Shab'ab : Memories & Associations as a Design Driver

Ahmed Shabeer Pudukode

AR2031

Architectural creative process fueled by remembering and re-associating with memories through critical analysis, iterative exploration, and reflective understandings. Finding its roots in the understanding of how bodies move and minds experience mass and voids, ideas from the Secret Place were taken forward to the design of My Childhood Home for 4 members, located in Doha, Qatar, which then grew out into a Youth Centre, Shab'ab, a program aimed at bringing about inter-cultural mingling through the youth as a medium, while also providing a platform to the children during their crucial years to take on responsibility, accountability etc, while also empowering them with the freedom of their own space where they could be associated with.

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Exercises based on Remembering, Re-associating and Observing were carried out to instigate and question the way we record memories and experiences, which were then used as a developing tool in the design process.

The Design of My Secret Place, an intervention into a 6m deep pit, with no program but to serve spaces for Solitude, Intimacy and Congregation.

A Critical Analysis of the Villa Mariea by Alvar Aalto, through various filters.

A Graphic Novella of a day in my Childhood Home, represented through tying together of works from earlier exercises.

Proposed Design of My Childhood home located in Doha, Qatar.

Proposed Design of My My Community Centre, Shab'ab : a Youth Centre, which grew out of the Beginnings set by My Childhood Home.