Khaled Sedki

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assortment of works 2006/10
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Khaled Sedki
assortment of works 2006/10
Business Park ‘10 Symbiosis Designs Ltd.
Faculty of Architecture and Design ’09 JUST
EcoLogic Machines ‘06 Architectural Association School
FcXLab.Honda ’08 JUST
Interruptions Collective + Publication ‘07-’10
Khaled Sedki
6.11.1986 Damascus. Syria
Academic
BSc Architecture ‘10 J.U.S.T.
Summerschool ‘06 Architectural Association
Career
Symbiosis Designs Ltd.
Turath Consultants
World Economic Forum ’09
Interruptions.
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kh.sedki@gmail.com
These pages highlight notions exercised through
projects selected from over four years of study
and professional practice in architecture, design,
media and writing.
These notions were tagged within situational
contexts of paradoxical tensions; a rapidly mutat-
ing region stressed out by opposing politics,
strained economies, restrained progression and
pre-convicted futures.
A condition where all progressive initiations are
rendered as extraneous threats to a subtle state of
familiarity that is both preserved and destroyed at
the same time. The dynamic devaluation of ‘all
things’ is a distinctive social and cultural charectar
that has for long manifested itself in a creative
nihilist reproduction of its form, values, systems,
culture, religions, idiologies, identities, literature
and architectures .
All projects tagged in this portfolio play the
politics of these circumistances to varying extents,
gradually building a resonant maturity, knowl-
edge, skill and understanding of all forces at play
in any architectural, urban, cultural or social
project.
Due to the fact that all projects exercised, so far,
were either academically assigned or client com-
missions, the margins by which these amalgama-
tions were utilized were restricted and often
negotiated in a way that balances both potentials
and restrains – a negotiation that is an important
element of design processes as well the evolution-
ary discourse of all creative productions.
Thus, the tagged projectes in this portfolio aim to
demonstrate the knowledge, skill, vision and
strategic approach to architecture and design
within an extensive totality of ‘things’; an attitude
that is crucially imperative in a larger state of
global disturbance, revisions and re identifications
of design, architecture, urbanism, cities, societies,
economies and cultures.
Business Park

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Symbiosis Designs Ltd.
2010 Amman. Jordan.
Master Plan 2494 m2
Conceptual Design Phase
Collaborative; team.
Architecture at stressed-contexts tends to become
a literal emobidement of paradox. The sharp
proximities of contrasting situations capture urban
distinctions of disputed narratives.
Therefore, cities at areas of tension are interest-
ingly literal in the way they render social,
economic, political and cultural conflicts.
Symbiosis Designs were commissioned for the
Business District project for which a team, assem-
bled of lead designers, were to invistigate the
evolutionary notions of Jordanian economy and
render them in the light of broader social and
cultural contexts to which architecture can give
form as a physical situation rather than structure.
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Business Park.
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The Business District project was addressed
through a phenomenological perspective; investi-
gating the mutational extensions of the project
not only as a location for business operations but
as an opportunity to leak-in the city’s complex
aggregates into a commonly exclusive
environment, and leak-out the district’s unique
relations, social patterns and creative production
back into the city.
[above] buildings situated out of the district’s
gated zone blur the district’s boundaries into
vigorous zones of interactivity and inclusive
extension of an, otherwise, exclusive environment.
[left] the Hub is a situational building which acts
as a physical catalyst for innovative-incubations.
Designed as an extroverted enevelope, the Hub
consists of modular frames which can be temporar-
ily skinned with glass depending on needed
work-area for technology-related business startups.
[bottom left] dynamic structures were designed to
be easily installed and transitioned on fixed rails
as an instant solution to stimulate social fusion.
Faculty of Architecture
and Design

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2009 Jordan University of Science and Technology
Graduation Project.
Thesis. Conceptual Design. Detailed Design
Individual work.
Second Ranking / J.U.S.T.
Honorary Award / Abdali Innovation Award (National)
Shortlisted / CSBE Student Award for Excellence in Architectural Design (Arab)
Presented at Arab Design-Projects Fair, Jordan. (Arab)
Presented at CSBE Award’s selected-projects exhibition at AUB, Beirut. (Arab)
An exercise such as designing the new campus for
the College of Architecture and Design could’ve
been studied upon an endless number of valid
approaches, but as an architecture student I was
circumscribed by standardization of both
processes and parameters by which architectural
production was bounded.
Therefore, the project suggests to neglect standard
epistemologies and instead deconstruct the college
facilities into spaces evaluated by their phenom-
enological potential to intrigue conscious-engaging
patterns of interaction and production.
The program was then assembled rhythmically in
scenarios that bring together ‘conscious-space’ and
‘perceptive-space’ at various orders, which resulted
in total redefinitions of institutional typology,
studio forms and phenomenal dualities of
introverts/extroverts, inclusivness/exclusivness,
withdrawal/extension - etc.
Design processes deploy forms of mecahnical
productions through all stages of creative forma-
tion of ideas, notions, shapes, buildings, etc in a
way which appears to be a passive monotonous
assemblage of literal forms.
This conception is assisted by standardization of
thought, methodologies and typologies by which
creative production is validated.
While modern tools and CAD technologies can
only assist us in extending design capabilities
beyond conventional margins, the disengagement
of conscience surrenders design as a mere process
of static form making.
Initial design concepts suggested notions of spaces
where phenomenal distinctions between patterns
stimulated by conscious-engaging spaces are
experientially distinguished from those stimulated
by perceptive-spaces. The physical transition
between the two is a ‘process’ of withdrawing into
the personable (the conscious) from the collective
(the perceptive) or the opposite.
Suggesting a radical neglegance of standard
epistemologies necessitates a reinvention of
institutional typology, functional heirarchy, studio
types, spatial qualities and even building material.
This total liberation of standardization intiated
an experimental stage where endless variations of
forms and spaces were examined, discovered and,
to some extent, tested by building small proto-
types or through 3d visualization.
Studio prototypes were examined seperately for
each of the the ecollege’s departments.
A number of scenarios were presented to students
of these departments to test the extents of attempt-
ing to build a dynamic and responsive environ-
ment that speaks to most common requirements
shared by the students. The developed models
were either manifested in experimental form,
spatial organization, materials or skins.
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Futured Ecologies_ Tropical London:
EcoLogic Machines

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2006 Architectural Association School in London.
Tutors: EcoLogic Studio; Claudia Pasquero,
Eduardo Rico, Ivan Valdez and Marco Poletto.
Summerschool: Recipes for a Fast-Forward Future.
Climo_Appliances. eco-Machines.
Research. Experimentation. Design.
Collaborative; team work (4)
AAIS-EES Competition: Shortlisted.
AA’s classic discontent with current situations
progresses itself by the absent, thus more elastic,
forms of the ‘future’. One which AA’s 2006
summerschool arguably questioned whether it is
“destined to fall back on history’s twin fetishes of
the future - an idealized state of perfection or
apocalyptic dystopia - or new forward-looking
visions were still possible.”
Six different units were to investegate extents of
these questions, one of which was Futured-
Ecologies unit led by founding members of
EcoLogic Studio.
The unit’s research and design-led project aimed
to investigate potential architectures for London
within future predicted scenarios of “urban heat
island effect”.
Futured Ecologies course focused on “the explora-
tion of how ecologic considerations can become
a source of creative thinking and innovative
producttion in the fields of urban design and
architecture.” The applications were responses to
Urban Heat Island effects as an environmental
condition through creative investigation.
Daylight Diffracting Device D3
D3 diffracts and concentrates solar rays in order
to capture both their lighting and thermal
potential. The component has been conceived in
order to adapt to different orientations.
Its geometric variation follows a looping progres-
sion that allows for the proliferated structure to
exhibit a gentle and continuous geometry.
On site, it has been engaging with the canal
exploiting its surfaces as a dynamic support and
clustering around main buildings and other
energy consumers.
The resulting effect is perceived as a calm and
elegant performative landscape. Various applica-
tions were suggested such as dynamic facade
cladding, clustered prototypes and urban land-
scape elements along Regents canal.
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Eco-Smart Architecture:
FcXLab.Honda
2006 Jordan University of Science and Technology
Fouth-year project.
Design-led Research. Conceptual Design.
Individual work.
Honda FcX Lab project aims to deploy technologi-
cal solutions through designed form to produce
a sustainable system responding to environmental
challenges in Jordan and takes on the innovative
discourse of Honda as the leading producer of the
first commercial and effective fuel-cell car engines.
The tower is designed as a cluster of units that
are each independant in the production and
recycling of energy, water and air by embedding a
variety of systems such as fuel-cells with extended
circuits, photo-voltaics, green roof extensions and
central solar units.
Interruptions

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2007-2010 Amman, Jordan. (based)
Publication + Experimental Research Platform.
Founder and Editor.
mail.interruptions@gmail.com
interruptions.ning.com
interruptionsblog.wordpress.com
issuu.com/interruptions
vimeo.com/interruptions
Interruptions is a non-profit experimental project
with a rapidly growing network of architects,
designers, artists, students, writers and activists
aiming to break-away from standardization and
extend local creative vibes.
Interruptions has built a critical interruptive body
encouraging creative responses to social and
cultural issues with an operating platform and an
impact reaching in-and-beyond the Levant.
Khaled Sedki

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Interruptions Editions are materialized documenta-

tions of ideas, critique and experimental activity
of Interruptions physical and virtual networks,
partners, collaborators and contributors.
[standardization]
repressive forces found in academic, social and
cultural strata seek to standardize productions to
avoid porgression into a state critical of the status-
quo, and with that rigidify creative potential into
a static form of passive reproduction of what
already is.

[rebelious tendancies]
the interruptive capacity of students as well as
young graduates is evidently discerned at
polarized situations where tranquility triggers
creative tensions that announce dismissal of
institutional systems in favor of innovative
extensions.

[decentralization]
interruptions platform facilities for decentralized
activity as the publications and physical produc-
tion densify creative fragments and remote
contributions into compact reference. The virtual
networks allow for work extensions unbounded
by neither time, geography or necessary funds.
[activsim]
locating itself at contextual coordinates, interrup-
tions operates in proximity to existing conditions
avoiding detachment and randomness as inert
manners. Interruptions pioneered many initiatives
such as Amman Centennial Forum which
engaged the Mayor with over 600 young people
to discuss politics of urban transformation and
organized a number of sessions, talks and lectures.
[experimentation]
design is promoted as a critical mode of research
and production adopting an experimental
approach to tackle total-phenomena through
projects such as Catatonia: a multi-disciplinary
design workshop which constructed an urban
model for ‘cat-citizens’ as a critique of recent
strategies for Amman masterplan.

[extensions]
the pulsating spirit of interruptions allowed to
maximze potentials beyond regional capacity as
the project has been able to attract foriegn
audiences and collaboration by leaking editions
into libraries in art spaces such as Tate Modern,
hosting Pecha Kucha in Amman, receiving
contributions from Europe and the US and most
recently featured at Rum46 art space in Denmark.
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Khaled Sedki
assortment of works 2006-10