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CURIOSITY IS THE LUST OF THE MIND thomas hobbes

EWA LENART s e l e c t e d s a m p l e w o r k s -

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CV Resume -

Tectonic Creolisation| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia die Angewandte | studio Hani Rashid | winter 2015-16| Diploma Thesis Virtual Blur| New York, NY die Angewandte | studio Hani Rashid | summer 2014 | with V.Sandor Haduwa Stage | Apam, Ghana die Angewandte | a[FA] | research, design and realization | built 2014 with C.Car, J.Hofmarcher, I.Klis, J.Lazarova, I.Petkova, P.Reinsberg Contact

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EWA LENART

nationality: polish | contact: +43 69919936974 | lenarteee at gmail com | www.ewalenart.com

EDUCATION:

Graduation with Distinction Mag. Arch.

University of Applied Arts Vienna University of Applied Arts Vienna DIE ANGEWANDTE Diploma programme in architecture (Mag. Arch.): design studio : Wolf d.Prix design studio : Greg Lynn design studio: Hani Rashid research lab: applied foreign affairs | Baerbel Mueller

[a]FA is a lab at the IOA investigates spatial, infrastructural, environmental and cultural phenomena in rural and urban Sub-Saharan Africa

Southern California Institute of Architecture Los Angeles SCI ARC exchange | Advanced Vertical Design Studio

January 2016

2010 - 2016 2 terms 1 term 6 terms 2012 -

fall 14

Design Studio: Coy Howard Visual Studies: Andrew Zago, Ivan Bernal, Critical Studies: Dora Epstein-Jones, David Bergmann

EXHIBITIONS/PUBLICATIONS/AWARDS:

architecture & culture no 417 wood structures - print publication Helmut Richter Preis 15 (Staging Apam project)

winter 2016 fall 2015

Award for Innovation (kritische Neuordnung) issued by: Austrian Chamber of Architects in cooperation with Vienna Technical University

Design Acts!

Galerie Freihausgasse | Villach, Austria The Essence 12+14+15 K端nstlerhaus Wien | Vienna, Austria The Essence 13 MAK Museum of Applied Arts | Vienna, Austria Think Global, Build Social!

AZW The Architekturzentrum Wien | Vienna, Austria Staging Apam Galerie Goettlicher | Krems an der Donau , Austria Staging Nubuke Foundation | Accra , Ghana

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fall 2014 summer 2012, 2014, 2015

fall 2014 spring 2014 winter 2013

summer 2014

FULL TIME PROFESSIONAL WORK: Adjaye Associates | Accra, Ghana Architectural Assistant

Rwanda Cancer Treatment Center (Commision, Design Phase) summer 2013

Liquifer Systems Group | Vienna, Austria Designer

SHEE project , Self-deployable Habitat for Extreme Environments since 2013

Irene Ott-Reinisch Architecture | Vienna , Austria Designer cconceptual, design and production work on several competition entries

summer 2011

Delugan Meissl Associated Architects | Vienna, Austria Architectural Assistant

Competitions: Office Complex Bremen (1st prize), Hyundai Global Dealership Space Identity Seoul (1st prize), Bank Austria Campus Vienna (2nd prize), Quartier M D端sseldorf (1st prize ex aequo), John Cranko Ballet School Stuttgart

since 2014

PROJECT SPECIFIC COLLABORATIONS: noCOLOUR INC. | Accra, Ghana

Collaborations, from design to realization since 2014 winter 2014

Atelier Eva Schlegel | Vienna, Austria Fabrication (model making) for art installations - work on selected project

Galerie Goettlicher | Krems an der Donau, Austria Curatorial work - conceptual and realization exhibition work for Staging Apam

spring 2013

Asymptote, NYC | Vienna, Austria Competition entry - design work conceptual design, 3d modelling

summer 2013

KinderuniKunst Kreativwoche | Vienna, Austria

summer 2012

White partners London - dark side club | Venice, Italy 13th La Biennale di Venezia 2012

Teaching, architectural workshops for children

Communication, Event Organization

SKILLS:

3d Modelling | Rhinoceros, Maya, Grasshopper Graphics | Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop, After Effects Visualization | Vray, Maxwell Fabrication | Laser Cutting , CNC milling, 3dprinting , Vacuum Forming Lingual | polish (5) english (4) german (2) page. 5 lenartewaselectedworks

TECTONIC C|R|E|O|L|I|S|A|T|I|O|N contemporary trademark

for African Metropolis

Day South Entrance View

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“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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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

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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.*

Elevational Sketches Studies of pattern and perforation (Penplotted)

Light Studies (Renderings)

Bottom - Shadow Studies Which indicated activated public zones during

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 to eliminite unnecessary elements

ELEVATION, EAST opens up to urban plaza

PERSPECTIVE, SOUTH entrance situation from downhill side

ELEVATION, WEST view from the boullevard side

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V|I|R|T|U|A|L BLUR proposing Bitcoin HQ on Park Avenue

Park Avenue View

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Since BITCOIN is actually not a company but a virtual

currency the idea of a typical HQ does not apply. The inventor(s) is anonym. The system is open-source and also anonym. Bitcoin does not need office space neither advertisement. The more users the system include the higher the bitcoin value becomes. That makes the only benefit.

Our proposal was to create a new type of a “physical� market where while the legal currency is virtual (bitcoin), the products remain physical. We tried remain the original UBS bank building (very private), while expressing the idea of being open-source, accessible for everyone, which characterize Bitcoin system.

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Vieving Into Lens Cons (From the Outside In)

OBJECT VS. IMAGE Notion of facade

After the analyses of markets, shop-

ping centers, shopping streets with the focus on storefronts, we had to come up with an idea which makes our vertical tower function as a market and express the difference between physical and digital

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reality. We used the storefront as an analog-medium which translates for the pedestrians the inner physical products into “digital images�. The medium is a lens - an analog tool which digitalizing (transforming, translating, mutating) the physical.

Lens Effects - Physical Model tests

Park Avenue Street View

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H|A|D|U|W|A STAGE creating cultural institution in Apam, Ghana

Beach Panorama

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Driven to engage the residents of Apam, the main idea

compels to explore a significant social engagement 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.

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World - West Africa - Ghana - Apam

The Stage

The stage for the performance artists is the focal point of the site. Landed gracefully in the spacious area, it is the very core, a meeting space and landmark, that will become the next big thing in Ghana’s art scene. Rather than being a self centered stage, shut off from the surroundings, we propose a structure that adapts to the topography and creates an external informal auditorium.

This will enhance the operation of the building not only by focusing on hosting performances but also opening up the space and inviting local residents to reprogram it according to their needs.

Situating the stage on the ocean front poses many questions as acoustics and wind protection.

Our strategy to solve this is to place the more vertical program parts, such as backstage, facing the ocean. This will serve as a barrier that will protect the event space from wind and noises, alternating into stage. The multifunctional platform follows the landscape and provides with an alternative stage that creates openness and leads to a bar area.

the Roof

Apart from benefiting from a gift of nature, bamboo is one of the most versatile, flexible and strong materials. Constructing with bamboo is environmental friendly and helps the adoption and reinforcement of sustainable development practices in Ghana. The roof is informed by corresponding to the material structural system, and uses its technical and spatial potential.

The rising and declining structure invites by passers to enter and explore the new form of open space. It is large enough to accommodate big concerts, gatherings, exhibitions and a market for the local residents, combining maximum daylight with minimal sunshine exposure interfacing with the external elements - sun, daylight, air humidity, wind.

For the canopy forming the grid shell we use low-tech joint details. A waterproof membrane protects the roof from heavy rain and the rain water runs down into a tank, placed on the south west side of the stage.

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MBLY TION PRINCIPLES & BAMBOO SITE

SINGLE

TRIPPLE

DOUBLE

BEAM ASSEMBLY CONSTRUCTION PRINCIPLES & BAMBOO JOINTS ON SITE bamboo nail

45째

chainsaw cut through node for flexibility

SINGLE nail pocket, pre-drilled

TRIPPLE

DOUBLE

splitted bamboo batch

SINGLE BEAM ASSEMBLY

bamboo nail

45째

chainsaw cut through node for flexibility

nail pocket, pre-drilled

DOUBLE, TRIPPLE BEAM ASSEMBLY

splitted bamboo batch

SINGLE BEAM ASSEMBLY

Connecting single bamboo beam into double and Triple Japannese joint type using bamboo self made nails

DOUBLE, TRIPPLE BEAM ASSEMBLY

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contact EWA LENART www.ewalenart.com +43 69919936974 lenarteee at gmail com Vienna Austria

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