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Name

Nationality

Address

Phone

E-mail

Omar MOUNIR ABOZEKRY AHMED AKL

Egyptian

8 Taha El-Dinary street, 7th district, Nasr city, Cairo,

Egypt.

002 0100 40 44 106

[email protected]

EDUCATION

2011 BSC Architectural Engineering (Ain Shams

University). CAIRO, EGYPT.

2010 BAUHAUS DESSAU SUMMER SCHOOL.

LANGUAGES ARABIC Fluent

ENGLISH Fluent

FRENCH Semi-fluent

CAD SKILLS BIM: ARCHICAD, REVIT ARCHITECTURE

DRAFTING: AUTOCAD

GRAPHIC DESIGN: ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING DESIGN SOFTWARE:

DESIGN BUILDER, ECOTECT ANALYSIS

3D SOFTWARE: 3DS MAX, GOOGLE

SKETCHUP, GRASSHOPPER(RHINO),

RHINOCEROS, VRAY MAX, VRAY SKETCHUP.

EXPERIENCE

2011September - current Cairo, Egypt

Magaz Magazine - Contributor.

2011April - current Giza, Egypt

Human Nature LLC - (Interior and Furniture

Design Firm) Junior designer/drafter.

2011July Alexandria, Egypt

Para-moiré (Parametric moiré) - workshop

2011July Atlanta, GA, USA

Atlanta Beltline Project - Cross cultural pro-

gram (Ainshams University, Clemson Univer-

sity)

SEE THE PROJECT ONLINE

2011May Cairo, Egypt

Basurama - Solid Urban waste workshop

2011February Cairo, Egypt

Zero Energy Building Design - workshop

2010 September Cairo, Egypt

Sednawi Rehabilitation competition - As-

sisted professional Architect.

2010July Dessau, Germany

Bauhaus Summer School 2010

SEE THE PROJECT VIDEO ONLINE

2010April New Cairo, Egypt

1st prize winner - Namaa architecture

design contest (Office building design)

2009August Cairo, Egypt

UNION MEDITERRANENNE DES ARCHITEC-

TES - workshop

2009July, August Cairo, Egypt

Art Line Group (Design Office) - Intern

2008July, August Doha, Qatar

Ashghal Schools - On site training

2007July, August Doha, Qatar

Al-Reem complex - On site training.

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ARCHITECTURE

WORKSHOPS

SHOPPING ON A BIKE ATLANTA, USA, JULY 2011 1

OPERA SQUARE REHABILITATION CAIRO, JANUARY 2011 5

NAMAA STUDENT COMPETITION NEW CAIRO, APRIL 2010 7

COURTHOUSE ASWAN, FEBRUARY 2010 11

PARA-MOIRÉ ALEXANDRIA, JULY 2011 14

SOLID URBAN WASTE CAIRO, MAY 2011 15

ZERO-ENERGY BUILDING DESIGN CAIRO, FEBRUARY 2011 16

GLOBAL HOME PLATTE DESSAU, GERMANY, JULY2010 17

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ARCHITECTURE

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SHOPPING ON A BIKE

Client: Atlanta Beltline project under the

Cross cultural exchange program

(Ainshams & Clemson universities) .

Goal: Shopping center for the active life-

style.

Project type: Commercial

Area: 15,000 m2

Location: Atlanta, GA, United States

Project Year: 2011

Design: Omar Abozekry

illustrations: Omar Abozekry

The building consists of 4 shopping floors

surrounding a public space for outdoor ca-

fés and park for joggers, skaters and bikers

|ARCHITECTURE 1

Designed with the active person in-mind, this

mall takes Atlanta’s temperamental weather

to mind, and creates a fun and comfortable

outdoor walking and cycling environment

for its clientele.

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

Bike Parking places are in each floor.

|ATLANTA, GA, USA |COMMERCIAL |SHOPPING ON A BIKE

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Vertical bicycle parking slots are available in shop façades giving cyclists peace of mind.

The building is divided into four sections

that form a closed continuous shopping

corridor. Between each section, ramps

are available for visitors to move to the

next level, +/- 1meter. For those with less

time, elevators are available for both

shoppers and their bicycles.

|ATLANTA, GA, USA |COMMERCIAL |SHOPPING ON A BIKE

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OPERA SQUARE conceptual university project

Client: University project

Project type: Cultural

Goal: Redesigning the historical Opera

square in the heart of colonial Cairo.

Area: 35,000 m2

Location: Cairo, Egypt

Project Year: 2011

Design: Omar Abozekry

illustrations: Omar Abozekry

|ARCHITECTURE |CONCEPTUAL DESIGN

The building is designed to provide the users a special experience, As they start their visit from the “Opera

square” when the sloped passage takes them to the underground theater entrance, bookshops and other

cultural products as a contemporary vision for the renowned “soor el azbakeya”. The road takes you up

again to Attaba square, where you find the museums combined together:

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We were asked to redesign the linking area between the Islamic old city of Cairo and the colonial part built in

the 19th century, more than 100 years ago a magnificent opera house was built in what is called today “opera

square”. This opera house was burnt as a result of a massive fire in the 70s, replaced by an ugly garage building to

overcome the increasing traffic in this busy part of the Egyptian capital. Now the city has decided to convert the

area again to a cultural area.

An open theater is designed as an addition to

the “National theater” already existing. Also an

underground theater accessed by two buildings

at the Opera square, and the Post museum

plaza.

|CAIRO, EGYPT |CULTURAL |OPERA SQUARE

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NAMAA STUDENT COMPETITION FIRST PRIZE

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A key feature of the building is a nexus of green planters as an ecological corridor con-

necting all spaces of the building. Also facilitating fire escape .

-1 parking floor entry

-2 parking floor entry

Terraces for the offices

Parking ventilation

1ST PRIZE WINNER

Client: Student competition

Project type: Office building

Goal: Designing an office building ergo-

nomically to reach the maximum comfort

standards inside the work space.

Area: 35,000 m2

Location: Cairo, Egypt

Project Year: 2010

Design: Omar Abozekry Ahmed Eid, Mo-

hamed Hassan, Karim Wahba

Illustrations: Ahmed Eid

COMPETITION WEBSITE

Meeting rooms

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The building Façades are fac-

ing south which causes extra

heat gain during working times

Subtraction of form in the

southern façade would mini-

mize heat gain.

A Café place has been in-

serted between the building

floors, and a place for long

breaks in the ground floor.

|ARCHITECTURE |FIRST PRIZE

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Naturally ventilated meeting room

Extra 1056 m2 of offices to the

basement

140 car parking places

Food outlet

Plaza for mid-day

breaks.

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Further subtraction of forms to

allow natural ventilation from

the North-west to reach the

building. Green terraces have

been added to capture the

breeze.

Beams which define the space and work as a shading device, The screen enclosure

creating the green void protects it from southern sun during working hours, and it does-

n’t block the street view. The pictures so the effect of the addition of the beams on the

space and the shade.

|CAIRO, EGYPT |OFFICE BUILDING |NAMAA STUDENT COMPETITION

BASEMENT GROUND FLOOR

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TYPICAL FLOOR

- Uniform work spaces.

- 85% plan efficiency.

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COURTHOUSE UNIVERSITY PROJECT

Client: University Project

Project type: Governmental, Courthouse

Goal: Ancient Egyptian inspired courthouse

Area:

Location: Aswan, Egypt

Project Year: 2009

Design: Omar Abozekry

Illustrations: Omar Abozekry

Ground Floor First Floor

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Third Floor Second Floor

|COURTHOUSE |ARCHITECTURE

Fourth Floor

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WORKSHOPS

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PARA-MOIRÉ

theoretical and functional understanding of graphical algorithm editor

Making algorithmic definitions for forms integrated with performance evaluation

(Shadow range-Solar Radiation-Daylight Performance-Visual Access…). to construct a

relation between building performance and building geometry.

Designing a shading device for a room at encode studio using the learned method.

Workshop tutor: Encode studio

Goal: Parametric design (designing a shading device based on the light analysis)

Programs used: Rhinoceros, Ecotect Analysis, Grasshopper plug-in (Rhino)

Location: Alexandria, Egypt

Date: July 2011

Team members: Omar Abozekry Akl, Basem Samir, Omar Wanas, Shady A.Azeem

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Graphical algorithms editor: linking light analysis using ecotect with

the shading device form.

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ZERO-ENERGY BUILDING DESIGN

Workshop tutor: Shady Attia

Goal: Using Simulation tools for decision

making

Programs used: Design builder

Location: Cairo, Egypt

Date: February 2011

Team members: Omar Abozekry Akl, Mo-

hamed Hassan, Mariam Hamdy, Mo-

hamed Mostafa, Afaf Badran

In this workshop we:

1-Identified the technical requirements for

zero-energy building design.

2-Utilized simulation and decision making

tools, to validate passive and active design

strategies into a project.

3-Designed a case Zero-energy apartment

block complying with the Egyptian energy

standards.

|WORKSHOPS |ZERO ENERGY BUILDING DESIGN

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GLOBAL HOME PLATTE Bauhaus summer school 2010

The short film Global Home Platte looks at the effects of the “IBA” Urban Redevelopment program on a Plattenbau estate in Dessau-

Süd. It reflects on conversations with local residents about the themes of demolition, shrinkage, commuting and the role of the Dessau-

based Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt) in the town’s north-south prosperity gap. It combines local people’s ideas

with artists’ and architects’ visions.

Workshop Organizer: Bauhaus Dessau institute.

Workshop Tutor: Adam Page (UK)

Goal: 30 minutes video production analysing the effects of the “IBA” Urban Redevelop-

ment program on a Plattenbau estate in Dessau-Süd .

Location: Dessau, Germany

Date: July 2010

Video Producers: Omar Abozekry Akl, Robert Grabczan, Danny Holland, G. M. Gómez Igle-

sias, Nicole Keußel, Paul-Hervé Lavessière, Brygida Michon, Adam Page, Shruti Subrama-

nian, Deniz Yílmaz and Silvia Zheleva.

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Platte stands for "Plattenbau" referring to

the prefabricated social housing build-

ings whose use was widespread during

the GDR reign for years. They over-exist in

eastern cities (Dessau in this case) due to

the massive exodus of the inhabitants to

western German cities.

IBA 2010 DESSAU :

A governmental project in Dessau was particularly demolishing a huge number of the

plattenbau buildings which was empty during the past few years. To replace these de-

molished buildings (prejudged as useless), They searched for different social participa-

tion concepts, with parts of the landscapes claimed to the people consisting largely of

families of unemployed workers.

In the video project we were critical about was the misuse of the land. As a few hun-

dred meters away where there’s most of the demolition towards east, there’s a UNESCO

biosphere reserve, a magnificent river. Why making a complicated project of social

participation with rules limiting ownership when everything is just in hand?

|DESSAU, GERMANY |GLOBAL HOME PLATTE

Pictures before and after demolishing a

plattenbau building

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