TransparantHammam

Flexible MoldingFilling Books

Blanc Espace

Landscape Machine

FluidKufic Modern

Un-packing

BrickOdyssey

Folding

Paper

PortfolioWaël el Allouche

The Rietveld AcademyDesign-LAB

I am mostly fond of topics that are in the grey-zone between art, design and society. I use every kind of data (digital, analoge) that can add value to the design process. Design through computational and practical means.

A field of interest at this moment is what ‘Big data’ and algorithms can become in the physical world as an object (design) or spatial application (architecture).

Art or design doesn’t save society, but I believe that it can add a

critical tone to the outside world.

Project: heating system Tutor: Joost Conijn

This project was about creating heat with the use of analog (low-tech) and digital (high tech) means. I chose to create a Hammam (bathhouse) that I re-member from my youth in Tunisia.

I asked myself the question:’ can I make a working ‘‘hammam’’? And, what can this hammam be? I wanted especially to look at it as a contemporary community bathhouse and try to reinvent its use in public-space.

I designed it as a transparant and inflat-able hammam which can be executed in different scales.

TransparantHammam

Project: flexible moldTutor: Teyo Remy

I collaborated with Mehdi Vilquin an exchange student from ENSAD. He is also a good friend with whom I shared a lot of interests.

One of our fascinations was the architectural and engineering method of constructing with concrete. With examples like Felix Candela and Heinz Isler.

We tried several kinds of molds where we used textile and elastic fabrics. We ended up with an analog parametric mold where we laid down our pillows filled with concrete, which we eventually put into place on a wooden structure for its further defined shape.

Flexible Molding

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Project: Daily extremeTutor: Jeroen Kramer

The daily extreme was about taking a ritual or object and make it extreme or radical. I chose to research my books and see if I could make a cabinet that would be able to allow radical use. It began with the history of cabinets and the most awkward ways of showing and dividing your books.

I photographed all my books, analysed them and concluded that the so-called filling books were mainly used to fill in the gaps. I wondered if I could make them more functional by giving them more importance. So the ‘filling books’ would create space for your more important ones. It’s also a way to organise and curate what you want to show.

FillingBooks

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Blanc Espace

Project: DIY-week Tutors: Anne Holtrop, 1 minute-founda-tion

During this week we had to think about a undefined space, and what possibly can happen in there. The template for this workshop was making short one minute-movies.

I collaborated with Eva Schalkwijk a student of Immediate space. These videos were moments of doing nothing, as a crucial part in the process of ‘making’. They were also selected and are officially part of the one-minute foundation.

https://vimeo.com/channels/205853/79087668

Landscape Machine

project: Landscape Experience MachineTutors: Melle Smets, Cynthia Hathaway

This research highlighted the landscape as a machine designed and engineered by humans being. Maps imply how we should read and interpret it. Reading a map is a language that has been taught in our education. With this I could create a fantasy landscape that everybody could read, so I used the vocabulary of maps to understand its power and use it to make my own world.

Fluid

Project: Fluid designTutor: Michiel Meurs

The purpose of this assignment was to create a fluid design, I chose an ornament which can be reproduced endlessly and can function as a window façade that influences the incoming light on the fluid object.

Kufic Modern

Project: Ode to a fontTutor: Richard van der laken

Translating a typeface into a 3d object in space using my favorite font, which we had to sculpt into an object in the schools courtyard. I chose a font called Kufic square wich was first used in public space during the cultural golden age of the islamic caliphate (kingdom).

The text I chose for my sculpture was the last verse of the Fatiha: ‘The path of those upon whom you have bestowed Your blessings, those whose (portion) is not wrath, nor of those who have gone astray’.

So the meaning of this verse played also a role in the visualisation and function of the sculptured building. The only contrast in my opinion is its historical context.

Un-packing

Project: Package for yourselfTutor: Richard van der laken

I wanted to unpack myself and do this in a surreal environment, which was the Ito building in the Zuid-as district. This unpacking was done by shaving my hair, a ritual performed during the hadj (pilgrimage). As a metaphor for being reborn.

BrickOdyssey

Project: Brick Tutors: Bart Guldemond &Baukje Tren-ning

This annual brick workshop with the Academy of Architecture I collaborated with Valerio Falconi who is studying to become an architect. The concept was to use a brick as a vehicle for ‘nature’. Allowing moss or plants to grow on the wall. In that way also to know your orientation, so in the north you mostly will have a lot of moss and in the southern part there will be plants growing.

PaperFolding

Project: PaperTutor: Jeroen Wand

The aim of this workshop was to create an object through experimenting within a week. There was one restriction which was the use of only paper. So I laminated A-4 papers and gave it a simple fold, and from this I created a diamond shape which eventually can be given a function as a stool or chair.

Ongoingproject

Name: Waël el Allouche Adress: Dennenrodepad 207Zipcode: 1102 MWCity: AmsterdamTelephone: 0642084655Country: NederlandE-mail: w.elallouche@live.nlBirthplace: Bizerte, TunisiaDate of birth: 27 April 1990

2010-2011 ABKM (Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design) Propedeuse

2012- present Gerrit Rietveld Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten en Vormgeving Bachelor of Design (BDes)

2003-2009 Pleincollege Eckart in Eindhoven VWO, diploma.

Computer skills:Adobe photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator3-d cad programma’s: Rhino, Autocad, Grasshopper, vectorworks

Practical skills:WoodworkMetal, WeldingModel & MaquetteCeramicsMoldmaking

Languages:DutchEnglish Arabic

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