Samples of Work - Architecture Portfolio - Levente M Borenich

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SPACE Chimney - Industrial Past

Woods - Blocking the wind

History - Coal mining

Seagulls - Wind, exposed site

Materiality Sandstone

Berwick - View to the townscape

Site Analysis: Symbols and References

In my most recent project I was designing a sculpture studio with an exhibition space for an artist. In addition, the building will be a venue for the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival. I was investigating oppositions, and relationships such as: public-private, past-future, industrial-natural, circulation-contemplation, form-void.

The two main principles of my design approach was: immediate context through materiality and historical references. And programming the building in a stimulating and logical way, which shaped the final form of the building.

front elevation

Sailboat - A symbol for the city

Water - Mouth of the River Tweed Swan - Proximitu to nature

Lighthouse - Location is close to the coast

concept sketch

Concept Model

The two industrial references to the site are a vintage elevator (on the front facade, which is part of the experience of the exhibition route), and a crane (which is located at the back of the site and important in terms of the circulation of the stone within the building). The building is separated into two, private and a public “L� shapes (both horizontally and vertically), which are also interlocking with each other, creating interesting atmospheres, and views inside the building.

floorplans

Sketch - In progress

Diagrammatic Section: Programming ( orange: public, grey: private) and stone circulation

Atmospheric section - Interlocking Public and Private

During the exhibition tour, visitors can be a part of a time travel: from past to future. Starting from underground, experiencing the feeling of a coal mine, later excavating from the ground by a vintage elevator, they can have an insight into a sculpture studio, and visit a contemporary exhibition, enriched with screening rooms for a film festival. At the end of the tour they will also have the chance to experience a virtual reality tour in the woods, situated behind the building.

Structural and Atmosherical Render - Junction of spaces

Atmospheric Drawing - Utopian Experience, Virtual Reality Tour

The building will be steel frame construction, with grey slate cladding on the exteriors, and using local sandstone for some of the interiors. In addition, a secondary lightweight glass-steel structure will wrap around the workshops located on the top floor, where the structure of the building will become visible by exposed copper beams.

Axonometry - Structural Strategy

Vertical Section of Elevator Shaft - Concept, and Atmospheres

AT HOME IN THE CITY - FOR A SOCIALLY SUSTAINABLE LEITH public benches

public roof terrace workshop

The community of Leith is extraordinary divers, but do not have the opportunity to strive. With my design, I wanted to complement Leith and create a workshop where they can express their ideas. Make furniture for their own use, create skate ramps for the skatepark, or make graffiti on a located wall surface.

skatepark terraces

ISO view of building components

Interior of one flat

passage under the building

zigzag organisation of flats

open extension of workshop

Concept drawing - Utopian Inhabitation of Alejandro Aravena’s model in Leith.

I wanted to complement the extremely surreal site with a ribbon of concrete, transforming from a public workshop to a housing. The idea is that people can use the workshop to personalise their building, in order to strive the diversity of Leith.

Conceptual Section - A ribbon of concrete

Moments within the project, I inhabited the renders with people actually from Leith to communicate the essence of the project.

workshop

skatepark

concept

housing