As an architectural designer and volunteer, I am dedicated, self-motivated results driven. In my previous experiences in workshops and team-based activities, it helped me to come up with a blend of adaptability, good communication and working in a group. I thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments and I am adapted at different levels of work.
My goal is to contribute my architectural design and ideas to society and working in different communities. I am excited about the opportunity to achieve or contribute to the new role. Besides architectural design, I have been working as a storyteller and content creator for architecture and design offices and clients.
WORK EXPERIENCE
REN ITO ARQ | Designer intern | Portugal DEC 2023-MARCH 2024
-Involvement in proposing renovation projects’s 2D and 3D Drawings
-Developing interior design propsals by making models and renderings
AZMAN DESIGN | Freelance collaboration | Toronto 2020-ONGOING
-Making design concept packages for timber and wood structures
E-CONTEXT | Junior Intern Designer | Iran DEC 2020-JULY 2020
-Developing design options and participating in interior design process
Education
UNIVERSITY OF OULU | Finland
2021-2023 Master of Architecture, Degree
UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN | Iran
Bachelors of Architecture
Trainings-Volunteering
BUILDER SUMMIT WOOD WORKSHOP | Hungary
2015-2018
2023-July
-Attending in design-build workshop as part of Builder Summit festival
BOS-GRENS WORKSHOP | Belgium
Autocad
Revit
Archicad
Photoshop
Indesign
Illustrator
Rhinoceros
Grasshopper
MS office
Photography
Drafting
Storytelling
Graphic Design
Carpentry
Design-Build
2021-May
-Collaborate in design build workshop of sound walk and border pavilions
HELLOWOOD SUMMER SCHOOL | Hungary
2019-July
-Building a set of cabins they can recycle for a cooperative housing project -volunteering for everyday clearance of the workshop site
MINIFAB WORKSHOP | Iran
-Collaboration in construction of computational design pavilion
WORKSHOP REGENERATION | Iran
-Collaborating in regenerating rural area
DISTINCTION-AWARDS
HAVEN COMPETITION,UNFUSE | Australia
-Honorable Mention for designing a habitat for koalas
TREEHOUSE MODULE COMPETITION | France
-Proposing a set of treehouse modules
TEACHER ASSISTANT AT ARCHIGRAPH WORKSHOP | Iran
-Assisting students to produce architectural visualization
SKILLS
2019-December
2019-December
2020-September
2020-June
2019-November
FABRICATION | Study mockups, Academic drawings, Photography, Collage
LANGUAGE | English (c1), Spanish(Intermediate), portoguese (Basic) Persian(native), Turkish(Basic), Finnish (Learning)
Ren Ito Arq. Rua Dom João IV 643 4000-303 Porto Portugal
TEL. +351-93-373-3608
renitoarq@gmail.com
Letter of Support
This letter is to confirm that Mohammad Abbasi has worked in my office for a period of 2 months, from December 2023 to present. Throughout these months he proved to be a competent and responsible professional and a very valued member of our staff. He showed great qualities as an architect, paying attention to detail, as well as tremendous dedication and aesthetic sensibility.
Mohammad was in charge of the development of the following projects:
Vilarinha 13 housing project
Óbidos Quinta do Bom Sucesso housing project
Medway dental clinic project
Rua da Torrinha housing project
Rua São Vicente corrective housing competition proposal
He has carried out his work with commitment, efficiency, and a great sense of responsibility, which allows me to have the best hopes for his future career and to give him my highest recommendation.
Porto, 31th January 2024
Ren Ito, Architect
Half of a house
Desgn-Build Workshop
July 2023, Zalahaláp, Hungary
Team Leader: Neal Lucas Hitch
Architects: RAWstudio, i/thee
Half of a House uses parametrically designed rammed earth formwork to construct, disassemble, and reuse two contrasting halves of a prototypal dwelling. The house is split vertically down the middle, with one half made of unstabilized rammed earth and the other half constructed from the formwork used to cast its neighbor.
Half of a House is a creation of i/thee’s Neal Lucas Hitch, RAWstudio’s Maxwell Rodencal who is an expert in earth, and Claire Leffler who is a builder from Colorado. It was part of the Builder Summit festival that Hello Wood organizes every year in the countryside of Hungary. The project reflects the theme of the Builder Summit, which is to find a balance between building, destroying, and mining.
Concept diagram
Panels Matrix
Site plan
Exploded Axonometric
Formwork diagram Images credit: Ithee
fabrication of panels Panelling of form work
Prototyping with different moisture
Ramming earth within the formwork
Setting up the formworks
completion of ramming earth walls
Prototyping of Rammed earth Casting
Completed casting formwork
Uncasting the formwork
Beyond
HelloWood summer school
Desgn-Build Workshop
Csóromfölde, Hungary
July 15th- 21th, 2019
Contribution: Design-Build
This set of cabins are small enough to be dedicated to each aspect of life, carnival, and beyond. There is a space dedicated to partying, one to eat, another to sleeping; everything that is necessary for life, Carnival and Beyond. carnival. Once the festival is done, they will be sent to Sant Muç, where they will enjoy their second life as parts of the cooperative house.
Adapting used frames
Assembling Components
Completed Balloon Frame Cabin
Haven
International competition by Unfuse
Shortlisted
Queensland, Australia
May11- July10, 2020
In Collaboration with: Hamid Shahi, Erica Joaquin
Healing Trees was conceived as a new connection between humans, Koalas and existing nature. A healing place filled with light and greenery, encourages a spirit of involvement, co-creation and collaboration. Its flexible layout addresses the need for safe gathering and working environments and the changes to the healing and training that will emerge in the future.
Inspired by trees and activities of koalas between them, the series of modular pavilions with gradient roofs, is providing a dynamic atmosphere and direct connectivity to the existing nature both for work and play. The fluidity of the internal spaces are creating a rich exchange of active & interactive learning. These segments of spaces and activities foster a great large community of volunteers, staff and visitors alongside koalas.
Structure
Roof structure
Peaks for solar exposure and ventilation
Roof layers
Lookout Treehouse
International competition by YAC
Vibrac, France
June- July, 2020
In Collaboration with: Hamid Shahi, MR Khorasani
Inspired by the presence of existing natural and artificial elements of the place. It is a Treehouse that seeks refuge in very small abodes, far away from the city, where the idea of reconciliation with nature is rampant. Lookout Treehouse draws its inspiration from the interrelation of each unique space as simplified spatial expression of each branch of the tree and artificial spatial quality of the ruins.
Circular CLT Windowsill
charred wooden louvre
Wooden Panels
Transparent Polycarbonate Window
Primar y Steel Struc ture
CLT Flooring
Treated wooden Flooring
Secondar y Ply wood Walls
Concrete Pillar
Steel Joist Beam
Interior views
Structure Circulation Skin/Views Louvered FacadeBird homes
1- Following Tree’s Trunk and Branches Vertical Nature as Primary Structure STRUCTURE CIRCULATION SKIN & VIEWS LOUVERED FACADE / BIRD HOMES 2- Establishing Fluid circulation in vertical and horizontal direction
Design Process Diagram
Fifth Floor
Concurso Sao Vicente
Housing competition
January 2024, Lisbon, Portugal
Team Leader: Ren Ito
Designers: Leonardo Ramires, Nicolas Ferronato, Hülya Yilmazydirim
The design of housing buildings aims to integrate architectural quality with social needs and state financial conditions . Controlled Cost Housing represents an opportunity to “ do more with less”, providing attractive solutions for future inhabitants, passers-by and the city of Lisbon. In lot 1, there is a large balcony overlooking the Tagus River, while in lot 2, a generous green patio in the back patio enriches the environment. From an economic point of view, the building’s contemporary approach , combined with durable, lowcost construction methods maintenance and energy efficient, contributes to a sustainable solution to guarantee NZEB+20.
Plot 2 Explpded diagram
Typology diagrams
Site plan
Apartements context
Plot 1 - North facade
Plot 2 - South facade
Plot 2 - Ground floor
Plot 2 - Last floor
Plot 2 - Living area
Plot 2 - Common area
Plot 2 - Overall section
Plot 1 - Last floor
Plot 1 - Ground floor
Plot 1 - Living area
Plot 1 - Common area
Plot 1- Overall section
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Casa Vilarinha 13
Housing project
December 2023, Porto, Portugal
Team Leader: Ren Ito
Designers: Leonardo Ramires, Nicolas Ferronato, Hülya Yilmazydirim
The lot where the intervention is intended has an area of 240m2 and is part of a subdivision intended for residential-type housing, with the remaining lots still vacant. The building will have 3 floors above ground level, with 120m2 of construction area and 360m2 of construction area.
Floor one will be set back in relation to the upper floors, with the space below the console serving as a garage and transition area between the exterior and interior of the house. From this space it will be possible to access the hall where there are vertical accesses (staircase and vacuum elevator) that allow connection to the upper floors.
Ground floor
1st floor
Masal Twinlodge
Studio design 4
Rasht, Iran
January, 2018
This is a week-end accommodation designed for two families with different attitudes, located in the north of Iran which has a mild and humid environment. For utilising co-working spaces, the design is seeking both Indigenous architecture and the occupants desire as well as the local building regulations, which was necessary to adapt them with each other. The result is an accommodation that has different layers of space such as open, semi-open and enclosed spaces with climatic considerations in the design process, cross natural ventilation, roof eaves, passive solar energy and thermatic mass are some of these parameters.
Cross Section- Passive cooling
Sun radation rose annual analysis
Juva hostel
Renovation Project
Qeshm Island, Iran
April ,2021
In Collaboration with:Hamid Shahi, MR Khorasanizadeh
This renovation project is in a small village in Qeshm Island located in the south of Iran with a hot and humid climate. The project began with paying a site visit to the old existing building made with Masonry architectural material, Including load-bearing walls made with stone and timber beams. The appearance and finishing material of the building recalls of white-washed Mediterranean architecture with a humble accent.
