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Galya Vasileva RIBA Part II

email: galiavasileva922@gmail.com 07597299613 Based in Glasgow

Skills Software: Revit

(2 years in academia)

AutoCAD

(4 years in academia and

Education 2019 - 2020 MArch Advanced Architectural Design with Distinction University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK 2013 - 2019 BSc Hons Architectural Studies Second class, upper division University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Architectural work experience work experience (11.2020) Part 2 assistant | Clark Design Architecture Glasgow, UK During my time with the practice, I produced a survey for a project in Scotland, as well as helped with the design drawings for it. I was introduced to the planning permission and building warrant application process.

1 month in industry)

Sketchup (3 years in academia)

Photoshop (5 years in academia)

InDesign (3 years in academia)

Microsoft Office (7 years in academia)

Cura (1.5 years in academia)

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Physical: Sketching

(5 years in academia and 2 years private lessons)

Watercolours

(5 years in academia and 2 years private lessons)

Graphics

(5 years in academia and 2 years private lessons)

Model making (5 years in academia)

3D printing (1.5 years in academia)

Resin Casting and Concrete Mixing (2 years in academia)

Competitions and Extracurricular Activities • 5th annual INSPIRELI AWARDS & INSPIRELI COMPETITION – participant • WARRMING competition – architecture for a changed world – participant • Architizer – One Drawing Challenge 2020 – participant • The Other Tradition TOT book production (2020) • Year 5 academic REP (2019-2020) • Member of the Athena SWAN group at the University of Strathclyde (2018-2020) • Year 4 academic REP (2018-2019) • Year 3 academic REP (2017-2018) During my time in the University of Strathclyde I had the opportunity to work with various architects. Michael Dougall, Graeme Nicholls, John Barr, Alasdair Tooze, Michael Angus and David Reat were the people that influenced my work the most. What I learned from them was that the context and narrative of a project are as important as the execution itself and in order to make people believe in the story you are telling you need to have explored every possible part of it.

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3D printed models Knockturn Alley – 3D printed glow in the dark Harry Potter inspired book nook (wired)

The Concept Drawind for Anihta p.10

NASA’s space fabric, a prototype used as outer construction material for Anihta p.10 Underwater entrance mechanism inspired by barnacles.

3D printing + epoxy resin model of the shipwreck in the Black Sea

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Architectural Work Experience Part 2 assistant at Clark Design Architecture During my time with the practice, I produced a survey for a project in Scotland, as well as helped with the design drawings for it. I was introduced to the planning permission and building warrant application process.

To whom it may concern, Miss Galya Vasileva undertook work experience with us at Clark Design Architecture in November 2020. In that time, Galya proved to be a very diligent and capable Part 2 Architectural Assistant with a positive and motivated attitude and delivered all tasks she was given in a conscientious and timely manner and did so despite the added, but necessary, level of difficulty incurred by working remotely.

During her time with us, Galya took part in Zoom team meetings, drew up site surveys on AutoCad and started work on the Stage 2 Concept drawings. She was exposed to the EPlanning/E-Building Standards Portal and the differences between Planning/Warrant/Tender/Construction drawings.

She would make a great addition to any design team.

Sincerely,

Paul Clark Senior Partner

Strathleven House, Levenside Road, Dumbarton. G83 3PD Tel: 01389 756271 Email: clarkdesignarchitecture@gmail.com Web: www.clarkdesign.org.uk

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CO Living

Urban Housing

This project deals with how we live and work in the city, and therefore

considers how the architect must mediate between the needs of the individual and the needs of society, between the desires of internal spaces and the demands of external con-straints.

The primary challenge was how to squeeze architecture out of such tight con-straints, of context, legislation, budget etc, while defining new typol gies of Co-Living. It is more than just an apartment, it is a community. This is a space for young people that love a vibrant community that provides an opportunity to live, grow and have fun.

Flexibility is a key element for co-living.

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ANIHTA - a watercolour vision the first marine archeology museum underwater, where alcoholics are sent to find their inner power, that could restore them to sanity Presents visions of worlds as a consequence of changes from technology

Anihta – the vision of the first marine archeology museum

underwater, where alcoholics are sent to find their inner power, that could restore them to sanity. Located 80km off the seacoast of Nessebar, in the depths of the Black Sea and with the help of new and existing technologies, this floating structure is going to accommodate the visitors to the first marine archaeology museum, and at the same time be a home for recovering alcoholics.

Anihta means deep in the sea, it has been used as a term for years from the fisherman in the Old Town of Nessebar. Located 80km off the seacoast of Nessebar, in the depths of the Black Sea, this floating structure is going to accommodate the visitors to the first marine archaeology museum, and at the same time be a home for recovering alcoholics.

In 2017 a team of marine archaeologist have made one of the biggest discoveries, a ship, surviving intact, at the bottom of the Black Sea. Protected by the anoxic waters at the seafloor, the ship has been sitting undisturbed since 400 B.C. A Greek vessel that looks like something the mythical hero Odysseus could have sailed. The symbolism that this discovery caries is a journey – the journey that Odysseus makes looking for his way back home to Ithaca. Step 12 of the recovery program of Alcoholic Anonymous stats that one needs to “came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” Like Odysseus, at the end of his journey, concludes that he is just a man in this world, nothing without the Gods, and alcoholic is going to be send to the depths of the sea. A location, that is going to be the provocative situation, that will help the addict find his inner power. Once you hit the bottom, you need to fight back to survive.

All of this is going to be possible with the use of technology. The study of submarines and underwater architecture are the ones that could turn this vision into a design.

I present to you Anihta.

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Living with the World Heritage a privilege and responsibility

a strategy for the preservation of the Ancient city of Nessebar Masters dissertation

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the crossroads of cultural heritage and the maze of cobblestone streets, the Ancient city of Nessebar holds the memories from thousands of years of civilisation. However, the small peninsula retains something more than just the remains of the various historical eras. This small town, on the Black Sea coast, has changed the world because the very concept of money was invented here. And, this is one of the biggest problems this ancient town is facing now.

This thesis explores the problems the Ancient city of Nessebar is facing to date through the secondary research presented in the literature review.

Case studies with similar problems to the ones of the Old Town of Nessebar were selected and good practices were highlighted to indicate how Nessebar might plan a better preservation of the authenticity of the town. A survey of residents and visitors of the Old Town of Nessebar was conducted to seek their opinion on the town’s problems.

As a result, the thesis proposes a strategy for new cultural activities, festivals and historical events to help restore the name of Nessebar as a town of culture and provide services in favour of the local community. Such a strategy is a starting point for addressing the problems the Ancient city of Nessebar is facing and for building a better future.

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Torture Gallery In a Criminally insane Prison To Care (Part 1): Inside-Out_Outside-In

The year is 2020, post BREXIT, crime rate in Scotland increased

by 400%. While the population in Govan has decreased drastically from 95 000 in 1960 to around 6 000 nowadays, the population in the prisons in the country is increasing. Govan, with its natural isolation by the rest of the city of Glasgow, with the river Clyde on the North and the motorway from South and West, has made the site a perfect location for a new prison to be formed. This is how once Greater Govan has become the one maximum security prison for the entire country. A 50-foot containing wall is erected along the area. All bridges and waterways are lined and Scotland’s police force, like an army, is encamped around the city. A security station at the entrance is the only point of access.

Once you are in, you are never going out.

As the new district of Gangtopia, the occupant of the Criminally Insane Hospital, part of the prison city, took over the control of building and locked up all the staff. Like in a horror movie, all the now illegal treatment methods, once used for healing the crazy, have become an entertainment for the prisoners.

What was once a hospital has now become a Torture Gallery.

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Location plan

Block Plans Underground floor Relationship to context

People Life Building

Ground floor

Circulation Arrival

Upper levels

Section

Axonometric

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Theatre of Cruelty A type of theatre that seeks to communicate to its audience a sense of pain, suffering, and evil, using gesture, movement, sound, and symbolism rather than language To Care (Part 2) A Civic Cynosure for Govan

2049 The society starts to form within the prison walls and one figure stand out.

They call him the Duke. He is the ruler, of what has formed to be the new Prison city of Gangtopia. He runs the city as a dictator. One of his symbols of power is the building at the end of the grand boulevard, that stands as a monument. The Theatre of Cruelty. A performance space that seeks to communicate to its audience a sense of pain, suffering and evil, using gesture, movement and sound. It has 3 points – public humiliation at grand stair. Isolated torture under the grand staircase, to be only listen to and the main performance space, where the Duke decides the destiny of the many that did not obey.

Site map / Arriving to site

The Duke

Arrival

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Circulation and use

Site plan and site model A2 concrete cast