Portfolio by Kat Noir

PORTFOLIO

2019

Katarina Ambrosova

Katarína Ambrosová

*1.6.1995, Trenčín, Slovak republic

WORK EXPERIENCE

+420 723 402 693 noirova@gmail.com

English - fluent German - OSD B2 Slovak/Czech - native • AutoCAD Rhinoceros Sketchup ArchiCAD 3DS Max Grasshopper • Photoshop Illustrator InDesign PremierePro

2018

Platforma architekti, Brno, ČR

2017/18

FlyingArchitecture (3D architectural visuals)

2016

Atelier Tsunami, Brno, ČR (architectural office)

2017/18

Kabinet múz, Brno, ČR

EDUCATION 2013 - 2019

Faculty of architecture BUT Brno, ČR

2018

KU Leuven, Sint-Lucas Brussels, BE, Erasmus+

ZS 2015/2016 Universität Stuttgart, D, Erasmus+ 2005 - 2013

Piaristické gymnázium J. Braneckého, Trenčín, SR

2001 - 2005

Kubranská elementary school, Trenčín, ERIN, SR

2016 2012

Österreich Institut Brno, Sprachdiplom B2, ČR EF London, UK

2004 - 2012 2008 - 2012

Artschool K. Pádivého, Trenčín - visual arts, SR music

WORKSHOPS & EXHIBITIONS 2018

PUEFF exhbition & performance @ Kanal Centre Pompidou Brussels Negotiating Ungers, exhibition @ Ungers Archive Cologne DeLight Pavilion, installation @ Prototyp Brno

2017

Svatý hostýn, exhibition

2016

Mood for Wood, Poznan, PL - Workshop & exhibition Santiniho Jazyk, Žďár n. Sázavou, ČR - Workshop & publication

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Soroptimistinternacional Klub Zagreb, Vlaška 2, 10000 Zagreb

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Designstudio SS 2017/18 Tutors: Jonathan Robert Maj KU Leuven Sint-Lucas Brussels

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“Industry has played a notable role in the rise of cities, drawing migrants into urban areas with jobs and boosting the productivity of capital and labor (Michaels, Rauch, and Redding 2012). Urban areas, in turn, have provided a fertile environment for industry to grow, offering economies of scale, sizeable labor pool networks for sharing information, and access to a diverse array of input and service suppliers (Annez and Buckley, 2008).” - The role of industry in green cities, IFIP 2015 At a certain point, I got fascinated by the production process that keeps our economy and society alive, though it´s lately being pushed out of european cities, out of our view to keep the city panoramas “nice and clean”. Erasing it from our visual environment does not mean it loses its importance. Pushing industry to the outskirts, “hiding its ugliness” also certainly in order to supress the pollution and

given site: ex concrete factory in Gent docks

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transportation might yet also be in a way seen as putting a soft satin utopian overlay over the very essentials of an active city. An old industrial harbor site in Gent we were given is undergoing changes due to a new residential masterplan - just as a lot of other postindustrial sites around the Europe at this very moment. Instead of adjusting to this new residential-trend mood, how about to take a look at the evolution of small scale production and how does technology-affected society reflects onto it? Dealing with a topic of a “monument” - in this case an old industrial factory arose a lot of questions about past, presence and future scapes of our cities. What is the difference between being a monument and being monumental? Can an object itself be a monument? Isn´t structure just a reminder of a deeper notion that is actually socially valuable? Is industry monumental?

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Programme: Hackerspace 0x20, Gent STORAGE construction material& tech components boards / plates / components / cables / tools...

LIGHT PRODUCTION lab & electrotech, hardware CNC / lasercut / 3D print / chip engraver / solderer / plotter...

OFFICES private community part administration / residence

DIGITAL PRODUCTION software developement & server & VR CNC / lasercut / 3D print / chip engraver / solderer / plotter...

HEAVIER CRAFT PRODUCTION wood & metal construction CNC / tablesaw / tabledrill / welding / grinder / hand craft tools...

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tabledrill handtools / screwdivers, hammers, measures,paints...

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3D Visuals

Visuals for Flyingarchitecture

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deLight pavilion

Installation, 2018 Collaboration : Karolina BureĹĄovĂĄ

DeLight pavilion was an audiovisual sculpture installation for Prorotyp festival in Brno, Czech republic. In collaboration with lightning and sound technicians we created a full sensual experience, inspired by the topic of desire and human body.

Pre - Thesis WS 2018/19 Tutors: ing.arch. Adela Chroboczkova, doc. ing.arch. Karel Havliš FA BUT

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Trenčín - Podhradie is an urban strategy concept for a problematic non-district in my hometown. My aim was to start a discussion about future use of this post-industrial and military brownfield right next to the city centre. For complicated property relations, the city council holds back from searching solutions for this highly valuable location. A pilot project for an unused textile factory located here - in Podhradie - follows in a form of my diploma thesis.

New fragmentation into city blocks is designed, based on the existing physical building structure, to make the new district reachable and passable. New set of communication infrastructure is proposed - set of boulevards, transit roads and residential lanes interconnect the new blocks with each other and the existing city structure itself. Also, new functions should be inserted in the area, based on a gradient diagrammatic strategy of where are the best conditions for locating the housing, administration, retail and new forms of industry, in order to barrier the residential parts from the heavy load of transit traffic. Mixed-use is counted on.

I developed three visions for Trenčín as a city of the future: the innovative one, touristic-recreational and an experimental one. Combining the qualities of these three possible future scenarios lead to a future strategy concept. Strategy contains points like starting a public-private partnership, creating a clustered traffic corridor for both railway and transit roads, connecting the recreational zones of forestpark and riverbank, adaptive reuse of old industrial and military building, rebuilding infrastructure and implementing new functions.

Finally, a model case-study is proposed, how could possibly a “transverse section” of the area look like, starting with a traffic corridor on the very north, continuiously transforming through light industry, public spaces, retail and civic ammenties towards diverse forms of housing. strategy

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walkable platform above the railway, superstructure

new industry, halls and administration, barrier from the traffic

underground road, park above with additional functions (skatepark etc.)

housing and other forms of collective and temporary dwellings, social apartments, with private gardens and public courtyards, “living in the green”

public courtyard space

private housing units, potentionally garden villas

semi-public space

semi-public space private gardens in semi-public space passability

private gardens

atrium houses and villas

“Model future” case study transverse area section

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city block, mixed functions, habitable courtyard, semipublic

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Conversion

Conversion in Urban Context SS 2017/18 Tutors: Bruno Depré, Dirk Jaspaert, Monika Rychtarikova Collaboration: Ines Raposo, Ikarina Lamonte KULeuven

In ´Conversion in Urban Context´we transformed an old townhouse in Brussels - Schaerbeek to a new cultural centre with two theatre venues, café, artists & office spaces. The final design is presented in 1:15 construction-detailed perspective section.

Library + // BASE

Bachelorthesis SS 2016/17 BUT Brno Tutors: Ing. arch. MArch Jan Kristek, Ph.D. Ing. arch. Jaroslav Sedlรกk, Ph.D.

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LIBRARY In principle, human knowledge can be resolved into two categories. The first one contains skills and abilities, which are gained only through experience, observation and practice. The other one is a learned knowledge, mediated through language, with book as an essential form of historical media record. Nowadays, as the reality has shifted to the virtual space and people are slowly becoming slaves of information and technology, the character of knowledge recording is changing as well. Physical books and documents are replaced by complement of physical and virtual technology - the server. Paradoxically, with virtual data sharing developement, the phenomenon of skill-loss is deeply bound. This proposal explores the symbiosis of both knowledge types, as they are complementary.

A hybrid space is created for existing technological community (BASE48 association, so called “hackerspace” community), which is dedicated to hardware and software developement, together with a techical library, which is a publlic openspace, not forcing visitors to consume. Everything takes place on the same physical and data platform. Architecturally, the spatial solution is based on a double/duplex spiral staircase, which allows the two functions co-exist separately, as well as they can be joined in one in case of public events as workshops, lectures or exhibition openings. A CENTRE OF SHARED KNOWLEDGE is therefore created. The dividing element between the two worlds is a symbolical glass library rack, which at the same time mediates the atmospheres.

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and enables people to have a glimpse in the world of “the others”. It´s always usable from one side only, which creates again two types of surfaces - the informative one, where you can see the book backs - containing information, and the “blind” one, which embodies only a coulise for the new tech-life. You only see the pages edges. From this point of view, the AMBIGUITY, duality of book as an object generates two-faced space. It is a barrier between the two worlds.

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URBAN CONTEXT A public inner courtyard is created as a new form of urban space in a historical location, nowadays dominated by traffic. This couryard is a pedestrian connection between Sladová a Pekařská street in the Old town of Brno. The main motif here is a fruit orchard, which provides privacy for inhabitants of the surrounding residential buildings and also a relaxiation zone for Library visitors. Sloping terrain enables to hide the parking lot partly underground and therefore create anoher green platform on the top. The overall plan contains 3 main objects: complement of the library and Base (hackerspace) as one institution, the Hub with rentable office spots and a Café.

ParadigmWeekly / PÜFF

Collective practice Master elective KUL Brussels 2018 Tutors: Pieterjan Ginckels & Corneel Cannaerts

“Paradigm Weekly focusses on the impact of contemporary visual culture on architectural practice. What is the influence of design media and representation? The studio undertakes a deep experiment with strategies of surrender and subversion, in order to devise alternative modes of practice for architects to exist at the surface that is today’s context. We afford ourselves the flexibility of a persona [Kanye Kabanon], to explicitly provoke and explore, in order to learn.” -PJG ParadigmWeekly functions as a character building site. Through Speedtrip as a research realitycheck method, with Rotterdam´s vapestores as a representative sample of conteemporary layer of culture and architecture to be explored, the Collective starts its series of digital production to answer the instant questions about current state of architectural culture, therefore gets into its looping chapter. To overcome the doomtrap of radical saturation, we get into character, setting up an performance exhibition “Püff Box Open call for Yeezy Home Architects”, reconnecting our work with the posh surface pop culture.

#IDENTITYBUILDING #BRANDING #SPEEDTRIP #VISUALCULTURE #MEDIA #3DMODELLING #LOOP #GRAPHICS #RADICALSATURATION #Q&A #YEEZYHOME #KANYEWEST #KANYEKABANON

3 chapters of collective´s evolution

“Pueff box” exhibition setup

29 Performance photos @ Kanal Centre Pompidou Bxl in collaboration with CIVA BRUSSELS

Rozšířit působnost

Designstudio AT5 WS 2016/17 BUT Brno Tutors: Ing. arch. Jan Mléčka, Ph.D. Collaboration: Táňa Hronovská, Michaela Hudečková

Project concerns a topic of "Sacred places" (here: Svatý Hostýn) in Moravia. Through functional analysis of christianity in the past and nowadays, the designs are pointing out religious objects in the moravian baroque countryside, trying to restitute and rejuvenate the relationship between local inhabitants and their own history, therefore identity. Conceptual work.

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Amplifying the scope. Expanding their field of impact. Hostýn is a legacy from our ancestors and a proof of their deep belief. Their descendants left us another legacy - a web of objects in the countryside, devoted and sacred to Hostýn itself, making the lanscape unique, distinctive and extraordinary. We´re facing a great opportunity to leave behind another layer of heritage, a narrative legacy, by creating new spatial stories about these holy Objects, strenghtening their relationship with mankind, to deepen the feeling of belonging, giving them hope to stay a part of living memory in the near future.

Regeneration of the relationship. Man receives information and perceives the world through senses, given by mother nature. Those are the essence of our physical space comprehension - through what I see, what I hear, what I feel. Every sensation, every input leaves a trace, a subtle internal footprint, which becomes a part of my subconsciousness, therefore a part of my inner self. Isn´t it one of the main reasons for every design?

For the embodiment of our ancestors´ belief, being symbol of hope which undergoes a slow decay as the time passes. Being bleached off our minds, fading out altogether with the whole christian tradition - though through and within it we were born, being our homeland´s identity. With them, unintentionally, decays a part of us as well. What will happen, once the history is sealed; memory, tradition and former values are buried? Won´t we lose the last bit of our collective identity?

HostĂ˝n as a sacred place today

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Map of the countryside objects: SvatĂ˝ HostĂ˝n and its legacy (chapels, statues)

Černotín case study -part - communal statue

Hluzovský potok č.d.28 - bývalý dom staviteľa

In the middle of the village, right against the house no. 28 (in which Josef Sehnal resides nowadays), a votive statue of Holy Mary Svatohostýnskej was built. The donors were Jan & Petronika Kubeš - exinhabitants of the 28th house year 1903. On the frontside, the inscript is engraved: "Zdrávas vítězná ochrano Moravy, zůstaň matkou svému lidu."

Pomník padlým Socha Panny Márie Svatohostýnské

Základná škola Obecný úrad

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A legend is bound to it - about saving lives of people, who were just about to drown down the river Bečva. Mrs. Petronika, being a part of this event, promised to build a Holy Mary statue as a proof of gratitude for saving her life.

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Encounter, halt, a space to abide in

Santiniho jazyk

Workshop grasshopper, 2016 Collaboration: A.Hudec, F.Podzimková, M. Valíček Tutors: Ing.arch. Jiří Vítek, Ing. arch. Jan Pernecký

Transcrip of Santini´s baroque principles into the new architectural form. Through rewriting his floorplans to diagrams, while applying typical baroque spatial methods of multiplication, mirroring and rotation through a simple script, a new design is brought to life.

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International competition 2016 Collaboration: Františka Podzimková

If it has no function, does it make a sense? Every single thing in this world affects its surroundings. Even those we try to create as meaningless indispensably conclude some function from its pure being. Dried-up water well changes the landscape character, , becomes a breeding-ground for the new ecosystem,... FUNCTION IS INEVITABLE, THOUGH MAY BE HIDDEN. Not to see, yet existing. The essence of architecture comes from a shelter as a physical representation of protection, with some added values. It arouses emotions, brings on astonishment and harmony. Who claimed it´s only rhytm, contrast and other compositional principles that represent quality? What it really means for people - those, who we design and build for? What are the essences of human desires? Simplicity might be the key in displaying the eternal values for human kind. And at last, distinctive human longing for privacy, seldom turned into isolation.

Mood for Wood

Workshop Poznan, PL, 2016 Collaboration Tutors: Ing.arch. Nicol Gale, MgA .Ing.arch. Petr Ĺ mĂdek, Ph.D.

Realisation of wooden mobiliar for semi-public space of a local university library in Poznan, Poland. Sponsored by Mood for Wood.

MANIFESTO 2 000 000 books. 114 years of one library. Long history of written word. And yet, have we lived for sure? We´ve got a mission here! Exactly, as you have yours. So why do you ignore our existance? Maybe we all went the wrong path and got lost. We´re not bounded to the shelves! The wisdom of ages cannot be held in the archives. We want out! From the depository, not only to the desks of students. We live here, abandonded, and we know that many of you, citizens, feel the same. The energy can´t be held back anymore, it´s heading to the courtyard. We enjoy the garden as the invisible ones. Every corner creates a hide out from the rush of the streets. The greenery brings all that peace. The poetry of space, which you´ve created for us, is filled with words, so where are you? Each of us belongs to you. Each of us has a story it lives through, we enjoy the tales of others. We need to get out to the real world, the world of three dimensions, the space - because we care about you. We´ve never lost the interest. Open the gates! None of us wants to be buried here! We want to become the readers of the human pages, to be their silent audience, and solace those who suffer. We´ll be here when you read, when you relax and when you play. We´re the forest of thoughts. We represent the other point of view. In return, you shall pay us a visit. you know the way... 37

Mikrokosmos

Designstudio IWE, UNI STUTTGART WS 2015/16 Tutors: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Jocher, Dr.-Ing. Sigrid Loch collaboration: Verna Isomursu

This project was made during student exchange programme Erasmus+. Stuttgart, just as many other overpopulated german cities tries to solve the problematic lack of dwelling capacities. IWE institut at UNI Stuttgart therefore starts the project researching possibilities on so called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mikrowohnungenâ&#x20AC;?, microflats - small dwelling units suitable mostly for students, singles, seniors and small families. For the concept developement, a site in Stuttgart-Botnang was chosen. We created a modular flat-cell system, in which every cell is fitted with a flexible, changeable built-in furniture, adjustable to different needs of its inhabitants in space and time. In the overall concept, the common spaces are being the most important ones. These become the meetpoints, the social knots enabling randomized or planned inhabitant interaction. Facilities are also planned as common - laundry room, drying rom, TV room and so on. Volumetrically, weÂ´re proposing a terrace-style building, where the eastern wing teracces appertain to the bigger flats, primarily for young families. South-oriented glass facade allows light transmission to every dwelling-cell. For natural light regulation, a system of movable rotating wooden lamels is used as a second facade, with a loggia inbetween. The sloped terrain provides a space for large semi-publlic garden.

Heart of Tuřany

“Sensitive.” Such approach should be taken by architects, quoting the local inhabitants, concerning revitalization of Tuřany square, which, unfortunately, lost its representative character a while ago. Instead of a vivid village square, vast parking lots and a few deprived trees within a former park are here to be found. Water stream was buriedunderground, public functions were forced out of the space, swishing trucks are a big contribution to the atmosphere of rush and danger, amplifying the local traffic problem as they´re drifting the shortest way towards Brno city. IDEA Society is always essential. In order to activate the space, it´s necessary to create a functional zone as a destination, with socially

Designstudio AT4 BUT Brno SS 2015/16 Tutors: MgA. Ing .arch. Petr šmídek,Ph.D., Ing.arch. Nicol Gale

useful & interactive content within a safe and comfortable environment. Therefore, new public facilities and pedestrian zones are situated in the square, contradictory to a current situation. . The whole area could be hypothetically divided into 3 clusters: 1. Representative + shopping alley 2. Main public multipurpose square space (stage, marketplace) 3. Relaxation park zone The core of the space is a new public facility building. It is proposed as an extension to the current post building, counting on corner-house renovation (nowadays: bakery), containing mainly the Artschool function and Clubhouse for local communities (senior community, local sport club etc.) A multipurpose hall, small shops and rentable housing/

accomodation units are also a part of the programm. Spaces are designed as flexible as possible, allowing future changes. Among other things, alley and main square paving reconstruction are proposed, with an optional wooden-stage, which would offseason serve as a part of the public furniture, nowadays absenting. Uncovering the water stream is another important part of the project, restoring its historical value and rearranging the banks to become accesible. Another crucial element is a designed “terrain wall”, dividing the park level and a parallell busy driveway in height. As a barrier, helps to restore a safer and more private atmosphere. Paved ramps, footpaths and staircases with seats are connecting these levels.

PEŠIA ZÓNA

TERÉNNE ÚPRAVY

SITUACE M1:500

ATELIÉR: NOVÉ SRDCE TUŘAN PROJEKT: ZLOM AUTOR: KATARÍNA AMBROSOVÁ

VEDOUCÍ PRÁCE Mga. Ing. arch. PETR ŠMÍDEK, Ph. D., Ing. arch. NICOL GALE, Ing. arch. LUBOŠ FRANTIŠÁK, Ph. D. FAKULTA ARCHITEKTURY VUT V BRNĚ

Tokio vertical cemetery

Arch out loud Competition Collab.: Katerina Vlkova

FIRST FLOOR

GROUND FLOOR

UNDERGROUND FLOORS

For the dust you are and in dust you shall return.

For we rose from mother Earth. To kneel before her. To return what weÂ´ve been given. To let the sun shine throughout the darkness and raise all the souls, no matter the religion.

Descend. Hide and seek. Silence is waiting to be discovered, is longing to show you the verity. ItÂ´s a friend, forgot and forsaken throughout the centuries. A resented misfit, whose extraterrestrial virtue was denied, yet essential and helpful for a human lifepath.

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