PORTFOLIO Inna Kurtlakova
“WALTHAMSTOW UTOPIA”
“If others can see it as I have seen it, then it may be called a vision rather than a dream.”
PROLOGUE
Today due to the challenging housing market, people are becoming increasingly open to different ways of living. High-density accomodations with few amenties in urban centres providing little space in the town centre and fentrifications are part of the obsitcles originated from the ongoing regeneration scheme of Walthamstow. “Walthamstow Utopia” not only intents to provoke the modern building techology, while celebrating the unique character and ethnical diversity of the site, but to confort the exhisting projects on site and offer better solutions and design model.
During First term the Start-Up company project proposed a solution to the four main issues that the site was facing. The area of exploration lied down on adressing the correlation between work, live and community/culture. It aimed to strenghten the local identities, as well as to examine public spaces and how they function within the context of a work- live model.
INNA KURTLAKOVA STUDIO [3].2 UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER
Utopia Market
The site is located in Walthamstow, East London. Most of the people today would assosiate the borough with William Morris, its High Street Market, the pop band E17, and its famous greyhound stadium. With its rich history since 1885 and influance over the locals the market and the Walthamstow Town Square Gardens are the heart of the community and part of the herritage of Walthamstow. In this term the project aspirations is to establish a mixed-use living model, analizing gradients of privacy and thresholds to public space building upon the initial scheme. The project investigates on creating new tower typology by redefining the relationship between horisontality and verticality in contemporary architecture. Proposing a concept based on the original programme from term one, the residential tower attempts to stay away from the horisontal stacking condition in a typical tower typology.
STRUCTURE
PANORAMIC VIEW
SKY WALK
LIVING UNIT TYPE 3
PEDESTRIAN CONNECTION PATH
COMMUNAL SPACE
LIVING UNIT TYPE 1
THE TULIP ROOM
LIVING UNIT TYPE 4
LIVING UNIT TYPE 2
PEDESTRIAN CONNECTION PATH
WORKSHOPS
LOBBY I
LOBBY II
CIRCULATION BETWEEN MODULES
NURSERY
FOOTBRIDGE
UTOPIA MARKET
PARKING
AUDITORIUM
CATALOGUE WITH MODULES FOLLOW THE WALTHAMSTOW CHARACTER
FABRITION LABORATORY
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9 9
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5 6
1. CORE I 2. CORE II 3. CORE III 4.UNIT 1 5.UNIT 2
6.UNIT 3 7. UNIT 4 8. WORKSHOPS 9. WALKING PATH
FLOOR 9 SCALE 1:200
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8
7 10
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9 4
1. CORE I 2. CORE II 3. CORE III 4.FOOTBRIDGE 5.LOBBY I ROOFTOP TERRACE
6.LANDING AREA 7. AUDITORIUM 8. FABRICATION OFFICE 9.LIBRARY 10.VIEWING PLATFORM
FLOOR 2 SCALE 1:200
PANORAMIC VIEW
floor 28 (117.5m) HELIPORT
floor 27 (114m) SKY WALK floor 26 (110.5m)
SKY WALK
floor 25 (107m) SKY GARDEN
floor 24 (103.5m)
EXHIBITION SPACE
RESTOURANT
floor 23 (100m)
COMMUNAL KITCHEN
floor 22 (92m) WALKING PATH
floor 21 (88.5m)
UNIT 1
UNIT 4
UNIT 3
floor 20 (85m)
UNIT 2 floor 19 (81.5m) COMMUNAL KITCHEN floor 18 (78m)
floor 17 (74m) WALKING PATH
floor 16 (70.5m)
UNIT 4
UNIT 1
floor 15 (67m)
UNIT 3 UNIT 2
floor 14 (63.5m) COMMUNAL KITCHEN floor 13 (60m)
floor 12 (56m) WALKING PATH
floor 11 (52.5m)
UNIT 1 UNIT 3
floor 10 (49m)
UNIT 2 WORKSHOPS
UNIT 4 floor 9 (45.5m)
floor 8 (42m)
WORKSHOPS
floor 7 (38m) WALKING PATH
WORKSHOPS
floor 6 (34m)
CORE 3 floor 5 (28m)
WALKING PATH
floor 4 (23m)
LOBBY II
CORE 1
CORE 2
CINEMA
UTOPIA MARKET
floor 3 (17m)
NURSERY
LABRARY AUDITORIUM
FABRICATION LABORATORY OFFICE
floor 2 (14m)
LOBBY I TERRACE floor 1 (10m)
FABRICATION LABORATORY
LOBBY I
transition bridge (6m)
FOOTBRIDGE
parter (0m) OUTDOOR ENTRANCE
CAR PARK
floor-1 (-4m)
CAR PARK
CAR PARK
CROSS SECTION AA SCALE 1:200
floor -2 (-8m)
floor -3 (-12m)
CONNECTION DETAIL LOCATION: WINTER GARDEN / THE TULIP ROOM
CABLE FIXTURE DESIGN SKETCH
CABLE FIXTURE DESIGN SKETCH
TULIP ROOM GEOMETRY SKETCH
COLUMN DESIGN SKETCH
THE TULIP ROOM
DOME
OBSERVATION DECK
EXHIBITION SPACE
EXHIBITION SPACE
WINTER GARDEN
EXTERNAL WALKWAY
The Tulip Room is an indoor winter garden that is used by the private occupants of the building as a private garden and meeting space separate from the room garden which is accessible to all. The glass enclosure acts as an air barrier for a steel cage-like structure that tapers towards the top and holds an observation deck at the top. The deck is accessible from the roof and has a glass surface for direct view down towards the green crown a tree in the centre of the winter garden. Structurally the 3 floor-plates are constructed leaving different in diameter circular openings through which the glass enclosure penetrates. Its structure is supported by the meeting points with the floors. Inside a spiral walkway provides access between the floors and allows views into the tulip structure. As one goes from the base up the structure is revealed and similar to a mountain slope reaching the top brings a feeling of achievement to the action of moving from floor to floor. Substituting a utilitarian action with an experience for the senses is the goal here. These walkways are suspended on the tubular steel structure and do not engage with the glass enclosure.
The whole winter garden is build upon a concrete base that houses an elevator shaft and widens at its top where it meets the steel structure. The play on light against a white tubular structure would hopefully create an interesting effect. The further layering of steel tubes glass walls, steel cables running in triangles and concrete floor plates and sculptural columns all radially aligned around a vertical access aims to create a strong visual aesthetic, one of standing in a cathedral and looking directly up at the dome.
“PINEAPPLE EXPRESS”
“A design where biomimicry, architecture and smart technology come together”
PROLOGUE
Architects, similarly to plants and animals in nature, are constantly competing in a competitive environment that is structured in a way it rewards efficiency and out-of-the-box apptoaches. Thus, one must seek different approaches to reduce complexity, to increase efficiency not only in the complete built model but also in the form design phase. Biomimicry makes us think about the way humanity and architecture have tried to artificially outgrow their original roots, seeking ways to improve themselfs. Mimicking biology means that we mimic the structure of design of a bilion-year-old self-improved design technique. Ecosystem mimicry teaches us how to create buildings and urban planning that are self-sustainable, reliable, by balancing multiple phases of the structure’s lifecyle, which in return ensures ever-improving conditions for the habitats.
Inspired by the sustainable endeavors of my studio, “Pineapple Express” is a smart urban hub that accomodates series of mixeduse spaces for the World’s leading Food and Agriculture Organisation. The proposal will work both as a meeting area for the FAO researchers and as an example of inclusive urban agricultural system for the society. The entire project is driven by a single crop- pineapple. In order to grow it in urban enviroment I have created a system that allow the crop to be harvest in a foreign climate . The pod technology is designed to optimize the production time , cost and quality.
Landscape View
Interiour view
The experts working for the FAO resides and work in different parts of the planet and often meet for workshops, debriefing and general exchange of knowladge in different parts of the world. Urban agriculture is seen here as a sustainable small scale system that can have a positive impact on the urban fabric, creating environmental, social, and economic benefits. During term one the focus was mainly on researching the crop features and designing the smart technology. During term two the site and the community itself plays a leading role in design process. Continuing with the same new technology and crop, I looked deeper into the external relationships between my proposal and the context, rather than focusing on the internal components of the builing like Semester I.
Site: Hackney Wick
NATURAL GROWTH TIMELAPSE 3M HEIGHT
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1
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14
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19
21
MONTHS
crown leaves
40 cm
suckers
mother stem
12 cm
roots
PINEAPPLE MORPHOLOGY
1- water pump 2- reservoir 3- growth medium 4-drip nozzles
gravel GROWING PINEAPPLE AT HOME
pH 5.0-6.0 min 6 slope
perlite
min 8h light
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humid climate
28C day temp. o
22C night 22mm H20 temp. per week o
AXONOMETRIC DRAWING OF A SINGLE DRIP SYSTEM
OPTIMAL CONDIDIONS
APPROACHING EXISTING IRRIGATION SYSTEMS
RECIRCULATING DRIP SYSTEMS
water with mineral solution
NEW TECHNOLOGY
CONCEPT MODELS
the shape of the capsule is inspired by Radiolaria
the final module is a combination between skethes and 3D modeling
PINEAPPLE CAPSULE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
APPROACHING EXISTING POD SYSTEMS
SMART WALL TECHNOLOGY
wood structure
glass panels
steel structure inside
water system
BIOMIMICKING THE PINEAPPLE PATTERNS
WALL SHAPE ACHIEVED BY USING GRASHOPPER
electricity system
SMART WALL MODEL
West London
This mixed use masterplan delivers around 6000 new homes, commercial and community facilities, a new civic centre, new neighbouthood with revitalised station and better liked connections in west London. The proposed plan is designed on the town’s identity, learning from its heritage, and culture. The masterplan principles were developed with a key focus on creating a network of improved destiations and better connected series of neighbourhoods.
Key Plots Poet’s Corner
Peel Road
Byron Quarter
Typology diagrams
Peel Road
CGI of Temple in context
Temple character
Hindu Temple Simple rectancular plan that fills the site boundary, opening to civic square with a roof top garde, clad in a perforated brick skin insiped from Sai Mandir Temple, India
Hindu Temple Civic Centre Ground Floor Plan
External experience is articulated by glowing timber, wrapped in a metal and glass skeleton floating on an open public space
Enscape Interior View
Mezzanine Floor Plan
Upper Floor Plan
Floor detail sketch
Westfield
The proposed masterplan is part of Phase 2 for White City Regeneration Area in West London. Providing 1700 new homes. Block C will be high-quality residential area with some commercial space. All the buildings are arranged to create large landscape central park built over an existing bus depot.
Concept sketch
Key Typologies Type 1 - Towers
Strong horisontal geometry
Type 2 - Park Blocks
Strong grid, with setback and recesses to create elegant propotions
Duplex houses
Type 3 - ‘Feature’
Regular grid with double-storey expression and playful, patternlike appearance
Type 4 - Infill Blocks
Simple symmetrical box with full length balconies
View from the courtyard to train bridge
BAY STUDIES
Type 1 - Towers
Type 3 - ‘Feature’
Middle and top are to feel like continuous ‘wrapper’.
Lightweight poweder coated aluminium cladding poweder coated aluminium window system
Playfulness can be achieved by varying the ifills of the grid
Type 2 - Park Blocks
Type 4 - Infill Blocks
Designed to be the transition between building typologies and help break up the massing.
Base material should be robust and consider the context of a public or residential interfaces
Podium 03 Floor Plan
Long Section
Metal cladding system
Coourtyard Floor Plan
Cross Section
Edgware
Located at the end of the Northern line, the site is a key interchange hub for the local and wider community providing acess into the suburbs and the city. Better pedestraian and vehiacle connection, improved supermarketand new 3200 homes, alongside with landscape parks, new street market and cultural center are in the hearth of the project.
Key concepts
Base massing studies
Sainsbury’s
6,000 sqm existing supermarket will be refurbished and remodeled
Residential
Diversity of new homes including mixed use towers, douplex apartments, terraces houses
Town square
Introducing cinema, library and exhibition spaces on site
Bus Stands
Improving bus stands and transportation links in order to cleate new pedestian street within the proposal