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[Portfolio]
Faezeh AshtianiMLA , MArch, BArch
[Projects]
Shifting Demographics - Rural Land/Urban PopulationProject title: Get Fit
Advanced Studio - UIUCSpring ‘14
Urban Land Institute - Gerald Hines Competition SubmissionProject title: reLOOP
Team work Winter ‘14
Principles for designing a modern Islamic gardenMLA Thesis
UIUC Fall & Spring 2013
Tehran’s 21st Century Shamsol Emare Project title: Let’s Meet
Residential Complex in Siroos District - Old TehranResidential Studio
Organizing a day in a Shopping Center in TehranBArch Capstone Project
In Praise of the Abstract - Life-form inspired designProject title: Onion Chair
Araak Museum
Emam Ali Highway Margin
Designing the Municipality of the Capital CityMArch Thesis
Advanced Studio - UT Spring ‘11
UT Spring ‘09
UT Fall & Winter ‘10
Proffesional Work - VAV Studio‘10 - ‘11
Proffesional Work - ArmanshahrSummer ‘13
Furniture Design WorkshopSpring ‘13
UT Spring & Summer ‘12
Landscape Graphics and Planting DesignProject title: Outdoor Living Areas
Residential Studio - UIUCFall ‘14
Construction DocumentsTechnical Studio - UTFall ‘09
Physical Model Making
Sketching
Fall ‘04 - Fall ‘14
Advanced Studio - UIUC Fall ‘12
Old State Capitol Site RedesignProject title: Democratic Space
Shifting Demographics - Rural Land/Urban PopulationProject title: Get Fit
Advanced Studio - UIUC - Spring ‘14
The objective of this studio was to understand the new meaning(s) of urban vs. rural and to explore landscape design solutions, in a corridor from Urbana to Chicago, for existing conditions which were mainly the result of urbanization and industrialization.
Low amounts of physical activity and limited accessibility to fresh and healthy food in rural America has resulted in high rates of diabetes and obesity in adults and children in these populations. As a landscape solution to these problems “Get fit” proposes to institute exercise paths along with vegetable gardens and fitness grounds in the rural towns with a population of less than 2000. This design takes place in three phases, in connection to schools and churches as educating centers, to reduce automobile dependency and facilitate a healthier lifestyle.
Gilman
Chebanse
Clifton
Ashkum
Danforth
Gilman
Buckley
Onarga
Loda
Ludlow
Paxton
Ashkum
Danforth
Gilman
Buckley
Onarga
Loda
Ludlow
Paxton
Travel time to work
Chebanse
Clifton
Ashkum
Danforth
Gilman
Buckley
Onarga
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8.3% of the population of the United States has diabetes, the 7th leading cause of death in America. 90% of them have type 2 diabetes which is largely the result of excess body weight and physical inactivity. More than 33% of the adults in USA are obese and 17% of children are too. In Illinois more than quarter of the population has obesity and this ratio is higher in rural parts of the state. Lack of physical activity and unhealthy diets are the two major factors in this condition.
Existing conditions
Diabetes
Obesity
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1- Vegetable gardens along with schools or churches as educational facilities.2- Exercise loops.
The double green line can be......
lighting. signage. bike racks. the path.
Design proposal
Project identity
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church
vegetable garden
double green line path
green-house
fitness grounds
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church
vegetable garden
double green line path
green-house
fitness grounds
Get fit Gilman
phase 1
Gilman
phase 2 phase 3
Site specific design for this design framework which happens in 3 phases, is shown in a town called Gilman.
Phase 1 with 1-2 mile paths connects residents to veg-etable gardens and fitness grounds. These keypoints are located close to churches and schools for getting educated toward a healthier lifestyle.
Phase 2 consists of 4-5 mile paths that fulfills an indi-vidual’s daily physical activity while connecting them to their surrounding landscape .
Phase 3 completes the health network by connecting close towns.
A sectional view of the paths in phase 1 drafted in AutoCAD and rendered in Illustrator and PhotoShop.
Site design
Urban Land Institute - Gerald Hines Competition SubmissionProject title: reLOOP
Team work - Winter ‘14
This two weeks long ideas competition engaged our multidisciplinary graduate students’ team of 5 from landscape architecture, architecture and business, to devise a comprehensive development program for a real, large-scale site in Nashville, TN. As a landscape designer in this collaboration I introduced best management practices and current precedents to other team members that resulted in generating a landscape oriented design.
reLOOP establishes social, physical, and economic networks in the neighborhood historically known as Sulphur Dell, just north of downtown Nashville. The community integrates resilient strategies capable of achieving environmental and economic sustainability as well as community and individual health.
Brainstorming with team members at the begining stages of the competition.
100yr flood level
normal flood level
restaurant space promenade
market vendors vendor circulation
patron circulation
riverfront terrace
protective storm door
protective storm door
terraced flooding barrier
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The market seamlessly connects the area to the Cumberland River while transforming the riverfront into an economic and social hub. In addition, the physical infrastructure of the market protects Sulphur Dell from the ever-present threat of flooding.
REconfiguring the farmers market
1/4 mile walkable distance.
200 400 800 ft
Pedestrian routes. bus routes.
The Loop
Building typology
roof garden
courtyard garden
balcony gardenvisual connection
REconfigure REconnect
REsilient
SULPHUR DELL
SULPHUR DELL
Public, semi-private and private gardens create a visual and physical network in reLOOP. Typology utilizes terracing and level control to provide optimal growing conditions.
1- To reconfigure the farmers market along the riverfront as an economic and social hub and a flood resilient infrastructure. 2- To connect the community within itself and to the adjacent neighborhoods through a pedestrian and bicycle oriented circulation system.
Design concept
cistern
non-porous pavement
green roof
water harvesting
community garden
The pedestrian and bicycle oriented circulation system of reLoop creates seamless connections throughout Sul-phur Dell. The neighborhood expands upon the existing culture of community gardening by creating a network of community green spaces throughout loop. This system of public, semi-private, and private gardens populates reLoop, creating consistent physical and visual connections to green space. In addition the building typology and loop provide green infrastructure for treating as much as runoff as possible on site.
reLoop
curb cutscommercial residential
river promenade
bio-infiltration soilsdrainage course
overflow outlet pipe
bike path
running path
In this thesis I am approaching the “sense of Islam” by analyzing Islamic gardens based on their form and abstracting design principles in order to illustrate what elements compose an Islamic garden and help landscape architects design modern gardens that also have characteristics that echo the Islamic history. These design principles will use traditional forms to inspire designers. The proposed result is a design booklet of Islamic concepts, visual strategies, forms, textures, and ornament.
Court of Lions, Alhambra, Granada, Spain 14th century
Court of Myrtles, Alhambra, Granada, Spain 14th century
Taj-Mahal Garden, Agra, India 17th century
Chehel-Sotun Garden, Isfahan, Iran17th century
Hasht-Behesht Garden, Isfahan, Iran17th century
Shahzadeh Garden, Mahan, Iran19th century
Babur Garden,Kabul, Afghanistan 16th century
Fin Garden, Kashan, Iran Late 16th century
Principles for designing a modern Islamic gardenMLA Thesis
UIUC - Spring & Fall 2013
Thesis statement
The precedents in chronological order
From the number of surviving historic Islamic gardens I chose seven to serve as models that reflect the diversity of Islamic architecture. These seven gardens are great examples from their contemporary time and place. They form a spectrum of different forms of Islamic gardens which leads to better understanding and richer abstractions for this thesis. The precedents are vary from very small and intimate to very large and are from various part of the Islamic world to prevent limiting the research to one region or one subcategory of Islamic garden.
The location of precedents in the world of Islam.
Diagrammatical area of each historical garden in chronological order.
Precedents
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Size comparisonScale : 100ft
For analyzing the form of Islamic gardens I have dividing their formal elements into two major groups: hardscape elements and softscape elements. Although the experience of an Islamic garden is based on how each of these elements is employed, it is important to take the proportions and relations of these elements to one another into consideration for a more holistic understating. The analytical framework of my thesis (opposite page) shows how each section contributes to the outcome.
For employing this analytical framework I produced charts with pictures. Each chart focuses on one garden element. Each column in these charts shows pictures of one of the precedent sites. I also produced plans. Each plan is about a group of elements. For example the one which is greener is showing different kinds of plants and how they are arranged. In addition I made diagrams and sections for some of the groups when necessary for conveying analytical information.
Analysis and scope
Hardscape Proportions and Relations
EXPERIENCE:
Softscape
Water
Plants
Boundary
Entrance
Pathways
Buildings
Frames
Surfaces
Ornament
Geometrical LayoutEnclosure
Views & AnglesPorosity
Main AxisCirculationSequenceHierarchy
SoundShade
MainSecondary
FlowingStillJettingCascading
ResourceStateColor
Tall TreesSmall TreesShrubsFlowersArrangementColor
MainSecondary
ColorTexture
For WaterFor Plants
ScriptTile workCarvingDrawing
Abstracted Design Principles of an Islamic
Garden
Analytical framework
: Water -Resource-
: Water
LegendFlowing Water
Water Jets
: Plants
LegendLawn
Flower
Shrub
Short Tree
Tall Indecido
Tall Decidous
Precedent Study and Analysis
Analysis drawings and charts
This total of 21 charts and 5 set of plans , together with more detailed diagrams and sections helped me understand not only the few very obvious formal elements in these gardens but also the great variety that is possible through common principles.
us Tree
s Tree
Main BuildingSecondary Building
Main Entrance
Secondary Entrance
Boundary
Main Pathway
Secondary Pathway
: Water
Water occupies the middle part of the main axis.
Water can form various geometritrical layouts.
Plants can apear in various arrangements.
Water follows in recti-linear geometry.
Water cascades when the elevation changes.
Rows of tall trees frame the main axis to guide vision.
Trees are planted in a row or an X pattern.
Tall trees provide shade in hot and arid climates.
: Plants
These are examples of the 76 abstracted design principles that I could extract due to the rigorous analysis.
Abstracted design principles
Hardscapes : Pathways
Bent entrance have a porous wall.
Main pathways are even and parallel, but perpen-dicular to the entrance.
The relationship between the main entrance and the main building.
Various methods of fram-ing still water.
Water is almost always sunken in Islamic gar-dens.
The relationship between the main pathway and the main building.
Pathways are rectilinear.
Old State Capitol Site Redesign [what time is this place?]Project title: Democratic Space
Advanced Studio - UIUC - Fall ‘12
The Purpose of this project was to develop and propose alternatives for renovating the OSC landscape in Springfield, IL. This landmark was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. One feature of this site is that it has porous boundaries; on the one hand there is a definite precinct, or historic “temenos” surrounding the building. On the other hand, on all four sides the presence of the site extends beyond its bounds. Also the OSC is really a green roof built on a parking structure that was constructed beneath the historic building for serving the train station and downtown businesses.
Surrounded by vehicular routs on three sides, the OSC site feels like an isolated island. In addition to creating a tourist route for connecting Lincoln’s house to OSC and the new capitol building, I proposed creating observational spaces in adjacent existing buildings with good views to the site.
Design alternatives
Existing conditions of the site boundary and lawn.
Keeping parts of the wall with historic significance and rotating the stone base to be used as furniture and increase site permeability.
1- Increasing site permeability.2- Functioning as a public living room or civic square.
Design concept
Although the precinct has historic value and plays an important roll in the image that people have from this site, it was reducing the functionality of the site and keeping people off the site. I proposed to keep the stonework and the poles but alter them into rotating elements on the site that can be used as site furniture as well as marking the historic boundaries.
For 100 years, OSC has symbolized the context of conflict, innovation and resolution of civil debates, Thus in this design the lawn space is a public place accommodating interactivity and social engagement. This over the roof landscape is flexible and multi-functional. It has no specific direction and does not dictate to users what to do and where to do it.
Site plan
Landscape Graphics and Planting DesignProject title: Outdoor Living Areas
Residential Studio - UIUC - Fall ‘14
In this studio, I designed residential ourtdoor living areas, going through the pre-design stages from site inventory and analysis, and interviewing the clients, to prodicing functional diagrams and masterplans.
This landscape studio held in the department of horticulture, improved my knowledge of planting deisng while revisiting the very basic priciples of design and comunicating through hand graphics and rendering.
Aesculus pavia red buckeye
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Buxus sempervirens boxwood
Campsis radicans trumpetcreeper
Pachysandra terminalis Japanese pachysandra
Ilex opaca ‘Clarendon’ American holly
Panicum virgatum ‘Northwind’ switch grass
Miscanthus sinensis ‘Little Kitten’ eulalia
Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’ smooth hydrangea
Hylotelephium ‘Herbstfreude’ AUTUMN JOY - stonecrop
Thymus serpyllum ‘Pink Chintz’ creeping Thyme
Leucanthemum × superbum ‘Shasta’ - daisy
Paeonia lactiflora ‘Duchesse de Nemours’ - peony
Hibiscus ‘Draped Lady’ hardy hibiscus
Amelanchier × grandiflora ‘Princess Diana’ apple serviceberry
Buddleja davidii butterfly bush
Forsythia × intermedia ‘Sunrise’ border forsythia
Althaus Residence - Back yard master plan
Site inventory and analysis Functional diagrams
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Doty Residence - Front yard master plan
1. Betula nigra - river birch2. Betula papyrifera - paper birch 3. Amelanchier laevis - Allegheny serviceberry 4. Malus x ‘Snowdrift’ - flowering crabapple 5. Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Boulevard’ - Boulevard Japanese falsecypress6. Forsythia x intermedia ‘Sunrise’ - border forsythia7. Buddleja davidii ‘Buzz Violet Blue’ - butterfly bush 8. Buxus sempervirens ‘Joy’ - Joy common boxwood 9. Buxus sinica var. insularis - Korean littleleaf boxwood 10. Panicum virgatum ‘Northwind’ - switch grass11. Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’ - smooth hydrangea12. Hosta sieboldiana ‘Elegans’ - hosta13. Dryopteris filix-mas - male fern 14. Sporobolus heterolepis ‘Tara’ - prairie dropseed 15. Pachysandra terminalis - Japanese pachysandra16. Thymus serpyllum ‘Pink Chintz’ – Creeping Thyme
Plant list
Site inventory
Functional diagram
Designing the Municipality of the Capital CityMArch Thesis
University of Tehran - Spring & Summer ‘12
This lead by design thesis anticipated the result of the design as a symbolic architectural product, portraying the notion of the municipality of the capital city as a representative feature for the citizens.
In light of the above, literature associated with the subject highlights that municipality design is a social topic that penetrates thorough the history and culture of a specific region and hence is categorized as a civic assembly responsive to every day matters of civic life.
The Capital City is considered as an attribute of place that when associated to a city can bring about distinct qualities for it; which elaborates the specific meaning of Tehran as the Capital City in this project. This lead the thesis to focus on how Tehran as the Capital city can be identified and what architectural potententails does the city hold for public, social and administrative relations to prosper.
Design developement
Book/Gift Shop
Center Offices
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Third floor plan
Second floor plan
Ground floor view - rendered by Mehran Masudi.
1- The people and the city reflect in the municipality.2- The building is accessible to all with no barriers.3. The municipality is built over a large urban plaza.
Changes in the municipality since 1881
Proposed design
The municipality of the capital city: - is a symbolic architecture for the city, that can fully reflect the culture embraced within Tehran. - is full of light. - shows the multiplicity within Tehran. - is spectacular. - is a melting pot for all the different people in the metropolitan. - is democratic. - shows the change in the social system. - brings up interaction between people. - provides opportunities for cooperation between people and government.
East - West section
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Interior view - rendered by Mehran Masudi.
Tehran’s 21st century Shamsol Emare [the building that shines like the sun]Project title: Let’s Meet
Advanced Studio - University of Tehran - Spring ‘11
The challenge for this studio was to fund the meaning for Tehran in 2011, translate that abstract definition into a functional structure and decide where would be the most appropriate location in this metropolis to implement that design.
Tehran has not only been the political capital of Iran for more than 200 years but it has been the center for all the nation’s aspects of life and all eyes lay on it. The city contains so many kinds of people with different lifestyles, like any other me-tropolis.
The relationship between the monarchial regime and people until 1978.
The IDEAL relationship between the government and people.
The entrance to the metro station - rendered by Ramtin Haghnazar.
Iran’s movements toward democracy started with Tehran being chosen as the Capital. This was coincidental with the emergence of “western” science in Iran. All the socio-political events since then have claimed to bring us democracy and none have so far; the constitutional revolution, the passage of the fundamental law by the parliament or even the Islamic revolution by putting an end to 2500 years of monarchy, haven’t delivered that promise so far.
The ideal Iran is a democratic Iran. What is lacking in the base is that people don’t really interact in a multi socio-cultural context because no real public space exists due to an unwritten law of urban design in Iran. Therefore the public gather in private, causing socio-cultural groups remain as they were, without interacting externally, never learning about others, never learning to respect other beliefs and cultures.
The intention of this project is to show and respect that Tehran is a city for people and wants to bring out the underground life. Putting people in a place to be equal with people they don’t know. Make them interact and give them equal rights and value. The Shamsol Emare of Tehran should be a place to take it to the highest peak of humanity.
The new Shamsol Emare is a metro station situation on the longest human scale street where people meet in the center of Tehran.
The site for this place should be located somewhere where all Tehranians would feel attached to, and not feel like some-where that belongs to the so-called uptowners or downtowners. The Shamsol Emare occurs in the middle of people’s lives, in the heart of Tehran, having old Tehran on its south and being a gateway to modern Tehran on its north.
Due to the goals of the Shamsol Emare and the site necessities, it was suitable to be a metro station. The entrance was de-signed somehow to emphasize respect for people rather than for automobiles. The metro station connects the underground life with the overground life and makes democracy alive. Different people are equal in it and interact respectfully. It is no more the place that people would be observed by the monarchy from above like the Tehran’s last century Shamsol Emare, It is a place that people observe eachother equally.
Diagonal Section
level -1Second level level -2 level -3
Organizing a day in a Shopping Center in TehranBArch capstone project
University of Tehran - Fall & Winter ‘10
Shopping centers - true to most construction that rises from the needs of modern society, are an inseparable aspect of city life. Cities are populated with a diverse public from various backgrounds whom are assiduously assailed with the demanding and stressful characteristics of urban life, finding little time for recreational activities such as shopping or spare time with friends and acquaintances. In comparison, another category of consumers employ these centers for ‘loitering’; in other words, leisurely amusement, and without the objective of expenditure. The design of a shopping center responds to the needs of both categories.
This project integrates the design theory of Iranian bazaars as a place of social interaction and trade and ‘loitering’ as a positive and even profitable feature of shopping centers.
Design developement
First floor plan
The ammount of trancparency corresponds to the view to the center.
The hight of the structure corresponds to the context.
The main entrance.
Differenc scale needs.
Accessibility of the center.
Profile of an old bazar in Iran.
The objectives of this project was to design a shopping center properly incorporated within its surroundings as well as the creation of an aesthetically pleasing atmosphere and functional spaces for the local community and the neighborhood.
In addition to those allotted to trade, this center comprises of complimentary spaces designed to accommodate a lengthy sojourn. The project includes both daily and leisure-oriented zones which gratify neighborhood needs as well as a broader consumer scale. The design is such that both zones are completely inter-related and function correspondingly.
Residential Complex in Siroos District - Old Tehran
Residential Studio - University of Tehran - Spring ‘09
In this project I designed a residential complex in one of the four old districts in Tehran, where the original residents have left it to become a slum.
The main concern was to revitalize the old neighborhood by planning for the district due to modern life and to design the new housing with respect to the new habitants’ demands as well as the urban fabric of the area and the historical architectural values of the surroundings.
At first I studied the urban region as a whole to provide the complex with adequate infrastructure and suitable civic facilities. By studying the site I also differed the automobile accessibility to the site from the pedestrian one. Cars come in with the least interference in the dense fabric which is a characteristic of the old city.
First floor plan of a sample block
A combination of 5*5 m2 module was used in the desig due to economy and historic urban fabric.
Accesibility
Not enough privacy
Not enough filteration.
The alternative of choice.Accesibility
to the site before.
to the site now.
5 m5 m
View of a sample block
Different floor plans.
Following the small land division of the old houses in the site and the surrounding, and also due to the low income families that inhibit the neighborhood, I used a 5*5 m2 module to design the apartments. This provided a modulation that allowed the design to accommodate the modern life style while still fitting the new complex in the historic context.
There are common spaces in this complex on different scales with respect to privacy which is a key factor in the culture and religious of the residents in this area. Each block has a common space or a “courtyard” in the middle and then the complex has a space which resembles a neighborhood park.
Elevation of a sample block
The footprint of the 4 levels of the complex.
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Cross section of a sample block
Residential complex site plan
Construction Documents
Technical Studio - University of Tehran - Fall ‘09
The purpose of this studio was to understand various requirements for construction and lean to produce applicable construction details.
The product of this studio consisted of 26 Arch D sheets, compiling 32 technical drawings for a three story residential building.
Araak Museum
Proffesional work - VAV studio - ‘10
The Museum of Araak started with a defined program. It was divided to three main departments: History, Science and Philosophy.
In addition to the tree main departments in the project’s physical program, three ramps were generated. A lobby is placed at the beginning of each ramp for the easement of the visitor’s decision making process. At the end of the pass way there is a gallery in the final level connecting all the pass ways, making another choice of subject possible for visitor while going down.
The construction material is mostly brick for blending into the context of central Iran. The pattern in the facade is inspired from the Saruj carpet, the well-known isl Isamic patter of the regional carpet and it has no limitation in light absorption.
In this project I worked on modeling the digital 3D model, drafted finalized AutoCad documents and construcion drawings and worked with the structural engineer so that the architecture and the structure documents were corresponding.
North - South section
East - West section
Interior view of the entrance lobby.
First floor plan
Interior view of the cafe’.
Emam Ali Highway Margin Tehran, Iran
Proffesional work - Armanshahr - ‘13
The Emam Ali highway is a 22 mile north-south highway in Tehran. It goes through different municipal divisions.
When I joined the team working on this project in summer ‘13, the projects was well past the research phases. At that time we were working on the planting plans of the part of the highway that fell in Tehran’s 20th municipal division.
We held meetings to make sure the plants used were appropriate for the area and drought tolerant because of Tehran’s continuous drought and lack of precipitation and also beneficial for Tehran’s air pollution.
On this projects I produced planting plan documents based on the design strategies underlying the highway border desn objectives.
Morus albaWhite Mulberry
Berberis thunbergiiBarberry
Jasminum fruitcansWild jasmine
Cercis siliquastrumEastern Redbud
Buxus sempervirensCommon box
Cotoneaster dammeriBearberry cotoneaster
Melia azedarachPersian Lilac
PyracanthaPyracantha
Cortaderia SelloanaPampas gras
Syringa amurensisAmur Lilac
Evonymus japonicasJapanese spindle
Yucca filamenstosaYucca
In Praise of the Abstract - Life-form inspired designProject title: Onion Chair
Design Workshop - UIUC - Spring ‘13
The objective of this studio was to expand our understanding and appreciation of other related design deciplines as well as discovering other creative processes as a designer. This project challenged us to translate a life form into a usable furniture design.
Onion can delaminate when cut horizontally or vertically. This is the most known formal character of this bulbous vegetable. Onion chair utilizes this characteristic to abstract a seating furniture from the form of an onion.
Design Process
Full scale model production
Physical Model MakingFall ‘04 - Fall ‘14
Hand Sketching
