Waleed Sherif Portofolio

ARCHITECTURE PORTOFOLIO

WALEED SHERIF

2019-2023

TABLE OF CONTENT

Z+ GEN HUB

ART + COMMUNITY HUB SKYVILLAGE MIXEDUSE TOWER

ASSIGNED Graduation

: 2020

ASWAN'S CENTRAL MOSQUE

"COMMUNITY HUB"

: 2019

: 2019

ART

Grad.Pro. / year 2021 /1st Apr-27th of July/Cairo.Egypt/ collaborations: Individual Supervised by Dr yasmin el semary ,sarah mamdouh

Breif

in 2021 i was fortune to be one of 10 students from the class of Architecture who were allowed to choose a graduation project from a topic of their choice rather than choosing a topic from the topics and locations that were imposed by the studio itself , i decided to choose a topic related to the community , i choose to make an arthub in one of the most densely populated areas of schools in egypt of the middle class childern the arthub program is made by the help of arts and drama thearpist with the intenion to use the art to attract the students in the area to integrate the art thearpy methods in a casual way improve the teens mental health , give them a safe space to vent and increase their creativity as the art inclosure in the egyption ciruluim has been the least amony all the countries world wide which decrease the childern ability to create and improve their problem solving skills,

Context Overview

El Daher

One a middle class district that acts as a trantional region between Medieval Cairo and khedival Cairo with various arch. styles and made up mainly of Youth however it has been Negleted in the past decades making the area in need for a project to revive it and to be beneficial for it’s community especially the Youth

Physical Aspects

El Daher vs Cairo

According to the UNISECO el Daher is part of a tranistional area between historical cairo and modern cairo , however el daher is an area that has mainy recorded Historic buildings

Micro-Site

No Cultural Projects It’s More Of Residential District With Large No. Of Schools Buildings Are Of High Dense district With significant Urban grids and with no public spaces

Carved form by site

Spire as a Landmark Repetitive

Demographics Of The Context

Motives For Use Selection.

National Childhood Council says 93% of Egyptian children suffer from violence

70% of children from age 13-15 are bullied according to ( the UNICEF Egypt and NCCM )

UNICEF “Egyptian EDU. is under-developed ,where students rank lower compared than other countries due to its rigidity and one of the main aspects was lack of art-edu.”

From The Previous How Can We Define The Project?

An Art-Hub that in El Daher , A Transitional Area Between Khedival Cairo And Medieval Cairo , The Project Aim To Integrate With The Educational System Of El Daher On The Scale Of Individuals To Maintain The Youth’s Physiological Well-Being While Improving Their Mental Skills Through Arts, Allowing Them To Have A More Flexible Mindset And Higher Learning Capabilities Where The Egyptian Education Neglects The Art Inclusion Making It Rigid.

On Urban Scale The Project Acts As A Public Space That Prevent Further Deterioration Of El-Daher

COMMUNITY

3 INTERACTIVE CAPSULES THAT APPROACH SENSES FOR EVERLASTING EXPERIENCE

Form Genration

A-Volumizing & Programing

B-Classification

-Scale to standout in concrete jungle & Integrating the program with the Educational setting of the context

AXIS OF PROJECT

- The mosque and port said st - Barook hanan to the street

CIRCULATION

One way circulation creating more visual connection through open spaces + Easier to approach anywhere

C-Urban Intergation

The masses follow the Urban grids of ElDaher and portsaid st

-Dividing masses according to Function Allowing different control of each building on a 4D scale

D-Creating Visual Access

Moving Masses in a way to open the visual cone from portsaid to Hanan Synagouge and el zaher Mosque + Shaded Public space

E-Adapting To Context

Adapting to site with Art - practice building accessible roof and using voids to have diffused light in Art as thearpy / practice / Intro spaces

Louvers

Depth and Density increase depending on The exposure to sun to maintain diffused light in the Exhibitions

Frame truss

Allows the transition of weights from the upper levels with less columns in the Ground level

Cement Board

The 2 cores

Covers up the structure and gives the form some movements

Steel frames

Span from 8 to 20M

2*2M coloums

The main Vertical Elements that Transfer the load from the upper mass to the ground concrete Frame structure Support Columns Taking up Part of the Art intro Bld. load

1-Collective Space

+ Urban Gallery

2- Restruant

3-Kitchen

PLAN -3.3M

4- Entrance of A.I + C.B

6-M.p.u

7- Audiotrium

8- Foyer

9-dressing

10 -Backstage

5- Communal Area of C.B

11- Art TRP+ Prac. Entry

12-Art as thearpy

13-Music as thearpy

14-Drama As thearpy

15- Thearpist Room

16- Thearpist store

17-Communal

+ waiting

18-Painting Room

19-Painting Shaded

20-Sculpture

21-Sculpture instuctors

22-Sculpture break area

23- Grey Area + communal

24-Outlet + supplies shops

25 - Events Amphitheater

26- study area

PLAN -8.3M

1-Restoration

2-Cucator

3-Receiving

4-Preparation

5-Artworks Storage

6-Loading

7-Kiln

8-Carpentry

9-Metalworkshop

10-Sculpture

11-Digital Art

12-Instructors Room

13- Grey Area

14-Art as thearpy

15-Drama as thearpy

17- Communal + waiting

16- Music as a thearpy

18- Thearpist Room

19- Thearpist storage

19 -Thearpist archive

20 - Archive

21 - Meter room

22- Storage

AUDIOTORY CAPSULE

VISUAL CAPSULE

According to Harvard the Experience that Engage senses will be carved in the audience memory.

In 2020 design studio , we were asked to design mixed use building in the Adminstrative capital that overlooks the green river . The mixed use high rise max allowed height is 110m , the first 3 floors are commerial , the following 4 floors are Adminstrative and the top 12 floors are Residential , one of the constrains that the students aren't allowed to change is the 14 large coloums in the plan where the narrative suggests that the owner of the building has already made the structure base and we have to find a stuiable place for the core and a design that intergates with the intial coloums that were made by the owner .

Location

The project is located in the Adminstrative Capital overlooking the Green River specifically Across the Boats lake , the project is meant to be a mixed use highrise that integrates with the new city's vision of being comtemporary , Humane and inviting for new residents

Issue

Non-coherent society

Since the Industrials revolution A Problem has raised communities are getting less coherent .The building size is inversely proportional with social coherence where the Residents barely know their next door Neighbors due to the Absence of common spaces That inc the chance of residents knowing each other

Besides the Problem of losing the connection with the nature itself where you are on Average 50 Meters away from the ground

Push N Pull

The masses Motion Creates green garden Hosting taller trees for Biodiversity Split Decreases wind pressure Divided

Pushed In & Out

voids acts as Recreational Areas for Residents of each cube

Typical Plan

OPERA BY THE SEA BY UNI

Editor choice + Top 10 Finalists By UNI

Competition / year 2020 /Duration 12 weeks/Location:Tallinn, Estonia/ Collaborations:Individual

CONTEXT

Site

Estonia port

Linnahall

It's a free context "Non-Dominant Architectural style "with linnhall stadium that has the soviet brutal style and Estonia port that considered the city gate where the project is being seen from the sea as ships approach The Port .

LARGE POPULATION OF ARTISTS

Cultural and Regional Sum up from research : Estonians Are A Family COLD MINIMAL NATURE

THE PROJECT AIMS:

create A large seaside Indoor/outdoor Platform for Artist and art lovers in a country that has a large population of artists ,Rich culture and very cold weather Making it hard to Enjoy outdoor spaces all year around , where the role of The opera changed from a place that only presents Art to a place that spread art on A wider scale and able to accept New forms of arts through time .

1- PROGRAMMING

Deciding the Potential indoor public spaces

2-TILT AND ECLIPSED

mass of an Ellipse used as a Natural offset of Main Hall

- Tilt to be seen from by the ships

3-TAPERED

4-FILLET EDGES

PROGRAM MAKING

3.D : communal Dressing room

-Male dancer rooms

-Female dancers rooms

-Acting Cast Rooms

-Female Chorus rooms

-Male Chorus Rooms

2.D : Shared Dressing room

-Male minor chorus principal

-Female minor chorus principal

-Drama minor princpals

-soloist dancers

1.D : Single Dressing room

- male dance principal

- Female dance principles

- Male dance principles

- FeMale dance principle

- Main Actors

- Chorus Principal

The theater has a Specific volume for good accoustic performace that was calculated through the research phase of the project same

ASWAN'S CENTRAL MOSQUE

Academic Project / year 2019 /Duration 4 weeks/Location:Aswan,EG, Estonia/ Collaborations:Individual

BREIF

In 2019 Design Studio we were asked to Design a mosque in New aswan to Serve the People in a city that is being Built next to aswan that is called new aswan.

The core idea of mosque

The mosque was meant to be a collector , a place where muslims pray to connect with their creator , reach a state of mental peace , learn where the mosque was a madrasa (school) in the prophet's era , and a public space where people gathered where you made friends in the mosque

In The Past few decades the Religious discourse lost it's main purposes , instead of acheiving it's main purpose as a collector that attracts people to it , it became a place that youth preceive as a boredom and alot of them stopped going there.

The approach

The project Approach became creating a social catalyst where people work for charity to serve community , meet , pray in isolation, meet up with friends and even make a new friends where Approaching the mosque becomes a daily routine where muslims have 5 prayers per day that through useful and fulfilling activites people will be more will to pray at the mosque

Program adaptation

The professors wanted the mosque to have a wedding hall, clinic and reading hall. their areas were small and we wanted the project to hand

Added with the intention of creating a space where people meditate , do charitable work and vent.

Instead of 1 hall only for weddings i asked the professors to have events building with 2 halls to be multifunctional

Instead of 1 hall only for weddings i asked the professors to have events building with 2 halls to be multifunctional

plazas , kids areas and gardens are meant to make the mosque plot a family outlet where childern and parent spend their time

connected to the front plaza of the mosque meant to bring sustainable revenues to the mosque

SITE

The site is 8000 msq with 4M setbacks surrounded by different building with diff. Landuses make and Central that it has a large potential to intergate with the surrounding and have a sagnificant effect.

ZONING

The masses are placed according to it's corelation with the surrounding context.

1-Libarary

2-Community hub

3-Events hall 4-Clinic

"The mosque placed in the middle to make it more isolated"

EXTRUDED AND SUNKEN MASSES

Extruding the mosque to have a scale that allow the users to feel the awe , and the facilties were sunken with a lower plaza to allow more shade for the users in the public space beside lower temps. in a very hot area.

GIVING THE MASS A MEANING

The form was a result of connection between the paths of the prophet’s esraa and mirage journey from makkah to aqsa to the sky

Pushing the masses to allow space for larger plaza infront of the mosque and larger accesability From 3 sides of the mosque

PIXELATING MASS

The mass was deconstructed into cubes giving unity to the mass introducing the idea of stepping and evolving

The form was a result of connection between the paths of the prophet’s esraa and mirage journey from Mecca to aqsa mosque in jerusalem to the sky The journey by which the prophet mohamedwas back with 5 prayers to unit the muslims again where the muslims since then gather on a daily basis to pray , learn and socialize .

Upper Plaza

Clinic garden

Act as Family zone in the District Reinforce Communal Role of mosque

Kids area

visible to parents by Grand stairs

Food court:

garden shops

found with variety of things to offer to attract visitors and maintain a fixed income for the mosque

SECTION 2

AL-QAYRAWAN OFFICES-KSA 5

Professional Project / year 2023 /duration 4 weeks/ Collaborations : waleed sherif( concept,intial plans,massing,Facade design), , Aya hazem ( plans Development) , Fatma Emad ( Archviz)

Assigned By MOD+Partners , Under supervision of Mostafa amer-Design Principle

PROJECT OVERVIEW

The Project is a mixed use building in the riydah el qayrawan ,it's aim for corporates that is looking for large office spaces and the groud floor is a commerial zone aim to be serve the offices and the office building around it .

CONTEXT OVERVIEW

Al Qirawan District in riyadah, KSA one of the major districts in riyadah and being transformed into a commerial and fianacial hub that complements the King Fahd Finacial Districts Expansion

Qirawan zone

FINANCIAL DISTRICT

2 Km from The Finacial District

The Zone is located close to king Fahd Regional Road making the site highly accessible

The Zone is located close to king Fahd Regional zone

A THRIVING ECONOMY

INCREASE EMPLOYMENT

URBAN SCALE

On an Urban Space : El qairawan Area is planned to be part of the extension of the finacial district in 2030 where the project should Align with 2030 vision

VIBRANT SOCIETY

HEALTHY AND FULLING LIFE

BY BY ATTRACTIVE SPACES BY

BY GATHERING AND PUBLIC AREAS IN THE PROJECT

INSPIRATION

AMBITIOUS NATION

SOCAIL RESPONSIBILITY

BY BY TRYING TO CREATE A BUILDING THAT USES THE LEAST ENGERGY POSSIBLE

Riyadah is known of it’s Red-dunes a wonder that exists in KSA that attracts tourists world wide and on the otherhand acts a meter that measures the progress that the kingdom made turning the desert in a living oasis while keeping it’s great features

Inspired by the meter of life we wanted to create a building that acts as an oasis where people work comfortably and able to feel their progress everyday

Plot Area : 5745 m2

Built.Up Area : 60%

First FLoor: 65%

Roof: 50% of F.F

considered the massing in aspects of Entries, Regulations as Max height , and zoning of offices and Retail to get max Profit

50% is the allowed built up area for the roof .

Voiding to create views and plazas that illuminate and ventilate the large office space that exits in the project

The dynamic Facade is offset of the largest office areas of the building

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