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Idrees Rasouli

Design and Urban Innovation


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Practice
Projects
  1. SSE HQ
  2. Tate II
  3. Jebel al-Jais
  4. CCTV HQ
  5. Qatar Library
  6. The C
  7. Rotana
  8. Aspire Zone
  9. Eton Finish Line
  10. Hucknall Links
  11. Inner Harbour
  12. Lusail Marine
  13. River Soar


Research
Projects
  1. GATEway 2030
  2. Child’s Playground
  3. World of Hope
  4. Ford Autonomous
  5. Peace Garden
  6. Celebrating Life
  7. Mangai
  8. Ghost
  9. Seoul Social Software
  10. Tokyo Social Software
  11. Microkinetics
  12. Beyond Grey
  13. Future Mill Road
  14. Digital Preparation
  15. Decolonised Innovation


Start-ups
Ventures/Enterprises
  1. Qaf 1.0
  2. Sealeaf 1.0
  3. Create Cambridge


Teaching
Learning/Activities
  1. Artefacts
  2. Healthy Cities
  3. Future of Work
  4. Urban Interventions
  5. Care & Resilience
  6. Smart Workplace
  7. Design Ethics
  8. Critical Thinking + Doing
  9. Urban Justice
  10. Urban Innovation


Pedagogy
Education/Scholarship
  1. Rethinking Creativity
  2. Repositioning the Art School
  3. Multi-course Structure
  4. Cross-cultural Pedagogy & Practice


Publications
Articles/Reports
  1. Post-Disaster Social Regeneration
  2. Disaster Recovery by Design
  3. Human-Connected Leadership
  4. Decolonised Innovation
  5. Rethinking Urban Partnership
  6. Designing Under Extreme Resource Constraints


Presentations
Talks/Workshops
  1. The Architecture of Money
  2. The Six Realities
  3. Reduced Inequalities
  4. Resilience Through Design
  5. Is the Future Inclusive?
  6. The Thinking City
  7. AI and Creativity
  8. Technology for Social Good
  9. Tradition vs. Innovation
  10. Rethinking Civic Engagement



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Mark

Jebel al-Jais
Resort Planning and Design

 



— Inspiring Escape —

Context & Location.

Geography & Dynamics.


> Once, the idea of the resort was to provide a momentary escape from everyday hardships; an early preview of paradise for temporary consumption. But in the UAE, where the resort has become the ubiquitous condition, everywhere and ever present, it is the resort itself that is beginning to inspire escape. This project aims to create a resort that exploits the true natural conditions of Middle East.


Connecting View Points.
Measuring Conditions.
Capturing Range.

Terrain.
Locations.
Views.

Anchors.
Planning.
Plots.


Development Types.
Development References.
Programme Distribution.

Typologies.
Building Types.
Investment Types.
Access Types.

Resort Programme.

Development Strategy.
Development Types.

Resort Plan.

Wedge.
Outcrop.
Cliff city.

Cliffscraper.
Cantilever.
Dam.


Organisation + [Credits]
OMA/Rem Koolhaas, [OMA]
Role + [Team Size]
Architectural Designer, [6]
Date + [Duration of Involvement]
2007, [3 months]
Client + [Project Location]
UAE Ministry of Tourism, [Ras al-Khaimah, UAE]
Status + [Project Type]
Proposal, [Design Concept & Masterplan]
Brief + [Challenge]
Rethinking the Barren Slopes, [New Resort Typology]


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