CO.D.E. Studio in progress

Work at CO.D.E. Studio started 5 weeks ago with students from the 2nd year. Contrast Designs' partners Mazin Abdulkarim and Kareem Hammouda have guided two separate groups of students to explore 'patterns' and 'material qualities' as design veichles for spatial and organizational characteristics. Below are some images of the students' work after 5 weeks. More details and updated information can be found on the studio's blog here.

CO.D.E. Studio @ AAST

This semester CONTRAST Designs partners, Kareem Hammoda and Mazin Abdulkarim will be running a design studio at the AAST in Cairo under the name CO.D.E Studio. The studio is split internally into two units each exploring a separate field of interest. In Unit A, Abdulkarim will be exploring ‘Patterns’ as a device for spatial and material constructs, and will investigate their potential relevance and application within architecture. The investigation will develop a critical understanding of the potentials of patterns and its associated effects. In Unit B, Hammouda will be exploring the tectonic qualities of materials by studying inherent spatial characteristics and organizational patterns through various manipulative experiments to develop an architectural language reflecting the materials hidden potentials and complex reflexes to alteration.

We will be posting more from the studio's work as it progreses.

Contrast Studio at the AA

During the first 3 weeks of June, Mazin A. Karim was invited to take part of the AA visiting teachers program in London, to lecture about the academic work at the AAST, where he teaches with his partner Kareem Hammouda. The workshop included 10 other participants from Lebanon, US, Canada, Turkey, Greece, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Ecuador.

http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/