Architecture Portfolio 2024

Architecture Portfolio

Stiliyan Hristov

About

My passion for the built environment started off at an early age working alongside my grandfather on a small scale church restoration project, spending summers on wooden roof reconstructions and learning to love the hands-on approach of the vernacular. During my time at the TU Berlin I grew to love the moments between abstract and inclusive discussions and the material translation that follows it. Passionate and open-minded about new ways of transformative human-scale design.

Curriculum vitae

EDUCATION

Technische Universität Berlin | Berlin, DE

September ‘20 - April ‘24*

BSc. Architecture

Freie Universität Berlin | Berlin, DE

September ‘19 - September ‘20

BSc. Computer Science

Technical School for Computer Systems | Sofia, BG

September ‘14 - July ‘18

Third Degree Systems Engineer

WORK EXPERIENCE

BioDOM Construction

Sofia, BG

February ‘23 - April ‘23

Construction site internship. Focused on raw concrete moulding and pouring as well as electrification and insulation phases.

Rainer Dietz MIKROVERMEHRUNG

Berlin, DE

September ‘20 - July ‘21

Aquaponics Werkstudent position. Laboratory worker, mainly dealt with manual replanting of moss-based plantations.

Telus International & Riot Games

Remote

March ‘20 - October ‘20

Managed Customer Relations. Maintaned customer satistfaction, regarding technical, cultural and in-game topics.

Hone Software Consultancy

Sofia, BG

June ‘18 - September ‘19

Learned how to better communicate in a team setting. Backend microservice design and baked an inhouse PDF editing platform. Handled AWS services such as S3, EB deployment and lambda functions.

Segmentation of disappointment

Disappointment Enttäuschung

An emotion study

Individual Work Course: Darstellen + Gestalten Faculty: CoLab TU-Berlin Supervisor: Ignacio Borrego, Andreas Woyke

Disappointment /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntm(ə)nt/ (noun) - sadness or displeasure caused by the non-fulfilment of one’s hopes or expectations.

This emotional study was designed to deepen one’s understanding of the existing with the fictional. Split up between two semesters, the students must design an architectural representation of a received emotion (pride, envy, sadness, happiness, etc.). This design must fit into an allotted 5 meter space inside of the architectural faculty building. In my case I had the opportunity of dissecting the emotional states of disappointment and attempting to translate them accurately to a 5 meter section of stairway. The second part of the case study would then be to translate the existing original concept into an otherworldly or said otherwise foreign contextualization where the materiality, functionality, and spatial language must be revised to fit the new.

stages

The Real

What makes up disappointment is correlated into space and time. The defining moment in perceptual change is when our understanding and prejudice of the moment is met with the relentless strength of reality. When our understandings are tested and we must adapt to the new or be crushed by it in a state of nostalgia.

Dimension

The chosen design is constructively split into multiple wooden frames, dissecting the 5 meter span into 9 spatial fragments. The viewer / actor must tread upwards, not knowing what is behind the transfigured corner in the middle of the piece. This same middle is the epicenter of the emotional change and as such draws the eye towards it. Metaphorically the point of no return, where one must come to face reality and rise up to the new real.

Imaginary

Adapting itself to the outside the elements have now changed, the wooden frameworks steps aside and in its place, metal galvanized pipes are pre-bent and fitted into metal joinery tubes. The whole framework is now the leaning element, bent by the change in perception brought on by the impact of disappointment. The verticality is no longer there, now flat on its’ side the architectural implementation is a platform for viewing the world: the natural, wild flora and fauna near Hanoi City, Vietnam.

Defining the stages

Existing Stairway Sketch, charcoal on paper Translation

Change

Hand Drawings: Section 1:25, Plan 1:25, Axonometry 1:33

Model Photos, 1:25

9 still sequences, existing structure renders,

pieces, colored pencil on paper

Bauhütte 4.0

New European Bauhaus

Individual Work Course: Städtebaulicher Entwurf

Faculty: Chora Conscious City

Supervisor: Moritz Maria Karl, Prof. Bunschotten

The term Bauhütte 4.0 refers to the long period of the Bauhütte Movement and the construction of social housing in early 20th century Berlin.

A research hub, centered around closed material cycles and using wood as a catalysator for urban transformation. Taking inspiration from Bauhaus, in the way in which concrete was introduced as the leading material of the future, used to construct many Weimar Republic settlements during the early 20th century, we take a similar approach this time with our attention focused on wood and timber solutions. The project is part of New European Bauhaus and is to be used as a first-glance inspiration piece for the reuse of the old Tegel airport to construct a new Quartier, made entirely from renewable materials.

FOLLY

“A structure, such as a pavilion in a garden, that is chiefly decorative rather than practical in purpose.”

To start off the project, the task of constructing a FOLLY set was given. In the construction set there are two primary units: the first is a radial cut platform, the variations in this grouping is formed by adding additional 60 degree radial parts to the previous. Together they build a honeycomb. The second grouping of pieces consist of slat cuts with an indentation on the long sides to allow the aforementioned radial cuts to fit in snugly. The constructor was built with Balsa wood.

Create, Live, Build, Concept

With a modular grid, people are free to design their own space within their living quarters. Therefore, the idea of having a simple modular system was top priority, so that the buildings live on past their creation date: 5 , 10 , 15 years into the future, they should not remain the same. An openly accessible environment without ballast and unnecessary complexity.

The loadbearing walls are connected horizontally and vertically using dowel fits.

Each piece is 60 cm in height, making them easy to handle during the construction phase. For the implementation of windows, the same individual elements can be removed and a steel pane frame for the window can be introduced, removing their load-bearing capabilities.

Taking inspiration from the folly construction, the principle of introducing wooden slabs and slats to modularly construct load-bearing walls was implemented together with the 60 degree rasterization of the floor plan. Based on these two factors, new interesting ground forms and niches emerge. Scan this for an animation of the built

Kombinationsmöglichkeiten

Wandelemente + Verbindungselemente

Kombinationsmöglichkeiten Wandelemente + Verbindungselemente

elements + adapters

Zeilenbau 2 Grundriss

Einfamilienhaus Grundriss

Einfamilienhaus Grundriss

vertical

row

perspective section, neighbourhood

visualisation, loggia to interior housing unit

visualisation, roof spaces, community feel

visualisation, laubengang, shared arcade

physical model, neighbourhood, 1:500

crushed-up waste model, texture, M 1:20

Change, Reuse: BER Airport Sanitation Redesign

Supervisor: Gaizka Altuna, Mirza Vranjakovic

The Change, Reuse project sets its goals on redesigning the sanitation facilities of the BER airport. The design tackles questions of sustainability and identity. Using a sustainable approach the decision was made to not look into the literal and established but to rethink sustainability in such a way that it is inherently at home in the city of Berlin. For that the decision to redo the verticals of the facilities made out of recycled building waste from culturally important buildings from Berlin’s past, that are scheduled for renovation. As more buildings are renovated, the project expands. The identity of the facilities differs from one another based on the building its walls were constructed from - allowing for diversity in light, texture, color and feel.

perspective, waiting area entrance

The floor plan has been reconfigured to expand on the number of stalls, sinks and urinals by multiplying them x2. A total of 16 toilets, 2 handicapped stalls, 8 urinals and 12 sinks. The circulation allows fast and straightforward crossing from the north passenger walkway and the south before-flight waiting area.

The mens and womens toilets are separated by a crushed glass privacy screen, which allows light to pass by but keeping the other side blurry.

For the walls a mixture of aggregate, sand, soil and concrete would be used as this material accounts for over 75% of all building waste generated. After being ground up to varying degrees of fineness these particles will be bound together by clay.

Haus der Statistik

Flughafen Tempelhof

Huthmacher-haus

generation of waste, by sector and type (2020)

Mäusebunker

wax model, 1:20

Circulation & Materiality

concept collage, skate and bathe

The concept is influenced by the history of skating as a sport, focusing on using old derelict swimming pools, to which Alvar Aalto can be credited as introducing the skate bowl in the early 1930s. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure and skating encompasses this idea perfectly. The main pool is converted into a skate bowl, having connections to the outside and to the basement via ramps. The small pool is preserved as is, divided by a colonnade and glass, and kept as a place of comfort and rest, providing a safe space for teenagers.

Thermal Skatehouse:

Youth house

Group Work with Tarek Shater

Course: Entwerfen + Baukonstruktion IV

Faculty: Architecture 4 Health/Future

Supervisor: Lars Steffensen, Miosge Bernd

A part of Berlin’s history on the Wolfshagener street in Pankow - the DDR serialized type C swimming hall enjoyed 40 years of service before falling into disrepair in early 2012. The project focuses on preserving the existing concrete structure and wave roof (Wellendach), introducing interactions between its program components and its two story typography. The main hall houses two swimming pools which overlook the southern street via a top-to-bottom glass curtain facade. We decided to give back to the community, which for multiple generations has been using the swimming pool as a place of daily refuge. By introducing new functionalities and parallel secondary structures we provide a shelter for kids and teenagers alike.

For the conceptualization of the project an additional assignment was provided in the form of spatial memories, where each student must present a

The design aims to reach the passive house standard (Passivhausstandard) - the space heating energy demand does not exceed 30 kWh by

Reflektier te Wärme vom Vordach

Sonnenstrahlen

Elektroverkabelung

elektrische Energie aus PV-Anlagen

Beleuchtungskör per

Thank you for your attention!

Contacts: @strvctvra +359885632378 hristov.stiliyan@proton.me