Hello, I’m Dominik Niewiadomski and this is my portfolio. I’m a 21 year old Architectural graduate from the University of Lincoln seeking who is seeking to progress their passion in becoming a fully qualified architect. Throughout my three years, I have sought to improve my design skills. I’m hard working and very ambitious about architecture and my work, always open minded and keen to learn more. I posess adaptable skills that I wish to improve in practice while working with an experienced team. While examining my work chronologically, there is a substantial improvement evident. I seek to carry knowledge and possessed skills to be successful at my studies and in the future as a practicing architect.v
p.7 | The Eco System - Inhabit - Grow - Evolve | Tiny House Competiton p.11 | Waiting For God | Rehabilitation of Jubilee Park p.17 | The Enabler | Biometric Rehabilitation Centre p.33 | Pop - Culture Museum | Augmented Museum p.45 | The Dolls House | Flexible house p.57 | Free Lance work | Living by design | Modunite p.63 | Sketches | non architecture work
THE ECO SYSTEM - INHABIT - GROW - EVOLVE Location: Bicester, United Kingdom Year: 2020 Competition Category: Tiny House (27m2)
Our Tiny House proposal addresses the two most significant issues in the contemporary world - Covid-19 and the climate crisis. With the ever-changing environments that we find ourselves in today, we believe that small scale architecture can leave a large positive impact on the world around us. The EcoSystem initiative offers an ecological and economical solution to creating affordable yet sustainable homes for both short- and long-term residents. The UK’s first eco-town is currently in development in Bicester. They aim to build 100 zero-carbon homes per year with the intention to create a fully sustained carbon-free community by 2040. Our nomadic tiny house village will act as a systematic catalyst to provide the birth, evolution, and growth of a permanent zero-carbon living environment. Authors Dominik Niewiadomski, Sofia Coviello Software used | Autocad | Sketchup Pro | V-ray | Photoshop | Illustrator
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WAITING FOR GOD REHABILITATION OF JUBILEE PARK Location: Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom Year: 2019 Undergraduate: Design Studio Category: Architectural Prosthetics and Park Revitalisation
The name of the Project is “Waiting for God” which is taken from an informal name of Woodhall spa “gods waiting room” The project began with an observation “without me on the bus the average age is 60” which sets the context of the area giving the reasoning for the name. The project pushes the boundaries of the current site by implementing aspects of metabolic architecture within the design. Concentrating on “accessibility” for all demographic groups ends with a series of “enablers” to revitalise the site. Author Dominik Niewiadomski
Software used | Autocad | Sketchup Pro | Photoshop | Illustrator
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I looked into a metabolism that can grow and adapt to the user’s needs as plugins that expand the boundaries of existing sclerosis which is done through the analysis of the building and the site in terms of places that can be adapted, extended, or changed.
Directly moving me towards analysing the ritual of movement between different groups of people for example a disabled person will choose specific paths that will not inflict their physical restraints through uneven surfaces and presumably take the shortest route whereas the mentally ill person will look for an exit as they are not interested.
Concluding the site boundaries of the site with a theory of transhumanism where currently the park is the middle between the past and the future combining that with the expanding metabolic movement to create a series of enablers, a plug on pods that rehabilitate the site and allow all groups of people to use the area of the pool. With the ability to be moved through a crane into another location if need be.
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When the building is closed it only allows the able people to use the building however when the enablers open up the building becomes a fully accessible building by any of the unable groups.
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The disabled demographic will always be at a disadvantage in the environment especially when it comes to types of surfaces placed in the park. By implementing the passive transport system for wheelchair users will form able to travel to the pool.
The second transport system has been created for elderly and prosthetic users. This pod will be requested by the user at one of the entrances to the park and the pod will take them to the pool.
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Prosthetic and Edlerly - 02
PASSIVE TRANSPORT SYSTEM The implementation of transportation was allowed by wider paths.
TRANSPORT SYSTEM The second transport system has been implied to provide ease for people of disability and elderly.
However, the aim of the system is to allow disabled people to walk through the site without physical constraints.
The track goes through different areas of the park however it does not interrupt activity happening in that area as the only thing going in the will be embedded track.
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Gardening area f or mentally ill Water fountain Water fountain/ Seating Water fountain/ Seating Water fountain/ Seating Side Seating area PROVIDING PLACES Places provided are driven from the needs of the focus group.
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GREENERY The greenery on the site has been added to create a place of retreat for those that are mentally ill allowing them to stay interested within the site. Especially through the use of vegetable patches implemented within the park.
The final floor plan concludes the research and the solutions into a coherent proposal of how to adjust the park in order to facilitate the demographic groups that are unable to use places like this to equipping them with solutions to take into account, other demographic groups.
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THE ENABLER Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Year: 2020 Undergraduate: Design Studio Category: Biometric Rehabilitation Centre
The project proposes a biometric rehabilitation center located in the heart of Cambridge, UK responding to the process of physical and mental rehabilitation. Connecting itself deeply into Cambridge infrastructure and context through. By progressive use of technology, the project focuses on a building that becomes an enabler of function and mental needs.
Author Dominik Niewiadomski
Software used | Autocad | Sketchup Pro | Twin Motion | Photoshop
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With the concept of a place of diagnosis, the model was created with the involvement of movement of architecture. Creating a machine that chooses the path of physical or mental rehabilitation for the individual.
The model has been developed as a place of diagnosis forming a machinery implementation to the theme of rehabilitation. The machine is designed as a dividing body and a key part of the program in taking the influx of people and sorting them out to their needs.
In order to respond to physical and mental disabilities the building needed to respond to a range of traumas that facilitate the building. The project needed to respond with the possibility of sorting people to a physical or mental diagnosis.
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CONTEXT MAP
The area of Cambridge has been chosen as a location due to the historical evidence this place shares with the medical field. Therefore the placement of new experimental physiotherapy and mental therapy center is advisable.
fect location for the project to take place. This was due to factors such as being close to the city center as well as being close to greenery and public transport.
The location of “St peters Terrace” was a per-
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The diagnosis area has been extruded as a tower due to the implementation of knowledge needed for the machine to work. Above the machine, there will be a series of floors in which scientists will be consulting the outcome of the results provided by the machine. Then the transmission will be sent to the engineering tower to take supplies. With the surrounding context and the placement of the engineering
building, it was ideal to create a responding architecture that building as a taker in which the products go through a process of refinement to fit for needs then the product is transferred back to the diagnosis tower.
rehabilitation. Whereas the mental side of the building is placed more into the green side of the building.
With the placement of towers and rotation of the context, it only made sense to place the physical rehabilitation between the towers as this rehabilitation could gain from that
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PHYSICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF REHABILITATION PROCESS
Waiting Room
Hydro Therapy
Laser Therapy
In the defined process of rehabilitation, the motion of movement was added to rooms that could join to one another and shorten the process for the in-dividual if necessary.
Ultra sounds Therapy
The extension of buildings externally allows for greater connection to greenery.
Physio Therapy
With the defined series of rooms, the process segregated itself into two options therapy rooms and joining rooms.
Occupational Therapy
Implementation of rotating rooms in or-der to enhance the mental institute.
Manual Therapy
Redefining the system of rehabilitation layout by pushing rooms through the building rather than going in and out.
Prosthetic Fitting
Separation of the rooms and change of shape in order to provide more dynamic circulation.
Reception
Analysis and reconstruction of the physical rehabilitation process.
Isolation Rooms
Analysis and reconstruction of the mental rehabilitation process.
Theatre Therapy
ART Therapy
Group Therapy
Music Therapy
Therapits
MENTAL RECONSTRUCTION OF REHABILITATION PROCESS
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1. Collected water goes down the drain which is placed internally in the wall. 2. Drain pures out the water into the pond. 3. The pond is placed above the moving mechanism this ide of the pods moves and when the building moves the water is pushed into the tank. 4. The tank keeps the water when the building is moved when the building moves back the water released back again into the pond.
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POP- CULTURE MUSEUM | AUGMENTED MUSEUM Location: Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom Year: 2019 Undergraduate: Design Studio Category: Museum and Exhibition places
The design of traditional museums usually considered and researched from the aspects of art and architecture, the principles of environment, space, light, and colour. However, the advancement of technology and the introduction of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, and the Internet of Things brings out a new design view and offers a novel direction for the development of modern museums. This brief explores the relationship between the virtual world blending with physical architecture and reflects how our experience of a spatial form is affected when the form is filled in with dynamic and rich multimedia information.
Author Dominik Niewiadomski Software used | Autocad | Sketchup Pro | Revit | Enscape | Photoshop
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SITE LOCATION
CITY CENTRE
The main of the intervention is located in the west part of Liverpool. It approximately measures 4750 meters sqaured. It is not a from the City Centre and is a mainly built up area.
The area of the city is located approximately 1000 meters from the site location. It is a very mixed-use area typically used for a high density of shops, museums, and restaurants.
Exploring Pop Culture I was interested in pop culture and how has it been introduced to liverpool. In my research I have established the main factors art music and culture. these 3 factors have created times for birth of beatles. As the time went along the was
adaptation and then expansion through the use of media. This continued in the sub topics of movies, games tv shows. In future the use of these entertainments could be used through vr like we do now with games and vr headsets. if technology continues to improve our future might be similar to ready player one.
In conclusion the future of pop culture lies within the virtual reality. Then i began to think how mobile application refernces pop culture and came to the conclusion that in the near future the use of media will be ar (augumented reality).
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Context Grid + Pop Culture I have overplayed the context grid with placement of pop culture in Liverpool to create a manipulative grid.
Reflection
Reflection
Reflection
The co-ordination of the planes towards the lighting rotation and spaces are very uncontrollably lit.
This model also allows top much light to pass though even with internal planes the light seems to pass through too predominantly (learn to pronounce adverb creating pollution for vr technology).
This model has a great potential the light is controlable through the use of planeshowever, some areas are quite largly exposed to natural light which is good as ar technology needs light.
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Music Movies Comicbooks Street ART
Exploration of interior spacial qualities To examine the special qualities within the 1:100 scale model I have explored the spaces with the use of human figure and what experience it will have on the occupants.
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Turne steel coated roof
Glass Stairs
Interior Floors
External envelope
Curtain walls
Steel frame
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THE DOLLS HOUSE | FLEXIBLE HOUSE Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire United Kingdom Year: 2018 Undergraduate: Desing Studio Category: Residential
The Dolls House is an idea about providing flexible, highly sustainable living that is responsive to its context and able to adapt to the changing needs of a family over a long life-span. The first known Doll’s house originally called a ‘baby house’ in 1557 was a showcase for local creatives and craftspeople to display their wares. The miniature house represented Duke Albrecht of Bavaria royal residence.
Masterplan Authors Group B House Design Author Dominik Niewiadomski
Software used | Autocad | Sketchup Pro | Vray | Phoatoshop
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Final Group Master plan
01 - James Hamilton Master Plan development
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02 - Brad Noble Master Plan development
The masterplan has been created with the full involvement of a group (24people) however, there was a selected smaller group that will deal with designing and refining the key factors that the whole group has agreed upon.
The masterplan conveyed all of our ideas and allowed connectivity to the existing community across the street through having a open plaza in the middle. The fountain in the middle aims to attract people through the use of white noise. From this point onwards the project is continued individually.
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Father Name - Craig Hunter Age- 42 Profession - Structural Engineer Interest - Movies/ Books/Sports Working Days Mon-Friday
Mother Name - Shannon Hunter Age - 38 Profession - Painter/ Artist Interest - Movies/ Books/ Politics/Nature Working Days Independent working hours
Son Name - Bobby Hunter Age - 11 Profession - Student Interest - TV/Games/ Sports Stuyding Days Mon-Friday
Daughter Name - Anna Hunter Age - 15 Profession - Student Interest - Movies/ Books/ Dancing/Music/ Clothes Stuyding Days Mon-Friday
Using my client’s profile, I was able to create a chart which identifes the demand of leisure activities carried out by the occupants and how that cements space around them.
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After noticing that my plot has a great position for sun radiation I created a detailed analysis of sunpath, sun angle and shadow to better understand how I can design my building around the ideology of sun.
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Out of all three models I have chosen model two as it explores both the spacial awareness and lighting transparency best. The light was able to travel thoroughly throughout the structure bouncing off from the planes of card affecting light through the voids.
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In comparison to model one and three, model one allwoing too much light to pass through. It did not allow planes to form any shadowed spaces and therefore lost the rational behind it . Model three did not have dynamic lighting inthe voids as there
were too many planes blocking the light. Model two relates best to the lighting projects done by steven holl and how he incorporates lighting in his buildings to form anexperience for it’s occupants.
Plan of the chosen modelFinal development of spaces 5 (part 1) (final plan / ground floor) (walls highlighted gold show the placement of partition walls) By using 500mm x 500mm grid system I was able to design every part of furniture or rooms to fit to that grid system. By using 2m x 2m grid system I was able to design all of the partition walls to be design with in that grid.
Plan of the chosen model final development of spaces 5 (part2) (final plan / first floor)
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FREELANCE WORK Location: Remote Year: 2020-2021 Freelance: Bespoke Living by Design/ Modunite Category: Residential
Bespoke Living by Design - During my time at the company, I was producing visualisations of domestic property in Manchester which was being made into a show house. Modunite - While working at the company, I was producing visualisvations of many different scale extensions or modifications to the properties.
Bespoke Living by Design Authors Dominik Niewiadomski, Sofia Coviello Modunite Author Dominik Niewiadomski
Software used | Autocad | Sketchup Pro | Vray | Phoatoshop
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Plan View 1:100@a3
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