master of architecture
Portfolio
dan Dorocic
Vitruvian DAn 43 Vaskerelven 5014 Bergen, Norway +4792502097 dorocic@gmail.com
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recent work experience Raumlabor Student Architect
Summer 2011
Will Alsop Student Architect
London, UK
Winter 2011
Brennan Architects Student Architect
Melbourne, AUS
Winter 2011
Fabrication Lab Melbourne, AUS Laser Cutting Technician
2010-2011
berlin, de
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2012
Studio 505 Student Architect
Moved to
Venice Bienalle 1985
Gave grandma a fright
Melbourne, AUS
Academic Background p. 10 2011 M.Arch Bergen Arkitectskole
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2010 M.Arch Melbourne School Of Design 2009 B.Des OCAD University,Toronto 2007 B.Sc McGill Universty, Montreal 2002 HS
De La Salle College, Toronto
Volunteer action fall 2009
Manifesto Art Space Volunteer curator
croatian
Learned to Sk
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Toronto,ON
Summer 2008
UNRWA Palestinian Refugee Camp Volunteer Art Teacher
Summer 2007
Bustan QaraaqaFarm Volunteer Geologist
Ramallah, PS Betlehem, PS
trajectory Space timelin e
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Chernobyl Disaster
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Cold War Ends
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Gorbachev
Australia gets medicare
1984 1984
Bill Clinton
Helmut Kohl
1990 1990
1995 1995
1996 1996
Experience line Moved To Canada
o Germany
raumlabor
met ALsop
Moved To Australia
Moved To norway studio 505
saw hundertwasser
Hitchhiked the balkans
toured the red center
Education line OCAD McGill
English
Melbourne uni
german Learned to sail
attended 8 different high schools
BAS
became Snowboard Instructor
ki
Creativity
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First ‘Architecture’ Project
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out of body experience
9/11 attacks BUSH
The European Court of Human Rights is instituted
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First art Exhibition
SARS
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First Design Collective
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decolonizing Architecture
Iceland Erupts
Swine Flu
TSUNAMI Large Hadron Collider
2001 2001
Taught art class in Palestine
2007 2007
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2011 2011
recent work experience
Student architect
Summer 2011
London
Worked on projects of different scales with a team of architects. Won a competition with RMJM for Sheffiedl University, UK. Participated in the design process and documentation developement for a condominium proposal with Will Alsop. Specifically worked on the preparation of documents for thee developer showing the building logic, massing and relationship to surroundings, total and net floor coverage, building cost, floor plans, renders and overall design.
Student architect
Summer 2010
Melbourne Oarticipated on a number of projects within the office of 20 architects. Got hired by helping to win a comission for the Delta Tower in the center of Melbourne. Also worked in the documentation and design for a community center in Wujin, Jiangsu, China, and a residential project in Brisbane, Australia.
Student architect
Intern Toronto Fall 2009
Melbourne Spring 2011
Student architect Spring 2012
philosophy I find that my experience across different offices and different schools has taught me the obvious dichotomy architecture experiences getting from ideas to practice. In school what I learn and produce is ideas based around equality, re-appropriation, and ideals. In the workplace, I have learned that, depending on the office, the business side tends to take over. Ideas get distilled to the point where the ideals and concepts lose their edge or meaning -where one is hardpressed to transform a concept into a built project. And where the built project generally falls short its purpose. Because of this reason, currently I enjoy the freedom of exploration an architecture school offers. Recently I have also come to the conclusion that the age of a school is an important factor in how flexible and open the teaching is. I belive that architecture needs to be practiced without mental restraints. The physical world will restrain the archtiecture by itself. This is why I chose to go to Bergen Arkitektskole, where I found that the open form of the school really speaks to me. Now, since I want to practice in Canada, I am applying to Ryerson.
Studio 505
Summer 2010
Melbourne Designed by Studio 505 Architects in association with environmental sustainability design consultants Umow Lai, Pixel ticks just about every “green� box imaginable. You could say the book of sustainability has been thrown at it just to prove how easy - or hard - it is to be green. Some of the features packed into its four storeys include a roof planted with native grasses for water collection and filtering, fixed and sun-tracking photovoltaic panels on the roof, a bank of three vertical wind turbines (interestingly, locked down on the day I visited the building, despite a gentle breeze), reed-bed ledges around each of its four storeys to filter grey water and shade windows , night purging of warm air for cooling of interiors, ammonia refrigeration, vacuum toilets, radiant cooling and development of a structural concrete, with a high proportion of recycled and reclaimed aggregates in its mix, that uses about half the embodied carbon in its manufacture.
http://www.pixelbuilding.com.au/
Student architect
Summer 2010
Melbourne
Delta Tower
1:100 Model
The $100 million building will be made from soft-wood panels imported from Europe and fitted together in weeks to make 50 apartments over 10 storeys. The Grocon building, including its lift shafts, will be all timber, and will use similar technology to the nine-storey residential Stadthaus at Hackney, East London. The building,to be known as Delta,will be carbon neutral and have its own gas-fired electrical generator powered by waste woodchips, and a rainwater and a grey-water recycling system.
While studying in Australia in 2010, I obtained a position at Studio 505 by building this model over a weekend and winning the project for an unresolved component of CUB10 (the most high profile development block in Melbourne.) This showed me the business-minded logic some of using one project to create new opportunities/ territory which Studio 505 used to win more work for the office.
details
Completion Date: Client : Cost : Architect :
2014 grocon developers caD $100million studio505 Street perspective render
2Nd floor Sketch Model 1:200
process
Design SKETCHES
Ground Floor
Basement Concept The project is part of a series that includes the Pixel zero carbon building at the Carlton Brewery site in downtown Melbourne. The 50-unit residential tower will stand 10-12 stories tall atop a heritage bluestone building. The tower will be composed of prefabricated laminated FSC timbers that will be locally sourced. My participation in the design of Delta goes from concept sketches, conversations with the lead architects on effective use of space. Formal exploration of the sculptural support columns and the constructuion and presentation of the models to the developer.
Press “Studio505 are the architects for an exciting new project in Australia being developed by Grocon. Plans are being developed for Delta, a “Passive House” apartment building that will be carbon neutral and built entirely from timber within the former Carlton Brewery site in Melbourne. The residential tower is 10-12 storeys tall. The timber tower will sit atop a 6 storey podium building designed by studio505 to house a super modern flexible commercial and cultural space. Delta will be based on the “Passive House” standard, well known throughout Europe and the first to be conceived in Australia.” from: “The Herald Sun”
development sketch
Endless Forest Fence
physical model (1:50)
Brisbane, Ausralia
inspiration
for a residential screen
Iteration 1
iteration 2
Creating a seemingly endless eyescape
Student architect
laser-cut double sided mirrors
Summer 2010
Melbourne
wujin Hall Wujin, China
lotus Hall
phoenix Valley
1:1000
1:750
site Model recent construction photo
details
Completion Date: Client : Cost : Architect :
2012 Wujin District Peoples Goverment caD $12million studio505
PHOENIX VALLEY Completion Date 2013 Client Wujin District Peoples Government Cost AUD $70million Architect studio505 Local Design Institute Nanjing University Design Institute recent construction photo
Currently under construction, ‘Phoenix Valley’, The Wujin Grand Theatre and Youth Palace is a new cultural icon and hub housing the new Wujin Grand Theatre for 1000 patrons, a cinema complex, sports halls, and educational Youth Palace for 4000 students. There is an Art Gallery, Retail Hub and Public Square with canals, screens and children’s playgrounds. The complex is covered with a green roof, solar panels and is targeting China’s highest rating in sustainability. I participated in the modelling and design of the Youth Palace from an early stage.
physical model
Wujin District chose Studio 505 for various designs; from a Masterplan to specific development and refinement of varied projects. Working on different stages of the design processes allowed me to really understand the logic behind winning comissions, and the business side of the architecture office.
perspective 1:1000 Plan 1:1000
section 1:1000
Press The Wujin Planning and Exhibition Centre is set for a magical and stunning facelift with the addition of the Lotus Conference Centre and Exhibition wings. Set on an existing 10,000m2 artificial lake and fish pond, the complex shows the three stages of the lotus flower, from the new young bud, to the full ripe flower through to the opened bloom with a seed pod within. The structure houses exhibition spaces, conference and meeting rooms, and will become an iconic attraction symbolising the growth and prosperity of Wujin. http://www.theage.com.au/
3d exploration
Balcony tower
Student architect
circulation Logic
Summer 2011
London
SHOPPING
VERTICAL ACCESS
CAR PARKING
TOTEM TOWER
HOTEL
1:500 model
CAR access access PEDESTRIAN access Vehicle access
'crown' suite
hotel
office
PROGRAM 8TH FLOOR
4-7TH FLOOR
3RD FLOOR
2ND FLOOR
1ST FLOOR
Collaborated with a team of 3 architects, including the prominent Will Alsop on a project for a sculptural mixed-use complex with a condominium tower.
CONDOS
HOTEL
OFFICE
PODIUM
Academic Background 2007 B.Sc
I always hijacked my education and sought to create my own program instead of fitting into a pre-determined one. At McGill I fashioned a broad program of my interests in Environment, Spactial processes, Geology, and Biology and in the end coined a new program at McGill the Bachelor of Science in Geography. The only student in the program.
Mcgill university
I undertake my architecture education along a similair vein and it has already taken me across 3 continents, from Toronto to Melbourne and most recently to Bergen, Norway.
canvasPOD 2010 Canvaspod is the product of a visual representation studio where everything had to be drawn by hand to represent ideas for a temporary architecture workshop space. sketches
2009 B.Des ocad University 2010 M.Arch
Melbourne University
bergen arkitekt skole
2011 M.Arch
models
PROJECT LOGO
Plan 1:500
construction timeline
axo1
axo2
site map
perspective
section
section 1:100
Melbourneomadism 2030 qwqx In this studio I explored a scenario of a low-energy, oil-free future for Melbourne. I focused on urban farming, seasonality, nomadism, the city as a landscape, the reappropriatin of abandoned spaces, the recycling of the Cebtral Business Core with the squatting of abandoned condominum towers. shipping container
masterplan 1:5000
Nomadic Architecture Typologies wagon
raft
tent
shanty Here is a 3d render of a slum dwelling parasitically taking over Melbourne’s Eureka tower ( the tallest residential tower in the southern hemisphere). In the background we see another squatted tower.
bird's eye perspective
Centennial
MURMANSK
REORIENTATIONS
2016 40m
Murmansk is about to celebrate it’s 100 year anniversary. It has been a quarter century since the break-up of the Soviet Union. Yet, although the Soviet Union has dissipated 25 years ago, it’s legacy still lives on.
Our field trip took us to Murmansk, Russia. I focused on the ‘unworking’ of the architectural apparatus used by the now There is a need to celebrate the future of the city, but without forgeting the abandoned Soviet system. Finding inspraancestors. tion in the Situationists, Keller Easterling and Ecological thinking, I proposed a new ‘The pattern which connects is the metapattern - it is the patframework for the future of Murmansk tern of patterns” by creating a platform for change and - Gregory Bateson reorientations at the monumental Alijosha soldier overlooking the city.
30m
20m
10m
Derivé
0m
1:100
The youth of the city of Murmansk need a creative outlet. Unfortunately, there is no existing framework in place to support a youth center in Murmansk. This project proposes a new hierarchy to create room in the municipality of Murmansk to fund a space within a short timeframe.
The concept is to engage young artist and creatives of Murmansk in order to create an event-intervention at the Aliosha Monument to coincide with the 100 year anniversary of the city. The intervention involves the mapping of the city, in fabric, on the 35 meter tall Soldier.
30m Schedule 20m
10m aliosha tatter souvenir Investment
event
workshops
Income
0m
1:200 de-assemblage
Government
Fundraising Concept :
For the duration of the event, a number of workshops, talks, concerts, film nights and social events will raise money for a youth center.
Event Map
Security
Aliosha
ticket booth
Private Investors
Mining
There is a lack of support infrastructure from the government for the funding of creative outlets for the youth
Aliosha
Film Screen
lift
Assembly tent
NGOs
Fundraiser
Stage
Seating
Social
Oil
Youth Center
footpath to town
workshops
1:500
Infrastructure
Environent
Fishing
1:1000
Event Section
Banks
Military
ticket booth
Driveway
Prototype surfaces 33 surfaces making up one side of Aliosha
workshop
Stage
40m 30m 20m
ticket booth
10m 0m Dan dorocic
Volunteer actions
JALAZONE REFUGEE CAMP
Art Teacher/ Volunteer
The Jalazone camp was established in 1949 on 0.25 square kilometres of rocky hillside 7km north of Ramallah. Most of the original refugees came from 36 villages in the Lydd and Ramleh areas. Like other West Bank camps, it was established on land UNRWA leased from the government of Jordan. The camp came under joint Israeli-Palestinian control following the Oslo agreements. All shelters are connected to public water and electricity, but many are not connected to the sewerage system, instead using private latrines connected to percolation pits or allowing waste water to flood into the roads. While travelling and dwelling in the Middle East, I rented a room in Ramallah for a month and volunteered at the school in Jalazone teaching art classes to Plestinean children.
ramallah
JALAZONE School
betlehem
BuStan Qaraaqa
SITUATION
More than 11,000 registered refugees Twoovercrowded schools, one running on a double-shift basis Lack of sewage system
Volunteer/ Geologist/ Farmer
PERMACULTURE FARM
The Bustan Qaraaqa mission propagates a grassroots environmental movement in the Palestinian Territories to help combat ongoing humanitarian and environmental crises. During the same trip in the Middle East, I volunteered with other geologists for a week at Bustan Qaraaqa in the design process, logistics, landscaping and all physical work required to establish a sustainable, slef-sufficient permaculture farm.
Participated and Volunteered in other Social platforms such as the one held in Malmรถ, Sweden in 2008. http://esf2008.org/ Currently organizing a project with Decolonizing Architecture with Alesandro Petti and Eyal Weizman in Beit Sahour, Palestine. http://www.decolonizing.ps/site/
travel exeperience
photojournalism
desert trek 2010 central australia 4000 km drive issue covered: introduced specied and pests
2008 hitchike balkan peninsula 2000 km hitchike issue covered: roma slums
2009 converted camper trip 2000 km
issue covered: re-forestation
2009-2011
Australia Photojournalist Worked as a Journalist for various independent magazines AROUND AUSTRALIA + Vice
Traveled around central and eastern Australia investigating the history, customs and environmental pest degradation (specifically in the Cape York
Please email if you have any further questions:
D AN DOROCIC 43 Vaskerelven 5014 Bergen, Norway +4792502097 dorocic@gmail.com