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Computational design, environmental performance & geospatial analytics enthusiast.
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🚀The AI and Data team is #hiring! If you’re a ✨Senior Data Scientist ✨ with a knack for uncovering insights from complex data or a 🛠Staff MLOps…
🚀The AI and Data team is #hiring! If you’re a ✨Senior Data Scientist ✨ with a knack for uncovering insights from complex data or a 🛠Staff MLOps…
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Joined the team recently and I am truly excited to be a part of the project bound to shape the future of Canary Wharf in the 21st century…
Joined the team recently and I am truly excited to be a part of the project bound to shape the future of Canary Wharf in the 21st century…
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It was an absolute pleasure and challenge working on this competition with a great team of designers and thinkers. I look forward to seeing it…
It was an absolute pleasure and challenge working on this competition with a great team of designers and thinkers. I look forward to seeing it…
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Experience
Education
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Core member
Living Building Challenge: London Collaborative
- 3 years 1 month
Environment
The Living Building Challenge is a green building certification program and sustainable design framework that visualizes the ideal for the built environment. It requires actual, rather than anticipated, performance demonstrated over the first year of occupancy. It's organized into seven performance areas called Petals (Site, Water, Energy, Materials, Beauty, Equity and Health & Happiness) and further sub-divided into Imperatives, which address specific issues through detailed…
The Living Building Challenge is a green building certification program and sustainable design framework that visualizes the ideal for the built environment. It requires actual, rather than anticipated, performance demonstrated over the first year of occupancy. It's organized into seven performance areas called Petals (Site, Water, Energy, Materials, Beauty, Equity and Health & Happiness) and further sub-divided into Imperatives, which address specific issues through detailed requirements.
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Active member
Save Beirut Heritage
- 2 years
Civil Rights and Social Action
Save Beirut Heritage is an NGO fighting for the preservation of the architectural heritage of Beirut and beyond.
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Active member
Beirut Colors
- 3 years
Arts and Culture
A new platform that promotes multi-collaborative, creative and artistic interventions around Beirut and rises awareness to the environmental issues the city faces.
Publications
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Refurbishing Cultural Heritage: Environmental Retrofit of the Beiruti Rose House
Architectural Association Publications
The increase in the new urban context undermines the quality of daylight inside the house, especially in the central hall. The structure presents substantial possibilities for art production and artistic encounters. The approach explores the adaptation of the Rose house to the socio-cultural scene of the city by addressing the topic of cultural built heritage and its associated themes: light, time, space and memory.
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Sustainable Refurbishment of Traditional Buildings in Beirut
Architectural Association Publications
Research Paper Term 2 | MArch Sustainable Environmental Design | Architectural Association School of Architecture
Literature review on how to reclaim heritage sandstone buildings in a mild climate and improve the winter performance without impacting the benefits of thermal mass during the summer period.
Courses
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RAPIERE Introductory Course- Lifecycle carbon, energy and cost assessment
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Solemma 'Introduction to Daylight Simulations in DIVA'
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Honors & Awards
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Architectural Association- Bursary Award
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Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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French
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Arabic
Native or bilingual proficiency
More activity by Elias
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Thank you Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) for organizing the event and AECOM for hosting. A great talk on hybrid timber…
Thank you Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) for organizing the event and AECOM for hosting. A great talk on hybrid timber…
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Last week we hosted an insightful panel discussion on the benefits and challenges of using timber in combination with other materials to build tall…
Last week we hosted an insightful panel discussion on the benefits and challenges of using timber in combination with other materials to build tall…
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KPF Environmental Performance Specialists Erin Heidelberger and Honeyksha Waghela shared research on modelling the effect of rising temperatures on…
KPF Environmental Performance Specialists Erin Heidelberger and Honeyksha Waghela shared research on modelling the effect of rising temperatures on…
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With just a week to go, we are gearing up for our next event: "Timber Structures - How Building in Hybrid Can Reach New Heights." There are just a…
With just a week to go, we are gearing up for our next event: "Timber Structures - How Building in Hybrid Can Reach New Heights." There are just a…
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Join KPF’s Darina Zlateva, AIA and Elias Anka in London, where they will be presenting at “Timber Structures – How Building in Hybrid Can Reach New…
Join KPF’s Darina Zlateva, AIA and Elias Anka in London, where they will be presenting at “Timber Structures – How Building in Hybrid Can Reach New…
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Join us for the pinup presentations of the #MaCAD studio at Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, where students explore the use of AI as…
Join us for the pinup presentations of the #MaCAD studio at Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, where students explore the use of AI as…
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Join for an exciting Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) panel discussion on hybrid timber structures.
Join for an exciting Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) panel discussion on hybrid timber structures.
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Very honored to make it to the GreenBiz 30 Under 30 for Sustainability. Thank you to GreenBiz Group and to my HOK mentors, meng gong and Sean Quinn!
Very honored to make it to the GreenBiz 30 Under 30 for Sustainability. Thank you to GreenBiz Group and to my HOK mentors, meng gong and Sean Quinn!
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We are pleased to announce our upcoming event: Timber Structures - How building in hybrid can reach new heights 🏗 The evening will bring together…
We are pleased to announce our upcoming event: Timber Structures - How building in hybrid can reach new heights 🏗 The evening will bring together…
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I recently uploaded the latest 2024 sidewalk widths data to https://sidewalkwidths.nyc! Thanks Kaushik Mohan for processing the data from the NYC…
I recently uploaded the latest 2024 sidewalk widths data to https://sidewalkwidths.nyc! Thanks Kaushik Mohan for processing the data from the NYC…
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Thank you for the thoughtful questions #aiany #AIAfellowship #FAIA
Thank you for the thoughtful questions #aiany #AIAfellowship #FAIA
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Hi all, we recently launched the London Design Technology User Group! In some ways this is an evolution of the hugely successful UK Dynamo User Group…
Hi all, we recently launched the London Design Technology User Group! In some ways this is an evolution of the hugely successful UK Dynamo User Group…
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