Projects
Collaborations, speculations, and explorations, aiming to design for a better tomorrow.
A constant work in progress.
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Les Eternelles
Material up-cycling technique developed at Vanina, transforming discarded single-use plastic into a new marble-like durable texture.
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One Grain At A Time
Exploring the creation of transient granular landscapes through robotic deposition of sand - in collaboration with Raffi Tchakerian and Sarkis Hajeyan at DIDI.
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Shape Your City
Interactive exhibition presented as part of Dubai Design Week 2021 that invites visitors to take part in the co-creation of the future of Dubai through a web-app and real-time data visualization.
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Beirut Shifting Grounds
A research project presented at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, in the Co-Habitat section at the Arsenal. Led by Sandra Frem and Boulos Douaihy in collaboration with Carla Aramouny, Rana Haddad, Nicolas Fayad and Joanne Hayek.
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Global Refuge
A data visualization of human migration. Depicting the treacherous journey refugees take to find safety. By student Shahzaadee Valli as part of the Digital Makers workshop taught by Joanne Hayek at DIDI.
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Immuno-Responsive City
Computational mapping presented as part of the ‘Beirut Shifting Grounds’ project exhibited at the 17th Venice Biennale of Architecture, ‘Co-habitat’ exhibition. In collaboration with Balsam Madi.
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The Light of Beirut
Capsule collection by Vanina handcrafted with the glass shattered on the 4th of August explosion, paying tribute to the city and its heritage.
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Pulsing Grounds
An attempt to map the processes and acts behind Lebanon’s ongoing revolution, computed based on a compilation of crowd-shared data. Presented as part of the ‘Beirut Shifting Grounds’ project.
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Responsive Skins
Computational design and fabrication seminar taught at DIDI as part of Material (In)formation workshop course.
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Generative Drawings
Exploring the fundamentals of programming through the creation of digital art. Creative coding seminar taught at DIDI as part of the Material (In)formation workshop.
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Astraea
Interactive visualization of women’s achievements and their network of interconnections as appearing on Wikipedia. By students Asma Alsafran and Rutvi Bapat as part of the Digital Makers workshop taught by Joanne Hayek at DIDI.
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Délicatesse
Sustainable evening bags created using non-recyclable food packets through a parametric system of handwoven origami - by Vanina for Net-A-Porter
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Emerge Beirut
Open-source, interactive, user-generated mapping of the emergency response and sustainable development efforts of Beirut and Lebanon.
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New Territories
Architecture Elective taught at AUB exploring parametric approaches to sustainability through applied research in digital design and fabrication
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Still Life
Sustainable jewelry by Vanina in collaboration with Swarovski Elements - proposing a luxurious afterlife to non-biodegradable plastic bags.
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Braiding The Future
A workshop conducted by DIDI in partnership with Maker Faire Rome, ENI, Carlo Ratti Associati and the Italian Pavillion at Expo 2020. Organized by Raffi Tchakerian, co-tutored by Raffi Tchakerian, Mirko Daneluzzo and Joanne Hayek.
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Silence
Architectural installations investigating the soundscape of Beirut and its effect on the well-being of the population - a design studio co-taught at AUB by Rana Haddad and Joanne Hayek.
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Tactile Fields
‘Fylanges’ is a tactile, interactive, and reconfigurable installation serving as urban space for meditation, relaxation and atmospheric therapy - proposed as part of the Fast-Pace Slow-Space Seminar at Columbia University
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Revealing Dalieh
Alternative visions along Beirut’s coast: a proposal for the conservation and future development of Dalieh - by Antoine Atallah and Joanne Hayek.
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Exist. Exit. Act.
Architecture Design studio co-taught by Rana Haddad and Joanne Hayek. Speculative projects exploring the new sense of normalcy in times of local crisis and global pandemic.
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Leaves
Regenerative 3Dprinting - an eco-luxury project by VANINA in collaboration with MCOR Technologies and More Than Printing (MTP)
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Urban Rehab
A speculative urban project questioning the potential of an architecture of healing through the implementation of a rehabilitation hospital - designed by Joanne Hayek and Aisha Alsagger at Columbia University
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Weaving Shores
Coastal extension system aiming to slow river tides in Greenpoint NY - a project by Aisha Alsagger, Benedetta Ma, Joanne Hayek and Anne Wei proposed for the Formwork seminar at GSAPP
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Magnetized Topologies
A speculative design project looking at the latent urban and ecological potential of the New York City harbor with a focus on its most neglected zone, Jamaica Bay - designed by Joanne Hayek at Columbia University
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Conserved
Handcrafting for zero-waste - an eco-luxury project by VANINA in collaboration with ARCENCIEL and SDAID proposing a luxurious afterlife to tincans.
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Waving Traces
Post-disaster urban design and architecture project: a response to the open wounds left by the 3/11 natural disaster in Japan - designed by Joanne Hayek
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Thirsty Architecture
Towards a more permeable Beirut: using water as tool and ingredient for micro-urban investigation and architectural development - Architecture Bachelor Thesis, Joanne Hayek