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• Sustainable Architectural Design.
•  challenges and opportunities in smart city designs.
• evolution of architecture  within specific cultural contexts including aspects of politics, society, religion and climate.
• dynamic interface between man and his environment through its constituent aspects and elements in Architecture.
• principles of architectural design.

I am Rodrigo C. Diaz an Architect with several years of working experience, graduated with Bachelor’s Degree on Architecture on March 20, 1999 and passed my lincensure on February 28, 2002. My specialization is in organic architecture. My previous work experience includes Large-Scale Site Planning On Eco-Tourism Estate Site Development, Commercial and Residential Buildings, Project Implementation and Management. I have mentored architecture students and artists, teaching them basic and advanced 3d digital modeling. I have worked as Architect in a Consultancy firm in Doha, Qatar for two years. 

HIGHLIGHTS OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS

>Experienced in Urban Planning – includes design of road access, drainage system, and landscaping
>Experienced in Eco-tourism planning
>Experienced in architectural designing, detailing, site planning, specification, cost estimates
>Conduct and assisting the project management on construction supervision and accomplishment reports
>Expert in 3D digital modeling for building structure, post production and 3d animation presentation
>Excellent in AutoCAD, 3ds Max, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Adobe Lightroom, Sketch-Up, Lumion3d, MS Word, MS Excel and MS Power Point

Salma Begum is a Bangladeshi Architect. Having been a distinguished student herself throughout her academic career – from being the recipient of Vice Chancellor’s Gold Medal in Bachelor of Architecture to double masters from BUET, Bangladesh and KU Leuven, Belgium with distinction, she is now engaged in nurturing next generation architects in the Department of Architecture at Ahasanullah University as an Assistant Professor. She is also a practicing architect – involved in various notable projects both domestically and internationally. She frequently contributes in international architectural publications benefiting the community. Outside architecture world, she is an avid traveler and a photographer.

She is interested in designing public spaces and places. Her research interest is to see how the use of space changes its scenerio with time and politics. For a city , landscape plays an important role. Therefore, how urbanism and landscape can integrate togather to contribute a city is another topic of interest of hers. She is currently engazed as an indpendent researcher where the research tries to forsee the future of public green space: Envisioning a sustainable urban landscape as incubator of citizenship, social cohesion and alternative urban economics – the Case of Dhaka.

Architect and Urban Designer

For my interest and passion, I am convinced that the appropriate design of each space improves the quality of life of the user. For this reason, I consider each new project as a personal challenge and I always aim for space production of the most high quality thanks to a dynamic architecture. Sociability, creativity, sense of organization and methodical sense are elements that characterize me.