Mutaa Al-Hashimi

My work went beyond producing a design. I managed schedules and deliverables, followed up with architects and engineers, and coordinated the information needed to take projects into construction. As Senior Architect, I led a project team of three architects, six engineers and four foremen through more than twenty projects. The work below includes my designs and contributions to projects at the firm, with my part described where it involved a team.

I set the firm's first BIM standards, template and guide for design and construction, based on ISO 19650. I also wrote Dynamo scripts to automate schedules and legends. They saved more than a working day per project, and I taught three new colleagues how to use them, improve them and write their own.

The same thinking applied to communication. Moving coordination with site engineers to BIM 360 reduced phone calls by about 75%. I also brought Lumion renders and animations into the final client package. These were practical changes to how the team prepared and shared its work.

Building 188 was one of my first projects at the firm. I designed the office building and produced its detailed drawings, while developing my Revit and Dynamo skills to prepare the drawings faster. As BIM coordinator, I also worked with the other disciplines to reduce clashes in the model.

Design, coordination and detailed drawings

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Building 188, elevationBuilding 188, 3D sectionBuilding 188, 3D section, floorsBuilding 188, typical floorBuilding 188, detailsBuilding 188, 3D model

Automation also became part of the objects I designed. For Project 243, a three-storey restaurant with about 1,600 sqm of usable area, I designed the facade and some interior objects and produced the visualizations. I used Dynamo to generate the arrangement of ceiling tiles shown in the presentation.

Restaurant design and generated ceiling tiles

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Project 243, at nightProject 243, by dayProject 243, 3D sectionProject 243, interiorProject 243, reflected ceiling plan

For these chandeliers, I started with concept forms made through scripting, then designed the structure and details of each one. The reception chandelier is a round golden branch, 1.5 m wide and 5.75 m tall. The staircase chandelier is 1.2 m wide and 11 m tall, with stepped cylinders that follow a quadruple-height stair. The guest house chandelier follows curved organic lines, 5.5 m long and 2.4 m tall. The models, drawings and installed pieces show the different stages of that work.

Concept models, structures and installed pieces

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Reception chandelier, installedReception chandelier, litReception chandelier, 3D visualizationReception chandelier, structural frameStaircase chandelier, 3D visualizationStaircase chandelier, structural frameGuest house chandelier, installedGuest house chandelier, drawings

Project 220 brought several disciplines together in an eight-storey bank headquarters, with offices, meeting rooms, services and a viewing deck used as a restaurant. I designed the mass and worked on the complete detail drawings. As lead architect and BIM coordinator, I coordinated the bank's IT requirements with the other disciplines and worked to reduce clashes in the model.

Headquarters design and coordinated drawings

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Project 220, exteriorProject 220, second viewProject 220, 3D sectionProject 220, upper floorsProject 220, ground floorProject 220, building sectionProject 220, details

For Residentials 209, Residential 218 and House 192 in Baghdad, I worked on the design, construction coordination and supervision. The site photos sit alongside the drawings and visualizations because my responsibility continued beyond the model.

Residentials 209 is a three-storey home on 600 sqm. Its classical facade required detailed modelling of the stone and metalwork in Revit so the pieces would fit together. Residential 218 combines a ground-floor home with two apartments above on a 300 sqm plot. Its Shanshool, also known as a Mashrabiya, brings an Iraqi architectural feature into a modern facade. House 192 is a two-storey home on 300 sqm with five bedrooms and four bathrooms, with an entrance designed to be clear from the street.

Models, construction and completed spaces

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Residentials 209, elevationResidentials 209, from aboveResidentials 209, on siteResidentials 209, 3D sectionResidentials 209, 3D planResidential 218, exteriorResidential 218, the siteResidential 218, built facadeResidential 218, finishedResidential 218, insideResidential 218, 3D planResidential 218, elevationHouse 192, on siteHouse 192, scaffoldingHouse 192, the stairHouse 192, living roomHouse 192, double heightHouse 192, diningHouse 192, 3D plan

The residential work covered very different plots and requirements. Villa 236 had a narrow 400 sqm plot with a 1:4 proportion, yet needed five en-suite bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a waterfall, fountain and panoramic lift. An open plan with an interior courtyard and a bridge to the main bedroom gave the layout room to work.

Residential 235 in Hilla has two matching units joined by a hall for up to seventy people, with a pool and rooftop barbecue area. Villa 232 in Baghdad uses a white diamond-shaped entrance against a mostly grey facade. Villa 201 in Ramadi pairs a simple modern facade with red brick, while Villa 234 in Hilla combines limestone, dark oak and rose gold finishes with a courtyard and double-height reception.

Residential layouts, facades and models

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Villa 236, exteriorVilla 236, ground floor interiorVilla 236, first floor interiorVilla 236, 3D ground floor planVilla 236, zoomed planVilla 236, 3D sectionResidential 235, at nightResidential 235, in the dayResidential 235, sunrise on the porchResidential 235, pool areaResidential 235, main entranceResidential 235, main elevationResidential 235, 3D sectionVilla 232, by dayVilla 232, from the garageVilla 232, at nightVilla 232, 3D modelVilla 201, elevationVilla 201, 3D ground planVilla 234, elevationVilla 234, 3D ground plan

Project 200 was a house renovation. I was responsible for designing a distinctive new facade while changing as little of the existing building as possible. The existing photo and proposed visualization show the intervention together.

BeforeThe existing facade before the renovation design.AfterThe proposed facade with limited changes to the existing building.

The selection also includes office, commercial and medical buildings. Building 216 places seven storeys and a basement garage on a narrow 350 sqm plot. Commercial 222 brings a bank, hypermarket and smaller shops into one building. The remaining images show a real estate headquarters, office and commercial facades, and two wards at Al-Andalus Hospital.

Commercial, office and medical projects

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Building 213, elevationBuilding 216, elevationBuilding 216, 3D modelCommercial 222, elevationCommercial 222, second viewBuilding 227, elevationBuilding 227, 3D modelBuilding 230, elevationBuilding 230, from aboveAl-Andalus Hospital, VIP wardAl-Andalus Hospital, ward

This was where I started writing scripts and helping colleagues use and develop them. Architecture gave me experience coordinating people, schedules and detailed work, while automation gave me another way to solve the repeated problems in front of the team. Both became part of the work I moved into later.