Master of Architecture Portfolio_Anastasia Lavrova

P O R T F O L I O A n a s t a s i a

L a v r o v a

Selected Works 2013-2020

lavrovaanastasia1@gmail.com

CONTENT

Curriculum Vitae Academic Projects UNOAR BE/NE/LUX Auxetic structure Performance The Gift 4 as 1 Bubny Cinema Center Kyje Link Professional Projects Burg Haamstede Resort Zuri Zanzibar Resort Holeckova Hotel Sakura

Anastasia Lavrova lavrovaanastasia1@gmail.com

C U R R I C U L U M V I TA E Anastasia Lavrova MArch ARB/RIBA Part 2 lavrovaanastasia1@gmail.com

SKILLS

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Rhino modeling Vray Lumion SketchUp

advanced advanced advanced very good

AutoCAD Revit

advanced good

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

2013-2016

- Worked individually and in teams on architecture and interior design projects, predominantly hotel and resort sector projects. Also participated in design of residential, educational and retail buildings.

- 3D modeling in Rhino and SketchUp;

Bachelor of Architecture, Bc

- Created visualizations including VR visualisations for the client;

Honors and Activities:

- Preparing design presentations for the clients.

- merit-based Scholarship - member of Student Senate

since 2015 till present

Jestico+Whiles, Prague, CR Architecture Assistant

Architectural Institute in Prague (ARCHIP) Prague, CR

LANGUAGES C1 B1 mother tongue

2016-2018

Master of Architecture ARB/RIBA Part 2 MArch

COMPETITIONS AND ACTIVITIES Engish Czech Russian

WORK EXPERIENCE - ARCHITECTURE

- Was part of the competition team.

June-August 2019

Design Disco - Prague, CR

Freelance Interior Designer, Stavropol, Russia Interior Architecture Designer (applied for private work for the summer 2019 between 4th and 5th years of my studies) - Worked on the design on the apartment for private client in Stavropol, Russia.

Non-profit educational organisation (designdisco.org)

- Supervised the construction work on the site.

Curriculum Designer

INTERESTS - Organised and lead architecture and design workshops for International students from different countries, Czech high school students, and CAS (creativity, activity and survice) program students.

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

REFERENCES

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

Sept 2019

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

Sept 2019

WORK EXPERIENCE - OTHER June 2019

EcoProject Ltd, Stavropol, Russia

Future Spaces Foundations - Make Architects competition

Engineering company specializing in sustainable design

Finalist - “Performance Team”

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

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

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.

01 UNOAR United Nations Organization of Architectural Resources Organ Transplant Clinic in Beirut, Lebanon Thesis 01/02, UCA

Thesis Statement: Crisis is an event which destabilize the current situation and affecting and changing different infrastructures, societies, groups of people. The next crisis could be closer than we might think and what we should really worry about is what comes after, how the crisis which come can affect the situation. In the current social, political, and technological landscape, a prolonged economic crisis, combined with rising income inequality, could well escalate into a major global change. How the Crisis might affect architecture industry and what can we do as architects in order to respond smartly to sudden change?

The thesis contains a hard-hitting investigation of architecture’s most pertinent challenges, look critically and beyond the corporatedominated economical city centers and its policy, indifference or denial by questioning global issues, rethinking building program and its materiality, including digital technology, and employing urban planning and application of new building agenda as a design method.

Through the study of alternative ways and possibilities this work will explore how to address a world in crisis with resilient architecture and planning, tailored for the determining factors of economics, resources and the idiosyncrasies of humanity.

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

Towers The Crisis affects lots and lots of buildings and in order to create a clear and high quality research this thesis will be focused on Tower Typology.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.

101m

25 floors

25 floors

115m

220m

157m 34 floors

330m 105 floors

30 floors

Zenit Business Center 89m 22 floors

Sathorn Unique

Torre David

185m

190m

49 floors

45 floors

Grand Hyatt Duta 111m 29 floors

Fontainebleau Resort 224m 63 floors

2007

84m

Ryongyong Hotel

Unique Emptiness

1996

30 floors

Yekaterinburg TV Tower

1994

37 floors

123m

Steglitzer Kreisel

1990

110m

Burj Al Murr

Site Catastrophe

1990

38 floors

Tower NOT

1987

45 floors

145m

Pecs Magashac

1980

162m

Carlton Hotel

1980

25 floors

Abraham Linkoln Towers

1975

29 floors

88m

Book Tower

1975

17 floors

1930

111m

1929

1920

1904

25 floors

83 m

Plaza Tower

1972

160m

Insignia Tower

1972

111m

Sterick Building

1968

Shukhov TV Buffalo Central Station Tower

1962

One Times Square

New Programme

Failed Construction

1974

Company Crisis

1969

Economic Crisis

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.

Unique Emptiness

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

United Architects, (Unbuilt), 2002

SOM and SANAA, (Unbuilt), 2002

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

World Map | UNOAR Headquarters The United Nation Organization of Architectural Resources (UNOAR) is the first organisation which collect architecture resources, create a digital information about it, and script the solution for the possible changes. It will learn from existing architecture, media and mechanical engineering, social and economical situations of the countries. Its goal is to provide the architectural world with maximum information on existing architectural resources and back up every building design with the data. UNOAR will make the world question what is the role of architecture and how can it make the world a better place.

UN Headquaters New York Legend: Head Quaters location and main offices Sub offices

UNESCO Headquaters Paris

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.

Moscow

Yekaterinburg

Krakow

Berlin

Budapesht Detroit

Buffalo

Memphis Las Vegas

New Orleans

Mexico City

Mission of the organization: The United Nations Organization of Architecture Resources will:

Pyongyang

New York

ICAO Headquaters Montreal

Beirut

Bankok

Caracas

Kuala-Lumpur

-coordinate systems that track economical, political, ecological situations in the countries and the whole world;

UN Human Rights Headquaters Geneva Rio de Janeiro

Johanesburg

-collect and store all information about architectural resources: square meters, materials, history of the buildings; -found cooperations with the local citizens; -strive to provide a sustainable design and quality solution for all the structures;

UNEP Headquaters Nairobi

2007

1996

1994

1990

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1975

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

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-lead the adaptation and whole construction of the buildings;

World Map | UNOAR Headquarters

1 Burj Al Murr Tower is situated right in between three districs: new development (with new office buildings, new developed sea front), concrete jungles with the recidential buildings, and historical centre of Beirut. Such a location provide a great connection for the new programme of the tower.

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.

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.

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

New Developments- Solidere Historical Centre

Civil War 1975-1990 Civil War 2 Concrete Jungles - Beirut was left in ruins after the civil war in 1975-1990.

Local planners decided that the imediate actions has to be taken. For the next 5 years lots of new fast projects were reliesed to provide a new recidential, office and mixed spaces. That is how the Concrete Jungles pattern of Beirut have emerged.

Minet Al Hoson Bus stop

Ain Al Mraiseh Bus stop

Place de l’Etoile

Breakwater

Kantari Bus stop 3 New Development is lead by Lebanese company called Solidere. Solidere’s main functions are the supervision of the governmentauthorized reconstruction plan, financing and developing the infrastructure, new construction and rehabilitation of wartorn structures, urban landscaping and the management of property.

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)

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.

Proposal for the existing tower

Typical plan of the Tower:

Tower Core

Existing structure of the tower:

Design proposal for the tower:

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

Tower Core

Reinforced concrete columns 450x450

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

Solid reinforced concrete slabs allowing 2.5 - 5.5 m between columns

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

Primary access Core (+fire escape)

Dual Facade System for solar control and ventilation

Reinforsed concrete columns 450x450

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

Structural bracing support

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

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

To reach the best possible solution for the tower the external skin, plans, interior circulation were developed parallel to each other. All these design aspects are presented on this master page.

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

Typical floor plan showing programme core and all configurations of the lifts: The typical floor plans or key plans were drawn to explore each of the configuration of the lifts.

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.

Laboratory

Surgery 26 - oparating theatre block 01 25 - intensive care 24 - operating theatre 23 - operating theatre block 02 22 - intensive care 21 - operating theatre 20 - operating theatre block 03 19 - intensive care 18 - operating theatre 17 - lobby

The 3D view of the tower: Front Facade

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.

Primary access Core

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

Intensive Care

The floors of the surgery block:

Programme Core

Operating Th.

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

Care Rooms

Care Lobby Acceess Core specific for each programme

Restrooms

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World Map | UNOAR Headquarters The exploded floor axo looks to explain how the superstructure of the dual facade system is connected to the existing building.

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Roof topfacade fixing:

Proposed structural frame anchored to top of the existing tower. The truss structurual is purely functional and suports the two elevations of the double skin structure that appears to drape down the elevation of the tower.

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Typical Intake / Outake module

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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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Organ transplant clinic: Investigation area 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.

Organ transplant clinic:Garden 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 transplant clinic: Surgery and Organ manufacturing 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.

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.

Organ transplant clinic: 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.

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 d’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.

Exmples of the new embassy districts and created public spaces:

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Shape development of the building

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

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:

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.

Embassies 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.

Companion country embassy

Post-modern nation embassy

Pyongyang new embassy

Final massing 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.»

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.

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LUXEMBOURG

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Family members

Shared spaces Super tower embassy

BELGIUM

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.

Design development of the embassies+shared spaces:

Front view of the embassy:

Netherlands

Recidential building for the embassy workers and their families

Belgium

School building for the embassy workers’ children

Luxembourg

Shared spaces of the embassies

Top view of the embassy: School building for the embassy workers’ children

Recidential building for the embassy workers and their families

Luxembourg

Shared spaces of the embassies

Belgium Netherlands

Axonometry of the shared spaces

Diagram of Netherlands Tower:

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.

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

Vice-ambassador and secretary refferent offices.

1st, 2nd and 3rd secretaryies’ offices.

Spy Room SHARED OFFICES

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

Diplomatic Intelligence Officers:

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).

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

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

- 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

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.

Facade details Facade details DETAIL 01: Slab-facade connection

Project focus

DETAIL 02: Diagrid detail Detail 01: connection section 1:20

Detail 01: connection section 1:20

DETAIL 03: Diagrid connection with the glass

Detail 02: diagram is connection focuces Detail Technology 02: connection diagram on exploring and resolving the loadbearing structure:

concrete cores and floor slabs + the diagrid steel structure, and facetted/ triangulated facade system.

Detail 03: connection detail

Floor plan 1:500: concrete load-bearing column

concrete cores

Detail 03: connection detail

Detail 03: connection detail

Load-bearing structure: DETAIL 04: Slabsubstructure detail concrete with concrete cores (primary structure and post tension

concrete slabs fixed to the concrete cores (light weight structure). Cobiax

Cobiax Technology is ongenerating hollows inside Technologies AGbased will be used specific to make slabs more light weight ( a reinforced concrete slab. Massive concrete is replaced by synthetic void formers and remains only in statically relevant areas. Thus, it is possible Slab detail 1:10: to construct buildings with flat slabs while allowing for remarkable span width.

Cobiax Technology is based on generating specific hollows inside a reinforced concrete slab. Massive concrete is replaced by synthetic void formers and remains only in statically relevant areas. Thus, it is possible to construct buildings with flat slabs while allowing for remarkable span width. insitu concrete Concrete topmesh mesh Top

ball cage Ball cage

bottom reinforcement

Bottom reinforcement

Front view of the embassy:

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.

The material properties and the flexibility in the connections allows for manipulation of the form that can be draped and bent around forms. The Auxetic proprieties of the module when moving allows for the expansion of the form and meets the need for an adapting structure as described in the project focus.

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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The uniformity and curvature thecombined curvature of the modules resulted inof a modules resulted in a combined modules taking on a scale like modules taking on a scale like appearance. appearance.

The material properties and the flexibility in the connections allows for manipulation of the form that can be draped and bent around forms. The Auxetic proprieties of the module when moving allows for the expansion of the form and meets the need for an adapting structure as described in the project focus.

The design of the responsive structure

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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.

Competition submission Pavilions’ Plan

UCA

UCA

CCCU

CCCU

Universities’ Pavilions

UCA

University of

CCCU

UCA

University of Kent

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

CCCU

Cold colour Less people

Warm colour More people

University of Kent

University of Kent

Kent

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.

Performance app interface:

Competition submission

The activity of the streets every 2 hours:

Discription of the modules of the street:

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12 pm

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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.

4 am

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.

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 “dead� 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.

Corridor view

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.

Site Plan

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

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3. Restaurant

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4. Open kitchen 5. Outdoor restaurant 6. WC and fire exit

Longitudinal section

7. Main kitchen 8. Storages, cloak rooms for restaurant workers

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9. Cinema offices 10. Disabled wc, office storages, cloackrooms 11. Indoor marcket 12. Outdoor marcket

Second floor

13. Passage infront of cinema, offices, and kitchen

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14. WC upper level 15. Cinema upper level 16. Cinema hall 1 17. Cinema hall 2 (can be used as lecture room)

First floor

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18. Cinema hall 3 (can be used as lecture room)

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20. Projection room for cinema halls 1 and 2

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19. Cinema hall 4

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21. Projection room for cinema halls 3 and 4

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

Exterior View

Interior View Ground Floor

Interior ViewFirst Floor

Sections:

Attic Floor Exterior View

First Floor

Second Floor

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