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master of architecture 2012

Portfolio

dan Dorocic

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INDEX

Intent

Academic Background

work experience

BIO

p. 3

overview

p.6

overview

action

p.16

film

L'absent de l'histoire

mcgill university

p. 32

Ocad university Melbourne university

p.7 Experience

about

education

Delta Tower

progress

p. 4

Bergen arkitektskole

gumpod

Wujin city

p.17

perspective

outback hall

p.12

p.19

extracurricular workshops melbourne digital

p. 34

Copenhagen Digital

textile

p. 34

process sketches

Sheffield campus

frame studies

totem tower

prototyping

Surface mass

bejing offices

p.20

p.20

exploration

p.14

melbournomadism masterplan polemic

Steiericher herbst

p.22

occupation exhibition

invisible monumnent political intervention polemic p.26

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Extracurricular volunteer

p. 34

travel

p. 35

journalism

p. 36

Palestine Sweden

overview

vice

7 SchonleinStrasse 5014 Berlin, Germany +4915237242052 dorocic@gmail.com

February 1st, 2012

For your consideration about me: Dan Dorocic is currently undertaking a Masters of Architecture at the Bergen Arkitektskole, Norway. He previously studied architecture in Melbourne under architectural critic Kim Dovey (author of ‘Mediating Power in Built Form’), also having studied Environmental Design in Toronto and Geography in Montreal. Dan worked as an architect in Toronto, Melbourne, and London. He is currently working on the Steirischer Herbst installation for Raumlabor, Berlin.

His latest university project ‘The Invisible Monument’ with Gisle Lokken from 70 degree architects – was recently selected as the top research project in his studio and presented at the Arctic Frontiers Conference in Tromsø, Norway. The project considers a critical reconceptualisation of ideological landscapes and the spaces of monuments.

Having visited Murmansk, Russia in the autumn of 2011, Dan proposes an action and event-based intervention at the 35-meter tall Soviet ‘Aliosha Monument’ in the city of Murmansk, on its 100th anniversary. With this project, he questions the role of the architect and hopes to spur a re-thinking of the political and legal act that is contained in an architectural ‘moment’.

I hope to gain entry into the 2 year Master’s of Architecture at U of T. I have recently completed my 4th year course at Bergen Arkitektskole and am currently working in Berlin. However, since I wish to pursue architecture in Canada, I hope to finish my studies at UofT. I find my experience across different offices and different schools has taught me the obvious dichotomy of architecture from idea to practice. In school I learn and produce based on ideas I am passionate about - focusing on social equality, spatial re-appropriation, and ideals.

In the workplace, 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 and meaning -where one is hard pressed to transform a concept into a built project. And where the built project generally falls short its purpose.

The future of architecture has to involve itself more and take a leading role within the landscapes of politics, the economy, social practices, and infrastructural industries and needs to develop the sustainable thinking architects dream up in universities and translate them drastically into the real world. Toronto, specifically, needs to re-assert sustainability and architecture into a driving seat of its urban development.

Because of my experiences , I currently enjoy the freedom and exploration an architecture school offers.

Recently I have also come to the conclusion that the age, and size of an architecture program is an important factor in how flexible and open the teaching is. I believe that architecture needs to be practiced without mental restraints. The physical world will restrain the architecture 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. Ultimately, I want to practice in Canada, so I choose to apply to Daniels because it fits with my philosophy and my background. I hope you consider my situation and I thank you sincerely for your time.

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Dan pollak dorocic

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

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Studio 505 Student Architect

Moved to

Venice Bienalle 1985

Gave grandma a fright

Melbourne, AUS

Academic Background 2011 M.Arch Bergen Arkitektskole

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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

croatian

Learned to Sk

De La Salle College, Toronto

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Volunteer action fall 2009

Manifesto Art Space Volunteer curator

Summer 2008

UNRWA Palestinian Refugee Camp Volunteer Art Teacher

Ramallah, PS

Summer 2007

Bustan QaraaqaFarm Volunteer Geologist

Betlehem, PS

current

Toronto,ON

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 4

1995 1995

1996 1996

Experience line Moved To Canada

o Germany

raumlabor

met ALsop

Moved To Australia

Moved To norway studio 505

met 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

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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

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2007 2007

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2011 2011

recent work experience

Summer 2010

architect

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

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

Intern Toronto

Melbourne

Fall 2009

Spring 2011

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architecture intern Berlin Spring 2012

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/

'Endless Forest' Fence Brisbane, Ausralia

inspiration

physical model (1:50)

for a residential screen

Iteration 1

iteration 2

Creating a seemingly endless eyescape

laser-cut double sided mirrors

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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 businessminded logic some of using one project to create new opportunities/territory which Studio 505 used to win more work for the office.

Street render

Delta Tower details

Completion Date: Client : Cost : Architect :

2014 grocon developers caD $100million studio505

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2Nd floor

first Sketch Model

1:200

process

Ground Floor Design SKETCHES

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.

development sketch

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.”

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from: “The Herald Sun”

Student architect

Summer 2010

Melbourne

lotus Hall Wujin, China

lotus Hall

phoenix Valley Plan 1:1000 1:750

site Model

perspective 1:1000

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.

section 1:1000

recent construction photo

lotus Wujin details

Completion Date: Client : Cost : Architect :

2012 Wujin District Peoples Goverment caD $12million studio505

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Phoenix valley

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.

Wujin, China

physical model

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.

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/ recent construction photo

PHOENIX VALLEY details

Completion Date 2013 Client

Wujin District Peoples Government Cost AUD $70million Architect studio505 Local Design Institute Nanjing University Design Institute

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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 12

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.

OVERVIEW CONDOS

HOTEL

OFFICE

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PODIUM

raumlaborberlin

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Steirischer Herbst

art festival Collaborated with a team of 5 Raumlabor architects, to curate a week of activities at the Steiricher Herbst festival in Graz, Austria.

protest ! !!!! tickets

SECTION

showing the distorted rythms experienced during the week of the festival.

Sonnenaufgang 06:48

Schlafphase I 23:30 - 24:00

Wachphase III 15:30 - 18:30

Sonnenuntergang 18:53

Wachphase II 11:30 - 15:00

Wachphase I 9:30 - 11:00

Dienstag, 25.09.2012

Sonnenaufgang 06:47

Schlafphase I 23:30 - 24:00

Wachphase III 15:30 - 18:30

Sonnenuntergang 18:55

Wachphase II 11:30 - 15:00

Montag, 24.09.2012 Wachphase I 9:30 - 11:00

Schlafphase I 23:30 - 24:00

Wachphase III 15:30 - 18:30

Sonnenuntergang 18:57

Wachphase II 11:30 - 15:00

Wachphase I 9:30 - 11:00

Sonntag, 23.09.2012

Sonnenaufgang 06:44

Schlafphase I 23:30 - 24:00

Wachphase III 15:30 - 18:30

Sonnenuntergang 18:59

Wachphase II 11:30 - 15:00

Wachphase I 9:30 - 11:00

Samstag, 22.09.2012

Sonnenaufgang 06:43

Freitag, 21.09.2012

Sonnenaufgang 06:46

TIMELINE Da Vinci Einstein “Normal” Napoleon

Artists

100% 75% 50% 25% 0% Summe der Aktivität der 4 Gruppen

Sonnenauf- & untergang

Ladenöffnungszeiten

Öffentlicher Nahverkehr

+50%

Locals 0% allg. Leistungskurve am Tag -50%

00:00 01:00 02:00 03:00 04:00 05:00 06:00 07:00 08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 00:00 01:00 02:00 03:00 04:00 05:00 06:00 07:00 08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 00:00 01:00 02:00 03:00 04:00 05:00 06:00 07:00 08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 00:00 01:00 02:00 03:00 04:00 05:00 06:00 07:00 08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 00:00 01:00 02:00 03:00 04:00 05:00 06:00 07:00 08:00 09

Theater, Performance, Tanz

GROSSER SAAL

Vorträge, Musik, Film

KLEINER SAAL

Vorträge, Literatur

OPEN SPACE

Architektur, Bildende Kunst,Diskussionen

WORKSHOPS

14 ausbochnmodus Berücksichtigung der Tagesform

raustampernmodus erstes Aufpuschen der Besucher

CONCEPT The concept is to creat an occupation of the Gallery for the week of ongoing program. The exhibition challenges notions of spatial public/private practices as well as the rythms of everyday life.

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Schlafphase I 23:30 - 24:00

Wachphase III 15:30 - 18:30

Sonnenuntergang 18:45

Wachphase II 11:30 - 15:00

Wachphase I 9:30 - 11:00

WACH

Sonnenaufgang 06:52

Schlafphase I 23:30 - 24:00

Wachphase III 15:30 - 18:30

Sonnenuntergang 18:47

Wachphase II 11:30 - 15:00

Wachphase I 9:30 - 11:00

Freitag, 28.09.2012

Sonnenaufgang 06:51

Schlafphase I 23:30 - 24:00

Wachphase III 15:30 - 18:30

Sonnenuntergang 18:49

Wachphase II 11:30 - 15:00

Wachphase I 9:30 - 11:00

Donnerstag, 27.09.2012

Sonnenaufgang 06:50

Schlafphase I 23:30 - 24:00

Wachphase III 15:30 - 18:30

Sonnenuntergang 18:51

Wachphase II 11:30 - 15:00

Wachphase I 9:30 - 11:00

Mittwoch, 26.09.2012

INAKTIVITÄT

ÖPNV

EINKAUFEN

LAUTSTÄRKE SPORT KOFFEIN KALTE DUSCHE LACHEN LICHT AM OHRLÄPPCHEN ZIEHEN KAUGUMMI KAUEN SAUERSTOFF

KLEINE MAHLZEITEN LOW CARB FASTENZEITEN VIEL TRINKEN !!!

ENERGYDRINKS! NÜSSE!

DUNKELHEIT ENTSPANNUNG MEDITATION RUHE STILLSTAND SCHÄFCHEN ZÄHLEN WARME MILCH MIT HONIG

GROSSER SAAL

KLEINER SAAL

OPEN SPACE

WORKSHOPS

9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 00:00 01:00 02:00 03:00 04:00 05:00 06:00 07:00 08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 00:00 01:00 02:00 03:00 04:00 05:00 06:00 07:00 08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 00:00 01:00 02:00 03:00 04:00 05:00 06:00 07:00 08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00

steirischer HERBST Wochenplan

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15 VERANSTALTUNGEN Á 3H , 6 VERANSTALTUNGEN Á 1.5H 7 VERANSTALTUNGEN Á 1.5H , 7 VERANSTALTUNGEN Á 1.0H , 7 VERANSTALTUNGEN Á 0.5H 14 VERANSTALTUNGEN Á 1.0H , 14 VERANSTALTUNGEN Á 0.5H 7 VERANSTALTUNGEN Á 2.0H , 7 VERANSTALTUNGEN Á 1.0H , 21 VERANSTALTUNGEN Á 0.5H

dramhappatmodus

VERSCHMELZEN von Akteuren & Besuche VERSCHMELZEN von Tag und Nacht VERSCHMELZEN von schlafen und wache

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.

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.

Mcgill university

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

models

2009 B.Des ocad University

2011 M.Arch

Melbourne University

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PROJECT LOGO

Plan 1:500 The site of this temporary buidling is Melbourne Campus. The idea for the projects is a temporary ‘encampement’ and workshop for architecture students . It is a doomed building with an expiry date , as such it has a miniature crane as its central suport pole and a designed lifecycle:

construction timeline

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site map

perspective

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section 1:100

Community Hall in the outback melbourne 2010

Main Hall

serving rooms

plan 1:200

Circulation process:

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elevation 1:200

TO study the particular behavoir of the frame I threw different identical repeating components at it.

frame +

Infill In this exercise, I built a frame and played with components to fill it.

Different procedures of filling the frame altered the nature of the modular pieces.

Thus, as the procedure of attachign the components changed, so did the components themselves.

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Natural= interior frame Black = Exposed Red = Anchoring element The stripped frame was the starting point of this project.

Through repeating the process of infill and modularization of the components, the building evolved into its final form.

Finally, the frame components are simplified down into their simplest form. The frame’s size does not change, only the infill changes between black, white and a glass plate.

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exploration mass plan For this Desing studio at Melbourne University, we planned and designed a community Hall.

During the studio we produced a number of study models and worked our way through various design methods. Concurrently we took courses in structures and construction where we physically built a pavillion, a heavy wall on Malbourne Uni campus and decontructed nuberous residential and commercial buildings around Melbourne CBD.

massing plan

You can see stopmotion videos of the construction process here:

http://vimeo.com/17071175

surface

frame

point and plane

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http://vimeo.com/16559676

Type rust

tile

patina memory Death

process life

tesselation

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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

raft

wagon

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.

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bird's eye perspective

Our field trip took us to Murmansk, Russia.

I focused on the ‘unworking’ of the architectural apparatus used by the now abandoned Soviet system. Finding inspration in the Situationists, Keller Easterling and Ecological thinking, I proposed a new framework for the future of Murmansk by creating a platform for change and reorientations at the monumental Alijosha soldier overlooking the city.

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the invisible monument

murmansk 2016 "centenial reorientations"

FABRIC AS GENERATOR Can the language of advertisement be re-routed to create a new implication, can it be mapped onto the monument to embezzle it with a new meaning?

In a public context, Christo’s veiling actually functioned to reveal what was hidden when the Reichstag was visible. 6 The canvas in the public realm - not as an advertisement for a market good but as a catalyst for social change. The language of public art/street art.

Instead of building another monument in 2016, why not celebrate and ‘reconstruct’ the already existing monument?

Aliosha is the icon of Murmansk.

He looks over the city, and the city looks at him.

In the daily drift through the streets of Murmansk, inhabitants get confronted by numerous things on the skyline. Smokestacks, cranes, housing slabs, and dominantly Aliosha. This visual connection to the city makes Aliosha the perfect site to celebrate the centennial.

Huyssen (2003)

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There are a lot of plans for the development of Murmansk. Over the next few years there are plans to renovate Arctica Hotel, several sports facilities, garbage processing complex, a four lane road south and more. There is also a deal for the construction of a number of new dwellings.

However, there aren’t any plans for the promotion of creativity in Murmansk. There is realistically a dire need for a creative outlet in the city. And there are already many actors working towards the goal.

The main obstacle is the lack of infrastructure and support from above. One such actor is Evegny, who is building a youth art centre with the help of some friends. He has been working on it for years, with little or no support from the municipality.

CATALYST Murmansk is about to celebrate it’s 100 year anniver-

sary. 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.

There is a need to celebrate the future of the city, but without forgetting its past.

The intervention for the city of Murmansk is based on a collective social experiment on the city scale.

By using the rhizomatic nature of today’s social networks it is possible to organize and mobilize a city wide intervention for the hundred year anniversary of Murmansk.

This event calls for the participation across the entire city of Murmansk to weave together a quilt to cover up the monument of Alyosha.

The culmination at ‘Aliosha’

STRATIFIED PLACES The kind of differences that define a place are not the ordering or juxtaposition of subjects and objects on the surface- a field where bodies are arranged. The elements spread out on the surface can be enumerated, they are available for analysis instead it’s what lies underneath, hidden by history, the invisible.

The job of the monument is not to lock away history forever, or to let us forget, but it’s job is to confront us, to keep our past on our minds.

Currently, Alisoha still functions as a State apparatus showing military power, and the only way to show one’s respect is in an official ritual of bringing flowers.

Everyday practices , based on their relationship to an occasion, that is, on casual time, are thus, scattered all along duration, in the situation of acts of thought. Casual time is what narrated in the actual discourse of the city: an indeterminate fable , better articulated on the metaphorical practices and stratified places than on the empire of the evident in functionalist technocracy.7

This project seeks to act as a catalyst for the creativity underlying the surface of Murmansk.

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RHIZOME MAP The centennial provides an opportunity for the re-invention of the monument and a reflection of the trajectory of Murmansk.

A collective action organized between different agents in the city makes the monument momentarily disappear under a veil, freeing Murmansk from the gaze of it’s military history.

The covering up of Aliosha, however, is only temporary, and after the celebration he is unveiled and revealed. When the monument is revealed everything seems unchanged, but the event has transformed the participants and the city.

The monument itself is the framework of the change, and the fabric becomes the visual technology of it’s transformation. The same technology used to plaster ideological advertisements all over the city is here used to create a moment of pause. By blankly covering up Aliosha, the fabric seems out of place, out of time, transporting the monument to an unseen dimension.

The pattern: a rhizomatic assembly of the map of Murmansk

after Guy Debord’s 1959 “The Naked City”

What lies under the textile is obvious, but momentarily the imagination is free to wander, and it is allowed to dream.

Aliosha overlooking the city

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Event Plan For the duration of the event, a number of workshops, talks, concerts, film nights and social events will raise money for a youth centre.

There is a lack of support infrastructure from the government for the funding of creative outlets for the youth

Car Access

Booth

Film Screen

Aliosha

Foot ACess workshops

Seating

Stage

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.

Event Section 1:500

Seating

Aliosha

Film Screen

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Assembly tent

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Mapping Aliosha Prototype surfaces 33 surfaces making up one side of Aliosha

Aliosha

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.

budgeting Concept:

Government Banks

Military Security

Infrastructure

Environent Private Investors

Mining Fishing

Social

Oil NGOs

Youth Center Fundraiser

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ticket booth

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40m

10m 0m Dan dorocic

L’Absent de L’Histoire a short film

Russia/Norway 2011

New Hieararchies This 5 minute film is a research by-product composed of many stills taken at 3 different sites in Berlin and many spots on our trip through the Arctic. The investigation in Berlin delves into city spaces reappropriated in different ways. First, the Soviet Memorial in Treptower park as a space of commemoration. Second, the now abandoned CIA reconnaissance base on Teufelsberg. Third, the converted Tempelhof airport that now serves as a park and centre of recreation. The concepts of undoing and unworking and of creating flexible networks, play a central role in the film. Research broadly covers philosophers and architects: Michel Decertau, Guy Debord, Bernard Tschumi, Simon Sadler, Walter Benjamin, Juhani Pallasmaa, and Doreen Massey.

See the film here: http://vimeo.com/35075627

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Digital

workshops

experience Melbourne The Experimental Design Lab is a Melbourne based design and research collective created in 2010 to promote creative utilisation of digital techniques in design taking inspiration from complex systems in nature.

Description

The workshop exposed participants to a variety of digital design and fabrication processes through the development and construction of a public installation for the 2011 St. Kilda Festival, Melbourne -erected on the St. Kilda beach .

General Information The Experimental Design Lab, or the Ex-Lab, is a Melbourne based design and research collective created in 2010 to promote creative utilisation of digital techniques in design. Taking inspiration from complex systems in nature, it promotes performance-driven designs that can adapt to their setting as live organisms adapt to their habitats.

Participation Organizer + Planner, Fabrication Staff Digital Library Rhino Grasshopper Maya Revit

Tools Lasercutter Cardcutter 3-D scanner Casting

norway CITA: Center for Information Technology and Architecture About CITA examines how architecture is influenced by new digital design- and production tools as well as the digital practices that are informing our societies culturally, socially and technologically.

Using design and practice based research methods; the aim is to explore the conceptualisation, design and realisation of working prototypes. CITA consolidates new collaborations with interdisciplinary partners from the fields of computer graphics, human computer interaction, robotics, artificial intelligence as well as the practice based fields of furniture design, fashion and textiles, industrial design, film, dance and interactive arts.

Participation Collaborator + Planner, Fabrication Help

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ExLab 2011

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.

JALAZONE School

ramallah 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.

also:

European social forum

Participated and Volunteered in other Social platforms such as the one held in Malmรถ, Sweden in 2008. http://esf2008.org/

Decolonize Architecture

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Currently organizing a project with Decolonizing Architecture with Alesandro Petti and Eyal Weizman in Beit Sahour, Palestine.

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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

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2009-2011

Australia

Photojournalist Worked as a Journalist for various independent magazines around Australia + Vice Magazine

Traveled around central and eastern Australia investigating the history, customs and environmental pest degradation (specifically in the Cape York region of Queensland)

for more visit:

http://cargocollective.com/tzch/ or:

http://aparticlewave.blogspot.com/search/label/architecture

Please email if you have any further questions: D AN DOROCIC 7 SchonleinStrasse 5014 Berlin, Germany +4915237242052 dorocic@gmail.com

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