Rami el Samahy

TEACHING PORTFOLIO WITH RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN SUPPORT OF PROMOTION TO ASSOCIATE TEACHING PROFESSOR JULY 2013

Table of Contents

Introduction
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE CURRICULUM VITAE

Teaching
CARNEGIE MELLON PITTSBURGH 48-500 Urban Laboratory Studio 48-497 Thesis Preparation CARNEGIE MELLON DOHA Study Abroad in Qatar 48-505 Thesis Studio Abroad 48-405 Systems Integration Studio Abroad 48-305 Comprehensive Studio Abroad 48-095 Architecture for Non-Majors 1 48-096 Architecture for Non-Majors 2 CARNEGIE MELLON PITTSBURGH & DOHA 48-577 Middle Eastern Cities 48-454 Futures of the City/Cities of the Future WORKSHOPS & EXHIBITIONS Tasmeem Workshop: Made in Doha 4dDoha: Buildings 48-377 Egypt Summer Seminar ULI Gerald D. Hines Competition ADSL Higher Institute of Architectural Sciences

Research
RESEARCH PROJECTS The International Design Zone Qatar Sustainable Urbanism Future Cities SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Practice
MAYAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY QATAR AL MARYAH ISLAND

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Statement of Purpose

Introduction

The following statement of purpose is in support of my application for promotion to the level of Associate Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellons School of Architecture. For the past six years my joint appointments at Carnegie Mellon have enabled me to teach on the Pittsburgh campus in the fall and in Doha, Qatar, home to Carnegie Mellons branch campus, in the spring. I have conducted extensive research on Middle Eastern cities and on the future of urban design both in the United States and in the developing world. During this same period, I have continued to develop my private multi-disciplinary practice, over,under, with major commissions at a variety of scales and scopes in various parts of the globe. I firmly believe that my practice and my research serve as integral complements to my abilities as an educator. My teaching is informed by the research and practice agendas, both in terms of new knowledge that I am able to bring to class as well as the shaping of my pedagogical approach. In the past three years since my reappointment as Assistant Teaching Professor, I have attained a number of accomplishments that I believe help present a strong case for promotion, including the following: I have designed two new courses, the first a seminar on future cities and the second an architecture studio. The seminar has been taught in both Doha and Pittsburgh, the latter was designed for third and fourth year architecture students studying in Doha; As part of my studio teaching, I have established and strengthened ties between the School and numerous communities and stakeholders in both Pittsburgh and Doha, including the Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority, the Port Authority of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh City Hall, the Qatar Green Building Council, the Qatar Museums Authority and the Qatar branch of the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitats; I have worked on numerous publications on architecture and urban design, including articles on Dohas physical growth and Bostons modernist legacy, and have edited several compendia of Urban Lab student work and two exhibition catalogs; I have served as a principal investigator on three research projects, one of which Ecologies of Scale: Sustainable Urban Design in the Gulf Region, received a Qatar Foundation Sustainability award for best research project and gave students access to advanced scholarship; I have staged nine exhibitions, showcasing my research, student work from my courses, and my professional activities; I am a registered architect in the United Arab Emirates, which is where a significant proportion of my firms commissions have been based in the past three years, and an important capital in the region that is a significant component of my teaching and a major focus of my research; and I have served as project director or consulting principal on architectural or urban commissions including Abu Dhabis new Central Business District, the Museum of Mayan Art in Guatemala, and an addition to the Virginia Commonwealth University Qatars building in Doha.

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This link between my research, practice and teaching is evident in my approach to teaching itself. Through teaching I encourage students to understand real-world problems and to respond to them with imaginative speculative projects that are grounded in reality. As I tell each years students: the best architecture has its feet on the ground and its head in the clouds. I firmly believe that this is where it should be; in this both/and position, architecture becomes a powerful methodology with which to engage the world of ideas and the tangible world that surrounds us. As a result, I design my studios to include interaction with client groups, not as a tether to weigh down creativity, but as a springboard from which it can take flight. I also include a substantial research component to my studios, and I view my seminars as opportunities for research into related fields of knowledge crucial to the education of someone interested in the discipline of architecture, especially at the urban scale, including history, political science, anthropology, economics and graphic design.

collaborating with other professionals, and the relevance of architecture to a broader society. While we have not retreated from actively engaging the communities in which we work, we challenge the students to make the case for what they consider to be good contemporary design to the public. This is not an easy task, but it is an excellent lesson for future professionals, and has been met with some success; by the end of the semester, communities have often welcomed the students innovative ideas and developed a sense of ownership in them. Additionally, students now see the Urban Lab as a rigorous and transformative course. The Urban Laboratory imparts the idea that urban design is an extension of architecture, and that it operates at several scales simultaneously. The studio requires students to create master plans reflective of large-scale, regional and city-wide issues such as transportation, water sheds and urban growth patterns. Students carry this understanding through to the design of smaller-scale elements that are as well-conceived and

Teaching

Teaching in two very different citiesPittsburgh and Dohahas offered me a variety of teaching experiences. While the specific courses that I teach vary somewhat from year to year, one aspect remains constant: in the fall, I am involved with the upper-level architecture studios, and in the spring I teach introductory courses to non-majors as well as co-direct a semester abroad program for Pittsburgh architecture students. Being able to participate at the very beginning and the very end of an architectural education has given me new insights into what information I consider important to convey to aspiring architects (or curious non-majors). Also, working in a developed city and a rapidly emerging one at the same time provides its own lessons in perspective.

well-resolved as their projects in any other architecture studio. The program and design of these areas of focus are self selected, and vary widely in their method: from the purely morphological, to a systems approach, and increasingly, drawing on areas of inquiry derived from landscape urbanism. A selection of excellent projects would include: the creation of a new public square as an urban catalyst to the first ring suburb of Beechview; the renovation of an abandoned warehouse into a center for the sale of produce from a proposed network of regional urban farms; a system that infills vacancies with an armature possessing enough flexibility to accommodate various programs as the neighborhood redevelops; a park and restaurant built in and around a derelict bridge across the Allegheny River; and an architectural kit of parts that provides a clear identity and encourages a variety of functions for under used alleys in downtown Pittsburgh. It should be noted that I have always emphasized the importance of presentation in my studios, especially the urban lab. Increasingly, I have stressed digital means of representation, using animated and annotated slide shows and movies, accompanied by a well-edited and well-designed book that serves as a compendium of the studio work. I do this not because these techniques are impressive, but as a way of preparing upper level students for the professional world, and, equally important, as a means to force them to think critically and clearly about their own work. By requiring students to structure a compelling narrative to their projects, these large projects become more focused and more accessible to the stakeholders and community groups (i.e. the public and the client), who might otherwise fail to understand the architects motivations. Thesis I In 2009 and 2010, I taught and coordinated the first semester of a year-long thesis course, readying fifth-year students for their final semester of independent design work. The thesis program at Carnegie Mellon is a newly revived phenomenon, that I, along with several others, actively encouraged. This new initiative is only six years old and 2009 was the first year in which a full thesis prep course was offered, co-taught with Arthur Lubetz. We designed the course to ensure that students would be prepared to meet their final semester with a clear proposal, program, and site, as well as an understanding of

In Pittsburgh

My main focus in Pittsburgh for the past seven fall semesters has been the Urban Laboratory studio. During that time, I have designed and developed the thesis preparation course as well as two seminars on urban issues, the first on Middle Eastern cities, the second on urban futures. The Urban Lab studio and the thesis prep course took place in Pittsburgh, so I will discuss them below. The seminars I have taught in both Pittsburgh and Doha, and will be addressed in a later section.

Urban Laboratory

The Urban Laboratory is a fifth-year design studio that expands the site, scope and scale of a typical architecture studio. The course requires students to examine community and urban design issues through intensive interaction with a Pittsburgh neighborhood, typically an under served part of the city that has witnessed considerable population shrinkage in the past forty years. During the course of the semester, students are asked to organize a series of meetings with the community and with relevant stakeholders in which they lead discussion groups, present the results of their documentation and analysis, and engage with the residents about their design proposals. Prior to my involvement, this course was not aligned to the pedagogical goals of the Bachelor of Architecture studio sequence. It was perceived by students as an unchallenging and irrelevant studio. With the implementation of a new approach in studio, the result of a joint effort of the current Urban Lab faculty, the studio is once again seen by students as an important component in their education, one that broadens their outlook in areas such as urbanism, diversity, economic impact, working with communities,

their chosen typology and place. These last two factors helped students frame their proposals within a larger architectural discourse on the nature of space and place.

topics that had not yet been fully examined in this new and rapidly growing city. In 2010, we switched approaches, bringing fourth-year students, so that the entire fifth-

The semester commenced with several guest presentations by faculty who offered their impressions of what a thesis could be. The intentions behind these presentations were twofold: first, to expose the students to a variety of potential thesis advisors, and, of equal importance, to demonstrate that there are many different (and at times conflicting) viewpoints on what constitutes a thesis. In addition to class time, the main vehicle of weekly interaction was via the web. Each student was required to post a visual and a written assignment each week to a blog, as well as posting comments on the blogs of at least two peers. The public aspect of the blog was designed to keep the students focused, and to generate discussion within the student body. The emphasis on both writing and drawing encouraged students to articulate a position both verbally and visually. The combination of writing and drawing is one that I require in most of my courses, as I believe that each mode asks the student to think through their work in a different manner. This effort resulted in a clear change in the quality of the thesis projects. And although I am no longer officially involved, I am approached and accept to serve as an advisor for a few students each year, usually those interested in urban-scale projects or with sites in the developing world. For these students, I arrange regular skype meetings in the spring from Doha so that I can monitor their progress and offer my critique. In Doha Each spring, Associate Teaching Professor Kelly Hutzell and I bring a group of upperlevel architecture students from Pittsburgh to Doha, where they enroll in our design studio and spend the semester taking courses and living in Qatar. I teach introductory studios and seminars to non-majors, many of whom are opting to receive a minor in architecture, a program that I have also developed in conjunction with Kelly Hutzell. Thesis in Doha For the architecture students who join us each spring, it is hard to imagine an environment more different from Pittsburgh than Doha. When we began the semester abroad program in 2008, both cities had roughly the same population. Seven years later, Doha is twice the size of Pittsburgh. Where a construction crane is a noteworthy rarity in Pittsburgh, they have become ubiquitous in Doha. In Pittsburgh, the design challenges center around its status as a post-industrial city with exemplary urban fabric; in Doha a relentless pace of change that has obliterated most of its past presents its own difficulties. For all these reasons, it is an eye-opening laboratory for architecture students. From 2008 to 2010 we brought fifth-year students with us to complete their thesis projects in Qatar. These students were free to craft their own proposals, the only two provisos being that they chose a program with a public nature, and that the project be located in and relevant to Qatar. Projects included the design of a contemporary Qatari tent; a maritime museum; a wedding hall; a national wildlife park and center; temporary housing for the migrant laborers constructing the city; a diabetes center; a public school; and a shopping center that interwove a luxury and a budget mall. All of these pertain to specific conditions of contemporary Qatar, and all were encouraged to speak to their context without a romanticized mimicry of a past that may never have existed. Also, the students work constituted new design investigations and primary research on Comprehensive Studio Systems Integration

year class could remain in Pittsburgh. For three years we taught the spring fourth-year studio, Systems Integration. Students were tasked with exploring the complex interrelationships between performance criteria, building subsystems, and their integration, specification, and evaluation in the generation of creative design solutions. The studio was also concerned with conceptual design and design development relating to the spatial, visual, acoustic, air quality and thermal performance of buildings. In 2010, the semesters studio focused on the design of the headquarters building of the newly-formed Qatar Green Building Council. The students examined and adaptively reused a large former villa as a center that educates and demonstrates the benefits of sustainable construction techniques and systems that are relevant to this particular time and place. Student proposals diverged widely, from small scale tactical solutions to radical reformulations of the building massing. They received the input and advice of the volunteer members of the QGBC, with architects and engineers from such firms as Aecom, ARUP, Atkins, and Davis Langdon serving as technical advisors. In 2011, the studio focused on the design of a mixed-use tall building (200m tall) in West Bay, Dohas much maligned high-rise district. In addition to the challenges of integrating systems in a skyscraper, the studio was also tasked with developing a more responsible attitude to the environment and the public realms, while trying to understand the realities of the programmatic needs of housing, offices and retail. The students benefited greatly from interaction with professionals from the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitats, Murphy Jahn, Turner Construction, and Utile. I was extremely pleased with the results of that semester. A group of average students rose to the challenge and excelled, each designing what was undoubtedly the strongest project they had produced to date. To me, it is immensely satisfying to see that transformation occur, and to see the new confidence that it instills in the student. This change can have a profound impact: one of these students is now working at KPF in New York, and another is with BCJ in San Francisco, both internationally recognized firms. In 2012, we brought a small but talented group of Pittsburgh students with us to Doha. Because most of them were third year students, we taught a comprehensive studio, the standard spring semester for juniors at the School of Architecture. We worked closely with the Qatar Museums Authority, the organization responsible for creating an impressive number of new cultural projects throughout the country. Among its initiatives is the adaptive reuse of the reconstructed old village of al Wakrah, a few kilometers south of the capital. A fascinating example of vernacular Arabian fabric, the area had been carefully rebuilt from the foundation walls, old survey photographs, and the oral histories of its former residents, but was awaiting a function. QMA was tasked with re-invigorating the old fishing and pearling settlement and had proposed to place a museum at the waters edge. They asked our studio to help them consider other programs that would fill the over 400 small buildings within the tight fabric.

The studio produced a conceptual master plan framework that proposed restoring the relationship with the sea by reviving oldand injecting newsymbiotic functions that would foster maritime activity and instill a new vibrancy to the development. While the museum was crucial to this idea, it could not revive the village alone; a diversity of activities that attracted a wide variety of users was needed. This proposal capitalized on the location of the museum by establishing a vocational technical community college that provided practical training in jewelry design and fabrication; traditional boat building and repair; and marine biology; a culinary school focused on seafood; and a wide variety of residential options. In the second half of the semester, each student developed an aspect of the master plan, including: a new entrance to the village to connect it with a planned metro station, a student dormitory complex, and a seafood market and restaurant. Each student was required to take a position on the tectonic language relationship with the new old village. The students were encouraged to operate on the existing structures, selectively removing walls, underpinning foundations, or floating above, all in an effort to accommodate contemporary programs within a traditional fabric that resisted it. In a country that is just now realizing the extent of its lost built patrimony, this is a particularly sensitive position to take, but one that I believe is more likely to bring about successful reuse: a city and its buildings should not be treated as museum pieces but rather as a living organism that is constantly evolving. Neither shedding nor preserving its old skins, each layer should be representative of its moment in time. While this may not have been QMAs original notion, their enthusiasm grew as the projects developed.
1 While we developed the course and taught the first few iterations together, Kelly has taught this course alone for the past few years and my involvement has been limited to critiques, guest lectures and occasional desk reviews.

of spatial environments through a series of iterative investigations. In ANM I, the first half of the semester is devoted to a series of short projects, with each investigation building on the preceding exploration and a new skill introduced in each exercise (e.g., measuring, drafting, model building, collage and three-dimensional drawing). The second half of the semester consists of a longer project to be created individually, incorporating students personal theories of architecture and a basic understanding of massing, composition, and structure as well as passive sustainable techniques (solar orientation, prevailing breezes, etc). Studio work is supported by group discussions based upon critical review of student work, readings, presentations, and class field trips to some of the many excellent examples of world-class architecture found on Qatar Foundations campus.1 For those students who enjoy the challenge of design and the studio experience, I offer a second studio course, ANM II. Assuming familiarity in the basic skills of architecture, these students are encouraged to develop their design intentions with greater rigor in part by understanding the idea of abstraction in art and architecture. In fact, an appreciation for contemporary art and its relationship to architecture is introduced in the first assignment, when each student is asked to research a particular modern or contemporary artist (e.g.. Donald Judd, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Louise Nevelson, Mary Miss, Rachel Whiteread) and identify a piece of their oeuvre with which they identify. They are then required to abstract that piece first in drawing, and then in model. Having analyzed the artists work and then transformed it through an understanding of its salient qualities into a work of their own, each student is then asked to create an exhibition space in which to house it. The design of an exhibition space serves as a prelude to the final assignment: an addi-

The opportunity to challenge and be challenged by a client group was undoubtedly of benefit to the study abroad studio. Interaction with the real world, without succumbing to its expected solutions, strengthens student work. Immersing oneself in a different milieu, as our Pittsburgh students in Doha do, also provides great learning opportunities. We emphasize the importance of extracurricular activities that augment this experience, in particular, construction site visits (including projects by Alsop, Foster, Isozaki, Legoretta, Murphy Jahn and Nouvel) and tours of other cities in the region (over the years weve been to Abu Dhabi, Amman, Cairo, Dubai, Istanbul, Manama, and Muscat). Perhaps the most significant learning experience, however, is the student-to-student interaction that occurs between the Pittsburgh students and those from Doha inside and outside the classroom. Architecture for Non-Majors I & II In addition to enrolling in studio, the Pittsburgh architecture students also serve as teaching assistants for the electives that we teach to the Qatar-based non-majors (in Doha, Carnegie Mellon offers degrees in Biological Sciences, Business Administration, Computational Biology, Computer Science, and Information Systems). The electives I teach include Architecture for Non-Majors I & II, Middle Eastern Cities, and Futures of the City/Cities of the Future. In this section, I will discuss courses I have taught exclusively in Doha, Architecture for Non-Majors I & II. The Architecture for Non-Majors courses serve as an introduction to the spatial concepts of architecture as well as an initiation into the studio culture for students from other disciplines. Both courses focus on projects that explore the design and experience

tion to Mathaf, Qatars Arab Museum of Modern Art. The addition is to house contemporary art from the Islamic world. Students were required to study the work of artists such as Mona Hatoum, Ghada Amer, Rachid Koraichi, Shirin Neshat, Golnaz Fathi, and Walid Raad, and to place the work within spaces for sculpture, painting, and film, each with specific dimensions and light requirements. Thus, students are urged to explore issues of massing, light, sequence, and assembly at the scale of a building. In addition to further developing their architectural design abilities and their appreciation for contemporary art, the course provides the students with two other valuable lessons. First, the students, largely from the region, learn that Arab and Islamic art is a living thing that continues to evolve, and need not be considered only for the historical galleries of a museum. This point is emphasized by our tours to Mathaf (conveniently located on campus) as well as our walks around Carnegie Mellon Qatars art collection (as a member of the art committee that selected the work, I am able to speak to each pieces artistic value ). Second, the interaction with a client group from Mathaf, who not only lead the students tours but also participate in their design reviews, is also a great learning experience for the students. While at first nervous to expose their designs to outside feedback, the students rise to the challenge and are able to exceed the museum staff expectations. The Doha-based students are usually young (first-year students always comprise the large majority of ANM I, ANM II is composed mainly of second and third years) and their enthusiasm is palpable and refreshing. Not yet inculcated in the language of architec-

ture, they struggle to find ways to express their ideas and the results are often unexpected and exciting. It also energizes the Pittsburgh students, who as their teaching assistants, enjoy a great deal of interaction with the local students. There is a great desire on the part of these non-majors to continue learning about architecture. In 2009, we began to offer a minor in architecture on the Doha campus. In the graduating class of 2013, we had 17 students graduating with this minor, the largest minor at CMU-Q. I believe that these numbers are a testament both to the desire for creative outlets, but also to the perceived relevance of the field in the rapidly developing built environment that surrounds the students. I see this last point to be a crucial element of Dohas future: architecture requires not only good architects, but good clients and good advocates, those in positions to make wise decisions about the built environment. Given the pace of change in the region and the opportunities available to our graduates (real estate developers, software engineers, entrepreneurs, etc) it is altogether likely that many of our former students will be in such positions. Hopefully, we have done our part to educate them well.

In 2010 and 2011, I taught the course in concert with Dr. Francesa Torello, an expert in nineteenth and twentieth century urban history. The course was offered via video conference, in both Pittsburgh where Francesca led a class and in Doha, where I had an additional group. This arrangement presented a series of firsts: that history was introduced into the course in a structured manner; that either of us had taught a course using videoconferencing technology; that both architecture majors and non-majors were in the same course; and that American and Middle Eastern students took the course together. Despite the multi-level experimentation, the course could be considered a success. The classes engaged in lively discussions, responding constructively to each others work, even across the fiber optic cables. The final projects, self-selected and wide ranging, were of a high quality, and included a study of the future growth of Mecca; the gas station and strip mall typologies of Doha; a psychogeographical mapping of the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuks Istanbul; and two contrasting post-war planning efforts in Baghdad. Due to other demands on Francescas time, I have reverted to teaching the

In Pittsburgh & In Doha

I have taught two electives on both campuses, both to architecture students and to non-majors: Middle Eastern Cities and Futures of the City/Cities of the Future. This dual experience has given me the opportunity to hone both courses, to compare ways in which different cultures (Western v. Middle Eastern, but also architecture v. business, computer science, or information systems) learn and to consider what it is about cities that I believe to be crucial avenues of investigation.

course alone in Doha for the past two years. The class included both architecture majors and non-majors in 2012, but this spring there were only non-majors. Teaching a course on Middle Eastern cities to non-architects who have grown up in the region presents an entirely different set of challenges. Unlike their counterparts in Pittsburgh, these students have a great deal of knowledge about these cities. However, they were just beginning to understand the power of visual information design and were still developing their critical thinking skills. Thus a good deal of effort focused on discussing the efficacy of their graphic assignments (is this drawing doing what you want it to do? how could it be improved?) and on structuring debates amongst the students to take varying points of view, especially those that are counter to the ones they actually hold. By the end of the semester, most students were able to engage graphic analysis with some sophistication as well as critically discuss aspects of Middle Eastern urbanism that had hitherto gone unnoticed. Cities of the Future Futures of the City I began to conceive of a seminar on the future of cities as way to structure some of the questions that arose while I was conducting research on sustainable urbanism: what does the future look like? and where do the design opportunities lie? This course was first introduced in Pittsburgh in the fall of 2011 to a group of architecture students. Part seminar, part workshop, it was designed to allow students to speculate in clear and methodical terms about the future and the role of design in it. It was also intended to sharpen presentation skills, both in terms of visual clarity and verbal articulation. The first half of the semester was spent exploring the future through various sets of pa-

Middle Eastern Cities

I have taught Middle Eastern Cities in various permutations on both the Pittsburgh and Doha campuses. The course examines a series of regional cities in a case study model with an eye to a number of particular themes, including rapid growth, sprawl, migration, and squatter settlements, as well as the urban effects of war, occupation and reconstruction. While each city has its own specific conditions, I emphasize that the themes which emerge from these case studies represent issues that pertain to most non-western cities of the early twenty-first century and as such, have a wider relevance. These issues are examined by looking at cultural context and physical form. Students are encouraged to investigate large scale, regional effects of urbanization as well as smaller interventions within a given neighborhood, and to search for the interrelation between the two scales. Combining seminar and workshop formats, the course is designed to increase knowledge of the regions urban conglomerations and students ability to think about them critically, through both analytical writing and drawing. Emphasis is placed on having students develop both verbal and visual tools of analysis and expression. I first began to teach this course in 2007 in Pittsburgh to architecture students who possessed very little prior knowledge of the region. Thus, my first tasks were to dismantle some preconceptions and to introduce the students to the complexities and diversities of the region through tools that they could easily grasp. As visual learners, architects could be taught to read these cities via mappings and information design. However, I also challenged them to respond in writing to weekly reading assignments as a means of exercising their verbal skills and to ensure that our discussions were lively and well informed.

rameters. Each week a group of students would present on the future through a specific lens: ecological, demographic, technological, etc. As each week progressed, the students collectively gathered more information, and eventually were asked to frame their own scenario of the future. For the second half of the semester, they were assigned a specific set of design tasks devised to aid them in fleshing out these scenarios. Various drawing types were required in their consideration of different aspects of their future: a unit plan and site plan for a future private space; a montage and sectional perspec-

tive for a future public space; and as a final assignment, a how-to manual as a means of describing the future city. As is was the first iteration of the course, its results were inevitably mixed, yet I was encouraged by the students engagement with the subject matter. When I taught the course again this spring in Doha, I decided to retain two crucial aspects of the course: first, the group presentations of the future as filtered through a particular theme each week, and second, scenario planning as means to explore possible futures and design opportunities therein. However, because the Doha students were not architecture students, I included short in-class design assignments as a part of each class so as to make them comfortable with the notion of designing as a regular activity. By the time the students returned from mid-semester break they were well prepared for the series of longer design assignments. Design Zone

becomes a question of how the information can be best used: deriving a method for future design, or testing that method through design. My involvement in Doha-based research began seven years ago with work on the Doha Design Zone, a research-driven design proposal to foster the creative industries in Qatar. Since that time, my research efforts on the region have increased. My interest in the region goes back decades, and stems from my own background. I was born in Egypt to an American mother and an Egyptian father. Growing up in Cairo, a city of almost twenty million people and millennia of history, I was always amused and somewhat mystified by the Arab city-states along the Gulf. These tiny countries have populations equivalent to my neighborhood in Cairo, and no built history to speak of apart from a few remaining forts and houses. And yet at the beginning of this century, it is these new conurbations, not an estab-

While both the assignments and the responses to them varied from Pittsburgh to Doha, each group was a delight to teach. The course is by its very nature suppositional, and so a certain light-hearted atmosphere pervaded both classrooms. Because there so clearly wasnt a correct answer (who knew what the future would hold?), there was license to imagine freely, though the students were also challenged to hold logically consistent scenarios. Having taught this course to two very different student groups, I am convinced that the notion of scenario planning (borrowed from the pedagogy of business administration) is a useful tool for design disciplines. Given the variety of possible futures, and the complexity of the determinants, scenario planning offers designers an opportunity to do what they do best: speculate. In that speculation, lie the seeds for predictingand even shapingthe future.

lished city like Cairo, that are the regions most dynamic. Certainly oil wealth has helped spur this growth, but something else is also occurring. The research that my students and I have been doing in my course on Middle Eastern cities indicates that a growing sophistication is taking hold, and it is evident not only in the more refined architecture that is commissioned lately but also in the quality of the urban plans for cities such as Doha and Abu Dhabi. The Doha Design Zone project is reflective of this transformation towards buildings, neighborhoods and cities that are more suitable to the culture as well as the environment. The Doha Design Zone was prepared in conjunction with Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University and Carnegie Mellon University. With Kelly Hutzell, I led a group within the larger team that was responsible for providing a structure that translated the planning and policy concepts into physical form. This was achieved primarily through the creation of a document that examined master planning strategies as well as architectural and urban design guidelines. The work produced included environmental studies, precedent analysis, site analysis, program analysis, and design guidelines that were intended to complement the initial studies for the Design Zone idea itself. It did so in a way that permitted a number of possible outcomes, while remaining true to the Design Zone mission. My experience with that effort brought about a pair of realizations: first, that in an environment of great uncertainty (decision-makers, economic outlooks, or priorities that change quickly), greater attention must be given to designing a system flexible enough to anticipate and accommodate various built scenarios; and second, that system must be created with a foundation that is sustainable: environmentally certainly, but also economically and culturally. With a seed grant from Qatar Foundation, I have been able to develop research and design that responds to both these realizations. Sustainable Urbanism Kelly and I, in conjunction with our research assistants, Kristina Ricco, Adam Himes, Spencer Gregson and Blake Lam (all former Pittsburgh students who spent a semester in Doha), gathered information on strategies for the design of sustainable cities worldwide, and on the current state in Qatar. We then developed proposals for urban design solutions that reflect this knowledge in a manner appropriate to the climate and culture of Doha. In early February 2011, we mounted an exhibition entitled: Ecologies of Scale:

Research

The teaching experiences in Doha and Pittsburgh have opened avenues into various areas of research. While the two cities differ in many regards, my research focus in both attempts to understand the factors contributing to their respective urban character, and to provide means for contributing to that character through design. As a teaching track professor, it is not required that I conduct research, but I believe it to be an important contributor to strengthening my abilities as a teacher: what I learn through my research has a direct impact on what I can impart to my students. In the School of Architecture, there has been some discussion in recent years of the terms defining the kinds of research conducted in design fields. On one side of the continuum, lies design research, defined as a rational, quantifiable, and methodological approach to producing verifiable and replicable information in the service of moving the discipline

These definitions reflect my interpretation of Omer Akins paper Research by [DESIGN] Research, December 31, 2009.

forward. On the other side, research by design produces new designs, styles and movements through intuition and experimentation. In the latter, design itself becomes a form of research, and a means to test certain ideas.2

Some of my research can be considered design research, while other projects may gravitate closer to research by design. I consider all of my research efforts to be tools for the design of more informed spaces. In all cases, my starting point is the desire to acquire empirical knowledge on a subject that is little known , whether it is the emerging city of Doha, or the way in which Pittsburghs neighborhood main streets function. From there, it

Imagining Sustainable Urban Design for Doha that included analysis of the local, regional and international context; identification of a series of sustainable strategies at a variety of scales; and a proposal for a system (from the unit to the neighborhood) that could address myriad possible outcomes for the city while still creating appropriatelyscaled public spaces for mixed-use, walkable communities. Because so little of the phenomenal growth that is occurring in Doha has been examined carefully, any of the work that we do, or that our students do, is in effect primary research. We are currently in the process of compiling, editing and designing a book of analysis and selected projects that pertain to the public life of the city. Elements of this book have been published as chapters in edited collections, including Volume 23: Al Manakh Gulf Continued, a joint effort by Archis, OMA/AMO, PinkTank, and the Netherlands Architectural Institute, as well as an essay that was part of the program for Tasmeem 2013, VCUQs biennial design conference and symposium. This research has also led to speaking and teaching invitations, including the Harvard Arab Alumni Association, the Doha Architectural Forum, Qatar National Research Forum, and VCUQ Tasmeem design workshops. Future Cities The research on sustainable urbanism led to the next line of inquiry on future cities. With funding from Qatar Foundation, I formed a small research team (Adam Himes and Kennan Rankin), and began to collect information related to the subject: predictions on the environment, demographic analyses, anticipated breakthroughs in technology, biology and physics, etc. Each time a member of the team found something of interest, s/ he would write an short synopsis, collect relevant imagery and post the entry to a word press blog site, tagging the entry with relevant themes. Research assistant Spencer Gregson would then use Processing, an open-source programming language intended to be designer-friendly, to sort the tags in multiple ways, thus making various trends in the data visible.

Connecting Main Streets

In 2012, I received an AIA Upjohn grant in conjunction with Ed Shriver of Strada to investigate Pittsburghs main streets by applying the concept of percolation theory to these retail corridors. Percolation theory describes the behavior of connected clusters in a random graph, and has been used by landscape ecologists to understand how fluids flow through a matrix. We applied landscape ecology toolsthe assessments and analysis of the patterns and processesto main street in an effort to understand the underlying drivers of this urban ecosystem. We examined how main streets connect, and how people use them (or dont). Working with Ozge Diler, Adjunct Assistant Professor and former Master of Urban Design student, we documented seven retail corridors in the city (one downtown, three in East Liberty and three in the South Hills), developed modeling software to test the theory, and assessed both the physical matrix and the perceptual components that make up connectivity. This May, we submitted our report to the AIA, and hope to continue the research next year with further funding.

Urban Lab Publications

The research was performed in tandem with the fall 2012 Urban Lab, that centered around the three South Hill retail corridors of Broadway Avenue, Brookline Boulevard, and West Liberty Avenue. Student documentation and analysis built on the early phases of our research. Several of the design projects were used in the report as indications of ways to increase connectivity along main streets. The research I have conducted in Pittsburgh has had an urban focus and includes close investigation of the neighborhoods in which the Urban Lab works. This has culminated in several publications. The most notable are from the Brighton Road and Herron Avenue studios. Through the support of Luis Rico Gutierrez and an Urban Land Institute grant, I edited and designed a book of the studios work (with the assistance of my former student Emily Rice). In subsequent years, I have required my studios to put together a studio publication as part of their final assignment. These publications serve multiple purposes: as a document that is available to com-

The research had a direct impact on my teaching: it served as the basis for the course that I taught the following semester in Pittsburgh and then again this year in Doha. The blog that we created as a research tool was made available to students in the course, who were encouraged to add their discoveries to it. Students built on existing avenues of research in potentially new directions. The course acted as a first pass at applying the themes developed via the blog into architectural and urban design projects, thus leading the way to the generation of design parameters based on a number of projected criteria that could be applied in the development of future cities. Last summer, with the assistance of Adam Himes and Phil Denny, I explored a number of these scenarios as they might relate to the Gulf region specifically, and designed speculative solutions for each. We examined three possible future scenarios: 1) Linear Oasis, the creation of a twenty-first century infrastructure to combat desertification; 2) Sabkha City, a response to the potential of rising sea level along the tidal salt flats along the coast; and 3) Petro-fit, strategies for reuse of the oil and gas infrastructure in a post-petroleum economy. These design efforts will be included in our book, Scenes and Speculations in an Emerging City, a compendium of analysis and design proposals for Doha currently in the final stages of completion. Exhibitions

munity members and stakeholders as they consider their future; as a record for the students of the work they conduct during the course of the semester; and as an effective means of communicating to future neighborhood groups the ways in which the Urban Lab could engage in their neighborhoods. These publications raise the Schools profile in and around the city. Holding exhibitions has been a successful vehicle for disseminating knowledge and awareness of the Urban Labs activities to the larger Pittsburgh community. In 2007, I co-curated (with Kelly Hutzell and Emily Rice) an exhibit of urban design work at Carnegie Mellon, which began in the early sixties with David Lewis arrival on campus. The show not only displayed the work of sixteen years of Urban Laboratory studios as well as urban design electives, but also included a timeline that traced the past half century of urban design as it related to history of the United States, Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellons School of Architecture. This timeline, the fruit of weeks of research and multiple interviews that I conducted, served as the organizational structure for the exhibit. I also designed and produced a catalog that has proved to be a major public document for the School and its urban design research center, the Remaking Cities Institute.

In the fall of 2009 I taught an Urban Lab studio that examined downtown Pittsburgh, with a focus on the Cultural District. The studio was taught in conjunction with Kelly Hutzell and with School of Drama Professor Cindy Limauros lighting studio. The joint studio explored ways in which both lighting design and urban design could provide a memorable urban experience, one that served to increase a sense of security, improve way finding, promote green practices, and encourage viewers to consider the city as a usable work of art. In lieu of traditional community meetings and in light of our location in the Cultural District, we held several exhibitions that were designed both to demonstrate our research of the area and to elicit responses from the participating public. A similar approach was conducted the following year when I co-taught another downtown Urban Lab, this time with Eve Picker. Planning our meetings to coincide with the Gallery Crawl events, this interactive exhibition format proved to be a successful tactic for eliciting public response. I have also used exhibitions as a means for disseminating information to the public regarding my own research efforts. Examples include the aforementioned Ecologies of Scale in Doha, which showcased our work on sustainable urbanism, and Projections, in Boston and Los Angeles, which provided glimpses into the future of cities. In 2012, Kelly Hutzell and I led an effort to exhibit 4dDoha: Buildings, which showcased some of the best buildings designed for Doha. Part of the ongoing research project on the physical growth of the city over time, 4dDoha: Buildings is an educational web-based application that focuses on its architecture across eight decades. Combining research, graphic design and interaction design, the iPad app allows users to sift through the data via a series of filters, while recording the users choices on a map projected in the exhibition gallery. Future Projects In conjunction with Kelly Hutzell, I have recently received a Berkman grant for Pittsburgh Projects, the working title for a web-based app featuring that citys best architecture. Essentially, we are taking the format used for 4dDoha: Buildings (originally designed by my firm, over,under) and using it to create a digital guidebook for Pittsburgh. We are currently working to establish a shortlist of diverse buildings. Buildings will be chosen (and will be sortable) across era, location, program, architectural language, and current condition. Over the past year we have benefitted from the advice and insight of many Carnegie Mellon staff and faculty, including Martin Aurand, Kai Gutschow, Charles Rosenblum and Hal Hayes, as to what buildings might be included in the first phase, and are currently in discussions for a more detailed collaboration with Martin Aurand and the Carnegie Mellon Hunt Library.

Practice

I have always been interested in teaching architecture as an applied discipline, and consequently, it is logical that as a teacher and researcher I would also be engaged in practice. I worked for other firms for ten years, most notably at Machado and Silvetti Associates for six years, where I was involved in a number of cultural and educational projects and became an associate in 2004. In 2006, I founded my own firm, over,under with three colleagues. Ours is a multi-disciplinary design studio that engages design at a variety of scales. Identified in a 2008 Architectural Record article as one of Bostons emerging firms, we have developed into an office whose work spans a wide range of practice types. Recent or ongoing projects include: the graphic identity of the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum; exhibit design and curation for the Boston Society of Architects new gallery; single family homes overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Guatemala, the Giza Pyramids in Cairo, and the Jersey Shore; cultural and educational architecture like the Museum of Mayan Art in Guatemala and an addition to the Virginia Commonwealth Universitys building on Qatar Foundations Education City; and architectural and urban design controls for Al Maryah Island, Abu Dhabis new Central Business District. I play a leading role in the last three of these. I will discuss them below as they relate to my abilities as a teacher.

Mayan Museum of America

In partnership with Harry Gugger Studios of Switzerland and Seis Arquitectos of Guatemala, over,under has been commissioned to design a major new museum, the Mayan Museum of America in Guatemala City. The institution is intended to be the worlds largest museum for the exhibition of Mayan artifacts and culture. Sited prominently on the northeastern edge of the largest recreational open space in the city, the museum is intended to be the capstone to a series of museums and cultural institutions. Our proposed building evokes the monolithic nature of Mayan architecture and its masonry tectonic in a contemporary manner. It takes advantage of Guatemalas temperate climate by naturally ventilating all but a small number of spaces that require artificial conditioning. Further, it offers the city a substantial public platform, by lifting the galleries off the ground floor and allowing the park to continue into the site. The concept design has been approved by the client, and the project is now awaiting government approval and further project funding. In addition to our role as co-design architect with HGS (Seis are the architect of record), our role on the project has included a number of other tasks. We have designed the museums logo, all printed collateral, an exhibition of the concept design, and a promotional movie that will be released as part of the fundraising effort. This project has parallels to and influences on my academic career. The multiple roles

This project includes major assistance from Adam Himes, who has been my research assistant since his graduation from the B. Arch program in 2011. Most of my research efforts are conducted in conjunction with students or recent graduates. The research is relevant to time and place, and is intended to serve as either proposed methodologies for future design or as designs that act as catalysts for new ways of thinking about the city. Moreover, the work correlates with several of the defining interests of the School of Architecture, including sustainable design and urban design. Finally, this jointly conducted, applied research prepares young designers for a research-driven method of design practice. VCU Qatar

that over,under has undertaken reinforce the variety of ways in which an architectural education can be utilized. Moreover, the research we have conducted, especially with regard to the culture of Guatemala, the requirements of a contemporary museum, and the potential passive sustainable strategies of the Central American environment, has undoubtedly affected how I teach my classes. I consistently encourage students to understand the design possibilities that such knowledge allows. Last fall, over,under was hired to provide concept design for the facade of the Virginia Commonwealth University building in Education City. We partnered with Utile, another young Boston firm with whom we have a long history of collaboration. Initially, the proj-

ect was only to address the building surface of the newly completed addition, a poorly designed pastiche of old and new Qatari architecture, hardly in keeping with the excellent buildings that surrounded it or with its status as the campus design school. We began by studying the structural rhythm of both Qatari vernacular architecture and of the early modern work (for Doha, the 1960s and 70s), the means by which building facades offered areas of public access while maintaining privacy, and the devices employed for shading that were integral to the building elevation. By studying the immediate campus context, however, we quickly realized that the building entrance was poorly situated both in terms of traffic flow and orientation (strong winds from the north blew desert sand into the reception area). In keeping with the ambitions of Qatar Foundation, our proposed scheme continued to reflect characteristics based on regional architecture (both modern and traditional) that are transformed through a contemporary design vocabulary highlighted by a pre-cast concrete frame inset with louvers composed of regional stone. The structure responds to environmental considerations by shading outdoor spaces, windows, and faade elements in an effort to improve the buildings performance and user comfort. It reorients the entrance and provides a new entry forecourt on the east side. As a result, substantial redesign of the ground floor was necessary. Concept approval has been received and the project is about to be tendered for a design-build contract, for which we will be the required designers through to construction completion. The experience I have had interacting with the project management team, the structural engineers, and the pre-cast concrete sub-consultants has strengthened my knowledge of construction staging and assembly. I will be able to bring that knowledge and the priorities of locally engaged architecture back into the studio, which will be of benefit to my students work. This is especially true for the studios that I teach in Doha, as accompanying Pittsburgh students are usually unfamiliar with Middle Eastern construction techniques. AlMaryah Island I directed the efforts of Al Maryah Island, another project in the region, which differs greatly in scale and scope from the two above. This project develops a culturally and climatically-responsive contemporary Arab urbanism for the on-going build-out of Al Maryah Island, Abu Dhabis new central business district. This design agenda is guiding the development of performance-based urban, architectural, and landscape logics to ensure the quality and cohesiveness of the public and private realms. The teams primary efforts are threefold: 1) Urban design refinement to dismantle an urbanism developed during the UAEs mega-development boom of the last decade in favor of a regionally responsive and contemporary place-making agenda; 2) The creation of design controls that translate these general concepts into a comprehensive vision by codifying and communicating key standards and requirements. Performance-based guidelines, particular to the local climate and region, generate design responses of unique character; 3) Third, the graphic communication of the islands vision, including renderings, animations, and associated publications, notably, a book on the story of the Islands contribution to defining the contemporary Arab city.

This is over,unders largest project to date (we are also working in partnership with Utile and Klopfer Martin Design Group, a Boston-based landscape architecture firm). We collaborate and coordinate with a large team of international consultants, including the master planner, sustainability consultants, infrastructure and transportation engineers, structural engineers, marketing and sales staff, marina designers, marine engineers, security consultants. It has required us to communicate on a regular basis with the Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council, which has requested that our design control document serve as a standard required for all future efforts. We interface with sub-developers of individual parcels and their architects. To date we have interacted with (and convinced) a number of leading practices of our vision, including Rogers Stirk Harbour, Gensler, Goetz, and Elkus Manfredi. While this has been a valuable learning experience for me professionally, it has also contributed directly to my teaching in two significant ways. First, I am able to impart to my students the specific knowledge I have gained from the practical experience both as a designer of a complex project and also as a facilitator of large groups of consultants, client bodies and developers. Second, as I develop professionally, I have come to understand the importance of designing the mechanisms of design. As a result, I find that I am placing an ever greater emphasis on the process than I had previously; discussions with my students of how and why we design take on a new significance.

Conclusion

As I grow as an educator, researcher, and practitioner, I have developed a personal philosophy on teaching that is shaped by my interactions in the classroom as well as the research and the professional work that I conduct outside of it. This combination has led me to a number of conclusions regarding how and what I teach. My philosophy on the learning process and the teaching of architecture and urban design includes the following principles: Teaching students at both the beginning and at the end of an architectural education is simultaneously challenging and rewarding: when a student arrives, how do we initiate their education? When they depart, what ideas, approaches, and proficiencies do we want them to excel at? It allows me to consider pedagogical goals for early years in reference to the directions students will take later, and, in reverse, provide the early foundations for later ambitions; Teaching in the wildly divergent milieus of Pittsburgh and Doha offers constantly renewed perspectives on cities, cultures, urban growth and reinvention. These perspectives shape the way I prepare students for what is a dynamic, often unpredictable world in which they can have leading roles internationally; As a teacher, it can be a joy to work with the brightest students, but I derive greatest pleasure from helping struggling students to realize their own potential. This can often be achieved by providing an iterative structure exploring the same idea using different media, allowing both teacher and student to discover hitherto unperceived capabilities and interests; In my studios, I support engagement with contemporary issuesurban, architectural, and societalas a source for inspiration. Likely the result of my own diverse training, I am excited by the kinds of work and thinking that emerge from challenging students in this way;

Architecture is a multi-scalar inquiry, and an architectural education can prepare students for the design of everything from a book to a city. Moreover, it is wellknown that the answer to a vexing design problem may lie in shifting scale. Thus is it necessary to inculcate in students a curiosity for design investigation at a number scales;

Exercising both verbal and visual skills is crucial practice for anyone interested in a design career that is rooted in critical inquiry. Each draws on a different part of the brain; both are necessary modes of thought.

The importance of presentation, in developing the ability to tell a story, is one of the hardest and most important skills a designer can acquire. It is not enough to have a brilliant design; a designer must find a way to convince the public, the client, or ones peers of it brilliance by weaving a resonant narrative;

Because most contemporary design projects involve numerous parties, students must gain substantive exposure to collaborative work during their education while gaining independent confidence to lead as well;

Because the world is only increasing in complexity, a designers task is to create new products and new processes, and the best work is shaped by an interdependence between the two.

My personal teaching philosophy is characterized by an optimistic outlook that recognizes a series of dualities and chooses both. For me, it is informed in part by direct contact with the realities of practice and the knowledge obtained from research. While I fully recognize that there are diverse teaching approaches, this is where my background and my interests have led me. I continue to believe that this is an exciting era for the design professions, architecture especially. The opportunities made available today offer possibilities that were inconceivable when I was a student just half a generation ago. Among the most significant is the chance to restate architectures relevance to this era, and through teaching, the eras to come.

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Curriculum Vitae

Practice Education
2000 1994 1992 Harvard University Master Of Architecture Thesis: Project on the City with Rem Koolhaas Roman Operating Systems Princeton University Master Of Art (with Honors) in Near Eastern Studies Brown University Bachelor Of Art (Magna Cum Laude) in International Relations

Professional Experience
2006present Founding Partner over,under Boston, USA Co-founded multidisciplinary studio for architecture, urban design and graphic identity. The firms work has been exhibited at the California College of the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Northeastern University, Roger Williams, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Wentworth, AIA National Convention (Boston), BuildBoston, and pinkcomma gallery. The firm has also been published in the Boston Globe, Boston Phoenix, Chicago Sun-Times, Architectural Record, The Architect, Domus, and Art New England, among many other magazines and blogs. Projects include: Waterfront Development Architectural Design Controls and Visualization Abu Dhabi, UAE Al Maryah Island Central Business District Architectural Design Controls, Abu Dhabi, UAE Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Faade Redesign, Doha, Qatar Mayan Museum of America, Guatemala City, Guatemala Boston Society of Architects, Curation for BSA Space, Boston, Massachusetts, including: In Form (Legible City, New/Public, Futures), Info Space, Lets Talk About Bikes, City of Mirages, Critical Exchange, and Design Biennial Boston Wentworth Institute of Technology Admissions Identity, Boston, Massachusetts Graphic identity for de Cordova Museum, Boston South Harbor Ideas Competition, Helsinki National Housing Prototypes, Abu Dhabi Town Center Concept Design, Abu Dhabi Long Beach Island House, Harvey Cedars, New Jersey Design Center & Eco-lodge, Aswan, Egypt Hometta Prototype House, United States Beach House, Residence in Marina Del Sur, Guatemala Mountain House, Lebanon Desert House, Cairo, Egypt Parti Wall, Hanging Green Collaborative Installation, Boston Re-imagining Boston City Hall selected entry, Boston 20002007 Associate Machado and Silvetti Associates Boston, USA Involved in the management or design teams on numerous competitions for cultural and educational buildings, as well as several campus master plans. Subsequently responsible for speculative and cultural aspects of the firmpublications, competitions, and marketing. Directed the firms cultural positioning, including lectures, exhibitions, press, portfolios, web site, and all written production. . American University of Beirut Olayan School of Business, Beirut, Lebanon Citadel Square Plaza and Archeological Park, Beirut, Lebanon Motown Museum Competition, Detroit, Michigan Roma Tre University Housing Competition, Rome, Italy Museo de San Fermines Competition, Pamplona, Spain Grand Egyptian Museum Competition, Giza, Egypt 19992000 Intern Boston Design Collaborative Boston, USA American University in Cairo New Campus Master Plan, Cairo, Egypt

Academic Experience
2008present Assistant Professor, Teaching Track Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh & Doha Currently hold joint appointments on the Pittsburgh and Doha campuses. The fall semester is spent teaching urban design studios and seminars to advanced students in Pittsburgh, while the spring involves the co-coordination of a semester abroad program in Doha for Pittsburgh-based architecture students and the introduction of architecture and urban design to Doha-based non-majors (Business Administration, Computer Sciences and Information Systems). Courses include: 20062008 20012003 1993 19911992 48-500 Design Studio: Urban Laboratory Studio, Fifth Year (Pittsburgh) 48-405 Design Studio: Systems Integration Studio, Fourth Year (Doha) 48-505 Design Studio: Thesis, Fifth Year (Doha) 48-305 Design Studio: Comprehensive Studio, Third Year (Doha) 48-497 Seminar: Thesis I (Pittsburgh) 48-579 Seminar: Middle Eastern Cities (Pittsburgh & Doha) 48-454 Seminar: Futures of the City/Cities of the Future (Pittsburgh & Doha) 48-095 Design Studio: Architecture for Non-Majors 1 (Doha) 48-096 Design Studio: Architecture for Non-Majors 2 (Doha) 48-576 Seminar: Mapping Urbanism (Doha) 48-297 Workshop: Summer Course Abroad 2009 (Egypt) 48-706 Urban Design Studio: Masters of Urban Design (Doha) 48-505 Design Studio: Summer Studio Abroad 2008 (Venice) 48-708 Master of Urban Design Studio: Sustainable Urbanism (Pittsburgh) Design Studio: Urban Laboratory Studio, Fifth Year (Pittsburgh) Design Studio: Thesis, Fifth Year (Doha) Design Studio: Master of Urban Design (Pittsburgh) Seminar: Contemporary Middle Eastern Cities (Pittsburgh & Doha) Design Studio: Architecture for Non-Majors 1 (Doha) Design Studio: Masters Semester II Studio Design Studio: Masters Semester III Studio Modern Middle Eastern History, Prof L. Carl Brown Middle Eastern Politics, Prof. JoAnne Hart

Adjunct Assistant Professor Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh & Doha

Instructor Boston Architectural Center Boston, Massachusetts

Preceptor Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey Research and Teaching Assistant Brown University Providence, Rhode Island

19971998

Project Designer & Manager Mona Zakaria Architects Cairo, Egypt El Gouna Staff Housing Master Plan and Architecture, el Gouna, Egypt UNESCO study: Adaptive Reuse of Cairos Medieval Monuments

Selected Exhibitions
2013 2012 2011 2010 2011 2011 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2007 2006 2005 2003 Found in Doha Installation, Mathaf (Arab Museum of Modern Art) Doha, Qatar 4dDoha: Buildings Carnegie Mellon Qatar Doha, Qatar Sowwah Island Design Controls, AIA Design Pittsburgh August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh Aswan Design Center, AIA Design Pittsburgh August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh Ecologies of Scale, AIA Design Pittsburgh August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh Think Swiss,Think Swim, AIA Design Pittsburgh August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh Projections Woodbury University Hollywood Los Angeles, California Projections pinkcomma Gallery Boston, Massachusetts Ecologies of Scale Carnegie Mellon Qatar Doha, Qatar Downtown Urban Lab Toonseum Gallery Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Heroic: Bostons Concrete Architecture pinkcomma Gallery Boston, Massachusetts Young Architects Boston pinkcomma Gallery Boston, Massachusetts The Big Picture: Urban Design At Carnegie Mellon Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Re-Imagining Boston City Hall pinkcomma Gallery Boston, Massachusetts over,under: Selected Work Roger Williams University Bristol, Rhode Island over,under: Selected Work Wentworth Institute Of Technology Boston, Massachusetts Machado And Silvetti: A Retrospective American University Of Beirut, Lebanon

19971998 1997 1996

Contributing Writer Fodors Egypt Guide New York, USA & Cairo, Egypt Wrote chapters on the architecture of medieval Cairo and a history of Egypt Consultant, Fentecs Cairo, Egypt UNDP study: design of meat production facilities for the Government of Uganda Intern Harvard Planning Department Boston, USA Models, drawings and photographs for various studies Intern Gamal Bakry Associates Cairo, Egypt Dewar Housing Complex, North Coast, Egypt Office Portfolio Redesign

19951996

Selected Research
2013 present 2012 2013 2011 present 20092011 2006 2009 19992000 Pittsburgh Project App, Berkman Grant Main Street Connectivity, AIA Upjohn Grant Design of Future Cities, Qatar Foundation Seed Research Grant Alternative Strategies for Sustainable Urban Design, Qatar Foundation Seed Research Grant Contemporary Middle Eastern Cities, Carnegie Mellon University Global Education Grant Roman Operating Systems, with Rem Koolhaas, Harvard School of Design.

Publications (Books & Articles)

2014 2013 el Samahy, Rami & Kelly Hutzell with Adam Himes and Kristina Ricco Scenes and Speculations from an Emerging City (forthcoming) el Samahy, Rami, Ed Shriver & Ozge Diler, Main Street Connectivity: Patterns and Processes Linking Urban Commercial Patches. Publication for American Institute of Architects Upjohn Research Grant. 2013 2013 2012 2011 2011 2010 2010 2009 el Samahy, Rami & Kelly Hutzell Making Doha, an essay as part of the Tasmeem Doha Conference program el Samahy, Rami & Kelly Hutzell 4dDoha in Tasmeem Journal issue 1 (forthcoming) Urban Lab Studio Urban Design Framework: Beechview and Brookline, edited student work Urban Lab Studio Returning to the River, Chateau Development Plan, edited student work. el Samahy, Rami, Ecologies of Scale, exhibition catalog. el Samahy, Rami & Kelly Hutzell, Closing the Gap: Dohas Mega-projects AlManakh2: The Gulf Continued, New York, AMO Urban Lab Studio Connecting Downtown Pittsburgh, edited student work el Samahy, Rami & Kelly Hutzell, Worlds Apart:Teaching Architecture and Urban Design in Pittsburgh and in Doha Comparative Methodologies: Bringing the World into Culture Antwerp, University of Antwerp Press 2009 2008 2007 2001 el Samahy, Rami and Mark Pasnik Aswan Charrette, Carnegie Mellon University, Summer 2009 el Samahy, Rami,The Big Picture: Urban Design at Carnegie Mellon, exhibition catalog School of Architecture Urban Lab Studio Two Pittsburgh Corridors: Brighton Road and Herron Avenue, edited student work el Samahy, Rami, Patty Heyda, Jennifer Kim, & Hunter Tura, How to Build A City: Roman Operating Systems Rem Koolhaas et al., Mutations Barcelona: Actar Press, 2001: 11-19.

Honors and Awards

2011 2010 2010 2010 2010 2007 2006 2004 2003 2003 2002 Research Award Qatar Foundation Annual Sustainability Awards Ecologies of Scale, Sustainable Strategies for Qatars Growth Finalist Aga Khan Prize for Architecture Eleventh Cycle American University of Beirut Master Plan (with Machado & Silvetti) Honor Award New England Chapter of the American Institute of Architects American University of Beirut, Olayan School of Business (with Machado & Silvetti) Citation AAC&U Shared Futures: General Education For A Global Century Initiative (with Carnegie Mellon) Citation Senator Paul H. Simon Award For Internationalizing Education (with Carnegie Mellon) Official Selection Re-Imagining Boston City Hall Boston Society Of Architects Honorable Mention Gerald Hines ULI Competition Faculty Advisor To Carnegie Mellon Entry Design Award Citation Progressive Architecture American University of Beirut, Olayan School Of Business (with Machado & Silvetti) First Prize, AUB Olayan School of Business Competition (with Machado & Silvetti) First Prize, Silver Spring Town Square Competition (with Machado & Silvetti) First Prize Roma Tre University Housing Competition (with Machado & Silvetti)

1999 1998 1998

el Samahy, R., Cairos Medieval Monuments, Fodors Guide to Egypt, NewYork: Knopff, 1999. el Samahy, R., Egypts Biennale Exhibits, Pose Magazine. October 1998: 21-23. Zakaria, M. & el Samahy, R. Study for the Adaptive Reuse of Cairos Islamic Monuments. UNESCO Report. November 1998.

Publications (Reviews of Professional Work)

2013 2013 2012 Kubo, Michael with Mark Pasnik & Chris Grimley, Archive: Design Biennial Boston, pinkcomma books. June Wulff, Closer to home, Boston Globe, March 4, 2013, G2 Robert Campbell, Paul Rudolphs Brutalism, reworked, at UMass Dartmouth, Boston Globe, November 24, 2012. 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2009 2009 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2007 2007 Courtney Humphries, The Lost Island of Boston, Boston Globe, July 29, 2012, K1-2. Morgan Rousseau, Happy B-day Hubway! Metro Boston, July 24, 2012, 2. Mark Feeney, A bicycle (or two) built for view, Boston Globe July 23, 2012, G3. Michael Kubo, Communicating through Exhibitions, MAS Context, Issue 14, Summer 2012, 90-91. Peter DeMarco, Bike to the Future, Boston Globe Magazine, July 8, 2012, 24-29. Greg Cook, Pedal Power, Boston Phoenix, July 6-12, 2012, 24. Co-Working 2.0, Dwell, May 2012, 24. Lets talk about bikes, Boston Society of Architects Chapter Letter, May/June 2012, 1. Mimi Zeiger, In Form, Domus, April 2012, 2. Gretchen Schneider, On Exhibit, ArchitectureBoston, Spring 2012, 13. David Hacin, Ed., The Boston Society of Architects has a new home, ArchitectureBoston, Spring 2012, 32-37. Robert Campbell, At BSA Space in Fort Point, architects keep an open door, Boston Globe, February 12, 2012, N6. Jarrad Morgan and Christopher Roach, The Networked Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Design. James McGown, Design Gallery in the Pink. Art New England, December/January. 2011: 1415. Michael Kubo and Chris Grimley, The Print Culture of Architecture, in Sarah M. Hirschman, ed., Testing to Failure, SA+P Press, 2011, 267-273. David Fixler, Repair of Modern Structures, Change Over Time, University of Pennsylvania, March 2011. Andrea Leers, Design Biennial Boston 2010, ArchitectureBoston, Fall 2010, 9. Sarah Schweitzer, In praise of ugly buildings, Boston Globe, January 24, 2010. Robert Campbell, The beauty of concrete, Boston Globe, January 3, 2010, N 2. Karen Moser-Booth, A new cycle of street life in Boston, Boston Society of Architects Chapter Letter, January/February 2010, 16. Jaci Conry, McMansions, be gone, Boston Globe, October 22, 2009, G 22-23. James McCown, Groundbreakers: Drawing on repeat business helps architectural firms, Boston Business Journal, September 4, 2009. Ben Rubenstein, See a clean Chicago River today, Chicago Sun Times, July 17, 2009. Dig this Awards 2008: Readers Picks, Best Gallery Weekly Dig, November 12, 2008, 34. Gretchen Schneider, Parti Wall, Hanging Green, ArchitectureBoston, SeptemberOctober 2008, 9-10. Robert Celaschi, Parti Wall, Hanging Green Installation and Exhibition at Pink Comma Gallery, Boston Business Journal, May 2, 2008, 39. Hubert Murray, The New Establishment Meets the Next Wave, Architectural Record, May 2008, 106-112. Fred A. Bernstein, At the Convention, The Architect, March 2008, 55-58. Meaghan Agnew, An Evolution, Punctuated, Boston Globe, December 13, 2007, D1, D10. Alex Beam, Should They Stay or Should They Go, Boston Globe, October 24, 2007.

Publications (Conference Proceedings)

2013 2013 2012 2011 2008 2007 el Samahy, Rami & Kelly Hutzell Making DohaTasmeem Conference 2013 Qatar Foundation el Samahy, Rami & Kelly Hutzell 4dDoha: Buildings Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum Proceedings, Qatar Foundation. October 2012 el Samahy, Rami, Designing for Constant Change ACSA 100th Conference ACSA Press el Samahy, Rami, Designing for Constant Change ACSA Regional Conference ACSA el Samahy, Rami, Lines in the Sand: Teaching Architecture in Qatar, 50 years On - Resetting the Agenda for Architectural Education Southampton, WIT Press, 2008: 456-501. el Samahy, Rami, A StrategicTool for Urban Planning and Design UrbanTrialogues Rotterdam, International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) 2007: 115 - 129.

Publications (Reviews of Academic Work)

2012 2012 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010 2010 2010 2007 2006 Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Architecture Professors Create Web-based Application To Illustrate Dohas Expansion, Carnegie Mellon News online, November 1, 2012 Diana Nelson Jones Walkabout / Welcome with Pittsburgh grandeur: a plan for Penn Station Pittsburgh Post-Gazette October 09, 2012 Mapping Dohas Development, The Foundation, Issue 30, The Monthly Magazine of the Qatar Foundation, September 2011 University Showcases Ecologies of Scale, Gulf Times, February 25, 2011, page 16 Kevin Kirkland Heres a plan to use Civic Arena, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 27,2011. Projections at pinkcomma Shift Boston Interview October, 2011 http://blog.shiftboston.org/2011/11/projections-at-pinkcomma-gallery Projections at WUHO archnewsnow.com http://www.archnewsnow.com/news/ news_2011_10_21.htm Projections at WUHO archinect.com http://archinect.com/schools/event/920/projections/23667825 Projections at WUHO american architects http://www.american-architects.com/en/ agendas/details/projections_1965 Projections at WUHO world architects http://www.world-architects.com/en/agendas/ details/1965 Don Johnson, A Semester in Qatar, Span, Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture Sindu Nair, Retrofitting is the new sustainable, Qatar Today Christopher Connell, From the Steel City to Qatar, Carnegie Mellon University Pursues a Global Course, International Educator Charles Rosenblum, Alluring Plans for Pittsburgh, Metropolis Magazine Diana Nelson Jones, CMU plans upgrades for Herron, Brighton corridors, Pittsburgh Post Gazette December 12, 2006

2007 2007 2007 2007 2005 2005 2004 2004

David Eisen, Everyday Use: Rethinking Design at the ICA, and City Hall at Pinkcomma Gallery, Boston Phoenix, October 12, 2007, 13. Robert Campbell, Working with City Hall, Boston Globe, September 23, 2007. Elizabeth Padjen, Imagine That, ArchitectureBoston, September/October issue, 3435. Re-imagining City Hall. Architecture Boston, September/October 2007, Vol. 10, No. 5: 26-39. Mournayar, Michael A. Rebuilding education in the Middle East: AUBs new school of business in Beirut. Competitions Magazine Spring 2005: 4-17, 60-61. Machado and Silvetti: Citadel Square, Beirut, Lebanon. Architecture, Vol. 94, No.12, Dec 2005: 48 Leston, Eduardo. Obras Recientes de Machado y Silvetti. Summa Mas: 67, July 2004: 50-99. Smith, Frimmel. Building as Placemaker: The Silver Spring Civic Center. Competitions Magazine Spring 2004: 4-6.

2011 2011 2011 2011 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009

Alexandra Lange and Mark Lamster, Lunch with the Critics: Cronocaos, The Design Observer, June 2, 2011. Nuno Coelho, Solicitous Solutions, lsnglobal.com,The Future Laboratory, June 1, 2011. Joe Ringenberg, The Young Heroics, GSD News, February 25, 2011. Editors (Claire and Juan), Boston, Cooking Architecture, February 6, 2011. Nancy Levinson, Observed, Design Observer, November 21, 2010. Mark Lamster, Design Writing: Vital Field or Museum Piece? Design Observer, November 13, 2010. Pinkcomma is moving, The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, August 11, 2010. Russ Lopez, The Heroic Project Modernist Concrete Buildings in the Boston Area, Intersections, July 15, 2010. Boston Landmarks Commission Evaluates Mid-Century Modern Buildings, Boston Preservation Alliance March 22, 2010. Gradon Tripp, The Hub of Boston, DesignBoston, March 20,2010. Matthew Lawlor, A Response and a Concern: Or, By Their Fruits Shall You Know Them (Urban Design-wise, That Is), Restoring the Urban Fabric, February 19, 2010. Ethel Baraona Pohl, Heroic, Arkinet, January 13, 2010. Karen Moser-Booth, A new cycle of street life in Boston, Boston Society of Architects Chapter Letter Online Extended Interview, January 2010. Douglass Shand-Tucci, Douglass be nimble, Back Bay Historical Blog, December 2009. Tiffany Chu, Pinkcomma Gallery Welcomes Hometta, Dwell Magazine Online, November 10, 2009. Quinlan Riano, A Double Feature at pinkcomma, The Architects Newspaper Blog, October 6, 2009. Lloyd Alter, Hometta Delivers Good Designs for Smaller Homes Off the Rack, TreeHugger (Online), October 23, 2009. Sebastian J., Hometta: A Home Plan Company, ArchDaily, September 2009. News Editor, New devices offer views of river, WLS-TV Chicago (ABC Seven News), July 17, 2009. Eva Vrouwe, Architectural Firms: How the Institutional and Cultural Context Outline Innovation in Architecture, A Comparison Between Boston (USA) and Rotterdam (NL), Unpublished Masters Thesis, University of Amsterdam, March 15, 2009, 32, 54, 57-58.

Online Reviews of Practice

2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 Barbara Porada, FBIs Brutalist Hoover Building Faces Serious Makeover, ArchDaily, March 31, 2013. Vanessa Quirk, Brutalism/CLOG, ArchDaily, March 26, 2013. James T. White, [Bracket] ReleaseA Brief Review, DAT Journal, March 19, 2013. Erin Greene, Showcasing Emerging DesignTalent, Boston Magazine, February 26, 2013. Alex Dupnik, Design Biennial Boston, We Love Beantown, February 21, 2013. Amin Alsaden, Baghdad: Mirages and Melancholia, Jadaliyya, December 29, 2012. Kimberly Thorpe, Pedal Power, News@Wentworth, August 8, 2012. Dian Desantis, Ready to Take Off the Training Wheels, Boston Magazine July 10, 2012. Scott Spitz, Lets Talk About Bikes, Urban Velo, July 2, 2012. Elizabeth Tereshko, Lets Talk About Bikes! SHIFTboston Blog, June 24, 2012. Jonathan Simmons, On Biking: He likes LetsTalk about Bikes, Boston.com, June 13, 2012 Mike Tremblay, Thoughts from the Lets Talk About Bikes Exhibit at BSA Space, The Third String Catcher, June 12, 2012 Susan Seligson, Lets Talk About Bikes: BSA exhibition probes bicycles impact on city life, BU Today, June 12, 2012 Laila Salomon, La ciudad en forma, Arquine Blog, April 24, 2012. Editor, over,under and the pinkcomma gallery, Future Boston Alliance, April 24, 2012. John Gendall, AIA in Boston: New Neighborhood, New Draw, The Architects Newspaper April 18, 2012. Mimi Zeiger, In Form: Communicating the City, Domus, March 22, 2012. Bill Shaner, Phantasma: BSA Space, Dig Boston, February 21, 2012. Sarah Hirschman, Boston, This is Your Legacy: In Form at the BSA, Architizer and Atlantic Cities February 13, 2012. Rachel Slade, Bostons New BSA Headquarters, Boston Magazine, Blog, February 12, 2012.

2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2007

Parti Wall, Hanging Green. Archinect, Showcase Article, May 14, 2008. Pink and Green, Loud Paper, May 14, 2008. Parti Wall, Hanging Green. Architecture MNP, May 2008. AE4: Vertical Garden, A Daily Dose of Architecture, April 26, 2008. Veg.itecture #22, Landscape/Urbanism, April 4, 2008. Today, Boston City Hall and City Hall Plaza should they stay or should they go? WBUR, Boston Radio, January 4, 2008. Andrea Shea, Defending, Reimagining City Hall, WBUR, Morning Edition, October 18, 2007.

Design Workshops
2012 2012 2012 2011 2007 Instructor Tasmeem Design Labs Doha, Qatar

2010 2010 2010 2009 2009 2009 2008 2008 2008 2007 Found in Doha, with MaryLou Arscott, Nick Durrant and Kelly Hutzell Study of Light, with Juhani Pallasmaa week-long design charrette Sheraton Suites Charrette, weekend-long design charrette Design for a Sensory Stair week-long design charrette Dramatis urbium: The character(s) of the city week-long design charrette 2007 2007 2007 2005 2005 2004

Why Sustainable Design Qatar Green Building Council Doha, Qatar Urban Doha, Tepper School of BusinessDoha, Qatar Green Design Matters Presentation to CMU Board of Directors Doha, Qatar Heart of Doha Symposium, moderator, Doha Land Doha, Qatar Green Building Matters moderator, Carnegie Club Doha, Qatar Working Points for Design Thinking, Pecha Kucha Doha, Qatar Fred Dust, IDEO, post-lecture panel discussion, Community Design Center of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Carnegie Mellon in Doha Cornerstone Symposium Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Lines in the Sand: Teaching Architecture in Qatar, Conference on Architectural Education, Oxford UK Speaking of Cities... Carnegie Mellon University International Festival, Pittsburgh, A Strategic Tool for Urban Planning and Design International Society of Regional and City Planners (ISOCARP) Congress, Antwerp, Belgium What is a World Class City? Carnegie Mellon Qatar Re-Conceiving the Built Environment of the Gulf Region, Harvard University Machado & Silvetti: Recent Urban Design, Carnegie Mellon University Citadel Square, Rhode Island School of Design Providence, Rhode Island Olayan School of Business, Medina Symposium: Reconstructing Identities, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachussetts

Instructor Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Doha, Qatar Instructor Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Doha, Qatar Instructor Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Doha, Qatar Instructor Henry Van De Velde Institute Antwerp, Belgium

Invited Guest Critic/Juror

2012 20102012 20102011 2010 2006 2006 2006 2005 20032009 2004 2004 2003 Boston Society of Archtiects, Unbuilt Boston Awards Boston, Massachusetts Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar Doha, Qatar American University of Sharjah Sharjah, UAE Rhode Island School of Design Providence, Rhode Island Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts Massachusetts Institute of Technology Boston, Massachusetts Roger Williams University Bristol, Rhode Island Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston, Massachusetts Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts Rhode Island School of Design Providence, Rhode Island

Academic Service
2009 present 2010 2012 20092012 20092012 2008Present 2007 2005 present Minor in Architecture, Carnegie Mellon Qatar, Implementation, Coordination and Student Advising Master of Urban Design Program, Admissions Committee Member Art Committee, Carnegie Mellon Qatar Member Admissions Committee Master of Urban Design Program, Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture Member American Planning Association exhibit planning participant Carnegie Museum Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, Affiliated Faculty Remaking Cities Institute

Public and Invited Speaking

2013 2013 2013 2013 2012 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010 Making Doha Public, Doha Architectural Forum Cities of the Gulf: Old and New, Univeristy of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon Weekend Course Design for Constant Change Tasmeem Conference Designing the Contemporary Arab City Pecha Kucha Scenes from an Emerging City, lecture for Tepper visiting MBA students, CMUQ Sustainable Building Typologies, Qatar Green Building Solutions Symposium Designing for Constant Change Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Regional Fall Conference, Houston, TX. An Emerging City, lecture for Tepper visiting MBA students, CMUQ Introduction for Norbert Streitz, Computer Science Qatar lecture entitled Smart cities, ambient intelligence, and the disappearing computer, CMUQ. Scales: the work of over,under School of Architecture Fall Lecture Series Carnegie Mellon. The School of Architectures Role in Doha faculty meeting presentation, School of Architecture Architectural Design Controls for a new Central Business District 48-453 Urban Design Methods course, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon Six Working Points for Young Designers Qatar University

Academic Outreach
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, 48-500 Design Studio: Urban Laboratory Community Affiliations 2012 Urban Laboratory, Beechview and Brookline (Studio coordinator; co-taught with Christine Graziano, Jonathan Kline, Eve Picker and Steve Quick) With participation from stakeholders from Pittsburgh City Planning Department, the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, the Port Authority of Allegheny County, Friends of Seldom Seen Greenway, Beechview Chamber of Commerce and City Councilwoman Natalia Rudnick. Student work highlighted in Urban Design Framework: Beechview and Brookline. 2011 Urban Laboratory, Chateau (co-taught with Jonathan Kline, Eve Picker and Steve Quick) With participation from stakeholders from Pittsburgh City Planning Department, the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, the Port Authority of Allegheny County, and Riverlife Task Force. Student work highlighted in Returning to the River, Chateau Development This Plan. page is left intentionally blank.

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Urban Laboratory, Downtown District (co-taught with Eve Picker) With participation from stakeholders from Pittsburgh City Planning Department, the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, the Port Authority of Allegheny County, County, Riverlife Task Force, and City Councilman William Peduto. Student exhibit at Toonseum as part of public participation process. Student work highlighted in Connecting Downtown Pittsburgh.

2008

Thesis in Doha, (co-taught with Kelly Hutzell) Semester abroad studio for Pittsburgh Architecture students. Collaborations with Qatar Foundation, Urban Planning and Development Authority and Virginia Commonwealth University Center for Research in Design. Student work highlighted in Scenes and Speculations from an Emerging City.

2009

Urban Laboratory, Cultural District (co-taught with Kelly Hutzell) With participation from stakeholders from Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. In conjunction with Carnegie Mellon School of Drama Lighting Professor Cindy Limauro & MFA students Studio site model on permanent exhibition at the Cultural Trust. Student work exhibited at Light Up Night and Gallery Crawl.

Affiliations & Memberships

2010Present 2009Present 2009Present 2008Present 20002003 Member Qatar Green Building Council Faculty Group AAC&U Shared Futures: General Education for a Global Century Initiative, CMU Member United States Green Building Council Member American Planning Association Member Alumni Board Harvard Graduate School of Design

2008

Urban Laboratory, Larimer (co-taught with Jonathan Kline) Participation from East Liberty Concerned Citizens Coalition and The Kingsley Association, and collaboration with the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh and State Senator Jim Ferlo.

2007

Urban Laboratory, Hazelwood (co-taught with Kelly Hutzell and Jonathan Kline) Participation from Robotics Department Professor Red Whittaker and collaboration with the Hazelwood Neighborhood Community Group and ALMONO. Student work highlighted in Remaking Hazelwood, Remaking Pittsburgh: Urban Design Recommendation for Pittsburghs Next Big Urban Projects, Remaking Cities Institute.

2006

Urban Laboratory, Brighton Road Participation from Northside Community Development Corporation and collaboration with the Urban Land Institute. Student work highlighted in Two Pittsburgh Corridors: Brighton Road and Herron Avenue.

Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, 48-305 Design Studio 2012 Comprehensive Studio, Al Wakrah (co-taught with Kelly Hutzell) Semester abroad studio for Pittsburgh Architecture Students, with intensive collaboration with Qatar Museums Authority and Allies and Morrison Architects Student work highlighted in SScenes and Speculations from an Emerging City. Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, 48-405 Design Studio 2011 Systems Integration Studio, High-Rise District, Doha (co-taught with Kelly Hutzell) Semester abroad studio for Pittsburgh Architecture students, intensive collaboration with the Council for Tall Buildings, Turner Construction, Arab Engineering Bureau and Murphy Jahn Architects. 2010 Systems Integration Studio, QGBC HQ, Doha (co-taught with Kelly Hutzell) Semester abroad studio for Pittsburgh Architecture students, with intensive collaboration with Qatar Green Building Council, Atkins International and Arup Engineering. Student work highlighted in Scenes and Speculations from an Emerging City. Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, 48-505 Design Studio 2009 Thesis in Doha, (co-taught with Kelly Hutzell) Semester abroad studio for Pittsburgh Architecture students. Collaborations with Qatar Museum Authority, Virginia Commonwealth University Center for Research in Design and American University of Sharjah. Student work highlighted in Scenes and Speculations from an Emerging City.

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TEACHING

Courses Taught at Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh

The Urban Lab

INTRODUCTION
themes course objective cumulative exercises

The Urban Lab

URBAN DESIGN PROCESS
In community and urban design the process is absolutely fundamental. Urban design is a complex discipline requiring exploration of a variety of issues at different scales. In order to approach the complex problem of creating a neighborhood master plan, we will proceed in steps through a series of exercises, individually and in teams. Each exercise will focus on a new major idea in the urban design process. Through each exercise we will explore a new aspect of the problem, adding new layers of complexity to the evolving visions. The exercises will follow three phases, each correlating with a stakeholder or community workshop.
phase one: analysis

The Urban Laboratory design studio seeks to educate architects to be leaders for visionbased change at the scales of neighborhood, city and region. The studio will focus on a particular kind of urban design project: the creation of a long-term community vision plan for a neighborhood of Pittsburgh. This studio builds upon and expands your design skills in architecture and introduces new skills in community leadership and urban design and planning. Our approach to urban design engages the city as an integrated design problem which is best solved through a participatory design process. Drawing on multiple disciplines, you will study the process of working directly with communities to create visions for future change.

urban design
Dialogue, Vision and Leadership

This studio will explore the discipline of urban design. Urban design is the creation of the physical structure for collective life: making places for people. It is a generalist discipline focused on the building of human settlements. We design cities, roads, parks and buildings, in order to create places where humanity can go about the complicated business of daily life. As urban designers we are answerable not just to our clients but to everyone, generations past, present and future, all of whom must live together in the places on which we work. Urban designers work at a range of scales, from the scale of a building or public space to the scale of a neighborhood or greater geographic region.

Conceptual Cartography

Working as a studio you will explore economic, social and physical aspects of the neighborhood through data, maps, diagrams, photographs, and physical and digital threedimensional models. The analysis provides an opportunity for you to learn about the community in depth. More importantly, effective representation of conditions sets the frame for future development. Analysis is the foundation upon which urban design and development proposals stand.
phase two: urban design framework

advancing urbanism

Systems and the Production of Space

In the Urban Lab we are committed both to teaching the tenants of good urbanism, and to exploring a variety of approaches of advancing them to create sustainable 21st century urban projects with local, regional and global connectivity. We will strive not to teach a single perspective or viewpoint, instead we will explore a variety of innovative contemporary approaches to urbanism through readings, lectures and precedent studies. At the same time we will draw on a wealth of historical examples of successful urbanism found in the existing urban fabric of cities around the world.

Working as a studio group, you will transform community issues and objectives into a unified vision for the neighborhood with a series of strategies and an urban design framework. The urban design framework will establish a future vision of the corridors, districts, and neighborhoods of the community. The framework will establish significant places for public investment as well as important civic design features of private development.
phase three: urban design project
Systems Analysis

In the final phase your team will develop a single area of focus in detail, such as a group of buildings and a corresponding public space. Your vision for change will be embodied through the design of a development proposal at a critical location in the community. A catalytic design project must inspire continued investment and pursuit of the larger urban design goals for community reinvestment.

urbanism as process

Strategic Design Frameworks

Increasingly designers are approaching large-scale proposals for the built environment less as fixed master plans and more from flexible frameworks defining a range of possible scenarios and outcomes. Thus the design solution itself is defined in terms of allowing or constricting a set of processes in time and space. The challenge you face in the Urban Laboratory involves expanding the scale of the problem not only in space (the site is much bigger than in your previous studios), but also in time: the solution itself must allow for multiple possibilities over an extended period of time. In this sense your solutions must be concrete spatial proposals, but they should also be thought of as flexible temporal frameworks for urban change.

Urban Design Framework

Sustainable City Making

Urban Design Project

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The Urban Lab

COMMUNITY VISION BUILDING
tools and methods

The Urban Lab

PROJECT FLOWCHART
phase one: weeks 1 - 3 ex. 1 conceptual cartography [initial perceptions] ex. 2.1 & 2.2 systems analysis [economic & social]

Urban designers have an ethical obligation to collaborate with and empower members of the communities in which they work. Increasingly the term Community Design is used to describe practices where designers and planners work with neighborhood residents to explore and discover outcomes that are in the common interest. Often times this work is sponsored by a regional community design center or a neighborhood based community development corporation. For our studio the term community design reflects the value we place on social responsibility and community participation in the design process. We see the participatory process as both a valuable learning tool and a creative design opportunity. This semester we will strive to make multiple connections with a community in the Pittsburgh region. Our goal is to help citizens understand their community as a whole, identify and summarize shared issues and objectives, imagine large scale changes, and envision specific catalytic design projects. The three phases of the semester will each correlate with a participatory community workshop in the neighborhood.
phase one: analysis

WEEK

01 02 03 04
ex. 3.1 & 3.2 urban design framework [making connections] ex. 2.1 & 2.2 systems analysis [physical]

analysis

Stakeholder Workshop 1

systems analysis & identifying issues

Participatory Exercises

Stakeholder Workshop 1 Sharing Understanding & Defining Objectives For the first workshop you will present your initial analysis work and then use a variety of participatory exercises to identify shared issues and objectives among stakeholders in the community. In order to prepare effectively for this meeting, your knowledge of the neighborhood will be crucial, as will your ability to frame appropriate questions and listen carefully to the issues outlined by community members.
phase two: urban design framework & project

urban design frameworks

phase two: weeks 4 - 6

boston field trip [benchmarking]

05 06
ex. 4.1 urban design project [area of focus]

Physical & Digital Modelling

Stakeholder Workshop 2 Exploring Alternative Frameworks & Projects In the second workshop teams will present their urban design frameworks and initial proposals for urban design projects. Using interactive modelling techniques you will collaborate with community members to test and critique the ideas proposed. The second workshop is meant to test initial ideas and ascertain how specific proposals should be developed in order to benefit the community.
phase three: urban design project

ex. 4.2 precedent study [benchmarking]

07 08
ex. 4.3 mid - semester peer review [schematic design]

Stakeholder Workshop 2

urban design framework & project

Citizen Engagement & Dialogue

Key to successful participatory design is clear communication and active listening. Representations and explanations must be clear and concise. Listening carefully to what the people and place have to say is essential. Only after listening, analyzing, questioning and contemplating can you begin to devise solutions. Presenting to a public audience is very different than a critique by ones professional peers. Your job is to present visions that are positive and inspiring in order to cultivate the interest and participation of the community and to expand citizens conceptions of the value and possibility of their communities. This year we will have an opportunity to make multiple connections with community groups in Beechview and Brookline.

urban design project phase three: weeks 7 - 16

Community Presentation 3 Final Presentation & Community Reception The final community workshop will be used to present the revised frameworks and the final urban design projects.

09 10 11 12 13 14
ex. 4.5 final draft [representation] ex. 4.5 final review ex. 4.4 interim critique [design development]

Presentation & Communication

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final presentation

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studio documentation

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SEMESTER LEARNING OBJECTIVES
approaches to the city
When several villages are united in a single complex community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficient, the polis comes into existence. Aristotle

The Urban Lab

STUDIO REQUIREMENTS & RESOURCES
approaches to the city
At the moment, we lack suitable theories of immanence, satisfying visions of how the modern city might be wonderful. The dominant discourse is nostalgic, the urban equivalent of the Family Values debate in American politics, and is similarly flawed by the fallacy that form has a constant relationship to content. If only traditional families or traditional cites could be reconstructed, the argument goes, all would be right. The modernist idea also founders on this fallacy of linkage, this notion of a direct relationship: the idea that simple forms might lead to attractive and progressive clarity of social relations. In both cases, the prevalence of a single model, defensibly clear, inevitably distorts architectures ability to comprehend and respond to changes in an environment it has not wrought. Michael Sorkin

Urban design is a complex interdisciplinary process requiring strong leadership and a combination of skills. The Urban Laboratory studio is designed to introduce you to new skills regarding community leadership and urban design and planning while expanding your existing skills as an architectural designer. The exercise sequence relates directly to these various skills over the course of the semester.
introducing new community leadership, urban design and urban planning skill sets

studio schedule

The Urban Lab studio will meet on Mondays and Wednesdays from 12:30pm to 4:20pm. We will diligently maintain the studio schedule shown on the last page of your syllabus. The schedule indicates when exercises will be issued and are due, when lectures will occur, and when site visits, pin ups and desk critiques are scheduled. If changes are required, a new schedule will be issued.

The present city must be defined as a place of continuous creation. Its stories evade the manifold rationality of strategic urbanism, establishing traditions and histories that are both visible and waiting to be discovered. Reviled and desired, urban spontaneity challenges the logics of urban renewal, urban planning, urban redevelopment, urban design, and all the other 20th century urbanisms that ignore existing things and places because of their imperfections. These stories and spontaneities, however flawed, constitute the everyday urban world. John Kaliski

Community Leadership Gain experience working with a diverse community to understand issues, listen to ideas, summarize principles and communicate design intent; Understand the basic sociological dynamics of urban communities; Understand the importance of democratic involvement of a diverse array of community stakeholders in the planning process; Understand the basics of creating and running a community planning process. Urban Design Understand the use of buildings to define public urban space; Understand the use of building typologies to create blocks and neighborhoods; Understand the impact of form making at a variety of scales. Urban Planning Understand the connections between regional land-use issues and neighborhood planning; Gain analytical skills in understanding systems of policy, economy, transportation and environment at multiple scales; Understand the basic strategies of community economic development.

attendance

Attendance during studio is mandatory for all students unless you have cleared your absence with your studio professor. You are expected to be working in studio or attending scheduled critiques and reviews for the duration of the class time. Studio time is for intense studio work. Greater than three studio absences will result in a lowered grade.

collaborative team structure

Urbanism is an inherently interdisciplinary and collaborative form of practice. In the Urban Lab you will work in a variety of shifting collaborative team structures for all exercises. During the Analysis Phase you will work in a medium-sized group on a particular analytical task to create a shared body of knowledge for the studio. During the Urban Design Frameworks Phase you will work in a large team to generate a scenario for the entire neighborhood. During the final Urban Design Project Phase you will work in small teams to design a detailed urban design project based upon a specific area of the neighborhood framework.

We stand for the restoration of existing urban centers and towns within coherent metropolitan regions, the reconfiguration of sprawling suburbs into communities of real neighborhoods and diverse districts, the conservation of natural environments, and the preservation of our built legacy. We recognize that physical solutions by themselves will not solve social or economic problems, but neither can economic vitality, community stability, and environmental health be sustained without a coherent and supportive physical framework. We advocate the restructuring of public policy and development practice to support the following principles: neighborhoods should be diverse in use and population, communities should be designed for the pedestrian and transit as well as the car; cities and towns should be shaped by physically defined and universally accessible public spaces and community institutions; urban places should be framed by architecture and landscape design that celebrate local history, climate, ecology and building practice. Congress for the New Urbanism

community meetings

Urbanism is about human life.

expanding and building upon existing design skill sets

Robert A.M. Stern

Three community workshops and presentations will be scheduled throughout the semester. These will occur off campus, and may be scheduled outside of class time. We request that you inform us in advance of any conflicting classes so that we can ensure that you are excused. The community meeting schedule as noted is tentative and will be confirmed as the semester progresses.

Architecture Expand design skills to address how buildings reinforce surrounding neighborhoods; Understand relationships between architectural expression and place making; Understand the strategic use of architecture for community vision building & revitalization. Public Space Infrastructure and Landscape Design Expand design skills to address problems involving the creation of outdoor public space; Understand the role of landscape architecture in urban design; Understand the use of landscape typologies to create diverse public spaces; Understand relationships between environmental systems and urban systems; Understand the basic design of street typologies and transportation networks.

studio exercises

The Urban Lab curriculum is structured as four specific exercises, some of which have multiple parts. These exercises will allow us to approach the complex urban design project step by step, adding layers of complexity to our design solutions. Many exercises culminate in a studio critique, all of which are listed on the schedule. At that time, you will be expected to have legible work to show and discuss. You will be evaluated on both the process and product of each exercise.

textbooks and readings

Reading assignments and correlating lectures are scheduled in the supplementary Urban Design Methods course, and will serve as the basis for discussion in both this course and the studio. Additional readings and lectures may also be give by your individual studio professor. These will inform both your understanding of urban design in general and your approach to the urban design project. Supplementary texts are recommended for the studio: Cities: 10 Lines - A New Lens for the Urbanistic Project, edited by Joan Busquets and The Spectator and the Topographical City by Martin Aurand. Cities: 10 Lines is currently out of print; however, it is on reserve in the library. We will refer to these texts often and for precedent sources.

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STUDIO EVALUATION
approaches to the city
While community participation has become firmly institutionalized, it has also become more of a tool for defending exclusionary, conservative principals than for promoting social justice and ecological vision. The problem lies not in the concept of participation but in the roles that designers and planners have taken in relationship to their clients and projects. I propose a fundamentally different approach than traditionally taught and practiced in environmental design, one in which design professionals take a stronger visionary, problem-solving role. Proactive professionals can be distinguished from their traditional counterparts by their visionary approach and their commitment to a participatory process through which the community can modify or enlarge the vision. Mark Francis

The Urban Lab

URBAN LABORATORY TEAM
approaches to the city
The city, which is the subject of this book, is to be understood here as architecture. By architecture I mean not only the visible image of the city and the sum of its different architectures, but architecture as construction, the construction of the city over time. Architecture, attesting to the tastes and attitudes of generations, to public events and private tragedies, to new and old facts, is the fixed stage for human events. The collective and the private, society and the individual, balance and confront one another in the city. The city is composed of many people seeking a general order that is consistent with their own particular environment.

80% design process and projects

studio coordinator

community liaison

The design process is absolutely key in community and urban design. The sequential exercises in the Urban Lab process will form the basis of your design solution and are considered essential to the studio. Process will be evaluated equally to product, with the following considerations: your willingness to explore options, depth of design development, thoughtful consideration of community input, willingness to work corroboratively as a team member, etc. Design projects are assessed in terms of their complexity, depth, execution, and representation. The clarity of written, graphic and verbal communication of your ideas is part of any design project. Final studio documentation is mandatory. This portion of your grade can be further broken down as follows: 15% analysis phase, 15% urban design frameworks phase, 50% urban design project phase.

Rami el Samahy Assistant Teaching Professor Solar House samahy@cmu.edu 617.230.9739 (c) over,under www.overcommaunder.com

Alexis McCune Director of Student Programs CFA 201 amccune@andrew.cmu.edu 412.268.6390 (office)

bachelor of architecture program studio professor

studio professor

Rami el Samahy Assistant Teaching Professor Solar House samahy@cmu.edu 617.230.9739 (c) over,under www.overcommaunder.com

Eve Picker Adjunct Assistant Professor epicker@andrew.cmu.edu 412.877.0127 (c) no wall productions; cityLAB www.nowall.com; citylabpgh.org

10% participation and leadership

Participation involves being in studio and playing an active role in the studio while working with your team, as well as engaging during community workshops and presentations. Leadership involves making an effort to plan, prepare necessary materials, present, and actively engage stakeholders and community members during scheduled community meetings.

Aldo Rossi

(Social) space is a (social) product. Each society and its related means of production create a specific kind of physical space. Thus mental and social activity impose their

studio professor

studio professor

If there is to be a new urbanism it will not be based on the twin fantasies of order and omnipotence; it will be the staging of uncertainty; it will no longer be concerned with the arrangement of more or less permanent objects but with the irrigation of territories with potential; it will no longer aim for stable configurations but for the creation of enabling field that accommodate processes that refuse to be crystallized into definitive form; it will no longer be about meticulous definition, the imposition of limits, but about expanding notions, denying boundaries, not about separating and identifying entities, but about discovering unnameable hybrids; it will no longer be obsessed with the city but with the manipulation of infrastructure for endless intensifications and diversifications, shortcuts and redistributions the reinvention of psychological space. Rem Koolhaas

5% advisory grade

own meshwork upon natures space, upon the Heraclitean flux of spontaneous phenomena, upon that chaos which precedes the advent of the body; they set up an order which, coincides, but only up to a point, with the order of words. Traversed now by pathways and patterned by networks,

This portion of your grade takes into consideration advisory grades of the Urban Lab coordinator and faculty as well as final critique grades given by guest jurors. The advisory grade is meant to ensure fairness and balance across the studios in any given year. Advisory grades equally weigh both process and product.

Jonathan Kline Adjunct Assistant Professor MMCH 310A jkline@andrew.cmu.edu 412.443.4211 (c) Studio for Spatial Practice www.studiofsp.com

Christine Graziano, AICP/LEED AP Adjunct Assistant Professor MMCH 310A cgrazia1@andrew.cmu.edu 917.734.5386 (c) dunam ground www.dunamground.com

5% peer evaluation

natural space changes: one might say that practical activity writes upon nature, albeit in a scrawling hand, and this writing implies a particular representation of space. Places are marked, noted, named. Between them, within the holes in the net, are blank marginal spaces. Henri Lefebvre

Due to the collaborative nature of the studio, you will be asked to anonymously grade your team members for group projects. An average of these grades will count for a portion of each students total grade.

master of urban design program track chair

studio professor

Donald K. Carter MMCH 412A doncarter@cmu.edu 412.268.6255 (o)

Stephen Quick Adjunct Professor squick@andrew.cmu.edu 412.926.6885 (c) Civic Design and Planning

There is no single way to act and react. The reply is literally different in each case. This is essentially what architects fail to realize when they ignore the determining factors of each site or treat them all in the same way. Related to this tendency is the fact that because architects have highly predetermined objects in mind, they become blind to the delicacies and peculiarities of each different context. Rem Koolhaas

related courses design methods instructor

real estate instructor

Kelly Hutzell Associate Teaching Professor Solar House kellyh@andrew.cmu.edu 617.470.2935 (c) over,under www.overcommaunder.com

Becky Mingo Associate Adjunct Professor Bmingo@cmu.edu 412.298.3134 (c)

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WEEK

MONDAY
August 27

WEDNESDAY
August 29

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Studio & Syllabus Introduction Studio selection and all-school meeting

September 03

Ex. 1 Issued: Conceptual Cartography Site Visit

September 05

No Classes, Labor Day

Ex. 1 Critique: Conceptual Cartography Ex. 2 Issued: Systems Analysis

September 12

September 10

Studio work session: Systems Analysis Data Mapping

Ex. 2.1 Stakeholder Workshop: Systems Analysis Ex. 2.2 Issued: Systems Analysis Synthesis
September 19

September 17

Studio work session: Systems Analysis Synthesis Ex. 3 Issued: Urban Design Vision Plan
September 24

Ex. 2.2 Critique: Systems Analysis Synthesis Ex. 3.1 Draft Proposal due: Urban Design Vision Plan
September 26

Boston Field Trip Field Trip Assignment

October 01

Studio desk crits: Urban Design Vision Plan

October 03

Studio desk crits: Urban Design Vision Plan David Lewis Lecture 6pm
October 08

Ex. 3.2 Critique: Urban Design Vision Plan Ex. 4 Issued: UD Project
October 10

Ex. 4.1 Draft Proposal due: UD Project

Ex. 4.2 Precedent Critique: UD Project

October 15

October 17

Studio desk crits: UD Project

Ex. 3.2 & 4.3 Mid semester Review: UD Project

October 22

October 24

Studio desk crits: UD Project

Ex. 3.2 & 4.3 Stakeholder Workshop: UD Project

October 29

October 31

Studio work session: Ex. 3.2 & 4.3 Discussion

Studio desk crits: UD Project

November 05

November 07

Site visit: UD Project

Studio desk crits: UD Project

November 12

November 14

Studio desk crits: UD Project

Studio desk crits: UD Project

November 19

November 21

Ex. 4.4 Interim Review: UD Project

No Classes, Thanksgiving

November 26

November 28

Studio desk crits: UD Project

Ex. 4.5 Final Draft due: UD Project

December 03

Sunday, December 09

Studio desk crits: UD Project

Ex. 4.5 Final Review: UD Project

December 10

Week of December 10

Studio Documentation due

Ex.4.5 Community Presentation: UD Project

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EXERCISE ONE: CONCEPTUAL CARTOGRAPHY
An urban neighborhood is determined not only by geographical and economic factors, but also by the image that its inhabitants and those of other neighborhoods have of it. - Chombart de Lauwe Paris et lagglomration parisienne, 1952 One of the basic situationist practices is the drive, a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiences. Drives involve playful-constructive behavior and awareness of psychogeographical effects, and are thus quite different from the classic notions of journey or stroll. - Guy Debord, Thorie de la drive Internationale Situationniste #2 1958

CONCEPTUAL CARTOGRAPHY
materials

CONCEPTUAL CARTOGRAPHY
materials

In this package you should have the following: one (1) blindfold six (6) pins one (1) map one (1) length of string this (1) card
rules of the game

In this package you should have the following: two (2) dice one (1) map one (1) length of string this (1) card

rules of the game

The Naked City, Guy Debord Illustration de lhypothse des Plaques Tournantes en Psychogeographique, 1957

objective

Through the use of a randomly generated path, investigate and chart a series of specific and seemingly unrelated issues that speak to some of the unnoticed but relevant aspects of an urban experience. Upon your return, create a new urban cartography.

1. Create your path. Take turns blindfolding a member of your team. After sufficient spinning, point them toward your map, which should be randomly pinned up to a wall. Repeat until all six (6) pins are on the map. Connect the pins (in order of placement) with the length of yarn. This is the path that you will follow along your drive (aka site visit). 2. Create your catalogue During your drive, identify and record the following: eight things over 30 feet (10 meters) tall (8) six things you can buy (6) twelve noises (12) You must also select three (3) other categories of items to identify and record. The category and quantity of these items must be approved by your instructor before the start of your journey.

1. Create your path. Take turns rolling the dice, twice each. The first roll will determine the horizontal location on your map, the second the vertical. Locate a spot in the designated grid. Repeat until you have located seven (7) spots on the map. Connect the spots (in order) with the length of yarn. This is the path that you will follow along your drive (aka site visit). 2. Create your catalogue During your drive, identify and record the following: eleven things that are built for mobility (11) nine things you can buy to eat (9) six smells (6) You must also select three (3) other categories of items to identify and record. The category and quantity of these items must be approved by your instructor before the start of your journey.

problem statement

Breaking into groups of three students, you will receive a package that includes a map, a path-generating tool, and a set of objectives. With your group, undertake a drive, and transcribe your experiences within the neighborhood, documenting them through the use of sketches, recordings, photographs, video cameras, etcetera. Consider the following questions while addressing the problem statement: What creates the character of the neighborhood- economically, socially and physically? At what scale does the neighborhood operate - locally, regionally, nationally, and/or globally? What is the relationship of the natural to the built environment - past, present, and future?

Mapping of written words as seen from the car on the Las Vegas strip Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown & Steven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas, 1972

Upon your return, work within your group to make sense of your findings. Reprocess your field documentation in order to create a single new 2D or 3D cartography of the urban landscape.

CONCEPTUAL CARTOGRAPHY
materials

CONCEPTUAL CARTOGRAPHY
materials

representation

The urban cartography can be created utilizing any medium, analog or digital. It can be two-dimensional or three-dimensional. It must be transportable, as it may be shown at various community meetings.

In this package you should have the following: one (1) set of jacks one (1) map one (1) length of string this (1) card

In this package you should have the following: one (1) spinning top one (1) map one (1) length of string this (1) card

presentation

rules of the game

Conceptual Cartography will be presented and discussed at the beginning of class on Wednesday, September 05.
Short Documentary Film, Charles & Ray Eames Powers of Ten, 1977

1. Create your path. Place your map on the floor. A team member should stand on a stool with their eyes closed. Other members should spin the map randomly. When ready, the person on the stool should gently drop their jack onto the map below, while their team mates mark its final resting place. Repeat until you have located six (6) spots on the map. Connect the spots (in order of drop) with the length of yarn. This is the path that you will follow along your drive (aka site visit). 2. Create your catalogue During your drive, identify and record the following: seven things that are brand new (7) four things that are wet (4) eleven things in shadow (11) You must also select three (3) other categories of items to identify and record. The category and quantity of these items must be approved by your instructor before the start of your journey. I would like to direct them to topography and water in other terms. Some ideas: 4 places or things wet and 4 places or things dry

rules of the game

1. Create your path. Place the map on a table. Take turns spinning the top. Mark its final resting place on the map. Repeat until you have located seven (7) spots on the map. Connect the spots (in order) with the length of yarn. This is the path that you will follow along your drive (aka site visit). 2. Create your catalogue During your drive, identify and record the following: eight things that are in light (8) four places where the horizon line is higher than you (4) six things that are being repurposed (6) You must also select three (3) other categories of items to identify and record. The category and quantity of these items must be approved by your instructor before the start of your journey.

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EXERCISE 2.1: URBAN DESIGN SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
RESOURCES
A system can be dened as a complex of elements standing in interaction. There are general principles holding for systems, irrespective of the nature of the component elements and the relations of forces between them. ...In modern science, dynamic interaction is the basic problem in all elds, and its general principles will have to be formulated in General Systems Theory. - Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Problems of Life 1960 PASDA: Pennsylvania GIS data downloads Rather than draw a line between urban and site (equating boundary with a line of separation), urban designers need to ask how many ways sites are linked to an outside, to spaces, times, and places beyond their immediate control.... Because urban sites participate in many differently scaled networks at once, talking about an urban scale, as a singular measure or the attribute of some entity, obscures the multiscalar condition of urban sites. Urban locales register on multiple scalar networks, in some cases at different times, in other cases simultaneously.... Urban sites are dynamic Under 18 Population & Bus Routes Larimer Urban Lab, Fall 2008 rather than static, porous rather than contained, messy... rather than neat. - Andrea Kahn, Dening Urban Sites, in Site Matters 2005 Pittsburgh Today: Proles of the Pittsburgh Region Pittsburgh City Planning: CIty-wide analysis maps and market value assessment city.pittsburgh.pa.us/communitydevelopment/data_resources.html pasda.psu.edu US Census: American Factnder data search and download tools factnder.census.gov

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EXERCISE 2.1: URBAN DESIGN SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
sys.tem |sistem| (noun) 1: a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a uni ed whole < a number system>: as a (1) : a group of interacting bodies under the in uence of related forces < a gravitational system> (2) : an assemblage of substances that is in or tends to equilibrium < a thermodynamic system> b (1) : a group of body organs that together perform one or more vital functions <the digestive system> (2) : the body considered as a functional unit c : a group of related natural objects or forces < a river system> d : a group of devices or arti cial objects or an organization forming a network especially for distributing something or serving a common purpose a telephone system, <a heating system>, <a highway system>, <a computer system> e : a major division of rocks usually larger than a series and including all formed during a period or era f : a form of social, economic, or political organization or practice <the capitalist system> - Merriam-Webster Dictionary

OBJECTIVE

pittsburghtoday.org Historic Pittsburgh: Historic Maps and Photographs digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh/

The studio will challenge the assumption that an urban site differs from an architectural site simply as a matter of dimension. Instead, an urban site can be distinguished by the increased complexity of its systems. In the most general terms, a system is an interdependent group of parts forming a uni ed whole. Systems theory examines wholes, not only as made up of parts, but also of relationships. These relationships may exist in space, time, or in processes. Systems exhibit dynamic and adaptive behaviour and may occur in a series of interrelated scales. In the MUD studio and the Urban Lab, we will examine the city as a complex adaptive system of systems. This assignment focuses on the analysis of existing systems, whether physical, economic, ecological, social, cultural, or political at multiple scales. These include the local (the neighborhood), metropolitan (the city of Pittsburgh), regional (the Ohio River Valley), national (the United States) and global scales.

ISSUES TO CONSIDER

Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority ura.org Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh hacp.org Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership downtownpittsburgh.com Riverlife Task Force riverlifetaskforce.org

Physical Questions How is the physical environment structured? What are the corridors, districts and nodes? How do they relate to each other? How do patterns of circulation and systems of movement function in this place? What are the perceptual zones/edges of this place? Where is the physical environment continuous? Where is it interrupted? What are the landmarks? Where are view corridors? Social & Cultural Questions Who lives here? Who works here? Who uses this place, today? How might this change? How do people interact with each other in this place? How do they use and alter the environment? What different activities and events are happening? What overlapping levels and layers of community exist in this place? How does this place overlap socially & culturally with other places? Where are people comfortable? Where are they uncomfortable? How are people taking ownership of this place? Economic Questions How does ownership work? What kinds of activities and transactions happen here? How do they in uence the form of the place? How has this changed over time? What economic rules are guiding what happens in this place? What is the regional economic context? The global economic context? Ecological Questions What ecological systems are present on site? How does the site relate to larger systems of watershed and larger ecological systems? How do the man-made systems interact with the natural ecological systems? Are there opportunities to restore natural systems?

Comparative Imagery Hazelwood Urban Lab, Fall 2008

PROBLEM STATEMENT

This assignment essentially the creation of a shared knowledge base and the physical base materials for a semester-long project is structured in two phases. The rst phase (Exercise 2.1) focuses on quick and concise data gathering and representation. The work produced will build understanding and optimize communication. It will be presented to multiple stakeholder focus groups in order to elicit feedback and establish shared issues and objectives for the neighborhood. The second phase (Exercise 2.2) focuses on the re nement and synthesis of the data in order to produce additional base materials including photo-documentation, digital and physical model making, and advanced analytical drawings. This assignment will be issued at a later stage, following the stakeholder meetings on September 12.

Friends of the Riverfront friendsoftheriverfront.org Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation phlf.org Pittsburgh Civic Design Coalition pghdesigncoalition.org Community Design Center of Pittsburgh cdcp.org Sustainable Pittsburgh sustainablepittsburgh.org

Bus Routes and Zones Hazelwood Urban Lab, Fall 2008

REPRESENTATION

This exercise is about both collecting and interpreting information and representing and communicating it in a way that can be utilized and shared throughout the entire semester. The products of the analysis phase will serve a crucial role as project base materials for the studio design teams and will be presented at the stakeholder and community workshops. As such, the materials should be both physically and digitally documented in ways that are legible, accurate and informative.

Green Building Alliance gbapgh.org Allegheny Conference on Community Development alleghenyconference.org Port Authority of Allegheny County

DEADLINES

portauthority.org

Mon Sept 10 Wed Sept 12

Building Value Cultural District Urban Lab, Fall 2009

Final rough draft due at the beginning of studio Final, printed and pinned up by noon Stakeholder Meetings

Visit Pittsburgh visitpittsburgh.com

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EXERCISE 2.1: URBAN DESIGN SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
In the rst phase (Exercise 2.1), the MUD Studio and Urban Lab will work together on data gathering and representation. Five groups, each with twelve students (or ve for MUD studio), will work independently to produce the deliverables listed below. It is expected that one team member from each group will serve as a liaison with other groups in order to ensure that all individual documents form one cohesive body of work (shared paper size, structure, fonts, ect.).

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EXERCISE 2.2: URBAN DESIGN SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
The second phase of the Systems Analysis assignment focuses on both the re nement of the data mapping and the synthesis of key issues. This phase will ensure accuracy and legibility on the data maps and add depth of content to our work through a focus on the distinct issues identi ed in the rst Stakeholder workshop. Your goal, with a focus on the issues, is to understand the diverse systems operating simultaneously at multiple scales in the community. For each system you should ask questions about the forces that in uence the ways in which the site and neighborhood change over time. As we move forward, each group is responsible to complete the following activities: 1. Re ne all phase 2.1 maps as necessary for accuracy and legibility; 2. Identify and complete maps that you feel to be missing from phase 2.1; 3. A mapping per group of the Strengths, Weaknesses and Opportunities for the neighborhood based on a summary of your ndings from phase 2.1; 4. A mapping which overlays and synthesizes the information from one of your maps with another students mapping (each student to create one map); 5. One history map revealing time per group, as identi ed below; 6. Additional synthesized maps and models as indicated below.
GROUP FOUR: EXPERIENTIAL MAPPING

STUDIO A GROUP ONE: SOCIO - ECONOMIC MAPPING

Community Dialogue - Listening

Zoning Land Use Density Ownership & Value Vacancy & Underutilized Plot/Tax Delinquency Age Race Crime Political districts (city/state/federal)
GROUP TWO: OPEN SPACE

Floor Area Bonus analysis Cultural District Urban Lab, Fall 2009

& ENVIRONMENTAL MAPPING

STUDIO A GROUP ONE: SOCIO - ECONOMIC MAPPING

Community Dialogue - Recording

Watershed Buried streams Topography/Contours/Steep slopes (<25%) Open space (active and passive ecological systems) Open space (manmade systems) Air Quality Natural systems Forestation / tree canopy / street trees Sewersheds / ood-prone areas

History map: Population and diversity over time Information Gathering & Synthesis Including but not limited to: r
Overlay districts in the zoning code r
uses per level on three retail corridors (basement, ground & upper levels) r
Ownership v rental occupancy
GROUP TWO: OPEN SPACE MAPPING

History map: Occupancy over time (behavioural analysis of day & night, weekday & weekend activity) Mapping of occupancy, activity and uses could include: r
Building by building occupancy and activity mappings r
Visual view corridors with photographic documentation

1=100 model of the Braddock community and proposed highway Jonathan Kline & Christine Brill 2005

STUDIO B GROUP THREE: URBAN FORM MAPPING

& ENVIRONMENTAL
MUD STUDIO GROUP FIVE

Community Dialogue - Modeling

Figure Ground Block Structure Building typologies (residential, commercial, industrial) Building heights Mapped streets Neighborhood boundaries Corridors, districts & nodes Historical maps Building condition
GROUP FOUR: EXPERIENTIAL MAPPING

History map: Change in ecological systems over time (ecology and infrastructure) Digital model of terrain, streets and bridges (to be joined with Group Threes buildings)

History map: Growth of transportation systems over time (streetcars, buses, etc.) mapped with settlement patterns Synthesis of all movement systems in plan and section Including but not limited to: r
Traf c study mapping (GIS) r
Transit map with connections r
pedestrian traf c ow (time day direction) Information Gathering & Synthesis r
A summary and analysis of previous plans for Beachview & Brookline

STUDIO B GROUP THREE: URBAN FORM MAPPING

Users (names, locations & reach of businesses, cultural, educational, industrial users) Activity by time of day Annual community actiivies and their locations (eg. parade routes, street fairs, etc) Events LIght Smells Noise View corridors
Community Dialogue - Mapping

History map: Show development patterns over time (50 or 100 yr. increments) Digital Model of the sites buildings
Zoning Subdistricts, Maximum Land Usage & Maximum Building Height diagrams Cultural District Urban Lab, Fall 2009

STUDIO MUD GROUP TWO: TRANSPORTATION MAPPING

Zoning and typological analysis Including but not limited to: r
Zoning envelopes (see sidebar) r
photographic record of all elevations along the three retail corridors r
street sections along retail corridors r
street sections along residential streets

Circulation Networks (pedestrian, bicycle, bus, car, truck, trolley, rail), Circulation Nodes (bus stops, T stops), transit-oriented development Accessibility (5 min, 10 min walking radii, 5 mile, 10 mile zone radii) Disconnects & Interruptions Street system, street widths and bridge linkages

DEADLINES
Site Section Hazelwood Urban Lab, Fall 2008

Mon Sept 17 Wed Sept 19

Final rough draft due at the beginning of studio Review printed and pinned up by start of class

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EXERCISE 3.0: URBAN DESIGN VISION PLAN
Infrastructure works not so much to propose specific buildings on given sites, but to construct the site itself. Infrastructure prepares the ground for future building and creates the conditions for future events. Its primary modes of operation are: the division, allocation, and construction of surfaces; the provision of services to support future programs; and the establishment of networks for movement, communication and exchange. Infrastructures medium is geography. - Stan Allen

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EXERCISE 3.0: URBAN DESIGN VISION PLAN
step 3: framework phasing & urban design strategies

Finally, each group will design how both infrastructures and programs can be phased over time, which will be accompanied by written urban design strategies. The vision plan, at both the neighborhood scale and the city/region scale, must demonstrate infrastructural and programmatic possibilities over time. Consider a long term community framework, and devise a phasing proposal that charts a plausible course towards those goals. Think in terms of 2-year, 5-year, 10-year, and 20-year goals (you may change these parameters if necessary). In order to conceptually clarify your decision-making in the design process, each groups vision plan must be accompanied by a series of well-written urban design strategies, which address the issues and objectives that you have identified. They may outline spatial or infrastructural design, ideas about change in land use or zoning, or guidelines for physical form. These strategies will act as conceptual guidelines for your subsequent design work and should be continuously refined as you proceed with your work.

objective

The design of studio-wide urban design vision plans to organize and structure future movement and use in the neighborhood as it relates to the surrounding city.

problem statement

Framework Plan Larimer Urban Lab, Fall 2008

An vision plan (sometimes referred to as a framework) is a device for organizing and defining the urban surface, for creating possibilities over time. It is made by combining analysis of the existing structure (corridors, districts and nodes, etc) in the community and surrounding city with proposals for strengthening and making new connections on and to the site. The vision plan is also a guideline for how possible programs might be inserted into and organized within this infrastructure over time. Over the next two weeks, each studio will create a unique framework, each focused on the approach of the studio to date. The studios must address the existing neighborhood structure and design proposals for both infrastructure and programs for the neighborhood. Each should consider three program drivers including: public space and buildings, improved accessibilty, and increased residential. These programs must not only allow for, but also complement, the existing strength of the neighborhoods.
Images from Ramus Ella Architects and Michel Desvigne Paysagistes proposal for Governors Island, New York, 2007.

representation

Each group is responsible for the creation of two large-scale maps of the existing and proposed framework at two distinct scales: the neighborhood and the city/region. Incorporate a detailed key indicating existing versus proposed elements, defining infrastructure and programmatic elements, and phasing. Supplement the framework plan with annotations, diagrams, sections, perspectives or other means to communicate aspects not communicated by the plan drawing. The boards should also include your correlating written urban design strategies.

step 1: issues and objectives

First, each student will write a three paragraph paper that addresses neighborhood issues and objectives. Each paragraph should begin within one or two lines that identify an issue that has risen to the surface as a result of the studios analyses or the stakeholder workshops. Below each imperative phrase, state a correlating key objective and explain how it would be designed and implemented, given your studios focus. As a studio, you will combine and edit the results into a single set of issues and objectives that will provide a shared basis for generating and evaluating design ideas.
step 2: diagram proposed infrastructure and programs

deadlines

Fri Sept 21 Wed Sept 26 Mon Oct 01 Wed Oct 03

Step 1: Issues and objectives, upload to Blackboard by 4:30pm Step 2: Desk Crits, each group of eight to put their ideas on trace Desk Crits: Step 2 with revisions & Step 3 Review: to include a projected presentation (>10 min) + 2 key drawings printed and pinned up

Infrastructure and Agriculture, Residential and Commercial Proposed Programs Brighton Road Urban Lab, Fall 2006

Next, each studio will divide into three teams of eight to create design proposals for new programs and infrastructure at the neighborhood scale and the city/region scale, that respond to the collective issues and objectives identified. In regard to infrastructure, how does your neighborhood relate to the surrounding neighborhoods? How does it relate to the surrounding region? What are the different scales of connection? At the scale of the neighborhood, consider pedestrian, bike, car, bus and train circulation, open space or greenway connections and access. At the scale of the city/region, consider ways to connect to and strengthen the existing infrastructure; these might include adding road, trail or transit connections, and adding, extending or re-organizing open spaces. In regard to program and uses, how does your neighborhood relate to the surrounding area? Consider integration of public space and buildings, as well as increased, strategically-positioned housing: what kind(s) is appropriate? What new or augmented programs are needed for a regenerative future? Also, and equally important, what programs would create a hitherto unimagined future?

Bernard Tschumis plan for the Parc De La Villette, Paris, 1982. Tschumis layered representation of his winning competition entry serves as an excellent example of an exploded framework combining infrastructure and program.

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EXERCISE 4.1: URBAN DESIGN PROJECT PROPOSAL
objective

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EXERCISE 4.2: URBAN DESIGN PROJECT SCHEMATIC DESIGN
objective

To define a diversity of urban design projects which complement the design development of a single shared studio framework.

To develop the design of both the studio framework and integrated urban design projects for mid semester review and the second stakeholder workshop.

problem statement

problem statement

For the remainder of the semester one larger group of four to six people will continue to develop a shared urban design framework for the overall studio. The framework will focus on the design of infrastructure and programs. It will also integrate the various urban design project proposals. In parallel, teams of two will focus on the design of self-selected urban design projects that are integrated with and complement each other, as well as the larger studio framework. The focus of the urban design projects can be based on geography - a key node or corridor with multiple architectural interventions including the design of a part of the public space network, or it can be based on systems - a means of organizing, regulating, and creating a kit of parts for an architectural system to be deployed over the site, which will be demonstrated in detail in one or more locations. In most cases, projects will ultimately contain aspects of both of these, however you should pick one as a means of organizing your thoughts about your project. The urban design framework and projects should help positively transform the surrounding community by adding physical, economic, and social value. They should focus on creating and animating the public realm though architecture, landscape and urban design. The interventions should be integrated within the shared studio framework and address the stakeholder and community issues and objectives. Projects should focus on creating potential rather than fixed specificity by implementing a phasing strategy. The urban design project focus should be compelling and complex enough to develop for the rest of the semester. Throughout the remainder of the semester, a series of assignments (Exercises 4.2 - 4.5) will be issued in order to guide design development.

Throughout the next two weeks, the focus will be on the refinement and clarity of your design proposals and continued project design development. You will clearly identify your proposed buildings, infrastructure and programs as distinct from and complementing existing networks. Your projects must also address the stakeholder and community issues and objectives. They will also describe the implementation over time through a coherent phasing strategy.

representation

Promenade Urban Design Framework by Alison Schloemer, Diana Miller, Tim Thianthai & Christian Wagner Larimer Urban Lab, Fall 2008

The representation for this exercise should focus on the refinement and clarity of your urban design proposal as well as continued design development. A clear written statement describing your project and goals; A site plan which clearly delineates the area of your intervention as well as the existing and proposed infrastructure and programs; Plans and sections at appropriate scales; Axonometric drawings that explain how the systems of you project operate and are connected to the surrounding urban context; Phasing diagrams that outline how your intervention works over time A minimum of two perspectives (one eye-level and one birds eye) which reveal the experiential qualities of your intervention within the existing urban context.

deadlines

deliverables
Green Housing Strategy designed by Stephanie Fonticoba & William Small Larimer Urban Lab, Fall 2008

For this exercise, you should identify your proposed team members and define your proposed urban design project or the framework both graphically and in writing. Create diagrams which outline your site (these should be drawn at multiple scales) and diagrams which outline initial thoughts about your urban design project or framework. Write a short argument (500 words max) explaining your decision making process in relation to your overall project strategy. Be sure to clearly articulate the community issues addressed, the strategies employed, and the program interventions proposed. For geographic areas of focus explain what the proposed intervention is, where it sits in the neighborhood, how it relates to the framework, and why this location is important. For systems-based projects you should define what the system is meant to address, how it operates and identify areas of the project where you can test how it might work. Proposals should be formatted as an 8.5 x 11 document of as many pages as necessary.

Mon 8 Oct Wed 10 Oct Mon 15 Oct Wed 17 Oct

Desk Crits (Proposal feedback) & Ex. 4.2 issued Desk Crits Desk Crits Midsemester Review of Ex. 4.2 Issue Ex 4.3 Urban Design Precedent issued Preparation Stakeholder Workshop Stakeholder Workshops Stakeholder Workshop Discussion & Desk Crits Ex. 4.3 Urban Design Precedent Review

Mon 22 Oct Wed 24 Oct Mon 29 Oct Wed 31 Oct

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Promenade Park Project designed by Noramon Bodhidatta & Xianghua Wu Larimer Urban Lab, Fall 2008

Sun 7 Oct @ 8pm Mon 8 Oct Wed 10 Oct Mon 15 Oct Wed 17 Oct

Upload to Black Board under Ex. 4.1 Assignment Desk Crits (Proposal feedback) & Ex. 4.2 issued Desk Crits Desk Crits Midsemester Review of Ex. 4.2

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The Urban Lab

EXERCISE 4.3: URBAN DESIGN PRECEDENTS
objective

The Urban Lab

studio a

Analyzing and interpreting a precedent which will inform your urban design project. Framework Group
problem statement

Loop City - Bjarke Ingels Group Hammarby Sjostad - Stockholm City Planning Bureau (Identify a multi block area to focus on) Brooklyn Bridge Park - MVVA Center Street / Strawberry Creek - Hood Design Vanke Center - Steven Holl Market Hall in Rotterdam - MVRDV Rotterdam Kunsthall - OMA

Leto & Richmann

An urban design precedent has been assigned to each group, per the list below. You are to analyze and re-represent the project as outlined in this assignment. Liza & Sandra
representation and deliverables

Rain & Kendra Chasen & Hank Johnson & John Dan & Adriel

Analysis Create composed presentation slides illustrating the spatial and systemic characteristics of the selected precedent. Utilizing digital media, create a series of exploded axonometric drawings that dis sect the precedent and describe systems in isolation, relative combination(s), and composite configuration. A parallel sequence of drawings shall communicate and abstract the spatial/ experiential qualities of the project. Create diagrams and two-dimensional projections to illustrate relationships not apparent in the pictorial analyses. Include photographs and project data to reinforce the content of the analysis. Design Testing Contextualize the project by inserting it (at scale) to your siteplan Modify as necessary; produce plans, sections & a model in your site.

Morgan, Joe & Lynn Highline - Field Operations & Diller Scofidio + Renfro Karno & Jensen Ballast Point Park - McGregor Coxsall

Dan & Sam Lisbon Bicycle Path - Global Arquitectura Paisagista + Review of NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide Noelle & Dan Le Parc des Jardins dole - Michel & Claire Corajoud, ADR, George Descombes

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Images from Ramus Ella Architects and Michel Desvigne Paysagistes proposal for Governors Island, New York, 2007.

Mon 29 Oct Desk Crits All precedent sources to be gathered by start of studio (minimum of two book or journal sources) Diagrams, first draft complete. Wed 31 Oct Group Review of Ex. 4.3

studio b

Framework John & Joe

Yes Is More, Bjarke ingels Group The Glass Lofts - Front Studio + Fairmont Apartments - Rothschild Doyno Collaborative Porchscapes - UoArk Community Design Center Caterina Market + Housing - EMBT Improve Your Lot! - Interboro Horizontal Farm International Ideas Competition - ETT Architecture Darren Petrucci Lido Line - [Y/N] Studio Schouwberg Plein - West 8 Flower Power - NIO architecten

Colin & Liam Jess & Medha Becky & Talia Jake & Scott Joy Stripscape Aswin & Christina Sara & Tom
Bernard Tschumis plan for the Parc De La Villette, Paris, 1982.

Ibrahim & Phyllis

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Place Massena Nice, France

SANTA CATERINA MARKET

ENRIC MIRALLES.BENEDETTA TAGLIABUE
BARCELONA. SPAIN

This Spread Samples of Ex 4.3 Precedent studies, Fall 2012

Brighton and Beechview Lab

IN COLLABORATION WITH AIA UPJOHN RESEARCH GRANT FALL 2012

The South Hills, a series of ridge lines

URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK
BEECHVIEW/BROOKLINE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN

While there are still a number of families in the area, the population has aged significantly and many more retirees now reside in the area than previously. However, the majority in both neighborhoods are in their late twenties to mid-forties, suggesting that new groups of residents may be arriving. In a city with little immigration in the past few decades, these neighborhoods are notable for the number of new residents who are coming from elsewhere. Easy access to downtown jobs (via public transportation or a drive down West Liberty) and inexpensive but solid housing stock (primarily single story stand alone homes with some townhouses and medium scale apartment buildings) have recently combined to make these neighborhoods attractive to immigrants and to young families alike. Although though both share a growing popularity as starter home neighborhoods, the retail corridor through the center of each is extremely different, as is the car retail corridor that divides them: West Liberty. The students were tasked to explore coonectivity along the corridors, between the two neighborhoods, as well as access to and from the rest of the city. This Urban Lab studio of twenty three students was co-taught with Eve Picker, and was intended to coincide with an AIA Upjohn research grant that investigated connectivity along Pittsburghs Main Street retail.

in metropolitan Pittsburgh across the Monongahela River from Downtown Pittsburgh, are composed of a series of individual neighborhoods that today can be

Downtown PITTSBURGH
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE URBAN LABORATORY 1

considered collectively as part of a first-ring suburb. Two of them, Broadway Avenue and Brookline Boulevard, sit on the hilltop neighborhoods (Brookline and Beechview respectively) that flank the opening to the Liberty Tunnels, a major connection from the South Hills to the city. Running along the valley in between and forming this connection is the third corridor, West Liberty

BEECHVIEW

BROOKLINE

Avenue. While the three retail corridors are geographically proximate, they are extremely different in character and form, each having been shaped by its own history and users. Students from Carnegie Mellon Universitys School of Architecture Urban Laboratory explored the South Hills street car suburban neighborhoods of Brighton and Beechview. Following the collapse of the streetcar suburb culture in Pittsburgh the population of both communities continued to decline at a consistent rate. This population drain led to a reduction in public transportation services and continues to present a challenge to local businesses, which in turn has diminished the attractiveness of the neighborhoods to potential incomers. The demographics of Beechview and Brookline residents have shifted greatly over the last few decades. Beechviews current population is now only fifty-five percent of its peak population, while Brooklines population fared marginally better, at sixty-five percent.

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GOALS
How Can Beechview and Brookline Be Better ?
IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE
1. See Chapter Three, page 38. 2. For more information on how goals are manifested and what constitutes success, see Defining Success, page 112.

INCREASED DENSITY
Brookline and Beechview are currently healthy and functional neighborhoods with high quality housing stock, but the sharp decline in population over the past forty years, characteristic of Pittsburgh, means that they are much less dense now than in previously. Because of this, commerce is limited and the growth of the neighborhoods and for expansion remains compromised. A larger population base means more economic stability and a greater capacity for commercial and social diversity.

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ACCESS Access looks at increasing accessibilty to and from Brookline and Beechview as well as establishing better access between the neighborhoods and the community amentities that exist within them.

All three portions of the Framework for Beechview and Brookline at their core seek to make the two neighborhoods better places to live. Both have many strengths which can be leveraged to help make them even more vital and healthy communities and to overcome problems which they face. The framework team has outlined three major goals which underpin design decisions within Access, Ecology and Continuity,1 which are to increase density, re-establish community identity, and strengthen the bond between neighborhoods and the city.2

RE-ESTABLISH COMMUNITY IDENTITIES

As outlined previously, both Beechview and Brookline lack a clear sense of community identity, and as a result also lack a strong connection to other parts of the city. A more cohesisve community identity means more pride for Beechview and Brookline residents and a more vested interest by them in the greater good.

ECOLOGY Ecology explores the potential inherent to the hillsides of Brookline and Beechview to connect residents to more green spaces as well as to attract new visitors to these neighborhoods. CONTINUITY Continuity centers on the interconnectivity between the two neighborhoods as well as integrating West Liberty back into Beechview and Brookline.

STRENGTHEN BOND BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE CITY

Beechview and Brookline each have different strengths. By working together each neighborhood can grow stronger and provide more resources for residents.

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RESIDENT & VISITOR INTERVIEWS

I spend a lot of time in our own neighborhood and walk almost everywhere. We shop here, go to the coffee shop, bars and restaurants and support the local businesses as much as we possibly can. We also go for walks in the neighborhood for exercise and I am an avid cyclist as well.

We have a large community garden site already (on the former swimming pool property on Rockland Ave), however more parks and more utilization/formalization of the surrounding green space would be wonderful. Make it a destination rather than a dumping ground.

ACCESS
Transit Oriented Development
EXISTING CONDITIONS Currently, the T line, which is a much faster and more marketable mass transit option than the standard city bus, completely bypasses Brookline and many other major population concentrations in southern Pittsburgh neighborhoods. The existing 39 Bus, which runs through Brookline, bears the name of the rail line which used to run through it before the car supplanted it as the dominant for of local transit. At a greater level the Pittsburgh Port Authority continues to face monetary cutbacks which affect the service it can provide, despite the fact that Pittsburghs public transit ridership is well above the national average, at eighteen percent. The immediate goal of the Access section of the Framework is the re-establishment of the streetcar type of bus transit, which has the potential to create denser, more vibrant neighborhoods than the low density sprawl created by the car. By creating a local transit line which plugs into the T line in Beechview, the larger population of Brookline is encouraged to travel through Beechview to access Downtown via public transport, which gives Beechviews businesses increased visibility and creates a faster link to Downtown for Brookline.

RED LINE Current train arrives at the Fallowfield stop between 10 and 15 minutes on weekdays. From Fallowfield, the time to Downtown is 10 minutes. 41 BUS The 41 Bus runs between Downtown and Bridgeville. The bus arrives every twenty minutes. Total run time is slightly over fifty minutes. 39 BUS The 39 Bus runs between Downtown and the end of Brookline Avenue It arrives every fifteen minutes and total run time is slightly over thirty minutes.

Keith Knect, Brookline Resident & South Pittsburgh Development Corporation

We have some green space that people use, but urban apiary and community gardens would be a great way to get our community involved with urban agriculture and would be an important educational tool for children and adults about the environment and our relationship to it.

More open public space is desirable and more green space along the road bicycle friendly lanes and shops will increase desire to stay within the neighborhood. Ron Baraff, Beechview Resident & Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area

BEECHVIEW

BROOKLINE

I drive everywhere, but many people in Beechview rely on the T and itd be great to see more activities surrounding the public transit system.

The greenway surrounding the two neighborhoods would be a great biking trail.

Increased frequency of service at night and weekend would enhance my ability to visit Beechview.

At one time the T was our main means of transportation to get to school and work, but now that we are retired we tend to drive more. However, local transportation near to our house would be convenient.

RED LINE 41 BUS 39 BUS

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Scott Bricker, Bike PGH

A small park in vicinity to public transit stops would be a nice enhancement to attract people to use public transit more often. David Wohlwill, Port Authority

Kathy and John Murphy, Beechview Residents & Friends of the Seldom Seen Greenway 35

The current T-Line runs between the North Side and South Park on the border of Allegheny County.

As the transit system exists, there are three mass transit routes which run through the two neighborhoods, all three of which connect Beechview and Brookline ultimately to Downtown.

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TOD ADJUSTED DEMOGRAPHICS

TOD ADJUSTED TRAVEL TIME

BROOKLINE & BEECHVIEWS GREENS

PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE

Data from 2010 US Census Data & URA Pittsburgh Market Profile

POPULATION GROWTH PER YEAR

Existing TOD Projection

Brookline Beechview Shadyside Squirrel Hill South POPULATION PER SINGLE BUSINESS
Existing TOD Projection

to Downtown

a. PAST Between Beechview there are a number of scattered and disconnected parks. approximately 75 acres and are not widely used at the neighborhood scale.

5 MINUTES WALK
b. PRESENT Beechview and Brookline have a fantastic greenway that circles the two neighbhoods along its periphery. It is currently underused with little to no formal infrastructure to capitalize on it.

Brookline Beechview Shadyside Squirrel Hill South

to Dormont
When compared with population data from more the developed neighborhoods of Shadyside and Squirrel Hill South, the advantages of Transit Oriented Development become apparent. The value of property nearby a direct link to Downtown will allow for higher rate of population growh as the Green Line through Brookline and Beechview attracts growing demographics such as young professionals and the retired, who do not tend to own private vehicles. The effect on business will be positive as well, because higher population and faster growth lead to incresed retail demand, indicating that eventually, Brookline and Broadway may become competative business corridors inn Pittsburgh as a whole.
3. FUTURE By connecting the exsisting parks and recreational spaces with and into the greenway, Beechview and Brookline can aquire a greenway that connects one to another thereby amplifying the benefits socially, economiclly, and environmentally.

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WALK THE LINE Jake Douenias & scott Harrison

CULTURE SHOCK Colin Haentjens & liam lowe

LIVE . WORKOUT Medha sing & Jessica Wang

FALLOWFIELD SQUARE thomas Groner & sarah Harkins

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Brookline Boulevard has a unique commcerical condition. The southern side of the street is entirely commercial, whereas the northern half of the street is a mix of residential and commercial. As a reaction to the businesses and community amenities of the corridor, the street has been redesigned to include benches that also act as planters. The benches are designed and positioned strategically in order to accomodate for individual or group activity, depending on the adjacent businesses and amenities. There is also seating positioned for viewing the activity of the linear park and the street.

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This Spread Excerpts from the final work of Tom Groner and Sarah Harkness, Fall 2012

This Spread Excerpts from the final work of Rebecca Cole and Talia Perry, Fall 2012

Chateau Riverfront Lab

WITH THE PITTSBURGH PORT AUTHORITY AND THE RIVERLIFE TASK FORCE FALL 2011

Students from Carnegie Mellon Universitys

While currently Chateau is largely industrial, the proposed projects would increase and diversify housing options as well as commercial and retail uses. Through the removal of the highway and the construction of new open spaces and paths to the river, as well as the refurbishing of industrial buildings, Chateau will be able to support a thriving Riverfront community. This Urban Lab studio of thirty students was co-taught with Jonathan Kline and Eve Picker.

RETURNING TO THE RIVER

CHATEAU REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY URBAN LABORATORY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE DECEMBER 2011

School of Architecture Urban Laboratory interacted with a variety of stakeholders to investigate potential futures for the Chateau district on the North Shore. Pittsburgh is known as the City of Three Rivers, and at the same time prides itself as the most livable city in America. Yet to say

This Spread Cover images from Urban Lab Report Fall 2011

that Pittsburgh is the City of River Living, would be far from the truth. If the rivers are so important to the identity of our city, why dont the people of Pittsburgh live on the river? Geography, and infrastructural boundaries make Chateau the perfect location in the city for residential riverfront development. Specific infrastructural changes could have huge consequences in transforming this underutilized area, and benefiting the city.

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BELOW Current light rail extension

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Zone One: Retail with Residential

Zone Two: Memorial Landscape Park

Zone Three: Residential Towers with Retail

Zone Four: Office with Transit Stop

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LANDFORM OBJECT FRAMES INTERNAL CONNECTION

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STEPS TO WATER

PROGRAMMED WORMHOLE

This Spread Excerpts from the final work of Joseph Koons and Aaron Schwartz, Fall 2011

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FLEX STUDIO LABORATORIES

APT. LOBBY

RESTAURANT

BACKSTAGE/ SHOPS

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STUDENT LOUNGE

LIBRARY FACILITY

This Spread Excerpts from the final work of Keith Appleby and Daniel Snider, Fall 2011

Downtown Urban Lab

WITH THE PITTSBURGH PORT AUTHORITY AND CITY PLANNING FALL 2010

Students from Carnegie Mellon Universitys

The project culminated in a presentation in city council chambers that highlighted urban-scale design proposals for improving connectivity to and within downtown. The project was designed as an intensive study of the neighborhood with the goal of establishing a long-term plan for sustainable design as well as creating a vibrant visual identity. This Urban Lab studio of twenty six students was co-taught with Eve Picker.

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School of Architecture Urban Laboratory

frameworks
a public realm and transportation strategy

downtown Pittsburgh

partnered with the Pittsburgh Port Authority and City Planning to create framework plan for downtown Pittsburgh. Proejcts included several new public transportation proposals, including simplifying the bus routes, introducing

This Spread Image from Urban Lab Report, Fall 2010

water taxis for commuters, and creating a multi-modal transportation hub worthy of the city ; new housing options and a new branding campaign for the downtown district

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district characteristics

Midtown

district characteristics

Areas of Service
closest bus stop

Walkability

Interconnections & Edges

restitching downtown

Existing Perceptual Map

Proposed Tram Loop

Golden Triangle Route

Movement within the City Center

re-ordering transportation priorities

Rivers & Green Spaces Perceptual Map

adjusted perceptions

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adjusted perceptions

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reconnecting Pittsburgh with its rivers
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connecting downtown districts

Composite Network Diagram

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ORIGINAL CONNECTIONS

SITE PLAN AND PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION

PROPOSED INFRASTRUCTURE

This Spread Final images of Giacamo Tinaris proposal for a multi-modal hub, Fall 2010

The Disconnected Triangle

Interruptions Caused by Topography and Infrastructure in the Region

Market Value and Ownership

Golden Triangle District of Downtown Pittsburgh
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The Cultural District Urban Lab

IN COLLABORATION WITH THE SCHOOL OF DRAMA & THE CULTURAL TRUST FALL 2009

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Owned by NOT Owned by Cultural Trust Cultural Trust

Buildings of Greatest Value

$0 - $299,999 $301,019,000 $110,000,000 $81,670,000 $49,210,000 $36,349,500 $35,835,900 $26,000,000 $25,135,700 $16,663,000 $15,000,000 $13,065,200 $10,517,475 $300,000 - $599,999 $600,000 - $999,999

Water Roads Parking Pedestrian Disconnects

1. Convention Center 2. Liberty Center Offices+ Westin Convention Center Hotel 3. 5th Avenue Place 4. EQT Tower (formerly the Dominion Tower) 5. Heinz Hall 6. Penn Avenue Place 7. Renaissance Hotel by Marriott 8. Benedum Center 9. Encore (Residential) 10. Clark Building 11. Courtyard Marriott Hotel 12. Theater Square Garage

$1,000,000 - $4,999,999 $5,000,000 - $9,999,999 Greater than $10,000,000 Public Open Space (Cultural Trust Owned) Parking Lots (Cultural Trust Owned)

Source: Allegheny County Real Estate Website: http://www2.county.allegheny.pa.us/RealEstate/Default.aspx

Employment Migration
By Sector, Pittsburgh PA Metropolitan Statistical Area
1990 1995 2000 2005 2009 1200000 Total

Branding the Cultural District with Light

School of Architecture
Students from Carnegie Mellon Universitys School of Architecture Urban Laboratory Downtown studio and the School of Dramas Lighting Design course have partnered with The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust to create a branded lighting plan for the Cultural District. The project will culminate in the unveiling of full-scale lighting mock-ups of specific sites in the Cultural District at First Night, the Cultural Trusts 25th anniversary celebration held on New Years Eve, as well as a series of urbanscale design proposals for improving connectivity to and within downtown. The project is designed to be an intensive study of the neighborhood with the goal of establishing a long-term plan for sustainable design as well as creating a vibrant visual identity. Students were charged with the task of branding the area in such a way that visitors would recognize that they are in the Cultural District simply by the lighting around them. Under the direction of Carnegie Mellon Drama Professor Cindy Limauro and Carnegie Mellon Assistant Teaching Architecture Professors Rami el Samahy and Kelly Hutzell, students are exploring ways in which both lighting design and urban design can provide a memorable urban experience, one that serves to increase a sense of security, improve way finding, promote green practices, and encourage viewers to consider the city as a usable work of art. Students will be exhibiting their work in phases at the Water Colors Gallery in conjunction with Cultural Trust events to elicit public response, through the use of participatory design processes. Upcoming presentations include a gallery crawl on Oct. 2 where students will develop and present an overall conceptual design, and Dec. 5 where students will present full lighting mock-ups in preparation for re-installment at First Night Pittsburgh.

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within downtown. The project was designed as an intensive study of the neighborhood with the goal of establishing a long-term plan for sustainable design as well as creating a vibrant visual identity. This Urban Lab studio of twenty four students was co-taught with Kelly Hutzell.

Neighborhood Image

Place Legibility Represented by Paths. Nodes, Edges, Districts & Landmarks

For more information please contact us at downtownstudio@cmu.edu

For more information please contact us at downtownstudio@cmu.edu

Students from Carnegie Mellon Universitys School of Architecture Urban Laboratory Downtown studio and the School of Dramas Lighting Design course have partnered with The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust to create a branded lighting plan for the Cultural District. The project will culminate in the unveiling of full-scale lighting mock-ups of specific sites in the Cultural District at First Night, the Cultural Trusts 25th anniversary celebration held on New Years Eve, as well as a series of urbanscale design proposals for improving connectivity to and within downtown. The project is designed to be an intensive study of the neighborhood with the goal of establishing a long-term plan for sustainable design as well as creating a vibrant visual identity. Students were charged with the task of branding the area in such a way that visitors would recognize that they are in the Cultural District simply by the lighting around them.

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Under the direction of Carnegie Mellon Drama Professor Cindy Limauro and Carnegie Mellon Assistant Teaching Architecture Professors Rami el Samahy and Kelly Hutzell, students are exploring ways in which both lighting design and urban design can provide a memorable urban experience, one that serves to increase a sense of security, improve way finding, promote green practices, and encourage viewers to consider the city as a usable work of art. Students will be exhibiting their work in phases at the Water Colors Gallery in conjunction with Cultural Trust events to elicit public response, through the use of participatory design processes. Upcoming presentations include a gallery crawl on Oct. 2 where students will develop and present an overall conceptual design, and Dec. 5 where students will present full lighting mock-ups in preparation for re-installment at First Night Pittsburgh.

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For more information please contact us at downtownstudio@cmu.edu

Students from Carnegie Mellon Universitys School of Architecture Urban Laboratory Downtown studio and the School of Dramas Lighting Design course have partnered with The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust to create a branded lighting plan for the Cultural District. The project will culminate in the unveiling of full-scale lighting mock-ups of specific sites in the Cultural District at First Night, the Cultural Trusts 25th anniversary celebration held on New Years Eve, as well as a series of urbanscale design proposals for improving connectivity to and within downtown. The project is designed to be an intensive study of the neighborhood with the goal of establishing a long-term plan for sustainable design as well as creating a vibrant visual identity. Students were charged with the task of branding the area in such a way that visitors would recognize that they are in the Cultural District simply by the lighting around them.

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Students from Carnegie Mellon Universitys School of Architecture Urban Laboratory Downtown studio and the School of Dramas Lighting Design course have partnered with The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust to create a branded lighting plan for the Cultural District. The project will culminate in the unveiling of full-scale lighting mock-ups of specific sites in the Cultural District at First Night, the Cultural Trusts 25th anniversary celebration held on New Years Eve, as well as a series of urbanscale design proposals for improving connectivity to and within downtown. The project is designed to be an intensive study of the neighborhood with the goal of establishing a long-term plan for sustainable design as well as creating a vibrant visual identity. Students were charged with the task of branding the area in such a way that visitors would recognize that they are in the Cultural District simply by the lighting around them.

Under the direction of Carnegie Mellon Drama Professor Cindy Limauro and Carnegie Mellon Assistant Teaching Architecture Professors Rami el Samahy and Kelly Hutzell, students are exploring ways in which both lighting design and urban design can provide a memorable urban experience, one that serves to increase a sense of security, improve way finding, promote green practices, and encourage viewers to consider the city as a usable work of art. Students will be exhibiting their work in phases at the Water Colors Gallery in conjunction with Cultural Trust events to elicit public response, through the use of participatory design processes. Upcoming presentations include a gallery crawl on Oct. 2 where students will develop and present an overall conceptual design, and Dec. 5 where students will present full lighting mock-ups in preparation for re-installment at First Night Pittsburgh.

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the unveiling of full-scale lighting mock-ups of specific sites in the Cultural District,
For more information please contact us at downtownstudio@cmu.edu

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Left Examples of the analysis maps of the Cultural District created by the studio at the start of the semester.

Sept. Carnegie Mellon MellonDrama Drama and Architecture Students Use Lig Brand for City's Cultural District - Carnegie Mellon University 6/17/10 6/17/10 12:55 PM Sept. 30: Carnegie and Architecture Students To To Use Lig andand Brand for City's Cultural District - Carnegie Mellon University 12:55 PM

Sept. 30: Drama and Architecture Students To To Use Lighting To Create Sept. 30: Carnegie CarnegieMellon Mellon Drama and Architecture Students Use Lighting To Create Sustainable Design and Brand for City's Cultural District Sustainable Design and Brand for City's Cultural District Contact:
Contact:
Eric Sloss Eric Sloss 412-268-5765 412-268-5765 ecs@andrew.cmu.edu ecs@andrew.cmu.edu

PITTSBURGHStudents from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Architecture UrbanMellon PITTSBURGHStudents from Carnegie Laboratory and the School of Drama's Lighting School of Architecture Urban University's Design course have the Pittsburgh School of with Drama's Lighting Laboratory and the partnered Culturalcourse Trust to create a branded lighting plan Design have partnered with the Pittsburgh for the city's Cultural District. The project will Cultural Trust to create a branded lighting plan culminate with the unveiling of full-scale lighting for the city's Cultural District. The project will mock-ups of specific sites in the Cultural District culminate with the unveiling of full-scale lighting at First Night, the Cultural Trust's 25th mock-ups of specific sites in the Cultural anniversary celebration held on New Year's District Eve. at First Night, the Cultural Trust's 25th A series of urban-scale design proposals for anniversary celebration held New Year's Eve. improving connectivity to and on within downtown A series design proposals for also will of be urban-scale displayed at First Night. improving connectivity to and within downtown also be displayed at First working Night. on a real"The will students gain experience world project with process feedback from the "The students gain Limauro, experience working Mellon on a realclients," said Cindy a Carnegie dramaproject professor advising the project. "By world with process feedback from the partnering with the Cultural Trust they have an clients," said Cindy Limauro, a Carnegie Mellon opportunity to positively impact the community's drama professor advising the project. "By quality of life and to Cultural change the visual identity of the city." partnering with the Trust they have an opportunity to positively impact the community's The project includes intensive of the neighborhood with the goal of establishing a long-term plan quality of life and toan change the study visual identity of the city." for sustainable design as well as creating a vibrant visual identity. Students were charged with the task of branding theincludes area in such a way that visitors would recognize that they inof the Cultural District simply plan The project an intensive study of the neighborhood with the are goal establishing a long-term by the lighting around them. Under the direction of Limauro and Kelly Hutzell and Rami el Samahy, for sustainable design as well as creating a vibrant visual identity. Students were charged with the task of assistant teaching professors in the School of Architecture, students are exploring ways in which both branding the area in such a way that visitors would recognize that they are in the Cultural District simply lighting design and urban design can provide a memorable urban experience, one that serves to increase by the lighting around them. Under the direction of Limauro and Kelly Hutzell and Rami el Samahy, a sense of security, improve navigation, promote green practices, and encourage viewers to consider the assistant teaching professors in the School of Architecture, students are exploring ways in which both city as a living work of art. lighting design and urban design can provide a memorable urban experience, one that serves to increase a sense of security, improve navigation, promote green practices, and encourage viewers Trust to consider the Students will be exhibiting their work in phases at 901 Penn Ave. in conjunction with Cultural city as to a living work of art. events elicit public response through the use of participatory design processes. Upcoming presentations include a gallery crawl Oct. 2, when students will develop and present an overall conceptual design, and Students will students be exhibiting their work in phases at 901 in Penn Ave. in conjunction with Trust Dec. 5, when will present full lighting mock-ups preparation for installment at Cultural First Night. events to elicit public response through the use of participatory design processes. Upcoming presentations include a gallery crawl Oct. 2, when students will develop and present an effort overall conceptual design, and "This project represents precisely the kind of collaborative, multi-disciplinary that is required to make5, good design happen Our students have been energized byfor the interaction,at and I think it Dec. when students willdowntown. present full lighting mock-ups in preparation installment First Night. shows in their work," el Samahy said. "This project represents precisely the kind of collaborative, multi-disciplinary effort that is required to ### good design happen downtown. Our students have been energized by the interaction, and I think it make shows in their work," el Samahy said.

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Larimer Urban Lab

IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ELCC & THE KINGSLEY ASSOCIATION FALL 2008

A triangular stretch north of East Liberty, Larimer is cut off on two sides from the rest of the city by deep grade changes. The 2000 census lists the population at around 2,600 (down from almost 4,000 in 1990) and general community health indicators of income, education, and employment are far below city averages. The neighborhood more closely resembles Detroit than many of the nearby areas that appear to be experiencing an upswing after decades of decline: no significant commercial core exists, and vacant, overgrown lots are common, far above the citys (already high) average for vacant properties.

Despite these pressures, a strong community exists, and appears receptive to creative proposals to its situation. This studio examined ways in which farreaching visionary ideas, when married to the pragmatic realities of the day, can produce meaningful and relevant urban space. The studio of twenty four students was co-taught by Rami el Samahy and Jonathan Kline.

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Hazelwood Urban Lab

IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ELCC & THE KINGSLEY ASSOCIATION FALL 2007

Focusing on the ALMONO site, the location of a former steel factory on the banks of the Monangahela River, the studio explored the challenges and opportunities embedded in the reclaiming and reprogramming of this post-industrial urban terrain by reconnecting it to surrounding human and natural ecologies, exploring programmatic scenarios, and designing a piece of sustainable contemporary urbanism. This studio explored the meaning of public as it relates to the urban realm. It was defined broadly to encompass civic and cultural institutions, retail and office buildings, public space, and public infrastructure. Students were encouraged to test various program-

matic possibilities for the site, including but not limited to libraries, museums, post offices, shopping venues, parks, plazas, transit connections and depots. Students were instructed to consider the public design of buildings, space and infrastructure for its central role in creating character of place and function for the new neighborhood, as well as its capacity to establish links to the larger Hazelwood community. This studio of twelve students was taught by Rami el Samahy. The students completed comprehensive site analysis with the Hazelwood: Housing studio taught by Kelly Hutzell and the Hazelwood: Robot City studio taught by Jonathan Kline.

HAZELWOOD OO O O STUDIO
The Urban Laboratory: Community and Urban Design Studio 2007

Above Final project images by Natale Cozzolongo and David Eskanazi. Right Community meeting with Hazelwood residents.

Brighton Road Urban Lab

IN COLLABORATION WITH THE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE FALL 2006

As one of the North Sides main thoroughfares, Brighton Road offers a cross-section of Pittsburgh life, its past, and possibly, its future. It borders some of the citys wealthiest
Strategies for the Reuse of Vacant Urban Land: Herron Avenue & Brighton Road

As an area of study, the Brighton Road Corridor provided an opportunity to bring together a collection of residents and neighborhoods that usually operate in isolation of one another: California-Kirkbride, Allegheny West, Central North Side and, a little further afield, Manchester and Perry Hilltop South. These community groups, in conjunction with the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI), constituted the client group for the fall semester of 2006. The studio was divided into three phases: analysis, master planning, and urban design. Each phase was punctuated by a meeting and/or charrette with the client group. In the first phase, students learned to utilize the traditional tools of urban design to document and analyze the site, from demographic research, to traffic patterns. They also examined less conventional means of analysis, including mapping levels of noise, graffiti, trash, and vagrancy. Equally important, the students learned to translate their skills and Manchesabilities in order to communicate with the many participants at the community meetings, who played an active and vocal role in community participatory design process.

residents and some of its poorest: million dollar renovated Victorian mansions near crumbling structures home to rodents and junkies, with everyone and everything in between, including one of the areas largest community colleges and one of its largest cemeteries. In many ways the Brighton Road corridor is an extreme vision of Pittsburghs future: whereas the total population of the city has declined by half of its highest population, the five neighborhoods along Brighton Road have declined by almost three quarters. And while the average vacancy rate is about 12%,some of these neighborhoods see a rate of over 20%. Add to this the complexities of a variety of grids, topographies and programs. This confluence of conditions poses an interesting set of challenges for an urban studio, whereby many of the traditional remedies available to the urban designer (eg. consistent street edge, treelined boulevards, street furniture, etc) are either unrealistic or irrelevant.

The Urban Lab The Urban Land Institute & The Urban Redevelopment Authority

Right Phasing Diagrams, Nina Barbuto, Adam Hall, and Jenna Kappelt.

Brighton Road Studio Page 75

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12/12/2006 02:19 PM

CMU plans upgrades for Herron, Brighton corridors

Tuesday, December 12, 2006 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Brighton Road and Herron Avenue got bright outlooks yesterday when Carnegie Mellon University architecture students unveiled dream schemes for enlivening the corridors to public officials and neighborhood advocates Downtown. The designs -- which double as class work under the school's "urban lab" program -- resulted from months of brainstorming meetings with residents in both neighborhoods. To find solutions for a plague of vacant land, the Urban Redevelopment Authority initiated the project, with support from the Urban Land Institute. The plans include an indoor bazaar off Brighton that would draw regional visitors to the North Side, a cultural center blending Hill history and jazz across from the Martin Luther King Reading Room on Herron and stores, restaurants, houses, urban farms and other green community spaces along both corridors. Mayor Luke Ravenstahl pledged "to help make these drawings come to fruition," and although full fruition would be many years away, some ideas can be implemented as quickly as "within maybe six months," said city Planning Director Patrick Ford. Mr. Ford seized on public art as most immediately possible. "We're beginning a public-art agenda" in 2007 "and I have funding for a public art manager," he said. "We have the opportunity now to look at some of these critical areas" -- places where public art could help spur development. The Public Art Office is a new piece of the planning department, with $132,000 in funding over three years from the Heinz Endowments. The contribution was born of "the idea that public art will translate so clearly into public amenity improvements and economic development that the city will see a value in continuing the position itself" after three years, said Doug Root, spokesman for the Heinz Endowments. One thing the city is not hurting for is public art. "We have it stockpiled in garages and public works warehouses," said Mr. Ford. He vowed, to an audience of community advocates earlier in the day, "to work with every one of you to establish a public art plan." After public art, urban farms and other green spaces are likely the next least complicated endeavors. One heavily vacant swath off Brighton Road in California-Kirkbride could become an urban farm with greenhouses and housing for farmers who could sell produce to the grocery the students invented. Rebecca Davidson-Wagner, executive director of the Central Northside Neighborhood Council, said she could see such a symbiotic and sustainable plan working in the neighborhood. "But it will take a strong push" by an entity capable of making that happen, she said. The city's recent decision to buy back the liens it sold to the debt recovery firm Capital Assets will make some privately held properties easier to get, said Ms. Davidson-Wagner. The URA owns large tracts of land along Herron, but most of the land on Brighton is privately held. The Hill scenario included designs for signage at Herron and Bigelow, advertising in vertical artsy letters a neighborhood that is not announced now, with a driving range and batting cage area nearby. "Boundaries are very undefined now," said Luis Rico, associate dean of the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon. "We heard residents say that their neighborhood is not called the Hill anymore," but designations such as CrawfordRoberts and Terrace Village. "So maybe we can tell people, 'here it is, a place full of history.' "

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Thesis I (Thesis Preparation)

CO-TAUGHT WITH ART LUBETZ FALL 2009 & FALL 2010

Right Analytical site diagrams of Poblenou neighborhood in Barcelona, Raedon Knutsen, Fall 2009

In 2009 and 2010, I taught and coordinated the first semester of a year-long thesis course, readying fifth-year students for their final semester of independent design work. The thesis program at Carnegie Mellon is a newly revived phenomenon, that I, along with several others, actively encouraged. This new initiative is only six years old and 2009 year was the first year in which a full thesis prep course was offered, co-taught with Arthur Lubetz. We designed the course to ensure that students would be prepared to meet their final semester with a clear proposal, program, and site, as well as an understanding of their chosen typology and place. These last two

were twofold: first, to expose the students to a variety of potential thesis advisors, and, of equal importance, to demonstrate that there are many different (and at times conflicting) viewpoints on what constitutes a thesis. In addition to class time, the main vehicle of weekly interaction was via the web. Each student was required to post a visual and a written assignment each week to a blog, as well as posting comments on the blogs of at least two peers. The public aspect of the blog was designed to keep the students focused, and to generate discussion within the student body. The emphasis on both writing and drawing encouraged students to articulate a position both verbally and visually. The combination of writing and drawing is one that I require in most of my courses, as I believe that each mode asks the student to think through their work in a different manner.

Density Comparison

factors helped students frame their proposals within a larger architectural discourse on the nature of space and place. The semester commenced with several guest presentations by faculty who offered their impressions of what a thesis could be. The intentions behind these presentations

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thesis 48-497 preparation

course description
structure A combination of lecture, seminar and workshop, this required mini course is intended to serve as preparation for an architectural thesis. By the end of the course students will have established a specific site, located in a specific place, addressing a specific typology and program, all of which will be deployed to address a specific subject that posits a critical investigation into issues of contemporary architecture. The final product of the ten-week course will be a thesis proposal document that will be carried out in the spring semester. Through a rigorous examination of proposal, program, and place, students should enter their thesis semester well-positioned for their final design project. We recognize that not all architects derive their inspiration from the same muse, nor in the same order. As a result, this course is designed to allow students the freedom of choice in determining the timing and source of their inspiration. At the same time, it provides the structure to ensure that all students be adequately prepared should they fulfill the requirements. Each week, students will be required to submit a verbal assignment (usually a written response to an assigned reading) as well as a visual response to their ongoing thesis investigations. These submissions will be posted to each students blog. In the spirit on continuous, engaged dialogue, students will also be required to post at least two comments each week on the blogs of their peers. The instructors will also maintain a blog. It can be found at http://48-497samahy. blogspot.com. Please check this site periodically for reading assignments and further instructions. evaluation Grades will assessed through a combination of efforts based on the following criteria: 15% Class Participation 15% Weekly written assignments 15% Weekly visual assignments 25% Mid-review 30% Final Review late submission policy Assignments that are submitted after the deadline will be penalized one letter grade for every day the work is late. Work that is not submitted within four days will earn a failing grade. Extenuating circumstances should be addressed before the deadline with the instructors. absences All lectures are required. Two unexcused absences will result in a failing grade. Arriving late for a class will be considered an absence. Sleeping in class will result in being asked to leave the class and one absence. Checking e-mail, instant messaging, web browsing and inactivity in class will also result in expulsion for the day and an absence.

thesis 48-497 preparation

schedule
week 1 26 August week 2 1 September week 3 8 September week 4 15 September week 5 22 September week 6 29 September week 7 6 October week 8 13 October week 9 20 October week 10 27 October week 11 3 November introduction Introduction: Course Outline defining a thesis pt 1 Guest lectures and discussion defining a thesis pt 2 Guest lectures and discussion defining a thesis pt 3 Guest lectures and discussion place or program investigation Discussion groups mid-review Review with guest critics thesis prep document draft No class re-review Internal pin-up program or place investigation Discussion groups final review Review with guest critics thesis prep document final No class due Reading Response: How to Draw Up A Project due Concept Sketch due Position Paper 1.1 (1+3+9) due Concept Sketch due Reading Response: The Muses Are Not Amused due Concept Sketch due Reading Response: On Place or On Program due Analytical Diagrams due Position Paper 1.2 due All Work to Date , incl. Place or Program due Thesis Prep Document Draft due Position Paper 1.3 due Concept Sketch due Reading Response: On Program or On Place due Analytical Diagrams due Position Paper 2.0 due All work to date, incl. Program and Place due Final Thesis Prep Document Draft

Fall 2009 Thesis Prep 48-497 instructor Art Lubetz art@lubetz.com instructor Rami el Samahy samahy@cmu.edu

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Your final thesis preparation document must include all of the following.

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Thursday, November 4, 2010 Readings Reading 03: On Program Reading 02: On Site Reading 01: How to Draw A Project Reading 00: Syllabus Members Abby Branch Adam Aviles Adam Himes Alex Legrady Alise Kuwahara Arlie Schrantz Ben Lehrer Lectures Lecture 01: Omer Akin, Paradigms and Methods of Research in Architecture Bizhou Wang Carl Covington Cat Adams Chris Bridgman Conor Doyle Dan Hudock Daniel Zhang Doug Farrell Drew Butchko Drew Lightfoot Ellen Garrett Eric Smith Filip Agren Giacamo Tinari Ginie Kwan I-Shan Tam Ingrid Kong Ishita Gaur JD Haskell Judy Podraza Julia Martini Justin Rosenberry Kaitlin Miciunas Karen Branick
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position

abstract (position paper 1) This piece should serve as a concise summary of your proposal. Briefly define the issue and research questions. Also, identify the program and the site. Proposal (position paper 2) Expand your abstract, as needed, to identify the ways in which your project addresses large questions relating to the questions you wish to pursue.

surface areas. You should also create a series of analysis drawings including adjacency diagrams as well as an understanding of the needs of the programmatic pieces as they relate to a variety of relevant issues (e.g. sound, light, service, pollution etc.). typological investigation (program 2) Collect and analyze a variety of historical and contemporary precedents as they relate to your topic. Identify their specific relevance to your topic. Cast a wide net, and interact with the projects (i.e. do not merely document with existing photographs and drawings, but create diagrams that speak to your understanding of their relevance to your research interests).

Thesis Document Due

Next Thursday (11 November) your thesis document submission is due. It must serve as a record of all your efforts to date, but at the same time be presented as a coherent narrative. It must include the following: 1. POSITION A. A thesis abstract. This should be simple, clear and addressing an architectural question. B. A proposal. Expand upon your first statement 2. METHOD A. Describe your approach (visually/verbally), with a schedule that take you through final presentation B. An annotated bibliography 3. PLACE (OR PROGRAM) A. Deep, and thorough analysis of place or program; B. Some notion of the other 4. ETC A. Show all your research that does not appear elsewhere (you have learned a great deal about your subject) B. Show all your process work and make somethings You must submit your document: 1. At the Solar D house 2. By 6 pm on Thursday 11 November 3. Two printed and bound copies (at least stapled or clasped together) 4. One digital copy (via downloadable link, jump drive, dvd -- DO NOT EMAIL) This document will serve as the basis for determining your successful completion of this course, and your ability to continue to the thesis studio in the spring semester.

place

context (place 1) What is it about this place that makes it this place and no other? Engage with the history and culture of the larger region. Understand the discussions around the topic that you are choosing to address. Through text, diagrams, and drawing, reveal your understanding of the issues that you deem relevant to your project. site (place 2) With the understanding that this may change when you actually see your site, and with the acknowledgement that your access to proper site data may be limited, begin to examine site possibilities. Come to class with at least three specific proposed sites. This should joined with a description of what type of site you seek, and why you seek it. Eventually (by the final proposal), this section must include site documentation and analysis of your site (or sites).

method

methodology (method 1) Consider this as an explanation of your game plan, or plan of attack, for next semester. While your instructors have specific ideas as to what you should do, we are interested in seeing what you think is an appropriate plan. This should include the types of research you plan to conduct before your thesis semester begins. It should also include a proposed schedule of the entire spring semester. For the purposes of this preliminary schedule assume that your mid-review will be in mid-March and your final review is the first week of May. bibliography (method 2) Cite all your sources as you collect them, as well as any and all reading you have come across that has influenced your thinking. it is incumbent upon you to have completed all of the above tasks to a satisfactory level. in order to begin thesis in the spring.

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Draft documents were due 3 October Your draft documents should include: 1. Revised position statement 2. Revised methodology 3. Revised "make something" 4. An annotated bibliography, to include things read to date, as well as things you intend to read (please differentiate between the two), grouped by topic or theme. It is recommended that you post these to your blog, so a public record exists, and so that your peers might comment. (posted a week after the event)
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program (program 1) In prose, establish an argument for the program you choose. Eventually, you should create a specific list of program items, with attendant

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Mid-Presentation Requirements
For next week we are asking you to have the following: 1. Refine your position statement. If the 1+3+9 is useful, you may continue to use it; if not, don't. 2. Refine your methodology Take another pass at the methodology you wrote/drew/laid out for this week. Reflect on what was said during your discussions with Art and me. 3. Make something. Anything, use this design investigation as an opportunity to explore an aspect of your project. This can be a model, a drawing, a graphic, a movie, etc. Think carefully about the content, but also the craft of the artifact. This is purposefully open-ended and intended to provide an opportunity for some reflection about the questions you are asking in your thesis. 4. Feel free to bring any additional supporting documentation you might have and think is relevant and want us to discuss

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Thursday, August 26, 2010

First Readings, First Assignments

Two documents as you get started. The first is from Pablo Garcia's syllabus for Thesis Prep two years ago: What Isnt a Thesis? (It's sometimes easier to define what something isnt.) An Architecture thesis is not: ... A Written Paper. The Architecture Thesis is a project executed in analog or digital drawings, models, constructions, diagrams, with all the accompanying process work. ... A Device. You cannot say My thesis is about light. Light is a device through which architecture is manifest and perceived. It is not a thesis. ... A Question: You cannot ask Why is architecture so cool? ... An Announcement: I will use architectural concrete in a new way ... Vague Statements: Modernism is bad

(posted weeks after the event, but thought it worthwhile to post it nonetheless)
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... A Limited Subject: Housing Libraries Hospitals ... A List: Light, Space, Form, Structure, Environment, and Architecture

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... An Autobiography: A House for an Architecture Thesis Students Parents So whats left? A THESIS IS A POSITION. It is a claim or a speculation you make about architecture and its relationship to the world. You should be able to say: Architecture is _____, Architecture can ______ or What if Architecture ______. This is your chance to do more than demonstrate your accumulated skillsyou are positing a direction for architecture, speculating on an aspect of the discipline, taking a stand on an architectural issue.

Method
Last week, Omer asked each of you to comment on a peer's thesis statement with the following questions: 1) What was being proposed? 2) Why was it being proposed? 3) Can it be done in two semesters? And how? This week, you are being asked to elucidate on the how. In a format of your choosing (text, drawing, graphic, etc, etc, etc), describe your plan of attack for the next two semesters. What are the steps required in the next eight months that will allow you to complete the project to (your and our) satisfaction? How will you test your questions? What is your schedule? Where will you begin? Where will you end? We know that this will all change as you move forward, in all likelihood several times. This assignment is intended to prod you to think systematically about the project, and to devise ways to begin.
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The second piece was sent to me by Luis Carranza, a good friend and mentor who teaches at RWU (actually, we stole the idea of this blog, and many other good ideas, from him). Written by Jose Luis Mateo of MAP, the article is entitled "How to Draw Up A Project." It's a good read, intended to provoke. I highly recommend that you read it, because responding to it is part of your first graded assignment. Let this piece provoke you into a verbal response an essay that begins, "Architecture is ______ ." Let it also inspire you to make your first visual piece as well. As we have mentioned this must be a creative engagement with a visual medium that expresses something that is relevant to your thoughts thus far on architecture: theory, practice education or otherwise. Please post your written and visual responses to your blog by noon 31 August.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Second Assignment
1 + 3 + 9 = (Position Paper v.1.1) The rules of the game are fairly straightforward: ~ 1 (one line that serves as your thesis statement) + 3 (three sentences that expand upon -- without repeating -- the original line) + 9 (sentences that flesh out the idea). All three parts should build one argument, but should not repeat (or be merely restatements of the same thing). It may help to think of the first part as your title, the second as the subtitle, and the third as an executive summary, or brief description you might find on the back of a book. This assignment is intended to provide you with a clear structure that should encourage you to articulate clearly your thoughts on thesis thus far. It is merely the first pass through this exercise; we expect that you will get better at it each time you are asked to do it.
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Beginnings
This is a public document intended to help you organize and share your thoughts about thesis as you move forward. The public aspect helps keep all of us on our toes, but should also help foster dialogue and discussion, both virtual and physical. Your input is not optional; it is a mandatory part of the way in which you will participate in your education. You are required to post to your own blog, as well as comment on at least two of your peer's blogs each week. We will be reading (and grading) both your blogs and your comments. So set up a thesis-specific blog with the following nomenclature: archthesis2011_yourlastname Send us the url when you are up so we can link to it.

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THESIS PREPARATION
TH ESIS PREP COURSE FOR C ARNEGIE MELLON ARC HITEC TURE STUDENTS.
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Regarding your Thesis Statement

I wrote this to one particular student, but in fact it applies to almost all of you. 1. Clearly articulate an argument that is worhwhile and meanigful architectural endeavor. 2. Make your first sentence so clear I don't have to read the rest of it. Tell us what you intend to do, and do it in a clear, forceful and confident method (no "can," or "might"). 3. Avoid flowery words and vague descriptions. Be economical with your words: make every one count. 4. Remember that your audience is larger than your two instructors; imagine that you are trying to make this clear to other (architects) who have not followed your trajectory and are just crossing paths with your work for the first time.
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On Program: Praxis:ReProgramming READ FOR 22 SEP (IF YOU ARE BEGINNING WITH PROGRAM) On Site: How To Define An Urban Site READ FOR 22 SEP (IF YOU ARE BEGINNING WITH PLACE) On Architecture: The Muses Are Not Amused READ FOR 15 SEP On Thesis: How To Draw Up A Project READ FOR 1 SEP

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2009 (6) This last analysis is a series of sections cut through Anne's site (a long street in Doha): November (1) Regarding your Thesis Statement September (3) August (2)

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Sample of Site Analysis

Below are examples of student work from previous years. These ought to give you some idea of what is expected of you. The first group are from Anne Riggs (class of 2009):

Samples of Program Analysis

Below are some of the types of analyses that you can (and should) consider. From a conceptual constellation mapping to an adjacency
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consider. From a conceptual constellation mapping to an adjacency diagram:

(By the way, all of the above is the work of Jeff Bourke, class of 2008)

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1 + 3 + 9 = (Position Paper v.1.1)

From a program schedule with associated surface areas, to a conceptual model with program articulated:

The rules of the game are fairly straightforward:

1 (one line that serves as your thesis statement) + 3 (three sentences that expand upon -- without repeating -- the original line) + 9 (sentences that flesh out the idea).

All three parts should build one argument, but should not repeat (or be merely restatements of the same thing). It may help to think of the first part as your title, the second as the subtitle, and the third as an executive summary, or brief description you might find on the back of a book. This assignment (also "borrowed" from Luis Carranza) is intended to provide you with a clear structure that should encourage you to articulate clearly your thoughts on thesis thus far. It is merely the first
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read, intended to provoke. I highly recommend that you read it, because responding to it is your first graded assignment. Let this piece provoke you into a verbal response, but also let it inspire you to create your first visual piece as well.

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What is a thesis?
Two documents as you get started. The first is from Pablo Garcia's syllabus for Thesis Prep last year:

Getting Started
This is a public document intended to help you organize and share your thoughts about thesis as you move forward. The public aspect helps keep all of us on our toes, but should also help foster dialogue and discussion, both virtual and physical.

What Isnt a Thesis? (It's sometimes easier to define what something isnt.)

An Architecture thesis is not:

Your input is not optional; it is a mandatory part of the way in which

- A Written Paper. The Architecture Thesis is a project executed in analog or digital drawings, models, constructions, diagrams, with all the accompanying process work.

you will participate in your education. You are required to post to your own blog, as well as comment on at least two of your peers each week. We will be reading (and grading) both your blogs and your comments. So set up a thesis prep-specific blog: 48-497yourlastname.... send us the url when you are up so we can link to it.

- A Device. You cannot say My thesis is about light. Light is a device through which architecture is manifest and perceived. It is not a thesis.

- A Question: You cannot ask Why is architecture so cool?

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So whats left? A THESIS IS A POSITION. It is a claim or a speculation you make about architecture and its relationship to the world. You should be able to say: Architecture is _____, Architecture can ______ or What if Architecture ______. This is your chance to do more than demonstrate your accumulated skillsyou are positing a direction for architecture, speculating on an aspect of the discipline, taking a stand on an architectural issue.

The second piece was sent to me by Luis Carranza, a good friend and mentor who teaches at RWU (actually, we stole the idea of this blog, and many other good ideas, from him). Written by Jose Luis Mateo of MAP, the article is entitled "How to Draw Up A Project." It's a good read, intended to provoke. I highly recommend that you read it,
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The typical model for a meidevil library reveals both the political system at play, as well as the epistemelogical devices pervasive at the time. The building places each hermetic individual scholar in isolation within a study carell containing what was seen as an entire cosmology at the time. The ten or so books remained always within reach. The only view was to a pastoral nature, a provisional, idealized solitude for the reader who happened to always be male, likely aristocratic, and certainly a member of a monastery. Transcribing copies of th etexts was seens as the proper technique for absorbing knowledge, never socially constructed through diiscussion, silence was the norm.

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The project of the Enlightenment brought renewed importance to the library, and transformed its basic typological characteritics. All information was seen to fall under the omnipotent reign of rationality. Even if this information extends infinitely in both directions, it could be rationally order in sequence. The individual user, was placed in linear series with his couterparts as the rigid strictures of a unified rational truth was delivered to them from the righteous shelves beyond. This marked th ebeginning of a group surveillance. No one could secretly stray from the canon without explicitly falling out of line.

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NARRATIVE IN ARCHITECTURE
Lacing the city with bus stops, the Pittsburgh Port Authority has not been mindful in their analysis of what a bus stop means for Pittsburgh. The act of waiting for a bus has become an urban activity for Pittsburgh crowds. Controlled by a collective whim, the mentality of these flash groups range from lively gatherings areas to desolate single file lines of pedestrians. Vulnerability of the immobile pedestrian attracts some of the areas highest crime rates. Stagnant, congested and theft prone is no way to use the minimal amounts of desirable public space left in the city. These images display one course of thought for the further development of my analysis. The product of which would relate multiple categories of city dweller based upon procession through an urban space. This would calculate distance meandered by computing the most efficient rout through the urban space. After having met with Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Alyosha Efros, I have decided although this would be an interesting process for mapping it is not in direct relation to the problem at hand, congestion caused by pedestrian aggregation at bus stops.

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Timescape Timescape
1890
Richardsons small town American variations agglomerate together several formal devices found in other types. Anticipating the massing of functionalist modernism, each uses is seperated into its own logical part. The gallery, a panopticon; the stacks, a series remniscient of a Boulee miniature; while the reading room collects democratic participants in a single hall ripe for interaction. Further, the building establishes a strong relationship to the surrounding landscape, retreating the urban events of the street front. Idealic nature is established as the setting for American intellection, morality, and politics.

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Another product of the Enlightenment, the pacopticon was first mobilized as a diagram for disciplinary control in Banthems prison designs. Yet, mobilized by Ledoux for a theater or in the diagrams of the British museum reading room or Asplunds Stolkholm library, the control can take an even more insidious tone. The individual is placed simultaneously within a complete, yet sublime, total system of information, while also left to the perils of complete surveillance by the central eye of the librarians desk. Information is distorted an power exerted.

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Above Analytical diagrams describing the evolution of the library typologology, Matthew Huber, Fall 2010. Below Explorations of program and site, Drew Lightfoot, Fall 2010. Right Giacomo Tinaris mid-review investigations, Fall 2010.

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CITY AND SEQUENCE

Through video recording of downtown Pittsburgh, I will conduct a study of the bus stops and their effective pedestrian surface tension. This data will be gathered through an understanding of the location and gradient boundary conditions. I expect the data to change as bus stops fluctuate in size.
I have also begun to investigate the possibility of reintroducing the historic Pittsburgh tram lines. A reinstatement would allow the streets to be open, walkable and relinquished from the gentrification currently imposed by Pittsburghs secular bus routes which effectively deny the riders an opportunity for integration into the downtown fabric

changing the program of each unit to provide common areas, storefronts, as well as work units, the organization is broken up

As a conceptual model of my intervention, I see the building as a reflection of a technological system, a symbiotic relationship between individual spaces and the building form. The idea is that each space can change form, become longer or more flat, per the function of use within each space. I am proposing that all types of people can do research in these spaces, writers, actors, artists, or scientists. This building will perform as a whole, as one space changes its form, the buildings structure and systems are able to change along with the space itself.

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kinetic change to architecture

I see the internet as an infinite plane of liquid information punctured by moments of utilization.

position

collective surface area depends on number of units 1 unit = 5000 cubic ft volume 1 unit = 375 sq ft floor area interaction units (places for residents to interact) shall vary in size from intimate 200 sq ft to 1000 sq ft gathering spaces

Courses Taught at Carnegie Mellon Doha

Semester Abroad in Doha

CO-LEAD WITH KELLY HUTZELL SPRING 20082012

Each spring, Associate Teaching Professor Kelly Hutzell and I bring a group of upper-level architecture students from Pittsburgh to Doha, where they enroll in our design studio and spend the semester taking courses and living in Qatar. I teach introductory studios and seminars to non-majors, many of whom are opting to receive a minor in architecture, a program that I have also developed in conjunction with Kelly Hutzell. For the architecture students who join us each spring, it is hard to imagine an environment more different from Pittsburgh than Doha. When we began the semester abroad program in 2008, both cities had

roughly the same population. Seven years later, Doha is twice the size of Pittsburgh. Where a construction crane is a noteworthy rarity in Pittsburgh, they have become ubiquitous in Doha. In Pittsburgh, the design challenges center around its status as a post-industrial city with exemplary urban fabric; in Doha a relentless pace of change that has obliterated most of its past presents its own difficulties. For all these reasons, it is an eye-opening laboratory for architecture students

Left Group photo of study abroad group at the Singing Sand Dunes, Qatar, Spring 2008.

Doha Studio Spring 2012

Kelly Hutzell and Rami el Samahy, Faculty

Doha Studio Spring 2012

Kelly Hutzell and Rami el Samahy, Faculty

Application Form
Qatar is a nation in the midst of immense change. Its capital, Doha, is quickly becoming a world-class city, choosing to distinguish itself in areas of education, culture and sports. Most of the worlds best known architecture firms are engaged in projects in the city, including OMA, Foster & Partners, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Arata Isozaki, David Adjaye, and I.M. Pei. While this effort is undoubtedly impressive, how will this rapid change affect its culture and its environment? This study abroad program, open to all fourth year architecture students, will explore and examine these challenges. The program is based in Doha, at Carnegie Mellon Universitys campus in Qatar (CMUQ). As part of this semester-long academic program, students will have the opportunity to: be enrolled as a fourth year in a fourth year studio (48-405)*; be enrolled as a third year in Studio X (48-505); be enrolled in the corequisite Middle Eastern Cities (48-579) course; choose from elective courses offered by Carnegie Mellon Qatar and other universities in Education City (including Georgetown, Virginia Commonwealth, Northwestern & Texas A&M); visit architecture offices and tour construction sites; and take advantage of regional travel; possible 2012 trips include: Abu Dhabi and Dubai, U.A.E., Muscat, Oman, Cairo, Egypt, and Istanbul, Turkey. This opportunity is open to next years fourth year students in good academic standing. Students will be responsible for paying for tuition and housing on campus. In addition, students are responsible for travel costs associated with the program. Students remain eligible for Carnegie Mellon financial aid and may be chosen to work as Teaching Assistants for architecture and urban design electives offered at CMUQ (dependent on academic standing). If you are interested in this program, please attend an information session on Tuesday, 4 October at 4:30pm in the Solar House or contact Kelly Hutzell at kellyh@andrew.cmu.edu.
*It is intended that successful completion of this studio results in credit for course 48-405. As with all study abroad studios,this assessment will be made on an individual project basis by School of Architecture faculty in fall 2012.

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All about Qatar Doha Studio Doha Studio Spring Spring 2010 2012
Kelly Hutzell Kelly Hutzell and and Rami Rami el el Samahy, Samahy,Faculty Faculty

All about Qatar Spring 2012 2010 Doha Studio Spring

Kelly Hutzell Hutzell and and Rami Ramiel elSamahy, Samahy,Faculty Faculty Kelly

Qatar is a small body of land, slightly smaller than the state of Connecticut, that projects like a thumb out from the Arabian Peninsula into the Persian Gulf. With the third largest reserves of natural gas and the highest GDP in the world, Qatar is now witnessing a crucial phase in its history. The population of the county has surged and now numbers around 1.5 million, with native Qataris numbering less than a fifth of the total population. As its capital and economic center, the city of Doha represents an exemplary case of a growing city. While essential infrastructure is needed to export gas globally, and investments in water, power, roadways, airports and hospitals are a necessity, these efforts are complemented by a strong focus on education, sports, and culture. Billed as the worlds first multi-versity, Education City is a collection of top rated academic and research institutions, including Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Georgetown, Northwestern, Texas A&M, Virginia Commonwealth University and the Faculty of Islamic Sciences. Carnegie Mellon Qatar (CMUQ) is located in a brand new building on the Education City campus. Students from Qatar and thirty different countries attend CMUQ, where all courses are taught in English. In addition to the individual university buildings, the campus also includes dormitories, cafeterias and cafes, and athletic facilities including a gym, exercise rooms and a pool, as well as various sports fields used by intramural teams. Time Zone GMT +3 The change from Eastern Standard Time (EST) is +7 hours in summer and +8 hours in winter. Language While the official language of the country is Arabic, the population of the city is so diverse that English is the universally shared language. That said, learning a bit of Arabic is encouraged (e.g. please, thank you, peace be upon you), and always brings a smile from the locals. Visa You will need to provide a scan of your passport to Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh, so that they can obtain Qatar visa for you. You must print out this visa and bring it with you when you travel (keep it with your passport). You should keep this visa with you at all times. Currency The monetary unit is the Qatari riyal (abbreviated QAR or QR). One Qatari riyal = 3.64 U.S. dollars. A general rule of thumb is to divide the QR by 3, in order to be pleasantly surprised that the price in US dollars is slightly less than that. Paper bills come in denominations of 1,5,10,50,100 and 500 riyals. Numbers are printed in Arabic on one side, and English on the other. The riyal is divided into 100 Durhams and there are coins for 25 and 50 Durhams, but they are fairly uncommon, and stores often round up or round down. ATMs are abundant throughout the city, and locations are offered on campus. Most ATMs will accept US banking cards and you can withdraw QR which will be debited from your US checking account. Your US bank may charge you for the use of ATMs abroad. You should notify your US bank before departing to tell them that you will be residing in Qatar and traveling throughout the region.

Cost of living Generally, the average cost of living for a college student in Qatar is cheaper than that in the US. Past students studying abroad in Qatar have lived on $80-100/week, or 300 QR. Local food is relatively cheap, while western fast food and restaurants (McDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Applebees, TGI Fridays) are generally the same price as in the US. Expensive restaurants are found at the many large-scale international hotels. Clothes and drugstore items can be cheap or expensive, and are about the same price as they would be within the US, with many brand stores to choose from (Gap, H&M, Body Shop, Boots). Tuition/Financial Aid Tuition is the same as that of Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh. Financial aid is applicable across both campuses. You should notify your financial aid officer about your semester abroad in Qatar as soon as possible to ensure that your financial aid is in good standing prior to your departure. Housing Housing will most likely be provided in the dormitories on campus. The cost for oncampus housing is 7000 QR per semester. There is also a 2000 QR refundable damage deposit. The accommodations are fully furnished, with kitchens, living room and bathroom. Some have laundry facilities in the apartment; others have machines available on each floor. The apartments are either two or three bedrooms with up to two people in each room. There is a chance that the dormitories will be full and that you will be housed in a gated community off campus. These villas/apartments will also be fully furnished.

Electricity The electrical current in Qatar is 220v and the electrical prong configuration is quite different (three rectangular prongs in a triangle). Therefore, you will want to check that any appliances that you bring can be used at 220v. Inexpensive converter plugs can be found throughout Doha at any grocery store. Mail You can have your first class mail forwarded to Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh and it will be sent by DHL to Qatar, free of charge, on a regular schedule. Return mail goes from CMUQ to CMU on Sundays, again by DHL, and then is dropped in the mail in Pittsburgh. You should bring a booklet or two of US postal stamps with you. The policy on frequency of shipments and sending packages is currently being revisited, and will be discussed with you upon your arrival. Any mail that you get will be delivered to the mailroom at Carnegie Mellon Qatar. Mail can be sent to you in Qatar (and can be forwarded to you) at this Pittsburgh address: <YOUR NAME HERE> 5032 Forbes Ave. # SMC1070 Pittsburgh, PA 15289 Certain items cannot be shipped into Qatar. These include: pork products, pornographic material or religious material intended for distribution. You should also avoid sending any liquids (shampoos, liquid soap, etc). Boxes are often searched at Qatar customs, and items may be confiscated.

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Kelly Hutzell Hutzell and and Rami Rami el el Samahy, Samahy, Faculty Faculty Kelly

KellyHutzell Hutzelland andRami Ramiel elSamahy, Samahy,Faculty Faculty Kelly

All about Qatar 2010 Doha Studio Spring 2012

TA Salary As our students, you will also serve as Teaching Assistants for the architectural electives that we teach to the Carnegie Mellon Qatar students (Architecture for NonMajors I & II, Contemporary Middle Eastern Cities, Urban Design Methods). As a TA you will work 20 hours a week and earn $12/ hour. Your pay can be directly deposited to your US bank account. Trips Each spring semester, we schedule a few trips together to explore the region. In past years, we have traveled as a group to Dubai; Muscat, Oman; and Cairo, Egypt over long weekends. While a trip to Dubai is a must, we are open to traveling to other areas that you may want to visit. You are responsible for any regional trip expenses. While regional airfare can be a bit more expensive than airfare within the US, hotel accommodations and food are typically cheaper. We will work together to establish a trip schedule at the beginning of the semester. Weekends The weekend days are Friday and Saturday, with Sunday through Thursday being the school week. This takes some getting used to, and you will forever be saying my Tuesday/Thursday class, when you really mean my Monday/Wednesday class The Qatar semester calendar differs from the Pittsburgh calendar (all holidays and the spring break week are different). The Qatar spring semester calendar is available on the CMUQ website. Alcohol The legal drinking age is 21 years of age. As a non-resident, you are not permitted to buy any take-away alcohol. You also may not bring alcohol into the country. Your bags will be scanned upon entering the Doha airport and all alcohol will be confiscated. Alcoholic drinks may only be bought at large scale international hotels (Ramada, Marriott, Le Cigale, Four Seasons, the W Hotel) at a premium price. Worship There are Protestant, Catholic and other churches in and around Doha. There are also many mosques, and you will often hear the Islamic call to prayer throughout the day, which is similar to hearing church bells on a Sunday morning. Weather Temperature is calibrated in Celsius. Temperatures in January average from around 21 degrees Celsius (70F) in the daytime to 13 degrees Celsius (55F) at night. Temperatures in May average around 38 degrees Celsius (100F) in the daytime and 25 degrees Celsius (77F) at night. Lucky for you, you will leave at the beginning of May. What to bring: clothes During the winter months (November to March) it can get cool, down to the 50s at night, and high 60s during the days. You will want to have a light jacket, a hat and a scarf. Buildings and residences are not typically heated; therefore it is a good idea to take a few sweaters, sweatshirts, warm socks, boots, etc. There is not much rain, and usually it only lasts a short while.

Medical Your Carnegie Mellon health insurance provider has worked out agreements with several of the area medical entities. If you have a medical emergency, you can walk in and be seen almost immediately at any hospital, after filling out a patient registration form. If you are sick or need medical attention, you should call Rami and Kelly for assistance. If you have an ongoing medical condition, please alert Rami and Kelly well before departure. You should request a copy of your medical records to bring with you. Plan to bring any necessary prescriptions with you. You must have a physical and fill out required medical forms prior to going to Qatar. This includes having a blood test (for HIV) and a chest x-ray (for TB) as part of your visa application. Carnegie Mellon Qatar will email you the necessary paperwork that must be completed and turned in via email. All health information will be kept strictly confidential. Driving If you have a US drivers license, we advise you to get an international driving license so that you can drive in Qatar, even if you do not currently plan to do so. If you are an AAA member, you can do this at any AAA office for a small fee. Because the city is sprawling, a few of you may want to pool your money together to rent a monthly car. A monthly cost for a car is around 3500 QR/month ($1000 US dollars). CMUQ will be able to assist you with setting up your agreement with a car rental agency. A gallon of gas costs less than 4 QR ($1 US dollar).

Because there are many roundabouts, many cars on the roads, and many different people from all over the world in Doha, driving takes some getting used to and some patience. Some roads and intersections are equipped with cameras and take pictures of cars that run red lights or travel above the speed limit. If you are caught, the fine is large, and you may not know you have a violation until you try to leave the country. You will not be allowed to leave until the fine in paid. Do not drink and drive. If you are caught driving while intoxicated, you may face deportation from the country. Cabs are plentiful and cheap. That said, they are not readily available throughout all areas of the city, and cab drivers are often newer to the country and city than you are. Do not count of the prevalence or promptness of cab drivers, say, in NYC, or you will be disappointed. That said, they are more reliable than in Pittsburgh. Buses can be found throughout the city and are also cheap. While typically used by mostly-male laborers, this is changing and all kinds of people are encouraged to ride the buses via marketing campaigns. A free Education City shuttle bus runs frequently between campus buildings and to the Education City housing community off campus. Cell Phones You should plan to buy a cheap local cell phone in Doha. Bring your US phone along for emergency back up while traveling, etc. If your US phone is tri-band it should work aborad, though roaming charges will not be cheap.

All about Qatar 2010 Doha Studio Spring 2012

Kelly Hutzell Hutzell and and Rami Rami el el Samahy, Samahy, Faculty Faculty Kelly

It is comfortable throughout the spring and starts to get hot and humid at the end of April. Natural fibers (cotton, linen, and sandals) are great during the heat. Every building is air conditioned, and most are quite cool, including CMUQ. Many employees and students have learned to keep a jacket or sweater with them at school. Qatar in general is a conservative country. Local Qatari men and women wear traditional dress that covers their heads and necks, and robes that cover their wrists and ankles. Many women from the region wear headscarves. While it is not necessary for women to cover their heads, women (and men) should politely wear shirts that cover their shoulders and wear skirts and shorts at or below the knees. Swimsuits can be worn at pools, and on the beaches. What to bring: architecture supplies There is an artist/architectural/bookstore/ computer supply store in Doha called Al Jarir. You will get to know it well. You can get almost anything there, but a few items are hard to come by. Model supplies such as styrene, bass and balsa wood are hit or miss. We have an abundant supply of materials for the Architecture for Non-Majors courses that can be shared. These include large cutting mats, T-squares, hot glue guns, Xactos and Olfa knives. In addition, we usually have an ample supply of chipboard and trace.

You are advised to bring pencils, pens and markers, drafting tape and glue, your own metric scale (studio will be taught in metric), a small tape measure (for help with English to metric conversions), a sketchbook, and any other items that are near and dear to you (books, thesis preparatory work, etc). Studio space You will have a studio space that is much like a typical office environment (e.g. carpet, lower desks, typical chairs). You will be given a desk, a chair, a cabinet, and a desktop computer for your use during the semester. These computers are PCs and are not nearly as powerful as those in the School of Architecture with limited programs (Rhino, AutoCAD, Adobe Suite 4). You are advised to bring your own laptop with your own programs. If you dont have a laptop, you may want to ask for an advance Christmas, birthday or graduation gift. Having your own powerful laptop is almost a neccesity. Our studio space will also have a laser printer and a plotter. We do not have pin up boards, but rather white boards, that can be used for pin-up purposes with magnets. Bring some magnets with you, as they are hard to find in Doha.

Above Group photo of study abroad group, Spring 2009 in Jean Nouvels Doha Tower.

Thesis in Doha
CO-TAUGHT WITH KELLY HUTZELL SPRING 2008, 2009 & 2010

From 2008 to 2010 we brought fifth-year students with us to complete their thesis projects in Qatar. These students were free to craft their own proposals, the only two provisos being that they chose a program with a public nature, and that the project be located in and relevant to Qatar. Projects included the design of a contemporary Qatari tent; a maritime museum; a wedding hall; a national wildlife park and center; temporary housing for the migrant laborers constructing the city; a diabetes center; a public school; and a shopping center that interwove a luxury and a budget mall. All of these pertain to specific conditions of contemporary Qatar, and all were encouraged to speak to their context without a romanticized mimicry of a past that may never have existed. Also, the students work constitutes new design investigations and primary research on topics that have not yet been fully examined in this new and rapidly growing city. It should be noted that many of the projects were conducted with input from local organizations, including the Qatar Museums Authority and the Urban Planning and Development Authority. In addition, many of our graduates were able to translate their experience into employment in the region or on projects in the region.
Left Final thesis reviews Spring 2009, 2010.

2009 48-505 Thesis Abroad in Qatar Lauren Connell* R/A Hotel; Doha, Qatar Blake Lam* Museum of the Sea with involvement from Qatar Museums Authority Kristina Ricco* The Contemporary Qatari Tent Anne Riggs Walkable Doha Xianghua Wu Mall: Redux 2008 48-505 Thesis Abroad in Qatar Jeffrey Bourke* Design Zone Community Center Stephanie Chu Wedding Hall with direction from the Qatar Urban Planning and Development Authority Nicole Debolski* Establishing Connections in Doha: Integrating Mobile Architecture William Knapp Ecological Park for Al Thakhira with the Urban Planning & Development Authority Michelle Lopez* Designing for Education City: Maintaining the Formal, Encouraging the Informal Francisco Restrepo* Migrant Worker Condition: Temporary Social Housing *SoA students employed in the Middle East or working on Middle East projects following graduation

2010 48-505 Thesis Abroad in Qatar Christopher Gallot* Diabetes Center for Doha Spencer Gregson* A New Independent School Ubolsiri Racharaks Qatari Housing Typologies

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48-505 Thesis in Doha Syllabus

Spring 2010 Studio X 48-505 Rami el Samahy & Kelly Hutzell

48-505 Thesis in Doha Schedule

Week 01 Introduction to the Studio
10 Jan Introduction to Doha 12 Jan Introduction to Course 15 Jan Site & Sight Exploration

Week 02Introduction to the City

17 Jan Site & Sight Exploration 19 Jan Reading #1 21 Jan Pin-Up

Overview
This required fifth-year final semester design studio, held abroad in Doha, Qatar, focuses on an individual independent student project of each students choosing begun in the fall term and developed in the spring with the advice and guidance of the instructors.

Grading Criteria
Readings/Class Participation Pin-ups Midterm Review Interim Final Review Final Review Final Book 10% 20% 20% 10% 30% 10%

Week 03 Program & Site

24 Jan Independent work 26 Jan Reading #2 28 Jan Independent work

Week 04 Conceptual Models

31 Jan Pin-Up 02 Feb Reading #3 04 Feb Trip

Week 05 Conceptual Drawing

07 Feb Trip 09 Jan Reading #4 11 Feb Desk Crits

Content
This studio encourages critical inquiry and examination of urbanity including physical, social, economic and historical processes that scribe the urban condition. Students propose their own project and site within Qatar, allowing for shared studio site analysis. The projects should consist of a coherent rationale at the broader urban design scale, as well as fine-grain architectural design. Solutions are meant to be both innovative and realistic in terms of building and zoning regulations and the logic of the real estate market. The studio goals include comprehensiveness of design as it applies to a specific research topic, as well as design excellence.

Course Requirements
The course is structured in such a way to allow students to contribute toward a studio publication at the completion of the semester, and is organized as follows: I. Abstract/Executive Summary II. Table of Contents III. Introduction Definition of problem & research questions Relationship of research to design Literature review Methodology Relevance & significance Scope & limitations Background Introduction to site Site documentation Site analysis Program IV. Research Overview Key principles Precedent studies V. Design Design problem Design parti Core drawings Photographs of models Role of research shown in strategies & diagrams Detailed drawings in relation to research VI. Bibliography

Week 06 Enclosure Model

14 Feb Pin-Up 16 Feb Reading #5 18 Feb Desk Crits

Week 07 Mid-Term
21 Feb Desk Crits 25 Feb Mid-term review

Week 08 Spring Break

28 Feb No Class 04Mar No Class

Week 09 Development
07 Mar Desk Crits 09 Mar Reading #6 11 Mar Desk Crits

Week 10 Development
14 Mar Desk Crits 16 Mar Reading #7 18 Mar Desk Crits

Required Texts
A selection of critical readings on various subjects relating to the study and practice of architecture have been made available, with the intention that they will serve to provide a rigorous ongoing dialogue throughout the semester in which full participation is required. Students will be expected to lead one reading discussion group during the course of the semester. This will include a synopsis of the reading as well as identification of a series of critical questions intended to generate a productive group discussion.

Week 11 Development
21 Mar Desk Crits 23 Mar Reading #8 25 Mar Trip

Week 12 Analytique Part 1

28 Mar Trip 01 Apr Desk Crits

Week 13 Analytique Part 2

04 Apr Desk Crits 08 Apr Interim Pin-Up

Learning Objectives
The course is intended to allow fifth-year students to take a position regarding an aspect of their architectural education and to develop that attitude through the course of their final semester.

Week 14 Production
11 Apr Desk Crits 15 Apr Desk Crits

Week 15 Production
18 Apr Desk Crits 22 Apr Desk Crits

Week 16 Production
25 Apr Desk Crits 29 Apr Desk Crits

Week 17 Final
02 May Final Review

Week 18 Thesis Publication

08 May Final Books Due

48-505 Thesis in Doha Required Readings

19 Jan

48-505 Thesis in Doha Final Review

Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture CMUQ Studio Abroad 25 February 2010, 3-6pm Rooms 1030 & 1031 Rami el Samahy Kelly Hutzell Assistant Teaching Professor of Architecture Assistant Teaching Professor of Architecture

Reading 01: The State of Architecture part one

The Muses Are Not Amused by Jorge Silvetti in Harvard Design Magazine Fall 2003/Winter 2004, p. The Trouble with Icons speech by Graham Morrison of Allies and Morrison at the AJ/Bovis Awards for Architecture

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Reading 02: The State of Architecture part two

Globalization + Criticism chapter in The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century, edited by Bernard Tschumi and Irene Cheng, p. 77-90.

02 Feb

Reading 03: Program

Notes on the Adaptive Re-Use of Program, by John McMorrough and Program Primer v.01 A Manual for Architects, by Dan Wood and Amale Andraos of WORK in Praxis 8, RE: programming, p. 103-121.

Guest Critics: Abdulla Al Shamsi Architect Mubadala Development Corporation, Abu Dhabi (CMU SoA alumni 07) Ahmed Chouman Senior Architect The Design Jam Ameena Ahmadi Architect & Projects Coordinator Capital Projects, Qatar Foundation Carolyn Freeman Chair, Interior Design Department Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Chris Silva Housing & Residence Life Coordinator Qatar Foundation Hussein Moussa Engineer Arup George Katodrytis Professor & Architect American University of Sharjah & StudioNova Architects Gordon Jack Architect & Country Director Atkins Jacqueline Bartholomeusz Architect KEO Design Paul Burrows Managing Director Qatar Green Building Council Martin Hay Director of Architecture GHD Michelle Lopez Designer (CMU SoA alumni 08) Dr. Rashid Al-Matwi Architect & Urban Planner Independent Simon Gathercole Architect Allies & Morrison

09 Feb

Reading 04: Site

On Site by Carol Burns from the book Drawing/Building/Text: Essays in Architectural Theory edited by Andrea Kahn

16 Feb

Reading 05: Ecology & Climate

Sustainability: advancement vs. apocalypse keynote lecture by Rem Koolhaas at the Ecological Urbanism Conference, Harvard University, 3 April, 2009. Part 1: Constant Determinants of an Ecological Aesthetic, in Ecological Architecture: A Critical History by James Steele, p. 10-31. Supplemental Listening: Ecological Urbanism: Alternative and Sustainable Cities of the Future Conference, Harvard University, 3-5 April, 2009 podcasts available at http://ecologicalurbanism.gsd.harvard. edu/

09 Mar

Reading 06: Enclosure

Envelope + Public/Private chapter in The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century, p. 63-76.

16 Mar

Reading 07: Detail part one

Swimming at the Querini Stampalia Foundation, in Strange Details by Michael Caldwell, p. 3-48.

26 Mar

Reading 08: Detail part two

Detail: The Subject of the Object by Peggy Deamer and Elements of a Continuity by Megan Miller in Praxis 1, Detail: Specificity of Architecture, p. 108-125.

Establishing Connections
THESIS PROJECT, NIKKI DEBOLSKI SPRING 2008
Reacting to the contained urban life of Doha in conjunction with the tradition of the mobile lives of the early Qatari nomads, this proposal explores the temporality of architecture as public space responding to the rapid globalization of the 21st century. In creating a more flexible architecture, the character of mobility will allow public urban architecture to populate spatial leftovers and absent places that are ubiquitous in the everyday urban scene, yet not fully utilized. Analyzing three main sites of Doha, this project aims to create a new level of urban space as well as different ways of inhabiting the built and non-built environment in ways that respond and react to the public in an ephemeral manner.

This spread and next Final thesis work of Nikki Debolski, Spring 2008.

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THESIS PROJECT, JEFF BOURKE SPRING 2008
The project taps into a proposed master plan for the university and enhances an area designated a designzone by providing a needed community building and gathering space. In Qatar, there is a perceived lack of design culture and design related businesses. The Design Zone addresses this by creating a designated zone as an incubator area for design disciplines. This propoal acts as an incubator for the incubator. Creating a community center gives the design zone a reason to exist initially and provides an incentive for businesses to relocate. The building houses functions and resources that encourage interaction within the design community. The building becomes a gathering place for the design community within Qatar.

This spread and next Final thesis work of Jeff Bourke, Spring 2008.

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THESIS PROJECT, WILLIAM KNAPP SPRING 2008
This spread Final thesis work of William Knapp, Spring 2008. The establishment of an ecological park and environmental research center in Al Thakhira addresses some of these major environmental issues in this fragile ecosystem. The park itself would be a 300,000 km 2 protected land zone. No new develpement would be permitted in this area after completion of the park infrastructure. The research center will serve as a catalyst for the people of this region to become informed of the threats to our environment. In spreading knowledge to the public, the environment has its best chance at survival. These conservation efforts will help stop the damage that is being done, but we must able to remediate the damage in some way. Environmentally conscious building materials and methods will begin to do so. The physical form and construction of the building takes its cues from the mangrove plants that it hovers above.

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Education and Research center Residential - existing and proposed Commercial - proposed ECO hotel Parking Observatory tower Road - proposed CIRCUIT - level one CIRCUIT - level two CIRCUIT - level three CIRCUIT - level four Horticultural center

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CO-TAUGHT WITH KELLY HUTZELL SPRING 2010, 2011 & 2012

Left Final reviews Spring 2009, 2010.

Beginning in 2010, we taught the spring fourth-year studio, Systems Integration. Students were tasked with exploring the complex interrelationships between performance criteria, building subsystems, and their integration, specification, and evaluation in the generation of creative design solutions. The studio was also concerned with conceptual design and design development relating to the spatial, visual, acoustic, air quality and thermal performance of buildings.

48-405 Systems Integration Syllabus

Spring 2010 Systems Integration 48-405 Rami el Samahy & Kelly Hutzell

48-405 Assignment One Site & Sight Exploration

Assignment One focuses on your initial impressions of your study abroad experience at Carnegie Mellon University Qatar. As seen through the eyes of an architect, what are your impressions of the institution, the city, the country, and the region thus far? Think broadly about site, spatial, sensory, and social conditions as they relate to the built and natural environment. Through the specified drawing techniques outlined below, reflect and critically evaluate on the assignments you are tasked to record. 01. perspective hardline or computer aided Most memorable building 02. urban diagram edited parti Most memorable path/Drive through the city 03. montage photographs + drawing Images which best describe your observations of the state of architecture in Qatar 04. axonometric black line on white paper Systems Integration Studio: Best building response to climate and why?

Overview
This required fourth-year design studio is held abroad in Doha, Qatar. It focuses on the design of the Head Quarters building of the newly-formed Qatar Green Building Council. The studio will examine and design for two different situations: first, the adaptive reuse of an existing building, and second, a new structure on a blank site. Both will integrate to the greatest degree possible, sustainable techniques and systems that are relevant to this particular time and place. Given todays sophisticated client programs and complex large-scale architecture, design students must explore the complex interrelationships between performance criteria, building subsystems, and their integration, specification, and evaluation in the generation of creative design solutions. This studio is concerned with conceptual design and design development relating to the spatial, visual, acoustic, air quality and thermal performance of complex buildings as well as the long-term integrity of the integrated systems. Students must demonstrate design integration of at least two building systems and their interdisciplinary objectives structure, enclosure, interior, mechanical, communications and information, and safety systems - addressing issues of constructability and technical innovation while meeting the programmatic needs of the occupants.

Learning Objectives
The studios learning objectives are in line with those taught on the Pittsburgh campus, and have been articulated by Khee Pho Lam as follows: Demonstrate ability to manage programmatic complexity and/or systems complexity of large buildings; Demonstrate building systems integration knowledge and representation, with two or more systems critical to building type structure, enclosure, mechanical, electrical, interior, others; Explore the potential of building systems and systems integration as a generative, creative force in design. Demonstrate understanding of building performance knowledge and representation; with at least two performance agenda critical to building type spatial, thermal, air quality, acoustic, visual, building integrity; Demonstrate ability to integrate and apply knowledge gained cumulatively in previous courses (e.g., Occupancy Studio and Human Factors, Site Engineering & Foundations, Materials and Assembly, Environment I: Climate & Energy, Environment III Mechanical Systems); Demonstrate ability to communicate design considerations and solutions clearly through drawings, physical and/or digital models, and analysis as appropriate to the specific studio project; and Critical representation typically would include: site/ context, floor plan(s), section or section/perspective, 3-D representation, and for this studio emphasis, systems diagrams and performance analysis.

Required Texts
A selection of critical readings on various subjects relating to the study and practice of architecture have been made available, with the intention that they will serve to provide a rigorous ongoing dialogue throughout the semester in which full participation is required. Students will be expected to lead one reading discussion group during the course of the semester. This will include a synopsis of the reading as well as identification of a series of critical questions intended to generate a productive group discussion.

Grading Criteria
Readings/Class Participation Pin-ups Midterm Review Interim Final Review Final Review Final Studio Template 10% 20% 20% 10% 30% 10%

48-405 Assignment Two All Systems Go

This assignment is structured to examine two questions: first, what is a system?, and second what is a system in Doha, today? The Oxford English Dictionary provides the following myriad definitions for the word system:
I. An organized or connected group of objects. 1. A set or assemblage of things connected, associated, or interdependent, so as to form a complex unity; a whole composed of parts in orderly arrangement according to some scheme or plan; rarely applied to a simple or small assemblage of things (nearly = group or set). 2. Physics. A group of bodies moving about one another in space undersome particular dynamical law, as the law of gravitation; spec. in Astron., a group of heavenly bodies connected by their mutual attractive forces and moving in orbits about a centre or central body, as the solar system (the sun with its attendant planets, etc.), the system of a planet (the planet with its attendant satellites). 3. Biol.a. A set of organs or parts in an animal body of the same or similar structure, or subserving the same function, as the nervous, muscular, osseous, etc. systems, the digestive, respiratory, reproductive, etc. systems; also, each of the primary groups of tissues in the higher plants. 4. In various scientific and technical uses: A group, set, or aggregate of things, natural or artificial, forming a connected or complex whole.a. of natural objects or phenomena, as geological formations, mountains, rivers, winds, forces, etc.; also of lines, points, etc. in geometry. 5. Mus. In ancient Greek music, A compound interval, i.e. one consisting of several degrees (opp. to DIASTEM); also, a scale or series of notes extending through such an interval, and serving as the basis of musical composition. 6. Gr. Pros. A group of connected verses or periods, esp. in anapstic metres. 7. A pad formerly worn by women to raise up the hair. II. A set of principles, etc.; a scheme, method. 8. The set of correlated principles, ideas, or statements belonging to some department of knowledge or belief; a department of knowledge or belief considered as an organized whole; a connected and regularly arranged scheme of the whole of some subject; a comprehensive body of doctrines, conclusions, speculations, or theses. 9. An organized scheme or plan of action, esp. one of a complex or comprehensive kind; an orderly or regular method of procedure. Now usually with defining word or phrase. 10. In the abstract (without a or pl.): Orderly arrangement or method; systematic form or order.

48-405 Assignment Two All Systems Go (cont.)

You are asked to contemplate these definitions of systems as they relate to the design of buildings, and as they relate to this place and time. The assignment is composed of two parts. Part I Define Three Systems In his ground breaking work A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, Manuel De Landa proposes a re-organization of the past millennium through three separate lenses: the geological, the biological, and the linguistic. Borrowing these categories, you are to choose three systems, one from each category, that can be found in (or is noticeably absent from) Doha. For example, De Landas titles for subchapters (for geology, Lavas & Magmas and Sandstone & Granite, for biology Flesh & Genes and Species & Ecosystems, for linguistics Memes & Norms and Arguments & Operators) may help provide some sparks of inspiration, but you are encouraged to reach your own conclusions based on your experiences in the region thus far. Part II Design Three Systems You must then design a structure that exhibits, demonstrates, reveals, exemplifies or abrogates your three chosen systems: a geological, a biological, a linguistic - in a given site. Your site is a volume of a thousand cubic meters to be located on Education City, at the cross-roads of the campus cardo maximus and decumanus: the spine connecting the Ceremonial Court to the Convention Center, and the secondary cross axis that connects LAS to CMUQ. The design is to be rendered as a single three dimensional construct, at a scale of your choosing. It can be made using any materials you see fit, including found objects. While this assignment is intentionally open-ended, consider the following: What is context in this context? What happens when two (or three) systems collide? How does one interface with your design: through observation and/or interaction, physically or virtually, individually or collectively? due Sunday 31 January at start of studio clockwise from top Blur Building Diller + Scofidio Jellyfish House Lisa Iwemoto Guests Krzysztof Wodiczko Weathers Project Olafur Eliason

48-405 Assignment Three Design Operations

Yet another possibility is to investigate the existing situation building, city or native land - to discover its latent qualities or potential; inherent conditions can motivate the ensuing construction so that the new participates in the existing. Carol Burns On Site

48-405 Assignment Four Putting Parts Together

Six blind men visit the palace of the Rajah and encounter an elephant for the first time. As each touches the animal with his hands, he announces his discoveries. The first blind man put out his hand and touched the side of the elephant. How smooth! An elephant is like a wall. The second blind man put out his hand and touched the trunk of the elephant. How round! An elephant is like a snake. The third blind man put out his hand and touched the tusk of the elephant. How sharp! An elephant is like a spear.

By now, it should become clear to you that the six operations you have designed and developed are blind men. Each is partially right, and yet each answers only part of the problem. Like the Rajah says, it is now time to put the parts together. For the midterm, you are to stitch together the six design operations (to each other and to the villa) in a way that makes sense of the villa and the site. Importantly, this exercise must also respond to the mission of the Qatar Green Building Council (see next page for more detail on this). In putting the pieces together, it is possible that you will be required to rethink the scale of certain operations. It is also possible that this first pass will have a certain Frankenstein-like quality. That is perfectly acceptable. Frankenstein was ugly, and had difficulty communicating effectively, but possessed incredible power. We expect nothing less from your first attempt. These outcomes should be bold, brash, perhaps a little clumsy, but filled with powerful potential. Minimum requirements include: A comprehensive narrative that explains your efforts. This must be clear and concise, and respond to the problem(s) at hand, one page maximum; Plan, lower floor (including grounds), 1:100 Plan, upper floor, 1:100 Sections, at least two; Site plan, to indicate important adjacencies but also ecological strategies; scale as appropriate to your needs; Axonometric drawing, showing the overall design Model, to attach to (or replace) the villa in situ.

By now, you have developed ideas and opinions about your site and the villa. Based on what you know about these crucial elements of your project, as well as what you have learned about Doha in the past six weeks, key themes have begun to surface. For this assignment you are now asked to tease out these themes, as they relate to design opportunities. This is not the first pass of an overall design of your building, but the design of potential elements that may open avenues of pursuit for your project. You are asked to contemplate these definitions of systems as they relate to the design of buildings, and as they relate to this place and time. The assignment is composed of two parts. Part I Identify Your Operations In sketch or diagram, identify six (6) design operations. These can be hand drawn, or digitally produced. They must be clear and concise. Part II Operate in Three Dimensions You must then build these as models to the scale of your site model. These should be sketch models that clearly represent your ideas. This assignment is intentionally left open ended for you to determine your themes and your design operations. Feel free to select based on specific elements of your site or villa, or you could draw from the larger sociopolitical and cultural context. In the end, however, the design operations must be architectural in nature. due Thursday 18 February at start of studio
Blake Lam, Museum of the Sea

The fourth blind man put out his hand and touched the leg of the elephant. How tall! An elephant is like a tree. The fifth blind man reached out his hand and touched the ear of the elephant. How wide! An elephant is like a fan. The sixth blind man put out his hand and touched the tail of the elephant. How thin! An elephant is like a rope. An argument ensued, each blind man thinking his own perception of the elephant was the correct one. The Rajah, awakened by the commotion, called out from the balcony. The elephant is a big animal, he said. Each man touched only one part. You must put all the parts together to find out what an elephant is like. Lillian Quigley, The Blind Men and the Elephant

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48-405 Assignment Four Putting Parts Together (cont)

The Qatar Green Building Council (QGBC) is an independent non-profit organisation committed to developing a sustainable approach to design and development of buildings for Qatar. On 10th June 2009, Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned signed the Decree establishing the Qatar Green Building Council. The council is fostered by Qatar Foundation.[i] As Qatar has not yet adopted a national green building rating system, the Qatar Green Building Council currently plans to equally support numerous certification programs, including Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) of US, BREEAM of UK, Green Star of Australia, and QSAS, a rating system recently adopted by Qatar developers Diar & Barwa. Further information about the QGBC vision, mission, and structure can be found online at: www.qatargbc.org/ The QGBC has currently been granted an existing private residential villa on Qatar Foundation property for a specific lease period. This building must be retrofitted so that it may become a public building that fits the vision, mission and structure of the organization. In addition, it is intended that it become a showcase of sustainable building practices. The organization intends to make the villa a producer of energy, not just a consumer. In the long term, the QGBC may consider constructing a new headquarters building. In the foreseeable future, it is expected that the QGBC organization will expand, thereby necessitating additional space for research, public education and training programs, and additional staff. The headquarters building, which may be built within Education City, should showcase local, national and international best practices. Like all Education City buildings, the newly conceived QGBC Headquarters Building should be innovative and forward thinking and complement the Qatar Foundations ambition to restructure society through education, research and community development.[ii]
[i] http://www.qatargbc.org/index.php#content Accessed online 21 February 2010. [ii] http://www.qf.org.qa/output/Page71.asp

48-405 Mid semester Review QGBC Villa Retrofit

Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture CMUQ Studio Abroad 25 February 2010, 3-6pm Rooms 1030 & 1031 Instructors: Rami el Samahy Kelly Hutzell

The QGBC HQ building program might include the following components. On the other hand, you are encouraged to rethink these program elements as you see fit. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) Public Reception Knowledge Center Training Room Large public conference room Large private conference room Small conference rooms for five committee groups Technical Committee (5-7 members) Education Committee (5-7 members) Research/Innovation Committee (5-7 members) Marketing & Public Relations Committee Administrative Committee 7) Staff offices Chairpersons Office Managing Directors Office Administrative Manager Office Administrator Office Temporary Office #1 Temporary Office #2 8) Support Space Kitchen Prayer Room Lounge Toilets for public and private use Storage Printer Room Document Control Room

Assistant Teaching Professor of Architecture Assistant Teaching Professor of Architecture

Guest Critics: Ameena Ahmadi

Projects Coordinator, Capital Projects, Qatar Foundation

Abdulla Al Shamsi Mubadala, Abu Dhabi (CMU SoA alumni 07) John Andrews Ahmed Chouman Sandra Dold Carolyn Freeman John Geldart Johan Granberg Michelle Lopez Kristina Ricco Professor, University of Brighton Senior Architect, COWI Senior Architect & Sustainability Specialist, PMCM Doha Head, Interior Design Department, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar Architect, Doha Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, San Francisco & Abu Dhabi (CMU SoA alumni 08) Research Assistant, Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh & Doha (CMU SoA alumni 09)

48-405 Students: Abigail Branch Adam Himes Samuel Kriegler Alexandra Legrady Arlie Schrantz

48-505 Students: Chris Gallot Spencer Gregson Ja Racharaks

48-405 Assignment Five Analytique

Overview At this point in the process you should have an understanding of the shape and feel of your design, from both a technical and experiential point a view. Some of these are undoubtedly complex ideas that resist distillation into easy bite-sized chunks. Nonetheless, each project can benefit from a clear visual narrative. This assignment is intended to do that. Details To be printed (or drawn) on an A0 board Incorporate at least four of the following drawing types: Plan Section Elevation Wall Section/Plan detail Perspective Axonometric Analytical Diagrams Image of Model

48-405 Final Review

Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture CMUQ Studio Abroad 2 May 2010, 3-7pm Rooms 1030 & 1031 Rami el Samahy Kelly Hutzell Assistant Teaching Professor of Architecture Assistant Teaching Professor of Architecture

As demonstrated by the included examples, the analytique is an old idea. Drawing from the Beaux Arts tradition, it is intended to tell the story of a project in a single composition. An analytique might include several different drawing types (plans, section, elevation, perspective, Schedule detail of plan or section) at a variety of scales. 15 April Sketch/mock-up of analytique for discussion the more effort that goes into this, the more discussion can be had. Using this idea, you are to compose an analytique that 18 April Final version presented tells the story of your project. Consider the language of each drawing type as well the composition of the overall board. You are free to use whatever drawing techniques you see fit. Experimentation is welcome, provided it serves to further the overall intention of creating a clear visual narrative.

Guest Critics: Abdulla Al Shamsi Architect Mubadala Development Corporation, Abu Dhabi (CMU SoA alumni 07) Ahmed Chouman Senior Architect The Design Jam Ameena Ahmadi Architect & Projects Coordinator Capital Projects, Qatar Foundation Carolyn Freeman Chair, Interior Design Department Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Chris Silva Housing & Residence Life Coordinator Qatar Foundation Hussein Moussa Engineer Arup George Katodrytis Professor & Architect American University of Sharjah & StudioNova Architects Gordon Jack Architect & Country Director Atkins Jacqueline Bartholomeusz Architect KEO Design Paul Burrows Managing Director Qatar Green Building Council Martin Hay Director of Architecture GHD Michelle Lopez Designer (CMU SoA alumni 08) Dr. Rashid Al-Matwi Architect & Urban Planner Independent Simon Gathercole Architect Allies & Morrison

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design of the headquarters building of the newly-formed Qatar Green Building Council. The students examined and adaptively reused a large former villa as a center that educates and demonstrates the benefits of sustainable construction techniques and systems that are relevant to this particular time and place. Student proposals diverged widely, from small scale tactical solutions

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The students start off by identifying issues with the villa, most of which are typical to many buildings; it is a sealed place which has to rely completely on Air-conditioning. The orientation of the villa is such that it doesnt benefit from the passive technologies Rami El Samahy, Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Architecture, CMU Problem at hand
as we think that is one of the areas that has to be looked into more carefully. This was one such typical yet challenging situation where our students come up with solutions. We had a typical villa, one that was given to QGBC by Qatar Foundation, quite large and spacious, with five bedrooms and the students retrofit it for a complete new purpose. This exercise will demonstrate the students knowledge in building systems integration and representation and explore the potential of building systems as a generative, creative force in design. The students identify issues with the villa, most of which are typical to many buildings; it is a sealed place which has to rely completely on air-conditioning. The orientation of the villa is such that it doesnt benefit from the passive technologies, to capture the winds from the North and the North-East, techniques that were inherent in the earlier era but were forgotten. The students though new to the country they approached the project from the basics, says El Samahy. They studied the environment, the climatic and the living conditions and started with a proper background of the challenge. CMU-Pittsburg has a semester in architecture major, where the students go abroad, usually Europe, Denmark and now the Middle East. They study the culture of these new places and find solutions, keeping in mind the climatic conditions of the region, architecturally. We have eight students this year, selected out of an interested group of 16. But to the question of choosing this region over others, El Samahy has an answer. The Middle East is such a misunderstood place and it is time young students

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El Samahy and his group of students are currently working towards one such solution. He and Kelly Hutzell, Assistant Teaching Professor of Architecture, CMU, along with their students are retrofitting an existing villa. Once refitted, the villa , situated opposite the Education City, will be used by the QGBC not just as its headquarters but also as a premise to demonstrate sustainable strategies that the Council is advocating, a showpiece for their philosophy. The students at Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh have a paper in the fourth year called System Integration, which takes into account all the varied areas they have studied so far, mechanical, chemical, structural, finishing and even interiors, and they are supposed to integrate all of these into real-life applications. We have added environment to the subject range

hen Rami El Samahy, Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) gave his speech at the Qatar Green Building Councils (QGBC) introductory session, he was greeted by a stunned silence. The figures he pointed out were shocking to say the least: Qatar with a GDP of $57,936, has an electricity consumption of 14,201,675.5 kw/h and water consumption of 675.5 litres (all in per capita). There is more. This small country of approximately 12,000 sq kilometres has registered 71,600 new vehicles in 2009 and issued 18,301 new residential building permits last year. The country also has the highest ranked per capita carbon emissions in the world. Unimpressive figures... The solution is without doubt sustainable living, and for buildings in particular, sustainable design from the conceptual stage, says El Samahy. But what is the solution for existing buildings? Would pulling them down and constructing from scratch using sustainable methods be a sensible approach? At the end of the day, demolition is not sustainable. It is squander of energy, he says, adding, Retrofitting or restoring older buildings could be the answer.

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tudents from Carnegie Mellon University Qatar (CMUQ) are also involved in the retrofit exercise. These are students who do the various Business and Computer major programmes. In their course, they are required to complete a minor and some of them choose Architecture as their subject. These students are engaged in designing a small portion called the Learning Pavillion, a semi-covered screen outside the building.

"QGBC is thrilled that students from Qatar are actively involved in finding sustainable solutions. It makes them think of sustainable methods to be put to use in real situations, says El Samahy. The students formed five groups and each group used one recyclable material, like paper, cardboard, bottles etc and demonstrated their solution. Firas Bata, one of the students at CMUQ, who used paper to form the screen says, This exercise made me look at things in a different way, like I have never done before.

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Both El Samahy and Hutzell are concerned about some buildings which are representative of a certain phase in history that are being razed down to bring in other sustainable constructions. There is an enormous amount of demolition activities going on in the country. There is an interest in old buildings too which is why there is numerous restoration activities going on, like the Souq Waqif, Al Wakrah. But what is not being appreciated are the buildings in the 50s and 60s, which are being razed down now. It was not because they didnt use the earlier methods of construction, they did, and in fact they used the method of shadow to cool adjacent buildings. Some of them have a typical character of their own too. What must have happened is that they were not The retrofit solutions were reviewed by experts in the field. Of the eight projects, three projects, Adam Himes, Alex Legrady and Samuel Kriegler, received the highest grades. Martin Hay, Director of Architecture at GHD felt that the project represented "a very interesting range of responses". He says, I felt that the students tackled a difficult area of design with confidence and style. Sam Kriegler is a fourth-year student and his solution, as illustrated by the model he has made, is a double-skin layer to absorb the heat from the building that will reduce the heat on the building. He has also taken off the centre portion of the building, the core, to allow for more air flow. He was influenced by one of the towers in West Bay, designed by Jean Nouvel, which has the same double skin structure. Kriegler is also influenced by old Qatari buildings and is fascinated by the fact that earlier construction methods were so sustainable that there was no need of external forces to cool buildings in the properly maintained and with the population boom, the buildings deteriorated. But there was also a vibrant community living there and it is sad that there is no record of that now, says Hutzell. Imagine those buildings with a fresh coat of paint. Many of them were beautiful. It is a shame that those buildings are being wiped out, not just in the sustainable point of view, but also from the historical point of view, as they are as much a part of history as other buildings. They portrayed the first period of post-oil discovery, says El Samahy. He feels that this demolition drive is not distinctive of the region but is being followed all over. Modern era of architecture (the mid 50s to 60s buildings) is worth preserving. Maybe much more than the post-modern glass-towered ones. dessert climate. Going back to those conditions would be one of the best sustainable practices architects could take. Though he loves many of the new buildings in Doha his favourite is the archaeological site at Al Jemal area, which he describes as almost a ruined town but with a distinct character. Another student, Adam Himes has also dramatically cut through the core of the building (in his model) to allow for the northern winds to flow through and he has added water features on the terrace, which cools the air that passes through and then the scoops the air inwards, which then cools the interiors too. He has also conceptualised a roofgarden which could be watered by the air-conditioning overflow pipe. The roof garden would help in cooling the space below. On the architectural landscape of Doha, he says, The glass towers are not specific of the place. They are just glass buildings that pump conditioned air into them, they are buildings that could be anywhere. n

This is a hypothetical project running in parallel to a real situation. If any of the projects actually get approved they could form the solution, if not, these projects will serve as an educative tools and the work will be exhibited at the QGBC.
Assistant Teaching, Professor of Architecture, CMU
understood the layers of the societal fabric here. This is a very dynamic area and presently this is where major innovations in architecture are happening, says El Samahy. The students had a proper feel of the place. Some of them arrived early for their spring vacation, went to Dubai and drove down to Oman. And three of the eight students will stay back here in Doha to find suitable job opportunities here, says Hutzell.

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But other than the climatic constraints, the students were lucky to have no limiting factors while finding the solution. We have to keep in mind that these are students working on the project. We wanted them to give vent to their creativity without being concerned by real-life situations, at least not factors like cost etc. This is a hypothetical project running in parallel to a real situation. These projects will serve as educative tools and the work will be exhibited at the QGBC, says Hutzell.
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The Tall Building

SYSTEMS INTEGRATION STUDIO ABROAD SPRING 2011

In 2011, the studio focused on the design of a mixed-use tall building (200m tall) in West Bay, Dohas much maligned high-rise district. In addition to the challenges of integrating systems in a skyscraper, the studio was also tasked with developing a more responsible attitude to the environment and the public realms, while trying to

understand the realities of the programmatic needs of housing, offices and retail. The students benefited greatly from interaction with professionals from the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitats, Murphy Jahn, Turner Construction, Utile, and Studio Professor Hal Hartley.

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CO-TAUGHT WITH KELLY HUTZELL SPRING 2012

In 2012, we taught a comprehensive studio,

AL WAKRAH FINAL PROJECTS
May 2012

would foster maritime activity and instill a new vibrancy to the development. In the second half of the semester, each student developed an aspect of the master plan, including: a new entrance to the village to connect it with a planned metro station, a student dormitory complex, and a seafood market and restaurant. The students were required to take a position on the tectonic language relationship with the new old village. The students were encouraged to operate on the existing structures, selectively removing walls, underpinning foundations, or floating above, all in an effort to accommodate contemporary programs within a traditional fabric that resisted it.

the standard spring semester for juniors at the School of Architecture. We worked
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closely with the Qatar Museums Authority. Among its initiatives is the adaptive reuse of the reconstructed old village of al Wakrah, a few kilometers south of the capital. A fascinating example of vernacular Arabian fabric, the area had been carefully rebuilt, but was awaiting a function. QMA asked our studio to help them consider other programs that would fill the over 400 small buildings within the tight fabric. The studio produced a conceptual master relationship with the sea by reviving old and injecting newsymbiotic functions that plan framework that proposed restoring the

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Architecture for Non-Majors I

CO-TAUGHT WITH KELLY HUTZELL SPRING 2008, 2009, 2010

The Architecture for Non-Majors courses serve as an introduction to the spatial concepts of architecture as well as an initiation into the studio culture for students from other disciplines. Both ANM I and II focus on projects that explore the design and experience of spatial environments through a series of iterative investigations. In ANM I, the first half of the semester is devoted to a series of short projects, with each investigation building on the preceding exploration and a new skill introduced in each exercise (e.g., measuring, drafting, model building, collage and threedimensional drawing). The second half of the semester consists of a longer project to be created individually, incorporating students

personal theories of architecture and a basic appreciation for the importance massing, composition, and passive sustainable techniques (solar orientation, prevailing breezes, etc). Studio work is supported by group discussions based upon critical review of student work, readings, presentations, and class field trips to some of the many excellent examples of world-class architecture found on Qatar Foundations campus.

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Architecture for Non-Majors I 48-095

Course Format This course is both seminar and studio. Students take part in seminar discussions of relevant work for half of the class; the other half of the class is comprised of studio projects, similar in content to those undertaken by freshman architecture majors. For the seminar components, visual presentations will indicate precedents, and notable examples of architecture works and personalities. Class discussions are an integral part of the course. For the studio component, students will become familiar with a variety of architectural concepts, with a special focus on form, space and order. The second half of the semester will focus on a final design project. It will be a highly structured project, with a specific site, size, design program and set building components. The final review and presentation will be held during final exam week. Throughout the semester, each student is required to utilize a sketchbook, which will be reviewed and graded by the Instructor and Course Assistants. A required number of sketches will contribute to the final grade. Attendance Class attendance is mandatory. The CAs will take attendance 5 minutes into the class. Students are expected to be on time, and to remain in class throughout the period. No laptops or cell phones are permitted within the classroom. Three or more unexcused absences may result in automatic failure of the class. An unexcused absence is one that is not accompanied by signed approval from the Director of Student Activities, the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, or a doctor. Please notify the Instructor prior to any absence. Grading The course schedule provides for in-class work sessions throughout the semester. Students must work productively while in class. Students may find that several projects take less or more time, dependent on their skill level and/or interest or care in a particular subject or activity. Due to the diverse range of abilities, attendance and participation count substantially toward grading. Those with lesser ability, but who actively participate, employ significant effort and show continual improvement, will do well. Students with inherent creative skills are asked to meet a higher standard of design complexity. Both the process and the final product contribute to any grade on a design project. Final products must exhibit good craftsmanship with quality materials. All projects must be ready for presentation at the beginning of class on the dates due. Projects that are late for in-class presentation will be lowered in grade. Projects completed more than one week late will result in a full letter grade penalty per week. Grades will assessed through a combination of efforts based on the following criteria: Sketchbook Participation Pin-Ups Mid-Term Review Final Project 10% 10% 20% 20% 40%

Architecture for Non-Majors meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:30-3:50pm. The course includes lectures, discussions, and designs projects that follow a typical architectural design studio sequence. In this course, students will gain knowledge about the breadth of architectural practice through various forms of study, and will assimilate these skills as they develop their own approach. In the first weeks, students will learn how to measure, how to draw, and how to build models. Throughout the semester, students will learn how to sketch and design. While work sessions are structured, there are broad opportunities to experiment. This class is organized as a sequence of design projects. Students will discover and learn to articulate their own preferences and sensitivity in design. Learning Outcomes The objectives of this class are to assist in the development of people who are enthusiastic and better informed participants in the built environment and the forces which shape it. The course

offers an overview of skills necessary for threedimensional design in many fields; thus some students may continue on to study architecture or pursue careers in related design fields. If students attend class and complete assignments, they can expect to accomplish the following in this course: To understand how architects approach design issues; To have a pragmatic, working overview of the practice of architecture; To have an in-depth understanding of design, concept, execution and representation through the completion of a final project; To research, illustrate and orally present individual and team projects in an architecturally descriptive manner; To have accomplished several projects of which students will be proud, and that reflect a heightened understanding of the architectural process.

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Week 01 Introduction to the Studio
11 Jan 13 Jan Introduction to the course Lecture: Human Scale Measuring & drawing

Measuring & Drawing

Overview
Throughout this assignment you will work both individually and in teams, focusing on the main entryway of a specific building on Education Citys campus: Weeks 2 & 3 will focus on drawing the entryway Weeks 4 & 5 will focus on making a model (s) of the entryway Weeks 6 & 7 will focus on re-designing the entryway

Week 09 Intermediate Exercises Part 1

08 Mar 10 Mar Lecture: Representing Space Pin-Up 03: Perspective Key Terms
Last class, our in-class assignment involved creating a composition based on primary shapes. The composition represented a word chosen to describe a particular building on campus. Through this assignment, we discussed fundamental ordering principles of architecture such as: Symmetry & Asymmetry Rhythm & Repetition Hierarchy Solid & Void This week, and throughout the next few weeks, you are asked to consider additional terms: Axis & Cross axis Scale & Proportion Structure Light & Shadow Sequence & Transition Public & Private Symbol & Image Site & Orientation Entryway Portal Passage Transition Vestibule Foyer Faade Porch Doorway Gate Threshold

Week 02 Drawing Part 1

18 Jan 20 Jan Site visits & Research Desk Crits

Week 10 Intermediate Exercises Part 2

15 Mar 17 Mar Desk Crits Pin-Up 04: Collage

Week 03 Drawing Part 2

25 Jan 26 Jan 27 Jan Desk Crits Joy Malnar lecture VCU 6pm Pin-Up 01: Drafting

Week 11 Final Project Part 1

22 Mar 24 Mar Lecture: Climate & Culture Desk Crits Desk Crits

Week 1, 2 & 3 Drawing Part 1: Entryway

13 Jan 18 Jan Lecture : How to measure using your body Drawing a floor plan, elevation & section: Sketching Site Visit

Week 04 Model-Making Part 1

01 Feb 03 Feb Lecture: Craft of Making Desk Crits Desk Crits

Week 12 Final Project Part 2

29 Mar 31 Mar Desk Crits Desk Crits

Week 13 Final Project Part 3

05 Apr 07 Apr Desk Crits Interim Pin-Up

Week 05 Model-Making Part 2

08 Feb 10 Feb Desk Crits Pin-Up 02: Model

Week 14 Final Project Part 4

12 Apr 14 Apr Desk Crits Desk Crits

Week 06 Design Intervention: Enclosure

15 Feb 17 Feb Lecture: Design Inspiration Desk Crits Desk Crits

Week 15 Final Project Part 5

19 Apr 21 Apr Desk Crits Final Presentation

Week 07 Design Intervention: Enclosure

22 Feb 24 Feb Mid-Term Review Field Trip Sketch-Books due

During the site visit, you will investigate and document the buildings main entryway. As a group, observe and discuss how the main entryway is used, including the path that people use to approach the building, how they transition from outside to inside, and the way in which they use and move through the lobby. As a group, you should fully document the entryway by drawing sketches, taking notes and photographing the entryway. Measure the entryway using estimation based on measurements of your own body. Using grid paper, consider scale and proportion (one square or group of squares could equal one square meter), and sketch a plan including the pathway of the approach and the lobby, an elevation of the front faade of the entryway, and a section through the entryway. Include stairs, doorways, window openings, and any large furniture pieces (i.e. lobby security desk). Complete all site documentation, including a sketch of the plan, elevation, and section, as well as any additional photographs that you feel are necessary, for class on Wednesday, 20 January. 20 Jan 25 Jan 27 Jan Drawing a floor plan, elevation & section: Hard line Desk Crits Pin Up

Week 08 Spring Break No Classes

01 Mar 03 Mar No class No class

During class, we will learn how to hard-line, or draft, the plan, elevation and section of your buildings entryway. We will use tracing paper, T-squares, scales and triangles.

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Measuring with your body

Measuring & Drawing

Plan
This series of drawing illustrates the way in which a plan drawing is executed. Always work from the most continuous elements to those that are contained by them.

First, the major outlines and those lines that regulate the position of structural elements and walls are drawn.

Second, the major walls and structural elements such as columns are given proper thickness.

Third, major built-in elements, such as windows, doorways, stairways and fireplaces are drawn.

Fourth, details such as door swings, stair treads and fixtures are shown.

NB. Text and drawings are adapted from F. Ching, Architectural Graphics

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NB. Text and drawings are adapted from F. Ching, Architectural Graphics

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Elevation
Architectural Elevations of buildings are drawings of the outside of the building from a horizontal point of view. Elevations are labeled in relation to the compass points (east, west, north, south. Note that each face of a building is named from the direction it faces (from which you see the building). For example, the north elevation faces north, or is the elevation you see from the north. All planar surfaces not parallel to the drawing surface (not perpendicular to the observers line of sight) appear foreshortened. All planar surfaces parallel to the drawing surface and perpendicular to the observers line of sight remain true size, shape and proportion. As the scale of the drawing increases, more detail must be shown.

Measuring & Drawing

Section
The building section is a horizontal view of the interior of a building, after a vertical plane has been cut through it and the front section removed.

NB. Text and drawings are adapted from F. Ching, Architectural Graphics

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NB. Text and drawings are adapted from F. Ching, Architectural Graphics

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Making Models
Overview As you might recall, our schedule for this portion of the semester is as follows: Weeks 2 & 3: measuring and drawing the entryway Weeks 4 & 5: making a model of the the entryway Weeks 6 & 7: re-designing the entryway We have arrived at week 4, where we will begin to learn why and how architects build models. An architectural model is a type of a scale model, a physical representation of a structure built to study aspects of an architectural design or to communicate design ideas to the general public, clients or committees. Architectural models are constructed at a much smaller scale than their 1:1 counterpart. Often a scale figure(s) is incorporated into the model to help the observer understand the scale and proportion represented in the model. Common materials used to build models include chipboard and cardboard for draft or process models. Materials such as matboard, foamcore, balsa and basswood are used for final models. Increasingly, rapid prototyping technologies are used to carve foam boards and other materials to make large scale or detailed models. Architects sometimes employ a professional model maker or model making company to create such models. However, the best models are often made by the architects themselves. Week 4 Model Making Part I 1 Feb Lecture : Why we make models Model Building: the Basics Following the lecture, you will work in your teams to develop a model based on the drawings you made last week. We will increase the scale to 1 cm: 50 cm. Using foamcore, you will begin to measure and cut the elements required for your model. You will learn to use exacto knives, straight edges and cutting mats. 3 Feb Model Building: Cont. During class, we will begin to assemble your model using glue guns and other adhesives. Week 5 Model Making Part II 8 Feb Week 4 Model Building: Cont. Continue to assmble your models. 10 Feb Model Building: Pin-Up We will invitte guest critics to review your work. Be prepared to present at the beginning of class. You will be judged on the cleanliness, craftsmanship, correct scale and proportion of your model, as well as your verbal presentation skills.

Design Intervention: Enclosure

Overview Now that you have learned to draw plans, sections and elevations, as well as learned to build models, you are prepared to begin your first design assignment. Using your drawings and model, consider an intervention that might improve the quality of your given Education City building. The design assignment is an individual assignment, and can be a highly personal space or a space for you and a few friends. Use the following rules when considering your design: 1. The space must be at least partially enclosed; 2. It must be large enough for one person at a minimum to stand in, sit in and lie down in; 3. It can be placed within the building entry, outside the building or in between the building entry and the outside; 4. It can be placed at ground level or can serve as a transition from one level to another Week 7 Design Intervention Part II 22 Feb Mid-Term Review Please have the following ready at the beginning of class for your mid-term review on 22 February. 1. Hard line drawings The following three drawings are required, at 1:100 scale: Plan Section Elevation These should show not only your intervention, but the surrounding context as well. 2. Model A model of your intervention is also required at 1:50, which will fit in the Education City building that you and your team mates have already completed. 3. Sketches Include all sketches that you have made as you go about your design process. Sketches should be drawn in your sketchbook, and can then be scanned and formatted on a design process board to be pinned up adjacent to your hard line drawings.

To begin the assignment, graphically communicate your basic concept and ideas. As you are the client, what are your personality traits? Are you introverted or extroverted? How will you use the space? What spatial qualities are important to you? Grading criteria: Consider scale, proportion, form, degree of enclo- The design intervention assignment will be sure, views, light and color/texture/pattern. graded based on your content/depth of thought and exploration, the quality of your design, and Reading Assignment: the craft and care you take to complete the Architecture: Form, Space and Order, Chapter 2 drawings and model. Form, p. 33-91 24 Feb Field Trip OR Guest Lecture Week 6 Design Intervention Part I Sketchbooks due for Mid-term Grading 15 Feb Lecture : Design Inspiration Design Charrette 17 Feb Design Process Come to class with a model of your proposed design intervention, and a draft sketch of the plan, section and elevation.
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ARCHITECTURE TERMINOLOGY regional and general vocabulary

ARCHITECTURE TERMINOLOGY regional and general vocabulary

ARCADE a passage or walkway covered over by a succession of arches or vaults supported by columns

ARCH a curved structure capable of spanning a space while supporting signicant weight

TUSCAN COLUMN also known as Roman Doric, is also a simple design, the base and capital both being series of cylindrical disks of alternating diameter; the shaft is almost never uted (height to width ratio is about 7:1) CORINTHIAN COLUMN sometimes called the feminine order, this column type has the slenderest ratio of thickness to height (height to width ratio is about 10:1)

IONIC COLUMN usually has a base and the shaft is often uted; on the top is a capital in the characteristic shape of a scroll, called a volute, or scroll (height-to-thickness ratio is around 9:1)

ARCHITRAVE (also called epistyle) is a moulded or ornamental band framing a rectangular opening

BALUSTER a moulded shaft standing on a unifying footing and supporting the coping of a parapet or the handrail of a staircase (multiplied in this way, they form a balustrade)

COMPOSITE this column type draws its name from the capital being a composite of the Ionic and Corinthian capitals (height to width ratio is about 11:1 or 12:1)

BARREL VAULT an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve (or pair of curves, in the case of a pointed barrel vault) along a given distance

BEAM a structural element that carries load primarily in bending (exure)

CORNICE any prominent, continuous, horizontally projecting feature surmounting a wall or other construction, or dividing it horizontally for compositional purposes

CURTAIN WALL a term used to describe a building facade that does not carry any dead load from the building other than its own dead load

BRISE SOLEIL a variety of permanent sun-shading techniques, often a horizontal projection extending from the sunside faade of a building

CANTILEVER a beam supported on only one end which allows for overhanging structures without external bracing

DOME a common structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere

GOTHIC ARCH an arch whose centre-line more closely follows the forces of compression and which is therefore stronger

CLERESTORY space in which the walls rise above the rooines of the lower aisles and are pierced with windows (by extension, "clerestory lights" are any rows of windows above eye level that allow light into a space)

COLONADE term that denotes a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature

KEYSTONE architectural piece at the crown of a vault or arch that marks its apex, locking the other pieces into position

LATTICEWORK an ornament, lattice framework consisting of a criss-cross pattern of strips of building material, usually wood or metal but can be of any material

COLUMN a vertical structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below

DORIC the oldest and simplest of the classical orders, this column is composed of a vertical cylinder that is wider at the bottom; it generally has neither a base nor a detailed capital (height-tothickness ratio is about 8:1

LOUVER a frame with horizontal and vertical slats, which are angled to admit light and air, but to keep out rain, direct sunshine, and noise

MASHRABIYA an oriel, or bay window, esp. one cantilevered or corbelled out from a wall, screened by latticework

ARCHITECTURE TERMINOLOGY regional and general vocabulary

ARCHITECTURE TERMINOLOGY regional and general vocabulary

ARCH: BELL a round arch, an arch formed in a continuous curve, resting on corbels (Amal Osman) ARCH: CINQUEFOIL an arch consisting a five lobed circle formed by cusping (Amna Sultan)

MULLION a structural element that divides adjacent window units (may also vertically divide double doors)

PARAPET a building parapet consists of a dwarf wall along the edge of a roof, or round a lead at, terrace walk, etc., to prevent people from falling over

PEDIMENT a classical architectural element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure (entablature), typically supported by columns

PLINTH the base or platform upon which a column, pedestal, statue, monument, or structure rests

ARCH: HORSESHOE an arch that starts to curve inwards above the level of the capital or impost; an embematic arch of Islamic architecture (Ahmed Al-Sarraf )

ARCH: LANCET an arch having a head that is acutely pointed (Amal Osman)

PORTE-COCHERE a porch or portico-like structure at an entrance to a building, through which it is possible for a vehicle to pass, in order for the occupants to alight under cover, protected from the weather

SCREEN a movable or xed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.

ARCH: TREFOIL a pointed arch having cusps on either side of the apex (Amal Osman)

AL DEHLEEZ a wall made out of stone which is placed in front of the main door of the house to create privacy; it is between the entrance door and the Al-Liwan (Fatima Al-Khayat)

TENSILE STRUCTURE a construction of elements carrying only tension and no compression or bending (can span long distaces and are economical)

TRELLIS / PERGOLA a structure made to support a climbing plant or plants / a pergola forms a shaded walk or passageway of pillars that support cross beams and a sturdy open trellis

AL FERYAH a door hollow that connects two houses (Noor Al-Mohannadi)

AL HOUSH a large space in front of the house made up of sand and stone (Fatima Al-Khayat)

TRUSS a structure comprising one or more triangular units constructed with straight slender members whose ends are connected at joints

WIND TOWER a traditional architectural device used for many centuries to create natural ventilation in buildings

AL JALEEB a water well, in some old houses, used as a water supply for cooking, washing and bathing (Fatima Al-Khayat)

AL QATEEA a bathroom, in some old houses, containing a huge water container used only for bathing within every bedroom (Fatima Al-Khayat)

DAKKAH benches within a sitting area outside of the compound wall, adajcent to the gate (Al-Jawhra Al-Mana)

DORMER a vertical window projection built out from a sloping roof to provide more light and air in an upper story (Fatima Nadeem)

*source for denitions: wikipedia.org *graphics drawn by Michelle Lopez

ARCHITECTURE TERMINOLOGY regional and general vocabulary

GAZEBO an outdoor, open air structure meant to be used for socializing or relaxing (Fatima Nadeem) IMPOST the point of springing of an arch; horizontal band from which arch begins (Hissa Al-Bahr)

Final Project Part 1: Screen

Overview As we embark on the final design assignment, we will first start by doing a quick group design exercise. This exercise will serve to inform your final project design. The exercise is intended to introduce the topic of sustainability and green building through 1) the use of recycled materials and 2) building orientation and passive systems through the design of a vertical or horizontal screen. It is also intended as an exercise in making. Assignment In a group, you are to design and build a full-scale screen using a single recycled material. A screen is defined as a movable or fixed device, especially a framed construction, designed to divide, conceal, or protect. A mashrabiya is a regional example of a screen. Use the following rules when considering your design:

MIHRAB a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla, indicating the direction to Mecca (Muna Abu-Holayqah)

QUATREFOIL WINDOW a round window composed of four equal lobes, like a flower; pattern from Moorish and Gothic architecture (Maryam Yousuf )

Schedule 05 April Desk Crits & work session 07 April Interim Pin-Up Please have the following ready at the beginning of class for your interim pin-up. 1. Completed screen at 1:1 (human scale) 11. Process sketches, models, photos, etc.

QUOIN a wedge used to support or anchor other items; more specifically the corner stones that anchor the edge of the building wall

ROSHINA shelf recessed in the wall to place items (Noor Al-Mohannadi)

TURRET a small tower that is part of a building, usually round and corbeled from a corner (Amna Sultan)

* Dictionary.com * Wikipedia.com * Architecture for Non-Major Students

1. The screen must be made using a single recycled material. 2. The screen must be at a scale of 1:1 (human scale); 3. It must be constructed using a single operation; that is, a single technique (i.e. weave, fold, stack). 4. It must be placed within the CMUQ building without creating an obstruction 5. It must be temporary and moveable To begin the assignment, work immediately with the material given to you. As you continue to develop new operations with your given material, consider how your screen might provide shade, wind, or privacy. Consider scale, proportion, form, degree of enclosure, views, light and color/ texture/pattern.

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Final Project: Qatar Green Building Council Learning Pavilion

Overview This project is your final design project for the semester, the design of an outdoor learning pavilion to be sited at the Qatar Green Building Council headquarters. Part I: Screen Assignment should be integrated in your pavilion design through either the operation that you used (stack, fold, braid, bend) or through the use of the material that you were assigned (plastic bottles, paper, plastic bags, cardboard or aluminum cans). While your midterm design project focused on a personal human-scaled space within an Education City building, this project will also address human scale in terms of passage, threshold/transition and capacity for a learning environment. It must also address natural environmental systems and the surrounding context through necessary spatial requirements and their relationship to natural systems (wind, sun and rain). Site Any exterior space of the Qatar Green Building Council headquarters. The QGBC is temporarily housed in a villa north of Education City housing. The two-story villa (once a home) has an adjacent one-story servants quarters. The villa is sited in the middle of the overall lot, and is surrounded by a compound wall. The entire exterior ground plane is currently hardscaped with tiles. The villa roof is accessible by a circular staircase in the northwest corner of the villa. On the front or east side, the exterior area between the front of the villa and the villa wall is roughly ten meters wide, with the exception of the projecting front entrance room. On the south side, the exterior area between the villa and the compound wall is roughly nine meters wide. On the back or west side, the exterior area between the villa and the compound wall is roughly one meter wide. The servants quarters building and a parking canopy are located on the north side of the villa, between the villa and the compound wall.

B. Make a site visit (outside of class, with a friend). Make sketches, take notes and photographs. Evaluate the context. Evaluate the site footprint in the context (check your pace length in order to check dimensions). Consider the following questions: Where does the sun rise? Sun set? How will shadows move throughout the day? From which direction does the wind come from? What are (or will be) the best views to and from the pavilion? How will the pavilion be a good neighbor? How do (or will) pedestrians move into and through the pavilion and across and around the site? Should your pavilion have a main entry or multiple entry (or exit) points? 2. Understanding your program What is the mission and the vision of the Qatar Green Building Council? Visit the QGBC website at http://www.qatargbc.org/ How can the space contribute to the publics learning process about sustainability and green building? 3. Group Site Model A group site model at a scale of 1:50 has been completed by the Pittsburgh course assistants. They have volunteered to lend it to you for your use, but will also need to use it for their own studio project. Therefore, please be sure to treat it with care and respect. 4. Schematic Design Sketch in model or on paper. This is an iterative process, where you test your ideas through drawing and model-making, then consult with your instructors, your teaching assistants and your peers. 5. Design Development: Final Drawings and Model For this public event you must have the following requirements: Plan, Section & Elevation at 1:50 Perspective drawing Model at 1:50

Schedule April 12: Culture & Climate Lecture A minimum of three preliminary sketches due (in sketchbook) Desk crits April 14: Sketch model at 1:100 due Plan, section & elevation sketches at 1:50 due (draw surrounding context) Desk crits April 19: Final Model at 1:50 due w/scale figure Draft of plan, section & elevation at 1:50 due (draw surrounding context) Desk crits April 21: Final plan, section & elevation at 1:50 due (draw surrounding context) Eye-level perspective drawing due Final Review from 2:30-4:30pm (model and all drawings due). You must have all the final drawings and model requirement complete prior to the start of the final review. You must attend for the duration of the review unless you receive permission to leave early from the instructor. Grading: The final design project will be graded based on your content/depth of thought and exploration, the quality of your design and the craft and care you take to complete the drawings and model.

Assignment You are to assume that the outdoor learning pavilion will be visited informally by individuals or small groups of people (a family), or formally, by a Process: 1. Understand your site. class of students and their teacher. A. Read your plans. Understand the existing context. Make sketches. Analyze the space Program requirements: between the villa and the compound wall 1) A protected area providing for both a casual and exterior areas on the roof of the villa and individual visitor and a formal class with a miniservant quarters. mum of (15) students, and one speaker. 2) A space that not only accommodates the necessities of both a casual user and a small class, but also elevates the spirit of those people within the space; thereby an ideal learning environment. 3) A space that mitigates the interior spatial requirements with the exterior environmental forces. 4) A space that is harmonious with the surrounding context.

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Final Project: Qatar Green Building Council Learning Pavilion

Front yard (East Facade)

Back yard (West Facade)

Front of villa and compound wall (East Facade)

Side yard (South Facade)

Back of villa and compound wall (West Facade)

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Side yard with servants quarters and car park (North Facade)

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Qatar Green Building Council Headquarters

Qatar Green Building Qatar Green Building Council Headquarters Council Headquarters

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Architecture for Non-Majors II

SPRING 2009, 2010, & 2011

For those Doha-based students who enjoy the challenge of design and the studio experience, I offer a second studio course, ANM II. Assuming familiarity in the basic skills of architecture, these students are encouraged to develop the design intentions with greater rigor in part by understanding the idea of abstraction in art and architecture. An appreciation for contemporary art and its relationship to architecture, is introduced in the first assignment, when each student is asked to research a particular modern or contemporary artist (e.g.. Donald Judd, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Lousie Nevelson, Mary Miss, Rachel Whiteread) and identify a piece of their oeuvre with which they identify. They are then required to abstract that piece first in drawing, and then in model. Having analyzed the artists work and then transformed it through an understanding of its salient qualities into a work of their own, students are then asked to create an exhibition space in which to house their work. Each is encouraged to shape the space as s/he see fit, based on the lessons gleaned from his/her understanding of the original artists work and the discussions that we

have had in class (e.g. issues of scale, light/ shadow, object/void). This assignment also requires consideration of circulation, sight lines, and sequence. In addition, each student is asked to begin investigating issues of materials and their assembly. The design of an exhibition space serves as a prelude to the final assignment: an addition to Mathaf, Qatars Arab Museum of Modern Art. The addition would house contemporary art from the Islamic world. Students were required to study the work of artists such as Mona Hatoum, Ghada Amer, Rachid Koraichi, Shirin Neshat, Golnaz Fathi, and Walid Raad, and to place the work within spaces for sculpture, painting, and film, each with specific dimensions and light requirements. Thus, students were urged to explore issues of massing, light, sequence, and assembly at the scale of a building. In addition to further developing their architectural design abilities and their appreciation for contemporary art, the course provides the students with two other valuable lessons. First, the students , largely from the region, learned that Arab and Islamic art is a living thing that continues to evolve, and need not be considered only for the historical galleries of a museum.

Left Non-majors students present their work to a jury of architects.

Architecture for Architecture for Non-Majors II II Non-Majors Museum Annex

Spring 2012 Architecture for Non-Majors II 48-096 Instructor Rami el Samahy email samahy@cmu.edu office #2141 class hours S T 10:30 - 11:50 Overview office hours S T 09:30 - 10:30 or by appointment

Architecture for Architecture for Non-Majors II II Non-Majors Museum Annex

Course Format Restrictions

Your project must not exceed the height of Mathaf. Your project must incorporate an entrance, and have a logical means of connection with the existing buildings. should be prepared to purchase various drawing Process and model making supplies throughout the course. 1. Understand your site. Documentation and Analysis Understand the context, existing or planned. Learning Outcomes Make sketches. Analyze the connections to The objective of this class is to develop further other buildings, and pathways. enthusiastic and informed participants in the built Make another visit.which Make shape sketches, take environment and thesite forces it. The notes and photographs. Evaluate the context. course offers an overview of skills necessary for Evaluate the design site footprint in the context (check three-dimensional in many fields, and counts towards thepace completion of order a Minor Architecture. your length in to in check dimensions). Participating students expect Where to accomConsider the followingcan questions: does plish the this course: thefollowing sun rise? in Sun set? How will shadows move throughout To refine drawing and model-making skills; the day? From which direction does To further understand how architects apthe wind come from? How do (or will) pedestriproach design issues; ans move across and around the site? What are To possess an understanding of spatial ex(or will be) the best views, both of yourpercepproject perience, as it is related to context, and to your project? tion, and experience; To explore issues of materiality and assembly as they relate to the process of building; 2. Understanding your program What To develop research and are presentation as is a museum? What the specific needs related to the field of element? architecture; of each programmatic What does it mean To have accomplished semester-long to combine them?a How much space do project of which students will be proud, and you actually need for these activities? Is there that reflect a heightened understanding of additional program that could be added to the the architectural process. building? Are there ways to make this a place that speaks to the activities that occur within them, while also speaking to their context of a twenty-first century Doha?

This project is your final design project for the semester. It is intended to reflect a culmination of your understanding of contemporary art, exhibition design and contemporary museums.

Course Description The project is a temporary addition for contemporary

Architecture Non-Majors II meets and Islamic art, for intended to house worksSundays by the following Tuesdays from 10:30-11.50 am. The course includes artists, among others: lectures, discussions, and designs projects that folPainting Yousef Ahmad, Ghada Amer, Golnaz low a typical architectural design studio sequence. Fathi Raqib Shaw Considered an intermediate level architectural : Shirin Neshat, Group/ studio Film/Photography for the non-architect, this courseAtlas builds Walid Raad on the design skills gained from the introducSculpture/Installations Mona Hatoum, Rachid tory course 48-095 Architecture for Non-Majors I. Class will be conducted in a studio format, in Korachi which students will investigate design issues with special Site attention to concept generation and development ofis a the spatial experience through design The site west court of Mathaf, the the Arab Muprocess. seum of Modern Art. This space, roughly 55 x 85 Students will continue to develop their ideas meters (including the parking lot) is located in front on architectural form and space-making. Students of also the main building. You may use all of it, will gain museum an understanding of the composior a part of it as your site. You may remove parts of tional principles which characterize great buildwhat is existing or preserve it to the greatest extent ings, past and present. Issues explored will include contextualism, expression, perception, experience possible. and representation. The course will introduce notions of materials, Program assembly systems, and construction processes Your project must incorporate the following programand the ways in which they can - and should - influmatic elements: ence the architectural design process and results, Black Box Room No light access, this room especially in determining the artistic, conceptual, be and roughly 10x10x10. poetic,should creative experiential aspects of archiPainting Room(s) This room, or series of rooms, tecture. must be lit naturally, with indirect light.as It must Architecture for Non-Majors I serves a pre-requisite to this course. Students are expected total 8m wide x 38m long x 4m tall to perform work Garden (readings, drawings and model Sculpture . Outdoor naturally lit space building) both 200m2 inside and outside of class. Students totalling

This class is largely a studio-format course, with The course schedule provides for in-class work the occasional lecture and seminar-style discussessions throughout the semester. Students must Overview Restrictions sion. The majority of the class is comprised of stu- work productively while in class. Students may This project is your final design project for the seYour project must not exceed the height of Mathaf. dio projects, similar in content to those undertaken find that several projects take less or more time, mester. It is intended to reflect a culmination of your Your project must incorporate an entrance, and have by second semester freshman or first semester dependent on their skill level and/or interest or understanding of contemporary art, exhibition design a logical means ofsubject connection with the existing buildsophomore architecture majors. care in a particular or activity. and contemporary museums. ings. For the seminar components, visual presentaDue to the diverse range of abilities, attions will indicate precedents and notable examtendance and participation count substantially The is a temporary addition for contemporary ples of project architecture works and practitioners. Class toward grading. Those with lesser ability, but who discussions an integral part of theby course. participate, employ significant effort and Islamic art,are intended to house works the following actively Process The first half of the semester will concentrate show continual improvement, will do well.and Students artists, among others: 1. Understand your site. Documentation Analysis on a series of analytical and design exercises inwith inherent creative skills are asked to a Painting Yousef Ahmad, Ghada Amer, Golnaz Understand the context, existing or meet planned. tended to prepare the students for the final design higher standard of design complexity. Fathi Raqib Shaw Make sketches. Analyze the connections to project, to be assigned and completed during the Both the process and the final product Film/Photography: Shirin Neshat, Atlas Group/ other buildings, and pathways. second half of the semester. contribute to any grade on a design project. Final Walid Raad Make another site visit. Make sketches, take The final project will be a highly structured products must exhibit good craftsmanship with Sculpture/Installations Mona Hatoum, Rachid notes and photographs. Evaluate the context. project, with very specific site, size, design quality materials. Korachi the sitebe footprint in the context (check program and set building components. The final AllEvaluate projects must ready for presentation at your pace lengthon in the order to check review and presentation will be held during final the beginning of class dates due. dimensions). Projects exam week. that are late for in-class presentation will be lowConsider the following questions: Where does Site Throughout the semester, each student isMuered in the grade. more than one sun Projects rise? Suncompleted set? How will shadows move The site is the west court of Mathaf, the Arab required toModern utilize a sketchbook, which will be week late will result in a full letter grade penalty throughout the day? From which direction does seum of Art. This space, roughly 55 x 85 reviewed and graded by the Instructor and Course per week. the wind come from? How do (or will) pedestrimeters (including the parking lot) is located in front Assistants. A required number of sketches will Grades will assessed through a combination ans move across and around the site? What are of the main museum building. You may use all of it, contribute to the final grade. of efforts based on the following criteria: (or will be) the best views, both of your project or a part of it as your site. You may remove parts of what is existing or preserve it to the greatest extent Pin-Upand 01 to your project? 5% Attendance possible. Pin-Up 02 5% Class attendance is mandatory. Students are 2. Understanding Mid-Term Review your program 10% expected to be on time, and to remain in class Pin-UpWhat 03 is a museum? What 5% are the specific needs Program throughout the period. Attendance will be taken 5 Interimof Pin-Up 5% each programmatic element? What does it Your project must incorporate the following program minutes after the commencement of class; anyone Final Project 40%How much space do mean to combine them? matic after elements: arriving that time will be considered late. Sketchbook 10% you actually need for these activities? Is there Black Box Room No light access, this room Three unexcused absences or late arrivals may Participation 20% result in automatic failure of the class. An unexadditional program that could be added to the should be roughly 10x10x10. cused absence one that is not accompanied building? Are there ways to make this a place Painting is Room(s) This room, or series of rooms, by signed approval from the Director Student that speaks to the activities that occur within must be lit naturally, with indirectof light. It must Activities, the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, them, while also speaking to their context of a total 8m wide x 38m long x 4m tall or a doctor. Please notify the Instructor prior to twenty-first century Doha? Sculpture Garden. Outdoor naturally lit space any absence. totalling 200m2

Grading

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Architecture for Architecture for Non-Majors II II Non-Majors Museum Annex

Introduction to the course In-class assignment 25 Mar 27 Mar Presentations Desk Crits 01 Apr 03 Apr

Week 01 Introduction to the Studio

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Week 11 Final Project Part 1

Pin-Up 03 Discussion & Desk Crits

Architecture for Non-Majors II Artist Analysis Project

Research Assignment
As a beginning point to the semesters project, you will be conducting artist-related research and preparing presentations and analytical drawings resulting from your inquiry. The goal is to start off the design of a museum with an expanded scope of knowledge about the issues that are inherent to the ideas of both artists, exhibition space and museums. You will share the results of your work with the entire studio. Focus on concepts of light, space, form, perception, and experience as they relate to the artists work. Consider how they might impact you as a designer. This assignment will require extensive research in the library, followed by discussions and synthesis of the information with your group. Only then will you be prepared to analyze, dissect, represent, and explain the ideas. Think of the drawings like you would a research paper: you begin with research and analyze information, then develop specific conclusions and a directed thesis. Your analysis drawing and model should do the same, exploring a particular concept or theme.

Week 02 Artist Precedent Part 1

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Week 12 Final Project Part 1

Overview Week 03 Artist Precedent Part 2

your final design project for the se29This Jan project Deskis Crits 31mester. Jan Pin-Up 01 It is intended to reflect a culmination of your
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Your13 project not exceed Week Finalmust Project Part 2 the height of Mathaf.

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Desk Crits Desk Crits

understanding of contemporary art, exhibition design Week 04 Exhibition Space Part 1 and contemporary museums. The project is a temporary addition for contemporary Islamic intended to house by the following Week 05 art, Exhibition Space Part works 2 12artists, Feb Desk Crits among others: 14 Feb Pin-Up 02 Painting Yousef Ahmad, Ghada Amer, Golnaz Fathi Raqib Shaw Week 06 Exhibition Space Part 3 : Shirin Neshat, Atlas Group/ 19 Feb Film/Photography Desk Crits Raad 21 Feb Walid Desk Crits Sculpture/Installations Mona Hatoum, Rachid Week 07 Museum Precedents Part 1 Korachi

08Your Apr project Desk must Crits incorporate an entrance, and have 10 Apr Interim Pin-Up

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a logical means of connection with the existing buildings.

Week 15 Final Project PartDocumentation 4 1. Understand your site. and Analysis

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Week Museum Precedents Part 2 remove parts of or a 09 part of it as your site. You may
11 Mar Desk Crits what is existing or preserve it to the greatest extent 13 Mar Desk Crits

of the main museum building. You may use all of it, possible.

Make sketches. Analyze the connections to other buildings, Week 16 Final Project and Partpathways. 5 another site visit. Make sketches, take 29 Apr Make Final Presentation (TBD) notes and photographs. Evaluate the context. Evaluate the site footprint in the context (check your pace length in order to check dimensions). Consider the following questions: Where does the sun rise? Sun set? How will shadows move throughout the day? From which direction does the wind come from? How do (or will) pedestrians move across and around the site? What are (or will be) the best views, both of your project and to your project? 2. Understanding your program What is a museum? What are the specific needs of each programmatic element? What does it mean to combine them? How much space do you actually need for these activities? Is there additional program that could be added to the building? Are there ways to make this a place that speaks to the activities that occur within them, while also speaking to their context of a twenty-first century Doha?

Week 10 Museum Precedents Part 3

18Program Mar Desk Crits 20Your Mar project Desk must Crits incorporate the following program21 Mar Required Lecture: Juhani Pullasmaa @VCUQ

matic elements: Black Box Room No light access, this room should be roughly 10x10x10. Painting Room(s) This room, or series of rooms, must be lit naturally, with indirect light. It must total 8m wide x 38m long x 4m tall Sculpture Garden. Outdoor naturally lit space totalling 200m2

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Architecture for Non-Majors II Architecture for Non-Majors II Project Artist Analysis Artist Analysis Project
Requirements 1. Presentation Research Assignment
In class today, discuss the artist you have been As a beginning point to the semesters project, given. Be prepared to present biographical or and you will be conducting artist-related research factual data, but concentrate on the intellectual, preparing presentations and analytical drawings theoretical, andyour spatial concepts addressed by off resulting from inquiry. The goal is to start the What relationships artist and the theartist. design of a museum with do an the expanded scope artwork have to architecture? To space? Light? Perof knowledge about the issues that are inherent ception? Experience? Identify the most important to the ideas of both artists, exhibition space and ideas and pieces byshare the artist to share museums. You will the results of with your others. work with the entire studio. Focus on concepts of light, space, form, perception, and experience as they 2. Analysis Diagram relate to artists Consider how might Prepare athe diagram orwork. analysis drawing ofthey the artimpact you asdiagram a designer. ists work. The is a chance to explore and Thisthe assignment will requireyou extensive reinterpret ideas and concepts research. search in the library, followed by discussions Draw a conceptual diagram about a particularand synthesis of choosing the information with your group. Only work of your by the artist. Your diagram then will be prepared to analyze, dissect, repshould beyou specific to a concept or idea in the work resent, and explain the ideas. Think of the drawings itself, and should help explain its meaning or inlike you would a research paper: begin with tent. Do not simply draw the formyou of the work, but research and analyzeanalysis information, then develop develop a meaningful of the work in terms specific conclusions and a directed thesis. Your that go beyond what a photograph can offer. The analysisshould drawing model should do the same, drawing beand focused on one small theme exploring particular concept or theme. within the a work. You may, for instance, answer one of the following questions. How is the work viewed? How is it perceived? What is the relationship between the work and its site? And its audience? How are materials used? What is the role of light or view in the work? Does the work define space? How is the experience of the viewer shaped? This is a difficult exercise that requires research, thought, discussion, and experimentation. We expect you to demonstrate your intelligence and creativity in the drawing. This drawing must fit on an A3 sheet and is due at the beginning of class on Tuesday 31 January. You will have an opportunity to revise this drawing for the pin-up on Tuessday 14 December. 3. Analytical Model Upon completion of your diagram drawing, create a three-dimensional version of your diagram. This should represent a further abstraction of the ideas that you attempted to embody in your drawing. Consider how you can use the model to represent issues of light, space or perception.The model should be constructed out of chip board, and should be no larger than 30cm x 30cm x 30cm. It should be well-crafted and reflective of your understanding, your intelligence, and your creativity. You will spend all of class onSunday 5 February and Tuesday 19 January working on your model. The final iteration of the model is due at the beginning of class on Tuesday 14 February.

Architecture for for Architecture Non-Majors II II Non-Majors Museum Annex Designing a Space for Exhibition
This project is your final design project for the seYour project must not exceed the height of Mathaf. mester. It is intended to reflect a culmination of your Your project must incorporate an entrance, and have Design Assignment Grading understanding of contemporary art, exhibition design a logical means of connection with the existing buildHaving analyzed the work of a given artist, and This assignment comprises 10 percent of your seand contemporary museums. ings. transformed it through an understanding of its samester grade. You will be graded on your process, lient qualities into a work of your own, you are now the quality of your design, and the craft of you final The to project is a a space temporary addition for contemporary asked create in which to house art of drawings and model. Islamic art, intended to house works by the following Process your choosing. artists, among others: 1. Understand your site. Documentation and Analysis The limits of this space are a cube of 5m x 5m x Schedule Painting Yousef Ahmad, Ghada Amer, Golnaz Understand the context, existing or planned. 5m. You are not required to fill it completely, but you S 19 Feb Desk Crits Fathi Raqib Shaw Make sketches. Analyze the connections to are not permitted to exceed these limits. T 21 Feb Pin-Up : shape Shirin Neshat, Atlas other buildings, and pathways. You Film/Photography are encouraged to the space as Group/ you S 26 Feb Desk Crits Make another site visit. Make sketches, take see fit, Walid basedRaad on the lessons gleaned from your T 28 Feb Mid-Review Sculpture/Installations Mona work Hatoum, notes and photographs. Evaluate the context. understanding of the original artists and Rachid the Korachi Evaluate the site footprint in the context (check discussions that we have had in class (e.g. issues of your pace length in order to check dimensions). scale, light/shadow, object/void). Consider the following questions: Where does Site This assignment also requires consideration of the sun rise? Sun set? How will shadows move The site is the west court of Mathaf, the Arab Mu circulation (including entry and exit), sight lines, and throughout the day? From which direction does seum of Modern Art. This space, roughly 55 x 85 sequence. In addition, the designer is asked to begin the wind come from? How do (or will) pedestrimeters (including the parking lot) is located in front investigating issues of materials and their assembly. ans move across and around the site? What are of the main museum building. You may use all of it, (or will be) the best views, both of your project or a part of it as your site. You may remove parts of Pin-Up Requirements and to your project? what is existing or preserve it to the greatest extent Plans and sections/interior elevations at 1:50 possible. Sketches of design process 2. Understanding your program Sketch models What is a museum? What are the specific needs Program of each programmatic element? What does it Your project must incorporate the following programMid-review Requirements mean to combine them? How much space do matic elements: Final plans and sections/interior elevations at 1:50 you actually need for these activities? Is there Black Box Room No light access, this room Final Model at 1:50 additional program that could be added to the should be roughly 10x10x10. building? Are there ways to make this a place Painting Room(s) This room, or series of rooms, that speaks to the activities that occur within must be lit naturally, with indirect light. It must them, while also speaking to their context of a total 8m wide x 38m long x 4m tall twenty-first century Doha? Sculpture Garden. Outdoor naturally lit space totalling 200m2

Overview

Restrictions

Grading

This phase comprises 5 %of your semester grade. You will be graded on your drawing and model.

Schedule
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Start class: Artist Presentation In-class work: Analytical Drawing In-class work: Analytical Drawing In-class work: Analytical Drawing Pin-Up Drawings In-class work: Model In-class work: Model Pin-Up Drawings and Models

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Architecture for Non-Majors II Museum Annex

Overview Restrictions

Architecture for Non-Majors II Museum Annex

This project is your final design project for the semester. It is intended to reflect a culmination of your understanding of contemporary art, exhibition design and contemporary museums. The project is a temporary addition for contemporary Islamic art, intended to house works by the following artists, among others: Painting Yousef Ahmad, Ghada Amer, Golnaz Fathi Raqib Shaw Film/Photography: Shirin Neshat, Atlas Group/ Walid Raad Sculpture/Installations Mona Hatoum, Rachid Korachi

Your project must not exceed the height of Mathaf. Your project must incorporate an entrance, and have a logical means of connection with the existing buildings.

3. Schematic Design Sketch in model and on paper. This is an iterative process, where you test your ideas through drawing and model-making, then consulting with your instructors, your teaching assistants and your peers. 4. Design Development: Final Drawings and Model We will have a final pin-up on 24 April at 10.30 am. For this public event you must have the following requirements: Model: 1:100 Site plan: 1:500 Plan: 1:100 Section: 1:100 Eye-level perspective Axonometric Process Drawings and sketch models

Process

Site

The site is the west court of Mathaf, the Arab Museum of Modern Art. This space, roughly 55 x 85 meters (including the parking lot) is located in front of the main museum building. You may use all of it, or a part of it as your site. You may remove parts of what is existing or preserve it to the greatest extent possible.

1. Understand your site. Documentation and Analysis Understand the context, existing or planned. Make sketches. Analyze the connections to other buildings, and pathways. Make another site visit. Make sketches, take notes and photographs. Evaluate the context. Evaluate the site footprint in the context (check your pace length in order to check dimensions). Consider the following questions: Where does the sun rise? Sun set? How will shadows move throughout the day? From which direction does the wind come from? How do (or will) pedestrians move across and around the site? What are (or will be) the best views, both of your project and to your project? 2. Understanding your program What is a museum? What are the specific needs of each programmatic element? What does it mean to combine them? How much space do you actually need for these activities? Is there additional program that could be added to the building? Are there ways to make this a place that speaks to the activities that occur within them, while also speaking to their context of a twenty-first century Doha?

Schedule
8 April 10 April 15 April 17 April 22 April 24 April

Program

Your project must incorporate the following programmatic elements: Black Box Room No light access, this room should be roughly 10x10x10. Painting Room(s) This room, or series of rooms, must be lit naturally, with indirect light. It must total 8m wide x 38m long x 4m tall Sculpture Garden. Outdoor naturally lit space totalling 200m2

Complete site model due Work on massing models Present massing strategy Present Schematic Design Working session Final Presentation

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Left Mid-term work, Arsalan Arif, inspired by Donald Judd Above Mid-term work, Maryam Al Semaitt, inspired by Rachel Whiteread.

Above Final project, Arsalan Arif. Right Final project, Maryam Al Semaitt.

Courses Taught at Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh & Doha

Middle Eastern Cities

CO-TAUGHT WITH FRANCESCA TORELLO (SPRING 2010 & 2011) SPRING 2007, FALL 20072008, & SPRING 20092013

I have taught Middle Eastern Cities in various permutations on both the Pittsburgh and Doha campuses, to both architecture and non-architecture students. This course examines a series of regional cities under a case study model with an eye to a number of particular themes, including rapid growth, sprawl, migration, squatter settlements, as well as the urban effects of war, occupation and reconstruction. While each city has its own specific conditions, I emphasize that the themes which emerge from these case studies represent issues that pertain to most non-western cities of the early twenty-first century and as such, have a wider relevance.

These issues are examined by looking at cultural context and physical form. Students are encouraged to investigate large scale, regional effects of urbanization as well as smaller interventions within a given neighborhood, and to search for the interrelation between the two scales. Combining seminar and workshop formats, the course is designed to increase knowledge of the regions urban conglomerations and students ability to think about them critically, through both analytical writing and drawing. Emphasis is placed on having students develop both verbal and visual tools of analysis and expression.

Left Beirut mapping by Janice Hui, Spring 2011

Middle Eastern Cities

The Middle East is home to some of todays most dynamic metropolitan areas, sharing with growing urban conglomerations in other areas of the world the need to address issues like burgeoning populations, the environmental impact of rapid urbanization, and post-disaster reconstruction, both natural and man-made. At the same time, the history of Middle Eastern cities is a finely woven tangle of cultural specificity and reactions to international models, presenting similar challenges towards preservation of urban fabric, integration of historical buildings in the growing urban body, and choices regarding the visual identity of the city. The course is structured in three parts. We will briefly introduce the history and geography of the region, mapping in their main outlines the flows - of people, goods, money - as well as networks and cultural specificity of each area. We will then examine several of the regions significant cities in a case study model, looking at both cultural context and physical form of the contemporary city, and applying the methods of urban history to gain deeper understanding of specific aspects of urban culture. The students will be encouraged to look at large scale, regional effects of urbanization as well as smaller interventions within a given neighborhood, and to search for the interrelation between the two scales, while they consider continuity and change in the historical fabric of the city. It is expected that students will actively participate in class discussion and respond in both writing and drawing. The students work will culminate in an independently developed final project, through which each will present to your peers their research results for a given city, using information design as a means of synthetically expressing their findings. Sunday Saturday

Case studies from two centuries of urban history

Schedule

Middle Eastern Cities

One city will be presented. The presentation will be comprised of three parts. First, an overview of the city, its history, growth, demographics, transportation networks, etc. Second, students will examine in detail the urban history of the city to better understand the shaping of the contemporary city. Third, the presenters will select an urban place of interest (eg, a public square, a neighborhood, or street) to analyze in greater detail. The presentation must be posted as a pdf to the class blackboard site 60 minutes before class. The visual response to the previous weeks city is due, posted to the class site. Students will utilize the statistics and drawings from the presentation as well as information gleaned in the readings to create a compelling piece of information design. At the start of the following weeks class, we will have a public critique of selected graphic responses.

Week 01 Introduction to the Course 13 Jan Class Introduction Week 02 Network Flows I 19 Jan Written assignment #01: Data Collection 20 Jan Class Regional Networks Week 03 Network Flows II 26 Jan Graphic assignment #01: Atlas 27 Jan Class Network Presentation Week 04 02 Feb 03 Feb 07 Feb Week 05 09 Feb 10 Feb 14 Feb Week 06 16 Feb 17 Feb 21 Feb Week 07 23 Feb 24 Feb 28 Feb Tehran Written assignment #02: Tehran Class Tehran Presentation Graphic assignment #02: Tehran Istanbul Written assignment #3: Istanbul Class Istanbul Presentation Graphic Assignment #3 Istanbul Cairo Written assignment #04: Cairo Class Cairo Presentation Graphic Assignment #4: Cairo Beirut Written assignment #05: Beirut Class Beirut Presentation Graphic assignment #05: Beirut

Week 11 Final Project Part I 31 Mar Final Presentation topic proposal due Week 13 Final Project Part I I 7 Apr Draft presentation due Week 14 Final Project Part III 14 Apr All Final work submitted Class presentations Week 15 Final Project Part IV 21 Apr Class presentations

By the presentation of the final city, the class will collectively have compiled a series of written and visual exercises focused on five Middle Eastern cities, as well as the requisite background information on the larger region and the Gulf, all in a simlar format. The remaining four weeks of class will concentrate on final projects, which are to focus on urban case studies of your choosing. These efforts will culminate in a presentation during the last weeks of class.

Evaluation

Grades will be assessed through a combination of efforts based on the following criteria: 20% 20% 20% 20% 20% Class Participation Weekly written assignments Weekly visual assignments Presentation Final Project

Structure

A combination of seminar and workshop, we will meet every Wednesday. The majority of the semester will be spent learning about particular cities in a case study mode; the final four weeks will be spent crafting and then developing your individual final project. A typical week will proceed as follows: Saturday A one-page written response to the weeks readings on a particular city is due by midnight, posted to the class site. This is to guarantee that all are prepared for the following days presentation and discussion.

Week 08 Spring Break 03 Mar No Class Week 09 Gulf Region* 09 Mar Written assignment #06: The Gulf 10 Mar Class Gulf Presentation 14 Mar Graphic assignment #06: The Gulf * Please note that production phase of Tasmeem Labs will take place from 10-14 March Week 10 Tasmeem Conference 17 Mar No Class, attend lecture instead Week 11 23 Mar 24 Mar 28 Mar Doha Written assignment #07: Doha Class Doha Presentation Graphic assignment #07: Doha

Assignments must be delivered in a timely fashion. Late delivery will result in a drop of one letter grade per day of tardiness. Attendance is mandatory at each class for its duration. Three unexcused absences may result in failure of the course.

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Regional Atlas

Weekly Assignments

Middle Eastern Cities

Middle Eastern Cities

In his work Modernity at Large, Arjun Appadurai posits that the modern condition can be understood as a series of flows: of people, ideas, finance, and ecology. Like water or air, these flows do not necessarily respect political boundaries (though they sometime help to form them). You are asked to create an atlas that examines the region through this lens. Working in pairs, you will be asked to investigate and document the following conditions: Economics: to include (but not be limited to) finance industry shipping Politics: to include (but not be limited to) empires mandates modern nation-states Social: to include (but not be limited to) demographics (such as religion, ethnicity, migration) Ecology: to include (but not be limited to) topography water, natural resources In collating data, consider by region, the state and the city. It should also look at historical and contemporary conditions, to the best of your abilities. The schedule for this assignment is as follows: Suaturday 19 Jan Essay (500 word) due This should be a description of the data you have been searching for, identifying its relevance. Saturday 26 Jan Final assignment due This is a graphic organization of the data collected.

Written Assignments

These weekly assignments are intended to be critical responses to the readings, rather than a summary book report. As you aim to develop and hone your analytical skills, consider the follow questions while you read: Voice Who is the author? What is their objective in writing this, what might be their bias? Is the piece meant to be factual or polemical? Is there something missing from the piece, and thereby noticeable through its absence? Content What are the relevant issues that you gleaned from the reading? What is the text saying in terms of the physical, economic, and social life of the city? What relevance is it to the course? Why do you think it was assigned? What did you personally find of interest? What effect did it have on your thinking of the city? Context Think of this reading in relation to the others. Think of it in relation to what you already know about urban situations. When was it written? Who do you think was the intended audience (architects, scholars, politicians, the general public)? As you read reflect on some of the issues that we will continue to address in this class, including identity, rapid growth, migration, informal settlements, and destruction and reconstruction.

Graphic Assignments

Using the images and statistics complied for the weeks presentation, students are to spend the second part of class working individually on a visual analysis of the weeks city. Each student is to explore a theme of their choice through visual means. This type of exercise has been labeled information design, suggesting not merely a reiteration of data, but rather using the possibilities of graphic design to tease out more provocative findings that are latent in the raw data. Consider juxtaposing two sets of information (eg. density and literacy rates) to see if unexpected results arise. Explore interesting avenues, and make sure that your final product is visually compelling.

Finally, please bear in mind the dual purpose of these assignments: first, to promote a more meaningful discussion, and second, to increase the quality of your writing skills; it is our hope that the best of these essays will have a life beyond this course, serving as pieces in an exhibition and/ or publication.

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Presentation Preparation I

Presentation Preparation II
Photographs Collect 20 images that are typical of various conditions in the city today. No bigger than 5MB each Collect 10 images of the various conditions of the city in history (Nineteenth and Twentieth century). City scale Find a decent map of the city. Scan it at 200 dpi. Save that, then work with a reduced copy (no more than 20MB). On separate layers, include the following: Outline the legal city boundary Outline metro region Show major neighborhoods Diagram the major transportation routes Locate outdoor public spaces in the city Outline city growth over time in your map of the city For all of these, we recommend you include bodies of water (blue) to help orient the viewer. We also recommend that these drawings be at 1:1000, where 1 cm equals 1000 meters (1 km). If you as a class collectively choose a different scale I will defer, but it must be metric*, and it must be consistent from city to city. Always include a scale. The class should design a scale that each group uses. Also, North is always up, unless it doesnt fit on the page. If thats the case, include north arrow Neighborhood scale Plan at 1:1000 (1 cm equal 100 meters) include streets (white with black outlines) and blocks (infilled dark grey) show green areas and plazas. This drawing should be no bigger than 2km X 2km (20cm X 20cm)

Middle Eastern Cities

Numbers For the city today: Population Area (in square km) Density (population per square km) Population growth rate Wealth (GDP, average per capita, and if possible disparity levels) Literacy rates (broken down by gender if possible) Infant mortality rate Age breakdown (if possible the following categories: under 25, 26-35, 36-55, 55+, the most important two being under 25 and over 55 (or something close to 55) Ethnic and Religious Breakdown (at times these will be different categories, but sometimes the two are conflated. eg, in Jerusalem it breaks along Jew or Arab, whereas in Beirut, its Maronite Christian, Shiite or Sunni. Also, particularly in the GCC, count the nationals to non-national ratio, and the breakdown of the non-nationals) For the city in history: A timeline of five to ten important facts, turning points for the transformation of the city focus your attention on the modern and contemporary city (i.e. the nineteenth and twentieth century history). The same data as above (population, density etc.) whenever available, but related with a specific time in the history of the city (e.g. density at 1848, population at 1870 etc.). Cite all sources

Middle Eastern Cities

This exercise is designed for the presenting group to deliver an overview of the given city, in both numbers and drawings, at both the scale of the city (or metropolitan region), at the scale of neighborhood, and at an urban place (be it a few blocks, a street or a square). It is important that the same information be gathered for each city, so we can then have a meaningful basis of comparison. You should include the following data:

Graphics Think of these images fitting on a slide that is 1024 wide by 768 pixels high, or roughly 36 x27cm.

Urban place scale Plan, showing buildings footprints (infilled dark grey), curbs cuts, and trees (green). I recommend a scale of 1:10 (1cm to 10m). This plan should never be larger than 300m x 200m (30cm x 20cm) Two sections cut through plan at 1:20. Show the same as plans above. Three-dimensional model, extrude basic building blocks. History In your presentation, you will reflect on the key moments of the life of the city you are studying, in relation with the larger political, social and economic context. You will try to see the effects of these events on the transformation of the urban fabric of the city, at the scale of the neighborhood, and at an urban place (a few blocks, a street or a square). Here are some essential questions about the history of urban transformations: when did the transformation take place, and why? what problems was it meant to solve? who made the decisions? who was in charge of the planning? Who was in charge of the realization of the project? who paid for the transformation, or how was it financed? These are broader topics of discussion that you might use in your presentation: what effects had the new scheme on the existing urban fabric? what effects did the new scheme have on the subsequent city development? can you still perceive the effects of this transformation in the present-day city? Where? It is imperative that you complete these tasks to the best of your abilities, as your classmates will rely on your efforts to produce their graphic analyses. Moreover, if we feel that you have missed something, we will ask you to find it later.

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Batoul Khalife

Middle East Cities Cairo

Wednesday February 03, 2010 Cairo,oftenreferredtobyhistoriansasaduelcity,holdsinitsurbanlayerstherecognitionof manycivilizationsthathadcrossedit.Butthemostobviousdistinctionisonebetweenan Egyptian/EasternlegacyandaEuropeanone.Alargepartofthelattersemergencecanberelatedto therulerspersonalfamiliaritywithEuropeanurbanlifestyle.Also,notonlydidthedecisionmakersat thattimeattempttoconveyaWesternlikeshapeofthecity,buttheyalsowenttotheextentof definingmodernizationbyEuropeanism.Ironically,Europeansthemselveshadnosimilar expectationsofanEasterncitysuchasCairo,buttheirexpectationswereratherattheoppositeofthe spectrum. TheembellishmentoftheEgyptiancityduringthe19thcenturywasintentionallystructuredwith accordancetoEuropeanstandardsnotonlyintermsofitsshapeandappearance,butalsofunction wise.AsJanetAbuLughodmentionsinherbook,TaleofTwoCities:TheOriginsofModernCairo, alongsidethepublicworksinthecitywentanattempttoprovideCairowith[...]municipalutilities whichwerebecomingthesinequanonofthemodernEuropeancity(p.438),suchaswaterandgas companies.However,wouldthisradicalstepofenrichingcivicservicesbefollowedthrough(oreven proposed)hadthedecisionmakersduringthattimenotbeenexposedtotheEuropeanlifestyleatsome pointduringtheirpersonallife?Forexample,theheadoftheMinistryofPublicWorks,AliMubarak, hadbeenoneoftheveryfewnativeEgyptiansincludedinMohammadAliseducationalmissionsto Europe(p.441);heaccumulatedstudiesincivilengineering,educationalandsewagesystemsinFrance throughoutdifferenttimesofhiscareer.ThesuccessiveKhedivesexposuretoEuropeanurbanismalso raisedeasyadministrativesupporttotheprojectofEuropeanizingtheWestsideofCairo.Thisisclear asIsmailassignspeoplewithhighknowledgeoftheWesternoutlooktoadministrativeandaffective positionsinthereformationprojects(e.g.assigningMohammadAliinMinistryofPublicWorks, importingtheFrenchlandscapearchitectwhoworkedonseveralParisianpanoramaslikeBoisde Boulogne).TheresultsofthecitysWesternembellishmentwereflauntedduringtheopeningofthe SuezCanalin1869inareaslikeCairo,AlexandriaandIsmailia.Ontheotherhand,visitorsfromEurope alreadyhadfineappreciationoftheArabianflavourofCairoandcametotheopeninginhopeof witnessingthathalfofurbanEgyptcelebratedandnottheurbanhalfthattheyhavebeenaccustomed to.SoIsmaildidhisbesttocreateaEuropeanimageofhimselfandhiscountry;theEuropeanwanted onlytheexotic(p.449),expectingtheArabianNightsandmonumentsreflectingtherichhistorythat Egyptowns. Inconclusion,asMariaGoliaadvisesinCityProfilesCairosection,thesocalledmotherof theworldisacityrichinuntapped,fragmentedknowledgeawaitingrecognitionandintegration.This impliesthat,withCairobeingacitysofullofhistoricalpatches,governorsandadministrativeforces havealiabilityoffindingwaystoreassemblethesepieceinwayswhichwillcomplimentthehistory behindthemandleadtoitsrevelation,insteadoftryingtocoverthesepatcheswithalayerofnewly fabricatedappearancewhichmaydestroythebuildingblocksofwhatCairoistoday.
Adam Himes In Defense of Dubai, Historicist City 17-03-10 Reams of paper have been filled with fantastical images of proposed architectural wonders/disasters in Dubai. Still more have been filled with polemics and condemnations lambasting the city as an a-historic, runaway-train wonderland destined to crash and burn any day now. It would be all too easy and all too meaningless to add another paltry page to this ever-growing encyclopedia of human ambition and folly. Many who write about this city do so with a mix of wonder, awe, and dismay at how a city of its nature could sprout from nothing overnight. But Dubai did not burst into being in an instant- contrary to what common sense might say, Dubai is very much a product of its own unique time, place, and yes, history. Rather than ask of Dubai, Who could have seen this coming? one should instead ask, Who didnt? In her examination of Dubais recent past, Merchants Role in a Changing Society, historian Fatma Al-Sayegh recounts the power struggles between Dubais sheikhs and the wealthy merchant classes who more often than not held the ports purse-strings. Qualities often taken for granted as products of Dubais recent wave of construction, such as rapid growth and free(er) market, consumeroriented economic policy, are in fact fundamental characteristics of the city since at least the turn of the 20th century. Indeed, Al-Sayegh points out that, even in [the] early days, Dubai grew in an orderly if rapid manner (88). Examples such as Sheikh Maktums abolition of taxes in 1904, the privatization of community services in the 1970s, and the opportunistic neutrality maintained by Dubai during the IranIraq War demonstrate Dubais long history of radical, no-holds-barred market-driven policy. Dubais recent construction boom has often been criticized for being vapidly form-based and a-historic; Shumar Basar exemplifies this criticism best in an article for Static, describing Dubai as, Shiny, new, over-scaled, scaleless, pompous, obscene, tasteless, but very real (1). To say nothing about critiques of form, critics are correct in saying, Dubai [forgets] (or worse [ignores]) lessons Western Europe can provide about the way in which a citys history must be layered over time (Basar 1). Needless to say, Dubai is not in Western Europe, so why should it follow the European ideal of geologic historicism? Whats more, Dubais current lavish, or pompous, projects are in reality a continuation of its own historical-architectural narrative. Al-Sayegh describes that wealthy merchants began to differentiate themselves in the built realm through both a change in scale and a change in materials, such as earth, clay, or coral (93). Following the standards of the contemporary consumer society that so strongly influences Dubai, the logical development of these structures would be even larger and built of even more flashy and opulent materials, thus, the towering glass monuments to consumerism that line Sheikh Zayed Road. While current construction in Dubai does not conform to Western standards of historicism, it accurately reflects the current zeitgeist of Dubai and more importantly, the specific historical context that has made Dubai what it is today- a city of merchants driven by and reflective of the market forces that have created it.

20 sqft 100 sqft

Average Square Footage Per Person Per Housing Type Of Dubai

There are over 300,000 Laborers Living in Restricted Camps In Dubai. This Accounts for 15% of Dubais Population
250 sqft

530 m

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1-100 person/ha 100 -300 person/ha 300 -1000 person/ha

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Small Housing Units/Budget Apartment

1-50 YTL/sq. m 50 -150 YTL/sq. m 150 -950 YTL/sq. m

land value

expensive shops

Osmanbey

Haci Anifs Restaurant

Istanbul Hilton

posh restaurants

Nisantasi Square

Sanzelize

bourgeois families

Pangalti

middle class

Merhamet

garconniere

Macka

Kasimpasa

Nisantasi Home

Cumhuriyet Ave

Halaskargazi Ave

Valikonagi Ave

Fuaye Tesvikiye

Satsat Distribution

bookstore

Tesvikiye Mosque

backstreets

shantytowns slums

Taksim Square

Tesvikiye Avenue

Harbiye

Annual Expenditures Household vs Labor Camp

Food, Beverages, and Tobacco Rents, Fuel, and Energy 4,280,740,000 AED (Household) 2,119,988,000 AED (Labor Camp)

Traditional Arabic House

500 sqft
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area use

ISTANBUL: density

SISLI: section comparison

BEYOGLU: section comparison

16,324,030,000 AED (Household) 2,927,902,000 AED (Labor Camp) 6,404,714,000 AED (Household) 1,734,898,000 AED (Labor Camp)

700

670,000 AED

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Apartment/Condo Transporation and Communication

500
448,000 AED

900 sqft

400

Medical Care and 963,225,000 AED (Household) Health Services 128,294,000 AED (Labor Camp) 2,993,219 AED (Household) Leisure, Entertainment, and Education 83,642,000 AED (Labor Camp) Clothing and Footwear 2,065,350,000 AED (Household) 463,702,000 AED (Labor Camp)

Average Household Income

266,000 AED

Pangalti Tesvikiye Avenue Tesvikiye Mosque Cumhuriyet Avenue Macka Dolmabahce Stadium Beyoglu Haci Anifs Restaurant Istanbul Hilton Harbiye
slums

trading families shops restaurants Osmanbey middle class bourgeois families Armenian posh restaurants Nisantasi Square Bebek Greek expensive shops Fuaye bookstore Home Nisantasi Sanzelize Valikonagi Avenue Jewish Merhamet Apartments garconniere Tesvikiye backstreets Halaskargazi Avenue Levantine Ortakoy

Sisli

Besiktas

Anadoluhisari
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300

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Taksim Square Satsat Distribution Export Firm

shantytowns sh market Sishane Sishane Hill

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200

205,000 AED

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SISLI: land value

1-50 YTL/sq. m 50 -150 YTL/sq. m 150 -950 YTL/sq. m

UAE National

Arab

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Villa Style Housing /Mansions

ISTANBUL: area use
Suadiye
summer house

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4249223.stm

http://www.grapeshisha.com/typical-Dubai-salaries.html#thespreadsheet

http://www.dsc.gov.ae/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/08/middleeast.construction

BEYOGLU: land value

1-50 YTL/sq. m 50 -150 YTL/sq. m 150 -950 YTL/sq. m

Greater Cairo Cotton Greater Production Cairo Cotton Production

550 550

Merhamet Apartment

Tesvikiye Mosque

Nisantasi

Tesvikiye

posh restaurants Halaskargazi Ave

Sanzelize

expensive shops

Tesvikiye Avenue

backstreets

450

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Osmanbey

Nisantasi Square

500

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Valikonagi Ave

bourgeois families

Macka

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Home

garconniere

bookstore

Fuaye

Sishane Taksim

Cumhuriyet Ave

Haci Anifs Restaurant

Satsat Distribution

Taksim Square

Kasimpasa

shantytowns slums

Harbiye

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350

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300

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Above Excerpts from Istanbul final project by Abigail Branch,

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1000 Metric Tons of Cotton

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British Troops Take Control of Egypt

Egypt Briefly Becomes a Democracy

Egypt Briefly Becomes a Democracy

Egypt Gains Independence

Suez Canal is Completed

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Abbas II

in Doha, Spring 2010.

Egypt and Israel Sign a Peace Treaty

President Mubarak

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ALGLOBAL SUBWAY GLOBAL SUBWAY SYSTEMS GLOBAL SUBWAY SYSTEMS SUBWAY SYSTEMS SYSTEMS
USE AND EXTENT USE AND EXTENT USE AND EXTENT

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48-577 48-577 48-577 48-577 Contemporary Middle Eastern Cities Contemporary Middle Eastern Contemporary Cities Middle Eastern Contemporary Cities Middle Eastern Cities Rami el Samahy Rami el Samahy Rami el Samahy Rami el Samahy

WAIT TIME peak hours

WAIT TIME peakWAIT hours TIME peak hours WAIT TIME peak hours COST PER RIDE COST PER RIDE COST PER RIDE COST PER RIDE

USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS

city total pop. city total pop.

one day pass : 1.25 YTL = $0.81 one day pass : 1.25 one YTL day = pass $0.81 : 1.25 YTL one =day $0.81 pass : 1.25 YTL = $0.81

1-tier of class

city total pop.

1-tier of class

city total pop.

1-tier of class

1-tier of class

ISTANBUL, turkey

ISTANBUL, turkey

8.5 km - track length

8.5 km - track length

8.5 km - track length

8.5 km - track length

2 stations

2 stations

2 stations

2 stations

trains run every 5 mintues

trains run every 5 mintues trains run every 5 mintues trains run every 5 mintues

130,000 passengers per day

130,000 passengers per day 130,000 passengers per day

130,000 passengers per day

TRANSPORTATION TYPE TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION TYPE TRANSPORTATION TYPE TYPE

metro - sub-surface metro - sub-surface metro - sub-surface metro - sub-surface

$ $$ $
$3.00 $3.00 $3.00

$3.00

views of metro stations

metro users metro users metro users TRAIN SEGREGATION TRAIN SEGREGATION TRAIN SEGREGATION TRAIN SEGREGATION

views of metro stations views of metro stations

views of metro stations

metro users

population 11,372,613 1%

population 11,372,613 population 11,372,613 1% 1%

population 11,372,613 1%

WAIT TIME peak hours

WAIT TIME peakWAIT hours TIME COST peak hours WAIT PER RIDE TIME peak hours COST PER RIDE COST PER RIDE COST PER RIDE

city total pop.

USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS

city total pop.

ride (single-way) : 2.75 dirham $0.75 ride= (single-way) : ride 2.75 (single-way) dirham = $0.75 : 2.75 ride dirham (single-way) = $0.75 : 2.75 dirham = $0.75

DUBAI, uae

DUBAI, uae

km

km

km

km

3-tiers of class executive women + children general

metro users

city total pop.

3-tiers of class 3-tiers of class 3-tiers of class executive executive executive women + children women + children women + children general general general
metro users

city total pop.

Sheikh Zayed Road

finished 2009
Sheikh Zayed Road

Sheikh Zayed Road

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finish

Sheikh Zayed Road

finished 2009
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Sheikh

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Sheikh Zayed Road

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finish

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Sheikh Zayed Road ed 2009
Sheikh Zayed Road

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Sheikh Zayed Road

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Busines

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Oud

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Busines

finished 2020

finished 2020
To Abu Dhabi
Khail Road ToAl Abu Dhabi

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Oud

Mehta

Road

Busines

finished 2020
Al Khail Road

s Bay To Sharjah

Oud

Mehta

Road

Busines

finished 2020
Al Khail Road

To Sharjah

s Bay

Oud

Mehta

57 stations
Road

To Sharjah

57 stations

57 stations

57 stations

To Abu Dhabi

Al Khail Road

To Abu Dhabi

Road

Road

Road

Road

Emirates Road
Khor

Emirates Road
Khor

Emirates Road
Khor

Emirates Road
Khor

Mehta

Mehta

Mehta

Mehta

trains run every 2 mintues

trains run every 2 mintues trains run every 2 mintues trains run every 2 mintues

Emirates Road

finished 2020
Emirates Road

Emirates Road

finished 2020
Emirates Road

Emirates Road

finished 2020
Emirates Road

Emirates Road

finished 2020
Emirates Road

1,200,000 passengers per day

1,200,000 passengers per day1,200,000 passengers per day

1,200,000 passengers per day

TRANSPORTATION TYPE TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION TYPE TRANSPORTATION TYPE TYPE

metro - surface/sub-surface metro - surface/sub-surface metro - surface/sub-surface metro - surface/sub-surface

$ $$ $
$3.00 $3.00 $3.00

metro users

metro users

$3.00

views of metro stations

views of metro stations views of metro stations

views of metro stations

Ras Al Road

Ras Al Road

Ras Al Road

Ras Al Road

Oud

Oud

Oud

Oud

TRAIN SEGREGATION TRAIN SEGREGATION TRAIN SEGREGATION TRAIN SEGREGATION

population 2,262,000
53%

population 2,262,000 population 2,262,000population 2,262,000

53% 53% 53%

WAIT TIME peak hours

WAIT TIME peakWAIT hours TIME peak hours WAIT TIME peak hours COST PER RIDE COST PER RIDE COST PER RIDE COST PER RIDE

USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS

city total pop. city total pop.

1-tier of class

city total pop.

1-tier of class

city total pop.

1-tier of class

1-tier of class

ride (single trip) : 1 EGP = $0.18 ride (single trip) : 1 ride EGP (single = $0.18 trip) : 1 EGP ride =(single $0.18 trip) : 1 EGP = $0.18

CAIRO, egypt

CAIRO, egypt

66 km - track length

66 km - track length

66 km - track length

66 km - track length

* during peak hours, middle * during peak hours, * during middle peak hours, middle * during peak hours, middle car reserved for women only car reserved for women car reserved only for women car only reserved for women only

53 stations

53 stations

53 stations

53 stations

trains run every 3 mintues

trains run every 3 mintues trains run every 3 mintues trains run every 3 mintues

2,000,000 passengers per day

2,000,000 passengers per day 2,000,000 passengers per day

2,000,000 passengers per day

TRANSPORTATION TYPE TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION TYPE TRANSPORTATION TYPE TYPE

metro - sub-surface metro - sub-surface metro - sub-surface metro - sub-surface

$ $$ $
$3.00 $3.00 $3.00

$3.00 metro users metro users metro users

views of metro stations

views of metro stations views of metro stations

views of metro stations

metro users

TRAIN SEGREGATION TRAIN SEGREGATION TRAIN SEGREGATION TRAIN SEGREGATION

population 16,292,269
12%

population 16,292,269 population 16,292,269 population 16,292,269

12% 12% 12%

WAIT TIME peak hours

COST PER RIDE COST PER RIDE COST PER RIDE COST PER RIDE WAIT TIME peakWAIT hours TIME peak hours WAIT TIME peak hours

city total pop.

USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS

city total pop.

ride (single-way) : 750 Rials = ride $0.08 (single-way) : ride 750 (single-way) Rials = $0.08 : 750 ride Rials (single-way) = $0.08 : 750 Rials = $0.08

1-tier of class

city total pop.

1-tier of class

city total pop.

1-tier of class

1-tier of class

TEHRAN, iran

TEHRAN, iran

km

km

km

km

60 stations

60 stations

60 stations

60 stations

trains run every 15 mintues trains run every 15 trains mintues run every 15 mintues trains run every 15 mintues

3,000,000 passengers per day

3,000,000 passengers per day3,000,000 passengers per day

3,000,000 passengers per day

TRANSPORTATION TYPE TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION TYPE TRANSPORTATION TYPE TYPE

metro - surface/sub-surface metro - surface/sub-surface metro - surface/sub-surface metro - surface/sub-surface

$ $$ $
$3.00 $3.00 $3.00

metro users$3.00

metro users

metro users

metro users

views of metro stations

views of metro stations views of metro stations

views of metro stations

TRAIN SEGREGATION TRAIN SEGREGATION TRAIN SEGREGATION TRAIN SEGREGATION

population 13,413,348
22%

population 13,413,348 population 13,413,348 population 13,413,348

22% 22% 22%

368 km - track length

368 km - track length

368 km - track length

368 km - track length

WAIT TIME peak hours

WAIT TIME peakWAIT hours TIME peak hours WAIT COST PER TIME RIDE peak hoursCOST PER RIDE COST PER RIDE COST PER RIDE
city total pop.

USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS

city total pop. 1-tier of

class

city total pop.

city total pop. 1-tier of class 1-tier of class

1-tier of class

ride (single way) : $2.00

ride (single way) : ride $2.00 (single way) : $2.00 ride (single way) : $2.00 one day pass : $7.50 one day pass : $7.50 one day pass : $7.50

NEW YORK, usa

NEW YORK, usa

one day pass : $7.50

468 stations 468 stations 468 stations 468 stations

trains run every 10 mintues trains run every 10 trains mintues run every 10 mintues trains run every 10 mintues

TRANSPORTATION TYPE TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION TYPE TRANSPORTATION TYPE TYPE

metro - surface/sub-surface metro - surface/sub-surface metro - surface/sub-surface metro - surface/sub-surface

6,432,700 passengers per day

6,432,700 passengers per day6,432,700 passengers per day

6,432,700 passengers per day

$ $$ $
$3.00 $3.00 $3.00

metro users $3.00

metro users

metro users

metro users

views of metro stations

views of metro stations views of metro stations

views of metro stations

TRAIN SEGREGATION TRAIN SEGREGATION TRAIN SEGREGATION TRAIN SEGREGATION

population 19,750,000
33%

population 19,750,000 population 19,750,000 population 19,750,000

33% 33% 33%

328 km - track length

328 km - track length

328 km - track length

328 km - track length

WAIT TIME peak hours

WAIT TIME peakWAIT hours TIME peak hours WAIT COST PER TIME RIDE peak hoursCOST PER RIDE COST PER RIDE COST PER RIDE
ride (by distance) : average
1 - 6 km 7 - 11 km 12 - 19 km 20 - 27 km 28 - 40 km 160 190 230 270 300

USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS USAGE DEMOGRAPHICS

city total pop. city total pop.

total pop. city total pop. ride (by distance) ride : (by distance) : ride (by distance) :city 230 average = $2.58 average 230 = $2.58 average 230 = $2.58
1 - 6 km 7 - 11 km 12 - 19 km 20 - 27 km 28 - 40 km 160 1 - 6 km 190 7 - 11 km 230 12 - 19 km 270 20 - 27 km 300 28 - 40 km 160 190 230 270 300 1 - 6 km 7 - 11 km 12 - 19 km 20 - 27 km 28 - 40 km

1-tiers of class

TOKYO, japan

TOKYO, japan

282 stations

282 stations

282 stations

282 stations

one day pass : 710 trains run every 3 mintues

trains run every 3 mintues trains run every 3 mintues trains run every 3 mintues

TRANSPORTATION TYPE TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION TYPE TRANSPORTATION TYPE TYPE

metro - surface/sub-surface metro - surface/sub-surface metro - surface/sub-surface metro - surface/sub-surface

8,000,000 passengers per day

8,000,000 passengers per day8,000,000 passengers per day

8,000,000 passengers per day

$ $$ $
one day pass : 710 one day pass : 710 one day pass : 710
$3.00 $3.00 $3.00

160 190 230 270 300 users metro

230 = $2.58

* during peak hours, first car * during peak hours, * during first car peak hours, first * during car peak hours, first car reserved for women only reserved for women reserved only for women only reserved for women only
metro users metro users

city total pop. city total pop.

1-tiers of class 1-tiers of class city total pop.

city total pop.

1-tiers of class

metro users

$3.00

views of metro stations

views of metro stations views of metro stations

views of metro stations

TRAIN SEGREGATION TRAIN SEGREGATION TRAIN SEGREGATION TRAIN SEGREGATION

population 12,790,000
63%

population 12,790,000 population 12,790,000 population 12,790,000

63% 63% 63%

Above Final project by Pittsburgh student Andrew Butchko, Fall 2008.

istanbul : 1831 km dubai: 1287 km cairo: 214 km tehran: 686 km nyc: 1214 km tokyo: 2187 km

84% 59% 10% 33% 56% 100%

istanbul : 1831 km dubai: 1287 km cairo: 214 km tehran: 686 km nyc: 1214 km tokyo: 2187 km

istanbul 84% : 183110,000 km people 84% istanbul : 1831 km dubai: 59% 1287 km 59% dubai: 1287 km cairo: cairo: 214 km 10% 214 km 1 metro line 10% tehran: 33% 686 km 33% tehran: 686 km nyc: 56% 1214 km 56% nyc: 1214 km proposed metro line tokyo: 100%2187 km 100% tokyo: 2187 km metro station

10,000 10,000 people 84% people 59% 10% 1 metro line 1 metro line 33% 10 km 40 km 10 km 56% proposed metro line proposed metro line 100% metro station metro station

10,000 people 1 metro line

100 km 40 km 10 km 40 km 100 10 km km

total circle = 20 min

40 km 100 km blue area denotes

100 km

proposed metro line metro station

wait time per metro

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*maps not to same scale -- above figures describe *maps not to same scale -- above figures describe*maps not to same scale -- above figures describe total city area and then a percentage comparison total city area and then a percentage comparison total city area and then a percentage comparison

total circle total = 20 symbol min = total 3.00 USD circle = 20 min total symbol total circle = 3.00 = 20 USD min total symbol = 3.00 USD

blue area green denotes fill indicates bluecost area denotes greenblue fill indicates area denotes costgreen fill indicates cost green fill indicates cost wait time per per metro city metro wait in USD time per metro per wait city metro time per in USD metro per city metro in USD per city metro in USD
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$ $

total symbol = 3.00 USD

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Informal Settlements in Cairo: Evictions and Relocation

6th of October
Informal Settlement Boundaries 2000 1977 1950 Formal Settlements Unsafe Area, Residents to be evicted

Gender Ratio Imbalance

in the United Arab Emirates
Qalyoubia

UAE Total Population (2010)

8,264,070

Total Population Gender Distribution

Total Population Nationality Distribution

Giza Cairo

25%

11.5%

LOCALS

FEMALE

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16

million people live in the Cairo area.

75%

MALE

88.5%

EXPATS

Helwan

1 woman to every 3 men

15th of May

20%

of the more than six million living in informal areas

1MILLION
face eviction and relocation.

of the Cairo metropolitan areas residents live in Expat Gender Distribution informal settlements.

UAE National Gender Distribution

22.3% 77.7%
MALE

FEMALE

49.5% 50.5%
MALE

FEMALE

Cairos Informal Areas Egyptian-German Participatory Development Programme, with ISDF | We Are Not Dirt: Forced Evictions in Cairo Amnesty International

Phillip Denny | Middle Eastern Cities | Spring 2012

more than

people live in the Cairo area. 16 million

The UAE has thousands of foreigners from Asia and other parts of the Middle East who work in the country's oil elds and construction sites; majority of these labor migrants are men unaccompanied by their families.
Source: UAE National Bureau of Statistics

20%

of the more than six million living in informal areas

of the Cairo metropolitan areas residents live in informal settlements.

Left Cairo mapping by Phil Denny, Spring 2012 Above Humaira Tasnim, Spring 2013

MILLION face eviction and

relocation.

PHOTO COURTESY OF AMY BURKERT

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Both modeled the and Spheres (BIOS3), EUREKA, ments include helping to create new Grotzinger Grotzinger says says Burkerts Burkerts love love for for that teach videoconferencing. videoconferencing. Dr. Dr. Burkert Burkert will will be be able able to to reach reach more more PHOTOS FROM THE EVENT, VISIT HTT P:// B I T . LY / C MUP IPE R. campus campus and and throughout throughout the the region. region. MCS Associate Dean Eric from health of offor cials in including Qatar, both viaful wide variety projects a series vocation with a career path ineducation, mind. She also through our international students students. As vice provost for nurtured numerous partnerships across tions of the Leonard Gelfand Center for and scientists think responsibly and ethitions of the Leonard Gelfand Center for the University Advising Award and the and programs. As a pioneering teacher, Grotzinger and the late Bill Brown in Her excellence in mentoring, com llment of working hard to serve the a rst-year seminar MCS students interdisciplinary courses of study, such C Oand N T I Ncompassion U E D O N PA G E F Istudents VE teaching teaching and compassion for for students Through Through the the BIOS3 BIOS3 service-learning service-learning students students than than she she did did before before and and that that Thousands Thousands of of students students have have been been Grotzinger says Burkerts love for as videoconferencing. of studies in the area of possible health said its more about looking at the ophere, our international research and Dr. Burkert will be able to reach more campus and throughout the region. Service Learning and Outreach; graduate cally about their work and how it affects Service Learning and Outreach; graduate MCS Julius Ashkin Teaching Award advisor, mentor and administrator, shes response to President Jared Cohons municating, educating, problem solving needs of others and ones community. that combines the disciplines of biothe Bachelor of Science and Arts and INDIRA N A I R take will will serve her well in in her her new new role. role. component component students students take their their knowledge knowledge C A M Y serve B U R Kher E R Twell CO ON NT TIIN NU UE ED D O ON N P PA AG GE E E EL LE EV VE EN N impacted impacted by by her her work. work. teaching and compassion for students Through the BIOS3 service-learning 6/08 issue students than she did before and that effects from power-frequency electric and portunities in front of her, making sense education partnerships, and through our Thousands of students have been support programs; graduate diversity; toward the worlds people. And similarly the world around them. She also pushed support programs; graduate diversity; R e t hink ing E duca tion toward the worlds people. And similarly R e t hink ing chemistry E duc a t io n Global andScience as an associate department head helped to create novel opportunities and the Course Initiative. She said the and leading will surely make her successWorking with and for students has logical sciences, physics, and and Humanities Scholars will serve that her well hernationnew role. programs. component students take their knowledge CO N TINU E D Oto N research P Abe G E done E knowledge L and EVE N magnetic elds. She became associate of what needed to and learning with a alumni all over the impacted by her to work. undergraduate fellowships; you have to have knowledge how other students to think how they were might act in relationships undergraduate research and fellowships; Nair said reading and writing you have have a how other and dean, whos been a creator and new paradigms have in been Nair said reading and writing class one is one of her favorite projects True to the Carnegie Mellon ethos, ful as the vice provost for education. I of Burkerts greatest joys. She mathematical sciences. She was part ofwere been She helped establish the full-strength computer science courses with a 2 Q&A With Dan Barnett: Spring neuroscientists uncover department head in was EPP and was what she needed to complete the job at we need to have different kinds the Eberly Center for Teaching Excelpeople might think, how other cultures real-world situations while they areof still world. theof Eberly Center for Teaching skills was expected to know developer successful new courses ally recognized. people might think, how other cultures skills everyone to know because it brings together many elements Burkert is always looking forexpected ways to tenured could seems not beeveryone more thrilled with the news, said it will be dif cult giving up her daily the team that created the Diabetes World uni ed major in biological sciences and ExcelCarnival To Have a Twist in the department on the basis of her hand. Nair helped create courses and literacies, Nair said. Everybody needs a research rigorous concentration in studio or lence, Academic Development and the might think. So from the beginning, sitting in the classroom. lence, Academic Development inonly the past. But because of the be economy, and programs. Inperforming announcing her appointment, might think. So from the beginning, my including teams of interdisciplinary stuadvance the cutting edge in education. in the past. But because ofboth the economy, Vice President and Mark Kamlet associate and has served in a my Heidi Opdyke and am sorry that IProvost will not still and direct interactions with students Possible link between Service-Learning Project with Chilpsychology, the biomedical engineeringand the research and her outstanding contributions And then I been just do it. as Thats how activities on the Pittsburgh campus that to know some common facts about 3 Fred University Celebrates Campaign Intercultural Communications Center; thinking hasin been that no matter what MCS Dean Gilman agrees. I would tell advancements students most the often, Intercultural Communications Executive Vice President and Provost expanded travel and in variety in an email to the university community. of roles EPP including associdents exploring science in work context, global She recognizes the unique elements of thinking has that no matter what at this institution to see the improvements expanded travel and advancements in she but hopes through her vice drens Hospital, which provided students minor for non-engineering students andCenter; are poised to different forms of epilepsy arts. Several first-year students For 32 all years, Indira Nair has champias as well well as as H&SSs H&SSs David David Kaufer Kaufer and and always (Qatar) (Qatar) taught taught the the rst rst course, course, U.S. U.S. El El Samahy Samahy and and Torello Torello are are team team Abby Abby Houck Houck in care Singapore and India toHealth education heremake at Carnegie Mellon, and Ive done my jobs, Nair said. enhances students global understanding environment and our actions. They need the Carnegie Mellon Advising Resource For her, the key question has always ate department head professor. She Amy is a great choice for vice Mark Kamlet cited her commitment and the minor subject area you and teach, theres when professionals think about these the Carnegie Mellon Advising Resource connections via technology and impact communications technology, awareness Carnegie Mellon that it an ideal in educational objectives that she will subject area you theres always provost, she will be able toteach, have an even communications technology, awareness in the Professions Program the in health policy and manN I V E R S I T Y O M M U N I T Y E L E B R AT E S AY O F E R V I C E enter the program in the fall. oned change at the university. RespectDanielle Danielle Wetzel. Wetzel. Arab Arabbeen Encounters. Encounters. Nair Nair taught taught Global Global teaching teaching Middle Middle Eastern Eastern Cities, Cities, a a new new elsewhere acrossis the country and around In doing so, shes reshaped the uniof issues in various disciplines. One to know that they have to think reof echow do educate our students to was named provost of education in of Center; and the Of cestudents of Kaufer Technology for provost Center; for education. Shes been an innovative approach to education. through service learning. room to vice introduce those elements. place for collaborative Many things, it we is in times of distress some and the Of Takes ce of Technology for of the world vital. Young said. impact. Her former are room to introduce those elements. of the world vital. opportunity to experience rst-hand agement. She also was on the team that Carnegie Mellon neuroscientists have identified 9 Ken Chu Center Stage in Its 9:30 9:30 on on a a Wednesday Wednesday morning in in as well as H&SSs David and instill, (Qatar) taught theinnovation. morning rst course, U.S. broader El Samahy and Torello are team Its Abby Houck ed uses by students and colleagues alike, Franco Sciannameo, director of are the Most Most classrooms classrooms at at Carnegie Carnegie Mellon Mellon IssuesLocal IssuesLocal Solutions Solutions with with former former course course that that uses case case studies studies to to merge merge the world. versitys plan for creating well-rounded those courses is Biotechnology Impacttively about their job and have responsibecome aware, socially responsible global 1998. invaluable member of the faculty of the We fortunate to have Amy Education. Taught by Burkert and her colof the educational initiatives she was To address these concerns, Nair Sheila Prakash, an MCS graduate kind, when they are con icted and Education. con dent she will succeed. Understanding how to live together To address these concerns, Nair Understanding how to live together the challenges faced by patients with developed the intercollegiate bachelors CFAs Costume Shop Shilo Raube Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. A A member member of of Computing Computing SerSerDanielle Wetzel. Arab Encounters. Nair taught Global teaching Middle Eastern Cities, a new what may be the first known link between she has helped transform Its 9:30 on a Wednesday morning in Qatar Qatar are are equipped equipped with with cameras cameras and andSphere, Carnegie Carnegie Mellon Mellon Qatar Qatar faculty faculty member member urban analysis analysis with with urban urban history. history. About About Under her guidance, she has de- urban students. ing OurSelves, Societies and bility embedded the citizens ofare tomorrows Indira truly I came here [the vice Mellon College of Science. She excels Burkert, an enormously dedicated and I have had the distinct pleasure of leagues for the past three years, BIOS3 a part of were result of realizing who was recently hired as aworld? science writer I feel immensely excited that this Mellon worked on a variety of provosts programs. One they facing con icting decisions, I have had the distinct of MediaTech in the world has toward become so world important. BCSA, Bachelor of Humanities and Arts worked on a variety of programs. One chronic disease. in the the world has become so important. degree program in computational biolvices MediaTech team team wheels wheels an an LCD LCD Most classrooms at Carnegie Solutions with former course that uses case studies to pleasure merge vices Carnegie Mellon from a regional uni10 Staff See Development Day IssuesLocal as Once aprogramming decade, the government sets out Pittsburgh. Ato member Computing Serinherited and sporadic epilepsy a disruption two two of large large screens screens one one for for displaying displaying Faheem Faheem Hussain. Hussain. Joanna Joanna Dickert Dickert from from two two dozen students students are are enrolled. enrolled. CountCounthas touched nearly every aspect of ce] being exposed tohas a very veloped for undergraduwhich Amy Burkert taught. Burkert in whatever she takes on, showing time talented educator, ll thisof important focuses on different global health topics a need, partnering with students and working closely with Indira throughout for The New Times, credits Burkert institution will be able to bene t and underfocused on the greening of interearly undershe said. And thats really a this badnot time working closely with Indira throughout And soYork that knowledge, that youre Under her leadership, both the focused on the greening of early ogy and the analysis masters degree program in About And so that knowledge, that youreentire not dozen TV TV with with a a small small camera camera mounted mounted on on top top Qatar are equipped with cameras Carnegie Mellon Qatar faculty member urban with urban history. (BHA) and Bachelor of Science and Arts versity into a world-class institution. Opportunity To Learn to gureas out how many people therefor are MediaTech team wheels an LCDand again that her heart is in the work course course materials materials and andNairs the the other other for for viewviewthe the Of Of ce ceto of ofstart the the Dean Dean of of Student Student Affairs Affairs ing ing elthe Samahys Samahys Egyptian Egyptian roots roots and and university. disciplinary kind of environment, ates such Odyssey program will step into role as viceNair provost role,vices Kamlet said. Amy brings to the including HIV/AIDS and diabetes. faculty to imagine what could be done,is for academically rescuing her.yours dedication that Dr. Burkert has her tenure as Vice Provost for Educain an ion channel called the BK channel. graduate education. thinking about something that her tenure as Vice Provost for CountEducathe only person and is not the Health Professions Program and the biotechnology, policy andare management. graduate education. the only person and yours notfrom theel into into a a fourthfourth oor oorthe classroom classroom of of Margaret Margaret two large screens one for displaying Faheem Hussain. Joanna Dickert from two dozen students enrolled. Nair ready for own change. A C Eis LE BR AT I O her N O F IN DIRA NAIRS 32 YEARS OF SERVICE in the United States. The count, required with a small camera mounted on top (BSA) programs, collaborated position withTV faculty and ing ing Pittsburgh Pittsburgh classrooms. classrooms. Professors Professors (Pittsburgh) (Pittsburgh) was was the the primary primary instructor instructor Torellos Torellos Italian Italian citizenship, citizenship, 12 12environmental nationnationNair started at is Carnegie Mellon in said. always had a summer. tendency to think sophomores and Big Questions forimporforI education this of educating, advising and mentoring much experience and enthuStudents in the class on HIV/AIDS and then taking action to work together Carnegie Mellon home to some to education the way I have bene tted tion, said Dick Tucker, the Paul Mellon We introduced environmental should be such a core value for your tion, said Dick Tucker, the Paul Mellon undergraduate program in Biological Burkert was instrumental in develonly way of thinking is really imporWe introduced only way of thinking is really Morrison Morrison Carnegie Carnegie Hall. Hall. Students Students quietly quietly course materials and the other for viewthe Of ce of the Dean of Student Affairs ing el Samahys Egyptian roots and The findings, published in the June issue She is retiring in July. During her by the Constitution, is used to allocatealities a fourthof Margaret Wwith I L L said B Ealumna H E L D global ON T H ULinR S Dfor AY M AY 6 .Social M OR E FO R M AT I O N of on on the the Pittsburgh Pittsburgh campus campus may may utilize utilize for,Privilege, Privilege, Social Responsibility Responsibility and and alities are areaspects represented represented in in this this global 1978 in the newly created Department broadly about the context of the of rst-year When it comes tocourses teaching ethics, administrators from the College of into Fine Arts oor classroom Carnegie Mellon students, Gilman siasm as an award-winning student advicollaborated an a clinic to it happen. standout individuals. I dont know of these past years, Elizabeth Young, University Professor ofin Applied Sciences have grown in numbers and oping the global health course Biotechaspects into different different work. University Professor of Applied Lintant to point out toI N students, Nair said. into different courses of different tant tostudents. point out to students, Nair said. ll llmake in in seats seats with with coffee coffee cups cups in in hand. hand. ing Pittsburgh classrooms. Professors (Pittsburgh) the primary instructor Torellos Italian citizenship, 12 nationtenure, she has worked as a researcher, seats in the was House of Representatives, of Neurobiology of Disease, indicate that BK Morrison Carnegie Hall. Students quietly similar setups setups in O Gates Gates 4307 4307 or or Baker Baker Community, Community, with with assistance assistance from from felfelclassroom. classroom. Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) assimilar C Oamong N T I N U E in D N P AG E SEV E N She also has spearheaded the Univerother projects, Nair founded Stusaid. sor and teaching professor in Biological in Africa and the diabetes learned Burkert has very much enjoyed another that takes better care ofeveryone its a senior biology and professions guistics at modeling, Carnegie Mellon, who has reputation. She has developed and nology Impacting OurSelves, Societies kinds: modeling, design, English, art, For Nair has this guistics at Carnegie Mellon, who has She described the need for W I L health L administrator, B Eclass EMA I L English, Eutilize D T O T H E U Nschool IVE RS I T Yfuture C O Mstudents, M UN IT Y. kinds: design, art, She described the need for everyone Francesca Torello, Torello, an an adjunct adjunct architecture architecture and the School of Computer Science to create on the Pittsburgh campus may for Privilege, Social Responsibility and alities are represented in this global Francesca professor and but those determine the boundaries of congresll in seats with coffee cups in hand. Halls Halls Giant Giant Eagle Eagle or or Steinberg Steinberg auditoauditolow low Student Student Affairs Affairs staff staff Renee Renee CamerCamerJoint courses courses have have been been taught taught at at channels are a new target for anticonvulsant sity Lecture Series and overseen operadent Pugwash, a group help engineers MCS Associate Dean Eric Sciences she is a recipient of both fromJoint health of cials in Qatar, both via BIOS3, which she developed with students. As vice provost for education, major. nurtured numerous partnerships across been named interim dean for Carnegie and Spheres (BIOS3), and EUREKA, architecture, she said.to wisdom to share. been named interim dean for Carnegie to have functioning knowledge of the architecture, she said. to have functioning knowledge of the faculty faculty member, member, boots boots up up her her laptop. laptop. similar setups in Gates 4307 or Baker Community, with assistance from felclassroom. titles do little to re ect the stamp she sional districts, decide where hospitals, the new program. The unifiedthe Bachelor of Francesca Torello, an adjunct riums. riums. and If If these these rooms rooms are are not not available, available, lengo lengo (Pittsburgh) (Pittsburgh) and and David David Stan Stan within eld eld and Pittsburgh Pittsburgh and and Qatar Qatar since since 2005. 2005. The The iniini- in Grotzinger sayscourses Burkerts love fortaught University Advising Award andarchitecture the tions of thethe Leonard Gelfand Center for scientists think responsibly and ethivideoconferencing. and late Bill Brown inethics. Dr. Burkert will be able to reach more Her excellence in mentoring, comcampus and throughout the region. a rst-year seminar forI MCS students Mellon Qatar. I have been continually Her legacy also is entwined in the Look around, look Mellon Qatar. have been continually environment, the world and ethics. Her legacy also is entwined the environment, the world and A A few few moments moments later, later, Rami Rami el el therapies, and offer new hope to individuals Halls Giant Eagle or Steinberg auditolow Student Affairs staff Renee CamerJoint have been at Grotzinger has made on the universitys mission. among other things, are built and dis- tiative member, her laptop. a a mobile mobile unit unit provides provides a awork similar similar effect. effect. (Qatar), (Qatar), as as well well as as visiting visiting instructor instructor tiative was was the the brainchild brainchild of of Indira Indira Nair, Nair, Computer Science and Arts degree will Ashkin allow Teaching aboots up teaching and compassion for students MCS faculty Julius Award Through the BIOS3 service-learning Learning and Outreach; graduate cally about their and how it affects response to of President Jared Cohons students than she did before and that municating, educating, problem solving Thousands students have been that combines the disciplines of biostruck by the depth and the breadth of innovations that have made Carnegie re ect on what you are and what you struck by the depth and the breadth of Service To function as a full citizen, innovations that have made Carnegie To function as a full citizen, Samahy, Samahy, an an assistant assistant teaching teaching professor professor As anyone who has had the riums. If these rooms are not available, lengo (Pittsburgh) and David Stan eld Pittsburgh and Qatar since 2005. The initribute more than $400 billion in federal suffering from epilepsy, a neurological disorder A few moments later, Rami el Instructors can can display display course course materials Kira Kira Dreher Dreher (Qatar). (Qatar). vice viceleading provost provost for for education education and and professor professor will serve her well in her to new role. and as an associate department head component students take their knowledge Global Course Initiative. She said the at that, C O N T I toward N U Edo, D ON P as A G E ELEV E N citizen support programs; graduate diversity; the world around them.materials She also and will surely make successthe worlds people. And eopportunity t hink ing E duc a t io n impacted by her work. logical sciences, physics, chemistry and her commitment improving the student Mellon a global institution. The pushed unishe said. her commitment improving the student especially a learned atsimilarly that,Instructors it new generation of artist-technologists to create Mellon a global institution. The uniof of architecture, architecture, is is visible visible on on the the LCD LCD especially as of a learned citizen it R to to interact with Indira a mobile unit provides aher similar effect. (Qatar), as well as visiting instructor tiative was the brainchild of Indira Nair, funds some which have direct of Samahy, anbeen assistant teaching as as well wellstudents as as the the Qatar Qatar classrooms classrooms through through Several Several faculty faculty members members have have how other of engineering engineering and and public public policy. policy. marked by abnormal electrical activity in the v i c e p r e s i d e n T f o r and dean, whos a creator and professor class is one of her favorite projects ful asNair thein vice for education. I at the undergraduate research and fellowships; to think how they might act in you have to have a knowledge said reading and writing were mathematical sciences. She was and part professor of screen screen and and says says hello hello from from Carnegie Carnegie anyprovost of herdisplay educational roles Instructors can course materials Kira Dreher (Qatar). vice provost for education implications for education and research. new forms of knowledge and influence culture of architecture, is visible on the LCD a a picture-in-picture picture-in-picture option optionwhile on on a a mobile mobile taught taughtpeople a a simulcast simulcast course course from from College College of of Humanities Humanities & & Social Social developer of successful new courses because it Several brings together many elements could not be more with the news, theQatar. Eberly Center formembers Teaching Excelreal-world situations they are still might think, how other cultures the team that created and the Diabetes World Mellon skills everyone was expected tothrough knowto brain that leads to recurring seizures. Although Mellon Qatar. Behind him him a a lively lively group group university will know, her approach as well as thethrilled Qatar classrooms faculty have of engineering policy. AllBehind households should have reenro ll m ehighest nT wil liam Bruce public Gerson screen and says hello from Carnegie at the possible level, by bridging fields units units screen. screen. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh individually. individually. They They include include the the my Sciences Sciences (H&SS) (H&SS) professors professors Laurie Laurie and programs. including teams ofto interdisciplinary stuand am only sorry that I will not still be lence, Academic Development and the sitting in the classroom. Service-Learning Project with Chilmight think. So from the beginning, in the past. But because of the economy, of of students students begins begins to nd nd seats. seats. Its Its 5:30 5:30 education has always been as a means a picture-in-picture option on a mobile taught a simulcast course from College of Humanities & Social ceived Census Bureau forms on March BK channels have been linked to a rare, familial Mellon Qatar. Behind him a lively group Teaching Teaching a a course course via via videoconfervideoconferCollege College of of Fine Fine Arts Arts Kelly Kelly Hutzell, Hutzell, Eisenberg Eisenberg (Pittsburgh) (Pittsburgh) and and Ben Ben Reilly Reilly For Professor Paul Fischbeck, an expert ellio T ( f a new r l eways, fT) Dean Fred Gilman agrees. dents exploring science in context, global at this institution to see theadvancements improvements Intercultural Communications Center; I would tell students most often, drensSciences Hospital, which provided students inTtotally SciannameoMCS said. thinking has been that no matter what expanded travel and in of re ection, ethics, access, inclusion p.m. p.m. in in Doha. Doha. units screen. Pittsburgh individually. Theyis include the (H&SS) professors Laurie 15. By law, each household required S S II X X of students begins to nd form of epilepsy, their involvement in other in decision analysis and determining Amy is a great choice forseats. vice Its 5:30 connections via technology and impact in educational objectives that she will in the Eisenberg Health Professions Program the the Carnegie Mellon Advising Resource when professionals think about these subject area you teach, theres always communications technology, awareness and understanding, said Executive Teaching a course via videoconferCollege Fine Hutzell, (Pittsburgh) and Ben Reilly C O N T I N of UE D O Torello N Arts P A G E Kelly T E Nteam greeTs mellon college El Samahy and are (Qatar) taught the rst course, U.S. as well as H&SSs David Kaufer and Abby Houck p.m. in Doha. Shes been an chance and probability, being named this provost for education. through service learning. instill, Young said. SIX types of seizure disorders has never been opportunity to experience rst-hand Center; and the Of ce of Technology for it is in times of distress of some topeers introduce those elements. the world is vital. encing presents some challenges, but Danielle said. But in this Im at my comstudents are learning new approaches to encing presents some challenges, but But in this format, Im at my com-of students are learning new approaches to room our whoformat, are already familiar with things, teaching said. Middle Eastern Cities, a new Arab Encounters. Nair taught Global Wetzel. negie Its on a Wednesday morning o f scar cienc e a s s o cMellon, i aT e years recipient ofin the university-wide invaluable member of the faculty of the Taught bya Burkert and her colSheila Prakash, an MCS graduate the 9:30 challenges faced by patients with Education. kind, when they are con developing icted and a To address these concerns, Nair Understanding how to live puter a Middle lot. East. problem solving and are Torello and el Samahy agree thattogether the a Most Torello and el Samahy agree that the puter lot. problem solving and are developing the demonstrated. course that uses case studies to merge IssuesLocal Solutions with former classrooms at Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh. A member Computing SerWilliam H. and Frances S.and Ryan Award Mellon College of Science. She excels leagues for past three years, BIOS3 who was recently hired as the a science writer chronic disease. I the have had the distinct pleasure of are facing conicting decisions, u. b worked on a with variety of to programs. One in the world has become so how important. El Samahy is free move about the they better understanding of how individuals experience is worth extra time and experience is of worth the extra time El Samahy free to move about the better understanding of individuals Student Batoul Kalife a group dean e rof ic g r ologna o T z i n g e r to o ffer urban analysis with urbanis history. About Carnegie Mellon Qatar faculty member Qatar are equipped cameras and said Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences vices MediaTech team wheels an LCD for Meritorious Teaching was a decision in whatever she takes on, showing time focuses on different global health topics forasThe New York Times, credits Burkert Under her leadership, both the working closely with Indira throughout said. cultures And thats really a bad time focused on theone greening of early underAnd so that knowledge, that youre not classroom since the courses teaching of other view the world. creativity needed to manage aworld. course that creativity needed to manage a course that classroom since the courses teaching of other cultures view the project on Jerusalem impacted her.asShe she first d ouble-degree two dozen students are enrolled. CountFaheem Hussain. Joanna Dickert from two large screens for displaying M O R E T H A N 1 , 0 0 0 V O L U N T E E R S PA R T I C I PAT E D I N T H E 1 0 0 0 P L U S A N N U A L D AY TV with a small camera mounted on topHe will whose time had receive and again that her heart is in the work Alison Barth and graduate students Roger L. d u r i n g e l l i o T T s including HIV/AIDS and diabetes. for academically rescuing her. Health Professions Program and come. the her tenure as Vice Provost for Educathinking aboutare something that graduate the only person and yours is not the sistant, education. fth-year architecture student and to start Both campuses very internaspans spans continents. sistant, fth-year architecture student Both campuses are very internainitially was apprehensive about the ing el Samahys Egyptian roots and theand Of ce ofcontinents. the Dean of Student Affairs course the OF SERVICE AT T W O D O Z E N P Imaterials T T S B U R G Hand SITE S Oother N S AT for U R DviewAY , M A R C H 2 7 . A M O N G Masters Programof educating, advising and mentoring into a fourth-oor classroom Margaret the award atof the Celebration of TeachStudents insaid the class whiz on HIV/AIDS Mellon is home some undergraduate program in Biological tion, Tucker, the Paul Mellon should be such a core value for your We introduced environmental onlytional way of thinking isto really importechnology whiz Spencer Gregson, is in tional and cosmopolitan, but in different Its amazing that we can do this, el Clem and Sonal Shruti discovered that BK Its amazing that we can do this, el technology Spencer Gregson, is inCarnegie and cosmopolitan, but in different assignment because of strong opinions r e T i r e m e n T pa r T y aT Torellos Italian Dick citizenship, 12 nation(Pittsburgh) was the primary instructor ing Pittsburgh classrooms. Professors T H E W O R K E R S AT H O S A N N A H O U S E S H E R W O O D C A M P I N W I L K I N S B U R G W E R E Morrison Carnegie Hall. Students quietly collaborated ing atin 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 21 inDoha Carnegie Mellon students, Gilman with an alumna in a clinic standout individuals. Ito dont know of SciencesSamahy have grown numbers and University Professor of global Applied Linaspects into different courses of different tant to point out students, Nair said. the about Doha classroom. Torellos graduways, el Samahy said. Samahy said. Technology has changed said. Technology has changed the classroom. Torellos graduways, el Samahy said. Israeli-Palestinian icts. 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Its 5:30 Students onvia both campuses have allows us in Pittsburgh to connect across I like toin move around the room and I like to move around the room and Students on both allows us Pittsburgh to connect across with students from the Pittsburgh Eisenberg (Pittsburgh) and Bencampuses Reilly have College of Fine Arts Kelly Hutzell, Teaching atwo course videoconferJ u n eis 3 0 only afTe r the initiative of its kind. channel antagonists could be used early, p.m. in Doha. SIX ted from peer interaction. The cultural and geographical barriers with use my hands when I lecture, Torellowith bene use my and hands whenare I lecture, bene ted from peer interaction. The and geographical barriers campus. (Qatar) taught the rst course, U.S. as well as cultural H&SSs David Kaufer and El Samahy Torello team Torello Abby Houck Starting perhaps after an initial seizure, to prevent 38 years a T T h in e fall 2009, students will earn E V Eare N already familiar with presents some challenges, said. But in this format, Im at my com- students are learning new approaches to our peersS who Arab encing Encounters. Nair taught Global but Danielle Wetzel. teaching Middle Eastern Cities, a new 9:30 on a Wednesday morning in both a masters degree in artsIts management Torello and el Samahy agree that the puter a lot. problem solving and are developing a the Middle East. cellular changes that lead to epilepsy. IssuesLocal Solutions with former Most classrooms at Carnegie Mellon course that uses case studies to merge universiTy. for more Pittsburgh. A member of Computing SerVice President and Provost Mark Kamlet a research associate and has served in aStudent Batoul Kalife said a group Heidi e experience worth theOpdyk extra time and Qatar are equipped El Samahy is cameras free to move Carnegie Mellonis Qatar faculty member with and about the better understanding of how individuals urban analysis with urban history. About from IMCE and a masters in innovation andteam wheels an LCD vices MediaTech o n e l l i o T T , s e e pa g e in an email to the university community. varietyview of roles EPP including associcreativity needed to manage a course that classroom since the courses teaching asof other cultures the in world. project on Jerusalem impacted her. She Faheem Hussain. Joanna Dickert two screens one for displaying two dozen students are enrolled. CountFor 32 years, from Indira Nair haslarge champiof culture and the arts from the TV with a small camera mounted on top new degree fuses arts f o u rorganization For her, the key question ate department head internaand professor.initially She was apprehensive about the spans continents. sistant, fth-year studenthas andalways Both campuses are very the Of ce of the Dean of change Studentat Affairs course materials and thearchitecture other for viewing el Samahys Egyptian roots and . oned the university. Respectinto fourth-oor classroom of Margaret been how do we educateis our toand was named vice provost of education in University of Bolognas School of aEconomics. With computer science Its amazing that we can do colleagues this,ing el Pittsburgh technology whiz Spencer Gregson, in students tional cosmopolitan, but in different assignment because of strong opinions (Pittsburgh) was theed primary instructor classrooms. Professors Torellos Italian citizenship, 12 nationby students and alike, Morrison Carnegie Hall. Students quietly become aware, socially responsible global 1998. said. S hilo Raube Samahy said. Technology has changed Doha classroom. Torellos ways, el Samahy about Israeli-Palestinian conicts. El The program will take from 28ll to 30 months, for Privilege, Social Responsibility and on thethe Pittsburgh campus may utilizegradualities are represented in this global she has helped transform in seats with coffee cups in hand. The new Bachelor of Computer Science and citizens of tomorrows world? Indira truly I came here [the vice provosts so fast. ate teaching assistant, Shepley Ian Newborn, a student in the Samahy and the project group challenged Community, from felsetups in Gates 4307 Nathan or Baker Carnegie Mellon from a similar regional unior six academic terms, with classes inTorello, both an adjunct architecture classroom. Once a decade, the government sets out with assistance Francesca has touched every aspect ofMaster this of of ce] Design being exposed to a very interArts (BCSA) is an interdisciplinary program The pair of professors developed Streed, focuses most ofnearly his time on helpUrban Program, her to be objective when collecting and low there Student Affairs staff Renee CamerHalls Giant Eagle or Steinberg auditoJoint courses have been taught at people versity into a world-class institution. to gure out how many are faculty member, boots up her laptop. Bologna and Pittsburgh. university. disciplinary kind of Nair their own course Web site to share preing students with writing assignments. appreciates the opportunity to environment, interact presenting data about the city. lengo (Pittsburgh) and David Stan eld riums. If these rooms are not available, Pittsburgh and Qatar since 2005. The iniNair is ready for her own change. that will equip students to explore and expand in the United States. The count, required A few moments later, Rami el Nair started at Carnegie Mellon in classmates said. I always had a tendency to think It was so fascinating to see how sentations and allow students toJuly. upload Scheduling con icts occasionally with who have lived in or (Qatar), as well as visiting instructor a mobile unit provides a similar effect. tiative was the brainchild of Indira Nair, She is retiring in During her by the Constitution, is used to allocate Samahy, an assistant teaching professor the connections between computation and 1978 in the newly created Department of broadly about the context of the course assignments. arise.can Fordisplay example, when Pittsburgh was visited the cities they are exploring. Jerusalem, even though it is divided, Kira Dreher (Qatar). Instructors course materials vice provost for education and professor tenure, she has worked as a researcher, seats in the House of Representatives, of architecture, is visible on the LCD Engineering and Public Policy C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E S E V E N the arts. The BCSA program is an integrated Technology in the classroom also as well snow covered on Feb. 10, class was can- (EPP) as As we step into the classroom we has parts in it where Jews and Arabs Several faculty professor members have as the Qatar classrooms through of engineering and public policy. and administrator, but those determine the boundaries of congresscreen and says hello from Carnegie required Torello to change her teaching celed for all students. addition, are immersed in our topic of study, he coexist together, Khalife said. I would taught a simulcast course from a picture-in-picture optionIn on a mobilespring College of Humanities & Social double major, which combines a sequence of titles do little to re ect the stamp she sional districts, decide where hospitals, Mellon Qatar. Behind him a lively group break is observed during different weeks. said. Videoconferencing with Doha not have known that if I hadnt worked Pittsburgh individually. They include the units screen. 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MCS MCS Julius Julius Ashkin Ashkin Teaching Teaching Award Award Decades response response to to President President Jared Jared Cohons Cohons municating, municating, educating, educating, problem problem solving solving that that combines combines the the disciplines disciplines of of biobio- health To Retire After Teaching Innovations C Burkert Serve asa of Next Vice Provost Education in of the area of possible said its more about looking at the opsaidfor its more about looking at the here, our research and studies in administrator, the area possible health Nair UniversityTo Advising Award and the Grotzinger and the late Bill Brown in op- of studies in mentoring, comtap engineering students for the interviews rst-year seminar for of MCS students advisor, mentor and shes needs of others andinternational ones community. I N surely I Her excellence N as the Bachelor of Science and Arts and For Professor Paul Fischbeck, an expert and and as as an an associate associate department department head head A B sciences, Global Global Course Course Initiative. Initiative. She She said said the the and and leading leading will will surely make make her her successsuccesslogical logical sciences, physics, physics, chemistry chemistry and and effects from power-frequency electric and portunities in front of her, making sense portunities in front of her, making sense education partnerships, and through our effects from power-frequency electric and MCS Julius Ashkin Teaching Award response President Jared Cohons municating, educating, problem solving Working with and for students has that combines the disciplines of bio- the Science helped to create novel opportunities and andto Humanities Scholars in decision analysis and determining and and dean, dean, whos whos been been a a creator creator and and t verymathematical class class is is one one of of her her favorite favorite projects projects ful ful as as the the vice vice provost provost for for education. education. II because of their broad skill sets. mathematical sciences. sciences. She She was was part part of of has immediate work that I do. That experience, and the ways that B r uand c e Ge s on magnetic elds. She became associate of what needed greatest to be done and learning ofShe what needed to be done and learning relationships with alumni all over the versity recently received the 2010 U.S. magnetic elds. She became associate as ran associate department head new paradigms Global Course Initiative. She said the and to leading willby surely make her she successlogical sciences, physics, chemistry and that have been nationTrue the Carnegie Mellon ethos, been one of Burkerts joys. She programs. helped to establish the chance and probability, being named this developer developer of of successful successful new new courses courses because because it it brings brings together together many many elements elements could could not not be be more more thrilled thrilled with with the the news, news, the the team that that created created the the Diabetes Diabetes World World well with engineering and public policy. intentionally worked to infuse an awareSenator Paul Simon Award for Comdepartment head in EPP and was she needed to complete the job at seems we need to have different kinds of what she needed to complete the job atteam world. department head in EPP and was tenured and dean, whos been a creator and ally Whether seems we need to have different kinds class is one of her favorite projects fulis as the provost for education. I said of mathematical sciences. She was part of From day one, ourAmy students are recognized. Burkert, an assistant dean for the Burkert always looking for ways to tenured it what will be dif cult giving up her studaily and apply it in avice public health service uni programs. ed major in biological sciences and in a traditional classyears recipient of the university-wide and and programs. including including teams teams of of interdisciplinary interdisciplinary stuand and am am only only sorry sorryInternationalization that that II will will not not still still be be Service-Learning Service-Learning Project Project with with ChilChilNair it said EPPs goal was to teach ness of, and a commitment to, both diversity, prehensive from in the department on the basis of her hand. literacies, Nair said. Everybody needs developer of successful new courses hand. Nair helped create courses and in the department on the basis both of her literacies, Nair said. Everybody needs because brings together many elements could not be more thrilled with the news, the team that created the Diabetes World Inaannouncing her appointment, Health Professions Program and Educa- room, advance the cutting edge in education. and direct interactions with students activity. Students collected items for carepsychology, the biomedical engineering roundtable discussion room, a William H. and Frances S. Ryan Award MCS MCS Dean Dean Fred Fred Gilman Gilman agrees. agrees. dents dents exploring exploring science science in in context, context, global global at at this this institution institution to to see see the the improvements improvements drens drens Hospital, Hospital, which which provided provided students students learning how to innovate, work in teams how engineers and society each sustainability andoutstanding globalization across Association of facts International research and her contributions And then just do it. Thats how that NAFSA: to know some common about the programs. And then just doimpact it. Thats how activities on Iher the Pittsburgh campus research and her outstanding contributions including teams ofI interdisciplinary stuknow some common facts about theshe hopes andto am only sorry that I will not still be Service-Learning Project with ChilExecutive Vice President and Provost tional and Initiatives at the Mellon College She recognizes the unique elements of but through work as vice giver kits that were shipped to the clinic for non-engineering students and research laboratory or an advising of ce, minor Meritorious Teaching was a decision Amy Amy is is a a great great choice choice for for vice vice connections connections via via technology technology and and impact impact in in educational educational objectives objectives that that she she will will in in the the Health Health Professions Professions Program Program the the experiother. the curricular and metacurricular Nair helped lead the internato education here at Carnegie Mellon, and done all my jobs, Nair MCS Dean Fredprofessor Gilman agrees. environment and our actions. They need dents science in context, global Ive done all my jobs, Nair said. enhances understandingEducators. to education here at Carnegie Mellon, and at this institution to see the improvements environment and our actions. need Ive drens Hospital, which provided students M 1 , 00 0global 10 00 and adapt to a myriad ofofsituations. Thats Markstrives Kamlet her commitment and Science, and a teaching in Carnegie Mellon that it an ideal provost, she will be students able to have an said. even in Africa and given to make AIDS workers toTheythrough the minor inexploring health care policy and manAmy tocited convey to her students whose time had come. He will receive provost provost for for education. education. Shes Shes been been an an through service service learning. learning. instill, instill, Young Young said. said. opportunity opportunity to to experience experience rst-hand rst-hand Professor M.technology Granger Morgan, head ences of our students. For me Indira has tional curriculum development that was Amy isBiological a great choice for vice a elsewhere across the country and around In doing so, shes reshaped the unito know that they have to think reecconnections via and impact in educational objectives that she will In doing so, shes reshaped the uniof issues in various disciplines. One of elsewhere across the country and around to know that they have to think re ecin the Health Professions Program the P S , M 2 7 . A innovative approach to education. the Department of Sciences, place for collaborative innovation. Many broader impact. Her former students are take on their rounds. The diabetes module agement. also on the team that passion for learning, an enthusiasm theShe award atwas the Celebration of Teach-the invaluable invaluable member member of of the the faculty faculty of of the the Taught Taught by by Burkert Burkert and and her her colcolSheila Sheila Prakash, Prakash, an an MCS MCS graduate graduate the challenges challenges faced faced by by patients patients with with why we see our engineers succeed not of EPP, hired Nair. Nair said Morgan been a true mentor who personi esresponsiallcondent honored. provost for education. been an for scienti through service learning. the world. versitys plan for is creating well-rounded tively instill, Young said. H H ImpactS C about their W job and have responsiversitys plan for creating well-rounded those courses Biotechnology the world. tively about their job and have opportunity to experience rst-hand developed We are fortunate to have will become vice provost forShes education of educational initiatives she was she will succeed. healthy food to underthe intercollegiate bachelors c discovery and herAmy sincere ing at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 21 class in thedistributed Mellon Mellon College College of of Science. Science. She She excels excels leagues leagues for for the the past past three three years, years, BIOS3 BIOS3 who who was was recently recently hired hired as as a a science science writer writer chronic chronic disease. disease. wasstudents. instrumental in letting her learn that is good in higher education; and Carnegie in chalF Gand Sphere, ( , ) , DMellon S excels invaluable the who faculty Taught by and her col- byserved Under her guidance, she has de-I Istudents. Sheila Prakash, an MCS graduate bility embedded toward the world ing OurSelves, Societies Under her guidance, she has debility embedded toward the world the an challenges faced by patients with only in traditional fields, but also inmember busi -of Burkert, enormously dedicated and Aug. 1, succeeding Indira Nair, hasof the a part of were the result of realizing feel immensely excited that this communities through the Produce Rangos 1 in & 2. Burkert degree program computational biolcommitment to their personal, academic in in whatever whatever she she takes takes on, on, showing showing time time focuses focuses on on different different global global health health topics topics for for The The New New York York Times, Times, credits credits Burkert Burkert) , Under Under her her her leadership, leadership, both both the the A A T A . S L M I ( allowing her to be involved in many of will miss immensely. lenging our students to become aware, Mellon College of Science. She excels leagues for the past three years, BIOS3 who was recently hired as a science writer veloped programming for undergraduwhich Amy Burkert has taught. Burkert veloped programming for chronic disease. talented educator, to ll this important announced her retirement after 12 years a need, partnering with students and entire institution will be able to bene t to the People project at the Greater Its a tting award for Fischbeck, an outogy and the masters degree program in and professional development. Sheundergraduwill and and again again that that her her heart heart is is in in the the work work including including HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS and and diabetes. diabetes. for for academically academically rescuing rescuing her. her. Health Health Professions Professions Program Program and andto the the ness, finance, law and medicine, said , programs that were being invented at While Nair is moving New global citizens of whatever she takes on, showing time focuses on different global health topics for New York Times, credits Burkert ates such as the Odyssey program for Under her leadership, the biotechnology, will step into Nairs role as vice provost socially responsible ates such asAmy the Odyssey for the role,this Kamlet said. bringsboth to program the in the in role. faculty toThe imagine could be done, from the dedication that Dr. Burkert has Pittsburgh Foodbank. standing teacher in two departments and policy and management. bring same passion, enthusiasm and of of educating, educating, advising advising and and mentoring mentoring Students in in the the class on HIV/AIDS A class C E L on E B HIV/AIDS R AT I O N O F I N D I R A N A I R S 32 YEAR Shome OF S ER VICE Carnegie Carnegie Mellon Mellon is is home to to some some A CEL E BR AT I O N O F I N Dundergraduate I R A N A I R S program 3 2what YEA R Biological S O F S E R V I C E Students undergraduate program in in Biological . 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I began to conceive of a seminar on the future of cities as way to structure some of the questions that arose while I was conducting research on sustainable urbanism: what does the future look like? and where do the design opportunities lie? This course was first introduced in Pittsburgh in the fall of 2011 to a group of architecture students. Part seminar, part workshop, it was designed to allow students to speculate in clear and methodical terms about the future and the role of design in it. It was also intended to sharpen presentation skills, both in terms of visual clarity and verbal articulation. The first half of the semester was spent exploring the future through various sets of parameters. Each week a group of students would present on the future through a specific lens: ecological, demographic, technological, etc. As each week progressed, the students collectively gathered more information, and eventually were asked to frame their own scenario of the future. For the second half of the semester, they were assigned a specific set of design tasks devised to aid them in fleshing out these scenarios. Various drawing types were required in their consideration of different aspects of their future, including a unit plan and site plan for a future private space; a montage and sectional perspective for a future public space; and as a final assignment, a how-to manual as a means of describing the future city. As is was the first iteration of the course, its results were inevitably mixed, yet I was encouraged by the students engagement with
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the subject matter. When I taught the course again this spring in Doha, I decided to retain two crucial aspects of the course: first, the group presentations of the future as filtered through a particular theme each week, and second, scenario planning as means to explore possible futures and design opportunities therein. However, because the Doha students were not architecture students, I included short in-class design assignments as a part of each class so as to make them comfortable with the notion that designing was an everyday thing, and that they were capable of doing it. By the time the students returned from mid semester break they were well prepared for the series of longer design assignments. While both the assignments and the responses to them varied from Pittsburgh to Doha, each group was a delight to teach. The course is by its very nature suppositional, and so a certain light-hearted atmosphere pervaded both classrooms. Because there so clearly wasnt a correct answer (who knew what the future would hold?), there was a license to imagine freely, though the students were also challenged to hold logically consistent scenarios. Having taught this course to two very different student groups, I am convinced that the notion of scenario planning (borrowed from the pedagogy of business administration) is a useful tool for design disciplines. Given the variety of possible futures, and the complexity of the determinants, scenario planning offers designers an opportunity to do what they do best: speculate. In that speculation, lie the seeds for predictingand even shapingthe future

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Here we will attempt to make sense of these competing visions of tomorrow and how they relate to cities by asking a series of questions: What are the likely parameters of a future possibility in terms of ecological, technological and social change? What can past conjectures tell us of our future? Where do the design opportunities lie?

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shape the future, then no one looks further into the future than the urban designer and the urban planner. The work in which they are involved often does not materialize in their lifetimes; in fact, the duration of the projects are so long twenty, thirty, fifty and hundred year time frames it is more than likely that he or she will pass on before the project reaches fruition. The trouble with predicting the future is that it is so uncertain, so undecided, so unknowable. A brief look backwards reveals that we are not the first generation to consider the future. History is replete with predictions some of which were actualized, the vast majority of which were not. Todays forecasts for tomorrow vary wildly. A handful of optimists view the future through rose colored glasses, whereby humanity is delivered to salvation via technological wonders and the widespread adoption of common social values. A larger group predicts the end of the world as we now know it, but even they cannot agree on the cause of our demise, with those arguing that climate change will kill us clashing with those convinced that robots will destroy us. Shy of total extinction, however, any vision of the future requires designers and will likely occur in urban (or formerly urban) locations. As of this decade, for the first time in history, more than half of the worlds population almost three and a half billion people live in towns and cities. Estimates suggest that by 2030 this number will swell to almost five billion.

course objectives

This course will allow students to speculate in clear and methodical terms about the future and the role of design in it. It is also intended to sharpen presentation skills, both in terms of visual clarity and ability to verbally ar-

architectural element (e.g. door, window, corridor, etc) given theme.

to analyze the future of these elements based upon the

ticulate thoughts in a coherent manner, both in written

and spoken form. A combination of seminar and workshop, the course will meet every Tuesday, wherein we will present, discuss and create. course requirements

project The project is an individual effort wherein each student ties. Students are free to craft their project in the manner of their choosing: it could be an in-depth focus on a single aspect of the future, or it could be the establishment of a set of parameters that delineate a possible future scenario. Students will be asked to begin their projects early in the semester. As part of that effort, students are

offers thoughtful speculation on future design possibili-

In this workshop/seminar, each student will be responsible for asking these questions as they relate to a specific theme (eg., dramatic population shifts, ecological catastrophe, technological game changers, etc.). Students will be expected to examine the theme through a series of research/design exercises, including written and graphic assignments that culminate in a final project.

There are three requirements for this course: active participation, presentation of a theme, and development of a semester-long project. participation

One fifth of the course grade is based on ones participation in class. Students are expected to be present, to

have done the reading in advance, and to interact in class discussions. Attendance is mandatory at each class for its duration. Attendance is defined as more than mere presence; active participation is a necessity to be considered in attendance. More than one unexcused absence may result in failure of the course.

expected to submit periodic incremental assignments that build toward the final effort. The final assignment represents the culmination of a semester-long effort.

These assignments will require both graphic and written reflection as well as continued research. evaluation Grades will be assessed through a combination of efforts based on the following criteria: 20% 20% 60% Class Participation Presentation Project
10% 15% 15% 20% Incremental Assignment One Incremental Assignment Two Incremental Assignment Three Final Project

presentation Students will form teams to prepare a presentation and lead a session during one of the subsequent classes. The presentation will address the given weeks theme. This exercise is designed for the presenting group to deliver an overview of the given theme, replete with statistics, imagery and conjecture. The presentation will be comprised of three parts. First, an overview of the theme, its history and developments. Second, students will examine in detail the theme to better understand its shaping of the future city. Third, the presenters will select one urban element of (eg, a public square, a neighborhood, or street) and one
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schedule
WEEK 01 15 JAN Syllabus Cadavre Exquis WEEK 02 22 JAN An Introduction to the Future Intellectual Frameworks & Popular Imagination WEEK 03 29 JAN THEME 1: ECOLOGY Peak Everything & Climate Change WEEK 04 5 FEB THEME 2: ETHNOLOGY Migration & Overpopulation WEEK 05 12 FEB THEME 3: INFRASTRUCTURE Moving People and Resource WEEK 06 19 FEB THEME 4: TECHNOLOGY I Information Technology & Robotics WEEK 07 26 FEB THEME 5: TECHNOLOGY II Genetics & Nanotechnology WEEK 08 5 MAR MID-SEMESTER BREAK No Class WEEK 09 12 MAR design assignment 1: private space Desk Crits WEEK 10 19 MAR design assignment 1: private space Review WEEK 11 26 MAR design assignment 2: public space Desk Crits WEEK 12 2 APR design assignment 2: public space Review WEEK 13 9 APR design assignment 3: center Pin-Up WEEK 14 16 APR design assignment 4: center + periphery Desk Crits WEEK 15 23 APR design assignment 4: center + periphery Final Review

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after the singularity futures of the city/cities of the future kyle woltersdorf

faith

the singularity
human = technology?
what is body

human?

< mind
future religion
technology enables humans to carry on consciousness eternally, long after their birth bodies have disappeared only few out of many receive this privilege to achieve enlightenment follow steps below:

live
storage tower physical remnants of knowledge are collected and weaved together in an intricate web that is directly connected to a global hard drive

develop morals and ideals that make individuals unique compete with machines for employment achieving financial security enables individuals to focus on learning

learn

personal exploration will drive focus of experiences expose mind and body to variety of interactive understanding discover lost knowledge from the past: gain notoriety, increasing chances to move on to enlightenment

catalyst

once birth body becomes a hindrance on society to maintain to things happen 1. the elderly are dismissed if mind is deemed unuseful 2. if enough knowledge and experience that are determined to be a good fit for societys needs, the individuals knowledge is elected to join the world web of infinite knowledge

recharge hub coming to this space will rejuvenate recharge all things human that are part technological/part flesh

enlighten
circulation foot traffic and the low amount of land vehicles are elevated above the plaza to engage temple more closely while moving throughout the city grand stair leads to elevated plateau for special events and pedestrian city views during every day activity

connect every intellectual in history simultaneously experiencing ultimate knowledge as a collective unit using this knowledge, aid the current, physical bodied population to solve the needs and wants of society collective knowledge harnessed by technology becomes ultimate enlightenment as belief of all other former perceived deities fade away completely over generations

pedestrian ramp separates plaza from rest of city plane while providing for an elevated transition ideal for large crowds during the ceremonial seasonal

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EASY STARTING FOR FIRST TIME

Thank you making for purchase nanokit. Please read all instructions before attempting to use the product, such as improper use may result in the "gray goo" of the situation. nanokit product make for anyone to design and construct own sustainable city for first time. Nanotechnology faster and more exact in construction than most experience human craftsman. Nanobots can self-replication, therefore construction occurs at exponential speed. Nanobots also can easy deconstruct old structures and decompose waste materials turn into new materials and products.

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nanobots assemble other nanobots and desired products from raw/waste materials

nanobots build city design control from cell phone

WARNINGS - READ FOR CAUTION

For prevention of end of word, ensure replication safeguards is enabled today. Make for certain nanobot food is not enabled to consume carbon lifeforms. nanokit is provided as is without any form of warranty or guarentee. nanokit is not responsible for the end of world in event of catastrophic programming of nanobots. Please ensure the nanokit is used for responsibility in ultimate agreement on local and world laws. nanokit makes no responsibility on ugly cities, structures, products, or other aesthetic decision. not be reproduced without exact written permission nanokit industries 2063

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1.

INIDIVIDUAL CREATES PROJECTED ARCHITECTURE TO ACCOMODATE SPECIFIC NEEDS PUBLIC INTERACTION.

option A individual/user

option B

option C

option D resultant individual/architecture

assignment one

In the past two decades, the notion of public space has become hotly contested in a variety of disciplines, including architecture, urban design, art and critical theory. This has occurred precisely at the same time that public public (eg. private corporate ownership of city plazas), and its becoming less spatial (eg the virtual worlds of social networking and gaming).

While the answer is open-ended, the methodology is

prescribed. You must articulate your thoughts visually and verbally in the following manner: a. make an image

space find itself under a double threat: its becoming less

Using at least two of the following techniques to create a single image that speaks to the question above: Montage Axonometric line drawing Sectional Perspective

What is a public space in the future? The answer to this

question is entirely up to you. First, you must decide what constitutes a public space. There are many possible answers here, from the practical to the philosophical. Define it as you wish, provided that your definition is intelligent and well-justified.

b. write an essay A minimum 250-word expository describing your image, and your reaction to the question. This must be a coherent document, with a clear structure and logic.

2.

ARCHITECTURE IS SUPPORTIVE OF NEEDS OF A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS WHO VIRTUALLY PROJECT THAT SPECIFIC ARCHITECTURAL ENVIRONMENT.

Second, you must decide on what the future looks like. You can paint any scenario you desire, from the ridiculous to the sublime (or alternatively, catastrophic). deadline The assignment is to be uploaded to blackboard by 11.59 pm on 1 October.

autom

ate!

Finally, you must then determine an appropriate space for that future scenario. You choose the content and scale of this space, and even the degree of public-ness.

indiv. B... etc.

projected output/architecture

3.

ture completely, as people no longer construct space in any form; the decision is now to use or not to use, removing all potential/possible artistic license from the inidividual (AKA the auto-generate function, a topic that has already recieved some attention).
opt. 1

PUBLIC SPACE AS A PRODUCT - USERS CAN CHOOSE FROM A VARIETY OF SELLABLE SCENARIOS THAT WILL ACCOMODATE THEIR NEEDS - this removes the architec-

opt. 2

opt. 3

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mperatures and sea levels continue to rise, the earths ecosystems are rsibly changed, and catastrophic storms become common ences, humans are forced to take refuge from the environment by ting underground. The wealthy create fully-functioning homes for elves underground, never risking the danger of going above the surface. They pay the poor to gather food and supplies from above. assignment two: home rved-out shelters of the wealthy are arranged along underground nes, along which supplies are efficiently transported by the poor. Again the question remains open-ended, but the methWhere, and how, will we live in the future? Currently, most of us (over fifty per cent) live in cities, and this is odology is tightly prescribed. You must articulate your

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e these physical constraints, societys technological advances expected to grow to to 80 percent in the coming decades. thoughts visually and verbally in the following manner: ue to dramatically increase as steps are taken to improve quality of But where will these cities be, and what will they look derground. like? Eventually, for the wealthy, contact with other humans a. make an image Are there non-urban (or extra-urban)alternatives, es superfluous, as touch-screen remotes and voice-activated systems Create both a site plan and a unit plan,with the required suburban or exurban? them to manage all of their own needs. As time goes on, each notation on both to fully explain your vision. The unit n begings to And spend their entire life in like their own individual room, plan must denote function as well as degree of public what will the home look in the future? Who will all their needs care of and physical dangers and private in each space. The site plan must show aglive are in it:taken two parents and theany 2.2 children and a dog? ated. In these cells, they have a bed, a toilet, and monitor displays gregation of buildings as they form a neighborhood, with Single mothers? Extended families? Communes? Latchceiling andkey all robots? four walls. The display becomes vastly more special attention to the spaces between the buildings. How will the denizens of the future home tant to the humans than the physical At the press of a divide the dwelling? What are space. the continuums of public b. write to private? n, the food they wish to eat is brought to them through an opening in an essay A minimum 250-word expository describing your image, ll and the shows and books they wish to view are displayed for them You must decide what constitutes a future home. Mulscreens. For vacations, they surround themselves with imagesand of your reaction to the question. This must be a coherent tiple landmarks solutions are of acceptable, provided it is inteltoric cities and the past. Small that amounts of UV rays document, with a clear structure and logic. ligent and well-justified. Also, you must itted from the monitors, thus eliminating thedetermine necessitywhat for actual deadline the future looks like. You can upon the you posure. Physical fitness routines arebuild displayed onfuture the monitors and The assignment is to be uploaded to blackboard by 11.59 projected earlier, or you can construct a new scenario ed by the occupants. As children, their education comes entirely pm on 23 October. on the further development your thinking on nformationbased and instruction produced by of the monitors.
the matter. As before, you can paint any scenario you desire, provided it is done with rigor.

h all of their time is spent physically alone, they are constantly being ed. Their physical and mental health is examined and treated by the ors. Drugs are introduced into the air supply if the monitors decide re necessary for the occupants psychological well-being. If they e a physical problem that is not deemed curable relatively easily, an even be put to sleep by the monitors. Contact with other ns, if at all, is done entirely through the monitors, with other ns becoming just another feature of the screens. Cameras allow into the cells of others; a public space becomes a cell that is yed in many other cells. Physical closeness between the cells of two is of no importance relationships with other humans are made at m through chat rooms and can be extinguished with the touch of a n. These wealthy citizens live forever alone: there is never any al interaction between humans, and new members of the unity are systematically made by the computers in test-tubes. The ns produce nothing, and all of their time is spent in leisure.
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wer-class, unable to afford this lifestyle of safety and leisure, is office hours tu 4.30-6.30 or by appt to produce, with the aid of technology, all of the needs of the y. They live in communities above or slightly dug into the earth. with the planets now unstable environment, they face the constant RightThey Assignment Twotheir days laboring together in the hot sun in of danger. spend Puhnaty, Fall 2011 supplies for the wealthy. They spend their lds and Emily forests gathering dreaming of someday saving enough money to send their children leisure of the cells.

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assignment three: warm-up As you read and do this assignment, you should be b. write

future

what it might be like to sip progress.

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(time)

the future...

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considering your final assignment, as the two are directly related. This assignment requires that you think method you will use.

A maximum 100-word description of your final proposal. Note that this is purposefully brief, so that you are required to choose your words carefully. deadline

the tradition...

both about the content of the final assignment and the

co ee

*40%
interface

interior architecture

As you know, the final assignment will ask you to consider a possible future scenario, or an aspect of that future, with particular attention to the potential design on the urban and architectural levels. For this warm-up, you must make a proposal for that scenario or aspect.

The assignment is to be uploaded to blackboard by 11.59 pm on sunday 20 november.

service

*20%
*15%
*10%
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marketing/product

marketing/product

interior architecture
interface
service (if that...)

Like all your assignments, you are required to use differnet parts of your brain, the visual and the verbal. a. draw

1. the overall experiential parti for the traditional coffee shop is defined
individually by the proprietors - the selection to push any one of these elements over any other creates an identity for the cafe and will swing its customer demographic.

1. the future of the cafe scene is becoming

Create two diagrams. These should be well crafted , visually compelling and legible. The first diagram should visually depict the system you propose. For example, if you

are proposing to describe a future scenario, you must use the diagram to describe the world as you see it, including all the aspects we have discussed this semester: ecological, infrastructural, demographic, and technological. You must also include the socio-political and economic

deformation

a top down strategy with the idea of interface at the forefront - coffee shops have become places for networking and communication. The mobility and accessibility of coffee as a product is translated into place: WIFI is frequently offered and it is not uncommon to see computers stationed in a shop for public access.

any might be the focus

2. the cafe experience is will no longer be as much about place as it will

be focused around interface with people and technology. in traditional shops, the mood is set by the interior architecture, which amounts to specific environmental qualities. in the future, the pace of coffee drinkers will surmount the place of the cafe, and architecture will no longer be a major experiential factor.

aspects of your future scenario, If instead you choose to investigate a single urban or architectural element (for example, a public square or a window), you should use the diagram to articulate the various avenues you intend to investigate (eg. What is a window when advancements in information technology allow you to make the view programmable?). The second diagram is of your workflow. In it, you should include where you think you will begin (eg, types of research, design speculation, mind altering states, etc), what you think you will need to continue, the method(s) for overcoming obstacles, and the various types of input and self-reflection that will be necessary to improve and finally complete the final project.

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person-person interface

NO

[-20%]

ONLYperson-tech
interface

3. research for a future cafe will springboard off of these criteria,

http://scalenine.com/blog/2008/07/

questioning the relationship between people, technology, and coffee. the design study will focus on a way of creating a coffe shop in which people can interface with one another through architecture, yet only if they so choose. the cafe becomes a place of efficiency and speed, yet promotes happenstance interactions amongst people and architecture.

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CUP, EMPTY

*40%
interface

MERGE service components

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*20%
*15%
*10%
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marketing/product

interior architecture
service (if that...)

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assignment four: final project Now that you have taken your first pass at describing the content and the method of your final project, you are well on your way to actually doing it. This final assignment allows you to harness both the knowledge gleaned deadlines There are a series of deadlines associated with this final project. Please make sure that you are on top of them.
tuesday 29 november

The Official UUPA Guide to:

How to be a Contributing Member of Debrispolis

How the City Works

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Waste is discarded from the disposal windows of the various socioeconomic class divisions down a ring channel.

over the course of the semester and the multiple drawing

Shop & Consume

38%
media/ entertainment

techniques that youve employed in an effort to create an imaginative and compelling vision for the future of cities. For your final assignment you are to create a single poster. It is intended to read as an instruction manual, an installation guide, or a how-to brochure for your speculation on the future of cities. It can be serious or tongue in cheek, bleak or uplifting. It must demonstrate knowledge learned during the course of the semester, and extrapolate on the architectural and urban ramifications for the future. These may be abstract, but should not be general. I suspect youll have most success by addressing a limited number of variables at fixing those variables early on in your process.

15 minute desk crits with each student. Each of you must have rough draft blocked out

working class
consiting primarily of factory employees who constantly manufacture array of goods. Inhabitants suffer from minor exposure to orbital space waste toxic.

tuesday 6 december

Debrispolis is designed to prospers under the principles of consumerism. The wastes produced from consumption are essential for the harvesting of energy and recycled resources to meet the constant demand for new goods and upgrades of technologies.

30%
Everything you need is a push of a button away. All the programs within the city are On-demand, meaning instant gratification at the comfort of your own home. The body of programs (catagorized into four types) is allocated as illustrated on the right, derived from the consensus demands. The percentage is proportional to the amount of waste produced from each catagory.

eatery

23%

retail shopping

20 minute desk crits with each student. Each of you must have final draft for discussion
tuesday 13 december

upper class
most privileged in regards to instant access to the various goods with the most favorable living conditions.

step

Final assignment uploaded to blackboard by 11.59 pm

wednesday 14 december

lower class
make up most of the waste management employees. This area reports the most incidents of falling through the disposal windows.

9%

health services

Throw Out
Waste is what drives the city. Organic wastes are processed in the Incinerator into energy, while material wastes are converted to resources to create new goods. Every waste disposed is converted into credit for the Debrispolitans to spend in the market.

Poster mounted by 10 am, location to be determined

slums
outcasts who inhabit the outskirts exposed to radiation and factory pollution. Do not approach them.

a. draw Your poster must be 36 wide x 24 tall. In other words it must be horizontal, unless you present a compelling argument for a vertical orientation. The images on the following page are to serve as suggestions rather than representative of a required graphic language. Be as inventive as you desire provided it is in the service of telling your story. b. write Your board should include a description of your project, a 250-word maximum description. The description should state both the future state that your present as well as your design proposal.

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126 lb/ week 6570 lb/ year

The disposal window scans the item being thrown out, which is then automatically redeemed into credit to buy a newer product soon after. Each Debrispolitan produces on an average of 18 lb of waste per day. This translates into about the weight of a prepubescent girl plus a dog after a week and the weight of elephant on a diet after a year.

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The more and quickly spent credit equals to a greater amount of waste disposed. The quality of waste also reflects the amount of credit return upon being tossed, the average being about 88%. To spend is to be rich.

The factory filters the falling wastes to reuse materials for new goods. The products are then re-circulated into the On-Demand systems of the city.

% credit return

88

will not convert to credit

Through the power of nuclear energy, the accumulated waste is projected through the vacuum core.

The products of the market are designed for short service life, as improved versions are reintroduced on a daily basis. This translates to a religious cycle of consumption to credit in order to sustain the gluttonous Debrispolitian lifestyle.

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The Earths surface is now polluted beyond occupancy let alone dumping waste on it. As an alternative, the accumulated wastes are projected from the city into outer space. After a half of a century, a blanket of 8 to 25 mile thick layer of orbital space waste has formed, which has been a convinient protection against UV rays. The layer of orbital space waste is reminiscent of mining fields that once covered the Earth. Scavanger missions are routinely conducted to harvest raw resources on this new secondary surface of the planet.

This Public Service Manual is endorsed by the Urban Utopia Planning Association (est. 2076). The UUPA is an organization devoted to the preservation of the human race and the entitlement of the highest quality of living. Waste is no longer a matter of nuisance but of opportunity. The UUPA is responsible of adapting the paramount waste into fuels that now supply the luxurious lifestyle of the city of Desbrispolis.

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assignment three: city structures How is the city organized in the future? What will hold it together? How will people get around? Where will they go? How long will it take them to get there? And why will they go there in the first place? Consider these questions as you build up a map of your city. It can help to understand a city by diagramming its infrastructure: its transportation systems (streets, public transport, etc), its public spaces (often at a variety of scales), its neighborhoods and districts. Each of these tells a part of the urban story. When compiled, we call this sort of drawing an urban framework diagram. Another useful way to understand the full complexity of the city is a tool called the transect. A transect is a diagrammatic section (sometimes accompanied with a plan) that cuts through a metropolitan region, from the most dense areas to the most open. Consider what your city might look like when examined this way. a. make images Create both a framework diagram and a transect. As this is a two week assignment, you are asked to begin on trace so that we can have discussions during class. Although we will start loosely, you should have some idea of the scale of your drawings from the beginning. b. write an essay A minimum 100-word expository describing your city, and your reaction to the questions above. This must be a coherent document, with a clear structure and logic.

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assignment four: story boarding taxi driver, metropolis, playtime, do the right thing,

blade runner. In certain films, the urban landscape becomes a developed character in its own right. What is it about these, and other, movies that make it so? This

You should feel free to use all the techniques you have developed thus far to make these images: montage,

question will be the starting point of your final exercise in which you will examine the your future city as a character for a hypothetical film. You will choose a genre (be it a horror film, science-

model, diagram and transect. For example, you could take a picture of your model and include it as the backdrop for a scene, or you may use part of a transect to describe a journey in the movie. b. write an essay

fiction, adventure, romantic comedy, etc) and tease out the qualities of the city that evoke the character that is sought. You will use all the work you have done so far

(and when necessary augment it) to reflect your ideas about the city, through an analysis and selection of sites, using the storyboarding technique associated with movie making. When one makes a movie, one begins with a storyboard: a series of drawings that describe the sequence of shots that will comprise the film. We will utilize this tool to make a hypothetical movie to describe your future city. a. make images Create four images, each A2, that describe a scene from the movie in your future city. Consider a variety of scenes, in public and private places as well as pivotal points in your narrative.

A minimum 100-word expository describing your city, and your reaction to the questions above and below. This must be a coherent document, with a clear structure and

logic. Your movie (your storyboard and your essay) should answer the following questions: What kind of city is this? How will people use public space? What is private space? What is the family unit? Where do people work? How do they get there? How has technology effect your future city? Ecology? Demography? deadline Drafts of all four panels due during class on 16 April. Essay due by 8am on 16 April. Final drawings due at the start of class on 23 April. Best work will be presented for Meeting of the Minds on 30 April.

Urban framework diagram

It must also answer the following questions: How big is your city (in square kilometers)? How many people live here? What is the average denisty? deadline Drafts on trace to class on 2 April. Essay due by 8am on 9 April. Final drawings due start of class on 9 April.

Transect

Storyboards from Blade Runner

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Workshops & Exhibitions

Found in Doha
CO-LED may 2009 WITH MARY-LOU ARSCOTT, NICK DURRANT, & KELLY HUTZELL SPRING 2013

This lab was designed for the Tasmeem 2013 Doha design symposium. The installation was built and exhibited at Mathaf, the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha. The lab intended to build a machine that brings the city both physically and virtually into the museum, and vice versa. It strove to augment the symposium themes of hybrid making and made in Doha with the notion found in Doha. Collectively, the lab created a curiosity cabinet of physical and digital found objects that reflect the citys fascinating cultural dynamics. Doha today finds itself at a moment of particular significance in its history that is characterized by unparalleled wealth and growth, massive infrastructural projects, investments in culture, education and sports, and a special relationship with the surrounding desert and sea.
Left Images of the installation and process work. Right Final installation.

While unique in its own right, it is also representative of current and future trends and challenges in urban growth: rapid development, staggering flows of migrant labor, economic and social stratification, and increasing environmental degradation. This lab posited that these challenges can be met by rethinking and remaking what can be found here in Doha. The lab was led by two urban designers with experience in and knowledge of Doha (myself and Kelly Hutzell), an architect with a specialty in construction (Mary-Lou Arscott), and an expert in human computer interaction (Nick Durrant). Each brought a certain skill set to the group. Collectively, they served as the advisors guiding the design and construction of the artifact.

4dDoha: Buildings
CO-CURATED may 2009 WITH KELLY HUTZELL, K. RICCO, A. HIMES & S. GREGSON SPRING 2012

Part of an ongoing research project on the physical growth of Doha over time, 4dDoha: Buildings is an educational web- based application that focuses on the citys architecture throughout its history. Combining research, graphic design and interaction design, the iPad app allows users to sift through the data via a series of filters, while recording the users choices on a projected map.

Created by Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture faculty Kelly Hutzell and Rami el Samahy with research associates Adam Himes, Spencer Gregson and Kristina Ricco. Generous support provided by Carnegie Mellon Qatar and Qatar Foundation. Concept and software design by over,under.

Aswan Charrette
CO-TAUGHT may 2009 WITH MARK PASNIK SPRING 2009

Nine Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture students, with Assistant Professors Rami el Samahy and Mark Pasnik, undertook an intensive, fifteen-day study of Egypt, from Cairo up the Nile to Luxor and Aswan. The group represented a number of different nations, including China, Indonesia, South Korea, Taiwan, the United States, and Egypt. Entitled Egypt from the Ancient to the Contemporary, the course sought to provide the students with an overview of five thousand years of Egyptian architecture, to be followed by a five day design charrette.

The charrette centered on two islands located in the Nile a few kilometers south of Aswan and just to the north of the Aswan Low Dam. It consisted of two separate yet related projects, a Design Center and an Eco-lodge, each with a distinct site and program. The trip culminated in a presentation to the owners of both islands.

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Course Description
Because we intend this program to serve as a complement to the Aegean study-abroad program, special emphasis will be given to the themes of those courses. Thus we will examine in detail Egyptian interpretations of the three typologies to be considered in the Aegean (mausoleum, temple & theatre), as well as the relationship between architecture, landscape and nourishment in the Nile valley. Investigation of these issues will occur through a combination of the following: Readings A collection of publications will be provided to the students before the trip. Students will be expected to have completed the relevant readings prior to the site visits and discussions. Site Visits Each student will be responsible for doing basic research on a given site prior to departure to Egypt. Each student will be expected to provide the class with drawings (plans, sections, elevation, etc) and a description of a particular site. Additionally, so that they may receive the maximum benefit from the site visits, students will be required to document the sites in the field, through sketches and photography. Charrette We will establish a focus for an intensive burst of creative production during our final few days in Aswan. The site for our project is two islands in the Nile to the south of Aswan; one will house a small ecolodge, and the other a design center. The class will present their ideas to the clients on the final day of the trip.

harrette

Synopsis
This course examines the five-thousand-year legacy of architecture and urbanism in Egypt. Throughout the duration of this two-week

mini, we will visit and study sites in Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan. The focus of these excursions will include examination of the architecture as reflections of the cultures history, religion(s), and climate. We will focus not only on the ancient world from Pharaonic to Hellenic to Roman, but also Egypts wealth of Coptic and Islamic architecture, located largely in and around Cairo. We will also tour a few key modern and contemporary structures such as Hassan Fathys New Gourna Village in Luxor, and the Nubian Museum in Aswan. Students will be expected d to read and comment on assigned readings; analyze the sites through sketches, diagrams, data collection, and photographs; and engage in a short design charrette intended to serve as a synthesis of their experience, all with an eye to teasing out the commonalities (and differences) of Egyptian architecture throughout the ages.

Itinerary
Cairo 23 May 24 May 25 May 26 May 27 May 28 May 29 May 30 May 31 May 1 June 2 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 6 June 7 June Arrive in Cairo, settle in Site Visit: Saqqara Pyramids and Memphis Site Visit: Giza Plateau, Site Visit: Coptic Cairo Site Visit: Islamic Cairo pt1 Site Visit: Islamic Cairo pt2 take overnight train to Luxor Luxor Site Visit: East Bank (Karnak Temple, Luxor Temple, Museums) Site Visit: West Bank (Valley of the Kings, Habu Temple, Ramaseum) Sound & Light Show Site Visit: West Bank (Valley of the Nobles, Valley of the Queens, New Gourna) Aswan arrive in Aswan by train in am Site Visit: Nubian Museum Site Visit: the islands Charrette Charrette Charrette Fly to Cairo in am Presentation Depart Cairo

So that students receive full course credit, this will be an intensive two weeks, and will include eight hours a day of contact hours with the instructors. Evaluation for the course will be based on the following criteria: preparing site research in advance of site visit; in field site documentation (sketches, photographs, etc.); participation in discussion of readings; level of engagement during the trip; and process and production during the charrette.

Costs
The cost for the trip is $4600 dollars, which includes tuition, room and half board, transportation within Egypt and admission to the sites. International travel, most meals (excluding breakfast) and gifts are not included in this cost.

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Egypt from the ancient to the contemporary: 48-377

Study Abroad Summer 2009 Instructors: Rami el Samahy & Mark Pasnik

Pre-Travel Assignment
In preparation for your trip to Egypt, you are to complete research on a set of important works of architecture. You will need to gather information, including drawings, historical information, and other relevant data, and then share this with your classmates. At the site, you will be expected to lead a presentation and discussion on the work or complex being viewed. Each student should research a complex or building from the list to follow. Although you have been assigned a particular site, you are welcome to trade responsibilities if so desired. SITE 1: Giza Pyramids Complex SITE 2: Saqqara Pyramid Complex SITE 3: Mar Girgis (Synagogue and Hanging Church) SITE 4: Citadel Complex, Cairo SITE 5: Sultan Hassan and Ibn Toulun Mosque, Cairo SITE 6: Gayer-Anderson House and Bayt al-Suheimi SITE 7: Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Nobles SITE 8: Habu Temple, Luxor Temple, and Karnak Temple STUDENT: STUDENT: STUDENT: STUDENT: STUDENT: STUDENT: STUDENT: STUDENT:

Travel Assignments
During the trip you will be asked to document the works of architecture you see while on each site visit. Bring a sketchbook and supplies to measure, record, and document the elements that interest you in the works you see. In addition, you will be documenting particular aspects of these works in conjunction with one other student. This material will be part of the group research conducted during the trip and leading up to an understanding of the final project in Aswan. THEME 1: Light, Wind, and Water THEME 2: Pattern and Materials THEME 3: Landscape (from Wilderness to City) and Public Space THEME 4: Spatial Structure, Organizing Principles STUDENTS: STUDENTS: STUDENTS: STUDENTS:

Your drawings should focus on the topic you are assigned and how the design techniques and approaches represented by the work and culture you are evaluating might have relevance to contemporary design thinking in the region. Record what you see and share this information with the group. Compare notes with other students on the site.

You should conduct extensive research into your site or sites (in some cases, you will be researching more than one building). Find the important articles and readings on your work and synthesize the general information to share with the rest of the group. Prepare a single sheet layout of information on your site or sites. The front of this sheet should include a historical brief, relevant information, and a short paragraph describing the significance of the work. Ask yourself: who, when, where, why? Basic information must include: Name of the site and its location. Dates of its completion as well as architects or people associated with its design and creation. Civilization and time period that produced the work describe its cultural and social context. Significant features, materials, design elements, etc. and the works importance in the history of architecture, urbanism, and culture. Listing of important articles or source books as well as websites for future reference. The back of the sheet should contain drawings of the site. Where available, include a site plan or Google Earth aerial, building plans and sections or other relevant drawings. You may reproduce these from the sources you find in your research. Print ten copies of your handout and be prepared to distribute them for the site visit. Email a PDF of your file to the instructors before the trip begins. You will be asked to verbally present the results of your research during the site visit.

Site Considerations Opportunities

Rocky Sandy Soil

Topography

Soil Types

Dock Dock Residence

Residence

Common Areas Beach

Spa Residence Micro-turbine Existing Vegetation Existing Water Features Proposed Vegetation Proposed Water Features Vegetation and Water Paths and Program Distribution

Dock

Beauty of the Setting The verdant Nile setting, drama of the flanking desert slopes, and ruggedness of the island rockscapes make nearly every view from these islands into a powerful, memorable image. The desire to take advantage of views must be tempered by discreet placement of buildings, such that they are barely visible from outside the islands. Any proposal must be modest in order to preserve and enhance each islands natural beauty.
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Agricultural Land The high value of agricultural land in Egypt is based on practical and cultural considerations. For this reason, the design team sees the existing agricultural lands on the islands as being off limits for any new structures. If anything, the agricultural land can be expanded by filling in portions of the island that flood in the summer months. The planted landscape enhances vistas and offers the chance for fresh produce to be used by the islands residents and visitors.

Water Levels Over the course of the year, water levels fluctuate up to four meters from their low in the winter to their high in the summer. This change in elevation significantly effects the size of the islands and dictates areas where land can only be used seasonally. The photos above demonstrate one site in March and again in June, when most of the same land was submerged. Some of this area could be filled in order to create new agricultural sites.

Environmental Factors The natural elements require careful consideration given Aswans climate and the desire to be ecologically sensitive. Fast-moving water, for instance, can support micro-turbines that harness energy. Predominant winds come from the north and can be used to cool spaces at many times, except winter months. Solar heat gain may be desirable in winter, but shading is absolutely necessary in the warmer months.

Natural Rock The Nubian buildings in nearby villages use the existing Aswan granite boulders and outcroppings as components of the architecture. The rocks often serve as foundationsand at times as sculptural elements inside a space. The design team sees an opportunity on both sites to engage the new architecture with the powerful forms of the rocks. Rooms or outdoor spaces could be partially defined by outcroppings, which will mask the buildings from external views.
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Proposed Agricultural Landfill

Public Dock Design Studios

Housing

Existing Agricultural Land

Private Dock

Landscape Design The site conditions dictate where the buildings can be situated. The high summer water level floods a significant portion of the arable land on the eastern and northern edges of the island, making them unbuildable. Even in summer, when the island is still almost two acres in size, there are in fact few buildable sites that meet the design teams ecological criteria. Since it was decided early on to avoid construction on agricultural land, granite outcroppings, or in highly visible areas, the possible locations were quickly narrowed to two. The most desirable site is in the center of the island, sheltered by the large rocks to the west and east. This site benefits from spectacular views of the agricultural area to its south. These agricultural lands can be expanded by filling areas, while creating new retreat spaces and a network of walking paths.

Training Center

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Aswan Charrette 7

Design Center Housing

Living Room Entry Courtyard

Local Influences Craft

Mudbrick Wall

Local Influences Courtyards

Many of Egypts housing traditions employ courtyards. These spaces offer privacy, security, protection from heat, and a social heart for daily activities. The same approach is used in civic and religious structures. Mosques, temples, and many public buildings contain courtyards as central organizing spaces and sites for gatherings, functions, or rituals. The social and cultural implications of such spaces are important, while the environmental benefits serve the ecological goals of the Aswan project. Courtyards tend to cool down at night. The surrounding building masses shade these spaces, allowing them to remain cool during the early daytime hours. In the evening, when the air can be cooler, these courtyards often retain some warmth, which is particularly beneficial in the winter months. The design team intends to think creatively about how these diurnal cycles and typological benefits can be recaptured in the new proposals.

Housing Proposal 1 Two different approaches were taken for the housing, both derived from traditional Egyptian typologies. Each contains the same program: five bedrooms, a living area, a dining room, and a kitchen. The first proposal is a modified courtyard scheme. In this instance, the majority of the program resides on the ground level, with only a single bedroom perched on the upper floor. The plan is punctuated by variously scaled courts connected by a meandering circulation path. As a result, there are no direct lines of sight through the building. Instead the experience unfolds as a series of episodes of light and shadow.

Courtyard

Bedroom 1 Bedroom 3 Water Closet Courtyard Bedroom 2 Bedroom 4 Courtyard Water Closet Courtyard Bedroom 5

Kitchen

Silk Loom

Dining Room Courtyard

Lower Floor Plan

Upper Floor Plan

The Nubian craft and vernacular traditions are part of the regions identity and support economic and social well being of the local villages near the two islands. Crafts and vernacular architecture both relate the final products to the people who fabricated them. The design team and clients have sought inspiration from these traditions, while also modifying themmaking fresh, contemporary translations that expand the skill base of the workers who produce them. This approach mirrors the design centers ambition to create new products based on, but not mimicking, traditional crafts. Techniques of straw baskets, beaded jewelry, or furniture made from palms can be applied at larger scales to make walls, screens, curtains or other elements that define the buildings and rooms. Likewise, the local stonework and mud-brick construction techniques offer a set of material resources for thinking about the design center and eco-lodges new architecture.

Sketches of New Gourna

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Straw Baskets with Spices

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This spread pages of student work from charrette publication, Summer 2009.
Common Areas Proposal 2 The second proposal for the common facilities creates a new stone structure engaged with the western rock outcropping. In merging with the existing rocks, it fills a portion of the valley and narrows the threshold between the northern and southern sides of the site. This strategy allows service programs to be tucked under the various levels of indoor and outdoor spaces for the guests. As with proposal one, the outdoor dining spaces open to the north to harness the wind for cooling in the summer months, while a canopy shades the sun. Southern spaces take the opposite passive design approach, open to the sun and protected from the wind for winter months.

Eco-Lodge Guest Units

Three guest unit sites were studied by the design team: the smallest site (number one) and a pair of two large sites (numbers four and five). These quick studies explored the scale of units, the balance of interior and exterior areas, and the ability to integrate the building forms into the landscape. The units contain a living space, a bedroom, a spa-like bathroom, and exterior private areas for relaxing, reading, or using outdoor private pools. Green roofs and gardens are also included in each proposal. Interior spaces are often defined in part by existing rock walls, capturing the islands drama inside. Guest Unit Proposal 1 The study for site one creates a two-story, long and narrow structure, with living, bathing, and courtyard spaces on the ground floor and a bedroom upstairs. The building is shaded by a lightweight wooden canopy, crafted like traditional Nubian furniture. The bedroom opens to a balcony, with a movable bed that allows guests to sleep outdoors in good weather, protected by a curtain of netting.
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Garden Roof

Outdoor Bath Bath Court Rock Pool Living Room Rock Pool Bedroom Shading Structure (Above) Outdoor Sleeping Terrace Prevailing Wind Entry Below View Garden Roof Court Below

Court Below Bedroom Shading Structure (Above) Outdoor Sleeping Entry Below View

View of Entry Portico

Reed Shading Structure

Lower Floor Plan

Upper Floor Plan

Garden Roof Wood Shade Bedroom

Outdoor Sleeping

View from Bedroom

Traditional Palm Frond Furniture

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Outdoor Bath East-West Section

Bath

Court

Living Room

Terrace

Exploded Axonometric of Restaurant, Lobby, and Bar

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ULI Gerald D. Hines Competition

CARNEGIE MELLON ENTRY SPRING 2007

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Harvesting the Benefits of Gentrification through an Eco-Economy Renewable Energy Development Through Community Enhancement
California energy policy has set the goal of 20% of the states electricity mix created through renewable energy in the states electricity mix to 20 percent 2010. Maximizing Resources in East LA Emerging Renewables was designed to favor small generating systems, in urban residential or commercial areas Solar: Through the California Solar Initiative, $2 billion in incentives for residential homes, existing and new commercial, and industrial properties are provided. Potential for up to 20kw of solar generated power on . California Green Enterprise funds utilize multi-lateral bank programs and equity investors to pool capital for energy efficiency, cogeneration and renewable energy projects. LA River Power Generation: Potential for 62 KW of power production through micro-hydro generation.

Alameda Gold-Line Transit Stop (At Grade) and Future TOD Commercial Development New L.A. Emergency Response Center Senor Fish

Nishi Hongwanji Temple

Gold-Line Transit Stop (At Grade)

Pueblo del Sol (470-unit mixed income)

Carnegie Mellon graduate students Jacob Day (MUD 07), Matthew Ciccone (MSPPM & MUD 06), Chris Koch (MSPPM), and Darren Soborn (MBA) formed a team to voluntarily enter the 2007 ULI Gerald D. Hines Urban Design Competition, inviting Rami el Samahy to serve as their lead advisor. Their entry (left) was awarded an honorable mention, a

Members of the team later went on to establish GTECH, a Pittsburgh based non-profit social enterprise dedicated to fostering community through the growth of green economies, to run for office and to head the Pittsburgh Community Design Development Corporation.

TELACU Pico Aliso (74-unit senior assisted housing) New Public High School Cummings Historic Hotel

Mariachi Plaza Gold-Line Transit Stop (Underground) and Future TOD Development

How does one maintain community and responsibly enable change by extracting the positive attributes of gentrification? The unique nature, resources, and opportunities present in Boyle Heights create a recipe for permanence. Salsa Verde proposes a green-based economy designed to enhance, preserve and incorporate the distinct assets of the area. Urban permanence utilizing natural resources and assets without destroying the unique composition and balance of place. Three primary tenets of this balance are to: Enhance the area by improving connectivity to the river, promoting urban livability, transit, access to food, and public expression. Preserve the distinct character of the community through creation of affordable housing, lively public spaces, a vibrant community identity and an informal economy. Incorporate a Green Eco Economy with new sectoral job growth, innovative industry connected to regional strengths, existing infrastructure, and leadership in environmental stewardship. Mariachi Plaza is the central node of community activity and has a distinct character worthy of preserving at any cost. Proposed are a new public market, public gathering space, affordable housing rental apartments and transit center.

These additions will serve to complement the East L.A. Community Corporations plan for a Mariachi Hostel at the Cummings Block Hotel to preserve the musical flare of the area. Balancing the traditional taste of the neighborhood is the proposed Green Enterprise Research and Development facility which will leverage regional university, governmental and private sector assets. Promoting innovative industry growth will lead to a thriving Green Collar of industry along the river. Micro-hydro power generation on the LA River is a bold new approach to a historically under-utilized asset. Additionally the existing infrastructure of the riverbanks ideally services the proposed Industrial Sanctuary. Vegetable oil cultivation, bio-fuel production and distribution, distributed solar electric, extensive green infrastructure and natural bio-remediation demonstrate a serious reevaluation of what the possibilities of urban redevelopment could involve. This vision is complimented by a series of river pathways and trails accessible to outdoor enthusiasts, urban farmers, and graffiti artists. Incorporating the previously void concrete canyon will create an urban oasis of abundance.

New Up-Market Housing

first for a Carnegie Mellon team.

New In-Fill Mixed-Income Housing Expanded Industrial Sanctuary provides jobs and economic growth
Mariachi Plaza Development Future Development and Programming Key Retained Buildings

The Arts District is a growing mix of trendy cafes, clubs, and working artist live/work space

210% Increase in
DOW
N TO W N

property values. 2003 to 2006

of residents rent their homes.

75%

Boyle Heights Neighborhood Inluences

Edible School Yard Native Wetland Grasses to slow river flow and re-vegatate river canyon

Green Infrastructure and Energy Sources

Increased Industrial and Argicultural Land Uses

Mariachi Plaza Rental Housing: 116 Low-income 107 market rate 56 Moderate income
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Children learn about the connection between what they eat and where it comes from, with the goal of fostering environmental stewardship and revolutionizing the school lunch program.
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Mariachi Plaza and Apartments:

Public Markets and Gathering space Public Art/Mural Exhibits Underground Metro Stop

1030

Bio-diesel Gas Station

East LA Community, Corps adaptive reuse of Historic Cummings Hotel into Mariachi International Hostel

Local train tracks function to bring raw materials from fertile central California to the Port of Los Angeles

The Gold-line extention will connect Boyle Heights to Los Angeles greater public transit system

Orange Trees line streets

Green Technologies Research and Development Hub

Future Small Business Incubator

$8.1 Billion in undocumented payroll in 2004 (Economic Roundtable)

Informal Economy

A vibrant informal economy of food vendors, flea markets, and Mariachis provide Boyle Heights with a unique neighborhood culture.

Series of elevated river pathways and trails connect and activate spaces along the LA River Bio-Fuel Processing Distribution Plant

Shared Equity Affordable Housing

Mariachi Plaza Development Proposal

Unlevered IRR IRR USE OF FUNDS Land Acquisition Costs Site/Infrastruture Costs Hard Construction Costs Soft Costs Total SOURCE OF FUNDS Developer Equity Private Debt Tax Increment Financing Public Subsidy (HUD, State & Local) Infrastructure Public Subsidy Contributions from Area Institutions Foundation Contributions Total HOUSING MIX Workforce Market-Rate Affordable Total ASSUMPTIONS Proceeds from Sale/SF Rent $/SF/Yr Cap Rate Parking Ratio Vacany Rate Market Rate Housing Workforce Housing Affordable Housing Land Acquisition Cost $/SF Median Income L.A. (2006) FINANCING Interest Rate Reduced Rate (affordable) Annual CPI Escalation Inflation 18,716,000 8,635,400 172,708,000 17,270,800 $217,330,200 47,988,614 57,500,000 50,000,000 23,000,000 18,842,000 12,500,000 7,500,000 $217,330,614 UNITS 116 107 56 279 % 8.6% 4.0% 79.5% 7.9% % 22.1% 26.5% 23.0% 10.6% 8.7% 5.8% 3.5% % 41.6% 38.4% 20.1% For-Sale Res $550/224/140 Rental Apt Retail $25.00 9% 2:1000SF 5% Office $27 9% 2:1000SF 5% 23.4% 9.3% % 8.6% 4.0% 79.5% 7.9% % 22.1% 26.5% 23.0% 10.6% 8.7% 5.8% 3.5% % 41.6% 38.4% 20.1% Year Base Rental Revenue less vacancy NOI of Income Generating Property TOTAL Gross Revenue TOTAL Operating Expenses Net Operating Income (NOI) Yr 1 $18,479,772 ($1,460,892) $4,694,000 $21,712,881 $3,238,932 $18,473,949 Yrs 2-4 $58,128,975 ($4,615,748) $14,328,000 $67,841,227 $10,211,321 $57,629,906 ($44,243,422) Yrs 5-7 $63,519,100 ($5,043,753) $14,328,000 $72,803,348 $11,024,865 $61,778,483 ($44,243,422) Yrs 8-10 $69,409,036 ($5,511,445) $14,328,000 $78,225,591 $11,913,846 $66,311,745 ($44,243,422) $251,475,443 ($77,171,330) ($10,059,018) $174,304,113 $13,386,483 $9,889,225 $17,535,061 $9,611,509 $196,372,436 $73,193,994

Green Enterprise: The Case for Bio-diesel

Fuel production & Job creation 5 million bushels of canola = 12.5 million gallons of bio-diesel = 18 technical jobs / 5 acres Utilizing 10 % of the 650 acres within the Salsa Verde site cultivating brassica plants for soil remediation and bio-fuel production approximately 220 technical workforce jobs would be created, producing close to 150 million gallons of bio-diesel/year Air quality California Bio Diesel produces 80% less carbon dioxide and 100% less sulfur dioxide emissions than other types of diesel. Environmental Benefits California diesel is a core strategy for reducing air pollution related health threats through the use of cleaner fuels Governors Bio-Fuels Executive Order By 2020 California will produce a minimum of 20% of its own bio-fuels by 2010 and 40%. Currently, of the 900 million gallons of bio-fuel consumed in California (which is 25 percent of the entire nations consumption), only five percent is produced in California.

Canvas-covered public market shelters informal economy activity and local foods

18,716,000 8,635,400 172,708,000 17,270,800 $217,330,200 47,988,614 57,500,000 50,000,000 23,000,000 18,842,000 12,500,000 7,500,000 $217,330,614 UNITS 116 107 56 279

DEBT SERVICE ($14,747,807) Net Sale Proceeds Terminal Value (yr 10 NOI / Reversion Cap Rate) Loan Principal at time of sale (Bal. in Mo. 121) Cost of Sale @ 4% of Terminal Value Net Sale Proceeds Cash Flow $3,726,141

PV of Each Cash Flow (discounted to year 0) $3,372,074 TOTAL PV of Cash Flows $96,066,802 Net Present Value (PV Cash Flows - Initial Equity)$49,881,930 FINANCIAL VALUATION Valuation Based on 1st year NOI $239,943,071

% %

$22.5/16.5/10.4 9% 1.5:Unit 1.5:Unit 3% 3% Mariachi Plaza Apt Building 60% 20% 20% 60% 20% 20% $80/SF for all development Market 100% Workforce 80% $55,100 $44,080 MARKET SOURCES 30yrs @ 7.5% Grubb & Ellis 30yrs @ 4.5% CB Richard Elllis 2.0% Moody's Economy Report 3.0% REIS Observer Yr 1 $18,479,772 ($1,460,892) $4,694,000 $21,712,881 $3,238,932 $18,473,949 Yrs 2-4 $58,128,975 ($4,615,748) $14,328,000 $67,841,227 $10,211,321 $57,629,906 ($44,243,422)

Affordable 50% $27,550

Mariachi Plaza: Not just a clever name Salsa Verde Vendors line Extended Public Plaza and Market

Year Base Rental Revenue less vacancy NOI of Income Generating Property TOTAL Gross Revenue TOTAL Operating Expenses Net Operating Income (NOI)

Yrs 5-7 $63,519,100 ($5,043,753) $14,328,000 $72,803,348 $11,024,865 $61,778,483 ($44,243,422)

Yrs 8-10 $69,409,036 ($5,511,445) $14,328,000 $78,225,591 $11,913,846 $66,311,745 ($44,243,422) $251,475,443 ($77,171,330) ($10,059,018) $174,304,113

Phytoremediation

DEBT SERVICE ($14,747,807) Net Sale Proceeds Terminal Value (yr 10 NOI / Reversion Cap Rate) Loan Principal at time of sale (Bal. in Mo. 121) Cost of Sale @ 4% of Terminal Value Net Sale Proceeds Cash Flow $3,726,141

Vacant lots, brownfields, rail-yards, and river coridoors remediated through the cultivation of Brassica plants such as sunflower, canola, and mustards producing vegetable oils transformed into clean burning bio-diesel.

$13,386,483 $9,889,225

$17,535,061 $9,611,509

$196,372,436 $73,193,994

PV of Each Cash Flow (discounted to year 0) $3,372,074 TOTAL PV of Cash Flows $96,066,802 Net Present Value (PV Cash Flows - Initial Equity)$49,881,930 FINANCIAL VALUATION Valuation Based on 1st year NOI $239,943,071

e Res Rental Apt 4/140 $22.5/16.5/10.4 9% nit 1.5:Unit 3% Plaza Apt Building % 20% % 60% % 20% development 100% Workforce 80% 00 $44,080 MARKET SOURCES 7.5% Grubb & Ellis 4.5% CB Richard Elllis % Moody's Economy Report % REIS Observer

Retail $25.00 9% 2:1000SF 5%

Office $27 9% 2:1000SF 5%

Affordable 50% $27,550

ULI Gerald D. Hines Urban Design Competition 2007 Above CMU entry board
Carnegie Mellon University Entry

Spring 2007. Honorable Mention

Jacob Day (MUD 07), Matt Ciccone (MSPPM & MUD 06), Chris Koch (MSPPM), Andrew Butcher (MSPPM), Darren Sobom (MBA) Rami el Samahy, Kelly Hutzell, advisors

Dramatis Urbis, Antwerp

CO-TAUGHT WITH KELLY HUTZELL SPRING 2007

Starting with the idea that cities are often characters in films, participants in this week-long workshop were asked to choose a genre (be it a horror film, science-fiction, adventure, etc) and tease out the qualities of the city that evoke the character that is sought.

Students were encouraged to use the built environment (and when necessary augment it) to reflect ideas about society and the city, through an analysis and selection of sites, using various tools including mapping techniques, movie storyboards, film posters, and creative writing.

This spread Posters, a portion of the workshop final projects, Henry van de Velde Institute, January 2007.

Dramatis urbium The character(s) of the city

ADSL 2007

Dramatis urbium The character(s) of the city

ADSL 2007

Kelly Hutzell Rami el Samahy

Caste Assistant Professor, School of Architecture Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Principal, over,under Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Architecture Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

FRAMING THE PROJECT

M 1400-1600 scripting [2] Introductions Syllabus/Resources Viewing of films Architecture/Film Discussion 1600-1800 [2] Genre, Narrative Brainstorming Genre & Narrative Draft

DOCUMENTATION
T 0900-1130 scouting [2.5] Viewing the City Photography, Collection of found objects Sketching plans & perspectives Selection & analysis of sets/sites Analysis & diagram of sets/sites

1400-1600 1600-1800

[2] [2]

Urban Diagramming Lecture Viewing the City

SYNTHESIS
W 0900-1130 1400-1800 [2.5] [4] Storyboarding/Set Lecture Viewing of films Studio work/desk crits Storyboarding text and image Sketching plans & perspectives Framing the set

storyboarding

PRODUCTION
TH 0900-1130 1400-1630 [2.5] [2.5] [0.5] Storyboard pin-up Storyboard work/desk crits Poster Lecture Storyboard Draft #1 Storyboard Final

Taxi Driver, Metropolis, Playtime. In these films the urban landscape becomes a developed character in its own right. What is it about these, and other, movies that make it so? This question will be the starting point of a workshop that will examine the city of Antwerp as a character for a hypothetical film. Participants will choose a genre (be it a horror film, science-fiction, adventure, etc) and tease out the qualities of the city that evoke the character that is sought. We will use the built environment (and when necessary augment it) to reflect ideas about society and the city, through an analysis and selection of sites, using various tools including mapping techniques, movie storyboards, film posters, and creative writing.
selling

1630-1700

MARKETING
F 0900-1230 1530-1700 [3.5] [1.5] Poster work Exhibition Final poster

RESOURCES
The City: Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City The City in Architecture: Dietrich Neumann, ed., Film Architecture Mark Lamster, ed., Architecture and Film Linda Krause & Patrice Petro, ed., Global Cities Mapping: Janet Abrams, Peter Hall, eds Else/where: Mapping sourcing Films: Paul Strand & Charles Sheeler, Manhatta, 1921 Fritz Lang, Metropolis, 1927 Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, 1989 Jacques Tati, Playtime, 1967 Charles & Ray Eames, Powers of Ten, 1968

This spread Exhibit of class final projects, Henry van de Velde Institute, January 2007.

RESEARCH

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CO-LED may 2009 WITH KELLY HUTZELL & RESEARCH TEAM L. MACWILLIE & E. RICE SUMMER & FALL 2007

The Qatar Foundation The International Design Zone Qatar Site Analysis, Program Analysis, & Design Guidelines
prepared by Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture in association with the Virginia Commonwealth University, Center for Research in Design

The International Design Zone Qatar architectural and urban design guidelines


the development of this significant area in the citys evolution. The proposal includes architectural and urban design guidelines, sustainability initiatives, and an analysis of the potential for development in phases over time. The study was prepared by Kelly Hutzell and Rami el Samahy in conjunction with Virginia Commonwealth University and Carnegie Mellon University.

Final Report 14 November 2007

and master plan included site analysis, program analysis and design guidelines intended to complement the studies that have conceived of and developed the Design Zone idea. The Design Zone is a new initiative of Qatar Foundation intended to foster the creative industries in the nation. The project

Left Perspectives of the various public spaces in the Design Zone Below The main plaza space.

document provides the structure by which the original Design Zone concepts are to be translated into physical form, shaping

Site Analysis Site Forces Pedestrian Circulation

Although much of the campus lies within a ve minute walking radius of the Design Zone, little infrastructure exists to encourage pedestrians to do so. Nevertheless, connections to the southern side of the campus exist via pedestrian tunnels, one of which provides direct access to the IDZQ site. To increase walkability, any plans for the Design Zone should take advantage of this connection. A transit system has also been proposed to connect the various parts of campus, and should stop at the IDZQ.

Program Analysis Adjacencies & Requirements

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Existing Pedestrian Circulation Pedestrian Gateway Building Entrance Pedestrian Circulation 5 Minute Walk Underground Pedestrian Tunnel Transit

Existing Pedestrian Circulation Pedestrian Gateway

Figure 1 A plan showing ve-minute Pedestrian Circulation walking circles from each proposed 5 Minute transit stop. Figure 2 Plan depicting theWalk Underground Pedestrian Tunnel network of proposed and existing open Transit spaces.
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Figures 1 An adjacency diagram analyzing the individual progammatic components and their relationship to other programmatic elements. Figure 2 An examination of the requirements for the individual programmatic elements. Figure 3 The program elements to scale, rearranged to reect adjacencies and requirement needs.

Site Analysis Historical Analysis Local Precedents

These pictures, dated from the late 1940s, offer clues as to how Qataris dealt with the climate in the days before oil. As evinced in the aerial photographs, the majority of development is two-story and the ground oors are relatively high tall. The pathways are narrow and uneven, providing shade to pedestrians. It is worth noting that while there are no wind towers, the upper story of most buildings have rooms facing the sea in order to benet from the morning on-shore breezes. Deep loggia provide shading, especially on the upper story. Decorative elements can be added and can also serve as shadings devices. Awnings and covered walkways provide shade in exterior public spaces. These elements are often temporary so that they can be easily removed when the space is not in use. Courtyards provide shading and privacy. Deep loggia are located on the inside of the courtyard for further shading of the rooms facing the courtyard. Many courtyards also have vegetation which can provide further shading and cooling. Connective passageways into areas of town also serve to minimize pedestrian exposure to the sun.

Site Analysis Environment Vegetation

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Figures 1-6 Downtown Doha, c. 1947.

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Design Guidelines Sustainable Systems Parking & Transit

The Design Zone should allow for primacy of the pedestrian, as outlined in LEED standards, by providing appealing and comfortable street environments. Streets should be designed to a minimum width to allow for shading from the building massing. Streets should incorporate street trees, plantings, lighting, signage and waynding, and street furniture. Every effort should be made to slow trafc, yet allow for the successful interaction of vehicular and pedestrian activity, thereby creating an active and safe neighborhood. Parking should be structured in order to complement a walkable neighborhood. As Education City aims to be a transit-oriented campus, the parking capacity should be sized according to the minimum requirements by building typology. The location of multiple smaller parking lots on the periphery of the Design Zone or the integration of onstreet parking will allow trafc to lter through the site, thereby eliminating bottlenecks,as well as minimizing the heat island effect. The proposed public transit system should be investigated in order that it can provide stops servicing the site within close proximity of major buildings. Transit facilities should be incorporated into the streetscape, and provide shade, seating, and lighting in order to encourage transit use. Every effort made to allow for a pedestrian experience will facilitate the goals of the Design Zone as a creative, collaborative, mixed-use environment. Here, chance encounters will occur, and a community will be fostered as people work, live and shop in close proximity.

Design Guidelines Sustainable Systems District as Power Plant

If the Design Zone intends to set the standard in the area of sustainable design, is no longer enough to aim for a zero carbon footprint. In keeping with the stated objective of achieving a Platinum LEED rating, the district should be designed in such a way that it is not merely carbon neutral but a net producer of energy. A battery of alternative energy sources should be investigated, including wind turbines, radiant slabs, micro turbines, geothermal heat sinks, ventilated facades, waterless urinals, and integrated photovoltaics. Moreover, the project should be tied to the overall grid network. There are a number of advantages of a grid-tied system. First, there is no need for large, expensive banks of batteries to store energy. The grid will provide power at times when the array cannot (night time, during peak hours). Moreover, the power given back to the grid when there is excess during the day will be more than the power consumed by the district, thus contributing to less overall energy production elsewhere. In fact this should be regarded as a potential source of income generation for the district; depending on regulations, power returned to the grid will be bought back at the same or higher value than for which it was purchased. In keeping with LEED standards, the design and construction of energy efcient buildings to reduce air, water and land pollution, and environmental impacts from energy production and consumption is recommended.

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Figure 1 Zero House, Scott Specht Figure 2 Mercy Lakefront SRO, Aerotecture International, Chicago,Illinois. Rooftop battery free aeroturbines generate electricity for a 96-unit housing development. Figure 3 & 4 Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED), England, Bill Dunster. The largest carbon-neutral eco-community in the UK. Figure 5 Solar farm

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SUSTAINABILITY

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Sustainable Urbanism

Ecologies of Scale
15 February 2011
CO-PRINCIPAL may 2009 INVESTIGATOR K. HUTZELL & RESEARCHES K. RICCO & S. GREGSON 20102011

Ecologies of Scale was the culmination of an eighteen month research effort into sustainable urbanism as it related to the Gulf
Sustainability Introduction

3) 4dDoha An interactive examination of the growth of Doha over time, 4) Retrofitting the Villa Studio work from architecture students visions for the new Qatar Green Building Council headquarters, and 5) Didactic Space Models from the Architecture for Non-Majors introductory studio for the design of an exhibit area using passive cooling techniques. The installation was intended to be both didactic and exploratory, open to both a general audience as well as architecture students and professionals. The exhibition was on display at the Carnegie Mellon building in Doha in February and March 2011. The research and exhibition were funded by Qatar Foundation and Carnegie Mellon Qatar.

region and to Qatar in particular. InvestigaEcologies of Scale

Investigating Sustainable Urbanism in Qatar

This exhibit contains a number of different threads of inquiry, and thus can (and should) be read in multiple directions. The models, presentation boards and digital displays represent five separate but related efforts:
Setting the Context

tions included a survey of the existing research in the field (at the time a rather nascent segment of environmental studies), a

Retrofitting the Villa

1) Setting the Context: the Urbanism of Qatar Research on the current state of the city and country, 2) Designing for Constant Change Architectural and urban strategies and tactics to address Dohas needs in a sustainable fashion, 3) 4dDoha An interactive examination of the growth of Doha over time, 4) Retrofitting the Villa Studio work from architecture students visions for the new Qatar Green Building Council headquarters, and 5) Didactic Space Models from the Architecture for Non-Majors introductory studio for the design of an exhibit area using passive cooling techniques.

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collecting the history of Dohas urban growth (which existed only in disparate sources), and speculative design work to test certain ideas
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about the scalability of sustainability. The exhibit contains a number of different threads of inquiry, and was designed to be read in multiple directions. The models, presentation boards and digital displays represent five separate but related efforts: 1) Setting the Context: the Urbanism of Qatar Research on the current state of the city and country, 2) Designing for Constant Change Architectural and urban strategies and tactics to address Dohas needs in a sustainable fashion,

Urbanism Introduction

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Ecologies of Scale
By any measure, Qatar is experiencing unprecedented growth: the countrys population has nearly trebled in size in the past decade; in 2009, a year when most economies contracted, the economic growth rate was a staggering nine percent, with estimates of 16 percent in 2010; and the metropolitan area of its capital Doha is four times larger than it was 20 years ago. Key investments in education, culture, health and sports as well as major upgrades to the countrys infrastructure suggest that Qatar seems poised for great change. With the World Cup now slated for 2022, the current growth rates promises to continue, if not accelerate. Clearly, this is an exciting moment in the countrys history. But is it sustainable? Can it endure? With four fifths of the population living in or around Doha, this is clearly an overwhelmingly urban conurbation, with all the associated benefits and costs. Benefits include a multiplicity of new options for housing, work, and public spaces. Costs include the twin pitfalls of overcrowding and sprawl, as well as the threats to the indigenous culture and the natural environment. The research displayed in this exhibit represents a modest attempt to participate in this ongoing effort. We posit that the solutions will be found in creating a more sustainable urbanism. While green buildings are a positive step in the right direction, green neighborhoods, districts and cities provide an economy of scale that allows for truly meaningful change. We believe that the search for solutions must define the term sustainability broadly: that With regard to the environment, there is which endures must not only look to sustaining recent cause for optimism: Barwa and Qatari the environment, but must also consider the Diar have joined forces to create the Qatar economic viability as well as the social and Sustainability Assessment System (QSAS), an cultural impact. New projects must be green, initiative to rate all future development projects but must also make financial sense, and must with relevance to Qatars specific sustainable resonate with the people who will inhabit needs; Qatar Foundation has pledged to them. design all subsequent buildings to the highest Leadership in Energy and Environmental Finally, as architects and urban designers, Design (LEED) ratings; and the establishment we also believe that solutions will be found of the Qatar Green Building Council (QGBC) through more and better urbanism. will permit access for design professionals Cities use less resources per capita than and the general public to green building suburbs or exurbs. Cities are also the focus of strategies and techniques. enormous creativity that arises from a density of talented people whose possible interactions are multiplied through proximity. It is our hope that this work be viewed as contributing to that creative interaction, and that it will be improved by interaction with you, the viewer.

Investigating Sustainable Urbanism in Qatar

installation.

Professors Kelly Hutzell and Rami el Samahy along with Research Associates Kristina Ricco and Spencer Gregson gratefully acknowledge the assistance and support provided by Qatar Foundation and Carnegie Mellon University Qatar.

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Sustainability
Research by Rami el Samahy, Kristina Ricco, and Kelly Hutzell

At is most basic, sustainability can be defined as the capacity to endure. This definition certainly includes the ecological, but also addresses the economic and the cultural. But what is the environmental impact of the built environment? And how can it be examined? Sustainable development is that which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. From an environmental perspective, there are four crucial areas of study when considering the impact of buildings on the environment: water use, energy consumption, construction and materials, and transportation. Buildings annually consume a third of the total energy and more than two thirds of the electricity used. Each day five billion gallons of potable water is used solely to flush toilets. A typical commercial construction project generates up to ten kilos of solid waste per square meter of completed floor space. Development shifts land usage away from natural, biologically-diverse habitats to hardscape that is impervious and devoid of biodiversity. The far reaching influence of the built environment necessitates action to reduce its impact.

This Spread Board from the exhibtion summarizing the environmental issues.

Water
The Earths surface is 71% water, of which only 1% is safe for consumption. There are three standards of purity that determine the quality of water: potable, grey, and black. While there are opportunities to downcycle water, buildings often use potable water for all purposes. Demand for potable water in many cases is met by either depleting limited subterranean aquifers or by desalinating salt water an energy intensive process. It is imperative, therefore, to limit the use of potable water and to increase the appropriate use of recycled water.

Energy
Global energy demand is growing at a rate of 2.2% per year. Currently this demand is largely met by consuming natural resources. Energy efficiency and renewable energy are said to be the twin pillars of a sustainable energy policy. Both strategies must be developed concurrently.
In 2007 the Energy Information Administration estimated that primary sources of energy consisted of 36% petroleum, 27% coal, 23% natural gas, amounting to an 86% share for fossil fuels in primary energy consumption in the world. Domestically, 79% of Qatars total energy consumption comes from natural gas. Natural gas is a far cleaner energy source than oil.

Transportation
Reducing use of private transportation helps to lessen traffic congestion and harmful emissions, while simultaneously decreasing the consumption of precious petroleum products. Alternatives to driving include taking public transportation, walking or cycling when possible. Qatar has made initial steps in developing a public transportation network and is in the process of increasing the system dramatically.
With a growing population there has been a simultaneous increase in demand for basic infrastructure. In 2009 there were 688,029 registered vehicles in Qatar, or one car for every two people.

Construction & Materials

Construction and demolition (C&D) materials consist of the debris generated during the construction, renovation, and demolition of buildings, roads, and bridges. The reduction in use of new materials creates a corresponding reduction in embodied energy (energy used in the production of construction materials).
Dr. Yousef Alhorr, Chairman and Managing Director of the Barwa and Qatar Diar Research Institute (BQDRI), said around 20,000 tons of C&D waste was produced in Qatar dailywhich amounts to 7.3 million tons a yearas a result of the extensive construction and demolition activities in the country.

It takes between five and seven gallons of water to flush a toilet, which means collectively the world flushes 5 billion gallons of potable water down the drain every day. Water scarcity is a growing concern in countries like Qatar, which, due to low rainfall and high evaporation rates, have no sources of permanent surface water. Currently, desalination provides for more than 99% of Qatars municipal water demand.

The 2010 Oxford Business Report pegs Qatars per capita electricity consumption as the highest in the Gulf, having now surpassed the levels of developed Western nations such as the US, growing by over 4% per annum between 1990 and 2003. As of 2007, the country had a per capita electricity consumption of 14,201 KWh.

70% of domestic energy use in Qatar is consumed by air conditioning the home.
In 2006, Qatar reportedly surpassed Indonesia to become the largest exporter of liquid natural gas (LNG) in the world. Revenues from the oil and natural gas sectors account for 60% of the countrys GDP. Qatar has the worlds third largest proven natural gas reserve and continues to increase LNG production capacity.

The popular Toyota Landcruiser gets less than 20 miles per gallon (mpg), while new energy standards in many countries call for 60 mpg for all cars by 2025.

GCC countries ranked amongst the top ten countries in the world in waste production per capita. As much as 55% of the waste in GCC countries came from construction and demolition.

Qatar has roughly 1,230 km of paved roads and highways, which if stretched into a straight line, would be long enough trace the 563 km of coastline twice.

Using locally sourced materials helps cut down on the embodied energy of construction. Many sustainable building guidelines use an 800 km radius to benchmark good practices for regional material sourcing.

In an effort to ensure new developments meet green building standards, the Qatar Sustainability Assessment System (QSAS), established by the BQRI, grades buildings at each stage of their development, from design through operation. The system takes into account waste management, the use of eco-friendly materials, energy consumption, and interestingly, cultural relevance.

source: Advancing Sustainable Development, Qatar National Vision 2030, Second National Human Development Report

source: Advancing Sustainable Development, Qatar National Vision 2030, Second National Human Development Report

sources: Qatar behind the wheel http://qataraccidents.org/ and the World Development Indicators database

sources: QSAS, LEED and Estidama

source: United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development. Our Common Future (Oxford Paperback Reference). New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 1987.

Urbanism
Research by Kelly Hutzell, Kristina Ricco, and Rami el Samahy

82% of Qatars total population lives in the metropolitan area of Doha. By definition, then, this is a very urban country. But what are the elements that constitute this urban condition? And why is urbanism considered a good thing? Cities are vitally important to society as they serve a variety of important functions. Outside of cities, most people are not exposed to the same level of diversity-in both thought and personal characteristics-as they are within them. This mingling of diverse people is vital to fostering tolerance and acceptance in the broader society. People living in a modern city have a significantly smaller impact on the environment. Those living in cities have a reduced or eliminated need for an automobile and a heavier reliance on walking, cycling, and transit. Land in dense urban areas is also more efficiently used than in suburban or rural areas which require an enormous amount of infrastructure to service. Further, in apartment buildings, or shared dwellings, as well as many other aspects of city living, there is a sharing of common goods and services. Urbanism can be understood as a combination of three elements: the built fabric and its corresponding open spaces, which are connected by a network of roads. Each of these function at multiple scales. For built fabric this would mean from the entire city to the district to the neighborhood to the building. A similar sequence of nested scales operate with regard to urban open spaces: the park, the plaza, the square and the courtyard.

This Spread Board from the exhibtion summarizing the urban issues.

Built Fabric
A defining feature of cities, built fabric is established both by the architecture that forms the look and feel of the built environment and the urban design that determines the manner in which these spaces come together to shape the larger urban scale. The built fabric of each city varies based on the size and shape of property parcels, street widths and configurations, and the kinds of public space allotted.

City
Doha, Qatar A city is a large dense permanent human settlement, with its own unique context. A good city provides inhabitants with access to jobs, culture, and recreation in general, a better quality of life. A complexity of systems or networks is a necessity for utilities, land usage, transportation, and sanitation, especially at a time when more than half of the worlds population lives in cities.

District
Historic Core A district is a region marked by a distinguishing feature, or separated by administrative or geographical attributes. Districts vary greatly in size, but typically provide a particular function or serve a group of like-minded people, such as a central business district or a historic district.

Examples of cities include (population of metro area): Doha (1.2 million), New York City (19 million), Berlin (4.5 million), Mumbai (18 million)

Other examples of districts include: Education City and West Bay business district in Doha; Chinatown, New York City

Neighborhood
Msheireb* A neighborhood acts as a microcosm of the city. Successful neighborhoods provide amenities in close proximity to where people might live, work, and play. They serve a diversity of people young and old, rich and poor; provide a diversity of buildings old and new, big and small; and accommodate the intricate complexities of daily life.

Building
Al Koot Fort A noun and a verb, building can refer to a physical structure for human habitation or the art or business of assembling materials to make that structure. Building types, or typologies, have different characteristics and measures. The best buildings are not only designed with an understanding of how people use the space, but also heighten the senses and comfort of those using it.

*The neighborhood outline indicates the area recently demolished for the Dohaland (now Msheireb Properties) Msheireb project. Other examples of neighborhoods include: Al Muntazah, Doha; Notting Hill, London; Montmartre, Paris Other examples of buildings include: Antwerp Central (Train) Station, Belgium; The Sears Tower, Chicago

Public Space
Urban spaces serve as a stage for civic life, where individuals and society gather, play, exercise, or simply relax. The town square is historically the most important public space. Streets serve as public promenades. Parks, as the green lungs of a city, provide opportunities for recreation.

Park
The Corniche Parks not only provide opportunities for relaxation and recreation, but also provide ecological and biological benefits for the environment such as protection for wildlife or natural habitats. Often green and pleasantly landscaped, they provide a respite from the hustle and bustle of the city, at the neighborhood, city, or regional scale.

Plaza
Souq Najada Plazas are grand urban public spaces within the core of the city, framed by important governmental, religious, or corporate buildings. They serve as centers for community life, where large gatherings, parades, and protests take place. Public plazas, or town squares, often define the image of a particular city, as instantly recognizable as a citys skyline.

Other examples of parks include: Central Park, New York City; Hyde Park, London; Al-Azhar Park, Cairo

Other examples of plazas include: Piazzi San Marco, Venice; Plaza Mayor, Madrid

Square
Eid Prayer Grounds Squares, which can come in many shapes and sizes, are public spaces in the heart of a neighborhood, town, or city. A successful square, an outdoor living room of the city, is often surrounded by commercial and mixed-use activity.

Courtyard
Al Koot courtyard Courtyards are intimate outdoor spaces enclosed by walls or buildings and open to the sky. A sheltered space for a family or group of people to gather, courtyards provide privacy, security, and tranquility. Depending on the culture and climate, courtyards are often integral to residential or religious buildings.

Other examples of squares include: Tahrir Square, Cairo; Saint Peters Square, Rome; Tiananmen Square, Beijing

Other examples include: Ibn Tulun Mosque, Cairo; Alhambra, Granad, Spain; Imperial Summer Palace, Beijing

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water usewater per person, use per daily person, daily

Qatar has less than Qatar 200has cubic less meters than 200 of water cubic meters of water per person per year, per person placingper it well year, below placing the it well below the internationally recognized internationally barrier recognized for a water-poor barrier for a water-poor country of 1000 cubic country meters of 1000 per cubic person meters per year. per person per year.
the report: qatar 2010, the oxford report: business qatar 2010, group oxford business group

400 liters 400 liters

In 2022, more In than 2022, half more of the than population half of the ofpopulation of Turkmenistan the region will the be region underwill 25 and be under the World 25 and Cup the World Cup will have a different will have impact a different here than impact anywhere here than anywhere Saudi Arabia in the world.in the world.
Her Highness SheikhaHer Mozah Highness bint Nasser Sheikha Al Missned, Mozah bint in her Nasser speech Al Missned, to FIFAsin her speech to FIFAs Executive Committee, securing Executive Qatars Committee, 2022 securing World Cup Qatars bid 2022 World Cup bid

United States

United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 6,071,000,000,000 6,071,000,000,000 m3 m3

cia world factbook, 2009 cia world factbook, 2009

Qatar Rail Qatar Network Rail Network includingincluding doha metro, doha light metro, raillight rail & freight which & freight will which connect will to connect to the proposed the gcc proposed railway gcc railway
the report: qatar 2010, the oxford report: business qatar 2010, group oxford business group

$25 billion $25 billion

This Spread A summary of the context

data made visual

This Spread Census

1908

= = 20,000 20,000

27,000 27,000

1971

120,000 120,000

20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000 100,000 120,000 140,000 160,000 180,000 200,000 220,000 240,000 260,000 280,000

250,000 250,000

1986

For every 1 woman there are 3 men

369,079 369,079

300,000 320,000 340,000 360,000 380,000 400,000 420,000 440,000 460,000 480,000 500,000 520,000 540,000 560,000 580,000 600,000 620,000 640,000 660,000 680,000 700,000 720,000 740,000

500,000 500,000

1997
522,023 522,023

4/5
of Qatars total population is expatriate. There are fewer than 300,000 nationals living in the country.

750,000 750,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,250,000 1,250,000 1,500,000 1,500,000

2004
744,029 744,029 1,699,435 1,699,435

760,000 780,000 800,000 820,000 840,000 860,000 880,000 900,000 920,000 940,000 960,000 980,000 1,000,000 1,020,000 1,040,000 1,060,000 1,080,000 1,100,000 1,120,000 1,140,000 1,160,000 1,180,000 1,200,000 1,220,000 1,240,000 1,260,000 1,280,000 1,300,000 1,320,000 1,340,000 1,360,000 1,380,000 1,400,000 1,420,000 1,440,000 1,460,000 1,480,000 1,500,000 1,520,000 1,540,000

40%
99.9% of people employed in the construction sector are expatriate.
2010 of Qatars total work force is engaged in the construction sector.
1,560,000 1,580,000 1,600,000 1,620,000 1,640,000 1,660,000 1,680,000 1,700,000 1,720,000 1,740,000

This Spread Rapid physical growth in six decades.

Why Do We Need Public Space?

Where people live affects their health and chances of leading flourishing lives. Communities and neighborhoods that ensure access to basic goods, that are socially cohesive, that are designed to promote good physical and psychological wellbeing, and that are protective of the natural environment are essential for health equity.
Closing the gap in a generation, World Health Organization, 2008

Why Do We Need Public Space?

Where people live affects their health and chances of leading flourishing lives. Communities and neighborhoods that ensure access to basic goods, that are socially cohesive, that are designed to promote good physical and psychological wellbeing, and that are protective of the natural environment are essential for health equity.
Closing the gap in a generation, World Health Organization, 2008

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

City Centre Mall Aspire Park Pearl Boardwalk al Bidda Park Corniche Souq Waqif Sheraton Park (u/c) Wadi Al Sail (u/c) Museum Park (u/c) al Muntazah Park Dahl al Hamam al Khor Gardens

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

City Centre Mall Aspire Park Pearl Boardwalk al Bidda Park Corniche Souq Waqif Sheraton Park (u/c) Wadi Al Sail (u/c) Museum Park (u/c) al Muntazah Park Dahl al Hamam al Khor Gardens

Global obesity rates have doubled in the past three decades, with changes in dietary habits and physical activity believed partly to be at blame.
Medical Journal, The Lancet, February 04, 2011

Global obesity rates have doubled in the past three decades, with changes in dietary habits and physical activity believed partly to be at blame.
Medical Journal, The Lancet, February 04, 2011

City Centre Mall

City Centre Mall Aspire Park

Aspire Park Pearl Boardwalk

Pearl Boardwalk

Qatar ranks 6th globally for prevalence of obesity... local health experts predict that within five years 73% of Qatari women and 69% of the men would qualify as obese.
Privilege Pulls Qatar Toward Unhealthy Choices, The New York Times, April 26, 2010

Qatar ranks 6th globally for prevalence of obesity... local health experts predict that within five years 73% of Qatari women and 69% of the men would qualify as obese.
Privilege Pulls Qatar Toward Unhealthy Choices, The New York Times, April 26, 2010
Malls throughout the region provide shopping, recreation, leisure and entertainment. City Centre Mall is a popular public place with a large indoor ice skating rink, bowling lanes and cinema; however Friday is Family Only day no single males allowed.

Malls throughout the region provide shopping, recreation, leisure and entertainment. Centre Mall Aspire Park is Dohas largest parkCity at 88 hectares, is a popular public place with a large ice skathidden away behind Villagio Mall.indoor An artificial hill, ing rink, bowling and cinema; however Friday large lake and alanes diversity of tree species make this is Family Only day no single males allowed. grassy terrain unique, and a popular spot for locals, who enjoy the caf, walking track and play areas.

Aspire Park is Dohas largest park at 88 hectares, hidden awayBoardwalk behind Villagio Mall. An artificial hill, The Pearl is Dohas newest privatelylarge lake public and a diversity tree species make this owned space aof 2.5 kilometer long watergrassy terrain unique, and a popular spot for locals, front boardwalk. A marina and mixed-use buildwho enjoy the caf, retail walking track and play areas.a mix ings with luxury and restaurants attract of wealthy expatriates and locals.

The Pearl Boardwalk is Dohas newest privatelyowned public space a 2.5 kilometer long waterfront boardwalk. A marina and mixed-use buildings with luxury retail and restaurants attract a mix of wealthy expatriates and locals.

The links between type 2 diabetes and obesity are firmly established. Without the intervention of a healthy diet and appropriate exercise, obesity may develop into diabetes over a relatively short period of time.
www.diabetes.co.uk

The links between type 2 diabetes and obesity are firmly established. Without the intervention of a healthy diet and appropriate exercise, obesity may develop into diabetes over a relatively short period of time.
www.diabetes.co.uk

Diabetes is one of the greatest healthcare challenges facing the MENA countries. There are 26.6 million people in the region impacted by diabetes. The number is set to almost double to 51.7 million by 2030.
Gluttony Costs, Arabian Business, Volume 12 Issue 3

Diabetes is one of the greatest healthcare challenges facing the MENA countries. There are 26.6 million people in the region impacted by diabetes. The number is set to almost double to 51.7 million by 2030.
Gluttony Costs, Arabian Business, Volume 12 Issue 3

al Bidda Park
We are thrilled to announce that more than QR2.2m has been raised towards building public parks.
John Tombleson, Acting CEO, Vodafone Qatar, speaking about Vodafones promotion Get Together

al Bidda Park Corniche

Corniche Souq Waqif

Souq Waqif

We are thrilled to announce that more than QR2.2m has been raised towards building public parks.
John Tombleson, Acting CEO, Vodafone Qatar, speaking about Vodafones promotion Get Together

Seven public parks and yards worth QR30m will be constructed in different areas of al Wakra.
Al Wakra to get QR362m facelift, The Peninsula, January 25, 2011

Seven public parks and yards worth QR30m will be constructed in different areas of al Wakra.
Al Wakra to get QR362m facelift, The Peninsula, January 25, 2011

Al Bidda, or al Rumailah, Park is located midway Al Bidda, or al Rumailah, Park is located midway along the Corniche, adjacent to the Heritage Village. The family-only park features a busy playground, a skating half pipe, an art gallery and an outdoor theater, surrounding a large water feature. along Corniche, to park the Heritage Village. Thethe Corniche is a adjacent waterfront that spans seven The family-only park features a busy playground, kilometers around the horseshoe shape of Doha bay. a skating half pipe, an expatriates art gallery and an outdoor Tourists, locals and of every culture and theater, surrounding a large water feature. class walk, stroll and picnic, enjoying the scenic views, cool breezes and lush greenery day or night.

The Corniche is a waterfront park that spans seven kilometers around the horseshoe shape market of Dohaplace. bay. Souq Waqif served as Dohas original Tourists, locals and expatriates of everyexpanded, culture and Recently revitalized and continually it class walk, stroll and picnic, enjoying scenic with is a pedestrian main street that isthe as popular views, cool and lush greenery day or night. locals as breezes it is with tourists.

Souq Waqif served as Dohas original market place. Recently revitalized and continually expanded, it is a pedestrian main street that is as popular with locals as it is with tourists.

This Spread An exploration of public space inthe city.

Sustainable Growth? Sustainable Growth?

Qatar continues to grow As Qatar continues toAs grow at a furious pace, it at a furious pace, it consider how it will endure. The challenge must consider how it must will endure. The challenge be to manage this growth so that it is will be to manage thiswill growth so that it is economically, ecologically and culturally sustainable. economically, ecologically and culturally sustainable.

1986

1986

1997

1997

2005

2005

2010

2010

Population is evident south of the souq, al Bidda, and al in the heart Neighborhoods the heart ofdensity. Doha grow Thegrows to Dense settlement grows in to the include Matar in the south. The settledPreviously settled areas near al Bidda are demolished in the Population density is evident south ofdensity the souq, al Bidda, and al Neighborhoods of Doha grow in population Thein population Densedensity. settlement include Matar Qadeem south. The QadeemPreviously densely areas neardensely al Bidda are demolished in the Rumailah. Madinat Khalifa is densely settled to the northwest. Industrial in the southwest shape. distinctive formation of the Pearl begins. lead upwhile to theoutward 2006 Asian Games, while outward sprawl continues. Rumailah. Madinat Khalifa is densely settled to the northwest. Industrial Sector in the southwest of Sector the city takes shape. of the city takesdistinctive formation of the Pearl begins. lead up to the 2006 Asian Games, sprawl continues.

residential

residential
4 Bedrooms

retail
Al Asmakh Mall, Royal Plaza, Hyatt Plaza & The Mall Workers Housing in 22.5 Industrial Sector Landmark

retail
Al Asmakh Mall, Royal Plaza, Hyatt Plaza & The Mall Villagio Mall

office
Salwa, Al Sadd, C & D Ring Road Villagio Mall Mixed-Use Buildings 29.5in the heart of Doha

office
Salwa, Al Sadd, C & D Ring Road Hamad Street & Airport Road

5,000+ 2,000-5,000 1,000-2,000 100-1,000

Hamad Street & Airport Road

5,000+ 2,000-5,000 1,000-2,000 100-1,000 0-100

qatar statistics authority, 2010

Studio

4 Bedrooms

Studio

0-100
qatar statistics authority, 2010

1 Bedroom

9 18

1 Bedroom

9 18

Workers Housing in Industrial Sector

29.5
Landmark

22.5 7.5 18

6 Mixed-Use Buildings Other in the heart 14of Doha 15

6
Other

14 15

7.5 18 22.5

65

65
Diplomatic District

70
2-3 Bedrooms

70

22.5
City Center Mall in West Bay City Center Mall City Center Mall in West Bay Diplomatic District

Porto Arabia Buildings in al Muntazah Apartment Buildings in al Muntazah Apartment 2-3 Bedrooms

Porto Arabia City Center Mall

Existing Residential Unit Breakdown

Existing Residential Unit Breakdown

2010 Retail Gross Leasable2010 Retail Gross Leasable Area = 605,000 m2 Area = 605,000 m2

2010 Grade A Office Space 2010 Grade A Office Space = 1,400,000 m 2 = 1,400,000 m 2

Single Family Villa in Madinat Khalifa Single Family Villa in Madinat Khalifa

Purpose-Built Office Space Existing and Projected Residential Units Projected in Masterplanned Projects 2015 Retail Gross Leasable Area Existing and ProjectedPurpose-Built Office Space Existing and Projected Residential Units Projected in Masterplanned Projects by 2015 Retail by Gross Leasable Area Existing and Projected mesaieed al waab city barwa village the pearl msheireb lusail urjuan
1000 units 2000 units* 2000 units

mesaieed al waab city barwa village the pearl 16,000 units msheireb lusail urjuan

2000 units* 2000 units 53,000 units*

retail gla
53,000 units*

retail gla
2010 656,336 m2 2012 1,008,738 m2 2014 1,253,120 m2 2010 656,336 m2 2012 1,008,738 m2 2014 1,253,120 m2 2015 2,223,120 m2

diplomatic district

diplomatic district
2010 900,00 m2 2011 1,175,100 m2 2010 900,00 m2 2011 1,175,100 m2

16,000 units 1000 units 37,000 units 24,000 units 37,000 units 24,000 units

2015 2,223,120 m2 Tower in Diplomatic District all figures from the report: all figures from the report: qatar 2010, oxford business group qatar 2010, oxford business group Tower in Diplomatic District

*affordable housing & labor camp projects *affordable housing & labor camp projects

This Spread An investigation into Dohas growth trends.

1 1 1
Ras Laffan

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Urjuan
Masdar

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5
Msheireb Msheireb

MEGAPROJECT
An extremely large-scale investment project, typically of $1 billion dollars or more. Megaprojects have been defined as initiatives that are physical, very expensive, and public by Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff in their book MegaProjects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment.

MEGAPROJECT
An extremely large-scale investment project, typically of $1 billion dollars or more. Megaprojects have been defined as initiatives that are physical, very expensive, and public by Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff in their book MegaProjects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment.

1 Msheireb
Location Central Doha Size 31 ha Population 25,000 Density 806 persons/ha Status Under Construction

2 The Pearl-Qatar 1 Msheireb

Location West Bay Location Central Doha Size 31Size ha 400 ha Population Population 25,00041,000 Density 103 persons/ha Density 806 persons/ha Construction Status Status Under Continued Construction

3 Urjuan 2 The Pearl-Qatar

Location al Khor Location West Bay Size 546 ha Size 400 ha Population Population 41,00055,000 Density 101 persons/ha Density 103 persons/ha Under Construction Status Status Continued Construction

1 BedZED 3 Urjuan
Location Sutton, England Location al Khor Size Size 546 ha1.65 ha Population Population 55,000200 Density 121 persons/ha Density 101 persons/ha Status Status Under Complete Construction

2 Bo-01 1 BedZED
Location Malm, Sweden Location Sutton, England Size Size 1.65 ha 24 ha Population Population 200 ~2,000 Density ~83 persons/ha Density 121 persons/ha Continued Construction Status Status Complete

3 Hafen City 2 Bo-01

Location Hamburg, Location Malm, Sweden Germany Size Size 24 ha 155 ha Population Population ~2,00010-12,000 Density 77 persons/ha Density ~83 persons/ha Continued Construction Status Status Continued Construction

3 Hafen City

4 Education City
Location al Rayyan Size 1,000 ha Population ~10,000 Density~10 persons/ha Status Continued Construction

5 Lusail City 4 Education

Location Lusail Location al Rayyan Sizeha 3,500 ha Size 1,000 Population 350,000 Population ~10,000 Density 57 persons/ha Density~10 persons/ha Under Construction Status Status Continued Construction

6 Industrial City 5 Lusail

Location Location Lusail Ras Laffan Size 10,600 ha Size 3,500 ha Population 135,000 Population 350,000 Density 57 persons/ha Density 57 persons/ha Construction Status Status Under Continued Construction

4 Masdar 6 Industrial City

Location Abu Dhabi, UAE Location Ras Laffan Size 531 Size 10,600 ha ha Population 47,500 Population 135,000 Density 90 persons/ha Density 57 persons/ha Continued Construction Status Status Continued Construction

5 Sino-Singapore 4 Masdar
Location Tianjin, China Location Abu Dhabi, UAE Size Size 531 ha 3,000 ha Population Population 47,500 350,000 Density 116 persons/ha Density 90 persons/ha Planning Status Status Continued Construction

6 Dongtan 5 Sino-Singapore
Location Shanghai, Location Tianjin, China China Sizeha 8,600 ha Size 3,000 Population 500,000 Population 350,000 Density 58 persons/ha Density 116 persons/ha Permanent Hold Status Status Planning

Location Hamburg, Germany Size 155 ha Population 10-12,000 Density 77 persons/ha their book, Mega-projects StatusIn Continued Construction and Risk, Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, and Werner Rothengatter explain that world-wide, more and bigger megaprojects are being planned and built despite consistent cost overruns, schedule delays, and benefit shortfalls. For the large majority of them, performance is significantly and consistently below what can be called best or even good practice, when measured in these terms. This has been the case for decades and yet existing data suggests no end to their proliferation.

MEGAPROJECT PARADOX

MEGAPROJECT PARADOX
In their book, Mega-projects and Risk, Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, and Werner Rothengatter explain that world-wide, more and bigger megaprojects are being planned and built despite consistent cost overruns, schedule delays, and benefit shortfalls. For the large majority of them, performance is significantly and consistently below what can be called best or even good practice, when measured in these terms. This has been the case for decades and yet existing data suggests no end to their proliferation.

6 Dongtan

Location Shanghai, China Size 8,600 ha Population A city500,000 designed with Density 58 persons/ha consideration of environmental Statusimpact, Permanent Hold by people inhabited dedicated to minimization of required inputs of energy, water and food, and waste output of heat, air pollution CO2, methane, and water pollution. Richard Register first coined the term ecocity in his 1987 book, Ecocity Berkeley: Building Cities for a Healthy Future.

ECO-CITY

ECO-CITY
A city designed with consideration of environmental impact, inhabited by people dedicated to minimization of required inputs of energy, water and food, and waste output of heat, air pollution CO2, methane, and water pollution. Richard Register first coined the term ecocity in his 1987 book, Ecocity Berkeley: Building Cities for a Healthy Future.

This Spread Megaprojects globally and in Qatar.

Designing for Constant Change Strategies for Sustainable Urbanism

Original design research by Rami el Samahy, Kristina Ricco, and Kelly Hutzell Additional drawings: Michelle Lopez

Until now the tendency has been to develop in a speculative manner to build all at once without full consideration of how to fill it. As a result, a landscape of air conditioned two-story buildings dominates. The climatic constraints are real: while the weather is quite livable for more than half the year, the hottest four months can be difficult to bear. Yet simple proposals can extend the time in which outdoor activity is comfortable, and indoor spaces can be cooled more efficiently through intelligent design. Our solution proposes an idealized box, a simple yet carefully calibrated variation of the plan domino that accommodates a plethora of space layouts, programs, and enclosures. Composed of a precise set of components and systems, the box can accept myriad functions. Because of its unit structure, it is easily transported to the site on an asneeded basis and plugged into the sites infrastructure. A variety of faade and roof strategies based on performative criteria can help reduce solar gain and create a richly diverse architectural language. Orientation and function dictate not only the faade direction, but also how the buildings aggregate, as well as the height and distance between buildings. With a set of basic rules, the addition of buildings can occur organically over time. At each stage of development, appropriately-scaled public spaces accompany the buildings, including the park, the plaza, the courtyard, and the garden. Importantly, most streets are shaded, allowing easy pedestrian passage throughout the neighborhood.

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Structures may be ventilated in a variety of ways to reduce cooling loads, with and without introducing outside air to occupied space.

To maximize natural ventilation, strategies for orientation and wind flow should bias stronger northwesterly breezes.

Structures may be ventilated in a variety of ways to reduce cooling loads, with and without introducing outside air to occupied space.

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Column ends are temporarily capped, ready to receive future vertical expansion

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1 unit can accomodate either a single person or a couple with 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, a full kitchen and a shared dining/living room.

Residential 2 Separate Units

An expansion of the single residential studio, these units now define a shared outdoor space. If the occupants of the 2 spaces are related they might wish to close off the alley and make that interior courtyard completely private.

Residential 2 Combined Units

Plan for change by using a modular unit which can be easily assembled and disassembled as the scope of the project changes. Systemize access to utilities.

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Interior layouts are rarely wellsuited for multiple functions so repurposed spaces are often compromised.

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Structural column grid at 4 meters on center. The grid is 2 bays in one direction and 3 in another and is flexible to accommodate several different kinds of programs.

Commercial Small Shared

1 unit can accommodate 2 separate businesses by dividing the interior space

Commercial Small
2 units can accommodate up 4 stalls where vendors can create essentially a double loaded corridor of small/medium sized shops. The shared alley between them encourages pedestrian movement through the center.

Commercial Medium
2 units combined to accommodate a medium scale business.

Institutional
By pulling the core to the center of the unit, instructional spaces are pushed to the periphery to take adavantage of daylight

Institutional Medium
As the facility grows, additional classes can be added next door

Institutional Large
A very large community space for display and/ or meeting

EXTERNAL INFLUENCING FACTORS EXTERNAL INFLUENCING FACTORS Light

BUILDING ENVELOPE

INTERNAL INFLUENCING FACTORS

Properties BUILDING ENVELOPE Transparency Translucency Properties Opacity Transparency Thermal conductivity Translucency Total energy transmittance Opacity Weight Thermal conductivity Sound reduction index Total energy transmittance WeightHeat capacity Vapour diffusion Sound reduction index resistance Heat capacity Functions VapourProtective diffusion resistance Moisture control Wind Protective Functions Seasonal Moisture control thermal performance Wind Sunshine Glare Seasonal thermal performance Noise Sunshine Glare Privacy Noise Intruders Privacy Supply Functions Intruders Lighting SupplyVentilation Functions View in/out Lighting Passive/Active heat gain Ventilation View in/out Passive/Active heat gain

Thermal INTERNAL INFLUENCING FACTORS Internal air temperature Average temperature of enclosure Thermal Internalsurfaces air temperature Surface temperatures Average temperature of enclosure Temperature of incoming fresh air surfaces of incoming fresh air SurfaceVelocity temperatures Interior humidity Temperature of incoming fresh air Air Velocity ofmovements incoming fresh air Interior humidity Acoustic Air movements Noise level Acoustic loads Acoustic Reverberation time Noise level Acoustic loads Visual time Reverberation Direct radiation Visual Angle of incoming light Illuminence Direct radiation Luminence Angle of incoming distribution light Contrast, glare Illuminence Daylight factor Luminence distribution View out Contrast, glare Daylight factor View out

Intensity of solar radiation Illuminate Intensity of solar radiation Horizon Angle of solar radiation Surrounding buildings Illuminate Vegetation Horizon
1 2 3 4 5 6

Angle of solar radiation Light

Surrounding buildings Vegetation Air Air temperature Humidity Air Air Air temperaturevelocity Wind direction Humidity Air quality Air velocity Wind direction Sound Precipitation Air quality Sound Ground Precipitation Ground temperature Ground moisture Ground Ground thermal mass Ground temperature Ground moisture Ground thermal mass

1 Green roof 2 Wood-based board product 3 Thermal insulation 4 Vapour barrier 5 Reinforced concrete slab 6 Plaster

Enclosure
condition

Too often solar orientation is not properly considered in faade design. As a result, heat gain can make interior spaces unpleasant or uninhabitable.
strategy

Utilizing a range of enclosure types that are appropriate to their orientation also creates varying levels of visual accessibility and contributes to a dynamic faade system.
tactic

Selecting the correct opening type and correct shading can greatly minimize solar gain, thus reducing energy costs and providing a regionally-specific character without resorting to historical pastiche.

Enclosure Enclosure
condition condition

Construction is a process. Changes of of Construction isvariable a variable process. Changes program and/or scale areare commonplace during the program and/or scale commonplace during the design process, and are often difficult to amend. design process, and are often difficult to amend.
strategy strategy

Plan forfor change by by using a modular unit which can Plan change using a modular unit which can be be easily assembled and disassembled as the scope easily assembled and disassembled as the scope of of the project changes. Systemize access to to utilities. the project changes. Systemize access utilities.
tactic tactic

enclosure pulled backback to create defined outdoor space enclosure pulled to create defined outdoor space

enclosure recessed to allow for a walkway or balcony

enclosure flush with structure to maximize floor area or to create a curtain wall between floors

A prefabricated unit that accepts multiple faade A prefabricated unit that accepts multiple faade treatments. treatments.

Aggregate
condition

Public spaces are too often considered late or even as an afterthought in development.

strategy

Integrate appropriately scaled public spaces into the modularity of the unit so that the once leftover space performs a critical function in the built environment.
tactic hallway

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alley

/ private road

primary road

secondary road

major road

/ courtyard

A sequence of nested scales for public space and a road network are directly correlated to the scale of the building as well as each other.

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2x 2.6x 1.74x .87x 1.3x

2x 1.74x 1.3x 1.3x

2x 1.74x .87x 1.3x

The height of buildings and their distance from each other has a profound impact on the quality of outdoor space.

semi-private screened patio

shared residential outdoor space

semi-public residential corridor

Aggregate
condition

Public spaces often exist in isolation as islands of green dropped into the urban fabric as needed.
strategy

Garden An intimate open space that allows for small scale interactions.

Courtyard A medium-scaled open space that can operate as a residential communal area or as a collective gathering space for office workers.

Plaza A large formal open space that serves as the central public domain of the neighborhood

A varied spatial arrangement of smaller stepping stones between large public spaces provides alternate pathways through the built fabric, while maintaining an overall linear array between larger spaces. These places act differently however than the larger, more formal patches (like the plaza) which is a destination within the network.
tactic

Dispersed but connected patches of related scales form a network of open spaces.

Aggregate
condition

Development projects grow so large as to become near instant cities. When this happens, it becomes difficult to consider and coordinate the many systems that interact at this scale.
strategy

Create a system that allows for dynamic growth over time.

tactic

Start development with anchor buildings and major gates to help define the larger elements of the project. Front major roads and leave spaces to be in filled as the area grows.

Future Cities

Projections: Future Cities

WITH may 2009 RESEARCH TEAM A. HIMES, S. GREGSON, J. HANAHAN & K. RANKIN FALL 2011

Projections was an exhibit supported by Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Foundation, and over,under, and exhibited in Boston and Los Angeles. It represented the first milestone in my research efforts on the future of design for cities. First, the event revealed that there is to be a vibrant interest in the futurethe gallery was packed on opening night in both cities. This seems to be the case despite an general pessimism about what is to come. Second, predictions about the future often reflect the anxieties of the age rather than provide accurate windows into whats next. Today we find a huge increase in ecological doomsday projections, whereas in the 1970s and 1980s, the fear was nuclear destruction and in the fifties it seemed to be aliens. Finally, while were mindful of the pitfalls of prediction, this research is intended to get a sense of where the future is heading, so we might be able to assess where design opportunities lie. The exhibition also demonstrated the use of recent technologies to drive design research through an interrelated process with multiple feedback loops whereby several efforts are used to move a project forward.

Projections utilized an everyday toolthe blogto organize research so that it reveals trends and potential avenues for further investigation. Similarly, the open source tool of processing literally makes visible some of the trends uncovered through research, temporally positioning each to make apparent the visions for and fears of the future as they developed through successive eras. The blog created a venue for open-source research via an undergraduate college seminar. Students build on existing avenues of research in potentially new directions.The course also acts as a first pass at applying the themes developed via the blog to architectural and urban design projects, thus leading the way to the generation of design parameters based on a number of projected criteria that could be applied in the development of future cities.

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Desertification threatens over one-third of the Earths population and affects over 40% of its land area. Over twelve million hectares of arable land is lost every year to desert encroachment. Despite this consistent loss of land, the UN projects that to support a predicted population of nine billion people in 2050, a 70% increase in food production is required. A windswept desert peninsula, Qatars geography and climate have forced it to import 90% of its food. Its meteoric population growth has all but exhausted what scarce groundwater reserves it had. Overexploitation of underground reservoirs has caused seawater to creep in, contaminating the water table and hastening the demise of agricultural productivity. Because of this, one-fifth of small farms stand abandoned throughout the country. Qatars increased population, sprawling urban settlements, and consumption habits only add to the strain on already limited resources. Without the plant life sustained by small farms, soil there is no longer anchored in
Continued rapid growth can be mitigated via: increased density more efficient means of transportation

stem the deserts advance. Desertification increases the risk and severity of sandstorms due to the decreased number of obstacles in a storms path. Coupled with Dohas sprawling urban growth pattern, a rapidly expanding population will be exposed to stronger and more frequent storms. The increased number of people and the inefficiency of their settlement may well overtax Qatars dwindling water and food resources. The Linear Oasis is a hybrid botanicalmechanical infrastructure that provides integrated solutions to the problems of desertification, resource scarcity, and urban sprawl at a regional scale. It simultaneously serves as a barrier to sandstorms, a selfsustaining source of water and food, and a limit to urban growth. After the construction of its most basic infrastructure, the Linear Oasis can passively collect water from the atmosphere, subsequently supporting local agriculture, live-work settlement, and transit infrastructure.

place and is blown away, leaving nothing to

(Resource &) Water Scarcity

Scarcity can be mitigated via: increased efficiency increased production (assumes land available)

Scarcity can be mitigated via: increased efficiency increased production (assumes land available)

Population Growth

Continued rapid growth can be mitigated via: increased density more efficient means of transportation

(Resource &) Water Scarcity Desalination

Desert encroachment can be mitigated via: plantings (soil anchors) wind breaks slow/stop dune migration

Population Growth Desertification

Desert encroachment can be mitigated via: plantings (soil anchors) wind breaks slow/stop dune migration

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Increased salinitiy can be mitigated via: utilization of excess brine (rather than dumping) more efficient uses of freshwater resources preventing saline water from invading freshwater aquifers alternative means of water collection

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Issue addressed in: Linear Oasis Sabkha City Petro-fit Increased salinitiy can be mitigated via: utilization of excess brine (rather than dumping) more efficient uses of freshwater resources preventing saline water from invading freshwater aquifers alternative means of water collection

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sabkha [sbkha] n. (Geography) an area of coastal flats subject to periodic flooding and evaporation, which result in the accumulation of aeolian clays, evaporites, and salts, typically found in North Africa and Arabia Continuing global climate change is expected to result in both increased temperature and sea level, the effects of which will be magnified in the worlds most heavily populated urban centers. Almost half of the global population lives within 100 kilometers (62 miles) of a coast, including 23 cities with populations over 5 million. Rising seawater not only threatens cities with inundation, but can also contaminate underground freshwater aquifers. In the Middle East, and the Gulf especially, sea level rise becomes a particularly acute problem as temperatures in the region are projected to rise by as much as 6C by 2100 and water scarcity is already a growing concern due to ballooning populations. Should sea level rise by even one meter, 41,500 km2 of coastal land in GCC countries will be adversely affected. Forecasts of an increase of one meter are all but considered baseline; some experts predict upwards of two meters by the centurys end.

Sabkha City is a phased urban strategy to adapt an existing coastal settlement for use after rising sea levels have made its continued habitation untenable. Rather than attempt to stem or to mitigate the effects of littoral encroachment, it accepts the impending inundation of the area and subverts the destructive potential of seawater into the driving force enabling future habitation. As sea levels rise, the Sabkha City grows larger; tidal surges generate freshwater and building material. By centurys end, the city becomes an elevated oasis of land surrounded by water. Due to its low-lying coastal location on the increasingly saline Gulf, as well as the growing pressure placed on its limited freshwater resources, al Wakra, Qatar will serve as a case study for the application of the Sabkha City strategy. Focusing specifically on al Wakras historical villagean area of cultural significance to the countrydemonstrates how this strategy could address a desire to preserve portions of an otherwise inundated original settlement.

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Sometime around the year 2100, all oil and natural gas in the Middle East will likely be depleted. Miles of pipeline, scores of massive storage tanks, refineries the size of cities, and the 120 offshore oil and natural gas rigs that ply the Gulf today will all be abandoned. The sheer scale of this leftover infrastructure is difficult to comprehend. The offshore platforms alone span almost 450,000 m2 and could stretch 7.6 km if placed end to end. Each liquid natural gas (LNG) storage tank at Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar has a capacity of 140,000 m3, measuring 78 meters in diameter the municipality of Doha The issue at hand is simple: and almost 40 meters high. Ras Laffan itself covers 295 covers 132 km 2; km 2.

Musandam, much of the Arab edge of the body of water is currently populated and urbanized; strategic use of this infrastructure would cement the linear megalopolis that is already underway. 3 A more ambitious iteration would link both the northern and southern sides of the Gulf, allowing for free movement of people and goods between the waterfront cities in the Arab peninsula and Iran. At the urban level, Qatar might consider constructing a new Doha Bay, or completing the current crescent shape to form a circular means for pedestrian and vehicular perambulation. The rigs offer a number of potential retrofits, dependent on the national priorities: agriculture, amusement, education, retail super malls, live-work office parks. Of particular interest is the residential rig-tower, which would make it among the tallest buildings in the region, if not the world. Unlike the typical tower, this one would allow for a series of interventions at each level, including unrealized or relocated projects for the city.

what can be done with this infrastructure? The size and quantity of these elements create opportunities at a variety of scales through a program of creative adaptive reuse of this soon-to-be-defunct infrastructure. The offshore rigs, which are designed for relocation, offer particularly exciting potential for recombination. At the regional level, the rigs could be strung together to fashion piers for a new mega-causeway that capitalized on existing and planned links in the Gulf. From Basra to

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The research was performed in tandem with the fall 2012 Urban Lab, that centered around the three South Hill retail corridors of Broadway Avenue, Brookline Boulevard, and West Liberty Avenue. Student documentation and analysis built on the early phases of our research. Several of the design projects were used in the report as indications of ways to increase connectivity along main streets.

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We also identified several characteristics and metrics that capture important qualities of the broader communities: Population of the community. Median household income. Percentage of home ownership. The walkability of the community as measured by Walk Score.16

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An interesting question arose regarding transit and it impact on main street. Broadway has a functional and seemingly well-used trolley line that runs the length of the community and connects it directly to downtown. The community was originally conceived and promoted based on that connection to downtown, yet this commercial patch had very low perceptual rankings of connectivity even early in the semester work. These variables represent different characteristics that define the matrix. See Figure 15.

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2.3. DATA COLLECTION Community group meetings and presentations of studio work and design concepts were organized, and feedback and anecdotal local insights were recorded for both original insights and for verification of conclusions. 2.4. LITERATURE SEARCH In addition to the studio work in collecting data and surveying the study sites, a literature search was conducted to identify the context within which this effort would reside. A bibliography of that work is appended to this report. Of particular relevance to this study from an architectural perspective were works on Natural movement: or, configuration and attraction in urban pedestrian movement5 which makes an argument for a strictly geometric analysis of movement in an urban environment, and M. Battys work Cities and Complexity6 which assesses urban form through cellular automata and agent based modeling. Hillier proposes that a strictly geometric analysis of the urban form called Spatial Syntax generates a highly correlated relationship between movement patterns and space syntax integration measure. Another study, Urban texture and space syntax: some inconsistencies7 by Ratti addresses some mathematical problems associated with this approach, but the underlying conception that geometry drives movement regardless of human interaction is distinctly different and therefore an interesting foil for our analysis.

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Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh The Alteration Station Entrance Laundry Mat and Caf Shop Casa Rasta(Taco Caribbean Fusion) Chucks Hair on Broadway Lunardis Ristorante Davio Italian Cooking Restaurant Slice on Broadway Karas Hair Design St. Catherina of Siena Roman Catholic Church William Eckels Funeral Home Mercy Intellectual Disabilities Services

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The Making of Doha

Kelly Hutzell & Rami el Samahy*

INTRODUCTION The Corniche as a microcosm From an urban perspective, by far the most striking feature of the city is its Corniche. The almost perfectly crescent-shaped shoreline that embraces Doha Bay is bookended by two of the citys most memorable pieces of architecture, each emblematic of its era. On the northern tip lies that venerable modernist icon, the Sheraton Doha. In the south sits I.M. Peis master work, the new Museum of Islamic Art. Between the two beacons lie an executive summary of the citys built history: in the north stand scores of West Bay towers, each an essay in exuberance, collectively an assertion that Doha has arrived. In the south, the restored Souq Waif is a self-conscious reminder of where the city came from. The various post-independence institutional buildings in between serve as evidence of how it got there. All of this is arranged and rearranged along a distinctive ve kilometer arc, allowing the viewer multiple perspectives of the city and its architecture that change with each step. And yet the corniche is hardly a natural occurrence; instead its a perfect piece of urban design, urbanism elevated to an art form. In 1972, when the UK rm Llewelyn Davis was hired by the new emir Shaikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani to prepare a master plan for the capital of the recently-independent State of Qatar, they recognized Dohas geological potential and proposed a bold augmentation. While the natural shore demonstrated the beginnings of the crescent, much of the bays edge lay in shallow brackish water; a signicant amount of landll (and human ingenuity) was required to create the present form. Put another way, the Corniche is an example par excellence in a city that is the embodiment of hybrid making. In it, one can see the multiple dualities that have resulted in Doha: the local and the global, the contemporary and the ancient, the organic and the planned, the sand and the sea. It is these various hybridities that dene the citys growth throughout its relatively short and dynamic life.

with thanks to research associate Adam Himes, who chased down statistics and citations.

ORIGINS (1847-1947) modest beginnings Doha began as the small shing and pearling village of Al-Bidda, to which Shaikh Mohammad moved the Al Thani clan in 1847. In 1872, his son Jassim bin Mohammad permitted the Ottomans to build al Bidda (later al Koot) fort just outside the village. Until then, it remained unclear that the village soon to become the town of Doha was destined for distinction; several others nearby were more populous and prosperous. By the rst half of the twentieth century, eight different ferejan (or neighborhoods) had been established in the area of Doha, each occupied by a particular tribe or family. These neighborhoods formed in relation to the water, parallel to the tidal ats and the salt marches that lined the shore; they also formed along the intermittent riverbeds (wadi) that carried the precious rains through the town. Early photographs show a tight knit urban fabric of one- and two- story courtyard dwellings made of adobe, stone and coral. The buildings were interconnected with meandering pathways, all oriented toward the sea to take advantage of cooling breezes, providing some respite in the harsh climate. This set of patterns and the simple lifestyle it sustained were thrown into disarray due to three key events: the loss of the pearl-diving trade, the world-wide Depression, and World War II. During this era, referred to locally as the years of hunger, the city population shrank dramatically, from 27,000 to 10,000. 1 INDEPENDENCE (1972-1995) the ring roads, downtown doha and the new district Qatars independence from Britain coincided with an exponential rise of oil revenues and a change in leadership of the country. These events led the new state to employ foreign consultants to plan for Dohas expansion. In 1972, Llewelyn-Davies supplied the capitals rst master plan and made a number of signicant proposals: rst, the implementation of a series of concentric ring roads that respond to the geometry of Doha Bay; second, the densication of the existing city center through the government purchase of Qatari family plots; and third, the creation of a new district to be built on reclaimed land known as Dafna. Yet no total plan was ever fully adopted, and only parts of each were implemented. As a result, the new district remained incomplete, and as the price of oil declined in the 1980s, the Sheraton stood as a lonely reminder of the citys grand ambitions.

REALIGNMENT (1995-2005) lling in the gaps

EARLY OIL (1947-1972) the rst forays into modernization Qatar started to see modest income from oil exploitation beginning in the early 1950s. Also signicant was the relationship between the ruling family and the British political commissioner, which proved instrumental in moving the country from a bedouin and pearl-diving economy to that of a edging modern nation-state. By 1955, the city had begun to change in character: asphalt roads were constructed, and concrete allowed for the construction of a desalination plant, an electric plant , and a hospital. Within fteen years, the area of Doha had quadrupled. This geographical growth was accompanied by a demographic boom, fueled by the oil industry. By 1970, ofcial gures mark the population at 85,000, two thirds of whom were expatriates.2 Signicantly, two new typologies emerged in this period: the hotel and the apartment building.

As Hamad bin Khalifa assumed power, a renewed energy was evident in the capital and was reected in new national priorities: the development of the natural gas sector was translated into substantial investments in education, culture, health, and sports. This shift in priorities also served to re-energize many earlier initiatives. Together, these led to the densication and diversication of the city. Among the multiple new projects initiated during this period, the development of Education City commenced and Al Jazeera and the Qatar Museum Authority were established. A different type of cultural endeavor began to take shape nearby: the restoration of Souq Waqif. The historic center of Dohas commerce, the souq had been subject to the ravages of time and was carefully renovated to appear old again, sparking renewed interest in a local vernacular.

EXPANSION (2005-2013) from city to metropolis

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Qatars new condence on the worlds stage was reected by major additions to the capital in its bid to become a world city. During this period, the population trebled, in large part due to the inux of expatriates engaged in the construction industry. By the end

of 2011, over half the work force was employed in this sector 3 and over 80 per cent of the countrys population was foreign.4 The increased population not only built the citys expansions, but were housed in them as well. The grid-iron plan of the Industrial Sector grew rapidly to accommodate the plethora of new laborers, while the newly sculpted free-hold properties of West Bay provided a very different class of foreign workers with the opportunity to buy luxury apartments and villas. Developments in adjacent municipalities of al Rayyan and Um Slal Muhammad also gained momentum. The expansion of Education City and Qatari residential areas served to transform the hitherto sleepy suburbs into bustling zones containing premier international institutions, world class shopping centers and luxury housing, effectively rendering the sprawl part of the metropolitan region.

Meanwhile GDP per capita rises (currently the worlds highest5), thanks mainly to the phenomenal development of the natural gas sector. As a result, luxury malls, ve star hotels and lavish housing proliferate, as have the opportunities for culture, sports, medicine and education. At the same time, Doha is acquiring problems characteristic of developed countries, including a reliance on migrant labor, staggering income disparities, obesity, diabetes, trafc congestion, trafc fatalities and an increased carbon footprint (also among the worlds highest per capita).6 Nonetheless, the continued making and re-making of Doha remains nothing short of astonishing. In the space of seven decades, the citys population has multiplied 200 times, and its geographic expansion has been equally astounding. A walk along the Corniche makes evident these changes. Wooden dhows, vestiges of past shing and pearling glory, oat languidly in the bay while Qatar Airways jets, the worlds youngest eet, crisscross overhead. Incessant trafc often crawls along between roundabouts, yet the promenade still lends a tranquil air. By the sea, the city envelops the observer, and so too the diverse composition of people that continues to create it.

AMPLIFICATION (2013 - 2022) a regional metropolis with global connectivity Speculation of the citys future based on current mega-projects and infrastructural efforts suggests an uninterrupted conurbation stretching north from the town of al Khor south to al Wakra, in effect connecting the gas plants of Ras Laffan with the oil industry of Mesaieed. Mega-projects under construction include: The Pearl-Qatar, Lusail City, and Msheireb. Each of these mixed use developments terraformed landll, desert development and urban renewal respectively has a different ownership structure and a distinct focus, but collectively they dene the future city. A series of ambitious infrastructure projects connect these ventures to the metropolis. These include: upgrades to the highway system, an underground metro, passenger and freight rail lines, completion of a new airport, and a causeway to Bahrain. All of these are intended to connect the city to the regional and global economy. These efforts, which will undoubtedly represent Shaikh Hamads legacy, have now been accelerated by Qatars successful bid for the FIFA World Cup 2022.

Qatar Statistics Authority. Labor Force Sample Survey: Annual Report: 2011. (Doha: Qatar Statistics Authority, 2012), 12. http://www.qix.gov.qa/portal/page/portal/QIXPOC/Documents/QIX %20Knowledge%20Base/Publication/Labor%20Force%20Researches/labor%20force %20sample %20survey/Source_QSA/Labour_Force_QSA_AnBu_AE_2011.pdf (accessed January 22, 2013).
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WWF Living Planet Report 2012 http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/ 1_lpr_2012_online_full_size_single_pages_nal_120516.pdf (accessed January 15, 2013).

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Closing the Gap

Rami el Samahy and Kelly Hutzell

A descriptive index of Qatars major development project reads like the gushing optimism before October 2008, when a citys goal was to garner attention. Farsighted was often indistinguishable from far fetched. Despite real estate markets stumbling around it, Doha has arisen with a plan that convinces investors looking for stable investment today. Qatar has the capital to take advantage of currently lowered construction costs (which already show signs of climbing), but the demand it is feeding comes from the people who are building it (more than 50%). After its steady and ambitious projects are complete, will Qatar have found the demands to keep the new spaces filled?

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Despite the global recession, Qatars natural reserves have allowed it to weather the storm with many of its largest projects progressing with little effect. In a year when most economies shrank, Qatars economic growth rate reached around 9% in 2009. It is estimated to hit 16% in 2010. Estimates of the construction and infrastructure costs of ongoing projects in Qatar total over $200 billion. Taking advantage of sinking materials costs, shrinking demand for professionals and even some holes in media coverage, Doha has continued to plan for and develop its future practically undeterred by the worldwide economic downturn. This is especially the case with regard to the infrastructural projects and the mega-scale mixed-use projects. The former promises to strengthen the countrys connections to the region and the global economy, while the latter will expand the capital city of Doha to more than twice its current size. Qatar has been able to proceed on course in part due to its vast wealth, but also because the strategic choices it has made dovetail nicely with larger regional and global trends.
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There is no shortage of infrastructural projects in progress or planning in Qatar today, most of which were already in planning or underway before the economic crisis. The list includes: upgrades to the highway system, an underground metro, a passenger and freight rail lines from Ras Laffan to Mesaieed, and the relocation of the Doha port (thus opening up a potential development site at the southern tip of the popular Doha corniche). Of the numerous infrastructural projects under way in and around Doha, three deserve special mention: the new airport, the planned causeways, and the construction of Ras Laffan Industrial City. All three, which in combination are estimated to cost over $70 billion, are intended to connect the city to the global economy. The New Doha International Airport is a massive project, both financially and physically. Work on the $11 billion project began in 2004 and is expected to continue until 2015. It is also Qatars most ambitious project: while the country has no scarcity of barren desert, the new airport is built just south of the city on new land made from
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Dohas skyline under construction with a view of West Bay.

ocean sands and fill from an enormous waste dump. When complete it will be among the worlds ten largest airports and able to handle 50 million passengers and 2 million tons of cargo a year. (Dubais airport handled 37.4 million passengers and 1.82 million tons of cargo last year2 while Heathrow handled 67 million passengers3 and 1.39 million tons of cargo.4) The new airport will also provide a positive side effect: flight patterns will be redirected away from West Bay, thereby allowing less stringent height limitations for the citys major skyscraper district. Currently, at least two towers under construction have had their final building permits delayed until the new airport is complete. While the new airport will further connect Doha through the skies, the planned causeways will serve to improve Dohas links with other GCC cities by land and sea. The QatarBahrain Friendship Bridge will extend for forty kilometers from an hours drive south of Doha to Askar in Bahrain and then work as an extension of the King Fahd Causeway connecting Bahrain to the Saudi cities of Dammam and Dhahran. A number of bridges and causeways, will form the link and provide for both automobiles and a rail line for public transportation. This $3 billion construction project is expected to commence in early 2010, and be completed within five years. Driving time between the two countries will be cut from almost five hours to thirty minutes. The QatarUAE causeway, a proposed system of bridges and causeways extending for 65 kilometers, will connect Mesaieed in Qatar to the most northwestern portion of the Abu Dhabi province in the UAE. If completed, these two connections will allow for greater land traffic between three of the regions economic powerhouses; future daily commutes are not inconceivable. Doha is an emerging regional economic powerhouse due to the fact that the leadership has invested in Ras Laffan Industrial City, an enormous secure zone (currently 1,060 hectares and expected to increase to 2,500 hectares) an hour north of Doha. The 140,000 workers temporarily housed in Ras Laffan to build the gas and petroleum infrastructure, make it Qatars de facto second city.
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Speculation of the citys future based on current projects underway suggest an uninterrupted conurbation that stretches north from the town of al Khor south to al Wakra, in effect connecting the gas plants of Ras Laffan with the oil industry of Mesaieed. At the same time the countrys population continues to grow in leaps and bounds. In 1997, the population measured 522,000; by 2009 it was estimated at 1,553,000. Of that total, 15% are Qatari citizens.8 This expansion is expected to keep pace with the mega projects currently underway: the United Development Companys Pearl-Qatar, Qatari Diars Lusail City, Barwas al Baraha, and DohaLands Heart of Doha. Each of these projects has a different ownership system and a distinct focus, but collectively they represent an expansion of the city both outward and inward. In total, these mixed-use mega projects will offer housing for an additional 350,000 residents. The Pearl-Qatar is a 'Riviera-style' man-made island located to the north of Doha Bay. Designed to house 41,000 international residents in a multicultural residential community, the Pearl is replete with new districts, marinas, hotels, luxury retail, recreation and restaurant space.9 It is Dohas response to Dubais Palm Jumeirah. Developed by the privately held United Development Company (UDC), the Pearl is designed to look like not one but three oysters, and create two coves oriented toward views of either Doha or another mega project, Lusail. These coves are trimmed with marinas and boardwalks, luxury stores and cafes, with variations-on-a-theme towers forming the backdrop. On the rest of the island, low-density luxury residences are spread among community amenities including mosques and churches. Beyond the three oysters, the island tapers to a tail set with a string of private islands, each for a VVIP. Venice is now in Qatar, states the UDC marketing slogan. Residential districts, like Porto Arabia, Costa Malaz and Viva Bahriya, lend a foreign flair to the freehold development. On a tour of the showroom, a salesman explained that the names were chosen to reflect both Mediterranean aspirations and Arab identity. With the possibility of freehold ownership and the relaxation of Qatars restrictions on alcohol consumption (even restaurants not associated with hotels will be able to serve alcohol), the Pearl is clearly being marketed to foreigners. These jetsetters will have the option of an alternative mode of transportation a proposed water taxi service from the new airport to their front door. The entire island is connected to the main land by a single umbilical cord channeling a ten lane highway. Phase one of the development is now complete and open for visitors; this consists of the commercial program along one segment of an arc of the first cove. With only a few high-end stores and a smattering of cafes open, the boardwalk is nevertheless immensely popular. Whether this speaks to a desire to experience this luxury lifestyle, natural curiosity about the much-advertised project, or simply reflects the limited range of things to do in Doha remains an open debate. To the north of the Pearl lies Lusail City, a 3,500 hectare brand-new coastal city currently under construction, whose initial infrastructure is to be completed in 2011. Planned for a linear area stretching along the coastline, the multi-district area is expected to house 200,000 people, catering to professionals in the oil and gas industries who want to live and work in proximity to Ras Laffan.10 Unlike the Pearl, Lusail is a city built in the desert, its waterfront sculpted via subtraction rather than an addition of earth. Praised for its meticulous planning, Lusail is an instant city with: its own corniche, a self-contained transit system, a water desalinization plant, and complementing themed districts. Residents will be able to stroll down a grand boulevard modeled after Pariss Champs Elysees, though access to the waterfront corniche appears to be limited to hotel guests and the residents of the apartments that line the littoral.

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Known as Qatars Money Machine, Ras Laffan already produces a quarter of the worlds liquefied natural gas (LNG), with Qatar set to be the worlds largest liquid gas exporter by 2012.5 While there are no official figures, one estimate puts the costs at $60 billion.6 As a result, Qatars 2008 hydrocarbon revenue per citizen amounted to $90,000. ExxonMobil, Shell, Qatargas, RasGas and Dolphin Energy all have a stake in Ras Laffans extraction facilities and infrastructure.7

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Doha Update: Qatar is to go ahead with $1 bn subsea tunnel to connect its new airport with the financial center (maktoob.com, February 2, 2010). See coverage of the Friendship Causeway, p. 280.
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The project is being led by Qatari Diar, the real estate investment arm of the government. As the master-developer, Qatari Diar is responsible for all major infrastructure and supervises sub-developers completing districts such as Energy City, described as a city with a brain. Perhaps the most publicized project within Lusail, Energy City aims to cater to all Middle Eastern and international players involved in the hydrocarbon business. When completed, investors are hopeful that Qatar will become the hub of a smart cluster concept sold to India, Libya and Kyrgyzstan.11 Not to be outdone by its Abu Dhabi counterpart, Masdar City, with regard to sustainability, the project is seeking LEED Platinum certification. Energy City 1 is comprised of low-rise office space hosting 20,000 people, and master planned as a spiral composition based on fractal geometry. At the heart of the spiral is the brain of the project a building where the International Mercantile Exchange, or IMEx (the Middle Easts energy trading platform), will debut. Energy City 2 is a luxury residential component for 10,000 people. As with any speculative, instant project in the region, a marketing theme is essential. In this case, it centers on the four elements of the universe: Earth, Water, Fire and Air. Energy City attracts attention for its ordered geometry, low density, balance of technology and nature, and optimum security. Known as well for its upmarket developments in Qatar, the developer Barwa maintains a more diverse portfolio than most Qatari developers. Southeast of the sprawling metropolis, Barwas Al Baraha project is a 9,000 unit development to house some 50,000 low-income workers. Consisting of sleeping quarters and a multitude of amenities, the development will feature sports facilities, places of worship and retail, as well as its own police and fire departments. A report states that with family visitors in mind, a motel has been incorporated into the plan. Interestingly, the reports make no mention of how workers families would obtain permission to visit the country. Also part of the plan: an enormous truck park with a capacity for 4,200 trucks, making it the largest in the world (more than five times larger than the current largest in Iowa, USA). In March of 2009, a new company, DohaLand, a subsidiary of the Qatar Foundation, was announced at Qatars Green Building Conference. Two months later, DohaLand hosted a symposium and exhibition unveiling its first project, the Heart of Doha. In his introduction, CEO Issa Al-Mohannadi stated that DohaLand has been set up with a mandate to create leading-edge urban living concepts that build on traditional Arabian architecture and design. The Heart of Doha project aims to regenerate Qatars social and economic vitality in the restored center of the congested city center. The mixed use project, with a proposed $5.5 billion budget for phase one, is a balance of housing and amenities that will house 27,600 and is expected to be complete in 2016. With new underground utilities and connections to the proposed subway system, the emphasis is on the creation of an urban project that is culturally and environmentally sustainable. Master-planned by EDAW and articulated through a series of detailed architectural guidelines by Allies and Morrison, the project is well into the design phase at this stage, with a number of recognizable architecture firms (including Allies and Morrison, David Adjaye, Mossesian and Partners, Dar al Omran, John McAslam and Partners, and Burns McDonnell) assigned to specific buildings or sectors. Drawings and models reveal careful consideration to climatic and cultural contexts and reflect a refined approach to urban building, exemplified by the sophisticated palette of materials detailed and displayed at the exhibition. According to Al-Mohannadi, the project is the answer to Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missneds [Chairperson of Qatar Foundation] initiative to close a gap. The gap is an architectural language and a national identity that weve lost.12 Elsewhere, he elaborates: The project also emphasizes the importance of family and social relationships between people and makes it possible through compact neighborhoods, pedestrian friendly streets and shaded pathways, and major facilities and services such as schools and malls all within walking distance. Construction will be in harmony with the climate, rather than against it, by taking advantage of wind and sun to provide cooling and shade, in addition to use of solar energy. When you set foot here you will know that this is Qatar, an advanced country that is deeply connected to its roots, with its own identity and aesthetics.

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The Heart of Doha has pleased the critics. Edwin Heathcote, architectural critic for the Financial Times spoke glowingly of the project, calling it the most mature and serious of all in the region: The plan and the architecture appear intelligent, restrained and distinctive It is a rare approach in a region where the default mode is to start from scratch. There is always the possibility with a commercially biased scheme, such as this, that it may tilt towards the banality of the international, but such efforts are being taken to root the architecture in context, climate and culture that, if there is one scheme in the region to keep an eye on, this is it.13 While undeniably laudable, the project can also be read as a struggle for the identity of the city center, both in demographic and aesthetic terms. On January 13, 2010, the project was renamed Musheireb, reflecting an older name for that part of town (in Arabic, it means a place from which one can draw water). Musheireb is to be built in a recently razed area in the core of the city. Those who are leaving are mainly low- and middle-income expatriates (who have been given the opportunity to live in a recently completed Barwa project closer to the airport). Those to whom the new project will appeal will be middleto upper-income foreigners, and it is hoped nationals interested in reclaiming the city that their parents abandoned for the promise of modern living found in the surrounding sprawl. A district of the project is specifically dedicated to offering Qataris a housing product novel to the local market: the townhouse. While conventional wisdom states that GCC nationals prefer to live in detached single family dwellings, Musheireb intends to challenge that notion, though the urban townhouses are designed to maximize privacy within an urban fabric. The company asserts that initial demand for the townhouses is high. Like all projects that look backward to go forward, Musheireb is by definition a case of selective memory. The project reaches back to a distant past at the expense of the more immediate past of the 1970s, when this area was redeveloped from a traditional neighborhood of the town to a modern district of the city. Similar to contemporary urban projects around the world, there is a tendency to write off the urban renewal efforts of the twentieth century as unmitigated disasters, and to erase any trace of them. In doing so, we run the risk of repeating the mistakes of those twentieth century projects to which Heathcote might also be referring. In fact, there is a rich history within those much-maligned modernist buildings of 1970s Doha, with modest attempts to understand climatic factors through inventive brise-soleil and screens. Just as Doha was once so eager to demolish its adobe houses, it now seems ready to remove all memory of that which replaced them. In its favor, Musheireb is the only one of these mega projects that did not appear ex nihlo on a tabula rasa site, rather it attempts to integrate within and enhance a complex existing urban fabric. As the most recent project launched, it suggests a more sober but nonetheless ambitious agenda for the countrys future. In parallel, Qatar is introducing a Green Building Council as well as an architecture and urban design program at Qatar University that seeks to marry its heritage with its future (both efforts incidentally promoted by DohaLand). As physical and economic growth continue at this accelerated pace and all signs suggest that it will a comprehensive examination of its built environment, past, present and future, is needed.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Top The first phase of the Pearl is now open for business sort of. Bottom From its location in the city center, to its studied massing strategy and refined material palette, Musheireb (the Heart of Doha) represents a marked difference in approach to most projects in the region. 12 13 Labor Force Sample Survey, 2008. At: http://www.qsa.gov.qa, July 27, 2009 (accessed August 10, 2009). Dubai Airport passenger numbers, Dubai International Airport. At: http://www.dubaiairport.com (accessed August 18, 2009). Facts and Figures. At: http://www.heathrowairport.com (accessed August 18, 2009). Roger Turney, Retaining share Europes cargo airports. At: http://www.aircargoworld.com (accessed August 18, 2009). Briefing Gulf Economies: How to spend it, The Economist, April 26, 2009, p. 40. Face Value: Turning up the gas. At: http://www.economist.com (accessed July 16, 2009). Idem. J Lockerbie, 'Arabic/Islamic Design'. At: http://www.catnaps.org (accessed August 10, 2009). 'The Pearl Qatar'. At: http://www.thepearlqatar.com (accessed August 4 2009). David Ingham and Lutfi Qaraman, '10 Qatari Projects you should be involved in'. At: http://www.constructionweekonline.com, April 16, 2009 (accessed April 19, 2009). Amad Al Abdulla, Leading Qatari developers philosophy to building green, MEED Qatar Green Building Conference 2009, March 18, 2009. Jeff Roberts, DohaLand looks to engage young Qatari architects. At: http://www.constructionweekonline.com, January 16, 2010 (accessed January 19, 2010). Architecture: A blend of traditional and contemporary, Financial Times, November 18, 2009, p. 8.

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Kelly hutzell is an assistant professor of architecture at Carnegie mellon university. she holds a joint appointment between pittsburgh, pennsylvania and doha, qatar, teaching urban design studios and seminars, including the urban laboratory, urban design methods and mapping urbanism. in addition to teaching and conducting research on urban public space, she is a licensed architect in the Commonwealth of massachusetts and a leed accredited professional. Kelly is a senior associate at the multi-disciplinary boston-based practice over, under. she has over ten years of experience focused on urban design, cultural and institutional projects including the doha design Zone, university of arkansas, arizona state university and the pacific northwest College of art. rami el samahy, assistant professor, school of architecture, Carnegie mellon university, is an educator and practicing designer in the areas of urban design and architecture. el samahy is a founding member of over,under, a multi-disciplinary design studio with projects in the middle east, Central america and the united states. he has been involved in the design of projects in egypt, lebanon and guatemala, competitions in south Korea and philadelphia, a study for a red sea resort, and the re-imagining boston City hall project, sponsored by the boston society of architects. he currently holds joint appointments between Carnegie mellons campuses in pittsburgh and in doha, qatar, where he teaches urban design and architecture studios, as well as a seminar entitled Contemporary middle eastern Cities. his current research focuses on alternative strategies for sustainable urban design.

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As architectural practitioners and educators, with an interest and specialization in urban design, we currently hold joint appointments at Carnegie Mellon University, while engaging in a multidisciplinary design practice. During the fall semester, we teach in the School of Architecture within the College of Fine Arts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in United States of America. In the spring term, we teach in Doha, Qatar where Carnegie Mellon has a branch campus. In most ways, the two cities could not be more different. Moreover, our role as instructors in each location varies greatly. Nevertheless, there are definite areas of overlap, and lessons from each place that could inform the other. Pittsburgh, the home of Carnegie Mellon University, is a shrinking post-industrial city. The growth of the city of Pittsburgh and its economy was once focused on steel. A striking city straddling three rivers, its varied topography led to its development as a series of interconnected small neighborhoods, each at one time an ethnic immigrant enclave, each with its own main street. It is now emptied of not only its steel mills but of its people as well. Its population peaked in 1950 with 676,806 inhabitants. Today, over fifty years later, the city is home to half that amount of people (U.S. Census Bureau 1950, 2000). Since the collapse of Pittsburghs steel industry, it has struggled to revitalize, burdened with an ageing population and infrastructure. According to a recent New York Times article, In more than a dozen municipalities in metropolitan Pittsburgh, more than 24 percent of residents are 65 and older, double the national average' (Roberts & Hamill 2008). These challenges can be seen as opportunities. In a September 2006 article, the Economist magazine examined how the former steel city is now proclaiming its cleaner land and bright minds (The Economist 2006). With its 34 universities led by Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh the citys current economy is largely focused on healthcare, education and technology. Initiatives specific to the built environment focus on issues of vacancy and vacant land, including brownfield redevelopment and sustainable design. And as Pittsburgh looks to the future, like many U.S. rust-belt cities, it will increasingly have demography on its side, as its over-65 population will not increase as dramatically as it is projected to in other areas of the nation that are currently experiencing profound population growth. Hope lies in young professionals staying after their graduation degrees, while providing incentives to increase immigration to the region.

In stark contrast, Qatar, with the third largest reserves of natural gas and the highest GDP in the world, is now witnessing a crucial phase in its history. Doha, the countrys capital and economic center, is an exemplary case of a growing city. In 1950, the population of the entire country was 25,000 (AMO 2007). Today, the population of the metro region of Doha numbers over 613,000 interestingly, approaching Pittsburghs peak population (Population Census 2004). With an economic growth rate of over 15% last year, it is one of the fastest emerging cities in the world. The revenue from its vast reserves of natural gas promises a continuation of this trend. $130 billion will be invested in government projects over the next five to seven years, around half of them in the non-oil sectors (The General Secretariat for Development Planning 2008). While essential infrastructure is needed to export gas globally, and investments in water, power, roadways, airports and hospitals are a necessity, this is complemented by a strong focus of investments earmarked for education, sports complexes and tourism. A seemingly endless construction site, Doha appears intent on avoiding the mistakes of Dubai, where an extreme laissez faire attitude has created an approaching infrastructural nightmare with regards to traffic, utilities and development patterns. Doha is a growing global city that is attempting to capture and record 'best practices' in terms of urban development. Qatar is attempting to create 'a knowledge-based society' that will be prepared for its future. Carnegie Mellon University is a part of this future. Together with five other American universities (Georgetown, Wiel Cornell Medical, Texas A&M, Northwestern, and Virginia Commonwealth University), Carnegie Mellon has a branch located on the grounds of the Qatar Foundations Education City, an ambitious collection of institutions on the edge of Doha. Several of the worlds best-known architects have designed buildings for the campus, including Arata Isosaki, Legoretta + Legoretta, OMA (Rem Koolhaas), and Rafael Vignoly. EDAW is currently working on a new master plan for the 2500-acre (1100 hectare) campus. Just as these two cities are different, so too are our courses and our teaching focus. In Pittsburgh, we teach urban design studios and seminars to upper-level Bachelor of Architecture students and students within the Master of Urban Design and Master of Sustainable Design programs. In Doha, we teach elective courses including an introduction to architecture for non-majors (there are only three faculties on the Carnegie Mellon Qatar campus: Business Administration, Computer Science, and

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Information Systems), and urban seminars that investigate world cities. We also bring with us to Doha a small group of fifth-year Bachelor of Architecture students from the Pittsburgh campus for a semester abroad who serve as our teaching assistants for the elective courses, and complete their architecture thesis projects in Qatar.
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The Urban Lab The brunt of our efforts in Pittsburgh is focused on the Urban Laboratory, a required fifth-year design studio in which students in their final year of their Bachelor of Architecture program add new skills and increase the scale of their architectural explorations. An inter-disciplinary educational and outreach program, the Urban Lab seeks to expand the community visioning and research efforts of the university in catalyzing the revitalization of Pittsburgh urban neighborhoods. Each year, teams of students and faculty from the School of Architecture work with distressed Pittsburgh neighborhoods to collectively envision physical change. The most distinctive characteristic of the Urban Lab is the realization that urban visioning must be interdisciplinary and hands-on through public participation. Typically, these are underserved communities; historically they have been victims of top-down planning. Most public participation processes engage citizens for the duration of the planning process, expanding the range of concerns addressed, and iteratively improving the quality of design. In the best cases, a design process with public interaction leads to long-term citizen engagement. For all concerned, the Urban Lab is 'learning by doing.' Without being direct providers of technical assistance for communities, the Urban Laboratory has used the educational qualities of the urban design studio to build long-term university-community partnerships and ultimately build the capacities of communities to be their own drivers of change. Equally important to introducing the participatory process in urban design, the Urban Lab also emphasizes the importance of collaborative, multi-disciplinary design and decision-making. It is critically important for emerging specialists from a range of disciplines urban design, urban economics, social sciences, history, transportation engineering, environmental science, demography and public policy to be trained to work in teams. Urbanists are at once generalists and specialists with their own fields of expertise.
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The Urban Lab pedagogy expands students design skills to address how buildings reinforce surrounding neighborhoods, as well as the creation of outdoor public space. At the same time, new skills are learned as students work with a client for the first time, gaining experience working with a diverse community to understand issues, listen to ideas, summarize principles and communicate design intent. The scale shift from architecture to urban design involves an understanding of systems of policy, economy, transportation and ecology at multiple scales, as well as understanding the connections between regional land-use issues and neighborhood planning.
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Mapping Urbanism is a liberal arts seminar course comprising urban design, information design, history, and theory, encouraging learning across disciplines and cultures. The course begins with a one-week examination of various projections of historic maps, atlases, and globes, thereby immediately introducing how developments in map making have influenced how the world is seen and shown on maps. From the Mercator Projection of 1568 (the first cylindrical projection) to the recent Whats Up South? map created in 2002, students are encouraged to see the world from a broader, more inclusive, and varied perspective. This is followed by weeklong explorations of cities that exemplify case studies of particular typologies the global city (New York and Paris), the shrinking city (Detroit and Manchester, England), the growing city (Las Vegas, Dubai) and the megalopolis (the U.S.A.s Northeast Corridor and the Pearl River Delta, China). Each of the weekly lectures introducing a specific world city typology is followed by a student presentation that critically analyzes a correlating urban text. Discussions not only focus on the citys urban planning from infrastructure to public space, but also on economic, political, social and cultural factors that have influenced its physical form. They consistently incorporate different eastern and western attitudes towards the way the world is viewed and experienced, from the macro-scale of urban planning and design to the micro-scale of the human body, social relations and self organization. The course curriculum leads to a case-based final project involving a personal examination of a specific city. Students complete focused research on specific physical, economic, political or social factors that affect the quality of urban life.

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This research and data is then transformed into a comprehensive body of graphics, or information design to convey the transformations of cities around the world. Students in Pittsburgh, the majority of whom are architecture students, tend to be interested in examining the gentrification of cities and the evolution of urban form. They are most eager to examine sustainability and critique the concept, to understand how it has been or is currently being implemented in both western and non-western cities (e.g. traditional wind tower of Dubai and Doha is now being constructed as an architectural historical icon, rather than a working sustainable strategy). Courtyard housing typologies of both Middle Eastern and Asian cities such as Singapore and Seoul have been replaced with high-rise apartments with small exterior balconies as these cities densify and construct high-rise urbanism.
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During the fall semester, the authors offer a course on the Pittsburgh campus that investigates several of the regions significant cities in a case study model, with the premise that the region is home to some of todays most dynamic urban conglomerations, some of which may provide models for development in other areas of the world. Regardless of their age, the ancient city of Istanbul, the medieval city of Cairo, the modern city of Tel Aviv, or the contemporary city of Dubai, all address issues relevant to the twenty first century (e.g. burgeoning populations, the environmental impact of rapid urbanization, and post-disaster reconstruction, both natural and man-made), with varying degrees of success. Part workshop and part seminar, the course encourages students to look at large scale, regional effects of urbanization as well as smaller interventions within a given neighborhood, and to search for the interrelation between the two scales. Students present their research findings for a given city and prepare work culminating in a final project that represents a synthesis of their research. The students respond in both writing and drawing, utilizing information design as a means of expressing their findings.
2 Comparative analysis of basic data for several Middle eastern cities & Pittsburgh (student emily Rice 2006).

For those students traveling with us in the spring, a particular focus is given to the city of Doha. Using and expanding upon Arjun Appadurais notion of scapes as articulated in Modernity at Large these students investigate the city through various themes: ecoscape, ethnoscape, technoscape, etc.

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(Appadurai 1996). Students are required to gather data on the given scape and present it in a visually and verbally coherent fashion. Thus, a great deal of data collection and analysis is compiled and made available to their peers, as well as to the general public via a website. Issues addressed include the environmental impact of rapid development, the plight of migrant laborers, the question of identity, and the notion of appropriate public space in a city of wildly divergent cultures. Armed with this information, these students spend the second half of the semester developing independent thesis projects, at which time they pose an architectural problem, identify a site and establish a program in order to prepare themselves for their arrival to Doha in January.
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4. An axonometric drawing depicting material assembly for a temporary housing system for construction workers made of rammed earth walls and shipping containers panels as decking (student Francisco Restrepo 2008).

Thesis The thesis students were free to choose a thesis topic of their own choosing provided they examine the issues through researchdriven design, that the project be sited in Doha, and it involve public building of some sort. The range of choices varied widely in location and scope: two projects looked at Education Citys campus: one a new library/exhibition space, the other investigated strategies for stitching together the disparate object buildings into a cohesive campus. Two other students responded directly to requests by the Qatar Urban Planning and Development Authority to investigate projects outside of Doha: an ecological park along a mangrove coastline north of the city and a Qatari wedding hall in a town south of Doha. Of the final two projects, one looked at mobile additions to public spaces and the other investigated housing in Doha. Upon arrival to Doha in January, and faced with the realities of place, the projects and the questions they asked began to take on a refinement that comes with a greater understanding of a situation. For example, the ecological park evolved to deal with the specific qualities of the Qatari coast, and investigated materials that would be sustainable in this environment, such as by-products of the petrochemical industry. Another example, the housing project evolved to become a set of guidelines and a kit of parts for creating temporary housing for the laborers who are currently building the country from local materials, including sand and corrugated metal shipping containers. Similarly, the mobile public space project settled down in one spot, currently used by expatriate workers, and strove to augment their experience by providing them with digital connections to their home countries as well as to other

3. Studies of pattern and program for a proposed system of education City landmarks (student Michelle lopez 2008).

parts of the city. And crucially, the wedding hall project was meaningless without the field research, including attending a proper Qatari wedding, observing firsthand the cultural norms and values that dictate use patterns. These transformations in projects and students occurred for myriad reasons: including repeated site visits, increased dialogue with Qatari agencies and authorities, the understanding that comes with living somewhere as opposed to visiting, and most important, the interaction with students from Doha. While some of these interactions were undoubtedly informal in nature, the structure of the semester abroad involved intense formal contact. This full immersion experience, which included interaction with local students as well as substantial regional travel, has resulted in design work that equally enhances environmental and cultural sustainability. Moreover, these efforts represent the first thorough examination of one of the worlds fastestgrowing cities and offer suggestions for future modes of inquiry in similar urban situations.
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In addition to their thesis efforts, the Pittsburgh architecture students serve as our teaching assistants for the courses taught to local students on the Qatar campus. With the exception of the courses we offer in the spring semester, no architecture classes are taught at CMQ or anywhere else on Education City for that matter. Moreover, our local students were not architects, but Computer Science and Business majors. In fact, there is no school of architecture in the country (Qatar University offers a four-year Architectural Engineering Degree to female students only, and the program is in its second year). When the chance arose to teach in Doha for a semester, we saw it as an opportunity to investigate a number of issues in which we were interested, chief among them the teaching and practice of design in the non-western world, what it means to design in a rapidly transforming society, and notions of sustainability that address local cultural and economic as well as environmental concerns.
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/ Demographics such as ethnicity or religion; / Health and education; / Economics and the cost of living; / Water and energy resources and consumption; / Transportation and infrastructure; and / Growth patterns and the evolution of built form.

Doha students, none of whom are architecture majors, seem eager to map issues of demographics such as the great diversity of ethnicity that exists in Doha and the growing economy. They are also keen to examine the western world & westernization of their own cities. There often exists a conflation of west with progress, yet ambivalence exists about the loss of cultural identity. Key discussions in our Doha classroom included topics such as local, traditional customs and building forms versus those of the west. In addition, discussion encompassed topics such as social inequalities that exist dependent on ethnicity, transportation and the environmental toll, and the difference between public and private space. A class debate erupted over whether or not Dubais 'public parks' constitute a public space, as admission prices were only 25 Dhs per person. Fortunately, in Doha, we have a great precedent, the Corniche, one of the best examples of accessible public space in a Middle Eastern city. The vision for the course is two-fold: to develop an appreciation for diverse histories, cultures and the built environment and to educate students to become engaged citizens of the world, reflective and informed. The course aims to do this by cultivating critical thinking through an analytical, problem solving, and interdisciplinary approach. Whether in Pittsburgh or Doha, the students have successfully achieved both goals by shaping the course to address their interests and concerns while learning new ways to see and portray the city.
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At Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Mapping Urbanism is offered as an elective within the 'Cultural Analysis' offerings, which encompasses six different disciplines. The curriculum was adapted to the Middle East region, to understand of the growth of cities in the Arab world. The principal method in which this was done was to focus the number of cities analyzed. Narrowing the number of cities explorations from eight cities a semester to four cities allowed for two-week-long explorations, thereby allowing for time to teach non-majors graphic computer skills and give them increased feedback during graphic critique sessions. Cities examined included those from across the globe that have, at one time or another, grown exponentially. These included New York City; Manchester, England; Dubai and the Pearl River Delta region of China. These cities were analyzed in terms of the social, economic and ecological effects on urban growth, in comparison to each other, but also, most importantly, to Doha. While Mapping Urbanism students in both Pittsburgh and Doha are given select readings from urban texts and required to write critical responses, they are free to examine an area of personal interest and relevant data in their accompanying graphics. Common subjects of exploration include:

This course is taught much the same way as it is in Pittsburgh, with students required to respond through both verbal and visual assignments. Last spring, the semester culminated with a final group assignment in which the students had identified a number of spaces used by the public (as determined by an extensive survey) that included not only public parks and planned recreational areas, but such surprises as malls, mosques and the desert. These places were then observed at various times of the day and week to analyze use patterns, which were presented in an inventive and informative graphic format.

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While teaching non-major students required that graphic software skills and a fundamental design vocabulary be taught, the students were able to bring a complementary knowledge in computer science and an understanding of business to the table. This cross-pollination is what Dean Charles Thorpe of Carnegie Mellon Qatar identifies as the 'Carnegie Mellon educational philosophy: the Liberal Professional education. President Doherty came up with this idea over 60 years ago, that engineers should be able to read and write and poets should be able to think analytically' (Thorpe 2008). Both 'Mapping Urbanism' which investigated a number of city typologies as they relate to the emerging city of Doha, and 'Contemporary Middle Eastern Cities' which examined a series of regional conurbations, required the local students to visually organize data as it related to the city. As a result, computer science and business students learned a suite of graphic design programs from their teaching assistants, while the teaching assistants (and their professors) gained greater insight into Doha from the students who had grown up there.
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6. use patterns of public spaces in Doha (students Aisha al-Darwish, Reem Khaled, Karim Watfa 2008).

Those serving as assistants for the 'Architecture for Non-Majors' studio encountered similar two-way learning experiences. Carnegie Mellon Qatar students learned a number of new skills including sketching, drafting, model-making, and most importantly, problem solving through design. By the end of the semester, computer science and business majors began to gain a mastery of the language, the craft and the thought processes characteristic of young designers. When teaching an introductory design course one is forced to ask fundamental questions. While these basic questions may seem universal, their answers will vary given the cultural background of those asked. The Pittsburgh students were shocked to hear, for instance, that a Qatari student proposed to tear down a Legoretta project (completed last year) and rebuild it with a slightly wider footprint to accommodate his intervention. From the point of view of the young Qatari, however, living in a world in which everything is new, in which roads, buildings and neighborhoods are constantly demolished and rebuilt, this seemed perfectly reasonable. To recognize that difference of view while they were simultaneously designing their own projects for this city and culture provided an object lesson for the advanced architecture students.

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One of the biggest challenges in trying to understand a foreign culture within which one is attempting to design is to acknowledge that not all the information will be immediately available; what appears to be a familiar situation may in fact be completely different. Certainly one should continue to make efforts to understand, but one should also learn to accomodate a degree of uncertainty. Consider, for example, the following: over ninety towers have been built in Doha during the last decade, while the city is only now completing its master plan. Too often architects privilege and teach future architects to privilege the product at the expense of the process. This is not to imply that the product is unimportant, but increasingly, we would posit, it is design thinking rather than the design object that matters most. Doha, like Dubai, like Shenzhen, Bangalore or Lagos, is very much a work in progress. Evidence suggests that it will remain so for the foreseeable future. It is incumbent upon us, as practitioners and educators, to find ways to design for transition, which may or may not be as transitory as originally planned (i.e., what if the project is never completed?) as well as for uncertainty, which is certain to remain a characteristic of the geopolitical landscape. Places like Doha offer us this insight into the need to design for uncertainty, while the experiences like the Urban Lab in Pittsburgh demonstrate the power of the public process, not as a means to design by committee or to the lowest common denominator, but as an opportunity to receive input from various constituent groups, and as a way to organize and energize these communities around a vision for their future. Combined with the graphic analytical and research skills gleaned in courses such as Mapping Urbanism and Contemporary Middle Eastern Cities, we hope that these students who are months away from stepping into the profession are well prepared for their future careers.

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How Concrete Crumbled: Speculations on the Demise (and Return) of Optimism

Boston was at the forefront of architectural thinking, embracing this new material in a mission to expand and transform the city. There was a great deal of enthusiasm for this work within the architecture community (for instance, nearly every year during this period the Boston Society of Architects awarded the Harleston Parker Medal to a concrete building). Whole new districts and vast infrastructural improvements appeared, serving the needs of government, hospitals, universities, housing, and, to a lesser extent, the financial sector. Some of these developments were important to modernizing the city. Others fractured communities in the name of misguided urban renewal.

Heroic presents the concrete structures that highlighted the era from the founding of the Boston Redevelopment Authority in 1957 to the re-opening of Quincy Market in 1976. These events bracket a remarkable period in which concrete was used as a building material in the transformation of Bostoncreating what was eventually referred to as the New Boston. Concrete provided an important set of architectural opportunities and challenges for the design community, which fully explored the materials structural and sculptural qualities.At this time, Boston was shaped by some of the worlds most influential architects: Breuer (be honest, did you know he had a major building here in the Madison Park School?), Catalano, Cossutta, Gropius, Kallmann and McKinnell, Le Corbusier, Pei, Rudolph, Sert, Stahl, Stubbins, and Yamasaki, among many other luminaries.

The research gathered in this exhibition demonstrates not only the pivotal role of concrete in Boston, but the pivotal role of Boston in the development of architectural concrete in North America. All of which begs the question: what happened? Exposed concrete went from being the building material of choice to anathema in a matter of years. Naive or otherwise, a palpable optimism is evident in the heroic words and designs of the architects engaged in this period. However awed, these plans reected noble ideals of social justice and the betterment of humanity. As the era waned, so too did the feeling that the future held greater promise than the past. That condence in a better future remained embodied in the buildings themselves, but their very presence served as bitter reminders of their failed ideals. How did this come to pass?
A number of factors conspired to nish concrete off in a drama betting the demise of Julius Caesar. In concretes case, the role of Cassius, leader of the tyrannicide, is played by steel. Envious of concretes meteoric rise to the top, steel seized the moment of the economic downturn following the oil embargo to turn conditions in its favor. As a resource, its desirability grew as the cost of labor increased. Faster to assemble, steel minimized the time of construction, requiring fewer man hours and offering a higher pay rate. As labor politics go, the strength of the steel workers union was among the highest in the country. It is no coincidence that even today, areas where concrete construction prevails have a very weak union presence. Sensing the changing winds, developers quickly followed suit. Buildings began to acquire historical accoutrements in an effort to go unnoticed, to blend in. In the risk-averse climate of a recession, architectural timidity became considered a rational behavior. When the recession ended, however, it was simply more protable to continue working under this new development model than to revert to an earlier, more intrepid way of building. And nally, it must be said: in this Caesarian analogy, the architectural community played the part of Brutus. This is not all damnation. It must be remembered that Brutus was the most noble of the conspirators. He drives his dagger in the back not for greed or ambition, but for the good of the republic. In similar fashion, architects abandoned concrete for its perceived association with the positive, but failed, intentions of big government, urban renewal, and its housing projects. In the name of the people, architects embraced historical preservation, community design reviews, and in the case of Boston, brick. Thus, without advocates, without practitioners skilled in the art of the pour, concrete crumbled away. Concrete has not completely disappeared in Boston. It remains in our bridges, our overpasses, in our tunnels, relegated to all the discarded infrastructural places that contemporary living demands but wishes it could wish away. It need not be so. New developments in concrete technology, such as ber-reinforced concrete, offer promises of increased resistance, selfcompaction, and durability. The impossibly thin but robust proportions enabled by these new technologies and methods could lead to a central role for concrete, one that speaks directly to our time. Once again, concrete could reect a new kind of optimism that is no less rooted in a valuing of progresssmaller in scope, with a lighter footprint perhaps, but no less noble.

Today we see a widespread disdain for concrete buildings. Many are in danger of being demolished or irrevocably and unwisely altered. Some already have been, as is the case with portions of Childrens Hospital (The Architects Collaborative), the Saltonstall Building (Emery Roth & Sons), and the Eastern Airlines Terminal (Minoru Yamasaki). Others are constantly being bandied about for demolition or equally destructive fates (think Kallmann and McKinnells Boston City Hall or Paul Rudolphs Health and Human Services complex).

work of I. M. Pei. Critic Michael Kubo reframes concrete architecture as an urban infrastructure that shapes entire city districts. Architect Eric Hwelers essay describes the allure and conceptual dangers of recladding concrete buildings, firing a warning shot about flimsy facelifts that sadly mask concretes authenticity. Architectural materials specialist Kiel Moe presents surprising arguments that these massive concrete buildings may, in fact, be models for future sustainable development. Structural engineer Paul E. Kassabian describes the dizzying difficulties and richness of concrete

Exeter Library, Paul Rudolphs University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus, or the many structures at Brandeis University. We have not included the hybrid heroicsbuildings like Larson Hall at Harvard (brick but as bold as any of these), those that look like they are concrete, but are actually stone (Shepleys Leverett House or Stubbins Countway Medical Library at Longwood), or those that express concrete frames but fill them with brick (much of Hugh Stubbins residential work follows this type). There is also the matter of placing this work in the broader arc of local history, particularly what comes prior, such as Aalto and Saarinen. We have tried to foreshadow concrete architectures immanent changes towards end of this period with an example like the Blackstone School (Stull Associates), which uses concrete block with a brick color. Yet these are only the beginnings to a deeper understanding of the vectors and forces that shaped this period in Boston.

What were once heralded as heroic visions in remaking a city have now become perceived as hubristic and brutal. But Boston has never been just a city of brick. It is a city that early on had an equally important stone heritage. With the vast amount and high quality of concrete architecture produced during the heroic era of modernity, Boston has become as significantly a concrete city as it is one of stone and brick. The essays and images in this exhibition invite us to understand that factand to value a city enriched by a layered and complex evolution.

structures. Architect Christina Crawford hunts for the strangest of these concrete worksthe smallest monumental structuresfinding them to be giddy pleasures. And designer Rami el Samahy describes the Caesarian drama of heroic concrete architectures demise. Where possible, we have found quotes from various critics about the buildings themselves that help enrich the understanding of it as an image.

The second aim of this launch is a longer and Read on. These texts frame a series of provocative questions surrounding the heroic era and its powerful and controversial concrete archimore difficult initiative, one that requires a deeper investment from all of us. Simply put, we hope to return these buildings to their proper position in the discourse about architecture, both in the profession and within a broader political and public realm. Is it possible to help reshape public perception and remind people of the profound value of these buildings? We hope so. The format of the exhibit, with sheets you can take away, is intentional. You can now get out there in the city as investigators and advocates for understanding these buildings and seeing their value.

In order to better examine the heroic era in Boston, we have enlisted a number of people to address some of the central themes evoked by these buildings. An essay by Tad Stahl (architect of the State Street Bank) and an interview with Michael McKinnell (architect of Boston City Hall) illustrate the architectural idealism of their generation and their search for authenticity through concrete form. Historian Douglass Shand-Tucci analyzes the evolving modernist sensibility, particularly related to the noble material of concrete, that drives the

tecture. The sum of all of this research does not attempt to form a singular product or a unified position. We see the Heroic exhibition as a launch to an open process, one that has two aims. The first is a finite effort to publish a book centered around the architecture and architects of this period. We want you to weigh in. Are we missing something? What have we overlooked? The exhibition offers just a small cross-section of the works we are documenting. It does not yet include the important satellite projects surrounding Bostonbuildings like Louis Kahns

Rami el Samahy is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, teaching architecture and urban design on both the Pittsburgh and Doha campuses. He is a founding principal of the architecture rm over,under.

Lines in the Sand: Teaching Architecture in Doha

R. el Samahy & K. Hutzell
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Architecture

Abstract
Doha is a city on the precipice of immense change. The numerous cranes, the vast infrastructural investments, and the alterations to the natural landscape merely mark the beginning of an enormous national project focused on education, culture and sports. Amidst the enthusiasm for this progressive policy, the following issues inevitably arise: the environmental impact of rapid urbanisation, the changes to the local culture, and the long-term effect on the next generation. Throughout the 2007-2008 academic year, students in their final year at Carnegie Mellon Universitys School of Architecture examined these issues through research-driven design projects. During the spring term, the students lived in Doha, working on their thesis projects and serving as teaching assistants for the architecture and urban design courses their advisors were offering to local students at Carnegie Mellons branch campus in Qatar. This full immersion experience, which included interaction with local students as well as substantial regional travel, has resulted in design work that equally enhances environmental and cultural sustainability. Moreover, these efforts represent the first thorough examination of one of the worlds fastest-growing cities and offers suggestions for future modes of inquiry in similar urban situations.

Keywords: architecture design studio, urban design, visual communication, emerging cities, public space

Introduction 2 The Project

The tiny energy-rich state of Qatar is in the throes of a vast transformation. Over $100 billion has been budgeted for new infrastructure and construction over the next six years, including projects for the energy sector, highways, sanitation, educational structures, sports facilities and museums. All of this growth fuelled not only by record oil prices, but also due to the fact that this population of less than one million (eighty percent of whom are expatriates) sits on the third largest natural gas reserves in the world has led to speculation that Doha might become the next Dubai. While similarities abound, there exists a huge difference between the two cities: without energy reserves of its own, Dubai developed laissez-faire polices that encouraged its deep-pocketed neighbours to invest their petro-dollars; in Doha on the other hand, most of the investment is local. More important, because Doha does not feel the same pressure to recoup its investment in a short term cycle, the strategy for development has a longer vision: by investing in LNG and GTL (respectively, Liquefied Natural Gas and Gas to Liquid) plants, Qatar is positioning itself to be a major player in the natural gas market; by investing in non-petroleum industries, Qatar is diversifying the economy for the inevitable day when oil is no longer king; by building libraries, museums, schools and universities, Qatar is attempting to create a knowledge-based society that will be prepared for its future. Carnegie Mellon University is a part of this future. Together with five other American universities, Carnegie Mellon has a branch located on the grounds of the Qatar Foundations Education City, an ambitious collection of institutions on the edge of Doha. Several of the worlds best-known architects have designed buildings for the campus, including Arata Isosaki, Legoretta + Legoretta, OMA (Rem Koolhaas), and Rafael Vignoly. EDAW is currently working on a new master plan for the 2500-acre (1100 hectare) campus. Currently Carnegie Mellon Qatar offers majors in two disciplines, Computer Science and Business Administration, with a third, Information Systems, beginning next year. With the exception of the courses offered this spring semester, no architecture classes are taught at CMQ or anywhere else on Education City for that matter. In fact, there is no school of architecture in the country (Qatar University offers a four-year Architectural Engineering Degree to female students only, and the program is in its second year). The authors teach architecture and urban design courses on the main campus in Pittsburgh. When the chance arose to teach in Doha for a semester, they used the opportunity to investigate a number of issues in which they were interested, chief among them the teaching and practice of design in the non-western world, what it means to design in rapidly transforming society, and notions of sustainability that address local cultural and economic as well as environmental concerns.

During the fall semester, the authors offered a seminar on the Pittsburgh campus that investigated the city of Doha. Using and expanding upon Arjun Appadurais notion of scapes as articulated in Modernity at Large, students investigated the city through various themes (ecoscape, ethnoscape, technoscape, etc). Students gathered data on the given scape, and presented it in a visually and verbally coherent fashion. Thus, a great deal of data collection and analysis was compiled and made available to their peers as well as to the general public via a website. Among the issues addressed were studies of the environmental impact of rapid development, the plight of migrant labourers, the question of a relevant identity, and the notion of appropriate public space in a city of wildly divergent cultures. Students then spent the second half of the semester identifying and investigating their independent thesis projects. They were required to pose an architectural problem, identify a site of intervention, and establish a program. The range of choices varied widely in location and scope: two projects looked at Education Citys campus: one a new library/exhibition space, the other investigated strategies for stitching together the disparate object buildings into a cohesive campus. Two other students responded directly to requests by the Qatar Urban Planning and Development Authority to investigate projects outside of Doha: an ecological park along a mangrove coastline north of the city and a Qatari wedding hall in a town south of Doha. Of the final two projects, one looked at mobile additions to public spaces and the other investigated housing in Doha. Upon arrival to Doha in January, and faced with the realities of place, the projects and the questions they asked began to take on a refinement that comes with a greater understanding of a situation. For example, the ecological park evolved to deal with the specific qualities of the Qatari coast, and investigated materials that would be sustainable in this environment, such as byproducts of the petrochemical industry. Another example, the housing project evolved to become a set of guidelines and a kit of parts for creating temporary housing for the labourers who are currently building the country. Similarly, the mobile public space project settled down in one spot, currently used by expatriate workers, and strove to augment their experience by providing them with digital connections to their home countries as well as to other parts of the city. And crucially, the wedding hall project was meaningless without the field research, including attending a proper Qatari wedding, observing firsthand the cultural norms and values that dictate use patterns. These transformations in projects and students occurred for myriad reasons: including repeated site visits, increased dialogue with Qatari agencies and authorities, the understanding that comes with living somewhere as opposed to visiting, and most important, the interaction with students from Doha. While

some of these interactions were undoubtedly informal in nature, the structure of the semester abroad involved intense formal contact. The architecture students from Pittsburgh served as teaching instructors to the courses the authors offered to the local students, including two urban seminars (Mapping Urbanism and Contemporary Middle Eastern Cities), as well as an introductory architecture studio, entitled Architecture for Non-Majors. Both Mapping Urbanism which investigated a number of city typologies as they relate to the emerging city of Doha, and Contemporary Middle Eastern Cities which examined a series of regional conurbations, required the local students to visually organize data as it related to the city. As a result, computer science and business students learned a suite of graphic design programs from their teaching assistants, while the TAs (and their professors) gained greater insight into Doha from the students who had grown up there. Those serving as assistants for the Architecture for Non-Majors studio encountered similar twoway learning experiences. When teaching an introductory design course one is forced to ask fundamental questions. While these basic questions may seem universal, their answers will vary given the cultural background of those asked. The Pittsburgh students were shocked to hear, for instance, that a Qatari student proposed to tear down a Legoretta project (completed last year) and rebuild it with a slightly wider footprint to accommodate his intervention. From the point of view of the young Qatari, however, living in a world in which everything is new, in which roads, buildings and neighbourhoods are constantly demolished and rebuilt, this seemed perfectly reasonable. To recognize that difference of view while they were simultaneously designing their own projects for this city and culture provided an object lesson for the advanced architecture students.

Conclusion

One of the biggest challenges in trying to understand a foreign culture within which one is attempting to design is to acknowledge that not all the information will be immediately available; what appears to be a familiar situation may in fact be completely different. Certainly one should continue to make efforts to understand, but one should also learn to be accomodate a degree of uncertainty. Consider, for example, the following: over ninety towers have been built in Doha during the last decade, while the city is only now completing its master plan. Too often architects privilege and teach future architects to privilege the product at the expense of the process. This is not to imply that the product is unimportant, but increasingly, it is design thinking rather than the design object that matters most. Doha, like Dubai, like Shenzhen, Bangalore or Lagos, is very much a work in progress. Evidence suggests that it will remain so for the foreseeable future. It is incumbent upon us, as practitioners and educators, to find ways to design for transition, which may or may not be as transitory as originally planned (i.e., what if the project is never completed?) as well as for uncertainty, which is certain to remain a characteristic of the geopolitical landscape.

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A Strategic Urban Process: Developing a Tool for Complex Decision-Making

Delivered by Rami el Samahy, Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University

Summary Master of Urban Design students at Carnegie Mellon University have examined a large defunct industrial site in Pittsburghs Hazelwood neighborhood to investigate possibilities for its redevelopment. A consortium of local non-profit foundations wishing to see the site developed in accordance with their core missions owns the land. A plethora of potential users of the site include two universities, a hospital and spin-off companies from Carnegie Mellons highly successful Robotics Department. Added to the mix is the desire for the development to be environmentally sustainable and to invigorate the surrounding Hazelwood community, a working class neighborhood comprised of ethnically Hungarian and AfricanAmerican families, who have come upon hard times since the demise of Pittsburghs steel industry. The situation is further complicated by proposals for two massive transportation options: one, the continuation of a highway that would essentially bisect the site, and the other, a new public rapid transportation system that would connect the site with the main campuses of the institutions considering expansion to the Hazelwood site. Typically, urban designers would hold meetings with the various stakeholders to arrive at a master plan for the site. In this case, it quickly became clear that the situation at hand was far more complicated, as the stakeholders were numerous and no real programmatic decisions have yet been made. In other words, the possibilities for site utilization remain wide open. Rather than provide a single master plan, the student group has created a system that maps the hundreds of various potential decisions, to understand their causality, and to identify the various spatial implications of each decision. Using the logic of operational systems research, they have affixed surface area values to each possible outcome, allowing decision makers to make more informed choices with regards to site capacity.

Context Pittsburgh, like many post-industrial cities, has seen better times, but could now be described as on an upswing. In its heyday as the center of the US steel industry, Pittsburgh was a magnet for those seeking better lives, coming from across the country and the world. At one time it boasted more millionaires than any other American city, a fact attested to by the myriad names attached to philanthropic foundations and civic buildings that still dot the landscape. When the steel industry collapsed, so to did Pittsburgh. At its height in 1950, the population was almost 700,000. By 1990, the population hovered around 350,000, a reduction by half, with the greatest losses among young adults forced to look elsewhere for work opportunities. Five decades of declining population has lead to large-scale abandonment of previously productive property, and the erosion of the tax base necessary to upgrade an infrastructure at least half a century old. Nevertheless, these economic and demographic challenges presented certain opportunities. Today there are no steel mills in Pittsburgh spewing smoke. The economy has slowly shifted from heavy industry to services, medicine, higher education, tourism, banking, corporate headquarters and high technology. At present, the top two private employers in the city are

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the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh. The three rivers that have been the citys lifeline are cleaner than they have been in over 130 years. Following these transformations, present-day Pittsburgh, with clean air, a diversified economy, a low cost of living, and a rich infrastructure for education and culture, has been consistently ranked as one of Americas most livable cities, attracting young educated professionals in search of a quality of life. An article in the 14 September 2006 of the Economist described the city this way: Pittsburgh will not experience an explosion of population and investment, like the booming cities of America's south-west. But it is part of a pleasant and affordable region with an improving mix of industries and enviable demographics -- which is as much as many parts of the country can hope for. And besides shaping young minds, Pittsburgh is also doing its best to reshape old land, by cleaning up former mining and industrial sites for uses that suit the modern economy. The Hazelwood site is among the largest of these efforts to reshape old land. A former industrial site with all the requisite difficulties, including environmental contamination, the 178-acre property was sold to Almono, LP in September 2002. Almono (named by taking the first syllable of each of Pittsburghs three rivers: Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio) is a limited partnership comprised of four regional foundations that have retained a fifth managing partner to develop the site. The Almono project site in Hazelwood is a 178-acre piece of derelict land near Pittsburghs southeastern city limits. This former Hazelwood LTV Coke Works site is situated on the northern flatlands of the Monongahela River, 4 miles from downtown Pittsburgh. The site is a long, narrow strip of derelict riverfront land, geographically bound by the Monongahela River to the west and a steep hillside to the east. It extends from the Hot Metal Bridge at the northern tip to Berwick Street / Longworth Street at the southern end. Two active rail lines run through the site, one running along the riverfront and the other running along Second Avenue below the hillside.

buildings operated by Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh. The downtown business district is four miles away. Although the southern tip of the LTV site extends into the Hazelwood residential area, it is largely disconnected from the surrounding neighborhoods of Hazelwood, Greenfield and Glen Hazel. The community-scale blocks that once extended from the community across the site all the way to the riverfront have long been demolished. The site is now bordered by active rail lines, steep hillsides, and industrial perimeter fencing. Restored connections from the site to the existing neighborhood may be possible in the future, especially from the Riverside sub-neighborhood running along the southern edge of the site. However, these new access points must contend with existing dead-end street infrastructure and active rail lines. The site is still zoned for General Industrial use, but rezoning is likely to accompany the redevelopment process. The General Industrial designation allows for basic low-density industrial development and support facilities as well as limited non-competing commercial activity. Adaptive reuse of any remaining industrial buildings is also permitted. Pending approval, this designation would also permit the site to house facilities for communications, transit, waste management, and correctional purposes. Neighborhood residents would like to see the site rezoned to prevent nuisance industries from developing on the site. The negative health effects of air and noise pollution from industries are also key concerns. Any zoning changes must be approved by the city and will require appropriate levels of environmental remediation to restrict exposure to lingering industrial contamination. The limited remediation already complete does not currently meet the standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency for a full range of office, retail, and residential activity. Housing development standards are the most stringent. However, since contamination was not evenly distributed across the site, certain areas may be permissible for residential use pending future investigation and testing. Currently, the site remains undeveloped. Most of the above ground infrastructure has been demolished. The remaining infrastructure includes a small warehouse and shed, the shell of former powerhouse, one dirt road, remnants of service lines from CSX (active railroad lines on 2nd Avenue side), a floating wharf, ice breakers, and 3 loading docks. Although the docks are in decent condition, the rest of the infrastructure appears to be in fair to poor condition. Carnegie Mellon has already partially renovated the former locomotive roundhouse in the middle of the site and is currently using the facility to house elements of their Field Robotics Center. Redevelopment Proposals Although several redevelopment plans have been put forward since the site was cleared in 1998, no plan to date has been developed to a realistic level. What follows is a summary of the major redevelopment proposals and planning reports completed to date. In 1998, the Department of City Planning issued The Riverfront Development Plan, which presented a coordinated citywide land use vision for Pittsburghs major waterways. The document proposed land use designations and design principles intended to guide riverfront redevelopment in a regionally coordinated and optimized manner conducive to overall city regeneration. The City proposed maintaining industrial designations along riverfront properties near the citys municipal edges, included the former LTV Corp. sites in Hazelwood, South Oakland, and the South Side. Within this designation, the city recommended developing new, non-nuisance industrial parks catering to high-tech research and office activities. The plan also called for publicly accessible riverfront trails and

Immediately north of the site is the Oakland I-376 exit/entrance ramp, the refurbished Hot Metal Bridge connecting directly to the mixed-use Southside Works neighborhood across the river, and the heavily trafficked Bates Street leading directly into Pittsburghs second largest business district, Oakland. The Pittsburgh Technology Center (PTC) neighbors the site to the north, and is home to several high-tech industrial and research facilities including two

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strategically located shared open space to be integrated into these larger industrial complexes. In 2000, Hazelwood Initiatives Inc. and City of Pittsburgh jointly commissioned a document titled Master Development Planning in Hazelwood and Junction Hollow. The international planning firm Saratoga Associates completed the report in 2001 based, in part, on community input from the Hazelwood, Greenfield, and Oakland neighborhoods. The community preferred a mixed-use redevelopment vision tailored to strengthen the existing neighborhoods. The community also hoped to improve the areas connectivity to Oakland, increase community access to the riverfront, and expand opportunities for the live/work lifestyle. Community members and planners alike felt the proposed Mon/Fayette Expressway slated to run through the neighborhood would have a dramatic impact on the viability and typology of redevelopment schemes. Building on these preferences, the Saratoga professionals recommended redeveloping the site to include two new marinas, an office park, and two mixed-use development areas. The report also recommended extending existing neighborhood blocks into the site and along the riverfront, and argued that new development should be used to bolster the extant Second Avenue business district. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has an on-going plan to develop the Mon/Fayette Expressway through the Hazelwood neighborhood and along the western portion of the former LTV site. The four-lane expressway would consume significant amounts of otherwise developable land and undermine the current neighborhood regeneration effort. In 2002, a coalition of local stakeholders prepared a document entitled The citizens' plan: An alternative to the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission's plan to complete the Mon-Fayette toll road. The report was motivated by concerns that the proposed construction methods and routing path would decimate the citys already struggling business district and would irretrievably isolate the neighborhood from its riverfront. The coalition argued that the projects planners had not exhausted the development options and was intended to present a more community-friendly alternative. Although the report is far-reaching in its geographical scope, its authors did make some specific recommendations regarding the former LTV site. They proposed building a new commuter-traffic urban boulevard through the LTV to relieve congestion from the Second Avenue community retail area. Other site issues were not addressed. On the whole, the Mon/Fayette project has been the subject of much political debate and, as of 2007, has been put on hold pending funding acquisition. In 2003, the new site owner Almono LP retained the Pittsburgh-based Urban Design Associates (UDA) planning firm to develop a mixed-use master plan for their newly acquired site. In a three -phased process, UDA professionals explored redevelopment scenarios with and without Mon/Fayette Expressway. The report concluded that the rail lines, the proposed Tollway, and the existing contamination levels reduced the 178-acre site to only 81 acres of developable land area. The redevelopment vision emphasized extending the existing street grid across the site to accommodate mixed-use development for residential, commercial, and recreational uses. The riverfront vision included trail and bench amenities, some restaurants, a small marina, and some sports facilities. In 2004, the LTV Coke Works project received an economic development grant from the Pennsylvania Governors office. The grant, funded by the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP), contributes $6 million for the construction of 700,000 square feet of office building research and development space and 1,000 new residential units. An additional $5 million was given to the Junction Hollow Research and Development Center Phase II projects to develop an incubation technology center. In 2005, the Dept. of City Planning commissioned Loysen + Kreuthmeier Architects to complete the Hazelwood Second Avenue Design Strategy. The Loysen authors were asked to focus their attention on the existing Hazelwood Second Avenue business area. From this

vantage point, Loysen recommend that Almono redevelopment schemes locate future commercial uses along the Second Avenue corridor in order to reinforce rather than compete with the existing business district. The authors also called for new neighborhood connections to the Almono site across the rail lines and from the Riverside sub-neighborhood. Carnegie Mellon is currently using a portion of the Almono site as an extension of its Oakland-based Field Robotics Center. The Robotics Institute partially renovated the former railroad roundhouse and is currently using the building and grounds to test new robot designs. The Center is also using its autonomous robot technology to replant the site and would like to use robot technologies to help clean soil contamination. The University hopes to develop a brand new robotics research center on the Almono site and hopes to use its robots to aid in the physical construction and landscaping process. Almonos Heinz Endowments has expressed its interest in the project and may provide funds to develop a planning proposal for the project. The Pittsburgh Technology Center (PTC), which borders the Almono site to the north, is beginning a multi-year expansion initiative. Given the PTCs close proximity and similar industrial zoning, the PTCs shifting land-use patterns and market pressures will influence the Hazelwood sites redevelopment potential. Since the last PTC building was completed in 2002, the demand for research facilities in Oakland has continued to grow. The expansion will add up to one million sq. ft. of new high-tech office space and supporting retail services. The city will finance infrastructure improvements and is recruiting private developers to manage building construction. Numerous other neighborhood and regional studies have been completed. These studies provide information on the existing housing stock, the Hazelwood communitys regeneration efforts, local and regional transportation studies, and various riverfront redevelopment visions.

Stakeholders The Owners Almono is a conglomerate of four high-profile regional philanthropic foundations including the Richard King Mellon Foundation, the Heinz Endowments, the McCune Foundation, and the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation. As a fifth team member, the foundations have retained a site developer, Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania (RIDC), to manage the property, make redevelopment decisions, and assume much of the development liability. As a first step, Almono retained the Pittsburgh-based Urban Design Associates planning firm to develop a mixed-use master plan for the site in 2003. During this process, the foundations outlined their top redevelopment goals as follows: 1. Revitalize Hazelwood by weaving the new development into the existing residential and commercial areas of Hazelwood; 2. Create a Great Urban Pittsburgh Placea new address celebrating the cultural and industrial history of the site, Hazelwood and Pittsburgh; 3. Be Sustainable, showcasing the best practices of industrial reuse while healing the site and being pedestrian/bike/transit friendly; and 4. Connect the Site to the Region by supporting public transportation into the Mon Valley, connecting to the institutions and resources of Oakland and Pittsburgh, as well as providing public access to the river for recreation and commerce.

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Although the foundations are collaborating in the redevelopment process, the different organizations do have distinctive interests and financial strategies. Based on past funding patterns, the R. K. Mellon Foundation is especially committed to economic development and environmental conservation issues. While the Heinz Endowments share these two interests, their economic mission focuses more specifically on innovative development strategies and, in environmental terms, focuses more broadly on economically and socially integrated sustainability initiatives. The McCune Foundation also supports economic development and places particular emphases on related community building programs. The Benedum Foundation also emphasizes economic growth with a focus on local leadership and regional partnership. The sites foundation ownership could prove to be a tremendous asset in the redevelopment process. Although RIDC and, to a lesser extent, the four foundations are effected by market pressures, their organizational interests and measures of success extend beyond the standard short-term matrices of typical profit-oriented developers. Instead of minimizing turnover time and maximizing profit, Almono can afford to prolong the redevelopment process and pursue the highest and best use for the site as measured by social, environmental, and economic concerns on both the local and regional level. Given the sites relatively large acreage, slower and incremental building could help the existing community integrate with and adapt to their changing neighborhood context. Largescale developments can run the risk of forming homogeneous, stand-alone islands with little community connectivity. Accelerated construction timetables prevent opportunities to learn from mistakes or morph to accommodate unexpected consequences. A slower redevelopment period enhances possibilities for the existing community to influence the developments final form and to take advantage of entrepreneurial opportunities created along the way. When exploring such strategies, the foundations could find new ways to achieve their larger social and economic visions in a cost-effective community building process. The foundations commitment to environmental protection suggests that more extensive remediation efforts could be completed. Although such efforts require time and money, they would accommodate higher uses on the site and could restore valuable natural assets along the riverfront. Restoration activities may also integrate the foundations with other educational and economic interests if, for instance, local university researchers were to use the clean-up and construction project as a demonstration project showcasing robotics technologies. Or, remediation and rebuilding efforts could be integrated into workforce training programs that promote community development and leadership. By integrating such initiatives and technologies into actual urban patterns and structures, the new development would literally and figuratively reflect an experimental, cutting edge profile.

surrounding communities, a collection of several ethnicities with various degrees of attachment to the neighborhood, see the site as a source of much-needed job growth and recreation. It also became clear that no real decisions had been taken. Despite (or perhaps, because of) the countless studies and proposals commissioned, there was no further progress of the planning and development of the site. In fact, one might argue that there is at this point an overabundance of plans, with little concrete planning. Master plans and urban design proposals by some of the biggest names in the country fell short, not due to a lack of talent, but due to a lack of decision-making. In order to avoid putting our study on the top of a pile of similarly well-meaning but ultimately futile efforts, we choose to step back. Rather than provide the stakeholders with a single master plan for the site, we choose to design a tool for making decisions, ultimately the necessary precursor to the design effort.

The Tool Full Decision Field The students began by identifying all the possible players, including the foundations, the universities, a range of university institutes, and the various communities that border site. We then mapped each possible outcome that a given player might desire, and the various programmatic implications that would produce these desires. These decisions were categorized in the following manner: public policy decisions, users policy decisions, user activities, general physical infrastructure, and transportation infrastructure. The result, an extensive constellation of possibilities surrounding each user, represented the complexity of the problem in a graphic form.

Other players and possibilities All of these factors suggest a positive outcome. As the last great tract of land within the city boundaries, however, the site has become a sort of Holy Grail, in the sense that it is all things to all people. In an effort to do the right thing, the foundations, with the best of intentions but limited experience in developing real estate, are trying to do everything, and, as a result, nothing is moving forward in a linear fashion. When my students and I were asked to look at the problem, it quickly became clear to us that there were too many players who wanted to be involved. Carnegie Mellon University is eyeing the property for its future expansion, as is the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the largest employer in the region. Carnegie Mellons Robotics Department, already squatting on the land, is determined to make the site the premier robotics testing ground in the nation, dubbing their plans Robo-City. The

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Consolidated Decision Field While fascinating, this enormous drawing (approximately 4 meters tall by 6 meters long) was obviously too unwieldy. Upon further analysis, we realized that several decisions were repeated at many points in the constellation. For example, a long wall on the site one of the few remaining vestiges of the sites industrial past could only be knocked down once. A refined decision tree mapping was thus created. In this map, each unique decision is represented by a small box with a tail for input on the left and multiple tails for output on the right. In most cases the top of the box is the affirmative decision and the bottom is the negative (i.e., include a particular activity on the site, or dont). In certain cases, multiple outputs are considered. Lines connect each decision to the subsequent choices to be made, once a decision is made. The map is read from left to right, beginning with users and given items all the way on the left.

Representative Scale Diagram These programmatic ramifications are now associated with surface area. Each outcome is given a size, allowing the decision-makers to begin to comprehend the scale of their decisions. For example, how much recreational space is needed to activate collegial atmosphere? How much for the community? What is the necessary amount of space dedicated to university dormitories?

Selected Decision Scenario From this consolidated decision tree, a series of scenarios can now be identified and tested. For example, if we were to take a scenario in which Carnegie Mellon would occupy the site in partnership with the local Hazelwood community, we can now trace the possible decisions and their resultant programmatic ramifications. For example, would a desire to provide recreational spaces allow for sports fields that could be shared between the community and Carnegie Mellon athletic teams?

Adjacency Diagrams At some point, decisions about adjacencies will need to be made. In our tool, we have identified elements that must be adjacent, those that cannot be adjacent, as well those that could be adjacent. For example, computer labs must be adjacent to classrooms, could be adjacent to an administration building, but cannot be adjacent to an outdoor testing site.

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Location Map When placed within the given site boundaries, the understanding of scale is further reinforced. Decision-makers are now able to comprehend the sites capacity through a clearer perception of the spatial ramifications of their programmatic decisions. For example, in our CMU + Hazelwood community scenario, it becomes clear that desired program will not fit in the site on a single level. A greater density is required.

Kit of Parts Perhaps the most controversial in our set of tools is the establishment of a template that describes in short hand the language of various architectural, landscape architecture, urban and infrastructural elements of the project. Typologies in each category are chosen and/or modified. These would include housing typologies, open space classifications, and street characteristics including widths, tree types, setback and height limitations.

Volume/Density/Location Map This tool allows the design team and the users to examine desired density levels. Essentially, this phase tests the sites capacity in the three dimensions. For example, when considering the residential component of the development, do the users wish to have single family detached housing, row houses, apartment blocks, or some combination of the above?

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Descriptive Vignettes The resulting axonometric views give users a quick impression of what their development might look like, based on the choices they have made along the way. By leading stakeholders through these phases, they quickly become more aware of the implications of their decisions and are provided with visual tools that provide them with a greater understanding of their decisions at a variety of scales.

Conclusion This work represents the efforts of two students and their advisor for the course of a semester. We are currently working with a computer programmer to assist us in automating the process, and hope to test it out this year. Already it has been of benefit: the Remaking Cities Institute, a Carnegie Mellon think-tank that is facilitating the investigation into the sites development has incorporated our work into their larger study and brought it before the foundations. Also, our explorations of redevelopment scenarios and analysis decisionmaking frameworks will serve as the basis for the Fall 2007 semester Urban Laboratory, an urban design studio for all fifth year Architecture students, in which they engage with consultants and stakeholders to explore and develop site-specific redevelopment plans. It should be clear by now that we see this as a tool with uses beyond the scope of the original problem for which it was designed. Or put another way, notwithstanding the particularities of Pittsburgh and its history, the conditions of the Almono site are not unique. Increasingly on large-scale urban development projects, a plurality of voices demand to be heard. These voices represent legitimate desires of communities, organizations, and businesses, but do not necessarily have the training to visualize the spatial ramifications of their decisions. A set of tools like the ones we have developed might be of great use in the early stages of planning so that policy goals can be articulated with a clear understanding of their physical impact.

* This paper was written with a great deal of assistance from Luis Rico Gutierrez, Associate Dean of Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts and Director of the Remaking Cities Institute (RCI), and Elise Gatti and Kim Kinder, RCI research assistants who provided much of the information on the context as well as the stakeholders. The work shown during the lecture was produced by Jacob Day and Linda Huang both candidates for a Master in Urban Design at Carnegie Mellon, and my students during the spring term of 2007.

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CONSULTING may 2009 PRINCIPAL , IN COLLABORATION WITH HARRY GUGGER STUDIOS 2012

In partnership with Harry Gugger Studios of Switzerland and Seis Arquitectos of Guatemala, over,under has been commissioned to design a major new museum, the Mayan Museum of America in Guatemala City. The institution is intended to be the worlds largest museum for the exhibition of Mayan artifacts and culture. Sited prominently on the northeastern edge of the
Left View of the Cenote, the central open-air circulatory sytem.

government approval and further project funding. In addition to our role as co-design architect with HGS (Seis are the architect of record), our role on the project has included a number of other tasks. We have designed the museums logo, all printed collateral, an exhibition of the concept design, and a promotional movie that will be released as part of the fundraising effort. on my academic career. The multiple roles that over,under has undertaken reinforce the variety of ways in which an architectural education can be used. Moreover, the research we have conducted, especially with regard to the culture of Guatemala, the requirements of a contemporary museum and to the potential passive sustainable strategies of the Central American environment, has undoubtedly affected how I teach my understand the design possibilities that such knowledge allows.

largest recreational open space in the city, the This project has parallels to and influences museum is intended to be the capstone to a series of museums and cultural institutions. Our proposed building evokes the monolithic nature of Mayan architecture and its masonry tectonic in a contemporary manner. It takes advantage of Guatemalas temperate climate by naturally ventilating all but a small number of spaces that require artificial conditioning. Further, it offers the city a substantial public platform, by lifting the park to continue into the site. The concept design has been approved by the client, and the project is now awaiting

the galleries off the ground floor and allowing classes. I consistently encourage students to

This faade series further explored articulation of the horizontal shelves by studying depth and scalar relationships between the shelves and the blocks resting on the the shelves.

The faade is comprised of thin precast panels which combine the abstraction of striated volcanic stone surface with high compressive and tensile strength. This allows for high amounts of perforation and large spans. The screen panels are identical to the solid panels with addition of a dense pattern of cuts that relate to the scale of the striated texture.

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over,under was commisioned to provide concept design for the facade of the Virginia Commonwealth University building in Education City. We partnered with Utile, another young Boston firm with whom we have a long history of collaboration. Initially, the project was only to address the building surface of the newly completed addition, a poorly designed pastiche of old and new Qatari architecture, hardly in keeping with the excellent buildings that surrounded it or with its status as the campus design school. We began by studying the structural rhythm of both Qatari vernacular architecLeft Detail of entry forecourt at night.

composed of regional stone. The structure responds to environmental considerations by shading outdoor spaces, windows, and faade elements in an effort to improve the buildings performance and user comfort. It reorients the entrance and provides a new entry forecourt on the east side. As a result, substantial redesign of the ground floor was necessary. Concept approval has been received and the project is about to be tendered for a design-build contract, for which we will be the required designers through to construction completion. The experience I have had interacting with the project management team, the structural engineers, and the pre-cast concrete sub-consultants has strengthened my knowledge of construction staging and assembly. I will be able to bring that knowledge and the priorities of locally engaged architecture back into the studio, which will be of benefit to my students work. This is especially true for the studios that I teach in Doha, as accompanying Pittsburgh students are usually unfamiliar with Middle Eastern construction techniques.

ture and of the early modern work (for Doha, the 1960s and 70s), the means by which building facades offered areas of public access while maintaining privacy, and the devices employed for shading that were integral to the building elevation. By studying the immediate campus context, however, we quickly realized that the building entrance was poorly situated both in terms of traffic flow and orientation (strong winds from the north blew desert sand into the reception area). In keeping with the ambitions of Qatar Foundation, our proposed scheme continued to reflect characteristics based on regional architecture (both modern and traditional) that are transformed through a contemporary design vocabulary highlighted by a pre-cast concrete frame inset with louvers

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The entrance relocation and forecourt have been further developed, including a conceptual landscape design and proposed interior reconfiguration. These have been studied in relation to arrival points from the south, the neighboring Liberal Arts and Sciences building (LAS), as well as the master plans proposed people mover stop and new academic plaza to the north. The new concrete frame systems figure is visible from distant campus locations, including the new QF headquarters.As part of this design effort, the team has studied a series of related modifications to the public realm, particularly by creating shaded pedestrian areas, an improved drop-off and arrival experience, and a widened sidewalk and pedestrian-friendly drive surface to the north. These features establish a stronger relationship to the surrounding campus and a better quality of experience for those who use the building.

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PROJECT may 2009 DIRECTOR, IN COLLABORATION WITH UTILE AND KLOPFER MARTIN 20102012

I directed the efforts of Al Maryah Island, another project in the region, which differs greatly in scale and scope from the two above. This project develops a culturally and climactically-responsive contemporary Arab urbanism for the on-going build-out of Al Maryah Island, Abu Dhabis new central business district. This design agenda is guiding the development of performancebased urban, architectural, and landscape
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This is over,unders largest project to date (we are also working in partnership with Utile and Klopfer Martin Design Group, a Boston-based landscape architecture firm). We collaborate and coordinate with a large team of international consultants, including the master planner, sustainability consultants, infrastructure and transportation engineers, structural engineers, marketing and sales staff, marina designers, marine engineers, security consultants. It has required us to communicate on a regular basis with the Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council, which has requested our design control document serve as a standard required for all future efforts. We interface with sub-developers of individual parcels and their architects. To date we have interacted with (and convinced) a number of leading practices of our vision, including Rogers Stirk Harbour, Gensler, Goetz, and Elkus Manfredi. In has requested a copy of the document so that they can make it the standard required of future guidelines While this has been a valuable learning experience for me professionally, it has also contributed directly to my teaching in two significant ways. First, I am able to impart to my students the specific knowledge I have gained from the practical experience both as a designer of a complex project and also as a facilitator of large groups of consultants, client bodies and developers. Second, as I develop professionally, I have come to understand the importance of designing the mechanisms of design. As a result, I find that I am placing an ever greater emphasis on the process than I had previously; discussions with my students of how and why we design take on a new significance.

logics to ensure the quality and cohesiveness of the public and private realms. The teams primary efforts are threefold: 1) Urban design refinement to dismantle an urbanism developed during the UAEs mega-development boom of the last decade in favor of a regionally responsive and contemporary place-making agenda; 2) The creation of design controls that translate these general concepts into a comprehensive vision by codifying and communicating key standards and requirements. Performance-based guidelines, particular to the local climate and region, generate design responses of unique character; 3) Third, the team oversaw the communication of the islands vision, including renderings, animations, and associated publications, including a book on the story of the Islands contribution to defining the contemporary Arab city.

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The ADCs regulate the development of each plot through programmatic and dimensional constraints, form-based massing parameters and level-by-level controls of the interface between private and public realms on all levels required to be publicly accessible. Each set of plot controls is comprised of four sections: 1. Development Summary Context and Notes as well as Plot and Massing Parameters, including development summary, plot context and plot speci c notes. The latter describes urban design logics behind the controls and speci c points of concern. 2. Massing Envelope Controls which de ne allowable building massings and show illustrative massings within those envelopes to demonstrate possible design solutions within the regulations provided. The volumes de ned by these dashed lines represent the area within which building mass is permissible in order to provide a level of exibility to development and design teams. Secondary control measures depicted in these drawings, such as required build-to zones of the envelopes, ensure that urban design objectives are met, including minimum required separation distance between towers. 3. Building Controls indicate both required and desired points of connection to and from the site with the public realm, locations of public circulation, both outdoor and conditioned as well as critical dimensions and setbacks. 4. Illustrative Massings which offer possible architectural interpretations of the requirements and a breakdown of program distribution across the site. These illustratives are intended to familiarize the user with some of the three dimensional constraints and opportunities on each parcel and to demonstrate one possible interpretation of the controls. It should be understood that these design concepts are not issued prescriptively. Instead, they are meant to demonstrate the feasibility of applying the designated master plan program to the site and controls, as well as to provide a foundation for additional creative responses.
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Massing Logics Tower > Two towers are encouraged on this site. > Towers are oriented east-west to maximize amount of units with water views, minimize solar heat gain and permit views to and from mid-island plots. > Tower locations are staggered to minimize overlap, maximize distance between towers and increase view quality. > The northern tower is aligned to the northern property boundary while the southern tower is aligned to the southern property boundary. > The slender tower oorplate maximizes the value of views, the separation from adjacent towers and the overall image of the district. > A minimum distance of 25m is required between towers on any plot. > The maximum residential tower oorplate is 1,000m . Podium > Low-rise massing along the Eastern Waterfront Promenade and Road P3 provide pedestrian-scaled edges along the public realm.

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