HADI MADWAR

CV / WORK PORTFOLIO
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Architecture

Produced for graduation project at the

Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio

1 Site axonometry

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Produced for graduation project at the Academy of Architeture in Mendrisio Produced at Herzog & de Meuron

1 Interior rendering of a bathhouse 1 1:100 model photograph

2 Interior rendering looking onto a neighborhood square 2 1:25 facade study

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Büro
288 AP

Auditorium
250 P

Restaurant
120 P

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Pavillion, Schulung Gebäude

Grill im Sommer, täglich

(1) Anlierefung Serv
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(4) Kantine (5) Aussenkantine
(6) Kundenrestaurant 137 m² (TBC) 55 Personen (TBC)
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Kantine Geschäftsleitung gan
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79 m² (TBC) ftsle
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229 m² (TBC)
80 Personen

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Service

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(2) Küche
341 m2 (TBC)

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Angestellte

Getränke

illi on
Pav
Ser
vice Fascia Detail

- Double Lock
- Rake Edge
- Loose Lock
Getränke Lager
- Finished Edge

Bereich Angestellte
Roof Construction

- 16 oz. Roof Panels 15 mm

- Underlayment
- Plywood Substrate 75 mm
- Insulation 125 mm
6 - Air Barrier 140 mm
- Liner Panel
- Structural Purline
Wall Construction

- External Brick Layer 125 mm

- Air Barrier 30 mm
- Insulation 75 mm
- Lintel 165 mm
-Internal Brick Layer 140 mm
- Maplewood window seat

Pavement Construction

- Split brick finish 15 mm

- Finishing Screed 75 mm
- Concrete Slab 165 mm
Bau 4 Bau 5 Bau 6 Bau 7
- Crushed Rock 140 mm
- Compacted Earth

Produced at Herzog and de Meuron Produced at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio

1 1:25 axonometric construction detail, see rendering for reference 4 Landscape analysis 1 1:25 axonometric construction detail, see rendering for reference
2 1:50 wall section, see illustration for reference 5 Gastronomic logistics study 2 1:50 wall section, see illustration for reference
3 Fire escape study 6 Facade and massing study
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Produced for graduation project at the
Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio

1 1:100 illustrated elevation

2 1:100 groundfloor plan
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Tara zips around in her scooter

But Zayn has another idea.
When Zayn goes out for a walk, He spots a wheel that’s just his size.
he sees all kinds of wheels.

Buses roll by with faces looking out the windows

And cars stop at the stoplight.

Produced on commission for a private children’s book

1 Spread 1
2 Soread 2
3 Spread 3
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Produced on commission for Mulder Zonderland GmBH (Zürich, Switzerland)

1 Exterior perspective for a proposed community center in Lörrach, Germany

2 Interior perspective

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54 FOREVER HOMESICK THE WALRUS 55 1
living abroad. I would remind myself
that I’d chosen to leave home and that
having had the opportunity to do so was
a privilege. Whatever I was going through,
CULTURE I should have been able to snap out of it.
The counsellor didn’t necessarily

Forever
agree with me but instead spoke plainly
and simply about how leaving home
was hard. She told me how she’d strug-
gled with homesickness after moving to

Homesick
the US from Europe. She talked about
missing specific foods at certain times
of the year and the anxiety that can be
induced by the simplest of social situa-
tions or daily tasks: What time do I ar-
rive for dinner? What does one bring to
Many of us never stop missing the place we call home a picnic? She told me how meaningful
BY MELISSA GISMONDI it was when, out of the blue, someone
ILLUSTRATIONS BY HADI MADWAR said to her, “You know, I never noticed
this before, but it’s hard work fitting in.”
These words resonated with me,
though it felt ridiculous to admit it. After
all, how hard was it for me — a white
English-speaking Canadian — to fit in to
OU COULD SAY it started that fell somewhere in between. The American society and culture? Although

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with a Venn diagram
and a miniature Zen
garden. The garden
was in the corner of
a counsellor’s office
at the University of California Davis’s
student health centre and had a little
rake you could run through a plot of
sand to ease away your stress. It was
the fall of 2012, and I had recently re-
located from my home, in Oakville, in the
Greater Toronto Area, to Davis, a small
college town outside of Sacramento, for
a graduate program in American history.
In the few months since I’d moved there,
I had spent a lot of time crying and not
much time sleeping. It wasn’t that my
courses were difficult or that I wasn’t
enjoying them. I felt, as I told the coun-
sellor, “trapped.” I wanted to go home,
but with a fellowship and a place in the
school’s PhD program, I knew I had to
stay. Dragging a rake through fake sand
wouldn’t change that.
The counsellor offered me some ref-
erence sheets about stress and anxiety.
One included a Venn diagram that was
meant to encourage me to think about
the things in my life I could control, the
things in my life I couldn’t, and the things
counsellor talked about the importance
of finding a balance and occupying that
middle section where you acknowledge
your agency but accept your lot. When
our allotted time was up, I took the sheets
home, but I didn’t go back.
I would spend five more years in the
US before returning to Canada for a short
stint after graduate school. It was only
a year later, when I moved to Virginia,
that I realized I’d been suffering from
homesickness. This time, my move was
predicated upon a job opportunity that
seemed impossible to refuse. It was
stable, it was salaried, it was a promo-
tion, and it was in an industry I wanted to
work in. Because I had no desire to leave
home again, I told myself the move was
temporary and I hoped the experience, in
the American market no less, would help
me score the ideal job back in Toronto.
I made arrangements to see a counsel-
lor as soon as I arrived in Virginia. I told
her I hadn’t wanted to leave home. She
asked how I would feel about going back,
but I said I’d made a commitment to my-
self to get through the next year; leaving
any earlier would feel like giving up. I’d
gotten used to blaming myself when sad-
ness and loneliness cropped up while
I blended in, the fact of the matter was
that Virginia simply wasn’t home. It
wasn’t just that I missed things I couldn’t
find there, like Kraft peanut butter or
the briskness that settles into the air on
a late-August evening. Really, I missed
what was familiar because it felt safe.
Sitting there, in the counsellor’s sun-
soaked office, I realized just how home-
sick I was and how homesick I’d been in
the past.
Although the experience is, to one
degree or another, universal, home-
sickness is often trivialized as a pre-
dictable emotion for kids at sleepovers
and summer camps. But the increas-
ingly globalized, itinerant world we
live in points to a question about why
that is. Homesickness is arguably more
widespread and acute than ever. We’re
living in an age of unprecedented mo-
bility, when millions leave their homes
every year, some perhaps pursuing re-
lationships or careers, many forced out
by war or natural disasters. At a time
when the very planet we live on is trans-
forming into an unfamiliar place, our
sense of home — and what it means to
miss it — may be challenged at its core.
For all the intimacy we humans have

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Produced on commission Produced on commission

1 Illustration for October/November 2020 issue of “The Walrus” magazine 1 Pattern detail
2 Illustration detail 2 Print test on linen
3 Corporate portrait illustration
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Packaging Design 2 3

Produced at Madovar Packaging

1 Fully recyclable luxury packaging product

2 Die-cut UV metallic print sample
3 Flat UV metallic print tests for cosmetics client
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Produced at Madovar Packaging Produced at Madovar Packaging

1 Custom made illustrated pattern for cosmetics client 1 Patterned luxury packaging for culinary designer
2 Photographic collage pattern 2 Custom made geometric pattern for culinary designer
3 UV-printed photographic collage packaging 3 Patterned luxury packaging for culinary designer
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Thank you for taking the time to view
my work. If you are interested in
contacting me, feel free to send an
email to madwarh@gmail.com

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