Portfolio by alifarhan

A d v a n c e d A r c h i t e c t u r a l D e s i g n A l i F a r h a n

P O R T F L I O2013

EDUCATION.

Jan |2011 - Dec|2013 Masters of Art & Architecture. | A Grade. Institution Dessau Institute of Architecture,Germany Specialization Computational Architecture, Urban Design & Planning.

Jan |2005 - Dec|2009 Bachelors of Architecture. | Distinction. Institution National College of Arts, Pakistan Specialization Architecture, Urban Design & Planning.

Sep|2000 - Jun|2003 Diploma of Associate Architecture. | A Grade. Institution Government College of Technology, Pakistan Specialization Architecture Engineering.

Jun|2000 Secondary School Certi�cate. | A-Grade. Institution Government Muslim Model School, Pakistan Specialization Matriculation in Science .

EMPLOYMENT.

AWARDS & HONOURS. TEACHING EXPERIENCE.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS.

Feb|2010 - Sep|2011 Oh+A Designworks.(Pakistan) Position Associate Architect. Responsibilities Concept design, Presentations and Construction Documents.

Feb|2010 - Sep|2011 Ali Qureshi Architect LLC. (united states) Position Project Architect. Responsibilities Concept design, Presentations and Construction Documents.

Jan|2006 - Apr|2009 Metropolitan Studio of Architecture.(Pakistan) Position Assistant Architect. Responsibilities Concept design, Presentations

Jan|2003 - Dec|2005 Faiz Quereshi & Associates.(Pakistan) Position Assistant Architect Responsibilities Concept design, Presentations

Ali FarhanLicensed Architect, Urban Designer & Planner“Pakistan Council of Architects and TownPlanners”.

Feb|2010 - Feb|2011 National College of Arts. Position Teaching Associate Responsibilities Teaching Assistant at 4th year Design Studio.

Feb|2010 - Feb|2011 National College of Arts. Position Guest Critic Responsibilities Guest Critic for studio presentations.

Residence: Germany. Nationality: Pakistan. Date of Birth: 08 April 1984 Mobile: +49-17-672424280 Interests: Reading, drawing, sculpturing. Language skills: English (fluent) German (beginner - in active learning) Email: [email protected] Address: 112- Zazenhauser strasse, Stuttgart Germany.

2012 Venice Binnale. | Publication. 2009 Bachelor of Architecture. | Distinction. 2006-2009 National College of Arts. | Scholarships. 2008 Pathological Laboratory Design. | 1st Prize. 2007 Hunter Resort design. | 1st Prize . 2004 Landscape design- Anum industry. | 1st Prize. 2003 Diploma of Associate Architecture. | Silver Medal.

1-Computational Skills. Behavioural Simulatioins. | Processing. Parametric logics. | Grasshopper. 2D, 3D Modelling. | Rhinoceros, 3dsMax, Autocad. Presentations. | Adobe ( Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign). Data Management. | VUE (visual understanding Environment).

REFERENCES.

1-Krassimir Krastev -Architect. StudioMaster.(Dessau Institute of Architecture). [email protected]

2-Liss C. Werner -Architect. StudioMaster.(Dessau Institute of Architecture). [email protected]

3-prof. dr. ing. Andrea Haase, Thesis Advisor.(Dessau Institute of Architecture). [email protected]

4-Ali Qureshi - Architect LLC, Principal. (AQArchitect LLC, New Jersey,US). [email protected] 5-Omar Hassan - Architect, Principal. (Oh+A designWorks,lahore, pakistan). [email protected]

6-Fawad Hussain - Architect, Principal.(Metropolitan Studio of Architecture). [email protected]

2- Concept design, Presentations and construction documents.3- Understanding of basic codes and issues involved in space planning.4- Proficient in Freehand sketching .

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P O R T F L I O2014

CROSS PROGRAMING.

Time based intensities.BACHELOR THESIS PROJECT. BACHELOR STUDIO PROJECT.

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GYMBOREE PLAY GROUP.

ATELIER COMMUNITY. PER-FORMATIVES.

P R O F E S S I O N A L P R O J E C T S.A C A D E M I C P R O J E C T S.

heterogeneous logic| Community.MASTER THESIS.

01BEACONHOUSE SCHOOL.

Contextual logic| Spatial Context.

STIGMERGIC SCAPE.

Ant algorithim|Pheromone Logic.MASTER STUDIO PROJECT.

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DEMOCRACY.

Jazz music | poetics & space.

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Performance driven typlogies.MASTER STUDIO PROJECT.

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FIBROUS MORPHOLOGY.

Swarm Agents | Fibrous rules.MASTER SEMINAR PROJECT.

CHANG RESIDENCE.

RESIDENCE, UNITED STATES.AQ ARCHITECTS, LLC.(NEW JERSEY,US).

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OH+A DESIGNWORKS,PAKISTAN

H E T E R O G E N E O U S ATELIER COMMUNITY.Socio-Economic lattice structure.

revitelization of socio-economic stratification, Master thesisP O R T F L I O

2014

Master thesis project.

01 The debate of the project starts from understand-ing an important district of Istanbul, which have significant importance from Byzantine time and used to be a metal industry and later turned as Sishane light manufacturing industry in Ottoman Empire time. In Byzantine and Ottoman empire time sishane district inhabitants used to share common interests and feed each other with their socio-economic, socio-cultural and socio political values. Project is about exploration and analyzing the existing urban situation in terms of social economic activities of existing network of produc-tion and their associated group of craft people in production line process and proposing perfect scenarios of communication, interaction environ-ment as lattice. Stage A is the theoretical research stage, which have been defined through the current situation of Galat as crafts district.In stage B all of these properties of program and their essence have been mapped first as two dimension-al diagrammatic Lattice then as rule based logic re define the organization of production line depen-dency network as a cluster and increase the amount of ateliers in each cluster.

A d v a n c e d A r c h i t e c t u r a l D e s i g n

Institution: Dessau Institute of Architecture.Studio: Material Performance.Tutors: Krassimir Krastev. Prof: Andrea Hasse.Status: Master Thesis ProjectYear: jully, 2013

MAPPING FORMATE OF EXISTING ATELIERS PRODUCTION DISTRIBUTION.

Proposed Sishane District along with production and living activites in the area, presents wide range of living en-vironment which has socio- economic valuse for the future.

Interdependent Networkof Ateliers and production.

P E R F O R M A T I V E POTENTIALS Performance driven typology

, Architectural Ecosystem, Master studio

Leipzig Trade Fare Project,2011P O R T F L I O

2014

03 For the 40-acre site of the former Bavarian station to be built, an important area between the south and east of Leipzig. For us, it's about the urban space and profiling of the east and west neighbor-hoods between the Bavarian Station and the Rich-ard Lehmannstreet, and the other is the creation of spatial potentials, which runs deep in the south of Leipzig.Site gives us the unique opportunity to tap into urban space in the area between the Bavarian Station and Richard Lehmann Road a large area that is the future for businesses, educational, com-mercial and leisure to develop a high level of attrac-tiveness. This site act as central spine between twozones, residential and commercial with different programmatic concerns. Architectural concerns on the site will not only transform the macro level but it will affect its immediate context in the city.Being centralized situation in the city the site got the real potential to be like an active node. the left side diagram clearly dictates the multiplicity of overlapped events in terms of activities are analyzed. This is the conceptual argument as diagram for the exsiting urban fabric, which dictates.


Institution: Dessau Institute of Architecture.Studio: Architectural Ecosystem.Tutors: Krassimir Krastev.Status: Master studio Project (with Andrii Mogylnyi)Year: 2011

Being centralized situation in the city the site got the real potential to be like an active node. the left side diagram clearly dictates the multi-plicity of overlapped events in terms of activities are analyzed. This is the conceptual argument as diagram for thethe exsiting urban fabric, which dic-tates these is no single rule that govern the design process.

Extraction of programtic intensities

Potential of the area (subway tunnel)

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For the 40-acre site of the former Bavarian station to be built, an important area between the south and east of Leipzig. For us, it's about the urban space and profiling of the east and west neighborhoods between the Bavarian Station and the Richard Lehmann-street, and the other is the creation of spatial poten-tials, which runs deep in the south of Leipzig.

Development through genticalsequencing of activities

Energy based diagram extraction from similarties and differences of tempera-ture.

S T I G M E R G I C S C A P EAnt algorithim|pheromone logicvenice binnale 2112Ai | 100 YC , Master studio

Exhibited & Published in Venice Binnale,2012P O R T F L I O

2014

02 The idea of the urbanism is following the concept of future architecture in 2112 which is based on new conception of space and living style in future as differentreality where boundaries of virtual and physical reality have blended together and letting an argument for a designer to construct and rethink about architectural spatial logic in 2112, living in this environment where People are concerned about creativity of life , accommoda-tion, leisure, economic activities. Multi-layered networks as activity points are being generated and self organized on rules & informa-tion of programmatic concerns. Each individual place attracts certain urban activities(Business or residential), which are simulated by moving agents which turn into swarm behaviors in a 3D urban context. Swarm behaviors develop the possibility of emergence, based on the precise calculation of agents and densities of places. The dynamic gener-ation of the multi-layered networks reflect the stigmergic logic of the city growth , as rules have extracted from future programmatic concerns of activities.


Institution: Dessau Institute of Architecture.Studio: Material Performance.Tutors: Liss C. WernerStatus: Master Studio ( 2nd semester )Year: jully, 2012

F I B R O U S MORPHOLOGIES Swarm Agents | Fibrous rules.Swarm agents defines fibrous morphologies.

DIA , Scripting seminar, 2012P O R T F L I O

2014

06 A swarm an be viewed as a group of agents cooper-ating with certain behavioural pattern to achieve some goal. There are a number of different models of swarm intelligence that have been proposed and investigated, and among the most commonly used swarm intelligence models include ant colony opti-mization, particle swarm optimization and honey bee swarming etc. Modelling of the collective behaviours of simple agents inter-acting locally among themselves, and the environ-ment which leads to the emergence of a coherent functional global patterns. From the computation point of view, swarm intelligence models are com-puting algorithims that are useful for undertaking distributed optimization problems. Swarm logic presents the idea of Agents and their defined movement with an idea of separation, cohesion and alignment. Agents movement has the potential to define dynamic geometries and tectonics. In this case the agents movement define Fiberous mor-phologies. Fiberous bundling and separtion as weaving can be achieved through agents move-ment.


Institution: Dessau Institute of Architecture.Studio: Material Performance.Tutors: Krassimir Krastev. Prof; Andrea Hasse.Status: Master Thesis ProjectYear: jully, 2013

C R O S S PROGRAMINGTime based intensities

Space and Events, Bachelor Thesis

Published in Daily Time Magzine, 2010P O R T F L I O

2014

04 The main idea is to conceive the whole system of an Art institute as micro urban system which has different parts but all parts will be in a complex relationship which is required for an institute in the current age. A generic sustem as complex adaptive system is helping for making a complex program-matic relationship among differnet parts of teh whole system to synthesis it into a main system and to create diversity of experiences as sequences of dramatic spaces and events. An art institute greatly deals with sharing of infor-mation, which defines its essence abd leads towards cross programmed culture of activities rather distinct nothon of set functions. The quaility of spaces is reflected my the generic reflection of programtic concers through a concrete process, which allows spaces to be able to deal various events. These events are strong aspects of Art isnti-tute. The design process dictates a wide range of social aspects through tectonical formations. These formations are being represented as modulation of specific order, which keep on constantly changing based on topography and conditions within.


Institution: National College of Arts.Studio: Thesis Strudio.Tutors: Tariq Khalidi.Status: Bachelor Thesis ProjectYear: December, 2009

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The mapping representation defines some distintions between shared and non sharedactivities, which has been defined as diagrams.The resultant diagrams (genotype) is the cross over of both infor-mations, which ends up making one pheno-type. Space and event have been coded assequences of activites

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Developed Phenotypeof shared activities

Genetical cross over of shared and non shared zones

New gentical order ofshared activites

Resultant Phenotypenon shared zone

activation ofactivities 8-30 am


Mapping(activites)of commonalities

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D E M O C R A C Y IN ARCHITECTURE Jazz music | poetic spacedistrict center, democratic expression

NCA , studio project, 2007P O R T F L I O

2014

05 This was an architecture studio project, which was based on my experiences of the site and their met-aphorical interpretation into architecture as a narrative in a democratic society especially when it is a building type (civic center) that should become a representation of the system (democracy) and thereby hopes and aspirations of the community. Architecture then partake of symbols, icons, and representations and ways of building, that the community already hold in high esteem accompa-nied with hierarchies of privileges. My experiences of the site defines as sequences of events in nature which exist in non symmetrical harmony. The project is about finding the intangi-ble essence and spirituality of the ambience and how I can create a symbiotic dialogue between site and architecture. Interpretation of the program and form was interpreted as sequences of activities happening on one spine like in jazz music different episodes of instruments are introduced on one continuous note. The idea defines architural logic as series of tectonics which haapens arround one spine in order to present it asymetrical spatial logic.


Institution: National College of Arts.Studio: 3rd year studio.Tutors: Ar. Arfan Ghanni.Status: Bachelor Studio ProjectYear: 2007.

B E A C O N H O U S E SCHOOL SYSTEMContextual & spatial tectonicsnew lands, educational system

Oh+A designWorks, office project, 2010P O R T F L I O

2014

07 Design is based on programmatic, climatic, social and cultural concerns through simple rules . It was decided that planning and construction must be straight-forward. Design was based on multiple contextual and programmatic factors which suggest volumetric composition. Volumes are arranged in way to feed social and cultural intimacy among different components of school as a system.social and culural concers have been coded in arranngement of architectonics through series of analysis of time based social activities of students and differnt cultural events of beconhouse as a system.Further these volumatric composition are devel-oped into series of architectoincs which represent different event spaces. The Project includes the contextual debate as well, which defines its volumatric composition. The contextual debate define itself by reinterpreting cultural and architec-tural boundries and coming up with an idea of teconical formations. these Formations have the potential to perform various architectural and programaitc features of Beaconhouse as contem-porary school system.


Office : Oh+A designWorks.Project: Beaconhouse School System.Team leader: Omar Hassan.Status: Associate ArchitectYear: 2010

G Y M B O R E E PLAY GROUPLocal Materials construction.MUSIC, PLAY AND EDUCATION.


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08 Design is based on programmatic and local material concerns through simple rules . It was decided that planning and construction must be straight-for-ward. Design was based on multiple contextual and programmatic factors which suggest volumetric composition. Volumes are arranged in way to feed social and cultural intimacy among different com-ponents of school as a system.Local Material was chosed with a challange to build it in a short perid of time. Compressed mud block, which has interlocking capability to build wall and building components in short time. No plaster and and morter was used to build this local way of constrcution in a contemporary way. Half poortion of the building was build in mud blocks and the other half in steel structure.Gymboree is an international organization, which works for childern education. The program was organized in volumetric composition. Music, play and education were the basic program to feed these volumetric composition. These mud blocks as natural material helped to achieve hygienic solu-tions for users as childerns.


Office : Oh+A designWorks.Project: Gymboree.Team leader: Omar Hassan.Status: Project ArchitectYear: 2010

C H A N G RESIDENCELocal Materials construction.PRIVATE RESIDENCE, UNITED STATES.


2014

09 The Concept Chang Residence is based on programmatic and local material concerns through simple rules . It was decided that planning and construction must be straight-forward. Design was based on multiple contextual and programmatic factors which suggest volumetric composition. These composition have been represented of the extension of this house.Local Material was chosed with a challange to build it in a short perid of time. Wood as material have been used as its a local material, which is extensive-ly used in most of the states in US.


Office : Ali Qureshi Architect.Project: Chang Residence.Team leader: Asgher Ali Qureshi.Status: Project ArchitectYear: 2010

P O R T F L I O2014

Residence: Germany. Nationality: Pakistan. Date of Birth: 08 April 1984 Mobile: +4917672424280. Interests: Reading, drawing, sculpturing. Language skills: English (fluent) German (beginner - in active learning) Email: [email protected] Address: 112- Zazenhauser strasse, Stuttgart Germany.
