Architecture Portfolio 2024

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2023

DIANA AZBENOVA

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PROFESSIONAL WORK

CAI CAI VILLA CASTRO, CHILE 2023

SIPHON MOON 2019

SOLENE BRONX, NY 2022

MELK! FIDI, NY

LABO DESIGN STUDIO

TRIBECA,NY

STUDIO: JIMENEZ LAI FALL

“ANOTHER ARARAT”

NATURAL AND MAN CROPPED LANDFILLS IN THE HILLS OF STUDIO CITY CREATE A HABITAT FOR MOST OF THE RESERVOIRS IN LOS ANGELES.

CONTAMINATION AND DROUGHT OF THOSE CALL FOR DESIGN THAT REPURPOSES ITS PROGRAM TO SAVE THE WATER AND THE ENVIRONMENT

REVITALIZING DRYING HABITAT

LOS ANGELES, IN THE MIDSTOF CLIMATE CHANGE, IS IN NEED OF MORE THOUGHT AND ACTION TOWARDS SAVING ITS WATER RESOURCES. WITH LAKES AND OPEN RESERVOIRS SLOWLY DRYING, IT BECOMES A LARGE ISSUE FOR THE ECOLOGY.

UPPER STONE

THE UNDERGROUND CITY, CAMOUFLAGED UNDER THE THIN LAYER OF CRUSTED INHABITABLE SPACES, CAN ACCOMODATE AROUND 500 PEOPLE FROM LOS ANGELES.

100 OF THOSE ARE PAID SEATS, AND 400 ARE SELECTED BY CERTAIN CRITERIAS TO BUILD A NEW WORLD WHERE PEOPLE CAN COEXIST WITH EACH OTHER, AND PROVIDE VALUABLE RESOURCES TO THIS NEW STAGE.

WE NEVER KNOW WHAT KIND OF CIRCUMSTANCES MIGHT MOVE OUR MOTIVES TO BUILD CITIES UNDERGROUND, BUT WE CAN INTERPRET SCENARIOS. THUS, THEY MIGHT LOOK AS DARK AS ILLUSTRATED WITH ALL THE WEIGHT OF THE OCCURED SITUATIONS. HOWEVER, IN THOUSANDS OF YEARS THEY ALSO BECOME MEMORIES AND MONUMENTS OF THE HISTORY, TO NEVER REPEAT WHAT WE AS HUMANS DO TO OUR SURROUNDINGS.

'ANOTHER ARARAT'

THE ECOLOGY OF PARANOIA

THIS SPECULATIVE DESIGN REIMAGINES THE UNDERGROUND WORLD TO PLAY WITH AN IDEA OF THE FEELING. THE DARKNESS AND HOPELESSNESS OF THE SITUATION IS WHAT THE

BUNKER ARARAT CAN HOLD AND EXPAND TO MORE THAN 500 PEOPLE. IT HAS WATER TANKS UNDERGROUND TO PROVIDE WATER, ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL SUPPLY.

THE FARM LOCATED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE UNDERGROUND CITY, CAN PROVIDE ALL THE NUTRITIOUS VEGETABLES NEEDED FOR A HEALTHY HUMAN.

“CAI CAI VILLA”

STUDIO: FABIAN LLONCH & DAVID ERDMAN SPRING

CAI CAI VILA

LOCATED IN CASTRO, CHILOE, THIS PROJECT AIMS TO BRING AN INNOVATIVE AND SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION TO THE LOCAL WATER CRISIS BY IMPLEMENTING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR COLLECTING AND FILTERING BLUE AND BLACK WATER TO BRING IT UPLAND. OUR CONCEPT DERIVES FROM LOCAL LEGENDS ABOUT MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES AND DESIGNED TO BE A FUNCTIONAL AND ARTISTIC INTERPRETATION OF THESE TALES. CASTRO IS KNOWN FOR ITS UNIQUE ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE AND NATURAL BEAUTY. IT IS SURROUNDED BY WATER, AND AS AN ARCHIPELAGO THE MAIN GOAL IS TO MAKE THE ISLAND INDEPENDENT.

ONE YEAR

FIVE YEARS YEARS

THE INSPIRATION FOR THIS PROJECT IS DRAWN FROM LOCAL LEGENDS AND MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES, THAT AIMS TO EVOKE THE SPIRIT OF THESE CREATURES AND TO CREATE A UNIQUE AND MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE FOR VISITORS. THE PUBLIC SPACE PROGRAM, ON THE OTHER HAND, INCLUDES MARKETS AND VARIOUS STORES THAT PEOPLE MIGHT UTILIZE TO SELL LOCAL PRODUCE SUCH AS FISH, VEGETABLES AND FRUITS, AS WELL AS HANDMADE GOODIES.

THIS PROPOSAL TO AN AMPHIBIOUS ARCHITECTURE IN THIS AREA IS DESIGNED TO ADAPT TO THE CHANGING WATER LEVELS AND SERVE AS A PUBLIC SPACE FOR THE LOCALS TO USE WHENEVER IT BECOMES DENSIFIED THROUGHOUT TIME. ONE OF THE MAIN FEATURES OF THE PROJECT IS ITS ABILITY TO COLLECT AND FILTER BOTH BLUE AND BLACK WATER THROUGH THE TANKS THAT ARE BURIED IN THE LANDSCAPE AND CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS THAT FILTER WATER. IT DIRECTLY INFLUENCED DESIFN DECISION TO HOW THIS PROJECT MOVES UP TO SEND THE WATER UPHILL.

WETLAND BLUE WATER DISTRIBUTION

BLACK WATER DISTRIBUTION

“MOONCEPTION”

MOON SUMMER

SIPHON

THE FUTURE OF COLONIZATION IS EXPANSION THROUGH EFFICIENCY. SEGMENTING THECOLONIZATION IN STAGES WOULD ALLOW FOR THE ACQUISITION OF LOCAL RESOURCES PRIOR TO NTHE ARRIVAL OF THE COLONISTS. RESEARCH BAYS WOULD BE THE NEXT STAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLONY TO PROCESS THE ACQUIRED MATERIALS FOR USE IN CONSTRUCTION OF NEW MODULES AND TO SECURE THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE SOLONISTS WHICH WOULD INHABIT THEM. TAKING RESOURCES FROM THE LUNAR SURFACE TO PROVIDE AN EXPERIENCE THAT IS NOT ONLY COMFORTING TO THE RESEARCHERS , BUT AKSI SATISFYING IN TERMS OF CURIOSITY AMONG SPACE TOURISTS.

THE RESEARCH BAYS CONSIST OF ELIPTICAL SKIN, SURFACE TETHERS, MAIN ENTRIES ON THE SURFACE AND CRATER AND TRANSIT SHAFT FOR THE ROVER. SPHERICAL SHAPE MAXIMIZES SUNLIGHT TO ALL STAGES. ADHERE INITIAL SHAFT STAGE TO CRATER WALLS FOR STABILITY OF THE COLONY. THERE ARE MULTIPLEM MODULES: AGRICULTURE MODULE, LIVING QUARTERS, WELLNESS AND RECREATION MODULES AS WELL AS RESEARCH BAYS. THE STAGES OF MODULES GROWTH

“SOLENE”

BRONX, NY SPRING

SOLENE

THIS PROJECT IS CONCIEVED OUT OF A DESIRE TO PROVIDE STRIKING GLIMPSES OF AND FLASHBACKS TO THE HARLEM RIVER-SIDE BRONX’S RICH, BIODIVERSE HISTORY. SOLENE PROVIDES A NATATORY EXPERIENCE THAT ON ONE END EVOKES AND REVERS ITS NATURAL HISTORY WHILE AT ANOTHER END ACKNOWLEDGES A STARK CONTRAST TO THE PRESENT DAY REALITIES OF OUR SITE’S RISING FLOOD LINES AND GENERATIONS OF HUMAN DISPLACEMENT AND WASTE. THE DICHOTOMY IS BEIING CONVEYED BY CARVING OUT INTENTIONAL MOMENTS OF LIGHT, WATERSCAPE AND TERRAIN FROM A MONOLITHIC ARCHITECTURE FOR VISITORS TO EXPLORE AND CONTEMPLATE HOW VARIOUS SEEMINGLY DISPARATE ELEMENTS OF OUR CLIMATE CRISISES MIGHT BE PIECED TOGETHER FOR A FUTURE GOOD.

WE WERE CALLED TO DESIGN A BUILDING THAT WAS AT ONCE A WASTE TO ENERGY POWERPLANT, RECYCLING CENTER AND PUBLIC NATATORIUM, A PARTICULARLY PECULIAR PROGRAM. AS WE CONTEMPLATED HOW TO INTEGRATE THESE DIVERGENT EFFORTS, WE DISCOVERED THEY WERE SIMPLY A REFLECTION OF THE MORAL DILEMMAS PRESENTED IN THE CYCLE OF LIFE ON EARTH. FROM ASHES WE RISE, AND TO ASHES WE MUST RETURN; SOLENE HARKS THIS MELODY IN MOVEMENT, FORM AND CIRCULATION, EMERGING FROM HER NORTH-SIDE GROUND AND DISINTEGRATING TO HER SOUTH-SIDE GRAVE, SLOWLY INTERPRETING AND REWILDING HER LANDSCAPE. AT THE APEX OF HER LIFE IS A WATER TEMPLE THAT HONORS THE DICHOTOMY OF THE BRONX'S COMPLEX PAST AND FUTURE AS REFLECTED IN THE PRESENT MOMENT.

"SOLENE"

WE FIND MOMENTS WHERE VARIOUS GRADIENTS OF LIGHT CAN FILTER THROUGHO UR SPACE.

A GLASS CURTAIN WALL ALONG THE WATERFRONT PRIORITIZES PUBLIC VIEWS FROM THE NATATORIUM.

MONOLITHIC SWATCH OF TTANSLUCENT AND OPAGUE FACADE ELEMENTS CODIFY THE POWERPLANT AND RECYCLING PROGRAMS OF OUR SPACE.

THE FLOW OF THE WATER THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE STRUCTURE, LEADS FROM ONE SPACE TO ANOTHER LIKE A STREAM. AND ONE OF THE FEATURES IS THE WATERFALL, THAT FALLS INTO THE SEMI OPEN SWIMMING POOL, WHERE PEOPLE CAN EMERGE INTO NATURAL EXPERIENCE AND REAL PRESENSE OF THE WATER.

HIGHWAY87/MAJORDEEGANEXPRESSWAY

!MELK

NEW YORK

CRTKL NORTH RIYADH MASTERPLAN THE TOWNSQUARE IS ABOUT MOVEMENT, THE LAND, DYNAMISM, THE QUINTESSENTIAL SAUDI GEOGRAPHY. WORKING WITHIN THE CONSTRAINTS OF THE MASTER PLAN AND GRIDDED ROADWAY NETWORK, THE TOWN SQUARE OFFERS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEPART FROM THE TYPICAL LANGUAGE OF THE PUBLIC R.O.W. PROVIDING A PARK LIKE SETTING WITHIN THE CORE OIF THE NORTH RIYADH DEVELOPMENT WHILE PRESERVING THE ACCESS TO EMERGENCY, SAFETYH AND MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT.

WEHO SAN VICENTE WEHO’S RAILYARD LEGACY HISTORICALLY INCORPORATED RAILROAD SYSTEM AT THE AREA OF PACEIFIC DESIGN CENTER. BRINGING BACK THE PAST HISTORY INTO THE NOWADAYS STREETSCAPE DESIGN IS AN INTENT OF THIS PROJECT.

MOVING PLANTERS ON THE RAILS, IS THE KEY OF THE PROJECT, TO INDICATE AND CREATE SPACES FOR PUBLIC GATHERINGS AND EVENTS LIKE CONCERTS OR EXPOS.

THIS WILL BECOME A MELTING POT FOR CULTURAL PART OF LOS ANGELES AND WEHO’S AREA.

STREESCAPE BUILD UP

MOVABLE PLANTERS DESIGN

LABO DESIGN STUDIO

NEW YORK

GALLERIA - UPPER EAST SIDE

THIS SMALL STUDIO APARTMENT DESIGN INTENDED TO BE EXPERIMENTATIVE WITH THE VARIETY OF MATERIALS AND PATTERN AS WELL AS TRANSFORM SPACE FROM 1 BEDROOM TO STUDIO. THE IDEA IS TO CREATE DIFFERENT SCENARIOS, TO WHEN THERE IS NEEDED PRIVACY AND WHEN THERE IS NEEDED A WIDE SPACE.

ICON COMPETITION

SIDE WORK

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