Bachelor Portfolio

ELIZA SERBAN ARCHITECTURE PORFOLIO B.Arch university of dundee

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“ the memories of spaces are the most powerful architectural experiences. “ peter zumthor “ thinking architecture “

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[ PERSONAL STATEMENT | CV ]

age 22 nationality Romanian residence Dundee, Scotland

eliza_serban@yahoo.com

My name is Eliza Serban, I am a young and ambitious person who had recently graduated with distinction a Bachelor degree in architecture and I would like to invite you to browse through my academic portfolio. My architectural experience has been influenced by international aspects; working, studying and travelling through different countries has developed my curiousity and interest in architecture along with enriching my working methods.

This portfolio presents several selected projects that reflect my diverse experience and the associated perspective driving them. For me, each projects comes as a new opportunity to intervine in the personal, local, regional and global contexts of society, economy and ecology and as a challenge to make daily life better for people and their communities.

In each project I am experimenting with new tools and different techniques reflecting on design issues and goals.

Depending on the result I want to acheive, I consider computer design as valuable as developed freehand drawing, which I use not only as a matter of presentation but mainly as an analysis tool.

Consequently, I would like to continue learning how to make necessary and poetic architecture and I am looking forward to use my analytical and visualizing skills in acheiving a great design in a new working environment. [ References ] Mr. Mark O’Conner

Mr. Neil Verow

Senior Architect and Design tutor at The University of Dundee Contact details: LJR+H Architects 18 South Tay Street Dundee DD1 1PD Tel: 01382 200511

Year 4 Leader Architecture and Regeneration Masters Unit Contact details: Learning & Teaching Co-ordinator Architecture School of The Environment University of Dundee

Office Email: admin@ljrh.co.uk Personal email: cmarkoconnor@hotmail.co.uk.

Personal email: n.verow@dundee.ac.uk

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DEGREES AND EDUCATION University of Dundee BA Arch with Distinction | Architecture | Scotland | 2010 - 2013

Undergraduate thesis : The revival of Charles Rennie Mackintosh L’ecole National Superieur d’Architecture de Normandie | Erasmus exchange | France | 2012 National High School “ Andrei Saguna “ | Mathematics and IT | Romania | 2006 - 2010

Baccalaureat and IT Programming Degree

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE University of Dundee | BA Arch | 2010 -2013

Measured hand drawing and presentation skills; Design development through sketching, sectional drawings, 3D computer and physical model studies; Urban and planning studies on a medium to small scale; Leading and working in project teams; Good knowledge of sustainable design approaches, structure and environmental strategie and materials.

Cincu Daniel (proffesor and architect) | Architecture internship (2 days/week) | Romania | 2008 - 2010

Measured hand drawing and presentation skills; Problem solving in descriptive geometry.

RECOGNITION 2nd year competition for designing an outdoor classroom for a school in Dundee, Scotland; 1st phase selection; Dundee Institute of Architects 3rd year award for “Runner - up” project - 2nd prize; Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland - active member.

SKILLS AND INTERESTS Highly competent in AutoCad (2D / 3D) | 3D Sketchup | Photoshop | InDesign | Microsoft Office; Knowledge of Revit | 3ds Max and Java Script; Highly quality hand drawing and model making skills with knowledge of laser cutter and workshop machinery; Liable and good at working individually as well as in a team; Good organisational and social skills.

Freehand drawing | Graphics | Furniture and product design | Fashion and jewelry | Photography | Travelling

LANGUAGES Romanian – native speaker | English – professional | French – advanced | Spanish – intermediary | Italian – beginner

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[ kimbell art museum ] perspective drawing

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CONTENTS

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01 URBAN ANALYSIS

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02 DEMARCO ARCHIVE

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03 DEMARCO AND ARTISTS [ RESIDENCES AND STUDIOS ]

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04 BTM COMPETITION

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05 MEASURED DRAWING

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06 STREET PROJECT

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07 OUTDOOR CLASROOM [ BRAIN BOX ]

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08 SOCIAL HOUSING [ ERASMUS ]

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09 INDEX

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[ LOCATION: DUNDEE, SCOTLAND PERTH ROAD-ROSEANGLE AREA | YEAR 3 SEM. 1

URBAN ANALYSIS An indepth analysis of one of the most legible and robust areas in Dundee Main purpose: introduct and supply information for a design project.

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[urban analysis | group work]

[ perth road - roseangle area ] location plan

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URBAN ANALYSIS PROJECT TYPE: LOCATION: PROJECT LENGTH:

1860s

1900s

GROUP WORK DUNDEE 3 WEEKS

The aim of this project is to study a particular area of Dundee and throughout a procTess of analysis | synthesis | conclusion, to gain a deeper understanding of the design proces during a project and an awareness of how to methodically analyse a particular urban area.

Moreover, the indepth analysis of the Perth Road - Roseangle Area will provide an introduction to the following design project - The Demarco Archives, ‘supply’ information and help the students to decide on a potential site for the design project that will run throughout the entire Year 3.

[STREET FORMATION]

2000s

The diagrams illustrate how the lanes have developed throughout time.

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[urban analysis | group work]

PERTH ROAD ANALYSIS One of the most important streets from the Perth Road - Roseangle Area is Perth Road; we have conducted a detailed analysis studying its legibility, robustness, variety, topography, occupancy, traffic and permeability, illustrating it throughout different diagrams and drawings.

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[ LEGIBILITY ] The diagramatic sections are taken throughout defined key spaces along Perth Road - ‘street markers‘.

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1. DEMARCO ARCHIVE SITE 2. DEMARCO STUDIO AND RESIDENCE SITE

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robustness - perth road

[ blackness library ] This building conveys its relationship with the

immediate context by defining a series of public zones. a hierarchy is established where the space to the entrance create an adaptable and multi-functional public space that merges with the foothpath.

[ siderins junction ] This space

roads mee It is though worked as to use the

e located where Perth Road and other major et is a small ‘island‘ that becomes a public space. ht that in the early years, the space would have a congregational place for the people who used library and the nearby church.

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[ matthew building ] The brutalist character and towering scale of the

School of Architecture building depicts it as a legible point on Perth Road. The new extension forms an urban landscape and consolidates the public routes through the university campus towards Perth Rd Area This creates a multi-functional and adaptable space which in terms of robustness is hugely appropriate for the area in which is situated.

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[ LOCATION: DUNDEE, SCOTLAND PERTH ROAD - ROSEANGLE | KWICK-FIT SITE | YEAR 3 SEM. 2

DEMARCO ARCHIVE An exhibition and archive building that will host the vast work of Scottish artist Richard Demarco A space for contemplation, thought and interaction between people and art.

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RECREATING THE ROAD TO MEIKLE SEGGIE PROJECT TYPE: LOCATION: PROJECT LENGTH:

INDIVIDUAL DUNDEE, PERTH Rd. 1 SEMESTER

Seeking to acheive an ambitious and complex proposal, the Demarco Archive project is a response to art, people and the interaction between the two of them.

The brief requires to design a comprehensive building which mainly consists of galleries, archive, artists’ studios and residences. The primary purpose is to provide exhibition space and a repository for the vast work of Scottish artist Richard Demarco which will be open to public and will incourage research and learning as well as recreation and socialization.

The design will also provide living and working space for Demarco and visiting artists. The brief comes with the option of either proposing one building that will incorporate all of the required spaces, or having two designs: one focused more on the public part of the breif - the archive and the galleries; and one more private for the residences and the studios.

The site selection was also opened to the students having to decide on one or two locations from the precedent urban analysis conducted on the Perth Rd - Roseangle area.

After gaining knowledge about the area and the potential sites and analyzing the brief along with meeting the client in person, I have decided to propose two buildings that are visually separated but function as an entity. For Demarco Archive I chosed to develop a disused site that is located on Perth Rd being very legible and having the potential to be the intersection of the most significant qualities of art, Scotland and Europe. The site has a clear boundary and the significant edge condition of the existing brick wall links the building to the past and creates a connection with Demarco Residences and Studios proposal thats is situated on Westfield Lane and has the same edge condition.

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initial concept model

[ conceptual drawings ]

Keeping the existing historical brick wall, the proposal seeks to consolidates its connection with the history and the Scottish vernacular architecture in an attempt to recreate the metaphorical journey that Richard Demarco’s painting ‘The Road to Meikle Seggie‘ envisions.

“A journey through art, Europe and Scotland.”

R. Demarco

inhabiting the walls As a modern interpretation of the Scottish tower houses, this model illustrates the idea of inhabited walls: the archive is the focal point of the design and it will be located and accentuated by a central element that will ‘tower‘ the rest of the building.

These sketches illustrate the idea of the core of the building separating and connecting at the same time the adjacent spaces.

Circulation

Archive

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[ location plan ] 1. demarco archive 2. demarco studio and residence

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[ archive gallery ]

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[ BASMENT PLAN ]

[ GROUND FLOOR ]

Plant Room | Gallery Storage Public Toilets | Cinema Restaurant | Spill out space - Garden Sculpture Gallery

Reception | Staff Utillities and Lounge Bookshop | Introductory Gallery

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[ FIRST FLOOR ]

[ SECOND FLOOR ]

[ THIRD FLOOR ]

Offices | Reading Lounge Archive Gallery | Repository Lecture Rooms

Repository | Archive Gallery

Repository | R. Demarco’s office Viewing platform

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[ cross section through the archive tower ]

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[ cross section through the archive gallery ]

[ front elevation ]

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[ long section through the archive tower ]

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[ long section through sculpture gallery ]

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existing brick wall

[ north - west elevation ]

archive tower external envelope study [ courtyard elevation ]

[ zinc cladding ]

[ concrete ]

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final external skin [ material : translucent structural glass ]

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parti

circulation

function

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ventilation

fire escape

[ STRUCTURAL SECTION ] materials archive tower internal skin - precast concrete archive tower external skin - translucent structural glass the rest of the building - recycled brick

natural light

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[ LOCATION: DUNDEE, SCOTLAND PERTH ROAD-ROSEANGLE AREA | WESTFIELD LANE | YEAR 3 SEM. 1

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DEMARCO & ARTISTS [ RESIDENCES AND STUDIOS ]

A very geometrical building that reinterprets the rythm of the its lane and incourages interaction within a controled journey.

*S-W site approach

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REINTERPRETING THE STREET PROJECT TYPE: LOCATION: PROJECT LENGTH:

INDIVIDUAL DUNDEE, WESTFIELD LANE 1 SEMESTER

[ conceptual drawings ]

This project was developed from a careful and minutious site analysis and as a particular respose to the existing context. Located on a long and relatively narrow site, having as main access point one of the most diverse lanes in Dundee, the building acts as a reinterpretation of the lane and its domestic rythm.

Here, the building steps back on the main access points, opening up and creating threshold spaces that will gradually introduce the visitors into the journey. The existing wall on the South-East side of the site creates an edge condition that connects this desgin with the Demarco Archive project by incorporating and extending the boudaries.

The goal of this project is to design a working and living place for the Scottish artist Richard Demarco as well as three temporary residences and studios for the visiting artists. The program also includes a small gallery space that will be open to public.

*N-E site approach

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cross section through demarco’s residence and artists’ unit

long section through the cafe and demarco’s studio

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[ ground floor ]

gallery , workshop cafe, artists’ studios

[ first floor ]

demarco’s residence and studio artists’ residences

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[ LOCATION: IDEAL YEAR 3 SEM. 2 | 1 WEEK | GROUP WORK - 4 PEOPLE

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BTM COMPETITION [ between Thinking and Making ]

An integrated art gallery that accentuates the use of natural light and changes along with the work dispayed.

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between thinking and making For this competition we were asked to investigate the architectural relationship between an exhibition space and the elements that give quality and athmosphere to a space: natural daylight, artificial light, materials, structure, air quality and ambient temperature.

To facilitate the requirements, we have been delegated a generic cubic volume to work with. The volume is based on a 9 square grid of 3m 2 bays giving an overall volume of 9m3.

The task was to design an art gallery that will exhibit in particular the art work of Richard Demarco.

The concept behind our design came from the idea of having different types of exhibition spaces that can accomodate a wide range of art works.

4 concrete loadbearing walls represent the main structure of the design while the floor slabs stabilise the structure by bracing it.

The north facade is the only one being fully glazed and indirect light from above highlights the main structure.

[ 1:20 model making ]

The idea was to cast in plaster the main concrete walls in order to try and imitate the concrete’s properties.

[ LIGHT STUDY ]

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[ VIEW DOWN THE STAIRCASE TO THE 1ST FLOOR ]

[ EXHIBITION SPACE SECOND FLOOR ]

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[ ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY ] The ducts that will absorb the exhaust air will travel the south wall and they will be located on the ceiling, while the ducts that supply the fresh air travel along a raised floor and through the staircase.

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[ LOCATION: KRAKOW, POLAND YEAR 3 SEM. 1 | 1 WEEK | GROUP WORK - 3 PEOPLE

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MEASURED DRAWING A detailed study of an important part of the historical city of Krakow. On-site measured drawing and Auto-CAD drafting for final presentation.

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[ church| courtyard elevation ]

[ street elevation ]

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[ LOCATION: UNION PL. DUNDEE YEAR 2 SEM. 1 | 5 WEEKS | DESIGN WORK

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STREET PROJECT An innovative project that makes students aware of space and the way you are dealing with shortage of space; the impact the house has for the people who live in, for the community and for the street.

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STREET PROJECT

PROJECT TYPE: INDIVIDUAL LOCATION: DUNDEE, UNION PLACE PROJECT LENGTH:1 SEM.

The brief for this project requires to design five living units in groups of people on five different sites. Each unit will consist of several individual houses depending on the number of the people involved. Each person will come with a proposal for a house and the group will decide on five parameters that everyone has to take into account, in order to design the unit as well.

In my group the parameters are: [ Target audience - young couples ] 3 bedrooms maximum [ Maximum 9m tall facades facing the pedestrianised area ] [ Brick and timber cladding on the pedestrianised side Brick on the outside ] [ 800mm brick pavement in front of each house ] [ The same roof angle - monopitch roof accordingly to each block of houses ] HOUSE CONCEPT : WRAP ALL THE ACTIVITIES AROUND A CENTRAL SERVICE CORE

[ ground floor ]

dining, kitchen, garden,toilet

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[ first floor ]

living, bathroom office

[ second floor ]

bedroom, terace master bedroom

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LONG SECTION THROUGH THE STAIRCASE

CROSS SECTION THROUGH THE TERRACE

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[ LOCATION: GRANGE PRIMARY SCHOOL, DUNDEE YEAR 2 SEM. 1 | 4 WEEKS | SKETCH DESIGN COMPETITION

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OUTDOOR CLASSROOM [ BRAIN BOX ] An interactive outdoor clasroom that offers to the children the joy of being outside while enhancing their curiousity and the social implication.

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BRAIN BOX PROJECT TYPE: COMPETITION | GROUP WORK (14 PEOPLE), 2ND PLACE LOCATION: DUNDEE, GRANGE PRIMARY SCHOOL PROJECT LENGTH: 4 WEEKS

Under the UK givernment’s recent ‘curriculum for excellence’ agenda, primary schools have been asked to cconsider how their external spaces can be developed to offer an alternative environment for teaching and learning in addition to the classroom. This competition is aiming to design an outdoor space for a local primary school which have started to foundraise in order to build the wining project.

The design was in such a way where the structure would act as an integral between two contrasting activities; studying and playing. The core of the design was to acheive a condusive learning space for both the activities to take place, be it simultaneously or separately.

construction section

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[ ROOF ] Using PTFE, a plastic membrane that has a dual characteristic; being transparent and light while at the same time protects occupants from external elements.

[ PLATFORM ] Enables the children to get a clear view of the external and internal surroudings.

The platform also serves as a point within the structure where it is much easier to access for the children as to compared to the teachers. This is to create a private space that is more specifically for the kids, much like a child’s treehouse.

The choice of material was recreate a conservatory-esque space within the structure, enhancing the surreal effect of the structure creates of being outdoors whilst indoors.

[ STEPS ]

[ SPACE ORIENTATION ]

The walls and steps of the structure are arranged on top of another.

For condusive learning to take place, seating within the structure is arranged in an amphitheatre manner, ensuring total focus and attention to the middle aisle.

The gaps made are filled with different timber lengths, alowing the children to climb up to the platform.

The middle aisle that disects the space within will ultimately be used as perhaps a stage or a standing point, be it for the teachers or the students.

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MODEL MAKING

model scale 1 : 20

foundation model 1:5

afternoon view

model scale 1:2

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[ LOCATION: SAINT LO, FRANCE YEAR 2 SEM. 2 | 1 SEM | ERASMUS DESIGN PROJECT

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SOCIAL HOUSING

[ ERASMUS | L’ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEUR D’ARCHITECTURE DE NORMANDIE ]

Creating a cohesive individual and social environment which brings together its residents.

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ENROULER [ FOLDING ] A project that starts with designing an ideal place to live in, moves forward to create a prototype that can be suitable to the site and as a final result we have developed a scheme that could improve the habitants life and bring them together as a community. The concept for the scheme is deply rooted from the context and the topography of the site.

the types of flats

prototype plan [ one bedroom flat ] + [ two bedroom flat ] continuity variation vues light circulation

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ground floor plan

first floor plan

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section b-b

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section a-a

south elevation

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the habitat project

research retreat

outdoor p

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outdoor classroom the rolling cube

belvedere

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beach project

thank you for

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pavilion

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r your time !

tectonics

precedent project luzi haus

urban block

inframince art project

ELIZA SERBAN @ UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE 2010 - 2013