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Memorial For L’AquilaFirst project, Year 3
L’Aquila has approximately 30 earthquakes a month, but usually
around 1.5 Richter scale. In 2009 a disastrous earthquake at 6.5
Richter scale struck the heart of the city which devastated most of the
architecture and killed 309 people. Most died in their homes due of a
lack of war ning from the authorities, and those in charge of sending
warnings are now imprisoned for their impotence.
I visited the site in 2012, after a brief time spent walking around the
site and talking to the habitants, I immediately started understanding
that the people were very frustrated with the government for the l ack of
effort to rebuild their homes. 3 years pass, yet people were still displacedinto ‘temporary’ homes and were no closer to moving back into the city.
The brief was to design a mo nument or a memorial that signifies or
records a significant event as part of the cities collective memory so that
the events that had happened could never be forgotten and to further
the resilience of the community and raise moral and spirit.
In this short project I address many issues; mourning for the dead,
preparing the citizens of L’Aquila for the future and making the
community stronger by creating a method for new friendships and
connections to be formed.
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Concept Development Anthony Gormley
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THE STAGES OF THE SCULPTURE
People will ask each other for help to stand on the touch pads, this will
give reason for people to make new friends by creating the situation
and the moment for them to open in conversation. Once all 5 touch
pads are stood upon, two other people will need to help erect it by
untangling the wires.
The structure here is erect, no sign of Earthquake, morale is high. Here the structure is in rubble after an earthquake, representing the
earthquake.
The idea is to create unease within the people, keeping them alert and
aware of the earthquake prone area they live in. People will not w ant to
see the rubble, so they will go and stand on the touch pads to erect the
statue.
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Once all the touch pads have someone standing on them, the statue will
start to erect itself, the people would need to stand on the touch pads
until the statue has fully erected itself, while someone is helping untie or
positioning the cubes so they do n’t get in a twist.
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THE PHASES
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SEISMOMETER
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FINAL IMAGE
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THE EAGLES NESTFinal project, Year 3
L’Aquila after the disastorous earthquake was left in ruins, buildings
collapsed, and places where people used to meet and socialise like shops,
cafes and bars closed down. The citizens were pushed away from the
town, some social houses were made 10 miles from the city, and some
were sent to different cities. Friends were seperated and dispursed. The
city itself was left in ruins, some shops opened and the government is
doing very little to help rebuild the city because of the great cost.
My brief was to design a workshop that taught people how to program
and connect arduino boards so that they could help rebuild their homes
and city through modern technology. Arduino is a tool for making
computers that can sense and control more of the physical world
than your desktop computer. It’s an open-source physical computing
platform based on a simple microcontroller board, and a development
environment for writing software for the board. Using the arduino
boards they could build 3D printers so that they could ancient details
within buildings that were damaged.
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SITE ANALYSIS- Piazza Del Palazio
The site faces Piazza Del Palazio, a square
that incorporates the town hall, one of the
university buildings and many bars and shops.
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Concept
MC ESCHER
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THE FEATHERS ON THE EAGLE
18 Degrees Celsius 20 Degrees Celsius 22 Degrees Celsius
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CARDBOARD MODEL
This model shows the open plan spaces for the arduino workshop.
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SECTION AND DETAILS
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Rootsby [Maden Group]Qendrim Gjata,
Ideal Vejsa, Florim Kukaj and Besjan
Kryeziu from Albania
AC-CA Design For Death competition
In this project, the 3Ds Max, Photoshoping,
and all the graphics were done by me.
2327 designers from 89 different countries
participated, and we were short listed in the
top 100.
Caring for the dead is an important part of
any society, and how it is done reflects the
prevailing culture. As societies evolve, the
customs and traditions surrounding funerals
and memorialization also change. This
competition asks architects, designers, and
creative talents worldwide to re-think and
re-imagine death care for the future. It seeks
to challenge and change perceptions about
the ways in which families honor, remember
and celebrate the lives of their loved ones,
unveiling the next-generation designs for
requiems of the future in the place of repose,
sites of bereavement and remembrances.
Organized by Design-boom, in collaboration
with the LIEN FOUNDATION and ACM
FOUNDATION
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RUINS
The brief of this competition was to
design a memorial for the women who
had fallen during the Kosovan war
of 1999 and also designing an urban
spaces around it. I came up with a
solution to transform an unused space
under the trees and make walkways
and benches around fallen and broken
statues signifying the fallen, and raped
women during the war.
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ESTABLISHED NGO‘THIS CITY OF OURS’ TO PROVIDE URBAN - JANUARY/APRIL 2014
During the time I was living in Kosovo, I saw a
predominant problem with the infrastructure of the city
as a result of the recent war in 1998-99. The country
started rebuilding rapidly but without the proper
regulations and management within the government
and suitable master planning, the spurt of grow th has
now started to over ill nurture its inhabitants. Towns
and municipalities are now overgrown and have very
little recreational spaces and those few and very modest
spaces are deprived of any sort of entertainment.
I established a Non-Governmental Organisation called
‘This City of Ours’ and decided to use my k nowledge
to design a cheap urban space and try and present my
ideas to the government for funding and landowners
for charitable donations. This organisation aimed to
design; smart, social, urban spaces to solve the very
dominant problem with the lack of public spaces in
Kosovo.
This particular project focused on Fushe Kosova, a
municipality 4 miles from the capital. This municipality
has a very rapidly rising population, over 10,000 new
apartments were built in the last 6 years and has no
recreational or public spaces within walking distance.
Children played in the streets and walkways by the
roads were blocked by parked cars.
The inhabitants urgently needed a park where children
could play, people could meet and go to unwind.
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MAPPING THE AREA DENSITY
Police station
The thickness of the pen show s the density of traffi c
and pedestrian flow around the site.
These images show the current state of Fushe Kosova,
the current condition of the public spaces and the lack
of security in the streets.
Site location
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IDENTITY
The desire to maintain a positive conception of
oneself has been regarded as a central motive by
many writing about the self (e.g. James, 1890 Gecas,
1982), specifically within social identity theory
(Tajfel, 1978; Hogg and Abrams, 1988;Abrams,
1992). With regard to the environment,Korpela
shows how favourite environments can support
self-esteem. Children described the sense of
positive self-esteem they gained from being in
their own rooms during times of distress. Through
living in an historic town a person can feel a sense
of pride by association (Lalli, 1992; Uzzell,1995).
On the images below, you can see two similar
houses; one with a well kept front garden and one
that inst. By looking at the way the people living
there have presented their homes, you have in
your mind unconsciously already imagined what
kind of peo ple to expect from each house as they
have displayed their identity by decorating their
front garden.
This is also true in the larger extent such as the
town square, or the public streets within a town. It
is critical for a town to have an identity to represent
the town and the people.
The train station before the war used to be the mo st
popular and most active place in Fushekosova.
There were very popular coffeehouses and was
the main station that connected the Balkans to
Kosovo. It was always busy and swarming with
youth. FusheKosova was known for its train station
which gave the people of the town an identity.
Now the whole area close to the train station has
dropped in value and very rarely people go down
there to gather.
SECURITY
The center of Fush-kosova is seen as the main
roundabout which connects most of the cities
in Kosovo with Pristina but also other countries
like Albania with the new motorway. The roads
are layed out with 1 meter wide pedestrian
pavements which are usually entirely blocked
by parked cars pushing the pedestrians onto the
road, endangering the life of the pedestrians.
Homes and urban spaces with a good urban
design are generally more secure. Take for
example a Cul De Sac where all the homes
around it can see one another, where in case of
a break in, they can help each other by calling
the police. Where as in Fushekosova, and
generally all of Kosovo, you cannot see past the
house next to you.
FusheKosova needs its own Piazza or square
where people gather outside to sit, play, read,
exercise, relax and unwind away from the busy
streets. A place where the people of Fushekosova
can call their own, a place to satisfy all ages and
all need with the luxury of security for children
and lighting for when its dark.
THE URBAN PROBLEM
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APPLICATION TO FUSHKOSOVA
MANHATTAN Jannette Sadik Khan- New York Urban Planner
UNUSED
SPACE
MONUMENTAL
SPACES
DECORATIVE
GREEN SPACE
WITH TREES
AND BUSHES
By closing the road here and applying paint and tables has had a great economical effect
to the shops in the area. Rent increased three fol d, accidents reduced by 30%, the more
people on foot, the more people enter the shops.
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CENTRAL STAGE AND SEATING
The central stage made a few years back has never been used again
after its opening ceremony when they hired rappers to sing on it. For 2
years now it has been a baron concrete eye sore for the people of Fushe
Kosova and a waste of money. I aim to not let the effort go to waste be
using the stage wall for a cinema and the floor for group games. There
will also be wooden pallet seats installed on the concrete steps and 6
picnic benches with free power set up on either side of the stage on the
grass.
Provisions at stage
Wooden seats
Cinema (playing twice a week)
Music box (insert 10 cents for 15 minutes of
music)
Bean bag darts
Twister
Other organistional group games
Provisions at the picnic tables;
6x Tables
2x power sockets at every bench
WIFI available
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Key;
Current traffic flow that will not change:
Current traffic flow that will change:
New traffic flow deviation:
Dangerous impact prone area:
Area to be cleared:
Anti-skid application:
SECURING THE SITE
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CENTRAL STAGE AND SEATING
The central stage made a few years back has
never been used again after its opening cere-
mony when they hired rappers to sing on it.
For 2 years now it has been a baron concrete
eye sore for the people of Fushe Kosova and
a waste of money. I aim to not let the effort
go to waste be using the stage wall for a cin-
ema and the floor for group games. There
will also be wooden pallet seats installed on
the concrete steps and 6 picnic benches with
free power set up on either side of the stage
on the grass.
Provisions:
Swings x 4
Zip wire
Roundabout
Sea-Saw
Rocking Horses x 2
Monkey bars
Sit Up exercise bench
Tunnel
Slide
Sandpit
Optional:
Castle
Outdoor exercise equipment:
Treadmill
Cross trainer
Flypress
Exercise Bike
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DIRT BIKE TRACK
It is important to have vigorous and tougher games to challenge even the adults. A dirt bike track can be very tough and can really
challenge your athletic abilities, and as humans, we need competition in our l ife to move forward and evolve. Th is bike track can be
set as a goal for every child, in hopes of one day completing it. There would be a shorter and easier track for the younger child also
seperate from the hard track.
The track can make space for anyone wishing to make a business of renting mountain bikes for the sport.
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Caffe
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This section of the portfolio includes drawings and 3D images that I have produced for my
current employer at DK Architects. The architecture practice was established in 2008 by
RIBA Chartered Architect Nadir Khan. For the first three months of working at the practice
I was the only employee then a senior technician was hired. The practice is very successful
landing some large projects such as a restaurant at the Hoover Building in London.
Working for a small company and also being the only employee for the first three months has
allowed me to develop my know ledge of how an architectural practice really functions. It has
allowed me to learn first-hand the handling process of projects because all work was going
through me at some point, so I was able to analyse the amount of wo rk needed and the quality
of work required.
Since October, my technical skills have improved drastically, I am now very confident in
producing drawings to a professional standard and am able to gather, produce and prepare
works to that comply British design standards and regulations.
The following drawings and renders have all been drawn by me with the guidence and close
supervision of the head architect.
DK ArchitectsOctober 2014 - May 2015
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Plan
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Sections
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I started freelance rendering in 2015 and created this website
to display my work. These images show some renders and
models I have produced using Revit, Sketchup, Lumion and
3D max.
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MODELS AND SKETCHES