portfolio ola sobczyk copenhagen 02 2018
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Can’t you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe? Charles Jencks
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Contents projects
IM
IN MEMORIAM : Jewish Remembrance Passage sem 08
VA
Vertical Atrocity. New centre for Warsaw competition
TI
Tesla Industry as solution for post-mining land-use sem 07
EX
Exploratorium. School for young researchers sem 06
HH
Horizontal House. Mechanism of framing sem 04
installations
MLC Modular Light Cloud
buildings
LBDR La Bombita, Dominican Republic 3
IM IN MEMORIAM : Jewish Remembrance Passage individual final project with honorable mention under the supervision of prof. Jan Slyk in my father’s small town of Przedborz, Poland
My final thesis on the Warsaw University of Technology was a personal affair. I chose to illustrate a statement that goes after me since my childhood : small jewish communities from Poland, murdured during Second World War, soon are going to be forgotten. I decided to design a monument that will bring back the memory of those people. The complex is a passage linking one shore : alive (synagogue, museum / gallery, restaurant, mykvah) with second : dead (cementery). Every step has its significance. The synagogue is standing in the place of old, wooden one destroyed by Nazi in 1943. All the facilities refer to fundamental mandatory components in jewish community. Refer as the regular members do not exist anymore on this ground. 4
The Passage : Monument
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it opens to the river and pass through it
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(1) synagogue, (2) mykvah, (3) Jewish cementery 6
connection between two sides
support facilities 7
case study idea Congregation Beth Israel Berkeley, CA family affair application Yehoshua Ellis prof. Jan Slyk individual research and thesis output project design
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The materiality of the passage is the identity of the project. Came from jewish religion, it is a basic motive that initiate the design process. One of the source, Congregation Beth Israel from Berkeley, CA, was my starting point in creation. People from this community wanted to erect their own synagogue based on the plans of the old one standing in Przedborz. Elie Weisel became a mentor for this idea but finally fnancial problems indicated the failure of procedure. Fruitful discussions with local Rabbi from Warsaw, Yehoshua Ellis, along with research based on documents and perception facilitated the design
City of Przedborz
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Pilica river
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1. city center - exit 2. crossing through slope - wandering and finding a good way 3. sacred space - synagogue (on the spot of previous one) with ramp leadind to lower level 4. exit through purification space of mykvah on the border of soil and water 5. jewish cementery - end of the journey - link between past and present
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gallery history of synagogues in Poland
Holocaust memorium
ramp
gallery + physical model Przedborz’s synagogue outside gallery: synagogues nowadays
cloakroom
Plan of the ground floor
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kosher kitchen
patio
synagogue with bimah for women on the first floor
storage
restaurant
mykvah
Spatial layout refers to jewish district in polish cities in the past. Synagogue hidden between the support facilities, is the highest building in the area. In the community, we can also find jeshiva - school, represented by museum / gallery, kosher kitchen with restaurant and mykvah - ritual bath using the natural water from the river. The experiencer enters the complex from the city on the level +1 and takes the ramp down. Bimah for women it is the only space localized on level +1 with access by outside stairs or elevator.
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Gypsum model with cork terrain
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interior of the synagogue with hanging sculpture
pattern on the old, wooden vault
searching for a new pattern
hanging sculpture in the interior
sculpture in Holocaust memorium materials
finishes of local river sand and lime
finishes of local river sand and lime
white marble
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tiles of local limestone
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what is missing in Warsaw ?
100 %
Center
VA Vertical Atrocity. New centre for Warsaw group competition project (with Kuba Andrzejewski and Agnieszka Kolacinska) for Plac Defilad organized by the city of Warsaw City is a spatial organism created for human beings. Its fundamental needs are the result of imperative methods of people’s performance. When the essentials are missing, all the other mechanisms are aggravated. Given circumstances - city of Warsaw - implicate the nature of this design proposal. Vertical Atrocity manifests the need of spatial and social centre in the capital of Poland. A lot of discussion was carried out in this matter but nothing really seems to change. Competition organized by local authorities was a perfect political chance to indicate the problem - not only as a defined design solution but ground for further considarations in bigger scale. Form of the tower points out the amount of basic central components with predictable growth in time. It shows that we cannot resolve this problem with one project design. 14
form
circular form
as point in the scale of city
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Nature of theoretical tower is ambiguous. It provokes opposing reactions but initiate deep understanding of problem. It never ends as development of civilazation and technology continue. It rebuilds itself with every major step for humanity. Structure of functions refers to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and typical spatial and functional layout in polish cities. I was responsible for preparing the diagrams (with Agnieszka Kolacinska), main picture (on this page), working on section (all of us). 16
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self-actualization
esteem
belonginess and love
safety
psychological
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs for modern city
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self-actualization
workshops galleries
esteem
belonginess and love
safety
chapel
forest
sport
market psychological info point
therms
Section
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electrical cars as one of the solution for Forbach
TI Tesla Industry as solution for post-mining land-use two-phased (group / individual) trans-border urban project (with Nina Fruhmann, Ida Hoffmann and Natalia Ciaston) at Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture de Strasbourg under the supervision of Dominik Neidlinger, Caroline Birghoffer and Philip Denkinger on the French / German border next to Saarbrucken.. 20
SAARBRUCKEN
FORBACH
landscape height analysis
SAARBRUCKEN
FORBACH
transportation analysis
border
Projet Transfrontalier - trans-border project - focuses on very valid issue - boundary relationships and dependences in European Union. Urban project runned on French / German territory between small town of Forbach (FR) and city of Saarbrucken (DE). Those two are permeated with differences - scale needs to be highlighted as an example. As a post-mining land, Forbach is suffering from high unemployment, depopulation, infrastructure difficulties (transport, roads, etc.) and pollution. Due to the great degradation of soil, agriculture on a big scale is not possible in this area. Having discovered these unsteady circumstances, our task was to endeavor to connect Forbach with Saarbrucken with reasonable amenities. To support small community in rebuilding after period of big mining industries. 21
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LEISURE
UNIVERSITY
HOUSING
Our group proposal provides indicated area with ‘Friche Tour’ - special bus lines that connect remoted post-mining sites with main station - and as a result - with Saarbrucken. The startegy is to create disciplinary spots around stops on the degradated land. Being aware of scale of the damage, I proposed economic / technological district with electrical, sustainable Tesla factory and scientific backroom. Along with three other districts - multi-housing, university campus and leisure area - development starts.
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Tesla industry - quiet and ecological
densification in phases - centralization
Due to the statistics, Germany, Switzerland and Italy buy the higest amount of Tesla cars in Europe. The location of the project serves well the most demanding markets. With the range of solar panels, factory is supported with renewable source of eneregy and share it with locals. Emergency of this solution is required. On the old, mining, damaged land, we erect a sustainable centre.
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school / work housing
experimental housing made by students
showroom pavillon start-ups
university building roads co-working
tall green low green private garden playground
workshops
bus stop
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te plan
megastructure as an inspiration
megastructure as an inspiration
site plan
site plan
mitochondrion as id
network of neurons as base for functional layout
mitochondrion as idea for shape
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using the differences for modelling the
Exploratorium. School for young researchers
using the differences of levels for modelling the section
individual school project under the supervision of Slawomir Kowal on Stawy Kellera in Warsaw, Poland mitochondrion as idea for shape
network of neurons as base for functional layout
Location of this project enables the design solutions to be structurally incoherent - with the five-meters hill on the north and lake in the middle, the topic of exploratory school awaits non-conventional results. Neurons’ net gives a way for inspiration with system of connections that vary in terms of importance and scale using the differences of levels like functions at school differ between each other. From simple for modelling the section principle, a lot of possibilities was made. Finally, the given proposal intensifies the experience of learning in Exploratorium. 26
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small auditorium backspace
big auditorium
classrooms
internal lake
common space
library
cloa
Plan
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patio
restaurant with jazz club
classrooms
gym
pitch
classrooms
teachers’ room administration towers
akroom
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Parametric layout of the facade provides certain areas with specific amount of light
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HH Horizontal House. Mechanism of framing individual house project under the supervision of Piotr Trebacz in Czersk, Poland
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Corbusier’s framing-the-view idea shaped the principles of modern architecture. Identity of the building is the view. Structure and material are part of the environement and change with it. Materiality is followed by border that fades. Surroundings become main actors. Architecture is just a mechanism of framing.
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please
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https://vimeo.com/113373664
MLC Modular Light Cloud group installation project in Warsaw, Poland organised by Architecture for Society of Knowledge Under guidance of ASK tutors, architects Jacek Markusiewicz and Marcin Strzała, a group of international participants, architecture students, young designers and architects, have taken upon a task of designing and constructing a responsive structure, an “instrument” for a performance by a contemporary dance artist Liwia Bargieł. During the Summer School Workshops, the participants had a chance to learn about current trends in contemporary architecture- parametricism, integration of technical and electronic solutions in architecture design and digital fabrication. 36
Modular Light Cloud is a spatial web encased in a cuboid shape, where parametric definition created in Rhino and Grasshopper is controlling length and position of LED lamps encased in special aluminium profiles and 42 unique nodes fabricated in a 3D printer. The intensity of lighting, its duration etc. is controlled by specially wired microprocessors armed with sound sensors. The installation interacts with its surroundings, listening to the sounds made by its users, becomes an “instrument”. (text from Architecture for Society of Knowledge site)
idea/discussion
from Grasshopper optimization to fabrication
3D printed nodes
choosing the best
electronic systems based on Arduino
sensors to light and sound
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aluminium tubes
we chose the ‘Eaten Edges’ conception
LED stripes
plexi boxes with Arduino systems
3D printed nodes
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Modular Light Cloud became the part of the performance at Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw right after its premiere. The structure needed to be redesign and reconstruct. The new Modular Light Cloud became the part of were the performance at Museum of Modern Artof in the Warsaw right afterwas its premiere. Theofstructure elements created. i was responsible for one group which taking care solder- needed to be redesign and reconstruct. The new elementsing needed be create. I was responsible for one group taking care of soldering new Arduino newtoarduino systems with sensors, plugs andwhich LED was tapes which were all connected in thesystems with sensors, plugs and LED tapes which were all connected in the aluminium tubes. The other groups built the microsystems before our work and the whole structure in the museum. aluminium tubes. The other groups built the microsystems and whole structure in the museum.
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LBDR La Bombita, Dominican Republic group site voluntary project with Arquitectura Sin Fronteras (Madrid) in Azua, Dominican Republic 20 m2 = 2000 $, 6 weeks, 30 volunteers
Project of the new community center was held in La Bombita, the poorest district with vunerable environment in Azua, Republica Dominicana. Sustainable and local materials - bricks made out of the soil, reinforcement designed and bended on site, reinforcement for bricks from bamboo and cladding as the mix of the limestone and river sand. During the whole project, we were actively participating in life of the community - we gave our time to children and adults, playing, teaching English. Discussions with local politicians were carried out to improve conditions. We visited the other ASF projects in Republica Dominicana and Haiti with similar circumstances to our project. 40
10% soil
90% soil
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10% lime
50% river sand
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10% cement
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50% lime
process
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bricks
coco / palm fibre
1st layer of finish
2nd layer of finish
Thank You
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