Portfolio (B.Arch+M.Arch)

ARCHI TECTU RAL PORTF OLIO UBOREVICH BOROVSKAYA ANNA

ANNA UB O R EV ICH-BOROVS KAYA 23 years old Flat 5 49 Palace Court W24LS London, UK annaubub@gmail.com +447519614140

EDUCATION UCL - The Bartlett School of Architecture (London, UK): Master of Architecture Architectural Design (material researches, industrial robots, 3D printing, coding) Moscow Architecture Institute (Moscow, Russia): Bachelor of Architecture (Distinction).

Achievements: Awarded for the Diploma project (2016, 1st place, in the portfolio); 1st place in the Competition «City of the Future» (2016); Best project of the Contemporary Museum (2014, 1st place, in the portfolio) Ecole National Supérieure d’Architecture Paris - Val de Seine (Paris, France): one year student exchange program (B. Arch). Achievements: Awarded for the Europan project in St. Brieuc (2015, team work, in the portfolio)

2016 - present 2011 - 2016

2015 - 2016

EXPERIENCES 2016 april - 2016 sept. Architect assistant: ub.design architecture bureau (Moscow, Russia) 2014 august - 2015 july Internship: «MOSPROJECT» - architecture and urbanism government company (Moscow, Russia) 2015 sept.

Workshop: Ecole National Supérieure d’Architecture Paris- Val de Seine (Paris, France) 2012 july Workshop: restoration of a Russian church in Florence with MARCHI students (Florence, Italy)

SKILLS Revit

Photoshop

Rhino

Illustrator

3ds Max|Vray

InDesign

Grasshopper

3D printing/CNC

AutoCAD

Lazer Cut

Unity

Robots (ABB/Kuka)

LANGUAGES Russian - native English - fluent French - fluent

INTERESTS Architecture, Industrial Design, Industrial Robots, Digitalisation, Sporty lifestyle, Horseriding, Travelling

CONTENTS

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Seguin Island in Paris

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Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow

p. 12

Robotic Assembly Building Blocks (London

p. 18

Urbanplanning of Kurskaya area in Moscow

p. 20

Skyscrapers (Moscow)

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Urbanplanning of Saint-Brieuc (France)

Seguin Island | Paris feb-june 2016

URBANPLANNING OF THE ISLAND study site 12Ga

Diploma project made in Moscow Architectural Institute.

Island of Seguin, abandoned by the Renault car factory 20 years ago is located in the middle of the Seine in Western Paris. It has passed through many hands and transformations, from renault’s manufacturing plant to a cultural development master minded by Jean Nouvel, to Tadao Ando‘s pinault foundation contemporary art museum which was never actually built.

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Schema of the general idea

The project proposes creating an independent area for both, working and living functions. There are 12 office skyscrapers and 12 resendential houses that are united with a single stylobat with commercials and a parking zone.

Photo of Seguin island 1999

Photo of Seguin island 2015

The Seguin Island project demonstrates a new way of thinking the city in the urban plan based on principles of body types, shapes and sequences of spaces.

Masterplan

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OFFICES

OFFICES

HOTEL THEATRE

COMMERCIAL MALL

RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS

MUSEUM

Location Schema

Apart from the living and working space, there is a museum and a theatre that are «concluding» both narrow sides of the island. An upper stylobate unites all the skyscrapers at the higher level so the workers and visitors can cross over the buildings enjoying the green zone.

Axonometric drawing of office and residential buildings (middle part of the island) Skyline (front view)

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Section of the skyscrapers Skycsrapers’ facades

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Typical floor plans (offices + appartments)

CNC wooden model - island location

CNC wooden model - island location

3D visualization (upper open “passageway�)

3D visualization (ground floor stylobat)

3D model placed on the captured bird-view 9

Museum project | Moscow sept-dec 2014

PROJECT OF THE CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

Individual work at Moscow Architectural Institute.

3D printed model

Moscow Contemporary Art Museum is located in the centre of Moscow city in «Plushiha» area. The hole in the middle of the building serves for the entrances and separates the museum into two parts.

Main part is designed to create principal space for the excibitions and temporary collection. Lower part of the building is serving as a conference hall together with the space for archives located at the lower ground floor. As a result of the building’s twist vertical galleries enjoy natural light from overhead.

Plan of the museum 1st floor

Section of the museum

3D visualisation

3D visualisation interior

Main Facade of the museum

Robotic Blocks | London 2016 - 2017

Robotic Assembly of Ultra High Performance Concrete Blocks.

Teamwork at The Bartlett School of Architecture.

The case-study project ÂŤRobloxÂť considers the possibilities of using robotics at the large architectural scale and contributes to the discrete and digital architecture. A digital building block have been created that combines with itself in several ways, and that is suitable for robotic assembly.

Rather than creating hundreds of different elements, our research is focused on creating high-varied and articulated space with only one type of standardised building block. The block is reversible due to its unique interlocking system that allows snapping units together like Lego pieces.

As the project aims to be fully reversible, we avoid usage of glue or any other joining material. Instead, the pieces are connected with triangular joints and screws.

Using the combinatory library, coding and aesthetic preferences, fabricated building blocks can be assembled forming different shaped constructions.

This prototype can be viewed as a skeleton of the building. We additionally create a curtain wall system by using a clipping panel which is also suitable for the robotic assembly.

Robotic Assembly

Phase I: Phase II: Plywood (LaserCut) Concrete (Molding, Casting)

Phase III: Ultra-Performance Concrete (Molding, Casting)

Phase IV: Geometrical Optimization

Photo of the phases of the material testing

Weight and material optimization

5 kg

6 kg (foam inside)

12.8 kg

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3D printed units + joints

Structure optimization (Grasshopper) 3D printed units + joints

The industrial robot is used for pick-andplace tasks, replacing manual work in order to commit repetitive, dull motions assembling the blocks together. Among the robotics provided by the university (ABB and Kuka brands), we chose ABB 1600 due to its larger scale which is essential in our case as it allows the building of a bigger structure. Initially, we designed the robot wrist, which is formally called an endeffector. Considering the shape and scale of the units, a gripper based on a pneumatic solenoid was chosen, and unique steel clamps have been cut. The custom-made pneumatic gripper attaches to the robotic arm, being mechanically fixed with screws.

Casted UHPC bloicks

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2 hanging 6 axes robots operating together

Construction up to 5 meters high can be assembled in a time

Off-site Robotic assembly

“On-site assembly� means the following scenario: a future user can order pieces which will be delivered on-site together with the robot for the fast construction. In this case, there is no a big issue for the logistics as the discrete blocks can be directly packed in the standard boxes. At the construction site, after dispatching, the building elements can be picked up by the robot and placed one by one. The conveyor-like feeding system is designed whereby the blocks are manually fed.

Nonetheless, there are larger-scale machines, and if we imagine them being in a kind of moving track system, then we would be able to build pavilion-scale aggregations at a time. So, we introduce a second scenario of an automatic assembly using a Gantry system with hanging robots.

Off-site construction experiments at the large-scale are possible with an existing in ETH Laboratory Gantry system where 6-axis ABB robotic arms are hanging from a ceiling-mounted surface portal. The robots can cooperatively work, moving on a 3-axis gantry system that can cooperate on architectural fabrication tasks within a maximum building volume of 43 x 16 x 6m into it. The assembly strategy is similar with the on-site one, but the principal advantage of the Gantry system is the extended robotic operational range. The assembly may be fully automated with the following idea: one robot performs pick-and-place of the building members which already include the joints while the other screw them together. Such cooperative robotic building approach requires only two workers for the whole construction process.

One is for the conveyors that should be manually fed by a human worker and one specialist that keeps track of the machines.

Ultimately, large building elements that are robotically assembled in a factory environment are being transported to the site where they can be quickly combined with the help of a crane-like lifting machine in one day.

Assembly of robotically pre-assembled (offsite) big parts of the house

Units are put in the same position according to aggregation logic

Conveyors for the units

1:1 scale units are assembled one by one

Could be assembled up to 16 units at one time

Wood base

On-site Robotic assembly 14

Modularized Curtain Wall Facade

Glass Frame

3300 mm 500

Additionally, a curtain wall system was created by using a clipping panel which is also suitable for the robotic assembly. Using the combinatory library, coding and aesthetic preferences, fabricated building blocks can be assembled forming different shaped constructions. The image below shows one of the house prototypes which is 14 x 8 x 7 metres.

UHPC Block

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300 mm

Interior space

3D visualuzation 15

1. Calibration

2. Fixing the designed gripper

5. Blocks are fixed to the base

6. Assembly process

3. Robot + base + units

4. Robot picks-up and places the block

7. Assembly process

8. 16-piece construction ready

Kurskaya | Moscow feb-march 2014

URBANPLANNING OF NORTHEAST MOSCOW study site 400Ga

Teamwork at Moscow Architectural Institute.

Reorganization of ex-industrial zones of north-east Moscow.

Kurskaya used to be an industrial zone in the centre of Moscow (north-east). The aim was to convert partly abandoned area into attractive residential disctricts.

The chief objective of the project was the necessity to reconstruct them into attractive eco-districts with advanced infrastructure, sport clubs, schools and kinder gardens. First of all, the masterplan was created together with 3 other students. After, eash person detected an area to focus on. Personally, I was working on 4 residential scyscrapers and 15 houses from 4 to 9 storeys. As there are many historical architecural sights in Kurskaya, a lot of attention was paid to preserve them and create an access for visitors.

Functional schema

Buildings height schema

Masterplan

Green zones schema

Analysis schema

Zoomed-in mstarplans of particular areas

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Skyline (Moscow city)

9.3 Ha for 6500 habitants

6.3 Ha for 5300 habitants

9.5 Ha for 6500 habitants

6.6 Ha for 5500 habitants

Axonometric drawing of the study site Wooden model 1:2000 (lasercut)

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Skyscrapers | Moscow march-june 2014

RESIDENTIAL PLANNING

Individual work at Moscow Architectural Institute.

Kurskaya used to be an industrial zone in the centre of Moscow (north-east). The aim was to convert partly abandoned area into attractive residential disctricts.

Axonometric drawing of form creation

First of all, the masterplan was created together with 3 other students. After, eash person detected an area to focus on.

Personally, I was working on 4 residential scyscrapers and 15 houses from 4 to 9 storeys. As there are many historical architecural sights in Kurskaya, a lot of attention was paid to preserve them and create an access for visitors.

Facades of the Residential skyscrapers

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Facade + Section Constructions drawing of the facade Plans

Upper floor

Miidle floor 3D visualization

Lower floor

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Saint-Brieuc | France march-june 2014

EUROPAN URBANPLANNING COMPETITION study site 350 ha

Teamwork at Ecole National Supérieure d’Architecture Paris - Val de Seine.

The main aim was to increase the “attractiveness” of the city. Owing to topographical complexity of the town, some parts are difficult accessible. There is lack in connections of the city center with the sea port and other parts of town.

We proposed to connect them with a nice boulevard that has some top-view points, cycle roads and pedestrian access. Also, we made a proposal for reconstructing the central squares and designed the new eco-district with the huge park-zone in the north part of town for the purpose of increasing the population of local habitants.

Masterplan of St-Brieuc

Schema of the attractive points at the valley

Section of the valley

Section of the park-zone

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Masterplan of the new eco-disctict

3D visualization of the park-zone

3D visualization of the city-centre 23

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