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Boyana Buyuklieva Bauhaus University Weimar
Boyana Buyuklieva 03.11.1993
Education
October
2011-
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Bachelor in Architecture
Merit-based fullscholarship recipient at:
August 2008 – May 2011
The Anglo-American School of Sofia - Bulgaria
International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB) and American Diploma Higher Levels: Visual Art, History, English (Literature)
Skills English. CPE:Cambridge ESOL C2 German. ZOP:Goethe-Institut C2 French. ACCORD Ecole De Langues Vietnamese. Mother tongue Bulgarian. Native language
B1
Independently Acquired Qualifications
AUTOCAD 2D/3D 2012|3D STUDIO MAX| ARCHICAD Adobe Creative Suit:Photoshop|Indesign|Illustrator Traditional model building, including wood |Laser Cutting
University for Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia, Bulgaria Faculty of Architecture June 2011 (06– 11.06) Preparatory course in Architectural Drawing March 2013 (16.02-17.03) AUTOCAD 2D 2013 March 2013 (11-22.3) 3D STUDIO MAX 2012
Academic Projects: Secondhand Architektur-Rethinking empty Architecture (Professorship: Design Theory and Methodology)
Weimar,
Germany
WiSe 2012
Excursion, Freehand Drawing
(Professorship: Design Theory and Methodology)
Quedlinburg,
Germany
SoSe 2012
Urban Minorities: German-Egypt-Joint Workshop
(Professorship: Sociological City Research )
Weimar,
Germany
SoSe 2012
Excursion, Gallery Visiting (As part of my higher level Visual Paris, France 2011 London, England 2010
Arts course)
HOSIC - Hands On Student Involvement Conference Helsinki, Finnland 2011 Warsaw, Poland 2010 Moscow, Russia 2009 GIN Europe - Global Issue Network Europe: Geneva, Switzerland
2010
Knowledge Bowl Competition: Vilnius, Lithuania
2010
Independent Projects: TEDxBocconiU (visit)
Milano, Italy 2013
Architectural Biennale Venice Horizonte
(visit)
Venice, Italy 2012 Student organized lecture series and magazine
(guest hosting, English translations, editorial)
FIAC
(visit)
Summerfuel: UMASS LMH Oxford Univesity
Weimar, Germany 2012 Paris, France 2011
Amherst, USA 2010 Oxford,UK 2009
I am currently working on the planning and renovation of an old socialist dry cleaning building into a restaurant in my hometome, Sofia. These photos were taken as I was on the roof examining and measuring its construction.
Content
1 First Semester and smaller Projects (2011-12) 7 The Dance (SuSe 2012) 11 Propeller Pavilon (WiSe 2011) 15 Maison Icon (SuSe 2012) 21 The Latern (WiSe 2012) 27 Drawings (2010) 31 Application Hat (2011)
First Semester and Smaller Projects
Professorship: Design Theory and Methodology / Year: 2011
Author: B. Buyuklieva
Path+Rythm Task: Path + Rhythm Regardless of which path one takes, one will encounter elements that repeat themselves at different frequencies. This repetition occurs in different manners. Superposition and addition are only two examples, but even only these give the attentive flaneur something to study. These studies can be transformed into translations of the repetitions, a kind of ‘Rythmic’ were each element is moving at its own pace. Images of abstract shapes, such as points, lines or areas are the results of the Rythmic. Each form represents a separate order. These separate units are merged into one another and their relationship results in a compositional representation of reality. Concept: The rhythm of the street lights, the trees, the pedestrians and their steps served as the basis for this task. The lanterns form an important framework, as they illuminate the road at night and thereby define its shape. As a tribute to my fascination of Art Nouveau, the light fall has been abstracted as vertically falling rectangles. The braided elements represent the trees. A look up at the green foliage reveals an interconnected fabric of branches and twigs. The cubes represent the anonymous pedestrians. Although the people on the street share the same path, they remains strangers and barely distinguishable from each other.The zigzag form running through the heart of the composition represents the steps, the rhythm of the observer.
Professorship: Design Theory and Methodology /Year: 2011 Task: Gate+Passage (Model Photos and Perspective) Gates and passages are archetypes of situations and places, in which two different spaces coexist and intermix. Concept: In this small project rhythm and elevations are the leitmotivs of the design. Two landscapes of the same texture in different scale meet. The rising texture forms the space of the second landscape. Connecting the spaces is a roofed passage that leads from the flat landscape to an entrance the voluminous one
Task: Surface+Volume (Model photos) By the convolution of two planar surfaces, a spatial structure is formed. The two dimensional form of the surfaces defines how open or intimate the generated space will be. Concept: From a study of paper folds, I developed a sculpture appropriate for the function of a bus stop. An open, yet protective geometry that shields from wind and rain, it is a sculpture that allows for the waiting to comfortably keep an eye on the coming bus.
Author: B. Buyuklieva
Gate+Passage/Surface+Volume
Professorship: Design Theory and Methodology /Year: 2011
Author: B. Buyuklieva
Landscape+Border/ Body+Interior/ Surface+Space Task: Landscape+Border (Model photos) Landscape and its limit can be understood as synonyms for structures and the in them hidden, but recognizable lines. At the limit, or along the border, the morphological characteristics of a composite structure or landscape will be revealed. Concept: The studied structure is taken from the timber of a piece of furniture. Despite the smooth polish and glazing, the natural fiber structures and irregularities of the wood are still present. The main theme of the task is the juxtaposition of nature and culture, the random and the intended.
Task: Body+Interior (Working Model) The external space searches for three dimensional passage into the interior and thus forms a hollow body. Concept: The playful use of layers leads to unconventional spaces that perforate and thus redefine the volume of the cube. Task: Surface+Space (Folded Paper) Space can be described as the deformation: the bending and folding of surfaces. Concept: The interplay of traditional origami asymmetry produced the following study.
Independent Project/Year: 2012 Task: A temporary exhibition space for the art festival accompanying Robert Wilson’s Via Crucis Installation. Dimensions: 10x20x4M (Accommodating 14 art projects) Location: Viehauktionshalle, Weimar Concept: Pipes are a transitory space, they contain and transport from one environment to the next. Considering the raw, harsh appeal of the Viehauktionshalle(former livestock auction hall), its untamed natural surroundings, background of rushing trains and the soon-to-come equipment containers, the site has an industrial atmosphere, which is best captured by the industrial vein of any piece of construction: the pipe. The rhythmic pipe walls are fairly light. This means that the walls could be assembled elsewhere and be brought to the location. Depending on the assembly, the pipes may be borrowed for the event and returned to the manufacturer after the disassembly. The small gaps between the pipes allow light from the exhibition space to wander outwards, making the pavilion seem luminous from the outside during the evening. The pipe construction also allows for cables to discretely be brought into the exhibition space. The Pavilion’s rectangular shape complements the structure of the dominating Viehaktionshalle. The former provides a neutral space and flexible interior to accommodate the installations. Logistically the simple rectangle is ideal for a temporary building because it is unpretentious to construct.
This project was an open competition for any architecture student at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. It was completed shortly after the end of my first semester and marks my first experience with an architectural competition.
Author: B. Buyuklieva
Contribution to the Via Crucis-Pavilion Competition
Professorship: Design and Building Construction/ Year: 2012
Author: B. Buyuklieva
Trampoline House Task: Choose a music piece that has a special value to you. Design a small space, in which you want to hear this work as an only listener with a single music source. Concept: The Trampoline House was dedicated to the song “Venice” by the Lighthouse and the Whaler. The song is a playful Memento Mori that asks with childlike naivety, why we forget to live with love and passion. The design should reflect the mood of the song- thoughtful, almost sad yet as the same time playful and energetic. The most of the small room’s floor is a trampoline with the music source right underneath it. The trampoline provides the listener with room to jump or take rest on it whilst listening to the song. The façade is perforated so that the light fall in the room is a playful pattern that dances with every sway of the trees outside or jump of the listener insider. The entrance is very small und unsuspecting. It is reminiscent of the wardrobe doors that lead into the magical world of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia and in a way it does lead into another place, a space where the listener is free to be a child again.
The Dance
“I am not interested in how they move, but what moves them..�
Pina Bausch
Professorship: Advanced Studies in Philosophy and Practice of Architecture/ Year: 2012 Task: “The exterior and the interior are to entities- leaning towards each other, willing to share their estrangement, willing to touch” Location: Essen, Germany Purpose and size was left open. Concept: The design is dedicated and based on the spatial interpretations of Pina Bausch’s work. Bausch is an important German choreographer who graduated and worked in Essen at the Folkwang University of the Arts. Space Organization: A courtyard, which can be transformed into an open-air theater 11 Dance Studios 4 Changing Rooms 6 Bathrooms 1 Café (Müller) The building has two faces, a closed and protective façade towards the street and a revealing façade towards the inner courtyard. The facades are an abstraction of the soft fabrics that capture the gestures of the dance by moving with the dancer. The fine material is a strong visual element in Bausch’s work, especially in “Café Müller” and “Vollmond”. It is a medium with two extremes, containing and tight where it is stretch, lose and uncovering, like the opening curtains of the performer’s stage where it falls freely. The inner façade opens towards the open air theater and uncovers the rehearsing dancers like a falling cloth with many folds. The geometry of the studios and the interior as a whole form an embracing body, dressed in the two facades. The body’s back is turned to the street, its arms bending to create the sitting area of the open theater and the embrace becoming the theater itself.
Author: M. Atanasova/ B. Buyuklieva
The Dance
The Dance
EG
OG 1
OG 2
Propeller Pavilion
Professorship: Design Theory and Methodology /Year: 2012 Task: SPIEL.GARTEN.PAVILLION A pavilion for travelers and their children to enjoy whilst waiting for their flight. Location: Leipzig-Halle Airport Concept: The geometry of the pavilion was developed after a visit to the Hugo Junkers Museum in Dessau and based on the wind tunnel and propeller models seen there. The pavilion has been pushed down to create a new level - a game arena, sheltered from the nearby car park and the street. The new layer will provide children with a place that allows them to define their own games on the playground without the bias of artificial play installations- a space where they can play at will. The inside of the lower propeller is polished to be reflective. It becomes a huge distorted mirror, the type one encounters at carnivals, where children can amuse themselves at the their own image from a different perspective. The distorted mirror resembles the experience of travel: one leaves home searching for a familiar image, but from a new perspective. This project has been exhibited: -at the main building of the Bauhaus University in Weimar by van de Velde as one of the few projects shortlisted for the end of the semester exhibition -at the Leipzig-Halle Airport
Left page: above: perspective on the right: plan with horizontal section on the left: site plan Right page: above: south elevation underneath: vertical section
Author: B. Buyuklieva
Propeller Pavilion
Propeller Pavilion
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
Maison Icon PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUC
Professorship: Design and Building Construction/ Year: 2012
Author: B. Buyuklieva
Task:
Maison Icon
1
Raw finish tar paper (double-layered) OSB board 12mm Vapor barrier foil 1mm Thermal insulation 200mm Wooden battens 50/60mm Pine plywood sheets 15mm
Maison Icon A house is to be designed with an iconic character that would be suitable as a permanent residence for a small family with children. The design should take into account the constructive aspects of the building by means of details. The project is to be completed so that a section of the house is drawn with other necessary details and based on the section drawing, a model is to be made.
Total 288mm
Concept: The masonry faรงade was chosen to represent the traditional family values: stability through the joint strength of the individual members of the whole. The interior of the house is made of pine, which forms the bright and warm core of the design. The materiality of the interior reflects the warm environment one wants come home to.
Above: Drip edge detail
Below: Drip edge detail in model
Maison Icon
Excerpts of layout Left: Facade section Right: Elevations and ground plans
Maison Icon
Model photos of the building’s South-West corner.
Maison Icon Details of the facade section
Floorboards Screed with floor heating Sound insulation OSB board Wooden beams Mineral wool insulation Battens Pine plywood sheets
30mm 75mm 40mm 22mm 10/20 80mm 40mm 15mm
Total 302mm
Above: Ceiling Connection
Floorboards Screed with floor heating Vapor foil Sound insulation
30mm 75mm 1mm 40mm
Cementitious screed Plastic separation layer Thermal insulations (vapor-proof) Concrete slab PE-Foil Insulation Lean concrete Gravel
40mm 1mm 80mm 400mm 15mm 100mm 50mm 50mm
Total 858mm
Below: Ground connection
The Lantern
Professorship: Design and Building Construction/ Year: 2012
Verfasser: Anna R./ Amelie B./ Dimtra P./ Boyana B.
The Lantern
Space Organization: Administration Office 15m2 Staff WC 5m2 Entrance Foyer 180m2 Counter 15m2 Bar 10m2 Wardrobe 20m2 WC 20m2 Event area Concert hall 250m2 Stage 40m2 Gallery 50m2 Performer Wardrobe 25m2 Technical elements/ Warehouse Piano/chair Storage 30m2 Stage tech. 20m2 Sound tech. 15m2 House tech. 40m2 Cleaner’s room 5m2
EG
Keller
OG
The Lantern Concept: The Lantern A public building covered in travertine, with windows not necessary seen, but felt by the light rushing out of them. A respectfully monumental volume with deep cuts, which emit light- this is the lantern. The entrance is oriented based on the axes of the GeleitstraĂ&#x;e and Am Zeughof street. The design incorporated the gate situation forehand and makes it the starting point of the entrance’s glass corner. The shift in materiality, from travertine to glass opens the building and invites visitors to wander in. A large opening marks the spot where the chamber music hall sits. When desired, it allows for the audience to enjoy the spatial qualities of the courtyard behind the building, whilst listening to a southing concert.
The Lantern Task: Chamber music hall Measurements: 12mx8mx8m Examine the design possibilities of the floor, wall and ceiling with regards to their acoustic functions. In considering the design, think in terms of finishes and materials. How to these affect the acoustic performance of the hall? Concept Most chamber music halls are a painful compromise between the desires of the architects and the requirements of the acoustician, where neither party is ever fully satisfied with the result. To avoid this situation, the design was divided into two working realmsthat of the architect and that of the acoustician. This was possible by the choice of the horizontal lath structure that permits sound waves to travel across the room, whilst concealing the awkward acoustic requirements for the geometry of the walls. In this way, the acoustician could work independently of the architect without having to change the visual aesthetics of the room. The functionality of the design is strongly based on a report by the leading sound engineers of PEUTZ concerning a larger concert hall in the Netherlands. A needed degree of irregularity was integrated into the design to avoid overlay of sound coloration, by means of the milk glass ‘windows’. These are connected to the outer façade windows by a small box-like shape, with integrated lighting technic. This allows for natural light to fill the chamber hall during the day. In the evenings the artificial light is used and in this way the concept of the lantern is strengthened- the windows shed light to the streets as well as to the hall when a concert takes place.
The Lantern
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
Drawings
A selection of drawing exhibited at the Galeria Industrialna 11, Sofia in 2010. (More drawings and paintings at issuu.com/boyanab)
This is my responce to the entrance task(to create a hat) for the Bauhaus University in Weimar.
Contact: boyana.buyuklieva@uni-weimar.de (During the semester) Boyana Buyuklieva Jakobsplan 1 Zi. 11012 99423 Weimar, Deutschland (Between semesters) Boyana Buyuklieva blvd. Praga 28 1606 Sofia, Bulgaria