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Taha [email protected]
Various Projects
Leadership and Activities
Interests
SIYASA_LAB Studio with Ana Morcillo-Pallares
Traveled across Spain to study interventions on buildings of heritage and completed installation in Museo Siyasa in Cieza along with a proposal to preserve and exhibit ruins of Medina Siyasa
May 2016 - June 2016 - University of Michigan
Experience
Quinn Evans Architects
Staff DesignerJanuary 2017 - August 2017 - Detroit, MI
Profile
Sic Parvis Magna Cafe, a portable cafe that reconnects clientele with their food through a herb gardenBest of School Award
AIA Virginia Prize Competition
Anthropological Linguistics • Cars and motorcycles • Environmentalism • Passive lighting and energy • Wanderlust
April, 2019
October 2017 - February 2018 - Ann Arbor, MI
August 2019 - Current - Charlottesville, VA
December 2018 - Current - Charlottesville, VA
University of Michigan
University of Virginia
University of Virginia
Research Assistant under Professor U. Sean Vance
Studio TA under Jeana Ripple and Francisco Ramos
Research Assistant under Ehsan Baharlou
▪ Fire code analysis of egress and new educational facilities for journal paper, published February 2018 ▪ Use of parametric modeling to explore tower exterior forms and classroom design
▪ Holding desk crits and participating in studio reviews ▪ Assisting students with production of drawings and models, including rockite castings ▪ Working with students to develop design concepts, redlining drawings, and holding various workshops
▪ Research and summary of various 3D printing literature ▪ Parametric form generation and optimization ▪ 3D printing with ceramic materials using PotterBot and KUKA 6-axis robot
▪ Production of presentation, SD, DD, and CD deliverables ▪ Site surveys consisting of documentation and field measurement corroboration
Skills
▪ Revit (certification of course completion), AutoCAD, Sketchup + Sefaira ▪ Adobe Suite - Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator ▪ Rhino + Grasshopper + V-Ray
Master of Architecture student with entry-level experience, interested in the intersection of the built and natural worlds, along with the mediation of light as design. Professional pursuits include obtaining licensure and becoming a LEED AP.
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The pattern algorithm for the hexagonal matrix superstructure offsets one edge of each hex-agonal face toward the centroid twice randomly. The offset lines form two opposing edges of a paralellogram, whose void is subtracted from the original hexagonal face. This void is then rotated around the center thrice.
With deep reverance for the fate of the World War One era steamships of Mallows Bay, sealed before it had even begun, this project reimag-ines the visitor’s experience of this monumental ship graveyard by variously immersing them in the amphibological interstitial spaces between the ships, between the natural land, and be-tween the ships that have themselves become land. The Copse of structures placed within the site engages visitors in different ways accord-ing to the specific structure’s location, eleva-tion, size, and orientation.
The design draws inspiration from the past and current conditions of the vessels. Where the ships created double hulls, the Orbs employ double skins consisting of an inner geodesic dome and its mathematically equivalent weak dual as a superstructure. This outer mantle over time is then annexed by the same biological and natural processes that have claimed ownership of the ships themselves in the past one hun-dred years. Together, these paired Corpses will become a marine sanctuary that will continu-ally remind us of both the solemn casualties of war and nature’s inescapable loving embrace.
Orbs Corpse
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Concept : Immersion in water
Parti: Elemental Components
Scale + Levels
Structural Design
Icosahedron: Plato’s waterClosest regular polyhedron to Sphere
Each icosahedral face subdivided, then mapped onto a sphere
Resulting Geodesic Dome
Centroids of each triangle of geodesic dome connected to make hexagonal geodesic dome, then scaled outward
Newberry Addition
Chicago’s historic Newberry Library suffers an estrangement from the city’s animated bustle due to its institutional infrastructure. In an attempt to reconnect to the commu-nity, Billboard draws from elements of the site and the city and projects an informed inscription vertically and laterally upon the metropolis. The addition aspires to sweep in passerby and serve as an informational gateway to the exclusive collections, while being an architectural bill-board of the acquisition of knowledge for pass-erby and adjacent residencies.
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Located in New Haven, Connecticut, Minimal House is a dual-family resi-dence. The project takes care to em-ploy eclectic materials to craft a com-fortable living space. The drawings to the left show details of the entry door at the first floor, highlighting the as-sembly of some of those materials.
Minimal House
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