1. INTERNSHIP PRESENTATION
At Annabel Karim Kassar Architects and Interiors
Company type: Architecture and Interior Design
Company Brief:
Established in 1982, Annabel Kassar’s offices in Beirut, London and Dubai are formed by teams of
young, creative architects and designers.
The projects and their realization cover a wide range, including motorway rest areas, shopping
centers, residential buildings, offices and day nurseries, restaurants, private homes as well as
numerous reconversions in France, Lebanon, Switzerland, Morocco.

2. Following are the Projects I covered and their descriptions:
Project name: CAMERA CHIARA
Project Description:
Designed for the Milan expo 2015, Italy. Camera Chiara pavilion is build in the courtyard of State university of
Milan with areas 6.8m x 7.5m and 5.4m in height.
The pavilion is a tribute to the traditional Lebanese and Italian craftsmanship which diffuses movies about their
know how, visuals and a scenery of a living space of a typical Lebanese central hall house. The stepped floor is
covered with green Tripoli cotton mattresses with traditional plaids and splashing wall mounted light fixtures
punctuate the vertical surfaces. This structure has one projector facing a double skinned screen. Each unit is
stepped structure and visitors are invited to interact with them climb, watch movies, sit and rest.
Project visualization- The two telescopic pavilions face each other in the center of Cortile 700

3. Structural study:
Each unit is made of an external lightweight mirror-painted steel structure with burnt dark and rough wooden planks.
They are both reusable and can be reassembled in any location, and, in some cases, can be used as mobile shelter.
The outer skeleton frame comprises of a hollow steel tube of measurements 70 x 40 mm with 3mm thickness. The
substructure is 100mm thick iron I beam load bearing element running across the substructure.
The wooden panels are 40 cm thick and are connected to the wooden panels through a threaded female joint and a
male joint going through the panels connecting to the threaded joint.
Sketch of Joinery Detail
Live joinery and material visualizations

4. Site:
The site location is in the courtyard of State university of Milan called cortile 700
Site view of the Cortie 700
Elevation
Staircase of the university
Site plan

5. CAMERA CHIARA
Assignment methodology: Analyzing and editing AutoCAD DWGs, Model Making and client
meeting.
Assignment Description: I was assigned to create a detailed scaled model of the CAMERA
CHIARA which was to be taken by the architect to Italy for presentation. The drawings were deeply
analyzed, edited, updated and the model created. Following are visualizations of the procedure:
Substructure of the pavilion
Primary structure with joinery details

6. Platform for the pavilion
Project Completed
Duration: 4 Days
Above was packaging designed
and created to fit the model
safely into the packaging for
transportation

7. TRADITIONAL LABANESE DETAILS
Assigned to create the interiors of the Chiara cinema that contain the traditional Lebanese Liwan for the
horizontal wooden panels and the Horseshoe Arcade on the vertical wooden panels for it to be made on vinyl.
The drawings were created on AutoCad and approved.
Mr Rabih (Architectural Design Manager) gave me a learning insight of the traditional Lebanese house planning
from the book “Architecture in Lebanon” by Friedrich Ragette.
The traditional Lebanese floor plan
and the Liwan that is being incorporated
onto the horizontal panels of the pavilion.
The traditional
Lebanese horseshoe
arches incorporated
onto the vertical
panels.Assignment methodology: Study of the book
“Architecture in Lebanon” and AutoCad designing.

8. Project name: AL ZORAH GOLF CLUBHOUSE, Ajman, UAE
Project Description:
Located within the natural preserved environment of native sandy area mangroves, the Golf Community is
made up of residential neighborhoods and an 18-hole golf course, by Nicklaus Design and operated by
Switzerland based Troon Golf, the world’s leading high-end golf development company. The community also
includes a clubhouse with a gourmet restaurant, state of the art gym and pools as well as an internationally
branded wellness center.
Location of the Club House
Al Zorah Golf Landscaping

9. AL ZORAH GOLF CLUBHOUSE
Assignment methodology: Analyzing and editing AutoCAD DWGs, Model Making, client meeting
and client presentations attended.
Assignment Description: I was given the assignment to analyze and design the details of the front
façade of the golf clubhouse and create a scaled model for presentation of the proposed design.
Front façade of the club house
Scaled Model of the Clubhouse

10. Following is the visualization of the model making procedure of the front façade detail (1:25 scale)
Project completed
Duration: 5 days
The front façade details are of standing seams of 8 cm with polished
outlining having variations which recess with the flat sand blasted
stones placed at the base and around the standing seams all continuing
at an angle of 60 degrees over the roof as well as the base of the
façade giving a sense of continuity.

11. 3D visualizations of the Clubhouse: (Analyzed and edited using 3ds Max, AutoCAD 3D and Photoshop Effect)
Visualization samples and detailed information about the standing seam on the façade:
Sample of the standing seam.
Measurement details are as follows:
• 3cm Thickness, 8cm Height and 30cm
Width
• There is a distance of 30cm difference
between each standing seam (having
glossy upper surface strip) and the
sand blasted stone which is laid
horizontally flat at the foot of the
standing seam.

12. Attended the client presentation by Merint on behalf of the French based company ‘Saint Gobain’ (one of
the worlds leading glass manufacturers) proposing for the exterior glass of the golf clubhouse.
From the presentation I acquired the knowledge on how to select a glass for the exterior of a structure
based on many different factors such as:
• Solar heat gain
• Light on solar Gain (LGS)
• Shading Coefficient
• Transmittance ( visible% and total solar energy%)
• Reflectance (visible light-outdoor% , visible light indoor% and total solar energy%)
• U value
• Absorptance (outdoor glass% and indoor glass%)
The selected glass for the Al Zorah Golf clubhouse was a 6 mm cool , SKN 144 double silver coated glass.
Client Presentaion:
Al Zorah Site Visit:
Excavation is initiated at the site as well as the tracks for the carts. Site is located near the long strip of sandy mangroves of Ajman.

13. Office Interiors
Workshop with Models
My desk
By Haroon
6 SEM BAIDInformative books and models
The office atmosphere creates a sense of
professionalism and an aura for learning
and enhancement of skills for the
individuals working together as a team.