I tried to keep this portfolio informative as much as possible, I only included projects that represent my abilities and way of thinking and designing.

To see one more small project I took part in, kindly go hereMHD HAIAN AL ZOUABI

GARDEN will support the project’s role with enriching the local residents lives. Both the structure and the garden will have an inte-gral role in attracting the local dwellers.

East Tigara Community Center

Site Analysis Consept

The goal was to create a project that supports the urban life of the East Tigara district and provide a number of essential everyday services for the neighbour dwellers. The project also aims to rehabilitate an abandoned garden near by.

The land of the project lies in the center of a neighborhood that lacks any activities to support urban life, Even though it has large green zones and public parks. Yet they are not designed appropriately to interest the local dwellers to visit them and spend time.It contains an empty public lot and a gar-den with an abandond children play ground along with a dried out small river.The neighbor lacks meeting places such

gyms, clubs and cafes, also some city utili-ties are missing. Residents have to commute for long distances to reach such facilities. This leads them to spread around the city and avoid meeting their neighbours, espe-cially in the evenings and holydays.

The region has a desert climate; tempera-ture and sunshine are extreme during the summer season.

The children play ground

ENTRACNCES The project zone has a main entrance axis facing the st`reet that leads to the main road, whereas the garden has 3 entrances.

FUNCTIONS The project functions were distributed around a central space (plaza), with consideration to their relationship to the street.

The small River

Project Type: AcademicSubject : Architectural Design 3Indivsual ProjectYear: 3rd Academic year 2011-2012Suporvisor: Amjad Alkoud, Assoc.AIA, M.Arch.Silicon heights, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, UAEPhone: +971561351687 Email: Ak@studioak.co

MOVEMENT, ACTIVITIES The garden is designed in a way that makes it obligatory for people to pass through various activity points.

CHILDREN’S PLAY Placing the children play-ground in the center of the garden will get the adults (parents) to meet each other as they sit around play zone to watch their children.

PLANS

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FINAL DESIGN

1- Shopping Center2-Post Office3-Governmental services4-Emergency medical point5-Hall6-Sport Center7- Children Playground8-Resturant

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Sustainability

Circular Plan

Multi Purposes for the Skin

Winter

Skin Detail

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PERSPECTIVE

MAIN ELEVATION

Comparing to other geometric shapes, Cylinders have low surface area to volume ratio which helps isolating the inner environment of the building from the outer atmo-sphere in winter and summer.

Additional to its original purpose to help control interior climate, the smart skin can be used to to make aesthetic formations by lightsand shadow especially at night.These formations can either be determined or spontaneous (set by the shops owners in the mall).

The smart skin, an important as-pect to the green project, it helps protecting the interior space from the sun in summer, and to give the building fascinating dynamic fa-cades.

FINAL DESIGN

Skin Detail

Shopping Center INterior On A Summer Day *

The River

THE Inner Plaza

The Shopping Center At Night

Renders

* The mixture of the smart curtain walls, artificial waterfalls and the colorful hanging planes gives the mall it’s special inner at-mosphere, which is is both visually relaxing and have thermally comfortable

Dynamic Roof Structure

The goal was to design a local small public swimming pool andto find a fully detailed structuralsolution for the facility.The study also had to include a practical mobile roof for the swimming pool, a roof thatcan be opened by summer and closed by winter.

My Role: The complete project includes full executive plans for the structural study. However, The plans, details, and renders shown here focus mainly on the dynamic mobile roof, as it was my role in the project.

My responsibility was to come up with an innovative and creative solutions for the roof movement.

Collaborative Project :Subject : Exuctive Designs 4Year: 4th Academic year 2012-2013Suporvisor: Prof. Dr. Ghassan Aboud

Students: Fadel Al Sakka, Marina Abo Zedan, Mhd Haian Al Zouabi ,Nizar Rahmeh and Saamer Al Azzam

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Roof Plans

The swimming pool was required to be about 18*35 meters along with all its standard facil-ities. Seats for 500 viewers were required as well. The given project zone has a relatively small area. And the pool structure had to be adequate and designed careful not to waste space when its erected.

After many attempts, the final decision was to try to apply a type of mechanical movement t that would allow a simple linear force mov-ing the beams in one direction to result a vast radial motion around the center of the struc-ture. This solution succeeds in conserving a considerable area of the land when the roof is opened.

The solution was produced with respect to the circular shape of the roof. The con-struction system consists of 2 networks; the first one supported the mobile roof ring shaped beam, whereas the second one supports the pool facilities beneath the roof.

The structural system consists of a round wide frame truss supported by 6 metallic columns. The system hold up the dynamic roof that is made of 24 I-beams, 12 cover plates and 6 hy-draulic hydraulic compressors.

Fully ClosedRoof

First Floor Plan

Fully OpenedRoof

Cover Plate and the location of the beam

Exuctive Plans

The Structural System

The 6 hydraulic compressors only push the beams for a simple distance of 2 meters, yet it is adequate to result an overall motion that covers the 50 meters wide structure. This particular retractable roof

design remains just a basic me-chanical concept that intended to serve architectural and engineering purpose. Even though the various details were carefully researched, corrected and reconsidered many times over the project semester, yet they remained a starting point that needed improvement.

In conclusion, the design needed more time and financial resources to be produced perfectly.

1.Hydraulic compressoar Detail 2.WIdeframe Truss 3.Columns’ foundation 5.Hinge4.Peak Point

Exuctive Sections

Perspectives

Simple Model Comment

Inner Environment

Exuctive Details

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Section A-A’ (Fully Closed Roof)

The Structural System The Roof at Both Situations

Red Crescent Medical Center

Damascus university had a general academic plan to develop an informal settlement called “Dahadeel” in the suburbs of Damas-cus city,The district original lacks any appropriate infrastructure, and during the year 2013 its only clinic was subjected to destruc-tion and vandalism during the conflict in Syria.

Project Type: AcademicSubject : Architectural Design 4Indivsual ProjectYear: 4th Academic year 2012-2013Suporvisor: Architect. Ali A-masriMazzeh, Damascus, Syira

The area of the Project is an in-formal settlement that was built by locals without any planning, thus it lacks any kind of govern-mental services.

The project zone is stifled by the random concrete masses of the the surrounding housing, thus the design had 2 green patios on the inside, with functions distrib-uted around it.

The green patios also plays a vital role in controlling the inner atmosphere especially in sum-mer, as they are designed to collect wind and direct it to cool the interior space space.

Round shape of the patio is de-formed to be parelal to the wind direction,

The wall on the far ends are high to block the wind’s way and direct it into the patios.

The project program was estimated on the local needs, it mainly consisted of ER, clinics, operating rooms and a small ICU along with their services,

The selected zone is at an in-tersection of 2 relatively wide streets, which would allow private cars as well as ambu-lances to reach the center.

In the selected land,two badly damaged one-story building where to demolish to provide a small area for the project to be constructed.

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AdministraionICU

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PLANS

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Having been working for the Syria Arab Red Crescent at the time I knew that the organisation along with Red Cross were trying to rebuild a med-ical center to replace the old one. Therefore, I worked on combining the efforts of Damascus University and the Red Crescent and presented the medical center as an architectural academic project to my University.

SECTION, Facade Perspective

Thermal Analysis

Section A-a’

Section B-B’

Main Facade

General Perespective

Main Entrance by nightSimple thermal simulation for average temperature in summer days

Dariya Post-war ReconstructionA summury of Graduation Thesis

The project was an attempt toward a different method of rebuilding war-damaged districts in Syria, an attempt that wasn’t only focused on the physical rebuilding of the cities, but rather on the social and econom-ic sustainable rehabilitation of the cities.

Project Type: AcademicGraduation ThesisCollaborative Project, Students: Marina Abo Zedan. Mhd Haian Al Zouabi, Zuhar Al Jundi.Suporvisor: Dr. Proffesor. Emad Al-MasriDummar, New Sham, Damascus, SyriaEmail: dr.emad.almasri@gmail.com

Summary

Analysis

1.location 2.Topography

3.History

1970-2011 Problems:

Post 2011 conflict:

It takes place in the historical city of Dariya, and it aims to rebuild it after it was severely dam-aged in the war and to avoid the problems that were affecting Dariya prior to the conflict.

The thesis addresses three levels of work, urban planning, urban design and architectrual de-sign. The three levels play integral role in the socail, economic and physical rise of Dariya city.

The final result was in association with the following official parties:

-General Company for enineering studies and consulting-Directorate of Agriculrural Education-General Order of Farmers in Damasucs Suburbs-Ministry of Agruclture and Livestocks-Governorates of Damasucs and Damasucs Subrubs-The Elected Reprsetive of Dariya’s dwellers, Mr. Hitham Shalati

The project land is nearly 500 hect-ares. It lies in between a projected residential district (1-2), farmlands and green zones (2-3), the current city of Dariya (3-4) and finally an

airport safety offset (4-1)

Originally, the land has been used as farms for thousands of years (a part of the Damascus Ghouta). It is almost flat, it only has some minor water streams. Currently, it has a considerable amount of informally structured masses (mostly

houses and factories).

Lack of self-sufficiency in food production, as people went for industry which is

more profit

The land turned into an informal settlements with no proper public services such

as schools.

Eventually, during 40 years, the hundreds of hectares of farmland and green land dropped down to nearly 30%

and turned into irregular concrete buildings. jeopardizing the air pollution and climate of the capital Damascus.

In 2011 Dariya was one of the most affected cities by the conflict; 75% of its residents flee out, the backbone of the city’s economy (the factories) was nearly destroyed. Strange-ly however, there was a slight tendency intogoing back to agriculture among the few people who stayed.

by 2013 a rising number of abandoned farms returned to being used.

Poor education was also a rising problem; nearly 50% of children dropped out by age

of 15.

People started constructinghouses informally over the

fertile farm lands, leading to more imbalance

As far as known back in history Dariya was mainly a major producer for agricultural products (especially grapes), this continued up till 1970’s. However in the last decades there has been a

strong shift toward industry (especially workshops and furniture industry).

3 Farming Jobs for every 1/10 Ha of farmlands

My Role: I took part in develop-ing the main idea of using sus-tainable economic development as an opposite toward post-war rebuilding. I also took part in de-veloping the strategy of the urban planning, and with the concept and function of the agricultural high school.

Urban Planing (Top level)An Opportunity Toward Reconstruction Strategy General Plan

General Perspective

Development

Historical Timeline

The Project idea is to rehabilitate and rebuild the damaged city using a socio-economic sustainable approach on various levels. Hopefully this will restore the economical, urban and social life

in Dariya. And provide housing to over 20,000 people.

The urban planning strategy was to maintain the link between Dariya to the south and the projected district to the north. Also to establish a rural link between the two urban settlements. Lastly, an attraction facility was planned to attract people to live in newplanned sector.

This could provide thousands of sustainable work opportunities.any could restore the original urban and cultural characteristics

do Dariya

3 Farming Jobs for every 1/10 Ha of farmlands

The structure masses are distributed around a green axis that is connected at its both ends to the near by farms and green zones.Eventually, all the avenues would haveVisual continuity with the sur-rounding farms & gardens.

Urban Life (Middle Level)

Ground Floor Plan

General Perspective

The residential high rise complexes are designed to promote the urban lifeFloor Plans

Disassembling of close masses enables an interactive

environment

Private Activates are protected with semi-closed mass

Interactive ground-floor activates

Using curves to visually guidePedestrians toward the activities

Minimal distance for human interaction

Urban Considerations

Architectural Design (Final Level)

1.The Agricultural High School

Main Elevation

Detailed Section ina Classroom

Section A-A’

Section B-B’

General Perspective

LAboratories

ClassroomsAs a part of the projects goal to rise the local economy, an agricultural educational com-plex was suggested as the architectural part of the graduation thesis, it consisted of an agriculturalhigh school and a higher institute along with a cultural center.

I only added the agricultural highschool to this porflio as it was mainly of my design.

The structure masses are distributed around a green axis that is connected at its both ends to the near by farms and green zones. Eventually, all the avenues would haveVisual continuity with the surrounding farms & gardens.

Design Consept

Urgent Shelter Response

Consept And Considerations Plans and Details

The following proposal represents an emergency plan for sheltering about 500 people that were displaced from their original neighbor in the nearby town due to the battles. The families have been living in temporary tents.The intervention aims to provide a more permanent solution for them, preserving their well being and dignity.

Project Type: A proposal to an NGOTeam ProjectYear: 2015Suporvisor: Muaz Al-Malki, Team Coordinator Phone: +963 965 666687New Sham, Damascus, Syria

Considering its remote location from large cities and ports, along with the difficulty of material and personals transportation due to the conflict, three main challenges faced the project:

The design approch had to find proble to the previous problem, the team suggestion was to use a local tradional way to construct sheltering units, and use pre-fabircated concrete sani-taion units.

The region architecture is consisted of mud, stone and timber, which are commonly used in a structural method named “Intensified wall” in Arabic فتكملا لكيهلا , it is mainly mud-bricks staffed walls supported by timber beams, and lies on a stone base.The method is extremly economic, as it uses local free materials, it is also thermally efficent, and the locals are familiar with it, therefore they can help in buidling the units

Lack of skilled building workers, equpiments and neceserry fund to hire proffes-sional workers.

Lack of building materias and the high cost for using imported materials such as steel.

Absence of power resources such as electricity, gas and fuel.

Intensified walls

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My Main Role: As a part of the team I suggested the original idea for the construction. then I helped in most of the drafts and carried on the detailing process. eventually, I used Revit software to remod-el the project and calculate the quantities and mate-rials.

The sanitation unit is made out of prefabricated concrete, it has one opened side, which reduces the cost, and makes it easier to attach to the main habitat unit. The unit can be equipped with solar water heater, and/or gas stove.Wall modules are flexible with the ability to put windows and doors in any place needed.

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The sanitation unit is made out of prefabricated concrete, it has one opened side, which reduces the cost, and makes it easier to attach to the main habitat unit. The unit can be

equipped with solar water heater, and/or gas stove.

a further prediction regarding the uses of the technique on large scale facilities if needed by the local community, included a local school formed out of the same units as the habitation units, the school is set to serve up to 200 students.

3d ModelsSchool

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Usage On Larger Scale

The proposal was submitted on July 2015, unfortunately the advanced executive study was postponed for financial issues.

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Revit-Dynamo

Dynamo is an open-source software platform for computational design and building information modeling (BIM), I believe the software has very promis-ing future in architecture ands mart design.

The Dynamo has an enarmouas ponetitiols in the design process, and can be used to save time in compilcated Facedes or apaptive design

The project is a sample of the applications of programing in architecture design, it consists an adaptive mass the response to the movement of the sun; designed by Dynamo and then exported to Revit Architecture for further architectrual detailing, it can be theoretically applied on architectural floors, roofs or shades.

Eventually, I export the model to Revit Architecture where I was able to assign and assign materials, get plans, sections, elevations and use it in the project as needed

This code is done to attach the movement of the solar pannels modeled in Dynamo to the sun’s daily movement in Revit.

Afterwards, I projected the grid on the mass, thus making it an adaptive mass that changes its shape according to sun’s movement .

A mass was created through six points defined by coordinates.

The impact of the sun postion on the adaptive grid

Then, below the mass a grid out of circles whose diameter corresponds to a moving point were made.

An Exapmple

A Possible Application

The use Dynamo Code