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art | architecture undergraduate and graduate portfolio

washington state university school of architecture and construction management pullman, wa 99164 2005 - 2009 alan abdulkader

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design studio Graduate Thesis

architecture portfolio alan abdulkader

Conceptual studies for the thesis projects

Map of Iraq with the Kurdistan region divided by the political borderline. Since the first Gulf War, the Kur-distan region has been run under the Kurdish autono-mies federal government of Kurdistan with the Kurdish flag. The Kurdish regional government is organized with a Kurdish Parliament that controls its military source, financial source, education, and all other gov-ernmental positions of Kurdistan.

Map of Kurdistan’s political regions highlighted on top of the following countries: Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and

Syria. It also identifies the location of Halabja on the

political map of Kurdistan and on the Iraqi map in

relation to the border.

Absence | Silence

Physical models of the Halabja site design. The Fig-ure one model is the full site with all the holes repre-sents the bodies. Figure two model is magnified to show details of the void and scale representation.

These two images illustrate the spatial and proportional qualities of inside the main void. It is an empty space with reflective walls that use the light from above. The floor is covered with the text of stories from the tragedy of Halabja. The space is accessed through a ramp that creates a journey starting from above and ending under the ground emulating the way that the bodies of Halabja shifted from their vertical positions into slowly disappearing and becoming layer of the topography. The space meant to create the essence of si-lence and a moment of returning and remembering the dead bodies from the chemical gas attack.

Body scale in relation to the holes

Site section

Site plan

Detail of the main void light seeping in with the incense smoke

Detail of the holes with the incense smoke

Topographic Politics

Physical model of the border design showing the

change in topography and the grid of the trees,

generated from the folds and the water draining

from the two lifted arms that is a metaphor for the

mountain. The trees are the concept of existence

and they are stitching the ground forming a sort of

scar on the landscape.

Border line

Detail of the edge and scale of change

Side view of constructed topography

Early study model of the border site

1: Perspective view of the park that allows for people to gather and picnic on the border site. A strategy that collects people around a highly secure area and changes the old fashion percep-tion of what a border is supposed to look like.

Detail from the section

Section

Site plan

3: Passing through the security triangle, vehicles are slowed down while the transforming landscape transform into the arm that responds to topographic shift as well as a responds to vehicles arriving in this transition moment.

design studio 1st semester | graduate

The goal was to make an inventive structure and an image of the future. It has a wood-frame construction with steel roof, wooden skin and curtain glass to allow for more views and blur the idea of inside-outside. The main feature of this pro-ject is the study of area which is in between the two bedrooms for privacy and it also opens-closes that becomes a camera shutter which captures light and views. Another important aspect of this design is that the house responds to the site in the way it turns with the tree line which becomes a metaphor like a worm in the ground. These moves respond to the con-ceptual studies of change. The aesthetic challenge is to find a spatially and materially innovative face for the green design and learning to use the new heating-cooling technologies. The organic farm designed left off the ground for a minimum footprint and does not cultivate any farm soil also does not create new shadows because it is using the circulation space and the existing tree shadows. The site choice is the edge which is close to the entry where students are aware of the site changes, yet the house is hidden with trees and other green elements that become an element of the site. The thin-ness of the design is for potential natural air-light circula-tions and more views. This project also allows students to explore their area of study by living and working on site. This house provides a complete living space for two students that combined with part of the farm facility usage area in-cluding two bedrooms, bathroom, living space, study space, classroom, professional kitchen and an office for the farm manager. This facility also has a cooler storage underneath the structure that becomes part of the earth and the building.

WSU Organic farm project

Pullman, WA

the current site, organic farm possibly potential site will be added to the current organic farm site

site analysis

essences

site integration

back view

front view

perspective

plans @ 1” = 1/8’ - 0”

Sections @ 1” = 1/8’ - 0”

options

Elevations @ 1” = 1/8’ - 0”

South Seaport, NY Concept: Relief South Seaport waterfront site planning redevelopment for New York City. The problem was how to bring people to the edge and also keep the site active after business hours by having shops, housing, outdoor activities and parks as well as make the site a focal point for gathering and water taxi transitions.

The inner part of the city is very dense and compacted with landscape and tall buildings. With my project I attempted to blur-out the line between the edge and the center. My concept was generated based on the density and hard environment of the site. I was studying how the environment shifted slowly toward the water and everything leads to a relaxed mode to-ward the water edge. By taking the scope of the existing envi-ronment, led me to a relief concept that slowly shifting and re-laxing.

Kazimir Malevich, Supremacist An addition to my own Relief concept studies, I also studied the Supremacist. I studied how the elements break into pieces and slowly shift from the center to the edge with different levels of death and compositions.

design studio 4th year project

conceptual study, relief

Figure one as being the dense city center and slowly shafting toward a more relief mode of environment in figure nine.

site and roof plan

1 main entrance, view and access

2 hotel

3 outdoor ice ski

4 cafe

5 restaurant

6 apartment units

7 water taxi area

8 vi dock

9 cannel

10 park

11 retails

12 green roof

13 shops under the via dock

14 house units

15 apartment tower

16 commercial-shopping-water view

17 museum

18 tunnel connected to the museum

section, museum and water tunnel

site model

Kazimir Malevich, Supremacist - precedent

apartment units level one

level two

level three

Front elevation

concept

museum concept

level three level two level one ground level

section, museum and retails

Section-elevation, museum and commercial center

conceptual models, seeping water

Seeping An urban housing project in downtown Boston for working class citizens, which feature a green and dense design: in-cludes the master planning of the site and designing one hundred twenty-five mixed-use units with all of its public buildings. The current site condition is an open parking lots for the surrounding industry companies. The site is front edged to the water channel with disre-gard to the water. The concept Seeping is generated from studying the figure grounds. After the site analysis, the water became an impor-tant aspect of the site as well as being environmental to the project. The water channel became a unique engagement for this project. I started to invite the water into the site by cannels which is lined with existing surrounding grids. All the buildings are organized by the water and each few buildings create a Semi pri-vate courtyards for the occupant.

housing project

conceptual light study, seeping light

site analysis

density

transportation system

water zoning park housing units

Site Analysis

two bedroom units three bedrooms units

housing block model

level one

level two

level three

Section a-a

Section c-c

elevation

conceptual light study with picasso’s painting for winery facility

Cubism The concept Cubism was given by the Professor to design a winery in the vernacular landscape of Vancouver, Canada. My design focus for this project was simplicity, overlapping forms, self-reflective, with inside-outside spaces.

design studio 3rd year project

winery facility

winery model

section

elevation

Perspective sketch

Container Sailing Boat Design Experimental Project A collaboration between students and the professor to design an 8’ x 20’ x 20’ recycling container that assembled with recycled and donated materials and exhibit green design architecture.

design build

furniture design

City nightscape and digital pixels concept influenced this lamp design. Mesh covered with plaster and green spry paint. A very simple and minimal design that created an interesting vision and space between inside and outside.

This piece completely made from recycled materials. The glass and the steel leg came from an old computer desk, the two black legs are damaged baseball bats. The three legs cut to 18” height and connected to the glass bottom with steel base and some glue.

coffee table

jewelers exhibit case

The concept of these two pieces are simplicity and overlapping surfaces that creates more spaces within the same volume, also about the idea of how to handle edges and shafting from one material to another.

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