Architectural Portfolio

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Selected Works 2013-2020

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SKILLS

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Rhino modeling Vray Lumion SketchUp

advanced very good advanced very good

Revit AutoCAD

very good advanced

Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign Adobe Illustator

very good advanced good

Grasshopper Processing Maya 3dsmax animation

very good beginner good good

2018-2020

University for the Creative Arts (UCA) Canterbury, UK Part II March ARB/RIBA Honors and Activities: - graduated with Distinction -AJ student 2020 nominee -RIBA Silver Medal nominee

2013-2016

Architectural Institute in Prague Prague, CR Bachelor of Architecture, Bc Honors and Activities:

LANGUAGES AND HONORS

- merit-based Scholarship

AJ Student Prize 2020 nominee Engish Czech Russian

C1 B1 mother tongue INTERESTS

Coding (design coding | virtual reality coding) CGI and Film making Graphic design Travel and History

REFERENCES Sean Clifton Director Jesico+Whiles (Prague) Sean.Clifton@jesticowhiles.com Gabor Stark Senior Lecturer // M.Arch (ARB/RIBA Part 2) Convener gstark@uca.ac.uk

ACTIVITIES since 2015 till present

Design Disco, Non-profit organization Educational organisation (designdisco.org) Curriculum Designer - Organised and lead architecture and design workshops for International, Czech high school, and CAS (creativity, activity and survice) program students.

- Workshops’ structure modelled off Project Link from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

WORK EXPERIENCE - ARCHITECTURE 2016-2018

Jestico+Whiles, Prague, CR

COMPETITIONS

Sept 2019

Architecture Assistant

- Worked in teams and individually on architecture and interior design projects, predominantly hotel and resort sector projects as well as on design of residential, educational and retail buildings. Role included proposing design options, including the design that was submitted as the final design; -Helping to deliver projects across all RIBA work stages across multiple continents;

Future Spaces Foundations Make Architects competition Finalist - “Performance Team”

Sept 2019

Future Spaces Foundations Qualifying competition in UCA “The Gift Team”

-Participated in meetings with clients; - 3D modeling in Rhino and SketchUp; - Prepared visualizations including VR visualisations for the hotel project; - Prepared design presentations; - Was part of the competition team; - Site supervision alongside with the Project Manager.

WORK EXPERIENCE - OTHER June 2019

June-August 2019

EcoProject Ltd, Stavropol, Russia

Freelance Interior Designer, Stavropol, Russia

Engineering company specializing in sustainable design

Interior Architecture Designer (applied for private work for the summer 2019 between 4th and 5th years of my studies)

- Designed new brand identity and the web-site for the company.

- Worked on the design on the apartment for private client in Stavropol, Russia.

- Supervised the construction work on the site.

June-August 2014

EcoProject Ltd, Stavropol, Russia Engineer Assistant - 3 month practice - I was responsible for preparing final design packages for the Ministry of Environment Resources.

Academic Projects - Unive

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01 UNOAR: Organ Transplant Clinic in Beirut, Lebanon Thesis 01/02, UCA

AJ Student Prize 2020 nominee The project was developed within SYN City, a research and design studio on the Master of Architecture programme at UCA Canterbury School of Architecture. Entitled ‘Type, Time & Territory’, the studio agenda focused on the tower typology - the skyscraper, high-rise, tall urban building - as a contested territory of urban and architectural production.

The studio explored vertical building types in terms of their symbolic, programmatic and tectonic attributes and design opportunities.

My project presents a rigorous design speculation about the possibilities of activating existing, but currently unoccupied high-rise buildings.

Based on a forensic mapping of failed towers around the world, and the socioeconomic contexts and political events that lead to their respective economic and functional collapse, the project invents the fictional agency UNOAR - The United Nations Organisation for Architectural Resources - as a conceptual device to catalyse the use of existing investment ruins and abandoned structures. Situated within the wider sustainability and retrofit discourse, the thesis presents a critical investigation into the typological, technical and programmatic aspects of sustainable skyscraper design and culminates in the proposed conversion of the iconic Burj Al Murr tower in Beirut into an organ transplant clinic.

Link to the animation: https://youtu.be/6tmDzSZIBCg

Failed Towers

Research in adandoned towers and tower competitions Abandoned Towers: the Crisis affects many buildings around the world. To create a very clear and high quality research this thesis will be focused on Tower Typology: the skyscrapers, highrise, tower block, and other tall urban buildings.

The thesis research is focused on exploration of the vertical buildings in an after crisis situation, in terms of their symbolic, aesthetic, political, programmatic, structural and tectonic attributes.

30 floors

Steglitzer Kreisel

Yekaterinburg TV Tower

115m

220m

157m 84m

101m

25 floors

25 floors

34 floors

Ryongyong Hotel 330m 105 floors

30 floors

1987

37 floors

Burj Al Murr

1980

38 floors

123m

Tower NOT

1980

45 floors

110m

Pecs Magashac

1975

1920

1904

25 floors

145m

Carlton Hotel

1975

29 floors

162m

Abraham Linkoln Towers

1974

17 floors

25 floors

88m

Book Tower

1972

111m

Plaza Tower

1969

83 m

160m

Insignia Tower

1962

111m

1930

Sterick Building

1929

One Times Shukhov TV Buffalo Central Square Station Tower

New Programme

Failed Construction

1972

Company Crisis

1968

Economic Crisis

Tower Competition: the research is consists not just of the towers which were built and failed but also of the speculative and unbuild/unrealized projects.

This was done in order to support the overal research and find out about other crisises which affect the architecture.

1990

1990

22 floors

Torre David

185m

190m

49 floors

45 floors

Grand Hyatt Duta 111m 29 floors

Fontainebleau Resort 224m 63 floors

2007

89m

Sathorn Unique

1994

Zenit Business Center

Unique Emptiness

Unique Emptiness

1996

Site Catastrophe

Meier, Eisenman, Gwathmey/Siegel, & Holl, (Unbuilt), 2002

United Architects, (Unbuilt), 2002

SOM and SANAA, (Unbuilt), 2002

Foreign Offfice, Zaha Hadid, Nox, (Unbuilt), 2002

UNOAR

United Nations Organization of Architectural Resources

UNOAR is conceived as a nomadic learning institution and internationally operating task-force. In tandem with existing UN agencies and programmes, UNOAR aims to unlock the potentials of failed high-rise developments by symbiotically combining the intrinsic material and spatial resources of vacant buildings with existing local needs and demands.

Legend: Head Quaters location and main offices Sub offices

Mission of the organization: The United Nations Organization of Architecture Resources will: -coordinate systems that track economical, political, ecological situations in the countries and the whole world;

Detroit

Buffalo

Memphis

-collect and store all information about architectural resources: square meters, materials, history of the buildings;

Las Vegas

New York

New Orleans

Mexico City

Caracas

-found cooperations with the local citizens; -strive to provide a sustainable design and quality solution for all the structures; -lead the adaptation and whole construction of the buildings;

Rio de Janeiro

1975

1975

1974

1972

1972

1969

1968

1962

1930

1929

1920

UNOAR is a unique learning framework that sits within an existing group of UN organizations.

UNOAR departs its connection from the traditional UN building by establishing Nomadic Headquarters.

Instead of constructing a new building that acts as a symbolic function for its identity, it will set up within an existing UN structure and construct laboratories throughout existing failed towers. To reinvest in its core mission statement, laboratories are never static and will continue to move across to new sites after firm timeframes/programmes have elapsed.

1904

-create a world class laboratory which will research in new methods of adapting the structures.

UN Headquaters New York

UNESCO Headquaters Paris

Moscow

Yekaterinburg

Berlin Krakow Budapesht

Pyongyang

ICAO Headquaters Montreal

Beirut

Bankok Kuala-Lumpur

UN Human Rights Headquaters Geneva Johanesburg

2007

1996

1994

1990

1990

1987

1980

1980

UNEP Headquaters Nairobi

Burj Al Murr Tower | Beirut

History of the urban changes in Beirut and site analysis

The Site Beirut city center 1:10000

Park

New port

New financial district

Lebanon has a very rich history. This country has been ander many rules since 5000 BC and as a Mediterranean country has experienced one of the most serious and destructive civil wars in the region. Hence, it is very logical that all aspects of life be affected. Such a situation in the country creates a ground for many crisises, which interests and gives me an oportunity to introduce UNOAR. Concrete Jungles New Developments- Solidere Historical Centre

Minet Al Hoson Bus stop

Ain Al Mraiseh Bus stop

Place de l’Etoile

Breakwater

Kantari Bus stop Burj Al Murr Tower

Tansportation - Buses (Beirut doen’t have metro, but it is well serviced by its network of slow, crowded but good-value buses and minibuses)

Beirut History

The Tower Solidere Empire 1995+ Solidere s.a.l. is a Lebanese joint-stock company in charge of planning and redeveloping Beirut Central District following the conclusion, in 1990, of the devastating Lebanese Civil War.

The fabric intervention was installed on the facade during the reconstruction of the surrounding buildings. The intervention provides a shading system for the spaces inside and adds a much more joyful look to the tower with sucha heavy history.

Burj Al Murr 1964-1975 Construction of the Burj Al Murr (unfinished).

Civil War 1975-1990 Civil War

The French Mandate Capital 1920-1943 French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon was a League of Nations mandate founded after the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire concerning Syria and Lebanon. The mandate system was supposed to differ from colonialism, with the governing country acting as a trustee until the inhabitants would be able to stand on their own.

Ottoman Empire 1516-1920 The Ottoman sultan, Salim I (1516–20), invaded Syria and Lebanon in 1516. Salim I, moved by the eloquence of the Lebanese ruler Amir Fakhr ad Din I (1516– 44), decided to grant the Lebanese amirs a semiautonomous status.

Roman Empire 64 BD-395 AD The Phoenicia under Roman rule relates to the Roman control of Syro-Phoenician city states (in the area of modern Lebanon), that lasted from 64 BC to the Muslim conquests of the 7th century.

The construction of the Burj Al Murr started in 1970 and stopped in 1975, coinciding with the start of the Lebanese Civil War. Due to the building’s height and location, it was quickly occupied by an armed militia and used as a tactical location during battles in Beirut. While some of those hotels and towers have been refurbished after the war, others have remained in dormancy as bold reminders of the anguish of war. Burj Al Murr is one of these building wich stand anoccupied till now.

Tower Programme Lebanon health sector research

One of the biggest crises in Lebanon is in the health sector. Accordingly, the war became a reference point in the diversion of many aspects of the health system. The proliferation of the private sector during the war years at the expense of the wounded public sector is still dragging in consequences till now.

Lebanon: Hospital Crisis Endangering Health Government Ahould Make Payments November 12, 2019

To help Healthcare system in Lebanon the new client should be involved. The client who is conected with healthcare, bring new specialists and budget. One of such clients is World Health Organization (sister organization of UNOAR).

New WHO organization will move into Al Murr Tower with the help of UNOAR: January 29, 2020

United nations Organzation of Architecture Resouces moves to Beirut, Labanon in order to renovate a tower for the new WHO Institution.

WHO

UNOAR

The logos of World Health Organization and United Nations Organization of Architecture Resources.

(Beirut) – Lebanon’s medical practitioners and public officials are warning that hospitals may soon not be able to provide patients with life-saving surgery and urgent medical care because of a financial crisis, Human Rights Watch said today.

The crisis stems from the government’s failure to reimburse private and public hospitals, including funds owed by the National Social Security Fund and military health funds, making it difficult to pay staff and purchase medical supplies. In addition, a dollar shortage has restricted the import of vital goods and led banks to curtail credit lines.

“The Lebanese government’s failure to pay its bills to medical facilities seriously endangers the health of the population,” said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “While politicians horsetrade over a new cabinet, the government is not responding to the desperate economic situation in the country and the clock is ticking on the ability of many doctors and hospitals to treat patients.”

Sleiman Haroun, the head of the Syndicate of Private Hospitals, told Human Rights Watch that the Finance Ministry has not paid private hospitals an estimated US$1.3 billion in dues since 2011, compromising their ability to buy vital medicines and medical supplies and to pay staff salaries. The ministry disbursed most of the funds owed up until 2017, Haroun said, but private hospitals received only half of what was owed them in 2018 and not a single payment in 2019.

Private hospitals account for 82 percent of Lebanon’s healthcare capacity.

Public hospitals also have not been receiving payments from the government.

Officials at the Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut and the Hermel Public Hospital in the Bekaa Valley told Human Rights Watch that the government has not made any payments in 2019.

WHO is highly interested in organ farming research. Currently organs can’t be reproduced, however the production of the organoids is very high. This means that organ manufacturing is not in the far future.

UNOAR will suggest to establish a new Organ Cultivation Institution in Beirut in Burj Al Murr Tower. The condition will be to provide Beirut with the new Clinic.

Total Number of the Hospitals bed-short stay

Healthcare Professional per 10,000 Population

Public Hospital beds

Nurses 1,746 (13.9%) 34,0

Private Hospital beds Physicians 32,3 Pharmacist

18,9 15,2

Dentist 10,809 (86.1%)

2,4

Midwives

100 hospital beds - short stay As you can see on Graph A most of the hospital beds concentrated in Private Hospitals. It creates a big problem in Healthcare since Private Hospitals carry out low medical qualification (according to the Lebanese law it is very hard for Private Clinics to get a permission for a high qualified job such as surgery), which leads us to Graph B.

Nurses, Physicians (a «physician» is a medical doctor who usually focuses on the non-surgical treatment of patients’ conditions), Pharmacist, Dentists, and Midwives are the post common medical professions in Lebanon. The country extremely lacks the professionals in the fields of surgery (anesthesiology, cardiology, neurology, radiology) and organ transplant.

Health expenditure comparison Total health expenditure per capita

Total health expenditure as % of GDP

$1500 USD

8% of GDP

1200

1.442

6

8% 7.2%

900 992

600

4.9%

751

300

2 309

0 UAE

Saudi Arabia

Lebanon

Jordan

273 Tunisia

143

Out of pocket expenditure

3.9%

3.4%

0

Egypt

Jordan

Breakdown of health expenditure in Lebanon 37%

6.6%

4

63% Public or private insurence expenditure

Lebanon

Tunisia

Egypt

Saudi Arabia

UAE

In total Lenanon doen’t have the worst economic situation in Health spector. The problem is in right way of spending the budget Lebanon has. All this potential comes with the caveat intrinsic to all dealings with the market for medical care. The economics of health is much more than a matter of pure price and profit, in contrast to markets for goods and services that one can easily live without.

Design Proposal

The typical floor plan and axo of the existing tower+design proposal axo

Existing plan of the Tower:

Tower Core

Existing structure of the tower:

Facade columns 30 and more storey buildings need additional support which is achieved by facade columns

Tower Core

Reinforced concrete columns 450x450

Solid reinforced concrete slabs allowing 2.5 - 5.5 m between columns

Reinforsed concrete columns 450x450

Emergency exit window

Name: Location: Height: Floor: Construction: Width: Depth: Area: Total area: Column grid:

Burj Al Murr Beirut, Lebanon 155 m 34 (+7 basement floors of parking space) 1970-1975 23 meters 18 meters 414 sqm 14.076 sqm 4.3 x 3.7 meters

Facade works only as curtain wall and does not provide any additional support

Design proposal for the tower:

Helicopter Pad 1. Environmental Need New skin descreases solar radiation on the facade and allow to control the tempreture insite the Tower.

Structural bracing support

Primary access Core (+fire escape)

Dual Facade System for solar control and ventilation

2. Programmatic Need New lift shafts provide high efficient circulation for the Tower, which is extremely important for the hospital.

Access Core specific for each programme

Garden

Organ Transplant Clinic

3D model | Axonometries | Plans of the Tower The spread presenting the plans, diagrams, axonometries of the key floors, 3D models of each department of the tower:

Circulation Unit North facade:

Laboratory The floors of the surgery department block:

The typical floor plans or key plans were drawn to explore each of the configuration of the lifts.

Programme Unit - Tower:

Block system is designed to increase efficiency of circulation and maximize the space for other departments.

Operating Th.

Intensive Care

Operating Th.

Care typical floor plan

Care Lobby (typical lobby plan

Circulation Unit South facade:

WC:

Organ cultivation The organ farming floors will have an extra space as a balcony, this offset of the dual facade is done in order to provide better tempreture control for this department.

33 - laboratory 32 - organ farm 31 - manufacture 30 - organ farm 29 - manufacture 28 - laboratory 27 - lobby

Surgery block 01 block 02 block 03

26 - oparating theatre 25 - intensive care 24 - operating theatre 23 - operating theatre 22 - intensive care 21 - operating theatre 20 - operating theatre 19 - intensive care 18 - operating theatre 17 - lobby Care

Care rooms are decided by the duration of the patients stay in clinic. The long stay rooms (patients after most difficult operations) will be placed closer to intensive care since they are more likely to need emergency help.

16 - hospital (long stay) 15 - hospital (long stay) 14 - hospital (long stay) 13 - hospital (medium stay) 12 - hospital (medium stay) 11 - hospital (medium stay) 10 - hospital (short stay) 09 - hospital (short stay) 08 - lobby Investigation 07 - Management 06 - Doctors 05 - Doctors 04 - Doctors 03 - Blood analysis 02 - Radiology 01 - Registration 00 - Reception

The 3D view of the tower: Front Facade

Organ Transplant Clinic Axonometries of the clinic departments

Axonometries of the clinic departments explaining the circulation and organization of the hospital elements.

Care department 8th Floor

Investigation department Graund Floor

WC (ladies and gents).

WC (ladies and gents).

Local lifts: Investigation.

Local lifts: Care.

Fire staircase.

Fire staircase.

The express lifts to the surgery department from ambulance access.

The express lifts from the surgery department to care department.

Access for the Ambulance cars.

Park ground floor.

Reception for the hospital rooms.

Main Entrance and waiting area.

Waiting area

Storage for the documents.

Express lifts to other departments: investigation, surgery, organ cultivation.

Fire staircase.

Express lifts to other departments: care, surgery, organ cultivation.

Fire staircase.

Investigation department First Floor

Care department 9th Floor Ventilation/filters and temperature control units, individual for each room.

WC (ladies and gents).

Local lifts: Care.

Local lifts: Investigation.

Fire staircase.

Fire staircase.

The express lifts from the surgery department to care department.

Hospital Registration and the offices for the doctors who give the referrals to the specialists.

Care rooms for two patients.

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Fire staircase.

Access to the park.

Every room will have its own bathroom unit.

Individual care rooms.

Express lifts to other departments: investigation, surgery, organ cultivation.

Fire staircase.

Surgery department 18th Floor

Organ farming department 29th Floor

Local lifts: patient way in.

WC (ladies and gents).

Fire staircase.

Local lifts: Organ farming.

Local lifts: patient way out.

Preparation Room

Fire staircase.

Operating theatre.

Clean equipment

The lift for the organs/ organoids/substances.

Control room.

Medical waste

Wasing room.

Organ farming.

In and out room.

Preparation Room

Control room.

Wasing room.

Operating theatre.

Express lifts to other departments: investigation, care, surgery.

Express lifts to other departments: investigation, care, organ cultivation.

Fire staircase.

Surgery department 19th Floor

Fire staircase.

Organ farming department 30th Floor

WC (ladies and gents).

Local lifts: Care.

Local lifts: Organ Faming.

Fire staircase.

Fire staircase.

Intensive care.

Access lifts from the operating department.

Intensive care.

Clean special equipment storage.

Lockers room.

Intensive care.

Lobby with kitchen set for the doctors and nurses.

Express lifts to other departments: investigation, care organ cultivation.

Fire staircase.

The lift for the organs/organoids/ substances.

Manufacture cubicles.

Organ farming lobby/balcony.

Manufacture cubicles.

Organ farming lobby/balcony.

Express lifts to other departments: investigation, care, surgery.

Fire staircase.

Exterior Views

Circulation: helicopter pads are common features at hospitals where they serve to facilitate medical evacuation or air ambulance transfers of patients to trauma centers or to accept patients from remote areas without local hospitals or facilities capable of providing the level of emergency medicine required. The Clinic helicopter pad will be located on the roof of the hospital.

The night view highlights the importance of the restoration and the reintegration of the Tower into city scape since its a very important Beirut landmark.

Investigation department Investigation: The department of the Clinic which investigates the patients: investigation.

The Investigation will consist of the reception, radiology/ ultrasound rooms, doctors offices (different specialists mainly surgeons who can send the patients to an operation or investigation such as radiology/ultrasound), This department will also have access to the park area.

Garden and care department Care: care department is a hospital where the patient stays before and after the operation.

Since the Clinic carries out different types of organ-transplantations (heart, lungs, and other organs+organoids) every patient will need to spend different time in the hospital. The care department will consist of individual and double care rooms each of which will have its own bathroom unit.

Organ cultivation department Organ cultivation department or organ farm is a department which consists of the organ manufacture, organ storage and laboratories. High qualified specialists from the World Health organization will work in this department and carry out the research in organ cultivation methods along with the provision of the organs and organoids for the patients of the clinic.

Surgery: surgery is a hospital department which administers all departmental functions and the provision of surgical diagnostic and therapeutic services. Main spaces in the surgery are operating theatres, equipment rooms, and intensive care.

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The exploded floor axo looks to explain how the superstructure of the dual facade system is connected to the existing building.

1 - Acrylic glass skin 2 - Access core 3 - Mechanically controlled air intake/outtake louvres 4 - Mechanical and electrical plant in ceiling 5 - Existing concrete column 6 - Facade superstructure 7 - Primary vertical support column 8 - Horizontal supports fixed to existing structure 9 - Mechanically controlled louvred vents 10 - Air source heat pump extract unit

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Realisation: facade and structure details Details for the double facade / floor / ventilation system.

The axo showing the air control within one of the tower programme:

The axo showing the top of the tower with the I-beam cross bracing support for the second facade system, the structure is expected to be a heavy structure and will rest on the load-bearing columns of the tower.

Air Out

Air In

This detail looks to explain the connection between the facade columns of the building with the second facade structure.

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1 - Steel connection of the second facade with the facade 2 - Tower facade columns 3 - Non openable floor grating for air circulation and capping 4 - Thermal bridging insulation barrier 5 - Mecamically pre-drilled steel reinforcement rods 6 - Grillage for cavity access and maintenance 7 - Steel columns supports for the second facade

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1 - Mechanically controlled louvred vents. The vents will open and close to allow and control the air through each floor depending on the function within the building 2 - Acrylic support superstructure for draped facade system. Vertical acrylic superstructure helps hold and support the primary columns 3 - Anchor plates to super structural and supporting elements 4 - Horizontal fixing joist mechanically fastened to existing columns 5 - Primary support column 6 - Air intake louvred control system within frame 7 - Suspended ceiling for machinal systems 8 - Air source intake valve to pumps for hot water and heating systems

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The image showing the look of the glass finish of the facade.

The glass material for the facade will be Acrulic Glass.

This material wins against the classical glass because of its:

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Realisation: facade and structure details Details for the double facade / floor / ventilation system.

Floor and facade cpnnection detail:

Facade cpnnection detail:

Stainless steel spiderslice plate

1 - Specialist independent air source heat plant for care units 2 - Air intake louvres for plant 3 - Steel box section primary support columns 4 - Cross bracing acrylic glass structural frame 5 - Vertical acrylic glass structural support frame 6 - Grillage for cavity access and maintenance 7 - Non openable floor grating for air circulation and capping 8 - Existing concrete columns 9 - Polished concrete finishing tiles 10 - Mechanical mesh masking mechanical extracts above 11 - Acrylic glass fixation connection to external glazing system Support column

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02 BE | NE | LUX - Interritiriality in Pyongyang Shared Embassy, Pyongyang, North Korea Design Research 01/02, UCA

Design Research Concept: North Korea is one of the most restricted and remote states in the world.

The strict inviolability of sovereignty and territoriality is one of its most distinguishing features.

The project was focused on the study of the embassies in Pyongyang in order to examine the topic of the territoriality in North Korea. The final design is resulted in an embassy building in Pyongyang which is shared by three countries: Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

The final design research portfolio consists of the Matser Plan design for the embassy district and the design for the Shared Embassy for Benelux countries.

Design research 01: 150 new embassies coming to Pyongyang North Korea.

There are 27 embassy building located in Pyongyang. Most of these existing embassies are located in a special district of the city called Munsu-dong Diplomatic Compound. The Russian, Pakistani and Chinese embassies are located outside the diplomatic compound, as they are much larger than the other embassies.

The Design Research 01 is presenting the idea of the emerging of the 150 new embassies which will appear in Munsu-dong and create a new master plan for the district. The new master plan will take over the empty sites in and outside the district.

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Existing embassies: Brazil | Bulgaria | Cambodia | Cuba | Czech Republic | Egypt | Germany | India | Indonesia | Mongolia | Nigeria | Palestine | Poland | Sweden | Syria | Venezuela | Vietnam

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Existing embassies: Islamic Republic of Iran | Laos | Malaysia | Romania

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3 new embassies: Belgium | Netherlands | Luxembourg

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14 new embassies: Italy | Switzerland | France | Ireland | Liehtenstein | Spain | Greece | Portugal | Guyana |Jamaica | Vatican City | Surinam | Nicaragua | Panama

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11 new embassies: UAE | Afganistan | Saudi Arabia | Jordan | Somalia | Sudan | Oman | Iraq | Lebanon | Quatar | Yemen

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12 new embassies: Argentina | Equador | Cuba | Chile | Colombia | Costa Rica | Bahamas | Barbados | Belize | Bolivia | Dominica | Dominican Rep

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13 new embassies: Australia | Japan | Indonesia | Thailand | Singapore | South Korea | Papua New Guinea | Vietnam | Phillipines | Taiwan | New Zeland | Canada | USA

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5 new embassies: Haity | Honduras | Saint Vincent | Saint Lucia | El Salvador

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12 new embassies: Austria | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Croatia | Denmark | Finland | Hungary | Iceland | Montenegro | Norway | Slovakia | Slovenia | Serbia

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21 new embassies: Algeria | Angola | Botswana | Cameroon | Cape Verde | Central African Rep | Rep of Congo | Democratical Rep of Congo | Cote dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ivoire| Equatorial Guinea | Eritrea | Gabon | Gambia | Ghana | Guinea | Lesotho | Liberia | Rwanda | Tanzania | Mali | Madagaskar

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22 new embassies: Chad | Ethiopia | Kenya | Kowait | Malawi | Mauritania | Mauritius | Morocco | Mozambique | Nambia| Niger | Nigeria | Rwanda | Senegal | South Africa | South Sudan | Swaziland | Togo | Tunisia | Uganda| Zambia | Zimbabwe

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30 new embassies: Albania | Armenia | Azerbaijan | Belarus | Estonia | Georgia | Israel | Kazahstan | Kyrgystan | Latvia | Lithuania | Macedonia | Moldova | Nepal | SriLanka | Tajikistan | Turkmenistan| Uzbekistan | Bangladesh | Cyprus | Fiji | Malta | Marshal Islands | Micronesia | Monaco | Myanmar | Saint Kitts and Navis | San Morino | Sierra Leone | Turkey

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Design research 01: 150 new embassies coming to Pyongyang North Korea.

The visualization representing a new Embassy District of Pyongyang - The Embassy Archipelago.

Each of the embassy island will present not only the embassies themselves but public spaces, recidential and educational facilities.

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Design research 02: BE | NE | LUX Benelux - is a politico-economic union of three neighbouring states in western Europe: Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg.

A Benelux Parliament was created in 1955.

Since then thes extablished many economical and other relationships. The partnership between these countries plays a key role in the design of a shared Benelux embassy in Pyongyang.

Embassy, as a dimention of foreign policy, is national politics on the international global arena. As such, embassies should be expected to reflect major political values in an expressive powerful fashion and thus be easily identified.

They (embassies) have been defined as diplomacy’s political settings, public diplomacy, serving as «showcases» of national art, culture, and political philosophy, all of which reveal the role of embassiesin the public imagination. On the diagram below there is a study of different embassies around the world.

Super tower embassy

Politically oriented typology. Main values used by this type are power, tradition, self-direction, stimulation, security. These values served as a symbol of protection and realisation of power. Examples of such types are The US embassy in Cairo (Egypt).

The US embassy in Cairo which received particular criticism because of its scale and structure which narrative aims to provide a very clear message, «pseudo-military structures as emblematic of Bush-era foreign policy.»

Companion country embassy

This type of embassy concentrates on a higher trust relationship with the hosting country, making decisions based on individual responsibility, tolerance, and balance. Companions Country Embassies connect themselves to wealthier nations which try to push self-expression through scale and mass rather than form.

The Russian and US embassies in Prague provide evidence of this with both being showing scale over others making it the two larger embassies in the Czech Republic.

Post-modern nation embassy

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Economically oriented Embassy. Their symbolism is more likely to reflect the «scope» value of prosperity, opulence, & wealth. Main values are achievements, high trust in science and technology, faith in state, hard work, and determination.

The most post-modern nations are the Northern European countries. One of the examples is a building of Nordic embassies in Berlin. The territory consists of five embassies: Norwegian, Swedish, Dannish, Icelandic,Finnish.

The new embassy building in Pyongyang will be based on the post-modern nation typology. The building will accommodate three countries which will share facilities together. Also the embassy building will provide new public programs to the district for the use of Pyongyang citizens.

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The organizational structure of any embassy is built according to a long-standing pattern, although it strongly depends on the size of the embassy itself, the number of staff, funding. Usually the position of main person is held by the Extraordinary Plenipotentiary Ambassador. His responsibilities include: negotiations on behalf of his state, the signing of treaties.The second person acts as head of the diplomatic mission in the absence of the ambassador in the country and replaces the ambassador when he is not. In this case, the second person has all the duties of the ambassador, but without a number of rights and privileges inherent only in ambassadors.

It is important to keep in mind that not every embassy employee is a diplomat. In any embassy there is necessarily a large number of auxiliary, technical staff (highly skilled workers, security guards, employees of the economic sector, drivers, and even large chefs, etc.). Below you can see the calculation of the sizes of the embassies and the emount of people working and living on its territory: Embassies

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Independent embassies of Benelux countries. The embassies deal primarily with political isssues, negotiations, gathernig information about the host country.

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On behalf of all three countries, Benelux office maintains contact with local authorities, make decisions on economic issues.

COUNSULATE AUDITORIUM Council is engaged in servicing citizens, solving their problems within the framework of the legislation and preparing documents (visas, passports, and other documents).

ENTRANCE Gallery and auditorium are open to public and shared with Pyongyang. Exceptions are election days and closed meetings of Benelux office.

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Ambassador appartment.

One of the important roles of the embassy is a collecting of the information about host country. The collection, systematization and primary analysis of intelligence information collected through diplomatic activities is the responsibility of diplomatic representatives and has the character of regular daily, weekly and other chronologically determined reports from the host country. An important component of diplomatic intelligence is a personal analysis of the information received by the diplomatic representative directly in the host country as a reaction to the current state of affairs in the area being explored - politics, economics, social situation and other areas of interest to the state or organization that has placed the diplomatic mission.

Vice-ambassador and secretary refferent offices.

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Diplomatic Intelligence Officers: - civilian diplomats, usually officers from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

- attache or military diplomats, usually officers of the General Staff or similar military department - employees of specialized intelligence agencies working under the “diplomatic cover” - people who have received special diplomatic status in the host country, such as a “personal envoy” or “presidential representative” or government

Double space and common area ofr meetings and embassy canteen with kitchens.

Computer and document storage floor, consists of service offices which provide information security of the embassy.

Floors of the military attache (representatives of the military department of the country that appointed them to the military department of the host country At the same time, they are advisors to the diplomatic representative on military issues).

Floors for special attache (representatives of various departments of their country - in industry, agriculture, labor, finance, commerce, culture, technology, science, etc. They are usually qualified specialists who are entrusted with studying their specialties and conducting work related to the maintenance and development of relations between the departments they represent and the relevant departments in the host country.

This category includes the attache of the police), press attache (press officer - a responsible officer in charge of the press and information in the diplomatic mission), diplomatic attache (junior diplomatic officer of the central office of the foreign affairs agency or diplomatic mission).

The facade and slab details: The details are showing the exploration of the facade and slab structure: cobiax floor slabs + the diagrid steel structure, and facetted / triangulated facade system.

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Academic projects | Auxetics structure

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Auxetics structure Academic project, Technology UCA, Summer term 2019, 2 month

AUXETIC STRUCTURE The research in the responsice design Technology Unit, UCA

Concept: Our brief was to design using only plywood as our primary material in order to explore emerging design possibilities in creating responsive surfaces. Considering the materials innate characteristics when experimenting with possible outcomes. By using both digital design and fabrication techniques we aimed to explore form, function, connection and arrangement to achieve structure that acts like a skin and responds to specific stimulus.

Our brief was to design using only plywood as our primary material in order to explore emerging design possibilities in creating responsive surfaces. Considering the materials innate characteristics when experimenting with possible outcomes. By using both digital design and fabrication techniques we aimed to explore form, function, connection and arrangement to achieve structure that acts like a skin and responds to specific stimulus.

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04 THE GIFT Communal Catalist UCA competition for Make

The Gift is a project for the qualifying competition for Future Spaces Foundations in UCA. Each team consisted from 4 people and competition took 3 weeks.

The Gift pavilion was designed to not only represent the three main universities of Canterbury, but to share the knowledge with people and visitors of the city. The pavilion creates an exciting experience with static and dinamic elements, with an implement programmed light feature to reflect the mood and usage of the spaces. The Gift is an experimental large scale pavilion with a meaningful cause and thruly stunning aesthetics.

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Pavilion will be equipped with programmed light sequence that will change depending on how many people participating in a lecture/symposium/exhibition ect.

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05 PERFORMANCE Future Spaces Foudations Make Competition

Performance is a project for the competition for Future Spaces Foundations organized by Make Architects. Each team had to produce an A1 poster and prepare a presentation in one month.

The final design of our team was a system of the interactive street which could be activated in the certain time of the day by using the Performance app. The project rethinking the use of the streets during the time it is not in use and trying to replug it back to use.

Future Spaces Foundation About: The Future Spaces Foundation was established in 2013 by Ken Shuttleworth as the research and development arm of Make Architects.

Its aim is to generate new thinking and research to inform the design of the spaces we inhabit.

The research conducted by the Foundation explores the socioeconomic, demographic and technological factors that affect the way we interact and operate as individuals and communities, and explores how we can shape the towns and cities of the future.

The work the Future Spaces Foundation has undertaken thus far has provided insights and recommendations to help create vital cities. Cities that are enriched, vibrant and diverse places and where people want to live, work and move around in the healthiest, happiest and most sustainable way possible.

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Pixel A – Largest sized pixel located in the central junction that enables the road to function as normal when inactive. However when activated can transform into performance spaces, with elevated platforms and seating.

Pixel B – Medium sized pixel that acts as the pavement for pedestrian use when the street performs in its traditional use.

When active it forms part of the grid that adapts to users requests.

Pixel C – The smallest and the most versatile pixel, this acts as a road when inactive. When activated this space can undergoes the most transformation, from stages, platforms, benches and ramps when programmed.

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06 4 AS 1 Connecting generations development Recidential Block and Master Plan, Prague, Czech Republic Diploma Project, ARCHIP

Concept: For my final year of my Bachelor the brief was to design a residential building which will be situated inside the courtyard of the old Kasarna building close to the city centre of Prague.

The design narrative was to develop a very strong sense of community through spaces which will promote social harmony, where people coming from different social, political and economic backgrounds can interact and mix with each other.

The final design outcome is a set of four buildings which house only one to two apartments on each floor. These structures are connected around shared spaces through the use of bridges and walkways that interconnect and reinvest in the notion of enabling people to interact.

This then creates a framework that supports social reform to reconnect communities across the different social classes.

Such an organic delivery creates an outlook that improves views from the outside and eliminates the feeling of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;deadâ&#x20AC;? wall.

Design diagram and Master Plan Model of the Recidential Block

A typical residential building usually has a vertical hierarchy and which have no shared spaces. This typology results in a weak hierarchical social structure that provides no path for interaction between upper, middle and lower class. The result of which destabilises community growth and sense of space.

The proposal is to remove the existing hierarchy shown (left) by dividing the building into four parts. Shared semi-private space will be placed in between these four new parts of the building.

These semi-private spaces will be accessible for residents and users which look to accomplish the design concept. This new typology is then analysed further through form finding and design development to create a final design that achieves feeds community growth.

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Master plan proposal: This is the diagram of the Master Paln proposal. The Mastrer Plan was created after the design of the one block copies and mirrowed.

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07 BCC Cinema Centre , Bubny district, Prague 7, Czech Republic Architecture Design Unit, ARCHIP

Concept: The design of the project was focused on a reuse of the abandoned depot building from the Industrial district of Prague. The challenge was to create a new programme whilst preserve the existing building at the same time.

Rather than designing the space by just renovating it, Looking at architectural preservation as part of the implementation of a new structure created an exploration that would create a unique response. Simply saying building an architectural parasite.

With an ambitious outset, the new proposed space increased the overall floor area that made way for a new 4 screen cinema, a restaurant with open kitchens and a new market place.

The form of the building was created through the sensitive response to the existing structure. The proposed form looked to complement the historic artefacts, features, proportions and design lines.

Plans | Section | Views of the Cinema Centre

PROGRAMME: 1. Cinema entrance 2. Bistrot 3. Restaurant 4. Open kitchen 5. Outdoor restaurant 6. WC and fire exit 7. Main kitchen 8. Storages, cloak rooms for restaurant workers 9. Cinema offices 10. Disabled wc, office storages, cloackrooms 11. Indoor marcket

12. Outdoor marcket 13. Passage infront of cinema, offices, kitchen 14. WC upper level 15. Cinema upper level 16. Cinema hall 1 17. Cinema hall 2 18. Cinema hall 3 19. Cinema hall 4 20. Projection room (1/2) 21. Projection room (3/4)

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08 KYJE LYNK Row Housing, Prague, Czech Republic Architecture Design Unit, ARCHIP

Concept: The Kyje Link is an academic project that focuses on the design of residential houses in Prague. The design output was to increase the use of public spaces, squares and parks rather than confining residents to their own properties and gardens. The concept was to increase the house footprint by removing the need for a front and back garden and incorporate outside space into the units themselves. This resulted in gardens acting as a visual barrier between private and public space to create a safe atmosphere within the house. All the outdoor activities would happen within the external spaces provided that encouraged the use of otherwise traditionally underused facilities

Plans | Section | Views of the Row Houses

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Interior view ground floor

Sections:

Attic Floor The attic floor has only sleeping spaces which are situated above the office space.

First Floor The first floor consists of two offices with bathroom.

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