DARKO BOGDANOV ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
PROJECTS ARCHITECTURE MODELS ILLUSTRATIONS
01 | Farum
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Farum, Denmark
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02 | House in Nature
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Bistra, Romania
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03 | EVOLO Skysrapper
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International
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04 | Pallet Picnic Park
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Tulcea, Romania
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05 | Eco - Housing
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Lรถrrach, Germany
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06 | The Foundry
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London, UK
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07 | Kรถln Messe
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Kรถln, Germany
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08 | Central Station
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Timisoara, Romania
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COMPETITION ENTRY July 2011
01 Farum Urban planning
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Chance for Development Farum forms part of the Finger Plan developed for Copenhagen in 1947. Introducing a city with its own train station, we are writing a new chapter in the history of the Finger Plan development. This makes it an exceptional chance to develop the concept for future railway towns in the Denmark.
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Rather than the traditional suburb, the city is to hold different types of relatively dense low rise typologies with small gardens and large common areas. The Green Heart serves as the city’s community garden where city life can unfold. Along the perimeter of the city the structure merges with the surrounding landscape. This results in a city with unique encounters between landscape and settlement - both in the center and along the edges. The dense urban fabric creates a vibrant urban environment, while landscape and nature are always present.
The life of Farum revolves around a central square space, The Green Heart, uniting the best of two worlds: Urban life and services with a scenic location and recreational environments. The Green Heart is a unique urban space that integrates nature, urban life, and pedestrian infrastructure. Here, the city’s residents gather for recreation, shopping, sports, and other activities. School and childcare centers; sports clubs and clubhouses are all arranged around The Green Heart – and are in close proximity to the train station.
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HOUSE IN NATURE Description A house for a family with 2 children, an escape from the city and a healthy place for their young. The father is a lumberjack and has a wood-cutting company and the mother musician and loves to play the piano. They also have horses that they love to ride.
Structure The structure is made of prefabricated frames, built offsite for saving time in the buildingphase.
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Materials used Garage Horse stable
The materials chosen are from local suppliers, the house uses solar energy and efficient isolation to provide a comfortable climate all year.
Music pavillion Family House
Boat dock
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EVOLO
03 SKYSCRAPER COMPETITION International
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Competition The eVolo Skyscraper Competition has become the world’s most prestigious award for high-rise architecture. Projects that analyze the reconfiguration of existing cities and the colonization of new environments, such as underwater cities and floating habitats, are part of the New Frontiers.
Concept For this project we imagined an apocalyptic scenario, global war that left the earth frozen and air unbreathable at the ground surface, humans take to the sky and start building vertically and break out of the toxic clouds and radiation covering the ground surface. The structure extends vertically to catch the sun`s energy and underground to use the natural heating of the earth. A more experimental approach to architectural design is exposed in Morphotectonic Aesthetics, with proposals that use fields of data and self-regulating systems to respond to internal and external stimuli - the results are fascinating explorations of function and form.
The building will have fast vertical and horizontal transport, the upper levels will be for the super rich and healthy and going down the quality will drop, the lower levels of the tower will be flooded with people, building around and on the structures much as we see in today`s Favelas, people build small houses around rich developments and maybe find work and have a better life connecting to the tower`s energy.
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04 Pallet Picnic Park
2013
Timisoara, Romania
COMPETITION ENTRY
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First Prize
Competition The picnic park competition was organized by a national recycling company that wanted to promote simple sustainable design. Our project got the first prize because it used simple recycled materials and was easy to build. We used wooden pallets that are easy to find in any local warehouse, they are made to last in harsh conditions and supports weight, making it a perfect ``brick`` for our project.
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Concept Shipping pallets are like LEGOs - you can build practically anything out of them. Over the years we’ve seen some amazing structures created with these recycled materials - from emergency housing to interiors, temporary theaters and even gardens. You can find shipping pallets in every country in standard sizes, and they can usually be picked up for free or at most for a few dollars apiece.
Furniture We designed a series of exterior furniture made out of full pallets or elements and also massive sculptures or amphitheaters for theater or concerts.
Building it After winning the competition we traveled to Bucharest and got the job to build the real park in the city that will win the national recycling competition. The winning city was Tulcea, a small port city by the BlackSea. Our site chosen for the park was facing a lake and had some trees for shading, we created furniture to enjoy the sun by the lake and also tables and benches by the treas to enjoy the shade on a summer day. Together with a team of woodworkers, we created a small hill out of pallets to have a better view of the lake. on the site, we planted trees and installed lights. The end result was a new green and safe place to have a picnic.
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Event Pavilion After the synagogue pavilion, which was received well by the public, we got commissioned to build a modular pavilion for music events. We then worked closely together with PlanControl Architects from our city and calculated all the costs and created details on how the modular pallet pavilion will be built anywhere.
Public discussion pavilion Our park was published in the national architecture magazine and we got more work, this time on a pavilion for a city conference between the local authorities and the architects to discuss the green infrastructure of our city. The project borrowed pallets from the local beer factory and together with a team of student volunteers we assembled our pavilion in front of an old synagogue. We also used the opportunity to use the courtyard of the synagogue for music and light installations giving ideas to the locals. The pavilion included 4 big trees that we had to bring in from a local farm. With our project, we started a discussion about public space and the need for trees on our streets.
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Lรถrrach, Germany
Eco-Housing
Description In 2012 I collaborated with other students and we participated in European competition of design. The main objective was the implementation of smart living units on an urban scale. The city was awarded that year for the greenest European city and it wanted to encourage other eco-friendly developments. Our proposal combines solar, geothermal, smart energy storage systems, good isolation and prefabricated timber frames from the local wood storage to create a sustainable and cost-efficient product. The units are arranged to have the best views of the surroundings and also allow for a small landscaping phase, with a small stream passing through the site.
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The Foundry
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Southwark Foundry and Annexe
2015
London, UK
Project Everyone should have opportunities to contribute to making to remaking the place where they live by coming together to develop common spaces and shared resources. Fostering this link between grassroots enthusiasm and strategic regeneration was our goal for this project.
Description The Foundry in London is a project I worked on with magma architecture in Berlin, the project was in the initial stage and I worked closely with the team to prepare material for the first and second meeting with the developers. My work involved conceptual design, mapping the old historical building and planning the new mixed-use extension. The site is on the corner of Blackfriars Road and the area is in full-scale development change, with a new tall residential building being build in the close vicinity. We started with a pan to preserve the old building and extend vertically, because of the neighboring buildings the shape we ended up with was interesting to explore. In order to make it less visible and less imposing from the street view, we chose a transparent membrane material to cover our building, letting light in until the lower levels of the old building
Through his recent strategies, from housing and economic development, to the draft London Plan, the Mayor has begun to implement his vision for ‘A City for All Londoners’ – supporting ‘good growth’, with strong communities and active citizenship at the heart of public life.
Restauration and Extension
June 2015
Long-Term Plan
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Koelnmesse New Terminal Proposal
Concept
07 2015
Proposal As the new centre of the southern part of the exhibition grounds, the new Terminal will connect the various entrances and halls with one another and at the same time enable the different areas of the exhibition centre to be flexibly used. It will simplify and clarify the centre’s structure, abolishing the need for detours. Shops and catering outlets will make the Terminal an attractive place for people to spend their time. A glazed roof will let light shine into the building unhindered.
COMPETITION ENTRY
June 2015
In order to solve the planning issues connected with the project, Koelnmesse had decided to conduct a competition in two processing phases. Phase 1, 20 firms were selected from a total of 81 submissions and asked to work out their proposals for the connectivity issues between the buildings.
Köln, Germany
Impact Koelnmesse is explicitly striving to create the world’s most attractive inner-city exhibition center so that it can continue to provide exhibitors and visitors with an appropriate setting for trade fairs, congresses and other events in the future. That’s why Koelnmesse is planning to make major investments in the future of the exhibition center and the trade fair program until 2030. The plan is titled “Koelnmesse 3.0” and encompasses investments of more than Euro 600 million until 2030. Koelnmesse intends to align the exhibition centre and the infrastructure with the requirements of the trade fair business .
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Central Station 08 Timisoara, Romania
2017
Oportunity China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an ambitious program to connect Asia with Africa and Europe via land and maritime networks along six corridors with the aim of improving regional integration, increasing trade and stimulating economic growth. The Belt and Road Initiative addresses an “infrastructure gap” and thus has the potential to accelerate economic growth across the Asia Pacific area and Central and Eastern Europe
Location Timisoara is situated in a developing region with infrastructure projects that will change it`s economy, the train station is today in a poor state and it uses only 20% of its rail network. Bringing back to use this connection will increase mobility in the region and allow people to commute to work more efficiently, bringing social and economic benefits.
Vision The project connects surrounding major cities from 3 different countries accumulating to a regional population of 2 million, this includes the joint expansion project between Timisoara and its closest neighbor Arad. New retail developments drive job creation and the innovative use of existing space can unlock land previously thought to be inaccessible. Today, the impact of stations goes far beyond architecture and aesthetics – stations can genuinely transform local economies and communities.
Reginal Development Urban planning and development, including regional planning, addresses the direction and management of building and regional development projects in residential, community and municipal areas, including traffic and transport, utilities, services and waste disposal, land use regulation plus nature and landscape conservation. To meet these responsibilities, the project and the people involved must be aware of and consider the interactions between political, social, economic and engineering aspects.
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The Goal The main goal of the program is to reduce disadvantages in the poorest areas by focusing on four issues: unemployment, poor health, crime, and education. Other issues such as improvement to the physical environment are secondary to these main priorities.
Long - Term Development Housing will be made affordable, projected at 14 percent lower than the surrounding metro area, through timber-frame construction and the hope offered by modular units, micro-units, and co-housing. Integrated planning with an eco-focus. The goal was and still is to create a residential environment based on sustainable resource usage, where energy consumption and waste production are minimized, and resource-saving and recycling are simultaneously maximized. The new train station extension and pedestrian connections will bring people more easy to this area. Integrating living and working together with a wide range of activities and green areas make for a better standard of living in this area.
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Architecture Models Scale models Both physical and computer-generated images are tools that architects can use to communicate the design directly to a client, but from personal experience, individuals have always seemed to be much more responsive to physical models that have the ability to convey a sense of depth, dimension & texture. During my internships or mini-jobs, I had the opportunity to work hand`s on with materials and create scale models for our projects. This is one of my favorite parts of designing a building, I love to spend hours brainstorming and trying different materials and form ideas
SLEDOM LAR SNOITATNESE
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Illustrations
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Digital Representations
PhotoCollage
Overlays
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Small Projects
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography
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CONTACT Berlin + 49 179 2838740 bogdanov_darko@yahoo.com
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