Mo Ostin UCLA Basketball Center
The Mo Ostin Basketball Center is a joint basketball facility for the women's and men's teams of University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), both of which are currently in the top five in the nation.
Mo Ostin UCLA Baskketball Center wins the AIA CA design award in 2020
I worked on prototyping of facade and the overall cladding shape of the project building study mock ups. facade studies envolved working with patterns looking at GFRC panel and detailing. Designing of the roof and openings were looking at plaster wall material and ETFE.
GFRC panel assembly and details diagrams and physical model studies:
Cladding model studies
Design:
Kevin Daly Architects
Kevin Daly Architects
Featured Work
KORSI HOUSE
KORSI HOUSE
short term rental project
Korsi House is a design - build general contractor project. I founded Namooni LLC, a design - build general contractor company in 2021. Got involved in a home owner builder project in Sonoma County by acquiring a property and developing landscape and interior design.
These development have been done with the baree minimum budget as this is the first design - build project of namooni LLC.
Landscape development included:
installation of water control landscape piping
Hot tub installation and flagstone flooringrailroad ties retaining wall construction
Hot tub
is located on the west side of the porperty. There is a flagstone pathway that connects hot tub and seating area to the main entrance of the house. Hot tub location is chosen based on feasability of construction, easy access to the house and the forest bathing view in the front side of the hot tub.
The property is used for short term rental in airbnb for 1.5 years and has compensated the construction and mortgage expenses. I am a super host with 4.88 star and 38 reviews.
![]()
The lanscape project included demolition of a hazardous side deck, building retaining walls, installing water control landscape piping installing hot tub and flagstone for the environment of hot tub.
Hot tub is located in the west of property and get access through and flagstone flooring path from the main entrace of the house. I chosed this location based on the simple access and the unique view of forest bathing in front of it.
Design and construction:
Sima Shahverdi
Check out
MARSHA - HYDROPOD - KYTE
The client is looking for a flexible living room that adapts both to everyday use and to hosting gatherings. We propose a retractable, lightweight fiberglass dining table that can be seamlessly tucked into the kitchen counter to free up space in the living area. When entertaining guests, the table can be expanded to provide a full dining setup for serving food.
KYTE
INTERACTIVE BUILDING ELEMENT
"Kyte" is a modular interactive element of the Ping An Asset Insurance Tower. It is empowered by sensory technology and embedded input/output devices to animate around 1000 kinetic panels in response to environmental changes and create delightful experiences for the occupants and passersby. It is a modular surface located at the soffit of the tower.
Kyte was once an imagination that came to life when Architectural design joined forces with the Technology R&D.
Working closely with our R+D team we could bring the building to life by making it responsive to environmental conditions. Using sound, light, and motion, Kyte communicates with pedestrians walking in the public space just beneath the uplifted tower.
Using working prototypes and conceptual animations enabled us to explore the performative design strategies both as a cluster and
as individual modules. we used sensors and actuators to understand and learn the motion of a one unit as well as the cluster.
3D printed joints and gears provided us with more accuracy and a smoother motion.
Scaled test mock ups made by the contractors
Design, detailing and prototyping Team:
Sima Shahverdi
David mallot
David Riedel
Jedidiah Weeks
with AI SpaceFactory