mohamed rashed portfolio

PortfolioMohamed Rashed, M. Arch

architecture + designselected work 2008|2015

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/mohamed-rashed/43/376/13

Mohamed RashedArchitect

+39 [email protected]

Via Leopoldo Camillo Volta, 3, Mantova, 46100MN, ItalySkype ID: arch.m.rashed

Objective

Seeking a challenging position in a reputable company whereby my academic background and interpersonal skills are well developed and utilized.

Education

Masters of Science in ArchitecturePolitecnico Di Milano, Mantova Campus, Italy

Bachelor of Science in Architectural EngineeringFaculty of Engineering, Department of Architectural Engineering,Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Academic Experience

TAP International Design WorkshopShanghai, ChinaMain Theme:Regeneration of Li long housing unit in Shanghai Eco-integration and preservation of Historic values.Partner Universities:• UNESCO Chair In Architecture And Preservation And Planning In World Heritage Cities.• Politecnico Di Milano.• The University Of Adelaide.• Tongji University.

Academic Experience

• Master’s Of Science Thesis: Architectural Identity In Contemporary Cairo.

2012–2015Grade: 107/110

2003–2008Grade: 68.8%

June 30th – July 13th 2014

05/2014 – 07/2015

Professional Experience

Senior Interior DesignerEklego Design, Cairo, Egypt.

Architect / Interior DesignerRestore Solutions, Bangalore, India.

Architectural InternArchiplan, Mantova, Italy.

ArchitectLaMirada, Cairo, Egypt.

ArchitectIVY, Cairo, Egypt.

Site ArchitectAlexandria Construction Company – Talaat Moustafa Group, Cairo, Egypt.

Consultant Site ArchitectAl-A’mar Consulting Group, Al-Ein Al-Sokhna, Egypt.

ArchitectCentroid , Cairo, Egypt.

Architectural InternZone M.E., Cairo, Egypt.

Architectural InternIntegral Arab consultants Group (IACG), Cairo, Egypt.

Skills

Computer SkillsExcellent command in (3Ds MAX, V-ray, AutoCAD, Photoshop, InDesign).Good command in (RDF, Best Energy, Word, IT).Sufficient command in (Revit, AutoCAD 3D, Sketchup).

Language SkillsArabic (Mother Tongue). English (Excellent). Italian (Sufficient).

References Upon Request

10/2014 – 12/2014

11/2015 – 01/2016

02/2016 – Present

04/2012 – 09/2012

01/2010 – 12/2010

09/2009 – 12/2009

08/2008 – 08/2009

02/2008 – 05/2008

07/2007 – 03/2008

01/2011 – 03/2012

CONTENTS

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

THE HOUSE OF MUSIC Masters of Science Thesis

Year: July 2015Location: Cairo, EgyptSupervisors: David Palterer & Heba Safey El-Deen

This project stands as the practical example of the theoretical approach that was discussed throughout the thesis. Architectural identity in Cairo, how did it disappear, and how to revitalize it or create a new one that suits the city and its inhabitants.

Azbakiyya, the chosen area, the melting pot of Islamic and neoclassical architecture, the lake and leisure place in the medieval times, the princely garden and center of music in the modern times, now completely decayed and deserted.The project is to revitalize the area, designing a project following architectural features which speaks for the Cairene society, serve its needs, respects the architectural legacy of the city and getting advantages of experiences we get from it, and pursues architecture in the rest of the world. The aim is to design a project which can be a seed that can be developed into a new architectural identity for the city.

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The Lake:

Marking the borders of the former lake, we start understanding what should be demolished in order to retrieve it. After marking buildings which has historical value, we reach to the final shape of the new lake

The Park:

Islamic water gardens usually consist of many islands of green areas, carved in a big paved platform, connected together with small canals. Using the same concept in our project with converting the used materials. The big platform will be our lake instead of the paved one. The design of the project then consists of some islands that will host the different functions in the project, as well as the gardens that will be added or will be restored from the ruins that are existing nowadays. The lines of the islands are derived formally from the grid of the surrounding urban pattern aiming the project will be a window towards the historical city.

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The Function:

1- Music School. 2- Musical Workshops Studios. 3- Existing Closed Theatre.4- Residential Building for Visiting Performers and Professors. 5- Open Opera House. 6- Music Museum.7- Recreational Area. 8- Water Garden. 9- Remains of the Old Garden After Restoration.

Architectural Language

Heights are four floors not to exceed the height of the surrounding buildings to sustain the existing skyline. Same colors are 1- Heights are four floors not to exceed the height of the surrounding buildings to sustain the existing skyline with the faces of its beauty and messiness.2- Same colors are used for the entire project to sustain the image of the old city.3- Different articulations of materials are used to differentiate some activities.4- Deploying lessons learnt from historical architecture in a contemporary way; Mashrabiyya, which was used not only for social but also climate uses. Windows are tall, narrow and deep to allow better air flow, and less direct sunlight.

Music School

Music Museum

DESIGN WITHIN THE HERITAGE Masters of Science 4thsemester project

Year: July 2014Location: Mantova, ItalyCollaborators: Amir Moshtaghi, Ana Paez Batija, Elham Eslamian

The old abandoned fish market designed by Giulio Romano has a very special location looking to the canal in Mantova. The general theme of the project was to preserve and reuse the building and its extensions for a function related to food.

The main concept of the project is exhibiting local food products and how it is made in the main exhibition area, then the visitor will have the ability to go on to enjoy some meals made by the same restaurants who are exhibiting their products, and even by non cooked products of the same exhibited ones to have for their own kitchen use.

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Traditional restaurant

Promotion of Local Business

High Quality Gastronomy

Culinary Education

Exhibition SpaceWine and Food

Tasting

Cooking Show

MUSEUM OF FREEDOMMasters of Science 3rdsemester project

Year: February 2014Location: Mantova, ItalyCollaborators: Ana Paez Batija, Elham Eslamian

The exhibition shows different kinds of art works and old objects which express different kinds of freedom, freedom of worship, freedom of speech, freedom of sexual preference and freedom of mind, which opposes the religious attitude of limiting religion, since the exhibition is taking place in an old church. The area is divided into two main parts, the pursuit of freedom and freedom expressions. The area is divided by vertical bars which are installed straight and close to each other to give the visitor the feeling of enclosure at the area of the pursuit of freedom. The bars starts to fade and torn apart while the visitor is going on to feel the freedom at the area of freedom expressions.

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THE HOUSE OF GARDENS Masters of Science 1st Semester Project

Year: February 2013Location: Mantova, Italy

The context of the city of Mantova, around the project area is full of medieval houses, where each owner has his own inner-yard with a garden. The concept of the project was locating gardens for each apartment owners even if it’s not a medieval housing. It’s encouraging to keep some of the essential traditions of the old architecture of the city in the contemporary architecture. You can find some of these gardens are carved in the facade of the building

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LI LONG HOUSES TAP Design Workshop

Year: July 2014Location: Shanghai, ChinaCollaborators: Yujia Jiang

The project was focusing on one of the Li long housings in Shanghai. The aim is to improve life quality and increase residents capacity with maximum 2 floors addition in the building’s heights. While surveying the area and our case study house, we found that most of the houses are really hot from inside without any ventilation as well as the presence of air conditioning unit for almost every room. Also we found out that people gather outside of their houses at unprepared areas, since they have this culture and cannot be enclosed in their own houses. Our main concept of the design is creating a main pathew in the middle of the building that provides natural ventilation for all the spaces, along with creating facing terraces looking inside the pathew to provide communication between people living in the same building.

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MERGING THE MARGINS Masters of Science 3rd Semester Project

Year: February 2014Location: Reggio Emillia, ItalyCollaborators: Ana Paez Batija, Elham Eslamian

Reggio Emillia is a small city which happen to have one big railway station for high speed train. The project’s aim is to help the city grows to the scale of the importance of the railway station. For that we studied the different urban grids and fabrics of the area. We found a strange mixture of grids and uses in the area where the connection between them is really poor and not helping the city to grow in the right way. The main strategy of the project is locating margins between different grids and help solving it. We zoomed-in in one study case where we can find a margin between industrial and agricultural area. Our concept was to break the obvious line which separating them and bring parts of each side to the other. Our main design element was concrete decks which link the two areas and can be used for automobile and pedestrian uses.

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Different Urban Fabric Grids

Areas Of intervention

After studying the different grids and relationships between them, we found problems of expansion caused by margins between each different pattern. We chose two different kinds of margins, industrial - agricultural, and residential - agricultural to show our intervention example that should be repeated in the rest of the problematic margins in the area.

Before Intervention

After Intervention

Industrial - Agricultural

Before Intervention

After Intervention

Residential - Agricultural

THE COFFEE SET Furniture Design Competition

Year: August 2013Location: Milan, ItalyContributors: Ana Paez Batija, Alessandro Zanoletti

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PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

OYA LOUNGE

Year: January 2012Location: Cairo, EgyptCompany: IVY

The building was a residential villa in Muhandessin neighborhood in Cairo. The task was to re-design the building to host a restaurant with all its services.The design didn’t take long time, yet a lot of design decisions were changed and made during construction due to the inaccurate survey. Construction took 7 months since we received the site till we finally delivered it.The design mainly depends on material selection and lighting system. The main concern in the design was delivering something beautiful that suits the customers without using some deep concept or looking towards the context.

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MOSQUE

Year: January 2009Location: Tripoli, LibyaCompany: Centroid

This building is a part of a big urban and architectural project for 500 residential units with its services. The mosque is located in the services core, the land of the mosque is circular to allow freedom in choosing the building’s orientation towards Qibla. In the design we tried to reach to an oriental atmosphere using contemporary elements and materials.

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RESIDENTIAL PROTOTYPE

Year: March 2009Location: Damascus, SyriaCompany: Centroid

This design is one of 3 residential prototypes in a residential compound in Syria, designed to fit 1 family, it consists of 2 living rooms, 1 dining are, a kitchen, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, divided in 2 levels, with a backyard almost 40% of the land’s area.

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CARPACIAO COFFEE HOUSE

Year: March2012Location: Cairo, EgyptCompany: Ivy

The project is designing the interior of a coffee shop located in the food court in Cairo Festival City. For the client’s satisfaction, we used formally the elements of the logo in our design, as we used the flower of the logo in the pattern of the ceiling drawing it using fiber sticks with different length handing from the ceiling. Also we used the shape of the first letter of the logo to create the shape of the bar.

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FRUTZ JUICE BAR

Year: April 2011Location: Cairo, EgyptCompany: IVY

The project was designing a theme for a series of juice bar, mainly standing as a kiosk outdoors. The main approach was achieving cheap , removable construction and colorful design, in the pictures you can see how we applied our approach in each one of them.

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