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MAYS ALBAIK

CV ARCHITECTURE

DESIGN/ BUILD: UNSOUND WALL WAREHOUSE STRUCTURE MULTIFAMILY HOUSING CYPRIOT RETREAT WATER TOWER COMMERCIAL RENDERINGS
ART+DESIGN

FLOOR LIGHT FIXTURE

name date of birth nationality mobile email

mays ibrahim albaik 22.november.1991 palestinian +971 50 6991 911 maysalbeik@gmail.com

Education

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american university of sharjah alshola private school sharjah, uae sharjah, uae 2009 - 2014 (expected year of graduation) 2003 - 2009 artist assistant professor/ david hewitt lab assistant lab instructor/ michael dosier design research assistant wing team member architecture+design intern painting workshop assistant gallery intern gallery intern participator intern college of art, architecture and design college of architecture, art and design labs, aus school of business and management, aus. RedBull me dxb-lab architectural design ofce make your mark workshops, sharjah art museums the pavilion, downtown dubai design days dubai 2012 mubadara group, rst dents academic forum. 10th sharjah art biennial stusharjah, uae sharjah, uae sharjah, uae dubai, uae dubai, uae dubai, uae dubai, uae dubai, uae sharjah, uae sharjah, uae october 2013 January 2014 15th november 2011 current october 2013 January 2014 1st January 1st August 2013 10th june 2st august 2012 21st april 2012 22nd march 1st april 2012 17th march 21st march 2012 22nd 25th january 2012 12th march 2011

Experience

Exhibitions & Articles

participant participant participant

group exhibition, themes of contemporary art furniture group exhibition, Rituals of Daily Life furniture group exhibition, Illuminating Fabrication

Hunar Gallery, dubai, uae CAAD Gallery CAAD Gallery

15th may - 30th may 2013 20th sept 4th august 2012 20th 29th September 2011

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Languages
Arabic English

skills

mastercam x maya 3d max rhinoceros 3d autocad adobe design suite cnc machining (styrofoam, wood, etc.) metal working (cuting, welding, straight /curved folding) concrete casting (mold fabrication and casting)

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References

Professor Michael Hughes Professor David Hewitt Professor Emily Baker Professor Faysal Tabbarra

Head of the Architecture Department, CAAD, AUS. Associate professor, CAAD, AUS. Assistant Professor, CAAD, AUS. Assistant Professor, CAAD, AUS.

contact details available upon request

ARCHITECTURE

arc 509 design build fall 2013 program: reducing noise level in CAAD basement materials: steel sound absorptive rockwool

Part of a design/build studio course, the project brief was to address the noise issue in the basement of the College of Architecture, Art and Design at the American University of Sharjah, where design foundation classes are taught. This project started as a small fourmember group, but grew into an eight-member group. We aimed to create a system that is both aesthetically interesting and acoustically functional. We had worked closely with acoustical engineers to develop a system that would enhance the quality of a study space.

DESIGN/ BUILD: UNSOUND WALL

The exploration started with paper models, aiming to create a self-structural acoustically absorbent system utilizing curved-folded metal sheets.

our initial system was based on very independant modules. It proved very difcult to fabricate due to low tolerance.

close-up detail.

We started exploring a new system, begining with curved folded panels making up a double layered system, and developing connections between the two layers. We reached a system that utilized two languages; curved folds on the facade, and faceted bends on the inside (connections between the curved layers)

iterations in metal

process pictures

The wall functions like a traditional acoustical deck, a box made of metal sheet, one side perforated and the other reective, stuffed with absorptive material. The thickness of the absorptive material directly affects the frequencies the system is able to absorb. This system offers a variety of thickness due to the undulating form.

Components

folded steel sheet

rockwool for absorption

transmissive fabric

perforated steel

units components

arc 302 studio nal project spring 2012 program: waterboxx warehouse wide-span structure visitors center hydroponic garden site: muleiha sharjah, uae

WAREHOUSE STRUCTURE

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shading device

glass

steel pipes

concrete shell

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC STRUCTURE UNIT

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arc 402 studio

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MULTIFAMILY HOUSING

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arc 201 studio nal project fall 2010 program: summer retreat site: coastal cliff cyprus

CYPRIOT RETREAT

graphite on heavyweight paper

22.5m observatory

19.0m stair landing

arc 302 studio midterm project spring 2012

15.0m stair landing 14.0m bottom of tank

program: prototype water tower observation deck site: the gulf middle-east

10.5m stair landing

6.0m

stair landing

2.5m

stair landing

WATER TOWER

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OBSERVATORY DECK PLAN

ENTRY LEVEL PLAN

Axonometric Rendering

STRUCTURE + TANK + CIRCULATION Exploded Axonometric Structure + Tank + Circulation

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC

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done during an internship at dxb-lab architectural design ofce

COMMERCIAL RENDERINGS

jumeira palm project facade rendering

ART+DESIGN

arc 265/vis 294 studio nal project summer 2011 materials: styrofoam stainless steel acrylic sheet concrete processes: cnc-routing vaccuum-forming casting laser-cutting steel bending

FLOOR LIGHT FIXTURE

This project started as an exploration of digital and analog fabrication techniques, and ways to incorporate them together. The project slowly grew into a full scale production of a oor light xture. The form combined clarity and joint expression with the gesture of natural growth and protectiveness. The early stages of design focused on experiments on styrofoam, and the qualities it adds to light as it lters through it. In the nal product, double-routed styrofoam units were connected to a stainless steel rib structure that housed the light source. The pod, weightless in appearance due to the panelled material, oated under a stem that grew out of a heavy concrete base. The design of this piece underwent a rigorous process of iteration, and a great amount of care was put into details, and especially into joints between all the different materials interacting with each other.