bahareh rana javadi

b a h a r e h r a n a j a v a d i

a r c h i t e c t u r e + a r t + d e s i g n

design takes daydreams off of the margin of notebooks and into the dimension of reality

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curriculum vitae

education

experience

master of architecturetulane university

bachelor of science in architectural studiesuniversity of illinois at urbana-champaign

study abroadecole nationale superieure d’architecture de versailles

adjunct lecturer, tulane school of architecture, new orleans la• led lectures, studio demonstrations and curriculum design• directed and critiqued design work of students• facilitated student participation in lectures and field trips

research assistant, tulane school of architecture, new orleans la• compiled and synthesized scholarly material pertinent to post katrina

recovery and professional design ethics• design and presentation of design competition entries

teaching assistant, tulane school of architecture, new orleans la university of illinois at urbana-champaign, il• directed and critiqued design work of students• facilitated student participation in lectures and field trips• prepped course material

build apprentice, tulane city center la• finish and detail of incomplete built projects in new orleans including,

grow dat youth farm and guardians of the flame

woodshop monitor, tulane school of architecture, new orleans la• managed and monitored woodshop for safety and cleanliness• assisted students and faculty unfamiliar with shop tools

may 2014

may 2012

fall 2010-spring 2011

summer 2014


summer-fall 2013summer 2012

fall 2012


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summer 2011

summer 2011

spring 2014summer 2013spring 2014

summer 2014


summer 2012

spring 2012

summer 2011summer 2010

spring 2010 + 2009

research intern, center for neighborhood technologies (cnt), chicago il• conducted grant research and contributed to writing• recruited potential project partners for cnt’s green building retrofit• archived documents for preliminary project development

architect intern, d’escoto, inc, chicago il• drafted and edited construction documents in autocad and revit• touched up presentation documents in photoshop and illustrator• documented field work by sketching and note taking• schematic design for future uno site• measured interior dimensions to attain capacity signs at uno schools

thomas lupo award for excellence in metropolitan studiesmoise h + goldstein travel fellowtulane school of architecture graduate colloquium thesis exhibition

rhinocerous revit architecturegoogle sketchup

auto CADadobe photoshopadobe illustrator

adobe indesignmixed mediascale model making

laser cutting systemsdigital video editingwoodworking

park(ing) day nola committeecoordinated and participated in open call to design temporary parkletskids rethink new orleansco-led architecture + design workshops for youth ages 10-16lierman neighborhood action committeeprogramming and design of community vegetable garden on vacant lotmlk elementary schooldesign facilitation of interactive reading space installation in classroomglobal architecture brigadesdesign and build of secondary school in santo rosa, hondurasdesign and build of greenhouse in los santos, panamahabitat for humanitysingle family house build in blount county, tn + pontotoc county, ms

honors + awards

community work

toolkit

buildings

built works

urbanism

graphic design

meanderings

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overlay

bottom top urbanism

la: real time

pyramid resource center

guerrilla urbanism

recto verso

sketches

sustainable home

lierman neighborhood garden

public design festival

1 in 6

photography

poetry

re[framing] n peters

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instructor: scott murray

air frame + power plant

instructional facility

The Parkland Community College Air-Frame and Power Plant Instructional Facility (APPIF) consists of four sub programs: administration, instructional spaces, hanger and hanger shops. In this design, the interlocking of program blocks, landscape, climate control and structure, as well as linking of spaces through visual connections, ties together an otherwise divided program to create a more unified instructional facility.

fall 2011 capstone studio

above: axon sketchopposite: exterior perspective

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ground floortransformer vault 1

emergency generator 2transfer switches 3

main electrical switchgear 4main telecommunications 5

fire and booster pump 6environmental control 7general housekeeping 8

general building maintenance 9gallery space 10

reception 11atrium 12

offices 13-18facility maintanence office 19

shop 2 20shop 4 21shop 3 22shop 1 23

service yard 24

second floor drafting/design lab 1

classrooms 2-5cafe circulation 6

multi-purpose room 7storage 8

library 9conferance room 10

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la: real time The studio was framed by a cultural and geographic understanding of West Hollywood, Los Angeles. The studio engaged research and evolving program requirements related to city and developer needs, including zoning, height restrictions and client change. The research revealed West Hollywood as a creative enclave composed of an array of comunities, including Eastern-European immigrants, LGBT and a rapidly increasing millenial and visitor population. In addition, there is a great lack and need for active public spaces integrated within the urban fabric of the Los Angeles Metro area.

The building is informed by overlapping interests of various user groups who engage the boulevard and site. The design works to intersect the public and private realm of mixed use building and major boulevard through shared visual and active access to adjacent programs.

mixed use

fall 2013 studio

top: site + demographic timelinebottom: civic economy

opposite: section perspective I and typical floor plans

Gambling & Escort services prevelent

1950’s 1960’s-70’s 19841920’s

Eastern European Immigrant Families

Gay Neighborhood Emerged

City of West Hollywood Incorporated

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ground floor floors 3-5, typical floors 6-7, typical

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above: context model

right: section perspective II showing indirect sunlight strategyto space below

opposite: unit plans and facade assembly diagram, wall section perspective

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collaborator: jackie davis

sustainable home Habitat for Humanity hosted a competition to create a modest, flexible and modular house design that is suitable to any midwest region and uses sustainable strategies. The program called for 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bath, less than 1,070 sq ft within a $100,000 budget. The design strategy evaluated the region’s climate conditions and incorporated economical and energy efficient material technologies.

The design’s concept radiates from a utility core which includes a shared plumbing wall and central HVAC system for maximum flexibility and efficiency. The core creates a clear division of public and private space whithin the home, with the main living area being on an open plan which benefits from southern solar gain as well as space efficiency. The design can be easily reoriented around the core, making it appropriate for multiple lot variations.

spring 2012 competition

top to bottom: regional site, cost analysis, concept diagrams

opposite: wall section perspective

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13 roof SIP 12”

12 wooden cap block

11 wall SIP 12”

10 pergola

9 storage window bench

8 window framing

7 greenhouse window

6 raised garden beds

5 kitchen casework

4 decking

3 sil plate

2 floor joists

1 concrete footing

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instructor: eugene cizek

re[framing] north peters street

North Peters street runs along the river boundary of the Marigny--acting as a spine that threads the historic New Orleans neighborhood together. It is the site of biking, dog walking and parade routes. An existing flood wall creates a disconnect between the neighborhood and the river. The linear park design responds to nodes of density along North Peters Street, pertaining to circulation, approach and movement towards and within the site. A series of linear frames, derived from the form and perspectival nature of the tracks behind the flood wall, act as the continuous language throughout the project. Nodes of density are continued or broken--sometimes creating shaded points of gathering and sometimes celebrating existing views by framing them. The elevated linear park engages the riverside of the flood wall and the residential neighborhood by framing the landscape and its users.

spring 2013 studio

above: site analysis + cross sectionfrom top: site map, perspective looking

across river from elevated folly

opposite: street car folly section perspective and connection details

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crape myrtle

dogwood

market & food truck stop

waterplay & shade

Lookout & elevated walkway

franklin street car stop

creeping vines on flood wall & towers

crushed slate & plum

bago ground cover

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opposite; north peters elevation + plans

left: ship passing behind lantern folly

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collaborators:marcella del signore

jose cottowhitney jordan

mary catherine bullock

overlay Overlay proposes an environment that fosters collective interaction through the experiential qualities of the space. Through the proposed programming, visitors are continuously engaged in a game field to instigate public interaction.

PARK(ing) Day is an annual, open-source, global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into temporary public places. The event is a chance to reclaim and activate our city, providing a new territory for creative experimentation and activism. PARK(ing) Day intends to cultivate a sense of civic pride, improve our city’s local urban environment, incubate new urban programs and evolve the way we think about the design and craft of urban place-making.

park(ing) day NOLA 2014

top: design renderings

opposite: constructed parklet at parking day site

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instructors:emilie taylor

sam richards

pyramid resource wellness center

Located at the intersection of Canal Street and Jefferson Davis Parkway, Pyramid Resources Wellness Institute provides treatment services for persons in the greater New Orleans, Louisiana metropolitan area who are homeless, have mental illiness diagnosis or co-occurring substance use and mental illness.

The studio worked with the staff and clients of PRWI to design their common outdoor space into an area that can adapt to the multiple needs of the residents; a space that can accommodate group meetings, individual counseling, conflict resolution, meditation and provides a more welcoming backyard for the clients and staff of the facility.

fall 2012 design build

above: bench prototypetop to bottom: studio design meeting,

design presentation to residents, final review at site

opposite: plans drawn by studiomate, residents enjoying dining pavilion

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clockwise: resident helping with driftwood application, resident quote lasercut, driftwood frame assembly

opposite: kids enjoying stage during Endymian

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collaborators:peter normandjessica dewitt

lierman neighborhood

garden

The Lierman Neighborhood Action Committee (LNAC) was formed in order to address a lack of adequate community space in East Urbana, Illinois. Located at a major intersection, the garden site is situated at an accessible and visible location within the Lierman neighborhood, creating an opportunity to have access to local, fresh foods and public space.

The design consists of wheelchair accessible garden beds, standing beds, raised beds, a tilled plot, seating and storage units. Primary materials for the project were dismantled wood pallets, salvaged from various local businesses.

summer 2012

Recycled Wood Pallets

Proposed Site PlanView from Washington & Lierman

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The Lierman Neighborhood Action Committee was formed in order to address a lack of adequate community space in East Urbana, Illinois. Located at a major intersection, the garden site is situated at an accessible and visible location within the Lierman neighborhood--creating an opportunity to have access to local fresh foods and public space.

The design consists of wheelchair accessible garden beds, standing beds, raised beds, a tilled plot, seating and storage units. Primary materials for project were dismantled wood pallets--salvaged from various local businesses.

lierman neighborhood garden

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above: material source diagramfrom top: view of constructed garden,

proposed design rendering

opposite: neighborhood garden day one year after construction

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advisor: scott bernhard

bottom top urbanism

This thesis seeks to link the informal and formal production of public space by demonstrating an architecture that curates participatory mapping and testing of spatial concepts in the city. Undervalued sites are identified in New Orleans and investigated through non-planned appropriations. However, such urban incubations lack sustainability without momentum created through the support of formal frameworks. Bottom Top works to link bottom up actions and top down urban strategy through a user informed architecture that is specific enough to administer systematically and indeterminate enough to be appropriated. Neutral Shop + Market is broken down into permenant and imperminant components, where the permenant building is a small business space to be shared and easily adapted. Impermenant concept units act as physical manifestations of spatial meandering on site.

masters thesis

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number of people engaging neutral ground

simon bolivar elevation

Martin Luther King

Bus Stop

Guste Homes

Bus Stop

New Orleans Po-Boy &

Corner Grocery

Hot Spot Barber Shop &

All Professional Tax Service

festivity/event

sunny days

everyday

top: elevational analysis of spontaneous activity along simon bolivar avenue

bottom: gis map showing various hybrid businesses throughout new orleans

opposite: field study of constructed prototype units

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clockwise: context model, plans, thesis presentation display

opposite: exploded axon, perspective showing buildings as bookends to plaza inbetween

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steel scafolding

rain canopy

shade canopy

neutral shops + out-door kitchen

concept units

raised landscape(stage)

complete axon

mural walls(exisitng)

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thesis class of 2012—2013

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BOTTOM TOP

An exploration of participatory place making and mapping, engaging neutral grounds in New Orleans

Description of the thesis issues or questions:This thesis seeks to link the informal and formal production of public space by demonstrating an architecture that curates participatory mapping and testing of spatial concepts in the city. In New Orleans, undervalued sites are identified, investigated and invigorated through non-planned appropriations. However, such urban incubations lack sustainability without the momentum created through the support of formal frameworks. Bottom Top works to link bottom up actions and top down urban strategy through a user informed architecture that is specific enough to administer systematically and indeterminate enough to be appropriated.

Description of the thesis project and site:The program and design strategy for a Neutral Shop + Market is informed by a rooted, bottom up urbanism that propels the momentum of placemaking. The program is broken down into permenant and imperminant components--where the perminant building is a small business space to be shared and easily adapted between local business tenants. Imperminant concept units act as physical mani-festations of spatial meandering on site. Units intend to crowdsource place-map-ping and making through deployment and use. The landscape of both neutral ground and market plaza are treated similarily--where both are elvated from street grade, suggesting landscape as “stage” for the performance of users.

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Deployed: Sunday 1/261pm

visited: Monday 1/272pm

visited: Thursday 1/30 4pm

Deployed: Sunday 2/911am

visited: Sunday 2/911:20am

visited: Sunday 2/17

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If it is too mobile-->dissappear

If it is not mobile enough-->noone will use it

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summer 2013

guerrilla urbanism

With a loose definition of guerrilla urbanism and New Orleans’ ad hoc cultural geography of pop-up shops and BBQs on the neutral ground as a point of inspiration, the research endeavored to explore how informal interventions impact urban America. The research revealed urbanisms of food, art, play and urban strategies developed by local artists, activists and designers through ground-up initiatives. Traveling, observing and documenting with a willingness to investigate, explore and discover, the findings were numerous and seemingly disjointed at first. However, by keeping a mind net wide, the maybe-architectures created by mostly non-architects, encourage design that listens more than it speaks and curates more than it administers. Guerrilla Urbanism tactics seem to suggest a reversal of what we’ve been taught as architects: taking to the streets and then the drawing board.

moise h & goldstein travel fellowship

F o o d A r t P l a y C i t y

top: research route mapbottom: fdr skatepark

philadelphia, pa

opposite: albany bulbalbany, ca

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collaborators: marcella del signore

mary catherine bullock

petal#food#plaza The goals of the public design festival are to bring public voice into public design and to stimulate pro-activity of citizens. The prompt for this design competition was street food. The theme asked for proposals that embody mobile units, areas of conviviality or projects for living, using and experiencing. Projects were expected to respond to urban lifestyle and contemporary social living. The program asked to consider prep, display, sale and eating of street food in public squares, streets and plazas.

public design festival

top: aggregationsbottom: program breakdown

opposite: perspective by mary, exploded axon, elevation

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collaborators: mary catherine bullock

evan morrisjose cotto

jonathan taubebenjamin tinklenberg

recto verso Recto Verso is comprised of creative works by graduate students at Tulane School of Architecture. The publication serves to express our collective concerns and creative preoccupations and to provide a space to celebrate our multifaceted talents and diverse backgrounds.

RV began as a forum for student exhibition and today stands as such. This issue, the second in what we hope will continue as an ongoing endeavor, seeks to frame the various works of our peers within the architectural context from which they emerge.

graduate publication

right: 7.5” x 10” printed publication1000 copies funded by dean schwartz

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collaborators: jose cottoemily greenalison rodbergemilie taylor

1 in 6The 1 in 6 portrait campaign intends to empower and

de-stigmatize the mentally ill population in New Orleans

by communicating that they are not alone in their

struggle. Mental illness affects more people than is openly

recognized at various levels of severity.

For the 1 in 6 campaign, a team of Tulane graduate students

took portraits of New Orleans residents in City Park, letting them know our intention. The

final design was printed at postcard, poster, newspaper

ad and sticker scales and distributed through Pyramid

Resources Wellness Institute, a local mental illness non-profit.

graphic advocacy

left: 24” x 36” poster above: 3” x 3” stickers

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sketches

locations:Rome, Italy

Santorini, Greece

clockwise from top: rome from above, colloseum, study of orders

opposite: building analysis of colloseum

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photography120 mm film

left: holga series on berry hill farm, loranger LA

opposite: dangling shoes below above FDR skatepark, Philadelphia PA

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poetry don’t say the wordshow mea section cut through your skullwill dotissue and nerveswrap ‘round ideas and curiositiesi’d follow the movementof each pulse oscillatethrough woven networks of synapseyour words are but a broken translationof your original thoughtsand like a poorly dubbed movie,my interpretationtries to catch upwith your lipsin lost timeproject your mind’s portraitthrough your eyelidsi will watch the imagesflicker byin quiet understanding

critique

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put your feet in the waterfeel its chill on your soles

thenas you step onto the sun-kissed concrete

walk slowlylet the heat penetrate your bare toes

like walking on fireexhale the pain as if

blowing bubbles through a strawinto a glass of milk

crown fountain

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Bahareh Rana Javadi grew up in Chicago, Illinois where she learned to wander the city with curiosity and mindfulness. She received her Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies at the University of Illinois in

Urbana-Champaign and Master of Architecture from Tulane University. Bahareh’s love for the city and for making place was brought to focus during her graduate work at Tulane. During the summer of 2013, she was awarded a travel fellowship to study and document guerrilla urbanism in 14 American cities across the country. Bahareh’s Masters Thesis, Bottom Top Urbanism, was selected for the Thomas Lupo Award for Excellence in Metropolitan Studies in Spring 2014. Bahareh has taught introductory design studios, as teaching assistant and adjunct lecturer at Tulane University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bahareh currently lives, makes and teaches in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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