Aleksander Nowak +47 45463244 (Norway) +48603063611 (Poland) nowak.aleksander3@gmail.com
2018
station public 10 Train square in Opole urban
3rd Prize (own + team)
design competition
2017
2016
Plan Maria Hilf 07 Urban Mönchengladbach
with urbanization.dk
City Gdansk 11 Young Shipyard Masterplan
1st Prize HLA
Post-war recon06 Aleppo struction strategies
Master Thesis
Art 08 Chart Fair Architecture SkyLense Pavilion
07 Earthhouse Ghana 2015
2014
11
Kopernika public square Competition, Opole, Poland
06
Europan 13 Stavanger & Warsaw Regeneration
03
Liget Budapest, New National Gallery and Ludwig Museum Competition
1st Prize (own+team)
Natural construction community project Spetial Mention
1st prize (Snøhetta)
Psychiatric Hospital 12 New Bispebjerg Competition, Copenhagen (Snøhetta) Monde 12 Le Headquarters, Paris
1st prize (Snøhetta)
2014
visitor center, 10 Lascaux Montignac, France (Snøhetta) zero 09 Ådland energy district, Bergen, Norway (Snøhetta)
08 Guggenheim Helsinki Museum (Snøhetta) old town 05 Tønsberg refurbishment
1st prize, HLA
workshop, Tønsberg, Norway (HLA)
03 Løkkeveien office building,
1st prize, HLA
Stavanger
2013
Com09 Jåttåvågen petition, Master
1st prize, HLA
plan, Stavanger, Norway (HLA),
Ulf 08 Sandnes Stadium
1st prize, HLA
Room 04 Project & Coworking
winning proposal for a city social project financing,
Space Kolektyw 1a in PoznanSus01 Cambodian tainable Housing Competition, Building Trust International, shortlisted,
shortlisted
SOFTWARE
WORK EXPERIENCE
Rhino Grasshopper Adobe Archicad Revit qGIS & ArchGIS Autocad 3dsMax Vray Sketchup Rendering for VR
08 2014-07.2015 1-year internship www.snohetta.com
08 -11.2013 & 03-06.2014 Internship www.henninglarsen.com
08 -11.2011 & 03-04.2012 Insomia Architects Intenrship
www.insomia.com.pl
Visualising complex data: Copenhagen municipality
EDUCATION
2015-06.2017 08 Urbanism and Societal Change Master Programme Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen Deane Alan Simson & Charles Bessard
www.kadk.dk
2010-02.2014 10 University of Arts in Poznan, Architecture and Urban Planning, Bachelor Degree, Engineer in Architecture
www.uap.edu.pl
LANGUAGES
English German Polish Norwegian - basic Danish - basic
200 year strategy for Copenhagen flooding - floodplain +4 2150 / Urbanism and Societal Change
Le Monde HQ - Competition - Snøhetta
Post-war reconstruction strategies for Aleppo.
2011
Protests, civil uprising, and defection Initial armed insurgency 2012
Ceasefire attempt (April–May 2012)
Rubble recycling as a tool of urban and societal revival. Multiscalar dialogic approach.
Renewed fighting ( June–October 2012) Rebel offensives (November 2012 – April 2013
The project is a multiscalar set of interweaving strategies on Aleppo’s reconstruction, where debris of war and its recycling deals as a tool for societal and urban revival rough analysis of the islamic historical spatial conditions, recent cultural changes, urban policies and current politico-economical environment around Syrian post-war reconstruction, the project aims to recognize key challenges of the future process. It puts its focus on past, present and potential future of most heavily damaged informal settlements. The research aims to consider the nature of societal change, which Syria had undergone in the decades preceding the Syrian Civil War and its potential impact on the future of Aleppo’s informal neighbourhood units formation. These units are beeing recognized here as basic sociospatial mechanisms of reconstruction and future participation in governance of the country or, in times of disruption, its potential resilience. The design aims to challenge past examples of post-war reconstruction processes and current
means of development in con ict-torn and emerging countries. The analysis of both spontaneous aggregation processes, thanks to which the historical core of Aleppo emerged and prevailing policy approaches towards informal settlements in Syria, and globally, gives a possibility of contextualizing ideas of building on and learning from the past. What is more, the project by looking at cities which had undergone post-war reconstructions aims to provide comparable cases, examples of hope and vision to the Aleppese community. Ultimately, the complexity has a chance to evolve into a proactive, more wholistic and dynamic rather than prescriptive strategy for reconstructing the city, the society and its communities. The project aims to be a basis for further research and dialog with scholars and practitioners.
Escalation
2013) Government offensives (April–June 2013) Continued fighting ( July–October 2013) Government
offensives
(October–December
2013) Fighting between ISIS and other rebel groups 2014
( Jan–March 2014) Government offensives and Presidential election (March–June 2014) ISIL offensives and U.S. airstrikes ( June 2014 – January 2015) The Southern Front (October 2014 – February
2015
2015) Northern Al-Nusra Front and Islamist takeover (October 2014 – March 2015) Army of Conquest advances in Idlib (April President Al-Assad in Moscow for Talks with Russia’s Putin on Sria reconstruction and SEZ
2016
Russian intervention and government offensive
SDF advances and Turkish military intervention 2017
22.12.2016 Syrian Army announces the capture of Eastern Aleppo and the complete withdrawal of rebels and civilians.The Red Cross confirms that the evacuation of all civilians and rebels was complete. 07.01.2017 The Syrian cabinet adopts a package of measures to restore the northern city of Aleppo. 12.01.2017 A video released on Wednesday shows tractors and forklifts in the Saif al-Dawla district clearing the streets of sandbags and rubble.
Aleppo with its rich, long history, level of resilience to wars and multicultural in uences is a perfect evidence of how urban structure represents a physical, three-dimensional projection of human beliefs tand socio-political conditions. The city is often referred to as one of the oldest cities in the world, which continuously inhabited, has been always a site of urban transformation and renewal. Historical development of the city shows how societal, political and recent climatic changes, evolve together and in uence the urban form; lead to its expansion but also destruction.
Public Square - Poland - 3rd Prize
Dubai Expo - for Henning Larsen
:) de a yi tm no Kimmel Quarter - Competition together with HLA
Student Center - HLA
Some office building in Stavanger - HLA
Viborg School - Denmark - HLA
Faroe Islands Church - HLA
Faroe Islands Church - HLA
Dubai Eye - Snøhetta
My first more or less nice visual
anish ghettos. The project aims to tackle socio-spatial phenomenas in vulnerable neighbourhoods in Denmark, bringing as an example Vollsmose in Odense. Danish vulnerable neighbourhoods got a lot of attention and funds since government released the first ‘Ghetto List’ in 2010. The areas are generally those with high levels of unemployment, high numbers of immigrants with a non-Western background, and citizens with a low level of education. How can we adress and discuss potential set of spatial interventions restructuring and rehabilitating the stigmatized areas?
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The multiscalar projects aims to refurbish existing housing stock bringing additional common, third spaces for the inhabitants. Transition from vast open areas and hyper-privitized isolated units is beeing created through provision of semi-private and semi public space for common dining, sharing of knowledge and urban gardening. Second proposal adresses potential new expansion of the area providing this time new horizontal experimental urban fabric. Academic Project, KADK Copenhagen Team: Zi-Jin Wang, Aleksander Nowak 2016
bove the horizon. Socially responsible behaviour is dependent on repetitive individual and collective exposure to our cultural evolution. Many museums today seem to see their visitors as the largest threat to their own collections and exhibitions. This attitude leaves museums “passive” in their performative role as cutting-edge institutions and in their relationship to the public at large.
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To enable the New Hungarian National Gallery and the Ludwig Museum to have the desired active role; interacting and communicating with their audience, our project is based on the following principles: The wish to unify two museums in one building while maintaining a strong individual identity for each. We are situating both institutions under a singular public roof that is always accessible. Thus the roof becomes an inherent part of the City Park as does its` elevated continuation offering great views over the whole of Budapest. Architecturally, we strive to create a museum building that offers exciting, modern and contemporary spaces that enable an art experience confidently suited to
the display of art from varying epochs and styles. We aim to create an inspirational environment for education and museum learning, where the thoughts and philosophical mindsets fundamental to any form of art creation and understanding are at the centre point. The centre point of the building symbolises the meeting point of two art institutions, the meeting of light and earth at the horizon simultaneously resolving practicalities of daylighting and embodying gravity at the meeting of the Ludwig Museum and the New National Gallery. In the heart of the building we envision a large open public space that serves both institutions. Here the visitors, local and from afar, young and old, are invited to start their journey of exploring art, in the Ludwig Museum and New National Gallery. The juxtaposition of the two institutions beneath a common fabric creates a space where tensions serve to inspire – a metaphysical reaction field between collections, and beyond the individual mind. Winning Proposal Team: Snøhetta 2015 Concept development, visualisation
økkeveien 99 Lighthouse. he flexible proposal consists of 10630 up to 20000m2 of office and commercial space.The form of the new building was designed in a way to respect and celebrate the historical building on the site.. We did achieve a high flexibility in terms of use of the units, together with unifying the new and the old. High emphasis on sustainability issues was a priority. Double glazed facade with automatic curtains was planned to achieve the highest daylight control. The facade, the shape and interior natural raw materials are in a strong relation to the context of the site. The designed architectural object and the space around it are meant to attract people and constitute a landmark in the city landscape.
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Winning Proposal Team: Henning Larsen 2015 Concept development, visualisation, facade design, modelling
Other early works. University of Arts, Poznan Column, installation art, Law Faculty Building, Poznan 2012 Acts, coal, large format Experiments, Sweeping the floor, coal, large format Prortraits, acrylic on canvas
DRAWINGS & PAINTINGS UNIVERSITY & OWN
Aleksander Nowak +45 5024 0449 +48 603063611 nowak.aleksander3@gmail.com contact@dinnergroup.dk Thank you!