Elena Petkova | Architecture Portfolio 2016 by Elena Petkova

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PROJECTS KUNST. STADT. NEU.

Arts and Crafts Centre | Master Thesis

PENTFARM

NYC Farm Tower | International Ideas Competition

NORTHERN LIGHTS OBSERVATORY

Student Ideas Competition & Bachelor Thesis

SURPLUS TRANSFER

The Urban Village

URBAN BRICK

Residential Building

SEMINARS SPATIAL IMAGE

Modelmaking und Photography

IfA END OF YEAR EXHIBITION 2014

Student Organisation

WORK EXPERIENCE HAUS 9 Sauerbruch Hutton Architects

KUNST.STADT.NEU. Arts and Crafts Centre

Master Thesis WS 2015/16 Prof. Finn Geipel

CR EA T

ART

B LIC R E A L M

N CATIO DU EE IV

CREA TIV EW O

THE TASK Kunst. Stadt. Neu.* is a project in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia, aiming to create an educational and cultural centre for a variety of arts and crafts. These include both contemporary fine and applied arts, like painting, photography, graphic design and sculpture, as well as traditional Bulgarian “practical” crafts like wood carving, pottery, embroidery and smithery. The centre should contain three main “branches” – creative work, creative education and public life. All of them have the aspect of art in common. On the one hand, the centre’s goal is to support contemporary Bulgarian artists and craftsmen, encouraging them to carry on traditional Bulgarian crafts and thus contributing to the preservation of the Bulgarian cultural heritage (creative work). On the other hand, it aims to give children and young people the opportunity to explore their creative side and help them find their calling (creative education). The idea is to create a place of encounter and a centre of attraction for creatives, a place where artists, artisans and anyone with passion for arts and crafts feel at home, exchange ideas, work together and are able to present themselves in front of a wide public. * Art. City. New. – The name is a play on words with the German word Stadt (city) which also sounds like statt (instead of).

KUNST. STADT. NEU.

THE SITE Bulgaria | Sofia

The site constitutes old industrial buildings – Sofia’s former train factory. It is located on a 421.000 sq m site adjacent to the main train station in the south and a heat and power station and the central cemetery to the north of the site. Enclosed by the train tracks on one side and by a busy street on the other the whole area resembles an unaccessible island. Despite the close proximity to the main station, where several buses and trams as well as an underground stop are located, there is no direct connection between the two sides of the train tracks. Thus the topic of connection emerges as a central problem. The site has more than a century-long history as an operating factory. Through that time the area has experienced a variety of changes – it has been renovated, rebuilt, some parts of the complex have been demolished whereas other parts extended – until the building complex was abandoned after the closure of the factory in 2003 and the transition of the site to private property. The project deals with the part of the site where the ruins of the last remaining buildings are. In a city like Sofia, where historical buildings are little appreciated and often being demolished with no regard for their cultural value, it is all the more important to develop a concept in deference of the building’s qualities and to preserve the existing building. In addition to that comes the fact that the site is situated in a barely defined urban setting and the existing structures seem like an incoherent cluster of objects. Therefore it seems almost impossible to develop a concept in relation to the urban context. As a consequence, the only rational concept strategy is to follow the logic of the existing buildings.

KUNST. STADT. NEU.

KÜNSTE

ALT NEU MALEREI

MODERN

LE EL LL OD ETA

HAUEREI HOLZSCHNITT M

“HMMM!”

KURATOR

KUNST HUB

K E R A M I K CREATIVE

AUFBAU

ZEICHNEN

PLASTIK

BILDENDE

HANDWERK

THE CONCEPT

ART

AVANTGARDE KOLLABORATION

TISCHLER

TEXTIL

TRADITION

SCREENING

WERKSTATT

ZENTRUM

RESOZIALISIERUNG INDUSTRIERUINE WORK SHOP

KINDER CO-WORKING ATELIERS FESTIVAL SEMINARWERKHOF “ARTSY !”

SPIELPLATZ

“WOW!”

CONFERENCES

BAHNHOF

BULGARIEN

”

BRÜCKE

“MJAM!

GALLERY “TRENDY!”

GASTRO CONTEMPORARY

AUSSTELLUNG

EVENTS

RESTAURANT

DINING FOOD

SPACE

TEDx

HANDWERKER

TANK

SOFIA

E XHIBITION ART

THINK

BAR

MUSEUM

FREIZEIT

KÜNSTLER

FILM

ARBEITENLERNEN

REVITALISIERUNG

The first step is to remove the subsequently built “attachments” of the primary buildings and bring the structures to their original volumes. Thus, three main architectural characteristics of the historic buildings can be identified: vast interior expanse, height differences, which enable better lighting conditions and the orthogonal assembly of spaces. Based on the morphology of the existing buildings and in deference of their urban structure, the spatial composition was expanded by adding new volumes and optimised in such a way as to create a coherent urban setting. At the same time, when developing the spatial concept as well as planning the outdoor spaces, the user-specific requirements were taken into account. As already mentioned, the connection is the central theme of the project – both the connection of the site to the urban infrastructure, as well as the connection between the individual buildings and places on the site. In order to make the site accessible from the city side, a connecting element to span over the train tracks is needed – a pedestrian bridge. Towers, connected by the bridge and containing staircases, stick out over the surrounding buildings and thus define the entrances, making the art center visible from a greater distance. The bridge continues into the interior spaces and turns into a central circulation element for the whole site. Its truss structure allows it to span over bigger distances and reinforces the industrial character of the complex.

ATELIERS PUBLIC SPACES

(1) SUBSTRACTION

LEARNING

(5) SPACIAL CONCEPT ATELIERS YARDS

ELONGATED SPACES

MAIN SQUARE

WORKHOP YARD

HEIGHT DIFFERENCE

(2) CHARACTERISTICS

(6) OUTDOOR SPACE

(3) VIEW AND MAIN CIRCULATION AXES

(7) ENTRANCES

(4) ADDITION

(8) BRIDGE AND CIRCULATION

KUNST. STADT. NEU.

Bibliothek

Copy/Print

Media/Video

Meetingraum

Atelier

Gemeinschaftsbereich Think Tank

Co-working Space

Gemeinschaftsbereich

Garderobe

Info

Shop

Lager

Lager Teeküche

Atelier

Kinderecke

Lobby

Café

Atelier

Kantine

Küche

Holz- und Metallwerkstatt

Bibliothek

Lager

Bildhauerwerkstatt

Fotostudio Toiletten /Umkleiden im OG

Lager

Verwaltung

Garderobe/Schließfächer

Gemeinschaftsbereich Seminarraum

Malsaal

Textilwerkstatt

Keramikwerkstatt

Gemeinschaftsbereich

Ausstellungs-/Eventﬂäche

KUNST. STADT. NEU.

East-West Section

North-South Section

KUNST. STADT. NEU.

The bridge – a promenade that winds through all the spaces – becomes an experience for the visitor. It enables exciting views from above into the work of the artists, without disturbing them. At every turn, there are impressive view relationships between up and down, inside and outside, old and new. New spatial qualities emerge. The bridge becomes a shaping element that not only connects, but also subdivides and defines spaces.

Workshops and exhibition space

KUNST. STADT. NEU.

Section model of an ateliers building

PENTFARM N e w Yo r k C i t y Fa r m To w e r

2015 Internationaler Ideenwettbewerb Marios Messios | Elena Petkova

THE TASK AND THE SITE

The PentFarm is an idea proposal for a building that represents the new relationship between people and nature, located at the High Line in Manhattan. The High Line is a 2.5 km long public park built on an abandoned elevated railroad, stretching from the Meatpacking district to the Hudson rail yards in Manhattan. As a result of the construction of the High Line many buildings in the district of Chelsea have been rehabilitated and the neighbourhood has been revived. The site area of the project is located on a square formed by the High Lineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crossing of 10th avenue and 17th street. The program includes a vertical farm with a residential use, as well as other related functions such as commercial and service spaces.

PENTFARM

THE CONCEPT Adopting to the architectural and urban context, the concept derives from the idea of connecting the building with the High Line landscape and creating a continuation of the park in a vertical direction. The High Line park offers lots of recreational and meeting spaces and at the same time it preserves the biodiversity that took root after the railroad fell to ruin. The design proposal aims to not only maintain these functions but to diversify the area further in terms of botanical variety combined with social activities. The volume has been divided into two main parts â&#x20AC;&#x201C;accommodating the farm and the housing â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which are being separated but also connected by a spiral ramp in between the two. This promenade represents a new meeting point where people can take a walk and enjoy the essences of farming. The farm is not only about the cultivation of agricultural products; its social aspect comes to the fore. The spaces are adaptable; one can rent a small space and put up ones own stall along the ramp, selling freshly picked tomatoes, or invite the public into the farm spaces, offering them different social activities such as cooking classes and school education programs. The slated south facade provides optimal sun light for the plants, which are allocated to the appropriate floor, considering the amount of sunlight they need. Of course, utilizing the renewable energy sources is an important factor in the power supply of the building. Rainwater is being collected in water tanks on the rooftop and used to water the plants on the floors below. Energy is also saved and used from the wind turbines on the roof, as well as the solar panels on the south facade. The facade is designed to allow natural ventilation and free air circulation through the farm spaces. 18

ZUCCHINI

ROOT VEGETABLES CARROTS ONION PATATO

VEGETABLES

VEGETABLES LEGUME

BROCCOLI

BROCCOLI BEANS

CABBAGE

CUCUBMER

SPINACH

CUCUBMER APPLES EGGPLANTS PEARS GREEN PEPPERS RASPBERRIES LETTUCES STRAWBERRIES PUMPKIN TOMATOES SPINACH

ZUCCHINI

ZUCCHINI HERB

FRUITS

EGGPLANTS GREEN PEPPERS LETTUCES PUMPKIN

BASIL

ROOT VEGETABLES

PATATO

DILL CARROTS MINT ONION ROSEMARY PATATO

LEGUME

BEANS

CARROTS ONION

CIRCULATION

FARM

RESIDENTIAL

CIRCULATION

FRUITS

APPLES

PEARS

RASPBERRIES

STRAWBERRIES

TOMATOES

RAMP AS A CONTINUATION OF THE HIGH LINE

PLANT

ACTIVITY

HERB

1 floor

RAMP

HERB

BASIL

DILL

TOMATOES & LEGUME

MINT

ROSEMARY VEGETABLES + FOOD SYSTEMS EDUCATION

ROSEMARY

HERBS

COOKING & NUTRITION CLASSES

FRUITS

SCHOOL PROGRAM

FRUITS

COFFEE HOUSE

VEGETABLES

SENIOR FOOD ACCESS PROGRAMM

VEGETABLES

VEGAN RESTAURANT

ROOT VEGETABLES

FARMERS MARKET

ADMINISTRATION / LOBBY

MINT

APPARTMENTS

L - APPARTMENT MAISONETTE

DOUBLE APPARTMENT COMMON SPACES

SINGLE APPARTMENT

ADMINISTRATION / LOBBY

1Â½ floor

PENTFARM

NORTHERN LIGHTS OBSERVATORY Bachelor Thesis SoSe 2012 Prof. Dipl-Ing. Architektin Ute Frank Elena Petkova | Pamela Siemen | Zaneta Choroba

THE TASK AND THE SITE

The Aurora Borealis Arctic Observatory is an idea proposal for a student competition with the task to plan and design a tourist-oriented northern lights observatory and hotel. The project is locatedin one of the most extreme lati足tudes inhabited by man andsurrounded by lush, endless forests and 足nature in its purest form. Itshouldrecreate a bond with 足Mother Nature and help us rediscover our most basic 足instincts. While its main goal isto provide accommodation to people coming to see the aurora borealis, it also has to stand on its own as a tourist destination. The observatory is more than just a service for the city: in addition to a Finnish spa and an Astronomical Observatory it has to offer an impressive service quality in terms of food, beverage, and lodging. Every year thousands of tourist travel to Rovaniemi, Finland to see the Northern Lights. The building site is not located inside the village itself, but on a virgin hill in front of it, approximately two kilometers away, on the other side of the Kemijoki River.

NORTHERN LIGHTS OBSERVATORY

THE CONCEPT

To build with nature – that doesn‘t mean building higher than the surroundings, but rather to take root, and at the same time grow like the branches of a tree towards the sky. The basic form of the building–a rectangular ring with narrow sides– may exist between the trees, without the need for the sacrifice of trees. The height difference of the two corners allows the spatial division into three functional areas. The lower corner sinks completely into the ground, thus offering a darkened room for the planetarium. The elevated corner allows a 360 ° view of the night sky and creates an inviting entrance gesture. The hotel rooms in the eastern partremain on the ground. Each functional space has been assigned a specific place in the ring according to the orientation that suits it best.What is more important is the visual connection to the city and the view ofa dark sky far from any electrical lighting, which would bring out the magic of the Northern Lights in its most spectacular form.

ENTRANCE HALL + RECEPTION access from the city

OBSERVATORY view of the city view of the night sky

Form

RESTAURANT AREA oriented towards the city

PLANETARY no orientation Entrance Gesture

FINISH SAUNA inner orientation vicinity to hotel rooms

HOTEL ROOMS dark forest orientation Circulation

NORTHERN LIGHTS OBSERVATORY

1. Entrance hall 2. Observation deck 3. Restaurant 4. Planetary 5. Sauna 6. Hotel rooms

6 E

5 Level 1

Level -1

C 1

Level 0

Level -1

Level 1

10m

Birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eye perspective

Section B-B

View of the courtyard

Birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eye perspective

SURPLUS TRANSFER Urban Village SoSe 2014 Dr. sci. ETH, Dipl.-Ing Rainer Hehl Elena Petkova | Hilaria Saldern | Veronique Baustert

THE TASK

The SURPLUS TRANSFER program investigates urban villages in many different contexts across the world in order to identify the specific qualities of these settlements. After a focused analysis the main concepts of these urban villages have to be transferred and translated to selected sites in Berlin. On the one hand the reference project gives new spatial, programmatic and cultural input — on the other hand the specific qualities of the site in Berlin are being investigated. Rather than representing villages in the traditional sense, these urban villages have to be designed as complementary living models to the existing urban fabric, following their own identities.

SURPLUS TRANS FER

THE SITES Albania | Tirana

The reference project is situated in Tirana, Albania. It constitutes added volumes to socialist housing blocks, developed during the first years after the changes, as a result of the collapse of the communist system, the following rapid urbanization and informalization of the urban development. In order to satisfy their needs for more living and commercial space, people teamed up with their neighbours and built additions to the existing housing blocks in form of extensions of the living area or reuse of ground floor spaces. Germany | Berlin | Brunnenstraße

The site in Berlin is located on Brunnenstraße — important interface between the districts Wedding, Mitte and Prenz lauer Berg, which is the reason for a high social diversity in the area. The building to be transformed is a post-war social housing complex build with a very irregular structure. While the backyards of the housing blocks already provide some attractive spaces for the residents, the streetside is a space with untapped potential. It provides some public and commercial zones, but due to facilities such as discount supermarkets and casinos it doesn’t represent such an attractive place as it is the case in Mitte.

Tirana 1

50m

Berlin

1 10

100m

SURPLUS TRANS FER

THE CONCEPT Spacial Transfer

Program

Space

Identity

Learning from the reference project in Tirana, the spatial transfer to the Berlin site consists of two additional layers to an existing housing block. The extensions of the facade on both street and yard side smoothen the former facade which was characterized by a high irregularity and therefore make the street appearance more attractive. A complete reorganization of the floorplans enables the increase of the number of apartments by more than a third. The core, consisting of the bearing structure and the vertical circulation is retained while the two added layers on the facades offer more living space. Moreover, every apartment looks out either onto the streetside or the backyard and therefore has access to one of the new layers. Room-high glazing, which can be opened completely, as well as recessed ceilings of the two-storey apartments in the lower storeys enable the sunlight incidence into the whole flat. This shows a surplus in contrast to the reference project, where the additional layer detains the sunlight by increasing the depth of the building.

SPATIAL

Former Organization

With Extension

New Organisation

TIRANA

Existing Building

PROGRAMMATIC

EXTENSIONS EXISTING STEP BUILDING 1 Existing Building

OTH FACADE STREET SIDE EDGE 1

NEW SHAPE

STREET SIDE EDGE 2

BERLIN

YARD SIDE LAYER

BACK YARD

SMOOTH FACADE STEP 2 NEWEXTENSIONS SHAPE With Extension YARD SIDE EDGE STREET SIDE LAYER 2

STREET SIDE LAYER 1

EXTENSIONS STEP 1

STREET SIDE EDGE 1

EXTENSIONS STEP NEW 2 ORGANIZATION NEW ORGANIZATION EXISTING BUILDING EXISTING BUILDING Former Organization New Organisation

STREET SIDE EDGE 2 YARD SIDE LAYER

STREET SIDE LAYER 1

STREET SIDE LAYER 2

STREET

SURPLUS TRANS FER

1 2

10m

Tirana

10m

new walls walls new

Berlin

10m

SURPLUS TRANS FER

Tirana

Berlin

SURPLUS TRANS FER

Programmatic Transfer

Just as it is the case in Tirana, the upper floors of the housing block on BrunnenstraĂ&#x;e contain apartment units while the ground floor, the four existing pavilions and the walkway provide space for public use, housing cafĂŠs, galleries, coworking spaces, a market space, a playground, etc. The added layers to the apartment units offer more qualitative living space. It can be used as an additional room to the flat and/or private winter garden and therefore provide a surplus to the inhabitants by offering them highly flexible housing situations. Cultural Transfer

The restructured inner organization of the building contains flats from 45 qm to 224 sqm, providing apartments for low to middle income inhabitants and for a variety of target groups (families, singles, flat sharing). The better living standard and the good location widen the milieu of the current inhabitants and therefore contribute to the development of the area.

Interior of an apartment with extension

URBAN BRICK W iS e 2 0 14 /15 P rof. Dip l . A rc h ite kt E T H / B SA Raph ae l Fre i Elena Petkova | Veronique Baustert

THE TASK Urban Brick is an idea proposal for a modern urban housing project on the site of the former gasworks in BerlinSchöneberg. This industrial park, surrounded by residential buildings, has an island-like character, which is instensified by the adjacent railway tracks. In this empty area, inthe midst ofGründerzeitarchitecture,a new quarter has to be developed. The task is to design residential buildings that are to be planned in monolithic brick orcavity wall construction,as a reminiscence of the existing, heritage-protected brick buildings from the 19th century. THE SITE Germany | Berlin-Schöneberg

The plot 18 is located on the right side of the main entrance to the quarter, along Torgauer Strasse which leads to the Schöneberg S-Bahn station. The building offers living and working space for artists, as a response to the spatialneeds of the existing art scene in the area.It reinterprets the concept oflive/work spaces in terms of cohabitation. 42

URBAN BRICK

THE CONCEPT The ground floor and the 1st floor offer space for exhibitions, seminars and art workshops, as well as for two-storey art studios with an integrated living area. On the upper floors, the idea of cohabiting isrepresentedby the formation of “clusters”, with eachclusterconsisting of three private apartments and a community workshop. A horizontal space division by split levels allows for a greater ceiling height in the workshops than in the apartments. Vertically, thin layers separate each workshoplayer from the housing layer and thus function as a buffer zone, which prevents the possible noise from the workshop to reach the apartments. In addition, these layers accommodate the circulation and the sanitary facilities.

All apartments and workshops are designed as generous loft spaces, so that they can be freelyorganized as desired by a light room divider. They have large, floor-to-ceiling windows on both thecourtyard and the street facades.The apartments also have a loggia on the south side. Visual connections between the living and the working spaces, made possible through glazed openings in the walls, make the difference in height especially perceptible. The rawbrick and wood materials in the rooms, intensified by the transom windows of the workshops, gives the spaces the charm of the19th century industrial character.

WORKSHOP + LIVING RESTAURANT

PUBLIC WORKSHOPS GALLERY

ENTRANCE BOOKSHOP

VERTIKAL CIRCULATION

Splitlevels

PRIVATE WORKSHOPS

LIVING

SEMINAR SPACES

Layers

WORKSHOP LIVING

WORKSHOP

LIVING

WORKSHOP / GALLERY

LIVING + WORKSHOP / GAL

URBAN BRICK

4. floor

10m

Living + Workshop / Gallery | Ground floor

Living + Workshop | Upper floors

10m

1 1

10m 10m

URBAN BRICK 1 2

9 10

Facade Detail

Interior

ABBILD DES RAUMES Modelmaking and Photography WiSe 2014/15 Elena Petkova | Veronique Baustert | Ilkin Akpinar

THE TASK The task was to make a physical model and create an image, identical to the given black and white interior photograph. The model was to be built only from paper. Recognizable retouch work was not a Â llowed.

Plan House in Uehara | Kazuo Shinohara

Implementation guidelines: Construction, color and scale of the model as well as the positioning of the artificial and natural light sources had to be taken into consideration.

left: Original photo of the House in Uehara from Kazuo Shinohara right: Model picture

IfAEx Guidance System Design

End-of-Year Exhibition of the Institute of Architecture 2014 Student organization

THE TASK The annual exhibition of the Institute of Architecture (IfAEx) of the TU Berlin is a two-day event at the end of the summer semester, organized by the students. In cooperation with the design studios, the students exhibit their works of the last two semesters and open them to the general public. The exhibition space includes the entire building of the architecture institute with all its design studios.

The task of my team was the design and development of the guidance system, which led the visitor through the various spaces, where the individually curated mini-exhibitions of the different departments where located.

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The journey begins already in front of the main entrance, leads through the foyer in the ninth floor and spirals down through the individual work spaces. It ends on the ground floor again, where the café and the IFA Bookshop provide a lounge area.

BOOKSTORE BAR

BUS

For the year 2014, we developed a guidance system in the form of a story – a story in 63 parts. Each part was written on an individually numbered sign and placed at a significant spot in the building. By following the signage, the visitor – driven by his own explorers instinct– is being led through the whole exhibition.

The story itself is a tale told by us, the architecture students, about what we have learned and what we have experienced during our study, in this building. It contains famous people quotations, as well as statements written by the students themselves. As a result, the story provides the opportunity for personal interpretation of the visitor and enables him an individual journey through the exhibition.

Photo: Konstantin Richter 08 | Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait until you know who you are to get started. -An incomplete manifesto for growth, Bruce Mau-

10 | Study. A studio is a place of study.Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit.

-Austin Kleon, Steal like an artist-

Photo: Konstantin Richter 62 | Take a break. Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms. Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces – what Dr. Seuss calls “the waiting place.” Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference – the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals – but with no actual conference. Apparently it was hugely successful and spawned many ongoing collaborations. -An incomplete manifesto for growth, Bruce Mau-

HAUS 9 Living and Ateliers Sauerbruch Hutton Architects

Implementation phase 2012 - 2014 Construction stage LP 5 - 7

Haus 9 is a new studio and apartment building situated in Berlin-Mitte, where extensive urban development measures are planned in the coming years. The plot is located on a heritage-protected site, surrounded by brick buildings and a variety of green spaces.

Together with a small team I worked on both the design and construction stage of the project. Within the two years I worked at the office as an intern, I pursued the Âproject from the laying of the foundation stone to the practical completion. My tasks included production of detailed design Âdrawings,supporting the preparation of the tender documentation, preparation of price comparison charts of tenders, as well as regular site inspections of the work to ensure it meets the specifications. I was also involved in the design process of the interiors, prepared detailed drawings of the interior design and could contribute with my own Âdesign ideas.

left: Staircase right: Facade detail

left: Main entrance right: View from the east side

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