taha al-hiti profile

Projects in Architecture:

Camden town redevelopment:
A multi story/ multi million redevelopment for surface and sub surface construction for London underground limited. Planning drawings under public inquiry/ due to finish in 2012.

SLAM (Single Living Accommodation Modular) (London) (Aukett):
Responsible for running a site with three buildings in Poole/ England. Started from the planning stages. Constructed for the ministry of defense/ UK.

Farringdon Thames link 2000 station (London) (Aukett):
Responsible for the main ticket hall design. Up to planning stages.

Crossrail network (London) (Aukett):
A £20bn crossrail line proposal on 2 phases. Responsible for the feasibility study for a group of station including Woolwich Arsenal. Got the proposal up to planning stages when the whole project was suspended.

IBM Basingstoke (Basingstoke) (Hamilton Associates):
Starting from concept, this building was designed to accommodate for IBM international hot-desking concept. The client (Frogmore) was monitoring the design concept closely from early stages, along with the tenant (IBM). Up to planning.

Sports Administration Building, Loughbourgh University (Hamilton Associates):
A reception area design exercise. Including client presentation, story boards and sub-contractors/ manufacturers interviews.

Fulham Brodway Station (West London) (Hamilton Associates):
A £60m multi-cinema and retail complex on top of Fulham Broadway underground station (700.000sq/ft). Detailing the front façade for tender. Work included design of smoke vents to front façade and co-ordination for stone modules and aluminum panels.
Tender package for front façade was issued in July 2001.

Warwick Gates Business Park (Worwick- England) (Hamilton Asso.)
A425 to Junction 13 & 14 of the M40, 20 hectares (50 Acers) of office building.
Involved in master plan development to suit client/tenant requirement. Design criteria depended on calculations of buildings to car parks and landscape. Details of new layout including new calculations to percentages of the above were submitted to client and discussed to be developed further.
Developers: J.J. Gallagher
Engineers: BWB
Landscapers: Nicholas Pearson Associates
Previous Architects: SGP

Al-Dabbagh E-village (West India Dock/ London) (Gensler & Associates):
A high spec; high security £134m Data center consisting of two main buildings linked together, in addition to the CHP tower (combined heat and power).
Worked on the scheme to create and develop the concept; presented it to the client and issued planning application drawings.
This project came to the practice end of October. The deadline for planning application was set to be the 15th of December 2000. The team worked under extreme pressure to develop the concept and design; and managed to issue all required information to planners on time.
Coordinated all the M & E packages to compromise the services and manipulate the areas to fit our design.

90 High Holborn (The Aurora) (Gensler & Associates):
A £37m development and fit out for a seven-story office building in the city of London. Responsible for coordinating the tender packages, fit out packages and all client and tenant presentation packages. Also supervised and presented the design of the reception (which included a retail area) lobby to the client.
All main packages have been issued for tender; demolition work on site was done end of November and the team is preparing all the packages for construction.

Mid-Summer Place (Central Melton Keynes) (GMW partnership):
A 66,000 square feet retail scheme (£85m).
In charge of the Blockwork package (£5M). Produced all retail/ Debenhams area layouts for the Blockwork/ building regulation and a catalogue for all typical details.
Issued a layout set of drawings for construction, coordinating the
windpost layout (structural engineers), the builders work holes and services ducts through Blockwork (services engineers) and all necessary individual Blockwork details.
Also responsible for coordinating the blockwork setting out with the stone work modules (external) in order to fine tune the stone package information.
As the blockwork package was under construction; I took ownership of the tenant/ shop fitters drawings.

16-17 Old Bailey (London) (GMW partnership):
A 30 million office building in the city of London.
Participated as a member of the production team. Created a network server for the cad production drawings.
Issued three packages for construction:
-The louvers and screens package.
-The external works package.
-The access raised floor package.
As well as participating in issuing the major packages such as the block work, steel work and central cores and services area.

The M25 widening project (Parkman consultancy):
An auto-cad server setup for the production drawings, production of structural details for the retaining walls and sign-gantries and translating site surveying into structural details.

The Saudi embassy in Egypt (MD consultancy):
A member of the design team (competition design) for the Saudi embassy in Egypt. In charge of the main courtyard and the surrounding layout.

Two houses and a small private hospital in Amman (Ali Abdin Consulting Bureau):
A member of a team of four architects, working on various details and design schemes.

A competition for a documentary monument in Baghdad (Dr. S.M. Al-Qaissi Bureau):
A team leader for preparing the conceptual and presentation drawings for a documentary monument in the center of Baghdad (won the first prize).

A competition for a private mosque in Baghdad (Dr. S.M. Al-Qaissi Bureau):
A team member working on CAD to produce computer generated models for the conceptual and presentation drawings for a 50 person private mosque in Baghdad.

Academic Qualifications:
• 1995-1996 Postgraduate Diploma; Architecture, Vienna Technical University, Austria.
• 1989-1994 B.Sc.; Architectural Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Baghdad.

Researches & Studies:
• Study of the Islamic City from an architectural point of View. (Al- Hayat newspaper- London 1997)
• Various papers of architecture in different Arabic newspapers. (London 1997)
• Lecture on the Islamic Architectural Philosophy (Kufa Gallery- London, 1997)
• Research on the Influences of the Arabic Calligraphy on the Islamic Architecture (1996-Austria)
• Research and a Renovation proposal for an old ancient Citadel in Heet (1994-Baghdad)
• A Calligraphy Exhibition (1987, Baghdad).

Professional training and experience:
• july 02 to date fulltime architect at aukett Europe (London office).

• feb. 01 to july 02 fulltime architect at hamilton’s associates (london).

• sep. 00 to feb.01 fulltimme technical coordinator at gelnsler & associates (London office).

• july 98 to sep. 00 full time package manager at GMW partnership (london).

• nov. 97 to july 98 full time CAD manager. parkman (consulting engineers) on the M25 widening project (london).

• mar. 97 to july. 98 part time (weekends) sails team member/ CAD trainer, monde information systems (london).

• mar. 97 to sept. 97 freelance architect, at M.D.C. (london).

• june 95 to Dec. 96 freelance auto-CAD operator in vienna. (various renovation, residential and commercial complexe)

• oct. 94 to feb. 95 full time architect, at ali abdin consulting bureau (amman).

• feb. 94 to sep. 94 full time architectural assistant, and auto-CAD operator,
Dr. S.M. al-qaissi bureau (baghdad).

• june 93 to sep. 93 full-time trainee, (small design problems and site visits), at M. Al-Imam architectural & interior design bureau (baghdad).

• june 92 to Sep. 92 full-time trainee; (drafting, working drawings, presentation), at M. Al-Imam architecture & interior design bureau (baghdad).