School and BIM

This was the first complex project I designed during my undergraduate degree. A hotel brought many functions into one building, so I had to work through its requirements and sections together. I learned to plan vertical circulation, emergency exits and service routes as part of the design. The drawings below show how those decisions came together, from the ground floor to the tower.

Renders, plans and sections

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Hotel towerHotel from the streetHotel from aboveHotel ground floorHotel tower floorHotel elevationHotel section

The following year, I worked at the scale of a neighbourhood. This redevelopment study in Baghdad took me from the master plan down to individual streets. The plans and street scenes show both scales, including the shaded pedestrian route.

Master plan and street scenes

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Redevelopment master planRedevelopment street sceneShaded pedestrian route

For my graduation project, I proposed redeveloping Baghdad's financial centre on a site beside the Tigris. My concept connected finance and technology through smart office buildings that technology companies could use. It brought the building and urban design work from the earlier projects together in one district, with a master plan, river elevation and sections through the site.

Rendering, master plan and sections

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Financial centre proposalFinancial centre master planFinancial centre river elevationFinancial centre section

After graduation, I continued studying architecture through Global Housing Design, GHD1x on edX from Delft University of Technology. The course looked at housing problems that recur around the world, while recognising that each place needs its own response. My final assignment explored incrementality, a mix of housing types and clustering. The three sheets below take the proposal from its site to the detailed design.

The three sheets

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Housing site sheetIncrementality sheetDetailed housing design

In the BIMA+ programme, I started exploring how geometry could be created and changed through visual scripting. For the Module 3 final project, I rebuilt a complex reference, then edited it and tried different ways of producing the same shape. I wanted to deepen my understanding of geometry creation and optimisation while widening my software skills. The work moved from analysing the reference to generative design results, with the full Dynamo graph showing how I built it.

From reference to graph

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BIMA+ Module 3 final modelReference analysisReference planGenerative design resultsGenerative mass resultsComplete Dynamo graph

After Module 3, I wanted to go further with visual scripting. I knew about Grasshopper but hadn't used it, so I started writing geometric scripts of my own. I was happy with the results. These four examples close the page with the part of my studies that was moving closest to software, creating geometry by defining how it should be built.

Four of the scripts

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Patterned surfaceGrasshopper node graphFolded surfaceStacked curves