Khaled HajBakri

BSc. Architectural Engineering

Port
folio
Architecture + Design
Selected works 2007-2013

Khaled HajBakri
BSc. Architectural Engineering
Khaled.hajbakri@hotmail.com
www.be.net/khaledhb
+971 50 97 44 0 43

Khaled HajBakri 2013. All rights reserved.

Resume

Objective
Next Level Design is my ultimate
concern That means my
commitment to respond
environmental issues targeting LowEmission, Green, Passive, and
Sustainable design solutions at all
platforms; starting from Product
Design, through Interior Design,
Architectural Design, Landscape
Design, Urban Design and ending with
Urban Planning. Speaking
Architecture; I enjoy the theme of
public serving projects where
participants from all levels Planners,
Designers, Engineers and Final Users
contribute their ideas to help society.
Other interesting design topics for me
are Civic and Culture Community
Centers in the cities centers of
habitation.

Skills

Revit, 3DS Max Design, Photoshop,

AutoCAD, ACA, SketchUp, Impression,
HAP, Ecotect, Illustrator, InDesign,
Office, Flash, Acrobat, MentalRay, VRay
R&D, 3D Modeling, Rendering, Post
production, Architecture, Interior
Design, Landscape & Urban Design,
Photography, Abstract Painting,
Sketching, Hand Drawing,

Tongues

English, Arabic, Japanese, German

Khaled.hajbakri@hotmail.com
www.be.net/khaledhb
+971 50 97 44 0 43

Educational Background
2006 2011

Faculty of Architectural Engineering, Aleppo University

Bachelor of Science

2007 2010

Japan Center for Academic Cooperation, Aleppo University

Professional Experience
Apr 2013 Present

Mazaya Consulting Engineers | Sharjah, UAE

Architect

Nov 2011 Mar 2013

Amsar Wood Manufacturing | Jebel Ali, Dubai, U.A.E

Design & Production Manager

Jun Sep 2010

Freelance | 3ds Max Visualization with Mental Ray Rendering | Aleppo, Syria
CGI Trainer

Jan Jun 2010

Al Baha Kitchens & Modern Furniture | Aleppo City, Syria

Interior Designer

Jan 2008 Feb 2010

Environmental & Architectural Studies Consultative Office | Aleppo University, Syria

Intern-Architect

Jun Sep 2009

Saint Simon Ancient church | Aleppo Province, Syria

Intern-Architect

Jun Aug 2009

Shadirwan Center for Architectural Heritage | Aleppo, Syria

Intern Visualizer / Drafter

June 2006 - June 2008

Fidaa' Languages center | Idleb, Syria

Graphic Designer

Honors & Scholarships

2011
2010-2011
2007

Member of the Syrian Architects Association

DAAD Scholarship for two workshops in Germany and Syria schemed of comparison
between the Islamic Arabian and the Western cities
Al Basel Certificate for Academic Excellence

Contents

Abha Folklore Heritage

Village /KSA
Other projects include:

Mixed Use _Hotel + Offices + Mall

/Baghdad, Iraq
Mixed Use _ B+G+M+1 Offices +
Commercial /Sharjah, UAE
Commercial _B+G+2 Hyper Market
/Sharjah, UAE
Commercial _G+2 Shopping Center
/Sharjah, UAE

Healthcare _Day Surgical Center

/Zayed Road, Dubai, UAE

Hospitality _B+G+50 Hotel /Sharjah,

UAE
Hospitality _B+G+13 Hotel /Dubai,
UAE

Interiors _Al-Kawsar Hotel /Al-Basra,

Iraq
Interiors _Private Villa /Dubai
For full projects list please ask for
the projects matrix!

Cultural | Hospitality

Air Force Captain Private

Villa /Dubai, UAE
Residential

Platinum Offices Complex

/Dubai, UAE
Civic | Commercial | Mixed Use

Gold & Diamonds Center

/Sharjah, UAE
Commercial

Coffee Shop Building

/Sharjah, UAE

Faculty of Civil Engineering

/Deir El Zor, Syria

Commercial

Education

Syrian Expatriate Private

Villa /UAE

Ecological Residential
Suburb /Aleppo, Syria

Residential

Residential | Urban Planning

Documentation of Saint
Simon Village /Aleppo, Syria

Expressionism Abstract
/Dubai, UAE

Cultural | World Heritage Site [UNESCO]

Damas Uptown Regeneration

2050 / Damascus, Syria
Civic | Mixed Use | Urban Planning | Landscape

Bandara Revitalization
/Aleppo, Syria
Cultural | World Heritage Site [UNESCO]

Painting

Abha Folklore Heritage Village /KSA

Mixed use | Cultural | Hospitality
Abha region is quite different to most of the KSA in terms of climate and architecture. The region has got a moderate
weather all around the year. Temperatures goes under zero level so often in the cool season with rainfalls and sometimes
snow! Architecture and cultural life is widely altered by the nearby culturally rich area of Yemen featuring a more open still
preserving society. White the project aims to welcome visitors from all KSA area it is exposing and celebrating the local
traditional style in a sensing sustainability that builds on integrating the site into the whole context.

Left: The project main gate

Below: Back Gardens

Showing the dining and

kitchen circular space
open to the inner court
beneath

Air Force Captain Private

Villa /Dubai, UAE
Residential /B+G+! Villa
Dealing with clients with ambitious visions might be
quite a challenge. Designed with eyes on details and
thoughtful play with masses, this residence is aiming to
reflect part of the busy crazy fast ecstatic type of life the
client had. Free lines, open plan, floating shading
elements are all used to deliver the place. A place where
he feels home.

Main faade showing the wide open plan of ground floor at the first sight

The backyard garden with connection to the inner court:

The Balance at the front faade:

Inner court showing the pool and

connection with the residence.

Platinum Offices Complex /Dubai, UAE

Office | Commercial | Mixed Use
With all eye pleasant buildings that happen to take your breath along the Sheikh Zayed Road, A new building would need
either magic or magic to resist and be memorable. Another way to do that is to trick the passers eyes! To create an eye
illusion with an array of glass boxes that is neither equal in size nor in color and that shed such a unique interior light to
the offices upstairs.

Gold & Diamonds Center /Sharjah, UAE

Commercial
In the center of the old city of Sharjah that ages back to the middle twentieth century an opportunity arises to build a new
retail in a vacant plot. Sleek, elegant yet eliminated simple design elements where used to avoid contradiction with
adjacent buildings. Reflecting glass was used as a man cladding material to give a feeling of openness and wideness.

Coffee Shop Building /Sharjah, UAE

Commercial
At a new quarter of Sharjah mostly inhabited by workers and just next to the industrial area
zone lies the site of this project. At the extreme working and weather conditions of these
workers in Sharjah comes the need for a relaxing place. A place that is smart enough to avoid
the direct solar gain and equally important to provide shaded interiors area around the clock.
A mass solar gain analysis was utilized since the early stages of the design process thanks to
BIM along with other software to assure that the building is matching the design criteria.
Eventually, a shaded smoking space was delivered using the same method.

Syrian Expatriate Private Villa /Dubai, UAE

Residential
While letting daylight in is a typical concern in Syrian Architecture, there comes a need
to preserve privacy for all spaces; a thoughtful separation between family space and
guests space. A semiprivate area was introduced providing access to the residence,
to the entertaining basement level, to the backside basketball playground and to the
proposed future intended family expansion.

Documentation of Saint Simeon

Village /Aleppo, Syria
Cultural | World Heritage Site [UNESCO]
A site that is listed in the UNESCO tentative list globally referred
to as one of the Dead Cities in the northern western Syria. The
global awareness of the cultural and archeological importance
of the site has brought many separated trials to documentation.
Yet only lately a governmental interest has led to the full
documentation, and the Consultation Office of Aleppo
University implemented the program.

Damas Uptown Regeneration 2050 /

Damascus, Syria
Civic | Mixed Use | Urban Planning | Landscape [more details online (1) (2)]
Damascus is being ranked among the oldest three cities in the world continuously
inhabited. During thousands of years, tens of civilizations had left their own imprints on
the cityscape. Yet the last 50 years happened to be the worst in the city history leaving
Damascus today a city from the past.
The project aims to reconnect the city with the world of today by targeting the urban
sprawl in the heart of Damascus today with a major regeneration for a grey area with links
to most of the vital areas in the city. Urban design emphasizes the original crossing
planning and with site typography and integrates new much needed residential and
modern civic spaces in the form of complexes initiating small microclimates. The heart of
the projects is an iconic tower morphosis generated from the shape of Jasmine the
damascene famous rose.

BAndara Revitalization /Aleppo, Syria

Cultural | World Heritage Site [UNESCO]
The project aims to develop methods of interventions into the old walled city of Aleppo. Suggestions included the
rehabilitation of some parts and erection or construction of other parts. Materials and construction techniques that
matches the original ones where used to preserve the site. Methodologies where put to let inhabitants and daily visitors
enjoy the site. Touristic paths and information centers where integrated as well.

Faculty of Civil Engineering /Deir El Zor, Syria

Education [more details online]
The project lies in one of the hottest areas in Syria. Passive design techniques where incorporated to eliminate the need
for artificial conditioning and ventilation. Solutions included building the whole project under ground level, Using solar
power, sun screening devices and a semi-open inner courtyard that is utilizing the prevailing winds and water features to
initiate a livable microclimate.

Ecological Residential Suburb /Aleppo, Syria

Residential | Urban Planning
The suburb is part of the expansion of Aleppo city to satisfy the urgent need for affordable housing depending on
prefabricated units to form mini ecological complexes. The solution is utilizing natural plant species that grew in area.

Expressionism
Abstract /Dubai, UAE
Painting
[more details online]
Variations of colors and painting techniques
investigated makes art a tunnel where all our
emotions and thoughts pass through, and
builds our own world on paper as well.
Readers or seers will immediately feel the
weather made, but only expert eyes would get
the message!

.Thank You.
Khaled.HajBakri@hotmail.com