FRANK F. SABOURI,AIA.

LEED,AP
SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTS
URBAN DESIGNERS
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY,
SHANGHAI, P.R. CHINA
SUSTAINABLE AND GREEN ARCHITECTRE
AND URBAN DESIGN
INTERNATIONAL TRANS-CULTURAL EXPERIENCES
USA, MIDDLE EAST, CHINA
Master Plan , Abbas Abad Center , Iran
Louis Kahns Office ,Philadelphia , PA
A new civic and administrative
Center of Tehran.
LI Kahn and Kenzo Tange
were asked to make a joint
proposal. This was the last
project LIK worked on.
Design Development
NURAN, The City of Illumination
Isfahan, IRAN
One of the first Solar Energy based, sustainable
new towns for a 100,000 population.
Presented at the New Towns Conference
at MIT in 1982.
Traditional Space
Elderly Housing, Boston
RABAT, MOROCCO
CENTRAL MARKETPLACE
MASTER PLAN
KUWAIT
WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT
MEDINA BOU REGREG/258
Acres
A.M.BEST Insurance Headquarters
135,000 sf , Oldwick, New J ersey
Cadbury-Schweppes
Research Facility, Hanover, NJ
Cadbury Schwepps Science
and Technology Center
Hanover, New Jersey
15,000 sf Research/Development Facility
Ramapo College Phase IX
432 Beds College Dorm, Mahwah, NJ
Ramapo College Dormitory, New Jersey
Phase VIII
Environmental, Design & Construction
2005 Excellence in Design Award
Institutional, Non-Profit, Educational or
Healthcare Category
Residential Architect
2005 Merit Award
Campus Housing Category
Consulting Engineers Council of
New Jersey (CECNJ)
2005 Merit Award for Engineering Excellence
Special Projects Category
College Planning and Management
Best of 2005 Honorable Mention
Education Design Category
New York Construction
Best of 2004 Project Merit Award
Institutional/Higher Education Category
New York Construction Magazine
Best of 2008 Award of Merit
Pre-K - 12 Education Category
American Council of Engineering Companies of New Jersey (ACEC-NJ)
National Award of Honor for Engineering Excellence 2008
Energy Conservation Category
Award of Honor for Engineering Excellence 2007
Energy Conservation Category
First Avenue District School
Newark, New Jersey
Academic Villages
Cairo, Egypt
A World Bank Sponsored Project
These Academic Villages with 15,000 students
each are planned at ten different locations
within Egypt. Among the Goals are:
Meeting academic , athletic , socio-cultural
needs /Preserving privacy , intimacy ,
orientation within clusters/ Response to
environment and Sustainable Design
principals/ Minimizing costs due to economy
of scale.
Academic Village, Cairo, Egypt
TraditionalandHighTechSpaceDesignandPlanning
CORPORATE LOBBY ,ENTRANCE /EXHIBIT HALL
PVSC(Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission) Newark, New Jersey
PVSC
740 acres
300 hectares
2.8 million m DuBiotech Master Pla
30 million sf
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
DuBiotech is the worlds first free-zone focused on the biotechnology industry and an
important component of the Crown Prince of Dubais ambitious plan to transition his
country to a knowledge-based economy.
Envisioned as an international hub for the growing biotech industry, there are three
major areas of development:
a headquarters piece containing scientific and administrative support; a bio-research
and manufacturing piece containing
flexible laboratory, pilot plant, and manufacturing facilities; and an academic piece
containing an undergraduate teaching university.
Dubai Biotechnology and Research Park (DuBiotech).
New Town Near Riyadh
Single Family/townhomes & Villas
Saudi Arabia
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Enhance the unique setting/Wadi Env.
Balancing Traditional and Contemporary
Hierarchy of Inter-connected Urban Districts
Diverse land use and housing type
LAND 2,400.
acres
71,000
residential units
Est. Population
360,000
Climate and Privacy Control
Architectural Studies
New Town, Near Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
DOWNTOWN JEBEL ALI
DUBAI, UAE
Downtown J ebel Ali
11 km stretch of Sheikh Zayed Rd
Covers 200 ha Land,6.5 m sq.m
Over 300 Buildings
Integrated with People Mover System
urban center
Major vertical articulation
Minor vertical articulation
vistas
order of trellis
order of arcade
EXLORATIONS OF
MASSING ARTICULATION S
INDEXED BY SCALE &
VISUAL FACTORS OF
PEDESTRIAN GENARATED
VECTORS and LANDMARKS
Downtown JEBEL ALI, Dubai
207 hectares
11 kilometers long / 200-300
meters wide
Potential built-up 6 to 7 million
square meter
Estimated living/working
population
250,000 to 300,000 people
SHADE CASTING ENVIRONMENT STUDIES
Jebel Ali New Downtown Center, Dubai
Dubai Promenade
Six residential towers around a Central Park
North/Marina Towers 1.3 million SF
South/Beach Towers 1.6 million SF
NORTHERN VIEW
EXPLORING POTENTIAL URBAN
POSITIVE SPACES WITHIN
EXISTING CONTEXT
NANJING ROAD URBAN DESIGN STUDY, Tianjin
CHINA
Nanjing Road, Xiao Bai Lou Plaza, Tianjin
Hui Zhou/Lake Como
Yang Lang Reservoir, Resort
Community

The Village
Mixed-use Residential
Retail , Commercial
Corporate Chinese
Gardens Complex
Hotel , Conference Center
Golf Club
Lang LakeYang
Gateway
Hui Zhou/Lake Como
Yang Lang Reservoir, Resort Community
Urban Design of Xing Long Road and
New Urban Center in
Yong Chuan District
Chong Qing District, China
Lake Taiping Sustainable New Resort Communities, Huang Shan
MASTER PLAN AND ARCHITECTURE DESIGN OF GUIYANG INTERNATIONAL
CONVENTION AND EXHIBITION CENTER

2009.01.

SUSTAINABILITY CONCEPTS
DevelopmentDensity
CommunityConnectivity
AlternativeTransportation
PublicTransportation
BicycleStorage,ChangingRooms
PeopleMovers,Bridges
IntegrationofPedestrianNetworks
ProtectandRestoreHabitat
MaximizeOpenSpace
StormwaterDesign:QuantityControl
StormwaterDesign:QualityControl
Stormwater:Roof&NonRoof
LightPollutionReduction
EnergyEfficiencyinBuildings
ReducedWaterUse
StormwaterManagement
SolarOrientation
WaterEfficiencyLandscaping
NoPotablewaterUseforIrrigation
GravityandWaterRecycling
DaylightandViews
InnovativeDesigns
SlopesandParkingLandscaping
SlopesandcompactMassing
GreenRoofs
MixedUseDevelopment
ProximitytoWater/Wastewater
ReducedAutoDependence
SteepSlopeProtection
CompactDevelopment
DiversityofUses
ReducedParkingFootprint
WalkableStreets
UniversalAccessibility
JIN YANG EXHIBITION CENTER
Guiyang, China
JIN YANG EXHIBITION CENTER
Guiyang, China
Size: 12.4 km2
Location: ChongQing, Sichuan Province, China
Sustainable Exhibitions/ Hotel and Conventions New Town
Respecting local topography and river bank
Integrating with light, air and local horizons
Recycling water
Integrated pedestrian/transit network
Area of Planning: 43.1 km2
Area of Urban Design:4 km2
Location: ChongQing, Shuang Qiao District Sustainable Resort Community
Sichuan Province, China
Wave Field Plazas for Temporal
Ponds
Pedestrian / Transit Integrated
System
Natural/Manmade Wetland
System
Low-Rise High Density Urban
Forms
Integrated Resource Reuse
Size: 5 km2
Location: Li Shui, Sidu District, ZheJ iang Province, China
Sustainable Golf Resort Community
Natural Terrain Massing following
River Geometry and Movements
Integrated Resource Use System
Size: 13 km2
Location: PengShan, Sichuan province, China
PengShan Sustainable New Town
CCRC Integrated Community
DYKE
VARIATIONS
Integrated Dyke /Movement
System
Low-Rise,High Density Massing
Natural/Man-Made Wetland
System
Integrated Resource Reuse
System
Building Area: 37,700 sm
1030 student, 150 teachers
Zhong Shan Boarding High School
and Teachers Training Facilities
Luwan District,Shanghai, China
Bringing Natural Light, Elevated
Gardens and Views to the Existing
Structures
Courtyard Massing
Existing Proposed