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Ali Noormohammadi

Ali Noormohammadi

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Dark zone, Deep gray sky with gray people around, No more sense of life could feel...Trying to bring it back...Meaningful life...Meaningful design... Blue as the Sky ( Religion + Knowledge INTERACTION Holiness + Wisdom) Green will define: We are still alive (Public INTERACTION with its surroundings ) Red like the heart beats to pump the FRESH blood (Education + Continuity INTERACTION)
Dark zone, Deep gray sky with gray people around, No more sense of life could feel...Trying to bring it back...Meaningful life...Meaningful design...
Blue as the Sky ( Religion + Knowledge INTERACTION Holiness + Wisdom)
Green will define: We are still alive (Public INTERACTION with its surroundings )
Red like the heart beats to pump the FRESH blood (Education + Continuity INTERACTION)
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The Rubik Center

The Rubik Center

Thinking in different ways of connecting other functions in a community center with less repetition and the most efficient and also trying to revive the missing middle part of society and encourage the outside and inside people to move inside as a journey, just like a Rubik colorful puzzle piece before reaching out to its rightful place on the right side.

 
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Status: School Project
Location: 782 Snelling Ave S, St Paul, MN 55116
My Role: Designer

 
In some cities, the middle types of Housing have disappeared or gone, and this is a big gap between Single-Family houses to the Mid-rise Apartments types. It means the majority of middle-class people are missed, and the lack of them causes a class division in society and an unbalanced community.
In some cities, the middle types of Housing have disappeared or gone, and this is a big gap between Single-Family houses to the Mid-rise Apartments types. It means the majority of middle-class people are missed, and the lack of them causes a class division in society and an unbalanced community.
Try to find other types of functional buildings and other programs running around and see how these buildings will be able to cover our site plan requirements.
Try to find other types of functional buildings and other programs running around and see how these buildings will be able to cover our site plan requirements.
Back to the site plan and start to collect enough data about what we have around it and how we can manage the accessibility to the site. Considering different directions during the movement in Snelling Ave, find out how we can involve Charles M. Schulz-Highland Arena, which is located behind the site plan, as our new part of the community center. Even the underground way could help visitors to access the site.
Back to the site plan and start to collect enough data about what we have around it and how we can manage the accessibility to the site. Considering different directions during the movement in Snelling Ave, find out how we can involve Charles M. Schulz-Highland Arena, which is located behind the site plan, as our new part of the community center. Even the underground way could help visitors to access the site.
Try to consider the feelings of different functions around the site plan, merge them with the site plan elements, and attempt to find the best combination between them and the old part of the existing building (Highland Reservoir).
Try to consider the feelings of different functions around the site plan, merge them with the site plan elements, and attempt to find the best combination between them and the old part of the existing building (Highland Reservoir).
1- Define each function as a color of the Rubik's piece and keep them in touch at least once in different directions The distance size will consider the scale of each box between two columns in the Highland Reservoir 2- Define sections based on the first step of combinations and then extrude each section and combine them all based on the early map of Rubik
1- Define each function as a color of the Rubik's piece and keep them in touch at least once in different directions
The distance size will consider the scale of each box between two columns in the Highland Reservoir
2- Define sections based on the first step of combinations and then extrude each section and combine them all based on the early map of Rubik
The SiteCast Concrete, Two-Way Flat Plate will define the structure and use the Concrete Shear-Walls to keep the structure loads balance.
The SiteCast Concrete, Two-Way Flat Plate will define the structure and use the Concrete Shear-Walls to keep the structure loads balance.
1- Combination section
1- Combination section
2- Movement in different parts of the community center (Connection)
2- Movement in different parts of the community center (Connection)