ARCHITECTUR PORTFOLIO
AHMED ALI
ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING
Project: Contractor union
Area : 1050 m2
Location: Iraq/Duhok/Mazi bridge
Function: Administration and
entertainment activity building
Cost: 1.5 million $
About the project :
A competition held in 2012 for designing
the Contractor union in duhok and
Architect Ahmed Ali from Arrarat
company win the competition
The Architect’s concept is about
assembling the companies as squares
when united create the flipped triangle
contractor union, the architect tried to
create a glassed walls and shaded it
with lovers to decrease the solar
energy, a gradation in the cubes made it
lighter and easier to be observed, also
the building designed to be as a
monument located on a publick street.
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Structure: Skeleton
Walls: Glass covered by
lovers
The ground floor consist
of: the reception,
sport hall, swimming
pool, cafeteria and a
theater .
The first floor consist of
administration rooms
and a small mosque.
Second floor consist of
administration rooms
and bed rooms for
guests
The third floor consist of a
First Floor Plan
restaurant and an
open setting area
Second Floor Plan
Section A-A
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Ground Floor Plan Third Floor Plan Structure Plan Section B-B Throw entrance
Zozan City residential project:
Location: Duhok/Maseky
Company: chiay ararat co.
Construction years: 2009-2012
Area: 50 Acers
About the project: Architect Ahmed Ali
joined the project in 2011 as a
part time job for two years,
supervised half of the project,
designed many interiors,
landscape design, designed the
service area, and modified many
villas.
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Many international style interiors
has been designed in this
project by architect Ahmed
Ali, the huge open spaces
made the design more
flexible and let the architect
to have more free space to
do his designs, Gypsum
board has been used in the
ceiling for decorations, the
green one for damp proofing.
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Zozan city mosque
Area: 2000 m2
Construction year: N/A
Location: Duhok/Maseky/Zozan city
About the project: Architect Ahmed
designed this mosque depending on
the pure Islamic white cube (KABA)
without any ornaments or arcs that has
been added after the messenger’s
death to Islamic architecture, the
architect split the building from the
dome and lay it on a frame rounding
the building to add more spirituality to
the mosque and make it iconic by this
division, pushing the entrance inside to
have the surrounded welcoming
entrance, and rising a minaret point
simply, also the architect tried to give a
nature depth in the project by adding
a water line extended from the
entrance to encourage the walk way
from the main gate as it exists in taj
mahal, simple vertical rectangular
windows is enough simple to let the
required amount of light enter the
mosque prayer hall, finally the
architect tried to give the (mihrab)
main pray spot a tiny woody Islamic
ornament in a simple brown cube.
A skeleton system with 4 columns was
satisfy to carry the light ceiling
specialty that the dome wasn’t laid on
the ceilings .
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EXTERIOR REST Zozan city extension apartment project DEGLA CITY APPARTMENTS
BUILDING
VILLA 32 GARDEN A proposal made by architect Ahmed Ali to build LOCATION: TECRET- IRAQ
AREA 45 M2 a VIP apartment buildings 180 meter INTERIOR DESIGNS
square duplex, but the project is still under
evaluation in the investing institute of
Duhok city.
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INTERIOR DESIGN OF BIG
CHIEF
Function: RESTURANT AND
CAFÉ
LOCATION : IRAQ-DUHOK-
KRO STREET
About the project: Big chief
Turkish restaurant chain
designed to open a new
branch in Duhok city,
Ahmed Ali designed the
restaurant with Iraqi
domes to give spherical
enclosure environment,
divided the columns to
half meter cubes with
hidden light, using the
light red colour instead of
big chief chain dark red
to be come more bright,
most of the light is
hidden and indirect to
create more comfortable
setting area, an open
kitchen in the back with
small bar made it a
complete café and
restaurant area.
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TAC Bureau
TAC bureau opened by architect
ahmed ali in 2014 and
currently working, TAc refer to
(The Architectural
Collaborative), the bureau
goals is to inhanse the
architectural style in Iraq,
some of the projects have
been constructed and some
are still proposals because
there aren’t the necessary
technology to apply them in
Iraq yet.
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TAC Bureau
Project: Salah Edo house
Location: Duhok/gre basy
Area: 400 m2
About the project: the architect mixed the
international style with the Islamic
arcs to create light horizontal lines
with arcades
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TAC Bureau
Project: Chalang house
Location: Duhok/Zerka
Area: 150 m2
About the project: the main
problem faced the
architect was the
deficency of light
because the site was
directed north and
there is no sun light in
that elevation, so the
architect used covered
courtyard by double
volume hall, open
system plan, three
domes skylight and
pure glass elevation.
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Saber house Working for dunya foam company, Ahmed Ali covered many elevations with
Using oblique columns in the balconies, foam designs and these are two examples of the projects.
triple beams exposed in the exterior
added void spaces to make the
house more sculpturing
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TAC Bureau
Designed many houses in Duhok city and these are some samples
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• HAKAR
APPARTMENT
HOTEL
• LOCATION :DUHOK-
BAZAR
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COLLEGE PROJECTS
Fifth stage/Design project/Police college
in Duhok city
Graduation project
Concept: resumbiling the structure of
military academy in Iraq as four
soldiers called (hadhera)
resembled as a square, each 16
solider called (sriya) so the square
multiplied as following.
Using the military levels as triple lines for
windows.
The student made a complete research
thesis about the project available in
the library of Duhok university
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Collage projects
Fifth stage/urban infill
About the project: Redeveloping a heritage area in
zakho/duhok called Jakchy neighborhood by
opening a vehicle street, removing the
demolished houses in the main street edge
and suggesting a mall and in the river side a
cafeteria.
Concept of the mall: the old houses plan was as a
small boxes deformed grid, so the architect
took this grid and made a straight line grid with
some boxed rise to become shapes and some
staid low to create lobbies and paths.
Left many voids in the mall elevation to connect the
old neighborhood with the river visually.
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Collage projects
Forth stage/Design
project/Train station in
duhok city
Concept: the architect tried to
design the shadow
instead of the building
mass, in the kurdish
born day ceremony
march 3rd the shadow of
the building will create
the outlines of winged
ball statue of asurian
civilization, also using
the zaqurate walls
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Collage projects
Forth stage/second semester/Residential
complex
Project goal: sustainability
About the project: the architect tried to apply
sustainability approach by directing all
buildings to the rose wind, green roofs for
pedestrian to walk in, connecting the
apartment buildings by paths to create
high level communication society, using
the kurdish cloth waste binder like circles
start from the canter to create the
mosque, then spread it on the site to
create the low rise houses and apartment
buildings, the apartment design was taken
from the Kurdish cup ornaments, also
there were detached three store villas on
the top level of the cantor line.
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Collage Projects
Forth stage/landscape
design/second semester
About the project: the site was
on the river ditch of
khabor in zakho city-west
of Duhok, the concept was
taken form Kurdish pine
called (kaj), the student
used the rotations in its flit
and made the plan of the
project, divided the site to
areas for sitting, playing,
viewing and other places
on the river bended with
the project.
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Forth stage/Interior design/first semester/Antique Gallery shop
Forth stage/Architectural theory/Twist tower model
About the project: a half sphere in the Medill of the shop with
Ahmed Ali made the model of twist tower in Spain designed by
low light power when someone come near any antique this
santiago calatrava, the nine cube twisted building, each
antique light in a bubble so he can focus on this anique
cube has 9 degree twisting.
details only then when move another antique will light up
by sincere, even the curves that hold the glass sphere also
have strip of glasses abstracted from camera film recorder
strip. Using the blue, black, white and yellow light only to
create BLACK MOON ANTIQUE GALERY.
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Forth stage/Interior design/kitchen design First stage/Design/first semester
About: the kitchen designed on the siryal school of art like Designing a composition of triangle and square and made it
Salvador Dali paintings, weird fixtures like chairs fall a collage, Ahmed Ali took the hiest mark and get a
down from the ceiling, rainbow sink, moving walls and Hold on his work.
ceiling and some courage colors.
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• Ahmed Ali supervised many student projects in all stages in design and interior
landscape, and urban infill design.
• These are some examples of Ahmed Ali students projects.
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