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ALI GHADDAR

Phone: +961-**-******

Email: adnvoe@r.postjobfree.com

Twitter @Ali_Ghaddar_

EDUCATION

**** – 2020 American University of Beirut (AUB)

Master in Urban Planning and Policy- MUPP

Accomplished core courses in Urban Design

GPA 88.88%

2007 – 2012 Lebanese University, Branch 1- Faculty of Arts and Architecture Master in Architecture (M2)

Date of Graduation: July 2012

2006 – 2007 Al Zaatary Public High School _Sidon

Lebanese Baccalaureate- Life Sciences

RESEARCH

2019 “AUB’s Master Plan:

An opportunity for the University to give back to its neighborhood” Led by: MSFEA (MUPP/MUD) - AUB Neighborhood Initiative- V3 Advisors https://www.aub.edu.lb/Neighborhood

http://u3ventures.com/

2018

Mitigating gentrification through participatory planning and design: Mar Mikhael as a case study

Led by: Yaşar Adnan Adanalı, Center for Spatial Justice, Istanbul https://beyond-istanbul.org/

Marieke Krijnen, https://mariekekrijnen.com/

MSFEA (MUPP/MUD) at AUB

WORK EXPERIENCE

2017 – Present Co-Founder of District D

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/districtdlab/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/districdlab/

November 2020 – Present Researcher at the Beirut Post Blast Recovery Project Beirut Urban Lab (MSFEA-AUB) https://www.beiruturbanlab.com/ October 2019 – Feb 2020 Urban Planner and Project Coordinator Beirut Madinati https://beirutmadinati.com/

- Developed a soft mobility strategy for the neighborhood of Hamra/ Beirut September 2016 – Dec 2018 Graduate Assistant- Department of Architecture and Design MSFEA- American University of Beirut (AUB)

July 2015 – Sept2017 Client Representative and Project Architect HT Contracting- Twin Building- Verdun, Beirut

- Compiled data for architectural plans, specifications, cost estimates

- Prepared permit layouts in accordance with the Lebanese building code All documents, certifications, references are available upon request adnvoe@r.postjobfree.com

- Compared plans and drawings to identify any discrepancies between the old and the as built layouts of the surveyor

- Coordinated with the site surveyor for the completion of as-built documentation

- Monitored and coordinated work with subcontractors and suppliers July 2013 – June 2015 Client Representative and Project Architect Samha Group Lebanon- Beirut Port Free Zone

- Prepared the conceptual design, preliminary design and construction documents for different architectural projects (residential, commercial and industrial) and interior design projects (retail and leisure)

- Prepared shipping documents (invoices and packing lists)

- Designed furniture and display elements and managed the manufacturing process INTERNSHIP

Summer 2010 Danash Contracting and Trading Co. - Sidon

- Reconstruction of Naher al-Bared Residential Campus

- Water Supply, transmission lines and distribution across different Lebanese villages

Summer 2009 Dar al Handasah Nazieh Taleb and Partners – Verdun

- Prepared BOQ (Areas of finishes in relation to the schedule of materials)

- Developed schedules of openings and details (Stairs, basketball court...)

- Modified plans, sections, elevations using AutoCAD

- Prepared the specification document in accordance with the BOQ divisions

- Coordinated with the electro-mechanical and structural departments to ensure all structural and mechanical drawings are in line with the architectural drawings EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

March 2017 OurMENA Hackathon at the American University of Beirut (AUB)- 2017 Presented my project “Tracking the Trash” which aims to manage garbage collection, sorting and benefit from this process in return. Our MENA Hackathon was funded by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Lebanon, hosted by AUB and was in partnership with UNICEF Lebanon - among 8 partners. http://ourmena.com/beirut/index.html 5-10 September 2016 DPU summer Lab series- Beirut: Riverside Ecologies and Contested Waterscapes Shared in a 5 days’ workshop that questioned the influence of natural elements, their immediate surroundings, and their potential use an opportunity for the whole city https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/development/beirut-riverside-ecologies-and- contested-waterscapes

2011 – 2012 Reviving Aabey’s Heritage, 6th Annual Conference– Lebanon Presented my project that aims to regenerate the historic souk of the Aabey’s village. The conference was organized by the municipality of Aabey and sponsored by the Lebanese Ministry of Culture and Ministry of the Displaced 2007 – 2008 International Education Association (iEARN)– Lebanon Participated in the International Education and Resource Network (iEARN). I presented my project “Save Lives through Safe Drives” during the I-earn conference, 7th annual Youth Can Med Conference of 2008 at the American Community School (ACS), with the support of YASA

http://iea.org.lb/

TECHNICAL SKILLS

GIS Beginner

3Dmax (Vray Rendering) Intermediate

AutoCAD (2D- 3D) Intermediate

All documents, certifications, references are available upon request adnvoe@r.postjobfree.com Adobe Photoshop Intermediate

Google sketch-up Intermediate

Microsoft office software: Mainly Word, Excel and PowerPoint Intermediate LANGUAGES

Arabic: Native

English: Fluent

PUBLICATIONS

Thesis Introducing Performance-Based Planning In Context Of Rapid Urban 2020 Transformations, The Case Of Mar Mikhael, Beirut (Lebanon) Co-Advisors (Serge Yazigi, Mona Fawaz), Reader (Ramzi Farhat) Abstract: https://scholarworks.aub.edu.lb/handle/10938/21935 https://twitter.com/Ali_Ghaddar_/status/1274627782128123904?s=20 INTERVIEWS

9102 صوت البحر عاد ليُسمع في أرجاء مدينة بيروت عبر تقنية البث الحي https://www.facebook.com/708050077/videos/10161925847385078/ https://www.aljadeed.tv/arabic/episode/news/news-reports/150520193 أسبوع الصوت - العربي الجديد - العربي الجديد

https://fb.watch/3EKQ0N_F-b/

Sound speaks up in Ain al-Mreisseh- The Daily Star https://www.dailystar.com.lb/Arts-and-Ent/Culture/2019/May-11/482882-sound- speaks-up-in-ain-al-mreisseh.ashx

2018 L’Orient Le Jour: Quand des étudiants de l’AUB implémentent le jeu de l’échelle à Mar Mikhaël- L'Orient-Le Jour

https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1098183/quand-des-etudiants-de-laub- implementent-le-jeu-de-lechelle-a-mar-mikhael.html 2018 Beyond Istanbul: Gentrification Game: Snake & Ladder https://beyond.istanbul/gentrification-game-snake-ladder-de8133c77ac8 PRESENTATIONS- LECTURES

March 2021 Participated in a presentation entitled “Urban Recovery at the Scale of the Neighborhood: The Case of Karantina (Beirut)” for the Urban Design Studio entitled “The Reconstruction and Restoration of Civic Space in the Karantina Neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon”- Department of Urban Studies and Planning

(DUSP) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) led by the instructor Brent D. Ryan

March 2021 Presented my project “Towards a More Resilient Waterfront An Exploration in Open-ended Urbanism” to the students of the Urban Design Studio entitled

“Beirut-in-Flux: Trauma and Urban Form” at the Department of Urban Planning and Policy and Urban Design at American University of Beirut (AUB) with Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Department of Urban Planning and Design at Tsinghua University, co-led by Profs. Robert Saliba and Hana Alamuddin https://twitter.com/Ali_Ghaddar_/status/1374396478299402243?s=20

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