“to live is to be slowly born” Antoine de S aint Exupéry
“to live is to be slowly born” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
DMYTRO NIKITIN selected projects
education
teaching
exhibitions
focuse
2012 - ... Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (Supermedia) 2007 - ... Czech Technical University (Faculty of Architecture) 2003 - 2007 Na Vítězné Pláni High School, Prague 2011 Grasshopper Workshop I. - parametric design basics (CTU) 2012 Grasshopper Workshop II. - parametric design basics (CTU) 2010, 2011, 2012 Oloveny Dusan Award Exhibition (CTU, Prague) 2.-3.2012 Graphics of the year 2011 (Clam-Gallas Palace, Prague) 2.-3.2012 Anastomosis (DOX – Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague) 5. 2012 ReSITE Competition Exhibition (National Theatre Square, Prague) 11.2012 JFK+Dusan+Fuchs (Kokpit, Prague) architecture, generative and conceptual art
i.We structure
4
micro fields
8
machine house
10
diagramma
14
i.We structure self sustainable growing structure
Living creatures have different options how to survive in the hostile environment: they can change the environment or they can adapt, become a part of the ecosystem, enrich it so they can also profit from it. i.We is a growing structure, aware of its behaviour and of its surroundings. The core of the project lies in the utilization of evolutionary solvers to optimize the way the building behaves and grows. The algorithms study the impact of the foetus of the structure on the environment and affect the way it grows. By the process of constant analysis of the load bearing structures, daylight levels, energy consumption, shading on its neighbours and overall economic balance, the building looks for new areas to populate with its crystal structure.
4
3d printed model of the structure
5
6
THEORETICAL MAP OF THE PROJECT:
surface reduction
shadow analysis
orientation of spaces
reuse
CFD
reduction of stress
rationalization of form shape solar radiation
analysis loop
harmonic principles of geometry
optimalization
wind
structure
daylight
optimalization
evolutionary algorithms
geometry
relation to the historical context
color
analysis loop
enviroment
design based on its enviroment
ˇ
analysis as a way of humanizing architecture
l-systems as a growth rule
general principles natural color system self-generating form crystal as a spatial unit
i.We structure
color
energy from solar radiation
the building adapts to the inhabitant
self optimization of structure during the growth growing structure
materials
design features
inteligent facade system
energy
aditional features
7 load bearing tubes with elevators main features bridge above the speedway
energy from the the wind
parking PowerLeap system
subway connection
crystal cell structure ˇ
constant growth of the structure
7
micro fields
in search for new layers of meaning of iconic paintings Esthetic, symbolic, contextual and spiritual values of iconic paintings are nowadays reduced to an artificial value of a bought experience. Original meanings of these pieces are being hidden under the layers of junk media enviroment. The aim of Micro Fields project is to reveal new leyers of meaning of paintings by studying its micro reliefs. The features of painter‘s expression and his way of transforming a vision into the piece are readeble even in these scales. Discovering previously unseen features of these pieces could be a new way how to reintegrate iconic paintings into the context of contemporary society. The project consists of a series of objects, that are created by transforming one segment of a micro morphology of various pieces into stuctures of bent vires.
8
William Turner - The Burning of the Houses of Parliament
resulting structure
micro morphology
segment of the painting 9
machine house
reaction to the reconstruction of the Machine House building Society suffering from the lost of contents and the ability to think about the values is trying to find the lost meanings and the task of the architecture is to accelerate this process. Architecture is the medium, which influences life at every moment and forms the ability of a person to reflect its surroundings. This project is a reaction to the reconstruction of an industrial building Machine House in Karlin (Prague). The main goal of architects was an obsessive effort to preserve the original faรงade, that creates the typical 19th century look of the building. The form was carefully restored, the content has been cut and replaced with fashionable filling. Reduction of the nature of the architecture (its memory and meanings far beyond the formal level) to selected features of the faรงade is a sign of pure formalism, that destroys the rising social tendency of the search for the purport.
10
The aim of the project is to create a place, where the person is disconnected from the generic environment, that blunts open-minded reflection. This place offers the space for the contemplation about the cultural, historic, social and human values. It is rather a social experiment than architecture. It searches for the way out of the crisis, which is best seen in the inability of dialogues between the past and the presence, the purport and the form, the architect and the inhabitant, the mass and the void.
11
12
The form is dematerialized into a growing structure. It is no longer seen through the term of mass, so its essence is emphasized. The masonry of the building is dismantled and put together again to create a sequence of walls, each one with the gate. Material is a living bearer of the historic and human presence. It is a sponge that absorbes its environment during the whole physical existence. The route outlined through the gates is not linear, it is made of obstacles . The path is the thought – you can bypass it, you can leave it and go back to the beginning.
13
diagramma interpretation of diagrams
The aim of the diagram is to clarify the operation principle, spatial or logical relationship, to create a concentrated picture. Diagrams of the dance moves work with trajectories but also with the timing. Interpretation of these diagrams requires involvement of the senses, the mind, but also of the creative ability to control and create one’s behaviour. The field for interpretation (deconcentration by action) is limitless. The Diagramma project discovers new ways of interpretation by involving computer algorithms, which deconstruct original diagram, analyse it and then multiply it to create a fractal-like structures, which then change in time. The system is also connected to the sensors in the room, where the real dancer interprets the same diagram. That creates a reactive system which multiplies different forms of interpretation.
14
original diagrams
15
16
different visual results of the process of interpretation
17
DMYTRO NIKITIN
dimitri@email.cz tel. 776 074 161