Darni Struijck - Architectural Portfolio

DARNI STRUIJCK Architecture Portfolio Masters of Architecture student School of Architecture and Design Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 2012- present Completing Masters of Architecture (Professional) 2009-2012 Bachelor of Architectural Studies (BAS) Experience 2013- Present (Part-time) Dalgleish Architects, Wanganui Administration Site Levels 3D Modelling (Revit & SketchUp) Working Drawings (AutoCAD & Revit) Visual Presentations (Revit Rendering & Adobe Photoshop) 2009-2012 (Holiday Work) Dalgleish Architects, Wanganui Administration, 3D Modelling Visual Presentations (Revit Rendering & Adobe Photoshop)

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Opening Statement

Architecture in flux, architecture as an urban farmer and interactive architecture expresses the architecture that I have explored over the last four years at the School of Architecture and Design, Victoria of University of Wellington. My interest in these conditions stem from my fascination about shaking architecture from stagnation and extending its capabilities. An architecture that is in a state of flux creates spaces that are unpredictable and changeable, denoting that the user’s experiences and perception of space is altered.

Architecture in flux becomes a spectacle and questions the status quo. Architecture as an urban farmer where it collects its own solar, wind and kinetic energy (from users) and rainwater for its own use and has the potential to feed it into the grid means that the architecture has a higher capability. I enjoy designing buildings that can operate autonomously. Kinetic panels are an innovative technology that can harvest the energy of users using the space and transforming the energy to source the movement of the moveable elements in the design. The notion of interactive architecture comes into play when users realize the impact they have on the architecture. The user is part of the performance and can see the spectacle take place. I believe this heightens the experience of architecture and strengthens the relationship between body and architecture.

Accessibility within and around our built environment is very important to me. My younger brother is confined to a wheelchair so we have always been challenged with approachability, mobility, and ease of access. In the design of spaces, we should design with access in mind; it should not come secondary.

Currently, I am completing my thesis where I explore how the proportions of a human in a wheelchair could be used as a catalyst in the design of architecture. Architecture can be understood as an abstraction of the human body. To be design successfully is to design for the body that occupies it. Throughout history, man has had a relationship with architecture. Architecture can be understood as an abstraction of the human body. To be designed successfully is to design it for the body that occupies it. Throughout history, man has had a relationship with architecture. The Vitruvian Man and The Modulor were two models where the body was the basis for measurement and proportions for architecture. The return of the body introduces the Prosthetic Human. The Prosthetic Human (body and machine) is the new body which will serve as a referent and figurative inspiration in the design of architecture.

Outside of architecture, I still delve into the creative world and invest time in fashion and crafts. I enjoy creating new pieces and sculpting them into architectural form. I enjoy socializing and travelling to new places (near and far) to heighten my experience and ignite inspiration.

I appreciate your time and I hope you enjoy looking through my portfolio. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you.

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Featured Projects

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Vibration

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Aleatoric Music

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Excited State

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Botanic Gardens

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VIBRATION Inspired by the spider and the architecture of the web Masters of Architecture (Professional) Year: 2012 Tutor: Chris Moller

Building on any institutes the eradication of established ecologies. My group’s design intent for our architectural prooposal is the idea of nature and prosthetics - we are creating something that would have naturally occured otheriwse. Architecture and nature are regarded as separated entities. However, this position brings about an opportunit to formualte a proposal where nature can inform architecture. The project seeks to explore the opportunity of cohabitation where all systems live harmonically with each other.

The analysis of upper Cuba Street showed that there are three areas of spider habititation.The design exploits the behaviour of the spider and the aesthetic an function of its web as a way to inform architecture. The primary’s primary sense is tactility; they can feel their prey through vibration faster than they can see. Tactility and vibration, then, are the key drivers in the design and expressed through triangular kinetic panels that absorb movement, light, wind, and sound. The architectural product is a four-storey innovation hub with a four-levelled underground carpark, health spa and supermarket.

A central radial structure, constructed from reinforced concerete, supports and connects all eight levels where the core functions as a light shaft and a circulation route. My design concerns the ground and first floor level of the innovvation hub which provides office, swimming pool, bike storage and hydroponic garden facilities. The aesthetical quality of space denotes a facetted traingular world, highlighting the potential of architecture to take on a much more organic and dynamic form. It does so by unlocking what occurs in nature and translating it into architecture, creating new ways that architecture is understood and experienced.

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Process

Top Left: Evidence of spider habitation in Cuba Street.

Middle Left: Diagrammatic illustration og construction phases of a web.

Bottom Left: Sketch of zoning areas according to web architecture.

Bottom Right: Physical model of facetted landscape and division of space.

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Axonometric View

Above: Axonometric view of architectural and landscape scheme informed by the behaviour and architecture of a spider.

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Ground Floor Plan

Exploded Axonometric View

Left: Ground Floor Plan Right: Exploded axonometric view of scheme,

illustrating construction systems and zones of vibration/energy absorption.

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Partial Section AA’

Above: Section AA� through swimming pool and garden which provides vegetables for the restaurant and recreational urban gardens for the residents.

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Swimming Pool

Above: Interior view of swimming pool. Facetted ceiling is composed of triangular shaped acoustic panels which absorp the sound of users within space.

The space is rendered purple to stimulate activity and further makes reference to purple having the highest wave frequency, meaning higher vibrations.

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ALEATORIC MUSIC Architecture left to chance Bachelor of Architecture (BAS) Year: 2011 Tutor: Daniele Abreu e Lima

TECHNIQUE: 88 notes of the piano were mixed in a hat. Each card drawn was drawn out of the hat, one at a time. Each note was written on the score sheet in the order they were drawn out.

PERFORMANCE: Performer has control over the articulation and duration of each note.

Erratum Musical is a musical composition based on chance, where the experience of the composition is one of randomness. The proposal for the New Zealand School of Music is a translation of aleatoric music. This is architecturally depicted through the random placements of volumes within a composed structural grid. The architectural form of the musical school was generated by employing the same technique that Marcel Duchamp conducted. The six programs of the musical school were thrown into a hat and pulled out one by one. Each program was assigned a position on site according to their order of which they were pulled out. The details or the performance of the architecture is controlled by the designers articulation.

The articulation phase includes the refinement of program and involves the pushing and pulling out of volumes out of the composed structural grid.

The atrium space is not only the place of orientation but also the place where the student staff or visitor can view the non-ordered positioning of volumes. Volumes protrude over the void, creating a dynamic, unpredicted environment. The structure of the architecture reinforce the idea of non-order though the use of gravitational resisting columns which are randomly placed. Minor spaces are created between the columns or the columns are the feature of the room as disruption of space.

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Process

BUILDING PROGRAM DIVIDED INTO 6 VOLUMES

MIXED IN A HAT 1. Entry/ Reception Area 2. Staff Block 3. Academic Block 4. Library 5. Auditorium

ORDER OF CHANCE 1. Entry/ Reception Area 2. Auditorium 3. Staff Block 4. Library 5. Academic Block

Top Left: Division of program into volumes Top Right: Random assembly of volumes Middle: Schematic plans of volume and program arrangment Bottom: Physical model of volume arrangement

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Floor Plans

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Contextual Images

Left: Contextual images of the National School of Music from Ghuznee Street.

Right: Interior image of the atrium space which visually connects all randomly placed volumes.

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EXCITED STATE Kinetic train station Bachelor of Architecture (BAS) Year: 2010 Tutor: Lisa Crutchley

The relationship between us and architecture is the building block – the Atom. Both can experience the excited state when particles get excited by a mean, and in turn create a product. When an atom gets excited, it vibrates erratically and as it decays, it produces an emission of light. The train station, elevated, is a presentation of excitation.

At a distance, before trains arrive into the station, it is merely a box shaped station, dull in its surroundings. As people enter the building, ceramic tiles absorbs their kinetic energy and store the energy until 5 seconds before the train arrives, the energy is converted and transferred to the fragmented walls of the station. As a response, the walls extrude outwards into the surrounding, exposing the top of the building to the exterior. The amount of opening of the structure depends on the amount of people who have entered the building. The station will re-calculate the kinetic energy after the trains have departed. The users experience this state of excitation by the emotion of overwhelmed and surprise as one would not expect a building to open up around them.

During day time, the decay of the structure is the emission of daylight into the space, which aims to excite the dull, dark interior and “excite”, “liven” and stimulate the interior architecture and the people within it who are either working or waiting for the train. The play of shadow and light create a dynamic space.

During night hours, artificial lighting systems are the emission of light. As a closed space, the space is glowing inside, creating a warming cocoon for users within. The exterior is unaffected by the lighting until the structure opens. The surrounding space becomes lively by the addition of light. By doing so, the structure is a night attraction and by the use of light embracing the surrounding, the space is safer to use.

The surrounding is a hub of transportation; diverse modes such as taxis, buses and monorails are at the ready. By doing so, the area is more concentration and ease congestion through the space and in public transport systems.

The space is a place of excitement. The space experiences the busyness and dynamic nature of the monorail which intensifies the excitation. The building experiences the feeling of excitation, as the structure vibrates upon the sound of the approaching trains and experiences a dynamic nature by opening itself up. The users and passerby’s of the space, experience excitement as they are occupied within a building that moves by their manipulation of the space – their kinetic energy.

The transportation hub is the space of excitation.

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Process

Top Left: Break down of the make-up of humans and architecture Top Right: Diagrammatic analysis of atom behaviour - excited state and emission of light as a by-product.

Middle: Translation of how architecture could have ‘excited’ states.

Bottom: Translation how architecture could emit light into space as a by-product from the excited states.

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Architectural Form

Above: Plans, elvations and section sillustrating the architectural form at differing states.

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Development of Architectural Form

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Contextual Image - Synthesis of Excited States

Above: Contextual View, from Lambton Quay, of the transportation hub. The heights below the station permits buses to pass under and operate as normal. The behaviour of the train station is illustrated through the overlaying of differing excited states which are dependant on the number of people entering the station

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Interior Images of Excited States

Above: Interior views of train station, both in day and night, illlustrating the behaviour of the train station at differing excited levels and illustrating the experience within the space.

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BOTANIC GARDEN RESTAURANT & CAFE Construction Drawings Bachelor of Architectural Studies (BAS) Year: 2011 Supervisor: Nilesh Bakshi

These drawings were drawn in Graphisoft ArchiCAD.

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SOLAR DECATHLON HOUSE Building, Materials & Construction Design, Drawings & Details Bachelor of Architecture (BAS) Year: 2010 Tutor: Ray

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Plan and Elevation Drawings

Above: Plan and Fit-out Elevation of rotating kitchen bench

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Plan, Section and Axonometric Drawings

Above: Plan, Section and Axonometric drawings of rotating kitchen bench

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