Helena MokhtarARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

Curriculum VitaeHelena Mokhtar

School of Art and DesignLiverpool John Moores University

nationality: Britishemail: helenamokhtar@gmail.com

tel: 0638062531address: Brahmsstraat 40

2162 vnLisse

Photography: http://linahussein.vsco.co/Personal Architectural Design Progression blog: http://linasarchitecture.tumblr.

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Reference: Adam MokhtarA.Mokhtar@ArchiPhonic.co.uk

EDUCATION

2011-2014 Liverpool John Moores University School of Art and Design, BA (Hons) Architecture (1st Class)

2010 Places Matter!: Architecture For Everyone

2009-2011 Archbishop Blanch Sixth FormA level History A

Art CPhysics C

2004-2009 Archbishop Blanch Church of England High School & Technology College12 GCSEs A*-B grades

SKILLS

AutoCAD

SketchUp

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign

Artlantis Studio

VELUX Daylight Visualiser

Hand model making

Photography

EXPERIENCE

Weightman & Bullen Architects Site meetings Drafting Digital modelling

2020 Knowsley Site meetings Drafting

IBI Nightingale Digital modelling

ArchiPhonic Drafting Digital modelling

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2014

INTERESTS

PhotographyFashion designTypography & logo designPaintingDigital image manipulation

Italy EgyptSpain FranceTurkey Wales

YogaHigh Intensity Interval TrainingHiking

ITS

Arts

Travel

Sport

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Permaculture is a design philosophy that aims to improve and heal the environment by working with rather than against nature. It aims to experiment to find a sustainable form of agriculture and producing food in the future without harming the land.

Permaculture design can range from focussing on the massive to the minute, from the tree to the microbe, and this is what drew me to design a Permaculture college that attends not only to the needs of plants, but also researches ways to produce the healthiest soil through growing the most beneficial soil microbes and putting them into the soil.

The Permaculture college consists of 3 blocks; administration building containing offices, research building containing laboratories, and accommodation buildings. Each of the blocks are buried beneath a heaped earth berm and accessed from the back via a tunnel that leads from an access route covered by pergolas on which their food grows. Roof gardens grow food and are a place for students to experiment with their new soils.

The blocks are buried underground to reduce their appearance in the landscape and also to maximise the area available for growing vegetation, making the buildings more sustainable as a result.

P e r m a c u l t u r e C o l l e g e

Above: a. Section of entire project.b. Plan of extents of project: from right to left; administration and receptin building, laboratory building, accommodation block, c. Site Plan.

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Above: Section of administration and reception buildingRight: a. Connecting space between offices b. Office

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Above: Sections through laboratory building.Right: Entrance from tunnel to laboratory building

Above: Section through accommodation block.Right: Bedroom and view, stairs, living room.

Yeohlee Teng Exhibition

Yeohlee Teng is a fashion designer who experiments with shape and uses of clothes and their fabric. This was a design for an exhibition stand which became a part of one of her pieces and also had a strong interactive element.

Inspired by the ‘hoist dress’ - a dress which changed shape when cords along the fabric were pulled - it consists of a lattice dome frame which can be easily assembled and dissassembled, and a continuous sheet of fabric loosely woven through the frame. Within the frame hang 3 clothes mannequins which are wrapped loosely and randomly in the long stretch of fabric to create ‘garments’. Along the fabric are cords; if one is pulled it causes that part of the fabric to change position, but also produces a change in another part, causing the appearance of the ‘garment’ on one or more of the mannequins to alter in an infinite number of ways.

The essence of the exhibition is to highlight changes in fashion, and to utilise architectural ideas within fashion.

Right: Clockwise from left to right: Front view, Internal view, View out

R i t u a l s o f S c e n t

The Arabs have been burning incense and applying scent as perfumes for millenia in rituals both religious and secular.

Burning incense in the house or wafting it on one’s clothes was and is used for pagan religious purification, protection from the Evil Eye and attracting good fortune.

It is used in secular rituals that usually take the form of ceremonies for welcoming guests where incense will be burned in the reception, and also for signifying the end of a gathering where a ‘mabkhara’ - incence burner - will be passed around the guests and each will waft the smoke inside their clothes.

The wunderkammer celebrates the stages of the incense and perfuming ritual. It consists of four spaces - one external and three internal.

The first is external and takes the form of a scent garden where scented flowers bloom year round. This space highlights the smell of fresh, growing scent.

The second is internal and displays on shelves inset into the walls raw, dried incense. This space is filled with more earthy scents. Raw incense can be damaged by exposure to daylight, and so this space is only lit by two small roof lights, which shoot light cascading into the space.

The third space displays colourful handmade, one-off perfume bottles on suspended shelves, and is rich with the oily scent of pure perfumes. It is lit by small roof lights sporadically placed with cast light onto the bottles, moving throughout the day, highlighting different bottles, the light changing colour as it moves.

The fourth and final space is a tall ventilation chimney in which there are circular shelves diminishing in size as they climb higher, displaying incense burners burning incense such as amber, frankincense, musk and mhyrr. The smoke rises to the top of the chimney where it is released, creating enticing visuals as the smoke travels

Right: External view of the wunderkammer and its roof scent garden.

Above: From left to right, concept collage of separate spaces; dry incense, perfume bottles, incense burners.Left: Concept collage of site exploring main intended themes and atmospheres within the project.

This page: Ground floor planLeft: Roof garden plan

Above: Long sectionLeft: from top to bottom; section of dry incense space, section of perfume space, section of incense burning chimney.

Left: From top to bottm; 2 images of dry incense space with daylight pouring in, perfume bottles space, 3 images of incense burning chimney.Right: Clockwise from top to bottom; View up entrance stairs with scented creeper flora, view across roof scent garden, view from garden onto street, Roof light from above, view of exit from garden.

1. Vegetation

2. Water drip

3. Growing medium

4. Root barrier

5. Filter layer

6. Drainage

7. Waterproofing

8. 150mm mineral wool insulation

9. Vapour barrier

10. 350mm precast reinforced concrete aggregate roof slab with light gray, weathered finish supported by concrete columns on pad foundations with rammed earth infill.

11. LED light ight fitting recessed into roof slab, electrical conduit accessed from beneath

12. Shadow gap for seamless flow between horizontal and vertical concrete slabs

13. Bolt fixing horizontal and vertical concrete slabs, 50mm spacings

14. Sealed insulated glazing unit - 2 glass plates, outer plate laminated glass, inner plate glass only. Argon gas filed cavity.

15. Silicon adhesive secures waterdip to aluminium window frame

16. Bolt secures frame to timber

17. Timber block

18. Bolt secures metal plate to concrete

19. Metal plate stabilises window frame

20. Rubber sheet

21. Aluminium window frame

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T h e A u s p i c i u m

Above: External birds-eye view of entire project

The Auspicium is a research and educational facility focused on the habitat and population health of wetland birds in North Wales. Their habitat is primarily mudflats. which are at risk from coastal squeeze due to rising sea levels caused by climate change. As their habitat becomes smaller, their food supply which lives in the habitat reduces, and so the population of wetland birds also declines.

The project aims to connect the mudflat habitat and woodland habitats behind; creating a human habitat that becomes an extension of both habitats and is, over time, inhabited by these wetland and woodland birds. It stretches from the woodland out to sea, across the slope, raised off the ground by columns to aid its survival and continued functionality through rising sea levels over time.

This page: From top to bottom, left to right; a. Concept model representing the building covered in nesting materials as an extension of the habitat, b. Exploring separate blocks on one structure as birds’ nests on a tree,c & d. Representing clusters and fragments of separate blocks,e. Incorperating custers and fragments into basic form,f & g. Clusters and fragments of blocks on diminishing form,h. Light study in a single room,i. Nesting frame for birds - extension of the habitat,j. Timber pod with nesting framesk. Terrain model,l & m. Bird hides,n & o. Model of first structure with connecting bridge and nesting frames.

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Above: Site and location map; blue indicates water, brown indicates mudflats, dark green indicates woods, lighter green indicates grassy area.Right: Plans of all levels in order from left to right - highest floor to the lowest.

6 scientists inhabit the main building, researching the effects of climate change on the migration paths of wetland birds, their mudflat habitat, and the plants and animals that live there.

Within the building there is bird observation and counting, analysis of bird population health, analysis of marine life condition, monitoring of sea and marsh plants, analysis of ground environment, and sea level monitoring.

The whole project consists of a welcoming centre for visitors, the main research and accommodatin building, and bird hides placed in various locations across the different habitats.

The main research building consists of 6 separate structures with timber pods cantilevered from the central concrete core, connected at various levels by walkways. The first 2 floors of the first two structures contain the research laboratories, the third floor of the first 3 structures contain offices, and the floors above are reserved for accomodation, which have 2 floors each.

Entrance pavillion.

2nd floor of 1st two structures.

1st floor of 1st structure 1st floor of accommodation 2nd floor of accommodationRight: External ground view of structuresLeft: Plans of all separate uses of the structures

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1. Greenhouse, plant growing room

2. Plant analysis laboratory

3. Marine life analysis laboratory

4. Bird life analysis laboratory

5. Ground core sample analysis laboratory

6. Core sample storage

7. Sea levels monitoring laboratory

8. Living area of accommodation

9. Bedroom

10. Bathroom

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Right: From top to bottom, left to right; Inside a bird hide, View of a bird hide from ruined building on land, View of bird hide from research building, Greenhouse room, Core sample analysis lab, Plant analysis lab, Circulation, Central core, 2 images of living area of accommodation, 2 images of bedroom.

Above: 2 sections through the first structure of main building.Right: Views of internal and external spaces.

1. Nesting space

2. 20mm aluminium bolts

3. White brushed pine vertical wall panels

4. White brushed pine flooring planks

5. Plasterboard

6. Spacers

7. Air gap

8. Oriented strand board

9. 50mm wide timber joists

10. 250mm wool insulation

11. Sweet chestnut timber frame

12. 100mm wood insulation

13. Oriented strand board external sheathing

14. Waterproof membrane

15. Breather membrane

16. Timber cladding fixings

17. Sweet chestnut vertical cladding

18. Sweet chestnut 1000mm diameter timber column

19. Aluminium bolt fixing steel beam to timber column

20. 300mm steel beam at 5m spacings.

This page: Technical detai of join between boxes and central structure.

P r o f e s s i o n a l W o r kThis is a selection of work completed for ArchiPhonic.

Finsbury Park

Above: A proposal sketch for a project in London,

Technical workSketches

Scarisbrick Houses

Above: A propsal sketch for the back of a housing scheme in Scarisbrick, EnglandLeft: Proposed sketch for the front view of the houses

Marshide Road

Above: A sketch of a proposal for a house extension.

SketchesTechnical work

Rawlinson Road

Merlewood Avenue

Art/SketchesPhotography

P e r s o n a l W o r k

Above: From left to right;Barcelona Pavilion, A street in Utrecht, Netherlands, A canal in Leiden, Netherlands, Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, Rome,Next page: From left to right;York Cathedral ceiling, England, Sant’ Agnese in Agone ceiling, Rome, Mostyn Gallery, Wales, Church ceiling in Rome, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, Church in Rome, Liverpool, Tivoli Gardens, Italy.

PhotographyArt/Sketches

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