Lenart Ewa / Work Samples 2017

CURIOSITY IS THE LUST OF THE MIND -

EWA LE NART WORK SAMPLES

thomas hobbes

Architectural Assistant Part II

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Tectonic Creolisation Addis Ababa, Ethiopia die Angewandte, supervisor: Hani Rashid, 2015-16, Thesiswork - academia concept Museum of found souls Los Angeles, CA 10-13 Sci-Arc, studio Coy Howard 2014, single work Haduwa Stage Apam, Ghana 14-16 die Angewandte, a[FA] from design and realisation, built 2014 academia built with C.Car, J.Hofmarcher, I.Klis, J.Lazarova, I.Petkova, P.Reinsberg

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Vienna from above Vienna, Austria tnE Architects ,2016-17, exhibition design, Project leader - professional built Places for People Vienna, Austria 22-25tnE Architects ,2016, Biennale di Venezia, co-work

Nothing of me is original.

I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known. ― Chuck Palahniuk

Tectonic creolisation

investigates a post-colonial african metropolis condition, proposing an institutional building in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, which integrates civic life with highly political organisation.

New power seeks a new symbol.

My research is based on the booming economy (Integrated African Commercial Block TFTA) and growing need to host several new institional services which gives a great opportunity for the future of african cities, to develope tangible identity, internal city brand, which will generate the contemporary paradigms.

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TECTONIC CREOLISATION

Aerial Night View

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contemporary trademark for African Metropolis

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Plinth - Roof Relation - Tectonic Studies, inspired by on and off beat

AESTHETIC CONFLICT Geometrical Isolation

Creolisation is a new cultural unity evolving from

the blending of diverse original elements.

My interest comes from combination of two organisational methods, provided for two audiences.

The zones are formally divided by tectonic blanket, which supports two different conditions however does not allow them to intercross. First condition serves as a headquarter for TFTA (a newly signed agreement between 26 african nations to create a free trade zone). The second condition is a space open to public, which is a result of variations of the repetitive tectonic blanket derrived from on and off beat african composition.* This strategy allows to create an eleborate plinth-roof relation, allowing to emerge diverse sheltered spaces, which are so desirable in the city life.

African metropolis as a scaled up rural scene - notion of traditional african compound, suqs and occupying urban negative space. * The coherence of african composition derrived from conflicting and irreducible thytmic patterns, leaving aside the most critical feature of all, imporovisation and variation element does not stand alone - each element determines how do we apprehend another - almost any two elemets can create a composition together. It is about the organisaiton of rhytms and cross-rhytmic tensions and their periodic contraction and composiiton into coherent, dynamically stable ensembles.*

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Elevational Sketches Studies of pattern and perforation (Penplotted)

Light Studies (Renderings)

Bottom - Shadow Studies Which indicated activated public zones during different daytime (morning, noon, afternoon)

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Bottom - Pattern Perforation Studies (Photography of Overlay of lasered plexi with pattern design)

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Massing Model in scale 1:500 (CNC mill, Powder 3d Print, Vacuum Form)

STRUCTURAL FRAME

as cohesive integrated system

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Structural Model in scale 1:500 (plastic 3d print, CNC mill, lasercutting)

structure after BESO OPTIMISATION (Karamba, Grasshopper) to eliminite unnecessary elements

ELEVATION, EAST

PERSPECTIVE, SOUTH entrance situation from downhill side

ELEVATION, WEST view from the boullevard side

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opens up to urban plaza

The term Outsider Art, sometimes called rough art,

describes art created outside the boundaries of official culture, very often created by those who are not trained to be an artist, children or disable.

Given the site, Silver Lake district of Los Angeles, which has become in last years one of the most desirable ares of the city with still remaining rough touch to it, has created an extremely interesting justaposition of mainstream and underground.

The project uses the idea of cultural artifact and defines the tectonics inspired by easthetics of intuitive and personal, mysterious and efordless process of creation.

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MUSEUM OF FOUND SOULS

Aerial View

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creating outsider art center in Los Angeles

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Graphite Wax on Plexi

Created Intuitive Artifacts

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First Gallery View dark long

Second Gallery View open, perforated

Third Gallery View hidden horizon

Third Gallery View leaving

Top View

Top View, No roof

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Materialized state of mind

in 2012 [a]FA which stands for applied foreign affairs, lab of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, has started a designbuild project collaboration ( team of 7 viennase students of architecture, landscape design, journalism) in collaboration with local dance and choerography students in Ghana.

The aim was to create a Arts & Culture Institute on the coast of Pacific Ocean, to enable young choreographers from all around the globe to exchange their passion in such a unique surrounding.

Whole planning process, from conceptual to realisation of the mono-material 28-M span bamboo roof has has been realised by group of students (credits in the index) Preliminary design, Design development drawings, Building permit drawings, Executive design, Detailed drawings, Technical Supervision, Artistic Supervision, General Planner Management, Local Construction Supervision

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HADUWA STAGE

while in use; Performance

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creating cultural institution in Apam, Ghana

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World - West Africa - Ghana - Apam

Driven to engage the residents of Apam, the main idea compels to explore a significant social en-

gagement within the development of the art discourse in Ghana and will foster the growth and the promotion of art made in Africa. Our vision focuses on ecological and economical sustainability and aims to create a comfortable working environment for artists and local residents.

A series of indoor and outdoor program specific areas are placed around the site according to their functions. Adapted to the local conditions, they will provide comfort and will meet the need for inhabitation.

The main parts of the program are kindergarten, stage, artists’ studios, living headquarter, workshop area, staff facilities and spots for recreation. [a]FA Staging Apam is an ongoing research and a built project, which began in October 2012 and main stage canopy has been successfully finilized in Summer 2014. Our project, the new Haduwa Arts & Culture Institute, located in Ghana’s Central Region, next to the city of Apam, is conceived as a place for independent artistic experimentation. The main goal is to establish a space for individuals or organizations from various cultural backgrounds to unfold their creativity and work in the field of theatrical, spatial and sound performance.

Layering of bamboo entended beams

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SEMBLY UCTION PRINCIPLES & BAMBOO N SITE

SINGLE

TRIPPLE

DOUBLE

BEAM ASSEMBLY CONSTRUCTION PRINCIPLES & BAMBOO JOINTS ON SITE bamboo nail

45°

chainsaw cut through node for flexibility

SINGLE nail pocket, pre-drilled

TRIPPLE

DOUBLE

splitted bamboo batch

SINGLE BEAM ASSEMBLY

bamboo nail

45°

chainsaw cut through node for flexibility

nail pocket, pre-drilled

DOUBLE, TRIPPLE BEAM ASSEMBLY

splitted bamboo batch

SINGLE BEAM ASSEMBLY

MEMBRANE ROOF

Connecting single bamboo beam into double and Triple Japannese joint type using bamboo self made nails membrane cap [welded] bamboo [splitted]

membrane strip [welded hemstich]

DOUBLE, TRIPPLE BEAM ASSEMBLY

bamboo [double arch]

FOUNDATION BEAM CONNECTION

bamboo arch

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Tne next-enterprise Architects Architectural design for a show in Wien Museum am Karlsplatz in Vienna.

Co-worked on the project with Marie-Therese Harnoncourt (co-founder of the next-enterprise architects Vienna), where my role spanned from the design phase to the realisation, including comunication with the curators and planning companies.

Preliminary design, design development drawings, executive design, detailed drawings, cost evaluation basis, artistic supervision Team: Exhibition design: Marie-Therese Harnoncourt, Ewa Lenart Curators: Sándor Békési, Elke Doppler, co-work: Isabel Termini Graphic design: Larissa Cerny Realisation: artformers GmbH

exhibition poster

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BIRD’S-EYE VIENNA .The City at a Glance exhibition design and realisation, Wien Museum

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8-Feld-Kapitel, Kubus-Aussen-und-Innen-Ansichten und verschiedene Layouts

Scribbling on the map does not change the territory.

GRID & GUIDES

the description is not described

How can we grasp Vienna in its entirety? Attempts

to get a visual handle on this ever-­growing city have fascinated us for centuries – whether in the form of classic panoramas, bird’s­-eye views, post­cards, or city maps. Yet maps and panoramas exist in a productive field of tension between the demands of completeness and fragmentation, between making visible and concealing, be tween orientation and control. In all cases, the result is not a depiction of “real” territory, but rather an idea lized model, image, or vision of the city.

The exhibition displays not only some of the oldest, largest, or most famous maps, panoramas, and models of Vienna. Rare thematic maps, artistic renderings, and design products take their places alongside contemporary partici­patory efforts such as “Mapping the City,” which seeks to address the needs of underprivileged groups. The exhibition shines a light on city scapes rich in tradition (such as the sweeping views from the spire of Stephansdom or from Kahlenberg) while also contemplating new city vistas from today’s highrises. The ex­hibition encourages visitors to take a fresh look at the city and to actively in corporate themselves into portrayals of the city.

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The map (be it cartogprahy, panorama painting or photography) always

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aims to express certain level of truth. It can be manifested by colours, lines but most importatly by the scale and proportions. Grid as a tool, sometimes precisly visible as Cartensian coordinates, sometimes guiding alsmost as intuitive backbone. The exhibition design intepretates and celebrates an integral presence of it.

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Tne next-enterprise Architects Due to the refugee crisis, this contribution to the 2016 Architecture Biennale is not limited to the pavilion in Venice but also includes three ongoing projects in Vienna.

More concretely, three teams were commissioned to work together with NGOs not only to design the conversion of empty buildings into temporary accommodation for people whose asylum claims are being processed but also to accompany these buildings in the longer term.

The objectives of these interventions are to subject the social responsibility of architecture to a reality check, to provide humane places to live for those affected and to present the results in Venice to a broader public.

Haus Kempelengasse 1, Wien X

REPORTS AND STORIES FROM:

the nextENTERprise architects

Biennale di Architettura 2016 Austrian Pavilion

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Eds. Curators of the Austrian Pavilion, Elke Delugan Meissl, Sabine Dreher, Christian Muhr

UN/COMMON SPACE UN/DEFINED LIVING Text: Elke Krasny “What can architecture do?” This important question was raised by the architect Marie-Therese Harnoncourt in one of our conversations about the next ENTERprise’s work on their Venice Biennale contribution. At their architects’ office, which she runs with her partner Ernst J. Fuchs, we sat down together to look at urban mappings, sketches, photographs and floor plans. The urban, architectural, and political complexities of their Biennale work

are profound. Harnoncourt spoke of urban strategies and of undefined sites that enable encounter and interaction. The architect placed much emphasis on the concept of temporary living. The use of existing buildings and infrastructures is as important to their approach as the adding of mobile elements that help to create new un/defined spaces.

As much as the next ENTERprise’s architectural oeuvre is well known for its aesthetic and formal distinction and the way it strives to eschew both the normative implications of the modernist ‘form follows function’ legacy and the normative iconici-

ty of the contemporary signature style, Marie-Therese Harnoncourt and Ernst J. Fuchs are, at the same time, devoted to social concerns and to making architecture politically. Harnoncourt and Fuchs seek to avoid the vicious trap of the widely held, yet false opposition between aesthetic achievements and social, needs-based buildings. The next ENTERprise seeks to steer away from the antagonistic relationship that is conventionally identified between more celebratory formal architectural expression and radical leftist politics. Theirs is neither the principle of the engaged community architecture practitioner nor the self-build approach or any

other variation of a more formalised architectural participation practice arrived at through consultation with future users. Yet, Harnoncourt and Fuchs have a clear ambition to see architecture as relevant to social and political change. And it is in this context that the un/defined space can be understood as a potential space for subjective intimacy and for negotiating fairness in living together with others.

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PLACES FOR PEOPLE Austrian Pavillion, La Biennale di Venezia - Architettura 2016

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UN/COMMON SPACE UN/DEFINED LIVING

HAWI Experimental temporary living “HAWI – Experimental living” is a socio-cultural model developed for the Biennale-project „Places for People“ in association with Caritas Vienna which enables young refugees aged between 18 and 24 to live together with students inside a temporarily useable office building.

A total of twelve prototypes of the private room-inroom module are arranged in each open plan office in order to offer privacy and the opportunity for retreat while still preserving the generosity of the well-lit spaces. Each HAWI functions self-sufficiently, has its own electricity and lighting supply and can

cut itself off from its surroundings by the closing of the screens or, inversely, open these in order to expand the private realm. The modules are alterable and dismountable. The interspace and community areas can be used by the residents in line with their own requirements.

The joint voting and decision-making process that is necessary for activating the residual spaces to individual needs form the basis for this unconventional, self-determined way of collective living. Other residential typologies were developed on site within the programme “home not shelter” by architecture students from Vienna University of Technology.

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TOPOGRAPHICAL CIRCULATION WITH EXTERNAL SPACES A 140-metre-long timber walkway, tribunes and steps connect the park of the former office area of Siemens with the surrounding city space. The intertwining of the park and the topographical development creates new spaces for meeting, communcating and common activities for residents, visitors and urban enthusiasts.

Functions and forms of use are not given.

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NEEDS To inhabit OFFICE SPACE

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