Projects & Designs

Andalusia Gardens Complex

Role: development management of a mega urban, mixed use complex in Jeddah, KSA, consisting of: queen and king towrs and a shopping mall designed by Nikken Sekkei Ltd. Tokyo, Japan.

Hotel & Medical Office Tower Complex

Role: development management of the interior design of top medical and healing, hospitality, complex in Jeddah, KSA, design by Baker Design Group, Dallas, Texas, USA.

Building Section View of the Hotel Atrium

Aerial View of Landscaped Bridge with Hospitality Complex Beyond

Detail View of Atrium Central Fountain with Foucault Pendulum and Glass Floor

Aerial View of Atrium Central Fountain with Foucault Pendulum Structure

Prayer Room View of the Central Fountain Glass Floor Skylight with Suspended Pendulum (Pendulum and Water Movement Animates the Prayer Room Floor)

The New Club House and Landscape of Ararat Social Club

The Ararat (Armenian Community) social club , Heliopolis District, Cairo, Egypt: Re-planed and landscape design and design the new club house building respecting the retro style of the main club house (1960s retro as modern heritage) and the historical trees in the site.

New Club House

Corner View with kids area and the playground.

Aerial view of the new club house and the tea garden & the bar area

Tea Garden & Bar Area

New Club House

Old building at the background and backside walk leading to the kids area

New Club House

rear elevation

the PlayStation zone, red cube, and kids area underneath.

Old (left) and New (right) Club Houses

Bird-eye view of both club houses, tea & bar area and the playground

Areal view of the Ararat Club

historical trees and new club house to the left, old club house to the right

Ararat Club Main Gate

retro styled gate complementing the 1960s mood of the old club house behind it.

New Club House

Ground Level Billiard room, behind the bar and kids zone.

upper level: multi purpose and event and meeting, dividable, hall,

The Blue Hole & Abu Galum Protected Area Planning

Providing the site and environmental and sustainability studies and planning for the natural heritage area (terrain and submerged natural heritage sites) 30 KMs to Dahab, Southern Sinai, Egypt.

Sustainable Energy & Climate Change Action Plan (SECAP), Egypt

Co-authoring the SECAP, Egypt as part of the CES-MED Cleaner Energy Saving Mediterranean Cities, EU Neighbors, developing the strategies for Luxor and the Red Sea Governorate.

Exhibited, extract of Luxor report focusing on Al-Qurna Area, The West Bank of the River Nile facing Luxor City, for which I conducted research and developed its strategy myself due to its prominent cultural heritage sites.

PS. a sample project fiche (bankable/ pre-feasibility) form is provided. The financial part is removed but the carbon emission budget is included.

Islamic Cultural Center in Okinawa, Japan

Front Elevation

Main Entrance & The Center Shop entrance to the right

Side Elevation

Side entrance for users of the upper level (women and children).

Ground Floor Plan

Upper Level Plan

Basement Level Plan

Provincial Police Headquarter, KSA

Theme, character, design of the police headquarter and solder barracks in different provinces in KSA. The design had to be flexible to fit with different available plots of land, to grow incrementally depending on the demand and the capacity needed in each location. It has to coupe with different ecozones in the Kingdom and complement cultural heritage in a contemporary mood, which was reflected in using stone cladded shield walls, oriented mainly towards the undesirable wind sides, and the use of the gigantic rusty finished opening , reminiscent of the Turma, a type of opening characterizing the garrison architecture in Addariyya. It could be opened or having its shutters closed depends on the season. Standards C-shaped unit building closed with the aforementioned shield to form courtyards for better ventilation and illuminations.

Mian Entrance

One sample location fully developed with the administrative C-shape unit buildings, playgrounds and solders dorms

different elevations

relation between the solders dorm and administrative buildings

Urban Regeneration of Al-Ferdaws Quarter, KFUPM, KSA.

Re-planning, modifying layout and landscape design, as well as, remodel housing units to enlarge as part of the overall regeneration of the residential quarter for the faculty and staff of King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM).

Location: Southern edge of the KFUPM campus, Dhahran, Eastern Province, KSA.

General Urban Character Study

A detailed landscape and architectural study for one neighborhood corner

Al-Ferdaws Quarter

Villa & 2 Apartments on Jubeiha Mountain, Amman, Jordan.

A complex with main entrance from the street level consisting of: a villa that contains 3 bed rooms (alternatively 2 bed rooms and an office) and a master bedroom and a nanny's zone on the upper level. The lower level is for the reception halls, living and kitchen zone. The upper level contains 2 apartments.

The whole composition is defined with retro like shell form, adorned with lime stone cladding. Protruded parts of the shell-like structure is to provide necessary shading for the balconies and the roof area to minimize thermal load.

The shell is composed of mish plastering with limestone cladding and wall barring with reinforced concrete ceilings.

Street Side View

Mountain Side View

Main Elevation

street side

Interior View

The intermediate-level salon with modern staircase descending towards the double height hall. The master bedroom overlooking the double height hall with a bay window and the kitchen and breakfast area on the lower level to the left. The main living space is on the lower level to the right.

Proposed finishing, plain plastering with regular lime stone cladding and wooden and metal sheets cladding for an artistic sculpturing like interior mood.

Cross Section

Street side to the left leading to the main entrance and sloping towards the mountain to the right, ending with a deck and an infinity pool, with a retaining wall.

Ground Level Plan

Main Entrance, street side, leading to the complex lobby with staircase leading to the upper level for the two apartments.

Office, or alternatively guest room with private bathroom open to the main entrance lobby; 2 bed rooms and a their bathrooms over looking the mountain panoramic side; small lobby leading to the nanny's room and bathroom and the master bedroom zone overlooking the mountain panoramic side.

Intermediate-level salon linking both sides of the villa: the master bedroom zone and the other 2 bedroom zones, descending towards the lower level, double height hall with a panoramic opening overlooking the mountain side..

Lower Level Plan

Lower level, double height hall linked with the intermediate-level salon with modern staircase.

The double height hall leads to the deck of the infinity swimming pool and the panoramic view of the mountain side. It also leads to the kitchen space including the breakfast zone overlooking the mountain side, as well as the main living zone on the other side of the hall.

The Memorial of the Victims of the French Aeroplan Crash

Sharm El-Sheikh, Off-road, Southern Sinai, Egypt.

The proposed design consists of: the memorial main structure exhibiting the names of the victims; the visitors center at the rear side providing information center for off-roaders and Safari holiday makers and a shop for beverages and simple snakes.; and stepped landscape with green lawns and olive trees surrounding the memorial with a retaining wall of stacked rocks that separate this landscape and memorial from the visitor center at the back side. The whole complex would act as an off-road service oasis.

General View

Main Elevation

The Memorial (right) & The Visitors Centers (left)

The memorial structure is carried on irregular L-shaped fair-face concrete pillars with the name of victims engraved on its inner surfaces (first tier) carrying ring beams adorned with rock baskets with glass rocks to allow ribbons of light (second tier). The final tier is a diagonally cut cylinder of fair-face concrete. The whole structure is surmounted with well isolated green roof decorated by an instillation of twisted pipes carrying birds symbolizing peace, the main symbol of Sharm El-Sheikh, the city of peace.

The visitors center at the back of the memorial, metal structure shaded with a second ceiling of steel corrugated sheets concealing HVAC and minimize thermal load, suspended with metal cables from the rock basket tier of the memorial

Classic Interior Design

Central Hall, atrium, of Palace in Dammam, KSA

Designed as the inner garden of a fully airconditioned palace, complementing the more introversive mode of the client as well as the congested urban character with no gardens or open scenes. Stained glass large window and clearstory windows for natural light and vegetation and built in seats were to emphasize the inner garden feeling. using classical ornaments (French Gypsum) marble and glass mosaic adornment techniques were to give the classical ambiance desired by the client.

Master Bedroom, Shikh Zayed, Cairo, Egypt

Federal American Style.

Architectural & Urban Development Guidelines for Addariyya Historical Precinct, Riyadh, KSA.

Extract from the architectural and urban development guidelines/ memorandum.

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